THIS was founded by Iohn de Toryton The Lands given to these Monks were recited and confirm'd by King Iohn in the sixteenth year of his Reign Vid. Vol. 2. p. 918. Valued at 135 l. 3 s. 6 d. per Annum HOLMCOLTRUM in Cumberland Founded An. 1150. KIng Henry II seems to have been the Founder of this Abby King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign confirm'd their Lands as 〈◊〉 also K. Henry III. in the 39. year of his Reign Iohn Gernoun and Margaret his Wife founded and endow'd a Chantry in this Abby Church for four Chaplains Monks of this House and two secular Chaplains This Iohn than held two parts of the Mannor of Wyggeton by Cornage As was found by Inquisition 6 E. 3. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 34. Valued at 427 l. 19 s. 3 d. ob q. per Annum TARENT in Dorsetshire THis Abby was founded for Nuns of the Cistercian Order by Richard Bishop of Durham Iohn Queen of Scots gave to this House cum corpore suo with her Body Lands in Stanton in Cambridgeshire to the value of 20 l. per Annum All the Estate belonging to this Monastery was confirm'd by King Henry III. who was also himself a Benefactor Valued at 215 l. 7 s. 9 d. per Annum TILTEY alias Wudeham in Essex FOunded Anno 1152. This was first given by Maurice Son of Ieffery de Teretia to the Canons of the Church of St. Iohn Baptist of Wodeham and endow'd with several Lands confirm'd by King Henry II. After wards King Richard the first confirm'd the same Estate to the Monks here settled of the Cistercian Order in the tenth year of his Reign Valued at 167. 2 s. 6 d. per Annum DEULACRES in Cheshire ANno 1153. The Abby of Pulton in Cheshire was founded by Robert Pincerna it was furnisht with Monks of the Cistercian Order from Cumbermere and was therefore called a Daughter of that House In the year 1214. the Convent was translated from Pulton to Deulacres by Ralph Earl of Chester This Ralph afterwards coming from his Expedition in the Holy Land was in a great Storm at Sea in the Night confident of deliverance at Midnight through the Suffrages of these Monks then at their Nocturnal Devotions accordingly the Storm did then begin to cease to the wonder of the Seamen This Ralph and his Successors Earls of Chester gave and confirm'd divers Lands and Possessions to this Abby Vid. Vol. 2. pag 919. CLUNOK-VAUR in Wales THe Original of this Monastery was by S. Benow of whom mention is made in the Life of St. Winefrid The White Monks here were of a newer Foundation Guithin Unkle to one of the Princes of Northwales gave the Village of Clunok to Benow Vide Vol. 2. pag. 119. STRATFLURE in Cardiganshire FOunded and endowed with divers Lands by Reese Prince of Southwales The Estate of this House called also Strata florida was confirm'd by King Henry II. and King Edward I. Valued at 118 l. 7 s. 3 d. per Annum LEGâ—URN in Lincolnshire THis Abby was founded for Nuns by Robert de Lekeburn who was buried in the Chapter house of this Nunnery at whose Interment his Son and Heir William declared publickly his confirmation of his Fathers Donations and Endowments adding of his own gift the yearly Rent of two shillings in Franckalmoign King Iohn in the first year of his Reign confirm'd the Estate of this House Valued at 38 l. 8 s. 4 d. per Annum STRATMARGEL or Strata-Marcella in Montgomeryshire FOunded An. 1170. by Madock ap Griffin By his Deed dated An. 1222 he endowed it with divers Lands and Revenues Valued at 64 l. 14 s. 2 d. per Annum STANLAW in Cheshire Founded An. 1172. THe first Founder of this House was Iohn Constable of Chester who endowed it with divers Lands and Liberties his Deed bears date 1178. These Monks of Stanlaw were afterwards translated to the Church of Whaley at which the Abbot and Convent of Salley in Torkshire were very much grieved alledging among other things that they were nigher to their Abby than the Constitutions of their Order do allow of and that it was to their damage 27l 10 s. But the differences were composed in the year 1305. by the Abbots of Ryvalle and Belland The Church of Whaley was in being in the time when St. Augustine the Monk came into England The Rectors of which Church were in after times called Deans and not Parsons and were married men who also had the ordinary Jurisdiction of the place committed to them by the Bishop These Deans had an Estate of inheritance in the Church of Whaly and the Chappels which went from Father to Son and the Cure of the Churches was supplied by certain Priests whom the Deans provided and presented to the Bishop for his License The Names of these Deans may be seen in the Book at large But after the Council of Lateran 1215. it was no longer permitted that this Church should go as an inheritance Not long after this the Church of Whaley was given by Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Lord of Blagbornshire to the Monks of Stanlaw who enter'd upon this their new Seat in the year 1296. Dom. George de Norbury being then their Abbot which Translation was ratified by the Bull of Pope Nicholas the IV. The Deed of the said Henry whereby he gave this Church of Whally with all its Rights Liberties and Appurtenants bears date in the year 1283. In the thirty fourth year of Edward the III. Henry Duke of Lancaster Earl of Derby Lincoln and Leicester gave divers Lands to the Abbot and Convent of Whalley for the maintaining of a Recluse or Anchorite and his Successors dwelling in a place within the Church-yard of the Parish-Church of Whalley and for two Women their Servants who shall be there continually praying for the said Duke his Ancestors and Heirs viz to find them every Week throughout the year fifteen Loaves of the Convent Bread each Loaf weighing fifty shillings sterling and seven Loaves of the second sort of the same weight eight Gallons of the best Ale of the Convent and three pence for their Companage to deliver them yearly at the Feast of all Saints ten Stock-fish and ten great Ling fish one bushel of Oats for their Potage one bushel of Salt two Gallons of Oyl for their Lamps one stone of Tallow for Candles six Load of Turf and one of Brushwood for Fuel to keep their House in repair and to find one of their Monks and a Clark to say Mass in the Chappel of the said Recluse daily c. The first Founder of this House Iohn de Lacy Constable of Chester and Lord of Halton married Alice Sister of William de Mandeville and died in the Holy Land Of this Family was Henry de Lacy Founder of the Abby of Kirkstall of whom before NUNAPLETON in Yorkshire THIS Priory of Nuns was founded by Adeliza de Sancto-Quintino and Robert her Son and Heir dedicated to God St.
and Isabella de Say his Wife gave the Church of St. George of Clune to the Monks of St. Milburge at Wendloke Pag. 614. DUDLEY THe Church and Monastery of St. Iames at Dudley was founded and endow'd by Gervaise Paganel or Painel who granted that in whatsoever Pastures his own Cattle fed there also the Cattel of the Monks of Dudley might freely feed except in his Parks with tithe of his Bread hunting and fishing while he remains at Dudley An. 1290 Roger Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield granted a Remission of forty days penance to those who being truly contrite and confest should say the Lords Prayer and Salutation of the Blessed Virgin for the Soul of Roger de Somery buried in the Conventual Church of Dudley and for the Souls of all the Faithful deceas'd Pag. 619. LEWIS TO this House did belong divers Lands Churches and Tithes in Devonshire Sassex Surrey Kent and Norfolk the several Names of which and of the Benefactors who gave them may be seen in the Book at large Pag. 636. BROMHOLME KIng Edward II. granted to the Monks here the Mannour of Blaketon to hold in fee farm at the yearly Rent of twenty pound which Mannour did formerly belong to Edmund Earl of Kent Pag. 668. MONTEACUTE THis Monastery was founded by William Earl of Moriton near the Castle of Monteacute for Monks of Cluny and to it he gave the Burgh and Castle of Montacute and the Chappel in the Castle together with many other Mannours Lands Churches Tiths Fairs and Hundreds Pag. 687. TICKFORD GErvasius Paganell gave and confirm'd to the Monks of the Church of the blessed Mary at Newport divers Lands and Revenues given them by his Ancestors and by other men which held of his Fee An. 1187. These Monks of Newport the same with Tickford were here as a Cell to St. Martins call'd Majus Monasterium or Marmonstier in France Pag. 704. WAVERLEY POpe Eugenius the III. by his Bull dated at Paris An. 1147. granted to the Monks of this House and their Successors inter alia that no Tithes should be by any exacted of them for their Lands or Cattel in their own hands or occupation Pag. 768. CUMBERMERE BAldwin and Hubert successive Archbishops of Canterbury confirm'd to these Monks and their Successors several Churches and Chappels to them given among the rest that of Namptwiche Pag. 782. BILDWAS FOunded by Roger Bishop of Coventry Hugh Bishop of Coventry gave these Monks an Inn in Litchfield for their Reception when they came thither William Fitz-Alan gave them the Town of Little Bildewas with other Lands Henry Abbot of this House granted to Hamon de Benthale in consideration that his Mother was burden'd with many Children and at her instance a certain Allowance and stipen'd in this Monastery for Term of his Life which afterwards 11 E. 2. in consideration of a Sum of Money in hand paid to him by Iohn then Abbot the said Hamon did Release and Quit claim An. 1287 Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Constable of Chester confirm'd an exchange made between the Monks of this House and those of Crokesden viz. of Caldon Grange in Com. Stafford being of his Fee for certain Lands in Edwyneye in Com. Salop. Pag. 802. NEWMINSTER THE first and principal Founder of this Abby was the Lord Ralph de Merley from whom descended two Sisters who became Co-heirs to the Barony of Merley Mary married to William Baron of Graystok and Isabella married to the Lord Robert de Somervill all whose descendants were great Benefactors to this House so also were the Bertrams Barons de Mitford with divers others Ralph Baron of Graystok who died An. 1483. was also Baron of Wemme George Dacre Lord of Gillesland and Graystok died young and untimely by the accidental fall of a Wooden Vaulting-Horse An. 1569. he being then in Wardship with the Duke of Norfolk Pag. 866. DORE ROger de Clifford gave his Body to God and the blessed Mary and the Monks of Dore to be buried in the Church of Dore and with his body he gave them certain Land nomine Dotis Pag. 885. BLANCLAND PAganus de Cadurcis Son and Heir of the Lady Hawisia de London gave to the Cistercian Monks of Albaland nineteen Acres of arable Land that every Priest of the said House should daily in the Canon of the Mass make special commemoration for the Souls of such and such of his Family pro vivis inter Vivos pro defunctis inter mortuos Whose Deed bears date An. 1270. Pag. 892. DEULACRES ROger de Menilwarin gave to the Monks of this House for the Health of the Soul of Ranulph Earl of Chester and Lincoln his Mothers Brother in pure and perpetual Alms free Common in his Wood of Pevere House-bote and Hay-bote with Paunage for fifty Hogs Pag. 893. CLUNOCK-VAUR FOunded and endow'd by one Gwithno King Cadwalader and divers Welch Lords gave large Possessions to this Abby dedicated to God and St. Beyno Pag. 916. ROBERTSBRIG ALice Countess of Eu Daughter of William Earl of Arundell and of Queen Alizia gave Lands to this Abby in pure and perpetual Alms ad hospitalitatem sustentandam for the maintenance of Hospitality Which Lands were confirm'd to them by William the third Earl of Sussex her Brothers Son and by Iohn de Augo her Son Pag. 926. BEAULIEU KING Iohn gave out of his Treasury one hundred Mark for the building this Abby in Newforest and directed his Letters to all Abbots of the Cistercian Order to be helpful to the re-edifying of the same out of their several Stocks Pag. 936. VALE-ROYAL PRince Edward Son of King Henry the III. being in great danger of drowning at Sea as he return'd from the Holy Land vow'd in case he and his came safe to Land to erect a new Monastery in honour of God's blessed Mother Mary in some proper place in England and endow the same with sufficient maintenance for one hundred Cistercian Monks Which Monastery being afterwards built and by him named Vale Royal a Convent was translated thither from the Abby of Dore. In the year 1277 the said Edward being then King of England laid the first Stone of a new Building in the place design'd for the great Altar and after his example all the prime Nobility of the Land did the like in honour of our Lord Christ the Virgin Mary and the Holy Confessors St. Nichelas and Nichafius Their first Habitation was but small yet there they remain'd for the time of four Abbots till in the year 1330. the Convent was translated to a new Monastery on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin The place where this Monastery was situated was before call'd Munechene wro in Latin Monachorum silua Munchene in old English signifying a Monk or Nun and Wro a Wood. 'T is said that many years before this Monastery was founded in the place Shepherds and Country People did usually on the Solemn Feasts of the Virgin about Midnight hear Coelestial Musick and see such
