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Event detail for site: Newport

1538: Dissolution

On 8 September 1538 the friary was surrendered to the king's agent by the last prior of Newport, Richard Batte.

1538-9: the accounts of the late house of the Austin Friars of Newport within the bishopric of Llandaff:

Account of Morice Baker, farmer there during the aforesaid time.
Arrears: none because it is the first account of the same now computing on behalf of the king.
Total: None.
But he answers for 3s. 4d. for the rent of the site late of the aforesaid house, with two rooms, one hall, kitchen and one garden, in the tenure of Morice Baker.
And 10s. rent of 6 acres of arable land lying within the aforesaid site called Freers Close in the tenure of the aforesaid Morice Baker.
Total 13s. 4d.
Sum total of the charge 13s. 4d. which he handed over to Edward Walter, Receiver of Particulars of the lord king there, of the issue of his office for one year by a bill, signed in the hand of the said Receiver, and remaining among the memoranda of this year and so he withdrew this year quit.

See 'The Houses of the Friars at Cardiff and Newport. First Financial Accounts after the Suppression', in Miscellany, South Wales and Monmouth Record Society, 4, ed. H. J. Randall and W. Rees (1957), pp. 51-6 [56].


Bibliographical sources

Printed sources

'The Houses of the Friars at Cardiff and Newport. First Financial Accounts after the Suppression', in Miscellany South Wales and Monmouth Record Society, 4, ed. H. J. Randall and W. Rees (1957) p. 56

Medieval Religious Houses, England and Wales, ed. R. Neville Hadcock and David Knowles (Harlow, 1971) p. 242

Rees, W., 'The suppression of the friaries in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire', in Miscellany, South Wales and Monmouth Record Society, 3, ed. H. J. Randall and W. Rees (Cardiff, 1954) pp. 13-14

Web links (open in new window)

Medieval and Early Post-Medieval Newport Selected Documentary and Written References relating to its Topography, including to the roads, gates, churches, chantries, town walls, the Great Bailey etc (View website)

Trett, Bob, Newport Past: Austin Friars (View website)

Other events in the history of this site

c.1377: Foundation - The friary was founded shortly before 1377 by Hugh, earl of Stafford, seemingly on the site of a chapel dedicated to St Nicholas.
 [3 sources]
c.1402: Destruction - The friary was destroyed in the Welsh revolt but was rebuilt shortly thereafter thanks to the duke of Buckingham. [2 sources]
pre 1448: Bequest - Hugh, duke of Buckingham, gave twenty-two burgages to the friary. [1 sources]
1482: Bequest - Henry, duke of Buckingham, gave six burgages to the friar. [1 sources]
1495: Bequest - Jasper Tudor, duke of Bedford and uncle of Henry VII, bequeathed twenty shillings to the Austin Friars at Newport. [2 sources]
1538: Dissolution - On 8 September 1538 the friary was surrendered to the king's agent by the last prior of Newport, Richard Batte. [5 sources]
 
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