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A36798	Monasticon anglicanum, or, The history of the ancient abbies, and other monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches, in England and Wales with divers French, Irish, and Scotch monasteries formerly relating to England / collected, and published in Latin, by Sir William Dugdale, Knight ..., in three volums; and now epitomized in English, page by page; with sculptures of the several religious habits.; Monasticon anglicanum. English	Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.; Dodsworth, Roger, 1585-1654.; Stevens, John, d. 1726. History of the antient abbeys, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches.; Wright, James, 1643-1713.	1693 (1693)	Wing D2487; ESTC R8166	281,385	375

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 Chas●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 Hospitallers● 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 M●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

FOunded by Peter de Rupibus and endowed with a Rent of 343 l. Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford An. 7. E. 1. exchanged with the Master and Brethren of the Hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr in Southwark the Church of Blechyngelegh for certain Lands in Surrey which Church King Edward the II. gave them License to impropriate to their Hospital and to hold it to them and their Successors so impropriated Valued at 266 l. 17 s. 11 d. per Annum DOMUS DEI in Southampton GErvase de Hamton Margaret de Redvariis and many others gave divers Lands c. to this Hospital all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Edward the III. An. Reg. 6. The same King An. 17. gave the Custody of this Hospital then being of his Patronage to the Prepositus and Scholars of Que●ns-hall in Oxford and to their Successors for ever which Hall was then newly founded and endow'd with Possessions by Queen Philippa Wife of that King He also granted to the Custos Scholars Brothers and Sisters of this Hospital to be freed for themselves and Lands from all Taxes and Tallages c. for ever King Edward the IV. An. 1. granted to the Custos Chaplain and Brethren of this Hospital and their Successors the Alien Priory of Shirburne in the County of Southampton with all its Lands c. Richard Duke of York the Father and Richard Earl of Cambridge the Grandfather of that King are in the said Grant alledged to be buried in this Hospital SANDONE in Surrey TO the Master and Brethren of this Hospital dedicated to the Holy Ghost William de Perci Son and Heir of Henry de Perci gave and confirm'd divers Lands and Rents for the Maintenance of six Chaplains The Heart of which William being buried here the Prior and Brethren of this House oblig'd themselves to find a Lamp and Wax-Candle to burn for him in the Church of Standone at the time of Mass for ever An. 14. Henry 6. That King granted his License to the Cardinal Bishop of Winchester to annex and unite for ever this Hospital being founded by his Predecessors to that of St. Thomas in Southwark ROUNCEVAL by Charing-Cross in the Suburbs of London IT was found by Inquisition 7 R. 2. that William Marechall Earl of Pembroke gave to the Prior and Convent of the Hospital of the blessed Mary of Rouncyvall and his Successors for ever one Messuage and certain Lands and Tenements in Charing where the Chappel and Hospital are situated Confirm'd by King Henry St. JOHN's Hospital at Oxford KING Henry the III. in the seventeenth year of his Reign erected a noble Inn or Hospital not far from the East gate in Oxford for the Reception and Relief of the Necessities of the Infirm and Travellers himself laying the first Stone The same King gave the Master and Brethren of this Hospital his Mill at Edendon and the Iews Garden in the Suburbs of Oxford without the said East-gate and granted that as often as he came to Oxford they should receive of him Alms for one hundred poor People on the first day of his coming to Town He also granted to this Hospital of St. Iohn Baptist at Oxford a parcel of his Wood of Shottoure with the Pasture adjoyning c. NEWSTEDE near Stamford in Lincolnshire WIlliam de Albiniaco the III. gave to this Hospital fonnded in honour of the blessed Mary ever Virgin at the Bridge of Wass between Stamford and Offington and to the Brethren there divers Lands c. With the Tith of all the Bread Flesh and Fish spent in his Family and free Pasture for one hundred sheep c. The Master of the said Hospital to be a Priest and a Canon Regular of some House and to have with him some other Canons living according to the Rule of St. Augustin and seven poor and infirm men to be maintain'd in the Hospital The same William the Founder of this House by another Deed appointed the number of the Brothers here to be as follows two Priests one Deacon one Clerk and thirteen infirm People William Albiniaco the IV. confirm'd what his Father had given and granted that upon death of the Prior the Canons here might freely choose another and present him to the Patron and in the mean time the Canons