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
third Bishop of Worcester founded this Monastery Kenredus King of Mercia and Offa Governour of the East Angles in the year 709 being both then at Rome endow'd it with large Possessions The Towns which St. Egwin obtain'd to his Monastery of the said Kings were in all twenty two There were belonging to this House sixty seven Monks five Nuns three poor People three Clerks who had all the same allowance as the Monks had and besides these sixty five Servants The under Officers of this House as Prior Sub-Prior third Prior Precentor Sacristan Celarer c. were created by the Abbot with the advice and consent of the major part of the Covent in Chapter All which Officers had their several Rents arising from distinct and several places appropriated to their several Offices In the year 1174. Waldemarus King of Danemark gave and confirm'd the Priory of Othenesia in that Kingdom as a Cell to this Abby of Euesham This Abby was first founded as aforesaid by St. Egwin in the year of grace 692. and dedicated to the honour of the glorious Virgin Mary The Founder himself leaving his Bishoprick became the first Abbot here After whose death succeeded eighteen Abbots until the year 941. at which time the Monks here were dispersed and secular Chanons substituted in their room In the time of King Edgar Anno Dom. 660 the Monks were again restored but after his death expell'd again in the year 977. This House and Estate was afterwards given to a potent man called Godwin and successively it came into several hands till at last in the year 1014. King Ethelred made Ailfwardus a Monk of Ramsey Abbot of Euesham he was also Bishop of London at the same time From his time the Abby of Euesham flourisht under divers Abbots whose names from the Norman Conquest till the year 1379. are as follows Egelwinus Walterus Robertus Mauricius Reginaldus Willielmus de Andivilla Rogerus Adam Rogerus Norreys Radulphus Thomas de Marleberg Richaadus le Cras Thomas de Glovernia Henricus Willielmus de Wytechurch Iohannes de Brokehampton Willielmus de Chyriton Willielmus de Boys Iohannes de Ombresseye Rogerus Zatten 1379. Vid Vol. 2. p. 851. Valued at 1183 l. 12 s. 9 d. per Annum SHEPEY Monastery of Nuns in Kent FOunded by Queen Sexburga about the year of our Lord 710. William Archbishop of Canterbury after the Conquest restored this Monastery it having lain a long time burnt down and destroyed by the Danes King Henry the II. King Richard the I. King Henry the III. and others were Benefactors to this Church of St. Sexburg here and to the Nuns serving God in the same all whose Donations of Lands and Liberties were confirm'd in the 1st year of King Henry the IV. Valued at 129 l. 7 s. 10 d. ob per Annum SELSEY in Sussex IN the year of our Lord 711. Wilfred Bishop of Hagulstad remaining five years in the Isle of Selsey to avoid persecution built there a Monastery in honour of the blessed Mary to which Ethelwold King of the South Saxons gave Lands TUKESBURY in Gloucestershire THIS Monastery was founded in the year 715. by two Dukes of great account in the Kingdom of Mercia named Oddo and Doddo to the honour of the glorious Virgin Mary Robert Fiz-Hamon in the year 1102. new built this Church and Monastery making it an Abby and subjecting to it the Priory of Cranburne His Daughter Mobilla was afterwards married to Robert base Son of King Henry I. who was created Earl of Gloucester he built the Priory of St. Iames at Bristol and annext it also to the House From him descended Gibbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford who was a great Benefactor to this House and buried here as were the rest of his descendants Earls of Gloucester and the Dispencers who descended from one of the Heirs General All these and more of their Blood among whom Henry de Beauchamp Duke of Warwick were Benefactors to this Abby their pious gifts being all confirm'd and ratified by the King 1462. The several parcells of Lands and Hereditaments given and confirm'd to this House by former Kings may be seen p. 161 162. Valued at 1598 l. 1 s. 3 d. per Annum WINBURNE in Dorsetshire SAint Quinburga and St. Cuthburga Sisters of Ina King of the West Saxons built here a Monastery for Nuns Anno Dom. 718. CROYLAND in Lincolnshire CRoyland is one of those small Islands which lie in the East Fens Here St. Guthlac at the age of twenty five years became a Hermite and in his life time delivered the Island from Devils and evil Spirits and dying was here buried Ethelbald King of Mercia by his Charter dated in the year 716. gave to God the blessed Mary and St. Batholomew the whole Isle of Croyland containing four Leucas or miles in length and three in breadth for the erecting of a Monastery under the Rule of St. Benedict and endow'd the said Monastery with large Possessions lying about the Place All which was confirm'd to them by Offa King of Mercia in the year 793. and by Withlaf King of Mercia in the year 833. This Abby being afterwards burnt down and destroyed by the Pagan Danes was re edified and restored to its former Possessions and Liberties by King Eadred who stiled himself King of Great Britain in the year 948. Vid. Vol. 2. p. 853. Valued at 1803 l. 15 s. 10 d. ob per Annum BEVERLEY in Yorkshire SAint Iohn Archibishop of York was the first Dr. of Theology in Oxford He converted the Parish-Church of St. Iohn in the Town of Beverly into a Monastery building to it a new Quire and made his Deacon Bithunus the first Abbot here Both which lie buried in this Church One hundred years after this the Monastery of Beverley was destroyed by the Danes and lay in Ruines three years before it was repair'd King Athelstan built here a Colledge of secular Chanons And granted and confirm'd to this Church of St. Iohn of Beverley many great Priviledges and Liberties An. Dom. 938. King Edward the Confessor was a great Benefactor to this Church and augmented the number of the Prebendaries William the Conqueror was also a Benefactor Thomas the first Archbishop of York erected a new Dignity in the Collegiate Church of Beverley viz. a Prepositus or Provost who has neither voice in the Chapter nor Stall in the Quire of these there is a List of thirty eight Thomas Becket being the fifth in number Vid. Vol. 3. part 2 p. 3. Valued at 109 l. 8 s. 8 d. ob per Annum RIPPON in Yorkshire WIlfrid Archibishop of York founded a Monastery at Rippon which was afterwards burnt down in the Devastation which King Adred made upon the Northumbers But being in after-times re-edified King Athalstan granted to this Church the Priviledge of Sanctuary with the same Liberties which he had given before to the Church of Beverly and that the men of Rippon should be believed by their yea and by
several other Lands and Tithes The like was done by others of that Family and Iohn Bishop of Norwich St. MARY de PRATO near St. Albans THIS was a small Nunnery given with certain Lands by Garinus Abbot of St. Albans for the maintenance of Leprous Nuns Confirm'd by King Iohn in the fifth year of his Reign SOPEWELL in Hertfordshire a Cell of St. Albans ABout the year 1140. two religious Women led a solitary life in a small Habitation made of Boughs of Trees near a Wood called Eiwoda who being taken notice of for their austerities and pious Lives Gaufridus the sixteenth Abbot of St. Albans built there for them a Cell gave them the Vail of Nuns and constituted their way of living according to the Rule of St. Benedict He also endow'd the House with Possessions and Rents and assigned them a Coemitery in which none were to be buried but the Virgins of the House whose number was not to exceed thirteen Henry de Albaneio and Cecilia his Wife and several of their Descendants were great Benefactors to this Cell of St. Mary of Sopewell and so was Richard de Tany Michael Abbot of St. Albans made and publisht here in his Visitation Anno Dom. 1338. certain good Rules and Orders to be observed by the Nuns of this House among others that the Door that goes into the Garden and that of the Parlour should not be open'd till the Bell sounds to the ninth hour and that all the year they should be shut up at night when the Abby-Bell sounds the Coverâ—eu c. Valued at 40 l. 7 s. 10 d. per Annum MERGATE in Bedfordshire a Cell of St. Albans IN the time of Gaufridus Abbot of St. Albans one Roger a Monk of that Abby became a Hermite in a Hermitage between St. Albans and Dunstable where he lived in a most austere manner with the reputation of great Sanctity at the same time Christina a Virgin renouncing the World became an Anchoress at the same place yet the said Roger never saw her face tho' they lived together four years Roger died and was buried in the Abby-Church of St. Albans but Christina surviving became of so great note for her Sanctity that the abovesaid Gaufridus built here from the Foundation a Monastery for Nuns and endow'd the same with Revenues of which House Christina became the first Prioress Vid. Vol. 2. p. 872. St. NICHOLAS Priory at Exeter a Cell of Battel-Abby THIS Church formerly dedicated to St. Olive King and Martyr was by King William Rufus given to the Monks of Battel-Abby for a Cell and by them new dedicated to St. Nicholas King William Rufus King Henry the I. and King Iohn conferr'd many Lands and Liberties upon this House Valued at 147 l. 12 s. per Annum MALLINGE in Kent KING Edmund gave certain Lands in Mallinges to the Monastery of St. Andrew the Apostle which afterwards was by Gundulfus Bishop oâ— Rochester converted to an Abby of Nuns here dedicated to St. Mary to which King Henry the I. and King Iohn and Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury were also Benefactors Valued at 218 l. 4 s. 2 d. ob per Annum TUTBURY in Staffordshire HEnry de Ferariis built the Church and Monastery to the honour of the blessed Virgin at his Castle of Tutbury which by the Grant and Licente of King William Rufus he endow'd with divers Lands and Tithes Earl Robert de Ferariis the younger Grandson of the Founder was a great Benefactor and so were many others whose names with the parcells by them given may be seen in the Monasticon at large Iohn Duke of Lancaster being Lord of the Honour and Castle of Tutbury granted his Letters Pattents to the King of the Minstalls in Tutbury impowring him and his Successors to arrest all Minstralls within the said Honour and Franchise who refuse to do their service of minstralsie on the Feast of the assumption of our Lady â—early and constrain them to it according to Custom Dated in the 4 Rich. 2. There is also another Custom of the Place that the Stage-players who come to Matins on the Feast of the Assumption should have from the Prior of Tutbury a Bull in case they can catch him before he gets over the River there or else the Prior is to give them 40 d. in mony Vid. Vol. 2. p. 873. EYE in Suffolk RObert Malet to whom King William the Conqueror had given the honour of Eye with the assent of that King built a Monastery there and to it gave the Church dedicated to St. Peter in Eye with a great quanity of Lands and Churches with Liberties and Franchises to hold as freely as King William gave them to him In the year 1138. King Steven confirm'd to the Monks here all their Lands and Liberties with a formal Curse to the Violators The like Confirmation from William Earl of Boloign that King 's eldest Son This House was a Cell to the Abby of Bernay in Normandy so that neither the Prior nor any Monk could be placed here without the assent of the Abbot of Bernay neither upon the death of the Prior here could the Founder or his Heirs or Successors Patrons of this Priory meddle with or receive any profit from the Goods and Possessions of this House during the vacancy but only in sign of Dominion he used to place a Porter at the Gate of the Priory who during the Vacation was maintain'd out of the Revenues of the House and at the Instalment of the next Prior used to receive for his Fee the Sum of 5 s. for an Ox. In the 8th year of King Richard the II. the Estate of this Priory being then seiz'd into the King's hands because of his Wars with France the Prior and Covent complain'd that they were extreamly impoverished by Foreign Exactions so that the Revenues of this House could hardly maintain the Prior and three or four Monks that King therefore by his Letters Patents at their Petition and Request discharged them for ever of their Foreign Subjection to the Abby of Bernay and made them a Prior and Covent of themselves independent like other English Priories Valued at 161 l. 2 s. 3 d. q. per Annum HELENSTOW in Berkshire JVdith Countess of Huntington Wife of Earl Waltheof built a Church and Monastery here for Nuns and dedicated it to the holy Trinity St. Mary and St. Helen She and others endow'd it with divers Lands all which were afterwards confirm'd to the Nuns here by King Henry the II. together with large Priviledges and Exemptions PENWORTHAM in Lancashire a Cell of Evesham WArinus Bussell and Richard Bussell his Son gave the Church at Penwortham and with it divers Lands to the Abby of Evesham for a Cell of that Abby All which was confirm'd to God and St. Mary and to the Monks serving God in Penvercham by Hugh Buissell Grandson of the foresaid Warinus in pure and perpetual Alms. This was in the Reign of King William the Conqueror Valued at 29 l.
