Talk:Dean of Rochester

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Priors of Rochester
I've not been able to find a list of the pre-reformation Priors of Rochester. I looked for several combinations of "Prior", "Rochester", "St. Andrews" to no avail. I have alist of them, the question is: should they be added to the top of this list or be a separate page wikilinked from here? If the former, should the page be altered to read "Priors and Deans of Rochester"? The list, taken from "A History of the County of Kent: Volume 2. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1926" pages 121-126, [], is:

Priors of Rochester (fn. 48)
 * Ordouvin, occurs 1089, resigned
 * Ernulf, resigned 1096 (fn. 49)
 * Ralph, resigned 1107 (fn. 50)
 * Ordouvin, again
 * Letard (fn. 51)
 * Brian, occurs 1146
 * Reginald, occurs 1154
 * Ernulf (fn. 52)
 * William Borstalle
 * Silvester, occurs 1178
 * Richard, resigned 1182 (fn. 53)
 * Alfred (fn. 54)
 * Osbern de Scapeya (fn. 55)
 * Ralph de Ros, (fn. 56) occurs 1199
 * Elias
 * William, occurs 1222
 * Richard de Derente, elected 1225
 * William de Hoo, elected 1239 (fn. 56)
 * Alexander de Glanville, elected 1242, died 1252
 * Simon de Clyve, (fn. 56) succeeded 1252, resigned 1262
 * John de Renham or Rensham, elected 1262, deposed 1283
 * Thomas de Wouldham, elected 1283, resigned 1291 (fn. 57)
 * John de Renham, again, died 1294
 * Thomas de Shelford, succeeded 1294, resigned 1301
 * John de Greenstreet, elected 1301, resigned 1314
 * Hamo de Hethe, elected 1314, resigned 1319 (fn. 57)
 * John de Westerham, appointed 1320, died 1321
 * John de Speldherst, elected 1321, (fn. 58) resigned 1333
 * John de Scapeya, succeeded 1333, resigned 1351
 * Robert de Suthflete, succeeded 1352, (fn. 59) died 1361
 * John de Hertlepe, elected 1361, (fn. 59) resigned 1380
 * John de Sheppey, elected 1380, died 1419
 * William Tunbrygg, elected 1419 (fn. 60)
 * John Cardone, occurs 1449 (fn. 61)
 * Richard Pekham, occurs 1467 (fn. 62)
 * William Wod, occurs 1468, 1475 (fn. 63)
 * Thomas Bourne, occurs 1480 (fn. 64)
 * William Bisshop, occurs 1496 (fn. 65)
 * William Frysell or Fresell, elected 1509, occurs 1519 (fn. 66)
 * Laurence Mereworth, occurs 1534, (fn. 67) resigned 1538 (fn. 68)
 * Walter Philips, the last prior (fn. 69)


 * 48. The names of the priors are given in a list collected in Wharton's Anglia Sacra, i, 392-4.
 * 49. He became in succession prior of Canterbury, abbot of Peterborough, and bishop of Rochester.
 * 50. He became abbot of Battle.
 * 51. In the time of Bishop Ernulf.
 * 52. In the time of Bishop Walter.
 * 53. He became abbot of Burton.
 * 54. He became abbot of Abingdon.
 * 55. He was sacrist.
 * 56. He was sacrist.
 * 57. He became bishop of Rochester.
 * 58. He was cellarer.
 * 59. These two were wardens of the cell of Felixstowe.
 * 60. William occurs as prior in 1443.
 * 61. Reg. Roff. 580.
 * 62. a Exch. of Pleas, Plea R. 7 Edw. IV, 19 d.
 * 63. Reg. Roff. 583-4.
 * 64. Ibid. 138. Thomas occurs in 1489 (ibid. 585).
 * 65. Cant. Archiepis. Reg. Morton, 161. There were then eighteen others in the convent.
 * 66. L. and P. Hen. VIII, iii, 487. He had been prior of Binham in Norfolk (Pard. R. I Hen. VIII. pt. 3, m. 24). William occurs as prior in 1529 (L. and P. Hen. VIII, iv, 5353).
 * 67. Ibid, vii, 921.
 * 68. Ibid, xiii (1), 1391.
 * 69. Ibid, xv, 474.