to have the Custody of the House and Liberties of the same All which things were confirm'd by King Edward the III. An Reg. II. Valued at 37 l. 6 s. per Annum St. JOHN BAPTIST at Nottingham ANno Dom. 1241. Walter de Gray Archbishop of Tork made the following Order and Rule for the Brothers and Sisters of this Hospital That the Master or Custos provide two Chaplains or more to celebrate there for ever that all the Brethren rise together to Matines which are to be so early that they may be finisht by or before day-break from the Feast of St. Michael to Easter which done then shall follow Prime and Terce then Mass and after Mass Sext and None the Brothers shall mind their business in the House and if not hindred with necessary Occasions they shall hear Vespers and Complin that they shall be all obedient to the Custos and none shall have any thing in property for seven days under pain of Excommunication they shall be all cloathed and fed in common eat no flesh but three days in the Week Sunday Tuesday and Thursday lie in one Dormitory they shall be chast and sober their Habit of Russet and Black c. Here was in this Town of Nottingham another Hospital founded by Iohn Plumtre by License of King Richard the II. An. Reg. 16. for two Chaplains one of which to be Master or Custos and for thirteen old and poor Widows senio confractis paupertate depressis which said Iohn endow'd the same with ten Messuages and two Tofts in Nottingham and ordained that the Community of the Town of Nottingham and the Prior of Lenton should present to the Chantry in the Chappel of this Hospital and that the two Chantry Priests should receive for their stipends 100 ● to each yearly Whose Orders bear date An. Dom. 1400. St. JOHN BAPTIST at Ludlow in Shropshire FOunded by Peter Vndergod near the Bridge at Ludlow and by him endow'd with divers Lands c. for the maintenance of certain Religious Brethren and for the Sustenance of poor and infirm People He also granted to the Brothers that after his decease they might freely choose one of themselves to be their Master or Custos and so as often as occasion should be and the Master and Brothers to admit the Poor c. which Lands c. so given as abovesaid were confirm'd by Walter de Lacy the Chief Lord of the Fee and by King Henry the III. An. 5. Valued at 17 l. 3 s. 3 d. per Annum The House of Converts in the Suburbs of London FOunded by King Henry the III. in a place then called Newstrete and by him endow'd with seven hundred

Norfolk FOunded by Robert Fitz-Roger and endow'd with Lands c. All which were confirm'd to these Canons by King Iohn An. 1. with the grant of large Liberties and Immunities from all Tolls and Taxes Valued at 104 l. 16 s. 5 d. ob per Annum TITCHFIELD in Hampshire KING Henry the III. An. 16. granted his Mannor of Tichefeud to Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester to found an Abby of Premonstratenses and further granted to the said Abby very great Liberties in the said Mannor and their other Lands with very great Immunities and to be free and discharged from Tolls c. and from suit to any Forrest Courts and from the expeditating or lawing of Dogs and this not only for themselves but all their Men dwelling on their Lands Other Benefactors to this Abby were Eua de Clinton Reginald de Albamara Baldwin de Ripariis Lord of the I●● Gilbert le Mansel Peter de Sukemund who gave certain Land 〈◊〉 Ingepenne to hold of the Chief Lord of the Fee by the Service of half a Knights Fee and of himself and his Heirs by one pair of Spurs or 3 d. at the Feast of St. Michael c. All whose Gifts were confirm'd to this House by King Edward the II. An. II. An Inventory of the Goods of this Monastery was taken Anno Dom. 1420. before Iohn Powle Abbot of Hales-Owen Visitor of this Place and it was then found that they had no Monies in their Treasury but were 43 l. 4 s. in Debt and the House ingaged in 62 l. 6. d. In the Sacristy one Silver-Cup gilt for keeping the Sacrament two great Chalices gilt and twelve lesser ones a great Silver Vessel full of Relicks a great Silver Cross gilt with the Images of Mary and Iohn two Candlesticks Silver and gilt c. In the Treasury many pieces of Plate some of great size c. In divers Mannors belonging to this Church four and thirty Horses ten Mares four Foals one hundred and fifty four Oxen seven Bulls nine and fifty Cows c. three hundred eighty and one Muttons one hundred Lambs c. seventeen Boars twenty four Sows thirty three Hogs one hundred and twenty six lesser Swine and eighty nine Pigs Valued at the Suppression at 249 l. 16 s. 1 d. per Annum Of the Order of St. Gilbert of Sempringham A NVN OF Y e ORDER OF St. GILBERT Vol. 2. P. 669 THe Institutions made by the blessed Gilbert and his Successors for the Government of this Order of Sempringham are very large and cousist of Divers general Chapters or Heads and those divided into many Subdivisions I shall take Notice only of the Principal Titles And refer to the Book at large for particulars The first Treats of the Rise and beginning of the Order and of the Election of the Master c. Of the Principal