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, Abridg'd. (Book 3)

VOL. III. and last. (Book 3)

Additions to the First Volum.

Pag. 31. ROCHESTER.* 1.1

GVnaulphus Bishop of Rochester, by authority, will, and command of King William, and by the advice, help, and assent 〈◊〉〈◊〉 La••••ranc Archbishop of Canterbury, did institute sixty Monks in the Room of five Clerks (all that then were) in the Church of St. Andrew the apostle; and transferr'd the possessions formerly given by divers Benefactors to that Church, to the maintenance of those Monks, with other endowments of his own guift, for the maintenance of them, Strangers that should come there, and poor people, and for Serjeants to serve them. He also made Provision for a Festival on St. Andrews day, for himself and Successors, if they should be present at the Celebration of the same. Whose Charter [ 2] bears date the twentieth day of September 1089.

Boniface Archbishop of Canterbury, recited the Grant of Anselm his Prede∣cessor by which he granted and confirm'd divers Lands given to this Church by Bishop Gundulf and others, in Kent, Surrey, Suffolk, Buckinghamshire, and Gloucestershire, dated at London in a Council of Bishops A. D. 1101, [ 3] And the said Anselm's Confirmation of Archbishop Lanfranc's Grant to the said Church, dated 1087. and confirm'd all the said recited Grants by his Deed of Confirmation dated 1254.

King Henry II. confirm'd all their Lands and Possessions, with large Priviledges and immunities such as the Church of Cantebury enjoys, [ 4] whose Charter bears date at Nottingham.

An. Dom. 1197. An Exchange was made by consent of King Richard I. between Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury and the Prior and Convent of Rochester, the said Prior and Convent granting to the said Archbishop and Successors their Mannour of Lambeth with the Church there, and the Li∣berties and appurtenances thereunto belonging as well in Southwark is in the Soke of London, except a Mill which the Monks have upon the Thames over against the Tower of London, &c. And the said Archbishop gave in [ 5] Exchange to the said Monks the Mannour of Darent, &c. with mutual Warranty on both sides, and a restriction that it shall not be lawful for the said Archbishop or his Successors ever to alienate the Said Mannour of Lambeth from the Archbishoprick, or for the said Monks to alienate the Mannour of Darent, &c.

Pag. 413. NORWICH.

JOhn Archbishop of Canterbury at the request of the Prior and Convent of [ 6] the Cathedral Church of Norwich, exemplified the Charter of Herbert Bishop of Norwich, by which he gave to the Monks, whom he had establisht [ 7] in the said Cathedral Church, divers Lands, Tithes, and other Revenues; and of Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of the Greater Britain and Ireland, and Vicar of Pope Pascal, by which he confirm'd the Establish∣ment of the Monks which the said Herbert had made in the said Church of the Holy Trinity at Norwich, which Church King William, and King Henry his Brother and Successor had constituted to be the head and Mother of all the Churches of Norfolk and Suffolk. The foresaid Deed of Exempli∣fication bears date at Lambeth, An. Dom. 1281.

Radulphus Fitz Godric gave to this Church the Mannour of Neuton confirm'd to the Monks by King Henry I.

Pag. 120. GLOCESTER.

AN. Dom. 1138. King Steven in the third year of his Reign confirm'd [ 8] to the Church St. Peter of Gloucester, all the Lands, Churches, Tithes, and other donations given by Divers Benefactors.

[ 9] Pag. 395. St. MARYS at York.

IVo de Taleboyse, from whom descended the Noble families of the Rosses Lords of Werke, Faucumberge, Twenge, and Belewe, &c. gave to the Church of St. Mary in York and to the Abbot and Monks there, divers Lands and Churches. This Ivo de Tailbois held of the King in Capite the Barony of Hephall, which Barony was held by his Ancestors in Thenagio, paying to the King 50 s. yearly, but King William the Conqueror changed the Tenure into the Service of one Knights Fee.

Pag. 258. WHERWELL.

POpe Gregory the IXth. recited and confirm'd to the Abbess and Nuns of Wherwell all their Lands, Tithes and Churches, that they then [ 10] had, or for the future should obtain, and exempted them from Tithes, for their own Cattel, with priviledge to receive and retain in their Monastery such secular Women as are free and at their own disposal, to celebrate Divine Service privately in the time of general Interdict, to have a free Sepulture, and a free Election of their Abbess &c. Whose Bull bears date, An. Dom. 1228.

[ 11] Pag. 327 WALLINGFORD.

NIgellus de Albeney and Alan Fitz-Amfrid gave divers Lands to the Monks of St. Albans in the Church of the Holy Trinity of Wallingford,

Confirm'd to them by Ioceline Bishop of Salisbury, and after him by Robert Bi∣shop of Salisbury, and by the Dean and Chapter of that Church, An. Do. 1243.

Pag. 525. WILBERFOSS. [ 12]

GEorge Duke of Clarence and Lord of Richmond, as Patroonshe Nan∣nery of Wilberfoss, exemplified and confirm'd to Elizabeth then Prioress, and to the Nuns there, the several Deeds of Endowments and Grants made to them by Iordanus Fitz Gilbert, William de Percy, &c. Whose Deed of Confirmation bears date at Staunford 10th. of August, 4 Edward IV.

Pag. 487. STODELEY. [ 13]

THis Nunnery was first founded by Thomas de Sancto Walerico, but his Estate, and consequently the Patronage of this House, coming to the Crown, King Richard II. in the first year of his Reign, on the death of Margery the last Prioress, confirm'd the Election of Elizabeth Fremantell then Subprioress into the Office of Prioress, and signified the same to the Bishop of Lincoln.

Pag. 482. SANFORD alias LITTLEMORE.

ROger de Thoeni, Roger de Sanford, and Thomas Buscel (whose Deed bears date 1254 (8. Henry III.) gave Lands to the Church of St. Nicholas and Priory of Nuns here. Robert Abbot of Abington and Benjamin [ 14] Rector of the Church of St. Nicholas granted and confirm'd to them certain Tithes. Roger de Quency Earl of Winton, and Constable of Scotland released to them their Suit to his Court. Pope Innocent IV. in the second year of [ 15] his Pontificate Released ten days of enjoyn'd Pennance to all such of the Diocesses of Lincoln, Ely, and Salisbury, who being penitent and confest, should contribute and assist to the reedifying of the Church of this Priory.

Pag. 597. GROSMUNT, in Yorkshire.

JOan Wife of Robert de Torneham, and daughter of William Fossart, gave divers Lands, Profits, and Priviledges in Yorkshire, to the Prior and [ 16] Monks of Grandmont in France, confirm'd by her said Husband Robert de Torneham, who also gave other Lands of his own.

Pag. 505. CRESWELL in Herefordshire. [ 17]

THis was another Cell of the Monks of Grandemont, to which Walter de Lacy gave Lands in pure and perpetual Alms, with warranty. Peter Bishop of Hereford having bought Lands of the Prior of Creswell, for 550. marks granted by his Deed dated 1256, that in case he or his Suc∣cessors

should happen to be impleaded for the said Lands, the said Prior nor this Successors should not be obliged to defend and Warrant the same be∣yond the Sum of 550 marks.

[ 18] Pag. 542. MISSENDEN.

JOan de Pedinton widow of Guy de Ryhal, with Thomas Son and heir of the said Guy, confirm'd to the Canons of Missendin, the Hermitage of Muswell, which Ralf the Hermit built and inhabited by permission of the foresaid Guy, with a Chappel built in honour o•• the Holy Cross. Confirm'd also by Albricus Earl of Damarun, and Simon de Gerardmulin.

[ 19] The Priory of EWENNY, a Cell of the Abby of Gloucester.

THe Turbervilles gave to the Church of St. Michael and the Monks there. divers Lands and Possessions, with Liberty of fishing in the River of Ewenny as far as their Lands extend, and to retain a moiety of the fish so caught, the other moiety to be the Turbervilles.

The Priory of Blithe, in Nottinghamshire.

POpe Honorius confirm'd the Possessions of this House to the Monks [ 20] here, and exempted them from paying of Tithes of their Cattel. It was founded by William de Crescy.

William Gifford Archishop of York, An. Dom. 1277, made certain or∣ders for their Government, viz. That Almes and Hospitality should be used as of old time, that all and singular do humbly and devoutly obey the Prior as their head &c. Vid. Vol. ••. p. 553.

[ 21] BUSTLESHAM Abby, in Barkshire.

KIng Henry VIII. by Patent dated in the 29th. year of his Reign, recites that out of the sincere and intire devotion which he bears to God and the Blessed Virgin Mary, and to the Increase of the Divine Worship, &c. He does erect, found, and establish to indure for all future times, a Monastery or Conventual House of one Abbot and thirteen Monks of the order of St. Benedict, in the place of the late disolved Priory or Monastery of Bisham alias Bustlesham in Barkshire, which on the fifth day of Iuly in the 28th year of his Reign was surrender'd to him by William Bishop of St. Davids then Prior of that Priory and the Convent there, and this he did for the good estate of himself while living, and for the good of his Soul after death, and for the good of the Soul of his most dear Wife Iane late Queen of England deceased, and for the Souls of his Children, and Progenitors. And gave all the Lands, Houses, Church, Bells, and all utensils then in his hands and formerly belonging to the late dissolved Mo∣nastery, to Iohn Cordrey, whom he made Abbot of this new Monastery and to the Monks of the same. Which Iohn Cordrey was lately Abbot of the Mo∣nastery

of St. Peter at Chertsey in Surrey. He did also incorporate this new Monastery by the name of the Abbot and Convent of the new Mo∣nastery of the Holy Trinity of King Henry VIII. at Buslesham, with power to purchase Lands, and by that name to sue and be sued, &c. and for the Abbot and his Successors to use an Episcopal Miter. He also endow'd the [ 22] said New Monastery with all the Lands and Revenues belonging to the late Monastery here, and also to that of Chertsey, in divers Counties of [ 23] England and Wales, and in the City of London, also with the dissolved Priories of Cardigan in Southwales, and Bethelkellard in Carnarvanshire, with all the Lands and Revenues of the same, and with divers Rents issuing out [ 24] of the Lands and Revenues of several other Monasteries, then in Lease [ 25] for twenty one years, and the Reversion of the said Lands, &c. With [ 26] view of Frank pledge and all other Franchises and Liberties which have [ 27] been formerly enjoy'd in the several Lands &c. To hold by the Service [ 28] of one Knights see, and the yearly Rent of 72 l. and 17 d. in the name of a Tenth, to be paid into the Court of augmentations at Michaelmas. This new Monastery to be exempt from the ordinary Jurisdiction, and to be visited only by the King his heirs and Successors; and the present Abbot Iohn Cordrey to be excused from the payment of first Fruits and Tenths gi∣ven [ 29] by Statute, made in the twenty sixth year of this King, provided not∣withstanding that his Successors shall pay first Fruits, which are valued at 661 l. 14 s. 9 d. ob. But no tenths, which amount to 66 l. 3 s. 5 d. ob. q. non obstante the said Stat. or any other Law. Which Patent bears teste [ 30] at Westminster 18th. December in the foresaid twenty ninth year of Henry VIII.

Pag. 648. LENTON.

KIng Steven granted the Chruch of the Holy Trinity at Lenton, which William Peverell and others had endow'd, to the order of Clu∣niac Monks to be enjoy'd with all its possessions, inviolably.

The Priory of HORKESLEY.

RObert Fitz God bold gave divers Lands, Churches, and Tithes to the Cluniac Monks of Tefford, with intention that the Convent of that House should transmit some of their Monks to the Church of St. Peter at Horchesley there to reside in the Services of God and St. Peter. Their Possessions so given was confirm'd to them by Gilbert Bishop of London, and [ 31] Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury.

Pag. 867. SIBETON. [ 32]

WIth King William the Conqueror, who came into England in the year 1066. came Walter de Cadamo, who after the Conquest held the Barony of Horsford, He had issue Robert who built the Church of St. Peter at Sibton, who had issue Iohn call'd the Vicount, and William. Iohn being very infirm in his health vow'd to erect an Abby of Cistercian

Monks; but himself dying, left his vow to be perform'd by William his Brother and heir, who enjoy'd after his death his Barony and Vicounty. This William founded the Monastery of St. Mary at Sibton in the Reign of [ 33] King Steven, An. Dom. 1149. And endow'd the same with Lands and Revenues. He had issue Margaret married to Hugh de Cressy who con∣firm'd her Fathers Guift.

An. 28. Henry VIII, William then Abbot of Sibton Com. Suffolk, and the Convent there, of their free will and unanimous Consent, gave, granted, and confirm'd to Thomas Duke of Norfolk, Anthony Rouse Esquire, and Nicholas Hare, Gent. their heirs and assigns to the use of the said Duke his heirs and assigns for ever, all the said Monastery, and Estate thereunto belonging, and Constituted Thomas Heydon, and Robert Whinwery their lawful Attorneys to deliver Seizin accordingly. This was under their [ 34] Convent Seal, and Sign'd by the Abbot, and seven Monks of the House

Pag. 887. HOLMCOLTRAM.

DAvid King of Scotland confirm'd the Donations of his Son Henry, to this Abby; the like did afterwards Malcolm king of Scotland Son of the said Henry.

Iohn King of England in the 16. year of his Reign, granted to the Monks here the Hermitage of St. Hilda in the Forrest of Englewode, with all the [ 35] Land which Roger Croky late Hermit held, and a Vaccary there for forty Cows, &c. Iohn Bishop of Carlile licensed the Monks of Holmcoltram to build a Church or Chappel in their territory of Arlosk for their Tenants and the Inhabitrants of those parts, which Church or Chappel he did appropriate and annex to the said Monastery, and exempt the same from the Vi∣sitation of the Ordinary; The said Church to be served by a secular Priest of their election, but to be presented to the said Bishop or his Successors, and by them admitted to the said Cure. The said Priest so admitted to receive for his support 4 l. to be pay'd him yearly out of the profits of the said Church, and a House and Curtilage to be assigned him. The said Priest to pay to the Bishop in the name of a Cathedratic, half a mark, and to the Archdeacon when he Visits 40 d. for procurations. Which Deed of [ 37] Appropriation bears date at Linflock, An. 1304. Hugh Morville, Cecily Countess of Albemarl, Lambert de Multon, and others, were Benefactors to these Monks. William Earl of Albemarl gave them a Forge and Iorn [ 38] Mine at Egremond; Robert King of Scots (whose Father lies buried in their Church at Holmcoltram) gave them a yearly farm of 10 l. Pope [ 39] Lucius III. confirm'd to them their Lands and Revenues, and granted them divers Liberties, as to be free from the payment of Tithes for their Cattel, and Fishing, &c. Whose Bull bears date An. 1185.

[ 40] Pag. 914. CROKESDEN.

THe Abby of the Vally of St. Mary of Crokesdene was founded by Ber∣tram de Verdon, and by him endow'd with divers Revenues in Crokes∣dene, Stanfort, Castretone, &c. and a Salt work in Midlewich.

Additions to the Second Volum.

Pag. 461. NORWICH. [ 43]

JOhn Bishop of Norwich exemplified the Deeds belonging to the Hospital of St. Paul in Norwich, viz. the Charter of the Convent of the Holy Trinity of Norwich, (who founded and endow'd the said Hospital to the support of poor people, for the Soul of Bishop Herbert, &c.) of Adam de Bel∣lofago, [ 44] Morellus de Morley, some Bishops of Norwich his Predicessors, and [ 45] King Henry I. who were all Benefactors. Which Deed of Exemplification bears date in the year 1301.

Pag. 181. TWINEHAM.

IN the Reign of King Steven, An. Dom. 1150, Henry Bishop of Win∣chester, and Hillary then Dean of Christ Church, at the Petition of Earl Baldwin, introduced Canons Regular into the said Church, in place of the Canons secular that then were there, the secular Canons to enjoy their Prebends while they lived; But all the Lands and Revenues belong∣ing [ 46] and possest by the said Church in the time of the Deans to be for the future to the only use of the Prior and Canons Regular.

Pag. 152. GISBURNE.

WAldenus Son of Earl Cospatric gave the Town of Apleton to the Church of St. Bridget, commonly call'd Brydekirk, in the County of Cumberland. The Lady Alice de Rumeley gave this Church of Brydekirk, [ 47] with Apleton, and all other Lands thereunto belonging to the Canons of Gisburne.

Pag. 272. WORSPRING.

WIlliam de Curtenai founded a Convent for Canons Regular of St. Augustin, at the Chappel of St. Thomas the Martyr in Worspring, and notifying so much to Iohn then Bishop of Bath, desired that by his au∣thority the Church of Worle, at that time vacant, might be appropriated to the said Convent.

Pag. 263. WORMLEY. [ 48]

JOhn de Baskerville gave to God and the Church of St. Leonard of Pyonia, and to the Prior and Canons there, in Frankalmoine, all his Land of Stanley

which he held of the Mannour of Wormley; and Nickolas de Wormley Lord of the said Mannour, reciting the said Grant, confirm'd the same to the said Prior and Canons, and also released and quit claimed to them, one pair of spurs or sixpence of yearly Rent, by which the foresaid Iohn held that Land.

[ 49] Robet de Staunton, Gilbert Talebot, Robert Boter, and others, [ 50] were Benefactors to the said Canons, confirm'd by Roger de Montuomari [ 51] Lord of Winfretone An. Dom. 1304 Gerard de Eylesford gave them the [ 52] Advowson of the Church of Pyona Regis, or Kings Pe••ne; Peter Bishop of Hereford appropriated the Church of Wormesley, of which these Canons were Patrons to this Convent, for the said Canons to enjoy the Fruits thereof to their proper use, but so as not to defraud the said Church of due Service. Whose Deed bears date, An. 1262. Here was a Chantry [ 53] tounded by the Lady Basilia de Bourhull.

Pag. 941. RANTON.

RObert Fitz-Noel, or Son of Noel, founded and endow'd the Priory of Ranton, for Canons under the Rule and obedience of [ 54] the Church of Haman (Hamanensis Ecclesiae) Whose Donation was con∣firm'd by Thomas Noel his Son. Noel who came into England with King William the Conqueror, had issue Robert, and he Thomas. Thomas had issue Alice and Iohn, his Co-heirs. Alice was married to William de Harecourt, and had in partition the Mannour of Elimhale, from whom de∣scended Sir Robert Harecourt Knight, who married Anne the daughter of Thomas Lymerik.

[ 55] Pag. 276. COLDNORTON, in Oxfordshire.

WIlliam Fitz Alan founded this Priory for Canons in his Mannour House at Coldnorton, to God, St. Mary, St. Iohn, and St. Giles, and endow'd it with divers Lands. Reginald Earl of Bolon, and Ida his Wi••e confirm'd the Donations of their Ancestors, An. 1201. Ralf Earl of [ 56] Stafford, gave to this Priory his Mannour of Rowlandright in Oxfordshire, for the maintenance of two Canons to celebrate for his Soul, &c. for ever, whose Charter indented bears date at his Mannour of Tysho in War∣wickshire. 44 Edward III. Hugh Croft Esquire released and convey'd ever to King Henry VII. all his right, title, and Claim, to the said Priory, and Patronage of the same, and all the Lands and Revenues thereunto belong∣ing, formerly enjoy'd by Iohn Wotton late Prior of the said Priory, whose Deed bears date 21. Feb. 22, Henry VIII.

It was found by Inquisition taken at Dorchester in Oxfordshire 24. of Apr. [ 57] 22. Henry VIII. before William Young Escheater of that County, that Iohn Wolton late Prior of this Priory, was seized of the said Priory, the Man∣nour of Coldnorton, and divers Lands, &c. in the said inquisition exprest in right of the said Priory, and being so seized dyed on the eve of Palm Sunday in the 11 year of that King without having any Convent of Canons, or any profest Canon in the said Priory at that time, and that the succession of

the said Priory did thereupon wholly finish, dissolve, extinguish and deter∣mine, by which means the said Priory, and all the Estate thereunto belonging did Escheat to the King whose Ancestors were Founders and Patrons of the same, and that the Revenue of the said Priory is of the value of 50 l. per Annum, over and above all Reprises.

Pag. 232. DERLEY.

AN. 1271. Robert Saucheverel past a fine before Iohn de Reygate, the Kings Justiciary, of the Church of Bolton, to the Abbot of Derley; saving the Presentation of a fit Chaplain to the same by the said Robert, and that such Chaplain shall receive the small Tithes of Bolton, for serving the Cure.

Robert Fitz Steven the Kings Chamberalin, Henry de Luy, Hubert Fitz. [ 58] Ralf, William Peverel of Nottingham, Robert Earl of Ferrars, &c. were Be∣nefactors. [ 59] Walter Bishop of Coventry confirm'd the Lands given to the [ 60] Canons of this House, gave them the Care of the Nunnery of Virgins, [ 61] which the Abbot of Darby erected at a mile distance, and exempted the said Abbot and his Successors from paying Tithes of their proper fields, and granted that the said Abbot and his Successors shall be Dean of all their Churches in Derbyshire, especially of all the Churches in Derby.

Pag. 41. BREDON. [ 62]

WIlliam de Ferrariis Earl of Derby gave to the Canons Regular of Bre∣don, divers Churches, Lands, and Commons of Pasture in the Peke and elsewhere.

Pa. 564. TEMPLERS.

THomas de Santford gave all his Land of Saunford, &c to the Knights of the Temple, in pure and perpetual Alms, for the relief of the holy Land, and for the maintenance of one Chaplain to celebrate Mass for ever, at the House of the Templers at Bustlisham. King Steven and Queen Ma∣tilda [ 63] his Wife, and William Marescal Earl of Pembroke were Benefactors William de Vernon granted Lands at Eremne for the founding of an Hospi∣tal, to William Maskerel, which foundation was confirm'd by Baldwin. Archbishop of Canterbury, and Godfrey Bishop of Winchester, and was af∣terwards [ 64] granted by the said Maskerel to the Kinghts of the Temple of Salomon.

STANLEY Priory in, Gloucestershire.

THeobald Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of the English, and A∣postolick [ 65] Legate, confirm'd the Lands and Revenues given by Seve∣ral Benefactors to the Church of St. Leonard and Canons of Stanley.

SHELFORD Priory, in Nottinghamshire.

IT was found in a Plea of Assize taken before Hugh Bigod Justiciary of England, An. 42. Henry III. Between William Bardolf, and Adam Everingham, who both pretended to the Patronage of this Priory, that Ralf [ 66] Haunselyn Ancestor of the said William Bardolf was the ••ounder of the said Priory, and that William Bardolf was the true Patron of the same, who thereupon had Judgment against the said Adam, and the said Ad••m in mi∣sericordia. And the Archbishop of York was commanded to admit a fit Person to be Prior there at the Presentation of the said William.

[Valued at 116 l. Per Annum.]

SANDELFORD Priory, in Barkshire.

STeven Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Cardinal of the holy Roman Church, confirm'd to the Canons of Sandelford divers Lands and Rents granted to those Canons by Ieffrey Earl of Le Per∣che (Pertici) in France).

[ 67] ASSERUGG, in Buckinghamshire.

EDmund Earl of Cornwal, Son and heir of Richard King of the Romans, gave and confirm'd to the Rector of the Good men Brothers of the Church founded in honour of the precious blood of Iesus Christ at Esserugg, the Man∣nour of Esserugg and other Lands, &c. for the support of twenty Brothers, Clerks, of which 13 at the least to be Priests; and with those Lands he [ 68] granted divers Liberties, and Franchises extream large, and that neither he nor his heirs should meddle nor interpose in the concerns of the House at such times as it shall happen to be void of a Rector, &c.

[Valued at 416 l. 165. s. 4 d. Per Annum.]

[ 69] Pag. 245. BRADSOLE.

KIng Iohn confirm'd to God and the Church of St. Radegundat Brad∣sole, and the Canons there of the Order of Premonstratenses, divers [ 70] Lands given by his Brother King Richard I. and others; With other Lands of his own guift. He also granted them the Church of St. Peter of Rivery and his House there, for the building a new Monastery for their use, and [ 71] to translate the old Abby thither. There was formerly in this neighbour∣hood a small House of Religion call'd Blakewose, which was subject to a Monastery of this order call'd Lavendene, but the Canons of that place being poor and distant, it occasion'd scandal, whereupon the Canons of Blakewose were discharged of their obedience to the Abbot of Lavendene and Subjected to the Abbot of St. Randegund. Hugo de Burgh, Justiciary of England, and Hamon de Crevequer were Benefactors to this Abby.

Pag. 622. STANLEY. [ 72]

HVbert Fitz-Ralf, and Serlo de Grendon, confirm'd to the Canons of Stanley Park, the Estate formerly given by William de Grendon Maud de Salicosa Mara, daughter of William Fitz Ralf late Steward of Nor∣mandy, was also a Benefactress to this House.

The Abbots of Stanley Park. [ 73]

• 1. Walter de Senteney, ruled 31. years.
• 2. William, Ruled here 2. years.
• 3. Iohn Grauncorth, govern'd 19. years.
• 4. Hugh de Lincoln, govern'd 14 years.
• 5. Simon 5. years.
• 6. Laurence, 16. years.
• 7. Richard de Normanton, ruled the first time 8. years.
• 8. Iohn de Lincoln, 6. years.
• 9. Richard de Normanton, the second time, Ruled 1. year.
• 10. Iohn Horsley, 26. years.
• 11. Ioh Wodhouse, 15. Weeks.
• 12. William Horsley, 21. years.
• 13. Roger de Kyrkton, 3. years.
• 14. William de Bone, 42. years.
• 15. Herry Monyasche, 39. years.
• 16. Iohn Spondone, 33. years.
• 17. Iohn Stanley, 22. years.
• 18. Richard de Nottingham, 19. years.

Pag. 605. CROXTON.

AVicia de Romely Lady of Bescaudeby was married to William Paynel who came into England with William the Conqueror, and of whose guilt [ 74] he had divers Towns in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Leicestershire, which William and Avice, had issue a daughter named Alice (or Avice) whom King H. II, gave in Marriage to Robert de Gant, who had issue by her another Al••ce (or Avice) whom the same King Henry gave in Marriage to Robert Fitz-Harding of Bristol, who had issue Maurice, who dying without issue, his Mothers I••heritance came to Andrew Lutterel, as next of the Bloud of the Paynells.

Pag. 607. LEYSTONE.

RAnulfus de Glanville founded the Abby of St. Mary at Leestune and endow'd it with the Mannour of L••estune, which he had of the guift of king Henry II. and with certain Churches, which he had formerly given to the [ 75] Canons of Buttele, and now by them resign'd to the Canons of this place. King Richard I. confirm'd the Estate so given to these Canons of Leystone with a Grant of divers Franchises, confirm'd also by Richard Archbishop [ 76] of Canterbury, and by Roger Bygot Earl of Norfolk. Pope Lucius granted these Canons divers Priviledges and not to pay Tithes of their proper Goods [ 77] and Cattel, to celebrate privately in time of a General Interdict, with ab∣solute freedom in the Election of thier Abbot, with Liberty of Burial for any (not Excommunicate) who desire to be buried with them, saving the Rights of those Churches from whence the Bodies come, &c.

