this Priory first at Runcorn Anâ— 1133. which was afterwards removed to Norton From him 〈◊〉 Roger Constable of Chester abovementioned to whom Ranulf Earl oâ— Chester for a particular Service done him in Wales gave the Dominion of Shoo-makers and Stage-players to hold to him and his Heirs for ever This Roger died A. 1211. and lies buried in the Monastery of Stanlowe Of this Line descended the Lacies Earls of Lincoln and the Earls of Lancaster Leicester and Derby Valued at 180 l. 7 s. 6 d. ob per Annum NEWBURGH in Yorkshire FOunded by Roger de Molbray and endowed with divers Lands and Churches who also confirm'd what the Freemen of his Fee had given or should give to the Canons here In the time of King William the Conqueror Robert de Mowbray was Earl of Northumberland who taking part with other Great men who rise against King William Rufus for having banish'd Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury and destroy'd eighty Religious Houses to enlarge his Forrest was taken by the King beheaded and his Estate seized and afterwards given by King Henry the I. to Negellus de Albeney whose Mother was a Mowbray after which time the Albanies took on them the name of Molbray Son of that Nigellus was the first abovemention'd Roger de Molbray who founded this Priory An. 1145. he founded also the Abby of Bellaland and many other Religious Houses to the number of thirty five From whom descended Themas Mowbray who in the Reign of King Rich. II. was made Duke of Norfolk Earl of Nottingham Lord Marshal of England c. From whom descended two Co-heirs the eldest of which Ann was married to the Lord Thomas Howard who in the second year of King Edward the IV. was created Duke of Norfolk Valued at 367 l. 8 s. 3 d. per Annum HODE in Yorkshire a Cell to Newburgh HOde was at first demised to the Canons of Billalanda by Robert de Alneto on condition that they should here found an Abby of their Canons This was confirm'd by Roger de Mowbray Adam Fossard gave Hode to the Canons of Newburgh with Lands lying about the same which Canons did acknowledge the said Adam to be the Patron Advocatus of the said place and of all belonging thereunto EGLESTON in the Bishoprick of Durham PHilip Bishop of Durham confirm'd to God St. Mary and St. Iohn Baptist and to the Canons of Egleston divers Lands which Gilbert de Ley held of him by the service of one Knights Fee and had given them An. 1273. the Abbot and Canons of this House covenanted with Iohn Duke of Britany and Earl of Richmond to find six Chaplains Canons of this House to say six Masses daily in the Castle of Richmond for ever the said Canons to be constantly resident in the said Castle in consideration whereof the said Earl of Richmond granted to the Abbot and Convent of Egleston divers Lands and Possessions and a place apart in his said Castle for the Habitation of the said six Chaplains c. DORCHESTER in Oxfordshire BEfore the Norman Conquest here was a Bishops Seat Remigius translated it to Lincoln Alexander Bishop of Lincoln erected here an Abby of black Canons the Body of which Church served for the Parish Church After the Suppression the East-part of the Abby-Church was bought by a rich man of this Town for 140 l. and given to augment the Parish Church Valued at 219 l. 12 s. per Annum THORNTON upon Humber in Lincolnshire FOunded by William Grose Earl of Albemarl Anno Dom. 1139. Canons Regular were introduced here from Kyrkham under the Government of one Richard their Prior who was afterwards made Abbot in the year 1148. by Pope Eugenius the III. Earl William the Founder died An. 1180. having endow'd this Abby with many Lands and Revenues King Richard the I. confirm'd all the Possessions given to the Abby of St. Mary of Thornton and the Canons there with the Grant of large Liberties and Immunities Pope Celestine the III. granted them the Priviledge not to pay any Tithes of Cattle c. for their own use Abbots of this House were 1. Richard 2. Philip 1152. 3. Thomas 1175. 4. Iohn Benton 1184. 5. Iordan de Villa 1203. 6. Richard de Villa 1223. 7. Ieffrey Holme 1233. 8. Robert 1245. 9. William Lyncoln 1257. 10. Walter Hotoâ—t 1273. 11. Thomas de Ponte 1290. The Advowson of this Abby together with all the Lands and Possessions of the Earl of Albemarl did escheat to King Edward the I. Which being thus in the Crown King Edward the III. in the sixth year of his Reign granted by advice of the Prelates and Barons in Parliament that the said Advowson should remain ever annext to the Crown and that the said Abbot should not be oblig'd to attorn to any in case any grant of the said Advowson should be made Valued at 594 l. 17 s. 10 d. per Annum BRUMMORE in Wiltshire BAldwin de Riveris and Hugh his Unkle were the Founders of this Monastery for Canons Regular King Henry the II. confirm'd the Lands given them and granted them feeding for one hundred Cattle and one hundred Hogs in Newforest and dead Wood for their fuel as much as necessary HAREWOLD in Bedfordshire THIS was a Priory of Nuns of St. Augustin founded by Sampson de Forte Malcolm King of Scotland as Earl of Huntington confirm'd certain Lands to this Church of St. Peter of Harewold and to the Prior and Canons and Sisters there serving God The like did King William of Scotland King Henry the IV. of England gave to the Prioress and Nuns of Harewold one Messuage in Chakirstone of the yearly value of 2 s. with the Advowson of that Church BRINKEBURNE in Northumberland FOUNDED by William Bertram Hawys his Wife and Roger his Son for Canons Their Possessions were confirm'd by William Earl or Northumberland Henry Earl of Northumberland Son to the King of Scotland and by King Henry III. Valued at 68 l. 19 s. 1 d. LEYE in the I le of Gersey Diocesse of Exon. THIS was at first a Priory of Canons but afterwards in the Reign of King Edward I. it was changed to a Nunnery of Canonesses it was dedicated to St. Mary and St. Iohn Evangelist BRIWETON in Somersetshire WIlliam de Moyne Earl of Somerset gave divers Lands c. to the Canons Regular of this House which was before the Conquest an Abby of Monks founded by Algarus Earl of Cornwal but the said Moyne or Mohun placed Canons here since the Conquest Sauvaricus Bishop of Bath and Glaustonbury confirm'd to God and the Blessed Mary of Briweton and the Canons Regular there the Lands c. given by their Benefactors Valued at 439 l. 6 s. 8 d. BRADENSTOKE in Wiltshire FOunded and endowed by Patricius Earl of Salisbury and Walter his Father William Bishop of Sarum appropriated divers Churches to the proper use of these Canons salvis Vicariis ordinandis taxandis King Henry III. confirm'd all their Possessions Valued at 212 l. 19 s. 3
the City of Colchester erected here a Monastery of which he lay'd the first Stone An. Dom 1097. Which being finisht some Monks were brought hither from Rochester But they not being endow'd here according to their own mind return'd to Rochester After this Eudo received other thirteen Monks from the Abbot of York these began upon a New Foundation which prosper'd so well that in a short time one of the thirteen was chosen Abbot and Consecrated by Maurice Bishop of London About the year 1104. Their number increased to above twenty who all lived very regularly The founder Eudo dyed in Normandy and devised his Body to be buried in the Abby of his foundation at Colchester which was accordingly done the Monks meeting it a Mile from the Monastery An. 1120. This Eudo endow'd this Monastery with several Mannours Tithes and Churches among others with the Church of St. Mary in the Westcheping Call'd the Newcherch and his Stone House near the same also the Church of St. Steven Walebroch in London King Henry II. released the Tax of Danâ—geld c. in the Lands of these Monks SNAPES in Essex A Cell to Colchester WIlliam Martell being Seised of the Mannour of Snapes enjoy'd Wreck of the Sea from Thorp to Hereford Nesse and gave this Mannour to the Abby of Colchester for the founding of a Priory here which Priory was founded accordingly and made a Cell to that Abby An. 1155. This Priory paid half a mark yearly to Colchester as a Pension of acknowledgment Twice a year the Abbot of Colchester was to Visit here with twelve Horses and abide here four days St. HELENS in Bishopsgatestreet London ALardus Dean of St. Pauls London and the Chapter of that Church granted License to William Son of William the Goldsmith Patron of the Church of St. Helen to constitute Nuns in the said Church and â—rect a College there endowing them with the Advowson of the said Church The Prioress to be upon election presented to the Dean and Chapter of Pauls and to swear fealty to them and to pay them a Pension of half a mark yearly at Easier c In the yeat 1439. Raynold Kentwode Dean of Pauls made other Constitutions for the Government of this Nunnery some of which were That Divine Service be by them duly perform'd night and day That no secular person be locked within the Bounds of the Cloyster nor come within it after the Complin Bell except Women Servants and maid Children that none of the Sisters receive Letters from or speak with any secular Person without License of the Prioress and some other Nun to be present That they grant no Corody or Pension without License of the said Dean and Chapter that no Dancing or Reveling be used in the House except at Christmass and then among themselves and in the absence of Secualr persons That there be a Door made to the Nuns Quire that no Strangers may look on them nor they on the Strangers when They be at Divine service That no Nun have any Key to the Postern Door that goes out of the Cloyster into the Churchyard but the Prioress c. These Orders were to be Read publickly in their Chappel four times a year and kept and observed under the pain of Excomunication Valued at 314 l. 2 s. 6 d. per Annum CATESBY in Northamptonshire KIng Henry III. in the fifty seventh year of his Raign recited and confirm'd to the Nuns of Kateby the Church of the blessed Mary of Kateby with the Chappel of Helidene with the Church and divers Lands in great Esseby and several other Revenues given them by divers Benefactors Confirm'd also by the Bull of Pope Gregory the VIII Valued at 132 l. 1 s. 11 d. per Annum St. MARY de Pratis adjoyning to Derby KIng Henry II. granted and confirm'd to the Nuns of St. Mary de Pratis near Darby among other things twenty seven acres of Land in his Forrest of the Peak with large Commons in the said Forrest King Henry III. granted them 100 s. per Annum to be received from the Baylies of the Town of Nottingham out of the Farm of the said Town Valued at 18 l. 6 s. 2 d. per Annum GRIMSBY in Lincolnshire THe Church and all the Monastery of Nuns here being of the Kings Foundation and Patronage together with all their goods and Movables and all their Writings and Evidences concerning their Lands and Estate in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire being burnt and consumed by a casual fire King Henry IV. in the seventh year of his Reign confirm'd to this Prioress and Convent all their Grants c. made as well by his Progenitors as others NEWTON in Yorkshire KIng Edward II. in the fifteen year of his Reign granted his Licence To his well beloved Cousin Thomas Wake to give one Messuage with the appurtenances in the Town of Neutone for the erection of a Religious House of what order he pleased and to endow it with Lands in Neuton and Cottingham c. Vid. 3. p. 88. BROMHALE HEnry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Margaret his Wife did release and quit claim to the Nuns of Bromhale one hundred acres of Land in their Wast of Asserige with the Appurtenances Pag. 551. LEUESHAM in Kent KIng Alured and his Son King Edward the Elder gave and King Edward the Confessor confirm'd to the Abby of St. Peters at Gant the Mannour of Luesham with all its appurtenences viz. Greenwic Wullewic Modingham and Cumbe with other Lands and great Liberties and Franchises as large as the King himself had in the said Lands c. Dated An. Dom. 1044. Pag. 551. St. MICHAELS MOUNT in Cornwal RIchard King of the Romans Edmund Earl of Cornwal and Conan Duke of Britany were Benefactors to this House Pope Adrian in the year 1155. confirm'd to the Abbot and Monks of this House by the name of the Monastery of St. Michael de periculo maris all their Lands and Revenues lying most in Normandy and also in England Pag. 558. BERGAVENNY HEnry de Bellocampo confirm'd to the Monks of Bergavenny all those Possessions which his Ancestors Hamelinus de Balon and others Lords of Bergavenny had given them and further gave and confirm'd to the said Monks divers other Revenues Pag. 595. GOLDCLIVE RObert de Candos founded the Priory at Goldclive in Wales being then Lord of Karlyon The Patronage of which House came afterwards to William Earl of Gloucester and after that to Richard Duke of York CARESBROKE in the IIe of Wight WIlliam Fitz Osbern was Mareshal to William the I. and Conquer'd the Ile of Wight at such time as the other Conquer'd England King William made him Earl of Hereford The Estate of this William descended to Baldwin Earl of Exeter who granted all the Churches and Tithes of this Iland to the Abby of St. Mary of Lira King Henry II. recited and confirm'd the several Possessions given to those Monks as well in France as England and Wales Pag. 614. WENDLOCK WIlliam de Boterell
