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
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
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
grant of Liberties in like manner as his Predecessor Richard Earl of the Normans had given them St. FLORENCE at Saumers in Anjou KIng Henry II. confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby their Possessions among others their Cell of Sele in Suffolk FONTANE in Normandy FOunded by Ralf Taxo and by him endow'd with large Lands and Possessions with the good will of William Prince of the Normans qui Regnum Anglia armis subjugavit strenué gubernavit which King William the Conqueror confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby four Churches with all their Tithes and Customes in England among which Toucester in Northamptonshire FONT-EBRALD in Normandy KIng Henry II. granted to the Nuns of this Abby the Mannour of Lecton in Bedfordshire with other Lands amounting to 60 l. per An. with the Confirmation of a yearly Alms out of the Exchequer of 24 l. per Annum granted by his Grandfather King Henry I. King Henry III. confirm'd to these Nuns all their Lands c. in England FULCARDIMONT ALice Countess of Eu Augum confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby the several Lands given them in England by Iohn Earl of Eu her Grandfather JUMIEGES in Normandy KING Henry the II. confirm'd the Lands given to these Monks by William Son of Rollo Robert Archbishop of Rhoan King William c. GOISLAFONTAN FOunded and endow'd for Nuns by Hugo de Gornaio and others GRANDIMONT in Normandy KING Henry the V. An suo 8. confirm'd to the Prior and Convent of this place all the Lands granted by his Progenitors Kings of France and England Robert Earl of Mellent was the Founder and many the Benefactors King Henry the II. granted them an annual Rent of 200 l. in free Alms confirm'd by King Iohn GRESTAIN in Normandy KING Richard the I. confirm'd to the Monks of this House their Lands given by King William the Conqueror and others The like did King Edward the II. LIRA in Normandy KING Henry the II. confirm'd to the Monks their Lands and Cells in England The Earls of Leicester were great Benefactors to this House so were divers others of prime quality in England LONLEY in le Maine FOunded in the Chatellery of Danfront and Diocess of Mans by William de Belesmo and endowed with Revenues in and about Dumfront in Normandy St. MARTIN of the Major-Monastery in Tourain KING Henry the II. granted to the Monks of this place divers Lands and Tithes in England St. JOHN's in Poictou KING Iohn confirm'd to the Monks here the Church of St. Nicholas MONTISBURG in Normandy THE Estate of these Monks in England given by Richard de Rivers and others was confirm'd by King Hen. II. and King Edw. 3. NOA in Normandy FOunded by Maud the Empress Daughter of King Henry the I. for Monks St. MARTINS in the Suburbs of Paris STeven Earl of Albamarl and Havisia his Wise Daughter of Ralph de Mortuomari were Benefactors to the Monks here St. REMIGIUS in the City of Reims KING Edward the III. An. suo 6. confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby divers Lands in England DE PRATO at Rhoan FOunded by King Henry the I. and by him and Maud the Empress endow'd with Lands both in Normandy and England St. AMAND at Rhoan THE Abby of Nuns here was founded by Goscelinus the Viscount and Emmelina his Wife Endowed by them and several others among the rest King William the Conqueror and Queen Maud. SAVIGNY in Normandy KIng Edward III. confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby their Lands in England among which their Cell of Benyngton in Lincolnshire St. MARTINS at Alcey in Normandy FOunded and endow'd by Steven Earl of Albamarl and his Ancestors without the Walls of the Castle of Albemarl St. NICHOLAS at Angiers FIrst founded by Fulk Earl of Anjou An. Dom. 1020. whose Son Ieffrey married Maud the Empress daughter of King Henry I. She granted to the Monks of this Abby divers Lands and Churches in England as Spalding in Lincolnshire c. See more in Spalding Vol. 1. p. 306. St. SAVIOURS at Constantine THeir Possessions in England were confirm'd to these Monks by King Henry II. with the grant of great Liberties and Priviledges in his Forrests St. MARTINS of Troarne THe Possessions of these Monks were confirm'd by Henry Duke of Normandy and Aquitain and Earl of Anjou St. VICTORS at Calete in Normandy KIng Henry II. Confirm'd the Estate of the Monks of this place which they had both here and beyond Seas with the grant of Liberties c. St. WALERIC in Picardy KIng Henry II. Confirm'd to the Monks here Takley in Essex c. with divers Liberties and great Immunities St. WANDRAGISILUS in the Dioc. of Roan FOunded and endow'd at Fontanell by Richard II Duke or Prince of the Normans An. Dom. 1024. XANTON in Aquitain KIng Iohn confirm'd the Liberties granted to the Nuns of this Abby CLUNY in the Dutchy of Burgundy ROger Earl of Salop and Adelina his Wife gave the Manner of Chelton to this Abby AULNAY AN Dom. 1199. William de Similleio and his Ancestors founded and endow'd this Abby in the Diocess of Bajeux for Cistercians They demised certain Tithes in Oxfordshire for the Rent of 40 s. per Annum An. 1304. de BONOPORTU FOunded for Cistertian Monks by Richard I. King of England and endow'd among other things with one hundred marks yearly issuing out of his Rents in the Town of Dieppe St. MARY de Voto at Cherburg in Normandy FOunded and endow'd by King Henry II. and his Mother Maud the Empress Confirm'd by King Richard I. and King Henry III. for Cistertians St. MARTIN and St. Barbara in Normandy KIng Henry II. confirm'd the Lands given to the Canons of this Abby both in Normandy and England BELENCUMBRIS WIlliam de Waren and Isabel his Wife gave divers Lands and Rents to this Priory of All Saints An. Dom. 1135. St. WLUAR at Bologne in Picardy KIng Henry I. at the Solicitation of Ida Countess of Bologne gave and confirm'd to the Canons of this Priory Notfield in Surrey FOUGERES in Britany COnan Duke of Britan gave the Canons of this Place the Church of Cestrehunt in the Diocess of London Ranulph Earl of Chester writ to the Bishop of London on behalf of these Canons and because he had not his own Seal by him at that time he sent his Letters under the Seal of the Lady his Mother yet the Said Letters conclude Teste meipso apud Martillum The Hospital of St Mary Magdalen at Bologn KIng Henry I. confirm'd to this Hospital 20 l. per Annum arising out of Kent The Hospital of Lepers of Kenilli near Roan KIng Henry II. founded this Hospital for Leperous Women and gave it 200 l. per Annum King Richard I. gave them 40 l. per Annum But this was Anjou pounds The Hospital of Vernon in Normandy FOunded and largely endow'd by St. Lewis King of France An. Dom. 1260. The Hospital of the Holy Ghost at Rome FOund by Inquisition 20 Edward III. that King Iohn gave
the Church of Wrytele in Essex for the maintenance of the Poor in this Hospital call'd the English Hospital at Rome BLANCLAND in Normandy FOunded for Canons and endow'd with Lands in England by Richard de Hay and his Wife De BELLOPORTU in Normandy AN. Dom. 1202. Alen Son of Earl Henry gave divers Lands in England to the Canons Regular of this Abby Premonstratenses Dominican Nuns near Roan FOunded by St. Lewis King of France beyond the Bridge at Roan and by him endowed with 500 l. Turnois per Annum and divers Liberties An. Dom. 1269. The Cathedral Church at Roan DIvers Lands in England were formerly given to the Canons of this Church and their Successors by King Henry Earl Otho and more especially by King Iohn viz. The Mannor of Clere in Hampshire Oteri in Devonshire Kilburn in Torkshire c. Irish Monasteries St. ANDREWS in the Territory of Ardes Ardee FOunded by Iohn de Curceio At first a Cell to the Abby of Lonley in Normandy and by them granted to the Archbishop of Armach The Nuns at Corke FOund by Inquisition 29 E. 1. that it was not to the Kings damage for William Barry and others to settle certain Lands there mention'd on Agnes de Hareford and other Nuns and their Successors in the House of St. Iohn Baptist in St. Iohn's-street in Cork St. PATRICKS at Downe FOunded An. Dom. 1183. for Monks and a Prior from St. Werburgs at Chester but without any Subjection to the Church of Chester The Bishop of Down was Custos and Abbot of this Monastery in like manner as the Bishops were in the Churches of Winchester and Coventry Iohn de Curci the Founder of this Monastery endow'd it with divers Revenues and Tithes among other things of all his hunting The Nuns at GRANE in the County of Kildare POpe Innocent the III. An. Dom. 1207. confirm'd the Lands given to this House by Walter de Rideleford and others the like confirmation was made by King Iohn in the ninth year of his Reign KILCUMYN FOunded by Philip de Wigornia Constable of Ireland and furnished with Monks from Glastonbury NEDDRUM a Cell to St. Bege in Yorkshire ANno Dom. 1177. 23 H. 2 the Lord Iohn de Curci subdued Vlster An. 1178. he gave Neddrum to the Monks of St. Bege with great Priviledges Divers Benefactors gave Lands to this Priory all which was confirm'd An. Dom. 1202. by Iohn Cardinal of St. Steven in Mont Caelius Apostolick Legat. OCYMILD FOunded by William de Burgo and given to Richard a Monk of Glastonbury ARKEL a Cell to Furnes in Lancashire FOunded by Theobald Walteri Butler of Ireland and by him given to the Monks of the Cistercian Order at Furnes with divers Liberties BELLO BECCO another Cell to Furnes FOunded and endow'd by Walter de Lascy for Cistercian Monks who afterwards by License of King Edward the III. transferr'd their Estate here to the Abbot and Convent of Furneys DUNBROTHY in the County of Wexford HArvey de Monte Marisco the Kings Marshal of Ireland gave this place with divers other Lands for a Cell to the Abby of Bildwas in England William Marshal Earl of Pembroke was a great Benefactor to this House whose Gifts were confirm'd by King Edward the III. among which things they had a grant of Pasture for eighty Cows and one thousand five huudred Sheep yearly JEREPONT FOunded by Dumwald King of Ossery and endow'd by him with Baleochellam in which the Monastery was founded and other Lands all confirm'd by Iohn Lord of Ireland and Earl of Morton KYLLECONIL FOunded by Donald O Bryan Confirm'd by King Henry the III. An. suo 4. MELLIFONT KING Iohn confirm'd to the Monks of the Church of St. Mary at Drogheda divers Land which they enjoy'd before the coming of the French into Ireland The like confirmations were made by King Henry the III. and King Edward the III. NEWRY in the County of Down FOunded and endowed for Cistercian Monks by Mauritius mag Lochlain King of all Ireland by the unanimous consent of the Great men and Petty Kings of Vlster ROSGLAS FOunded and endow'd by Dermitius O Demesy King of Ofalia St. SAVIOURS FOunded by William Marischal Earl of Pembroke confirm'd by King Henry the III. with the grant of great Liberties To this Abby was afterwards united the Abby of Kilkenny TYNTERNE FOunded according to the last Will of William Marischal Earl of Pembroke and ratified by King Iohn DE VALLE SALUTIS FOunded by Dermitius an Irish King and by him and his Subjects endow'd with divers Lands Confirm'd by King Iohn WONEY in the County of Limerick FOunded An. Dom. 1205. and endowed with Lands and Liberties by Theobald Walteri Butler of Ireland St. CROSSE in the County of Tiperary FOunded and endowed by Donald King of Lumney Lumnicensis BALLINTOBBER in the County of Maio. Canons Regular FOunded by Catholus O Conogher King of Connaught An. Dom. 1216. CONNAL a Cell to Lanthony in England FOunded An. 1202. by Maylerus Son of Henry for Canons Regular Confirm'd by King Iohn The Hospital of St. Mary's near Droheda FOunded and endowed by Vrsus de Swemele for the maintenance of poor and infirm People and such as are in Want The Custos of which Hospital to be chosen by the Good men Proborum hominum of Drogheda ALL-SAINTS in the East-part of Dublin FOunded and endowed for Canons by Dermont King of Leimster confirm'd by King Henry the II. St. THOMAS the Martyr in Dublin FOunded and endowed by William Son of Audelinus Sewer to King Henry the II. by Authority of that King and for him FERNE in the County of Wexford FOunded and endowed by Dernatius King of Leimster An. 1158. He also granted them free choice of their own Abbots according to the Rule of St. Augustine KENLIS and Inistiock in the County of Kilkenny JEffrey Son of Robert came into Ireland with William Earl Marischal and obtain'd the Barony of Kenlis in Ossorey at which place he afterwards built a Monastery for Canons Regular which he brought over from Bodmin in Cornwalk One of whom was Hugh de Rous who after that became the first English Bishop of Ossery About An. 1206. Thomas Son of Anthony founded a Priory at Iâ—istiock which became as a Cell to Kenlis Hugh de Lacy and Walter de Lacy were Benefactors The Hospital of St. John Evangelist at Kilkenny FOunded and endowed An. 1220. by William Mareschal Earl of Pembroke KILVAYNARD a Priory of Augustin Nuns POpe Celestin the III. An. 1195. confirmed their Lands and Possessions with the grant of divers Liberties St. JOHN BAPTIST at Nenath in the County of Tiperary FOunded about the year 1200. by Theobald Walter Butler of Ireland and by him endow'd with Lands for the Maintenance of Canons and thirteen poor and infirm People FERMOY FOundeds and endowed for Canons Regular of St. Augustin by Alexander Son of Hugh Confirm'd by King Edward the I. An. suo 18. TOBERGLORIE in the County of Down FOunded and endowed by Iohn de Curcey and by
it they did it was observed that they immediately died thereupon Bishops and famous Prelates that have gone from this House to govern other Churches are as follows viz. Birthwaldus Abbot here was made Archbishop of Canterbury Athelmus Monk here Bishop of Wells and after that Archbishop of Canterbury St. Dunstan Monk and Abbot here Bishop of Worcester then of London and lastly of Canterbury Egelganus Monk here Bishop of Chichester and Archbishop of Canterbury Sigericus Monk here Bishop of Wells and Archbishop of Canterbury St. Elphegus a Martyr Bishop of Winchester and after that Archbishop of Canterbury Elnothus Monk here and Archbishop of Canterbury in the time of King 〈◊〉 To these may be added Gaufridus a Bishop and Monk here ob Anno Dom. 782. Ethelwinus a Bishop who died the same year Wiâ—ertus a Bishop ob Anno Dem. 800. Wigthagu Bishop ob Anno Dom. â—36 Alstanus Bishop ob Anno Dom. 842. Tumbertus Bishop ob 866. Daniel Bishop ob 956. Elfricus Bishop ob 988. Also in the time of King Edgar Sigegarus Bishop of Wells Britelmus Bishop of Wells 〈◊〉 Sigefridus St. Ethilwoldus Wilsinus Aelfâ—anus Egelricus Kenwaldus 〈◊〉 Livingus Brithwius Britwaldus who died Anno Dom. 1055. All these of 〈◊〉 in this House became Bishops of divers places in England The Benefactors to this House were first Arviragus King of the Britaâ—is who though a Pagan gave to St. Ioseph and his Companioâ—os the Isle in which the Monastery was built call'd by the Inhabitants Ynswyrtryn which King Lucius did afterwards confirm to Phaganus and Diruvianus and their Disciples King Arthur gave many other adjoyning Lands King Kenwalli King Kentwinus King Baldredus Bishop Hedda King Kedwalla King Ina gave other Lands So did St. Wilfridus Archbishop of York and abundance of others of both Sexes among the Principal of which were King Sigebert King Offa King Alfred or Alured King Athelstan King Edmund King Edwin King Edgar King Edmund Ironside with several Queens These and many other names with the Lands by the several Benefactors given may be read of in the Monasticon at large p. 9 10 14. 15. c. St. Patrick who was born in the year of our Lord 361. after his Conversion of Ireland to Christianity became Abbot of this Place and obtained of Pope Celestine twelve years Indulgence to all those who should with pious Devotion visit the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary here erected and honour her with any part of their Goods About the year of our Lord 505. Augustine the Monk was sent into England by the holy Pope Gregory to preach the Faith to the English Saxons He converted Fthelbert the King of Kent and his People Aâ—terwards being made Archibshop he establisht his Metropolitan Seat at Canterbury and there placed certain Monks living according to the Rule of St. Benedict after this several Monasteries in England were erected under the same Rule which obtained so great reputation that there were no Monks to be found in England but what were of this Order and in those time the Rule of St. Benedict began to be first observed in the Monastery of Glastonbury they living here before that after the manner of the Monks of Egypt King Ina began his Reign over the West Saxons Anno 689. and gave much Land to this Monastery he also built the greater Church at Glastonbury in honour of our Saviour and of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul And by his Charter bearing date Anno Dom. 725. Granted to this Monastery many and great Priviledges and Immunities King Ina dying in a Pilgrimage to Rome his Successor Ethelardus became also a bountiful Benefactor as were several other succeeding Kings of the West Saxons c. King Edmund granted to the Church of the holy Mother of God at Glastonbury and to the venerable Dunstan Abbot there the Liberty and Power Rights and Customs and all Forfeitures in all their Lands i. e. Burgbrice Hundred Socna Atbâ—s Ordelus Infangenetheofas Homsecna Frithbrice Foresteall Toll and Team through the Kingdom of England and that they should enjoy their Lands as free from all Claims as he enjoy'd his own especially to the Town of Glastonbury it self with many other Liberties c and this was by his Charter dated Anno Dom. 944. King Edgar by his Charter dated at London Anno Dom. 971. granted to the said Monastery the same and greater Liberties among other things that the said Monastery and some Parishes there mentioned subject and belonging to it should be exempt from the ordinary Jurisdiction of the Bishop except in some things with a Salvo to the holy Church of Rome and that of Canterbury And gave and confirmed to this Church two hundred and fifteen Hides of Land given by several Benefactors William the Conqueror at his first coming to the Crown did very much mutilate the Possessions of this Church He made one Turstinus a Norman Abbot here in the year 1081. And in order to make some amends to the Monks he confirm'd to them several Lands which they complained to have been unjustly taken from them Herlewin and Henry Brother of Theobald Earl of Blois and Nephew of King Henry the I. were two Abbots of this Monastery who through their industrious endeavours obtained much good to this House and the Restoration of many Lands which had been taken from it Vid. Vol. 2. p. 837. This Abby was valued before the Suppression at 3311 l. 7 s. 4 d. ob per Annum The Cathedral Church of Canterbury IN the time of the blessed Gregory's Papacy St. Augustine with several other Monks were sent to convert the English People who in the year of Grace 600. or according to others 596. coming into England converted King Ethelbert and some thousands of his People which King gave them a Mansion in his Capital City of Canterbury then called Dorobernia there to Preach and Baptize Hereupon the blessed Augustine having received a Pall from Pope Gregory built a Church there and dedicated it to the honour of our Saviour Jesus Christ he also did here institute the Metropolitan Seat of himself and Successors And having rais'd here a Monastery of Monks the People flow'd in to him from all parts some for Baptism and some to become Monks devoting themselves and all they had to God's service The Principal Benefactors were King Ethelbert who gave them his Palace in Canterbury which Pope Gregory decreed to be the Metropolitan Seat and made it the first in Dignity it having first received the Faith Ethelbaldus Son of Ethelbert King Cedwalla King Offa Edmundus King of Kent Cenulphus King of Kent Beornulphus King of Mercia King Athelstan King Edmund St. Edward the Confessor William the Conqueror King Henry the I. Henry the II. Richard the I. Edward the III. Edward Prince of Wales his Son Henry the IV. These and abundance of others of inferiour condition gave and confirmed to this Church many Lands Priviledges and Immunities the particulars of all which Lands c. may
be seen in the Monasticon at large The Monastery of St. AUGUSTINES in Canterbury SAint Augustine being sent by Pope Gregory as aforesaid arrived at the Isle of Thanet in Kent in the year 596. with several Monks and Ministers of God's Word about forty in number they were kindly received by King Ethelbert who received holy Baptism on Whitsonday Anno Dom. 597. After this Augustine went over to the Bishop of Arles in France and being by him ordain'd a Bishop he returned into England At Canterbury he fixt his Metropolitan Seat as above-mentioned A little without this City on the East-side had been an Idol Temple formerly made use of by King Ethelbert before his Conversion this Augustine chaâ—g'd into a Church and dedicated in the name of St. Pancrace the Martyr Afterwards in the year 605. Augustine obtain'd this Church and the adjacent Ground of King Ethelbert upon which place a new Church was built and dedicated to the honour of St. Peter and St. Paul which Church was stored with Monks endow'd with Revenues by that King and appointed for the burial place of himself and Successors as also chosen for the burial of Augustine and his Successors Archbishops of Canterbury King Ethelbert having built and endow'd this Monastery he placed there by the Council of Archbishop Augustine one Peter a Monk to be Abbot of it The Archbishop Augustine granted several Priviledges to this Monastery and denounced heavy Censures against any who should violate the same in future times This Monastery was used for a burial place of the Archbishops the Monks and others of Canterbury for many years it being in those times not usual to bury within a City till the Venerable Cuthbert came to be Archbishop being the 11th after Augustine who being at Rome obtain'd of the Pope the liberty of having burial places in England within Cities On the East-side of Canterbury without the City and near this Monaslery stood the Church of St. Martin which Church was the Seat of a Bishop who always remain'd at home or in the County and in the absence of the Archbishop used to act for him The last Bishop of this Church was one Godwyn who dying in the time of William the Conqueror when Lanfrank was Archbishop of Canterbury he refused to subrogate any other Bishop in his place but instead of a Bishop constituted an Archdeacon there Valued before the Suppression at 1413 l. 4 s 11 d. ob q. per Annum ROCHESTER in Kent ANno Dom. 600. King Ethelbert founded the Church of St. Andrew the Apostle at Rochester and gave to it several Lands as did also Eadbert King of Kent Offa King of Mercia and divers others denouncing to the Violators of their pious Donations heavy Curses and Imprecations All which Lands and Liberries King Henry the I. did confirm to the said Church to Gundulf the Bishop there and the Monks serving God in it Other principal Benefactors to this Church and the Monks here were King William the Conqueror King William Rufus Rodbert Son of King Henry Robert Fitz Hamon and William de Albeiney the King's Butler Vid Vol. 2. p. 844. Vol. 3. p. 1. Valued before the Suppression at 486l 11 s. 5 d. per Annum WINCHESTER Cathedral Church ANno Dom. 608. Kinegilsus Son of Celric King of the West Saxons after his Baptism and his peoples conversion to Christianty designed to build this Church and to it give all the Land lying about Winchester for the space of seven Leucas or Miles But himself being prevented by death from periecting what he intended his Son and Successor Kinwalcus perform'd the Work and confirm'd the Lands above-mentioned to the said Church Other principal Benefactors to this Church were King Ina Ethelardus King of the West Saxons Egbert King of all England who lies buried here King Alured who built a new Monastery within the Coemitery of the Episcopal Church endow'd it with Possessions and gave the Government of it to St. Grimbaldus This King first instituted Hundreds and Tithings Edward his Son and Successor King Ethelstan his Son King Edred his Brother King Edgar Queen Emma Mother of Hardecanute and Edward surnamed the Confessor which Queen having perform'd her purgation of supposed incontinency with Elwin Bishop of Winchester according to the Law Ordel by going over nine red hot Plowshares unhurt gave to the Church of St. Swithin here nine Manors so also did the said Bishop Elwin all which gifts were confirm'd by King Edward the Confessor Anno Dom. 1079. Bishop Walkelinus began to new build the Church from the Foundation towards which Work the King gave so much Wood as could be cut down and carried away from his adjoyning Wood called Hanepinges in three days and nights upon which such an innumerable Company of Carpenters assembled that in the time limitted they conveyed away the whole Wood. Anno Dom. 963. In the time of Bishop Ethelwold the secular Clergy of this Church living licentiously were displaced and Monks put in their room Vide infra p. 979. Valued at 1507 l. 17 s. 2 d. per Annum DURHAM Monastery ANno Dom. 635. Eighty eight years from the first coming of the English into Britain and thirty nine years from the coming of St. Augustine pious King Oswald erected a Bishops Seat in the Island of Landisfarn of which Agdanus became Bishop and placed there the Monks that came along with him Of this See Cuthbert was Consecrated Bishop at York on Easter-day Anno Dom. 685. To him Egfrid King of Northumberland gave Creec with the Lands three Miles about it and also Lugubâ—lia now called Carlile with the Lands fifteen Miles about it Ob. Cuthbert 687. Anno Dom. 729. Coelwolf King of Northumberland began his Reign he was a great Benefactor to this Church and became himself a Monk here All the Land lying between the two Rivers of Tyne and Tese was formerly given to St. Cuthbert and was subject to the Government of the Bishop of St. Cuthbert's Church till the Danes took away a great part of the Lands which were however restored again by King Ethelstan In the year 1074. Aldwinus a Monk and two of his Companions led a Monastick Life at a place then called Girecum or Girne in Northumberland from which three Monks three Monasteries proceeded namely one at Durham in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary and of St. Cuthbert one at Lestingham and one at a place then called Streneshalgh all three within the Kingdom of the Northumbers William de Karilepho by his Deed dated Anno Dom 1082. declared the many and great Liberties granted by Pope Gregory the VII and adds others to the Church of St. Cuthbert with an Anathema to the Impugnors King William the Conqueror upon the precept of Pope Gregory the VII and at the Petition of William Bishop of Durham removed the Secular Canons out of the Church of Dâ—â—ham and placed Monks in their room and confirmed all the Liberties and Priviledges granted to the said Church and this by his
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
St. Mary at Lancaster with divers Lands and Revenues to the Monastery of St. Martin All which was confirm'd by Iohn Earl of Morton and by King Richard the II. An. 1246. Iohn Romanus Archdeacon of Richmond appropriated the Church of Lancaster and Chappels thereunto belonging to this Priory reserving twenty Marks per Annum for a Vicar presentative OTTERY in Devonnshire a Cell to the Abby of St. Michael pericul mar in Normandy THIS Priory was founded by King Iohn for four Monks and endow'd with Lands of 100 l. value per Annum These Monks were to distribute to the Poor at their Gates bread to the value of 16 s. every week LODRES in Dorsetshire a Cell to the Abby of St. Mary de Mon-Bur BEnedict de Redueriis gave this Mannor to the Monastery of St. Mary de Monte Burgo confirm'd by King Henry the I. APLEDERCOMB in the Isie of Wight a Cell to the Abby of Mont-Burg in Normandy THIS Priory consisted only of a Prior and two Monks who were removed by Command of King Edward the III. to a more Inland Habitation first to the Abby of Hyde and after that in the 13. E. 3. to Salisbury FRAMPTON in Dorsetshire a Cell to Caen in Normandy THIS was given to St. Stephens at Caen and the Monks there by King William the Conqueror and with divers other Lands and Liberties confirm'd to them by King Richard the II. SWANESEY in Cambridgeshireâ— a Cell to St. Sergius in Angiers THE Church of Swanesey with all manner of Tithes there and in the Vills thereunto belonging were given by Alan Earl of Britain to the Abby of St. Sergius and St. Bachus at Angiers who presented the Prior to this Priory as often as the Office avoided BLAKENHAM in Suffolk a Cell to St. Mary at Bec. THIS was given to the Abby abovesaid by Walter Giffard and confirm'd by King William Rufus COGES in Oxfordshire a Cell of Fischamp MAnnasses Arsic gave this Estate with other Tithes and Revenues to the Church of Fiscampe Anno 1103. WESTWOOD in Worcestershire a Cell to Font-Ebraud OSbert Fitzâ— Hugh and Eustachia de Say his Mother erected here a Convent of Nuns of Font-Ebraud WELLS in Norfolk a Cell of the Abby at Caen in Normandy KING Edward the III. in the forty seventh year of his Reign being then in War with France committed the Custody of the Priory of Paunfeild and Wells to Hugh Fastolf to hold at the yearly Rent of 40 l. per Annum to the King and 10 l. per Annum to each Monk there for his support This Priory being first given by William de Estois to the Abby of St. Steven at Caen and after seized into the King's hands by Edward the III. it continued in the Crown till 9. Edw. 4. at which time that King desirous to restore this Estate to its antient use the Spiritualty and out of the Devotion which he bore to St. Stephen he conferr'd the whole Estate which did formerly belong to this Priory on the Dean and Canons of his free Chappel of St. Steven at Westminster PATRICKSBURN in Kent a Cell to Beau-Lieu in Normandy IT was found by Inquisition taken at Canterbury the 6 Edw. 3. that this Mannor was given to the Priory of Beau-Lieu in Normandy by Iohannes de Pratellis and confirm'd by King Iohn STOKE-CURCY in Devonshire a Cell to Lonley in France HVgh de Novilla gave to God and the Monks at Stok-curcy the Church of St. Andrew of Stoke-curcy with other Revenues William de Curcy and Iohn de Novilla were also Benefactors SHIRBURN in Hampshire a Cell of St. Vigor Cerasius HEnry de Portu or Port gave the West part of Shirburn with the Church there and divers other Revenues to God and St. Vigor Cerasius all which was confirm'd to the Monks at Shirburn by his Descendents King Edward the III. gave the Custody of the Hospital of St. Iulian or Domus Dei at Southamptonto Queens Colledge in Oxford to which Hospital King Edward the IV. in the first year of his Reign gave the alien Priory of Shireburn in Hampshire BURWELL in Lincolnshire a Cell of St. Mary Silvae Majoris JOhn de Hay gave to God and the Monastery of St. Mary Silvae Majoris and to the Monks at Burwell divers Possessions from whom descended Gilbert de Vmframvill Earl of Angos who lived at Burwell LANKYWAN in Wales a Cell to the Abby of Lyra. EDmund Son of King Henry the III. discharged this House from all Exactions and Troubles from his Heirs or their Bayliffs in the Vacation of a Prior. SELE in Sussex a Cell of St. Florence at Saumurs WIlliam de Braiosa by his Deed dated 1075. gave the Church of St. Peter at Sele with other Churches and Revenues both in England and Normandy to the Abbot and Monks of St. Florence This Priory of Sele was made Indigena or Denison 19. R. 2. OKEBURN in Wiltshire a Cell to Bec in Normandy MAtilda de Wallengfort gave to the Church of St. Mary of Bec both the Okeburns viz. the greater and the less Richard Earl of Cornwall by his Deed dated 1253. discharg'd the Abbot and Monks of Bec from all Exactions and Suit of Court in his honour of Walingford except only that his Bayliff of Walingford should once a year keep a view of Frankpledge at Okeburn and then be entertain'd for that day with four Horses at most WILLESFORD in Lincolnshire a Cell to Bec in Normandy BY Inquisition taken at Stranford it was found that the Prior of the Order of Bec held in Willesford and Ancaster Lands of the value 16 l. per Annum of the Gift of Hugh de Evermewe WEDEN-PINKNEY in Northamponshire a Cell to St. Lucian near Beauvoys in France GIles Ralph Gilbert Henry and Robert de Pinkeni successively gave Lands and Revenues to the Abby of St. Lucian and the Monks at St. Mary's of Weden Anno Dom. 1392 The Abbot and Convent of St. Lucian convey'd their Priory of Weden and all the Estate thereunto belonging to the Abbot and Convent of Bitlesden and their Successors in consideration of a Sum of Gold received and the yearly pension of ten Marks to be paid to the Abbot and Convent of St. Lucian and their Successors in the Church of St. Mary at Calais on the Feast of St. Iohn Baptist. TYWARDREIT in Cornwall a Cell to Angiers in France RObert de Cardinan gave divers Lands and Revenues in Cornwall to the Church of St. Sergius and St. Bachus at Angiers and to the Church of St. Andrew of Tywardrait and to the Monks there all which was confirm'd by King Henry the III. BIRSTALL in Yorkshire a Cell of St. Martins at Albamarle THIS was given among other Lands and Revenues to the Church and Monks of St. Martin without the Castle of Albamarle in Normandy by Steven Earl of Albamarle 1115. Walter Archbishop of York first settled the Monks of Albamarle here at Birstal and granted to them divers Immunities Charles the VI. King of France by his