Pag. 643. BEGEHAM.

WIlliam de Burgelle granted certain Marish Lands to the Canons of Otteham (afterwards translated to Begeham) saving to the Lord of the soil, the Service of half a pound of Pepper, to be paid yealry on the Vigil of Chirstmass for all Custom and exaction.

[ 78] DURFORD Abby, in Sussex.

FOunded and endow'd with Lands, &c. by Henry Hesatus Lord of Herting [ 79] in the County of Sussex; confirmed by King Henry the II. who also granted them a Fair for three days yearly at Herting, viz. on the Nati∣vity [ 80] of St. Iohn Baptist, and two days next before. Confirm'd also by Hillary, and Seffrid Bishops of Chichester, and by William de Percy. &c.

[Valued at 98 l. 4 s. 5 d. Per Annum.]

[ 81] STIXWOLD Abby, in Lincolnshire.

KING Henry VIII. in the 29th. year of his Reign, out of the sincere Devotion which he had to the Virgin Mary, and for the increase of Virtue, and the Divine Worship, &c. founded a new Monastery of Nuns of the Order of Praemonstratenses, in the place Scite and Precinct of the Old Monastery of Stixwold in Com. Lincoln, lately supprest by Authority of Parliament, to consist of a Prioress and Nuns, there to officiate in the Divine Offices for the good Estate of him and of his most dear Consort Iane Queen of England while they lived, and after their deaths for their Souls, and the Souls of their Children and Progenitors. And made and [ 82] constituted Mary Missenden Prioress of the said new Monastery, and incor∣porated the said Prioress and Nuns by the name of the Prioress and Con∣vent of the New Monastery of King Henry the VIII. of Stixwold. with capacity to receive Lands by that name, to sue and be sued, and to have a Common-Seal. He further gave and settled on them, all the Lands, and Estate real and personal belonging to the old Monastery of Stixwold, in as full and ample manner as Helena Key late Prioress of the said Mona∣stery enjoy'd the same on the same on the 4th. of Feb. in the seven and twentieth year of his Reign, or any time before, at which time it came to his hands by reason of an Act of Parliament then past for the dissolving of certain Monasteries. Which said Revenue was then rated at the clear yearly value of 152 l. 10 s. 7 d. and was granted to the said new Monastery, to hold in Capite by the twentieth part of a Knights Fee, and by the yearly [ 83] Rent of 15 l. 5 s. 1 d. to be paid into the Court of Augmentations at Mi∣chaelmas, and Lady-day; the Statute of Mortmain, or any other Statute non obstante. Whose Grant bears date on the 9th. of Iuly in the said nine and twentieth year, and is witnessed by Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, and divers others, among whom Sir Thomas Crumwell Knt. Lord Crumwell Keeper of the Privy-Seal, &c.

Vid. 1. Vol. 486.

Pag. 376. BRACKLEY.

RObert Earl of Leicester gave to Salomon the Clerk and his Successors one Acre of Land in Brahole (Brackley) in the love of God, and honour of St. Iohn the Apostle and Evangelist, to build a House thereon for the Receipt and Entertainment of poor People. This was confirm'd after∣wards by Robert his Son and Heir, which Father and Son endow'd the [ 84] said Hospital with divers Lands to hold in Frankalmoine Hugh Bishop of Lincoln confirm'd the Foundation of this Hospital, with all the Lands [ 85] and Liberties given and conferr'd upon it. The like did King Henry III. in the twelfth year of his Reign.

Pag. 423. DOVER. [ 86]

KING Henry the III. in the twelfth year of his Reign, confirm'd to the Hospital of St. Mary at Dover, divers Land and Rents given by Simon de Wardune; he also confirm'd the Mannor of Rivere to the said Hospital at the Petition of Hubert de Burgo who founded the same for the sustentation of poor People and Travellers who should come thether. He also ordained that upon the death or removal of the Ma∣ster, the Brothers of the said Hospital shall freely choose another, and present him to the King or his Chief Justice, who shall without difficulty [ 87] give assent, and then he shall be presented to the Archbishop of Cantebury to be by him instituted. He also granted to the said Hospital the tenth part of the Profits of the Passage in the Port of Dover, besides 10 l. and 50 s. which by two Deeds he had formerly granted them. With o∣ther Revenues elsewhere.

Pag. 899. NEWTON. [ 88]

THomas Archbishop of York made a Decree between Edmund Litchfield, who pretended to the Office of Custos or Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen at Newton in Holderness, and Edmund Percy then in Possession of the said Hospital, containing that the said Percy (whose title the Bishop confirms) and his Successors shall pay to the said Litchfield during his Life a yearly Pension of 100 s. on the day of the An∣nuciation of the Blessed Virgin, in the Collegiate Church of St. Thomas of Acon in London, under pain of incuring the Sentence of Excommuni∣cation, if upon request he does not within thirty days perform this Decree, [ 89] and besides it shall and may be lawful for the said Litchfield on the Pos∣sessions of the said Hospital to enter and distrain, and the distress to detain till his said Annuity and the Arrearages and his Expences be fully satisfied. This Decree was made by consent and approbation of both Parties, and bears date in the Archbishops Inn at Westminster (now White∣hally An. Dom. 1485. Approved, ratified, and confirm'd by the Dean and Chapter of York, and by the Master, Brothers, and Sisters of the said Hospital, in the same year.

Pag. 381. RIPPON.

IT was found by Inquisition taken at Rippon, 10 E. 2. that in the Hospi∣tal of St. Mary Magdalen there, according to the Foundation, there ought to be two Chaplains daily celebrating; that Strangers, poor Clerks, or other indigent People, coming to the said Hospital in their travells, ought to be lodged there one night, and entertain'd with Victuals, and Bed, and in the Morning depart; and that on St. Mary Magdalen's day yearly ought to be distributed in Alms to every poor Body that comes, one Loaf of the value of a half-penny, the quarter of Wheat being prized at 5 s. But they find that then Costos of this Hospital had perverted the Founders Charity in several particulars.

Pag. 461. WELLE.

RAlph de Neville, Knt. Lord of Midleham, by Indenture dated A. 1342 [ 90] Founded the Hospital at Welle in the Archdeaconry of Richmond, for the Augmentation of Divine Worship, and for the sustentation of poor and miserable People, and other Works of Piety, and endow'd the same with Lands and Revenue; and establisht therein one Master, two Priests, and four and twenty poor and infirm People. And appointed that the Master and two Priests should constantly observe and keep the Canonical hours, and celebrate three Masses daily.

KYPIER Hospital, in the County Palatine of Durham.

FOunded by Ranulphus Bishop of Durham, An. 1112. to the honour of God and St. Giles, for the Relief of the Clergy there serving, and [ 91] for the sustentation of poor People, who also endowed it with divers Lands and Revenues; confirm'd and augmented by Hugh Bishop of Dur∣ham, [ 92] and other Benefactors. The said Bishop Hugh granted to this Hospi∣tal Common of Pasture in his Forrest with certain Priviledges, viz. that the feet of their Dogs should not be cut or clipt, but that the Shepherds [ 93] might lead them in slips (ligatos) for the safety of their Cattle from wild Beasts and Wolves. An. 1297. A Composition was made between the Prior and Convent of Durham, and the Hospital of St. Giles, whereby the said Prior and Convent did quit-claim to the Brothers of that Hospital their Tithes of Corn at Clifton, which till that time they had used to pay to the Church of St. Oswald, in recompence whereof the Brothers of the said Hospital were to pay yearly upon the Altar of St. Oswald on the [ 94] day of that Saint, one Bisantium or 2 s. &c. The Men of Bedelyngtonshire being obliged by their Lords the Bishops of Durham, to give to the Hospi∣tal of St. Giles without Durham, one Thrave of Corn out of every Plow∣land which they held, they granted under their Seals, in lieu thereof 9 s. in mony, to be paid to the said Hospital at the Feast of St. Michael, with a Nomine paenae.

[Valued at 167 l. 2 s. 11 d. per Annum.]

STOKE Hospital, near Newarke, in Nottinghamshire.

JOhn Chauson, Master of the Hospital of St Leonard's at Stoke, and o∣thers, Confraters of the same, settled, by their Deed oated in the year 1332. forty Acres of Land, and thirty shillings of Rent, which they had obtain'd of Friends, for the profit of the said Hospital, and provided that the Master of the same should cause sixty Masses to be celebrated yearly for ever, for the said Benefactors, &c. To this every Master is to [ 95] be sworn at his admission. This Deed was ratified and confirm'd the same year by William Archbishop of York.

St. GILES Hospital, near Maldon, in Essex.

IT was found by Inquisition taken before Helming Leget, Escheator in the County of Essex, that the Kings of England were Founders of this Hospital, for the support of Leprous Burgesses of Maldon; that they had the Forfeitures of all Bread, Ale, Flesh, and Fish, that was not good and wholesome in the said Town; and that when the Master of that Ho∣spital should cease to take the same for the support as aforesaid, then the said Hospital should come and revert to the King as forfeited; that Robert Manfeild, Clerk, late Provost of Beverley, being made Custos of this Hospital, for above three years past has maintained neither Chaplain nor any Leprous Person in the same, and that the said Hospital was there∣fore seized into the King's hands. But King Henry the IV. being advised [ 96] by his Justices and Serjeants at Law that this was no sufficient cause of seizure, directed his writ to the said Escheator to amove his hand, &c. and meddle no further.

GINGES Hospital, in Essex.

MIchael de Capra, and Rose his Wife, and William his Son and Heir, gave to God and the Church of St. Mary and St. Leonard in their Wood of Ginges, and to Toby Prior of the said Place and the Brothers of the same, one Hide of Land, Paunage for forty Hogs, and divers other ad∣vantages.

BURCESTRE Hospital, in Oxfordshire.

KING Edward the III. in the nine and twentieth year of his Reign, li∣censed Nicholas Iordan Hermit, Custos of the Chappel of St. Iohn Baptist of Burcestre, to found an Hospital at Burcestre to the honour of God, the glorious Virgin Mary and St. Iohn Baptist.

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

CALC Priory, in Derbyshire. [ 97]

MAtilda Countess of Chester gave to the Canons of this place, an Estate at Rependone near Trent, conditionally that they should

make it the head Seat of their Convent to which Calc should be subject as a Member. Hugh Earl of Chester confirm'd their Revenues. [ 98]

[ 98] ARUNDELL Hospital, in Sussex.

KING Richard the II. An. 18. Licensed Richard Earl of Arundel to give four Messuages and two Tofts to the Master and Chaplains of the holy Trinity at Arundell, for the founding of an Hospital call'd Mey∣sondewe in honour of the holy Trinity, &c.

[Valued at 42 l. 3 s. 8 d. per Annum.]

FOSS-GATE Hospital, at York.

JOhn Archbishop of York, Primate of England, and Legate of the Aposto∣lick See, ordain'd and establisht in the Foss-gate-street at York an Hospi∣tal in honour of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the blessed Virgin Mary, That there be one Chaplain to have the Government of the same, and to be named Master or Custos, the right of presenting to the Office of Custos to belong to Mr. Iohn de Roucliff and his Heirs, in their de••ault to the Mayor of York for the time being, in his default to the Official of York Court, and in his default that the Archbishop or Dean and Chapter may for that time confer the place without presentation, the Custos on his ad∣mission to be sworn to a just and true Administration, &c. That there be [ 99] constantly resident in the said Hospital thirteen poor and weak Persons, and two poor Clerks teaching Schools, to be chosen by the Custos, every of which to receive from the Custos weekly 4 d. of Silver, the Custos to have ten Marks of yearly Revenue, which is judged sufficient for his support, that it shall not be lawful for him to convert to his own use more than that Sum of the Goods of the said Hospital, &c. Which Or∣ders are dated at Thorpe near York, An Dom. 1373.

[Valued at 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

WHITINGTON'S Hospital, at London.

JOhn Coventry, Iohn Carpenter, and William Grove, Execuors, of Richard Whitington late Citizen and Mercer of London, and several times Mayor of that City, according to the desire and appointment of the said Richard [ 100] founded in the Church of St. Michael Royal at London, where the said Richard and Alice his Consort lye buried, a Colledge of certain Priests and Clerks to celebrate daily for the said Richard and Alice; also an Almshouse for 13 poor People in the Parish of St. Michael aforesaid and adjoyning to the Church, And establisht divers Orders by Licence of King Henry VI. and Henry Archbishop of Canterbury, &c. touching the same; as, that there shall be always inhabiting in the said Hospital 13 poor People of one or both Sexes, of which one to be Cheif, and called Tutor, the first of which Office they placed themselves, by name Robert Chesterton, to whom they gave the said Hospital with all the Appurtenances for a perpetual habitation for him and the poor People and their Successors, by the name of the [ 101] House of God, or the Almshouse, or the Hospital of Richard Whityngton;

that the Mayor of London, and his Successors, shall be Supervisers, and the Wardens and Communalty of Mercers, Conservators of the said House; that the Tutor and poor People have Lodgings or Cells apart and several; [ 101] that within 20 days after the Death of a Tutor the Wardens of the Mer∣cers shall elect or depute another fit person to succeed in the said Office, and upon their neglect for 20 days, the Power of so doing shall for that time, be in the Mayor of London; that as the poor People dye, the Ma∣ster of the foresaid Colledge shall place one in the first Vacancy, and the Wardens of the Mercers in the Six next Vacancies, then again the Master in the next one, and then the Wardens for the six next, &c. yet it [ 102] shall not be lawful for the said Wardens to put one that is of the Livery of their own Company, or any other Company of the said City, into the said places, yet poor Citizens of London, and especially the poor of the Mercers, who are not, nor have been of the Livery, (qui de liberatâ minimé fuerint) and whom the Company are not bound to maintain, and poor Clerks and inferiour Officers of the Colledge aforesaid, are to be preferr'd to the said places before others; that the Tutor and poor People be daily present at Mattins, Masses, Vespers, and Complin, in the Colledge or Church a∣bovemention'd, and at the prayers to be there made for the Souls of Richard Whitington and Alice their Founders, Sr. William Whitington Knight, the Lord Ivo Fitz-Waryn, and the Lady Maud his Wife, Parents of the said Richard and Alice, King Richard II. and Thomas late Duke of Gloucester, &c. That they shall say for the said Souls as often as they can conveniently, three, or at least two Psalters, i. e. fifty Aves, and fifteen Paters and three Creeds; that they should all go daily to the Tomb of the said Richard and Alice, and there say the Psalm de Profundis, after which the Tutor to say aloud in English God have mercy on our Founders Souls, and all Christen, and the rest answer, Amen; that the Tutor shall not be absent from the said [ 103] House above ten nights in a year, nor any poor Man, above one whole day without License, or great necessity; That they have a Common Chest, and a Common Seal, the Chest to have three different Keys, &c. That the Tutor have and receive every week for his Pension 16 d. and every poor person 4 d. that no Leprous, or mad Man be admitted into the House, &c. if any Estate falls to any poor Man of the clear yearly va∣lue of five marks, that he be removed, and another poor Person put in his place, but if it be under five marks per Annum, let him give half to the Common Chest and keep the other half; Vicious persons after the third [ 104] fault to be expell'd the Hospital as incorrigible; That these Orders and Statutes be read, and intelligibly expounded, before the Tutor and poor People once every quarter of a year; With power reserved to the said Executors while they or any of them live, to add, correct, or alter any of these Orders. Dated 21. December An. Dom. 1424. (3. H. 6.)

RUTHYN Hospital in Denbighshire. [ 105]

QUeen Elizabeth, at the Petition of Gabriel Goodman Doctor of Divinity, and Dean of the Collegiate Church of Westminster, erected, created, founded, and establisht, an Hospital in Ruthyn in the Couuty of Denbigh, to be call'd Christ's Hospital in Ruthin, to consist of one Preacher and twelve poor People for ever; and ordain'd, that there should be one Pre∣sident, and one Warden of the same, and nominated the then Bishop of

Bangor and his Successors, for the time being, to be President, and Eubolus Theloall Master in Arts, to be the first Warden of the said Hospital, and all the Possessions, Lands and Goods thereunto belonging; that the said President and Warden be a Body corporate for ever, by the name of the President and Warden of Christ's Hospital in Ruthin, by the said name to purchase and receive Lands, &c. as well of the said Gabriel Goodman, as any other person, for the support and maintenance of the said Hospital; that they have a Common Seal; that they may sue and be sued by the said [ 106] name in all Courts; with power to the said Gabriel Goodman during his Life to elect, nominate, and appoint the Wardens and poor People of the said Hospital as often as there shall be occasion, and to make and appoint Statutes and Orders for Govrnment of the same; with license to the said President, and Warden, and their Successors to purchase Lands not exceeding the clear yearly value of 100 l. &c. the Statute of Mortmain or any other Stat. non obstante. Letters Patents to be past of all this under the Great Seal of England without any manner of Fine or Fee to be paid &c.

[ 107] DROHEDA Hospital, in Ireland.

FOunded by Vrsus de Swemele, without the West-Gate of Droheda, for the relief of poor and helpless People, and by him endow'd with all the Lands and Rents that he had in Ireland, and gave the Election of the Custos (after his death) to the Honest men, or Free-men (probos ho∣mines) of Drohida.

Pag. 792. SEMPRINGHAM.

THE Master and Canons of Sempringham declared by their Deed, that they and theirs in the place call'd Mirmaude, the Gift of Ralph de Hauvill, are subject to the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Ely as their Diocesan, notwithstanding their Priviledges.

[ 108] Pag. 825. ELLERTON.

GIlbert the II. Master of the Order of Sempringham, and Iohn Prior and the Convent of Ellerton, obliged themselves to the maintenance of thirteen poor People in the Hospital of the Church of Ellerton, founded by William Fitz Peter.

Pag. 514. St. John of Jerusalem, in the Suburbs of London.

KING Philip and Queen Mary by their Letters Patents, and Cardinal Pole Legate a Latere, restored and establisht the Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England, to its Pristine Estate, and the Priory and Hospital [ 109] of St. Iohn of Clerkenwell lately dissolved, and constituted Sir Thomas Tre∣sham Knt. Prior of the same, Richard Shelley, Peter Felices, Cuthbert Laithen, Edward Brown, Thomas Thornell, Henry Gerard, George Aylmer, Iames Shelley, and Oliver Starkey, Commendators or Preceptors of the said

Hospital, whom the said King and Queen incorporated by the name of Prior and Confraters of the Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem in England, to have perpetual Succession, and by that name to sue and be sued, to purchase and take Lands, &c. and to have a Common Seal; and gave them all that Capital House and Scite of the said Hospital of St. Iohn of Ierusalem, scituate and being near Clerkenwell, in Middlesex, with the Church and all Houses and Buildings, Gardens and Orchards, &c. thereunto belong∣ing, also all that Wood and Wood-ground call'd Greete St. Iohn's Wood, lying near Maribone-Park in Middlesex, and all other Lands and Tenements whatsoever that were in the Possession of the Prior and Confraters of the said Hospital at the time of the Dissolution of the same, and all Goods and Furniture belonging to the said House, &c. Which Letters Pattents bear date at Grenewiche, April the 2 d. in the fourth and fifth year of their Reign.

Pag. 247. BUTLEY. [ 110]

KING Henry the VII. in the four and twentieth year of his Reign granted to Robert Brommer Prior of the Monastery of Butley, and the Convent of the same, the Priory of the blessed Mary of Snape in Suffolk, with all Lands and Revenues thereunto belonging, or which Thomas Ney∣lond late Prior of the said Priory enjoy'd in right of the same, to hold in pure and perpetual Alms without Account or any Rent, and to be annext to the said Priory of Butley.

NEWINTON-LONGVILLE, an alian Priory in Buckinghamshire. [ 111]

THIS was a Cell to the Abby of St. Faith at Longville in Normandy, to which Walter Gifford Earl of Buckingham, gave and confirm'd divers Lands and Revenues, with great Priviledges in his Forrest of Waddon, free and discharged of all Exactions, &c.

CATHEDRAL CHURCHES Of Canons Secular.

[ 115] CHICHISTER Cathedral, in Sussex.

ANno Dom. 673. Ceadwalla King of the South-Saxons, at the Request of Bishop Wilfrid, gave divers Lands for the Building and Endow∣ment of a Monastery at Selesey. Brnny of Sussex, Northelmus King [ 116] of Sussex, An. 692. Numa King of Sussex, An. 714. Oslac Duke of Sus∣sex, [ 117] An. 780. were Benefactors to this Religious House of Selesey. Abbot [ 118] Pleghaard having transferr'd certain Revenues in Deaton to the Episcopal Church at Selesey, which Revenues he had of the Gift of King Offa, they were fixt and establisht to the said Church, in a Synod held at Clobe∣ham, [ 119] An. 825. King Athelstan gave Lands to the said Church, An. 930. the [ 120] like did King Edmund, King Eadwyn, King Ethelred, and Ethelbert. William gave Lands and Liberties to the Church of Chichister (the See being [ 121] then translated thither) the like did King Henry the I. and King Steven, [ 122] which last gave and confirm'd to the Church of the holy Trinity at [ 123] Chichester, and to Hillary Bishop of the same, divers Lands and Franchises, some of which Lands the said Bishop and his Successors were [ 124] to hold by being Chaplains to Maud his Queen and her Successors. William Earl of Chichister gave to this Church among other things, the fourth part of the City; King Iohn confirm'd to this Church all the Lands, &c. and Liberties which they then had or should have; The like did King Henry [ 125] the III. to Ralph the II. Bishop of Chichester, his Chancellor. The Prior [ 126] and Convent of St. Bartholmew's at London granted to the Bishops of this See, certain Houses in the Parish of St. Sepulchers, without Newgate, to hold by the yearly Rent of one pound of Frankincense, or six-pence, at [ 127] the Feast of St. Michael. Ranulphus Bishop of Chichister, (who writes him∣self the humble Minister of the Church of Chichister) caused to be provided for the Mannors of that Bishoprick, a stock or store of Cattel, viz. two hundred and fifty two Oxen, one hundred Crows, ten Bulls, three thousand one hundred and fifty Seep (Bidentia) one hundred and twenty she Goats, and fix he Goats, and ten Plow-horses, which Stock he ordered to be continued by all his Successors under censure of Excommunication, and to be Anathema Maranatha; Confirm'd and ratified by King Henry the III. Iohn Earl of Eu, restored to this Church, by Deed dated An. 1248. the Mannor of Bixle, which his Grandfather and Father had unjustly taken, and a long time detain'd from it.

[ 128] St. PETERS Cathedral, at York.

ON Easter-day, An. 627. Edwyn King of the Northumbers was baptized by Paulinus at York, in a small Church built on purpose, of Wood. This Church dedicated to St. Peter, was made the Archiepiscopal Seat of the said Paalinus, who had converted all that Province to the Christian

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Faith. Afterwards in the year 1067. Thomas a Canon of Bayeux, being made Archbishop, built the Church of Stone, after a larger manner. An 958. [ 130] King Eadway gave Suthwell to Oscytell Archbishop of York. King Athelstan, King Canute the Dane, King Edward the Confessor, were Benefactors to [ 131] this Church. King William Rufus, who stiles himself Son of King William, who succeeded King Edward by hereditary Right, gave to Thomas Archbishop of Tork and his Successors the Abby of St. German of Seleby, and the Church of St. Oswald at Gloucester, in lieu of the Jurisdiction which the said Archibishop claim'd over Lincoln, and Linsey, which the said Arch∣bishop thereupon quitted, for ever. The said King confirmed all the Li∣berties [ 132] of this Church, as did also Pope Honorius, who exempted this Arch∣bishop from Subjection to that of Canterbury. Pope Alexander granted to [ 133] Thomas Archbishop of York the Pallium, to be by him worn on Solemn Occasions. King Hen. I. and II. and Maud the Empress, granted Lands, [ 134] Churches, and Liberties, to the Canons of this Cathedral. Roger Arch∣bishop [ 135] of York, built anew the Quire and Vaults under it at St. Peter's, [ 136] and the Archie••is••opal Pallace thereunto adjoyning; he also built the Chappel of the holy Sepulcher adjoyning to the Gate of the said Pallace, and dedicated it in honour of the Virgin Mary and the holy Angels, en∣dowed it with eleven Churches, and settled therein thirteen Ministers, viz. four Priests, four Deacons, four Sub-deacons, and one Sacristan to be chief, each Priest to have ten Marks per Annum, each Deacon 100 s. and each Sub-deacon six Marks, the rest to the Sacristan; Sewallus who was consecrated Archbishop of York in the year 1256. perceiving the Revenue [ 137] of the said eleven Churches to be very much increased, caused Vicars to be establisht in the said Churches, presentable by the foresaid Sacristan; and made Orders for the Government of the said Ministers or Canons of the [ 138] Chappel aforesaid; The names of which eleven Churches are these, Thorp-Arches, Colingham, Berdeseye, Otteleye, Calverley, Hoton-Paynel, Sut∣ton, Everton, Hayton, Clareburgh, and Retford, the Vicars of all which he [ 139] caused to be endow'd, some with the whole Altarage, others with part, &c. [ 140] King Henry the VI. in the three and thirtieth year of his Reign granted his License to William then Archbishop of York and others to purchase a House to be a Colledge, wherein the Chantry Priests of the Cathedral Church might inhabit together, which said Priests be incorporated, with License to purchase Lands to the value of ten Marks per Annum. The like Letters Pat∣tents [ 141] were granted by King Edward. IV. in his first year, for erecting a Colledge of the said Chantry Priests, (Persones in Kyrk of York) with Li∣cense to the said Colledge to purchase Lands, &c. to the value of 100 l. [ 142] per Annum. Pope Innocent confirm'd the Lands, &c. of this Church, and [ 143] the use of the Pall to the Archbishop. Pope Paschalis, and Calixtus, ex∣empted this Archbishop from Subjection to Canterbury.

William King of Scotland certified to Pope Alexander that the Church of [ 144] Scotland was of old times subject to the Church of York, and desired that by his Authority it may be made so again. Pope Honorius writ to the King of Norway to restore to Ralf Bishop of the Orcades consecrated by, and Subject to the Jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York, the Possessions belonging to the said Bishoprick. Olaus King of the Isles writ to the [ 145] Archbishop of York at the recommendation of the Abbot of Furnes, to obtain from him the Consecration of a Bishop to propagate the Christian Religion in the Isles. Pope Calixtus writ to the Bishop of Glascow, com∣manding him to submit himself to the Jurisdiction of the Archbishop of

York within thrirty days after the receit of his Letters. Pope Honorius writ to the Bishop elect of Galloway (Candida casa) to repair to the Archbishop of York as his proper Metropolitan, for Consecration, &c. [ 146] Pope Paschal writ to all the Bishops of Scotland to submit to York as their [ 147] Metropolitan; the like did Calixtus and Innocent, which last writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury, his Legate, to denounce the Bishop of Glascow excommunicate unless he submits himself to the Archbishop of York within three Months, after admonition. Pope Honorius writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury and all the Bishops of England, and to King Henry, that the Archbishop of York may, according to antient Custome, be permitted to have his Cross born before him, in all parts of England, [ 148] and to Crown the King, in such manner as has been used. The Bishop of Galloway made a formal Act of Subjection and Canonical Obedience to this Archbishop, in like manner as did Durham, and Carlile.