Bishop of Worcester and by Simon and Iohn his Predecessors Iohn Son of Ieoffrey de Langele gave to God and St. Mary of Pinley and the Nuns there his Brother Robert de Langely his Homage and Service and Rent of 6 d. for the maintenance of our Ladies Lamp at Pinley ad Lumen beatae Mariae de Pineleia Valued at 23 l. 5 s. 11 d. per Annum STRATFORD Prâ—ory THE Nunnery here dedicated to St. Leonard was founded and endowed by Christiana de Sumeri and her Son as seems by the Confirmation of King Steven King Richard the I. did confirm other Lands to it given by Galiena and her Son Bartholmew de Daumartin Patrons of the House FRESTONE in Lincolnshire a Cell of Croyland ALan de Creun with Muriel his Wife and Maurice his Son gave the Clearch of St. Iames of Frestone with several Lands and Tithes to be a Cell to the Abby of Croyland From which Creun or Croune descended the Family of Pedwardyn who became Heirs of the Founder the Male Line ceasing St. DOGMELS in Pembrokshire Cella Caenobii Tyronensis THese Monks were Benedictines of the same Order with those of St. Martins at Tours The Priory here was founded by Martin de Turribus a Norman who first Conquered the Country hereabouts call'd Kames or Kemish Robert the Son of this Martin endow'd it with Lands confirm'd to it by King Henry the I. Valued at 87 l. 8 s. 6 d. per Annum WALDEN Abby in Essex THE Abby at Walden was founded in the year 1136. by Gaufridus de Mandevilia Earl of Essex He was Grandson of Ieoffrey who came into England with the Norman Conqueror and was of most signal note in his Army for his great Performances From the noble Founder of this Abby who died in the year 1144. descended the illustrious Family of the Bohuns Earls of Hereford Essex and Northampton This Abby was dedicated to the honour of the blessed Mary and St. Iames the Apostle The Family of Bohuns were great Benefactors to this Abby and most of them buried here This Abby was built on the West-side of the Town and adjoyning to the High-way which place was chosen as more proper for the relief of Travellers and for Hospitality After the death of the Founder Rohesia his Widow built a Nunnery at Chinksand to which she did all good Offices and for the sake of that House became very unkind to this of her Husbands Foundation William de Mandevilla second Son of the Founder while Ieoffrey his elder Brother lived led a military life in Flanders with Philip Earl of that Country but upon his Brother's death without issue he return'd into England and inherited his Estate Soon after which he made a Pilgrimage to Ierusalem and visited the holy Places from whence being return'd into England he visited this House and was here received with great Ceremony where he presented at the Altar several Relicks which be had purchased in the holy Land and became a great Benefactor to this House giving them by his Testament the Moiety of his Lordship of Walden c. and died in Normandy without issue After whose decease this Barony came by his Heirs General to one Ieffrey Fitz-Peter who disseiz'd the Monks of what Earl William had given them and kept the Estate from them a great while till after King Iohn's Coronation being made Earl of Essex he restored part of their Lands again and confirm'd them to the Monks here This Ieffrey Filius Petri was very vexatious to this Abby the manner and particulars may be seen in the Book at large Yet did Gaufridus de Mandavilla the first Founders Deed of Foundation contain a heavy Curse to any of his Successors or Tenants who should vex or disturb these Monks in any of their Possessions or alienate or diminish the same The Founders Endowment was confirm'd by several of his Descendents also by King Steven and King Henry the II. And King Edward the III. in the seventeeth year of his Reign Licensed William de Bohun Earl of Northampton to give and annext the Priory of Bereden in Essex as a Cell to this Abby Valued at 372 l. 18 s. 1 d. per Annum BROMFEILD in Shropshire ANno Dom. 1155. The Canons of Bromfeild by the Authority of Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury gave their Church of Bromfeild to the Abby of St. Peters at Gloucester King Henry the II. confirm'd all the Estate belonging to the Church of St. Mary of Bromfeild to the Prior and Monks there serving God to hold of him and his Heirs in perpetual Alms. The like did King Henry the III. BRETFORD in Warwickshire GAufridus Camerarius de Clintona gave certain Lands in this Lordship to one Noemi a Nun for the erecting a Cell of Nuns here Afterwards at the request of the said Gaufridus de Clinton the Nuns here being only two viz. Sebure and Naeumi gave their House and Estate here to the Canons of Killingworth TALLACH in the Diocess of St. David's in Wales THE Abby here dedicated to God St. Mary and St. Iohn Baptist was founded by Resus the younger Son of Resus the younger of the Family of the Princes of South-wales and by him and others endow'd with many Lands the particulars may be seen in the Monasticon at large fol. 466 467. all which was confirm'd to this House by King Edward the II. in the seventeenth year of his Reign and by King Edward the III. in the fifth year of his Reign Valued at 136 l. 9 s. 11 d. per Annum BLITHBURY Priory in Staffordshire HVgh Malvisin gave Blytheburgh to Monks and Nuns there dwelling for the service of God and St. Giles to hold in pare and perpetual Alms. Which Estate tho' for a while taken away by William Malvisin Son of the Founder Hugh yet it was soon restored again EDWARDSTON in Suffolk a Cell to Abbington HVbertus de Monte Canesi Lord of the Town of Edwardston in Suffolk gave the Church there to the Monks of Abbendon to be a Cell of that House and confirm'd his Gift in the fifteenth year of Henry the I. Which was also ratified by that King An. Dom. 1115. DEPING in Lincolnshire a Cell to Thorney BAldewinus Wac gave the Church of St. Iames in Deping with divers Lands belonging to it to God St. Mary and the Church of Thorney which was confirm'd by his Son and Grandson and also by Pope Innocent the III. in the first year of his Pontificate 1198 ALCESTER in Warwickshire IN the year 1140. Radulfus Pincerna or Boteler founded this Monastery then called from its Situation St. Mary's of the Isle and made Robert a Monk of Worcester the first Abbot here At which time it was agreed between the two Houses viz. The Abby of Worcester and this that there should be a constant Love and Brotherhood betwixt them and that upon the death of the Abbot here another should be chosen indifferently out of either House the said Founder endow'd this Monastery with divers Lands ordaining
were the Benefactors to this House among whom Gilbertus de Gant Roger de Mulbray c. all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign See the Genealogy of Gilbert de Gant Nephew of William the Conqueror and the Noble Families descended from him in the Book at large Valued at 124 l. 5 s. 11 d. q. per Annum SWINE in Yorkshire ERinburch de Burtona was the Foundress of this Abby giving divers Lands of her Patrimony and Inheritance to God and the Church of St. Mary at Swine and to the Brethren and Sisters there serving God Pope Alexander exempted the Nuns here from paying Tithes for their Lands in their own Occupation Vide infra fol. 1026. Valued at 82 l. 3 s. 9 d. ob per Annum BRURE in Oxfordshire Founded An. 1147. KING Henry the III. Roger Earl of Warwick and others were Benefactors to this Abby all whose Gifts were confirm'd to the Cistercian Monks here by King Iohn in the sixth year of his Reign Valued at 134 l. 10 s. 10 d. per Annum RUPE alias Roche in Yorkshire Founded An. 1147. RIchard de Bulli and Richard Fitz Turgis were joint Founders of this Abby Besides those of the Family of Bully the Monks here were endow'd with Lands and Revenues by other Benefactors among whom Edmund de Lacy Constable of Chester and William Earl Warren c. Pope Vrban the III. confirmed their Estate and Lands given and to be given and exempted them from Tithes for their Lands in their own Tenure and this was by his Bull dated 1186. Their first Abbot was Durandus who governed twelve years 2. Dionisius 12. 3. Rogerus de Tikehill 8 4. â—iugo de Waddeworth 5. 5 Osmundus 39. 6 Reginaldus 15. 7 Richardus 16. 8 Walter 14. 9 Alanus 10 Iordanus 11 Philippus Valued at 224 l. 2 s. 5 d. per Annum HOTON in Yorkshire THIS House was founded for Nuns and endow'd by Radulf de Nevil With the Licenses of Adam de Brus and Ernald de Percy BASEDALE in Yorkshire JOhn de Ever by his Deed dated An. 1304. released to Ioan Prioress of Basedale and to the Convent of the same and their Successors all homage and suit of Court for all their Lands holden of him in Kirkeby Cliveland and Ingelby William de Percy and others were Benefactors to this Nunnery all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Henry the III. in the twentieth year of his Reign Robert de Longo Campo Abbot of St. Mary's at York and the Convent there granted to these Nuns a Coemitery for themselves but their Servants and Tenants to be buried at the Parish Church Guido de Bouincurt was the Founder of this Priory of Nuns Valued at 20 l. 1 s. 4 d. per Annum SALLEY in Yorkshire THIS Abby was founded by William de Percy An Dom. 1147. Matilda de Percy Countess of Warwick Daughter or the said William was a great Benefactress to this Abby and gave them the Church of Tadcaster and was accounted a second Founder Agnes de Percy her Sister and Heiress did add to her bounty William Vavasor gave and confirm'd all the Lands which his Father Malgarus Vavasor had given to this House placing his Confirmation una cum Corpore meo together with his own body on the Altar of the blessed Mary de Sallay providing thereby that in case he happens to die within the Kingdom of England that his Body be buried in this Abby Iohn de Lacy Constable of Chester was among others a Benefactor to these Monks An. 1223. William de Percy who founded this Abby was Grandson to William de Percy who came into England with the Conqueror His Estate came to his two Daughters Matilda who was married to William Earl of Warwick but died without issue and Agnes married to Goseline Lovain Brother to the Duke of Brabant the issue of this Match kept the name of their Mothers Family and are the Progenitors of the Earls of Northumberland This Abby was wasted and part of it burnt down by the Scots in their Wars Valued at 147 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum RUFFORD in Nottinghamshire Founded 1148. THIS Abby was founded and endowed by Gilbert de Gaunt Earl of Lincoln Many were the Benefactors whose Gifts were confirm'd to the Abbot and Monks here with the Grant of divers Priviledges in the Forest of Shirewood by King Henry the III. in the thirty sixth year of his Reign Valued at 176 l. 11 s. 6 d. per Annum SALTRE in Huntingtonshire Founded An 1147. SImon Earl of Northampton founded and endowed this Abby with all his Land at Saltre and with all the Marish Ground between that and Witlemare and in Witlemare c. With very large Immunities and Franchises such as his Ancestor Iudith Countess of Huntington Neice of the Conqueror had formerly obtain'd of her said Unkle for this Town and Lordship of Saltre as inter alia to be exempt from the County and Hundred Courts to find neither Man nor Arms for the War c. The abovesaid Countess Iudith had a special Love for this place and did very much frequent it and on that account did obtain from her said Unkle as great and large Priviledges as could then be granted for this Lordship Which Priviledges and also the Limits and Bounds of the Estate of this Abby are particularly and at large set forth in the Monasticon Controversie arising between the Abbot of Ramsey and the Abbot of Saltre about their Rights in Withlesmare and Vlbemare the matter was determin'd by a final Concord before the Kings Justices at Huntedon Anno 3. Rich. the I. Valued at 141 l. 3 s. 8 d. per Annum KIRKSTALL in Yorkshire THIS Abby was first founded by Henry de Laceio in the year 1147. and first instituted with a Convent of Monks under their Abbot Alexander from the Abby of Fountains Their first Habitation was at a Town call'd Bernolswick but this place proving to these Monks very inconvenient on divers accounts after they had been here somewhat above six years they removed to a place called Kirkestall in a Vally called Aierdale which place was then only inhabited by some Hermits This last Seat they obtain'd of William Pictavensis who own'd the Soil at the yearly Rent of five Marks Their first Abbot Alexander govern'd the Monks here thirty five years and after his death was succeeded by Radulfus Hageth and after him Abbot Lambert to whom succeed Abbot Helias who at first was refused by the then Patron Roger de Lacy but became afterwards much in his favour King Iohn did some ill Offices to this Abby in taking from them some of their Lands Robert de Lacy who died Anno 1194. was accounted a second Founder of this Abby King William the Conqueror gave to Ilbertus de Lacy who came into England in his Army all Blackburnshire in the County of York with the Lordship and Honour of Pontfract and other Lands This Ilbertus
