Covent to that purpose whose activeness was such that within the space of two years several Covents were wrought upon and Commissioners sent down to take them at their hands to the Kings use of which number I find that besides the before specified Doctors of Law scil Legh Petre and Layton and Dr. London Dean of Walingford there was Rob. Earl of Sussex Sir John St. Clere Sir Will. Pirton Sir Henry Farington Knights and Richard Devereux sometimes a Frier And of Gentlemen Anthony Fitz-Herbert afterwards one of the Iustices of the Common Pleas John Gage Will. Leland John Williams Tho. Mildmay ... Jobson Richard Cromwell Rob. Southwell Will. Parr Thomas Bedyll Henry Polsted John Anthony Edmund Knightly John Lane George Giffard John Grevill Sim. Mountfort Thomas Holt Roger Wigston Rob. Burgoin Richard Pollard Philip Parys John Smith Edw. Carn Rich. Gwent Will. Barners John Arnold John ap Rice and Rich. Paulet The truth is that there was no omission of any endeavour that can well be imagined to accomplish these surrenders For so subtilly did the Commissioners act their parts as that after earnest solicitation with the Abbats and finding them backwards they first attempted them with the promises of good Pensions during life whereby they found some forward enough to promote the work as the Abbat of Hales in Com. Gloc. was who had high commendation for it by the Commissioners as their Letters to the Visitor General do manifest So likewise had the Abbats of Ramsey and the Prior of Ely Nay somâ— were to be obsequious that after they had wrought the surrender of their own Houses they were imployed as Commissioners to perswade with others as the Prior of Gisborn in Yorkshire for one Neither were the Courtiers unactive in driving on this work as may seem by the Lord Chancellour Audley's imploying a special Agent to treat with the Abbat of Athelney and to offer him an hundred marks per annum Pension in case he would surrender which the Abbat refused insisting upon a greater sum And the personal endeavours that he used with the Abbat of St. Osithe's in Essex as by his Letter to the said Visitor wherein it is signified That he had by great solicitation prevail'd with the said Abbat but withall insinuated his desire that his place of Lord Chancellour being very chargeable the King might be moved for an addition of some more profitable Offices unto him Nay I find that this great Man the Lord Chancellour hunting eagerly after the Abby of Walden in Essex out of the ruines whereof afterwards that magnificent Fabrick called by the name of Audley-end was built as an argument the sooner to obtain it did besides the extenuation of its worth alledge That he had in this world sustained great damage and infamy in his serving the King which the grant of that should recompense Amongst the particular arguments which were used by those that were averse to surrender I find that the Abbat of Feversham alledg'd the antiquity of that Monasterie's foundation scil by King Stephen whose body with the bodies of the Queen and Prince lay there interr'd and for whom were used continual suffrages and commendations by Prayers yet it would not avail For resolv'd they were to effect what they had begun by one means or other in so much as they procured the Bishop of London to come to the Nuns of Sion with their Confessor to solicite them thereunto who after many perswasions Took it upon their consciences that they ought to submit unto the King's pleasure therein by God's Law But what could not be effected by such arguments and fair promises which were not wanting nor unfulfilled as appears by the largâ— Pensions that some active Monks and Canons had in comparison of others even to a fift and sixth fold proportion more than ordinary was by terrour and straight dealing brought to pass for under pretence of suffering dilapidation in the buildings or negligent administration of their Offices as also for breaking the Kings injunctions they depâ—ived some Abbats and then put others that were more pliant in their rooms From others they took their Covent Seals to the end they might not by making Leases nor sale of their Iewels raise money either for supply of their present wants or payment of their debts and so be necessitated to surrender Nay to some as in particular to the Canons of Leicester the Commissioners threatned That they would charge them with Adultery and Buggery unless they would submit And Dr. London told the Nuns of Godstow That because he found them obstinate he would dissolve the House by vertue of the Kings Commission in spite of their teeth And yet all was so managed as that the King was solicited to accept of them not being willing to have it thought they were by terrour moved thereunto and special notice was taken of them as did give out that their surrenders were by compulsion Which courses after so many throâ— under hand corruption had led the way brought on others apace as appears by their Dates which I have observed from the very Instruments themselves in so much as the rest stood amazed not knowing which way to turn them Some therefore thought fit to try whether money might save their Houses from this dismal fate so near at hand the Abbat of Peterburgh offering 2500. marks to the King and 300 l. to the Visitor General therein Others with great constancy refused to be thus accessary in violating the donations of their Pious Founders but these as they were not many so did they taste of no little severity For touching the Abbat of Fountains in Yorkshire I find that being charged by the Commissioners for taking into his private hands some Iewels belonging to that Monastery which they called Theft and Sacrilege they pronounced him perjured and so deposing him extorted a private resignation And it appears that the Monks of Charterhouse in the Suburbs of London were committed to Newgate where with hard and barbarous usage five of them died and five more lay at the point of death as the Commissioners signified but withall alledged That the Suppression of that House being of so strict a Rule would occasion great scandal to their doings forasmuch as it stood in the face of the world infinite concourse from all parts coming to that populous City and therefore desired it might be altered to some other use And lastly that under the like pretence of robbing the Church wherewith the before specified Abbat of Fountains was charged the Abbat of Glastonbury with two of his Monks being condemned to death was drawn from Wells upon a Hurdle then hanged upon the Hill called the Tor near Glastonbury his head set upon the Abby gate and his quarters disposed of to Wells Bath Ilchester and Bridgewater Nor did the Abbats of Colchester and Reading speed much better as they that shall consult
penes Principalem Socios Coll Aenei Nasi Oxon. 11. Stodâ—ley A Benedictine Nunnery dedicated to St. Mary and founded by Bernard de S. Waleriâ—o temp Hen II. It was endowed at the Suppression with 82 l. 4 s. 4 d. per an Dugd. 102 l. 6 s. 7 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 486. Parochial Antiquities of Ambrosden c. Registr â—lim penes Tho. Allen ex Aula Glocestr 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 147 l. 2 s. 1d per an Dugd. 167 l. 2 s. 10 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 283. Parochial Antiquities first attempted in the History of Ambrosden Burcester and other adjacent 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 accuratissime Historiam hujus Prioratus a tempore fundationis ad eversionem usque tractat quam ex Cartis Autographis penes D. D. Guil. Glynne de Ambrosden in Com. Oxon. Baronettum quamplurimis aliis Codicibus tum MSS. tum impressis summa fide industria contexuit Reverendus Autor 13. Wroxton A Priory of Canons of the Order of St. Austin founded by Mich. Belet temp R. Ioh. and dedicated to the blessed Virgin It s yearly revenues were worth 78 l. 13 s. 4 d. Dugd. 78 l. 14 s. 3 d. Sp. Vide Monast. Angl. T. 2. p. 326. * Cartas penes Hon. Franc. Dom. Guildford 14. Rewley or De Regali loco A. D. 1281. Edm. Earl of Cornwall changed the Secular Priests here placed by his Father into an Abbat and fifteen Monks of the Cistercian Order It 's Tutelar Saint was the blessed Virgin Mary It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 174 l. 3 s. ob per an Dugd. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 934. Parochial Antiquities of Ambrosden c. 15. Burford A Priory valued at 13 l. 6 s. 6 d. per an Dugd. Sp. 16. Clattercote A Gilbertine Priory dedicated to St. Leonard Endowed at the Dissolution with 34 l. 19 s. 11 d. per an Dugd. Speed 17. Goring A Benedictine Nunnery dedicated to the blessed Virgin valued at 60 l. 6 s. 5 d. per an Dugd. Sp. Vide. Parochial Antiquities of Ambrosden c. * Munimenta quaedam ad hoc Caenobium spectantia in Cartulario de Borstall penes D. J. Aubrey Baron 18. Saucomb A Priory of Black Canons dedicated to St. Mary Speed 19. Minster Lovel An Alien-Priory Cell to the Abby of St. Mary de Ibrcio in Normandy founded by some of the family of Lovâ—l Vâ—le Cartas penes Henr. Farmer de Tusmore in Câ—m Oxon. Armig. 20. Oxford A. D. 1283. Iohn Gisfard Baron of Brimsfield founded a College here for the Benedictines of St. Peter's at Glocester and other Monasteries of that Order It was suppressed and the lands alienated by King Henry VIII part of it yet remaineth and is callâ—d Glocester-Hall Vide Histor Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. Lib. II. p. 338 380. Reyn. Apost Bened. in Angl. Tr. 3. p. 53. 21. Oxford A College for eight Benedictine Monks of Durham built by the Prior and Convent of Durham A. D. 1290. to the honour of St. Cuthbert but more amply endowed by Thomâ— Hatsield Lord Bishop of Durham about A. D. 1370. This being dissolv'd by King Henry VIII in the place where it stood was founded by Sir Thomas Pope Knight a College for a President twelve Fellows and â—â—ght Scholars 2 3. Phil. Mar. now called Trinity College Vide Histor. Antiq. Vniv. Oxon. Lib. II. p. 293 337. Angl. Sacr. T. 1. p. 748 770 772. 22. Littlemore near Sandford A Benedictine Nunnery dedicated to S. Nicholas Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 482. T. 3. P. 1. p. 13. 23. Milton A Priory of Monks 24. Sandford The Mannor of Sandford being given to the Knights Templers by Sir Thomas de Sandford Kn t. A. D. ... it became a Preceptory Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 544. Mr. Kennet's Parochial Antiquities of Ambrosden Burcester c. * Registrum MS. in Bibl. Bodl. Wood. 10. 