year of the Pontificate of Pope Paul the IV. which was 3 4. P. and M. Pag. 143. BARDNEY THE Monastery of St. Peter and St. Oswald at Bardney was re-edified and made an Abby by Gilbert de Gant whose Off-spring confirm'd and augmented the Lands and Endowments of the same From the said Gilbert de Gaunt who came into England with the Conqueror descended the Earls of Lincoln of that name Hugh Bishop of Lincoln recited and confirm'd the several Donations made to this Monastery Pag. 152. EVESHAM THE first and principal Founder of this Monastery was King Ethelred Son of Penda King of Mercia Which King Ethelred after he had reigned thirty years relinquisht his Kingdom and became a Monk at Bardney Of later years several of the name of Bushell were Benefactors to this House Pag. 169. CROWLAND LAngtost was given to this House An. 819. And the Mannor and Church of Baston An. 825. the first by Fiegistus the other by Algarus two Knights Pag. 176. DEREHAM SAint Wythburga the Virgin was Daughter of Anna King of the East-Angels and devoted to a Monastick Life She caused this Monastery to be built at Derham in which she lived a Nun this House was at first so poor that upon her earnes◠Prayer the Nuns here were supported by a kind of miracle two Does or Hinds being used to come daily to be milked at a certain place for a long time till the Chief man or Bayly of the Town envying hunted them away with Hounds but suffer'd God's Judgment for his malice and broke his neck in hunting St. Wythburg died and was buried in the Church-yard at Derham and five and fifty years after her Body was found uncorrupted and translated thence into the Church An. 798. But in the year 974. it was translated from Durham to Ely Pag. 191. WINCHCUMBE ANno 1175. Pope Alexander the III. recited and confirm'd the Lands and Possessions of this House and by the same Bull granted the Abbot and Monks here divers Priviledges viz. that they might present Priests of their own Election to the Bishop to be instituted in the Churches belonging to their Monastery which Priests were to answer to the Bishop for the Cure and to the Monastery for the Temporalties of the place that no one should exact Tithes of them for their Lands or Cattle in their own hands or Occupation that they might have free Sepulture for those who desired to be buried with them saving the Rights and Dues of the Parish Churches that they might cellebrate Divine Offices in time of a general Interdict with a low Voice and Doors shut c. That Chrisme and holy Oyl Consecration of their Church Ordination of their Monks and Clerks to Sacred Orders should be received from none but their Diocesan Bishop if he be Catholick and in the Communion of the Apostolick See and if he will do his Office freely and willingly otherwise they might repair for these matters to any other Bishop An. 1404 Richard Bishop of Worcester confirm'd the Appropriation of their Churches An. 5. R. 1. Robert the IV. was chosen Abbot of this House he ordain'd that on every Morrow of All Souls Novemb. 3. yearly one hundred poor People should be relieved here with Bread Drink and Meat 30 H. 3. Iohn Yanworth was chosen Abbot on the death of Henry 9 E. 2. Richard Ydeburi was chosen Abbot on the death of Thomas 4 E. 3. Robert de Ippewell then Abbot did freely and of his own accord Abdicate the said Office and Walter Winfort was chosen to succeed him Pag. 191. WILTON WVlstan Earl of Ellendin was the first Founder of the Chantry at Wilton which is the same with Ellendin King Egbert founded the Priory at the request of Elburga his Sister and Widow of the foresaid Earl Wulstan An. 773. In which the became a Nun with twelve others But the first Founder of the Abby or Monastery of St. Edith in Wilton was King Alrud who gave all his Mannor and Liberties at Wilton to the Nuns in perpetual Alms. King Athelstan was a great Benefactor An. 933 and 937. So was King Edgar An. 968 c. Pag. 193. AMBRESBURY THE Nuns here being about thirty in number were for their notorious scandal and naughty Life removed from hence and placed in other Monasteries and other Nuns brought from Font Ebrald in France and establisht here to whom King Henry the II. upon their first establishment gave divers Lands all which with other Revenues given by other Benefactors were confirm'd to the said Nuns of Font Ebrald by King Iohn in the second year of his Reign Pag. 242. RAMSEY IN the year 1100. several Great men of this Kingdom raised a War against King Henry the I. who were forced to fly into Normandy Guiscard de Lymosin Lord Molyns appeared there on the King's behalf and prosecuted the War against them for which service he was highly favoured by the King who brought him with him over into England and gave him Castles Lands and Honours This Norman Lord built that part of Ramsey Monastery which was call'd Norman's Isle And from him descend the Lords Molins Roger a younger Son of this Family was Castellan of Nottingham and call'd himself Roger de Leumesin anglicè Waterhouse Pag. 253. CHATERIDGE THIS Nunnery and Church were all burnt down by a casual fire in the time of Robert Orford who was Bishop of Ely An. 1302. whereupon the said Bishop wrote to the Bishop of London setting forth the distrest Condition of the Abbess and Nuns here in order to have them excused from the Payment of Tenths in consideration of their great Loss Pag. 276. BURTON NIgellus Abbot of Burton with the Consent of the Chapter there gave to one Orme their Land at Acovre under condition that he pay yearly twenty pieces of old Coyn each worth 16 d. xx oras and thereupon the said Orme became the Abbot's man and swore fealty and that when dead his Body should be brought cum totâ pecuniâ suâ to be buried at Burton Abby after which his Son was to appear in their Chapter-house to pay his Relief to take such Oath to make such Payments and to hold as his Father had done By other Deeds this Tenure was specified to be by the Payment of two Marks yearly at Martlemass to go with the Abbot to London when he goes thither on the Affairs of this House at the Abbot's Charge and come to his Court if summon'd to judge Felons Pag. 310. SPALDING THIS Monastery was given in the time of William the Conqueror to the Abby of St. Nicholas at Angiers by one Yvo Talboys and became a Cell to that Abby But it being found highly inconvenient to the good of this House that the Prior and other principal Officers here should come from beyond Sea and be removeable at the pleasure of the Abbot of Angiers they carrying away with them what they could get from this place after many contests it was agreed that the Prior of this House should
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
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
year began also the Hospitallers and Templers St. Gilbert of Sempringham founded his Order An. 1148. St. Dominick An. 1198. St. Francis 1260. The Carmelites were settled and establisht by Pope Martin An. Dom. 1279. Kings of this Land who have become Monks Petroc King of Wales Constantine King of Cornwall Sebby Offa and Sigebert Kings of the East-Saxons Ethelred and Kynred Kings of Mercia Coelwulph and Edbricht Kings of Northumberland The Old Form of admitting a Brother into a Convent His first Petition in the Colloquium Syr I besyche you and alle the Covent for the luffe of God our Lady sanct Marye sanct John of Baptistâ— and all the hoyle Cowrâ—e of Devyne that ze wolde resave me to lyve and dye here among yow in the state of a Monke as prebenvarye and servant unto alle to the honour of God solace to the Company prouffet to the place and helth unto my Sawie His Answer unto the Examinacyon Syr I tryste thrugh the helpe of God and your good prayers to keep all thes things which ze have now heyr rehersede His Petition before the Profession Syr I have beyn heyr now this twell month nere hand and lovyde be God me lyks right well both the order and the company wherapon I besyche yow and all the company for the luffe of God our Lady sanct Marye sanct John of Baptisie and all the hoyle company of hevyne that ze will resave me unto my profession at my twell month day according to my petycion whyche I made when I was fyrst resaved heyr amongs youâ— c. Of the Benedictine Order have been four Emperors twelve Empresses six and forty Kings one and fifty Queens not to mention those of lesser Quality ERRATA PAge 6. l. 24. r. Lindisfarn p. 37. l. ult r. or an Oxe p. 39. l. 30. r. for the. p. 69. l. 4. r. Inspeximus p. 78 l. 12. r. or any l. 20. r. be put in p. 84. l. antepeâ—ul r. Daptfer p. 168. l. antepenul r. of the same p. 196. l. 14. r. HETHE in Kent p. 210. l. 32. r. Earl p. 220. l. 35. r. special p. 231. l. 30. r. East Angles p. 232. l. 3. r. Derham p. 262. l. 7. r. Marches p. 267. l. 4. r. Patron of the. p. 294. l. 19. r. colours p. 328. l. 25. r. Wyndesore Some other literal Mistakes and false Pointing have happen'd which the Reader may eaâ—â—â—y perceive and correct A BENEDICTINE MONK Place this y e following plates according to y e pages in y e mergin Vol. 1. P. 1. MONASTICON ANGLICANUM Abridg'd in English VOL. I. Of the BENEDICTINE Order The Monastery at GLASTONBURY in Somersetshire IN the 31th year after our Saviour's Passion twelve Disciples of St. Philip the Apostle among whom Ioseph of Arimathea was one came to this place and preacht the Christian Religion to King Arviragus They obtained of that King the Ground where the Monastery afterwards stood and twelve Hides of Land and built there the first Church of the Kingdom in a poor and homely manner They lived here in a kind of heremitical life and converted many Pagans to the Faith of Christ. After they were all dead and here buried the holy men Phaganus and Diruvianus having baptized King Lucius obtained this place of that King and for a great while they and their Successors remained here in a kind of Society consisting of twelve only till the arrival of St. Patrick who taught them the monastical Life and became himself their first Abbot Afterwards St. David Archbishop of Menevia now called St. David's added to the East-end of the Old Church a lesser Chappel in manner of a Chancel and consecrated it in honour of the Virgin Mary This Church for its Antiquity was by the old English call'd Ealdechirche and the Men of those days had no Oath more sacred and formidable than to swear by this Old Church And it was reverenced like Rome it self for as that became Famous for its multitude of Martyrs so did this for its multitude of Confessors here buried The Isle in which this Church stood was by the Britions call'd Ynswyrtryn i. e. the Isle of Glass from the clear and cristaline stream of Water which runs into the Marsh here It has been also called Avallonia By the Saxons it was named Glastynbury This Isle with several other places adjoyning were call'd the twelve Hides and did enjoy from the beginning very great Priviledges The Bounds of which twelve Hides may be seen in the Monasticon at large p. 2 3. These places there mentioned enjoyed all sorts of Immunities from the first beginning of Christianty in this Land confirm'd to the Church of Glastonbury by the British English and Norman Kings In this Church did rest and lie buried the twelve Disciples of the Apostle Philip above mentioned whose chief was Ioseph of Arimathea with his Son Iosephus Here also lies St. Patrick the Apostle of Ireland and two of his Disciples St. Gildas the British Historaographer St. David Archbishop of Menevia St. Dunstan Archbishop St. Indractus with his seven Companions all Martyrs St. Vrbanus the Bones of Venerable Bede with the 〈◊〉 of a great number of other Saints and holy Martyrs and Confeffors To recite all the Reliques that were in this Church would be two large for any Abridgement I only mention those of most note Several things relating to the Old Testament as Moses's Rod Manna c. things 〈◊〉 to our Lord Iesus Christ two small pieces of his Cradle some of the Gold which the Wise-men of the East offer'd some pieces of Bread of 〈…〉 Loaves with which Iesus fed five thousand men some of 〈…〉 some pieces of his Cross and of his Sepulchre one 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 of Thorns c. Things relating to the Virgin Mâ—ry 〈…〉 one thread of her Garment and some of her Hair ◠〈…〉 tude of Reliques relating to St. Iohn Baptist the 〈…〉 and Virgins On this account the Church of 〈…〉 verenced by Kings Queens Archbishops Bishops Dukes 〈…〉 lity of both Sexes and of all Orders and Degrees and 〈…〉 think himself who could give any thing to the increase 〈…〉 or could here obtain a place of Sepulture In this Isle which was call'd the Tomb of Saints was interr'd Coel King of the Britons Father of St. Helena Mother of Constantine the Great Caraducus Duke of Cornwall â—he renowned King Arthur and Guenevera his Queen which King died at Glastonbury about Whitsontide in the Year of our Lord 542. King Kentwynus King Edmund Son of Edward the Elder King Edgar King Edmund Ironside with several Bishops and Dukes who were great Benefactors to this House and many other Great men In so great Reverence was the Church and Church-yard where these were interr'd that our forefathers did not dare to use any idle discourse or to spit therein without great necessity enemies and naughty men were not suffer'd to be buried therein neither did any bring any Hawk Dog or Horse upon the Ground for
it they did it was observed that they immediately died thereupon Bishops and famous Prelates that have gone from this House to govern other Churches are as follows viz. Birthwaldus Abbot here was made Archbishop of Canterbury Athelmus Monk here Bishop of Wells and after that Archbishop of Canterbury St. Dunstan Monk and Abbot here Bishop of Worcester then of London and lastly of Canterbury Egelganus Monk here Bishop of Chichester and Archbishop of Canterbury Sigericus Monk here Bishop of Wells and Archbishop of Canterbury St. Elphegus a Martyr Bishop of Winchester and after that Archbishop of Canterbury Elnothus Monk here and Archbishop of Canterbury in the time of King 〈◊〉 To these may be added Gaufridus a Bishop and Monk here ob Anno Dom. 782. Ethelwinus a Bishop who died the same year Wiâ—ertus a Bishop ob Anno Dem. 800. Wigthagu Bishop ob Anno Dom. â—36 Alstanus Bishop ob Anno Dom. 842. Tumbertus Bishop ob 866. Daniel Bishop ob 956. Elfricus Bishop ob 988. Also in the time of King Edgar Sigegarus Bishop of Wells Britelmus Bishop of Wells 〈◊〉 Sigefridus St. Ethilwoldus Wilsinus Aelfâ—anus Egelricus Kenwaldus 〈◊〉 Livingus Brithwius Britwaldus who died Anno Dom. 1055. All these of 〈◊〉 in this House became Bishops of divers places in England The Benefactors to this House were first Arviragus King of the Britaâ—is who though a Pagan gave to St. Ioseph and his Companioâ—os the Isle in which the Monastery was built call'd by the Inhabitants Ynswyrtryn which King Lucius did afterwards confirm to Phaganus and Diruvianus and their Disciples King Arthur gave many other adjoyning Lands King Kenwalli King Kentwinus King Baldredus Bishop Hedda King Kedwalla King Ina gave other Lands So did St. Wilfridus Archbishop of York and abundance of others of both Sexes among the Principal of which were King Sigebert King Offa King Alfred or Alured King Athelstan King Edmund King Edwin King Edgar King Edmund Ironside with several Queens These and many other names with the Lands by the several Benefactors given may be read of in the Monasticon at large p. 9 10 14. 