the City of Colchester erected here a Monastery of which he lay'd the first Stone An. Dom 1097. Which being finisht some Monks were brought hither from Rochester But they not being endow'd here according to their own mind return'd to Rochester After this Eudo received other thirteen Monks from the Abbot of York these began upon a New Foundation which prosper'd so well that in a short time one of the thirteen was chosen Abbot and Consecrated by Maurice Bishop of London About the year 1104. Their number increased to above twenty who all lived very regularly The founder Eudo dyed in Normandy and devised his Body to be buried in the Abby of his foundation at Colchester which was accordingly done the Monks meeting it a Mile from the Monastery An. 1120. This Eudo endow'd this Monastery with several Mannours Tithes and Churches among others with the Church of St. Mary in the Westcheping Call'd the Newcherch and his Stone House near the same also the Church of St. Steven Walebroch in London King Henry II. released the Tax of Danâ—geld c. in the Lands of these Monks SNAPES in Essex A Cell to Colchester WIlliam Martell being Seised of the Mannour of Snapes enjoy'd Wreck of the Sea from Thorp to Hereford Nesse and gave this Mannour to the Abby of Colchester for the founding of a Priory here which Priory was founded accordingly and made a Cell to that Abby An. 1155. This Priory paid half a mark yearly to Colchester as a Pension of acknowledgment Twice a year the Abbot of Colchester was to Visit here with twelve Horses and abide here four days St. HELENS in Bishopsgatestreet London ALardus Dean of St. Pauls London and the Chapter of that Church granted License to William Son of William the Goldsmith Patron of the Church of St. Helen to constitute Nuns in the said Church and â—rect a College there endowing them with the Advowson of the said Church The Prioress to be upon election presented to the Dean and Chapter of Pauls and to swear fealty to them and to pay them a Pension of half a mark yearly at Easier c In the yeat 1439. Raynold Kentwode Dean of Pauls made other Constitutions for the Government of this Nunnery some of which were That Divine Service be by them duly perform'd night and day That no secular person be locked within the Bounds of the Cloyster nor come within it after the Complin Bell except Women Servants and maid Children that none of the Sisters receive Letters from or speak with any secular Person without License of the Prioress and some other Nun to be present That they grant no Corody or Pension without License of the said Dean and Chapter that no Dancing or Reveling be used in the House except at Christmass and then among themselves and in the absence of Secualr persons That there be a Door made to the Nuns Quire that no Strangers may look on them nor they on the Strangers when They be at Divine service That no Nun have any Key to the Postern Door that goes out of the Cloyster into the Churchyard but the Prioress c. These Orders were to be Read publickly in their Chappel four times a year and kept and observed under the pain of Excomunication Valued at 314 l. 2 s. 6 d. per Annum CATESBY in Northamptonshire KIng Henry III. in the fifty seventh year of his Raign recited and confirm'd to the Nuns of Kateby the Church of the blessed Mary of Kateby with the Chappel of Helidene with the Church and divers Lands in great Esseby and several other Revenues given them by divers Benefactors Confirm'd also by the Bull of Pope Gregory the VIII Valued at 132 l. 1 s. 11 d. per Annum St. MARY de Pratis adjoyning to Derby KIng Henry II. granted and confirm'd to the Nuns of St. Mary de Pratis near Darby among other things twenty seven acres of Land in his Forrest of the Peak with large Commons in the said Forrest King Henry III. granted them 100 s. per Annum to be received from the Baylies of the Town of Nottingham out of the Farm of the said Town Valued at 18 l. 6 s. 2 d. per Annum GRIMSBY in Lincolnshire THe Church and all the Monastery of Nuns here being of the Kings Foundation and Patronage together with all their goods and Movables and all their Writings and Evidences concerning their Lands and Estate in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire being burnt and consumed by a casual fire King Henry IV. in the seventh year of his Reign confirm'd to this Prioress and Convent all their Grants c. made as well by his Progenitors as others NEWTON in Yorkshire KIng Edward II. in the fifteen year of his Reign granted his Licence To his well beloved Cousin Thomas Wake to give one Messuage with the appurtenances in the Town of Neutone for the erection of a Religious House of what order he pleased and to endow it with Lands in Neuton and Cottingham c. Vid. 3. p. 88. BROMHALE HEnry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Margaret his Wife did release and quit claim to the Nuns of Bromhale one hundred acres of Land in their Wast of Asserige with the Appurtenances Pag. 551. LEUESHAM in Kent KIng Alured and his Son King Edward the Elder gave and King Edward the Confessor confirm'd to the Abby of St. Peters at Gant the Mannour of Luesham with all its appurtenences viz. Greenwic Wullewic Modingham and Cumbe with other Lands and great Liberties and Franchises as large as the King himself had in the said Lands c. Dated An. Dom. 1044. Pag. 551. St. MICHAELS MOUNT in Cornwal RIchard King of the Romans Edmund Earl of Cornwal and Conan Duke of Britany were Benefactors to this House Pope Adrian in the year 1155. confirm'd to the Abbot and Monks of this House by the name of the Monastery of St. Michael de periculo maris all their Lands and Revenues lying most in Normandy and also in England Pag. 558. BERGAVENNY HEnry de Bellocampo confirm'd to the Monks of Bergavenny all those Possessions which his Ancestors Hamelinus de Balon and others Lords of Bergavenny had given them and further gave and confirm'd to the said Monks divers other Revenues Pag. 595. GOLDCLIVE RObert de Candos founded the Priory at Goldclive in Wales being then Lord of Karlyon The Patronage of which House came afterwards to William Earl of Gloucester and after that to Richard Duke of York CARESBROKE in the IIe of Wight WIlliam Fitz Osbern was Mareshal to William the I. and Conquer'd the Ile of Wight at such time as the other Conquer'd England King William made him Earl of Hereford The Estate of this William descended to Baldwin Earl of Exeter who granted all the Churches and Tithes of this Iland to the Abby of St. Mary of Lira King Henry II. recited and confirm'd the several Possessions given to those Monks as well in France as England and Wales Pag. 614. WENDLOCK WIlliam de Boterell
III. in the 30th year of his Reign confirm'd to the Nuns of Yeddingham all the Lands given by their several Benefactors There was delivered in this House to the Prioress and Convent sixty and two Loaves daily to nine Brethren twelve Loaves a piece weekly to Brother Iames fourteen Loaves to three Priests to four Chaplains and other Officers accordingly c. among the rest of the Deliveries is set down Canibus in singulis Maneriis triginta novem panes de pane duriori To the Dogs Waiters or Attendants in each Manor thirty nine Loaves of the coursest sort of Bread Valued at 21 l. 16 s. 6 d. ob per Annum NUNBURNHAM in Yorkshire THE Ancestors of Roger de Merlay Lord of the Barony of Morpath were founders of the Nunnery of Brunham And it was found by inquision 38. Hen. 3. that these Nuns held Lands here of the Fee of Thomas de Graystoc Valued at 8 l. 1 s. 11 d. per Annum LYTHOM in Lancashire a Cell to Durham RIchardus filius Rogeri or Richard Fitz-Rogers gave his Land at Lythum with the Church there to the Prior and Monks of Durham for the erecting and establishing at Lytham a Cell of their Order which he endow'd with divers Lands This was confirm'd by King Iohn in the second year of his Reign CHIRBURY in Shropshire THE Monks here having formerly inhabited at Snede and removed from thence King Edward the I. in the ninth year of his Reign understanding this place not to be convenient for them removed them back again to Snede ARDEN in Yorkshire PEter de Hotona founded and endowed an Abby of Nuns at Arden and dedicated it to St. Andrew which was confirm'd by Roger de Mowbray Lord of the Fee and by Elizabeth Heir of the said Peter in the tenth year of Edward the I. In the 6th of Henry the IV. Ieoffrey Pigot as Heir of Peter the first Founder and Elizabeth abovesaid was admitted by the Nuns here as Founder or Patron Valued at 12 l. per Annumâ— DAVINTON in Kent KING Henry the II I. in the thirty ninth year of his Reign confirm'd to the Prioress of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene of Davyntone and to the Nuns there serving God divers Lands and Rents given by several Benefactors FOSS in Lincolnshire KING Henry the III. in the 21st year of his Reign gave to the Prioress and Nuns of Foss without Torkesey sixscore Acres of Land and seven Tosts in Torkesey to hold for ever at the yearly Rent of forty six Shillings Valued at 7 l. 3 s. 6 d. per Annum WALLING WELLS in Nottinghamshire RAlph de Cheurolcurt gave to God and St. Mary a place in his Park of Carletuna for the building a place of Religion and to it gave other Lands and Liberties in pure and perpetual Alms. From this Founder is descended by a Daughter the Family of Furneux the Male Line of which Family is now in Being in Darbyshire under the name of Rooper Valued at 58 l. 9 s. 10 d. per Annum St. CATHERINES Nunnery without Exeter in Devonshire KING Iohn in the second year of his Reign confirm'd to the Church of St. Catherine without Exeter and the Nuns there the Lands given to them by William de Trascy and Henry de Pomerya with the grant of many Liberties FLAMSTED Priory in Hartfordshire AGatha Widow of William de Gatesden endowed the Church of St. Giles of Flamsted with certain Lands which Gift was confirm'd by King Henry the III. in the twelfth year of his Reign Valued at 30 l. 19 s. 8 d. ob per Annum CRESSEWELL in Herefordshire WAlter de Lascy gave to the Church of St. Mary at Cressewell and to the Monks there of the Order call'd Grandimontenses divers Lands and Revenues confirm'd by King Henry the III. who also granted to them divers Liberties Other Benefactors gave them other Lands all which was confirm'd to them by King Edward the III. in the first year of his Reign Vid. Vol. 3. p. 17. DARBY Priory in Darbyshire KING Henry the III. granted to the Prioress and Nuns de Pratis at Derby an Augmentation of one hundred Shillings per Annum out of the Fee-farm of the Town of Nottingham It was found upon an Extent in the 15. E. 1. that the Scite of the Abby at Derby with a Garden and Curtilage was worth yearly 20 s. And that the said Abby held there in Demean four Carucates of Land each Carucate containing sixty Acres of Land i. e. Arable Land c. LAMBLEY Nunnery in Northumberland KING Iohn in the second year of his Reign confirm'd to God and St. Mary and St. Patrick and to the Nuns at Lambeleya the Scite of the Abby of Lambeleya Super Tinam and the Lands which Adam de Tindale and Helewisa his Wife gave to the said House STEINFEILD Priory in Lincolnshire THIS was a Priory of Benedictine Nuns founded by Henry Son of Henry de Percy The Patronage of this House came to Iocelin de Lovein by Agnes his Wife one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of William de Percy King Edward the I. in the one and twentieth year of his Reign granted the Prioress and Nuns here free Warren in their Demean Lands the same not being within the bounds of his Forests Valued at 98 l. 8 s. per Annum MODBURY in Devonshire THE Mannor of Modbury and right of Patronage of the Priory there being in Ida Widow of Sr. Iames Exton Knight by Virtue of a Fine in the 9. Edw. 2. the said Ida through the mediation of Friends released all her title to Richard de Campo-Arnulphi CHESTER Nunnery THE Monastery of St. Mary here was founded for Nuns and endow'd by Ranulph Earl of Chester with Lands and Liberties Valued at 66 l. 18 s. 4 d. per Annum ROSSEDALE in Yorkshire RObert de Stutevill founded and endow'd the Nunnery at Rossedale to God and St. Laurence which was confirm'd by King Iohn Sibilla de Valoniis Adam de Neuton c. gave other Lands to the Prioress and Nuns here all which was confirm'd by King Edward the III. in the second year of his Reign Valued at 37 l. 12 s. 5 d. per Annum PEMBROK Priory WAlter Marescallus and William Marescallus both Earls of Pembrok gave divers Lands and Endowments to the Priory of St. Nicholas at Pembroke St. CLEMENTS adjoyning to York THurstan Archbishop of York gave to God and St. Clement and the Nuns there divers Lands to hold in pure and perpetual Alms whose Letters of Endowment were confirm'd by the Dean and Chapter of York Other Benefactors gave other Lands all which was confirm'd by King Edward the III. in the first year of his Reign Anno. Dom. 1192. Gaufridus Archbishop of York gave the Priory of St. Clements to the Abby of Godestave but the Nuns here refused to submit to such Donation and appeal'd to the Pope Valued at 55 l. 11 s. 11 d. per Annum CHESTHUNT in Hertfordshire KING Henry the III. gave to the Prioress and Nuns
rather Reformation of Monks was Abbot Berno to whom William then Duke of Aquitain gave the place call'd Clugny or Cluny in Burgundy for their first Habitation in the year of our Lord 890. This was a Reform of St. Bennet's Order WENLOCK in Shropshire HERE was formerly a Nunnery in which Milburg Neice of Wilphere King of Mercia lived and died Abbess with the Reputation of great Sanctity Which House being totally decayed Roger Earl of Mongomery built here a Monastery for the Monks of Cluny The Church here was dedicated to St. Mildred Isabel de Say Wife of William Fitz-Alan was a Benefactress And this Priory was made Indigena 18. R. 2. Vid. 2. Vol. p. 907. Vaued at 401 l. 0 s. 7 d. q. per Annum DUDLEY in Staffordshire a Cell to Wenlock THE Church here was dedicated to St. Iames which with other Churches and Lands Pope Lucius did confer and appropriate to this Priory in the year 1190. granting in the same Deed divers great Priviledges and Immunities to the Monastery Vid. 2. Vol. p. 907. LEWES in Sussex THIS House was founded by William de Warren Earl of Surrey in the time of King William the Conqueror Which Earl obtain'd from the Abby of St. Peter in Burgundy four Cluniac Monks to whom he gave the Church of St. Pancrace adjoyning to his Castle of Lewis and endow'd them with divers Lands and Possessions by the License and Confirmation of King William with a Curse to the Violators of his Gift and a Blessing to the Defenders Yet this Priory remain'd a Cell to the Abby of Clugny in Burgundy till the forty seventh year of King E. 3. at which time that King made it indigena and independant so also the Priories of Castleacre Prittlewell Farleigh Horton and Stanesgate which were all Cells belonging to the Priory of Lewis Vid. 2. Vol. p. 908. Valued at 92 l. 4 s. 6 d. per Annum PRITTLEWELL in Essex a Cell to Lewes RObert Fitz-Suene gave the Church of Prittlewell to the Priory of St. Pancrace at Lewes to be a Cell of that House and to be furnisht with Monks of the Rule of St. Bennet and Order of Clugny from Lewes ordaining by his Deed of Foundation that the Prior of Prittlewel should pay yearly to the Prior of Lewes one mark for an acknowledgment Valued at 155 l. 11 s. 2 d. ob per Annum WESTACRE in Norfolk a Cell to Lewes THIS House was granted and confirm'd by Rodulphus de Toneio Lord of the Soil to Oliver Priest of Acre and Walter his Son who became Canons regular here Valued at 260 l. 13 s. 7 d. q. per Annum FARLEY in Wiltshire a Cell to Lewes THIS Priory was founded Anno Dom. 1125. and dedicated to God and St. Mary Magdalen It was endow'd by Humphrey de Bohun the King's Sewer and Margery his Wife with â—Mannor of Farley and the Park there and with divers other Lands and Revenues All which was confirm'd to them by King Henry the III. â— in the eleventh year of his Reign Valued at 153 l. 14 s. 2 d. ob per Annum HORTON in Kent a Cell to Lewes THIS House was founded and endow'd by Robert de Ver Constable of England and Adeliza his Wife and subjected to the Priory of Lewes to which they were to pay a Mark per Annum as an acknowledgment In this House did inhabit thirteen or at least eight Monks who were to say three Masses dayly viz. the High Mass our Lady's Mass and the third pro defunctis Their Seal was kept by three Monks viz. the Prior Sub-prior and another Valued at 95 l. 12 s. 2 d. per Annum STANESGATE in Essex a Cell to Lewes ANno Dom 1177. Alexander Prior of this House and the Covent of the same with the assent of the Covent of Lewis granted the Tithes of their Fee at Clerkenwell with their Land there to the Nuns of St. Mary at Clerkenwell they paying to the Prior of Stanesgate a yearly Pension of ten shillings for the said Tithes and Lands CLIFFORD in Herefordshire a Cell to Lewes IT appeared by Inquisition 20. E. 3. that this Priory was founded by Simon Fitz-Richard Fitzâ—Ponce formerly Lord of Clifford and Ancestor oâ— the Countess of Lincoln and that this House was not alien or dependant on any other beyond Sea It was subjected by the Founder to the Priory of Lewes Valued at 57 l. 7 s. 4 d. per Annum CASTLE-ACRE in Norfolk FOunded An. Dom. 1090. William de Warren Earl of Surrey the first of that name and his Son Earl William the II. were great Benefactors and gave to God and St. Mary and to the holy Apostles Peter and Paul and to the Cluniac Monks of St. Pancrace i. e. of the Priory of Lewes serâ—ing God at Achra divers Lands and Revenues Besides whom many other Benefactors gave other Mannors and Lands Tithes and Churches as may be seen in particular in the Book at large p. 626 627 628 629. Herbert Bishop of Norwich constituted the Church and Monastery here and placed therein Cluniac Monks under the Rule of St. Benedict Bishop Ebrard impropriated and confirm'd to them their several Churches given to them by the Earls of Surrey and other Benefactors It was certified to King Edw. the I. in the thirty fourth year of his Reign that the â—rior and Convent of Castle-acre were English and not Aliens of the Subjects of the King of France or his Adherers and that no Rent or Pension was paid by them to any of his Dominion or Adherents nor did they owe obedience to any such except only that when the Abbot of Clugny comes sometimes into England he uses to visit in the said Priory Hereupon this House was allow'd to be Indigena and not Alienigena and to be priviledged accordingly 18. E. 2. Valued at 306 l. 11 s. 4 d. ob q. per Annum MENDHAM in Norfolk a Cell to Castle-acre WIlliam Son of Roger de Huntingfeild gave to God and St. Mary of Acre and to the Monks there the Isle of St. Mary of Mendham to be in the same manner subject to Castle-acre as that House is to St. Pancrace and that to the Church of Clugny The Prior of Castle-acre and Convent there did grant to Roger de Huntingfeild who was their great Benefactor to maintain at least eight Monks at this Priory of Mendham and not to depose the Prior here unless for one of these three causes Disobedience Incontinence or Dilapidation of the House BROMHOLM in Norfolk a Cell of castle-Castle-acre THE Estate here with divers other Lands was given to the Monks of Acre by William de Glanville and confirm'd to them by Bartholmew his Son The Prior and Convent of Bromholm held Lands in Fee-â—arm of the Prior and Convent of Acre at the Annual Rent of fourteen Marks five â—hillings and four pence payable at three terms by the year viz. at the Feast of St. Michael 64 s. at the Purification 64 s. and at Penticost 64 s. Controversie arising
between the Priors of Lewes and Acre and the Prior of Bromholm about placing the Prior of this House The whole matter was referr'd by Pope Gregory the IX to be heard and determin'd by the Prior of Osolveston in Leicestershire and the Dean of Rutland who decreed among other things that upon the death of the Prior of Bromholm the Prior of Acre should nominate six Monks three of Acre and three of Bromholm out of which number the Convent of Bromholm should choose one for their Prior c. This Decree was made in the Church of St. Mary near the Bridge in Stanford on Wednesday next before Palm-Sunday 1229. Pope Celestin by his Bull dated in the fourth year of his Pontisicate granted that this Priory should be free from any subjection to that of Acre King Henry the III. in the thirteenth year of his Reign granted to the Prior and Monks of St. Andrew of Bromholm to have a Fair there yearly at the Feast of the Exhaltation of the holy Cross and a Market weekly on the Monday Vid. Vol. 2. p. 909 Valued at 100 l. 5 s. 3 d. q. per Annum REINHAM in Norfolk a Cell to castle-Castle-acre WIlliam de Lisewis â—ounded here a House for three Monks at least in a place then called Normannesberch and endow'd it with Lands in honour of the blessed Virgin and St. Iohn the Evangelist all which Ieoffrey his Son gave and confirm'd to the Monks of Acre Roger Prior of Reinham granted to Lena a Nun and other Nuns there serving God a certain Solitary Place or Hermitage near Winghale parcel of the Possessions of this House to be held by them at the yearly Rent of twelve pence To which House of Nuns Riginald Fitzâ—Hamon gave other Lands with his Daughteâ— whom he made a religious Woman there SLEVESHOLM in Norfolk a Cell of Castle-acre FOunded by William Earl of Warren and by him given to Monks of Castle-acre Iohn Earl of Warren confirm'd his Great Grand-fathers Foundation Anno Dom. 1309. 3. E. 2. and granted that as often as the Priory of this House should be void the Prior of Castle-acre should have full power to confer the place on a Monk of that House which new Prior being first presented to the said Iohn Earl of Warren or his Heirs and having 〈◊〉 his â—ealty should be admitted with effect BERMUNDSEY in Surrey THIS Monastery of St. Saviours of Burmundsey was founded by Alwinus Child a Citizen of London in the year 1082. Many were the Benefactors to this House King Henry the I. in the year 1127. gave to the Monks here the Mannors of Bermundsey Rederhith and Delwich the hide of Southwark and other Lands Walkelinus Mammynot gave them a Moiety of all Greenwich King Henry the II. in the year 1159. confirm'd to them the Donation of divers Churches as Camberwell and others Anno 1213. the Prior of Burmundsey raised from the Foundation a new Building adjoyning to the Walls of his House which was call'd the Elemosinary or Hospitale conversorum puerorum in honour of St. Thomas the Martyr Anâ— 1268. King Henry the III. granted to the Monks of Burmundsey a Market every Monday at their Mannor of Charleton in Kent and a Fair to be held there at the Feast of the Holy Trinity yearly The Mannor of Bermundsey was ancient Demesn of the Crown and all the Lands and Tenements in this Mannor cum pertin are impleadable in the Court of this Mannor by the King 's writ of Right according to the Custom of the said Mannor and not at the Common Law Within the Mannor of Burmundsey were comprised the several Towns of Bermondesey Camberwell Rederhith the Hide of Southwark Dilwich Waddon and Reyham with their Appurtenants Valued at 474 l. 14 s. 4 d. ob q. per Annum The Priory of St. James by Exeter in Devonshire BAldwin Earl of Devonshire founded this Priory without the Walls at Exeter for Cluniac Monks and endowed it with Revenues Confirm'd by Richard Earl of Devonshire Son of Baldwin 1157. and by Robert Bishop of Exeter Anno 1146. Also by Maud the Empress Infra p. 1025. Valued at 502 l. 12 s. 9 d. per Annum LENTON in Nottinghamshire WIlliam Peverel built this House for Cluniac Monks and gave to the Abby of Clugny great Revenues for the Maintenance of certain Monks of their Order in this Priory providing however that this House should be free and discharged from all exactions of that Abby paying only one Mark per Annum as an acknowledgment To this Priory of the Holy Trinity at Lenton King Henry the II. was a Benefactor so were also King Steven and King Iohn which last granted them the Tithes of his hunting Decimam venationis nostrae in the Counties of Nottingham and Derby All whose Grants were confirm'd by King Edward the II. in the tenth year of his Reign Vid. Vol. 3. p. 30. Valued at 329 l. 15 s. 10 d. ob per Annum PONTEFRACT in Yorkshire THE first Founder of this House was Robert de Laceio who built it in a place then called Kirkeby in honour of St. Iohn the Apostle and Evangelist subjecting it to the Church of Clugny from whence it was furnisht with Monks and gave them several Lands and Revenues confirm'd by Hugo de la Val. Henry de Lascy Son of the said Robert gave to these Monks the Custody of the Hospital of St. Nicholas in Pomfract in the year 1159. Pope Celestin confirm'd the Estate given to this Monastery and granted them several Priviledges among others that in the time of a general Interdiction it may be lawful for the Monks here to celebrate the Divine Offices with a low Voice their Church-Doors shut and without the â—ound of any Bells Adam Fitz-Swany gave divers Lands to the Monks of Pontfract he also gave them for a Cell the Priory of St. Mary Magdalen of Lunda or Monk-Breton which he had founded on his paternal Estate After many Controversies between the Monks of Pontfract and the Monks of Breton it was at last agreed and determin'd by Deed dated in the year 1269. that the Monks of Breton should pay a Pitance of 20 s. per Annum to the Covent of Pontfract that the Monks of Breton should freely choose their own Prior but that he should be created or install'd by the Prior ofâ— Pontfract c. To this House were several Persons of great Quality Benefactors whose names and parcels by them given may be seen in the Book at large p. 656 657 658 659. Valued at 337 l. 14 s. 8 d. per Annum MONK-BRETON in Yorkshire a Cell to Pontfract THIS Priory was founded to the glory of God and honour of St. Mary Magdalen of Lunda by Adam the Son of Suanus whâ—â— endow'd it with the Town of Breton c. The then Prior of the Charity being the Capital House of this Order beyond Seas granted that the Monks of this House might choose their own Prior the Prior of Pontfract if required being present at the Election
Reginald de Moun in his Mannor of Axeminster with which and other Lands it was endowed Confirmed by King Edw. 3. This Reginald de Mohun was the Son of Reginald Lord of Dunsterre and Alice Daughter of William Bruer by whom he inherited the Mannor of Axeminster See in the Book at large the Progeny of the noble Family of Mohuns Abbots of this House Iohn Godard Henry Sper sholt Iohn de Ponte-Roberto Ieffrey de Blanchvil Hugh de Cokeswell Iohn de Northampton William de Cornubia Richard de Chichestre Richard de Piderton William le Fria Ralph de Shapewike Robert de Puplysuirie Iohn de Cokyswill Iohn de Geytingtone ob 1338. Walter de Hous Valued at 227 l. 7 s. 8 d. per Annum GRACE-DIEU in Leicestershire FOunded by Roesia de Verdun for Nuns Endow'd by her with her Mannor of Beleton c. LETLEY in Hampshire KING Henry the III. was-the Founder of this Abby of Letley otherwise call'd Locum Sancti Edwardi and endow'd it with Lands in the thirty fifth year of his Reign Valued at 100 l. 12 s. 8 d per Annum REWLEY in the Suburbs of Oxford THIS was founded in the year 1281. for Cistercian Monks by Richard Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans who endow'd this Abby with divers Lands They were found by Inquisition to be exempt from suit to the County and Hundred Courts Valued at 174 l. 3 s. ob per Annum DERNHALL in Cheshire KING Edward the I. founded and endow'd this Abby in performance of a Vow made in a great danger at Sea his Deed of endowment bears date before he came to the Crown in the four and fiftieth year of his Father's Reign King Henry the III. granted his Letter of Request to all Religious Houses in England for the furnishing this House with Books After King Edward came to the Crown in the seven and twentieth year of his Reign he translated these Monks to Vale-Royal and granted them many great Immunities and Franchises Vid. 2. Vol. p. 921. The Abby of Vale-Royal was valued at 118 l. 7 s. 6 d. ob per Annum BOCLAND in Devonshire FOunded by Amicia Countess of Devon for Cistercian Monks endowed by her and her Daughter Isabella de Fortibus Countess of Albemarl and Devon with many Lands and Liberties Confirm'd by King Edward the II. Anno 4. Valued at 241 l. 17 s. 9 d. ob per Annum HILTON in Staffordshire ANno 1223. Henry de Audiddeley founded and endow'd this Abby with many Lands and Liberties to hold in pure and perpetual Almes King Richard the II. in the 19th year of his Reign at the request of Elizabeth relict of Sir Nicholas de Audley Licensed the Abbot and Convent of Blanchland in Normandy to transfer to this House the Priory and Mannor of Cameryngham which was thence forward united to this Abby Valued at 75 l. 14 s. per Annum The Abby of Grace near the Tower at London KING Edward the III. founded this House in the Church-yard of the Holy Trinity near the Tower at London and endow'd it with all the Messuages and Gardens lying on and about the Tower Hill Anno Reg. 24. 1350. Afterwards in the fiftieth year of his Reign he gave the Mannor of Gravesend and other Mannors in Kent to be settled upon this House All which was after done and confirm'd by King Richard the II. Anno Regn. 22. Valued at 546 l. 10 s. per Annum A CARTHVSIAN MONK Vol 1 P. 949 Of the Carthusians This Order was first founded Anno Dom. 1080. By a certain learned man named Bruno who professing Philosophy at Paris and hearing the dead Body of his Friend who had the Esteem of a very good Man when living cry out as they were about to bury him Iusto dei judicio damnatus sum he and six Companions forsook the World and betook themselves to a most austere Life in a Desert and Melancholy Place call'd Cartusia in the Diocess of Grenoble in France Their inward Habit is of Hair-Cloath they never eat flesh on Fridays fast with Bread and Water never stir out of their Monasteries except the Prior and Procurator observe almost continual silence and suffer no Women to enter into any part of their Houses no not their Churches See more of their Rules in the Monasticon at large WITHAM in Somersetshire KING Henry the II. founded this Monastery in the honour of the blessed Mary St. Iohn Baptist and all Saints for the Order of Carthusians and endow'd it with divers Lands and Franchises Imprecating on the Violator of that his pious Donation the wrath of Almighty God and his own Curse unless the Party make Condign Satisfaction but to all such as augment his Gift or favour the Peace of the House he wisht the Peace and Reward of the Eternal Father for ever HENTON in Wiltshire ELa Countess of Saliâ—bury Widow of William Longespee Earl of Salisbury founded this Monastery in her Park of Henton for Carthusians to the honour of God the blessed Mary St. Iohn Baptist and all Saints and endow'd it with Lands and Liberties King Henry the III. in the four and twentieth year of his Reign granted and confirm'd to this House the same Liberties and free Customs which his Grandfather King Henry the II. had formerly granted to the Carthusians of Witham with other Exemptions The Carthusians in the Suburbs of London KING Edward the III. in the forty fifth year of his Reign granted his License to Sir Walter Lord of Manny to found this Monastery for Carthusian Monks in a certain place without the Bars of West-Smithlsied called Newe-cherche-hawe which House was to be called la Salutation mere dieu and to endow the same with twenty Acres of Land there adjoyning Pope Vrban reciting that in the time of a great Pestilence Sir Walter Manny purchased this ground for a Church-yard to bury poor People in and there intended to erect a Chappel and a Colledge of twelve Chaplains by the License of Pope Clement the VI. but afterwards the said Sir Walter changing his intention and erected here a Convent of Carthusians the said Pope Vrban granted his Bull of License for uniting to the said House of Carthusians Ecclesiastical Benefices to the value of 200 l. per Annum BEAUVAL or Bella-valle in Nottinghamshire IN the year 1343. Nicholas de Cantilupo Lord of Ilkeston by License of King Edward the III. founded this House in his Park of Gryseleve in the County of Nottingham for a Prior and twelve Carthusian Monks to the glory of God the blessed Virgin Mary and all Saints and endow'd it with Lands and Rents in Greseleye and Seleston This Nicholas de Cantilupo was lineally descended from Robert de Muskam Seneschal or Steward to Gilbert de Gaunt that famous Souldier in the Army of William the Conqueror from which Gilbert the said Robert de Muskâ—m enjoy'd the Lordship of Ilkeston conferr'd upon him in the Reign of King Henry the I. Elizabeth Widow of Brian Stapleton Knt. and William
