The English historical library, or, A short view and character of most of the writers now extant, either in print or manuscript which may be serviceable to the undertakers of a general history of this kingdom / by William Nicholson ...

CHAP. VII. (Book 7)

Of the Histories, Chronicles, Cartularies, &c. of our English Monasteries. (Book 7)

THE great Usefulness of the Leiger Books and other Mona∣stic Records is so apparent to any Man that has had the least acquaintance with them, that I need not much insist on so known a Subject. The most Emi∣nent of our Historians are visibly in∣debted to them for their chiefa 1.1 Ma∣terials; and 'tis from hence that they are enabled to clear the Descents and Pedigrees of many Noble Families; the Tenures of Estates, the Ancient Customs of Counties, Cities and great Towns; the Foundation and Endow∣ment of Churches, &c. For how spar∣ing, or defective, soever the old Monks might be in Recording the Public Af∣fairs of the State, we are sure they

were extreamly diligent in noting down those of their own Monasteries: Whence it is that the Histories of those Cathedrals, which were anciently in their Possession, are the most entire of any in the Kingdom. This suffi∣ciently appears from the late Colle∣ctions of the Publisher of Anglia Sacra, who soon furnish'd out onea 1.2 Volume of this sort of Writers, but was forced to patch up the second out of a more incoherent Medly of Shreds. He would certainly have driven very hea∣vily in the succeeding ones that he had promised; since ('tis plain) his best Fund was already exhausted. Nor are these Registers only more particular and full in Matters relating to their own History, than that of the Public; but they are also much more Authentic and Credible in these. They have al∣ways been allow'd as good Evidence in our Courts of Judicature; and do often effectually determine such Cau∣ses as have been thought to labour un∣der in extricable difficulties. Their Au∣thority, indeed, is not so Venerable in

those Passages that concern the Grand∣eur, Priviledges and Immunities, of their respective Houses; where the private Zeal or Interest of the Pen-man may be suspected to have transported him a little, beyond the exact Limits of Truth. The Monks are rarely so strait∣lac'd, as to boggle at an Officious Lye; and therefore, where the Subject will admit of such a pious piece of Kna∣very, they are to be read with Cau∣tion and Judgment. In reporting the several Grants of their Founders and Benefactors, with the Number and Boundaries of the Acres they gave, we may readily and safely trust them: because an interpolation in such a Case would be hazardous, and what might probably destroy an old Title instead of creating a new one. But when a Story comes to be told that may advance the Repute of the whole Fraternity, or discover the extraordina∣ry Sanctity of a single Brother, we are to look for its being set off to the best Advantage; and the Historian uses us kindly, if he Romances only a little. I am apt to believe (says Fathera 1.3 Simon)

that these Letters [of Christ and King Agbar] were really found in the Archives of the City of Edessa: But we ought not too easily to give Credit to the first Originals of Churches. Every one strives to advance their Antiquity as much as is possible; and they make no scruple (on such Occasions) to counterfeit Acts, when they have none that are true.

Mr. Whelo••a 1.4 quotes an old Saxon Schedule of the endowments of our ancient Monasteries before the Con∣quest,* 1.5 which (he says) is in the same Volume with King Aelfred's Para∣phrastical version of Bede's History in the Cottonian Library: and yet the learned Publisher of the Catalogue of those Manuscripts, takes no notice of any such Tract, in the placeb 1.6 where (if at all) it ought to have been men∣tion'd. We are also told of an Historical Account of the Benedictines in Eng∣land, from King Edgar's time to the Conquest; which is as high as that Order could be traced in this Kingdom. For, whatever may be argued to the

contrary, 'tis very plain that our first Saxon Monks knew nothing of St. Ben∣net's Rule; but lived under the Disci∣pline brought from Ireland, which was very much different from what was afterwards introduced by St. Dunstan. If Augustine himself was of this Or∣der, and planted it at Canterbury, (which is much questioned by very Learn'd Men) 'tis demonstrable the Rules were soon forgotten or laid aside, even in the southern Parts of the Island; and, in the North, Columbanus and the Men of Hy were the Founders of all our Monastic Schemes.

