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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

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

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

several Bells are to be toll'd or Rung at the several hours and Offices Also of the Archdeacons and Succentor That the Dean is the Head of the Chapter that when he enters or passes by all the Clergy ought to stand up c. The Office and duty of the Vicars and secular Clerks commonly call'd Clerk Vicars The manner of installing the Canons all whose stalls and proper Seats are set out in a Scheme That all Clerks entering into the Quire bow first to the Altar then to the Bishop or in his Absence to the Dean with directions when to stand up and kneel c. and what habits and collours are to be used upon such and such days That the Dean be continually Resident that he Celebrates Mass on all double Feasts that he preach on Ash Wednesday and Advent Sunday c. That every Canon have a Vicar continually serving in the Church That one or two of the Canons be Chosen at Michaelmas yearly to receive and distribute the Common Goods of the Church and to account for the same The manner of calling and holding the Chapters That on the Festivals of St. Cedde and the assumption of the Virgin Mary the Dean feast all the Quire the Canons to be singly invited eight days before the time That from Trinity Sunday to Christmas Mattins be immediately said after Complin and the several Masses at such and such hours c. That Mattins and Vespers and all the hours be perform'd according to the Salisbury use That in case any difference shall happen among the Canons it shall be composed among themselves if it may be if not by the Dean and Chapter within two Months if not by them then by the Bishop within two Months more if that cannot be the party injured may be at Liberty to seek redress in Law elswhere as he sees convenient That the Statutes of this Church be writ fair in a Book of Parchment and that to be chain'd in such place where the Canons but not others have access to it That no Minister of this Church lie a night in the Town without reasonable Cause to be approved by the Dean and Chapter that no Vicar or Quirister receive or admit any Woman into his Garden unless in company of other honest Women c. All which Statutes and Ordinances with many more filling twenty one Folio's and a half were declared and establisht by the foresaid Dean and Chapter and confirm'd by the Bishop in the year 1526. The Bishop of Litchfeld is sworn to defend the Rights and Liberties of this Church to his ability to observe the Statutes and approved antient Customes of the same and not to alienate the Episcopal Possessions The Dean is sworn to make continual Residency as is accustomed to be faithful to the Church not to reveal the secrets of the Chapter to observe and defend the Statutes and approved and antient Customes to behave himself with humility and Patience and to excite all those who are Subject to his Government to do the like Every Canon is sworn to be obedient to the Dean and Chapter in Canonical Commands to defend the Rights and Liberties of this Church to observe the Statutes and antient and approved Customes to be faithful to the Church and not to reveal the Secrets of the Chapter Every Vicar is sworn to be obedient to the Dean and Chapter to be faithful to perform the Day and Night Service according to his reasonable ability The Sergeant is sworn to be true to the Church of Litchfield to keep Council truly to do his Office of Sergeantship and when he is sent on Errands to give a true Report c. LINCOLN Cathedral PAulinus Archbishop of York who converted a great part of the North among the rest converted to the Christian Religion the Prefect of the City of Lincoln call'd Bletta and caused a Church to be erected and therein consecrated Honorius Archbishop of Canterbury An. 1092 Bishop Remigius removed his Episcopal Seat from Dorchester by Licence of King William the Conqueror to Lincoln and began to build there a sumptuous Church on the Hill near the Castle but Thomas then Archbishop of York pretending that Lincoln and all the Province of Lindsey was within his Diocess gave some obstruction for a while But it was afterwards finisht by King William II who caused it to be dedicated by two Cardinal Legates in the presence of eight Archbishops and sixteen Bishops and secular Canons to be establisht therein This King William Rufus Confirm'd all the Lands and Revenues which his Father had given to this Church and was himself a great Benefactor he quieted the Dispute between the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Lincoln about Jurisdiction giving Thomas Archbishop of York such satisfaction to quit his Claim for ever as has been already mention'd pag. 131. King Henry I. gave to this Church among other Lands the Mannour of Bicheleswade with great Liberties also a Fair to be held at their Castle of Newark on St Mary Magdalens day and four days before he also granted to Robert Bishop of Lincoln Liberty to make a Passage through his Castle Wall he also granted to the said Bishop and the Canons of this Church his Vineyard at Lincoln and all that belongs to it He also granted them several Churches as Hempingham Derby Wercheford to be Prebends with all the Churches of Lincoln within and without the Borough and Freewarren in all their Lands in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire King Henry II. granted and confirm'd to Robert Bishop of Lincoln and his Successors the Houses that were the Knights Templers in the Parish of St. Andrew Holburn at London which the said Bishop had purchased of those Knights for one hundred marks and the yearly Rent of three pieces of Gold tres aureos The same King gave to this Church and Bishop all the ground from the Bale Westward to the City Wall Eastward at Lincoln to build on he also confirm'd the Donations of their other Benefactors he also composed a difference between the Bishop of Lincoln and Robert Abbot of St. Albans about the Jurisdiction over fifteen Churches to the said Abby belonging Pope Honorius An. 1125. confirm'd the Revenues given to this Church the like did Pope Innocent who also granted that no Bishop should be imposed on this Church of Lincoln without the free election of the Clergy and People An. 1138. King Henry III in the fortieth year of his Reign upon the Petition of the Dean and Canons of Lincoln for his Licence to remove some part of the City Wall that so they might enlarge their Church Eastward issued out a Writ of Quod damnum in order to the same The names of the Deans of Lincoln Ralf Ramerus Simon 〈◊〉 An. Dom. 1100. Adelmus 1162. Hamo Ieffry Killing Rober de Rolveston 1198. William de Tornaco 1227. Roger de Wescham 1237. after Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield Henry de Lenington 1243. after Bishop of Lincoln Richard de Gravesend 1254