[ 149] Roger de Mowbray, Peter de Ros, William Paynell, the Lord William de Percy, [ 150] who gave the Church of Topcliffe, to the Fabrick of this Church, (in [ 151] return for which the Dean and Chapter promised to find a fit Chaplain for ever to celebrate in the Chappel of the Blessed Mary at Topcliffe, [ 152] and to allow him 100 s. yearly) Ieffry Fitz Peter Earl of Essex, the Abbot and Convent of Albemarl, who gave Preston, and other Churches [ 153] in Holderness An. 1228. Nicholas de Stutville who gave Michael de Ha∣melsciâ [ 154] his Native or Villain, and all his progeny; Henry Fitz Thomas, and others, were Benefactors to this Church. An Inquisition was taken An. Dom. 1275, (4. Edward I.) in which all the Lands and Liberties [ 155] of the Church of St. Peter, in the City and Suburbs of York, were set forth and exprest, some of which the Jury then found to have belong'd [ 156] to that Church time out of memory. Walter Gray Archbishop of York [ 156] granted to the Chapter of York by Deed dated, An. 1241. All his Mansion [ 157] House, and all his Lands, &c. in Thorp St. Andrew, or Bishops Thorp, with Provision that the said Chapter reconvey the Premisses to his Suc∣cessors to hold by the Rent of 20 marks per An. at the feast of St. Martin, [ 158] which twenty marks to be distributed to poor People on the day of his An∣niversary, &c. The said Walter in the 33 year of his consecration caused certain Vicarages to be endow'd in the Churches of Tickhill &c. which Churches were appropriated to the Prior and Convent of St. Oswald of Nostel; in particular to the support of the Vicar of Tickhill, and one asso∣ciate Priest, a Deacon, and Subdeacon there, he appointed the whole Altarage, in which name he specifies all Oblations, Tithes and profits of the Church of Tickhill, except Tithes of Corn, pulse, and hay, and the Lands belonging to the said Church, saving a Competent Mansion to be assign'd to the Vicar, which Tithes of Garbs, and Hay, and the said Lands, shall remain to the said Convent of Nostell, &c. Herbert the Chamberlain, [ 159] Brother of King Steven, and Steven and Reginald his Sons were Benefactors [ 160] to this Church of St. Peter. King Henry II. granted to Archbishop Walter, and his Successors Free Warren, in their Mannours of Shirburn, [ 161] and Cawood. Aufridus de Chanci, Paganus de Vilers, Iohn Constable of [ 162] Chester, Robert de Vavasour, and others, were also Benefactors. Thomas [ 163] Archbishop of York, before mention'd, dyed at York on the Octaves of St. Martin, An. Dom. 1100, in great Reputation; as appears by his Epi∣tapth enter'd in the Register of that Church.

There were certain Customes and Orders used of old time in this [ 164] Church, as, that upon the Archbishops first coming to this City after his

Consecration, he was to be received in solemn Procession, so also when he returns at any time from beyond Sea, &c. That the Bishop of Durham was to present him with a rich Cope after his Consecration; that every Prebendary should in his life-time give a Cope value 10 l. or after his [ 165] death twenty Marks, and at his death his Palfrey; that the Dean is to be install'd by the Precentor, &c. That the Dean is bound to feed forty poor People daily, that he is the greatest in the Church, next The Arch∣bishop, and in the Chapter the greatest of all, An. Dom. 1200. the then Dean and Canons did order and ordain, that four Persons should be con∣stantly resident, viz. the Dean, the Chantor, the Chancellor, and the Treasurer, the Archdeacons to reside for three months in a year, other Canons for half a year, the common Profits to be divided among those only who are resident, that no Vicar shall be admitted for favour, but only [ 166] such as are worthy and proper for the Service of the Church, that none be promoted but by the Dean and Chapter, and that no Vicar or infe∣rior Minister be admitted into the Quire unless he have a good Voice. King Henry the VIII. made and establisht new Statutes by Letters Pa∣tents, in the time of Edward Archbishop of York, whereby reciting that they had in this Church an evil Custom, long used, that every Canon Prebendary was bound to spend in feasting the first year of his Residency one thousand Marks, or else he could not partake of the Emoluments of the Place, he abolishes the said Custom, and all Statutes relating there∣unto, and Orders that the Statutes relating to the great Residency be [ 167] observed, and that they have their Distributions and Emoluments on the account of Residency duly paid from the day of their first entry on the same, if there be none residing then all the common Profits of the Church to go wholly to the Treasury of St. Peter, That all Canons then being in the City of York, as well not resident as resident, be called to assist at all Chapters, that to the Chest wherein the Common-Seal is kept, be three different Locks and Keys, one to be kept by the Dean, the other two by the two Senior Residents, or if there be not at that time two Residentiaries then by the Precentor, and Chancellor, &c. that all Custom incouraging Pomp and Prodigality be abolisht, that a division of the Profits be made at the Feast of St. Martin according to the Days, Weeks, or Months of the Refidentiaries residing; which Canons in the time of their Residency are to be present at Vespers, Ma••tins, and high Mass, at least, [ 168] without justexcuse, under pain of losing that days distribution when ab∣sent, &c. Every Canon Residentiary to live at a House within the Close of the Cathedral, and to have in Benefices at least 100 l. per Annum, That the Vicars Choral shall when every Canon begins his greater Residence, receive 5 l. and afterwards 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. per Annum. That every Canon having a Prebend worth 8 l. per Annum, shall yearly at the Feast of St. Martin contribute and pay into the hands of the Chancellor of this Church 6 s. 8 d. for the providing of Preachers in the said Church, which Preachers are to be provided on the Rogation-days, Sundays, and other days at discretion, this not to excuse the Dean, and Chancellor, or any [ 169] others to preach themselves as they are obliged by Statute or Custom, &c. Which Letters Pattens bear date 3 Iune 33 H. 8.

To this Cathedral Church did belong abundance of Jewels, Vessels of Gold and Silver, and other Ornaments, rich Vestments and Books, viz. ten Miters of great value, among which one small Miter with Stones for the Bishop of the Boys, or Children (pro Episcopo puerorum) one Silver

[ 170] and gilt Pastoral Staff, many Pastoral Rings, among which one for the Bishop of the Boys; Chalices, Vials, Pots, Basons, Candlesticks, Thuribules, [ 171] Holy Water-Pots, Crosses of Silver, one of which weighed eight pound [ 172] six ounces, Images of Silver and Gold, Relicks in Cases extreamly rich, [ 173] great Bouls of Silver, a Unicorns-Horn, a Table of Silver and gilt with the [ 174] Image of the blessed Virgin enamiled thereon, weighing nine pounds [ 175] eight ounces and a half; several Gospellaries, and Epistollaries, richly adorn'd [ 176] with Silver, Gold, and precious Stones; Jewells affixt to Shrines and [ 177] Tombs, of almost inestimable value, Altar Cloaths, and hangings very [ 178] rich, Copes of Tissue, Damask, and Velvet, white, red, blew, green, pur∣ple, [ 179] and black, with other Vestments of the same Colours. Besides this [ 180] there was a great Treasure in the Common Chest, in Gold Chains, collors of S S. &c. with Sums of old Gold, and Silver deposited in the years 1517, 1518, 1519, and 1520.

HEREFORD Cathedral.

MIlefrid King of the Mercians built and endowed this Church, and [ 181] constituted a Bishop here; this he did as a kind of expiation for the death of Ethelbert (King of the East-Angels, murdered by Offa King of Mercia, and) reputed a Saint and Martyr. King Edward the Confessor granted Liberties to the Priests of this Church. In the time of the said King Edward, Walter then Bishop of this Church had one hundred Masuras wanting two (each Masura contains about four Oxgangs of Land) Robert Bishop here (who succeeded the other) found forty Hides of Land be∣longing to this See, but all wasted. The Canons of Hereford held many Mannors and Lands, &c. in right of their Church at the time of the Conquest, as appears by Domesday-Book, a true Copy whereof expressing the particulars in the several Hundreds where they lay, is transcribed and [ 185] printed *P. 182, 183, 184. the whole in the said Bishoprick amounting to 300 [ 186] Hides of Land. Ralph Bishop of Hereford granted to the Dean and Chap∣ter of that Church, all his Land of Hamme, then valued at 15 l per Annum, which he had lately purchased of Simon de Clifford, to hold by the service of one Knights Fee and a half, and the said Dean and Chapter granted to him to celebrate the Divine Offices on the day of his Obit, yearly. The Mannor of Hamme, in which the said Land lay, was given to the Prior and Convent of Crassewell, by Walter de Lascy, and by the Prior and Con∣vent [ 187] of Crassewell sold and convey'd to Peter de Aquablanca Bishop of Here∣ford and his Heirs, for the Sum of five hundred Marks; which Peter gave the said Mannor and several other good Gifts to the Church of Here∣ford. King William the Conqueror restored to this Church divers Man∣nors unjustly taken from it by Earl Herald. Ralph Murdac confirmed to the Church of St. Mary and St. Ethelbert, and to the Canons of the same, the Church of Putley, given them by William D'evereus his Pre∣decessor.

LANDAFF Cathedral.

ANno Dom. 156. Lucius King of the Britains, having applied himself [ 188] to Pope Elutherius, He and the Chief of his Kingdom were baptized into the Christian Religion; the sincere Doctrines of which they pre∣served uncorrupted till the Pelagian Heresie arose; to reform and confute which, St. Germanus, and Lupus, being sent for out of France, they before they went back consecrated Bishops in several parts of this Isle, in parti∣cular they consecrated Dubritius a holy and great Doctor, an Archbishop; and appointed for him an Episcopal Seat, which was by the grant of King Mouric, founded at a place called Podum Lantani in honour of St. Peter, and by that King endow'd with all between Taf, and Eiei, and by Apostolick Authority with great Ecclesiastical Priviledges. This Dubri∣cius founded divers Churches, and settled Bishops in the Right side of [ 189] Britain (per dextralem Britanniam) in particular he consecrated Daniel Bishop in the City of Bangor. Guorduc offered up (immolavit) his Virgin Daughter Dulon to Dubricius Archbishop of Landaff, whom he consecrated [ 190] a Nun, for ever; her Father gave with her divers Lands. An. Dom. 612. [ 191] St. Dubricius Bishop of Landaff departed this life, and in the year 1120. was with great Solemnity translated from the Isle of Enli, to his Church of Landaff, at which time and action, some miraculous Events are said to happen. Vrban Bishop of Landaff complained to Pope Calixtus that whereas this Church was at its first erection, the Mistress of all the Churches of Wales, and had once four and twenty Canons, of which there remained at that time but two, and the Revenues almost desolate, by the Invasion of Laymen and Monks, and also of his own Brothers, the Bishop of Hereford, and the Bishop of St. Davids, he therefore prays the said Pope [ 192] to succour him and his Church.

Idon a British King was a great Benefactor to this Church, in the time of St. Teliau. Successor to the foresaid Dubricius. Also King Margetud, [ 193] and King Aircol, and one Tutuc, gave to the same Archbishop Teliau, divers Lands and Possessions, as an expiatory penance for certain Murders. ••ing Mouric before mentioned was the Son of King Teudiric, who having settled [ 194] his Kingdom in Peace, resigned the Government to his Son, and himself became a Hermit; but his Kingdom being afterwards invaded by the Saxons, and his Son in great danger of losing it, he was admonisht by an Angel that he should leave his Retirement and head the Army, that they would fly at his sight, and that he should, however, receive a wound and die in peace after three days; all which happened as foretold, and he dying in an Isle call'd in Welch C••hni, his faid Son built there an [ 195] Oratory and Cimitery, and gave all the Territory about it to the Church of Landaff, this was in the time of Oudoceus the third Bishop of this See. The said Mouric having by treachery killed Cynvetu, after he had sworn to a firm peace with him, before the Relicks of the Saints, was Excom∣municated, for redemption of which, and as part of his pennance, he gave to this Church four Towns with their Liberties. King Mor∣cant, [ 196] and Augustus King of Brecknoc, and King Iudhail, were Bene∣factors; so was Gurvodius upon his having obtained a great Victory [ 197] over the Saxons. In the time of Bishop Gurvan, Teudor and Elgist [ 198] Kings of Brecknock, swore a firm and mutual Peace with each other, before the Relicks of the Saints, after which King Teudor took occasion to Kill Elgist; for which Homicide and Perjury being excom∣municate,

and upon his Absolution being Enjoyn'd for Penance, Almes, Prayer, and Fasting, he gave in Almes to this Church of Landaff divers [ 199] Lands and Revenues. Briteon hail Son of Devon sacrificed (immolavit) to God, and St. Dubricius, six Churches with all their Liberties and [ 200] Profits, in one day. King Clotri and King Iudgvalaun, having sworn a firm Peace before the holy Gospells and Reliques upon the Altar, in Presence of Bishop Berthguin and the Clergy, after which Clotri killing Iudgvalaun, he was for his homicide and perjury, excomunicated with all his Progeny and Kingdom, by the said Bishop and Clergy in a full Synod. Afterwards being absolved and enjoyn'd Penance, as part of the [ 201] same he gave divers Lands to this Church of Landaff. Guidnerth having slain his Brother, was for his homicide and Fratricide, excommunicated by Bishop Oudoceus in a full Synod, and after three years, having perform'd an enjoyn'd Pennance into Cornwal (the Brittons and those of Cornwal being of the same language and Nation tho' divided in territory) he was upon [ 202] his great sorrow and tears absolved, after which he gave divers Lands to this Church. Gurcan who succeeded Guinan, having lived incestuously with his Mother in Law, was therefore in full Synod excommunicated by [ 203] Bishop Erthguin, and after upon his reformation being absolved, gave divers Lands to this Church. King Clitauc Son of Clitguin, was a Prince who governed his Kingdom in Peace and exact Juctice, and became afterwards a Martyr on this account: A young Virgin of quality was in love with him so far as to declare she would never marry unless to Clitauc, whereupon a Nobleman of the Court, whose Sute she had refused, for the Kings sake, in revenge murder'd the innocent King in hunting. After whose Murder the Bishop of Landaff caused to be built, and consecrated, [ 204] a Church to his memory, in the place where he was buried near the River Myngui, &c. Which with divers Lands given to the same, was afterwards a granted to the Bishops of Landaff, by King Iudhail Son of Morcant. A Noble man of the same name, Iudhail Son of Edel∣virth, going with his Wife on a Sunday to hear divine Service at St. Clitaue's, was so far prevail'd upon by the Devils insligation and his own lust, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to lie with his Wife in a Meadow on the Bank of Mingui, and having perform'd the Act, and about to withdraw, he found himself not able to disjoyn, but was forced to remain in that Posture inseperable from his W••••e, whereupon he call'd out to his Attendants, and order'd them to repair to the Monument of the Martyr Clitauc, and there offer in his name that Meadow which he had unjustly taken from that Church, this being done, with promise of amendment of Life, he was again [ 205] separated from that vexatious Conjunction. Convur bought certain Lands of King Fernvail, Son of Iudhail, for an excellent horse of the price of 12 Cows, a Dog that had kill'd Birds, with a Hawk (cum Ancipitre) of the Price of 3 Cows, and another Horse of the Price of 3 Cows, which [ 206] Lands so purchased he gave to the Bishops of this Church of Landaff Fernuhail, Convelin, King Ris Son of Iudhail, and abundance of other Kings [ 207] and great Men in Wales, were Benefactors to this Church. King Hotel being excomunicated by the Bishop and Synod at Landaff for killing Galcun, after a peace swern, upon his Absolution gave divers Lands to this Church; the like did Ili Son of Conblus, who was excommunicated for killing Camauc after a Peace sworn between them. Agvod Son of Iovaf having an angry Contest betwixt his family and the Bishops, came up to the Church Door, and threw stones into the Church, and then fled, under an Ana∣thema;

for which he afterwards beg'd pardon and gave divers Lands to Corenhiro then Bishop and his Successors. King Nongui gave Lands for violating the Liberties of this Church and committing Sacriledge. An. Dom. 955. Pater being then Bishop of this Church, six men of the Family of Nongui, broke into a Church in this Dioces••, and there kill'd a Deacon before the Altar, who had fled thither for Sanctuary, for which they were delivered up to the Bishop, and remain'd imprison'd six months in Chains, and they were further sentenced by a Synod that they should forfeit all their Lands and Substance to the Church which they had pro∣phaned. [ 209] Asser Son of Marchvid, having kill'd Gulagguin by treachery gave to this Church the Town of Segan, &c. Brochmail Son of Mouric, gave to [ 210] this Church certain Lands which he had before given to his Daughter whom he made a Nun, but she being seduced from her Vow by Etgar Son of Levi had a Son, incestuously. Teudur King of Brecknock, King [ 211] Grifud, &c. were also Benefactors.

An. Dom. 982. Gucaun Bishop of Landaff was consecrated by the Metro∣politan [ 212] Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury, and had his Pastoral Staff given him by Edgar the Supream King of the English. At the same time, lived [ 213] Edgar King of all Britain, Hawel da, and Morgan hen, which two last were subject to King Edgar.

Etguin King of Guenti having a great contest with Bledri Bishop of Landaff, it went so far that the Bishop himself was wounded, whereupon he summon'd and assembled all the Clergy from Taratir in Gui, to Tigui, who in full Synod Anathematized the King, with his whole Family, and put his Country under interdict; but the King seeking absolution, ob∣tain'd it, and thereupon gave divers Lands to this Church. Muric Son of Hivil, after he had solemnly sworn to a Peace and Friendship with Et∣guin [ 214] a Neighbouring King, before Ioseph Bishop of Landaff seized upon the said Etguin, cast him in Prison, and put out his eyes, which occasion'd his death, for which being curst in a Synod, he afterwards obtain'd absolution, and gave several Towns to this Church. King Mouric, and Caratanc one of his Lords, being under censure for violating the Sanctuary of this [ 215] Church, obtain'd remission and gave divers Lands. The like happened in the Cases of Catguallaun, Ringuallaun, Gistinus, and others, who being guilty of like Crimes, made the like Compensations.

When King William conquer'd England, Hergualdus was Bishop of [ 216] Landaff, Catguacaun Son of Mouric King of Glatmorcant, Caratoc, and Riderch Kings of other parts of Wales, all which Kings served King Wil∣liam, and died in his time.

LITCHFELD Cathedral.

THIS was formerly call'd the Mercian Church, and first founded in the year 657. upon the Conversion of this Province to the Christian Religion, it was then made a Cathedral, and Duina the first Bishop of the Mercians or middle English, who govern'd here but two years and died. To him succeeded Cellach, a Scot. After him Trumhere, and [ 217] after him Iarman, both Englishmen, but ordain'd Bishops in Scotland. To these succeeded St. Cedda, An. Dom. 667. who had been before that Bishop of York. After whose death succeeded Winfrid, and after him Sexwolf who founded the Abby of Peterborough, after whose death the Province of Mer∣cia

was divided into two Diocesses (Par••chias) Litchfield and Leicester, tho' after a while they were both united again under Hedda Bishop of Litchfield, who died, An. 721. In the time of Ethelred King of Mercia the Bishoprick of Litchfield was divided into five Diocesses, viz. Hereford. Worcester, Litchfield, Leicester, and Lindisey. After this division Litchfield had five [ 218] successive Bishops till the time of Adulphus who was made Archbishop of Litchfield by Pope Hadrian, An. 764. and a Jurisdiction given him over all Mercia and the East-Angles, but after him there was no more Arch∣bishops. From his time to the Norman Conquest were fifteen Bishops of Litchfield, soon after which the Episcopal Seat was translated from Litch∣field to Chester. An. 1075. The second Bishop of Chester was Robert de Lymesi, who An. 1095. removed his Seat again, from Chester to the rich Monastery at Coventry, not long before built, and magnificently en∣dow'd by Earl Leofrick and Godeva his Wife. To him succeeded Robert Peche, Roger de Clinton, Walter Durdent, Richard Peche, and Gerard de Puellâ, all of them successively Bishops of Coventry and most buried there. The following Bishops were called Bishops of Coventry and Litchfield, whole names are Hugo de Novant, who in the year 1190. displaced the Monks from the Monastery at Coventry and introduced Secular Canons in their stead (but the Monks were restored again after seven years (Ieffrey de Muschampe, An. 1199. William de Cornhill, An. 1215. Alexander de Savensby, An. 1224. in whose time Pope Honorious ordered that one time the Election of the Bishop should be made in the Church of Coventry by the Convent of Monks there and the Chapter of Litchfield, and the next [ 219] time in the Church of Litchfield by the said Convent and Chapter. Hugo de Pat••shull, An. 1240. Roger de Wescham, An. 1245. Roger de Meyland, An. 1256. Walter de Langton, An. 1296. he was a great Benefactor to the Church of Litchfield. Roger de Norburgh, An. 1322.

Penda King of the Mercians, a Man phanatical and impious (fanaticus & impius) after he had reign'd thirty years was overcome by Oswy King of the Northumbers, An. 656. Which Oswy becoming King of Mercia, was the occasion of the Conversion of that Province to the Christian Faith, and founded the Mercian Church, now call'd Litchfield, and died, An. 670. In the City of Litchfield were two Monasteries, one in the East-part where St. Cedda used to make his Prayers, and preach to the People, which place is since called Stow, the other was in the West-part, and dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary; here the Bishop made his Seat, his Habitation contained fix and thirty foot in length, and twenty eight in breadth; the Deans Apartment adjoyn'd to that of the Bishop, and con∣tained [ 220] half the Dimensions, the Mansions of the Canons contain'd each half the Dimensions of the Deans. Roger de Clinton the third Bishop of Coventry was the first Erector of a Colledge of Canons at Litchfield, there being before that time only five Priests in that Church serving at five Altars. These Canons of Litchfield did sometimes refuse to admit the Bi∣shop when chosen and enthonizated at Coventry, the Prior of which place [ 221] had of right the first Voice in his Election. The Prior of Coventry and his Convent pretended to have the sole and free choice of the Bishop, but King Iohn after a long contest with them, over-aw'd them at Nottingham to chose William de Gray his Chancellor their Bishop, and not only so, but to joyn with the Canons of Litchfield in the Election. But the Electi∣on [ 222] being set aside as forced, the Prior and Monks only, chose William de Cornhull, Archdeacon of Huntington; all this was done in the time of a general Interdict.

The Episcopal Seat was translated from Litchfield to Chester in the time [ 223] of William the Conqueror, and from Chester to Coventry in the Reign of King Henry the I. Boniface Archbishop of Canterbury recited and confirm'd [ 224] the Grant of Roger Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, whereby, with the Consent of the Prior and Convent of Coventry he granted and confirm'd to the Dean, and Chapter, and Church of Litchfield, divers Lands and Rents, and alotted the same to such and such Offices and Duties, and rati∣fied the Constitutions of Hugh his Predecessor, and granted and establisht [ 225] by his Pontifical Authority, that the Churches of Coventry and Litchfield should have equal Power in the Election of the Bishop. Which Con∣firmation by the Archbishop of Canterbury bears date, An. Dom. 1259. King Richard the I. granted divers Lands and Franchises to this Church, confirm'd by Pope Honorius. Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury made and pro∣vided [ 226] several good Orders and Constitutions to be observed by the Dean and Chapter of this Church, in relation to the reparing the Parish Churches and Chappels to them belonging, for the Augmentation of the Vicars and other Clergymens Profits therein, and for providing Books and Ornaments [ 227] for the same, also that they be moderate in receiving their Mortuaries [ 228] and Tithes, he having heard great complaints of their rigorous exactions that way, &c. Dated, An. Dom. 1280. King Iohn, while Earl of Moreton, [ 229] was a Benefactor to this Church whose grant was confirm'd by his Son King Henry the III. An. 50. Roger call'd the Amnener gave and confirm'd [ 230] to Roger de Mulent Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, a parcel of Land and Buildings lying in the Parish of St. Mary le Stronde without London towards Westminster, between the High-way that leads from London to Westminster and the Thames, to hold to the said Roger and his Successors, by the [ 231] yearly Rent of 3 s. payable at Easter, for the purchase of which the said Bishop gave twenty Marks of Silver. Pope Eugenius confirm'd the Lands and Possessions given to this Church, and establisht the Episcopal Seat at Coventry, An. 1151. William Bishop of Coventry gave and confirm'd [ 232] to the Canons of Litchfield the Church of Hope, and Chappel of Tideswell [ 234] for their common Provision in Bread and Beer. King Steven granted to [ 235] the Church of St. Cedd at Litchfield, and Walter Bishop of Coventry and his Successors for ever, a Mint for the Coyning of Mony at Litchfield King [ 236] Edward the I. granted to Roger Meuland Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, and his Successors, the Forrest or free Chase of Canok in Staffordshire, with the usual Liberties, to hold in Frankalmoine &c.

An. Dom. 1397. Thomas de Stretton Dean of Litchfield and the Chapter of that Church, deposited two hundred Marks in a Chest called the Chest [ 237] of Grace, to be kept under four several Locks and Keys, to be opened and used, when the Steward has not sufficient of the usual Income to sup∣ply [ 238] the Commons of the Canons Residentiary and Vicars, for so much only as shall be wanting, the same to be paid again by the Stewad to the Common Chest before he passes his Accounts, &c. All which was con∣firm'd and ratified by Richard Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield. Anno Dom. 1411, Iohn Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, granted and demised to the Chantry Priests in the Church of Litchfield a common Lodging or [ 239] Habitation within the Close at Litchfield, to have and to hold to them and their Successors for the term of ninety eight years at the Rent of 12 d. per Annum payable to the Bishop and his Successors. There were formerly in this Church seventeen Chantries founded by several Persons.