15. c. St. Patrick who was born in the year of our Lord 361. after his Conversion of Ireland to Christianity became Abbot of this Place and obtained of Pope Celestine twelve years Indulgence to all those who should with pious Devotion visit the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary here erected and honour her with any part of their Goods About the year of our Lord 505. Augustine the Monk was sent into England by the holy Pope Gregory to preach the Faith to the English Saxons He converted Fthelbert the King of Kent and his People Aâ—terwards being made Archibshop he establisht his Metropolitan Seat at Canterbury and there placed certain Monks living according to the Rule of St. Benedict after this several Monasteries in England were erected under the same Rule which obtained so great reputation that there were no Monks to be found in England but what were of this Order and in those time the Rule of St. Benedict began to be first observed in the Monastery of Glastonbury they living here before that after the manner of the Monks of Egypt King Ina began his Reign over the West Saxons Anno 689. and gave much Land to this Monastery he also built the greater Church at Glastonbury in honour of our Saviour and of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul And by his Charter bearing date Anno Dom. 725. Granted to this Monastery many and great Priviledges and Immunities King Ina dying in a Pilgrimage to Rome his Successor Ethelardus became also a bountiful Benefactor as were several other succeeding Kings of the West Saxons c. King Edmund granted to the Church of the holy Mother of God at Glastonbury and to the venerable Dunstan Abbot there the Liberty and Power Rights and Customs and all Forfeitures in all their Lands i. e. Burgbrice Hundred Socna Atbâ—s Ordelus Infangenetheofas Homsecna Frithbrice Foresteall Toll and Team through the Kingdom of England and that they should enjoy their Lands as free from all Claims as he enjoy'd his own especially to the Town of Glastonbury it self with many other Liberties c and this was by his Charter dated Anno Dom. 944. King Edgar by his Charter dated at London Anno Dom. 971. granted to the said Monastery the same and greater Liberties among other things that the said Monastery and some Parishes there mentioned subject and belonging to it should be exempt from the ordinary Jurisdiction of the Bishop except in some things with a Salvo to the holy Church of Rome and that of Canterbury And gave and confirmed to this Church two hundred and fifteen Hides of Land given by several Benefactors William the Conqueror at his first coming to the Crown did very much mutilate the Possessions of this Church He made one Turstinus a Norman Abbot here in the year 1081. And in order to make some amends to the Monks he confirm'd to them several Lands which they complained to have been unjustly taken from them Herlewin and Henry Brother of Theobald Earl of Blois and Nephew of King Henry the I. were two Abbots of this Monastery who through their industrious endeavours obtained much good to this House and the Restoration of many Lands which had been taken from it Vid. Vol. 2. p. 837. This Abby was valued before the Suppression at 3311 l. 7 s. 4 d. ob per Annum The Cathedral Church of Canterbury IN the time of the blessed Gregory's Papacy St. Augustine with several other Monks were sent to convert the English People who in the year of Grace 600. or according to others 596. coming into England converted King Ethelbert and some thousands of his People which King gave them a Mansion in his Capital City of Canterbury then called Dorobernia there to Preach and Baptize Hereupon the blessed Augustine having received a Pall from Pope Gregory built a Church there and dedicated it to the honour of our Saviour Jesus Christ he also did here institute the Metropolitan Seat of himself and Successors And having rais'd here a Monastery of Monks the People flow'd in to him from all parts some for Baptism and some to become Monks devoting themselves and all they had to God's service The Principal Benefactors were King Ethelbert who gave them his Palace in Canterbury which Pope Gregory decreed to be the Metropolitan Seat and made it the first in Dignity it having first received the Faith Ethelbaldus Son of Ethelbert King Cedwalla King Offa Edmundus King of Kent Cenulphus King of Kent Beornulphus King of Mercia King Athelstan King Edmund St. Edward the Confessor William the Conqueror King Henry the I. Henry the II. Richard the I. Edward the III. Edward Prince of Wales his Son Henry the IV. These and abundance of others of inferiour condition gave and confirmed to this Church many Lands Priviledges and Immunities the particulars of all which Lands c. may
Charter dated in the 18th year of his Reign Thomas Archbishop of York set forthand declared the Diocess of the Bishop of Durham to be all the Land betwixt Tyne and Tese Northumberland Tevydale Tyndâ—â— Carlâ—ol Weredale with the Church of Hertesham and Lindisâ—â—rn Principal Benefactors to this Church were King William the Conqueror who gave great Pâ—sessions to the Bishop and his Successors to hold 〈◊〉 and quiet as he himself held them in his own hands Edgar Son of Malâ—olm King of the Scots he gave to the Church of Durham the Mansion of Berwic and Coldyâ—ghamschyr King Richard the I. he granted and confirm'd to the Bishop of 〈◊〉 and his Successors many great Priviledges with the Domiâ—â—â—â— and 〈◊〉 of a Count Palatin for ever c. Vid Vol. 2. p. 845. Valued at 1366 l. 10 s. 9 d. per Annum MALMESBURY in Wiltshire MAyldulpâ—us by Nation a Sâ—â—tchman a Philosopher by Erndâ—â—ion and a Monk by Profession was the first Founder of the Monstery here Anno Dom. 635. King Berthwald with the Consent and Confirmation of King Aethelred gave to this Monastery for ever Summerford lying upon the 〈◊〉 Thames Other Benefactors to this Monastery were Lutherius Bishop of Winchester who by his deed dated Anno Dom. 680. gave to it for ever the Town of Malmesbury King Athelred in the year 681 gave other Lands so did King Chedwalla Anno 682. in the year 1065. King Edward the Confessor confirm'd all former Donations and himself granted to this House great Liberties and Priviledges the like did King William the Conqueror in the year 108â— the same year Mauld his Queen became also a Benefactrice Pope Innocent in the year 1248. granted to the Abbot and Monks of Malmesbury in the Diocess of Salisbury a Confirmation of all their Lands and Revenues which see in the Monasticon at large together with several great Immunities and ordain'd that the Rule of St. Benedict should be for ever observed in this Monastery Valued at 803 l. 17 s. 7 d. ob q. per Annum WESTMINSTERABBY in Middlesex IN the days of King Lucius the first Christian King of Britain who was baptized Anno Dom. 184. this place was first consecrated to God's honour and especially appointed for the Royal Sepulture and a Repository of the Regalia Thus it remained till under Dioclesian's persecâ—tion Christianity was expelled from hence and the place turned to a 〈◊〉 Temple of Apollo Afterwards when the Saxons had conquered this Kingdom and were in possession of it the blessed Gregory in the year of Grace 604. sent Augustine the Monk together with Mellitus Iustus I aurentius and others to teach the Christian Religion in Britain He arrived in Kent as hath been already noted and having converted and baptized Ethelbert King of that province he afterward did the same to Sebert King of the East-Saxons King Ethelbert's Sister's Son who upon his Conversion to Christianity cast down the foresaid Temple of Apollo and in the same place then called Thorney Isle built a Church in honour of St. Peter Prince of the Apostles In the same year the blessed Augustine ordained two Bishops Mellitus Bishop of London and Iustus Bishop of Rochester The History of this Church says that Mellitus going to consecrate it he found the Work already performed by St. Peter himself This Church being afterwards new built by St. Edward the King and Confessor Pope Nicholas granted to it large immunities appointing it to be forâ—ever a Seat of Benedictine Monks the place of Consecration of our Kings and Repository of the Regalia and exempted it from the Bishops Jurisdiction placing it under the sole and immediate Government of the King and his Successors The said King Edward the Confessor by his Charter dated in the year 1066. reciting that at the Dedication of this new Church he had placed here certain Relicks viz. Two pieces of our Lord's Cross a piece of his Seamless Coat with other Relicks of the blessed Virgin and of the Apostles c. he renew'd and confirm'd the Lands and Priviledges formerly granted to this Church by his Ancestors granting others of his own and giving to the praise of Almighty God and for a perpetual Endowment to this Church several Lands and Hereditaments among others Roteland after the death of Queen Edgith c. With blessings denounced to those who shall in the future increase or improve these Gifts but heavy Curses and Anathemas against those of what degree or quality soever who shall infringe or diminish the same Vid. Vol. 22. p. 847. Valued at 3471 l. 0 s. 2 d. q. per Annum SHERBURN in Dorsetshire FOunders and Benefactors to this Monastery were Kenewale Edgar Offa Egbert Sigebert Ina and several other Saxon Kings In the year of our Lord 1122 Sherburn and Horton made both but one Abby but afterwards about the year 1139. Roger Bishop of Salisbury changed the Priory of Sherburn into an Abby that of Horton being destroy'd and annext to this See more of this Abby infra p. 423. Valued at 682 l. 14 s. 7 d. ob per Annum LESTINGHAM in Yorkshire ANno Dom. 648. Edilwald Son of Oswald King of the Northumbers gave to Cedde Bishop of the East Saxons or Bishop of London a piece of Ground on a high Mountain called Lestingay for the building of a Monastery For the erecting of which Cedde prepared himself by fasting a whole Lent except Sundays eating nothing till the Evening and then only a little Bread one Hen-Egg and a little Milk mingled with Water After this he built the Monastery and instituted there the same Discipline as was used in that of Lindisfarn where he himself had been educated He govern'd his Diocess for many years after but died in this Monastery and was here buried PETERBOROUGH Abby in Northamptonshire THIS Monastery was begun by Peada the first Christian King of Mercia by and with the assistance of a great and eminent man called Saxulphus the first Abbot here The place where it was built was in those old Times called Medeshamstede but the Church being dedicated to St. Peter it was afterwards called Peterborough The Foundation was perfected and the Endowment compleated by Wulfer King of Mercia and younger Brother of King Peada who after his conversion to Christianity by his Deed An. Do. 664. not only confirmed what had been already given by his Predecessors but gave to this Monastery a very great quantity of Lands lying in the Country round about King Edgar by his Charter dated A. D. 972. granted other Lands and many Priviledges Pope Agatha granted many Priviledges to this Monastery which were confirmed in a Council of twenty five Bishops assembled in a place called Estfeild A. D. 680. These Grants Liberties and Priviledges were in succeeding times confirm'd by King Edward the Elder King Ethelred King Cnut Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror The Monastery of St. Peter at Medeshamstede being built A. D. 654. remained in Peace till the year 870. at which time the Pagan
Danes coming down out of Yorkshire into Lincolnshire Earl Algar Morcar a Lay-Brother of Crowland-Abby call'd Tolius who had been a famous Souldier before he entered into Religion Hardingus of Reihalle and under his Command all the men of Stamford made head against them and at first conquered the Pagans but they being soon after reinforced with greater power they in a second Battel over-threw the Christians with grievous slaughter burnt down the Abby and Church of Croyland and from thence marcht to Medeshamsted where they slew the Abbot and all the Monks to the number of eighty four and utterly destroyed the Church and all other Buildings From hence they march'd to Cambridge destroying all the Country as they went In the year of Christ 970. St. Adelwold Bishop of Winchester began to re-edifie the Monastery of Medeshamstede and call'd it the Borough of St. Peter one hundred year after it was destroyed by the Danes The foregoing Particulars of this History have been curiously painted in the Windows of the Cloysters belonging to this Abby with English Verses under each Picture explaining the Story Which see in the Monasticon at large Valued at 1721 l. 14 s. 0 d. ob q. per Annum WHITBY of Old call'd STRENSHALE in Yorkshire ANno Dom. 655. Penda the Pagan King of Mercia making War upon Oswy King of Northumberland Oswy made a Vow to Almighty God that if he overcame his Enemies he would dedicate his Daughter to perpetual Virginity and give twelve of his Manour-houses to be converted into Monasteries Hereupon he fought and tho' much inferiour in number obtain'd a Signal Victory and Penda was slain in the Battle In performance o◠〈◊〉 Vow he gave his Daughter named Ethelfleda then scarce one year 〈…〉 and the Ground then called Streneshal for the building of a Monastery It was begun by Hilda a Woman of great Religion and was at first a Nunnery but afterwards a House of Monks In the year 1067. William de Percy who came into England with the Conquerour and had obtained to himself and Heirs the Town of Whitby and all its Members made a new Foundation of the Abby of Whitby and gave all the said Town and Members to God St. Peter and St. Hilda of Whitby and to the Monks there serving God in perpetual Alms with divers other Lands and made Reinfridus a Monk of Euesham Prior of the Monastery This was after this place had been destroyed by the Danes above two hundred years Many were the Benefactors to this Abby besides the Founder William de Percy a particular of the Lands Possessions Forests Churches Tithes and Liberties by them given may be seen in the Monasticon at large p. 74 75. Vid. inf p. 988. Valued at 437 l. 2 s. 9 d. per Annum CHERTSEY in Surrey THE Abby of Chertsey was founded in the Reign of King Egbert in the year of our Lord 666. by Frithwaldus a petty King or Governor of the Province of Surrey under Wulfar King of Mercia and endow'd with large Possessions all which were confirm'd by the said Wulfar King of Mercia The Limits of the Lands belonging to Chertsey-Abby may be seen in the Monasticon at large p. 77. Pope Alexander granted to this Abby many Priviledges among other that they should pay no Tithes of their Lands in their own hands nor of the Beasts which they themselves kept Valued at 659 l. 15 s. 8 d. ob per Annum BERKING in the County of Essex THE Nunnery at Berking eight miles from London was founded by Erkenwaldus Bishop of that City for his Sister Ethelburge who was the first Abbess of this Nunnery Hodelredus a Kinsman of Sebby King of the East Saxons gave to this House fair Revenues which Guift was confirm'd by the said King Sebby The Ancient Profits and Expences of this Nunnery as they were charg'd to the Account of the Celeress may be seen in the Monasticon at large p. 80 81 82 83. Valued at 862 l. 12 s. 5 d. ob per Annum The Monastery of St. Mildred in the Isle of Thanet in Kent MIldred the Virgin was the Daughter of Merwaldus Son of Penda King of Mercia and Domneva of the Family of the Kings of Kent Which Domneva with her Husband's assistance built this Monastery for Nuns and placed here seventy Virgins of whom their Daughter Mildred was consecrated Abbess This House was destroy'd by the Pagan Danes A BENEDICTINE NUN Vol. 1. P. 79 the year 1011. Afterwards in the time of King Cnut it was annext by that King 's Grant to St. Augustines Monastery and the Body of St. Mildred translated from hence of St. Augustines at Canterbury A. D. 1033. The Lands belonging hereunto in the Isle of Thanet were confirm'd to the said Monastery of St. Augustines by King Edward the Confessor FALKSTONE in Kent EAnswida Daughter of Eadbaldus Son of Ethelbert King of Kent built this Monastery in a remote Part from Commerce situated seven Acers breadth from the Sea which in process of time quite wore away the Land and destroyed this House but the Reliques of the holy Virgin the Foundress who lived and died here were removed to the Neighbouring Church of St. Peter See more of this House infra p. 560. Valued at 41 l. 15 s. 10 d. per Annum LIMING in Kent THE Monastery here was built by Ethelburge Daughter of King Ethelbert and Wife of Edwin King of Northumberland after whole death she return'd into Kent and founded this Nunnery and lies here buried RACULFE in Kent BIrthwald Archbishop of Canterbury was before his election to that See in the year 692. Abbot of Raculfe In the year 949. King Eadred King of all England gave the Monastery of Raculfe and all the Lands belonging thereunto to the Church of Canterbuy Odo being then Archbishop and Metropolitan there The Lands belonging to this House did amount to twenty five Carucates and one Carucate assigned only to the Repairs of the Church ELY Abby in Cambridgeshire ANno Dom. 627. The blessed Augustine built a Church at Ely in a place called Cradindene a mile distant from the present City it was consecrated to the honour of the blessed Virgin and stored with Ministers for God's service but these were all expell'd by Penda King of Mercia and the place turn'd into a Desert Afterwards in the year 673. Ethelreda the Virgin built a Monastery in a more eminent place in Ely for both Sexes of which she her self became the first Abbess In the year 870. the Church of Ely was again destroy'd and burnt by the Pagans In the year 970. Ethelwaldus Bishop of Winchester bought this Isle of King Edgar rebuilt the Church and placed Monks in it under the Rule of an Abbot and in this state it remained till the year 1108. 9 H. 1. at which time Pope Paschal at the request of that King changed the Abby into a Bishoprick The foresaid Ethelred was Daughter of Anna King of the East-Angels and was buried in Ely together with several
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
