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A36798	Monasticon anglicanum, or, The history of the ancient abbies, and other monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches, in England and Wales with divers French, Irish, and Scotch monasteries formerly relating to England / collected, and published in Latin, by Sir William Dugdale, Knight ..., in three volums; and now epitomized in English, page by page; with sculptures of the several religious habits.; Monasticon anglicanum. English	Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.; Dodsworth, Roger, 1585-1654.; Stevens, John, d. 1726. History of the antient abbeys, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches.; Wright, James, 1643-1713.	1693 (1693)	Wing D2487; ESTC R8166	281,385	375

18 s. 7 d. per Annum KILBURN in Middlesex a Cell of Westm. IN the Reign of King Henry the I. Herebertus Abbot of Westminster Osbert de Clara Prior and the whole Convent of Westminster gave a Hermitage at Kilburn to three Maids Emma Gunilda and Christina for a Nunnery and endow'd the same with Lands and Rents Gilbert Bishop of London gave the Jurisdiction of this Cell of Kilburn to the said Abbot and his Successors exempting it from the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of London for ever But new Contests arising about this House between the Bishop of London and Abbot of Westminster they came to an Agreement in the year 1231. That the Bishop might visit the Nunnery to preach to them and to hear their Confessions but without exacting any Procurations and that the Government of the House placing and displacing the Abbess and Nuns should belong to the Abbot as a Cell of his House c. Valued at 74 l. 7 s. 11 d. per Annum HURLEY in Barkshire a Cell of Westminster GOdefridus de Magnavilla gave to God and St. Peter and to the Church of Westminster and St. Mary of Hurley the Town of Hurley with divers other Lands and Tithes for the Maintenance of a Convent of Monks to serve God in the said Church for ever All which was confirm'd to the Priors and Monks of Hurley by William Bishop of London In the year 1258. Godefridus Prior of Hurley and his Covent made an exchange with Absolon Abbot of Walden of some of their Revenues Valued at 121 l. 18 s. 5 d. per Annum MALVERNE in Worcestershire a Cell of Westminster IN the eighteenth year of William the Conqueror one Aldwine a Hermit and his Brethren began the Monastery here King William the Conqueror and others gave Lands and Revenues to this House but more especially King Henry the first who by his Charter dated in the year 1127. granted and confirm'd to them many Lands and great Liberties and Immunities Vid. Vol. 2. p. 876. Valued at 98 l. 10 s. 9 d. ob per Annum AUCOT in Warwickshire a Cell of Malverne-magna WIlliam Burdet gave all his Land in Aucot to God and St. Mary of Malverne and to the Monks there in the year 1159. From among which Monks he was to have by agreement betwixt him and Roger Prior of that House a certain number for the Institution of a Monastery here The Prior of which House was to be constituted by the Prior of Malverne by and with the advice of the Abbot of Westminster Valued at 28 l. 6 s. 2 d. per Annum SUDBURY in Suffolk a Cell of Westminster KING Edward the III. in the thirty fifth year of his Reign granted his License to Richard Roke of Westminster to settle certain Land in Sudbury and Holgate upon the Abbot and Convent of Westminster or the relief of their poor Cell of St. Bartholomew near Sudbury St. NEOTS in Huntingtonshire SAint Neot was Son of King Adulphus and Brother of King Alured who founded the University of Oxford He was a Monk at Neotestoke in Cornwall and from thence his Body was translated to Anulphesbury in Huntingtonshire where Earl Elfrid converted his Palace into a Monastery of black Monks Which being afterwards spoild and burnt down by the Danes was in the Reign of King Henry the I. An. Dom. 1113. re-edified by Rohesia Wife of Richard Son of Earl Gislibert about which time it was given as a Cell to the Abby of Bec in Normandy The foresaid Lady and divers others gave Lands and Revenues to the Monks of Bec serving God at St. Neots It appears by the Bull of Pope Celestine directed to the Bishop of Lincoln that the Prior and Convent of St. Neots being their House was situated on a famous and great Road did use to bestow meat and drink on all Travellers who desired it and to this only use they did appropriate certain Rents and Pensions which they received yearly from the Churches of Eynesbury and Torney In the Reigns of Henry the IV. and Henry the V. This Monastery was discharg'd of its Foreign Subjection to the Abby of Bec and made an English Priory Vid. Vol. 2. p. 876. Valued at 241 l. 11 s. 4 d. q. per Annum SELBY in Yorkshire KING William the Conqueror founded the Abby here for Benedictine Monks in honour of our Lord Iesus Christ and his blessed Mother the Virgin Mary and St. Germain the Bishop Which King and several other persons did endow it with large Possessions in particular Guido de Raincourt gave to this Church of St. Germain in Selby his Town of Stamford in Northamptonshire Thomas Archbishop of York Gilbert T●s●n chief Standard-bearer of England Gaulerannus Earl of Mellent Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Constable of Chester c. gave other Lands and great Liberties● All which King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign confirm'd to the Monks here Also King Edward the III. did in the second year of his Reign confirm to them all their Liberties and Exemptions whereupon in the twenty second of that King they were excused from paying to the King in any of their Lands purchased before the abovesaid second year any a●d for knighting his eldest Son c. Vaued at 729 l. 12 s. 10 d. q. per Annum SHREWSBURY in Shropshire IN the year 1083. Roger Earl of Montgomery built here a Monastery in honour of St. Peter To this House he gave great Possessions and after his Example other Barons and Knights of that County did the like After the death of the said Roger Hugh his Son and Heir gave other Lands and great Liberties and Immunities with a heavy Curse to the Violaters The like did King Henry the I. and King Steven confirming their said Liberties in so large a manner that nothing could be added to them Other principal Benefactors were Matilda de Lungespe Daughter and Heir of Walter de Clifford Walchelinus Maminot Willielmus Peverell and Richard Fitz-Allen Earl of Arundel c. All whose Guifts and Benefactions were confirm'd to the Abbot and Monks of this House by King Henry the III. in the eleventh year of his Reign Valued at 132 l. 4 s. 10 d. per Annum St. MARY's at York THE History of the Foundation of this Abby was writ by Stephen who had been Abbot of Whitby and was after that made the first Abbot of this House In which the most observable matters are as follows Alan Son of Eudo Earl of Brittain having built a Church adjoyning to the City of York in honour of St Olave gave it to the foresaid Stephen and his Companions with four Acres of Land thereon to erect a Monastery This was about the year 1088. in the Reign of King William the Conqueror Who dying his Son and Successor King William Rufus gave them Land whereon to build a larger Church and gave to the Monastery divers Lands Liberties and Exemptions Also Earl Alan their first Founder gave them the adjoynig