After the Norman Invasion, we had several Members of particular Mona∣steries that apply'd themselves to write the Histories of their own Houses;* 1.7 but few that had any such concern for the Honour of their Orders in ge∣neral. The first I can hear of, was Henrya 1.8 Crump, a Cistertian Monk (about the Year 1380) and Dr. of Di∣vinity in the University of Oxford; who wrote an Account of the Foun∣dation

of all the Monasteries of Eng∣land from the time of St. ••irin (the first, Bishop of Dorchester) down to that of Bishop 〈◊〉〈◊〉: But 'tis to be fear'd this is now lost; since it could not be found bya 1.9 one whom hardly any thing of that kind could escape. After him John Boston (a Monk of St. Edmondsbury, who will be remember'd hereafter on another Occasion) Collected the Histories of the Foundations of his own and some other Religious Orders; which, I sup∣pose, was done in those three Books which bore the Title of,b 1.10 Speculum Coenobitarum. The next Writer on this Subject, was William Buttoner (who is also named Buttonius,c 1.11 and Wil∣liam of Worcester) who is said to have written, De Civitatibus, Monasteriis, Abbatiis; de{que} Longitudine & Latitu∣dine eorum: which Treatise we are assured is in the Library of Bennet College. I am very confident that the Topographical Description of Eng∣land, which has been already mention'd in the first part, is the whole of this

Gentleman's Labours; and that this Treatise has been sub-divided into 〈◊〉〈◊〉 deal of lesser Tracts (such as his Itine∣rary of Bristol, History of Osney, &c.) by the same Powers that sliced the Man himself into three several Au∣thors. Sir Henry Savile did certainly make a draught of a future History of the English Monasteries: but is sup∣posed to have laid aside those Thoughts, upon John Speed's intermixing some∣thing of that Nature in his General History. The Annual Revenues of the Abbies, &c. in Speed were had from Sir Robert Cotton; whosea 1.12 Copy has a double Valuation, of computed and clear Profits: whereof the former is only given by Speed, and the latter by Dugdale. The Reason why the former of these Writers is so frequent∣ly mistaken, in assigning the right Counties to the several Monasteries, was because he follow'd the List brought in by Cromwell's Commissio∣ners; who were chiefly sollicitous in learning the Value and Income, with∣out being too nice in the Topographi∣cal part of their Account. This is

what we have from a verya 1.13 learn'd Pen: To which let me add what anotherb 1.14 worthy Person (who has been very happy in his searches into these Matters) has further told us. That Catalogue, he observes, was drawn up by William Burton, out of Leland's Papers and the Original Book of Valuations; which Book differs, in∣deed, from that ancient Copy which Sir William Dugdale transcrib'd from the Cottonian Library. Nor are these to be reconcil'd by deducting of Repri∣ses; as appears from the History of those in Dugdale's Warwickshire, where all those common Burthens (of Pen∣sions, Corrodies, Alms, &c.) are summ'd up: so that he inclines to the Opinion that there were several Rates taken of our Monasteries, upon va∣rious Surveys and at different Times; especially since he meets with some Valuations in Leland's Notes, that will not agree with either of these. Richard Broughton (who has been once remember'd before) wrote a small

Book of indigested Tales; which he entitl'd, Monasticona 1.15 Britannicum; or, A Historical Narration of the first Founding, and flourishing State of the Ancient Monasteries, Religious Rules and Orders of Great Britain, in the Times of the Britains and Primitive Church of the Saxons, &c. This was printed a dozen Years after the Death of the Author, by some of his Friends: so that 'tis probable we have it much more imperfect than he intended; and in such an unfinish'd Condition, as the mistaken Kindness of Executors too frequently send things abroad.