Charw 1425. Alanus Kirketon 1437. Iohannes Kirketon 1450. Iohannes Ramsey Valued at 411 l. 12 s. 11 d. per Annum CHATERIZ in Cambridgeshire THE Mannor of Chateriz was given by King Edgar to the Abbot of Ramsey Ednodus Abbot of Ramsey built a Church and Monastery for Nuns at Chateriz and endow'd it with necessaries which Ednodus or Ednothus being Bishop of Dorchester was murdered by the Danes 1016. King Henry the I. gave and annext this Abby to the Church of Ely and Herveus the first Bishop there Pope Innocent the IV. confirm'd the Estate and Priviledges of this Abby to the Abbess and Sisters here about the year 1242. Vid. 2. Vol. p. 869. Valued at 97 l. 3 s. 4 d. q. per Annum CERNE in Dorsetshire SAint Augustine the Monk after he had converted Kent travelled with his Companions over the rest of King Ethelbert's Dominions which extended as far as the Northumbers preaching the Gospel of Christ. And being in Dorsetshire a great Company of people offer'd themselves to Baptism in a place where water was wanting whereupon by miracle a Fountain of Water burst out of the Ground which was in the succeedingtimes call'd St. Augustin's Fountain Here Edwaldus Brother of St. Edmund the King and Martyr led a Hermits life and died with the reputation of great Sanctity which occasion'd that Egelwaldus or Ethelwerdus built here a Monastery to the honour of St. Peter which his Son Ethelmer Earl of Cornwall A. D. 987. endow'd with divers Lands Valued at 515 l. 17 s. 10 d. q. per Annum St. IVES in Huntingtonshire IN the year 1001. the Body of St. Ivo being found in this Town then called Slepe and translated from his Grave to a Shrine the Town ever after took name from the Saint and Ednothus Abbot of Ramsey built here a Church Pope Vrban confirm'd the Estate of this Monastery to the Prior and Monks of the same and to their Successors granting them many great Priviledges among others that they should pay no Tithes of their Lands and Cattle which they should hold in their own proper hands It was found by Inquisition in the 36 H. 3. that the Parish Church of St. Ives dedicated to the honour of all Saints is a Vicarage of the Presentation of the Abbot of Ramsey that the Prior of St. Ives as Parson receives all Corn-Tithes and of the Vicar for his portion 4 l. 13 s. 4 d. That the Vicar receives all small Tithes obventions Mortuaries Testamenta Plow-alms Rates and other Customs which see in the Book at large WARWELL in Hampshire KING Edgar hearing extraordinary Commendations of the beauty of Elfrida Daughter of Odgar Duke of Devonshire sent Earl Ethelwold to discover if the young Lady's beauty was equal to report the Earl finding it so disparaged her to the King and secretly married her himself After a while the King perceiving himself to have been treacherously deceived took occasion one day to take the Earl flew him In expiation of which Deed Elfrida who was after her first Husband's death married to King Edgar built here a Monastery for Nuns in honour of the holy Cross. This Monastery was after wards endowed with Lands by King Ethelred Son of the said Edgar and Elfrid in the year 1002 as appears by Inspectimus 44. H. 3. Vid. 3. Vel. p. 9. Valued at 339 l. 8 s. 7 d. per Annum EYNESHAM in Oxfordshire THIS Monastery was situated near the River Thames founded and endowed by one Etheâ—marus a man of Quality under King Ethelred who confirmed the Lands given to it and granted divers Liberties and Priviledges to the same in the year of our Lord 1005. To this House a Monastery at Stow near Lincoln built and endow'd by Godiva Wife of Leofrick Earl of Chester was formerly annext as a Cell In the year 1109. King Henry the I. repair'd this Monastery at that time decay'd and confirm'd to it all its Lands and Liberties Valued at 441 l. 12 s. 2 d. ob q. per Annum BURTON in Staffordshire WVlfricus Spot an Officer in the Court of King Ethelred built this Abby and endow'd it with all his paterrnal Inheritance amounting to 700 l. and gave to that King three hundred Mancas of Gold to purchase his Confirmation of what he had done The Names of the several Lands and Monnors given to this Abby may be seen p. 268 269. King Ethelred granted to this Abby great Liberties in all their Lands by his Charter dated in the year 1006. And Pope Lucius the III. in the year 1185. confirm'd to them all their Lands granting also many great Priviledges to the said Abby as that they should pay no Tithes of what they held in their own hands c. The afore-mention'd Wulfricus Spot the Founder of this Abby was Earl of Mercia and one of the Blood Royal. Upon the Foundation which was in the year 1004. certain Monks were removed to this House from Winchester Wulfricus was slain in a Battle against the Danes A. D. 1010. and was buried in the Cloyster of this House A List of the Abbots of Burton upon Trent from the first Foundation to the Dissolution 1 Wulfgetus ob 1026. 2 Britericus ob 1050. 3 Leuricus ob 1085. 4 Galfridus Malaterra expell'd 1094. 5 Nigellus ob 1114. 6 Galfridus resigned 1150. to 7 Robertus deposed and expell'd 1159. 8 Barnardus ob 1175. 9 Robert chosen again ob 1177. 10 Rogerus Malebraunch ob 1182. 11 Ricardus ob 1188. 12 Nicholaus ob 1197. 13 Willielmus Melburne ob 1210. 14 Rogerus Normannus ob 1218. 15 Nicholas de Wallingford ob 1222. 16 Richardus de Insula removed to be Abbot of St. Edmunds 1229. 17 Laurentius ob 1240. 18 Iohannes Stafford ob 1280. 19 Thomas Pakington ob 1305. 20 Iohannes Pisoator alias Stapunhull ob 1316. 21 Willielmus de Bromley ob 1329. 22 Robertus Longdone ob 1340. 23 Robertus Brickhull ob 1348. 24 Iohannes Ipstoke ob 1366. 25 Thomas Southam ob 1400. 26 Iohannes Sudburie resign'd 1424. 27 Willielmus Mathew ob 1430. 28 Robertus Ousby resign'd 1432. 29 Radulphus Henley resign'd 1454. 30 Willielmus Bronston ob 1472. 31 Thomas Feylde ob 1473. 32 Willielmus Heigh. ob 1502. 33 Willielmus Beyne ob 1525. 34 Iohannes Boston 35 Ricardus Edes the last Abbet of Burton The remarkable Occurrences during the times of the said several Abbots may be seen in the Book at large Vid Vol. 2. p. 869. Valued at 267 l. 14 s. 3 d. per Annum ABBOTSBURY in Dorsetshire ABout the year 1026. one Orcus a Great man in the Court of K. Canuâ—us together with his Wise Tola being both without hope or possibility of issue built and edow'd the Monastery at Abbotsbury and dedicated it to St. Peter the Apostle The said Orcus did also give a hall to a Guild or Fraternity in this Town and by agreement between him and the Brethren certain Orders were settled for the Rule and Governance of the said Fraternity to the glory of
God and honour of St. Peter King Edward the Confessor and King William the Conqueror ratified Orcus and his Wives Benefactions to the Monks here and granted them certain Franchises By inquisition taken before the Escheator and Sheriff of this County in the 53 Hen 3. The several Lands Rents and Liberties of this Abby were found and set forth the Jury also found that the Abbot here held his Estate of the King in Capite by the service of one Knight's Fee only and not in Baronia by the service of a Barony In the year 1505. Thomas Strangeways Esq founded a perpetual Chantry in the Chappel of the Blessed Mary in the Church of this Abby and endow'd it with Rents for the maintenance of one Mass to be said in the said Chappel daily for ever for the Souls of his Ancestors and Friends and for all the Faithful subjecting it to the Visitation of the Bishop and the Abbot did oblige himself to find a Monk in case he should have above eight Monks Priests in the Monastery to perform the Office and this under the penalty of 3 s. 4 d. to the Bishop of the Diocess and 3 s. 4 d. to the Heirs of the said Strangeways for every omission Valued at 390 l. 19 s. 2 d. ob q. per Annum HULME in Suffolk CAnutus the Danish King of England returning from Rome built two Monasteries to the honour of St. Benedict one in Norwey and the other this in England Which last he founded in a fenny place then call'd Couholm where in former-times before the Danes came into Fngland one Suneman a Hermite did inhabit spending his time in devotion there for above fifty years To the Abby here built the said King canutus gave many Lands and Priviledges All which King Edward the Confessor confirm'd and granted others Sacne and Sokne Toll and Theam c. and all other Liberties and free Customs which he himself enjoy'd in his own Demeans and Lands belonging to the Crown St. EDMUNDS-BURY in Suffolk SAint Edmund the last King of the East Angles being overcome by Inguar and Hubba Pagan Danes was cruelly bound to a Tree whipt and then shot to death suffering martyrdom for the Christian Religion in the year of our Lord 870. and the 29th of his Age. His Head and Body were thrown into a thick Wood by the Pagans but being afterwards found out by miracle he was buried at a Neighbouring place call'd by the Saxons Beodrichesworth now St. Edmunsbury where the Christians built a small Church But afterwards King Canutus who had erected at Rome an English School and assign'd for its maintenance a Sum of Money which was yearly sent from England and call'd Romescot by advice of his Bishops and Barons changed the secular Clergy belonging to this Church to Monks in the year 1020 and brought hither from the Abby of Hulme thirteen religious Benedictines whose first Abbot here was one Wius He also caused half the Books Vestments and Utinsils of that Abby to be removed hither King Edmund the Elder in the year 942. gave Lands to this Church and after him the foresaid King Conutus gave many Lands to this Monastery and rebuilt it in a magnificent manner Controversies arising in the Reign of King William the Conqueror between the Abbot and the Bishop of the Diocess the Abbot went to Rome and found such favour with Pope Alexander the II. that he granted to him and his Successors Episcopal Jurisdiction and this special priviledge viz. That so long as they kept a porphery Altar which he then gave him tho' the whole Kingdom should fall under Excommunication yet the Divine Office should not cease in this Abby unless specially interdicted by name His Bull bears date An. Dom. 107â— In the year 1081. the Contest between the Bishop and Abbot was examined before King William the Conqueror and upon hearing both sides that King did declare the Church of St. Edmund and the Town in which it Stands to be exempt from the Bishops Jurisdiction The Steward or Seneschall's Office for the Liberty of St. Edmund was a place of great honour and the Family of Hastings held it in Fee They enjoy'd several great Fees and Advantages by Custom in case they executed the Office in their own Person but if by Deputy or Lieutenant then the said Deputy received half All which particulars were found by inquision in the 30th year of Edward the I. In the year 1010. the Body of St. Edmund was translated to London this Country being insested by the Danes but after three years it was brought back again In the year 1021. soon after King Canutus had introduced Monks here Aldwinus Bishop of the East Angles began to build a stately new Church to which work and for the maintenance of the Fabrick the Inhabitants of Norfolk and Suffolk did freely give yearly 4 d. out of every Carucate of Land in the Country This Church was in the year 1032. dedicated in honour of Christ the Blessed Mary and St. Edmund King Edward the Confessor King William the I. King Henry the I. King Steven and King Richard with many Bishops and other Persons of Qâ—ality of both Sexes gave Lands and great Revenues to this Abby The Body of St. Edmund remain'd intire and uncorrupted and was so seen by many witnesses ABBOTS of St. EDMVNSBVRT 1 Wius Monk of Hulme ob 1044. 2 Leoffranus ob 1065. 3 Baldwinus ob 1097. 4 Robert Son of Hugh Earl of Chester depos'd 1102. 5 Robert Prior of Westminster ob 1107. 6 Alboldus ob 1119. 7 Anselmus Nephew of Anselm Archbishop of Cant was 1138. chosen Bishop of London but not received there ob 1148. 8 Ordingus ob 1156. 9 Hugh Prior of Westminster ob 1180. 10 Sampson ob 1211. 11 Hugo chosen Abbot 1213. consecrated Bishop of Ely 1229. ob 1254. 12 Richard Abbot of Burton ob 1233. 13 Henry ob 1248. 14 Edmund de Walpool Doctor in the Decretals ob 1256. 15 Simon elected 1257. 16 Iohn de Norwold ob 1301. 17 Thomas de Tottington ob 1312. 18 Richard de Draugton ob 1337. 19 William de Bernham ob 1361. 20 Henry de Hunstanston died before Confirmation 21 Iohannes de Brinkele ob 1379. 22 Iohannes Tynmouth created 7 R. 2. 33 Willielmus de Cratfeild created 13 R. 2. 24 Willielmus Exeter 5 H. 6. 25 Willielmus Curteys 7 H. 6. 26 Iohannes Boon created Abbot 1457. 27 Richardus Hengham 1475. 28 Thomas Raclesden 1478. 29 Iohn Reeve alias Melford the last Abbot of Bury created 5 Hen. 8. By Covenant made between the above-mentioned Iohn Norwood Abbot here on the one part and the Prior and Convent of this Monastery on the other the Mannors Lands and Revenues belonging to this Abby were divided and appropriated to the several Offices of the House as such and such Lands and Revenues to the Abbot such to the Celerarius for the diffraying of his Office such to the Sacristan for the Charges incumbant on him such to the Camerarius
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
Prior under the Kings Patronage and Thomas de Burgâ—ull who claim'd under another Title the Estate of the Priory was so wasted and impoverisht betwixt them that there did not remain sufficient to discharge the Works of Piety for which it was at first built and the House running to utter ruin that King therefore to prevent its final destruction in the fifteenth year of his Reign directed his Writ to the Sheriff of Hereford commanding him to seize the said Priory with all its Possessions as well moveable as immoveable into his hand and them safely to keep until further Order NORWICH in Norfolk THE Church of the holy Trinity in Norwich was founded in the Reign of King William Rufus An Dom. 1096. by Herbert Losenge who had been Prior of Fischampe in Normandy then Abbot of Ramsey and then Bishop of the East-Angles of which Diocess he fixt the Seat at Norwich and built this Church for his Cathedral erecting on the North-side of it his own Palace and on the South-side a Monastery for Monks Certain Limits were appointed about this Church and Monastery within which Bishop Herbert obtain'd great Priviledges and Franchise from both Regal and Papal Authority Notwithstanding which great Contests arose between the Citizens and the Monks about their Liberties which continued for many years and were never perfectly compos'd till the sixth year of King Iohn The said Bishop Herbert endow'd this Monastery so founded by him with large Revenues as appears by his Deed dated An. Dom. 1101. King Henry the I. confirm'd his Gift and also gave them other Lands in the same year King Henry the II. also made a large Confirmation of all their Lands and Liberties Vid. infra p. 1003. and Vol. 3. p. 5. EWYAS Priory in Herefordshire THIS Priory was founded and endow'd by Harald Lord of Ewyas An. Dom. 1100. whose Gift was afterwards confirm'd by Robert his Son who also gave other Lands all which was also confirm'd by Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury and Iohn Bishop of Salsbury MIDLESBURG in Yorkshire a Cell to Whitby RObert de Brus and Agnes his Wife and Adam de Brus their Son gave the Church of St. Hylda in Midlesburg and with it divers Lands in perpetual Alms to the Monks of St. Peter and St. Hilda at Whitby for a Cell of that House and that certain of those Monks might live and reside here for God's service in the Church of Midlesburg William Malebiss was also a Benefactor to the Church of St. Hylda at Midlesburg and the Monks there HAKENES in Yorkshire IN the Reign of King William Rufus the Monastery of Whitby being much infested not only by robbers from the Woods on the Land but also by Pirates from the Sea who carried from them almost all they had Serlo de Percy then Prior of that House and his Monks applied themselves to William de Percy Brother of Serlo and desired of him a place of Refuge at Hakenes who readily granted them the Church of St. Mary in that Town which had been built by St. Hildo the Abbess with License to erect a Monastery there and in it to remain till they could return in peace to Whitby which accordingly they did and remain'd here for some time HORSHAM in Norfolk RObert Fitz-Walter and Sibill his Wife returning through France from Rome where they had been in Pilgrimage were set upon by Theives robb'd and kept in Prison till by their Prayers to Almighty God and to the holy Virgin St. Faith they were miraculously deliver'd out of their Confinement After which they visited in Devotion the Shrine of St. Faith at the Abby of Couches in France where for the space of twelve days they remain'd being kindly entertain'd by the Abbot and Convent there Vowing at their return into England to their own Mannor to built there a Monastery in the Worship of God and St. Faith Which accordingly they did endowing the same with Lands and placing therein two Monks of the Abby of Couches to which Abby they annext this House as a Cell Their Deed of Foundation and Endowment was made in the time of Henry the I. and Herbert Bishop of Norwich who died 19. H. 1. Pope Alexander by his Bull dated in the year 1163. confirm'd to the Monks here all their Lands and Liberties In the 14. Rich. 2. this Priory was discharged of its Foreign Subjection to the Abby of Couches and made an English Priory of it self Valued at 162 l. 16 s. 11 d. ob per Annum RADINGFEILD in Suffolk THIS was a Priory of Nuns founded to the honour of God and St. Andrew by Manasses Earl of Gisnensis and Emme his Wiâ—es Daughter and Heir of William de Arras and endow'd by them with the Mannor of Radingfeild c. late held by the said William de Arras their Deed bears date 1120. Valued at 67 l. 0 s. 1 d. ob per Annum READING in Barkshire 〈…〉 of Nuns But that having been 〈…〉 Henry the I. An. Dom. 1126. built here a most noble Abby for Monks and dedicated it in honour of the Virgin Mary and St. Iohn Baptist and endow'd it with great Possessions and Franchises as may be seen in his Charter dated 1125. all which was confirm'd by King Hen. 2. Hugh Abbot of Reading and his Covent reciting by their Deed that King Henry the I. had â—rected that Abby for the maintenance of Monks there devoutely and religiously serving God â—for the receit of Strangers and Travellers but chiefly Christ's poor People they therefore did erect an Hospital without the Gate of the Abby there to maintain twenty six poor People and to the maintenance of Strangers passing that way they gave the profits of their Mill at Leominstre Also Aucâ—erius Abbot of Reading built near this Abby a House for Lepers which was call'd St. Mary Magdalens alloting for their sustenance sufficient of all things as well for Diet as other matters If any Brother of this House were guilty of Adultery or of striking his Brother in Pride Anger or Hatred he was to be expell'd the House none were to go abroad without a Companion what Charity happens to be given to any one to be common to all these and several others were the Rules observed in the Lepers House of St. Mary Magdalen Valued at 1938 l. 14 s. 3 d. ob q. per Annum LEOMINSTER in Herefordshire a Cell to Reading HERE was formerly a Nunnery built by Merwald one of the Kings of Mercia but that having been long destroy'd by the Danes King Henry the I. when he built the Abby of Reading gave them also Leominster with all the Estate belonging to it and those Monks made it a Cell of their Abby It was confirm'd to them by Richard and Hugh Bishops of Hereford RINDELGROS in Scotland a Cell to Reading DAvid King of Scotland gave this Town to the Abbot and Covent of Reading to have and enjoy as freely and quiety as any Abby in his Kingdom enjoy their Estates With a Provision that if he or his