Mowbray and Segrave did by his Deed recite ratifie and confirm the Foundation of this Abby by his said Progenitor Roger de Mulbray Vid. infra p. 1027. Valued at 238 l. 9 s. 4 d. per Annum BILDWAS in Shropshire Founded An. 1135. KING Steven in the third year of his Reign An. Dom. 1139 gave and confirm'd to God and the Church of St. Ceadde and to the Abbot and Monks here their Estate in like manner as Roger Bishop of Chester had given it and further granted them several Immunities Walter de Dunstanville Robert Corbet and others were Benefactors Their Estate was confirm'd to them by King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign Vid. Vol. 2. p. 914. Valued at 110 l. 19 s. 3 d. ob per Annum St. Mary's near Dublin in Ireland a Cell to Bildwas Founded 1139. KING Henry the II. confirm'd to the white Monks of St. Mary's near Dublin all their Lands and Possessions and by another Deed subjected the said Monks to the Abbot of Bildewas BITLESDEN in Buckinghamshire Founded An. 1147. THE Lordship of Bitlesden escheating in the time of King Steven from one Robert de Meperteshall to the then Earl of Leicester the said Earl granted it to his Steward Ernaldus de Bosco who founded here an Abby which the Earl also confirm'd but after some time the abovesaid Robert de Meperteshal being about to commence a Suit in Law for this Estate the Monks here in consideration of ten Marks obtain'd from the said Robert also a Charter of Confirmation This House was first given by the abovesaid Arnold de Bosco for a Cell to the Abby of Geroudon Valued at 125 l. 4 s. 3 d. q. per Annum WARDON in Bedfordshire Founded An. 1136. THE first Founder of this House was Walter Espec who endow'd it for Monks from the Abby of Rieval which was confirm'd by King Steven Anno Dom. 1135. and by King Richard the I. in the tenth year of his Reign Valued at 389 l. 16 s. 6 d. q. per Annum FORD in Devonshire IN the year 1133. Richard Viscount or Sheriff of Devonshire a near Kinsman of King William the Conqueror and to whom that King had given the Castle of Exeter and Honour and Barony of Okehampton in Devonshire gave his Land of Brightley within the said Honour of Okehampton for the founding of an Abby and obtained twelve Monks for the same from the Abby of Waverly These Monks having remaine◠〈◊〉 Brightley for five years were at last forced through the 〈…〉 sterility of the place to return back to Waverly Which the Sister and Heiress of their Founder seeing she gave them the Mannor of Thorncomb for their maintenance and her house therein then called Ford for their more convenient habitation From this Lady did descend Hawisia who was married to Reginald de Courtnay who was the Grandson of Lewis the Gross of France from whom descend the noble Family of Courtnays Patrons of this Abby and great Benefactors Whose descent and lineage is set forth in the Book at large One of which Family namely the Lord Iohn Courtnay was through the divine Mercy his great Faith and his Hope in the Prayers of these Monks miraculously delivered from a terrible Storm at Sea in the Night time when all the Seamen despair'd of life Hugh Courtnay the second of that name became Earl of Devonshire and died 9 E. 3. Iâ—seline de Pomerei and others were Benefactors to this Monastery all whose gifts are confirm'd by King Richard I. in the first year of his Reign Valued at 374 l. 10 s. 6 d. ob per Annum BUCKFAST in Devonshire FOunded for Monks and endowed with Lands by Richard Banzan to hold by the 30th part of a Knight's Fee and confirm'd by King Hen. II. Valued at 466 l. 11 s. 2 d. ob per Annum MEAUX in Yorkshire Founded Anno 1136. MEaux was so called by its Inhabitants who came into England with the Norman Conqueror and named their new Seat according to the name of the City of Meaux in Normandy from whence they came The Founder of this Abby was William le Gross Earl of Albemarl and Lord of Holderness and in a manner of all Yorkshire who having vow'd a Journy to Ierusalem and being by reason of his age and unweildyness of his Body not well able to perform such a Voyage built this Monastery by way of commutation of his Vow This he gave to God and the Blessed Virgin Mary introducing a Convent of Monks from the Monastery of Fountains of whom one Adam was made the first Abbot which Monks at first got their living by the work of their hands and sweat of their brows but were not long after plentifully endow'd with Lands and Revenues by the said Earl This William le Gross was Grandson of Odo to whom William the Conqueror gave his Sister in marriage and the Isle of Holderness the Archbishop of Roan gave him the County of Albemarl to hold of him by the Service of being his Standard Bearer in his Expeditions attended with ten Knights The Line of this William being not long after extinct the County of Albâ—marl and Honour of Holderness escheated to the Crown for want of heirs This Monastery was begun and the Monks first entred there under their Abbot Adam on the Calends of Ianuary 1150. Richard de Otringham Rector of the Church of Schelford in the Diocess of Ely by his Deed dated An. Dom. 1317. gave divers Lands to the Abbot and Convent here for the maintenance of a perpetual Chantery of seven Monks of this House at the Porch of their Abby Church The number of the Monks in this Abby were 50. The Lands given to this Abby were confirm'd to it by King Iohn in the 6th year of his Reign Valued at 299 l. 6 s. 4 d. q. per Annum NEW-MINSTER near Morpeth in Yorkshire THIS was founded and endow'd in the year 1138. by a certain Nobleman call'd Ranulf de Merley it was furnisht with Monks from the Abby of Fountains Their Lands were confirm'd to them by King Henry the III. in the thirty ninth year of his Reign Vid. Vol. 2. p. 916. TAME in Oxfordshire Founded 1138. THIS House was founded and endow'd by Sir Robert Gait a Kâ—t and was furnisht with Cistercian Monks from Waverley Their Estate was confirm'd to them by King Henry II. in the eleventh year of his Reign and by King Edward the II. in the tenth year of his Reign Valued at 256 l. 13 s. 7 d. ob per Annum BORDESLEY in Worcestershire Founded An. 1138. THis Abby was founded by Mawd the Empress for Cistercian Monks in honour of the most blessed Virgin Mary Regina Caelorum so are the words of her Charter Endowing it with divers Lands and Revenues to hold free and quit of all Secular Service Besides whom many other Benefactors conferr'd upon this Abby great Possessions all which were confirm'd by King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign Valued at 388
this Abby upon his secular kindred or others but take care to bestow them upon poor People and Travellers c. King William Rufus and King Henry the I. were also Benefactors to this House Valued at 880 l. 14 s. 7 d. ob q. per Annum BRECKNOCK in Wales a Cell to Battel Abby BErnard de Newmarch was a Noble Norman in the Reign of King Henry the I. and was the first Conqueror of the Lands about Brecknock He gave to Battel Abby his Church of St. Iohn the Evangelist in his Castle of Brecknock Roger Earl of Hereford Grandson of the foresaid Bernard gave divers Lands and Tithes to the Monks in the Church of St. Iohn of Brecknock together with divers Liberties and Exemptions All which was afterwards confirm'd by Maihel de Hereford and William de Braiose Other Benefactors were Herbert Fitz Peter Iohn Fitz Reginald c. Valued at 112 l. 14 s. 2 d. per Annum ARMETHWAYT in Cumberland KING William the Conqueror founded here a Monastery for black Nuns and endow'd it with divers Lands and such Priviledges as wâ—re granted to the Church of Westminster This he granted in pure and perpetual Alms as freely As hert may it thynk or ygh may it se. This Nunnery being seated so very near the Borders of Scotland was so impoverisht by the Scots frequent Spoils and Inroads that it was in a manner reduced to nothing whereupon King Edward the IV. did in the thirteenth year of his Reign new grant ratifie and confirm their Lands and Estate unto the then Prioress and Nuns here Valued at 18 l. 18 s. 8 d. per Annum BEAULEIU Bellus Locus in Bedfordshire a Cell of St. Albans THE Church of St. Mary in this place of old call'd Moddry was at first a Hermitage and built by a Hermite called Radulfus It was afterwards given by Robert de Albeneio with the consent of his Mother Secilia to the Abby of St Albans and became a Cell of that House Which Robert endow'd it with divers Lands all which he gave to God and St. Alban and to the Monks of Beauleiu in Fee to hold in free Alms. WALLINGFORD in Barkshire a Cell of St. Albans THE Church here dedicated to the holy Trinity was made a Cell of St. Albans in the time of Paul Abbot there King Henry the VI. was a Benefactor to the Priory of Wallingford Vid. Vol 3. p. 11. BELVOIR or Beaver in Lincolnshire a Cell of St. Albans RObertus de Toteneio Lord of the Castle of Belvoir gave the Church of St. Mary adjoyning to his said Castle to the Abby of St. Albans to be a Cell of that House endowing it with divers Lands and Tithes appointing it for the Burial-place of himself and Wife in case they died in England and such it afterwards proved to be for his descendents The Lands hereunto given were confirm'd successively by the Heirs and Progeny of the said Robert and lastly by Thomas Lord Ros in the 8. Hen. 6. Valued at 104 l. 19 s. 10 d. per Annum HATFEILD-PEVERELL in Hertfordshire a Cell of St. Albans WIlliam Peverell gave the Church of St. Mary at Hatfeild with his own Mansion-House there for a Habitation of Monks and endow'd the same with Lands all which was afterwards annext to St. Albans and became a Cell of that House Valued at 60 l. 14 s. 11 d. ob per Annum HERTFORD a Cell of St. Albans RAdulfus de Limesey having erected a Church at Hertford he gave the same for a Cell to the Abby of St. Albans and with it divers Lands in Hertford and elsewhere The Abbot of St. Albans obliging himself to send thither six Monks of his House to serve God at Hertford and in case the Revenue should be augmented then to send a greater number Hadwisia Wife of the said Radulfus Alan de Limesey their Son Gerard his Son and Iohn de Limesey his Son were all Benefactors to this Church of St. Mary's at Hertford and to the Monks of St. Albans serving God herein Valued at 72 l. 14 s. 2 d. ob per Annum TINEMOUTH in Northumberland a Cell of St. Albans RObert de Mulbray a Norman of noble extraction to whom King William the Conqueror gave the Earldom of Northumberland endow'd the Church of St. Mary adjoyning to his Castle of Tinemouth and in which the Body of St. Oswin King and Martyr rested with fair Revenues and gave it for a Cell to the Monks of St. Albans David King of Scotland was a Benefactor to this House so were King Henry the I. of England King Henry the II. and King Iohn who granted to God and the Church of St. Oswin in Tinmouth and the Monks of St. Albans serving God here many Lands and great Liberties which Liberties tho' seiz'd by King Edward the III. yet were by him in the second year of his Reign regranted to them in as large a manner as ever out of the special Devotion which he bore to the two glorious Martyrs St. Alban and St. Oswin Valued at 397 l. 10 s. 5 d. ob per Annum WYMUNDHAM in Norfolk a Cell of St. Albans ANno Dom. 1139. William de Albaneio Butler to King Henry the I. built the Church of St. Mary and Priory of Monks at this Town endow'd the same with Revenuesâ— and annext it as a Cell to St. Albans yet so as they might choose a Prior among themselves and present him to their Founder whom he was not to refuse without good Cause And the Monks here paid only a Mark of Silver yearly to the Abbot of St. Albans as an acknowledgment of subjection King Henry the I. confirm'd the Estate given to this House with the grant of many great Liberties The like did also William Earl of Sussex Grandson of the foresaid William the Founder Afterwards in the 27th of King Henry the VI. by Authority of Pope Nicholas the V. and at the Petition of Sir Andrew Ogard Kt. then Patron of this Monastery it was discharged from any dependency on the Abby of St. Albans and from paying the Mark per Annum and made an Abby of it self and Steven London then Prior the first Abbot All which was allow'd and confirm'd by the said King Henry the VI. who at the same time pardon'd all penalties incurr'd by the Parties concern'd in procuring the Popes Bull by reason of the Statute of Provisors or any other Statute Valued at 211 l. 16 s. 6 d. q. per Annum BINHAM in Norfolk a Cell of St. Albans PEter de Valoniis and Albreda his Wife gave the Church of St. Mary at Binham to the Abby of St. Albans but to be subject only in such manner as St. Pancrace at Lewis is subject to St. Peter of Clugni paying yearly to the Church of St. Alban a Mark of Silver and no more Rogâ—r de Valoniis confirm'd to God and St. Mary and the Monks of St. Albans serving God at Binham all the Lands which his Father Peter had given them and gave to them besides