[ 240] Ieffrey Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, Iames Denton Dean, and the Chapter of the said Church, made a Collection of all Statutes and Orders that had been made in the times of former Bishops, altering some, and adding others as there was occasion, and having out of that Collection com∣piled a body of Statutes, presented it to Cardinal Wolsey. Archbishop of York and Legat de Latere, to be confirm'd by his Legantine Authority; In which Statutes are contain'd directions for saying the Divine Offices [ 241] and the several Canonical hours; The Offices and Duties of the four [ 242] Principal Persons in the Church of Litchfeild, viz. The Dean, Precentor, Treasurer, and Chancellor, also of the Sacristan, and after what manner the several Bells are to be toll'd or Rung at the several hours and Offices. [ 243] Also of the Archdeacons, and Succentor; That the Dean is the Head of the Chapter, that when he enters or passes by, all the Clergy ought to [ 244] stand up &c. The Office and duty of the Vicars, and secular Clerks [ 245] commonly call'd Clerk Vicars; The manner of installing the Canons, all [ 246] whose stalls and proper Seats are set out in a Scheme; That all Clerks entering into the Quire, bow first to the Altar, then to the Bishop, or in [ 247] his Absence to the Dean, with directions when to stand up, and kneel, &c. and what habits and collours are to be used upon such and such days; [ 248] That the Dean be continually Resident, that he Celebrates Mass on all double Feasts, that he preach on Ash Wednesday and Advent Sunday, &c. [ 249] That every Canon have a Vicar continually serving in the Church; That one or two of the Canons be Chosen at Michaelmas yearly, to receive and [ 250] distribute the Common Goods of the Church, and to account for the same; The manner of calling and holding the Chapters; That on the Festivals of St. Cedde, and the assumption of the Virgin Mary, the Dean [ 251] feast all the Quire, the Canons to be singly invited eight days before the time; That from Trinity Sunday to Christmas Mattins be immediately said [ 252] after Complin, and the several Masses at such and such hours, &c. That [ 253] Mattins and Vespers, and all the hours be perform'd according to the Salis∣bury use; That in case any difference shall happen among the Canons it shall be composed among themselves, if it may be, if not, by the Dean and Chapter within two Months, if not by them, then by the Bishop [ 254] within two Months more, if that cannot be, the party injured may be at Liberty to seek redress in Law elswhere as he sees convenient; That the [ 255] Statutes of this Church be writ fair in a Book of Parchment, and that to be chain'd in such place where the Canons, but not others, have access to it. That no Minister of this Church lie a night in the Town, without reaso∣nable Cause to be approved by the Dean and Chapter; that no Vicar or [ 256] Quirister receive or admit any Woman into his Garden, unless in com∣pany of other honest Women, &c. All which Statutes and Ordinances with many more, filling twenty one Folio's and a half, were declared and establisht by the foresaid Dean and Chapter, and confirm'd by the Bishop in the year 1526. The Bishop of Litchfeld is sworn to defend the Rights and Liberties of this Church to his ability, to observe the Statutes and approved antient Customes of the same, and not to alienate the Episcopal Possessions. The Dean is sworn to make continual Residency as is accu∣stomed, to be faithful to the Church, not to reveal the secrets of the Chapter, to observe and defend the Statutes, and approved and antient Customes, to behave himself with humility and Patience, and to excite all those who are Subject to his Government to do the like. Every Ca∣non is sworn to be obedient to the Dean and Chapter in Canonical Com∣mands,

to defend the Rights and Liberties of this Church, to observe the Statutes and antient and approved Customes, to be faithful to the Church and not to reveal the Secrets of the Chapter. Every Vicar is sworn to be obedient to the Dean and Chapter, to be faithful, to perform the Day and Night Service according to his reasonable ability. The Sergeant is sworn to be true to the Church of Litchfield, to keep Council, truly to do his Office of Sergeantship, and when he is sent on Errands to give a true Report, &c.

LINCOLN Cathedral.

PAulinus Archbishop of York, who converted a great part of the North among the rest converted to the Christian Religion the Prefect of the City of Lincoln call'd Bletta, and caused a Church to be erected, and therein consecrated Honorius Archbishop of Canterbury.

An. 1092, Bishop Remigius removed his Episcopal Seat from Dorche∣ster by Licence of King William the Conqueror to Lincoln, and began to build there a sumptuous Church, on the Hill near the Castle, but Thomas then Archbishop of York pretending that Lincoln and all the Province of Lindsey was within his Diocess, gave some obstruction for a while. But it was afterwards finisht by King William II, who caused it to be dedicated [ 258] by two Cardinal Legates, in the presence of eight Archbishops and sixteen Bishops, and secular Canons to be establisht therein. This King William Rufus Confirm'd all the Lands and Revenues which his Father had given to this Church, and was himself a great Benefactor, he quieted the Dispute [ 260] between the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Lincoln, about Juris∣diction, giving Thomas Archbishop of York such satisfaction to quit his Claim for ever, as has been already mention'd, pag. 131. King Henry I. gave to this Church among other Lands the Mannour of Bicheleswade with [ 261] great Liberties, also a Fair to be held at their Castle of Newark, on St, Mary Magdalens day and four days before; he also granted to Robert [ 262] Bishop of Lincoln Liberty to make a Passage through his Castle Wall, he also granted to the said Bishop and the Canons of this Church his Vineyard [ 263] at Lincoln and all that belongs to it. He also granted them several Chur∣ches, [ 264] as Hempingham, Derby, Wercheford, to be Prebends, with all the [ 265] Churches of Lincoln within and without the Borough, and Freewarren [ 266] in all their Lands in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. King Henry II. granted and confirm'd to Robert Bishop of Lincoln and his Successors the [ 267] Houses that were the Knights Templers in the Parish of St. Andrew Holburn, at London, which the said Bishop had purchased of those Knights for one hundred marks, and the yearly Rent of three pieces of Gold (tres aureos). The same King gave to this Church and Bishop all the ground from the Bale Westward to the City Wall Eastward, at Lincoln, to build on; he also [ 268] confirm'd the Donations of their other Benefactors, he also composed a difference between the Bishop of Lincoln, and Robert Abbot of St. Albans about the Jurisdiction over fifteen Churches to the said Abby belonging. Pope Honorius An. 1125. confirm'd the Revenues given to this Church; [ 269] the like did Pope Innocent, who also granted that no Bishop should be [ 270] imposed on this Church of Lincoln without the free election of the Clergy and People, An. 1138. King Henry III, in the fortieth year of his Reign upon the Petition of the Dean and Canons of Lincoln for his Licence

to remove some part of the City Wall, that so they might enlarge their Church Eastward, issued out a Writ of Quod damnum, in order to the same.

[ 271] The names of the Deans of Lincoln.

• Ralf Ramerus.
• Simon 〈◊〉〈◊〉 An. Dom. 1100.
• Adelmus, 1162.
• Hamo.
• Ieffry Killing.
• Rober de Rolveston, 1198.
• William de Tornaco, 1227.
• Roger de Wescham, 1237. after Bi∣shop of Coventry and Litchfield.
• Henry de Lenington, 1243. after Bishop of Lincoln.
• Richard de Gravesend, 1254 after Bishop of Lincoln.
• Robert de Mariscis, 1260.
• William de Lenington, 1262.
• Richard de Mephum, 1273.
• Iohn de Maydencton 1275.
• Olive Sutton, 1276. after Bishop of Lincoln.
• Nicholas de Hecham, 1280.
• William Wicham, 1577. after Bi∣shop of Lincoln and Winchester.
• Philip de Willughby, 1289.
• Gotzesinus de Kyrington, 1305.
• Raymundas, a Cardinal, 1307.
• Roger de Martival, 1310. after Bi∣shop of Sarum.
• Henry de Mansfield, 1315.
• Anthony Beak, 1328. after Bishop of Norwich.
• Iohn de Nottingham, 1340.
• William de Norwich, 1343. after Bishop of Norwich.
• Iohn de Offord, 1345.
• Simon Bresley, 1348.
• Iohn de Stretley, 1364.
• Iohn de Shepy. 1388.
• Iohn Mackworth, 1412.
• Robert Fleming, 1451.
• George Fitzbugh, 1483.
• Ieffry Simion, 1505.
• Thomas Wulcy, 1509. afterwards Bi∣shop of Lincoln, and York, and Cardinal.
• Iohn Constable, 1514.
• George Heneage, 1528.
• Iohn Tayler, 1539. after Bishop of Lincoln.
• Mathew Parlur, (or Parker) 1552. after Arch-Bishop of Canterbury.
• Francis Mallet, 1554.
• Iohn Whitgift, 1571. after Bishop of Worcester, and Archbishop of Canterbury,
• Ralf Griffin, 1585.
• Iohn Rainold, 1598.
• William Cole, 1599.
• Laurence Staunton, 1601,
• Roger Parlur, 1613.
• Anthony Topham, 1629.
• Michael Honywood, 1660.

[ 272] Anno 1536. (28. Henry VIII.) An Inventory was made of all the Jewels, Vestments, and other Ornaments belonging to the Revestry of of this Church, consisting in Chalices, in number six, one of which was all Gold enricht with Pearls and divers precious stones in the foot, weighing thirty two Onnces, Several rich Feretrums, one of Silver and gilt for the [ 273] Sacrament, weighting 341. ounces, several rich Philatories, Ampuls, [ 274] and Tabernacles with Relicks in them, Rich Images Silver and gilt, Di∣vers Rich Chests for Relicks, Pixes, Crosses and Crucifixes some of Gold [ 275] some of Christial, and some of Silver and gilt, one of which weighed 128 Ounces besides the Baes, &c. Divers Rich Candlesticks, among which one Pair of extraordinary size and Workmanship was all Gold, and weigh'd 450 Ounces, the gift of Iohn Duke of Lancaster Son of [ 276] King Edw. III. Five Pair of Censors Silver and gilt, Several rich Basons Sil∣ver [ 277] and gilt, &c. Pastoral Staves, Texts of the Gospells with Rich Covers,

Chrismatories and Ampuls sot Oyl Silver and gilt, eight Myters, Che∣sables, [ 278] and Copes of Cloath of Gold, Sattin, Velvet, imbroidered, red, [ 279] white, some of Damask, some set with Pearls, of purple and blew, some [ 280] of which had the Donors names imbroidered thereon, with Orate pro [ 281] anima, &c. of green, of black, rich Morses of Silver and gilt, Garlands [ 282] of Silver and gilt, set about with precious Stones and Pearls, rich Altar∣cloaths [ 283] of Cloth of Gold and images imbroidered, &c. King Henry VIII. [ 284] directed his Letter dated the 6th of Iune in his two and thirtieth year, to [ 285] Dr. George Heneage then Archdeacon of Taunton, and others, to take down [ 286] a Shrine, and the superstitious Jewels, Plate, Copes, &c. in this Cathe∣dral [ 287] Church of Lincoln, and to see the same safely and surely to be convey'd to his Jewel-house in the Tower. Which Commission was exe∣cuted on the 11th of Iune 1540. And by force thereof there was taken out of the said Cathedral in Gold two thousand six hundred and twenty one ••unces, in silver four thousand two hundred and eighty five ounces, besides a great number of Pearls, Diamonds, Saphires, Rubies, Turky, Carbuneles, &c. The Bishop of Lincoln had a Miter wonder∣fully thick set with precious Stones. Here were then two Shrines, one of St. Hugh all of Gold, the other of St. Iohn of Dalderby all of Silver.

In the seventh year of King Edward the VI. another Inventory was [ 288] taken of what then remain'd in this Church, which contain'd only three Chalices, one Pix, one Ampul, and that was all the Plate, the rest of the Treasure was in Copes of red, green, blew, black and white, some [ 289] old and decayed, with divers Chesables, Tunicles, and Albes, &c. Altar∣Cloaths [ 290] of Diaper meetly good, and five other Cloths of Diaper sore worne. [ 291]

In the fourth and fifth Ph. Ma. An. Dom. 1557. another Inventory was made, and there was then in this Church seven Chalices Silver [ 294] and gilt, one of which weighed four and thirty ounces, four Pixes, with some few Phials, Crostes, Ampulls, but most poor, with divers Chesables, and Copes, red, purple, white, blew, green and black, [ 295] and divers Altar-Clothes, some of Cloath of Gold, and of Damask im∣broidered [ 297] with Gold, &c.

St. PAUL's Cathedral, in London. [ 298]

ANno Dom. 185. Lucius King of the greater Britain, now call'd England, obtain'd from Pope Eleutherius, two Doctors to be sent hither to instruct the King and Kingdom in the Christian Faith; then were the Temples of Idols dedicated to the Service of the true God, and three Metropolitan Seats placed in the three chief Cities, viz. London, to which all the Southern part of England was subject; York, under whose Jurisdiction was all the North of Humber, and Scotland; and Cehster, whose Jurisdiction extended over Wales. London continued the chief Episcopal Seat and Primacy, till the coming of St. Augustin, who in the year 604. transferr'd the Metropolitan Dignity to Canterbury; and made Mellitus [ 299] Bishop of London. To which Mellitus, King Ethelbert gave the Land then called Tillingham, for the Support and Maintenance of his Monastery of St. Paul. Pope Agatho granted to Erkenwald Bishop of the Monastry of St. Paul in London, that the Election of the Bishop should belong solely to

the Congregation of that Monastery. Which Erkenwald was a Scholler to Bishop Mellitus, and built two Monasteries, one for himself at Chertsey in Sussex, the other for his Sister Edleburga at Barking in Essex. He was a man of most exemplary Piety, and after the death of Bishop Cedde, became Bishop of London. He died at Barking; after whose death his Body was much contested for, by the Nuns of Barking, the Monks of Chertey, and the Citizens of London, but the latter prevailed, and he was buried at London, with the Reputation of a Saint. King Athelstan renewed and restored the Liberties of the Monastery of St. Paul [ 302] the Doctor of the Gentiles, in London. King Edgar granted to the same, [ 303] divers Lands and Immunities, in the year 867. Other Benefactors to this [ 304] Church were King Ethelred, C••••te King of Denmark and England, King [ 305] Edward the Confessor, King William the Conqueror, who confirm'd all their Lands and Liberties to be as free as he desired his own Soul to be in the day of Judgment; he also granted and confirm'd the four and twenty Hides of Land adjoyning to the City of London, which King Ethelbert gave to this Church when he founded it. It appears by Domesday-Book that at the time of the Conquest, the Church of St. Paul's held Lands in [ 306] the Counties of Middlesex, Essex in divers Hundreds there, Hertford, [ 307] and Surrey. An. 1070 A Provincial Council was assembled in the Church of St. Paul at London under Lanfranc Archbishop of Canterbury, where among other things it was decreed that none should marry in his own Kindred till the seventh Degree; That none should buy or sell holy Orders, or an Ecclesiastical Office with cure of Souls, which crime St. Peter first condemn'd in Simon Magus; and that no Bishop or any of the Clergy should judge in loss of Life or Limb. In those times it was proved, [ 308] and declared, that the Church of York ought to be subject to that of Canterbury. The foresaid King William granted to Maurice Bishop of London the Castle of Stortford and other Lands with Soc and Sac.

In the year 1295. A Visitation was made in the Treasury of this Church, by Ralph de Baudak, then Dean, and an Inventory taken con∣taining divers rich and curious Morses, some all of Gold, Silver Candle∣sticks, [ 310] Silver Censers, rich Crosses of Silver, and Silver and gilt, twelve [ 311] rich Chalices, some of which were all Gold, whereof one weighed five and thirty ounces 10 d. weight, divers rich Feretrums, divers rich [ 312] Miters adorned with Pearls and precious Stones, Sandals of Silk imbroi∣der'd, [ 313] Pastoral Staves, abundance of Copes, imbroider'd with Images, [ 315] and enricht with Gold and Silver, Amicts some of Cloath of Gold, divers [ 316] Vestments, Tunicks and Dalmaticks, &c. Church Books as Psalters, Anti∣phonaries, Homelies, Martyrolgies, Processionals, Missals, Manuals, [ 317] [ 318] Graduals, &c. Epistolaries, and Gospellaries, &c. Also a Chronicle com∣posed [ 319] by Ralph de Diceto, &c. Baudekins, and other sorts of Cloaths; [ 321] there was also an Inventory taken of such things as belong'd to the [ 322] Chappel of the Charnel-house in St. Paul's Church yard; in the Chap∣pel [ 324] of St. Radegund; at our Ladies Altar in the Nave of the Church; [ 325] at the Altar of St. Steven, at that of St. Thomas the Martyr, of St. Silvester, [ 327] of St. Cedde, of the Apostles, of St. Iames, of St. Iohn Baptist, of the [ 328] blessed Virgin in the new Work, of St. Michael, of St. Iohn the Evange∣list, [ 329] of St. Catherine, of St. Andrew, of St. Laurence over-against the Sa∣cristy: [ 330] and in the year 1298. a like Inventory was taken of all the Plate, [ 331] Vestments, and Books belonging to the Church of St. Faith in the Vaults [ 332] under St. Pauls. Ralph de Diceto once Dean of St. Paul's gave to this

Church divers Relicks, beside which ther were divers others, among the rest the Cheek-bone of St. Ethelbert the Confessor, Founder of this [ 333] Church, and an Arm of St. Mellitus, &c.

The Bishop of London is, at his first coming to St. Paul's Cathedral, [ 334] and at his coming from beyond Seas, to be received by the Dean and Choire at the West-Door, in solemn Procession and ringing of Bells, at other times with ringing of Bells only. He ought to admi∣nister in Person on Christmas, Easter, Ascention, and Whitsundays, and on the F••ats of St. Paul and St. Erknewald, Ashwenesday, and Corpus Christi: He is to dispose of all the Thirty Prebends and Digni∣ties [ 335] of this Church, when void, except the Deanery, but they are to be admitted into Possession and inducted by the Dean and Chapter. The Principal Persons in this Church next the Bishop, are the Dean, the Arch∣deacons of London, Essex, Middlesex, and Colchester, the Treasurer, Pre∣centor, and Chancellor. The Dean is chosen by the Chapter, and then presented to, and confirm'd by the Bishop, and by him also, or his De∣puty, install'd; his Office is to reside, to govern over all the Canons, [ 336] Priests, and other Ministers of this Church, to assemble a Chapter every Saturday; he is to invest the Canons, the rest of the Canons Residentiary being present; and ought to visit within the Jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter every third year. The Sub-dean is chosen from among the [ 337] petty Canons, his Office is to govern the Quire in the absence of the Dean. Two others of the petty Canons are to be chosen who are call'd Cardinals of the Quire, their Office is to observe the defaults of all that belong to the Quire, and to present the same, &c. The Treasurer's Office is to keep the Plate, Vestments, Relicks, &c. of the Church, under him is the Sacristan, who is his Coadjutor; under the Sacristan are three [ 338] Virgers, who ought to serve in Person all three daily; their Office is to open and shut the Church-Doors; to ring the Bells at accustomed hours; to see that no one be cover'd; to keep out of the Church infamous Per∣sons, especially publick Whores, Porters carrying burdens through the Church, importunate Beggars; to be single and not married, &c. The [ 339] Office of the Chantor is to take care of the Song and Singers, to begin the Antiphons, &c. His Deputy is call'd the Succentor; the Chancellor is the Scribe of the Church and Chapter, he has the custody of the Seal, he Pre∣sides over the reading part, as the Chantor does over the singing part of the Choire, and he appoints the Master of the Grammar-School, as the Chantor does of the Song School; and the Chancellor hath under him a Subscribe or Register. The Almoner of this Church ought to educate [ 340] eight Boys of honest Parentage, and cause them to be instructed in Song and Learning, so as to be useful to God's Service in the Choire. Under the Dean are thirty Canons in the Church of St. Paul instituted by Pope St. Augustin, and all constantly resided, but in process of time they be∣came [ 341] Seculars, and neglected their Residence, to reform which several Orders were provided by several Bishops and Deans, out of which Dean Collet collected the Sum, viz. that every Canon at the time of his Instala∣tion shall swear on the Evangelists to be obedient to the Dean and Chapter, to be faithful to the. Church of St. Paul, to defend her Rights [ 342] and Liberties, to observe her laudable Customs, &c. Every Canon shall diligently observe the Canonical Hours, and humbly and devoutly per∣form the Divine Office, &c. A Canon Residentiary is so call'd from his [ 343]

duty to be continually residing, which he ought solemnly to promise in the Chapter before all the Brethren; if after such promise he resides in any other Church, he shall lose the profit and advantage of this. To re∣side in the Church of Pauls is to be present at the Canonical hours, on great Feasts at every Office, on other days at some one; the Vicars of this Church were formerly thirty in number, every Canon had his Vicar, but in Dean [ 344] Collets time there were but six. some of which were married, they ought to officiate constantly in the Quire day and night, they ought not to be Proctors or Attorneys, &c. The Petty, or Minor Canons, were to be Priests, who daily attended the Service of the Quire, and said Masses at the high Altar instead of the Canons, &c. Here were also divers other Priests who had Chantries and celebrated at particular Altars; but these used to assist in the Quire, especially on the greater Feasts, at Mattins, [ 345] Prime, Mass, and Vospers; and they could not be otherways Beneficed, &c. King Richard II. in the two and twentieth year of his Reign, di∣rected his Letters to the Bishop of London, and Dean and Residentaries (or Stagiaries) of this Church, commanding that the Residency in this [ 346] Church be for the future observed according to the form and manner of the Church of Salisbury. The Thirty Canons belonging to this Church, had each his several Prebend, and peculiar Seat in the Quire, and to each belonged certain Psalms to be by him said daily for the living and [ 347] dead Benefactors to this Church, which Psalms were writ over his Stall.

An. Dom. 1518, Iohn Collet Dean of St. Paul's exhibited certain matters to the Cardinal of York, Legate a Latere, for the Reformation of the State of the Residentaries, consisting of several Heads, relating to the Dean [ 348] and his authority, the four Residentiaries, and their Behaviour in the [ 349] Quire, &c. Of the Chapters. That the Residentaries live near the Church, [ 350] and that they admit no Women into their Houses, of the distributions [ 351] among the Residentaries, and that the Dean have a double Proportion in [ 352] all things without fraud; of divers other Officers belonging to this Church, [ 353] relating to the Temporalties, as the Receiver General, Chamberlain, Steward of the Courts, Auditor of Acco••nts, &c, Thomas Archbishop of [ 354] York and Chancellour of England decreed by consent of the Dean and Chap∣ter, that the number of Residentiaries should not exceed four with their Dean, at one time. The State of the Lands of this Church, amounted [ 355] to the Sum of 1196 l. 11 s. 2 d. q. per An. besides Casualties, as Fines, &c. [ 356] Out of which Sum went yearly in Charges and payments 79 1 l. 3 s. 9 d. So that there remain'd 405 l. 7 s. 3 d. q. and out of that they Set off for Reparations 200l, and for Casualties 26 l. 14 s. 4 d. Remaineth 178 l. 13 s. 11 d. q.

[ 357] The Names of the Thirty Prebendaries of St. Paul's are; To••ehal, Wesden, Holburn, Wildeland, Sneating, Kentistown, Ruculnesland, Wilesdon, Wen∣lakesbyri, Kadington, Portepole, Cudington, Cheswicke, Twisord, Brandeswood, St. Pancrace, Ealdeland, Herlestone, Chaumberlengeswood, Ealdstreet, Oxgate, Consumpta, Brunnesbury, Neweton, Hoxton, Rugemere, Iseldon, Mapelsbyri, More, Halywell.

To the Patronage of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, belong twen∣ty one Churches in the City of London.

In the seventh of Edward VI, an Inventory of the Plate and Ornaments &c. of this Church was delivered into the Kings Commissioners at Guild∣hall, out of which at the request of the Dean and Chapter, they left only [ 358] three Chalices, two pair of Basins, a Silver Pot, a Canopy for the King

when he cometh to Paul's, two Palls for Funerals, twenty four old Cushi∣ons, &c. as things of necessary use.

In the year 1430. (9. Henry VI.) Iohn Carpentor, Citizen and Clerk of the Communalty of London, Executor of Richard Whytington, late Citizen and Mercer, and often Mayor of the said City, founded a perpe∣tual Chantry of one Chaplain to celebrate daily in the Chappel of the Blessed Mary formerly built over the Charnel House in St. Paul's Church∣yard, by Roger Beyvene and other Citizens of London, and endow'd the same with eight Marks of yearly Rent, &c. An. Dom. 1458. An In∣ventory or Catalogue, Indented, was made by William Say Dean and the [ 359] Chapter of St. Paul's of all the Books given by Walter Shirington a Canon Residentiary of this Church, and placed in a new Library by him erected over the Cloyster about the Church-yard call'd Pardon Chirche∣hawe. Which Library consisted of many Volums, among which, Chronica Radulphi de Diceto; Postilla Radulphi de Diceto super Ecclesiasticum & librum [ 360] Sapientiae; The Works of St. Augustin; and of St. Thomas: Visio Sancti [ 361] Edwardi Consessoris; Vna Magna Biblia; Tractatus Magistri Roberti Grostest [ 362] in gallico, de lapsu & reparatione generis humani; Tractatus de decimis per [ 363] Dominum Stephanum quondam Archiepiscopum Cantuar. &c. There were also divers other Books remaining in the Treasury, An. 1486. relating chiefly to the Church Service, among which Vetus Missale secundum usum St. Pauli; [ 364] Vnum Ordinale secundum primariam ordinationem, & antiquam, Ecclesiae [ 365] S. Pauli Londoniensis, &c.

The Names of the Bishops of London.

• Mellitus consecrated by Augustin
• Archbishop of Canterbury, An. 605.
• Ceddus, 621.
• Wyne.
• Erkenwald, 680,
• Walter.
• Inguald.
• Eguf
• Wychet.
• Filbrith.
• Edgar.
• Kenwald.
• Ebald.
• Herbert.
• Osmund.
• Ethenod.
• Celhert.
• Cerulph
• Stributulph.
• Etstan.
• Wulfius.
• Edelward.
• Elstan.
• Wlstan.
• Elsun, 1000.
• Alwyn, 1044.
• Elphword.
• Robert, 1050.
• William, 1051.
• Hugh de Aurevalle.
• Mauricius, 1077. [ 366]
• Richard, 1108.
• Gilbert.
• Robert de Sigillo, 1139.
• Richard Beumies, 1151.
• Gilbert Foliot, 1163.
• Richard, 1190.
• William, 1199.
• Eustachius de Faukenbergh, 1221.
• Roger le Veir, 1229.
• Fulc Basset, 1244.
• Henry de Wengham, 1259.
• Richard Taleboth, 1262.
• Henry de Sandwic, 1262.
• Iohn de Chishull, 1274.
• Richard de Gravesend, 1290.
• Ralph de Baldok, 1306.
• Gilbert de Seagrave, 1313.
• Richard de Newport, 1317.
• Steven de Gravesend, 1319.
• Richard de Binteworth, 1338.
• Ralph de Stratford, 1339.
• ...