25. Oxford A College for the Black Monks of Canterbury founded by Simon Islip Arch-bishop of Canterbury A. D. 1363 This was suppressed by Henry VIII and is now part of Christ-Church 26. Oxford A College for Black Monks in the parish of St. Aldate called London College from Richard Clifford Bishop of London who was a great benefactor to it A. D. 1421 27. Oxford A. D. 1435. Thomas Holden Esquire and Elâ—zabeth his wife sounded a College near the Northgaâ—c for Novices of the Order of St. Austin It was dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary 28. Dâ—ford The College of St. Bernard for Monks of the Cistercian Order was founded by Henry Chichely Arch-bishop of Canterbury A. D. 1437. On the site of this dissolv'd College Sir Thomas Whitâ— Knight built and endowed a College to the honour of St. Iohn Baptist A. D. 1555. Vide Hist. Antiq. Oxon. Lib. II. p. 302 338. 29. Banbury A College dedicated to St. Mary and endowed with 48 l. 6 s Speed RUTLAND-SHIRE 1. Brook A Priory of Canons Regular of the Order of St. Austin subordinate to the Priory of Kenelworth founded by Hugh Ferrers temp Ric. I. and dedicated to the blessed Virgin It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 40 l. per an Dugd. 43 l. 13 s. 4 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 130. The history of Rutland-shire by J. Wright Lond. 1684. fol. p. 26. 2. Edichweston An Alien-Priory Cell to the Abby of S. George of Banquervile to which it was given by Will. de Tankervile temp Hen. II. Vide Mâ—n Angl. T. 2. p. 952. Mr. Wright's Rutland-shire p. 41. SHROP-SHIRF 1. Lilleshull A Delfleda Queen of Mercia is said to build a Church here in honour of St. Alâ—mund which was afterward endowed with lands for the maintenance of ten Prebends by King Edgar The Priory for Canons of the Order of St. Austin was founded about A. D. 1140. by Philip de Belmâ—is and dedicated to the blessed Virgin It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 229 l. 3 s. 1 d. per an Dugd. 327 l. â—0 s. Speed Vidâ— Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 144. 〈…〉 Ric. Leveson de Trentham in Com. Staff 2. Wenlock An Abby of the Cluniac Order founded by Roger Earl of Montgomery A. D. 1081. It 's Tutelar Saint was St. Milburga who being Niece to Wolphere King of Mercia had built a Nunnery here in the Saxon times which was now destroyed It was endowed with 401 l. 7 l. q. per an Dugd. 434 l. 1 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 631. 3. Shrâ—wsbury A. D. 1083. the same Roger Earl of Monâ—gâ—mery built a Benedictine Abby here to the honour of St. Pâ—ter and St. Paul It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 132 l. 4 s. 10 l. per an
Tho. 38. v. S. Thomas of Canterbury S. Bega 35. Belet Mich. 183. de Belingey Peter 130. Bellengham John 252. Beller Roger 116. de Bello-fago Agnes 156. de Belmeis Phil. 188. Ric. 62 137. S. Benedict 48 52 92. S. Benow 276. Berkly Lord Robert 198. Roger 72. Will. 72. S. Bernard 240. Bernardiston Egid 209. Berry ... 2. Bertram Will. 169. de Beverley S. John 249. Bidun John 18. Bigod Roger 149. S. Birin 177. Biset Manass. 239. Blanchmains Rob. 114 115. S. Blase 223. Bloet Rob. 119. Blois Will. 246. Blund Gilb. 211. Boinet Sir John 216. Bolebec Hugh 11 16. Walter 170. Bolton Rob. 208. de Bone Sir John 225. S. Boniface 29. de Bosco Ernald 15. Bossu Rob. 54 111 113. Boteler Ralph 230. Botevile Will. 164. Botreaux Sir Will. 201. S. Botulph 21 62. Bourchier Rob. 67 de Bradgare Rob. 106. Brakeland Jocel 210. Brandling John 170. S. Branwalader 51. Braose Will 222. Braybrook Sir Gerard 12. Brewere or Briwere Will. 41 46 47 80. Bricet Sir Walt. 225. S. Bridget 142. Brien Guy 49. de Brioniis Adeliza 45. Rich. 45. Briset Jordan 136 137. Britanny Duke Conan 23 58 260. Earl Alan 23. Brito Hugh 122. Bromfield Nich. 62. Brown John 150. Bruce Tho. Lord 85. Brudnell Tho. Lord 111. de Brus Rob. 252 258. Buckingham Duke ... 111. 113. Duke George 15. Earl Walter 15. de Builli Richard 257. Roger 172. Bulbeck ... 25. de Bulmer Bertram 263. Bundy Rob. 114. Burdet Will. 221. Burton Will. 111. de Burtona Erinburch 268 Bussel Warin 109. Byron Will. Lord 175. C Cadwathel 285. de Calva Ruald 219. Calvely Hugh 29. Camerarius Rob. 23. Campion Will. 102. de Camvile Rich. 230. Cannings Will. 74. Canterbury Arch-bishops Anselm 93 100. Henry Chichele 166 186 281. Hubert 146. J. Kemp 106. â—o Peckham 105. Lanfranc 99. Sim. Sudbury 290 217. William 98 Will. Courtney 106. de Cantilupo Nich. 176. Canute King 22 30 146 209. de Capra Sir Michael 67. Cardinan Rob. 32. de Carilefo Will. 57. Carleol Earl Charles 60. Cary Will. 50. de Castre Rob. 158. de Catton Alan 260. de Cayneto Will. 212. Ceadwalla King 221. Cecilia Countess ... 74. S. Cedd 248. Chaceport Peter 17. S. Chad 189 192. Chaddeworth Ralph 5. Chamberlain Rich. 230. de Chandos Rob. 143. Charite Will. 112. S. Chebius 273. Cheny Sir John 152. Will. 152. Cherry Will. 8. Chester Bishop Rob. 227. Earl Hugh 26 Ralph 205. Ranulf 27 35 37 120 205 207 279. Chesterfield Earl ... 173. Cheurolcurt Ralph 176. Chichele Hen. 166 186 190 281. Chichester Earl Will. 151. Child Alwin 218. Cholmondley Sir Hugh 248. Cilla 2. Cissa 1 2. de Clare Gilbert 11 209. Walter 144. Maud Countess 152. S. Clare 123 136 216 275 277. Clarence Duke 74. Clarges Tim. 194. Clavel Walr 46. Clement Pope 13 286. S. Clement 254 272. de Clerc Rog. 260. Clerk Franc. 104. Sam. 228. Clifford Rich. 185. Lord ... 198. Clifton Sir Gerv. 172 176. Sir Rob. 176. Tho. 109. Clinton Bishop of Litchfield 202. Galfr. 228. William 234. Cobham John Lord 105. Cobham Regin Lord 220. Coenwulf King 245. Coke Sir Edw. 244. Coker John 11. Colrith Roger 78. Constable Marmad 262. Cookesey Edw. 228. Cooper Cecil 173. Corbet Hadwisa 226. Cornwall Earl Ailmer 42 52. Algar 196. Edm. 5. 18 141 183. Ric. 73 266. Corpus Christi 12. Coventre John 124. Tho. Lord 124. Coventry Bishops Ric 206. Roger 189 205. Courtney Will. 106. de Creike Marg. 215. Cressy ... 154. de Crevequer Sir Rob. 166. Cromwell Sir Ralph 134. Cross Holy 2 25 60 66 77 87 214 220 226. Cukenay Tho. 174. Culpepper â—o 106. Cumberland Earl Ranulph 35. Curcy Rob. 197. de Curtenai Will. 200. S. Cuthbert 34 57 109 172 184 273. S. Cuthburga 151. D de Dammartin Odo 220. Darcy Franc. S. David 86. S. David's Bishop Thom. 244 278. Bern. 283. Davies ... 4. Davis John 57. Ric. 177. Dauncy Sir Will. 219. Dawtree Sir Will 226. Denbigh Earl Basil. 255. de Dene Ralph 102. S. Dennis 70 79. Derby Dean Hugh 38. Dereham Henry 158. Devon Bishop 42. Countess Maud 47. Amicia 48. Earls Ailmer 279. Baldw. 43 77 79. Ordgar 42 52. Rich. 25 80 100. Thomas 48. William 204. Dewes Sir Simon 25 52 218 251. Dey Thomas 210. Diâ—ul 221. Didanus King 177. Dier ... 194. Diggs Sir Dudley 101. Dodsworth Roger 60 108 125 170 174 223 238 250 251 252. 253 255. 256 257 258 259 266. S. Dogmael 283 284. Doily Rob. 179 180. de Domerham Adam 194. Domneva 97 98. Dorchester Bishop Remig. 118. Dorset Earl Edw. 223. Draper Tho. 192. S. Dubritius 280. Dugdale Sir Will. 7 227. Duin Sir Rob. 39. Duncomb Will. 10 Dunâ—lmenâ—is Sim. 57. S. Dunstan 193. Durham Bishops Aldw 57. Anth. 56 58 133. Hugh 58. Tho. hatfield 184 William 57. de Dynam Galfr. 44. E Eadbald King 97. Eadbert Abbat 221. Eadred King 97. Eadulphus Bishop 42. S. Eanswith 97. Eanulfus King 244. Eardulfus Bishop 56 168. S. Ebrulf 90. S. Edburg 76 97 182. Eddington Will. 242. Edes Tho. 210. Edgar King 1 3 20 26 41 75 77 172 188 203 236 243. Editha 180 203. S. Edith 227. 236. S. Edmund Archbish. 241. S. Edmund King 98 126 165 167 209. Ednod Archbishop 21. Edred King 1. S. Edward King Mart. 31 42 76 81. S. Edward Conf. 7 31 43 99 134 135 195. K. Edward I. 28. K. Edward III. 6 105 139. K. Edw. Black Prince 7. K. Edward IV. 73 78 84 238 239 241. S. Edwin 200. K. Edwyn 248. Egbert King 227 236. Egfrid King 20. 56. S. Egwin 244. Ela Countess 200 240. Eleutherius Bishop 236. Elfric Archbishop 95. Elfrida Queen 77 237. Elgin Earl Thom. 85. Eliensis Tho. 20. Elizabeth Queen 172. S. Elizabeth 82. Elsing Will. 138. Eluric 209. de Engayn Rich. 164. Erkenwald 60. Erleigh Will. 199. Escot Richard 31. de Espec Walter 11 252 253. de Essebie Phil. 165. Robert 165. Essex Earls Galfr. 63 153. William 94 240. Estois William 157. S. Ethelbert King 84 135. S. Ethelburg 60. S. Etheldreda Queen 20. Ethelfleda 70. Ethelred Earl 70 117. Ethelred King 41 68 95 243 245. Ethelstan Bishop 237. S. Ethelwold Bishop 20 21 54 75 76. Ethilbaldt King 117. Eudo 62. de Evermue Reyner 126. de Ewias Harold Lord 84. Robert 86. Exeter Bishops Barthol 30. Brewer 41 47. Jo. Grandison 43. Leosf 30 31. Walt. 32 Will. Warlewast 30 31 43. Exeter Earls ... 117. John 164. Exton ... 48. Eynulfus 62. F Fairfax Brian 255. Charl. 253 255. S. Faith 14 149. Falconberg â—â—rl Thâ— 256. Farmer Henry 184. de Favarches Galfâ— 147. S. Felix 216. Fenton Baron 2. Fenwick Sir John 168. Ferrers Henry 204. Hugh 187. Earl Rob. 86 112 230. de Filgeriis Will. 130. Fil. See Fitz. Fil. Aluredi Juhell 44. Fil. Baldwini Will. 48. Fil. Drogonis Rob. 131. Fil. Enott Norm 213. Fil. Gervasii Llewellin 276 282. Fil. Gilberti Rad. 131. Fil. Godebaldi Rob. 64. Fil. Gospatric Tho. 235. Fil. Noeli Rob. 207. Finch Heneage