Suburbs lying without the City of York to hold freely for ever And gave the Advowson of this Abby to the King that so he might be the Defendor and Patron of it for the future Thomas Archbishop of York claim'd the four Acres of Land on which this Abby was built as belonging to him and was a continual vexation to the Monks till King William Rufus gave him the Church of St. Steven's in York in exchange and full satisfaction When King William Rufus seeing the Old Church to be too strait laid the Foundation of a new one he changed the name of St. Olave and gave it the name of St. Mary King Henry the II. granted to this Abby very great Liberties and Franchises the same as are enjoy'd by St. Peters of York and St. Iohn of Beverley And confirmed to them all their Lands and Revenues given them by their several Benefactors amounting to a very great number some of the principal of whom were King William the I. and II. King Henry the I. Alan Earl of Britaign Odo Earl of Campania Berengerius de Todenei Willielmus Peverel Petrus de Ros Robertus de Brus Ivo Tallebois Walterus de Daincourt and Conan Earl of Britaigne c. In the year 1343. William Archbishop of York in his Visitation questioning by what Right and Title the Abbot and Covent here did claim and receive the Tithes Portions and Pensions from several places there mention'd amounting to a very great number they produced the Bulls of several Popes and Grants of his Predecessors Archbishops of York whereupon they were by the said Archbishop allow'd and their Title declared good and sufficient A List of some of the ABBOTS of St. Mary's at York 1088 Stephanus Wittebiensis 1112 Richardus 1131 Godfridus 1132 Sauaricus 1161 Clemens 1184 Robertus de Harpham 1189 Robertus de Longo-Campo 1239 Willielmus Rondele 1244 Thomas de Warterhill 1258 Simon de Warwick 1296 Benedictus de Malton 1303 Iohannes de Gillyngs 1313 Alanus de Nesse Vid. Vol. 3. p. 9. Valued at 1550 l. 7 s. 0 d. q. per Annum St. BEES or St. Beges in Cumberland a Cell of St. Mary's at York SAint Bega was a vailed Nun born in Ireland she built a small Monastery in Caupland in the furthermost parts of England not far from Carlile This Monastery together with several Lands and Tithes was afterwards in the Reign of King Henry the I. given to the Abby of St. Mary's at York by William Meschines Son of Ranulph Lord of Caupland for a Cell to that Abby which was to send hither a Prior and at least six Monks to be constantly here resident To this House also William Forz Earl of Albemarl was a Benefactor Valued at 143 l. 17 s. 2 d. ob per Annum WETHERHAL in Cumberland a Cell to St. Mary's at York AT the time of the Foundation of St. Mary's at York Radulph Meschines Earl of Cumberland gave the Cell of St. Constantine at Wedderhal to the said Abby of St. Mary's which guift was confirm'd by King William the Conqueror in the last year of his Reign Or rather by King William Rufus in the first of his Benefactors to this House were David King of Scotland and Earl of Huntington and his Son Henry Prince of Scotland with divers others Adelwald or Athelwulph who was the first Bishop of Carlile confirm'd to the Monks of St. Mary's at York the Churches and Tithes to them given in his Diocess Providing however that the said Monks shall allot a sufficient proportion out of the same for the Priests in the several Churches and that they should also pay the Synodals King William the Conqueror upon his Conquest of this Kingdom gave to Ralph de Meschines the County of Cumberland to his Brother Hugh de Meschines the County of Chester and to a third Brother William de Meschines who founded this House at Wetherhal all the Land of Copland lying between Duden and Darwent Which Great men soon after subdivided and parcell'd out their respective Territories so given to certain Barons and Knights their Dependents viz. Ralph de Melchines enfeofft Hubert de Vaux of the Barony of Gillesland c. William de Meschines Lord of Copland enfeofft Waldeuus Son of Cospatrick of all his Land between Cocar and Derwent c. These chief Lords reserving from their Feoffees certain services in like manner as they themselves held their Estates by some services of the King Yet were Lands often granted to the Monasteries to hold free from all services whatsoever except the Divine Service of Prayers for their Founders c. And note That after this manner were Lands and Liberties first derived from the Crown and Tenures raised in relation to them since the Norman Conquest Valued at 117 l. 11 s. 10 d. ob q. per Annum St. MARTINS at Richmund a Cell to St. Mary's at York WYmar Sewer to the Earl of Richmund gave the Chappel of St. Martins at Richmund and with several Lands to God and the blessed Mary at York Roaldus Grandson of Alan Constable of Richmund and divers others were Benefactors and gave Lands and Tithes to God the Church of St. Mary at York and Priory of St. Martins near Richmund and to the Monks there In the year 1146. Pope Eugenius the III. confirmed the Cell of St. Martins Peter Capell Rector of the Church of Richmund granted a Pension of 5 l. per Annum to the Monks of St. Mary's at York and 20 l. of Wax to their Cell of St. Martins of Richmund yearly The several Rents and Revenues of this House where and from whom they arise may be seen in the Book at large p. 402 403. Valued at 43 l. 16 s. 8 d. per Annum ROMBURGH in Cambridgeshire a Cell to St. Mary's at York ALan otherwise as I suppose called Steven Earl of Britany and Richmond gave the Cell of Romburgh to God St. Mary and the Monks of the Abby at York which Gift was confirm'd to them by Everard Bishop of Norwich and that the Abbot and Convent of St. Mary's at York might place and displace the Prior and Monks at their pleasure The like Confirmations were granted by Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury and Gaufridus Bishop of Ely SANTOFT and HENES in Lincolnshire Cells of St. Mary's at York ROger Moubray gave the Isle called Santoft and large Possessions with it for a Cell to the Church of St. Mary's at York and to the Monks there And William Earl of Waren gave Henes to the said Church HEREFORD Priory a Cell of St. Peter's at Gloucester IN the year 1101. Hugo de Lacy gave the Church of St. Peters at Hereford which his Father Walter had built from the Foundation to the Monks of St. Peters at Gloucester with all the Estate belonging to it given by his said Father Walâ—er de Lacy and Confirm'd by King William the Conqueror In the Reign of King Edward the II. great Contests arising in this House between William de Irby who claim'd to be
Deed dated 1395. setting forth that the Abbot and Convent of St. Martin had past over to his beloved Cousin the Duke of Lancaster their Priory of Birstal in England for the Sum of one thousand Livers granted them his License to purchase Lands of the like value in France The said Abbot and Convent of St. Martin by their Deed dated 18. Rich. 2. granted all their Lands Tithes and Pensions here in England to the Abbot and Convent of Kirkstal in Yorkshire GOLDCLIVE in Monmouthshire a Cell to Bec in Normandy RObert de Candos gave this Church of St. Mary Magdalen of Goldclive with divers other Lands c. to the Monks of St. Mary at Bec. All which was confirm'd by King Iohn in the second year of his Reign This Priory was afterwards united to the Abby of Teukesbury which union was ratified by Pope Eugenius Anno Dom. 1402. Vid. 2. Vol p. 904. MINTING in Lincolnshire a Cell of S t. Benedict Super Leyre THIS was given to that Monastery by Ranulph Earl of Chester BOXGRAVE in Sussex a Cell of I'Essay in Normandy THIS Priory was founded in the Reign of King Henry the I. William Earl of Arundell endow'd it with great Possessions and gave and confirm'd it to the Monks of the Holy Trinity at l'Essay The first â—ounder of this House dedicated to the blessed Mary and St. Blase at Boxgrave was Robert de Haya who placed here three Monks of the Order of Sâ—â— Benedict Roger de Sancto Iohanne who married Cecily his Daughter doubled the number of Monks whose Sons William and Robert de Sancto Iohanne still encreas'd them to fifteen conferring divers Revenues for their maintenance out of which he reserved only an annual Pension of three Mâ—â—ks to the Abby of l'Essay Thomas Abbot of the Holy Trinity at l'Esay granted to the Prior of Boxgrave and his Successors that they might constantly have fifteen Monks in their Priory and that upon the decease of any they might supply their number with whom they pleas'd to elect King Edward the III. in the thirteenth year of his Reign discharged this Priory of all seizures as an alien Priory in time of War and made it Denison LONG-BENINGTON in Lincolnshire a Cell to Savigny in Normandy RAdulâ—us Filgeriarum gave Belintone to the Abby of Savigny The Monks here held sour Carucates of Land each Carucate worth 4 l. per Annum GROMOND in Yorkshire a Cell to the Abby of Gramont in France THIS was given to the said Abby by Ioan late Wife of Robert de Turneham and confirm'd by King Iohn in the fifteenth year of his Reign Vid. Vol. 3. p. 15. MONKENLEN in Herefordshire a Cell to Conchis in Normandy WIlliam Bishop of Hereford did by his Episcopal Authority confirm and appropiate to the Abby of St. Peter at Conchis the Mannor and Church of Monekeslen and other Revenues given by Ralph de Tony Senior TOFT Priory in Norfolk a Cell to Preaux THIS was given by Robert Earl of Mellent and with divers other Lands confirm'd to the Abby of St. Peter at Preaux by King Henry the II. and by King Edward the I. with great Liberties ALVERTON in Yorkshire a Cell to the Majus Monasterium RIchard Malleverer gave the Church of St. Martin in Alverton to the Monks of Majus Monasterium in Alverton Confirm'd by King Henry the II. MONMOUTH a Cell to the Abby of St. Florence at Saumurs WIhenocus de Monemue built in his Castle of Monemue a Church to the honour of God St. Mary and St. Florence and gave it in perpetual Alms to the Monks of St. Florence at Saumurs Iohn de Monemuta gave to the Church of St. Mary of Monmouth and to the Abby of Saumurs the Hospital of St. Iohn at Monmouth HAGH in Lincolnshire a Cell to the Abby de Voto near Cherburg KING Henry the II. gave and confirm'd to the Abby and Cannons of Cherburg in France the Mannor and Church of Hagh with large Liberties as they were formerly confirm'd by King Henry his Grandfather The particulars and values of their Estate was â—ound by Inquisition 22. Edw. 3. Among other things that they had certain Rents in Grantham c. HINKLEY Leicestershire a Cell to Lyra in Normandy RObert Earl of Leicester gave to the Abby of Lyra the Church of Hinkelai with divers Chappels and other Churches adjoyning with their Tithes All which was confirm'd by King Henry the II. HORSELEGH in Essex a Cell to St. Martin of Troarn THE Abby and Covent of St. Martins at Troarn in Normandy granted the Churches of Horselegh and Whitenhirsâ— to the Prior and Convent of Bruton in exchange for other Lands which the Priory of Bruton had in Normandy from which time the Prior of Bruton placed a Prior in Horselegh from among his own Canons and presented secular Vicars to the said two Churches This was confirm'd by King Edward the III. in the forty fifth year of his Reign ABBERBURY in Shropshire a Cell to the Abby of Gramount FVlco Fitz-Warin â—ounded and gave this Priory to the Monks of Gramount with divers Lands c. confirm'd by King Henry the II. in the seventeenth of his Reign And by Thomas Corbeth in the year 1262. LEVENESTRE in Sussex a Cell to Almenesches THE Possessions of the Benedictine Nuns of St. Mary of Almenesches as well in France as England were confirm'd to them by Pope Alexander and their Lands in their own hands exempted from Tithes by his Bull dated 1178. BY the Stat. made at Carlile 35. E. 1. commonly called De asportatis Religiosorum it is anacted that no Foreign Abby c. shall impose any Tallage Payment or Assesment whatsoever oo any of their Houses subject to them in England under the Penalty of forfeiting their Estate here In the Parliament held at Westminster 13. R. 2. it was ordain'd that no alien of the French Nation should enjoy any Benefice in this Kingdom notwithstanding several Frenchmen having purchased Letters of Denization continued to enjoy Benifices c. whereby great Treasures were transported out of the Kingdom the King's Council discovered to his Enemies in France c. It was therefore enacted 1 H. 5. ch 7. that the foresaid Ordinance be but in due execution against all but such Priors Alien as are conventual and such as have Induction and Institution provided that such be Catholicks and that they give security not to discover c. It was finally enacted in the Parliament held at Leicester 2 H. 5. for the Inconveniencies above-mentioned and also for that the English had their Possessions seiz'd in France that all the Possessions of the Priors aliens except Conventuals c. be vested in the King's hands and his Heirs for ever to the intent that Divine Services in the places aforesaid may for the time to come be more duly perform'd by English people than they have been by French A CLVNIAC MONK Vol. 1 P. 611. OF THE Cluniacenses or Monks of Clugny The first Institutor of this Order or
