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
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
Ryther Knt. and Sibilla his Wife by License of King Richard the II. founded in this Church a Chantry for the maintenance of two Chaplains Monks of this House to celebrate dayly for the Soul of William de Aldeburgh c. St. ANNE adjoyning to Coventry THIS was first founded in the year 1381. by William Lord de la Zowche and first supplied with three Monks from the Carthusians at London and with three others from Bellevalle Besides the said Lord Sowche they had many other Benefactors as Richard Luff Mayor of Coventry Iohn Holmeton of Sleford Iohn Bokington Bishop of Lincoln Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick c. who erected several parts of their Buildings In the year 1385. King Richard the II. became the principal Founder with his own hands laying the first Stone in the Foundation of their Church protesting publickly to be the Founder and to finish the Buildings To this House were divers Churches appropriated and divers Lands given among others the Mannor of Ediweston in the County of Rutland by the Abbot and Convent of St. George de Bauquerville in Normandy with other Prior alians Lands c. KINGSTON upon Hull in Yorkshire MIchael de la Pole Knt. Lord of Wingfeild by his Deed dated at Kingston upon Hull 1378. Founded and endowed this House without the Walls of Hull for a Prior and twelve Carthusians Monks in lieu of Minnoress Nuns of the Order of St. Clare as his Father in his life time had once intended The House was founded to the honour of God and the glorious Virgin Mary and of St. Michael the Archangel and all Angels and holy Spirits St. Thomas the Martyr late Archbishop of Canterbury and of all other Saints of God And by assent of the Prior of the Great Carthusians in Savoy the chief House of the Order Walter de Kele was by the Founder made the first Prior of this House Vid. 2. Vol. p. 930. MOUNT-GRACE in Yorkshire THomas de Holland Duke of Surrey Earl of Kent and Lord Wake sounded this House for Carthusians in his Mannor of Bordelby near Cleaveland in Yorkshire to the honour of God the Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas willing the House to be called the House of Mount-Grace of Ingelby and by assent of the Prior of the Grand Carthusians made Robert Tredewy the first Prior of the same King Henry the VI. ratified and confirm'd this Foundation in Parliament in the ninteenth year of his Reign EPWORTH in the Isle of Axholme in Lincolnshire KING Richard the II. in the twentieth year of his Reign granted his License of Mortmain to Thomas Earl of Nottingham Marshal of England to found a Convent for Carthusian Monks on his Land at Epworth in the lsle of Axholme in Lincolnshire and to name it the Visitation of the Mother of God to the honour of God the Virgin Mary St. Iohn the Evangelist and St. Edward the King and Confessor and to endow the same with one hundred Acres of Land Licensing also to the Abbot of St. Nicholas in Angiers of the Order of St. Benedict to grant over to this House their Priory of Monks Kirkeby in Warwickshire c. to be appropriated to these Carthusians for ever in pure and perpetual Alms. Pope Bonisace the IX in the eighth year of his Pontificate granted Indulgence to such who should visit this Church of the Carthusians on the second of Iuly being the Feast of the Visitation of the blessed Mary and contribute to the Buildings here This was a plenary Indulgence and of the same manner with that which was formerly granted to the Church of the Angels without the Walls of Assisium in Italy of which you may read in the Monasticon at large p. 971 972 c. SHEEN Monastery in Surrey ANno Dom. 1414. King Henry the V. founded three Monasteries near his Royal Seat at Schene one of Carthusians one of Celestin Monks professing the Rule of St. Bennet and one of Brigettines under the Rule of St. Augustin The last was a Monastery of sixty Nuns thirteen Priests four Deacons and eight Lay-Brothers the Men and Women had two separate Convents but one Church in which the Nuns kept above in a kind of Gallery and the men below King Henry the V. by his Charter of Foundation dated in the third year of his Reign appointed the House of Carthusians which he founded at Shene on the North-side of his Mannor there to be call'd the House of Jesus of Bethleem at Shene and to this House he gave the Lands of several Priors alians here in England belonging to Abbies in France granting in the said Charter that if any of the Lands so given should in time to come be evicted or recovered from the Prior and Monks of this House or their Successors that then they should receive the like value yearly out of the Profits of the Hanaper in the Chancery and out of the Customs arising in the Ports of London St. Botulphs Southampton Lenn and Cicester He gave also several other Benefactions as the Fishery at Shene four Pipes of Gascon Wine yearly at the Purification of the blessed Mary for ever with divers great Liberties and Exemptions from all manner of Taxes and Impositions granting to the said Prior and Monks and their Successors Felons Goods c. and that they should have the return and execution of Writs in their Lands with fines pro Licencia Concordandi and all Amerciaments c. Deodands Treasure-trove c. Clerk of the Mercate Wreck of the Sea c. Free Warren in all their Demesnes and Lands already given or to be given tho' within the Bounds of a Forest Soc and Sac Insangenthef and Out fangenthef and view of Frankpledge of all their Tenants and Residents with a Pillory and Tumbrel and that they may erect Gallows on their Lands for the execution of Malefactors whom they should apprehend on their Lands according to the said Liberty of Infangenthef and Outfangenthef and that they should have a Market weekly every Tuesday at their Town of Esthenreth in Berkshire and two Fairs yearly with other such like great Priviledges and Immunities Additions relating to the Benedictine Order WINCHESTER Cathedral Church Supra p. 38. SOme Remarks of the Founder and Royal Benefactors to the Church of Winchester Kings and Saints buried there out of Leyland Pope Innocent confirmed to this Church all their Possessions with the grant of divers Priviledges as not to pay any Tithes for their Lands or Cattle in their own proper hands to celebrate Divine Offices in the time of a general Interdict with a low Voice c. King Edgar restored Monks in this Church confirming their Possessions and Liberties with grievous Curses to the Violators King Edward the Elder conferr'd on them certain Lands to hold free from any secular service except what related towards the building of Forts and Bridges SHAFTESBURY in Dorsetshire Supra 217. KING Iohn in the seventh year of his Reign confirm'd to the Church of St Mary and St.
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
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
Edred A. D. 948. and King Etheldred 1001. See more of this Monastery p. 983. Valued at 1166 l. 8 s. 9 d. per Annum TAVESTOCK in Devonshire ORdgarus an Earl in these Parts and Father of Elfrid Wife of King Edgar built this Monastery in the year 961 for Monks It was afterwards burnt down by the Danes King Edelred in the year 981. endow'd it with Lands and Liberties the like did King Henry the 1. all which was exemplified and confirm'd by King Edward the III. in the twenty second Year of his Reign See more of this Monastery p. 995. Valued at 902 l. 5 s. 7 d. per Annum RUMSEY in Hampshire KING Edward the Elder built here a Monastery in which his Grandson King Edgar placed religious Nuns under the Government of Merwina their Abbess Anno Dom. 907. King Edgar King Henry III. and King Edward I. were Benefactors to this House and confirm'd the Lands and Liberties to them given Valued at 393 l. 10 s. 10 d. ob per Annum HORTON in Dorcetshire ORgarus Earl of Devonshire formerly mention'd was the first Founder of this Monastery who after his decease which happen'd in the year 971. was here buried Roger Bishop of Shirburn obtain'd of King Henry the I. that this House and the Possessions thereunto belonging should be transfer'd and annext to the Monastery of Shirburn so that in after-times it was accounted only as a Cell of that House tho'it had been before that reckon'd as an Abby of it self EXETER in Devonshire THE Kingdom of the West Saxons having been destitute of a Bishop for full seven years before Pope Formosus threatn'd to curse King Edward the Elder in the year 905. unless he would restore Bishops according to the ancient Tradition Hereupon that King calling a Synod in which presided Plegmundus Archbishop of Canterbury did by their advice constitute several Bishops Seats and set out their several Diocesses and the Archbishop ordain'd seven Bishops in one day to seven Churches among which Athelstan was made Bishop of Cornwall and Eadulf of Cridington In the year 1046. King Edward the Confessor united these two Bishopricks and soon after at the request of Pope Leo fixt the Seat of the Bishop in the Monastery of St. Mary and St. Peter at Exeter the then Bishop Leofric being introduced into the Cathedral Church betwixt the King and Queen Which Bishop finding the said Church much decay'd and impoverisht in its Goods and Revenues became a great Benefactor giving to it not only several Books and Church Ornaments but divers Lands and recover'd for the Monastery other Lands which had been formerly given and since lost and taken from them King Athelstan soon after his coming to the Crown of this Kingdom erected the Monastery here to St. Mary and St. Peter and endow'd it with twenty six Towns and Villages and gave to it the third part of those many Relicks which he had caused to be collected beyond the Seas viz. some pieces of our Lord's Cross Sepulcher Garment Cradle c. with many others which may be seen at large p. 225 226. After him King Athelred King Cnut King Edward the Confessor King Iohn and King Henry the ill became Benefactors so also King Henry the I. who restored to this Monastery several Churches which had been taken from it RAMSEY in Huntingdonshire IN the year 969. Ailwinus Duke of the East Angels at the instigation of Oswald Archbishop of York founded the Monastery of Ramsey which was consecrated by St. Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury and the said Oswald in the year 974. and the Church dedicated to the blessed Mary and all holy Virgins and to St. Benedict Ramsey is a small Island situated among Fens and Marishes in the East corner of Huntingdonshire about two miles long and near as broad It was formerly very much abounding with Alders and other Trees that delight in moist Ground from whence it might take its name Ramsey à ramis quasi Insula Ramorum At the Foundation of this Church King Edgar gave to it five Hides of Land St. Oswald also gave several Ornaments and Lands and procured to it others Duke Ailwinus the Founder gave to this Abby the whole Isle in which it stood with the adjacent Marishes and Meers and divers other Lands All which with other Lands from other Benefactors King Edgar confirm'd to this Abby granting also divers great Priviledges as a Sanctuary c. The like was done by King Edward the Confessor with the addition of several other Liberties and Priviledges King Henry the I. King Henry the II. King Richard King Iohn and King Edward the I. were also Royal Benefactors Ailwinus the Founder gave many precious Ornaments besides two hundred Hides of Land and departed this Life on the 8th of the Calends of May. His Epitaph was as follows Hic requiescit Ailwinus inclyti regis Edgari cognatus totius Angliae Aldermannus hujus sacri caenobii miraculosè fundato r. ABBOTS OF RAMSE Y. 1 AEdnothus A. D. 970. 2 Wufilus 1008. 3 Withmannus 1016. 4 Ethelstanus 1020. 5 Alfwinus 1043. 6 Aielsinus 1080. 7 Herbertus made Bishop of Norwich 1087. 8 Aldwinus 1091. 9 Bernardus was Abbot for five years in the life of Aldwinus 10 Reginaldus 1114. 11 Walterus 1133. 12 Willielmns 1161. 13 Robertus Trianel 1180. 14 Eudo 1200. 15 Robertus de Redinges 1202. 16 Richardus 1214. 17 Hugo Foliot 1216. 18 Ranulfus 1231. 19 Willielmus Acolt 1253. 20 Hugo de Sulgrave 1254. 21 Willielmus 1267. 22 Iohannes 1285. 23 Simon 1316. 24 Robertus 1342. 25 Ricardus 1349. 26 Edmundus 1382. 27 Thomas Botterwick 1400. 28 Iohannes Tychemarsh 1419. 29 Iohannes Crowland 1434. 30 Iohannes Stowe 1436. The memorable Occurrances in the times of these several Abbots may be seen in the Monasticon p. 241 242. Vid. 2. Vol. p. 869. Valued at 1716 l. 12 s. 4. d. per Annum THORNEY in Cambridgeshire THIS Monastery was founded in the year 972. by St. Adelwold Bishop of Winchester in the Reign of King Edgar In the year 1085. the Church was new built by Gunterius the then Abbot here and dedicated by Hervey the first Bishop of Ely In the year 973. King Edgar granted to this Abby several Lands and Priviledges Principal Benefactors to this House were Nigellus Bishop of Ely William Peverel several of the Beauchamps Henry de Merch William de Albeneis Brito Thurstan de Montfort and Iohn de Stutavill c. The Lands and Benefactions of whom were recited and confirm'd to this Abby by the Bull of Pope Alexander dated A. D. 1162. ABBOTS of THORNEY A. D. 1085. Gunterius 1123. Robertus I. 1151. Gilbertus 1154. Galterus 1158. Herbertus 1163. Walterus 1176. Solamon 1193. Robertus II. 1198. Radulphus 1216. Robertus III. 1231. Wido Wake 1237. Ricardus 1238. David 1244. Thomas Castre 1261. Willielmus Yakesley 1293. Odo de Whitlesey 1305. Willielmus Clopton 1322. Reginaldus de Water Newton 1347. Willielmus Haddon 1365. Iohannes Depyng 1396. Nicholaus Islep 1402. Thomas
