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

here all the Lands and Tenements belonging to the Canons of Cathale whom he caused to be removed Valued at 14 l. 10 s. per Annum FINCHALE in the Bishoprick of Durham FInchale is a solitary place not far from the City of Durham where a certain Hermit named Godricus de Finchale who in his youth had visited the holy Sepulcher spent his old Age in Devotion and here died with the reputation of great Sanctity After the death of this Godficus Ranulphus Bishop of Durham granted this Hermitage and the Lands adjoyning to Algarus the Prior and the Monks of Durham Hugh Bishop of Durham founded and endow'd the Priory of Finchale for such Monks of Durham as the Prior of Durham should from time to time send thither in the service of God and St. Iohn Valued at 122 l. 15 s. 3 d. per Annum The Priory of St. James at Bristol a Cell of Tewkesbury WIlliam Earl of Gloucester gave to this House divers Lands and Tithes and the Profits of the Fair at Bristol in Whitsun-week which with other Lands given by other Benefactors was confirm'd by King Henry the II. The same King gave the Monks here certain Liberties in his Forrest Robert Earl of Gloucester was buried in this Church of St. Iames at Bristol BUNGEY in Suffolk ROger de Glanvill and Gundreda the Countess his Wife founded a Nunnery in the Church of the holy Cross at Bungey The Endowments whereof as well by the said Roger and his Wife as by a great number of other Benefactors were all confirm'd to the said Nuns and their Successors to hold in pure and perpetual Alms by King Henry the II. in the ninteenth year of his Reign Valued at 62 l. 0 s. 1 d. ob per Annum SYLLEY Isle near Cornwall THIS Isle was given of old by the Kings of England to the Abbot and Monks of Tauestock who used to send two of their Monks hither to perform the Divine Offices till the Wars with France in the Reign of King Edward the III. And then that King gave License to the Abbot of Tauestock in the ninteenth year of his Reign to place here two secular Chaplains instead of Monks ROWNEY Priory in Hertfordshire IN the 36. H. 6. Agnes Selby Prioress of this House and the Covent of Nuns here in respect of the poverty of the place did by their Deed seal'd with their Common-Seal resign up their Church House and Lands into the hands of their Patron Iohn Fray who designed to convert the same in a better manner Which Iohn Fray was chief Baron of the Exchequer and being thus possest of this Priory he would not convert it to any other use but to the service of God and therefore obtain'd the King's License in the 37. H. 6. to found and endow here a Chantry for one Priest The first Founder of the Priory was Conan Duke of Britony and Richmond who with others endow'd it with Possessions of the value of ten Marks per Annum Valued at 13 l. 10 s. 9 d. per Annum NUN-EATON in Warwickshire THIS House was founded and endow'd by Robert Earl of Leicester Son of Robert de Mellento in the Reign of King Henry the II. for Nuns of the same Order with those at Font-Ebraud Whose Gifts were confirm'd by his Son Robert and by King Henry the II. The Prioress and Covent of Font-Ebrald granted to this House the immunity to receive and retain to their own proper use all such gifts as should be made unto them without any exaction of the said Abbess and Covent of Font-Ebrald Which immunity and several others were confirm'd to them by Pope Alexander the III. Valued at 253 l. 14 s. 5 d. ob per Annum LUFFELD in Northamptonshire a Cell to Westminster THE Priory of Luffeild was founded by Robert Earl of Leicester for the Souls of King William the I. and Queen Matilda c. King Henry the I. his Daughter Maud the Empress and King Edward the I. were Benefactors and Pope Alexander the III. granted to Ralph Prior of St. Mary's at Luffeild his Brethren and their Successors divers Priviledges by his Bull dated 1174. Radulfus de Cahienes Hugo de Sancto Martino and others gave them divers Churches and Tithes King Henry the III. in the fifty sixth year of his Reign reciting the Priory of Luffeild to have been founded by his Predecessors Kings of England granted to the Prior and Monks there free Chiminage in his Forrest of Whitlewood for five years next ensuing WILBERFOSS in Yorkshire THIS was a House of Nuns dedicated to St. Mary founded by Helias de Cotton and endow'd by ' Alan his Son with divers Lands King Henry the II. in the fourth year of his Reign and King Henry the III. in the twelfth year of his Reign