l. 9 s. 10 d. ob q. per Annum LOUTH-PARK in Lincolnshire Founded An. 1139. THe Founder of this Monastery was Alexander Bishop of Lincoln who procured Monks for it from the Abby of Fountains but their first Settlement being at a place called Haverholm which Seat not being convenient for their Habitation he removed them from thence to this Place Besides the said Bishop they had divers other Benefactors all whose donations were confirm'd to God and St. Mary and the Monks de Parcho-Lude by King Henry the III. in the tenth year of his Reign Valued at 147 l. 14 s. 6 d. per Annum KIRKSTED in Lincolnshire THIS House was founded in the year 1139. by Hugh de Bretone a Baron of those times and by him endow'd with divers Lands Other Benefactors were the Furnivalls D' Aencurts and D'arci's c. Richard de Luvetot gave and annext to this House the Hermitage of St. Iohn in the Parish of Ecclesfeild with the Land thereunto belonging Conan Duke of Britain and Earl of Richmund gave to this Abby the Church of Gaiton with two Carucates and a half of Land c. Valued at 286 l. 2 r. 7 d. per Annum KINGS WOOD in Gloucestershire Founded An. 1139. THis House was founded by William de Berkeley for Cistercian Monks and the Foundation confirm'd by Maud the Empress but afterwards for many years it became a Grange depending on the Abby of Tettebiry and a long contest was had about this Matter till at last it was from a Grange advanced to the name of the Abby of Kingeswode The Lands and Endowments given to this Abby by the Founder were confirm'd by several of the Berkleys his noble Descendants Valued at 244 l. 11 s. 2 d. per Annum PIPWELL in Northamptonshire THis Monastry was first founded An. Dom 1143. and then called Sancta Maria de Divisis among thick Woods which were in after times destroyed In the year 1323â— the Monks here were dispersed thro' Poverty Their first Founder was William Boutevileyn of Cottesbrook from whom descended one Robert Boutevileyn who did many unkindnesses to these Monks This was before their dispersion Hugh Senlize and Emma his Wife one of the Daughters and Heirs of the Lord of Braybroke gave to the Monks of Pipwell divers Lands and Tenements in Braybroke confirm'd by the Capital Lord of the Fee Simon de Foxton and these seem to be the second Founders King Henry III. granted to these Monks pasture on Benifield Laund for 250 Cattle Valued at 286 l. 11 s. 8 d. q. per Annum STONELEY in Warwickshire MAud the Empress first founded the Priory of Rademere in the Forest Kanoc confirmed by King Steven This Priory was afterwards advanced to an Abby of Cistercian Monks by Henry Fitz Empress then Duke of Normandy In the year 1154â— which was thirteen years after the Monks had remained at Rademore theâ— foresaid Henry Fitz Empressâ— being now King of England they changed their habitation of Radmore for Stanley and the whole Lordship of the same which was before that the Kings Demesn The first stone of the Abby Church there was laid on the Ides of April An. Dom. 1154. The said King Henry I. endow'd this House with divers other Lands and Revenues elsewhere Valued at 151 l. 0 s. 3 d. ob per Annum COGESHAL in Essex THis Abby was founded by King Steven and Maud his Queen in the year 1142. William de Humberstane with the Kings License gave the Mannor of Tyllingham-Hall for the finding of one Wax light to burn before the High Altar at the Abby Church here in the time of high Mass daily The Monks of this House were endowed with great Immunities Valued at 251 l. 2 s. per Annum REVESBY in Lincolnshire Founded An. 1142. THe Founders of this House were William de Romara Farl of Lincoln and William his Son who gave to the Abbot and Monks of Rievalle Revesby Thoresby and other Lands in Lincolnshire for the building and endowment of this House This Abby was dedicated to St. Laurence The Lands and Reuenues were confirm'd by Ralph Earl of Chester and by King Richard I. in the tenth year of his Reign Valued at 287 l. 2 s. 4 d. ob per Annum CUMHIRE in Pembrokshire THis House was founded by Cadwathel ap Madok in the year 114â— for Sixty White Monks King Henry III in the sixteenth year of his Reign confirm'd to these Monks all their Lands and Revenues Valued at 24 l. 19 s. 4 d. per Annum BOXLEY in Kent WIlliam de Ipre a great Commander in King Stevens Army founded this Abby of Boxley for White Monks in the year 1144. King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign confirm'd their Estate with Sac Soc. Valued at 204 l. 4 s. 11 d. per Annum SINNINGTHWAIT in Yorkshire THis House was founded for Nuns by Beriram Haget and confirm'd by Roger de Mubrai his superiour Lord. Iessery Archbishop of York took these Nuns and their Possessions into his protection and denounced a malediction against those who should dare to wrong them and a blessing to their Benefactors Alice Widow of Adam de Stanely gave with her self nine Bovates of Land in Berewik super Theseiam which was afterwards changed with Ranulf Fitz Henry for other Lands in Lofthows Valued at 60 l. 9 s. 2 d. per Annum ESSEHOLT in Yorkshire a Cell to Sinningthwait POpe Alexander the third by his Bull dated in the year 1172. confirm'd to Christian Prioress of Sinningthwait and the Nuns thereâ— and their Successors their House and Estate both at Sinningthayte and at Esseholt with all Lands already given or to be given to their said Houses With Priviledge of Sanctuary Valued at 13 l. 5 s. 4 d. per Annum WOBURN in Bedfordshire Founded An. 1145. THIS was founded and endowed by Hugh de Bolebock by advice of Henry Abbot of Fountains from whence a Convent of Monks was sent to this place King Iohn in the second year of his Reign confirmed the Estate of this House so did also King Henry the II. Valued at 391 l. 18 s. 2 d. ob per Annum MEREVAL in Warwickshire Founded An. 1148. THIS was founded by Robert Earl of Ferrariis and by him endowed with all the Forest of Arden with other Lands All which was confirm'd By King Henry the II. Valued at 254 l. 1 s. 8 d. per Annum HAMPOLE in Yorkshire THIS House was founded for Nuns by Avicia de Tanai and endowed by her with divers Lands of her Inheritance all which were confirmed by Ralph de Tillâ—â—er Grandson by Roger Archbishop of York and by William Fitz William An. 1331. Valued at 63 l. 5 s. 8 d. per Annum VALLE-DEI alias Vaudey in Lincolnshire THE Abby here was founded by William Earl of Albemarl in the year 1147. It was at first called Biham but afterwards Vallis-dei and was planted with Monks from Fountains The same Founder erected also the Abby of Meaux of which supra p. 792. Many
Religious Houses viz. under the value of 200 l. per Annum hath these Words Forasmuh as manifest sin is dayly used and commonlycommitted in such little and small Abbies and Priories c. where the Congregation of such religious Persons is under the number of twelve persons c. Considering also that divers and great solemn Monasteries of this Realm wherein thanks be to God Religiou is well kept and observed be destitute of such full numbers of religious Persons as they might and may keep c. Therefore the said lesser Monasteries were dissolved and their Lands given to the King Sir Edward Coke in his 4th Institut p. 44. says In the Reign of Henry the VIII the Members of both Houses of Parliament were informedâ— on the King's behalf That no King or Kingdom was safe but where the King had ability to live of his own and to defend his Kingdom upon any sudden Invasion or Insurrection c. It was therefore projected that if the Parliament would give unto him all the Abbies Priories Nunneries c. that for ever in time then to come he would take order that the same should not be converted to private use but first that his Exchequer for the Purposes aforesaid should be enriched 2dly The Kingdom strengthened by a continual maintenance of forty thousand well trained Souldiers with skillful Captains and Commanders 3dly for the Benefit and Ease of the Subject who should never afterwards in any time to come be charged with Subsidies Fifteenths Loans or other common Aides 4thly Least the honour of the Realm should receive any diminution there being nine and twenty Lords of Parliament among the Abbots and Priors who held of the King per Baroniam the King would create a number of Nobles The said Monasteries and their Possessions were given to the King his Heirs and Successors Now observe the Catastrophe not long after the dissolution of the Monasteries the said King demanded and had two Subsidies and exacted divers Loans There were in the Reign of Henry the VIII 645. Monasteries and Religious Houses forty of which being granted to Cardinal Wolsey for the Endowment of his two Colledges Soon after as the Pope had given these to the Cardinal the King with the Parliaments assent took the rest An. 1536. those under 200 l. per Annum were granted amounting to 376 and soon after the Remainder being in all 605 Monasteries Besides them were given 96 Colledges 110 Hospitals and 2374 Chantries and free Chappell 's The Revenue of all which is wisht to have been bestow'd for the Advancement of the Church Relief of the Poor c. rather than conferr'd with such a prodigal Dispensation on those who stood ready to devour what was sanctified To this purpose one Henry Brinklow a Merchant of London made a Complaint to the Parliament of the Abuse that follow'd in relation to Appropriations which as he said were the best Benifices and did amount to the third part of all the Parish Churches in England Touching the Alms says he that they dealt and the Hospitality that they kept every man knoweth that many thousands were well received of them and might have been better if they had not so many Great mens Horses to feed and had not been overcharged with such idle Gentlemen as were never out of the Abbies But now that all the Abbies with their Lands and Impropriated Parsonages are in Temporal mens hands where 20 l was given formerly to the poor yearly in more than one hundred places in England is not one meals meat given where they had always one or other Vicar that either preached or hired some to preach now there is no Vicar at all but the Farmer is Vicar and Parson too The Lord Herbert in his History of Hen. VIII says That the King was petition'd that some of the Houses both for the Vertue of the Persons in them and for the Benefit of the Country the Poor receiving thence great Relief and the richer sort good Education for their Children might be left for pious Uses Bishop Latimer also moved that two or three might for those ends be left in every Shire But Cromwell by the King's permission invaded all However the King thought fit to have this Proceeding confirm'd by Act of Parliament But the Christian World says my Lord Herbert was astonisht at these doings Beside the Houses and Lands taken away there was much mony made of the present Stock of Cattle and Corn of the Timber Lead Bells c. and chiefly of the Plate and Church Ornaments which is not valued but may be conjectured by that one Monastery of St. Edmunds Bury whence was taken five thousand Marks of Gold and Silver besides divers Stones of great Value The End of the First Volum MONASTICON ANGLICANUM ABRIDGED VOL. II. OF THE Canons Regular Of St. AVGVSTIN HOSPITALERS TEMPLARS GILBERTINES PRAEMONSTRATENSES and MATURINS or TRINITARIANS OF THE ORIGINAL OF CANONS OF the Author of this Institution there is great variety of Opinion Some ascribe it to the Aportles others to Pope Urban the I. about the year of Christ 230. Others to St Augustine Others to Pope Gelasius the I. about the year 495. c. Canons were first introduced in England by one Berinus An. Christi 636. The Canonical Life being by little and little relaxt and fallen off Canonical Clerks were in the Council of Mentz An. 813. reduced back to their first manner of living viz. to live in Common to have but one Table one Purse and one Dormitory About An. 1083 it was enjoyn'd that no Canon should dare to become an Abbot or Monk under the penalty of Excommunication In process of time Canons becoming loose and disorderly another sort of Canone began to be taken notice of who observing a stricter Discipline were call'd Canons Regular and the others Canons Secular The Canons Habit is a white Tunick with a Linnen Goâ—â— under a black Cloak St. Iames the Apostle and the first Bishop of Ierussaem is said first to have assumed the Linnen Tunick after the manner of the ancient Levitical Priests This Order had formerly in Europe four thousand five hundred and fifty five Monasteries In Italy seven hundred Popes of this Order there have been thirty six Cardinals three hundred Holy men and such who have been reckon'd in the Catologue of Saine seven thousand five hundred For the Canons of this Order were made three Rules The first Rule which St. Augustin made for his Brethren who promised to live together in Common consists of nine Chapters and treats of the Community of Goods Self-denial c. The second Rule of St. Augustin appoints the manner and time of Praying Singing Reading Working Living and Conversing and consists of Five Chapters The third Rule of St. Augustin treats more largely of those things which appertain to the Community of living among Clerks and consists of Forty Five Chapters A CANNON REGVLAR OF S t AVGVSTINE Vol. 2. p 1. MONASTICON ANGLICANUM Vol. II. Of