William Waterfall for one Chaplain and six poor people The Holy Trinity in New Sarum KIng Richard II. An. 17. granted his License to Iohn Chaundeler to make an Hospital in honour of the holy Trinity of two messuages in a Street call'd Newestreet in New Sarum for the Releif of poor weak and Infirm people whereof the Mayor of the Said City for the time being to be Master and to rule and govern the same and to endow the same with a certain Rent of 13 s. 4 d. King Henry IV. An. 1. granted License to the then Master to purchase Lands of 20 l. value per Annum KNOLS Alms house at Pontfract in Yorkshire FOunded by Sir Robert Knolls Knight Citizen of London and Constance his Wife in honour of the Holy Trinity and blessed Virgin Mary for certain Chaplains whereof one to be Master two Clerks and thirteen Poor people such especially as by misfortune come to want and two Servants to help the said Poor The Master to have twenty marks for his fastenance the two Clerks each ten marks and the thirteen Poor amongst them 34 l. 4 s. 3 d. ob per Annum viz. 1 d. ob a day to each Which Deed of the Said Roberts Foundation bears date An. Dom. 1385 Valued at 182 l. 14 s. 4 d. per Annum OKEHAM in Rutland KIng Richard II. An. 22. granted his License to William Dalby of Extone to found this Hospital for two Chaplains of which one to be Custos and thirteen poor Men and to endow the same with one Messuage and two acres of Land at Okeham and to grant the Patronage of the same to the Prior and Convent of St. Anne of the Order of Ca●●husians at Coventry with a further License to the said Prior and Convent to give a yearly Rent of 40 l. to be issuing out of some of their Possessions where ever they pleased to assign to the Custos of the said Hospital and the said Poor men for their maintenance for ever Valued at 12 l. 12 s. 11 d. per Annum DONYNGTON in Barkshire KIng Richard II. An. 16. gave License to Richard Alberbury to found an Hospital in his Mannor of Donyngton which he held of the King as of his honour of Walingford for certain poor people or which one to be chief by the name and Title of The Minister of God of the poor House of Donyngton and to endow the same with divers Lands Valued at 19 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum THORNTONS Hospital in New Castle upon Tine in Northumberland FOunded by Roger Thornton in honour of St. Catherine for one Chaplain who is Custos nine poor men and four Poor Women to be continually resident for which foundation King Henry IV. An. 1● granted his License and that they might have a Common Seal Endow'd by the said Roger with yearly Rents of 10 l. EWELME in Oxfordshire KIng Henry VI. An. 15. granted his License to his Cous●n William de la Pole Earl of Suffolk and Alice his Wife to found an Alms House in this Town for two Chaplains and thirteen poor men and that they should be a Body Corporate and that he might endow the same with one hundred Marks per Annum This Hospital was Founded An. Dom. 1448. and call'd Gods House The two Priests were one to instruct the Poor in Religious Dutyes the other to be a Schoolmaster and teach the poor both to have for Salery to l. the Minister 16 d. a week the other twelve poor men 13 d a week Valued at 20 l. per Annum SHIREBURNE in Dorsetshire FOunded with License of King Henry the VI. An. ●5 by Robert Nevyle Bishop of Sarum Humfrey Stafford Knt. Margaret Goghe Iohn Fauntleroy and Iohn Baret to the honour of God St. Iohn Baptist and St. Iohn Evangelist for twenty Brethren twelve poor and impotent men and four poor and impotent Women and for a perpetual Chaplain and that the Brothers of this House might elect one among themselves to be their Master from year to year and upon the death of any of their number the rest might elect others to succeed in their room c. BOCKING in Essex KING Henry the IV. granted his License to Iohn Doreward to erect a perpetual Chantry of one Chaplain in the Parish-Church of Stanewey in Essex and to endow the same with a Mansion lying near the Church yard there and with 7 l. of yearly Rent Which Licensed Foundation not being effected in the Life of the said Iohn King Henry the VI. did afterward grant License to Iohn Doreward Esq his Son to found a certain House at Bocking to be called Maison Dieu for seven poor People one of which to be call'd Praepositus Villae de Bokking and to have the Government of the said poor c. and to endow the same and a Chantry by him founded in the Parish Church of Bokking with Lands and Rents TODINGTON in Bedfordshire KING Henry the VI. An. 21. granted his License that Iohn Broughton or his Feoffees might erect an Hospital in honour of St. Iohn Baptist in Todyngdone for one Chaplain and three poor Men to be a perpetual Community and Body Corporate Also that he might give to the Prioress and Nuns of St. Margaret at Dertford an Annual Rent of 8 l. and that the said Nuns might assign the said Rent and also another Rent of 5 l. per Annum to be issuing out of their own Lands to this Hospital which House of Dertford was of the said Kings Patronage being founded by his Progenitors RICHMOND in Yorkshire HERE being of old time a poor Hospital dedicated to St. Nicholas in which was only one Chaplain of the Kings Patronage by reason or the honour of Richmond and that Hospital being fallen to extream decay William Ayscogh one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas repair'd it and added another Chantry Chaplain in consideration whereof and that he was become as a second Founder King Henry the VI. An. 26. granted him the Patronage Valued at 10 l. per Annum DERTFORD in Kent KING Henry the VI. An. 31. gave License to Iohn Bamburgh William Rothele Roger Ionet and Thomas Boost and to the Survivors of them to found an Alms-House in honour of the holy Trinity to which the Parish Church there is dedicated for the perpetual Vicar of that Church and the Gardians of the Goods and Chattles of the said Church and for five poor decrepid Men and that the said Vicar and Gardians and their Successors should be Master of the said House and a Body Corporate and have a Common Seal With License to give and assign Lands and Rents to the said Hospital of the value of 20 l. per Annum The Alms-house within the Precinct of St. Crosses at Winchester in Hampshire FOunded by Henry Cardinal and Bishop of Winchester half Brother of King Henry IV. who by License of King Henry the VI. An. 21. granted to the Master and Brethren of the Hospital of the Holy Cross near Winchester divers Mannors