Cistercium in the Dutchy of Burgundy the Rule of St. Bennet being not duly observed in his old Monastery In this Order therefore they betook themselves to the strict observance of St. Bennet's Rule and obtain'd great Priviledges from the Pope To avoid Pride and Superfluity they were to retain no Crosses of Gold or Silver but only of Wood their Chalices were to be of Silver and not of Gold c. The second Abbot of this Order was one Stephen an Englishman WAVERLEY in Surrey THIS Abby was founded in the year of Christ 1128. by William Gifford Bishop of Winchester The first Monks of this Order being twelve and an Abbot came to this House from a Foreign Abby call'd Elemosina The said William Bishop of Winchester endow'd this House with divers Lands and with Common in Farnham Woods all which was by consent of the King and the Convent of Winchester and confirm'd by his Successors Vid. 2. Vol. p. 912. Valued at 174 l. 8 s. 3 d. ob per Annum FURNES in Lancashire ANno Dom. 1127. being twenty nine years from the first Institution of the Cistercian Order 26. H. 1. This House was founded by Steven Earl of Morton and Boloign afterwards King of England The Names of the Abbots of FVRNES 1. Evanus de Albrincis 2. Eudo de Sourdeval 3. Michael de Lancastria 4. Petrus de Eboraco 5. Richardus de Bajocis 6. Iohannes de Cawnesfeild 7. Walterus de Millum 8. Ioslenus de Pennington 9. Conanus de Bardoule 10. Willielmns Niger 11. Giraldus Bristaldon 12. Michael de Dalton 13. Richardus de Sancto Quintino 14. Radulfus de Fletâ—ham 15. Iohannes de Newby 16. Stephanus de Alverston 17. Nicholaus de Meaux who was after Bishop of Sodor 18. Robertus de Denton 19. Laurentius de Acclom 20 Willielmus de Midleton 21. Hugo de Bron. 22. Willielmus de Cockeram 23. Hugo Skiller 24. Iohannes de Cockeram 25. Alexander de Walton 26. Iohannes de Cockham 27. Iohannes de Bolton 28. Willielmus de Dalton A CISTERCIAN MONK Vol. 1 P. 69â— King Steven's double Relation to Maud the Empress Edgar Edling had two Sisters Margaret and Christiana who had issue as follows Steven Earl of Morton c. was Son of Steven E. of Bloys and Adela Daughter of K. William the Conqueror and Sister of K. H. I. married Christiana Margaret Wife of Malcolm K. of Scots  Eustace E. of Bolon Mary Matilda Wife of Hen. I. K. of Eng.  Maud Maud first married to the Emperior then to Jeostery Earl of Anjou by which last the had issue   Willam Earl of Warren and Bolon     Hen. the II. K. of Eng. Marry William de Lancaster the third of that Name was a great Beneâ—actor to this Abby as appears by his Deeds dated 1240. c. Which William married Agnes de Brus and had issue  Halewisa ux Petri de Brus  Alicia ux Williel de Lindesey  Sorota ax Alani de Multon Petrus de Brus jun. ob s. h. Agnes ux Walteri de Fawkunbergh Lucia ux Marmaduci de Thweng Margareta ux Dom. Rob. de Ros. Laderina ux Johanis de Belew Pope Eugenius granted to Iohn Abbot of St. Mary's of Furnes among other Priviledges that they should not pay any Tithes for their Lands or Cattel held in their own hands and occupation And Anno Dom. 1305. it was agreed between the Abbot of Furnes and the Prior of St. Mary of Lancaster which last was intituled to the Tithes of their Grange of Bellomonte that in case the Abbot of Furnes let the said Lands then the Prior of Lancaster should receive Tithes of the Lands so let but in case the Abbot and Covent of Furnes should occupy the same in their own hands then the said Prior to receive only a Pension of two Marks per Annum Valued at 805 l. 16 s. 5 d. per Annum RUSSIN in the Isle of Man a Cell to Furnes THE Abby of Russin was founded in the year 1134. Olauus King of Man a very devout Prince gave the Land whereon this Abby stands to Yvo then Abbot of Furnes for the erecting of this Monastery Certain Antient Synodals and Ecclesiastical Constitutions for the Isle of Man made by Simon Bishop of Sodor 1229. Other Constitutions made in the Church of St. Bradan in Man 1291. under Mark Bishop of Sodor Other Additional Constitutions made in the Church of St. Michael the Archangel by William Russel Bishop of Sodor and the whole Clergy of Man 1350. All which see at large in the Monastiâ—on Thomas Lord Stanley Earl of Darby and K. of the Isle of Man by his Letters Patents dated at Lathum 28. Mar 1505. confirm'd to â—uan then Bishop of Sodor and his Successors all the Lands Revenues Rigâ—â—â—s and Priviledges belonging to the Church in the Isle and Kingdom oâ— Man YNES in Ireland a Cell to Furnes THIS was first founded in the year 1126. by a King of Vlster named Magnellus Makenlefe in a place call'd Erynach but that 〈◊〉 almost destroyed in the Wars it was translated by Iohn de Curcy 〈◊〉 of Vlster and new founded at Ynes and at the same time he subjected â—â—is Abby to Furnes An. 1180. NETHE in Glamorganshire RIchard de Grainvilla gave to God and the Church of the holy Trinity at Savigny Nethe and other Lands and Posseâ—â—â—ons to the Iâ—â—â—â—on that the Abbot and Convent of Savigny should institute here a Convent of Monks under an Abbot King Iohn confirm'd the said Lands to the Church of the Holy Trinity at Nethe and the Monks there in the ninth year of his Reign granting them also many Priviledges and Immunities Valued at 132 l. 7 s. 7 d. ob per Annum BASINGWERK Abby in Flintshire FOunded Anno 1131. by Ranulph Earl of Chester confirm'd by King Henry the II. and by Lewellin Prince of North Wales The like Confirmation to this Monastery and the Monks here was made by David Prince of Northwales Son of the foresaid Lewelin who also gave them certain Lands and Revenues in the year 1240. Valued at 150 l. 7 s. 3 d. per Annum TINTERN in Wales FOunded 1131. William Mareschal of England and Earl of Pembroke in the seventh year of Henry the III. confirm'd to God and the blessed Mary of Tyntern and to the Abbot and Monks there all the Lands and Revenues given to them by his Ancestors granting also to the said Abby great Liberties and Immunities prohibiting all Men to vex or disturb them or theirs under the penalty of twenty Marks besides the curse of God Their Estate was also confirm'd by Roger Bigod Earl of Norfolk and Mareschal of England Anno 1301. Walter Fitz Richard appears to be the Founder of this House Anno 1131. Who dying without issue his Brother Gilbert Strongbowe became his Heir and was the first Earl of Pembroke from whom descended Isabel she became the Wife of William Mareschall who died 1219. and lies buried in the Temple at London
were the Benefactors to this House among whom Gilbertus de Gant Roger de Mulbray c. all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign See the Genealogy of Gilbert de Gant Nephew of William the Conqueror and the Noble Families descended from him in the Book at large Valued at 124 l. 5 s. 11 d. q. per Annum SWINE in Yorkshire ERinburch de Burtona was the Foundress of this Abby giving divers Lands of her Patrimony and Inheritance to God and the Church of St. Mary at Swine and to the Brethren and Sisters there serving God Pope Alexander exempted the Nuns here from paying Tithes for their Lands in their own Occupation Vide infra fol. 1026. Valued at 82 l. 3 s. 9 d. ob per Annum BRURE in Oxfordshire Founded An. 1147. KING Henry the III. Roger Earl of Warwick and others were Benefactors to this Abby all whose Gifts were confirm'd to the Cistercian Monks here by King Iohn in the sixth year of his Reign Valued at 134 l. 10 s. 10 d. per Annum RUPE alias Roche in Yorkshire Founded An. 1147. RIchard de Bulli and Richard Fitz Turgis were joint Founders of this Abby Besides those of the Family of Bully the Monks here were endow'd with Lands and Revenues by other Benefactors among whom Edmund de Lacy Constable of Chester and William Earl Warren c. Pope Vrban the III. confirmed their Estate and Lands given and to be given and exempted them from Tithes for their Lands in their own Tenure and this was by his Bull dated 1186. Their first Abbot was Durandus who governed twelve years 2. Dionisius 12. 3. Rogerus de Tikehill 8 4. â—iugo de Waddeworth 5. 5 Osmundus 39. 6 Reginaldus 15. 7 Richardus 16. 8 Walter 14. 9 Alanus 10 Iordanus 11 Philippus Valued at 224 l. 2 s. 5 d. per Annum HOTON in Yorkshire THIS House was founded for Nuns and endow'd by Radulf de Nevil With the Licenses of Adam de Brus and Ernald de Percy BASEDALE in Yorkshire JOhn de Ever by his Deed dated An. 1304. released to Ioan Prioress of Basedale and to the Convent of the same and their Successors all homage and suit of Court for all their Lands holden of him in Kirkeby Cliveland and Ingelby William de Percy and others were Benefactors to this Nunnery all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Henry the III. in the twentieth year of his Reign Robert de Longo Campo Abbot of St. Mary's at York and the Convent there granted to these Nuns a Coemitery for themselves but their Servants and Tenants to be buried at the Parish Church Guido de Bouincurt was the Founder of this Priory of Nuns Valued at 20 l. 1 s. 4 d. per Annum SALLEY in Yorkshire THIS Abby was founded by William de Percy An Dom. 1147. Matilda de Percy Countess of Warwick Daughter or the said William was a great Benefactress to this Abby and gave them the Church of Tadcaster and was accounted a second Founder Agnes de Percy her Sister and Heiress did add to her bounty William Vavasor gave and confirm'd all the Lands which his Father Malgarus Vavasor had given to this House placing his Confirmation una cum Corpore meo together with his own body on the Altar of the blessed Mary de Sallay providing thereby that in case he happens to die within the Kingdom of England that his Body be buried in this Abby Iohn de Lacy Constable of Chester was among others a Benefactor to these Monks An. 1223. William de Percy who founded this Abby was Grandson to William de Percy who came into England with the Conqueror His Estate came to his two Daughters Matilda who was married to William Earl of Warwick but died without issue and Agnes married to Goseline Lovain Brother to the Duke of Brabant the issue of this Match kept the name of their Mothers Family and are the Progenitors of the Earls of Northumberland This Abby was wasted and part of it burnt down by the Scots in their Wars Valued at 147 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum RUFFORD in Nottinghamshire Founded 1148. THIS Abby was founded and endowed by Gilbert de Gaunt Earl of Lincoln Many were the Benefactors whose Gifts were confirm'd to the Abbot and Monks here with the Grant of divers Priviledges in the Forest of Shirewood by King Henry the III. in the thirty sixth year of his Reign Valued at 176 l. 11 s. 6 d. per Annum SALTRE in Huntingtonshire Founded An 1147. SImon Earl of Northampton founded and endowed this Abby with all his Land at Saltre and with all the Marish Ground between that and Witlemare and in Witlemare c. With very large Immunities and Franchises such as his Ancestor Iudith Countess of Huntington Neice of the Conqueror had formerly obtain'd of her said Unkle for this Town and Lordship of Saltre as inter alia to be exempt from the County and Hundred Courts to find neither Man nor Arms for the War c. The abovesaid Countess Iudith had a special Love for this place and did very much frequent it and on that account did obtain from her said Unkle as great and large Priviledges as could then be granted for this Lordship Which Priviledges and also the Limits and Bounds of the Estate of this Abby are particularly and at large set forth in the Monasticon Controversie arising between the Abbot of Ramsey and the Abbot of Saltre about their Rights in Withlesmare and Vlbemare the matter was determin'd by a final Concord before the Kings Justices at Huntedon Anno 3. Rich. the I. Valued at 141 l. 3 s. 8 d. per Annum KIRKSTALL in Yorkshire THIS Abby was first founded by Henry de Laceio in the year 1147. and first instituted with a Convent of Monks under their Abbot Alexander from the Abby of Fountains Their first Habitation was at a Town call'd Bernolswick but this place proving to these Monks very inconvenient on divers accounts after they had been here somewhat above six years they removed to a place called Kirkestall in a Vally called Aierdale which place was then only inhabited by some Hermits This last Seat they obtain'd of William Pictavensis who own'd the Soil at the yearly Rent of five Marks Their first Abbot Alexander govern'd the Monks here thirty five years and after his death was succeeded by Radulfus Hageth and after him Abbot Lambert to whom succeed Abbot Helias who at first was refused by the then Patron Roger de Lacy but became afterwards much in his favour King Iohn did some ill Offices to this Abby in taking from them some of their Lands Robert de Lacy who died Anno 1194. was accounted a second Founder of this Abby King William the Conqueror gave to Ilbertus de Lacy who came into England in his Army all Blackburnshire in the County of York with the Lordship and Honour of Pontfract and other Lands This Ilbertus
built the Castle at Pontefract and in it a Chappel for a Dean and Canons Son of this Ilbertus was Robert Lacy who built the Monastery of Pontefract who was the Father of Henry Lacy the Founder of this Abby of Kirkstall this Henry married the Sister of William Vesci Rector of Berwick Of this Family was Roger Constable of Chester who hearing that his Lord Ranulphus Earl of Chester was distrest in Wales raised on the sudden a great Force among the Shoo-makers and Stage-players of Chester and with them went and relieved his Lord from the Power of the Welch whereupon the said Earl Ranulph granted to him and his Heirs the Dominion and Patronage of the Shoo-makers and Players at Chester for ever His Son and Heir Iohn de Lacy became the first Earl of Lincoln of this name Anno Dom. 1221. and died 1240. From the Heirs General of this Family did descend Our Kings of the House of Lancaster Valued at 329 l. 2 s. 11 d. per Annum DORE in Herefordshire RObert Earl of Ferrars founded this Monastery and endowed it with Lands to hold free and quit of all secular Service by the Rent of three shillings yearly to be paid at the Feast of St. Peter ad vincula and this was exprest to be given not only for the Health of the Souls of his Ancestors and Heirs but also propace stabilitate totius Angliae Walliae for the Peace and Stability of all England and Wales King Iohn by his Deed dated in the seventeenth year of his Reign gave divers Lands to the Church of the blessed Mary at Dore and the Cistercian Monks there Walter de Clifford and others were Benefactors All whose Gifts were confirm'd to this House by King Henry the III. in the seventeenth year of his Reign Vid. Vol. 2. p. 918. Valued at 101 l. 5 s. 2 d. per Annum SIBETON in Norfolk Founded An. 1150. THIS Abby was founded and endowed by William Son of Robert Fitz Walter The Lands given to the Monks here were confirm'd by King Steven and King Henry the II. The said Robert Fitz-Walter was the Founder of the House of St. Faith 's at Horsham and married Sibill Daughter of Radulfus de Cayneto who came into England with the Conqueror from whom descended the Families of Cressi and Vfford Vid. Vol. 3. p. 32. Valued at 250 l. 15 s. 7 d. ob per Annum STANLEIGH in Wiltshire THIS Abby was first founded by Maud the Empress at Lokeswell in the year 1151. and three years afterwards translated to Stanlegh by her Son King Henry the II. The Monks of this House came from Quarre in the Isle of Wight King Richard the II. confirm'd to them all their Lands and took them into his protection Valued at 177 l. 0 s. 8 d. per Annum JERVAL in Yorkshire AKarius Fitz-Bardolf a potent man in Yorkshire in the time of King Steven gave to Peter de Quinciaco and certain other Monks of Savigny a parcel of Land in Wandesleydale for the erection of an Abby of their Order which Abby was at first call'd Fo rs and afterwards Iorvalle This Foundation was confirm'd by Alan Earl of Britan and Richmond which Earl Alan being present at the beginning of the Erection of the first Buildings prevailed with several of his Knights to be assistant to the Work and this was in the year 1145. Roger de Molbray gave also divers Lands to this House before his first Voyage to Ierusalem The abovesaid Peter inhabited this House at first with only two Companions labouring with their hands for their sustentation but in a while they had of the said Earl of Richmond's Gift five Plows forty Cows sixteen Horses three hundred Sheep c. After this Serlo Abbot of Savigny having a property in this House of Iorevalls by reason that the first Monks came from thence granted the same to the Abby of Biland Whereupon the foresaid Peter submitted himself and Companions being two Monks and one Lay-brother conversus to the Abbot of Biland Being fully possest of this House Roger Abbot of Biland appointed Iohn de Kinstan to be Abbot here instituting him in these words I confirm thee Abbot and I commit to thee the care of Souls and the Government of the Abby of Joreval with all its substance Persons and Possessions now had or to be had as well in Temporals as Spirituals in like manner as Serlo Abbot of Savigny gave the same to me And then put into his hands the Rule of St. Benedict c. An. 1150. Hereupon the said Abbot appointed to be of his Convent the aforesaid Peter and his two Companions with nine Monks of Biland who removed from thence to Iorvall After this the abovesaid Earl Alan and his Son Conan Duke of Britan encreased their Revenues with the Gift of many other Lands In the year 1156. the said Conan translated these Monks from Fo rs the place being poor and steril to East-Wittonâ— upon the River Ior and this was by permission and approbation of the Abbot of Cisteaux and the general Convent of that Order Alanus Earl of Britan who was so great a Benefactor to this Monastery was Brother and Heir to Alanus Rufus who was the Son of Eudo Earl of Britan who came into England with King William the Conqueror and had given him by the said King all Richmondshire An. 1268 Iohn Duke of Britan and Earl of Richmond confirm'd the Donations of his Ancestors So also did King Henry the III. in the twelfth year of his Reign Valued at 234 l. 18 s. 5 d. per Annum GREENFEILD in Lincolnshire RAdulf de Aby gave Lands here and elsewhere for the Foundation and Endowment of a Nunnery in Greenfeild which was confirm'd by Hugh Bishop of Lincoln and Eudo de Greinesby c. Iohn Son and Heir of Adam de Welle gave to this House 10 l. per Annum for the finding of two sufficient Chaplains to celebrate for him and his Ancestors and all the faithful in our Ladies Chappel in the Priory Church here for ever to the finding of which Margaret then Prioress of this House did oblige her Successors by her Deed dated Anno Dom 1348. Valued at 63 l. 4 s. 1 d. per Annum CUMB in Warwickshire RIchard de Camvilla gave Lands to the Abbot and Monks of Waverley for the founding of this Abby of Cistercian Monks Roger de Moubray confirm'd the Estate so given to the Monks of Cumb quit of all secular service Valued at 311 l. 15 s. 1 d. per Annum STRATFORD-LANGTON in Essex FOunded Anno. 1135. for Monks by William de Montefichet endow'd with all the Lordship for Stradford in Westham c. All which Gifts were confirm'd by King Henry the II. Valued at 511 l. 16 s. 3 d. per Annum FLEXLEY in Gloucestershire THE Abby here was founded and endow'd by Roger Earl of Hereford their Lands were confirm'd by King Henry the II. Valued at 112 l. 13 s. 1 d. per Annum BLANCLAND in Wales
Mary and St. Iohn the Apostle and confirm'd by Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury The several Donations made by the Founders and other Benefactors to this House were confirm'd by King Iohn in the sixth year of his Reign Among the Injunctions prescribed to the Nuns of this House An. 1489. These were some That the Cloister Doors be shut up in Winter at Seven and in Summer at Eight a Clock at night and the Keys delivered to the Prioress That the Prioress and all the Sisters lodge nightly in the Dorter unless sick or diseased That none of the Sisters use the Ale-house nor the Water-side where course of Strangers daily resort That none of the Sisters have their service of Meat and Drink to the Chamber but keep the Frater and the Hall unless sick That no Sister bring in any Man religious or secular into their Chamber or any secret place day or night c. That the Prioress License no Sister to go Pilgrimage or visit their Friends without great Cause and then to have a Companion That the Convent grant no Corodies or Liveries of Bread or Ale or other Victual to any Person without special License That they take no Perhendinauncers or Sojourners unless Children or old Persons c. Valued at 73 l. 9 s. 10 d. per Annum CODENHAM Priory in ... COdenham was given to God St. Mary and St. Iohn by Eustachius de Merch for Nuns of the Profession and Order of the Nuns of Apeltun BINEDON in Dorsetshire FOunded An. 1172. by Roger de Novo Burgo and Matilda his Wife endow'd with divers Lands by them and other Benefactors All which was confirm'd to the Church of St. Mary of Bynedone and the Monks there by King Henry the III. in the eighteenth year of his Reign Henry de Novo Burgo granted power to the Abbot and Monks to choose whom they pleased for their Patron who thereupon chose King Henry the III. and Alianor the Queen for their Patrons which King accordingly took to him the Patronage Advowson and Protection of this Abby in the fifty sixth year of his Reign Valued at 147 l. 7 s. 9 d. ob q. per Annum CROXDEN in Staffordshire BErtram de Verdun built an Abby for Monks at Chotes Anno Dom. 1176. Anno 1179. The Convent removed from thence to Crokesden Abbots of this House 1. Thomas ob 1229. 2. William de Choucomb 3. William de Esseburn ob 1237. 4. Iohn de Tilton 5. Walter de London ob 1268. 6. William de Howton ob 1278. 7. Henry de Moysam 8. Iohn de Billesdon ob 1293. 9. Richard de Twiford ob 1297. A vacancy of above seven Months 10. William de Evera Richard de Esseby restored 1320. 11. Richard de Esseby displaced 1313. 12. Thomas de Casterton 13. Richard de Schepesheved 1335. The Founder of this House Bertram de Verdun died in the Holy Land and was buried at Acon but most of his descendants were buried in the Church of this Abby Vid. Vol. 3. p. 40. Valued at 90 l. 5 s. 11 d. per Annum KELDEHOLM in Yorkshire THE Abby at Keldeholm was founded for Nuns by William de Stutevill and endow'd by the same William and several others of that Family Confirm'd by King Iohn in the second year of his Reign Valued at 29 l. 6 s. 1 d. per Annum PONT-ROBERT or Roberts-Bridge in Suffex FOunded for Monks by Robert de Sancto-Martino in the Reign of King Henry the II. Anno Dom. 1176. Their Estate was confirm'd by King Edw. the III. in the tenth year of his Reign Vid. Vol. 2. p. 920. Valued at 248 l. 10 s. 6 d. per Annum WICKHAM in Yorkshire THIS Nunnery was founded by Paganus de Wicham whose Son Theobald Alan Buscell de Hoton and the Prior of Bridlington were Benefactors King Iohn confirm'd their Estate in the 2 d. year of his Reign Valued at 25 l. 17 s. 6 d. per Annum ABERCONWAY in Carmarthenshire Founded An. 1185. THIS Abby of Monks was founded by Lewelin Son of Gervasius Prince of North Wales and by him endow'd not only with large Possessions in Lands but with great Immunities and Priviledges as to be quit from maintaining for their Founder any Men Horses Dogs or Hawks to have the Election of their Abbot free to themselves to have and enjoy Wreck of the Sea in all their Lands to be Tole free c. Whose Grant bears date An. 1198. King Edward the I. in the twelfth year of his Reign translated this Abby from Aberconway to a place called Maynan which he had built to the honour of God St. Mary and all Saints endowing it with Lands and Franchises Valued at 162 l. 15 s. per Annum NUN-COTUN in Lincolnshire INgeram de Muncels confirm'd the Gift of his Father Alan de Muncells of the Town of Cotun and other Lands to the Church of the blessed Mary of Cotun and the Nuns there Pope Alexander granted them divers Priviledges and Hugh Bishop of Lincoln settled the Constitutions of their House ordering among other things that the number of the Nuns should not exceed thirty that no Nun after Profession should have property in any thing that no Nun should be or speak with any Person whether secular or religious alone without witness c. Valued at 46 l. 17 s. 7 d. per Annum DUNKEWELL in Devonshire FOunded An. 1201. By William Briwer Their Lands were confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby by King Hen. III. in the 11th year of his Reign Valued at 294 l. 18 s. 6 d. per Annum BEAU-LEIU in Hampshire KING Iohn being offended with the Cistercian Order in England and the Abbots of that Order coming to him to reconcile themselves he caused them to be trod under his Horses Feet for which Action being terrified in a Dream he built and endowed the Abby of Beau-leiu in Newforest for thirty Monks of that Order An. 1204. Vid. Vol. 2. p. 921. Valued at 326 l. 13 s. 2 d. ob q. per Annum MENDHAM in Buckinghamshire THIS was a Cell to Woburne founded by Hugh de Bolebec and confirmed by King Iohn in the second year of his Reign The Convent of this Abby came hither from Woburne in the year 1204. Valued at 20 l. 6 s. 2 d. per Annum GRACE-DIEU in Wales THIS Abby was founded by Iohn of Monmouth An. 1229. or according to others 1233. King Edw. 3. in the thirty fifth year of his Reign granted to this Abby the Hermitage of St. Briavello in the Forest of Dene for the finding and maintaining of a Chantery of two of their Monks to celebrate there for the Souls of his Ancestors HAYLES in Gloucestershire ANon 1246. Richard Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans founded this Abby of Hayles for twenty Monks who came from Beau-lieu An. 1251. the Abby-Church was dedicated the King and Queen and thirteen Bishops being present at the Solemnity Valued at 357 l. 7 s. 8 d. ob per Annum NEWENHAM in Devonshire FOunded An. 1241. by
Ryther Knt. and Sibilla his Wife by License of King Richard the II. founded in this Church a Chantry for the maintenance of two Chaplains Monks of this House to celebrate dayly for the Soul of William de Aldeburgh c. St. ANNE adjoyning to Coventry THIS was first founded in the year 1381. by William Lord de la Zowche and first supplied with three Monks from the Carthusians at London and with three others from Bellevalle Besides the said Lord Sowche they had many other Benefactors as Richard Luff Mayor of Coventry Iohn Holmeton of Sleford Iohn Bokington Bishop of Lincoln Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick c. who erected several parts of their Buildings In the year 1385. King Richard the II. became the principal Founder with his own hands laying the first Stone in the Foundation of their Church protesting publickly to be the Founder and to finish the Buildings To this House were divers Churches appropriated and divers Lands given among others the Mannor of Ediweston in the County of Rutland by the Abbot and Convent of St. George de Bauquerville in Normandy with other Prior alians Lands c. KINGSTON upon Hull in Yorkshire MIchael de la Pole Knt. Lord of Wingfeild by his Deed dated at Kingston upon Hull 1378. Founded and endowed this House without the Walls of Hull for a Prior and twelve Carthusians Monks in lieu of Minnoress Nuns of the Order of St. Clare as his Father in his life time had once intended The House was founded to the honour of God and the glorious Virgin Mary and of St. Michael the Archangel and all Angels and holy Spirits St. Thomas the Martyr late Archbishop of Canterbury and of all other Saints of God And by assent of the Prior of the Great Carthusians in Savoy the chief House of the Order Walter de Kele was by the Founder made the first Prior of this House Vid. 2. Vol. p. 930. MOUNT-GRACE in Yorkshire THomas de Holland Duke of Surrey Earl of Kent and Lord Wake sounded this House for Carthusians in his Mannor of Bordelby near Cleaveland in Yorkshire to the honour of God the Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas willing the House to be called the House of Mount-Grace of Ingelby and by assent of the Prior of the Grand Carthusians made Robert Tredewy the first Prior of the same King Henry the VI. ratified and confirm'd this Foundation in Parliament in the ninteenth year of his Reign EPWORTH in the Isle of Axholme in Lincolnshire KING Richard the II. in the twentieth year of his Reign granted his License of Mortmain to Thomas Earl of Nottingham Marshal of England to found a Convent for Carthusian Monks on his Land at Epworth in the lsle of Axholme in Lincolnshire and to name it the Visitation of the Mother of God to the honour of God the Virgin Mary St. Iohn the Evangelist and St. Edward the King and Confessor and to endow the same with one hundred Acres of Land Licensing also to the Abbot of St. Nicholas in Angiers of the Order of St. Benedict to grant over to this House their Priory of Monks Kirkeby in Warwickshire c. to be appropriated to these Carthusians for ever in pure and perpetual Alms. Pope Bonisace the IX in the eighth year of his Pontificate granted Indulgence to such who should visit this Church of the Carthusians on the second of Iuly being the Feast of the Visitation of the blessed Mary and contribute to the Buildings here This was a plenary Indulgence and of the same manner with that which was formerly granted to the Church of the Angels without the Walls of Assisium in Italy of which you may read in the Monasticon at large p. 971 972 c. SHEEN Monastery in Surrey ANno Dom. 1414. King Henry the V. founded three Monasteries near his Royal Seat at Schene one of Carthusians one of Celestin Monks professing the Rule of St. Bennet and one of Brigettines under the Rule of St. Augustin The last was a Monastery of sixty Nuns thirteen Priests four Deacons and eight Lay-Brothers the Men and Women had two separate Convents but one Church in which the Nuns kept above in a kind of Gallery and the men below King Henry the V. by his Charter of Foundation dated in the third year of his Reign appointed the House of Carthusians which he founded at Shene on the North-side of his Mannor there to be call'd the House of Jesus of Bethleem at Shene and to this House he gave the Lands of several Priors alians here in England belonging to Abbies in France granting in the said Charter that if any of the Lands so given should in time to come be evicted or recovered from the Prior and Monks of this House or their Successors that then they should receive the like value yearly out of the Profits of the Hanaper in the Chancery and out of the Customs arising in the Ports of London St. Botulphs Southampton Lenn and Cicester He gave also several other Benefactions as the Fishery at Shene four Pipes of Gascon Wine yearly at the Purification of the blessed Mary for ever with divers great Liberties and Exemptions from all manner of Taxes and Impositions granting to the said Prior and Monks and their Successors Felons Goods c. and that they should have the return and execution of Writs in their Lands with fines pro Licencia Concordandi and all Amerciaments c. Deodands Treasure-trove c. Clerk of the Mercate Wreck of the Sea c. Free Warren in all their Demesnes and Lands already given or to be given tho' within the Bounds of a Forest Soc and Sac Insangenthef and Out fangenthef and view of Frankpledge of all their Tenants and Residents with a Pillory and Tumbrel and that they may erect Gallows on their Lands for the execution of Malefactors whom they should apprehend on their Lands according to the said Liberty of Infangenthef and Outfangenthef and that they should have a Market weekly every Tuesday at their Town of Esthenreth in Berkshire and two Fairs yearly with other such like great Priviledges and Immunities Additions relating to the Benedictine Order WINCHESTER Cathedral Church Supra p. 38. SOme Remarks of the Founder and Royal Benefactors to the Church of Winchester Kings and Saints buried there out of Leyland Pope Innocent confirmed to this Church all their Possessions with the grant of divers Priviledges as not to pay any Tithes for their Lands or Cattle in their own proper hands to celebrate Divine Offices in the time of a general Interdict with a low Voice c. King Edgar restored Monks in this Church confirming their Possessions and Liberties with grievous Curses to the Violators King Edward the Elder conferr'd on them certain Lands to hold free from any secular service except what related towards the building of Forts and Bridges SHAFTESBURY in Dorsetshire Supra 217. KING Iohn in the seventh year of his Reign confirm'd to the Church of St Mary and St.