the Order of St. AUGUSTIN DOVER in Kent JVlius Caesar having Conquer'd Britain now call'd England forty seven years before the Birth of Christ built a Tower at Dover where the Castle now stands In the year of Grace 180 King Lucius then reigning in Britain became a Christian under Pope Elutherius and among other Pious Deeds built a Church in the Castle of Dover An. 469 King Arthur repair'd the said Castle and built the Hall there call'd Arthur's-hall After this the Saxons came out of Germany Conquer'd Britany beat the Britons into Wales who afterwards were call'd Welchmen and the Saxons Englishmen and being Pagans demolisâ—t Churches and supprest Christianity throughout the Land An. 586. Pope Gregory sent St. Augustin the Monk with others into England who converted to Christ the King then reigning in Kent named Adelbert whose Son and Successor Adelbold placed twenty four Secular Canons in the said Castle to serve in his Chappel there An. 686 Withred King of Kent built the Church of St. Martin in the Town of Dover and removed the said Canons thither from the Castle here they remain'd 400 years after He built also three other Churches for the use of the Parishoners which were however Chappels subordinate to St. Martins But these Canons being very licentious by reason of their great Priviledges and Exemptions from the ordinary Jurisdiction King Henry the I. in 1130. did give the said Church of St. Martin to the Archbishop of Canterbury and his Successors and tho' William Corboil then Archbishop built the New Minster and design'd to have made it an Abby of Canons of St. Augustin yet after his death Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury in the Reign of Henry the II. put Monks of St. Bennet therein The said King Henry the II. by his Charter subjecting the Government of this House to the Archbishop of Cantebury intirely and that no other Order but that of St. Bennet should be herein King Edward the III. in the thirtieth year of his Reign did unite and annex this House to the Priory of Christ-Church in Canterbury for ever so that none for the future should be Prior here but a Monk of Canterbury Valued at the Suppression at 170 l. 14 s. 11 d. ob per Annum BODMYN in Cornwall KING Henry the III in the seven and fiftieth year of his Reign confirm'd to the Prior and Canons of Bodmine the Mannor of Newton in the County of Devon formerly given them by King Eadred with Exemption from suit to the County of Devon and Hundred of Shefbury c. Valued at 270 l. o s. 11 d. per Annum St. GERMAINS in Cornwall IT was found by Inquisition in the thirtieth of Edw. the III. That King Canute endow'd this Church and that here was then a Bishops Seat for Cornwall which was after united to Cryditon and in the Reign of Edward the Confessor removed from thence to Exeter and that soon after Leofricus then Bishop of Exeter did remove from hence the Secular Canons and did found here a Priory of Canons Regular and that hereupon the Bishops of Exeter for the time being became Patrons of this Priory and enjoy'd the Profits of the Vacations of the said Priory when they happened Valued at 243 l. 8 s. per Annum PLIMTON in Devonshire HERE was formerly a Colledge consisting of a Dean and four Prebendaries founded by some of the Saxon Kings which Canons or Prebendaries were displaced by Wil. Warwist Bishop of Exeter because they would not leave their Concubines and a Priory of Canons Regulâ—â— erected here which Priory was founded in the Mansion-house of the Rectory of the said Church of Plimpton and the said Foundation confirm'd by King Hen. the I. who also granted and confirm'd to the Canons there divers Lands Liberties and Immunities Among other Benefactors to this Priory King Edgar gave them divers Lands for the Maintenance of two Canons ad divina ibidem celebranda pro peregrinis aliis hospitandis Afterwards King Edward the I. granted to the said Canons that for the future they might appoint and place in the Church of Landoho where the said Revenue did arise a Secular Vicar and Chaplain to celebrate there and to perform the said Alms and Hospitality nomine dictorum Prioris Canonicorum Valued at 912 l. 12 s. 8 d. ob per Annum WALTHAM in Essex THIS Monastery was built to the praise of our Lord Jesus Christ and of the holy Cross by Earl Harold afterwards King who endow'd the same with divers Lands and Goods All which were confirm'd with the Grant of great Liberties by King Edward the Confestor An. Dom. 1062. Which Harold being slain in Battle by William the Conqueror was buried in this Abby-Church An. Dom. 1177. The Secular Canons here were removed and Canons Regular placed in their room by King Henry the II. who confirm'd their Estate and Liberties and ordain'd that in the said Abby no Kinsman of the Abbot should be made Steward or other Officer nor any Officer to hold his place by Inheritance but removable at the Will of the Abbot and Canons The like Confirmation was made by King Richard Valued at 900 l. 4 s. 3 d. per Annum PENTNEY in Norfolk FOunded to the honour of God the glorious Virgin Mary and the blessed Mary Magdalen by Robert de Vauz and by him endow'd with divers Lands and Churches This Robert came into England with the Conqueror from whom descended by an Heir General the Lords Roos who became thereupon Patrons of this Priory Valued at 170 l. 4 s. 9 d. per Annum WALSINGHAM in Norfolk GAlfridus de Favarches endowed a Chappel here which his Mother had founded in honour of the perpetual Virgin Mary with divers Revenues confirm'd by Robert Brucutt and Roger Earl of Clare The Chappel here was first begun in the Reign of Edward the Confessor but the Canons introduced in the time of William the Conqueror Here was a perpetual Chantry establisht for the Souls of Thomas de Felton c. in the Chappel of St. Ann in the Priory consisting of four Chaplains 8. R. 2. Valued at 391 l. 11 s. 7 d. per Annum THREMHALE in Essex GIlbert de Montefixo or Munfichet who was a Roman by birth and Kinsman to the Conqueror came into England in his Army and having attained large Possessions here gave Land in Thremhale for the building a Religious House with some small Possessions and returning to Italy the place of his Nativity lest issue Richard de Munfichet who gave to God and the Church of St. Iames the Apostle at Thremhale divers Lands and Priviledges from this Richard are descended by an Heir General the Veres Earls of Oxford who became Benefactors to this House Valued at 60 l. 18 s. 7 d. ob per Annum The Priory of Huntington EVstachius the Viscount who also held the Barony of Lovetot founded the Priory of St. Mary of Huntingdon and endow'd it with divers Lands confirm'd by King Henry the I. In the Town of
Hospitals for the Infirme Of St. AUGUSTINS Order It was Decreed in the Council of Lateran An. Dom. 1179. That where a Number of Leperous People are gather'd together in Community they shall be permitted to enjoy to themselves a Church Churchâ— yard and Priest of their own But they must take care that this be no ways injurious or prejudicial to the Rights of Parish-Churches Yet shall not the Leprous or Lazer-houses be compelled to pay Tithes of the increase of their own proper Cattle St. LEONARD's Hospital in York ANno Dom. 800. King Egbert in a Parliament at Winchester chang'd the name of his Kingdom of Britain into that of England A. 924. Athestan succeeding his Father King Edward the elder in this Kingdom he substituted Hoâ—el King of Wales and Constantin King of Scotland saying it was more glorious to make a King than to be one Which Constantin more Scottorum perjurium non timens they are the Authors words soon after rebell'd against him and wasted the Northern parts about Northumberland Hereupon King Athelstan rais'd an Army and in his Journey towards Scotland made his Supplications to God for Victory at Beverlay York and Durham after which he overcame Constantin and imploring Almighty God to shew some token whereby the present and future Ages might know that the Scots ought to be subject to the Kings of England he strook his Sword into a Rock of Stone near Dunbar Castle and made therein a gash of an Ell deep which remains says my Author to this day This King returning out of Scotland Victorious did divers works of Charity in particular he gave to the Clergy or Ministers of the Church of St. Peter at York call'd Colidei for the better Relief of the Poor and Maintenance of Hospitallity certain Revenues and a piece of Ground for erection of an Hospital which Hospital when built was call'd the Hospital of St. Peter until the Reign of King Steven who built there a Church in honour of St. Leonard after which it was called the Hospital of St. Leonard King William Rusus King Henry the I. King Hen. the II. and others were Benefactors to this Hospital Walter de Langton Master of this Hospital in the 22 E. 1. made certain Orders for Government of the Brothers and Sisters in the same containing an exact direction how the Chaplains were to spend the day both in the Church and out of it in their Religious Offices c. That the Lay Brothers should not go beyond the Door of the Nave of the Church unless in processions that the Sisters have a convenient place appointed for them in the Church that neither any of them nor the Lay-Brothers go out of the Bounds of the Hospital without leave c. Valued at 362 l. 11 s. 1 d. ob per Annum CARMANS Spittle in Yorkshire FOunded by one Acehorne in the time of King Athelstan for one Alderman and fourteen Brothers and Sisters in the Town of Flixton Designed for the Relief of Travellers that they might not be exposed to Wolves and other wild Beasts of the Woods the said Founder endowing it with divers Possessions in Flixton with common of Pasture for twenty four Cows and one Bull c. The Vicar of the Church of Folketon in which Parish this Hospital was situate was used yearly on the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle to cellebrate a Solemn Mass in the Chappel of this Hospital the Assistants at which Mass enjoy'd several Indulgences King Henry the VI. An. 25. confirm'd the Possessions and Liberties of this Hospital naming it for the future Carmans Spitell St. GREGORY's Hospital in Canterbury FOunded by Lansranc Archbishop of Canterbury without the North-Gate of the City For infirm Men and Women to live a part in separate Divisions of the House The said Lanfranc built near this Hospital a Church in honour of St. Gregory the Pope placing Canons therein who were to take care of the Souls of the said Poor and were to receive their Provision daily from the Hospital these Canons were endow'd with fair Revenues which in the year 1384. were taxt or estimated in the whole at 133 l. 15 s. These Canons were at first Secular as establisht by Lanfranc but afterwards they were changed into Regulars by William Archbishop of Canterbury Valued at 121 l. 15 s. 1 d. per Annum BRACKLEY in Northamptonshire RObert Earl of Mellent who came into England with the Conqueror founded this Hospital where his Heart was kept intire preserved with Salt An. 6 Hen. 5. Matilda Widow of Iohn Lord Lovel granted her Mannor of Bagworth and Thornton in Leicestershire to certain Trustees and their Heirs for them to grant to Thomas Coltone and several others then Members of this Hospital Pensions for Life and by another Deed dated 8 H. 5. declared her Intention and Will to be to change this Hospital into a Priory of Friers Preachers consisting of twelve and a Prior the Kings License being first obtain'd after which the said Trustees to reenseoff her or her Heirs with the said Mannor or convey it to them back again Vid. Vol. 3. p. 83. St. JULIANS near St. Albans in Hertfordshire THe Church and House of St. Iulian near Eyewode was founded for Lazares by Gaufridus Abbot of St. Albans with the advice and consent of his Convent and endow'd with divers Tithes and parcells of Tithes in St. Albans Bradewey and elsewhere Confirm'd by King Henry the II. For the Government of these Brethren several Orders were made as that their Habit should be a Tunick and Supertunick of plain Russit that they should be single or if married to separate from their Wives both parties being willing that no Woman should enter into the House except the common Laundress or a Mother or Sister to visit their Relation when sick with License of the Custos that every Brother at his admitance should make Oath to obey the Abbot of St. Albans and his Archdeacon c. RIPPON in Yorkshire FOund by Inquisition that it was founded by Thurstan Archbishop of York for the Relief of Poor and Leprous People Endow'd with Revenues given at first to certain Sisters who lived here wherewith to find a Chaplain to celebrate in the said Hospital and to relieve all such Leperous People who being born in Ripschire should repair to this House where they were to receive one Garment called Bak and two pair of Shooes per Annum and every day to each man one Loaf half a Flagon of Ale c. Which said Sisters being dead the Archbishop that then was gave the Hospital to the Possession and Government of a Master and certain Chaplains but in time Leperous People decaying in the 15 E. 3. there were neither Brothers nor Sisters in this Hospital otherwise it remain'd as it ought Vid. Vol. 3. p. 89. St. GILES in the Sâ—burbs of London QUeen Maud Wife of King Henry the I. built on the West side of London a House for the Relief of Leperous People with an Oratory and call'd
