This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...per le space de --. & xvj. ans, & morust le xxvj. jour de Septembre Ian nostre seignor Jesu Christ, Mccccvj. que de salme dieux eit mercy, amen." Leland mentions other tombs in the chapel and "3 sortes of Armes" in the windows, one "al verry blew and white, another with iii Stripes Gules down right in a field of gold. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...per le space de --. & xvj. ans, & morust le xxvj. jour de Septembre Ian nostre seignor Jesu Christ, Mccccvj. que de salme dieux eit mercy, amen." Leland mentions other tombs in the chapel and "3 sortes of Armes" in the windows, one "al verry blew and white, another with iii Stripes Gules down right in a field of gold. The 3 was Crosselettes of Gold many intermist in one yn a Feld, as I remembre, Gules." We also learn that "Ther is a Provost longging to this Collegiate Chapelle now yn Decay, wher sumtyme was Good Service, and now but a Messe said a 3 Tymes yn the Weeke. The Provost hath a large House yn the Village of Stoke therby." Now, in the year 1304 John de Beauchamp obtained leave from the Bishop of Bath and Wells to found a chantry in connection with his free Chapel, which, by the way, was dedicated to St. Nicholas. He also desired to endow a College of five priests. The endowment was obtained from the free Chapel and the tithes of Stoke. The five priests were presided over by one of their number, who acted as prior. The connection of Gournay with Stoke was but slight. He married Alice of Warwick, the cousin and widow of the fourth Lord Beauchamp. She died in 1383 without issue, but leaving Stoke, which was her dower, to her husband. Gournay married secondly Phillipa, the widow of Sir Robert Assheton, and died himself in 1404--Leland says 1406. The widow, on whom the manor was settled for life, married a third time, viz. to Sir John Tiplot, and died in 1418. Sir John Tiplot then appears to have become Lord of the Manor. Some excavations which have taken place in recent years have revealed the sites of the castle, or manor house, and also of St. Nicholas Chapel. A few fragments of carved stone were r...
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