third Bishop of Worcester founded this Monastery Kenredus King of Mercia and Offa Governour of the East Angles in the year 709 being both then at Rome endow'd it with large Possessions The Towns which St. Egwin obtain'd to his Monastery of the said Kings were in all twenty two There were belonging to this House sixty seven Monks five Nuns three poor People three Clerks who had all the same allowance as the Monks had and besides these sixty five Servants The under Officers of this House as Prior Sub-Prior third Prior Precentor Sacristan Celarer c. were created by the Abbot with the advice and consent of the major part of the Covent in Chapter All which Officers had their several Rents arising from distinct and several places appropriated to their several Offices In the year 1174. Waldemarus King of Danemark gave and confirm'd the Priory of Othenesia in that Kingdom as a Cell to this Abby of Euesham This Abby was first founded as aforesaid by St. Egwin in the year of grace 692. and dedicated to the honour of the glorious Virgin Mary The Founder himself leaving his Bishoprick became the first Abbot here After whose death succeeded eighteen Abbots until the year 941. at which time the Monks here were dispersed and secular Chanons substituted in their room In the time of King Edgar Anno Dom. 660 the Monks were again restored but after his death expell'd again in the year 977. This House and Estate was afterwards given to a potent man called Godwin and successively it came into several hands till at last in the year 1014. King Ethelred made Ailfwardus a Monk of Ramsey Abbot of Euesham he was also Bishop of London at the same time From his time the Abby of Euesham flourisht under divers Abbots whose names from the Norman Conquest till the year 1379. are as follows Egelwinus Walterus Robertus Mauricius Reginaldus Willielmus de Andivilla Rogerus Adam Rogerus Norreys Radulphus Thomas de Marleberg Richaadus le Cras Thomas de Glovernia Henricus Willielmus de Wytechurch Iohannes de Brokehampton Willielmus de Chyriton Willielmus de Boys Iohannes de Ombresseye Rogerus Zatten 1379. Vid Vol. 2. p. 851. Valued at 1183 l. 12 s. 9 d. per Annum SHEPEY Monastery of Nuns in Kent FOunded by Queen Sexburga about the year of our Lord 710. William Archbishop of Canterbury after the Conquest restored this Monastery it having lain a long time burnt down and destroyed by the Danes King Henry the II. King Richard the I. King Henry the III. and others were Benefactors to this Church of St. Sexburg here and to the Nuns serving God in the same all whose Donations of Lands and Liberties were confirm'd in the 1st year of King Henry the IV. Valued at 129 l. 7 s. 10 d. ob per Annum SELSEY in Sussex IN the year of our Lord 711. Wilfred Bishop of Hagulstad remaining five years in the Isle of Selsey to avoid persecution built there a Monastery in honour of the blessed Mary to which Ethelwold King of the South Saxons gave Lands TUKESBURY in Gloucestershire THIS Monastery was founded in the year 715. by two Dukes of great account in the Kingdom of Mercia named Oddo and Doddo to the honour of the glorious Virgin Mary Robert Fiz-Hamon in the year 1102. new built this Church and Monastery making it an Abby and subjecting to it the Priory of Cranburne His Daughter Mobilla was afterwards married to Robert base Son of King Henry I. who was created Earl of Gloucester he built the Priory of St. Iames at Bristol and annext it also to the House From him descended Gibbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford who was a great Benefactor to this House and buried here as were the rest of his descendants Earls of Gloucester and the Dispencers who descended from one of the Heirs General All these and more of their Blood among whom Henry de Beauchamp Duke of Warwick were Benefactors to this Abby their pious gifts being all confirm'd and ratified by the King 1462. The several parcells of Lands and Hereditaments given and confirm'd to this House by former Kings may be seen p. 161 162. Valued at 1598 l. 1 s. 3 d. per Annum WINBURNE in Dorsetshire SAint Quinburga and St. Cuthburga Sisters of Ina King of the West Saxons built here a Monastery for Nuns Anno Dom. 718. CROYLAND in Lincolnshire CRoyland is one of those small Islands which lie in the East Fens Here St. Guthlac at the age of twenty five years became a Hermite and in his life time delivered the Island from Devils and evil Spirits and dying was here buried Ethelbald King of Mercia by his Charter dated in the year 716. gave to God the blessed Mary and St. Batholomew the whole Isle of Croyland containing four Leucas or miles in length and three in breadth for the erecting of a Monastery under the Rule of St. Benedict and endow'd the said Monastery with large Possessions lying about the Place All which was confirm'd to them by Offa King of Mercia in the year 793. and by Withlaf King of Mercia in the year 833. This Abby being afterwards burnt down and destroyed by the Pagan Danes was re edified and restored to its former Possessions and Liberties by King Eadred who stiled himself King of Great Britain in the year 948. Vid. Vol. 2. p. 853. Valued at 1803 l. 15 s. 10 d. ob per Annum BEVERLEY in Yorkshire SAint Iohn Archibishop of York was the first Dr. of Theology in Oxford He converted the Parish-Church of St. Iohn in the Town of Beverly into a Monastery building to it a new Quire and made his Deacon Bithunus the first Abbot here Both which lie buried in this Church One hundred years after this the Monastery of Beverley was destroyed by the Danes and lay in Ruines three years before it was repair'd King Athelstan built here a Colledge of secular Chanons And granted and confirm'd to this Church of St. Iohn of Beverley many great Priviledges and Liberties An. Dom. 938. King Edward the Confessor was a great Benefactor to this Church and augmented the number of the Prebendaries William the Conqueror was also a Benefactor Thomas the first Archbishop of York erected a new Dignity in the Collegiate Church of Beverley viz. a Prepositus or Provost who has neither voice in the Chapter nor Stall in the Quire of these there is a List of thirty eight Thomas Becket being the fifth in number Vid. Vol. 3. part 2 p. 3. Valued at 109 l. 8 s. 8 d. ob per Annum RIPPON in Yorkshire WIlfrid Archibishop of York founded a Monastery at Rippon which was afterwards burnt down in the Devastation which King Adred made upon the Northumbers But being in after-times re-edified King Athalstan granted to this Church the Priviledge of Sanctuary with the same Liberties which he had given before to the Church of Beverly and that the men of Rippon should be believed by their yea and by
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
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
Mary and the Canons of Rudham divers Lands Churches and Mills Duos homines scilicet G. V. terram illorum two of his Tenants with the Land which they held of him Hervey Beleth gave them the Mannor of Rudham for the maintenance of an Hospital by him founded at Boycodeswade Valued at 121 l. 18 s. 10 d. ob per Annum BRUNNE in Lincolnshire Bourn FOunded by Balwin Son of Gislebert who endow'd it with divers Lands Churches and Tithes of sundry kinds An. 1138. The Wakes were principal Benefactors to this House and became Patrons of the same being Lords of the Mannor of Bourn and descended from the Founder and as Patrons had the Custody of the Abby in time of Vacation c. which was allowed by King Edward the II. who for that purpose granted his mandate to Matthew Broun Escheator for the Counties of Lincoln Northampton and Roteland in the seventeenth year of his Reign notwithstanding that some of the Possessions of this Abby were held of the King in Capite NEWENHAM in Bedfordshire BEfore the Conquest the Church of St. Paul in Bedford was a Colledge of Prebendaries or Secular Canons till one of the Canons killing a Butcher they were forced to remove their Habitation to a place call'd Newenham a Mile distant from Bedford and there they became Regular Canons Roiâ—ia Wife of Paganus de Bellocampo to whom King William the Conqueror gave the Barony of Bedford and Simon her Son were the founders of their House at Newenham Which Simon endow'd them with divers Lands and Possessions among others the Church of St. Paul at Bedford with all its Possessions and the Tithes of the Mill of the Castle of Bedford c. These Canons had also large Liberties granted them on the River for fishing and for keeping Swans as many as they pleased seeding for thirty Hogs yearly quit of Paunage in the Wood of Kerdington free Pasture for twelve Oxen in all the Grounds of the Patron where his own Oxen fed with Liberty to elect their own Prior saving to the Patron the Custody of the outward Gate of the Monastery in time of Vacation c. All whose Lands and Liberties were confirm'd to them in 15 R. 2. by Thomas Earl Mareschal and Earl of Nottingham Lord Moubray and Segrave then Patron of this Priory Valued at 293 l. 5 s. 11 d. per Annum St. RADEGUNDIS at Bradsole in Kent KING Henry the III. confirm'd the several Lands and Revenues given to this House by sundry Benefactors among whom Henry de Wengham Dean of St. Martins in London Vid. Vol. 3. P. 69. Valued at 98 l. 9 s. 2 d. ob per Annum KIME in Lincolnshire THE first founder of this Priory was Sir Philip de Kyme Knt. the Canons of this House held Lands in Thorpe and Billingey Valued at 101 l. 0 s. 4 d. per Annum BUTLEY in Suffolk FOunded by Ranulph de Glanvilla and by him endowed with divers Churches and Lands in the year 1171. This Ranulph de Glanvill was heretofore Chief Justice of England and left only three Daughters among whom he parted his Land before he made his Voyage to the Holy Land to the eldest who married one William de Aubervil he gave the intire Mannor of Benhall and the Advowson of the Monastery of the blessed Mary of Buttele and to the other Sisters other parts of his Estate Vid. Vol. 3. P. 110. Valued at 318 l. 17 s. 2 d. per Annum NEWâ—STED near Guildford in Surrey FOunded by Rualdus de Calua and Beatrix his Wife with the assent of William Malbanc their Heir in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary and St. Thomas the Martyr in a place call'd Aldeburi in the Mannor of Sandes for Canons Regular whose Estate was confirm'd by King Henry the III. and King Edward the II. BERLIZ in Somersetshire THE several Lands Churches and Tithes given to the Prior and Canons of this House dedicated to St. Nicholas by Matilda de Sayâ—â—d others were confirm'd by King Henry the III. An. Regni 40. and by Edw. the III. An. 13. WOMBRIGGE in Shropshire FOunded by William Fitz-Alan Dedicated to God St. Mary and St. Leonard Many were the Benefactors to this House among whom the Lords of Cherinton gave divers Lauds and Revenues in that Town c. All the Possessions of these Canons with divers Liberties to them granted by their severeal Benefactors were recited and confirm'd by King Edward the II. An. Reg. 12. Valued at 65 l. 7 s. 4 d. per Annum CALDEWELL in Bedfordshire SImon Basket an Alderman of Bedford was the first founder of this House but the Advowson came afterwards to the Lords Latymer Robert Son of William de Houton gave Lands to the Order of Fryers of the Holy Cross at Caldewell confirm'd by King Hen. the III. An. Reg. 57. Valued at 109 l. 8 s. 5 d. per Annum TONEBRIGGE in Kent FOunded by Richard de Clare Earl of Hertford for Canons Regular and by him endow'd with certain Rents the feeding of one hundred and twenty Hogs yearly in his Forrest of Tonebrigge freely and to have yearly one Buck at the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen ANGLESEYE in Cambridgeshire Elizabeth de Burgo Sister and one of the Heirs of Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford Patroness of this Priory granted the Monks here liberty to choose their Prior An. 1333. The same Elizabeth granted a Rent of 20 l. per Annum to the Prior and Convent of this House in consideration of which they obliged themselves to find two Chantry Priests Seculars to celebrate at the Altar of the holy Cross in their Church for ever for the said Elizabeth her Ancestors and Heirs and to allow to the said two Priests their Lodging and Diet and to each 20 s. per Annum or else twelve Marks yearly which they shall think most convenient which Grant bears date 6. E. 3. Valued at 24 l. 19 s. per Annum TRENTHAM in Staffordshire RAlph Earl of Chester was the Founder or rather Restorer of this House granting to the Canons here a yearly Rent of 100 s. per Annum Confirm'd by King Henry the II. with the grant of large Liberties and Immunities Valued at 106 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum WORMLEY in Herefordshire STeven de Ebroicis gave to this Church dedicated to God and St. Leanard and to the Canons here certain Mills Lands and Tithes in Lenhale for the maintenance of there Chaplains Confirm'd by Gilbert de Lacy in consideration of 〈◊〉 by the said Canons to him paid And by William Son of the said Steven An. 1240. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 48. Valued at 83 l. 10 s. 2 d. per Annum ROYSTON in Cambridgeshire FOunded and endow'd by Eustach de Merâ— King Richard the I. confirm'd to this Monastery by the Name of the Monastery of St. Thomas the Martyr apud Crucem Rhosiae and to the Canons here all their Possessions given by several Benefactors and further granted a yearly Fair during all
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
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
such to the Almoner such to the Pitanciarius such to the Infirmarius such to the Hostillarius and such to the Praecentor But all Law-Suits concerning any the Lands or Estate of the Abby the Abbot was to manage at his own proper Charges Also the Abbot was to entertain all secular Guests as well Horse-men as Footmen in case he was resident with his Family in Town but the Convent was to entertain religious Persons and in case the Abbot be absent then the Convent to entertain also secular persons if under thirteen Horse This agreement between the Abbot and Convent was made in the year 1281. And exemplified by King Edward the I. in the same year being the 9th of his Reign The Names of the Sacristans of BVRT 1 Thurstan In the time of Abbot Baldwin 2 Tolimus 3 Godefridus 4 Radulphus 5 Harueus 6 Helias Widewell 7 Frodo 8 Willielmus Schuch 9 Willielmus Wardel 10 Hugo 11 Walterus de Banham 12 Willielmus de Disce 13 Robertus de Granele chosen Abbot of Thorney 14 Richardus de Insula chosen Abbot of Burton and at last Abbot here 1233. 15 Dominus de Newport 16 Georgius first Precentor then Sacristan than Prior here reputed a Saint 17 Nicholaus 18 Simon de Luyton chosen Prior and then Abbot here 1257. 19 Richardus de Horninsâ—e 20 Richardus de Colecester 21 Simon de Kingston first Celarer and then Chamberlain 22 Willielmus de Luyton 23 Richardus le Brun. Of the Buildings about the Church and Abby perform'd in the times of the Sacristans abovemention'd see the Book at large To the Cellarer of this House whose Office was to make provision for the diet of the whole Covent did belong many Rights and Priviledges by ancient Custom He kept the Court of the Lordship in the Town from which he received divers annual Profits His Officers were to be first served in the Market in buying provisions if the Abbot were not in Town Also the Cellerar and Abbots Officers were to have Herrings a half-penny in the hundred cheaper than any other people Valued at 1659 l. 13 s. 11 d. ob per Annum COVENTRY in Warwickshire THIS Monastery was built by Leofricus Earl of Chester and Godiva his Wife a most pious Lady and plentifully endow'd with Lands and Revenues The Church was so richly adorn'd with Gold and Silver and precious Stones that the Walls seem'd too narrow to contain all the Treasure The Founder Earl Leofrick died in the year 1057. and was buried at Coventry as was also his Wife Godiva in the Church-Porch of their own Foundationâ— In which Church was formerly kept an Arm of the Great St. Augustineâ— inclosed in Silver Robert de Limesey who was made Bishop of Chester A. D. 1088. and died 1116. obtain'd of King Henry the I. The Monastery of Coventry and constituted it the Capital Cathedral of that Diocess Whose Successor in that See Hugh Bishop of Coventry A. D. 1191. expell'd the Monks out of the Cathedral Church here and placed in their room secular Canons But in the year 1198. Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury by order of Pope Celestine restored the Monks to the possession of their Church again It appears by Earl Leofrick's Charter of Foundation that he built this Church and Monastery to the honour of God and St. Mary his Mother St. Peter the Apostle St. Osburga the Virgin and all Saints And gave to the Maintenance of the Monks here serving God twenty four Villages with the Moiety of the Town of Coventry in which it stands with all Liberties and Customs which he himself enjoy'd in the said Estate and that the Abbot of the said House should be subject to none but the King All which grants King Edward the Confessor did confirm to Leofwinus the first Abbot there and his Successors Also Pope Alexander by his Bull directed to the said King Edward bearing date 1043. confirm'd all their Liberties and Exemptions granting them full power to chose their own Abbots or Deans without any Lett or Hindrance from the Apostolick Authority Leofwinus the first Abbot of Coventry being created Bishop of Chester ordain'd with the Consent of the Monks that his Successors Superiors of that Monastery should be call'd Priors and not Abbots PEYKIRK in Northamptonshire IN the year 1048. one Wulgatus then Abbot of a Monastery in this Town lost his Abby and the Lands thereunto belonging to the Abbot of Peterborough who claim'd the same as parcel of his Estate And this was by Judgment given in the Court of King Hardâ— Canute SPALDING in Lincolnshire a Cell of Croyland c. ANno Dom. 1052. Thoroldus de Bukenhâ—le Brother to Godiva Countess of Leicester having obtain'd six Monks from Wulgate Abbot of Croyland began the Priory of Spalding assigning to it divers Lands and annext it as a Cell to Croyland In the year 1074. Tuo Taylboys Earl of Anjou Andegavia having married Lucia Great Grand daughter of the foresaid Godiva became Lord of Spalding and all Holland and gave the Cell of Spalding to a Monk of St. Nicholas of Anjou He also confirm'd the Estate which his Great Uncle Thorold had given to this House and procured the like Confirmation from the 2 Williams and Hen. 1st Kings of England In the year 1085. Yuo Taylboys by License of King William the Conqueror gave this Cell to the Abby of St. Nicholas of Anjou with the Lands and Estate thereunto belonging All which with divers Liberties was confirm'd to the said Abby of St. Nicholas by King William the I. William the II. and Henry the I. And also by King Iohn in the first year of his Reign See more Vol. 2. p. 871. Valued at 767 l. 8 s. 11 d. per Annum BATTEL Abby in Sussex IN the year 1067. King William the Conqueror built this Abby in the same place where he fought and overcame Harold and his Army that herein perpetual praise and thanks might he given to God for the said Victory and Prayers made for the Souls of those who were here slain It was dedicated to St. Martin and largely endow'dâ— with Lands and Priviledges In this Battle it is said that above ten thousand men lost their lives on the conquering side but what number of the conquered may be guest with astonishment King William design'd to have endow'd this Abby with Lands sufficient for the constant maintenance of sevenscore Monks but death prevented However he granted to it to be free from the Bishops Jurisdiction to have Sanctuary to have Treasure troue with many other Royal Liberties and Exemptions He translated from an Abby in Normandy called Major Monasterium several Monks among whom one Gausbertus who he appointed the first Abbot of Battail And gave to this Abby the Mannor of Wi in Kent with other Mannors in Sussex Surrey Essex Barkshire Oxfordshire and Devonshire with free Warren in all their Lands Yet King William gave this caution or restriction to the Abbot that he should not wast the Alms belonging to
this Abby upon his secular kindred or others but take care to bestow them upon poor People and Travellers c. King William Rufus and King Henry the I. were also Benefactors to this House Valued at 880 l. 14 s. 7 d. ob q. per Annum BRECKNOCK in Wales a Cell to Battel Abby BErnard de Newmarch was a Noble Norman in the Reign of King Henry the I. and was the first Conqueror of the Lands about Brecknock He gave to Battel Abby his Church of St. Iohn the Evangelist in his Castle of Brecknock Roger Earl of Hereford Grandson of the foresaid Bernard gave divers Lands and Tithes to the Monks in the Church of St. Iohn of Brecknock together with divers Liberties and Exemptions All which was afterwards confirm'd by Maihel de Hereford and William de Braiose Other Benefactors were Herbert Fitz Peter Iohn Fitz Reginald c. Valued at 112 l. 14 s. 2 d. per Annum ARMETHWAYT in Cumberland KING William the Conqueror founded here a Monastery for black Nuns and endow'd it with divers Lands and such Priviledges as wâ—re granted to the Church of Westminster This he granted in pure and perpetual Alms as freely As hert may it thynk or ygh may it se. This Nunnery being seated so very near the Borders of Scotland was so impoverisht by the Scots frequent Spoils and Inroads that it was in a manner reduced to nothing whereupon King Edward the IV. did in the thirteenth year of his Reign new grant ratifie and confirm their Lands and Estate unto the then Prioress and Nuns here Valued at 18 l. 18 s. 8 d. per Annum BEAULEIU Bellus Locus in Bedfordshire a Cell of St. Albans THE Church of St. Mary in this place of old call'd Moddry was at first a Hermitage and built by a Hermite called Radulfus It was afterwards given by Robert de Albeneio with the consent of his Mother Secilia to the Abby of St Albans and became a Cell of that House Which Robert endow'd it with divers Lands all which he gave to God and St. Alban and to the Monks of Beauleiu in Fee to hold in free Alms. WALLINGFORD in Barkshire a Cell of St. Albans THE Church here dedicated to the holy Trinity was made a Cell of St. Albans in the time of Paul Abbot there King Henry the VI. was a Benefactor to the Priory of Wallingford Vid. Vol 3. p. 11. BELVOIR or Beaver in Lincolnshire a Cell of St. Albans RObertus de Toteneio Lord of the Castle of Belvoir gave the Church of St. Mary adjoyning to his said Castle to the Abby of St. Albans to be a Cell of that House endowing it with divers Lands and Tithes appointing it for the Burial-place of himself and Wife in case they died in England and such it afterwards proved to be for his descendents The Lands hereunto given were confirm'd successively by the Heirs and Progeny of the said Robert and lastly by Thomas Lord Ros in the 8. Hen. 6. Valued at 104 l. 19 s. 10 d. per Annum HATFEILD-PEVERELL in Hertfordshire a Cell of St. Albans WIlliam Peverell gave the Church of St. Mary at Hatfeild with his own Mansion-House there for a Habitation of Monks and endow'd the same with Lands all which was afterwards annext to St. Albans and became a Cell of that House Valued at 60 l. 14 s. 11 d. ob per Annum HERTFORD a Cell of St. Albans RAdulfus de Limesey having erected a Church at Hertford he gave the same for a Cell to the Abby of St. Albans and with it divers Lands in Hertford and elsewhere The Abbot of St. Albans obliging himself to send thither six Monks of his House to serve God at Hertford and in case the Revenue should be augmented then to send a greater number Hadwisia Wife of the said Radulfus Alan de Limesey their Son Gerard his Son and Iohn de Limesey his Son were all Benefactors to this Church of St. Mary's at Hertford and to the Monks of St. Albans serving God herein Valued at 72 l. 14 s. 2 d. ob per Annum TINEMOUTH in Northumberland a Cell of St. Albans RObert de Mulbray a Norman of noble extraction to whom King William the Conqueror gave the Earldom of Northumberland endow'd the Church of St. Mary adjoyning to his Castle of Tinemouth and in which the Body of St. Oswin King and Martyr rested with fair Revenues and gave it for a Cell to the Monks of St. Albans David King of Scotland was a Benefactor to this House so were King Henry the I. of England King Henry the II. and King Iohn who granted to God and the Church of St. Oswin in Tinmouth and the Monks of St. Albans serving God here many Lands and great Liberties which Liberties tho' seiz'd by King Edward the III. yet were by him in the second year of his Reign regranted to them in as large a manner as ever out of the special Devotion which he bore to the two glorious Martyrs St. Alban and St. Oswin Valued at 397 l. 10 s. 5 d. ob per Annum WYMUNDHAM in Norfolk a Cell of St. Albans ANno Dom. 1139. William de Albaneio Butler to King Henry the I. built the Church of St. Mary and Priory of Monks at this Town endow'd the same with Revenuesâ— and annext it as a Cell to St. Albans yet so as they might choose a Prior among themselves and present him to their Founder whom he was not to refuse without good Cause And the Monks here paid only a Mark of Silver yearly to the Abbot of St. Albans as an acknowledgment of subjection King Henry the I. confirm'd the Estate given to this House with the grant of many great Liberties The like did also William Earl of Sussex Grandson of the foresaid William the Founder Afterwards in the 27th of King Henry the VI. by Authority of Pope Nicholas the V. and at the Petition of Sir Andrew Ogard Kt. then Patron of this Monastery it was discharged from any dependency on the Abby of St. Albans and from paying the Mark per Annum and made an Abby of it self and Steven London then Prior the first Abbot All which was allow'd and confirm'd by the said King Henry the VI. who at the same time pardon'd all penalties incurr'd by the Parties concern'd in procuring the Popes Bull by reason of the Statute of Provisors or any other Statute Valued at 211 l. 16 s. 6 d. q. per Annum BINHAM in Norfolk a Cell of St. Albans PEter de Valoniis and Albreda his Wife gave the Church of St. Mary at Binham to the Abby of St. Albans but to be subject only in such manner as St. Pancrace at Lewis is subject to St. Peter of Clugni paying yearly to the Church of St. Alban a Mark of Silver and no more Rogâ—r de Valoniis confirm'd to God and St. Mary and the Monks of St. Albans serving God at Binham all the Lands which his Father Peter had given them and gave to them besides
several other Lands and Tithes The like was done by others of that Family and Iohn Bishop of Norwich St. MARY de PRATO near St. Albans THIS was a small Nunnery given with certain Lands by Garinus Abbot of St. Albans for the maintenance of Leprous Nuns Confirm'd by King Iohn in the fifth year of his Reign SOPEWELL in Hertfordshire a Cell of St. Albans ABout the year 1140. two religious Women led a solitary life in a small Habitation made of Boughs of Trees near a Wood called Eiwoda who being taken notice of for their austerities and pious Lives Gaufridus the sixteenth Abbot of St. Albans built there for them a Cell gave them the Vail of Nuns and constituted their way of living according to the Rule of St. Benedict He also endow'd the House with Possessions and Rents and assigned them a Coemitery in which none were to be buried but the Virgins of the House whose number was not to exceed thirteen Henry de Albaneio and Cecilia his Wife and several of their Descendants were great Benefactors to this Cell of St. Mary of Sopewell and so was Richard de Tany Michael Abbot of St. Albans made and publisht here in his Visitation Anno Dom. 1338. certain good Rules and Orders to be observed by the Nuns of this House among others that the Door that goes into the Garden and that of the Parlour should not be open'd till the Bell sounds to the ninth hour and that all the year they should be shut up at night when the Abby-Bell sounds the Coverâ—eu c. Valued at 40 l. 7 s. 10 d. per Annum MERGATE in Bedfordshire a Cell of St. Albans IN the time of Gaufridus Abbot of St. Albans one Roger a Monk of that Abby became a Hermite in a Hermitage between St. Albans and Dunstable where he lived in a most austere manner with the reputation of great Sanctity at the same time Christina a Virgin renouncing the World became an Anchoress at the same place yet the said Roger never saw her face tho' they lived together four years Roger died and was buried in the Abby-Church of St. Albans but Christina surviving became of so great note for her Sanctity that the abovesaid Gaufridus built here from the Foundation a Monastery for Nuns and endow'd the same with Revenues of which House Christina became the first Prioress Vid. Vol. 2. p. 872. St. NICHOLAS Priory at Exeter a Cell of Battel-Abby THIS Church formerly dedicated to St. Olive King and Martyr was by King William Rufus given to the Monks of Battel-Abby for a Cell and by them new dedicated to St. Nicholas King William Rufus King Henry the I. and King Iohn conferr'd many Lands and Liberties upon this House Valued at 147 l. 12 s. per Annum MALLINGE in Kent KING Edmund gave certain Lands in Mallinges to the Monastery of St. Andrew the Apostle which afterwards was by Gundulfus Bishop oâ— Rochester converted to an Abby of Nuns here dedicated to St. Mary to which King Henry the I. and King Iohn and Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury were also Benefactors Valued at 218 l. 4 s. 2 d. ob per Annum TUTBURY in Staffordshire HEnry de Ferariis built the Church and Monastery to the honour of the blessed Virgin at his Castle of Tutbury which by the Grant and Licente of King William Rufus he endow'd with divers Lands and Tithes Earl Robert de Ferariis the younger Grandson of the Founder was a great Benefactor and so were many others whose names with the parcells by them given may be seen in the Monasticon at large Iohn Duke of Lancaster being Lord of the Honour and Castle of Tutbury granted his Letters Pattents to the King of the Minstalls in Tutbury impowring him and his Successors to arrest all Minstralls within the said Honour and Franchise who refuse to do their service of minstralsie on the Feast of the assumption of our Lady â—early and constrain them to it according to Custom Dated in the 4 Rich. 2. There is also another Custom of the Place that the Stage-players who come to Matins on the Feast of the Assumption should have from the Prior of Tutbury a Bull in case they can catch him before he gets over the River there or else the Prior is to give them 40 d. in mony Vid. Vol. 2. p. 873. EYE in Suffolk RObert Malet to whom King William the Conqueror had given the honour of Eye with the assent of that King built a Monastery there and to it gave the Church dedicated to St. Peter in Eye with a great quanity of Lands and Churches with Liberties and Franchises to hold as freely as King William gave them to him In the year 1138. King Steven confirm'd to the Monks here all their Lands and Liberties with a formal Curse to the Violators The like Confirmation from William Earl of Boloign that King 's eldest Son This House was a Cell to the Abby of Bernay in Normandy so that neither the Prior nor any Monk could be placed here without the assent of the Abbot of Bernay neither upon the death of the Prior here could the Founder or his Heirs or Successors Patrons of this Priory meddle with or receive any profit from the Goods and Possessions of this House during the vacancy but only in sign of Dominion he used to place a Porter at the Gate of the Priory who during the Vacation was maintain'd out of the Revenues of the House and at the Instalment of the next Prior used to receive for his Fee the Sum of 5 s. for an Ox. In the 8th year of King Richard the II. the Estate of this Priory being then seiz'd into the King's hands because of his Wars with France the Prior and Covent complain'd that they were extreamly impoverished by Foreign Exactions so that the Revenues of this House could hardly maintain the Prior and three or four Monks that King therefore by his Letters Patents at their Petition and Request discharged them for ever of their Foreign Subjection to the Abby of Bernay and made them a Prior and Covent of themselves independent like other English Priories Valued at 161 l. 2 s. 3 d. q. per Annum HELENSTOW in Berkshire JVdith Countess of Huntington Wife of Earl Waltheof built a Church and Monastery here for Nuns and dedicated it to the holy Trinity St. Mary and St. Helen She and others endow'd it with divers Lands all which were afterwards confirm'd to the Nuns here by King Henry the II. together with large Priviledges and Exemptions PENWORTHAM in Lancashire a Cell of Evesham WArinus Bussell and Richard Bussell his Son gave the Church at Penwortham and with it divers Lands to the Abby of Evesham for a Cell of that Abby All which was confirm'd to God and St. Mary and to the Monks serving God in Penvercham by Hugh Buissell Grandson of the foresaid Warinus in pure and perpetual Alms. This was in the Reign of King William the Conqueror Valued at 29 l.