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
d. per Annum NOCTON in Lincolnshire THE Priory of Nocton Park was founded by Robert de Areci Lord of Nocton It was dedicated to St. Mary Magdelen The Heir general of Norman de Arcy descended from the Founder married to Iohn de Lymbury The Possessions given by several Benefactors were recited and confirm'd by King Henry III. in the 55th year of his Reign Valued at 44 l. 3 s. 8 d. per Annum WIGMORE in Herefordshire OLiver de Merlymond cheif Seneschal of all the Lands of Hugh de Mortimer in the time of King Steven built the Church of Schobbedon which Town his said Lord Hugh de Mortimer had given him in Consideration of his Service This Oliver being kindly entertain'd at St. Victors Abby at Paris in his return from a Pilgrimage he was so highly pleased with their good life and Regular devotion that he afterwards obtain'd from that Abby two of their Canons to come over and Institute a House of Religion at his new built Church of Schobbedon to which he annext divers Lands and profits But after this a great dissention arising between the said Hugh de Mortimer and Oliver de Merlymond in so much that the said Oliver departed from his Service and went to Miles Earl of Hereford Mortimer seized upon all his Estates and took from the Canons all the Goods which Oliver had given them whereby the said Canons were reduced to such extreamity that they were about to leave their House But this difference being at last composed by the mediation of the Bishop of Hereford Mortimer not only restored them their Lands c. of which he had deprived them but gave them more among other Benefactions the Church of Wigmore and advanced their Prior to the title of an Abbot But soon after he took from them again the Town of Schobbedon and it was once more restored by mediation After this these Canons removed their habitation to a place call'd Eye and from thence to Wigmore After this they removed once more into the Field of Beodune where they built from the ground a Monastery and Church which Church was dedicated to St. Iames by Robert Folyoth then Bishop of Hereford the aforesaid Sir Hugh de Mortimer conferring thereon at the Dedication great Benefactions both in Lands and Plate for the Altar Which Sir Hugh died a Chanon of this House being very antient Whose Son and heir Sir Roger de Mortimer behaved himself so unkindly to the Canons of this House that the Abbot and most of the Convent were forced for some time to retire to Schobbedon but the differrence was made up by the Interposition of King Henry Isabell de Ferrers Widow of the said Sir Roger built a House of Religion at Lechelade after her Husbands decease and endow'd it with Lands for the good of his Soul The said Sir Roger tho' unkind at first yet before his death confirm'd all that his Father had given to these Canons with other Lands given by himself Among those 260 most famous and valiant Knights that King William the Conqueror brought into England with him in his Army was Ralph de Mortuomari one of the chief which Ralph obtain'd to himself the Lordship of Wigmore and other Possessions in the Marches of Wales This Ralph built the Castle of Wigmore and left issue Hugh and William Hugh became the Founder of the Abby of Wigmore as has been said and endow'd it largely An. 1179. and dyed in this Monastery An. 1185. Grandson of this Hugh was Ralph de Mortuomari who being sent over into Normandy by King Iohn in order to defend that Country against the King of France who had invaded and Seized all Normandy because King Iohn refused thô several times summon'd to do homage for the same was by the said King of France taken Prisoner During whose absence from these Parts the Welch invaded this Monastery of Wigmore plundered the Canons of all their movables and burnt all the Buildings except the Church Son of which Ralph was Roger who marryed Matilda daughter of William de Breuse Lord of Bregnoc and was so faithful an adherent to King Henry III. against his rebellious Barons that he was the chief means of defeating that formidable Commotion and establishing the King in his Throne Grandson of this Roger was Roger Mortimer who was created the first Earl of March An. 1. Edward III. Which Earl Roger was great grandfather of Edmund Mortimer who married Philippa only daughter and heir of Leonel Duke of Clarence second Son of King Edward III. Which Edmund having buried his said Wife went over into Ireland the Kings Lieutenant and An. 1381. departed this life in that Kingdome being but twenty nine years of age His body was brought over and buried in this Abby Church of Wigmore with his Countess and most of his Ancestors Which Edmund and Philippa had issue two Sons Roger and Edmund and two Daughters Elizabeth and Philippa Roger Mortimer was slain in Ireland An. 1398. But left issue by his Wife Alianora daughter and coheir of Thomas Holland Earl of Kent two Sons Edmund and Roger and two daughters Anne and Alianore Anne was married to Richard de Condsborough Earl of Cambridge The two Sons and the other daughter died all without issue Valued at 267 l. 2 s. 10 d. ob per Annum THORNHOLME in Lincolnshire IT was found upon Inquisition at the Assizes at Lincoln 4 Iohn that King Steven founded this Priory and placed Canons in it That Henry II gave the Mannour of Aplebi in which the Priory is scituated to William de Lungespe his Brother who after gave the Manour to Iohn Maleherbe DERLEY in Darbyshire Hvgh the Priest intitled Dean of Derby gave to Albinus and his Canons of St. Helens near Derby the Land which he held at Little Derby for the erecting of a Church and Habitation for him and the said Canons with divers Lands of his Patrimony Which Estate the said Albin and his Successors Abbots of this House quietly enjoyed all the time of the life of the said Hugh and of Henry his Son which Son he begat in lawful marriage before he received holy Orders and of two daughters and heiresses of the said Henry who dying in the Reign of King Henry III. that King supposing the said two daughters to dye without heirs claim'd the Advowson of this Abby as an Escheat Vid. Vol. 3. P. 57. Valued at 258 l. 14 s. 5 d. per Annum St. AUGUSTINS at Bristol in Gloucestershire ROBERT Fitz Harding a Burgesse of Bristol to whom King Henry II. gave the Barony of Berkly built this Abby and gave to the Canons Regular of this House the Church of Berkly with divers others Whose Estate was confirm'd to them by King Henry II. while he was yet Duke of Normandy and Earl of Anjou also by Iohn Earl of Morton c. Valued at 670 l. 13 s. 11 d. ob per Annum COKESFORD near Rudham in Norfolk JOhn de Querceto or Cheney gave to God and St.
Marks for the Maintenance of Converts and for the building their Church c. to be paid yearly out of the Exchequer one Moiety at Easter and the other at Michaelmas till other Provision shall be made in Lands or Rents And by another Charter dated 33 H. 3. that King gave to this House by him founded for Convert Iews between the old and new Temple at London certain Escheated Lands to hold to the Master and Brethren of the said House converted and to be converted from Judaism to the Catholick Faith LECHELADE in Gloucestershire FOunded by Richard Earl of Cornwa Brother of King Henry III. and Senchia his Wife Confirm'd by King Henry III. Which King An. 54. granted to the Brethren of this Hospital dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist the Hermitage of Lovebury in the Forrest of Whichewode they providing one Chaplain to celebrate daily in the said Hermitage King Edward the IV. An. 12. granted the Patronage or Advowson of this Hospital to his Mother Cecily Dutchess of York with License to change it into a Chantry of three perpetual Chaplains to celebrate the Divine Offices daily at the Altar of our Lady in the Church of Lechlade which three Chaplains to be a Body incorporate able to purchase Lands c. and to have a Common Seal By the same Deed he granted License to Iohn Twynâ—ho to found another Chantry at the Altar of St. Blase in the same Church for one perpetual Chaplain and that the other three Chaplains may grant to this Chantry Priest of St. Blase a yearly Rent of ten Marks LEDBURY in Herefordshire FOunded by Hugh Foliot Bishop of Hereford for the Reception of poor People and Travellers and dedicated in honour of God and St. Katherine the Virgin he endow'd it with several Churches and Tenements c. all which with other Lands given by others King Edw. the III. An. 2. confirm'd Valued at 22. l. 5 s. per Annum St. LEONARDS at Leicester RObert the III. call'd for distinction Blancmains Earl of Leicester had issue among others William a Leper who founded this Hospital LANGRIGH in ... RIchard de Singelton and Walter Nutun of Ribelcester gave to the Master and Brethren of this Hospital dedicated to God and St. Saviour Divers Lands in Ribelcester and elsewhere BILLESWIKE near Bristol in Gloucestershire FOunded by Robert de Gurnay and by him endow'd with the Mannor of Poulet c. for the Maintenance of a Master and three Chaplains and for the refection of one hundred poor People daily for ever each of the said Poor to have a quantity of Bread of the weight of 45 s. with a sufficient quantity of Potage made of Oat-meal the Bread to be made of an equal mixture of Bean-flower and Barly de frumento fabarum ordeo Valued at 112 l. 9 s. 9 d. per Annum GLANFORDBRIGGE in Yorkshire FOunded by the Ancestors of Sir Ralph Paynel Knt. but the Abbot and Convent of Seleby had the power of placing one of their Brotherhood in this Hospital to have the Custody of the same yet so that he should not convert the Goods of the Hospital to any other use but only to the Sustentation of the Poor and Needy St. BARTLEMEW's in Gloucester IT was found by Inquisition 30 E. 3. That in the time of Hen. the II. one Nicholas Walred a Chaplain undertook the building of the West-Bridge here to whom many Workmen resorting one William Myparty a Burgess of Gloucester erected a certain Habitation for the said Nicholas and the other Workmen in which House for a long time after the said Nicholas and William did dwell together with the Workmen and divers infirm People of both Sexes having always a Priest for their Governor all living on Alms till King Henry the III. An. 13. gave them the Church of St. Nicholas in this City with other Lands from which time the said House became an Hospital bearing the name of St. Bartlemew the same King granted them Liberty also to choose a Prior which accordingly they did This Hospital consisted of a Master and three Brothers beside the Poor Valued at 44 l. 7 s. 2 d. ob per Annum GRETHAM in the Bishoprick of Durham FOunded by Robert Bishop of Durham in honour of God St. Mary and St. Cuthbert for a Master and Brethren and for the Sustentation of the poor and needy People that should resort thither who also endow'd it with the Mannor of Gretham c. He granted also that the Master and Brethren of this House should be free from all Tolls Aids and Tallages and to all their Benefactors being contrite and confess'd he releas'd forty days Penance Whose Deed confirm'd by Hugh Prior of Durham and the Convent there bears date An. Dom. 1262. Valued at 97 l. 6 s. 3 d. ob per Annum ESTBRIGGE in Canterbury THIS Hospital founded in honour of St. Nicholas St. Catherine and St. Thomas the Martyr was compounded of several united into one the poor and infirm Brethren of which William Cokyn Citizen of Canterbury made his Heirs of all his Lands Possessions and Chattles which with divers other Gifts from other Men King Edward the II. An. 7. recited and confirm'd to the Master and Brethren here and their Successors Valued at 23 l. 18 s. 9 d. ob per Annum BOLTON in Northumberland FOunded and endow'd by Robert de Roos for three Brothers and Chaplains and thirteen Leperous Men and certain Lay Brothers Constituting the Abbot of Rivall and the Prior of Kyrkham joyntly to be the principal Wardens or Governors of this Hospital to whose Power he committed the placing the Master or displacing him if occasion be BASINGSTOKE in Southamptonshire FOunded by King Henry the III. ad sustentation ministorum Altaris Christi For the support of those who serve at God's Altar St. KATHERINES near the Tower at London FOunded by Queen Alianore Widow of King Henry II. For a Master and Brethren and by her largely endow'd with Lands Rents and Tenements in East-Smithfield Kent and Hertfordshire Reserving to her self and the succeeding Queens of England full Power to place the Master or Custos of the Hospital for ever Ordaining that out of the Revenues of this House should be maintain'd three Priests together with the said Master to celebrate daily in the said Hospital that on the 16th of November on which day King Henry the II. died a half-penny a peice should be distributed in Alms to one thousand poor People and on every day in the year 12 d. to twenty four poor People that upon the death of any Brother or Sister another to be substituted by her or the succeeding Queens of England who are after her death to be the Patronesses and Conservators of this House Whose Deed of Foundation and Settlement bears date An. Dom. 1273. Valued at 315 l. 14 s. 2 d. per Annum St. JOHN BAPTIST in Exeter FOunded by Gilbert and Iohn Merchants of Exeter here were five Priests nine Boys and twelve poor People St. PAUL at Norwich FOunded
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
more procuring to it self great Revenues and to be discharged from its subjection not only to the Abbot but Patriarch also These and the like mighty Priviledges granted them by the Court of Rome were the occasion of great Troubles and Disorders between the Hospitallers and the Patriarch of Ierusalem These Hospitallers on their admission were to make Oath upon the Missal as follows You promise and vow to God our Lâ—â—â— and my Lord St. John Baptist to live and die under the obedience of such Supeâ—â—â—ior whoever he be as God shall give you you vow further and promise to live chastly until death and also without property we also make another promise which no Religious Men besides us make for we promise to be Servants and Slaves of the Inâ—irm our Masters After the making this Vow he who admits him says And we promise you Bread and Water and humble Cloathing for nothing more you can require and we make you a Partaker of all the good Works done in our Order c. A List of such who have been Masters 1. Girardus 2. Raymundus de Podio 3. Augier de Bâ—llen 4. Arâ—audns de Comps 5. Gilbertus Assailli 6. Castus 7. Iobertus 8. Gaufridus de Dinsono 9. Hermengandus Daps in his time the Christians lost Ierusalem 10. Rogerius de Molins 11. Garnerius de Neapoli he had been Prior of St. Iohn ' s at London Vid. p. 550. 12. Alfonsus de Portugalia resigned 13. Gaufridus Rat 14. Garinus de Monteacuto 15. Bertrandus de Gexi 16. Garinus 17. Bertrandus de Cons. 18. Petrus de Villa Brida 19. Willielmus Castello Novo 20. Hugo Ryvell 21. Nicholaus de Lorgne 22. Odde 23. Guillelmus de Villareto 24. Fulco de Vilareto in his time the Knights Hospitallers took the Island of Rhodes and removed the Convent from Cyprus He was deposed 25. Mauricius de Paygnaco 26. Elionnus de Villa Nova 27. Deodatus de Gosono 28. Petrus Cornelian The Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in the Suburbs of London FOunded by Iordan Briset a Baron about the year 1100. on ten Acres of Land which he had in exchange from the Nuns of Clerkenwell which Nunnery he had founded not long before The Church of this Hospital was dedicated in honour of St. Iohn Baptist by Heraclius Patriarch of Ierusalem An. Dmo. 1185. The foresaid Iordan endow'd this House with fourteen Acres of Land adjoyning upon the Clerks Well Robert de Fun gave to the Brethren of this House the Hermitage of Yevelie with a Condition that the said Brothers should admit him into their Order at such time as he pleased whether in Health or Sickness Many others were Benefactors among the rest Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford gave to the Prior and Brothers of the Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England two Knights Fees William Earl of Ferrars Hugh de Bellocampo Gilbert de Montefichet c. gave divers other Lands and Churches c. recited and confirm'd by King Iohn An. 1. These Knights of St. Iohn claimed a Priviledge to bury the Bodies of such who had given Alms to their Fraternity however they came to their death whereupon it happen'd An. 4. E. 1. that certain Fellons having been executed some of the Servants of these Knights went to the Gallows and took `em down to bury one of which Fellons Adam le Messer by name being laid in the Grave came to life again and fled to the Neighbouring Church for Sanctuary where he remain'd till he abjured the Realm Pope Clemens having in the Council of Vienna supprest the Order of Knights Templers and given all their Lands and Possessions moveable and immoveable to these Knights Hospitallers of St. Iohn of Ierusalem King Edw. the II. An. 7. granted his Letters of Mandamus all over England for putting the same in execution in this Kingdom The like Grant was made by Act of Parliament An. 17. E. 2. However Hugh Spencer the younger by force seized and held from them their Mannor of the New Temple London which upon his Attainder came to the hands of King Edward the III. who in the twelfth year of his Reign did give grant and sell in consideration of 100 l. part of the said Mannor of the New Temple then valued at 7 l. 5 s. 2 d together with the Church Coemitary and Cloyster c. to the Prior of St. Iohn's and his Successors Vid. Vol. 3. p. 108. Of the Knights Templers in England ANno Dom. 1118. Certain Religious Knights of whom the principal were Hugh de Paganis and Godfrey de S. Audomaro engaged themselves to the Service of Christ before the Patriarch of Ierusalem and undertook to live after the Mannor of Canons Regular King Baldwin granted them a Habitation in part of his Palace adjoyning to the Temple and he and others gave them other Gifts whereon to subsist Their chief prosession was to guard the Roads from Theives for the safety of Pilgrims Their Habit was white with a red Cross. Their number did in a little time so increase that they had in their Convent above three hundred Knights besides others and as their number so their Possessions did swell to a vast and invidious value An. Dom. 1240. the Church belonging A KNIGHT TEMPLAR Vol. 2 P. 617 to these Knights at the Place call'd the New Temple in London was dedicated on Ascention day the King and a great Concourse of Peers and great Persons being present An. Dom. 1147. Conrad Emperor of Germany and Lewis King of France with great forces of French English Normans and Britains made an expedition against the Pagans in the Holy Land but returned with Little or no success at that time These Knights Templers having been very Treacherous to the Christians at the Seige of Damascus which City had been taken by King Lewis but for them An. Dom. 1307. 1 Edward 2. These Knights were Imprison'd throughout all Christendome for certain Enormities and Superstitions crept into their Order and all their Estates real and personal Seized Of the New Temple at London A KNIGHT HOSPITALLER Vol. 2. P. 55â— Ieffrey de Say granted to the Knights Templers fratribus militiae Templi Salomnis his Mannor of West-Grenewiche c. A sine was past 19 H. 3. between Robert de Stanford Master of the Warfare of the Temple in England Plantiff and Iohn de Curtenay and Emme his Wife Deforciants inpedientes of certain Lands in East-Hyrst King Iohn confirm'd to the Knights Templers the Island of Lundy lying in the Mouth of the Severn first granted by his Father King Henry the II. In short the foresaid King Henry the III. granted and confirm'd to the Templers in the eleventh year of his Reign all Royal Liberties in all their Lands exempting them and their men from Tolls Taxes c. with all the Immunity that the Royal Power can grant cum omnibus Libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus quas regia potestas liberiores alicui domui Religionis conferre potest In the Pontificate of
Being called from this retirement to oppose the Herefie of Tanchelinus at Antwerp An. 1124. he in a little time reduced the Persons infected to the Catholick Faith After this he was tho' against his will made Archbishop of Magdeburg and became very Instrumental in planting the Christian Religion in the Northern parts of Europe and also in healing the Schism between Innocent the III. and Peter Leo the Antipope The Place called Premonstratum and a Chappel there of St. Iohn Baptist was given to St. Norbert by Bartholmew Bishop of Laudunum with the approbation of Lewis the VI. call'd the Gross King of France This place was so called because as is said it was fore-shewn or Praemonstrated to be the Head Seat and Mother Church of this Order by the Blessed Virgin who also gave and appointed them their white Habit. It lies in a Vally formed by nature into the shape of a Cross the four Arms of which extend East and West North and South of equal proportion This Order being begun in the year 1120. as is before observed was first introduced into England in the ninth year of King Steven and about An. Dom. 1146. settled at Newhouse NEWHUS in Lincolnshire FOunded by Peter de Gosla for an Abbot and Canons of the Order of Premonstratenses which Abby and Church dedicated to St. Martial was by him endow'd with Lands and Revenues among other things he granted them free fishing in Humber and Tithes of his Wood c. All which was confirm'd by those of whom he held his Estate Radelf de Bajocis and William Larl of Lincoln This Abby was founded at Neuhus in the place where the Castle formerly stood Peter de Gosla held Lands at Newhouse by the service of five Knights Fees of the Barons de Bajocis who held the same of the King in Capite ALNEWIKE in Northumberland FOunded and endowed for Canons of this Order An. 1147. by Eustace Fitz Iohn who married the Daughter and Heir of Yvo de Vescy and by her had the Baronies of Alnewyk and Maltone from whom descended A CANNON REGVLAR OF Y e ORDER OF PRAEMONSTRE Vol. 2. P. 529 the noble Family of Vescy whose Heirs General were married to Muscamp and Bolbek Valued at 189 l. 15 s. per Annum BLIBURG in Suffolk KING Richard the I. recited and confirm'd to these Canons the several Lands and Rents given them by many Benefactors The Founder and Patron of this Priory was the Abbot of St. Osiths Valued at 48 l. 8 s. 10 d. per Annum HEPPE in Westmerland THIS Priory was first founded in honour of St. Mary Magdalen at Preston by Thomas Son of Gospatric and by him endow'd with divers Lands among other things he gave the Canons here as much Wood as they would take out of his Woods and to grind at his Mill toll-free The said Thomas gave them also Pasture in and about Swindale for sixty Cows twenty Mares five hundred Sheep c. With other Possessions in the Territory of the Town of Heppe where this Convent was new erected Confirm'd by Robert de Veteriponte Valued at 154 l. 17 s. 7 d. ob per Annum TUPHOLME in Lincolnshire KING Henry the III. An. 20. Confirmed to the Abbot and Canons of St. Mary of Tupholm the several Lands and Possessions given them by Gilbert de Nevill and Alan de Nevill his Brother and divers other Benefactors The first Founder was Robert de Nova Villa or Nevill who held Lands of the King in Capite from the time of the Conquest wherewith he endow'd this House Valued at 100 l. 14 s. 10 d. per Annum WELLEBEC in Nottinghamshire JOceus le Flemangh came into England in the Conquerours Army and obtain'd from that King divers Lands in Cukeney c. In this Town lived on Gamelbere an old Tenant in Capite before the Conquest who held of the King two Carucates of Land by the Service of shooing the Kings Palfrey on all four feet with the Kings Nails de cluario Domini Regis as oft as the King should lie at his Mannour of Maunsfeld and if he should lame si inclaudet the Palfrey then he should give the King another Palfrey of four marks price this Gamelbere dying without issue the said Estate came by Escheat to King Henry I. who gave it to Richard Son of the said Ioceus and his heirs to hold by the same Service This Richard had issue by Hawise a Kinswoman of the Earl of Ferrars Thomas who became the Founder of this Abby where a Church of St. Iames was then crected he also endow'd the same with Lands and Revenues augmented and confirm'd by his Descendents Simon Fitz-Simon and Isabel his Wife Walter de Faucumberge and Agnes his Wife c. An. Dom. 1329. Henry de Faucumberge past the Mannour of and all his Estate in Cukeney with the Advowson of this Abby to Iohn de Hothom Bishop of Ely who four days after conveyed all the premisses except the Advowson of the Abby to the Abbot and Convent of St. Iames at Welbeck and by another Deed dated 25 days after in the same year Iohn de Nottingham then Abbot of this Abby obliged himself and Successors to find eight Canons of his Abby for the daily celebration of the Divine Offices for the Souls in the said Deed montion'd and to celebrate the Anniversary of the said Bishop in like manner as of then first and principal Founder c. And to this also he and all the Canons of this House obliged themselves by Oath before a publick Notary c. Richard Basset Knight gave to this Abby the Town of Duckmanton 〈…〉 of the Barony of Henry de Stutâ—vill was by him confirm 〈◊〉 laving to him the Service of one Knights Fee The other Lanâ—â— c. belonging to this Abby in Cukeney and elsewhere were all confirm'd by King Henry II. Valued at 249 l. 6 s. 3 d. per Annum CROXTON in Leicestershire WIlliam Parcarius Son of Ingeram Parcarius gave two parts of the Park of Croxton to this Priory Hugh Brother of the said William confirm'd the said Gift and gave other Lands c. towards the Building of the Church Also he gave his whole Demeasne of Croxton to these Canons to hold in see farm at the Rent of four marks per Annum Margery de Sancto Albino gave them the other third part of Croxton Park William Earl of Bolon and Iohn Earl of Morton Confirm'd their Estate at Croxton and gave other Lands The abovementioned Ingeram Parcarius was also call'd Ingeram le Porter and came into England at the Conquest King Edward 1. An. I. confirm'd to the Abbot and Canons of the Church of St. Iohn the Evangelist and Apostle at Croxton otherwise call'd the Church of St. Iohn de Valle all their Lands and granted them free Chace at Croxton Vid. Vol. 3. p. 73. Valued at 385 l. 10 d. ob per Annum LEYSTONE in Suffolk FOunded in the time of King Henry II. by Radulphus de Glanville and by him
Chruch Flesh they may eat if given them from abroad or of their proper feeding but that only on Sundays from Easter to Advent and from Christmas to Septuagessima and on Christmassday Epiphany Ascention the Assumption and Purification of the Blessed Mary and Feast of all Saints They shall buy nothing for their own Dyet but Bread Beans Pease Herbs Oyle Eggs Milk Cheese and Fruit but no Flesh nor Fish nor Wine unless for the necessities of the Sick and on Jorneys c. In Towns where they have Houses of their own they shall not eat nor drink out of the same unless Water tho' invited nor lye out of their own Houses The Infirm shall lye and eat by themselves Strangers especially Religious men that come to their Houses shall be kindly entertain'd according to the ability of the House No Brother either Clerk or Lay but shall labour in some Office or other They shall observe silence in the Church Refectory and Dortour unless upon necessary Occasions A Chapter shall be held every Sunday if possible in which they shall consider of the affairs of the House and then also an Exhortation shall be made in a plain manner to all the Brethren and others of the House instructing them in their duty of what they are to belâ—ve and practice If any Brother give Scandal or strike another he shall be punishe at the will of the Minister more or less A General Chapter shall be held once a year and that in the Ocâ—aves of Pentecost The Minister shall be Elected by the Common Council of the Brethren not for the dignity of his Birth but the Merits of his person The Minister is either greater or Lesser The Greater may hear the Confessions of all the Congregations of his Order the Lesser only of his own House If any desire to enter into this Order he shall first undergo a years Probation or more if there be occasion and none shall be received under the age of twenty years None shall swear an Oath unless upon great Necessity by License of the Minister or by command of the Bishops and for an honest and just cause THELESFORD in Warwickshire THis House dedicated to God St. Iohn Baptisi and St. Radegund the Virgin was founded by William Son of Waâ—er de Cherlecote for the Releif of the Poor and for the Receit of Travellers or Pilgrims and Religious Men there serving God he endow'd in with several Revenues in Cherlecote Other Benefactors were Fulk Son of William de Lucy William de Narford Lord of Bereford who among other things granted to the Minister and Friers of this House free Fishing in his Water of Avon on all days but Sundays with other great Liberties and Priviledges and William de Bello Campo Earl of Warwick All whose gifts and Grants King Edward III. in the third year of his Reign confirmed to Thomas de Offynton at that time Minister and the Friers of this House and their Successors to hold free and quit of all Secular demands and Exactions whose Deed bears date at Kenylworth Valued at 23 l. 10 s. per Annum MOTTIDEN in KENT THis House of Friers of the holy Cross was first founded by Sir Robert de Rokesley Knight the Modern Patron was the Earl of Northumberland Valued at 50 l. 13 s. ob per Annum INGHAM in Norfolk WIlliam Staserton was the first Founder of this Priory of later time Francis Calthorp became Patron Valued at 61 l. 9 s. 7 d. ob per Annum A TRINITARIAN Vol. 2. P. 831 KNARESBOROUGH in Yorkshire KIng Iohn gave certain Lands in Swinesco to Frier Robert a Hermit in this place which his Son King Henry III confirm'd to Frier Ivo by the title of Hermit of the holy Cross of Knaresburg in the twelfth year of his Reign Richard King of the Romans and Earl of Cornwall Brother to King Henry III. gave to God and to the Brothers of the Holy Trinity of Captives at Knaresburgh the Chappel of St. Robert at Knaresburgh and all the Land which King Iohn his Father gave to the said Saint Robert in his life time with other Lands and Commons of Pasture for twenty Cows and three hundred Sheep and Paunage for forty Hogs c. Whose Deed bears date at London An. Dom. 1257. All which was afterward confirm'd by King Edward I. and King Edward II. Valued at 35 l. 10 s. 11 d. per Annum Additions to the First Volum of the Monasticon Anglicanum Pag. 18. GLASTONBURY DIvers other Grants of Lands Revenues Liberties c. were made to this Monastery by several Kings and Bishops in the times of the Saxons c. King Etheldred An 987 granted to the Abbot and Monks here certain Lands to hold and possess quamdiu sides in Anglorum catholicâ premanserit plebe So long as the Catholick Faith shall remain among the People of England or while the People there shall remain Catholicks Pag. 31. ROCHESTER IN the year 1197. Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury exchanged the Mannor and Church of Darent to the Monks of St. Andrew at Rochester for the Mannor and Church of Lammedbe Lambeth with all the Appurtenances thereto belonging as well in the said Mannor as in Suwerc Southwark And this was by the assent of King Richard the I. and Gilbert then Bishop of Rochester Pag. 49. DURHAM KING William the Conqueror commanded the men of Carlile and those Parts that they should receive Christianity of the Bishop of Durham and his Archdeacon Nigellus de Albeney a great Favourite to King Henry the I. spoild'd the Monastery of Durham of two Mannors but being afterwards very sick and weak repented and restored them Hugh Bishop of Durham was highly favour'd by King Richard the I. who made him Earl of Northumberland and committed the Government of the Realm to his care during his absence in his Voyage to the Holy Land but afterwards falling into the King's displeasure he was devested to the Earldom of Northumberland before his death which happen'd in the year 1194. Anthony Beek elected Bishop of Durham in the year 1283. was a man of so great Authority that he usually had in his retinue one hundred and forty Knights He had a grant of the Isle of Man for life he was a great Builder he died An. 1310. and was the first Bishop that was buried in the Church of Durham Pag. 62. WESTMINSTER IN the year 1556. Cardinal Pole then Archbishop of Canterbury and Legat de Latere upon the Petition of the Dean and Chapter of St. Peter's at Westminster granted them License to give and surrender all and singular their Goods moveable and immoveable Actions and Rights whatsover to their Church or to them in right of their Church belonging to King Philip and Queen Mary that with the same they might endow the Abbot and Convent of the said Church in perpetual Alms and restore it to the condition of a Monastery as formerly Which License was dated at his Mannor of Croydon 17th Kal. October in the second