Ryther Knt. and Sibilla his Wife by License of King Richard the II. founded in this Church a Chantry for the maintenance of two Chaplains Monks of this House to celebrate dayly for the Soul of William de Aldeburgh c. St. ANNE adjoyning to Coventry THIS was first founded in the year 1381. by William Lord de la Zowche and first supplied with three Monks from the Carthusians at London and with three others from Bellevalle Besides the said Lord Sowche they had many other Benefactors as Richard Luff Mayor of Coventry Iohn Holmeton of Sleford Iohn Bokington Bishop of Lincoln Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick c. who erected several parts of their Buildings In the year 1385. King Richard the II. became the principal Founder with his own hands laying the first Stone in the Foundation of their Church protesting publickly to be the Founder and to finish the Buildings To this House were divers Churches appropriated and divers Lands given among others the Mannor of Ediweston in the County of Rutland by the Abbot and Convent of St. George de Bauquerville in Normandy with other Prior alians Lands c. KINGSTON upon Hull in Yorkshire MIchael de la Pole Knt. Lord of Wingfeild by his Deed dated at Kingston upon Hull 1378. Founded and endowed this House without the Walls of Hull for a Prior and twelve Carthusians Monks in lieu of Minnoress Nuns of the Order of St. Clare as his Father in his life time had once intended The House was founded to the honour of God and the glorious Virgin Mary and of St. Michael the Archangel and all Angels and holy Spirits St. Thomas the Martyr late Archbishop of Canterbury and of all other Saints of God And by assent of the Prior of the Great Carthusians in Savoy the chief House of the Order Walter de Kele was by the Founder made the first Prior of this House Vid. 2. Vol. p. 930. MOUNT-GRACE in Yorkshire THomas de Holland Duke of Surrey Earl of Kent and Lord Wake sounded this House for Carthusians in his Mannor of Bordelby near Cleaveland in Yorkshire to the honour of God the Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas willing the House to be called the House of Mount-Grace of Ingelby and by assent of the Prior of the Grand Carthusians made Robert Tredewy the first Prior of the same King Henry the VI. ratified and confirm'd this Foundation in Parliament in the ninteenth year of his Reign EPWORTH in the Isle of Axholme in Lincolnshire KING Richard the II. in the twentieth year of his Reign granted his License of Mortmain to Thomas Earl of Nottingham Marshal of England to found a Convent for Carthusian Monks on his Land at Epworth in the lsle of Axholme in Lincolnshire and to name it the Visitation of the Mother of God to the honour of God the Virgin Mary St. Iohn the Evangelist and St. Edward the King and Confessor and to endow the same with one hundred Acres of Land Licensing also to the Abbot of St. Nicholas in Angiers of the Order of St. Benedict to grant over to this House their Priory of Monks Kirkeby in Warwickshire c. to be appropriated to these Carthusians for ever in pure and perpetual Alms. Pope Bonisace the IX in the eighth year of his Pontificate granted Indulgence to such who should visit this Church of the Carthusians on the second of Iuly being the Feast of the Visitation of the blessed Mary and contribute to the Buildings here This was a plenary Indulgence and of the same manner with that which was formerly granted to the Church of the Angels without the Walls of Assisium in Italy of which you may read in the Monasticon at large p. 971 972 c. SHEEN Monastery in Surrey ANno Dom. 1414. King Henry the V. founded three Monasteries near his Royal Seat at Schene one of Carthusians one of Celestin Monks professing the Rule of St. Bennet and one of Brigettines under the Rule of St. Augustin The last was a Monastery of sixty Nuns thirteen Priests four Deacons and eight Lay-Brothers the Men and Women had two separate Convents but one Church in which the Nuns kept above in a kind of Gallery and the men below King Henry the V. by his Charter of Foundation dated in the third year of his Reign appointed the House of Carthusians which he founded at Shene on the North-side of his Mannor there to be call'd the House of Jesus of Bethleem at Shene and to this House he gave the Lands of several Priors alians here in England belonging to Abbies in France granting in the said Charter that if any of the Lands so given should in time to come be evicted or recovered from the Prior and Monks of this House or their Successors that then they should receive the like value yearly out of the Profits of the Hanaper in the Chancery and out of the Customs arising in the Ports of London St. Botulphs Southampton Lenn and Cicester He gave also several other Benefactions as the Fishery at Shene four Pipes of Gascon Wine yearly at the Purification of the blessed Mary for ever with divers great Liberties and Exemptions from all manner of Taxes and Impositions granting to the said Prior and Monks and their Successors Felons Goods c. and that they should have the return and execution of Writs in their Lands with fines pro Licencia Concordandi and all Amerciaments c. Deodands Treasure-trove c. Clerk of the Mercate Wreck of the Sea c. Free Warren in all their Demesnes and Lands already given or to be given tho' within the Bounds of a Forest Soc and Sac Insangenthef and Out fangenthef and view of Frankpledge of all their Tenants and Residents with a Pillory and Tumbrel and that they may erect Gallows on their Lands for the execution of Malefactors whom they should apprehend on their Lands according to the said Liberty of Infangenthef and Outfangenthef and that they should have a Market weekly every Tuesday at their Town of Esthenreth in Berkshire and two Fairs yearly with other such like great Priviledges and Immunities Additions relating to the Benedictine Order WINCHESTER Cathedral Church Supra p. 38. SOme Remarks of the Founder and Royal Benefactors to the Church of Winchester Kings and Saints buried there out of Leyland Pope Innocent confirmed to this Church all their Possessions with the grant of divers Priviledges as not to pay any Tithes for their Lands or Cattle in their own proper hands to celebrate Divine Offices in the time of a general Interdict with a low Voice c. King Edgar restored Monks in this Church confirming their Possessions and Liberties with grievous Curses to the Violators King Edward the Elder conferr'd on them certain Lands to hold free from any secular service except what related towards the building of Forts and Bridges SHAFTESBURY in Dorsetshire Supra 217. KING Iohn in the seventh year of his Reign confirm'd to the Church of St Mary and St.
Whitsun-week and a Market every Wednesday with the same Liberties as were enjoy'd by the Canons at Dunstable with very large Immunities in his Grant specified dated in the first year of his Reign ERDBURY in Warwickshire RAlph de Sadle was a principal Benefactor to the Canons of this House An. 1232. Alexander then Bishop of Coventry and Litchfeild order'd the following Settlement between the Prior of Erdbury and the Vicar of Dercet and their Successors viz. that the Vicar should have all the Altarage of the said Church and Tith-Corn of eight yards Land in Radewey and of two yard Land in Derced in the Demeans of the said Prior with a House c. That the Vicar of the said Church should be a Priest and not of any lesser Order and shall have an Associate constantly and a Deacon who together with him shall officiate in the said Church the Vicar to bear all usual Charges except the Repairs of the Chancel for which the Prior and he are to joyn proportionably This Monastery being decay'd in its Revenues King Henry the VI. An. 23. granted the Prior and Convent License to obtain and receive Lands and Tenements to the value of one hundred Marks without fine to the King Valued at 94 l. 6 s. 1 d. per Annum POGHELE in Barkshire FOunded by Ralph de Chadelewurth dedicated to God and St. Margaret endow'd with divers Lands and Revenues by the said Ralph and others all which was recited and confirm'd by King Henry the III. ROUCESTRE in Staffordshire RIchard Bacun founded and endowed this House for Canons Regular with large Possessions and Liberties All which were confirm'd to the said Canons by Ranulph Earl of Chester to hold in pure and perpetual Alms. Confirm'd also by King Henry the III. in the thirtieth year of his Reign Valued at 100 l. 2 s. 10 d. ob per Annum CUMBWELL in Kent FOunded by Robert de Turneham dedicated to God and St. Mary Magdalen endow'd with divers Lands and Possessions all which were confirm'd by Steven de Turnham Son of the said Robert and by King Henry the III. An. Reg. II. Valued at 80 l. 17 s. 5 d. per Annum WOSPRING in Somersetshire THE several Lands Rents c. given to this Church dedicated to God St. Mary and St. Thomas the Martyr by William de Courteney and others were recited and confirm'd to the Prior and Canons here by King Edw. the II. An. Reg. 18. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 47. Valued at 87 l. 2 s. 11 d. ob per Annum MARLEBURGH in Wiltshire KING Richard the II. An. Reg. 22. granted his Pardon to the Prior and Convent of St. Margaret near Marlbergh which House was founded by his Progenitors for having accepted divers Lands of Iohn Lovel Chevaler without License first obtain'd and further ratified and confirm'd the Possession of those Lands to the said Convent IVICHURCH in Wiltshire KING Henry the III. granted to the Prior and Canons of this House certain Lands and Priviledge in his Forrest of Clarendon King Edw. the III. granted more also Pasture for forty Oxen and Cows in his Meadow of Clarendon and 100 s. of Rent out of his Mannor of Clarendon King Hen. the II. founded this Monastery for four Canons Valued at 122 l. 18 s. 6 d. ob per Annum BUCKENHAM in Norfolk FOunded by William Earl of Chichester in honour of God St. Mary and St. Iames and by him endowed with Churches Lands and Tithes Confirm'd by King Edw. the II. An. Reg. 11. Valued at 108 l. 10 s. 2 d. per Annum COLDE-NORTON in Oxfordshire KING Hen. III. An. Reg. 13. confirm'd to the Prior and Canons of this House dedicated to St. Iohn the Evangelist their several Lands and Possessions given by Reginald Earl of Bolon and Ida his Wife and divers other Benefactors Vid. Vol. 3. p 55. OSULVESTON Ouston in Leicestershire FOunded by Robert Grimbold in honour of our Lord Jesus Christ St. Mary St. Andrew the Apostle and all Saints for Canons to whom he gave the Church and Town of Osolvestone c. in pure and perpetual Alms. Robert Bishop of Lincoln confirm'd the several Churches granted to this Monastery and further granted to these Canons to be for ever free and quit from the Payment of Sinodals and all other Episcopal Customs except Peter pence denouncing a Curse to such as shall infringe or violate his Grant Robert Grimbold was a Judge under King Henry the II. whose Seal did represent a Figure setting in Judgment holding in one hand a pointed Sword signifying Justice and in the other a Sword with the point abated or broken off representing Mercy Among other Benefactors to this House was William de Ros Lord of Beaver c. Valued at 161 l. 14 s. 2 d. per Annum THORKESEY in Lincolnshire KING Henry the III. An. Reg 21. granted to the Prior and Canons of this House the Scite of their Monastery in Frankalmoine and four hundred and ninety eight Acres of Land and fifty Tosts in Torkesey to hold at the yearly Rent of 10 l. for ever Beside which the Prioress and Convent of Fossa near Torkesey held one hundred and twenty Acres of Land and Meadow and seven Tofts in Torkesey at the yearly Rent of 46 s. Valued at 13 l. 1 s. 4 d. per Annum CHAUCUMBE in Northamptonshire FOunded and endow'd by Hugo de Chaucumb Amabilia de Segrave Lady of Chaucumbe and others of the Segraves were Benefactors all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Edward the III. An. Reg 2. Valued at 83 l. 18 s. 9 d. ob per Annum Y REPINDON in Darbyshire FOunded An. 1172. 18 H. 2 by Matilda Widow of Ranulph Earl of Chester and dedicated to the holy Trinity King Hen. the III. An. Reg 57. confirm'd to the Canons of the holy Trinity of Rependene and of St Giles of Calc all the Lands and Possessions given them by the said Matilda and others the like did King Edw. the II. An. Reg. 18. Valued at 118 l. 8 s. 6 d. per Annum KAERMERDIN in Wales KING Henry the II. gave and confirm'd to the Church of St. Iohn the Evangelist at Kayrmerdin and the Canons there the old City of Kayrmerdyn with its appurtenances with the Church of St. Peter there and the Chappel in the Castle Valued at 164 l. 4 d. per Annum WIKES in Essex KING Henry the II. gave to God and the Nuns of St. Mary at Wikes the Church of Wikes with certain Land and seven Villains in that Town He also granted them two Grayhounds and four other Dogs Bracatos for taking Hares in his Forrest of Essex with divers other Liberties and Immunities BISSETER in Oxfordshire GIlbert Basset gave to the Canons of this House large Possessions so did William Lungespeye among other things Pasture for fifty Cattle at Erdintone to feed among his own Cattle there another Benefactor was Philâ—p Basset Brother of Fulc Basset Bishop of London All whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Edw. the II.
Norfolk FOunded by Robert Fitz-Roger and endow'd with Lands c. All which were confirm'd to these Canons by King Iohn An. 1. with the grant of large Liberties and Immunities from all Tolls and Taxes Valued at 104 l. 16 s. 5 d. ob per Annum TITCHFIELD in Hampshire KING Henry the III. An. 16. granted his Mannor of Tichefeud to Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester to found an Abby of Premonstratenses and further granted to the said Abby very great Liberties in the said Mannor and their other Lands with very great Immunities and to be free and discharged from Tolls c. and from suit to any Forrest Courts and from the expeditating or lawing of Dogs and this not only for themselves but all their Men dwelling on their Lands Other Benefactors to this Abby were Eua de Clinton Reginald de Albamara Baldwin de Ripariis Lord of the Iâ—â— Gilbert le Mansel Peter de Sukemund who gave certain Land 〈◊〉 Ingepenne to hold of the Chief Lord of the Fee by the Service of half a Knights Fee and of himself and his Heirs by one pair of Spurs or 3 d. at the Feast of St. Michael c. All whose Gifts were confirm'd to this House by King Edward the II. An. II. An Inventory of the Goods of this Monastery was taken Anno Dom. 1420. before Iohn Powle Abbot of Hales-Owen Visitor of this Place and it was then found that they had no Monies in their Treasury but were 43 l. 4 s. in Debt and the House ingaged in 62 l. 6. d. In the Sacristy one Silver-Cup gilt for keeping the Sacrament two great Chalices gilt and twelve lesser ones a great Silver Vessel full of Relicks a great Silver Cross gilt with the Images of Mary and Iohn two Candlesticks Silver and gilt c. In the Treasury many pieces of Plate some of great size c. In divers Mannors belonging to this Church four and thirty Horses ten Mares four Foals one hundred and fifty four Oxen seven Bulls nine and fifty Cows c. three hundred eighty and one Muttons one hundred Lambs c. seventeen Boars twenty four Sows thirty three Hogs one hundred and twenty six lesser Swine and eighty nine Pigs Valued at the Suppression at 249 l. 16 s. 1 d. per Annum Of the Order of St. Gilbert of Sempringham A NVN OF Y e ORDER OF St. GILBERT Vol. 2. P. 669 THe Institutions made by the blessed Gilbert and his Successors for the Government of this Order of Sempringham are very large and cousist of Divers general Chapters or Heads and those divided into many Subdivisions I shall take Notice only of the Principal Titles And refer to the Book at large for particulars The first Treats of the Rise and beginning of the Order and of the Election of the Master c. Of the Principal Examiners or Searchers Scrutatoribus their Constitution and Authority c. Of the four Procurators in each House of this Order c. Of the Canons and Novices and their Age and of the Lay Canons c. Of the Brothers their Institution Apparel and Duties c. Of the Nuns and such matters as relate to them and their Houses Of the Lay Sisters their Apparel and manner of Life Of the Sick and Infirm Nuns and Sisters how to be treated Of the Office of the Dead and Funeral Matters c. Of some Rules relating equally to the Nuns and Sisters Of the Unity and friendship between all the Houses of this Order Of the Grand Chapter of the Order to be held yearly In the end of this last Chapter the Founder of the Order Provides that in the Several Houses of the Men the Number shall not exceed 394 in all and in those of the Women the number of Nuns and Sisters together shall not exceed 960. THis order was first Instituted in England in the Reign of King Steven An. Dom. 1148. by Master Iohn Gilbert of Semplingham William Bishop of Norwich writ a very high Commendation of this Gilbert and of all the Religious of his Order by way Testimonial to Pope Alexander III. The Priory of Sempringham in Lincolnshire FOunded by Gilbert de Gaunt and by him and others endow'd with divers Lands in Lincolnshire Iohn Dalderby Bishop of Lincoln by his Deed dated at Buchden An. Dom. 1303. granted License to the Schollers of the Convent of Sempringham Studying Divinity or Philosophy in St. Peter's Parish in Stamford to have a Chaplain to celebrate in their private Chappel there saving the Rights of the Parish-Church of St. Peter there Robert Lutterel Rector of Irnham gave for the maintenance of the said Schollers so studdying at Stamford as aforesaid the House where they inhabited with divers Lands and Tenements in Keten Cotismore and Casterton in Rutland Vid. Vol. 3. p. 107. Valued at 317 l. 4 s. 1 d. per Annum HAVERHOLME in Lincolnshire FOunded by Alexander Bishop of Lincoln and by him endowed with the Isle then called Hasreholm An. Dom 1139. Valued at 70 l. 15 s. 10 d. ob per Annum CHIKESAND in Bedfordshire PAganus de Bellocampo and Rohaisa his Wife gave many Lands to this House King Edward the II in the tenth year of his Reign granted his License to Iohn Blundel to give the Mannor of Chikesonde with its appurtenances to the Prior and Convent of this House Valued at 212 l. 3 s. 5 d. ob per Annum BOLINGTON in Lincolnshire FOunded by Simon Fitz William in his Park of Bolyngton and by him endowed with part of his said Park and divers other Lands in pure and perpetual Alms. William de Kima confirm'd to the Prior and Convent of both Sexes at Bolyngton all their Lands and Revenues A. D. 1256. Robert Putrel of Cotes being received into the Fraternity of this House gave them at the sametime the Church of Houtun and Advowson of the same The Crevequers or Creukers Barons of Redburn were Benefactors to this Priory giving divers Lands in pure and perpetual Alms. Valued at 158 l. 7 s. 11 d. per Annum A CANNON REGVLAR OF St. GILBERT Vol. 2. P. 791 WATTON in Yorkshire FOunded by Eustachius Son of Iohn and Agnes his Wife for Nuns and thirteen Canons to serve and provide for them according to the Institution of the Order of Sempringham To whom he gave the Town of Watton c. Confirm'd by William Fossard Lord of the Fee and by Henry Archbishop of York Confirm'd also by Roger de Lasci Constable of Chester descended from the said Eustachius King Iohn also gave them Lands in the first year of his Reign Eustachius the Founder married for his first Wife a Daughter and Heir of Ivo de Vescy from which match descended several of the Vescys and for his second Wife Agnes Daughter of William Constable of Chester Valued at 360 l. 16 s. 10 d. ob per Annum ALVINGHAM in Lincolnshire PEter de Melsa and Beatrix his Wife gave to the Church of St. Mary of Alvingham and to the Nuns and
and Isabella de Say his Wife gave the Church of St. George of Clune to the Monks of St. Milburge at Wendloke Pag. 614. DUDLEY THe Church and Monastery of St. Iames at Dudley was founded and endow'd by Gervaise Paganel or Painel who granted that in whatsoever Pastures his own Cattle fed there also the Cattel of the Monks of Dudley might freely feed except in his Parks with tithe of his Bread hunting and fishing while he remains at Dudley An. 1290 Roger Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield granted a Remission of forty days penance to those who being truly contrite and confest should say the Lords Prayer and Salutation of the Blessed Virgin for the Soul of Roger de Somery buried in the Conventual Church of Dudley and for the Souls of all the Faithful deceas'd Pag. 619. LEWIS TO this House did belong divers Lands Churches and Tithes in Devonshire Sassex Surrey Kent and Norfolk the several Names of which and of the Benefactors who gave them may be seen in the Book at large Pag. 636. BROMHOLME KIng Edward II. granted to the Monks here the Mannour of Blaketon to hold in fee farm at the yearly Rent of twenty pound which Mannour did formerly belong to Edmund Earl of Kent Pag. 668. MONTEACUTE THis Monastery was founded by William Earl of Moriton near the Castle of Monteacute for Monks of Cluny and to it he gave the Burgh and Castle of Montacute and the Chappel in the Castle together with many other Mannours Lands Churches Tiths Fairs and Hundreds Pag. 687. TICKFORD GErvasius Paganell gave and confirm'd to the Monks of the Church of the blessed Mary at Newport divers Lands and Revenues given them by his Ancestors and by other men which held of his Fee An. 1187. These Monks of Newport the same with Tickford were here as a Cell to St. Martins call'd Majus Monasterium or Marmonstier in France Pag. 704. WAVERLEY POpe Eugenius the III. by his Bull dated at Paris An. 1147. granted to the Monks of this House and their Successors inter alia that no Tithes should be by any exacted of them for their Lands or Cattel in their own hands or occupation Pag. 768. CUMBERMERE BAldwin and Hubert successive Archbishops of Canterbury confirm'd to these Monks and their Successors several Churches and Chappels to them given among the rest that of Namptwiche Pag. 782. BILDWAS FOunded by Roger Bishop of Coventry Hugh Bishop of Coventry gave these Monks an Inn in Litchfield for their Reception when they came thither William Fitz-Alan gave them the Town of Little Bildewas with other Lands Henry Abbot of this House granted to Hamon de Benthale in consideration that his Mother was burden'd with many Children and at her instance a certain Allowance and stipen'd in this Monastery for Term of his Life which afterwards 11 E. 2. in consideration of a Sum of Money in hand paid to him by Iohn then Abbot the said Hamon did Release and Quit claim An. 1287 Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Constable of Chester confirm'd an exchange made between the Monks of this House and those of Crokesden viz. of Caldon Grange in Com. Stafford being of his Fee for certain Lands in Edwyneye in Com. Salop. Pag. 802. NEWMINSTER THE first and principal Founder of this Abby was the Lord Ralph de Merley from whom descended two Sisters who became Co-heirs to the Barony of Merley Mary married to William Baron of Graystok and Isabella married to the Lord Robert de Somervill all whose descendants were great Benefactors to this House so also were the Bertrams Barons de Mitford with divers others Ralph Baron of Graystok who died An. 1483. was also Baron of Wemme George Dacre Lord of Gillesland and Graystok died young and untimely by the accidental fall of a Wooden Vaulting-Horse An. 1569. he being then in Wardship with the Duke of Norfolk Pag. 866. DORE ROger de Clifford gave his Body to God and the blessed Mary and the Monks of Dore to be buried in the Church of Dore and with his body he gave them certain Land nomine Dotis Pag. 885. BLANCLAND PAganus de Cadurcis Son and Heir of the Lady Hawisia de London gave to the Cistercian Monks of Albaland nineteen Acres of arable Land that every Priest of the said House should daily in the Canon of the Mass make special commemoration for the Souls of such and such of his Family pro vivis inter Vivos pro defunctis inter mortuos Whose Deed bears date An. 1270. Pag. 892. DEULACRES ROger de Menilwarin gave to the Monks of this House for the Health of the Soul of Ranulph Earl of Chester and Lincoln his Mothers Brother in pure and perpetual Alms free Common in his Wood of Pevere House-bote and Hay-bote with Paunage for fifty Hogs Pag. 893. CLUNOCK-VAUR FOunded and endow'd by one Gwithno King Cadwalader and divers Welch Lords gave large Possessions to this Abby dedicated to God and St. Beyno Pag. 916. ROBERTSBRIG ALice Countess of Eu Daughter of William Earl of Arundell and of Queen Alizia gave Lands to this Abby in pure and perpetual Alms ad hospitalitatem sustentandam for the maintenance of Hospitality Which Lands were confirm'd to them by William the third Earl of Sussex her Brothers Son and by Iohn de Augo her Son Pag. 926. BEAULIEU KING Iohn gave out of his Treasury one hundred Mark for the building this Abby in Newforest and directed his Letters to all Abbots of the Cistercian Order to be helpful to the re-edifying of the same out of their several Stocks Pag. 936. VALE-ROYAL PRince Edward Son of King Henry the III. being in great danger of drowning at Sea as he return'd from the Holy Land vow'd in case he and his came safe to Land to erect a new Monastery in honour of God's blessed Mother Mary in some proper place in England and endow the same with sufficient maintenance for one hundred Cistercian Monks Which Monastery being afterwards built and by him named Vale Royal a Convent was translated thither from the Abby of Dore. In the year 1277 the said Edward being then King of England laid the first Stone of a new Building in the place design'd for the great Altar and after his example all the prime Nobility of the Land did the like in honour of our Lord Christ the Virgin Mary and the Holy Confessors St. Nichelas and Nichafius Their first Habitation was but small yet there they remain'd for the time of four Abbots till in the year 1330. the Convent was translated to a new Monastery on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin The place where this Monastery was situated was before call'd Munechene wro in Latin Monachorum silua Munchene in old English signifying a Monk or Nun and Wro a Wood. 'T is said that many years before this Monastery was founded in the place Shepherds and Country People did usually on the Solemn Feasts of the Virgin about Midnight hear Coelestial Musick and see such
