built the Castle at Pontefract and in it a Chappel for a Dean and Canons Son of this Ilbertus was Robert Lacy who built the Monastery of Pontefract who was the Father of Henry Lacy the Founder of this Abby of Kirkstall this Henry married the Sister of William Vesci Rector of Berwick Of this Family was Roger Constable of Chester who hearing that his Lord Ranulphus Earl of Chester was distrest in Wales raised on the sudden a great Force among the Shoo-makers and Stage-players of Chester and with them went and relieved his Lord from the Power of the Welch whereupon the said Earl Ranulph granted to him and his Heirs the Dominion and Patronage of the Shoo-makers and Players at Chester for ever His Son and Heir Iohn de Lacy became the first Earl of Lincoln of this name Anno Dom. 1221. and died 1240. From the Heirs General of this Family did descend Our Kings of the House of Lancaster Valued at 329 l. 2 s. 11 d. per Annum DORE in Herefordshire RObert Earl of Ferrars founded this Monastery and endowed it with Lands to hold free and quit of all secular Service by the Rent of three shillings yearly to be paid at the Feast of St. Peter ad vincula and this was exprest to be given not only for the Health of the Souls of his Ancestors and Heirs but also propace stabilitate totius Angliae Walliae for the Peace and Stability of all England and Wales King Iohn by his Deed dated in the seventeenth year of his Reign gave divers Lands to the Church of the blessed Mary at Dore and the Cistercian Monks there Walter de Clifford and others were Benefactors All whose Gifts were confirm'd to this House by King Henry the III. in the seventeenth year of his Reign Vid. Vol. 2. p. 918. Valued at 101 l. 5 s. 2 d. per Annum SIBETON in Norfolk Founded An. 1150. THIS Abby was founded and endowed by William Son of Robert Fitz Walter The Lands given to the Monks here were confirm'd by King Steven and King Henry the II. The said Robert Fitz-Walter was the Founder of the House of St. Faith 's at Horsham and married Sibill Daughter of Radulfus de Cayneto who came into England with the Conqueror from whom descended the Families of Cressi and Vfford Vid. Vol. 3. p. 32. Valued at 250 l. 15 s. 7 d. ob per Annum STANLEIGH in Wiltshire THIS Abby was first founded by Maud the Empress at Lokeswell in the year 1151. and three years afterwards translated to Stanlegh by her Son King Henry the II. The Monks of this House came from Quarre in the Isle of Wight King Richard the II. confirm'd to them all their Lands and took them into his protection Valued at 177 l. 0 s. 8 d. per Annum JERVAL in Yorkshire AKarius Fitz-Bardolf a potent man in Yorkshire in the time of King Steven gave to Peter de Quinciaco and certain other Monks of Savigny a parcel of Land in Wandesleydale for the erection of an Abby of their Order which Abby was at first call'd Fo rs and afterwards Iorvalle This Foundation was confirm'd by Alan Earl of Britan and Richmond which Earl Alan being present at the beginning of the Erection of the first Buildings prevailed with several of his Knights to be assistant to the Work and this was in the year 1145. Roger de Molbray gave also divers Lands to this House before his first Voyage to Ierusalem The abovesaid Peter inhabited this House at first with only two Companions labouring with their hands for their sustentation but in a while they had of the said Earl of Richmond's Gift five Plows forty Cows sixteen Horses three hundred Sheep c. After this Serlo Abbot of Savigny having a property in this House of Iorevalls by reason that the first Monks came from thence granted the same to the Abby of Biland Whereupon the foresaid Peter submitted himself and Companions being two Monks and one Lay-brother conversus to the Abbot of Biland Being fully possest of this House Roger Abbot of Biland appointed Iohn de Kinstan to be Abbot here instituting him in these words I confirm thee Abbot and I commit to thee the care of Souls and the Government of the Abby of Joreval with all its substance Persons and Possessions now had or to be had as well in Temporals as Spirituals in like manner as Serlo Abbot of Savigny gave the same to me And then put into his hands the Rule of St. Benedict c. An. 1150. Hereupon the said Abbot appointed to be of his Convent the aforesaid Peter and his two Companions with nine Monks of Biland who removed from thence to Iorvall After this the abovesaid Earl Alan and his Son Conan Duke of Britan encreased their Revenues with the Gift of many other Lands In the year 1156. the said Conan translated these Monks from Fo rs the place being poor and steril to East-Wittonâ— upon the River Ior and this was by permission and approbation of the Abbot of Cisteaux and the general Convent of that Order Alanus Earl of Britan who was so great a Benefactor to this Monastery was Brother and Heir to Alanus Rufus who was the Son of Eudo Earl of Britan who came into England with King William the Conqueror and had given him by the said King all Richmondshire An. 1268 Iohn Duke of Britan and Earl of Richmond confirm'd the Donations of his Ancestors So also did King Henry the III. in the twelfth year of his Reign Valued at 234 l. 18 s. 5 d. per Annum GREENFEILD in Lincolnshire RAdulf de Aby gave Lands here and elsewhere for the Foundation and Endowment of a Nunnery in Greenfeild which was confirm'd by Hugh Bishop of Lincoln and Eudo de Greinesby c. Iohn Son and Heir of Adam de Welle gave to this House 10 l. per Annum for the finding of two sufficient Chaplains to celebrate for him and his Ancestors and all the faithful in our Ladies Chappel in the Priory Church here for ever to the finding of which Margaret then Prioress of this House did oblige her Successors by her Deed dated Anno Dom 1348. Valued at 63 l. 4 s. 1 d. per Annum CUMB in Warwickshire RIchard de Camvilla gave Lands to the Abbot and Monks of Waverley for the founding of this Abby of Cistercian Monks Roger de Moubray confirm'd the Estate so given to the Monks of Cumb quit of all secular service Valued at 311 l. 15 s. 1 d. per Annum STRATFORD-LANGTON in Essex FOunded Anno. 1135. for Monks by William de Montefichet endow'd with all the Lordship for Stradford in Westham c. All which Gifts were confirm'd by King Henry the II. Valued at 511 l. 16 s. 3 d. per Annum FLEXLEY in Gloucestershire THE Abby here was founded and endow'd by Roger Earl of Hereford their Lands were confirm'd by King Henry the II. Valued at 112 l. 13 s. 1 d. per Annum BLANCLAND in Wales
An. Reg. 9. Valued at 147 l. 2 s. 10 d. per Annum HERTLAND in Devonshire FOunded by Gaufridus Son of Oliver de Dynam and the Canons Secular changed to Canons Regular of St. Augustin by the Authority of Bartholomew Bishop of Exeter All whose Possessions King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign confirm'd with the Grant of great Immunities and Liberties namely to have a Court to hold plea of all things but Life and Member arising in their own Lands and Estate c. Valued at 306 l. 3 s. 2 d. per Annum HELAGHE in Yorkshire FOunded by Bertramus Haget in a place where formerly was a Hermitage in some sort belonging to the Prior and Convent of Marton who by their Deed under their Convent Seal did disclaim resign and quit all title to the same An. 1203. The Lord Iordan de Sancta Maria marrying Alice an Heir General of the foresaid Bertram became a second Founder of this Priory who confirm'd their Estate and so did Alice his Widow after his decease Priors of Helaghe-Park 1218. William de Hamelecis 1233. Elias 1257. Iohn Nocus 1260. Hamo de Eboraco 1264. Henry de Quetelay 1281. Adam de Blide 1300. William de Grimstone 1320. Robert de Sposford 1333. Steven Levington 1357. Richard 1358. Thomas de Yarum 1378. Steven Clarell 45 years 1423. Iohn Birkyn 1429. Thomas York 1435. Richard Areton translated to Gisburn 1437. Thomas Botson translated to Bolton 1440. Thomas Collingham 1460. Christopher Lofthous under an ill Character for the Book says furatus est bona hujus domus 1471. William Berwick 1475. William Brammam Vicar of Helagh 1480. William Ellington 1499. Peter Kendayl William de Percey Lord of Kildale gave to the Canons of St. Iohn the Evangelist of Helagh-Park the Chappel of St. Hilda at Kildale with divers Lands for which the said Canons were to find two of their own House or two Secular Priests to celebrate the Divine Offices in the said Chappel for ever Valued at 72 l. 10 s. 7 d. per Annum CANONS-ASHBY in Northamptonshire THe Pynkeneyes Lords of Wedone were great Benefactors to the Canons here giving them divers Lands in Wedone and Weston with Common for 100 Sheep 8 Oxen 5 Cows and 5 Mares in the Pasture of Wapham and feeding for Sixscore Hogs in the Woods there Valued at 119 l. 4 d. per Annum HAVERFORD in Wales RObert de Haverford gave to the Canons here divers Churches and Tithes in his Barony of Haverford all which were confirm'd to them by King Edward III. An. Reg. 5. Valued at 133 l. 11 s. 1 d. per Annum WODHAM in Essex THis place being formerly a Hermitage of St. Iohn Baptist Maurice de Tiretia founded here a Priory of Canons and gave them divers Lands confirm'd by King Henry II. IPSWICH in Suffolk KIng Iohn in the fifth year of his Reign confirm'd to the Canons of the Church of the holy Trinity at Gypewic the several Lands Churches and Possession given them by many Benefactors among the rest a Fair to last for three days at the Feast of the holy Cross in September FINSHEVED in Northamptonshire FOunded and endow'd with divers Lands and Possessions by Richard Engaine Lord of Blatherwick in the Reign of King Iohn After the year 1367 the Male Line of the said Founder failing his estate became divided among three Sisters married to the Families of Goldinton Pabenham and Bernake Iohn Engayne gave divers Lands in Blatherwick and Laxton to the Canons of the blessed Mary of Finnisheved for the maintenance of two Chaplains in the Chappel at Finnisheved and two other Chaplains in the Chappel of Blatherwick Valued at 56 l. 10 s. 11 d. ob per Annum KEINSHAM in Gloucestershire FOunded by William Earl of Gloucester at the desire of Robert his Son then dying Dedicated to God the blessed Mary and the Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford confirm'd the several Lands Possessions and Liberties given to the Canons of this House and so did also King Edward II. An. Reg. 11. KIRTMELE in Lancashire WIlliam Marescallus founded and endow'd this Priory for Canons providing that it should always remain a Priory independent of any other House yet it should never be made an Abby and upon the death of the Prior two Canons to be chosen and presented to him or his heirs of which he or his heirs to elect one to be made Prior. Confirm'd by King Edward II. An. Reg. 17. LESNES in Kent FOunded by Richard Lucy Prefect of England An. 1178. In the year 1179 the same Richard quitting his Office of Chief Justice became himself a Canon Regular of this House and soon after died and was here buried The Lands and Possessions given to these Canons by their founder and others were confirm'd to them by King Iohn and King Edward II. BURSCOUGH in Lancashire FOunded and endow'd with large Possessions by Robert Lord of Lathom King Edward I. granted to these Canons to have a mercate every Thursday and a Fair for five days at the Feast of the Decollation of St. Iohn Baptist yearly at their Mannour of Ormeskirk Walter Lord of Scaresbrek and many others were Benefactors all whose gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Edward II. An. Reg. 17. Valued at 80 l. 7 s. 6 d. per Annum STEVERDALE in Somersetshire RIchard Lovel Chivaler gave certain Lands of the value of 40 s. to the Prior and Convent here for the finding of one Chaplain to celebrate daily for the Souls of the said Richard and his Ancestors in the Church of this Priory This House was founded by the Ancestors of Richard de Sancto maure and united to the Monastery of Taunton 24. Henry VIII DODFORD in Worcestershire FOunded and endow'd by King Henry I. But in process of time the Revenues of this House being so decay'd that there remain'd here but one Canon it was united to the Abby of Hales Owen An. 4. Edward IV. The Abby de PRATIS near Leicester FOunded An. 1143. by Robert Earl of Melent and Leicester and largely endow'd by him and others with Churches Lands Rents Tithes and Liberties in and about Leicester and elsewhere with the grant of two Bucks yearly one at the Feast of the Assumption and one at the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary c. Margaret de Quincy granted to the Canons here divers Possessions among other things House-bote and haybote and timber for repairs out of her Forrest of Charnwood as often as occasion requires also one Buck yearly out of the said Forrest Roger de Quincy granted them among other things the right Shoulder of every Deer taken in his Park of Acle and free pasture for all their Cattle throughout the Forrest of Leicester Their Possessions were confirm'd by King Steven and King Henry II. Robert Earl of Mellent came into England with the Conqueror who gave him the Earldom of Leicester which City being destroy'd with the Castle there he re-edified the
Brethren there divers Lands and Revenues in Alvingham and elsewhere confirm'd by Iohn their Son An. Dom. 1232. Henry Bishop of Lincoln certified to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer An. Dom. 1401 the names of all the Churches that were appropriated to the Order of Gilbertines Pope Innocent the III. confirm'd the Lands and Possessions of this Order c. Valued at 128 l. 14 s. 2 d. per Annum St. ANDREWS in the Suburbs of York FOunded at Fishergate at Tork by Hugh Murdac and by him endow'd with Lands Tenements and Rents in and about York A. D.. 1202 and exchange of certain Revenues was made by mutual consent between Simon then Dean and the Chapter of St. Peter's at Tork and Roger then Prior of this House and Hugh Murdac Valued at 47 l. 14 s. 3 d. ob per Annum STIKESWOULD in Lincolnshire IT was found by Inquisition taken at Stanford 3 E. I. That the Master and Nuns of Stikeswald held divers Lands at Huntington of the Gift of several Benefactors Valued at 114 l. 5 s. 2 d. ob per Annum ORMESBY in Lincolnshire FOunded and endowed with Lands by Gilbert Son of Robert de Ormesby SIXILL in Lincolnshire FOunded by one de Grelle Ancestor of Thomas de la Warre Agnes de Percy and others were Benefactors Valued at 135 l. 9 d. per Annum MARESEY in Lincolnshire FOunded and endowed by Isabell de Chauncy Widow of Sir Philip de Chauncy Valued at 130 l. 13 s. ob per Annum Newsted at ANCOLM in Lincolnshire FOunded and endow'd with the grant of very great Liberties and Immunities by King Henry the II. Confirm'd by king Edward the II. An. suo 13. Divers Lands and Revenues were given to the Nuns of the Order of Semplingham by Peter Son of Henry de Bilingey whose Cousin and Heiress became the Wife of William Mason Valued at 38 l. 13 s. 5 d. per Annum KATTELEY in Lincolnshire PEter Son of Peter de Belyngey confirm'd to the Nuns of Catlei and their Brethren Clerks and Laics divers Lands in Bilingey and Walcot given by his Ancestors St. CATHERINES in the Suburbs of Lincoln FOunded by Robert the second Bishop of Lincoln with the assent of his Chapter and endowed with the Prebend of Canewich and with the Church of Newerc and divers Lands and Revenues at Newerc c. Confirm'd by King Henry the II. Valued at 202 l. 5 s. ob per Annum HEYNINGS in Lincolnshire FOunded by Reynerus de Evermu and by him and Odo de Sanctâ Cruce endowed with Lands Confirm'd by King Henry the III. An. suo 52. Valued at 49 l. 5 s. 2 d. per Annum HOLLAND-BRIGG in Lincolnshire FOunded by one Godwin a Rich man of Lincoln and named the Priory of St. Saviour MALTON in Yorkshire FOunded for Canons of this Order of Semplingham by Eustachius Son of Iohn Which said Eustachius and William de Vesci his Son conferr'd on these Canons many Lands and Churches so did the Flamvills c. From the Vescies descended Gilbert de Aton who became Patron of this Priory and died An. Dom. 1307. The Lands of this Priory were confirm'd to these Canons by King Iohn An. Dom. 1200. William Laceles Knt. granted to these Canons two Bovates of Land in old Malton in lieu of certain Tithes by them granted to the Church of Soureby Valued at 197 l. 19 s. 2 d. per Annum SHOULDHAM in Norfolk FOunded by Galfridus Son of Peter Earl of Essex for Nuns and their Brethren Clerks and Laicks and by him endow'd with the Mannor of Shouldham and many other Lands and Churches After which Foundation he removed the Body of his Wife Beatrix de Say who died in Child-birth and had been buried at Chikesand to this Priory Valued at 138 l. 18 s. 1 d. per Annum ELLERTON in Yorkshire FOunded by William Son of Peter who gave all his Inheritance in Elterton for the making a Priory of Canons of the Order of Sempingham and for the Habitation and Maintenance of thirteen poor Men. An. Dom. 1387. German de Hay then Patron of this Priory obtain'd a grant from the Prior and Convent of this House by Indenture that whereas the said German had then but the presentation of one poor man of the thirteen that were to be maintain'd in this Priory for the future to said German his Heirs and Assigns Lords of the Mannor of Aghton shall present nine of the thirteen with the Penalty of 10 l. for every refusal to admit any poor man so presented Vid. Vol. 3. p. 108. Valued at 62 l. 8 s. 10 d. per Annum OVETON in Hertnes in the Bishoprick of Durham FOunded and endow'd with divers Lands in Oveton and elsewhere by Alan de Wiltone For Canons of the Order of Semplingham Confirm'd by King Iohn An. suo 5. Valued at 11 l. 2 s. 8 d. per Annum WELLS in Lincolnshire FOunded by Iessrey de Hauvill for Canons To whom he gave all his Lands and Tenements c. in Welle saving to him and his Heirs Pasture of sixty Cattle to feed with the Cattle of the Canons saving also the Annual Rent of 5 s. to be paid to him and his Heirs Confirm'd by King Iohn An. Reg. 5. Valued at 95 l. 6 s. I d. per Annum PULTON in Wiltshire FOunded in the Reign of King Edward the III. by Sir Thomas de Sancto Mauro Knt. and by him endow'd with the Mannor of Polton then valued at 10 l. per Annum the Mannor of Chelesworth then valued at 5 l. per Annum with other Lands King Edward the III. An. suo 28. granted to the Canons here very large Liberties and Immunities Of the Order of the Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives The RULES of the Monks of the Holy Trinity were approved by Pope Innocent III. and were THat they should live in Chastity and without property That all their Revenue or what comes to their hands lawfully shall be divided into three parts with two parts of which they shall supply their own Necessaries the third part shall be laid by for the Redemption of Chritian Captives taken by Pagans either by purchasing their freedom for a Sum of Mony or by purchasing Pagan Captives in order to exchange them for Christians That all Churches of this Order shall be intituled of the holy Trinity and be of plain work That the Brethren cohabit together three Clerks and three Laymen besides their cheif who shall be call'd their Minister Their Garments to be of woollen Cloath and white They may wear Cloaks and Breeches but must put them off when they liedown They shall lie in Woollen and not on feather Beds in their own Houses unless in time of Sickness They may not ride on Horses but on Asses they may They may drink Wine provided it be with Temperance From the Ides of September to Easter they shall fast on the Monday Wednesday Friday and Saturday unless some solemn festival happen to also in Lent and other accustomed times of the
their na St. FRIDISWADE at Oxford FRidiswade the holy Virgin was Daughter of Didanus a petty King Sub-regulus of Oxford her Father built a Church there in honour of St. Mary and all Saints and gave it for his Daughters Habitation who with twelve other Nuns led there a religious Life St. Fridiswade died on the 14th of the Calends of November 735. and was buried in the said Church This Monastery and Church was afterwards burnt down with the Danes in it who had fled thither for Refuge but King Ethelred did soon after rebuild it with additions as appears by his Charter dated in the year 1004. In the year 1111. Roger Bishop of Salisbury in lieu of Nuns instituted in this Monastery a Prior and Cannons to whom King Henry I. gave a fair Estate in Lands and Tyths which was confirm'd to them by Pope Adrian Benefactors to this Church of St. Fridiswade in Oxford were Maud the Empress Earl Simon Ralpt Foliot and others See more of this Monastery infra p. 983. DEREHAM in Norfolk WIthburga Daughter of Anna King of the East Angles built a Monastery for Nuns in this Town and was buried here After the Incursion of the Pagan Danes the Nuns were all dispers'd and the Church was made parochial In the year 798 the Body of St. Withburga was found here uncorrupted near fifty five years after her death Vid. Vol. 2. p. 853. St. ALBANS-ABBY in Hertfordshire SAint Alban was martyr'd in this place then called Verolamium in the time of Dioclesian's persecution Ten years after that persecution ceas'd the Christians built here a Church to his memory which being destroy'd by the incursion of the barbarous People Offa King of Mercia about the year 793. repair'd the Church built here a Monastery stored it with Monks translated the Reliques of the Martyr into a rich Shrine and obtain'd of Pope Adrian to have him canonized And by his Charter dated in the above-mentioned year granted to the said Monastery several Lands and great Priviledges In the year 1154. Nicholas Bishop of Alba an English-born man near this Monastery being chosen Pope by the name of Adrian IV. granted to the Abbot of this Abby that as St. Alban was the first Martyr of England so this Abbot should be the first of all the Abbots of England in order and dignity King Iohn by his Charter dated the 11th of Iune in the first year of his Reign granted to God and the Church of St. Alban and the Monks there divers Lands and great Liberties Pope Honorius by his Bull dated in the year 1218. confirm'd to this Church all Lands and Liberties granted to it by former Popes Kings and others granting also to the Abbot and his Successors Episcopal Rights and the Espiscopal Habit and that he and his Monks should be exempt from the Jurisdiction of the Bishop with other exemptions c. reserving as a Rent to the Apostolick See yearly for these Liberties the payment of one ounce of Gold In the Windows of the Cloysters of this Abby were formerly painted abundance of Historical Passages out of the Bible with Latin Verses underneath each Story explaining the same In like manner were the Windows of the Library and Presbytery painted with the Pictures of famous men with explanatory Verses which Verses may be seen in the Monasticon at large p. 182 183 184. Valued at 2102 l. 7 s. 1 d. ob q. per Annum BATH in Somersetshire KING Osric was the first Founder of this Monastery for Nuns Anno. Dom. 676. Offa King of Mercia placed here secular Cannons and King Edgar introduced Monks instead of Cannons King William the Conqueror gave the City of Bath to God St. Peter and Iohn Bishop of Wells for the augmentation of his Episcopal Seat King Henry the I. confirm'd the same and constituted and confirm'd the Episcopal Seat of Somersetshire which was formerly at Wells to be at Bath by Charter dated in the year 1111. and in the twelth year of his Reign The said Iohn the Bishop by his Deed dated 1106. appointed the Church of St. Peter here to be the Head and Mother-Church of the whole Diocess and restored the Lands which the King had given him in Bath to the Monastery there to which they did formerly belong with an Anathema against the Violators of his said Gift and Restoration Oliver King Bishop of Bath and Gibbs the last Prior here built the present Church p. 185. Valued at 617 l. 2 s. 3 d. per Annum WELLS in Somersetshire CYnewulf King of the West Saxons in the year 766. gave to the Monastery at Wells dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle several parcells of Land adjoyning King Edward the Confessor Anno 1065. gave and confirm'd to the Church and Bishop of Wells the Lands and Liberties formerly to the said Church given with additions WINCHCUMB in Gloucestershire ANno Dom. 787. Offa King of Mercia built here a Monastery for Nuns Or as others say it was built by Kenulphus King of Mercia A. D. 798. and the Church dedicated by Wilfridus Archbishop of Canterbury and twelve other Bishops at which dedication that King released at the Altar the King of Kent his Prisoner of War This Monastery being almost utterly decay'd in the time of King Edgar was repaired by St. Oswald Archbishop of York and Germanus made Abbot here King Kenulius is said to have placed here at the first Foundation no less then three hundred Monks Of these three hundred Monks there might possibly be not above forty who were Priests or Clerks the rest might be Hermits or as meer Lay-men get their living by Working as in ancient Times Monks did use to do The Mannors and Lands formerly belonging to this Monastery were eleven Towns with their Members the names of which may be seen p. 190. Vid. Vol. 2. p. 854. Valued at 759 l. 11 s. 9 d. per Annum WILTON in Wiltshire WVistan Earl of Wiltshire repaired an ancient Church here dedicated to St. Mary and 〈◊〉 therein a Colledge of Priests After whose death his Widow Alburga converted the Foundation to a Nunnery of Virgins Anno Dom 800. Afterwards King Alfred built at Wilton a new Monastery and dedicated the Church to St. Mary and St. Bartholomew here he placed twelve Nuns and an Abbess and translated the other Nuns hither from St. Mary's which made the number in all twenty six Subsequent Benefactors were King Edward the Elder King Athelstan King Edgar William the Conqueror c. Vid. Vol. 2. p. 857. Valued at 601 l. 1 s. 1 d. q. per Annum AMBRESBURY in Wiltshire THE Nunnery at Ambresbury was built by Queen Elfrida by way of expiation for the murder of King Edward the Younger called St. Edward of which she had been guilty In the Reign of Henry the II. Anno Dom 1177. the Nuns here were expell'd from this House and shut up in other religious Houses under stricter Custody for their incontinency and notorious scandal And other Nuns of Font-Everard introduced here by