the Order of St. AUGUSTIN DOVER in Kent JVlius Caesar having Conquer'd Britain now call'd England forty seven years before the Birth of Christ built a Tower at Dover where the Castle now stands In the year of Grace 180 King Lucius then reigning in Britain became a Christian under Pope Elutherius and among other Pious Deeds built a Church in the Castle of Dover An. 469 King Arthur repair'd the said Castle and built the Hall there call'd Arthur's-hall After this the Saxons came out of Germany Conquer'd Britany beat the Britons into Wales who afterwards were call'd Welchmen and the Saxons Englishmen and being Pagans demolisâ—t Churches and supprest Christianity throughout the Land An. 586. Pope Gregory sent St. Augustin the Monk with others into England who converted to Christ the King then reigning in Kent named Adelbert whose Son and Successor Adelbold placed twenty four Secular Canons in the said Castle to serve in his Chappel there An. 686 Withred King of Kent built the Church of St. Martin in the Town of Dover and removed the said Canons thither from the Castle here they remain'd 400 years after He built also three other Churches for the use of the Parishoners which were however Chappels subordinate to St. Martins But these Canons being very licentious by reason of their great Priviledges and Exemptions from the ordinary Jurisdiction King Henry the I. in 1130. did give the said Church of St. Martin to the Archbishop of Canterbury and his Successors and tho' William Corboil then Archbishop built the New Minster and design'd to have made it an Abby of Canons of St. Augustin yet after his death Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury in the Reign of Henry the II. put Monks of St. Bennet therein The said King Henry the II. by his Charter subjecting the Government of this House to the Archbishop of Cantebury intirely and that no other Order but that of St. Bennet should be herein King Edward the III. in the thirtieth year of his Reign did unite and annex this House to the Priory of Christ-Church in Canterbury for ever so that none for the future should be Prior here but a Monk of Canterbury Valued at the Suppression at 170 l. 14 s. 11 d. ob per Annum BODMYN in Cornwall KING Henry the III in the seven and fiftieth year of his Reign confirm'd to the Prior and Canons of Bodmine the Mannor of Newton in the County of Devon formerly given them by King Eadred with Exemption from suit to the County of Devon and Hundred of Shefbury c. Valued at 270 l. o s. 11 d. per Annum St. GERMAINS in Cornwall IT was found by Inquisition in the thirtieth of Edw. the III. That King Canute endow'd this Church and that here was then a Bishops Seat for Cornwall which was after united to Cryditon and in the Reign of Edward the Confessor removed from thence to Exeter and that soon after Leofricus then Bishop of Exeter did remove from hence the Secular Canons and did found here a Priory of Canons Regular and that hereupon the Bishops of Exeter for the time being became Patrons of this Priory and enjoy'd the Profits of the Vacations of the said Priory when they happened Valued at 243 l. 8 s. per Annum PLIMTON in Devonshire HERE was formerly a Colledge consisting of a Dean and four Prebendaries founded by some of the Saxon Kings which Canons or Prebendaries were displaced by Wil. Warwist Bishop of Exeter because they would not leave their Concubines and a Priory of Canons Regulâ—â— erected here which Priory was founded in the Mansion-house of the Rectory of the said Church of Plimpton and the said Foundation confirm'd by King Hen. the I. who also granted and confirm'd to the Canons there divers Lands Liberties and Immunities Among other Benefactors to this Priory King Edgar gave them divers Lands for the Maintenance of two Canons ad divina ibidem celebranda pro peregrinis aliis hospitandis Afterwards King Edward the I. granted to the said Canons that for the future they might appoint and place in the Church of Landoho where the said Revenue did arise a Secular Vicar and Chaplain to celebrate there and to perform the said Alms and Hospitality nomine dictorum Prioris Canonicorum Valued at 912 l. 12 s. 8 d. ob per Annum WALTHAM in Essex THIS Monastery was built to the praise of our Lord Jesus Christ and of the holy Cross by Earl Harold afterwards King who endow'd the same with divers Lands and Goods All which were confirm'd with the Grant of great Liberties by King Edward the Confestor An. Dom. 1062. Which Harold being slain in Battle by William the Conqueror was buried in this Abby-Church An. Dom. 1177. The Secular Canons here were removed and Canons Regular placed in their room by King Henry the II. who confirm'd their Estate and Liberties and ordain'd that in the said Abby no Kinsman of the Abbot should be made Steward or other Officer nor any Officer to hold his place by Inheritance but removable at the Will of the Abbot and Canons The like Confirmation was made by King Richard Valued at 900 l. 4 s. 3 d. per Annum PENTNEY in Norfolk FOunded to the honour of God the glorious Virgin Mary and the blessed Mary Magdalen by Robert de Vauz and by him endow'd with divers Lands and Churches This Robert came into England with the Conqueror from whom descended by an Heir General the Lords Roos who became thereupon Patrons of this Priory Valued at 170 l. 4 s. 9 d. per Annum WALSINGHAM in Norfolk GAlfridus de Favarches endowed a Chappel here which his Mother had founded in honour of the perpetual Virgin Mary with divers Revenues confirm'd by Robert Brucutt and Roger Earl of Clare The Chappel here was first begun in the Reign of Edward the Confessor but the Canons introduced in the time of William the Conqueror Here was a perpetual Chantry establisht for the Souls of Thomas de Felton c. in the Chappel of St. Ann in the Priory consisting of four Chaplains 8. R. 2. Valued at 391 l. 11 s. 7 d. per Annum THREMHALE in Essex GIlbert de Montefixo or Munfichet who was a Roman by birth and Kinsman to the Conqueror came into England in his Army and having attained large Possessions here gave Land in Thremhale for the building a Religious House with some small Possessions and returning to Italy the place of his Nativity lest issue Richard de Munfichet who gave to God and the Church of St. Iames the Apostle at Thremhale divers Lands and Priviledges from this Richard are descended by an Heir General the Veres Earls of Oxford who became Benefactors to this House Valued at 60 l. 18 s. 7 d. ob per Annum The Priory of Huntington EVstachius the Viscount who also held the Barony of Lovetot founded the Priory of St. Mary of Huntingdon and endow'd it with divers Lands confirm'd by King Henry the I. In the Town of
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 Accoâ—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 Toâ—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
such to the Almoner such to the Pitanciarius such to the Infirmarius such to the Hostillarius and such to the Praecentor But all Law-Suits concerning any the Lands or Estate of the Abby the Abbot was to manage at his own proper Charges Also the Abbot was to entertain all secular Guests as well Horse-men as Footmen in case he was resident with his Family in Town but the Convent was to entertain religious Persons and in case the Abbot be absent then the Convent to entertain also secular persons if under thirteen Horse This agreement between the Abbot and Convent was made in the year 1281. And exemplified by King Edward the I. in the same year being the 9th of his Reign The Names of the Sacristans of BVRT 1 Thurstan In the time of Abbot Baldwin 2 Tolimus 3 Godefridus 4 Radulphus 5 Harueus 6 Helias Widewell 7 Frodo 8 Willielmus Schuch 9 Willielmus Wardel 10 Hugo 11 Walterus de Banham 12 Willielmus de Disce 13 Robertus de Granele chosen Abbot of Thorney 14 Richardus de Insula chosen Abbot of Burton and at last Abbot here 1233. 15 Dominus de Newport 16 Georgius first Precentor then Sacristan than Prior here reputed a Saint 17 Nicholaus 18 Simon de Luyton chosen Prior and then Abbot here 1257. 19 Richardus de Horninsâ—e 20 Richardus de Colecester 21 Simon de Kingston first Celarer and then Chamberlain 22 Willielmus de Luyton 23 Richardus le Brun. Of the Buildings about the Church and Abby perform'd in the times of the Sacristans abovemention'd see the Book at large To the Cellarer of this House whose Office was to make provision for the diet of the whole Covent did belong many Rights and Priviledges by ancient Custom He kept the Court of the Lordship in the Town from which he received divers annual Profits His Officers were to be first served in the Market in buying provisions if the Abbot were not in Town Also the Cellerar and Abbots Officers were to have Herrings a half-penny in the hundred cheaper than any other people Valued at 1659 l. 13 s. 11 d. ob per Annum COVENTRY in Warwickshire THIS Monastery was built by Leofricus Earl of Chester and Godiva his Wife a most pious Lady and plentifully endow'd with Lands and Revenues The Church was so richly adorn'd with Gold and Silver and precious Stones that the Walls seem'd too narrow to contain all the Treasure The Founder Earl Leofrick died in the year 1057. and was buried at Coventry as was also his Wife Godiva in the Church-Porch of their own Foundationâ— In which Church was formerly kept an Arm of the Great St. Augustineâ— inclosed in Silver Robert de Limesey who was made Bishop of Chester A. D. 1088. and died 1116. obtain'd of King Henry the I. The Monastery of Coventry and constituted it the Capital Cathedral of that Diocess Whose Successor in that See Hugh Bishop of Coventry A. D. 1191. expell'd the Monks out of the Cathedral Church here and placed in their room secular Canons But in the year 1198. Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury by order of Pope Celestine restored the Monks to the possession of their Church again It appears by Earl Leofrick's Charter of Foundation that he built this Church and Monastery to the honour of God and St. Mary his Mother St. Peter the Apostle St. Osburga the Virgin and all Saints And gave to the Maintenance of the Monks here serving God twenty four Villages with the Moiety of the Town of Coventry in which it stands with all Liberties and Customs which he himself enjoy'd in the said Estate and that the Abbot of the said House should be subject to none but the King All which grants King Edward the Confessor did confirm to Leofwinus the first Abbot there and his Successors Also Pope Alexander by his Bull directed to the said King Edward bearing date 1043. confirm'd all their Liberties and Exemptions granting them full power to chose their own Abbots or Deans without any Lett or Hindrance from the Apostolick Authority Leofwinus the first Abbot of Coventry being created Bishop of Chester ordain'd with the Consent of the Monks that his Successors Superiors of that Monastery should be call'd Priors and not Abbots PEYKIRK in Northamptonshire IN the year 1048. one Wulgatus then Abbot of a Monastery in this Town lost his Abby and the Lands thereunto belonging to the Abbot of Peterborough who claim'd the same as parcel of his Estate And this was by Judgment given in the Court of King Hardâ— Canute SPALDING in Lincolnshire a Cell of Croyland c. ANno Dom. 1052. Thoroldus de Bukenhâ—le Brother to Godiva Countess of Leicester having obtain'd six Monks from Wulgate Abbot of Croyland began the Priory of Spalding assigning to it divers Lands and annext it as a Cell to Croyland In the year 1074. Tuo Taylboys Earl of Anjou Andegavia having married Lucia Great Grand daughter of the foresaid Godiva became Lord of Spalding and all Holland and gave the Cell of Spalding to a Monk of St. Nicholas of Anjou He also confirm'd the Estate which his Great Uncle Thorold had given to this House and procured the like Confirmation from the 2 Williams and Hen. 1st Kings of England In the year 1085. Yuo Taylboys by License of King William the Conqueror gave this Cell to the Abby of St. Nicholas of Anjou with the Lands and Estate thereunto belonging All which with divers Liberties was confirm'd to the said Abby of St. Nicholas by King William the I. William the II. and Henry the I. And also by King Iohn in the first year of his Reign See more Vol. 2. p. 871. Valued at 767 l. 8 s. 11 d. per Annum BATTEL Abby in Sussex IN the year 1067. King William the Conqueror built this Abby in the same place where he fought and overcame Harold and his Army that herein perpetual praise and thanks might he given to God for the said Victory and Prayers made for the Souls of those who were here slain It was dedicated to St. Martin and largely endow'dâ— with Lands and Priviledges In this Battle it is said that above ten thousand men lost their lives on the conquering side but what number of the conquered may be guest with astonishment King William design'd to have endow'd this Abby with Lands sufficient for the constant maintenance of sevenscore Monks but death prevented However he granted to it to be free from the Bishops Jurisdiction to have Sanctuary to have Treasure troue with many other Royal Liberties and Exemptions He translated from an Abby in Normandy called Major Monasterium several Monks among whom one Gausbertus who he appointed the first Abbot of Battail And gave to this Abby the Mannor of Wi in Kent with other Mannors in Sussex Surrey Essex Barkshire Oxfordshire and Devonshire with free Warren in all their Lands Yet King William gave this caution or restriction to the Abbot that he should not wast the Alms belonging to
to the King himself But being inspired with God's grace he saw the Follies of that Course of Life and finding his Conscience burden'd with many sins he undertook a Journey to Rome while he remain'd there he fell sick and in his sickness made a Vow upon his return to Health and his Country to build there an Hospital for the Relief and Solace of Poor People After this being restored to his Health he began his journey homeward On the Way St. Bartholmew appeared to him in a Nocturnal Vision or Dream and directed him to build a Church in Smithfield at London and name it to him Being return'd to London he obâ—ain'd the King's License for this Foundation without which it could not be effected the Ground where the Building was appointed being within the Kings Market-place He began hereupon a double Work of Piety the Hospital in performance of his Vow and the Church according as directed both not far distant which last was founded An. 1123. in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and memory of St. Bartholmew the Apostle It is said that this very Foundation in this place was foretold long before in a Vision to King Edward the Confessor Before Raberus began the Foundation of this Monastery the Ground here was all overspread with Filth and Durt and was the common place of Execution of Malefactors The Priory being built and Cannons assembled to inhabit it Raherus became their Prior who obtain'd for their maintenance sufficient from the Oblations of pious People and from the King as large Liberties as any Church in England enjoy'd King Henry the III. confirm'd all the Lands and Churches given them by divers Benefactors namely the place call'd Smithfeld the Church of St. Sepulcher de Ballio London cum pertinentiis suis infra Burgum extra the Church of St. Michael Bassingshagh c. and that the Hospital of St. Bartlemew in Smithfield should be in the Disposition and Subjection of the said Prior and Canons Valued at 653 l. 15 s. per Annum WARTRE in Yorkshire FOunded An. 1132. by Galfridus Trusbut and by him endow'd with the Church of Wartre and eleven Bovates of Land in the Field of that Town Confirm'd by Pope Innocent the II. Priors and Abbots of this House 1. Ioseph Prior. 2. Radulphus Prior. 3. Richard Abbot 4. Yuo Abbot 5. Nicholas Prior. 6. Richard Prior. 7. Thomas Prior. 8. Radulphus 9. Iohn Lestyngham 10. Iohn de Dunelmia 11. Robert de Lunde 12. Iohn Queldreke in his time the Hospital of St. Giles of Beverly was annext to this House A. 1278. 13. Iohn de Thorpe 14. Richard de Welwyk 15. Robert Balne 16. William Feryby 17. Henry Holme 18. Iohn Hemyngburgh 19. William Tynyngton deposed by the Archbishop of York 20. Robert Takel 21. Thomas Ruland 22. William Wartre 23. Robert Hedon 24. William York 25. William Spenser Several of the Trussebuts descendants of the Founder confirm'd the Possessions of these Canons and so did Robert de Ros Lord of Beuver An. 1279. being then Patron Advocatus of this Priory Pope Innocent granted to these Canons of St. Iames of Wartre divers Priviledges in the Case of non-payment of Tithes for their own Goods and Stock in the Case of a general Interdict c. Valued at 221 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum TWYNEHAM in Hantshire IN the Reign of King Edward the Confessor there were Secular Canons in Christ Church at Twyneham Ranulph Flammard a great Favourite under King William Rufus and afterwards Bishop of Durham was Dean of this Church In the Reign of King Steven Canons Regular were first introduced here The aforesaid Ranulphus or Randulphus new built the Church of Twynham which at that time bore the name of the Holy Trinity Richard de Redvers endow'd it with Lands in the Isle of Wight and elsewhere Which Richard de Redvers was by King Henry the I. made Earl of Devon and had the Isle of Wight and the Inheritance of this Town of Twineham given to him From whom descend the Courtney's Earls of Devon Baldwin de Redveriis confirm'd the Estate given by his Father Richard to this Church with the Grant of large Liberties which Baldwin was the first who introduced Canons Regular into this Church to whom his Son Richard de Redveriis junior granted the free Election of their Prior and confirm'd all their Possessions An. 1161. Vid. Vol. 3. P. 45. Valued at 312 l. 7 s. per Annum HERYNGHAM in Sussex KING Edward the I. granted his License to William Paynel to grant certain Lands to the Prior and Canons of this House for the finding of four Secular Chaplains to celebrate for his Soul in their Church Statuto de terris ad manum mortuam non ponend edito non obstante Afterwards upon the Petition of Matilda Neice and heir of the said William exhibited to King Edward the II. in Parliament that King granted that instead of the four Secular Chaplains the said Prior might for the future appoint four Regular Canons of his own House for that Office King Edward the III. granted his License to appropriate the Hospital of St. Anthony at Coukham to this House St. OSITH at Chich in Essex THE Priory of St. Osith the Virgin and Martyr at Chich was founded by Richard de Belmeis Bishop of London who design'd to resign his Bishoprick and become a Canon Regular here himself but was prevented by death The second Prior of this House was Ralph afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury King Henry the II. confirm'd all the Possessions given to this Priory by several Benefactors with the grant of ample Liberties free Waren and a Market at Chiche King Iohn granted the Patronage or Advowson of this Abby to William then Bishop of London and his Successors Valued at 677 l. 1 s. 2 d. per Annum IXWORTH in Suffolk GIlbert Blundus who came into England with the Conqueror founded this Priory of the blessed Mary of Ixworth near the Parish-Church of that Town Valued at 280 l. 9 s. 5 d. per Annum NORTON in Cheshire THIS Priory of the blessed Mary of Norton was founded and endowed by William the Son of Nigellus Constable of Chester Roger Constable of Chester confirm'd the Lands and Possessions given to these Canons in Nottinghamshire Leicestershire and Oxfordshire who also granted them divers Priviledges inter alia to have two Deer yearly on the Feast of the Assumption out of his Park of Halton When William Bastard to whom King Edward the Confessor had assigned the Inheritance of his Kingdom as his most worthy and nearest Kinsman came into England with him came Hugh to whom he gave the Earldom of Chester With this Hugh came a Nobleman called Nigellus to whom the said Earl gave the Barony of Halton and made him his Marshal and Constable of Chester and further conferr'd on him many and great Priviledges such as shew'd a particular favour to him more than any other Baron of Cheshireâ— William Son of this Nigellus founded