The same Year was publish'd the First Volume of the famous Monasticon Anglicanum:* 1.16 to which ab 1.17 Second and Third were afterwards added. The two former of these were (as the Title-Pages will inform us) owing to the joint Labours of Sir Will. Dugdale and Mr. Dodsworth: who had also the Assistance of a great many other emi∣nent Antiquaries and Well-wishers to our English History. These were in∣deed chiefly the Work of R. Dodsworth,

whose Father was Register at York; and Dugdale had only so much share in it, Vt Authoris alterius Titulum op∣time meritus sit, as Sir John Marsham a 1.18 expresses it. That is, as the Ox∣ford-Antiquary b 1.19 explains it to us, He took care in the Methodizing and Publishing of them; in Correcting the Sheets at the Press, and in Composing very useful Indexes. Accordingly (tho' Dodsworth was dead before the printing of the First Volume, yet) he has the glory given him, in the Title, of the principal Author of both Tomes. The former of these gives us the Re∣cords of the Benedictine Monasteries, and (their Off-spring), the Cluniacenses, Cistertians and Carthusians: And the latter affords those of the Canons Re∣gular of St. Augustine, Hospitalers, Templars, Gilbertines, Praemanstratenses, and the Maturines or Trinitarians. We have in them the Remains of all those Orders, digested into a good Method; without any thing intermix'd, either by the Collector or Publisher. The Latin Pieces are printed off exactly as they found them; and those in Saxon

(as also Leland's English Notes) were translated by Will. Somner. The Col∣lector ought to be reckon'd amongst those worthy Benefactors to the Pub∣lick, that have made it their Business to preserve our ancient Historians; such as Twisden, Fell, Gale, &c. Great and many are the Advantages which all the several Branches of our History (not only in Ecclesiastical, but Civil and Martial Occurrences) will derive from this Work: And hardly a private Family (of any Consideration) in the Kingdom, but will here meet with something of its Genealogy and Pedigree. He is most scrupulously exact in tran∣scribing the ancient Records: So that, the bald Latin, barbarous Expressions, and other Deformities of the Monkish Stile, are to be reckon'd Beauties in him. By the Catalogue of the Mona∣steries, in the end of the First Vo∣lume, it appears how far the Industry of this Writer has exceeded that of the People employ'd by Henry VIII. to bring in a List of all the Religious Houses in this Nation: many being added (as more might have been, in almost every County) to the Schedule by them transmitted into the Exchequer.

And yet the old Register-Books, that are cited in the Monasticon, have a deal more in them than is there made use of. Sir William Dugdale, (on second Thoughts) transcrib'd many Things into the Additamenta of the latter Tome; which both he and Mr. Dods∣worth had overlook'd or did not (at first) think Material enough. The Third Volume was publish'd under the sole Name of Sir. William: though Mr. Wood does not question (hea 1.20 says) but, in this also, he was very much indebted to Dodsworth's Colle∣ctions. He seems the rather to suspect such a thing, because many Records were communicated by himself, which are not duly acknowledg'd as they ought to have been; and he verily be∣lieves the like good Assistance was given him by Sir Tho. Herbert, tho' his Be∣nefaction is also disregarded. These Three Tomes were latelyb 1.21 Epito∣miz'd or Abridg'd by some modest Gentleman or other, that did not think fit to put his Name to his Work: which might have been of some good use, if a little more care had been taken

of the Numerals; which direct to the Pages in the Monasticon it self, and (being frequently mistaken) do not only render the Book useless, but very dangerous. Besides, we are so far from wanting any Abridgment of these Tomes, that we rather com∣plain of their too great Conciseness; and could wish there were some more added, out of such Leiger-Books and Records, as never came to the know∣ledge of either of the worthy Authors of these Three.