and Lands c. to the yearly value of 500 l. Within which this Alms-house was erected for two Chaplains five and thirty poor Men and three Women to be govern'd by the Master of that Hospital but the Cardinal dying before this Foundation was perfectly compleated King Henry the VI. An. 33. did incorporate them under a Rector of their own by the name of The New Alms-house of Noble Poverty establisht near Winchester by Henry Cardinal of England and Bishop of Winchester Son of John late Duke of Lancaster of noble Memory with grant of a Common Seal and Power to purchase c. Valued at 84 l. 4 s. 2 d. per Annum STOKFASTON Stockerson in Leicestershire FOunded with License of King Edward the IV. An. 5. by Iohn de Boyville Esq near the Town Church for one Chaplain and three poor men who were a Body Corporate and might retain Lands to the value of 10 l. per Annum HEITSBURY in Wiltshire FOunded with License of King Edward the IV. An. 11. by Margaret Widow of Robert Lord Hungerford Iohn Cheyne of Pynne Esq and Iohn Mervyn Esq for one Chaplain twelve poor Men and one poor Woman of whom the Chaplain to be Custos or Warden Which Hospital was made a Body Corporate c. and endow'd with divers Lands and had a grant of twenty Load of Wood for firing out of the Wood of Southleghe in Wiltshire The Savoy in the Suburbs of London KING Henry the VIII An. 2. granted the place or peice of Ground called the Savoy parcel of the Dutchy of Lancaster and lying in the Parishes of St. Clements Danes without the Bars of the New Temple at London and St. Mary of the Stronde in the County of Middlesex to Richard Bishop of Winchester Richard Bishop of London Thomas Bishop of Durham Edmund Bishop of Sarum William Bishop of Lincoln Iohn Bishop of Rochester Thomas Earl of Arundel Thomas Earl of Surrey Charles Lord Herbert Sir Iohn Fyneux Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Sir Robert Rede Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Iohn Young Master of the Roles Sir Iohn Lovell and Iohn Cutte Excutors of King Henry the VII for the founding and establishing of an Hospital And by another Deed dated An. 4. he granted License to the said Executors to found such Hospital for five Secular Chaplains one of which to be Master to pray for the good Estate of him and Catherine his Consort and for the Souls of King Henry the VII and Elizabeth his Consort and of Arthur Prince of Wales Which Hospital was to be called The Hospital of Henry the VII late King of England at the Savoy to be a Body Corporate to have a Common Seal and yearly Revenues to the value of five hundred Marks per Annum for maintenance of the said Chaplains and for performance of such other Works of Mercy and Piety as by the said Executors shall be appointed and exprest With a Non obstante to the Statute of Mortmain Valued at 529 l. 5 s. 7 d. ob per Annum Of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem THE Patron of this Order of Knights was St. Iohn Baptist from whom they took their Denomination The Hospital of St. Iohn Baptist and the Poor at Ierusalem is said to be first built in the time of Iulius Caesar Emperor of Rome and Antiochus Prince of Antioch with certain Treasure which one Melchiar a Priest in the Temple had taken out of the Sepulcher of David here the Poor and Infirm were kindly received and entertain'd from all parts of the World The same Author delivers that when our Saviour Christ became incarnate and conversed on Earth when he came to Ierusalem he resorted frequently to this House and that it was in this House that he appear'd to his Apostles after his Passion and Resurrection the Doors being all shut After his Ascension St. Steven and others of his Disciples served the poor in this Hospital house according to our Lord's Precept When the Christians were expell'd from Ierusalem and the City was possest by the Saracens one Conradus or Gerardus a devout Servant of God lived here and served the Poor in like manner who at such time as Ierusalem was besieg'd by Godfrey of Bullen and the Christian Pilgrims and a great Famine being in the Christian Camp was accustomed to go upon the Walls and throw over Loaves which he carried secretly about him for that purpose as if he were eager in throwing Stones against the Besiegers This Gerard was the first Master of this Hospital which after the City was taken by the Christians was very much favour'd and its Revenues augmented by the Kings of Ierusalem c. After the death of this Gerard Frier Raymund de Puy became Master who establisht a Rule for the Hospitallers confirm'd by Pope Innocent the II. and Pope Boniface This Rule consists of nine and twenty Articles among which it is ordain'd that every Brother or Frier at his admission to the Service of the Poor here is to profess these three things Chas●ity Obedience and to live without Property that when the Friers go abroad they shall not go alone but two or three together that if any be publickly guilty of Fornication he shall be publickly whipt and then expell'd the Society The Infirm at their first Reception into the Hospital shall be consest and communicate and then carried to bed and there served and attended as Lords and Masters of the House That all the Brothers shall wear a Cross on their upper Garments as a Badge of their Faith c. Others give another account of the Original of the Hospitallers● affirming that after the Turks of Arabia had over-run Syria and Egypt about the year 612. certain Italian Merchants of the City of Malfe trading into these parts and being favour'd by the Turks on the account of their Trade they obtain'd from the Calife of Egypt a peice of Ground lying before the Temple of the Sepulcher for their Habitation here those M●rchants built a Monastery and Church in honour of the blessed Virgin placing therein an Abbot and Monks After that they built another little Church in honour of St. Mary Magdalen for the Reception of Women Pilgrims and placed therein certain Nuns and lastly considering the danger of those who came in Pilgrimage to the holy places who were often robbed by the Turks they built an Hospital or Domus Dei for the Reception of Men whether Well or Sick who arrived here in Pilgrimage and another Church for them dedicated to St Iohn Elemon Patriarch of Alexandria These three Houses subsisted only by Alms collected for them yearly by the said Merchants of Malfy till the Christians conquer'd Ierusalem and expelled the Saracens At which time lived in the Abby of Monks the before-mention'd Girald to whom the Abbot committed the Reception and Relief of the Poor and Pilgrims in the foresaid Domus Dei or Hospital and after such reduction of the City the said Hospital flourisht daily more and

Danes coming down out of Yorkshire into Lincolnshire Earl Algar Morcar a Lay-Brother of Crowland-Abby call'd Tolius who had been a famous Souldier before he entered into Religion Hardingus of Reihalle and under his Command all the men of Stamford made head against them and at first conquered the Pagans but they being soon after reinforced with greater power they in a second Battel over-threw the Christians with grievous slaughter burnt down the Abby and Church of Croyland and from thence marcht to Medeshamsted where they slew the Abbot and all the Monks to the number of eighty four and utterly destroyed the Church and all other Buildings From hence they march'd to Cambridge destroying all the Country as they went In the year of Christ 970. St. Adelwold Bishop of Winchester began to re-edifie the Monastery of Medeshamstede and call'd it the Borough of St. Peter one hundred year after it was destroyed by the Danes The foregoing Particulars of this History have been curiously painted in the Windows of the Cloysters belonging to this Abby with English Verses under each Picture explaining the Story Which see in the Monasticon at large Valued at 1721 l. 14 s. 0 d. ob q. per Annum WHITBY