de Lincoln 6. years 9. Richard de Normanton the second time Ruled 1. year 10. Iohn Horsley 26. years 11. Ioh Wodhouse 15. Weeks 12. William Horsley 21. years 13. Roger de Kyrkton 3. years 14. William de Bone 42. years 15. Herry Monyasche 39. years 16. Iohn Spondone 33. years 17. Iohn Stanley 22. years 18. Richard de Nottingham 19. years Pag. 605. CROXTON AVicia de Romely Lady of Bescaudeby was married to William Paynel who came into England with William the Conqueror and of whose guilt he had divers Towns in Yorkshire Lincolnshire and Leicestershire which William and Avice had issue a daughter named Alice or Avice whom King H. II gave in Marriage to Robert de Gant who had issue by her another Alâ—ce or Avice whom the same King Henry gave in Marriage to Robert Fitz-Harding of Bristol who had issue Maurice who dying without issue his Mothers Iâ—heritance came to Andrew Lutterel as next of the Bloud of the Paynells Pag. 607. LEYSTONE RAnulfus de Glanville founded the Abby of St. Mary at Leestune and endow'd it with the Mannour of Lâ—estune which he had of the guift of king Henry II. and with certain Churches which he had formerly given to the Canons of Buttele and now by them resign'd to the Canons of this place King Richard I. confirm'd the Estate so given to these Canons of Leystone with a Grant of divers Franchises confirm'd also by Richard Archbishop of Canterbury and by Roger Bygot Earl of Norfolk Pope Lucius granted these Canons divers Priviledges and not to pay Tithes of their proper Goods and Cattel to celebrate privately in time of a General Interdict with absolute freedom in the Election of thier Abbot with Liberty of Burial for any not Excommunicate who desire to be buried with them saving the Rights of those Churches from whence the Bodies come c. Pag. 643. BEGEHAM WIlliam de Burgelle granted certain Marish Lands to the Canons of Otteham afterwards translated to Begeham saving to the Lord of the soil the Service of half a pound of Pepper to be paid yealry on the Vigil of Chirstmass for all Custom and exaction DURFORD Abby in Sussex FOunded and endow'd with Lands c. by Henry Hesatus Lord of Herting in the County of Sussex confirmed by King Henry the II. who also granted them a Fair for three days yearly at Herting viz. on the Nativity of St. Iohn Baptist and two days next before Confirm'd also by Hillary and Seffrid Bishops of Chichester and by William de Percy c. Valued at 98 l. 4 s. 5 d. Per Annum STIXWOLD Abby in Lincolnshire KING Henry VIII in the 29th year of his Reign out of the sincere Devotion which he had to the Virgin Mary and for the increase of Virtue and the Divine Worship c. founded a new Monastery of Nuns of the Order of Praemonstratenses in the place Scite and Precinct of the Old Monastery of Stixwold in Com. Lincoln lately supprest by Authority of Parliament to consist of a Prioress and Nuns there to officiate in the Divine Offices for the good Estate of him and of his most dear Consort Iane Queen of England while they lived and after their deaths for their Souls and the Souls of their Children and Progenitors And made and constituted Mary Missenden Prioress of the said new Monastery and incorporated the said Prioress and Nuns by the name of the Prioress and Convent of the New Monastery of King Henry the VIII of Stixwold with capacity to receive Lands by that name to sue and be sued and to have a Common-Seal He further gave and settled on them all the Lands and Estate real and personal belonging to the old Monastery of Stixwold in as full and ample manner as Helena Key late Prioress of the said Monastery enjoy'd the same on the same on the 4th of Feb. in the seven and twentieth year of his Reign or any time before at which time it came to his hands by reason of an Act of Parliament then past for the dissolving of certain Monasteries Which said Revenue was then rated at the clear yearly value of 152 l. 10 s. 7 d. and was granted to the said new Monastery to hold in Capite by the twentieth part of a Knights Fee and by the yearly Rent of 15 l. 5 s. 1 d. to be paid into the Court of Augmentations at Michaelmas and Lady-day the Statute of Mortmain or any other Statute non obstante Whose Grant bears date on the 9th of Iuly in the said nine and twentieth year and is witnessed by Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury and divers others among whom Sir Thomas Crumwell Knt. Lord Crumwell Keeper of the Privy-Seal c. Vid. 1. Vol. 486. Pag. 376. BRACKLEY RObert Earl of Leicester gave to Salomon the Clerk and his Successors one Acre of Land in Brahole Brackley in the love of God and honour of St. Iohn the Apostle and Evangelist to build a House thereon for the Receipt and Entertainment of poor People This was confirm'd afterwards by Robert his Son and Heir which Father and Son endow'd the said Hospital with divers Lands to hold in Frankalmoine Hugh Bishop of Lincoln confirm'd the Foundation of this Hospital with all the Lands and Liberties given and conferr'd upon it The like did King Henry III. in the twelfth year of his Reign Pag. 423. DOVER KING Henry the III. in the twelfth year of his Reign confirm'd to the Hospital of St. Mary at Dover divers Land and Rents given by Simon de Wardune he also confirm'd the Mannor of Rivere to the said Hospital at the Petition of Hubert de Burgo who founded the same for the sustentation of poor People and Travellers who should come thether He also ordained that upon the death or removal of the Master the Brothers of the said Hospital shall freely choose another and present him to the King or his Chief Justice who shall without difficulty give assent and then he shall be presented to the Archbishop of Cantebury to be by him instituted He also granted to the said Hospital the tenth part of the Profits of the Passage in the Port of Dover besides 10 l. and 50 s. which by two Deeds he had formerly granted them With other Revenues elsewhere Pag. 899. NEWTON THomas Archbishop of York made a Decree between Edmund Litchfield who pretended to the Office of Custos or Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen at Newton in Holderness and Edmund Percy then in Possession of the said Hospital containing that the said Percy whose title the Bishop confirms and his Successors shall pay to the said Litchfield during his Life a yearly Pension of 100 s. on the day of the Annuciation of the Blessed Virgin in the Collegiate Church of St. Thomas of Acon in London under pain of incuring the Sentence of Excommunication if upon request he does not within thirty days perform this Decree and besides it shall and may be lawful for the said Litchfield on the
or his Lieutenant the Chaplains and Clerks to have their Board from the Provost all to live and Dyet together in the same House every Chaplain to have a little Clerk to serve him in the Church and in his Chamber and not to be allow'd any other Servant that constantly at day break they rise and repair to the Chappel there say first the Mattins of the Blessed Virgin with a low voice and then sing the Mattins of the day c. that in all the Divine Offices they observe the Salisbury use that no Woman shall enter into any part of the House except the Chappel and the Hall the Provost and every Chaplain and Clerk to be sworn at their admission to the observance of these Orders and to personal Residence Which Deed of Foundation bears date in the year 1301 30. Edward I. Simon de Farham and divers others were Benefactors to this Chappel and gave divers Mannors Lands and Rents to the same All confirm'd by King Edward I. and II. Valued at 112 l. 17 s. 4 d. ob per Annum KIRKBY Super Wretheck in Leicestershire ROger Beler founded a Chantry of one Custos and twelve Chaplains in the Chappel of St. Peter adjoyning to his Mannour of Kirkeby and endow'd the same with the Advowson of the Church of Kirkeby the Mannour of Bokeminster and other Lands and Rents with Warrantry and gave the power of presenting to the Custos or Wardens place to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln c. Whose Deed of Foundation bears date in the year 1319 13. Edward II. WENGHAM in Kent POpe Gregory X. licenced Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury to establish a Provost and a Colledge of ten secular Canons in the Parish Church of Wengham instead of a Rector the said Provost to have the Parochial cure of Souls which Colledge being accordingly founded by the said Iohn he appointed that six of the said Canons should be Priests two Deacons and two Subdeacons and set out their several Prebends and how the Common distributions should be made c Whose Deed of Foundation bears date An. Dom. 1286. and was confirm'd by King Edward I. MEREWELL FOunded by Henry de Blois Bishop of Winchester for four Priests and by him endow'd with 13 l. per An. of Rent Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester made certain Orders for the Government of the said four Chaplains or Priests as that they keep one Deacon to serve them in the Church and at home that they choose yearly one of them to be their Prior that what ever Chaplain be guilty of Incontinency or other foul crimes he also shall be expell'd and further granted them besides their first endowment fifty quarter of Corn for their Common use and four Load of Hay Whose Deed bears date An. Dom. 1226. GLASENEY in Cornwall PEter Bishop of Exeter in the year 1288. made a further Provision for the Vicars of this Church first founded by his Predecessor Walter for thirteen Canons and as many Vicars Valued at 205 l. 10 s. 6 d. per Annum The Collegiate Church of Ruthin in Denbighshire JOhn Gray Lord of the Cantred of Deffencloyt in the Diocess of Bangor instituted a Colledge in the Chappel of St. Peter at Ruthin for at least seven Priests to celebrate there daily the Divine Offices one of whom to serve in the Chappel of the Castle and endow'd the same with two hundred and fifty acres of Land with Tithes and large Commons of Pasture and Paunage in his Woods for sixty Hogs c. to hold in pure free and perpetual Almes with Warranty Whose Deed of Foundation bears Date An. 1310. OTERY in Devonshire THe Dean and Chapter of Roan in the year 1335 9. Edward III. granted with Licence of the Apostolick see and the King of England their Mannour of Otery St. Mary in the County of Devon c. to Iohn de Grandisson Bishop of Exeter and instead of Warranty they delivered up to the said Bishop all their Deeds and Writings concerning the same King Edward III. in the eleventh year of his Reign granted his Licence to the said Bishop of Exeter to erect a Monastery or Collegiate Church to consist of a certain number of secular Canons at Otery St. Mary either in the Parish Church there or in some other place and to endow the same with the Mannour of Otery and to appropriate the Tithes of the said Town to the same Which Colledge was accordingly founded and endow'd by the said Bishop An. 1337 Valued at 303 l. 2 s. 9 d. per Annum The Collegiate Church or Chappel of St. Steven within the Royal Palace at Westminster THe Chappel of St. Steven in the Pallace at Westminster was nobly finisht by King Edward III tho' begun by his Progenitors which King founded therein a Dean and twelve Canons with as many Vicars and other Ministers accordingly and gave them by his Patent dated in the two and twentieth year of his Reign his great House in Lombardstret London with some advowsons obliging himself and Royal Heirs to make it up to them a Revenue of 500 l per An. In the two and thirtieth year of his Reign he gave them a Tower in Bokelesbury in London call'd Sewtes Tour with the Appurtenances In the three and fortieth year of his Reign he gave them another House in London call'd the Role with the appurtenances then valued at 20 l. per An. In further aâ—gmentation of the said Foundation he granted them all the ground from the said Chappel Northward to the receipt of the Exchequer between Westminister Hall and the Thames for making a Cloyster and other necessary Building with free Entrance day and Night at the Gate adjoyning to the Kings Bridge also a Chamber within the said Gate formerly belonging to his Clerk of the Kitchin with the Houses formerly used for Stables of War horses and other Horses c. with a Free Passage to the said Chappel by day light thro' the great Hall and exempted the said Dean and Canons and all their Lands from the Payment of any Aydes or Taxes whatsoever King Richard II. compleated the full endowment of this Colledge by settling on it divers Mannours and Lands in Kent c. according to the direction and desire of his Grandfather in his Testament Valued at 1085 l. 10 s. 5 d. per Annum The Royal Collegiate Chappel in the Castle at Windsor A Chappel for eight Canons secular having been begun in the Castle of Windsor King Edward III. who was baptized there finisht and compleated the same in honour of Almighty God his glorious Virgin Mother St. George the Martyr and St. Edward the Confessor and establisht therein a Custos or President to the former eight Canons and an addition of fifteen Canons more and four and twenty poor Knights with other Ministers of the said Chappel and endow'd the same in the two and twentieth year of his Reign with divers Churches and promised for himself and Heirs to encrease the Revenue to the Sum of 1000
18 s. 7 d. per Annum KILBURN in Middlesex a Cell of Westm. IN the Reign of King Henry the I. Herebertus Abbot of Westminster Osbert de Clara Prior and the whole Convent of Westminster gave a Hermitage at Kilburn to three Maids Emma Gunilda and Christina for a Nunnery and endow'd the same with Lands and Rents Gilbert Bishop of London gave the Jurisdiction of this Cell of Kilburn to the said Abbot and his Successors exempting it from the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of London for ever But new Contests arising about this House between the Bishop of London and Abbot of Westminster they came to an Agreement in the year 1231. That the Bishop might visit the Nunnery to preach to them and to hear their Confessions but without exacting any Procurations and that the Government of the House placing and displacing the Abbess and Nuns should belong to the Abbot as a Cell of his House c. Valued at 74 l. 7 s. 11 d. per Annum HURLEY in Barkshire a Cell of Westminster GOdefridus de Magnavilla gave to God and St. Peter and to the Church of Westminster and St. Mary of Hurley the Town of Hurley with divers other Lands and Tithes for the Maintenance of a Convent of Monks to serve God in the said Church for ever All which was confirm'd to the Priors and Monks of Hurley by William Bishop of London In the year 1258. Godefridus Prior of Hurley and his Covent made an exchange with Absolon Abbot of Walden of some of their Revenues Valued at 121 l. 18 s. 5 d. per Annum MALVERNE in Worcestershire a Cell of Westminster IN the eighteenth year of William the Conqueror one Aldwine a Hermit and his Brethren began the Monastery here King William the Conqueror and others gave Lands and Revenues to this House but more especially King Henry the first who by his Charter dated in the year 1127. granted and confirm'd to them many Lands and great Liberties and Immunities Vid. Vol. 2. p. 876. Valued at 98 l. 10 s. 9 d. ob per Annum AUCOT in Warwickshire a Cell of Malverne-magna WIlliam Burdet gave all his Land in Aucot to God and St. Mary of Malverne and to the Monks there in the year 1159. From among which Monks he was to have by agreement betwixt him and Roger Prior of that House a certain number for the Institution of a Monastery here The Prior of which House was to be constituted by the Prior of Malverne by and with the advice of the Abbot of Westminster Valued at 28 l. 6 s. 2 d. per Annum SUDBURY in Suffolk a Cell of Westminster KING Edward the III. in the thirty fifth year of his Reign granted his License to Richard Roke of Westminster to settle certain Land in Sudbury and Holgate upon the Abbot and Convent of Westminster or the relief of their poor Cell of St. Bartholomew near Sudbury St. NEOTS in Huntingtonshire SAint Neot was Son of King Adulphus and Brother of King Alured who founded the University of Oxford He was a Monk at Neotestoke in Cornwall and from thence his Body was translated to Anulphesbury in Huntingtonshire where Earl Elfrid converted his Palace into a Monastery of black Monks Which being afterwards spoild and burnt down by the Danes was in the Reign of King Henry the I. An. Dom. 1113. re-edified by Rohesia Wife of Richard Son of Earl Gislibert about which time it was given as a Cell to the Abby of Bec in Normandy The foresaid Lady and divers others gave Lands and Revenues to the Monks of Bec serving God at St. Neots It appears by the Bull of Pope Celestine directed to the Bishop of Lincoln that the Prior and Convent of St. Neots being their House was situated on a famous and great Road did use to bestow meat and drink on all Travellers who desired it and to this only use they did appropriate certain Rents and Pensions which they received yearly from the Churches of Eynesbury and Torney In the Reigns of Henry the IV. and Henry the V. This Monastery was discharg'd of its Foreign Subjection to the Abby of Bec and made an English Priory Vid. Vol. 2. p. 876. Valued at 241 l. 11 s. 4 d. q. per Annum SELBY in Yorkshire KING William the Conqueror founded the Abby here for Benedictine Monks in honour of our Lord Iesus Christ and his blessed Mother the Virgin Mary and St. Germain the Bishop Which King and several other persons did endow it with large Possessions in particular Guido de Raincourt gave to this Church of St. Germain in Selby his Town of Stamford in Northamptonshire Thomas Archbishop of York Gilbert Tâ—sâ—n chief Standard-bearer of England Gaulerannus Earl of Mellent Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Constable of Chester c. gave other Lands and great Libertiesâ— All which King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign confirm'd to the Monks here Also King Edward the III. did in the second year of his Reign confirm to them all their Liberties and Exemptions whereupon in the twenty second of that King they were excused from paying to the King in any of their Lands purchased before the abovesaid second year any aâ—d for knighting his eldest Son c. Vaued at 729 l. 12 s. 10 d. q. per Annum SHREWSBURY in Shropshire IN the year 1083. Roger Earl of Montgomery built here a Monastery in honour of St. Peter To this House he gave great Possessions and after his Example other Barons and Knights of that County did the like After the death of the said Roger Hugh his Son and Heir gave other Lands and great Liberties and Immunities with a heavy Curse to the Violaters The like did King Henry the I. and King Steven confirming their said Liberties in so large a manner that nothing could be added to them Other principal Benefactors were Matilda de Lungespe Daughter and Heir of Walter de Clifford Walchelinus Maminot Willielmus Peverell and Richard Fitz-Allen Earl of Arundel c. All whose Guifts and Benefactions were confirm'd to the Abbot and Monks of this House by King Henry the III. in the eleventh year of his Reign Valued at 132 l. 4 s. 10 d. per Annum St. MARY's at York THE History of the Foundation of this Abby was writ by Stephen who had been Abbot of Whitby and was after that made the first Abbot of this House In which the most observable matters are as follows Alan Son of Eudo Earl of Brittain having built a Church adjoyning to the City of York in honour of St Olave gave it to the foresaid Stephen and his Companions with four Acres of Land thereon to erect a Monastery This was about the year 1088. in the Reign of King William the Conqueror Who dying his Son and Successor King William Rufus gave them Land whereon to build a larger Church and gave to the Monastery divers Lands Liberties and Exemptions Also Earl Alan their first Founder gave them the adjoynig
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
Successors shall add to this Donation sufficient wherewith to maintain a Covent here that then the said Abbot of Reading should send a Covent hither MAY in Scotland a Cell to Reading THIS Priory was founded by David King of Scotland and endow'd with several Lands in Scotland by the said David and Malcolm and William successively Kings of Scotland SHIRBURN in Dorsetshire THE Bishops Seat which is now at Salisbury did of old time for many years remain at Shirburn but since that time Monks were placed here instead of secular Canons The Abby-Church here dedicated to our Lady was in the time of Abbot Bradeford set on fire and a great part burnt in a Dissention which happened between the Townesmen and the Monks but the Townesmen were made to contribute to the Reparation King Hen. 2. granted and confirm'd certain Lands to this Abby Valued at 682 l. 14 s. 7 d. ob per Annum CADWELLI in the Diocess of St. David's in Wales a Cell to Shirburn THIS Priory of Cadwelli was given to the Church of St. Mary's of Shirburnâ— and to Thurstan Prior there and his Successors by Roger Bishop of Salsbury Maurice of London and others were Benefactors Pope Alexander by his Bull dated 1163. confirm'd to the Abby of Shirburn all its Lands and Revenues among others the Parish Church of St. Mary of Shirburn which the Abbot of that Abby held as a Prebend of the Church of Salisbury also the Church of St. Mary of Cadwelli with all the Chappels and Tithes thereunto belonging c. all which Grants and Deeds were ratified approved and confirm'd and also exemplified by David Bishop of St. David's Anno Dom. 1303. Valued at 29 l. 10 s. per Annum CARHOW in Norfolk THIS was a Nunnery founded and endow'd by King Steven near the City of Norwich King Iohn in the first year of his Reign granted to the Nuns here a Fair to be held yearly at the Nativity of our Lady with the like Liberties as the Monks enjoy in their Fair at Norwich King Henry the III. in the thirteenth year of his Reign confirmed their Estate Valued at 64 l. 16 s. 6 d. q. per Annum GRENDALE in Yorkshire AVicia Prioress of the Covent of Nuns in the Church of St. Mary of Grendale granted in fee-farm to Ralf Prior and to the Convent of Giseburn certain Lands which had been to the said Nuns given by Eugeramus de Bovington to hold at the yearly Rent of four Quarters of Wheat yearly to be paid half at the Feast of St. Martins in Winter and half at Whitsontide Richard de Percy then Patron of this Priory granted the Advowson thereof to Richard Malebisse and his Heirs for ever yeilding in â—eu of all Service one pound of Incense yearly at the Feast of Pentecost which by the same Deed he assigned to be paid to the said Priory CLERKENWELL in Middlesex JOrdanus Son of Radulfus Son of Brian gave to God St. Mary and all Saints and to Robert the Chaplain in Alms fourteen Acres of Land lying near the Clerks-well fons clericorum freed and discharged from all Claims of the Hospitallers of St. Iohn or Ierusalem this he gave to the said Robert to the end that he might there build a religious House such as he thought fit for God's service Which being built and made a Nunnery Matilda de Ros Daughter of Richard Canvilla Girard de Canvill Henry de Essex and others were Benefactors whose Gifts were confirm'd by Richard Bishop of London An. Dom. 1194. and by the Heirs General of the Founder who also granted other Lands and Possessions lying round the Nunnery All which Lands and Possessions were confirm'd to the Church of St. Mary de Fonte Clericorum adjoyning to London and the Nuns there by King Henry the II. Valued at 262 l. 19 s. per Annum WROXHALL in Warwickshire HVgh Lord of Wroxhall and Hatton being taken Prisoner at the holy War in Palestine and detain'd in Chaâ—â—s there was by miracle removed from thence and set down in his own Estate at Wroxhall whereupon he built a Nunnery here for Benedictine Nuns in honour of God and St. Leonard to whom he had made his Prayers when in distress and made his two Daughters Nuns here The Names of the Prioresses 1 Ernborow 2 Helin 3 Sabin 4 Helin 5 Mawd. 6 Emme 7 Mawd. 8 Ceceâ—ie 9 Ide 10 Amis Abtot 11 Annis 12 Sibill Abtot 1284. King Henry the II. and several others were Benefactors all whose Gifts were confirm'd to this House in the first of King Edward the III. Valued at 72 l. 15 s 6 d. per Annum COLNE in Essex a Cell to Abington ALbericus de Veer the Kings Chamberlain gave and confirm'd to God and St. Mary and to the Monks of Abington at Coln serving God in the Church of St. Andrew there divers Land and Revenues King Henry the I. in the year 1111. authorized and confirm'd the Subjection of this Church to that of Abington and all the Estate given unto it by the said Albericus de Veer and others of his Family Which Albericus before his death became a Monk in this House and dying was here buried as were also his Sons In the year 1311 a Composition and Agreement was made between Richard Abbot of Abington and Iohn de Campeden Prior of Colun and their several Convents containing that the Prior and Covent of Coln might choose and admit their own Monks from what parts they please and that no Monks should be sent thither from the Convent of Abyndon that the Convent of Coln might choose their own Prior who was to be presented to and allow'd by the Abbot of Abyndon saâ—ing to the Abbot the right of visiting the said Priory of Coln In consideration of which Liberty the Monks of Coln did with the Consent of Robert de Veer Earl of Oxford their Patron grant to the Abbot of Abyndon their Lordship of Kensington Vid. Vol. 2. p. 877. Valued at 156 l. 12 s. 4 d. ob per Annum CANEWELL in Staffordshire GEva Daughter of Hugh Earl of Chester and Wife of Ieoffrey Ridell founded the Church in honour of St. Mary and St. Giles and All Saints in Canewell for Monks and with the grant and allowance of her Heirs Ieoffrey Ridell and Ralph Basset endow'd it with divers Lands The said Ralph Basset was a Benefactor to this House and so was Waleran Earl of Warwick FARWELL in Staffordshire ROger Bishop of Chester whose Seat was since translated to Lichfield gave the Church of St. Mary at Faurwelle to Nuns and devout Women this he did at the request of three Hermits inhabiting at Faurwelle and endow'd the same with Lands to hold as freely as he himself did from God and the King all which King Henry the II. confirm'd to the said Nuns and also gave them of his own Charity divers other Lands and Liberties PINLEY in Warwickshire R de Pilaâ—dinton gave this place to be a Nunnery which was confirm'd to the Nuns here by Alured
which was confirm'd by King Henry the III. in the eleventh year of his Reign who also in the fiftieth year of his Reign released and pardon'd their Suit-service to his Court at St. Martins le Grand in London TYKEHEAD Priory in Yorkshire KING Iohn in the fifth year of his Reign confirm'd to God and the Church of St. Mary of Tykeheved and to the Nuns there serving God the Lands and Possessions then given them by several Benefactors In the year 1264. the Prior and Canons of Ellerton and the Nuns of Tykehead exchanged certain Lands and Houses which had been the occasions of former Suits and Controversies Sir Robert de Aske Kt. the Founder gave to this House the Rent of 7 s. 4 d. per Annum for the maintaining of a yearly Obit for himself and Elizabeth his Wife conditionally that if the Obit were not diligently observ'd then the said Sum or Rent to be restored to his Heirs Dated 1522. Valued at 20 l 18 s. 10 d. per Annum HUNTINGTON Priery of Nuns IN the time of Richard de Gravesend Bishop of Lincoln Elena Walensis was elected Prioress of the Priory of St. Iames extra Huntedâ—n the Lady Dervorgull de Galewidia being then Patroness of the said Priory and Richard de Fâ—xton her Senâ—schal or Steward CLIVE in Somersetshire WIlliam de Romare who married Lucy Countess of Lincoln founded the Abby of the blessed Virgin and St. Laurence at Rewsby in Lincolnshire 8. Steph. William his youngest Son by the said Lucy who married Phillip Daughter of Hubert de Burgh Earl of Kent founded the Abby of our blessed Lady of the Cliff in Somersetshire in the 9 Rich. 1. of which one Ralph was the first Abbot King Henry the III. confirm'd their Lands and Estate and moreover granted to the Abbot and Convent of Clive the Mannor and Hundred of Bramton in Devonshire to be held of the King and his Heirs at the yearly Farm of 22 l. per Annum Valued at 155 l. 9 s. 5 d. q. per Annum HALIWEL Priory in Middlesex KING Richard the I. in the sixth year of his Reign confirm'd to the Nuns of Haliwell the several Lands given to them by Galfredus Camerarius and others The same King in the first year of his Reign confirm'd to the Church of St. Iohn Baptist of Haliwell and to the Nuns there serving God the Ground on which the said Church stands cum pertin viz. the Marish or Meadow in which the Fountain call'd Haliwell rises with other Lands given by Richard late Bishop of London Walter Precentor of St. Pauls c. These Nuns held also certain Lands at Camerwell and Pecham given to them by several Benefactors KERSEY Priory in Suffolk NEsta de Cokefeld Widow of Thomas de Burgo gave to God and to the Church of St. Mary and St. Anthony of Kersey and to the Canons there divers Lands of which she and her second Husband past a fine in the 24. Hen. 3. KINGTON Priory in Wilishire RObert Burnell Bishop of Bath and Wells founded this House to God and St. Mary for Nuns whose Deed of Foundation was exemplified by Inspectimus 19. F. I. Vid. Vol. 2. p. 887. Valued at 25 l. 9 s. 1 d. ob per Annum BURNHAM in Buckinghamshire ANno Dom. 1266. Richard King of the Romans founded a Monastery here for Nuns which he dedicated to God and St. Mary and endow'd it with his Mannor and Advowson of Burnham and other Lands Witnesses to whose Deed or Charter of Foundation were his Brother King Henry the III. and Prince Edward his eldest Son with others Valued at 51 l. 2 s. 4 d. q. per Annum STOKE-CLARE Priory in Suffolk THIS House was founded in the year 1248. by Richard de Clare Earl of Glouceâ—ter from whom descended the Mortimers Earls of March and the Royal House of â—ork as is set forth in a long Pedigree in Latin and English Verse in Dialogue between a Fryer and a Secular at the Tomb of Ioan of Acres Daughter of Edward the 〈◊〉 and Wise of Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester This House being an alâ—en Priory and Cell to the Abby of Beekeherlewyn in Normandy King Richard the II. in the ninteenth 〈◊〉 of his Reign made it Indigena and gave it as a Cell to St. Peters at Westminster Pope Iohn in the fifth year of his Pontisicate translated this House from a Priory of Monks into a Colledge of a Dean and Secular Canons This was done at the Petition of Edwund Earl of March Heir of the first Founders who by his Deed dated 7. Hen. 5. granted and confirm'd to the Dean and Canons here all the Lands and Priviledges belonging to the Priory Vid. infra 1004. Vol. 3. part 2. p. 164. Valued at 324 l. 4 s. 1 d. ob per Annum GLOUCESTER-HALL in the Suburbs of Oxford THIS was founded and endow'd An. 1283. 11. E. 1. for the maintenance of thirteen Benedictine Monks of the Abby of Gloucester by Iohn Giffard Lord of Brimesfeild 19. E. 1. That King granted his License of Mortmain It appears by the Founders Deed of Foundation that the House was built upon certain Ground purchased of the Knights of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in a Lane commonly then called Stockwell street that the Church here was dedicated to St. Iohn the Apostle and St. Benedict the Abbot and Confessor and that the House was erected for Benedictine Monks Causa studii MISSENDEN in Buckinghamshire IT was found by Inquision taken at Aylesbury 51. E. 3. that the Abby of Mussenden was â—ounded in the year 1293. by William de Mussenden who held the Mannor of Mussenden of the Earl of Gloucester by Knights service In the Chapter-House and Church belonging to this Abby did lie buried several of the Missendens descended from the Founder whose names may be seen in the Book at large Vid. Vol. 3. p. 18. Valued at 261 l. 14 s. 6 d. q. per Annum The MINORESSES at London KING Edward the I. in the one and twentieth year of his Reign granted his License of Mortmain to Edmund his Brother and his Wife Blanch Queen of Nauarre to build a House in â—â—e Parish of St. Botulphs without Algate for Nuns of the Order of Minoresses there to remain in the service of God the blessed Mary and St. Francis Vaued at 318 l. 8 s. 5 d. per Annum WATERBECHAM in Cambridgshire KING Edward the I. in the twenty second year of his Reign granted to Dionisia de Monte-Caniso the Mannor of Waterbecke to build a Rengious House there for Minoresses of the Order of St. Clare to be brought over from beyond the Seas All which was confirm'd by King Edward the III. in the eleventh year of his Reign HOLAND in Lancashire HERE being formerly a Collegiate Church or Chappel of St. Thomas the Martyr served by Secular Chaplains Walter Bishop of Coventry and Litchfeild in the year 1319. by consent of Robert de Holland the Patron alter'd the Foundation into a Priory consisting of a Prior