An. Reg. 9. Valued at 147 l. 2 s. 10 d. per Annum HERTLAND in Devonshire FOunded by Gaufridus Son of Oliver de Dynam and the Canons Secular changed to Canons Regular of St. Augustin by the Authority of Bartholomew Bishop of Exeter All whose Possessions King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign confirm'd with the Grant of great Immunities and Liberties namely to have a Court to hold plea of all things but Life and Member arising in their own Lands and Estate c. Valued at 306 l. 3 s. 2 d. per Annum HELAGHE in Yorkshire FOunded by Bertramus Haget in a place where formerly was a Hermitage in some sort belonging to the Prior and Convent of Marton who by their Deed under their Convent Seal did disclaim resign and quit all title to the same An. 1203. The Lord Iordan de Sancta Maria marrying Alice an Heir General of the foresaid Bertram became a second Founder of this Priory who confirm'd their Estate and so did Alice his Widow after his decease Priors of Helaghe-Park 1218. William de Hamelecis 1233. Elias 1257. Iohn Nocus 1260. Hamo de Eboraco 1264. Henry de Quetelay 1281. Adam de Blide 1300. William de Grimstone 1320. Robert de Sposford 1333. Steven Levington 1357. Richard 1358. Thomas de Yarum 1378. Steven Clarell 45 years 1423. Iohn Birkyn 1429. Thomas York 1435. Richard Areton translated to Gisburn 1437. Thomas Botson translated to Bolton 1440. Thomas Collingham 1460. Christopher Lofthous under an ill Character for the Book says furatus est bona hujus domus 1471. William Berwick 1475. William Brammam Vicar of Helagh 1480. William Ellington 1499. Peter Kendayl William de Percey Lord of Kildale gave to the Canons of St. Iohn the Evangelist of Helagh-Park the Chappel of St. Hilda at Kildale with divers Lands for which the said Canons were to find two of their own House or two Secular Priests to celebrate the Divine Offices in the said Chappel for ever Valued at 72 l. 10 s. 7 d. per Annum CANONS-ASHBY in Northamptonshire THe Pynkeneyes Lords of Wedone were great Benefactors to the Canons here giving them divers Lands in Wedone and Weston with Common for 100 Sheep 8 Oxen 5 Cows and 5 Mares in the Pasture of Wapham and feeding for Sixscore Hogs in the Woods there Valued at 119 l. 4 d. per Annum HAVERFORD in Wales RObert de Haverford gave to the Canons here divers Churches and Tithes in his Barony of Haverford all which were confirm'd to them by King Edward III. An. Reg. 5. Valued at 133 l. 11 s. 1 d. per Annum WODHAM in Essex THis place being formerly a Hermitage of St. Iohn Baptist Maurice de Tiretia founded here a Priory of Canons and gave them divers Lands confirm'd by King Henry II. IPSWICH in Suffolk KIng Iohn in the fifth year of his Reign confirm'd to the Canons of the Church of the holy Trinity at Gypewic the several Lands Churches and Possession given them by many Benefactors among the rest a Fair to last for three days at the Feast of the holy Cross in September FINSHEVED in Northamptonshire FOunded and endow'd with divers Lands and Possessions by Richard Engaine Lord of Blatherwick in the Reign of King Iohn After the year 1367 the Male Line of the said Founder failing his estate became divided among three Sisters married to the Families of Goldinton Pabenham and Bernake Iohn Engayne gave divers Lands in Blatherwick and Laxton to the Canons of the blessed Mary of Finnisheved for the maintenance of two Chaplains in the Chappel at Finnisheved and two other Chaplains in the Chappel of Blatherwick Valued at 56 l. 10 s. 11 d. ob per Annum KEINSHAM in Gloucestershire FOunded by William Earl of Gloucester at the desire of Robert his Son then dying Dedicated to God the blessed Mary and the Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford confirm'd the several Lands Possessions and Liberties given to the Canons of this House and so did also King Edward II. An. Reg. 11. KIRTMELE in Lancashire WIlliam Marescallus founded and endow'd this Priory for Canons providing that it should always remain a Priory independent of any other House yet it should never be made an Abby and upon the death of the Prior two Canons to be chosen and presented to him or his heirs of which he or his heirs to elect one to be made Prior. Confirm'd by King Edward II. An. Reg. 17. LESNES in Kent FOunded by Richard Lucy Prefect of England An. 1178. In the year 1179 the same Richard quitting his Office of Chief Justice became himself a Canon Regular of this House and soon after died and was here buried The Lands and Possessions given to these Canons by their founder and others were confirm'd to them by King Iohn and King Edward II. BURSCOUGH in Lancashire FOunded and endow'd with large Possessions by Robert Lord of Lathom King Edward I. granted to these Canons to have a mercate every Thursday and a Fair for five days at the Feast of the Decollation of St. Iohn Baptist yearly at their Mannour of Ormeskirk Walter Lord of Scaresbrek and many others were Benefactors all whose gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Edward II. An. Reg. 17. Valued at 80 l. 7 s. 6 d. per Annum STEVERDALE in Somersetshire RIchard Lovel Chivaler gave certain Lands of the value of 40 s. to the Prior and Convent here for the finding of one Chaplain to celebrate daily for the Souls of the said Richard and his Ancestors in the Church of this Priory This House was founded by the Ancestors of Richard de Sancto maure and united to the Monastery of Taunton 24. Henry VIII DODFORD in Worcestershire FOunded and endow'd by King Henry I. But in process of time the Revenues of this House being so decay'd that there remain'd here but one Canon it was united to the Abby of Hales Owen An. 4. Edward IV. The Abby de PRATIS near Leicester FOunded An. 1143. by Robert Earl of Melent and Leicester and largely endow'd by him and others with Churches Lands Rents Tithes and Liberties in and about Leicester and elsewhere with the grant of two Bucks yearly one at the Feast of the Assumption and one at the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary c. Margaret de Quincy granted to the Canons here divers Possessions among other things House-bote and haybote and timber for repairs out of her Forrest of Charnwood as often as occasion requires also one Buck yearly out of the said Forrest Roger de Quincy granted them among other things the right Shoulder of every Deer taken in his Park of Acle and free pasture for all their Cattle throughout the Forrest of Leicester Their Possessions were confirm'd by King Steven and King Henry II. Robert Earl of Mellent came into England with the Conqueror who gave him the Earldom of Leicester which City being destroy'd with the Castle there he re-edified the
Nigellus de Moubray granted to this House the Tith of all the Meat and Drink of his Family wherever he should inhabit and charged his Heirs diligently to perform the same William de Burdet gave to Burton St. Lazarus and the infirm Brethren of Ierusalem the Hospital of Tilton and the Church of Louseby c. Sir Iohn Digby Knight and Thurbert de Rochebi c. were also Benefactors Confirm'd by King Henry II. and King Iohn King Edward III. granted to the Master and Brethren of St. Lazarus of Ierusalem in England Founded for Lepers and Souldiers that fight against the Enemies of the Cross to be free and quit of all Tenths Tallages and other Aids and Contributions granted or to be granted to the King and his Heirs Valued at 265 l. 10 s. 2 d. ob per Annum St. GILES without London Sup. p. 381. KING Edward the III. An. 27. at the Request of the Master of the Order of Burton St. Lazarus in England and in consideration of the Release of a yearly Rent of forty Marks formerly granted out of the Exchequer to the said Master and Brethren of that Order granted to the said Brethren and their Successors the Custody of the Hospital of St. Giles without London YARUM in Yorkshire FOunded by Alan de Wilton who gave to this Hospital divers Lands in Hooton to hold at the yearly Rent of two Marks also other Lands in Mydilton for the maintenance of three Chaplains in the said Hospital and thirteen poor people The same Alan did after wards grant this Hospital and all its Appurtenances in pure and perpetual Alms to the Canons of Helagh-Park The like grant was made to the said Canons by Peter de Brus which Peter de Brus gave'divers Lands to the Brethren of this Hospital with free grinding in all his Mills and free Pasture for all their proper Cattle in his Land St. JAMES near Westminster THE Master of the Hospital of St. Iames near Westminster being summon'd in a Quo Waranto 22 E. 1. appear'd and pleaded that King Henry the III. granted to the Leperous Women of St. Iames without London near Westminster their Lands then given or to be given to be held with Soc and Sak Thol and Them and that King Edward the I. granted them a Fair yearly on the Vigil day and Morrow of St. Iames and for four days following profert c. Ideo predictus Magister quoad hoc sine die c. TANREGGE in Surrey O Do Dammartin gave to God and the Hospital of St. Iames in his Village of Tanregge and to three Priests there serving God certain Lands c. for the maintenance of Infirm and poor People and Travellers he also gave them his Relicks two Silver Cups for the making a Chalice with all the Vestments Books and other Furniture of his own Chappel Valued at 78 l. 8 s. 10 d. ob per Annum St. JOHN BAPTIST at Stamford in Lincolnshire THIS Hospital dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist and St. Thomas the Martyr consisting of a Master and Brethren was founded by one Syward among other Benefactors were Richard de Humez and Bertran de Verdun who gave part of a Meadow lying near the Bridge towards the North wherein to build a Church and make a Coemitery Confirm'd by King Richard I. and by Pope Alexander It was situated at the end of Stamford-Bridge on the South-side for the Reception of Travellers and poor people SAUTINGEFELD near Wytsande KING Henry the II. confirm'd divers Lands to this Hospital and to the Brethren here serving God SCARDEBURGH in Yorkshire THE Hospitals of St. Nicholas and St. Thomas the Martyr were erected by certain Burgesses of Scardeburgh and were both under the Inspection of the Bayliffs and Burgesses of that Town c. as was found by Inquisition An. 26 Edw. the I. St. GILES without Shrewsbury KING Henry the II. granted to the Poor of this House a Rent of 30 s. out of his Farm of Shropshire King Henry the III. granted them out of every Sack of Corn coming to Shrewsbury Market a handful of both hands and out of every Sack of Wheat a handful of one hand also a Horse-load of dead Wood daily in his Wood call'd Linewood for their firing ROMENALE in Kent FIRST founded by Adam de Cherrings in honour of the blessed Martyrs St. Steven and St. Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury and by him endow'd with Lands Rents and Possessions for the maintenance of certain Lepers and one Chaplain But in process of time this Hospital becoming decay'd and neglected by reason chiefly that no Lepers could be found to inhabit here for many years Iohn Franceys Patron of this Hospital An. 37. Edward the III. in order to revive and restore the same made divers Orders viz. That in lieu of the Lepers that used to be here there should for the future be two Priests to celebrate for the Founders and Benefactors one of which to be Custos or Master to be instituted and inducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury and to be Resident which two Priests shall celebrate daily in the Chappel of this Hospital Matins and the Canonical hours that upon the death of the Custos the Patron to present another to the Archbishop of Canterbury to be admitted Custos within the space of two Months or in default of the Patron the Jurates of the Town of Romenale or the major part of them c. St. BARTHOLMEWS without Oxford THE following Orders were made in the Parliament at Lincoln An. 9. Edward the II. That there should be fix infirm Brothers of this Hospital and two found Brothers to labour about the Affairs of the House each of which eight to receive 9 d. a Week that there should be a Priest to be the Master of the said Hospital to say Mass daily and to administer the Sacraments to the Infirm his Salary fix Marks per Annum Queen Margaret Widow of Edward the I. was during her Life Patroness and Visitor and after her death the King or his Chancellor The said King Edward the II. An. 14. granted his License the former Ordination non obstante for the Master and Brothers of this Hospital to admit Iohn Serthe into the next void Place the said Iohn having given eighteen Marks to the Repairs of the Chappel then ruinous MAIDEN-BRADLEY in Wiltshire MAnserus Byset a Baron did first institute this House for Leperous Women and appointed there certain Secular Priests who he named Curators of the Women Hubert Bishop of Salisbury translated those Priests into Canons Regular The Church of Kiderminster was appropriated to this House by Roger Bishop of Worcester after the death of Robert then Parson This Manserus or Manasserus Byset was Dapiser or Sewer to King Henry II. King Henry III. confirm'd the several Lands and Possessions given to the Leperous Sisters of Maiden-Bradâ—egh and to the Prior and Brethren there Valued at 180 l. 10 s. 4 d. per Annum St. THOMAS of Acon in London KIng Edw. III. A. 14. confirm'd