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
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
here all the Lands and Tenements belonging to the Canons of Cathale whom he caused to be removed Valued at 14 l. 10 s. per Annum FINCHALE in the Bishoprick of Durham FInchale is a solitary place not far from the City of Durham where a certain Hermit named Godricus de Finchale who in his youth had visited the holy Sepulcher spent his old Age in Devotion and here died with the reputation of great Sanctity After the death of this Godficus Ranulphus Bishop of Durham granted this Hermitage and the Lands adjoyning to Algarus the Prior and the Monks of Durham Hugh Bishop of Durham founded and endow'd the Priory of Finchale for such Monks of Durham as the Prior of Durham should from time to time send thither in the service of God and St. Iohn Valued at 122 l. 15 s. 3 d. per Annum The Priory of St. James at Bristol a Cell of Tewkesbury WIlliam Earl of Gloucester gave to this House divers Lands and Tithes and the Profits of the Fair at Bristol in Whitsun-week which with other Lands given by other Benefactors was confirm'd by King Henry the II. The same King gave the Monks here certain Liberties in his Forrest Robert Earl of Gloucester was buried in this Church of St. Iames at Bristol BUNGEY in Suffolk ROger de Glanvill and Gundreda the Countess his Wife founded a Nunnery in the Church of the holy Cross at Bungey The Endowments whereof as well by the said Roger and his Wife as by a great number of other Benefactors were all confirm'd to the said Nuns and their Successors to hold in pure and perpetual Alms by King Henry the II. in the ninteenth year of his Reign Valued at 62 l. 0 s. 1 d. ob per Annum SYLLEY Isle near Cornwall THIS Isle was given of old by the Kings of England to the Abbot and Monks of Tauestock who used to send two of their Monks hither to perform the Divine Offices till the Wars with France in the Reign of King Edward the III. And then that King gave License to the Abbot of Tauestock in the ninteenth year of his Reign to place here two secular Chaplains instead of Monks ROWNEY Priory in Hertfordshire IN the 36. H. 6. Agnes Selby Prioress of this House and the Covent of Nuns here in respect of the poverty of the place did by their Deed seal'd with their Common-Seal resign up their Church House and Lands into the hands of their Patron Iohn Fray who designed to convert the same in a better manner Which Iohn Fray was chief Baron of the Exchequer and being thus possest of this Priory he would not convert it to any other use but to the service of God and therefore obtain'd the King's License in the 37. H. 6. to found and endow here a Chantry for one Priest The first Founder of the Priory was Conan Duke of Britony and Richmond who with others endow'd it with Possessions of the value of ten Marks per Annum Valued at 13 l. 10 s. 9 d. per Annum NUN-EATON in Warwickshire THIS House was founded and endow'd by Robert Earl of Leicester Son of Robert de Mellento in the Reign of King Henry the II. for Nuns of the same Order with those at Font-Ebraud Whose Gifts were confirm'd by his Son Robert and by King Henry the II. The Prioress and Covent of Font-Ebrald granted to this House the immunity to receive and retain to their own proper use all such gifts as should be made unto them without any exaction of the said Abbess and Covent of Font-Ebrald Which immunity and several others were confirm'd to them by Pope Alexander the III. Valued at 253 l. 14 s. 5 d. ob per Annum LUFFELD in Northamptonshire a Cell to Westminster THE Priory of Luffeild was founded by Robert Earl of Leicester for the Souls of King William the I. and Queen Matilda c. King Henry the I. his Daughter Maud the Empress and King Edward the I. were Benefactors and Pope Alexander the III. granted to Ralph Prior of St. Mary's at Luffeild his Brethren and their Successors divers Priviledges by his Bull dated 1174. Radulfus de Cahienes Hugo de Sancto Martino and others gave them divers Churches and Tithes King Henry the III. in the fifty sixth year of his Reign reciting the Priory of Luffeild to have been founded by his Predecessors Kings of England granted to the Prior and Monks there free Chiminage in his Forrest of Whitlewood for five years next ensuing WILBERFOSS in Yorkshire THIS was a House of Nuns dedicated to St. Mary founded by Helias de Cotton and endow'd by ' Alan his Son with divers Lands King Henry the II. in the fourth year of his Reign and King Henry the III. in the twelfth year of his Reign confirm'd their Lands and Estate Vid. Vol. 3. p. 12. Valued at 21 l. 16 s. 10 d. per Annum GODSTOW Priory of Nuns in Oxfordshire THE Church here was built by their Prioress Editha and in the year 1138. dedicated in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary and St. Iohn Baptist by Alexander then Bishop of Lincoln in presence of King Steven and Maud the Queen with abundance of Bishops Earls and Barons and others of prime quality who all gave to the said Church at that time some Rents and Endowments Whereupon Albericus Bishop of Hostia the Pope's Legate in England released to every of the said Benefactors one year of injoyn'd Penance and granted moreover a Remission of forty days in every year to all those who should in Devotion visit the said Church on the day of St. Prisâ—a the Virgin or on the Nativity of St. Iohn Baptist. Their Lands and Revenues were confirm'd by King Steven and by King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign In the year 1191. Hugh Bishop of Lincoln visiting in this part of his Diocess and seeing in this Church a Tomb before the Altar with more than ordinary Ornaments and being inform'd upon enquiry that it was the Tomb of Rosamond Concubine to King Henry the II. he caused her body to be removed out of the Church and to be buried in the Church-yard to avoid the scandal of Religion and to deter other Women from Whoredom About the time of the Suppression of this House Rosamonds Tomb was open'd and her Bones found inclosed in Leather and that in Lead When it was opened a very sweet smell came out from it The following Inscription was formerly read on a Cross near Godstow Qui meat hac oret signum salutis adoret Vtque sibi detur veniam Rosamunda precetur Vid. 2. Vol. p. 884. Valued at 274 l. 5 s. 10 d. ob per Annum LILLECHIRCHE in the County of ... KING Iohn gave to the Abby of St. Mary and St. Sulpice at Lillechurch and the Prioress and Nuns there the Mannor of Lillechurch in pure and perpetual Alms and granted them a Fair to be there held yearly on the Feast of St. Michael and two days after all
Adam Fitz Swane the â—ounder gave this House as a Cell to the Priory of St Iohn at Pontfractâ— and ordered this House to pay to that Priory a Recognition of one Mark of Silver per Annum Pope Vrban the III. confirm'd the Foundation 1186. Valued at 239 l. 3 s. 6 d. per Annum THETFORD in Norfolk FOunded Anno Dom. 1103. by Roger Bigot whose Gifts and Endowments to this House were all confirm'd and ratified by his Son William Bigot Dapiser to the King and also by King Henry the I. and King Henry the II. This Priory was made Denison 50. E. 3. Valued at 312 l. 14 s. 4 d. ob per Annum MONTACUTE in Somersetshire FIRST founded by William Earl of Moriton in Normandy who endowed this Priory with three fair Lordships viz. Montegue and two others King Henry the I. gave and confirm'd to God and the blessed Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul of Montacute and the Cluniac Monks there divers Lands with great Liberties and Exemptions The like did King Henry the II. and King Henry the III. in the four and thirtieth year of his Reign King Edward the III. in the fourteenth year of Reign granted the Advowson and Custody of this Priory and four Cells thereunto belonging to William de Monte-acuto Earl of Salisbury and Marshal of England and to his Heirs Vid. 2. Vol. p. 909. Valued at 456 l. 14 s. 7 d. q. per Annum DAVENTREY in Northamptonshire THIS Priory was first founded at Preston by Hugh de Leycestre call'd the Vicount but that place being found inconvenient they were by License of Simon de Seynliz the elder Earl of Northampton removed to Daventre where he built a Monastery in honour of St. Augustine the Apostle of the English King Henry the II. confirm'd their Liberties and Franchises granted by King Henry the I. to St. Mary of Charity i. e. the Capital House of this Order beyond Seas and to St. Augustine of Daventrey and the Monks there Many were the Benefactors to this House as Matilda de Senliz Richard de Foxton whose Daughter Ann was married to Alan Basset of Lufphenam com Roteland Steven de Welton Henry de Braybrok whose Geneologies may be seen Fo. 677. 678. St. ANDREWS at Northampton THIS Priory was founded in the eighteenth year of King William the Conqueror by Simon de Seynliz who came into England in the Army of that King He married Maud Daughter and Co-heir of Waldelfus Earl of Huntington with whom he had the honour of Huntington Alice the other Daughter was by him given to Ralph de Tonny with 100 l. per Annum in Land centum Librarum terrae out of the said honour In the Reign of King Henry the I. the said Simon made a Voyage to the Holy Land and died in his return at the Monastery of the blessed Mary of Charity to which Monastery he had subjected this of St. Andrew After his death King Henry having married Maud Sister of Alexander King of Scotland gave Maud Earl Simons Widow to David Brother of Alexander and with her the Custody of Earl Simons Son and Heir Simon de St. Lyz junior Hugh Bishop of Lincoln confirm'd the Churches and Tithes given to this Priory among which were the Churches of Ryal and Exton in Rutland King Henry the I. also confirm'd the Lands to them given and granted them many Liberties and Franchises This Priory was made Denison 6 H. 4. To the Hospital of St. David at Kingsthorp built upon the Lands of this Priory for the Relief of Travellers and poor People Walter Prior of this House with the assent of his Convent gave two yard Land and a Messuage c. in Thorp constituting several Orders for the Government of the said Hospital among others that there should be three rows of Beds placed in length before the Chappel so as the Poor and especially the sick People might most conveniently hear Mass c. subjecting the said Hospial to the Prior of St. Andrews at Northampton and the Abbot of Sullebi This Deed bears date 1200. being the second of King Iohn This Priory was valued at 263 l. 7 s. 1 d. q. per Annum BAR NESTAPLE in Devonshire THIS House was founded for Cluniac Monks and dedicated to the honour of God and our Lord Jesus Christ and St. Mary the holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and St. Mary Magdalen by Ioel Son of Alured who endow'd it with large Possessions subjecting it to the Church of St. Martin de Campis in which he himself became a Monk Confirm'd by King Henry the I. and by Henry de Tracy who descended from the Founder An. 1146. 11. Steph. Valued at 123 l. 6 s. 7 d. per Annum TIKEFORD in Buckinghamshire FVlcodius Paganellus was the first Founder of this Priory who with other Benefactors endowed it with divers Lands and Rents All which together with a Court-Leet King Henry the II. confirm'd to the Monks here King Edward the II. in the fifth year of his Reign granted further to William de la Manerere then prior of this House and his Successors to have a Pillory and Tumbrel in their Lordship of Tikeford for the punishment of Malefactors Vid. Vol. 2. p. 910. FEVERSHAM in Kent ANno 1148. King Steven founded the Abby here to the honour of of our Saviour and endow'd it with divers Mannors Lands Liberties and free Customs to hold in perpetual Alms discharged and quit of all secular Exactions King Steven and Maud his Queen and Eusâ—acius their Son were buried here King Henry the II. confirm'd to the Cluniac Monks of Feversham all their Lands and Franchises granting to them a Fair yearly for eight days beginning at the Feast of St. Peter ad vincula The like confirmation was made by King Iohn in the sixteenth year of his Reign and by King Henry the III. in the eleventh year of his Reign Peter Abbot of Clugny granted to King Steven Clarembaldus then Prior of Bermundesey with twelve Monks of that House for the Composing an Abby at Feversham and at the same time absolved the said Clarembaldus and his Monks from all Obedience and Subjection to the Church of Clugny and that of the Charity The like Emancipation or discharge of subjection was also granted by the then Prior of the Charity Valued at 286 l. 12 s. 6 d. ob q. per Annum ARTHINGTON in Yorkshire THIS was a Priory of Nuns built and endow'd by Peers of Arthington and confirm'd by Pope Alexander as is set forth in an award made in the twenty eighth year of the Reign of King Henry the VI. Alicia de Romeli was a Benefactress to this Nunnery whose Gift was confirm'd by her Son William de Curcy the Kings Sewer and by Warinus Fitzâ—Gerald the King's Chamberlain Valued at 11 l. 8 s. 4 d. ob per Annum Of the Cistercian Order Anno Dom. 1098. Robert Abbot of Molesme by License of Hugo Archbishop of Lyons the Pope's Legate first instituted this Order in a Desert Place called
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
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.
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
Nigellus de Moubray granted to this House the Tith of all the Meat and Drink of his Family wherever he should inhabit and charged his Heirs diligently to perform the same William de Burdet gave to Burton St. Lazarus and the infirm Brethren of Ierusalem the Hospital of Tilton and the Church of Louseby c. Sir Iohn Digby Knight and Thurbert de Rochebi c. were also Benefactors Confirm'd by King Henry II. and King Iohn King Edward III. granted to the Master and Brethren of St. Lazarus of Ierusalem in England Founded for Lepers and Souldiers that fight against the Enemies of the Cross to be free and quit of all Tenths Tallages and other Aids and Contributions granted or to be granted to the King and his Heirs Valued at 265 l. 10 s. 2 d. ob per Annum St. GILES without London Sup. p. 381. KING Edward the III. An. 27. at the Request of the Master of the Order of Burton St. Lazarus in England and in consideration of the Release of a yearly Rent of forty Marks formerly granted out of the Exchequer to the said Master and Brethren of that Order granted to the said Brethren and their Successors the Custody of the Hospital of St. Giles without London YARUM in Yorkshire FOunded by Alan de Wilton who gave to this Hospital divers Lands in Hooton to hold at the yearly Rent of two Marks also other Lands in Mydilton for the maintenance of three Chaplains in the said Hospital and thirteen poor people The same Alan did after wards grant this Hospital and all its Appurtenances in pure and perpetual Alms to the Canons of Helagh-Park The like grant was made to the said Canons by Peter de Brus which Peter de Brus gave'divers Lands to the Brethren of this Hospital with free grinding in all his Mills and free Pasture for all their proper Cattle in his Land St. JAMES near Westminster THE Master of the Hospital of St. Iames near Westminster being summon'd in a Quo Waranto 22 E. 1. appear'd and pleaded that King Henry the III. granted to the Leperous Women of St. Iames without London near Westminster their Lands then given or to be given to be held with Soc and Sak Thol and Them and that King Edward the I. granted them a Fair yearly on the Vigil day and Morrow of St. Iames and for four days following profert c. Ideo predictus Magister quoad hoc sine die c. TANREGGE in Surrey O Do Dammartin gave to God and the Hospital of St. Iames in his Village of Tanregge and to three Priests there serving God certain Lands c. for the maintenance of Infirm and poor People and Travellers he also gave them his Relicks two Silver Cups for the making a Chalice with all the Vestments Books and other Furniture of his own Chappel Valued at 78 l. 8 s. 10 d. ob per Annum St. JOHN BAPTIST at Stamford in Lincolnshire THIS Hospital dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist and St. Thomas the Martyr consisting of a Master and Brethren was founded by one Syward among other Benefactors were Richard de Humez and Bertran de Verdun who gave part of a Meadow lying near the Bridge towards the North wherein to build a Church and make a Coemitery Confirm'd by King Richard I. and by Pope Alexander It was situated at the end of Stamford-Bridge on the South-side for the Reception of Travellers and poor people SAUTINGEFELD near Wytsande KING Henry the II. confirm'd divers Lands to this Hospital and to the Brethren here serving God SCARDEBURGH in Yorkshire THE Hospitals of St. Nicholas and St. Thomas the Martyr were erected by certain Burgesses of Scardeburgh and were both under the Inspection of the Bayliffs and Burgesses of that Town c. as was found by Inquisition An. 26 Edw. the I. St. GILES without Shrewsbury KING Henry the II. granted to the Poor of this House a Rent of 30 s. out of his Farm of Shropshire King Henry the III. granted them out of every Sack of Corn coming to Shrewsbury Market a handful of both hands and out of every Sack of Wheat a handful of one hand also a Horse-load of dead Wood daily in his Wood call'd Linewood for their firing ROMENALE in Kent FIRST founded by Adam de Cherrings in honour of the blessed Martyrs St. Steven and St. Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury and by him endow'd with Lands Rents and Possessions for the maintenance of certain Lepers and one Chaplain But in process of time this Hospital becoming decay'd and neglected by reason chiefly that no Lepers could be found to inhabit here for many years Iohn Franceys Patron of this Hospital An. 37. Edward the III. in order to revive and restore the same made divers Orders viz. That in lieu of the Lepers that used to be here there should for the future be two Priests to celebrate for the Founders and Benefactors one of which to be Custos or Master to be instituted and inducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury and to be Resident which two Priests shall celebrate daily in the Chappel of this Hospital Matins and the Canonical hours that upon the death of the Custos the Patron to present another to the Archbishop of Canterbury to be admitted Custos within the space of two Months or in default of the Patron the Jurates of the Town of Romenale or the major part of them c. St. BARTHOLMEWS without Oxford THE following Orders were made in the Parliament at Lincoln An. 9. Edward the II. That there should be fix infirm Brothers of this Hospital and two found Brothers to labour about the Affairs of the House each of which eight to receive 9 d. a Week that there should be a Priest to be the Master of the said Hospital to say Mass daily and to administer the Sacraments to the Infirm his Salary fix Marks per Annum Queen Margaret Widow of Edward the I. was during her Life Patroness and Visitor and after her death the King or his Chancellor The said King Edward the II. An. 14. granted his License the former Ordination non obstante for the Master and Brothers of this Hospital to admit Iohn Serthe into the next void Place the said Iohn having given eighteen Marks to the Repairs of the Chappel then ruinous MAIDEN-BRADLEY in Wiltshire MAnserus Byset a Baron did first institute this House for Leperous Women and appointed there certain Secular Priests who he named Curators of the Women Hubert Bishop of Salisbury translated those Priests into Canons Regular The Church of Kiderminster was appropriated to this House by Roger Bishop of Worcester after the death of Robert then Parson This Manserus or Manasserus Byset was Dapiser or Sewer to King Henry II. King Henry III. confirm'd the several Lands and Possessions given to the Leperous Sisters of Maiden-Bradâ—egh and to the Prior and Brethren there Valued at 180 l. 10 s. 4 d. per Annum St. THOMAS of Acon in London KIng Edw. III. A. 14. confirm'd
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
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
grant of Liberties in like manner as his Predecessor Richard Earl of the Normans had given them St. FLORENCE at Saumers in Anjou KIng Henry II. confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby their Possessions among others their Cell of Sele in Suffolk FONTANE in Normandy FOunded by Ralf Taxo and by him endow'd with large Lands and Possessions with the good will of William Prince of the Normans qui Regnum Anglia armis subjugavit strenué gubernavit which King William the Conqueror confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby four Churches with all their Tithes and Customes in England among which Toucester in Northamptonshire FONT-EBRALD in Normandy KIng Henry II. granted to the Nuns of this Abby the Mannour of Lecton in Bedfordshire with other Lands amounting to 60 l. per An. with the Confirmation of a yearly Alms out of the Exchequer of 24 l. per Annum granted by his Grandfather King Henry I. King Henry III. confirm'd to these Nuns all their Lands c. in England FULCARDIMONT ALice Countess of Eu Augum confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby the several Lands given them in England by Iohn Earl of Eu her Grandfather JUMIEGES in Normandy KING Henry the II. confirm'd the Lands given to these Monks by William Son of Rollo Robert Archbishop of Rhoan King William c. GOISLAFONTAN FOunded and endow'd for Nuns by Hugo de Gornaio and others GRANDIMONT in Normandy KING Henry the V. An suo 8. confirm'd to the Prior and Convent of this place all the Lands granted by his Progenitors Kings of France and England Robert Earl of Mellent was the Founder and many the Benefactors King Henry the II. granted them an annual Rent of 200 l. in free Alms confirm'd by King Iohn GRESTAIN in Normandy KING Richard the I. confirm'd to the Monks of this House their Lands given by King William the Conqueror and others The like did King Edward the II. LIRA in Normandy KING Henry the II. confirm'd to the Monks their Lands and Cells in England The Earls of Leicester were great Benefactors to this House so were divers others of prime quality in England LONLEY in le Maine FOunded in the Chatellery of Danfront and Diocess of Mans by William de Belesmo and endowed with Revenues in and about Dumfront in Normandy St. MARTIN of the Major-Monastery in Tourain KING Henry the II. granted to the Monks of this place divers Lands and Tithes in England St. JOHN's in Poictou KING Iohn confirm'd to the Monks here the Church of St. Nicholas MONTISBURG in Normandy THE Estate of these Monks in England given by Richard de Rivers and others was confirm'd by King Hen. II. and King Edw. 3. NOA in Normandy FOunded by Maud the Empress Daughter of King Henry the I. for Monks St. MARTINS in the Suburbs of Paris STeven Earl of Albamarl and Havisia his Wise Daughter of Ralph de Mortuomari were Benefactors to the Monks here St. REMIGIUS in the City of Reims KING Edward the III. An. suo 6. confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby divers Lands in England DE PRATO at Rhoan FOunded by King Henry the I. and by him and Maud the Empress endow'd with Lands both in Normandy and England St. AMAND at Rhoan THE Abby of Nuns here was founded by Goscelinus the Viscount and Emmelina his Wife Endowed by them and several others among the rest King William the Conqueror and Queen Maud. SAVIGNY in Normandy KIng Edward III. confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby their Lands in England among which their Cell of Benyngton in Lincolnshire St. MARTINS at Alcey in Normandy FOunded and endow'd by Steven Earl of Albamarl and his Ancestors without the Walls of the Castle of Albemarl St. NICHOLAS at Angiers FIrst founded by Fulk Earl of Anjou An. Dom. 1020. whose Son Ieffrey married Maud the Empress daughter of King Henry I. She granted to the Monks of this Abby divers Lands and Churches in England as Spalding in Lincolnshire c. See more in Spalding Vol. 1. p. 306. St. SAVIOURS at Constantine THeir Possessions in England were confirm'd to these Monks by King Henry II. with the grant of great Liberties and Priviledges in his Forrests St. MARTINS of Troarne THe Possessions of these Monks were confirm'd by Henry Duke of Normandy and Aquitain and Earl of Anjou St. VICTORS at Calete in Normandy KIng Henry II. Confirm'd the Estate of the Monks of this place which they had both here and beyond Seas with the grant of Liberties c. St. WALERIC in Picardy KIng Henry II. Confirm'd to the Monks here Takley in Essex c. with divers Liberties and great Immunities St. WANDRAGISILUS in the Dioc. of Roan FOunded and endow'd at Fontanell by Richard II Duke or Prince of the Normans An. Dom. 1024. XANTON in Aquitain KIng Iohn confirm'd the Liberties granted to the Nuns of this Abby CLUNY in the Dutchy of Burgundy ROger Earl of Salop and Adelina his Wife gave the Manner of Chelton to this Abby AULNAY AN Dom. 1199. William de Similleio and his Ancestors founded and endow'd this Abby in the Diocess of Bajeux for Cistercians They demised certain Tithes in Oxfordshire for the Rent of 40 s. per Annum An. 1304. de BONOPORTU FOunded for Cistertian Monks by Richard I. King of England and endow'd among other things with one hundred marks yearly issuing out of his Rents in the Town of Dieppe St. MARY de Voto at Cherburg in Normandy FOunded and endow'd by King Henry II. and his Mother Maud the Empress Confirm'd by King Richard I. and King Henry III. for Cistertians St. MARTIN and St. Barbara in Normandy KIng Henry II. confirm'd the Lands given to the Canons of this Abby both in Normandy and England BELENCUMBRIS WIlliam de Waren and Isabel his Wife gave divers Lands and Rents to this Priory of All Saints An. Dom. 1135. St. WLUAR at Bologne in Picardy KIng Henry I. at the Solicitation of Ida Countess of Bologne gave and confirm'd to the Canons of this Priory Notfield in Surrey FOUGERES in Britany COnan Duke of Britan gave the Canons of this Place the Church of Cestrehunt in the Diocess of London Ranulph Earl of Chester writ to the Bishop of London on behalf of these Canons and because he had not his own Seal by him at that time he sent his Letters under the Seal of the Lady his Mother yet the Said Letters conclude Teste meipso apud Martillum The Hospital of St Mary Magdalen at Bologn KIng Henry I. confirm'd to this Hospital 20 l. per Annum arising out of Kent The Hospital of Lepers of Kenilli near Roan KIng Henry II. founded this Hospital for Leperous Women and gave it 200 l. per Annum King Richard I. gave them 40 l. per Annum But this was Anjou pounds The Hospital of Vernon in Normandy FOunded and largely endow'd by St. Lewis King of France An. Dom. 1260. The Hospital of the Holy Ghost at Rome FOund by Inquisition 20 Edward III. that King Iohn gave