that the Abbot should not spend any of the Revenues to enrich his secular kindred but upon the Poor and Travellers Robert Earl of Leicester of whom this Estate was holden by the foresaid Founder confirm'd the same to the Monks here and granted to them divers Liberties The like did King Steven King Henry the II. confirm'd to them all their Lands by their several Benefactors given and also granted them full power to choose their own Abbot from among themselves in their Convent King Edward the IV. in the fifth year of his Reign seeing the Estate of this Monastery to run to decay it being so far wasted that it was not sufficient to maintain any Monks but the Abbot only granted this House and what Estate it had left to the Abby of Evesham to which he annext it for ever so that from that time it became a Cell of that Abby Valued at 65 l. 7 s. 11 d. per Annum LINGEBROOK Priory in Herefordshire IT seems by an Inquisition taken 24. Edw. 3. that Adam Esgar Clerk was a Benefactor to the Monastery of Nuns here and founded an Anniversary for William de Power Valued at 22 l. 17 s. 8 d. per Annum NUNKELLING in Yorkshire AGnes de Archis gave the Church here and divers Lands to God St. Mary and St. Helen and to the Nuns of Killing in pure and â—ree Alms. The Nuns Estate here was afterwards confirm'd by Richard de Sancto Quintino and William de Fortibus Earl of Albemarle and by Aeliz de Sancto Quintino Daughter of the foresaid Agnes who also gave other Lands and lastly by the Archbishops of York Valued at 35 l. 15 s. 5 d. per Annum SANDWELL in Staffordshire WIlliam Son of Guido de Offney founded a Hermitage in Bromwich near the Well call'd Sandwell for a Habitation of Monks and endow'd the same with divers Lands lying about the same Which was confirm'd to the said Monks by Gervais Paganellus Lord of the honour of Dudley of which Barony the Lands were holden MONKETON in Yorkshire WIlliam de Arches and Iuetta his Wife founded a Nunnery here of which their Daughter Matilda was a Nun endowing the same with divers Lands All which was confirm'd to the said Nunnery by Henry Murdac Archbishop of York He died 1153. Valued at 75 l. 12 s. 4 d. ob per Annum HALISTANE in Northumberland RIchard Bishop of Durham in the year 1311. united the Churches of Crossanet and Harbottell to the Church of Halistan and the Nunnery there and gave the Patronage of the same to Richard de Vmframvill Patron of the said Nunnery King Henry the III. in the thirty ninth year of his Reign confirm'd to the Prioress and Nuns of Halystan the Lands given to them by Alice de Alneto and Roger Bertram Valued at 11 l. 5 s. 7 d. per Annum DUNSTER in Somersetshire THE Monastery of Monks here dedicated to the honour of St. George was founded and endow'd with sundry Lands and Revenues by the Ancestors of Iohn de Mooun Lord of Dunsterre which Iohn did in the fifteenth year of King Edward the III. ratifie and confirm to the Monks here all his Ancestors Donations Valued at 37 l. 4 s. 8 d. per Annum MARGAN Abby in Wales THIS Abby was founded by Robert Earl of Gloucester in the year 1147. King Iohn in the sixth year of his Reign confirm'd to the Church oâ— St. Mary's of Margan and the Monks there all the Lands and Estate given to them by the said Robert and several others Vaued at 181 l. 7 s. 4 d. per Annum BLACKBURGH in Norfolk ROger de Scales and Muriell his Wise gave to God St. Mary and St. Catherine and to the Brethren serving them in this place called Shiplade otherwise Blackbergh divers Lands and Possessions The same Roger by an other Deed gave the same Lands and others to the Sisters here serving God Vid. Vol. 2. p. 879. Valued at 42 l. 6 s. 7 d. ob per Annum HENWOOD in Warwickshire KEtelbernus de Langedona gave to God and St. Margeret the Virgin and to the Nuns at Eastwell so was this Monastery then called by reason of its situation part of his Demeans of Langedon in which Lordship this Nunnery stood with divers other Lands and Liberties to hold as freely as he himself held them of his chief Lord Hugh of Arden Pope Innocent in the first year of his Pontificate incorporated annext and united to this Nunnery of Henwood divers Churches given to the same by King Rich. II. and King Henry the IV. Valued at 21 l. 2 s. 0 d. ob per Annum St. RADEGUNDS adjoyning to Cambridge KING Steven confirm'd to the Church and Nuns of St. Mary of Cambridge certain Lands which William a Monk and Goldsmith gave them and also other Lands given them by Countess Constance Wife of his Son Eustace It was found by Inquisition taken at Cambridge 3. Edw. I. that the Prioress and Nuns of St. Radegund at Cambridge hold a certain piece of Ground called Greencroft containing ten Acres on which their Church and House is founded which was given for that purpose by Malcolme King of Scotland and that Nigellus and Eustachius Bishops of Ely had been Benefactors to this Nunnery LANGLEY in Leicestershire THE Nunnery of St. Mary's of Langly was founded by William Pantulphe and Burgia his Wife from whom descended Robert de Tatesale Patron of this Priory 5. H. 3. The Nuns here upon the death of their Prioress had power to choose another without asking leave of their Patron who did use during the time of such Vacation to appoint a Boy unum Garcionem with a white Wand to keep the Gate of the Nunnery for which he was to have his Diet there Valued at 29 l. 7 s. 4 d. ob per Annum SANDFORD in Barkshire KING Edward the I. in the 2 â—st year of his Reign granted to the Prior and Convent oâ— Sandelford free Warren in their Demeans Saâ—herus de Sancto Andrea granted to God and the Church of St. Nicholas of Sandford and to the Nuns there a Râ—nt of Five Shillings per Annum in his Town of Littlemore Vid. Vol. 3. p. 13. SETON in â—umberland HEnry Duke of Lancaster Earl of Derb Lincoln and Leicester being inform'd that the Revenues of thâ—â— Priory were so small that they could not maintain the Priâ—ress and Nunsâ— gave and annext to this House the Hospital of St. Leonardâ— in Lancaster to hold in pure and perpetual Alms. Which Hospital was first founded by King Iohn for a Master a Chaplain and nine poor People three of which to be Lepers and the rest sound Valued at 12 l. 12 s. ob per Annum ANKERWIK in Buckinghamshire GIlbert and Richard Muntfichet Knights founded a Nunnery here and endow'd it with Lands King Henry the III. in the one and fortieth year of his Reign confirm'd their Estate given by many Benefactors whose Names and Parcels given are exprest in his Charter Valued at 32 l. 0 s. 2 d. per
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
Mowbray and Segrave did by his Deed recite ratifie and confirm the Foundation of this Abby by his said Progenitor Roger de Mulbray Vid. infra p. 1027. Valued at 238 l. 9 s. 4 d. per Annum BILDWAS in Shropshire Founded An. 1135. KING Steven in the third year of his Reign An. Dom. 1139 gave and confirm'd to God and the Church of St. Ceadde and to the Abbot and Monks here their Estate in like manner as Roger Bishop of Chester had given it and further granted them several Immunities Walter de Dunstanville Robert Corbet and others were Benefactors Their Estate was confirm'd to them by King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign Vid. Vol. 2. p. 914. Valued at 110 l. 19 s. 3 d. ob per Annum St. Mary's near Dublin in Ireland a Cell to Bildwas Founded 1139. KING Henry the II. confirm'd to the white Monks of St. Mary's near Dublin all their Lands and Possessions and by another Deed subjected the said Monks to the Abbot of Bildewas BITLESDEN in Buckinghamshire Founded An. 1147. THE Lordship of Bitlesden escheating in the time of King Steven from one Robert de Meperteshall to the then Earl of Leicester the said Earl granted it to his Steward Ernaldus de Bosco who founded here an Abby which the Earl also confirm'd but after some time the abovesaid Robert de Meperteshal being about to commence a Suit in Law for this Estate the Monks here in consideration of ten Marks obtain'd from the said Robert also a Charter of Confirmation This House was first given by the abovesaid Arnold de Bosco for a Cell to the Abby of Geroudon Valued at 125 l. 4 s. 3 d. q. per Annum WARDON in Bedfordshire Founded An. 1136. THE first Founder of this House was Walter Espec who endow'd it for Monks from the Abby of Rieval which was confirm'd by King Steven Anno Dom. 1135. and by King Richard the I. in the tenth year of his Reign Valued at 389 l. 16 s. 6 d. q. per Annum FORD in Devonshire IN the year 1133. Richard Viscount or Sheriff of Devonshire a near Kinsman of King William the Conqueror and to whom that King had given the Castle of Exeter and Honour and Barony of Okehampton in Devonshire gave his Land of Brightley within the said Honour of Okehampton for the founding of an Abby and obtained twelve Monks for the same from the Abby of Waverly These Monks having remaine◠〈◊〉 Brightley for five years were at last forced through the 〈…〉 sterility of the place to return back to Waverly Which the Sister and Heiress of their Founder seeing she gave them the Mannor of Thorncomb for their maintenance and her house therein then called Ford for their more convenient habitation From this Lady did descend Hawisia who was married to Reginald de Courtnay who was the Grandson of Lewis the Gross of France from whom descend the noble Family of Courtnays Patrons of this Abby and great Benefactors Whose descent and lineage is set forth in the Book at large One of which Family namely the Lord Iohn Courtnay was through the divine Mercy his great Faith and his Hope in the Prayers of these Monks miraculously delivered from a terrible Storm at Sea in the Night time when all the Seamen despair'd of life Hugh Courtnay the second of that name became Earl of Devonshire and died 9 E. 3. Iâ—seline de Pomerei and others were Benefactors to this Monastery all whose gifts are confirm'd by King Richard I. in the first year of his Reign Valued at 374 l. 10 s. 6 d. ob per Annum BUCKFAST in Devonshire FOunded for Monks and endowed with Lands by Richard Banzan to hold by the 30th part of a Knight's Fee and confirm'd by King Hen. II. Valued at 466 l. 11 s. 2 d. ob per Annum MEAUX in Yorkshire Founded Anno 1136. MEaux was so called by its Inhabitants who came into England with the Norman Conqueror and named their new Seat according to the name of the City of Meaux in Normandy from whence they came The Founder of this Abby was William le Gross Earl of Albemarl and Lord of Holderness and in a manner of all Yorkshire who having vow'd a Journy to Ierusalem and being by reason of his age and unweildyness of his Body not well able to perform such a Voyage built this Monastery by way of commutation of his Vow This he gave to God and the Blessed Virgin Mary introducing a Convent of Monks from the Monastery of Fountains of whom one Adam was made the first Abbot which Monks at first got their living by the work of their hands and sweat of their brows but were not long after plentifully endow'd with Lands and Revenues by the said Earl This William le Gross was Grandson of Odo to whom William the Conqueror gave his Sister in marriage and the Isle of Holderness the Archbishop of Roan gave him the County of Albemarl to hold of him by the Service of being his Standard Bearer in his Expeditions attended with ten Knights The Line of this William being not long after extinct the County of Albâ—marl and Honour of Holderness escheated to the Crown for want of heirs This Monastery was begun and the Monks first entred there under their Abbot Adam on the Calends of Ianuary 1150. Richard de Otringham Rector of the Church of Schelford in the Diocess of Ely by his Deed dated An. Dom. 1317. gave divers Lands to the Abbot and Convent here for the maintenance of a perpetual Chantery of seven Monks of this House at the Porch of their Abby Church The number of the Monks in this Abby were 50. The Lands given to this Abby were confirm'd to it by King Iohn in the 6th year of his Reign Valued at 299 l. 6 s. 4 d. q. per Annum NEW-MINSTER near Morpeth in Yorkshire THIS was founded and endow'd in the year 1138. by a certain Nobleman call'd Ranulf de Merley it was furnisht with Monks from the Abby of Fountains Their Lands were confirm'd to them by King Henry the III. in the thirty ninth year of his Reign Vid. Vol. 2. p. 916. TAME in Oxfordshire Founded 1138. THIS House was founded and endow'd by Sir Robert Gait a Kâ—t and was furnisht with Cistercian Monks from Waverley Their Estate was confirm'd to them by King Henry II. in the eleventh year of his Reign and by King Edward the II. in the tenth year of his Reign Valued at 256 l. 13 s. 7 d. ob per Annum BORDESLEY in Worcestershire Founded An. 1138. THis Abby was founded by Mawd the Empress for Cistercian Monks in honour of the most blessed Virgin Mary Regina Caelorum so are the words of her Charter Endowing it with divers Lands and Revenues to hold free and quit of all Secular Service Besides whom many other Benefactors conferr'd upon this Abby great Possessions all which were confirm'd by King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign Valued at 388
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