l. 9 s. 10 d. ob q. per Annum LOUTH-PARK in Lincolnshire Founded An. 1139. THe Founder of this Monastery was Alexander Bishop of Lincoln who procured Monks for it from the Abby of Fountains but their first Settlement being at a place called Haverholm which Seat not being convenient for their Habitation he removed them from thence to this Place Besides the said Bishop they had divers other Benefactors all whose donations were confirm'd to God and St. Mary and the Monks de Parcho-Lude by King Henry the III. in the tenth year of his Reign Valued at 147 l. 14 s. 6 d. per Annum KIRKSTED in Lincolnshire THIS House was founded in the year 1139. by Hugh de Bretone a Baron of those times and by him endow'd with divers Lands Other Benefactors were the Furnivalls D' Aencurts and D'arci's c. Richard de Luvetot gave and annext to this House the Hermitage of St. Iohn in the Parish of Ecclesfeild with the Land thereunto belonging Conan Duke of Britain and Earl of Richmund gave to this Abby the Church of Gaiton with two Carucates and a half of Land c. Valued at 286 l. 2 r. 7 d. per Annum KINGS WOOD in Gloucestershire Founded An. 1139. THis House was founded by William de Berkeley for Cistercian Monks and the Foundation confirm'd by Maud the Empress but afterwards for many years it became a Grange depending on the Abby of Tettebiry and a long contest was had about this Matter till at last it was from a Grange advanced to the name of the Abby of Kingeswode The Lands and Endowments given to this Abby by the Founder were confirm'd by several of the Berkleys his noble Descendants Valued at 244 l. 11 s. 2 d. per Annum PIPWELL in Northamptonshire THis Monastry was first founded An. Dom 1143. and then called Sancta Maria de Divisis among thick Woods which were in after times destroyed In the year 1323â— the Monks here were dispersed thro' Poverty Their first Founder was William Boutevileyn of Cottesbrook from whom descended one Robert Boutevileyn who did many unkindnesses to these Monks This was before their dispersion Hugh Senlize and Emma his Wife one of the Daughters and Heirs of the Lord of Braybroke gave to the Monks of Pipwell divers Lands and Tenements in Braybroke confirm'd by the Capital Lord of the Fee Simon de Foxton and these seem to be the second Founders King Henry III. granted to these Monks pasture on Benifield Laund for 250 Cattle Valued at 286 l. 11 s. 8 d. q. per Annum STONELEY in Warwickshire MAud the Empress first founded the Priory of Rademere in the Forest Kanoc confirmed by King Steven This Priory was afterwards advanced to an Abby of Cistercian Monks by Henry Fitz Empress then Duke of Normandy In the year 1154â— which was thirteen years after the Monks had remained at Rademore theâ— foresaid Henry Fitz Empressâ— being now King of England they changed their habitation of Radmore for Stanley and the whole Lordship of the same which was before that the Kings Demesn The first stone of the Abby Church there was laid on the Ides of April An. Dom. 1154. The said King Henry I. endow'd this House with divers other Lands and Revenues elsewhere Valued at 151 l. 0 s. 3 d. ob per Annum COGESHAL in Essex THis Abby was founded by King Steven and Maud his Queen in the year 1142. William de Humberstane with the Kings License gave the Mannor of Tyllingham-Hall for the finding of one Wax light to burn before the High Altar at the Abby Church here in the time of high Mass daily The Monks of this House were endowed with great Immunities Valued at 251 l. 2 s. per Annum REVESBY in Lincolnshire Founded An. 1142. THe Founders of this House were William de Romara Farl of Lincoln and William his Son who gave to the Abbot and Monks of Rievalle Revesby Thoresby and other Lands in Lincolnshire for the building and endowment of this House This Abby was dedicated to St. Laurence The Lands and Reuenues were confirm'd by Ralph Earl of Chester and by King Richard I. in the tenth year of his Reign Valued at 287 l. 2 s. 4 d. ob per Annum CUMHIRE in Pembrokshire THis House was founded by Cadwathel ap Madok in the year 114â— for Sixty White Monks King Henry III in the sixteenth year of his Reign confirm'd to these Monks all their Lands and Revenues Valued at 24 l. 19 s. 4 d. per Annum BOXLEY in Kent WIlliam de Ipre a great Commander in King Stevens Army founded this Abby of Boxley for White Monks in the year 1144. King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign confirm'd their Estate with Sac Soc. Valued at 204 l. 4 s. 11 d. per Annum SINNINGTHWAIT in Yorkshire THis House was founded for Nuns by Beriram Haget and confirm'd by Roger de Mubrai his superiour Lord. Iessery Archbishop of York took these Nuns and their Possessions into his protection and denounced a malediction against those who should dare to wrong them and a blessing to their Benefactors Alice Widow of Adam de Stanely gave with her self nine Bovates of Land in Berewik super Theseiam which was afterwards changed with Ranulf Fitz Henry for other Lands in Lofthows Valued at 60 l. 9 s. 2 d. per Annum ESSEHOLT in Yorkshire a Cell to Sinningthwait POpe Alexander the third by his Bull dated in the year 1172. confirm'd to Christian Prioress of Sinningthwait and the Nuns thereâ— and their Successors their House and Estate both at Sinningthayte and at Esseholt with all Lands already given or to be given to their said Houses With Priviledge of Sanctuary Valued at 13 l. 5 s. 4 d. per Annum WOBURN in Bedfordshire Founded An. 1145. THIS was founded and endowed by Hugh de Bolebock by advice of Henry Abbot of Fountains from whence a Convent of Monks was sent to this place King Iohn in the second year of his Reign confirmed the Estate of this House so did also King Henry the II. Valued at 391 l. 18 s. 2 d. ob per Annum MEREVAL in Warwickshire Founded An. 1148. THIS was founded by Robert Earl of Ferrariis and by him endowed with all the Forest of Arden with other Lands All which was confirm'd By King Henry the II. Valued at 254 l. 1 s. 8 d. per Annum HAMPOLE in Yorkshire THIS House was founded for Nuns by Avicia de Tanai and endowed by her with divers Lands of her Inheritance all which were confirmed by Ralph de Tillâ—â—er Grandson by Roger Archbishop of York and by William Fitz William An. 1331. Valued at 63 l. 5 s. 8 d. per Annum VALLE-DEI alias Vaudey in Lincolnshire THE Abby here was founded by William Earl of Albemarl in the year 1147. It was at first called Biham but afterwards Vallis-dei and was planted with Monks from Fountains The same Founder erected also the Abby of Meaux of which supra p. 792. Many
THIS was founded by Iohn de Toryton The Lands given to these Monks were recited and confirm'd by King Iohn in the sixteenth year of his Reign Vid. Vol. 2. p. 918. Valued at 135 l. 3 s. 6 d. per Annum HOLMCOLTRUM in Cumberland Founded An. 1150. KIng Henry II seems to have been the Founder of this Abby King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign confirm'd their Lands as 〈◊〉 also K. Henry III. in the 39. year of his Reign Iohn Gernoun and Margaret his Wife founded and endow'd a Chantry in this Abby Church for four Chaplains Monks of this House and two secular Chaplains This Iohn than held two parts of the Mannor of Wyggeton by Cornage As was found by Inquisition 6 E. 3. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 34. Valued at 427 l. 19 s. 3 d. ob q. per Annum TARENT in Dorsetshire THis Abby was founded for Nuns of the Cistercian Order by Richard Bishop of Durham Iohn Queen of Scots gave to this House cum corpore suo with her Body Lands in Stanton in Cambridgeshire to the value of 20 l. per Annum All the Estate belonging to this Monastery was confirm'd by King Henry III. who was also himself a Benefactor Valued at 215 l. 7 s. 9 d. per Annum TILTEY alias Wudeham in Essex FOunded Anno 1152. This was first given by Maurice Son of Ieffery de Teretia to the Canons of the Church of St. Iohn Baptist of Wodeham and endow'd with several Lands confirm'd by King Henry II. After wards King Richard the first confirm'd the same Estate to the Monks here settled of the Cistercian Order in the tenth year of his Reign Valued at 167. 2 s. 6 d. per Annum DEULACRES in Cheshire ANno 1153. The Abby of Pulton in Cheshire was founded by Robert Pincerna it was furnisht with Monks of the Cistercian Order from Cumbermere and was therefore called a Daughter of that House In the year 1214. the Convent was translated from Pulton to Deulacres by Ralph Earl of Chester This Ralph afterwards coming from his Expedition in the Holy Land was in a great Storm at Sea in the Night confident of deliverance at Midnight through the Suffrages of these Monks then at their Nocturnal Devotions accordingly the Storm did then begin to cease to the wonder of the Seamen This Ralph and his Successors Earls of Chester gave and confirm'd divers Lands and Possessions to this Abby Vid. Vol. 2. pag 919. CLUNOK-VAUR in Wales THe Original of this Monastery was by S. Benow of whom mention is made in the Life of St. Winefrid The White Monks here were of a newer Foundation Guithin Unkle to one of the Princes of Northwales gave the Village of Clunok to Benow Vide Vol. 2. pag. 119. STRATFLURE in Cardiganshire FOunded and endowed with divers Lands by Reese Prince of Southwales The Estate of this House called also Strata florida was confirm'd by King Henry II. and King Edward I. Valued at 118 l. 7 s. 3 d. per Annum LEGâ—URN in Lincolnshire THis Abby was founded for Nuns by Robert de Lekeburn who was buried in the Chapter house of this Nunnery at whose Interment his Son and Heir William declared publickly his confirmation of his Fathers Donations and Endowments adding of his own gift the yearly Rent of two shillings in Franckalmoign King Iohn in the first year of his Reign confirm'd the Estate of this House Valued at 38 l. 8 s. 4 d. per Annum STRATMARGEL or Strata-Marcella in Montgomeryshire FOunded An. 1170. by Madock ap Griffin By his Deed dated An. 1222 he endowed it with divers Lands and Revenues Valued at 64 l. 14 s. 2 d. per Annum STANLAW in Cheshire Founded An. 1172. THe first Founder of this House was Iohn Constable of Chester who endowed it with divers Lands and Liberties his Deed bears date 1178. These Monks of Stanlaw were afterwards translated to the Church of Whaley at which the Abbot and Convent of Salley in Torkshire were very much grieved alledging among other things that they were nigher to their Abby than the Constitutions of their Order do allow of and that it was to their damage 27l 10 s. But the differences were composed in the year 1305. by the Abbots of Ryvalle and Belland The Church of Whaley was in being in the time when St. Augustine the Monk came into England The Rectors of which Church were in after times called Deans and not Parsons and were married men who also had the ordinary Jurisdiction of the place committed to them by the Bishop These Deans had an Estate of inheritance in the Church of Whaly and the Chappels which went from Father to Son and the Cure of the Churches was supplied by certain Priests whom the Deans provided and presented to the Bishop for his License The Names of these Deans may be seen in the Book at large But after the Council of Lateran 1215. it was no longer permitted that this Church should go as an inheritance Not long after this the Church of Whaley was given by Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Lord of Blagbornshire to the Monks of Stanlaw who enter'd upon this their new Seat in the year 1296. Dom. George de Norbury being then their Abbot which Translation was ratified by the Bull of Pope Nicholas the IV. The Deed of the said Henry whereby he gave this Church of Whally with all its Rights Liberties and Appurtenants bears date in the year 1283. In the thirty fourth year of Edward the III. Henry Duke of Lancaster Earl of Derby Lincoln and Leicester gave divers Lands to the Abbot and Convent of Whalley for the maintaining of a Recluse or Anchorite and his Successors dwelling in a place within the Church-yard of the Parish-Church of Whalley and for two Women their Servants who shall be there continually praying for the said Duke his Ancestors and Heirs viz to find them every Week throughout the year fifteen Loaves of the Convent Bread each Loaf weighing fifty shillings sterling and seven Loaves of the second sort of the same weight eight Gallons of the best Ale of the Convent and three pence for their Companage to deliver them yearly at the Feast of all Saints ten Stock-fish and ten great Ling fish one bushel of Oats for their Potage one bushel of Salt two Gallons of Oyl for their Lamps one stone of Tallow for Candles six Load of Turf and one of Brushwood for Fuel to keep their House in repair and to find one of their Monks and a Clark to say Mass in the Chappel of the said Recluse daily c. The first Founder of this House Iohn de Lacy Constable of Chester and Lord of Halton married Alice Sister of William de Mandeville and died in the Holy Land Of this Family was Henry de Lacy Founder of the Abby of Kirkstall of whom before NUNAPLETON in Yorkshire THIS Priory of Nuns was founded by Adeliza de Sancto-Quintino and Robert her Son and Heir dedicated to God St.
Edward at Shaftesbury and to the Nuns there their Lands and Liberties among which was the whole hundred of the Mannor of Bradford c. St. FRIDISWIDE in Oxford Supra 174. THE Possessions of this House were enjoy'd by secular Canons for many years till in the year 1122. 22 H. 1. they were again restored to Regulars Maud the Empress confirm'd to the Church of St. Fritheswithe and the Canons Regulars divers Lands and Churches and granted them a Fair. The like did King Iohn in his first year St. WERBURG at Chester Supra 199. ANno 1119. Richard Earl of Chester confirm'd the Possessions of this House given by many Benefactors granting to the Abbot of this Monastery a Court of Pleas and that the said Abbot should not be sued nor be forced to sue out of his own Court. Ralph de Meschines Earl of Chester and his Son of the same name were great Benefactors to the Abbot and Convent of St. Werburg so also were Richard de Rullos and Robert his Brother WHITBY in Yorkshire Supra 75. WIlliam de Percy having built and endow'd in a Grove or Wood at Dunesle a Hermitage in honour of St. Iames the Apostle he gave it for ever into the Obedience and Subjection of the Church of St. Peter and St. Hylda of Whitby so that they continually cellebrate the Divine Office there by some Priest of their House WULVERHAMTON in Staffordshire IN this Town of Hampton one Wulfruna a religious Matron erected a Monastery to the honour of God the ever blessed Virgin Mary then term'd Stella maris Domina gentium and of all Saints and endow'd the same with divers Lands all which was ratified and establisht by Sigerich Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 996 by the Consent of King Ethelred The Estate of this House was afterwards confirm'd by King Edward the Confessor King William the Conqueror King Henry the II. and King Iohn who gave Timber out of his Woods towards the buildings in this Abby GLOUCESTER in Gloucestershire Supra 108. GLoucester became a Bishop's Seat in the year 189. soon after the Conversion of King Lucius Eldadym in the year 489. and Dubricius in the year 522. were Bishops there But the Seat was afterwards removed to Menevia now call'd St. Davids Wolpherus Son of Penda King of Mercia according to Malmesbury laid the first Fonndations of the Monastery here after whose death Ethelred his Brother and Successor carried on the Work committing it to the care of Osric who for this purpose he made his Prorex or Lieutenant of this Province This House was first a Nunnery and continued such under three Abbesses successively Afterwards Bernulphus King of Mercia placed here secular Canons who though Clerks and Preachers were married-men and differ'd not much in their Habit from secular Christians thus it continued till in the year 1022. King Canutus displaced the Canons and in their room put Regular Monks of St. Benedicts Order This Monastery being afterwards burnt down Aldredus Bishop of Worcester rebuilt it in the time of King Edward the Confessor something distant from the place where it first stood and more to the outside of the Town It was twice destroy'd by fire since the Conquest viz. in the years 1214. and 1223. in the Reigns of Henry the III. and Edward the I. The Buildings in and about this Church were increased and beautified by several Abbots of this Monastery as Thomas Seabrook Richard Haulaces and Parker who was the last Abbot here and built the South Porch of this Church TAVISTOCK in Devonshire Supra 219. IN the time of King Edgar Earl Otdulphus Son of Ordgarus begun this House in a place appointed by Revelation finisht and confirm'd in the time of King Ethelred An 981. Pope Celestine in the year 1193. granted to this Abby divers Priviledges and Exemptions In the year 1304. The Prior of Plympton of the Order or St. Augustin did oblige himselâ— and Successors to the Abbot of Tavestock and his Successors for the performance of divers Services and Offices in his Deed mentioned King Henry the VIII in the fifth year of his Reign granted to Richard Banham then Abbot of Tavistock and his Successors to be Lords of Parliament and to enjoy all Honours and Priviledges of such and moreover in case they should at any time be absent from Parliament on the Affairs of their House he pardon'd such their absence they paying for every whole Parliament that they shall be absent five Marks NORWICH Supra 413. HErbert Bishop of Norwich translated the Monks hither from Thetford This Bishop besides the Church at Norwich caused to be built the Churches at Elmham Lyn and Yarmouth and died An. 1119. STOKE-CLARE Supra 535. RIchard de Clare Earl of Hertford gave to this House the Hermitage of Standune that Divine Service might be there celebrated for him and his The Donations and Endowments given to this House were confirm'd by Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury and by Pope Alexander Anno Dom. 1174. St. Mary de Pratis at Northampton THIS was a Priory of Cluniac Nuns founded by Simon de St. Liz Earl of Northampton which Foundation and all the Lands given thereunto as well by the said Earl Simon as others was all at large recited and confirm'd by the Charter of King Edward the III. in the second year of his Reign Which may be seen from p. 1011. to p. 1019. Valued at 119 l. 9 s. 7 d. q. per Annum PILLA Priory in Wales ADam de Rupe founded here a Priory for Benedictine Monks of Tiron which Priory he endow'd with divers Lands and Liberties Dedicated to God St. Mary and St. Budoco HENINGHAM in Essex FOunded and endow'd for Benedictine Nuns by Abericus de Ver Earl of Oxon and dedicated to God St. Mary St. Iames and the holy Cross. Hugh de Ver Earl of Oxford founded without the Gates of the Castle of Hegham an Hospital for poor and impotent People which that it might not be to the prejudice of the Priory of the holy Cross at Hegham nor to the Parish-Church there was to be govern'd by certain Ordinances then made among others that the said Hospital should pay Tithes as well great as small to the Parish Church and that the Chaplains of the said Hospital before they are admitted should swear fealty to the Prioress of that Priory Valued at 29 l. 12 s. 10 d. per Annum LAPLEY in Staffordshire a Cell to St. Remigius at Rhemes GIven by Algarus an Earl of England the Appropriations belonging to this Priory were allow'd by Walter Bishop of Coventry and Litchfeild Anno 1319. King Edward the I. in the twentieth year of his Reign granted to the Abbot and Convent of St. Remigius at Rhemes a Market in their Mannor of Aston in Staffordshire on the Tuesday weekly and a yearly Fair on the Eve and Day of St. Peter Ad vincula with free Warren in their Demesnes of Lapley Merston and Aston TOTNES in Devonshire JVhellus Son of Alured gave the
Archbishop of Tork placed here Canons Regular Iohn de Normanville and Robert de Insula were Benefactors to the Canons here It was found by Inquisition taken in the four and twentieth year of E. 1. That Thomas the second Archbishop of Tork did found and endow this Priory the Lands by him given and by many other Benefactors were all found and set forth in particular which see in the Book at large p. 93. 91 c. Valued at 122 l. 11 s. 1 d. per Annum STODELY in Warwickshire THese Canons were first establisht at Wicton by Peter de Stodley and by him afterwards removed from thence to Stodley and by him endow'd with Lands confirm'd by King Henry the II. and King Edward the III. in the first year of his Reign To this House William de Cantilupo William Comin and others were Benefactors Valued at 117 l. 1 s. 1 d. ob per Annum LAUND in Leicestershire THE Priory here was founded by Richard Basset and Matildis Ridel his Wife for Canons Regular and dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist. It was endowed with the Town and Mannor of Lodington within the Bounds of which it stands as also that of Friseby with the Tyths of several Churches in the Neighbourhood among others with the Church of Warleg and Chappel of Belton and the Church of Glaeston in Rutland Confirm'd by King Henry the 1. and King Henry the II. Valued at 399 l. 3 s. 3 d. per Annum THURGARTON in Nottinghamshire THE Priory of St. Peter at Thurgarton was founded and endow'd with divers Lands and Tithes by Radulphus de Ayncourt Many were the Benefactors to this House among whom several of the Family of Vilers all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Henry the II. and by King Edward the III. in the seventeenth year of his Reign Valued at 259 l. 9 s. 4 d. per Annum DRAX in Yorkshire THIS Priory dedicated to St. Nicholas was founded and endowed with divers Lands and Liberties by William Paganell By Indenture dated An. 1383. The Prior and Convent of this House did oblige themselves in consideration of twenty Marks received to perform a yearly Obit on the day of the Epiphany for the Soul of Gilbert de Ounfravile late Husband of Maud Countess of Northumberland Valued at 104 l. 14 s. 9 d. per Annum MARTON in Yorkshire FOunded and endow'd by Bertram de Bulemer and confirmed by his Grandson Henry de Nevill This Priory as appears by the Charter of King Henry the II. was at first given to Canons and Nuns but the Nuns were afterwards translated to a place called Molesbi Valued at 151 l. 5 s. 4 d. per Annum BETHKELERT in Wales KING Edward the I. in the fourteenth year of his Reign confirm'd the Estate and Lands given to this House by Lewelin the Great and others Valued at 70 l. 3 s. 8 d. per Annum BOLTON in Yorkshire ANno 1120. William Meschines and Cecilia his Wife Lady and Heiress of the honour of Skipton founded and endow'd a Monastery of Canons at Emmesey which House was dedicated in honour of the blessed Virgin and St. Cuthbert the Bishop In the year 1151. these Canons were translated from hence to Bolton which Alice de Rumelli gave them in exchange for other Lands of theirs Which Alice being Heiress to their Founder confirm'd all his Grants and further granted them Free chace in her Chace of Craven◠Their Lands given by their several Benefactors were recited and confirm'd by King Edward the II. in the fifth year of his Reign This Priory was in some sort subject to that of Huntingdon till discharged of that subjection in the time of Pope Celestin the III. The Prior and Convent here granted to Iohn de Insula Lord of Rougemount to maintain a Chantery of fix Chaplains in the Church of Harewood c. Valued at 212 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum KIRKHAM in Yorkshire WAlter Espec and Adelina his Wife by the consent of King Henry the I. founded the Priory of Canons of the Holy Trinity at Kirkham and endow'd the same with divers Lands and◠Tithes inter alia with the Tithes of Venison ferarum silvestrium which he and his posterity should take and of all Foul taken in his Rivers Likewise the said Walter granted them the tenth Penny or Tith of his Rents of his Lands in Northumberland This Walter Espec was a man of a Giant-like stature with a Voice like a Trumpet of Noble Blood but more noble in his Christian Piety who having no Children of his own tho' he had Nephews gave the best of his Possessions to Christ founding and endowing the Monastery of Kirkham for Canons Regular In the year 1261. William de Roos Lord of Hamlak among other things granted to the Prior and Convent of Kirkham and their Successors in lieu of the Tithes of his hunting three good wild Beasts tres seras competentes also the Rent of 100 s. per Annum for other Tithes for which consideration the said Canons did quit their claim of Free-chace in Hamelak Valued at 269 l. 5 s. 9 d. per Annum LAUNCESTON in Cornwall THIS Priory did stand on the West South-West part of the Suburb of the Town and was erected by William Warwist Bishop of Exeter for which he supprest a Collegiate Church of St. Steven having Prebendaries and gave the best part of their Lands to the Priory and took the Residue himself King Iohn and King Henry the III. confirm'd the Lands given them by several Benefactors Valued at 354 l. 0 s. 11 d. per Annum St. DENNIS near Southampton THIS Priory was founded by King Henry the I. endowed with Revenues by King Henry the II. King Seven King Richard the I. Humphrey de Bohun c. Valued at 80 l. 11 s. 6 d. per Annum LEDES in Kent THIS Monastery was founded An. 1119. by Robert de Crepito Corde in French Creveceur Anglicè Creutor for Canons Regular Dedicated to St. Mary and St. Nicholas Divers of the Name and Family of Creveceur were Benefactors granting to them divers Revenues and Liberties and that the Canons here should have the Custody of their House and Goods in the time of Vacation without any Impediment of them the Patrons or their Heirs and that upon the death of their Prior they might freely proceed to the Election of another without leave-asking however after Election the new Prior must be presented to the Patron according to Custom Confirm'd by King Edward the III. in the one and fortieth year of his Reign Valued at 362 l. 7 s. 7 d. per Annum HASELBERGE in Sommersetshire IN the Reign of King Henry the I. lived at Haselburge a certain Priest much famed for Sanctity and for the Spirit of Prophesie called Wulfrieus In his time William Fitz Gualter instituted Canons Regular here and endow'd them with Possessions But at his first undertaking this Foundation Wulfricus told him that Those whom he designed to introduce here would not prosper in
here with divers Tenements in Oxford and several Lands and Churches in the Neighbouring Towns Robert one of the natural Sons of King Henry the I. having married a Daughter of the Founder devoted himself to these Canons alive or dead and gave them 10 l. of Land in his Mannor of Waneting The like did Henry de Oily his Brother-in-Law out of his Mannor of Hocnorton The other Lands granted by divers Benefactors to these Canons see in the Book at large Valued at 654 l. 10 s. 2 d. per Annum RONTON in Staffordshire THIS Priory was founded by Robert the Son of Noel in a place then called St. Mary des Essarz and was a Cell to Haghmon in Shropshire Whose Foundation and Endowment was afterwards confirm'd by Thomas his Son and by R. Archbishop of Canterbury Vid. inf 940. Valued at 90 l. 2 s. 11 d. ob per Annum PYNHAM near Arundell in Sussex ADeliza second Wife and Widow of King Henry the I. afterwards married to William Earl of Arundel gave a parcel of Land then called Pynham adjoyning to Arundell for the maintenance of two Chaplains William Earl of Arundell gave the same Land and more for the maintenance of Regular Canons and building a Church to the honour of God and St. Bartlemew he gave them also Common of Pasture in his Medow of Arundell for fourteen Cows and two Bulls c. All which Gifts were confirm'd by Ranulph Bishop of Chichester LILLESHULL in Shropshire THE Church here dedicated to St. Alcmund is said to have been first founded by Adelfleda a Queen of Mercia but afterwards much amplified and endow'd with ten Prebends by King Edgar Afterwards Richard Beumeys Dean of this Church by assent of King Steven and Authority of the Pope gave this Church over to Canons Regular coming from St. Peter's at Dorchester which new Monastery was dedâ—cated to St. Mary ever Virgin Benefactors to this House were Alan la Zouche the Lady Hillaria de Trussebut c. King Henry the III. confirm'd their Estate Vid. inf 941. Valued at 229 l. 3 s. d. per Annum GISEBURNE in Yorkshire RObert de Brus by the Council of Pope Calixtus the II. and Thurstin Achbishop of York founded this Priory to the honour of God and St. Mary and endow'd it with divers Lands as well at Gyseburn as elsewhere and with the Churches of Skelton and Herte c. Robert de Brus was a noble Norman Knight who came into England with the Conqueror An. 1066. and obtain'd to himself the Castle of Skelton the Lordships of Danby Kendal Anendule Herte and Hertnesse Karlton and divers other Lands in the North. This Robert gave to his second Son of his own name Anandal in Scotland and Herte and Hertnesse in England and dying An. 1141. lies buried at Gisburne Priory of his own Foundation to whose Estate succeeded Adam de Bruse from whom descended Peter de Bruse who dying without issue An. 1273. his inheritance became divided among his four Sisters viz. Agnes married to the Lord Walter Fauconberg who had for her purparty the Castle of Skelton c. Lucia married to the Lord Marmaduke de Tweng who had with her Danby c. Margaret who married the Lord Robert de Rose and with her went Kendale and lastly Laderina married to the Lord Iohn de Bellew and had for her part Charleton c. From Robert the second Son of the first mention'd Robert de Brus descended lineally Robert de Brus King of Scotland who making War against King Edward the I. that King seiz'd upon his Lands of Herte and Hertnesse as forfeited and granted them to the Lord Clifford These Bruses of the younger House gave divers Churches in Scotland to this Priory confirm'd by William King of Scotland Vid. Vol. 3. p. 46. Valued at 628 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum SCARTHE near Wharlton in Yorkshire THIS House founded and endowed by Steven de Manilio was given as a Cell to Guisburne by Hugo de Rudby Chaplain to the said Steven and by him appointed Trustee for this purpose NUTLEY in Buckinghamshire THIS Abby otherwise called Sancta Maria de Parcho was founded and endowed by Walter Gifford Earl of Buckingham and Ermigardis his Wife Confirm'd by King Henry the II. and by King Iohn with the Addition of great Liberties and Immunities who also granted to William Marescal and his Heirs the Gift of the Pastoral Staff of the Abby of Nuteley To the Canons here was given the Church of all Saints at Bradley in the Diocess of Sarum in which Parish was founded a Chappel for Leperous Women which Chappel before it could be dedicated by Iocelin then Bishop of Sarum was publickly and solemnly declared by Oath not to be any ways prejudicial to the Mother Church in Tithes or Obventions c. Valued at 437 l. 6 s. 8 d. per Annum BISSEMEDE in Bedfordshire HVgh de Bellocampo founded and endow'd this Priory with divers Lands and Commons c. He granted the Canons here besides other things the Priviledge to have their Corn first ground at his Mills at Hetune after that which should be found on All which was confirm'd by Roger de Bellocampo He granted also the Tithes of his Park of Ettune tam de bosco quam de essartis as well of his Woods as arable Lands Pope Gregory granted to this House divers Priviledges as not to pay Tithes of their own Stock to cellebrate privately in time of a general Interdict c. Here was formerly a Hermitage of great Veneration Valued at 71 l. 13 s. 9 d. ob per Annum BRIDLINGTON in Yorkshire WAlter de Gant establisht Canons in the Church of St. Mary of Bridlinton and gave them all his Estate in that Town and confirm'd to them all other Lands which his homines Tenants who held of him had given them Gilbert de Gant his Son Earl of Lincoln confirm'd all that his Father gave c. The like did King Henry the II. Gilbert de Gant was born baptized and educated in this Priory and therefore disposed his Body to be buried here The Archdeacon of Richmond did use in time of his Visitation to come to a Church belonging to these Canons with a train of ninety seven Horse one and twenty Dogs and three Hawks and in an hours time all their Provision was utterly consumed till at last this great Oppression was prohibited by the Bull of Pope Innocent the III. Ralph de Nevil granted to these Canons to take Stone out of his Quarry of Fivele with a way over his Ground for the use of their Monastery for ever Valued at 547 l. 6 s. 11 d. per Annum St. BARTLEMEW in Smithfield London RAherus founded the Church here in honour of St. Bartholmew for Canons of St. Augustin's Rule and himself became their Prior for the space of two and twenty years This man had been formerly when young a noted Drole or Jester and by such means had become acceptable and familar to the great Ones at Court and