of Old call'd STRENSHALE in Yorkshire ANno Dom. 655. Penda the Pagan King of Mercia making War upon Oswy King of Northumberland Oswy made a Vow to Almighty God that if he overcame his Enemies he would dedicate his Daughter to perpetual Virginity and give twelve of his Manour-houses to be converted into Monasteries Hereupon he fought and tho' much inferiour in number obtain'd a Signal Victory and Penda was slain in the Battle In performance o● 〈◊〉 Vow he gave his Daughter named Ethelfleda then scarce one year 〈…〉 and the Ground then called Streneshal for the building of a Monastery It was begun by Hilda a Woman of great Religion and was at first a Nunnery but afterwards a House of Monks In the year 1067. William de Percy who came into England with the Conquerour and had obtained to himself and Heirs the Town of Whitby and all its Members made a new Foundation of the Abby of Whitby and gave all the said Town and Members to God St. Peter and St. Hilda of Whitby and to the Monks there serving God in perpetual Alms with divers other Lands and made Reinfridus a Monk of Euesham Prior of the Monastery This was after this place had been destroyed by the Danes above two hundred years Many were the Benefactors to this Abby besides the Founder William de Percy a particular of the Lands Possessions Forests Churches Tithes and Liberties by them given may be seen in the Monasticon at large p. 74 75. Vid. inf p. 988. Valued at 437 l. 2 s. 9 d. per Annum CHERTSEY in Surrey THE Abby of Chertsey was founded in the Reign of King Egbert in the year of our Lord 666. by Frithwaldus a petty King or Governor of the Province of Surrey under Wulfar King of Mercia and endow'd with large Possessions all which were confirm'd by the said Wulfar King of Mercia The Limits of the Lands belonging to Chertsey-Abby may be seen in the Monasticon at large p. 77. Pope Alexander granted to this Abby many Priviledges among other that they should pay no Tithes of their Lands in their own hands nor of the Beasts which they themselves kept Valued at 659 l. 15 s. 8 d. ob per Annum BERKING in the County of Essex THE Nunnery at Berking eight miles from London was founded by Erkenwaldus Bishop of that City for his Sister Ethelburge who was the first Abbess of this Nunnery Hodelredus a Kinsman of Sebby King of the East Saxons gave to this House fair Revenues which Guift was confirm'd by the said King Sebby The Ancient Profits and Expences of this Nunnery as they were charg'd to the Account of the Celeress may be seen in the Monasticon at large p. 80 81 82 83. Valued at 862 l. 12 s. 5 d. ob per Annum The Monastery of St. Mildred in the Isle of Thanet in Kent MIldred the Virgin was the Daughter of Merwaldus Son of Penda King of Mercia and Domneva of the Family of the Kings of Kent Which Domneva with her Husband's assistance built this Monastery for Nuns and placed here seventy Virgins of whom their Daughter Mildred was consecrated Abbess This House was destroy'd by the Pagan Danes A BENEDICTINE NUN Vol. 1. P. 79 the year 1011. Afterwards in the time of King Cnut it was annext by that King 's Grant to St. Augustines Monastery and the Body of St. Mildred translated from hence of St. Augustines at Canterbury A. D. 1033. The Lands belonging hereunto in the Isle of Thanet were confirm'd to the said Monastery of St. Augustines by King Edward the Confessor FALKSTONE in Kent EAnswida Daughter of Eadbaldus Son of Ethelbert King of Kent built this Monastery in a remote Part from Commerce situated seven Acers breadth from the Sea which in process of time quite wore away the Land and destroyed this House but the Reliques of the holy Virgin the Foundress who lived and died here were removed to the Neighbouring Church of St. Peter See more of this House infra p. 560. Valued at 41 l. 15 s. 10 d. per Annum LIMING in Kent THE Monastery here was built by Ethelburge Daughter of King Ethelbert and Wife of Edwin King of Northumberland after whole death she return'd into Kent and founded this Nunnery and lies here buried RACULFE in Kent BIrthwald Archbishop of Canterbury was before his election to that See in the year 692. Abbot of Raculfe In the year 949. King Eadred King of all England gave the Monastery of Raculfe and all the Lands belonging thereunto to the Church of Canterbuy Odo being then Archbishop and Metropolitan there The Lands belonging to this House did amount to twenty five Carucates and one Carucate assigned only to the Repairs of the Church ELY Abby in Cambridgeshire ANno Dom. 627. The blessed Augustine built a Church at Ely in a place called Cradindene a mile distant from the present City it was consecrated to the honour of the blessed Virgin and stored with Ministers for God's service but these were all expell'd by Penda King of Mercia and the place turn'd into a Desert Afterwards in the year 673. Ethelreda the Virgin built a Monastery in a more eminent place in Ely for both Sexes of which she her self became the first Abbess In the year 870. the Church of Ely was again destroy'd and burnt by the Pagans In the year 970. Ethelwaldus Bishop of Winchester bought this Isle of King Edgar rebuilt the Church and placed Monks in it under the Rule of an Abbot and in this state it remained till the year 1108. 9 H. 1. at which time Pope Paschal at the request of that King changed the Abby into a Bishoprick The foresaid Ethelred was Daughter of Anna King of the East-Angels and was buried in Ely together with several

the Canons of this House the Advowson of the House of Lepers of St. Leonard at Kirkeby in Kendale c. Divers other Benefactors gave Many Lands and parcels all which were recited and confirm'd by King Edward II. An. 12. Magnus King of Man and the Iles by his deed dated An. Dom. 1256. granted to the Prior and Convent of this House that their Ships and Goods should be free from toll and all other demands and Customs throughout all his Dominions St. JOHN Baptist at Coventry LAurence Prior of Coventry and the Convent there granted the Scite of this House and the apurtenances in perpetual Alms for the Receit of Poor and infirm people And this was at the petition of Edmund Archdeacon of Coventry Confirm'd by Richard Archbishop of Canterbury and by Bull of Pope Honorius III. dated An. 1221. King Henry III. An. 45. granted to the Brethren and Sisters of this Hospital liberty and protection by themselves or Messengers to ask gather and receive Almes abroad for Releif of their House for the space of seven years An. Dom. 1425 Richard Crosby being then Prior of the Cathedral and Regular Church of the Blessed Mary of Coventry and Thomas Everdon Master or Custos of this Hospital Several Orders were made for the Government of this House containing That the Prior and Convent aforesaid shall be accounted Founders of this Hospital and Edmund formerly Archdeacon of Coventry Principal Benefactor that the Master of the Hospital be Subject to the Prior who is to have the placing Creation and reception of the said Master and all the Brethren and Sisters that the said Prior and his Successors may Visit in the said Hospital once a year attended with eight persons only the Master to make Oath of Fidelity to the Prior at his admission the Brothers and Sisters a Promise in Writing sign'd and Seal'd The Master to be in Priests Orders the Habit of the Master and Brothers to be of Dark Colour sign'd with a black Crosse and on their Mantles also a black Crosse without which habit they ought not to appear abroad The Master to hold Chapter every Fryday or however once a week The Divine Offices to be devoutly celebrated in the said Hospital at the usual hours Secundum usum sarum The Lay