Examiners or Searchers Scrutatoribus their Constitution and Authority c. Of the four Procurators in each House of this Order c. Of the Canons and Novices and their Age and of the Lay Canons c. Of the Brothers their Institution Apparel and Duties c. Of the Nuns and such matters as relate to them and their Houses Of the Lay Sisters their Apparel and manner of Life Of the Sick and Infirm Nuns and Sisters how to be treated Of the Office of the Dead and Funeral Matters c. Of some Rules relating equally to the Nuns and Sisters Of the Unity and friendship between all the Houses of this Order Of the Grand Chapter of the Order to be held yearly In the end of this last Chapter the Founder of the Order Provides that in the Several Houses of the Men the Number shall not exceed 394 in all and in those of the Women the number of Nuns and Sisters together shall not exceed 960. THis order was first Instituted in England in the Reign of King Steven An. Dom. 1148. by Master Iohn Gilbert of Semplingham William Bishop of Norwich writ a very high Commendation of this Gilbert and of all the Religious of his Order by way Testimonial to Pope Alexander III. The Priory of Sempringham in Lincolnshire FOunded by Gilbert de Gaunt and by him and others endow'd with divers Lands in Lincolnshire Iohn Dalderby Bishop of Lincoln by his Deed dated at Buchden An. Dom. 1303. granted License to the Schollers of the Convent of Sempringham Studying Divinity or Philosophy in St. Peter's Parish in Stamford to have a Chaplain to celebrate in their private Chappel there saving the Rights of the Parish-Church of St. Peter there Robert Lutterel Rector of Irnham gave for the maintenance of the said Schollers so studdying at Stamford as aforesaid the House where they inhabited with divers Lands and Tenements in Keten Cotismore and Casterton in Rutland Vid. Vol. 3. p. 107. Valued at 317 l. 4 s. 1 d. per Annum HAVERHOLME in Lincolnshire FOunded by Alexander Bishop of Lincoln and by him endowed with the Isle then called Hasreholm An. Dom 1139. Valued at 70 l. 15 s. 10 d. ob per Annum CHIKESAND in Bedfordshire PAganus de Bellocampo and Rohaisa his Wife gave many Lands to this House King Edward the II in the tenth year of his Reign granted his License to Iohn Blundel to give the Mannor of Chikesonde with its appurtenances to the Prior and Convent of this House Valued at 212 l. 3 s. 5 d. ob per Annum BOLINGTON in Lincolnshire FOunded by Simon Fitz William in his Park of Bolyngton and by him endowed with part of his said Park and divers other Lands in pure and perpetual Alms. William de Kima confirm'd to the Prior and Convent of both Sexes at Bolyngton all their Lands and Revenues A. D. 1256. Robert Putrel of Cotes being received into the Fraternity of this House gave them at the sametime the Church of Houtun and Advowson of the same The Crevequers or Creukers Barons of Redburn were Benefactors to this Priory giving divers Lands in pure and perpetual Alms. Valued at 158 l. 7 s. 11 d. per Annum A CANNON REGVLAR OF St. GILBERT Vol. 2. P. 791 WATTON in Yorkshire FOunded by Eustachius Son of Iohn and Agnes his Wife for Nuns and thirteen Canons to serve and provide for them according to the Institution of the Order of Sempringham To whom he gave the Town of Watton c. Confirm'd by William Fossard Lord of the Fee and by Henry Archbishop of York Confirm'd also by Roger de Lasci Constable of Chester descended from the said Eustachius King Iohn also gave them Lands in the first year of his Reign Eustachius the Founder married for his first Wife a Daughter and Heir of Ivo de Vescy from which match descended several of the Vescys and for his second Wife Agnes Daughter of William Constable of Chester Valued at 360 l. 16 s. 10 d. ob per Annum ALVINGHAM in Lincolnshire PEter de Melsa and Beatrix his Wife gave to the Church of St. Mary of Alvingham and to the Nuns and

Possessions of the said Hospital to enter and distrain and the distress to detain till his said Annuity and the Arrearages and his Expences be fully satisfied This Decree was made by consent and approbation of both Parties and bears date in the Archbishops Inn at Westminster now Whitehally An. Dom. 1485. Approved ratified and confirm'd by the Dean and Chapter of York and by the Master Brothers and Sisters of the said Hospital in the same year Pag. 381. RIPPON IT was found by Inquisition taken at Rippon 10 E. 2. that in the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen there according to the Foundation there ought to be two Chaplains daily celebrating that Strangers poor Clerks or other indigent People coming to the said Hospital in their travells ought to be lodged there one night and entertain'd with Victuals and Bed and in the Morning depart and that on St. Mary Magdalen's day yearly ought to be distributed in Alms to every poor Body that comes one Loaf of the value of a half-penny the quarter of Wheat being prized at 5 s. But they find that then Costos of this Hospital had perverted the Founders Charity in several particulars Pag. 461. WELLE RAlph de Neville Knt. Lord of Midleham by Indenture dated A. 