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A Catalogue of the principall benefactors to the Church.
SOme, it is well knowne, have written whole Bookes of the foundations, gifts, donations, and endowments of Churches, Colledges, and the like. Witnesse (amongst the rest) for the parts of Germany chiefely, the Codex dona∣tionum written by Miraeus. And all this to very good ends, namely to preserve the honour and memory of such pious and devout benefactors, and to commend the worthy ex∣ample of their zeale and piety to the imitation both of the present and future ages, at home and abroad. And for the very same purpose have I pitched upon the ensuing Cata∣logue, containing the goodly company of pious benefa∣ctors to the Church of Canterbury, with a briefe memoriall of their severall gifts, as I finde them there upon Record.
Donationes Maneriorum & Ecclesiarum ecclesiae Christi Cantuarie••. & nomina donantium, unà cum privilegiis & libertat' eid. eccles. concessis.
EThelbertus Rex, Anno regni sui xxxv. ad fidem Christi per sanct. Augustinum conversus, statim Palatium suum eidem Augustino & successoribus suis infra Civitatem Doroberniam perpetuè dedit, ut ibi sedem Metropolitanam in evum haberent , quam beatus Gregorius primam totius regni esse decrevit & con∣firmavit, ut sicut prima fuit fidem suscipiendo, prima ess••t in dignitate. Hoc donum fecit rex Anno Domini. Dxcvii.
Ethelbaldus filius Ethelberti dedit monachis ejusdem ecclesiae manerium de Adesham ad cibum, Anno Domini Dcxvi. cum campis, siluis, pascuis & omnibus aliis ad villam illam rite perti∣nentibus, liber ab omnibus secularibus servitiis, & fiscali tri∣buto, exceptis istis tribus consuetudinibus, expeditione, Pontis Arcisve constructione. i. communi labore de quo nullus excipie∣batur.