Suburbs lying without the City of York to hold freely for ever And gave the Advowson of this Abby to the King that so he might be the Defendor and Patron of it for the future Thomas Archbishop of York claim'd the four Acres of Land on which this Abby was built as belonging to him and was a continual vexation to the Monks till King William Rufus gave him the Church of St. Steven's in York in exchange and full satisfaction When King William Rufus seeing the Old Church to be too strait laid the Foundation of a new one he changed the name of St. Olave and gave it the name of St. Mary King Henry the II. granted to this Abby very great Liberties and Franchises the same as are enjoy'd by St. Peters of York and St. Iohn of Beverley And confirmed to them all their Lands and Revenues given them by their several Benefactors amounting to a very great number some of the principal of whom were King William the I. and II. King Henry the I. Alan Earl of Britaign Odo Earl of Campania Berengerius de Todenei Willielmus Peverel Petrus de Ros Robertus de Brus Ivo Tallebois Walterus de Daincourt and Conan Earl of Britaigne c. In the year 1343. William Archbishop of York in his Visitation questioning by what Right and Title the Abbot and Covent here did claim and receive the Tithes Portions and Pensions from several places there mention'd amounting to a very great number they produced the Bulls of several Popes and Grants of his Predecessors Archbishops of York whereupon they were by the said Archbishop allow'd and their Title declared good and sufficient A List of some of the ABBOTS of St. Mary's at York 1088 Stephanus Wittebiensis 1112 Richardus 1131 Godfridus 1132 Sauaricus 1161 Clemens 1184 Robertus de Harpham 1189 Robertus de Longo-Campo 1239 Willielmus Rondele 1244 Thomas de Warterhill 1258 Simon de Warwick 1296 Benedictus de Malton 1303 Iohannes de Gillyngs 1313 Alanus de Nesse Vid. Vol. 3. p. 9. Valued at 1550 l. 7 s. 0 d. q. per Annum St. BEES or St. Beges in Cumberland a Cell of St. Mary's at York SAint Bega was a vailed Nun born in Ireland she built a small Monastery in Caupland in the furthermost parts of England not far from Carlile This Monastery together with several Lands and Tithes was afterwards in the Reign of King Henry the I. given to the Abby of St. Mary's at York by William Meschines Son of Ranulph Lord of Caupland for a Cell to that Abby which was to send hither a Prior and at least six Monks to be constantly here resident To this House also William Forz Earl of Albemarl was a Benefactor Valued at 143 l. 17 s. 2 d. ob per Annum WETHERHAL in Cumberland a Cell to St. Mary's at York AT the time of the Foundation of St. Mary's at York Radulph Meschines Earl of Cumberland gave the Cell of St. Constantine at Wedderhal to the said Abby of St. Mary's which guift was confirm'd by King William the Conqueror in the last year of his Reign Or rather by King William Rufus in the first of his Benefactors to this House were David King of Scotland and Earl of Huntington and his Son Henry Prince of Scotland with divers others Adelwald or Athelwulph who was the first Bishop of Carlile confirm'd to the Monks of St. Mary's at York the Churches and Tithes to them given in his Diocess Providing however that the said Monks shall allot a sufficient proportion out of the same for the Priests in the several Churches and that they should also pay the Synodals King William the Conqueror upon his Conquest of this Kingdom gave to Ralph de Meschines the County of Cumberland to his Brother Hugh de Meschines the County of Chester and to a third Brother William de Meschines who founded this House at Wetherhal all the Land of Copland lying between Duden and Darwent Which Great men soon after subdivided and parcell'd out their respective Territories so given to certain Barons and Knights their Dependents viz. Ralph de Melchines enfeofft Hubert de Vaux of the Barony of Gillesland c. William de Meschines Lord of Copland enfeofft Waldeuus Son of Cospatrick of all his Land between Cocar and Derwent c. These chief Lords reserving from their Feoffees certain services in like manner as they themselves held their Estates by some services of the King Yet were Lands often granted to the Monasteries to hold free from all services whatsoever except the Divine Service of Prayers for their Founders c. And note That after this manner were Lands and Liberties first derived from the Crown and Tenures raised in relation to them since the Norman Conquest Valued at 117 l. 11 s. 10 d. ob q. per Annum St. MARTINS at Richmund a Cell to St. Mary's at York WYmar Sewer to the Earl of Richmund gave the Chappel of St. Martins at Richmund and with several Lands to God and the blessed Mary at York Roaldus Grandson of Alan Constable of Richmund and divers others were Benefactors and gave Lands and Tithes to God the Church of St. Mary at York and Priory of St. Martins near Richmund and to the Monks there In the year 1146. Pope Eugenius the III. confirmed the Cell of St. Martins Peter Capell Rector of the Church of Richmund granted a Pension of 5 l. per Annum to the Monks of St. Mary's at York and 20 l. of Wax to their Cell of St. Martins of Richmund yearly The several Rents and Revenues of this House where and from whom they arise may be seen in the Book at large p. 402 403. Valued at 43 l. 16 s. 8 d. per Annum ROMBURGH in Cambridgeshire a Cell to St. Mary's at York ALan otherwise as I suppose called Steven Earl of Britany and Richmond gave the Cell of Romburgh to God St. Mary and the Monks of the Abby at York which Gift was confirm'd to them by Everard Bishop of Norwich and that the Abbot and Convent of St. Mary's at York might place and displace the Prior and Monks at their pleasure The like Confirmations were granted by Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury and Gaufridus Bishop of Ely SANTOFT and HENES in Lincolnshire Cells of St. Mary's at York ROger Moubray gave the Isle called Santoft and large Possessions with it for a Cell to the Church of St. Mary's at York and to the Monks there And William Earl of Waren gave Henes to the said Church HEREFORD Priory a Cell of St. Peter's at Gloucester IN the year 1101. Hugo de Lacy gave the Church of St. Peters at Hereford which his Father Walter had built from the Foundation to the Monks of St. Peters at Gloucester with all the Estate belonging to it given by his said Father Walâ—er de Lacy and Confirm'd by King William the Conqueror In the Reign of King Edward the II. great Contests arising in this House between William de Irby who claim'd to be
he left five Sons all successively Earls of Pembroke but they all died without issue Matilda the eldest of their Sisters and Co-heirs was married to Hugh le Bigod Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk c. Valued at 192 l. 1 s. 4 d. ob per Annum RIEVALL in Yorkshire ANno 1132. Gualterus Especk a Great man in the Court of King Henry the I. founded this Monastery in a place called Blachomour near the River Rie for the receipt of certain Monks of the Cistercian Order sent over by Bernard Abbot of Clarevallis whose first Abbot was William This Walter Especk having unhappily lost his Son and Heir who broke his Neck by a fall from a Horse built and endow'd with part of his Estate three Monasteries viz Kirkham Rievall and Wardon The rest of his Estate was divided between his three Sisters and Co-heirs one of which married to Peter Lord Roos the Descent of which Noble Family the Reader may see set forth in the Book at large with their several Matches and Issue down to George Manners Lord Roos who died An. 1513. Many were the Benefactors and large the Possessions of this Monastery exprest Fol. 729 730 731. Pope Alexander the III. by his Bull dated 1140. granted to Aelredo Abbot of St. Mary's of Rievalle and his Brethren and their Successors in that Monastery a Confirmation of all their Possessions with divers Priviledges in particular that they might celebrate the Divine Offices in the time of a general Interdict c. Valued at 278 l. 10 s. 2 d. per Annum FOUNTAINS in Yorkshire a Cell of Clarevallis Founded 1132. THE Rule and Discipline of St. Benedict being relaxt in the Abby of St. Mary's at York and a great Dissention happening therein on that occasion between the Abbot and Prior Turstin then Archbishop of York gave leave to thirteen of the Monks to retire from the said Abby To these the said Archbishop appointed a Solitary and then Desert place for their Habitation at that time called Skeldale since Fountains Here for a time a great Elme was their only fence from the Weather under which they slept sed and performed their Offices according to their Rule Richard who had been their Prior at York being elected their first Abbot and confirm'd by the Archbishop Turstin aforesaid They having past a Winter in this manner sent to the holy Bernard Abbot of Claravellis submitting themselves to his Rule and Direction Abbot Bernard sends back with the Messengers one of his Monks named Galfridus who taught them the Cistercian Discipline Hitherto they were in great want being forced to dress for their Food the Leaves of the Trees and Herbs of the Fields Yet in their distress having in their poor House but two Loaves and a half they gave one of them to a Poor man who demanded an Alms for Christ his sake Two years they labour'd under this grievous Poverty after which God sent them many Benefactors the first of which was Hugh Dean of York Five years after the first Foundation of the Monastery of Fountains a certain Nobleman called Ranulph de Merâ—ay built for them a new Monastery to which they sent some of their Monks under the Government of Abbot Robert formerly a Monk at Witheby Besides which many Cells were founded and given to this House a Woburne Kirkstall Bitham otherwise called Vallis dei Lisa in Norway c. Benefactors to this House were Alanus de Aldeburg Roger de Mubrai de Aldeburg Swanus de Tornetun de Bramlcia Roger de Lact Constable of Chester Nigellus de Mubrai Alice de Gant c. who gave to God and the Church of St. Mary de Fontibus divers Mannors and Lands All which were confirm'd to the Monks of the Cistercian Order here and their Successors for ever by King Richard the I. Valued at 998 l. 6 s. 8 d. ob per Annum QUARRE Quarrera in the Isle of Wight a Cell to Savigny Foâ—nded 1132. RIchard Earl of Exeter Son of Baldwin confirm'd to God the holy Virgin and Gaufridus Abbot of Savigny this House and divers Lands and Revenues thereunto belonging first given by his Father Benefactors to this House were Henry Fitz-Empress who writ himself Son of the Duke of Normandy and Earl of Anjou Engelgerius de Bohun William de Vernun Earl of Devon c. Controversie arising between the Abbot and Covent of Lyra and this Church of Quarre about certain Tithes and Revenues in and about Carisbrok and other Neighbouring Towns here in this Island the Matter was agreed and settled by Deed dated in the year 1289. Valued at 134 l. 3 s. 11 d. per Annum CUMBERMERE in Cheshire Founded 1133. HVgo Malbanc founded this Abby in the Honour of the blessed Virgin and St. Michael and endow'd it with very large Lands and Possessions among others with the fourth part of the Town of Wiche and the Tithes of the Salt and Boylries there Yet by the same Deed he granted that Ralph Earl of Chester his chief Lord should be accounted the Principal Founder and Defender of the said Church and Monks there King Henry the III. in the sixteenth year of his Reign confirm'd all their Possessions and again in the fiftieth year of his Reign In the year 1230. Ralph Earl of Chester confirm'd their Estate given by Hugo Malbanc and granted them several Liberties and Immunities Vid. 2. Vol. p. 913. Valued at 225 l. 9 s. 7 d. per Annum GEROUDON in Leicestershire THIS was founded Anno 1133. as Cell to Waverle The Founder Robert Earl of Leicester endow'd this Monastery with all his Lands in Disseley and with the Wood of Shepehed Many were the Benefactors who gave to this Church of St. Mary of Geroldon and the Monks here large Possessions viz. Margaret Countess of Wynton Sister of the said Robert Margaret de Ferrariis Countess of Derby Roger de Quincy Gilbert de Coleville William Son of Richard Wareyn William Peverell c. All whose Gifts were confirm'd to them by King Edward the III. in the fourteenth year of his Reign Valued at 159 l. 19 s. 10 d. ob per Annum SWINESHEAD in Lincolnshire Founded An. Do. 1134. THIS was founded and endow'd by Robert Greslei whose several Lands and Possessions were recited and confirm'd to God and the Church of St. Mary of Swynesheved and the Monks there by King Henry the II. Valued at 167 l. 15 s. 3 d. per Annum CALDER in Cumberland Founded An. Do. 1134. KING Henry the II. confirm'd to the Abbot and Monks here all the Lands and Possessions given by Ralph de Meschin their Founder and other Benefactors Valued at 50 l. 9 s. 3 d. ob per Annum BILAND in Yorkshire Founded An. Do. 1134. THIS House was at first founded for certain Monks of Savigny by Roger de Mulbray which Roger died in the Holy Land Walter de Sciflings Parson of Kildale Hugo de Wake and others were Benefactors In the ninth of Richard the II. Thomas Earl Mareschall and Earl of Nottingham Lord
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
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.
