. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. cumbent, William Baynton, took possession of the benefice on the 9thMav, 1440. * The original ecclesiastical foundation was that of the alien priory, or cell, dedicatedto St. Nicholas, established by Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel, soon after theConquest, and subjected to the Benedictine Abbey of Seez, or De Sagio, in Normandy. Itconsisted only of a Prior and threeor four Monks, who continued toconduct the establishment for nearlythree centuries, until the 3rd yearof the reign of Richard II., whenRichard Fitz-al
. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. cumbent, William Baynton, took possession of the benefice on the 9thMav, 1440. * The original ecclesiastical foundation was that of the alien priory, or cell, dedicatedto St. Nicholas, established by Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel, soon after theConquest, and subjected to the Benedictine Abbey of Seez, or De Sagio, in Normandy. Itconsisted only of a Prior and threeor four Monks, who continued toconduct the establishment for nearlythree centuries, until the 3rd yearof the reign of Richard II., whenRichard Fitz-alan, Earl of Arundel,obtained a license to extinguish thePriory and to found a Chantry forthe maintenance of a master andtwelve secular canons with theirofficers. Upon this change, it wasstyled the College of the HolyTrinity.! The Collegiate church being intended as the mausoleum of his family, the foundersupplied ample means to enrich it with examples of monumental splendour. The tomb ofhis son Thomas Fitz-alan and his wife Beatrix, daughter of John, King of Portugal, was. * In 1511, a dispute arose between the college on the onepart, and the mayor, burgesses, and parishioners on the other,as to the liability of their respective bodies to repair thetransepts and tower, with the bell and other appurtenancesbelonging to the latter. By consent of the parties, the pointat issue was referred to the arbitration of Thomas, Earl ofArundel, and Robert Sherburne, Bishop of Chichester ; andan award was soon after published, by which the burthen wasequally divided between the college and the town. To the former, the duty of repairing the south transept, commonlycalled the chancel of the parish, was assigned ; to the latter,the obligation of attending in the same manner to the northtransept; while the expense of upholding the tower, and theemoluments to be derived from the use of its bells, wrerethenceforth to be shared equally by both. t At the suppression, it was endowed with a yearly rev
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