Brothers and Sisters that are illerate to say A CANNON HOSPITALLER OF S t IOHN BAPTIST AT COVENTRY Vol. 2 P. 428. instead of Matins thirty Paters and as many Aves with the Creed and for every of the other hours seven But those Brothers that have learning sufficient to say the Office of the Blessed Virgin The Sisters to be always intent and Solicitous about the Care and Service of the Infirm in the said Hospital The Common Seal to be kept under three Keys one to remain with the Master the other two with the Senior Brother and Sister That the Master shall pay predial Tithes to the Prior but not of Cattle nor Wood That the said Hospital shall have a free Sepulture for those who choose to be buried with them c. Valued at 83 l. 3 s. 3 d. per Annum BRUGWALTER in Somersetshire FOunded by William Briewerr for thirteen poor People beside Religious men and Travailers Several Churches being of the Advowson of the Master and Brethren of this Hospital of St. Iohn Baptist at Brudgwalter were appropriated hereunto by the Bishop of Bath and Wells and the Bishop of Exeter An. 1284. The Patronage of this Hospital coming to the hands of the Lord de la Zouche in Custody of King Henry VI. by reason of his Nonage that King granted his License to the President and Brethren of this House to elect a New Master on the death of the former Valued at 120 l. 19 s. 1 d. ob per Annum BRUGENORTH in Shropshire IT was found by Inquisition 14 Edward IV. that Radulf le Strange Founded and endow'd this Hospital in honour of the blessed Trinity the Virgin and St. Iohn Baptist From which Ralfle Strange did lineally descend Iohn Talbot created first Earl Salisbury of that name And it was then further found that the name of Custos of this Hospital was in Process of time changed to that of Prior. Valued at 4 l. per Annum St. JOHN'S in the City of Wells FIrst Founded by Hugh Bishop of Lincoln Ioselin Bishop of Bath and Sir Edmund Lyons were Benefactors These were so bountiful to this Hospital that at first this House had two hundred marks of annual Rents Valued at 40 l. o s 2 d. ob per Annum STRODE in Kent FOunded by Gilbert Bishop of Rochester for the Receit of Poor weak and infirm People as well known as Strangers and Travellers and for their releif with Bed Meat and Drink till they either die or depart in health The Master or Governour of which House by the name and title of Iconomus he appointed to be a Regular and to have with him at least two Priests to celebrate daily two Masses The said Bishop endow'd this Hospital with divers Churches and Tithes c. All which Revenues were confirm'd by the Prior and Convent of Rochester Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury and King Richard the first Whose Several Deeds were all Recited and confirm'd by King Edward III. An. 6. by Inspeximus The same King Edward III. An. 16. granted his License to Mary of St. Paul Countess of Pembroke to grant her Mannour of Strode to any House of Religious Men or Women already built or to be built by her with a Non obstante to the Statute of Mortmain Valued at 52 l. 9 s. 10 d. ob per Annum SHIREBURNE in the Bishoprick of Durham FOunded and endow'd with Lands and Churches by Hugh de Puteaco or Pudsey who placed there Leperous People collected all over his Diocess endowing it with Lands and Churches SUTTON in Yorkshire JEffrey Fitz-Peter Earl of Essex gave certain Lands here to William de Wrotham Archdeacon of Tanton for the erection of an Hospital in honour of the holy and individual Trinity and the blessed Virgin and of all Celestial Virtues and all Saints and for the maintenance of thirteen poor People and three Chaplains MERLEBERGE in Wiltshire TO this Hospital dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist and to the Brothers and Sisters here King Iohn An. 16. confirm'd divers Lands given by Henry de Kenet Levenot Son of Levenot and others Valued at 6 l. 18 s. 4 d. per Annum St. LAURENCE near Bristol in Somersetshire KING Iohn An. Reg. 9. and King Henry the III. An. 32. confirmed divers Lands to the Masters and Brethren of this Hospital of Lepers of St. Laurence in the Suburbs of Bristol BOCKLAND in Somersetshire LOretta Countess of Leicester Widow of Earl Robert gave divers Lands to God and the blessed Mary and St. Iohn Baptist and to the blessed Poor of the Hospital-house of Ierusalem for the Sustentation of the Sisters of Bocklaund and for the finding of a Chaplain to celebrate daily in the Church at Bokland St. THOMAS in Southwark

grant of Liberties in like manner as his Predecessor Richard Earl of the Normans had given them St. FLORENCE at Saumers in Anjou KIng Henry II. confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby their Possessions among others their Cell of Sele in Suffolk FONTANE in Normandy FOunded by Ralf Taxo and by him endow'd with large Lands and Possessions with the good will of William Prince of the Normans qui Regnum Anglia armis subjugavit strenué gubernavit which King William the Conqueror confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby four Churches with all their Tithes and Customes in England among which Toucester in Northamptonshire FONT-EBRALD in Normandy KIng Henry II. granted to the Nuns of this Abby the Mannour of Lecton in Bedfordshire with other Lands amounting to 60 l. per An. with the Confirmation of a yearly Alms out of the Exchequer of 24 l. per Annum granted by his Grandfather King Henry I. King Henry III. confirm'd to these Nuns all their Lands c. in England FULCARDIMONT ALice Countess of Eu Augum confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby the several Lands given them in England by Iohn Earl of Eu her Grandfather JUMIEGES in Normandy KING Henry the II. confirm'd the Lands given to these Monks by William Son of Rollo Robert Archbishop of Rhoan King William c. GOISLAFONTAN FOunded and endow'd for Nuns by Hugo de Gornaio and others GRANDIMONT in Normandy KING Henry the V. An suo 8. confirm'd to the Prior and Convent of this place all the Lands granted by his Progenitors Kings of France and England Robert Earl of Mellent was the Founder and many the Benefactors King Henry the II. granted them an annual Rent of 200 l. in free Alms confirm'd by King Iohn GRESTAIN in Normandy KING Richard the I. confirm'd to the Monks of this House their Lands given by King William the Conqueror and others The like did King Edward the II. LIRA in Normandy KING Henry the II. confirm'd to the Monks their Lands and Cells in England The Earls of Leicester were great Benefactors to this House so were divers others of prime quality in England LONLEY in le Maine FOunded in the Chatellery of Danfront and Diocess of Mans by William de Belesmo and endowed with Revenues in and about Dumfront in Normandy St. MARTIN of the Major-Monastery in Tourain KING Henry the II. granted to the Monks of this place divers Lands and Tithes in England St. JOHN's in Poictou KING Iohn confirm'd to the Monks here the Church of St. Nicholas MONTISBURG in Normandy THE Estate of these Monks in England given by Richard de Rivers and others was confirm'd by King Hen. II. and King Edw. 3. NOA in Normandy FOunded by Maud the Empress Daughter of King Henry the I. for Monks St. MARTINS in the Suburbs of Paris STeven Earl of Albamarl and Havisia his Wise Daughter of Ralph de Mortuomari were Benefactors to the Monks here St. REMIGIUS in the City of Reims KING Edward the III. An. suo 6. confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby divers Lands in England DE PRATO at Rhoan FOunded by King Henry the I. and by him and Maud the Empress endow'd with Lands both in Normandy and England St. AMAND at Rhoan THE