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

the City of Colchester erected here a Monastery of which he lay'd the first Stone An. Dom 1097. Which being finisht some Monks were brought hither from Rochester But they not being endow'd here according to their own mind return'd to Rochester After this Eudo received other thirteen Monks from the Abbot of York these began upon a New Foundation which prosper'd so well that in a short time one of the thirteen was chosen Abbot and Consecrated by Maurice Bishop of London About the year 1104. Their number increased to above twenty who all lived very regularly The founder Eudo dyed in Normandy and devised his Body to be buried in the Abby of his foundation at Colchester which was accordingly done the Monks meeting it a Mile from the Monastery An. 1120. This Eudo endow'd this Monastery with several Mannours Tithes and Churches among others with the Church of St. Mary in the Westcheping Call'd the Newcherch and his Stone House near the same also the Church of St. Steven Walebroch in London King Henry II. released the Tax of Dan●geld c. in the Lands of these Monks SNAPES in Essex A Cell to Colchester WIlliam Martell being Seised of the Mannour of Snapes enjoy'd Wreck of the Sea from Thorp to Hereford Nesse and gave this Mannour to the Abby of Colchester for the founding of a Priory here which Priory was founded accordingly and made a Cell to that Abby An. 1155. This Priory paid half a mark yearly to Colchester as a Pension of acknowledgment Twice a year the Abbot of Colchester was to Visit here with twelve Horses and abide here four days St. HELENS in Bishopsgatestreet London ALardus Dean of St. Pauls London and the Chapter of that Church granted License to William Son of William the Goldsmith Patron of the Church of St. Helen to constitute Nuns in the said Church and ●rect a College there endowing them with the Advowson of the said Church The Prioress to be upon election presented to the Dean and Chapter of Pauls and to swear fealty to them and to pay them a Pension of half a mark yearly at Easier c In the yeat 1439. Raynold Kentwode Dean of Pauls made other Constitutions for the Government of this Nunnery some of which were That Divine Service be by them duly perform'd night and day That no secular person be locked within the Bounds of the Cloyster nor come within it after the Complin Bell except Women Servants and maid Children that none of the Sisters receive Letters from or speak with any secular Person without License of the Prioress and some other Nun to be present That they grant no Corody or Pension without License of the said Dean and Chapter that no Dancing or Reveling be used in the House except at Christmass and then among themselves and in the absence of Secualr persons That there be a Door made to the Nuns Quire that no Strangers may look on them nor they on the Strangers when They be at Divine service That no Nun have any Key to the Postern Door that goes out of the Cloyster into the Churchyard but the Prioress c. These Orders were to be Read publickly in their Chappel four times a year and kept and observed under the pain of Excomunication Valued at 314 l. 2 s. 6 d. per Annum CATESBY in Northamptonshire KIng Henry III. in the fifty seventh year of his Raign recited and confirm'd to the Nuns of Kateby the Church of the blessed Mary of Kateby with the Chappel of Helidene with the Church and