the Order of St. AUGUSTIN DOVER in Kent JVlius Caesar having Conquer'd Britain now call'd England forty seven years before the Birth of Christ built a Tower at Dover where the Castle now stands In the year of Grace 180 King Lucius then reigning in Britain became a Christian under Pope Elutherius and among other Pious Deeds built a Church in the Castle of Dover An. 469 King Arthur repair'd the said Castle and built the Hall there call'd Arthur's-hall After this the Saxons came out of Germany Conquer'd Britany beat the Britons into Wales who afterwards were call'd Welchmen and the Saxons Englishmen and being Pagans demolisâ—t Churches and supprest Christianity throughout the Land An. 586. Pope Gregory sent St. Augustin the Monk with others into England who converted to Christ the King then reigning in Kent named Adelbert whose Son and Successor Adelbold placed twenty four Secular Canons in the said Castle to serve in his Chappel there An. 686 Withred King of Kent built the Church of St. Martin in the Town of Dover and removed the said Canons thither from the Castle here they remain'd 400 years after He built also three other Churches for the use of the Parishoners which were however Chappels subordinate to St. Martins But these Canons being very licentious by reason of their great Priviledges and Exemptions from the ordinary Jurisdiction King Henry the I. in 1130. did give the said Church of St. Martin to the Archbishop of Canterbury and his Successors and tho' William Corboil then Archbishop built the New Minster and design'd to have made it an Abby of Canons of St. Augustin yet after his death Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury in the Reign of Henry the II. put Monks of St. Bennet therein The said King Henry the II. by his Charter subjecting the Government of this House to the Archbishop of Cantebury intirely and that no other Order but that of St. Bennet should be herein King Edward the III. in the thirtieth year of his Reign did unite and annex this House to the Priory of Christ-Church in Canterbury for ever so that none for the future should be Prior here but a Monk of Canterbury Valued at the Suppression at 170 l. 14 s. 11 d. ob per Annum BODMYN in Cornwall KING Henry the III in the seven and fiftieth year of his Reign confirm'd to the Prior and Canons of Bodmine the Mannor of Newton in the County of Devon formerly given them by King Eadred with Exemption from suit to the County of Devon and Hundred of Shefbury c. Valued at 270 l. o s. 11 d. per Annum St. GERMAINS in Cornwall IT was found by Inquisition in the thirtieth of Edw. the III. That King Canute endow'd this Church and that here was then a Bishops Seat for Cornwall which was after united to Cryditon and in the Reign of Edward the Confessor removed from thence to Exeter and that soon after Leofricus then Bishop of Exeter did remove from hence the Secular Canons and did found here a Priory of Canons Regular and that hereupon the Bishops of Exeter for the time being became Patrons of this Priory and enjoy'd the Profits of the Vacations of the said Priory when they happened Valued at 243 l. 8 s. per Annum PLIMTON in Devonshire HERE was formerly a Colledge consisting of a Dean and four Prebendaries founded by some of the Saxon Kings which Canons or Prebendaries were displaced by Wil. Warwist Bishop of Exeter because they would not leave their Concubines and a Priory of Canons Regulâ—â— erected here which Priory was founded in the Mansion-house of the Rectory of the said Church of Plimpton and the said Foundation confirm'd by King Hen. the I. who also granted and confirm'd to the Canons there divers Lands Liberties and Immunities Among other Benefactors to this Priory King Edgar gave them divers Lands for the Maintenance of two Canons ad divina ibidem celebranda pro peregrinis aliis hospitandis Afterwards King Edward the I. granted to the said Canons that for the future they might appoint and place in the Church of Landoho where the said Revenue did arise a Secular Vicar and Chaplain to celebrate there and to perform the said Alms and Hospitality nomine dictorum Prioris Canonicorum Valued at 912 l. 12 s. 8 d. ob per Annum WALTHAM in Essex THIS Monastery was built to the praise of our Lord Jesus Christ and of the holy Cross by Earl Harold afterwards King who endow'd the same with divers Lands and Goods All which were confirm'd with the Grant of great Liberties by King Edward the Confestor An. Dom. 1062. Which Harold being slain in Battle by William the Conqueror was buried in this Abby-Church An. Dom. 1177. The Secular Canons here were removed and Canons Regular placed in their room by King Henry the II. who confirm'd their Estate and Liberties and ordain'd that in the said Abby no Kinsman of the Abbot should be made Steward or other Officer nor any Officer to hold his place by Inheritance but removable at the Will of the Abbot and Canons The like Confirmation was made by King Richard Valued at 900 l. 4 s. 3 d. per Annum PENTNEY in Norfolk FOunded to the honour of God the glorious Virgin Mary and the blessed Mary Magdalen by Robert de Vauz and by him endow'd with divers Lands and Churches This Robert came into England with the Conqueror from whom descended by an Heir General the Lords Roos who became thereupon Patrons of this Priory Valued at 170 l. 4 s. 9 d. per Annum WALSINGHAM in Norfolk GAlfridus de Favarches endowed a Chappel here which his Mother had founded in honour of the perpetual Virgin Mary with divers Revenues confirm'd by Robert Brucutt and Roger Earl of Clare The Chappel here was first begun in the Reign of Edward the Confessor but the Canons introduced in the time of William the Conqueror Here was a perpetual Chantry establisht for the Souls of Thomas de Felton c. in the Chappel of St. Ann in the Priory consisting of four Chaplains 8. R. 2. Valued at 391 l. 11 s. 7 d. per Annum THREMHALE in Essex GIlbert de Montefixo or Munfichet who was a Roman by birth and Kinsman to the Conqueror came into England in his Army and having attained large Possessions here gave Land in Thremhale for the building a Religious House with some small Possessions and returning to Italy the place of his Nativity lest issue Richard de Munfichet who gave to God and the Church of St. Iames the Apostle at Thremhale divers Lands and Priviledges from this Richard are descended by an Heir General the Veres Earls of Oxford who became Benefactors to this House Valued at 60 l. 18 s. 7 d. ob per Annum The Priory of Huntington EVstachius the Viscount who also held the Barony of Lovetot founded the Priory of St. Mary of Huntingdon and endow'd it with divers Lands confirm'd by King Henry the I. In the Town of
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
this Priory first at Runcorn Anâ— 1133. which was afterwards removed to Norton From him 〈◊〉 Roger Constable of Chester abovementioned to whom Ranulf Earl oâ— Chester for a particular Service done him in Wales gave the Dominion of Shoo-makers and Stage-players to hold to him and his Heirs for ever This Roger died A. 1211. and lies buried in the Monastery of Stanlowe Of this Line descended the Lacies Earls of Lincoln and the Earls of Lancaster Leicester and Derby Valued at 180 l. 7 s. 6 d. ob per Annum NEWBURGH in Yorkshire FOunded by Roger de Molbray and endowed with divers Lands and Churches who also confirm'd what the Freemen of his Fee had given or should give to the Canons here In the time of King William the Conqueror Robert de Mowbray was Earl of Northumberland who taking part with other Great men who rise against King William Rufus for having banish'd Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury and destroy'd eighty Religious Houses to enlarge his Forrest was taken by the King beheaded and his Estate seized and afterwards given by King Henry the I. to Negellus de Albeney whose Mother was a Mowbray after which time the Albanies took on them the name of Molbray Son of that Nigellus was the first abovemention'd Roger de Molbray who founded this Priory An. 1145. he founded also the Abby of Bellaland and many other Religious Houses to the number of thirty five From whom descended Themas Mowbray who in the Reign of King Rich. II. was made Duke of Norfolk Earl of Nottingham Lord Marshal of England c. From whom descended two Co-heirs the eldest of which Ann was married to the Lord Thomas Howard who in the second year of King Edward the IV. was created Duke of Norfolk Valued at 367 l. 8 s. 3 d. per Annum HODE in Yorkshire a Cell to Newburgh HOde was at first demised to the Canons of Billalanda by Robert de Alneto on condition that they should here found an Abby of their Canons This was confirm'd by Roger de Mowbray Adam Fossard gave Hode to the Canons of Newburgh with Lands lying about the same which Canons did acknowledge the said Adam to be the Patron Advocatus of the said place and of all belonging thereunto EGLESTON in the Bishoprick of Durham PHilip Bishop of Durham confirm'd to God St. Mary and St. Iohn Baptist and to the Canons of Egleston divers Lands which Gilbert de Ley held of him by the service of one Knights Fee and had given them An. 1273. the Abbot and Canons of this House covenanted with Iohn Duke of Britany and Earl of Richmond to find six Chaplains Canons of this House to say six Masses daily in the Castle of Richmond for ever the said Canons to be constantly resident in the said Castle in consideration whereof the said Earl of Richmond granted to the Abbot and Convent of Egleston divers Lands and Possessions and a place apart in his said Castle for the Habitation of the said six Chaplains c. DORCHESTER in Oxfordshire BEfore the Norman Conquest here was a Bishops Seat Remigius translated it to Lincoln Alexander Bishop of Lincoln erected here an Abby of black Canons the Body of which Church served for the Parish Church After the Suppression the East-part of the Abby-Church was bought by a rich man of this Town for 140 l. and given to augment the Parish Church Valued at 219 l. 12 s. per Annum THORNTON upon Humber in Lincolnshire FOunded by William Grose Earl of Albemarl Anno Dom. 1139. Canons Regular were introduced here from Kyrkham under the Government of one Richard their Prior who was afterwards made Abbot in the year 1148. by Pope Eugenius the III. Earl William the Founder died An. 1180. having endow'd this Abby with many Lands and Revenues King Richard the I. confirm'd all the Possessions given to the Abby of St. Mary of Thornton and the Canons there with the Grant of large Liberties and Immunities Pope Celestine the III. granted them the Priviledge not to pay any Tithes of Cattle c. for their own use Abbots of this House were 1. Richard 2. Philip 1152. 3. Thomas 1175. 4. Iohn Benton 1184. 5. Iordan de Villa 1203. 6. Richard de Villa 1223. 7. Ieffrey Holme 1233. 8. Robert 1245. 9. William Lyncoln 1257. 10. Walter Hotoâ—t 1273. 11. Thomas de Ponte 1290. The Advowson of this Abby together with all the Lands and Possessions of the Earl of Albemarl did escheat to King Edward the I. Which being thus in the Crown King Edward the III. in the sixth year of his Reign granted by advice of the Prelates and Barons in Parliament that the said Advowson should remain ever annext to the Crown and that the said Abbot should not be oblig'd to attorn to any in case any grant of the said Advowson should be made Valued at 594 l. 17 s. 10 d. per Annum BRUMMORE in Wiltshire BAldwin de Riveris and Hugh his Unkle were the Founders of this Monastery for Canons Regular King Henry the II. confirm'd the Lands given them and granted them feeding for one hundred Cattle and one hundred Hogs in Newforest and dead Wood for their fuel as much as necessary HAREWOLD in Bedfordshire THIS was a Priory of Nuns of St. Augustin founded by Sampson de Forte Malcolm King of Scotland as Earl of Huntington confirm'd certain Lands to this Church of St. Peter of Harewold and to the Prior and Canons and Sisters there serving God The like did King William of Scotland King Henry the IV. of England gave to the Prioress and Nuns of Harewold one Messuage in Chakirstone of the yearly value of 2 s. with the Advowson of that Church BRINKEBURNE in Northumberland FOUNDED by William Bertram Hawys his Wife and Roger his Son for Canons Their Possessions were confirm'd by William Earl or Northumberland Henry Earl of Northumberland Son to the King of Scotland and by King Henry III. Valued at 68 l. 19 s. 1 d. LEYE in the I le of Gersey Diocesse of Exon. THIS was at first a Priory of Canons but afterwards in the Reign of King Edward I. it was changed to a Nunnery of Canonesses it was dedicated to St. Mary and St. Iohn Evangelist BRIWETON in Somersetshire WIlliam de Moyne Earl of Somerset gave divers Lands c. to the Canons Regular of this House which was before the Conquest an Abby of Monks founded by Algarus Earl of Cornwal but the said Moyne or Mohun placed Canons here since the Conquest Sauvaricus Bishop of Bath and Glaustonbury confirm'd to God and the Blessed Mary of Briweton and the Canons Regular there the Lands c. given by their Benefactors Valued at 439 l. 6 s. 8 d. BRADENSTOKE in Wiltshire FOunded and endowed by Patricius Earl of Salisbury and Walter his Father William Bishop of Sarum appropriated divers Churches to the proper use of these Canons salvis Vicariis ordinandis taxandis King Henry III. confirm'd all their Possessions Valued at 212 l. 19 s. 3