Abby of Nuns here was founded by Goscelinus the Viscount and Emmelina his Wife Endowed by them and several others among the rest King William the Conqueror and Queen Maud. SAVIGNY in Normandy KIng Edward III. confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby their Lands in England among which their Cell of Benyngton in Lincolnshire St. MARTINS at Alcey in Normandy FOunded and endow'd by Steven Earl of Albamarl and his Ancestors without the Walls of the Castle of Albemarl St. NICHOLAS at Angiers FIrst founded by Fulk Earl of Anjou An. Dom. 1020. whose Son Ieffrey married Maud the Empress daughter of King Henry I. She granted to the Monks of this Abby divers Lands and Churches in England as Spalding in Lincolnshire c. See more in Spalding Vol. 1. p. 306. St. SAVIOURS at Constantine THeir Possessions in England were confirm'd to these Monks by King Henry II. with the grant of great Liberties and Priviledges in his Forrests St. MARTINS of Troarne THe Possessions of these Monks were confirm'd by Henry Duke of Normandy and Aquitain and Earl of Anjou St. VICTORS at Calete in Normandy KIng Henry II. Confirm'd the Estate of the Monks of this place which they had both here and beyond Seas with the grant of Liberties c. St. WALERIC in Picardy KIng Henry II. Confirm'd to the Monks here Takley in Essex c. with divers Liberties and great Immunities St. WANDRAGISILUS in the Dioc. of Roan FOunded and endow'd at Fontanell by Richard II Duke or Prince of the Normans An. Dom. 1024. XANTON in Aquitain KIng Iohn confirm'd the Liberties granted to the Nuns of this Abby CLUNY in the Dutchy of Burgundy ROger Earl of Salop and Adelina his Wife gave the Manner of Chelton to this Abby AULNAY AN Dom. 1199. William de Similleio and his Ancestors founded and endow'd this Abby in the Diocess of Bajeux for Cistercians They demised certain Tithes in Oxfordshire for the Rent of 40 s. per Annum An. 1304. de BONOPORTU FOunded for Cistertian Monks by Richard I. King of England and endow'd among other things with one hundred marks yearly issuing out of his Rents in the Town of Dieppe St. MARY de Voto at Cherburg in Normandy FOunded and endow'd by King Henry II. and his Mother Maud the Empress Confirm'd by King Richard I. and King Henry III. for Cistertians St. MARTIN and St. Barbara in Normandy KIng Henry II. confirm'd the Lands given to the Canons of this Abby both in Normandy and England BELENCUMBRIS WIlliam de Waren and Isabel his Wife gave divers Lands and Rents to this Priory of All Saints An. Dom. 1135. St. WLUAR at Bologne in Picardy KIng Henry I. at the Solicitation of Ida Countess of Bologne gave and confirm'd to the Canons of this Priory Notfield in Surrey FOUGERES in Britany COnan Duke of Britan gave the Canons of this Place the Church of Cestrehunt in the Diocess of London Ranulph Earl of Chester writ to the Bishop of London on behalf of these Canons and because he had not his own Seal by him at that time he sent his Letters under the Seal of the Lady his Mother yet the Said Letters conclude Teste meipso apud Martillum The Hospital of St Mary Magdalen at Bologn KIng Henry I. confirm'd to this Hospital 20 l. per Annum arising out of Kent The Hospital of Lepers of Kenilli near Roan KIng Henry II. founded this Hospital for Leperous Women and gave it 200 l. per Annum King Richard I. gave them 40 l. per Annum But this was Anjou pounds The Hospital of Vernon in Normandy FOunded and largely endow'd by St. Lewis King of France An. Dom. 1260. The Hospital of the Holy Ghost at Rome FOund by Inquisition 20 Edward III. that King Iohn gave

weak Persons and two poor Clerks teaching Schools to be chosen by the Custos every of which to receive from the Custos weekly 4 d. of Silver the Custos to have ten Marks of yearly Revenue which is judged sufficient for his support that it shall not be lawful for him to convert to his own use more than that Sum of the Goods of the said Hospital c. Which Orders are dated at Thorpe near York An Dom. 1373. Valued at 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. per Annum WHITINGTON'S Hospital at London JOhn Coventry Iohn Carpenter and William Grove Execuors of Richard Whitington late Citizen and Mercer of London and several times Mayor of that City according to the desire and appointment of the said Richard founded in the Church of St. Michael Royal at London where the said Richard and Alice his Consort lye buried a Colledge of certain Priests and Clerks to celebrate daily for the said Richard and Alice also an Almshouse for 13 poor People in the Parish of St. Michael aforesaid and adjoyning to the Church And establisht divers Orders by Licence of King Henry VI. and Henry Archbishop of Canterbury c. touching the same as that there shall be always inhabiting in the said Hospital 13 poor People of one or both Sexes of which one to be Cheif and called Tutor the first of which Office they placed themselves by name Robert Chesterton to whom they gave the said Hospital with all the Appurtenances for a perpetual habitation for him and the poor People and their Successors by the name of the House of God or the Almshouse or the Hospital of Richard Whityngton that the Mayor of London and his Successors shall be Supervisers and the Wardens and Communalty of Mercers Conservators of the said House that the Tutor and poor People have Lodgings or Cells apart and several that within 20 days after the Death of a Tutor the Wardens of the Mercers shall elect or depute another fit person to succeed in the said Office and upon their neglect for 20 days the Power of so doing shall for that time be in the Mayor of London that as the poor People dye the Master of the foresaid Colledge shall place one in the first Vacancy and the Wardens of the Mercers in the Six next Vacancies then again the Master in the next one and then the Wardens for the six next c. yet it shall not be lawful for the said Wardens to put one that is of the Livery of their own Company or any other Company of the said City into the said places yet poor Citizens of London and especially the poor of the Mercers who are not nor have been of the Livery qui de liberatâ minimé fuerint and whom the Company are not bound to maintain and poor Clerks and inferiour Officers of the Colledge aforesaid are to be preferr'd to the said places before others that the Tutor and poor People be daily present at Mattins Masses Vespers and Complin in the Colledge or Church abovemention'd and at the prayers to be there made for the Souls of Richard Whitington and Alice their Founders Sr. William Whitington Knight the Lord Ivo Fitz-Waryn and the Lady Maud his Wife Parents of the said Richard and Alice King Richard II. and Thomas late Duke of Gloucester c. That they shall say for the said Souls as often as they can conveniently three or at least two Psalters i. e. fifty Aves and fifteen Paters and three Creeds that they should all go daily to the Tomb of the said Richard and Alice and there say the Psalm de Profundis after which the Tutor to say aloud in English God have mercy on our Founders Souls and all Christen and the rest answer Amen that the Tutor shall not be absent from the said House above ten nights in a year nor any poor Man above one whole day without License or great necessity That they have a Common Chest and a Common Seal the Chest to have three different Keys c. That the Tutor have and receive every week for his Pension 16 d. and every poor person 4 d. that no Leprous or mad Man be admitted into the House c. if any Estate falls to any poor Man of the clear yearly value of five marks that he be removed and another poor Person put in his place but if it be under five marks per Annum let him give half to the Common Chest and keep the other half Vicious persons after the third fault to be expell'd the Hospital as incorrigible That these Orders and Statutes be read and intelligibly expounded before the Tutor and poor People once every quarter of a year With power reserved to the said Executors while they or any of them live to add correct or alter any of these Orders Dated 21. December An. Dom. 1424. 