96. Fish James 229 233. Fisher Bish. Rochester 101. Fitz See Fil. Fitz-Alan Rob. 73. Will. 181 189. Fitz-Bardolf Akarius 257. Fitz-Brian Ralph 211. Fitz-Gelran Rob. 141. Fitz Gilbert Richard 92. Roisia 92. Fitz-Haimon Rob. 52 69 197. Fitz-Harding Lord. 196. Robert 198. Fitz-Henry Alan 129. Robert 108. Fitz-Hugh Osb. 246. Fitz-Jeffery Maur. 65. Fitz-John Eustace 169 256. Fitz-Martin Rob. 283. Fitz-Mary Sim. 138. Fitz-Nigell Nicholas 207. William 27 38. Fitz-Osbern Will. 78. Fitz-Osbert Rog. 150 215. Fitz-Pain Galfr. 254. Fitz-Peter Will. 265. Fitz-Piers Galfr. 153. Fitz-Ranulf Rob. 38. Fitz-Richard-Fitz-Ponce Sim. 86. Fitz-Roger Richard 109. 265. Rob. 153. Fitz-Swain Adam 268. Rob. 65. Fitz-Turgis Rich. 257. Fitz-Walter Robert 149. William 199. Fitz-Warin Fulk 190. Fitz-William Simon 125. William 138. Flammard Ranulph 80. Flandrensis Reyner 268. Fleet Jo. 136. Fleetwood John 109. Richard 244. S. Florence 77 144 157 222. Fogg Sir John 106. de Forte Sampson 12. Fossard Adam 256. Fowler ... 206. Fray John 89. S. Frideswide 177 178 186. Frith John 5. Frithwaldus King 218. Froucester Walt. 68. Fuller Tho. 60. Fursaeus 209. G Gait Sir Robert 181. Gale Tho. 249 280. Gaunt Gilbert 124. Gislebert 121. Walt. 117 252. Geary ... 9. S. George 7 158 179 187. 196. S. George Sir Henry 246. Richard 22. S. German 30 250. Germanus Abbat 70. Gernon ... 66. Giffard John 166 184. Walt. 14 15 210. Will. 76 197 218 219. S. Giles 22 37 89 181 204 246. Giraldus Cambrensis 283. Gisnes Earl Manass. 212. Githa 43. Glanvill Bartholom 150. Halewisa 264. Ralph 213. Ranulph 264. Rog. 214. William 150. Glapthorn ... 20. Glocester Abbats Germanus 70. Pet. 68. Walt. 68. Dukes Humphrey 284. Richard 59 271. Earls Gilb. II. Rob. 197 280. William 198 280. Glynne Sir William 182. Godiva Countess 118. S. Godric 58. Godwin Earl 43. Godwinus of Lincolâ— 132. Golsa Agnes 175. Peter 122 175. Gonevill Lord Edw. 159. Gornay ... 201. de Gousla Peter 122. de Grainvill Rich. 281. Graystoke Ralph 36. S. Gregory 47 48 99 106 154 217. de Grendon Serlo 38. de Gresley ... 120. Galf. 113. Robert 119. ap Griffith Madoc 278 282 Owen 282. S Grimbald 76. Grimbold Robert 114. de Grimesby Eudo 125. le Gross William 259. Grosthead Rob. 17 133. Guildford Franc. Ld. 183. Guithin 276. Gundreda 214. Gundulph Bishop 96 99. Gunton Simon 160. S. Guthlac 87 117 161. Guymond Prior 178. Gwyn ... 88. H Haget Bertr 262 266. Haggard ... 22. Hales Matth. 111. Hallifax Marq. Geor. 174. Halton Timoth. 69. Hamon Henry 101. Hare Sir John 158. Harley Sir Edward 85 86. Harold Earl 60. de Hastings Walter 229. Hatfield Tho. 184. Hatton Christopher 246. Hugh 231. Haunselyn Ralph 174. Hauvill Ralph 24 129. Hawkwood Sir John 66. de Haya Ralph 124. Rich. 128. Robert 223. Heane 102. Hegge Robert 57. S. Helen 2 9 37 175 258. Hemmingus 245. Heneage Sir George 129. K. Henry I. 4 6 10 34 36 71 76 78 84 119 219 246. K. Henry II. 60 127 128 175 198 199 206 232 239 264. K. Henry III. 17 24 198. K. Henry IV. 71 191. K. Henry V. 7 66 78 82 141 204 220. K. Henry VI. 19 48 73 81 82 129 150 155 161 166 199 210 211 226 242. K. Henry VII 213. K. Henry VIII 6 20 26 34 73 124 135 148 160 178 180 184 198 273 286. Herbert Sir Tho. 249. Hereford Countess Maâ—d 47. Earls Milo 71. Roger 73. Herfastus Bishop 147. Herman Bishop 237. Hertford Earl Rich. 100. Hewes Robert 92. Hieu 56. S. Hilda 248 258. Hildiard Christoph. 259. Hoese Henry 224. Hugh 205. Holden Tho. 186. Holland Sir Robert 110. Thomas 260 270. Hollis Gervas 121. Hooker John 41. Hotun Peter 258. Howard Lord William 35 36 96 169 170 235. Humbert Bishop 146. Huntingdon Earls Henry 36. Will. 224. Countess Judith 9. Huntingfield Will. 157. Huose Hugh 205. I S. Jacutus 201. James Richard 137. S. James 3 23 28 40 45 61 64 71 85 88 94 120 151 163 174 201 206 220 242 255 287. Ida 180. Ina King 51 193 194 195. Ingelby William 252 254 259. Ingelricus 236. Joceline 246. S. John Baptist 4 12 32 47 54 58 62 65 87 89 141 143 158 166 180 186 198 209 224 230 233 271. S. John of Beverley 249. S. John the Evangelist 31 62 114. 153 159 181 189 249 257 262 266 273 275. John King 5 46 80 170 20â— Johnston Nath. 250 263. Joseph of Arimathea 193. de Ipre Will. 100. Islip Simon 185. S. Julian 62 78. S Ivo 93. de Juri Adelin 238. K S. Karilefus 118. S. Katherine 47 50 87 124 142 154 242. Kederminster Rich. 70. Keep Henry 135. Kemp John 106. Kendal Will. Lord 108. S. Kenelm 69. Kennett White 16 86 73 178 181 182 231. Kent Earls William 100. Thomas 269. Kentigern 279. Kenwulf King 6â— de Kilpeke Henry 86. de Kime Phil. 131. Kinewalcus King 75. Kingston Earl ... 174. Kinneburga 160. Kirkham Robert 164. Knolles Sir Rob. 269. L Lacy Agnes 73. Alice 214. Henry 109 258 Hugh 85 143. Ilbert 253. Joh. 27. Margaret 87. Rob. 262. Rog. 253. Tho. 214. Lambe Sir John 162. Lancaster John 284 Maud 216. Will. 107 108. Lancaster Duke Henr. 116. Earls Edmund 138. Henry 214. Lanfranc Archbishop 93. de Langdon Ketelburn 232. Langton Stephen 104. Lassels George 173. S. Laurence 60 66 102 123 261. Lee Richard 189. de Leicester Hugh 162. Leicester Earl Rob. 13 54 111 113 114 115 150 224 232 271. Leigh Thomas 233. de Lekeburn Robert 128. Leofric Bishop 30 31 Earl 118 227. S Leonard 16 23 36 72 86 108 129 131 133 141 183 189 211 231 250. de Lesingham Tho. 155. Leveston Rich. 188 189. Leveson-Gower Will 205. de Leva Gilbert 58. de Limefie Ralph 88. Robert 227. Lincoln Bishops Alexand. 121. Remigius 177. Robert 17 124 133. Earls Francis 121. Gilb. 173. 216. Henry 109. Lindsey Earl Montagu 122 123 124 125 126 132. de Lisewis Will. 153. Litchfield Bps. Rich. 206. Roger 189 205. Walter 110. Lite William 255. Littleton Henry 190. Llewellin Pr. Wal. 276. de London Maur. 280. London Bishops Erkenw 60. Mellitus 125. Rich. 62 137 185. William 91 141. Long Gilb. 47. John 47. Longvillers John 176. Losing Hereb 148. Lovel ... 184 208. Lovetoft William 172. de Loundres Sir John 280. Low Sir John 52. Lowther Sir John 35. Lucas John Lord 62. S. Lucian 161. Lucius King 20 75 248. Lucy Richard 103. William 233. Lupus Hugh 26. Lutterell Sir Andr. 114. de Luvetot Eustace 93. M ap Madoc 285. de Magna Villa see Mandevill Mainillo Steph. 269. de Malbanc Hugh 26. Malcolm King 24. Malebiss Beatrix 25. Malet Robert 210. Malleverer Ric. 252 261. Malmburiensis Will. 193 236. Malveisin Hugh 204. Mandevill Jeffrey 3 63. Will. 94 240. Manefelmus 18. Manny Sir Walt. 139. Mantell Rob. 65. Marbury Tho. 28. March Earl Edm. 209. Mareschall Will. 106. S. Margaret 5 15 19 59 105 155 232 241. Marmion R. 203. Martell Ralph 16. Wil.
213. S. Martial 123 127. S. Martin 44 61 73 98 106 107 159 221 252 283 S. Martin Rob. 224 Rog. 151 Martivall Roger 116. S. Mary Magdalen 7 8 10. 16 36 42 44 55 66 78 100 102 103 105 122 143 151 166 191 225 226 235 238 241 263. Mascherell Walt. 63. Masters Will 71. Maud the Empress 14 239 246. Maunsell John 104. de Mecaenis see Meschines Mellent Earl Rob. 150. Mellitus Bishop 135. S. Melorius 237. de Merc Eustace 90. Merley Ralph 169. de Merlymond Oliver 85. Merwald King 84. Meschines Ranulph 35 107. Will. 253. Metham ... 125. Meyngarin Sir Ralph 152. Meynill Will 39. S. Michael 31 33 46 49 51 79 85 99 101 140 164 212 234 245 269 280. S. Milburga 188. S. Mildred 97. Milefrid King 84 Mill John 205. Milo Earl Heref. 71. Minshull Galfr. 127. Misâ—enden Sir Will. 14. de Modberley Patric 28. S. Modwen 203. Mohun John 196. Reginald 47. Will. 196. de Monimue John 144. Montacute Will. 6. Montagu Franc. Visc. 222. de Monte-Canisio Dionysia 23. Montfichet Gilbert 16 61. Will. 63. Montgomery Earl Roger 23 188. Mortimer Edmund 209. Hugh 85. Ralph 15. Sir Robert 159. Morton John 20. Sir William 70. Morton Earls Robert 31 211 223. Stephen 107. Will 197. Moubray Rob. 169. Rog. 128 255 256. Mounsteven Edm. 21. Muncels Alan 125. Munchensi Hubert 212. de Munewell Nigell 97. Murdac Hugh 264. N S. Nectan 43. S. Neot 92 93. Nethersole Fr. 227. le Neve Will. 45 149 150. Nevill Alan 127. Gilb. 127. Hugh 199. Ralph 59 261. Newburgh Henry 229. Robert 54. Newcastle Duke of 174. de Neweham Fulk 103. Newenton Tho. 66. Newman Rog. 44. Newmarch Bernard 273. S. Nichasius 28. S. Nicholas 5 14 28 32 44 47 65 85 100 108 118 131 185 200 225 227 252 261 271. S. Ninian 59. Norfolk D ... Duke 144. Duke Henry 173. North Dudley 125. Northampton Earl Sim. 94 162 163. Northumberland Earl Robert 169. Bishops Aidan 168. Eardulfus 168. de Norwich Sir Joh. 159 217. Ralph 17. Norwich Bp. Herlett 148. Notingham Earls Robert 112. Thomas 133. O Oddo Duke 69. Offa King 69 88 195 202 244 245. de Offney Will. 206. Ogle Sir Richard 118. Okely ... 13 136. Olave King 251 285. S. Olave 251. Oldfield John 118. Oliver John 66. Orcus 53. Ordgar Earl 42 52. Orford Robert 20. Orleber ... 165. de Ormesby Gilb. 122. de Orreby Agnes 126. S. Osith 62. Osric King 194. Prince 68. Oswald Bishop 69 243. Oswald King 70 112 122 168. Oswald Prince 243. Oswi King 202. S. Oswin 169. de Oxenford John 67. Oxford Earl Alberic 24. Bishop Walter 32. P Paget Lord Will. 203. Painel â—ulk 13. Gervas 206. Ralph 251. Will 261. S. Pancrace 233. S. Pandionia 22. Pantulf Burgia 114. William 114. Parcarius William 114. Paschal Andr. 197. Patrick Simon 160. S. Patric 49 170 193. Paveley Sir Robert 164. S. Paul 10 44 56 86 117 139 148 162 177 188 197 243. de S. Paul Mary 23. Paulinus Archbishop 172 248. Peada King 160. Pech Richard 206. Peckham John 105. S. Pega 161. Pelham Joh. 225. Sir William 123. Pembroke Countess Mary 23. Earl William 108. Penbridge Fulk 191. Isabella 1â—1 Penda King 160. Perch Earl Galfr. 4. Countesses Lucia 123 134. Maud 4. de Percy Henry 127 191. Will. 248 251 257. S. Peter 10 12 13 30 41 44 48 49 52 53 54 56 64 68 69 72 76 77 85 86 96 99 116 117 131 135 160 162 166 169 173 177 184 188 190 195 196 197 210 214 218 221 222 243 248 249. Peterburgh Abbats John 161. Will. 127 160. S. Petroc 30. S. Petrorsi 30. Peverell Pain 12. Will. 63 163 173. Peyton Sir Edw. 22. Picot ... 22. Alberic 23. Pierpoint Will. 101 207. de Pilardinton Rob. 228. Pincerna Rob. 27. de Pinkeni Giles 161. Plegmund Archbishop 42 195 236. Plot Robert 203. Poictiers Rog. Earl 107. de Poictou Rog. 266. William 73. de la Pole Mich. 269. Pomerei Ethelw 45. Will. 146. Pont de la Arch Sir William 219. Pontissar John 82. Pool Sir Henry 71. Poor Richard 54. Pope Brian 194. Sir Tho. 184. de Port Henry 78. de Pratellis John 103. Pultney John 139. Pusar Hugh 58. Pyel John 166. Q Quincy Rob. 115. de S. Quintin Adeliza 257. R S. Radegund 24 101 102 233 242. Raherus 137. de Raines Sibilla 23. de Redvers Baldwin 43 45 77 179 180. Rich. 45 53. Remigius Bishop 118 177. S. Remigius 204. Resus Prince 277. K. Rich. II. 54 78 113 128 130 156 209 210 229 233. K. Rich. III. 140. Richmond Earls Alan 23 212 2â—0 Conan 58 89. Ridell Galfr. 204. Maud 112. de Ripariis or de Riveriis see de Redvers Roald 259. S. Robert 266. Rochester Bishop Gundulf 99. Fisher 101. Rogers ... 242. Roke Rich. 217. Rokesby ... 122. Rokesly Rob. 104. de Romalli Alice 259. de Romara Will. 123 197 199. Rook ... 102. Roper Sam. 39 174 227. Ross Rob. Lord 261 263. Rotheram Tho. 271. Rows Hugh 142 216. Ruan ... 48. Rudburn Tho. 75. Rudiard ... 207. Rufford ... 216. S. Rumon 42. de Rupibus Peter 80 190. Rushworth John 163 256. S de Salicosa mora Galfr. 38. de Sampford Jordan 66. S. Sampson 51 283. Sanderson ... 172. de Sandford Sir Tho. 185. Sarum Bishops Herman 237. Osm. 237. Rich. 54 237. Roger 52 53 178 274. Walter 241. Countess Ela 200 240. Earls Walter 238. Will. 6 31. Savage Tho. 29. S. Saviour 46 51 81 101 142 210. de Saukvile Ela 202. de Sautrey John 92. de Say Eustace 247. Scalies Muriel 154. Rog. 154. de Scocris Will. 157. Scrivener Tho. 212. de Scrope Sir Rich. 270 Scudamore Lord ... 86. Sebert King 135. de Seintlitz Sim. 162 163. Selden John 173 218 223. S. Sepulcher 100 150 151. S. Sergius 23 32 33 44. S. Severus â—â—2 S. Sexburg Queen 98. Seymour Sir Tho. 241. de Shardelow John 158. Sir Tho. 158. Sheldon Will. 246. Shirley Rob. 112. Shrewsbury Earl Roger 23 61. de Sibthorp Tho. 176. Sigebert King 209. Skirlaw Walt. 270. Smith Bishop Lincoln 181. John 72. Snew Haylwardus 52. Somerset Earl Will. 196. Duke Charles 142. Somner Will. 95 104. Southouse Tho. 101. Spaule John 130. Spelman Henry 136. Spencer Margaret 81. Nicholas 81. Lord ... 69. Lord Galfr. 18. Sporley Rich. 136. Spot Wulfr 203. Stafferton Will. 155. Stafford Ralph 229. Lord Robert 202. Stanhope Lord ... 209. Stephen King 64 100 101 120 123 139 152 239 249. S. Stephen 31 53 61 73 139 151 157 181. Stigandus Bishop 221 222. de Stodley Peter 231. Strangways Sir John 52. Stratford John 94 233. Strelley Sir ... 174. de Stutevil Rob. 262. Sudbury Simon 217. de Sudley Ralph 232. Suffolk Duke Mich. 269. Suffolk Earl 64. Surrey Duke Thom. 270. Earl Will. 148. Sutton Thom. 139. S. Swithin 75. T Talbot Sir John 241. Richard 86 87. de Tanai Avicia 263. de Tankervile Will. 187 240. S. Taurinus 247 281. de Thebovile Rog. 161.