Whitsun-week and a Market every Wednesday with the same Liberties as were enjoy'd by the Canons at Dunstable with very large Immunities in his Grant specified dated in the first year of his Reign ERDBURY in Warwickshire RAlph de Sadle was a principal Benefactor to the Canons of this House An. 1232. Alexander then Bishop of Coventry and Litchfeild order'd the following Settlement between the Prior of Erdbury and the Vicar of Dercet and their Successors viz. that the Vicar should have all the Altarage of the said Church and Tith-Corn of eight yards Land in Radewey and of two yard Land in Derced in the Demeans of the said Prior with a House c. That the Vicar of the said Church should be a Priest and not of any lesser Order and shall have an Associate constantly and a Deacon who together with him shall officiate in the said Church the Vicar to bear all usual Charges except the Repairs of the Chancel for which the Prior and he are to joyn proportionably This Monastery being decay'd in its Revenues King Henry the VI. An. 23. granted the Prior and Convent License to obtain and receive Lands and Tenements to the value of one hundred Marks without fine to the King Valued at 94 l. 6 s. 1 d. per Annum POGHELE in Barkshire FOunded by Ralph de Chadelewurth dedicated to God and St. Margaret endow'd with divers Lands and Revenues by the said Ralph and others all which was recited and confirm'd by King Henry the III. ROUCESTRE in Staffordshire RIchard Bacun founded and endowed this House for Canons Regular with large Possessions and Liberties All which were confirm'd to the said Canons by Ranulph Earl of Chester to hold in pure and perpetual Alms. Confirm'd also by King Henry the III. in the thirtieth year of his Reign Valued at 100 l. 2 s. 10 d. ob per Annum CUMBWELL in Kent FOunded by Robert de Turneham dedicated to God and St. Mary Magdalen endow'd with divers Lands and Possessions all which were confirm'd by Steven de Turnham Son of the said Robert and by King Henry the III. An. Reg. II. Valued at 80 l. 17 s. 5 d. per Annum WOSPRING in Somersetshire THE several Lands Rents c. given to this Church dedicated to God St. Mary and St. Thomas the Martyr by William de Courteney and others were recited and confirm'd to the Prior and Canons here by King Edw. the II. An. Reg. 18. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 47. Valued at 87 l. 2 s. 11 d. ob per Annum MARLEBURGH in Wiltshire KING Richard the II. An. Reg. 22. granted his Pardon to the Prior and Convent of St. Margaret near Marlbergh which House was founded by his Progenitors for having accepted divers Lands of Iohn Lovel Chevaler without License first obtain'd and further ratified and confirm'd the Possession of those Lands to the said Convent IVICHURCH in Wiltshire KING Henry the III. granted to the Prior and Canons of this House certain Lands and Priviledge in his Forrest of Clarendon King Edw. the III. granted more also Pasture for forty Oxen and Cows in his Meadow of Clarendon and 100 s. of Rent out of his Mannor of Clarendon King Hen. the II. founded this Monastery for four Canons Valued at 122 l. 18 s. 6 d. ob per Annum BUCKENHAM in Norfolk FOunded by William Earl of Chichester in honour of God St. Mary and St. Iames and by him endowed with Churches Lands and Tithes Confirm'd by King Edw. the II. An. Reg. 11. Valued at 108 l. 10 s. 2 d. per Annum COLDE-NORTON in Oxfordshire KING Hen. III. An. Reg. 13. confirm'd to the Prior and Canons of this House dedicated to St. Iohn the Evangelist their several Lands and Possessions given by Reginald Earl of Bolon and Ida his Wife and divers other Benefactors Vid. Vol. 3. p 55. OSULVESTON Ouston in Leicestershire FOunded by Robert Grimbold in honour of our Lord Jesus Christ St. Mary St. Andrew the Apostle and all Saints for Canons to whom he gave the Church and Town of Osolvestone c. in pure and perpetual Alms. Robert Bishop of Lincoln confirm'd the several Churches granted to this Monastery and further granted to these Canons to be for ever free and quit from the Payment of Sinodals and all other Episcopal Customs except Peter pence denouncing a Curse to such as shall infringe or violate his Grant Robert Grimbold was a Judge under King Henry the II. whose Seal did represent a Figure setting in Judgment holding in one hand a pointed Sword signifying Justice and in the other a Sword with the point abated or broken off representing Mercy Among other Benefactors to this House was William de Ros Lord of Beaver c. Valued at 161 l. 14 s. 2 d. per Annum THORKESEY in Lincolnshire KING Henry the III. An. Reg 21. granted to the Prior and Canons of this House the Scite of their Monastery in Frankalmoine and four hundred and ninety eight Acres of Land and fifty Tosts in Torkesey to hold at the yearly Rent of 10 l. for ever Beside which the Prioress and Convent of Fossa near Torkesey held one hundred and twenty Acres of Land and Meadow and seven Tofts in Torkesey at the yearly Rent of 46 s. Valued at 13 l. 1 s. 4 d. per Annum CHAUCUMBE in Northamptonshire FOunded and endow'd by Hugo de Chaucumb Amabilia de Segrave Lady of Chaucumbe and others of the Segraves were Benefactors all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Edward the III. An. Reg 2. Valued at 83 l. 18 s. 9 d. ob per Annum Y REPINDON in Darbyshire FOunded An. 1172. 18 H. 2 by Matilda Widow of Ranulph Earl of Chester and dedicated to the holy Trinity King Hen. the III. An. Reg 57. confirm'd to the Canons of the holy Trinity of Rependene and of St Giles of Calc all the Lands and Possessions given them by the said Matilda and others the like did King Edw. the II. An. Reg. 18. Valued at 118 l. 8 s. 6 d. per Annum KAERMERDIN in Wales KING Henry the II. gave and confirm'd to the Church of St. Iohn the Evangelist at Kayrmerdin and the Canons there the old City of Kayrmerdyn with its appurtenances with the Church of St. Peter there and the Chappel in the Castle Valued at 164 l. 4 d. per Annum WIKES in Essex KING Henry the II. gave to God and the Nuns of St. Mary at Wikes the Church of Wikes with certain Land and seven Villains in that Town He also granted them two Grayhounds and four other Dogs Bracatos for taking Hares in his Forrest of Essex with divers other Liberties and Immunities BISSETER in Oxfordshire GIlbert Basset gave to the Canons of this House large Possessions so did William Lungespeye among other things Pasture for fifty Cattle at Erdintone to feed among his own Cattle there another Benefactor was Philâ—p Basset Brother of Fulc Basset Bishop of London All whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Edw. the II.
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
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
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
Hospitals for the Infirme Of St. AUGUSTINS Order It was Decreed in the Council of Lateran An. Dom. 1179. That where a Number of Leperous People are gather'd together in Community they shall be permitted to enjoy to themselves a Church Churchâ— yard and Priest of their own But they must take care that this be no ways injurious or prejudicial to the Rights of Parish-Churches Yet shall not the Leprous or Lazer-houses be compelled to pay Tithes of the increase of their own proper Cattle St. LEONARD's Hospital in York ANno Dom. 800. King Egbert in a Parliament at Winchester chang'd the name of his Kingdom of Britain into that of England A. 924. Athestan succeeding his Father King Edward the elder in this Kingdom he substituted Hoâ—el King of Wales and Constantin King of Scotland saying it was more glorious to make a King than to be one Which Constantin more Scottorum perjurium non timens they are the Authors words soon after rebell'd against him and wasted the Northern parts about Northumberland Hereupon King Athelstan rais'd an Army and in his Journey towards Scotland made his Supplications to God for Victory at Beverlay York and Durham after which he overcame Constantin and imploring Almighty God to shew some token whereby the present and future Ages might know that the Scots ought to be subject to the Kings of England he strook his Sword into a Rock of Stone near Dunbar Castle and made therein a gash of an Ell deep which remains says my Author to this day This King returning out of Scotland Victorious did divers works of Charity in particular he gave to the Clergy or Ministers of the Church of St. Peter at York call'd Colidei for the better Relief of the Poor and Maintenance of Hospitallity certain Revenues and a piece of Ground for erection of an Hospital which Hospital when built was call'd the Hospital of St. Peter until the Reign of King Steven who built there a Church in honour of St. Leonard after which it was called the Hospital of St. Leonard King William Rusus King Henry the I. King Hen. the II. and others were Benefactors to this Hospital Walter de Langton Master of this Hospital in the 22 E. 1. made certain Orders for Government of the Brothers and Sisters in the same containing an exact direction how the Chaplains were to spend the day both in the Church and out of it in their Religious Offices c. That the Lay Brothers should not go beyond the Door of the Nave of the Church unless in processions that the Sisters have a convenient place appointed for them in the Church that neither any of them nor the Lay-Brothers go out of the Bounds of the Hospital without leave c. Valued at 362 l. 11 s. 1 d. ob per Annum CARMANS Spittle in Yorkshire FOunded by one Acehorne in the time of King Athelstan for one Alderman and fourteen Brothers and Sisters in the Town of Flixton Designed for the Relief of Travellers that they might not be exposed to Wolves and other wild Beasts of the Woods the said Founder endowing it with divers Possessions in Flixton with common of Pasture for twenty four Cows and one Bull c. The Vicar of the Church of Folketon in which Parish this Hospital was situate was used yearly on the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle to cellebrate a Solemn Mass in the Chappel of this Hospital the Assistants at which Mass enjoy'd several Indulgences King Henry the VI. An. 25. confirm'd the Possessions and Liberties of this Hospital naming it for the future Carmans Spitell St. GREGORY's Hospital in Canterbury FOunded by Lansranc Archbishop of Canterbury without the North-Gate of the City For infirm Men and Women to live a part in separate Divisions of the House The said Lanfranc built near this Hospital a Church in honour of St. Gregory the Pope placing Canons therein who were to take care of the Souls of the said Poor and were to receive their Provision daily from the Hospital these Canons were endow'd with fair Revenues which in the year 1384. were taxt or estimated in the whole at 133 l. 15 s. These Canons were at first Secular as establisht by Lanfranc but afterwards they were changed into Regulars by William Archbishop of Canterbury Valued at 121 l. 15 s. 1 d. per Annum BRACKLEY in Northamptonshire RObert Earl of Mellent who came into England with the Conqueror founded this Hospital where his Heart was kept intire preserved with Salt An. 6 Hen. 5. Matilda Widow of Iohn Lord Lovel granted her Mannor of Bagworth and Thornton in Leicestershire to certain Trustees and their Heirs for them to grant to Thomas Coltone and several others then Members of this Hospital Pensions for Life and by another Deed dated 8 H. 5. declared her Intention and Will to be to change this Hospital into a Priory of Friers Preachers consisting of twelve and a Prior the Kings License being first obtain'd after which the said Trustees to reenseoff her or her Heirs with the said Mannor or convey it to them back again Vid. Vol. 3. p. 83. St. JULIANS near St. Albans in Hertfordshire THe Church and House of St. Iulian near Eyewode was founded for Lazares by Gaufridus Abbot of St. Albans with the advice and consent of his Convent and endow'd with divers Tithes and parcells of Tithes in St. Albans Bradewey and elsewhere Confirm'd by King Henry the II. For the Government of these Brethren several Orders were made as that their Habit should be a Tunick and Supertunick of plain Russit that they should be single or if married to separate from their Wives both parties being willing that no Woman should enter into the House except the common Laundress or a Mother or Sister to visit their Relation when sick with License of the Custos that every Brother at his admitance should make Oath to obey the Abbot of St. Albans and his Archdeacon c. RIPPON in Yorkshire FOund by Inquisition that it was founded by Thurstan Archbishop of York for the Relief of Poor and Leprous People Endow'd with Revenues given at first to certain Sisters who lived here wherewith to find a Chaplain to celebrate in the said Hospital and to relieve all such Leperous People who being born in Ripschire should repair to this House where they were to receive one Garment called Bak and two pair of Shooes per Annum and every day to each man one Loaf half a Flagon of Ale c. Which said Sisters being dead the Archbishop that then was gave the Hospital to the Possession and Government of a Master and certain Chaplains but in time Leperous People decaying in the 15 E. 3. there were neither Brothers nor Sisters in this Hospital otherwise it remain'd as it ought Vid. Vol. 3. p. 89. St. GILES in the Sâ—burbs of London QUeen Maud Wife of King Henry the I. built on the West side of London a House for the Relief of Leperous People with an Oratory and call'd
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
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
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
Chruch Flesh they may eat if given them from abroad or of their proper feeding but that only on Sundays from Easter to Advent and from Christmas to Septuagessima and on Christmassday Epiphany Ascention the Assumption and Purification of the Blessed Mary and Feast of all Saints They shall buy nothing for their own Dyet but Bread Beans Pease Herbs Oyle Eggs Milk Cheese and Fruit but no Flesh nor Fish nor Wine unless for the necessities of the Sick and on Jorneys c. In Towns where they have Houses of their own they shall not eat nor drink out of the same unless Water tho' invited nor lye out of their own Houses The Infirm shall lye and eat by themselves Strangers especially Religious men that come to their Houses shall be kindly entertain'd according to the ability of the House No Brother either Clerk or Lay but shall labour in some Office or other They shall observe silence in the Church Refectory and Dortour unless upon necessary Occasions A Chapter shall be held every Sunday if possible in which they shall consider of the affairs of the House and then also an Exhortation shall be made in a plain manner to all the Brethren and others of the House instructing them in their duty of what they are to belâ—ve and practice If any Brother give Scandal or strike another he shall be punishe at the will of the Minister more or less A General Chapter shall be held once a year and that in the Ocâ—aves of Pentecost The Minister shall be Elected by the Common Council of the Brethren not for the dignity of his Birth but the Merits of his person The Minister is either greater or Lesser The Greater may hear the Confessions of all the Congregations of his Order the Lesser only of his own House If any desire to enter into this Order he shall first undergo a years Probation or more if there be occasion and none shall be received under the age of twenty years None shall swear an Oath unless upon great Necessity by License of the Minister or by command of the Bishops and for an honest and just cause THELESFORD in Warwickshire THis House dedicated to God St. Iohn Baptisi and St. Radegund the Virgin was founded by William Son of Waâ—er de Cherlecote for the Releif of the Poor and for the Receit of Travellers or Pilgrims and Religious Men there serving God he endow'd in with several Revenues in Cherlecote Other Benefactors were Fulk Son of William de Lucy William de Narford Lord of Bereford who among other things granted to the Minister and Friers of this House free Fishing in his Water of Avon on all days but Sundays with other great Liberties and Priviledges and William de Bello Campo Earl of Warwick All whose gifts and Grants King Edward III. in the third year of his Reign confirmed to Thomas de Offynton at that time Minister and the Friers of this House and their Successors to hold free and quit of all Secular demands and Exactions whose Deed bears date at Kenylworth Valued at 23 l. 10 s. per Annum MOTTIDEN in KENT THis House of Friers of the holy Cross was first founded by Sir Robert de Rokesley Knight the Modern Patron was the Earl of Northumberland Valued at 50 l. 13 s. ob per Annum INGHAM in Norfolk WIlliam Staserton was the first Founder of this Priory of later time Francis Calthorp became Patron Valued at 61 l. 9 s. 7 d. ob per Annum A TRINITARIAN Vol. 2. P. 831 KNARESBOROUGH in Yorkshire KIng Iohn gave certain Lands in Swinesco to Frier Robert a Hermit in this place which his Son King Henry III confirm'd to Frier Ivo by the title of Hermit of the holy Cross of Knaresburg in the twelfth year of his Reign Richard King of the Romans and Earl of Cornwall Brother to King Henry III. gave to God and to the Brothers of the Holy Trinity of Captives at Knaresburgh the Chappel of St. Robert at Knaresburgh and all the Land which King Iohn his Father gave to the said Saint Robert in his life time with other Lands and Commons of Pasture for twenty Cows and three hundred Sheep and Paunage for forty Hogs c. Whose Deed bears date at London An. Dom. 1257. All which was afterward confirm'd by King Edward I. and King Edward II. Valued at 35 l. 10 s. 11 d. per Annum Additions to the First Volum of the Monasticon Anglicanum Pag. 18. GLASTONBURY DIvers other Grants of Lands Revenues Liberties c. were made to this Monastery by several Kings and Bishops in the times of the Saxons c. King Etheldred An 987 granted to the Abbot and Monks here certain Lands to hold and possess quamdiu sides in Anglorum catholicâ premanserit plebe So long as the Catholick Faith shall remain among the People of England or while the People there shall remain Catholicks Pag. 31. ROCHESTER IN the year 1197. Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury exchanged the Mannor and Church of Darent to the Monks of St. Andrew at Rochester for the Mannor and Church of Lammedbe Lambeth with all the Appurtenances thereto belonging as well in the said Mannor as in Suwerc Southwark And this was by the assent of King Richard the I. and Gilbert then Bishop of Rochester Pag. 49. DURHAM KING William the Conqueror commanded the men of Carlile and those Parts that they should receive Christianity of the Bishop of Durham and his Archdeacon Nigellus de Albeney a great Favourite to King Henry the I. spoild'd the Monastery of Durham of two Mannors but being afterwards very sick and weak repented and restored them Hugh Bishop of Durham was highly favour'd by King Richard the I. who made him Earl of Northumberland and committed the Government of the Realm to his care during his absence in his Voyage to the Holy Land but afterwards falling into the King's displeasure he was devested to the Earldom of Northumberland before his death which happen'd in the year 1194. Anthony Beek elected Bishop of Durham in the year 1283. was a man of so great Authority that he usually had in his retinue one hundred and forty Knights He had a grant of the Isle of Man for life he was a great Builder he died An. 1310. and was the first Bishop that was buried in the Church of Durham Pag. 62. WESTMINSTER IN the year 1556. Cardinal Pole then Archbishop of Canterbury and Legat de Latere upon the Petition of the Dean and Chapter of St. Peter's at Westminster granted them License to give and surrender all and singular their Goods moveable and immoveable Actions and Rights whatsover to their Church or to them in right of their Church belonging to King Philip and Queen Mary that with the same they might endow the Abbot and Convent of the said Church in perpetual Alms and restore it to the condition of a Monastery as formerly Which License was dated at his Mannor of Croydon 17th Kal. October in the second
the City of Colchester erected here a Monastery of which he lay'd the first Stone An. Dom 1097. Which being finisht some Monks were brought hither from Rochester But they not being endow'd here according to their own mind return'd to Rochester After this Eudo received other thirteen Monks from the Abbot of York these began upon a New Foundation which prosper'd so well that in a short time one of the thirteen was chosen Abbot and Consecrated by Maurice Bishop of London About the year 1104. Their number increased to above twenty who all lived very regularly The founder Eudo dyed in Normandy and devised his Body to be buried in the Abby of his foundation at Colchester which was accordingly done the Monks meeting it a Mile from the Monastery An. 1120. This Eudo endow'd this Monastery with several Mannours Tithes and Churches among others with the Church of St. Mary in the Westcheping Call'd the Newcherch and his Stone House near the same also the Church of St. Steven Walebroch in London King Henry II. released the Tax of Danâ—geld c. in the Lands of these Monks SNAPES in Essex A Cell to Colchester WIlliam Martell being Seised of the Mannour of Snapes enjoy'd Wreck of the Sea from Thorp to Hereford Nesse and gave this Mannour to the Abby of Colchester for the founding of a Priory here which Priory was founded accordingly and made a Cell to that Abby An. 1155. This Priory paid half a mark yearly to Colchester as a Pension of acknowledgment Twice a year the Abbot of Colchester was to Visit here with twelve Horses and abide here four days St. HELENS in Bishopsgatestreet London ALardus Dean of St. Pauls London and the Chapter of that Church granted License to William Son of William the Goldsmith Patron of the Church of St. Helen to constitute Nuns in the said Church and â—rect a College there endowing them with the Advowson of the said Church The Prioress to be upon election presented to the Dean and Chapter of Pauls and to swear fealty to them and to pay them a Pension of half a mark yearly at Easier c In the yeat 1439. Raynold Kentwode Dean of Pauls made other Constitutions for the Government of this Nunnery some of which were That Divine Service be by them duly perform'd night and day That no secular person be locked within the Bounds of the Cloyster nor come within it after the Complin Bell except Women Servants and maid Children that none of the Sisters receive Letters from or speak with any secular Person without License of the Prioress and some other Nun to be present That they grant no Corody or Pension without License of the said Dean and Chapter that no Dancing or Reveling be used in the House except at Christmass and then among themselves and in the absence of Secualr persons That there be a Door made to the Nuns Quire that no Strangers may look on them nor they on the Strangers when They be at Divine service That no Nun have any Key to the Postern Door that goes out of the Cloyster into the Churchyard but the Prioress c. These Orders were to be Read publickly in their Chappel four times a year and kept and observed under the pain of Excomunication Valued at 314 l. 2 s. 6 d. per Annum CATESBY in Northamptonshire KIng Henry III. in the fifty seventh year of his Raign recited and confirm'd to the Nuns of Kateby the Church of the blessed Mary of Kateby with the Chappel of Helidene with the Church and divers Lands in great Esseby and several other Revenues given them by divers Benefactors Confirm'd also by the Bull of Pope Gregory the VIII Valued at 132 l. 1 s. 11 d. per Annum St. MARY de Pratis adjoyning to Derby KIng Henry II. granted and confirm'd to the Nuns of St. Mary de Pratis near Darby among other things twenty seven acres of Land in his Forrest of the Peak with large Commons in the said Forrest King Henry III. granted them 100 s. per Annum to be received from the Baylies of the Town of Nottingham out of the Farm of the said Town Valued at 18 l. 6 s. 2 d. per Annum GRIMSBY in Lincolnshire THe Church and all the Monastery of Nuns here being of the Kings Foundation and Patronage together with all their goods and Movables and all their Writings and Evidences concerning their Lands and Estate in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire being burnt and consumed by a casual fire King Henry IV. in the seventh year of his Reign confirm'd to this Prioress and Convent all their Grants c. made as well by his Progenitors as others NEWTON in Yorkshire KIng Edward II. in the fifteen year of his Reign granted his Licence To his well beloved Cousin Thomas Wake to give one Messuage with the appurtenances in the Town of Neutone for the erection of a Religious House of what order he pleased and to endow it with Lands in Neuton and Cottingham c. Vid. 3. p. 88. BROMHALE HEnry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Margaret his Wife did release and quit claim to the Nuns of Bromhale one hundred acres of Land in their Wast of Asserige with the Appurtenances Pag. 551. LEUESHAM in Kent KIng Alured and his Son King Edward the Elder gave and King Edward the Confessor confirm'd to the Abby of St. Peters at Gant the Mannour of Luesham with all its appurtenences viz. Greenwic Wullewic Modingham and Cumbe with other Lands and great Liberties and Franchises as large as the King himself had in the said Lands c. Dated An. Dom. 1044. Pag. 551. St. MICHAELS MOUNT in Cornwal RIchard King of the Romans Edmund Earl of Cornwal and Conan Duke of Britany were Benefactors to this House Pope Adrian in the year 1155. confirm'd to the Abbot and Monks of this House by the name of the Monastery of St. Michael de periculo maris all their Lands and Revenues lying most in Normandy and also in England Pag. 558. BERGAVENNY HEnry de Bellocampo confirm'd to the Monks of Bergavenny all those Possessions which his Ancestors Hamelinus de Balon and others Lords of Bergavenny had given them and further gave and confirm'd to the said Monks divers other Revenues Pag. 595. GOLDCLIVE RObert de Candos founded the Priory at Goldclive in Wales being then Lord of Karlyon The Patronage of which House came afterwards to William Earl of Gloucester and after that to Richard Duke of York CARESBROKE in the IIe of Wight WIlliam Fitz Osbern was Mareshal to William the I. and Conquer'd the Ile of Wight at such time as the other Conquer'd England King William made him Earl of Hereford The Estate of this William descended to Baldwin Earl of Exeter who granted all the Churches and Tithes of this Iland to the Abby of St. Mary of Lira King Henry II. recited and confirm'd the several Possessions given to those Monks as well in France as England and Wales Pag. 614. WENDLOCK WIlliam de Boterell
disposal to celebrate Divine Service privately in the time of general Interdict to have a free Sepulture and a free Election of their Abbess c. Whose Bull bears date An. Dom. 1228. Pag. 327 WALLINGFORD NIgellus de Albeney and Alan Fitz-Amfrid gave divers Lands to the Monks of St. Albans in the Church of the Holy Trinity of Wallingford Confirm'd to them by Ioceline Bishop of Salisbury and after him by Robert Bishop of Salisbury and by the Dean and Chapter of that Church An. Do. 1243. Pag. 525. WILBERFOSS GEorge Duke of Clarence and Lord of Richmond as Patroonshe Nannery of Wilberfoss exemplified and confirm'd to Elizabeth then Prioress and to the Nuns there the several Deeds of Endowments and Grants made to them by Iordanus Fitz Gilbert William de Percy c. Whose Deed of Confirmation bears date at Staunford 10th of August 4 Edward IV. Pag. 487. STODELEY THis Nunnery was first founded by Thomas de Sancto Walerico but his Estate and consequently the Patronage of this House coming to the Crown King Richard II. in the first year of his Reign on the death of Margery the last Prioress confirm'd the Election of Elizabeth Fremantell then Subprioress into the Office of Prioress and signified the same to the Bishop of Lincoln Pag. 482. SANFORD alias LITTLEMORE ROger de Thoeni Roger de Sanford and Thomas Buscel whose Deed bears date 1254 8. Henry III. gave Lands to the Church of St. Nicholas and Priory of Nuns here Robert Abbot of Abington and Benjamin Rector of the Church of St. Nicholas granted and confirm'd to them certain Tithes Roger de Quency Earl of Winton and Constable of Scotland released to them their Suit to his Court Pope Innocent IV. in the second year of his Pontificate Released ten days of enjoyn'd Pennance to all such of the Diocesses of Lincoln Ely and Salisbury who being penitent and confest should contribute and assist to the reedifying of the Church of this Priory Pag. 597. GROSMUNT in Yorkshire JOan Wife of Robert de Torneham and daughter of William Fossart gave divers Lands Profits and Priviledges in Yorkshire to the Prior and Monks of Grandmont in France confirm'd by her said Husband Robert de Torneham who also gave other Lands of his own Pag. 505. CRESWELL in Herefordshire THis was another Cell of the Monks of Grandemont to which Walter de Lacy gave Lands in pure and perpetual Alms with warranty Peter Bishop of Hereford having bought Lands of the Prior of Creswell for 550. marks granted by his Deed dated 1256 that in case he or his Successors should happen to be impleaded for the said Lands the said Prior nor this Successors should not be obliged to defend and Warrant the same beyond the Sum of 550 marks Pag. 542. MISSENDEN JOan de Pedinton widow of Guy de Ryhal with Thomas Son and heir of the said Guy confirm'd to the Canons of Missendin the Hermitage of Muswell which Ralf the Hermit built and inhabited by permission of the foresaid Guy with a Chappel built in honour oâ— the Holy Cross. Confirm'd also by Albricus Earl of Damarun and Simon de Gerardmulin The Priory of EWENNY a Cell of the Abby of Gloucester THe Turbervilles gave to the Church of St. Michael and the Monks there divers Lands and Possessions with Liberty of fishing in the River of Ewenny as far as their Lands extend and to retain a moiety of the fish so caught the other moiety to be the Turbervilles The Priory of Blithe in Nottinghamshire POpe Honorius confirm'd the Possessions of this House to the Monks here and exempted them from paying of Tithes of their Cattel It was founded by William de Crescy William Gifford Archishop of York An. Dom. 1277 made certain orders for their Government viz. That Almes and Hospitality should be used as of old time that all and singular do humbly and devoutly obey the Prior as their head c. Vid. Vol. â— p. 553. BUSTLESHAM Abby in Barkshire KIng Henry VIII by Patent dated in the 29th year of his Reign recites that out of the sincere and intire devotion which he bears to God and the Blessed Virgin Mary and to the Increase of the Divine Worship c. He does erect found and establish to indure for all future times a Monastery or Conventual House of one Abbot and thirteen Monks of the order of St. Benedict in the place of the late disolved Priory or Monastery of Bisham alias Bustlesham in Barkshire which on the fifth day of Iuly in the 28th year of his Reign was surrender'd to him by William Bishop of St. Davids then Prior of that Priory and the Convent there and this he did for the good estate of himself while living and for the good of his Soul after death and for the good of the Soul of his most dear Wife Iane late Queen of England deceased and for the Souls of his Children and Progenitors And gave all the Lands Houses Church Bells and all utensils then in his hands and formerly belonging to the late dissolved Monastery to Iohn Cordrey whom he made Abbot of this new Monastery and to the Monks of the same Which Iohn Cordrey was lately Abbot of the Monastery of St. Peter at Chertsey in Surrey He did also incorporate this new Monastery by the name of the Abbot and Convent of the new Monastery of the Holy Trinity of King Henry VIII at Buslesham with power to purchase Lands and by that name to sue and be sued c. and for the Abbot and his Successors to use an Episcopal Miter He also endow'd the said New Monastery with all the Lands and Revenues belonging to the late Monastery here and also to that of Chertsey in divers Counties of England and Wales and in the City of London also with the dissolved Priories of Cardigan in Southwales and Bethelkellard in Carnarvanshire with all the Lands and Revenues of the same and with divers Rents issuing out of the Lands and Revenues of several other Monasteries then in Lease for twenty one years and the Reversion of the said Lands c. With view of Frank pledge and all other Franchises and Liberties which have been formerly enjoy'd in the several Lands c. To hold by the Service of one Knights see and the yearly Rent of 72 l. and 17 d. in the name of a Tenth to be paid into the Court of augmentations at Michaelmas This new Monastery to be exempt from the ordinary Jurisdiction and to be visited only by the King his heirs and Successors and the present Abbot Iohn Cordrey to be excused from the payment of first Fruits and Tenths given by Statute made in the twenty sixth year of this King provided notwithstanding that his Successors shall pay first Fruits which are valued at 661 l. 14 s. 9 d. ob But no tenths which amount to 66 l. 3 s. 5 d. ob q. non obstante the said Stat. or any other Law Which Patent bears teste at Westminster 18th December in
