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. (Book 2)

Vol. II. (Book 2)

Of the Order of St. AUGUSTIN. (Book 2)

DOVER, in Kent.

[ 1] JVlius Caesar having Conquer'd Britain (now call'd Eng∣land) forty seven years before the Birth of Christ, built a Tower at Dover where the Castle now stands. In the year of Grace 180, King Lucius then reigning in Britain, became a Christian under Pope Elutherius, and among other Pious Deeds built a Church in the Castle of Dover. An. 469, King Arthur repair'd the said Castle, and built the Hall there call'd Arthur's-hall. After this the Saxons came out of Germany, Conquer'd Britany, beat the Britons into Wales, who afterwards were call'd Welchmen, and the Saxons Englishmen, and being Pagans, demolis••t Churches, and supprest Christianity throughout the Land. An. 586. Pope Gregory sent St. Augustin the Monk with others in∣to England, who converted to Christ the King then reigning in Kent, named Adelbert, whose Son and Successor Adelbold placed twenty four Secular Canons in the said Castle to serve in his Chappel there. An. 686, Withred King of Kent built the Church of St. Martin, in the Town of Dover, and removed the said Canons thither, from the Castle; here they remain'd 400 years after. He built also three other Churches for the use of the Parishoners, which were however Chappels subordinate to St. Martins. [ 2] But these Canons being very licentious by reason of their great Priviledges and Exemptions from the ordinary Jurisdiction. King Henry the I. in 1130. did give the said Church of St. Martin to the Archbishop of Canterbury and his Successors, and tho' William Corboil then Archbishop, built the New Minster, and design'd to have made it an Abby of Canons of St. Augustin, yet after his death Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury, in the [ 4] Reign of Henry the II. put Monks of St. Bennet therein. The said King Henry the II. by his Charter subjecting the Government of this House to the Archbishop of Cantebury intirely, and that no other Order but that of St. Bennet should be herein. King Edward the III. in the thirtieth year of his Reign did unite and annex this House to the Priory of Christ-Church in Canterbury for ever, so that none for the future should be Prior here, but a Monk of Canterbury.

[Valued at the Suppression at 170 l. 14 s. 11 d. ob. per Annum.]

[ 5] BODMYN, in Cornwall.

KING Henry the III in the seven and fiftieth year of his Reign con∣firm'd to the Prior and Canons of Bodmine, the Mannor of Newton, in the County of Devon, formerly given them by King Eadred, with Ex∣emption from suit to the County of Devon and Hundred of Shefbury, &c.

[Valued at 270 l. o s. 11 d. per Annum.]

St. GERMAINS, in Cornwall.

IT was found by Inquisition in the thirtieth of Edw. the III. That King Canute endow'd this Church, and that here was then a Bishops Seat for Cornwall, which was after united to Cryditon, and in the Reign of Edward the Confessor, removed from thence to Exeter; and that soon after, Leo∣fricus then Bishop of Exeter did remove from hence the Secular Canons, and did found here a Priory of Canons Regular, and that hereupon the Bishops of Exeter for the time being became Patrons of this Priory, and enjoy'd the Profits of the Vacations of the said Priory when they hap∣pened.

[Valued at 243 l. 8 s. per Annum.]

[ 6] PLIMTON, in Devonshire.

HERE was formerly a Colledge consisting of a Dean and four Pre∣bendaries, founded by some of the Saxon Kings, which Canons or Prebendaries were displaced by Wil. Warwist Bishop of Exeter, because they [ 7] would not leave their Concubines, and a Priory of Canons Regul••••, erected here, which Priory was founded in the Mansion-house of the Rectory of the [ 8] said Church of Plimpton, and the said Foundation confirm'd by King Hen. [ 9] the I. who also granted and confirm'd to the Canons there, divers Lands, Liberties, and Immunities. Among other Benefactors to this Priory, King Edgar gave them divers Lands for the Maintenance of two Canons, ad divina ibidem celebranda, & pro peregrinis & aliis hospitandis.—After∣wards [ 10] King Edward the I. granted to the said Canons, that for the future they might appoint and place in the Church of Landoho, where the said Revenue did arise, a Secular Vicar and Chaplain to celebrate there, and to perform the said Alms and Hospitality, nomine dictorum Prioris & Canonicorum.

[Valued at 912 l. 12 s. 8 d. ob. per Annum.]

[ 11] WALTHAM, in Essex.

THIS Monastery was built to the praise of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the holy Cross, by Earl Harold (afterwards King) who en∣dow'd the same with divers Lands and Goods. All which were con∣firm'd, with the Grant of great Liberties, by King Edward the Confestor, An. Dom. 1062. Which Harold being slain in Battle, by William the Con∣queror,

was buried in this Abby-Church. An. Dom. 1177. The Secular [ 13] Canons here were removed and Canons Regular placed in their room, by King Henry the II. who confirm'd their Estate and Liberties, and ordain'd [ 14] that in the said Abby, no Kinsman of the Abbot should be made Steward or other Officer, nor any Officer to hold his place by Inheritance, but re∣movable at the Will of the Abbot and Canons. The like Confirmation [ 15] was made by King Richard. [ 16]

[Valued at 900 l. 4 s. 3 d. per Annum.]

PENTNEY, in Norfolk. [ 19]

FOunded to the honour of God, the glorious Virgin Mary, and the blessed Mary Magdalen, by Robert de Vauz, and by him endow'd with divers Lands and Churches. This Robert came into England with the Conqueror, from whom descended by an Heir General the Lords Roos [ 20] who became thereupon Patrons of this Priory.

[Valued at 170 l. 4 s. 9 d. per Annum.]

WALSINGHAM, in Norfolk.

GAlfridus de Favarches endowed a Chappel here, which his Mother had founded in honour of the perpetual Virgin Mary, with divers Re∣venues; confirm'd by Robert Brucutt, and Roger Earl of Clare. The Chap∣pel [ 21] here was first begun in the Reign of Edward the Confessor, but the Canons introduced in the time of William the Conqueror. Here was a [ 22] perpetual Chantry establisht for the Souls of Thomas de Felton, &c. in the Chappel of St. Ann in the Priory, consisting of four Chaplains. 8. R. 2.

[Valued at 391 l. 11 s. 7 d. per Annum.]

THREMHALE, in Essex. [ 23]

GIlbert de Montefixo, or Munfichet, who was a Roman by birth, and Kinsman to the Conqueror, came into England in his Army, and having attained large Possessions here, gave Land in Thremhale for the building a Religious House with some small Possessions; and returning to [ 24] Italy, the place of his Nativity, lest issue Richard de Munfichet who gave to God and the Church of St. Iames the Apostle at Thremhale, divers Lands and Priviledges; from this Richard are descended by an Heir General the Veres Earls of Oxford, who became Benefactors to this House.

[Valued at 60 l. 18 s. 7 d. ob. per Annum.]

The Priory of Huntington.

EVstachius the Viscount, who also held the Barony of Lovetot, founded the Priory of St. Mary of Huntingdon, and endow'd it with divers [ 25] Lands, confirm'd by King Henry the I. In the Town of Huntingdon were in former time ••i••teen Parish-Churches, tho' at present there remains but [ 26]

four. David Bruce Earl of Huntingdon was buried in this Priory. Pope Eugenius confirm'd to the Canons here all their Lands and Priviledges, An. Dom. 1147. and so did King Henry the III. in the seven and thirtieth year of his Reign.

[Valued at 187 l. 13 s. 8 d. per Annum.]

[ 28] St. OSWALDS, near Gloucester.

FOunded by Ethelred Earl of Marches and Ethelfleda his Wife before the Conquest, for Prebendaries, who translated hither the Body of St. Oswald from Bardney. But soon after the Conquest, this Colledge being impropriated to the See of York that Archbishop changed the Prebendaries here to Canons Regular.

[Valued at 90 l. 10 s. 2 d. ob. per Annum.]

BARNEWELL, near Cambridge.

IN the time of William the Conqueror lived one Picot, a Norman, a Per∣son [ 29] of great Note, who was Viscount or Sheriff in this County, he had also a Barony here. Hugolin his Wife being much devoted to St. Giles, made a Vow in her sickness to erect a Monastery to that Saint, which Vow her Husband confirm'd; this was erected near the Castle in Cambridge, and six Canons Regular placed therein under the Rule of one Galfridus de Huntedon. But Picot and his Wife dying before their intended Charity was fully compleated, and Robert their Son being after their death accused of Treasonable Practices for which he fled the Kingdom, King Henry the I. seized upon his Barony, and gave it to a Paganus Peverelle, who finding this House fallen to decay, undertook to restore it, and increase the Canons to the number of thirty. To this end he obtained of the King a [ 30] peice of Ground lying without the Town of Cambridge, call'd Barnewell, of sweet and delicate Situation: here he built a very fair Church, and removed the said Canons hither with great Solemnity from the place of their first Foundation in Cambridge, Anno Dom. 1112. after they had con∣tinued there just twenty years. From this Paganus Peverell the Patronage of this Priory descended by an Heir General to the Peches An. Dom. 1284. Gilbert Peche gave the Patronage of this Monastery to King Edward, for ever. The abovesaid Paganus Peverell was Standard-bearer to Robert Son [ 32] of William the Conqueror in the holy Land. The Particulars of their Revenue was found by Inquisition 3 E. 1. which see in the Book at large. The foresaid Gilbert Peche, by his Deed dated 1256. granted to the Canons of this House liberty to choose their own Prior, but that upon the death of the Prior, one or two of the Canons should come to him, if in England, and acquaint him therewith, and desire his leave (as Patron) to proceed to a new Election, that thereupon they should proceed, and [ 33] having made their Election, they should present the Person elected to him, and require his consent, that during the time of Vacation, he, his Heirs, or Successors, should not commit any Wast on the Goods of the said Mona∣stery, nor have there more than one Servant with a Horse and a Boy.

[Valued at 256 l. 11 s. 10 d. per Annum.]

NOSTELL, in Yorkshire.

RObert de Laci founded the Church of St. Oswald at Nostell, and en∣dow'd the same with divers Lands and Revenues, for Canons Re∣gular, granting them free liberty to Elect their own Prior. King Henry [ 34] the I. recited and confirm'd the several Grants of their Benefactors; the like did King Henry the II. to this Priory, by the name of the Church of [ 36] the blessed Oswald the King and Martyr adjoyning to the Castle of Ponte∣fract, in a place called Nastle. In the year 1231. the Prior and Convent here leased their Estate at Canonthorp to William de Runeys, Knt. for his [ 38] Life, at the Rent of 13 s. 4 d. per Annum, the said William causing Divine Service to be celebrated at the Chappel there three days in every Week, viz. Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, with other Covenants.

[Valued at 492 l. 18 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

BREDON, in Leicestershire. [ 39]

RObert Earl of Nottingham gave to the Church and Canons of St. Oswald of Nostla, the Church of St. Mary, and St. Hardulf of Bredon with divers Lands and Revenues to the same appertaining. Whereupon this House became a Cell to that of Nostell immediately before treated of; yet by subsequent agreement between the Prior and Convent of Nostell, and [ 41] Walter, Advocate, or Patron of Bredon, the said Prior should upon a Va∣cancy at Bredon, choose two of the Canons there, or in case there should not be two fit Persons there then two of his own House, of which two the said Walter should choose one, and then the said Prior and Walter joyntly to present the party so chosen to the Diocesan, to be Prior of Bredon. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 41.

[Valued at 24 l. 10 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

ANother Cell to Nostell was Woodkirk (or Wodechurche) in Yorkshire, en∣dow'd for Canons by the Earls of Warren.

HYRST, in the Isle of Axholme, in Lincolnshire. [ 42]

THIS was a Cell belonging to Nostell, endow'd with Lands by Nigellus de Albani, and Roger de Moubray.

[Valued at 5 l. 10 s. 1 d. per Anunm.]

SCOKIRK, in Yorkshire.

Was another Cell to the foresaid Priory of Nostell. To which Gaufri∣dus [ 43] Fitz-Pagan and others gave Lands and Tithes. William de Archis granted to the Canons here half the Tithe of his Bread made in his House for ever in pure and perpetual Alms.

[Valued at 8 l. per Annum.]

[ 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.]

HAGHMON, in Shropshire.

[ 47]

THIS was founded in the year 1100. (1. H. 1.) by William Fitz-Allen. King Edward in the thirteenth year of his Reign confirmed to the Church of St. Iohn the Evangelist of Haghman, and to the Canons there, all their Lands and Revenues given by several Benefactors, among whom were some of the Welch Princes. Vide infra 933.

[Valued at 259 l. 13 s. 7 d. per Annum.]

[ 49] St. JAMES at Northampton.

FOunded and endowed by William Peverell. Confirm'd by King Henry the II. With the grant of divers Liberties.

[Valued at 175 l. 8 s. 2 d. ob. per Annum.]

[ 50] WIRKSOP, in Nottinghamshire.

FOunded and endowed by William de Lovetot, 3 Hen. 1. and dedicated to God and St. Cuthbert: Which Estate was confirm'd and encreased by his Heirs. Pope Alexander the III. by his Bull dated An. Dom. 1161. [ 53] confirm'd the Estate of the Canons here, and granted them divers Privi∣ledges, as to pay no Tithes for the Cattle and Lands in their own occu∣pation; to present Priests from among their own Brethren to the Bishop to be instituted to the Parish Churches which they hold, who shall be answerable to the Bishop for the Cure of the People, and to the Priory for the Profit of the Livings; to have a Caemitary free for the burial of such as desire to be buried with them, saving the Rights and Dues of the Parish Churches from whence the dead are brought; and to celebrate [ 54] the Divine Offices, privately, in the time of a general Interdict. Their Lands and Liberties were also confirm'd by King Hen. II. Vid. infra 937.

[Valued at 239 l. 10 s. 5 d. per Annum.]

FELLEY, in Nottinghamshire. [ 56]

THIS was a Cell belonging to Wyrksop (alias Radeford) given to that House by Radulphus de Annesley and Reinold his Son, An Dom. 1152. (2. H. 2.) In the year 1343. William Archbishop of York appropriated [ 57] the Church of Adingburgh to this Priory of Felley for the encrease of four Canons more, there being but five before, so that for the future there should be nine, of which one to be Prior, reserving out of the Fruits and Profits of the said Church a sufficient subsistance for a perpetual Vicar, [ 58] which Vicar was to be presented by the Prior and Canons of this Mona∣stery.

[Valued at 40 l. 19 s. 1 d. per Annum.]

LANTHONY, in Wales (after Translated to Gloucester.)

HERE was of old time a small Chappel of St. David, in a very so∣litary place, where a Knight called William, belonging to the Fa∣mily [ 59] of Hugh de Lacy, forsaking the World, led an Heremitical Life; whose [ 60] eminent Fame for Holiness drew to him one Ernisius Chaplain to Queen Maud, Wife of King Henry the I. who became his associate in his Devo∣tions and Austerity; this was An. Dom. 1103. under the Reign of King Henry the I. In the year 1108. they erected here a mean Church which was dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist, by the Bishop of that* 1.1 Diocess, and the Bishop of Hereford. Of these two Heremits Hugh de Lacy became a Pro∣tector and Benefactor. After some time, these two, through the Advice [ 61] and Approbation of Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury were willing to en∣crease their number and to alter their poor House from a Heremits Cell to be a Monastery, and they chose from all the Religious Orders then in being, that of the Canons Regular. A certain number of Canons were thereupon assembled from the Monasteries of Mereton, the holy Trinity at London, and Colchester, and establisht here at Lanthony, over whom the foresaid Ernisius was made Prior; the number of Canons being about that time forty, or more. And many their Benefactors besides Hugh de Lacy, who conferr'd on them more Revenues than they were willing to receive. Walter the Constable, being the chief Officer in the King's Court, and one [ 62] of the Greatest Men of the Kingdom, took on him a Religious Habit, and spent the remainder of his days in this House. On the death of Ernisius, Robert de Retun was chosen Prior, but he being afterwards made Bishop of Hereford, Robert de Braci was chosen to succeed him. After the death [ 63] of Henry the I. the Canons of this House were much afflicted and disturb'd in their Possessions here, whereupon Milo Earl of Hereford, the Kings Constable (and Son of that Walter who became a Religious man among the Canons) gave them a piece of Ground without the Walls of Gloucester for a new Seat, here they built a new Church, which in the year 1136. was solemnly dedicated by the Bishops of Worcester and Hereford, in honour of the blessed Mary, yet still this House retain'd the name of Lanthony. After this Robert de Braci died and was buried in the new Monastery at Gloucester, to whom succeeded William de Wycumb. And now it was, that [ 64] by Papal Authority the Church of St. Mary at Gloucester was confirm'd as

[ 65] a Cell to that of St. Iohn Baptist at Lanthony. However the Canons being better pleased with their new Habitation, which was much braver and richer than their old Seat in Wales, chose to inhabit at Gloucester, removing and spoiling what they had at Lanthony. They became also very licentious in their way of living. During this William their Prior falling into Troubles and Vexation as well with the Canons of his own House, as Roger Earl of Hereford the Patron, was forced to resign his Office; to [ 66] whom succeeded Clement the Sub-prior. This man reform'd the Abuses that were in the Monastery, especially as to the Church Service. From the aforenamed Milo Earl of Hereford, descended by an Heir General the Noble [ 67] Family of Bohuns Earl of Northampton, Hereford, and Essex, who by reason [ 68] thereof were Patrons of this Monastery. The first Founder, Hugh de Lacy, came into England with the Conqueror, but died without issue, and his [ 69] Inheritance went to his two Sisters, from whom are descended divers Noble Families, of which Descents see the Book at large. King Iohn in [ 71] the first year of his Reign recited and confirm'd to the Canons of Lantho∣ny the several Lands and Revenues given them by their Benefactors. The [ 72] like did King Edward the II. in his eighteenth year. King Edward the IV. in the one and twentieth year of his Reign gave the Priory of Lanthony and all the Lands, &c. belonging to the same, to Henry Deen, then Prior of the Priory of the blessed Mary of Lanthony at Gloucester, and to the Canons there to be consolidated and united thereunto for ever, providing that the Prior and Canons at Gloucester shall for the future maintain at Lanthony one Prior dative and removeable at will, with four Canons to celebrate [ 73] Masses and other Divine Offices there for ever, if not hindred by Rebels and Wars.

[Valued at 648 l. 19 s. 11 d. per Annum.]

CARLILE, in Cumberland.

KING Henry the I. gave the Churches of New-Castle upon Tyne, and Newbourne, to the Canons of St. Mary of Carlile. Besides that King, [ 74] the King of Scotland and many others were Benefactors, all whose Gifts were confirm'd by King Henry the II. And others given by King Edward the I. and II.

[Valued at 418 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

[ 75] DUNMOW, in Essex.

THE Church here was built in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary by Iuga Baynard Lady of little Dunmow, whose Son and Heir Golfridus Baynard by the assent of Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury placed Canons herein, An. Dom. 1106. The Estate here and that at Castle Baynard, in London, being forfeited by William Baynard (An. 1111.) was given by King Henry to Robert Grandson of Gilbert Earl of Clare, whose issue be∣came [ 76] Patrons of this House, till in the year 1216. Robert Fitz-Walter re∣fusing to consent to King Iohn's unlawful love to his Daughter Matilda the Fair, that King seized upon his Estate and Barony, and his Castle of Baynard at London; and Matilda, who was then here at Dunmow, not ad∣mitting

the Kings Suit, was poison'd in a mess of Broth. These things occasioned the Barons Wars, which after a while were again composed, and Robert Fitz-Walter restored to his Barony and the Kings Favour as formerly, An. 1268. Iohn Prior of this Church was suspended, and the Conventual Church interdicted, because his tenth was unpaid the space of four days, but Appeal being made, the Suspension was denied, and disowned.

Priors of DUNMOW.

• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ob. 1120.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ob. 1163.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ob. 1179.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ob. 1208.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ob. 1219.
• Willielmus, ob. 1221.
• Thomas, ob. 1238.
• Iohannes Pateford, ob. 1245.
• Hugo de Steveinheth, ob. 1246.
• Edmundus, ob. 1247.
• Galfridus, ob. 1248.
• Iohannes de Codham, ob. 1270.
• Hugo de Posslington Cessit, 1279.
• Richardus de Wicham.
• Stephanus de Noble, ob. 1312.
• Robertus.

10 August 1502. The Bells in the Steeple at Dunmow were consecrated; [ 77] the first in honour of St. Michael; the second in honour of St. Iohn Evan∣gelist; the third in honour of St. Iohn Baptist; the fourth in honour of the Assumption of the blessed Mary; the fifth in honour of the Holy Trinity and all Saints. [ 78]

Here was an ancient Custom continued till the dissolution of this Priory, that if any married man would come and take his Oath before the Prior and Convent, kneeling in the Church-yard upon two hard pointed Stones, [ 79] That he never repented of his marriage, nor had any brawls or contention with his Wife within a year and a day, nor ever made any nuptial Transgression in that time, then he was to have delivered to him with great Solemnity, a Gammon or Flitch of Bacon. The Records of the House mention three People that have performed this, Steven Samuel of Essex, 7 E. 4. Richard Wright of Norfolk, 23 H. 6. and Thomas le Fuller of Essex, 2 H. 8.

[Valued at 150 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

The Priory of the Holy Trinity, in London. [ 80]

THIS Church was founded by Richard Beumeys Bishop of London; and as it seems, then called Christ-Church, who placed herein ma∣ny Canons. Maud Wife of King Steven, David King of Scots, and many others gave Lands to this Priory. King Henry the I. gave to these Canons of the holy Trinity the Soke called Cnihtengild, and the Church of St. Bu∣tulph, [ 81] with Soc and Sac, Tol and Theam, &c. King Henry the III. in the eleventh of his Reign recited and confirm'd the several Lands and Re∣venues given to this Priory, in which Deed he mentions Queen Maud Wife of King Henry the I. to be the Foundress of this House.

TAUNTON, in Somersetshire.

[ 83] IT was found by Inquisition, An. 10. E. 2. that this Monastery was founded by William Gifford Bishop of Winchester, on a piece of Ground on the North-side of the Town of Taunton, without the East-Gate. A∣mong other of their Benefactors, was William de Monteacuto Earl of Salis∣bury, who granted to the Canons here, the Mannor and Hundred of Dul∣verton, cum pertin. to hold in Fee-farm, at the yearly Rent of 10 l. Which demise is dated in the Chapter of the Priory of Taunton, 11. E. 3.

[Valued at 286 l. 8 s. 10 d. per Annum]

[ 84] HASTINGS, in Sussex.

THIS Priory was erected here, by one Sir Walter Bricet a Knight, and dedicated to the holy Trinity. But by reason of the Inunda∣tion of the Sea the Canons were not able to remain here, whereupon Sir Iohn Pelham Knight, by License of King Henry the IV. founded for them another Church and Habitation at Warbilton, towards the Support of which the said King Henry the IV. in the fourteenth year of his Reign granted the Mannor of Withiam, then valued at 25 l. 5 s. 5 d. per Annum, for twenty years, which Estate was part of the Possessions of Morteyn an alien Priory, at that time ••eized into the King's hands by reason of his Wars with France.

[Valued at 51 l. 9 s. 5 d. ob. per Annum]

St. MARY-OVERIE, in Southwark.

FOunded by William Gifford Bishop of Winchester, who here instituted [ 85] Secular Canons, divers of the Family of the Earls of Warren, and of the Moubrays were Benefactors to his Priory. King Steven gave the Ca∣nons here (then Regulars) the tenth of his Farm of Southwark; Cicely [ 86] Countess of Hereford gave them her Lands at Ketebrok, confirm'd by King Iohn. Vid. infra, 940.

[Valued at 624 l: 6 s. 6 d. per Annum.]

BRISET, in Suffolk.

THIS Priory was sounded in time of Herbert Bishop of Norwich by Radulphus Fitz-Brian and Emme his Wife, to God, St. Mary, and the holy Confessor St. Leonard. Which Founders endow'd it with divers [ 87] Lands and Tithes, among which was the Tithes of Smithfield at London. From this Radulph Fitz-Bryan descended Almaricus Peche, who confirm'd [ 88] all his Ancestors Donations to this House. Walter Bishop of Norwich granted to this Almaric Peche to have a Chantery in his Chappel at Briset, but that the Chaplain at his first admittance should make Oath in presence of the Prior or his Procurator (inspectis sacrosanctis Evangeliis) that he would pay over all the Oblations which he should receive in the said Chappel,

to the Mother Church; and that he should not admit any Parishoner of the Mother Church to any Sacrament unless in imminent peril of death; and in sign of subjection to the Mother Church, that the said Almaric and all his Family should repair thither to the Great Mass on five days yearly, viz. Christmass day, Easter-day, Whitsunday, the Assumption of the glorious Virgin, and St. Leonards-day.

CIRENCESTER, in Gloucestershire. [ 89]

KING Henry the I. founded this Priory, by the Consent and Autho∣thority of Pope Innocent;* 1.2 and by the Council and common Ap∣plause of the Archbishops and Bishops, Princes and Barons of the King∣dom, endowed it with divers Lands and Revenues, as well in the Town of Cirencester and County of Gloucester, as in Wiltshire, Somersetshire, Dor∣setshire, Oxfordshire, and Northamptonshire, also with the Liberties of Soc and Sac, Toll and Theam, &c. Whose Royal Grant bears date A. D. 1133. [ 90] King Iohn was also a Benefactor to this House.* 1.3

[Valued at 1051 l. 7 s. 1 d. per Annum.]

HEXHAM, or Hagustald in Northumberland.

THIS Town situate on the South Banks of Tine, was of old time magnificent and great, and made a Bishops Seat by the blessed Wilfrid in the year 674. and so it continued for above one hundred and [ 91] forty four years under the Government of twelve Bishops successive∣ly,* 1.4 viz. 1. Wilfridus, 2. Eata, 3. Tunbertus, 4. Iohn, 5. St. Acca, 6 Fred∣bertus, 7. St. Alcmundus, 8. Tilbertus, 9. Ethelbertus, 10. Eadfredus, 11. Osbertus, 12. Tydferdus, after which it ceased to be govern'd by a Bi∣shop of its own. The Bishop of Durham exercising Ecclesiastical Juris∣diction here, till in the Reign of King Henry the 1. it was given to the See of Tork. In the year 1113. Thomas then 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 [ 92] 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 [ 89] by him afterwards removed from thence to Stodley,* 1.5 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 Canti∣lupo, William Comin, and others were Benefactors.

[Valued at 117 l. 1 s. 1 d. ob. per Annum.]

[ 90] LAUND, in Leicestershire.

THE Priory here was founded by Richard Basset and Matildis Ridel his Wife,* 1.6 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 seve∣ral Churches, in the Neighbourhood, among others with the Church of [ 91] 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.

[ 92] 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 [ 94] of Vilers, all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Henry the II. [ 95] 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.

[ 96] THIS Priory dedicated to St. Nicholas, was founded and endowed with divers Lands and Liberties by William Paganell. By Inden∣ture [ 97] 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 Oun∣fravile late Husband of Maud Countess of Northumberland.

[Valued at 104 l. 14 s. 9 d. per Annum.]

[ 98] 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 Char∣ter 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.]

[ 100] 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 [ 101] translated from hence to Bolton, which Alice de Rumelli gave them in ex∣change for other Lands of theirs. Which Alice being Heiress to their Founder, [ 102] 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 [ 104] of that subjection in the time of Pope Celestin the III. The Prior and Con∣vent 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. [ 105]

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, [ 106] 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 Ne∣phews, gave the best of his Possessions to Christ, founding and endowing the Monastery of Kirkham for Canons Regular. In the year 1261. Wil∣liam [ 107] 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 [ 108] 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 Re∣venues [ 109] by King Henry the II. King Seven, King Richard the I. Hum∣phrey de Bohun, &c.

[Valued at 80 l. 11 s. 6 d. per Annum.]

[ 110] 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 [ 112] 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.]

[ 113] 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 Wul∣frieus. 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 this place. The said Wulfric died An. 1154.

[ 114] KENILWORTH, in Warwickshire.

GAlfridus de Clinton, Chamberlain to King Henry the I. sounded this Church for Canons Regular, in honour of St. Mary, to whom he gave all his Lands at Kenilworth, (except what he had retain'd to his Castle, and for making a Park) with many other Lands and Liberties, all which he enjoyn'd his Heir to observe and not to violate on pain of his [ 115] Curse and God's Wrath. Gaufridus his Son confirm'd his Father's Gifts, and granted them Tithes of all manner of Provisions whatsoever that came [ 116] to his Castle of Killingworth. Henry his Son made the like Confirmation, [ 117] and granted still more•• King Henry the I. recited and confirm'd all for∣mer [ 118] Benefactions, and granted the Canons here great Liberties and Im∣munities. The like Confirmation was made by King Henry the II.

[Valued at 538 l. 19 s. per Annum.]

STONE, in Staffordshire. [ 119]

WVlfer King of Mercia, was Son and Successor to Penda, a Pagan and [ 120] Persecutor; he after his Father's death became a Christian and married Ermenilda a Christian Lady, Daughter of Exbert King of Kent, by whom the had two Sons Wulfad, and Ruffin; and a Daughter named Werburg: which two Sons being baptized by St. Cedda then a Hermit, and [ 121] by him privately instructed and incouraged in Christianity, This did so [ 122] offend their Father Wulfer who had apostatized from the Faith of Christ, [ 123] that finding them at Prayers at St. Cedd's Cell, he killed them both with his own hands, their Martyrdom happened on the 9th. Calend. August. This sad News being known to the Queen, she caused their Bodies to be [ 124] inclosed in a Stone Monument, and in process of time a Church to be erected in the place where they were martyr'd. Wulfer the King being horribly tormented in mind could find no ease till he repair'd to St. Cedd, who upon his repentance and contrition, absolved him and enjoyn'd him [ 125] for Pennance, to suppress Idolatry throughout his Kingdom of Mercia, and establish the Christian Religion. This King hereupon built many Churches and Monasteries, among others Peterborough Abby; and in the place where the Martyrs suffered, was erected a Colledge for Canons then called Stanes, now Stone. In after-times one of this House went to Rome as a Procurator from the rest, and obtain'd from the Pope a Cano∣nization for St. Wulfad and St. Ruffin. In the time of the Normans Con∣quest [ 126] one Robert Lord of Stafford, (from whom the Barons of Stafford did descend) was chief Lord of this Place; here did Inhabit at that time two Nuns and a Priest, who were all slain by one Enysan de Walton, af∣ter which Murther, the abovesaid Robert by advice of Geffry de Clinton, did Establish here, Canons instead of Nuns. Nicholas de Stafford Son of Robert, gave this House as a Cell to Kenilworth. King Henry the II. con∣firmed [ 128] all the Benefactions. The Church here was dedicated to St. Wulfad.

[Valued at 119 l. 14 s. 11 d. per Annum.]

BROKE, in Rutland, a Cell to Kenilworth. [ 130]

HVgh de Ferrariis granted to the Canons of Kenilworth the Land of Broch, with the Wood-ground and Essarts, and this was by the assent of Walchelin his Nephew, and William his Brother, all which was confirm'd to the said Canons by King Henry the II.