who endeavoured to give any account of Monasteries Such unjust and ill-natured Reflections have been the principal reasons that have deterred several of our Historians from discoursing so largely about them as they could or indeed their occasions required and have been the chief causes why so few have treated purposely of them or published any things immediately relating to them or their Lands 'T is well known Mr. Camden and Mr. Weaver were forced to apologize for barely mentioning the Monasteries and what outcries were made upon the Publication of that glorious work the Monasticon In so much that a very Learned and ingenious person wroto a Latin Letter to Dr. Langbain to whom Mr. Dugdale had communicated his Collections to encourage the design by shewing the great use of such a work and removing all objections that could be raised against it Which is printed in some few Copies of the first Volume Nay so much are some people possess'd against them that the least mention is odious and ungrateful But there are no grounds for it seeing these Religious places were by the well intended charity of their Founders and Benefactors built endowed and adorned how much soever they were afterward abused to the Glory of God the service of Religion and the relief of poor Christians But I would not be thought in this or any other expressions that may be found in this discourse in the least to vindicate the Superstition or vices of the Monks tho' perhaps it would be but common justice to infuse a better opinion of Monasteries into the generality of Protestants And indeed considering the provisions that are made in the Universities for the encouragement and attainment of Learning and the many Hospitals that have been since the Reformation built for the relief of the poor there is less reason to lament their loss It will be here expected that something of the general state of Monasteries should be said by way of Preface And 't is readily own'd that this would have been a very proper place for a Dissertation concerning the first beginners of a Monastick life the Original of Monasteries in this Isle the Institutions of the old British Monks and Clergy the Monks of the Roman Communion the manners of Secular married Clergy before the Conquest the introducing of the Benedictine Order into this Kingdom and the several Tribes of it viz. the Cluniac Cistercian Carthusian and other Orders as also of the Regular Canons Austins Praemonstratensians Gilbertines c. giving a summary of their Rules Habits and the most remarkable of their local Statutes To this might be added an account of the Original and Constitutions of the Templers Hospitalers of Collegiate Churches Frieries Gilds and Hermitages The whole might have been interwoven with pertinent digressions touching the state of Learning among the Monks their Privileges Riches and contentions with the Friers and Secular Clergy The reasons pretended for founding and endowing Religious Houses the methods of the Suppression and several other things would naturally fall in with these and very much tend to the illustration of our English Civil and Ecclesiastical History Something of this nature was intended to have been drawn up and prefixed to this Book but the compleating of it requiring more time and pains than a greater work which I have now upon my hands would permit and more materials than my years and small reading could furnish me with I am forced to lay aside that design at present and must desire the Reader to be content with the following lines which will serve to explain the subject and method of this Book and in some measure to understand the Rise Progress State and Suppression of Monasteries in England It was before observed that little had been done toward the History of Monasteries in this Kingdom for which reason some well versed in Antiquities were pleased to think that this Manual would not be ungrateful to the World At the Dissolution of these Places King Henry VIII wisely ordered the famous Antiquary Iohn Leland under the Broad Seal to examine all their Archives and to take an account of their Founders and Benefactors The effects of whose labours in this kind we have the rude draughts of in his MSS. Collections but he diâ—d and left this with several other Noble Designs unfinish'd His MSS. coming into the hands of Mr. Burton of Leicestershire he drew up a Catalogue of the Religious Houses within the Realm of England and Wales with their many Orders Founders and Values most of them being Suppressed by King Henry VIII Together with such other sacred places as either then mere by him left standing or since have been erected This Catalogue which is Printed at the end of Mr. Speed's Reign of King Henry VIII I ever thought to have been drawn up by Mr. Speed himself and have still mentioned it under Mr. Speed's name but Sir H. Spelman has better informed me and restored it to it 's genuine Author As for the Orders Names and true Valuations of the Monasteries the Author in the Preface owns he had them out of the Original Book taken by Commission and given to the King the Founders and the time of the Foundations in all probability he had out of the imperfect Notes of Leland and Camden's Britannia How defective and erroneous this Catalogue is may bâ— seen by our Notitia in which the Reader will find some hundreds of mistakes and omissions corrected and supplied out of the Monasticon and other good Authorities Besides this Catalogue or Table of Mr. Burtonâ—s I could never find any thing done to this subject till the publication of the Monasticon by the joint labours of those two famous Antiquaries Roger Dodsworth Esq and Mr. Will. Dugdale Indeed Mr. Rich. Broughton a Missionary Priest and Author of the Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain from the Nativity of Christ unto the happy conversion of the Saxons c. Doway 1633. fol. had collected a rapsody of stories which he entitled Monasticon Britanicum or an Historical Narration of the first Founding and flourishing estate 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 not Printed till after the Author's death which was in A. D. 1634. viz. A. D. 1655. 8â—â— The very same year was published at London the First Tome of the Monasticon containing the Charters and Muniments of the Benedictine Cluniac Cistercian and Carthusian Orders The Second Volume did not come out till A. D. 1661. In this were comprised the Houses of the Regular Canons of St. Austin the Hospitalers Templers Gilbertines Premonstratenses and Maturins or Trinitarians The Third and last Volume of the Cathedral and Collegiate Churches with Additaments to the two former was publish'd in the year 1673. These three Folio's being too voluminous and costly for the generality of Readers I am willing to believe that this Short History will be grateful
â—ame as of other black Canons with the distinction of a double red Cross upon the breast of their Cloak or upper garment The endeavours of these Religious for the regaining of the Holy Land after the loss of Ierusalem coming to nothing their Lands Revenues and Privileges were transferred to the Maturines or Friers of the Order of the Holy Trinity for the Redemption of Captives who were instituted by S. Iohn de Matta and Felix de Valois about A. D. 1200. It was confirmed by Pope Innocent III. who gave them white Robes with a Cross red and blew on their breasts and appointed that all the possessions which they should enjoy should be equally divided into three parts one for the entertainment and reception of Religious persons the other to relieve the poor and the third to redeem Christians kept Captive by the Infidels These Canons were also called Trinitarians because all their Churches were by the Rules of their Order to be dedicated to the Holy Trinity And here in England they were said to be of the Order of Iâ—gham because that Monastery in Norfolk was the chief House of that Rule There were another Order of Canons of the Austin Rule in England called Bonhommes or Good-men They were first brought into this Kingdom A. D. 1283. 11 12. Edw. I. and placed in a Rectory or College founded by Edmund Earl of Cornwall at Asserâ—g in Bucks Of which Order in England there was but one more viz. at Edingdon in Wiltshire The Reader may observe that they were not the same with the Friers Minimes or Franciscans whom some Authors call Bonhommes because our Bonhommes were amply endowed with Lands and Rents which that Mendicant Order could never be possess'd of Neither could they be of the Order of Grandmont the Religious whereof were called Bonhommes because these were only Benedictines reformed As for the Nunneries of the Benedictine Climiac Cistercian and Carthusian Rules and the Austin Premonstratensian and Gilberâ—ine Nuns they were â—nstituted by the same as the Monks of those Orders they follow the same Rules with the Monks omitting only that which is not convenient for their Sex and wear habits of the same colour their Heads being always covered with a Vail Besides these we had in England three other Orders of Religious Females 1 Clarisses or of the Order of St. Clare who instituted it at Assise in Italy about A. D. 1225. 2 Brigettan Nuns who were founded by St. Bridget Queen of Sweedland about A. D. 1360. 