Edred A. D. 948. and King Etheldred 1001. See more of this Monastery p. 983. Valued at 1166 l. 8 s. 9 d. per Annum TAVESTOCK in Devonshire ORdgarus an Earl in these Parts and Father of Elfrid Wife of King Edgar built this Monastery in the year 961 for Monks It was afterwards burnt down by the Danes King Edelred in the year 981. endow'd it with Lands and Liberties the like did King Henry the 1. all which was exemplified and confirm'd by King Edward the III. in the twenty second Year of his Reign See more of this Monastery p. 995. Valued at 902 l. 5 s. 7 d. per Annum RUMSEY in Hampshire KING Edward the Elder built here a Monastery in which his Grandson King Edgar placed religious Nuns under the Government of Merwina their Abbess Anno Dom. 907. King Edgar King Henry III. and King Edward I. were Benefactors to this House and confirm'd the Lands and Liberties to them given Valued at 393 l. 10 s. 10 d. ob per Annum HORTON in Dorcetshire ORgarus Earl of Devonshire formerly mention'd was the first Founder of this Monastery who after his decease which happen'd in the year 971. was here buried Roger Bishop of Shirburn obtain'd of King Henry the I. that this House and the Possessions thereunto belonging should be transfer'd and annext to the Monastery of Shirburn so that in after-times it was accounted only as a Cell of that House tho'it had been before that reckon'd as an Abby of it self EXETER in Devonshire THE Kingdom of the West Saxons having been destitute of a Bishop for full seven years before Pope Formosus threatn'd to curse King Edward the Elder in the year 905. unless he would restore Bishops according to the ancient Tradition Hereupon that King calling a Synod in which presided Plegmundus Archbishop of Canterbury did by their advice constitute several Bishops Seats and set out their several Diocesses and the Archbishop ordain'd seven Bishops in one day to seven Churches among which Athelstan was made Bishop of Cornwall and Eadulf of Cridington In the year 1046. King Edward the Confessor united these two Bishopricks and soon after at the request of Pope Leo fixt the Seat of the Bishop in the Monastery of St. Mary and St. Peter at Exeter the then Bishop Leofric being introduced into the Cathedral Church betwixt the King and Queen Which Bishop finding the said Church much decay'd and impoverisht in its Goods and Revenues became a great Benefactor giving to it not only several Books and Church Ornaments but divers Lands and recover'd for the Monastery other Lands which had been formerly given and since lost and taken from them King Athelstan soon after his coming to the Crown of this Kingdom erected the Monastery here to St. Mary and St. Peter and endow'd it with twenty six Towns and Villages and gave to it the third part of those many Relicks which he had caused to be collected beyond the Seas viz. some pieces of our Lord's Cross Sepulcher Garment Cradle c. with many others which may be seen at large p. 225 226. After him King Athelred King Cnut King Edward the Confessor King Iohn and King Henry the ill became Benefactors so also King Henry the I. who restored to this Monastery several Churches which had been taken from it RAMSEY in Huntingdonshire IN the year 969. Ailwinus Duke of the East Angels at the instigation of Oswald Archbishop of York founded the Monastery of Ramsey which was consecrated by St. Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury and the said Oswald in the year 974. and the Church dedicated to the blessed Mary and all holy Virgins and to St. Benedict Ramsey is a small Island situated among Fens and Marishes in the East corner of Huntingdonshire about two miles long and near as broad It was formerly very much abounding with Alders and other Trees that delight in moist Ground from whence it might take its name Ramsey à ramis quasi Insula Ramorum At the Foundation of this Church King Edgar gave to it five Hides of Land St. Oswald also gave several Ornaments and Lands and procured to it others Duke Ailwinus the Founder gave to this Abby the whole Isle in which it stood with the adjacent Marishes and Meers and divers other Lands All which with other Lands from other Benefactors King Edgar confirm'd to this Abby granting also divers great Priviledges as a Sanctuary c. The like was done by King Edward the Confessor with the addition of several other Liberties and Priviledges King Henry the I. King Henry the II. King Richard King Iohn and King Edward the I. were also Royal Benefactors Ailwinus the Founder gave many precious Ornaments besides two hundred Hides of Land and departed this Life on the 8th of the Calends of May. His Epitaph was as follows Hic requiescit Ailwinus inclyti regis Edgari cognatus totius Angliae Aldermannus hujus sacri caenobii miraculosè fundato r. ABBOTS OF RAMSE Y. 1 AEdnothus A. D. 970. 2 Wufilus 1008. 3 Withmannus 1016. 4 Ethelstanus 1020. 5 Alfwinus 1043. 6 Aielsinus 1080. 7 Herbertus made Bishop of Norwich 1087. 8 Aldwinus 1091. 9 Bernardus was Abbot for five years in the life of Aldwinus 10 Reginaldus 1114. 11 Walterus 1133. 12 Willielmns 1161. 13 Robertus Trianel 1180. 14 Eudo 1200. 15 Robertus de Redinges 1202. 16 Richardus 1214. 17 Hugo Foliot 1216. 18 Ranulfus 1231. 19 Willielmus Acolt 1253. 20 Hugo de Sulgrave 1254. 21 Willielmus 1267. 22 Iohannes 1285. 23 Simon 1316. 24 Robertus 1342. 25 Ricardus 1349. 26 Edmundus 1382. 27 Thomas Botterwick 1400. 28 Iohannes Tychemarsh 1419. 29 Iohannes Crowland 1434. 30 Iohannes Stowe 1436. The memorable Occurrances in the times of these several Abbots may be seen in the Monasticon p. 241 242. Vid. 2. Vol. p. 869. Valued at 1716 l. 12 s. 4. d. per Annum THORNEY in Cambridgeshire THIS Monastery was founded in the year 972. by St. Adelwold Bishop of Winchester in the Reign of King Edgar In the year 1085. the Church was new built by Gunterius the then Abbot here and dedicated by Hervey the first Bishop of Ely In the year 973. King Edgar granted to this Abby several Lands and Priviledges Principal Benefactors to this House were Nigellus Bishop of Ely William Peverel several of the Beauchamps Henry de Merch William de Albeneis Brito Thurstan de Montfort and Iohn de Stutavill c. The Lands and Benefactions of whom were recited and confirm'd to this Abby by the Bull of Pope Alexander dated A. D. 1162. ABBOTS of THORNEY A. D. 1085. Gunterius 1123. Robertus I. 1151. Gilbertus 1154. Galterus 1158. Herbertus 1163. Walterus 1176. Solamon 1193. Robertus II. 1198. Radulphus 1216. Robertus III. 1231. Wido Wake 1237. Ricardus 1238. David 1244. Thomas Castre 1261. Willielmus Yakesley 1293. Odo de Whitlesey 1305. Willielmus Clopton 1322. Reginaldus de Water Newton 1347. Willielmus Haddon 1365. Iohannes Depyng 1396. Nicholaus Islep 1402. Thomas
third Bishop of Worcester founded this Monastery Kenredus King of Mercia and Offa Governour of the East Angles in the year 709 being both then at Rome endow'd it with large Possessions The Towns which St. Egwin obtain'd to his Monastery of the said Kings were in all twenty two There were belonging to this House sixty seven Monks five Nuns three poor People three Clerks who had all the same allowance as the Monks had and besides these sixty five Servants The under Officers of this House as Prior Sub-Prior third Prior Precentor Sacristan Celarer c. were created by the Abbot with the advice and consent of the major part of the Covent in Chapter All which Officers had their several Rents arising from distinct and several places appropriated to their several Offices In the year 1174. Waldemarus King of Danemark gave and confirm'd the Priory of Othenesia in that Kingdom as a Cell to this Abby of Euesham This Abby was first founded as aforesaid by St. Egwin in the year of grace 692. and dedicated to the honour of the glorious Virgin Mary The Founder himself leaving his Bishoprick became the first Abbot here After whose death succeeded eighteen Abbots until the year 941. at which time the Monks here were dispersed and secular Chanons substituted in their room In the time of King Edgar Anno Dom. 660 the Monks were again restored but after his death expell'd again in the year 977. This House and Estate was afterwards given to a potent man called Godwin and successively it came into several hands till at last in the year 1014. King Ethelred made Ailfwardus a Monk of Ramsey Abbot of Euesham he was also Bishop of London at the same time From his time the Abby of Euesham flourisht under divers Abbots whose names from the Norman Conquest till the year 1379. are as follows Egelwinus Walterus Robertus Mauricius Reginaldus Willielmus de Andivilla Rogerus Adam Rogerus Norreys Radulphus Thomas de Marleberg Richaadus le Cras Thomas de Glovernia Henricus Willielmus de Wytechurch Iohannes de Brokehampton Willielmus de Chyriton Willielmus de Boys Iohannes de Ombresseye Rogerus Zatten 1379. Vid Vol. 2. p. 851. Valued at 1183 l. 12 s. 9 d. per Annum SHEPEY Monastery of Nuns in Kent FOunded by Queen Sexburga about the year of our Lord 710. William Archbishop of Canterbury after the Conquest restored this Monastery it having lain a long time burnt down and destroyed by the Danes King Henry the II. King Richard the I. King Henry the III. and others were Benefactors to this Church of St. Sexburg here and to the Nuns serving God in the same all whose Donations of Lands and Liberties were confirm'd in the 1st year of King Henry the IV. Valued at 129 l. 7 s. 10 d. ob per Annum SELSEY in Sussex IN the year of our Lord 711. Wilfred Bishop of Hagulstad remaining five years in the Isle of Selsey to avoid persecution built there a Monastery in honour of the blessed Mary to which Ethelwold King of the South Saxons gave Lands TUKESBURY in Gloucestershire THIS Monastery was founded in the year 715. by two Dukes of great account in the Kingdom of Mercia named Oddo and Doddo to the honour of the glorious Virgin Mary Robert Fiz-Hamon in the year 1102. new built this Church and Monastery making it an Abby and subjecting to it the Priory of Cranburne His Daughter Mobilla was afterwards married to Robert base Son of