and Lands c. to the yearly value of 500 l. Within which this Alms-house was erected for two Chaplains five and thirty poor Men and three Women to be govern'd by the Master of that Hospital but the Cardinal dying before this Foundation was perfectly compleated King Henry the VI. An. 33. did incorporate them under a Rector of their own by the name of The New Alms-house of Noble Poverty establisht near Winchester by Henry Cardinal of England and Bishop of Winchester Son of John late Duke of Lancaster of noble Memory with grant of a Common Seal and Power to purchase c. Valued at 84 l. 4 s. 2 d. per Annum STOKFASTON Stockerson in Leicestershire FOunded with License of King Edward the IV. An. 5. by Iohn de Boyville Esq near the Town Church for one Chaplain and three poor men who were a Body Corporate and might retain Lands to the value of 10 l. per Annum HEITSBURY in Wiltshire FOunded with License of King Edward the IV. An. 11. by Margaret Widow of Robert Lord Hungerford Iohn Cheyne of Pynne Esq and Iohn Mervyn Esq for one Chaplain twelve poor Men and one poor Woman of whom the Chaplain to be Custos or Warden Which Hospital was made a Body Corporate c. and endow'd with divers Lands and had a grant of twenty Load of Wood for firing out of the Wood of Southleghe in Wiltshire The Savoy in the Suburbs of London KING Henry the VIII An. 2. granted the place or peice of Ground called the Savoy parcel of the Dutchy of Lancaster and lying in the Parishes of St. Clements Danes without the Bars of the New Temple at London and St. Mary of the Stronde in the County of Middlesex to Richard Bishop of Winchester Richard Bishop of London Thomas Bishop of Durham Edmund Bishop of Sarum William Bishop of Lincoln Iohn Bishop of Rochester Thomas Earl of Arundel Thomas Earl of Surrey Charles Lord Herbert Sir Iohn Fyneux Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Sir Robert Rede Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Iohn Young Master of the Roles Sir Iohn Lovell and Iohn Cutte Excutors of King Henry the VII for the founding and establishing of an Hospital And by another Deed dated An. 4. he granted License to the said Executors to found such Hospital for five Secular Chaplains one of which to be Master to pray for the good Estate of him and Catherine his Consort and for the Souls of King Henry the VII and Elizabeth his Consort and of Arthur Prince of Wales Which Hospital was to be called The Hospital of Henry the VII late King of England at the Savoy to be a Body Corporate to have a Common Seal and yearly Revenues to the value of five hundred Marks per Annum for maintenance of the said Chaplains and for performance of such other Works of Mercy and Piety as by the said Executors shall be appointed and exprest With a Non obstante to the Statute of Mortmain Valued at 529 l. 5 s. 7 d. ob per Annum Of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem THE Patron of this Order of Knights was St. Iohn Baptist from whom they took their Denomination The Hospital of St. Iohn Baptist and the Poor at Ierusalem is said to be first built in the time of Iulius Caesar Emperor of Rome and Antiochus Prince of Antioch with certain Treasure which one Melchiar a Priest in the Temple had taken out of the Sepulcher of David here the Poor and Infirm were kindly received and entertain'd from all parts of the World The same Author delivers that when our Saviour Christ became incarnate and conversed on Earth when he came to Ierusalem he resorted frequently to this House and that it was in this House that he appear'd to his Apostles after his Passion and Resurrection the Doors being all shut After his Ascension St. Steven and others of his Disciples served the poor in this Hospital house according to our Lord's Precept When the Christians were expell'd from Ierusalem and the City was possest by the Saracens one Conradus or Gerardus a devout Servant of God lived here and served the Poor in like manner who at such time as Ierusalem was besieg'd by Godfrey of Bullen and the Christian Pilgrims and a great Famine being in the Christian Camp was accustomed to go upon the Walls and throw over Loaves which he carried secretly about him for that purpose as if he were eager in throwing Stones against the Besiegers This Gerard was the first Master of this Hospital which after the City was taken by the Christians was very much favour'd and its Revenues augmented by the Kings of Ierusalem c. After the death of this Gerard Frier Raymund de Puy became Master who establisht a Rule for the Hospitallers confirm'd by Pope Innocent the II. and Pope Boniface This Rule consists of nine and twenty Articles among which it is ordain'd that every Brother or Frier at his admission to the Service of the Poor here is to profess these three things Chasâ—ity Obedience and to live without Property that when the Friers go abroad they shall not go alone but two or three together that if any be publickly guilty of Fornication he shall be publickly whipt and then expell'd the Society The Infirm at their first Reception into the Hospital shall be consest and communicate and then carried to bed and there served and attended as Lords and Masters of the House That all the Brothers shall wear a Cross on their upper Garments as a Badge of their Faith c. Others give another account of the Original of the Hospitallersâ— affirming that after the Turks of Arabia had over-run Syria and Egypt about the year 612. certain Italian Merchants of the City of Malfe trading into these parts and being favour'd by the Turks on the account of their Trade they obtain'd from the Calife of Egypt a peice of Ground lying before the Temple of the Sepulcher for their Habitation here those Mâ—rchants built a Monastery and Church in honour of the blessed Virgin placing therein an Abbot and Monks After that they built another little Church in honour of St. Mary Magdalen for the Reception of Women Pilgrims and placed therein certain Nuns and lastly considering the danger of those who came in Pilgrimage to the holy places who were often robbed by the Turks they built an Hospital or Domus Dei for the Reception of Men whether Well or Sick who arrived here in Pilgrimage and another Church for them dedicated to St Iohn Elemon Patriarch of Alexandria These three Houses subsisted only by Alms collected for them yearly by the said Merchants of Malfy till the Christians conquer'd Ierusalem and expelled the Saracens At which time lived in the Abby of Monks the before-mention'd Girald to whom the Abbot committed the Reception and Relief of the Poor and Pilgrims in the foresaid Domus Dei or Hospital and after such reduction of the City the said Hospital flourisht daily more and
the same with divers Lands c. Valued at 139 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum MAYDENSTONE in Kent KING Richard the II. in the nineteenth year of his Reign granted his License to William de Courtney Archbishop of Caunterbury and Legate his dear Kinsman to convert the Parish-Church of the â—â—essed Mary of Maidenstone into a Colledge of one Master or Custos and as many Fellows Chaplains and other Ministers as he should think expedient and to endow the same with Lands and Churches in particular with the Hospital of St. Peter and St. Paul of Maidenstone with all the Lands thereunto belonging c. Valued at 159 l. 7 s. 10 d. per Annum KING Richard the II. in the nineteenth year of his Reign granted further to William de Wykehum Bishop of Winchester whereas by his License he had founded a Colledge of one Custos and seventy Schollars learning Grammar commonly call'd Saynt Mary Collegge of Wynchestre and endowed the same with Possessions for the Maintenance of the said Custos and Schollars and ten perpetual Chaplains three other Chaplains and three Clerks he now also freed and acquitted the said Colledge and all their Tenents for ever from all Toll Geld Scutage c. and from all Taxes and Exactions whatsoever and that the said Colledge shall never be obliged to grant any Pensions Corrâ—dies or any maintenance to any one at the demand or command of the King or his Heirs And King Edward the IV. in the first year of his Reign ratified and confirm'd to this Colledge the alien Priory of Andever in the County of Southampton and all Lands c. to the same belonging to hold in free pure and perpetual Alms not withstanding the Statute of Mortmain or that the said Priory was of the Foundation of the Kings Progenitors or that the Lands were given by them for the support of Chantries Hospitality or other works of Piety there or that express mention is not made of the true value of the same in this present grant or any other Statute Act Law or Restriction to the contrary whatsoever BOLTON in Yorkshire KING Richard the II. in the twentieth year of his Reign granted his License to Richard le Scrope Chivalier to found a Chantry of six Chaplains of which one to be Custos in his Castle of Bolton and to endow the same with a yearly Rent of 43 l. 6 s. 8 d. Also to give to the Abbot and Convent of St. Agatha in Yorkshire the yearly Rent of 106 l. 13 s. 4 d. for the support of six Chanons-Chaplains to celebrate for him in the said Abby and for the finding and maintenance of two and twenty poor men in the said Abby for ever to pray for him c. WENSLAW in Yorkshire KING Richard the II. in the twenty second year of his Reign licensed the before-mentioned Richard le Scrope de Bolton to erect the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity at Wenslaw being of his Patronage into a Colledge to consist of one Master or Custos and as many Fellow-Chaplains and other Ministers as he should think fit and to endow the same with Lands and Revenues to the value of 150 l. which yearly Sum he had formerly granted to the Abbot and Convent of St. Agatha in Yorkshire for the finding of ten Canons above their own number and two Secular Chaplains with two and twenty poor men but they had released his Grant St. MARY's at Leicester KING Henry IV. in the first year of his Reign reciting that Henry Duke of Lancaster his Grandfather had begun the