the 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
Coventry and most buried there The following Bishops were called Bishops of Coventry and Litchfield whole names are Hugo de Novant who in the year 1190. displaced the Monks from the Monastery at Coventry and introduced Secular Canons in their stead but the Monks were restored again after seven years Ieffrey de Muschampe An. 1199. William de Cornhill An. 1215. Alexander de Savensby An. 1224. in whose time Pope Honorious ordered that one time the Election of the Bishop should be made in the Church of Coventry by the Convent of Monks there and the Chapter of Litchfield and the next time in the Church of Litchfield by the said Convent and Chapter Hugo de Patâ—shull An. 1240. Roger de Wescham An. 1245. Roger de Meyland An. 1256. Walter de Langton An. 1296. he was a great Benefactor to the Church of Litchfield Roger de Norburgh An. 1322. Penda King of the Mercians a Man phanatical and impious fanaticus impius after he had reign'd thirty years was overcome by Oswy King of the Northumbers An. 656. Which Oswy becoming King of Mercia was the occasion of the Conversion of that Province to the Christian Faith and founded the Mercian Church now call'd Litchfield and died An. 670. In the City of Litchfield were two Monasteries one in the East-part where St. Cedda used to make his Prayers and preach to the People which place is since called Stow the other was in the West-part and dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary here the Bishop made his Seat his Habitation contained fix and thirty foot in length and twenty eight in breadth the Deans Apartment adjoyn'd to that of the Bishop and contained half the Dimensions the Mansions of the Canons contain'd each half the Dimensions of the Deans Roger de Clinton the third Bishop of Coventry was the first Erector of a Colledge of Canons at Litchfield there being before that time only five Priests in that Church serving at five Altars These Canons of Litchfield did sometimes refuse to admit the Bishop when chosen and enthonizated at Coventry the Prior of which place had of right the first Voice in his Election The Prior of Coventry and his Convent pretended to have the sole and free choice of the Bishop but King Iohn after a long contest with them over-aw'd them at Nottingham to chose William de Gray his Chancellor their Bishop and not only so but to joyn with the Canons of Litchfield in the Election But the Election being set aside as forced the Prior and Monks only chose William de Cornhull Archdeacon of Huntington all this was done in the time of a general Interdict The Episcopal Seat was translated from Litchfield to Chester in the time of William the Conqueror and from Chester to Coventry in the Reign of King Henry the I. Boniface Archbishop of Canterbury recited and confirm'd the Grant of Roger Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield whereby with the Consent of the Prior and Convent of Coventry he granted and confirm'd to the Dean and Chapter and Church of Litchfield divers Lands and Rents and alotted the same to such and such Offices and Duties and ratified the Constitutions of Hugh his Predecessor and granted and establisht by his Pontifical Authority that the Churches of Coventry and Litchfield should have equal Power in the Election of the Bishop Which Confirmation by the Archbishop of Canterbury bears date An. Dom. 1259. King Richard the I. granted divers Lands and Franchises to this Church confirm'd by Pope Honorius Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury made and provided several good Orders and Constitutions to be observed by the Dean and Chapter of this Church in relation to the reparing the Parish Churches and Chappels to them belonging for the Augmentation of the Vicars and other Clergymens Profits therein and for providing Books and Ornaments for the same also that they be moderate in receiving their Mortuaries and Tithes he having heard great complaints of their rigorous exactions that way c. Dated An. Dom. 1280. King Iohn while Earl of Moreton was a Benefactor to this Church whose grant was confirm'd by his Son King Henry the III. An. 50. Roger call'd the Amnener gave and confirm'd to Roger de Mulent Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield a parcel of Land and Buildings lying in the Parish of St. Mary le Stronde without London towards Westminster between the High-way that leads from London to Westminster and the Thames to hold to the said Roger and his Successors by the yearly Rent of 3 s. payable at Easter for the purchase of which the said Bishop gave twenty Marks of Silver Pope Eugenius confirm'd the Lands and Possessions given to this Church and establisht the Episcopal Seat at Coventry An. 1151. William Bishop of Coventry gave and confirm'd to the Canons of Litchfield the Church of Hope and Chappel of Tideswell for their common Provision in Bread and Beer King Steven granted to the Church of St. Cedd at Litchfield and Walter Bishop of Coventry and his Successors for ever a Mint for the Coyning of Mony at Litchfield King Edward the I. granted to Roger Meuland Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield and his Successors the Forrest or free Chase of Canok in Staffordshire with the usual Liberties to hold in Frankalmoine c. An. Dom. 1397. Thomas de Stretton Dean of Litchfield and the Chapter of that Church deposited two hundred Marks in a Chest called the Chest of Grace to be kept under four several Locks and Keys to be opened and used when the Steward has not sufficient of the usual Income to supply the Commons of the Canons Residentiary and Vicars for so much only as shall be wanting the same to be paid again by the Stewad to the Common Chest before he passes his Accounts c. All which was confirm'd and ratified by Richard Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield Anno Dom. 1411 Iohn Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield granted and demised to the Chantry Priests in the Church of Litchfield a common Lodging or Habitation within the Close at Litchfield to have and to hold to them and their Successors for the term of ninety eight years at the Rent of 12 d. per Annum payable to the Bishop and his Successors There were formerly in this Church seventeen Chantries founded by several Persons Ieffrey Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield Iames Denton Dean and the Chapter of the said Church made a Collection of all Statutes and Orders that had been made in the times of former Bishops altering some and adding others as there was occasion and having out of that Collection compiled a body of Statutes presented it to Cardinal Wolsey Archbishop of York and Legat de Latere to be confirm'd by his Legantine Authority In which Statutes are contain'd directions for saying the Divine Offices and the several Canonical hours The Offices and Duties of the four Principal Persons in the Church of Litchfeild viz. The Dean Precentor Treasurer and Chancellor also of the Sacristan and after what manner the
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
thirteen poor People of both Sexes and incorporated the same by the name of the Master or Custos and Chaplains of the Colledge and Alms-house of the Holy Trinity of Tateshale with licence to the said Colledge c. to purchase receive and hold Lands c. to the value of 200 l. per Annum over and beside the Profits of the Advowson and yearly value of the Church of Tateshale c. Valued at 348 l. 5 s. 11 d. ob q. per Annum ETON by Windsor in Barkshire FOunded by King Henry the VI. in the nineteenth year of his Reign for the carrying on of which work he appointed Robert Kent William Lynde and William Waryn to be his Procurators and Agents It did in the first Institution consist of one Provost or Praepofit ten Priests four Clerks and six Boys Choristers five and twenty poor and indigent Grammar Schollars and five and twenty poor and decrepid men also one Master to teach Grammar learning to the foresaid poor Schollars and others coming from any parts of England freely and without any manner of exaction of this Foundation he made Henry Sevor Clerk the first Provost and incorporated them by the name of the Provost and Royal Colledge of the Blessed Mary of Eton near Wydesor he also gave them the Advowson of the Parish-Church of Eton to be made Collegiate and intirely united to their own proper use without endowing a Vicar or appointing a competent Sum to be yearly distributed to the Poor of the Parish out of the same the Statute non obstante with License to purchase Lands to the value of one thousand Marks per Annum the Statute of Mortmain non obstante and discharged them from the Payment of Corrodies or any Pensions or Annuities whatsoever The said King granted to this Colledge divers Rents rising out of several Aâ—â—en Priories with the Reversions of the said Estates and all Liberties and Franchises to those Alien Priories belonging in as full and ample manner as they were ever used by the former Possessors with warranty c. NEWPORT in Shropshire KING Henry the VI. in the twentieth year of his Reign Licensed Thomas Draper to purchase and receive from the Abbot and Convent of St. Peter's at Shrewsbury the Parish Church of Newport and therein to found and erect a Colledge of one Custos a Priest and four Chaplains whom by the name of the Custos and Chaplains of Seint-Marie-College of Newport he incorporated with License to endow the same with Lands c. of the value of 10 l. per Annum and appropriated the said Parish Church to the same provided that the Custos for the time being takes the cure of Souls and ministers all and singular the Sacraments to the Parishoners c. St. MARY's at Stafford KIng Henry the VI. in the four and twentieth year of his Reign granted the Patronage and Advowson of the Deanery of his free Chappel at Stafford to Humphrey Duke of Buckingham and Licensed him to give one hundred marks of Land c. to the Dean and Canons of the said free Chappel Valued at 35 l. 13 s. 10 d. per Annum WESTBURY in Gloucestershire KIng Edward the IV. in the fourth year of his Reign gave to Henry Sampson Clerk Dean of this Colledge and the Chapter of the same and their Successors the Mannor of Aylmynstere to hold in pure and perpetual Alms with view of Frankpledge c. Valued at 232 l. 14 s. per Aunum BARNARD-CASTELL in the County Palatine of Durham KIng Edward the IV. in the seventeenth year of his Reign granted his License to his most dear Brother Richard Duke of Gloucester to erect a Colledge at Barnard-Castle in the Castle there of one Dean and twelve Chaplains ten Clerks six Chorists and one other Clerk whom he incorporated by the name of the Dean and Chaplains of the Colledge of Richard Duke of Gloucester of Baynard Castell and that the said Dean and Chaplains may purchase Lands c. to the yearly value of four hundred marks over and above all reprises MIDDELHAM in Yorkshire IN the same year the said King Edward the IV. licensed his said Brother Richard Duke of Gloucester to erect another Colledge at Middelham of a Dean six Chaplains four Clerks six Choristers and one other Clerk to celebrate Divine Service in the Parish Church there whom he incorporated by the name of the Dean and Chaplains of the Colledge of Richard Duke of Gloucester of Middelham in the County of York and that they may purchase Lands c. to the value of two hundred Marks per Annum over and above all Reprises c. ROTHERAM in Yorkshire KIng Edward the IV. in the twentieth year of his Reign granted his License to Thomas Rotheram Bishop of Lincoln to erect a Chantry of one Chaplain to celebrate daily at the Altar newly built by the said Bishop within the Parish Church of Rotheram in honour of our Lord Iâ—â—su Christ. Two years after that the same King Licensed the said Thomas then Archbishop of York to found a Colledge in Rotheram to consist of one Provost a Preacher of the Word of God and of two Fellows one of which to be a Teacher of Grammar and the other a Teacher of Song with such other Fellows as the Revenues shall admit of for the Preaching of the word of God in the Parish of Rotheram and elsewhere in the Diocess of York and for the free teaching of Grammar and Song to any Schollers who are desirous to learn and come to the said Colledge from any part of England and incorporated the same by the name of the Provost and Fellows of the Colledge of Iesus at Rotheram with License to the said Thomas to give the Soil whereon the said Colledge shall be built to the same and other Lands and Possessions c. to the value of one hundred Marks per Annum and to appropriate the Church of Laxton in the County of Nottingham thereunto Valued at 58 l. 5 s. 9 d. ob per Annum The Kings free Chappels have been of old time and ought to be exempt from the ordinary Jurisdiction and all Payment of Procurations or any other impositions or exactions whatsoever POpe Paul the IV. confirm'd to Sir William Peter Knt. and a Councellor of State divers Mannors and Lands c. formerly belonging to several Monasteries and by him purchased and obtain'd from King Henry the VIII and others and absolved him from all Excommunications and other Ecclesiastical Censures or Penalties that he might incur for holding the same and decreed that he might for the future without any scruple of Conscience continue the Possession of the same with command to the Bishop of London c. not to permit him to be vext or disturb'd in relation to his foresaid Lands c. under pain of the severest Censures of the Church Whose Bull bears date at St. Peter's in Rome An. Dom. 1555. 23 Ph. Ma. FINIS A CATALOGUE OF The Religious Houses c. as
Charw 1425. Alanus Kirketon 1437. Iohannes Kirketon 1450. Iohannes Ramsey Valued at 411 l. 12 s. 11 d. per Annum CHATERIZ in Cambridgeshire THE Mannor of Chateriz was given by King Edgar to the Abbot of Ramsey Ednodus Abbot of Ramsey built a Church and Monastery for Nuns at Chateriz and endow'd it with necessaries which Ednodus or Ednothus being Bishop of Dorchester was murdered by the Danes 1016. King Henry the I. gave and annext this Abby to the Church of Ely and Herveus the first Bishop there Pope Innocent the IV. confirm'd the Estate and Priviledges of this Abby to the Abbess and Sisters here about the year 1242. Vid. 2. Vol. p. 869. Valued at 97 l. 3 s. 4 d. q. per Annum CERNE in Dorsetshire SAint Augustine the Monk after he had converted Kent travelled with his Companions over the rest of King Ethelbert's Dominions which extended as far as the Northumbers preaching the Gospel of Christ. And being in Dorsetshire a great Company of people offer'd themselves to Baptism in a place where water was wanting whereupon by miracle a Fountain of Water burst out of the Ground which was in the succeedingtimes call'd St. Augustin's Fountain Here Edwaldus Brother of St. Edmund the King and Martyr led a Hermits life and died with the reputation of great Sanctity which occasion'd that Egelwaldus or Ethelwerdus built here a Monastery to the honour of St. Peter which his Son Ethelmer Earl of Cornwall A. D. 987. endow'd with divers Lands Valued at 515 l. 17 s. 10 d. q. per Annum St. IVES in Huntingtonshire IN the year 1001. the Body of St. Ivo being found in this Town then called Slepe and translated from his Grave to a Shrine the Town ever after took name from the Saint and Ednothus Abbot of Ramsey built here a Church Pope Vrban confirm'd the Estate of this Monastery to the Prior and Monks of the same and to their Successors granting them many great Priviledges among others that they should pay no Tithes of their Lands and Cattle which they should hold in their own proper hands It was found by Inquisition in the 36 H. 3. that the Parish Church of St. Ives dedicated to the honour of all Saints is a Vicarage of the Presentation of the Abbot of Ramsey that the Prior of St. Ives as Parson receives all Corn-Tithes and of the Vicar for his portion 4 l. 13 s. 4 d. That the Vicar receives all small Tithes obventions Mortuaries Testamenta Plow-alms Rates and other Customs which see in the Book at large WARWELL in Hampshire KING Edgar hearing extraordinary Commendations of the beauty of Elfrida Daughter of Odgar Duke of Devonshire sent Earl Ethelwold to discover if the young Lady's beauty was equal to report the Earl finding it so disparaged her to the King and secretly married her himself After a while the King perceiving himself to have been treacherously deceived took occasion one day to take the Earl flew him In expiation of which Deed Elfrida who was after her first Husband's death married to King Edgar built here a Monastery for Nuns in honour of the holy Cross. This Monastery was after wards endowed with Lands by King Ethelred Son of the said Edgar and Elfrid in the year 1002 as appears by Inspectimus 44. H. 3. Vid. 3. Vel. p. 9. Valued at 339 l. 8 s. 7 d. per Annum EYNESHAM in Oxfordshire THIS Monastery was situated near the River Thames founded and endowed by one Etheâ—marus a man of Quality under King Ethelred who confirmed the Lands given to it and granted divers Liberties and Priviledges to the same in the year of our Lord 1005. To this House a Monastery at Stow near Lincoln built and endow'd by Godiva Wife of Leofrick Earl of Chester was formerly annext as a Cell In the year 1109. King Henry the I. repair'd this Monastery at that time decay'd and confirm'd to it all its Lands and Liberties Valued at 441 l. 12 s. 2 d. ob q. per Annum BURTON in Staffordshire WVlfricus Spot an Officer in the Court of King Ethelred built this Abby and endow'd it with all his paterrnal Inheritance amounting to 700 l. and gave to that King three hundred Mancas of Gold to purchase his Confirmation of what he had done The Names of the several Lands and Monnors given to this Abby may be seen p. 268 269. King Ethelred granted to this Abby great Liberties in all their Lands by his Charter dated in the year 1006. And Pope Lucius the III. in the year 1185. confirm'd to them all their Lands granting also many great Priviledges to the said Abby as that they should pay no Tithes of what they held in their own hands c. The afore-mention'd Wulfricus Spot the Founder of this Abby was Earl of Mercia and one of the Blood Royal. Upon the Foundation which was in the year 1004. certain Monks were removed to this House from Winchester Wulfricus was slain in a Battle against the Danes A. D. 1010. and was buried in the Cloyster of this House A List of the Abbots of Burton upon Trent from the first Foundation to the Dissolution 1 Wulfgetus ob 1026. 2 Britericus ob 1050. 3 Leuricus ob 1085. 4 Galfridus Malaterra expell'd 1094. 5 Nigellus ob 1114. 6 Galfridus resigned 1150. to 7 Robertus deposed and expell'd 1159. 8 Barnardus ob 1175. 9 Robert chosen again ob 1177. 10 Rogerus Malebraunch ob 1182. 11 Ricardus ob 1188. 12 Nicholaus ob 1197. 13 Willielmus Melburne ob 1210. 14 Rogerus Normannus ob 1218. 15 Nicholas de Wallingford ob 1222. 16 Richardus de Insula removed to be Abbot of St. Edmunds 1229. 17 Laurentius ob 1240. 18 Iohannes Stafford ob 1280. 19 Thomas Pakington ob 1305. 20 Iohannes Pisoator alias Stapunhull ob 1316. 21 Willielmus de Bromley ob 1329. 22 Robertus Longdone ob 1340. 23 Robertus Brickhull ob 1348. 24 Iohannes Ipstoke ob 1366. 25 Thomas Southam ob 1400. 26 Iohannes Sudburie resign'd 1424. 27 Willielmus Mathew ob 1430. 28 Robertus Ousby resign'd 1432. 29 Radulphus Henley resign'd 1454. 30 Willielmus Bronston ob 1472. 31 Thomas Feylde ob 1473. 32 Willielmus Heigh. ob 1502. 33 Willielmus Beyne ob 1525. 34 Iohannes Boston 35 Ricardus Edes the last Abbet of Burton The remarkable Occurrences during the times of the said several Abbots may be seen in the Book at large Vid Vol. 2. p. 869. Valued at 267 l. 14 s. 3 d. per Annum ABBOTSBURY in Dorsetshire ABout the year 1026. one Orcus a Great man in the Court of K. Canuâ—us together with his Wise Tola being both without hope or possibility of issue built and edow'd the Monastery at Abbotsbury and dedicated it to St. Peter the Apostle The said Orcus did also give a hall to a Guild or Fraternity in this Town and by agreement between him and the Brethren certain Orders were settled for the Rule and Governance of the said Fraternity to the glory of