[Valued at 40 l. per Annum.]

LANERCOST, in Cumberland.

THIS House dedicated to God and St. Mary Magdalen, was founded and endowed with large Revenues by Robert de Vallibus Son of Hubert de Vallibus, he granted to the Canons here, inter alia, Pasture and feeding in his Forest of Walton, for thirty Cows, and twenty Sows; with all the Bark of his Timber-Trees in the Woods of his Barony, with all

all the dry Wood lying any where in his Forest for the support of their [ 131] House. The Church here was dedicated by Bernard Bishop of Car∣lile, An. 1169. King Richard the I. confirm'd the several Lands, &c. given [ 132] to the Canons of this Monastery. The abovesaid Herbert de Vallibus was the first Baron of Gillesland, which Barony went by a Daughter to the Name and Family of Multon, and in like manner from them to the Fami∣ly of Dacres.

[Valued at 77 l. 7 s. 11 d. per Annum.]

DUNSTABLE, in Bedfordshire.

HEre was formerly a very Woody place just in the meeting of those two Royal Ways of Watling, and Ickneld, which made the Passage so unsafe and full of Thieves, that there was hardly any Travelling. King Henry the I. desirous to rectifie this, caused the Woods to be cut up, and a Royal Mansion to be built near the place which was called Kings∣bury. He also caused Proclamation all over the Kingdom that who ever would come and inhabit in that place, should have Land for 12 d. an Acre per Annum, and enjoy the same Liberties and Freedoms as the City of London doth, or any other ancient Borough in the Kingdom, by this means [ 133] People flock'd hither and built the Town, which from Dunning a noted Robber, who used to rob here, was named Dunningstable. Besides the Li∣berties abovementioned this Town had two Markets weekly, and a Fair at St. Peter ad Vincula for three days, and a Gallows for Felons. Within the Limits of this Borough that King erected a Church in honour of St. Peter, and built a Monastery for Canons Regular, to whom he gave the said Church, and all the Borough with its Markets, Fairs, and Liberties, re∣taining only in his own hands the Capital Mansion. All which, with the Grants of other Matters, were afterwards confirm'd to them by King Hen. the II. and King Rich. the I. King Iohn did the like, and granted them also his House of Kingsbury, the said Canons had also a Court of Pleas there of their own. Some of the Tenants held in Capite of the Abbot, and some by Services to be done to the said Canons, but all were Free∣men.

[Valued at 344 l. 13 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

[ 134] SUTHWIKE, in Hantshire.

THIS Monastery was founded and endowed with divers Lands by King Henry the I. who granted them all sorts of Liberties, and Freedom from Tributes, Taxes, and Exactions, and that they should not be impleaded for any matter or thing unless in the presence of him or his Heirs.

[Valued at 257 l. 4 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

MERTON, in Surrey. [ 135]

FOunded by King Henry the I. An. 1121. and by him endowed with the Town of Merton belonging to his Crown, and large Liberties.

[Valued at 957 l. 19 s. 5 d. per Annum.]

OSENEY, near Oxford. [ 136]

RObert de Oilley (whose Uncle of the same name came into England with the Conquerour, and obtained from him the Baronies of Oxford, and St. Waleries) founded this Priory for black Canons among the Isles made by the River Isis near Oxford. It is said that his Wife Edith took occasion to incite her Husband to this Foundation, from the constant as∣sembling and chattering of certain Magpies in that place whenever she walkt our thither for her recreation. The Church here dedicated to St. Mary was built, An. 1129. Which said Robert endowed the Canons [ 137] here with divers Tenements in Oxford, and several Lands and Churches in the Neighbouring Towns. Robert one of the natural Sons of King [ 139] Henry the I. having married a Daughter of the Founder, devoted him∣self 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 Bene∣factors [ 140] to these Canons see in the Book at large. [ 141]

[Valued at 654 l. 10 s. 2 d. per Annum.] [ 142]

RONTON, in Staffordshire. [ 143]

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 Shrop∣shire. 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 Chap∣lains. 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 [ 144] 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 [ 145] 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 ded••∣cated [ 146] to St. Mary ever Virgin. Benefactors to this House were Alan la [ 147] 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 [ 148] 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 [ 149] 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 a∣mong 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 [ 150] 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 Charle∣ton, &c. From Robert the second Son of the first mention'd Robert de Brus, descended lineally Robert de Brus King of Scotland, who making [ 151] War against King Edward the I. that King seiz'd upon his Lands of Herte [ 152] 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.]

[ 153] 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. [ 154]

THIS Abby, otherwise called, Sancta Maria de Parcho, was founded and endowed by Walter Gifford Earl of Buckingham, and Ermigar∣dis his Wife. Confirm'd by King Henry the II. and by King Iohn with [ 155] the Addition of great Liberties and Immunities, who also granted to [ 156] 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 dedi∣cated by Iocelin then Bishop of Sarum, was publickly and solemnly de∣clared 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. [ 157]

HVgh de Bellocampo founded, and endow'd this Priory with divers Lands and Commons, &c. He granted the Canons here besides o∣ther 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, [ 158] (tam de bosco quam de essartis) as well of his Woods as arable Lands. Pope [ 159] Gregory granted to this House divers Priviledges, as not to pay Tithes of [ 160] their own Stock, to cellebrate privately in time of a general Interdict, &c. [ 161] 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 con∣firm'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 [ 162] all that his Father gave, &c. The like did King Henry the II. Gilbert de [ 163] Gant was born, baptized, and educated in this Priory, and therefore dis∣posed [ 165] 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.]

[ 166] 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 [ 167] 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 accep∣table and familar to the great Ones at Court, and to the King himself. But being inspired with God's grace, he saw the Follies of that Course of Life; and finding his Conscience burden'd with many sins, he undertook a Journey to Rome; while he remain'd there he fell sick, and in his sickness made a Vow upon his return to Health, and his Country, to build there an Hospital for the Relief and Solace of Poor People. After this being restored to his Health, he began his journey homeward. On the Way St. Bartholmew appeared to him in a Nocturnal Vision or Dream, and di∣rected him to build a Church in Smithfield at London, and name it to him. [ 169] Being return'd to London, he ob••ain'd the King's License for this Foundati∣on, without which it could not be effected, the Ground where the Building was appointed, being within the Kings Market-place. He began here∣upon a double Work of Piety, the Hospital in performance of his Vow, and the Church according as directed, both not far distant; which last was founded, An. 1123. in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and me∣mory of St. Bartholmew the Apostle. It is said that this very Foundation in this place, was foretold long before in a Vision, to King Edward the Confessor. Before Raberus began the Foundation of this Monastery, the Ground here was all overspread with Filth and Durt, and was the com∣mon place of Execution of Malefactors. The Priory being built and Can∣nons [ 170] assembled to inhabit it, Raherus became their Prior, who obtain'd for their maintenance sufficient from the Oblations of pious People, and from the King as large Liberties as any Church in England enjoy'd. [ 171] King Henry the III. confirm'd all the Lands and Churches given them by divers Benefactors, namely, the place call'd Smithfeld, the Church of St. Sepulcher de Ballio, London, cum pertinentiis suis infra Burgum & extra, the Church of St. Michael Bassingshagh, &c. and that the Hospital of St. Bartlemew in Smithfield should be in the Disposition and Subjection of the said Prior and Canons.

[Valued at 653 l. 15 s. per Annum.]

[ 172] WARTRE, in Yorkshire.

FOunded An. 1132. by Galfridus Trusbut, and by him endow'd with the Church of Wartre, and eleven Bovates of Land in the Field of that Town. Confirm'd by Pope Innocent the II.

Priors and Abbots of this House.

• 1. Ioseph, Prior.
• 2. Radulphus, Prior.
• 3. Richard, Abbot.
• 4. Yuo, Abbot.
• 5. Nicholas, Prior.
• 6. Richard, Prior.
• 7. Thomas, Prior.
• 8. Radulphus.
• 9. Iohn Lestyngham.
• 10. Iohn de Dunelmia.
• 11. Robert de Lunde.
• 12. Iohn Queldreke, in his time the

• Hospital of St. Giles of Beverly was annext to this House, A. 1278.
• 13. Iohn de Thorpe.
• 14. Richard de Welwyk.
• 15. Robert Balne.
• 16. William Feryby.
• 17. Henry Holme.
• 18. Iohn Hemyngburgh.
• 19. William Tynyngton, deposed by the Archbishop of York.
• 20. Robert Takel.
• 21. Thomas Ruland. [ 173]
• 22. William Wartre.
• 23. Robert Hedon.
• 24. William York.
• 25. William Spenser.

Several of the Trussebuts descendants of the Founder confirm'd the Pos∣sessions of these Canons; and so did Robert de Ros Lord of Beuver, [ 174] An. 1279. being then Patron (Advocatus) of this Priory. Pope Innocent [ 175] granted to these Canons of St. Iames of Wartre divers Priviledges, in the Case of non-payment of Tithes for their own Goods and Stock, in the Case of a general Interdict, &c. [ 176]

Valued at 221 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum.

TWYNEHAM, in Hantshire. [ 177]

IN the Reign of King Edward the Confessor, there were Secular Canons in Christ Church at Twyneham. Ranulph Flammard, a great Favourite under King William Rufus, and afterwards Bishop of Durham, was Dean of this Church. In the Reign of King Steven Canons Regular were first introduced here. The aforesaid Ranulphus, or Randulphus, new built the [ 178] Church of Twynham, which at that time bore the name of the Holy Tri∣nity. Richard de Redvers endow'd it with Lands in the Isle of Wight and elsewhere. Which Richard de Redvers was by King Henry the I. made Earl of Devon, and had the Isle of Wight, and the Inheritance of this [ 179] Town of Twineham, given to him. From whom descend the Courtney's Earls of Devon. Baldwin de Redveriis confirm'd the Estate given by his [ 180] Father Richard to this Church, with the Grant of large Liberties; which Baldwin was the first who introduced Canons Regular into this Church, to whom his Son Richard de Redveriis junior, granted the free Election of their Prior, and confirm'd all their Possessions, An. 1161. Vid. Vol. 3. [ 181] P. 45.

[Valued at 312 l. 7 s. per Annum.]

HERYNGHAM, in Sussex.

KING Edward the I. granted his License to William Paynel to grant certain Lands to the Prior and Canons of this House, for the finding of four Secular Chaplains to celebrate for his Soul, in their Church, Statuto de terris ad manum mortuam non ponend. edito, non obstante. After∣wards, upon the Petition of Matilda Neice, and heir of the said William, [ 182] exhibited to King Edward the II. in Parliament, that King granted that instead of the four Secular Chaplains, the said Prior might for the future appoint four Regular Canons of his own House for that Office. King Edward the III. granted his License to appropriate the Hospital of St. An∣thony at Coukham to this House.

St. OSITH at Chich, in Essex.

THE Priory of St. Osith the Virgin and Martyr at Chich, was foun∣ded by Richard de Belmeis Bishop of London, who design'd to re∣sign his Bishoprick and become a Canon Regular here himself, but was prevented by death. The second Prior of this House was Ralph after∣wards [ 183] Archbishop of Canterbury. King Henry the II. confirm'd all the Pos∣sessions given to this Priory by several Benefactors, with the grant of [ 184] ample Liberties, free Waren and a Market at Chiche. King Iohn granted the Patronage or Advowson of this Abby to William then Bishop of Lon∣don and his Successors.

[Valued at 677 l. 1 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

IXWORTH, in Suffolk.

GIlbert Blundus who came into England with the Conqueror, founded this Priory of the blessed Mary of Ixworth near the Parish-Church of that Town.

[Valued at 280 l. 9 s. 5 d. per Annum.]

[ 185] NORTON, in Cheshire.

THIS Priory of the blessed Mary of Norton was founded and endowed by William the Son of Nigellus Constable of Chester. Roger Constable of Chester confirm'd the Lands and Possessions given to these Canons in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and Oxfordshire, who also granted them divers Priviledges, inter alia, to have two Deer, yearly, on the Feast of the Assumption, out of his Park of Halton. When William Bastard, to whom King Edward the Confessor had assigned the Inheritance of his King∣dom [ 187] as his most worthy and nearest Kinsman, came into England, with him came Hugh to whom he gave the Earldom of Chester. With this Hugh came a Nobleman called Nigellus, to whom the said Earl gave the Barony of Halton and made him his Marshal, and Constable of Chester, and further conferr'd on him many and great Priviledges. such as shew'd a particular favour to him more than any other Baron of Cheshire•• William Son of this Nigellus founded this Priory first at Runcorn. An•• 1133. which was afterwards removed to Norton. From him 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Roger Con∣stable [ 188] of Chester abovementioned, to whom Ranulf Earl o•• Chester, for a par∣ticular Service done him in Wales, gave the Dominion of Shoo-makers and Stage-players to hold to him and his Heirs for ever. This Roger died A. 1211. and lies buried in the Monastery of Stanlowe. Of this Line descended the [ 189] Lacies Earls of Lincoln, and the Earls of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby.

[Valued at 180 l. 7 s. 6 d. ob. per Annum.]

NEWBURGH, in Yorkshire. [ 190]

FOunded by Roger de Molbray, and endowed with divers Lands and Churches; who also confirm'd what the Freemen of his Fee had given, or should give to the Canons here. In the time of King William the Conqueror Robert de Mowbray was Earl of Northumberland, who taking [ 192] part with other Great men, who rise against King William Rufus for having banish'd Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury, and destroy'd eighty Religious Houses to enlarge his Forrest, was taken by the King, beheaded, and his Estate seized; and afterwards given by King Henry the I. to Negellus de Albeney, whose Mother was a Mowbray; after which time the Albanies [ 193] took on them the name of Molbray. Son of that Nigellus was the first abovemention'd Roger de Molbray, who founded this Priory, An. 1145. he founded also the Abby of Bellaland, and many other Religious Houses to the number of thirty five. From whom descended Themas Mowbray who in the Reign of King Rich. II. was made Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Nottingham, Lord Marshal of England, &c. From whom descended two Co-heirs, the [ 194] eldest of which Ann, was married to the Lord Thomas Howard, who in the second year of King Edward the IV. was created Duke of Norfolk.

[Valued at 367 l. 8 s. 3 d. per Annum.]

HODE, in Yorkshire, a Cell to Newburgh.

HOde was at first demised to the Canons of Billalanda, by Robert de [ 195] Alneto, on condition that they should here found an Abby of their Canons. This was confirm'd by Roger de Mowbray. Adam Fossard gave Hode to the Canons of Newburgh with Lands lying about the same, which Canons did acknowledge the said Adam to be the Patron (Advocatus) of the said place, and of all belonging thereunto.

EGLESTON, in the Bishoprick of Durham. [ 196]

PHilip Bishop of Durham confirm'd to God, St. Mary, and St. Iohn Baptist, and to the Canons of Egleston, divers Lands which Gilbert de Ley held of him by the service of one Knights Fee, and had given them. An. 1273. the Abbot and Canons of this House covenanted with Iohn Duke of Britany, and Earl of Richmond, to find six Chaplains Canons of this House, to say six Masses daily in the Castle of Richmond, for ever, the said Canons to be constantly resident in the said Castle, in consideration whereof the said Earl of Richmond granted to the Abbot and Convent of Egleston divers Lands and Possessions, and a place apart in his said Castle for the Habitation of the said six Chaplains, &c.

DORCHESTER, in Oxfordshire. [ 197]

BEfore the Norman Conquest here was a Bishops Seat; Remigius tran∣slated it to Lincoln. Alexander Bishop of Lincoln erected here an Abby of black Canons; the Body of which Church served for the Parish Church. After the Suppression the East-part of the Abby-Church

was bought by a rich man of this Town for 140 l. and given to aug∣ment the Parish Church.

[Valued at 219 l. 12 s. per Annum.]

[ 198] THORNTON, upon Humber, in Lincolnshire.

FOunded by William Grose Earl of Albemarl, Anno Dom. 1139. Canons Regular were introduced here from Kyrkham, under the Govern∣ment of one Richard their Prior, who was afterwards made Abbot in the year 1148. by Pope Eugenius the III. Earl William the Founder died, An. 1180. having endow'd this Abby with many Lands and Revenues. [ 199] King Richard the I. confirm'd all the Possessions given to the Abby of St. Mary of Thornton and the Canons there, with the Grant of large Liberties and Immunities. Pope Celestine the III. granted them the Priviledge not to pay any Tithes of Cattle, &c. for their own use.

Abbots of this House were

• 1. Richard.
• 2. Philip, 1152.
• 3. Thomas, 1175.
• 4. Iohn Benton, 1184.
• 5. Iordan de Villa, 1203.
• 6. Richard de Villa, 1223.
• 7. Ieffrey Holme, 1233.
• 8. Robert, 1245.
• 9. William Lyncoln, 1257.
• 10. Walter Hoto••t, 1273.
• 11. Thomas de Ponte, 1290.

The Advowson of this Abby, together with all the Lands, and Pos∣sessions [ 201] of the Earl of Albemarl, did escheat to King Edward the I. Which being thus in the Crown, King Edward the III. in the sixth year of his Reign granted, by advice of the Prelates and Barons in Parliament, that the said Advowson should remain ever annext to the Crown; and that the said Abbot should not be oblig'd to attorn to any, in case any grant of the said Advowson should be made.

[Valued at 594 l. 17 s. 10 d. per Annum.]

BRUMMORE, in Wiltshire.

BAldwin de Riveris and Hugh his Unkle, were the Founders of this Monastery for Canons Regular, King Henry the II. confirm'd the Lands given them, and granted them feeding for one hundred Cattle; and one hundred Hogs in Newforest, and dead Wood for their fuel as much as necessary.

[ 202] HAREWOLD, in Bedfordshire.

THIS was a Priory of Nuns of St. Augustin, founded by Sampson de Forte, Malcolm King of Scotland, as Earl of Huntington confirm'd certain Lands to this Church of St. Peter of Harewold, and to the Prior, [ 203] and Canons, and Sisters there serving God. The like did King William of Scotland. King Henry the IV. of England gave to the Prioress and Nuns of Harewold, one Messuage in Chakirstone of the yearly value of 2 s. with the Advowson of that Church.

BRINKEBURNE, in Northumberland

FOUNDED by William Bertram, Hawys his Wife, and Roger his Son, for Canons. Their Possessions were confirm'd by William Earl or Northumberland, Henry Earl of Northumberland Son to the King of Scot∣land, [ 204] and by King Henry. III.

[Valued at 68 l. 19 s. 1 d.]

LEYE, in the Ile of Gersey, Diocesse of Exon.

THIS was at first a Priory of Canons, but afterwards in the Reign of King Edward. I. it was changed to a Nunnery of Canonesses; it was dedicated to St. Mary and St. Iohn Evangelist. [ 205]

BRIWETON, in Somersetshire.

WIlliam de Moyne Earl of Somerset gave divers Lands, &c. to the Ca∣nons Regular of this House, which was before the Conquest an Abby of Monks founded by Algarus Earl of Cornwal, but the said Moyne, [ 206] or Mohun, placed Canons here since the Conquest. Sauvaricus Bishop of Bath and Glaustonbury confirm'd to God and the Blessed Mary of Briweton, and the Canons Regular there, the Lands, &c. given by their Benefactors.

[Valued at 439 l. 6 s. 8 d.]

BRADENSTOKE, in Wiltshire.

FOunded and endowed by Patricius Earl of Salisbury and Walter his Father. William Bishop of Sarum appropriated divers Churches to [ 208] the proper use of these Canons, salvis Vicariis ordinandis & taxandis. King Henry. III. confirm'd all their Possessions. [ 209]

[Valued at 212 l. 19 s. 3 d. per Annum.]

NOCTON in Lincolnshire. [ 211]

THE Priory of Nocton Park was founded by Robert de Areci, Lord of Nocton. It was dedicated to St. Mary Magdelen. The Heir ge∣neral 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. [ 212]

[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 Morti∣mer, [ 313] 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

[ 214] 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 Re∣ligion 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, Mor∣timer 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 [ 215] difference, being at last composed by the mediation of the Bishop of Here∣ford, Mortimer not only restored them their Lands, &c. of which he had de∣prived them, but gave them more, among other Benefactions, the Church of Wigmore, and advanced their Prior to the title of an Abbot. But soon af∣ter he took from them again the Town of Schobbedon, and it was once more restored by mediation. After this these Canons removed their habitation [ 216] to a place call'd Eye, and from thence to Wigmore. After this they remov∣ed 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 [ 217] 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 ve∣ry 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 Con∣vent were forced, for some time to retire to Schobbedon, but the differ∣rence 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 af∣ter 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 [ 219] confirm'd all that his Father had given to these Canons, with other Lands given by himself.

[ 220] 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 Wil∣liam, 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. [ 222] 1185. Grandson of this Hugh was Ralph de Mortuomari, who being sent over into Normandy by King Iohn in order to defend that Country a∣gainst the King of France, who had invaded and Seized all Normandy (be∣cause 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 Wig∣more, plundered the Canons of all their movables, and burnt all the Build∣ings [ 223] except the Church. Son of which Ralph was Roger, who marryed Matilda daughter of William de Breuse Lord of Bregnoc, and was so faith∣ful an adherent to King Henry III. against his rebellious Barons, that he was the chief means of defeating that formidable Commotion, and esta∣blishing [ 224] the King in his Throne. Grandson of this Roger, was Roger Mor∣timer who was created the first Earl of March, An. 1. Edward. III. Which

Earl Roger was great grandfather of Edmund Mortimer who married Phi∣lippa [ 226] 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 [ 227] 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 [ 228] Roger, and Edmund, and two Daughters Elizabeth and Philippa. Roger Mortimer was slain in Ireland, An. 1398. But left issue by his Wife Alianora [ 229] daughter and coheir of Thomas Holland Earl of Kent, two Sons Edmund and Roger, and two daughters Anne and Alianore. Anne was married to Ri∣chard 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. [ 230]

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 Ca∣nons 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 [ 231] 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 be∣gat 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 with∣out 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. [ 232]

ROBERT Fitz Harding a Burgesse of Bristol, to whom King Henry II. gave the Barony of Berkly, built this Abby, and gave to the Ca∣nons 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. [ 233]

[Valued at 670 l. 13 s. 11 d. ob per Annum.]

[ 234] COKESFORD near Rudham, in Norfolk.

JOhn de Querceto (or Cheney) gave to God, and St. Mary, and the Canons of Rudham divers Lands, Churches, and Mills, & Duos homines scilicet G. & V. & terram illorum, two of his Tenants with the Land which they [ 235] held of him. Hervey Beleth gave them the Mannor of Rudham for the main∣tenance of an Hospital, by him founded at Boycodeswade.

[Valued at 121 l. 18 s. 10 d. ob. per Annum.]

BRUNNE, in Lincolnshire. (Bourn)

FOunded by Balwin Son of Gislebert, who endow'd it with divers Lands, Churches, and Tithes of sundry kinds, An. 1138. The [ 236] Wakes were principal Benefactors to this House, and became Patrons of the same, being Lords of the Mannor of Bourn, and descended from the [ 237] Founder, and as Patrons had the Custody of the Abby in time of Vaca∣tion, &c. which was allowed by King Edward the II. who for that pur∣pose granted his mandate to Matthew Broun Escheator for the Counties of Lincoln, Northampton, and Roteland, in the seventeenth year of his Reign, notwithstanding that some of the Possessions of this Abby were held of the King in Capite.

NEWENHAM, in Bedfordshire.

[ 238] BEfore the Conquest, the Church of St. Paul in Bedford was a Colledge of Prebendaries or Secular Canons, till one of the Canons killing a Butcher, they were forced to remove their Habitation to a place call'd Newenham, a Mile distant from Bedford, and there they became Regular Canons. Roi••ia Wife of Paganus de Bellocampo, to whom King William [ 239] the Conqueror gave the Barony of Bedford, and Simon her Son, were the founders of their House at Newenham. Which Simon endow'd them with divers Lands and Possessions, among others the Church of St. Paul at Bedford with all its Possessions, and the Tithes of the Mill of the Castle [ 240] of Bedford, &c. These Canons had also large Liberties granted them on the River, for fishing, and for keeping Swans as many as they pleased; seeding [ 241] for thirty Hogs yearly quit of Paunage in the Wood of Kerdington, free [ 242] Pasture for twelve Oxen, in all the Grounds of the Patron where his own [ 243] Oxen fed, with Liberty to elect their own Prior, saving to the Patron the Custody of the outward Gate of the Monastery in time of Vacation, &c. All whose Lands and Liberties were confirm'd to them in 15 R. 2. by Tho∣mas Earl Mareschal, and Earl of Nottingham, Lord Moubray and Segrave, then Patron of this Priory.

[Valued at 293 l. 5 s. 11 d. per Annum.]

St. RADEGUNDIS at Bradsole, in Kent. [ 244]

KING Henry the III. confirm'd the several Lands and Revenues given to this House by sundry Benefactors, among whom Henry de Weng∣ham Dean of St. Martins in London. Vid. Vol. 3. P. 69.

[Valued at 98 l. 9 s. 2 d. ob. per Annum.]

KIME, in Lincolnshire. [ 245]

THE first founder of this Priory was Sir Philip de Kyme Knt. the Canons of this House held Lands in Thorpe, and Billingey.

[Valued at 101 l. 0 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

BUTLEY, in Suffolk.

FOunded by Ranulph de Glanvilla, and by him endowed with divers Churches and Lands, in the year 1171. This Ranulph de Glanvill was [ 246] heretofore Chief Justice of England, and left only three Daughters, among whom he parted his Land before he made his Voyage to the Holy Land, to the eldest who married one William de Aubervil, he gave the intire Mannor of Benhall and the Advowson of the Monastery of the blessed Mary of Buttele, and to the other Sisters other parts of his Estate.

Vid. Vol. 3. P. 110.

[Valued at 318 l. 17 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

NEW••STED near Guildford, in Surrey. [ 247]

FOunded by Rualdus de Calua and Beatrix his Wife with the assent of William Malbanc their Heir, in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Thomas the Martyr, in a place call'd Aldeburi in the Mannor of Sandes, for Canons Regular; whose Estate was confirm'd by King Henry the III. and King Edward the II.

BERLIZ, in Somersetshire. [ 249]

THE several Lands, Churches, and Tithes given to the Prior and Ca∣nons of this House, dedicated to St. Nicholas, by Matilda de Say••••d others, were confirm'd by King Henry the III. An. Regni 40. and by Edw. the III. An. 13. [ 250]

WOMBRIGGE, in Shropshire. [ 252]

FOunded by William Fitz-Alan. Dedicated to God, St. Mary, and St. Leonard. Many were the Benefactors to this House, among whom the Lords of Cherinton gave divers Lauds and Revenues in that [ 253]

Town, &c. All the Possessions of these Canons, with divers Liberties to them granted by their severeal Benefactors were recited and confirm'd by King Edward the II. An. Reg. 12.

[Valued at 65 l. 7 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

[ 257] CALDEWELL, in Bedfordshire.

SImon Basket an Alderman of Bedford was the first founder of this House, but the Advowson came afterwards to the Lords Latymer. Robert Son of William de Houton gave Lands to the Order of Fryers of the Holy Cross at Caldewell, confirm'd by King Hen. the III. An. Reg. 57.

[Valued at 109 l. 8 s. 5 d. per Annum.]

[ 258] TONEBRIGGE, in Kent.

FOunded by Richard de Clare Earl of Hertford, for Canons Regular, and by him endow'd with certain Rents, the feeding of one hundred and twenty Hogs yearly in his Forrest of Tonebrigge freely, and to have yearly one Buck at the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen.

ANGLESEYE, in Cambridgeshire.

Elizabeth de Burgo Sister and one of the Heirs of Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, Patroness of this Priory, granted the Monks here liberty to choose their Prior, An. 1333. The same Elizabeth [ 259] granted a Rent of 20 l. per Annum to the Prior and Convent of this House, in consideration of which they obliged themselves to find two Chantry Priests, Seculars, to celebrate at the Altar of the holy Cross in their Church for ever, for the said Elizabeth her Ancestors and Heirs, and to allow to the said two Priests their Lodging and Diet, and to each 20 s. per Annum, or else twelve Marks yearly, which they shall think most con∣venient; which Grant bears date 6. E. 3.

[Valued at 24 l. 19 s. per Annum.]

[ 260] TRENTHAM, in Staffordshire.

RAlph Earl of Chester was the Founder, or rather Restorer, of this House; granting to the Canons here a yearly Rent of 100 s. per Annum. Confirm'd by King Henry the II. with the grant of large Li∣berties and Immunities.

[Valued at 106 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum.]

WORMLEY, in Herefordshire. [ 261]

STeven de Ebroicis gave to this Church, dedicated to God, and St. Lea∣nard, and to the Canons here, certain Mills, Lands, and Tithes in Lenhale, for the maintenance of there Chaplains. Confirm'd by Gilbert de Lacy in consideration of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by the said. Canons to him paid. And [ 263] by William Son of the said Steven, An. 1240. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 48.

[Valued at 83 l. 10 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

ROYSTON, in Cambridgeshire. [ 264]

FOunded and endow'd by Eustach de Mer••. King Richard the I. con∣firm'd to this Monastery by the Name of the Monastery of St. Tho∣mas the Martyr apud Crucem Rhosiae, and to the Canons here, all their Pos∣sessions given by several Benefactors, and further granted a yearly Fair during all Whitsun-week, and a Market every Wednesday, with the same Liberties as were enjoy'd by the Canons at Dunstable, with very large Im∣munities in his Grant specified, dated in the first year of his Reign.

ERDBURY, in Warwickshire. [ 265]

RAlph de Sadle was a principal Benefactor to the Canons of this House. An. 1232. Alexander then Bishop of Coventry and Litch∣feild, order'd the following Settlement between the Prior of Erdbury, and the Vicar of Dercet, and their Successors, viz. that the Vicar should have all the Altarage of the said Church, and Tith-Corn of eight yards Land in Radewey, and of two yard Land in Derced in the Demeans of the said Prior, with a House, &c. That the Vicar of the said Church [ 266] should be a Priest and not of any lesser Order, and shall have an Associate constantly, and a Deacon, who together with him shall officiate in the said Church, the Vicar to bear all usual Charges except the Repairs of the Chancel, for which the Prior and he are to joyn proportionably. This Monastery being decay'd in its Revenues, King Henry the VI. An. 23. granted the Prior and Convent License to obtain and receive Lands and Tenements to the value of one hundred Marks without fine to the King.

[Valued at 94 l. 6 s. 1 d. per Annum.]

POGHELE, in Barkshire.

FOunded by Ralph de Chadelewurth, dedicated to God and St. Mar∣garet, endow'd with divers Lands and Revenues by the said Ralph and others, all which was recited and confirm'd by King Henry the III.

[ 267] ROUCESTRE, in Staffordshire.

RIchard Bacun founded and endowed this House for Canons Regular, with large Possessions and Liberties: All which were confirm'd to [ 268] the said Canons by Ranulph Earl of Chester, to hold in pure and perpetual [ 270] Alms. Confirm'd also by King Henry the III. in the thirtieth year of his Reign.

