Aspects of Kentish Local History

1325 he was one of the two magistri extranei of Balliol College and had the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Bachelor of Theology.
   He was not regularly in residence at Salisbury, for in 1320 he paid a fine to the chapter for absence and in 1328 he granted a lease of his prebendal home in the Close.¹
   In the later years of his life he may more often have resided at Reculver. In 1325 Archbishop Reynolds issued a commission to him to exercise the jurisdiction of Reculver which was exempt from the Archdeacon of Canterbury.² He was the physician of Prior Eastry of Canterbury who wrote him a grateful letter in 1324.³ He died in 1341 or early in 1342. Thomas Nye, the rector of Aldington, kept him in grateful remembrance when in 1354 he founded a chantry at Reculver for the souls of

Nicholas of Tingwick and Thomas of Astley, sometime the rectors under whom he served when vicar of Reculver.⁴
   I record my thanks to Sir Charles Peers and to the Society of Antiquaries for their kind permission to reproduce two of the illustrations of the stones of the Great Cross. It is fully described in Archaeologia, Vol. 77, pp. 250-6, with illustrations of all the remaining portions.
   ¹  Liber Evidentiarum C, f. 454a (Muniments of Dean and Chapter of Salisbury). I am indebted to Miss K. Edwards for this reference; cf. "The Houses of Salisbury Close in the 14th century", British Archaeological Journal, 1939, p. 104.
   ²  I. J. Churchill, Canterbury Administration, II, p. 28.
   ³  Litterae Cantuarienses, I, p. 120 (Rolls Series).
   ⁴  Ibid., II, p. 319.