King Henry I. who was created Earl of Gloucester he built the Priory of St. Iames at Bristol and annext it also to the House From him descended Gibbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford who was a great Benefactor to this House and buried here as were the rest of his descendants Earls of Gloucester and the Dispencers who descended from one of the Heirs General All these and more of their Blood among whom Henry de Beauchamp Duke of Warwick were Benefactors to this Abby their pious gifts being all confirm'd and ratified by the King 1462. The several parcells of Lands and Hereditaments given and confirm'd to this House by former Kings may be seen p. 161 162. Valued at 1598 l. 1 s. 3 d. per Annum WINBURNE in Dorsetshire SAint Quinburga and St. Cuthburga Sisters of Ina King of the West Saxons built here a Monastery for Nuns Anno Dom. 718. CROYLAND in Lincolnshire CRoyland is one of those small Islands which lie in the East Fens Here St. Guthlac at the age of twenty five years became a Hermite and in his life time delivered the Island from Devils and evil Spirits and dying was here buried Ethelbald King of Mercia by his Charter dated in the year 716. gave to God the blessed Mary and St. Batholomew the whole Isle of Croyland containing four Leucas or miles in length and three in breadth for the erecting of a Monastery under the Rule of St. Benedict and endow'd the said Monastery with large Possessions lying about the Place All which was confirm'd to them by Offa King of Mercia in the year 793. and by Withlaf King of Mercia in the year 833. This Abby being afterwards burnt down and destroyed by the Pagan Danes was re edified and restored to its former Possessions and Liberties by King Eadred who stiled himself King of Great Britain in the year 948. Vid. Vol. 2. p. 853. Valued at 1803 l. 15 s. 10 d. ob per Annum BEVERLEY in Yorkshire SAint Iohn Archibishop of York was the first Dr. of Theology in Oxford He converted the Parish-Church of St. Iohn in the Town of Beverly into a Monastery building to it a new Quire and made his Deacon Bithunus the first Abbot here Both which lie buried in this Church One hundred years after this the Monastery of Beverley was destroyed by the Danes and lay in Ruines three years before it was repair'd King Athelstan built here a Colledge of secular Chanons And granted and confirm'd to this Church of St. Iohn of Beverley many great Priviledges and Liberties An. Dom. 938. King Edward the Confessor was a great Benefactor to this Church and augmented the number of the Prebendaries William the Conqueror was also a Benefactor Thomas the first Archbishop of York erected a new Dignity in the Collegiate Church of Beverley viz. a Prepositus or Provost who has neither voice in the Chapter nor Stall in the Quire of these there is a List of thirty eight Thomas Becket being the fifth in number Vid. Vol. 3. part 2 p. 3. Valued at 109 l. 8 s. 8 d. ob per Annum RIPPON in Yorkshire WIlfrid Archibishop of York founded a Monastery at Rippon which was afterwards burnt down in the Devastation which King Adred made upon the Northumbers But being in after-times re-edified King Athalstan granted to this Church the Priviledge of Sanctuary with the same Liberties which he had given before to the Church of Beverly and that the men of Rippon should be believed by their yea and by
year began also the Hospitallers and Templers St. Gilbert of Sempringham founded his Order An. 1148. St. Dominick An. 1198. St. Francis 1260. The Carmelites were settled and establisht by Pope Martin An. Dom. 1279. Kings of this Land who have become Monks Petroc King of Wales Constantine King of Cornwall Sebby Offa and Sigebert Kings of the East-Saxons Ethelred and Kynred Kings of Mercia Coelwulph and Edbricht Kings of Northumberland The Old Form of admitting a Brother into a Convent His first Petition in the Colloquium Syr I besyche you and alle the Covent for the luffe of God our Lady sanct Marye sanct John of Baptistâ— and all the hoyle Cowrâ—e of Devyne that ze wolde resave me to lyve and dye here among yow in the state of a Monke as prebenvarye and servant unto alle to the honour of God solace to the Company prouffet to the place and helth unto my Sawie His Answer unto the Examinacyon Syr I tryste thrugh the helpe of God and your good prayers to keep all thes things which ze have now heyr rehersede His Petition before the Profession Syr I have beyn heyr now this twell month nere hand and lovyde be God me lyks right well both the order and the company wherapon I besyche yow and all the company for the luffe of God our Lady sanct Marye sanct John of Baptisie and all the hoyle company of hevyne that ze will resave me unto my profession at my twell month day according to my petycion whyche I made when I was fyrst resaved heyr amongs youâ— c. Of the Benedictine Order have been four Emperors twelve Empresses six and forty Kings one and fifty Queens not to mention those of lesser Quality ERRATA PAge 6. l. 24. r. Lindisfarn p. 37. l. ult r. or an Oxe p. 39. l. 30. r. for the. p. 69. l. 4. r. Inspeximus p. 78 l. 12. r. or any l. 20. r. be put in p. 84. l. antepeâ—ul r. Daptfer p. 168. l. antepenul r. of the same p. 196. l. 14. r. HETHE in Kent p. 210. l. 32. r. Earl p. 220. l. 35. r. special p. 231. l. 30. r. East Angles p. 232. l. 3. r. Derham p. 262. l. 7. r. Marches p. 267. l. 4. r. Patron of the. p. 294. l. 19. r. colours p. 328. l. 25. r. Wyndesore Some other literal Mistakes and false Pointing have happen'd which the Reader may eaâ—â—â—y perceive and correct A BENEDICTINE MONK Place this y e following plates according to y e pages in y e mergin Vol. 1. P. 1. MONASTICON ANGLICANUM Abridg'd in English VOL. I. Of the BENEDICTINE Order The Monastery at GLASTONBURY in Somersetshire IN the 31th year after our Saviour's Passion twelve Disciples of St. Philip the Apostle among whom Ioseph of Arimathea was one came to this place and preacht the Christian Religion to King Arviragus They obtained of that King the Ground where the Monastery afterwards stood and twelve Hides of Land and built there the first Church of the Kingdom in a poor and homely manner They lived here in a kind of heremitical life and converted many Pagans to the Faith of Christ. After they were all dead and here buried the holy men Phaganus and Diruvianus having baptized King Lucius obtained this place of that King and for a great while they and their Successors remained here in a kind of Society consisting of twelve only till the arrival of St. Patrick who taught them the monastical Life and became himself their first Abbot Afterwards St. David Archbishop of Menevia now called St. David's added to the East-end of the Old Church a lesser Chappel in manner of a Chancel and consecrated it in honour of the Virgin Mary This Church for its Antiquity was by the old English call'd Ealdechirche and the Men of those days had no Oath more sacred and formidable than to swear by this Old Church And it was reverenced like Rome it self for as that became Famous for its multitude of Martyrs so did this for its multitude of Confessors here buried The Isle in which this Church stood was by the Britions call'd Ynswyrtryn i. e. the Isle of Glass from the clear and cristaline stream of Water which runs into the Marsh here It has been also called Avallonia By the Saxons it was named Glastynbury This Isle with several other places adjoyning were call'd the twelve Hides and did enjoy from the beginning very great Priviledges The Bounds of which twelve Hides may be seen in the Monasticon at large p. 2 3. These places there mentioned enjoyed all sorts of Immunities from the first beginning of Christianty in this Land confirm'd to the Church of Glastonbury by the British English and Norman Kings In this Church did rest and lie buried the twelve Disciples of the Apostle Philip above mentioned whose chief was Ioseph of Arimathea with his Son Iosephus Here also lies St. Patrick the Apostle of Ireland and two of his Disciples St. Gildas the British Historaographer St. David Archbishop of Menevia St. Dunstan Archbishop St. Indractus with his seven Companions all Martyrs St. Vrbanus the Bones of Venerable Bede with the 〈◊〉 of a great number of other Saints and holy Martyrs and Confeffors To recite all the Reliques that were in this Church would be two large for any Abridgement I only mention those of most note Several things relating to the Old Testament as Moses's Rod Manna c. things 〈◊〉 to our Lord Iesus Christ two small pieces of his Cradle some of the Gold which the Wise-men of the East offer'd some pieces of Bread of 〈…〉 Loaves with which Iesus fed five thousand men some of 〈…〉 some pieces of his Cross and of his Sepulchre one 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 of Thorns c. Things relating to the Virgin Mâ—ry 〈…〉 one thread of her Garment and some of her Hair ◠〈…〉 tude of Reliques relating to St. Iohn Baptist the 〈…〉 and Virgins On this account the Church of 〈…〉 verenced by Kings Queens Archbishops Bishops Dukes 〈…〉 lity of both Sexes and of all Orders and Degrees and 〈…〉 think himself who could give any thing to the increase 〈…〉 or could here obtain a place of Sepulture In this Isle which was call'd the Tomb of Saints was interr'd Coel King of the Britons Father of St. Helena Mother of Constantine the Great Caraducus Duke of Cornwall â—he renowned King Arthur and Guenevera his Queen which King died at Glastonbury about Whitsontide in the Year of our Lord 542. King Kentwynus King Edmund Son of Edward the Elder King Edgar King Edmund Ironside with several Bishops and Dukes who were great Benefactors to this House and many other Great men In so great Reverence was the Church and Church-yard where these were interr'd that our forefathers did not dare to use any idle discourse or to spit therein without great necessity enemies and naughty men were not suffer'd to be buried therein neither did any bring any Hawk Dog or Horse upon the Ground for
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