• Michael Northburgh.
• Simon de Sudbury, 1362.
• Robert Braybroke, 1381.
• Roger Walden, 1404.
• Nicholas Bubwith, 1406.
• Richard Clifford, 1407.
• Iohn Kemp, 1422.
• William Gray, 1426.
• Robert Fitz-Hugh, 1431.
• Robert Gilbert.
• Thomas Kemp, 1449.
• Richard Hill, 1489.
• Thomas Savage, 1496.
• William Warham, 1503.
• William Barnes, 1505.
• Richard Fitz-Iames, 1506.
• Cuthbert Tunstal, 1522.
• Iohn Stokesly, 1530.
• Edmund Boner, 1540.
• Nicholas Ridley, 1549.
• Edmund Grindal, 1559.
• Edwin Sandes, 1570.
• Iohn Elmer, 1576.
• Richard Fletcher, 1594.
• Richard Bancroft, 1597.
• Richard Vaughan, 1604.
• Thomas Ravis, 1607.
• George Abbot, 1609.
• Iohn King, 1611.
• George Mountaine, 1621.
• William Laud, 1628.
• William Iuckson, 1635.

The Names of the Deans of St. Pauls since the Conquest.

• Vlstan.
• William.
• Elfwin.
• Luired.
• Ralph, 1150:
• Alard de Burnham.
• Robert de Watford.
• Hugh de Marinis.
• Ralph de Diceto, 1183.
• Martin de Pateshull.
• Walter de Langford.
• Ieffrey de Lucy, 1237.
• William de S. Mariae Ecclesia, 1237.
• Henry de Cornhill, 1245.
• Walter de Salern.
• Robert de Barthone.
• Peter de Neuport.
• Richard Taleboth.
• Ieffrey de Feringes, 1263.
• Iohn de Chishulle.
• Hervicus de Borham, 1276.
• Thomas de Ingelesthorpe, 1279. after Bishop of Rochester.
• Roger de la Leye, 1287.
• William de Montfort, 1292.
• Ralph de Baldok, 1297.
• Arnald de Cantilupo, 1308. after a Cardinal.
• Iohn de Sandale.
• Richard de Neuport.
• Vitalis Basco.
• Iohn de Everton, 1328.
• Gilbert de Bruera, 1339.
• Richard de Kilmington.
• Thomas Trillek.
• Iohn de Apelby.
• Thomas Evere.
• Thomas Stowe.
• Thomas More.
• Reginald Kentwode.
• Thomas Lyseus, 1441.
• Laurance Bothe, 1456.
• William Say, 1457.
• Roger Ratclyff, 1468.
• Thomas Wynterburne, 1471.
• William Worsley.
• Robert Shirburne.
• Iohn Collet.
• Richard Pace.
• Richard Sampson.
• Iohn Incent.
• William May.
• Iohn Fecknans.
• Henry Cole.
• Alexander Nowell.
• Iohn Overall.
• Valentine Cary.

[ 367] The Dance of Death (formerly painted about the Cloyster of St. Pauls) was writ in French by one Machabree, and translated into old English Verse by Dan Iohn of Lydgate, Monk of Bury. In this Dance Death leads [ 368] all sorts of People, and first takes out, and speaks to the Pope, then the

Emperor, then the Cardinal, the King, Patriarch, Constable, Archbishop, [ 369] Baron, Princess, Bishop, Esquire, Abbot, Abbess, Bayly, Astronomer, [ 370] Burgess, Canon Secular, Marchant, Chartreux, Sergeant, Monk, Usurer, [ 371] Physician, the amorous Esquire, the Gentlewoman, the Man of Law, [ 372] Mr. Iohn Rikil, the Parson, Juror, Minstral, Laborer, Frier Minor, the [ 373] young Child, the young Clerk, the Hermite, to all which Death Makes a short address and they as short an answer, with the Author's Moral Re∣flection. [ 374]

The Cathedral Church of Salisbury. [ 375]

OSmund Bishop of Salisbury, who succeeded on the death of Bishop Herman in the year 1076, built the new Church at Salisbury, and composed the Book of the Ecclesiastical Office call'd Consuetudinarium, which was used, in a manner, throughout all England, Wales, and Ireland. Bishop Osmund's Deed of Foundation and Endowment of this Church bears date, An. Dom. 1091. (4 William 2.) King Henry the I. King Henry the II. and King Iohn were Benefactors to this Church of St. Mary of [ 376] Sarum. King Henry the III. in the eleventh year of his Reign confirm'd the translation of this Church from the Castle to a lower Scituation, and made New Saresbirie a free City, and granted to it all the Liberties which the City of Winchester enjoys, and granted to the Bishops here a yearly [ 377] Fair at New Saresbury from the Vigil of the Assumption to the morrow after the Octaves of the said Feast, and every Week a Mercate on the Tuesday, &c.

COLLEGIATE CHURCHES Of Canons Secular.

A Second Part of the Third Volum.

BEVERLEY, in Yorkshire.

[Provosts of Beverley. Vol. I. p. 171.

• 1. Thomas, Nephew of Thomas Archbishop of Tork.
• 2. Thurstinus, afterwards Archbi∣shop of Tork.
• 3. Thomas Normannus.
• 4. Robertus.
• 5. Thomas Beket.
• 6. Robertus.
• 7. Galfridus, Temp. H. 2.
• 8. Simon.
• 9. Fulco Basset.
• 10. Iohannes Cheshub.
• 11. Gulielmus Eborisensis, Temp. H. 3.
• 12. Iohannes Maunsel.
• 13. Alanus.
• 14. Morganus.
• 15. Petrus de Chester.
• 16. Haymo de Charto.
• 17. Robert de Alburwik.
• 18. Walterus.
• 19. Gulielmus de Melton.
• 20. Nicholaus Hugate.
• 21. Gulielmus de la Mar. Temp. E. 3.
• 22. Richard de Ravensar.
• 23. Adam Limbergh.
• 24. Iohannes Thoresby.
• 25. Iohannes Manfeld.
• 26. Gulielmus Kinwolmarsh.
• 27. Robertus Nevile, Temp. H. 6.
• 28. Robertus Rolleston.
• 29. Iohn Gerningham.
• 30. Laurence Bouthe, afterwards Bishop of Durbam.
• 31. Iohn Bouth, afterwards Bishop of Exeter.
• 32. Henry Webber.
• 33. Petrus Tastar.
• 34. William Potman.
• 35. Hugh Trotter.
• 36 ...
• 37. Thomas Dalby.
• 38. Thomas Winter]

[ 3] IN the year 1664. certain Relicks were found in a Leaden Chest in this Church, with an Inscription which spoke them to be the Bones of St. Iohn of Beverley therein deposited in the year 1197.

King Adelstan in his march against Constantine King of Scotland, visited the blessed Iohn at Beverley, and promised, in case he obtain'd Victory, to augment the Revenues of this Church,* 1.2 which he did in his return. Being in Scotland, he besought. God that at the Prayer of St. Iohn of Beverley, he would shew some sign whereby the Scots may be known to be of right subject to England, hereupon the King struck a Stone with his Sword, near the Castle of Dunbar, and made therein a gash of an Ell long. King Richard the II. in the twelsth year of his Reign, con∣firm'd to this Church, certain Revenues given by King Athelstan, in the

East-riding of Yorkshire; the like had been done before by King Henry the II. Thomas Archbishop of York, by advice and consent of the Chapter of this Church, made divers Statutes and Orders for Government of the same; namely, that there be always nine Canons, a Precenter, a Chan∣cellor, [ 5] and a Sacristian, nine Vicars, &c. belonging to this Church; in the number of which Canons, the Archbishop himself is included for one, and hath the chief and first Stall in the Choire; that the Provostship (which Office is only temporary) when void, if not supplied in forty [ 6] days, shall be collated by the Archbishop and his Successors, &c. That all beside the Canons be obliged to continual Residence; That the Provost [ 7] for the time being pay to each of the nine Canons the Sum of 10 l per Annum, by quarterly Payments; to the Precentor 10 l. to the Chancellor, and Sacristan, as formerly, to the Clerks and Virgers 6 s. 8 d, each, and to the Parsons 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. each, and further to each of the nine Canons and three Officers above-mentioned, two and forty quarters of Oats yearly; to each Vicar 8 l. per Annum, &c. That the Provost makes [ 8] due and punctual Payment of the Sums due to the Ministers of this Church at the proper times or within fifteen days after, under pain of five [ 9] Marks to the Fabrick of the Church of York, and as much to this, &c. [ 10] Which Statutes bear date in the year 1391.

SUTHWELL, in Nottinghamshire.

AT the time of Domesday Survey, Thomas then Archibishop of York, and the Canons of this Church, held Lands in Torgartone Wapentac, valued at 40 l. 15 s and in Binghamhou Wapentac other Lands, amounting in Value to 150 s. Turstan Archbishop of York gave one Prebend to this Church, and the tenth of all the Increase of his Lordship of Southwell. Pope Alexander the III. granted to the Canons of St Mary of Southwell Power to excommunicate any of their Parishoners, who should be inju∣rious to them; and that as well the Clerks as Laity of the County of [ 11] Nottingham do repair to this Church in Procession, at Whitsuntide, yearly, according to ancient Custom, &c. Whose Bull bears date, An. Dom. 1171. King Henry the I. confirm'd the Liberties of this Church, and the Lands [ 12] given them by Archbishop Turstan. Iohn Archbishop of Tork, and Robert [ 13] Malluvell, were Benefactors to this Church. Alexander, Archishop of [ 14] Tork and Legate, at the Petition of Richard de Chesterfeild Canon of the Collegiate Church of Suthwelle, in the year 1379. granted his License for the building of a new House for the Habitation of the Vicars in the Church yard, their old House being too remote; which House was afterwards set out and appointed by the Parishoners to be erected in the East part of the said Church-yard. King Henry the VI. in the seven∣teenth [ 15] year of his Reign granted to this Church the Alien Priory of Ravendale in Lincolnshire, then valued at 14 l. per Annum. which with other Lands, was also granted to this Church, by King Edward the IV. [ 16] in the first year of his Reign.

This Collegiate Church being founded anew by King Henry VIII. Queen Elizabeth in the twenty seventh year of her Reign confirm'd and esta∣blisht certain Statutes and Orders for Government of the same, consisting of twenty six Chapters, in which it is provided that Divine Service be [ 17]

perform'd here as in the Metropolitan Church of York, thrice every day, and Sermons by the Canons or Pr••bendaries every Sunday and Holyday; [ 18] that there be at least six Vicars Choral, six singing Men, and six Boys; [ 19] That the Canons shall duly reside, and that the Debts of the Colledge be paid; that the Receiver account yearly on the 3 d or 4th. of Novemler; [ 20] That there be a Sacristan, Virger, Bell-ringer, and Porter, a Master, and [ 21] Rector of the Choire, a Master of the Grammar School; That to make a Chapter there must be persent three Canons at the least; that there be [ 22] a Warden or Clerk of the Febrick, who is to take care of the Repairs of the Church; that the Seal be kept under three Keys remaining with three [ 23] several Prebendaries; that there be Divinity Lectures thrice, or at least twice, a week, and Catechising on Sundays in the Afternoon; That the [ 24] Chapter constitute under them a Vicar general, for the Excrcise of their [ 25] Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, and a Register; Every Canon before his Instal∣ment to take an Oath whereby he renounces the Papistical Worship, and engages to embrace the Doctrine establisht by the regal authority, &c. and to observe the Statutes of this Church; The Vicars and under Officers to be sworn to the same purpose.

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

St. MARTINS LE GRAND, in London.

[ 26] KIng William the Conqueror (consanguinitatis haereditate Anglorum Basi∣leus) confirm'd the Lands and Estate given to this Colledge by Ingelricus, and Girardus his Brother, the Founders, and further gave to the same all the More. Land without Criplegate. &c. and freed this Chruch [ 27] and the Canons here from all disturbance and exaction of any Bishop, Archdeacen, or their Ministers, and from all Regal Services. And gran∣ted them Soc and Sac Tol and theam, with all those antient Liberties, &c. in the fullest manner that any Church in England hath. Whose Charter bears date in the year 1068. the Second year of his Reign. Con••irm'd by Iohn and Peter Cardinals of Rome. and Legates of Pope Alexander.

St. MARY'S at Warwick.

[ 28] HEnry Consul, or Earl, of Warwick, gave divers Lands to this Church, confirm'd and augmented by Earl Roger, his Son. The same Ro∣ger granted to the Canons of this Church of St. Mary to have a Dean and [ 29] Chapter, in like manner as the Canons of London, Lincoln Salisbury, and York. He also in the year 1123, translated the Colledge which was in the Castle of Warwick to the Church of St. Mary and All Saints, and by and with the Episcopal authority of Simon Bishop of Worcester, the Canons and Clerks were transferr'd thither. The same Simon consecrated an Altar [ 30] at St. Sepulchers, and a Burial Place there for the Cano••s only, the same [ 31] being call'd the Priory of the Holy Sepulcher. To this Colleg••te Church the aforemention'd Roger Earl of Warwick gave several Churchtes. among others, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher at Warwick, and the Paristh Church of Greetham in Rutland; Which Churches being alicnered from this Colledge; the said Church of St. Sepulchers being made a Priory of Canons Regular, and Greetham appropriated to the same, those two were not in a Possibility to be restored, but the other Churches which had

been alienated, seven in number, were restored and reunited to the Col∣legiate Church of St. Mary at Warwick, by Decree of William Bishop of [ 33] Worcester; and all the Parishoners of the several Churches in Warwick order'd to repair to the said Church of St. Mary for Sacraments and Sacra∣mentals, and not to bury elswhere than in the Church-yard of the same. The said William Bishop of Worcester decree'd that the Dean, who is bound by this Place to reside, receive 40 l. every residing Canon, twenty marks every other Prebend who does not reside but 40 s. only, and every Vicar ten marks, per Annum.

[Valued at 247 l. 13 s. ob. per Annum.]

WALLINGFORD, in Barkshire. [ 34]

IN the tenth year of Edward I. Edmund Son of Richard King of the Almains, and Earl of Cornwall, gave to the Chappel of St. Nicholas in his Castle of Wallingford 40 l. of yearly Rent, for the maintenance of six Chaplains, six Clerks, and four Acolyts or Taber-bearers. To the Dean and Chap∣lains of this Colledge, Edward the Black Prince, King Richard II. and [ 35] King Henry VI. give other Revenues in augmentation of their Endow∣ment.

[Valued at 147 l. 8 s. ob. q. per Annum.]

LANCADANC, in the Diocess of St. Davids. [ 36]

AN. Dom. 1283, Thomas Bishop of St. Davids, with the Assent of King Edward, and the Chapter of St. Davids, made the Church of Langadanc Collegiate, and endow'd the same with Revenues for the main∣tenance of twenty one Canons under the Government of a Precentor, of which Canons seven to be Priests, seven Deacons, and seven Subdeacons, [ 37] each Canon to have his Vicar. &c.

LANGECESTRE, in the County Palatine of Durham. [ 38]

AN. Dom. 1283, Anthony Bishop of Durham made the Church of Langecestre, lying in his Diocess, and being of his Patronage, a Colegiate Church for one Dean and seven Prebendaries, the Dean to be continually resident and to have the Cure of Souls, and to find two Chaplains to assist him therein, and to cause three Chappels of ease to be [ 39] served with competent Ministers, that the seven Prebendaries have their several Vicars, that every of them be Hebdomodarius in his turn, to order, correct, and govern the Choire. He also endow'd the Church with divers Revenues, &c. All which was by consent of this Chapter of Durham, and confirm'd by King Edward I.

AUKLAND, in the Bishoprick of Durham

TO this Collegiate Church of St. Andrew of Aukland, the foresaid [ 40] Anthony Bishop Durham had been a Benefactor, and made divers Orders for Government of the same in the year 1292, as that the Vicar of the Church be a Dean, that the Canons have all Vicars daily to offici∣ciate, the five first Canons, Priest Vicars, the four next, Deacon-Vicars, the others, Subdeacons; that the Divine Offices be sung according to the [ 41] use of York, or Salisbury, &c. To which Orders Thomas Bishop of Durham, in the year 1428, made some alterations and additions, namely, that e∣very [ 42] Prebendary of this Collegiate Church do personally reside, and be present at the daily Offices, or provide a sufficient Vicar to do it for him, that the Priest-Vicars have ten marks per An. the Deacon-vicars seven marks per An &c. That Mattins be not said at Midnight, but in the Morning, [ 43] for the conveniency of the Parishioners, &c.

[ 44] CESTRE, in the County Palatine of Durham.

THE beforemention'd Anthony Bishop of Durham, in the yeas 1286. perceiving the Parish of this place to be large, and the Revenues of this Church to be sufficient to maintain many Ministers, made it [ 45] Collegiate; to consist of one Dean and seven Prebends, that the Dean have the cure of Souls in the Parish and be continually resident, &c. with other Orders, as he before made in the case of Langecestre abovemen∣tion'd, mutatis mutandis. That the tenth part of the Portion of every [ 46] non-Resident, be given to the Residents, and in case there be no Resi∣dents, then to the use of the Church, or of the Poor. All which was confirm'd by King Edward I.

St. ELISABETH's, near Winchester

JOhn de Pontisaria Bishop of Winchester, founded this Chappel of St. Elizabeth daughter of the King of Hungary, before the Gate of his Castle of Wolvesay, and therein establisht seven Chaplains, of which one to be Provost, and six Clerks, three of which to be Deacons, and three Subdeacons. The Provost, Chaplains, and Clerks, to be placed and sup∣ply'd, upon all avoidences, by the Bishop of Winchester for the time being, or his Lieutenant, the Chaplains and Clerks to have their Board from the Provost; all to live and Dyet together in the same House, every Chaplain [ 47] to have a little Clerk to serve him in the Church and in his Chamber, and not to be allow'd any other Servant, that constantly at day break they rise and repair to the Chappel, there say first the Mattins of the Blessed Virgin with a low voice, and then sing the Mattins of the day, &c. that in all the Divine Offices they observe the Salisbury use; that no Wo∣man shall enter into any part of the House except the Chappel and the [ 48] Hall; the Provost and every Chaplain and Clerk to be sworn, at their admission, to the observance of these Orders, and to personal Residence. Which Deed of Foundation bears date in the year 1301, (30. Edward I.) Simon de Farham, and divers others were Benefactors to this Chappel, and

gave divers Mannors, Lands, and Rents to the same. All confirm'd by [ 49] King Edward I. and II.

[Valued at 112 l. 17 s. 4 d. ob. per Annum.]

KIRKBY Super Wretheck, in Leicestershire.

ROger Beler founded a Chantry of one Custos and twelve Chaplains, in the Chappel of St. Peter adjoyning to his Mannour of Kirkeby, and endow'd the same with the Advowson of the Church of Kirkeby, the Man∣nour [ 50] of Bokeminster, and other Lands and Rents, with Warrantry; and [ 51] gave the power of presenting to the Custos or Wardens place, to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. &c. Whose Deed of Foundation bears date in the year 1319 (13. Edward II.)

WENGHAM, in Kent. [ 52]

POpe Gregory X. licenced Iohn Archbishop of Canterbury to establish a Provost and a Colledge of ten secular Canons, in the Parish Church of Wengham, instead of a Rector, the said Provost to have the Parochial cure of Souls; which Colledge being accordingly founded by the said [ 53] Iohn, he appointed that six of the said Canons should be Priests, two Deacons and two Subdeacons, and set out their several Prebends, and how the [ 54] Common distributions should be made, &c, Whose Deed of Foundation [ 55] bears date, An. Dom. 1286. and was confirm'd by King Edward I.

MEREWELL.

FOunded by Henry de Blois Bishop of Winchester for four Priests, and by him endow'd with 13 l. per An. of Rent. Peter de Rupibus Bi∣shop of Winchester made certain Orders for the Government of the said four Chaplains or Priests, as that they keep one Deacon to serve them in the Church and at home, that they choose yearly one of them to be their Pri∣or, that what ever Chaplain be guilty of Incontinency or other foul crimes, [ 56] he also shall be expell'd, and further granted them, besides their first en∣dowment, fifty quarter of Corn, for their Common use, and four Load of Hay. Whose Deed bears date, An. Dom. 1226.

GLASENEY, in Cornwall.

PEter Bishop of Exeter, in the year 1288., made a further Provision for the Vicars of this Church, first founded by his Predecessor Walter, for thirteen Canons, and as many Vicars. [ 57]

[Valued at 205 l. 10 s. 6 d. per Annum.]

The Collegiate Church of Ruthin in Denbighshire.

JOhn Gray Lord of the Cantred of Deffencloyt in the Diocess of Bangor, instituted a Colledge in the Chappel of St. Peter at Ruthin, for at least seven Priests to celebrate there daily the Divine Offices, one of whom [ 58] to serve in the Chappel of the Castle, and endow'd the same with two hundred and fifty acres of Land, with Tithes, and large Commons of Pasture, and Paunage in his Woods for sixty Hogs, &c. to hold in pure, [ 59] free, and perpetual Almes, with Warranty. Whose Deed of Foundation bears Date, An. 1310.

OTERY, in Devonshire.

THe Dean and Chapter of Roan, in the year 1335 (9. Edward III.) granted, with Licence of the Apostolick see, and the King of England, their Mannour of Otery St. Mary, in the County of Devon, &c. to Iohn de Grandisson Bishop of Exeter, and instead of Warranty they delivered up to the said Bishop all their Deeds and Writings concerning the same. King Edward III. in the eleventh year of his Reign granted his Licence to the [ 60] said Bishop of Exeter to erect a Monastery or Collegiate Church to consist of a certain number of secular Canons at Otery St. Mary, either in the Parish Church there or in some other place, and to endow the same with the Mannour of Otery, and to appropriate the Tithes of the said Town to the same. Which Colledge was accordingly founded and endow'd by the said Bishop, An. 1337,

[Valued at 303 l. 2 s. 9 d. per Annum.]

[ 61] The Collegiate Church or Chappel of St. Steven, within the Royal Palace at Westminster.

THe Chappel of St. Steven in the Pallace at Westminster was nobly finisht by King Edward III, tho' begun by his Progenitors, which King founded therein a Dean and twelve Canons, with as many Vicars, and other Ministers accordingly, and gave them by his Patent, dated in the two and twentieth year of his Reign, his great House in Lombardstret, London, with some advowsons, obliging himself and Royal Heirs to [ 62] make it up to them a Revenue of 500 l per An. In the two and thir∣tieth year of his Reign he gave them a Tower in Bokelesbury in London, call'd Sewtes Tour, with the Appurtenances. In the three and fortieth year of his Reign he gave them another House in London call'd the Role, [ 63] with the appurtenances, then valued at 20 l. per An. In further a••g∣mentation of the said Foundation, he granted them all the ground from the said Chappel Northward to the receipt of the Exchequer, between Westminister Hall and the Thames, for making a Cloyster and other necessary Building, with free Entrance day and Night at the Gate adjoyning to the Kings Bridge also a Chamber within the said Gate formerly belonging to his Clerk of the Kitchin, with the Houses formerly used for Stables of War horses and other Horses, &c. with a Free Passage to the said Chappel by [ 64] day light thro' the great Hall, and exempted the said Dean and Canons and all

their Lands from the Payment of any Aydes, or Taxes whatsoever. King [ 65] Richard II. compleated the full endowment of this Colledge, by settling on [ 66] it divers Mannours and Lands in Kent. &c. according to the direction and desire of his Grandfather in his Testament.

[Valued at 1085 l. 10 s. 5 d. per Annum.]

The Royal Collegiate Chappel in the Castle at Windsor. [ 67]

A Chappel for eight Canons secular having been begun in the Castle of Windsor, King Edward III. who was baptized there, finisht and compleated the same, in honour of Almighty God, his glorious Virgin Mother, St. George the Martyr, and St. Edward the Confessor, and esta∣blisht therein a Custos or President to the former eight Canons, and an [ 68] addition of fifteen Canons more, and four and twenty poor Knights, with other Ministers of the said Chappel, and endow'd the same, in the two and twentieth year of his Reign with divers Churches, and promised for himself and Heirs, to encrease the Revenue to the Sum of 1000 l. per An.

Pope Clement the VI. granted power to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishop of Winchester, to establish the said Canons and Knights by A∣postolick authority, and exempted the said Chappel and Colledge and all [ 69] the members thereunto belonging from the Jurisdiction of the Archbishop or any other Bishop or Ecclesiastical Judg, and that the Custos of the same shall have perpetual Jurisdiction over the Members of the said Colledge, Paying to the Apostolick Chamber one Mark Sterling on the feast of St. George, yearly. The foresaid King Edward III. granted to this Colledge [ 70] divers Churches, and Revenues among other things, a Rent of one hun∣dred marks per An payable by the Bailiffs of the Town of Nor••hampton out of the Kings Farm of the said Town. King Henry IV. granted to the [ 71] Custos and Canons here a void peice of Ground within this Castle near the great Hall, call'd Wodehawe, for Building Houses for the Vicars and Cho∣risters. King Edward IV. granted and confirm'd to them the Alien Pri∣ory of Okeburn with all the Lands and Churches thereunto belonging, which had been formerly granted to Iohn Duke of Bedford by King Hen∣ry IV, late de facto & non de jure, King of England, and afterwards by the said Iohn Duke of Bedford given to this Collegiate Chappel, (the said Duke being desirous wholly to abdicate such spiritual Profits, and restore them to their pristine Nature) which gift was afterwards ratified and con∣firm'd by Henry V, de facto & non de jure, King of England, non obstante [ 72] the Statute of Mortmain and now by the said King Edward IV. in the first year of his Reign; Which King gave them also the Alien Priory of Vp∣havenne [ 73] with all Rights thereunto belonging, and divers other Lands and [ 74] Revenues, also the Alien Priory of Monkenlane in the County of Hereford, he also gave them the Custody and Advowson of the Hospital or Free Chappel of St. Anthony in London, and to enjoy the same with all the Estate thereunto belonging to their own proper use when it shall become void by death, resignation or otherways. He also gave them the Alien [ 75] Priories of Brimesseld and Charleton, and divers other Lands in the seven∣teenth year of his Reign. The said King Edward IV, in the ninteenth year [ 76] year of his Reign (reciting the first Foundation of this Collegiate Chappel by King Edward III, and that Henry VI. de facto & non de jure King of England, in his Parliament held at Westminister in the eighth year of his

[ 77] pretended Reign, had past an Act whereby he will'd and declar'd that this Colledge should bear the name of the Custos or Dean, and Canons of the free Chappel of St. George within his Castle of Wyndesore) did for the future incorporate them by the name of the Dean and Cannons of the Free Chappel of St. George within the Castle of Wyndesore, by that name to purchase, sue, and be sued, &c. And granted License to Iohn Duke of Suffolk and Elizabeth his Wife to confer the Manour of Leighton-Buz∣zard and other Revenues on the same, and also his general Licence to all other Persons of this Kingdom of England, to grant Lands, Rents, or [ 78] Advowsons, to the Dean and Canons of this Chappel to the yearly value of 500 l the Statute of Mortmain, or any other Statute or Law notwith∣standing.