[Valued at 100 l. 2 s. 10 d. ob. per Annum.]

CUMBWELL, in Kent.

FOunded by Robert de Turneham, dedicated to God, and St. Mary Magdalen, endow'd with divers Lands and Possessions, all which were confirm'd by Steven de Turnham, Son of the said Robert, and by King Henry the III. An. Reg. II.

[Valued at 80 l. 17 s. 5 d. per Annum.]

[ 271] WOSPRING, in Somersetshire.

THE several Lands, Rents, &c. given to this Church, dedicated to God, St. Mary, and St. Thomas the Martyr, by William de Courteney and others, were recited and confirm'd to the Prior and Canons here, by King Edw. the II. An. Reg. 18. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 47.

[Valued at 87 l. 2 s. 11 d. ob. per Annum.]

[ 272] MARLEBURGH, in Wiltshire.

KING Richard the II. An. Reg. 22. granted his Pardon to the Prior and Convent of St. Margaret near Marlbergh (which House was founded by his Progenitors) for having accepted divers Lands of Iohn Lovel Che∣valer, without License first obtain'd; and further ratified and confirm'd the Possession of those Lands to the said Convent.

[ 273] IVICHURCH, in Wiltshire.

KING Henry the III. granted to the Prior and Canons of this House certain Lands and Priviledge in his Forrest of Clarendon; King Edw. the III. granted more, also Pasture for forty Oxen and Cows in his Mea∣dow of Clarendon, and 100 s. of Rent out of his Mannor of Clarendon. [ 274] King Hen. the II. founded this Monastery for four Canons.

[Valued at 122 l. 18 s. 6 d. ob. per Annum.]

BUCKENHAM, in Norfolk.

FOunded by William Earl of Chichester in honour of God, St. Mary, and St. Iames, and by him endowed with Churches, Lands, and Tithes. Confirm'd by King Edw. the II. An. Reg. 11.

[Valued at 108 l. 10 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

COLDE-NORTON, in Oxfordshire. [ 275]

KING Hen. III. An. Reg. 13. confirm'd to the Prior and Canons of this House, dedicated to St. Iohn the Evangelist, their several Lands and Possessions given by Reginald Earl of Bolon, and Ida his Wife, and divers other Benefactors. Vid. Vol. 3. p 55.

OSULVESTON, (Ouston) in Leicestershire. [ 276]

FOunded by Robert Grimbold in honour of our Lord Jesus Christ, St. Mary, St. Andrew the Apostle, and all Saints, for Canons; to whom he gave the Church and Town of Osolvestone, &c. in pure and perpetual Alms. Robert Bishop of Lincoln confirm'd the several Churches granted to this Monastery, and further, granted to these Canons to be for ever free and quit from the Payment of Sinodals, and all other Episcopal Customs ex∣cept Peter pence, denouncing a Curse to such as shall infringe or violate his Grant. Robert Grimbold was a Judge under King Henry the II. whose Seal [ 278] did represent a Figure setting in Judgment, holding in one hand a pointed Sword, signifying Justice, and in the other a Sword with the point abated or broken off, representing Mercy. Among other Benefactors to this House was William de Ros Lord of Beaver, &c.

[Valued at 161 l. 14 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

THORKESEY, in Lincolnshire.

KING Henry the III. An. Reg 21. granted to the Prior and Canons of this House the Scite of their Monastery in Frankalmoine, and four hundred and ninety eight Acres of Land, and fifty Tosts in Torkesey to hold at the yearly Rent of 10 l. for ever. Beside which the Prioress and Con∣vent of Fossa near Torkesey held one hundred and twenty Acres of Land and Meadow, and seven Tofts in Torkesey at the yearly Rent of 46 s.

Valued at 13 l. 1 s. 4 d. per Annum.

CHAUCUMBE, in Northamptonshire. [ 279]

FOunded and endow'd by Hugo de Chaucumb. Amabilia de Segrave Lady of Chaucumbe, and others of the Segraves were Benefactors; all whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Edward the III. An. Reg 2.

[Valued at 83 l. 18 s. 9 d. ob. per Annum.] Y

[ 280] REPINDON, in Darbyshire.

FOunded An. 1172. (18 H. 2) by Matilda Widow of Ranulph Earl of Chester, and dedicated to the holy Trinity. King Hen. the III. An. Reg 57. confirm'd to the Canons of the holy Trinity of Rependene, and of St Giles of Calc. all the Lands and Possessions given them by the said [ 282] Matilda and others; the like did King Edw. the II. An. Reg. 18.

[Valued at 118 l. 8 s. 6 d. per Annum.]

KAERMERDIN, in Wales.

KING Henry the II. gave and confirm'd to the Church of St. Iohn the Evangelist at Kayrmerdin, and the Canons there, the old City of Kayrmerdyn with its appurtenances, with the Church of St. Peter there, and the Chappel in the Castle.

[Valued at 164 l. 4 d. per Annum.]

WIKES, in Essex.

KING Henry the II. gave to God and the Nuns of St. Mary at Wikes, the Church of Wikes, with certain Land and seven Villains in that [ 283] Town. He also granted them two Grayhounds, and four other Dogs (Bracatos) for taking Hares in his Forrest of Essex; with divers other Li∣berties and Immunities.

BISSETER, in Oxfordshire.

[ 284] GIlbert Basset gave to the Canons of this House large Possessions, so did William Lungespeye, among other things Pasture for fifty Cattle at Erdintone, to feed among his own Cattle there; another Benefactor was Phil••p Basset Brother of Fulc Basset Bishop of London. All whose Gifts were recited and confirm'd by King Edw. the II. An. Reg. 9.

[Valued at 147 l. 2 s. 10 d. per Annum.]

[ 285] HERTLAND, in Devonshire.

FOunded by Gaufridus Son of Oliver de Dynam; and the Canons Se∣cular, changed to Canons Regular of St. Augustin by the Authority of Bartholomew Bishop of Exeter. All whose Possessions King Richard [ 286] the I. in the first year of his Reign, confirm'd with the Grant of great Immunities, and Liberties, namely to have a Court to hold plea of all things, but Life and Member, arising in their own Lands and Estate, &c.

[Valued at 306 l. 3 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

HELAGHE, in Yorkshire. [ 287]

FOunded by Bertramus Haget, in a place where formerly was a Her∣mitage in some sort belonging to the Prior and Convent of Marton, who by their Deed, under their Convent Seal, did disclaim, resign, and quit all title to the same, An. 1203. The Lord Iordan de Sancta Maria marrying Alice an Heir General of the foresaid Bertram, became a second Founder of this Priory, who confirm'd their Estate, and so did Alice his Widow after his decease. [ 288]

Priors of Helaghe-Park.

• 1218. William de Hamelecis.
• 1233. Elias. [ 289]
• 1257. Iohn Nocus.
• 1260. Hamo de Eboraco.
• 1264. Henry de Quetelay.
• 1281. Adam de Blide.
• 1300. William de Grimstone.
• 1320. Robert de Sposford.
• 1333. Steven Levington.
• 1357. Richard.
• 1358. Thomas de Yarum.
• 1378. Steven Clarell, 45 years.
• 1423. Iohn Birkyn.
• 1429. Thomas York.
• 1435. Richard Areton, translated to Gisburn.
• 1437. Thomas Botson, translated to Bolton.
• 1440. Thomas Collingham.
• 1460. Christopher Lofthous, under an ill Character, for the Book says, furatus est bona hujus domus.
• 1471. William Berwick.
• 1475. William Brammam, Vicar of Helagh. [ 290]
• 1480. William Ellington.
• 1499. Peter Kendayl.

William de Percey Lord of Kildale gave to the Canons of St. Iohn the Evangelist of Helagh-Park, the Chappel of St. Hilda at Kildale with divers [ 291] Lands, for which the said Canons were to find two of their own House, or two Secular Priests, to celebrate the Divine Offices in the said Chap∣pel for ever.

[Valued at 72 l. 10 s. 7 d. per Annum.]

CANONS-ASHBY, in Northamptonshire.

THe Pynkeneyes Lords of Wedone were great Benefactors to the Canons here, giving them divers Lands in Wedone and Weston, with Com∣mon for 100 Sheep, 8 Oxen, 5 Cows, and 5 Mares in the Pasture of Wapham, and feeding for Sixscore Hogs in the Woods there. [ 292]

[Valued at 119 l. 4 d. per Annum.]

HAVERFORD, in Wales. [ 293]

RObert de Haverford gave to the Canons here divers Churches and Tithes in his Barony of Haverford, all which were confirm'd to them by King Edward. III. An. Reg. 5.

[Valued at 133 l. 11 s. 1 d. per Annum.]

[ 294] WODHAM, in Essex.

THis place being formerly a Hermitage of St. Iohn Baptist, Maurice de Tiretia founded here a Priory of Canons, and gave them divers Lands, confirm'd by King Henry. II.

[ 295] IPSWICH, in Suffolk.

KIng Iohn in the fifth year of his Reign confirm'd to the Canons of the Church of the holy Trinity at Gypewic, the several Lands, Chur∣ches, and Possession, given them by many Benefactors, among the rest a Fair to last for three days at the Feast of the holy Cross in September.

[ 296] FINSHEVED, in Northamptonshire.

FOunded and endow'd with divers Lands and Possessions by Ri∣chard [ 297] Engaine, Lord of Blatherwick, in the Reign of King Iohn. Af∣ter the year 1367 the Male Line of the said Founder failing, his estate be∣came divided among three Sisters, married to the Families of Goldinton, Pabenham, and Bernake. Iohn Engayne gave divers Lands in Blatherwick [ 298] and Laxton, to the Canons of the blessed Mary of Finnisheved for the maintenance of two Chaplains in the Chappel at Finnisheved, and two other Chaplains in the Chappel of Blatherwick.

[Valued at 56 l. 10 s. 11 d. ob. per Annum.]

KEINSHAM, in Gloucestershire.

FOunded by William Earl of Gloucester, at the desire of Robert his Son, then dying. Dedicated to God, the blessed Mary, and the Apostles [ 299] St. Peter and St. Paul. Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford confirm'd the several Lands, Possessions and Liberties, given to the Ca∣nons of this House, and so did also King Edward II. An. Reg. 11.

KIRTMELE, in Lancashire.

[ 300] WIlliam Marescallus founded and endow'd this Priory for Canons, providing that it should always remain a Priory independent of [ 301] any other House, yet it should never be made an Abby, and upon the death of the Prior, two Canons to be chosen and presented to him or his heirs, of which he or his heirs to elect one to be made Prior. Confirm'd by King Edward II. An. Reg. 17.

LESNES, in Kent.

FOunded by Richard Lucy Prefect of England, An. 1178. In the year [ 302] 1179, the same Richard quitting his Office of Chief Justice, became

himself a Canon Regular of this House, and soon after died and was here. buried. The Lands and Possessions given to these Canons by their foun∣der, and others, were confirm'd to them by King Iohn, and King Edward. II.

BURSCOUGH, in Lancashire. [ 303]

FOunded and endow'd with large Possessions by Robert Lord of La∣thom. King Edward I. granted to these Canons to have a mercate e∣very Thursday, and a Fair for five days at the Feast of the Decollation of St. Iohn Baptist yearly, at their Mannour of Ormeskirk. Walter Lord of Scare∣sbrek [ 304] and many others were Benefactors, all whose gifts were recited and [ 305] confirm'd by King Edward. II. An. Reg. 17.

[Valued at 80 l. 7 s. 6 d. per Annum.]

STEVERDALE, in Somersetshire. [ 306]

RIchard Lovel Chivaler, gave certain Lands of the value of 40 s. to the Prior and Convent here for the finding of one Chaplain to celebrate daily for the Souls of the said Richard and his Ancestors, in the Church of this Priory. This House was founded by the Ancestors of Richard de Sancto maure; and united to the Monastery of Taunton, 24. Henry. VIII. [ 307]

DODFORD, in Worcestershire.

FOunded and endow'd by King Henry I. But in process of time the Revenues of this House being so decay'd that there remain'd here but one Canon, it was united to the Abby of Hales Owen, An. 4. Edward IV. [ 308]

The Abby de PRATIS, near Leicester.

FOunded An. 1143. by Robert Earl of Melent and Leicester, and largely endow'd by him and others with Churches, Lands, Rents, Tithes, and Liberties, in and about Leicester and elsewhere with the grant [ 309] of two Bucks yearly, one at the Feast of the Assumption, and one at the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, &c. Margaret de Quincy granted to the [ 310] Canons here divers Possessions, among other things House-bote and hay∣bote, and timber for repairs, out of her Forrest of Charnwood, as often as occasion requires; also one Buck yearly out of the said Forrest. Roger de Quincy granted them among other things the right Shoulder of every Deer taken in his Park of Acle, and free pasture for all their Cattle throughout the Forrest of Leicester. Their Possessions were confirm'd by King Steven, [ 311] and King Henry. II. Robert Earl of Mellent came into England with [ 312] the Conqueror who gave him the Earldom of Leicester, which City being destroy'd with the Castle there, he re-edified the Church of St, Mary in the said Castle, and placed in it twelve Secular Canons and a Dean, ap∣propriating thereunto all the Churches in Leicester (except St. Margarets which is a Prebend of Lincoln) with divers Lands. Robert his Son and Heir having sounded the Abby de Pratis transferred all the Possessions

and Prebends of the Church of St. Mary to his new built Abby. This last mentioned Robert (commonly call'd Bossu) took the Habit of a Canon Regular in this Abby, and died here, An. 1167. He also founded an Abby of Monks at Geroudon, and a Nunnery at Eaton, in, which his Countess Amicia became a Nun. After some time the Male Line of this Robert failing, the Estate became divided between two Sisters Co-heirs, Amicia married to Simon de Montefort, and Margaret married to Sayer de [ 315] Quincy. These Canons had also a Grant of one Load of Wood, daily, out of the Forrest of Leicester, ad focum domus infirmariae Canonicorum, for Fewel to serve in the Infirmary.

[Valued at 951 l. 14 s. 5 d. ob. per Annum.]

[ 316] GRIMESBY, in Lincolnshire.

KING Henry the I. founded and endowed this Priory, granting to the Canons here among other things, the tenth Penny of all his Farmes in Leiseby, and Grymesby, and the Tith of all Fish in his Port of Honflet, in pure and perpetual Alms, with large Liberties and Immuni∣ties. All which were confirm'd by King Henry the II.

[Valued at 9 l. 14 s. 7 d. per Annum.]

St. THOMAS the Martyr near Stafford.

FOunded by Richard Peche (Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, 1162.) who in his later days became a Canon Regular in this House, in which Habit he died and was buried; his Episcopal Habit being taken away by his Cosin G. Peche a Monk of Coventry. Robert de Ferrars Earl of Derby [ 317] gave to this Priory certain Lands together with his Body, after his decease, to be buried here.

[Valued at 141 l. 13 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

NEW-STEAD, in the Forrest of Sherwood, in Nottinghamshire.

FOunded by King Henry the II. for Canons Regular, to whom he gave the Town and Church of Paplewic and other Lands, with large Liber∣ties. [ 318] Also two great Wastes called Kygell, and Ravenshede. King Iohn while Earl of Morton gave other Lands, all which he confirm'd after he was King, An. 6.

[Valued at 167 l. 16 s. 11 d. ob. per Annum.]

[ 319] HICKLING, in Norfolk.

FOunded and endow'd by Theobaldus de Valeines. Confirm'd by King Iohn, An. Reg. 5.

[Valued at 100 l. 18 s. 7 d. ob. per Annum.]

STONELEY, near Kimbolton, in Huntingtonshire.

THIS was a Prioy of seven Canons, founded by William Mandeville Earl of Essex To this House the Rectory of Kymolton was appro∣priated. The Bigrames were Benefactors and lay here buried.

[Valued at 46 l. 0 s. 5 d. ob. per Annum]

MODBERLEY, in Cheshire. [ 320]

FOunded by Patricius de Modberley for Canons Regular, and by him endow'd with several Lands and Commons of Pasture. He also granted the Canons free power, upon the decease of their Prior, to elect another according to their own pleasure.

SPINEY, in Cambridgeshire.

FIRST founded by Beatrice Malebisse one of the Co-heirs of the Lord∣ship of Wikes, within the said Lordship, for three Canons Regular. Afterwards Maria de Basingburne, encreased the number to four, two of which were to come daily and officiate in the Church of Wykes. She [ 321] also gave a Messuage and other Lands for the Prior and Canons to main∣tain therein seven Poor men, allowing to each daily a Loaf of a Farthing, and among all a measure of Ale of a Penny, to each three Ells of Linnen Cloath at two pence per Ell, and every two years a Woollen Garment price two shillings and six pence, &c. Also to make three distributions of Alms per Annum to three thousand poor People. But these Charges being found to extend to much more then the Revenue of the Lands by her given, Richard Aithilwald and Matilda his Wife Cousin and Heir of the Foundresses, did An. 6. H. 5. release the coming of the two Canons to the Church of Wykes, and changed the three distributions abovesaid, to the giving thirteen shillings and four pence yearly in Alms to the Poor of Wykes, &c. King Henry the VI. An 27. granted his License to the Prior and Convent of this House to give their Convent and all their Revenues to the Prior and Convent of Ely. [ 322]

MOTESFONT, in Hantshire.

FOunded by William Briwer who endowed this Priory with divers Lands, and gave his Mannor of Merton for the maintenance of four poor men in Diet and Aparel, &c. Divers others were great Benefactors, among whom Peter de Rivallis Brother of the Founder then commonly call'd The Holy Man in the Wall: Alienora Wife of King Edward the I. gave divers Possessions for an Anniversary, and for daily Alms to seven poor Wi∣dows, &c. Confirm'd by Margery de la Ferte or Feritate Daughter of William Briwer, and Co heir after the death of William her Brother; Wil∣liam [ 324] Son of Reginald de Brus married Grace eldest Daughter and Co-heir

[ 325] of this William Brewere, from whom descended four Daughters, married to the Earl of Hereford, Cantelow, Fitzherbert, and Mortemer. The Estate of these Canons was confirm'd by King Iohn, An. 6.

[Valued at 1 •• 4 l. 3 s. 5 d. ob. per Annum.]

[ 326] FRITHELSTOKE, in Devonshire.

IT was found by Inquisition 15 Iohn. That Robert Son of Robert de Bello Campo founded and endow'd the Priory of Canons here dedicated to God, the blessed Mary and St. George; saving to the Patrons the liber∣ty of appointing one to guard the Gare of the said Priory in time of Va∣cation, and take care that the Goods of the same be not wasted, the said Guardian to have nothing but his sustenence, and upon confirmation of a new Prior to retire.

[Valued at 127 l. 2 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

WROXTON, in Oxfordshire.

FOunded by Master Michael Belet in the time of Hugh Bishop of Lin∣coln, and by him endowed with his Mannors of Wroxton, where it was founded, and Thorpe near Rowell in Northamptonshire. Confirm'd by King Hen. the III. with Liberties of Sac and Soc, &c.

[Valued at 78 l. 13 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

[ 327] DE PRATO, between North-Creyke and Burnham, in Norfolk.

ANno 1206. Robert de Nerford founded a Church here, which Robert was principal Warden of Dover Castle under Hubert de Burgo then Chief Justice of England. He also built a Chappel to the honour of St. [ 328] Bartholomew with an Hospital for thirteen poor men, and four Chaplains and a Master. After the death of the said Founder, the said Master and his Brethren took the Habit of Canons Regular, and from that time were called Prior and Canons. The Chappel and new erected Priory was de∣dicated, An. 1221. Alice Widow of the said Robert made several Orders for the Government of the said Hospital, among others that the Brethren [ 329] who should be admitted into the said Hospital should at their entry pro∣mise Chastity, and Obedience to the Master, that none should have pro∣perty, and that a Light should burn night and day in the Church. After that the said Alice confirm'd with Warranty all the Lands and Possessions given to this House, to the Canons for the same. She at last convey'd the Advowson and Patronage of this Priory of King Hen. the III. who made it an Abby, and confirm'd all their Possessions, An. Reg. 15.

ACORNBURY, in Herefordshire. [ 330]

THE Lady Margery de Lacy founded this Priory for Nuns, and en∣dow'd it with the Forrest of Acornbury, as was found by Inquisition, An. 49. H. 3. which King in the fiftieth year of his Reign confirm'd their Estate. Catherine de Lacy Daughter of the Foundress gave certain Lands to [ 331] these Nuns for the finding of a Chaplain to celebrate daily in their Church for the Souls of her Ancestors, and in case the said service should not be duly performed, then the Bishop of Hereford to compel the Prioress and Nuns to the performance. Margaret Widow of Walter de Clifford gave her Heart to these Nuns, to be buried in their Church, and with her Heart, fifteen Marks sterling, in Alms; this was by Deed dated, 1260. [ 332] Iohn de Breuse gave to the Nuns of Cornebery the Rents of ten (Burgagia) Borough houses in Tettebiri, which Gift was confirm'd by William his Son, 18 E. 1.

[Valued at 67 l. 13 s. 2 d. ob. per Annum.]

BILSINGTON, in Kent. [ 333]

FOunded An. 1258. by Iohn Mansel Provost of Beverley, who endow'd it with certain Lands'n Bilsington, and granted that upon the death or the Prior, the Superior and Convent should have the Custody of their own House and all their Possessions, and might proceed to the Election of a new Prior without License first obtain'd from any one. Some of the Lands of this Priory being overflow'd by the Sea, King Edw. the III. granted [ 334] the Canons License to drain, and include the same with Walls according to the Law of the Marish. This was after a writ of ad quod dampnum first sued out and return'd.

[Valued at 81 l. 1 s. 6 d. per Annum.]

BRADLEY, in Leicesterstire.

FOunded by Robert Bundy, it had but two Canons. Of later time, the Lord Scrope had the Patronage.

[Valued at 20 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

MICHELHAM, in Sussex.

FOunded by Gilbert de Aquila in honour of the Holy Trinity, for Ca∣nons, and endowed with divers Lands, free Pastures, and Priviledges in his Wood Grounds in Suffex. All which with other Lands given by many other Benefactors were recited and confirm'd by King Edward the II. [ 335] An. Reg. 14.

[Valued at 160 l. 12 s. 6 d. per Annum.]

[ 336] RATLINGCOPE, in Shropshire.

LEwelin Prince of North-Wales granted his Letters of Protection to the Canons of this House, to exempt them and theirs, from all Rapine and Depredation or any other molestation by the bordering Welch, and this was on the account of one Walter Corbet a Canon of this House, his Kinsman.

[ 337] RAVENSTON, in Lincolnshire.

PEter Chaceport Keeper of the Kings Wardrobe, having bought certain Lands here with the Advowson of the Church, Hugh his Son and Heir surrender'd them into the hands of King Henry the III. who with them founded and endow'd a Priory of Canons, granting them to have the cu∣stody of their own House in time of vacation, and not to be charg'd with [ 338] any Sustentation or Pension to any Clerk, Servant, &c. or keeping any of the Kings Horses.

GLANNAUCH, in Wales.

FOunded and endow'd by Lewellin Prince of North-Wales, An. 1221. After him several other Welch Princes confirm'd the Estate and Pos∣sessions of the Canons of the Isle of Glannauch. So also did King Edw. the I. An. Reg. 23.

[ 339] CHETWODE, in Buckinghamshire.

FOunded by Robert Grosteste Bishop of Lincoln. Here was formerly a Hermitage and Chappel of the holy Martyrs St. Steven and St. Lau∣rence, founded by Sir Robert de Chetwode Knt. It was vulgarly called a Hermitage, not that it was the Habitation of a Hermit, but because it was [ 340] situated in a solitary Place. This Priory was given with all its Possessions to the Abby of Notteley, 1 E. 4.

[ 341] LACOCK, in Wiltshire.

FOunded by Ela Widow of William Longaspata, for Nuns, among whom she her self took the Habit, An. 1236. and after became Abbess of this House. This William Longespee was Son of King Henry the II. and Earl of Rosmar and Salisbury in Right of Ela his Wife, descended from Wal∣ter de Ewrons, to whom King William gave the said Earldom of Salisbury. [ 342] The said Countess Ela founded two Monasteries in one day, viz. 16 Cal. Maii, Anno. Dom. 1232 Namely Henton for Carthusians, and this of La∣cock for Canonesses. The said Ela became Abbess here, An. 1240. resign'd An. 1257. died 1261. aged 74.

[Valued at 168 l. 9 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

SELEBURNE, in Hantshire. [ 343]

FOunded by Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester, and by him endow'd with divers Lands and Churches, saving to the Vicars of the said Churches a Sufficient sustentation, the Presentation to the said Vicarages to belong to the Prior and Canons,

KIRKBY Beler, in Leicestershire. [ 344]

ANno 13 Edward I. Roger Beler of Kirkeby founded a House of one Custos and 12 Chaplains to Celebrate in the Chappel of St. Peter at Kirkby, and gave them the Advowson of the said Church, and the Man∣nour of Buckminster. Vid inf. 246.

[Valued at 142 l. 10 s. 3 d. per Annum.]

ASHERUGGE, in Buckinghamshire.

EDmund Son of Richard King of the Romans and Earl of Cornwal, founded here a House for a Rector of Good men Brothers of the Church, in honour of the precious bloud of J••sus Christ; here were to be 20 Brethren, of which 13 at least to be Priests. For the maintenance of [ 345] these he gave divers Lands, Possessions, Liberties, and Priviledges, among other things to be free and quit of all Tolls, &c. and to be quit of Scutage as oft as it should happen; also to have the Custody of their own [ 346] House on the death of their Rector, and Liberty to chose another with∣out presenting him to the Patron. Vid. infra.

[Valued at 416 l. 16 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

KIRKBY Belar.

AN. 1326. Roger Beler was slain in Leicester. After whose death, his Widow with the assent of his Son and heir translated the Chantry of secular Priests by him founded at Kirkly to the use of Canons Regular, of whom the first Prior came from the Abby of Olustone (Ouston).

The issue of Roger Belar the first Founder failing, the Bishop of Lincoln, became Patron.

More of ASHRU'G.

THe Lord Edmund Earl of Cornwal, who founded this House of Reli∣gious Men call'd Bonos homines, or Bonhomes, was buryed in the Church here, wherein was carefully preserved a small parcel of our Lords Bloud, with the heart of Thomas de Cantilupo Bishop of Hereford the ho∣ly Confessor, and other Reliques.

RIGATE, in Surrey

SEems to be founded by some of the Warens Earls of Surrey, Iohn de Waren Earl of Surrey released to the Canons of this House a Rent of 19 s. 4 d. one plow-share, four horse-shooes and nails, which the said Canons used to pay yearly to his Ancestors for certain Tenements in Rey∣gate, [ 347] he also granted to these Canons 46 s. 11 d. per Annum. for the Cele∣brateing one Mas••e daily in his Castle of Reygate, for ever.

[Valued at 68 l. 16 s. 8 d. per Annum.]

HALTEMPRISE, in Yorkshire.

THis Monastery was first founded and endow'd at Cottingham by Thomas Wake, Lord of Lydel, with License of King Edw. II. Pope Iohn XXII. granted to the said Thomas Wake Liberty to translate the said [ 348] Monastery from thence to Altemprise. The said Thomas Wake granted to the Canons, Regular of this House several Mannours and Lands with [ 349] Great Liberties of Leets, &c. and Commons of Pasture, &c. in pure and per∣petual Alms, with general Warranty. Iohn de Meaux of Bewyke by his Deed dated An. 1361 (31 Edward III.) gave to the Prior and Con∣vent of this House his Mannour of Willardby, &c. conditionally for fix Canons to celebrate for the Souls of him and his Ancestors, &c. Matins Masse, Vespers and Complin, &c. and in the case of non performance of the Conditions his heirs to re-enter.

[Valued at 100 l. 0 s. 3 d. ob. per Annum.]

[ 351] BADLESMERE, in Kent.

KIng Edward II. An. 13. granted his License to Bartholmew de Bad∣lesmere to found and endow a House of Canons Regular in his Man∣nour of Badlesmere, with a Non obstante to the Statute of Mortmain.

MAXSTOKE, in Warwickshire.

FOunded by William Clinton Earl of Huntington, in honour of the ho∣ly Trinity, the Blessed Virgin, St. Michael, and all the Saints, for Ca∣nons [ 352] Regular, viz. One Prior elective, and a Convent of twelve Canons. In whose deed of Foundation, dated An. 1336, he appointed several Or∣dinances relating to their habit, the Election of the Prior, none to med∣dle with the Custody of the•• House in time of the Vacation but who the Superior and Convent shall appoint, Of the quality of such as are to be re∣ceived for Canons, Of the Number of Canons to be encreased, as the Re∣venue [ 353] increases, The Prior and Convent not to sell or grant any Cor∣rodies or Pensions unlesse compelled by inevitable necessity, Of the Ac∣compt, Of the founders Anniversary, Of the number of Masses, That at the end of every Office of our Lady the Priest who Officiate shall say the Angelic Salutation, in manner following, Ave Maria gracia plena Domi∣nus'tecum, Benedicta tu in Mulieribus & benedictus fructus ventris tui Ihesus,

Amen. Et benedicta sit venerabilis mater tua Anna, exqua tua Caro virginea & immaculata processit. Amen. With some other Orders; all which were [ 354] confirm'd by Roger Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, An. 1337. King Edw. the III. granted his License to these Canons to exchange their Man∣nor of Shustoke, for certain Lands in Maxstoke.

[Valued at 87 l. 12 s. 3 d. ob. per Annum.]

BISHAM, in Barkshire. [ 355]

FOunded by William de Monteacuto Earl of Sarum and Lord of Man, and Dynbeghe, who by his Deed dated An. 1338. endow'd the Ca∣nons here with divers Lands, Churches, and Rents, and granted that up∣on the death of the Prior, neither he nor his Heirs should intermeddle with Custody of the House, or any of their Possessions. King Henry the V. [ 356] An. 8. gave License to Matilda Widow of Iohn de Monteacuto Earl of Sarum, to remove the Bones of her said Husband buried in the Abby of Cirencester, to this Priory of Bustlesham and bury them here.

[Valued at 285 l. 11 s. ob. per Annum.]

FLANESFORD, in Herefordshire.

FOunded by Richard Talebot, in honour of God, St. Mary the Virgin, and St. Iohn Baptist, for Canons Regular, and by him endow'd with divers Lands and Possessions, which Lands being held of the King in Capite, King Edw. the III. An. 20. granted his License for so doing.

[Valued at 14 l. 8 s. 9 d. per Annum.]

EDINDON, in Wiltshire. [ 357]

WIlliam de Edindon Bishop of Winchester being born in this Town, founded in the Parish-Church of Edindon a perpetual Chantry for Secular Chaplains, and endow'd the same with sufficient Revenues, but being afterwards minded to turn the same to a Priory of Brethren of St. Augustines Order called Boni homines (or Bonhomes) he laid the Founda∣tion of a Monastery, An. 1352. which was dedicated in honour of St. Iames the Apostle, St. Catherine, and all Saints, by Robert Bishop of Sarum, An. 1361. William de Edyndon the Founder died, An. 1366.