III. in the 30th year of his Reign confirm'd to the Nuns of Yeddingham all the Lands given by their several Benefactors There was delivered in this House to the Prioress and Convent sixty and two Loaves daily to nine Brethren twelve Loaves a piece weekly to Brother Iames fourteen Loaves to three Priests to four Chaplains and other Officers accordingly c. among the rest of the Deliveries is set down Canibus in singulis Maneriis triginta novem panes de pane duriori To the Dogs Waiters or Attendants in each Manor thirty nine Loaves of the coursest sort of Bread Valued at 21 l. 16 s. 6 d. ob per Annum NUNBURNHAM in Yorkshire THE Ancestors of Roger de Merlay Lord of the Barony of Morpath were founders of the Nunnery of Brunham And it was found by inquision 38. Hen. 3. that these Nuns held Lands here of the Fee of Thomas de Graystoc Valued at 8 l. 1 s. 11 d. per Annum LYTHOM in Lancashire a Cell to Durham RIchardus filius Rogeri or Richard Fitz-Rogers gave his Land at Lythum with the Church there to the Prior and Monks of Durham for the erecting and establishing at Lytham a Cell of their Order which he endow'd with divers Lands This was confirm'd by King Iohn in the second year of his Reign CHIRBURY in Shropshire THE Monks here having formerly inhabited at Snede and removed from thence King Edward the I. in the ninth year of his Reign understanding this place not to be convenient for them removed them back again to Snede ARDEN in Yorkshire PEter de Hotona founded and endowed an Abby of Nuns at Arden and dedicated it to St. Andrew which was confirm'd by Roger de Mowbray Lord of the Fee and by Elizabeth Heir of the said Peter in the tenth year of Edward the I. In the 6th of Henry the IV. Ieoffrey Pigot as Heir of Peter the first Founder and Elizabeth abovesaid was admitted by the Nuns here as Founder or Patron Valued at 12 l. per Annumâ— DAVINTON in Kent KING Henry the II I. in the thirty ninth year of his Reign confirm'd to the Prioress of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene of Davyntone and to the Nuns there serving God divers Lands and Rents given by several Benefactors FOSS in Lincolnshire KING Henry the III. in the 21st year of his Reign gave to the Prioress and Nuns of Foss without Torkesey sixscore Acres of Land and seven Tosts in Torkesey to hold for ever at the yearly Rent of forty six Shillings Valued at 7 l. 3 s. 6 d. per Annum WALLING WELLS in Nottinghamshire RAlph de Cheurolcurt gave to God and St. Mary a place in his Park of Carletuna for the building a place of Religion and to it gave other Lands and Liberties in pure and perpetual Alms. From this Founder is descended by a Daughter the Family of Furneux the Male Line of which Family is now in Being in Darbyshire under the name of Rooper Valued at 58 l. 9 s. 10 d. per Annum St. CATHERINES Nunnery without Exeter in Devonshire KING Iohn in the second year of his Reign confirm'd to the Church of St. Catherine without Exeter and the Nuns there the Lands given to them by William de Trascy and Henry de Pomerya with the grant of many Liberties FLAMSTED Priory in Hartfordshire AGatha Widow of William de Gatesden endowed the Church of St. Giles of Flamsted with certain Lands which Gift was confirm'd by King Henry the III. in the twelfth year of his Reign Valued at 30 l. 19 s. 8 d. ob per Annum CRESSEWELL in Herefordshire WAlter de Lascy gave to the Church of St. Mary at Cressewell and to the Monks there of the Order call'd Grandimontenses divers Lands and Revenues confirm'd by King Henry the III. who also granted to them divers Liberties Other Benefactors gave them other Lands all which was confirm'd to them by King Edward the III. in the first year of his Reign Vid. Vol. 3. p. 17. DARBY Priory in Darbyshire KING Henry the III. granted to the Prioress and Nuns de Pratis at Derby an Augmentation of one hundred Shillings per Annum out of the Fee-farm of the Town of Nottingham It was found upon an Extent in the 15. E. 1. that the Scite of the Abby at Derby with a Garden and Curtilage was worth yearly 20 s. And that the said Abby held there in Demean four Carucates of Land each Carucate containing sixty Acres of Land i. e. Arable Land c. LAMBLEY Nunnery in Northumberland KING Iohn in the second year of his Reign confirm'd to God and St. Mary and St. Patrick and to the Nuns at Lambeleya the Scite of the Abby of Lambeleya Super Tinam and the Lands which Adam de Tindale and Helewisa his Wife gave to the said House STEINFEILD Priory in Lincolnshire THIS was a Priory of Benedictine Nuns founded by Henry Son of Henry de Percy The Patronage of this House came to Iocelin de Lovein by Agnes his Wife one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of William de Percy King Edward the I. in the one and twentieth year of his Reign granted the Prioress and Nuns here free Warren in their Demean Lands the same not being within the bounds of his Forests Valued at 98 l. 8 s. per Annum MODBURY in Devonshire THE Mannor of Modbury and right of Patronage of the Priory there being in Ida Widow of Sr. Iames Exton Knight by Virtue of a Fine in the 9. Edw. 2. the said Ida through the mediation of Friends released all her title to Richard de Campo-Arnulphi CHESTER Nunnery THE Monastery of St. Mary here was founded for Nuns and endow'd by Ranulph Earl of Chester with Lands and Liberties Valued at 66 l. 18 s. 4 d. per Annum ROSSEDALE in Yorkshire RObert de Stutevill founded and endow'd the Nunnery at Rossedale to God and St. Laurence which was confirm'd by King Iohn Sibilla de Valoniis Adam de Neuton c. gave other Lands to the Prioress and Nuns here all which was confirm'd by King Edward the III. in the second year of his Reign Valued at 37 l. 12 s. 5 d. per Annum PEMBROK Priory WAlter Marescallus and William Marescallus both Earls of Pembrok gave divers Lands and Endowments to the Priory of St. Nicholas at Pembroke St. CLEMENTS adjoyning to York THurstan Archbishop of York gave to God and St. Clement and the Nuns there divers Lands to hold in pure and perpetual Alms whose Letters of Endowment were confirm'd by the Dean and Chapter of York Other Benefactors gave other Lands all which was confirm'd by King Edward the III. in the first year of his Reign Anno. Dom. 1192. Gaufridus Archbishop of York gave the Priory of St. Clements to the Abby of Godestave but the Nuns here refused to submit to such Donation and appeal'd to the Pope Valued at 55 l. 11 s. 11 d. per Annum CHESTHUNT in Hertfordshire KING Henry the III. gave to the Prioress and Nuns
rather Reformation of Monks was Abbot Berno to whom William then Duke of Aquitain gave the place call'd Clugny or Cluny in Burgundy for their first Habitation in the year of our Lord 890. This was a Reform of St. Bennet's Order WENLOCK in Shropshire HERE was formerly a Nunnery in which Milburg Neice of Wilphere King of Mercia lived and died Abbess with the Reputation of great Sanctity Which House being totally decayed Roger Earl of Mongomery built here a Monastery for the Monks of Cluny The Church here was dedicated to St. Mildred Isabel de Say Wife of William Fitz-Alan was a Benefactress And this Priory was made Indigena 18. R. 2. Vid. 2. Vol. p. 907. Vaued at 401 l. 0 s. 7 d. q. per Annum DUDLEY in Staffordshire a Cell to Wenlock THE Church here was dedicated to St. Iames which with other Churches and Lands Pope Lucius did confer and appropriate to this Priory in the year 1190. granting in the same Deed divers great Priviledges and Immunities to the Monastery Vid. 2. Vol. p. 907. LEWES in Sussex THIS House was founded by William de Warren Earl of Surrey in the time of King William the Conqueror Which Earl obtain'd from the Abby of St. Peter in Burgundy four Cluniac Monks to whom he gave the Church of St. Pancrace adjoyning to his Castle of Lewis and endow'd them with divers Lands and Possessions by the License and Confirmation of King William with a Curse to the Violators of his Gift and a Blessing to the Defenders Yet this Priory remain'd a Cell to the Abby of Clugny in Burgundy till the forty seventh year of King E. 3. at which time that King made it indigena and independant so also the Priories of Castleacre Prittlewell Farleigh Horton and Stanesgate which were all Cells belonging to the Priory of Lewis Vid. 2. Vol. p. 908. Valued at 92 l. 4 s. 6 d. per Annum PRITTLEWELL in Essex a Cell to Lewes RObert Fitz-Suene gave the Church of Prittlewell to the Priory of St. Pancrace at Lewes to be a Cell of that House and to be furnisht with Monks of the Rule of St. Bennet and Order of Clugny from Lewes ordaining by his Deed of Foundation that the Prior of Prittlewel should pay yearly to the Prior of Lewes one mark for an acknowledgment Valued at 155 l. 11 s. 2 d. ob per Annum WESTACRE in Norfolk a Cell to Lewes THIS House was granted and confirm'd by Rodulphus de Toneio Lord of the Soil to Oliver Priest of Acre and Walter his Son who became Canons regular here Valued at 260 l. 13 s. 7 d. q. per Annum FARLEY in Wiltshire a Cell to Lewes THIS Priory was founded Anno Dom. 1125. and dedicated to God and St. Mary Magdalen It was endow'd by Humphrey de Bohun the King's Sewer and Margery his Wife with â—Mannor of Farley and the Park there and with divers other Lands and Revenues All which was confirm'd to them by King Henry the III. â— in the eleventh year of his Reign Valued at 153 l. 14 s. 2 d. ob per Annum HORTON in Kent a Cell to Lewes THIS House was founded and endow'd by Robert de Ver Constable of England and Adeliza his Wife and subjected to the Priory of Lewes to which they were to pay a Mark per Annum as an acknowledgment In this House did inhabit thirteen or at least eight Monks who were to say three Masses dayly viz. the High Mass our Lady's Mass and the third pro defunctis Their Seal was kept by three Monks viz. the Prior Sub-prior and another Valued at 95 l. 12 s. 2 d. per Annum STANESGATE in Essex a Cell to Lewes ANno Dom 1177. Alexander Prior of this House and the Covent of the same with the assent of the Covent of Lewis granted the Tithes of their Fee at Clerkenwell with their Land there to the Nuns of St. Mary at Clerkenwell they paying to the Prior of Stanesgate a yearly Pension of ten shillings for the said Tithes and Lands CLIFFORD in Herefordshire a Cell to Lewes IT appeared by Inquisition 20. E. 3. that this Priory was founded by Simon Fitz-Richard Fitzâ—Ponce formerly Lord of Clifford and Ancestor oâ— the Countess of Lincoln and that this House was not alien or dependant on any other beyond Sea It was subjected by the Founder to the Priory of Lewes Valued at 57 l. 7 s. 4 d. per Annum CASTLE-ACRE in Norfolk FOunded An. Dom. 1090. William de Warren Earl of Surrey the first of that name and his Son Earl William the II. were great Benefactors and gave to God and St. Mary and to the holy Apostles Peter and Paul and to the Cluniac Monks of St. Pancrace i. e. of the Priory of Lewes serâ—ing God at Achra divers Lands and Revenues Besides whom many other Benefactors gave other Mannors and Lands Tithes and Churches as may be seen in particular in the Book at large p. 626 627 628 629. Herbert Bishop of Norwich constituted the Church and Monastery here and placed therein Cluniac Monks under the Rule of St. Benedict Bishop Ebrard impropriated and confirm'd to them their several Churches given to them by the Earls of Surrey and other Benefactors It was certified to King Edw. the I. in the thirty fourth year of his Reign that the â—rior and Convent of Castle-acre were English and not Aliens of the Subjects of the King of France or his Adherers and that no Rent or Pension was paid by them to any of his Dominion or Adherents nor did they owe obedience to any such except only that when the Abbot of Clugny comes sometimes into England he uses to visit in the said Priory Hereupon this House was allow'd to be Indigena and not Alienigena and to be priviledged accordingly 18. E. 2. Valued at 306 l. 11 s. 4 d. ob q. per Annum MENDHAM in Norfolk a Cell to Castle-acre WIlliam Son of Roger de Huntingfeild gave to God and St. Mary of Acre and to the Monks there the Isle of St. Mary of Mendham to be in the same manner subject to Castle-acre as that House is to St. Pancrace and that to the Church of Clugny The Prior of Castle-acre and Convent there did grant to Roger de Huntingfeild who was their great Benefactor to maintain at least eight Monks at this Priory of Mendham and not to depose the Prior here unless for one of these three causes Disobedience Incontinence or Dilapidation of the House BROMHOLM in Norfolk a Cell of Castle-acre THE Estate here with divers other Lands was given to the Monks of Acre by William de Glanville and confirm'd to them by Bartholmew his Son The Prior and Convent of Bromholm held Lands in Fee-â—arm of the Prior and Convent of Acre at the Annual Rent of fourteen Marks five â—hillings and four pence payable at three terms by the year viz. at the Feast of St. Michael 64 s. at the Purification 64 s. and at Penticost 64 s. Controversie arising
