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The Knights Hospitallers of Godsfield and Baddesley

Dates Brother Knight
1228-1240 Nicholas of Baddesley
1273-1280 Stephen de Breminghurst
1282 Hilary of St Edmund
1295-1304 Thomas Archer, Prior of England 1321-1329
1312 Robert de Coneygrave
1314 Simon Launcelyn
1315 Simon Payable
1325 William de Basing
1330 Thomas Archer
1332 Anonymous, Master of Baddesley
1338 William Multon, Servant at Arms
1355-57 Anonymous, Preceptor and Custodian of Baddesley
1388 William Hulles, Preceptor of Godsfield and Baddesley. He became Prior of England in 1414 dead by 1433.
- Thomas Launcelyn, Preceptor of Baddesley; became Prior in 1421, died 1442
1458-9 William Tourney, Preceptor of Baddesley
1492 Sir Robert Peck, Preceptor of Baddesley, witness to will of John Terbuck in 1495.
1518 William Weston, Preceptor of Baddesley, became Prior in 1527, died 1540.
1523-1531 Roger Boydell, Preceptor of Baddesley; went to Newlands, died 1533.
1532 Robert Croftes, Commander of Baddesley
1533 Thomas Dingley, Commander of Baddesley, executed on Tower Hill 10 Jul 1539.
1557-1558 George Aylmer, Commander of Baddesley, retired.


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