Mary and the Canons of Rudham divers Lands Churches and Mills Duos homines scilicet G. V. terram illorum two of his Tenants with the Land which they held of him Hervey Beleth gave them the Mannor of Rudham for the maintenance of an Hospital by him founded at Boycodeswade Valued at 121 l. 18 s. 10 d. ob per Annum BRUNNE in Lincolnshire Bourn FOunded by Balwin Son of Gislebert who endow'd it with divers Lands Churches and Tithes of sundry kinds An. 1138. The Wakes were principal Benefactors to this House and became Patrons of the same being Lords of the Mannor of Bourn and descended from the Founder and as Patrons had the Custody of the Abby in time of Vacation c. which was allowed by King Edward the II. who for that purpose granted his mandate to Matthew Broun Escheator for the Counties of Lincoln Northampton and Roteland in the seventeenth year of his Reign notwithstanding that some of the Possessions of this Abby were held of the King in Capite NEWENHAM in Bedfordshire BEfore the Conquest the Church of St. Paul in Bedford was a Colledge of Prebendaries or Secular Canons till one of the Canons killing a Butcher they were forced to remove their Habitation to a place call'd Newenham a Mile distant from Bedford and there they became Regular Canons Roiâ—ia Wife of Paganus de Bellocampo to whom King William the Conqueror gave the Barony of Bedford and Simon her Son were the founders of their House at Newenham Which Simon endow'd them with divers Lands and Possessions among others the Church of St. Paul at Bedford with all its Possessions and the Tithes of the Mill of the Castle of Bedford c. These Canons had also large Liberties granted them on the River for fishing and for keeping Swans as many as they pleased seeding for thirty Hogs yearly quit of Paunage in the Wood of Kerdington free Pasture for twelve Oxen in all the Grounds of the Patron where his own Oxen fed with Liberty to elect their own Prior saving to the Patron the Custody of the outward Gate of the Monastery in time of Vacation c. All whose Lands and Liberties were confirm'd to them in 15 R. 2. by Thomas Earl Mareschal and Earl of Nottingham Lord Moubray and Segrave then Patron of this Priory Valued at 293 l. 5 s. 11 d. per Annum St. RADEGUNDIS at Bradsole in Kent KING Henry the III. confirm'd the several Lands and Revenues given to this House by sundry Benefactors among whom Henry de Wengham Dean of St. Martins in London Vid. Vol. 3. P. 69. Valued at 98 l. 9 s. 2 d. ob per Annum KIME in Lincolnshire THE first founder of this Priory was Sir Philip de Kyme Knt. the Canons of this House held Lands in Thorpe and Billingey Valued at 101 l. 0 s. 4 d. per Annum BUTLEY in Suffolk FOunded by Ranulph de Glanvilla and by him endowed with divers Churches and Lands in the year 1171. This Ranulph de Glanvill was heretofore Chief Justice of England and left only three Daughters among whom he parted his Land before he made his Voyage to the Holy Land to the eldest who married one William de Aubervil he gave the intire Mannor of Benhall and the Advowson of the Monastery of the blessed Mary of Buttele and to the other Sisters other parts of his Estate Vid. Vol. 3. P. 110. Valued at 318 l. 17 s. 2 d. per Annum NEWâ—STED near Guildford in Surrey FOunded by Rualdus de Calua and Beatrix his Wife with the assent of William Malbanc their Heir in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary and St. Thomas the Martyr in a place call'd Aldeburi in the Mannor of Sandes for Canons Regular whose Estate was confirm'd by King Henry the III. and King Edward the II. BERLIZ in Somersetshire THE several Lands Churches and Tithes given to the Prior and Canons of this House dedicated to St. Nicholas by Matilda de Sayâ—â—d others were confirm'd by King Henry the III. An. Regni 40. and by Edw. the III. An. 13. WOMBRIGGE in Shropshire FOunded by William Fitz-Alan Dedicated to God St. Mary and St. Leonard Many were the Benefactors to this House among whom the Lords of Cherinton gave divers Lauds and Revenues in that Town c. All the Possessions of these Canons with divers Liberties to them granted by their severeal Benefactors were recited and confirm'd by King Edward the II. An. Reg. 12. Valued at 65 l. 7 s. 4 d. per Annum CALDEWELL in Bedfordshire SImon Basket an Alderman of Bedford was the first founder of this House but the Advowson came afterwards to the Lords Latymer Robert Son of William de Houton gave Lands to the Order of Fryers of the Holy Cross at Caldewell confirm'd by King Hen. the III. An. Reg. 57. Valued at 109 l. 8 s. 5 d. per Annum TONEBRIGGE in Kent FOunded by Richard de Clare Earl of Hertford for Canons Regular and by him endow'd with certain Rents the feeding of one hundred and twenty Hogs yearly in his Forrest of Tonebrigge freely and to have yearly one Buck at the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen ANGLESEYE in Cambridgeshire Elizabeth de Burgo Sister and one of the Heirs of Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford Patroness of this Priory granted the Monks here liberty to choose their Prior An. 1333. The same Elizabeth granted a Rent of 20 l. per Annum to the Prior and Convent of this House in consideration of which they obliged themselves to find two Chantry Priests Seculars to celebrate at the Altar of the holy Cross in their Church for ever for the said Elizabeth her Ancestors and Heirs and to allow to the said two Priests their Lodging and Diet and to each 20 s. per Annum or else twelve Marks yearly which they shall think most convenient which Grant bears date 6. E. 3. Valued at 24 l. 19 s. per Annum TRENTHAM in Staffordshire RAlph Earl of Chester was the Founder or rather Restorer of this House granting to the Canons here a yearly Rent of 100 s. per Annum Confirm'd by King Henry the II. with the grant of large Liberties and Immunities Valued at 106 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum WORMLEY in Herefordshire STeven de Ebroicis gave to this Church dedicated to God and St. Leanard and to the Canons here certain Mills Lands and Tithes in Lenhale for the maintenance of there Chaplains Confirm'd by Gilbert de Lacy in consideration of 〈◊〉 by the said Canons to him paid And by William Son of the said Steven An. 1240. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 48. Valued at 83 l. 10 s. 2 d. per Annum ROYSTON in Cambridgeshire FOunded and endow'd by Eustach de Merâ— King Richard the I. confirm'd to this Monastery by the Name of the Monastery of St. Thomas the Martyr apud Crucem Rhosiae and to the Canons here all their Possessions given by several Benefactors and further granted a yearly Fair during all
Church of St Mary in the said Castle and placed in it twelve Secular Canons and a Dean appropriating thereunto all the Churches in Leicester except St. Margarets which is a Prebend of Lincoln with divers Lands Robert his Son and Heir having sounded the Abby de Pratis transferred all the Possessions and Prebends of the Church of St. Mary to his new built Abby This last mentioned Robert commonly call'd Bossu took the Habit of a Canon Regular in this Abby and died here An. 1167. He also founded an Abby of Monks at Geroudon and a Nunnery at Eaton in which his Countess Amicia became a Nun. After some time the Male Line of this Robert failing the Estate became divided between two Sisters Co-heirs Amicia married to Simon de Montefort and Margaret married to Sayer de Quincy These Canons had also a Grant of one Load of Wood daily out of the Forrest of Leicester ad focum domus infirmariae Canonicorum for Fewel to serve in the Infirmary Valued at 951 l. 14 s. 5 d. ob per Annum GRIMESBY in Lincolnshire KING Henry the I. founded and endowed this Priory granting to the Canons here among other things the tenth Penny of all his Farmes in Leiseby and Grymesby and the Tith of all Fish in his Port of Honflet in pure and perpetual Alms with large Liberties and Immunities All which were confirm'd by King Henry the II. Valued at 9 l. 14 s. 7 d. per Annum St. THOMAS the Martyr near Stafford FOunded by Richard Peche Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield 1162. who in his later days became a Canon Regular in this House in which Habit he died and was buried his Episcopal Habit being taken away by his Cosin G. Peche a Monk of Coventry Robert de Ferrars Earl of Derby gave to this Priory certain Lands together with his Body after his decease to be buried here Valued at 141 l. 13 s. 2 d. per Annum NEW-STEAD in the Forrest of Sherwood in Nottinghamshire FOunded by King Henry the II. for Canons Regular to whom he gave the Town and Church of Paplewic and other Lands with large Liberties Also two great Wastes called Kygell and Ravenshede King Iohn while Earl of Morton gave other Lands all which he confirm'd after he was King An. 6. Valued at 167 l. 16 s. 11 d. ob per Annum HICKLING in Norfolk FOunded and endow'd by Theobaldus de Valeines Confirm'd by King Iohn An. Reg. 5. Valued at 100 l. 18 s. 7 d. ob per Annum STONELEY near Kimbolton in Huntingtonshire THIS was a Prioy of seven Canons founded by William Mandeville Earl of Essex To this House the Rectory of Kymolton was appropriated The Bigrames were Benefactors and lay here buried Valued at 46 l. 0 s. 5 d. ob per Annum MODBERLEY in Cheshire FOunded by Patricius de Modberley for Canons Regular and by him endow'd with several Lands and Commons of Pasture He also granted the Canons free power upon the decease of their Prior to elect another according to their own pleasure SPINEY in Cambridgeshire FIRST founded by Beatrice Malebisse one of the Co-heirs of the Lordship of Wikes within the said Lordship for three Canons Regular Afterwards Maria de Basingburne encreased the number to four two of which were to come daily and officiate in the Church of Wykes She also gave a Messuage and other Lands for the Prior and Canons to maintain therein seven Poor men allowing to each daily a Loaf of a Farthing and among all a measure of Ale of a Penny to each three Ells of Linnen Cloath at two pence per Ell and every two years a Woollen Garment price two shillings and six pence c. Also to make three distributions of Alms per Annum to three thousand poor People But these Charges being found to extend to much more then the Revenue of the Lands by her given Richard Aithilwald and Matilda his Wife Cousin and Heir of the Foundresses did An. 6. H. 5. release the coming of the two Canons to the Church of Wykes and changed the three distributions abovesaid to the giving thirteen shillings and four pence yearly in Alms to the Poor of Wykes c. King Henry the VI. An 27. granted his License to the Prior and Convent of this House to give their Convent and all their Revenues to the Prior and Convent of Ely MOTESFONT in Hantshire FOunded by William Briwer who endowed this Priory with divers Lands and gave his Mannor of Merton for the maintenance of four poor men in Diet and Aparel c. Divers others were great Benefactors among whom Peter de Rivallis Brother of the Founder then commonly call'd The Holy Man in the Wall Alienora Wife of King Edward the I. gave divers Possessions for an Anniversary and for daily Alms to seven poor Widows c. Confirm'd by Margery de la Ferte or Feritate Daughter of William Briwer and Co heir after the death of William her Brother William Son of Reginald de Brus married Grace eldest Daughter and Co-heir of this William Brewere from whom descended four Daughters married to the Earl of Hereford Cantelow Fitzherbert and Mortemer The Estate of these Canons was confirm'd by King Iohn An. 6. Valued at 1 â— 4 l. 3 s. 5 d. ob per Annum FRITHELSTOKE in Devonshire IT was found by Inquisition 15 Iohn That Robert Son of Robert de Bello Campo founded and endow'd the Priory of Canons here dedicated to God the blessed Mary and St. George saving to the Patrons the liberty of appointing one to guard the Gare of the said Priory in time of Vacation and take care that the Goods of the same be not wasted the said Guardian to have nothing but his sustenence and upon confirmation of a new Prior to retire Valued at 127 l. 2 s. 4 d. per Annum WROXTON in Oxfordshire FOunded by Master Michael Belet in the time of Hugh Bishop of Lincoln and by him endowed with his Mannors of Wroxton where it was founded and Thorpe near Rowell in Northamptonshire Confirm'd by King Hen. the III. with Liberties of Sac and Soc c. Valued at 78 l. 13 s. 4 d. per Annum DE PRATO between North-Creyke and Burnham in Norfolk ANno 1206. Robert de Nerford founded a Church here which Robert was principal Warden of Dover Castle under Hubert de Burgo then Chief Justice of England He also built a Chappel to the honour of St. Bartholomew with an Hospital for thirteen poor men and four Chaplains and a Master After the death of the said Founder the said Master and his Brethren took the Habit of Canons Regular and from that time were called Prior and Canons The Chappel and new erected Priory was dedicated An. 1221. Alice Widow of the said Robert made several Orders for the Government of the said Hospital among others that the Brethren who should be admitted into the said Hospital should at their entry promise Chastity and Obedience to the Master that none should have property
pay yearly to his Ancestors for certain Tenements in Reygate he also granted to these Canons 46 s. 11 d. per Annum for the Celebrateing one Masâ—e daily in his Castle of Reygate for ever Valued at 68 l. 16 s. 8 d. per Annum HALTEMPRISE in Yorkshire THis Monastery was first founded and endow'd at Cottingham by Thomas Wake Lord of Lydel with License of King Edw. II. Pope Iohn XXII granted to the said Thomas Wake Liberty to translate the said Monastery from thence to Altemprise The said Thomas Wake granted to the Canons Regular of this House several Mannours and Lands with Great Liberties of Leets c. and Commons of Pasture c. in pure and perpetual Alms with general Warranty Iohn de Meaux of Bewyke by his Deed dated An. 1361 31 Edward III. gave to the Prior and Convent of this House his Mannour of Willardby c. conditionally for fix Canons to celebrate for the Souls of him and his Ancestors c. Matins Masse Vespers and Complin c. and in the case of non performance of the Conditions his heirs to re-enter Valued at 100 l. 0 s. 3 d. ob per Annum BADLESMERE in Kent KIng Edward II. An. 13. granted his License to Bartholmew de Badlesmere to found and endow a House of Canons Regular in his Mannour of Badlesmere with a Non obstante to the Statute of Mortmain MAXSTOKE in Warwickshire FOunded by William Clinton Earl of Huntington in honour of the holy Trinity the Blessed Virgin St. Michael and all the Saints for Canons Regular viz. One Prior elective and a Convent of twelve Canons In whose deed of Foundation dated An. 1336 he appointed several Ordinances relating to their habit the Election of the Prior none to meddle with the Custody of theâ— House in time of the Vacation but who the Superior and Convent shall appoint Of the quality of such as are to be received for Canons Of the Number of Canons to be encreased as the Revenue increases The Prior and Convent not to sell or grant any Corrodies or Pensions unlesse compelled by inevitable necessity Of the Accompt Of the founders Anniversary Of the number of Masses That at the end of every Office of our Lady the Priest who Officiate shall say the Angelic Salutation in manner following Ave Maria gracia plena Dominus'tecum Benedicta tu in Mulieribus benedictus fructus ventris tui Ihesus Amen Et benedicta sit venerabilis mater tua Anna exqua tua Caro virginea immaculata processit Amen With some other Orders all which were confirm'd by Roger Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield An. 1337. King Edw. the III. granted his License to these Canons to exchange their Mannor of Shustoke for certain Lands in Maxstoke Valued at 87 l. 12 s. 3 d. ob per Annum BISHAM in Barkshire FOunded by William de Monteacuto Earl of Sarum and Lord of Man and Dynbeghe who by his Deed dated An. 1338. endow'd the Canons here with divers Lands Churches and Rents and granted that upon the death of the Prior neither he nor his Heirs should intermeddle with Custody of the House or any of their Possessions King Henry the V. An. 8. gave License to Matilda Widow of Iohn de Monteacuto Earl of Sarum to remove the Bones of her said Husband buried in the Abby of Cirencester to this Priory of Bustlesham and bury them here Valued at 285 l. 11 s. ob per Annum FLANESFORD in Herefordshire FOunded by Richard Talebot in honour of God St. Mary the Virgin and St. Iohn Baptist for Canons Regular and by him endow'd with divers Lands and Possessions which Lands being held of the King in Capite King Edw. the III. An. 20. granted his License for so doing Valued at 14 l. 8 s. 9 d. per Annum EDINDON in Wiltshire WIlliam de Edindon Bishop of Winchester being born in this Town founded in the Parish-Church of Edindon a perpetual Chantry for Secular Chaplains and endow'd the same with sufficient Revenues but being afterwards minded to turn the same to a Priory of Brethren of St. Augustines Order called Boni homines or Bonhomes he laid the Foundation of a Monastery An. 1352. which was dedicated in honour of St. Iames the Apostle St. Catherine and all Saints by Robert Bishop of Sarum An. 1361. William de Edyndon the Founder died An. 1366. Valued at 442 l. 9 s. 7 d. ob per Annum DERTFORD in Kent FOunded by King Edward the III. for Nuns of St. Augustines Order living under the Care of the Friers of the Order of Preachers and and by him endow'd with Lands and Revenâ—es in Kent and elsewhere they enjoy'd also divers Houses and Rents in London all which was confirm'd to them to hold in Frankalmoine by the Grant of the said King dated in the six and fortieth year of his Reign King Richard II. An. 8. granted to the Prioress land Convent of this House Monasterium Sororum Praedicatissarum de Derford the Mannor of Massingham in Norfolk with its Fairs Markets and Liberties c. for the finding of one Chaplain to celebrate in the Chappel of the Infirmary of this House and for the Relief and Sustentation of the Sisters and Brethren in the said Infirmary Valued at 380 l. 9 s. ob per Annum SYON in Middlesex FOunded by King Henry the V. An. Reg. 2. To the honour of the holy Trinity the glorious Virgin Mary the Apostles and Disciples of God and all Saints especially St. Briget for sixty Nuns of which number one to be Abbess of the Order of St. Augustin and for five and twenty Religious Men of which number thirteen to be Priests four Deacons and eight Laymen all to be under the Government of the Consessor To live separately viz. The Nuns in a part of the House by themselves and the Consessor and Brothers in a part distinct chastely both in mind and body according to the Regular Institute of St. Bridget This Religious House was founded in his Mannor of Istelworth in the Parish of Twykenham near the Thames and called by the name of the Monastery of St. Saviour and St. Briget of Syon of the Order of St. Augustin by which name or Title the said Abbess and Nuns were enabled to purchase Lands to sue and be sued Matilda Newton was appointed the first Abbess and William Alnewyk the first Confessor The said King Henry the V. endow'd this House with the Rent of one thousand Marks to be paid yearly out of the Exchequer till he or his Heirs should settle Lands of that value Valued at 1731 l. 8 s. 4 d. ob per Annum SOme other Houses are reckon'd of this Order of which there remains little or nothing of note but only their Names which are Flixton in Suffolk Hempton in suffolk Leyes in Norfolk Wodebrigge in Essex Vlvescrofte in Leicester shire St. Iohn Baptist at Exeter Canonleghe in Devonshire Shelbrede in Sussex Torpington in Sussex Merkeby in Lincoln Wesâ—wde Kent St. Iohn Northampton
to the Master and Brethren of this Hospital divers Lands Tenements and Rents in London and elsewhere as Westhame Stratford Bromley and Stepney c. Ieffrey Fitz Peter Earl of Essex granted to the Brethren of this Hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr of Acon the Custody of the Hospital of St. Iohn Evangelist at Berchamstede Anno 23. Heney the VI. Iohn Neel then Master and his Brethren of this House exhibited their Petition in Parliament setting forth that Thomas Son of Theobald de Helles and Agnes his Wife Sister of St. Thomas the Martyr Archbishop of Canterbury gave to the Master and Brethren of this House then being all the Land with the Appurtenances sometimes belonging to Gilbert Beckit Father of the said St. Thomas in which Land the said Martyr was born to make there a Church in Worship of God the blessed Virgin and the said Martyr which Lands lye in the Parish of St. Mary of Colchirche in London that the Endowment of the said Hospital was enlarg'd by King Henry the III. An. 52. in which house have always been ever since a Master and Brethren prosessing the Rule of St. Austin and Priests and Clerks to the number of twelve or more that of old time this House hath been dispoiled and great part of their Evidences lost and destroyed they pray therefore that his Majesty by the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and by the Authority of this present Parliament would ordain stablish and approve that the Master and Brethren of the House or Hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr of Acres in the City of London may by that name plead and be impleaded purchase Lands have a Common Seal and choose their own Master presenting him to the Ordinary and that they may not be charged with any Corrody or Pension and that their present Lands and Possessions may be confirm'd to them all which was granted as desired by the King with the advice and assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in that Parliament and by Authority of the same Valued at 277 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum St. JOHN BAPTIST at Lynn in Norfolk FOunded by Vlfketel Son of the Nun of Sceringes and by him endow'd with a parcel of Land in Linn to hold in pure and perpetual Alms. The Mayor and Burgesses of Linn did use to present and establish the Master and Warden of this Hospital till the time of Iohn of Ely Bishop of Norwich Valued at 7 l. 6 s. 11 d. per Annum St. MARY MAGDALENS at Lenne THomas de Cant. and Robert Winchelsey Archbishops of Canterbury in their Visitations and Peter the Chaplain the Founder made several Orders for the Government of this Hospital as that any Brother being a detractor or vexatious to the rest to be punisht by the Prior and Brethren and if incorrigible to be expell'd founded with a Church and Coemitary for twelve Brothers and Sisters some sound and some infirm with a Chaplain to dwell in the House the infirm not to come into the Chancel Cellar Kitchin or Curtelage nor to intermeddle with the Offices of the House to have a Common Seal c. All the Brothers and Sisters to have equal Portions in the Revenues with the Prior if any of the Infirm withdraws himself for one month his Salary for a year to be forfeited if for a year he to be expell'd a general Chapter to be held yearly the next day after the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen c. Which Orders were ratified and confirm'd by William de Turbus Bishop of Norwich Anno Dom. 1174. KYNEWALDGRAVES in Yorkshire ROger Archbishop of Tork and other Archbishops of that See were Benefactors to the poor Sisters of this Hospital dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen all confirm'd by Thomas Archbishop of York An. 1301. Which with many other Possessions by others given were all recited and confirm'd by King Edward the III. An. 1. St. MARGARETS at Huntingdon SEems to be founded by Malcolm King of Scotland who gave to the Infirm of this Hospital Lands and Rents so did Isabel de Brus Daughter of Earl David Robert de Brus Son of the said Isabel Lord of Anandale gave them divers Tenements in Cunyngtone with view of Frank-pledge to be held there twice per Annum viz. after Easter and after Michaelmass with small Courts to be held there at their Will as ost as expedient The like Grant by Bernard de Bruys all which was confirm'd to the Master and Brethren of this House by King Edw. III. An. 12. HORNECHIRCHE in Essex THE Master and Confraters of the Hospital of Hornchurch were removable at the Will of the Master of the Hospital of St. Bernard de Monte in Savoy to which Hospital this was only a Cell having no Common Seal of their own nor power to sue or be sued HERBALDOUNE in Kent FOunded by King Henry II. who assigned to the Lepers of this Hospital a Rent of twenty marks per Annum out of his Revenue of Canterbury till such time as he assigns them other Provisions in Churches or Rents elsewhere Valued at 109 l. 7 s. 2 d. per Annum St. SEPULCHERS at Hedon in Yorkshire ALan Son of Oubernus gave a parcel of Land to God and the Lepers of St. Sepulchres at Hedon Alexander de Thunestal and many others were Benefactors to this Hospital all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Edw. the II. An. Reg. 19. HAVERING in Essex KING Henry the II. gave the Church of Havering to the poor Brethren of the Church of St. Bernard de Monte Iovis Confirm'd to them with other Lands by King Richard the I. and King Henry the III. An. 37. ELLESHAM in Lincolnshire THIS Hospital begun by Beatrix and finisht and confirm'd by Walter de Amundevil was by him conferr'd upon Canons Regular to whom he gave divers Lands and Churches for the maintenance of Hospitality and Sustentation of poor People Confirm'd to the Canons by Iohn Son of William de Dyve An. Dom. 1277. The abovesaid Walter de Amundevile became a Canon here and was here buried The Hospitallers of Ierusalem having by fraud obtain'd this House from the then Patron were by Letter from Pope Alexander made to relinquish their Pretensions Valued at 70 l. 0 s 8 d. per Annum St. MARY's at Dover in Kent FOunded by Hubert de Burgo Earl of Kent King Henry III. An. II. granted to the Brothers and Sisters of this Hospital the Tith of all profitsarising from the Passage of the Port of Dover to hold to them and their Successors in Frankalmoign The same King An. 13. granted them a yearly Rent of 10 l. at the feast of St. Michael to be paid out of the profits of his Port of Dover beside the tith above mention'd Vid. Vol. 3. p. 86. CONYNGESHED in Lancashire WIlliam de Lancaster gave to God and St. Mary and to the Brethren of this Hospital all Conyngsheved and divers other Lands Possessions and Commons of Pasture c. He also gave
