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Shelton. The churches held by the priory in 1291 were Oakley with Clapham, Roxton, Bromham, Sandy; with Marsworth and Broughton in Buckinghamshire and Arnesby in Leicestershire. In 1535 they still remained in its gift, except Broughton and Sandy; Tolleshunt Major in Essex being added. In 1302 the prior of Caldwell held half a knight's fee in Chawston and small portions in Milton Ernest and Eaton; in 1346 the same half-fee; and until 1346 he held also one quarter of a knight's fee in Edlesborough in Buckinghamshire. The first report of the Crown bailiff gives a total of £134 15s. 8½d., including the demesne lands of the priory, the manor of Shelton and divers parcels of land in the counties of Bedford, Warwick, Northampton, Leicester, and the rectories of Clapham, Oakley, Roxton-cum-Colesden, Bromham, Marsworth, Arnesby and Tolleshunt Major.
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The churches belonging to the priory were not very wealthy, and sometimes they proved a source of expense rather than of revenue. The chapel of
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visited the priory he found John
Wymington, the brother whom Bishop Repingdon had ordered to keep within the cloister, holding the office of sub-prior; he had now to be deposed. There is nothing special in the injunctions of this time which might point to laxity; the bishop only said that the canons
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at its foundation, amounting to a pension of 12 marks; and from the first the canons of
Caldwell seem to have made efforts to escape this payment. In 1279 they had to be ordered to pay it 'on pain of excommunication'; but in the beginning of the fourteenth century Hugh de Beauchamp, who was prior at
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Houghton granted to the canons the site of the priory in 1272; and in 1336 they held lands and tenements in Bedford, Bromham, Milton, Colesden, Roxton, Chalverston, Sandy, Sutton,
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Bedford, or to the abbey of Elstow on any pretext whatever; and one of the canons was forbidden to go outside the cloister at all. The canons generally were not to drink anywhere but in the prior's presence, which seems to imply some laxity in this respect.
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Bedford town, and held in fee farm of the king. The canons however appealed to the king himself, who thereupon wrote to the escheator to molest them no further, saying that he had heard from the present prior that Simon de Barescote, whose ancestors founded the
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After the dissolution, the 306-acre (1.24 km) site and buildings were leased out, until being sold in 1563 for £404. The priory buildings appear to have lasted into the nineteenth century, but were replaced sometime between 1818 and 1857 by a new house. That house was demolished some time
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Bedford, that hunting dogs were not to be kept in the monastery, and that the common seal was to be kept under lock and key. And it seems that Bishop Longland accused the house of no worse fault than poverty.
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