by Edward or Eborard the II. Bishop of Norwich Vid. Vol. 3. p. 43. St. GILES at Norwich FOunded by Walter Suffeld alias Calthorpe Bishop of Norwich for a Master three Priests and twelve poor Women Valued at 90 l. 12 s. per Annum WELLE in ... FOunded by Ralph Neville for three Chaplains and certain poor and infirm People and by him endow'd with divers Lands which he held of the honour of Richmond for which he had the License of King Edward the III. An. 16. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 89. PONTFRACT in Yorkshire FOunded by William le Tabourerc for one Chaplain and eight poor People and endow'd by him and others with the License of King Edward the III. granted An. 8. ELSING-SPITTEL in London WIlliam Elsyng Citizen of London founded here a Colledge consisting of one Warden and four Secular Priests and an Hospital of poor People in the Parishes of St. Alphege and St. Mary Aldermanbury on which Colledge and Hospital he bestow'd certain Tenements and Rents in the said Parishes and elsewhere in London and gave the Patronage of the same to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's who united to this House and appropriated the Church of Aldermanbury c. The said Dean and Chapter to plaâ—â— the Warden and two of the Priests and the said William Elsyng the other two the Custos to be in Priestly orders and unbenificed elsewhere so also the four Priests Other Rules and Orders were made for the Government of this House as that the Custos or Warden shall at his admittance be sworn to the due Administration of his Office that the Warden and Priests shall daily say Mattins Masses and the Hours Vespers and Complin in the Chappel of the Hospital and visit the infirm People there that within three days after the Nativity of the blessed Virgin yearly the four Priests and Warden be new cloathed in like manner the four Priests Apparel not exceeding 30 s. for each and the Warden in a Garment of the same colour not exceeding 40 s. and that the Priests be allowed more for Linnen and Shooes c. 20 s. per Annum to each and the Warden 40 s. to be paid yearly eight days after Easter that ninety eight blind and poor People of both Sexes be received and lodged in this Hospital and Poor Blind or paralitick Priests if any such offer themselves to be received before any others c. Which orders were seal'd by the said William Elsyng An. Dom. 1331. 5 E 3. in the presence of Iohn de 〈…〉 Mayor of London the two Sheriffs and several Aldermen c. Not long after this viz. An. 1340. Ralph Bishop of London changed the Warden and Secular Priests of this Hospital of St. Mary within Cripplegate into a Prior and Canons Regular of St. Augustin under the Patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Paul's still all other things concerning the said Hospital relating to the poor c. to remain as before and this Commutation was upon the Petition of the Founder William Elsyng Valued at 193 l. 15 s. 5 d. per Annum BERKING-CHIRCHE near the Tower at London KING Edward the III. An. 44. granted his License to Robert Denton Chaplain to found an Hospital in his House or Messuage within the Parish of Berking-Church London for the Habitation of poor Priests and other poor men and Women who fall into Frensies and lose their Memory he also Licensed him to give and assign the same House and another Messuage in the Parish of St. Laurence Pountency both which Messuages were held of him in Burgage to certain Chaplains c. for the celebrating the Divine Offices c. But the intended Foundation here not taking effect King Rich. the II. An. 2. at the Petition of the said Robert granted him License to assign the Premisses c. to the Hospital of St. Katherine near the Tower St. MARY's in Leicester FOunded by Henry Duke of Lancaster near the Castle in Leicester An. Dom. 1330. And by him endow'd with divers Lands c. Here was also of his Frection a Collegiate Church in which he was buried An. 1361. The whole was to maintain a Dean and twelve Canons and as many Vicars one hundred poor People and ten able Women to serve them Vid. Vol 3. part 2. p. 139. Valued at 23 l. 12 s. 11 d. per Annum HEHTE in Kent KING Edward the III. An. 16. granted his License to Hamon Bishop of Rochester for the founding of this Hospital for thirteen poor People with a non obstante to the Statute of Mortmain HOLBECHE in Lincolnshire FOunded with License of King Edward the III. by Iohn de Kirktone for a Warden being a Chaplain and fifteen poor People Dedicated in honour of all Saints and by the said Iohn endowed with divers Lands held of the Abbot and Convent of Croyland St. NICHOLAS near York THis Hospital being of the Advowson or Patronage of the Kings of England was An. 1303. Visited by William de Grenefeud at that time Lord Chancellor at which time he made certain Orders for the Government of this House viz. that all the Brothers and Sisters of this Hospital should at their Admittance profess due Obedience to the Master and Warden and inviolaby observe perpetual Chastity That both Brothers and Sisters should be present at Matins Mass and the other hours unless hinder'd by Sickness c. and that they should say during the time of Divine Service the Lord's Prayer and Angelick Salutation with due devotion iterating the same as often as the Lord shall inspire them That the Brothers and Sisters should not live under the same Roof c. That what ever they have for their several uses shall after their death come to the House That they shall have a Common Seal that they shall not demise or bind any of their Possessions unknown to the Chancellor of England or his Successors That for the future none shall be Master or Custos of this House but such only as will undertake the Government in his own person If any transgress against their due obedience the Master or Custos shall for the first Offence punish the Ofsenders by with-holding their Commons for some days as the offence requires which punishment shall for the second offence be doubled for the third the party shall be expell'd c. Valued at 29 l. 1 s. 4 d. per Annum BOWES in the I le of Gerneseye FOunded with License of King Edward III. An. 35. by Peter of St. Peters in Gernsey in the Parish of Saintpierport in that Iland for a Master or Custos Brethren and Sisters and by him endow'd with twenty yardland and the delivery of fourscore quarters of wheat yearly arising out of certain Land in the said Parish which Land was held in Capite of the King by a Service call'd Chaumpert viz. the payment of the eleventh Sheaf arising on the said Lands yearly WOLVERHAMPTON in Staffordshire FOunded with License of King Richard II. An. 16. by Clement Lusone and
year of the Pontificate of Pope Paul the IV. which was 3 4. P. and M. Pag. 143. BARDNEY THE Monastery of St. Peter and St. Oswald at Bardney was re-edified and made an Abby by Gilbert de Gant whose Off-spring confirm'd and augmented the Lands and Endowments of the same From the said Gilbert de Gaunt who came into England with the Conqueror descended the Earls of Lincoln of that name Hugh Bishop of Lincoln recited and confirm'd the several Donations made to this Monastery Pag. 152. EVESHAM THE first and principal Founder of this Monastery was King Ethelred Son of Penda King of Mercia Which King Ethelred after he had reigned thirty years relinquisht his Kingdom and became a Monk at Bardney Of later years several of the name of Bushell were Benefactors to this House Pag. 169. CROWLAND LAngtost was given to this House An. 819. And the Mannor and Church of Baston An. 825. the first by Fiegistus the other by Algarus two Knights Pag. 176. DEREHAM SAint Wythburga the Virgin was Daughter of Anna King of the East-Angels and devoted to a Monastick Life She caused this Monastery to be built at Derham in which she lived a Nun this House was at first so poor that upon her earnes◠Prayer the Nuns here were supported by a kind of miracle two Does or Hinds being used to come daily to be milked at a certain place for a long time till the Chief man or Bayly of the Town envying hunted them away with Hounds but suffer'd God's Judgment for his malice and broke his neck in hunting St. Wythburg died and was buried in the Church-yard at Derham and five and fifty years after her Body was found uncorrupted and translated thence into the Church An. 798. But in the year 974. it was translated from Durham to Ely Pag. 191. WINCHCUMBE ANno 1175. Pope Alexander the III. recited and confirm'd the Lands and Possessions of this House and by the same Bull granted the Abbot and Monks here divers Priviledges viz. that they might present Priests of their own Election to the Bishop to be instituted in the Churches belonging to their Monastery which Priests were to answer to the Bishop for the Cure and to the Monastery for the Temporalties of the place that no one should exact Tithes of them for their Lands or Cattle in their own hands or Occupation that they might have free Sepulture for those who desired to be buried with them saving the Rights and Dues of the Parish Churches that they might cellebrate Divine Offices in time of a general Interdict with a low Voice and Doors shut c. That Chrisme and holy Oyl Consecration of their Church Ordination of their Monks and Clerks to Sacred Orders should be received from none but their Diocesan Bishop if he be Catholick and in the Communion of the Apostolick See and if he will do his Office freely and willingly otherwise they might repair for these matters to any other Bishop An. 1404 Richard Bishop of Worcester confirm'd the Appropriation of their Churches An. 5. R. 1. Robert the IV. was chosen Abbot of this House he ordain'd that on every Morrow of All Souls Novemb. 3. yearly one hundred poor People should be relieved here with Bread Drink and Meat 30 H. 3. Iohn Yanworth was chosen Abbot on the death of Henry 9 E. 2. Richard Ydeburi was chosen Abbot on the death of Thomas 4 E. 3. Robert de Ippewell then Abbot did freely and of his own accord Abdicate the said Office and Walter Winfort was chosen to succeed him Pag. 191. WILTON WVlstan Earl of Ellendin was the first Founder of the Chantry at Wilton which is the same with Ellendin King Egbert founded the Priory at the request of Elburga his Sister and Widow of the foresaid Earl Wulstan An. 773. In which the became a Nun with twelve others But the first Founder of the Abby or Monastery of St. Edith in Wilton was King Alrud who gave all his Mannor and Liberties at Wilton to the Nuns in perpetual Alms. King Athelstan was a great Benefactor An. 933 and 937. So was King Edgar An. 968 c. Pag. 193. AMBRESBURY THE Nuns here being about thirty in number were for their notorious scandal and naughty Life removed from hence and placed in other Monasteries and other Nuns brought from Font Ebrald in France and establisht here to whom King Henry the II. upon their first establishment gave divers Lands all which with other Revenues given by other Benefactors were confirm'd to the said Nuns of Font Ebrald by King Iohn in the second year of his Reign Pag. 242. RAMSEY IN the year 1100. several Great men of this Kingdom raised a War against King Henry the I. who were forced to fly into Normandy Guiscard de Lymosin Lord Molyns appeared there on the King's behalf and prosecuted the War against them for which service he was highly favoured by the King who brought him with him over into England and gave him Castles Lands and Honours This Norman Lord built that part of Ramsey Monastery which was call'd Norman's Isle And from him descend the Lords Molins Roger a younger Son of this Family was Castellan of Nottingham and call'd himself Roger de Leumesin anglicè Waterhouse Pag. 253. CHATERIDGE THIS Nunnery and Church were all burnt down by a casual fire in the time of Robert Orford who was Bishop of Ely An. 1302. whereupon the said Bishop wrote to the Bishop of London setting forth the distrest Condition of the Abbess and Nuns here in order to have them excused from the Payment of Tenths in consideration of their great Loss Pag. 276. BURTON NIgellus Abbot of Burton with the Consent of the Chapter there gave to one Orme their Land at Acovre under condition that he pay yearly twenty pieces of old Coyn each worth 16 d. xx oras and thereupon the said Orme became the Abbot's man and swore fealty and that when dead his Body should be brought cum totâ pecuniâ suâ to be buried at Burton Abby after which his Son was to appear in their Chapter-house to pay his Relief to take such Oath to make such Payments and to hold as his Father had done By other Deeds this Tenure was specified to be by the Payment of two Marks yearly at Martlemass to go with the Abbot to London when he goes thither on the Affairs of this House at the Abbot's Charge and come to his Court if summon'd to judge Felons Pag. 310. SPALDING THIS Monastery was given in the time of William the Conqueror to the Abby of St. Nicholas at Angiers by one Yvo Talboys and became a Cell to that Abby But it being found highly inconvenient to the good of this House that the Prior and other principal Officers here should come from beyond Sea and be removeable at the pleasure of the Abbot of Angiers they carrying away with them what they could get from this place after many contests it was agreed that the Prior of this House should