[ 79] In the eighth year of King Richard II. Walter Almaly being then Custos [ 80] an Inventory or Register was made of all the Books, Vestments, Relicks, Chalices, &c. belonging to this Chappel Royal, in which is particular mention of divers Missales, and other Church Books, several Volumes of [ 81] the Decretals, and Canon Law, &c. Vestments of different Colours, [ 82] Qualites, and Richness, Copes, Coffers, Crosses, Tabernacles, Images, [ 83] and Relicks, adorn••d with Jewels and precious Stones, of extraordinary [ 84] great value, Morses of Silver and gilt, eight Chalices, of which one of Gold and set with precious Stones, Candlesticks, Censors, Crosses, and Basons of Silver gilt, &c. Miters set with precious Stones, a Pastoral Staff, [ 85] &c. A Silver Bell to ring before the Body of Christ in the Visitation of [ 86] the Sick. Besides divers Jewels and Relicks in the Treasury, Three [ 87] Crowns of Silver and gilt set with precious Stones one for the Blessed Mary, another for her Son, and the third for St. Edward.

RIPPON Collegiate Church.

ANno 1331. William Archbishop of York finding in his Visitation at this Church, the same almost destitute of Canons Residentiary, ordered, [ 88] with consent of all Parties concern'd, that such Canons as are willing to reside and do actually reside, shall have the Profits in his Deed specified, that the Vicars shall be paid their Stipends out of the common Profits, that every Cannon Residentiary shall reside twelve weeks in the year, and that they be present at the Canonical hours in this Church, in like manner as in his Collegiate Churches of Suthwell, and Beverley. King Henry the V. in the second year of his Reign, granted that the six Vi∣cars belonging to this Church (for whom Henry Archbishop of York pro∣posed to build a Habitation within the Close of the Church, where they might eat and sleep together) might choose among themselves a Superior [ 89] by the name of Procurator, and that the said Procurator and Vicars, and their Successors, might have a Common Seal, be capable to purchase and receive Lands, and by that name to sue and be sued, &c.

[Valued at 35 l. 3 s. 8 d. per Annum.]

SIBETHORP, in Yorkshire.

THomas de Sibethorp Parson of the Church of Bekingham, by License of King Edward the III. (An Reg 10.) gave sixteen Messuages

one Toft, three Bovates, one hundred and seventy Acres of Land, fifty Acres of Meadow, and 30 s. of Rent in Sibethorp, &c. to Iohn Cosin Custos of the Chappel of the Blessed Mary of Sibethorp, for the mainte∣nance of him and other Chaplains in the said Chappel, and Successors, and for the finding of thirty Wax-lights in the same, and a Lamp to burn before the Crucifix.

TUXFORD, in Nottinghamshire. [ 90]

KING Edward the III. granted his License to Iohn de Lungvilers to found a Colledge of five Chaplains, of which one to be Custos, in the Parsonage house of the Church of Tuxford, and to give the Advowson of that Church (which was held in Capite of the King) to the maintenance of the said five Chaplains there celebrating; But the said Iohn not pur∣suing his Foundation in that manner, the said King, on his Petition, granted him a new License in the one and thirtieth year of his Reign, to give the said Advowson to the Prior and Canons of Newsted in Shirewode, for their finding five Chaplains viz. three in the Church of Tuxford, and two in the Church of the Convent of Newsted, to celebrate for his Soul, &c.

SUDBURY, in Suffolk. [ 91]

KING Edward the III. in the nine and fortieth year of his Reign, granted his License to Simon of Sudbury Bishop of London, and Iohn his ••rother, to give and assign a Messuage Call'd Lamberds-hnll, and three Shops in the Pari••h of St. Mary Magdalen Old Fish-street, London, to the Prioress and Convent of Nun-Eaton, in exchange for the Advowson of the Church of St. George of Sudbury; with Power to the said Bishop and his Brother to found in the said Chaurch a Colledge to consist of certain Chap∣plains, of which one to be Custos or Warden. King Richard the II. in the third and seventh years of his Reign, granted to this Simon, then Arch∣bishop of Canterbury, and Iohn de Chertsey, License to endow the same with certain Mannors and Lands.

[Valued at 122 l. 18 s. 3 d. per Annum.]

ASTELEY, in Warwickshire. [ 92]

SIR Thomas de Asteley, Knt. founded and endowed a Chantry in St. Mary's Chappel in the Church of Asteley, for one Warden and three other Priests, and afterwards supplicated Roger Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, that it might be made a Colledge to consist of a Dean and two Secular Canons, Priests; and it was accordingly so made by the said Bishop; and several Orders establisht, viz: that the Dean be sworn to a a Personal Residence in the same, that he have for his Habitation the [ 93] Rectory-house of Asteley, that he distribute to the poor 10 s. yearly; that the Dean find and present to the Diocesan a perpetual Vicar to officiate in the said Church, and that he pay him the Sum of five Marks per Annum, quarterly; that he find also a Parish Chaplain, and a fitting Clark;

[ 94] that he celebrate in Person on the greater Feasts, and provide Lighrs &c. that he pay the Procurations and Sinodals of the said Church of Astely, and bear all other Charges, except Books and Vestments; that every Canon find a Vicar, presentable, to whom he is to pay five marks yearly, and one o∣ther Priest also, unless he be willing to reside himself, and celebrate Mass [ 95] dayly in Person; that the Dean and Chapter have a common Seal, under the the Custody of the Dean and three Vicars. &c. Which orders were rati∣fyed under the several Seals of the said Bishop, and Thomas the founder, An. Dom. 1343.

[Valued at 39 l. 10 s. 6 d. per Annum.

[ 96] COTHERSTOKE, in Northamptonshire.

KIng Edward III. in the twelfth year of his Reign, granted his Licence to Iohn Giffard, Clerk, to give and assign the Mannour of Cotherstoke and divers other Revenues, to a Praeposit and twelve Chaplains, secular or Religious, for the maintenance of them and two Clerks daily celebrat∣ing in the said Church, to hold in free, pure, and perpetual Almes, dis∣charged and quit of all secular exactions,

[ 97] HEMMINGBURGH, in Yorkshire

KIng Edward III. granted his Licence to the Prior and Convent of Durham to appropriate the Church of Hemmingburgh. of which they had the Advowson, to their own proper use for ever 〈◊〉〈◊〉 coudition that they find a Monk or secular Chaplain to celebrate daily in the Church of Durham in a place there call'd the Galeley, for the Soul of King Edward I. and his Ancestors. and two other Monks or secular Chaplains to celebrate daily, one at the Altar of St. Cuthbert there, and one in this Church of Hemmingburgh, with a certain number of Waxlights, and that they observe the Anniversary of K. Edw. III. in the Qure of their Church, yearly, and on that day distribute to one thousand poor People 1 d. a peice. But this never taking effect by reason they could not obtain the Popes Licence and Confirmation for the said appropriation. King Henry VI. in the fifth year [ 98] of his Reign, granted his Licence to the said Prior and Convent of Dur∣ham, to erect in this Church of Hemmingburgh a Colledge to consist of one Praeposit, three Prebendary-Canons, six Vicars, and six Clerks, with o∣ther Ministers to celebrate, and observe the Anniversary abovemention'd, the said King in the Charter of Licence incorporating the said Colle••ge, by the name of the Praeposit or Custos, Prebendaries, Vicars, and Clerks of the Collegiate Church or Colledge of the Blessed Mary of Hem∣mingburgh.

[Valued at 36 l. 0 s. 7 d. per Annum.]

BRUSEYARD, in Suffolk.

FOunded by Matilda de Lancaster, late Countess of Vlster, but at that time a Nun in the Collegiate Church of Nuns of Campess, for five Chaplains; for whose Government William Bishop of Norwich made in

the year 1354. the following Orders, viz. that the said five Priests sleep [ 99] all in the same Dormitory, and eat together in the same Refectory; that one of the five be Custos or Master, that their habit be all alike and agreea∣ble to the Canons, that they observe the Salisbury use in the Divine Of∣fices; That they choose one of them for Treasurer, whose Office is to take care of all matters relating to the Chappel; That the Custos be chosen by majority of voices, and in case he be not chosen in four months time, then the Election to be in the Bishop, that turn; that the Custos [ 100] being elected is to obtain the Prioress of Campesses Letters of Presentation to the Bishop, who is thereupon to confirm him in the Office; that there be a Chest with three different Keys in which the Common-Seal and Ac∣counts are to be kept, &c.

ABERGWILLY, in the Diocess of St. Davids.

HFnry Bishop of St. Davids, in the year 1331. with the consent of the Chapter of this Collegiate Church of Abergwilly, made and crea∣ted [ 101] three Dignities in the same, viz. the Precentor, Chancellor, and Treasu∣rer, and appointed certain Prebends to belong particularly to the said Of∣fices, &c.

[Valued at 42 l. per Annum.]

ARUNDELL, in Sussex.

KIng Richard II. in the third year of his Reign granted his Licence to Richard Earl of Arundell and Surrey, to found a Chantry or Colledge [ 102] in the Parish Church of St. Nicholas at Arundell, without the Walls of the Castle there; which was at that time a Priory of Monks of the Order of St. Benedict sometimes belonging and Subject to the Abby of Sees in France, and which seldom or never had in it more then one Prior, and three or (at most) four Monks, with Licence to the said Prior and [ 103] Monks to grant and alienate their Priory and all their Lands, &c. to the same belonging, to the said Earl, and he to confer the same on thirteen secular Chaplains, of which one to be cheif and call'd Master, therein, to be establi••ht, &c.

[Valued at 168 l. 7 d. ob. per Annum.]

St. MICHAELS in Crooked Lane, London. [ 104]

THere having been several particular Chantries in this Church, foun∣ded and endow'd with divers Rents by several Citizens of London, which were by course of time Impoverisht, William de Walworth Citizen and Merchant of London, supplicated King Richard II. that with the Rents belonging to the said Chantries and other Revenues of his own augmentation, he might found there a Colledge of one Master and nine Chaplains, to celebrate for ever, for that King, the said William, Marge∣ret his Wife, and Iohn Lovekyn his late Master, &c. Which King did in the fourth year of his Reign, grant his Licence to the said William out of the special Affection which he had for his Person, and in consideration of [ 105]

the laudible Service which he had often done him, to found the Colledge accordingly.

[ 106] St. MARY'S, near Winchester.

KIng Richard II. in the sixth year of his Reign granted his Licence to William Wykeham Bishop of Winchester to found a Colledge, House or Hall, near Winchester, for the honour and glory of God, and the glo∣rious Virgin Mary his Mother, and therein to establish a Custos or War∣den, and seventy poor Scholars, Students in Grammar. Infra. 133.

[Valued at 628 l. 13 s. 6 d. per Annum.]

PONTFRACT, in Yorkshire.

KIng Richard II. in the eighth year of his Reign, granted his Licence to Robert Knolls Chevalier, and Constance his Wife, to found a Colledge or Chantry, in Pontfract of seven Chaplains, whereof one to be Custos, [ 107] and for thirteen poor People, two Clerks, and one or two Servants to at∣tend the poor.

[Valued at 182 l. 14 s. 7 d. per Annum.]

BUNBURY, in Cheshire.

KIng Richard II. in the tenth year of his Reign, granted his Licence to Hugh de Calveley Chivalier to found a Chantrey or Colledge of one Master and six other Chaplains in the Church of Bunbury, with Liberty to the said Hugh to endow the same, and the said Mr. and Canons to have a Common-Seal.

[ 108] IRTLYNGBURGH, in Northamptonshire.

KIng Edward III. granted Licence to the Abbot and Convent of Peter∣burgh, and Iohn Pyel, to erect a Colledge of six Canons secular, of which one to be Dean, and four Clerks, in the Parish Church of St. Pe∣ter of Irtlyngburgh, the Right of Presenting to the said Canons places to be in the Abbot and Convent of Peterborough, and the said Iohn, by Turns; But the said Iohn dying before this Foundation was perfected, King Ri∣chard II. in the eleventh year of his Reign, for twenty marks paid by [ 109] Iohn his widow and Executrix, granted his Licence to compleat the same.

[Valued at 64 l. 12 s. 10 d. ob. per Annum.]

CLOVELEY, in Devonshire,

KIng Richard II. in the eleventh year of his Reign, Licenced William Cary to convert the Parish Church of Cloveley, the Advowson whereof did belong to the said William, into a Collegiate Church, for se∣ven

Chaplains, of which one to be Custos or Warden, to found a Col∣ledge and Buildings for their Habitation, in the Rectory, and to appro∣priate the said Advowson to them.

RUSHWORTH, in Norfolk. [ 110]

KING Richard the II. in the thirteenth year of his Reign granted his License to several Persons to confer the Mannor of Rushworth, &c. on the Master or Custos of the Colledge of St. Iohn the Evangelist of Rushworth and the Brethren of the same. An. 1360. Thomas Bishop of Norwich made several Statutes and Ordinances for the Government of this Colledge, late founded by the Lord Edmund de Gonevill, viz. That there be in the said Col∣ledge, [ 111] five Chaplains of which one to be Master or Custos, that as the B••••enues increase the number be increased, and every new Fellow to have at least 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Marks, that they all sleep in one House and eat together, that the Maste•• have the Cure of the Parishoners of the Town of Rush∣worth•• with direction for their saying of their Masses and Offices, and [ 112] that they be all continually resident, &c.

[Valued at 85 l. 15 s. ob. per Annum.]

The Collegiate Church of St. David's, in Pembrokshire.

JOhn Duke of Lancaster, and the Lady Blanch his Wife, and Adam Bi∣shop [ 113] of St. David's considering that Priests were procured out of En•••••••• with great difficulty and charges to officiate in the ancient M••••••••politan Church of St. David's, they therefore founded a Chappel or C••antry of one Master and seven Priests, in the manner of a Colledge, on the North side of the said Cathedral Church, and built there divers Buildings and a Cloyster for their Habitation, and endow'd the same with the Appropriating to it divers Churches, An. Dom. 1365. Which Bishop made divers Statutes and Orders for Government of the same, viz. that the said Master and Priests should live together in a Collegiate way; that they should perform the Divine Offices in their Chappel according to the Salisbury use, &c. That the said Master and Chaplains shall assist on all Sundays and double Feasts, at High-mass and Vespers, in the [ 114] Cathedral Church among the Vicars there; that neither the Master nor any of the Priests of the said Chantry go abroad alone, but with a Com∣panion; That the Master receive yearly twenty Marks, and each Chap∣lain ten Marks; That the said Priests be daily apparrell'd in long Garments (vel Gownis, non Cotis curtis) unless they ride, or go abroad; [ 115] that the said Master and every Priest may hold another Benefice with cure within the Diocess of St. David's, but is not bound to reside there; [ 116] That there be always two Choristers remaining in the House under the care of the Praecentor, who is to instruct them in Grammar learning, and [ 117] singing, &c. Which Orders bear date, An. Dom. 1382.

[Valued at 106 l. 3 s. 6 d. per Annum.]

BRADGARE, in the Diocess of Canterbury.

KING Richard the II. in the sixteenth year of his Reign, granted his License to Robert de Bradgare Clerk, and others, to found a Colledge of one Chaplain, and two Clerks Schollers, to celebrate in the Parish-Church of Bradgare, and to endow the said Colledge with three Messuages, two hundred Acres of Land, one hundred and fifty Acres of Pa∣sture, sixty Acres of Wood, thirteen shilling and four pence of Rent, and the [ 118] Rent of eight Hens, and half a pound of Pepper. An. Dem. 1398. the said Robert made divers Orders for the Government of this Colledge, viz. that the said Chaplain and his Successors shall continually reside in the Colledge except only the space of one month, containing thirty two days; that the said Chaplain and his Successors shall maintain at their own Charge one Servant to serve them daily at Mass, and in other Offices; that the Chaplain shall not procure to himself any other benefice or Office whereby his personal Residence here may be hinder'd; that the Chap∣lain and Clerk be Natives of the Diocess of Canterbury, and of the Con∣sanguinity or affinity of the said Robert; that no Chaplain be admitted unless he can read, construe, and sing well, nor any Clerk unless [ 116] he can read well, and sing indifferently; that the two Clerks Schollers remain Fellows of the Colledge till their Age of twenty five [ 130] years and no longer; that the said Chaplain and Schollers and their Suc∣cessors shall have a Common Lawyer in constant Fee, one of the Council of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being, to whom they shall pay 6 s. 8 d. per Annum, &c.

PLECY, in Essex.

KING Richard the II. in the seventeenth year of his Reign granted his License to his dear Uncle Thomas Duke of Glocester to found and establish in the Parish Church of Plecy a Colledge of nine Chaplains one of which to be Master and Custos, and of two Clerks, and two Choristers, non obstante, &c. And to endow the same with divers [ 131] Lands, &c.

[Valued at 139 l. 3 s. 10 d. per Annum.]

[ 132] MAYDENSTONE, in Kent.

KING Richard the II. in the nineteenth year of his Reign granted his License to William de Courtney Archbishop of Caunterbury and Le∣gate, his dear Kinsman, to convert the Parish-Church of the ••••essed Mary of Maidenstone into a Colledge of one Master or Custos, and as many Fellows, Chaplains, and other Ministers as he should think expedient, and to endow the same with Lands and Churches, in particular with the Hospital of St. Peter and St. Paul of Maidenstone, with all the Lands there∣unto belonging, &c.

[Valued at 159 l. 7 s. 10 d. per Annum.]

KING Richard the II. in the nineteenth year of his Reign granted [ 133] further to William de Wykehum Bishop of Winchester, whereas by his License he had founded a Colledge of one Custos, and seventy Schollars learning Grammar, commonly call'd Saynt Mary Collegge of Wynchestre, and endowed the same with Possessions for the Maintenance of the said Custos and Schollars, and ten perpetual Chaplains, three other Chaplains, and three Clerks, he now also freed and acquitted the said Colledge and [ 134] all their Tenents for ever, from all Toll, Geld, Scutage, &c. and from all Taxes and Exactions whatsoever, and that the said Colledge shall never [ 135] be obliged to grant any Pensions, Corr••dies, or any maintenance to any one, at the demand or command of the King or his Heirs. And King Edward the IV. in the first year of his Reign, ratified and confirm'd to this Colledge the alien Priory of Andever in the County of Southampton, and all Lands, &c. to the same belonging, to hold in free, pure, and perpe∣tual [ 136] Alms, not withstanding the Statute of Mortmain, or that the said Priory was of the Foundation of the Kings Progenitors, or that the Lands were given by them for the support of Chantries, Hospitality, or other works of Piety, there, or that express mention is not made of the true value of the same in this present grant, or any other Statute, Act, Law, or Restriction to the contrary whatsoever.

BOLTON, in Yorkshire. [ 137]

KING Richard the II. in the twentieth year of his Reign, granted his License to Richard le Scrope Chivalier, to found a Chantry of six Chaplains, of which one to be Custos, in his Castle of Bolton, and to endow the same with a yearly Rent of 43 l. 6 s. 8 d. Also to give to the Abbot and Convent of St. Agatha in Yorkshire, the yearly Rent of 106 l. 13 s. 4 d. for the support of six Chanons-Chaplains to celebrate for him in the said Abby, and for the finding and maintenance of two and twenty poor men in the said Abby for ever to pray for him, &c.

WENSLAW, in Yorkshire.

KING Richard the II. in the twenty second year of his Reign licensed the before-mentioned Richard le Scrope de Bolton, to erect the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity at Wenslaw, being of his Patronage, into a [ 138] Colledge, to consist of one Master or Custos, and as many Fellow-Chaplains and other Ministers as he should think fit, and to endow the same with Lands and Revenues to the value of 150 l. which yearly Sum he had formerly granted to the Abbot and Convent of St. Agatha in York∣shire, for the finding of ten Canons above their own number, and two Secular Chaplains, with two and twenty poor men, but they had released his Grant.

[ 139] St. MARY's at Leicester.

KING Henry IV. in the first year of his Reign, reciting, that Henry Duke of Lancaster his Grandfather, had begun the Foundation of a Collegiate-Church at Leicester; in honour of the Annunciation of the bles∣sed Mary, and certain Buildings for the Habitation of Canons, and Clerks, and infirm People there dwelling, and that Iohn Duke of Lancaster, his Father, did desire to compleat the same, he approving their pious Inten∣tions, assigned Iohn de Byngham, and others, to provide Masons, Carpen∣ters, and other Workmen to the number of four and twenty, and to pro∣vide Timber and Stone for carrying on and finishing the Work, com∣manding all Mayors, Bayliffs, &c. to be aiding and assisting.

Infra p. 140.

LEDBURY, in Herefordshire.

KING Henry the IV. in the second year of his Reign, licensed Iohn Bishop of Hereford to found a Colledge in the Parish Church [ 140] of Ledbury for nine Chaplains, of which one to be Master or Custos, and they to have a Common Seal, be capable of purchasing and re∣ceiving Lands, of suing and being sued, &c.

IN the eighteenth year of King Henry the VI. Henry Cardinal of England Bishop of Winchester, Henry Archbishop of Canterbury, and Sir Walter Hungerford Knt. Feoffees of Henry late King of England, of cer∣tain Lands in the Dutchy of Lancaster, granted and settled upon the Dean and Canons of the Collegiate Church of the blessed Mary at Leicester, a [ 141] Rent Charge of one hundred Marks per Annum arising out of divers Towns in Darbyshire, and payable at Michaelmas and Easter.

[Valued at 595 l. 7 s. 4 d. per Annum.]

NORTH-YEVEL, in Bedfordshire.

KIng Henry IV. in the sixth year of his Reign, granted his License to Gerard Braybrok Chivalier, and others to purchase of Iohn Wateryng Clerk, and others, the Advowson of the Parish Church of North-Yevell, and to erect and change the same into a Colledge to consist of one Master or Custos, and as many Fellow-Chaplains, and other Ministers, as they shall think expedient and to endow the same by appropriating thereunto the said Church of North-Yevell, and that the said Master and Chaplains, [ 142] may out of the said Appropriation grant a pension of five marks yearly, to a Chaplain celebrating for the Dead in the Chappel of the Mannour of Qure in the County of Cambridge.

[Valued at 61 l. 5 s. 8 d. ob. per Annum.]

ATTILBURGH, in Norfolk.

KIng Henry IV. in the 7th year of his Reign, for 100. Marks granted his Licence to Henry Packenham Senior, and Simon Parson of the Church of Scultone to found a Chantry in the Parish Church of Attilburgh in honour of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, to consist of five Chaplains, one of which to be Custos or Master; and to endow the same, among other things, with the Church of great E••ngham to be appropriated to the said Colledg, provid∣ed that a Vicar of the sud Church be sufficiently endow'd, and a comparent Sum of mony be appointed by the Ordinary of the Place to be distributed to the Poor of the said Parish, according to the Statute. 15 R. 2. c. 6.

[Valued at 21 l. 16 s. 3 d. per Annum.]

STAYNEDROPE, in the County Palatin of Durham.

THomas Bishop of Durham, in the third year of his Pontificate, granted his Licence to Ralf de Nevill Earl of Westmerland, to found a Col∣ledge of one Master or Custos, and certain other Chaplains continually to re∣side, and for certain poor Gentlemen, and other poor People in the Town of Staynedrope in his Liberty of Durham; and to endow the same with the Ad∣vowson of the Church of Staynedrope, which was held of him in Capite; [ 143] with Licence to the said 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or Custos, and Chaplains to receive the same, the Statute of Mortm•• in non obstante, and by the same Grant incor∣porated the said Colledge, making the said Master and Chaplains, &c. capable of purchasing and receiving Lands, to sue and be sued and Granted them a Common-Seal. Dated at Durham in the third year of his Pontificate.

[Valued at 1••6 l. 5 s. 10 d. per Annum.]

TONGE, in Shropshire.

KIng Henry IV. in the twelfth year of his Reign, for the Sum of 40 l. paid into the Hanaper, granted his Licence to Isabel Widow of Fulk de Penbrugge Chi••al••r, and others, to purchase of the Abbot and Convent of the Abby of Salep, the Advowson of the Church of St. Bart••••mew at Tonge, and to erect and change the same into a Colledge of five Ch••pl••••••, [ 144] of which one to be Custos, and to endow the same with Lands and Churches, for the Maintenance of the said Custos and Chaplains, and thirteen poor People, more or loss, whom he incorporated, &c. Settling the Patronage of the said Colledge on ••ichard de Penbrugge in special tail, with divers remainders over. King Henry V. in the third [ 145] year of his Reign, setting forth that by an Act made in the Parliament late held at Leicester, all the alien Priories were given to him and his Heirs, granted to the Custos and Chaplains of this Colledge the Priory of Lap∣peley, and all the Revenues thereunto appurtaining, being heretofore part [ 146] of the Possessions of the Abby of St. Remigius at Reymys in Champeyne, Provided that the Vicarage of the Church of Lappeley be sufficiently en∣dow'd, and a competent S••m allow'd to the Poor of the Parish, according to the Statute. The foresaid Isabel and others who were Founders of this Colledge, made divers orders for Government of the same; among others, that none of the Chaplains be capable of holding any other Eccle∣siastical Benefice, except only the Custos, who may; that there be two

Clerks, of the first Tonsure, to affist in the Divine Offices; that there be thirteen poor People; that the Master or Custos be chosen out of the [ 148] number of the Chaplains, by the rest; if they do not choose in fifteen days, then he is to be appointed, for that turn, by the Patron, if he neglects for four Months, then by the Bishop of the Diocess, and if he neglects for one Month, then by the Chapter of Litchfield, if they neg∣lect [ 149] for fifteen days, then by the Archbishop of Canterbury; The Custos on his admission to be sworn to a faithful Administration of his Office, and to observe the Statutes, every Chaplain to be sworn to be obedient to [ 150] the Custos, &c. That the Custos be Confessor to the other Chaplains and that every of them be obliged to confess to him at least once a [ 151] year; That the Sub-Custos govern in the absence of the Custos, and take care of the Affairs of the Chappel; that the Custos shall not be Non-resident above two months in a year, nor any Chaplain above one; [ 152] that the Custos shall appoint one of the Chaplains to have the Cure of the Parish, who shall be call'd the Parochial Chaplain, and another of the Chaplains to teach the Clerks and Ministers of the Colledge, and also the poor Children of the Town, and other Neighbouring Towns, in Reading, Singing, and Grammar, for which he shall receive half a Mark per Annum; That Mattines shall begin soon after day, and that it be cele∣brated according to the Salisbury use, with directions for the several Masses; that after Vespers and Complin they shall say the Antiphon Salve [ 153] Regina, or some other Antiphon of the blessed Mary, according to the time; [ 154] Th•• every Brother shall forbear as much as he can to bring in any [ 155] Stranger, but rarely or never any Woman, &c. that no Priest or Clerk shall use Hunting, or Hawking, or keeping a hunting Dog in the Colledge; That the Masters Sallary shall be ten Marks per Annum, Every Chaplains four Marks Per Annum, The Parochial Chaplain, and the Steward to have half a mark each, more than their Sallary yearly, and each of the poor Men one Mark per Annum, besides their Habitation; That the [ 156] Colledge shall have a Seal, with this Circumscription Sigillum commune S. Bartholomaei Apostoli de Tonge, which Seal to be kept in a Chest under two different Locks, and in the same Chest the Charters, Indentures, and Muniments of the Colledge; that the Custos and Priests shall not grant any [ 157] Corrodies or Pensions; That if any of the Brethren become guilty of such a Crime as renders him irregular as homicide, &c. he shall no longer administer in his order, but shall be expell'd; if it be such a Crime, as after penance he may continue to minister in his Order, as Adultery, false Witness, Sacriledge, Theft, &c. he may after penance, be tollerated in his Office and Order, making Oath that for the future he will never be guilty of the like Crime again; if he be guilty of a lesser Crime, as simple Fornication, Disobedience, Drunkenness or the like, being twice admonisht by the Custos, upon the third offence he shall be expell'd the House as incorrigible, &c. Which Statutes and Orders bear date Anno [ 158] Dom. 1410. (12 H. 4.) And were confirm'd by Iohn Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, An. Dom. 1411.

