Prior Of Colne

Colne. 2 recorded holders. religious office ← all offices

The succession the rolls themselves record for this office, earliest first — a finding aid drawn from the roll text, not an authoritative fasti. Spelling variants of one holder now fold together where the volumes' own printed indexes attest them (“Burghers” and “Burghersh” are one man when the editors say so); the opposite case — one name hiding two men — is proposed from the same indexes and from matched identities, and separates only after human confirmation. Until then a shared name lists as one holder, and the list can be checked against printed succession lists (Fasti / VCH).

1. John de Campeden 1321 ×2
2. Henry de Colne 1400
   • 1400-10-12 — Commission to John Perant, serjeant at arms, to arrest Henry Colne, prior of Colne, and John Sudbury his fellow monk and John Preston, pretending to be prior, a…

Ordered by the first date each holder appears with the office — where a holder is undated they sort last. Dates are the roll entries' own, not tenure dates.
Cite: “prior of Colne”, Reading the Rolls, https://readingtherolls.com/office/prior-of-colne, accessed 2026-07-25. Derived from the printed calendars of the medieval English royal records.