3. H. 6. RUTHYN Hospital in Denbighshire QUeen Elizabeth at the Petition of Gabriel Goodman Doctor of Divinity and Dean of the Collegiate Church of Westminster erected created founded and establisht an Hospital in Ruthyn in the Couuty of Denbigh to be call'd Christ's Hospital in Ruthin to consist of one Preacher and twelve poor People for ever and ordain'd that there should be one President and one Warden of the same and nominated the then Bishop of Bangor and his Successors for the time being to be President and Eubolus Theloall Master in Arts to be the first Warden of the said Hospital and all the Possessions Lands and Goods thereunto belonging that the said President and Warden be a Body corporate for ever by the name of the President and Warden of Christ's Hospital in Ruthin by the said name to purchase and receive Lands c. as well of the said Gabriel Goodman as any other person for the support and maintenance of the said Hospital that they have a Common Seal that they may sue and be sued by the said name in all Courts with power to the said Gabriel Goodman during his Life to elect nominate and appoint the Wardens and poor People of the said Hospital as often as there shall be occasion and to make and appoint Statutes and Orders for Govrnment of the same with license to the said President and Warden and their Successors to purchase Lands not exceeding the clear yearly value of 100 l. c. the Statute of Mortmain or any other Stat. non obstante Letters Patents to be past of all this under the Great Seal of England without any manner of Fine or Fee to be paid c. DROHEDA Hospital in Ireland FOunded by Vrsus de Swemele without the West-Gate of Droheda for the relief of poor and helpless People and by him endow'd with all the Lands and Rents that he had in Ireland and gave the Election of the Custos after his death to the Honest men or Free-men probos homines of Drohida Pag. 792. SEMPRINGHAM THE Master and Canons of Sempringham declared by their Deed that they and theirs in the place

after Bishop of Lincoln Robert de Mariscis 1260. William de Lenington 1262. Richard de Mephum 1273. Iohn de Maydencton 1275. Olive Sutton 1276. after Bishop of Lincoln Nicholas de Hecham 1280. William Wicham 1577. after Bishop of Lincoln and Winchester Philip de Willughby 1289. Gotzesinus de Kyrington 1305. Raymundas a Cardinal 1307. Roger de Martival 1310. after Bishop of Sarum Henry de Mansfield 1315. Anthony Beak 1328. after Bishop of Norwich Iohn de Nottingham 1340. William de Norwich 1343. after Bishop of Norwich Iohn de Offord 1345. Simon Bresley 1348. Iohn de Stretley 1364. Iohn de Shepy 1388. Iohn Mackworth 1412. Robert Fleming 1451. George Fitzbugh 1483. Ieffry Simion 1505. Thomas Wulcy 1509. afterwards Bishop of Lincoln and York and Cardinal Iohn Constable 1514. George Heneage 1528. Iohn Tayler 1539. after Bishop of Lincoln Mathew Parlur or Parker 1552. after Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Francis Mallet 1554. Iohn Whitgift 1571. after Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of Canterbury Ralf Griffin 1585. Iohn Rainold 1598. William Cole 1599. Laurence Staunton 1601 Roger Parlur 1613. Anthony Topham 1629. Michael Honywood 1660. Anno 1536. 28. Henry VIII An Inventory was made of all the Jewels Vestments and other Ornaments belonging to the Revestry of of this Church consisting in Chalices in number six one of which was all Gold enricht with Pearls and divers precious stones in the foot weighing thirty two Onnces Several rich Feretrums one of Silver and gilt for the Sacrament weighting 341. ounces several rich Philatories Ampuls and Tabernacles with Relicks in them Rich Images Silver and gilt Divers Rich Chests for Relicks Pixes Crosses and Crucifixes some of Gold some of Christial and some of Silver and gilt one of which weighed 128 Ounces besides the Baes c. Divers Rich Candlesticks among which one Pair of extraordinary size and Workmanship was all Gold and weigh'd 450 Ounces the gift of Iohn Duke of Lancaster Son of King Edw. III. Five Pair of Censors Silver and gilt Several rich Basons Silver and gilt c. Pastoral Staves Texts of the Gospells with Rich Covers Chrismatories and Ampuls sot Oyl Silver and gilt eight Myters Chesables and Copes of Cloath of Gold Sattin Velvet imbroidered red white some of Damask some set with Pearls of purple and blew some of which had the Donors names imbroidered thereon with Orate pro anima c. of green of black rich Morses of Silver and gilt Garlands of Silver and gilt set about with precious Stones and Pearls rich Altar-cloaths of Cloth of Gold and images imbroidered c. King Henry VIII directed his Letter dated the 6th of Iune in his two and thirtieth year to Dr. George Heneage then Archdeacon of Taunton and others to take down a Shrine and the superstitious Jewels Plate Copes c. in this Cathedral Church of Lincoln and to see the same safely and surely to be convey'd to his Jewel-house in the Tower Which Commission was executed on the 11th of Iune 1540. And by force thereof there was taken out of the said Cathedral in Gold two thousand six hundred and twenty one ●unces in silver four thousand two hundred and eighty five ounces besides a great number of Pearls Diamonds Saphires Rubies Turky Carbuneles c. The Bishop of Lincoln had a Miter wonderfully thick set with precious Stones Here were then two Shrines one of St. Hugh all of Gold the other of St. Iohn of Dalderby all of Silver In the seventh year of King Edward the VI. another Inventory was taken of what then remain'd in this Church which contain'd only three Chalices one Pix one Ampul and that was all the Plate the rest of the Treasure was in Copes of red green blew black and white some old and decayed with divers Chesables Tunicles and Albes c. Altar-Cloaths of Diaper meetly good and five other Cloths of Diaper sore worne In the fourth and fifth Ph. Ma. An. Dom. 1557. another Inventory was made and there was then in this Church seven Chalices Silver and gilt one of which weighed four and thirty ounces four Pixes with some few Phials Crostes Ampulls but most poor with divers Chesables and Copes red purple white blew green and black and divers Altar-Clothes some of Cloath of Gold and of Damask imbroidered with Gold c. St. PAUL's Cathedral in London ANno Dom. 185. Lucius King of the greater Britain now call'd England obtain'd from Pope Eleutherius two Doctors to be sent hither to instruct the King and Kingdom in the Christian Faith then were the Temples of Idols dedicated to the Service of the true God and three Metropolitan Seats placed in the three chief Cities viz. London to which all the Southern part of England was subject York under whose Jurisdiction was all the North of Humber and Scotland and Cehster whose Jurisdiction extended over Wales London continued the chief Episcopal Seat and Primacy till the coming of St. Augustin who in the year 604. transferr'd the Metropolitan Dignity to Canterbury and made Mellitus Bishop of London To which Mellitus King Ethelbert gave the Land then called Tillingham for the Support and Maintenance of his Monastery of St. Paul Pope Agatho granted to Erkenwald Bishop of the Monastry of St. Paul in London