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1. Canterbury
HEre was an Abby founded by King Aethel∣bert a 1.1 A. D. 600. and dedicated by St. Au∣stin the Monk to Christi Iesus. In it were Secular Priest's till A. D. 1003. at which time Arch-Bishop Elfric placed Benedictines here. It's yearly revenues at the Dissolution amounted to 2489l. 4s. 9d. King Henry VIII. turned the Monks into a Dean and twelve Canons.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 18. Angl. Sacr. T. 1.
The Antiquities of Canterbury by Will. Somner. London. 1640.
Evidentias Ecol. Christi Cant. inter X. Script. Hist. Angl. edit. Lond. 1652.
Gervasii vitas Pontificum Cantuar. &c. Ibid.
* Collectanea MS. Augustini Baker Mon. Ord. Bened. in Bibl. Coll. Jesu Oxon. Vol. 1.
* Registrum sive Martyrologium Ecclesiae Christi Cant. In Bibl. Coll. Gresham.
* Librum Obitualem Ecclesiae Christ Cantuar. In Bibl. Lambeth. fol. 20.
* Registrum Benefactorum Ecclesiae Christi. In Bibl. Cotton. Galba. F. 2.
2. Rochester.
A. D. 602. King Aethelbert built a Monastery for Secular Priests, to the honour of St. Andrew.