by the Payment of one pound of Cummin Cimini or 2 d. at Easter yearly for all Services and Demands Divers other Benefactors gave other Lands in Northamptonshire and elsewhere among whom were Iohn de Lacy Constable of Chester Ralph Basset c. All confirm'd and recited by King Edward the II. An. 9. Valued at 258 l. 8 s. 5 d. per Annum COKERSAND in Lancashire FOunded by Theâ—bald Walter Brother of Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury for Canons of the Premonstratenses to whom he gave in pure and perpetual Alms the Hay or inclosed ground call'd Pyling for the â—recting of this Abby Confirm'd by King Iohn An. 2. All which with other Lands granted by William de Lancaster Iohn de Lasey Earl of Lincoln and Constable of Chester and the Ieffrey Son of the Lord Iohn and others were recited and confirm'd by King Richard the II. An. 7. A Contest happening between the Prior of Lancaster and the Abbot of Cokersand about Tithes and other Rights of the Church it was agreed and settled by Papal Authority An. 1216. that the Prior should have two parts of the Corn Tithes in Lancaster and Pulton and this Abbot one third part also that the Abbot of Cokersand shall not admit any of the Parishioners of the Prior of Lancaster to Sepulture at his Convent without the Priors License c. The Abbot and Convent of Leicester de pratis granted to the Canons of Cokersand the Scite of the Hospital of Cokersand for the making of an Abby which change from an Hospital to a Monastery of Premonstratenses was made An. 1190. BEGEHAM in Sussex THIS Abby was first founded at Hotteham by Ralph de Dena and by him endow'd with Lands c Translated from thence to Begeham otherwise call'd Benlin by Ela de Saukvile Daughter of the first Founder whose Son Ieffrey de Saukvile confirm'd the Estate of these Canons Confirm'd also by Gilbert de Aquila Robert de Tuâ—nham Walkelin Maminot and Richard Earl of Clare and Hereford were also Benefactors all whose Gifts were confirm'd by King Iohn King Henry the III. An. 35. granted to these Canons a weekly Market on the Thursday at their Mannor of Rokeland and a Fair there for three days at Midsomer Which with their other Possessions was confirm'd by King Edward the II. An. 6. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 77. BARLINGS in Lincolnshire FOunded by Ralph de Haye with the Consent of Richard Haye his Brother confirm'd by King Henry the II. and King Iohn An. 16. The Bardolfs and Longspes were Benefactors BRODHOLME in Nottinghamshire KING Edward the II. An. 12. recited and confirm'd the several Lands and Possessions given to the Brothers and Sisters of Brodholme by divers Benefactors among whom Ralph de Albaniaco Walter de Clifford and Agnes his Wife c. Valued at 16 l. 5 s. 2 d. per Annum COVERHAM in Yorkshire THIS Monastery was first founded at Swayneby An. Dom. 1190. by Helewisia Daughter and Heir of Ranulf de Glanvilla a Baron and Capital Justice of England in the time of King Henry the II. and Richard the I. It was afterwards translated from Swayneby to Coverham near Midleham by Ralph Fitz-Robert descended from the said Helewisia The Lands c. given to this House by the Foundress and her Son Walleran Fitz-Robert and Ralph Fitz-Robert Edric Neusum and others were all confirm'd by King Edward the III. An. 22. Of this Family did descend two Sisters Co-heirs Mary Lady of Midleham married to Ralph de Nevile and Ioan married to Robert de Fatershall Valued at 160 l. 18 s. 3 d. per Annum St. AGATHA near Richmund in Yorkshire FOunded by one Roaldus the Constable possibly of Richmond Castle Roger de Moubray Alan Bygot and others were Benefactors whose Grants were recited and confirm'd by King Edw. III. An. 3. Richard le Scrope of Bolton by License of King Rich. II. granted to the Abbot and Convent of this House a yearly Rent of 150 l. for the Maintenance of ten Canons over and above the common number then in the Monastery and of two Secular Chaplains to celebrate for the said Richard and his Heirs c. and for the Maintenance of twenty two poor men in the said Abby This Richard le Scrope had been the Kings Chancellour and gave also to this Abby the Mannor of Brompton upon Swale then valued at 10 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum Valued at â— 11 l. 17 s. 11 d. per Annum TORRE in Devonshire THIS Church and Abby of St. Saviours of Torre was founded by William Briwer and by him endow'd with many Lands and with the Church of Torre c. to hold in free pure and perpetual Alms. King Iohn confirm'd to these Canons all their Possessions with the Grant of large Franchises and Immunities from Scutage and all Gelds and Tolls c. for themselves and their men From this William Briwere the Founder descended Reginald de Mohun who in the thirty six of King Henry the III. had a grant from this Abbot and Convent of Liberty to erect a Chappel in his Court at Thorre for himself and proper Family but not to baptize there nor admit any of the Parishioners to any Ecclesiastical Rights the said Abbot and Convent to receive one Moiety of all Oblations or Obventions arising in the said Chappel c. Valued at 396 l. 11 d. per Annum HALES-OWEN in Shropshire THE Mannor and Advowson of the Church of Hales was given by King Iohn An. 16. to Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester for the erecting of a Religious House which was accordingly founded here by that Bishop and by him endowed with this Estate Confirm'd by King Henry the III. Roger Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield An. 1248 appropriated the Church of Waleshale to this Abby after the death of Vincent then Rector of the said Church saving out of the same a Vicaridge of thirteen Marks to be assigned to a Vicar with all Obventions c. An. Dom. 1270. Godfrey Bishop of Worcester made a Settlement between the Abbot of Hales and the Perpetual Vicar of the Parish Church there the said Vicar to have and receive from the Abbot ten Marks yearly a House with Out Houses Orchard Garden and the Vesture of the Church-yard The Canons to find another Priest to be under the Vicar Presbiterm secundarium and to bear all ordinary and extraordinary Charges Iohn de Hamptone Ioan Botetourt and Iohn her Son gave divers Mannors and Advowsons to this Abby conditioning for Chantrys Wolstan Bishop of Worcester appropriated to this Abby the Church of Clent and Chappel of Rouley reserving to the perpetual Vicar who hath the Cure of Souls there a Revenue of 10 l. viz. a Messuage and Curtelage on the South side of the Church-yard with Tith of Calves Lambs c. and all small Tithes except of the Monasteries proper Lands Mortuaries the Herbage and Trees of the Church-yard and all the Altarage Valued at 280 l. 13 s. 2 d. ob per Annum LANGLEY in
the foresaid twenty ninth year of Henry VIII Pag. 648. LENTON KIng Steven granted the Chruch of the Holy Trinity at Lenton which William Peverell and others had endow'd to the order of Cluniac Monks to be enjoy'd with all its possessions inviolably The Priory of HORKESLEY RObert Fitz God bold gave divers Lands Churches and Tithes to the Cluniac Monks of Tefford with intention that the Convent of that House should transmit some of their Monks to the Church of St. Peter at Horchesley there to reside in the Services of God and St. Peter Their Possessions so given was confirm'd to them by Gilbert Bishop of London and Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury Pag. 867. SIBETON WIth King William the Conqueror who came into England in the year 1066. came Walter de Cadamo who after the Conquest held the Barony of Horsford He had issue Robert who built the Church of St. Peter at Sibton who had issue Iohn call'd the Vicount and William Iohn being very infirm in his health vow'd to erect an Abby of Cistercian Monks but himself dying left his vow to be perform'd by William his Brother and heir who enjoy'd after his death his Barony and Vicounty This William founded the Monastery of St. Mary at Sibton in the Reign of King Steven An. Dom. 1149. And endow'd the same with Lands and Revenues He had issue Margaret married to Hugh de Cressy who confirm'd her Fathers Guift An. 28. Henry VIII William then Abbot of Sibton Com. Suffolk and the Convent there of their free will and unanimous Consent gave granted and confirm'd to Thomas Duke of Norfolk Anthony Rouse Esquire and Nicholas Hare Gent. their heirs and assigns to the use of the said Duke his heirs and assigns for ever all the said Monastery and Estate thereunto belonging and Constituted Thomas Heydon and Robert Whinwery their lawful Attorneys to deliver Seizin accordingly This was under their Convent Seal and Sign'd by the Abbot and seven Monks of the House Pag. 887. HOLMCOLTRAM DAvid King of Scotland confirm'd the Donations of his Son Henry to this Abby the like did afterwards Malcolm king of Scotland Son of the said Henry Iohn King of England in the 16. year of his Reign granted to the Monks here the Hermitage of St. Hilda in the Forrest of Englewode with all the Land which Roger Croky late Hermit held and a Vaccary there for forty Cows c. Iohn Bishop of Carlile licensed the Monks of Holmcoltram to build a Church or Chappel in their territory of Arlosk for their Tenants and the Inhabitrants of those parts which Church or Chappel he did appropriate and annex to the said Monastery and exempt the same from the Visitation of the Ordinary The said Church to be served by a secular Priest of their election but to be presented to the said Bishop or his Successors and by them admitted to the said Cure The said Priest so admitted to receive for his support 4 l. to be pay'd him yearly out of the profits of the said Church and a House and Curtilage to be assigned him The said Priest to pay to the Bishop in the name of a Cathedratic half a mark and to the Archdeacon when he Visits 40 d. for procurations Which Deed of Appropriation bears date at Linflock An. 1304. Hugh Morville Cecily Countess of Albemarl Lambert de Multon and others were Benefactors to these Monks William Earl of Albemarl gave them a Forge and Iorn Mine at Egremond Robert King of Scots whose Father lies buried in their Church at Holmcoltram gave them a yearly farm of 10 l. Pope Lucius III. confirm'd to them their Lands and Revenues and granted them divers Liberties as to be free from the payment of Tithes for their Cattel and Fishing c. Whose Bull bears date An. 1185. Pag. 914. CROKESDEN THe Abby of the Vally of St. Mary of Crokesdene was founded by Bertram de Verdon and by him endow'd with divers Revenues in Crokesdene Stanfort Castretone c. and a Salt