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
here with divers Tenements in Oxford and several Lands and Churches in the Neighbouring Towns Robert one of the natural Sons of King Henry the I. having married a Daughter of the Founder devoted himself to these Canons alive or dead and gave them 10 l. of Land in his Mannor of Waneting The like did Henry de Oily his Brother-in-Law out of his Mannor of Hocnorton The other Lands granted by divers Benefactors to these Canons see in the Book at large Valued at 654 l. 10 s. 2 d. per Annum RONTON in Staffordshire THIS Priory was founded by Robert the Son of Noel in a place then called St. Mary des Essarz and was a Cell to Haghmon in Shropshire Whose Foundation and Endowment was afterwards confirm'd by Thomas his Son and by R. Archbishop of Canterbury Vid. inf 940. Valued at 90 l. 2 s. 11 d. ob per Annum PYNHAM near Arundell in Sussex ADeliza second Wife and Widow of King Henry the I. afterwards married to William Earl of Arundel gave a parcel of Land then called Pynham adjoyning to Arundell for the maintenance of two Chaplains William Earl of Arundell gave the same Land and more for the maintenance of Regular Canons and building a Church to the honour of God and St. Bartlemew he gave them also Common of Pasture in his Medow of Arundell for fourteen Cows and two Bulls c. All which Gifts were confirm'd by Ranulph Bishop of Chichester LILLESHULL in Shropshire THE Church here dedicated to St. Alcmund is said to have been first founded by Adelfleda a Queen of Mercia but afterwards much amplified and endow'd with ten Prebends by King Edgar Afterwards Richard Beumeys Dean of this Church by assent of King Steven and Authority of the Pope gave this Church over to Canons Regular coming from St. Peter's at Dorchester which new Monastery was dedâ—cated to St. Mary ever Virgin Benefactors to this House were Alan la Zouche the Lady Hillaria de Trussebut c. King Henry the III. confirm'd their Estate Vid. inf 941. Valued at 229 l. 3 s. d. per Annum GISEBURNE in Yorkshire RObert de Brus by the Council of Pope Calixtus the II. and Thurstin Achbishop of York founded this Priory to the honour of God and St. Mary and endow'd it with divers Lands as well at Gyseburn as elsewhere and with the Churches of Skelton and Herte c. Robert de Brus was a noble Norman Knight who came into England with the Conqueror An. 1066. and obtain'd to himself the Castle of Skelton the Lordships of Danby Kendal Anendule Herte and Hertnesse Karlton and divers other Lands in the North. This Robert gave to his second Son of his own name Anandal in Scotland and Herte and Hertnesse in England and dying An. 1141. lies buried at Gisburne Priory of his own Foundation to whose Estate succeeded Adam de Bruse from whom descended Peter de Bruse who dying without issue An. 1273. his inheritance became divided among his four Sisters viz. Agnes married to the Lord Walter Fauconberg who had for her purparty the Castle of Skelton c. Lucia married to the Lord Marmaduke de Tweng who had with her Danby c. Margaret who married the Lord Robert de Rose and with her went Kendale and lastly Laderina married to the Lord Iohn de Bellew and had for her part Charleton c. From Robert the second Son of the first mention'd Robert de Brus descended lineally Robert de Brus King of Scotland who making War against King Edward the I. that King seiz'd upon his Lands of Herte and Hertnesse as forfeited and granted them to the Lord Clifford These Bruses of the younger House gave divers Churches in Scotland to this Priory confirm'd by William King of Scotland Vid. Vol. 3. p. 46. Valued at 628 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum SCARTHE near Wharlton in Yorkshire THIS House founded and endowed by Steven de Manilio was given as a Cell to Guisburne by Hugo de Rudby Chaplain to the said Steven and by him appointed Trustee for this purpose NUTLEY in Buckinghamshire THIS Abby otherwise called Sancta Maria de Parcho was founded and endowed by Walter Gifford Earl of Buckingham and Ermigardis his Wife Confirm'd by King Henry the II. and by King Iohn with the Addition of great Liberties and Immunities who also granted to William Marescal and his Heirs the Gift of the Pastoral Staff of the Abby of Nuteley To the Canons here was given the Church of all Saints at Bradley in the Diocess of Sarum in which Parish was founded a Chappel for Leperous Women which Chappel before it could be dedicated by Iocelin then Bishop of Sarum was publickly and solemnly declared by Oath not to be any ways prejudicial to the Mother Church in Tithes or Obventions c. Valued at 437 l. 6 s. 8 d. per Annum BISSEMEDE in Bedfordshire HVgh de Bellocampo founded and endow'd this Priory with divers Lands and Commons c. He granted the Canons here besides other things the Priviledge to have their Corn first ground at his Mills at Hetune after that which should be found on All which was confirm'd by Roger de Bellocampo He granted also the Tithes of his Park of Ettune tam de bosco quam de essartis as well of his Woods as arable Lands Pope Gregory granted to this House divers Priviledges as not to pay Tithes of their own Stock to cellebrate privately in time of a general Interdict c. Here was formerly a Hermitage of great Veneration Valued at 71 l. 13 s. 9 d. ob per Annum BRIDLINGTON in Yorkshire WAlter de Gant establisht Canons in the Church of St. Mary of Bridlinton and gave them all his Estate in that Town and confirm'd to them all other Lands which his homines Tenants who held of him had given them Gilbert de Gant his Son Earl of Lincoln confirm'd all that his Father gave c. The like did King Henry the II. Gilbert de Gant was born baptized and educated in this Priory and therefore disposed his Body to be buried here The Archdeacon of Richmond did use in time of his Visitation to come to a Church belonging to these Canons with a train of ninety seven Horse one and twenty Dogs and three Hawks and in an hours time all their Provision was utterly consumed till at last this great Oppression was prohibited by the Bull of Pope Innocent the III. Ralph de Nevil granted to these Canons to take Stone out of his Quarry of Fivele with a way over his Ground for the use of their Monastery for ever Valued at 547 l. 6 s. 11 d. per Annum St. BARTLEMEW in Smithfield London RAherus founded the Church here in honour of St. Bartholmew for Canons of St. Augustin's Rule and himself became their Prior for the space of two and twenty years This man had been formerly when young a noted Drole or Jester and by such means had become acceptable and familar to the great Ones at Court and
to the King himself But being inspired with God's grace he saw the Follies of that Course of Life and finding his Conscience burden'd with many sins he undertook a Journey to Rome while he remain'd there he fell sick and in his sickness made a Vow upon his return to Health and his Country to build there an Hospital for the Relief and Solace of Poor People After this being restored to his Health he began his journey homeward On the Way St. Bartholmew appeared to him in a Nocturnal Vision or Dream and directed him to build a Church in Smithfield at London and name it to him Being return'd to London he obâ—ain'd the King's License for this Foundation without which it could not be effected the Ground where the Building was appointed being within the Kings Market-place He began hereupon a double Work of Piety the Hospital in performance of his Vow and the Church according as directed both not far distant which last was founded An. 1123. in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and memory of St. Bartholmew the Apostle It is said that this very Foundation in this place was foretold long before in a Vision to King Edward the Confessor Before Raberus began the Foundation of this Monastery the Ground here was all overspread with Filth and Durt and was the common place of Execution of Malefactors The Priory being built and Cannons assembled to inhabit it Raherus became their Prior who obtain'd for their maintenance sufficient from the Oblations of pious People and from the King as large Liberties as any Church in England enjoy'd King Henry the III. confirm'd all the Lands and Churches given them by divers Benefactors namely the place call'd Smithfeld the Church of St. Sepulcher de Ballio London cum pertinentiis suis infra Burgum extra the Church of St. Michael Bassingshagh c. and that the Hospital of St. Bartlemew in Smithfield should be in the Disposition and Subjection of the said Prior and Canons Valued at 653 l. 15 s. per Annum WARTRE in Yorkshire FOunded An. 1132. by Galfridus Trusbut and by him endow'd with the Church of Wartre and eleven Bovates of Land in the Field of that Town Confirm'd by Pope Innocent the II. Priors and Abbots of this House 1. Ioseph Prior. 2. Radulphus Prior. 3. Richard Abbot 4. Yuo Abbot 5. Nicholas Prior. 6. Richard Prior. 7. Thomas Prior. 8. Radulphus 9. Iohn Lestyngham 10. Iohn de Dunelmia 11. Robert de Lunde 12. Iohn Queldreke in his time the Hospital of St. Giles of Beverly was annext to this House A. 1278. 13. Iohn de Thorpe 14. Richard de Welwyk 15. Robert Balne 16. William Feryby 17. Henry Holme 18. Iohn Hemyngburgh 19. William Tynyngton deposed by the Archbishop of York 20. Robert Takel 21. Thomas Ruland 22. William Wartre 23. Robert Hedon 24. William York 25. William Spenser Several of the Trussebuts descendants of the Founder confirm'd the Possessions of these Canons and so did Robert de Ros Lord of Beuver An. 1279. being then Patron Advocatus of this Priory Pope Innocent granted to these Canons of St. Iames of Wartre divers Priviledges in the Case of non-payment of Tithes for their own Goods and Stock in the Case of a general Interdict c. Valued at 221 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum TWYNEHAM in Hantshire IN the Reign of King Edward the Confessor there were Secular Canons in Christ Church at Twyneham Ranulph Flammard a great Favourite under King William Rufus and afterwards Bishop of Durham was Dean of this Church In the Reign of King Steven Canons Regular were first introduced here The aforesaid Ranulphus or Randulphus new built the Church of Twynham which at that time bore the name of the Holy Trinity Richard de Redvers endow'd it with Lands in the Isle of Wight and elsewhere Which Richard de Redvers was by King Henry the I. made Earl of Devon and had the Isle of Wight and the Inheritance of this Town of Twineham given to him From whom descend the Courtney's Earls of Devon Baldwin de Redveriis confirm'd the Estate given by his Father Richard to this Church with the Grant of large Liberties which Baldwin was the first who introduced Canons Regular into this Church to whom his Son Richard de Redveriis junior granted the free Election of their Prior and confirm'd all their Possessions An. 1161. Vid. Vol. 3. P. 45. Valued at 312 l. 7 s. per Annum HERYNGHAM in Sussex KING Edward the I. granted his License to William Paynel to grant certain Lands to the Prior and Canons of this House for the finding of four Secular Chaplains to celebrate for his Soul in their Church Statuto de terris ad manum mortuam non ponend edito non obstante Afterwards upon the Petition of Matilda Neice and heir of the said William exhibited to King Edward the II. in Parliament that King granted that instead of the four Secular Chaplains the said Prior might for the future appoint four Regular Canons of his own House for that Office King Edward the III. granted his License to appropriate the Hospital of St. Anthony at Coukham to this House St. OSITH at Chich in Essex THE Priory of St. Osith the Virgin and Martyr at Chich was founded by Richard de Belmeis Bishop of London who design'd to resign his Bishoprick and become a Canon Regular here himself but was prevented by death The second Prior of this House was Ralph afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury King Henry the II. confirm'd all the Possessions given to this Priory by several Benefactors with the grant of ample Liberties free Waren and a Market at Chiche King Iohn granted the Patronage or Advowson of this Abby to William then Bishop of London and his Successors Valued at 677 l. 1 s. 2 d. per Annum IXWORTH in Suffolk GIlbert Blundus who came into England with the Conqueror founded this Priory of the blessed Mary of Ixworth near the Parish-Church of that Town Valued at 280 l. 9 s. 5 d. per Annum NORTON in Cheshire THIS Priory of the blessed Mary of Norton was founded and endowed by William the Son of Nigellus Constable of Chester Roger Constable of Chester confirm'd the Lands and Possessions given to these Canons in Nottinghamshire Leicestershire and Oxfordshire who also granted them divers Priviledges inter alia to have two Deer yearly on the Feast of the Assumption out of his Park of Halton When William Bastard to whom King Edward the Confessor had assigned the Inheritance of his Kingdom as his most worthy and nearest Kinsman came into England with him came Hugh to whom he gave the Earldom of Chester With this Hugh came a Nobleman called Nigellus to whom the said Earl gave the Barony of Halton and made him his Marshal and Constable of Chester and further conferr'd on him many and great Priviledges such as shew'd a particular favour to him more than any other Baron of Cheshireâ— William Son of this Nigellus founded