confirm'd their Lands and Estate Vid. Vol. 3. p. 12. Valued at 21 l. 16 s. 10 d. per Annum GODSTOW Priory of Nuns in Oxfordshire THE Church here was built by their Prioress Editha and in the year 1138. dedicated in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary and St. Iohn Baptist by Alexander then Bishop of Lincoln in presence of King Steven and Maud the Queen with abundance of Bishops Earls and Barons and others of prime quality who all gave to the said Church at that time some Rents and Endowments Whereupon Albericus Bishop of Hostia the Pope's Legate in England released to every of the said Benefactors one year of injoyn'd Penance and granted moreover a Remission of forty days in every year to all those who should in Devotion visit the said Church on the day of St. Pris●a the Virgin or on the Nativity of St. Iohn Baptist. Their Lands and Revenues were confirm'd by King Steven and by King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign In the year 1191. Hugh Bishop of Lincoln visiting in this part of his Diocess and seeing in this Church a Tomb before the Altar with more than ordinary Ornaments and being inform'd upon enquiry that it was the Tomb of Rosamond Concubine to King Henry the II. he caused her body to be removed out of the Church and to be buried in the Church-yard to avoid the scandal of Religion and to deter other Women from Whoredom About the time of the Suppression of this House Rosamonds Tomb was open'd and her Bones found inclosed in Leather and that in Lead When it was opened a very sweet smell came out from it The following Inscription was formerly read on a Cross near Godstow Qui meat hac oret signum salutis adoret Vtque sibi detur veniam Rosamunda precetur Vid. 2. Vol. p. 884. Valued at 274 l. 5 s. 10 d. ob per Annum LILLECHIRCHE in the County of ... KING Iohn gave to the Abby of St. Mary and St. Sulpice at Lillechurch and the Prioress and Nuns there the Mannor of Lillechurch in pure and perpetual Alms and granted them a Fair to be there held yearly on the Feast of St. Michael and two days after all

Pension of 100 s. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 53. Pag. 144. LILLESHULL THIS Church dedicated to St. Alcmund was in old time of high Veneration Aedelfleda Queen of Mercia is said to have founded it but it was much enrich'd by King Edgar who descended of the same Lineage with the said Alcmund Gilbert de Cunedore indeavouring to defraud these Canos of one of their Prebends he was excommunicated till at last he was prevaild with to restore the Prebend and to do penance receiving from every Canon of this Church a Publick Discipline and Correction In the time of Roger Bishop of Coventry and Pope Eugenius the Secular Canons or Prebendaries were changed to Regular Canons An. Dom. 1405. the Canons of this House obtain'd of the Popes Nuntio in England the Appropriation of the Parish-Church of Hulme their Petition setting forth that they could make no advantage of their Rents and Possessions by reason of the Wars with Wales and by reason of their scituation on the High-way call'd Watlingstreet they were impoverisht by the continual conflux of Guests and Travellers who eat up their Provision c. Pag. 564. KNIGHTS TEMPLERS ANno Dom. 1319. Walter Archbishop of Canterbury having received the Popes Bull directed to all Archbishops and Bishops setting forth that since the Suppression of this Order divers of the Knights had lived like Lay men and married Wives contrary to their Vow which was not discharg'd by the Council of Vienna at such time when it supprest the Order he commanded therefore that the Brethren of that Order should be admonished that within the space of three Months they should enter themselves into some Religious House there to live in God's service during their Lives under pain of losing the Stipends which had been assign'd them at the Suppression of their Houses in pursuance of this Bull the said Walter Archbishop of Canterbury directed his Letters to the Prior of Christ-Church London for the Reception of Roger Stowe a Priest of the Templers into that Priory which was accordingly perform'd In the following year the same Pope sent his Bull to the said Archbishop of Canterbury whereby he order'd Excommunication against all those who should withhold any Lands Houses Churches Revenues or Goods moveable or immoveable formerly belonging to the Templers from the Master and Brethren of the Order of St. Iohn of Ierusalem on whom the said Possessions had been