the Authority of Pope Alexander King Henry the II. and Richard Archbishop of Canterbury Which King Henry the II. gave to the said Nunnery of Font Everard this Church as a Cell with many other Lands and great Liberties all which were confirm'd by King Iohn in the first year of his Reign with a Gift of 50 s. per Annum out of the Exchequer for ever in the fifth year of his Reign Vid. 2. Vol p. 868. Valued at 495 l. 15 s. 2 d. per Annum MIDLETON in Dorsetshire KING Athelstan having upon false accusations unjustly banisht his youngest Brother Edwyn and put him to Sea in an old Vessel without either Sails or Oars where he was drown'd and being afterwards extream penitent he built and endowed here a Church and Monastery in honour of St. Mary and St. Sampson the Archbishop and stored it with Black Monks for the Soul of his said Brother Edwyn He also purchased from Rome and other places beyond the Seas several holy Reliques and gave them to this Monastery as a piece of our Saviour's Cross a Great Cross composed of Gold Silver and precious Stones the Arm and several Bones of St. Sampson the Archbishop c. King Athelstan's Charter of Endowment bears date in the year 843. and was exemplified and confirm'd by King Henry the II. The same Founder built another Monastery on the same occasion at a place called Michel in Dorsetshire Valued at 578 l. 13 s. 11 d. ob per Annum POLESWORTH in Warwickshire EGbert King of the West Saxons built here a Nunnery and made his Daughter Edith the first Abbess there King William the Conqueror gave this Estate to a Favourite of his called Sir Robert Marmyon whose chief Seat was at the Neighbouring Castle of Tamworth he expell'd the Nuns for a while but not long after restored them again to their old Estate and was reputed their Founder The Nuns of Polesworth had a Cell at Olbury which was given to their Monastery by Walter de Hastings and confirm'd to them by Roger Bishop of Chester then the same Diocess with Coventry and Litchfield and others Valued at 87 l. 13 s. 3 d. per Annum St. WERBURGS at Chester THE holy Virgin Werburg was Daughter of Wulfer King of Mercia and Ermenilda his Wife She lived and died in a Monastery at Chester which had been built of old time for the Habitation of Nuns but after the Conquest Hugh Earl of Chester placed Monks there The Monastery was built by King Edgar in the year 858. Hugh Earl of Chester having establisht Monks here endow'd the Foundation with great Revenues his Barons also giving very liberally to the same whose Charter bears date Anno Dom. 1093. The Particulars given may be seen in the Monasticon at large p. 201. 202. See more of this House p. 985. Valued at 1003 l. 5 s. 11 d. per Annum ATHELING in Somersetshire KING Elfred being driven out of his Kingdom by the Danes conceal'd himself for some time in this place then compast about with Marishes and Water that it was inaccessable but with a Boat Upon his restoration he built here a Church and Monastery His Charter of Endowment bears date Anno Dom. 878. About the same time that King Elfred founded this Monastery for Monks he founded another for Nuns at Shaftesbury Valued at 209 l. 0 s. 3 d. q. per Annum PERSHORE in Worcestershire THE Monastery here was built in the time of King Edgar by Duke Egelwardus but the greatest part of its Estate was in after-time transferred by King Edward and King William to Westminster Others say it was founded about the year 604. by Oswald Nephew of King Athelred Oswald did at first place here secular Canons which were after changed to Monks then Canons restored and then Monks once again introduced by King Edgar Anno Dom. 1223. there happened a grievous fire here and the Monks for some time having left the place their Estate was usurpt by the Monks of Westminster The Deeds and Charters of Priviledges of this House being burnt Witnesses were examined and made several Depositions of the ancient Liberties and Customs used and of right belonging to this Monastery which may be seen in the Monasticon at large Valued at 643 l. 4 s. 5 d. per Annum HIDE in Dampshire THIS is otherwise called the new Monastery at Winchester and was designed by King Elfred but built after his death by his Son King Edward who placed therein secular Canons under the Rule of a holy man call'd Grimbaldus This new Monastery being at first built within the City close to the Cathedral Church was on the account of several inconveniencies in the Scituation removed in the year 1121. to the place called Hide Great was the Revenue given to this Monastery and many the Benefactors besides the Founder as King Athelstan King Edmund King Edred King Edgar who expell'd the Canons and placed Monks here King Edmund Ironside Edward the Confessor William the Conqueror Henry 1. and Maud his Queen c. But this House was not without its misfortunes William the Conqueror at his first coming finding the Abbot and twelve of his Monks in arms against him seiz'd upon their Estate and held it from them almost two years And in the Reign of King Stephen Henry then Bishop of Winchester committed such extortions upon the Monks here that he got from them almost all their Church Plate and was so oppressive that of forty Monks there remain'd but ten in the House King Edgars Diploma to this House was written in Letters of Gold and dated Anno Dom. 966. The Priviledges of this House were agreed and settled between William Bishop of Winchester and Gaufridus Abbot here An. Dom. 1110. Valued at 865 l. 18 s. 0 d. ob q. per Annum WINCHESTER Monastery of Nuns ABout the year 903. Alswitha Wife of King Alfred began the Foundation of a Nunnery at Winchester which was after her death compleated by her Son King Edward the Elder Valued at 179 l. 7 s. 2 d. per Annum St. PETROCUS at Bodmin in Cornwall KING Athelstan was the first Founder of this Monastery for Monks which after the Conquest came into the Crown but was purchased by Alganus and stored with Canons regular St. GERMAINS in Cornwall KING Athelstan founded a Monastery here which at that time was the Seat of a Bishop but was afterwards removed by King Edward the Confessor from hence to Exeter Bartholonew Bishop of Exeter introduced into this Church by the King's Authority Canons Regular eight in number and a Prior. Valued at 243 l. 8 s. per Annum SHAFTESBURY in Dorsetshire KING Elfred built this Town in the year 880. Elgiva Wife of Edmund great Grand-child of the said Elfred built here a Monastery for Nuns King Edward the younger commonly called St. Edward the Martyr murder'd by his Mother-in-Laws procurement was here interr'd on which account this Church was afterwards call'd by his name Benefactors to this House were King Edmund King
Suburbs lying without the City of York to hold freely for ever And gave the Advowson of this Abby to the King that so he might be the Defendor and Patron of it for the future Thomas Archbishop of York claim'd the four Acres of Land on which this Abby was built as belonging to him and was a continual vexation to the Monks till King William Rufus gave him the Church of St. Steven's in York in exchange and full satisfaction When King William Rufus seeing the Old Church to be too strait laid the Foundation of a new one he changed the name of St. Olave and gave it the name of St. Mary King Henry the II. granted to this Abby very great Liberties and Franchises the same as are enjoy'd by St. Peters of York and St. Iohn of Beverley And confirmed to them all their Lands and Revenues given them by their several Benefactors amounting to a very great number some of the principal of whom were King William the I. and II. King Henry the I. Alan Earl of Britaign Odo Earl of Campania Berengerius de Todenei Willielmus Peverel Petrus de Ros Robertus de Brus Ivo Tallebois Walterus de Daincourt and Conan Earl of Britaigne c. In the year 1343. William Archbishop of York in his Visitation questioning by what Right and Title the Abbot and Covent here did claim and receive the Tithes Portions and Pensions from several places there mention'd amounting to a very great number they produced the Bulls of several Popes and Grants of his Predecessors Archbishops of York whereupon they were by the said Archbishop allow'd and their Title declared good and sufficient A List of some of the ABBOTS of St. Mary's at York 1088 Stephanus Wittebiensis 1112 Richardus 1131 Godfridus 1132 Sauaricus 1161 Clemens 1184 Robertus de Harpham 1189 Robertus de Longo-Campo 1239 Willielmus Rondele 1244 Thomas de Warterhill 1258 Simon de Warwick 1296 Benedictus de Malton 1303 Iohannes de Gillyngs 1313 Alanus de Nesse Vid. Vol. 3. p. 9. Valued at 1550 l. 7 s. 0 d. q. per Annum St. BEES or St. Beges in Cumberland a Cell of St. Mary's at York SAint Bega was a vailed Nun born in Ireland she built a small Monastery in Caupland in the furthermost parts of England not far from Carlile This Monastery together with several Lands and Tithes was afterwards in the Reign of King Henry the I. given to the Abby of St. Mary's at York by William Meschines Son of Ranulph Lord of Caupland for a Cell to that Abby which was to send hither a Prior and at least six Monks to be constantly here resident To this House also William Forz Earl of Albemarl was a Benefactor Valued at 143 l. 17 s. 2 d. ob per Annum WETHERHAL in Cumberland a Cell to St. Mary's at York AT the time of the Foundation of St. Mary's at York Radulph Meschines Earl of Cumberland gave the Cell of St. Constantine at Wedderhal to the said Abby of St. Mary's which guift was confirm'd by King William the Conqueror in the last year of his Reign Or rather by King William Rufus in the first of his Benefactors to this House were David King of Scotland and Earl of Huntington and his Son Henry Prince of Scotland with divers others Adelwald or Athelwulph who was the first Bishop of Carlile confirm'd to the Monks of St. Mary's at York the Churches and Tithes to them given in his Diocess Providing however that the said Monks shall allot a sufficient proportion out of the same for the Priests in the several Churches and that they should also pay the Synodals King William the Conqueror upon his Conquest of this Kingdom