Marks for the Maintenance of Converts and for the building their Church c. to be paid yearly out of the Exchequer one Moiety at Easter and the other at Michaelmas till other Provision shall be made in Lands or Rents And by another Charter dated 33 H. 3. that King gave to this House by him founded for Convert Iews between the old and new Temple at London certain Escheated Lands to hold to the Master and Brethren of the said House converted and to be converted from Judaism to the Catholick Faith LECHELADE in Gloucestershire FOunded by Richard Earl of Cornwa Brother of King Henry III. and Senchia his Wife Confirm'd by King Henry III. Which King An. 54. granted to the Brethren of this Hospital dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist the Hermitage of Lovebury in the Forrest of Whichewode they providing one Chaplain to celebrate daily in the said Hermitage King Edward the IV. An. 12. granted the Patronage or Advowson of this Hospital to his Mother Cecily Dutchess of York with License to change it into a Chantry of three perpetual Chaplains to celebrate the Divine Offices daily at the Altar of our Lady in the Church of Lechlade which three Chaplains to be a Body incorporate able to purchase Lands c. and to have a Common Seal By the same Deed he granted License to Iohn Twynâ—ho to found another Chantry at the Altar of St. Blase in the same Church for one perpetual Chaplain and that the other three Chaplains may grant to this Chantry Priest of St. Blase a yearly Rent of ten Marks LEDBURY in Herefordshire FOunded by Hugh Foliot Bishop of Hereford for the Reception of poor People and Travellers and dedicated in honour of God and St. Katherine the Virgin he endow'd it with several Churches and Tenements c. all which with other Lands given by others King Edw. the III. An. 2. confirm'd Valued at 22. l. 5 s. per Annum St. LEONARDS at Leicester RObert the III. call'd for distinction Blancmains Earl of Leicester had issue among others William a Leper who founded this Hospital LANGRIGH in ... RIchard de Singelton and Walter Nutun of Ribelcester gave to the Master and Brethren of this Hospital dedicated to God and St. Saviour Divers Lands in Ribelcester and elsewhere BILLESWIKE near Bristol in Gloucestershire FOunded by Robert de Gurnay and by him endow'd with the Mannor of Poulet c. for the Maintenance of a Master and three Chaplains and for the refection of one hundred poor People daily for ever each of the said Poor to have a quantity of Bread of the weight of 45 s. with a sufficient quantity of Potage made of Oat-meal the Bread to be made of an equal mixture of Bean-flower and Barly de frumento fabarum ordeo Valued at 112 l. 9 s. 9 d. per Annum GLANFORDBRIGGE in Yorkshire FOunded by the Ancestors of Sir Ralph Paynel Knt. but the Abbot and Convent of Seleby had the power of placing one of their Brotherhood in this Hospital to have the Custody of the same yet so that he should not convert the Goods of the Hospital to any other use but only to the Sustentation of the Poor and Needy St. BARTLEMEW's in Gloucester IT was found by Inquisition 30 E. 3. That in the time of Hen. the II. one Nicholas Walred a Chaplain undertook the building of the West-Bridge here to whom many Workmen resorting one William Myparty a Burgess of Gloucester erected a certain Habitation for the said Nicholas and the other Workmen in which House for a long time after the said Nicholas and William did dwell together with the Workmen and divers infirm People of both Sexes having always a Priest for their Governor all living on Alms till King Henry the III. An. 13. gave them the Church of St. Nicholas in this City with other Lands from which time the said House became an Hospital bearing the name of St. Bartlemew the same King granted them Liberty also to choose a Prior which accordingly they did This Hospital consisted of a Master and three Brothers beside the Poor Valued at 44 l. 7 s. 2 d. ob per Annum GRETHAM in the Bishoprick of Durham FOunded by Robert Bishop of Durham in honour of God St. Mary and St. Cuthbert for a Master and Brethren and for the Sustentation of the poor and needy People that should resort thither who also endow'd it with the Mannor of Gretham c. He granted also that the Master and Brethren of this House should be free from all Tolls Aids and Tallages and to all their Benefactors being contrite and confess'd he releas'd forty days Penance Whose Deed confirm'd by Hugh Prior of Durham and the Convent there bears date An. Dom. 1262. Valued at 97 l. 6 s. 3 d. ob per Annum ESTBRIGGE in Canterbury THIS Hospital founded in honour of St. Nicholas St. Catherine and St. Thomas the Martyr was compounded of several united into one the poor and infirm Brethren of which William Cokyn Citizen of Canterbury made his Heirs of all his Lands Possessions and Chattles which with divers other Gifts from other Men King Edward the II. An. 7. recited and confirm'd to the Master and Brethren here and their Successors Valued at 23 l. 18 s. 9 d. ob per Annum BOLTON in Northumberland FOunded and endow'd by Robert de Roos for three Brothers and Chaplains and thirteen Leperous Men and certain Lay Brothers Constituting the Abbot of Rivall and the Prior of Kyrkham joyntly to be the principal Wardens or Governors of this Hospital to whose Power he committed the placing the Master or displacing him if occasion be BASINGSTOKE in Southamptonshire FOunded by King Henry the III. ad sustentation ministorum Altaris Christi For the support of those who serve at God's Altar St. KATHERINES near the Tower at London FOunded by Queen Alianore Widow of King Henry II. For a Master and Brethren and by her largely endow'd with Lands Rents and Tenements in East-Smithfield Kent and Hertfordshire Reserving to her self and the succeeding Queens of England full Power to place the Master or Custos of the Hospital for ever Ordaining that out of the Revenues of this House should be maintain'd three Priests together with the said Master to celebrate daily in the said Hospital that on the 16th of November on which day King Henry the II. died a half-penny a peice should be distributed in Alms to one thousand poor People and on every day in the year 12 d. to twenty four poor People that upon the death of any Brother or Sister another to be substituted by her or the succeeding Queens of England who are after her death to be the Patronesses and Conservators of this House Whose Deed of Foundation and Settlement bears date An. Dom. 1273. Valued at 315 l. 14 s. 2 d. per Annum St. JOHN BAPTIST in Exeter FOunded by Gilbert and Iohn Merchants of Exeter here were five Priests nine Boys and twelve poor People St. PAUL at Norwich FOunded
William Waterfall for one Chaplain and six poor people The Holy Trinity in New Sarum KIng Richard II. An. 17. granted his License to Iohn Chaundeler to make an Hospital in honour of the holy Trinity of two messuages in a Street call'd Newestreet in New Sarum for the Releif of poor weak and Infirm people whereof the Mayor of the Said City for the time being to be Master and to rule and govern the same and to endow the same with a certain Rent of 13 s. 4 d. King Henry IV. An. 1. granted License to the then Master to purchase Lands of 20 l. value per Annum KNOLS Alms house at Pontfract in Yorkshire FOunded by Sir Robert Knolls Knight Citizen of London and Constance his Wife in honour of the Holy Trinity and blessed Virgin Mary for certain Chaplains whereof one to be Master two Clerks and thirteen Poor people such especially as by misfortune come to want and two Servants to help the said Poor The Master to have twenty marks for his fastenance the two Clerks each ten marks and the thirteen Poor amongst them 34 l. 4 s. 3 d. ob per Annum viz. 1 d. ob a day to each Which Deed of the Said Roberts Foundation bears date An. Dom. 1385 Valued at 182 l. 14 s. 4 d. per Annum OKEHAM in Rutland KIng Richard II. An. 22. granted his License to William Dalby of Extone to found this Hospital for two Chaplains of which one to be Custos and thirteen poor Men and to endow the same with one Messuage and two acres of Land at Okeham and to grant the Patronage of the same to the Prior and Convent of St. Anne of the Order of Caâ—â—husians at Coventry with a further License to the said Prior and Convent to give a yearly Rent of 40 l. to be issuing out of some of their Possessions where ever they pleased to assign to the Custos of the said Hospital and the said Poor men for their maintenance for ever Valued at 12 l. 12 s. 11 d. per Annum DONYNGTON in Barkshire KIng Richard II. An. 16. gave License to Richard Alberbury to found an Hospital in his Mannor of Donyngton which he held of the King as of his honour of Walingford for certain poor people or which one to be chief by the name and Title of The Minister of God of the poor House of Donyngton and to endow the same with divers Lands Valued at 19 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum THORNTONS Hospital in New Castle upon Tine in Northumberland FOunded by Roger Thornton in honour of St. Catherine for one Chaplain who is Custos nine poor men and four Poor Women to be continually resident for which foundation King Henry IV. An. 1â— granted his License and that they might have a Common Seal Endow'd by the said Roger with yearly Rents of 10 l. EWELME in Oxfordshire KIng Henry VI. An. 15. granted his License to his Cousâ—n William de la Pole Earl of Suffolk and Alice his Wife to found an Alms House in this Town for two Chaplains and thirteen poor men and that they should be a Body Corporate and that he might endow the same with one hundred Marks per Annum This Hospital was Founded An. Dom. 1448. and call'd Gods House The two Priests were one to instruct the Poor in Religious Dutyes the other to be a Schoolmaster and teach the poor both to have for Salery to l. the Minister 16 d. a week the other twelve poor men 13 d a week Valued at 20 l. per Annum SHIREBURNE in Dorsetshire FOunded with License of King Henry the VI. An. â—5 by Robert Nevyle Bishop of Sarum Humfrey Stafford Knt. Margaret Goghe Iohn Fauntleroy and Iohn Baret to the honour of God St. Iohn Baptist and St. Iohn Evangelist for twenty Brethren twelve poor and impotent men and four poor and impotent Women and for a perpetual Chaplain and that the Brothers of this House might elect one among themselves to be their Master from year to year and upon the death of any of their number the rest might elect others to succeed in their room c. BOCKING in Essex KING Henry the IV. granted his License to Iohn Doreward to erect a perpetual Chantry of one Chaplain in the Parish-Church of Stanewey in Essex and to endow the same with a Mansion lying near the Church yard there and with 7 l. of yearly Rent Which Licensed Foundation not being effected in the Life of the said Iohn King Henry the VI. did afterward grant License to Iohn Doreward Esq his Son to found a certain House at Bocking to be called Maison Dieu for seven poor People one of which to be call'd Praepositus Villae de Bokking and to have the Government of the said poor c. and to endow the same and a Chantry by him founded in the Parish Church of Bokking with Lands and Rents TODINGTON in Bedfordshire KING Henry the VI. An. 21. granted his License that Iohn Broughton or his Feoffees might erect an Hospital in honour of St. Iohn Baptist in Todyngdone for one Chaplain and three poor Men to be a perpetual Community and Body Corporate Also that he might give to the Prioress and Nuns of St. Margaret at Dertford an Annual Rent of 8 l. and that the said Nuns might assign the said Rent and also another Rent of 5 l. per Annum to be issuing out of their own Lands to this Hospital which House of Dertford was of the said Kings Patronage being founded by his Progenitors RICHMOND in Yorkshire HERE being of old time a poor Hospital dedicated to St. Nicholas in which was only one Chaplain of the Kings Patronage by reason or the honour of Richmond and that Hospital being fallen to extream decay William Ayscogh one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas repair'd it and added another Chantry Chaplain in consideration whereof and that he was become as a second Founder King Henry the VI. An. 26. granted him the Patronage Valued at 10 l. per Annum DERTFORD in Kent KING Henry the VI. An. 31. gave License to Iohn Bamburgh William Rothele Roger Ionet and Thomas Boost and to the Survivors of them to found an Alms-House in honour of the holy Trinity to which the Parish Church there is dedicated for the perpetual Vicar of that Church and the Gardians of the Goods and Chattles of the said Church and for five poor decrepid Men and that the said Vicar and Gardians and their Successors should be Master of the said House and a Body Corporate and have a Common Seal With License to give and assign Lands and Rents to the said Hospital of the value of 20 l. per Annum The Alms-house within the Precinct of St. Crosses at Winchester in Hampshire FOunded by Henry Cardinal and Bishop of Winchester half Brother of King Henry IV. who by License of King Henry the VI. An. 21. granted to the Master and Brethren of the Hospital of the Holy Cross near Winchester divers Mannors
more procuring to it self great Revenues and to be discharged from its subjection not only to the Abbot but Patriarch also These and the like mighty Priviledges granted them by the Court of Rome were the occasion of great Troubles and Disorders between the Hospitallers and the Patriarch of Ierusalem These Hospitallers on their admission were to make Oath upon the Missal as follows You promise and vow to God our Lâ—â—â— and my Lord St. John Baptist to live and die under the obedience of such Supeâ—â—â—ior whoever he be as God shall give you you vow further and promise to live chastly until death and also without property we also make another promise which no Religious Men besides us make for we promise to be Servants and Slaves of the Inâ—irm our Masters After the making this Vow he who admits him says And we promise you Bread and Water and humble Cloathing for nothing more you can require and we make you a Partaker of all the good Works done in our Order c. A List of such who have been Masters 1. Girardus 2. Raymundus de Podio 3. Augier de Bâ—llen 4. Arâ—audns de Comps 5. Gilbertus Assailli 6. Castus 7. Iobertus 8. Gaufridus de Dinsono 9. Hermengandus Daps in his time the Christians lost Ierusalem 10. Rogerius de Molins 11. Garnerius de Neapoli he had been Prior of St. Iohn ' s at London Vid. p. 550. 12. Alfonsus de Portugalia resigned 13. Gaufridus Rat 14. Garinus de Monteacuto 15. Bertrandus de Gexi 16. Garinus 17. Bertrandus de Cons. 18. Petrus de Villa Brida 19. Willielmus Castello Novo 20. Hugo Ryvell 21. Nicholaus de Lorgne 22. Odde 23. Guillelmus de Villareto 24. Fulco de Vilareto in his time the Knights Hospitallers took the Island of Rhodes and removed the Convent from Cyprus He was deposed 25. Mauricius de Paygnaco 26. Elionnus de Villa Nova 27. Deodatus de Gosono 28. Petrus Cornelian The Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in the Suburbs of London FOunded by Iordan Briset a Baron about the year 1100. on ten Acres of Land which he had in exchange from the Nuns of Clerkenwell which Nunnery he had founded not long before The Church of this Hospital was dedicated in honour of St. Iohn Baptist by Heraclius Patriarch of Ierusalem An. Dmo. 1185. The foresaid Iordan endow'd this House with fourteen Acres of Land adjoyning upon the Clerks Well Robert de Fun gave to the Brethren of this House the Hermitage of Yevelie with a Condition that the said Brothers should admit him into their Order at such time as he pleased whether in Health or Sickness Many others were Benefactors among the rest Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford gave to the Prior and Brothers of the Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England two Knights Fees William Earl of Ferrars Hugh de Bellocampo Gilbert de Montefichet c. gave divers other Lands and Churches c. recited and confirm'd by King Iohn An. 1. These Knights of St. Iohn claimed a Priviledge to bury the Bodies of such who had given Alms to their Fraternity however they came to their death whereupon it happen'd An. 4. E. 1. that certain Fellons having been executed some of the Servants of these Knights went to the Gallows and took `em down to bury one of which Fellons Adam le Messer by name being laid in the Grave came to life again and fled to the Neighbouring Church for Sanctuary where he remain'd till he abjured the Realm Pope Clemens having in the Council of Vienna supprest the Order of Knights Templers and given all their Lands and Possessions moveable and immoveable to these Knights Hospitallers of St. Iohn of Ierusalem King Edw. the II. An. 7. granted his Letters of Mandamus all over England for putting the same in execution in this Kingdom The like Grant was made by Act of Parliament An. 17. E. 2. However Hugh Spencer the younger by force seized and held from them their Mannor of the New Temple London which upon his Attainder came to the hands of King Edward the III. who in the twelfth year of his Reign did give grant and sell in consideration of 100 l. part of the said Mannor of the New Temple then valued at 7 l. 5 s. 2 d together with the Church Coemitary and Cloyster c. to the Prior of St. Iohn's and his Successors Vid. Vol. 3. p. 108. Of the Knights Templers in England ANno Dom. 1118. Certain Religious Knights of whom the principal were Hugh de Paganis and Godfrey de S. Audomaro engaged themselves to the Service of Christ before the Patriarch of Ierusalem and undertook to live after the Mannor of Canons Regular King Baldwin granted them a Habitation in part of his Palace adjoyning to the Temple and he and others gave them other Gifts whereon to subsist Their chief prosession was to guard the Roads from Theives for the safety of Pilgrims Their Habit was white with a red Cross. Their number did in a little time so increase that they had in their Convent above three hundred Knights besides others and as their number so their Possessions did swell to a vast and invidious value An. Dom. 1240. the Church belonging A KNIGHT TEMPLAR Vol. 2 P. 617 to these Knights at the Place call'd the New Temple in London was dedicated on Ascention day the King and a great Concourse of Peers and great Persons being present An. Dom. 1147. Conrad Emperor of Germany and Lewis King of France with great forces of French English Normans and Britains made an expedition against the Pagans in the Holy Land but returned with Little or no success at that time These Knights Templers having been very Treacherous to the Christians at the Seige of Damascus which City had been taken by King Lewis but for them An. Dom. 1307. 1 Edward 2. These Knights were Imprison'd throughout all Christendome for certain Enormities and Superstitions crept into their Order and all their Estates real and personal Seized Of the New Temple at London A KNIGHT HOSPITALLER Vol. 2. P. 55â— Ieffrey de Say granted to the Knights Templers fratribus militiae Templi Salomnis his Mannor of West-Grenewiche c. A sine was past 19 H. 3. between Robert de Stanford Master of the Warfare of the Temple in England Plantiff and Iohn de Curtenay and Emme his Wife Deforciants inpedientes of certain Lands in East-Hyrst King Iohn confirm'd to the Knights Templers the Island of Lundy lying in the Mouth of the Severn first granted by his Father King Henry the II. In short the foresaid King Henry the III. granted and confirm'd to the Templers in the eleventh year of his Reign all Royal Liberties in all their Lands exempting them and their men from Tolls Taxes c. with all the Immunity that the Royal Power can grant cum omnibus Libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus quas regia potestas liberiores alicui domui Religionis conferre potest In the Pontificate of
Being called from this retirement to oppose the Herefie of Tanchelinus at Antwerp An. 1124. he in a little time reduced the Persons infected to the Catholick Faith After this he was tho' against his will made Archbishop of Magdeburg and became very Instrumental in planting the Christian Religion in the Northern parts of Europe and also in healing the Schism between Innocent the III. and Peter Leo the Antipope The Place called Premonstratum and a Chappel there of St. Iohn Baptist was given to St. Norbert by Bartholmew Bishop of Laudunum with the approbation of Lewis the VI. call'd the Gross King of France This place was so called because as is said it was fore-shewn or Praemonstrated to be the Head Seat and Mother Church of this Order by the Blessed Virgin who also gave and appointed them their white Habit. It lies in a Vally formed by nature into the shape of a Cross the four Arms of which extend East and West North and South of equal proportion This Order being begun in the year 1120. as is before observed was first introduced into England in the ninth year of King Steven and about An. Dom. 1146. settled at Newhouse NEWHUS in Lincolnshire FOunded by Peter de Gosla for an Abbot and Canons of the Order of Premonstratenses which Abby and Church dedicated to St. Martial was by him endow'd with Lands and Revenues among other things he granted them free fishing in Humber and Tithes of his Wood c. All which was confirm'd by those of whom he held his Estate Radelf de Bajocis and William Larl of Lincoln This Abby was founded at Neuhus in the place where the Castle formerly stood Peter de Gosla held Lands at Newhouse by the service of five Knights Fees of the Barons de Bajocis who held the same of the King in Capite ALNEWIKE in Northumberland FOunded and endowed for Canons of this Order An. 1147. by Eustace Fitz Iohn who married the Daughter and Heir of Yvo de Vescy and by her had the Baronies of Alnewyk and Maltone from whom descended A CANNON REGVLAR OF Y e ORDER OF PRAEMONSTRE Vol. 2. P. 529 the noble Family of Vescy whose Heirs General were married to Muscamp and Bolbek Valued at 189 l. 15 s. per Annum BLIBURG in Suffolk KING Richard the I. recited and confirm'd to these Canons the several Lands and Rents given them by many Benefactors The Founder and Patron of this Priory was the Abbot of St. Osiths Valued at 48 l. 8 s. 10 d. per Annum HEPPE in Westmerland THIS Priory was first founded in honour of St. Mary Magdalen at Preston by Thomas Son of Gospatric and by him endow'd with divers Lands among other things he gave the Canons here as much Wood as they would take out of his Woods and to grind at his Mill toll-free The said Thomas gave them also Pasture in and about Swindale for sixty Cows twenty Mares five hundred Sheep c. With other Possessions in the Territory of the Town of Heppe where this Convent was new erected Confirm'd by Robert de Veteriponte Valued at 154 l. 17 s. 7 d. ob per Annum TUPHOLME in Lincolnshire KING Henry the III. An. 20. Confirmed to the Abbot and Canons of St. Mary of Tupholm the several Lands and Possessions given them by Gilbert de Nevill and Alan de Nevill his Brother and divers other Benefactors The first Founder was Robert de Nova Villa or Nevill who held Lands of the King in Capite from the time of the Conquest wherewith he endow'd this House Valued at 100 l. 14 s. 10 d. per Annum WELLEBEC in Nottinghamshire JOceus le Flemangh came into England in the Conquerours Army and obtain'd from that King divers Lands in Cukeney c. In this Town lived on Gamelbere an old Tenant in Capite before the Conquest who held of the King two Carucates of Land by the Service of shooing the Kings Palfrey on all four feet with the Kings Nails de cluario Domini Regis as oft as the King should lie at his Mannour of Maunsfeld and if he should lame si inclaudet the Palfrey then he should give the King another Palfrey of four marks price this Gamelbere dying without issue the said Estate came by Escheat to King Henry I. who gave it to Richard Son of the said Ioceus and his heirs to hold by the same Service This Richard had issue by Hawise a Kinswoman of the Earl of Ferrars Thomas who became the Founder of this Abby where a Church of St. Iames was then crected he also endow'd the same with Lands and Revenues augmented and confirm'd by his Descendents Simon Fitz-Simon and Isabel his Wife Walter de Faucumberge and Agnes his Wife c. An. Dom. 1329. Henry de Faucumberge past the Mannour of and all his Estate in Cukeney with the Advowson of this Abby to Iohn de Hothom Bishop of Ely who four days after conveyed all the premisses except the Advowson of the Abby to the Abbot and Convent of St. Iames at Welbeck and by another Deed dated 25 days after in the same year Iohn de Nottingham then Abbot of this Abby obliged himself and Successors to find eight Canons of his Abby for the daily celebration of the Divine Offices for the Souls in the said Deed montion'd and to celebrate the Anniversary of the said Bishop in like manner as of then first and principal Founder c. And to this also he and all the Canons of this House obliged themselves by Oath before a publick Notary c. Richard Basset Knight gave to this Abby the Town of Duckmanton 〈…〉 of the Barony of Henry de Stutâ—vill was by him confirm 〈◊〉 laving to him the Service of one Knights Fee The other Lanâ—â— c. belonging to this Abby in Cukeney and elsewhere were all confirm'd by King Henry II. Valued at 249 l. 6 s. 3 d. per Annum CROXTON in Leicestershire WIlliam Parcarius Son of Ingeram Parcarius gave two parts of the Park of Croxton to this Priory Hugh Brother of the said William confirm'd the said Gift and gave other Lands c. towards the Building of the Church Also he gave his whole Demeasne of Croxton to these Canons to hold in see farm at the Rent of four marks per Annum Margery de Sancto Albino gave them the other third part of Croxton Park William Earl of Bolon and Iohn Earl of Morton Confirm'd their Estate at Croxton and gave other Lands The abovementioned Ingeram Parcarius was also call'd Ingeram le Porter and came into England at the Conquest King Edward 1. An. I. confirm'd to the Abbot and Canons of the Church of St. Iohn the Evangelist and Apostle at Croxton otherwise call'd the Church of St. Iohn de Valle all their Lands and granted them free Chace at Croxton Vid. Vol. 3. p. 73. Valued at 385 l. 10 d. ob per Annum LEYSTONE in Suffolk FOunded in the time of King Henry II. by Radulphus de Glanville and by him
be instituted by the Diocesan and be immoveable and that the Abbot of St. Nicholas at Angiers should not have to do with any of the Temporalities of this House but only receive an annual Rent of 40 l. and the Board and Maintenance of four Monks Pag. 352. MERKYATE ANno 1145. Radulph Dean of St. Paul's in London and the Chapter of that Church granted to Christina and the Nuns of the Monastery of the holy Trinity of the Wood near Merkyate the Ground where the said Monastery is situated reserving a yearly Payment of 3 s. as a Ground Rent and Fealty Alexander Bishop of Lincoln consecrated the Nuns Church here in the abovesaid year 1145. Pag 356. TUTBURY WIlliam Earl of Ferrars granted to the Monks of St. Mary of Tutbury the Tithes of all his Forrest of Duâ—â—eld viz. of Paunage of hunting of Honey and of Money i. e. Rents William Prior and the Convent of Tutbury granted to William Fitzâ— Herbert and to his Hâ—irs Norbury in Fee at the yearly Rent of 100 s. and if he be 〈◊〉 to assist or be present at the Pleas and Affairs of the Church of Tutbury with Relief and other Services to the said Prior and Convent Afterwards by Deed dited 30 H. 6. Nicholas Fitz-Herbert Esq and Ralph Fitz-Herbert his Son and Heir apparent set forth that whereas they had demised to Thomas Gedney Prior of Tutbury certain Lands at Osmondstone in Com. Derby for four years in consideration that the Prior and Convent had by their Deed under seal released to the said Nicholas and his Heirs all their Right and Claim of a Rent of 5 l. per Annum and other Services issuing out of the Mannor of Norbury in the said County they the said Nicholas and Ralph did release to the said Prior and Convent and their Successors for ever all their Right and Claim to and in the Lands demised as abovesaid with Warranty Pag. 367. MALVERN THE Priory of Great Malvern was before the Conquest a Hermitage founded by one Vrso d'Abytot afterwards a certain Abbot of Westminster with the Assent of the said Vrso did place here a Prior and Monks and gave them three Mannors others gave other Lands all which were confirm'd by King Henry the I. Pag. 370. St. NEOTS TEdbald de Eschalers gave Lands to the Monks here whose Deed concludes Et quoniam ego Sigillum non babui petitione-meâ Dominus meus Stephanus hanc donationem meam sub Sigillo suo confirmavit Other Benefactors to this House were Roger de Clare Earl of Hertford William de Albiney Brito and Peter de Montefort which last by his Deed dated at Presion An. 1245. gave and confirm'd to the Monks here divers Lands in Wenge Com. Rut. with the Advowson of the Church there Pag. 439. COLNE SEveral Countesses of Oxford were Benefactors to the Monks here Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk gave them the Church of Dovercourt and Chappel of Herewich Pag. 479. BLAKEBERGH TO the Nuns of this House divers of the Family of Scales were great Benefactors Emma de Bellofago Widow gave to the Nuns of Blakebergh four hundred Eels out of her Fishery at Wilton per Annum at the beginning of Lent in pure and perpetual Alms. Pag. 489. STANFORD TO the Nuns of St. Michaels in Stanford were given by several Benefactors the Church of St. Clement's in Stanford the Church of All-Saints in Stamford the Church of St. Andrew in Stamford then 1170 held by Peter the Dean who was to enjoy it during his Life Also the Church of St. Martin at Stamford of which last mention'd Church it was certified by Oliver Bishop of Lincoln An. 1289. that the Vicarage of the said Church did consist in the whole Altarage of the same the Vicar paying yearly to the said Nuns two Marks that the Nuns should be at the Charge of supplying the Chappel of Burgele in the said Parish that the Vicar should pay the Sinodals only but the Nuns the Archdeacons Procurations and all other Charges They had also given them the Church of Corby and Chappel of Vpton William Earl of Waren granted them a Rent of 40 s. per Annum for their Kitchin Pag. 496. DENNY RObert the Chamberlain Earl of Richmond gave divers Lands to the Monks here exhorting and commanding his Children to do more for the advantage of this Church and cursing any one of his Heirs who shall take away any thing that he hath given These Monks were first founded in an Isle call'd Elmeney but for the inconveniences of that Seituation translated to a higher Ground in the Isle of Denney by Albericus Picot Pag. 528. GODSTOW AMong other Benefactors to this House were Osbert Fitz-Hugh who gave a Salt-pit in Wiche So did Walter de Clifford for the health of his Soul and of Margaret his Wife and Rosamund his Daughter whose Bodies were buried in this Nunnery dedicated to St. Mary and St. Iohn Baptist. Pag. 529. COLCHESTER HVgh Abbot and the Convent of Monks of St. Iohn Baptist of Colchester granted and quit-claim'd the Church of Hecham to the Nuns of Lillechirche in Kent in exchange for Duniland this exchange was confirm'd by King Steven and also by Walter Bishop of Rochester who with the consent of Amphelisa then Prioress of Lilchurch establisht a Settlement for the Vicar of the said Church Pope Alexander granted an Indulgence of forty days to all those who should contribute to the new building of the Church of St. Mary of Hegham the same with Lilchurch Pag. 534. KYNGTON AMong other Benefactors Roger de Mortuomari gave to the Nuns of St. Mary of Kyngton in pure and perpetual Alms the whole Tith of his House of Bread and Ale de pane allece Roger de Villiers gave them the second Tithes secundas decimas of the Corn of all his Demesnes and the Tithes of his meat or flesh Provision not bought in decimas Carnis meae non emptae Robert Burnell Bishop of Bath and Wells gave them the Advowson of the Church of Kyngton belonging to that See Pag. 544. HOLAND THE Colledge here dedicated to St. Thomas the Martyr was at first founded for Secular Canons but in the year 1318. it was by the Patron Sir Robert de Holland Knt. translated into a Priory of Benedictine Monks Upon the death of whose Prior the Monks were to choose three out of whom he was to elect one to be by him presented to the Diocesan to be Prior. COLCHESTER in Essex ON the South side of Colchester is a small hill on the North side of which was of old time the habitation of one Siricus a Priest and a Church composed of Boards and dedicated to St. Iohn the Evangelist wherein in the night time was often seen wonderful light and musick heard praising God no body being then in the place This Church being famed for this and the like miraculous adventures and being also of a delicious Scituation Eudo the Kings Major Domo or Steward to whom King William Rufus had given the Custody of