and Isabella de Say his Wife gave the Church of St. George of Clune to the Monks of St. Milburge at Wendloke Pag. 614. DUDLEY THe Church and Monastery of St. Iames at Dudley was founded and endow'd by Gervaise Paganel or Painel who granted that in whatsoever Pastures his own Cattle fed there also the Cattel of the Monks of Dudley might freely feed except in his Parks with tithe of his Bread hunting and fishing while he remains at Dudley An. 1290 Roger Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield granted a Remission of forty days penance to those who being truly contrite and confest should say the Lords Prayer and Salutation of the Blessed Virgin for the Soul of Roger de Somery buried in the Conventual Church of Dudley and for the Souls of all the Faithful deceas'd Pag. 619. LEWIS TO this House did belong divers Lands Churches and Tithes in Devonshire Sassex Surrey Kent and Norfolk the several Names of which and of the Benefactors who gave them may be seen in the Book at large Pag. 636. BROMHOLME KIng Edward II. granted to the Monks here the Mannour of Blaketon to hold in fee farm at the yearly Rent of twenty pound which Mannour did formerly belong to Edmund Earl of Kent Pag. 668. MONTEACUTE THis Monastery was founded by William Earl of Moriton near the Castle of Monteacute for Monks of Cluny and to it he gave the Burgh and Castle of Montacute and the Chappel in the Castle together with many other Mannours Lands Churches Tiths Fairs and Hundreds Pag. 687. TICKFORD GErvasius Paganell gave and confirm'd to the Monks of the Church of the blessed Mary at Newport divers Lands and Revenues given them by his Ancestors and by other men which held of his Fee An. 1187. These Monks of Newport the same with Tickford were here as a Cell to St. Martins call'd Majus Monasterium or Marmonstier in France Pag. 704. WAVERLEY POpe Eugenius the III. by his Bull dated at Paris An. 1147. granted to the Monks of this House and their Successors inter alia that no Tithes should be by any exacted of them for their Lands or Cattel in their own hands or occupation Pag. 768. CUMBERMERE BAldwin and Hubert successive Archbishops of Canterbury confirm'd to these Monks and their Successors several Churches and Chappels to them given among the rest that of Namptwiche Pag. 782. BILDWAS FOunded by Roger Bishop of Coventry Hugh Bishop of Coventry gave these Monks an Inn in Litchfield for their Reception when they came thither William Fitz-Alan gave them the Town of Little Bildewas with other Lands Henry Abbot of this House granted to Hamon de Benthale in consideration that his Mother was burden'd with many Children and at her instance a certain Allowance and stipen'd in this Monastery for Term of his Life which afterwards 11 E. 2. in consideration of a Sum of Money in hand paid to him by Iohn then Abbot the said Hamon did Release and Quit claim An. 1287 Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Constable of Chester confirm'd an exchange made between the Monks of this House and those of Crokesden viz. of Caldon Grange in Com. Stafford being of his Fee for certain Lands in Edwyneye in Com. Salop. Pag. 802. NEWMINSTER THE first and principal Founder of this Abby was the Lord Ralph de Merley from whom descended two Sisters who became Co-heirs to the Barony of Merley Mary married to William Baron of Graystok and Isabella married to the Lord Robert de Somervill all whose descendants were great Benefactors to this House so also were the Bertrams Barons de Mitford with divers others Ralph Baron of Graystok who died An. 1483. was also Baron of Wemme George Dacre Lord of Gillesland and Graystok died young and untimely by the accidental fall of a Wooden Vaulting-Horse An. 1569. he being then in Wardship with the Duke of Norfolk Pag. 866. DORE ROger de Clifford gave his Body to God and the blessed Mary and the Monks of Dore to be buried in the Church of Dore and with his body he gave them certain Land nomine Dotis Pag. 885. BLANCLAND PAganus de Cadurcis Son and Heir of the Lady Hawisia de London gave to the Cistercian Monks of Albaland nineteen Acres of arable Land that every Priest of the said House should daily in the Canon of the Mass make special commemoration for the Souls of such and such of his Family pro vivis inter Vivos pro defunctis inter mortuos Whose Deed bears date An. 1270. Pag. 892. DEULACRES ROger de Menilwarin gave to the Monks of this House for the Health of the Soul of Ranulph Earl of Chester and Lincoln his Mothers Brother in pure and perpetual Alms free Common in his Wood of Pevere House-bote and Hay-bote with Paunage for fifty Hogs Pag. 893. CLUNOCK-VAUR FOunded and endow'd by one Gwithno King Cadwalader and divers Welch Lords gave large Possessions to this Abby dedicated to God and St. Beyno Pag. 916. ROBERTSBRIG ALice Countess of Eu Daughter of William Earl of Arundell and of Queen Alizia gave Lands to this Abby in pure and perpetual Alms ad hospitalitatem sustentandam for the maintenance of Hospitality Which Lands were confirm'd to them by William the third Earl of Sussex her Brothers Son and by Iohn de Augo her Son Pag. 926. BEAULIEU KING Iohn gave out of his Treasury one hundred Mark for the building this Abby in Newforest and directed his Letters to all Abbots of the Cistercian Order to be helpful to the re-edifying of the same out of their several Stocks Pag. 936. VALE-ROYAL PRince Edward Son of King Henry the III. being in great danger of drowning at Sea as he return'd from the Holy Land vow'd in case he and his came safe to Land to erect a new Monastery in honour of God's blessed Mother Mary in some proper place in England and endow the same with sufficient maintenance for one hundred Cistercian Monks Which Monastery being afterwards built and by him named Vale Royal a Convent was translated thither from the Abby of Dore. In the year 1277 the said Edward being then King of England laid the first Stone of a new Building in the place design'd for the great Altar and after his example all the prime Nobility of the Land did the like in honour of our Lord Christ the Virgin Mary and the Holy Confessors St. Nichelas and Nichafius Their first Habitation was but small yet there they remain'd for the time of four Abbots till in the year 1330. the Convent was translated to a new Monastery on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin The place where this Monastery was situated was before call'd Munechene wro in Latin Monachorum silua Munchene in old English signifying a Monk or Nun and Wro a Wood. 'T is said that many years before this Monastery was founded in the place Shepherds and Country People did usually on the Solemn Feasts of the Virgin about Midnight hear Coelestial Musick and see such
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
Possessions of the said Hospital to enter and distrain and the distress to detain till his said Annuity and the Arrearages and his Expences be fully satisfied This Decree was made by consent and approbation of both Parties and bears date in the Archbishops Inn at Westminster now Whitehally An. Dom. 1485. Approved ratified and confirm'd by the Dean and Chapter of York and by the Master Brothers and Sisters of the said Hospital in the same year Pag. 381. RIPPON IT was found by Inquisition taken at Rippon 10 E. 2. that in the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen there according to the Foundation there ought to be two Chaplains daily celebrating that Strangers poor Clerks or other indigent People coming to the said Hospital in their travells ought to be lodged there one night and entertain'd with Victuals and Bed and in the Morning depart and that on St. Mary Magdalen's day yearly ought to be distributed in Alms to every poor Body that comes one Loaf of the value of a half-penny the quarter of Wheat being prized at 5 s. But they find that then Costos of this Hospital had perverted the Founders Charity in several particulars Pag. 461. WELLE RAlph de Neville Knt. Lord of Midleham by Indenture dated A. 1342 Founded the Hospital at Welle in the Archdeaconry of Richmond for the Augmentation of Divine Worship and for the sustentation of poor and miserable People and other Works of Piety and endow'd the same with Lands and Revenue and establisht therein one Master two Priests and four and twenty poor and infirm People And appointed that the Master and two Priests should constantly observe and keep the Canonical hours and celebrate three Masses daily KYPIER Hospital in the County Palatine of Durham FOunded by Ranulphus Bishop of Durham An. 1112. to the honour of God and St. Giles for the Relief of the Clergy there serving and for the sustentation of poor People who also endowed it with divers Lands and Revenues confirm'd and augmented by Hugh Bishop of Durham and other Benefactors The said Bishop Hugh granted to this Hospital Common of Pasture in his Forrest with certain Priviledges viz. that the feet of their Dogs should not be cut or clipt but that the Shepherds might lead them in slips ligatos for the safety of their Cattle from wild Beasts and Wolves An. 1297. A Composition was made between the Prior and Convent of Durham and the Hospital of St. Giles whereby the said Prior and Convent did quit-claim to the Brothers of that Hospital their Tithes of Corn at Clifton which till that time they had used to pay to the Church of St. Oswald in recompence whereof the Brothers of the said Hospital were to pay yearly upon the Altar of St. Oswald on the day of that Saint one Bisantium or 2 s. c. The Men of Bedelyngtonshire being obliged by their Lords the Bishops of Durham to give to the Hospital of St. Giles without Durham one Thrave of Corn out of every Plow-land which they held they granted under their Seals in lieu thereof 9 s. in mony to be paid to the said Hospital at the Feast of St. Michael with a Nomine paenae Valued at 167 l. 2 s. 11 d. per Annum STOKE Hospital near Newarke in Nottinghamshire JOhn Chauson Master of the Hospital of St Leonard's at Stoke and others Confraters of the same settled by their Deed oated in the year 1332. forty Acres of Land and thirty shillings of Rent which they had obtain'd of Friends for the profit of the said Hospital and provided that the Master of the same should cause sixty Masses to be celebrated yearly for ever for the said Benefactors c. To this every Master is to be sworn at his admission This Deed was ratified and confirm'd the same year by William Archbishop of York St. GILES Hospital near Maldon in Essex IT was found by Inquisition taken before Helming Leget Escheator in the County of Essex that the Kings of England were Founders of this Hospital for the support of Leprous Burgesses of Maldon that they had the Forfeitures of all Bread Ale Flesh and Fish that was not good and wholesome in the said Town and that when the Master of that Hospital should cease to take the same for the support as aforesaid then the said Hospital should come and revert to the King as forfeited that Robert Manfeild Clerk late Provost of Beverley being made Custos of this Hospital for above three years past has maintained neither Chaplain nor any Leprous Person in the same and that the said Hospital was therefore seized into the King's hands But King Henry the IV. being advised by his Justices and Serjeants at Law that this was no sufficient cause of seizure directed his writ to the said Escheator to amove his hand c. and meddle no further GINGES Hospital in Essex MIchael de Capra and Rose his Wife and William his Son and Heir gave to God and the Church of St. Mary and St. Leonard in their Wood of Ginges and to Toby Prior of the said Place and the Brothers of the same one Hide of Land Paunage for forty Hogs and divers other advantages BURCESTRE Hospital in Oxfordshire KING Edward the III. in the nine and twentieth year of his Reign licensed Nicholas Iordan Hermit Custos of the Chappel of St. Iohn Baptist of Burcestre to found an Hospital at Burcestre to the honour of God the glorious Virgin Mary and St. Iohn Baptist. Valued at 147 l. 2 s. 10 d. per Annum CALC Priory in Derbyshire MAtilda Countess of Chester gave to the Canons of this place an Estate at Rependone near Trent conditionally that they should make it the head Seat of their Convent to which Calc should be subject as a Member Hugh Earl of Chester confirm'd their Revenues ARUNDELL Hospital in Sussex KING Richard the II. An. 18. Licensed Richard Earl of Arundel to give four Messuages and two Tofts to the Master and Chaplains of the holy Trinity at Arundell for the founding of an Hospital call'd Meysondewe in honour of the holy Trinity c. Valued at 42 l. 3 s. 8 d. per Annum FOSS-GATE Hospital at York JOhn Archbishop of York Primate of England and Legate of the Apostolick See ordain'd and establisht in the Foss-gate-street at York an Hospital in honour of our Lord Jesus Christ and the blessed Virgin Mary That there be one Chaplain to have the Government of the same and to be named Master or Custos the right of presenting to the Office of Custos to belong to Mr. Iohn de Roucliff and his Heirs in their deâ—ault to the Mayor of York for the time being in his default to the Official of York Court and in his default that the Archbishop or Dean and Chapter may for that time confer the place without presentation the Custos on his admission to be sworn to a just and true Administration c. That there be constantly resident in the said Hospital thirteen poor and