d. per Annum NOCTON in Lincolnshire THE Priory of Nocton Park was founded by Robert de Areci Lord of Nocton It was dedicated to St. Mary Magdelen The Heir general of Norman de Arcy descended from the Founder married to Iohn de Lymbury The Possessions given by several Benefactors were recited and confirm'd by King Henry III. in the 55th year of his Reign Valued at 44 l. 3 s. 8 d. per Annum WIGMORE in Herefordshire OLiver de Merlymond cheif Seneschal of all the Lands of Hugh de Mortimer in the time of King Steven built the Church of Schobbedon which Town his said Lord Hugh de Mortimer had given him in Consideration of his Service This Oliver being kindly entertain'd at St. Victors Abby at Paris in his return from a Pilgrimage he was so highly pleased with their good life and Regular devotion that he afterwards obtain'd from that Abby two of their Canons to come over and Institute a House of Religion at his new built Church of Schobbedon to which he annext divers Lands and profits But after this a great dissention arising between the said Hugh de Mortimer and Oliver de Merlymond in so much that the said Oliver departed from his Service and went to Miles Earl of Hereford Mortimer seized upon all his Estates and took from the Canons all the Goods which Oliver had given them whereby the said Canons were reduced to such extreamity that they were about to leave their House But this difference being at last composed by the mediation of the Bishop of Hereford Mortimer not only restored them their Lands c. of which he had deprived them but gave them more among other Benefactions the Church of Wigmore and advanced their Prior to the title of an Abbot But soon after he took from them again the Town of Schobbedon and it was once more restored by mediation After this these Canons removed their habitation to a place call'd Eye and from thence to Wigmore After this they removed once more into the Field of Beodune where they built from the ground a Monastery and Church which Church was dedicated to St. Iames by Robert Folyoth then Bishop of Hereford the aforesaid Sir Hugh de Mortimer conferring thereon at the Dedication great Benefactions both in Lands and Plate for the Altar Which Sir Hugh died a Chanon of this House being very antient Whose Son and heir Sir Roger de Mortimer behaved himself so unkindly to the Canons of this House that the Abbot and most of the Convent were forced for some time to retire to Schobbedon but the differrence was made up by the Interposition of King Henry Isabell de Ferrers Widow of the said Sir Roger built a House of Religion at Lechelade after her Husbands decease and endow'd it with Lands for the good of his Soul The said Sir Roger tho' unkind at first yet before his death confirm'd all that his Father had given to these Canons with other Lands given by himself Among those 260 most famous and valiant Knights that King William the Conqueror brought into England with him in his Army was Ralph de Mortuomari one of the chief which Ralph obtain'd to himself the Lordship of Wigmore and other Possessions in the Marches of Wales This Ralph built the Castle of Wigmore and left issue Hugh and William Hugh became the Founder of the Abby of Wigmore as has been said and endow'd it largely An. 1179. and dyed in this Monastery An. 1185. Grandson of this Hugh was Ralph de Mortuomari who being sent over into Normandy by King Iohn in order to defend that Country against the King of France who had invaded and Seized all Normandy because King Iohn refused thô several times summon'd to do homage for the same was by the said King of France taken Prisoner During whose absence from these Parts the Welch invaded this Monastery of Wigmore plundered the Canons of all their movables and burnt all the Buildings except the Church Son of which Ralph was Roger who marryed Matilda daughter of William de Breuse Lord of Bregnoc and was so faithful an adherent to King Henry III. against his rebellious Barons that he was the chief means of defeating that formidable Commotion and establishing the King in his Throne Grandson of this Roger was Roger Mortimer who was created the first Earl of March An. 1. Edward III. Which Earl Roger was great grandfather of Edmund Mortimer who married Philippa only daughter and heir of Leonel Duke of Clarence second Son of King Edward III. Which Edmund having buried his said Wife went over into Ireland the Kings Lieutenant and An. 1381. departed this life in that Kingdome being but twenty nine years of age His body was brought over and buried in this Abby Church of Wigmore with his Countess and most of his Ancestors Which Edmund and Philippa had issue two Sons Roger and Edmund and two Daughters Elizabeth and Philippa Roger Mortimer was slain in Ireland An. 1398. But left issue by his Wife Alianora daughter and coheir of Thomas Holland Earl of Kent two Sons Edmund and Roger and two daughters Anne and Alianore Anne was married to Richard de Condsborough Earl of Cambridge The two Sons and the other daughter died all without issue Valued at 267 l. 2 s. 10 d. ob per Annum THORNHOLME in Lincolnshire IT was found upon Inquisition at the Assizes at Lincoln 4 Iohn that King Steven founded this Priory and placed Canons in it That Henry II gave the Mannour of Aplebi in which the Priory is scituated to William de Lungespe his Brother who after gave the Manour to Iohn Maleherbe DERLEY in Darbyshire Hvgh the Priest intitled Dean of Derby gave to Albinus and his Canons of St. Helens near Derby the Land which he held at Little Derby for the erecting of a Church and Habitation for him and the said Canons with divers Lands of his Patrimony Which Estate the said Albin and his Successors Abbots of this House quietly enjoyed all the time of the life of the said Hugh and of Henry his Son which Son he begat in lawful marriage before he received holy Orders and of two daughters and heiresses of the said Henry who dying in the Reign of King Henry III. that King supposing the said two daughters to dye without heirs claim'd the Advowson of this Abby as an Escheat Vid. Vol. 3. P. 57. Valued at 258 l. 14 s. 5 d. per Annum St. AUGUSTINS at Bristol in Gloucestershire ROBERT Fitz Harding a Burgesse of Bristol to whom King Henry II. gave the Barony of Berkly built this Abby and gave to the Canons Regular of this House the Church of Berkly with divers others Whose Estate was confirm'd to them by King Henry II. while he was yet Duke of Normandy and Earl of Anjou also by Iohn Earl of Morton c. Valued at 670 l. 13 s. 11 d. ob per Annum COKESFORD near Rudham in Norfolk JOhn de Querceto or Cheney gave to God and St.
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
pay yearly to his Ancestors for certain Tenements in Reygate he also granted to these Canons 46 s. 11 d. per Annum for the Celebrateing one Masâ—e daily in his Castle of Reygate for ever Valued at 68 l. 16 s. 8 d. per Annum HALTEMPRISE in Yorkshire THis Monastery was first founded and endow'd at Cottingham by Thomas Wake Lord of Lydel with License of King Edw. II. Pope Iohn XXII granted to the said Thomas Wake Liberty to translate the said Monastery from thence to Altemprise The said Thomas Wake granted to the Canons Regular of this House several Mannours and Lands with Great Liberties of Leets c. and Commons of Pasture c. in pure and perpetual Alms with general Warranty Iohn de Meaux of Bewyke by his Deed dated An. 1361 31 Edward III. gave to the Prior and Convent of this House his Mannour of Willardby c. conditionally for fix Canons to celebrate for the Souls of him and his Ancestors c. Matins Masse Vespers and Complin c. and in the case of non performance of the Conditions his heirs to re-enter Valued at 100 l. 0 s. 3 d. ob per Annum BADLESMERE in Kent KIng Edward II. An. 13. granted his License to Bartholmew de Badlesmere to found and endow a House of Canons Regular in his Mannour of Badlesmere with a Non obstante to the Statute of Mortmain MAXSTOKE in Warwickshire FOunded by William Clinton Earl of Huntington in honour of the holy Trinity the Blessed Virgin St. Michael and all the Saints for Canons Regular viz. One Prior elective and a Convent of twelve Canons In whose deed of Foundation dated An. 1336 he appointed several Ordinances relating to their habit the Election of the Prior none to meddle with the Custody of theâ— House in time of the Vacation but who the Superior and Convent shall appoint Of the quality of such as are to be received for Canons Of the Number of Canons to be encreased as the Revenue increases The Prior and Convent not to sell or grant any Corrodies or Pensions unlesse compelled by inevitable necessity Of the Accompt Of the founders Anniversary Of the number of Masses That at the end of every Office of our Lady the Priest who Officiate shall say the Angelic Salutation in manner following Ave Maria gracia plena Dominus'tecum Benedicta tu in Mulieribus benedictus fructus ventris tui Ihesus Amen Et benedicta sit venerabilis mater tua Anna exqua tua Caro virginea immaculata processit Amen With some other Orders all which were confirm'd by Roger Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield An. 1337. King Edw. the III. granted his License to these Canons to exchange their Mannor of Shustoke for certain Lands in Maxstoke Valued at 87 l. 12 s. 3 d. ob per Annum BISHAM in Barkshire FOunded by William de Monteacuto Earl of Sarum and Lord of Man and Dynbeghe who by his Deed dated An. 1338. endow'd the Canons here with divers Lands Churches and Rents and granted that upon the death of the Prior neither he nor his Heirs should intermeddle with Custody of the House or any of their Possessions King Henry the V. An. 8. gave License to Matilda Widow of Iohn de Monteacuto Earl of Sarum to remove the Bones of her said Husband buried in the Abby of Cirencester to this Priory of Bustlesham and bury them here Valued at 285 l. 11 s. ob per Annum FLANESFORD in Herefordshire FOunded by Richard Talebot in honour of God St. Mary the Virgin and St. Iohn Baptist for Canons Regular and by him endow'd with divers Lands and Possessions which Lands being held of the King in Capite King Edw. the III. An. 20. granted his License for so doing Valued at 14 l. 8 s. 9 d. per Annum EDINDON in Wiltshire WIlliam de Edindon Bishop of Winchester being born in this Town founded in the Parish-Church of Edindon a perpetual Chantry for Secular Chaplains and endow'd the same with sufficient Revenues but being afterwards minded to turn the same to a Priory of Brethren of St. Augustines Order called Boni homines or Bonhomes he laid the Foundation of a Monastery An. 1352. which was dedicated in honour of St. Iames the Apostle St. Catherine and all Saints by Robert Bishop of Sarum An. 1361. William de Edyndon the Founder died An. 1366. Valued at 442 l. 9 s. 7 d. ob per Annum DERTFORD in Kent FOunded by King Edward the III. for Nuns of St. Augustines Order living under the Care of the Friers of the Order of Preachers and and by him endow'd with Lands and Revenâ—es in Kent and elsewhere they enjoy'd also divers Houses and Rents in London all which was confirm'd to them to hold in Frankalmoine by the Grant of the said King dated in the six and fortieth year of his Reign King Richard II. An. 8. granted to the Prioress land Convent of this House Monasterium Sororum Praedicatissarum de Derford the Mannor of Massingham in Norfolk with its Fairs Markets and Liberties c. for the finding of one Chaplain to celebrate in the Chappel of the Infirmary of this House and for the Relief and Sustentation of the Sisters and Brethren in the said Infirmary Valued at 380 l. 9 s. ob per Annum SYON in Middlesex FOunded by King Henry the V. An. Reg. 2. To the honour of the holy Trinity the glorious Virgin Mary the Apostles and Disciples of God and all Saints especially St. Briget for sixty Nuns of which number one to be Abbess of the Order of St. Augustin and for five and twenty Religious Men of which number thirteen to be Priests four Deacons and eight Laymen all to be under the Government of the Consessor To live separately viz. The Nuns in a part of the House by themselves and the Consessor and Brothers in a part distinct chastely both in mind and body according to the Regular Institute of St. Bridget This Religious House was founded in his Mannor of Istelworth in the Parish of Twykenham near the Thames and called by the name of the Monastery of St. Saviour and St. Briget of Syon of the Order of St. Augustin by which name or Title the said Abbess and Nuns were enabled to purchase Lands to sue and be sued Matilda Newton was appointed the first Abbess and William Alnewyk the first Confessor The said King Henry the V. endow'd this House with the Rent of one thousand Marks to be paid yearly out of the Exchequer till he or his Heirs should settle Lands of that value Valued at 1731 l. 8 s. 4 d. ob per Annum SOme other Houses are reckon'd of this Order of which there remains little or nothing of note but only their Names which are Flixton in Suffolk Hempton in suffolk Leyes in Norfolk Wodebrigge in Essex Vlvescrofte in Leicester shire St. Iohn Baptist at Exeter Canonleghe in Devonshire Shelbrede in Sussex Torpington in Sussex Merkeby in Lincoln Wesâ—wde Kent St. Iohn Northampton