the Church of Wrytele in Essex for the maintenance of the Poor in this Hospital call'd the English Hospital at Rome BLANCLAND in Normandy FOunded for Canons and endow'd with Lands in England by Richard de Hay and his Wife De BELLOPORTU in Normandy AN. Dom. 1202. Alen Son of Earl Henry gave divers Lands in England to the Canons Regular of this Abby Premonstratenses Dominican Nuns near Roan FOunded by St. Lewis King of France beyond the Bridge at Roan and by him endowed with 500 l. Turnois per Annum and divers Liberties An. Dom. 1269. The Cathedral Church at Roan DIvers Lands in England were formerly given to the Canons of this Church and their Successors by King Henry Earl Otho and more especially by King Iohn viz. The Mannor of Clere in Hampshire Oteri in Devonshire Kilburn in Torkshire c. Irish Monasteries St. ANDREWS in the Territory of Ardes Ardee FOunded by Iohn de Curceio At first a Cell to the Abby of Lonley in Normandy and by them granted to the Archbishop of Armach The Nuns at Corke FOund by Inquisition 29 E. 1. that it was not to the Kings damage for William Barry and others to settle certain Lands there mention'd on Agnes de Hareford and other Nuns and their Successors in the House of St. Iohn Baptist in St. Iohn's-street in Cork St. PATRICKS at Downe FOunded An. Dom. 1183. for Monks and a Prior from St. Werburgs at Chester but without any Subjection to the Church of Chester The Bishop of Down was Custos and Abbot of this Monastery in like manner as the Bishops were in the Churches of Winchester and Coventry Iohn de Curci the Founder of this Monastery endow'd it with divers Revenues and Tithes among other things of all his hunting The Nuns at GRANE in the County of Kildare POpe Innocent the III. An. Dom. 1207. confirm'd the Lands given to this House by Walter de Rideleford and others the like confirmation was made by King Iohn in the ninth year of his Reign KILCUMYN FOunded by Philip de Wigornia Constable of Ireland and furnished with Monks from Glastonbury NEDDRUM a Cell to St. Bege in Yorkshire ANno Dom. 1177. 23 H. 2 the Lord Iohn de Curci subdued Vlster An. 1178. he gave Neddrum to the Monks of St. Bege with great Priviledges Divers Benefactors gave Lands to this Priory all which was confirm'd An. Dom. 1202. by Iohn Cardinal of St. Steven in Mont Caelius Apostolick Legat. OCYMILD FOunded by William de Burgo and given to Richard a Monk of Glastonbury ARKEL a Cell to Furnes in Lancashire FOunded by Theobald Walteri Butler of Ireland and by him given to the Monks of the Cistercian Order at Furnes with divers Liberties BELLO BECCO another Cell to Furnes FOunded and endow'd by Walter de Lascy for Cistercian Monks who afterwards by License of King Edward the III. transferr'd their Estate here to the Abbot and Convent of Furneys DUNBROTHY in the County of Wexford HArvey de Monte Marisco the Kings Marshal of Ireland gave this place with divers other Lands for a Cell to the Abby of Bildwas in England William Marshal Earl of Pembroke was a great Benefactor to this House whose Gifts were confirm'd by King Edward the III. among which things they had a grant of Pasture for eighty Cows and one thousand five huudred Sheep yearly JEREPONT FOunded by Dumwald King of Ossery and endow'd by him with Baleochellam in which the Monastery was founded and other Lands all confirm'd by Iohn Lord of Ireland and Earl of Morton KYLLECONIL FOunded by Donald O Bryan Confirm'd by King Henry the III. An. suo 4. MELLIFONT KING Iohn confirm'd to the Monks of the Church of St. Mary at Drogheda divers Land which they enjoy'd before the coming of the French into Ireland The like confirmations were made by King Henry the III. and King Edward the III. NEWRY in the County of Down FOunded and endowed for Cistercian Monks by Mauritius mag Lochlain King of all Ireland by the unanimous consent of the Great men and Petty Kings of Vlster ROSGLAS FOunded and endow'd by Dermitius O Demesy King of Ofalia St. SAVIOURS FOunded by William Marischal Earl of Pembroke confirm'd by King Henry the III. with the grant of great Liberties To this Abby was afterwards united the Abby of Kilkenny TYNTERNE FOunded according to the last Will of William Marischal Earl of Pembroke and ratified by King Iohn DE VALLE SALUTIS FOunded by Dermitius an Irish King and by him and his Subjects endow'd with divers Lands Confirm'd by King Iohn WONEY in the County of Limerick FOunded An. Dom. 1205. and endowed with Lands and Liberties by Theobald Walteri Butler of Ireland St. CROSSE in the County of Tiperary FOunded and endowed by Donald King of Lumney Lumnicensis BALLINTOBBER in the County of Maio. Canons Regular FOunded by Catholus O Conogher King of Connaught An. Dom. 1216. CONNAL a Cell to Lanthony in England FOunded An. 1202. by Maylerus Son of Henry for Canons Regular Confirm'd by King Iohn The Hospital of St. Mary's near Droheda FOunded and endowed by Vrsus de Swemele for the maintenance of poor and infirm People and such as are in Want The Custos of which Hospital to be chosen by the Good men Proborum hominum of Drogheda ALL-SAINTS in the East-part of Dublin FOunded and endowed for Canons by Dermont King of Leimster confirm'd by King Henry the II. St. THOMAS the Martyr in Dublin FOunded and endowed by William Son of Audelinus Sewer to King Henry the II. by Authority of that King and for him FERNE in the County of Wexford FOunded and endowed by Dernatius King of Leimster An. 1158. He also granted them free choice of their own Abbots according to the Rule of St. Augustine KENLIS and Inistiock in the County of Kilkenny JEffrey Son of Robert came into Ireland with William Earl Marischal and obtain'd the Barony of Kenlis in Ossorey at which place he afterwards built a Monastery for Canons Regular which he brought over from Bodmin in Cornwalk One of whom was Hugh de Rous who after that became the first English Bishop of Ossery About An. 1206. Thomas Son of Anthony founded a Priory at Iâ—istiock which became as a Cell to Kenlis Hugh de Lacy and Walter de Lacy were Benefactors The Hospital of St. John Evangelist at Kilkenny FOunded and endowed An. 1220. by William Mareschal Earl of Pembroke KILVAYNARD a Priory of Augustin Nuns POpe Celestin the III. An. 1195. confirmed their Lands and Possessions with the grant of divers Liberties St. JOHN BAPTIST at Nenath in the County of Tiperary FOunded about the year 1200. by Theobald Walter Butler of Ireland and by him endow'd with Lands for the Maintenance of Canons and thirteen poor and infirm People FERMOY FOundeds and endowed for Canons Regular of St. Augustin by Alexander Son of Hugh Confirm'd by King Edward the I. An. suo 18. TOBERGLORIE in the County of Down FOunded and endowed by Iohn de Curcey and by
the foresaid twenty ninth year of Henry VIII Pag. 648. LENTON KIng Steven granted the Chruch of the Holy Trinity at Lenton which William Peverell and others had endow'd to the order of Cluniac Monks to be enjoy'd with all its possessions inviolably The Priory of HORKESLEY RObert Fitz God bold gave divers Lands Churches and Tithes to the Cluniac Monks of Tefford with intention that the Convent of that House should transmit some of their Monks to the Church of St. Peter at Horchesley there to reside in the Services of God and St. Peter Their Possessions so given was confirm'd to them by Gilbert Bishop of London and Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury Pag. 867. SIBETON WIth King William the Conqueror who came into England in the year 1066. came Walter de Cadamo who after the Conquest held the Barony of Horsford He had issue Robert who built the Church of St. Peter at Sibton who had issue Iohn call'd the Vicount and William Iohn being very infirm in his health vow'd to erect an Abby of Cistercian Monks but himself dying left his vow to be perform'd by William his Brother and heir who enjoy'd after his death his Barony and Vicounty This William founded the Monastery of St. Mary at Sibton in the Reign of King Steven An. Dom. 1149. And endow'd the same with Lands and Revenues He had issue Margaret married to Hugh de Cressy who confirm'd her Fathers Guift An. 28. Henry VIII William then Abbot of Sibton Com. Suffolk and the Convent there of their free will and unanimous Consent gave granted and confirm'd to Thomas Duke of Norfolk Anthony Rouse Esquire and Nicholas Hare Gent. their heirs and assigns to the use of the said Duke his heirs and assigns for ever all the said Monastery and Estate thereunto belonging and Constituted Thomas Heydon and Robert Whinwery their lawful Attorneys to deliver Seizin accordingly This was under their Convent Seal and Sign'd by the Abbot and seven Monks of the House Pag. 887. HOLMCOLTRAM DAvid King of Scotland confirm'd the Donations of his Son Henry to this Abby the like did afterwards Malcolm king of Scotland Son of the said Henry Iohn King of England in the 16. year of his Reign granted to the Monks here the Hermitage of St. Hilda in the Forrest of Englewode with all the Land which Roger Croky late Hermit held and a Vaccary there for forty Cows c. Iohn Bishop of Carlile licensed the Monks of Holmcoltram to build a Church or Chappel in their territory of Arlosk for their Tenants and the Inhabitrants of those parts which Church or Chappel he did appropriate and annex to the said Monastery and exempt the same from the Visitation of the Ordinary The said Church to be served by a secular Priest of their election but to be presented to the said Bishop or his Successors and by them admitted to the said Cure The said Priest so admitted to receive for his support 4 l. to be pay'd him yearly out of the profits of the said Church and a House and Curtilage to be assigned him The said Priest to pay to the Bishop in the name of a Cathedratic half a mark and to the Archdeacon when he Visits 40 d. for procurations Which Deed of Appropriation bears date at Linflock An. 1304. Hugh Morville Cecily Countess of Albemarl Lambert de Multon and others were Benefactors to these Monks William Earl of Albemarl gave them a Forge and Iorn Mine at Egremond Robert King of Scots whose Father lies buried in their Church at Holmcoltram gave them a yearly farm of 10 l. Pope Lucius III. confirm'd to them their Lands and Revenues and granted them divers Liberties as to be free from the payment of Tithes for their Cattel and Fishing c. Whose Bull bears date An. 1185. Pag. 914. CROKESDEN THe Abby of the Vally of St. Mary of Crokesdene was founded by Bertram de Verdon and by him endow'd with divers Revenues in Crokesdene Stanfort Castretone c. and a Salt work in Midlewich Additions to the Second Volum Pag. 461. NORWICH JOhn Bishop of Norwich exemplified the Deeds belonging to the Hospital of St. Paul in Norwich viz. the Charter of the Convent of the Holy Trinity of Norwich who founded and endow'd the said Hospital to the support of poor people for the Soul of Bishop Herbert c. of Adam de Bellofago Morellus de Morley some Bishops of Norwich his Predicessors and King Henry I. who were all Benefactors Which Deed of Exemplification bears date in the year 1301. Pag. 181. TWINEHAM IN the Reign of King Steven An. Dom. 1150 Henry Bishop of Winchester and Hillary then Dean of Christ Church at the Petition of Earl Baldwin introduced Canons Regular into the said Church in place of the Canons secular that then were there the secular Canons to enjoy their Prebends while they lived But all the Lands and Revenues belonging and possest by the said Church in the time of the Deans to be for the future to the only use of the Prior and Canons Regular Pag. 152. GISBURNE WAldenus Son of Earl Cospatric gave the Town of Apleton to the Church of St. Bridget commonly call'd Brydekirk in the County of Cumberland The Lady Alice de Rumeley gave this Church of Brydekirk with Apleton and all other Lands thereunto belonging to the Canons of Gisburne Pag. 272. WORSPRING WIlliam de Curtenai founded a Convent for Canons Regular of St. Augustin at the Chappel of St. Thomas the Martyr in Worspring and notifying so much to Iohn then Bishop of Bath desired that by his authority the Church of Worle at that time vacant might be appropriated to the said Convent Pag. 263. WORMLEY JOhn de Baskerville gave to God and the Church of St. Leonard of Pyonia and to the Prior and Canons there in Frankalmoine all his Land of Stanley which he held of the Mannour of Wormley and Nickolas de Wormley Lord of the said Mannour reciting the said Grant confirm'd the same to the said Prior and Canons and also released and quit claimed to them one pair of spurs or sixpence of yearly Rent by which the foresaid Iohn held that Land Robet de Staunton Gilbert Talebot Robert Boter and others were Benefactors to the said Canons confirm'd by Roger de Montuomari Lord of Winfretone An. Dom. 1304 Gerard de Eylesford gave them the Advowson of the Church of Pyona Regis or Kings Peâ—ne Peter Bishop of Hereford appropriated the Church of Wormesley of which these Canons were Patrons to this Convent for the said Canons to enjoy the Fruits thereof to their proper use but so as not to defraud the said Church of due Service Whose Deed bears date An. 1262. Here was a Chantry tounded by the Lady Basilia de Bourhull Pag. 941. RANTON RObert Fitz-Noel or Son of Noel founded and endow'd the Priory of Ranton for Canons under the Rule and obedience of the Church of Haman Hamanensis Ecclesiae Whose Donation was confirm'd by Thomas Noel his Son Noel who came
into England with King William the Conqueror had issue Robert and he Thomas Thomas had issue Alice and Iohn his Co-heirs Alice was married to William de Harecourt and had in partition the Mannour of Elimhale from whom descended Sir Robert Harecourt Knight who married Anne the daughter of Thomas Lymerik Pag. 276. COLDNORTON in Oxfordshire WIlliam Fitz Alan founded this Priory for Canons in his Mannour House at Coldnorton to God St. Mary St. Iohn and St. Giles and endow'd it with divers Lands Reginald Earl of Bolon and Ida his Wiâ—e confirm'd the Donations of their Ancestors An. 1201. Ralf Earl of Stafford gave to this Priory his Mannour of Rowlandright in Oxfordshire for the maintenance of two Canons to celebrate for his Soul c. for ever whose Charter indented bears date at his Mannour of Tysho in Warwickshire 44 Edward III. Hugh Croft Esquire released and convey'd ever to King Henry VII all his right title and Claim to the said Priory and Patronage of the same and all the Lands and Revenues thereunto belonging formerly enjoy'd by Iohn Wotton late Prior of the said Priory whose Deed bears date 21. Feb. 22 Henry VIII It was found by Inquisition taken at Dorchester in Oxfordshire 24. of Apr. 22. Henry VIII before William Young Escheater of that County that Iohn Wolton late Prior of this Priory was seized of the said Priory the Mannour of Coldnorton and divers Lands c. in the said inquisition exprest in right of the said Priory and being so seized dyed on the eve of Palm Sunday in the 11 year of that King without having any Convent of Canons or any profest Canon in the said Priory at that time and that the succession of the said Priory did thereupon wholly finish dissolve extinguish and determine by which means the said Priory and all the Estate thereunto belonging did Escheat to the King whose Ancestors were Founders and Patrons of the same and that the Revenue of the said Priory is of the value of 50 l. per Annum over and above all Reprises Pag. 232. DERLEY AN. 1271. Robert Saucheverel past a fine before Iohn de Reygate the Kings Justiciary of the Church of Bolton to the Abbot of Derley saving the Presentation of a fit Chaplain to the same by the said Robert and that such Chaplain shall receive the small Tithes of Bolton for serving the Cure Robert Fitz Steven the Kings Chamberalin Henry de Luy Hubert Fitz. Ralf William Peverel of Nottingham Robert Earl of Ferrars c. were Benefactors Walter Bishop of Coventry confirm'd the Lands given to the Canons of this House gave them the Care of the Nunnery of Virgins which the Abbot of Darby erected at a mile distance and exempted the said Abbot and his Successors from paying Tithes of their proper fields and granted that the said Abbot and his Successors shall be Dean of all their Churches in Derbyshire especially of all the Churches in Derby Pag. 41. BREDON WIlliam de Ferrariis Earl of Derby gave to the Canons Regular of Bredon divers Churches Lands and Commons of Pasture in the Peke and elsewhere Pa. 564. TEMPLERS THomas de Santford gave all his Land of Saunford c to the Knights of the Temple in pure and perpetual Alms for the relief of the holy Land and for the maintenance of one Chaplain to celebrate Mass for ever at the House of the Templers at Bustlisham King Steven and Queen Matilda his Wife and William Marescal Earl of Pembroke were Benefactors William de Vernon granted Lands at Eremne for the founding of an Hospital to William Maskerel which foundation was confirm'd by Baldwin Archbishop of Canterbury and Godfrey Bishop of Winchester and was afterwards granted by the said Maskerel to the Kinghts of the Temple of Salomon STANLEY Priory in Gloucestershire THeobald Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of the English and Apostolick Legate confirm'd the Lands and Revenues given by Several Benefactors to the Church of St. Leonard and Canons of Stanley SHELFORD Priory in Nottinghamshire IT was found in a Plea of Assize taken before Hugh Bigod Justiciary of England An. 42. Henry III. Between William Bardolf and Adam Everingham who both pretended to the Patronage of this Priory that Ralf Haunselyn Ancestor of the said William Bardolf was the â—ounder of the said Priory and that William Bardolf was the true Patron of the same who thereupon had Judgment against the said Adam and the said Adâ—m in misericordia And the Archbishop of York was commanded to admit a fit Person to be Prior there at the Presentation of the said William Valued at 116 l. Per Annum SANDELFORD Priory in Barkshire STeven Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of all England and Cardinal of the holy Roman Church confirm'd to the Canons of Sandelford divers Lands and Rents granted to those Canons by Ieffrey Earl of Le Perche Pertici in France ASSERUGG in Buckinghamshire EDmund Earl of Cornwal Son and heir of Richard King of the Romans gave and confirm'd to the Rector of the Good men Brothers of the Church founded in honour of the precious blood of Iesus Christ at Esserugg the Mannour of Esserugg and other Lands c. for the support of twenty Brothers Clerks of which 13 at the least to be Priests and with those Lands he granted divers Liberties and Franchises extream large and that neither he nor his heirs should meddle nor interpose in the concerns of the House at such times as it shall happen to be void of a Rector c. Valued at 416 l. 165. s. 4 d. Per Annum Pag. 245. BRADSOLE KIng Iohn confirm'd to God and the Church of St. Radegundat Bradsole and the Canons there of the Order of Premonstratenses divers Lands given by his Brother King Richard I. and others With other Lands of his own guift He also granted them the Church of St. Peter of Rivery and his House there for the building a new Monastery for their use and to translate the old Abby thither There was formerly in this neighbourhood a small House of Religion call'd Blakewose which was subject to a Monastery of this order call'd Lavendene but the Canons of that place being poor and distant it occasion'd scandal whereupon the Canons of Blakewose were discharged of their obedience to the Abbot of Lavendene and Subjected to the Abbot of St. Randegund Hugo de Burgh Justiciary of England and Hamon de Crevequer were Benefactors to this Abby Pag. 622. STANLEY HVbert Fitz-Ralf and Serlo de Grendon confirm'd to the Canons of Stanley Park the Estate formerly given by William de Grendon Maud de Salicosa Mara daughter of William Fitz Ralf late Steward of Normandy was also a Benefactress to this House The Abbots of Stanley Park 1. Walter de Senteney ruled 31. years 2. William Ruled here 2. years 3. Iohn Grauncorth govern'd 19. years 4. Hugh de Lincoln govern'd 14 years 5. Simon 5. years 6. Laurence 16. years 7. Richard de Normanton ruled the first time 8. years 8. Iohn
Possessions of the said Hospital to enter and distrain and the distress to detain till his said Annuity and the Arrearages and his Expences be fully satisfied This Decree was made by consent and approbation of both Parties and bears date in the Archbishops Inn at Westminster now Whitehally An. Dom. 1485. Approved ratified and confirm'd by the Dean and Chapter of York and by the Master Brothers and Sisters of the said Hospital in the same year Pag. 381. RIPPON IT was found by Inquisition taken at Rippon 10 E. 2. that in the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen there according to the Foundation there ought to be two Chaplains daily celebrating that Strangers poor Clerks or other indigent People coming to the said Hospital in their travells ought to be lodged there one night and entertain'd with Victuals and Bed and in the Morning depart and that on St. Mary Magdalen's day yearly ought to be distributed in Alms to every poor Body that comes one Loaf of the value of a half-penny the quarter of Wheat being prized at 5 s. But they find that then Costos of this Hospital had perverted the Founders Charity in several particulars Pag. 461. WELLE RAlph de Neville Knt. Lord of Midleham by Indenture dated A. 1342 Founded the Hospital at Welle in the Archdeaconry of Richmond for the Augmentation of Divine Worship and for the sustentation of poor and miserable People and other Works of Piety and endow'd the same with Lands and Revenue and establisht therein one Master two Priests and four and twenty poor and infirm People And appointed that the Master and two Priests should constantly observe and keep the Canonical hours and celebrate three Masses daily KYPIER Hospital in the County Palatine of Durham FOunded by Ranulphus Bishop of Durham An. 1112. to the honour of God and St. Giles for the Relief of the Clergy there serving and for the sustentation of poor People who also endowed it with divers Lands and Revenues confirm'd and augmented by Hugh Bishop of Durham and other Benefactors The said Bishop Hugh granted to this Hospital Common of Pasture in his Forrest with certain Priviledges viz. that the feet of their Dogs should not be cut or clipt but that the Shepherds might lead them in slips ligatos for the safety of their Cattle from wild Beasts and Wolves An. 1297. A Composition was made between the Prior and Convent of Durham and the Hospital of St. Giles whereby the said Prior and Convent did quit-claim to the Brothers of that Hospital their Tithes of Corn at Clifton which till that time they had used to pay to the Church of St. Oswald in recompence whereof the Brothers of the said Hospital were to pay yearly upon the Altar of St. Oswald on the day of that Saint one Bisantium or 2 s. c. The Men of Bedelyngtonshire being obliged by their Lords the Bishops of Durham to give to the Hospital of St. Giles without Durham one Thrave of Corn out of every Plow-land which they held they granted under their Seals in lieu thereof 9 s. in mony to be paid to the said Hospital at the Feast of St. Michael with a Nomine paenae Valued at 167 l. 2 s. 11 d. per Annum STOKE Hospital near Newarke in Nottinghamshire JOhn Chauson Master of the Hospital of St Leonard's at Stoke and others Confraters of the same settled by their Deed oated in the year 1332. forty Acres of Land and thirty shillings of Rent which they had obtain'd of Friends for the profit of the said Hospital and provided that the Master of the same should cause sixty Masses to be celebrated yearly for ever for the said Benefactors c. To this every Master is to be sworn at his admission This Deed was ratified and confirm'd the same year by William Archbishop of York St. GILES Hospital near Maldon in Essex IT was found by Inquisition taken before Helming Leget Escheator in the County of Essex that the Kings of England were Founders of this Hospital for the support of Leprous Burgesses of Maldon that they had the Forfeitures of all Bread Ale Flesh and Fish that was not good and wholesome in the said Town and that when the Master of that Hospital should cease to take the same for the support as aforesaid then the said Hospital should come and revert to the King as forfeited that Robert Manfeild Clerk late Provost of Beverley being made Custos of this Hospital for above three years past has maintained neither Chaplain nor any Leprous Person in the same and that the said Hospital was therefore seized into the King's hands But King Henry the IV. being advised by his Justices and Serjeants at Law that this was no sufficient cause of seizure directed his writ to the said Escheator to amove his hand c. and meddle no further GINGES Hospital in Essex MIchael de Capra and Rose his Wife and William his Son and Heir gave to God and the Church of St. Mary and St. Leonard in their Wood of Ginges and to Toby Prior of the said Place and the Brothers of the same one Hide of Land Paunage for forty Hogs and divers other advantages BURCESTRE Hospital in Oxfordshire KING Edward the III. in the nine and twentieth year of his Reign licensed Nicholas Iordan Hermit Custos of the Chappel of St. Iohn Baptist of Burcestre to found an Hospital at Burcestre to the honour of God the glorious Virgin Mary and St. Iohn Baptist. Valued at 147 l. 2 s. 10 d. per Annum CALC Priory in Derbyshire MAtilda Countess of Chester gave to the Canons of this place an Estate at Rependone near Trent conditionally that they should make it the head Seat of their Convent to which Calc should be subject as a Member Hugh Earl of Chester confirm'd their Revenues ARUNDELL Hospital in Sussex KING Richard the II. An. 18. Licensed Richard Earl of Arundel to give four Messuages and two Tofts to the Master and Chaplains of the holy Trinity at Arundell for the founding of an Hospital call'd Meysondewe in honour of the holy Trinity c. Valued at 42 l. 3 s. 8 d. per Annum FOSS-GATE Hospital at York JOhn Archbishop of York Primate of England and Legate of the Apostolick See ordain'd and establisht in the Foss-gate-street at York an Hospital in honour of our Lord Jesus Christ and the blessed Virgin Mary That there be one Chaplain to have the Government of the same and to be named Master or Custos the right of presenting to the Office of Custos to belong to Mr. Iohn de Roucliff and his Heirs in their deâ—ault to the Mayor of York for the time being in his default to the Official of York Court and in his default that the Archbishop or Dean and Chapter may for that time confer the place without presentation the Custos on his admission to be sworn to a just and true Administration c. That there be constantly resident in the said Hospital thirteen poor and