l. per An. Pope Clement the VI. granted power to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Winchester to establish the said Canons and Knights by Apostolick authority and exempted the said Chappel and Colledge and all the members thereunto belonging from the Jurisdiction of the Archbishop or any other Bishop or Ecclesiastical Judg and that the Custos of the same shall have perpetual Jurisdiction over the Members of the said Colledge Paying to the Apostolick Chamber one Mark Sterling on the feast of St. George yearly The foresaid King Edward III. granted to this Colledge divers Churches and Revenues among other things a Rent of one hundred marks per An payable by the Bailiffs of the Town of Norâ—hampton out of the Kings Farm of the said Town King Henry IV. granted to the Custos and Canons here a void peice of Ground within this Castle near the great Hall call'd Wodehawe for Building Houses for the Vicars and Choristers King Edward IV. granted and confirm'd to them the Alien Priory of Okeburn with all the Lands and Churches thereunto belonging which had been formerly granted to Iohn Duke of Bedford by King Henry IV late de facto non de jure King of England and afterwards by the said Iohn Duke of Bedford given to this Collegiate Chappel the said Duke being desirous wholly to abdicate such spiritual Profits and restore them to their pristine Nature which gift was afterwards ratified and confirm'd by Henry V de facto non de jure King of England non obstante the Statute of Mortmain and now by the said King Edward IV. in the first year of his Reign Which King gave them also the Alien Priory of Vphavenne with all Rights thereunto belonging and divers other Lands and Revenues also the Alien Priory of Monkenlane in the County of Hereford he also gave them the Custody and Advowson of the Hospital or Free Chappel of St. Anthony in London and to enjoy the same with all the Estate thereunto belonging to their own proper use when it shall become void by death resignation or otherways He also gave them the Alien Priories of Brimesseld and Charleton and divers other Lands in the seventeenth year of his Reign The said King Edward IV in the ninteenth year year of his Reign reciting the first Foundation of this Collegiate Chappel by King Edward III and that Henry VI. de facto non de jure King of England in his Parliament held at Westminister in the eighth year of his pretended Reign had past an Act whereby he will'd and declar'd that this Colledge should bear the name of the Custos or Dean and Canons of the free Chappel of St. George within his Castle of Wyndesore did for the future incorporate them by the name of the Dean and Cannons of the Free Chappel of St. George within the Castle of Wyndesore by that name to purchase sue and be sued c. And granted License to Iohn Duke of Suffolk and Elizabeth his Wife to confer the Manour of Leighton-Buzzard and other Revenues on the same and also his general Licence to all other Persons of this Kingdom of England to grant Lands Rents or Advowsons to the Dean and Canons of this Chappel to the yearly value of 500 l the Statute of Mortmain or any other Statute or Law notwithstanding In the eighth year of King Richard II. Walter Almaly being then Custos an Inventory or Register was made of all the Books Vestments Relicks Chalices c. belonging to this Chappel Royal in which is particular mention of divers Missales and other Church Books several Volumes of the Decretals and Canon Law c. Vestments of different Colours Qualites and Richness Copes Coffers Crosses Tabernacles Images and Relicks adornâ—d with Jewels and precious Stones of extraordinary great value Morses of Silver and gilt eight Chalices of which one of Gold and set with precious Stones Candlesticks Censors Crosses and Basons of Silver gilt c. Miters set with precious Stones a Pastoral Staff c. A Silver Bell to ring before the Body of Christ in the Visitation of the Sick Besides divers Jewels and Relicks in the Treasury Three Crowns of Silver and gilt set with precious Stones one for the Blessed Mary another for her Son and the third for St. Edward RIPPON Collegiate Church ANno 1331. William Archbishop of York finding in his Visitation at this Church the same almost destitute of Canons Residentiary ordered with consent of all Parties concern'd that such Canons as are willing to reside and do actually reside shall have the Profits in his Deed specified that the Vicars shall be paid their Stipends out of the common Profits that every Cannon Residentiary shall reside twelve weeks in the year and that they be present at the Canonical hours in this Church in like manner as in his Collegiate Churches of Suthwell and Beverley King Henry the V. in the second year of his Reign granted that the six Vicars belonging to this Church for whom Henry Archbishop of York proposed to build a Habitation within the Close of the Church where they might eat and sleep together might choose among themselves a Superior by the name of Procurator and that the said Procurator and Vicars and their Successors might have a Common Seal be capable to purchase and receive Lands and by that name to sue and be sued c. Valued at 35 l. 3 s. 8 d. per Annum SIBETHORP in Yorkshire THomas de Sibethorp Parson of the Church of Bekingham by License of King Edward the III. An Reg 10. gave sixteen Messuages one Toft three Bovates one hundred and seventy Acres of Land fifty Acres of Meadow and 30 s. of Rent in Sibethorp c. to Iohn Cosin Custos of the Chappel of the Blessed Mary of Sibethorp for the maintenance of him and other Chaplains in the said Chappel and Successors and for the finding of thirty Wax-lights in the same and a Lamp to burn before the Crucifix TUXFORD in Nottinghamshire KING Edward the III. granted his License to Iohn de Lungvilers to found a Colledge of five Chaplains of which one to be Custos in the Parsonage house of the Church of Tuxford and to give the Advowson of that Church which was held in Capite of the King to the maintenance of the said five Chaplains there celebrating But the said Iohn not pursuing his Foundation in that manner the said King on his Petition granted him a new License in the one and thirtieth year of his Reign to give the said Advowson to the Prior and Canons of Newsted in Shirewode for their finding five Chaplains viz. three in the Church of Tuxford and two in the Church of the Convent of Newsted to celebrate for his Soul c. SUDBURY in Suffolk KING Edward the III. in the nine and fortieth year of his Reign granted his License to Simon of Sudbury Bishop of London and Iohn his â—rother to give and assign a Messuage Call'd Lamberds-hnll and three
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
Paynell the Lord William de Percy who gave the Church of Topcliffe to the Fabrick of this Church in return for which the Dean and Chapter promised to find a fit Chaplain for ever to celebrate in the Chappel of the Blessed Mary at Topcliffe and to allow him 100 s. yearly Ieffry Fitz Peter Earl of Essex the Abbot and Convent of Albemarl who gave Preston and other Churches in Holderness An. 1228. Nicholas de Stutville who gave Michael de Hamelsciâ his Native or Villain and all his progeny Henry Fitz Thomas and others were Benefactors to this Church An Inquisition was taken An. Dom. 1275 4. Edward I. in which all the Lands and Liberties of the Church of St. Peter in the City and Suburbs of York were set forth and exprest some of which the Jury then found to have belong'd to that Church time out of memory Walter Gray Archbishop of York granted to the Chapter of York by Deed dated An. 1241. All his Mansion House and all his Lands c. in Thorp St. Andrew or Bishops Thorp with Provision that the said Chapter reconvey the Premisses to his Successors to hold by the Rent of 20 marks per An. at the feast of St. Martin which twenty marks to be distributed to poor People on the day of his Anniversary c. The said Walter in the 33 year of his consecration caused certain Vicarages to be endow'd in the Churches of Tickhill c. which Churches were appropriated to the Prior and Convent of St. Oswald of Nostel in particular to the support of the Vicar of Tickhill and one associate Priest a Deacon and Subdeacon there he appointed the whole Altarage in which name he specifies all Oblations Tithes and profits of the Church of Tickhill except Tithes of Corn pulse and hay and the Lands belonging to the said Church saving a Competent Mansion to be assign'd to the Vicar which Tithes of Garbs and Hay and the said Lands shall remain to the said Convent of Nostell c. Herbert the Chamberlain Brother of King Steven and Steven and Reginald his Sons were Benefactors to this Church of St. Peter King Henry II. granted to Archbishop Walter and his Successors Free Warren in their Mannours of Shirburn and Cawood Aufridus de Chanci Paganus de Vilers Iohn Constable of Chester Robert de Vavasour and others were also Benefactors Thomas Archbishop of York before mention'd dyed at York on the Octaves of St. Martin An. Dom. 1100 in great Reputation as appears by his Epitapth enter'd in the Register of that Church There were certain Customes and Orders used of old time in this Church as that upon the Archbishops first coming to this City after his Consecration he was to be received in solemn Procession so also when he returns at any time from beyond Sea c. That the Bishop of Durham was to present him with a rich Cope after his Consecration that every Prebendary should in his life-time give a Cope value 10 l. or after his death twenty Marks and at his death his Palfrey that the Dean is to be install'd by the Precentor c. That the Dean is bound to feed forty poor People daily that he is the greatest in the Church next The Archbishop and in the Chapter the greatest of all An. Dom. 1200. the then Dean and Canons did order and ordain that four Persons should be constantly resident viz. the Dean the Chantor the Chancellor and the Treasurer the Archdeacons to reside for three months in a year other Canons for half a year the common Profits to be divided among those only who are resident that no Vicar shall be admitted for favour but only such as are worthy and proper for the Service of the Church that none be promoted but by the Dean and Chapter and that no Vicar or inferior Minister be admitted into the Quire unless he have a good Voice King Henry the VIII made and establisht new Statutes by Letters Patents in the time of Edward Archbishop of York whereby reciting that they had in this Church an evil Custom long used that every Canon Prebendary was bound to spend in feasting the first year of his Residency one thousand Marks or else he could not partake of the Emoluments of the Place he abolishes the said Custom and all Statutes relating thereunto and Orders that the Statutes relating to the great Residency be observed and that they have their Distributions and Emoluments on the account of Residency duly paid from the day of their first entry on the same if there be none residing then all the common Profits of the Church to go wholly to the Treasury of St. Peter That all Canons then being in the City of York as well not resident as resident be called to assist at all Chapters that to the Chest wherein the Common-Seal is kept be three different Locks and Keys one to be kept by the Dean the other two by the two Senior Residents or if there be not at that time two Residentiaries then by the Precentor and Chancellor c. that all Custom incouraging Pomp and Prodigality be abolisht that a division of the Profits be made at the Feast of St. Martin according to the Days Weeks or Months of the Refidentiaries residing which Canons in the time of their Residency are to be present at Vespers Maâ—tins and high Mass at least without justexcuse under pain of losing that days distribution when absent c. Every Canon Residentiary to live at a House within the Close of the Cathedral and to have in Benefices at least 100 l. per Annum That the Vicars Choral shall when every Canon begins his greater Residence receive 5 l. and afterwards 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. per Annum That every Canon having a Prebend worth 8 l. per Annum shall yearly at the Feast of St. Martin contribute and pay into the hands of the Chancellor of this Church 6 s. 8 d. for the providing of Preachers in the said Church which Preachers are to be provided on the Rogation-days Sundays and other days at discretion this not to excuse the Dean and Chancellor or any others to preach themselves as they are obliged by Statute or Custom c. Which Letters Pattens bear date 3 Iune 33 H. 8. To this Cathedral Church did belong abundance of Jewels Vessels of Gold and Silver and other Ornaments rich Vestments and Books viz. ten Miters of great value among which one small Miter with Stones for the Bishop of the Boys or Children pro Episcopo puerorum one Silver and gilt Pastoral Staff many Pastoral Rings among which one for the Bishop of the Boys Chalices Vials Pots Basons Candlesticks Thuribules Holy Water-Pots Crosses of Silver one of which weighed eight pound six ounces Images of Silver and Gold Relicks in Cases extreamly rich great Bouls of Silver a Unicorns-Horn a Table of Silver and gilt with the Image of the blessed Virgin enamiled thereon weighing nine pounds eight ounces and a half several