to the Master and Brethren of this Hospital divers Lands Tenements and Rents in London and elsewhere as Westhame Stratford Bromley and Stepney c. Ieffrey Fitz Peter Earl of Essex granted to the Brethren of this Hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr of Acon the Custody of the Hospital of St. Iohn Evangelist at Berchamstede Anno 23. Heney the VI. Iohn Neel then Master and his Brethren of this House exhibited their Petition in Parliament setting forth that Thomas Son of Theobald de Helles and Agnes his Wife Sister of St. Thomas the Martyr Archbishop of Canterbury gave to the Master and Brethren of this House then being all the Land with the Appurtenances sometimes belonging to Gilbert Beckit Father of the said St. Thomas in which Land the said Martyr was born to make there a Church in Worship of God the blessed Virgin and the said Martyr which Lands lye in the Parish of St. Mary of Colchirche in London that the Endowment of the said Hospital was enlarg'd by King Henry the III. An. 52. in which house have always been ever since a Master and Brethren prosessing the Rule of St. Austin and Priests and Clerks to the number of twelve or more that of old time this House hath been dispoiled and great part of their Evidences lost and destroyed they pray therefore that his Majesty by the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and by the Authority of this present Parliament would ordain stablish and approve that the Master and Brethren of the House or Hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr of Acres in the City of London may by that name plead and be impleaded purchase Lands have a Common Seal and choose their own Master presenting him to the Ordinary and that they may not be charged with any Corrody or Pension and that their present Lands and Possessions may be confirm'd to them all which was granted as desired by the King with the advice and assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in that Parliament and by Authority of the same Valued at 277 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum St. JOHN BAPTIST at Lynn in Norfolk FOunded by Vlfketel Son of the Nun of Sceringes and by him endow'd with a parcel of Land in Linn to hold in pure and perpetual Alms. The Mayor and Burgesses of Linn did use to present and establish the Master and Warden of this Hospital till the time of Iohn of Ely Bishop of Norwich Valued at 7 l. 6 s. 11 d. per Annum St. MARY MAGDALENS at Lenne THomas de Cant. and Robert Winchelsey Archbishops of Canterbury in their Visitations and Peter the Chaplain the Founder made several Orders for the Government of this Hospital as that any Brother being a detractor or vexatious to the rest to be punisht by the Prior and Brethren and if incorrigible to be expell'd founded with a Church and Coemitary for twelve Brothers and Sisters some sound and some infirm with a Chaplain to dwell in the House the infirm not to come into the Chancel Cellar Kitchin or Curtelage nor to intermeddle with the Offices of the House to have a Common Seal c. All the Brothers and Sisters to have equal Portions in the Revenues with the Prior if any of the Infirm withdraws himself for one month his Salary for a year to be forfeited if for a year he to be expell'd a general Chapter to be held yearly the next day after the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen c. Which Orders were ratified and confirm'd by William de Turbus Bishop of Norwich Anno Dom. 1174. KYNEWALDGRAVES in Yorkshire ROger Archbishop of Tork and other Archbishops of that See were Benefactors to the poor Sisters of this Hospital dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen all confirm'd by Thomas Archbishop of York An. 1301. Which with many other Possessions by others given were all recited and confirm'd by King Edward the III. An. 1. St. MARGARETS at Huntingdon SEems to be founded by Malcolm King of Scotland who gave to the Infirm of this Hospital Lands and Rents so did Isabel de Brus Daughter of Earl David Robert de Brus Son of the said Isabel Lord of Anandale gave them divers Tenements in Cunyngtone with view of Frank-pledge to be held there twice per Annum viz. after Easter and after Michaelmass with small Courts to be held there at their Will as ost as expedient The like Grant by Bernard de Bruys all which was confirm'd to the Master and Brethren of this House by King Edw. III. An. 12. HORNECHIRCHE in Essex THE Master and Confraters of the Hospital of Hornchurch were removable at the Will of the Master of the Hospital of St. Bernard de Monte in Savoy to which Hospital this was only a Cell having no Common Seal of their own nor power to sue or be sued HERBALDOUNE in Kent FOunded by King Henry II. who assigned to the Lepers of this Hospital a Rent of twenty marks per Annum out of his Revenue of Canterbury till such time as he assigns them other Provisions in Churches or Rents elsewhere Valued at 109 l. 7 s. 2 d. per Annum St. SEPULCHERS at Hedon in Yorkshire ALan Son of Oubernus gave a parcel of Land to God and the Lepers of St. Sepulchres at Hedon Alexander de Thunestal and many others were Benefactors to this Hospital all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Edw. the II. An. Reg. 19. HAVERING in Essex KING Henry the II. gave the Church of Havering to the poor Brethren of the Church of St. Bernard de Monte Iovis Confirm'd to them with other Lands by King Richard the I. and King Henry the III. An. 37. ELLESHAM in Lincolnshire THIS Hospital begun by Beatrix and finisht and confirm'd by Walter de Amundevil was by him conferr'd upon Canons Regular to whom he gave divers Lands and Churches for the maintenance of Hospitality and Sustentation of poor People Confirm'd to the Canons by Iohn Son of William de Dyve An. Dom. 1277. The abovesaid Walter de Amundevile became a Canon here and was here buried The Hospitallers of Ierusalem having by fraud obtain'd this House from the then Patron were by Letter from Pope Alexander made to relinquish their Pretensions Valued at 70 l. 0 s 8 d. per Annum St. MARY's at Dover in Kent FOunded by Hubert de Burgo Earl of Kent King Henry III. An. II. granted to the Brothers and Sisters of this Hospital the Tith of all profitsarising from the Passage of the Port of Dover to hold to them and their Successors in Frankalmoign The same King An. 13. granted them a yearly Rent of 10 l. at the feast of St. Michael to be paid out of the profits of his Port of Dover beside the tith above mention'd Vid. Vol. 3. p. 86. CONYNGESHED in Lancashire WIlliam de Lancaster gave to God and St. Mary and to the Brethren of this Hospital all Conyngsheved and divers other Lands Possessions and Commons of Pasture c. He also gave
and Lands c. to the yearly value of 500 l. Within which this Alms-house was erected for two Chaplains five and thirty poor Men and three Women to be govern'd by the Master of that Hospital but the Cardinal dying before this Foundation was perfectly compleated King Henry the VI. An. 33. did incorporate them under a Rector of their own by the name of The New Alms-house of Noble Poverty establisht near Winchester by Henry Cardinal of England and Bishop of Winchester Son of John late Duke of Lancaster of noble Memory with grant of a Common Seal and Power to purchase c. Valued at 84 l. 4 s. 2 d. per Annum STOKFASTON Stockerson in Leicestershire FOunded with License of King Edward the IV. An. 5. by Iohn de Boyville Esq near the Town Church for one Chaplain and three poor men who were a Body Corporate and might retain Lands to the value of 10 l. per Annum HEITSBURY in Wiltshire FOunded with License of King Edward the IV. An. 11. by Margaret Widow of Robert Lord Hungerford Iohn Cheyne of Pynne Esq and Iohn Mervyn Esq for one Chaplain twelve poor Men and one poor Woman of whom the Chaplain to be Custos or Warden Which Hospital was made a Body Corporate c. and endow'd with divers Lands and had a grant of twenty Load of Wood for firing out of the Wood of Southleghe in Wiltshire The Savoy in the Suburbs of London KING Henry the VIII An. 2. granted the place or peice of Ground called the Savoy parcel of the Dutchy of Lancaster and lying in the Parishes of St. Clements Danes without the Bars of the New Temple at London and St. Mary of the Stronde in the County of Middlesex to Richard Bishop of Winchester Richard Bishop of London Thomas Bishop of Durham Edmund Bishop of Sarum William Bishop of Lincoln Iohn Bishop of Rochester Thomas Earl of Arundel Thomas Earl of Surrey Charles Lord Herbert Sir Iohn Fyneux Chief Justice of the Kings-Bench Sir Robert Rede Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Iohn Young Master of the Roles Sir Iohn Lovell and Iohn Cutte Excutors of King Henry the VII for the founding and establishing of an Hospital And by another Deed dated An. 4. he granted License to the said Executors to found such Hospital for five Secular Chaplains one of which to be Master to pray for the good Estate of him and Catherine his Consort and for the Souls of King Henry the VII and Elizabeth his Consort and of Arthur Prince of Wales Which Hospital was to be called The Hospital of Henry the VII late King of England at the Savoy to be a Body Corporate to have a Common Seal and yearly Revenues to the value of five hundred Marks per Annum for maintenance of the said Chaplains and for performance of such other Works of Mercy and Piety as by the said Executors shall be appointed and exprest With a Non obstante to the Statute of Mortmain Valued at 529 l. 5 s. 7 d. ob per Annum Of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem THE Patron of this Order of Knights was St. Iohn Baptist from whom they took their Denomination The Hospital of St. Iohn Baptist and the Poor at Ierusalem is said to be first built in the time of Iulius Caesar Emperor of Rome and Antiochus Prince of Antioch with certain Treasure which one Melchiar a Priest in the Temple had taken out of the Sepulcher of David here the Poor and Infirm were kindly received and entertain'd from all parts of the World The same Author delivers that when our Saviour Christ became incarnate and conversed on Earth when he came to Ierusalem he resorted frequently to this House and that it was in this House that he appear'd to his Apostles after his Passion and Resurrection the Doors being all shut After his Ascension St. Steven and others of his Disciples served the poor in this Hospital house according to our Lord's Precept When the Christians were expell'd from Ierusalem and the City was possest by the Saracens one Conradus or Gerardus a devout Servant of God lived here and served the Poor in like manner who at such time as Ierusalem was besieg'd by Godfrey of Bullen and the Christian Pilgrims and a great Famine being in the Christian Camp was accustomed to go upon the Walls and throw over Loaves which he carried secretly about him for that purpose as if he were eager in throwing Stones against the Besiegers This Gerard was the first Master of this Hospital which after the City was taken by the Christians was very much favour'd and its Revenues augmented by the Kings of Ierusalem c. After the death of this Gerard Frier Raymund de Puy became Master who establisht a Rule for the Hospitallers confirm'd by Pope Innocent the II. and Pope Boniface This Rule consists of nine and twenty Articles among which it is ordain'd that every Brother or Frier at his admission to the Service of the Poor here is to profess these three things Chasâ—ity Obedience and to live without Property that when the Friers go abroad they shall not go alone but two or three together that if any be publickly guilty of Fornication he shall be publickly whipt and then expell'd the Society The Infirm at their first Reception into the Hospital shall be consest and communicate and then carried to bed and there served and attended as Lords and Masters of the House That all the Brothers shall wear a Cross on their upper Garments as a Badge of their Faith c. Others give another account of the Original of the Hospitallersâ— affirming that after the Turks of Arabia had over-run Syria and Egypt about the year 612. certain Italian Merchants of the City of Malfe trading into these parts and being favour'd by the Turks on the account of their Trade they obtain'd from the Calife of Egypt a peice of Ground lying before the Temple of the Sepulcher for their Habitation here those Mâ—rchants built a Monastery and Church in honour of the blessed Virgin placing therein an Abbot and Monks After that they built another little Church in honour of St. Mary Magdalen for the Reception of Women Pilgrims and placed therein certain Nuns and lastly considering the danger of those who came in Pilgrimage to the holy places who were often robbed by the Turks they built an Hospital or Domus Dei for the Reception of Men whether Well or Sick who arrived here in Pilgrimage and another Church for them dedicated to St Iohn Elemon Patriarch of Alexandria These three Houses subsisted only by Alms collected for them yearly by the said Merchants of Malfy till the Christians conquer'd Ierusalem and expelled the Saracens At which time lived in the Abby of Monks the before-mention'd Girald to whom the Abbot committed the Reception and Relief of the Poor and Pilgrims in the foresaid Domus Dei or Hospital and after such reduction of the City the said Hospital flourisht daily more and