[Valued at 442 l. 9 s. 7 d. ob. per Annum.]

DERTFORD, in Kent.

FOunded by King Edward the III. for Nuns of St. Augustines Order, living under the Care of the Friers of the Order of Preachers, and and by him endow'd with Lands and Reven••es in Kent, and elsewhere, [ 358] they enjoy'd also divers Houses and Rents in London, all which was con∣firm'd to them to hold in Frankalmoine, by the Grant of the said King, [ 359] dated in the six and fortieth year of his Reign. King Richard II.

An. 8. granted to the Prioress land Convent of this House (Monasteri∣um Sororum Praedicatissarum de Derford) the Mannor of Massingham in Nor∣folk with its Fairs, Markets, and Liberties, &c. for the finding of one Chap∣lain to celebrate in the Chappel of the Infirmary of this House, and for the Relief and Sustentation of the Sisters and Brethren in the said Infir∣mary.

[Valued at 380 l. 9 s. ob. per Annum.]

[ 360] SYON, in Middlesex.

FOunded by King Henry the V. An. Reg. 2. To the honour of the holy Trinity, the glorious Virgin Mary, the Apostles and Disciples of God, and all Saints, especially St. Briget, for sixty Nuns of which num∣ber one to be Abbess, of the Order of St. Augustin, and for five and twenty Religious Men, of which number thirteen to be Priests, four Deacons, and eight Laymen, all to be under the Government of the Consessor. To live separately, viz. The Nuns in a part of the House by themselves, and the Consessor and Brothers in a part distinct, chastely both in mind and body, according to the Regular Institute of St. Bridget. This Religious [ 361] House was founded in his Mannor of Istelworth in the Parish of Twykenham, near the Thames, and called by the name of the Monastery of St. Saviour, and St. Briget of Syon, of the Order of St. Augustin: by which name or Title the said Abbess and Nuns were enabled to purchase Lands, to sue, and be sued. Matilda Newton was appointed the first Abbess, and Wil∣liam Alnewyk the first Confessor. The said King Henry the V. endow'd this House with the Rent of one thousand Marks to be paid yearly out of the Exchequer, till he or his Heirs should settle Lands of that value.

[Valued at 1731 l. 8 s. 4 d. ob. per Annum.]

[ 362] SOme other Houses are reckon'd of this Order, of which there remains little or nothing of note but only their Names, which are Flixton, in Suffolk; Hempton, in suffolk; Leyes, in Norfolk; Wodebrigge, in Essex; Vlve∣scrofte, in Leicester shire; St. Iohn Baptist at Exeter; Canonleghe, in Devonshire; Shelbrede, in Sussex; Torpington, in Sussex; Merkeby, in Lincoln; Wes••wde, Kent; St. Iohn, Northampton.

Hospitals for the Infirme, Of St. AUGUSTINS Order.

It was Decreed in the Council of Lateran, An. Dom. 1179. That where a Number of Leperous People are gather'd to∣gether [ 365] in Community they shall be permitted to enjoy to themselves a Church, Church•• yard, and Priest of their own. But they must take care that this be no ways injurious or pre∣judicial to the Rights of Parish-Churches. Yet shall not the Leprous or Lazer-houses be compelled to pay Tithes of the increase of their own proper Cattle.

St. LEONARD's Hospital, in York. [ 367]

ANno Dom. 800. King Egbert in a Parliament at Winchester, chang'd the name of his Kingdom of Britain, into that of England. A. 924. Athestan succeeding his Father King Edward the elder in this Kingdom, he substituted Ho••el, King of Wales, and Constantin, King of Scotland, saying, it was more glorious to make a King than to be one. Which Constantin (more Scot∣torum perjurium non timens (they are the Authors words) soon after rebell'd against him, and wasted the Northern parts about Northumberland. Here∣upon King Athelstan rais'd an Army and in his Journey towards Scotland made his Supplications to God for Victory, at Beverlay, York, and Dur∣ham; after which he overcame Constantin; and imploring Almighty God to shew some token whereby the present and future Ages might know that the Scots ought to be subject to the Kings of England, he strook his Sword into a Rock of Stone near Dunbar Castle, and made therein a gash of an Ell deep, which remains (says my Author) to this day. This King returning out of Scotland Victorious, did divers works of Charity, in par∣ticular, he gave to the Clergy or Ministers of the Church of St. Peter at York, call'd Colidei, for the better Relief of the Poor, and Maintenance [ 368] of Hospitallity, certain Revenues, and a piece of Ground for erection of an Hospital; which Hospital when built was call'd the Hospi∣tal of St. Peter, until the Reign of King Steven, who built there a Church in honour of St. Leonard, after which it was called the Hospital of St. Leonard. King William Rusus, King Henry the I. King Hen. the II. [ 369] and others were Benefactors to this Hospital. Walter de Langton Master [ 370] of this Hospital in the 22 E. 1. made certain Orders for Government of the Brothers and Sisters in the same, containing an exact direction how the Chaplains were to spend the day both in the Church and out of it, in their Religious Offices, &c. That the Lay Brothers should not go beyond the Door of the Nave of the Church unless in processions, that the Si∣sters [ 371] have a convenient place appointed for them in the Church, that

neither any of them, nor the Lay-Brothers, go out of the Bounds of the Hospital without leave, &c.

[Valued at 362 l. 11 s. 1 d. ob. per Annum.]

CARMANS Spittle, in Yorkshire.

[ 372] FOunded by one Acehorne in the time of King Athelstan, for one Alder∣man and fourteen Brothers and Sisters, in the Town of Flixton. Designed for the Relief of Travellers that they might not be exposed to Wolves and other wild Beasts of the Woods; the said Founder endowing it with divers Possessions in Flixton, with common of Pasture for twenty four Cows and one Bull, &c. The Vicar of the Church of Folketon, in which Parish this Hospital was situate, was used yearly on the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, to cellebrate a Solemn Mass in the Chappel of this Hospital; the Assistants at which Mass enjoy'd several Indulgences. [ 373] King Henry the VI. An. 25. confirm'd the Possessions and Liberties of this Hospital naming it for the future Carmans Spitell.

St. GREGORY's Hospital, in Canterbury.

FOunded by Lansranc Archbishop of Canterbury without the North∣Gate of the City. For infirm Men, and Women to live a part in separate Divisions of the House. The said Lanfranc built near this Hospi∣tal a Church in honour of St. Gregory the Pope, placing Canons therein [ 374] who were to take care of the Souls of the said Poor, and were to receive their Provision daily from the Hospital, these Canons were endow'd with fair Revenues, which in the year 1384. were taxt or estimated in the whole at 133 l. 15 s. These Canons were at first Secular, as establisht, by [ 375] Lanfranc, but afterwards they were changed into Regulars by William Archbishop of Canterbury.

[Valued at 121 l. 15 s. 1 d. per Annum.]

BRACKLEY, in Northamptonshire.

RObert Earl of Mellent, who came into England with the Conqueror, founded this Hospital, where his Heart was kept intire, preserved with Salt. An. 6 Hen. 5. Matilda Widow of Iohn Lord Lovel granted her Mannor of Bagworth and Thornton in Leicestershire to certain Trustees and their Heirs, for them to grant to Thomas Coltone, and several others then Members of this Hospital, Pensions for Life; and by another Deed dated 8 H. 5. declared her Intention and Will to be to change this Ho∣spital into a Priory of Friers, Preachers, consisting of twelve and a Prior, the Kings License being first obtain'd; after which the said Trustees to re∣enseoff her or her Heirs with the said Mannor, or convey it to them back again. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 83.

St. JULIANS near St. Albans, in Hertfordshire. [ 376]

THe Church and House of St. Iulian near Eyewode was founded for Lazares; by Gaufridus Abbot of St. Albans with the advice and con∣sent of his Convent, and endow'd with divers Tithes and parcells of Tithes in St. Albans, Bradewey, and elsewhere. Confirm'd by King Henry the II. For the Government of these Brethren several Orders were made, as that their Habit should be a Tunick, and Supertunick of plain Rus∣sit, [ 377] that they should be single, or if married to separate from their Wives, both parties being willing; that no Woman should enter into the [ 378] House except the common Laundress, or a Mother, or Sister, to visit their Relation when sick with License of the Custos, that every Brother at his admitance should make Oath to obey the Abbot of St. Albans and his Archdeacon, &c.

RIPPON, in Yorkshire. [ 380]

FOund by Inquisition, that it was founded by Thurstan Archbishop of York, for the Relief of Poor and Leprous People. Endow'd with Revenues given at first to certain Sisters who lived here, wherewith to find a Chaplain to celebrate in the said Hospital, and to relieve all such Leperous People, who, being born in Ripschire, should repair to this House, where they were to receive one Garment called Bak, and two pair of Shooes per Annum, and every day to each man one Loaf, half a Flagon of Ale, &c. Which said Sisters being dead, the Archbishop that then was gave the Hospital to the Possession and Government of a Master and certain Chaplains, but in time Leperous People decaying, in the 15 E. 3. there were neither Brothers nor Sisters in this Hospital, otherwise it remain'd as it ought. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 89.

St. GILES, in the S••burbs of London. [ 381]

QUeen Maud Wife of King Henry the I. built on the West side of London a House for the Relief of Leperous People, with an Oratory, and call'd it the Hospital of St. Giles. It was endowed with several Re∣venues by the said Queen and others, all which were confirmed by her Grandson King Henry the II. Vid. ins. p. 400.

St. MARY of Bethelem without Bishopsgate, in the Suburbs of London.

SImon Fitz Mary Cittizen of London, having an extraordinary affection to the memory of the Incarnation and Nativity of our Saviour which was wrought in Betholem, gave all his Lands in the Parish of St. Butolph [ 382] without Bishopsgate, to a Church of St. Mary of Bethelem by him there erected, and for the instituting of a Priory of a Prior, Canons, Brethren and Sisters, to live according to the Rule and Order of the Church of

St. Mary at Bethelem, all which were to wear the Sign of a Star on their outward Garment; this Priory was also for the reception of the Bishop of Bethelem, or any of the Canons or others belonging to that Church when they should come into England, to which Bishop as a sign of Subjection, this Priory was to pay a Mark yearly at the Feast of Easter in nature of a Rent. The Deed of Foundation and Endowment of this House by the said Simon Fitz Mary bears date, An. 1247.

[ 383] St. MARY's Hospital without Bishopsgate, at London.

FOunded by Walter Brun Citizen of London, and Roisia his Wife, on a a parcel of Land given for that purpose by Walter Fitz Aldred Alder∣man, and endowed with divers parcells of Land and Rents of Tenements in several Parishes in and about London.

A Composition was made between Iohn Witing Rector of the Church of St. Butolph without Bishopsgate, and Godefrey then Prior, [ 385] and the Canons, and Brethren of this Hospital, about Parochial Rights; containing, that the said Prior should pay to the said Rector, in lieu of Tithes and Offerings for the territory and space of Ground belonging to his Priory, 10 s. yearly, at four quarterly Payments; in all other their Lands without the said Bounds Tithes to be paid; the said Prior and Canons to admit no Parishoner of the said Church to make oblation, or pay any Right that is due to the Parish Church, nor to be buried with them, un∣less the Parish Church be first satisfied, and for the Performance hereof the said Prior made Oath before the Bishop of London, and so were all his Successors to do. The first Stone of this Hospital was laid by Walter Archdeacon of London, An. 1197.

[Valued at 478 l. 6 s. 6 d. per Annum.]

[ 386] St. BARTLEMEWS Hospital in the Suburbs of London.

KING Henry the I. granted and confirm'd to the Prior and Canons of St. Bartholomews and to the Poor of the Hospital belonging to that Church, very great Liberties, (Et liberam esse sicut coronam meam) whose [ 387] Charter bears date An. 1133. (33 H. I.) This Hospital was founded for the receit of all poor infirm People, till such time as they should be cured of their Infirmities, and for the lying in of poor Women, and maintenance of their Children (in case the Mothers should die in Childbed in the Hospital) till the said Children be seven years old. On this Account King Edward the III. freed the Master, Brethren, and Sisters, of this House, from being taxt to the Publick Taxes of that time.

[Valued at 305 l. 6 s. 7 d. per Annum.]

[ 388] St. INNOCENTS near Lincoln.

FOunded by King Henry the I. for ten Lepers and a Warden, with two Chaplains and a Clerk, and endowed with several Rents, &c. as appeared by Inquisition in the Reign of King Edward the III. at which

time there was here, nine Brethren and Sisters, and but one of those a Leper, and he taken in not of Charity, but for 100 s. paid for his entrance; here were also seven Women taken in for money, contrary to the first [ 389] Institution. King Henry the VI. An. 35. granted this Hospital and all the Revenues thereunto belonging, after the death of the then Warden, to William Sutton Master of the Order of Burton, St. Lazarus, Warden of the Hospital of St. Giles of Lepers without London, and to the Brethren of the said Order and their Successors, for the finding and maintenance of three Lepers of the Kings Houshold Servants, if any such shall be, &c.

ILLEFORD, in Essex. [ 390]

THis Hospital was Founded by the Abbess and Convent of Barking for thirteen Leperous Brethren, two Chaplains, and a Clerk. For whose Regular Government Ralph de Baldock Bishop of London made Cer∣tain Orders, viz. That the Lepers were to be chosen out of the Dem••asns of the Abby of Barking if any such there, That the Abbess present to one place, and the Master and Brothers to the next alternately, That no mar∣ried Leper shall be admitted unless the Wife is minded to vow Chastity, That every Brother shall constantly frequent the Divine Offices at the Church unless hinder'd by Sickness, &c. That no Woman be admitted [ 391] to enter the said Hospital, unless the Abbess, near Relations to visit when Sick, or the Common Laundress, and that at open day, That no Leper shall go abroad without special License, That the Abbess shall ap∣point the Master of the said Hospital, That every Leper shall at his recepti∣on [ 392] make Oath to live chastly, to be obedient to the Abbess and Convent of Barking, to have nothing in propricty, &c. Which Orders bear date An. Dom. 1346.

[Valued at 16 l. 13 s. 3 d. per Annum.]

St. PETERS in the City of York.

KIng Henry. I. gave and confirm'd to the Hospital of St. Peter at York divers Lands by him, and Eustachius Fitz-Iohn, and others, granted toge∣ther with divers Liberties, as Sac & Soc, Tol & Them, &c. and as a more especial Mark of his favour to this House took to himself the name of a Bro∣ther and Warden of the same (Frater enim & Custos ejusdem Domus Deisum) The Like did King Henry III. and King Iohn. Their Possessions were [ 393] also confirm'd by King Henry II. and King Edward I. Other Benefactors [ 394] were William de Fortibus, Earl of Albemarl, Several of the Percys, and [ 395] Moubrays, &c.

St. MARY MAGDALEN at Colchester, in Essex. [ 396]

FOunded by Eudo Seneschal of King Henry I. by that Kings Command. King Richard I. granted to the Lepers of this Hospital a fair two days yearly, viz. on the Vigil and day of St. Mary Magdalen.

St. JOHN, and St. Leonard, at Alesbury, in Buckinghamshire.

FOunded and endow'd by Robert Ilhale, Robert atte Hide, &c. for the maintenance of Leperous and other poor People of Aylesbury; Confirm'd by King Henry I. and King Henry II. These were two Hospitals. That of St. Iohn valued at 33 s. 4 d. per Annum, and that of St. Leonard at 20 s. per Annum. But it was found by Inquisition, 34 Edward III. that for eleven years before, they were both decay'd, and their Possessions come to the hands of Laymen.

[ 397] BURTON Lazers, in Leicestershire.

FOunded for Leperous people by Roger de Moubray, and dedicated to God, St. Mary, and St. Lazerus of Ierusalem, and by him endow'd with divers Lands in Burton. Nigellus de Moubray granted to this House the Tith of all the Meat and Drink of his Family wherever he should in∣habit, and charged his Heirs diligently to perform the same. William de [ 398] Burdet gave to Burton St. Lazarus, and the infirm Brethren of Ierusalem, the Hospital of Tilton, and the Church of Louseby, &c. Sir Iohn Digby [ 399] Knight, and Thurbert de Rochebi, &c. were also Benefactors. Confirm'd by King Henry II. and King Iohn. King Edward III. granted to the Master and Brethren of St. Lazarus of Ierusalem in England, Founded for Lepers, and Souldiers that fight against the Enemies of the Cross, to be free and quit of all Tenths, Tallages, and other Aids and Contributions granted or to be granted to the King and his Heirs.

[Valued at 265 l. 10 s. 2 d. ob. per Annum.]

[ 400] St. GILES, without London. Sup. p. 381.

KING Edward the III. An. 27. at the Request of the Master of the Order of Burton St. Lazarus in England, and in consideration of the Release of a yearly Rent of forty Marks formerly granted out of the Exchequer, to the said Master and Brethren of that Order, granted to the said Brethren and their Successors the Custody of the Hospital of St. Giles without London.

YARUM, in Yorkshire.

FOunded by Alan de Wilton, who gave to this Hospital divers Lands [ 401] in Hooton to hold at the yearly Rent of two Marks, also other Lands in Mydilton, for the maintenance of three Chaplains in the said Hospital, and thirteen poor people. The same Alan did after wards grant this Hospi∣tal and all its Appurtenances in pure and perpetual Alms, to the Canons of Helagh-Park. The like grant was made to the said Canons by Peter de [ 402] Brus, which Peter de Brus gave'divers Lands to the Brethren of this Hospi∣tal, with free grinding in all his Mills, and free Pasture for all their pro∣per Cattle, in his Land.

St. JAMES near Westminster.

THE Master of the Hospital of St. Iames near Westminster being sum∣mon'd in a Quo Waranto, 22 E. 1. appear'd and pleaded, that King Henry the III. granted to the Leperous Women of St. Iames without London, near Westminster, their Lands then given, or to be given, to be held with Soc, and Sak, Thol and Them; and that King Edward the I. granted them a Fair yearly on the Vigil, day, and Morrow of St. Iames, and for four days following, & profert, &c. Ideo predictus Magister, quoad hoc sine die, &c.

TANREGGE, in Surrey. [ 403]

O Do Dammartin gave to God and the Hospital of St. Iames in his Vil∣lage of Tanregge, and to three Priests there serving God, certain Lands, &c. for the maintenance of Infirm and poor People, and Travellers, he also gave them his Relicks, two Silver Cups for the making a Chalice, with all the Vestments, Books and other Furniture of his own Chappel.

[Valued at 78 l. 8 s. 10 d. ob. per Annum.]

St. JOHN BAPTIST at Stamford, in Lincolnshire.

THIS Hospital dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist and St. Thomas the Mar∣tyr, consisting of a Master and Brethren, was founded by one Syward; among other Benefactors were Richard de Humez and Bertran de Verdun who gave part of a Meadow lying near the Bridge towards the North, wherein to build a Church and make a Coemitery. Confirm'd by King Richard I. and by Pope Alexander. It was situated at the end of Stamford-Bridge, on the South-side; for the Reception of Travellers and poor people. [ 404]

SAUTINGEFELD, near Wytsande.

KING Henry the II. confirm'd divers Lands to this Hospital and to the Brethren here serving God.

SCARDEBURGH, in Yorkshire.

THE Hospitals of St. Nicholas, and St. Thomas the Martyr, were e∣rected by certain Burgesses of Scardeburgh, and were both under the Inspection of the Bayliffs and Burgesses of that Town, &c. as was found by Inquisition, An. 26 Edw. the I.

[ 405] St. GILES, without Shrewsbury.

KING Henry the II. granted to the Poor of this House a Rent of 30 s. out of his Farm of Shropshire. King Henry the III. granted them out of every Sack of Corn coming to Shrewsbury Market, a handful of both hands, and out of every Sack of Wheat a handful of one hand, also a Horse-load of dead Wood daily in his Wood call'd Linewood, for their firing.

ROMENALE, in Kent.

FIRST founded by Adam de Cherrings in honour of the blessed Mar∣tyrs St. Steven, and St. Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, and by him endow'd with Lands, Rents, and Possessions for the maintenance of cer∣tain Lepers, and one Chaplain. But in process of time this Hospital be∣coming decay'd and neglected, by reason, chiefly, that no Lepers could be found to inhabit here for many years, Iohn Franceys Patron of this Hospi∣tal, An. 37. Edward the III. in order to revive and restore the same, made divers Orders, viz. That in lieu of the Lepers that used to be here, there should for the future be two Priests to celebrate for the Founders and [ 406] Benefactors, one of which to be Custos or Master, to be instituted and inducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and to be Resident, which two Priests shall celebrate daily in the Chappel of this Hospital, Matins, and the Canonical hours; that upon the death of the Custos, the Patron to present another to the Archbishop of Canterbury to be admitted Custos, within the space of two Months, or in default of the Patron, the Jurates of the Town of Romenale, or the major part of them, &c.

[ 407] St. BARTHOLMEWS without Oxford.

THE following Orders were made in the Parliament at Lincoln, An. 9. Edward the II. That there should be fix infirm Brothers of this Hospital, and two found Brothers to labour about the Affairs of the House, each of which eight, to receive 9 d. a Week, that there should be a Priest to be the Master of the said Hospital to say Mass daily, and to administer the Sacraments to the Infirm, his Salary fix Marks per Annum. Queen Margaret Widow of Edward the I. was during her Life Patroness and Visitor, and after her death the King or his Chancellor. The said King Edward the II. An. 14. granted his License, the former Ordina∣tion [ 408] non obstante, for the Master and Brothers of this Hospital to admit Iohn Serthe into the next void Place, the said Iohn having given eighteen Marks, to the Repairs of the Chappel, then ruinous.

MAIDEN-BRADLEY, in Wiltshire.

MAnserus Byset, a Baron, did first institute this House for Leperous Women, and appointed there certain Secular Priests, who he na∣med Curators of the Women. Hubert Bishop of Salisbury translated those Priests into Canons Regular. The Church of Kiderminster was appropri∣ated [ 409] to this House, by Roger Bishop of Worcester, after the death of Ro∣bert then Parson. This Manserus, or Manasserus Byset was Dapiser, or Sew∣er, to King Henry II. King Henry III. confirm'd the several Lands and Possessions given to the Leperous Sisters of Maiden-Brad••egh, and to the Prior and Brethren there.

[Valued at 180 l. 10 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

St. THOMAS of Acon, in London. [ 411]

KIng Edw. III. A. 14. confirm'd to the Master and Brethren of this Ho∣spital divers Lands, Tenements, and Rents in London, and elsewhere. as Westhame, Stratford, Bromley, and Stepney, &c. Ieffrey Fitz Peter Earl of Essex granted to the Brethren of this Hospital of St. Thomas the Mar∣tyr of Acon, the Custody of the Hospital of St. Iohn Evangelist at Ber∣chamstede. [ 412]

Anno 23. Heney the VI. Iohn Neel then Master, and his Brethren of this House, exhibited their Petition in Parliament, setting forth, that Thomas Son of Theobald de Helles, and Agnes his Wife, Sister of St. Thomas the Martyr Archbishop of Canterbury, gave to the Master and Brethren of this House then being, all the Land with the Appurtenances sometimes belonging to Gilbert Beckit Father of the said St. Thomas, in which Land the said Martyr was born, to make there a Church in Worship of God, the blessed Virgin, and the said Martyr, which Lands lye in the Parish of St. Mary of Colchirche in London, that the Endowment of the said Hospi∣tal was enlarg'd by King Henry the III. An. 52. in which house have al∣ways been, ever since, a Master and Brethren prosessing the Rule of St. Austin, and Priests and Clerks to the number of twelve or more, that of old time this House hath been dispoiled, and great part of their Evidences lost and destroyed, they pray therefore that his Majesty by the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and by the Authority of this present Par∣liament would ordain, stablish and approve, that the Master and Brethren of the House or Hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr of Acres in the City of London, may by that name plead and be impleaded, purchase Lands, have [ 413] a Common Seal, and choose their own Master, presenting him to the Ordinary, and that they may not be charged with any Corrody or Pension, and that their present Lands and Possessions may be confirm'd to them; all which was granted as desired, by the King, with the advice and assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in that Parliament, and by Authority of the same.

[Valued at 277 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

St. JOHN BAPTIST at Lynn, in Norfolk.

FOunded by Vlfketel Son of the Nun of Sceringes, and by him endow'd with a parcel of Land in Linn, to hold in pure and perpetual Alms. The Mayor and Burgesses of Linn did use to present and establish the Master and Warden of this Hospital, till the time of Iohn of Ely Bishop of Norwich.

[Valued at 7 l. 6 s. 11 d. per Annum.]

[ 414] St. MARY MAGDALENS at Lenne.

THomas de Cant. and Robert Winchelsey Archbishops of Canterbury, in their Visitations, and Peter the Chaplain, the Founder, made several Orders for the Government of this Hospital; as, that any Brother being a detractor or vexatious to the rest to be punisht by the Prior and Brethren, and if incorrigible to be expell'd; founded with a Church and Coemitary for twelve Brothers and Sisters, some sound, and some infirm, with a Chaplain; to dwell in the House, the infirm not to come into the Chan∣cel, Cellar, Kitchin, or Curtelage, nor to intermeddle with the Offices of the House, to have a Common Seal, &c. All the Brothers and Sisters to have equal Portions in the Revenues with the Prior, if any of the Infirm withdraws himself for one month, his Salary for a year to be forfeited, if for a year, he to be expell'd; a general Chapter to be held yearly the [ 415] next day after the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen, &c. Which Orders were ratified and confirm'd by William de Turbus Bishop of Norwich, Anno Dom. 1174.

KYNEWALDGRAVES, in Yorkshire.

ROger Archbishop of Tork, and other Archbishops of that See were Be∣nefactors to the poor Sisters of this Hospital dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, all confirm'd by Thomas Archbishop of York, An. 1301. Which with many other Possessions by others given were all recited and confirm'd by King Edward the III. An. 1.

[ 417] St. MARGARETS, at Huntingdon.

SEems to be founded by Malcolm King of Scotland, who gave to the In∣firm of this Hospital, Lands, and Rents, so did Isabel de Brus, Daugh∣ter of Earl David; Robert de Brus, Son of the said Isabel, Lord of Anan∣dale gave them divers Tenements in Cunyngtone, with view of Frank∣pledge to be held there twice per Annum, viz. after Easter, and after Mi∣chaelmass, with small Courts to be held there at their Will as ost as expe∣dient. The like Grant by Bernard de Bruys, all which was confirm'd to the Master and Brethren of this House by King Edw. III. An. 12.

HORNECHIRCHE, in Essex.

[ 418]

THE Master and Confraters of the Hospital of Hornchurch were re∣movable at the Will of the Master of the Hospital of St. Bernard de Monte in Savoy, to which Hospital this was only a Cell, having no Common Seal of their own, nor power to sue or be sued.

HERBALDOUNE, in Kent.

FOunded by King Henry II. who assigned to the Lepers of this Hos∣pital a Rent of twenty marks per Annum out of his Revenue of Can∣terbury, till such time as he assigns them other Provisions in Churches or Rents elsewhere.

[Valued at 109 l. 7 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

St. SEPULCHERS at Hedon in Yorkshire.

ALan Son of Oubernus gave a parcel of Land to God and the Lepers of St. Sepulchres at Hedon; Alexander de Thunestal and many others [ 419] were Benefactors to this Hospital, all whose Gifts were recited and con∣firm'd by King Edw. the II. An. Reg. 19.

HAVERING, in Essex. [ 420]

KING Henry the II. gave the Church of Havering to the poor Bre∣thren of the Church of St. Bernard de Monte Iovis. Confirm'd to them with other Lands by King Richard the I. and King Henry the III. An. 37.

ELLESHAM, in Lincolnshire. [ 421]

THIS Hospital, begun by Beatrix, and finisht and confirm'd by Walter de Amundevil, was by him conferr'd upon Canons Regular, [ 422] to whom he gave divers Lands and Churches, for the maintenance of Ho∣spitality and Sustentation of poor People. Confirm'd to the Canons by Iohn Son of William de Dyve, An. Dom. 1277. The abovesaid Walter [ 423] de Amundevile became a Canon here, and was here buried. The Hospi∣tallers of Ierusalem having by fraud obtain'd this House from the then Patron, were by Letter from Pope Alexander, made to relinquish their Pretensions.

[Valued at 70 l. 0 s: 8 d. per Annum.]

St. MARY's at Dover, in Kent.

FOunded by Hubert de Burgo Earl of Kent. King Henry III. An. II. granted to the Brothers and Sisters of this Hospital the Tith of all profitsarising from the Passage of the Port of Dover, to hold to them and their Successors in Frankalmoign. The same King, An. 13. granted them a yearly Rent of 10 l. at the feast of St. Michael to be paid out of the profits of his Port of Dover, beside the tith above mention'd. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 86.

[ 424] CONYNGESHED, in Lancashire.

WIlliam de Lancaster gave to God and St. Mary and to the Brethren of this Hospital, all Conyngsheved, and divers other Lands, [ 425] Possessions, and Commons of Pasture, &c. He also gave the Canons of this House the Advowson of the House of Lepers of St. Leonard at Kirkeby in Kendale, &c. Divers other Benefactors gave Many Lands and parcels, all [ 427] which were recited and confirm'd by King Edward II. An. 12. Magnus King of Man and the Iles, by his deed dated An. Dom. 1256. granted to the Prior and Convent of this House that their Ships and Goods should be free from toll, and all other demands and Customs, throughout all his Dominions.

St. JOHN Baptist, at Coventry.

LAurence Prior of Coventry, and the Convent there granted the Scite [ 428] of this House, and the apurtenances, in perpetual Alms for the Receit of Poor and infirm people. And this was at the petition of Edmund Arch∣deacon of Coventry. Confirm'd by Richard Archbishop of Canterbury, and by Bull of Pope Honorius III. dated, An. 1221. King Henry III. An. 45. granted to the Brethren and Sisters of this Hospital liberty and protection by themselves or Messengers to ask, gather, and receive Almes abroad, for Releif of their House, for the space of seven years. An. Dom. 1425, Ri∣chard Crosby being then Prior of the Cathedral and Regular Church of the Blessed Mary of Coventry, and Thomas Everdon Master or Custos of this Hospital, Several Orders were made for the Government of this House, containing, That the Prior and Convent aforesaid shall be accounted [ 429] Founders of this Hospital, and Edmund formerly Archdeacon of Coventry Principal Benefactor, that the Master of the Hospital be Subject to the Pri∣or, who is to have the placing, Creation, and reception of the said Mast∣er and all the Brethren and Sisters, that the said Prior and his Successors may Visit in the said Hospital once a year, attended with eight persons on∣ly, [ 430] the Master to make Oath of Fidelity to the Prior at his admission, the Brothers and Sisters a Promise in Writing sign'd and Seal'd, The Master to be in Priests Orders, the Habit of the Master and Brothers to be of Dark Colour sign'd with a black Crosse, and on their Mantles also a black Crosse; without which habit they ought not to appear abroad, The Master to hold Chapter every Fryday, or however once a week, The Di∣vine Offices to be devoutly celebrated in the said Hospital at the usual hours Secundum usum sarum, The Lay Brothers and Sisters that are illerate to say

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A CANNON HOSPITALLER OF S^t IOHN BAPTIST AT COVENTRY

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instead of Matins thirty Paters, and as many Aves, with the Creed, and for every of the other hours seven, But those Brothers that have learning, sufficient, to say the Office of the Blessed Virgin; The Sisters to be always intent and Solicitous about the Care and Service of the Infirm in the said Hospital, The Common Seal to be kept under three Keys, one to remain [ 431] with the Master, the other two with the Senior Brother and Sister, That the Master shall pay predial Tithes to the Prior, but not of Cattle nor Wood, That the said Hospital shall have a free Sepulture for those who choose to be buried with them, &c.

