Notitia monastica, or, A short history of the religious houses in England and Wales by Thomas Tanner ...
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Notitia monastica, or, A short history of the religious houses in England and Wales by Thomas Tanner ...
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Tanner, Thomas, 1674-1735.
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Oxford :: Printed at the Theater and are to be sold by A. and J. Churchill ...,
1695.
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Monasteries -- England.
Monasteries -- Wales.
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BEDFORD-SHIRE.
1. Bissemede.
A Priory of Black Canons founded by Hugh
Beauchamp, (temp. Will. Conq.) dedicated to
the Virgin Mary. It's annual value at the Sup∣pression,
was 71l. 13s. 9d. ob. according to Dug∣dale;
81l. 13s. 5d. ob. Speed.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 157. Registrum de Bis∣semede
penes. Anth. Trevor Int. Templi Soc.
Here was a Priory for Nuns of the Order of
St. Benedict, built by Iudith wife to Waltheof
Earl of Huntingdon, to the honour of the Holy
Trinity, St. Mary, and St. Helen, (temp. Will. Conq.)
It was worth at the Dissolution 284l. 12s. 11d. ob. q.
Dugd. 325l. 2s. 1d. ob. q. Speed.
Vide Mon. Ang. T. 1. p. 359.
3. Newenham.
Roise wife to Pain Beauchamp, (temp. Henr. I.)
founded here a Priory of Canons Regular of
St. Austin's Order, whither she translated the
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Canons Secular from St. Paul's in Bedford. It
was dedicated to St. Paul, and it's annual reve∣nues
were rated in 26. Hen. VIII. at 293l. 5s. 11d.
Dugd. 343l. 15s. 5. Speed.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 238.
4. Bello-loco ol. Moddry nunc Beaulieu.
A Cell of Benedictine Monks to the Abby of
St. Albans in Hertford-shire, thereunto given by
Robert de Albini and Cecily his Mother, about
A. D. 1130. It was dedicated to St. Mary Mag∣dalen.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 325.
5. Dunstable.
Here King Henry the first built a Priory of
Black Canons to the honour of St. Peter the A∣postle.
It was valued at the Suppression, at
344l. 13s. 3d. Dugd. 402l. 14s. 7d. Speed.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 132.
* Registr. in Bibl. Cotton.
* Cartularium hujus Prioratus olim in manibus
Magistri Will. Duncombe.
6. Chicksand.
A Priory for Nuns of the Order of St. Gilbert
of Sempringham, founded by Roise wife to Pain
de Beauchamp, (temp. Hen. I.) It was dedicated to
St. Mary, and endowed at the dissolution with
212l. 3s. 5d. ob. per an. Dugd. 230l. 3s. 4d. ob. Speed.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 793.
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7. Wardon.
A. D. 1136. This house of Cistertianc Monks
was built by Walter de Espec, to the honour of
the blessed Virgin Mary. It's annual revenues
at the Suppression, were worth 389l. 16s. 6d. q.
Dugd. 442l. 11s. 11d. Speed.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 784.
8. Woburn.
Hugh de Bolebec founded here an Abby of the
Cistertian Order, A. D. 1145. and dedicated it to
St. Mary. It was valued in 26. Hen. VIII. at
391l. 18. 2d. per an. Dugd. 430l. 13s. 11d. ob. Speed.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 829.
9. Bosco juxta Mergate.
A Nunnery of Benedictines founded A. D. 1145.
either by the Dean and Chapter of St. Pauls,
London, (as Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 872.) or by Gal∣fred
Abbat of S. Albans, (as Mon. Ang. T. 1. p. 350.)
It was dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and ac∣counted
a Cell to the Abby of St. Albans; being
possessed of revenues to the yearly value of 114l.
16s. 1d. Dugd. 143l. 18s. 3d. Speedd.
Vide Mon. Angl. ut supra.
* Cartas quamplurimas Originales ad hoc coenobium
spectantes penes Johannem Coker de Burncester in
Com. Oxon. Generosum.
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10. Harwood.
Here Sampson de Forte founded a Nunnery of
St. Austin's Order, about A. D. 1150. and dedi∣cated
it to St. Peter. It was worth 47l. 3s. 2d. per
an. at the dissolution.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 202.
11. Caldewell.
A Priory of Black Canons founded by Simon
Basket Alderman of Bedford, A. D. 1152. It
was dedicated to St. Mary and St. Iohn Baptist,
and rated at the suppression at 109l. 8s. 5d. per an.
Dugd. 148l. 15s. 10d. Speed.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 257.
12. Eaton.
A College dedicated to Corpus Christi, valued
at 7l. 16s.
13. North-Yevel Dugd. Northyle Speed.
v. Norhill.
A College built by Sir Gerard Braybrook Kt.
6. Hen. IV. to the honour of the blessed Virgin,
valued at 61l. 5s. 5d. Harp. Dugd. Speed.
Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 14.
☜ The College of Bigleswade in this Country,
mentioned by Speed, was only a Gild. (Mon.
Angl. T. 1. p. 1038.)
Notes
a
It is before observ'd that Hellenstow in Berks is mistaken for this in Bedfordshire. Mon. Ang. T. 1. p. 359.
Besides this Nunnery at Bosco, Mr. Speed tells us of another at Mer••yate built in 6. Ed. I. by Gilbert de Clare Earl of Glocester, to the honour of St. Giles. What authority Mr. Speed hath for this, I know not, no war∣rant for any such thing is to be found in any Authentick record.