[Valued at 22 l. 8 s. 1 d. per Annum.]

FODRINGHEY, in Northamptonshire.

KING Henry the IV. in the thirteenth year of his Reign, together with Edward Duke of York, founded a Colledge of one Master, twelve Chaplains, eight Clerks, and thirteen Choristers, upon six Acres of Land in the Lordship of the said Edward Duke of York at Fodringhey, and the said King incorporated them by the name of the Master and Col∣ledge [ 159] of the blessed Mary and All Saints of Fodringhey, &c. and granted to them the Profits of the Alien Priories of Newent, and Anebury, during his Wars with France, &c. And exempted and discharged this Colledge from [ 160] all Tolls and Taxes of what nature soever, as well for their Goods as Lands, given by the said King or any other Benefactors, and granted [ 161] them Frankpledge, Felons Goods, &c. with abundance of Royal Liberties and Franchises. King Henry the V. in the third year of his Reign, [ 162] granted to his beloved Cousin Edward Duke of York liberty to en••eoff Henry Bishop of Winchester, Thomas Bishop of Durham, Sir Walter Hunger∣ford, Knt. Roger Flore of Okham, and others, with his Castle, Mannor, and Town of Fodringbay, and several other Mannors and Lordships which he held of that King in Capite, for the carrying on and compleating the Buildings and Charges of this Colledge. William Horwod of Fodringhay Indented with William Wolston Esquire, and Thomas Peckham Clerk, Com∣missioners for the Duke of York, to make up a new Body of the Church joyning to the Quire of the Colledge of Fodringhey, of the same heighth and breadth with the said Quire, to be fourscore foot in length. &c. A [ 163] Porch on the South side twelve foot in length, another Porch on the South-side adjoyning to the Cloyster, and in the West-end of the said Body a Steeple fourscore foot in higth from the Ground Table Stone, twenty foot square within the Walls, and the Walls six foot thick, the Duke to find Carriage and Stuff, for which well and duly to be made, the [ 164] said Horwode to have 300 l. Sterling; which Indenture bears date 13 H. 6.

[Valued at 19 l. 11 s. 10 d. ob. per Annum.]

STOKE-CLARE, in Suffolk.

THIS being formerly a Priory of Benedictines, was by Edmund Earl of March, by whose Ancestors it was founded, changed into a Collegiate Church of a Dean and Secular Canons, which change was ratified by the Papal Authority of Iohn the XXIII. and Martin V.

Thomas Barneslay Dean of the Collegiate Church of Stoke juxta Clare, [ 165] by the Authority and Command of Edmund Mortimer Earl of March and Vlster, and Lord of Wigmore and Clare, first Founder and Patron of the said Colledge, made several Statutes and Ordinances for Government of the same, viz. That there be always one Dean and six Secular Canons, that every Canon reside full two and thirty weeks in the year, or other∣wise he shall receive but 40 s. for his Prebend that year in which he has not so resided; that neither the Dean nor any Canon lie in Bed in the [ 166] Morning longer than six a Clock, or half an hour past; that there be in the said Colledge eight Vicars sworn to continual Residence, and two [ 167] greater Clerks, also five Chorists or honest Boys to sing and serve in the

Quire; that the Chorists have five Marks per Annum each; that there be two in••eriour Clerks who are to take care of the Vestry, and ringing the Bells, that they ring to Mattins at five and go at six, to high Mass at eleven, and that they ring to Vespers so that they may be ended about five in the Afternoon; That no Canon who cannot spend 40 l. per [ 168] Annum, and no Vicar nor Clerk shall use hunting, nor any of them keep any Hounds in the Colledge, except the Dean, who may keep four; that no Canon or Clerk shall wear any Arms in the said Colledge, under the penalty of forseiting the said Arms for the first offence, and of twenty shillings for the second; that none of the Canons, Vicars, or Clerks [ 169] shall be married, or suspected of having any scandalous communication with Women; That if any one be convicted of Heresie, or Sodomy, or Magick he shall be expell'd; that no Canon, Vicar, or Clerk, shall go abroad alone, but with a Companion; That they shall all duly and honestly pay their Debts to their Creditors; That there be a Porter of the said Colledge who shall shut the Gate at Coverfeu time, and admit [ 170] none after that time; That one of the Vicars be appointed by the Dean to be Precentor, for the Government of the Quire in singing, and Ceremonies, &c. who is to receive on that account 20 s. per Annum, That the Colledge have a Common Seal, to be kept with their Evidences and Jewells, in a common Chest under three different Keys, one of which to be kept by the Dean, the other two by the two Senior Canons; That there be no precedency among the Vicars at the Table, but that they sit [ 171] as they come, but in the Choire according to Seniority; That all the Vicars eat together in the Common Hall, and that at Meal time some part of the Bible be always read to them; That every Vicar have liberty eight weeks in the year, and every Clerk six, to visit their friends and recreate themselves; that nothing shall be sealed with the Common Seal unless it be first Registred in a Book to be kept for that purpose; That every Dean within a year after his instalment give to the Colledge one Cope of the value of 5 l. and make a Feast for the Canons, &c. or [ 172] pay for it 40 s. That upon vacancy of the Deanery, the Patron of the Colledge present to the Bishop, a Graduate in some University, at least Master in Arts, or Batchelour in Law, to be instituted Dean; which [ 173] Statutes and Orders bear date in the year 1422.

[Valued at 324 l. 4 s. 1 d. ob. per Annum.]

NORTH-CADBURY, in Somersetshire.

KING Henry the V. in the fourth year of his Reign, granted his Li∣cense to Elizabeth Widow of William Botreaux the elder, Chivalier, to found this Colledge for seven Chaplains of which one to the chief, to have the Cure of Souls there, and to be call'd Rector of the Colledge of St. Michael of North-Cadbury, and for four Clerks, with Licence to the said Elizabeth, and William Botreaux the yonger, to appropriate the [ 174] Church of North-Cadbury thereunto, and endow the same with divers Lands, &c.

MANCHESTER, in Lancashire.

KIng Henry V. in the ninth year of his Reign, granted his Licence in consideration of two hundred marks paid in the Hanaper, to Thomas Bishop of Durham, and other Feoffees of Thomas la Warre Clerk, to erect the Church of Manchester into a Collegiate Church, and to establish therein a Master or Custos with as many fellow Chaplains, and other Ministers, as they should think fit, whom he incorporated, &c.

HIGHAM-FERRERS, in Northamptonshire. [ 175]

IN the 10 Henry V. that King granted his Licence to Henry Chichley Arch bis••op of Canterbury to found a Colledge at Higham-Ferrers, the Place of his Nativity, for eight Chaplains of which one to be Master, [ 176] and four Clerks, one of which Chaplains or Clerks to teach Grammar, and another Song, and for six Chori••••ers, whom the said King incorporated by the Name of the Master and Colledge of the B••essed Virgn Mary, St. Thomas of Canterbury, and St. Edward the Cons••ssor, of Higham-Ferrers, and granted Licence to endow the same with Lands, &c.

[Valued at 156 l. 2 s. 7 d. per Annum.]

St. MICHAEL Pater noster Chirche, or Whitington Colledge, in London. [ 177]

HEnry Archbishop of Canterbury, in the year 1424. granted his Licence, to Iohn Coventre, Iohn Carpenter, and William Grove, Executors of [ 178] Richard Whitington late Citizen and Mercer, and several times Mayor, of London, to erect a Colledge, pursuant to the Will of the said Richard in the Parish Church of St. Michael call'd Pater noster Chirche in the Riol, in Lon∣don, for five or six Chaplains and other Clerks and Ministers, and an Almes-House of thirteen poor People, and to make orders for the Govern∣ment of the same. And accordingly the said Executors did found such a Colledge in honour of the Holy Ghost, the Blessed Virgin Mary, [ 179] St. Michael, and All Saints, and made divers Orders touching the said Foundation; as that there shall be five Chaplains not elswhere beneficed, one of which to be Master, two Clerks besides the Parish Clerk, and four Choristers, appointing the first Chaplains to be William Brooke, Iohn Whyte, Nicholas Gaytone, Richard Olyue, and Gregory King; and that Wil∣liam Brooke, at that time Rector of the said Church of St. Michael, be the Master of the Colledge, that on all Sundays, when Sermons are Preacht [ 180] at St. Paul's Cathedral, the Masses in this Church be finisht in such time, that the Parishoners of this Parish, and Mr. and Chaplains of the Colledge, may go to Paul's and be present at the Sermon, unless there be a Sermon in this Church also on the same day; That in the Canon of their Masses special mention be made of the Souls of the said Richard Whityngton, and Alice his Wife, and of Sr. William Whityngton K••t, and the Lady Ioan his Wife Parents of the said Richard, &c. That two Solemn Obits be [ 181] yearly celebrated for the said Richard and Alice, one on the three and twen∣tieth or four and twentieth of March, the other on the thirtieth or one and

thirtieth of Iuly, and that then the Master receive 20 d. every Chaplain 12 d, every Clerk 6 d, and every Chorister 3 d. That the said Master, Chaplains, Clerks, and Choristers, inhabit altogether in a Messuage built for that purpose at the East end of the said Church of St. Michael; [ 182] That the Master receive yearly, over and above the Profits of the Parish as Rector, the Sum of ten marks, every Chaplain eleven marks, the first Clerk eight marks, the second 100 s, and every Chorister five marks, beside their habitations; that they keep Commons together in the Hall of the Colledge, and that there be always at their Meal time, something read out of the Holy Scriptures, Sermons or Homilies of the Saints, &c. That there be a Common Chest for keeping the Seal and Evidences, &c. under three different Keys, one to be kept by the Master, the other two by two other of the Chaplains, and that no one presume to keep all three, or any two of the said Keys; and that all overplus Revenue and Income, more then defrays the usual charges of the Colledge, be laid up and carefully preserved in the said Chest, for the Common Benefit of the House; That [ 183] the Master be not absent or non resident above sixty days in a year, nor any of the Chaplains above twenty; That the Master, and Chaplains, at [ 184] the time of of their admission be sworn to observe the Statutes; that the Mayor of London for the time being be Overseer, and the Wardens of the Company of Mercers, Conservators and Patrons of the Colledge, &c. Which Orders bear date the seventeenth and eighteenth of December 1424. (3 Henry VI.) vide inf. p. 189.

[Valued at 20 l. 1 s. 8 d. per Annum.]

BATTLE-FEILD, in Shropshire. [ 185]

KIng Henry IV, in the eleventh year of his Reign, granted to Roger Yve Rector of the Chappel of St. Iohn Baptist of Adbrigton Husee two acres of Ground in that Lordship adjoyning to Shrewsbury, in a Place call'd Bateleyfeld, being the Place where be fought with, and overcame, Henry Percy, and the Rebells with him, for the building thereon a Chap∣pel in honour of St. Mary Magdalen, for the Master and five Chaplains, of which Chappel and five Chaplains he appointed the said Roger, and his Successors Rector of the said Chappel of St. Iohn Baptist, to be Masters or Wardens; and Richard Husee Lord of Adbrigton and his Heirs to be Pa∣trons [ 186] of the same; incorporating the said Foundation, and freeing them from Tenths, Subsidies, and all Taxes; with the Grant of a Fair to the said Roger and his Successors, to be held there yearly on the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen. Which Roger Yve by his Will dated 30. Octob. An. 1444. (24 Henry VI.) gave to this Colledge three Chalices Silver and gilt, one Paxbrede, Silver gilt, two Phiols Silver, three Bells in the Steple, three Crosses gilt, with several Vestments and Books for Church Service, [ 187] and divers household goods, &c, and encreased the Stipends of every of the five Chaplains from eight marks to ten marks per Annum, Conditionally that they pray in a more especial manner for the Souls of King Henry IV. and King Henry V. Founders of this Colledge, Richard Husee first Patron of the same, &c. and for the Souls of all the Faithful slain in the sight of [ 188] Bataylfeld, and there buried; All the Residue of his goods and Chattels he gave to the Fabrick, and Work, of the said Colledge, and to the re∣leif

leif of the Poor in the Hospital of the same. He also appointed a new Seal to be made for the Colledge with this Circumscription, S. Commune Domini Rogeri Ive primi Magistri, & Successorum suorum Collegii beatae Mariae Magdalenae juxta Salop.

[Valued at 54 l. 1 s. 10 d. per Annum.]

THE beforemention'd Iohn Coventre, Iohn Carpenter, and William [ 189] Grove, Executors of Richard Whytington, by their Deed dated 13 Feb. 3 Henry VI. granted a yearly Rent of 63 l. sterling, to the Colledge by them Founded as before mention'd, and alter'd and added some few things to the Statutes and Orders relating to the said Colledge.

THELE, in Hertfordshire. [ 190]

KIng Henry VI. in the ninth year of his Reign, at the request of William Bishop of London, Patron and Ordinary of this Colledge, which had been founded and endow'd for the maintenance of one Custos and four Chaplains, who by ill management had lost, and wasted most of their Estate, granted his Licence to Iohn Howeden Clerk then Custos of this Col∣ledge [ 191] to transfer divers Lands and Impropriations in Essex and Hertford∣shire yet remaining, to Henry Hoddesden Prior of the Hospital of Elsing-Spitell in London, and to the Convent there, they finding two Canons Regular to celebrate in this Colledge, and three other Canons Regular to celebrate in the said Hospital, for the Souls of the Founders of this Colledge.

WYE, in the County of Kent.

KIng Henry VI. in the tenth year of his Reign, granted his Licence to Iohn Archbishop of York, who had had the Custody of both the privy Seal, and great Seal, to found a Colledge at Wye in the Diocess of Canterbury, the place of his Nativity, for one Master or Provost, and [ 192] such number of Priests or Chaplains, and Ecclesiastical Ministers, as he shall see fit, to be call'd the Colledge of St. George and St. Martin, whom he incorpo∣rated, and granted to the said Archbishop Power to endow the same with Lands, and appropriate Churches, and to appropriate the Vicarage of the Pa∣rish Church of Wye thereunto, any Law or Statute to the contrary non ob∣stante. [ 193] The said King also granted to this Bishop divers Lands, &c. former∣ly belonging to Katherine late Abbess of Guynes in the County of Artoys va∣lued at 14 l. per Annum. to be conferr'd on this Colledge; with divers o∣ther Revenues.

[Valued at 93 l. 2 s. ob. per Annum.]

[ 194] TATESHALE, in Lincolnshire.

KING Henry the VI. in the seventeenth year of his Reign, li∣cenced Ralph Cromwell, Knt. and others to convert the Parish Church of Tateshale, into a Collegiate Church, or Colledge of seven Chap∣lains (of which one to be Master or Custos) six Clerks, and six Choristers, and to erect an Alms••house thereunto adjoyning for thirteen poor People of both Sexes, and incorporated the same by the name of the Master or Custos, and Chaplains of the Colledge and Alms∣house of the Holy Trinity of Tateshale, with licence to the said Col∣ledge, &c. to purchase, receive, and hold Lands, &c. to the value of 200 l. per Annum over and beside the Profits of the Advowson and yearly value of the Church of Tateshale, &c.

[Valued at 348 l. 5 s. 11 d. ob. q. per Annum.]

[ 195] ETON by Windsor, in Barkshire.

FOunded by King Henry the VI. in the nineteenth year of his Reign; for the carrying on of which work he appointed Robert Kent, Wil∣liam [ 196] Lynde, and William Waryn, to be his Procurators and Agents. It did, in the first Institution, consist of one Provost, or Praepofit, ten Priests, four Clerks, and six Boys Choristers, five and twenty poor and indigent Grammar Schollars, and five and twenty poor and decrepid men, also one Master to teach Grammar learning to the foresaid poor Schollars and others coming from any parts of England, freely and without any manner of exaction; of this Foundation he made Henry Sevor Clerk, the first Provost, and incorporated them by the name of the Provost and [ 197] Royal Colledge of the Blessed Mary of Eton near Wydesor, he also gave them the Advowson of the Parish-Church of Eton, to be made Collegiate, and intirely united to their own proper use, without endowing a Vicar, or appointing a competent Sum to be yearly distributed to the Poor of the Parish out of the same, the Statute non obstante, with License to pur∣chase Lands to the value of one thousand Marks per Annum, the Statute of Mortmain non obstante, and discharged them from the Payment of [ 198] Corrodies, or any Pensions, or Annuities whatsoever. The said King [ 199] granted to this Colledge divers Rents rising out of several A••••en [ 200] Priories, with the Reversions of the said Estates, and all Liberties and Franchises to those Alien Priories belonging, in as full and am∣ple manner as they were ever used by the former Possessors, with warranty, &c.

NEWPORT, in Shropshire. [ 201]

KING Henry the VI. in the twentieth year of his Reign Licensed Thomas Draper to purchase and receive from the Abbot and Convent of St. Peter's at Shrewsbury, the Parish Church of Newport, and therein to found and erect a Colledge of one Custos, a Priest, and four Chaplains, whom by the name of the Custos and Chaplains of Seint-Marie-College of Newport, he incorporated, with License to endow the same with Lands, &c. of the value of 10 l. per Annum and appropriated the said Parish Church to the same, provided that the Custos for the time being takes [ 202] the cure of Souls, and ministers all and singular the Sacraments to the Parishoners, &c.

St. MARY's at Stafford.

KIng Henry the VI. in the four and twentieth year of his Reign, granted the Patronage and Advowson of the Deanery of his free Chappel at Stafford, to Humphrey Duke of Buckingham; and Licensed him to give one hundred marks of Land, &c. to the Dean and Canons of the said free Chappel.

[Valued at 35 l. 13 s. 10 d. per Annum.]

WESTBURY, in Gloucestershire.

KIng Edward the IV. in the fourth year of his Reign, gave to Henry Sampson Clerk, Dean of this Colledge, and the Chapter of the same and their Successors, the Mannor of Aylmynstere, to hold in pure and [ 203] perpetual Alms, with view of Frankpledge, &c.

[Valued at 232 l. 14 s. per Aunum.]

BARNARD-CASTELL, in the County Palatine of Durham.

KIng Edward the IV. in the seventeenth year of his Reign, granted his License to his most dear Brother Richard Duke of Gloucester to erect a Colledge at Barnard-Castle, in the Castle there, of one Dean, and twelve Chaplains, ten Clerks, six Chorists, and one other Clerk, whom he incorporated by the name of the Dean and Chaplains of the Colledge of Richard Duke of Gloucester of Baynard Castell, and that the said Dean and Chaplains may purchase Lands, &c. to the yearly value of four hundred marks, over and above all reprises.

[ 204] MIDDELHAM, in Yorkshire.

IN the same year, the said King Edward the IV. licensed his said Brother Richard Duke of Gloucester to erect another Colledge at Middelham of a Dean, six Chaplains, four Clerks, six Choristers, and one other Clerk, to celebrate Divine Service in the Parish Church there, whom he incorporated by the name of the Dean and Chaplains of the Colledge of Richard Duke of Gloucester of Middelham in the County of York, and that they may purchase Lands, &c. to the value of two hundred Marks per Annum over and above all Reprises, &c.

ROTHERAM, in Yorkshire.

KIng Edward the IV. in the twentieth year of his Reign, granted his License to Thomas Rotheram Bishop of Lincoln to erect a Chantry [ 105] of one Chaplain to celebrate daily at the Altar newly built by the said Bishop within the Parish Church of Rotheram, in honour of our Lord I••••su Christ. Two years after that the same King Licensed the said Thomas, then Archbishop of York, to found a Colledge in Rotheram to con∣sist of one Provost, a Preacher of the Word of God, and of two Fellows, one of which to be a Teacher of Grammar, and the other a Teacher of Song, with such other Fellows as the Revenues shall admit of, for the Preaching of the word of God in the Parish of Rotheram, and elsewhere in the Diocess of York, and for the free teaching of Grammar, and Song, to any Schollers who are desirous to learn, and come to the said Colledge [ 206] from any part of England; and incorporated the same by the name of the Provost and Fellows of the Colledge of Iesus at Rotheram, with License to the said Thomas to give the Soil whereon the said Colledge shall be built to the same, and other Lands and Possessions, &c. to the value of one [ 207] hundred Marks per Annum, and to appropriate the Church of Laxton in the County of Nottingham, thereunto.

[Valued at 58 l. 5 s. 9 d. ob. per Annum.]

The Kings free Chappels have been of old time, and ought to be exempt from the ordinary Jurisdiction, and all Payment of Procurations, or any other impositions or exactions whatsoever.

POpe Paul the IV. confirm'd to Sir William Peter, Knt. and a Coun∣cellor [ 208] of State, divers Mannors and Lands, &c. formerly belonging to several Monasteries, and by him purchased and obtain'd from King Henry the VIII. and others, and absolved him from all Excommunications, [ 209] and other Ecclesiastical Censures or Penalties that he might incur for holding the same, and decreed that he might for the future without any scruple of Conscience continue the Possession of the same; with command to the Bishop of London, &c. not to permit him to be vext or disturb'd in relation to his foresaid Lands, &c. under pain of the severest Censures of the Church. Whose Bull bears date at St. Peter's in Rome, An. Dom. 1555. (23 Ph. & Ma.)

FINIS.

A CATALOGUE OF The Religious Houses, &c. as they were Scituated within the several Counties in England.

BARKSHIRE.

• A Bington, Wallingford, Hellenstow, Hurley, Reading, Sandford, Pog∣hele, Bisham, Donyngton, Windsor, Eaton.

BEDFORDSHIRE.

• Beauleiu, Mergate, Wardon, Woburn, Dunstable, Bissemede, Harewold, New∣enham, Caldewell, Todington, Chikesand, North-Yevel.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

• Ankerwik, Snelleshall, Ivingho, Burnham, Missenden, Tikeford, Bittlesden, Mendham, Nutley, Chet••ode, Asherug, Alesbury, Lavingdene, Newinton-Longville.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

• Ely, Thorney, Chateriz, Romburgh, St. Radegunds, Denny, Waterbecham, Swanesey, Barnewell, Angleseye, Roy∣ston, Spiney.

CHESHIRE.

• St. Werburghs, Birkened, Chester Nunery, Cumbermere, Deulaeres, Stanlaw, Dern∣hall, Norton, Modberley, Bunbury.

CORNWALL.

• St. Petrocus, St. Germains, Sylley Isle, St. Michaels Mount, Tywardreit, Bod∣min, Launceston, Glasenaye.

CUMBERLAND.

• Armethwayt, St. Bees, Wetherhall, Seaton, Calder, Holmcultrum, Carlile, Lanercost.

DARBYSRHIE.

• Darby, Derley, Repindon, Beaucheif, Dale, St. Mary de Pratis, Calc.

DEVONSHIRE.

• Tavestock, Exeter, St. Micholas at Exeter, St. Catherines Exeter, Modbury, Ottery, Stoke Curcy, St. Iames, Barnestaple, Ford, Buckfast, Dunkewell, Newenham, Bocland, Totnes, Barnstaple, Plimton, Hertland, Frithelstoke, Torre, Cloveley.

DORSETSHIRE.

• Sherburn, Winburne, Midleton, Shaftes∣bury, Horton, Cerne, Abbotsbury, Shir∣burn, Lodres, Frampton, Tarent, Binedon.

DURHAM.

• Durham, Wyrmouth, Finchale, Egleston, Shireburne, Gretham, Oveton, Kypier, Langecestre, Aukland, Chester, Stayne∣drope, Barnard-Castle.

ESSEX.

• Berking, Colne, Walden, Mersey, Horse∣legh, Prittlewell, Stannesgate, Coge∣shall, Stratford-Langton, Tiltey, Hening∣ham, Thremhale, Colchester, Waltham, Dunmow, St. Ofiths, Wykes, Wodham, Illeford, Hornechirche, Havering, Bocking, Maldone, Snapes, Plecy.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

• Gloucester, Tukesbury, Winchcumb, Dere∣hurst, Kingswood, Flexley, Hayles, St. Oswalds, Ciremester, Bristol, Keinsham, Lechelade, Billeswike, Stanley, Ginges, Westbury.

HANTSHIRE.

• Winchester, Hide, Rumsey, Warwell, Winteney, Andever, Apledercomb in the Isle of Wight, Shireburn, Quarre in the Isle of Wight, Beauleiu, Letley, Suthwike, Twineham, Motesfont, Sele∣burn, Southampton, Basingstoke, St. Crosses, Titchfield, Caresbroke Isle of Wight.

HEREFORDSHIRE.

• Hereford, Ewyas, Leominster, Lingebrook, Cresswell, Monkenlen, Clifford, Dore, Wigmore, Wormley, Acornbury, Flanes∣ford, Ledbury.

HERTFORDSHIRE.

• St. Albans, Hatfeild, Peverell, Hertford, St. Mary de Prato, Sopewell, Flamsted, Chesthunt, Rowney, St. Iulians.

HUNTINGTONSHIRE.

• Ramsey, St. Ives, St. Neots, Huntington, Saltre, Stoneley by Kimbolton.

KENT.

• Canterbury, Rochester, St. Mildred, Folkstone, Liming, Raculfa, Shepey, Malling, Davin∣ton, Levisham, Patricksburn, Horton, Feversham, Boxley, Dover, Ledes, St. Radegundis, Tonebrigge, Cumbwell, Lesnes, Bilsington, Badlesmere, Dert∣ford, St. Gregories at Canterbury, Rome∣nale, Herbaldown, Strode, Hethe, Lang∣done, Mottidon, Wengham, Wye, Brad∣gare, Maydenstone.

LANCASHIRE.

• Penwortham, Lythom, Holand, Lancaster, Furnes, Kirtmele, Burscough, Conynges∣hed, Cokersand, Manchester.

LEICESTER.