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
disposal to celebrate Divine Service privately in the time of general Interdict to have a free Sepulture and a free Election of their Abbess c. Whose Bull bears date An. Dom. 1228. Pag. 327 WALLINGFORD NIgellus de Albeney and Alan Fitz-Amfrid gave divers Lands to the Monks of St. Albans in the Church of the Holy Trinity of Wallingford Confirm'd to them by Ioceline Bishop of Salisbury and after him by Robert Bishop of Salisbury and by the Dean and Chapter of that Church An. Do. 1243. Pag. 525. WILBERFOSS GEorge Duke of Clarence and Lord of Richmond as Patroonshe Nannery of Wilberfoss exemplified and confirm'd to Elizabeth then Prioress and to the Nuns there the several Deeds of Endowments and Grants made to them by Iordanus Fitz Gilbert William de Percy c. Whose Deed of Confirmation bears date at Staunford 10th of August 4 Edward IV. Pag. 487. STODELEY THis Nunnery was first founded by Thomas de Sancto Walerico but his Estate and consequently the Patronage of this House coming to the Crown King Richard II. in the first year of his Reign on the death of Margery the last Prioress confirm'd the Election of Elizabeth Fremantell then Subprioress into the Office of Prioress and signified the same to the Bishop of Lincoln Pag. 482. SANFORD alias LITTLEMORE ROger de Thoeni Roger de Sanford and Thomas Buscel whose Deed bears date 1254 8. Henry III. gave Lands to the Church of St. Nicholas and Priory of Nuns here Robert Abbot of Abington and Benjamin Rector of the Church of St. Nicholas granted and confirm'd to them certain Tithes Roger de Quency Earl of Winton and Constable of Scotland released to them their Suit to his Court Pope Innocent IV. in the second year of his Pontificate Released ten days of enjoyn'd Pennance to all such of the Diocesses of Lincoln Ely and Salisbury who being penitent and confest should contribute and assist to the reedifying of the Church of this Priory Pag. 597. GROSMUNT in Yorkshire JOan Wife of Robert de Torneham and daughter of William Fossart gave divers Lands Profits and Priviledges in Yorkshire to the Prior and Monks of Grandmont in France confirm'd by her said Husband Robert de Torneham who also gave other Lands of his own Pag. 505. CRESWELL in Herefordshire THis was another Cell of the Monks of Grandemont to which Walter de Lacy gave Lands in pure and perpetual Alms with warranty Peter Bishop of Hereford having bought Lands of the Prior of Creswell for 550. marks granted by his Deed dated 1256 that in case he or his Successors should happen to be impleaded for the said Lands the said Prior nor this Successors should not be obliged to defend and Warrant the same beyond the Sum of 550 marks Pag. 542. MISSENDEN JOan de Pedinton widow of Guy de Ryhal with Thomas Son and heir of the said Guy confirm'd to the Canons of Missendin the Hermitage of Muswell which Ralf the Hermit built and inhabited by permission of the foresaid Guy with a Chappel built in honour oâ— the Holy Cross. Confirm'd also by Albricus Earl of Damarun and Simon de Gerardmulin The Priory of EWENNY a Cell of the Abby of Gloucester THe Turbervilles gave to the Church of St. Michael and the Monks there divers Lands and Possessions with Liberty of fishing in the River of Ewenny as far as their Lands extend and to retain a moiety of the fish so caught the other moiety to be the Turbervilles The Priory of Blithe in Nottinghamshire POpe Honorius confirm'd the Possessions of this House to the Monks here and exempted them from paying of Tithes of their Cattel It was founded by William de Crescy William Gifford Archishop of York An. Dom. 1277 made certain orders for their Government viz. That Almes and Hospitality should be used as of old time that all and singular do humbly and devoutly obey the Prior as their head c. Vid. Vol. â— p. 553. BUSTLESHAM Abby in Barkshire KIng Henry VIII by Patent dated in the 29th year of his Reign recites that out of the sincere and intire devotion which he bears to God and the Blessed Virgin Mary and to the Increase of the Divine Worship c. He does erect found and establish to indure for all future times a Monastery or Conventual House of one Abbot and thirteen Monks of the order of St. Benedict in the place of the late disolved Priory or Monastery of Bisham alias Bustlesham in Barkshire which on the fifth day of Iuly in the 28th year of his Reign was surrender'd to him by William Bishop of St. Davids then Prior of that Priory and the Convent there and this he did for the good estate of himself while living and for the good of his Soul after death and for the good of the Soul of his most dear Wife Iane late Queen of England deceased and for the Souls of his Children and Progenitors And gave all the Lands Houses Church Bells and all utensils then in his hands and formerly belonging to the late dissolved Monastery to Iohn Cordrey whom he made Abbot of this new Monastery and to the Monks of the same Which Iohn Cordrey was lately Abbot of the Monastery of St. Peter at Chertsey in Surrey He did also incorporate this new Monastery by the name of the Abbot and Convent of the new Monastery of the Holy Trinity of King Henry VIII at Buslesham with power to purchase Lands and by that name to sue and be sued c. and for the Abbot and his Successors to use an Episcopal Miter He also endow'd the said New Monastery with all the Lands and Revenues belonging to the late Monastery here and also to that of Chertsey in divers Counties of England and Wales and in the City of London also with the dissolved Priories of Cardigan in Southwales and Bethelkellard in Carnarvanshire with all the Lands and Revenues of the same and with divers Rents issuing out of the Lands and Revenues of several other Monasteries then in Lease for twenty one years and the Reversion of the said Lands c. With view of Frank pledge and all other Franchises and Liberties which have been formerly enjoy'd in the several Lands c. To hold by the Service of one Knights see and the yearly Rent of 72 l. and 17 d. in the name of a Tenth to be paid into the Court of augmentations at Michaelmas This new Monastery to be exempt from the ordinary Jurisdiction and to be visited only by the King his heirs and Successors and the present Abbot Iohn Cordrey to be excused from the payment of first Fruits and Tenths given by Statute made in the twenty sixth year of this King provided notwithstanding that his Successors shall pay first Fruits which are valued at 661 l. 14 s. 9 d. ob But no tenths which amount to 66 l. 3 s. 5 d. ob q. non obstante the said Stat. or any other Law Which Patent bears teste at Westminster 18th December in
he was upon his great sorrow and tears absolved after which he gave divers Lands to this Church Gurcan who succeeded Guinan having lived incestuously with his Mother in Law was therefore in full Synod excommunicated by Bishop Erthguin and after upon his reformation being absolved gave divers Lands to this Church King Clitauc Son of Clitguin was a Prince who governed his Kingdom in Peace and exact Juctice and became afterwards a Martyr on this account A young Virgin of quality was in love with him so far as to declare she would never marry unless to Clitauc whereupon a Nobleman of the Court whose Sute she had refused for the Kings sake in revenge murder'd the innocent King in hunting After whose Murder the Bishop of Landaff caused to be built and consecrated a Church to his memory in the place where he was buried near the River Myngui c. Which with divers Lands given to the same was afterwards a granted to the Bishops of Landaff by King Iudhail Son of Morcant A Noble man of the same name Iudhail Son of Edelvirth going with his Wife on a Sunday to hear divine Service at St. Clitaue's was so far prevail'd upon by the Devils insligation and his own lust 〈◊〉 to lie with his Wife in a Meadow on the Bank of Mingui and having perform'd the Act and about to withdraw he found himself not able to disjoyn but was forced to remain in that Posture inseperable from his Wâ—â—e whereupon he call'd out to his Attendants and order'd them to repair to the Monument of the Martyr Clitauc and there offer in his name that Meadow which he had unjustly taken from that Church this being done with promise of amendment of Life he was again separated from that vexatious Conjunction Convur bought certain Lands of King Fernvail Son of Iudhail for an excellent horse of the price of 12 Cows a Dog that had kill'd Birds with a Hawk cum Ancipitre of the Price of 3 Cows and another Horse of the Price of 3 Cows which Lands so purchased he gave to the Bishops of this Church of Landaff Fernuhail Convelin King Ris Son of Iudhail and abundance of other Kings and great Men in Wales were Benefactors to this Church King Hotel being excomunicated by the Bishop and Synod at Landaff for killing Galcun after a peace swern upon his Absolution gave divers Lands to this Church the like did Ili Son of Conblus who was excommunicated for killing Camauc after a Peace sworn between them Agvod Son of Iovaf having an angry Contest betwixt his family and the Bishops came up to the Church Door and threw stones into the Church and then fled under an Anathema for which he afterwards beg'd pardon and gave divers Lands to Corenhiro then Bishop and his Successors King Nongui gave Lands for violating the Liberties of this Church and committing Sacriledge An. Dom. 955. Pater being then Bishop of this Church six men of the Family of Nongui broke into a Church in this Diocesâ— and there kill'd a Deacon before the Altar who had fled thither for Sanctuary for which they were delivered up to the Bishop and remain'd imprison'd six months in Chains and they were further sentenced by a Synod that they should forfeit all their Lands and Substance to the Church which they had prophaned Asser Son of Marchvid having kill'd Gulagguin by treachery gave to this Church the Town of Segan c. Brochmail Son of Mouric gave to this Church certain Lands which he had before given to his Daughter whom he made a Nun but she being seduced from her Vow by Etgar Son of Levi had a Son incestuously Teudur King of Brecknock King Grifud c. were also Benefactors An. Dom. 982. Gucaun Bishop of Landaff was consecrated by the Metropolitan Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury and had his Pastoral Staff given him by Edgar the Supream King of the English At the same time lived Edgar King of all Britain Hawel da and Morgan hen which two last were subject to King Edgar Etguin King of Guenti having a great contest with Bledri Bishop of Landaff it went so far that the Bishop himself was wounded whereupon he summon'd and assembled all the Clergy from Taratir in Gui to Tigui who in full Synod Anathematized the King with his whole Family and put his Country under interdict but the King seeking absolution obtain'd it and thereupon gave divers Lands to this Church Muric Son of Hivil after he had solemnly sworn to a Peace and Friendship with Etguin a Neighbouring King before Ioseph Bishop of Landaff seized upon the said Etguin cast him in Prison and put out his eyes which occasion'd his death for which being curst in a Synod he afterwards obtain'd absolution and gave several Towns to this Church King Mouric and Caratanc one of his Lords being under censure for violating the Sanctuary of this Church obtain'd remission and gave divers Lands The like happened in the Cases of Catguallaun Ringuallaun Gistinus and others who being guilty of like Crimes made the like Compensations When King William conquer'd England Hergualdus was Bishop of Landaff Catguacaun Son of Mouric King of Glatmorcant Caratoc and Riderch Kings of other parts of Wales all which Kings served King William and died in his time LITCHFELD Cathedral THIS was formerly call'd the Mercian Church and first founded in the year 657. upon the Conversion of this Province to the Christian Religion it was then made a Cathedral and Duina the first Bishop of the Mercians or middle English who govern'd here but two years and died To him succeeded Cellach a Scot. After him Trumhere and after him Iarman both Englishmen but ordain'd Bishops in Scotland To these succeeded St. Cedda An. Dom. 667. who had been before that Bishop of York After whose death succeeded Winfrid and after him Sexwolf who founded the Abby of Peterborough after whose death the Province of Mercia was divided into two Diocesses Parâ—chias Litchfield and Leicester tho' after a while they were both united again under Hedda Bishop of Litchfield who died An. 721. In the time of Ethelred King of Mercia the Bishoprick of Litchfield was divided into five Diocesses viz. Hereford Worcester Litchfield Leicester and Lindisey After this division Litchfield had five successive Bishops till the time of Adulphus who was made Archbishop of Litchfield by Pope Hadrian An. 764. and a Jurisdiction given him over all Mercia and the East-Angles but after him there was no more Archbishops From his time to the Norman Conquest were fifteen Bishops of Litchfield soon after which the Episcopal Seat was translated from Litchfield to Chester An. 1075. The second Bishop of Chester was Robert de Lymesi who An. 1095. removed his Seat again from Chester to the rich Monastery at Coventry not long before built and magnificently endow'd by Earl Leofrick and Godeva his Wife To him succeeded Robert Peche Roger de Clinton Walter Durdent Richard Peche and Gerard de Puellâ all of them successively Bishops of
after Bishop of Lincoln Robert de Mariscis 1260. William de Lenington 1262. Richard de Mephum 1273. Iohn de Maydencton 1275. Olive Sutton 1276. after Bishop of Lincoln Nicholas de Hecham 1280. William Wicham 1577. after Bishop of Lincoln and Winchester Philip de Willughby 1289. Gotzesinus de Kyrington 1305. Raymundas a Cardinal 1307. Roger de Martival 1310. after Bishop of Sarum Henry de Mansfield 1315. Anthony Beak 1328. after Bishop of Norwich Iohn de Nottingham 1340. William de Norwich 1343. after Bishop of Norwich Iohn de Offord 1345. Simon Bresley 1348. Iohn de Stretley 1364. Iohn de Shepy 1388. Iohn Mackworth 1412. Robert Fleming 1451. George Fitzbugh 1483. Ieffry Simion 1505. Thomas Wulcy 1509. afterwards Bishop of Lincoln and York and Cardinal Iohn Constable 1514. George Heneage 1528. Iohn Tayler 1539. after Bishop of Lincoln Mathew Parlur or Parker 1552. after Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Francis Mallet 1554. Iohn Whitgift 1571. after Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of Canterbury Ralf Griffin 1585. Iohn Rainold 1598. William Cole 1599. Laurence Staunton 1601 Roger Parlur 1613. Anthony Topham 1629. Michael Honywood 1660. Anno 1536. 28. Henry VIII An Inventory was made of all the Jewels Vestments and other Ornaments belonging to the Revestry of of this Church consisting in Chalices in number six one of which was all Gold enricht with Pearls and divers precious stones in the foot weighing thirty two Onnces Several rich Feretrums one of Silver and gilt for the Sacrament weighting 341. ounces several rich Philatories Ampuls and Tabernacles with Relicks in them Rich Images Silver and gilt Divers Rich Chests for Relicks Pixes Crosses and Crucifixes some of Gold some of Christial and some of Silver and gilt one of which weighed 128 Ounces besides the Baes c. Divers Rich Candlesticks among which one Pair of extraordinary size and Workmanship was all Gold and weigh'd 450 Ounces the gift of Iohn Duke of Lancaster Son of King Edw. III. Five Pair of Censors Silver and gilt Several rich Basons Silver and gilt c. Pastoral Staves Texts of the Gospells with Rich Covers Chrismatories and Ampuls sot Oyl Silver and gilt eight Myters Chesables and Copes of Cloath of Gold Sattin Velvet imbroidered red white some of Damask some set with Pearls of purple and blew some of which had the Donors names imbroidered thereon with Orate pro anima c. of green of black rich Morses of Silver and gilt Garlands of Silver and gilt set about with precious Stones and Pearls rich Altar-cloaths of Cloth of Gold and images imbroidered c. King Henry VIII directed his Letter dated the 6th of Iune in his two and thirtieth year to Dr. George Heneage then Archdeacon of Taunton and others to take down a Shrine and the superstitious Jewels Plate Copes c. in this Cathedral Church of Lincoln and to see the same safely and surely to be convey'd to his Jewel-house in the Tower Which Commission was executed on the 11th of Iune 1540. And by force thereof there was taken out of the said Cathedral in Gold two thousand six hundred and twenty one â—unces in silver four thousand two hundred and eighty five ounces besides a great number of Pearls Diamonds Saphires Rubies Turky Carbuneles c. The Bishop of Lincoln had a Miter wonderfully thick set with precious Stones Here were then two Shrines one of St. Hugh all of Gold the other of St. Iohn of Dalderby all of Silver In the seventh year of King Edward the VI. another Inventory was taken of what then remain'd in this Church which contain'd only three Chalices one Pix one Ampul and that was all the Plate the rest of the Treasure was in Copes of red green blew black and white some old and decayed with divers Chesables Tunicles and Albes c. Altar-Cloaths of Diaper meetly good and five other Cloths of Diaper sore worne In the fourth and fifth Ph. Ma. An. Dom. 1557. another Inventory was made and there was then in this Church seven Chalices Silver and gilt one of which weighed four and thirty ounces four Pixes with some few Phials Crostes Ampulls but most poor with divers Chesables and Copes red purple white blew green and black and divers Altar-Clothes some of Cloath of Gold and of Damask imbroidered with Gold c. St. PAUL's Cathedral in London ANno Dom. 185. Lucius King of the greater Britain now call'd England obtain'd from Pope Eleutherius two Doctors to be sent hither to instruct the King and Kingdom in the Christian Faith then were the Temples of Idols dedicated to the Service of the true God and three Metropolitan Seats placed in the three chief Cities viz. London to which all the Southern part of England was subject York under whose Jurisdiction was all the North of Humber and Scotland and Cehster whose Jurisdiction extended over Wales London continued the chief Episcopal Seat and Primacy till the coming of St. Augustin who in the year 604. transferr'd the Metropolitan Dignity to Canterbury and made Mellitus Bishop of London To which Mellitus King Ethelbert gave the Land then called Tillingham for the Support and Maintenance of his Monastery of St. Paul Pope Agatho granted to Erkenwald Bishop of the Monastry of St. Paul in London that the Election of the Bishop should belong solely to the Congregation of that Monastery Which Erkenwald was a Scholler to Bishop Mellitus and built two Monasteries one for himself at Chertsey in Sussex the other for his Sister Edleburga at Barking in Essex He was a man of most exemplary Piety and after the death of Bishop Cedde became Bishop of London He died at Barking after whose death his Body was much contested for by the Nuns of Barking the Monks of Chertey and the Citizens of London but the latter prevailed and he was buried at London with the Reputation of a Saint King Athelstan renewed and restored the Liberties of the Monastery of St. Paul the Doctor of the Gentiles in London King Edgar granted to the same divers Lands and Immunities in the year 867. Other Benefactors to this Church were King Ethelred Câ—â—te King of Denmark and England King Edward the Confessor King William the Conqueror who confirm'd all their Lands and Liberties to be as free as he desired his own Soul to be in the day of Judgment he also granted and confirm'd the four and twenty Hides of Land adjoyning to the City of London which King Ethelbert gave to this Church when he founded it It appears by Domesday-Book that at the time of the Conquest the Church of St. Paul's held Lands in the Counties of Middlesex Essex in divers Hundreds there Hertford and Surrey An. 1070 A Provincial Council was assembled in the Church of St. Paul at London under Lanfranc Archbishop of Canterbury where among other things it was decreed that none should marry in his own Kindred till the seventh Degree That none should buy or sell holy Orders or an Ecclesiastical Office with cure of Souls which
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
the same with divers Lands c. Valued at 139 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum MAYDENSTONE in Kent KING Richard the II. in the nineteenth year of his Reign granted his License to William de Courtney Archbishop of Caunterbury and Legate his dear Kinsman to convert the Parish-Church of the â—â—essed Mary of Maidenstone into a Colledge of one Master or Custos and as many Fellows Chaplains and other Ministers as he should think expedient and to endow the same with Lands and Churches in particular with the Hospital of St. Peter and St. Paul of Maidenstone with all the Lands thereunto belonging c. Valued at 159 l. 7 s. 10 d. per Annum KING Richard the II. in the nineteenth year of his Reign granted further to William de Wykehum Bishop of Winchester whereas by his License he had founded a Colledge of one Custos and seventy Schollars learning Grammar commonly call'd Saynt Mary Collegge of Wynchestre and endowed the same with Possessions for the Maintenance of the said Custos and Schollars and ten perpetual Chaplains three other Chaplains and three Clerks he now also freed and acquitted the said Colledge and all their Tenents for ever from all Toll Geld Scutage c. and from all Taxes and Exactions whatsoever and that the said Colledge shall never be obliged to grant any Pensions Corrâ—dies or any maintenance to any one at the demand or command of the King or his Heirs And King Edward the IV. in the first year of his Reign ratified and confirm'd to this Colledge the alien Priory of Andever in the County of Southampton and all Lands c. to the same belonging to hold in free pure and perpetual Alms not withstanding the Statute of Mortmain or that the said Priory was of the Foundation of the Kings Progenitors or that the Lands were given by them for the support of Chantries Hospitality or other works of Piety there or that express mention is not made of the true value of the same in this present grant or any other Statute Act Law or Restriction to the contrary whatsoever BOLTON in Yorkshire KING Richard the II. in the twentieth year of his Reign granted his License to Richard le Scrope Chivalier to found a Chantry of six Chaplains of which one to be Custos in his Castle of Bolton and to endow the same with a yearly Rent of 43 l. 6 s. 8 d. Also to give to the Abbot and Convent of St. Agatha in Yorkshire the yearly Rent of 106 l. 13 s. 4 d. for the support of six Chanons-Chaplains to celebrate for him in the said Abby and for the finding and maintenance of two and twenty poor men in the said Abby for ever to pray for him c. WENSLAW in Yorkshire KING Richard the II. in the twenty second year of his Reign licensed the before-mentioned Richard le Scrope de Bolton to erect the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity at Wenslaw being of his Patronage into a Colledge to consist of one Master or Custos and as many Fellow-Chaplains and other Ministers as he should think fit and to endow the same with Lands and Revenues to the value of 150 l. which yearly Sum he had formerly granted to the Abbot and Convent of St. Agatha in Yorkshire for the finding of ten Canons above their own number and two Secular Chaplains with two and twenty poor men but they had released his Grant St. MARY's at Leicester KING Henry IV. in the first year of his Reign reciting that Henry Duke of Lancaster his Grandfather had begun the Foundation of a Collegiate-Church at Leicester in honour of the Annunciation of the blessed Mary and certain Buildings for the Habitation of Canons and Clerks and infirm People there dwelling and that Iohn Duke of Lancaster his Father did desire to compleat the same he approving their pious Intentions assigned Iohn de Byngham and others to provide Masons Carpenters and other Workmen to the number of four and twenty and to provide Timber and Stone for carrying on and finishing the Work commanding all Mayors Bayliffs c. to be aiding and assisting Infra p. 140. LEDBURY in Herefordshire KING Henry the IV. in the second year of his Reign licensed Iohn Bishop of Hereford to found a Colledge in the Parish Church of Ledbury for nine Chaplains of which one to be Master or Custos and they to have a Common Seal be capable of purchasing and receiving Lands of suing and being sued c. IN the eighteenth year of King Henry the VI. Henry Cardinal of England Bishop of Winchester Henry Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir Walter Hungerford Knt. Feoffees of Henry late King of England of certain Lands in the Dutchy of Lancaster granted and settled upon the Dean and Canons of the Collegiate Church of the blessed Mary at Leicester a Rent Charge of one hundred Marks per Annum arising out of divers Towns in Darbyshire and payable at Michaelmas and Easter Valued at 595 l. 7 s. 4 d. per Annum NORTH-YEVEL in Bedfordshire KIng Henry IV. in the sixth year of his Reign granted his License to Gerard Braybrok Chivalier and others to purchase of Iohn Wateryng Clerk and others the Advowson of the Parish Church of North-Yevell and to erect and change the same into a Colledge to consist of one Master or Custos and as many Fellow-Chaplains and other Ministers as they shall think expedient and to endow the same by appropriating thereunto the said Church of North-Yevell and that the said Master and Chaplains may out of the said Appropriation grant a pension of five marks yearly to a Chaplain celebrating for the Dead in the Chappel of the Mannour of Qure in the County of Cambridge Valued at 61 l. 5 s. 8 d. ob per Annum ATTILBURGH in Norfolk KIng Henry IV. in the 7th year of his Reign for 100. Marks granted his Licence to Henry Packenham Senior and Simon Parson of the Church of Scultone to found a Chantry in the Parish Church of Attilburgh in honour of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross to consist of five Chaplains one of which to be Custos or Master and to endow the same among other things with the Church of great Eâ—ngham to be appropriated to the said Colledg provided that a Vicar of the sud Church be sufficiently endow'd and a comparent Sum of mony be appointed by the Ordinary of the Place to be distributed to the Poor of the said Parish according to the Statute 15 R. 2. c. 6. Valued at 21 l. 16 s. 3 d. per Annum STAYNEDROPE in the County Palatin of Durham THomas Bishop of Durham in the third year of his Pontificate granted his Licence to Ralf de Nevill Earl of Westmerland to found a Colledge of one Master or Custos and certain other Chaplains continually to reside and for certain poor Gentlemen and other poor People in the Town of Staynedrope in his Liberty of Durham and to endow the same with the Advowson of the Church
