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HENRY VIII
22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
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HENRY VIII
Initial letter portrait of Henry VIII, showing the crowned King enthroned holding orb and sceptre, on a grant to John Reed of the Monastery and Priory of Tandridge in the County of Surrey, the portrait in pen-and-ink and grey wash, with historiated upper line, incorporating Tudor roses and featuring a crowned lion and dragons holding banners aloft; with a small fragment of the Great Seal attached by green and white silk cords, later docket, on one skin of vellum, worn with tears at the left and right-hand folds, with the usual dust-staining, framed and glazed (unexamined out of frame), c.510 x 840mm., Westminster, 2 January 1537/8
Footnotes
SPOILS OF THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES, SWAPPED TO ENABLE HENRY VIII TO BUILD THE PALACE OF OATLANDS. The Austin Priory of Tandridge was founded at the end of the twelfth century by Odo, the son of William de Dammartin, and dedicated to the honour of St James. As was the case with many of the smaller Austin priories throughout the country, it was originally founded as a hospital for priests and poor brethren and sisters. The Valor of 1535 gave the clear annual value of the priory at £81 7s 4d. It then held the rectory of Tandridge worth £13 6s 8d, the rectory of Crowhurst £8 6s, and half the rectory of Godstone alias Wolkensted £3 11s 8d; John Lyngfield, the last prior, obtained a pension of £14 (VCH, A History of the County of Surrey, ii, 1967, edited by H.E. Malden, pp. 112-113).
John Reed, the under-age beneficiary of this grant, had recently inherited from his father the Manor of Oatlands. This Reed and his guardian conveyed in 1537 to the King, who wished to annex it to the honour of Hampton Court, Reed receiving the suppressed priory of Tandridge in exchange. The King spent a fortnight at Reed's old house at Oatlands in December 1537, and began construction of a palace there for Anne of Cleves in 1538. It was at Oatlands that he married Catherine Howard in 1540. It was to Oatlands that Mary I retired after her phantom pregnancy, and it was frequently used by Elizabeth and her Stuart successors, the latter assigning it for the use of their respective Queens. It was at Oatlands that Charles I was imprisoned by the army in 1647; the palace being demolished by the English Republic after his death.