gave to Ralph de Meschines the County of Cumberland to his Brother Hugh de Meschines the County of Chester and to a third Brother William de Meschines who founded this House at Wetherhal all the Land of Copland lying between Duden and Darwent Which Great men soon after subdivided and parcell'd out their respective Territories so given to certain Barons and Knights their Dependents viz. Ralph de Melchines enfeofft Hubert de Vaux of the Barony of Gillesland c. William de Meschines Lord of Copland enfeofft Waldeuus Son of Cospatrick of all his Land between Cocar and Derwent c. These chief Lords reserving from their Feoffees certain services in like manner as they themselves held their Estates by some services of the King Yet were Lands often granted to the Monasteries to hold free from all services whatsoever except the Divine Service of Prayers for their Founders c. And note That after this manner were Lands and Liberties first derived from the Crown and Tenures raised in relation to them since the Norman Conquest Valued at 117 l. 11 s. 10 d. ob q. per Annum St. MARTINS at Richmund a Cell to St. Mary's at York WYmar Sewer to the Earl of Richmund gave the Chappel of St. Martins at Richmund and with several Lands to God and the blessed Mary at York Roaldus Grandson of Alan Constable of Richmund and divers others were Benefactors and gave Lands and Tithes to God the Church of St. Mary at York and Priory of St. Martins near Richmund and to the Monks there In the year 1146. Pope Eugenius the III. confirmed the Cell of St. Martins Peter Capell Rector of the Church of Richmund granted a Pension of 5 l. per Annum to the Monks of St. Mary's at York and 20 l. of Wax to their Cell of St. Martins of Richmund yearly The several Rents and Revenues of this House where and from whom they arise may be seen in the Book at large p. 402 403. Valued at 43 l. 16 s. 8 d. per Annum ROMBURGH in Cambridgeshire a Cell to St. Mary's at York ALan otherwise as I suppose called Steven Earl of Britany and Richmond gave the Cell of Romburgh to God St. Mary and the Monks of the Abby at York which Gift was confirm'd to them by Everard Bishop of Norwich and that the Abbot and Convent of St. Mary's at York might place and displace the Prior and Monks at their pleasure The like Confirmations were granted by Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury and Gaufridus Bishop of Ely SANTOFT and HENES in Lincolnshire Cells of St. Mary's at York ROger Moubray gave the Isle called Santoft and large Possessions with it for a Cell to the Church of St. Mary's at York and to the Monks there And William Earl of Waren gave Henes to the said Church HEREFORD Priory a Cell of St. Peter's at Gloucester IN the year 1101. Hugo de Lacy gave the Church of St. Peters at Hereford which his Father Walter had built from the Foundation to the Monks of St. Peters at Gloucester with all the Estate belonging to it given by his said Father Walâ—er de Lacy and Confirm'd by King William the Conqueror In the Reign of King Edward the II. great Contests arising in this House between William de Irby who claim'd to be
Prior under the Kings Patronage and Thomas de Burgâ—ull who claim'd under another Title the Estate of the Priory was so wasted and impoverisht betwixt them that there did not remain sufficient to discharge the Works of Piety for which it was at first built and the House running to utter ruin that King therefore to prevent its final destruction in the fifteenth year of his Reign directed his Writ to the Sheriff of Hereford commanding him to seize the said Priory with all its Possessions as well moveable as immoveable into his hand and them safely to keep until further Order NORWICH in Norfolk THE Church of the holy Trinity in Norwich was founded in the Reign of King William Rufus An Dom. 1096. by Herbert Losenge who had been Prior of Fischampe in Normandy then Abbot of Ramsey and then Bishop of the East-Angles of which Diocess he fixt the Seat at Norwich and built this Church for his Cathedral erecting on the North-side of it his own Palace and on the South-side a Monastery for Monks Certain Limits were appointed about this Church and Monastery within which Bishop Herbert obtain'd great Priviledges and Franchise from both Regal and Papal Authority Notwithstanding which great Contests arose between the Citizens and the Monks about their Liberties which continued for many years and were never perfectly compos'd till the sixth year of King Iohn The said Bishop Herbert endow'd this Monastery so founded by him with large Revenues as appears by his Deed dated An. Dom. 1101. King Henry the I. confirm'd his Gift and also gave them other Lands in the same year King Henry the II. also made a large Confirmation of all their Lands and Liberties Vid. infra p. 1003. and Vol. 3. p. 5. EWYAS Priory in Herefordshire THIS Priory was founded and endow'd by Harald Lord of Ewyas An. Dom. 1100. whose Gift was afterwards confirm'd by Robert his Son who also gave other Lands all which was also confirm'd by Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury and Iohn Bishop of Salsbury MIDLESBURG in Yorkshire a Cell to Whitby RObert de Brus and Agnes his Wife and Adam de Brus their Son gave the Church of St. Hylda in Midlesburg and with it divers Lands in perpetual Alms to the Monks of St. Peter and St. Hilda at Whitby for a Cell of that House and that certain of those Monks might live and reside here for God's service in the Church of Midlesburg William Malebiss was also a Benefactor to the Church of St. Hylda at Midlesburg and the Monks there HAKENES in Yorkshire IN the Reign of King William Rufus the Monastery of Whitby being much infested not only by robbers from the Woods on the Land but also by Pirates from the Sea who carried from them almost all they had Serlo de Percy then Prior of that House and his Monks applied themselves to William de Percy Brother of Serlo and desired of him a place of Refuge at Hakenes who readily granted them the Church of St. Mary in that Town which had been built by St. Hildo the Abbess with License to erect a Monastery there and in it to remain till they could return in peace to Whitby which accordingly they did and remain'd here for some time HORSHAM in Norfolk RObert Fitz-Walter and Sibill his Wife returning through France from Rome where they had been in Pilgrimage were set upon by Theives robb'd and kept in Prison till by their Prayers to Almighty God and to the holy Virgin St. Faith they were miraculously deliver'd out of their Confinement After which they visited in Devotion the Shrine of St. Faith at the Abby of Couches in France where for the space of twelve days they remain'd being kindly entertain'd by the Abbot and Convent there Vowing at their return into England to their own Mannor to built there a Monastery in the Worship of God and St. Faith Which accordingly they did endowing the same with Lands and placing therein two Monks of the Abby of Couches to which Abby they annext this House as a Cell Their Deed of Foundation and Endowment was made in the time of Henry the I. and Herbert Bishop of Norwich who died 19. H. 1. Pope Alexander by his Bull dated in the year 1163. confirm'd to the Monks here all their Lands and Liberties In the 14. Rich. 2. this Priory was discharged of its Foreign Subjection to the Abby of Couches and made an English Priory of it self Valued at 162 l. 16 s. 11 d. ob per Annum RADINGFEILD in Suffolk THIS was a Priory of Nuns founded to the honour of God and St. Andrew by Manasses Earl of Gisnensis and Emme his Wiâ—es Daughter and Heir of William de Arras and endow'd by them with the Mannor of Radingfeild c. late held by the said William de Arras their Deed bears date 1120. Valued at 67 l. 0 s. 1 d. ob per Annum READING in Barkshire 〈…〉 of Nuns But that having been 〈…〉 Henry the I. An. Dom. 1126. built here a most noble Abby for Monks and dedicated it in honour of the Virgin Mary and St. Iohn Baptist and endow'd it with great Possessions and Franchises as may be seen in his Charter dated 1125. all which was confirm'd by King Hen. 2. Hugh Abbot of Reading and his Covent reciting by their Deed that King Henry the I. had â—rected that Abby for the maintenance of Monks there devoutely and religiously serving God â—for the receit of Strangers and Travellers but chiefly Christ's poor People they therefore did erect an Hospital without the Gate of the Abby there to maintain twenty six poor People and to the maintenance of Strangers passing that way they gave the profits of their Mill at Leominstre Also Aucâ—erius Abbot of Reading built near this Abby a House for Lepers which was call'd St. Mary Magdalens alloting for their sustenance sufficient of all things as well for Diet as other matters If any Brother of this House were guilty of Adultery or of striking his Brother in Pride Anger or Hatred he was to be expell'd the House none were to go abroad without a Companion what Charity happens to be given to any one to be common to all these and several others were the Rules observed in the Lepers House of St. Mary Magdalen Valued at 1938 l. 14 s. 3 d. ob q. per Annum LEOMINSTER in Herefordshire a Cell to Reading HERE was formerly a Nunnery built by Merwald one of the Kings of Mercia but that having been long destroy'd by the Danes King Henry the I. when he built the Abby of Reading gave them also Leominster with all the Estate belonging to it and those Monks made it a Cell of their Abby It was confirm'd to them by Richard and Hugh Bishops of Hereford RINDELGROS in Scotland a Cell to Reading DAvid King of Scotland gave this Town to the Abbot and Covent of Reading to have and enjoy as freely and quiety as any Abby in his Kingdom enjoy their Estates With a Provision that if he or his
