2. Waltham.
A College of Secular Canons founded by Earl Harold, A. D. 1062. for a Dean and eleven Canons, who were changed into Regulars, and their num∣ber increased to twenty four, by King Hen. II. A. D. 1177. It was dedicated to the Holy Crofs and St. Laurence, and valued 26. Hen. VIII. at 900. 4s. 3d. Dugd. 1079l. 12s. 1d. Speed.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 11.
Dr. Tho. Fuller's History of Waltham-Abby, at the end of his Church History. Lond. 1655.
Reg. de Waltham MS. in Bibl. Cotton. Tib. C. 9. 3.
* Registr. penes Carolum Comitein Carleol. apud Castrum de Naworth in Com. Cumb. A. D. 1694.
* Cartularium olim in manibus Rog. Dodsworth.