• Langley, Hinkley, Geroudon, Grace-dieu, Bredon, Laund, Ouston, de Pratis, Bradley, Kerkby Beler, Burton, Leicester, Stockerson, Croxton, Kerby super, Wre∣thek.

LINCOLNSHIRE.

• Bardeney, Croyland, Spalding, Belvoir, Santoft and Henes, Frestone, Stikes∣would, Stanford, Foss, Steinfeild, Co∣venham, Burwell, Willesford, Minting, Long-Benington, Hagh, Swineshead, Louthpark, Kirksted, Revesby, Valle∣dei, Greenfield, Legburne, Nun-Cotun, Epworth, Hyrst, Thornton, Nocton, Thornholme, Bourn, Kyme, Thorkesey, Grimesby, Ravenston, St. Innocents, Lincoln, Ellesham, Newstede, Holbeche, Newhus, Tupholm, Newbo, Hagneby, Barlings, Sempringham, Haverholme, Bolington, Alvingham, Ormesby Sixill, Maresey, Ancolm, Katteley, St. Catherines, Heynings, Holland-Frig, Wells, Tateshale.

LONDON.

• Minoresses, Abby of Grace, Carthusians, Trinity Priory, St. Bartlemew, St. Giles, St. Mary Bethelem, St. Mary Spittle, St. Bartholmews Hospital, St. Thomas of Acon, Rounceval, Converts, St. Ka∣therines, Elsing-Spittle, Berking-Chirch, Savoy, St. Iohns, St. Hellens, Whiting∣tons Colledge and Hospital, St. Pauls, Crooked-lane.

MIDDLESEX.

• Westminster, Kilburn, Clerkenwell, Haly∣well, Syon, St. Iames, St. Stevens Chappel at Westminster.

NORFOLK.

• Dereham, Wymundham, Binham, Norwich, Horsham, Carhow, Blackebxrgh, Wa∣burn, Wells, Toft, West-Acre, Castle∣Acre, Mendham, Bromholm, Reinham, Slevesholm, Thetford, Sibeton, Pentney, Walsingham, Cokesford, Buckenham, Hickling, de Prato, Linne, Wendlyng, Langley, Shouldham, Ingham, Rush∣worth, Attilburgh.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

• Peterborough, Peykirk, Wyrthorp, Sewardsley, Luffeild, Weden-Pinkney, Northamp••on, Daventrey, Pipwell, St. Mary de Pratis, Chaucombe, Canons Ashby, Brackley, Sulby, Catesby, Cotherstoke, Irtlyngburgh, Fodringhey, Higham-Ferrers.

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.

• Wallingwells, Blith, Lenton, Rufford, Beau-valle, Wirksop, Felley, Thurgarton, Newstead, Nottingham, Wellebeck, Brodholm, Shelford, Stoke, Suthwelle, Tuxford.

NORTHUMBERLAND.

• Tinemouth, Hallistane, Lambley, Hexam, Brinkeburne, Bolton, New-Castle, Alneweke, Blanland.

OXFORDSHIRE.

• Oxford, Eynesham, Stodely, Godstow, Glosterhall, Coges, Tame, Brure, Rew∣ley, Oseney, Dorchester, Cold-Norton, Bisseter, Wroxton, Ewelme, Burcestre,

RUTLAND.

• Broke, Okeham.

SHROPSHIRE.

• Shrewsbury Bromfield Chirbury, Abber∣bury, Wenlock, Bildwas, Haghmon, Littleshull, Wombrigge, Ratlingcope, St. Giles, Brugenorth, Ludlow, Hales∣Owen, Tonge, Battlefield, Newport.

SOMERSETSHIRE.

• Glastonbury, Bath, Wells, Atheling, Dunster, Bristol, Clive, Montacute, Witham, Taunton, Haselberge, Briweton, Berliz, Wospring, Stenerdale, Brugwal∣ter, St. Laurence, North Cadbury.

STAFFORSHIRE.

• Burton, Tutbury, Canewell, Farwell, Blithbury, Sandwell, Dudley, Croxden, Hilton, Wulverhampton, Lapley, Stone, Ronton, Trentham, Rowcestre, St. Thomas, Wolverhampton, Litchfield, Stafford.

SUFFOLK.

• Hulme, St. Edmundsbury, Eye, Sudbury, Radingfield, Edwardston, Campess, Kersey, Stoke Clare, Blackeham, Briset, Ixworth, Butley, Ipswich, Bliburg, Ley∣ston, Begeham, Bruseyard.

SUSSEX.

• Selsey, Battel-Abby, Sele, Boxgrave, Levenestre, Lewes, Roberts-bridge, Ha∣stings, Binham, Heryngham, Michelham, Durford, Arundel, Chichester.

SURRY.

• Chertsey, Bermundsey, Waverley, Sheen, St. Mary-Overy, Merton, Newsted, Rigate, Tanregge, Southwarke, Sandone.

WARWICKSHIRE.

• Polesworth, Coventry, Aucot, Wroxhall, Pinley, Bretford, Al••ester, Henwood, Nun-eaton, Wotton-waven, Kirkby, Stonely, Mereval, Cumb, Stodely, Kenil∣worth, Erdbury, Maxstoke, Warwick, Thelesford, Asteleye.

WESTMERLAND.

• Heppe.

WILTSHIRE.

• Malmsbury, Wilton, Ambresbury, Kington, Okeburn, Farley, Stanleigh, Henton, Brummore, Bradenstroke, Marleburgh, Ivichurch, Merleberge Salisbury, Heits∣bury, Pulton, Leycock, Edindon, Maiden∣Bradley.

WORCESTERSHIRE.

• Worcester, Evesham, Pershore, Malverne, Westwood, Bordesley, Dodford.

YORKSHIRE.

• Lestingham, Whitby, Beverley, Rippon, Selby York, St. Marys, St. Martins at Richmond, Midlesburg, Hakenes, Gren∣dale, Nunkelling, Monkton, Marrigg, Kirkley, Little-Marais, Nunburnham, Arden, Rossedale, St. Clements, Wilber∣foss, Tykehead, Holy Trinity, York, Hedlay, Birstall, Gromond, Alverton, Pontefract, Monk-Breton, Arthington, Rieval, Fountains, Biland, Meaux, New-Minster, Sinningthwait, Esseholt, Hampole, Swine, Rupe, Hoton, Basedale, Salley, Kirkstall, Ierval, Nun-Apleton, Keldeholm, Wickham, Kingston, Mount∣grace, Swine, Byland, Nostell, Woodkirk, Scekirk, Drax, Marton, Bolton, Kirk∣ham, Gisburne, Scarthe, Bridlington, Wartre, Newburgh, Hode, Helaghe, Haltemprise, St. Leonards York, Car∣mans Spittle, Yarum, Scardeburgh, Kynewaldgraves, Hedon, Sutton, Glan∣fordbrigge, St. Nicholas, Richmond, Coverham, St. Agatha near Richmund, Watton, St. Andrews York, Malton, Ellerton, Knaresborough, Newton, Sivethorpe, Hemmyngburgh, Wenslaw, Middelham, Rotherham, Fossgate in York.

In WALES.

• Brecknock, Cadwelli, Tallach, Margan, Abergavenny, Lankywan, Goldclive, Monmouth, Nethe, Basingwerk, Tintern, Cumhire, Blancland, Clunoc-vaur, Strat∣flure, Stratmargell or Strata-Marcella, Aberconway, Grace-dieu, Pilla, St. Clare, Lanthony, Bethkelert, Kaermerdin, Haverford, Glannauch, Ewenny, Ru∣thyn, Landaffe, Lancadant, Abergwylly, St. Davids.

A General Table Of all the RELIGIOUS HOUSES Treated of in all the Three VOLUMS.

Note, That the Pages here named relate to the Book at large, and are to be sought for in the Margin of this Abridgment. Note also, That the Third Volum consists of Two Parts, and Two Numbers.

	Vol. 1.	Vol. 2.	Vol. 3.
A.
ABerbury.	605
Abbotsbury:	276
Aberconway.	918
Abergevenny.	557
Abergvilly.			2. 100
Abington.	97
Acornbury.		330
St. Albans.	176	376
Alcester.	470
Alesbury.		396
Alien Priories.	547
	1035
Alnewick.		591
Aluerton.	599
Aluingham.		802
Ambresbury.	191
Ancolm.		812
Andever.	552
St. Andrews, York.		808
St. Andrews, Northamp.	679
Anglesey.		258
Ankerwike.	482
Apledercom.	571
Arden.	500
Armethwayt.	324
Arthington.	690
Arundel.			1. 98
			2. 101
Ashby-Canons,		291
Asherugge.		344	1. 67
Astley			2. 92
Atheling.	202
Attilburgh.			2. 142
Aucot.	367
Aukland.			2. 39
B.
BAdlesme e.		351
Bardney.	142
Barlings.		643
Barnard Castle,			2. 203
Barnstable.	684
Barnstaple.	1024
Barnwell.		28
St. Bartholomew, London.		166
Basedale.	840
Basingstoke:		459
Basingwerk.	720
Bath.	184
Battail Abby.	310
Battle-feild.			2. 185
Beauchief.		6••7
Beauval.	962
Beauleiu.	925
St. Bees.	395
Begeham.		636	1. 77
Beleieu.	325
Belvoir.	327
Berliz.		249
Berking.	79
Bermonsey.	639
Bethk••lert.		100
Beverly	169		2. 1
Biland.	775
Billeswike.		455
Bilwas.	779
Bilsington:		333
Binedon.	911
Binham.	343
Birstal.	587
Birkney.	484
Bishem.		355
Bissemede.		157
Bisseter.		283
Biclesdon.	783
Blackburgh.	478
Blakenham	573
Blauk••and.	884	611
Bliburgh:		593
Blith	553		1. 19
Blithbury.	468
Bocking.		477
Bockland.		438
Bockland.	939
Bedwin.		5
Bolington		794
Bolton.		459	2. 137
		100
Bordesley.	803
Bourn.		235
Bows.		471
Boxgrave.	592
Boxley.	827
Brackley.		375	1. 83
Bradley.		334
Bradenstoke.		206
Bradsole.		244	1. 69
Bradgare.			2. 117
Brecknock.	319
Bredon.		39	1. 62
Breford.	464
Bridlington.		161
Brinkburn.		203
Briset.		86
Bristol.	513	438
		232
Briweton.		205
Brodholm.		646
Bromfeild.	464
Bromhale.		899
Brook,		130
Brudgnorth		433
Bruere.	8••5
Brugwalter.		432
Bruges.			2. 207
Brummore.		201
Brusyard.			2. 98
Buckenham.		274
Buckfast.	792
Bunbury.			••. 107
Bungey.	513
Burcester.			1. 96
Bawnham.	534	327
Burton.	265
Burton-Lazers.		397
Burscough.		303
Burwell.	579
Bury St. Edmunds.	284
Buslesham.			1. 21
Butley.		246	1. 110
Bylegh.		626
C.
CAdwelli.	424
Calder.	774
Caldwell.		257
Calke.			1. 97
Campsey.	490
Canterbury.		373
Canterbury Cathedral	18
—St Augustines.	23
Canwell.	439
Carisbrook, Isle of Wight.		905
Carlile.		73
Carmans Spittle.		372
Carthusians.	949
Castle acre.	624
Catesby.		896
Cathow.	426
Cern.	253
Chaterige.	251
Chaucumb.		279
Cherbury.	500
Chester.	507		2. 44
		••99
Chertsey.	75
Chesthunt.	512
Chetwode.		339

Chi••h.		182
Chi••h••ster.			1. 1 15
Chickesand.		793
Cirencester.		89
Cistercians.	695
St. Clare.	1026
St. Clements, York.	510
Clerkenwel.	428
Clifford.	6••3
Clive.	530
Clouely.			2. 109
Cluniac's.	611
Clunac-Vaur.	892
Codenham.	910
Coges.	573
Cogeshall.	821
Cokesford		234
Cokersand.		631
Colchester.		44
			396
			889
Coldnortou.		275	1. 55
Coln.	436
Combermere.	764
Cotherstoke.			2. 96
Covenham.	555
Coverham.		648
Coventry.	302	427
Coventry, Carthusians.	963
Creswell.	504		1. 17
Crokesden.			1. 40
Crokeston.			1. 73
Croxden.	912
Croxton.		603
Croyland.	163
Cumb.	882
Cumbwell.		270
Cumhile.	825
D.
DAle.			1. 72
Darby.	505	897
Daventry.	672
St Davids.			2. 112
Davington.	501
St. Dennis, France.		108
Denny.	492
Deping.	469
Derby.		897
Derham.	176
Derham west.		624
Derehurst.	547
Derly.		230	1. 57
Dernhall.	936
Dertford.		357
			479
Deulacres.	890
Dodford.		307
St. Dogmells,	444
Donyngton.		474
Dorchester.		197
Dore.	862
Dover.		1
			423
Dovore.			1. 86
Drax.		96
Droghedah.			1. 107
Dudley.	614
Dunkewell.	925
Dunmow.		75
Dunstable.		132
Dunster.	477
Durford.			1. 78
Durham.	38
E.
EDington.		357
St. Edmunds Bury.	284
Edwardston.	468
Egliston.		196
Ellesham.		421
Ellerton.		821	1. 108
Elsing Spittle, London.		462
Ely.	87
Epworth.	969
Erdbury.		265
Esseholt.	828
Estbrigg.		458
Eton.			2. 195
Evesham.	144
Ewelme.		475
Ewenny.			1. 19
Ewyas.	413
Exeter.	220	461
	643
Exeter, St. Nicholas.	352
Eye.	356
Eynesham.	258
F.
FArewell.	441
Farley.	620
Felly.		56
Feversham.	687
Finchale.	512
Finsheved.		296
Flanesford.		356
Flamsted.	503
Flexley.	884
Fodringay.			2. 158
Falkston.	85
	560
Ford.	785
Fosse.	502
Fountains.	733
Frampton.	571
Freeston.	443
Frithelstoke.		326
Furnes.	704
G.
GAroudon.	768
St. Germains,	213
St. Germains, Cornwal.		5
Ginges.			1. 96
Giseburn.		147	1. 46
Glannaugh.		338
Glasseney.			2. 56
Glastonbury.	1
Glocester.	108	28	1. 7
		456	2. 207
Glocesterhall.	540
Godstow.	525
Goldclive,	590
Grace abby, Lond.	943
Grace Dieu.	927
	933
Greenfeild.	881
Grendale.	427
Gretham.		457
Grimesby.		898
		316
Gromond.		597
Grossmunt.			1. 15
H.
HAgh.	602
Haghmon.		46
Hagneby.		626
Hakenes.	414
Hales Owen.		655
Haleston.	476
Haliwell.	531
Haltemprise.		347
Hampole.	83••
Harewold.		202
Hasleberge.		••••3
Hastings,		84
Hatfeild-Peverel.	330
Haverholm.		792
Haveford.		••93
Havering.		420
Hayles.	928
Heden.		418
Hedley.	565
Heitbury.		483
Helaghe.		••87
Helenstow.	359
Hemmyngburgh.			2. 97
Henningham.	1020
Henton.	960
Henwood.	479
Heppe.		594
Herbaldown.		418
Hereford.	406	1. 180
Hertfold.	331
Hertland.		285
Heryngham.		181
Heth.		468
Hexham.		90
Heynings.		815
Hide.	208
Hicling.		319
Higham-ferrers.			2. 175
Hilton.	942
Hinkley.	603
Hode.		195
Holbreche.		469
Holland.	544
Holland Brig.		815
Holmcoltrum.	885
Horkesley.			1. 30
Horsham.	414
Horseley.	604
Hornchurch.		418
Horton.	220
	621
Hospitallers, Knights.		489
Hoton.	840

Hulme.	282
Huntington.	530	517
Hurley.	363
H••rst.		42
I.
ST. Iames, Bristol.	513
St. Iames, Westminst.		402
Ierval.	869
Illeford.		390
Ingham.		833
Ipswich.		295
Ir••lingburgh.			2. 108
St. Ives.	255
Ivichurch.		273
Ivingho.	490
Ixworth.		184
K.
KAermerden.		282
St. Katherines, Exeter.	503
Katteley.		8••4
Keinsham.		298
Keldeholm.	914
Kenelworth.		114
Kertmele.		300
Kersey.	532
Kilburn.	361
Kime.		245
Kimolton, or Kimbolton.		319
Kinswood.	811
Kingston, Hull.	966
Kinton.	534
Kirby Beler.		344	2. 49
Kirkby.	562
Kirkham.		105
Kirkley.	487
Kirkstall.	854
Kirksted.	806
Knaresborough.	833
Kynewalgraves.		515
Kypier.			1. 90
L.
LAcock.		••41
Lambley.	506
La ••cadanc.			2. 36
Lan••aster.	566
Landaffe.			1. 182
Lanercost.		130
Langley.	481	659
Langdone.		622
Langcester.			2. 38
Langrigh.			454
Lankywan.	580
Lanthony.		58
Lapley.	1022
Lavindene.		613
Launceston.		107
Laund.		90
Lechlade.		451
Ledbury.		453	2. 139
Ledes.		110
Legburn.	894
Leicester.		308	2. 139
		454
		468
Lenton.	645		1. 648
Leominster.	420
Lestingham:	62
Lestune.			1. 74
Lesnes.		301
Letley.	933
Levenestrey.	6••6
Levisham.	55••
Lewis.	615
Leye.		••04
Leystone.		606
Lillecherch.		528
Lilleshull.		144
Liming.	85
Lincoln.		388
Lincoln, St. Catherines.		814
Lincoln Cathedral.			1. 257
Li••gebrook.	471
Lithom.	499
Little marais.	496
Little more.		1. 13
Litchseild Cathedral.		1. 216
Loc•• Dei.		931
Lodres.	570
London
Minoresses.	542
Ca••thusians.	961
Trinity.		80
St. Bartholomew.		166
St. Hellens.		894
St. Giles.		381
Bethelem		382
St. Marys without Bi∣shops-Care.		383
St. Bartholomews Hosp.		386
St. Giles.		4••0
St. Thomas of Acon		411
Converts (Iews.)		450
St. Katherines.		460
Elsing-spittle.		462
Berking Church.		467
The Savoy Hosp.		484
St. Iohn of Jer••s••lalem		505
Cathedral. S. Paul.			1. 298
Whittingtons Hospita			1. 99
St. Iohn of Jerusalem			1. 1••8
St. Martins.			2. 26
Crooked Lane Coll.			2. 104
Elsing Spittle			2. 190
Whittington Coll.			2. 189
Long Bennington.	597
Louth Yark.	805
Ludlow.		449
Lusseild.	520
Lyn.		413
M.
Maiden Bradley.		4••8
Ma••dston.			2. 132
Ma••••ing	352
Malmesbury.	49
Malron.		81
Maluern	••65
Manchester,			2. 174
Margon.	477
Mar••am.		9••9
Marleburgh.		••72
Marrig.	484
Mar••sey.		811
Marton.		98
St. Mary de Pratis.	1011
St. Mary Overy.		84
St. Marys in Dublin.	782
Maxtoke.		351
May in Scotland.	422
Meaux.	792
Mendham.	926
		631
Mereval.	830
Merewell.			2. 55
Mergate.	350
Merlebergh.		437
Mersey.	552
Merton. ••		135
St. Michaels Mount.	551
Michel.	197
Miche ham.		••34
Middleburg.	413
Middleton.	19••
Midd••••ham.			2. 204
Minting.	59••
M••••••unde.			1. 107
Missenden.	541		1. 18
M••dberley.		320
Modbury.	507
Monkion.	476
Monk••ret••n.	660
Moukenlen.	597
Mon••outh.	6••0
Montac••te.	668
Motesfont.		323
Mottind••n.		3••
Mauntgrace,	96••
N.
ST. Neots.	36••
Nethe	7••9
Newbo.		612
Newburgh.		••9
Newcastle.		4••••
Newenham	929	23••
Newh••use,		589
Newmon,			1. 111
Newminster.	800
New Monasteries of H. 8.			1. 21
foundation.			8••
Newport.			2. 201
New••••ed, Giltford.		247
Newsted, Sherw••od.		3••7
Newsted, Stamford.		444
Mew••on.		898	1. 88
Nocton.		211
Northampton, St. Andr.	679
Northampton, St. Mary	1011
Northampton, St. James		49
N••rth Cadbury.			2. 173
North Creyke.		325
Norton.		185	5
Norwich.	4••7	4••1	1. ••
			••. 43
Nostel.		3••
Nottingham.	447
		448

Nunapleton.	907
Nunburnham.	498
Nun-Cotun.	922
Nun Eaton.	518
Nunkelling.	474
Nutley.		154
O.
Okeburn.	581
Okeham.		473
Ormesby.		809
Oseney.		136
St. Osiths, Chiche.		182
St. Oswalds, Gloucester.		28
Oterey.	549		2. 59
	569
Overton.		825
Ouston.		276
Oxford.	173	407
	540	443
P.
PAtricksburn.	576
Pembroke.	510
Penecriz.			2. 207
Pentney.		19
Penwortham.	360
Pershore.	203
Peterborough.	63
St. Petrocus.	213
Peykirk.	305
Pilla.	1019
Pipwell.	815
Plecy.			2. 120
Plimpton.		6
Poghele.		266
Pollesworth.	197
Pontesract.	648	461	2. 106
Pontrobert.	916
De Prato, St. Albans.	347
Prittlewell.	619
Praemonstratenses.		579
Pulton.		826
Pynham.		143
Pynley.	442
Q
Qvarre.	760
R.
RAculf.	86
St. Radegunds.	480
Radingfeild.	417
Ramsey,	231
Ratlingcope.		336
Ravenston.		337
Reading.	417
Reinham.	636
Rependon.		280
Revesby.	822
Rewley.	934
Richmond.	401	479
			649
Rieval.	727
Rindelgras.	422
Rippon.	172	380	1. 89
			2. 87
Roche.	835
Rochester.	27		1. 1
Romburg.	404
Romenale.		405
Ronton.		143	1. 53
Rossendale.	507
Rotheram.			2. 204
Roucestre.		267
Rounceval.		443
Rowney.	516
Royston.		264
Rudham.		234
Rufford.	848
Rumsey.	219
Rushworth.			2. 110
Ruthyn.			1. 105
			2. 57
Rygate.		346
S.
SAlesbury.			1. 375
Salley.	841
S••lop.			2. 207
Saltree.	850
Sandone.		441
Sandwell.	475
Sanford.	481		1. 13
			1. 66
Santoft and Henes.	403
Sarum.		472
The Savoy.		484
Sautingfeld.		404
Scarthe.		143
Scokirk.		43
Scotch Monasteries.		1051
Selburn.		343
Selby.	371
Sele.	581
Selsey.	153
Sempringham.		791
Seton.	482
Sewardsley.	496
Shaftesbury.	313
Shelford.			1. 65
Shene.	973
Shepey.	152
Shireburn.	62	423
	423	476
		577
Shouldham.		820
Shrewsbury.	375
Sibeton.	866		1. 32
Silly lsle.	516
Sinningthwait.	827
Sixill.		810
Slevesholm.	638
Snapes.		894
Snelshall.	483
Sopewell.	347
Southampton.		108
			439
Southwark.		439
Spiney.		320
Stafford.		316
Stamford.		403
		444
Stanesgate.	623
Standford.	488
Stanfield.	506
Stanlaw.	896
Stanleigh.	867
Stanley-Park.		626	1. 64
Stayndrope.			2. 142
Sternshall.	71
Stevendale.		306
Stodeley.	486	89
Stoke.			1. 94
Stoke-Clare.	535		2. 164
Stoke Cursy.	577
Stokefaston.		482
Stone.		119
Stoneley.	820	319
Stratmargel, or Strata Marcella.	895
Stratfleure, or Strata florida.	893
Stratford.	443
Stratford langton.	883
Strode.		434
Stykeswold.	486	809	1. 81
Sudbury.	367
Suthwell.			2. 10
Suthwike.		134
Sutton.		437
Swanesey.	572
Swine.	834
Swineshead.	773
Syon.		360
T.
TAllach.	465
Tame.	802
Tanregge.		403
Tarent.	887
Tateshale.			2. 194
Tavestok.	217
Taunton.		83
Temple Knights.		517	1. 62
Thanet, St. Mildreds.	83
Thele.			2. 190
Thelesford.		831
Thetford.	664	574
Thorkesley.		278
Thorney.	242
Thornton.		198
Thornholm.		230
Thremhale.		23
Thurgarton.		92
Tikeford.	685
Tiltrey.	889
Tinemouth.	333
Tintern.	721
Titchfeild.		660
Toddington.		478
Toft.	598
Tonbridge.		258
Tong-Castle.			2. 143
Torre.		652

Totenhall.			2. 207
Totnes.	1023
Trentham		260
Trinitarians.		830
Tukesbury.	153
Tupholme.		596
Tutbury.	354
Tuxford.			2. 90
Twyneham.		177	1. 54
Tykhead.	529
Tywardreit.	586
V.
VAle-Royal.	936
Vaudev.	831
W.
WAburn.	490
Walden.	445
Wallingford.	326		1. 11
			2. 34
Wallingwell.	502
Walsingham.		20
Waltham.		11
Wardon.	784
Wartre		172
Warwell.	256
Warwick.		573	2. 27
Watton.		798
Water. Becham	543
Waverky.	703
Weden-Pinkney.	584
Welbe••k.		597
Welle.		461	1. 89
Wells.	186	826
		434
Wells, Norsolk.	574
Wengham.			2. 52
Wendling.		613
Wenlock.	613
Wenslaw.			2. 137
Westbury.			2. 202
Westacre.	619
Westminster	55	402
Westminster, St. Stevens Chappel.			2. 61
Westwood.	574
Wethehall	397
Whalley.	896
Wherwell.			1. 9
Whitby.	71
Wi••more.		213
Wikes.		82
Wikham.	916
Wilesford.	584
Wilberfosse.	524		1. 12
Wilton	191
Wimundham.	337
Winchester.	31	480	2. 46
	212		2. 106
Winburne.	163
Winchcomb.	187
Windsor.			2. 67
Winteney.	483
St. Wirburghs, Chester.	199
Wirksop.		50
Witham.	959
Woburn.	829
Wodham.		294
Wolverhampton.	988	472	2. 207
Wombrigge.		252
Worcester.	120
Wormley.		261	1. 48
Wospring		271	1. 47
Wotton waven.	558
Wroxhall.	433
Wroxton.		326
Wulverhampton, vid. Wol
verhampton.
Wudeham.	889
Wye.			2. 191
Wymburn minster.			2. 207
Wyremouth and Gerwy.	96
Wyrthorp.	189
Y
Yarrow.	96
Yarum.		400
Ynes.	718
York.		367	1. 125
		392
		469
York, St. Marys.	382
York, Trinity.	563
York, St. Andrews.		808

FINIS.

Notes

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  Vid. Vol. 2. p. 367.