Religious Houses viz. under the value of 200 l. per Annum hath these Words Forasmuh as manifest sin is dayly used and commonlycommitted in such little and small Abbies and Priories c. where the Congregation of such religious Persons is under the number of twelve persons c. Considering also that divers and great solemn Monasteries of this Realm wherein thanks be to God Religiou is well kept and observed be destitute of such full numbers of religious Persons as they might and may keep c. Therefore the said lesser Monasteries were dissolved and their Lands given to the King Sir Edward Coke in his 4th Institut p. 44. says In the Reign of Henry the VIII the Members of both Houses of Parliament were informedâ— on the King's behalf That no King or Kingdom was safe but where the King had ability to live of his own and to defend his Kingdom upon any sudden Invasion or Insurrection c. It was therefore projected that if the Parliament would give unto him all the Abbies Priories Nunneries c. that for ever in time then to come he would take order that the same should not be converted to private use but first that his Exchequer for the Purposes aforesaid should be enriched 2dly The Kingdom strengthened by a continual maintenance of forty thousand well trained Souldiers with skillful Captains and Commanders 3dly for the Benefit and Ease of the Subject who should never afterwards in any time to come be charged with Subsidies Fifteenths Loans or other common Aides 4thly Least the honour of the Realm should receive any diminution there being nine and twenty Lords of Parliament among the Abbots and Priors who held of the King per Baroniam the King would create a number of Nobles The said Monasteries and their Possessions were given to the King his Heirs and Successors Now observe the Catastrophe not long after the dissolution of the Monasteries the said King demanded and had two Subsidies and exacted divers Loans There were in the Reign of Henry the VIII 645. Monasteries and Religious Houses forty of which being granted to Cardinal Wolsey for the Endowment of his two Colledges Soon after as the Pope had given these to the Cardinal the King with the Parliaments assent took the rest An. 1536. those under 200 l. per Annum were granted amounting to 376 and soon after the Remainder being in all 605 Monasteries Besides them were given 96 Colledges 110 Hospitals and 2374 Chantries and free Chappell 's The Revenue of all which is wisht to have been bestow'd for the Advancement of the Church Relief of the Poor c. rather than conferr'd with such a prodigal Dispensation on those who stood ready to devour what was sanctified To this purpose one Henry Brinklow a Merchant of London made a Complaint to the Parliament of the Abuse that follow'd in relation to Appropriations which as he said were the best Benifices and did amount to the third part of all the Parish Churches in England Touching the Alms says he that they dealt and the Hospitality that they kept every man knoweth that many thousands were well received of them and might have been better if they had not so many Great mens Horses to feed and had not been overcharged with such idle Gentlemen as were never out of the Abbies But now that all the Abbies with their Lands and Impropriated Parsonages are in Temporal mens hands where 20 l was given formerly to the poor yearly in more than one hundred places in England is not one meals meat given where they had always one or other Vicar that either preached or hired some to preach now there is no Vicar at all but the Farmer is Vicar and Parson too The Lord Herbert in his History of Hen. VIII says That the King was petition'd that some of the Houses both for the Vertue of the Persons in them and for the Benefit of the Country the Poor receiving thence great Relief and the richer sort good Education for their Children might be left for pious Uses Bishop Latimer also moved that two or three might for those ends be left in every Shire But Cromwell by the King's permission invaded all However the King thought fit to have this Proceeding confirm'd by Act of Parliament But the Christian World says my Lord Herbert was astonisht at these doings Beside the Houses and Lands taken away there was much mony made of the present Stock of Cattle and Corn of the Timber Lead Bells c. and chiefly of the Plate and Church Ornaments which is not valued but may be conjectured by that one Monastery of St. Edmunds Bury whence was taken five thousand Marks of Gold and Silver besides divers Stones of great Value The End of the First Volum MONASTICON ANGLICANUM ABRIDGED VOL. II. OF THE Canons Regular Of St. AVGVSTIN HOSPITALERS TEMPLARS GILBERTINES PRAEMONSTRATENSES and MATURINS or TRINITARIANS OF THE ORIGINAL OF CANONS OF the Author of this Institution there is great variety of Opinion Some ascribe it to the Aportles others to Pope Urban the I. about the year of Christ 230. Others to St Augustine Others to Pope Gelasius the I. about the year 495. c. Canons were first introduced in England by one Berinus An. Christi 636. The Canonical Life being by little and little relaxt and fallen off Canonical Clerks were in the Council of Mentz An. 813. reduced back to their first manner of living viz. to live in Common to have but one Table one Purse and one Dormitory About An. 1083 it was enjoyn'd that no Canon should dare to become an Abbot or Monk under the penalty of Excommunication In process of time Canons becoming loose and disorderly another sort of Canone began to be taken notice of who observing a stricter Discipline were call'd Canons Regular and the others Canons Secular The Canons Habit is a white Tunick with a Linnen Goâ—â— under a black Cloak St. Iames the Apostle and the first Bishop of Ierussaem is said first to have assumed the Linnen Tunick after the manner of the ancient Levitical Priests This Order had formerly in Europe four thousand five hundred and fifty five Monasteries In Italy seven hundred Popes of this Order there have been thirty six Cardinals three hundred Holy men and such who have been reckon'd in the Catologue of Saine seven thousand five hundred For the Canons of this Order were made three Rules The first Rule which St. Augustin made for his Brethren who promised to live together in Common consists of nine Chapters and treats of the Community of Goods Self-denial c. The second Rule of St. Augustin appoints the manner and time of Praying Singing Reading Working Living and Conversing and consists of Five Chapters The third Rule of St. Augustin treats more largely of those things which appertain to the Community of living among Clerks and consists of Forty Five Chapters A CANNON REGVLAR OF S t AVGVSTINE Vol. 2. p 1. MONASTICON ANGLICANUM Vol. II. Of
Annum WIRKSOP in Nottinghamshire FOunded and endowed by William de Lovetot 3 Hen. 1. and dedicated to God and St. Cuthbert Which Estate was confirm'd and encreased by his Heirs Pope Alexander the III. by his Bull dated An. Dom. 1161. confirm'd the Estate of the Canons here and granted them divers Priviledges as to pay no Tithes for the Cattle and Lands in their own occupation to present Priests from among their own Brethren to the Bishop to be instituted to the Parish Churches which they hold who shall be answerable to the Bishop for the Cure of the People and to the Priory for the Profit of the Livings to have a Caemitary free for the burial of such as desire to be buried with them saving the Rights and Dues of the Parish Churches from whence the dead are brought and to celebrate the Divine Offices privately in the time of a general Interdict Their Lands and Liberties were also confirm'd by King Hen. II. Vid. infra 937. Valued at 239 l. 10 s. 5 d. per Annum FELLEY in Nottinghamshire THIS was a Cell belonging to Wyrksop alias Radeford given to that House by Radulphus de Annesley and Reinold his Son An Dom. 1152. 2. H. 2. In the year 1343. William Archbishop of York appropriated the Church of Adingburgh to this Priory of Felley for the encrease of four Canons more there being but five before so that for the future there should be nine of which one to be Prior reserving out of the Fruits and Profits of the said Church a sufficient subsistance for a perpetual Vicar which Vicar was to be presented by the Prior and Canons of this Monastery Valued at 40 l. 19 s. 1 d. per Annum LANTHONY in Wales after Translated to Gloucester HERE was of old time a small Chappel of St. David in a very solitary place where a Knight called William belonging to the Family of Hugh de Lacy forsaking the World led an Heremitical Life whose eminent Fame for Holiness drew to him one Ernisius Chaplain to Queen Maud Wife of King Henry the I. who became his associate in his Devotions and Austerity this was An. Dom. 1103. under the Reign of King Henry the I. In the year 1108. they erected here a mean Church which was dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist by the Bishop of that Diocess and the Bishop of Hereford Of these two Heremits Hugh de Lacy became a Protector and Benefactor After some time these two through the Advice and Approbation of Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury were willing to encrease their number and to alter their poor House from a Heremits Cell to be a Monastery and they chose from all the Religious Orders then in being that of the Canons Regular A certain number of Canons were thereupon assembled from the Monasteries of Mereton the holy Trinity at London and Colchester and establisht here at Lanthony over whom the foresaid Ernisius was made Prior the number of Canons being about that time forty or more And many their Benefactors besides Hugh de Lacy who conferr'd on them more Revenues than they were willing to receive Walter the Constable being the chief Officer in the King's Court and one of the Greatest Men of the Kingdom took on him a Religious Habit and spent the remainder of his days in this House On the death of Ernisius Robert de Retun was chosen Prior but he being afterwards made Bishop of Hereford Robert de Braci was chosen to succeed him After the death of Henry the I. the Canons of this House were much afflicted and disturb'd in their Possessions here whereupon Milo Earl of Hereford the Kings Constable and Son of that Walter who became a Religious man among the Canons gave them a piece of Ground without the Walls of Gloucester for a new Seat here they built