work in Midlewich Additions to the Second Volum Pag. 461. NORWICH JOhn Bishop of Norwich exemplified the Deeds belonging to the Hospital of St. Paul in Norwich viz. the Charter of the Convent of the Holy Trinity of Norwich who founded and endow'd the said Hospital to the support of poor people for the Soul of Bishop Herbert c. of Adam de Bellofago Morellus de Morley some Bishops of Norwich his Predicessors and King Henry I. who were all Benefactors Which Deed of Exemplification bears date in the year 1301. Pag. 181. TWINEHAM IN the Reign of King Steven An. Dom. 1150 Henry Bishop of Winchester and Hillary then Dean of Christ Church at the Petition of Earl Baldwin introduced Canons Regular into the said Church in place of the Canons secular that then were there the secular Canons to enjoy their Prebends while they lived But all the Lands and Revenues belonging and possest by the said Church in the time of the Deans to be for the future to the only use of the Prior and Canons Regular Pag. 152. GISBURNE WAldenus Son of Earl Cospatric gave the Town of Apleton to the Church of St. Bridget commonly call'd Brydekirk in the County of Cumberland The Lady Alice de Rumeley gave this Church of Brydekirk with Apleton and all other Lands thereunto belonging to the Canons of Gisburne Pag. 272. WORSPRING WIlliam de Curtenai founded a Convent for Canons Regular of St. Augustin at the Chappel of St. Thomas the Martyr in Worspring and notifying so much to Iohn then Bishop of Bath desired that by his authority the Church of Worle at that time vacant might be appropriated to the said Convent Pag. 263. WORMLEY JOhn de Baskerville gave to God and the Church of St. Leonard of Pyonia and to the Prior and Canons there in Frankalmoine all his Land of Stanley which he held of the Mannour of Wormley and Nickolas de Wormley Lord of the said Mannour reciting the said Grant confirm'd the same to the said Prior and Canons and also released and quit claimed to them one pair of spurs or sixpence of yearly Rent by which the foresaid Iohn held that Land Robet de Staunton Gilbert Talebot Robert Boter and others were Benefactors to the said Canons confirm'd by Roger de Montuomari Lord of Winfretone An. Dom. 1304 Gerard de Eylesford gave them the Advowson of the Church of Pyona Regis or Kings Peâ—ne Peter Bishop of Hereford appropriated the Church of Wormesley of which these Canons were Patrons to this Convent for the said Canons to enjoy the Fruits thereof to their proper use but so as not to defraud the said Church of due Service Whose Deed bears date An. 1262. Here was a Chantry tounded by the Lady Basilia de Bourhull Pag. 941. RANTON RObert Fitz-Noel or Son of Noel founded and endow'd the Priory of Ranton for Canons under the Rule and obedience of the Church of Haman Hamanensis Ecclesiae Whose Donation was confirm'd by Thomas Noel his Son Noel who came
de Lincoln 6. years 9. Richard de Normanton the second time Ruled 1. year 10. Iohn Horsley 26. years 11. Ioh Wodhouse 15. Weeks 12. William Horsley 21. years 13. Roger de Kyrkton 3. years 14. William de Bone 42. years 15. Herry Monyasche 39. years 16. Iohn Spondone 33. years 17. Iohn Stanley 22. years 18. Richard de Nottingham 19. years Pag. 605. CROXTON AVicia de Romely Lady of Bescaudeby was married to William Paynel who came into England with William the Conqueror and of whose guilt he had divers Towns in Yorkshire Lincolnshire and Leicestershire which William and Avice had issue a daughter named Alice or Avice whom King H. II gave in Marriage to Robert de Gant who had issue by her another Alâ—ce or Avice whom the same King Henry gave in Marriage to Robert Fitz-Harding of Bristol who had issue Maurice who dying without issue his Mothers Iâ—heritance came to Andrew Lutterel as next of the Bloud of the Paynells Pag. 607. LEYSTONE RAnulfus de Glanville founded the Abby of St. Mary at Leestune and endow'd it with the Mannour of Lâ—estune which he had of the guift of king Henry II. and with certain Churches which he had formerly given to the Canons of Buttele and now by them resign'd to the Canons of this place King Richard I. confirm'd the Estate so given to these Canons of Leystone with a Grant of divers Franchises confirm'd also by Richard Archbishop of Canterbury and by Roger Bygot Earl of Norfolk Pope Lucius granted these Canons divers Priviledges and not to pay Tithes of their proper Goods and Cattel to celebrate privately in time of a General Interdict with absolute freedom in the Election of thier Abbot with Liberty of Burial for any not Excommunicate who desire to be buried with them saving the Rights of those Churches from whence the Bodies come c. Pag. 643. BEGEHAM WIlliam de Burgelle granted certain Marish Lands to the Canons of Otteham afterwards translated to Begeham saving to the Lord of the soil the Service of half a pound of Pepper to be paid yealry on the Vigil of Chirstmass for all Custom and exaction DURFORD Abby in Sussex FOunded and endow'd with Lands c. by Henry Hesatus Lord of Herting in the County of Sussex confirmed by King Henry the II. who also granted them a Fair for three days yearly at Herting viz. on the Nativity of St. Iohn Baptist and two days next before Confirm'd also by Hillary and Seffrid Bishops of Chichester and by William de Percy c. Valued at 98 l. 4 s. 5 d. Per Annum STIXWOLD Abby in Lincolnshire KING Henry VIII in the 29th year of his Reign out of the sincere Devotion which he had to the Virgin Mary and for the increase of Virtue and the Divine Worship c. founded a new Monastery of Nuns of the Order of Praemonstratenses in the place Scite and Precinct of the Old Monastery of Stixwold in Com. Lincoln lately supprest by Authority of Parliament to consist of a Prioress and Nuns there to officiate in the Divine Offices for the good Estate of him and of his most dear Consort Iane Queen of England while they lived and after their deaths for their Souls and the Souls of their Children and Progenitors And made and constituted Mary Missenden Prioress of the said new Monastery and incorporated the said Prioress and Nuns by the name of the Prioress and Convent of the New Monastery of King Henry the VIII of Stixwold with capacity to receive Lands by that name to sue and be sued and to have a Common-Seal He further gave and settled on them all the Lands and Estate real and personal belonging to the old Monastery of Stixwold in as full and ample manner as Helena Key late Prioress of the said Monastery enjoy'd the same on the same on the 4th of Feb. in the seven and twentieth year of his Reign or any time before at which time it came to his hands by reason of an Act of Parliament then past for the dissolving of certain Monasteries Which said Revenue was then rated at the clear yearly value of 152 l. 10 s. 7 d. and was granted to the said new Monastery to hold in Capite by the twentieth part of a Knights Fee and by the yearly Rent of 15 l. 5 s. 1 d. to be paid into the Court of Augmentations at Michaelmas and Lady-day the Statute of Mortmain or any other Statute non obstante Whose Grant bears date on the 9th of Iuly in the said nine and twentieth year and is witnessed by Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury and divers others among whom Sir Thomas Crumwell Knt. Lord Crumwell Keeper of the Privy-Seal c. Vid. 1. Vol. 486. Pag. 376. BRACKLEY RObert Earl of Leicester gave to Salomon the Clerk and his Successors one Acre of Land in Brahole Brackley in the love of God and honour of St. Iohn the Apostle and Evangelist to build a House thereon for the Receipt and Entertainment of poor People This was confirm'd afterwards by Robert his Son and Heir which Father and Son endow'd the said Hospital with divers Lands to hold in Frankalmoine Hugh Bishop of Lincoln confirm'd the Foundation of this Hospital with all the Lands and Liberties given and conferr'd upon it The like did King Henry III. in the twelfth year of his Reign Pag. 423. DOVER KING Henry the III. in the twelfth year of his Reign confirm'd to the Hospital of St. Mary at Dover divers Land and Rents given by Simon de Wardune he also confirm'd the Mannor of Rivere to the said Hospital at the Petition of Hubert de Burgo who founded the same for the sustentation of poor People and Travellers who should come thether He also ordained that upon the death or removal of the Master the Brothers of the said Hospital shall freely choose another and present him to the King or his Chief Justice who shall without difficulty give assent and then he shall be presented to the Archbishop of Cantebury to be by him instituted He also granted to the said Hospital the tenth part of the Profits of the Passage in the Port of Dover besides 10 l. and 50 s. which by two Deeds he had formerly granted them With other Revenues elsewhere Pag. 899. NEWTON THomas Archbishop of York made a Decree between Edmund Litchfield who pretended to the Office of Custos or Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen at Newton in Holderness and Edmund Percy then in Possession of the said Hospital containing that the said Percy whose title the Bishop confirms and his Successors shall pay to the said Litchfield during his Life a yearly Pension of 100 s. on the day of the Annuciation of the Blessed Virgin in the Collegiate Church of St. Thomas of Acon in London under pain of incuring the Sentence of Excommunication if upon request he does not within thirty days perform this Decree and besides it shall and may be lawful for the said Litchfield on the
Paynell the Lord William de Percy who gave the Church of Topcliffe to the Fabrick of this Church in return for which the Dean and Chapter promised to find a fit Chaplain for ever to celebrate in the Chappel of the Blessed Mary at Topcliffe and to allow him 100 s. yearly Ieffry Fitz Peter Earl of Essex the Abbot and Convent of Albemarl who gave Preston and other Churches in Holderness An. 1228. Nicholas de Stutville who gave Michael de Hamelsciâ his Native or Villain and all his progeny Henry Fitz Thomas and others were Benefactors to this Church An Inquisition was taken An. Dom. 1275 4. Edward I. in which all the Lands and Liberties of the Church of St. Peter in the City and Suburbs of York were set forth and exprest some of which the Jury then found to have belong'd to that Church time out of memory Walter Gray Archbishop of York granted to the Chapter of York by Deed dated An. 1241. All his Mansion House and all his Lands c. in Thorp St. Andrew or Bishops Thorp with Provision that the said Chapter reconvey the Premisses to his Successors to hold by the Rent of 20 marks per An. at the feast of St. Martin which twenty marks to be distributed to poor People on the day of his Anniversary c. The said Walter in the 33 year of his consecration caused certain Vicarages to be endow'd in the Churches of Tickhill c. which Churches were appropriated to the Prior and Convent of St. Oswald of Nostel in particular to the support of the Vicar of Tickhill and one associate Priest a Deacon and Subdeacon there he appointed the whole Altarage in which name he specifies all Oblations Tithes and profits of the Church of Tickhill except Tithes of Corn pulse and hay and the Lands belonging to the said Church saving a Competent Mansion to be assign'd to the Vicar which Tithes of Garbs and Hay and the said Lands shall remain to the said Convent of Nostell c. Herbert the Chamberlain Brother of King Steven and Steven and Reginald his Sons were Benefactors to this