[Valued at 83 l. 3 s. 3 d. per Annum.]

BRUGWALTER in Somersetshire. [ 432]

FOunded by William Briewerr, for thirteen poor People, beside Religi∣ous men, and Travailers. Several Churches being of the Ad∣vowson of the Master and Brethren of this Hospital of St. Iohn Baptist at Brudgwalter, were appropriated hereunto by the Bishop of Bath and Wells [ 433] and the Bishop of Exeter, An. 1284. The Patronage of this Hospital coming to the hands of the Lord de la Zouche in Custody of King Henry VI. by reason of his Nonage, that King granted his License to the President and Brethren of this House to elect a New Master, on the death of the former.

[Valued at 120 l. 19 s. 1 d. ob. per Annum.]

BRUGENORTH, in Shropshire.

IT was found by Inquisition, 14 Edward IV. that Radulf le Strange Founded and endow'd this Hospital in honour of the blessed Trinity, the Virgin, and St. Iohn Baptist; From which Ralfle Strange did lineally descend Iohn Talbot, created first Earl Salisbury of that name. And it was then [ 434] further found that the name of Custos of this Hospital was in Process of time changed to that of Prior.

[Valued at 4 l. per Annum.]

St. JOHN'S in the City of Wells.

FIrst Founded by Hugh Bishop of Lincoln. Ioselin Bishop of Bath, and Sir Edmund Lyons were Benefactors. These were so bountiful to this Hospital, that at first this House had two hundred marks of annual Rents.

[Valued at 40 l. o s: 2 d. ob per Annum.]

STRODE, in Kent.

FOunded by Gilbert Bishop of Rochester, for the Receit of Poor, weak and infirm People, as well known, as Strangers, and Travellers, and for their releif with Bed, Meat, and Drink, till they either die or depart in health; The Master or Governour of which House by the name and title

of Iconomus, he appointed to be a Regular, and to have with him at least two Priests to celebrate daily two Masses. The said Bishop endow'd this [ 435] Hospital with divers Churches and Tithes, &c. All which Revenues were [ 436] confirm'd by the Prior and Convent of Rochester, Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury, and King Richard the first. Whose Several Deeds were all Re∣cited and confirm'd by King Edward III. An. 6. by Inspeximus. The same [ 437] King Edward III. An. 16. granted his License to Mary of St. Paul Countess of Pembroke to grant her Mannour of Strode to any House of Religious Men or Women, already built, or to be built by her, with a Non obstante to the Statute of Mortmain.

[Valued at 52 l. 9 s. 10 d. ob. per Annum.]

SHIREBURNE, in the Bishoprick of Durham.

FOunded and endow'd with Lands and Churches by Hugh de Puteaco (or Pudsey) who placed there Leperous People collected all over his Diocess, endowing it with Lands and Churches.

SUTTON, in Yorkshire.

JEffrey Fitz-Peter Earl of Essex gave certain Lands here to William de Wrotham Archdeacon of Tanton, for the erection of an Hospital in honour of the holy and individual Trinity, and the blessed Virgin, and of all Celestial Virtues, and all Saints, and for the maintenance of thirteen poor People and three Chaplains.

MERLEBERGE, in Wiltshire.

TO this Hospital dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist, and to the Brothers and Sisters here, King Iohn, An. 16. confirm'd divers Lands given by Henry de Kenet, Levenot Son of Levenot, and others.

[Valued at 6 l. 18 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

[ 438] St. LAURENCE near Bristol, in Somersetshire.

KING Iohn, An. Reg. 9. and King Henry the III. An. 32. confirmed divers Lands to the Masters and Brethren of this Hospital of Lepers of St. Laurence in the Suburbs of Bristol.

BOCKLAND, in Somersetshire.

LOretta Countess of Leicester, Widow of Earl Robert, gave divers Lands to God and the blessed Mary, and St. Iohn Baptist, and to the blessed Poor of the Hospital-house of Ierusalem, for the Sustentation of the Sisters of Bocklaund, and for the finding of a Chaplain to celebrate daily in the Church at Bokland.

St. THOMAS, in Southwark. [ 439]

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 impro∣priated.

[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. [ 440] 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 Pos∣sessions by Queen Philippa Wife of that King, He also granted to the [ 441] 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 [ 442] 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. [ 443]

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 Hospi∣tal 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, [ 444] himself laying the first Stone. The same King gave the Master and Bre∣thren 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 [ 445] 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 Wil∣liam, [ 446] the Founder of this House, by another Deed appointed the num∣ber 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 [ 447] 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 fol∣lowing 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 Oc∣casions, they shall hear Vespers and Complin; that they shall be all obedi∣ent 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 [ 448] 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. [ 449]

FOunded by Peter Vndergod, near the Bridge at Ludlow, and by him endow'd with divers Lands, &c. for the maintenance of certain Reli∣gious 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. [ 450]

FOunded by King Henry the III. in a place then called Newstrete, and by him endow'd with seven hundred Marks for the Maintenance of Converts, and for the building their Church, &c. to be paid yearly out of the Exchequer, one Moiety at Easter and the other at Michaelmas, till other Provision shall be made, in Lands or Rents. And by another Charter dated 33 H. 3. that King gave to this House by him founded for Convert Iews, between the old and new Temple at London, certain Es∣cheated Lands to hold to the Master and Brethren of the said House con∣verted and to be converted from Judaism to the Catholick Faith.

LECHELADE, in Gloucestershire. [ 451]

FOunded by Richard Earl of Cornwa! Brother of King Henry III. and Senchia his Wife. Confirm'd by King Henry III. Which King An. 54. granted to the Brethren of this Hospital, dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist, the Hermitage of Lovebury in the Forrest of Whichewode, they providing one Chaplain to celebrate daily in the said Hermitage. King Edward the IV. An. 12. granted the Patronage or Advowson of this Hospital to his Mother Cecily Dutchess of York, with License to change it into a Chantry of three perpetual Chaplains to celebrate the Divine Offices daily at the Altar of our Lady in the Church of Lechlade, which three Chaplains to be a Body incorporate, able to purchase Lands &c. and to have a Common Seal. By the same Deed he granted Li∣cense [ 452] to Iohn Twyn••ho to found another Chantry at the Altar of

St. Blase in the same Church for one perpetual Chaplain, and that the other three Chaplains may grant to this Chantry Priest of St. Blase, a yearly Rent of ten Marks.

LEDBURY, in Herefordshire.

[ 453] FOunded by Hugh Foliot Bishop of Hereford for the Reception of poor People and Travellers, and dedicated in honour of God and St. Katherine the Virgin; he endow'd it with several Churches, and Tenements, &c. all which with other Lands given by others, King Edw. the III. An. 2. confirm'd.

[Valued at 22. l. 5 s. per Annum.]

[ 454] St. LEONARDS, at Leicester.

RObert the III. call'd for distinction Blancmains, Earl of Leicester, had issue, among others, William a Leper, who founded this Hospi∣tal.

LANGRIGH, in ...

RIchard de Singelton, and Walter Nutun of Ribelcester gave to the Ma∣ster and Brethren of this Hospital, dedicated to God and St. Saviour, Divers Lands in Ribelcester and elsewhere.

[ 455] BILLESWIKE near Bristol, in Gloucestershire.

FOunded by Robert de Gurnay, and by him endow'd with the Mannor of Poulet, &c. for the Maintenance of a Master and three Chaplains, and for the refection of one hundred poor People daily, for ever, each of the said Poor to have a quantity of Bread of the weight of 45 s. with a sufficient quantity of Potage made of Oat-meal: the Bread to be made of an equal mixture of Bean-flower and Barly (de frumento fabarum, & ordeo.)

[Valued at 112 l. 9 s. 9 d. per Annum.]

GLANFORDBRIGGE, in Yorkshire.

[ 456] FOunded by the Ancestors of Sir Ralph Paynel Knt. but the Abbot and Convent of Seleby had the power of placing one of their Brother∣hood, in this Hospital, to have the Custody of the same, yet so that he should not convert the Goods of the Hospital to any other use but only to the Sustentation of the Poor and Needy.

St. BARTLEMEW's, in Gloucester.

IT was found by Inquisition 30 E. 3. That in the time of Hen. the II. one Nicholas Walred, a Chaplain, undertook the building of the West-Bridge here, to whom many Workmen resorting, one William Myparty a Burgess of Gloucester, erected a certain Habitation for the said Nicholas and the other Workmen, in which House for a long time after the said Nicholas and William did dwell together, with the Workmen and divers infirm People of both Sexes, having always a Priest for their Governor all living on Alms, till King Henry the III. An. 13. gave them the Church of St. Nicholas in this City, with other Lands, from which time the said House became an Hospital bearing the name of St. Bartlemew, the same King granted them Liberty also to choose a Prior, which accordingly they did. This Hospital consisted of a Master, and three Brothers, beside the Poor.

[Valued at 44 l. 7 s. 2 d. ob. per Annum.]

GRETHAM, in the Bishoprick of Durham. [ 457]

FOunded by Robert Bishop of Durham in honour of God, St. Mary, and St. Cuthbert, for a Master and Brethren, and for the Sustentation of the poor and needy People that should resort thither; who also en∣dow'd it with the Mannor of Gretham, &c. He granted also that the Master and Brethren of this House should be free from all Tolls, Aids, and Tal∣lages; and to all their Benefactors, being contrite and confess'd, he releas'd forty days Penance. Whose Deed, confirm'd by Hugh Prior of Durham and the Convent there, bears date An. Dom. 1262.

[Valued at 97 l. 6 s. 3 d. ob. per Annum.]

ESTBRIGGE, in Canterbury. [ 458]

THIS Hospital founded in honour of St. Nicholas, St. Catherine, and St. Thomas the Martyr, was compounded of several, united into one; the poor and infirm Brethren of which, William Cokyn Citizen of Canterbury made his Heirs of all his Lands, Possessions, and Chattles, which with divers other Gifts from other Men, King Edward the II. An. 7. recited and confirm'd to the Master and Brethren here, and their Successors.

[Valued at 23 l. 18 s. 9 d. ob. per Annum.]

BOLTON, in Northumberland.

FOunded and endow'd by Robert de Roos for three Brothers and Chap∣lains, and thirteen Leperous Men, and certain Lay Brothers. Con∣stituting [ 459] the Abbot of Rivall, and the Prior of Kyrkham joyntly to be the principal Wardens or Governors of this Hospital to whose Power, he com∣mitted the placing the Master, or displacing him if occasion be.

BASINGSTOKE, in Southamptonshire.

FOunded by King Henry the III. ad sustentation ministorum Altaris Christi, For the support of those who serve at God's Altar.

[ 460] St. KATHERINES near the Tower, at London.

FOunded by Queen Alianore Widow of King Henry II. For a Master and Brethren, and by her largely endow'd with Lands, Rents, and Tenements in East-Smithfield, Kent, and Hertfordshire. Reserving to her self and the succeeding Queens of England full Power to place the Master or Custos of the Hospital, for ever. Ordaining that out of the Revenues of this House should be maintain'd three Priests together with the said Master, to cele∣brate daily in the said Hospital; that on the 16th of November on which day King Henry the II. died, a half-penny a peice should be distributed in Alms to one thousand poor People, and on every day in the year 12 d. to twenty four poor People, that upon the death of any Brother or Sister, ano∣ther to be substituted by her, or the succeeding Queens of England, who are after her death, to be the Patronesses and Conservators of this House. Whose Deed of Foundation and Settlement, bears date An. Dom. 1273.

[Valued at 315 l. 14 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

[ 461] St. JOHN BAPTIST, in Exeter.

FOunded by Gilbert and Iohn, Merchants of Exeter, here were five Priests, nine Boys, and twelve poor People.

St. PAUL at Norwich.

FOunded by Edward (or Eborard) the II. Bishop of Norwich. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 43.

St. GILES at Norwich.

FOunded by Walter Suffeld, alias Calthorpe, Bishop of Norwich, for a Master, three Priests, and twelve poor Women.

[Valued at 90 l. 12 s. per Annum.]

WELLE, in ...

FOunded by Ralph Neville for three Chaplains, and certain poor and infirm People, and by him endow'd with divers Lands which he held of the honour of Richmond, for which he had the License of King Edward the III. An. 16. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 89.

PONTFRACT, in Yorkshire.

FOunded by William le Tabourerc, for one Chaplain and eight poor People, and endow'd by him and others, with the License of King Edward the III. granted An. 8.

ELSING-SPITTEL, in London. [ 462]

WIlliam Elsyng Citizen of London founded here a Colledge consisting of one Warden and four Secular Priests, and an Hospital of poor People in the Parishes of St. Alphege, and St. Mary Aldermanbury, on which Colledge and Hospital he bestow'd certain Tenements and Rents in the said Parishes and elsewhere in London; and gave the Patronage of the same to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, who united to this House, and appropriated the Church of Aldermanbury, &c. The said Dean and Chapter to pla•••• the Warden and two of the Priests, and the said William Elsyng, the other two; the Custos to be in Priestly orders, and unbenificed elsewhere; [ 463] so also the four Priests. Other Rules and Orders were made for the Go∣vernment of this House, as that the Custos or Warden shall at his admit∣tance be sworn to the due Administration of his Office; that the Warden and Priests shall daily say Mattins, Masses, and the Hours, Vespers and [ 464] Complin in the Chappel of the Hospital, and visit the infirm People there; that within three days after the Nativity of the blessed Virgin yearly the four Priests and Warden be new cloathed, in like manner, the four Priests Apparel not exceeding 30 s. for each, and the Warden in a Garment of the same colour not exceeding 40 s. and that the Priests be allowed more for Linnen and Shooes, &c. 20 s. per Annum to each, and the Warden 40 s. to be paid yearly, eight days after Easter; that ninety eight blind and poor [ 465] People of both Sexes be received and lodged in this Hospital, and Poor, Blind, or paralitick Priests, if any such offer themselves, to be received before any others, &c. Which orders were seal'd by the said William El∣syng, [ 466] An. Dom. 1331. (5 E 3.) in the presence of Iohn de 〈…〉〈…〉 Mayor of London, the two Sheriffs, and several Aldermen, &c. Not long after this, viz. An. 1340. Ralph Bishop of London changed the Warden and Secular Priests of this Hospital of St. Mary within Cripplegate, into a Prior and Canons Regular of St. Augustin, under the Patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Paul's, still; all other things concerning the said Hospital relating to the poor, &c. to remain as before; and this Com∣mutation was upon the Petition of the Founder William Elsyng.

[Valued at 193 l. 15 s. 5 d. per Annum.]

BERKING-CHIRCHE, near the Tower at London. [ 467]

KING Edward the III. An. 44. granted his License to Robert Denton Chaplain, to found an Hospital in his House or Messuage within the Parish of Berking-Church, London, for the Habitation of poor Priests and other poor men and Women, who fall into Frensies and lose their Memo∣ry; he also Licensed him to give and assign the same House and another Messuage in the Parish of St. Laurence Pountency (both which Messuages

were held of him in Burgage) to certain Chaplains, &c. for the celebrating the Divine Offices, &c. But the intended Foundation here not taking effect, King Rich. the II. An. 2. at the Petition of the said Robert, granted him License to assign the Premisses, &c. to the Hospital of St. Katherine near the Tower.

[ 468] St. MARY's in Leicester.

FOunded by Henry Duke of Lancaster near the Castle in Leicester, An. Dom. 1330. And by him endow'd with divers Lands, &c. Here was also of his Frection a Collegiate Church, in which he was buried An. 1361. The whole was to maintain a Dean and twelve Canons, and as many Vicars, one hundred poor People and ten able Women to serve them. Vid. Vol 3. part 2. p. 139.

[Valued at 23 l. 12 s. 11 d. per Annum.]

HEHTE, in Kent.

KING Edward the III. An. 16. granted his License to Hamon Bishop of Rochester for the founding of this Hospital for thirteen poor Peo∣ple, with a non obstante to the Statute of Mortmain.

[ 469] HOLBECHE, in Lincolnshire.

FOunded with License of King Edward the III. by Iohn de Kirktone for a Warden being a Chaplain, and fifteen poor People. Dedicated in honour of all Saints, and by the said Iohn endowed with divers Lands, held of the Abbot and Convent of Croyland.

St. NICHOLAS near York.

THis Hospital being of the Advowson or Patronage of the Kings of Eng∣land, was An. 1303. Visited by William de Grenefeud at that time [ 470] Lord Chancellor, at which time he made certain Orders for the Govern∣ment of this House, viz. that all the Brothers and Sisters of this Hospital should at their Admittance profess due Obedience to the Master and War∣den, and inviolaby observe perpetual Chastity, That both Brothers and Sisters should be present at Matins, Mass, and the other hours, unless hinder'd by Sickness, &c. and that they should say during the time of Di∣vine Service, the Lord's Prayer and Angelick Salutation, with due devoti∣on, iterating the same as often as the Lord shall inspire them; That the Brothers and Sisters should not live under the same Roof, &c. That what ever they have for their several uses shall after their death come to the House; That they shall have a Common Seal; that they shall not demise, or bind any of their Possessions, unknown to the Chancellor of England or his Successors; That for the future none shall be Master or Custos of this House but such only as will undertake the Government in his own person;

If any transgress against their due obedience the Master or Custos shall for [ 471] the first Offence punish the Ofsenders by with-holding their Commons for some days, as the offence requires, which punishment shall for the second offence be doubled, for the third the party shall be expell'd &c.

[Valued at 29 l. 1 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

BOWES, in the Ile of Gerneseye.

FOunded with License of King Edward III. An. 35. by Peter of St. Pe∣ters in Gernsey, in the Parish of Saintpierport in that Iland, for a Ma∣ster or Custos, Brethren, and Sisters; and by him endow'd with twenty yardland, and the delivery of fourscore quarters of wheat yearly, arising out of certain Land in the said Parish; which Land was held in Capite of the King, by a Service call'd Chaumpert, viz. the payment of the eleventh Sheaf arising on the said Lands yearly.

WOLVERHAMPTON, in Staffordshire. [ 472]

FOunded, with License of King Richard II. An. 16. by Clement Lu∣sone, and William Waterfall, for one Chaplain and six poor people.

The Holy Trinity in New Sarum.

KIng Richard II. An. 17. granted his License to Iohn Chaundeler to make an Hospital in honour of the holy Trinity of two messuages in a Street call'd Newestreet in New Sarum, for the Releif of poor weak and Infirm people, whereof the Mayor of the Said City for the time being to be Ma∣ster, and to rule and govern the same, and to endow the same with a cer∣tain Rent of 13 s. 4 d. King Henry IV. An. 1. granted License to the then Master to purchase Lands of 20 l. value per Annum.

KNOLS Alms house at Pontfract, in Yorkshire. [ 473]

FOunded by Sir Robert Knolls Knight Citizen of London, and Constance his Wife, in honour of the Holy Trinity, and blessed Virgin Mary, for certain Chaplains whereof one to be Master, two Clerks, and thirteen Poor people, such especially as by misfortune come to want, and two Servants to help the said Poor. The Master to have twenty marks for his fastenance, the two Clerks each ten marks, and the thirteen Poor a∣mongst them 34 l. 4 s. 3 d. ob, per Annum. viz. 1 d. ob, a day to each. Which Deed of the Said Roberts Foundation bears date An. Dom. 1385,

[Valued at 182 l. 14 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

OKEHAM, in Rutland.

KIng Richard II. An. 22. granted his License to William Dalby of Extone to found this Hospital for two Chaplains, of which one to be Custos, and thirteen poor Men, and to endow the same with one Messuage and two acres of Land at Okeham, and to grant the Patronage of the same [ 474] to the Prior and Convent of St. Anne of the Order of Ca••••husians at Co∣ventry, with a further License to the said Prior and Convent to give a yearly Rent of 40 l. to be issuing out of some of their Possessions where ever they pleased to assign, to the Custos of the said Hospital and the said Poor men for their maintenance, for ever.

[Valued at 12 l. 12 s. 11 d. per Annum.]

DONYNGTON, in Barkshire.

KIng Richard II. An. 16. gave License to Richard Alberbury to found an Hospital in his Mannor of Donyngton, which he held of the King, as of his honour of Walingford, for certain poor people, or which one to be chief, by the name and Title of The Minister of God of the poor House of Donyngton, and to endow the same with divers Lands.

[Valued at 19 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum.]

THORNTONS Hospital in New Castle upon Tine, in Northumberland.

FOunded by Roger Thornton in honour of St. Catherine for one Chap∣lain, [ 475] who is Custos, nine poor men, and four Poor Women, to be con∣tinually resident, for which foundation King Henry IV. An. 1•• granted his License, and that they might have a Common Seal. Endow'd by the said Roger with yearly Rents of 10 l.

EWELME, in Oxfordshire.

KIng Henry VI. An. 15. granted his License to his Cous••n William de la Pole Earl of Suffolk, and Alice his Wife to found an Alms House in this Town, for two Chaplains and thirteen poor men, and that they should be a Body Corporate, and that he might endow the same with one [ 476] hundred Marks per Annum. This Hospital was Founded An. Dom. 1448. and call'd Gods House. The two Priests were one to instruct the Poor in Religious Dutyes, the other to be a Schoolmaster and teach the poor; both to have for Salery to l. the Minister 16 d. a week, the other twelve poor men, 13 d, a week.

[Valued at 20 l. per Annum.]

SHIREBURNE, in Dorsetshire.

FOunded, with License of King Henry the VI. An. ••5. by Robert Nevyle Bishop of Sarum, Humfrey Stafford, Knt. Margaret Goghe, Iohn Faunt∣leroy, and Iohn Baret, to the honour of God, St. Iohn Baptist, and St. Iohn Evangelist, for twenty Brethren, twelve poor and impotent men, and four poor and impotent Women, and for a perpetual Chaplain; and that the Brothers of this House might elect one among themselves to be their Master from year to year, and upon the death of any of their number the rest might elect others to succeed in their room, &c.

BOCKING, in Essex. [ 477]

KING Henry the IV. granted his License to Iohn Doreward to erect a perpetual Chantry of one Chaplain in the Parish-Church of Stane∣wey in Essex, and to endow the same with a Mansion lying near the Church yard there, and with 7 l. of yearly Rent. Which Licensed Foun∣dation not being effected in the Life of the said Iohn, King Henry the VI. did afterward grant License to Iohn Doreward Esq his Son, to found a certain House at Bocking to be called Maison Dieu, for seven poor Peo∣ple, one of which to be call'd Praepositus Villae de Bokking, and to have the Government of the said poor, &c. and to endow the same, and a Chantry by him founded in the Parish Church of Bokking, with Lands and Rents.

TODINGTON, in Bedfordshire. [ 478]

KING Henry the VI. An. 21. granted his License that Iohn Broughton or his Feoffees might erect an Hospital in honour of St. Iohn Baptist in Todyngdone, for one Chaplain, and three poor Men, to be a perpetual Community and Body Corporate. Also that he might give to the Prio∣ress and Nuns of St. Margaret at Dertford an Annual Rent of 8 l. and that the said Nuns might assign the said Rent, and also another Rent of 5 l. per Annum to be issuing out of their own Lands to this Hospital, which House [ 479] of Dertford was of the said Kings Patronage being founded by his Proge∣nitors.

RICHMOND, in Yorkshire.

HERE being of old time a poor Hospital dedicated to St. Nicholas in which was only one Chaplain, of the Kings Patronage by rea∣son or the honour of Richmond, and that Hospital being fallen to extream decay, William Ayscogh one of the Justices of the Common-Pleas, repair'd it, and added another Chantry Chaplain, in consideration whereof, and that he was become as a second Founder, King Henry the VI. An. 26. granted him the Patronage.

[Valued at 10 l. per Annum.]

DERTFORD, in Kent.

KING Henry the VI. An. 31. gave License to Iohn Bamburgh, William Rothele, Roger Ionet, and Thomas Boost, and to the Survivors of them to found an Alms-House in honour of the holy Trinity (to which the Parish Church there is dedicated) for the perpetual Vicar of that Church, and the Gardians of the Goods, and Chattles of the said Church, and for five poor decrepid Men; and that the said Vicar, and Gardians, and their Successors should be Master of the said House, and a Body Corporate, and have a [ 480] Common Seal. With License to give and assign Lands and Rents to the said Hospital of the value of 20 l. per Annum.

The Alms-house within the Precinct of St. Crosses at Winchester, in Hampshire.

FOunded by Henry, Cardinal, and Bishop of Winchester, half Brother of King Henry IV. who by License of King Henry the VI. An. 21. [ 481] granted to the Master and Brethren of the Hospital of the Holy Cross near Winchester, divers Mannors, 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 [ 482] 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 Me∣mory; 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.

[ 483] 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 Wo∣man, of whom the Chaplain to be Custos or Warden. Which Hospital was made a Body Corporate, &c. and endow'd with divers Lands, and [ 484] 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 Lon∣don, and St. Mary of the Stronde in the County of Middlesex, to Richard Bishop of Winchester, Richard Bishop of London, Thomas Bishop of Dur∣ham, 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 Ju∣stice 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 Se∣cular 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 [ 585] King of England, at the Savoy; to be a Body Corporate, to have a Com∣mon 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 [ 489] whom they took their Denomination. The Hospital of St. Iohn [ 490] 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 re∣ceived [ 491] 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 Pas∣sion [ 492] and Resurrection, the Doors being all shut. After his Ascension, St. Steven and others of his Disciples served the poor in this Hospital house ac∣cording 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 throw∣ing 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 [ 493] 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, Obe∣dience, [ 494] and to live without Property, that when the Friers go abroad they [ 495] 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 [ 496] 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 [ 467] on their upper Garments as a Badge of their Faith, &c.

Others give another account of the Original of the Hospitallers•• affirm∣ing 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 be∣fore [ 498] the Temple of the Sepulcher, for their Habitation; here those M••r∣chants 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 Pil∣grims, 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 ano∣ther Church for them, dedicated to St Iohn Elemon, Patriarch of Alexan∣dria. These three Houses subsisted only by Alms, collected for them, yearly, by the said Merchants of Malfy, till the Christians conquer'd Ieru∣salem 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 more, procuring to it self great Revenues, and to [ 499] be discharged from its subjection not only to the Abbot, but Patriarch also. These and the like mighty Priviledges granted them by the Court of Rome, were the occasion of great Troubles and Disorders between the Hospitallers and the Patriarch of Ierusalem These Hospitallers on their admission were to make Oath upon the Missal, as follows, You promise [ 500] and vow to God, our L•••••• and my Lord St. John Baptist, to live and die under the obedience of such Supe••••••ior, whoever he be, as God shall give you, you vow fur∣ther and promise to live chastly until death, and also without property; we also make another promise, which no Religious Men besides us, make, for we promise to be Servants and Slaves of the In••irm our Masters. After the making this Vow, he who admits him says, And we promise you Bread and Water, and humble Cloathing, for nothing more you can require, and we make you a Partaker of all the good Works done in our Order, &c.

A List of such who have been Masters. [ 501]

• 1. Girardus.
• 2. Raymundus de Podio.
• 3. Augier de B••llen.
• 4. Ar••audns de Comps.
• 5. Gilbertus Assailli.
• 6. Castus.
• 7. Iobertus.
• 8. Gaufridus de Dinsono.
• 9. Hermengandus Daps, in his time the Christians lost Ierusalem.
• 10. Rogerius de Molins.
• 11. Garnerius de Neapoli, he had been Prior of St. Iohn's at London. Vid. p. 550.
• 12. Alfonsus de Portugalia, resigned.
• 13. Gaufridus Rat
• 14. Garinus de Monteacuto.
• 15. Bertrandus de Gexi.
• 16. Garinus.
• 17. Bertrandus de Cons. [ 502]
• 18. Petrus de Villa Brida. [ 503]
• 19. Willielmus Castello Novo.
• 20. Hugo Ryvell.
• 21. Nicholaus de Lorgne.
• 22. Odde.
• 23. Guillelmus de Villareto.
• 24. Fulco de Vilareto, in his time the Knights Hospitallers took the Island of Rhodes, and removed the Convent from Cyprus. He was deposed.
• 25. Mauricius de Paygnaco.
• 26. Elionnus de Villa Nova.
• 27. Deodatus de Gosono.
• 28. Petrus Cornelian.

[ 505] The Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, in the Suburbs of London.

FOunded by Iordan Briset, a Baron, about the year 1100. on ten Acres of Land which he had in exchange from the Nuns of Clerken∣well, which Nunnery he had founded not long before. The Church of this Hospital was dedicated in honour of St. Iohn Baptist by Heraclius Pa∣triarch [ 506] of Ierusalem, An. Dmo. 1185. The foresaid Iordan endow'd this House with fourteen Acres of Land adjoyning upon the Clerks Well. Ro∣bert de Fun gave to the Brethren of this House the Hermitage of Yevelie, with a Condition that the said Brothers should admit him into their Or∣der, at such time as he pleased, whether in Health or Sickness. Many o∣thers [ 507] were Benefactors, among the rest Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford gave to the Prior and Brothers of the Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in Eng∣land [ 508] two Knights Fees, William Earl of Ferrars, Hugh de Bellocampo, Gil∣bert [ 510] de Montefichet, &c. gave divers other Lands, and Churches, &c. re∣cited [ 511] and confirm'd by King Iohn, An. 1. These Knights of St. Iohn claimed a Priviledge to bury the Bodies of such who had given Alms to their Fra∣ternity, however they came to their death, whereupon it happen'd, An. 4. E. 1. that certain Fellons having been executed, some of the Ser∣vants of these Knights went to the Gallows and took `em down to bury, one of which Fellons, Adam le Messer by name, being laid in the Grave came to life again, and fled to the Neighbouring Church for Sanctuary, where he remain'd till he abjured the Realm. Pope Clemens having in the Council of Vienna supprest the Order of Knights Templers, and given all their Lands and Possessions, moveable and immoveable to these Knights [ 512] Hospitallers of St. Iohn of Ierusalem, King Edw. the II. An. 7. granted his Letters of Mandamus all over England, for putting the same in execution, in this Kingdom. The like Grant was made by Act of Parliament, An. 17. [ 513] E. 2. However Hugh Spencer the younger by force seized and held from them [ 514] their Mannor of the New Temple, London, which upon his Attainder came to the hands of King Edward the III. who in the twelfth year of his Reign, did give, grant, and sell, in consideration of 100 l. part of the said Mannor of the New Temple then valued at 7 l. 5 s. 2 d together with the Church, Coemitary, and Cloyster, &c. to the Prior of St. Iohn's and his Successors.