Towards the furtherance of such an acceptable Service as this,* 1.22 we have had an excellent Manual, given us by Mr. Tanner; whosea 1.23 Notitia Monastica does not only afford us a short History of the Foundation and chief Revolutions of all our Religious Houses, but presents us also with a Catalogue of such Writers (noting the Places where we may find them) as will abundantly furnish us with such further Particulars as we shall have occasion for. The foremention'd Com∣pilers of the Monasticon Anglicanum took care to make the like References;

and to let the World know from whose Hands they had the perusal of the Records of this or the other Mo∣nastery. But, as many new Disco∣veries have been made since their Time, so several of the Books they met with have changed their own∣ers; and therefore their Defects are not only here supply'd, but the pre∣sent Proprietors of what they men∣tion much better ascertain'd. Some Volumes indeed, and several single Charters and other Instruments, are still appropriated to their old Masters; where 'tis not known how, or to whom, they have been lately trans∣fer'd. And this may possibly prove an obliging piece of Service to the Execu∣tors, Administrators or Legatees, of the Persons so mention'd; who will be hereby directed and encouraged to make Enquiry after their unknown Chattels, and to claim them where∣ever they shall find them. This in∣dustrious Author has superseded some Pains I had long since taken to the like purpose; and whereof I should have given the Reader an Account in this Chapter. The Informations he has here, are beyond what I could

have afforded him; and I hope (upon a second Edition of the Book, which I much long for) will be yet a great deal fuller. 'Till that can be had, give me leave to offer a slender Tast of the large Editions we may look for from the Author himself. In the Cottonian Library alone there are Hi∣stories and Register-Books of the fol∣lowing Monasteries; which (for want of such a Catalogue as we now have) had not come to his Know∣ledge.

• ABINGDON. Julius, A. 9. Clau∣dius, C. 9.
• St. ALBANS. Otho, D. 3. Nero, D. 1. 7. Julius, D. 3. Claudius, D. 1.
• BARDNEY. Vespasian, E. 20.
• BINHAM. Claudius, D. 13.
• CANTERBURY, Christ's Gal∣ba, E. 4.
• —St. Augustine's. Tiberius, A. 9. Otho, B. 15.
• DAVENTRY. Claudius, D. 12.
• DELACRES. Nero, C. 3.
• DERBY. Titus, C. 9.
• DUNSTABLE. Tiberius, A. 10.
• St. EDMUNDSBURY. Tiberi∣us, B. 9. Claudius, A. 12.
• ...

• ELY. Tiberius, A. 6. Vespasianus, A. 6.
• GLASTONBURY. Vespas. D. 22.
• HULM, Nero, D. 2.
• HUNTINGDON. Faustina, C. 1.
• KIRKSTEDE. Tiberius, C. 8.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉. E. 18.
• LEICESTER. Vitellius, F. 17.
• LENTON. Otho, B. 14.
• MALMESBURY. Faustina, B. 8.
• PARCO-STANLEY. Julius, C. 11. Vespas. E. 26.
• PIPEWELL. Caligula, A. 13, 14.
• RAMSEY. Vespasian, E. 2.
• READING. Vespasian, E. 5. 25. Domit. A. 3.
• ROCHESTER. Domitian, A. 9. Vespasian, A. 22. Faustina, C. 5.
• SELBY. Vitellius, E. 16.
• SMITHFIELD. Vespasianus, B. 9.
• SOUTHWARK. Faustina, A. 8.
• STONE. Vespasianus, E. 24.
• WALSINGHAM. Nero, E. 7.
• WESTWOOD in Com. WI∣GORN. Vespasian, E. 9.

These are the most Eminent of those Writers that instruct us in the general History of our Monasteries; tho' (as a verya 1.24 learn'd Person has observed) we still want a more copi∣ous Notitia than any of them have hi∣therto seem'd to have thought on: such an one as should give us a just account of the Foundation of those Houses; the Men of Learning that flourish'd in them; their Rules, Inte∣rests, Contests, &c.