a new Church which in the year 1136. was solemnly dedicated by the Bishops of Worcester and Hereford in honour of the blessed Mary yet still this House retain'd the name of Lanthony After this Robert de Braci died and was buried in the new Monastery at Gloucester to whom succeeded William de Wycumb And now it was that by Papal Authority the Church of St. Mary at Gloucester was confirm'd as a Cell to that of St. Iohn Baptist at Lanthony However the Canons being better pleased with their new Habitation which was much braver and richer than their old Seat in Wales chose to inhabit at Gloucester removing and spoiling what they had at Lanthony They became also very licentious in their way of living During this William their Prior falling into Troubles and Vexation as well with the Canons of his own House as Roger Earl of Hereford the Patron was forced to resign his Office to whom succeeded Clement the Sub-prior This man reform'd the Abuses that were in the Monastery especially as to the Church Service From the aforenamed Milo Earl of Hereford descended by an Heir General the Noble Family of Bohuns Earl of Northampton Hereford and Essex who by reason thereof were Patrons of this Monastery The first Founder Hugh de Lacy came into England with the Conqueror but died without issue and his Inheritance went to his two Sisters from whom are descended divers Noble Families of which Descents see the Book at large King Iohn in the first year of his Reign recited and confirm'd to the Canons of Lanthony the several Lands and Revenues given them by their Benefactors The like did King Edward the II. in his eighteenth year King Edward the IV. in the one and twentieth year of his Reign gave the Priory of Lanthony and all the Lands c. belonging to the same to Henry Deen then Prior of the Priory of the blessed Mary of Lanthony at Gloucester and to the Canons there to be consolidated and united thereunto for ever providing that the Prior and Canons at Gloucester shall for the future maintain at Lanthony one Prior dative and removeable at will with four Canons to celebrate Masses and other Divine Offices there for ever if not hindred by Rebels and Wars Valued at 648 l. 19 s. 11 d. per Annum CARLILE in Cumberland KING Henry the I. gave the Churches of New-Castle upon Tyne and Newbourne to the Canons of St. Mary of Carlile Besides that King the King of Scotland and many others were Benefactors all whose Gifts were confirm'd by King Henry the II. And others given by King Edward the I. and II. Valued at 418 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum DUNMOW in Essex THE Church here was built in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary by Iuga Baynard Lady of little Dunmow whose Son and Heir Golfridus Baynard by the assent of Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury placed Canons herein An. Dom. 1106. The Estate here and that at Castle Baynard in London being forfeited by William Baynard An. 1111. was given by King Henry to Robert Grandson of Gilbert Earl of Clare whose issue became Patrons of this House till in the year 1216. Robert Fitz-Walter
refusing to consent to King Iohn's unlawful love to his Daughter Matilda the Fair that King seized upon his Estate and Barony and his Castle of Baynard at London and Matilda who was then here at Dunmow not admitting the Kings Suit was poison'd in a mess of Broth. These things occasioned the Barons Wars which after a while were again composed and Robert Fitz-Walter restored to his Barony and the Kings Favour as formerly An. 1268. Iohn Prior of this Church was suspended and the Conventual Church interdicted because his tenth was unpaid the space of four days but Appeal being made the Suspension was denied and disowned Priors of DUNMOW 〈◊〉 ob 1120. 〈◊〉 ob 1163. 〈◊〉 ob 1179. 〈◊〉 ob 1208. 〈◊〉 ob 1219. Willielmus ob 1221. Thomas ob 1238. Iohannes Pateford ob 1245. Hugo de Steveinheth ob 1246. Edmundus ob 1247. Galfridus ob 1248. Iohannes de Codham ob 1270. Hugo de Posslington Cessit 1279. Richardus de Wicham Stephanus de Noble ob 1312. Robertus 10 August 1502. The Bells in the Steeple at Dunmow were consecrated the first in honour of St. Michael the second in honour of St. Iohn Evangelist the third in honour of St. Iohn Baptist the fourth in honour of the Assumption of the blessed Mary the fifth in honour of the Holy Trinity and all Saints Here was an ancient Custom continued till the dissolution of this Priory that if any married man would come and take his Oath before the Prior and Convent kneeling in the Church-yard upon two hard pointed Stones That he never repented of his marriage nor had any brawls or contention with his Wife within a year and a day nor ever made any nuptial Transgression in that time then he was to have delivered to him with great Solemnity a Gammon or Flitch of Bacon The Records of the House mention three People that have performed this Steven Samuel of Essex 7 E. 4. Richard Wright of Norfolk 23 H. 6. and Thomas le Fuller of Essex 2 H. 8. Valued at 150 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum The Priory of the Holy Trinity in London THIS Church was founded by Richard Beumeys Bishop of London and as it seems then called Christ-Church who placed herein many Canons Maud Wife of King Steven David King of Scots and many others gave Lands to this Priory King Henry the I. gave to these Canons of the holy Trinity the Soke called Cnihtengild and the Church of St. Butulph with Soc and Sac Tol and Theam c. King Henry the III. in the eleventh of his Reign recited and confirm'd the several Lands and Revenues given to this Priory in which Deed he mentions Queen Maud Wife of King Henry the I. to be the Foundress of this House TAUNTON in Somersetshire IT was found by Inquisition An. 10. E. 2. that this Monastery was founded by William Gifford Bishop of Winchester on a piece of Ground on the North-side of the Town of Taunton without the East-Gate Among other of their Benefactors was William de Monteacuto Earl of Salisbury who granted to the Canons here the Mannor and Hundred of Dulverton cum pertin to hold in Fee-farm at the yearly Rent of 10 l. Which demise is dated in the Chapter of the Priory of Taunton 11. E. 3. Valued at 286 l. 8 s. 10 d. per Annum HASTINGS in Sussex THIS Priory was erected here by one Sir Walter Bricet a Knight and dedicated to the holy Trinity But by reason of the Inundation of the Sea the Canons were not able to remain here whereupon Sir Iohn Pelham Knight by License of King Henry the IV. founded for them another Church and Habitation at Warbilton towards the Support of which the said King Henry the IV. in the fourteenth year of his Reign granted the Mannor of Withiam then valued at 25 l. 5 s. 5 d. per Annum for twenty years which Estate was part of the Possessions of Morteyn an alien Priory at that time â—eized into the King's hands by reason of his Wars with France Valued at 51 l. 9 s. 5 d. ob per Annum St. MARY-OVERIE in Southwark FOunded by William Gifford Bishop of Winchester who here instituted Secular Canons divers of the Family of the Earls of Warren and of the Moubrays were Benefactors to his Priory King Steven gave the Canons here then Regulars the tenth of his Farm of Southwark Cicely Countess of Hereford gave them her Lands at Ketebrok confirm'd by King Iohn Vid. infra 940. Valued at 624 l 6 s. 6 d. per Annum BRISET in Suffolk THIS Priory was sounded in time of Herbert Bishop of Norwich by Radulphus Fitz-Brian and Emme his Wife to God St. Mary and the holy Confessor St. Leonard Which Founders endow'd it with divers Lands and Tithes among which was the Tithes of Smithfield at London From this Radulph Fitz-Bryan descended Almaricus Peche who confirm'd all his Ancestors Donations to this House Walter Bishop of Norwich granted to this Almaric Peche to have a Chantery in his Chappel at Briset but that the Chaplain at his first admittance should make Oath in presence of the Prior or his Procurator inspectis sacrosanctis Evangeliis that he would pay over all the Oblations which he should receive in the said Chappel to the Mother Church and that he should not admit any Parishoner of the Mother Church to any Sacrament unless in imminent peril of death and in sign of subjection to the Mother Church that the said Almaric and all his Family should repair thither to the Great Mass on five days yearly viz. Christmass day Easter-day Whitsunday the Assumption of the glorious Virgin and St. Leonards-day CIRENCESTER in Gloucestershire KING Henry the I. founded this Priory by the Consent and Authothority of Pope Innocent and by the Council and common Applause of the Archbishops and Bishops Princes and Barons of the Kingdom endowed it with divers Lands and Revenues as well in the Town of Cirencester and County of Gloucester as in Wiltshire Somersetshire Dorsetshire Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire also with the Liberties of Soc and Sac Toll and Theam c. Whose Royal Grant bears date A. D. 1133. King Iohn was also a Benefactor to this House Valued at 1051 l. 7 s. 1 d. per Annum HEXHAM or Hagustald in Northumberland THIS Town situate on the South Banks of Tine was of old time magnificent and great and made a Bishops Seat by the blessed Wilfrid in the year 674. and so it continued for above one hundred and forty four years under the Government of twelve Bishops successively viz. 1. Wilfridus 2. Eata 3. Tunbertus 4. Iohn 5. St. Acca 6 Fredbertus 7. St. Alcmundus 8. Tilbertus 9. Ethelbertus 10. Eadfredus 11. Osbertus 12. Tydferdus after which it ceased to be govern'd by a Bishop of its own The Bishop of Durham exercising Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction here till in the Reign of King Henry the 1. it was given to the See of Tork In the year 1113. Thomas then