that the Election of the Bishop should belong solely to the Congregation of that Monastery Which Erkenwald was a Scholler to Bishop Mellitus and built two Monasteries one for himself at Chertsey in Sussex the other for his Sister Edleburga at Barking in Essex He was a man of most exemplary Piety and after the death of Bishop Cedde became Bishop of London He died at Barking after whose death his Body was much contested for by the Nuns of Barking the Monks of Chertey and the Citizens of London but the latter prevailed and he was buried at London with the Reputation of a Saint King Athelstan renewed and restored the Liberties of the Monastery of St. Paul the Doctor of the Gentiles in London King Edgar granted to the same divers Lands and Immunities in the year 867. Other Benefactors to this Church were King Ethelred C●●te King of Denmark and England King Edward the Confessor King William the Conqueror who confirm'd all their Lands and Liberties to be as free as he desired his own Soul to be in the day of Judgment he also granted and confirm'd the four and twenty Hides of Land adjoyning to the City of London which King Ethelbert gave to this Church when he founded it It appears by Domesday-Book that at the time of the Conquest the Church of St. Paul's held Lands in the Counties of Middlesex Essex in divers Hundreds there Hertford and Surrey An. 1070 A Provincial Council was assembled in the Church of St. Paul at London under Lanfranc Archbishop of Canterbury where among other things it was decreed that none should marry in his own Kindred till the seventh Degree That none should buy or sell holy Orders or an Ecclesiastical Office with cure of Souls which

The Thirty Canons belonging to this Church had each his several Prebend and peculiar Seat in the Quire and to each belonged certain Psalms to be by him said daily for the living and dead Benefactors to this Church which Psalms were writ over his Stall An. Dom. 1518 Iohn Collet Dean of St. Paul's exhibited certain matters to the Cardinal of York Legate a Latere for the Reformation of the State of the Residentaries consisting of several Heads relating to the Dean and his authority the four Residentiaries and their Behaviour in the Quire c. Of the Chapters That the Residentaries live near the Church and that they admit no Women into their Houses of the distributions among the Residentaries and that the Dean have a double Proportion in all things without fraud of divers other Officers belonging to this Church relating to the Temporalties as the Receiver General Chamberlain Steward of the Courts Auditor of Acco●nts c Thomas Archbishop of York and Chancellour of England decreed by consent of the Dean and Chapter that the number of Residentiaries should not exceed four with their Dean at one time The State of the Lands of this Church amounted to the Sum of 1196 l. 11 s. 2 d. q. per An. besides Casualties as Fines c. Out of which Sum went yearly in Charges and payments 79 1 l. 3 s. 9 d. So that there remain'd 405 l. 7 s. 3 d. q. and out of that they Set off for Reparations 200l and for Casualties 26 l. 14 s. 4 d. Remaineth 178 l. 13 s. 11 d. q. The Names of the Thirty Prebendaries of St. Paul 's are To●ehal Wesden Holburn Wildeland Sneating Kentistown Ruculnesland Wilesdon Wenlakesbyri Kadington Portepole Cudington Cheswicke Twisord Brandeswood St. Pancrace Ealdeland Herlestone Chaumberlengeswood Ealdstreet Oxgate Consumpta Brunnesbury Neweton Hoxton Rugemere Iseldon Mapelsbyri More Halywell To the Patronage of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's belong twenty one Churches in the City of London In the seventh of Edward VI an Inventory of the Plate and Ornaments c. of this Church was delivered into the Kings Commissioners at Guild-hall out of which at the request of the Dean and Chapter they left only three Chalices two pair of Basins a Silver Pot a Canopy for the King when he cometh to Paul's two Palls for Funerals twenty four old Cushions c. as things of necessary use In the year 1430. 9. Henry VI. Iohn Carpentor Citizen and Clerk of the Communalty of London Executor of Richard Whytington late Citizen and Mercer and often Mayor of the said City founded a perpetual Chantry of one Chaplain to celebrate daily in the Chappel of the Blessed Mary formerly built over the Charnel House in St. Paul's Church-yard by Roger Beyvene and other Citizens of London and endow'd the same with eight Marks of yearly Rent c. An. Dom. 1458. An Inventory or Catalogue Indented was made by William Say Dean and the Chapter of St. Paul's of all the Books given by Walter Shirington a Canon Residentiary of this Church and placed in a new Library by him erected over the Cloyster about the Church-yard call'd Pardon Chirchehawe Which Library consisted of many Volums among which Chronica Radulphi de Diceto Postilla Radulphi de Diceto super Ecclesiasticum librum Sapientiae The Works of St. Augustin and of St. Thomas Visio Sancti Edwardi Consessoris Vna Magna Biblia Tractatus Magistri Roberti Grostest in gallico de lapsu reparatione generis humani Tractatus de decimis per Dominum Stephanum quondam Archiepiscopum Cantuar. c. There were also divers other Books remaining in the Treasury An. 1486. relating chiefly to the Church Service among which Vetus Missale secundum usum St. Pauli Vnum Ordinale secundum primariam ordinationem antiquam Ecclesiae S. Pauli Londoniensis c. The Names of the Bishops of London Mellitus consecrated by Augustin Archbishop of Canterbury An. 605. Ceddus 621. Wyne Erkenwald 680 Walter Inguald Eguf Wychet Filbrith Edgar Kenwald Ebald Herbert Osmund Ethenod Celhert Cerulph Stributulph Etstan Wulfius Edelward Elstan Wlstan Elsun 1000. Alwyn 1044. Elphword Robert 1050. William 1051. Hugh de Aurevalle Mauricius 1077. Richard 1108. Gilbert Robert de Sigillo 1139. Richard Beumies 1151. Gilbert Foliot 1163. Richard 1190. William 1199. Eustachius de Faukenbergh 1221. Roger le Veir 1229. Fulc Basset 1244. Henry de Wengham 1259. Richard Taleboth 1262. Henry de Sandwic 1262. Iohn de Chishull 1274. Richard de Gravesend 1290. Ralph de Baldok 1306. Gilbert de Seagrave 1313. Richard de Newport 1317. Steven de Gravesend 1319. Richard de Binteworth 1338. Ralph de Stratford 1339. Michael Northburgh Simon de Sudbury 1362. Robert Braybroke 1381. Roger Walden 1404. Nicholas Bubwith 1406. Richard Clifford 1407. Iohn Kemp 1422. William Gray 1426. Robert Fitz-Hugh 1431. Robert Gilbert Thomas Kemp 1449. Richard Hill 1489. Thomas Savage 1496. William Warham 1503. William Barnes 1505. Richard Fitz-Iames 1506. Cuthbert Tunstal 1522. Iohn Stokesly 1530. Edmund Boner 1540. Nicholas Ridley 1549. Edmund Grindal 1559. Edwin Sandes 1570. Iohn Elmer 1576. Richard Fletcher 1594. Richard Bancroft 1597. Richard Vaughan 1604. Thomas Ravis 1607. George Abbot 1609. Iohn King 1611. George Mountaine 1621. William Laud 1628. William Iuckson 1635. The Names of the Deans of St. Pauls since the Conquest Vlstan William Elfwin Luired Ralph 1150 Alard de Burnham Robert de Watford Hugh de Marinis Ralph de Diceto 1183. Martin de Pateshull Walter de Langford Ieffrey de Lucy 1237. William de S. Mariae Ecclesia 1237. Henry de Cornhill 1245. Walter de Salern Robert de Barthone Peter de Neuport Richard Taleboth Ieffrey de Feringes 1263. Iohn de Chishulle Hervicus de Borham 1276. Thomas de Ingelesthorpe 1279. after Bishop of Rochester Roger de la Leye 1287. William de Montfort 1292. Ralph de Baldok 1297. Arnald de Cantilupo 1308. after a Cardinal Iohn de Sandale Richard de Neuport Vitalis Basco Iohn de Everton 1328. Gilbert de Bruera 1339. Richard de Kilmington Thomas Trillek Iohn de Apelby Thomas Evere Thomas Stowe Thomas More Reginald Kentwode Thomas Lyseus 1441. Laurance Bothe 1456. William Say 1457. Roger Ratclyff 1468. Thomas Wynterburne 1471. William Worsley Robert Shirburne Iohn Collet Richard Pace Richard Sampson Iohn Incent William May. Iohn Fecknans Henry Cole Alexander Nowell Iohn Overall Valentine Cary. The Dance of Death formerly painted about the Cloyster of St. Pauls was writ in French by one Machabree and translated into old English Verse by Dan Iohn of Lydgate Monk of Bury In this Dance Death leads all sorts of People and first takes out and speaks to the Pope then the Emperor then the Cardinal the King Patriarch Constable Archbishop Baron Princess Bishop Esquire Abbot Abbess Bayly Astronomer Burgess Canon Secular Marchant Chartreux Sergeant Monk Usurer Physician the amorous Esquire the Gentlewoman the Man of Law Mr. Iohn Rikil the Parson Juror Minstral Laborer Frier Minor the young Child the young Clerk the Hermite