3 Nuns of the Order of Fontevrault who wear a black Habit with a white Vail This Order was a Reformation of the Benedictine begun by Robert de Arbusculo at Font Ebrald in Poictiers A. D. 1117. There were also Monks of this Rule but none I think in England except it were in such Alien-Priories as were Cells to that Abby So without doubt other Alien-Priories that were subordinate to St. Victor at Paris and Grandmont in France the Canons of the first and the Monks of the last having particular Rules distinct from any other Order were of the same Constitutions with those Abbies Of the Military Orders there is mention made but of two in this book viz. of the Knights Hospitalers of S. Iohn of Ierusalem and the Knights Templers The Hospitalers since called Knights of Rhodes or Malta were first taken notice of about A. D. 1090. and were mightily favoured by Godfrey of Bullen and his successor Baldwin King of Ierusalem They followed partly St. Austin's Rule and wore a white Cross upon their black Habit. There was also in England one House of Nuns of the Order of St. Iohn of Ierusalem viz. Buckland in Somersetshire The Knights Templers so called from having their residence in certain Rooms adjoining to the Temple at Ierusalem were instituted A. D. 1118. They followed the Cistercian Rule and their duty was to guard Pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land Their Habit was white with a red Cross. Thus I have in short traced the several Monastick Orders by their Original Institutions and Habits and in the Notitia have been very careful to note the Order of every Religious House which may be very useful besides the curiosity of knowing what sort of Monks inhabited every Country in the matter of tithes especially The Cistercians Premonstratenses Hâ—spitalers and Templers being discharged from the payment of tithes in their own Demâ—snes Such Monasteries I mean of those Orders as were founded before the Council of Lateran A. D. 1215. and such of the Cistercians and Premonstratensians being valued above 200 l. per an as were not dissolved by the Statute of 27. Hen. VIII See Sir Sim. Degge's Parsons Counsellor Lib. II. Cap. 21. The next thing the Reader will be informed of in this Short History of the Religious Houses is their Dedication which is very necessary to be known for distinction sake in great Towns or Cities where are two or more Monasteries This may be also of some use in reading our old Historians for in them the Monastery is often mentioned under the bare name of the Saint to whom it is dedicated Thus we frequently meet with Monasterium or Abbatia S. Aldhelmi for Malmsbury in Wiltshire S. 〈◊〉 for Chich in Essex Prioratus S. Swithini for the Cathedral at Winchester and several other instances of the like nature which some even the more understanding Readers may stick at But this is remedied in the following book by turning to the Index of Names wherein under the Saints Name may be found the Pages in which are any Monasteries dedicated to that Saint The Virgin Mary must be excepted because she being the Patroness of all the Cistercian Houses and of a great many other Monasteries is mentioned once or twice in almost every Page And that the Reader may know what revenues every Religious House had and so partly guess at the number of the Foundation here is set down the valuation of them which was taken by the Kings Commissioners 26. Hen. VIII Of this valuation we have two very different Copies the one given us by Mr. Burton or Mr. Speed in the Catalogue of Religious Houses which was taken from the very Original delivered in to King Henry VIII by the Commissioners The other at the end of the first Tome of the Monasticon taken by Sir Will. Dugdale out of an ancient Copy in the Cottonian Library These two valuations seldom or never agree in the same sum and for that reason because there is good Authority for both it is thought fit that the revenues according to both Rates should be inserted That of Dugdale's in the Monasticon generally amounting to a less sum than that of Speedâ—s I shall not endeavour to reconcile them or to give a reason of the difference It was once thought that Dugdale's valuation had been the clear revenues over and above all Pensions Corrodies Alms c. but adding the sums of these Reprises which are at large mentioned in Sir Will. Dugdale's History of the Monasteries
Ioh. and dedicated to the blessed Virgin It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 135 â— 9 â— per an Dugd. 170 l. 8 s. 9 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 810. 47. Welles A Monastery of the Order of St. Gilbert of Sempringham built by Ralph de Hauvill temp R. Iohan. It was endowed with 95 l. 6 s. 1 d. per an Dugd. 152 l. 7 s. 4 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 826. 48. Ravendale A. D. 1202. Alan the son of Henry Earl of ... gave this Mannor to the Abby de Belloportu in Normandy and so it became a Cell to that Monastery King Henry VI. gave it to the Collegiate Church of Southwell in Notingham-shire Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 1016. T. 3. P. 2. p. 15. 49. Foss. A small Benedictine Nunnery valued at 7 l. 3 s. 6 d. Dugd. 8 l. 5 s. 4 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 502. 50. Newb. Richard de Malebiss built a Praemonstratensian Abby here it was dedicated to the blessed Virgin and endowed with 71 l. 8 s. 1 d. per an Dugd. 115 l. 11 s. 8 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 612. 51. Benington An Alien-Priory to the Abby de Savigneio in Normandy to which it was given by Will. de Filgeris Given by King Richard II. to St. Ann's near Coventry Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 597 966. 52. Catteley Peter de Belingey built a Monastery here of the Sempringham Order to the honour of the blessed Virgin It was endowed at the Dissolution with 38 l. 13 s. 8 d. per an Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 813. 53. Goykewell A Priory of Cistercian Nuns founded by Will. de Alta-Ripa ... It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 16 l. 12 s. 10 d. per an Dugd. 19 l. 18 s. 6 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 945. 54. Humberston or Umberstane A Priory of Benedictines dedicated to St. Mary and St. Peter founded by Rob. fil Drcgonis ... It 's yearly revenues at the Suppression were worth 32 l. 1 s. 3 d. Dugd. 42 l. 11 s. 3 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 545. 55. Kyme A Priory of Black Canons founded by Philip de Kime to the honour of the blessed Virgin Endowed at the Dissolution with 101 l. 4 d. per an Dugd. 138 l. 4 s. 9 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 245. 56. Markeby or Matersey A Priory of Black Canons built by Rad. fil Gilberti It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 1â—0 l. 13 â— ob per an Dugd. 163 l. 17 s. 6 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 362. 57. Stanford Sp. A Monastery of Benedictine Monks dedicated to St. Nicholas valued at 65 l. 19 s. 9 d. per an 58. Neustede juxta Stanford A Priory of Gilbertines dedicated to St. Leoâ—ard It 's yearly revenues were worth 37 l. 6 s. Dugd. 42 l. 1 s. 3 d. Speed 59. Torington A Priory of Black Canons dedicated to the blessed Virgin and founded by William de Arundel Speed 60. Burwell An Alien-Priory to the Abby of St. Mary Silvae Major is in France Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 579. * Cartas ad hunc Priorat spectantes penes Montagu Comitem Lindsey apud Grimesthorp in Com. Linc. A. D. 1646. 61. Hagham An Alien-Priory to St. Severus in Normandy Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 603. 62. Holland-Brugge A Gilbertine Priory founded by Godwinus â— rich Citizen of Lincoln to the honour of our blessed Saviour Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 815. 63. Temple-Bruer A Preceptory of the Knights Templers valued at 184 l. 6 s. 8 d. 64. Willoughton A Preceptory of the Templers valued at 174 l. 11 s. 1 d. ob 65. Briggerd Sp. A Priory valued at 101 l. 11 s. ob Speed 66. Iffingham A Abby of White Canons dedicated to the blessed Virgin 67. Grimesby Rob. Grosthead Bishop of Lincoln about A. D. 1250. founded a Monastery here for Nuns of the Order of St. Benedict It 's Tutâ—lar Saint was St. Leonard and it was able to dispend 9 l. 14 s. 7 d. Dugd. 12 l. 3 s. 7 d. per an Speed at the Suppression Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 898. 68. Alvingham A Gilbertine Monastery built by Ant. Bek Bishop of Durham to the honour of St. Mary about A. D. 1310. It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 128 l. 14 s. 2 d. per an Dugd. 141 l. 15 s. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 802. Librum Domesticum Coenobii de Alvingham MS. in Bibl. Bodl. Laud. F. 119. in quo inter alia invenitur Enumeratio omnium terrarum reddituum c. quae ad dictum Coenobium quoquo modo pertinebant cum instrumentis Benefactorum c. 69. Eppworth A Carthusian Abby founded by Tho. Earl of Notingham and commended to the Patronage of St. Mary St. Iohn the Evangelist and St. Edward the Confessor 20. Rich. II. It 's yearly revenues at the Dissolution were worth 237 l. 15 s. 2 d. ob q. Dugd. 290 l. 14 s. 7 d. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 969. 70. Tatteshall A College founded by Ralph Cromwell Knight 17. Hen. VI. to the honour of the holy Trinity It was endowed at the Dissolution with 348 l. 5 s. 11 d. per an Vide Mon. Augl T. 3. P. 2. p. 194. * Statuta Fundationis penes Montagu Comitem Lindsey apud Grimesthorp in Com. Linc. 71. Râ—veston Sp. A College of Secular Canons dedicated to St. Austin ☞ See Belvoir Priory in Leicestershire which is placed by the Monasticon in this County LONDON 1. S. Pauls THis ancient Cathedral was founded by Ethelbert King of Kent A. D. 604. at which time Mellitus was consecrated the first Bishop of London by St. Austin the Monk Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 1. p. 298. The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London from it's foundation until these times by Sir Will. Dugdale London 1658. fol. 2. Westminster A Benedictine Abby founded by Sebert King of the East-Savons about A. D. 610. and dedicated by Mellitus the Bishop to St. Peter It was reedisied by King Edward A. D. 1066. and endowed at the Dissolution with 3471 â— 2 d. per an Dugd. 3977 l. 6 s. 4 d. Speed King Henry VIII made it a Bishops See but it continued so only nine years and then it became a Collegiate Church for a Dean and Secular Canons who have continued ever since except for three years in Queen Mary's reign during which time here was an Abbat and Benedictine Monks Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 55. T. 2. p. 847. Reynerii Apost Bened. Tr. 1. p. 65. T. 2. p. 158. An historical account of the original increase and present state of St. Peters or the Abby Church of Westminster by Henry Keep London 1683. 8 vo Historiam Ric. Sporley de Fundatione Abb. Westmonast in Bibl. Cotton Claud. A. 8. Registr Westmon Abb. in Bibl. Cotton Faust. A. 3. MS. de dedicatione Eccles. Westmon in Bibl.