Vid. Vol. 3. p. 108.

[ 517] Of the Knights Templers in England.

ANno Dom. 1118. Certain Religious Knights, of whom the principal were Hugh de Paganis, and Godfrey de S. Audomaro, engaged them∣selves to the Service of Christ, before the Patriarch of Ierusalem, and un∣dertook to live after the Mannor of Canons Regular. King Baldwin granted them a Habitation in part of his Palace adjoyning to the Temple, and he and others gave them other Gifts whereon to subsist. Their chief proses∣sion was to guard the Roads from Theives for the safety of Pilgrims. Their Habit was white with a red Cross. Their number did in a little time so increase, that they had in their Convent above three hundred Knights, besides others, and as their number so their Possessions [ 518] did swell to a vast and invidious value. An. Dom. 1240. the Church be∣longing

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to these Knights at the Place call'd the New Temple in London was dedicated on Ascention day, the King and a great Concourse of Peers and great Persons being present, An. Dom. 1147. Conrad Emperor of Germany, and Lewis King of France, with great forces of French, English, Normans, and Britains, made an expedition against the Pagans in the Holy Land, but returned with Little or no success at that time; These Knights Tem∣plers [ 519] having been very Treacherous to the Christians at the Seige of Da∣mascus, which City had been taken by King Lewis but for them. An. Dom. 1307. (1 Edward 2.) These Knights were Imprison'd throughout all Christendome, for certain Enormities and Superstitions crept into their Order, and all their Estates real and personal Seized.

Of the New Temple at London. [ 521]

KIng Henry III. by a solemn and formal Deed of Grant dated the nine∣teenth year of his Reign, gave his Body to be buried, when it shall please God to take him out of this Life, at the New Temple in London The like did Queen A••ianor. The said King Henry III. granted to the Ma∣ster and Brothers of this House (Magistro & Fratribus militiae Temp'i Sa∣lomonis Ierusalem) and to their Successors 8 l. yearly out of the Exchequer for the Maintenance of three Chaplains in the New Temple at London. King Henry the II. gave the said Knights the whole Water Course of Fleet with a place near Castle Bainard for the making a Mill, with a Messuage [ 522] upon the Fleet near the Bridge. He also granted the Church of St. Cle∣ments Danes with all it appurtenances. Pope Innocent granted that none who should fly into the Houses of these Knights Templers for safety or Protection, should be disturb'd, nor their Goods taken, under Pain of Excommunication. One of these Priviledged Places belonging to these Knights was Parish=Gardyn, otherwise call'd Wideflete, in Suthwark (vide pag. 543) Concerning which divers Statutes and Orders were made by Iohn Duke of Bedford, Farmer of that place, An. 1320. Some of which were, That every person flying thither for safety should be examined for what Cause he flyes, whether for another mans Debt, or Felony, or Tres∣pass; and then his name and the Cause to be registred, That he shall be sworn to be of good behaviour in the said Priviledged place, while he re∣mains there, &c. If his flight be for Fellony he shall be kept under a Guard of six men of the Society, If any person strike another he shall pay [ 523] to the Lord 6 s. 8 d. if he draw bloud, 13 s. 4 d. If any one commit fel∣lony after his reception he shall lose his Priviledged and be committed to the Prison of the Kings Bench. If any person take in a Whore or be con∣vict of Fornication or Adultery within the Priviledged places, he shall forfeit to the Lord 6 s. 8 d and lose his Priviledge. Bernard de Ball••lio gave to these Knights 15 l. per Annum. of his Lands in England, arising at Hichen in Hartfordshire. This guift was made at Paris, in the Presence of the Apostolick Lord Eugenius, the King of France, Several Arch-Bishops and one hundred and thirty Knights of this Order. Confirm'd afterwards [ 524] by King Steven. An. Dom. 1185, an Inquisition was made by Frier Galfrid [ 525] Son of Steven, of all the Lands, Churches, Mills, Rents of Assize, &c. belonging to this Order in England; which Perticulars take up fifteen pa∣ges, and being as I conceive, of no use in this Abridgment, I shall not take any further notice of them, but refer the Curious to the Book at large. An. Dom. 1434. Frier Iohn Stillingfleet compiled a Book of the names,

[ 541] of all the Several Founders or Benefactors of the Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England, and of all the Lands, Churches, Preceptories Mannors, Houses, Rents. &c. given as well to the said Hospital, as to the Knights Templers in England. He begins with the Lord Iordan Briset who in the Reign of King Hen. 1. Founded the House and Hospital of St. Iohn at [ 542] Clerkenwell, and since him reckons up some hundreds of other Benefactors, with the Lands, &c. by them given, among whom, I shall observe, Wil. Maun∣deville Earl of Essex gave to the Brothers of this Hospital five Bucks to be received yearly between the Feasts of St, Iohn Baptist, and St. Michael, and five Does between St. Michael and Lent, for ever out of his Park of Enfelde. William Longeford Knt. William Coterell and others gave divers Tenements in the Parish of St. Dunstans West, with divers Rents in Fleet-street, the [ 543] Pasture call'd Fiketzfeld, the Mills of Wideflete, with the Garden called Parish-Garden, with many other Lands, Tenements, and Pastures in South∣wark, Lambethe, and Newington, &c. The Lady Ioan Gray Widow of Sir Robert Gray Knt. gave them the Mannor of Hampton near Kingston with all the Appurtenances, An. 1212. with other Lands elsewhere. Sir Thomas [ 544] de Saunford Knt. gave them the Mannor of Saunford in oxfordshire. Roger de Moubray gave to the Templers many Lands, among the rest, he gave [ 545] them the Preceptory of Bal••alle, in Warwickshire. Maud Countess of Clare, Widow of William, and Mother of Richard Earls of Clare, gave divers [ 546] Lands. Hubert de Ria, gave the Templers divers Revenues in the same [ 547] year that Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury out of anger and ill will departed from the King at Northampton; So runs the Date of the Deed. Robert de Everyngham gave the Templers the Mannor of Ronstone, &c. and Gilbert de Gressy gave them, there, two Quarentenes or Furlongs of Heath (bruerae) and Pasture for five hundred Sheep, this Preceptory was call'd Temple [ 548] Bruer. Simon de Montefort Earl of Leicester gave the Templers large Pos∣sessions [ 550] near Leicester. William de Erlegh had given Bucklande to be a Monastery of Canons, but they having misbehaved themselves and forfeited their Estate there, King Henry the II. about the year 1180. gave their House and Estate thereto belonging, to the Prior of St. Iohn of Ierusalem, for the Habitation of certain Sisters of that Order, conditioning that this [ 551] should be the only House in England for such Sisters. Robert de Ros and abundance of the greatest Lords of this Kingdom were Benefactors to these Knights. But above all they held themselves so far obliged to Roger de Moubray, that the Templers granted to the said Roger and his Heirs, that if at any time they should happen to find any Brother of the said Order put to publick Penance for any Fault or Offence against his Rule, yet the said Roger or his Heirs should have power to release him from his said Penance, without any contradicton. And the Hospitallers granted An. 1330. to Iohn Lord Moubray and his Heirs for ever, that in case he or they come at any time in devotion to any of their Convents beyond the Seas, to be as honourably received and served as any under the Degree of [ 552] their King. King Steven, King Henry the II. King Iohn, and King Henry the III. were great Benefactors to the Templers, the last of which granted them free Warren. Fairs and Markets, in many of their Mannors and [ 553] Towns. King Richard the I. had a special love for the Knights Hospital∣lers by reason he had received from the Master and Brothers of the Hos∣pital many benefits for himself and followers, when in the holy Land. King Richard the I. granted to the Templers, and also to the Hospitallers, Markets and Fairs in divers of their Towns. King Edward the II. granted

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all the Estate of the Templers to the Knights Hospitallers of St. Iohn, by Act of Parliament in the seventeenth year of his Reign. King Edw. the III. King Richard the II. and King Henry the IV. were also very kind to these Knights of St. Iohn, the last mention'd granted to these Knight, to receive from his Wood of Pederton three Load (six Horses to a Load) of underwood weekly, viz. of Thorne, Allez, Maple, and Hazel, for the use and profit of the Prioress and Sisters of Buckland, and their Successors for ever.

Ieffrey de Say granted to the Knights Templers (fratribus militiae Templi [ 555] Salomnis) his Mannor of West-Grenewiche, &c. A sine was past 19 H. 3. between Robert de Stanford Master of the Warfare of the Temple in England, [ 557] Plantiff, and Iohn de Curtenay and Emme his Wife Deforciants (inpedientes) of certain Lands in East-Hyrst. King Iohn confirm'd to the Knights Templers the Island of Lundy lying in the Mouth of the Severn. first granted by his Father King Henry the II. In short, the foresaid King Henry the III. granted [ 558] and confirm'd to the Templers in the eleventh year of his Reign, all Royal Liberties in all their Lands, exempting them and their men from Tolls, Taxes, &c. with all the Immunity that the Royal Power can grant (cum omnibus Libertatibus & liberis consuetudinibus, quas regia potestas liberiores alicui domui Religionis conferre potest.)

In the Pontificate of Pope Clement, the Knights Templers being accused [ 559] of hainous Crimes, he issued out his Commission to certain Cardinals to examine the Matter in France, before whom the Master and Preceptors of [ 560] this Order for that Kingdom appeared, and being sworn, confest themselves guilty of the Crimes whereof they were accused, and shewing great signs of Repentance, were absolved. After which the same Pope sent out his Bull into England to commissionate the Archbishop of Canterbury and divers other Bishops to make the like enquiry in this Kingdom. An. Dom. 1309. The Articles exhibited against these Knights were principally these; That [ 561] at their Reception into the Order they are caused by those who receive them, to deny Christ crucified, and sometimes God; That they affirm and teach that Christ is not true God; That they hope not to have Sal∣vation through him; That they spit, and piss against the Cross and Image of Christ thereon, and tread it under foot; that they used to assemble to∣gether for that purpose on Good Friday it self; That they do not believe the Sacrament of the Altar, nor any other Sacraments of the Church; that they injoyn the Priests of their Order not to say the words of Con∣secration in the Canon of the Mass; That they affirm and believe that the Great Master of their Order can absolve them from their Sins, so their Visitor, and Preceptors, tho' Laymen; That they use several obscene and [ 562] wicked actions at their admission (deosculabantur in ano seu spina dors••, ali quando in virgâ virili); That they mutually commit the Sin of Sodomy with one another, and affirm it to be no Crime but lawful; that they adore Idols, especially in their great Chapters and Assemblies, as their God and Saviour; that such Admissions are therefore private, none suffer'd to be present but those of the same Order; that they are sworn not to reveal the manner of their Reception under pain of Death or Imprisonment; and that these things are reported by publick same, common opinion, and also confest for the most part by many of their own Order in full Consistory before the Pope and Cardinals. The abovesaid Inquisitors sate upon these Matters in the Bishop of London's Hall in Octob. 1309. [ 563] ••efore whom divers Knights of this Order appearing, two of which being severally examin'd, discover'd the manner of their Reception into

the said Order, but not any thing appear'd to be criminal, absolutely deny∣ing [ 564] that any are received in any other manner. The like Inquisitors sate at Yo••k, and tho' both at London and York they were accused of many things, yet nothing appear'd for which the Order deserved in Justice to be suppressed (nihil inventum est quod de jure videretur statum illorum anul∣lare.) However they were all in one day seized on throughout England, and imprison'd. And in the Council of Vienna, An. Dom. 1312. the whole Order of the Templers was condemn'd and perpetually annull'd; with an Inhibition that none for the future should take that Order, profession or Habit, under pain of the greater Excommunication. After which the Knights Hospitallers of St. Iohn obtain'd most part of their Possessions. At this time William Archbishop of York, moved with Charity to consider the helpless condition of the Templers in his Diocess, placed them in several Monasteries in that County, and order'd them maintenance during Life. Vid. inf. 943. and Vid. Vol. 3. p. 62. 108.

[Valued at 2385 l. 12 s. 8 d. per Annum.]

THomas Wolsey Cardinal Priest of St. Cicily, and Archbishop of York, by Virtue of a Commission from Pope Leo X. An. Dom 1519. Composed certain Ordinances and Decrees for the better Government of the Canons Regular of St. Augustin in England: Consisting of these [ 565] several Heads. Of the Union, and General Chapter of all the Canons Regular in England, to be once every three years. Of their admittance into the Order, and form of Profession. Of their Obedience, Poverty, Clausure, Habit and Tonsure; Of the Canonical Hours and Offices in the [ 567] Church, and the manner of their Divine Service in their lesser Houses. [ 568] Of their Dormitory, and Refectory. The Duty of Abbots and Priors; [ 569] of Recreations, of the Accounts of the Houses, of forreign Affairs, of teaching Latin and sending their Students to the University of Oxford, and of the number of Canons in their Houses or Monasteries.

[ 570]

These Statutes to be publisht and observed in every House or Mona∣stery of Canons Regular in England, by their several Abbots, &c.

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Of the Canons of the Holy Sepulcher.

The Priory of the Holy Sepulcher in the Suburbs of Darwick [ 573]

ANno Dom. 1109. Black Canons were first brought into England, and settled first at Colchester, then at London, &c. Henry Earl of Warwick erected the Priory of the Holy Sepulcher at Warwick. About that time the Christians had newly taken the Holy Land, and had insti∣tuted Canons in the Church of the Sepulcher at Ierusalem, which Canons wore the same Habit with other Canons Regular, without any distinction besides a double Cross of red in the Breast of their upper Garment. This House in Warwick was the first and Superiour of this Order in all England, Wales, Scotland, and Irela••d, till the loss of Ierusalem, after which this Order decay'd almost to nothing, their Profits and Priviledges being trans∣ferr'd to the Trinitarians. Simon Bishop of Worcester dedicated their Altar, and Cimitery at Warwick, with express provision that the Parish-Churches of All-Saints, and St. Maries, should not suffer any diminution or detriment in their Tithes, Buryings, Oblations, Confessions, visiting the Sick, or any other accustomed Benefits to the said Churches belonging; and that these Canons should pay to the Parish or Mother Church of All Saints, an ac∣knowledgment of 30 d. yearly at the Feast of all Saints.

[Valued at 41 l. 10 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

THETFORD, in Norfolk. [ 574]

BUilt and endow'd with Lands and Revenues by the old Earls of War∣ren, for Canons of the Holy Sepulcher. Who enjoy'd here large Liberties. Hamelin Earl of Warren base Brother of King Henry the I••. granted to these Canons among other things, three Fairs, viz. One on the Invention of the Holy Cross in May, another on the Feast of the Holy Sepulcher, and the third on the Feast of the Exaltation of the [ 575] Cross, &c. All which Grants of his Ancestors were confirm'd by Iohn Earl of Warren, An. Dom. 1315. (8 E. 2.)

[Valued at 39 l. 6 s. 8 d. per Annum.]

Of the Order of Premonstratenses.

[ 579] THE Founder of this Order was St. Norbert, born in the Diocess of Colein, of noble Parents. About the Age of thirty three years he was made Deacon, and Priest; and renouncing all Church Preferments and a large Partimony, he distributed what he had among the poor. An. Dom. 1120. he retired to a place call'd Praemonstratum with thirteen Companions, in the Diocess of Laudunum, or Laon, a City in Picardy, and there began this Order, called from the place, Premonstratenses, according [ 580] to the Rule of St. Augustine. Being called from this retirement to op∣pose the Herefie of Tanchelinus at Antwerp, An. 1124. he in a little time re∣duced the Persons infected, to the Catholick Faith. After this he was (tho' against his will) made Archbishop of Magdeburg, and became very Instrumental in planting the Christian Religion in the Northern parts of [ 582] Europe, and also in healing the Schism between Innocent the III. and Peter Leo the Antipope. The Place called Premonstratum and a Chappel there, of St. Iohn Baptist, was given to St. Norbert by Bartholmew Bishop of Laudunum, with the approbation of Lewis the VI. call'd the Gross, King of [ 585] France. This place was so called, because (as is said) it was fore-shewn or Praemonstrated to be the Head Seat and Mother Church of this Order, by the Blessed Virgin, who also gave and appointed them their white [ 586] Habit. It lies in a Vally formed by nature into the shape of a Cross, the four Arms of which extend East and West, North and South, of equal [ 587] proportion. This Order being begun in the year 1120. as is before ob∣served, was first introduced into England in the ninth year of King Steven, and about An. Dom. 1146. settled at Newhouse.

[ 589] NEWHUS, in Lincolnshire.

FOunded by Peter de Gosla for an Abbot and Canons of the Order of Premonstratenses, which Abby and Church dedicated to St. Martial, was by him endow'd with Lands and Revenues; among other things he granted them free fishing in Humber, and Tithes of his Wood, &c. All which was confirm'd, by those of whom he held his Estate, Radelf de [ 590] Bajocis, and William Larl of Lincoln. This Abby was founded at Neuhus [ 591] in the place where the Castle formerly stood. Peter de Gosla held Lands at Newhouse by the service of five Knights Fees, of the Barons de Bajocis, who held the same of the King in Capite.

ALNEWIKE, in Northumberland.

FOunded and endowed for Canons of this Order, An. 1147. by Eu∣stace Fitz Iohn, who married the Daughter and Heir of Yvo de Vescy, [ 592] and by her had the Baronies of Alnewyk and Maltone, from whom de∣scended

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the noble Family of Vescy, whose Heirs General were married to Muscamp, and Bolbek.

[Valued at 189 l. 15 s. per Annum.]

BLIBURG, in Suffolk. [ 593]

KING Richard the I. recited and confirm'd to these Canons the se∣veral Lands and Rents given them by many Benefactors. The Founder and Patron of this Priory was the Abbot of St. Osiths. [ 594]

[Valued at 48 l. 8 s. 10 d. per Annum.]

HEPPE, in Westmerland.

THIS Priory was first founded in honour of St. Mary Magdalen at Preston, by Thomas Son of Gospatric, and by him endow'd with divers Lands; among other things he gave the Canons here as much Wood [ 595] as they would take out of his Woods, and to grind at his Mill toll-free. The said Thomas gave them also Pasture in and about Swindale, for sixty Cows, twenty Mares, five hundred Sheep, &c. With other Possessions in the Territory of the Town of Heppe where this Convent was new erected. Confirm'd by Robert de Veteriponte.

[Valued at 154 l. 17 s. 7 d. ob. per Annum.]

TUPHOLME, in Lincolnshire. [ 596]

KING Henry the III. An. 20. Confirmed to the Abbot and Canons of St. Mary of Tupholm, the several Lands and Possessions given them by Gilbert de Nevill, and Alan de Nevill his Brother, and divers other Benefactors. The first Founder was Robert de Nova Villa, or Nevill, who [ 597] held Lands of the King in Capite from the time of the Conquest, where∣with he endow'd this House.

[Valued at 100 l. 14 s. 10 d. per Annum.]

WELLEBEC, in Nottinghamshire.

JOceus le Flemangh came into England in the Conquerours Army and ob∣tain'd from that King divers Lands in Cukeney, &c. In this Town lived on Gamelbere, an old Tenant in Capite before the Conquest, who [ 598] held of the King two Carucates of Land, by the Service of shooing the Kings Palfrey on all four feet, with the Kings Nails (de cluario Domini Regis) as oft as the King should lie at his Mannour of Maunsfeld, and if he should lame (si inclaudet) the Palfrey, then he should give the King another Palfrey of four marks price, this Gamelbere dying without issue the said Estate came by Escheat to King Henry I. who gave it to Richard Son of the said Ioceus, and his heirs to hold by the same Service. This Richard had issue by Hawise a Kinswoman of the Earl of Ferrars, Thomas; who became the Founder of this Abby, where a Church of St. Iames

[ 599] was then crected, he also endow'd the same with Lands and Revenues augmented and confirm'd by his Descendents Simon Fitz-Simon and Isa∣bel his Wife, Walter de Faucumberge and Agnes his Wife &c. An. Dom. [ 600] 1329. Henry de Faucumberge past the Mannour of, and all his Estate in, Cukeney, with the Advowson of this Abby, to Iohn de Hothom Bishop of Ely, who four days after conveyed all the premisses, except the Advowson [ 601] of the Abby, to the Abbot and Convent of St. Iames at Welbeck; and by another Deed dated 25 days after in the same year Iohn de Nottingham then Abbot of this Abby, obliged himself and Successors to find eight Canons of his Abby for the daily celebration of the Divine Offices for the Souls in the said Deed montion'd and to celebrate the Anniversary of the said Bi∣shop in like manner as of then first and principal Founder, &c. And to this also he and all the Canons of this House obliged themselves by Oath [ 602] before a publick Notary, &c. Richard Basset Knight gave to this Abby the Town of Duckmanton, 〈…〉〈…〉 of the Barony of Henry de Stut••vill, was by him confirm 〈◊〉〈◊〉 laving to him the Service of one Knights Fee. The other Lan••••, &c. belonging to this Abby in Cukeney and elsewhere, were all confirm'd by King Henry II.

[Valued at 249 l. 6 s. 3 d. per Annum.]

[ 603] CROXTON, in Leicestershire.

WIlliam Parcarius Son of Ingeram Parcarius gave two parts of the Park of Croxton to this Priory; Hugh Brother of the said Willi∣am confirm'd the said Gift, and gave other Lands, &c. towards the Building of the Church. Also he gave his whole Demeasne of Croxton to these Canons to hold in see farm at the Rent of four marks per Annum [ 604] Margery de Sancto Albino gave them the other third part of Croxton Park. William Earl of Bolon, and Iohn Earl of Morton, Confirm'd their Estate at Croxton, and gave other Lands. The abovementioned Ingeram Parca∣rius was also call'd Ingeram le Porter, and came into England at the Con∣quest. [ 605] King Edward 1. An. I. confirm'd to the Abbot and Canons of the Church of St. Iohn the Evangelist and Apostle, at Croxton, otherwise call'd the Church of St. Iohn de Valle all their Lands, and granted them free Chace at Croxton. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 73.

[Valued at 385 l. 10 d. ob. per Annum.]

[ 606] LEYSTONE, in Suffolk.

FOunded in the time of King Henry II. by Radulphus de Glanville, and by him endow'd with the Mannour of Leystone. The Advowson of this Abby coming to the Crown by the forfeiture of Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk, King Richard II. An. 12. confirm'd to the Abbot and Con∣vent of this House their Estate, and granted them free Election of their Abbot, that in time of Vacation neither he nor his heirs nor any of his or their Officers would seize the Temporalities, nor intermeddle in the same, nor should any Abbot and Convent of this House be ever compell'd to grant any Corody or Pension to any Person. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 74.

[Valued at 181 l. 17 s. 1 d. per Annum.]

BEAUCHIEF, in Derbyshire. [ 907]

RObert Fitz-Ranulf Lord of Alferton, Norton, and Marnham, was one of these four Knights, who martyr'd the Blessed Thomas Arch-Bishop o•• Camesbury, in explation of which Act he founded this Monastery of Bello Capite, or Beauchef; dedicated to St. Thomas the Martyr. Thomas de Cadureis (or Chaworth) descended by an Heir General from the said Robert, gave divers Lands to this House, and confirm'd all the Gifts of [ 608] his Ancestors. King Edward II. An. 9. recited and confirm'd the Lands, [ 609] &c. given to the Abbot and Canons of this House, by their several Bene∣factors. [ 610]

[Valued at 126 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

BLANCLAND, in Northumberland. [ 611]

FOunded for twelve Canons of the Order of Premonstratenses by Wal∣ter de Bolebek, and by him endow'd with divers Lands &c.

[Valued at 40 l. 9 d. per Annum.]

NEWBO, in Lincolnshire. [ 612]

FOunded and endow'd with Lands and Churches by Richard Malebisse. Confirm'd by King Henry III. An. 9. Among other things the fore∣said Richard gave the Canons of this House certain Lands in Estwisell held of Iohn de Lascy Earl of Lincoln by Ward, Releif, and Scurage, &c. all which Services the said Earl afterwards released and quit claim'd to these Canons in pure and perpetual almes.

[Valued at 71 l. 8 s. 1 d. ob. per Annum.]

LAVINDENE, in Buckinghamshire. [ 613]

FOunded by Iohn Bidun and by him endow'd with divers Lands and Churches. Ranulph Earl of Chester, and Ralf de Bray, with di∣vers others, were Benefactors, all whose gifts were confirm'd to the Ca∣nons of the Church of St. Iohn Baptist at Lavindene by King Henry III. An. II.

[Valued at 79 l. 13 s. 8 d. per Annum]

WENDLYNG, in Norfolk.

FOunded and endow'd with Lands, &c. by William de Wendlying, in free and perpetual Almes. Confirm'd by King Edward III. An. 6. And by Robert de Stuievill, An. 1273. (1. Edward I.)

[Valued at 55 l. 18 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

[ 626] HAGNEBY, in Lincolnshire

FOunded in honour of St. Thomas the Martyr, Archbishop of Canter∣bury, by the Lady Agnes de Orreby, Wife of Herbert de Orreby, An. 22. Henry the II. Richard Bishop of Lincoln (52 H. 3.) and Philip de Kyme (4 E. 1.) with divers others were Benefactors.

[Valued at 87 l. 11 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

STANLY Park, commonly call'd Dale, in Darbyshire.

[ 627] IT is said that a certain Baker living in the Parish of St. Mary at Derby, a man very Religious and a great Alms-giver, was admonisht in a Vision to leave all that he had, and betake himself to a solitary Life in a Place call'd Depedale, which accordingly he did. This was a Desert and Moorish place East from Derby, near Stanley. Radulsus Son of Geremundus, Lord of the place, accidentally discovering this Hermit in his poor Habi∣tation, as he was hunting, and commiserating his Condition, granted him the Soil where his Hermitage stood and also the Tith of his Mill of [ 628] Burg, for his maintenance. The Daughter of this Radulfus was married to Serlo de Grendon Lord of Badeley, to whom his Aunt and Godmother, call'd The Gome of the Dale, (Gome in old English signified a Godmother) gave Depedale. These two astembled hither certain Canons from a Re∣ligious House at Kalke, to whom they gave this Place, where they built a¦sumptious [ 629] Church and Monastery, which obtain'd from Rome ample Priviledges. But these Canons becoming very relax in their Divine Offices, and more given to hunting, and the Pleasures of the Forrest, than to the Church and Prayer, for which being in danger to be removed, they by way of Prevention refigned all they had here into the hands of their Patron, and return'd to the place from whence they came, except Humfrey their Prior who retired to a place call'd the Magdalen, and became a Hermit. But this House became not hereby desolate, but afterwards rise to a greater degree of honour, (Ludit in adversis divina potentia rebus) for after this there came hither six Canons of the Order of Praemenstratenses from Tupholme, invited by the Patron. But these also misbehaved them∣selves, and were recall'd to Tupholme. Hereupon William de Grendhom, then Patron, procured five other Canons of the fame Order from Welbeck. [ 630] These also after some time return'd back, discouraged by excessive Po∣verty. At last William Son of the foresaid Radulf, with his Daughter Maud married to Ieffrey Sawcemere, but childles, and the foresaid William de Grendon, the Patron, his Sisters Son, joyn'd together in making a Fair and sufficient Endowment of Lands to this House, procuring nine Canons from Newhouse, to whom they gave the Town and Park of Stanley, the [ 631] Dominion of Depedale, with other Lands in Okebroke, &c. All which with their other Possessions given by other Benefactors, were confirm'd to the Abbot and Canons of Stanlegh Park by King Henry the III. An. 19.

Vid. Vol. 3. p. 72.

[Valued at 144 l. 12 s. per Annum.]

LANGDONE, in Kent, a Cell to Leystone. [ 622]

FOunded by William de Auberville, and by him endow'd with the Town of Langedone and divers other Lands; & confirm'd by Simon de Albrinciis his chief Lord, and Nicholas do Cryoll defcended of the fore∣said [ 623] William the Founder.

WEST-DERHAM, in Norfolk. [ 624]

FOunded by Hubert Dean of York, for the good of his own Soul, and the Souls of his Father and Mother, and of Ranulph de Glanville and Bertra his Wife who brought him up. He became afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, and endow'd this Abby with many Lands, all which was confirm'd by King Iohn, An. 1. who also granted to the Canons of this [ 625] House very great Liberties, and Immunities; as to be quit from all Tolls throughout the Kingdom, both for themselves and their men, &c.

[Valued at 228 l. ob. per Annum.]

BILEGH, alias Maldone, in Essex. [ 626]

THE Canons of Perendune removed to Maldon, An. Dom. 1180. Ro∣bert Mantell was their Founder. King Richard the I. An. 1. con∣firm'd all their Lands and Revenues, with the grant of Liberties.

[Valued at 157 l. 16 s. 11 d. per Annum.]

SULBY, in Northamptonshire. [ 627]

THIS Abby of St. Mary de Welleford afterwards call'd the Abby of Suleby was founded by William de Wideville. King Richard the I. granted these Canons divers Immunities. Robert de Pavily Knt. granted them his Mannor of Suleby to hold of the Abbot and Convent of West∣minister, being Lords of the Fee, at the yearly Rent of 102 s. and of him the said Robert by the Payment of one pound of Cummin, (Cimini) or 2 d. at Easter yearly, for all Services and Demands. Divers other Benefactors gave other Lands in Northamptonshire and elsewhere, among whom were Iohn de Lacy Constable of Chester, Ralph Basset, &c. All confirm'd and re∣cited [ 629] by King Edward the II. An. 9.

[Valued at 258 l. 8 s. 5 d. per Annum.]

COKERSAND, in Lancashire. [ 631]

FOunded by The••bald Walter, Brother of Hubert Archbishop of Canter∣bury, for Canons of the Premonstratenses, to whom he gave in pure and perpetual Alms the Hay (or inclosed ground) call'd Pyling for the ••recting of this Abby. Confirm'd by King Iohn, An. 2. All which,

[ 632] with other Lands granted by William de Lancaster, Iohn de Lasey Earl of [ 633] Lincoln, and Constable of Chester; and the Ieffrey Son of the Lord Iohn, and others, were recited and confirm'd by King Richard the II. An. 7. A Con∣test [ 634] happening between the Prior of Lancaster, and the Abbot of Cokersand, about Tithes and other Rights of the Church, it was agreed and settled by Papal Authority, An. 1216. that the Prior should have two parts of the Corn Tithes in Lancaster and Pulton, and this Abbot one third part; also [ 635] that the Abbot of Cokersand shall not admit any of the Parishioners of the Prior of Lancaster to Sepulture at his Convent, without the Priors Li∣cense, [ 636] &c. The Abbot and Convent of Leicester (de pratis) granted to the Canons of Cokersand the Scite of the Hospital of Cokersand, for the making of an Abby, which change from an Hospital to a Monastery, of Premon∣stratenses, was made An. 1190.

BEGEHAM, in Sussex.