this place The said Wulfric died An. 1154. KENILWORTH in Warwickshire GAlfridus de Clinton Chamberlain to King Henry the I. sounded this Church for Canons Regular in honour of St. Mary to whom he gave all his Lands at Kenilworth except what he had retain'd to his Castle and for making a Park with many other Lands and Liberties all which he enjoyn'd his Heir to observe and not to violate on pain of his Curse and God's Wrath. Gaufridus his Son confirm'd his Father's Gifts and granted them Tithes of all manner of Provisions whatsoever that came to his Castle of Killingworth Henry his Son made the like Confirmation and granted still moreâ— King Henry the I. recited and confirm'd all former Benefactions and granted the Canons here great Liberties and Immunities The like Confirmation was made by King Henry the II. Valued at 538 l. 19 s. per Annum STONE in Staffordshire WVlfer King of Mercia was Son and Successor to Penda a Pagan and Persecutor he after his Father's death became a Christian and married Ermenilda a Christian Lady Daughter of Exbert King of Kent by whom the had two Sons Wulfad and Ruffin and a Daughter named Werburg which two Sons being baptized by St. Cedda then a Hermit and by him privately instructed and incouraged in Christianity This did so offend their Father Wulfer who had apostatized from the Faith of Christ that finding them at Prayers at St. Cedd's Cell he killed them both with his own hands their Martyrdom happened on the 9th Calend. August This sad News being known to the Queen she caused their Bodies to be inclosed in a Stone Monument and in process of time a Church to be erected in the place where they were martyr'd Wulfer the King being horribly tormented in mind could find no ease till he repair'd to St. Cedd who upon his repentance and contrition absolved him and enjoyn'd him for Pennance to suppress Idolatry throughout his Kingdom of Mercia and establish the Christian Religion This King hereupon built many Churches and Monasteries among others Peterborough Abby and in the place where the Martyrs suffered was erected a Colledge for Canons then called Stanes now Stone In after-times one of this House went to Rome as a Procurator from the rest and obtain'd from the Pope a Canonization for St. Wulfad and St. Ruffin In the time of the Normans Conquest one Robert Lord of Stafford from whom the Barons of Stafford did descend was chief Lord of this Place here did Inhabit at that time two Nuns and a Priest who were all slain by one Enysan de Walton after which Murther the abovesaid Robert by advice of Geffry de Clinton did Establish here Canons instead of Nuns Nicholas de Stafford Son of Robert gave this House as a Cell to Kenilworth King Henry the II. confirmed all the Benefactions The Church here was dedicated to St. Wulfad Valued at 119 l. 14 s. 11 d. per Annum BROKE in Rutland a Cell to Kenilworth HVgh de Ferrariis granted to the Canons of Kenilworth the Land of Broch with the Wood-ground and Essarts and this was by the assent of Walchelin his Nephew and William his Brother all which was confirm'd to the said Canons by King Henry the II. Valued at 40 l. per Annum LANERCOST in Cumberland THIS House dedicated to God and St. Mary Magdalen was founded and endowed with large Revenues by Robert de Vallibus Son of Hubert de Vallibus he granted to the Canons here inter alia Pasture and feeding in his Forest of Walton for thirty Cows and twenty Sows with all the Bark of his Timber-Trees in the Woods of his Barony with all all the dry Wood lying any where in his Forest for the support of their House The Church here was dedicated by Bernard Bishop of Carlile An. 1169. King Richard the I. confirm'd the several Lands c. given to the Canons of this Monastery The abovesaid Herbert de Vallibus was the first Baron of Gillesland which Barony went by a Daughter to the Name and Family of Multon and in like manner from them to the Family of Dacres Valued at 77 l. 7 s. 11 d. per Annum DUNSTABLE in Bedfordshire HEre was formerly a very Woody place just in the meeting of those two Royal Ways of Watling and Ickneld which made the Passage so unsafe and full of Thieves that there was hardly any Travelling King Henry the I. desirous to rectifie this caused the Woods to be cut up and a Royal Mansion to be built near the place which was called Kingsbury He also caused Proclamation all over the Kingdom that who ever would come and inhabit in that place should have Land for 12 d. an Acre per Annum and enjoy the same Liberties and Freedoms as the City of London doth or any other ancient Borough in the Kingdom by this means People flock'd hither and built the Town which from Dunning a noted Robber who used to rob here was named Dunningstable Besides the Liberties abovementioned this Town had two Markets weekly and a Fair at St. Peter ad Vincula for three days and a Gallows for Felons Within the Limits of this Borough that King erected a Church in honour of St. Peter and built a Monastery for Canons Regular to whom he gave the said Church and all the Borough with its Markets Fairs and Liberties retaining only in his own hands the Capital Mansion All which with the Grants of other Matters were afterwards confirm'd to them by King Hen. the II. and King Rich. the I. King Iohn did the like and granted them also his House of Kingsbury the said Canons had also a Court of Pleas there of their own Some of the Tenants held in Capite of the Abbot and some by Services to be done to the said Canons but all were Freemen Valued at 344 l. 13 s. 4 d. per Annum SUTHWIKE in Hantshire THIS Monastery was founded and endowed with divers Lands by King Henry the I. who granted them all sorts of Liberties and Freedom from Tributes Taxes and Exactions and that they should not be impleaded for any matter or thing unless in the presence of him or his Heirs Valued at 257 l. 4 s. 4 d. per Annum MERTON in Surrey FOunded by King Henry the I. An. 1121. and by him endowed with the Town of Merton belonging to his Crown and large Liberties Valued at 957 l. 19 s. 5 d. per Annum OSENEY near Oxford RObert de Oilley whose Uncle of the same name came into England with the Conquerour and obtained from him the Baronies of Oxford and St. Waleries founded this Priory for black Canons among the Isles made by the River Isis near Oxford It is said that his Wife Edith took occasion to incite her Husband to this Foundation from the constant assembling and chattering of certain Magpies in that place whenever she walkt our thither for her recreation The Church here dedicated to St. Mary was built An. 1129. Which said Robert endowed the Canons
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
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.
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
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
endow'd with the Mannour of Leystone The Advowson of this Abby coming to the Crown by the forfeiture of Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk King Richard II. An. 12. confirm'd to the Abbot and Convent of this House their Estate and granted them free Election of their Abbot that in time of Vacation neither he nor his heirs nor any of his or their Officers would seize the Temporalities nor intermeddle in the same nor should any Abbot and Convent of this House be ever compell'd to grant any Corody or Pension to any Person Vid. Vol. 3. p. 74. Valued at 181 l. 17 s. 1 d. per Annum BEAUCHIEF in Derbyshire RObert Fitz-Ranulf Lord of Alferton Norton and Marnham was one of these four Knights who martyr'd the Blessed Thomas Arch-Bishop oâ— Camesbury in explation of which Act he founded this Monastery of Bello Capite or Beauchef dedicated to St. Thomas the Martyr Thomas de Cadureis or Chaworth descended by an Heir General from the said Robert gave divers Lands to this House and confirm'd all the Gifts of his Ancestors King Edward II. An. 9. recited and confirm'd the Lands c. given to the Abbot and Canons of this House by their several Benefactors Valued at 126 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum BLANCLAND in Northumberland FOunded for twelve Canons of the Order of Premonstratenses by Walter de Bolebek and by him endow'd with divers Lands c. Valued at 40 l. 9 d. per Annum NEWBO in Lincolnshire FOunded and endow'd with Lands and Churches by Richard Malebisse Confirm'd by King Henry III. An. 9. Among other things the foresaid Richard gave the Canons of this House certain Lands in Estwisell held of Iohn de Lascy Earl of Lincoln by Ward Releif and Scurage c. all which Services the said Earl afterwards released and quit claim'd to these Canons in pure and perpetual almes Valued at 71 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob per Annum LAVINDENE in Buckinghamshire FOunded by Iohn Bidun and by him endow'd with divers Lands and Churches Ranulph Earl of Chester and Ralf de Bray with divers others were Benefactors all whose gifts were confirm'd to the Canons of the Church of St. Iohn Baptist at Lavindene by King Henry III. An. II. Valued at 79 l. 13 s. 8 d. per Annum WENDLYNG in Norfolk FOunded and endow'd with Lands c. by William de Wendlying in free and perpetual Almes Confirm'd by King Edward III. An. 6. And by Robert de Stuievill An. 1273. 