more procuring to it self great Revenues and to be discharged from its subjection not only to the Abbot but Patriarch also These and the like mighty Priviledges granted them by the Court of Rome were the occasion of great Troubles and Disorders between the Hospitallers and the Patriarch of Ierusalem These Hospitallers on their admission were to make Oath upon the Missal as follows You promise and vow to God our Lâ—â—â— and my Lord St. John Baptist to live and die under the obedience of such Supeâ—â—â—ior whoever he be as God shall give you you vow further and promise to live chastly until death and also without property we also make another promise which no Religious Men besides us make for we promise to be Servants and Slaves of the Inâ—irm our Masters After the making this Vow he who admits him says And we promise you Bread and Water and humble Cloathing for nothing more you can require and we make you a Partaker of all the good Works done in our Order c. A List of such who have been Masters 1. Girardus 2. Raymundus de Podio 3. Augier de Bâ—llen 4. Arâ—audns de Comps 5. Gilbertus Assailli 6. Castus 7. Iobertus 8. Gaufridus de Dinsono 9. Hermengandus Daps in his time the Christians lost Ierusalem 10. Rogerius de Molins 11. Garnerius de Neapoli he had been Prior of St. Iohn ' s at London Vid. p. 550. 12. Alfonsus de Portugalia resigned 13. Gaufridus Rat 14. Garinus de Monteacuto 15. Bertrandus de Gexi 16. Garinus 17. Bertrandus de Cons. 18. Petrus de Villa Brida 19. Willielmus Castello Novo 20. Hugo Ryvell 21. Nicholaus de Lorgne 22. Odde 23. Guillelmus de Villareto 24. Fulco de Vilareto in his time the Knights Hospitallers took the Island of Rhodes and removed the Convent from Cyprus He was deposed 25. Mauricius de Paygnaco 26. Elionnus de Villa Nova 27. Deodatus de Gosono 28. Petrus Cornelian The Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in the Suburbs of London FOunded by Iordan Briset a Baron about the year 1100. on ten Acres of Land which he had in exchange from the Nuns of Clerkenwell which Nunnery he had founded not long before The Church of this Hospital was dedicated in honour of St. Iohn Baptist by Heraclius Patriarch of Ierusalem An. Dmo. 1185. The foresaid Iordan endow'd this House with fourteen Acres of Land adjoyning upon the Clerks Well Robert de Fun gave to the Brethren of this House the Hermitage of Yevelie with a Condition that the said Brothers should admit him into their Order at such time as he pleased whether in Health or Sickness Many others were Benefactors among the rest Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford gave to the Prior and Brothers of the Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England two Knights Fees William Earl of Ferrars Hugh de Bellocampo Gilbert de Montefichet c. gave divers other Lands and Churches c. recited and confirm'd by King Iohn An. 1. These Knights of St. Iohn claimed a Priviledge to bury the Bodies of such who had given Alms to their Fraternity however they came to their death whereupon it happen'd An. 4. E. 1. that certain Fellons having been executed some of the Servants of these Knights went to the Gallows and took `em down to bury one of which Fellons Adam le Messer by name being laid in the Grave came to life again and fled to the Neighbouring Church for Sanctuary where he remain'd till he abjured the Realm Pope Clemens having in the Council of Vienna supprest the Order of Knights Templers and given all their Lands and Possessions moveable and immoveable to these Knights Hospitallers of St. Iohn of Ierusalem King Edw. the II. An. 7. granted his Letters of Mandamus all over England for putting the same in execution in this Kingdom The like Grant was made by Act of Parliament An. 17. E. 2. However Hugh Spencer the younger by force seized and held from them their Mannor of the New Temple London which upon his Attainder came to the hands of King Edward the III. who in the twelfth year of his Reign did give grant and sell in consideration of 100 l. part of the said Mannor of the New Temple then valued at 7 l. 5 s. 2 d together with the Church Coemitary and Cloyster c. to the Prior of St. Iohn's and his Successors Vid. Vol. 3. p. 108. Of the Knights Templers in England ANno Dom. 1118. Certain Religious Knights of whom the principal were Hugh de Paganis and Godfrey de S. Audomaro engaged themselves to the Service of Christ before the Patriarch of Ierusalem and undertook to live after the Mannor of Canons Regular King Baldwin granted them a Habitation in part of his Palace adjoyning to the Temple and he and others gave them other Gifts whereon to subsist Their chief prosession was to guard the Roads from Theives for the safety of Pilgrims Their Habit was white with a red Cross. Their number did in a little time so increase that they had in their Convent above three hundred Knights besides others and as their number so their Possessions did swell to a vast and invidious value An. Dom. 1240. the Church belonging A KNIGHT TEMPLAR Vol. 2 P. 617 to these Knights at the Place call'd the New Temple in London was dedicated on Ascention day the King and a great Concourse of Peers and great Persons being present An. Dom. 1147. Conrad Emperor of Germany and Lewis King of France with great forces of French English Normans and Britains made an expedition against the Pagans in the Holy Land but returned with Little or no success at that time These Knights Templers having been very Treacherous to the Christians at the Seige of Damascus which City had been taken by King Lewis but for them An. Dom. 1307. 1 Edward 2. These Knights were Imprison'd throughout all Christendome for certain Enormities and Superstitions crept into their Order and all their Estates real and personal Seized Of the New Temple at London A KNIGHT HOSPITALLER Vol. 2. P. 55â— Ieffrey de Say granted to the Knights Templers fratribus militiae Templi Salomnis his Mannor of West-Grenewiche c. A sine was past 19 H. 3. between Robert de Stanford Master of the Warfare of the Temple in England Plantiff and Iohn de Curtenay and Emme his Wife Deforciants inpedientes of certain Lands in East-Hyrst King Iohn confirm'd to the Knights Templers the Island of Lundy lying in the Mouth of the Severn first granted by his Father King Henry the II. In short the foresaid King Henry the III. granted and confirm'd to the Templers in the eleventh year of his Reign all Royal Liberties in all their Lands exempting them and their men from Tolls Taxes c. with all the Immunity that the Royal Power can grant cum omnibus Libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus quas regia potestas liberiores alicui domui Religionis conferre potest In the Pontificate of
by the Payment of one pound of Cummin Cimini or 2 d. at Easter yearly for all Services and Demands Divers other Benefactors gave other Lands in Northamptonshire and elsewhere among whom were Iohn de Lacy Constable of Chester Ralph Basset c. All confirm'd and recited by King Edward the II. An. 9. Valued at 258 l. 8 s. 5 d. per Annum COKERSAND in Lancashire FOunded by Theâ—bald Walter Brother of Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury for Canons of the Premonstratenses to whom he gave in pure and perpetual Alms the Hay or inclosed ground call'd Pyling for the â—recting of this Abby Confirm'd by King Iohn An. 2. All which with other Lands granted by William de Lancaster Iohn de Lasey Earl of Lincoln and Constable of Chester and the Ieffrey Son of the Lord Iohn and others were recited and confirm'd by King Richard the II. An. 7. A Contest happening between the Prior of Lancaster and the Abbot of Cokersand about Tithes and other Rights of the Church it was agreed and settled by Papal Authority An. 1216. that the Prior should have two parts of the Corn Tithes in Lancaster and Pulton and this Abbot one third part also that the Abbot of Cokersand shall not admit any of the Parishioners of the Prior of Lancaster to Sepulture at his Convent without the Priors License c. The Abbot and Convent of Leicester de pratis granted to the Canons of Cokersand the Scite of the Hospital of Cokersand for the making of an Abby which change from an Hospital to a Monastery of Premonstratenses was made An. 1190. BEGEHAM in Sussex THIS Abby was first founded at Hotteham by Ralph de Dena and by him endow'd with Lands c Translated from thence to Begeham otherwise call'd Benlin by Ela de Saukvile Daughter of the first Founder whose Son Ieffrey de Saukvile confirm'd the Estate of these Canons Confirm'd also by Gilbert de Aquila Robert de Tuâ—nham Walkelin Maminot and Richard Earl of Clare and Hereford were also Benefactors all whose Gifts were confirm'd by King Iohn King Henry the III. An. 35. granted to these Canons a weekly Market on the Thursday at their Mannor of Rokeland and a Fair there for three days at Midsomer Which with their other Possessions was confirm'd by King Edward the II. An. 6. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 77. BARLINGS in Lincolnshire FOunded by Ralph de Haye with the Consent of Richard Haye his Brother confirm'd by King Henry the II. and King Iohn An. 16. The Bardolfs and Longspes were Benefactors BRODHOLME in Nottinghamshire KING Edward the II. An. 12. recited and confirm'd the several Lands and Possessions given to the Brothers and Sisters of Brodholme by divers Benefactors among whom Ralph de Albaniaco Walter de Clifford and Agnes his Wife c. Valued at 16 l. 5 s. 2 d. per Annum COVERHAM in Yorkshire THIS Monastery was first founded at Swayneby An. Dom. 1190. by Helewisia Daughter and Heir of Ranulf de Glanvilla a Baron and Capital Justice of England in the time of King Henry the II. and Richard the I. It was afterwards translated from Swayneby to Coverham near Midleham by Ralph Fitz-Robert descended from the said Helewisia The Lands c. given to this House by the Foundress and her Son Walleran Fitz-Robert and Ralph Fitz-Robert Edric Neusum and others were all confirm'd by King Edward the III. An. 22. Of this Family did descend two Sisters Co-heirs Mary Lady of Midleham married to Ralph de Nevile and Ioan married to Robert de Fatershall Valued at 160 l. 18 s. 3 d. per Annum St. AGATHA near Richmund in Yorkshire FOunded by one Roaldus the Constable possibly of Richmond Castle Roger de Moubray Alan Bygot and others were Benefactors whose Grants were recited and confirm'd by King Edw. III. An. 3. Richard le Scrope of Bolton by License of King Rich. II. granted to the Abbot and Convent of this House a yearly Rent of 150 l. for the Maintenance of ten Canons over and above the common number then in the Monastery and of two Secular Chaplains to celebrate for the said Richard and his Heirs c. and for the Maintenance of twenty two poor men in the said Abby This Richard le Scrope had been the Kings Chancellour and gave also to this Abby the Mannor of Brompton upon Swale then valued at 10 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum Valued at â— 11 l. 17 s. 11 d. per Annum TORRE in Devonshire THIS Church and Abby of St. Saviours of Torre was founded by William Briwer and by him endow'd with many Lands and with the Church of Torre c. to hold in free pure and perpetual Alms. King Iohn confirm'd to these Canons all their Possessions with the Grant of large Franchises and Immunities from Scutage and all Gelds and Tolls c. for themselves and their men From this William Briwere the Founder descended Reginald de Mohun who in the thirty six of King Henry the III. had a grant from this Abbot and Convent of Liberty to erect a Chappel in his Court at Thorre for himself and proper Family but not to baptize there nor admit any of the Parishioners to any Ecclesiastical Rights the said Abbot and Convent to receive one Moiety of all Oblations or Obventions arising in the said Chappel c. Valued at 396 l. 11 d. per Annum HALES-OWEN in Shropshire THE Mannor and Advowson of the Church of Hales was given by King Iohn An. 16. to Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester for the erecting of a Religious House which was accordingly founded here by that Bishop and by him endowed with this Estate Confirm'd by King Henry the III. Roger Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield An. 1248 appropriated the Church of Waleshale to this Abby after the death of Vincent then Rector of the said Church saving out of the same a Vicaridge of thirteen Marks to be assigned to a Vicar with all Obventions c. An. Dom. 1270. Godfrey Bishop of Worcester made a Settlement between the Abbot of Hales and the Perpetual Vicar of the Parish Church there the said Vicar to have and receive from the Abbot ten Marks yearly a House with Out Houses Orchard Garden and the Vesture of the Church-yard The Canons to find another Priest to be under the Vicar Presbiterm secundarium and to bear all ordinary and extraordinary Charges Iohn de Hamptone Ioan Botetourt and Iohn her Son gave divers Mannors and Advowsons to this Abby conditioning for Chantrys Wolstan Bishop of Worcester appropriated to this Abby the Church of Clent and Chappel of Rouley reserving to the perpetual Vicar who hath the Cure of Souls there a Revenue of 10 l. viz. a Messuage and Curtelage on the South side of the Church-yard with Tith of Calves Lambs c. and all small Tithes except of the Monasteries proper Lands Mortuaries the Herbage and Trees of the Church-yard and all the Altarage Valued at 280 l. 13 s. 2 d. ob per Annum LANGLEY in