Foundation of a Collegiate-Church at Leicester in honour of the Annunciation of the blessed Mary and certain Buildings for the Habitation of Canons and Clerks and infirm People there dwelling and that Iohn Duke of Lancaster his Father did desire to compleat the same he approving their pious Intentions assigned Iohn de Byngham and others to provide Masons Carpenters and other Workmen to the number of four and twenty and to provide Timber and Stone for carrying on and finishing the Work commanding all Mayors Bayliffs c. to be aiding and assisting Infra p. 140. LEDBURY in Herefordshire KING Henry the IV. in the second year of his Reign licensed Iohn Bishop of Hereford to found a Colledge in the Parish Church of Ledbury for nine Chaplains of which one to be Master or Custos and they to have a Common Seal be capable of purchasing and receiving Lands of suing and being sued c. IN the eighteenth year of King Henry the VI. Henry Cardinal of England Bishop of Winchester Henry Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir Walter Hungerford Knt. Feoffees of Henry late King of England of certain Lands in the Dutchy of Lancaster granted and settled upon the Dean and Canons of the Collegiate Church of the blessed Mary at Leicester a Rent Charge of one hundred Marks per Annum arising out of divers Towns in Darbyshire and payable at Michaelmas and Easter Valued at 595 l. 7 s. 4 d. per Annum NORTH-YEVEL in Bedfordshire KIng Henry IV. in the sixth year of his Reign granted his License to Gerard Braybrok Chivalier and others to purchase of Iohn Wateryng Clerk and others the Advowson of the Parish Church of North-Yevell and to erect and change the same into a Colledge to consist of one Master or Custos and as many Fellow-Chaplains and other Ministers as they shall think expedient and to endow the same by appropriating thereunto the said Church of North-Yevell and that the said Master and Chaplains may out of the said Appropriation grant a pension of five marks yearly to a Chaplain celebrating for the Dead in the Chappel of the Mannour of Qure in the County of Cambridge Valued at 61 l. 5 s. 8 d. ob per Annum ATTILBURGH in Norfolk KIng Henry IV. in the 7th year of his Reign for 100. Marks granted his Licence to Henry Packenham Senior and Simon Parson of the Church of Scultone to found a Chantry in the Parish Church of Attilburgh in honour of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross to consist of five Chaplains one of which to be Custos or Master and to endow the same among other things with the Church of great Eâ—ngham to be appropriated to the said Colledg provided that a Vicar of the sud Church be sufficiently endow'd and a comparent Sum of mony be appointed by the Ordinary of the Place to be distributed to the Poor of the said Parish according to the Statute 15 R. 2. c. 6. Valued at 21 l. 16 s. 3 d. per Annum STAYNEDROPE in the County Palatin of Durham THomas Bishop of Durham in the third year of his Pontificate granted his Licence to Ralf de Nevill Earl of Westmerland to found a Colledge of one Master or Custos and certain other Chaplains continually to reside and for certain poor Gentlemen and other poor People in the Town of Staynedrope in his Liberty of Durham and to endow the same with the Advowson of the Church
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. Prisâ—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
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
it they did it was observed that they immediately died thereupon Bishops and famous Prelates that have gone from this House to govern other Churches are as follows viz. Birthwaldus Abbot here was made Archbishop of Canterbury Athelmus Monk here Bishop of Wells and after that Archbishop of Canterbury St. Dunstan Monk and Abbot here Bishop of Worcester then of London and lastly of Canterbury Egelganus Monk here Bishop of Chichester and Archbishop of Canterbury Sigericus Monk here Bishop of Wells and Archbishop of Canterbury St. Elphegus a Martyr Bishop of Winchester and after that Archbishop of Canterbury Elnothus Monk here and Archbishop of Canterbury in the time of King 〈◊〉 To these may be added Gaufridus a Bishop and Monk here ob Anno Dom. 782. Ethelwinus a Bishop who died the same year Wiâ—ertus a Bishop ob Anno Dem. 800. Wigthagu Bishop ob Anno Dom. â—36 Alstanus Bishop ob Anno Dom. 842. Tumbertus Bishop ob 866. Daniel Bishop ob 956. Elfricus Bishop ob 988. Also in the time of King Edgar Sigegarus Bishop of Wells Britelmus Bishop of Wells 〈◊〉 Sigefridus St. Ethilwoldus Wilsinus Aelfâ—anus Egelricus Kenwaldus 〈◊〉 Livingus Brithwius Britwaldus who died Anno Dom. 1055. All these of 〈◊〉 in this House became Bishops of divers places in England The Benefactors to this House were first Arviragus King of the Britaâ—is who though a Pagan gave to St. Ioseph and his Companioâ—os the Isle in which the Monastery was built call'd by the Inhabitants Ynswyrtryn which King Lucius did afterwards confirm to Phaganus and Diruvianus and their Disciples King Arthur gave many other adjoyning Lands King Kenwalli King Kentwinus King Baldredus Bishop Hedda King Kedwalla King Ina gave other Lands So did St. Wilfridus Archbishop of York and abundance of others of both Sexes among the Principal of which were King Sigebert King Offa King Alfred or Alured King Athelstan King Edmund King Edwin King Edgar King Edmund Ironside with several Queens These and many other names with the Lands by the several Benefactors given may be read of in the Monasticon at large p. 9 10 14. 15. c. St. Patrick who was born in the year of our Lord 361. after his Conversion of Ireland to Christianity became Abbot of this Place and obtained of Pope Celestine twelve years Indulgence to all those who should with pious Devotion visit the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary here erected and honour her with any part of their Goods About the year of our Lord 505. Augustine the Monk was sent into England by the holy Pope Gregory to preach the Faith to the English Saxons He converted Fthelbert the King of Kent and his People Aâ—terwards being made Archibshop he establisht his Metropolitan Seat at Canterbury and there placed certain Monks living according to the Rule of St. Benedict after this several Monasteries in England were erected under the same Rule which obtained so great reputation that there were no Monks to be found in England but what were of this Order and in those time the Rule of St. Benedict began to be first observed in the Monastery of Glastonbury they living here before that after the manner of the Monks of Egypt King Ina began his Reign over the West Saxons Anno 689. and gave much Land to this Monastery he also built the greater Church at Glastonbury in honour of our Saviour and of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul And by his Charter bearing date Anno Dom. 725. Granted to this Monastery many and great Priviledges and Immunities King Ina dying in a Pilgrimage to Rome his Successor Ethelardus became also a bountiful Benefactor as were several other succeeding Kings of the West Saxons c. King Edmund granted to the Church of the holy Mother of God at Glastonbury and to the venerable Dunstan Abbot there the Liberty and Power Rights and Customs and all Forfeitures in all their Lands i. e. Burgbrice Hundred Socna Atbâ—s Ordelus Infangenetheofas Homsecna Frithbrice Foresteall Toll and Team through the Kingdom of England and that they should enjoy their Lands as free from all Claims as he enjoy'd his own especially to the Town of Glastonbury it self with many other Liberties c and this was by his Charter dated Anno Dom. 944. King Edgar by his Charter dated at London Anno Dom. 971. granted to the said Monastery the same and greater Liberties among other things that the said Monastery and some Parishes there mentioned subject and belonging to it should be exempt from the ordinary Jurisdiction of the Bishop except in some things with a Salvo to the holy Church of Rome and that of Canterbury And gave and confirmed to this Church two hundred and fifteen Hides of Land given by several Benefactors William the Conqueror at his first coming to the Crown did very much mutilate the Possessions of this Church He made one Turstinus a Norman Abbot here in the year 1081. And in order to make some amends to the Monks he confirm'd to them several Lands which they complained to have been unjustly taken from them Herlewin and Henry Brother of Theobald Earl of Blois and Nephew of King Henry the I. were two Abbots of this Monastery who through their industrious endeavours obtained much good to this House and the Restoration of many Lands which had been taken from it Vid. Vol. 2. p. 837. This Abby was valued before the Suppression at 3311 l. 7 s. 4 d. ob per Annum The Cathedral Church of Canterbury IN the time of the blessed Gregory's Papacy St. Augustine with several other Monks were sent to convert the English People who in the year of Grace 600. or according to others 596. coming into England converted King Ethelbert and some thousands of his People which King gave them a Mansion in his Capital City of Canterbury then called Dorobernia there to Preach and Baptize Hereupon the blessed Augustine having received a Pall from Pope Gregory built a Church there and dedicated it to the honour of our Saviour Jesus Christ he also did here institute the Metropolitan Seat of himself and Successors And having rais'd here a Monastery of Monks the People flow'd in to him from all parts some for Baptism and some to become Monks devoting themselves and all they had to God's service The Principal Benefactors were King Ethelbert who gave them his Palace in Canterbury which Pope Gregory decreed to be the Metropolitan Seat and made it the first in Dignity it having first received the Faith Ethelbaldus Son of Ethelbert King Cedwalla King Offa Edmundus King of Kent Cenulphus King of Kent Beornulphus King of Mercia King Athelstan King Edmund St. Edward the Confessor William the Conqueror King Henry the I. Henry the II. Richard the I. Edward the III. Edward Prince of Wales his Son Henry the IV. These and abundance of others of inferiour condition gave and confirmed to this Church many Lands Priviledges and Immunities the particulars of all which Lands c. may