God and honour of St. Peter King Edward the Confessor and King William the Conqueror ratified Orcus and his Wives Benefactions to the Monks here and granted them certain Franchises By inquisition taken before the Escheator and Sheriff of this County in the 53 Hen 3. The several Lands Rents and Liberties of this Abby were found and set forth the Jury also found that the Abbot here held his Estate of the King in Capite by the service of one Knight's Fee only and not in Baronia by the service of a Barony In the year 1505. Thomas Strangeways Esq founded a perpetual Chantry in the Chappel of the Blessed Mary in the Church of this Abby and endow'd it with Rents for the maintenance of one Mass to be said in the said Chappel daily for ever for the Souls of his Ancestors and Friends and for all the Faithful subjecting it to the Visitation of the Bishop and the Abbot did oblige himself to find a Monk in case he should have above eight Monks Priests in the Monastery to perform the Office and this under the penalty of 3 s. 4 d. to the Bishop of the Diocess and 3 s. 4 d. to the Heirs of the said Strangeways for every omission Valued at 390 l. 19 s. 2 d. ob q. per Annum HULME in Suffolk CAnutus the Danish King of England returning from Rome built two Monasteries to the honour of St. Benedict one in Norwey and the other this in England Which last he founded in a fenny place then call'd Couholm where in former-times before the Danes came into Fngland one Suneman a Hermite did inhabit spending his time in devotion there for above fifty years To the Abby here built the said King canutus gave many Lands and Priviledges All which King Edward the Confessor confirm'd and granted others Sacne and Sokne Toll and Theam c. and all other Liberties and free Customs which he himself enjoy'd in his own Demeans and Lands belonging to the Crown St. EDMUNDS-BURY in Suffolk SAint Edmund the last King of the East Angles being overcome by Inguar and Hubba Pagan Danes was cruelly bound to a Tree whipt and then shot to death suffering martyrdom for the Christian Religion in the year of our Lord 870. and the 29th of his Age. His Head and Body were thrown into a thick Wood by the Pagans but being afterwards found out by miracle he was buried at a Neighbouring place call'd by the Saxons Beodrichesworth now St. Edmunsbury where the Christians built a small Church But afterwards King Canutus who had erected at Rome an English School and assign'd for its maintenance a Sum of Money which was yearly sent from England and call'd Romescot by advice of his Bishops and Barons changed the secular Clergy belonging to this Church to Monks in the year 1020 and brought hither from the Abby of Hulme thirteen religious Benedictines whose first Abbot here was one Wius He also caused half the Books Vestments and Utinsils of that Abby to be removed hither King Edmund the Elder in the year 942. gave Lands to this Church and after him the foresaid King Conutus gave many Lands to this Monastery and rebuilt it in a magnificent manner Controversies arising in the Reign of King William the Conqueror between the Abbot and the Bishop of the Diocess the Abbot went to Rome and found such favour with Pope Alexander the II. that he granted to him and his Successors Episcopal Jurisdiction and this special priviledge viz. That so long as they kept a porphery Altar which he then gave him tho' the whole Kingdom should fall under Excommunication yet the Divine Office should not cease in this Abby unless specially interdicted by name His Bull bears date An. Dom. 107â— In the year 1081. the Contest between the Bishop and Abbot was examined before King William the Conqueror and upon hearing both sides that King did declare the Church of St. Edmund and the Town in which it Stands to be exempt from the Bishops Jurisdiction The Steward or Seneschall's Office for the Liberty of St. Edmund was a place of great honour and the Family of Hastings held it in Fee They enjoy'd several great Fees and Advantages by Custom in case they executed the Office in their own Person but if by Deputy or Lieutenant then the said Deputy received half All which particulars were found by inquision in the 30th year of Edward the I. In the year 1010. the Body of St. Edmund was translated to London this Country being insested by the Danes but after three years it was brought back again In the year 1021. soon after King Canutus had introduced Monks here Aldwinus Bishop of the East Angles began to build a stately new Church to which work and for the maintenance of the Fabrick the Inhabitants of Norfolk and Suffolk did freely give yearly 4 d. out of every Carucate of Land in the Country This Church was in the year 1032. dedicated in honour of Christ the Blessed Mary and St. Edmund King Edward the Confessor King William the I. King Henry the I. King Steven and King Richard with many Bishops and other Persons of Qâ—ality of both Sexes gave Lands and great Revenues to this Abby The Body of St. Edmund remain'd intire and uncorrupted and was so seen by many witnesses ABBOTS of St. EDMVNSBVRT 1 Wius Monk of Hulme ob 1044. 2 Leoffranus ob 1065. 3 Baldwinus ob 1097. 4 Robert Son of Hugh Earl of Chester depos'd 1102. 5 Robert Prior of Westminster ob 1107. 6 Alboldus ob 1119. 7 Anselmus Nephew of Anselm Archbishop of Cant was 1138. chosen Bishop of London but not received there ob 1148. 8 Ordingus ob 1156. 9 Hugh Prior of Westminster ob 1180. 10 Sampson ob 1211. 11 Hugo chosen Abbot 1213. consecrated Bishop of Ely 1229. ob 1254. 12 Richard Abbot of Burton ob 1233. 13 Henry ob 1248. 14 Edmund de Walpool Doctor in the Decretals ob 1256. 15 Simon elected 1257. 16 Iohn de Norwold ob 1301. 17 Thomas de Tottington ob 1312. 18 Richard de Draugton ob 1337. 19 William de Bernham ob 1361. 20 Henry de Hunstanston died before Confirmation 21 Iohannes de Brinkele ob 1379. 22 Iohannes Tynmouth created 7 R. 2. 33 Willielmus de Cratfeild created 13 R. 2. 24 Willielmus Exeter 5 H. 6. 25 Willielmus Curteys 7 H. 6. 26 Iohannes Boon created Abbot 1457. 27 Richardus Hengham 1475. 28 Thomas Raclesden 1478. 29 Iohn Reeve alias Melford the last Abbot of Bury created 5 Hen. 8. By Covenant made between the above-mentioned Iohn Norwood Abbot here on the one part and the Prior and Convent of this Monastery on the other the Mannors Lands and Revenues belonging to this Abby were divided and appropriated to the several Offices of the House as such and such Lands and Revenues to the Abbot such to the Celerarius for the diffraying of his Office such to the Sacristan for the Charges incumbant on him such to the Camerarius
this Abby upon his secular kindred or others but take care to bestow them upon poor People and Travellers c. King William Rufus and King Henry the I. were also Benefactors to this House Valued at 880 l. 14 s. 7 d. ob q. per Annum BRECKNOCK in Wales a Cell to Battel Abby BErnard de Newmarch was a Noble Norman in the Reign of King Henry the I. and was the first Conqueror of the Lands about Brecknock He gave to Battel Abby his Church of St. Iohn the Evangelist in his Castle of Brecknock Roger Earl of Hereford Grandson of the foresaid Bernard gave divers Lands and Tithes to the Monks in the Church of St. Iohn of Brecknock together with divers Liberties and Exemptions All which was afterwards confirm'd by Maihel de Hereford and William de Braiose Other Benefactors were Herbert Fitz Peter Iohn Fitz Reginald c. Valued at 112 l. 14 s. 2 d. per Annum ARMETHWAYT in Cumberland KING William the Conqueror founded here a Monastery for black Nuns and endow'd it with divers Lands and such Priviledges as wâ—re granted to the Church of Westminster This he granted in pure and perpetual Alms as freely As hert may it thynk or ygh may it se. This Nunnery being seated so very near the Borders of Scotland was so impoverisht by the Scots frequent Spoils and Inroads that it was in a manner reduced to nothing whereupon King Edward the IV. did in the thirteenth year of his Reign new grant ratifie and confirm their Lands and Estate unto the then Prioress and Nuns here Valued at 18 l. 18 s. 8 d. per Annum BEAULEIU Bellus Locus in Bedfordshire a Cell of St. Albans THE Church of St. Mary in this place of old call'd Moddry was at first a Hermitage and built by a Hermite called Radulfus It was afterwards given by Robert de Albeneio with the consent of his Mother Secilia to the Abby of St Albans and became a Cell of that House Which Robert endow'd it with divers Lands all which he gave to God and St. Alban and to the Monks of Beauleiu in Fee to hold in free Alms. WALLINGFORD in Barkshire a Cell of St. Albans THE Church here dedicated to the holy Trinity was made a Cell of St. Albans in the time of Paul Abbot there King Henry the VI. was a Benefactor to the Priory of Wallingford Vid. Vol 3. p. 11. BELVOIR or Beaver in Lincolnshire a Cell of St. Albans RObertus de Toteneio Lord of the Castle of Belvoir gave the Church of St. Mary adjoyning to his said Castle to the Abby of St. Albans to be a Cell of that House endowing it with divers Lands and Tithes appointing it for the Burial-place of himself and Wife in case they died in England and such it afterwards proved to be for his descendents The Lands hereunto given were confirm'd successively by the Heirs and Progeny of the said Robert and lastly by Thomas Lord Ros in the 8. Hen. 6. Valued at 104 l. 19 s. 10 d. per Annum HATFEILD-PEVERELL in Hertfordshire a Cell of St. Albans WIlliam Peverell gave the Church of St. Mary at Hatfeild with his own Mansion-House there for a Habitation of Monks and endow'd the same with Lands all which was afterwards annext to St. Albans and became a Cell of that House Valued at 60 l. 14 s. 11 d. ob per Annum HERTFORD a Cell of St. Albans RAdulfus de Limesey having erected a Church at Hertford he gave the same for a Cell to the Abby of St. Albans and with it divers Lands in Hertford and elsewhere The Abbot of St. Albans obliging himself to send thither six Monks of his House to serve God at Hertford and in case the Revenue should be augmented then to send a greater number Hadwisia Wife of the said Radulfus Alan de Limesey their Son Gerard his Son and Iohn de Limesey his Son were all Benefactors to this Church of St. Mary's at Hertford and to the Monks of St. Albans serving God herein Valued at 72 l. 14 s. 2 d. ob per Annum TINEMOUTH in Northumberland a Cell of St. Albans RObert de Mulbray a Norman of noble extraction to whom King William the Conqueror gave the Earldom of Northumberland endow'd the Church of St. Mary adjoyning to his Castle of Tinemouth and in which the Body of St. Oswin King and Martyr rested with fair Revenues and gave it for a Cell to the Monks of St. Albans David King of Scotland was a Benefactor to this House so were King Henry the I. of England King Henry the II. and King Iohn who granted to God and the Church of St. Oswin in Tinmouth and the Monks of St. Albans serving God here many Lands and great Liberties which Liberties tho' seiz'd by King Edward the III. yet were by him in the second year of his Reign regranted to them in as large a manner as ever out of the special Devotion which he bore to the two glorious Martyrs St. Alban and St. Oswin Valued at 397 l. 10 s. 5 d. ob per Annum WYMUNDHAM in Norfolk a Cell of St. Albans ANno Dom. 1139. William de Albaneio Butler to King Henry the I. built the Church of St. Mary and Priory of Monks at this Town endow'd the same with Revenuesâ— and annext it as a Cell to St. Albans yet so as they might choose a Prior among themselves and present him to their Founder whom he was not to refuse without good Cause And the Monks here paid only a Mark of Silver yearly to the Abbot of St. Albans as an acknowledgment of subjection King Henry the I. confirm'd the Estate given to this House with the grant of many great Liberties The like did also William Earl of Sussex Grandson of the foresaid William the Founder Afterwards in the 27th of King Henry the VI. by Authority of Pope Nicholas the V. and at the Petition of Sir Andrew Ogard Kt. then Patron of this Monastery it was discharged from any dependency on the Abby of St. Albans and from paying the Mark per Annum and made an Abby of it self and Steven London then Prior the first Abbot All which was allow'd and confirm'd by the said King Henry the VI. who at the same time pardon'd all penalties incurr'd by the Parties concern'd in procuring the Popes Bull by reason of the Statute of Provisors or any other Statute Valued at 211 l. 16 s. 6 d. q. per Annum BINHAM in Norfolk a Cell of St. Albans PEter de Valoniis and Albreda his Wife gave the Church of St. Mary at Binham to the Abby of St. Albans but to be subject only in such manner as St. Pancrace at Lewis is subject to St. Peter of Clugni paying yearly to the Church of St. Alban a Mark of Silver and no more Rogâ—r de Valoniis confirm'd to God and St. Mary and the Monks of St. Albans serving God at Binham all the Lands which his Father Peter had given them and gave to them besides
Prior under the Kings Patronage and Thomas de Burgâ—ull who claim'd under another Title the Estate of the Priory was so wasted and impoverisht betwixt them that there did not remain sufficient to discharge the Works of Piety for which it was at first built and the House running to utter ruin that King therefore to prevent its final destruction in the fifteenth year of his Reign directed his Writ to the Sheriff of Hereford commanding him to seize the said Priory with all its Possessions as well moveable as immoveable into his hand and them safely to keep until further Order NORWICH in Norfolk THE Church of the holy Trinity in Norwich was founded in the Reign of King William Rufus An Dom. 1096. by Herbert Losenge who had been Prior of Fischampe in Normandy then Abbot of Ramsey and then Bishop of the East-Angles of which Diocess he fixt the Seat at Norwich and built this Church for his Cathedral erecting on the North-side of it his own Palace and on the South-side a Monastery for Monks Certain Limits were appointed about this Church and Monastery within which Bishop Herbert obtain'd great Priviledges and Franchise from both Regal and Papal Authority Notwithstanding which great Contests arose between the Citizens and the Monks about their Liberties which continued for many years and were never perfectly compos'd till the sixth year of King Iohn The said Bishop Herbert endow'd this Monastery so founded by him with large Revenues as appears by his Deed dated An. Dom. 1101. King Henry the I. confirm'd his Gift and also gave them other Lands in the same year King Henry the II. also made a large Confirmation of all their Lands and Liberties Vid. infra p. 1003. and Vol. 3. p. 5. EWYAS Priory in Herefordshire THIS Priory was founded and endow'd by Harald Lord of Ewyas An. Dom. 1100. whose Gift was afterwards confirm'd by Robert his Son who also gave other Lands all which was also confirm'd by Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury and Iohn Bishop of Salsbury MIDLESBURG in Yorkshire a Cell to Whitby RObert de Brus and Agnes his Wife and Adam de Brus their Son gave the Church of St. Hylda in Midlesburg and with it divers Lands in perpetual Alms to the Monks of St. Peter and St. Hilda at Whitby for a Cell of that House and that certain of those Monks might live and reside here for God's service in the Church of Midlesburg William Malebiss was also a Benefactor to the Church of St. Hylda at Midlesburg and the Monks there HAKENES in Yorkshire IN the Reign of King William Rufus the Monastery of Whitby being much infested not only by robbers from the Woods on the Land but also by Pirates from the Sea who carried from them almost all they had Serlo de Percy then Prior of that House and his Monks applied themselves to William de Percy Brother of Serlo and desired of him a place of Refuge at Hakenes who readily granted them the Church of St. Mary in that Town which had been built by St. Hildo the Abbess with License to erect a Monastery there and in it to remain till they could return in peace to Whitby which accordingly they did and remain'd here for some time HORSHAM in Norfolk RObert Fitz-Walter and Sibill his Wife returning through France from Rome where they had been in Pilgrimage were set upon by Theives robb'd and kept in Prison till by their Prayers to Almighty God and to the holy Virgin St. Faith they were miraculously deliver'd out of their Confinement After which they visited in Devotion the Shrine of St. Faith at the Abby of Couches in France where for the space of twelve days they remain'd being kindly entertain'd by the Abbot and Convent there Vowing at their return into England to their own Mannor to built there a Monastery in the Worship of God and St. Faith Which accordingly they did endowing the same with Lands and placing therein two Monks of the Abby of Couches to which Abby they annext this House as a Cell Their Deed of Foundation and Endowment was made in the time of Henry the I. and Herbert Bishop of Norwich who died 19. H. 1. Pope Alexander by his Bull dated in the year 1163. confirm'd to the Monks here all their Lands and Liberties In the 14. Rich. 2. this Priory was discharged of its Foreign Subjection to the Abby of Couches and made an English Priory of it self Valued at 162 l. 16 s. 11 d. ob per Annum RADINGFEILD in Suffolk THIS was a Priory of Nuns founded to the honour of God and St. Andrew by Manasses Earl of Gisnensis and Emme his Wiâ—es Daughter and Heir of William de Arras and endow'd by them with the Mannor of Radingfeild c. late held by the said William de Arras their Deed bears date 1120. Valued at 67 l. 0 s. 1 d. ob per Annum READING in Barkshire 〈…〉 of Nuns But that having been 〈…〉 Henry the I. An. Dom. 1126. built here a most noble Abby for Monks and dedicated it in honour of the Virgin Mary and St. Iohn Baptist and endow'd it with great Possessions and Franchises as may be seen in his Charter dated 1125. all which was confirm'd by King Hen. 2. Hugh Abbot of Reading and his Covent reciting by their Deed that King Henry the I. had â—rected that Abby for the maintenance of Monks there devoutely and religiously serving God â—for the receit of Strangers and Travellers but chiefly Christ's poor People they therefore did erect an Hospital without the Gate of the Abby there to maintain twenty six poor People and to the maintenance of Strangers passing that way they gave the profits of their Mill at Leominstre Also Aucâ—erius Abbot of Reading built near this Abby a House for Lepers which was call'd St. Mary Magdalens alloting for their sustenance sufficient of all things as well for Diet as other matters If any Brother of this House were guilty of Adultery or of striking his Brother in Pride Anger or Hatred he was to be expell'd the House none were to go abroad without a Companion what Charity happens to be given to any one to be common to all these and several others were the Rules observed in the Lepers House of St. Mary Magdalen Valued at 1938 l. 14 s. 3 d. ob q. per Annum LEOMINSTER in Herefordshire a Cell to Reading HERE was formerly a Nunnery built by Merwald one of the Kings of Mercia but that having been long destroy'd by the Danes King Henry the I. when he built the Abby of Reading gave them also Leominster with all the Estate belonging to it and those Monks made it a Cell of their Abby It was confirm'd to them by Richard and Hugh Bishops of Hereford RINDELGROS in Scotland a Cell to Reading DAvid King of Scotland gave this Town to the Abbot and Covent of Reading to have and enjoy as freely and quiety as any Abby in his Kingdom enjoy their Estates With a Provision that if he or his
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
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
rather Reformation of Monks was Abbot Berno to whom William then Duke of Aquitain gave the place call'd Clugny or Cluny in Burgundy for their first Habitation in the year of our Lord 890. This was a Reform of St. Bennet's Order WENLOCK in Shropshire HERE was formerly a Nunnery in which Milburg Neice of Wilphere King of Mercia lived and died Abbess with the Reputation of great Sanctity Which House being totally decayed Roger Earl of Mongomery built here a Monastery for the Monks of Cluny The Church here was dedicated to St. Mildred Isabel de Say Wife of William Fitz-Alan was a Benefactress And this Priory was made Indigena 18. R. 2. Vid. 2. Vol. p. 907. Vaued at 401 l. 0 s. 7 d. q. per Annum DUDLEY in Staffordshire a Cell to Wenlock THE Church here was dedicated to St. Iames which with other Churches and Lands Pope Lucius did confer and appropriate to this Priory in the year 1190. granting in the same Deed divers great Priviledges and Immunities to the Monastery Vid. 2. Vol. p. 907. LEWES in Sussex THIS House was founded by William de Warren Earl of Surrey in the time of King William the Conqueror Which Earl obtain'd from the Abby of St. Peter in Burgundy four Cluniac Monks to whom he gave the Church of St. Pancrace adjoyning to his Castle of Lewis and endow'd them with divers Lands and Possessions by the License and Confirmation of King William with a Curse to the Violators of his Gift and a Blessing to the Defenders Yet this Priory remain'd a Cell to the Abby of Clugny in Burgundy till the forty seventh year of King E. 3. at which time that King made it indigena and independant so also the Priories of Castleacre Prittlewell Farleigh Horton and Stanesgate which were all Cells belonging to the Priory of Lewis Vid. 2. Vol. p. 908. Valued at 92 l. 4 s. 6 d. per Annum PRITTLEWELL in Essex a Cell to Lewes RObert Fitz-Suene gave the Church of Prittlewell to the Priory of St. Pancrace at Lewes to be a Cell of that House and to be furnisht with Monks of the Rule of St. Bennet and Order of Clugny from Lewes ordaining by his Deed of Foundation that the Prior of Prittlewel should pay yearly to the Prior of Lewes one mark for an acknowledgment Valued at 155 l. 11 s. 2 d. ob per Annum WESTACRE in Norfolk a Cell to Lewes THIS House was granted and confirm'd by Rodulphus de Toneio Lord of the Soil to Oliver Priest of Acre and Walter his Son who became Canons regular here Valued at 260 l. 13 s. 7 d. q. per Annum FARLEY in Wiltshire a Cell to Lewes THIS Priory was founded Anno Dom. 1125. and dedicated to God and St. Mary Magdalen It was endow'd by Humphrey de Bohun the King's Sewer and Margery his Wife with â—Mannor of Farley and the Park there and with divers other Lands and Revenues All which was confirm'd to them by King Henry the III. â— in the eleventh year of his Reign Valued at 153 l. 14 s. 2 d. ob per Annum HORTON in Kent a Cell to Lewes THIS House was founded and endow'd by Robert de Ver Constable of England and Adeliza his Wife and subjected to the Priory of Lewes to which they were to pay a Mark per Annum as an acknowledgment In this House did inhabit thirteen or at least eight Monks who were to say three Masses dayly viz. the High Mass our Lady's Mass and the third pro defunctis Their Seal was kept by three Monks viz. the Prior Sub-prior and another Valued at 95 l. 12 s. 2 d. per Annum STANESGATE in Essex a Cell to Lewes ANno Dom 1177. Alexander Prior of this House and the Covent of the same with the assent of the Covent of Lewis granted the Tithes of their Fee at Clerkenwell with their Land there to the Nuns of St. Mary at Clerkenwell they paying to the Prior of Stanesgate a yearly Pension of ten shillings for the said Tithes and Lands CLIFFORD in Herefordshire a Cell to Lewes IT appeared by Inquisition 20. E. 3. that this Priory was founded by Simon Fitz-Richard Fitzâ—Ponce formerly Lord of Clifford and Ancestor oâ— the Countess of Lincoln and that this House was not alien or dependant on any other beyond Sea It was subjected by the Founder to the Priory of Lewes Valued at 57 l. 7 s. 4 d. per Annum CASTLE-ACRE in Norfolk FOunded An. Dom. 1090. William de Warren Earl of Surrey the first of that name and his Son Earl William the II. were great Benefactors and gave to God and St. Mary and to the holy Apostles Peter and Paul and to the Cluniac Monks of St. Pancrace i. e. of the Priory of Lewes serâ—ing God at Achra divers Lands and Revenues Besides whom many other Benefactors gave other Mannors and Lands Tithes and Churches as may be seen in particular in the Book at large p. 626 627 628 629. Herbert Bishop of Norwich constituted the Church and Monastery here and placed therein Cluniac Monks under the Rule of St. Benedict Bishop Ebrard impropriated and confirm'd to them their several Churches given to them by the Earls of Surrey and other Benefactors It was certified to King Edw. the I. in the thirty fourth year of his Reign that the â—rior and Convent of Castle-acre were English and not Aliens of the Subjects of the King of France or his Adherers and that no Rent or Pension was paid by them to any of his Dominion or Adherents nor did they owe obedience to any such except only that when the Abbot of Clugny comes sometimes into England he uses to visit in the said Priory Hereupon this House was allow'd to be Indigena and not Alienigena and to be priviledged accordingly 18. E. 2. Valued at 306 l. 11 s. 4 d. ob q. per Annum MENDHAM in Norfolk a Cell to Castle-acre WIlliam Son of Roger de Huntingfeild gave to God and St. Mary of Acre and to the Monks there the Isle of St. Mary of Mendham to be in the same manner subject to Castle-acre as that House is to St. Pancrace and that to the Church of Clugny The Prior of Castle-acre and Convent there did grant to Roger de Huntingfeild who was their great Benefactor to maintain at least eight Monks at this Priory of Mendham and not to depose the Prior here unless for one of these three causes Disobedience Incontinence or Dilapidation of the House BROMHOLM in Norfolk a Cell of Castle-acre THE Estate here with divers other Lands was given to the Monks of Acre by William de Glanville and confirm'd to them by Bartholmew his Son The Prior and Convent of Bromholm held Lands in Fee-â—arm of the Prior and Convent of Acre at the Annual Rent of fourteen Marks five â—hillings and four pence payable at three terms by the year viz. at the Feast of St. Michael 64 s. at the Purification 64 s. and at Penticost 64 s. Controversie arising