Ela Countess of Sarum built a Nunnery here of St. Austin's Order to the honour of the blessed Virgin and St. Bernard It was valued at 168 l. 9 s. 2 d. per an Dugd. 203 l. 12 s. 3 d. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 241. Chronic. de Lacok a Christo ad A. D. 1320. in Bibl. Cotton Vitell. A. 8. * Cartul penes Dom. Johan Talbot de Lacock 19. Salisbury The Collegiate Church of St. Edmund consisting of a Provost and twelve Secular Canons was founded by Walter de la Wyle Bishop of Salisbury about A. D. 1270 20. Pulton A Gilbertine Priory founded by Sir Thomas Seymour 21. Edw. I. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 826. 21. Marleburg A Priory of Black Canons dedicated to St. Margaret and founded by Edmund Earl of Cornwall temp Edw. I. Rated 26. Hen. VIII at 30 l. 9 s. 6 d. per an Dugd 38 l. 19 s. 2 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 272. 22. Uphaven A Cell to the Abby of St. Wandragisilius in Roan King Edw. VI. gave it to Windsor College Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 73. 23. Brioptune Qu. A Priory of Black Canons dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene Speed 24. Clatford An Alien-Priory to St. Victor de Caleto in Normandy King Henry VI. gave it to Eaton College Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 199. 25. Longleat A Priory of Black Canons dedicated to St. Radegund founded by Sir Iohn Vernon Knight 26. Eston A Priory dedicated to the holy Trinity Valued at 42 l. 12 s. per an Dugd. 55 l. 14 s. 4 d. Speed 27. Keinton A Benedictine Nunnery dedicated to St. Mary Endowed with 25 l. 9 s. 1 d. ob per an Dugd. 38 l. 3 s. 10 d. q. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 534. T. 2. p. 887. * Cartul penes Magist. Rogers de Chippenham 28. Eddington A Priory of Bonhommes built by Will. Eddington Bishop of Winchester A. D. 1352. to the honour of St. Iames St. Catherine and All-Saints It s yearly revenues at the Suppression amounted to 442 l. 9 s. 7 d. ob q. Dugd. 521 l. 12 s. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 357. ☞ The Editors of the Monasticon place in this County Steinington which should be in Berkshire and Brommor which should be in Hampshire and Mr. Speed reckons Middlston and Henton to be in this Shire the former of which is in Dorsetshire and the latter in the County of Samerset WORCESTER-SHIRE 1. Worcester HEre were Secular Canons from the time the Bishops See was here placed by King Ethelred viz. A. D. 680. till A. D. 991. when Bishop Oswald turned them out and put in Benedictine Monks who continued till the Dissolution and then Canons were restored It was dedicated to St. Mary and St. Wulstan and valued 26. Hen. VIII at 1229 l. 12 s. 8 d. ob per an Dugd. 1386. 12 s. 10 d. ob q. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 120. Ang. Sacr. T. 1. p. 469. Cronica Wigornensia in Bibl. Cotton Calig A. 10. edita per Cl. Whartonum in Angl. Sacr. T. 1. Lond. 1691. fol. * Registra Cartas c. penes Decan Capitulum Wigorn. * Librum de terris redditibus Mon. S. Mariae Wigorn. In Bibl. Cotton Tiber. 13. 2. Pershore About A. D. 680. Oswald nephew to King Ethelred founded a College for Secular Canons here but King Edgar and Bishop Oswald introduced Benedictine Monks A. D. 984 It was dedicated to the blessed Virgin and the Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and rated at 643 l. 4 s. 5 d. per an Dugd. 666 l. 13 s. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 203. Registr in Curia Augmentationis 3. Evesham A Benedictine Abby built A. D. 700. by S. Egwin Bishop of Worcester to the honour of the blessed Virgin It s yearly revenues at the Dissolution were worth 1183 l. 12 s. 9 d. Dugd. 1268 l. 9 s. 9 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 144. T. 2. p. 851. Reyner Apost Bened. Tr. 1. p. 38. Tr. 2. p. 143. Registr in Bibl. Cotton Reg. pen. Ric. Fleetwood de Penwortham in Com. Lanc. Arm. Analecta de Actis Abbatum in Bibl. Cotton Vesp. B. 15. * Reg. olim in Bibl. Edw. Coke Cap. Iust. ad Plac. 4. Fladbury ol Fledanbirig An ancient Monastery founded by Bishop Egwin A. D. 702. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 125. 5. Stowre A Monastery founded by Aethilbaldt King of Mercia A. D. 736. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 121. 6. Bredon Eanulfus Grandfather to King Offa about A. D. 750. built the Monastery here to the honour of St. Peter Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 122. 7. Clive Here was in King Offa's time a Monastery dedicated to St. Michael which was afterward annex'd to Worcester Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 124. 8. Wudiandun A Nunnery founded by Aethelred King of Mercia and made a Cell to Worcester A. D. 774. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 122. 9. Kemsey A Cell to Worcester Abby thereunto given by King Coenwulf A. D. 799. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 127. 10. Heanbirig A Monastery subordinate to Worcester Abby and founded by Wiglaf King of the Mercians A. D. 833. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 123. 11. Westbury A Cell of Black Monks to Worcester Abby founded by Bishop Oswald A. D. 983. After Bishop Oswald's death this Monastery was destroyed by the Danes but reedified by Wulstan Bishop of Worcester temp W. Conq. and annexed as a Cell to Worcester Abby c. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 125. 12. Malvern major A Benedictine Abby founded by one Aldwin a Hermite A. D. 1085. and endowed by King William the Conqueror and King Henry I. It was dedicated to the blessed Virgin and was able to dispend at the Dissolution 308 l. 1 s. 5 d. ob per an Dugd. 375 l. 6 s. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 365. T. 2. p. 876. 13. Bordesley A. D. 1138. Maud the Emperess built a Cistercian Abby here to the honour of the blessed Virgin It s yearly revenues at the Suppression amounted to 388. 9. 10 l. ob per an Dugd. 392 l. 8 â— 6. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 803. * Cartas Orig. penes Clem. Throgmorton de Hasely in Com. Warw. Will. Sheldon de Bâ—oley Com. Wigorn. Christ. Hatton Bar. Henr. St. George Arm. in Officio Armorâ—m 14. Malvern minor A Benedictine Priory founded by one Ioceline A. D. 1171. and endowed by Will. Blois Bishop of Worcester It was dedicated to St. Giles and valued at 98 l. 10 s. 9 d. per an Dugd. 102 l. 10 s. 9 d. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 545. 15. Westwood A Cell of Nuns to Fontevrault in France to which Abby it was given by Osbert Fitz-Hugh and Eustachia de Say temp Hen. II. Endowed with 78 l. 8 s. per an Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 574. T. 2. p.
given to the Chronicle that records how that St. Wilfrid A. D. 666. introduced that Rule or rather as others say improved the Orders of the English Churches by it And as for the Bull of Pope Constantine commanding that the Monks of Evesham should live under that Rule there are great probabilities that 't is forged and spurious and tho' 't was genuine it does not make much for the Patrons of the Benedictines because it follows in the next words that at that time A. D. 709. that Rule was very little used in England For Bede who hath given us a very accurate account of the state of Religion in this Isle till A. D. 731. hath nothing of Saint Bennet or his Rule And at the first Regulation of the Monks in England by Arch-bishop Cuthbert A. D. 747. in the great Synod at Clovesho there is not the least mention of it In this Council several things were amended relating to the Habit and manners of the Monks and according to the Canons thereof without doubt the Religious especially of the Province of Canterbury walked till the fatal invasions of the Danes who were very barbarous where ere they came in rifling and burning Monasteries and stripping wounding and very often killinâ— the poor Monks During their incursions Monkery and with it Christianity had almost been extinguished and there were scarce any remains of a Monastery save at Glastonbury and Abingdon And even at Winchester and Canterbury in King Alfred's time there was such a scarcity of Monks that Seculars were permitted to assist them in performing the Divine Offices Nay Gervasius saith that before St. Dunstan's time the name of Abbat was scarce heard of and very few had seen a Convent of Monks This Dunstan being promoted to the Archiepiscopal Seâ— and countenanced by King Edgar was the great restorer of the Monastick way of living by repairing the ruinous Churches and Religious Houses and placing Monks and Nuns in the room of Secular Canons It was by his advice that King Edgar made the second Reformation of our ancient English Monks in the Council of Winchester A. D. 965. To this end several Monks were sent for from Fleury and Corby in France who were to inform them in the particulars of St. Bennet's Order So little was that rule known then in England which several fondly imagine was generally received some hundreds of years before At this Synod was framed a general Constitution for our English Monâ—s composed partly out of the Rule of St. Bennet and partly out of the ancient customs of the English Devotees This was called Regularis concordia Anâ—licae Nationis and is published in Saxon and Latin by the Learned Selden in his Spicilegium after Eadmerus According to this Rule were Monasteries founded and governed in the Southern and more civilized part of Britain and their number encreased so very much that 〈◊〉 is King is recorded to have erected or rather re-founded fourty seven Neither were new Monasteries only founded but all the Lands which by the iniquity of the times had been taken away from Religious places were restored by the authority of the King and the care of Dunstan Arch-bishop of Canterbury Ethelwold Bishop of Winchester and Wulstan Bishop of Worcester After this Kings death the Secular Clergy began to lift up their heads again and were encouraged by Elfere Prince of Mercia who expelled the Monks out of all the Monasteries in that Province and restored the Secular Canons These things occasioned the contests between the Monks and Seculars at the Synods of Winchester Caln and Ambresbury in the time of King Edward the elder Where being convinced by pretended miracles or else over-ruled by the power of Arch-bishop Dunstan and others of the Monks party the Seculars made no great stir afterward and so the Monks quietly enjoyed their Lands till the Conquest But this must be understood only of the state of Monasteries in the South parts of the Isle in the Kingdom of the Northumbrians Monasteries were more frequent even from their first receiving Christianity For here the new Converts being mightily taken with the powerfull Preaching and exemplary lives of Aidan and the Scotch Monks were very zealous in building and endowing Religious Houses So great an opinion had they of the sanctity of those Monks and their way of living that it was very usual for their Nobles and very often their Kings and Queens to renounce the world as they call'd it and put on Religious Habits Not to make any mention here of the old Scottish Monks or Culdees of whom we had none in England except at St. Peter's in York because they were the same with the Monks of the Irish Rules As in the South parts of England 't was usual to send their children to France to learn the Monastick way of living so in the North they were sent into Ireland to the Monasteries there to be instructed in Learning But as Sim. Dunelmensis saith after the devastation of that Country by the Danes A. D. 867. who reduced the Churches and Monasteries to ashes Christianity was almost extinct very few Churches and those only built with hurdles and covered with straw were rebuilt but no Monasteries were re-founded for almost two hundred years after The Countrey people never heard of the name of a Monk and were frighted at their very Habit till three Monks from Winchelcomb brought again the Monastick way of living to Durham York and Whitby It may be necessary here to note 1 Something concerning the Nunneries before the Conquest That we had Nuns in the time of the Britains is very probable because the Irish and Scots allowed of them before St. Austin came into England and the Constitution of the British Churches were in a manner the same with them But if Leland's authority be allowed in this case I think it is clear enough to decide the controversie for he tells us of Nunneries in the time of the Britains more than once particularly of one at Caermarden What Monastick Rules so ever St. Austin might introduce we meet with none relating to religious Virgins Yet in the next Century we find them very frequent among the Saxons King Eadbald is recorded to have founded about A. D. 630. a Nunneâ—y at Folkstone in Kent which 't is likely was the first in England So according to this it must be an oversight in Mr. Weaver and Sir W. Dugdale to say that Barking in Essex was the first Nunnery in England which was not built till A. D. 680. About which time without doubt Nuns were in great plenty because we find in that year Domneva to have presided over no fewer than seventy in one Monastery in the Isle of Thanet And A. D. 694. Abbesses were in so great esteem for their Sanctity and Prudence that they were summon'd to the Council at Becanceld and the names of five and not one Abbat subscribed to the Constitutions there made Bishop Aidan