be seen in the Monasticon at large The Monastery of St. AUGUSTINES in Canterbury SAint Augustine being sent by Pope Gregory as aforesaid arrived at the Isle of Thanet in Kent in the year 596. with several Monks and Ministers of God's Word about forty in number they were kindly received by King Ethelbert who received holy Baptism on Whitsonday Anno Dom. 597. After this Augustine went over to the Bishop of Arles in France and being by him ordain'd a Bishop he returned into England At Canterbury he fixt his Metropolitan Seat as above-mentioned A little without this City on the East-side had been an Idol Temple formerly made use of by King Ethelbert before his Conversion this Augustine chaâ—g'd into a Church and dedicated in the name of St. Pancrace the Martyr Afterwards in the year 605. Augustine obtain'd this Church and the adjacent Ground of King Ethelbert upon which place a new Church was built and dedicated to the honour of St. Peter and St. Paul which Church was stored with Monks endow'd with Revenues by that King and appointed for the burial place of himself and Successors as also chosen for the burial of Augustine and his Successors Archbishops of Canterbury King Ethelbert having built and endow'd this Monastery he placed there by the Council of Archbishop Augustine one Peter a Monk to be Abbot of it The Archbishop Augustine granted several Priviledges to this Monastery and denounced heavy Censures against any who should violate the same in future times This Monastery was used for a burial place of the Archbishops the Monks and others of Canterbury for many years it being in those times not usual to bury within a City till the Venerable Cuthbert came to be Archbishop being the 11th after Augustine who being at Rome obtain'd of the Pope the liberty of having burial places in England within Cities On the East-side of Canterbury without the City and near this Monaslery stood the Church of St. Martin which Church was the Seat of a Bishop who always remain'd at home or in the County and in the absence of the Archbishop used to act for him The last Bishop of this Church was one Godwyn who dying in the time of William the Conqueror when Lanfrank was Archbishop of Canterbury he refused to subrogate any other Bishop in his place but instead of a Bishop constituted an Archdeacon there Valued before the Suppression at 1413 l. 4 s 11 d. ob q. per Annum ROCHESTER in Kent ANno Dom. 600. King Ethelbert founded the Church of St. Andrew the Apostle at Rochester and gave to it several Lands as did also Eadbert King of Kent Offa King of Mercia and divers others denouncing to the Violators of their pious Donations heavy Curses and Imprecations All which Lands and Liberries King Henry the I. did confirm to the said Church to Gundulf the Bishop there and the Monks serving God in it Other principal Benefactors to this Church and the Monks here were King William the Conqueror King William Rufus Rodbert Son of King Henry Robert Fitz Hamon and William de Albeiney the King's Butler Vid Vol. 2. p. 844. Vol. 3. p. 1. Valued before the Suppression at 486l 11 s. 5 d. per Annum WINCHESTER Cathedral Church ANno Dom. 608. Kinegilsus Son of Celric King of the West Saxons after his Baptism and his peoples conversion to Christianty designed to build this Church and to it give all the Land lying about Winchester for the space of seven Leucas or Miles But himself being prevented by death from periecting what he intended his Son and Successor Kinwalcus perform'd the Work and confirm'd the Lands above-mentioned to the said Church Other principal Benefactors to this Church were King Ina Ethelardus King of the West Saxons Egbert King of all England who lies buried here King Alured who built a new Monastery within the Coemitery of the Episcopal Church endow'd it with Possessions and gave the Government of it to St. Grimbaldus This King first instituted Hundreds and Tithings Edward his Son and Successor King Ethelstan his Son King Edred his Brother King Edgar Queen Emma Mother of Hardecanute and Edward surnamed the Confessor which Queen having perform'd her purgation of supposed incontinency with Elwin Bishop of Winchester according to the Law Ordel by going over nine red hot Plowshares unhurt gave to the Church of St. Swithin here nine Manors so also did the said Bishop Elwin all which gifts were confirm'd by King Edward the Confessor Anno Dom. 1079. Bishop Walkelinus began to new build the Church from the Foundation towards which Work the King gave so much Wood as could be cut down and carried away from his adjoyning Wood called Hanepinges in three days and nights upon which such an innumerable Company of Carpenters assembled that in the time limitted they conveyed away the whole Wood. Anno Dom. 963. In the time of Bishop Ethelwold the secular Clergy of this Church living licentiously were displaced and Monks put in their room Vide infra p. 979. Valued at 1507 l. 17 s. 2 d. per Annum DURHAM Monastery ANno Dom. 635. Eighty eight years from the first coming of the English into Britain and thirty nine years from the coming of St. Augustine pious King Oswald erected a Bishops Seat in the Island of Landisfarn of which Agdanus became Bishop and placed there the Monks that came along with him Of this See Cuthbert was Consecrated Bishop at York on Easter-day Anno Dom. 685. To him Egfrid King of Northumberland gave Creec with the Lands three Miles about it and also Lugubâ—lia now called Carlile with the Lands fifteen Miles about it Ob. Cuthbert 687. Anno Dom. 729. Coelwolf King of Northumberland began his Reign he was a great Benefactor to this Church and became himself a Monk here All the Land lying between the two Rivers of Tyne and Tese was formerly given to St. Cuthbert and was subject to the Government of the Bishop of St. Cuthbert's Church till the Danes took away a great part of the Lands which were however restored again by King Ethelstan In the year 1074. Aldwinus a Monk and two of his Companions led a Monastick Life at a place then called Girecum or Girne in Northumberland from which three Monks three Monasteries proceeded namely one at Durham in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary and of St. Cuthbert one at Lestingham and one at a place then called Streneshalgh all three within the Kingdom of the Northumbers William de Karilepho by his Deed dated Anno Dom 1082. declared the many and great Liberties granted by Pope Gregory the VII and adds others to the Church of St. Cuthbert with an Anathema to the Impugnors King William the Conqueror upon the precept of Pope Gregory the VII and at the Petition of William Bishop of Durham removed the Secular Canons out of the Church of Dâ—â—ham and placed Monks in their room and confirmed all the Liberties and Priviledges granted to the said Church and this by his
their na St. FRIDISWADE at Oxford FRidiswade the holy Virgin was Daughter of Didanus a petty King Sub-regulus of Oxford her Father built a Church there in honour of St. Mary and all Saints and gave it for his Daughters Habitation who with twelve other Nuns led there a religious Life St. Fridiswade died on the 14th of the Calends of November 735. and was buried in the said Church This Monastery and Church was afterwards burnt down with the Danes in it who had fled thither for Refuge but King Ethelred did soon after rebuild it with additions as appears by his Charter dated in the year 1004. In the year 1111. Roger Bishop of Salisbury in lieu of Nuns instituted in this Monastery a Prior and Cannons to whom King Henry I. gave a fair Estate in Lands and Tyths which was confirm'd to them by Pope Adrian Benefactors to this Church of St. Fridiswade in Oxford were Maud the Empress Earl Simon Ralpt Foliot and others See more of this Monastery infra p. 983. DEREHAM in Norfolk WIthburga Daughter of Anna King of the East Angles built a Monastery for Nuns in this Town and was buried here After the Incursion of the Pagan Danes the Nuns were all dispers'd and the Church was made parochial In the year 798 the Body of St. Withburga was found here uncorrupted near fifty five years after her death Vid. Vol. 2. p. 853. St. ALBANS-ABBY in Hertfordshire SAint Alban was martyr'd in this place then called Verolamium in the time of Dioclesian's persecution Ten years after that persecution ceas'd the Christians built here a Church to his memory which being destroy'd by the incursion of the barbarous People Offa King of Mercia about the year 793. repair'd the Church built here a Monastery stored it with Monks translated the Reliques of the Martyr into a rich Shrine and obtain'd of Pope Adrian to have him canonized And by his Charter dated in the above-mentioned year granted to the said Monastery several Lands and great Priviledges In the year 1154. Nicholas Bishop of Alba an English-born man near this Monastery being chosen Pope by the name of Adrian IV. granted to the Abbot of this Abby that as St. Alban was the first Martyr of England so this Abbot should be the first of all the Abbots of England in order and dignity King Iohn by his Charter dated the 11th of Iune in the first year of his Reign granted to God and the Church of St. Alban and the Monks there divers Lands and great Liberties Pope Honorius by his Bull dated in the year 1218. confirm'd to this Church all Lands and Liberties granted to it by former Popes Kings and others granting also to the Abbot and his Successors Episcopal Rights and the Espiscopal Habit and that he and his Monks should be exempt from the Jurisdiction of the Bishop with other exemptions c. reserving as a Rent to the Apostolick See yearly for these Liberties the payment of one ounce of Gold In the Windows of the Cloysters of this Abby were formerly painted abundance of Historical Passages out of the Bible with Latin Verses underneath each Story explaining the same In like manner were the Windows of the