1342 Founded the Hospital at Welle in the Archdeaconry of Richmond for the Augmentation of Divine Worship and for the sustentation of poor and miserable People and other Works of Piety and endow'd the same with Lands and Revenue and establisht therein one Master two Priests and four and twenty poor and infirm People And appointed that the Master and two Priests should constantly observe and keep the Canonical hours and celebrate three Masses daily KYPIER Hospital in the County Palatine of Durham FOunded by Ranulphus Bishop of Durham An. 1112. to the honour of God and St. Giles for the Relief of the Clergy there serving and for the sustentation of poor People who also endowed it with divers Lands and Revenues confirm'd and augmented by Hugh Bishop of Durham and other Benefactors The said Bishop Hugh granted to this Hospital Common of Pasture in his Forrest with certain Priviledges viz. that the feet of their Dogs should not be cut or clipt but that the Shepherds might lead them in slips ligatos for the safety of their Cattle from wild Beasts and Wolves An. 1297. A Composition was made between the Prior and Convent of Durham and the Hospital of St. Giles whereby the said Prior and Convent did quit-claim to the Brothers of that Hospital their Tithes of Corn at Clifton which till that time they had used to pay to the Church of St. Oswald in recompence whereof the Brothers of the said Hospital were to pay yearly upon the Altar of St. Oswald on the day of that Saint one Bisantium or 2 s. c. The Men of Bedelyngtonshire being obliged by their Lords the Bishops of Durham to give to the Hospital of St. Giles without Durham one Thrave of Corn out of every Plow-land which they held they granted under their Seals in lieu thereof 9 s. in mony to be paid to the said Hospital at the Feast of St. Michael with a Nomine paenae Valued at 167 l. 2 s. 11 d. per Annum STOKE Hospital near Newarke in Nottinghamshire JOhn Chauson Master of the Hospital of St Leonard's at Stoke and others Confraters of the same settled by their Deed oated in the year 1332. forty Acres of Land and thirty shillings of Rent which they had obtain'd of Friends for the profit of the said Hospital and provided that the Master of the same should cause sixty Masses to be celebrated yearly for ever for the said Benefactors c. To this every Master is to be sworn at his admission This Deed was ratified and confirm'd the same year by William Archbishop of York St. GILES Hospital near Maldon in Essex IT was found by Inquisition taken before Helming Leget Escheator in the County of Essex that the Kings of England were Founders of this Hospital for the support of Leprous Burgesses of Maldon that they had the Forfeitures of all Bread Ale Flesh and Fish that was not good and wholesome in the said Town and that when the Master of that Hospital should cease to take the same for the support as aforesaid then the said Hospital should come and revert to the King as forfeited that Robert Manfeild Clerk late Provost of Beverley being made Custos of this Hospital for above three years past has maintained neither Chaplain nor any Leprous Person in the same and that the said Hospital was therefore seized into the King's hands But King Henry the IV. being advised by his Justices and Serjeants at Law that this was no sufficient cause of seizure directed his writ to the said Escheator to amove his hand c. and meddle no further GINGES Hospital in Essex MIchael de Capra and Rose his Wife and William his Son and Heir gave to God and the Church of St. Mary and St. Leonard in their Wood of Ginges and to Toby Prior of the said Place and the Brothers of the same one Hide of Land Paunage for forty Hogs and divers other advantages BURCESTRE Hospital in Oxfordshire KING Edward the III. in the nine and twentieth year of his Reign licensed Nicholas Iordan Hermit Custos of the Chappel of St. Iohn Baptist of Burcestre to found an Hospital at Burcestre to the honour of God the glorious Virgin Mary and St. Iohn Baptist. Valued at 147 l. 2 s. 10 d. per Annum CALC Priory in Derbyshire MAtilda Countess of Chester gave to the Canons of this place an Estate at Rependone near Trent conditionally that they should make it the head Seat of their Convent to which Calc should be subject as a Member Hugh Earl of Chester confirm'd their Revenues ARUNDELL Hospital in Sussex KING Richard the II. An. 18. Licensed Richard Earl of Arundel to give four Messuages and two Tofts to the Master and Chaplains of the holy Trinity at Arundell for the founding of an Hospital call'd Meysondewe in honour of the holy Trinity c. Valued at 42 l. 3 s. 8 d. per Annum FOSS-GATE Hospital at York JOhn Archbishop of York Primate of England and Legate of the Apostolick See ordain'd and establisht in the Foss-gate-street at York an Hospital in honour of our Lord Jesus Christ and the blessed Virgin Mary That there be one Chaplain to have the Government of the same and to be named Master or Custos the right of presenting to the Office of Custos to belong to Mr. Iohn de Roucliff and his Heirs in their de●ault to the Mayor of York for the time being in his default to the Official of York Court and in his default that the Archbishop or Dean and Chapter may for that time confer the place without presentation the Custos on his admission to be sworn to a just and true Administration c. That there be constantly resident in the said Hospital thirteen poor and