Norfolk FOunded by Robert Fitz-Roger and endow'd with Lands c. All which were confirm'd to these Canons by King Iohn An. 1. with the grant of large Liberties and Immunities from all Tolls and Taxes Valued at 104 l. 16 s. 5 d. ob per Annum TITCHFIELD in Hampshire KING Henry the III. An. 16. granted his Mannor of Tichefeud to Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester to found an Abby of Premonstratenses and further granted to the said Abby very great Liberties in the said Mannor and their other Lands with very great Immunities and to be free and discharged from Tolls c. and from suit to any Forrest Courts and from the expeditating or lawing of Dogs and this not only for themselves but all their Men dwelling on their Lands Other Benefactors to this Abby were Eua de Clinton Reginald de Albamara Baldwin de Ripariis Lord of the Iâ—â— Gilbert le Mansel Peter de Sukemund who gave certain Land 〈◊〉 Ingepenne to hold of the Chief Lord of the Fee by the Service of half a Knights Fee and of himself and his Heirs by one pair of Spurs or 3 d. at the Feast of St. Michael c. All whose Gifts were confirm'd to this House by King Edward the II. An. II. An Inventory of the Goods of this Monastery was taken Anno Dom. 1420. before Iohn Powle Abbot of Hales-Owen Visitor of this Place and it was then found that they had no Monies in their Treasury but were 43 l. 4 s. in Debt and the House ingaged in 62 l. 6. d. In the Sacristy one Silver-Cup gilt for keeping the Sacrament two great Chalices gilt and twelve lesser ones a great Silver Vessel full of Relicks a great Silver Cross gilt with the Images of Mary and Iohn two Candlesticks Silver and gilt c. In the Treasury many pieces of Plate some of great size c. In divers Mannors belonging to this Church four and thirty Horses ten Mares four Foals one hundred and fifty four Oxen seven Bulls nine and fifty Cows c. three hundred eighty and one Muttons one hundred Lambs c. seventeen Boars twenty four Sows thirty three Hogs one hundred and twenty six lesser Swine and eighty nine Pigs Valued at the Suppression at 249 l. 16 s. 1 d. per Annum Of the Order of St. Gilbert of Sempringham A NVN OF Y e ORDER OF St. GILBERT Vol. 2. P. 669 THe Institutions made by the blessed Gilbert and his Successors for the Government of this Order of Sempringham are very large and cousist of Divers general Chapters or Heads and those divided into many Subdivisions I shall take Notice only of the Principal Titles And refer to the Book at large for particulars The first Treats of the Rise and beginning of the Order and of the Election of the Master c. Of the Principal Examiners or Searchers Scrutatoribus their Constitution and Authority c. Of the four Procurators in each House of this Order c. Of the Canons and Novices and their Age and of the Lay Canons c. Of the Brothers their Institution Apparel and Duties c. Of the Nuns and such matters as relate to them and their Houses Of the Lay Sisters their Apparel and manner of Life Of the Sick and Infirm Nuns and Sisters how to be treated Of the Office of the Dead and Funeral Matters c. Of some Rules relating equally to the Nuns and Sisters Of the Unity and friendship between all the Houses of this Order Of the Grand Chapter of the Order to be held yearly In the end of this last Chapter the Founder of the Order Provides that in the Several Houses of the Men the Number shall not exceed 394 in all and in those of the Women the number of Nuns and Sisters together shall not exceed 960. THis order was first Instituted in England in the Reign of King Steven An. Dom. 1148. by Master Iohn Gilbert of Semplingham William Bishop of Norwich writ a very high Commendation of this Gilbert and of all the Religious of his Order by way Testimonial to Pope Alexander III. The Priory of Sempringham in Lincolnshire FOunded by Gilbert de Gaunt and by him and others endow'd with divers Lands in Lincolnshire Iohn Dalderby Bishop of Lincoln by his Deed dated at Buchden An. Dom. 1303. granted License to the Schollers of the Convent of Sempringham Studying Divinity or Philosophy in St. Peter's Parish in Stamford to have a Chaplain to celebrate in their private Chappel there saving the Rights of the Parish-Church of St. Peter there Robert Lutterel Rector of Irnham gave for the maintenance of the said Schollers so studdying at Stamford as aforesaid the House where they inhabited with divers Lands and Tenements in Keten Cotismore and Casterton in Rutland Vid. Vol. 3. p. 107. Valued at 317 l. 4 s. 1 d. per Annum HAVERHOLME in Lincolnshire FOunded by Alexander Bishop of Lincoln and by him endowed with the Isle then called Hasreholm An. Dom 1139. Valued at 70 l. 15 s. 10 d. ob per Annum CHIKESAND in Bedfordshire PAganus de Bellocampo and Rohaisa his Wife gave many Lands to this House King Edward the II in the tenth year of his Reign granted his License to Iohn Blundel to give the Mannor of Chikesonde with its appurtenances to the Prior and Convent of this House Valued at 212 l. 3 s. 5 d. ob per Annum BOLINGTON in Lincolnshire FOunded by Simon Fitz William in his Park of Bolyngton and by him endowed with part of his said Park and divers other Lands in pure and perpetual Alms. William de Kima confirm'd to the Prior and Convent of both Sexes at Bolyngton all their Lands and Revenues A. D. 1256. Robert Putrel of Cotes being received into the Fraternity of this House gave them at the sametime the Church of Houtun and Advowson of the same The Crevequers or Creukers Barons of Redburn were Benefactors to this Priory giving divers Lands in pure and perpetual Alms. Valued at 158 l. 7 s. 11 d. per Annum A CANNON REGVLAR OF St. GILBERT Vol. 2. P. 791 WATTON in Yorkshire FOunded by Eustachius Son of Iohn and Agnes his Wife for Nuns and thirteen Canons to serve and provide for them according to the Institution of the Order of Sempringham To whom he gave the Town of Watton c. Confirm'd by William Fossard Lord of the Fee and by Henry Archbishop of York Confirm'd also by Roger de Lasci Constable of Chester descended from the said Eustachius King Iohn also gave them Lands in the first year of his Reign Eustachius the Founder married for his first Wife a Daughter and Heir of Ivo de Vescy from which match descended several of the Vescys and for his second Wife Agnes Daughter of William Constable of Chester Valued at 360 l. 16 s. 10 d. ob per Annum ALVINGHAM in Lincolnshire PEter de Melsa and Beatrix his Wife gave to the Church of St. Mary of Alvingham and to the Nuns and
the Church of Wrytele in Essex for the maintenance of the Poor in this Hospital call'd the English Hospital at Rome BLANCLAND in Normandy FOunded for Canons and endow'd with Lands in England by Richard de Hay and his Wife De BELLOPORTU in Normandy AN. Dom. 1202. Alen Son of Earl Henry gave divers Lands in England to the Canons Regular of this Abby Premonstratenses Dominican Nuns near Roan FOunded by St. Lewis King of France beyond the Bridge at Roan and by him endowed with 500 l. Turnois per Annum and divers Liberties An. Dom. 1269. The Cathedral Church at Roan DIvers Lands in England were formerly given to the Canons of this Church and their Successors by King Henry Earl Otho and more especially by King Iohn viz. The Mannor of Clere in Hampshire Oteri in Devonshire Kilburn in Torkshire c. Irish Monasteries St. ANDREWS in the Territory of Ardes Ardee FOunded by Iohn de Curceio At first a Cell to the Abby of Lonley in Normandy and by them granted to the Archbishop of Armach The Nuns at Corke FOund by Inquisition 29 E. 1. that it was not to the Kings damage for William Barry and others to settle certain Lands there mention'd on Agnes de Hareford and other Nuns and their Successors in the House of St. Iohn Baptist in St. Iohn's-street in Cork St. PATRICKS at Downe FOunded An. Dom. 1183. for Monks and a Prior from St. Werburgs at Chester but without any Subjection to the Church of Chester The Bishop of Down was Custos and Abbot of this Monastery in like manner as the Bishops were in the Churches of Winchester and Coventry Iohn de Curci the Founder of this Monastery endow'd it with divers Revenues and Tithes among other things of all his hunting The Nuns at GRANE in the County of Kildare POpe Innocent the III. An. Dom. 1207. confirm'd the Lands given to this House by Walter de Rideleford and others the like confirmation was made by King Iohn in the ninth year of his Reign KILCUMYN FOunded by Philip de Wigornia Constable of Ireland and furnished with Monks from Glastonbury NEDDRUM a Cell to St. Bege in Yorkshire ANno Dom. 1177. 23 H. 2 the Lord Iohn de Curci subdued Vlster An. 1178. he gave Neddrum to the Monks of St. Bege with great Priviledges Divers Benefactors gave Lands to this Priory all which was confirm'd An. Dom. 1202. by Iohn Cardinal of St. Steven in Mont Caelius Apostolick Legat. OCYMILD FOunded by William de Burgo and given to Richard a Monk of Glastonbury ARKEL a Cell to Furnes in Lancashire FOunded by Theobald Walteri Butler of Ireland and by him given to the Monks of the Cistercian Order at Furnes with divers Liberties BELLO BECCO another Cell to Furnes FOunded and endow'd by Walter de Lascy for Cistercian Monks who afterwards by License of King Edward the III. transferr'd their Estate here to the Abbot and Convent of Furneys DUNBROTHY in the County of Wexford HArvey de Monte Marisco the Kings Marshal of Ireland gave this place with divers other Lands for a Cell to the Abby of Bildwas in England William Marshal Earl of Pembroke was a great Benefactor to this House whose Gifts were confirm'd by King Edward the III. among which things they had a grant of Pasture for eighty Cows and one thousand five huudred Sheep yearly JEREPONT FOunded by Dumwald King of Ossery and endow'd by him with Baleochellam in which the Monastery was founded and other Lands all confirm'd by Iohn Lord of Ireland and Earl of Morton KYLLECONIL FOunded by Donald O Bryan Confirm'd by King Henry the III. An. suo 4. MELLIFONT KING Iohn confirm'd to the Monks of the Church of St. Mary at Drogheda divers Land which they enjoy'd before the coming of the French into Ireland The like confirmations were made by King Henry the III. and King Edward the III. NEWRY in the County of Down FOunded and endowed for Cistercian Monks by Mauritius mag Lochlain King of all Ireland by the unanimous consent of the Great men and Petty Kings of Vlster ROSGLAS FOunded and endow'd by Dermitius O Demesy King of Ofalia St. SAVIOURS FOunded by William Marischal Earl of Pembroke confirm'd by King Henry the III. with the grant of great Liberties To this Abby was afterwards united the Abby of Kilkenny TYNTERNE FOunded according to the last Will of William Marischal Earl of Pembroke and ratified by King Iohn DE VALLE SALUTIS FOunded by Dermitius an Irish King and by him and his Subjects endow'd with divers Lands Confirm'd by King Iohn WONEY in the County of Limerick FOunded An. Dom. 1205. and endowed with Lands and Liberties by Theobald Walteri Butler of Ireland St. CROSSE in the County of Tiperary FOunded and endowed by Donald King of Lumney Lumnicensis BALLINTOBBER in the County of Maio. Canons Regular FOunded by Catholus O Conogher King of Connaught An. Dom. 1216. CONNAL a Cell to Lanthony in England FOunded An. 1202. by Maylerus Son of Henry for Canons Regular Confirm'd by King Iohn The Hospital of St. Mary's near Droheda FOunded and endowed by Vrsus de Swemele for the maintenance of poor and infirm People and such as are in Want The Custos of which Hospital to be chosen by the Good men Proborum hominum of Drogheda ALL-SAINTS in the East-part of Dublin FOunded and endowed for Canons by Dermont King of Leimster confirm'd by King Henry the II. St. THOMAS the Martyr in Dublin FOunded and endowed by William Son of Audelinus Sewer to King Henry the II. by Authority of that King and for him FERNE in the County of Wexford FOunded and endowed by Dernatius King of Leimster An. 1158. He also granted them free choice of their own Abbots according to the Rule of St. Augustine KENLIS and Inistiock in the County of Kilkenny JEffrey Son of Robert came into Ireland with William Earl Marischal and obtain'd the Barony of Kenlis in Ossorey at which place he afterwards built a Monastery for Canons Regular which he brought over from Bodmin in Cornwalk One of whom was Hugh de Rous who after that became the first English Bishop of Ossery About An. 1206. Thomas Son of Anthony founded a Priory at Iâ—istiock which became as a Cell to Kenlis Hugh de Lacy and Walter de Lacy were Benefactors The Hospital of St. John Evangelist at Kilkenny FOunded and endowed An. 1220. by William Mareschal Earl of Pembroke KILVAYNARD a Priory of Augustin Nuns POpe Celestin the III. An. 1195. confirmed their Lands and Possessions with the grant of divers Liberties St. JOHN BAPTIST at Nenath in the County of Tiperary FOunded about the year 1200. by Theobald Walter Butler of Ireland and by him endow'd with Lands for the Maintenance of Canons and thirteen poor and infirm People FERMOY FOundeds and endowed for Canons Regular of St. Augustin by Alexander Son of Hugh Confirm'd by King Edward the I. An. suo 18. TOBERGLORIE in the County of Down FOunded and endowed by Iohn de Curcey and by
