Horsley Priory

For another place, see Horsley Priory (Surrey).

Horsley Priory was a medieval, monastic house in Gloucestershire, England.

Horsley Priory

Monastery information
Order	Benedictine
Established	before 1086
Disestablished	before 1380
Mother house	Troarn Abbey
Diocese	Diocese of Gloucester
Site
Location	Horsley, Gloucestershire, England
Public access	No

Goda owned an estate at Horsley, in 1066. It was granted to Troarn Abbey by Roger de Montgomery before 1086. The original grant was said to provide for a prior, a monk, and a parish chaplain to reside at Horsley. ^[1] From those provisions emerged the cell called Horsley Priory. Troarn Abbey exchanged the priory with Bruton Priory for lands in Normandy in 1260. The priory of Horsley ceased to exist before 1380. Horsley manor was retained by Bruton Priory, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. In 1541, Horsley was granted to Thomas Seymour. ^[2]

Priors of Horsley

• Stephen, 1262, (fn. 28) occurs 1269
• Walter de Horwood, occurs 1271
• Richard de la Grave, 1292
• William, 1298
• William de Milverton, ob. 1329
• Laurence de Haustede, 1329
• Henry de Lisle, 1335 resigned 1357 (fn. 36)
• Richard de Holt, 1357 resigned 1363 (fn. 38)
• William Cary, 1363 ^[3]

References

1. Cal. Inq. Misc. iii, pp. 274–5
2. "Horsley - Manor and other estates | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 11 (pp. 177-179)". british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
3. "Houses of Augustinian canons - The priory of Horsley | A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 2 (pp. 91-93)". british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2014.

External links

• "A History of Horsley". Archived from the original on 27 July 2009. Retrieved 6 June 2014.

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