[ 637]

THIS Abby was first founded at Hotteham, by Ralph de Dena, and by him endow'd with Lands, &c Translated from thence to Bege∣ham, otherwise call'd Benlin, by Ela de Saukvile Daughter of the first Founder, whose Son Ieffrey de Saukvile confirm'd the Estate of these Ca∣nons. [ 638] Confirm'd also by Gilbert de Aquila, Robert de Tu••nham, Walkelin [ 639] Maminot, and Richard Earl of Clare and Hereford were also Benefactors, [ 640] all whose Gifts were confirm'd by King Iohn. King Henry the III. An. 35. [ 642] granted to these Canons a weekly Market on the Thursday, at their Man∣nor of Rokeland, and a Fair there for three days at Midsomer. Which with their other Possessions, was confirm'd by King Edward the II. An. 6.

Vid. Vol. 3. p. 77.

[ 643] BARLINGS, in Lincolnshire.

FOunded by Ralph de Haye with the Consent of Richard Haye his Bro∣ther, [ 644] confirm'd by King Henry the II. and King Iohn, An. 16. The [ 645] Bardolfs, and Longspes were Benefactors.

[ 646] BRODHOLME, in Nottinghamshire.

KING Edward the II. An. 12. recited and confirm'd the several Lands and Possessions given to the Brothers and Sisters of Brodholme, by divers Benefactors; among whom, Ralph de Albaniaco, Walter de Clif∣ford [ 647] and Agnes his Wife, &c.

[Valued at 16 l. 5 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

COVERHAM, in Yorkshire.

THIS Monastery was first founded at Swayneby, An. Dom. 1190. by Helewisia Daughter and Heir of Ranulf de Glanvilla a Baron, and Capital Justice of England, in the time of King Henry the II. and Richard the I. It was afterwards translated from Swayneby to Coverham near Midle∣ham, by Ralph Fitz-Robert descended from the said Helewisia. The Lands, &c. given to this House by the Foundress and her Son Walleran Fitz-Robert, and Ralph Fitz-Robert, Edric Neusum, and others, were all confirm'd by King Edward the III. An. 22. Of this Family did descend [ 649] two Sisters Co-heirs, Mary Lady of Midleham, married to Ralph de Nevile, and Ioan married to Robert de Fatershall.

[Valued at 160 l. 18 s. 3 d. per Annum.]

St. AGATHA near Richmund, in Yorkshire.

FOunded by one Roaldus the Constable (possibly of Richmond Castle) Roger de Moubray, Alan Bygot and others were Benefactors, whose Grants were [ 650] recited and confirm'd by King Edw. III. An. 3. Richard le Scrope of Bolton, by [ 651] License of King Rich. II. granted to the Abbot and Convent of this House a yearly Rent of 150 l. for the Maintenance of ten Canons, over and above the common number then in the Monastery, and of two Secular Chaplains to celebrate for the said Richard and his Heirs, &c. and for the Maintenance of twenty two poor men in the said Abby. This Richard le Scrope had been the Kings Chancellour, and gave also to this Abby the Mannor of Brompton upon Swale, then valued at 10 l. 3 s. 4 d. per Annum.

[Valued at •• 11 l. 17 s. 11 d. per Annum.]

TORRE, in Devonshire. [ 652]

THIS Church and Abby of St. Saviours of Torre was founded by William Briwer, and by him endow'd with many Lands and with the Church of Torre, &c. to hold in free, pure, and perpetual Alms. King Iohn confirm'd to these Canons all their Possessions, with the Grant [ 653] of large Franchises, and Immunities from Scutage, and all Gelds, and Tolls &c. for themselves and their men. From this William Briwere the Foun∣der descended Reginald de Mohun, who in the thirty six of King Henry [ 654] the III. had a grant from this Abbot and Convent of Liberty to erect a Chappel in his Court at Thorre for himself and proper Family, but not to baptize there, nor admit any of the Parishioners to any Ecclesiastical Rights, the said Abbot and Convent to receive one Moiety of all Obla∣tions or Obventions arising in the said Chappel, &c.

[Valued at 396 l. 11 d. per Annum.]

[ 655] HALES-OWEN, in Shropshire.

THE Mannor and Advowson of the Church of Hales was given by King Iohn, An. 16. to Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester, for the erecting of a Religious House, which was accordingly founded here by that Bishop, and by him endowed with this Estate. Confirm'd by King Henry the III. Roger Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, An. 1248, ap∣propriated the Church of Waleshale to this Abby, after the death of Vin∣cent [ 656] then Rector of the said Church, saving out of the same a Vicaridge of thirteen Marks to be assigned to a Vicar, with all Obventions, &c. An. Dom. 1270. Godfrey Bishop of Worcester made a Settlement between the Abbot of Hales, and the Perpetual Vicar of the Parish Church there, the said Vicar to have and receive from the Abbot ten Marks yearly, a House with Out Houses, Orchard, Garden, and the Vesture of the Church-yard: The Canons to find another Priest to be under the Vicar (Pres∣biterm secundarium) and to bear all ordinary and extraordinary Charges. [ 657] Iohn de Hamptone, Ioan Botetourt, and Iohn her Son, gave divers Mannors, [ 658] and Advowsons, to this Abby, conditioning for Chantrys. Wolstan Bi∣shop of Worcester appropriated to this Abby the Church of Clent and Chappel of Rouley, reserving to the perpetual Vicar who hath the Cure of Souls there, a Revenue of 10 l. viz. a Messuage and Cur∣telage on the South side of the Church-yard, with Tith of Calves, Lambs, &c. and all small Tithes (except of the Monasteries proper Lands) Mortuaries, the Herbage and Trees of the Church-yard, and all the Altarage.

[Valued at 280 l. 13 s. 2 d. ob. per Annum.]

[ 659] LANGLEY, in 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.

[ 660] 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 Pre∣monstratenses, 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 [ 661] suit to any Forrest Courts, and from the expeditating or lawing of Dogs, and this not only for themselves, but all their Men dwel∣ling on their Lands. Other Benefactors to this Abby were Eua de [ 662] Clinton, Reginald de Albamara, Baldwin de Ripariis Lord of the I•••• [ 663] 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 [ 664] 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 Inven∣tory of the Goods of this Monastery was taken, Anno Dom. 1420. [ 665] 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 [ 666] 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 les∣ser 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.

[ 669] THe Life of this St. Gilbert is writ very largely, out of which I shall here observe only the most Remarkable Passages, as breifly as may be. He was born at Sempringham in Lincolnshire his Fathers name was Iocelinus. of Norman Extraction, but having large Possessions in this County. In his youth he was sent into France for the Improvement of [ 670] his Learning. At his return to the place of his Nativity, he instructed the Country Children, Boys and Girls, in the Rudiments of Learning and the Methods of a Religious Life. And the Churches of Sempring∣ham and Tirington being void, his Father Presented him Parson of the [ 671] same. After this he became a Domestick Clerk in the Family of Alex∣ander [ 672] Bishop of Lincoln, by whom he was made Priest. All this while he was of such Exemplary Piety that he became of great note for Sanctity of [ 673] life. Worldly Honours and Riches he despised, and refused to be an Arch∣deacon in the Church of Lincoln, which was offered him with considera∣ble [ 674] Advantages. This was in the Reign of King Henry I. At which time he begun his Order after this Manner; Seven young Virgins, who voluntarily left the World, shut themselves up in a solitary Habitation adjoyning to the North wall of the Church of St. Andrew at Sempringham, and submitted to his Government and direction in Spirituals. Their Apartment had but one Door kept Lockt, Their Diet and Releif they received in at a Win∣dow. [ 675] For the Assistance of these he appointed certain Lay Sisters, and for the outward Service of the House certain Lay Brothers. From this Be∣ginning [ 676] this Order encreased to many Monasteries, built, endow'd, and [ 677] encouraged by the great Men of this Kingdom. Pope Eugenius gave him the headship or Government of this Order. To assist him in his Office of Superspection he Collected Clerks who might take part of the Care of the Government of his Nunneries off of him, and this was the Ori∣ginal of the Canons of this Order. These Canons were to live in a [ 678] Separate habitation, and never to have any access to that of the Nuns, unless for the administration of some Sacrament, and that before many Wit∣nesses, but the same Church to serve for both. Yet had they two Rules; the Nuns that of St. Benedict, the Canons that or St. Augustin, with some [ 681] pecial Orders. St. Gilbert tho' Chief of this Order yet lived with as much hardship in fasting. Watching, and all other Austerities as the meanest of [ 682] them all. He abstain'd wholly from flesh, unless in Sickness, and from [ 684] Fish also in Lent and Advent. In the Reign of King Henry II. he fell into great Troubles by reason of his siding with Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury and his releiving him with monies when he fled into France, [ 685] but at length he was freed from them, and set at Liberty. After this he [ 686] had new Afflictions from the malicious Scandals of some lay Brothers of his own Order, but his patience brought him out of these Troubles also, and his Innocency and merit was certified by almost all the Bishops of [ 687] England, and by King Henry II. himself. In his old Age he was depri∣ved

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A NVN OF Y^e ORDER OF S^t. GILBERT.

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of his sight, but the vigor of his mind remain'd as perfect as ever, with all the vertuous faculties of his Soul not in the least decay'd. Obser∣ving [ 688] still the same, or greater austerities in the Course and Discipline of living. The day he spent in, either hearing somthing read, or in Prayer, or spiritual Discourses; he heard nothing with patience but what related to God and a good life, and himself spoke little, and that only what was holy and useful. He lived to be above one hundred years of age, and [ 690] dyed An. Dom. 1189 and was buried at Sempringham, four days after [ 691] his death, in the Presence of all the Priors and Prioress of this Order, [ 693] several other Abbots and Noble persons, and people of all qualities above two thousand. Many Miracles are said to be wrought through his inter∣cession, after this. An enquiry into the truth of which Reports was made at Sempringham, An. 1201. before certain Commissioners appointed [ 694] by Hulert Archbishop of Canterbury, and again after that, by Papal Au∣thority. The Consequence of which was the Canonization of St. Gilbert and the Inserting his name into the Catalogue of Saints, An. Dom. 1202. in [ 696] the Papacy of Innocent III.

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 [ 669] Election of the Master, &c.

Of the Principal Examiners or Searchers (Scrutatoribus) their Consti∣tution, [ 705] and Authority, &c.

Of the four Procurators in each House of this Order, &c. [ 711]

Of the Canons and Novices, and their Age, and of the Lay Canons, &c. [ 717]

Of the Brothers, their Institution, Apparel, and Duties, &c. [ 739]

Of the Nuns, and such matters as relate to them and their Houses. [ 755]

Of the Lay Sisters, their Apparel and manner of Life. [ 771]

Of the Sick and Infirm Nuns and Sisters, how to be treated. [ 775]

Of the Office of the Dead, and Funeral Matters, &c. [ 779]

Of some Rules relating equally to the Nuns and Sisters. [ 783]

Of the Unity and friendship between all the Houses of this Order. [ 785]

Of the Grand Chapter of the Order to be held yearly. In the [ 787] end of this last Chapter; the Founder of the Order Provides that in the [ 788] 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 Ste∣ven, [ 789] An. Dom. 1148. by Master Iohn Gilbert of Semplingham; William Bishop of Norwich writ a very high Commendation of this Gil∣bert, [ 790] and of all the Religious of his Order, by way Testimonial, to Pope Alexander III.

The Priory of Sempringham, in Lincolnshire.

[ 791] FOunded by Gilbert de Gaunt, and by him and others endow'd with [ 792] 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 in∣habited, with divers Lands and Tenements in Keten, Cotismore, and Ca∣sterton, 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.]

[ 793] CHIKESAND, in Bedfordshire.

[ 794] 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 ap∣purtenances 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 [ 795] and perpetual Alms. William de Kima confirm'd to the Prior and Con∣vent 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 Bene∣factors to this Priory, giving divers Lands in pure and perpetual Alms.

[Valued at 158 l. 7 s. 11 d. per Annum.]

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A CANNON REGVLAR OF S^t. GILBERT

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WATTON, in Yorkshire. [ 798]

FOunded by Eustachius Son of Iohn and Agnes his Wife, for Nuns, and thirteen Canons to serve and provide for them, according to the Insti∣tution 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 [ 799] descended from the said Eustachius. King Iohn also gave them Lands in [ 801] 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. [ 802]

PEter de Melsa and Beatrix his Wife gave to the Church of St. Mary of Alvingham, and to the Nuns and Brethren there, divers Lands and Revenues in Alvingham and elsewhere, confirm'd by Iohn their Son, An. Dom. 1232. Henry Bishop of Lincoln certified to the Treasurer and [ 803] Barons of the Exchequer, An. Dom. 1401, the names of all the Churches that were appropriated to the Order of Gilbertines. Pope Innocent the III. [ 805] confirm'd the Lands and Possessions of this Order, &c.

[Valued at 128 l. 14 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

St. ANDREWS, in the Suburbs of York. [ 808]

FOunded at Fishergate at Tork, by Hugh Murdac, and by him endow'd with Lands, Tenements, and Rents in and about York. A. D.. 1202, and exchange of certain Revenues was made by mutual consent between Simon then Dean, and the Chapter of St. Peter's at Tork; and Roger then Prior of this House, and Hugh Murdac.

[Valued at 47 l. 14 s. 3 d. ob. per Annum.] [ 809]

STIKESWOULD, in Lincolnshire.

IT was found by Inquisition taken at Stanford 3 E. I. That the Master and Nuns of Stikeswald held divers Lands at Huntington, of the Gift of several Benefactors.

[Valued at 114 l. 5 s. 2 d. ob. per Annum.]

ORMESBY, in Lincolnshire.

FOunded and endowed with Lands by Gilbert Son of Robert de Or∣mesby.

[ 810] SIXILL, in Lincolnshire.

FOunded by one—de Grelle Ancestor of Thomas de la Warre. Agnes de Percy and others were Benefactors.

[Valued at 135 l. 9 d. per Annum.]

[ 811] MARESEY, in Lincolnshire.

FOunded and endowed by Isabell de Chauncy Widow of Sir Philip de Chauncy.

[Valued at 130 l. 13 s. ob. per Annum.]

Newsted at ANCOLM, in Lincolnshire.

FOunded and endow'd, with the grant of very great Liberties and Immunities, by King Henry the II. Confirm'd by king Edward the II. [ 813] An. suo. 13. Divers Lands and Revenues were given to the Nuns of the Order of Semplingham, by Peter Son of Henry de Bilingey, whose Cousin and Heiress became the Wife of William Mason.

[Valued at 38 l. 13 s. 5 d. per Annum.]

[ 814] KATTELEY, in Lincolnshire.

PEter Son of Peter de Belyngey confirm'd to the Nuns of Catlei and their Brethren Clerks and Laics, divers Lands in Bilingey and Walcot, given by his Ancestors.

St. CATHERINES, in the Suburbs of Lincoln

FOunded by Robert the second, Bishop of Lincoln, with the assent of his Chapter, and endowed with the Prebend of Canewich, and with the Church of Newerc, and divers Lands and Revenues at Newerc, &c. Confirm'd by King Henry the II.

[Valued at 202 l. 5 s. ob. per Annum.]

[ 815] HEYNINGS, in Lincolnshire.

FOunded by Reynerus de Evermu, and by him, and Odo de Sanctâ Cruce, endowed with Lands. Confirm'd by King Henry the III. An. suo 52.

[Valued at 49 l. 5 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

HOLLAND-BRIGG, in Lincolnshire.

FOunded by one Godwin a Rich man of Lincoln; and named the Priory of St. Saviour.

MALTON, in Yorkshire. [ 816]

FOunded for Canons of this Order of Semplingham, by Eustachius Son of Iohn. Which said Eustachius, and William de Vesci his Son, conferr'd [ 817] on these Canons many Lands and Churches, so did the Flamvills, &c. [ 818] From the Vescies descended Gilbert de Aton, who became Patron of this [ 819] Priory, and died, An. Dom. 1307. The Lands of this Priory were con∣firm'd to these Canons by King Iohn. An. Dom. 1200. William Laceles, [ 820] Knt. granted to these Canons two Bovates of Land in old Malton, in lieu of certain Tithes by them granted to the Church of Soureby.

[Valued at 197 l. 19 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

SHOULDHAM, in Norfolk.

FOunded by Galfridus Son of Peter, Earl of Essex, for Nuns and their Brethren, Clerks and Laicks, and by him endow'd with the Mannor [ 821] of Shouldham, and many other Lands and Churches. After which Foun∣dation he removed the Body of his Wife Beatrix de Say, who died in Child-birth and had been buried at Chikesand, to this Priory.

[Valued at 138 l. 18 s. 1 d. per Annum.]

ELLERTON, in Yorkshire.

FOunded by William Son of Peter, who gave all his Inheritance in El∣terton for the making a Priory of Canons of the Order of Semping∣ham, [ 822] and for the Habitation, and Maintenance of thirteen poor Men. An. Dom. 1387. German de Hay then Patron of this Priory, obtain'd a [ 823] grant from the Prior and Convent of this House by Indenture, that where∣as the said German had then but the presentation of one poor man of the thirteen that were to be maintain'd in this Priory, for the future to said German his Heirs and Assigns Lords of the Mannor of Aghton, shall pre∣sent [ 824] nine of the thirteen, with the Penalty of 10 l. for every refusal to admit any poor man so presented. Vid. Vol. 3. p. 108.

[Valued at 62 l. 8 s. 10 d. per Annum.]

[ 825] OVETON in Hertnes, in the Bishoprick of Durham.

FOunded and endow'd with divers Lands in Oveton and elsewhere by Alan de Wiltone. For Canons of the Order of Semplingham. Con∣firm'd by King Iohn, An. suo, 5.

[Valued at 11 l. 2 s. 8 d. per Annum.]

[ 826] WELLS, in Lincolnshire.

FOunded by Iessrey de Hauvill, for Canons. To whom he gave all his Lands and Tenements, &c. in Welle, saving to him and his Heirs Pasture of sixty Cattle to feed with the Cattle of the Canons, saving also the Annual Rent of 5 s. to be paid to him and his Heirs. Confirm'd by King Iohn, An. Reg. 5.

[Valued at 95 l. 6 s. I d. per Annum.]

PULTON, in Wiltshire.

FOunded in the Reign of King Edward the III. by Sir Thomas de Sancto Mauro, Knt. and by him endow'd with the Mannor of Polton then valued at 10 l. per Annum, the Mannor of Chelesworth then valued [ 827] at 5 l. per Annum, with other Lands, King Edward the III. An. suo 28. granted to the Canons here very large Liberties and Immunities.

Of the Order of the Holy Trinity, for the Redemption of Captives.

The RULES of the Monks of the Holy Trinity were [ 830] approved by Pope Innocent III. and were,

THat they should live in Chastity and without property, That all their Revenue, or what comes to their hands lawfully shall be divided into three parts; with two parts of which they shall supply their own Necessaries, the third part shall be laid by for the Redemption of Chri∣tian Captives, taken by Pagans, either by purchasing their freedom for a Sum of Mony, or by purchasing Pagan Captives in order to exchange them for Christians.

That all Churches of this Order shall be intituled of the holy Trinity, and be of plain work.

That the Brethren cohabit together, three Clerks, and three Laymen, besides their cheif, who shall be call'd their Minister.

Their Garments to be of woollen Cloath, and white. They may wear Cloaks and Breeches, but must put them off when they liedown. They shall lie in Woollen, and not on feather Beds in their own Houses, unless in time of Sickness.

They may not ride on Horses, but on Asses they may.

They may drink Wine, provided it be with Temperance.

From the Ides of September to Easter they shall fast on the Monday, Wednes∣day, Friday, and Saturday (unless some solemn festival happen) to al∣so in Lent and other accustomed times of the Chruch.

Flesh they may eat if given them from abroad, or of their proper feeding, but that only on Sundays from Easter to Advent, and from Christmas to Septuagessima; and on Christmassday, Epiphany, Ascention, the Assumption, and Purification of the Blessed Mary, and Feast of all Saints. They shall buy nothing for their own Dyet, but Bread, Beans, Pease, Herbs, Oyle, Eggs, Milk, Cheese, and Fruit; but no Flesh, nor Fish, nor Wine, unless for the necessities of the Sick, and on Jorneys, &c.

In Towns where they have Houses of their own they shall not eat, nor drink out of the same, unless Water, tho' invited; nor lye out of their own Houses. The Infirm shall lye and eat by themselves: Strangers especially Religious men, that come to their Houses shall be kindly entertain'd according to the ability of the House. No Brother either Clerk or Lay but shall labour in some Office or other. They shall observe silence in the Church, Refectory, and Dortour, unless upon necessary Occasions, A Chapter shall be held every Sunday if possible, in which they shall consider of the affairs of the House, and then also an

Exhortation shall be made in a plain manner to all the Brethren and others of the House, instructing them in their duty of what they are to bel••ve and practice. If any Brother give Scandal, or strike another he shall be punishe at the will of the Minister, more or less. A General Chapter shall be held once a year, and that in the Oc••aves of Pentecost. The Minister shall be Elected by the Common Council of the Brethren, not for the dignity of his Birth but the Merits of his person. The Mi∣nister is either greater or Lesser; The Greater may hear the Confessions of all the Congregations of his Order, the Lesser only of his own House. If any desire to enter into this Order he shall first undergo a years Probation, or more if there be occasion, and none shall be received under the age of twenty years.

None shall swear an Oath unless upon great Necessity by License of the Minister, or by command of the Bishops, and for an honest and just cause.

[ 831] THELESFORD, in Warwickshire.

THis House, dedicated to God, St. Iohn Baptisi, and St. Radegund the Virgin, was founded by William Son of Wa••er de Cherlecote, for the Releif of the Poor, and for the Receit of Travellers, or Pilgrims and Religious Men there serving God; he endow'd in with several Revenues in Cherlecote. Other Benefactors were Fulk Son of William de Lucy; William de Narford Lord of Bereford, who among other things granted to the Minister and Friers of this House free Fishing in his Water [ 832] of Avon, on all days but Sundays, with other great Liberties and Privi∣ledges; and William de Bello Campo Earl of Warwick. All whose gifts and Grants King Edward III. in the third year of his Reign, confirmed to Thomas de Offynton at that time Minister, and the Friers of this House, and [ 833] their Successors, to hold free and quit of all Secular demands and Exacti∣ons, whose Deed bears date at Kenylworth.

[Valued at 23 l. 10 s. per Annum.]

MOTTIDEN, in KENT.

THis House of Friers of the holy Cross, was first founded by Sir Robert de Rokesley Knight; the Modern Patron was the Earl of Northumber∣land.

[Valued at 50 l. 13 s. ob. per Annum.]

INGHAM, in Norfolk.

WIlliam Staserton was the first Founder of this Priory, of later time Francis Calthorp became Patron.

[Valued at 61 l. 9 s. 7 d. ob. per Annum.]

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A TRINITARIAN

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KNARESBOROUGH, in Yorkshire.

KIng Iohn gave certain Lands in Swinesco, to Frier Robert a Hermit in this place, which his Son King Henry III, confirm'd to Frier Ivo, by the title of Hermit of the holy Cross of Knaresburg, in the twelfth year of his Reign.

Richard King of the Romans and Earl of Cornwall, Brother to King [ 834] Henry III. gave to God and to the Brothers of the Holy Trinity of Captives at Knaresburgh the Chappel of St. Robert at Knaresburgh, and all the Land which King Iohn, his Father gave to the said Saint Robert in his life time, with other Lands, and Commons of Pasture for twenty Cows, and three hundred Sheep, and Paunage for forty Hogs, &c. Whose Deed bears date at London, An. Dom. 1257. All which was afterward con∣firm'd by King Edward I. and King Edward II.

[Valued at 35 l. 10 s. 11 d. per Annum.]

Additions to the First Volum of the Monasticon Anglicanum.

[ 837] Pag. 18. GLASTONBURY.

DIvers other Grants of Lands, Revenues, Liberties, &c. were made to this Monastery by several Kings and Bishops in the times of the Sa∣xons, &c. King Etheldred, An, 987, granted to the Abbot and Monks here [ 842] certain Lands to hold and possess, quamdiu sides in Anglorum catholicâ preman∣serit plebe. So long as the Catholick Faith shall remain among the People of England; or, while the People, there, shall remain Catholicks.

[ 844] Pag. 31. ROCHESTER.

IN the year 1197. Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury, exchanged the Mannor and Church of Darent to the Monks of St. Andrew at Roche∣ster, for the Mannor and Church of Lammedbe (Lambeth) with all the Appurtenances thereto belonging, as well in the said Mannor as in Suwerc (Southwark) And this was by the assent of King Richard the I. and Gilbert then Bishop of Rochester.

[ 845] Pag. 49. DURHAM.

KING William the Conqueror commanded the men of Carlile, and those Parts, that they should receive Christianity of the Bishop of [ 846] Durham and his Archdeacon. Nigellus de Albeney a great Favourite to King Henry the I. spoild'd the Monastery of Durham of two Mannors, but being afterwards very sick and weak, repented and restored them. Hugh Bishop of Durham was highly favour'd by King Richard the I. who made him Earl of Northumberland, and committed the Government of the Realm to his care during his absence in his Voyage to the Holy Land, but afterwards falling into the King's displeasure he was devested to the Earldom of Northumberland before his death, which happen'd in the year 1194. Anthony Beek elected Bishop of Durham in the year 1283. was a man of so great Authority, that he usually had in his retinue one hundred and forty Knights. He had a grant of the Isle of Man for life; he was a great Builder; he died, An. 1310. and was the first Bishop that was buried in the Church of Durham.

Pag. 62. WESTMINSTER. [ 847]

IN the year 1556. Cardinal Pole, then Archbishop of Canterbury and Legat de Latere, upon the Petition of the Dean and Chapter of St. Peter's at Westminster, granted them License to give and surrender all and singular their Goods, moveable and immoveable, Actions, and Rights, whatsover, to their Church, or to them in right of their Church, be∣longing, to King Philip and Queen Mary, that with the same they might endow the Abbot and Convent of the said Church in perpetual Alms, and restore it to the condition of a Monastery as formerly. Which License was dated at his Mannor of Croydon, 17th. Kal. October, in the second 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-edi∣fied and made an Abby by Gilbert de Gant, whose Off-spring con∣firm'd [ 848] and augmented the Lands and Endowments of the same. From the [ 850] said Gilbert de Gaunt, who came into England with the Conqueror, de∣scended 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. [ 851]

THE first and principal Founder of this Monastery was King Ethel∣red Son of Penda King of Mercia. Which King Ethelred after he had reigned thirty years, relinquisht his Kingdom, and became a Monk at [ 852] Bardney. Of later years several of the name of Bushell were Benefactors to this House.

Pag. 169. CROWLAND. [ 853]

LAngtost was given to this House, An. 819. And the Mannor and Church of Baston, An. 825. the first by Fiegistus, the other by Alga∣rus, 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 [ 854] 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 [ 855] 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 Apo∣stolick See, and if he will do his Office freely and willingly, otherwise [ 856] 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 [ 857] 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 [ 858] Nuns, in perpetual Alms. King Athelstan was a great Benefactor, [ 859] An. 933, and 937. So was King Edgar, An. 968, &c.

Pag. 193. AMBRESBURY. [ 868]

THE Nuns here, being about thirty in number, were for their noto∣rious 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 establish∣ment, gave divers Lands; all which, with other Revenues given by o∣ther Benefactors were confirm'd to the said Nuns of Font Ebrald by King Iohn, in the second year of his Reign.

Pag. 242. RAMSEY. [ 869]

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; Guis∣card 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.) where∣upon the said Bishop wrote to the Bishop of London setting forth the di∣strest 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 there∣upon 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, [ 870] 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.

[ 871] 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 be instituted by the Diocesan, and be immoveable; and that the Abbot of St. Nicholas at Angiers should not have to do with any of the Temporalities of this House, but only receive an annual Rent of 40 l. and the Board and Maintenance of four Monks.

[ 872] Pag. 352. MERKYATE.

ANno 1145. Radulph, Dean of St. Paul's in London, and the Chapter of that Church, granted to Christina, and the Nuns of the Mona∣stery of the holy Trinity of the Wood near Merkyate, the Ground where the said Monastery is situated, reserving a yearly Payment of 3 s. as a Ground Rent, and Fealty. Alexander Bishop of Lincoln consecrated the Nuns Church here in the abovesaid year 1145.

[ 873] Pag 356. TUTBURY.

WIlliam Earl of Ferrars granted to the Monks of St. Mary of Tutbury, the Tithes of all his Forrest of Du••••eld, viz. of Paunage, of hunting of Honey, and of Money (i. e. Rents.) William Prior, and the Convent, of [ 874] Tutbury, granted to William Fitz•• Herbert and to his H••irs, Norbury in Fee, at the yearly Rent of 100 s. and if he be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to assist or be present at the Pleas and Affairs of the Church of Tutbury with Relief, and other [ 875] Services to the said Prior and Convent. Afterwards by Deed dited 30 H. 6. Nicholas Fitz-Herbert, Esq and Ralph Fitz-Herbert his Son and Heir apparent, set forth that whereas they had demised to Thomas Gedney Prior of Tutbury certain Lands at Osmondstone in Com. Derby, for four years; in consideration that the Prior and Convent had by their Deed under seal released to the said Nicholas and his Heirs all their Right and Claim of a Rent of 5 l. per Annum, and other Services issuing out of the Mannor of Norbury in the said County, they the said Nicholas and Ralph did release to the said Prior, and Convent, and their Successors for ever all their Right and Claim to and in the Lands demised as abovesaid, with Warranty.

[ 876] Pag. 367. MALVERN.

THE Priory of Great Malvern was before the Conquest a Hermitage founded by one Vrso d'Abytot; afterwards a certain Abbot of West∣minster, with the Assent of the said Vrso, did place here a Prior and Monks, and gave them three Mannors; others gave other Lands, all which were confirm'd by King Henry the I.

Pag. 370. St. NEOTS.

TEdbald de Eschalers gave Lands to the Monks here, whose Deed [ 877] concludes—Et quoniam ego Sigillum non babui, petitione-meâ Do∣minus meus Stephanus hanc donationem meam sub Sigillo suo confirmavit. Other Benefactors to this House were Roger de Clare Earl of Hertford, William de Albiney Brito, and Peter de Montefort, which last by his Deed dated at Presion, An. 1245. gave and confirm'd to the Monks here divers Lands in Wenge (Com. Rut.) with the Advowson of the Church there.

Pag. 439. COLNE.

SEveral Countesses of Oxford were Benefactors to the Monks here. Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk gave them the Church of Dovercourt and [ 878] Chappel of Herewich.

Pag. 479. BLAKEBERGH. [ 879]

TO the Nuns of this House divers of the Family of Scales were great Benefactors. Emma de Bellofago Widow, gave to the Nuns of [ 880] Blakebergh four hundred Eels out of her Fishery at Wilton, per Annum, at the beginning of Lent, in pure and perpetual Alms.

Pag. 489. STANFORD.