he left five Sons all successively Earls of Pembroke but they all died without issue Matilda the eldest of their Sisters and Co-heirs was married to Hugh le Bigod Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk c. Valued at 192 l. 1 s. 4 d. ob per Annum RIEVALL in Yorkshire ANno 1132. Gualterus Especk a Great man in the Court of King Henry the I. founded this Monastery in a place called Blachomour near the River Rie for the receipt of certain Monks of the Cistercian Order sent over by Bernard Abbot of Clarevallis whose first Abbot was William This Walter Especk having unhappily lost his Son and Heir who broke his Neck by a fall from a Horse built and endow'd with part of his Estate three Monasteries viz Kirkham Rievall and Wardon The rest of his Estate was divided between his three Sisters and Co-heirs one of which married to Peter Lord Roos the Descent of which Noble Family the Reader may see set forth in the Book at large with their several Matches and Issue down to George Manners Lord Roos who died An. 1513. Many were the Benefactors and large the Possessions of this Monastery exprest Fol. 729 730 731. Pope Alexander the III. by his Bull dated 1140. granted to Aelredo Abbot of St. Mary's of Rievalle and his Brethren and their Successors in that Monastery a Confirmation of all their Possessions with divers Priviledges in particular that they might celebrate the Divine Offices in the time of a general Interdict c. Valued at 278 l. 10 s. 2 d. per Annum FOUNTAINS in Yorkshire a Cell of Clarevallis Founded 1132. THE Rule and Discipline of St. Benedict being relaxt in the Abby of St. Mary's at York and a great Dissention happening therein on that occasion between the Abbot and Prior Turstin then Archbishop of York gave leave to thirteen of the Monks to retire from the said Abby To these the said Archbishop appointed a Solitary and then Desert place for their Habitation at that time called Skeldale since Fountains Here for a time a great Elme was their only fence from the Weather under which they slept sed and performed their Offices according to their Rule Richard who had been their Prior at York being elected their first Abbot and confirm'd by the Archbishop Turstin aforesaid They having past a Winter in this manner sent to the holy Bernard Abbot of Claravellis submitting themselves to his Rule and Direction Abbot Bernard sends back with the Messengers one of his Monks named Galfridus who taught them the Cistercian Discipline Hitherto they were in great want being forced to dress for their Food the Leaves of the Trees and Herbs of the Fields Yet in their distress having in their poor House but two Loaves and a half they gave one of them to a Poor man who demanded an Alms for Christ his sake Two years they labour'd under this grievous Poverty after which God sent them many Benefactors the first of which was Hugh Dean of York Five years after the first Foundation of the Monastery of Fountains a certain Nobleman called Ranulph de Merâ—ay built for them a new Monastery to which they sent some of their Monks under the Government of Abbot Robert formerly a Monk at Witheby Besides which many Cells were founded and given to this House a Woburne Kirkstall Bitham otherwise called Vallis dei Lisa in Norway c. Benefactors to this House were Alanus de Aldeburg Roger de Mubrai de Aldeburg Swanus de Tornetun de Bramlcia Roger de Lact Constable of Chester Nigellus de Mubrai Alice de Gant c. who gave to God and the Church of St. Mary de Fontibus divers Mannors and Lands All which were confirm'd to the Monks of the Cistercian Order here and their Successors for ever by King Richard the I. Valued at 998 l. 6 s. 8 d. ob per Annum QUARRE Quarrera in the Isle of Wight a Cell to Savigny Foâ—nded 1132. RIchard Earl of Exeter Son of Baldwin confirm'd to God the holy Virgin and Gaufridus Abbot of Savigny this House and divers Lands and Revenues thereunto belonging first given by his Father Benefactors to this House were Henry Fitz-Empress who writ himself Son of the Duke of Normandy and Earl of Anjou Engelgerius de Bohun William de Vernun Earl of Devon c. Controversie arising between the Abbot and Covent of Lyra and this Church of Quarre about certain Tithes and Revenues in and about Carisbrok and other Neighbouring Towns here in this Island the Matter was agreed and settled by Deed dated in the year 1289. Valued at 134 l. 3 s. 11 d. per Annum CUMBERMERE in Cheshire Founded 1133. HVgo Malbanc founded this Abby in the Honour of the blessed Virgin and St. Michael and endow'd it with very large Lands and Possessions among others with the fourth part of the Town of Wiche and the Tithes of the Salt and Boylries there Yet by the same Deed he granted that Ralph Earl of Chester his chief Lord should be accounted the Principal Founder and Defender of the said Church and Monks there King Henry the III. in the sixteenth year of his Reign confirm'd all their Possessions and again in the fiftieth year of his Reign In the year 1230. Ralph Earl of Chester confirm'd their Estate given by Hugo Malbanc and granted them several Liberties and Immunities Vid. 2. Vol. p. 913. Valued at 225 l. 9 s. 7 d. per Annum GEROUDON in Leicestershire THIS was founded Anno 1133. as Cell to Waverle The Founder Robert Earl of Leicester endow'd this Monastery with all his Lands in Disseley and with the Wood of Shepehed Many were the Benefactors who gave to this Church of St. Mary of Geroldon and the Monks here large Possessions viz. Margaret Countess of Wynton Sister of the said Robert Margaret de Ferrariis Countess of Derby Roger de Quincy Gilbert de Coleville William Son of Richard Wareyn William Peverell c. All whose Gifts were confirm'd to them by King Edward the III. in the fourteenth year of his Reign Valued at 159 l. 19 s. 10 d. ob per Annum SWINESHEAD in Lincolnshire Founded An. Do. 1134. THIS was founded and endow'd by Robert Greslei whose several Lands and Possessions were recited and confirm'd to God and the Church of St. Mary of Swynesheved and the Monks there by King Henry the II. Valued at 167 l. 15 s. 3 d. per Annum CALDER in Cumberland Founded An. Do. 1134. KING Henry the II. confirm'd to the Abbot and Monks here all the Lands and Possessions given by Ralph de Meschin their Founder and other Benefactors Valued at 50 l. 9 s. 3 d. ob per Annum BILAND in Yorkshire Founded An. Do. 1134. THIS House was at first founded for certain Monks of Savigny by Roger de Mulbray which Roger died in the Holy Land Walter de Sciflings Parson of Kildale Hugo de Wake and others were Benefactors In the ninth of Richard the II. Thomas Earl Mareschall and Earl of Nottingham Lord
were the Benefactors to this House among whom Gilbertus de Gant Roger de Mulbray c. all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign See the Genealogy of Gilbert de Gant Nephew of William the Conqueror and the Noble Families descended from him in the Book at large Valued at 124 l. 5 s. 11 d. q. per Annum SWINE in Yorkshire ERinburch de Burtona was the Foundress of this Abby giving divers Lands of her Patrimony and Inheritance to God and the Church of St. Mary at Swine and to the Brethren and Sisters there serving God Pope Alexander exempted the Nuns here from paying Tithes for their Lands in their own Occupation Vide infra fol. 1026. Valued at 82 l. 3 s. 9 d. ob per Annum BRURE in Oxfordshire Founded An. 1147. KING Henry the III. Roger Earl of Warwick and others were Benefactors to this Abby all whose Gifts were confirm'd to the Cistercian Monks here by King Iohn in the sixth year of his Reign Valued at 134 l. 10 s. 10 d. per Annum RUPE alias Roche in Yorkshire Founded An. 1147. RIchard de Bulli and Richard Fitz Turgis were joint Founders of this Abby Besides those of the Family of Bully the Monks here were endow'd with Lands and Revenues by other Benefactors among whom Edmund de Lacy Constable of Chester and William Earl Warren c. Pope Vrban the III. confirmed their Estate and Lands given and to be given and exempted them from Tithes for their Lands in their own Tenure and this was by his Bull dated 1186. Their first Abbot was Durandus who governed twelve years 2. Dionisius 12. 3. Rogerus de Tikehill 8 4. â—iugo de Waddeworth 5. 5 Osmundus 39. 6 Reginaldus 15. 7 Richardus 16. 8 Walter 14. 9 Alanus 10 Iordanus 11 Philippus Valued at 224 l. 2 s. 5 d. per Annum HOTON in Yorkshire THIS House was founded for Nuns and endow'd by Radulf de Nevil With the Licenses of Adam de Brus and Ernald de Percy BASEDALE in Yorkshire JOhn de Ever by his Deed dated An. 1304. released to Ioan Prioress of Basedale and to the Convent of the same and their Successors all homage and suit of Court for all their Lands holden of him in Kirkeby Cliveland and Ingelby William de Percy and others were Benefactors to this Nunnery all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Henry the III. in the twentieth year of his Reign Robert de Longo Campo Abbot of St. Mary's at York and the Convent there granted to these Nuns a Coemitery for themselves but their Servants and Tenants to be buried at the Parish Church Guido de Bouincurt was the Founder of this Priory of Nuns Valued at 20 l. 1 s. 4 d. per Annum SALLEY in Yorkshire THIS Abby was founded by William de Percy An Dom. 1147. Matilda de Percy Countess of Warwick Daughter or the said William was a great Benefactress to this Abby and gave them the Church of Tadcaster and was accounted a second Founder Agnes de Percy her Sister and Heiress did add to her bounty William Vavasor gave and confirm'd all the Lands which his Father Malgarus Vavasor had given to this House placing his Confirmation una cum Corpore meo together with his own body on the Altar of the blessed Mary de Sallay providing thereby that in case he happens to die within the Kingdom of England that his Body be buried in this Abby Iohn de Lacy Constable of Chester was among others a Benefactor to these Monks An. 1223. William de Percy who founded this Abby was Grandson to William de Percy who came into England with the Conqueror His Estate came to his two Daughters Matilda who was married to William Earl of Warwick but died without issue and Agnes married to Goseline Lovain Brother to the Duke of Brabant the issue of this Match kept the name of their Mothers Family and are the Progenitors of the Earls of Northumberland This Abby was wasted and part of it burnt down by the Scots in their Wars Valued at 147 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum RUFFORD in Nottinghamshire Founded 1148. THIS Abby was founded and endowed by Gilbert de Gaunt Earl of Lincoln Many were the Benefactors whose Gifts were confirm'd to the Abbot and Monks here with the Grant of divers Priviledges in the Forest of Shirewood by King Henry the III. in the thirty sixth year of his Reign Valued at 176 l. 11 s. 6 d. per Annum SALTRE in Huntingtonshire Founded An 1147. SImon Earl of Northampton founded and endowed this Abby with all his Land at Saltre and with all the Marish Ground between that and Witlemare and in Witlemare c. With very large Immunities and Franchises such as his Ancestor Iudith Countess of Huntington Neice of the Conqueror had formerly obtain'd of her said Unkle for this Town and Lordship of Saltre as inter alia to be exempt from the County and Hundred Courts to find neither Man nor Arms for the War c. The abovesaid Countess Iudith had a special Love for this place and did very much frequent it and on that account did obtain from her said Unkle as great and large Priviledges as could then be granted for this Lordship Which Priviledges and also the Limits and Bounds of the Estate of this Abby are particularly and at large set forth in the Monasticon Controversie arising between the Abbot of Ramsey and the Abbot of Saltre about their Rights in Withlesmare and Vlbemare the matter was determin'd by a final Concord before the Kings Justices at Huntedon Anno 3. Rich. the I. Valued at 141 l. 3 s. 8 d. per Annum KIRKSTALL in Yorkshire THIS Abby was first founded by Henry de Laceio in the year 1147. and first instituted with a Convent of Monks under their Abbot Alexander from the Abby of Fountains Their first Habitation was at a Town call'd Bernolswick but this place proving to these Monks very inconvenient on divers accounts after they had been here somewhat above six years they removed to a place called Kirkestall in a Vally called Aierdale which place was then only inhabited by some Hermits This last Seat they obtain'd of William Pictavensis who own'd the Soil at the yearly Rent of five Marks Their first Abbot Alexander govern'd the Monks here thirty five years and after his death was succeeded by Radulfus Hageth and after him Abbot Lambert to whom succeed Abbot Helias who at first was refused by the then Patron Roger de Lacy but became afterwards much in his favour King Iohn did some ill Offices to this Abby in taking from them some of their Lands Robert de Lacy who died Anno 1194. was accounted a second Founder of this Abby King William the Conqueror gave to Ilbertus de Lacy who came into England in his Army all Blackburnshire in the County of York with the Lordship and Honour of Pontfract and other Lands This Ilbertus
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.
Mary and St. Iohn the Apostle and confirm'd by Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury The several Donations made by the Founders and other Benefactors to this House were confirm'd by King Iohn in the sixth year of his Reign Among the Injunctions prescribed to the Nuns of this House An. 1489. These were some That the Cloister Doors be shut up in Winter at Seven and in Summer at Eight a Clock at night and the Keys delivered to the Prioress That the Prioress and all the Sisters lodge nightly in the Dorter unless sick or diseased That none of the Sisters use the Ale-house nor the Water-side where course of Strangers daily resort That none of the Sisters have their service of Meat and Drink to the Chamber but keep the Frater and the Hall unless sick That no Sister bring in any Man religious or secular into their Chamber or any secret place day or night c. That the Prioress License no Sister to go Pilgrimage or visit their Friends without great Cause and then to have a Companion That the Convent grant no Corodies or Liveries of Bread or Ale or other Victual to any Person without special License That they take no Perhendinauncers or Sojourners unless Children or old Persons c. Valued at 73 l. 9 s. 10 d. per Annum CODENHAM Priory in ... COdenham was given to God St. Mary and St. Iohn by Eustachius de Merch for Nuns of the Profession and Order of the Nuns of Apeltun BINEDON in Dorsetshire FOunded An. 1172. by Roger de Novo Burgo and Matilda his Wife endow'd with divers Lands by them and other Benefactors All which was confirm'd to the Church of St. Mary of Bynedone and the Monks there by King Henry the III. in the eighteenth year of his Reign Henry de Novo Burgo granted power to the Abbot and Monks to choose whom they pleased for their Patron who thereupon chose King Henry the III. and Alianor the Queen for their Patrons which King accordingly took to him the Patronage Advowson and Protection of this Abby in the fifty sixth year of his Reign Valued at 147 l. 7 s. 9 d. ob q. per Annum CROXDEN in Staffordshire BErtram de Verdun built an Abby for Monks at Chotes Anno Dom. 1176. Anno 1179. The Convent removed from thence to Crokesden Abbots of this House 1. Thomas ob 1229. 2. William de Choucomb 3. William de Esseburn ob 1237. 4. Iohn de Tilton 5. Walter de London ob 1268. 6. William de Howton ob 1278. 7. Henry de Moysam 8. Iohn de Billesdon ob 1293. 9. Richard de Twiford ob 1297. A vacancy of above seven Months 10. William de Evera Richard de Esseby restored 1320. 11. Richard de Esseby displaced 1313. 12. Thomas de Casterton 13. Richard de Schepesheved 1335. The Founder of this House Bertram de Verdun died in the Holy Land and was buried at Acon but most of his descendants were buried in the Church of this Abby Vid. Vol. 3. p. 40. Valued at 90 l. 5 s. 11 d. per Annum KELDEHOLM in Yorkshire THE Abby at Keldeholm was founded for Nuns by William de Stutevill and endow'd by the same William and several others of that Family Confirm'd by King Iohn in the second year of his Reign Valued at 29 l. 6 s. 1 d. per Annum PONT-ROBERT or Roberts-Bridge in Suffex FOunded for Monks by Robert de Sancto-Martino in the Reign of King Henry the II. Anno Dom. 1176. Their Estate was confirm'd by King Edw. the III. in the tenth year of his Reign Vid. Vol. 2. p. 920. Valued at 248 l. 10 s. 6 d. per Annum WICKHAM in Yorkshire THIS Nunnery was founded by Paganus de Wicham whose Son Theobald Alan Buscell de Hoton and the Prior of Bridlington were Benefactors King Iohn confirm'd their Estate in the 2 d. year of his Reign Valued at 25 l. 17 s. 6 d. per Annum ABERCONWAY in Carmarthenshire Founded An. 1185. THIS Abby of Monks was founded by Lewelin Son of Gervasius Prince of North Wales and by him endow'd not only with large Possessions in Lands but with great Immunities and Priviledges as to be quit from maintaining for their Founder any Men Horses Dogs or Hawks to have the Election of their Abbot free to themselves to have and enjoy Wreck of the Sea in all their Lands to be Tole free c. Whose Grant bears date An. 1198. King Edward the I. in the twelfth year of his Reign translated this Abby from Aberconway to a place called Maynan which he had built to the honour of God St. Mary and all Saints endowing it with Lands and Franchises Valued at 162 l. 15 s. per Annum NUN-COTUN in Lincolnshire INgeram de Muncels confirm'd the Gift of his Father Alan de Muncells of the Town of Cotun and other Lands to the Church of the blessed Mary of Cotun and the Nuns there Pope Alexander granted them divers Priviledges and Hugh Bishop of Lincoln settled the Constitutions of their House ordering among other things that the number of the Nuns should not exceed thirty that no Nun after Profession should have property in any thing that no Nun should be or speak with any Person whether secular or religious alone without witness c. Valued at 46 l. 17 s. 7 d. per Annum DUNKEWELL in Devonshire FOunded An. 1201. By William Briwer Their Lands were confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby by King Hen. III. in the 11th year of his Reign Valued at 294 l. 18 s. 6 d. per Annum BEAU-LEIU in Hampshire KING Iohn being offended with the Cistercian Order in England and the Abbots of that Order coming to him to reconcile themselves he caused them to be trod under his Horses Feet for which Action being terrified in a Dream he built and endowed the Abby of Beau-leiu in Newforest for thirty Monks of that Order An. 1204. Vid. Vol. 2. p. 921. Valued at 326 l. 13 s. 2 d. ob q. per Annum MENDHAM in Buckinghamshire THIS was a Cell to Woburne founded by Hugh de Bolebec and confirmed by King Iohn in the second year of his Reign The Convent of this Abby came hither from Woburne in the year 1204. Valued at 20 l. 6 s. 2 d. per Annum GRACE-DIEU in Wales THIS Abby was founded by Iohn of Monmouth An. 1229. or according to others 1233. King Edw. 3. in the thirty fifth year of his Reign granted to this Abby the Hermitage of St. Briavello in the Forest of Dene for the finding and maintaining of a Chantery of two of their Monks to celebrate there for the Souls of his Ancestors HAYLES in Gloucestershire ANon 1246. Richard Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans founded this Abby of Hayles for twenty Monks who came from Beau-lieu An. 1251. the Abby-Church was dedicated the King and Queen and thirteen Bishops being present at the Solemnity Valued at 357 l. 7 s. 8 d. ob per Annum NEWENHAM in Devonshire FOunded An. 1241. by
Reginald de Moun in his Mannor of Axeminster with which and other Lands it was endowed Confirmed by King Edw. 3. This Reginald de Mohun was the Son of Reginald Lord of Dunsterre and Alice Daughter of William Bruer by whom he inherited the Mannor of Axeminster See in the Book at large the Progeny of the noble Family of Mohuns Abbots of this House Iohn Godard Henry Sper sholt Iohn de Ponte-Roberto Ieffrey de Blanchvil Hugh de Cokeswell Iohn de Northampton William de Cornubia Richard de Chichestre Richard de Piderton William le Fria Ralph de Shapewike Robert de Puplysuirie Iohn de Cokyswill Iohn de Geytingtone ob 1338. Walter de Hous Valued at 227 l. 7 s. 8 d. per Annum GRACE-DIEU in Leicestershire FOunded by Roesia de Verdun for Nuns Endow'd by her with her Mannor of Beleton c. LETLEY in Hampshire KING Henry the III. was-the Founder of this Abby of Letley otherwise call'd Locum Sancti Edwardi and endow'd it with Lands in the thirty fifth year of his Reign Valued at 100 l. 12 s. 8 d per Annum REWLEY in the Suburbs of Oxford THIS was founded in the year 1281. for Cistercian Monks by Richard Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans who endow'd this Abby with divers Lands They were found by Inquisition to be exempt from suit to the County and Hundred Courts Valued at 174 l. 3 s. ob per Annum DERNHALL in Cheshire KING Edward the I. founded and endow'd this Abby in performance of a Vow made in a great danger at Sea his Deed of endowment bears date before he came to the Crown in the four and fiftieth year of his Father's Reign King Henry the III. granted his Letter of Request to all Religious Houses in England for the furnishing this House with Books After King Edward came to the Crown in the seven and twentieth year of his Reign he translated these Monks to Vale-Royal and granted them many great Immunities and Franchises Vid. 2. Vol. p. 921. The Abby of Vale-Royal was valued at 118 l. 7 s. 6 d. ob per Annum BOCLAND in Devonshire FOunded by Amicia Countess of Devon for Cistercian Monks endowed by her and her Daughter Isabella de Fortibus Countess of Albemarl and Devon with many Lands and Liberties Confirm'd by King Edward the II. Anno 4. Valued at 241 l. 17 s. 9 d. ob per Annum HILTON in Staffordshire ANno 1223. Henry de Audiddeley founded and endow'd this Abby with many Lands and Liberties to hold in pure and perpetual Almes King Richard the II. in the 19th year of his Reign at the request of Elizabeth relict of Sir Nicholas de Audley Licensed the Abbot and Convent of Blanchland in Normandy to transfer to this House the Priory and Mannor of Cameryngham which was thence forward united to this Abby Valued at 75 l. 14 s. per Annum The Abby of Grace near the Tower at London KING Edward the III. founded this House in the Church-yard of the Holy Trinity near the Tower at London and endow'd it with all the Messuages and Gardens lying on and about the Tower Hill Anno Reg. 24. 1350. Afterwards in the fiftieth year of his Reign he gave the Mannor of Gravesend and other Mannors in Kent to be settled upon this House All which was after done and confirm'd by King Richard the II. Anno Regn. 22. Valued at 546 l. 10 s. per Annum A CARTHVSIAN MONK Vol 1 P. 949 Of the Carthusians This Order was first founded Anno Dom. 1080. By a certain learned man named Bruno who professing Philosophy at Paris and hearing the dead Body of his Friend who had the Esteem of a very good Man when living cry out as they were about to bury him Iusto dei judicio damnatus sum he and six Companions forsook the World and betook themselves to a most austere Life in a Desert and Melancholy Place call'd Cartusia in the Diocess of Grenoble in France Their inward Habit is of Hair-Cloath they never eat flesh on Fridays fast with Bread and Water never stir out of their Monasteries except the Prior and Procurator observe almost continual silence and suffer no Women to enter into any part of their Houses no not their Churches See more of their Rules in the Monasticon at large WITHAM in Somersetshire KING Henry the II. founded this Monastery in the honour of the blessed Mary St. Iohn Baptist and all Saints for the Order of Carthusians and endow'd it with divers Lands and Franchises Imprecating on the Violator of that his pious Donation the wrath of Almighty God and his own Curse unless the Party make Condign Satisfaction but to all such as augment his Gift or favour the Peace of the House he wisht the Peace and Reward of the Eternal Father for ever HENTON in Wiltshire ELa Countess of Saliâ—bury Widow of William Longespee Earl of Salisbury founded this Monastery in her Park of Henton for Carthusians to the honour of God the blessed Mary St. Iohn Baptist and all Saints and endow'd it with Lands and Liberties King Henry the III. in the four and twentieth year of his Reign granted and confirm'd to this House the same Liberties and free Customs which his Grandfather King Henry the II. had formerly granted to the Carthusians of Witham with other Exemptions The Carthusians in the Suburbs of London KING Edward the III. in the forty fifth year of his Reign granted his License to Sir Walter Lord of Manny to found this Monastery for Carthusian Monks in a certain place without the Bars of West-Smithlsied called Newe-cherche-hawe which House was to be called la Salutation mere dieu and to endow the same with twenty Acres of Land there adjoyning Pope Vrban reciting that in the time of a great Pestilence Sir Walter Manny purchased this ground for a Church-yard to bury poor People in and there intended to erect a Chappel and a Colledge of twelve Chaplains by the License of Pope Clement the VI. but afterwards the said Sir Walter changing his intention and erected here a Convent of Carthusians the said Pope Vrban granted his Bull of License for uniting to the said House of Carthusians Ecclesiastical Benefices to the value of 200 l. per Annum BEAUVAL or Bella-valle in Nottinghamshire IN the year 1343. Nicholas de Cantilupo Lord of Ilkeston by License of King Edward the III. founded this House in his Park of Gryseleve in the County of Nottingham for a Prior and twelve Carthusian Monks to the glory of God the blessed Virgin Mary and all Saints and endow'd it with Lands and Rents in Greseleye and Seleston This Nicholas de Cantilupo was lineally descended from Robert de Muskam Seneschal or Steward to Gilbert de Gaunt that famous Souldier in the Army of William the Conqueror from which Gilbert the said Robert de Muskâ—m enjoy'd the Lordship of Ilkeston conferr'd upon him in the Reign of King Henry the I. Elizabeth Widow of Brian Stapleton Knt. and William