Library and Presbytery painted with the Pictures of famous men with explanatory Verses which Verses may be seen in the Monasticon at large p. 182 183 184. Valued at 2102 l. 7 s. 1 d. ob q. per Annum BATH in Somersetshire KING Osric was the first Founder of this Monastery for Nuns Anno. Dom. 676. Offa King of Mercia placed here secular Cannons and King Edgar introduced Monks instead of Cannons King William the Conqueror gave the City of Bath to God St. Peter and Iohn Bishop of Wells for the augmentation of his Episcopal Seat King Henry the I. confirm'd the same and constituted and confirm'd the Episcopal Seat of Somersetshire which was formerly at Wells to be at Bath by Charter dated in the year 1111. and in the twelth year of his Reign The said Iohn the Bishop by his Deed dated 1106. appointed the Church of St. Peter here to be the Head and Mother-Church of the whole Diocess and restored the Lands which the King had given him in Bath to the Monastery there to which they did formerly belong with an Anathema against the Violators of his said Gift and Restoration Oliver King Bishop of Bath and Gibbs the last Prior here built the present Church p. 185. Valued at 617 l. 2 s. 3 d. per Annum WELLS in Somersetshire CYnewulf King of the West Saxons in the year 766. gave to the Monastery at Wells dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle several parcells of Land adjoyning King Edward the Confessor Anno 1065. gave and confirm'd to the Church and Bishop of Wells the Lands and Liberties formerly to the said Church given with additions WINCHCUMB in Gloucestershire ANno Dom. 787. Offa King of Mercia built here a Monastery for Nuns Or as others say it was built by Kenulphus King of Mercia A. D. 798. and the Church dedicated by Wilfridus Archbishop of Canterbury and twelve other Bishops at which dedication that King released at the Altar the King of Kent his Prisoner of War This Monastery being almost utterly decay'd in the time of King Edgar was repaired by St. Oswald Archbishop of York and Germanus made Abbot here King Kenulius is said to have placed here at the first Foundation no less then three hundred Monks Of these three hundred Monks there might possibly be not above forty who were Priests or Clerks the rest might be Hermits or as meer Lay-men get their living by Working as in ancient Times Monks did use to do The Mannors and Lands formerly belonging to this Monastery were eleven Towns with their Members the names of which may be seen p. 190. Vid. Vol. 2. p. 854. Valued at 759 l. 11 s. 9 d. per Annum WILTON in Wiltshire WVistan Earl of Wiltshire repaired an ancient Church here dedicated to St. Mary and 〈◊〉 therein a Colledge of Priests After whose death his Widow Alburga converted the Foundation to a Nunnery of Virgins Anno Dom 800. Afterwards King Alfred built at Wilton a new Monastery and dedicated the Church to St. Mary and St. Bartholomew here he placed twelve Nuns and an Abbess and translated the other Nuns hither from St. Mary's which made the number in all twenty six Subsequent Benefactors were King Edward the Elder King Athelstan King Edgar William the Conqueror c. Vid. Vol. 2. p. 857. Valued at 601 l. 1 s. 1 d. q. per Annum AMBRESBURY in Wiltshire THE Nunnery at Ambresbury was built by Queen Elfrida by way of expiation for the murder of King Edward the Younger called St. Edward of which she had been guilty In the Reign of Henry the II. Anno Dom 1177. the Nuns here were expell'd from this House and shut up in other religious Houses under stricter Custody for their incontinency and notorious scandal And other Nuns of Font-Everard introduced here by
God and honour of St. Peter King Edward the Confessor and King William the Conqueror ratified Orcus and his Wives Benefactions to the Monks here and granted them certain Franchises By inquisition taken before the Escheator and Sheriff of this County in the 53 Hen 3. The several Lands Rents and Liberties of this Abby were found and set forth the Jury also found that the Abbot here held his Estate of the King in Capite by the service of one Knight's Fee only and not in Baronia by the service of a Barony In the year 1505. Thomas Strangeways Esq founded a perpetual Chantry in the Chappel of the Blessed Mary in the Church of this Abby and endow'd it with Rents for the maintenance of one Mass to be said in the said Chappel daily for ever for the Souls of his Ancestors and Friends and for all the Faithful subjecting it to the Visitation of the Bishop and the Abbot did oblige himself to find a Monk in case he should have above eight Monks Priests in the Monastery to perform the Office and this under the penalty of 3 s. 4 d. to the Bishop of the Diocess and 3 s. 4 d. to the Heirs of the said Strangeways for every omission Valued at 390 l. 19 s. 2 d. ob q. per Annum HULME in Suffolk CAnutus the Danish King of England returning from Rome built two Monasteries to the honour of St. Benedict one in Norwey and the other this in England Which last he founded in a fenny place then call'd Couholm where in former-times before the Danes came into Fngland one Suneman a Hermite did inhabit spending his time in devotion there for above fifty years To the Abby here built the said King canutus gave many Lands and Priviledges All which King Edward the Confessor confirm'd and granted others Sacne and Sokne Toll and Theam c. and all other Liberties and free Customs which he himself enjoy'd in his own Demeans and Lands belonging to the Crown St. EDMUNDS-BURY in Suffolk SAint Edmund the last King of the East Angles being overcome by Inguar and Hubba Pagan Danes was cruelly bound to a Tree whipt and then shot to death suffering martyrdom for the Christian Religion in the year of our Lord 870. and the 29th of his Age. His Head and Body were thrown into a thick Wood by the Pagans but being afterwards found out by miracle he was buried at a Neighbouring place call'd by the Saxons Beodrichesworth now St. Edmunsbury where the Christians built a small Church But afterwards King Canutus who had erected at Rome an English School and assign'd for its maintenance a Sum of Money which was yearly sent from England and call'd Romescot by advice of his Bishops and Barons changed the secular Clergy belonging to this Church to Monks in the year 1020 and brought hither from the Abby of Hulme thirteen religious Benedictines whose first Abbot here was one Wius He also caused half the Books Vestments and Utinsils of that Abby to be removed hither King Edmund the Elder in the year 942. gave Lands to this Church and after him the foresaid King Conutus gave many Lands to this Monastery and rebuilt it in a magnificent manner Controversies arising in the Reign of King William the Conqueror between the Abbot and the Bishop of the Diocess the Abbot went to Rome and found such favour with Pope Alexander the II. that he granted to him and his Successors Episcopal Jurisdiction and this special priviledge viz. That so long as they kept a porphery Altar which he then gave him tho' the whole Kingdom should fall under Excommunication yet the Divine Office should not cease in this Abby unless specially interdicted by name His Bull bears date An. Dom. 107â— In the year 1081. the Contest between the Bishop and Abbot was examined before King William the Conqueror and upon hearing both sides that King did declare the Church of St. Edmund and the Town in which it Stands to be exempt from the Bishops Jurisdiction The Steward or Seneschall's Office for the Liberty of St. Edmund was a place of great honour and the Family of Hastings held it in Fee They enjoy'd several great Fees and Advantages by Custom in case they executed the Office in their own Person but if by Deputy or Lieutenant then the said Deputy received half All which particulars were found by inquision in the 30th year of Edward the I. In the year 1010. the Body of St. Edmund was translated to London this Country being insested by the Danes but after three years it was brought back again In the year 1021. soon after King Canutus had introduced Monks here Aldwinus Bishop of the East Angles began to build a stately new Church to which work and for the maintenance of the Fabrick the Inhabitants of Norfolk and Suffolk did freely give yearly 4 d. out of every Carucate of Land in the Country This Church was in the year 1032. dedicated in honour of Christ the Blessed Mary and St. Edmund King Edward the Confessor King William the I. King Henry the I. King Steven and King Richard with many Bishops and other Persons of Qâ—ality of both Sexes gave Lands and great Revenues to this Abby The Body of St. Edmund remain'd intire and uncorrupted and was so seen by many witnesses ABBOTS of St. EDMVNSBVRT 1 Wius Monk of Hulme ob 1044. 2 Leoffranus ob 1065. 3 Baldwinus ob 1097. 4 Robert Son of Hugh Earl of Chester depos'd 1102. 5 Robert Prior of Westminster ob 1107. 6 Alboldus ob 1119. 7 Anselmus Nephew of Anselm Archbishop of Cant was 1138. chosen Bishop of London but not received there ob 1148. 8 Ordingus ob 1156. 9 Hugh Prior of Westminster ob 1180. 10 Sampson ob 1211. 11 Hugo chosen Abbot 1213. consecrated Bishop of Ely 1229. ob 1254. 12 Richard Abbot of Burton ob 1233. 13 Henry ob 1248. 14 Edmund de Walpool Doctor in the Decretals ob 1256. 15 Simon elected 1257. 16 Iohn de Norwold ob 1301. 17 Thomas de Tottington ob 1312. 18 Richard de Draugton ob 1337. 19 William de Bernham ob 1361. 20 Henry de Hunstanston died before Confirmation 21 Iohannes de Brinkele ob 1379. 22 Iohannes Tynmouth created 7 R. 2. 33 Willielmus de Cratfeild created 13 R. 2. 24 Willielmus Exeter 5 H. 6. 25 Willielmus Curteys 7 H. 6. 26 Iohannes Boon created Abbot 1457. 27 Richardus Hengham 1475. 28 Thomas Raclesden 1478. 29 Iohn Reeve alias Melford the last Abbot of Bury created 5 Hen. 8. By Covenant made between the above-mentioned Iohn Norwood Abbot here on the one part and the Prior and Convent of this Monastery on the other the Mannors Lands and Revenues belonging to this Abby were divided and appropriated to the several Offices of the House as such and such Lands and Revenues to the Abbot such to the Celerarius for the diffraying of his Office such to the Sacristan for the Charges incumbant on him such to the Camerarius