particular terms ad vestitum Monachorum ad victum ad luminaria ad hospitalitatem faciendam ad fabricam Ecclesiae ad reparanda Ecclesiae ornamenta and other uses to which those revenues were particularly appropriated The last grievance that shall be mentioned which indeed affected the Clergy in general was the Conqueror's charging Church-Lands with Military Services This is taken notice of by Matthew Paris but I shall crave leave to describe it in the words of a late ingenious Writer Whereas saith he before the Conqueror's time the Clergy held all their land by Franc Almonage and subject to no duties or impositions but such as they laid upon themselves in their Ecclesiastical Assemblies This Prince finding above a third part of the Lands of the Kingdom in the possession of the Clergy and the Forces of the Crown which consisted in Knights service lessened in proportion by their Immunities He reduced all their Lands to the common tenure of Knight's Fees and Baronage and thereby subjected them to an attendance upon the King in his wars and to other services anciently due and sometimes raised upon all Lands that held in Fee from the Crown This innovation touched not only the Bishops but all the Abbats throughout the Kingdom many of whom were endowed with great Lands and Revenues But Sir Will. Temple must pardon me if I suspend my opinion in this particular till better inform'd viz. That the Conqueror found above a third part of the Lands of the Kingdom in Possession of the Clergy ' The truth of this may be examined with more certainty than any other part of English History the Lands of the Ecclesiasticks being all particularly recorded in Doomsday-book so that it will be easie to compute the proportion But not having in this place the opportunity of consulting the Original it cannot be very accurate However by the transcript of those few Counties we have a pretty exact guess may be made In Cheshire were but twenty seven Mannors belonging to Churchmen in Warwickshire not fourty in Berkshire about sixty in Staffordshire about fifty and in Nottinghamshire but fourty Besides it ought to be considered that one fourth of the Lands that were in Church-men's hand in the time of King Edward III. at which time the Commons shewed the King that the Temporalities of the Clergy amounted only to above a third part of the Kingdom was not given to Religious places at King William's first coming to the Crown For there were not above an hundred Monasteries and endowed Churches founded before the Conquest which tho' they were richer for the most part than any after founded yet according to the highest account the revenues could not amount to above a fourth part of the incomes of the Religious Houses in the time of Edward III. And if so then the Ecclesiasticks had but at most a twelfth part of the Lands of the Kingdom in their hands at the time when the Conqueror imposed these services viz. A. D. 1170. After this digression we must again carry on some brief account of the state of the Monastick Orders here in England It was in the Conqueror's time that the third and last Regulation of Monks was made by Arch-bishop Lanfranc in the Council held at London A. D. 1075. This Reformation brought the English Monks nearer the Benedictines than ever before I mean those of the old Foundations but as for the new Monasteries they were replenished with Monks of what Order the Founder pleased For during this Reign were brought into England the Orders of Regular Canons of St. Austin and of Cluniac Monks Of each sort were six founded in this Kings time as also sixteen Benedictine Abbies and Priories besides fourteen Alien-Priories A note annexed to an old MS. book of Ecclesiastical Constitutions in the Bodleâ—â—n Library desires us to note the slyght of the Pope that when he had causyd the Deuke of Normandy to Conquer England under pretence of penance causyd him to give muche Lands to Abbyes and that Deuke dyd bylde many of the Order of Cluny because Pope Gregory VI. was a Monk of Cluny Thoâ— I cannot find that ever he founded any of this Order yet he built and endowed the great Abbies of Battel Com. Suss. and Selby in Com. Ebor. and the Priory of Hitchinbroke in Com. Hunt and the Alien-Priories of Frampton in Com. Dors. Paunsfeld in Com. Essex Derehirst in Com. Gloc. Andover in Com. Hants and Stayning in Com. â—uss Will. Rufus succeeded next heir to the vices not the vertues of his Father He miserably oppressed the Religious seised upon the Revenues of the vacant Abbies and Bishopricks and would never let them be filled without some Simoniacal bargain In this Kings Reign several of the Bishops of whom Walkeline Bishop of Winchester was the chief made strong efforts to expel all the Monks out of Cathedral Churches and to place Secular Canons in their rooms This infallibly they had accomplished having got the Kings consent had not Archbishop Lanfranc a man of universal Goodness and approved Wisdom maintain'd the cause of the Monks with a great deal of courage and not only brought the King to change his mind but also procured a Bull from the Pope prohibiting the like attempts for the future In the thirteen years of this Kings reign were not above thirteen Religious Houses except Priories Alien founded viz. seven of the Benedictine four of the Cluniac and two of the Austin Order and about nine Alien-Priories but not one Collegiate Church in this or the preceeding Reign The King built only the small Priories of Armethwait in Com. Cumb. and S. Nicholas in Exeter King Henry I. is recorded to have been a very pious good Prince an encourager of Learning and Piety and one that had a great esteem for the Church and all Religious Persons His founding nine or ten Monasteries confirms the truth of this character viz. the Episcopal See and Priory of Regular Canons at Carlisle the Abbies of Cirencester in Com. Gloc. and Mertâ—n in Com. Surr. with the Priories of Dunstable in Com. Bedf. St. Dennis at Southampton and Wells near Grimsâ—y in Com. Linc. of the same Order as also the stately Benedictine Abby at Reading besides the Alien-Priories of Steventon in Com. Berks. Tackley in Com. Essex and Newent in Com. Gloc. In the beginning of this Kings Reign the Knights Hospitalers settled in London A. D. 1128. the Cistercians were first brought into England and placed at Waverâ—â—y in Surrey and about this time the Canons 〈◊〉 the Holy Sâ—pulcher came to Warwick The number of Religious Houses founded in the Reign of King Henry I. were above an hundred viz about thirty of the Benedictine Monasterieâ— fourty of the Austin Order five Cluniac ten Cistercian Houses four Colleges two Preceptories and thirteen Alien-Priories King Stephen was Virtuous Religious and Liberal and after the wars between him and Maud the Empress were ended a great builder of Religious Houses To
For the 27. of Henry VIII all the lesser Monasteries not having 200 â— per ann of which there were above three hundred and seventy were dissolved and all their Lands Rents Houses c. with their stock of Cattel Corn c. given to the King In the 31st year of his Reign all the great Abbies to the number of six hundred fourty and five had the same fate And in the 37th year ninety Colleges one hundred and ten Hospitals and two thousand three hundred seventy four Chantries and Free Chappels were granted to supply the Kings necessities besides the Houses Lands and Goods of the Knights of St. Iohn of Ierusalem which were suppressed 32. Hen. VIII These things I have but barely named because the account Sir Will. Dugdale has given us of the methods used in the Dissolution of Monasteries shall be here subjoin'd at large out of his celebrated History of Warwickshire After he had told us that the Commissioners had signified to the Visitor General That after strict scrutiny not only by the fame of the Country but by examinatiâ—n of several persons they found the Nuns of Polesworth Vertuous and Religious Women and of good conversation He goes on and tells us That it was not the strict and regular lives of these devout Ladies nor any thing that might be said in behalf of the Monasteries that could prevent their ruine then approaching so great an aime had the King to make himself thereby glorious and many others no less hopes to be enricht in a considerable manner But to the end that such a change should not overwhelm those that might be active therein in regard the people every where had no small esteem of these Houses for their devout and daily exercises in Prayer Alms-deeds Hospitality and the like whereby not only the Souls of their deceased Ancestors had much benefit as was then thought but themselves the poor as also strangers and pilgrims constant advantage there wanted not the most subtil contrivances to effect this stupendious work that I think any age hath beheld whereof it will not be thought impertinent I presume to take here a short view In order therefore to it was that which Cardinal Wolsey had done for the founding his Colleges in Oxford and Ipswich made a president viz. the dissolving of above thirty Religious Houses most very small ones by the license of the King and Pope Clement VII And that it might be the better carried on Mr. Thomas Cromwell who had been an old servant to the Cardinal and not a little active in that was the chief person pitched upon to assist therein For I look upon this business as not originally designed by the King but by some principal ambitious men of that age who projected to themselves all worldly advantages imaginable thro' that deluge of wealth which was like to flow amongst them by this hideous storm First therefore having insinuated to the King matter of Profit and Honour scil Profit by so vast enlargement of his Revenue and Honour in being able to maintain mighty Armies to recover his rights in France as also to strengthen himself against the Pope whose Supremacy he himself abolish'd and make the firmer alliance with such Princes as had done the like did they procure Cranmer's advancement to the See of Canterbury and more of the Protestant Clergy as my authority terms them to other Bishopricks and high places to the end that the rest should not be able in a full Council to carry any thing against their design sending out Preachers â—o perswade the people that they should stand fast to the King without fear of the Popes Curse or his dissolving their allegiance Next that it might be the more plausibly carried on care was taken so to represent the lives of the Monks Nuns Canons c. to the world as that the less regret might be made at their ruine To which purpose T. Cromwell being constituted General Visitor imploy'd sundry persons who acted therein their parts accordingly viz. Rich. Layton Thomas Legh and William Petre Doctors of Law Dr. John London Dean of Walingford and others to whom he gave instructions in eighty six Articles by which they were to enquire into the Government and behaviour of the Religious of both Sexes which Commissioners the better to manage their design gave encouragement to the Monks not only to accuse their Governours but to inform against each other compelling them also to produce the Charters and Evidences of their Lands as also their Plate and Money and to give an inventory thereof And hereunto did they add certain injunctions from the King containing most severe and strict Rules by means whereof divers being found obnoxious to their censure â—were expelled and many discerning themselves not able to live from some exception or advantage that might be taken against them desired to leave their Habit And having by these Visitors thus search't into their lives which by a Black Book containing a world of enormities were represented in no small measure scandalous to the end that the people might â—e better satisfied with their proceedings it was thought convenient to suggest that the lesser Houses for want of good Government were chiefly guilty of these crimes that were laid to their charge and so they did as appears by the preamble of that Act for their Dissolution made in 27. Hen. VIII which Parliament consisting of the most part of such Members as were packt for the purpose through private interest as is evident by divers original Letters of that time many of the Nobility for the like respects also favouring the design assented to the suppressing of all such Houses as had been certified of less value then 200 â— per ann and giving them with their lands and revenues to tho King yet so as not only the Religious Persons therein should be committed to the great and honourable Monasteries of this Realm where they might be compell'd to live religiously for reformation of their lives wherein thanks be to God Religion is well kept and observ'd as are the very words of that Act but that the possessions belonging to such Houses should be converted to better uses to the pleasure of Almighty God and to the honour and profit oâ— the Realm But how well the tenour thereof was pursued 〈◊〉 shall soon see these specious pretences being madâ— use of for no other purpose than by opening this gap to make way for the total ruine of the greater Housesâ— wherein it is by the said Act acknowledg'd thaâ— Religion was so well observed For no sooneâ— were the Monks c. turned out and the House dâ—molish'd that being it which was first thought râ—quisite least some accidental change might conduce to their restitution but care was taken to prefer such persons to the Superiority in Government upon any vacancy of those greater Houses as might be instrumental to their surrender by perswading with the