divers Lands in great Esseby and several other Revenues given them by divers Benefactors Confirm'd also by the Bull of Pope Gregory the VIII Valued at 132 l. 1 s. 11 d. per Annum St. MARY de Pratis adjoyning to Derby KIng Henry II. granted and confirm'd to the Nuns of St. Mary de Pratis near Darby among other things twenty seven acres of Land in his Forrest of the Peak with large Commons in the said Forrest King Henry III. granted them 100 s. per Annum to be received from the Baylies of the Town of Nottingham out of the Farm of the said Town Valued at 18 l. 6 s. 2 d. per Annum GRIMSBY in Lincolnshire THe Church and all the Monastery of Nuns here being of the Kings Foundation and Patronage together with all their goods and Movables and all their Writings and Evidences concerning their Lands and Estate in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire being burnt and consumed by a casual fire King Henry IV. in the seventh year of his Reign confirm'd to this Prioress and Convent all their Grants c. made as well by his Progenitors as others NEWTON in Yorkshire KIng Edward II. in the fifteen year of his Reign granted his Licence To his well beloved Cousin Thomas Wake to give one Messuage with the appurtenances in the Town of Neutone for the erection of a Religious House of what order he pleased and to endow it with Lands in Neuton and Cottingham c. Vid. 3. p. 88. BROMHALE HEnry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Margaret his Wife did release and quit claim to the Nuns of Bromhale one hundred acres of Land in their Wast of Asserige with the Appurtenances Pag. 551. LEUESHAM in Kent KIng Alured and his Son King Edward the Elder gave and King Edward the Confessor confirm'd to the Abby of St. Peters at Gant the Mannour of Luesham with all its appurtenences viz. Greenwic Wullewic Modingham and Cumbe with other Lands and great Liberties and Franchises as large as the King himself had in the said Lands c. Dated An. Dom. 1044. Pag. 551. St. MICHAELS MOUNT in Cornwal RIchard King of the Romans Edmund Earl of Cornwal and Conan Duke of Britany were Benefactors to this House Pope Adrian in the year 1155. confirm'd to the Abbot and Monks of this House by the name of the Monastery of St. Michael de periculo maris all their Lands and Revenues lying most in Normandy and also in England Pag. 558. BERGAVENNY HEnry de Bellocampo confirm'd to the Monks of Bergavenny all those Possessions which his Ancestors Hamelinus de Balon and others Lords of Bergavenny had given them and further gave and confirm'd to the said Monks divers other Revenues Pag. 595. GOLDCLIVE RObert de Candos founded the Priory at Goldclive in Wales being then Lord of Karlyon The Patronage of which House came afterwards to William Earl of Gloucester and after that to Richard Duke of York CARESBROKE in the IIe of Wight WIlliam Fitz Osbern was Mareshal to William the I. and Conquer'd the Ile of Wight at such time as the other Conquer'd England King William made him Earl of Hereford The Estate of this William descended to Baldwin Earl of Exeter who granted all the Churches and Tithes of this Iland to the Abby of St. Mary of Lira King Henry II. recited and confirm'd the several Possessions given to those Monks as well in France as England and Wales Pag. 614. WENDLOCK WIlliam de Boterell

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

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