18 s. 7 d. per Annum KILBURN in Middlesex a Cell of Westm. IN the Reign of King Henry the I. Herebertus Abbot of Westminster Osbert de Clara Prior and the whole Convent of Westminster gave a Hermitage at Kilburn to three Maids Emma Gunilda and Christina for a Nunnery and endow'd the same with Lands and Rents Gilbert Bishop of London gave the Jurisdiction of this Cell of Kilburn to the said Abbot and his Successors exempting it from the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of London for ever But new Contests arising about this House between the Bishop of London and Abbot of Westminster they came to an Agreement in the year 1231. That the Bishop might visit the Nunnery to preach to them and to hear their Confessions but without exacting any Procurations and that the Government of the House placing and displacing the Abbess and Nuns should belong to the Abbot as a Cell of his House c. Valued at 74 l. 7 s. 11 d. per Annum HURLEY in Barkshire a Cell of Westminster GOdefridus de Magnavilla gave to God and St. Peter and to the Church of Westminster and St. Mary of Hurley the Town of Hurley with divers other Lands and Tithes for the Maintenance of a Convent of Monks to serve God in the said Church for ever All which was confirm'd to the Priors and Monks of Hurley by William Bishop of London In the year 1258. Godefridus Prior of Hurley and his Covent made an exchange with Absolon Abbot of Walden of some of their Revenues Valued at 121 l. 18 s. 5 d. per Annum MALVERNE in Worcestershire a Cell of Westminster IN the eighteenth year of William the Conqueror one Aldwine a Hermit and his Brethren began the Monastery here King William the Conqueror and others gave Lands and Revenues to this House but more especially King Henry the first who by his Charter dated in the year 1127. granted and confirm'd to them many Lands and great Liberties and Immunities Vid. Vol. 2. p. 876. Valued at 98 l. 10 s. 9 d. ob per Annum AUCOT in Warwickshire a Cell of Malverne-magna WIlliam Burdet gave all his Land in Aucot to God and St. Mary of Malverne and to the Monks there in the year 1159. From among which Monks he was to have by agreement betwixt him and Roger Prior of that House a certain number for the Institution of a Monastery here The Prior of which House was to be constituted by the Prior of Malverne by and with the advice of the Abbot of Westminster Valued at 28 l. 6 s. 2 d. per Annum SUDBURY in Suffolk a Cell of Westminster KING Edward the III. in the thirty fifth year of his Reign granted his License to Richard Roke of Westminster to settle certain Land in Sudbury and Holgate upon the Abbot and Convent of Westminster or the relief of their poor Cell of St. Bartholomew near Sudbury St. NEOTS in Huntingtonshire SAint Neot was Son of King Adulphus and Brother of King Alured who founded the University of Oxford He was a Monk at Neotestoke in Cornwall and from thence his Body was translated to Anulphesbury in Huntingtonshire where Earl Elfrid converted his Palace into a Monastery of black Monks Which being afterwards spoild and burnt down by the Danes was in the Reign of King Henry the I. An. Dom. 1113. re-edified by Rohesia Wife of Richard Son of Earl Gislibert about which time it was given as a Cell to the Abby of Bec in Normandy The foresaid Lady and divers others gave Lands and Revenues to the Monks of Bec serving God at St. Neots It appears by the Bull of Pope Celestine directed to the Bishop of Lincoln that the Prior and Convent of St. Neots being their House was situated on a famous and great Road did use to bestow meat and drink on all Travellers who desired it and to this only use they did appropriate certain Rents and Pensions which they received yearly from the Churches of Eynesbury and Torney In the Reigns of Henry the IV. and Henry the V. This Monastery was discharg'd of its Foreign Subjection to the Abby of Bec and made an English Priory Vid. Vol. 2. p. 876. Valued at 241 l. 11 s. 4 d. q. per Annum SELBY in Yorkshire KING William the Conqueror founded the Abby here for Benedictine Monks in honour of our Lord Iesus Christ and his blessed Mother the Virgin Mary and St. Germain the Bishop Which King and several other persons did endow it with large Possessions in particular Guido de Raincourt gave to this Church of St. Germain in Selby his Town of Stamford in Northamptonshire Thomas Archbishop of York Gilbert Tâ—sâ—n chief Standard-bearer of England Gaulerannus Earl of Mellent Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Constable of Chester c. gave other Lands and great Libertiesâ— All which King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign confirm'd to the Monks here Also King Edward the III. did in the second year of his Reign confirm to them all their Liberties and Exemptions whereupon in the twenty second of that King they were excused from paying to the King in any of their Lands purchased before the abovesaid second year any aâ—d for knighting his eldest Son c. Vaued at 729 l. 12 s. 10 d. q. per Annum SHREWSBURY in Shropshire IN the year 1083. Roger Earl of Montgomery built here a Monastery in honour of St. Peter To this House he gave great Possessions and after his Example other Barons and Knights of that County did the like After the death of the said Roger Hugh his Son and Heir gave other Lands and great Liberties and Immunities with a heavy Curse to the Violaters The like did King Henry the I. and King Steven confirming their said Liberties in so large a manner that nothing could be added to them Other principal Benefactors were Matilda de Lungespe Daughter and Heir of Walter de Clifford Walchelinus Maminot Willielmus Peverell and Richard Fitz-Allen Earl of Arundel c. All whose Guifts and Benefactions were confirm'd to the Abbot and Monks of this House by King Henry the III. in the eleventh year of his Reign Valued at 132 l. 4 s. 10 d. per Annum St. MARY's at York THE History of the Foundation of this Abby was writ by Stephen who had been Abbot of Whitby and was after that made the first Abbot of this House In which the most observable matters are as follows Alan Son of Eudo Earl of Brittain having built a Church adjoyning to the City of York in honour of St Olave gave it to the foresaid Stephen and his Companions with four Acres of Land thereon to erect a Monastery This was about the year 1088. in the Reign of King William the Conqueror Who dying his Son and Successor King William Rufus gave them Land whereon to build a larger Church and gave to the Monastery divers Lands Liberties and Exemptions Also Earl Alan their first Founder gave them the adjoynig
it the Hospital of St. Giles It was endowed with several Revenues by the said Queen and others all which were confirmed by her Grandson King Henry the II. Vid. in s p. 400. St. MARY of Bethelem without Bishopsgate in the Suburbs of London SImon Fitz Mary Cittizen of London having an extraordinary affection to the memory of the Incarnation and Nativity of our Saviour which was wrought in Betholem gave all his Lands in the Parish of St. Butolph without Bishopsgate to a Church of St. Mary of Bethelem by him there erected and for the instituting of a Priory of a Prior Canons Brethren and Sisters to live according to the Rule and Order of the Church of St. Mary at Bethelem all which were to wear the Sign of a Star on their outward Garment this Priory was also for the reception of the Bishop of Bethelem or any of the Canons or others belonging to that Church when they should come into England to which Bishop as a sign of Subjection this Priory was to pay a Mark yearly at the Feast of Easter in nature of a Rent The Deed of Foundation and Endowment of this House by the said Simon Fitz Mary bears date An. 1247. St. MARY's Hospital without Bishopsgate at London FOunded by Walter Brun Citizen of London and Roisia his Wife on a a parcel of Land given for that purpose by Walter Fitz Aldred Alderman and endowed with divers parcells of Land and Rents of Tenements in several Parishes in and about London A Composition was made between Iohn Witing Rector of the Church of St. Butolph without Bishopsgate and Godefrey then Prior and the Canons and Brethren of this Hospital about Parochial Rights containing that the said Prior should pay to the said Rector in lieu of Tithes and Offerings for the territory and space of Ground belonging to his Priory 10 s. yearly at four quarterly Payments in all other their Lands without the said Bounds Tithes to be paid the said Prior and Canons to admit no Parishoner of the said Church to make oblation or pay any Right that is due to the Parish Church nor to be buried with them unless the Parish Church be first satisfied and for the Performance hereof the said Prior made Oath before the Bishop of London and so were all his Successors to do The first Stone of this Hospital was laid by Walter Archdeacon of London An. 1197. Valued at 478 l. 6 s. 6 d. per Annum St. BARTLEMEWS Hospital in the Suburbs of London KING Henry the I. granted and confirm'd to the Prior and Canons of St. Bartholomews and to the Poor of the Hospital belonging to that Church very great Liberties Et liberam esse sicut coronam meam whose Charter bears date An. 1133. 