Paynell the Lord William de Percy who gave the Church of Topcliffe to the Fabrick of this Church in return for which the Dean and Chapter promised to find a fit Chaplain for ever to celebrate in the Chappel of the Blessed Mary at Topcliffe and to allow him 100 s. yearly Ieffry Fitz Peter Earl of Essex the Abbot and Convent of Albemarl who gave Preston and other Churches in Holderness An. 1228. Nicholas de Stutville who gave Michael de Hamelsciâ his Native or Villain and all his progeny Henry Fitz Thomas and others were Benefactors to this Church An Inquisition was taken An. Dom. 1275 4. Edward I. in which all the Lands and Liberties of the Church of St. Peter in the City and Suburbs of York were set forth and exprest some of which the Jury then found to have belong'd to that Church time out of memory Walter Gray Archbishop of York granted to the Chapter of York by Deed dated An. 1241. All his Mansion House and all his Lands c. in Thorp St. Andrew or Bishops Thorp with Provision that the said Chapter reconvey the Premisses to his Successors to hold by the Rent of 20 marks per An. at the feast of St. Martin which twenty marks to be distributed to poor People on the day of his Anniversary c. The said Walter in the 33 year of his consecration caused certain Vicarages to be endow'd in the Churches of Tickhill c. which Churches were appropriated to the Prior and Convent of St. Oswald of Nostel in particular to the support of the Vicar of Tickhill and one associate Priest a Deacon and Subdeacon there he appointed the whole Altarage in which name he specifies all Oblations Tithes and profits of the Church of Tickhill except Tithes of Corn pulse and hay and the Lands belonging to the said Church saving a Competent Mansion to be assign'd to the Vicar which Tithes of Garbs and Hay and the said Lands shall remain to the said Convent of Nostell c. Herbert the Chamberlain Brother of King Steven and Steven and Reginald his Sons were Benefactors to this Church of St. Peter King Henry II. granted to Archbishop Walter and his Successors Free Warren in their Mannours of Shirburn and Cawood Aufridus de Chanci Paganus de Vilers Iohn Constable of Chester Robert de Vavasour and others were also Benefactors Thomas Archbishop of York before mention'd dyed at York on the Octaves of St. Martin An. Dom. 1100 in great Reputation as appears by his Epitapth enter'd in the Register of that Church There were certain Customes and Orders used of old time in this Church as that upon the Archbishops first coming to this City after his Consecration he was to be received in solemn Procession so also when he returns at any time from beyond Sea c. That the Bishop of Durham was to present him with a rich Cope after his Consecration that every Prebendary should in his life-time give a Cope value 10 l. or after his death twenty Marks and at his death his Palfrey that the Dean is to be install'd by the Precentor c. That the Dean is bound to feed forty poor People daily that he is the greatest in the Church next The Archbishop and in the Chapter the greatest of all An. Dom. 1200. the then Dean and Canons did order and ordain that four Persons should be constantly resident viz. the Dean the Chantor the Chancellor and the Treasurer the Archdeacons to reside for three months in a year other Canons for half a year the common Profits to be divided among those only who are resident that no Vicar shall be admitted for favour but only such as are worthy and proper for the Service of the Church that none be promoted but by the Dean and Chapter and that no Vicar or inferior Minister be admitted into the Quire unless he have a good Voice King Henry the VIII made and establisht new Statutes by Letters Patents in the time of Edward Archbishop of York whereby reciting that they had in this Church an evil Custom long used that every Canon Prebendary was bound to spend in feasting the first year of his Residency one thousand Marks or else he could not partake of the Emoluments of the Place he abolishes the said Custom and all Statutes relating thereunto and Orders that the Statutes relating to the great Residency be observed and that they have their Distributions and Emoluments on the account of Residency duly paid from the day of their first entry on the same if there be none residing then all the common Profits of the Church to go wholly to the Treasury of St. Peter That all Canons then being in the City of York as well not resident as resident be called to assist at all Chapters that to the Chest wherein the Common-Seal is kept be three different Locks and Keys one to be kept by the Dean the other two by the two Senior Residents or if there be not at that time two Residentiaries then by the Precentor and Chancellor c. that all Custom incouraging Pomp and Prodigality be abolisht that a division of the Profits be made at the Feast of St. Martin according to the Days Weeks or Months of the Refidentiaries residing which Canons in the time of their Residency are to be present at Vespers Maâ—tins and high Mass at least without justexcuse under pain of losing that days distribution when absent c. Every Canon Residentiary to live at a House within the Close of the Cathedral and to have in Benefices at least 100 l. per Annum That the Vicars Choral shall when every Canon begins his greater Residence receive 5 l. and afterwards 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. per Annum That every Canon having a Prebend worth 8 l. per Annum shall yearly at the Feast of St. Martin contribute and pay into the hands of the Chancellor of this Church 6 s. 8 d. for the providing of Preachers in the said Church which Preachers are to be provided on the Rogation-days Sundays and other days at discretion this not to excuse the Dean and Chancellor or any others to preach themselves as they are obliged by Statute or Custom c. Which Letters Pattens bear date 3 Iune 33 H. 8. To this Cathedral Church did belong abundance of Jewels Vessels of Gold and Silver and other Ornaments rich Vestments and Books viz. ten Miters of great value among which one small Miter with Stones for the Bishop of the Boys or Children pro Episcopo puerorum one Silver and gilt Pastoral Staff many Pastoral Rings among which one for the Bishop of the Boys Chalices Vials Pots Basons Candlesticks Thuribules Holy Water-Pots Crosses of Silver one of which weighed eight pound six ounces Images of Silver and Gold Relicks in Cases extreamly rich great Bouls of Silver a Unicorns-Horn a Table of Silver and gilt with the Image of the blessed Virgin enamiled thereon weighing nine pounds eight ounces and a half several
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
several Bells are to be toll'd or Rung at the several hours and Offices Also of the Archdeacons and Succentor That the Dean is the Head of the Chapter that when he enters or passes by all the Clergy ought to stand up c. The Office and duty of the Vicars and secular Clerks commonly call'd Clerk Vicars The manner of installing the Canons all whose stalls and proper Seats are set out in a Scheme That all Clerks entering into the Quire bow first to the Altar then to the Bishop or in his Absence to the Dean with directions when to stand up and kneel c. and what habits and collours are to be used upon such and such days That the Dean be continually Resident that he Celebrates Mass on all double Feasts that he preach on Ash Wednesday and Advent Sunday c. That every Canon have a Vicar continually serving in the Church That one or two of the Canons be Chosen at Michaelmas yearly to receive and distribute the Common Goods of the Church and to account for the same The manner of calling and holding the Chapters That on the Festivals of St. Cedde and the assumption of the Virgin Mary the Dean feast all the Quire the Canons to be singly invited eight days before the time That from Trinity Sunday to Christmas Mattins be immediately said after Complin and the several Masses at such and such hours c. That Mattins and Vespers and all the hours be perform'd according to the Salisbury use That in case any difference shall happen among the Canons it shall be composed among themselves if it may be if not by the Dean and Chapter within two Months if not by them then by the Bishop within two Months more if that cannot be the party injured may be at Liberty to seek redress in Law elswhere as he sees convenient That the Statutes of this Church be writ fair in a Book of Parchment and that to be chain'd in such place where the Canons but not others have access to it That no Minister of this Church lie a night in the Town without reasonable Cause to be approved by the Dean and Chapter that no Vicar or Quirister receive or admit any Woman into his Garden unless in company of other honest Women c. All which Statutes and Ordinances with many more filling twenty one Folio's and a half were declared and establisht by the foresaid Dean and Chapter and confirm'd by the Bishop in the year 1526. The Bishop of Litchfeld is sworn to defend the Rights and Liberties of this Church to his ability to observe the Statutes and approved antient Customes of the same and not to alienate the Episcopal Possessions The Dean is sworn to make continual Residency as is accustomed to be faithful to the Church not to reveal the secrets of the Chapter to observe and defend the Statutes and approved and antient Customes to behave himself with humility and Patience and to excite all those who are Subject to his Government to do the like Every Canon is sworn to be obedient to the Dean and Chapter in Canonical Commands to defend the Rights and Liberties of this Church to observe the Statutes and antient and approved Customes to be faithful to the Church and not to reveal the Secrets of the Chapter Every Vicar is sworn to be obedient to the Dean and Chapter to be faithful to perform the Day and Night Service according to his reasonable ability The Sergeant is sworn to be true to the Church of Litchfield to keep Council truly to do his Office of Sergeantship and when he is sent on Errands to give a true Report c. LINCOLN Cathedral PAulinus Archbishop of York who converted a great part of the North among the rest converted to the Christian Religion the Prefect of the City of Lincoln call'd Bletta and caused a Church to be erected and therein consecrated Honorius Archbishop of Canterbury An. 1092 Bishop Remigius removed his Episcopal Seat from Dorchester by Licence of King William the Conqueror to Lincoln and began to build there a sumptuous Church on the Hill near the Castle but Thomas then Archbishop of York pretending that Lincoln and all the Province of Lindsey was within his Diocess gave some obstruction for a while But it was afterwards finisht by King William II who caused it to be dedicated by two Cardinal Legates in the presence of eight Archbishops and sixteen Bishops and secular Canons to be establisht therein This King William Rufus Confirm'd all the Lands and Revenues which his Father had given to this Church and was himself a great Benefactor he quieted the Dispute between the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Lincoln about Jurisdiction giving Thomas Archbishop of York such satisfaction to quit his Claim for ever as has been already mention'd pag. 131. King Henry I. gave to this Church among other Lands the Mannour of Bicheleswade with great Liberties also a Fair to be held at their Castle of Newark on St Mary Magdalens day and four days before he also granted to Robert Bishop of Lincoln Liberty to make a Passage through his Castle Wall he also granted to the said Bishop and the Canons of this Church his Vineyard at Lincoln and all that belongs to it He also granted them several Churches as Hempingham Derby Wercheford to be Prebends with all the Churches of Lincoln within and without the Borough and Freewarren in all their Lands in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire King Henry II. granted and confirm'd to Robert Bishop of Lincoln and his Successors the Houses that were the Knights Templers in the Parish of St. Andrew Holburn at London which the said Bishop had purchased of those Knights for one hundred marks and the yearly Rent of three pieces of Gold tres aureos The same King gave to this Church and Bishop all the ground from the Bale Westward to the City Wall Eastward at Lincoln to build on he also confirm'd the Donations of their other Benefactors he also composed a difference between the Bishop of Lincoln and Robert Abbot of St. Albans about the Jurisdiction over fifteen Churches to the said Abby belonging Pope Honorius An. 1125. confirm'd the Revenues given to this Church the like did Pope Innocent who also granted that no Bishop should be imposed on this Church of Lincoln without the free election of the Clergy and People An. 1138. King Henry III in the fortieth year of his Reign upon the Petition of the Dean and Canons of Lincoln for his Licence to remove some part of the City Wall that so they might enlarge their Church Eastward issued out a Writ of Quod damnum in order to the same The names of the Deans of Lincoln Ralf Ramerus Simon 〈◊〉 An. Dom. 1100. Adelmus 1162. Hamo Ieffry Killing Rober de Rolveston 1198. William de Tornaco 1227. Roger de Wescham 1237. after Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield Henry de Lenington 1243. after Bishop of Lincoln Richard de Gravesend 1254
l. per An. Pope Clement the VI. granted power to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Winchester to establish the said Canons and Knights by Apostolick authority and exempted the said Chappel and Colledge and all the members thereunto belonging from the Jurisdiction of the Archbishop or any other Bishop or Ecclesiastical Judg and that the Custos of the same shall have perpetual Jurisdiction over the Members of the said Colledge Paying to the Apostolick Chamber one Mark Sterling on the feast of St. George yearly The foresaid King Edward III. granted to this Colledge divers Churches and Revenues among other things a Rent of one hundred marks per An payable by the Bailiffs of the Town of Norâ—hampton out of the Kings Farm of the said Town King Henry IV. granted to the Custos and Canons here a void peice of Ground within this Castle near the great Hall call'd Wodehawe for Building Houses for the Vicars and Choristers King Edward IV. granted and confirm'd to them the Alien Priory of Okeburn with all the Lands and Churches thereunto belonging which had been formerly granted to Iohn Duke of Bedford by King Henry IV late de facto non de jure King of England and afterwards by the said Iohn Duke of Bedford given to this Collegiate Chappel the said Duke being desirous wholly to abdicate such spiritual Profits and restore them to their pristine Nature which gift was afterwards ratified and confirm'd by Henry V de facto non de jure King of England non obstante the Statute of Mortmain and now by the said King Edward IV. in the first year of his Reign Which King gave them also the Alien Priory of Vphavenne with all Rights thereunto belonging and divers other Lands and Revenues also the Alien Priory of Monkenlane in the County of Hereford he also gave them the Custody and Advowson of the Hospital or Free Chappel of St. Anthony in London and to enjoy the same with all the Estate thereunto belonging to their own proper use when it shall become void by death resignation or otherways He also gave them the Alien Priories of Brimesseld and Charleton and divers other Lands in the seventeenth year of his Reign The said King Edward IV in the ninteenth year year of his Reign reciting the first Foundation of this Collegiate Chappel by King Edward III and that Henry VI. de facto non de jure King of England in his Parliament held at Westminister in the eighth year of his pretended Reign had past an Act whereby he will'd and declar'd that this Colledge should bear the name of the Custos or Dean and Canons of the free Chappel of St. George within his Castle of Wyndesore did for the future incorporate them by the name of the Dean and Cannons of the Free Chappel of St. George within the Castle of Wyndesore by that name to purchase sue and be sued c. And granted License to Iohn Duke of Suffolk and Elizabeth his Wife to confer the Manour of Leighton-Buzzard and other Revenues on the same and also his general Licence to all other Persons of this Kingdom of England to grant Lands Rents or Advowsons to the Dean and Canons of this Chappel to the yearly value of 500 l the Statute of Mortmain or any other Statute or Law notwithstanding In the eighth year of King Richard II. Walter Almaly being then Custos an Inventory or Register was made of all the Books Vestments Relicks Chalices c. belonging to this Chappel Royal in which is particular mention of divers Missales and other Church Books several Volumes of the Decretals and Canon Law c. Vestments of different Colours Qualites and Richness Copes Coffers Crosses Tabernacles Images and Relicks adornâ—d with Jewels and precious Stones of extraordinary great value Morses of Silver and gilt eight Chalices of which one of Gold and set with precious Stones Candlesticks Censors Crosses and Basons of Silver gilt c. Miters set with precious Stones a Pastoral Staff c. A Silver Bell to ring before the Body of Christ in the Visitation of the Sick Besides divers Jewels and Relicks in the Treasury Three Crowns of Silver and gilt set with precious Stones one for the Blessed Mary another for her Son and the third for St. Edward RIPPON Collegiate Church ANno 1331. William Archbishop of York finding in his Visitation at this Church the same almost destitute of Canons Residentiary ordered with consent of all Parties concern'd that such Canons as are willing to reside and do actually reside shall have the Profits in his Deed specified that the Vicars shall be paid their Stipends out of the common Profits that every Cannon Residentiary shall reside twelve weeks in the year and that they be present at the Canonical hours in this Church in like manner as in his Collegiate Churches of Suthwell and Beverley King Henry the V. in the second year of his Reign granted that the six Vicars belonging to this Church for whom Henry Archbishop of York proposed to build a Habitation within the Close of the Church where they might eat and sleep together might choose among themselves a Superior by the name of Procurator and that the said Procurator and Vicars and their Successors might have a Common Seal be capable to purchase and receive Lands and by that name to sue and be sued c. Valued at 35 l. 3 s. 8 d. per Annum SIBETHORP in Yorkshire THomas de Sibethorp Parson of the Church of Bekingham by License of King Edward the III. An Reg 10. gave sixteen Messuages one Toft three Bovates one hundred and seventy Acres of Land fifty Acres of Meadow and 30 s. of Rent in Sibethorp c. to Iohn Cosin Custos of the Chappel of the Blessed Mary of Sibethorp for the maintenance of him and other Chaplains in the said Chappel and Successors and for the finding of thirty Wax-lights in the same and a Lamp to burn before the Crucifix TUXFORD in Nottinghamshire KING Edward the III. granted his License to Iohn de Lungvilers to found a Colledge of five Chaplains of which one to be Custos in the Parsonage house of the Church of Tuxford and to give the Advowson of that Church which was held in Capite of the King to the maintenance of the said five Chaplains there celebrating But the said Iohn not pursuing his Foundation in that manner the said King on his Petition granted him a new License in the one and thirtieth year of his Reign to give the said Advowson to the Prior and Canons of Newsted in Shirewode for their finding five Chaplains viz. three in the Church of Tuxford and two in the Church of the Convent of Newsted to celebrate for his Soul c. SUDBURY in Suffolk KING Edward the III. in the nine and fortieth year of his Reign granted his License to Simon of Sudbury Bishop of London and Iohn his â—rother to give and assign a Messuage Call'd Lamberds-hnll and three
which he had for his Person and in consideration of the laudible Service which he had often done him to found the Colledge accordingly St. MARY'S near Winchester KIng Richard II. in the sixth year of his Reign granted his Licence to William Wykeham Bishop of Winchester to found a Colledge House or Hall near Winchester for the honour and glory of God and the glorious Virgin Mary his Mother and therein to establish a Custos or Warden and seventy poor Scholars Students in Grammar Infra 133. Valued at 628 l. 13 s. 6 d. per Annum PONTFRACT in Yorkshire KIng Richard II. in the eighth year of his Reign granted his Licence to Robert Knolls Chevalier and Constance his Wife to found a Colledge or Chantry in Pontfract of seven Chaplains whereof one to be Custos and for thirteen poor People two Clerks and one or two Servants to attend the poor Valued at 182 l. 14 s. 7 d. per Annum BUNBURY in Cheshire KIng Richard II. in the tenth year of his Reign granted his Licence to Hugh de Calveley Chivalier to found a Chantrey or Colledge of one Master and six other Chaplains in the Church of Bunbury with Liberty to the said Hugh to endow the same and the said Mr. and Canons to have a Common-Seal IRTLYNGBURGH in Northamptonshire KIng Edward III. granted Licence to the Abbot and Convent of Peterburgh and Iohn Pyel to erect a Colledge of six Canons secular of which one to be Dean and four Clerks in the Parish Church of St. Peter of Irtlyngburgh the Right of Presenting to the said Canons places to be in the Abbot and Convent of Peterborough and the said Iohn by Turns But the said Iohn dying before this Foundation was perfected King Richard II. in the eleventh year of his Reign for twenty marks paid by Iohn his widow and Executrix granted his Licence to compleat the same Valued at 64 l. 12 s. 10 d. ob per Annum CLOVELEY in Devonshire KIng Richard II. in the eleventh year of his Reign Licenced William Cary to convert the Parish Church of Cloveley the Advowson whereof did belong to the said William into a Collegiate Church for seven Chaplains of which one to be Custos or Warden to found a Colledge and Buildings for their Habitation in the Rectory and to appropriate the said Advowson to them RUSHWORTH in Norfolk KING Richard the II. in the thirteenth year of his Reign granted his License to several Persons to confer the Mannor of Rushworth c. on the Master or Custos of the Colledge of St. Iohn the Evangelist of Rushworth and the Brethren of the same An. 1360. Thomas Bishop of Norwich made several Statutes and Ordinances for the Government of this Colledge late founded by the Lord Edmund de Gonevill viz. That there be in the said Colledge five Chaplains of which one to be Master or Custos that as the Bâ—â—enues increase the number be increased and every new Fellow to have at least 〈◊〉 Marks that they all sleep in one House and eat together that the Masteâ— have the Cure of the Parishoners of the Town of Rushworthâ— with direction for their saying of their Masses and Offices and that they be all continually resident c. Valued at 85 l. 15 s. ob per Annum The Collegiate Church of St. David's in Pembrokshire JOhn Duke of Lancaster and the Lady Blanch his Wife and Adam Bishop of St. David's considering that Priests were procured out of Enâ—â—â—â— with great difficulty and charges to officiate in the ancient Mâ—â—â—â—politan Church of St. David's they therefore founded a Chappel or Câ—antry of one Master and seven Priests in the manner of a Colledge on the North side of the said Cathedral Church and built there divers Buildings and a Cloyster for their Habitation and endow'd the same with the Appropriating to it divers Churches An. Dom. 1365. Which Bishop made divers Statutes and Orders for Government of the same viz. that the said Master and Priests should live together in a Collegiate way that they should perform the Divine Offices in their Chappel according to the Salisbury use c. That the said Master and Chaplains shall assist on all Sundays and double Feasts at High-mass and Vespers in the Cathedral Church among the Vicars there that neither the Master nor any of the Priests of the said Chantry go abroad alone but with a Companion That the Master receive yearly twenty Marks and each Chaplain ten Marks That the said Priests be daily apparrell'd in long Garments vel Gownis non Cotis curtis unless they ride or go abroad that the said Master and every Priest may hold another Benefice with cure within the Diocess of St. David's but is not bound to reside there That there be always two Choristers remaining in the House under the care of the Praecentor who is to instruct them in Grammar learning and singing c. Which Orders bear date An. Dom. 1382. Valued at 106 l. 3 s. 6 d. per Annum BRADGARE in the Diocess of Canterbury KING Richard the II. in the sixteenth year of his Reign granted his License to Robert de Bradgare Clerk and others to found a Colledge of one Chaplain and two Clerks Schollers to celebrate in the Parish-Church of Bradgare and to endow the said Colledge with three Messuages two hundred Acres of Land one hundred and fifty Acres of Pasture sixty Acres of Wood thirteen shilling and four pence of Rent and the Rent of eight Hens and half a pound of Pepper An. Dem. 1398. the said Robert made divers Orders for the Government of this Colledge viz. that the said Chaplain and his Successors shall continually reside in the Colledge except only the space of one month containing thirty two days that the said Chaplain and his Successors shall maintain at their own Charge one Servant to serve them daily at Mass and in other Offices that the Chaplain shall not procure to himself any other benefice or Office whereby his personal Residence here may be hinder'd that the Chaplain and Clerk be Natives of the Diocess of Canterbury and of the Consanguinity or affinity of the said Robert that no Chaplain be admitted unless he can read construe and sing well nor any Clerk unless he can read well and sing indifferently that the two Clerks Schollers remain Fellows of the Colledge till their Age of twenty five years and no longer that the said Chaplain and Schollers and their Successors shall have a Common Lawyer in constant Fee one of the Council of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being to whom they shall pay 6 s. 8 d. per Annum c. PLECY in Essex KING Richard the II. in the seventeenth year of his Reign granted his License to his dear Uncle Thomas Duke of Glocester to found and establish in the Parish Church of Plecy a Colledge of nine Chaplains one of which to be Master and Custos and of two Clerks and two Choristers non obstante c. And to endow
of Staynedrope which was held of him in Capite with Licence to the said 〈◊〉 or Custos and Chaplains to receive the same the Statute of Mortmâ— in non obstante and by the same Grant incorporated the said Colledge making the said Master and Chaplains c. capable of purchasing and receiving Lands to sue and be sued and Granted them a Common-Seal Dated at Durham in the third year of his Pontificate Valued at 1â—6 l. 5 s. 10 d. per Annum TONGE in Shropshire KIng Henry IV. in the twelfth year of his Reign for the Sum of 40 l. paid into the Hanaper granted his Licence to Isabel Widow of Fulk de Penbrugge Chiâ—alâ—r and others to purchase of the Abbot and Convent of the Abby of Salep the Advowson of the Church of St. Bartâ—â—mew at Tonge and to erect and change the same into a Colledge of five Châ—plâ—â—â— of which one to be Custos and to endow the same with Lands and Churches for the Maintenance of the said Custos and Chaplains and thirteen poor People more or loss whom he incorporated c. Settling the Patronage of the said Colledge on â—ichard de Penbrugge in special tail with divers remainders over King Henry V. in the third year of his Reign setting forth that by an Act made in the Parliament late held at Leicester all the alien Priories were given to him and his Heirs granted to the Custos and Chaplains of this Colledge the Priory of Lappeley and all the Revenues thereunto appurtaining being heretofore part of the Possessions of the Abby of St. Remigius at Reymys in Champeyne Provided that the Vicarage of the Church of Lappeley be sufficiently endow'd and a competent Sâ—m allow'd to the Poor of the Parish according to the Statute The foresaid Isabel and others who were Founders of this Colledge made divers orders for Government of the same among others that none of the Chaplains be capable of holding any other Ecclesiastical Benefice except only the Custos who may that there be two Clerks of the first Tonsure to affist in the Divine Offices that there be thirteen poor People that the Master or Custos be chosen out of the number of the Chaplains by the rest if they do not choose in fifteen days then he is to be appointed for that turn by the Patron if he neglects for four Months then by the Bishop of the Diocess and if he neglects for one Month then by the Chapter of Litchfield if they neglect for fifteen days then by the Archbishop of Canterbury The Custos on his admission to be sworn to a faithful Administration of his Office and to observe the Statutes every Chaplain to be sworn to be obedient to the Custos c. That the Custos be Confessor to the other Chaplains and that every of them be obliged to confess to him at least once a year That the Sub-Custos govern in the absence of the Custos and take care of the Affairs of the Chappel that the Custos shall not be Non-resident above two months in a year nor any Chaplain above one that the Custos shall appoint one of the Chaplains to have the Cure of the Parish who shall be call'd the Parochial Chaplain and another of the Chaplains to teach the Clerks and Ministers of the Colledge and also the poor Children of the Town and other Neighbouring Towns in Reading Singing and Grammar for which he shall receive half a Mark per Annum That Mattines shall begin soon after day and that it be celebrated according to the Salisbury use with directions for the several Masses that after Vespers and Complin they shall say the Antiphon Salve Regina or some other Antiphon of the blessed Mary according to the time Thâ— every Brother shall forbear as much as he can to bring in any Stranger but rarely or never any Woman c. that no Priest or Clerk shall use Hunting or Hawking or keeping a hunting Dog in the Colledge That the Masters Sallary shall be ten Marks per Annum Every Chaplains four Marks Per Annum The Parochial Chaplain and the Steward to have half a mark each more than their Sallary yearly and each of the poor Men one Mark per Annum besides their Habitation That the Colledge shall have a Seal with this Circumscription Sigillum commune S. Bartholomaei Apostoli de Tonge which Seal to be kept in a Chest under two different Locks and in the same Chest the Charters Indentures and Muniments of the Colledge that the Custos and Priests shall not grant any Corrodies or Pensions That if any of the Brethren become guilty of such a Crime as renders him irregular as homicide c. he shall no longer administer in his order but shall be expell'd if it be such a Crime as after penance he may continue to minister in his Order as Adultery false Witness Sacriledge Theft c. he may after penance be tollerated in his Office and Order making Oath that for the future he will never be guilty of the like Crime again if he be guilty of a lesser Crime as simple Fornication Disobedience Drunkenness or the like being twice admonisht by the Custos upon the third offence he shall be expell'd the House as incorrigible c. Which Statutes and Orders bear date Anno Dom. 1410. 12 H. 4. And were confirm'd by Iohn Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield An. Dom. 1411. Valued at 22 l. 8 s. 1 d. per Annum FODRINGHEY in Northamptonshire KING Henry the IV. in the thirteenth year of his Reign together with Edward Duke of York founded a Colledge of one Master twelve Chaplains eight Clerks and thirteen Choristers upon six Acres of Land in the Lordship of the said Edward Duke of York at Fodringhey and the said King incorporated them by the name of the Master and Colledge of the blessed Mary and All Saints of Fodringhey c. and granted to them the Profits of the Alien Priories of Newent and Anebury during his Wars with France c. And exempted and discharged this Colledge from all Tolls and Taxes of what nature soever as well for their Goods as Lands given by the said King or any other Benefactors and granted them Frankpledge Felons Goods c. with abundance of Royal Liberties and Franchises King Henry the V. in the third year of his Reign granted to his beloved Cousin Edward Duke of York liberty to enâ—eoff Henry Bishop of Winchester Thomas Bishop of Durham Sir Walter Hungerford Knt. Roger Flore of Okham and others with his Castle Mannor and Town of Fodringbay and several other Mannors and Lordships which he held of that King in Capite for the carrying on and compleating the Buildings and Charges of this Colledge William Horwod of Fodringhay Indented with William Wolston Esquire and Thomas Peckham Clerk Commissioners for the Duke of York to make up a new Body of the Church joyning to the Quire of the Colledge of Fodringhey of the same heighth and breadth with the said Quire to