Danes coming down out of Yorkshire into Lincolnshire Earl Algar Morcar a Lay-Brother of Crowland-Abby call'd Tolius who had been a famous Souldier before he entered into Religion Hardingus of Reihalle and under his Command all the men of Stamford made head against them and at first conquered the Pagans but they being soon after reinforced with greater power they in a second Battel over-threw the Christians with grievous slaughter burnt down the Abby and Church of Croyland and from thence marcht to Medeshamsted where they slew the Abbot and all the Monks to the number of eighty four and utterly destroyed the Church and all other Buildings From hence they march'd to Cambridge destroying all the Country as they went In the year of Christ 970. St. Adelwold Bishop of Winchester began to re-edifie the Monastery of Medeshamstede and call'd it the Borough of St. Peter one hundred year after it was destroyed by the Danes The foregoing Particulars of this History have been curiously painted in the Windows of the Cloysters belonging to this Abby with English Verses under each Picture explaining the Story Which see in the Monasticon at large Valued at 1721 l. 14 s. 0 d. ob q. per Annum WHITBY of Old call'd STRENSHALE in Yorkshire ANno Dom. 655. Penda the Pagan King of Mercia making War upon Oswy King of Northumberland Oswy made a Vow to Almighty God that if he overcame his Enemies he would dedicate his Daughter to perpetual Virginity and give twelve of his Manour-houses to be converted into Monasteries Hereupon he fought and tho' much inferiour in number obtain'd a Signal Victory and Penda was slain in the Battle In performance o◠〈◊〉 Vow he gave his Daughter named Ethelfleda then scarce one year 〈…〉 and the Ground then called Streneshal for the building of a Monastery It was begun by Hilda a Woman of great Religion and was at first a Nunnery but afterwards a House of Monks In the year 1067. William de Percy who came into England with the Conquerour and had obtained to himself and Heirs the Town of Whitby and all its Members made a new Foundation of the Abby of Whitby and gave all the said Town and Members to God St. Peter and St. Hilda of Whitby and to the Monks there serving God in perpetual Alms with divers other Lands and made Reinfridus a Monk of Euesham Prior of the Monastery This was after this place had been destroyed by the Danes above two hundred years Many were the Benefactors to this Abby besides the Founder William de Percy a particular of the Lands Possessions Forests Churches Tithes and Liberties by them given may be seen in the Monasticon at large p. 74 75. Vid. inf p. 988. Valued at 437 l. 2 s. 9 d. per Annum CHERTSEY in Surrey THE Abby of Chertsey was founded in the Reign of King Egbert in the year of our Lord 666. by Frithwaldus a petty King or Governor of the Province of Surrey under Wulfar King of Mercia and endow'd with large Possessions all which were confirm'd by the said Wulfar King of Mercia The Limits of the Lands belonging to Chertsey-Abby may be seen in the Monasticon at large p. 77. Pope Alexander granted to this Abby many Priviledges among other that they should pay no Tithes of their Lands in their own hands nor of the Beasts which they themselves kept Valued at 659 l. 15 s. 8 d. ob per Annum BERKING in the County of Essex THE Nunnery at Berking eight miles from London was founded by Erkenwaldus Bishop of that City for his Sister Ethelburge who was the first Abbess of this Nunnery Hodelredus a Kinsman of Sebby King of the East Saxons gave to this House fair Revenues which Guift was confirm'd by the said King Sebby The Ancient Profits and Expences of this Nunnery as they were charg'd to the Account of the Celeress may be seen in the Monasticon at large p. 80 81 82 83. Valued at 862 l. 12 s. 5 d. ob per Annum The Monastery of St. Mildred in the Isle of Thanet in Kent MIldred the Virgin was the Daughter of Merwaldus Son of Penda King of Mercia and Domneva of the Family of the Kings of Kent Which Domneva with her Husband's assistance built this Monastery for Nuns and placed here seventy Virgins of whom their Daughter Mildred was consecrated Abbess This House was destroy'd by the Pagan Danes A BENEDICTINE NUN Vol. 1. P. 79 the year 1011. Afterwards in the time of King Cnut it was annext by that King 's Grant to St. Augustines Monastery and the Body of St. Mildred translated from hence of St. Augustines at Canterbury A. D. 1033. The Lands belonging hereunto in the Isle of Thanet were confirm'd to the said Monastery of St. Augustines by King Edward the Confessor FALKSTONE in Kent EAnswida Daughter of Eadbaldus Son of Ethelbert King of Kent built this Monastery in a remote Part from Commerce situated seven Acers breadth from the Sea which in process of time quite wore away the Land and destroyed this House but the Reliques of the holy Virgin the Foundress who lived and died here were removed to the Neighbouring Church of St. Peter See more of this House infra p. 560. Valued at 41 l. 15 s. 10 d. per Annum LIMING in Kent THE Monastery here was built by Ethelburge Daughter of King Ethelbert and Wife of Edwin King of Northumberland after whole death she return'd into Kent and founded this Nunnery and lies here buried RACULFE in Kent BIrthwald Archbishop of Canterbury was before his election to that See in the year 692. Abbot of Raculfe In the year 949. King Eadred King of all England gave the Monastery of Raculfe and all the Lands belonging thereunto to the Church of Canterbuy Odo being then Archbishop and Metropolitan there The Lands belonging to this House did amount to twenty five Carucates and one Carucate assigned only to the Repairs of the Church ELY Abby in Cambridgeshire ANno Dom. 627. The blessed Augustine built a Church at Ely in a place called Cradindene a mile distant from the present City it was consecrated to the honour of the blessed Virgin and stored with Ministers for God's service but these were all expell'd by Penda King of Mercia and the place turn'd into a Desert Afterwards in the year 673. Ethelreda the Virgin built a Monastery in a more eminent place in Ely for both Sexes of which she her self became the first Abbess In the year 870. the Church of Ely was again destroy'd and burnt by the Pagans In the year 970. Ethelwaldus Bishop of Winchester bought this Isle of King Edgar rebuilt the Church and placed Monks in it under the Rule of an Abbot and in this state it remained till the year 1108. 9 H. 1. at which time Pope Paschal at the request of that King changed the Abby into a Bishoprick The foresaid Ethelred was Daughter of Anna King of the East-Angels and was buried in Ely together with several
other holy Women of her Relations and Blood The History of this Church says that an Apparition appear'd to one of the Monks and foretold to him the destruction of the Monastery because not one of both Sexes in this House but himself did use to pass the night in religious Exercises but in Vanity and Sin After which the Danes destroyed it to the Ground An. Dom. 870. Benefactors to this House were the abovesaid Ethelwald Bishop of Winchester who bought the whole Isle of Ely and gave it and other Lands and rich Moveables to this Church King Edgar and King Edward the Elder granted and confirmed to it many Lands and Priviledges approved and ratified by Pope Victor Valued at 1084 l. 6 s. 9 d. ob per Annum WIRMOUTH and GYRWY now called YARROW in the Bishoprick of Durham IN the year 674. Egfrid King of the Northumbers gave a quantity of Ground lying at the mouth of the River Wyra to the holy Abbot Benedict an Englishman who had been five times at Rome for the building a Monastery to St. Peter and other Lands in a place then called Gyrwy not far distant for another Monastery to the honour of St. Paul Both which he indow'd and filled with Monks Gyrwy is four miles distant from New-Castle of this House Venerable Bede was heretofore a Monk and educated under the above-mentioned Benedict Valued at 25 l. 8 s. 4 d. per Annum ABBINGTON in Barkshire AT such time as the wicked Hengist destroyed 460 of the Barons and Great men of this Land by fraud and treachery one of the Noblemen's Sons named Aben made a shift to escape the slaughter and concealed himself in a Wood on the South-side of Oxfordshire for a great while but being at last taken notice of for his great sanctity people built there for him a House and Chappel which was afterwards from his name called Abendun In the year 675. one Heane a man of great Riches begun to build in the same place a Monastery though after removed to some distance and gave to it a part of his Inheritance Sister of this Heane was Cissa who built at a place called Helneston near the Thames a Monastery for Nuns of which she became her self the Abbess This Lady had obtained a small piece of one of the Nails of our Lord's passion to which she caused some other Iron to be added and made of that a Cross which she caused to be placed upon her breast after her death and so buried This Cross was in the time of Adelwold Abbot here and afterwards Bishop of Winchester found accidentally in digging to make an Aqueduct it was translated into the Monastery of Monks and there preserved with great reverence and call'd the black Cross. The Monks here at their first Institution were but twelve and the Abbot they never went abroad without great necessity and with the Abbot's leave they did eat no flesh unless sick c. The Town of Abbington was in old time called Seuekesham It was a Regal Seat and a place of great concourse for religious Worship as well before the times of Christianity as since tam tempere Religonis fanaticoe quam tempore religionis Christianoe are the Words of the old Historian Benefactors to this House were Cedwalla King of the West-Saxons King Ina his Son An. Dom. 699. Kenulfus King of Mercia An. Dom. 821. Edred King of all England An Dom. 955. Edgar King of all England An. Dom. 958. in the Reign of this King the above-mentioned Adelwold was Abbot here who built the Church in honour of the holy Mother of God and sent one of his Monks beyond the Seas for the rule of St. Benedict he settled here several good Orders and gave great Riches and Ornaments to this Church after this he was by King Edgar chosen to be Bishop of Winchester An. Dom. 963. King Hen. I. was also a great Benefactor And Pope Eugenius III. granted to this Abby great Priviledges by his Bull dated An. Dom. 1146. Valued at 1876 l. 10 s. 9 d. per Annum GLOUCESTER Abby ANno Dom. 680 or 681. In the Reign of King Aethelred one Osrich a petty King or Subregulus first founded the Church of St. Peters in Gloucester and placed his Sister Kineburga Abbess of the Monastery there This Mâ—nastery was built at the Expences of King Ethelred and his Wife Elfleda Which being afterwards destroyed by the Danes was in the year 1058. restored and consecrated by Aldredus then Bishop of Worcester and afterward Archbishop of York The foresaid King Ethelred in the the 30th year of his Reign became a Monk at Bardeney and after that Abbot and departed this life in the year 716. The fore-mentioned Osrich became King of the Northumbers after the death of Kenred and died An. Dom. 729. The Nuns of this House were dispersed after the year 767. and Benedictine Monks were placed here An. Dom. 1022. by Wolstan then Bishop of Worcester This Church was again new built from the Foundation by Serlo the first Abbot after the Conquest and consecrated in the year 1100. by Sampson Bishop of Worcester Two years after which this Church together with the whole City of Gloucester was burnt down Many were the Benefactors to this Church of all sorts and qualities whose Names together with the Lands given amounting in all to a great Revenue may be seen at large in the Monasticon from p. 111 to p. 120. See more of this Church infra p 993 and Vol. 3. p. 7. Valued at 1946 l. 5 s. 9 d. per Annum WORCESTER Abby ANno Dom. 680. In the Reign of King Athelred in the Kingdom of Mercia Worcester was first made a Bishops seat and Boselus the first Bishop St. Oswald who was Bishop here in the year 871. or according to others 959. introduced the first Monks into this Church in the room of the Clerks King Offa King Edgar and many others of the Saxons were great Benefactors to this Church as may be seen in the Monasticon from p. 121 to p. 136. and from thence to p. 140. a Recapitulation of their Lands and Endowments Valued at the Suppression at 1229 l. 12 s. 8 d. ob per Annum BARDENEY Abby in Lincolnshire WHEN the Body of St. Oswald was first buried at Bardeney there were three hundred Monks in this Abby It was first built by King Ethelred and destroyed to the Ground by the Danes and re-edified again by Gilbert de Gaunt Uncle to William the Conqueror whose Son and Heir Walter de Gaunt did in the year 1115 confirm to the Church and Monastery of St. Peter and St. Paul and St. Oswald at Bardeney all those Lands and Possessions which his Father had given in pure and perpetual Alms to the same And did also inlarge their Possessions of his own Charity All which was afterwards confirm'd by King Henry the first Vid. Vol. 2. p. 847. Valued at 366 l. 6 s. 1 d. per Annum EUESHAM Abby in Worcestershire SAint Egwin who was the
God and honour of St. Peter King Edward the Confessor and King William the Conqueror ratified Orcus and his Wives Benefactions to the Monks here and granted them certain Franchises By inquisition taken before the Escheator and Sheriff of this County in the 53 Hen 3. The several Lands Rents and Liberties of this Abby were found and set forth the Jury also found that the Abbot here held his Estate of the King in Capite by the service of one Knight's Fee only and not in Baronia by the service of a Barony In the year 1505. Thomas Strangeways Esq founded a perpetual Chantry in the Chappel of the Blessed Mary in the Church of this Abby and endow'd it with Rents for the maintenance of one Mass to be said in the said Chappel daily for ever for the Souls of his Ancestors and Friends and for all the Faithful subjecting it to the Visitation of the Bishop and the Abbot did oblige himself to find a Monk in case he should have above eight Monks Priests in the Monastery to perform the Office and this under the penalty of 3 s. 4 d. to the Bishop of the Diocess and 3 s. 4 d. to the Heirs of the said Strangeways for every omission Valued at 390 l. 19 s. 2 d. ob q. per Annum HULME in Suffolk CAnutus the Danish King of England returning from Rome built two Monasteries to the honour of St. Benedict one in Norwey and the other this in England Which last he founded in a fenny place then call'd Couholm where in former-times before the Danes came into Fngland one Suneman a Hermite did inhabit spending his time in devotion there for above fifty years To the Abby here built the said King canutus gave many Lands and Priviledges All which King Edward the Confessor confirm'd and granted others Sacne and Sokne Toll and Theam c. and all other Liberties and free Customs which he himself enjoy'd in his own Demeans and Lands belonging to the Crown St. EDMUNDS-BURY in Suffolk SAint Edmund the last King of the East Angles being overcome by Inguar and Hubba Pagan Danes was cruelly bound to a Tree whipt and then shot to death suffering martyrdom for the Christian Religion in the year of our Lord 870. and the 29th of his Age. His Head and Body were thrown into a thick Wood by the Pagans but being afterwards found out by miracle he was buried at a Neighbouring place call'd by the Saxons Beodrichesworth now St. Edmunsbury where the Christians built a small Church But afterwards King Canutus who had erected at Rome an English School and assign'd for its maintenance a Sum of Money which was yearly sent from England and call'd Romescot by advice of his Bishops and Barons changed the secular Clergy belonging to this Church to Monks in the year 1020 and brought hither from the Abby of Hulme thirteen religious Benedictines whose first Abbot here was one Wius He also caused half the Books Vestments and Utinsils of that Abby to be removed hither King Edmund the Elder in the year 942. gave Lands to this Church and after him the foresaid King Conutus gave many Lands to this Monastery and rebuilt it in a magnificent manner Controversies arising in the Reign of King William the Conqueror between the Abbot and the Bishop of the Diocess the Abbot went to Rome and found such favour with Pope Alexander the II. that he granted to him and his Successors Episcopal Jurisdiction and this special priviledge viz. That so long as they kept a porphery Altar which he then gave him tho' the whole Kingdom should fall under Excommunication yet the Divine Office should not cease in this Abby unless specially interdicted by name His Bull bears date An. Dom. 107â— In the year 1081. the Contest between the Bishop and Abbot was examined before King William the Conqueror and upon hearing both sides that King did declare the Church of St. Edmund and the Town in which it Stands to be exempt from the Bishops Jurisdiction The Steward or Seneschall's Office for the Liberty of St. Edmund was a place of great honour and the Family of Hastings held it in Fee They enjoy'd several great Fees and Advantages by Custom in case they executed the Office in their own Person but if by Deputy or Lieutenant then the said Deputy received half All which particulars were found by inquision in the 30th year of Edward the I. In the year 1010. the Body of St. Edmund was translated to London this Country being insested by the Danes but after three years it was brought back again In the year 1021. soon after King Canutus had introduced Monks here Aldwinus Bishop of the East Angles began to build a stately new Church to which work and for the maintenance of the Fabrick the Inhabitants of Norfolk and Suffolk did freely give yearly 4 d. out of every Carucate of Land in the Country This Church was in the year 1032. dedicated in honour of Christ the Blessed Mary and St. Edmund King Edward the Confessor King William the I. King Henry the I. King Steven and King Richard with many Bishops and other Persons of Qâ—ality of both Sexes gave Lands and great Revenues to this Abby The Body of St. Edmund remain'd intire and uncorrupted and was so seen by many witnesses ABBOTS of St. EDMVNSBVRT 1 Wius Monk of Hulme ob 1044. 2 Leoffranus ob 1065. 3 Baldwinus ob 1097. 4 Robert Son of Hugh Earl of Chester depos'd 1102. 5 Robert Prior of Westminster ob 1107. 6 Alboldus ob 1119. 7 Anselmus Nephew of Anselm Archbishop of Cant was 1138. chosen Bishop of London but not received there ob 1148. 8 Ordingus ob 1156. 9 Hugh Prior of Westminster ob 1180. 10 Sampson ob 1211. 11 Hugo chosen Abbot 1213. consecrated Bishop of Ely 1229. ob 1254. 12 Richard Abbot of Burton ob 1233. 13 Henry ob 1248. 14 Edmund de Walpool Doctor in the Decretals ob 1256. 15 Simon elected 1257. 16 Iohn de Norwold ob 1301. 17 Thomas de Tottington ob 1312. 18 Richard de Draugton ob 1337. 19 William de Bernham ob 1361. 20 Henry de Hunstanston died before Confirmation 21 Iohannes de Brinkele ob 1379. 22 Iohannes Tynmouth created 7 R. 2. 33 Willielmus de Cratfeild created 13 R. 2. 24 Willielmus Exeter 5 H. 6. 25 Willielmus Curteys 7 H. 6. 26 Iohannes Boon created Abbot 1457. 27 Richardus Hengham 1475. 28 Thomas Raclesden 1478. 29 Iohn Reeve alias Melford the last Abbot of Bury created 5 Hen. 8. By Covenant made between the above-mentioned Iohn Norwood Abbot here on the one part and the Prior and Convent of this Monastery on the other the Mannors Lands and Revenues belonging to this Abby were divided and appropriated to the several Offices of the House as such and such Lands and Revenues to the Abbot such to the Celerarius for the diffraying of his Office such to the Sacristan for the Charges incumbant on him such to the Camerarius
such to the Almoner such to the Pitanciarius such to the Infirmarius such to the Hostillarius and such to the Praecentor But all Law-Suits concerning any the Lands or Estate of the Abby the Abbot was to manage at his own proper Charges Also the Abbot was to entertain all secular Guests as well Horse-men as Footmen in case he was resident with his Family in Town but the Convent was to entertain religious Persons and in case the Abbot be absent then the Convent to entertain also secular persons if under thirteen Horse This agreement between the Abbot and Convent was made in the year 1281. And exemplified by King Edward the I. in the same year being the 9th of his Reign The Names of the Sacristans of BVRT 1 Thurstan In the time of Abbot Baldwin 2 Tolimus 3 Godefridus 4 Radulphus 5 Harueus 6 Helias Widewell 7 Frodo 8 Willielmus Schuch 9 Willielmus Wardel 10 Hugo 11 Walterus de Banham 12 Willielmus de Disce 13 Robertus de Granele chosen Abbot of Thorney 14 Richardus de Insula chosen Abbot of Burton and at last Abbot here 1233. 15 Dominus de Newport 16 Georgius first Precentor then Sacristan than Prior here reputed a Saint 17 Nicholaus 18 Simon de Luyton chosen Prior and then Abbot here 1257. 19 Richardus de Horninsâ—e 20 Richardus de Colecester 21 Simon de Kingston first Celarer and then Chamberlain 22 Willielmus de Luyton 23 Richardus le Brun. Of the Buildings about the Church and Abby perform'd in the times of the Sacristans abovemention'd see the Book at large To the Cellarer of this House whose Office was to make provision for the diet of the whole Covent did belong many Rights and Priviledges by ancient Custom He kept the Court of the Lordship in the Town from which he received divers annual Profits His Officers were to be first served in the Market in buying provisions if the Abbot were not in Town Also the Cellerar and Abbots Officers were to have Herrings a half-penny in the hundred cheaper than any other people Valued at 1659 l. 13 s. 11 d. ob per Annum COVENTRY in Warwickshire THIS Monastery was built by Leofricus Earl of Chester and Godiva his Wife a most pious Lady and plentifully endow'd with Lands and Revenues The Church was so richly adorn'd with Gold and Silver and precious Stones that the Walls seem'd too narrow to contain all the Treasure The Founder Earl Leofrick died in the year 1057. and was buried at Coventry as was also his Wife Godiva in the Church-Porch of their own Foundationâ— In which Church was formerly kept an Arm of the Great St. Augustineâ— inclosed in Silver Robert de Limesey who was made Bishop of Chester A. D. 1088. and died 1116. obtain'd of King Henry the I. The Monastery of Coventry and constituted it the Capital Cathedral of that Diocess Whose Successor in that See Hugh Bishop of Coventry A. D. 1191. expell'd the Monks out of the Cathedral Church here and placed in their room secular Canons But in the year 1198. Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury by order of Pope Celestine restored the Monks to the possession of their Church again It appears by Earl Leofrick's Charter of Foundation that he built this Church and Monastery to the honour of God and St. Mary his Mother St. Peter the Apostle St. Osburga the Virgin and all Saints And gave to the Maintenance of the Monks here serving God twenty four Villages with the Moiety of the Town of Coventry in which it stands with all Liberties and Customs which he himself enjoy'd in the said Estate and that the Abbot of the said House should be subject to none but the King All which grants King Edward the Confessor did confirm to Leofwinus the first Abbot there and his Successors Also Pope Alexander by his Bull directed to the said King Edward bearing date 1043. confirm'd all their Liberties and Exemptions granting them full power to chose their own Abbots or Deans without any Lett or Hindrance from the Apostolick Authority Leofwinus the first Abbot of Coventry being created Bishop of Chester ordain'd with the Consent of the Monks that his Successors Superiors of that Monastery should be call'd Priors and not Abbots PEYKIRK in Northamptonshire IN the year 1048. one Wulgatus then Abbot of a Monastery in this Town lost his Abby and the Lands thereunto belonging to the Abbot of Peterborough who claim'd the same as parcel of his Estate And this was by Judgment given in the Court of King Hardâ— Canute SPALDING in Lincolnshire a Cell of Croyland c. ANno Dom. 1052. Thoroldus de Bukenhâ—le Brother to Godiva Countess of Leicester having obtain'd six Monks from Wulgate Abbot of Croyland began the Priory of Spalding assigning to it divers Lands and annext it as a Cell to Croyland In the year 1074. Tuo Taylboys Earl of Anjou Andegavia having married Lucia Great Grand daughter of the foresaid Godiva became Lord of Spalding and all Holland and gave the Cell of Spalding to a Monk of St. Nicholas of Anjou He also confirm'd the Estate which his Great Uncle Thorold had given to this House and procured the like Confirmation from the 2 Williams and Hen. 1st Kings of England In the year 1085. Yuo Taylboys by License of King William the Conqueror gave this Cell to the Abby of St. Nicholas of Anjou with the Lands and Estate thereunto belonging All which with divers Liberties was confirm'd to the said Abby of St. Nicholas by King William the I. William the II. and Henry the I. And also by King Iohn in the first year of his Reign See more Vol. 2. p. 871. Valued at 767 l. 8 s. 11 d. per Annum BATTEL Abby in Sussex IN the year 1067. King William the Conqueror built this Abby in the same place where he fought and overcame Harold and his Army that herein perpetual praise and thanks might he given to God for the said Victory and Prayers made for the Souls of those who were here slain It was dedicated to St. Martin and largely endow'dâ— with Lands and Priviledges In this Battle it is said that above ten thousand men lost their lives on the conquering side but what number of the conquered may be guest with astonishment King William design'd to have endow'd this Abby with Lands sufficient for the constant maintenance of sevenscore Monks but death prevented However he granted to it to be free from the Bishops Jurisdiction to have Sanctuary to have Treasure troue with many other Royal Liberties and Exemptions He translated from an Abby in Normandy called Major Monasterium several Monks among whom one Gausbertus who he appointed the first Abbot of Battail And gave to this Abby the Mannor of Wi in Kent with other Mannors in Sussex Surrey Essex Barkshire Oxfordshire and Devonshire with free Warren in all their Lands Yet King William gave this caution or restriction to the Abbot that he should not wast the Alms belonging to