Church of St. Peter King Henry II. granted to Archbishop Walter and his Successors Free Warren in their Mannours of Shirburn and Cawood Aufridus de Chanci Paganus de Vilers Iohn Constable of Chester Robert de Vavasour and others were also Benefactors Thomas Archbishop of York before mention'd dyed at York on the Octaves of St. Martin An. Dom. 1100 in great Reputation as appears by his Epitapth enter'd in the Register of that Church There were certain Customes and Orders used of old time in this Church as that upon the Archbishops first coming to this City after his Consecration he was to be received in solemn Procession so also when he returns at any time from beyond Sea c. That the Bishop of Durham was to present him with a rich Cope after his Consecration that every Prebendary should in his life-time give a Cope value 10 l. or after his death twenty Marks and at his death his Palfrey that the Dean is to be install'd by the Precentor c. That the Dean is bound to feed forty poor People daily that he is the greatest in the Church next The Archbishop and in the Chapter the greatest of all An. Dom. 1200. the then Dean and Canons did order and ordain that four Persons should be constantly resident viz. the Dean the Chantor the Chancellor and the Treasurer the Archdeacons to reside for three months in a year other Canons for half a year the common Profits to be divided among those only who are resident that no Vicar shall be admitted for favour but only such as are worthy and proper for the Service of the Church that none be promoted but by the Dean and Chapter and that no Vicar or inferior Minister be admitted into the Quire unless he have a good Voice King Henry the VIII made and establisht new Statutes by Letters Patents in the time of Edward Archbishop of York whereby reciting that they had in this Church an evil Custom long used that every Canon Prebendary was bound to spend in feasting the first year of his Residency one thousand Marks or else he could not partake of the Emoluments of the Place he abolishes the said Custom and all Statutes relating thereunto and Orders that the Statutes relating to the great Residency be observed and that they have their Distributions and Emoluments on the account of Residency duly paid from the day of their first entry on the same if there be none residing then all the common Profits of the Church to go wholly to the Treasury of St. Peter That all Canons then being in the City of York as well not resident as resident be called to assist at all Chapters that to the Chest wherein the Common-Seal is kept be three different Locks and Keys one to be kept by the Dean the other two by the two Senior Residents or if there be not at that time two Residentiaries then by the Precentor and Chancellor c. that all Custom incouraging Pomp and Prodigality be abolisht that a division of the Profits be made at the Feast of St. Martin according to the Days Weeks or Months of the Refidentiaries residing which Canons in the time of their Residency are to be present at Vespers Maâ—tins and high Mass at least without justexcuse under pain of losing that days distribution when absent c. Every Canon Residentiary to live at a House within the Close of the Cathedral and to have in Benefices at least 100 l. per Annum That the Vicars Choral shall when every Canon begins his greater Residence receive 5 l. and afterwards 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. per Annum That every Canon having a Prebend worth 8 l. per Annum shall yearly at the Feast of St. Martin contribute and pay into the hands of the Chancellor of this Church 6 s. 8 d. for the providing of Preachers in the said Church which Preachers are to be provided on the Rogation-days Sundays and other days at discretion this not to excuse the Dean and Chancellor or any others to preach themselves as they are obliged by Statute or Custom c. Which Letters Pattens bear date 3 Iune 33 H. 8. To this Cathedral Church did belong abundance of Jewels Vessels of Gold and Silver and other Ornaments rich Vestments and Books viz. ten Miters of great value among which one small Miter with Stones for the Bishop of the Boys or Children pro Episcopo puerorum one Silver and gilt Pastoral Staff many Pastoral Rings among which one for the Bishop of the Boys Chalices Vials Pots Basons Candlesticks Thuribules Holy Water-Pots Crosses of Silver one of which weighed eight pound six ounces Images of Silver and Gold Relicks in Cases extreamly rich great Bouls of Silver a Unicorns-Horn a Table of Silver and gilt with the Image of the blessed Virgin enamiled thereon weighing nine pounds eight ounces and a half several
he was upon his great sorrow and tears absolved after which he gave divers Lands to this Church Gurcan who succeeded Guinan having lived incestuously with his Mother in Law was therefore in full Synod excommunicated by Bishop Erthguin and after upon his reformation being absolved gave divers Lands to this Church King Clitauc Son of Clitguin was a Prince who governed his Kingdom in Peace and exact Juctice and became afterwards a Martyr on this account A young Virgin of quality was in love with him so far as to declare she would never marry unless to Clitauc whereupon a Nobleman of the Court whose Sute she had refused for the Kings sake in revenge murder'd the innocent King in hunting After whose Murder the Bishop of Landaff caused to be built and consecrated a Church to his memory in the place where he was buried near the River Myngui c. Which with divers Lands given to the same was afterwards a granted to the Bishops of Landaff by King Iudhail Son of Morcant A Noble man of the same name Iudhail Son of Edelvirth going with his Wife on a Sunday to hear divine Service at St. Clitaue's was so far prevail'd upon by the Devils insligation and his own lust 〈◊〉 to lie with his Wife in a Meadow on the Bank of Mingui and having perform'd the Act and about to withdraw he found himself not able to disjoyn but was forced to remain in that Posture inseperable from his Wâ—â—e whereupon he call'd out to his Attendants and order'd them to repair to the Monument of the Martyr Clitauc and there offer in his name that Meadow which he had unjustly taken from that Church this being done with promise of amendment of Life he was again separated from that vexatious Conjunction Convur bought certain Lands of King Fernvail Son of Iudhail for an excellent horse of the price of 12 Cows a Dog that had kill'd Birds with a Hawk cum Ancipitre of the Price of 3 Cows and another Horse of the Price of 3 Cows which Lands so purchased he gave to the Bishops of this Church of Landaff Fernuhail Convelin King Ris Son of Iudhail and abundance of other Kings and great Men in Wales were Benefactors to this Church King Hotel being excomunicated by the Bishop and Synod at Landaff for killing Galcun after a peace swern upon his Absolution gave divers Lands to this Church the like did Ili Son of Conblus who was excommunicated for killing Camauc after a Peace sworn between them Agvod Son of Iovaf having an angry Contest betwixt his family and the Bishops came up to the Church Door and threw stones into the Church and then fled under an Anathema for which he afterwards beg'd pardon and gave divers Lands to Corenhiro then Bishop and his Successors King Nongui gave Lands for violating the Liberties of this Church and committing Sacriledge An. Dom. 955. Pater being then Bishop of this Church six men of the Family of Nongui broke into a Church in this Diocesâ— and there kill'd a Deacon before the Altar who had fled thither for Sanctuary for which they were delivered up to the Bishop and remain'd imprison'd six months in Chains and they were further sentenced by a Synod that they should forfeit all their Lands and Substance to the Church which they had prophaned Asser Son of Marchvid having kill'd Gulagguin by treachery gave to this Church the Town of Segan c. Brochmail Son of Mouric gave to this Church certain Lands which he had before given to his Daughter whom he made a Nun but she being seduced from her Vow by Etgar Son of Levi had a Son incestuously Teudur King of Brecknock King Grifud c. were also Benefactors An. Dom. 982. Gucaun Bishop of Landaff was consecrated by the Metropolitan Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury and had his Pastoral Staff given him by Edgar the Supream King of the English At the same time lived Edgar King of all Britain Hawel da and Morgan hen which two last were subject to King Edgar Etguin King of Guenti having a great contest with Bledri Bishop of Landaff it went so far that the Bishop himself was wounded whereupon he summon'd and assembled all the Clergy from Taratir in Gui to Tigui who in full Synod Anathematized the King with his whole Family and put his Country under interdict but the King seeking absolution obtain'd it and thereupon gave divers Lands to this Church Muric Son of Hivil after he had solemnly sworn to a Peace and Friendship with Etguin a Neighbouring King before Ioseph Bishop of Landaff seized upon the said Etguin cast him in Prison and put out his eyes which occasion'd his death for which being curst in a Synod he afterwards obtain'd absolution and gave several Towns to this Church King Mouric and Caratanc one of his Lords being under censure for violating the Sanctuary of this Church obtain'd remission and gave divers Lands The like happened in the Cases of Catguallaun Ringuallaun Gistinus and others who being guilty of like Crimes made the like Compensations When King William conquer'd England Hergualdus was Bishop of Landaff Catguacaun Son of Mouric King of Glatmorcant Caratoc and Riderch Kings of other parts of Wales all which Kings served King William and died in his time LITCHFELD Cathedral THIS was formerly call'd the Mercian Church and first founded in the year 657. upon the Conversion of this Province to the Christian Religion it was then made a Cathedral and Duina the first Bishop of the Mercians or middle English who govern'd here but two years and died To him succeeded Cellach a Scot. After him Trumhere and after him Iarman both Englishmen but ordain'd Bishops in Scotland To these succeeded St. Cedda An. Dom. 667. who had been before that Bishop of York After whose death succeeded Winfrid and after him Sexwolf who founded the Abby of Peterborough after whose death the Province of Mercia was divided into two Diocesses Parâ—chias Litchfield and Leicester tho' after a while they were both united again under Hedda Bishop of Litchfield who died An. 721. In the time of Ethelred King of Mercia the Bishoprick of Litchfield was divided into five Diocesses viz. Hereford Worcester Litchfield Leicester and Lindisey After this division Litchfield had five successive Bishops till the time of Adulphus who was made Archbishop of Litchfield by Pope Hadrian An. 764. and a Jurisdiction given him over all Mercia and the East-Angles but after him there was no more Archbishops From his time to the Norman Conquest were fifteen Bishops of Litchfield soon after which the Episcopal Seat was translated from Litchfield to Chester An. 1075. The second Bishop of Chester was Robert de Lymesi who An. 1095. removed his Seat again from Chester to the rich Monastery at Coventry not long before built and magnificently endow'd by Earl Leofrick and Godeva his Wife To him succeeded Robert Peche Roger de Clinton Walter Durdent Richard Peche and Gerard de Puellâ all of them successively Bishops of