call'd Mirmaude the Gift of Ralph de Hauvill are subject to the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Ely as their Diocesan notwithstanding their Priviledges Pag. 825. ELLERTON GIlbert the II. Master of the Order of Sempringham and Iohn Prior and the Convent of Ellerton obliged themselves to the maintenance of thirteen poor People in the Hospital of the Church of Ellerton founded by William Fitz Peter Pag. 514. St. John of Jerusalem in the Suburbs of London KING Philip and Queen Mary by their Letters Patents and Cardinal Pole Legate a Latere restored and establisht the Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England to its Pristine Estate and the Priory and Hospital of St. Iohn of Clerkenwell lately dissolved and constituted Sir Thomas Tresham Knt. Prior of the same Richard Shelley Peter Felices Cuthbert Laithen Edward Brown Thomas Thornell Henry Gerard George Aylmer Iames Shelley and Oliver Starkey Commendators or Preceptors of the said Hospital whom the said King and Queen incorporated by the name of Prior and Confraters of the Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England to have perpetual Succession and by that name to sue and be sued to purchase and take Lands c. and to have a Common Seal and gave them all that Capital House and Scite of the said Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem scituate and being near Clerkenwell in Middlesex with the Church and all Houses and Buildings Gardens and Orchards c. thereunto belonging also all that Wood and Wood-ground call'd Greete St. Iohn's Wood lying near Maribone-Park in Middlesex and all other Lands and Tenements whatsoever that were in the Possession of the Prior and Confraters of the said Hospital at the time of the Dissolution of the same and all Goods and Furniture belonging to the said House c. Which Letters Pattents bear date at Grenewiche April the 2 d. in the fourth and fifth year of their Reign Pag. 247. BUTLEY KING Henry the VII in the four and twentieth year of his Reign granted to Robert Brommer Prior of the Monastery of Butley and the Convent of the same the Priory of the blessed Mary of Snape in Suffolk with all Lands and Revenues thereunto belonging or which Thomas Neylond late Prior of the said Priory enjoy'd in right of the same to hold in pure and perpetual Alms without Account or any Rent and to be annext to the said Priory of Butley NEWINTON-LONGVILLE an alian Priory in Buckinghamshire THIS was a Cell to the Abby of St. Faith at Longville in Normandy to which Walter Gifford Earl of Buckingham gave and confirm'd divers Lands and Revenues with great Priviledges in his Forrest of Waddon free and discharged of all Exactions c. CATHEDRAL CHURCHES Of Canons Secular CHICHISTER Cathedral in Sussex ANno Dom. 673. Ceadwalla King of the South-Saxons at the Request of Bishop Wilfrid gave divers Lands for the Building and Endowment of a Monastery at Selesey Brnny of Sussex Northelmus King of Sussex An. 692. Numa King of Sussex An. 714. Oslac Duke of Sussex An. 780. were Benefactors to this Religious House of Selesey Abbot Pleghaard having transferr'd certain Revenues in Deaton to the Episcopal Church at Selesey which Revenues he had of the Gift of King Offa they were fixt and establisht to the said Church in a Synod held at Clobeham An. 825. King Athelstan gave Lands to the said Church An. 930. the like did King Edmund King Eadwyn King Ethelred and Ethelbert William gave Lands and Liberties to the Church of Chichister the See being then translated thither the like did King Henry the I. and King Steven which last gave and confirm'd to the Church of the holy Trinity at Chichester and to Hillary Bishop of the same divers Lands and Franchises some of which Lands the said Bishop and his Successors were to hold by being Chaplains to Maud his Queen and her Successors William Earl of Chichister gave to this Church among other things the fourth part of the City King Iohn confirm'd to this Church all the Lands c. and Liberties which they then had or should have The like did King Henry the III. to Ralph the II. Bishop of Chichester his Chancellor The Prior and Convent of St. Bartholmew's at London granted to the Bishops of this See certain Houses in the Parish of St. Sepulchers without Newgate to hold by the yearly Rent of one pound of Frankincense or six-pence at the Feast of St. Michael Ranulphus Bishop of Chichister who writes himself the humble Minister of the Church of Chichister caused to be provided for the Mannors of that Bishoprick a stock or store of Cattel viz. two hundred and fifty two Oxen one hundred Crows ten Bulls three thousand one hundred and fifty Seep Bidentia one hundred and twenty she Goats and fix he Goats and ten Plow-horses which Stock he ordered to be continued by all