conferr'd and united for ever by Pope Clement the V. in the Council of Vienna French Monasteries RObert Abbot of Molesme in Burgundy was the first Institutor of the Cistercians a Reform of the Benedictines to whom Odo Son of Henry Duke of Burgundy gave the place call'd Cistertius which gave name to the Order This order encreased so fast that from the year 1098. to the year 1152. almost 500. Abbies were erected for them Much about the same time that this Order of Cistercians began in the Diocess of Chalons in Burgundy the Carthusians began their order in the Diocess of Grenoble They observe their offices both by night and day according to the Rule of St. Benedict St. GEORGE of Bauquerville in Normandy RAlf de Tancerville gave divers Lands to this Abby both in Normandy and England confirm'd to them by William his Son Chamberlain to King Henry II among whose Lands in England was Edyweston lying within the Bounds of the Forrest of Rutland which Lands King Henry II. granted License to these Monks to convert into tillage and conferr'd divers Liberties on them BEC in Normandy FIrst founded in a Place call'd Burneville by Gilbert Earl of Brionne a great Souldier and Nephew of Richard the first Duke of Normandy who at the age of forty years became a Monk here Priest and then Abbot of this Monastery The habitation of these Monks was afterwards removed into a vally near a River call'd Bec. King Henry II. confirm'd their Lands and Possessions several of which lay in England at Athelstone in Warwickshire Islip in Oxfordshire with divers others places in other Countries BELBEC in Normandy THe Lands and Possessions of this House were confirm'd by King Iohn and after him by King Henry V. who also confirm'd to the Abbot and Convent of this House the grant formerly made to them by Blanch Queen of France of forty pound Parisian mony per Annum for the maintenance of one Mass there daily and supporting some other Charges for ever St. STEVENS at Caen in Normandy FOunded by King William the Conqueror King of England and Prince of Normandy and Main and by him largely endow'd with Lands both in Normandy and England Several others of the Nobility of Normandy were Benefactors to this House all whose gifts were confirm'd by King Henry I. The HOLYTRINITY at Caen in Normandy KIng William II. and King Henry I. gave to the Nuns of this Abby divers Lands and Liberties in England Confirm'd by King Edward II. in his seventeenth year St. VIGOR at Cerify in Normandy FOunded in a Place then call'd Ciriciac An. Dom. 1032. by Robert Earl of the Normans who also endow'd this Abby with Possessions adjoyning round about it William Duke of the Normans Son of the Said Robert gave many other Lands The Like did others of Principal quality Confirm'd by King Henry I. Am. Dom. 1120. CORMEL in Normandy POpe Alexander III. by his Bull dated 1168. confirm'd the Possessions of this House granting them a free Sepulture of their own to pay no Tithes of their proper Cattle to celebrate privately in time of a general Interdict c. King Henry II. confirm'd divers Lands given them in England St. DENNIS near Paris AN. Dom. 792. Bertoaldus a Duke among the English Saxons being afflicted with a Distemper which the Phisitians could not cure travail'd into France to the Abby of St. Dennis and there found through the mercy of God a perfect Recovery Hereupon he gave to that Abby his Town of Ridrefeld in Sussex with other profits Confirm'd to these Monks by King Offa then Reigning King Edward the Confessor gave them other Lands in Oxfordshire An. Dom. 1059. William Earl of Ferrers granted them yearly one wax Candle or Torch price thirteen pence one fat Buck and one fat Boar to be sent them by proper Messengers on the Feast of St. Dennis in perpetual Almes whose Deed of grant bears date An. Dom. 1189. St. EBRULF at Utica in Normandy TO this Abby built by St. Ebrulf a Confessor in a Desertand Solitary place King William the Conqueror gave Lands in several Counties of England An. Dom. 1081. Also Robert Earl of Leicester and Robert his Son were Benefactors L'ESSAY in Normandy KIng Henry II● and after him King Henry V. confirm'd to this Abby lying in the Town of St. Oportune their Lands as well in England as Normandy given by divers Benefactors among whom Robert de Haia Roger Foliot c. FISCAMPE in Normandy WIlliam Patron of the Normans and King of the English confirm'd to this Abby all its Possessions in England and Normandy with the

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