Hamble Priory
Hamble Priory, Hamblecounty:
Hampshire
- Hampshire
... ALIEN PRIORIES ... suppress'd in the Parliament held at Leicester, in the 2d Year of the Reign of King Henry V. and of our Lord 1414.
This towne now longgith to the New College in Winchester. It longgid afore to a priorie of religious men in the same toune.
Minns says:- Hamble Rice, ... Here was the priory of St. Andrew, a cell to the Benedictines Abbey of Thiron near Chartres. After the suppression of alien priories, William of Wykeham acquired the revenues with which he endowed his two St. Mary Colleges.
alien priory, founded by William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester, 1109