l. 9 s. 10 d. ob q. per Annum LOUTH-PARK in Lincolnshire Founded An. 1139. THe Founder of this Monastery was Alexander Bishop of Lincoln who procured Monks for it from the Abby of Fountains but their first Settlement being at a place called Haverholm which Seat not being convenient for their Habitation he removed them from thence to this Place Besides the said Bishop they had divers other Benefactors all whose donations were confirm'd to God and St. Mary and the Monks de Parcho-Lude by King Henry the III. in the tenth year of his Reign Valued at 147 l. 14 s. 6 d. per Annum KIRKSTED in Lincolnshire THIS House was founded in the year 1139. by Hugh de Bretone a Baron of those times and by him endow'd with divers Lands Other Benefactors were the Furnivalls D' Aencurts and D'arci's c. Richard de Luvetot gave and annext to this House the Hermitage of St. Iohn in the Parish of Ecclesfeild with the Land thereunto belonging Conan Duke of Britain and Earl of Richmund gave to this Abby the Church of Gaiton with two Carucates and a half of Land c. Valued at 286 l. 2 r. 7 d. per Annum KINGS WOOD in Gloucestershire Founded An. 1139. THis House was founded by William de Berkeley for Cistercian Monks and the Foundation confirm'd by Maud the Empress but afterwards for many years it became a Grange depending on the Abby of Tettebiry and a long contest was had about this Matter till at last it was from a Grange advanced to the name of the Abby of Kingeswode The Lands and Endowments given to this Abby by the Founder were confirm'd by several of the Berkleys his noble Descendants Valued at 244 l. 11 s. 2 d. per Annum PIPWELL in Northamptonshire THis Monastry was first founded An. Dom 1143. and then called Sancta Maria de Divisis among thick Woods which were in after times destroyed In the year 1323â— the Monks here were dispersed thro' Poverty Their first Founder was William Boutevileyn of Cottesbrook from whom descended one Robert Boutevileyn who did many unkindnesses to these Monks This was before their dispersion Hugh Senlize and Emma his Wife one of the Daughters and Heirs of the Lord of Braybroke gave to the Monks of Pipwell divers Lands and Tenements in Braybroke confirm'd by the Capital Lord of the Fee Simon de Foxton and these seem to be the second Founders King Henry III. granted to these Monks pasture on Benifield Laund for 250 Cattle Valued at 286 l. 11 s. 8 d. q. per Annum STONELEY in Warwickshire MAud the Empress first founded the Priory of Rademere in the Forest Kanoc confirmed by King Steven This Priory was afterwards advanced to an Abby of Cistercian Monks by Henry Fitz Empress then Duke of Normandy In the year 1154â— which was thirteen years after the Monks had remained at Rademore theâ— foresaid Henry Fitz Empressâ— being now King of England they changed their habitation of Radmore for Stanley and the whole Lordship of the same which was before that the Kings Demesn The first stone of the Abby Church there was laid on the Ides of April An. Dom. 1154. The said King Henry I. endow'd this House with divers other Lands and Revenues elsewhere Valued at 151 l. 0 s. 3 d. ob per Annum COGESHAL in Essex THis Abby was founded by King Steven and Maud his Queen in the year 1142. William de Humberstane with the Kings License gave the Mannor of Tyllingham-Hall for the finding of one Wax light to burn before the High Altar at the Abby Church here in the time of high Mass daily The Monks of this House were endowed with great Immunities Valued at 251 l. 2 s. per Annum REVESBY in Lincolnshire Founded An. 1142. THe Founders of this House were William de Romara Farl of Lincoln and William his Son who gave to the Abbot and Monks of Rievalle Revesby Thoresby and other Lands in Lincolnshire for the building and endowment of this House This Abby was dedicated to St. Laurence The Lands and Reuenues were confirm'd by Ralph Earl of Chester and by King Richard I. in the tenth year of his Reign Valued at 287 l. 2 s. 4 d. ob per Annum CUMHIRE in Pembrokshire THis House was founded by Cadwathel ap Madok in the year 114â— for Sixty White Monks King Henry III in the sixteenth year of his Reign confirm'd to these Monks all their Lands and Revenues Valued at 24 l. 19 s. 4 d. per Annum BOXLEY in Kent WIlliam de Ipre a great Commander in King Stevens Army founded this Abby of Boxley for White Monks in the year 1144. King Richard the I. in the first year of his Reign confirm'd their Estate with Sac Soc. Valued at 204 l. 4 s. 11 d. per Annum SINNINGTHWAIT in Yorkshire THis House was founded for Nuns by Beriram Haget and confirm'd by Roger de Mubrai his superiour Lord. Iessery Archbishop of York took these Nuns and their Possessions into his protection and denounced a malediction against those who should dare to wrong them and a blessing to their Benefactors Alice Widow of Adam de Stanely gave with her self nine Bovates of Land in Berewik super Theseiam which was afterwards changed with Ranulf Fitz Henry for other Lands in Lofthows Valued at 60 l. 9 s. 2 d. per Annum ESSEHOLT in Yorkshire a Cell to Sinningthwait POpe Alexander the third by his Bull dated in the year 1172. confirm'd to Christian Prioress of Sinningthwait and the Nuns thereâ— and their Successors their House and Estate both at Sinningthayte and at Esseholt with all Lands already given or to be given to their said Houses With Priviledge of Sanctuary Valued at 13 l. 5 s. 4 d. per Annum WOBURN in Bedfordshire Founded An. 1145. THIS was founded and endowed by Hugh de Bolebock by advice of Henry Abbot of Fountains from whence a Convent of Monks was sent to this place King Iohn in the second year of his Reign confirmed the Estate of this House so did also King Henry the II. Valued at 391 l. 18 s. 2 d. ob per Annum MEREVAL in Warwickshire Founded An. 1148. THIS was founded by Robert Earl of Ferrariis and by him endowed with all the Forest of Arden with other Lands All which was confirm'd By King Henry the II. Valued at 254 l. 1 s. 8 d. per Annum HAMPOLE in Yorkshire THIS House was founded for Nuns by Avicia de Tanai and endowed by her with divers Lands of her Inheritance all which were confirmed by Ralph de Tillâ—â—er Grandson by Roger Archbishop of York and by William Fitz William An. 1331. Valued at 63 l. 5 s. 8 d. per Annum VALLE-DEI alias Vaudey in Lincolnshire THE Abby here was founded by William Earl of Albemarl in the year 1147. It was at first called Biham but afterwards Vallis-dei and was planted with Monks from Fountains The same Founder erected also the Abby of Meaux of which supra p. 792. Many
Reginald de Moun in his Mannor of Axeminster with which and other Lands it was endowed Confirmed by King Edw. 3. This Reginald de Mohun was the Son of Reginald Lord of Dunsterre and Alice Daughter of William Bruer by whom he inherited the Mannor of Axeminster See in the Book at large the Progeny of the noble Family of Mohuns Abbots of this House Iohn Godard Henry Sper sholt Iohn de Ponte-Roberto Ieffrey de Blanchvil Hugh de Cokeswell Iohn de Northampton William de Cornubia Richard de Chichestre Richard de Piderton William le Fria Ralph de Shapewike Robert de Puplysuirie Iohn de Cokyswill Iohn de Geytingtone ob 1338. Walter de Hous Valued at 227 l. 7 s. 8 d. per Annum GRACE-DIEU in Leicestershire FOunded by Roesia de Verdun for Nuns Endow'd by her with her Mannor of Beleton c. LETLEY in Hampshire KING Henry the III. was-the Founder of this Abby of Letley otherwise call'd Locum Sancti Edwardi and endow'd it with Lands in the thirty fifth year of his Reign Valued at 100 l. 12 s. 8 d per Annum REWLEY in the Suburbs of Oxford THIS was founded in the year 1281. for Cistercian Monks by Richard Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans who endow'd this Abby with divers Lands They were found by Inquisition to be exempt from suit to the County and Hundred Courts Valued at 174 l. 3 s. ob per Annum DERNHALL in Cheshire KING Edward the I. founded and endow'd this Abby in performance of a Vow made in a great danger at Sea his Deed of endowment bears date before he came to the Crown in the four and fiftieth year of his Father's Reign King Henry the III. granted his Letter of Request to all Religious Houses in England for the furnishing this House with Books After King Edward came to the Crown in the seven and twentieth year of his Reign he translated these Monks to Vale-Royal and granted them many great Immunities and Franchises Vid. 2. Vol. p. 921. The Abby of Vale-Royal was valued at 118 l. 7 s. 6 d. ob per Annum BOCLAND in Devonshire FOunded by Amicia Countess of Devon for Cistercian Monks endowed by her and her Daughter Isabella de Fortibus Countess of Albemarl and Devon with many Lands and Liberties Confirm'd by King Edward the II. Anno 4. Valued at 241 l. 17 s. 9 d. ob per Annum HILTON in Staffordshire ANno 1223. Henry de Audiddeley founded and endow'd this Abby with many Lands and Liberties to hold in pure and perpetual Almes King Richard the II. in the 19th year of his Reign at the request of Elizabeth relict of Sir Nicholas de Audley Licensed the Abbot and Convent of Blanchland in Normandy to transfer to this House the Priory and Mannor of Cameryngham which was thence forward united to this Abby Valued at 75 l. 14 s. per Annum The Abby of Grace near the Tower at London KING Edward the III. founded this House in the Church-yard of the Holy Trinity near the Tower at London and endow'd it with all the Messuages and Gardens lying on and about the Tower Hill Anno Reg. 24. 1350. Afterwards in the fiftieth year of his Reign he gave the Mannor of Gravesend and other Mannors in Kent to be settled upon this House All which was after done and confirm'd by King Richard the II. Anno Regn. 22. Valued at 546 l. 10 s. per Annum A CARTHVSIAN MONK Vol 1 P. 949 Of the Carthusians This Order was first founded Anno Dom. 1080. By a certain learned man named Bruno who professing Philosophy at Paris and hearing the dead Body of his Friend who had the Esteem of a very good Man when living cry out as they were about to bury him Iusto dei judicio damnatus sum he and six Companions forsook the World and betook themselves to a most austere Life in a Desert and Melancholy Place call'd Cartusia in the Diocess of Grenoble in France Their inward Habit is of Hair-Cloath they never eat flesh on Fridays fast with Bread and Water never stir out of their Monasteries except the Prior and Procurator observe almost continual silence and suffer no Women to enter into any part of their Houses no not their Churches See more of their Rules in the Monasticon at large WITHAM in Somersetshire KING Henry the II. founded this Monastery in the honour of the blessed Mary St. Iohn Baptist and all Saints for the Order of Carthusians and endow'd it with divers Lands and Franchises Imprecating on the Violator of that his pious Donation the wrath of Almighty God and his own Curse unless the Party make Condign Satisfaction but to all such as augment his Gift or favour the Peace of the House he wisht the Peace and Reward of the Eternal Father for ever HENTON in Wiltshire ELa Countess of Saliâ—bury Widow of William Longespee Earl of Salisbury founded this Monastery in her Park of Henton for Carthusians to the honour of God the blessed Mary St. Iohn Baptist and all Saints and endow'd it with Lands and Liberties King Henry the III. in the four and twentieth year of his Reign granted and confirm'd to this House the same Liberties and free Customs which his Grandfather King Henry the II. had formerly granted to the Carthusians of Witham with other Exemptions The Carthusians in the Suburbs of London KING Edward the III. in the forty fifth year of his Reign granted his License to Sir Walter Lord of Manny to found this Monastery for Carthusian Monks in a certain place without the Bars of West-Smithlsied called Newe-cherche-hawe which House was to be called la Salutation mere dieu and to endow the same with twenty Acres of Land there adjoyning Pope Vrban reciting that in the time of a great Pestilence Sir Walter Manny purchased this ground for a Church-yard to bury poor People in and there intended to erect a Chappel and a Colledge of twelve Chaplains by the License of Pope Clement the VI. but afterwards the said Sir Walter changing his intention and erected here a Convent of Carthusians the said Pope Vrban granted his Bull of License for uniting to the said House of Carthusians Ecclesiastical Benefices to the value of 200 l. per Annum BEAUVAL or Bella-valle in Nottinghamshire IN the year 1343. Nicholas de Cantilupo Lord of Ilkeston by License of King Edward the III. founded this House in his Park of Gryseleve in the County of Nottingham for a Prior and twelve Carthusian Monks to the glory of God the blessed Virgin Mary and all Saints and endow'd it with Lands and Rents in Greseleye and Seleston This Nicholas de Cantilupo was lineally descended from Robert de Muskam Seneschal or Steward to Gilbert de Gaunt that famous Souldier in the Army of William the Conqueror from which Gilbert the said Robert de Muskâ—m enjoy'd the Lordship of Ilkeston conferr'd upon him in the Reign of King Henry the I. Elizabeth Widow of Brian Stapleton Knt. and William
Ryther Knt. and Sibilla his Wife by License of King Richard the II. founded in this Church a Chantry for the maintenance of two Chaplains Monks of this House to celebrate dayly for the Soul of William de Aldeburgh c. St. ANNE adjoyning to Coventry THIS was first founded in the year 1381. by William Lord de la Zowche and first supplied with three Monks from the Carthusians at London and with three others from Bellevalle Besides the said Lord Sowche they had many other Benefactors as Richard Luff Mayor of Coventry Iohn Holmeton of Sleford Iohn Bokington Bishop of Lincoln Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick c. who erected several parts of their Buildings In the year 1385. King Richard the II. became the principal Founder with his own hands laying the first Stone in the Foundation of their Church protesting publickly to be the Founder and to finish the Buildings To this House were divers Churches appropriated and divers Lands given among others the Mannor of Ediweston in the County of Rutland by the Abbot and Convent of St. George de Bauquerville in Normandy with other Prior alians Lands c. KINGSTON upon Hull in Yorkshire MIchael de la Pole Knt. Lord of Wingfeild by his Deed dated at Kingston upon Hull 1378. Founded and endowed this House without the Walls of Hull for a Prior and twelve Carthusians Monks in lieu of Minnoress Nuns of the Order of St. Clare as his Father in his life time had once intended The House was founded to the honour of God and the glorious Virgin Mary and of St. Michael the Archangel and all Angels and holy Spirits St. Thomas the Martyr late Archbishop of Canterbury and of all other Saints of God And by assent of the Prior of the Great Carthusians in Savoy the chief House of the Order Walter de Kele was by the Founder made the first Prior of this House Vid. 2. Vol. p. 930. MOUNT-GRACE in Yorkshire THomas de Holland Duke of Surrey Earl of Kent and Lord Wake sounded this House for Carthusians in his Mannor of Bordelby near Cleaveland in Yorkshire to the honour of God the Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas willing the House to be called the House of Mount-Grace of Ingelby and by assent of the Prior of the Grand Carthusians made Robert Tredewy the first Prior of the same King Henry the VI. ratified and confirm'd this Foundation in Parliament in the ninteenth year of his Reign EPWORTH in the Isle of Axholme in Lincolnshire KING Richard the II. in the twentieth year of his Reign granted his License of Mortmain to Thomas Earl of Nottingham Marshal of England to found a Convent for Carthusian Monks on his Land at Epworth in the lsle of Axholme in Lincolnshire and to name it the Visitation of the Mother of God to the honour of God the Virgin Mary St. Iohn the Evangelist and St. Edward the King and Confessor and to endow the same with one hundred Acres of Land Licensing also to the Abbot of St. Nicholas in Angiers of the Order of St. Benedict to grant over to this House their Priory of Monks Kirkeby in Warwickshire c. to be appropriated to these Carthusians for ever in pure and perpetual Alms. Pope Bonisace the IX in the eighth year of his Pontificate granted Indulgence to such who should visit this Church of the Carthusians on the second of Iuly being the Feast of the Visitation of the blessed Mary and contribute to the Buildings here This was a plenary Indulgence and of the same manner with that which was formerly granted to the Church of the Angels without the Walls of Assisium in Italy of which you may read in the Monasticon at large p. 971 972 c. SHEEN Monastery in Surrey ANno Dom. 1414. King Henry the V. founded three Monasteries near his Royal Seat at Schene one of Carthusians one of Celestin Monks professing the Rule of St. Bennet and one of Brigettines under the Rule of St. Augustin The last was a Monastery of sixty Nuns thirteen Priests four Deacons and eight Lay-Brothers the Men and Women had two separate Convents but one Church in which the Nuns kept above in a kind of Gallery and the men below King Henry the V. by his Charter of Foundation dated in the third year of his Reign appointed the House of Carthusians which he founded at Shene on the North-side of his Mannor there to be call'd the House of Jesus of Bethleem at Shene and to this House he gave the Lands of several Priors alians here in England belonging to Abbies in France granting in the said Charter that if any of the Lands so given should in time to come be evicted or recovered from the Prior and Monks of this House or their Successors that then they should receive the like value yearly out of the Profits of the Hanaper in the Chancery and out of the Customs arising in the Ports of London St. Botulphs Southampton Lenn and Cicester He gave also several other Benefactions as the Fishery at Shene four Pipes of Gascon Wine yearly at the Purification of the blessed Mary for ever with divers great Liberties and Exemptions from all manner of Taxes and Impositions granting to the said Prior and Monks and their Successors Felons Goods c. and that they should have the return and execution of Writs in their Lands with fines pro Licencia Concordandi and all Amerciaments c. Deodands Treasure-trove c. Clerk of the Mercate Wreck of the Sea c. Free Warren in all their Demesnes and Lands already given or to be given tho' within the Bounds of a Forest Soc and Sac Insangenthef and Out fangenthef and view of Frankpledge of all their Tenants and Residents with a Pillory and Tumbrel and that they may erect Gallows on their Lands for the execution of Malefactors whom they should apprehend on their Lands according to the said Liberty of Infangenthef and Outfangenthef and that they should have a Market weekly every Tuesday at their Town of Esthenreth in Berkshire and two Fairs yearly with other such like great Priviledges and Immunities Additions relating to the Benedictine Order WINCHESTER Cathedral Church Supra p. 38. SOme Remarks of the Founder and Royal Benefactors to the Church of Winchester Kings and Saints buried there out of Leyland Pope Innocent confirmed to this Church all their Possessions with the grant of divers Priviledges as not to pay any Tithes for their Lands or Cattle in their own proper hands to celebrate Divine Offices in the time of a general Interdict with a low Voice c. King Edgar restored Monks in this Church confirming their Possessions and Liberties with grievous Curses to the Violators King Edward the Elder conferr'd on them certain Lands to hold free from any secular service except what related towards the building of Forts and Bridges SHAFTESBURY in Dorsetshire Supra 217. KING Iohn in the seventh year of his Reign confirm'd to the Church of St Mary and St.