33 H. I. This Hospital was founded for the receit of all poor infirm People till such time as they should be cured of their Infirmities and for the lying in of poor Women and maintenance of their Children in case the Mothers should die in Childbed in the Hospital till the said Children be seven years old On this Account King Edward the III. freed the Master Brethren and Sisters of this House from being taxt to the Publick Taxes of that time Valued at 305 l. 6 s. 7 d. per Annum St. INNOCENTS near Lincoln FOunded by King Henry the I. for ten Lepers and a Warden with two Chaplains and a Clerk and endowed with several Rents c. as appeared by Inquisition in the Reign of King Edward the III. at which time there was here nine Brethren and Sisters and but one of those a Leper and he taken in not of Charity but for 100 s. paid for his entrance here were also seven Women taken in for money contrary to the first Institution King Henry the VI. An. 35. granted this Hospital and all the Revenues thereunto belonging after the death of the then Warden to William Sutton Master of the Order of Burton St. Lazarus Warden of the Hospital of St. Giles of Lepers without London and to the Brethren of the said Order and their Successors for the finding and maintenance of three Lepers of the Kings Houshold Servants if any such shall be c. ILLEFORD in Essex THis Hospital was Founded by the Abbess and Convent of Barking for thirteen Leperous Brethren two Chaplains and a Clerk For whose Regular Government Ralph de Baldock Bishop of London made Certain Orders viz. That the Lepers were to be chosen out of the Demâ—asns of the Abby of Barking if any such there That the Abbess present to one place and the Master and Brothers to the next alternately That no married Leper shall be admitted unless the Wife is minded to vow Chastity That every Brother shall constantly frequent the Divine Offices at the Church unless hinder'd by Sickness c. That no Woman be admitted to enter the said Hospital unless the Abbess near Relations to visit when Sick or the Common Laundress and that at open day That no Leper shall go abroad without special License That the Abbess shall appoint the Master of the said Hospital That every Leper shall at his reception make Oath to live chastly to be obedient to the Abbess and Convent of Barking to have nothing in propricty c. Which Orders bear date An. Dom. 1346. Valued at 16 l. 13 s. 3 d. per Annum St. PETERS in the City of York KIng Henry I. gave and confirm'd to the Hospital of St. Peter at York divers Lands by him and Eustachius Fitz-Iohn and others granted together with divers Liberties as Sac Soc Tol Them c. and as a more especial Mark of his favour to this House took to himself the name of a Brother and Warden of the same Frater enim Custos ejusdem Domus Deisum The Like did King Henry III. and King Iohn Their Possessions were also confirm'd by King Henry II. and King Edward I. Other Benefactors were William de Fortibus Earl of Albemarl Several of the Percys and Moubrays c. St. MARY MAGDALEN at Colchester in Essex FOunded by Eudo Seneschal of King Henry I. by that Kings Command King Richard I. granted to the Lepers of this Hospital a fair two days yearly viz. on the Vigil and day of St. Mary Magdalen St. JOHN and St. Leonard at Alesbury in Buckinghamshire FOunded and endow'd by Robert Ilhale Robert atte Hide c. for the maintenance of Leperous and other poor People of Aylesbury Confirm'd by King Henry I. and King Henry II. These were two Hospitals That of St. Iohn valued at 33 s. 4 d. per Annum and that of St. Leonard at 20 s. per Annum But it was found by Inquisition 34 Edward III. that for eleven years before they were both decay'd and their Possessions come to the hands of Laymen BURTON Lazers in Leicestershire FOunded for Leperous people by Roger de Moubray and dedicated to God St. Mary and St. Lazerus of Ierusalem and by him endow'd with divers Lands in Burton
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 IIâ— 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
disposal to celebrate Divine Service privately in the time of general Interdict to have a free Sepulture and a free Election of their Abbess c. Whose Bull bears date An. Dom. 1228. Pag. 327 WALLINGFORD NIgellus de Albeney and Alan Fitz-Amfrid gave divers Lands to the Monks of St. Albans in the Church of the Holy Trinity of Wallingford Confirm'd to them by Ioceline Bishop of Salisbury and after him by Robert Bishop of Salisbury and by the Dean and Chapter of that Church An. Do. 1243. Pag. 525. WILBERFOSS GEorge Duke of Clarence and Lord of Richmond as Patroonshe Nannery of Wilberfoss exemplified and confirm'd to Elizabeth then Prioress and to the Nuns there the several Deeds of Endowments and Grants made to them by Iordanus Fitz Gilbert William de Percy c. Whose Deed of Confirmation bears date at Staunford 10th of August 4 Edward IV. Pag. 487. STODELEY THis Nunnery was first founded by Thomas de Sancto Walerico but his Estate and consequently the Patronage of this House coming to the Crown King Richard II. in the first year of his Reign on the death of Margery the last Prioress confirm'd the Election of Elizabeth Fremantell then Subprioress into the Office of Prioress and signified the same to the Bishop of Lincoln Pag. 482. SANFORD alias LITTLEMORE ROger de Thoeni Roger de Sanford and Thomas Buscel whose Deed bears date 1254 8. Henry III. gave Lands to the Church of St. Nicholas and Priory of Nuns here Robert Abbot of Abington and Benjamin Rector of the Church of St. Nicholas granted and confirm'd to them certain Tithes Roger de Quency Earl of Winton and Constable of Scotland released to them their Suit to his Court Pope Innocent IV. in the second year of his Pontificate Released ten days of enjoyn'd Pennance to all such of the Diocesses of Lincoln Ely and Salisbury who being penitent and confest should contribute and assist to the reedifying of the Church of this Priory Pag. 597. GROSMUNT in Yorkshire JOan Wife of Robert de Torneham and daughter of William Fossart gave divers Lands Profits and Priviledges in Yorkshire to the Prior and Monks of Grandmont in France confirm'd by her said Husband Robert de Torneham who also gave other Lands of his own Pag. 505. CRESWELL in Herefordshire THis was another Cell of the Monks of Grandemont to which Walter de Lacy gave Lands in pure and perpetual Alms with warranty Peter Bishop of Hereford having bought Lands of the Prior of Creswell for 550. marks granted by his Deed dated 1256 that in case he or his Successors should happen to be impleaded for the said Lands the said Prior nor this Successors should not be obliged to defend and Warrant the same beyond the Sum of 550 marks Pag. 542. MISSENDEN JOan de Pedinton widow of Guy de Ryhal with Thomas Son and heir of the said Guy confirm'd to the Canons of Missendin the Hermitage of Muswell which Ralf the Hermit built and inhabited by permission of the foresaid Guy with a Chappel built in honour oâ— the Holy Cross. Confirm'd also by Albricus Earl of Damarun and Simon de Gerardmulin The Priory of EWENNY a Cell of the Abby of Gloucester THe Turbervilles gave to the Church of St. Michael and the Monks there divers Lands and Possessions with Liberty of fishing in the River of Ewenny as far as their Lands extend and to retain a moiety of the fish so caught the other moiety to be the Turbervilles The Priory of Blithe in Nottinghamshire POpe Honorius confirm'd the Possessions of this House to the Monks here and exempted them from paying of Tithes of their Cattel It was founded by William de Crescy William Gifford Archishop of York An. Dom. 1277 made certain orders for their Government viz. That Almes and Hospitality should be used as of old time that all and singular do humbly and devoutly obey the Prior as their head c. Vid. Vol. â— p. 553. BUSTLESHAM Abby in Barkshire KIng Henry VIII by Patent dated in the 29th year of his Reign recites that out of the sincere and intire devotion which he bears to God and the Blessed Virgin Mary and to the Increase of the Divine Worship c. He does erect found and establish to indure for all future times a Monastery or Conventual House of one Abbot and thirteen Monks of the order of St. Benedict in the place of the late disolved Priory or Monastery of Bisham alias Bustlesham in Barkshire which on the fifth day of Iuly in the 28th year of his Reign was surrender'd to him by William Bishop of St. Davids then Prior of that Priory and the Convent there and this he did for the good estate of himself while living and for the good of his Soul after death and for the good of the Soul of his most dear Wife Iane late Queen of England deceased and for the Souls of his Children and Progenitors And gave all the Lands Houses Church Bells and all utensils then in his hands and formerly belonging to the late dissolved Monastery to Iohn Cordrey whom he made Abbot of this new Monastery and to the Monks of the same Which Iohn Cordrey was lately Abbot of the Monastery of St. Peter at Chertsey in Surrey He did also incorporate this new Monastery by the name of the Abbot and Convent of the new Monastery of the Holy Trinity of King Henry VIII at Buslesham with power to purchase Lands and by that name to sue and be sued c. and for the Abbot and his Successors to use an Episcopal Miter He also endow'd the said New Monastery with all the Lands and Revenues belonging to the late Monastery here and also to that of Chertsey in divers Counties of England and Wales and in the City of London also with the dissolved Priories of Cardigan in Southwales and Bethelkellard in Carnarvanshire with all the Lands and Revenues of the same and with divers Rents issuing out of the Lands and Revenues of several other Monasteries then in Lease for twenty one years and the Reversion of the said Lands c. With view of Frank pledge and all other Franchises and Liberties which have been formerly enjoy'd in the several Lands c. To hold by the Service of one Knights see and the yearly Rent of 72 l. and 17 d. in the name of a Tenth to be paid into the Court of augmentations at Michaelmas This new Monastery to be exempt from the ordinary Jurisdiction and to be visited only by the King his heirs and Successors and the present Abbot Iohn Cordrey to be excused from the payment of first Fruits and Tenths given by Statute made in the twenty sixth year of this King provided notwithstanding that his Successors shall pay first Fruits which are valued at 661 l. 14 s. 9 d. ob But no tenths which amount to 66 l. 3 s. 5 d. ob q. non obstante the said Stat. or any other Law Which Patent bears teste at Westminster 18th December 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