his Successors under censure of Excommunication and to be Anathema Maranatha Confirm'd and ratified by King Henry the III. Iohn Earl of Eu restored to this Church by Deed dated An. 1248. the Mannor of Bixle which his Grandfather and Father had unjustly taken and a long time detain'd from it St. PETERS Cathedral at York A CANNON SECVLAR Vol. 3. P. 115. William King of Scotland certified to Pope Alexander that the Church of Scotland was of old times subject to the Church of York and desired that by his Authority it may be made so again Pope Honorius writ to the King of Norway to restore to Ralf Bishop of the Orcades consecrated by and Subject to the Jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York the Possessions belonging to the said Bishoprick Olaus King of the Isles writ to the Archbishop of York at the recommendation of the Abbot of Furnes to obtain from him the Consecration of a Bishop to propagate the Christian Religion in the Isles Pope Calixtus writ to the Bishop of Glascow commanding him to submit himself to the Jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York within thrirty days after the receit of his Letters Pope Honorius writ to the Bishop elect of Galloway Candida casa to repair to the Archbishop of York as his proper Metropolitan for Consecration c. Pope Paschal writ to all the Bishops of Scotland to submit to York as their Metropolitan the like did Calixtus and Innocent which last writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury his Legate to denounce the Bishop of Glascow excommunicate unless he submits himself to the Archbishop of York within three Months after admonition Pope Honorius writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury and all the Bishops of England and to King Henry that the Archbishop of York may according to antient Custome be permitted to have his Cross born before him in all parts of England and to Crown the King in such manner as has been used The Bishop of Galloway made a formal Act of Subjection and Canonical Obedience to this Archbishop in like manner as did Durham and Carlile Roger de Mowbray Peter de Ros William

Shops in the Pari●h of St. Mary Magdalen Old Fish-street London to the Prioress and Convent of Nun-Eaton in exchange for the Advowson of the Church of St. George of Sudbury with Power to the said Bishop and his Brother to found in the said Chaurch a Colledge to consist of certain Chapplains of which one to be Custos or Warden King Richard the II. in the third and seventh years of his Reign granted to this Simon then Archbishop of Canterbury and Iohn de Chertsey License to endow the same with certain Mannors and Lands Valued at 122 l. 18 s. 3 d. per Annum ASTELEY in Warwickshire SIR Thomas de Asteley Knt. founded and endowed a Chantry in St. Mary's Chappel in the Church of Asteley for one Warden and three other Priests and afterwards supplicated Roger Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield that it might be made a Colledge to consist of a Dean and two Secular Canons Priests and it was accordingly so made by the said Bishop and several Orders establisht viz that the Dean be sworn to a a Personal Residence in the same that he have for his Habitation the Rectory-house of Asteley that he distribute to the poor 10 s. yearly that the Dean find and present to the Diocesan a perpetual Vicar to officiate in the said Church and that he pay him the Sum of five Marks per Annum quarterly that he find also a Parish Chaplain and a fitting Clark that he celebrate in Person on the greater Feasts and provide Lighrs c. that he pay the Procurations and Sinodals of the said Church of Astely and bear all other Charges except Books and Vestments that every Canon find a Vicar presentable to whom he is to pay five marks yearly and one other Priest also unless he be willing to reside himself and celebrate Mass dayly in Person that the Dean and Chapter have a common Seal under the the Custody of the Dean and three Vicars c. Which orders were ratifyed under the several Seals of the said Bishop and Thomas the founder An. Dom. 1343. Valued at 39 l. 10 s. 6 d. per Annum COTHERSTOKE in Northamptonshire KIng Edward III. in the twelfth year of his Reign granted his Licence to Iohn Giffard Clerk to give and assign the Mannour of Cotherstoke and divers other Revenues to a Praeposit and twelve Chaplains secular or Religious for the maintenance of them and two Clerks daily celebrating in the said Church to hold in free pure and perpetual Almes discharged and quit of all secular exactions HEMMINGBURGH in Yorkshire KIng Edward III. granted his Licence to the Prior and Convent of Durham to appropriate the Church of Hemmingburgh of which they had the Advowson to their own proper use for ever 〈◊〉 coudition that they find a Monk or secular Chaplain to celebrate daily in the Church of Durham in a place there call'd the Galeley for the Soul of King Edward I. and his Ancestors and two other Monks or secular Chaplains to celebrate daily one at the Altar of St. Cuthbert there and one in this Church of Hemmingburgh with a certain number of Waxlights