Religious House here for a Cell to God and the holy Martyrs St. Sergius and St. Bachus and to the Abbot of that Monastery at Angiers in France That they should pray for the good Estate of King William the Conqueror while living and after his death for his Soul and for him the said Iuhellus and all his Relations BARNSTAPLE Priory of St. Mary Magdalen in the Diocess of Exeter THIS was founded for a Prior and six Monks given by the said Iuhellus and confirm'd by King William the Conqueror to the Cluniac Monks of the Abby of St. Martin de Campis at Paris The Church of St. Peter at Barnstaple was apppropriated to this Priory by William Bishop of Exeter by Deed dated An. 1233. The same William Bishop of Exeter did also by his Deed recite and confirm the Lands and Priviledges given to this Priory by Ioel Son of Alured before named The Priory of St. James without the Walls at Exeter for a Prior and four Monks Supra 643. THIS Priory with divers Lands and Priviledges were given by Baldewin de Riveriis Earl of Exeter to the foresaid Cluniac Monks of St. Martins Abby at Paris The Priory of St. Clare in Wales FOR a Prior and three Monks This was given with nine Houses at Lundon by William Giffard Bishop of Winchster to the foresaid Cluniaâ— Monks of St. Martins Abby at Paris Confirm'd by King Hen. the I. SWINE Abby in Yorkshire Supra p. 834. MAtilda Prioress of Swine and the Convent of Nuns there did covenant with Sir Alexander Hilton Knight who had given them nine Bovates of Land in Swine that in case the said Sir Alexander should die in the year 1241. or in the second year after that then three Bovates of the nine should return back to the Heirs of the said Sir Alexander in case he die in the third year then six of the said Bovates should return to the Heirs of the said Knight but in case the said Sir Alexander should keep the said Nuns indempnified for the said three years then the Nuns to give back the said Land with the Deed of Feoffment after the expiration of the term of six years c. BYLAND in Yorkshire Sup. 775. THE History of the Foundation of this Abby was writ at large by Phillip the third Abbot of this House and is in short as follows In the Reign of King Henry the I. Anno Dom. 1134. After the Foundation of the Abby of Furnes whose Monks came from Savigny in France an Abbot and Convent of twelve Monks went from the Abby of Furnes to Cald in Copland then newly erected the Abbots name was Geraldus here they remained for about four years till in the year 1137. being plunder'd and their House almost wholly destroy'd they were forced to return back to Furnes but being refused entrance there and distrest for want of a Habitation they were partly through the recommendation of Thurstan Archbishop of York and partly out of pitty to their Condition relieved by Gundrea relict of Nigellus de Albeney and Roger de Molbray her Son which Roger settled them for a time at a place call'd Hâ—de a Hermitage belonging to one Robert de Alneto a Hermit who upon their arrival resign'd the place to them and became a Monk among them this was in the year 113â— The said Roger gave these Monks for their maintenance the Tithe of all the Provision spent in his House for the collecting of which they had a Lay-brother Conversus always remaining in his House who collected the said Tithe and sent it to the Monastery but this being found in time inconvenient was not long after chang'd into an Endowment of Land An. 1140. After this Abbot Geraldus seeing the Estate of his Monastery encrease and fearing that the Abbot of Furnes would claim it by reason that he and his Convent came from thence at first and had therefore a kind of filial Relation tho' they were since refused assistance from thence when in distress hereupon he made a Journey to Savigny the Mother House of Furnes and obtain'd from the Abbot there in a general Chapter of the whole Order An. 1142. to be discharged of all subjection to Furnes and to be immediately subject to Savigny This Abbot Geraldus dying in his return home Roger then Master of the Novices was unanimously chosen Abbot and so confirm'd by the Archbishop of York at the Presentation of Roger Molbray their Patron After this the Abbot of Furnes placed another Abbot and Convent at Cald. An. 1143. Roger de Molbray gave to these Monks the Town and Church of Bellalanda or Biland with the Appurtenants whether they afterward removed their Habitation When Abbot Roger perceived the Inhabitants of Scalton a Vill belonging to Biland to suffer divers Inconveniencies in coming to the Mother 〈…〉 THE Allen Priories supprest in the second year of Henry the V. An. Dom. 1414. were in number one hundred and forty two whose names see in the Book at large The Religious Houses supprest by Pope 〈◊〉 the VII and granted to Cardinal Wolsey by King Henry the VIII in the seventeenth year of his Reign for the building of two Colledges at Oxford and Ipswich were in number one and twenty and afterwards six more by another Bull of the same Pope which were granted also to the said Cardinal for the same purpose by King Henry the VIII in the twentieth year of his Reign An exact Catalogue of the Religious Houses was made in the twenty sixth year of King Henry the VIII with the Annual Values of almost all of them as well in Wales as England Which Catalogue was 〈◊〉 incerted into the Books of First Fruits and Tenths Out of which Catalogue I have set down the Valuation of the Annual Rents of each House under the proper Head in the foregoing 〈◊〉 except some few not then valued Having said something in the beginning of the Institution of the Monastical Life I shall here add what Opinion Men had of the Subversion of Monasteries even among Protestants The Augustine Confession says That Monasteries were heretofore Schools of sacred Learning advantagious to the Church and that Pastors and Bishops came from thence Calvin in his Institutions says Monastick Colledges were then as Seminaries of the Ecclesiastick Order and gives a very great Encomium of their manner of Life and Piety Charity to the Poor and Humanity out of St. Augustines Epistles Hyperius says That Monasteries at their Institution were no other than Convents of Good men and Students Schools where the Elder did teach the younger Religion where they did spend their time in writing and disputing and instituting those who afterwards arrived to eminent places in the Church as to be Bishops or Priests c. William Perkins says That the Monasteries of the Ancients were for the most part Publick Schools that is Communities of Teachers and Learners The Preamble of the Stat. 27 H. 8. c. 28. omitted in the printed Act for the Suppression of certain
Annum WIRKSOP in Nottinghamshire FOunded and endowed by William de Lovetot 3 Hen. 1. and dedicated to God and St. Cuthbert Which Estate was confirm'd and encreased by his Heirs Pope Alexander the III. by his Bull dated An. Dom. 1161. confirm'd the Estate of the Canons here and granted them divers Priviledges as to pay no Tithes for the Cattle and Lands in their own occupation to present Priests from among their own Brethren to the Bishop to be instituted to the Parish Churches which they hold who shall be answerable to the Bishop for the Cure of the People and to the Priory for the Profit of the Livings to have a Caemitary free for the burial of such as desire to be buried with them saving the Rights and Dues of the Parish Churches from whence the dead are brought and to celebrate the Divine Offices privately in the time of a general Interdict Their Lands and Liberties were also confirm'd by King Hen. II. Vid. infra 937. Valued at 239 l. 10 s. 5 d. per Annum FELLEY in Nottinghamshire THIS was a Cell belonging to Wyrksop alias Radeford given to that House by Radulphus de Annesley and Reinold his Son An Dom. 1152. 2. H. 2. In the year 1343. William Archbishop of York appropriated the Church of Adingburgh to this Priory of Felley for the encrease of four Canons more there being but five before so that for the future there should be nine of which one to be Prior reserving out of the Fruits and Profits of the said Church a sufficient subsistance for a perpetual Vicar which Vicar was to be presented by the Prior and Canons of this Monastery Valued at 40 l. 19 s. 1 d. per Annum LANTHONY in Wales after Translated to Gloucester HERE was of old time a small Chappel of St. David in a very solitary place where a Knight called William belonging to the Family of Hugh de Lacy forsaking the World led an Heremitical Life whose eminent Fame for Holiness drew to him one Ernisius Chaplain to Queen Maud Wife of King Henry the I. who became his associate in his Devotions and Austerity this was An. Dom. 1103. under the Reign of King Henry the I. In the year 1108. they erected here a mean Church which was dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist by the Bishop of that Diocess and the Bishop of Hereford Of these two Heremits Hugh de Lacy became a Protector and Benefactor After some time these two through the Advice and Approbation of Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury were willing to encrease their number and to alter their poor House from a Heremits Cell to be a Monastery and they chose from all the Religious Orders then in being that of the Canons Regular A certain number of Canons were thereupon assembled from the Monasteries of Mereton the holy Trinity at London and Colchester and establisht here at Lanthony over whom the foresaid Ernisius was made Prior the number of Canons being about that time forty or more And many their Benefactors besides Hugh de Lacy who conferr'd on them more Revenues than they were willing to receive Walter the Constable being the chief Officer in the King's Court and one of the Greatest Men of the Kingdom took on him a Religious Habit and spent the remainder of his days in this House On the death of Ernisius Robert de Retun was chosen Prior but he being afterwards made Bishop of Hereford Robert de Braci was chosen to succeed him After the death of Henry the I. the Canons of this House were much afflicted and disturb'd in their Possessions here whereupon Milo Earl of Hereford the Kings Constable and Son of that Walter who became a Religious man among the Canons gave them a piece of Ground without the Walls of Gloucester for a new Seat here they built a new Church which in the year 1136. was solemnly dedicated by the Bishops of Worcester and Hereford in honour of the blessed Mary yet still this House retain'd the name of Lanthony After this Robert de Braci died and was buried in the new Monastery at Gloucester to whom succeeded William de Wycumb And now it was that by Papal Authority the Church of St. Mary at Gloucester was confirm'd as a Cell to that of St. Iohn Baptist at Lanthony However the Canons being better pleased with their new Habitation which was much braver and richer than their old Seat in Wales chose to inhabit at Gloucester removing and spoiling what they had at Lanthony They became also very licentious in their way of living During this William their Prior falling into Troubles and Vexation as well with the Canons of his own House as Roger Earl of Hereford the Patron was forced to resign his Office to whom succeeded Clement the Sub-prior This man reform'd the Abuses that were in the Monastery especially as to the Church Service From the aforenamed Milo Earl of Hereford descended by an Heir General the Noble Family of Bohuns Earl of Northampton Hereford and Essex who by reason thereof were Patrons of this Monastery The first Founder Hugh de Lacy came into England with the Conqueror but died without issue and his Inheritance went to his two Sisters from whom are descended divers Noble Families of which Descents see the Book at large King Iohn in the first year of his Reign recited and confirm'd to the Canons of Lanthony the several Lands and Revenues given them by their Benefactors The like did King Edward the II. in his eighteenth year King Edward the IV. in the one and twentieth year of his Reign gave the Priory of Lanthony and all the Lands c. belonging to the same to Henry Deen then Prior of the Priory of the blessed Mary of Lanthony at Gloucester and to the Canons there to be consolidated and united thereunto for ever providing that the Prior and Canons at Gloucester shall for the future maintain at Lanthony one Prior dative and removeable at will with four Canons to celebrate Masses and other Divine Offices there for ever if not hindred by Rebels and Wars Valued at 648 l. 19 s. 11 d. per Annum CARLILE in Cumberland KING Henry the I. gave the Churches of New-Castle upon Tyne and Newbourne to the Canons of St. Mary of Carlile Besides that King the King of Scotland and many others were Benefactors all whose Gifts were confirm'd by King Henry the II. And others given by King Edward the I. and II. Valued at 418 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum DUNMOW in Essex THE Church here was built in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary by Iuga Baynard Lady of little Dunmow whose Son and Heir Golfridus Baynard by the assent of Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury placed Canons herein An. Dom. 1106. The Estate here and that at Castle Baynard in London being forfeited by William Baynard An. 1111. was given by King Henry to Robert Grandson of Gilbert Earl of Clare whose issue became Patrons of this House till in the year 1216. Robert Fitz-Walter
this place The said Wulfric died An. 1154. KENILWORTH in Warwickshire GAlfridus de Clinton Chamberlain to King Henry the I. sounded this Church for Canons Regular in honour of St. Mary to whom he gave all his Lands at Kenilworth except what he had retain'd to his Castle and for making a Park with many other Lands and Liberties all which he enjoyn'd his Heir to observe and not to violate on pain of his Curse and God's Wrath. Gaufridus his Son confirm'd his Father's Gifts and granted them Tithes of all manner of Provisions whatsoever that came to his Castle of Killingworth Henry his Son made the like Confirmation and granted still moreâ— King Henry the I. recited and confirm'd all former Benefactions and granted the Canons here great Liberties and Immunities The like Confirmation was made by King Henry the II. Valued at 538 l. 19 s. per Annum STONE in Staffordshire WVlfer King of Mercia was Son and Successor to Penda a Pagan and Persecutor he after his Father's death became a Christian and married Ermenilda a Christian Lady Daughter of Exbert King of Kent by whom the had two Sons Wulfad and Ruffin and a Daughter named Werburg which two Sons being baptized by St. Cedda then a Hermit and by him privately instructed and incouraged in Christianity This did so offend their Father Wulfer who had apostatized from the Faith of Christ that finding them at Prayers at St. Cedd's Cell he killed them both with his own hands their Martyrdom happened on the 9th Calend. August This sad News being known to the Queen she caused their Bodies to be inclosed in a Stone Monument and in process of time a Church to be erected in the place where they were martyr'd Wulfer the King being horribly tormented in mind could find no ease till he repair'd to St. Cedd who upon his repentance and contrition absolved him and enjoyn'd him for Pennance to suppress Idolatry throughout his Kingdom of Mercia and establish the Christian Religion This King hereupon built many Churches and Monasteries among others Peterborough Abby and in the place where the Martyrs suffered was erected a Colledge for Canons then called Stanes now Stone In after-times one of this House went to Rome as a Procurator from the rest and obtain'd from the Pope a Canonization for St. Wulfad and St. Ruffin In the time of the Normans Conquest one Robert Lord of Stafford from whom the Barons of Stafford did descend was chief Lord of this Place here did Inhabit at that time two Nuns and a Priest who were all slain by one Enysan de Walton after which Murther the abovesaid Robert by advice of Geffry de Clinton did Establish here Canons instead of Nuns Nicholas de Stafford Son of Robert gave this House as a Cell to Kenilworth King Henry the II. confirmed all the Benefactions The Church here was dedicated to St. Wulfad Valued at 119 l. 14 s. 11 d. per Annum BROKE in Rutland a Cell to Kenilworth HVgh de Ferrariis granted to the Canons of Kenilworth the Land of Broch with the Wood-ground and Essarts and this was by the assent of Walchelin his Nephew and William his Brother all which was confirm'd to the said Canons by King Henry the II. Valued at 40 l. per Annum LANERCOST in Cumberland THIS House dedicated to God and St. Mary Magdalen was founded and endowed with large Revenues by Robert de Vallibus Son of Hubert de Vallibus he granted to the Canons here inter alia Pasture and feeding in his Forest of Walton for thirty Cows and twenty Sows with all the Bark of his Timber-Trees in the Woods of his Barony with all all the dry Wood lying any where in his Forest for the support of their House The Church here was dedicated by Bernard Bishop of Carlile An. 1169. King Richard the I. confirm'd the several Lands c. given to the Canons of this Monastery The abovesaid Herbert de Vallibus was the first Baron of Gillesland which Barony went by a Daughter to the Name and Family of Multon and in like manner from them to the Family of Dacres Valued at 77 l. 7 s. 11 d. per Annum DUNSTABLE in Bedfordshire HEre was formerly a very Woody place just in the meeting of those two Royal Ways of Watling and Ickneld which made the Passage so unsafe and full of Thieves that there was hardly any Travelling King Henry the I. desirous to rectifie this caused the Woods to be cut up and a Royal Mansion to be built near the place which was called Kingsbury He also caused Proclamation all over the Kingdom that who ever would come and inhabit in that place should have Land for 12 d. an Acre per Annum and enjoy the same Liberties and Freedoms as the City of London doth or any other ancient Borough in the Kingdom by this means People flock'd hither and built the Town which from Dunning a noted Robber who used to rob here was named Dunningstable Besides the Liberties abovementioned this Town had two Markets weekly and a Fair at St. Peter ad Vincula for three days and a Gallows for Felons Within the Limits of this Borough that King erected a Church in honour of St. Peter and built a Monastery for Canons Regular to whom he gave the said Church and all the Borough with its Markets Fairs and Liberties retaining only in his own hands the Capital Mansion All which with the Grants of other Matters were afterwards confirm'd to them by King Hen. the II. and King Rich. the I. King Iohn did the like and granted them also his House of Kingsbury the said Canons had also a Court of Pleas there of their own Some of the Tenants held in Capite of the Abbot and some by Services to be done to the said Canons but all were Freemen Valued at 344 l. 13 s. 4 d. per Annum SUTHWIKE in Hantshire THIS Monastery was founded and endowed with divers Lands by King Henry the I. who granted them all sorts of Liberties and Freedom from Tributes Taxes and Exactions and that they should not be impleaded for any matter or thing unless in the presence of him or his Heirs Valued at 257 l. 4 s. 4 d. per Annum MERTON in Surrey FOunded by King Henry the I. An. 1121. and by him endowed with the Town of Merton belonging to his Crown and large Liberties Valued at 957 l. 19 s. 5 d. per Annum OSENEY near Oxford RObert de Oilley whose Uncle of the same name came into England with the Conquerour and obtained from him the Baronies of Oxford and St. Waleries founded this Priory for black Canons among the Isles made by the River Isis near Oxford It is said that his Wife Edith took occasion to incite her Husband to this Foundation from the constant assembling and chattering of certain Magpies in that place whenever she walkt our thither for her recreation The Church here dedicated to St. Mary was built An. 1129. Which said Robert endowed the Canons
this Priory first at Runcorn Anâ— 1133. which was afterwards removed to Norton From him 〈◊〉 Roger Constable of Chester abovementioned to whom Ranulf Earl oâ— Chester for a particular Service done him in Wales gave the Dominion of Shoo-makers and Stage-players to hold to him and his Heirs for ever This Roger died A. 1211. and lies buried in the Monastery of Stanlowe Of this Line descended the Lacies Earls of Lincoln and the Earls of Lancaster Leicester and Derby Valued at 180 l. 7 s. 6 d. ob per Annum NEWBURGH in Yorkshire FOunded by Roger de Molbray and endowed with divers Lands and Churches who also confirm'd what the Freemen of his Fee had given or should give to the Canons here In the time of King William the Conqueror Robert de Mowbray was Earl of Northumberland who taking part with other Great men who rise against King William Rufus for having banish'd Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury and destroy'd eighty Religious Houses to enlarge his Forrest was taken by the King beheaded and his Estate seized and afterwards given by King Henry the I. to Negellus de Albeney whose Mother was a Mowbray after which time the Albanies took on them the name of Molbray Son of that Nigellus was the first abovemention'd Roger de Molbray who founded this Priory An. 1145. he founded also the Abby of Bellaland and many other Religious Houses to the number of thirty five From whom descended Themas Mowbray who in the Reign of King Rich. II. was made Duke of Norfolk Earl of Nottingham Lord Marshal of England c. From whom descended two Co-heirs the eldest of which Ann was married to the Lord Thomas Howard who in the second year of King Edward the IV. was created Duke of Norfolk Valued at 367 l. 8 s. 3 d. per Annum HODE in Yorkshire a Cell to Newburgh HOde was at first demised to the Canons of Billalanda by Robert de Alneto on condition that they should here found an Abby of their Canons This was confirm'd by Roger de Mowbray Adam Fossard gave Hode to the Canons of Newburgh with Lands lying about the same which Canons did acknowledge the said Adam to be the Patron Advocatus of the said place and of all belonging thereunto EGLESTON in the Bishoprick of Durham PHilip Bishop of Durham confirm'd to God St. Mary and St. Iohn Baptist and to the Canons of Egleston divers Lands which Gilbert de Ley held of him by the service of one Knights Fee and had given them An. 1273. the Abbot and Canons of this House covenanted with Iohn Duke of Britany and Earl of Richmond to find six Chaplains Canons of this House to say six Masses daily in the Castle of Richmond for ever the said Canons to be constantly resident in the said Castle in consideration whereof the said Earl of Richmond granted to the Abbot and Convent of Egleston divers Lands and Possessions and a place apart in his said Castle for the Habitation of the said six Chaplains c. DORCHESTER in Oxfordshire BEfore the Norman Conquest here was a Bishops Seat Remigius translated it to Lincoln Alexander Bishop of Lincoln erected here an Abby of black Canons the Body of which Church served for the Parish Church After the Suppression the East-part of the Abby-Church was bought by a rich man of this Town for 140 l. and given to augment the Parish Church Valued at 219 l. 12 s. per Annum THORNTON upon Humber in Lincolnshire FOunded by William Grose Earl of Albemarl Anno Dom. 1139. Canons Regular were introduced here from Kyrkham under the Government of one Richard their Prior who was afterwards made Abbot in the year 1148. by Pope Eugenius the III. Earl William the Founder died An. 1180. having endow'd this Abby with many Lands and Revenues King Richard the I. confirm'd all the Possessions given to the Abby of St. Mary of Thornton and the Canons there with the Grant of large Liberties and Immunities Pope Celestine the III. granted them the Priviledge not to pay any Tithes of Cattle c. for their own use Abbots of this House were 1. Richard 2. Philip 1152. 3. Thomas 1175. 4. Iohn Benton 1184. 5. Iordan de Villa 1203. 6. Richard de Villa 1223. 7. Ieffrey Holme 1233. 8. Robert 1245. 9. William Lyncoln 1257. 10. Walter Hotoâ—t 1273. 11. Thomas de Ponte 1290. The Advowson of this Abby together with all the Lands and Possessions of the Earl of Albemarl did escheat to King Edward the I. Which being thus in the Crown King Edward the III. in the sixth year of his Reign granted by advice of the Prelates and Barons in Parliament that the said Advowson should remain ever annext to the Crown and that the said Abbot should not be oblig'd to attorn to any in case any grant of the said Advowson should be made Valued at 594 l. 17 s. 10 d. per Annum BRUMMORE in Wiltshire BAldwin de Riveris and Hugh his Unkle were the Founders of this Monastery for Canons Regular King Henry the II. confirm'd the Lands given them and granted them feeding for one hundred Cattle and one hundred Hogs in Newforest and dead Wood for their fuel as much as necessary HAREWOLD in Bedfordshire THIS was a Priory of Nuns of St. Augustin founded by Sampson de Forte Malcolm King of Scotland as Earl of Huntington confirm'd certain Lands to this Church of St. Peter of Harewold and to the Prior and Canons and Sisters there serving God The like did King William of Scotland King Henry the IV. of England gave to the Prioress and Nuns of Harewold one Messuage in Chakirstone of the yearly value of 2 s. with the Advowson of that Church BRINKEBURNE in Northumberland FOUNDED by William Bertram Hawys his Wife and Roger his Son for Canons Their Possessions were confirm'd by William Earl or Northumberland Henry Earl of Northumberland Son to the King of Scotland and by King Henry III. Valued at 68 l. 19 s. 1 d. LEYE in the I le of Gersey Diocesse of Exon. THIS was at first a Priory of Canons but afterwards in the Reign of King Edward I. it was changed to a Nunnery of Canonesses it was dedicated to St. Mary and St. Iohn Evangelist BRIWETON in Somersetshire WIlliam de Moyne Earl of Somerset gave divers Lands c. to the Canons Regular of this House which was before the Conquest an Abby of Monks founded by Algarus Earl of Cornwal but the said Moyne or Mohun placed Canons here since the Conquest Sauvaricus Bishop of Bath and Glaustonbury confirm'd to God and the Blessed Mary of Briweton and the Canons Regular there the Lands c. given by their Benefactors Valued at 439 l. 6 s. 8 d. BRADENSTOKE in Wiltshire FOunded and endowed by Patricius Earl of Salisbury and Walter his Father William Bishop of Sarum appropriated divers Churches to the proper use of these Canons salvis Vicariis ordinandis taxandis King Henry III. confirm'd all their Possessions Valued at 212 l. 19 s. 3