call'd Mirmaude the Gift of Ralph de Hauvill are subject to the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Ely as their Diocesan notwithstanding their Priviledges Pag. 825. ELLERTON GIlbert the II. Master of the Order of Sempringham and Iohn Prior and the Convent of Ellerton obliged themselves to the maintenance of thirteen poor People in the Hospital of the Church of Ellerton founded by William Fitz Peter Pag. 514. St. John of Jerusalem in the Suburbs of London KING Philip and Queen Mary by their Letters Patents and Cardinal Pole Legate a Latere restored and establisht the Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England to its Pristine Estate and the Priory and Hospital of St. Iohn of Clerkenwell lately dissolved and constituted Sir Thomas Tresham Knt. Prior of the same Richard Shelley Peter Felices Cuthbert Laithen Edward Brown Thomas Thornell Henry Gerard George Aylmer Iames Shelley and Oliver Starkey Commendators or Preceptors of the said Hospital whom the said King and Queen incorporated by the name of Prior and Confraters of the Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England to have perpetual Succession and by that name to sue and be sued to purchase and take Lands c. and to have a Common Seal and gave them all that Capital House and Scite of the said Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem scituate and being near Clerkenwell in Middlesex with the Church and all Houses and Buildings Gardens and Orchards c. thereunto belonging also all that Wood and Wood-ground call'd Greete St. Iohn's Wood lying near Maribone-Park in Middlesex and all other Lands and Tenements whatsoever that were in the Possession of the Prior and Confraters of the said Hospital at the time of the Dissolution of the same and all Goods and Furniture belonging to the said House c. Which Letters Pattents bear date at Grenewiche April the 2 d. in the fourth and fifth year of their Reign Pag. 247. BUTLEY KING Henry the VII in the four and twentieth year of his Reign granted to Robert Brommer Prior of the Monastery of Butley and the Convent of the same the Priory of the blessed Mary of Snape in Suffolk with all Lands and Revenues thereunto belonging or which Thomas Neylond late Prior of the said Priory enjoy'd in right of the same to hold in pure and perpetual Alms without Account or any Rent and to be annext to the said Priory of Butley NEWINTON-LONGVILLE an alian Priory in Buckinghamshire THIS was a Cell to the Abby of St. Faith at Longville in Normandy to which Walter Gifford Earl of Buckingham gave and confirm'd divers Lands and Revenues with great Priviledges in his Forrest of Waddon free and discharged of all Exactions c. CATHEDRAL CHURCHES Of Canons Secular CHICHISTER Cathedral in Sussex ANno Dom. 673. Ceadwalla King of the South-Saxons at the Request of Bishop Wilfrid gave divers Lands for the Building and Endowment of a Monastery at Selesey Brnny of Sussex Northelmus King of Sussex An. 692. Numa King of Sussex An. 714. Oslac Duke of Sussex An. 780. were Benefactors to this Religious House of Selesey Abbot Pleghaard having transferr'd certain Revenues in Deaton to the Episcopal Church at Selesey which Revenues he had of the Gift of King Offa they were fixt and establisht to the said Church in a Synod held at Clobeham An. 825. King Athelstan gave Lands to the said Church An. 930. the like did King Edmund King Eadwyn King Ethelred and Ethelbert William gave Lands and Liberties to the Church of Chichister the See being then translated thither the like did King Henry the I. and King Steven which last gave and confirm'd to the Church of the holy Trinity at Chichester and to Hillary Bishop of the same divers Lands and Franchises some of which Lands the said Bishop and his Successors were to hold by being Chaplains to Maud his Queen and her Successors William Earl of Chichister gave to this Church among other things the fourth part of the City King Iohn confirm'd to this Church all the Lands c. and Liberties which they then had or should have The like did King Henry the III. to Ralph the II. Bishop of Chichester his Chancellor The Prior and Convent of St. Bartholmew's at London granted to the Bishops of this See certain Houses in the Parish of St. Sepulchers without Newgate to hold by the yearly Rent of one pound of Frankincense or six-pence at the Feast of St. Michael Ranulphus Bishop of Chichister who writes himself the humble Minister of the Church of Chichister caused to be provided for the Mannors of that Bishoprick a stock or store of Cattel viz. two hundred and fifty two Oxen one hundred Crows ten Bulls three thousand one hundred and fifty Seep Bidentia one hundred and twenty she Goats and fix he Goats and ten Plow-horses which Stock he ordered to be continued by all his Successors under censure of Excommunication and to be Anathema Maranatha Confirm'd and ratified by King Henry the III. Iohn Earl of Eu restored to this Church by Deed dated An. 1248. the Mannor of Bixle which his Grandfather and Father had unjustly taken and a long time detain'd from it St. PETERS Cathedral at York A CANNON SECVLAR Vol. 3. P. 115. William King of Scotland certified to Pope Alexander that the Church of Scotland was of old times subject to the Church of York and desired that by his Authority it may be made so again Pope Honorius writ to the King of Norway to restore to Ralf Bishop of the Orcades consecrated by and Subject to the Jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York the Possessions belonging to the said Bishoprick Olaus King of the Isles writ to the Archbishop of York at the recommendation of the Abbot of Furnes to obtain from him the Consecration of a Bishop to propagate the Christian Religion in the Isles Pope Calixtus writ to the Bishop of Glascow commanding him to submit himself to the Jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York within thrirty days after the receit of his Letters Pope Honorius writ to the Bishop elect of Galloway Candida casa to repair to the Archbishop of York as his proper Metropolitan for Consecration c. Pope Paschal writ to all the Bishops of Scotland to submit to York as their Metropolitan the like did Calixtus and Innocent which last writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury his Legate to denounce the Bishop of Glascow excommunicate unless he submits himself to the Archbishop of York within three Months after admonition Pope Honorius writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury and all the Bishops of England and to King Henry that the Archbishop of York may according to antient Custome be permitted to have his Cross born before him in all parts of England and to Crown the King in such manner as has been used The Bishop of Galloway made a formal Act of Subjection and Canonical Obedience to this Archbishop in like manner as did Durham and Carlile Roger de Mowbray Peter de Ros William
to all which Death Makes a short address and they as short an answer with the Author 's Moral Reflection The Cathedral Church of Salisbury OSmund Bishop of Salisbury who succeeded on the death of Bishop Herman in the year 1076 built the new Church at Salisbury and composed the Book of the Ecclesiastical Office call'd Consuetudinarium which was used in a manner throughout all England Wales and Ireland Bishop Osmund's Deed of Foundation and Endowment of this Church bears date An. Dom. 1091. 4 William 2. King Henry the I. King Henry the II. and King Iohn were Benefactors to this Church of St. Mary of Sarum King Henry the III. in the eleventh year of his Reign confirm'd the translation of this Church from the Castle to a lower Scituation and made New Saresbirie a free City and granted to it all the Liberties which the City of Winchester enjoys and granted to the Bishops here a yearly Fair at New Saresbury from the Vigil of the Assumption to the morrow after the Octaves of the said Feast and every Week a Mercate on the Tuesday c. COLLEGIATE CHURCHES Of Canons Secular A Second Part of the Third Volum BEVERLEY in Yorkshire Provosts of Beverley Vol. I. p. 171. 1. Thomas Nephew of Thomas Archbishop of Tork 2. Thurstinus afterwards Archbishop of Tork 3. Thomas Normannus 4. Robertus 5. Thomas Beket 6. Robertus 7. Galfridus Temp. H. 2. 8. Simon 9. Fulco Basset 10. Iohannes Cheshub 11. Gulielmus Eborisensis Temp. H. 3. 12. Iohannes Maunsel 13. Alanus 14. Morganus 15. Petrus de Chester 16. Haymo de Charto 17. Robert de Alburwik 18. Walterus 19. Gulielmus de Melton 20. Nicholaus Hugate 21. Gulielmus de la Mar. Temp. E. 3. 22. Richard de Ravensar 23. Adam Limbergh 24. Iohannes Thoresby 25. Iohannes Manfeld 26. Gulielmus Kinwolmarsh 27. Robertus Nevile Temp. H. 6. 28. Robertus Rolleston 29. Iohn Gerningham 30. Laurence Bouthe afterwards Bishop of Durbam 31. Iohn Bouth afterwards Bishop of Exeter 32. Henry Webber 33. Petrus Tastar 34. William Potman 35. Hugh Trotter 36 ... 