18 s. 7 d. per Annum KILBURN in Middlesex a Cell of Westm. IN the Reign of King Henry the I. Herebertus Abbot of Westminster Osbert de Clara Prior and the whole Convent of Westminster gave a Hermitage at Kilburn to three Maids Emma Gunilda and Christina for a Nunnery and endow'd the same with Lands and Rents Gilbert Bishop of London gave the Jurisdiction of this Cell of Kilburn to the said Abbot and his Successors exempting it from the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of London for ever But new Contests arising about this House between the Bishop of London and Abbot of Westminster they came to an Agreement in the year 1231. That the Bishop might visit the Nunnery to preach to them and to hear their Confessions but without exacting any Procurations and that the Government of the House placing and displacing the Abbess and Nuns should belong to the Abbot as a Cell of his House c. Valued at 74 l. 7 s. 11 d. per Annum HURLEY in Barkshire a Cell of Westminster GOdefridus de Magnavilla gave to God and St. Peter and to the Church of Westminster and St. Mary of Hurley the Town of Hurley with divers other Lands and Tithes for the Maintenance of a Convent of Monks to serve God in the said Church for ever All which was confirm'd to the Priors and Monks of Hurley by William Bishop of London In the year 1258. Godefridus Prior of Hurley and his Covent made an exchange with Absolon Abbot of Walden of some of their Revenues Valued at 121 l. 18 s. 5 d. per Annum MALVERNE in Worcestershire a Cell of Westminster IN the eighteenth year of William the Conqueror one Aldwine a Hermit and his Brethren began the Monastery here King William the Conqueror and others gave Lands and Revenues to this House but more especially King Henry the first who by his Charter dated in the year 1127. granted and confirm'd to them many Lands and great Liberties and Immunities Vid. Vol. 2. p. 876. Valued at 98 l. 10 s. 9 d. ob per Annum AUCOT in Warwickshire a Cell of Malverne-magna WIlliam Burdet gave all his Land in Aucot to God and St. Mary of Malverne and to the Monks there in the year 1159. From among which Monks he was to have by agreement betwixt him and Roger Prior of that House a certain number for the Institution of a Monastery here The Prior of which House was to be constituted by the Prior of Malverne by and with the advice of the Abbot of Westminster Valued at 28 l. 6 s. 2 d. per Annum SUDBURY in Suffolk a Cell of Westminster KING Edward the III. in the thirty fifth year of his Reign granted his License to Richard Roke of Westminster to settle certain Land in Sudbury and Holgate upon the Abbot and Convent of Westminster or the relief of their poor Cell of St. Bartholomew near Sudbury St. NEOTS in Huntingtonshire SAint Neot was Son of King Adulphus and Brother of King Alured who founded the University of Oxford He was a Monk at Neotestoke in Cornwall and from thence his Body was translated to Anulphesbury in Huntingtonshire where Earl Elfrid converted his Palace into a Monastery of black Monks Which being afterwards spoild and burnt down by the Danes was in the Reign of King Henry the I. An. Dom. 1113. re-edified by Rohesia Wife of Richard Son of Earl Gislibert about which time it was given as a Cell to the Abby of Bec in Normandy The foresaid Lady and divers others gave Lands and Revenues to the Monks of Bec serving God at St. Neots It appears by the Bull of Pope Celestine directed to the Bishop of Lincoln that the Prior and Convent of St. Neots being their House was situated on a famous and great Road did use to bestow meat and drink on all Travellers who desired it and to this only use they did appropriate certain Rents and Pensions which they received yearly from the Churches of Eynesbury and Torney In the Reigns of Henry the IV. and Henry the V. This Monastery was discharg'd of its Foreign Subjection to the Abby of Bec and made an English Priory Vid. Vol. 2. p. 876. Valued at 241 l. 11 s. 4 d. q. per Annum SELBY in Yorkshire KING William the Conqueror founded the Abby here for Benedictine Monks in honour of our Lord Iesus Christ and his blessed Mother the Virgin Mary and St. Germain the Bishop Which King and several other persons did endow it with large Possessions in particular Guido de Raincourt gave to this Church of St. Germain in Selby his Town of Stamford in Northamptonshire Thomas Archbishop of York Gilbert Tâ—sâ—n chief Standard-bearer of England Gaulerannus Earl of Mellent Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Constable of Chester c. gave other Lands and great Libertiesâ— All which King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign confirm'd to the Monks here Also King Edward the III. did in the second year of his Reign confirm to them all their Liberties and Exemptions whereupon in the twenty second of that King they were excused from paying to the King in any of their Lands purchased before the abovesaid second year any aâ—d for knighting his eldest Son c. Vaued at 729 l. 12 s. 10 d. q. per Annum SHREWSBURY in Shropshire IN the year 1083. Roger Earl of Montgomery built here a Monastery in honour of St. Peter To this House he gave great Possessions and after his Example other Barons and Knights of that County did the like After the death of the said Roger Hugh his Son and Heir gave other Lands and great Liberties and Immunities with a heavy Curse to the Violaters The like did King Henry the I. and King Steven confirming their said Liberties in so large a manner that nothing could be added to them Other principal Benefactors were Matilda de Lungespe Daughter and Heir of Walter de Clifford Walchelinus Maminot Willielmus Peverell and Richard Fitz-Allen Earl of Arundel c. All whose Guifts and Benefactions were confirm'd to the Abbot and Monks of this House by King Henry the III. in the eleventh year of his Reign Valued at 132 l. 4 s. 10 d. per Annum St. MARY's at York THE History of the Foundation of this Abby was writ by Stephen who had been Abbot of Whitby and was after that made the first Abbot of this House In which the most observable matters are as follows Alan Son of Eudo Earl of Brittain having built a Church adjoyning to the City of York in honour of St Olave gave it to the foresaid Stephen and his Companions with four Acres of Land thereon to erect a Monastery This was about the year 1088. in the Reign of King William the Conqueror Who dying his Son and Successor King William Rufus gave them Land whereon to build a larger Church and gave to the Monastery divers Lands Liberties and Exemptions Also Earl Alan their first Founder gave them the adjoynig
Bishop of Worcester and by Simon and Iohn his Predecessors Iohn Son of Ieoffrey de Langele gave to God and St. Mary of Pinley and the Nuns there his Brother Robert de Langely his Homage and Service and Rent of 6 d. for the maintenance of our Ladies Lamp at Pinley ad Lumen beatae Mariae de Pineleia Valued at 23 l. 5 s. 11 d. per Annum STRATFORD Prâ—ory THE Nunnery here dedicated to St. Leonard was founded and endowed by Christiana de Sumeri and her Son as seems by the Confirmation of King Steven King Richard the I. did confirm other Lands to it given by Galiena and her Son Bartholmew de Daumartin Patrons of the House FRESTONE in Lincolnshire a Cell of Croyland ALan de Creun with Muriel his Wife and Maurice his Son gave the Clearch of St. Iames of Frestone with several Lands and Tithes to be a Cell to the Abby of Croyland From which Creun or Croune descended the Family of Pedwardyn who became Heirs of the Founder the Male Line ceasing St. DOGMELS in Pembrokshire Cella Caenobii Tyronensis THese Monks were Benedictines of the same Order with those of St. Martins at Tours The Priory here was founded by Martin de Turribus a Norman who first Conquered the Country hereabouts call'd Kames or Kemish Robert the Son of this Martin endow'd it with Lands confirm'd to it by King Henry the I. Valued at 87 l. 8 s. 6 d. per Annum WALDEN Abby in Essex THE Abby at Walden was founded in the year 1136. by Gaufridus de Mandevilia Earl of Essex He was Grandson of Ieoffrey who came into England with the Norman Conqueror and was of most signal note in his Army for his great Performances From the noble Founder of this Abby who died in the year 1144. descended the illustrious Family of the Bohuns Earls of Hereford Essex and Northampton This Abby was dedicated to the honour of the blessed Mary and St. Iames the Apostle The Family of Bohuns were great Benefactors to this Abby and most of them buried here This Abby was built on the West-side of the Town and adjoyning to the High-way which place was chosen as more proper for the relief of Travellers and for Hospitality After the death of the Founder Rohesia his Widow built a Nunnery at Chinksand to which she did all good Offices and for the sake of that House became very unkind to this of her Husbands Foundation William de Mandevilla second Son of the Founder while Ieoffrey his elder Brother lived led a military life in Flanders with Philip Earl of that Country but upon his Brother's death without issue he return'd into England and inherited his Estate Soon after which he made a Pilgrimage to Ierusalem and visited the holy Places from whence being return'd into England he visited this House and was here received with great Ceremony where he presented at the Altar several Relicks which be had purchased in the holy Land and became a great Benefactor to this House giving them by his Testament the Moiety of his Lordship of Walden c. and died in Normandy without issue After whose decease this Barony came by his Heirs General to one Ieffrey Fitz-Peter who disseiz'd the Monks of what Earl William had given them and kept the Estate from them a great while till after King Iohn's Coronation being made Earl of Essex he restored part of their Lands again and confirm'd them to the Monks here This Ieffrey Filius Petri was very vexatious to this Abby the manner and particulars may be seen in the Book at large Yet did Gaufridus de Mandavilla the first Founders Deed of Foundation contain a heavy Curse to any of his Successors or Tenants who should vex or disturb these Monks in any of their Possessions or alienate or diminish the same The Founders Endowment was confirm'd by several of his Descendents also by King Steven and King Henry the II. And King Edward the III. in the seventeeth year of his Reign Licensed William de Bohun Earl of Northampton to give and annext the Priory of Bereden in Essex as a Cell to this Abby Valued at 372 l. 18 s. 1 d. per Annum BROMFEILD in Shropshire ANno Dom. 1155. The Canons of Bromfeild by the Authority of Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury gave their Church of Bromfeild to the Abby of St. Peters at Gloucester King Henry the II. confirm'd all the Estate belonging to the Church of St. Mary of Bromfeild to the Prior and Monks there serving God to hold of him and his Heirs in perpetual Alms. The like did King Henry the III. BRETFORD in Warwickshire GAufridus Camerarius de Clintona gave certain Lands in this Lordship to one Noemi a Nun for the erecting a Cell of Nuns here Afterwards at the request of the said Gaufridus de Clinton the Nuns here being only two viz. Sebure and Naeumi gave their House and Estate here to the Canons of Killingworth TALLACH in the Diocess of St. David's in Wales THE Abby here dedicated to God St. Mary and St. Iohn Baptist was founded by Resus the younger Son of Resus the younger of the Family of the Princes of South-wales and by him and others endow'd with many Lands the particulars may be seen in the Monasticon at large fol. 466 467. all which was confirm'd to this House by King Edward the II. in the seventeenth year of his Reign and by King Edward the III. in the fifth year of his Reign Valued at 136 l. 9 s. 11 d. per Annum BLITHBURY Priory in Staffordshire HVgh Malvisin gave Blytheburgh to Monks and Nuns there dwelling for the service of God and St. Giles to hold in pare and perpetual Alms. Which Estate tho' for a while taken away by William Malvisin Son of the Founder Hugh yet it was soon restored again EDWARDSTON in Suffolk a Cell to Abbington HVbertus de Monte Canesi Lord of the Town of Edwardston in Suffolk gave the Church there to the Monks of Abbendon to be a Cell of that House and confirm'd his Gift in the fifteenth year of Henry the I. Which was also ratified by that King An. Dom. 1115. DEPING in Lincolnshire a Cell to Thorney BAldewinus Wac gave the Church of St. Iames in Deping with divers Lands belonging to it to God St. Mary and the Church of Thorney which was confirm'd by his Son and Grandson and also by Pope Innocent the III. in the first year of his Pontificate 1198 ALCESTER in Warwickshire IN the year 1140. Radulfus Pincerna or Boteler founded this Monastery then called from its Situation St. Mary's of the Isle and made Robert a Monk of Worcester the first Abbot here At which time it was agreed between the two Houses viz. The Abby of Worcester and this that there should be a constant Love and Brotherhood betwixt them and that upon the death of the Abbot here another should be chosen indifferently out of either House the said Founder endow'd this Monastery with divers Lands ordaining
here all the Lands and Tenements belonging to the Canons of Cathale whom he caused to be removed Valued at 14 l. 10 s. per Annum FINCHALE in the Bishoprick of Durham FInchale is a solitary place not far from the City of Durham where a certain Hermit named Godricus de Finchale who in his youth had visited the holy Sepulcher spent his old Age in Devotion and here died with the reputation of great Sanctity After the death of this Godficus Ranulphus Bishop of Durham granted this Hermitage and the Lands adjoyning to Algarus the Prior and the Monks of Durham Hugh Bishop of Durham founded and endow'd the Priory of Finchale for such Monks of Durham as the Prior of Durham should from time to time send thither in the service of God and St. Iohn Valued at 122 l. 15 s. 3 d. per Annum The Priory of St. James at Bristol a Cell of Tewkesbury WIlliam Earl of Gloucester gave to this House divers Lands and Tithes and the Profits of the Fair at Bristol in Whitsun-week which with other Lands given by other Benefactors was confirm'd by King Henry the II. The same King gave the Monks here certain Liberties in his Forrest Robert Earl of Gloucester was buried in this Church of St. Iames at Bristol BUNGEY in Suffolk ROger de Glanvill and Gundreda the Countess his Wife founded a Nunnery in the Church of the holy Cross at Bungey The Endowments whereof as well by the said Roger and his Wife as by a great number of other Benefactors were all confirm'd to the said Nuns and their Successors to hold in pure and perpetual Alms by King Henry the II. in the ninteenth year of his Reign Valued at 62 l. 0 s. 1 d. ob per Annum SYLLEY Isle near Cornwall THIS Isle was given of old by the Kings of England to the Abbot and Monks of Tauestock who used to send two of their Monks hither to perform the Divine Offices till the Wars with France in the Reign of King Edward the III. And then that King gave License to the Abbot of Tauestock in the ninteenth year of his Reign to place here two secular Chaplains instead of Monks ROWNEY Priory in Hertfordshire IN the 36. H. 6. Agnes Selby Prioress of this House and the Covent of Nuns here in respect of the poverty of the place did by their Deed seal'd with their Common-Seal resign up their Church House and Lands into the hands of their Patron Iohn Fray who designed to convert the same in a better manner Which Iohn Fray was chief Baron of the Exchequer and being thus possest of this Priory he would not convert it to any other use but to the service of God and therefore obtain'd the King's License in the 37. H. 6. to found and endow here a Chantry for one Priest The first Founder of the Priory was Conan Duke of Britony and Richmond who with others endow'd it with Possessions of the value of ten Marks per Annum Valued at 13 l. 10 s. 9 d. per Annum NUN-EATON in Warwickshire THIS House was founded and endow'd by Robert Earl of Leicester Son of Robert de Mellento in the Reign of King Henry the II. for Nuns of the same Order with those at Font-Ebraud Whose Gifts were confirm'd by his Son Robert and by King Henry the II. The Prioress and Covent of Font-Ebrald granted to this House the immunity to receive and retain to their own proper use all such gifts as should be made unto them without any exaction of the said Abbess and Covent of Font-Ebrald Which immunity and several others were confirm'd to them by Pope Alexander the III. Valued at 253 l. 14 s. 5 d. ob per Annum LUFFELD in Northamptonshire a Cell to Westminster THE Priory of Luffeild was founded by Robert Earl of Leicester for the Souls of King William the I. and Queen Matilda c. King Henry the I. his Daughter Maud the Empress and King Edward the I. were Benefactors and Pope Alexander the III. granted to Ralph Prior of St. Mary's at Luffeild his Brethren and their Successors divers Priviledges by his Bull dated 1174. Radulfus de Cahienes Hugo de Sancto Martino and others gave them divers Churches and Tithes King Henry the III. in the fifty sixth year of his Reign reciting the Priory of Luffeild to have been founded by his Predecessors Kings of England granted to the Prior and Monks there free Chiminage in his Forrest of Whitlewood for five years next ensuing WILBERFOSS in Yorkshire THIS was a House of Nuns dedicated to St. Mary founded by Helias de Cotton and endow'd by ' Alan his Son with divers Lands King Henry the II. in the fourth year of his Reign and King Henry the III. in the twelfth year of his Reign confirm'd their Lands and Estate Vid. Vol. 3. p. 12. Valued at 21 l. 16 s. 10 d. per Annum GODSTOW Priory of Nuns in Oxfordshire THE Church here was built by their Prioress Editha and in the year 1138. dedicated in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary and St. Iohn Baptist by Alexander then Bishop of Lincoln in presence of King Steven and Maud the Queen with abundance of Bishops Earls and Barons and others of prime quality who all gave to the said Church at that time some Rents and Endowments Whereupon Albericus Bishop of Hostia the Pope's Legate in England released to every of the said Benefactors one year of injoyn'd Penance and granted moreover a Remission of forty days in every year to all those who should in Devotion visit the said Church on the day of St. Prisâ—a the Virgin or on the Nativity of St. Iohn Baptist. Their Lands and Revenues were confirm'd by King Steven and by King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign In the year 1191. Hugh Bishop of Lincoln visiting in this part of his Diocess and seeing in this Church a Tomb before the Altar with more than ordinary Ornaments and being inform'd upon enquiry that it was the Tomb of Rosamond Concubine to King Henry the II. he caused her body to be removed out of the Church and to be buried in the Church-yard to avoid the scandal of Religion and to deter other Women from Whoredom About the time of the Suppression of this House Rosamonds Tomb was open'd and her Bones found inclosed in Leather and that in Lead When it was opened a very sweet smell came out from it The following Inscription was formerly read on a Cross near Godstow Qui meat hac oret signum salutis adoret Vtque sibi detur veniam Rosamunda precetur Vid. 2. Vol. p. 884. Valued at 274 l. 5 s. 10 d. ob per Annum LILLECHIRCHE in the County of ... KING Iohn gave to the Abby of St. Mary and St. Sulpice at Lillechurch and the Prioress and Nuns there the Mannor of Lillechurch in pure and perpetual Alms and granted them a Fair to be there held yearly on the Feast of St. Michael and two days after all
rather Reformation of Monks was Abbot Berno to whom William then Duke of Aquitain gave the place call'd Clugny or Cluny in Burgundy for their first Habitation in the year of our Lord 890. This was a Reform of St. Bennet's Order WENLOCK in Shropshire HERE was formerly a Nunnery in which Milburg Neice of Wilphere King of Mercia lived and died Abbess with the Reputation of great Sanctity Which House being totally decayed Roger Earl of Mongomery built here a Monastery for the Monks of Cluny The Church here was dedicated to St. Mildred Isabel de Say Wife of William Fitz-Alan was a Benefactress And this Priory was made Indigena 18. R. 2. Vid. 2. Vol. p. 907. Vaued at 401 l. 0 s. 7 d. q. per Annum DUDLEY in Staffordshire a Cell to Wenlock THE Church here was dedicated to St. Iames which with other Churches and Lands Pope Lucius did confer and appropriate to this Priory in the year 1190. granting in the same Deed divers great Priviledges and Immunities to the Monastery Vid. 2. Vol. p. 907. LEWES in Sussex THIS House was founded by William de Warren Earl of Surrey in the time of King William the Conqueror Which Earl obtain'd from the Abby of St. Peter in Burgundy four Cluniac Monks to whom he gave the Church of St. Pancrace adjoyning to his Castle of Lewis and endow'd them with divers Lands and Possessions by the License and Confirmation of King William with a Curse to the Violators of his Gift and a Blessing to the Defenders Yet this Priory remain'd a Cell to the Abby of Clugny in Burgundy till the forty seventh year of King E. 3. at which time that King made it indigena and independant so also the Priories of Castleacre Prittlewell Farleigh Horton and Stanesgate which were all Cells belonging to the Priory of Lewis Vid. 2. Vol. p. 908. Valued at 92 l. 4 s. 6 d. per Annum PRITTLEWELL in Essex a Cell to Lewes RObert Fitz-Suene gave the Church of Prittlewell to the Priory of St. Pancrace at Lewes to be a Cell of that House and to be furnisht with Monks of the Rule of St. Bennet and Order of Clugny from Lewes ordaining by his Deed of Foundation that the Prior of Prittlewel should pay yearly to the Prior of Lewes one mark for an acknowledgment Valued at 155 l. 11 s. 2 d. ob per Annum WESTACRE in Norfolk a Cell to Lewes THIS House was granted and confirm'd by Rodulphus de Toneio Lord of the Soil to Oliver Priest of Acre and Walter his Son who became Canons regular here Valued at 260 l. 13 s. 7 d. q. per Annum FARLEY in Wiltshire a Cell to Lewes THIS Priory was founded Anno Dom. 1125. and dedicated to God and St. Mary Magdalen It was endow'd by Humphrey de Bohun the King's Sewer and Margery his Wife with â—Mannor of Farley and the Park there and with divers other Lands and Revenues All which was confirm'd to them by King Henry the III. â— in the eleventh year of his Reign Valued at 153 l. 14 s. 2 d. ob per Annum HORTON in Kent a Cell to Lewes THIS House was founded and endow'd by Robert de Ver Constable of England and Adeliza his Wife and subjected to the Priory of Lewes to which they were to pay a Mark per Annum as an acknowledgment In this House did inhabit thirteen or at least eight Monks who were to say three Masses dayly viz. the High Mass our Lady's Mass and the third pro defunctis Their Seal was kept by three Monks viz. the Prior Sub-prior and another Valued at 95 l. 12 s. 2 d. per Annum STANESGATE in Essex a Cell to Lewes ANno Dom 1177. Alexander Prior of this House and the Covent of the same with the assent of the Covent of Lewis granted the Tithes of their Fee at Clerkenwell with their Land there to the Nuns of St. Mary at Clerkenwell they paying to the Prior of Stanesgate a yearly Pension of ten shillings for the said Tithes and Lands CLIFFORD in Herefordshire a Cell to Lewes IT appeared by Inquisition 20. E. 3. that this Priory was founded by Simon Fitz-Richard Fitzâ—Ponce formerly Lord of Clifford and Ancestor oâ— the Countess of Lincoln and that this House was not alien or dependant on any other beyond Sea It was subjected by the Founder to the Priory of Lewes Valued at 57 l. 7 s. 4 d. per Annum CASTLE-ACRE in Norfolk FOunded An. Dom. 1090. William de Warren Earl of Surrey the first of that name and his Son Earl William the II. were great Benefactors and gave to God and St. Mary and to the holy Apostles Peter and Paul and to the Cluniac Monks of St. Pancrace i. e. of the Priory of Lewes serâ—ing God at Achra divers Lands and Revenues Besides whom many other Benefactors gave other Mannors and Lands Tithes and Churches as may be seen in particular in the Book at large p. 626 627 628 629. Herbert Bishop of Norwich constituted the Church and Monastery here and placed therein Cluniac Monks under the Rule of St. Benedict Bishop Ebrard impropriated and confirm'd to them their several Churches given to them by the Earls of Surrey and other Benefactors It was certified to King Edw. the I. in the thirty fourth year of his Reign that the â—rior and Convent of Castle-acre were English and not Aliens of the Subjects of the King of France or his Adherers and that no Rent or Pension was paid by them to any of his Dominion or Adherents nor did they owe obedience to any such except only that when the Abbot of Clugny comes sometimes into England he uses to visit in the said Priory Hereupon this House was allow'd to be Indigena and not Alienigena and to be priviledged accordingly 18. E. 2. Valued at 306 l. 11 s. 4 d. ob q. per Annum MENDHAM in Norfolk a Cell to Castle-acre WIlliam Son of Roger de Huntingfeild gave to God and St. Mary of Acre and to the Monks there the Isle of St. Mary of Mendham to be in the same manner subject to Castle-acre as that House is to St. Pancrace and that to the Church of Clugny The Prior of Castle-acre and Convent there did grant to Roger de Huntingfeild who was their great Benefactor to maintain at least eight Monks at this Priory of Mendham and not to depose the Prior here unless for one of these three causes Disobedience Incontinence or Dilapidation of the House BROMHOLM in Norfolk a Cell of Castle-acre THE Estate here with divers other Lands was given to the Monks of Acre by William de Glanville and confirm'd to them by Bartholmew his Son The Prior and Convent of Bromholm held Lands in Fee-â—arm of the Prior and Convent of Acre at the Annual Rent of fourteen Marks five â—hillings and four pence payable at three terms by the year viz. at the Feast of St. Michael 64 s. at the Purification 64 s. and at Penticost 64 s. Controversie arising
Adam Fitz Swane the â—ounder gave this House as a Cell to the Priory of St Iohn at Pontfractâ— and ordered this House to pay to that Priory a Recognition of one Mark of Silver per Annum Pope Vrban the III. confirm'd the Foundation 1186. Valued at 239 l. 3 s. 6 d. per Annum THETFORD in Norfolk FOunded Anno Dom. 1103. by Roger Bigot whose Gifts and Endowments to this House were all confirm'd and ratified by his Son William Bigot Dapiser to the King and also by King Henry the I. and King Henry the II. This Priory was made Denison 50. E. 3. Valued at 312 l. 14 s. 4 d. ob per Annum MONTACUTE in Somersetshire FIRST founded by William Earl of Moriton in Normandy who endowed this Priory with three fair Lordships viz. Montegue and two others King Henry the I. gave and confirm'd to God and the blessed Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul of Montacute and the Cluniac Monks there divers Lands with great Liberties and Exemptions The like did King Henry the II. and King Henry the III. in the four and thirtieth year of his Reign King Edward the III. in the fourteenth year of Reign granted the Advowson and Custody of this Priory and four Cells thereunto belonging to William de Monte-acuto Earl of Salisbury and Marshal of England and to his Heirs Vid. 2. Vol. p. 909. Valued at 456 l. 14 s. 7 d. q. per Annum DAVENTREY in Northamptonshire THIS Priory was first founded at Preston by Hugh de Leycestre call'd the Vicount but that place being found inconvenient they were by License of Simon de Seynliz the elder Earl of Northampton removed to Daventre where he built a Monastery in honour of St. Augustine the Apostle of the English King Henry the II. confirm'd their Liberties and Franchises granted by King Henry the I. to St. Mary of Charity i. e. the Capital House of this Order beyond Seas and to St. Augustine of Daventrey and the Monks there Many were the Benefactors to this House as Matilda de Senliz Richard de Foxton whose Daughter Ann was married to Alan Basset of Lufphenam com Roteland Steven de Welton Henry de Braybrok whose Geneologies may be seen Fo. 677. 678. St. ANDREWS at Northampton THIS Priory was founded in the eighteenth year of King William the Conqueror by Simon de Seynliz who came into England in the Army of that King He married Maud Daughter and Co-heir of Waldelfus Earl of Huntington with whom he had the honour of Huntington Alice the other Daughter was by him given to Ralph de Tonny with 100 l. per Annum in Land centum Librarum terrae out of the said honour In the Reign of King Henry the I. the said Simon made a Voyage to the Holy Land and died in his return at the Monastery of the blessed Mary of Charity to which Monastery he had subjected this of St. Andrew After his death King Henry having married Maud Sister of Alexander King of Scotland gave Maud Earl Simons Widow to David Brother of Alexander and with her the Custody of Earl Simons Son and Heir Simon de St. Lyz junior Hugh Bishop of Lincoln confirm'd the Churches and Tithes given to this Priory among which were the Churches of Ryal and Exton in Rutland King Henry the I. also confirm'd the Lands to them given and granted them many Liberties and Franchises This Priory was made Denison 6 H. 4. To the Hospital of St. David at Kingsthorp built upon the Lands of this Priory for the Relief of Travellers and poor People Walter Prior of this House with the assent of his Convent gave two yard Land and a Messuage c. in Thorp constituting several Orders for the Government of the said Hospital among others that there should be three rows of Beds placed in length before the Chappel so as the Poor and especially the sick People might most conveniently hear Mass c. subjecting the said Hospial to the Prior of St. Andrews at Northampton and the Abbot of Sullebi This Deed bears date 1200. being the second of King Iohn This Priory was valued at 263 l. 7 s. 1 d. q. per Annum BAR NESTAPLE in Devonshire THIS House was founded for Cluniac Monks and dedicated to the honour of God and our Lord Jesus Christ and St. Mary the holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and St. Mary Magdalen by Ioel Son of Alured who endow'd it with large Possessions subjecting it to the Church of St. Martin de Campis in which he himself became a Monk Confirm'd by King Henry the I. and by Henry de Tracy who descended from the Founder An. 1146. 11. Steph. Valued at 123 l. 6 s. 7 d. per Annum TIKEFORD in Buckinghamshire FVlcodius Paganellus was the first Founder of this Priory who with other Benefactors endowed it with divers Lands and Rents All which together with a Court-Leet King Henry the II. confirm'd to the Monks here King Edward the II. in the fifth year of his Reign granted further to William de la Manerere then prior of this House and his Successors to have a Pillory and Tumbrel in their Lordship of Tikeford for the punishment of Malefactors Vid. Vol. 2. p. 910. FEVERSHAM in Kent ANno 1148. King Steven founded the Abby here to the honour of of our Saviour and endow'd it with divers Mannors Lands Liberties and free Customs to hold in perpetual Alms discharged and quit of all secular Exactions King Steven and Maud his Queen and Eusâ—acius their Son were buried here King Henry the II. confirm'd to the Cluniac Monks of Feversham all their Lands and Franchises granting to them a Fair yearly for eight days beginning at the Feast of St. Peter ad vincula The like confirmation was made by King Iohn in the sixteenth year of his Reign and by King Henry the III. in the eleventh year of his Reign Peter Abbot of Clugny granted to King Steven Clarembaldus then Prior of Bermundesey with twelve Monks of that House for the Composing an Abby at Feversham and at the same time absolved the said Clarembaldus and his Monks from all Obedience and Subjection to the Church of Clugny and that of the Charity The like Emancipation or discharge of subjection was also granted by the then Prior of the Charity Valued at 286 l. 12 s. 6 d. ob q. per Annum ARTHINGTON in Yorkshire THIS was a Priory of Nuns built and endow'd by Peers of Arthington and confirm'd by Pope Alexander as is set forth in an award made in the twenty eighth year of the Reign of King Henry the VI. Alicia de Romeli was a Benefactress to this Nunnery whose Gift was confirm'd by her Son William de Curcy the Kings Sewer and by Warinus Fitzâ—Gerald the King's Chamberlain Valued at 11 l. 8 s. 4 d. ob per Annum Of the Cistercian Order Anno Dom. 1098. Robert Abbot of Molesme by License of Hugo Archbishop of Lyons the Pope's Legate first instituted this Order in a Desert Place called
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