There are others that have taken great Pains in writing Histories of some particular Orders of Monks,* 1.25 to which themselves have had some spe∣cial Relation; and these, moving in a lesser Circle, had leisure to make more nice Enquiries, and more ample Discoveries. Amongst them the Be∣nedictines may justly claim the Prece∣dence; as being so much the Darlings of Saint Dunstan, and St. Oswald, that perhaps 'tis true (what oneb 1.26 of them asserts) that, from King Edgar's Reign to the Conquest, there was

not a Monastery in England, but what was Model'd according to this Rule. Will. Gillinghama 1.27 of Canterbury (about the Year 1390.) is said to have writ∣ten De Illustribus Ordinis sui Scripto∣ribus; and, if we could meet with this Treatise, we should not much lament the loss of his other De Rebus Cantuariensibus. Edward Maihew (some∣time Scholar to John Pits) publish'd a little Book under theb 1.28 Title of Congregationis Anglicanae Ordinis St. Be∣nedicti Trophaea; wherein he takes fre∣quent occasion to quote his Master's Manuscript Treatise of the Apostoli∣cal Men of England, now kept as a pretious Rarity in the Archives of the Church of Liverdune. He is com∣mended for his Modesty in the Ac∣count he gives of their Writers; ho∣nestly quitting his Inclinations to serve ac 1.29 Party, where he observes Truth to be on the other side. The Obits and Characters of the English Benedi∣ctines, of greatest note since the Re∣formation, were penn'd by Tho. White alias Woodhop, a Monk of Doway; where he dy'd of the Plague in 1654.

A Manuscript Copy of this was ina 1.30 Mr. Wood's possession; and I suppose, is now (among those Books that he Be∣queath'd to the University) in the Mu∣saeum at Oxford.

But the chief of our Historians of this Order,* 1.31 was Clement Reyner; whose elaborate Book is Entitl'd,b 1.32 Apo∣stolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia, sive Decerptatio Historica de Antiquitate Or∣dinis Congregationis{que} Monachorum Ni∣grorum in Anglia. His Business is to prove that the Order was brought hi∣ther by Augustine, Arch-bishop of Canterbury; and he is thought by some of ourc 1.33 best Antiquaries to have effectually prov'd his Point, and to have fairly Answer'd all the Objecti∣ons against it. He is said to have had great helps from the Collections made by John Jones (or Leander de Sancto Martino, as he nam'd himself) Prior of St. Gregory's, and Publick Professor of Divinity, at Doway; who sojourning sometime in England with his hereto∣fore Chamber-fellow Arch-bishop Laud, had frequent access to thed 1.34 Cotton-Library:

where he transcrib'd what∣ever he could find that related to the History a••d Antiquities of his own Order. Others say that the most of the Collections out of this Library, which were used by our Author Rey∣ner, were made bya 1.35 Augustine Baker, another Monk of Doway; who left several Volumes (in Folio) of Select Matters, very serviceable towards the Illustrating of this and other parts of our English History. How∣ever it was, Sir Thomas Bodley's Li∣brary was thought the most proper Magazine to furnish out Artillery against the Man that had already seiz'd on that of Sir Robert Cotton; and to this purpose Fatherb 1.36 John Barnes (a Brother Benedictine, but of different Sentiments with Reyner) be∣takes himself to Oxford, and there Composes a sharp Refutation of the Apostolatus. This was very ill resent∣ed by those of the Fraternity, and other Members of the Roman Church: And they had some reason to be An∣gry at one of their own Body's using the Book more Scurvily than any of

the Protestant Writers had done. There are several Learn'd Foreigners, in France and Flanders, that have late∣ly made very Voluminous Collecti∣ons of the Acta Benedictinorum in Ge∣neral; wherein are some Tracts writ∣ten by English-Men, and such as wholly treat on our own Historical Matters. These have been occasio∣nally mention'd in other parts of this Work: And my Design will not allow me to consider them any fur∣ther.

