[ 44] COLCHESTER, in Essex.

KING Henry the I. gave to the Church of St. Iulian, and St. Botolph of Colchester, and to the Canons there the Tithes of all his Demesnes in Hetfeld, with divers Lands in and about Colchester; confirming to them other Lands which they had of the Gift of Hugh Fitz-Stephen to hold in Serjeancy by the finding of one Horse of the price of five shillings, and one Sack and one Prick, at the King's charges when he makes War against [ 45] the Welch for forty days. Pope Paschall the II. by his Bull dated A D. 1116. granted to the Canons of this House, that as they were the first of this Order in England, so they should be the first in Dignity, and exempted them from all Secular or Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction other than that only of [ 46] the See of Rome, and finally that they should choose their own Superior, but present him when chosen to the Bishop of London to be Consecrated.

[Valued at 523 l. 17 s. per Annum.]