and that they observe the Anniversary of K. Edw. III. in the Qure of their Church yearly and on that day distribute to one thousand poor People 1 d. a peice But this never taking effect by reason they could not obtain the Popes Licence and Confirmation for the said appropriation King Henry VI. in the fifth year of his Reign granted his Licence to the said Prior and Convent of Durham to erect in this Church of Hemmingburgh a Colledge to consist of one Praeposit three Prebendary-Canons six Vicars and six Clerks with other Ministers to celebrate and observe the Anniversary abovemention'd the said King in the Charter of Licence incorporating the said Colle●ge by the name of the Praeposit or Custos Prebendaries Vicars and Clerks of the Collegiate Church or Colledge of the Blessed Mary of Hemmingburgh Valued at 36 l. 0 s. 7 d. per Annum BRUSEYARD in Suffolk FOunded by Matilda de Lancaster late Countess of Vlster but at that time a Nun in the Collegiate Church of Nuns of Campess for five Chaplains for whose Government William Bishop of Norwich made in the year 1354. the following Orders viz. that the said five Priests sleep all in the same Dormitory and eat together in the same Refectory that one of the five be Custos or Master that their habit be all alike and agreeable to the Canons that they observe the Salisbury use in the Divine Offices That they choose one of them for Treasurer whose Office is to take care of all matters relating to the Chappel That the Custos be chosen by majority of voices and in case he be not chosen in four months time then the Election to be in the Bishop that turn that the Custos being elected is to obtain the Prioress of Campesses Letters of Presentation to the Bishop who is thereupon to confirm him in the Office that there be a Chest with three different Keys in which the Common-Seal and Accounts are to be kept c. ABERGWILLY in the Diocess of St. Davids HFnry Bishop of St. Davids in the year 1331. with the consent of the Chapter of this Collegiate Church of Abergwilly made and created three Dignities in the same viz. the Precentor Chancellor and Treasurer and appointed certain Prebends to belong particularly to the said Offices c. Valued at 42 l. per Annum ARUNDELL in Sussex KIng Richard II. in the third year of his Reign granted his Licence to Richard Earl of Arundell and Surrey to found a Chantry or Colledge in the Parish Church of St. Nicholas at Arundell without the Walls of the Castle there which was at that time a Priory of Monks of the Order of St. Benedict sometimes belonging and Subject to the Abby of Sees in France and which seldom or never had in it more then one Prior and three or at most four Monks with Licence to the said Prior and Monks to grant and alienate their Priory and all their Lands c. to the same belonging to the said Earl and he to confer the same on thirteen secular Chaplains of which one to be cheif and call'd Master therein to be establi●ht c. Valued at 168 l. 7 d. ob per Annum St. MICHAELS in Crooked Lane London THere having been several particular Chantries in this Church founded and endow'd with divers Rents by several Citizens of London which were by course of time Impoverisht William de Walworth Citizen and Merchant of London supplicated King Richard II. that with the Rents belonging to the said Chantries and other Revenues of his own augmentation he might found there a Colledge of one Master and nine Chaplains to celebrate for ever for that King the said William Margeret his Wife and Iohn Lovekyn his late Master c. Which King did in the fourth year of his Reign grant his Licence to the said William out of the special Affection

be fourscore foot in length c. A Porch on the South side twelve foot in length another Porch on the South-side adjoyning to the Cloyster and in the West-end of the said Body a Steeple fourscore foot in higth from the Ground Table Stone twenty foot square within the Walls and the Walls six foot thick the Duke to find Carriage and Stuff for which well and duly to be made the said Horwode to have 300 l. Sterling which Indenture bears date 13 H. 6. Valued at 19 l. 11 s. 10 d. ob per Annum STOKE-CLARE in Suffolk THIS being formerly a Priory of Benedictines was by Edmund Earl of March by whose Ancestors it was founded changed into a Collegiate Church of a Dean and Secular Canons which change was ratified by the Papal Authority of Iohn the XXIII and Martin V. Thomas Barneslay Dean of the Collegiate Church of Stoke juxta Clare by the Authority and Command of Edmund Mortimer Earl of March and Vlster and Lord of Wigmore and Clare first Founder and Patron of the said Colledge made several Statutes and Ordinances for Government of the same viz. That there be always one Dean and six Secular Canons that every Canon reside full two and thirty weeks in the year or otherwise he shall receive but 40 s. for his Prebend that year in which he has not so resided that neither the Dean nor any Canon lie in Bed in the Morning longer than six a Clock or half an hour past that there be in the said Colledge eight Vicars sworn to continual Residence