37. Thomas Dalby 38. Thomas Winter IN the year 1664. certain Relicks were found in a Leaden Chest in this Church with an Inscription which spoke them to be the Bones of St. Iohn of Beverley therein deposited in the year 1197. King Adelstan in his march against Constantine King of Scotland visited the blessed Iohn at Beverley and promised in case he obtain'd Victory to augment the Revenues of this Church which he did in his return Being in Scotland he besought God that at the Prayer of St. Iohn of Beverley he would shew some sign whereby the Scots may be known to be of right subject to England hereupon the King struck a Stone with his Sword near the Castle of Dunbar and made therein a gash of an Ell long King Richard the II. in the twelsth year of his Reign confirm'd to this Church certain Revenues given by King Athelstan in the East-riding of Yorkshire the like had been done before by King Henry the II. Thomas Archbishop of York by advice and consent of the Chapter of this Church made divers Statutes and Orders for Government of the same namely that there be always nine Canons a Precenter a Chancellor and a Sacristian nine Vicars c. belonging to this Church in the number of which Canons the Archbishop himself is included for one and hath the chief and first Stall in the Choire that the Provostship which Office is only temporary when void if not supplied in forty days shall be collated by the Archbishop and his Successors c. That all beside the Canons be obliged to continual Residence That the Provost for the time being pay to each of the nine Canons the Sum of 10 l per Annum by quarterly Payments to the Precentor 10 l. to the Chancellor and Sacristan as formerly to the Clerks and Virgers 6 s. 8 d each and to the Parsons 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. each and further to each of the nine Canons and three Officers above-mentioned two and forty quarters of Oats yearly to each Vicar 8 l. per Annum c. That the Provost makes due and punctual Payment of the Sums due to the Ministers of this Church at the proper times or within fifteen days after under pain of five Marks to the Fabrick of the Church of York and as much to this c. Which Statutes bear date in the year 1391. SUTHWELL in Nottinghamshire AT the time of Domesday Survey Thomas then Archibishop of York and the Canons of this Church held Lands in Torgartone Wapentac valued at 40 l. 15 s and in Binghamhou Wapentac other Lands amounting in Value to 150 s. Turstan Archbishop of York gave one Prebend to this Church and the tenth of all the Increase of his Lordship of Southwell Pope Alexander the III. granted to the Canons of St Mary of Southwell Power to excommunicate any of their Parishoners who should be injurious to them and that as well the Clerks as Laity of the County of Nottingham do repair to this Church in Procession at Whitsuntide yearly according to ancient Custom c. Whose Bull bears date An. Dom. 1171. King Henry the I. confirm'd the Liberties of this Church and the Lands given them by Archbishop Turstan Iohn Archbishop of Tork and Robert Malluvell were Benefactors to this Church Alexander Archishop of Tork and Legate at the Petition of Richard de Chesterfeild Canon of the Collegiate Church of Suthwelle in the year 1379. granted his License for the building of a new House for the Habitation of the Vicars in the Church yard their old House being too remote which House was afterwards set out and appointed by the Parishoners to be erected in the East part of the said Church-yard King Henry the VI. in the seventeenth year of his Reign granted to this Church the Alien Priory of Ravendale in Lincolnshire then valued at 14 l. per Annum which with other Lands was also granted to this Church by King Edward the IV. in the first year of his Reign This Collegiate Church being founded anew by King Henry VIII Queen Elizabeth in the twenty seventh year of her Reign confirm'd and establisht certain Statutes and Orders for Government of the same consisting of twenty six Chapters in which it is provided that Divine Service be perform'd here as in the Metropolitan Church of York thrice every day and Sermons by the Canons or Prâ—bendaries every Sunday and Holyday that there be at least six Vicars Choral six singing Men and six Boys That the Canons shall duly reside and that the Debts of the Colledge be paid that the Receiver account yearly on the 3 d or 4th of Novemler That there be a Sacristan Virger Bell-ringer and Porter a Master and Rector of the Choire a Master of the Grammar School That to make a Chapter there must be persent three Canons at the least that there be a Warden or Clerk of the Febrick who is to
take care of the Repairs of the Church that the Seal be kept under three Keys remaining with three several Prebendaries that there be Divinity Lectures thrice or at least twice a week and Catechising on Sundays in the Afternoon That the Chapter constitute under them a Vicar general for the Excrcise of their Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and a Register Every Canon before his Instalment to take an Oath whereby he renounces the Papistical Worship and engages to embrace the Doctrine establisht by the regal authority c. and to observe the Statutes of this Church The Vicars and under Officers to be sworn to the same purpose Valued at 16 l 5 s. 2 d. per Annum St. MARTINS LE GRAND in London KIng William the Conqueror consanguinitatis haereditate Anglorum Basileus confirm'd the Lands and Estate given to this Colledge by Ingelricus and Girardus his Brother the Founders and further gave to the same all the More Land without Criplegate c. and freed this Chruch and the Canons here from all disturbance and exaction of any Bishop Archdeacen or their Ministers and from all Regal Services And granted them Soc and Sac Tol and theam with all those antient Liberties c. in the fullest manner that any Church in England hath Whose Charter bears date in the year 1068. the Second year of his Reign Conâ—irm'd by Iohn and Peter Cardinals of Rome and Legates of Pope Alexander St. MARY'S at Warwick HEnry Consul or Earl of Warwick gave divers Lands to this Church confirm'd and augmented by Earl Roger his Son The same Roger granted to the Canons of this Church of St. Mary to have a Dean and Chapter in like manner as the Canons of London Lincoln Salisbury and York He also in the year 1123 translated the Colledge which was in the Castle of Warwick to the Church of St. Mary and All Saints and by and with the Episcopal authority of Simon Bishop of Worcester the Canons and Clerks were transferr'd thither The same Simon consecrated an Altar at St. Sepulchers and a Burial Place there for the Canoâ—s only the same being call'd the Priory of the Holy Sepulcher To this Collegâ—te Church the aforemention'd Roger Earl of Warwick gave several Churchtes among others the Church of the Holy Sepulcher at Warwick and the Paristh Church of Greetham in Rutland Which Churches being alicnered from this Colledge the said Church of St. Sepulchers being made a Priory of Canons Regular and Greetham appropriated to the same those two were not in a Possibility to be restored but the other Churches which had been alienated seven in number were restored and reunited to the Collegiate Church of St. Mary at Warwick by Decree of William Bishop of Worcester and all the Parishoners of the several Churches in Warwick order'd to repair to the said Church of St. Mary for Sacraments and Sacramentals and not to bury elswhere than in the Church-yard of the same The said William Bishop of Worcester decree'd that the Dean who is bound by this Place to reside receive 40 l. every residing Canon twenty marks every other Prebend who does not reside but 40 s. only and every Vicar ten marks per Annum Valued at 247 l. 13 s. ob per Annum WALLINGFORD in Barkshire IN the tenth year of Edward I. Edmund Son of Richard King of the Almains and Earl of Cornwall gave to the Chappel of St. Nicholas in his Castle of Wallingford 40 l. of yearly Rent for the maintenance of six Chaplains six Clerks and four Acolyts or Taber-bearers To the Dean and Chaplains of this Colledge Edward the Black Prince King Richard II. and King Henry VI. give other Revenues in augmentation of their Endowment Valued at 147 l. 8 s. ob q. per Annum LANCADANC in the Diocess of St. Davids AN. Dom. 1283 Thomas Bishop of St. Davids with the Assent of King Edward and the Chapter of St. Davids made the Church of Langadanc Collegiate and endow'd the same with Revenues for the maintenance of twenty one Canons under the Government of a Precentor of which Canons seven to be Priests seven Deacons and seven Subdeacons each Canon to have his Vicar c. LANGECESTRE in the County Palatine of Durham AN. Dom. 1283 Anthony Bishop of Durham made the Church of Langecestre lying in his Diocess and being of his Patronage a Colegiate Church for one Dean and seven Prebendaries the Dean to be continually resident and to have the Cure of Souls and to find two Chaplains to assist him therein and to cause three Chappels of ease to be served with competent Ministers that the seven Prebendaries have their several Vicars that every of them be Hebdomodarius in his turn to order correct and govern the Choire He also endow'd the Church with divers Revenues c. All which was by consent of this Chapter of Durham and confirm'd by King Edward I. AUKLAND in the Bishoprick of Durham TO this Collegiate Church of St. Andrew of Aukland the foresaid Anthony Bishop Durham had been a Benefactor and made divers Orders for Government of the same in the year 1292 as that the Vicar of the Church be a Dean that the Canons have all Vicars daily to officiciate the five first Canons Priest Vicars the four next Deacon-Vicars the others Subdeacons that the Divine Offices be sung according to the use of York or Salisbury c. To which Orders Thomas Bishop of Durham in the year 1428 made some alterations and additions namely that every Prebendary of this Collegiate Church do personally reside and be present at the daily Offices or provide a sufficient Vicar to do it for him that the Priest-Vicars have ten marks per An. the Deacon-vicars seven marks per An c. That Mattins be not said at Midnight but in the Morning for the conveniency of the Parishioners c. CESTRE in the County Palatine of Durham THE beforemention'd Anthony Bishop of Durham in the yeas 1286. perceiving the Parish of this place to be large and the Revenues of this Church to be sufficient to maintain many Ministers made it Collegiate to consist of one Dean and seven Prebends that the Dean have the cure of Souls in the Parish and be continually resident c. with other Orders as he before made in the case of Langecestre abovemention'd mutatis mutandis That the tenth part of the Portion of every non-Resident be given to the Residents and in case there be no Residents then to the use of the Church or of the Poor All which was confirm'd by King Edward I. St. ELISABETH's near Winchester JOhn de Pontisaria Bishop of Winchester founded this Chappel of St. Elizabeth daughter of the King of Hungary before the Gate of his Castle of Wolvesay and therein establisht seven Chaplains of which one to be Provost and six Clerks three of which to be Deacons and three Subdeacons The Provost Chaplains and Clerks to be placed and supply'd upon all avoidences by the Bishop of Winchester for the time being