The Cistercians* 1.37 may be reckon'd one of our own Orders: For, tho' they came not into this Kingdom 'till almost a Hundred Years after their first Formation, they were founded by Robert Harding an English-Man. Hugh Kirkstede (or rather Kirkstall) was a Monk of this Order, about the Year 1220. and collected the Me∣moirs of all the English that had been of it; which he Dedicated to John Abbot of Fountains. This is attested bya 1.38 Leland; who acquaints us fur∣ther, (that in the Library at Rippon)

he saw his Book entitl'd Historia rerum a Monachis Cisterciensibus gestarum.a 1.39 Bale tells us that he was greatly assisted in this Work by Serlo, Abbat of Foun∣tains, about the Year 1160. And, because there appears to be a good di∣stance betwixt the reputed Times of these two Writers, he assures us that Hugh liv'd very near a hundred Year. I am apt to believe that Serlo was the b 1.40 sole Author of another Treatise (ascrib'd to this Monk) De Origine Fon∣tani Coenobij; and that this is the true bottom of Bale's fine Contrivance.

The Canons Regular of St. Au∣gustine pretend to be Founded by that famous Father (and Bishop of Hippo) whose Name they bear:* 1.41 But they are of no great Antiquity Here, all our Historians agreeing in this (tho' they disagree about the precise time) that they came into England since the Con∣quest. The first of their Historiogra∣phers was Jeoffrey Hardib, Canon of Leicester, and Privy Councellour to King Edward the Third, in the Year 1360. who was an eminent Preach∣er,

a great Divine, and (amongst ma∣ny other things) wrotea 1.42 De rebus ge∣stis Ordinis sui. The next, and the last that I know of, was John Capgrave, who was sometime Provincial of the Order; and he alotted one his many Volumes the Subjectb 1.43 De Illustribus Viris Ordinis S. Augustini.

The Dominicans,* 1.44 Franciscans and other Mendicant Friers, having had no Lands, had no occasion for Leiger-Books: But I know not why we should not have better Remains of their History, Penn'd by themselves; since 'twas no part of their Vow, that they should so far renounce the World, as not to have their good Works had in remembrance. The Story of the set∣tlement of the Order of St. Francis in England (being confirm'd by Henry the Third in the Year 1224) is written by Tho. Ecleston; whose Book, De ad∣ventu Minorum in Angliam, is inc 1.45 several of our Libraries. Mr. Pitsd 1.46 says he wrote also another Book De Ordinis impugnatione per Dominicanos: Which, I am afraid, is only a part of

the former; for they had Battail given soon after their first Landing. Their History afterwards is pretty well ac∣counted for, bya 1.47 Fran. a Sancta Cla∣ra; and we have a formalb 1.48 Register of that Colony of them that was seat∣ed in London, with some Fragments of those of other Places. The Records of the University of Oxford, with those in the Neighbourhood, have afforded us a diverting View of their frequent Bickerings with the Dominicans in our publick Schools; which for an Age or two make up a good share of the An∣nals of that Place.

The Carmelites* 1.49 have likewise had some few of their Fraternity who have taken the pains to enquire into the Hi∣story of that Order: of whom William of Coventry (about the Year 1360.) wrotec 1.50 de Adventu Carmelitarum in Angliam. Bale quotes some of his Words; and Writes as if he had seen his Book. About a Hundred Years af∣ter this, Will. Green (a Cambridg-Man) collected out of the most of the Libra∣ries

in England the noted Exploits of the great Men of this Order; which he afterwards published under the Title ofa 1.51 Hagiologium Carmelitarum. And lastly, Robert Bale (a Carmelite Fryar at Norwich, and afterwards Prior of Burn∣ham, where he dy'd, A. D. 1503.) wroteb 1.52 Annales Breves Ordinis sui. 'Tis much that this Gentleman's name∣sake, the famous Mr. John Bale, never penn'd any thing of this kind: For he was also a Carmelite of Norwich, and assures us (in the Account he gives of his own dear Self, in the Tail of his Writers) that the Libraries of that Order were the chief Treasury out of which he had his Riches. Perhaps he c 1.53 did Write some such Thing: but did not afterwards think fit to own the Respects he once had for those Antichristian Locusts, as he there most greatefully calls them.

