12. Burcester.
Gilbert Basset A. D. 1182. built a Priory of Black Canons to the honour of St. Mary and St. Edburg. It was valued 26. Hen. VIII. at 147l. 2s. 1d. per an. Dugd. 167l. 2s. 10d. Speed.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 283.
Parochial Antiquities, first attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and other ad∣jacent villages in the Counties of Oxford and Bucks, deduced from the time of the Britains to near the Age of the Reformation, by White Kennett B. D. Vicar of Ambrosden. Hic liber accu∣ratissime Historiam hujus Prioratus a tempore fun∣dationis ad eversionem usque tractat, quam ex Cartis Autographis penes D. D. Guil. Glynne de Ambros∣den in Com. Oxon. Baronettum, & quamplurimis a∣liis Codicibus tum MSS. tum impressis summa fide & industria contexuit Reverendus Autor.