Edward at Shaftesbury and to the Nuns there their Lands and Liberties among which was the whole hundred of the Mannor of Bradford c. St. FRIDISWIDE in Oxford Supra 174. THE Possessions of this House were enjoy'd by secular Canons for many years till in the year 1122. 22 H. 1. they were again restored to Regulars Maud the Empress confirm'd to the Church of St. Fritheswithe and the Canons Regulars divers Lands and Churches and granted them a Fair. The like did King Iohn in his first year St. WERBURG at Chester Supra 199. ANno 1119. Richard Earl of Chester confirm'd the Possessions of this House given by many Benefactors granting to the Abbot of this Monastery a Court of Pleas and that the said Abbot should not be sued nor be forced to sue out of his own Court. Ralph de Meschines Earl of Chester and his Son of the same name were great Benefactors to the Abbot and Convent of St. Werburg so also were Richard de Rullos and Robert his Brother WHITBY in Yorkshire Supra 75. WIlliam de Percy having built and endow'd in a Grove or Wood at Dunesle a Hermitage in honour of St. Iames the Apostle he gave it for ever into the Obedience and Subjection of the Church of St. Peter and St. Hylda of Whitby so that they continually cellebrate the Divine Office there by some Priest of their House WULVERHAMTON in Staffordshire IN this Town of Hampton one Wulfruna a religious Matron erected a Monastery to the honour of God the ever blessed Virgin Mary then term'd Stella maris Domina gentium and of all Saints and endow'd the same with divers Lands all which was ratified and establisht by Sigerich Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 996 by the Consent of King Ethelred The Estate of this House was afterwards confirm'd by King Edward the Confessor King William the Conqueror King Henry the II. and King Iohn who gave Timber out of his Woods towards the buildings in this Abby GLOUCESTER in Gloucestershire Supra 108. GLoucester became a Bishop's Seat in the year 189. soon after the Conversion of King Lucius Eldadym in the year 489. and Dubricius in the year 522. were Bishops there But the Seat was afterwards removed to Menevia now call'd St. Davids Wolpherus Son of Penda King of Mercia according to Malmesbury laid the first Fonndations of the Monastery here after whose death Ethelred his Brother and Successor carried on the Work committing it to the care of Osric who for this purpose he made his Prorex or Lieutenant of this Province This House was first a Nunnery and continued such under three Abbesses successively Afterwards Bernulphus King of Mercia placed here secular Canons who though Clerks and Preachers were married-men and differ'd not much in their Habit from secular Christians thus it continued till in the year 1022. King Canutus displaced the Canons and in their room put Regular Monks of St. Benedicts Order This Monastery being afterwards burnt down Aldredus Bishop of Worcester rebuilt it in the time of King Edward the Confessor something distant from the place where it first stood and more to the outside of the Town It was twice destroy'd by fire since the Conquest viz. in the years 1214. and 1223. in the Reigns of Henry the III. and Edward the I. The Buildings in and about this Church were increased and beautified by several Abbots of this Monastery as Thomas Seabrook Richard Haulaces and Parker who was the last Abbot here and built the South Porch of this Church TAVISTOCK in Devonshire Supra 219. IN the time of King Edgar Earl Otdulphus Son of Ordgarus begun this House in a place appointed by Revelation finisht and confirm'd in the time of King Ethelred An 981. Pope Celestine in the year 1193. granted to this Abby divers Priviledges and Exemptions In the year 1304. The Prior of Plympton of the Order or St. Augustin did oblige himselâ— and Successors to the Abbot of Tavestock and his Successors for the performance of divers Services and Offices in his Deed mentioned King Henry the VIII in the fifth year of his Reign granted to Richard Banham then Abbot of Tavistock and his Successors to be Lords of Parliament and to enjoy all Honours and Priviledges of such and moreover in case they should at any time be absent from Parliament on the Affairs of their House he pardon'd such their absence they paying for every whole Parliament that they shall be absent five Marks NORWICH Supra 413. HErbert Bishop of Norwich translated the Monks hither from Thetford This Bishop besides the Church at Norwich caused to be built the Churches at Elmham Lyn and Yarmouth and died An. 1119. STOKE-CLARE Supra 535. RIchard de Clare Earl of Hertford gave to this House the Hermitage of Standune that Divine Service might be there celebrated for him and his The Donations and Endowments given to this House were confirm'd by Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury and by Pope Alexander Anno Dom. 1174. St. Mary de Pratis at Northampton THIS was a Priory of Cluniac Nuns founded by Simon de St. Liz Earl of Northampton which Foundation and all the Lands given thereunto as well by the said Earl Simon as others was all at large recited and confirm'd by the Charter of King Edward the III. in the second year of his Reign Which may be seen from p. 1011. to p. 1019. Valued at 119 l. 9 s. 7 d. q. per Annum PILLA Priory in Wales ADam de Rupe founded here a Priory for Benedictine Monks of Tiron which Priory he endow'd with divers Lands and Liberties Dedicated to God St. Mary and St. Budoco HENINGHAM in Essex FOunded and endow'd for Benedictine Nuns by Abericus de Ver Earl of Oxon and dedicated to God St. Mary St. Iames and the holy Cross. Hugh de Ver Earl of Oxford founded without the Gates of the Castle of Hegham an Hospital for poor and impotent People which that it might not be to the prejudice of the Priory of the holy Cross at Hegham nor to the Parish-Church there was to be govern'd by certain Ordinances then made among others that the said Hospital should pay Tithes as well great as small to the Parish Church and that the Chaplains of the said Hospital before they are admitted should swear fealty to the Prioress of that Priory Valued at 29 l. 12 s. 10 d. per Annum LAPLEY in Staffordshire a Cell to St. Remigius at Rhemes GIven by Algarus an Earl of England the Appropriations belonging to this Priory were allow'd by Walter Bishop of Coventry and Litchfeild Anno 1319. King Edward the I. in the twentieth year of his Reign granted to the Abbot and Convent of St. Remigius at Rhemes a Market in their Mannor of Aston in Staffordshire on the Tuesday weekly and a yearly Fair on the Eve and Day of St. Peter Ad vincula with free Warren in their Demesnes of Lapley Merston and Aston TOTNES in Devonshire JVhellus Son of Alured gave the
Archbishop of Tork placed here Canons Regular Iohn de Normanville and Robert de Insula were Benefactors to the Canons here It was found by Inquisition taken in the four and twentieth year of E. 1. That Thomas the second Archbishop of Tork did found and endow this Priory the Lands by him given and by many other Benefactors were all found and set forth in particular which see in the Book at large p. 93. 91 c. Valued at 122 l. 11 s. 1 d. per Annum STODELY in Warwickshire THese Canons were first establisht at Wicton by Peter de Stodley and by him afterwards removed from thence to Stodley and by him endow'd with Lands confirm'd by King Henry the II. and King Edward the III. in the first year of his Reign To this House William de Cantilupo William Comin and others were Benefactors Valued at 117 l. 1 s. 1 d. ob per Annum LAUND in Leicestershire THE Priory here was founded by Richard Basset and Matildis Ridel his Wife for Canons Regular and dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist. It was endowed with the Town and Mannor of Lodington within the Bounds of which it stands as also that of Friseby with the Tyths of several Churches in the Neighbourhood among others with the Church of Warleg and Chappel of Belton and the Church of Glaeston in Rutland Confirm'd by King Henry the 1. and King Henry the II. Valued at 399 l. 3 s. 3 d. per Annum THURGARTON in Nottinghamshire THE Priory of St. Peter at Thurgarton was founded and endow'd with divers Lands and Tithes by Radulphus de Ayncourt Many were the Benefactors to this House among whom several of the Family of Vilers all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Henry the II. and by King Edward the III. in the seventeenth year of his Reign Valued at 259 l. 9 s. 4 d. per Annum DRAX in Yorkshire THIS Priory dedicated to St. Nicholas was founded and endowed with divers Lands and Liberties by William Paganell By Indenture dated An. 1383. The Prior and Convent of this House did oblige themselves in consideration of twenty Marks received to perform a yearly Obit on the day of the Epiphany for the Soul of Gilbert de Ounfravile late Husband of Maud Countess of Northumberland Valued at 104 l. 14 s. 9 d. per Annum MARTON in Yorkshire FOunded and endow'd by Bertram de Bulemer and confirmed by his Grandson Henry de Nevill This Priory as appears by the Charter of King Henry the II. was at first given to Canons and Nuns but the Nuns were afterwards translated to a place called Molesbi Valued at 151 l. 5 s. 4 d. per Annum BETHKELERT in Wales KING Edward the I. in the fourteenth year of his Reign confirm'd the Estate and Lands given to this House by Lewelin the Great and others Valued at 70 l. 3 s. 8 d. per Annum BOLTON in Yorkshire ANno 1120. William Meschines and Cecilia his Wife Lady and Heiress of the honour of Skipton founded and endow'd a Monastery of Canons at Emmesey which House was dedicated in honour of the blessed Virgin and St. Cuthbert the Bishop In the year 1151. these Canons were translated from hence to Bolton which Alice de Rumelli gave them in exchange for other Lands of theirs Which Alice being Heiress to their Founder confirm'd all his Grants and further granted them Free chace in her Chace of Craven◠Their Lands given by their several Benefactors were recited and confirm'd by King Edward the II. in the fifth year of his Reign This Priory was in some sort subject to that of Huntingdon till discharged of that subjection in the time of Pope Celestin the III. The Prior and Convent here granted to Iohn de Insula Lord of Rougemount to maintain a Chantery of fix Chaplains in the Church of Harewood c. Valued at 212 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum KIRKHAM in Yorkshire WAlter Espec and Adelina his Wife by the consent of King Henry the I. founded the Priory of Canons of the Holy Trinity at Kirkham and endow'd the same with divers Lands and◠Tithes inter alia with the Tithes of Venison ferarum silvestrium which he and his posterity should take and of all Foul taken in his Rivers Likewise the said Walter granted them the tenth Penny or Tith of his Rents of his Lands in Northumberland This Walter Espec was a man of a Giant-like stature with a Voice like a Trumpet of Noble Blood but more noble in his Christian Piety who having no Children of his own tho' he had Nephews gave the best of his Possessions to Christ founding and endowing the Monastery of Kirkham for Canons Regular In the year 1261. William de Roos Lord of Hamlak among other things granted to the Prior and Convent of Kirkham and their Successors in lieu of the Tithes of his hunting three good wild Beasts tres seras competentes also the Rent of 100 s. per Annum for other Tithes for which consideration the said Canons did quit their claim of Free-chace in Hamelak Valued at 269 l. 5 s. 9 d. per Annum LAUNCESTON in Cornwall THIS Priory did stand on the West South-West part of the Suburb of the Town and was erected by William Warwist Bishop of Exeter for which he supprest a Collegiate Church of St. Steven having Prebendaries and gave the best part of their Lands to the Priory and took the Residue himself King Iohn and King Henry the III. confirm'd the Lands given them by several Benefactors Valued at 354 l. 0 s. 11 d. per Annum St. DENNIS near Southampton THIS Priory was founded by King Henry the I. endowed with Revenues by King Henry the II. King Seven King Richard the I. Humphrey de Bohun c. Valued at 80 l. 11 s. 6 d. per Annum LEDES in Kent THIS Monastery was founded An. 1119. by Robert de Crepito Corde in French Creveceur Anglicè Creutor for Canons Regular Dedicated to St. Mary and St. Nicholas Divers of the Name and Family of Creveceur were Benefactors granting to them divers Revenues and Liberties and that the Canons here should have the Custody of their House and Goods in the time of Vacation without any Impediment of them the Patrons or their Heirs and that upon the death of their Prior they might freely proceed to the Election of another without leave-asking however after Election the new Prior must be presented to the Patron according to Custom Confirm'd by King Edward the III. in the one and fortieth year of his Reign Valued at 362 l. 7 s. 7 d. per Annum HASELBERGE in Sommersetshire IN the Reign of King Henry the I. lived at Haselburge a certain Priest much famed for Sanctity and for the Spirit of Prophesie called Wulfrieus In his time William Fitz Gualter instituted Canons Regular here and endow'd them with Possessions But at his first undertaking this Foundation Wulfricus told him that Those whom he designed to introduce here would not prosper in
here with divers Tenements in Oxford and several Lands and Churches in the Neighbouring Towns Robert one of the natural Sons of King Henry the I. having married a Daughter of the Founder devoted himself to these Canons alive or dead and gave them 10 l. of Land in his Mannor of Waneting The like did Henry de Oily his Brother-in-Law out of his Mannor of Hocnorton The other Lands granted by divers Benefactors to these Canons see in the Book at large Valued at 654 l. 10 s. 2 d. per Annum RONTON in Staffordshire THIS Priory was founded by Robert the Son of Noel in a place then called St. Mary des Essarz and was a Cell to Haghmon in Shropshire Whose Foundation and Endowment was afterwards confirm'd by Thomas his Son and by R. Archbishop of Canterbury Vid. inf 940. Valued at 90 l. 2 s. 11 d. ob per Annum PYNHAM near Arundell in Sussex ADeliza second Wife and Widow of King Henry the I. afterwards married to William Earl of Arundel gave a parcel of Land then called Pynham adjoyning to Arundell for the maintenance of two Chaplains William Earl of Arundell gave the same Land and more for the maintenance of Regular Canons and building a Church to the honour of God and St. Bartlemew he gave them also Common of Pasture in his Medow of Arundell for fourteen Cows and two Bulls c. All which Gifts were confirm'd by Ranulph Bishop of Chichester LILLESHULL in Shropshire THE Church here dedicated to St. Alcmund is said to have been first founded by Adelfleda a Queen of Mercia but afterwards much amplified and endow'd with ten Prebends by King Edgar Afterwards Richard Beumeys Dean of this Church by assent of King Steven and Authority of the Pope gave this Church over to Canons Regular coming from St. Peter's at Dorchester which new Monastery was dedâ—cated to St. Mary ever Virgin Benefactors to this House were Alan la Zouche the Lady Hillaria de Trussebut c. King Henry the III. confirm'd their Estate Vid. inf 941. Valued at 229 l. 3 s. d. per Annum GISEBURNE in Yorkshire RObert de Brus by the Council of Pope Calixtus the II. and Thurstin Achbishop of York founded this Priory to the honour of God and St. Mary and endow'd it with divers Lands as well at Gyseburn as elsewhere and with the Churches of Skelton and Herte c. Robert de Brus was a noble Norman Knight who came into England with the Conqueror An. 1066. and obtain'd to himself the Castle of Skelton the Lordships of Danby Kendal Anendule Herte and Hertnesse Karlton and divers other Lands in the North. This Robert gave to his second Son of his own name Anandal in Scotland and Herte and Hertnesse in England and dying An. 1141. lies buried at Gisburne Priory of his own Foundation to whose Estate succeeded Adam de Bruse from whom descended Peter de Bruse who dying without issue An. 1273. his inheritance became divided among his four Sisters viz. Agnes married to the Lord Walter Fauconberg who had for her purparty the Castle of Skelton c. Lucia married to the Lord Marmaduke de Tweng who had with her Danby c. Margaret who married the Lord Robert de Rose and with her went Kendale and lastly Laderina married to the Lord Iohn de Bellew and had for her part Charleton c. From Robert the second Son of the first mention'd Robert de Brus descended lineally Robert de Brus King of Scotland who making War against King Edward the I. that King seiz'd upon his Lands of Herte and Hertnesse as forfeited and granted them to the Lord Clifford These Bruses of the younger House gave divers Churches in Scotland to this Priory confirm'd by William King of Scotland Vid. Vol. 3. p. 46. Valued at 628 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum SCARTHE near Wharlton in Yorkshire THIS House founded and endowed by Steven de Manilio was given as a Cell to Guisburne by Hugo de Rudby Chaplain to the said Steven and by him appointed Trustee for this purpose NUTLEY in Buckinghamshire THIS Abby otherwise called Sancta Maria de Parcho was founded and endowed by Walter Gifford Earl of Buckingham and Ermigardis his Wife Confirm'd by King Henry the II. and by King Iohn with the Addition of great Liberties and Immunities who also granted to William Marescal and his Heirs the Gift of the Pastoral Staff of the Abby of Nuteley To the Canons here was given the Church of all Saints at Bradley in the Diocess of Sarum in which Parish was founded a Chappel for Leperous Women which Chappel before it could be dedicated by Iocelin then Bishop of Sarum was publickly and solemnly declared by Oath not to be any ways prejudicial to the Mother Church in Tithes or Obventions c. Valued at 437 l. 6 s. 8 d. per Annum BISSEMEDE in Bedfordshire HVgh de Bellocampo founded and endow'd this Priory with divers Lands and Commons c. He granted the Canons here besides other things the Priviledge to have their Corn first ground at his Mills at Hetune after that which should be found on All which was confirm'd by Roger de Bellocampo He granted also the Tithes of his Park of Ettune tam de bosco quam de essartis as well of his Woods as arable Lands Pope Gregory granted to this House divers Priviledges as not to pay Tithes of their own Stock to cellebrate privately in time of a general Interdict c. Here was formerly a Hermitage of great Veneration Valued at 71 l. 13 s. 9 d. ob per Annum BRIDLINGTON in Yorkshire WAlter de Gant establisht Canons in the Church of St. Mary of Bridlinton and gave them all his Estate in that Town and confirm'd to them all other Lands which his homines Tenants who held of him had given them Gilbert de Gant his Son Earl of Lincoln confirm'd all that his Father gave c. The like did King Henry the II. Gilbert de Gant was born baptized and educated in this Priory and therefore disposed his Body to be buried here The Archdeacon of Richmond did use in time of his Visitation to come to a Church belonging to these Canons with a train of ninety seven Horse one and twenty Dogs and three Hawks and in an hours time all their Provision was utterly consumed till at last this great Oppression was prohibited by the Bull of Pope Innocent the III. Ralph de Nevil granted to these Canons to take Stone out of his Quarry of Fivele with a way over his Ground for the use of their Monastery for ever Valued at 547 l. 6 s. 11 d. per Annum St. BARTLEMEW in Smithfield London RAherus founded the Church here in honour of St. Bartholmew for Canons of St. Augustin's Rule and himself became their Prior for the space of two and twenty years This man had been formerly when young a noted Drole or Jester and by such means had become acceptable and familar to the great Ones at Court and
d. per Annum NOCTON in Lincolnshire THE Priory of Nocton Park was founded by Robert de Areci Lord of Nocton It was dedicated to St. Mary Magdelen The Heir general of Norman de Arcy descended from the Founder married to Iohn de Lymbury The Possessions given by several Benefactors were recited and confirm'd by King Henry III. in the 55th year of his Reign Valued at 44 l. 3 s. 8 d. per Annum WIGMORE in Herefordshire OLiver de Merlymond cheif Seneschal of all the Lands of Hugh de Mortimer in the time of King Steven built the Church of Schobbedon which Town his said Lord Hugh de Mortimer had given him in Consideration of his Service This Oliver being kindly entertain'd at St. Victors Abby at Paris in his return from a Pilgrimage he was so highly pleased with their good life and Regular devotion that he afterwards obtain'd from that Abby two of their Canons to come over and Institute a House of Religion at his new built Church of Schobbedon to which he annext divers Lands and profits But after this a great dissention arising between the said Hugh de Mortimer and Oliver de Merlymond in so much that the said Oliver departed from his Service and went to Miles Earl of Hereford Mortimer seized upon all his Estates and took from the Canons all the Goods which Oliver had given them whereby the said Canons were reduced to such extreamity that they were about to leave their House But this difference being at last composed by the mediation of the Bishop of Hereford Mortimer not only restored them their Lands c. of which he had deprived them but gave them more among other Benefactions the Church of Wigmore and advanced their Prior to the title of an Abbot But soon after he took from them again the Town of Schobbedon and it was once more restored by mediation After this these Canons removed their habitation to a place call'd Eye and from thence to Wigmore After this they removed once more into the Field of Beodune where they built from the ground a Monastery and Church which Church was dedicated to St. Iames by Robert Folyoth then Bishop of Hereford the aforesaid Sir Hugh de Mortimer conferring thereon at the Dedication great Benefactions both in Lands and Plate for the Altar Which Sir Hugh died a Chanon of this House being very antient Whose Son and heir Sir Roger de Mortimer behaved himself so unkindly to the Canons of this House that the Abbot and most of the Convent were forced for some time to retire to Schobbedon but the differrence was made up by the Interposition of King Henry Isabell de Ferrers Widow of the said Sir Roger built a House of Religion at Lechelade after her Husbands decease and endow'd it with Lands for the good of his Soul The said Sir Roger tho' unkind at first yet before his death confirm'd all that his Father had given to these Canons with other Lands given by himself Among those 260 most famous and valiant Knights that King William the Conqueror brought into England with him in his Army was Ralph de Mortuomari one of the chief which Ralph obtain'd to himself the Lordship of Wigmore and other Possessions in the Marches of Wales This Ralph built the Castle of Wigmore and left issue Hugh and William Hugh became the Founder of the Abby of Wigmore as has been said and endow'd it largely An. 1179. and dyed in this Monastery An. 1185. Grandson of this Hugh was Ralph de Mortuomari who being sent over into Normandy by King Iohn in order to defend that Country against the King of France who had invaded and Seized all Normandy because King Iohn refused thô several times summon'd to do homage for the same was by the said King of France taken Prisoner During whose absence from these Parts the Welch invaded this Monastery of Wigmore plundered the Canons of all their movables and burnt all the Buildings except the Church Son of which Ralph was Roger who marryed Matilda daughter of William de Breuse Lord of Bregnoc and was so faithful an adherent to King Henry III. against his rebellious Barons that he was the chief means of defeating that formidable Commotion and establishing the King in his Throne Grandson of this Roger was Roger Mortimer who was created the first Earl of March An. 1. Edward III. Which Earl Roger was great grandfather of Edmund Mortimer who married Philippa only daughter and heir of Leonel Duke of Clarence second Son of King Edward III. Which Edmund having buried his said Wife went over into Ireland the Kings Lieutenant and An. 1381. departed this life in that Kingdome being but twenty nine years of age His body was brought over and buried in this Abby Church of Wigmore with his Countess and most of his Ancestors Which Edmund and Philippa had issue two Sons Roger and Edmund and two Daughters Elizabeth and Philippa Roger Mortimer was slain in Ireland An. 1398. But left issue by his Wife Alianora daughter and coheir of Thomas Holland Earl of Kent two Sons Edmund and Roger and two daughters Anne and Alianore Anne was married to Richard de Condsborough Earl of Cambridge The two Sons and the other daughter died all without issue Valued at 267 l. 2 s. 10 d. ob per Annum THORNHOLME in Lincolnshire IT was found upon Inquisition at the Assizes at Lincoln 4 Iohn that King Steven founded this Priory and placed Canons in it That Henry II gave the Mannour of Aplebi in which the Priory is scituated to William de Lungespe his Brother who after gave the Manour to Iohn Maleherbe DERLEY in Darbyshire Hvgh the Priest intitled Dean of Derby gave to Albinus and his Canons of St. Helens near Derby the Land which he held at Little Derby for the erecting of a Church and Habitation for him and the said Canons with divers Lands of his Patrimony Which Estate the said Albin and his Successors Abbots of this House quietly enjoyed all the time of the life of the said Hugh and of Henry his Son which Son he begat in lawful marriage before he received holy Orders and of two daughters and heiresses of the said Henry who dying in the Reign of King Henry III. that King supposing the said two daughters to dye without heirs claim'd the Advowson of this Abby as an Escheat Vid. Vol. 3. P. 57. Valued at 258 l. 14 s. 5 d. per Annum St. AUGUSTINS at Bristol in Gloucestershire ROBERT Fitz Harding a Burgesse of Bristol to whom King Henry II. gave the Barony of Berkly built this Abby and gave to the Canons Regular of this House the Church of Berkly with divers others Whose Estate was confirm'd to them by King Henry II. while he was yet Duke of Normandy and Earl of Anjou also by Iohn Earl of Morton c. Valued at 670 l. 13 s. 11 d. ob per Annum COKESFORD near Rudham in Norfolk JOhn de Querceto or Cheney gave to God and St.