and two greater Clerks also five Chorists or honest Boys to sing and serve in the Quire that the Chorists have five Marks per Annum each that there be two in●eriour Clerks who are to take care of the Vestry and ringing the Bells that they ring to Mattins at five and go at six to high Mass at eleven and that they ring to Vespers so that they may be ended about five in the Afternoon That no Canon who cannot spend 40 l. per Annum and no Vicar nor Clerk shall use hunting nor any of them keep any Hounds in the Colledge except the Dean who may keep four that no Canon or Clerk shall wear any Arms in the said Colledge under the penalty of forseiting the said Arms for the first offence and of twenty shillings for the second that none of the Canons Vicars or Clerks shall be married or suspected of having any scandalous communication with Women That if any one be convicted of Heresie or Sodomy or Magick he shall be expell'd that no Canon Vicar or Clerk shall go abroad alone but with a Companion That they shall all duly and honestly pay their Debts to their Creditors That there be a Porter of the said Colledge who shall shut the Gate at Coverfeu time and admit none after that time That one of the Vicars be appointed by the Dean to be Precentor for the Government of the Quire in singing and Ceremonies c. who is to receive on that account 20 s. per Annum That the Colledge have a Common Seal to be kept with their Evidences and Jewells in a common Chest under three different Keys one of which to be kept by the Dean the other two by the two Senior Canons That there be no precedency among the Vicars at the Table but that they sit as they come but in the Choire according to Seniority That all the Vicars eat together in the Common Hall and that at Meal time some part of the Bible be always read to them That every Vicar have liberty eight weeks in the year and every Clerk six to visit their friends and recreate themselves that nothing shall be sealed with the Common Seal unless it be first Registred in a Book to be kept for that purpose That every Dean within a year after his instalment give to the Colledge one Cope of the value of 5 l. and make a Feast for the Canons c. or pay for it 40 s. That upon vacancy of the Deanery the Patron of the Colledge present to the Bishop a Graduate in some University at least Master in Arts or Batchelour in Law to be instituted Dean which Statutes and Orders bear date in the year 1422. Valued at 324 l. 4 s. 1 d. ob per Annum NORTH-CADBURY in Somersetshire KING Henry the V. in the fourth year of his Reign granted his License to Elizabeth Widow of William Botreaux the elder Chivalier to found this Colledge for seven Chaplains of which one to the chief to have the Cure of Souls there and to be call'd Rector of the Colledge of St. Michael of North-Cadbury and for four Clerks with Licence to the said Elizabeth and William Botreaux the yonger to appropriate the Church of North-Cadbury thereunto and endow the same with divers Lands c. MANCHESTER in Lancashire KIng Henry V. in the ninth year of his Reign granted his Licence in consideration of two hundred marks paid in the Hanaper to Thomas Bishop of Durham and other Feoffees of Thomas la Warre Clerk to erect the Church of Manchester into a Collegiate Church and to establish therein a Master or Custos with as many fellow Chaplains and other Ministers as they should think fit whom he incorporated c. HIGHAM-FERRERS in Northamptonshire IN the 10 Henry V. that King granted his Licence to Henry Chichley Arch bis●op of Canterbury to found a Colledge at Higham-Ferrers the Place of his Nativity for eight Chaplains of which one to be Master and four Clerks one of which Chaplains or Clerks to teach Grammar and another Song and for six Chori●●ers whom the said King incorporated by the Name of the Master and Colledge of the B●essed Virgn Mary St. Thomas of Canterbury and St. Edward the Cons●ssor of Higham-Ferrers and granted Licence to endow the same with Lands c. Valued at 156 l. 2 s. 7 d. per Annum St. MICHAEL Pater noster Chirche or Whitington Colledge in London HEnry Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 1424. granted his Licence to Iohn Coventre Iohn Carpenter and William Grove Executors of Richard Whitington late Citizen and Mercer and several times Mayor of London to erect a Colledge pursuant to the Will of the said Richard in the Parish Church of St. Michael call'd Pater noster Chirche in the Riol in London for five or six Chaplains and other Clerks and Ministers and an Almes-House of thirteen poor People and to make orders for the Government of the same And accordingly the said Executors did found such a Colledge in honour of the Holy Ghost the Blessed Virgin Mary St. Michael and All Saints and made divers Orders touching the said Foundation as that there shall be five Chaplains not elswhere beneficed one of which to be Master two Clerks besides the Parish Clerk and four Choristers appointing the first Chaplains to be William Brooke Iohn Whyte Nicholas Gaytone Richard Olyue and Gregory King and that William Brooke at that time Rector of the