Reginald de Moun in his Mannor of Axeminster with which and other Lands it was endowed Confirmed by King Edw. 3. This Reginald de Mohun was the Son of Reginald Lord of Dunsterre and Alice Daughter of William Bruer by whom he inherited the Mannor of Axeminster See in the Book at large the Progeny of the noble Family of Mohuns Abbots of this House Iohn Godard Henry Sper sholt Iohn de Ponte-Roberto Ieffrey de Blanchvil Hugh de Cokeswell Iohn de Northampton William de Cornubia Richard de Chichestre Richard de Piderton William le Fria Ralph de Shapewike Robert de Puplysuirie Iohn de Cokyswill Iohn de Geytingtone ob 1338. Walter de Hous Valued at 227 l. 7 s. 8 d. per Annum GRACE-DIEU in Leicestershire FOunded by Roesia de Verdun for Nuns Endow'd by her with her Mannor of Beleton c. LETLEY in Hampshire KING Henry the III. was-the Founder of this Abby of Letley otherwise call'd Locum Sancti Edwardi and endow'd it with Lands in the thirty fifth year of his Reign Valued at 100 l. 12 s. 8 d per Annum REWLEY in the Suburbs of Oxford THIS was founded in the year 1281. for Cistercian Monks by Richard Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans who endow'd this Abby with divers Lands They were found by Inquisition to be exempt from suit to the County and Hundred Courts Valued at 174 l. 3 s. ob per Annum DERNHALL in Cheshire KING Edward the I. founded and endow'd this Abby in performance of a Vow made in a great danger at Sea his Deed of endowment bears date before he came to the Crown in the four and fiftieth year of his Father's Reign King Henry the III. granted his Letter of Request to all Religious Houses in England for the furnishing this House with Books After King Edward came to the Crown in the seven and twentieth year of his Reign he translated these Monks to Vale-Royal and granted them many great Immunities and Franchises Vid. 2. Vol. p. 921. The Abby of Vale-Royal was valued at 118 l. 7 s. 6 d. ob per Annum BOCLAND in Devonshire FOunded by Amicia Countess of Devon for Cistercian Monks endowed by her and her Daughter Isabella de Fortibus Countess of Albemarl and Devon with many Lands and Liberties Confirm'd by King Edward the II. Anno 4. Valued at 241 l. 17 s. 9 d. ob per Annum HILTON in Staffordshire ANno 1223. Henry de Audiddeley founded and endow'd this Abby with many Lands and Liberties to hold in pure and perpetual Almes King Richard the II. in the 19th year of his Reign at the request of Elizabeth relict of Sir Nicholas de Audley Licensed the Abbot and Convent of Blanchland in Normandy to transfer to this House the Priory and Mannor of Cameryngham which was thence forward united to this Abby Valued at 75 l. 14 s. per Annum The Abby of Grace near the Tower at London KING Edward the III. founded this House in the Church-yard of the Holy Trinity near the Tower at London and endow'd it with all the Messuages and Gardens lying on and about the Tower Hill Anno Reg. 24. 1350. Afterwards in the fiftieth year of his Reign he gave the Mannor of Gravesend and other Mannors in Kent to be settled upon this House All which was after done and confirm'd by King Richard the II. Anno Regn. 22. Valued at 546 l. 10 s. per Annum A CARTHVSIAN MONK Vol 1 P. 949 Of the Carthusians This Order was first founded Anno Dom. 1080. By a certain learned man named Bruno who professing Philosophy at Paris and hearing the dead Body of his Friend who had the Esteem of a very good Man when living cry out as they were about to bury him Iusto dei judicio damnatus sum he and six Companions forsook the World and betook themselves to a most austere Life in a Desert and Melancholy Place call'd Cartusia in the Diocess of Grenoble in France Their inward Habit is of Hair-Cloath they never eat flesh on Fridays fast with Bread and Water never stir out of their Monasteries except the Prior and Procurator observe almost continual silence and suffer no Women to enter into any part of their Houses no not their Churches See more of their Rules in the Monasticon at large WITHAM in Somersetshire KING Henry the II. founded this Monastery in the honour of the blessed Mary St. Iohn Baptist and all Saints for the Order of Carthusians and endow'd it with divers Lands and Franchises Imprecating on the Violator of that his pious Donation the wrath of Almighty God and his own Curse unless the Party make Condign Satisfaction but to all such as augment his Gift or favour the Peace of the House he wisht the Peace and Reward of the Eternal Father for ever HENTON in Wiltshire ELa Countess of Saliâ—bury Widow of William Longespee Earl of Salisbury founded this Monastery in her Park of Henton for Carthusians to the honour of God the blessed Mary St. Iohn Baptist and all Saints and endow'd it with Lands and Liberties King Henry the III. in the four and twentieth year of his Reign granted and confirm'd to this House the same Liberties and free Customs which his Grandfather King Henry the II. had formerly granted to the Carthusians of Witham with other Exemptions The Carthusians in the Suburbs of London KING Edward the III. in the forty fifth year of his Reign granted his License to Sir Walter Lord of Manny to found this Monastery for Carthusian Monks in a certain place without the Bars of West-Smithlsied called Newe-cherche-hawe which House was to be called la Salutation mere dieu and to endow the same with twenty Acres of Land there adjoyning Pope Vrban reciting that in the time of a great Pestilence Sir Walter Manny purchased this ground for a Church-yard to bury poor People in and there intended to erect a Chappel and a Colledge of twelve Chaplains by the License of Pope Clement the VI. but afterwards the said Sir Walter changing his intention and erected here a Convent of Carthusians the said Pope Vrban granted his Bull of License for uniting to the said House of Carthusians Ecclesiastical Benefices to the value of 200 l. per Annum BEAUVAL or Bella-valle in Nottinghamshire IN the year 1343. Nicholas de Cantilupo Lord of Ilkeston by License of King Edward the III. founded this House in his Park of Gryseleve in the County of Nottingham for a Prior and twelve Carthusian Monks to the glory of God the blessed Virgin Mary and all Saints and endow'd it with Lands and Rents in Greseleye and Seleston This Nicholas de Cantilupo was lineally descended from Robert de Muskam Seneschal or Steward to Gilbert de Gaunt that famous Souldier in the Army of William the Conqueror from which Gilbert the said Robert de Muskâ—m enjoy'd the Lordship of Ilkeston conferr'd upon him in the Reign of King Henry the I. Elizabeth Widow of Brian Stapleton Knt. and William
Religious House here for a Cell to God and the holy Martyrs St. Sergius and St. Bachus and to the Abbot of that Monastery at Angiers in France That they should pray for the good Estate of King William the Conqueror while living and after his death for his Soul and for him the said Iuhellus and all his Relations BARNSTAPLE Priory of St. Mary Magdalen in the Diocess of Exeter THIS was founded for a Prior and six Monks given by the said Iuhellus and confirm'd by King William the Conqueror to the Cluniac Monks of the Abby of St. Martin de Campis at Paris The Church of St. Peter at Barnstaple was apppropriated to this Priory by William Bishop of Exeter by Deed dated An. 1233. The same William Bishop of Exeter did also by his Deed recite and confirm the Lands and Priviledges given to this Priory by Ioel Son of Alured before named The Priory of St. James without the Walls at Exeter for a Prior and four Monks Supra 643. THIS Priory with divers Lands and Priviledges were given by Baldewin de Riveriis Earl of Exeter to the foresaid Cluniac Monks of St. Martins Abby at Paris The Priory of St. Clare in Wales FOR a Prior and three Monks This was given with nine Houses at Lundon by William Giffard Bishop of Winchster to the foresaid Cluniaâ— Monks of St. Martins Abby at Paris Confirm'd by King Hen. the I. SWINE Abby in Yorkshire Supra p. 834. MAtilda Prioress of Swine and the Convent of Nuns there did covenant with Sir Alexander Hilton Knight who had given them nine Bovates of Land in Swine that in case the said Sir Alexander should die in the year 1241. or in the second year after that then three Bovates of the nine should return back to the Heirs of the said Sir Alexander in case he die in the third year then six of the said Bovates should return to the Heirs of the said Knight but in case the said Sir Alexander should keep the said Nuns indempnified for the said three years then the Nuns to give back the said Land with the Deed of Feoffment after the expiration of the term of six years c. BYLAND in Yorkshire Sup. 775. THE History of the Foundation of this Abby was writ at large by Phillip the third Abbot of this House and is in short as follows In the Reign of King Henry the I. Anno Dom. 1134. After the Foundation of the Abby of Furnes whose Monks came from Savigny in France an Abbot and Convent of twelve Monks went from the Abby of Furnes to Cald in Copland then newly erected the Abbots name was Geraldus here they remained for about four years till in the year 1137. being plunder'd and their House almost wholly destroy'd they were forced to return back to Furnes but being refused entrance there and distrest for want of a Habitation they were partly through the recommendation of Thurstan Archbishop of York and partly out of pitty to their Condition relieved by Gundrea relict of Nigellus de Albeney and Roger de Molbray her Son which Roger settled them for a time at a place call'd Hâ—de a Hermitage belonging to one Robert de Alneto a Hermit who upon their arrival resign'd the place to them and became a Monk among them this was in the year 113â— The said Roger gave these Monks for their maintenance the Tithe of all the Provision spent in his House for the collecting of which they had a Lay-brother Conversus always remaining in his House who collected the said Tithe and sent it to the Monastery but this being found in time inconvenient was not long after chang'd into an Endowment of Land An. 1140. After this Abbot Geraldus seeing the Estate of his Monastery encrease and fearing that the Abbot of Furnes would claim it by reason that he and his Convent came from thence at first and had therefore a kind of filial Relation tho' they were since refused assistance from thence when in distress hereupon he made a Journey to Savigny the Mother House of Furnes and obtain'd from the Abbot there in a general Chapter of the whole Order An. 1142. to be discharged of all subjection to Furnes and to be immediately subject to Savigny This Abbot Geraldus dying in his return home Roger then Master of the Novices was unanimously chosen Abbot and so confirm'd by the Archbishop of York at the Presentation of Roger Molbray their Patron After this the Abbot of Furnes placed another Abbot and Convent at Cald. An. 1143. Roger de Molbray gave to these Monks the Town and Church of Bellalanda or Biland with the Appurtenants whether they afterward removed their Habitation When Abbot Roger perceived the Inhabitants of Scalton a Vill belonging to Biland to suffer divers Inconveniencies in coming to the Mother 〈…〉 THE Allen Priories supprest in the second year of Henry the V. An. Dom. 1414. were in number one hundred and forty two whose names see in the Book at large The Religious Houses supprest by Pope 〈◊〉 the VII and granted to Cardinal Wolsey by King Henry the VIII in the seventeenth year of his Reign for the building of two Colledges at Oxford and Ipswich were in number one and twenty and afterwards six more by another Bull of the same Pope which were granted also to the said Cardinal for the same purpose by King Henry the VIII in the twentieth year of his Reign An exact Catalogue of the Religious Houses was made in the twenty sixth year of King Henry the VIII with the Annual Values of almost all of them as well in Wales as England Which Catalogue was 〈◊〉 incerted into the Books of First Fruits and Tenths Out of which Catalogue I have set down the Valuation of the Annual Rents of each House under the proper Head in the foregoing 〈◊〉 except some few not then valued Having said something in the beginning of the Institution of the Monastical Life I shall here add what Opinion Men had of the Subversion of Monasteries even among Protestants The Augustine Confession says That Monasteries were heretofore Schools of sacred Learning advantagious to the Church and that Pastors and Bishops came from thence Calvin in his Institutions says Monastick Colledges were then as Seminaries of the Ecclesiastick Order and gives a very great Encomium of their manner of Life and Piety Charity to the Poor and Humanity out of St. Augustines Epistles Hyperius says That Monasteries at their Institution were no other than Convents of Good men and Students Schools where the Elder did teach the younger Religion where they did spend their time in writing and disputing and instituting those who afterwards arrived to eminent places in the Church as to be Bishops or Priests c. William Perkins says That the Monasteries of the Ancients were for the most part Publick Schools that is Communities of Teachers and Learners The Preamble of the Stat. 27 H. 8. c. 28. omitted in the printed Act for the Suppression of certain
Huntingdon were in former time â—iâ—teen Parish-Churches tho' at present there remains but four David Bruce Earl of Huntingdon was buried in this Priory Pope Eugenius confirm'd to the Canons here all their Lands and Priviledges An. Dom. 1147. and so did King Henry the III. in the seven and thirtieth year of his Reign Valued at 187 l. 13 s. 8 d. per Annum St. OSWALDS near Gloucester FOunded by Ethelred Earl of Marches and Ethelfleda his Wife before the Conquest for Prebendaries who translated hither the Body of St. Oswald from Bardney But soon after the Conquest this Colledge being impropriated to the See of York that Archbishop changed the Prebendaries here to Canons Regular Valued at 90 l. 10 s. 2 d. ob per Annum BARNEWELL near Cambridge IN the time of William the Conqueror lived one Picot a Norman a Person of great Note who was Viscount or Sheriff in this County he had also a Barony here Hugolin his Wife being much devoted to St. Giles made a Vow in her sickness to erect a Monastery to that Saint which Vow her Husband confirm'd this was erected near the Castle in Cambridge and six Canons Regular placed therein under the Rule of one Galfridus de Huntedon But Picot and his Wife dying before their intended Charity was fully compleated and Robert their Son being after their death accused of Treasonable Practices for which he fled the Kingdom King Henry the I. seized upon his Barony and gave it to a Paganus Peverelle who finding this House fallen to decay undertook to restore it and increase the Canons to the number of thirty To this end he obtained of the King a peice of Ground lying without the Town of Cambridge call'd Barnewell of sweet and delicate Situation here he built a very fair Church and removed the said Canons hither with great Solemnity from the place of their first Foundation in Cambridge Anno Dom. 1112. after they had continued there just twenty years From this Paganus Peverell the Patronage of this Priory descended by an Heir General to the Peches An. Dom. 1284. Gilbert Peche gave the Patronage of this Monastery to King Edward for ever The abovesaid Paganus Peverell was Standard-bearer to Robert Son of William the Conqueror in the holy Land The Particulars of their Revenue was found by Inquisition 3 E. 1. which see in the Book at large The foresaid Gilbert Peche by his Deed dated 1256. granted to the Canons of this House liberty to choose their own Prior but that upon the death of the Prior one or two of the Canons should come to him if in England and acquaint him therewith and desire his leave as Patron to proceed to a new Election that thereupon they should proceed and having made their Election they should present the Person elected to him and require his consent that during the time of Vacation he his Heirs or Successors should not commit any Wast on the Goods of the said Monastery nor have there more than one Servant with a Horse and a Boy Valued at 256 l. 11 s. 10 d. per Annum NOSTELL in Yorkshire RObert de Laci founded the Church of St. Oswald at Nostell and endow'd the same with divers Lands and Revenues for Canons Regular granting them free liberty to Elect their own Prior. King Henry the I. recited and confirm'd the several Grants of their Benefactors the like did King Henry the II. to this Priory by the name of the Church of the blessed Oswald the King and Martyr adjoyning to the Castle of Pontefract in a place called Nastle In the year 1231. the Prior and Convent here leased their Estate at Canonthorp to William de Runeys Knt. for his Life at the Rent of 13 s. 4 d. per Annum the said William causing Divine Service to be celebrated at the Chappel there three days in every Week viz. Sunday Wednesday and Friday with other Covenants Valued at 492 l. 18 s. 2 d. per Annum BREDON in Leicestershire RObert Earl of Nottingham gave to the Church and Canons of St. Oswald of Nostla the Church of St. Mary and St. Hardulf of Bredon with divers Lands and Revenues to the same appertaining Whereupon this House became a Cell to that of Nostell immediately before treated of yet by subsequent agreement between the Prior and Convent of Nostell and Walter Advocate or Patron of Bredon the said Prior should upon a Vacancy at Bredon choose two of the Canons there or in case there should not be two fit Persons there then two of his own House of which two the said Walter should choose one and then the said Prior and Walter joyntly to present the party so chosen to the Diocesan to be Prior of Bredon Vid. Vol. 3. p. 41. Valued at 24 l. 10 s. 4 d. per Annum ANother Cell to Nostell was Woodkirk or Wodechurche in Yorkshire endow'd for Canons by the Earls of Warren HYRST in the Isle of Axholme in Lincolnshire THIS was a Cell belonging to Nostell endow'd with Lands by Nigellus de Albani and Roger de Moubray Valued at 5 l. 10 s. 1 d. per Anunm SCOKIRK in Yorkshire Was another Cell to the foresaid Priory of Nostell To which Gaufridus Fitz-Pagan and others gave Lands and Tithes William de Archis granted to the Canons here half the Tithe of his Bread made in his House for ever in pure and perpetual Alms. Valued at 8 l. per Annum COLCHESTER in Essex KING Henry the I. gave to the Church of St. Iulian and St. Botolph of Colchester and to the Canons there the Tithes of all his Demesnes in Hetfeld with divers Lands in and about Colchester confirming to them other Lands which they had of the Gift of Hugh Fitz-Stephen to hold in Serjeancy by the finding of one Horse of the price of five shillings and one Sack and one Prick at the King's charges when he makes War against the Welch for forty days Pope Paschall the II. by his Bull dated A D. 1116. granted to the Canons of this House that as they were the first of this Order in England so they should be the first in Dignity and exempted them from all Secular or Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction other than that only of the See of Rome and finally that they should choose their own Superior but present him when chosen to the Bishop of London to be Consecrated Valued at 523 l. 17 s. per Annum HAGHMON in Shropshire THIS was founded in the year 1100. 1. H. 1. by William Fitz-Allen King Edward in the thirteenth year of his Reign confirmed to the Church of St. Iohn the Evangelist of Haghman and to the Canons there all their Lands and Revenues given by several Benefactors among whom were some of the Welch Princes Vide infra 933. Valued at 259 l. 13 s. 7 d. per Annum St. JAMES at Northampton FOunded and endowed by William Peverell Confirm'd by King Henry the II. With the grant of divers Liberties Valued at 175 l. 8 s. 2 d. ob per
to the King himself But being inspired with God's grace he saw the Follies of that Course of Life and finding his Conscience burden'd with many sins he undertook a Journey to Rome while he remain'd there he fell sick and in his sickness made a Vow upon his return to Health and his Country to build there an Hospital for the Relief and Solace of Poor People After this being restored to his Health he began his journey homeward On the Way St. Bartholmew appeared to him in a Nocturnal Vision or Dream and directed him to build a Church in Smithfield at London and name it to him Being return'd to London he obâ—ain'd the King's License for this Foundation without which it could not be effected the Ground where the Building was appointed being within the Kings Market-place He began hereupon a double Work of Piety the Hospital in performance of his Vow and the Church according as directed both not far distant which last was founded An. 1123. in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and memory of St. Bartholmew the Apostle It is said that this very Foundation in this place was foretold long before in a Vision to King Edward the Confessor Before Raberus began the Foundation of this Monastery the Ground here was all overspread with Filth and Durt and was the common place of Execution of Malefactors The Priory being built and Cannons assembled to inhabit it Raherus became their Prior who obtain'd for their maintenance sufficient from the Oblations of pious People and from the King as large Liberties as any Church in England enjoy'd King Henry the III. confirm'd all the Lands and Churches given them by divers Benefactors namely the place call'd Smithfeld the Church of St. Sepulcher de Ballio London cum pertinentiis suis infra Burgum extra the Church of St. Michael Bassingshagh c. and that the Hospital of St. Bartlemew in Smithfield should be in the Disposition and Subjection of the said Prior and Canons Valued at 653 l. 15 s. per Annum WARTRE in Yorkshire FOunded An. 1132. by Galfridus Trusbut and by him endow'd with the Church of Wartre and eleven Bovates of Land in the Field of that Town Confirm'd by Pope Innocent the II. Priors and Abbots of this House 1. Ioseph Prior. 2. Radulphus Prior. 3. Richard Abbot 4. Yuo Abbot 5. Nicholas Prior. 6. Richard Prior. 7. Thomas Prior. 8. Radulphus 9. Iohn Lestyngham 10. Iohn de Dunelmia 11. Robert de Lunde 12. Iohn Queldreke in his time the Hospital of St. Giles of Beverly was annext to this House A. 1278. 13. Iohn de Thorpe 14. Richard de Welwyk 15. Robert Balne 16. William Feryby 17. Henry Holme 18. Iohn Hemyngburgh 19. William Tynyngton deposed by the Archbishop of York 20. Robert Takel 21. Thomas Ruland 22. William Wartre 23. Robert Hedon 24. William York 25. William Spenser Several of the Trussebuts descendants of the Founder confirm'd the Possessions of these Canons and so did Robert de Ros Lord of Beuver An. 1279. being then Patron Advocatus of this Priory Pope Innocent granted to these Canons of St. Iames of Wartre divers Priviledges in the Case of non-payment of Tithes for their own Goods and Stock in the Case of a general Interdict c. Valued at 221 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum TWYNEHAM in Hantshire IN the Reign of King Edward the Confessor there were Secular Canons in Christ Church at Twyneham Ranulph Flammard a great Favourite under King William Rufus and afterwards Bishop of Durham was Dean of this Church In the Reign of King Steven Canons Regular were first introduced here The aforesaid Ranulphus or Randulphus new built the Church of Twynham which at that time bore the name of the Holy Trinity Richard de Redvers endow'd it with Lands in the Isle of Wight and elsewhere Which Richard de Redvers was by King Henry the I. made Earl of Devon and had the Isle of Wight and the Inheritance of this Town of Twineham given to him From whom descend the Courtney's Earls of Devon Baldwin de Redveriis confirm'd the Estate given by his Father Richard to this Church with the Grant of large Liberties which Baldwin was the first who introduced Canons Regular into this Church to whom his Son Richard de Redveriis junior granted the free Election of their Prior and confirm'd all their Possessions An. 1161. Vid. Vol. 3. P. 45. Valued at 312 l. 7 s. per Annum HERYNGHAM in Sussex KING Edward the I. granted his License to William Paynel to grant certain Lands to the Prior and Canons of this House for the finding of four Secular Chaplains to celebrate for his Soul in their Church Statuto de terris ad manum mortuam non ponend edito non obstante Afterwards upon the Petition of Matilda Neice and heir of the said William exhibited to King Edward the II. in Parliament that King granted that instead of the four Secular Chaplains the said Prior might for the future appoint four Regular Canons of his own House for that Office King Edward the III. granted his License to appropriate the Hospital of St. Anthony at Coukham to this House St. OSITH at Chich in Essex THE Priory of St. Osith the Virgin and Martyr at Chich was founded by Richard de Belmeis Bishop of London who design'd to resign his Bishoprick and become a Canon Regular here himself but was prevented by death The second Prior of this House was Ralph afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury King Henry the II. confirm'd all the Possessions given to this Priory by several Benefactors with the grant of ample Liberties free Waren and a Market at Chiche King Iohn granted the Patronage or Advowson of this Abby to William then Bishop of London and his Successors Valued at 677 l. 1 s. 2 d. per Annum IXWORTH in Suffolk GIlbert Blundus who came into England with the Conqueror founded this Priory of the blessed Mary of Ixworth near the Parish-Church of that Town Valued at 280 l. 9 s. 5 d. per Annum NORTON in Cheshire THIS Priory of the blessed Mary of Norton was founded and endowed by William the Son of Nigellus Constable of Chester Roger Constable of Chester confirm'd the Lands and Possessions given to these Canons in Nottinghamshire Leicestershire and Oxfordshire who also granted them divers Priviledges inter alia to have two Deer yearly on the Feast of the Assumption out of his Park of Halton When William Bastard to whom King Edward the Confessor had assigned the Inheritance of his Kingdom as his most worthy and nearest Kinsman came into England with him came Hugh to whom he gave the Earldom of Chester With this Hugh came a Nobleman called Nigellus to whom the said Earl gave the Barony of Halton and made him his Marshal and Constable of Chester and further conferr'd on him many and great Priviledges such as shew'd a particular favour to him more than any other Baron of Cheshireâ— William Son of this Nigellus founded
An. Reg. 9. Valued at 147 l. 2 s. 10 d. per Annum HERTLAND in Devonshire FOunded by Gaufridus Son of Oliver de Dynam and the Canons Secular changed to Canons Regular of St. Augustin by the Authority of Bartholomew Bishop of Exeter All whose Possessions King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign confirm'd with the Grant of great Immunities and Liberties namely to have a Court to hold plea of all things but Life and Member arising in their own Lands and Estate c. Valued at 306 l. 3 s. 2 d. per Annum HELAGHE in Yorkshire FOunded by Bertramus Haget in a place where formerly was a Hermitage in some sort belonging to the Prior and Convent of Marton who by their Deed under their Convent Seal did disclaim resign and quit all title to the same An. 1203. The Lord Iordan de Sancta Maria marrying Alice an Heir General of the foresaid Bertram became a second Founder of this Priory who confirm'd their Estate and so did Alice his Widow after his decease Priors of Helaghe-Park 1218. William de Hamelecis 1233. Elias 1257. Iohn Nocus 1260. Hamo de Eboraco 1264. Henry de Quetelay 1281. Adam de Blide 1300. William de Grimstone 1320. Robert de Sposford 1333. Steven Levington 1357. Richard 1358. Thomas de Yarum 1378. Steven Clarell 45 years 1423. Iohn Birkyn 1429. Thomas York 1435. Richard Areton translated to Gisburn 1437. Thomas Botson translated to Bolton 1440. Thomas Collingham 1460. Christopher Lofthous under an ill Character for the Book says furatus est bona hujus domus 1471. William Berwick 1475. William Brammam Vicar of Helagh 1480. William Ellington 1499. Peter Kendayl William de Percey Lord of Kildale gave to the Canons of St. Iohn the Evangelist of Helagh-Park the Chappel of St. Hilda at Kildale with divers Lands for which the said Canons were to find two of their own House or two Secular Priests to celebrate the Divine Offices in the said Chappel for ever Valued at 72 l. 10 s. 7 d. per Annum CANONS-ASHBY in Northamptonshire THe Pynkeneyes Lords of Wedone were great Benefactors to the Canons here giving them divers Lands in Wedone and Weston with Common for 100 Sheep 8 Oxen 5 Cows and 5 Mares in the Pasture of Wapham and feeding for Sixscore Hogs in the Woods there Valued at 119 l. 4 d. per Annum HAVERFORD in Wales RObert de Haverford gave to the Canons here divers Churches and Tithes in his Barony of Haverford all which were confirm'd to them by King Edward III. An. Reg. 5. Valued at 133 l. 11 s. 1 d. per Annum WODHAM in Essex THis place being formerly a Hermitage of St. Iohn Baptist Maurice de Tiretia founded here a Priory of Canons and gave them divers Lands confirm'd by King Henry II. IPSWICH in Suffolk KIng Iohn in the fifth year of his Reign confirm'd to the Canons of the Church of the holy Trinity at Gypewic the several Lands Churches and Possession given them by many Benefactors among the rest a Fair to last for three days at the Feast of the holy Cross in September FINSHEVED in Northamptonshire FOunded and endow'd with divers Lands and Possessions by Richard Engaine Lord of Blatherwick in the Reign of King Iohn After the year 1367 the Male Line of the said Founder failing his estate became divided among three Sisters married to the Families of Goldinton Pabenham and Bernake Iohn Engayne gave divers Lands in Blatherwick and Laxton to the Canons of the blessed Mary of Finnisheved for the maintenance of two Chaplains in the Chappel at Finnisheved and two other Chaplains in the Chappel of Blatherwick Valued at 56 l. 10 s. 11 d. ob per Annum KEINSHAM in Gloucestershire FOunded by William Earl of Gloucester at the desire of Robert his Son then dying Dedicated to God the blessed Mary and the Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford confirm'd the several Lands Possessions and Liberties given to the Canons of this House and so did also King Edward II. An. Reg. 11. KIRTMELE in Lancashire WIlliam Marescallus founded and endow'd this Priory for Canons providing that it should always remain a Priory independent of any other House yet it should never be made an Abby and upon the death of the Prior two Canons to be chosen and presented to him or his heirs of which he or his heirs to elect one to be made Prior. Confirm'd by King Edward II. An. Reg. 17. LESNES in Kent FOunded by Richard Lucy Prefect of England An. 1178. In the year 1179 the same Richard quitting his Office of Chief Justice became himself a Canon Regular of this House and soon after died and was here buried The Lands and Possessions given to these Canons by their founder and others were confirm'd to them by King Iohn and King Edward II. BURSCOUGH in Lancashire FOunded and endow'd with large Possessions by Robert Lord of Lathom King Edward I. granted to these Canons to have a mercate every Thursday and a Fair for five days at the Feast of the Decollation of St. Iohn Baptist yearly at their Mannour of Ormeskirk Walter Lord of Scaresbrek and many others were Benefactors all whose gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Edward II. An. Reg. 17. Valued at 80 l. 7 s. 6 d. per Annum STEVERDALE in Somersetshire RIchard Lovel Chivaler gave certain Lands of the value of 40 s. to the Prior and Convent here for the finding of one Chaplain to celebrate daily for the Souls of the said Richard and his Ancestors in the Church of this Priory This House was founded by the Ancestors of Richard de Sancto maure and united to the Monastery of Taunton 24. Henry VIII DODFORD in Worcestershire FOunded and endow'd by King Henry I. But in process of time the Revenues of this House being so decay'd that there remain'd here but one Canon it was united to the Abby of Hales Owen An. 4. Edward IV. The Abby de PRATIS near Leicester FOunded An. 1143. by Robert Earl of Melent and Leicester and largely endow'd by him and others with Churches Lands Rents Tithes and Liberties in and about Leicester and elsewhere with the grant of two Bucks yearly one at the Feast of the Assumption and one at the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary c. Margaret de Quincy granted to the Canons here divers Possessions among other things House-bote and haybote and timber for repairs out of her Forrest of Charnwood as often as occasion requires also one Buck yearly out of the said Forrest Roger de Quincy granted them among other things the right Shoulder of every Deer taken in his Park of Acle and free pasture for all their Cattle throughout the Forrest of Leicester Their Possessions were confirm'd by King Steven and King Henry II. Robert Earl of Mellent came into England with the Conqueror who gave him the Earldom of Leicester which City being destroy'd with the Castle there he re-edified the