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
and that a Light should burn night and day in the Church After that the said Alice confirm'd with Warranty all the Lands and Possessions given to this House to the Canons for the same She at last convey'd the Advowson and Patronage of this Priory of King Hen. the III. who made it an Abby and confirm'd all their Possessions An. Reg. 15. ACORNBURY in Herefordshire THE Lady Margery de Lacy founded this Priory for Nuns and endow'd it with the Forrest of Acornbury as was found by Inquisition An. 49. H. 3. which King in the fiftieth year of his Reign confirm'd their Estate Catherine de Lacy Daughter of the Foundress gave certain Lands to these Nuns for the finding of a Chaplain to celebrate daily in their Church for the Souls of her Ancestors and in case the said service should not be duly performed then the Bishop of Hereford to compel the Prioress and Nuns to the performance Margaret Widow of Walter de Clifford gave her Heart to these Nuns to be buried in their Church and with her Heart fifteen Marks sterling in Alms this was by Deed dated 1260. Iohn de Breuse gave to the Nuns of Cornebery the Rents of ten Burgagia Borough houses in Tettebiri which Gift was confirm'd by William his Son 18 E. 1. Valued at 67 l. 13 s. 2 d. ob per Annum BILSINGTON in Kent FOunded An. 1258. by Iohn Mansel Provost of Beverley who endow'd it with certain Lands'n Bilsington and granted that upon the death or the Prior the Superior and Convent should have the Custody of their own House and all their Possessions and might proceed to the Election of a new Prior without License first obtain'd from any one Some of the Lands of this Priory being overflow'd by the Sea King Edw. the III. granted the Canons License to drain and include the same with Walls according to the Law of the Marish This was after a writ of ad quod dampnum first sued out and return'd Valued at 81 l. 1 s. 6 d. per Annum BRADLEY in Leicesterstire FOunded by Robert Bundy it had but two Canons Of later time the Lord Scrope had the Patronage Valued at 20 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum MICHELHAM in Sussex FOunded by Gilbert de Aquila in honour of the Holy Trinity for Canons and endowed with divers Lands free Pastures and Priviledges in his Wood Grounds in Suffex All which with other Lands given by many other Benefactors were recited and confirm'd by King Edward the II. An. Reg. 14. Valued at 160 l. 12 s. 6 d. per Annum RATLINGCOPE in Shropshire LEwelin Prince of North-Wales granted his Letters of Protection to the Canons of this House to exempt them and theirs from all Rapine and Depredation or any other molestation by the bordering Welch and this was on the account of one Walter Corbet a Canon of this House his Kinsman RAVENSTON in Lincolnshire PEter Chaceport Keeper of the Kings Wardrobe having bought certain Lands here with the Advowson of the Church Hugh his Son and Heir surrender'd them into the hands of King Henry the III. who with them founded and endow'd a Priory of Canons granting them to have the custody of their own House in time of vacation and not to be charg'd with any Sustentation or Pension to any Clerk Servant c. or keeping any of the Kings Horses GLANNAUCH in Wales FOunded and endow'd by Lewellin Prince of North-Wales An. 1221. After him several other Welch Princes confirm'd the Estate and Possessions of the Canons of the Isle of Glannauch So also did King Edw. the I. An. Reg. 23. CHETWODE in Buckinghamshire FOunded by Robert Grosteste Bishop of Lincoln Here was formerly a Hermitage and Chappel of the holy Martyrs St. Steven and St. Laurence founded by Sir Robert de Chetwode Knt. It was vulgarly called a Hermitage not that it was the Habitation of a Hermit but because it was situated in a solitary Place This Priory was given with all its Possessions to the Abby of Notteley 1 E. 4. LACOCK in Wiltshire FOunded by Ela Widow of William Longaspata for Nuns among whom she her self took the Habit An. 1236. and after became Abbess of this House This William Longespee was Son of King Henry the II. and Earl of Rosmar and Salisbury in Right of Ela his Wife descended from Walter de Ewrons to whom King William gave the said Earldom of Salisbury The said Countess Ela founded two Monasteries in one day viz. 16 Cal. Maii Anno. Dom. 1232 Namely Henton for Carthusians and this of Lacock for Canonesses The said Ela became Abbess here An. 1240. resign'd An. 1257. died 1261. aged 74. Valued at 168 l. 9 s. 2 d. per Annum SELEBURNE in Hantshire FOunded by Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester and by him endow'd with divers Lands and Churches saving to the Vicars of the said Churches a Sufficient sustentation the Presentation to the said Vicarages to belong to the Prior and Canons KIRKBY Beler in Leicestershire ANno 13 Edward I. Roger Beler of Kirkeby founded a House of one Custos and 12 Chaplains to Celebrate in the Chappel of St. Peter at Kirkby and gave them the Advowson of the said Church and the Mannour of Buckminster Vid inf 246. Valued at 142 l. 10 s. 3 d. per Annum ASHERUGGE in Buckinghamshire EDmund Son of Richard King of the Romans and Earl of Cornwal founded here a House for a Rector of Good men Brothers of the Church in honour of the precious bloud of Jâ—sus Christ here were to be 20 Brethren of which 13 at least to be Priests For the maintenance of these he gave divers Lands Possessions Liberties and Priviledges among other things to be free and quit of all Tolls c. and to be quit of Scutage as oft as it should happen also to have the Custody of their own House on the death of their Rector and Liberty to chose another without presenting him to the Patron Vid. infra Valued at 416 l. 16 s. 4 d. per Annum KIRKBY Belar AN. 1326. Roger Beler was slain in Leicester After whose death his Widow with the assent of his Son and heir translated the Chantry of secular Priests by him founded at Kirkly to the use of Canons Regular of whom the first Prior came from the Abby of Olustone Ouston The issue of Roger Belar the first Founder failing the Bishop of Lincoln became Patron More of ASHRU'G THe Lord Edmund Earl of Cornwal who founded this House of Religious Men call'd Bonos homines or Bonhomes was buryed in the Church here wherein was carefully preserved a small parcel of our Lords Bloud with the heart of Thomas de Cantilupo Bishop of Hereford the holy Confessor and other Reliques RIGATE in Surrey SEems to be founded by some of the Warens Earls of Surrey Iohn de Waren Earl of Surrey released to the Canons of this House a Rent of 19 s. 4 d. one plow-share four horse-shooes and nails which the said Canons used to
it the Hospital of St. Giles It was endowed with several Revenues by the said Queen and others all which were confirmed by her Grandson King Henry the II. Vid. in s p. 400. St. MARY of Bethelem without Bishopsgate in the Suburbs of London SImon Fitz Mary Cittizen of London having an extraordinary affection to the memory of the Incarnation and Nativity of our Saviour which was wrought in Betholem gave all his Lands in the Parish of St. Butolph without Bishopsgate to a Church of St. Mary of Bethelem by him there erected and for the instituting of a Priory of a Prior Canons Brethren and Sisters to live according to the Rule and Order of the Church of St. Mary at Bethelem all which were to wear the Sign of a Star on their outward Garment this Priory was also for the reception of the Bishop of Bethelem or any of the Canons or others belonging to that Church when they should come into England to which Bishop as a sign of Subjection this Priory was to pay a Mark yearly at the Feast of Easter in nature of a Rent The Deed of Foundation and Endowment of this House by the said Simon Fitz Mary bears date An. 1247. St. MARY's Hospital without Bishopsgate at London FOunded by Walter Brun Citizen of London and Roisia his Wife on a a parcel of Land given for that purpose by Walter Fitz Aldred Alderman and endowed with divers parcells of Land and Rents of Tenements in several Parishes in and about London A Composition was made between Iohn Witing Rector of the Church of St. Butolph without Bishopsgate and Godefrey then Prior and the Canons and Brethren of this Hospital about Parochial Rights containing that the said Prior should pay to the said Rector in lieu of Tithes and Offerings for the territory and space of Ground belonging to his Priory 10 s. yearly at four quarterly Payments in all other their Lands without the said Bounds Tithes to be paid the said Prior and Canons to admit no Parishoner of the said Church to make oblation or pay any Right that is due to the Parish Church nor to be buried with them unless the Parish Church be first satisfied and for the Performance hereof the said Prior made Oath before the Bishop of London and so were all his Successors to do The first Stone of this Hospital was laid by Walter Archdeacon of London An. 1197. Valued at 478 l. 6 s. 6 d. per Annum St. BARTLEMEWS Hospital in the Suburbs of London KING Henry the I. granted and confirm'd to the Prior and Canons of St. Bartholomews and to the Poor of the Hospital belonging to that Church very great Liberties Et liberam esse sicut coronam meam whose Charter bears date An. 1133. 33 H. I. This Hospital was founded for the receit of all poor infirm People till such time as they should be cured of their Infirmities and for the lying in of poor Women and maintenance of their Children in case the Mothers should die in Childbed in the Hospital till the said Children be seven years old On this Account King Edward the III. freed the Master Brethren and Sisters of this House from being taxt to the Publick Taxes of that time Valued at 305 l. 6 s. 7 d. per Annum St. INNOCENTS near Lincoln FOunded by King Henry the I. for ten Lepers and a Warden with two Chaplains and a Clerk and endowed with several Rents c. as appeared by Inquisition in the Reign of King Edward the III. at which time there was here nine Brethren and Sisters and but one of those a Leper and he taken in not of Charity but for 100 s. paid for his entrance here were also seven Women taken in for money contrary to the first Institution King Henry the VI. An. 35. granted this Hospital and all the Revenues thereunto belonging after the death of the then Warden to William Sutton Master of the Order of Burton St. Lazarus Warden of the Hospital of St. Giles of Lepers without London and to the Brethren of the said Order and their Successors for the finding and maintenance of three Lepers of the Kings Houshold Servants if any such shall be c. ILLEFORD in Essex THis Hospital was Founded by the Abbess and Convent of Barking for thirteen Leperous Brethren two Chaplains and a Clerk For whose Regular Government Ralph de Baldock Bishop of London made Certain Orders viz. That the Lepers were to be chosen out of the Demâ—asns of the Abby of Barking if any such there That the Abbess present to one place and the Master and Brothers to the next alternately That no married Leper shall be admitted unless the Wife is minded to vow Chastity That every Brother shall constantly frequent the Divine Offices at the Church unless hinder'd by Sickness c. That no Woman be admitted to enter the said Hospital unless the Abbess near Relations to visit when Sick or the Common Laundress and that at open day That no Leper shall go abroad without special License That the Abbess shall appoint the Master of the said Hospital That every Leper shall at his reception make Oath to live chastly to be obedient to the Abbess and Convent of Barking to have nothing in propricty c. Which Orders bear date An. Dom. 1346. Valued at 16 l. 13 s. 3 d. per Annum St. PETERS in the City of York KIng Henry I. gave and confirm'd to the Hospital of St. Peter at York divers Lands by him and Eustachius Fitz-Iohn and others granted together with divers Liberties as Sac Soc Tol Them c. and as a more especial Mark of his favour to this House took to himself the name of a Brother and Warden of the same Frater enim Custos ejusdem Domus Deisum The Like did King Henry III. and King Iohn Their Possessions were also confirm'd by King Henry II. and King Edward I. Other Benefactors were William de Fortibus Earl of Albemarl Several of the Percys and Moubrays c. St. MARY MAGDALEN at Colchester in Essex FOunded by Eudo Seneschal of King Henry I. by that Kings Command King Richard I. granted to the Lepers of this Hospital a fair two days yearly viz. on the Vigil and day of St. Mary Magdalen St. JOHN and St. Leonard at Alesbury in Buckinghamshire FOunded and endow'd by Robert Ilhale Robert atte Hide c. for the maintenance of Leperous and other poor People of Aylesbury Confirm'd by King Henry I. and King Henry II. These were two Hospitals That of St. Iohn valued at 33 s. 4 d. per Annum and that of St. Leonard at 20 s. per Annum But it was found by Inquisition 34 Edward III. that for eleven years before they were both decay'd and their Possessions come to the hands of Laymen BURTON Lazers in Leicestershire FOunded for Leperous people by Roger de Moubray and dedicated to God St. Mary and St. Lazerus of Ierusalem and by him endow'd with divers Lands in Burton
FOunded by Peter de Rupibus and endowed with a Rent of 343 l. Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford An. 7. E. 1. exchanged with the Master and Brethren of the Hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr in Southwark the Church of Blechyngelegh for certain Lands in Surrey which Church King Edward the II. gave them License to impropriate to their Hospital and to hold it to them and their Successors so impropriated Valued at 266 l. 17 s. 11 d. per Annum DOMUS DEI in Southampton GErvase de Hamton Margaret de Redvariis and many others gave divers Lands c. to this Hospital all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Edward the III. An. Reg. 6. The same King An. 17. gave the Custody of this Hospital then being of his Patronage to the Prepositus and Scholars of Queâ—ns-hall in Oxford and to their Successors for ever which Hall was then newly founded and endow'd with Possessions by Queen Philippa Wife of that King He also granted to the Custos Scholars Brothers and Sisters of this Hospital to be freed for themselves and Lands from all Taxes and Tallages c. for ever King Edward the IV. An. 1. granted to the Custos Chaplain and Brethren of this Hospital and their Successors the Alien Priory of Shirburne in the County of Southampton with all its Lands c. Richard Duke of York the Father and Richard Earl of Cambridge the Grandfather of that King are in the said Grant alledged to be buried in this Hospital SANDONE in Surrey TO the Master and Brethren of this Hospital dedicated to the Holy Ghost William de Perci Son and Heir of Henry de Perci gave and confirm'd divers Lands and Rents for the Maintenance of six Chaplains The Heart of which William being buried here the Prior and Brethren of this House oblig'd themselves to find a Lamp and Wax-Candle to burn for him in the Church of Standone at the time of Mass for ever An. 14. Henry 6. That King granted his License to the Cardinal Bishop of Winchester to annex and unite for ever this Hospital being founded by his Predecessors to that of St. Thomas in Southwark ROUNCEVAL by Charing-Cross in the Suburbs of London IT was found by Inquisition 7 R. 2. that William Marechall Earl of Pembroke gave to the Prior and Convent of the Hospital of the blessed Mary of Rouncyvall and his Successors for ever one Messuage and certain Lands and Tenements in Charing where the Chappel and Hospital are situated Confirm'd by King Henry St. JOHN's Hospital at Oxford KING Henry the III. in the seventeenth year of his Reign erected a noble Inn or Hospital not far from the East gate in Oxford for the Reception and Relief of the Necessities of the Infirm and Travellers himself laying the first Stone The same King gave the Master and Brethren of this Hospital his Mill at Edendon and the Iews Garden in the Suburbs of Oxford without the said East-gate and granted that as often as he came to Oxford they should receive of him Alms for one hundred poor People on the first day of his coming to Town He also granted to this Hospital of St. Iohn Baptist at Oxford a parcel of his Wood of Shottoure with the Pasture adjoyning c. NEWSTEDE near Stamford in Lincolnshire WIlliam de Albiniaco the III. gave to this Hospital fonnded in honour of the blessed Mary ever Virgin at the Bridge of Wass between Stamford and Offington and to the Brethren there divers Lands c. With the Tith of all the Bread Flesh and Fish spent in his Family and free Pasture for one hundred sheep c. The Master of the said Hospital to be a Priest and a Canon Regular of some House and to have with him some other Canons living according to the Rule of St. Augustin and seven poor and infirm men to be maintain'd in the Hospital The same William the Founder of this House by another Deed appointed the number of the Brothers here to be as follows two Priests one Deacon one Clerk and thirteen infirm People William Albiniaco the IV. confirm'd what his Father had given and granted that upon death of the Prior the Canons here might freely choose another and present him to the Patron and in the mean time the Canons to have the Custody of the House and Liberties of the same All which things were confirm'd by King Edward the III. An Reg. II. Valued at 37 l. 6 s. per Annum St. JOHN BAPTIST at Nottingham ANno Dom. 1241. Walter de Gray Archbishop of Tork made the following Order and Rule for the Brothers and Sisters of this Hospital That the Master or Custos provide two Chaplains or more to celebrate there for ever that all the Brethren rise together to Matines which are to be so early that they may be finisht by or before day-break from the Feast of St. Michael to Easter which done then shall follow Prime and Terce then Mass and after Mass Sext and None the Brothers shall mind their business in the House and if not hindred with necessary Occasions they shall hear Vespers and Complin that they shall be all obedient to the Custos and none shall have any thing in property for seven days under pain of Excommunication they shall be all cloathed and fed in common eat no flesh but three days in the Week Sunday Tuesday and Thursday lie in one Dormitory they shall be chast and sober their Habit of Russet and Black c. Here was in this Town of Nottingham another Hospital founded by Iohn Plumtre by License of King Richard the II. An. Reg. 16. for two Chaplains one of which to be Master or Custos and for thirteen old and poor Widows senio confractis paupertate depressis which said Iohn endow'd the same with ten Messuages and two Tofts in Nottingham and ordained that the Community of the Town of Nottingham and the Prior of Lenton should present to the Chantry in the Chappel of this Hospital and that the two Chantry Priests should receive for their stipends 100 â— to each yearly Whose Orders bear date An. Dom. 1400. St. JOHN BAPTIST at Ludlow in Shropshire FOunded by Peter Vndergod near the Bridge at Ludlow and by him endow'd with divers Lands c. for the maintenance of certain Religious Brethren and for the Sustenance of poor and infirm People He also granted to the Brothers that after his decease they might freely choose one of themselves to be their Master or Custos and so as often as occasion should be and the Master and Brothers to admit the Poor c. which Lands c. so given as abovesaid were confirm'd by Walter de Lacy the Chief Lord of the Fee and by King Henry the III. An. 5. Valued at 17 l. 3 s. 3 d. per Annum The House of Converts in the Suburbs of London FOunded by King Henry the III. in a place then called Newstrete and by him endow'd with seven hundred
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
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