1. Edward I. Valued at 55 l. 18 s. 4 d. per Annum HAGNEBY in Lincolnshire FOunded in honour of St. Thomas the Martyr Archbishop of Canterbury by the Lady Agnes de Orreby Wife of Herbert de Orreby An. 22. Henry the II. Richard Bishop of Lincoln 52 H. 3. and Philip de Kyme 4 E. 1. with divers others were Benefactors Valued at 87 l. 11 s. 4 d. per Annum STANLY Park commonly call'd Dale in Darbyshire IT is said that a certain Baker living in the Parish of St. Mary at Derby a man very Religious and a great Alms-giver was admonisht in a Vision to leave all that he had and betake himself to a solitary Life in a Place call'd Depedale which accordingly he did This was a Desert and Moorish place East from Derby near Stanley Radulsus Son of Geremundus Lord of the place accidentally discovering this Hermit in his poor Habitation as he was hunting and commiserating his Condition granted him the Soil where his Hermitage stood and also the Tith of his Mill of Burg for his maintenance The Daughter of this Radulfus was married to Serlo de Grendon Lord of Badeley to whom his Aunt and Godmother call'd The Gome of the Dale Gome in old English signified a Godmother gave Depedale These two astembled hither certain Canons from a Religious House at Kalke to whom they gave this Place where they built asumptious Church and Monastery which obtain'd from Rome ample Priviledges But these Canons becoming very relax in their Divine Offices and more given to hunting and the Pleasures of the Forrest than to the Church and Prayer for which being in danger to be removed they by way of Prevention refigned all they had here into the hands of their Patron and return'd to the place from whence they came except Humfrey their Prior who retired to a place call'd the Magdalen and became a Hermit But this House became not hereby desolate but afterwards rise to a greater degree of honour Ludit in adversis divina potentia rebus for after this there came hither six Canons of the Order of Praemenstratenses from Tupholme invited by the Patron But these also misbehaved themselves and were recall'd to Tupholme Hereupon William de Grendhom then Patron procured five other Canons of the fame Order from Welbeck These also after some time return'd back discouraged by excessive Poverty At last William Son of the foresaid Radulf with his Daughter Maud married to Ieffrey Sawcemere but childles and the foresaid William de Grendon the Patron his Sisters Son joyn'd together in making a Fair and sufficient Endowment of Lands to this House procuring nine Canons from Newhouse to whom they gave the Town and Park of Stanley the Dominion of Depedale with other Lands in Okebroke c. All which with their other Possessions given by other Benefactors were confirm'd to the Abbot and Canons of Stanlegh Park by King Henry the III. An. 19. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 72. Valued at 144 l. 12 s. per Annum LANGDONE in Kent a Cell to Leystone FOunded by William de Auberville and by him endow'd with the Town of Langedone and divers other Lands confirm'd by Simon de Albrinciis his chief Lord and Nicholas do Cryoll defcended of the foresaid William the Founder WEST-DERHAM in Norfolk FOunded by Hubert Dean of York for the good of his own Soul and the Souls of his Father and Mother and of Ranulph de Glanville and Bertra his Wife who brought him up He became afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury and endow'd this Abby with many Lands all which was confirm'd by King Iohn An. 1. who also granted to the Canons of this House very great Liberties and Immunities as to be quit from all Tolls throughout the Kingdom both for themselves and their men c. Valued at 228 l. ob per Annum BILEGH alias Maldone in Essex THE Canons of Perendune removed to Maldon An. Dom. 1180. Robert Mantell was their Founder King Richard the I. An. 1. confirm'd all their Lands and Revenues with the grant of Liberties Valued at 157 l. 16 s. 11 d. per Annum SULBY in Northamptonshire THIS Abby of St. Mary de Welleford afterwards call'd the Abby of Suleby was founded by William de Wideville King Richard the I. granted these Canons divers Immunities Robert de Pavily Knt. granted them his Mannor of Suleby to hold of the Abbot and Convent of Westminister being Lords of the Fee at the yearly Rent of 102 s. and of him the said Robert
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
Gospellaries and Epistollaries richly adorn'd with Silver Gold and precious Stones Jewells affixt to Shrines and Tombs of almost inestimable value Altar Cloaths and hangings very rich Copes of Tissue Damask and Velvet white red blew green purple and black with other Vestments of the same Colours Besides this there was a great Treasure in the Common Chest in Gold Chains collors of S S. c. with Sums of old Gold and Silver deposited in the years 1517 1518 1519 and 1520. HEREFORD Cathedral MIlefrid King of the Mercians built and endowed this Church and constituted a Bishop here this he did as a kind of expiation for the death of Ethelbert King of the East-Angels murdered by Offa King of Mercia and reputed a Saint and Martyr King Edward the Confessor granted Liberties to the Priests of this Church In the time of the said King Edward Walter then Bishop of this Church had one hundred Masuras wanting two each Masura contains about four Oxgangs of Land Robert Bishop here who succeeded the other found forty Hides of Land belonging to this See but all wasted The Canons of Hereford held many Mannors and Lands c. in right of their Church at the time of the Conquest as appears by Domesday-Book a true Copy whereof expressing the particulars in the several Hundreds where they lay is transcribed and printed * P. 182 183 184. the whole in the said Bishoprick amounting to 300 Hides of Land Ralph Bishop of Hereford granted to the Dean and Chapter of that Church all his Land of Hamme then valued at 15 l per Annum which he had lately purchased of Simon de Clifford to hold by the service of one Knights Fee and a half and the said Dean and Chapter granted to him to celebrate the Divine Offices on the day of his Obit yearly The Mannor of Hamme in which the said Land lay was given to the Prior and Convent of Crassewell by Walter de Lascy and by the Prior and Convent of Crassewell sold and convey'd to Peter de Aquablanca Bishop of Hereford and his Heirs for the Sum of five hundred Marks which Peter gave the said Mannor and several other good Gifts to the Church of Hereford King William the Conqueror restored to this Church divers Mannors unjustly taken from it by Earl Herald Ralph Murdac confirmed to the Church of St. Mary and St. Ethelbert and to the Canons of the same the Church of Putley given them by William D'evereus his Predecessor LANDAFF Cathedral ANno Dom. 156. Lucius King of the Britains having applied himself to Pope Elutherius He and the Chief of his Kingdom were baptized into the Christian Religion the sincere Doctrines of which they preserved uncorrupted till the Pelagian Heresie arose to reform and confute which St. Germanus and Lupus being sent for out of France they before they went back consecrated Bishops in several parts of this Isle in particular they consecrated Dubritius a holy and great Doctor an Archbishop and appointed for him an Episcopal Seat which was by the grant of King Mouric founded at a place called Podum Lantani in honour of St. Peter and by that King endow'd with all between Taf and Eiei and by Apostolick Authority with great Ecclesiastical Priviledges This Dubricius founded divers Churches and settled Bishops in the Right side of Britain per dextralem Britanniam in particular he consecrated Daniel Bishop in the City of Bangor Guorduc offered up immolavit his Virgin Daughter Dulon to Dubricius Archbishop of Landaff whom he consecrated a Nun for ever her Father gave with her divers Lands An. Dom. 612. St. Dubricius Bishop of Landaff departed this life and in the year 1120. was with great Solemnity translated from the Isle of Enli to his Church of Landaff at which time and action some miraculous Events are said to happen Vrban Bishop of Landaff complained to Pope Calixtus that whereas this Church was at its first erection the Mistress of all the Churches of Wales and had once four and twenty Canons of which there remained at that time but two and the Revenues almost desolate by the Invasion of Laymen and Monks and also of his own Brothers the Bishop of Hereford and the Bishop of St. Davids he therefore prays the said Pope to succour him and his Church Idon a British King was a great Benefactor to this Church in the time of St. Teliau Successor to the foresaid Dubricius Also King Margetud and King Aircol and one Tutuc gave to the same Archbishop Teliau divers Lands and Possessions as an expiatory penance for certain Murders â—ing Mouric before mentioned was the Son of King Teudiric who having settled his Kingdom in Peace resigned the Government to his Son and himself became a Hermit but his Kingdom being afterwards invaded by the Saxons and his Son in great danger of losing it he was admonisht by an Angel that he should leave his Retirement and head the Army that they would fly at his sight and that he should however receive a wound and die in peace after three days all which happened as foretold and he dying in an Isle call'd in Welch Câ—hni his faid Son built there an Oratory and Cimitery and gave all the Territory about it to the Church of Landaff this was in the time of Oudoceus the third Bishop of this See The said Mouric having by treachery killed Cynvetu after he had sworn to a firm peace with him before the Relicks of the Saints was Excommunicated for redemption of which and as part of his pennance he gave to this Church four Towns with their Liberties King Morcant and Augustus King of Brecknoc and King Iudhail were Benefactors so was Gurvodius upon his having obtained a great Victory over the Saxons In the time of Bishop Gurvan Teudor and Elgist Kings of Brecknock swore a firm and mutual Peace with each other before the Relicks of the Saints after which King Teudor took occasion to Kill Elgist for which Homicide and Perjury being excommunicate and upon his Absolution being Enjoyn'd for Penance Almes Prayer and Fasting he gave in Almes to this Church of Landaff divers Lands and Revenues Briteon hail Son of Devon sacrificed immolavit to God and St. Dubricius six Churches with all their Liberties and Profits in one day King Clotri and King Iudgvalaun having sworn a firm Peace before the holy Gospells and Reliques upon the Altar in Presence of Bishop Berthguin and the Clergy after which Clotri killing Iudgvalaun he was for his homicide and perjury excomunicated with all his Progeny and Kingdom by the said Bishop and Clergy in a full Synod Afterwards being absolved and enjoyn'd Penance as part of the same he gave divers Lands to this Church of Landaff Guidnerth having slain his Brother was for his homicide and Fratricide excommunicated by Bishop Oudoceus in a full Synod and after three years having perform'd an enjoyn'd Pennance into Cornwal the Brittons and those of Cornwal being of the same language and Nation tho' divided in territory
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