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
Nigellus de Moubray granted to this House the Tith of all the Meat and Drink of his Family wherever he should inhabit and charged his Heirs diligently to perform the same William de Burdet gave to Burton St. Lazarus and the infirm Brethren of Ierusalem the Hospital of Tilton and the Church of Louseby c. Sir Iohn Digby Knight and Thurbert de Rochebi c. were also Benefactors Confirm'd by King Henry II. and King Iohn King Edward III. granted to the Master and Brethren of St. Lazarus of Ierusalem in England Founded for Lepers and Souldiers that fight against the Enemies of the Cross to be free and quit of all Tenths Tallages and other Aids and Contributions granted or to be granted to the King and his Heirs Valued at 265 l. 10 s. 2 d. ob per Annum St. GILES without London Sup. p. 381. KING Edward the III. An. 27. at the Request of the Master of the Order of Burton St. Lazarus in England and in consideration of the Release of a yearly Rent of forty Marks formerly granted out of the Exchequer to the said Master and Brethren of that Order granted to the said Brethren and their Successors the Custody of the Hospital of St. Giles without London YARUM in Yorkshire FOunded by Alan de Wilton who gave to this Hospital divers Lands in Hooton to hold at the yearly Rent of two Marks also other Lands in Mydilton for the maintenance of three Chaplains in the said Hospital and thirteen poor people The same Alan did after wards grant this Hospital and all its Appurtenances in pure and perpetual Alms to the Canons of Helagh-Park The like grant was made to the said Canons by Peter de Brus which Peter de Brus gave'divers Lands to the Brethren of this Hospital with free grinding in all his Mills and free Pasture for all their proper Cattle in his Land St. JAMES near Westminster THE Master of the Hospital of St. Iames near Westminster being summon'd in a Quo Waranto 22 E. 1. appear'd and pleaded that King Henry the III. granted to the Leperous Women of St. Iames without London near Westminster their Lands then given or to be given to be held with Soc and Sak Thol and Them and that King Edward the I. granted them a Fair yearly on the Vigil day and Morrow of St. Iames and for four days following profert c. Ideo predictus Magister quoad hoc sine die c. TANREGGE in Surrey O Do Dammartin gave to God and the Hospital of St. Iames in his Village of Tanregge and to three Priests there serving God certain Lands c. for the maintenance of Infirm and poor People and Travellers he also gave them his Relicks two Silver Cups for the making a Chalice with all the Vestments Books and other Furniture of his own Chappel Valued at 78 l. 8 s. 10 d. ob per Annum St. JOHN BAPTIST at Stamford in Lincolnshire THIS Hospital dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist and St. Thomas the Martyr consisting of a Master and Brethren was founded by one Syward among other Benefactors were Richard de Humez and Bertran de Verdun who gave part of a Meadow lying near the Bridge towards the North wherein to build a Church and make a Coemitery Confirm'd by King Richard I. and by Pope Alexander It was situated at the end of Stamford-Bridge on the South-side for the Reception of Travellers and poor people SAUTINGEFELD near Wytsande KING Henry the II. confirm'd divers Lands to this Hospital and to the Brethren here serving God SCARDEBURGH in Yorkshire THE Hospitals of St. Nicholas and St. Thomas the Martyr were erected by certain Burgesses of Scardeburgh and were both under the Inspection of the Bayliffs and Burgesses of that Town c. as was found by Inquisition An. 26 Edw. the I. St. GILES without Shrewsbury KING Henry the II. granted to the Poor of this House a Rent of 30 s. out of his Farm of Shropshire King Henry the III. granted them out of every Sack of Corn coming to Shrewsbury Market a handful of both hands and out of every Sack of Wheat a handful of one hand also a Horse-load of dead Wood daily in his Wood call'd Linewood for their firing ROMENALE in Kent FIRST founded by Adam de Cherrings in honour of the blessed Martyrs St. Steven and St. Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury and by him endow'd with Lands Rents and Possessions for the maintenance of certain Lepers and one Chaplain But in process of time this Hospital becoming decay'd and neglected by reason chiefly that no Lepers could be found to inhabit here for many years Iohn Franceys Patron of this Hospital An. 37. Edward the III. in order to revive and restore the same made divers Orders viz. That in lieu of the Lepers that used to be here there should for the future be two Priests to celebrate for the Founders and Benefactors one of which to be Custos or Master to be instituted and inducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury and to be Resident which two Priests shall celebrate daily in the Chappel of this Hospital Matins and the Canonical hours that upon the death of the Custos the Patron to present another to the Archbishop of Canterbury to be admitted Custos within the space of two Months or in default of the Patron the Jurates of the Town of Romenale or the major part of them c. St. BARTHOLMEWS without Oxford THE following Orders were made in the Parliament at Lincoln An. 9. Edward the II. That there should be fix infirm Brothers of this Hospital and two found Brothers to labour about the Affairs of the House each of which eight to receive 9 d. a Week that there should be a Priest to be the Master of the said Hospital to say Mass daily and to administer the Sacraments to the Infirm his Salary fix Marks per Annum Queen Margaret Widow of Edward the I. was during her Life Patroness and Visitor and after her death the King or his Chancellor The said King Edward the II. An. 14. granted his License the former Ordination non obstante for the Master and Brothers of this Hospital to admit Iohn Serthe into the next void Place the said Iohn having given eighteen Marks to the Repairs of the Chappel then ruinous MAIDEN-BRADLEY in Wiltshire MAnserus Byset a Baron did first institute this House for Leperous Women and appointed there certain Secular Priests who he named Curators of the Women Hubert Bishop of Salisbury translated those Priests into Canons Regular The Church of Kiderminster was appropriated to this House by Roger Bishop of Worcester after the death of Robert then Parson This Manserus or Manasserus Byset was Dapiser or Sewer to King Henry II. King Henry III. confirm'd the several Lands and Possessions given to the Leperous Sisters of Maiden-Bradâ—egh and to the Prior and Brethren there Valued at 180 l. 10 s. 4 d. per Annum St. THOMAS of Acon in London KIng Edw. III. A. 14. confirm'd
and Lands c. to the yearly value of 500 l. Within which this Alms-house was erected for two Chaplains five and thirty poor Men and three Women to be govern'd by the Master of that Hospital but the Cardinal dying before this Foundation was perfectly compleated King Henry the VI. An. 33. did incorporate them under a Rector of their own by the name of The New Alms-house of Noble Poverty establisht near Winchester by Henry Cardinal of England and Bishop of Winchester Son of John late Duke of Lancaster of noble Memory with grant of a Common Seal and Power to purchase c. Valued at 84 l. 4 s. 2 d. per Annum STOKFASTON Stockerson in Leicestershire FOunded with License of King Edward the IV. An. 5. by Iohn de Boyville Esq near the Town Church for one Chaplain and three poor men who were a Body Corporate and might retain Lands to the value of 10 l. per Annum HEITSBURY in Wiltshire FOunded with License of King Edward the IV. An. 11. by Margaret Widow of Robert Lord Hungerford Iohn Cheyne of Pynne Esq and Iohn Mervyn Esq for one Chaplain twelve poor Men and one poor Woman of whom the Chaplain to be Custos or Warden Which Hospital was made a Body Corporate c. and endow'd with divers Lands and had a grant of twenty Load of Wood for firing out of the Wood of Southleghe in Wiltshire The Savoy in the Suburbs of London KING Henry the VIII An. 2. granted the place or peice of Ground called the Savoy parcel of the Dutchy of Lancaster and lying in the Parishes of St. Clements Danes without the Bars of the New Temple at London and St. Mary of the Stronde in the County of Middlesex to Richard Bishop of Winchester Richard Bishop of London Thomas Bishop of Durham Edmund Bishop of Sarum William Bishop of Lincoln Iohn Bishop of Rochester Thomas Earl of Arundel Thomas Earl of Surrey Charles Lord Herbert Sir Iohn Fyneux Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Sir Robert Rede Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Iohn Young Master of the Roles Sir Iohn Lovell and Iohn Cutte Excutors of King Henry the VII for the founding and establishing of an Hospital And by another Deed dated An. 4. he granted License to the said Executors to found such Hospital for five Secular Chaplains one of which to be Master to pray for the good Estate of him and Catherine his Consort and for the Souls of King Henry the VII and Elizabeth his Consort and of Arthur Prince of Wales Which Hospital was to be called The Hospital of Henry the VII late King of England at the Savoy to be a Body Corporate to have a Common Seal and yearly Revenues to the value of five hundred Marks per Annum for maintenance of the said Chaplains and for performance of such other Works of Mercy and Piety as by the said Executors shall be appointed and exprest With a Non obstante to the Statute of Mortmain Valued at 529 l. 5 s. 7 d. ob per Annum Of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem THE Patron of this Order of Knights was St. Iohn Baptist from whom they took their Denomination The Hospital of St. Iohn Baptist and the Poor at Ierusalem is said to be first built in the time of Iulius Caesar Emperor of Rome and Antiochus Prince of Antioch with certain Treasure which one Melchiar a Priest in the Temple had taken out of the Sepulcher of David here the Poor and Infirm were kindly received and entertain'd from all parts of the World The same Author delivers that when our Saviour Christ became incarnate and conversed on Earth when he came to Ierusalem he resorted frequently to this House and that it was in this House that he appear'd to his Apostles after his Passion and Resurrection the Doors being all shut After his Ascension St. Steven and others of his Disciples served the poor in this Hospital house according to our Lord's Precept When the Christians were expell'd from Ierusalem and the City was possest by the Saracens one Conradus or Gerardus a devout Servant of God lived here and served the Poor in like manner who at such time as Ierusalem was besieg'd by Godfrey of Bullen and the Christian Pilgrims and a great Famine being in the Christian Camp was accustomed to go upon the Walls and throw over Loaves which he carried secretly about him for that purpose as if he were eager in throwing Stones against the Besiegers This Gerard was the first Master of this Hospital which after the City was taken by the Christians was very much favour'd and its Revenues augmented by the Kings of Ierusalem c. After the death of this Gerard Frier Raymund de Puy became Master who establisht a Rule for the Hospitallers confirm'd by Pope Innocent the II. and Pope Boniface This Rule consists of nine and twenty Articles among which it is ordain'd that every Brother or Frier at his admission to the Service of the Poor here is to profess these three things Chasâ—ity Obedience and to live without Property that when the Friers go abroad they shall not go alone but two or three together that if any be publickly guilty of Fornication he shall be publickly whipt and then expell'd the Society The Infirm at their first Reception into the Hospital shall be consest and communicate and then carried to bed and there served and attended as Lords and Masters of the House That all the Brothers shall wear a Cross on their upper Garments as a Badge of their Faith c. Others give another account of the Original of the Hospitallersâ— affirming that after the Turks of Arabia had over-run Syria and Egypt about the year 612. certain Italian Merchants of the City of Malfe trading into these parts and being favour'd by the Turks on the account of their Trade they obtain'd from the Calife of Egypt a peice of Ground lying before the Temple of the Sepulcher for their Habitation here those Mâ—rchants built a Monastery and Church in honour of the blessed Virgin placing therein an Abbot and Monks After that they built another little Church in honour of St. Mary Magdalen for the Reception of Women Pilgrims and placed therein certain Nuns and lastly considering the danger of those who came in Pilgrimage to the holy places who were often robbed by the Turks they built an Hospital or Domus Dei for the Reception of Men whether Well or Sick who arrived here in Pilgrimage and another Church for them dedicated to St Iohn Elemon Patriarch of Alexandria These three Houses subsisted only by Alms collected for them yearly by the said Merchants of Malfy till the Christians conquer'd Ierusalem and expelled the Saracens At which time lived in the Abby of Monks the before-mention'd Girald to whom the Abbot committed the Reception and Relief of the Poor and Pilgrims in the foresaid Domus Dei or Hospital and after such reduction of the City the said Hospital flourisht daily more and
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
the foresaid twenty ninth year of Henry VIII Pag. 648. LENTON KIng Steven granted the Chruch of the Holy Trinity at Lenton which William Peverell and others had endow'd to the order of Cluniac Monks to be enjoy'd with all its possessions inviolably The Priory of HORKESLEY RObert Fitz God bold gave divers Lands Churches and Tithes to the Cluniac Monks of Tefford with intention that the Convent of that House should transmit some of their Monks to the Church of St. Peter at Horchesley there to reside in the Services of God and St. Peter Their Possessions so given was confirm'd to them by Gilbert Bishop of London and Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury Pag. 867. SIBETON WIth King William the Conqueror who came into England in the year 1066. came Walter de Cadamo who after the Conquest held the Barony of Horsford He had issue Robert who built the Church of St. Peter at Sibton who had issue Iohn call'd the Vicount and William Iohn being very infirm in his health vow'd to erect an Abby of Cistercian Monks but himself dying left his vow to be perform'd by William his Brother and heir who enjoy'd after his death his Barony and Vicounty This William founded the Monastery of St. Mary at Sibton in the Reign of King Steven An. Dom. 1149. And endow'd the same with Lands and Revenues He had issue Margaret married to Hugh de Cressy who confirm'd her Fathers Guift An. 28. Henry VIII William then Abbot of Sibton Com. Suffolk and the Convent there of their free will and unanimous Consent gave granted and confirm'd to Thomas Duke of Norfolk Anthony Rouse Esquire and Nicholas Hare Gent. their heirs and assigns to the use of the said Duke his heirs and assigns for ever all the said Monastery and Estate thereunto belonging and Constituted Thomas Heydon and Robert Whinwery their lawful Attorneys to deliver Seizin accordingly This was under their Convent Seal and Sign'd by the Abbot and seven Monks of the House Pag. 887. HOLMCOLTRAM DAvid King of Scotland confirm'd the Donations of his Son Henry to this Abby the like did afterwards Malcolm king of Scotland Son of the said Henry Iohn King of England in the 16. year of his Reign granted to the Monks here the Hermitage of St. Hilda in the Forrest of Englewode with all the Land which Roger Croky late Hermit held and a Vaccary there for forty Cows c. Iohn Bishop of Carlile licensed the Monks of Holmcoltram to build a Church or Chappel in their territory of Arlosk for their Tenants and the Inhabitrants of those parts which Church or Chappel he did appropriate and annex to the said Monastery and exempt the same from the Visitation of the Ordinary The said Church to be served by a secular Priest of their election but to be presented to the said Bishop or his Successors and by them admitted to the said Cure The said Priest so admitted to receive for his support 4 l. to be pay'd him yearly out of the profits of the said Church and a House and Curtilage to be assigned him The said Priest to pay to the Bishop in the name of a Cathedratic half a mark and to the Archdeacon when he Visits 40 d. for procurations Which Deed of Appropriation bears date at Linflock An. 1304. Hugh Morville Cecily Countess of Albemarl Lambert de Multon and others were Benefactors to these Monks William Earl of Albemarl gave them a Forge and Iorn Mine at Egremond Robert King of Scots whose Father lies buried in their Church at Holmcoltram gave them a yearly farm of 10 l. Pope Lucius III. confirm'd to them their Lands and Revenues and granted them divers Liberties as to be free from the payment of Tithes for their Cattel and Fishing c. Whose Bull bears date An. 1185. Pag. 914. CROKESDEN THe Abby of the Vally of St. Mary of Crokesdene was founded by Bertram de Verdon and by him endow'd with divers Revenues in Crokesdene Stanfort Castretone c. and a Salt work in Midlewich Additions to the Second Volum Pag. 461. NORWICH JOhn Bishop of Norwich exemplified the Deeds belonging to the Hospital of St. Paul in Norwich viz. the Charter of the Convent of the Holy Trinity of Norwich who founded and endow'd the said Hospital to the support of poor people for the Soul of Bishop Herbert c. of Adam de Bellofago Morellus de Morley some Bishops of Norwich his Predicessors and King Henry I. who were all Benefactors Which Deed of Exemplification bears date in the year 1301. Pag. 181. TWINEHAM IN the Reign of King Steven An. Dom. 1150 Henry Bishop of Winchester and Hillary then Dean of Christ Church at the Petition of Earl Baldwin introduced Canons Regular into the said Church in place of the Canons secular that then were there the secular Canons to enjoy their Prebends while they lived But all the Lands and Revenues belonging and possest by the said Church in the time of the Deans to be for the future to the only use of the Prior and Canons Regular Pag. 152. GISBURNE WAldenus Son of Earl Cospatric gave the Town of Apleton to the Church of St. Bridget commonly call'd Brydekirk in the County of Cumberland The Lady Alice de Rumeley gave this Church of Brydekirk with Apleton and all other Lands thereunto belonging to the Canons of Gisburne Pag. 272. WORSPRING WIlliam de Curtenai founded a Convent for Canons Regular of St. Augustin at the Chappel of St. Thomas the Martyr in Worspring and notifying so much to Iohn then Bishop of Bath desired that by his authority the Church of Worle at that time vacant might be appropriated to the said Convent Pag. 263. WORMLEY JOhn de Baskerville gave to God and the Church of St. Leonard of Pyonia and to the Prior and Canons there in Frankalmoine all his Land of Stanley which he held of the Mannour of Wormley and Nickolas de Wormley Lord of the said Mannour reciting the said Grant confirm'd the same to the said Prior and Canons and also released and quit claimed to them one pair of spurs or sixpence of yearly Rent by which the foresaid Iohn held that Land Robet de Staunton Gilbert Talebot Robert Boter and others were Benefactors to the said Canons confirm'd by Roger de Montuomari Lord of Winfretone An. Dom. 1304 Gerard de Eylesford gave them the Advowson of the Church of Pyona Regis or Kings Peâ—ne Peter Bishop of Hereford appropriated the Church of Wormesley of which these Canons were Patrons to this Convent for the said Canons to enjoy the Fruits thereof to their proper use but so as not to defraud the said Church of due Service Whose Deed bears date An. 1262. Here was a Chantry tounded by the Lady Basilia de Bourhull Pag. 941. RANTON RObert Fitz-Noel or Son of Noel founded and endow'd the Priory of Ranton for Canons under the Rule and obedience of the Church of Haman Hamanensis Ecclesiae Whose Donation was confirm'd by Thomas Noel his Son Noel who came
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
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
or his Lieutenant the Chaplains and Clerks to have their Board from the Provost all to live and Dyet together in the same House every Chaplain to have a little Clerk to serve him in the Church and in his Chamber and not to be allow'd any other Servant that constantly at day break they rise and repair to the Chappel there say first the Mattins of the Blessed Virgin with a low voice and then sing the Mattins of the day c. that in all the Divine Offices they observe the Salisbury use that no Woman shall enter into any part of the House except the Chappel and the Hall the Provost and every Chaplain and Clerk to be sworn at their admission to the observance of these Orders and to personal Residence Which Deed of Foundation bears date in the year 1301 30. Edward I. Simon de Farham and divers others were Benefactors to this Chappel and gave divers Mannors Lands and Rents to the same All confirm'd by King Edward I. and II. Valued at 112 l. 17 s. 4 d. ob per Annum KIRKBY Super Wretheck in Leicestershire ROger Beler founded a Chantry of one Custos and twelve Chaplains in the Chappel of St. Peter adjoyning to his Mannour of Kirkeby and endow'd the same with the Advowson of the Church of Kirkeby the Mannour of Bokeminster and other Lands and Rents with Warrantry and gave the power of presenting to the Custos or Wardens place to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln c. Whose Deed of Foundation bears date in the year 1319 13. Edward II. WENGHAM in Kent POpe Gregory X. licenced Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury to establish a Provost and a Colledge of ten secular Canons in the Parish Church of Wengham instead of a Rector the said Provost to have the Parochial cure of Souls which Colledge being accordingly founded by the said Iohn he appointed that six of the said Canons should be Priests two Deacons and two Subdeacons and set out their several Prebends and how the Common distributions should be made c Whose Deed of Foundation bears date An. Dom. 1286. and was confirm'd by King Edward I. MEREWELL FOunded by Henry de Blois Bishop of Winchester for four Priests and by him endow'd with 13 l. per An. of Rent Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester made certain Orders for the Government of the said four Chaplains or Priests as that they keep one Deacon to serve them in the Church and at home that they choose yearly one of them to be their Prior that what ever Chaplain be guilty of Incontinency or other foul crimes he also shall be expell'd and further granted them besides their first endowment fifty quarter of Corn for their Common use and four Load of Hay Whose Deed bears date An. Dom. 1226. GLASENEY in Cornwall PEter Bishop of Exeter in the year 1288. made a further Provision for the Vicars of this Church first founded by his Predecessor Walter for thirteen Canons and as many Vicars Valued at 205 l. 10 s. 6 d. per Annum The Collegiate Church of Ruthin in Denbighshire JOhn Gray Lord of the Cantred of Deffencloyt in the Diocess of Bangor instituted a Colledge in the Chappel of St. Peter at Ruthin for at least seven Priests to celebrate there daily the Divine Offices one of whom to serve in the Chappel of the Castle and endow'd the same with two hundred and fifty acres of Land with Tithes and large Commons of Pasture and Paunage in his Woods for sixty Hogs c. to hold in pure free and perpetual Almes with Warranty Whose Deed of Foundation bears Date An. 1310. OTERY in Devonshire THe Dean and Chapter of Roan in the year 1335 9. Edward III. granted with Licence of the Apostolick see and the King of England their Mannour of Otery St. Mary in the County of Devon c. to Iohn de Grandisson Bishop of Exeter and instead of Warranty they delivered up to the said Bishop all their Deeds and Writings concerning the same King Edward III. in the eleventh year of his Reign granted his Licence to the said Bishop of Exeter to erect a Monastery or Collegiate Church to consist of a certain number of secular Canons at Otery St. Mary either in the Parish Church there or in some other place and to endow the same with the Mannour of Otery and to appropriate the Tithes of the said Town to the same Which Colledge was accordingly founded and endow'd by the said Bishop An. 1337 Valued at 303 l. 2 s. 9 d. per Annum The Collegiate Church or Chappel of St. Steven within the Royal Palace at Westminster THe Chappel of St. Steven in the Pallace at Westminster was nobly finisht by King Edward III tho' begun by his Progenitors which King founded therein a Dean and twelve Canons with as many Vicars and other Ministers accordingly and gave them by his Patent dated in the two and twentieth year of his Reign his great House in Lombardstret London with some advowsons obliging himself and Royal Heirs to make it up to them a Revenue of 500 l per An. In the two and thirtieth year of his Reign he gave them a Tower in Bokelesbury in London call'd Sewtes Tour with the Appurtenances In the three and fortieth year of his Reign he gave them another House in London call'd the Role with the appurtenances then valued at 20 l. per An. In further aâ—gmentation of the said Foundation he granted them all the ground from the said Chappel Northward to the receipt of the Exchequer between Westminister Hall and the Thames for making a Cloyster and other necessary Building with free Entrance day and Night at the Gate adjoyning to the Kings Bridge also a Chamber within the said Gate formerly belonging to his Clerk of the Kitchin with the Houses formerly used for Stables of War horses and other Horses c. with a Free Passage to the said Chappel by day light thro' the great Hall and exempted the said Dean and Canons and all their Lands from the Payment of any Aydes or Taxes whatsoever King Richard II. compleated the full endowment of this Colledge by settling on it divers Mannours and Lands in Kent c. according to the direction and desire of his Grandfather in his Testament Valued at 1085 l. 10 s. 5 d. per Annum The Royal Collegiate Chappel in the Castle at Windsor A Chappel for eight Canons secular having been begun in the Castle of Windsor King Edward III. who was baptized there finisht and compleated the same in honour of Almighty God his glorious Virgin Mother St. George the Martyr and St. Edward the Confessor and establisht therein a Custos or President to the former eight Canons and an addition of fifteen Canons more and four and twenty poor Knights with other Ministers of the said Chappel and endow'd the same in the two and twentieth year of his Reign with divers Churches and promised for himself and Heirs to encrease the Revenue to the Sum of 1000