disposal to celebrate Divine Service privately in the time of general Interdict to have a free Sepulture and a free Election of their Abbess c. Whose Bull bears date An. Dom. 1228. Pag. 327 WALLINGFORD NIgellus de Albeney and Alan Fitz-Amfrid gave divers Lands to the Monks of St. Albans in the Church of the Holy Trinity of Wallingford Confirm'd to them by Ioceline Bishop of Salisbury and after him by Robert Bishop of Salisbury and by the Dean and Chapter of that Church An. Do. 1243. Pag. 525. WILBERFOSS GEorge Duke of Clarence and Lord of Richmond as Patroonshe Nannery of Wilberfoss exemplified and confirm'd to Elizabeth then Prioress and to the Nuns there the several Deeds of Endowments and Grants made to them by Iordanus Fitz Gilbert William de Percy c. Whose Deed of Confirmation bears date at Staunford 10th of August 4 Edward IV. Pag. 487. STODELEY THis Nunnery was first founded by Thomas de Sancto Walerico but his Estate and consequently the Patronage of this House coming to the Crown King Richard II. in the first year of his Reign on the death of Margery the last Prioress confirm'd the Election of Elizabeth Fremantell then Subprioress into the Office of Prioress and signified the same to the Bishop of Lincoln Pag. 482. SANFORD alias LITTLEMORE ROger de Thoeni Roger de Sanford and Thomas Buscel whose Deed bears date 1254 8. Henry III. gave Lands to the Church of St. Nicholas and Priory of Nuns here Robert Abbot of Abington and Benjamin Rector of the Church of St. Nicholas granted and confirm'd to them certain Tithes Roger de Quency Earl of Winton and Constable of Scotland released to them their Suit to his Court Pope Innocent IV. in the second year of his Pontificate Released ten days of enjoyn'd Pennance to all such of the Diocesses of Lincoln Ely and Salisbury who being penitent and confest should contribute and assist to the reedifying of the Church of this Priory Pag. 597. GROSMUNT in Yorkshire JOan Wife of Robert de Torneham and daughter of William Fossart gave divers Lands Profits and Priviledges in Yorkshire to the Prior and Monks of Grandmont in France confirm'd by her said Husband Robert de Torneham who also gave other Lands of his own Pag. 505. CRESWELL in Herefordshire THis was another Cell of the Monks of Grandemont to which Walter de Lacy gave Lands in pure and perpetual Alms with warranty Peter Bishop of Hereford having bought Lands of the Prior of Creswell for 550. marks granted by his Deed dated 1256 that in case he or his Successors should happen to be impleaded for the said Lands the said Prior nor this Successors should not be obliged to defend and Warrant the same beyond the Sum of 550 marks Pag. 542. MISSENDEN JOan de Pedinton widow of Guy de Ryhal with Thomas Son and heir of the said Guy confirm'd to the Canons of Missendin the Hermitage of Muswell which Ralf the Hermit built and inhabited by permission of the foresaid Guy with a Chappel built in honour oâ— the Holy Cross. Confirm'd also by Albricus Earl of Damarun and Simon de Gerardmulin The Priory of EWENNY a Cell of the Abby of Gloucester THe Turbervilles gave to the Church of St. Michael and the Monks there divers Lands and Possessions with Liberty of fishing in the River of Ewenny as far as their Lands extend and to retain a moiety of the fish so caught the other moiety to be the Turbervilles The Priory of Blithe in Nottinghamshire POpe Honorius confirm'd the Possessions of this House to the Monks here and exempted them from paying of Tithes of their Cattel It was founded by William de Crescy William Gifford Archishop of York An. Dom. 1277 made certain orders for their Government viz. That Almes and Hospitality should be used as of old time that all and singular do humbly and devoutly obey the Prior as their head c. Vid. Vol. â— p. 553. BUSTLESHAM Abby in Barkshire KIng Henry VIII by Patent dated in the 29th year of his Reign recites that out of the sincere and intire devotion which he bears to God and the Blessed Virgin Mary and to the Increase of the Divine Worship c. He does erect found and establish to indure for all future times a Monastery or Conventual House of one Abbot and thirteen Monks of the order of St. Benedict in the place of the late disolved Priory or Monastery of Bisham alias Bustlesham in Barkshire which on the fifth day of Iuly in the 28th year of his Reign was surrender'd to him by William Bishop of St. Davids then Prior of that Priory and the Convent there and this he did for the good estate of himself while living and for the good of his Soul after death and for the good of the Soul of his most dear Wife Iane late Queen of England deceased and for the Souls of his Children and Progenitors And gave all the Lands Houses Church Bells and all utensils then in his hands and formerly belonging to the late dissolved Monastery to Iohn Cordrey whom he made Abbot of this new Monastery and to the Monks of the same Which Iohn Cordrey was lately Abbot of the Monastery of St. Peter at Chertsey in Surrey He did also incorporate this new Monastery by the name of the Abbot and Convent of the new Monastery of the Holy Trinity of King Henry VIII at Buslesham with power to purchase Lands and by that name to sue and be sued c. and for the Abbot and his Successors to use an Episcopal Miter He also endow'd the said New Monastery with all the Lands and Revenues belonging to the late Monastery here and also to that of Chertsey in divers Counties of England and Wales and in the City of London also with the dissolved Priories of Cardigan in Southwales and Bethelkellard in Carnarvanshire with all the Lands and Revenues of the same and with divers Rents issuing out of the Lands and Revenues of several other Monasteries then in Lease for twenty one years and the Reversion of the said Lands c. With view of Frank pledge and all other Franchises and Liberties which have been formerly enjoy'd in the several Lands c. To hold by the Service of one Knights see and the yearly Rent of 72 l. and 17 d. in the name of a Tenth to be paid into the Court of augmentations at Michaelmas This new Monastery to be exempt from the ordinary Jurisdiction and to be visited only by the King his heirs and Successors and the present Abbot Iohn Cordrey to be excused from the payment of first Fruits and Tenths given by Statute made in the twenty sixth year of this King provided notwithstanding that his Successors shall pay first Fruits which are valued at 661 l. 14 s. 9 d. ob But no tenths which amount to 66 l. 3 s. 5 d. ob q. non obstante the said Stat. or any other Law Which Patent bears teste at Westminster 18th December in
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
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
weak Persons and two poor Clerks teaching Schools to be chosen by the Custos every of which to receive from the Custos weekly 4 d. of Silver the Custos to have ten Marks of yearly Revenue which is judged sufficient for his support that it shall not be lawful for him to convert to his own use more than that Sum of the Goods of the said Hospital c. Which Orders are dated at Thorpe near York An Dom. 1373. Valued at 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. per Annum WHITINGTON'S Hospital at London JOhn Coventry Iohn Carpenter and William Grove Execuors of Richard Whitington late Citizen and Mercer of London and several times Mayor of that City according to the desire and appointment of the said Richard founded in the Church of St. Michael Royal at London where the said Richard and Alice his Consort lye buried a Colledge of certain Priests and Clerks to celebrate daily for the said Richard and Alice also an Almshouse for 13 poor People in the Parish of St. Michael aforesaid and adjoyning to the Church And establisht divers Orders by Licence of King Henry VI. and Henry Archbishop of Canterbury c. touching the same as that there shall be always inhabiting in the said Hospital 13 poor People of one or both Sexes of which one to be Cheif and called Tutor the first of which Office they placed themselves by name Robert Chesterton to whom they gave the said Hospital with all the Appurtenances for a perpetual habitation for him and the poor People and their Successors by the name of the House of God or the Almshouse or the Hospital of Richard Whityngton that the Mayor of London and his Successors shall be Supervisers and the Wardens and Communalty of Mercers Conservators of the said House that the Tutor and poor People have Lodgings or Cells apart and several that within 20 days after the Death of a Tutor the Wardens of the Mercers shall elect or depute another fit person to succeed in the said Office and upon their neglect for 20 days the Power of so doing shall for that time be in the Mayor of London that as the poor People dye the Master of the foresaid Colledge shall place one in the first Vacancy and the Wardens of the Mercers in the Six next Vacancies then again the Master in the next one and then the Wardens for the six next c. yet it shall not be lawful for the said Wardens to put one that is of the Livery of their own Company or any other Company of the said City into the said places yet poor Citizens of London and especially the poor of the Mercers who are not nor have been of the Livery qui de liberatâ minimé fuerint and whom the Company are not bound to maintain and poor Clerks and inferiour Officers of the Colledge aforesaid are to be preferr'd to the said places before others that the Tutor and poor People be daily present at Mattins Masses Vespers and Complin in the Colledge or Church abovemention'd and at the prayers to be there made for the Souls of Richard Whitington and Alice their Founders Sr. William Whitington Knight the Lord Ivo Fitz-Waryn and the Lady Maud his Wife Parents of the said Richard and Alice King Richard II. and Thomas late Duke of Gloucester c. That they shall say for the said Souls as often as they can conveniently three or at least two Psalters i. e. fifty Aves and fifteen Paters and three Creeds that they should all go daily to the Tomb of the said Richard and Alice and there say the Psalm de Profundis after which the Tutor to say aloud in English God have mercy on our Founders Souls and all Christen and the rest answer Amen that the Tutor shall not be absent from the said House above ten nights in a year nor any poor Man above one whole day without License or great necessity That they have a Common Chest and a Common Seal the Chest to have three different Keys c. That the Tutor have and receive every week for his Pension 16 d. and every poor person 4 d. that no Leprous or mad Man be admitted into the House c. if any Estate falls to any poor Man of the clear yearly value of five marks that he be removed and another poor Person put in his place but if it be under five marks per Annum let him give half to the Common Chest and keep the other half Vicious persons after the third fault to be expell'd the Hospital as incorrigible That these Orders and Statutes be read and intelligibly expounded before the Tutor and poor People once every quarter of a year With power reserved to the said Executors while they or any of them live to add correct or alter any of these Orders Dated 21. December An. Dom. 1424. 3. H. 6. RUTHYN Hospital in Denbighshire QUeen Elizabeth at the Petition of Gabriel Goodman Doctor of Divinity and Dean of the Collegiate Church of Westminster erected created founded and establisht an Hospital in Ruthyn in the Couuty of Denbigh to be call'd Christ's Hospital in Ruthin to consist of one Preacher and twelve poor People for ever and ordain'd that there should be one President and one Warden of the same and nominated the then Bishop of Bangor and his Successors for the time being to be President and Eubolus Theloall Master in Arts to be the first Warden of the said Hospital and all the Possessions Lands and Goods thereunto belonging that the said President and Warden be a Body corporate for ever by the name of the President and Warden of Christ's Hospital in Ruthin by the said name to purchase and receive Lands c. as well of the said Gabriel Goodman as any other person for the support and maintenance of the said Hospital that they have a Common Seal that they may sue and be sued by the said name in all Courts with power to the said Gabriel Goodman during his Life to elect nominate and appoint the Wardens and poor People of the said Hospital as often as there shall be occasion and to make and appoint Statutes and Orders for Govrnment of the same with license to the said President and Warden and their Successors to purchase Lands not exceeding the clear yearly value of 100 l. c. the Statute of Mortmain or any other Stat. non obstante Letters Patents to be past of all this under the Great Seal of England without any manner of Fine or Fee to be paid c. DROHEDA Hospital in Ireland FOunded by Vrsus de Swemele without the West-Gate of Droheda for the relief of poor and helpless People and by him endow'd with all the Lands and Rents that he had in Ireland and gave the Election of the Custos after his death to the Honest men or Free-men probos homines of Drohida Pag. 792. SEMPRINGHAM THE Master and Canons of Sempringham declared by their Deed that they and theirs in the place
call'd Mirmaude the Gift of Ralph de Hauvill are subject to the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Ely as their Diocesan notwithstanding their Priviledges Pag. 825. ELLERTON GIlbert the II. Master of the Order of Sempringham and Iohn Prior and the Convent of Ellerton obliged themselves to the maintenance of thirteen poor People in the Hospital of the Church of Ellerton founded by William Fitz Peter Pag. 514. St. John of Jerusalem in the Suburbs of London KING Philip and Queen Mary by their Letters Patents and Cardinal Pole Legate a Latere restored and establisht the Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England to its Pristine Estate and the Priory and Hospital of St. Iohn of Clerkenwell lately dissolved and constituted Sir Thomas Tresham Knt. Prior of the same Richard Shelley Peter Felices Cuthbert Laithen Edward Brown Thomas Thornell Henry Gerard George Aylmer Iames Shelley and Oliver Starkey Commendators or Preceptors of the said Hospital whom the said King and Queen incorporated by the name of Prior and Confraters of the Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England to have perpetual Succession and by that name to sue and be sued to purchase and take Lands c. and to have a Common Seal and gave them all that Capital House and Scite of the said Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem scituate and being near Clerkenwell in Middlesex with the Church and all Houses and Buildings Gardens and Orchards c. thereunto belonging also all that Wood and Wood-ground call'd Greete St. Iohn's Wood lying near Maribone-Park in Middlesex and all other Lands and Tenements whatsoever that were in the Possession of the Prior and Confraters of the said Hospital at the time of the Dissolution of the same and all Goods and Furniture belonging to the said House c. Which Letters Pattents bear date at Grenewiche April the 2 d. in the fourth and fifth year of their Reign Pag. 247. BUTLEY KING Henry the VII in the four and twentieth year of his Reign granted to Robert Brommer Prior of the Monastery of Butley and the Convent of the same the Priory of the blessed Mary of Snape in Suffolk with all Lands and Revenues thereunto belonging or which Thomas Neylond late Prior of the said Priory enjoy'd in right of the same to hold in pure and perpetual Alms without Account or any Rent and to be annext to the said Priory of Butley NEWINTON-LONGVILLE an alian Priory in Buckinghamshire THIS was a Cell to the Abby of St. Faith at Longville in Normandy to which Walter Gifford Earl of Buckingham gave and confirm'd divers Lands and Revenues with great Priviledges in his Forrest of Waddon free and discharged of all Exactions c. CATHEDRAL CHURCHES Of Canons Secular CHICHISTER Cathedral in Sussex ANno Dom. 673. Ceadwalla King of the South-Saxons at the Request of Bishop Wilfrid gave divers Lands for the Building and Endowment of a Monastery at Selesey Brnny of Sussex Northelmus King of Sussex An. 692. Numa King of Sussex An. 714. Oslac Duke of Sussex An. 780. were Benefactors to this Religious House of Selesey Abbot Pleghaard having transferr'd certain Revenues in Deaton to the Episcopal Church at Selesey which Revenues he had of the Gift of King Offa they were fixt and establisht to the said Church in a Synod held at Clobeham An. 825. King Athelstan gave Lands to the said Church An. 930. the like did King Edmund King Eadwyn King Ethelred and Ethelbert William gave Lands and Liberties to the Church of Chichister the See being then translated thither the like did King Henry the I. and King Steven which last gave and confirm'd to the Church of the holy Trinity at Chichester and to Hillary Bishop of the same divers Lands and Franchises some of which Lands the said Bishop and his Successors were to hold by being Chaplains to Maud his Queen and her Successors William Earl of Chichister gave to this Church among other things the fourth part of the City King Iohn confirm'd to this Church all the Lands c. and Liberties which they then had or should have The like did King Henry the III. to Ralph the II. Bishop of Chichester his Chancellor The Prior and Convent of St. Bartholmew's at London granted to the Bishops of this See certain Houses in the Parish of St. Sepulchers without Newgate to hold by the yearly Rent of one pound of Frankincense or six-pence at the Feast of St. Michael Ranulphus Bishop of Chichister who writes himself the humble Minister of the Church of Chichister caused to be provided for the Mannors of that Bishoprick a stock or store of Cattel viz. two hundred and fifty two Oxen one hundred Crows ten Bulls three thousand one hundred and fifty Seep Bidentia one hundred and twenty she Goats and fix he Goats and ten Plow-horses which Stock he ordered to be continued by all his Successors under censure of Excommunication and to be Anathema Maranatha Confirm'd and ratified by King Henry the III. Iohn Earl of Eu restored to this Church by Deed dated An. 1248. the Mannor of Bixle which his Grandfather and Father had unjustly taken and a long time detain'd from it St. PETERS Cathedral at York A CANNON SECVLAR Vol. 3. P. 115. William King of Scotland certified to Pope Alexander that the Church of Scotland was of old times subject to the Church of York and desired that by his Authority it may be made so again Pope Honorius writ to the King of Norway to restore to Ralf Bishop of the Orcades consecrated by and Subject to the Jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York the Possessions belonging to the said Bishoprick Olaus King of the Isles writ to the Archbishop of York at the recommendation of the Abbot of Furnes to obtain from him the Consecration of a Bishop to propagate the Christian Religion in the Isles Pope Calixtus writ to the Bishop of Glascow commanding him to submit himself to the Jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York within thrirty days after the receit of his Letters Pope Honorius writ to the Bishop elect of Galloway Candida casa to repair to the Archbishop of York as his proper Metropolitan for Consecration c. Pope Paschal writ to all the Bishops of Scotland to submit to York as their Metropolitan the like did Calixtus and Innocent which last writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury his Legate to denounce the Bishop of Glascow excommunicate unless he submits himself to the Archbishop of York within three Months after admonition Pope Honorius writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury and all the Bishops of England and to King Henry that the Archbishop of York may according to antient Custome be permitted to have his Cross born before him in all parts of England and to Crown the King in such manner as has been used The Bishop of Galloway made a formal Act of Subjection and Canonical Obedience to this Archbishop in like manner as did Durham and Carlile Roger de Mowbray Peter de Ros William
Paynell the Lord William de Percy who gave the Church of Topcliffe to the Fabrick of this Church in return for which the Dean and Chapter promised to find a fit Chaplain for ever to celebrate in the Chappel of the Blessed Mary at Topcliffe and to allow him 100 s. yearly Ieffry Fitz Peter Earl of Essex the Abbot and Convent of Albemarl who gave Preston and other Churches in Holderness An. 1228. Nicholas de Stutville who gave Michael de Hamelsciâ his Native or Villain and all his progeny Henry Fitz Thomas and others were Benefactors to this Church An Inquisition was taken An. Dom. 1275 4. Edward I. in which all the Lands and Liberties of the Church of St. Peter in the City and Suburbs of York were set forth and exprest some of which the Jury then found to have belong'd to that Church time out of memory Walter Gray Archbishop of York granted to the Chapter of York by Deed dated An. 1241. All his Mansion House and all his Lands c. in Thorp St. Andrew or Bishops Thorp with Provision that the said Chapter reconvey the Premisses to his Successors to hold by the Rent of 20 marks per An. at the feast of St. Martin which twenty marks to be distributed to poor People on the day of his Anniversary c. The said Walter in the 33 year of his consecration caused certain Vicarages to be endow'd in the Churches of Tickhill c. which Churches were appropriated to the Prior and Convent of St. Oswald of Nostel in particular to the support of the Vicar of Tickhill and one associate Priest a Deacon and Subdeacon there he appointed the whole Altarage in which name he specifies all Oblations Tithes and profits of the Church of Tickhill except Tithes of Corn pulse and hay and the Lands belonging to the said Church saving a Competent Mansion to be assign'd to the Vicar which Tithes of Garbs and Hay and the said Lands shall remain to the said Convent of Nostell c. Herbert the Chamberlain Brother of King Steven and Steven and Reginald his Sons were Benefactors to this Church of St. Peter King Henry II. granted to Archbishop Walter and his Successors Free Warren in their Mannours of Shirburn and Cawood Aufridus de Chanci Paganus de Vilers Iohn Constable of Chester Robert de Vavasour and others were also Benefactors Thomas Archbishop of York before mention'd dyed at York on the Octaves of St. Martin An. Dom. 1100 in great Reputation as appears by his Epitapth enter'd in the Register of that Church There were certain Customes and Orders used of old time in this Church as that upon the Archbishops first coming to this City after his Consecration he was to be received in solemn Procession so also when he returns at any time from beyond Sea c. That the Bishop of Durham was to present him with a rich Cope after his Consecration that every Prebendary should in his life-time give a Cope value 10 l. or after his death twenty Marks and at his death his Palfrey that the Dean is to be install'd by the Precentor c. That the Dean is bound to feed forty poor People daily that he is the greatest in the Church next The Archbishop and in the Chapter the greatest of all An. Dom. 1200. the then Dean and Canons did order and ordain that four Persons should be constantly resident viz. the Dean the Chantor the Chancellor and the Treasurer the Archdeacons to reside for three months in a year other Canons for half a year the common Profits to be divided among those only who are resident that no Vicar shall be admitted for favour but only such as are worthy and proper for the Service of the Church that none be promoted but by the Dean and Chapter and that no Vicar or inferior Minister be admitted into the Quire unless he have a good Voice King Henry the VIII made and establisht new Statutes by Letters Patents in the time of Edward Archbishop of York whereby reciting that they had in this Church an evil Custom long used that every Canon Prebendary was bound to spend in feasting the first year of his Residency one thousand Marks or else he could not partake of the Emoluments of the Place he abolishes the said Custom and all Statutes relating thereunto and Orders that the Statutes relating to the great Residency be observed and that they have their Distributions and Emoluments on the account of Residency duly paid from the day of their first entry on the same if there be none residing then all the common Profits of the Church to go wholly to the Treasury of St. Peter That all Canons then being in the City of York as well not resident as resident be called to assist at all Chapters that to the Chest wherein the Common-Seal is kept be three different Locks and Keys one to be kept by the Dean the other two by the two Senior Residents or if there be not at that time two Residentiaries then by the Precentor and Chancellor c. that all Custom incouraging Pomp and Prodigality be abolisht that a division of the Profits be made at the Feast of St. Martin according to the Days Weeks or Months of the Refidentiaries residing which Canons in the time of their Residency are to be present at Vespers Maâ—tins and high Mass at least without justexcuse under pain of losing that days distribution when absent c. Every Canon Residentiary to live at a House within the Close of the Cathedral and to have in Benefices at least 100 l. per Annum That the Vicars Choral shall when every Canon begins his greater Residence receive 5 l. and afterwards 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. per Annum That every Canon having a Prebend worth 8 l. per Annum shall yearly at the Feast of St. Martin contribute and pay into the hands of the Chancellor of this Church 6 s. 8 d. for the providing of Preachers in the said Church which Preachers are to be provided on the Rogation-days Sundays and other days at discretion this not to excuse the Dean and Chancellor or any others to preach themselves as they are obliged by Statute or Custom c. Which Letters Pattens bear date 3 Iune 33 H. 8. To this Cathedral Church did belong abundance of Jewels Vessels of Gold and Silver and other Ornaments rich Vestments and Books viz. ten Miters of great value among which one small Miter with Stones for the Bishop of the Boys or Children pro Episcopo puerorum one Silver and gilt Pastoral Staff many Pastoral Rings among which one for the Bishop of the Boys Chalices Vials Pots Basons Candlesticks Thuribules Holy Water-Pots Crosses of Silver one of which weighed eight pound six ounces Images of Silver and Gold Relicks in Cases extreamly rich great Bouls of Silver a Unicorns-Horn a Table of Silver and gilt with the Image of the blessed Virgin enamiled thereon weighing nine pounds eight ounces and a half several
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
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