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
he was upon his great sorrow and tears absolved after which he gave divers Lands to this Church Gurcan who succeeded Guinan having lived incestuously with his Mother in Law was therefore in full Synod excommunicated by Bishop Erthguin and after upon his reformation being absolved gave divers Lands to this Church King Clitauc Son of Clitguin was a Prince who governed his Kingdom in Peace and exact Juctice and became afterwards a Martyr on this account A young Virgin of quality was in love with him so far as to declare she would never marry unless to Clitauc whereupon a Nobleman of the Court whose Sute she had refused for the Kings sake in revenge murder'd the innocent King in hunting After whose Murder the Bishop of Landaff caused to be built and consecrated a Church to his memory in the place where he was buried near the River Myngui c. Which with divers Lands given to the same was afterwards a granted to the Bishops of Landaff by King Iudhail Son of Morcant A Noble man of the same name Iudhail Son of Edelvirth going with his Wife on a Sunday to hear divine Service at St. Clitaue's was so far prevail'd upon by the Devils insligation and his own lust 〈◊〉 to lie with his Wife in a Meadow on the Bank of Mingui and having perform'd the Act and about to withdraw he found himself not able to disjoyn but was forced to remain in that Posture inseperable from his Wâ—â—e whereupon he call'd out to his Attendants and order'd them to repair to the Monument of the Martyr Clitauc and there offer in his name that Meadow which he had unjustly taken from that Church this being done with promise of amendment of Life he was again separated from that vexatious Conjunction Convur bought certain Lands of King Fernvail Son of Iudhail for an excellent horse of the price of 12 Cows a Dog that had kill'd Birds with a Hawk cum Ancipitre of the Price of 3 Cows and another Horse of the Price of 3 Cows which Lands so purchased he gave to the Bishops of this Church of Landaff Fernuhail Convelin King Ris Son of Iudhail and abundance of other Kings and great Men in Wales were Benefactors to this Church King Hotel being excomunicated by the Bishop and Synod at Landaff for killing Galcun after a peace swern upon his Absolution gave divers Lands to this Church the like did Ili Son of Conblus who was excommunicated for killing Camauc after a Peace sworn between them Agvod Son of Iovaf having an angry Contest betwixt his family and the Bishops came up to the Church Door and threw stones into the Church and then fled under an Anathema for which he afterwards beg'd pardon and gave divers Lands to Corenhiro then Bishop and his Successors King Nongui gave Lands for violating the Liberties of this Church and committing Sacriledge An. Dom. 955. Pater being then Bishop of this Church six men of the Family of Nongui broke into a Church in this Diocesâ— and there kill'd a Deacon before the Altar who had fled thither for Sanctuary for which they were delivered up to the Bishop and remain'd imprison'd six months in Chains and they were further sentenced by a Synod that they should forfeit all their Lands and Substance to the Church which they had prophaned Asser Son of Marchvid having kill'd Gulagguin by treachery gave to this Church the Town of Segan c. Brochmail Son of Mouric gave to this Church certain Lands which he had before given to his Daughter whom he made a Nun but she being seduced from her Vow by Etgar Son of Levi had a Son incestuously Teudur King of Brecknock King Grifud c. were also Benefactors An. Dom. 982. Gucaun Bishop of Landaff was consecrated by the Metropolitan Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury and had his Pastoral Staff given him by Edgar the Supream King of the English At the same time lived Edgar King of all Britain Hawel da and Morgan hen which two last were subject to King Edgar Etguin King of Guenti having a great contest with Bledri Bishop of Landaff it went so far that the Bishop himself was wounded whereupon he summon'd and assembled all the Clergy from Taratir in Gui to Tigui who in full Synod Anathematized the King with his whole Family and put his Country under interdict but the King seeking absolution obtain'd it and thereupon gave divers Lands to this Church Muric Son of Hivil after he had solemnly sworn to a Peace and Friendship with Etguin a Neighbouring King before Ioseph Bishop of Landaff seized upon the said Etguin cast him in Prison and put out his eyes which occasion'd his death for which being curst in a Synod he afterwards obtain'd absolution and gave several Towns to this Church King Mouric and Caratanc one of his Lords being under censure for violating the Sanctuary of this Church obtain'd remission and gave divers Lands The like happened in the Cases of Catguallaun Ringuallaun Gistinus and others who being guilty of like Crimes made the like Compensations When King William conquer'd England Hergualdus was Bishop of Landaff Catguacaun Son of Mouric King of Glatmorcant Caratoc and Riderch Kings of other parts of Wales all which Kings served King William and died in his time LITCHFELD Cathedral THIS was formerly call'd the Mercian Church and first founded in the year 657. upon the Conversion of this Province to the Christian Religion it was then made a Cathedral and Duina the first Bishop of the Mercians or middle English who govern'd here but two years and died To him succeeded Cellach a Scot. After him Trumhere and after him Iarman both Englishmen but ordain'd Bishops in Scotland To these succeeded St. Cedda An. Dom. 667. who had been before that Bishop of York After whose death succeeded Winfrid and after him Sexwolf who founded the Abby of Peterborough after whose death the Province of Mercia was divided into two Diocesses Parâ—chias Litchfield and Leicester tho' after a while they were both united again under Hedda Bishop of Litchfield who died An. 721. In the time of Ethelred King of Mercia the Bishoprick of Litchfield was divided into five Diocesses viz. Hereford Worcester Litchfield Leicester and Lindisey After this division Litchfield had five successive Bishops till the time of Adulphus who was made Archbishop of Litchfield by Pope Hadrian An. 764. and a Jurisdiction given him over all Mercia and the East-Angles but after him there was no more Archbishops From his time to the Norman Conquest were fifteen Bishops of Litchfield soon after which the Episcopal Seat was translated from Litchfield to Chester An. 1075. The second Bishop of Chester was Robert de Lymesi who An. 1095. removed his Seat again from Chester to the rich Monastery at Coventry not long before built and magnificently endow'd by Earl Leofrick and Godeva his Wife To him succeeded Robert Peche Roger de Clinton Walter Durdent Richard Peche and Gerard de Puellâ all of them successively Bishops of
be fourscore foot in length c. A Porch on the South side twelve foot in length another Porch on the South-side adjoyning to the Cloyster and in the West-end of the said Body a Steeple fourscore foot in higth from the Ground Table Stone twenty foot square within the Walls and the Walls six foot thick the Duke to find Carriage and Stuff for which well and duly to be made the said Horwode to have 300 l. Sterling which Indenture bears date 13 H. 6. Valued at 19 l. 11 s. 10 d. ob per Annum STOKE-CLARE in Suffolk THIS being formerly a Priory of Benedictines was by Edmund Earl of March by whose Ancestors it was founded changed into a Collegiate Church of a Dean and Secular Canons which change was ratified by the Papal Authority of Iohn the XXIII and Martin V. Thomas Barneslay Dean of the Collegiate Church of Stoke juxta Clare by the Authority and Command of Edmund Mortimer Earl of March and Vlster and Lord of Wigmore and Clare first Founder and Patron of the said Colledge made several Statutes and Ordinances for Government of the same viz. That there be always one Dean and six Secular Canons that every Canon reside full two and thirty weeks in the year or otherwise he shall receive but 40 s. for his Prebend that year in which he has not so resided that neither the Dean nor any Canon lie in Bed in the Morning longer than six a Clock or half an hour past that there be in the said Colledge eight Vicars sworn to continual Residence and two greater Clerks also five Chorists or honest Boys to sing and serve in the Quire that the Chorists have five Marks per Annum each that there be two inâ—eriour Clerks who are to take care of the Vestry and ringing the Bells that they ring to Mattins at five and go at six to high Mass at eleven and that they ring to Vespers so that they may be ended about five in the Afternoon That no Canon who cannot spend 40 l. per Annum and no Vicar nor Clerk shall use hunting nor any of them keep any Hounds in the Colledge except the Dean who may keep four that no Canon or Clerk shall wear any Arms in the said Colledge under the penalty of forseiting the said Arms for the first offence and of twenty shillings for the second that none of the Canons Vicars or Clerks shall be married or suspected of having any scandalous communication with Women That if any one be convicted of Heresie or Sodomy or Magick he shall be expell'd that no Canon Vicar or Clerk shall go abroad alone but with a Companion That they shall all duly and honestly pay their Debts to their Creditors That there be a Porter of the said Colledge who shall shut the Gate at Coverfeu time and admit none after that time That one of the Vicars be appointed by the Dean to be Precentor for the Government of the Quire in singing and Ceremonies c. who is to receive on that account 20 s. per Annum That the Colledge have a Common Seal to be kept with their Evidences and Jewells in a common Chest under three different Keys one of which to be kept by the Dean the other two by the two Senior Canons That there be no precedency among the Vicars at the Table but that they sit as they come but in the Choire according to Seniority That all the Vicars eat together in the Common Hall and that at Meal time some part of the Bible be always read to them That every Vicar have liberty eight weeks in the year and every Clerk six to visit their friends and recreate themselves that nothing shall be sealed with the Common Seal unless it be first Registred in a Book to be kept for that purpose That every Dean within a year after his instalment give to the Colledge one Cope of the value of 5 l. and make a Feast for the Canons c. or pay for it 40 s. That upon vacancy of the Deanery the Patron of the Colledge present to the Bishop a Graduate in some University at least Master in Arts or Batchelour in Law to be instituted Dean which Statutes and Orders bear date in the year 1422. Valued at 324 l. 4 s. 1 d. ob per Annum NORTH-CADBURY in Somersetshire KING Henry the V. in the fourth year of his Reign granted his License to Elizabeth Widow of William Botreaux the elder Chivalier to found this Colledge for seven Chaplains of which one to the chief to have the Cure of Souls there and to be call'd Rector of the Colledge of St. Michael of North-Cadbury and for four Clerks with Licence to the said Elizabeth and William Botreaux the yonger to appropriate the Church of North-Cadbury thereunto and endow the same with divers Lands c. MANCHESTER in Lancashire KIng Henry V. in the ninth year of his Reign granted his Licence in consideration of two hundred marks paid in the Hanaper to Thomas Bishop of Durham and other Feoffees of Thomas la Warre Clerk to erect the Church of Manchester into a Collegiate Church and to establish therein a Master or Custos with as many fellow Chaplains and other Ministers as they should think fit whom he incorporated c. HIGHAM-FERRERS in Northamptonshire IN the 10 Henry V. that King granted his Licence to Henry Chichley Arch bisâ—op of Canterbury to found a Colledge at Higham-Ferrers the Place of his Nativity for eight Chaplains of which one to be Master and four Clerks one of which Chaplains or Clerks to teach Grammar and another Song and for six Choriâ—â—ers whom the said King incorporated by the Name of the Master and Colledge of the Bâ—essed Virgn Mary St. Thomas of Canterbury and St. Edward the Consâ—ssor of Higham-Ferrers and granted Licence to endow the same with Lands c. Valued at 156 l. 2 s. 7 d. per Annum St. MICHAEL Pater noster Chirche or Whitington Colledge in London HEnry Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 1424. granted his Licence to Iohn Coventre Iohn Carpenter and William Grove Executors of Richard Whitington late Citizen and Mercer and several times Mayor of London to erect a Colledge pursuant to the Will of the said Richard in the Parish Church of St. Michael call'd Pater noster Chirche in the Riol in London for five or six Chaplains and other Clerks and Ministers and an Almes-House of thirteen poor People and to make orders for the Government of the same And accordingly the said Executors did found such a Colledge in honour of the Holy Ghost the Blessed Virgin Mary St. Michael and All Saints and made divers Orders touching the said Foundation as that there shall be five Chaplains not elswhere beneficed one of which to be Master two Clerks besides the Parish Clerk and four Choristers appointing the first Chaplains to be William Brooke Iohn Whyte Nicholas Gaytone Richard Olyue and Gregory King and that William Brooke at that time Rector of the