more procuring to it self great Revenues and to be discharged from its subjection not only to the Abbot but Patriarch also These and the like mighty Priviledges granted them by the Court of Rome were the occasion of great Troubles and Disorders between the Hospitallers and the Patriarch of Ierusalem These Hospitallers on their admission were to make Oath upon the Missal as follows You promise and vow to God our L●●● and my Lord St. John Baptist to live and die under the obedience of such Supe●●●ior whoever he be as God shall give you you vow further and promise to live chastly until death and also without property we also make another promise which no Religious Men besides us make for we promise to be Servants and Slaves of the In●irm our Masters After the making this Vow he who admits him says And we promise you Bread and Water and humble Cloathing for nothing more you can require and we make you a Partaker of all the good Works done in our Order c. A List of such who have been Masters 1. Girardus 2. Raymundus de Podio 3. Augier de B●llen 4. Ar●audns de Comps 5. Gilbertus Assailli 6. Castus 7. Iobertus 8. Gaufridus de Dinsono 9. Hermengandus Daps in his time the Christians lost Ierusalem 10. Rogerius de Molins 11. Garnerius de Neapoli he had been Prior of St. Iohn ' s at London Vid. p. 550. 12. Alfonsus de Portugalia resigned 13. Gaufridus Rat 14. Garinus de Monteacuto 15. Bertrandus de Gexi 16. Garinus 17. Bertrandus de Cons. 18. Petrus de Villa Brida 19. Willielmus Castello Novo 20. Hugo Ryvell 21. Nicholaus de Lorgne 22. Odde 23. Guillelmus de Villareto 24. Fulco de Vilareto in his time the Knights Hospitallers took the Island of Rhodes and removed the Convent from Cyprus He was deposed 25. Mauricius de Paygnaco 26. Elionnus de Villa Nova 27. Deodatus de Gosono 28. Petrus Cornelian The Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in the Suburbs of London FOunded by Iordan Briset a Baron about the year 1100. on ten Acres of Land which he had in exchange from the Nuns of Clerkenwell which Nunnery he had founded not long before The Church of this Hospital was dedicated in honour of St. Iohn Baptist by Heraclius Patriarch of Ierusalem An. Dmo. 1185. The foresaid Iordan endow'd this House with fourteen Acres of Land adjoyning upon the Clerks Well Robert de Fun gave to the Brethren of this House the Hermitage of Yevelie with a Condition that the said Brothers should admit him into their Order at such time as he pleased whether in Health or Sickness Many others were Benefactors among the rest Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford gave to the Prior and Brothers of the Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England two Knights Fees William Earl of Ferrars Hugh de Bellocampo Gilbert de Montefichet c. gave divers other Lands and Churches c. recited and confirm'd by King Iohn An. 1. These Knights of St. Iohn claimed a Priviledge to bury the Bodies of such who had given Alms to their Fraternity however they came to their death whereupon it happen'd An. 4. E. 1. that certain Fellons having been executed some of the Servants of these Knights went to the Gallows and took `em down to bury one of which Fellons Adam le Messer by name being laid in the Grave came to life again and fled to the Neighbouring Church for Sanctuary where he remain'd till he abjured the Realm Pope Clemens having in the Council of Vienna supprest the Order of Knights Templers and given all their Lands and Possessions moveable and immoveable to these Knights Hospitallers of St. Iohn of Ierusalem King Edw. the II. An. 7. granted his Letters of Mandamus all over England for putting the same in execution in this Kingdom The like Grant was made by Act of Parliament An. 17. E. 2. However Hugh Spencer the younger by force seized and held from them their Mannor of the New Temple London which upon his Attainder came to the hands of King Edward the III. who in the twelfth year of his Reign did give grant and sell in consideration of 100 l. part of the said Mannor of the New Temple then valued at 7 l. 5 s. 2 d together with the Church Coemitary and Cloyster c. to the Prior of St. Iohn's and his Successors Vid. Vol. 3. p. 108. Of the Knights Templers in England ANno Dom. 1118. Certain Religious Knights of whom the principal were Hugh de Paganis and Godfrey de S. Audomaro engaged themselves to the Service of Christ before the Patriarch of Ierusalem and undertook to live after the Mannor of Canons Regular King Baldwin granted them a Habitation in part of his Palace adjoyning to the Temple and he and others gave them other Gifts whereon to subsist Their chief prosession was to guard the Roads from Theives for the safety of Pilgrims Their Habit was white with a red Cross. Their number did in a little time so increase that they had in their Convent above three hundred Knights besides others and as their number so their Possessions did swell to a vast and invidious value An. Dom. 1240. the Church belonging A KNIGHT TEMPLAR Vol. 2 P. 617 to these Knights at the Place call'd the New Temple in London was dedicated on Ascention day the King and a great Concourse of Peers and great Persons being present An. Dom. 1147. Conrad Emperor of Germany and Lewis King of France with great forces of French English Normans and Britains made an expedition against the Pagans in the Holy Land but returned with Little or no success at that time These Knights Templers having been very Treacherous to the Christians at the Seige of Damascus which City had been taken by King Lewis but for them An. Dom. 1307. 1 Edward 2. These Knights were Imprison'd throughout all Christendome for certain Enormities and Superstitions crept into their Order and all their Estates real and personal Seized Of the New Temple at London A KNIGHT HOSPITALLER Vol. 2. P. 55● Ieffrey de Say granted to the Knights Templers fratribus militiae Templi Salomnis his Mannor of West-Grenewiche c. A sine was past 19 H. 3. between Robert de Stanford Master of the Warfare of the Temple in England Plantiff and Iohn de Curtenay and Emme his Wife Deforciants inpedientes of certain Lands in East-Hyrst King Iohn confirm'd to the Knights Templers the Island of Lundy lying in the Mouth of the Severn first granted by his Father King Henry the II. In short the foresaid King Henry the III. granted and confirm'd to the Templers in the eleventh year of his Reign all Royal Liberties in all their Lands exempting them and their men from Tolls Taxes c. with all the Immunity that the Royal Power can grant cum omnibus Libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus quas regia potestas liberiores alicui domui Religionis conferre potest In the Pontificate of