TO the Nuns of St. Michaels in Stanford were given by several Bene∣factors, the Church of St. Clement's in Stanford, the Church of All-Saints in Stamford, the Church of St. Andrew in Stamford then (1170) held by Peter the Dean, who was to enjoy it during his Life. Also the [ 881] Church of St. Martin at Stamford, of which last mention'd Church it was certified by Oliver Bishop of Lincoln, An. 1289. that the Vicarage of the said Church did consist in the whole Altarage of the same, the Vicar pay∣ing yearly to the said Nuns two Marks, that the Nuns should be at the Charge of supplying the Chappel of Burgele in the said Parish, that the Vicar should pay the Sinodals only, but the Nuns the Archdeacons Pro∣curations, and all other Charges. They had also given them the Church of [ 882] Corby and Chappel of Vpton. William Earl of Waren granted them a Rent of 40 s. per Annum, for their Kitchin.

Pag. 496. DENNY. [ 883]

RObert the Chamberlain Earl of Richmond, gave divers Lands to the Monks here, exhorting and commanding his Children to do more for the advantage of this Church, and cursing any one of his Heirs who shall take away any thing that he hath given. These Monks were first

founded in an Isle call'd Elmeney, but for the inconveniences of that Seitu∣ation, translated to a higher Ground, in the Isle of Denney, by Albericus Picot.

[ 884] Pag. 528. GODSTOW.

AMong other Benefactors to this House were Osbert Fitz-Hugh, who gave a Salt-pit in Wiche. So did Walter de Clifford for the health of [ 885] his Soul, and of Margaret his Wife, and Rosamund his Daughter, whose Bodies were buried in this Nunnery; dedicated to St. Mary and St. Iohn Baptist.

Pag. 529. COLCHESTER.

HVgh Abbot and the Convent of Monks of St. Iohn Baptist of Col∣chester, granted and quit-claim'd the Church of Hecham to the Nuns of Lillechirche in Kent, in exchange for Duniland; this exchange was confirm'd by King Steven, and also by Walter Bishop of Rochester, who [ 886] with the consent of Amphelisa then Prioress of Lilchurch establisht a Settle∣ment for the Vicar of the said Church. Pope Alexander granted an Indulgence of forty days to all those who should contribute to the new building of the Church of St. Mary of Hegham (the same with Lilchurch.)

Pag. 534. KYNGTON.

[ 887] AMong other Benefactors, Roger de Mortuomari gave to the Nuns of St. Mary of Kyngton, in pure and perpetual Alms, the whole Tith of [ 888] his House, of Bread, and Ale, (de pane & allece). Roger de Villiers gave them the second Tithes (secundas decimas) of the Corn of all his Demesnes, and the Tithes of his meat or flesh Provision, not bought in, (decimas Carnis [ 889] meae non emptae.) Robert Burnell Bishop of Bath and Wells gave them the Advowson of the Church of Kyngton, belonging to that See.

Pag. 544. HOLAND.

THE Colledge here dedicated to St. Thomas the Martyr, was at first founded for Secular Canons, but in the year 1318. it was by the Patron Sir Robert de Holland Knt. translated into a Priory of Benedictine Monks. Upon the death of whose Prior the Monks were to choose three, out of whom he was to elect one to be by him presented to the Diocesan to be Prior.

COLCHESTER, in Essex.

ON the South side of Colchester is a small hill, on the North side of [ 890] which was of old time the habitation of one Siricus a Priest, and a Church composed of Boards and dedicated to St. Iohn the Evangelist, wherein in the night time was often seen wonderful light, and musick heard praising God, no body being then in the place. This Church be∣ing famed for this and the like miraculous adventures, and being also of a delicious Scituation, Eudo the Kings Major Domo, or Steward, to whom King William Rufus had given the Custody of the City of Colchester, erect∣ed here a Monastery of which he lay'd the first Stone, An. Dom 1097. Which being finisht some Monks were brought hither from Rochester. [ 891] But they not being endow'd here, according to their own mind, return'd to Rochester. After this Eudo received other thirteen Monks from the Ab∣bot of York; these began upon a New Foundation, which prosper'd so well that in a short time, one of the thirteen was chosen Abbot, and Conse∣crated by Maurice Bishop of London, About the year 1104. Their num∣ber increased to above twenty, who all lived very regularly. The foun∣der Eudo dyed in Normandy, and devised his Body to be buried in the Abby [ 892] of his foundation at Colchester, which was accordingly done, the Monks meeting it a Mile from the Monastery, An. 1120. This Eudo endow'd this Monastery with several Mannours, Tithes, and Churches, among [ 893] others with the Church of St. Mary in the Westcheping, Call'd the New∣cherch, and his Stone House near the same, also the Church of St. Steven Walebroch, in London. King Henry II. released the Tax of Dan••geld, &c. in the Lands of these Monks.

SNAPES in Essex. A Cell to Colchester. [ 894]

WIlliam Martell, being Seised of the Mannour of Snapes enjoy'd Wreck of the Sea from Thorp to Hereford Nesse, and gave this Mannour to the Abby of Colchester for the founding of a Priory here, which Priory was founded accordingly and made a Cell to that Abby, An. 1155. This Priory paid half a mark yearly to Colchester as a Pension of acknow∣ledgment. Twice a year the Abbot of Colchester was to Visit here, with twelve Horses, and abide here four days.

St. HELENS in Bishopsgatestreet, London.

ALardus Dean of St. Pauls London, and the Chapter of that Church, granted License to William Son of William the Goldsmith, Patron of the Church of St. Helen, to constitute Nuns in the said Church, and ••∣rect a College there, endowing them with the Advowson of the said [ 895] Church; The Prioress to be, upon election, presented to the Dean and Chapter of Pauls, and to swear fealty to them, and to pay them a Pension of half a mark yearly at Easier, &c, In the yeat 1439. Raynold Kentwode Dean of Pauls made other Constitutions for the Government of this Nun∣nery; some of which were, That Divine Service be by them duly perform'd night and day; That no secular person be locked within the Bounds of the Cloy∣ster,

nor come within it after the Complin Bell, except Women Servants, and maid Children; that none of the Sisters receive Letters from, or speak with any secular Person without License of the Prioress, and some other Nun to be present; That they grant no Corody or Pension without License of the said Dean and Chap∣ter, that no Dancing or Reveling be used in the House except at Christmass, and then among themselves and in the absence of Secualr persons; That there be a [ 896] Door made to the Nuns Quire that no Strangers may look on them, nor they on the Strangers when They be at Divine service; That no Nun have any Key to the Postern Door that goes out of the Cloyster into the Churchyard, but the Prioress, &c. These Orders were to be Read publickly in their Chappel four times a year, and kept and observed under the pain of Excomunication.

[Valued at 314 l. 2 s. 6 d. per Annum.]

CATESBY, in Northamptonshire.

KIng Henry III. in the fifty seventh year of his Raign, recited and confirm'd to the Nuns of Kateby, the Church of the blessed Mary [ 897] of Kateby with the Chappel of Helidene, with the Church and divers Lands in great Esseby, and several other Revenues given them by divers Benefactors. Confirm'd also by the Bull of Pope Gregory the VIII.

[Valued at 132 l. 1 s. 11 d. per Annum.]

St. MARY, de Pratis, adjoyning to Derby.

KIng Henry II. granted and confirm'd to the Nuns of St. Mary de Pra∣tis near Darby among other things, twenty seven acres of Land in [ 898] his Forrest of the Peak, with large Commons in the said Forrest; King Henry III. granted them 100 s. per Annum. to be received from the Baylies of the Town of Nottingham out of the Farm of the said Town.

[Valued at 18 l. 6 s. 2 d. per Annum.]

GRIMSBY, in Lincolnshire

THe Church, and all the Monastery of Nuns here, being of the Kings Foundation and Patronage, together with all their goods and Movables and all their Writings and Evidences concerning their Lands and Estate in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, being burnt and consumed by a casual fire, King Henry IV. in the seventh year of his Reign, confirm'd to this Prioress and Convent all their Grants, &c. made as well by his Progenitors as others.

NEWTON, in Yorkshire.

KIng Edward II. in the fifteen year of his Reign granted his Licence To his well beloved Cousin Thomas Wake to give one Messuage with the appurtenances in the Town of Neutone for the erection of a Religious

House of what order he pleased, and to endow it with Lands in Neuton and Cottingham, &c. Vid. 3. p. 88.

BROMHALE [ 899]

HEnry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Margaret his Wife, did release and quit claim to the Nuns of Bromhale one hundred acres of Land in their Wast of Asserige with the Appurtenances.

Pag. 551. LEUESHAM, in Kent. [ 890]

KIng Alured, and his Son King Edward the Elder, gave, and King Edward the Confessor confirm'd, to the Abby of St. Peters at Gant, the Mannour of Luesham, with all its appurtenences, viz. Greenwic, Wul∣lewic, Modingham, and Cumbe, with other Lands and great Liberties and Franchises, as large as the King himself had in the said Lands, &c. Dated An. Dom. 1044.

Pag. 551. St. MICHAELS MOUNT, in Cornwal. [ 901]

RIchard King of the Romans, Edmund Earl of Cornwal, and Conan [ 902] Duke of Britany, were Benefactors to this House. Pope Adrian in the year 1155. confirm'd to the Abbot and Monks of this House, by the [ 903] name of the Monastery of St. Michael de periculo maris, all their Lands and Revenues, lying most in Normandy, and also in England.

Pag. 558. BERGAVENNY. [ 904]

HEnry de Bellocampo confirm'd to the Monks of Bergavenny all those Possessions which his Ancestors, Hamelinus de Balon, and others, Lords of Bergavenny, had given them, and further gave and confirm'd to the said Monks divers other Revenues.

Pag. 595. GOLDCLIVE.

RObert de Candos founded the Priory at Goldclive in Wales, being then Lord of Karlyon; The Patronage of which House came afterwards to William Earl of Gloucester, and after that to Richard Duke of York. [ 905]

CARESBROKE in the IIe of Wight.

WIlliam Fitz Osbern was Mareshal to William the I. and Conquer'd the Ile of Wight at such time as the other Conquer'd England; King William made him Earl of Hereford. The Estate of this William descended to Baldwin Earl of Exeter who granted all the Churches and

Tithes of this Iland to the Abby of St. Mary of Lira. King Henry II. re∣cited and confirm'd the several Possessions given to those Monks as well in France, as England, and Wales.

[ 907] Pag. 614. WENDLOCK.

WIlliam de Boterell 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 what∣soever 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 [ 908] 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 Faith∣ful deceas'd.

Pag. 619. LEWIS.

TO this House did belong divers Lands, Churches and Tithes in Devon∣shire, 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.

[ 909] 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. [ 910]

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. [ 912]

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. [ 913]

BAldwin and Hubert successive Archbishops of Canterbury confirm'd to [ 914] 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 [ 915] 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 [ 916] 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 descen∣dants were great Benefactors to this House, so also were the Bertrams Barons de Mitford, with divers others. Ralph Baron of Graystok who died, [ 917] 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 [ 918] 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.

[ 919] 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 Bro∣ther, 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.

[ 920] 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 per∣petual Alms, ad hospitalitatem sustentandam, for the maintenance of Hospi∣tality. Which Lands were confirm'd to them by William the third Earl of Sussex her Brothers Son, and by Iohn de Augo her Son.

[ 921] 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 [ 922] 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 Ni∣chafius. Their first Habitation was but small, yet there they remain'd for [ 923] the time of four Abbots, till in the year 1330. the Convent was tran∣slated 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 signify∣ing a Monk or Nun, and Wro a Wood. 'Tis said that many years before [ 924] this Monastery was founded, in the place, Shepherds and Country Peo∣ple did usually on the Solemn Feasts of the Virgin, about Midnight hear Coelestial Musick, and see such 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 Mona∣stery. 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, [ 925] 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 Bene∣diction of this House by the Patriarch of Ierusalem, Anthony Beck Bishop of Durham, with several other Bishops, a Sentence of the greater Excommu∣nication was solemnly denounced against any one who should enter into this Monastery any other ways than by the Gates of the same. The first [ 926] Abbot of Vale-Royal was Iohn Chaumpneys, 2. Walter de Hereford, 3. Iohn [ 927] 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 there∣upon 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 [ 928] 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-Bur∣nel (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 [ 929]

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.

[ 930] Pag. 966. KINGSTON upon Hull.

KING Edward the III. in the one and fiftieth year of his Reign, re¦citing 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 Ho••pi∣tal 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 [ 931] 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, be∣sides Land, and Church Utinsils, one thousand Ewes, three hundred Mut∣tons, forty nine Oxen, and twenty Bulls, &c.

Additions to the Second Volum.

Pag. 49. HAGHMON. [ 933]

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. [ 934] 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 Mess••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. Nicho∣las Abbot of this House, in the year 1332. allotted certain Revenues for [ 935] 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 [ 936] 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 [ 937] 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 con∣fest.

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 Wil∣liam [ 938] Lovetot who lies buried in this Church near the High Altar, from [ 939] whom descended by Heirs General the Lords Furnival, and the Talbots Earls of Shrewsbury.

[ 940] Pag. 86 St. MARY-OVERIE, in Southwark.

RIchard Bishop of Winchester confirm'd to the Canons of St. M••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 E∣lection 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 [ 941] 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 Pension of 100 s.

Vid. Vol. 3. p. 53.

Pag. 144. LILLESHULL.

THIS Church dedicated to St. Alcmund was in old time of high Ve∣neration. Aedelfleda Queen of Mercia is said to have founded it, but it was much enrich'd by King Edgar, who descended of the same [ 942] Lineage with the said Alcmund. Gilbert de Cunedore indeavouring to defraud these Canos of one of their Prebends he was excommunicated, till at last he was prevaild with to restore the Prebend, and to do penance, receiving from every Canon of this Church a Publick Discipline and Cor∣rection. In the time of Roger Bishop of Coventry, and Pope Eugenius, the Secular Canons, or Prebendaries, were changed to Regular Canons, [ 943] An. Dom. 1405. the Canons of this House obtain'd of the Popes Nuntio in England, the Appropriation of the Parish-Church of Hulme; their Peti∣tion setting forth that they could make no advantage of their Rents and Possessions by reason of the Wars with Wales; and by reason of their scituation on the High-way call'd Watlingstreet, they were impoverisht by the continual conflux of Guests and Travellers, who eat up their Pro∣vision, &c.

Pag. 564. KNIGHTS TEMPLERS.

ANno Dom. 1319. Walter Archbishop of Canterbury, having received the Popes Bull directed to all Archbishops, and Bishops, setting forth that since the Suppression of this Order divers of the Knights had lived like Lay men, and married Wives contrary to their Vow, which was not dis∣charg'd by the Council of Vienna at such time when it supprest the Order, he commanded therefore that the Brethren of that Order should be ad∣monished [ 944] that within the space of three Months they should enter them∣selves into some Religious House, there to live in God's service during their Lives, under pain of losing the Stipends which had been assign'd them at the Suppression of their Houses; in pursuance of this Bull the said Walter Archbishop of Canterbury directed his Letters to the Prior of Christ-Church, London, for the Reception of Roger Stowe a Priest of the Templers, into that Priory, which was accordingly perform'd. In the following year the same Pope sent his Bull to the said Archbishop of Canterbury [ 945] whereby he order'd Excommunication against all those who should with∣hold any Lands, Houses, Churches, Revenues, or Goods moveable or immoveable formerly belonging to the Templers, from the Master and Brethren of the Order of St. Iohn of Ierusalem, on whom the said Pos∣sessions had been conferr'd, and united for ever, by Pope Clement the V. in the Council of Vienna.

[ 947] French Monasteries.

RObert Abbot of Molesme in Burgundy was the first Institutor of the Cistercians (a Reform of the Benedictines) to whom Odo Son of Henry Duke of Burgundy gave the place call'd Cistertius which gave name to the Order. This order encreased so fast that from the year 1098. to the year 1152. almost 500. [ 948] Abbies were erected for them. Much about the same time that this Order of Cistercians began in the Diocess of Chalons in Burgundy, the Carthusians began their order in the Diocess of Grenoble: They observe their offices both by night and day according to the Rule of St. Benedict.

[ 951] St. GEORGE of Bauquerville, in Normandy.

RAlf de Tancerville gave divers Lands to this Abby, both in Normandy and England, confirm'd to them by William his Son, Chamberlain [ 952] to King Henry II, among whose Lands in England, was Edyweston lying [ 952] within the Bounds of the Forrest of Rutland; which Lands, King Henry II. granted License to these Monks to convert into tillage, and conferr'd divers Liberties on them.

BEC, in Normandy.

FIrst founded in a Place call'd Burneville, by Gilbert Earl of Brionne, a great Souldier, and Nephew of Richard the first, Duke of Nor∣mandy, [ 953] who at the age of forty years became a Monk here, Priest, and then Abbot of this Monastery. The habitation of these Monks was afterwards removed into a vally near a River call'd Bec. King Henry II. confirm'd [ 954] their Lands and Possessions, several of which lay in England, at Athelstone in Warwickshire. Islip in Oxfordshire with divers others places in other Countries.

[ 955] BELBEC, in Normandy.

THe Lands and Possessions of this House were confirm'd by King Iohn, and after him by King Henry V. who also confirm'd to the Abbot and Convent of this House the grant formerly made to them by Blanch Queen of France of forty pound Parisian mony, per Annum, for the mainte∣nance of one Mass there daily, and supporting some other Charges, for ever.

[ 956] St. STEVENS at Caen, in Normandy.

FOunded by King William (the Conqueror) King of England, and Prince of Normandy and Main, and by him largely endow'd with Lands both in Normandy and England. Several others of the Nobility of [ 957] Normandy were Benefactors to this House, all whose gifts were confirm'd by King Henry I.

The HOLYTRINITY, at Caen in Normandy. [ 958]

KIng William II. and King Henry I. gave to the Nuns of this Abby divers Lands and Liberties in England. Confirm'd by King Edward II. in his seventeenth year.

St. VIGOR at Cerify, in Normandy.

FOunded in a Place then call'd Ciriciac, An. Dom. 1032. by Robert Earl of the Normans, who also endow'd this Abby with Possessions ad∣joyning round about it. William Duke of the Normans, Son of the Said Robert, [ 959] gave many other Lands; The Like did others of Principal quality. Con∣firm'd [ 960] by King Henry I. Am. Dom. 1120. [ 961]

CORMEL, in Normandy. [ 962]

POpe Alexander III. by his Bull dated 1168. confirm'd the Possessions of this House, granting them a free Sepulture of their own, to pay [ 963] no Tithes of their proper Cattle, to celebrate privately in time of a gene∣ral Interdict, &c. King Henry II. confirm'd divers Lands given them in England.

St. DENNIS, near Paris. [ 964]

AN. Dom. 792. Bertoaldus, a Duke among the English Saxons, being afflicted with a Distemper which the Phisitians could not cure, tra∣vail'd into France to the Abby of St. Dennis, and there found, through the mercy of God, a perfect Recovery. Hereupon he gave to that Abby his Town of Ridrefeld in Sussex, with other profits; Confirm'd to these Monks by King Offa, then Reigning. King Edward the Confessor gave [ 965] them other Lands in Oxfordshire, An. Dom. 1059. William Earl of Ferrers granted them yearly one wax Candle or Torch, price thirteen pence, one fat Buck, and one fat Boar, to be sent them by proper Messengers on the Feast of St. Dennis, in perpetual Almes, whose Deed of grant bears date An. Dom. 1189.

[ 966] St. EBRULF at Utica, in Normandy.

TO this Abby, built by St. Ebrulf a Confessor, in a Desertand Solitary place, King William the Conqueror gave Lands in several Coun∣ties [ 967] of England, An. Dom. 1081. Also Robert Earl of Leicester, and Robert his Son were Benefactors.

[ 968] L'ESSAY, in Normandy.

KIng Henry II•• and after him King Henry V. confirm'd to this Abby (lying in the Town of St. Oportune) their Lands as well in Eng∣land, [ 969] as Normandy, given by divers Benefactors, among whom Robert [ 970] de Haia, Roger Foliot, &c.

[ 971] FISCAMPE, in Normandy.

WIlliam, Patron of the Normans, and King of the English, confirm'd to this Abby all its Possessions in England and Normandy with the grant of Liberties, in like manner as his Predecessor Richard Earl of the [ 972] Normans had given them.

[ 973] St. FLORENCE at Saumers in Anjou.

KIng Henry II. confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby their Possessions, among others their Cell of Sele in Suffolk.

FONTANE, in Normandy.

FOunded by Ralf Taxo, and by him endow'd with large Lands and Possessions, with the good will of William Prince of the Normans (qui Regnum Anglia armis subjugavit, & strenué gubernavit) which King [ 974] William the Conqueror confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby four Churches with all their Tithes and Customes in England, among which Toucester in Northamptonshire.

[ 975] FONT-EBRALD, in Normandy.

KIng Henry II. granted to the Nuns of this Abby the Mannour of Lecton in Bedfordshire, with other Lands amounting to 60 l. per An. with the Confirmation of a yearly Alms out of the Exchequer of 24 l. per Annum, granted by his Grandfather King Henry I. King Henry III. con∣firm'd to these Nuns all their Lands, &c. in England.

FULCARDIMONT. [ 976]

ALice Countess of Eu (Augum) confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby the several Lands given them in England by Iohn Earl of Eu, her Grand∣father.

JUMIEGES, in Normandy. [ 977]

KING Henry the II. confirm'd the Lands given to these Monks by William Son of Rollo, Robert Archbishop of Rhoan, King William, &c.

[ 979] GOISLAFONTAN.

FOunded and endow'd for Nuns by Hugo de Gornaio, and o∣thers.

GRANDIMONT, in Normandy.

KING Henry the V. An suo 8. confirm'd to the Prior and Convent of this place all the Lands granted by his Progenitors Kings of France [ 980] and England. Robert Earl of Mellent was the Founder, and many the [ 981] Benefactors. King Henry the II. granted them an annual Rent of 200 l. in free Alms, confirm'd by King Iohn.

GRESTAIN, in Normandy. [ 982]

KING Richard the I. confirm'd to the Monks of this House, their Lands given by King William the Conqueror and others. The like [ 983] did King Edward the II.

LIRA, in Normandy. [ 985]

KING Henry the II. confirm'd to the Monks their Lands and Cells [ 986] in England. The Earls of Leicester were great Benefactors to this [ 987] House, so were divers others of prime quality in England. [ 988]

LONLEY, in le Maine. [ 989]

FOunded in the Chatellery of Danfront, and Diocess of Mans, by Wil∣liam de Belesmo, and endowed with Revenues in and about Dumfront [ 990] in Normandy.

[ 991] St. MARTIN of the* 1.7 Major-Monastery, in Tourain.

KING Henry the II. granted to the Monks of this place divers Lands and Tithes in England.

St. JOHN's in Poictou.

KING Iohn confirm'd to the Monks here the Church of St. Nicholas.

MONTISBURG, in Normandy.

THE Estate of these Monks in England, given by Richard de Rivers [ 992] and others, was confirm'd by King Hen. II. and King Edw. 3.

NOA, in Normandy.

FOunded by Maud the Empress, Daughter of King Henry the I. for Monks.

[ 993] St. MARTINS, in the Suburbs of Paris.

STeven Earl of Albamarl, and Havisia his Wise Daughter of Ralph de Mor∣tuomari, were Benefactors to the Monks here.

St. REMIGIUS, in the City of Reims.

KING Edward the III. An. suo 6. confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby divers Lands in England.

[ 994] DE PRATO, at Rhoan.

FOunded by King Henry the I. and by him and Maud the Empress endow'd with Lands both in Normandy and England.

[ 995] St. AMAND, at Rhoan.

THE Abby of Nuns here was founded by Goscelinus the Viscount and Emmelina his Wife. Endowed by them and several others, a∣mong [ 996] the rest King William the Conqueror, and Queen Maud.

SAVIGNY, in Normandy. [ 997]

KIng Edward III. confirm'd to the Monks of this Abby their Lands in England, among which their Cell of Benyngton in Lincolnshire.

St. MARTINS, at Alcey in Normandy. [ 999]

FOunded and endow'd by Steven Earl of Albamarl and his Ancestors, without the Walls of the Castle of Albemarl.

St. NICHOLAS at Angiers. [ 1000]

FIrst founded by Fulk Earl of Anjou, An. Dom. 1020. whose Son Ieffrey married Maud the Empress, daughter of King Henry I. She granted to the Monks of this Abby, divers Lands and Churches in England, as Spalding in Lincolnshire, &c. See more in Spalding, Vol. 1. p. 306.

St. SAVIOURS, at Constantine. [ 1001]

THeir Possessions in England were confirm'd to these Monks by King Henry II. with the grant of great Liberties and Priviledges in his Forrests.

St. MARTINS of Troarne. [ 1002]

THe Possessions of these Monks were confirm'd by Henry Duke of Nor∣mandy, and Aquitain, and Earl of Anjou.

St. VICTORS at Calete, in Normandy.

KIng Henry II. Confirm'd the Estate of the Monks of this place, which they had both here and beyond Seas, with the grant of Liber∣ties &c.

St. WALERIC, in Picardy. [ 1003]

KIng Henry II. Confirm'd to the Monks here Takley in Essex. &c. with divers Liberties and great Immunities.

St. WANDRAGISILUS, in the Dioc. of Roan. [ 1004]

FOunded and endow'd at Fontanell by Richard II, Duke or Prince of the Normans, An. Dom. 1024.

[ 1006] XANTON, in Aquitain.

KIng Iohn confirm'd the Liberties granted to the Nuns of this Abby.

CLUNY, in the Dutchy of Burgundy.

ROger Earl of Salop and Adelina his Wife gave the Manner of Chelton to this Abby.

AULNAY.

AN Dom. 1199. William de Similleio, and his Ancestors founded and [ 1007] endow'd this Abby, in the Diocess of Bajeux; for Cistercians. They demised certain Tithes in Oxfordshire for the Rent of 40 s. per Annum, An. 1304.

de BONOPORTU.

FOunded for Cistertian Monks by Richard I. King of England, and en∣dow'd among other things, with one hundred marks yearly issuing out of his Rents in the Town of Dieppe.

[ 1008] St. MARY de Voto, at Cherburg, in Normandy.

FOunded and endow'd by King Henry II. and his Mother Maud the Empress, Confirm'd by King Richard I. and King Henry III. for Cistertians.

[ 1010] St. MARTIN, and St. Barbara, in Normandy.

KIng Henry II. confirm'd the Lands given to the Canons of this Abby both in Normandy and England.

[ 1012] BELENCUMBRIS.

WIlliam de Waren and Isabel his Wife gave divers Lands and Rents to this Priory of All Saints, An. Dom. 1135.

St. WLUAR, at Bologne in Picardy.

KIng Henry I. at the Solicitation of Ida Countess of Bologne, gave and confirm'd to the Canons of this Priory, Notfield in Surrey.

FOUGERES, in Britany.

COnan Duke of Britan gave the Canons of this Place the Church of Cestrehunt, in the Diocess of London. Ranulph Earl of Chester writ to the Bishop of London on behalf of these Canons, and because he had not his own Seal by him at that time he sent his Letters under the Seal of the Lady his Mother, yet the Said Letters conclude Teste meipso apud Martillum.

The Hospital of St Mary Magdalen, at Bologn [ 1013]

KIng Henry I. confirm'd to this Hospital 20 l. per Annum. arising out of Kent.

The Hospital of Lepers of Kenilli, near Roan.

KIng Henry II. founded this Hospital for Leperous Women, and gave it 200 l. per Annum. King Richard I. gave them 40 l. per Annum. But this was Anjou pounds.

The Hospital of Vernon, in Normandy. [ 1014]

FOunded and largely endow'd by St. Lewis King of France, An. Dom. 1260.

The Hospital of the Holy Ghost, at Rome.

FOund by Inquisition 20 Edward III. that King Iohn gave 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. [ 1015]

FOunded for Canons, and endow'd with Lands in England by Richard de Hay and his Wife.

De BELLOPORTU, in Normandy. [ 1016]

AN. Dom. 1202. Alen Son of Earl Henry gave divers Lands in Eng∣land 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.

[ 1017] 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.

[ 1019] 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.

[ 1020] 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 [ 1021] 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.

[ 1022] 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. [ 1023]

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 [ 1024] confirm'd, An. Dom. 1202. by Iohn Cardinal of St. Steven in Mont Caelius, Apostolick Legat.

OCYMILD. [ 1025]

FOunded by William de Burgo, and given to Richard a Monk of Gla∣stonbury.

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 [ 1026] 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. [ 1027]

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 [ 1028] 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 Baleo∣chellam in which the Monastery was founded, and other Lands; all confirm'd by Iohn Lord of Ireland and Earl of Morton.

KYLLECONIL. [ 1029]

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 [ 1030] French into Ireland. The like confirmations were made by King Henry the III. and King Edward the III.

[ 1031] 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.

[ 1032] St. SAVIOURS.

FOunded by William Marischal Earl of Pembroke, confirm'd by King [ 1033] 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 Pem∣broke, and ratified by King Iohn.

DE VALLE SALUTIS.

FOunded by Dermitius an Irish, King, and by him and his Subjects en∣dow'd with divers Lands. Confirm'd by King Iohn.

[ 1034] 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. [ 1035]

FOunded and endowed by Donald King of Lumney (Lumnicensis.)

BALLINTOBBER, in the County of Maio. Canons Regular. [ 1037]

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. [ 1038]

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. [ 1039]

FOunded and endowed for Canons by Dermont King of Leimster, con∣firm'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. [ 1040]

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 [ 1041] 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 I••istiock, which became as a Cell to Kenlis. Hugh de Lacy and Walter de Lacy were Benefactors.

[ 1042] The Hospital of St. John Evangelist at Kilkenny.

FOunded and endowed An. 1220. by William Mareschal Earl of Pem∣broke.

[ 1043] KILVAYNARD, a Priory of Augustin Nuns.

POpe Celestin the III. An. 1195. confirmed their Lands and Possessions with the grant of divers Liberties.

[ 1044] 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.

[ 1045] FERMOY.

FOundeds and endowed for Canons Regular of St. Augustin, by Alex∣ander Son of Hugh. Confirm'd by King Edward the I. An. suo, 18.

[ 1046] TOBERGLORIE, in the County of Down.

FOunded and endowed by Iohn de Curcey, and by 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.

[ 1048] 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 [ 1049] Morton, and after he was King.

Scotch Monasteries.

COLDINGHAM, a Cell to Durham. [ 1051]

SAint Ebba Sister of Oswy King of Northumberland, was the first Insti∣tutor of a Religious Life in this Place, here she had a Monastery con∣sisting 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. [ 1052]

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 [ 1053] Liberties.

DRYBRUGHE. [ 1054]

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 [ 1055] David the first, youngest Son of King Malcolm and Margaret his Wife.

BELMERINACH, in Fife. [ 1056]

FOunded and endowed by Alexander King of Scotland, in honour of God, St. Mary, and the holy King Edward, for Cistercian Monks:

[ 1057] Of the Cistercian Monasteries in Scotland.

SAint David son of Malcolm and Margaret founded Six of this Order. ••enry Prince of Scotland Son of the said David founded Hadington. St. Malcolm Son of the said Henry founded three. William King of Scot∣land 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.

Notes

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