him given as a Cell to the Prior and Canons of St. Mary at Carlile TRISTERNAGH in the County of Meath FOunded and endowed about the year 1200. by Ieffrey de Constantine for Canons Regular The Cathedral Church of the Trinity at Dublin STitrius King of Dublin gave the Ground where this Church now stands to Donatus the first Bishop of Dublin for the erecting of a Church to the Holy Trinity with Revenues Which Donatus in his time built the Nave and side Isles Many years after Laurence the second Archbishop of Dublin and Richard Strigul and the Earl Marshal c. added the Quire Bells and two Chappels After Laurence Henry and Luke two other Archbishops carried on the Building and after them Iohn de S. Paul finisht all King Iohn was a Benefactor to this Church while Earl of Morton and after he was King Scotch Monasteries COLDINGHAM a Cell to Durham SAint Ebba Sister of Oswy King of Northumberland was the first Institutor of a Religious Life in this Place here she had a Monastery consisting of both Sexes under her Government King Edward the III. in the first year of his Reign granted his Letters of Protection for this Priory LINDORS FOunded by David Earl of Huntington Brother of the King of Scotland and by him endowed with drivers Churches ABERBROTHE FOunded by William King of Scotland in honour of God and St. Thomas the Archbishop and Martyr and by him endowed with Lands and Liberties DRYBRUGHE Founded and endowed by David King of Scotland for Canons with the grant of divers Liberties and Immunities DUMFERMLINGE FOunded by Malcolm King of Scotland in monte Infirmorum and by him and others endowed with large Possessions Confirm'd by King David the first youngest Son of King Malcolm and Margaret his Wife BELMERINACH in Fife FOunded and endowed by Alexander King of Scotland in honour of God St. Mary and the holy King Edward for Cistercian Monks Of the Cistercian Monasteries in Scotland SAint David son of Malcolm and Margaret founded Six of this Order â—enry Prince of Scotland Son of the said David founded Hadington St. Malcolm Son of the said Henry founded three William King of Scotland founded one Others of the Nobility founded many others viz. Patrick Dunbar Earl of March and Agatha his Wife founded Coldstream in the Marshes The Earl of Fife founded Northberwick where a peice of our Lord's Cross was preserved with great Veneration Iohn Lord of Kirconell founded Sacrum-Boscum commonly call'd Holywood of this House it is said was the famous Iohn de Sacro bosco who writ of the Sphere and other Astronomical matters c. The End of the Second Volum MONASTICON ANGLICANUM ABRIDGED VOL. III. OF THE CATHEDRAL and COLLEGIATE CHURCHES MONASTICON ANGLICANUM Abridg'd VOL. III. and last Additions to the First Volum Pag. 31. ROCHESTER GVnaulphus Bishop of Rochester by authority will and command of King William and by the advice help and assent 〈◊〉 Laâ—â—ranc Archbishop of Canterbury did institute sixty Monks in the Room of five Clerks all that then were in the Church of St. Andrew the apostle and transferr'd the possessions formerly given by divers Benefactors to that Church to the maintenance of those Monks with other endowments of his own guift for the maintenance of them Strangers that should come there and poor people and for Serjeants to serve them He also made Provision for a Festival on St. Andrews day for himself and Successors if they should be present at the Celebration of the same Whose Charter bears date the twentieth day of September 1089. Boniface Archbishop of Canterbury recited the Grant of Anselm his Predecessor by which he granted and confirm'd divers Lands given to this Church by Bishop Gundulf and others in Kent Surrey Suffolk Buckinghamshire and Gloucestershire dated at London in a Council of Bishops A. D. 1101 And the said Anselm's Confirmation of Archbishop Lanfranc's Grant to the said Church dated 1087. and confirm'd all the said recited Grants by his Deed of Confirmation dated 1254. King Henry II. confirm'd all their Lands and Possessions with large Priviledges and immunities such as the Church of Cantebury enjoys whose Charter bears date at Nottingham An. Dom. 1197. An Exchange was made by consent of King Richard I. between Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury and the Prior and Convent of Rochester the said Prior and Convent granting to the said Archbishop and Successors their Mannour of Lambeth with the Church there and the Liberties and appurtenances thereunto belonging as well in Southwark is in the Soke of London except a Mill which the Monks have upon the Thames over against the Tower of London c. And the said Archbishop gave in Exchange to the said Monks the Mannour of Darent c. with mutual Warranty on both sides and a restriction that it shall not be lawful for the said Archbishop or his Successors ever to alienate the Said Mannour of Lambeth from the Archbishoprick or for the said Monks to alienate the Mannour of Darent c. Pag. 413. NORWICH JOhn Archbishop of Canterbury at the request of the Prior and Convent of the Cathedral Church of Norwich exemplified the Charter of Herbert Bishop of Norwich by which he gave to the Monks whom he had establisht in the said Cathedral Church divers Lands Tithes and other Revenues and of Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of the Greater Britain and Ireland and Vicar of Pope Pascal by which he confirm'd the Establishment of the Monks which the said Herbert had made in the said Church of the Holy Trinity at Norwich which Church King William and King Henry his Brother and Successor had constituted to be the head and Mother of all the Churches of Norfolk and Suffolk The foresaid Deed of Exemplification bears date at Lambeth An. Dom. 1281. Radulphus Fitz Godric gave to this Church the Mannour of Neuton confirm'd to the Monks by King Henry I. Pag. 120. GLOCESTER AN. Dom. 1138. King Steven in the third year of his Reign confirm'd to the Church St. Peter of Gloucester all the Lands Churches Tithes and other donations given by Divers Benefactors Pag. 395. St. MARYS at York IVo de Taleboyse from whom descended the Noble families of the Rosses Lords of Werke Faucumberge Twenge and Belewe c. gave to the Church of St. Mary in York and to the Abbot and Monks there divers Lands and Churches This Ivo de Tailbois held of the King in Capite the Barony of Hephall which Barony was held by his Ancestors in Thenagio paying to the King 50 s. yearly but King William the Conqueror changed the Tenure into the Service of one Knights Fee Pag. 258. WHERWELL POpe Gregory the IX th recited and confirm'd to the Abbess and Nuns of Wherwell all their Lands Tithes and Churches that they then had or for the future should obtain and exempted them from Tithes for their own Cattel with priviledge to receive and retain in their Monastery such secular Women as are free and at their own
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
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
endow'd with the Mannour of Leystone The Advowson of this Abby coming to the Crown by the forfeiture of Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk King Richard II. An. 12. confirm'd to the Abbot and Convent of this House their Estate and granted them free Election of their Abbot that in time of Vacation neither he nor his heirs nor any of his or their Officers would seize the Temporalities nor intermeddle in the same nor should any Abbot and Convent of this House be ever compell'd to grant any Corody or Pension to any Person Vid. Vol. 3. p. 74. Valued at 181 l. 17 s. 1 d. per Annum BEAUCHIEF in Derbyshire RObert Fitz-Ranulf Lord of Alferton Norton and Marnham was one of these four Knights who martyr'd the Blessed Thomas Arch-Bishop oâ— Camesbury in explation of which Act he founded this Monastery of Bello Capite or Beauchef dedicated to St. Thomas the Martyr Thomas de Cadureis or Chaworth descended by an Heir General from the said Robert gave divers Lands to this House and confirm'd all the Gifts of his Ancestors King Edward II. An. 9. recited and confirm'd the Lands c. given to the Abbot and Canons of this House by their several Benefactors Valued at 126 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum BLANCLAND in Northumberland FOunded for twelve Canons of the Order of Premonstratenses by Walter de Bolebek and by him endow'd with divers Lands c. Valued at 40 l. 9 d. per Annum NEWBO in Lincolnshire FOunded and endow'd with Lands and Churches by Richard Malebisse Confirm'd by King Henry III. An. 9. Among other things the foresaid Richard gave the Canons of this House certain Lands in Estwisell held of Iohn de Lascy Earl of Lincoln by Ward Releif and Scurage c. all which Services the said Earl afterwards released and quit claim'd to these Canons in pure and perpetual almes Valued at 71 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob per Annum LAVINDENE in Buckinghamshire FOunded by Iohn Bidun and by him endow'd with divers Lands and Churches Ranulph Earl of Chester and Ralf de Bray with divers others were Benefactors all whose gifts were confirm'd to the Canons of the Church of St. Iohn Baptist at Lavindene by King Henry III. An. II. Valued at 79 l. 13 s. 8 d. per Annum WENDLYNG in Norfolk FOunded and endow'd with Lands c. by William de Wendlying in free and perpetual Almes Confirm'd by King Edward III. An. 6. And by Robert de Stuievill An. 1273. 1. Edward I. Valued at 55 l. 18 s. 4 d. per Annum HAGNEBY in Lincolnshire FOunded in honour of St. Thomas the Martyr Archbishop of Canterbury by the Lady Agnes de Orreby Wife of Herbert de Orreby An. 22. Henry the II. Richard Bishop of Lincoln 52 H. 3. and Philip de Kyme 4 E. 1. with divers others were Benefactors Valued at 87 l. 11 s. 4 d. per Annum STANLY Park commonly call'd Dale in Darbyshire IT is said that a certain Baker living in the Parish of St. Mary at Derby a man very Religious and a great Alms-giver was admonisht in a Vision to leave all that he had and betake himself to a solitary Life in a Place call'd Depedale which accordingly he did This was a Desert and Moorish place East from Derby near Stanley Radulsus Son of Geremundus Lord of the place accidentally discovering this Hermit in his poor Habitation as he was hunting and commiserating his Condition granted him the Soil where his Hermitage stood and also the Tith of his Mill of Burg for his maintenance The Daughter of this Radulfus was married to Serlo de Grendon Lord of Badeley to whom his Aunt and Godmother call'd The Gome of the Dale Gome in old English signified a Godmother gave Depedale These two astembled hither certain Canons from a Religious House at Kalke to whom they gave this Place where they built asumptious Church and Monastery which obtain'd from Rome ample Priviledges But these Canons becoming very relax in their Divine Offices and more given to hunting and the Pleasures of the Forrest than to the Church and Prayer for which being in danger to be removed they by way of Prevention refigned all they had here into the hands of their Patron and return'd to the place from whence they came except Humfrey their Prior who retired to a place call'd the Magdalen and became a Hermit But this House became not hereby desolate but afterwards rise to a greater degree of honour Ludit in adversis divina potentia rebus for after this there came hither six Canons of the Order of Praemenstratenses from Tupholme invited by the Patron But these also misbehaved themselves and were recall'd to Tupholme Hereupon William de Grendhom then Patron procured five other Canons of the fame Order from Welbeck These also after some time return'd back discouraged by excessive Poverty At last William Son of the foresaid Radulf with his Daughter Maud married to Ieffrey Sawcemere but childles and the foresaid William de Grendon the Patron his Sisters Son joyn'd together in making a Fair and sufficient Endowment of Lands to this House procuring nine Canons from Newhouse to whom they gave the Town and Park of Stanley the Dominion of Depedale with other Lands in Okebroke c. All which with their other Possessions given by other Benefactors were confirm'd to the Abbot and Canons of Stanlegh Park by King Henry the III. An. 19. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 72. Valued at 144 l. 12 s. per Annum LANGDONE in Kent a Cell to Leystone FOunded by William de Auberville and by him endow'd with the Town of Langedone and divers other Lands confirm'd by Simon de Albrinciis his chief Lord and Nicholas do Cryoll defcended of the foresaid William the Founder WEST-DERHAM in Norfolk FOunded by Hubert Dean of York for the good of his own Soul and the Souls of his Father and Mother and of Ranulph de Glanville and Bertra his Wife who brought him up He became afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury and endow'd this Abby with many Lands all which was confirm'd by King Iohn An. 1. who also granted to the Canons of this House very great Liberties and Immunities as to be quit from all Tolls throughout the Kingdom both for themselves and their men c. Valued at 228 l. ob per Annum BILEGH alias Maldone in Essex THE Canons of Perendune removed to Maldon An. Dom. 1180. Robert Mantell was their Founder King Richard the I. An. 1. confirm'd all their Lands and Revenues with the grant of Liberties Valued at 157 l. 16 s. 11 d. per Annum SULBY in Northamptonshire THIS Abby of St. Mary de Welleford afterwards call'd the Abby of Suleby was founded by William de Wideville King Richard the I. granted these Canons divers Immunities Robert de Pavily Knt. granted them his Mannor of Suleby to hold of the Abbot and Convent of Westminister being Lords of the Fee at the yearly Rent of 102 s. and of him the said Robert
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