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
wonderful brightness as seem'd to turn the night into day The Royal Founder brought with him from the Holy Land a piece of our Saviour's Cross which he gave to this Monastery Queen Elianor his Wife was a bountiful Benefactress so that not only at all Masses here but at all Canonical hours the Monks of this House did use a special Collect for this King and Queen and at Grace after-meat the President did use to say Animae Regis Edwardi Reginae Alianorae omnium fidelium defunctorum per misericordiam dei requiescant in pace to which they all answer'd Amen At the Solemn Confecration and Benediction of this House by the Patriarch of Ierusalem Anthony Beck Bishop of Durham with several other Bishops a Sentence of the greater Excommunication was solemnly denounced against any one who should enter into this Monastery any other ways than by the Gates of the same The first Abbot of Vale-Royal was Iohn Chaumpneys 2. Walter de Hereford 3. Iohn de Oo or Hoo this man was so highly favour'd by the King that he often bid him ask what he would and he would grant it who thereupon desired the King to give him leave to resign his Office which tho' the King was by no means willing to grant yet at last he obtain'd after much importunity He was a very meek and compassionate man always considering and bearing in mind this Distich Peccantes dampnare cave nam labimur omnes Aut sumus aut fuimus aut possumus esse quod hic est The fourth Abbot was Richard de Ewesham a holy Man reported to have done Miracles Great Sums of Mony were allow'd by the King for the. Building of the new Work of this Abby and in the Parliament at Acton-Burnel 11 E. 1. the Abbot of Vale-Royal was ordered to receive yearly for the carrying on the said Work one thousand pound partly out of the Wardrobe and partly out of the Profits of the County of Chester It appear'd by the Accounts of the Kings Treasurer that he paid for the new Work of the Vale-Royal in all thirty two thousand pounds sterling MARHAM in Norfolk ISabella de Albany Countess of Arundel Daughter of William Earl of Warren and Widow of Hugh Earl of Arundel founded and endow'd this House for Cistercian Nuns This Nunnery was incorporated An. 1252. Pag. 966. KINGSTON upon Hull KING Edward the III. in the one and fiftieth year of his Reign reciting that he had granted License to William de la Pole Sen. to found and endow an Hospital of Chaplains and poor People at Kingston upon Hull and that the said William was afterwards minded to change the said Hoâ—pital into a Nunnery granted his License to Michael de la Pole Son and Heir of the said William to establish there instead of the said Nuns thirteen Carthusian Monks thirteen poor Men and thirteen poor Women and to endow them with twenty Acres and 20 l. Rent held of the King and with other Revenues not held of the King to the value of two hundred Marks per Annum The Abby de Loco Dei WIlliam Long spee Earl of Salisbury by his Will dated An. 1255. gave to the building and establishing of this House for Carthusians besides Land and Church Utinsils one thousand Ewes three hundred Muttons forty nine Oxen and twenty Bulls c. Additions to the Second Volum Pag. 49. HAGHMON KING Henry the II. at the desire of Alured Abbot of Haghmon granted the Custody of that Abby in times of Vacation to William Fitz-Alan and his Heirs An. 3. H. 5 Ralph then Abbot of this House and his Convent at the instance of Thomas Earl of Arundel and Surrey granted to Robert Lee one Corrody for his Life he being with the said Abbot as his Squire with a Boy and two Horses to have Meat and Drink for himself Boy and Horses as others of the Abbots Squires for the times past used to have during such time as the said Robert shall please to abide in the said Monastery so also for Apparel In the Reign of Henry the VI. Thomas Holden Esq granted to the Prior of the holy Trinity at London and his Successors in behalf of the whole Order of Canons Regular one Messâ—age and Garden in the Parish of St. Peter and St. Michael near the North Gate in Oxford for a Colledge for those of that Order 〈◊〉 study in Richard Bishop of Coventry granted to this Monastery of Haghmon that the Sacristan under the Abbot might baptize as well Iews as Children in the Monastery and might use parochial Rights within the same Nicholas Abbot of this House in the year 1332. allotted certain Revenues for the maintenance of the Kitchin and for twenty Hogs yearly for the Bacon of the House c. Richard Burnell Abbot in the year 1459. made certain Ordinances relating to the Offices of the Prior and Sub-prior whereby he settled their Precedencies c. Pope Alexander the III. granted to the Canons of this House divers Priviledges as not to pay Tithes of the Lands and Cattel of their own Possession to have a free Buryal place libera Sepultura to present Clerks to the Perochial Churches which they hold who shall account to the House for the Profits to celebrate the Divine Offices privately in the time of a general Interdict to pay no Tithes of their Mills and Meadows unless the usage hath been otherwise c. Pope Boneface IX granted Indulgences to those who should visit this Church on certain days yearly being truly penitent and confest Pag. 56. WYRKSOPE THIS House was founded on the 3 d. of March in the third year of King Henry third Son of William the Conqueror by Sir William Lovetot who lies buried in this Church near the High Altar from whom descended by Heirs General the Lords Furnival and the Talbots Earls of Shrewsbury Pag. 86 St. MARY-OVERIE in Southwark RIchard Bishop of Winchester confirm'd to the Canons of St. Mâ—ry of Suwerch the several Churches and Possessions given them by their Benefactors Pag. 143. RANTON HVbert Archbishop of Canterbury confirm'd the Grants of Robert Noel and Thomas Noel his Son to the Canons of this House By Composition between the Abbot of Haghmon and the Prior of Ronton it was agreed that the Prior and Canons of Ronton should be call'd to the Election of the Abbot of Haghmon when it should happen that the Abbot of H. should visit at Ronton once a year or oftener if occasion be that the Prior of Ronton may admit a Canon or Brother into his House at R. without the consent of the Abbot of H. first askt so long as he makes his profession to the Abbot of H. and lastly that upon the Election of a Prior of Ranton the Canons of R shall elect one of the Canons of Haghmon and one of their own House out of which two the Abbot of H shall make choice of one to be the Prior at R. The Priory of Ronton paid to the Abby of Haghmon a yearly
the Church of Wrytele in Essex for the maintenance of the Poor in this Hospital call'd the English Hospital at Rome BLANCLAND in Normandy FOunded for Canons and endow'd with Lands in England by Richard de Hay and his Wife De BELLOPORTU in Normandy AN. Dom. 1202. Alen Son of Earl Henry gave divers Lands in England to the Canons Regular of this Abby Premonstratenses Dominican Nuns near Roan FOunded by St. Lewis King of France beyond the Bridge at Roan and by him endowed with 500 l. Turnois per Annum and divers Liberties An. Dom. 1269. The Cathedral Church at Roan DIvers Lands in England were formerly given to the Canons of this Church and their Successors by King Henry Earl Otho and more especially by King Iohn viz. The Mannor of Clere in Hampshire Oteri in Devonshire Kilburn in Torkshire c. Irish Monasteries St. ANDREWS in the Territory of Ardes Ardee FOunded by Iohn de Curceio At first a Cell to the Abby of Lonley in Normandy and by them granted to the Archbishop of Armach The Nuns at Corke FOund by Inquisition 29 E. 1. that it was not to the Kings damage for William Barry and others to settle certain Lands there mention'd on Agnes de Hareford and other Nuns and their Successors in the House of St. Iohn Baptist in St. Iohn's-street in Cork St. PATRICKS at Downe FOunded An. Dom. 1183. for Monks and a Prior from St. Werburgs at Chester but without any Subjection to the Church of Chester The Bishop of Down was Custos and Abbot of this Monastery in like manner as the Bishops were in the Churches of Winchester and Coventry Iohn de Curci the Founder of this Monastery endow'd it with divers Revenues and Tithes among other things of all his hunting The Nuns at GRANE in the County of Kildare POpe Innocent the III. An. Dom. 1207. confirm'd the Lands given to this House by Walter de Rideleford and others the like confirmation was made by King Iohn in the ninth year of his Reign KILCUMYN FOunded by Philip de Wigornia Constable of Ireland and furnished with Monks from Glastonbury NEDDRUM a Cell to St. Bege in Yorkshire ANno Dom. 1177. 23 H. 2 the Lord Iohn de Curci subdued Vlster An. 1178. he gave Neddrum to the Monks of St. Bege with great Priviledges Divers Benefactors gave Lands to this Priory all which was confirm'd An. Dom. 1202. by Iohn Cardinal of St. Steven in Mont Caelius Apostolick Legat. OCYMILD FOunded by William de Burgo and given to Richard a Monk of Glastonbury ARKEL a Cell to Furnes in Lancashire FOunded by Theobald Walteri Butler of Ireland and by him given to the Monks of the Cistercian Order at Furnes with divers Liberties BELLO BECCO another Cell to Furnes FOunded and endow'd by Walter de Lascy for Cistercian Monks who afterwards by License of King Edward the III. transferr'd their Estate here to the Abbot and Convent of Furneys DUNBROTHY in the County of Wexford HArvey de Monte Marisco the Kings Marshal of Ireland gave this place with divers other Lands for a Cell to the Abby of Bildwas in England William Marshal Earl of Pembroke was a great Benefactor to this House whose Gifts were confirm'd by King Edward the III. among which things they had a grant of Pasture for eighty Cows and one thousand five huudred Sheep yearly JEREPONT FOunded by Dumwald King of Ossery and endow'd by him with Baleochellam in which the Monastery was founded and other Lands all confirm'd by Iohn Lord of Ireland and Earl of Morton KYLLECONIL FOunded by Donald O Bryan Confirm'd by King Henry the III. An. suo 4. MELLIFONT KING Iohn confirm'd to the Monks of the Church of St. Mary at Drogheda divers Land which they enjoy'd before the coming of the French into Ireland The like confirmations were made by King Henry the III. and King Edward the III. NEWRY in the County of Down FOunded and endowed for Cistercian Monks by Mauritius mag Lochlain King of all Ireland by the unanimous consent of the Great men and Petty Kings of Vlster ROSGLAS FOunded and endow'd by Dermitius O Demesy King of Ofalia St. SAVIOURS FOunded by William Marischal Earl of Pembroke confirm'd by King Henry the III. with the grant of great Liberties To this Abby was afterwards united the Abby of Kilkenny TYNTERNE FOunded according to the last Will of William Marischal Earl of Pembroke and ratified by King Iohn DE VALLE SALUTIS FOunded by Dermitius an Irish King and by him and his Subjects endow'd with divers Lands Confirm'd by King Iohn WONEY in the County of Limerick FOunded An. Dom. 1205. and endowed with Lands and Liberties by Theobald Walteri Butler of Ireland St. CROSSE in the County of Tiperary FOunded and endowed by Donald King of Lumney Lumnicensis BALLINTOBBER in the County of Maio. Canons Regular FOunded by Catholus O Conogher King of Connaught An. Dom. 1216. CONNAL a Cell to Lanthony in England FOunded An. 1202. by Maylerus Son of Henry for Canons Regular Confirm'd by King Iohn The Hospital of St. Mary's near Droheda FOunded and endowed by Vrsus de Swemele for the maintenance of poor and infirm People and such as are in Want The Custos of which Hospital to be chosen by the Good men Proborum hominum of Drogheda ALL-SAINTS in the East-part of Dublin FOunded and endowed for Canons by Dermont King of Leimster confirm'd by King Henry the II. St. THOMAS the Martyr in Dublin FOunded and endowed by William Son of Audelinus Sewer to King Henry the II. by Authority of that King and for him FERNE in the County of Wexford FOunded and endowed by Dernatius King of Leimster An. 1158. He also granted them free choice of their own Abbots according to the Rule of St. Augustine KENLIS and Inistiock in the County of Kilkenny JEffrey Son of Robert came into Ireland with William Earl Marischal and obtain'd the Barony of Kenlis in Ossorey at which place he afterwards built a Monastery for Canons Regular which he brought over from Bodmin in Cornwalk One of whom was Hugh de Rous who after that became the first English Bishop of Ossery About An. 1206. Thomas Son of Anthony founded a Priory at Iâ—istiock which became as a Cell to Kenlis Hugh de Lacy and Walter de Lacy were Benefactors The Hospital of St. John Evangelist at Kilkenny FOunded and endowed An. 1220. by William Mareschal Earl of Pembroke KILVAYNARD a Priory of Augustin Nuns POpe Celestin the III. An. 1195. confirmed their Lands and Possessions with the grant of divers Liberties St. JOHN BAPTIST at Nenath in the County of Tiperary FOunded about the year 1200. by Theobald Walter Butler of Ireland and by him endow'd with Lands for the Maintenance of Canons and thirteen poor and infirm People FERMOY FOundeds and endowed for Canons Regular of St. Augustin by Alexander Son of Hugh Confirm'd by King Edward the I. An. suo 18. TOBERGLORIE in the County of Down FOunded and endowed by Iohn de Curcey and by
de Lincoln 6. years 9. Richard de Normanton the second time Ruled 1. year 10. Iohn Horsley 26. years 11. Ioh Wodhouse 15. Weeks 12. William Horsley 21. years 13. Roger de Kyrkton 3. years 14. William de Bone 42. years 15. Herry Monyasche 39. years 16. Iohn Spondone 33. years 17. Iohn Stanley 22. years 18. Richard de Nottingham 19. years Pag. 605. CROXTON AVicia de Romely Lady of Bescaudeby was married to William Paynel who came into England with William the Conqueror and of whose guilt he had divers Towns in Yorkshire Lincolnshire and Leicestershire which William and Avice had issue a daughter named Alice or Avice whom King H. II gave in Marriage to Robert de Gant who had issue by her another Alâ—ce or Avice whom the same King Henry gave in Marriage to Robert Fitz-Harding of Bristol who had issue Maurice who dying without issue his Mothers Iâ—heritance came to Andrew Lutterel as next of the Bloud of the Paynells Pag. 607. LEYSTONE RAnulfus de Glanville founded the Abby of St. Mary at Leestune and endow'd it with the Mannour of Lâ—estune which he had of the guift of king Henry II. and with certain Churches which he had formerly given to the Canons of Buttele and now by them resign'd to the Canons of this place King Richard I. confirm'd the Estate so given to these Canons of Leystone with a Grant of divers Franchises confirm'd also by Richard Archbishop of Canterbury and by Roger Bygot Earl of Norfolk Pope Lucius granted these Canons divers Priviledges and not to pay Tithes of their proper Goods and Cattel to celebrate privately in time of a General Interdict with absolute freedom in the Election of thier Abbot with Liberty of Burial for any not Excommunicate who desire to be buried with them saving the Rights of those Churches from whence the Bodies come c. Pag. 643. BEGEHAM WIlliam de Burgelle granted certain Marish Lands to the Canons of Otteham afterwards translated to Begeham saving to the Lord of the soil the Service of half a pound of Pepper to be paid yealry on the Vigil of Chirstmass for all Custom and exaction DURFORD Abby in Sussex FOunded and endow'd with Lands c. by Henry Hesatus Lord of Herting in the County of Sussex confirmed by King Henry the II. who also granted them a Fair for three days yearly at Herting viz. on the Nativity of St. Iohn Baptist and two days next before Confirm'd also by Hillary and Seffrid Bishops of Chichester and by William de Percy c. Valued at 98 l. 4 s. 5 d. Per Annum STIXWOLD Abby in Lincolnshire KING Henry VIII in the 29th year of his Reign out of the sincere Devotion which he had to the Virgin Mary and for the increase of Virtue and the Divine Worship c. founded a new Monastery of Nuns of the Order of Praemonstratenses in the place Scite and Precinct of the Old Monastery of Stixwold in Com. Lincoln lately supprest by Authority of Parliament to consist of a Prioress and Nuns there to officiate in the Divine Offices for the good Estate of him and of his most dear Consort Iane Queen of England while they lived and after their deaths for their Souls and the Souls of their Children and Progenitors And made and constituted Mary Missenden Prioress of the said new Monastery and incorporated the said Prioress and Nuns by the name of the Prioress and Convent of the