Notes

• a 1.1

  See the Pref. to Tanners Notitia, p. 22, 23.
• a 1.2

  Vol. I. De Archiepiscopis & Episcopis Eccle∣siarum quas Monachi possiderunt.
• a 1.3

  Critic. Hist. of N. Test. par. 1. p. 20.
• a 1.4

  In Notis ad Beda Hist. Eccles p. 260.
• * 1.5

  Saxon.
• b 1.6

  Bibl. Cott. Otho▪ B. 11.
• * 1.7

  After the Conquest
• a 1.8

  Vid. Hist. Antiq. Oxon. lib. 1. ad ann. 1381 & 1391. & lib. 2. p. 61.
• a 1.9

  See Mr. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Pref. to his Notitia, pag. 8, 9.
• b 1.10

  J. ••it••, p 393.
• c 1.11

  Id. pag. 649, 8••1, 8••1.
• a 1.12

  Bibl. Cott. Cleopatra, E. 4.
• a 1.13

  Hist. & Synops. Bibl. Cott. p. 39, 40.
• b 1.14

  T. Tanner, in Praefat ad Notit. Monast. pag. 5, 6, 20, 21.
• a 1.15

  8vo. Lond. 1655.
• * 1.16

  Monasti∣con Angli∣canum.
• b 1.17

  Fol. Lond. 1661, 1673.
• a 1.18

  In 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. ad vol. 1.
• b 1.19

  Ath. Oxon, vol. 2. p.
• a 1.20

  Ath. Oxon. vol. 2. p. 700.
• b 1.21

  Fol. Lond. 1693. See Mr. Tanner's Praef. p. 7, 8.
• * 1.22

  T. Tan∣ner.
• a 1.23

  8vo Oxon. 1695.
• a 1.24

  D. Smith, in Hist. & Synops. Bibl. Cott. p. 38.
• * 1.25

  Benedi∣ctines.
• b 1.26

  Reyner•• Apostolat. Bened. p. 11.
• a 1.27

  J. Pits, p. 552.
• b 1.28

  8vo. Rem. 1619.
• c 1.29

  Vid. Vss. rij Hist. Eccles. Brit. p. 216.
• a 1.30

  Ath. Oxon. vol. 1. p. 415.
• * 1.31

  C. Rey∣ner.
• b 1.32

  Fol. Duac. 1626.
• c 1.33

  W. Semner, Antiq. Canterb. p. 153.
• d 1.34

  Hist. & Spnops. Synops. Bibl. Cott p. 38.
• a 1.35

  Ath. Oxon. vol. 1. p. 515. & vol. 2. p. 388.
• b 1.36

  Ibid. vol. 1. p. 473.
• * 1.37

  Cisterci∣ans.
• a 1.38

  V. J. Pits, p. 297.
• a 1.39

  Cent. 3. cap. 81.
• b 1.40

  Vid. Monast. Angl. Tom. 1. p. 854. b.
• * 1.41

  Canons of S. Au∣gustine.
• a 1.42

  J. Pits, p. 492.
• b 1.43

  Id. p. 672.
• * 1.44

  Mendi∣cants.
• c 1.45

  MS. in Bibl. Dec. & Capit. Ebor. & alibi.
• d 1.46

  pag. 442.
• a 1.47

  Inter Opera ejus, Tom. 1. Duac. 1665.
• b 1.48

  Vid. Hist. & Antiq. Oxon. lib. 1. p. 68. 71, &c.
• * 1.49

  Carme∣lites.
• c 1.50

  J. Pits, p. 493.
• a 1.51

  Id. p. 662.
• b 1.52

  Id. p. 686.
• c 1.53

  Mr. Tanner says he has seen his Collections for such a purpose.