New Monastery of King Henry the VIII of Stixwold with capacity to receive Lands by that name to sue and be sued and to have a Common-Seal He further gave and settled on them all the Lands and Estate real and personal belonging to the old Monastery of Stixwold in as full and ample manner as Helena Key late Prioress of the said Monastery enjoy'd the same on the same on the 4th of Feb. in the seven and twentieth year of his Reign or any time before at which time it came to his hands by reason of an Act of Parliament then past for the dissolving of certain Monasteries Which said Revenue was then rated at the clear yearly value of 152 l. 10 s. 7 d. and was granted to the said new Monastery to hold in Capite by the twentieth part of a Knights Fee and by the yearly Rent of 15 l. 5 s. 1 d. to be paid into the Court of Augmentations at Michaelmas and Lady-day the Statute of Mortmain or any other Statute non obstante Whose Grant bears date on the 9th of Iuly in the said nine and twentieth year and is witnessed by Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury and divers others among whom Sir Thomas Crumwell Knt. Lord Crumwell Keeper of the Privy-Seal c. Vid. 1. Vol. 486. Pag. 376. BRACKLEY RObert Earl of Leicester gave to Salomon the Clerk and his Successors one Acre of Land in Brahole Brackley in the love of God and honour of St. Iohn the Apostle and Evangelist to build a House thereon for the Receipt and Entertainment of poor People This was confirm'd afterwards by Robert his Son and Heir which Father and Son endow'd the said Hospital with divers Lands to hold in Frankalmoine Hugh Bishop of Lincoln confirm'd the Foundation of this Hospital with all the Lands and Liberties given and conferr'd upon it The like did King Henry III. in the twelfth year of his Reign Pag. 423. DOVER KING Henry the III. in the twelfth year of his Reign confirm'd to the Hospital of St. Mary at Dover divers Land and Rents given by Simon de Wardune he also confirm'd the Mannor of Rivere to the said Hospital at the Petition of Hubert de Burgo who founded the same for the sustentation of poor People and Travellers who should come thether He also ordained that upon the death or removal of the Master the Brothers of the said Hospital shall freely choose another and present him to the King or his Chief Justice who shall without difficulty give assent and then he shall be presented to the Archbishop of Cantebury to be by him instituted He also granted to the said Hospital the tenth part of the Profits of the Passage in the Port of Dover besides 10 l. and 50 s. which by two Deeds he had formerly granted them With other Revenues elsewhere Pag. 899. NEWTON THomas Archbishop of York made a Decree between Edmund Litchfield who pretended to the Office of Custos or Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen at Newton in Holderness and Edmund Percy then in Possession of the said Hospital containing that the said Percy whose title the Bishop confirms and his Successors shall pay to the said Litchfield during his Life a yearly Pension of 100 s. on the day of the Annuciation of the Blessed Virgin in the Collegiate Church of St. Thomas of Acon in London under pain of incuring the Sentence of Excommunication if upon request he does not within thirty days perform this Decree and besides it shall and may be lawful for the said Litchfield on the
or his Lieutenant the Chaplains and Clerks to have their Board from the Provost all to live and Dyet together in the same House every Chaplain to have a little Clerk to serve him in the Church and in his Chamber and not to be allow'd any other Servant that constantly at day break they rise and repair to the Chappel there say first the Mattins of the Blessed Virgin with a low voice and then sing the Mattins of the day c. that in all the Divine Offices they observe the Salisbury use that no Woman shall enter into any part of the House except the Chappel and the Hall the Provost and every Chaplain and Clerk to be sworn at their admission to the observance of these Orders and to personal Residence Which Deed of Foundation bears date in the year 1301 30. Edward I. Simon de Farham and divers others were Benefactors to this Chappel and gave divers Mannors Lands and Rents to the same All confirm'd by King Edward I. and II. Valued at 112 l. 17 s. 4 d. ob per Annum KIRKBY Super Wretheck in Leicestershire ROger Beler founded a Chantry of one Custos and twelve Chaplains in the Chappel of St. Peter adjoyning to his Mannour of Kirkeby and endow'd the same with the Advowson of the Church of Kirkeby the Mannour of Bokeminster and other Lands and Rents with Warrantry and gave the power of presenting to the Custos or Wardens place to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln c. Whose Deed of Foundation bears date in the year 1319 13. Edward II. WENGHAM in Kent POpe Gregory X. licenced Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury to establish a Provost and a Colledge of ten secular Canons in the Parish Church of Wengham instead of a Rector the said Provost to have the Parochial cure of Souls which Colledge being accordingly founded by the said Iohn he appointed that six of the said Canons should be Priests two Deacons and two Subdeacons and set out their several Prebends and how the Common distributions should be made c Whose Deed of Foundation bears date An. Dom. 1286. and was confirm'd by King Edward I. MEREWELL FOunded by Henry de Blois Bishop of Winchester for four Priests and by him endow'd with 13 l. per An. of Rent Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester made certain Orders for the Government of the said four Chaplains or Priests as that they keep one Deacon to serve them in the Church and at home that they choose yearly one of them to be their Prior that what ever Chaplain be guilty of Incontinency or other foul crimes he also shall be expell'd and further granted them besides their first endowment fifty quarter of Corn for their Common use and four Load of Hay Whose Deed bears date An. Dom. 1226. GLASENEY in Cornwall PEter Bishop of Exeter in the year 1288. made a further Provision for the Vicars of this Church first founded by his Predecessor Walter for thirteen Canons and as many Vicars Valued at 205 l. 10 s. 6 d. per Annum The Collegiate Church of Ruthin in Denbighshire JOhn Gray Lord of the Cantred of Deffencloyt in the Diocess of Bangor instituted a Colledge in the Chappel of St. Peter at Ruthin for at least seven Priests to celebrate there daily the Divine Offices one of whom to serve in the Chappel of the Castle and endow'd the same with two hundred and fifty acres of Land with Tithes and large Commons of Pasture and Paunage in his Woods for sixty Hogs c. to hold in pure free and perpetual Almes with Warranty Whose Deed of Foundation bears Date An. 1310. OTERY in Devonshire THe Dean and Chapter of Roan in the year 1335 9. Edward III. granted with Licence of the Apostolick see and the King of England their Mannour of Otery St. Mary in the County of Devon c. to Iohn de Grandisson Bishop of Exeter and instead of Warranty they delivered up to the said Bishop all their Deeds and Writings concerning the same King Edward III. in the eleventh year of his Reign granted his Licence to the said Bishop of Exeter to erect a Monastery or Collegiate Church to consist of a certain number of secular Canons at Otery St. Mary either in the Parish Church there or in some other place and to endow the same with the Mannour of Otery and to appropriate the Tithes of the said Town to the same Which Colledge was accordingly founded and endow'd by the said Bishop An. 1337 Valued at 303 l. 2 s. 9 d. per Annum The Collegiate Church or Chappel of St. Steven within the Royal Palace at Westminster THe Chappel of St. Steven in the Pallace at Westminster was nobly finisht by King Edward III tho' begun by his Progenitors which King founded therein a Dean and twelve Canons with as many Vicars and other Ministers accordingly and gave them by his Patent dated in the two and twentieth year of his Reign his great House in Lombardstret London with some advowsons obliging himself and Royal Heirs to make it up to them a Revenue of 500 l per An. In the two and thirtieth year of his Reign he gave them a Tower in Bokelesbury in London call'd Sewtes Tour with the Appurtenances In the three and fortieth year of his Reign he gave them another House in London call'd the Role with the appurtenances then valued at 20 l. per An. In further aâ—gmentation of the said Foundation he granted them all the ground from the said Chappel Northward to the receipt of the Exchequer between Westminister Hall and the Thames for making a Cloyster and other necessary Building with free Entrance day and Night at the Gate adjoyning to the Kings Bridge also a Chamber within the said Gate formerly belonging to his Clerk of the Kitchin with the Houses formerly used for Stables of War horses and other Horses c. with a Free Passage to the said Chappel by day light thro' the great Hall and exempted the said Dean and Canons and all their Lands from the Payment of any Aydes or Taxes whatsoever King Richard II. compleated the full endowment of this Colledge by settling on it divers Mannours and Lands in Kent c. according to the direction and desire of his Grandfather in his Testament Valued at 1085 l. 10 s. 5 d. per Annum The Royal Collegiate Chappel in the Castle at Windsor A Chappel for eight Canons secular having been begun in the Castle of Windsor King Edward III. who was baptized there finisht and compleated the same in honour of Almighty God his glorious Virgin Mother St. George the Martyr and St. Edward the Confessor and establisht therein a Custos or President to the former eight Canons and an addition of fifteen Canons more and four and twenty poor Knights with other Ministers of the said Chappel and endow'd the same in the two and twentieth year of his Reign with divers Churches and promised for himself and Heirs to encrease the Revenue to the Sum of 1000
thirteen poor People of both Sexes and incorporated the same by the name of the Master or Custos and Chaplains of the Colledge and Alms-house of the Holy Trinity of Tateshale with licence to the said Colledge c. to purchase receive and hold Lands c. to the value of 200 l. per Annum over and beside the Profits of the Advowson and yearly value of the Church of Tateshale c. Valued at 348 l. 5 s. 11 d. ob q. per Annum ETON by Windsor in Barkshire FOunded by King Henry the VI. in the nineteenth year of his Reign for the carrying on of which work he appointed Robert Kent William Lynde and William Waryn to be his Procurators and Agents It did in the first Institution consist of one Provost or Praepofit ten Priests four Clerks and six Boys Choristers five and twenty poor and indigent Grammar Schollars and five and twenty poor and decrepid men also one Master to teach Grammar learning to the foresaid poor Schollars and others coming from any parts of England freely and without any manner of exaction of this Foundation he made Henry Sevor Clerk the first Provost and incorporated them by the name of the Provost and Royal Colledge of the Blessed Mary of Eton near Wydesor he also gave them the Advowson of the Parish-Church of Eton to be made Collegiate and intirely united to their own proper use without endowing a Vicar or appointing a competent Sum to be yearly distributed to the Poor of the Parish out of the same the Statute non obstante with License to purchase Lands to the value of one thousand Marks per Annum the Statute of Mortmain non obstante and discharged them from the Payment of Corrodies or any Pensions or Annuities whatsoever The said King granted to this Colledge divers Rents rising out of several Aâ—â—en Priories with the Reversions of the said Estates and all Liberties and Franchises to those Alien Priories belonging in as full and ample manner as they were ever used by the former Possessors with warranty c. NEWPORT in Shropshire KING Henry the VI. in the twentieth year of his Reign Licensed Thomas Draper to purchase and receive from the Abbot and Convent of St. Peter's at Shrewsbury the Parish Church of Newport and therein to found and erect a Colledge of one Custos a Priest and four Chaplains whom by the name of the Custos and Chaplains of Seint-Marie-College of Newport he incorporated with License to endow the same with Lands c. of the value of 10 l. per Annum and appropriated the said Parish Church to the same provided that the Custos for the time being takes the cure of Souls and ministers all and singular the Sacraments to the Parishoners c. St. MARY's at Stafford KIng Henry the VI. in the four and twentieth year of his Reign granted the Patronage and Advowson of the Deanery of his free Chappel at Stafford to Humphrey Duke of Buckingham and Licensed him to give one hundred marks of Land c. to the Dean and Canons of the said free Chappel Valued at 35 l. 13 s. 10 d. per Annum WESTBURY in Gloucestershire KIng Edward the IV. in the fourth year of his Reign gave to Henry Sampson Clerk Dean of this Colledge and the Chapter of the same and their Successors the Mannor of Aylmynstere to hold in pure and perpetual Alms with view of Frankpledge c. Valued at 232 l. 14 s. per Aunum BARNARD-CASTELL in the County Palatine of Durham KIng Edward the IV. in the seventeenth year of his Reign granted his License to his most dear Brother Richard Duke of Gloucester to erect a Colledge at Barnard-Castle in the Castle there of one Dean and twelve Chaplains ten Clerks six Chorists and one other Clerk whom he incorporated by the name of the Dean and Chaplains of the Colledge of Richard Duke of Gloucester of Baynard Castell and that the said Dean and Chaplains may purchase Lands c. to the yearly value of four hundred marks over and above all reprises MIDDELHAM in Yorkshire IN the same year the said King Edward the IV. licensed his said Brother Richard Duke of Gloucester to erect another Colledge at Middelham of a Dean six Chaplains four Clerks six Choristers and one other Clerk to celebrate Divine Service in the Parish Church there whom he incorporated by the name of the Dean and Chaplains of the Colledge of Richard Duke of Gloucester of Middelham in the County of York and that they may purchase Lands c. to the value of two hundred Marks per Annum over and above all Reprises c. ROTHERAM in Yorkshire KIng Edward the IV. in the twentieth year of his Reign granted his License to Thomas Rotheram Bishop of Lincoln to erect a Chantry of one Chaplain to celebrate daily at the Altar newly built by the said Bishop within the Parish Church of Rotheram in honour of our Lord Iâ—â—su Christ. Two years after that the same King Licensed the said Thomas then Archbishop of York to found a Colledge in Rotheram to consist of one Provost a Preacher of the Word of God and of two Fellows one of which to be a Teacher of Grammar and the other a Teacher of Song with such other Fellows as the Revenues shall admit of for the Preaching of the word of God in the Parish of Rotheram and elsewhere in the Diocess of York and for the free teaching of Grammar and Song to any Schollers who are desirous to learn and come to the said Colledge from any part of England and incorporated the same by the name of the Provost and Fellows of the Colledge of Iesus at Rotheram with License to the said Thomas to give the Soil whereon the said Colledge shall be built to the same and other Lands and Possessions c. to the value of one hundred Marks per Annum and to appropriate the Church of Laxton in the County of Nottingham thereunto Valued at 58 l. 5 s. 9 d. ob per Annum The Kings free Chappels have been of old time and ought to be exempt from the ordinary Jurisdiction and all Payment of Procurations or any other impositions or exactions whatsoever POpe Paul the IV. confirm'd to Sir William Peter Knt. and a Councellor of State divers Mannors and Lands c. formerly belonging to several Monasteries and by him purchased and obtain'd from King Henry the VIII and others and absolved him from all Excommunications and other Ecclesiastical Censures or Penalties that he might incur for holding the same and decreed that he might for the future without any scruple of Conscience continue the Possession of the same with command to the Bishop of London c. not to permit him to be vext or disturb'd in relation to his foresaid Lands c. under pain of the severest Censures of the Church Whose Bull bears date at St. Peter's in Rome An. Dom. 1555. 23 Ph. Ma. FINIS A CATALOGUE OF The Religious Houses c. as