the story of that time may see And for farther terrour to thâ— rest some Priors and other Ecclesiastick persons who had spoke against the Kings Supremacy a thing then somewhat uncouth being so newly set up were condemn'd as Traitors and executed And now that all this was effected to the end it might not be thought that these things were done by a high hand the King having protested That he would suppress none without consent of Parliament A Parliament being called April 28. Anno 1539. to confirm these surrenders so made as hath been said there wanted not plausible insâ—â—â—ations to both Houses for drawing on their consent with all smoothness thereto the Nobility being promised large shares in the spoil either by free gift from the King easie purchases or most advantageous exchanges and many of the active Gentry advancements to honour with increase of their estates all which we see happened to them accordingly And the better to satisfie the vulgar was it represented to them that by this deluge of Wealth the Kingdom should be strengthened with an Army of fourty thousand Men and that for the future they should never be charged with Subsidies Fifteens Loans or common Aids By which means the Parliament ratifying the before specified surrenders the work became compleated for the more firm setttling whereof a sudden course was taken to pull down and destroy the buildings as had been before upon that Dissolution of smaller Houses whereof I have touch't Next to disperse a great proportion of their Lands amongst the Nobility and Gentry as had been projected which was accordingly done the Visitor General having told the King That the more had interest in them the more they would be irrevocable And least any domestick stirs by reason of this great and strange alteration should arise rumours were spread that Cardinal Pool laboured with divers Princes to procure forces against this Realm and that an invasion was threatned which seemed the more credible because the Truce concluded betwixt the Emperour and the French King was generally known neither of them wanting a pretence to bring them hither And this was also seconded by a suddain journey of the King unto the Sea Coasts unto divers parts whereof he had sent sundry of the Nobles and expert persons to visit the Ports and places of danger who failed not for their discharge upon all events to affirm the peril in each place to be so great as one would have thought every place had needed a Fortification Besides he forthwith caused his Navy to be in a readiness and Musters to be taken over all the Kingdom All which preparations being made against a danger believed imminent seemed so to excuse this Suppression of the Abbies as that the people willing to save their own Purses began to suffer it easily especially when they saw order taken for building such Forts But let us look a little upon the success wherein I find that the said Visitor General the grand Actor in this tragick business having contracted upon himself such an Odium from the Nobility by reason of his low birth tho' not long before made Knight of the Garter Earl of Essex and Lord High Chancellour of England as also from the Catholicks for having thus operated in the Dissolution of Abbies that before the end of the before specified Parliament wherein that was ratified which he had with so much industry brought to pass the King not having any more use of him gave way to his Enemies accusations whereupon being arrested by the Duke of Norfolk at the Counsel Table when he least dream't of it and committed to the Tower he was condemn'd by the same Parliament for Heresie and Treason unâ—eard and little pittied and on the xxviii of July viz. four days after the Parliament was dissolved had his head cut off on Tower Hill And as for the Fruit which the People reapt after all their hopes built upon those specious pretences which I have instanc'd it was very little For plain it is that Subsidies from the Clergy and Fifteens of Lay-mens goods were soon after exacted And that in Edw. VI. time the Commons were constrained to supply the Kings wants by a new invention viz. Sheep Clothes Goods Debts c. for three years which Tax grew so heavy that the year following they prayed the King for mitigation thereof Nor is it a little observable that whilst the Monasteries stood there was no Act for the relief of the Poor so amply did those Houses give succour to them that were in want whereas in the next age viz. 39. Eliz. no less than eleven Bills were brought into the House of Commons for that purpose So far this Learned Knight Many other ill consequences that attended the Suppression of these Religious Houses might be here farther observed but besides that they would lead me into a long and tedious digression it is an an invidious subject which few in this age can bear So that 't is my design at present to take notice only of the great decay of Learning that was like to ensue the Dissolution in so much that in the Parliaments held 2. Edw. VI. and 3. Edw. VI. there were Bills brought in for incouraging men to give lands for the maintenance of Schools of learning And the loss of good Books was irreparable for Bale honestly tells us Never had we bene offended for the loss of our Lybraryes beynge so many in nombre and in so desolate places for the more parte yf the chiefe monumentes and most notable workes ' of our most excellent wryters had bene reserved If there had bene in every Shyre of Englande but one solempne Lybrarye to the preservacyon of those noble workes and preferrement of good lernynge in oure posteritye it had bene sumwhat But to destroye all without consideracyon is and wyll be unto Englande for ever a moste horryble infamy amonge the grave Senyours of other Nacyons A great nombre of them whych purchased those superstycyouse mansyons reserved of those Lybrary bokes some to serve theyr Iakes some to scoure their candelstyckes and some to rubbe their bootes Some they sold to the Grossers and Sopesellers and some they sent over See to the Bokebynders not in small nombre but at tymes whole Shyppes full to the wonderynge of foren Nacyons Yea the Vnyversytees of thys Realme are not all clere in this detestable fact But cursed is that bellye whyche seketh to be fedde with suche ungodly gaynes and so depelye shameth his natural Countrey I knowe a Merchaunt Man whych shall at thys tyme be namelesse that boughte the contentes of two noble Lybraryes for xl shyllynges pryce a shame it is to be spoken Thys stuffe hath he occupyed in the stede of graye paper by the space of more than these ten years and yet he hath store ynough for as many years to come A prodygâ—ouse example is this and to be abhorred of all
A Priory of Benedictines founded by King Edw. Conf. annexed by Rob. Earl of Morton temp Will. Conq. to the Abby of St. Michael in periculo maris in Normandy After the Suppression of Alien-Priories it was given to Sion Abby in Middlesex Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 551. T. 2. p. 901. Reg penes Wilh Com. Sarum 6. Tywardreth An Alien-Priory to the Abby of Sergius and Bachus in Angiers to which it was given by Rob. Cardinan temp Ric. I. It was dedicated to St. Andrew and was not dissolved till the general Suppression at which time it 's annual revenues amounted to 123 l. 9 s. 3 d. Dugd. 151 l. 16 s. 1 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 586. 7. Penryn or Glassoney Walter Bishop of Exon. A. D. 1288. built a Collegiate Church here consisting of a Dean and twelve Prebends to the honour of the blessed Virgin and St. Thomas of Canterbury It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 205 l. 10 â— 6 d. per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 56. 8. S. Anthony A Cell of two Canons to Plimpton Priory 9. Helston A Priory dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist endowed with 12 l. 16 s. 4 d. per an Dugd. 14 l. 7 s. 4 d. ob Speed 10. Sylly A Cell of Benedictines to Tavestock Abby dedicated to St. Nicholas Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 516. 11. S. Syriac Sp. S. Caricius Mon. Angl. A Cell to Montacute Priory in Somersetshire 12. Munstre An Alien-Priory to the Abby of S. Sergius and Bachus at Angiers 13. Crantock A College valued 26. Hen. VIII at 89 l. 15 s. 8 d. per an 14. Talcarn A Monastery of Black Monks of the Angels dedicated to St. Andrew 15. S. Mary de Ual. Speed A Monastery of Black Monks of the Angels ☜ Mr. Speed mentions the Monastery of Hesteland in this County which probably is the same with Hertland in Devonshire CUMBERLAND 1. Carliol HEre a Convent of Monks and a Nuâ—nery were built by St. Cuthbert A. D. 686. But these together with the Town being destroyed by the Danes King Henry I. who established the Bishops See here founded a Priory of Black Canons to the honour of the blessed Virgin whose yearly revenues at the Suppression were rated at 418 l. 3 s. 4 d. ob q. Dugd. 482 l. 8 s. 1 d. Speed King Henry VIII placed a Dean and four Secular Canons here Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 73. * Notitiam Eccl. Conv. Sanctae Mariae de Carliol MS. per Hug. Todd S. T. P. hujus Eccl. Canonicuâ— in Bibl. Carliol * Registra Cartas Autographas penes Decanuâ— Capitulum hujus Ecclesiae 2. Dacre An ancient Monastery founded not long after the first planting of Christianity in these parts It is mentioned by Bede Eccl. Hist. Lib. 4. Cap. 32â— 3. Armethwait A little Priory of Benedictine Nuns built bâ— King William Rufus and dedicated to Christ Iesuâ— and St. Mary valued but at 18 l. 18 s. 8 d. per an Vide Mon. Ang. T. 1. p. 324. 4. Wetherall A Cell of Benedictines to the Abby of S. Mary at York given thereunto by Ranulph de Mâ—â—cenis Earl of Chester and Cumberland temp Will Rufi and dedicated to the Holy Trinity It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 117 l. 11 s. 10 d. per an Dugd. 128 l. 5 s. 3 d. Speed Vide Monast. Angl. T. 1. p. 389 397. Reg. de Wederhall pen. Wilh Dom. Howard de Naworth 1638. MS. * Notitiam MS. Ecclesiae de Wetherall per V. Rev. Hug. Todd S. T. P. * Cartularium de Wedderhall in Bibl. Ecclesiae Cathed Carliol 5. S. Bees William brother to Raniâ—f de Maecenis temp Hen. I. built a little Monastery in Coupland to the honour of St. Bega It was a Cell to St. Maries at York and endowed at the Dissolution with 143 l. 17 s. 2 d. ob per an Dugd. 149 l. 16 s. 6 d. Speed Vide Monast. Angl. T. 1. P. 389 395. * Regist. pen. Dominum Joh. Lowther de Lowther Baronettum 6. Caldre A. D. 1134. Ranulph II. Earl of Chester founded here an Abby for Cistertian Monks It was endowed at the Dissolution with 50 l. 9 s. 3 d. per an Dugd. 64 l. 3 s. 9 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 774. 7. Holme-Coltram An Abby of White Monks founded by Henry Earl of Huntigdon A. D. 1150. dedicated to the blessed Virgin At the Suppression it was valued at 427 l. 19 s. 3 d. ob per an Dugd. 535 l. 3 s. 7 d. ob q. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 885. T. 3. P. 1. p. 34. Reg. de Holme-Coltram pen. Wilh Dom. Howard de Naworth * Registrum hujus Abbatiae in Biblioth Eccl. Carl. 8. Lanercost A. D. 1169. Rob. de Vallibus built here a Priory of Black Canons to the honour of St. Mary Magdalene It 's yearly revenues were worth at the Dissolution 77 l. 7 s. 11 d. Dugd. 79 l. 19 s. Speed Vid. Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 130. * Cartular de Lanercost pen. Wilh Dom. Howard de Naworth * Cronicon de Lanercost MS. in Bibl. Cotton 9. Graystoke A College of Secular Canons founded by Ralph L d. of the Barony of Graystoke about A. D. 1392 10. Seton A Nunnery of the Benedictine Order dedicated to S. Leonard valued at 12 l. 12 s. ob per an Dugd. 64 â— 16 s. 9 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 484. 11. Rirk-Oswald A College of twelve Secular Canons founded by Robert Threlkeld 20. Hen. VIII DERBY-SHIRE 1. Calk A Priory of the Order of St. Austin dedicated to St. Giles and founded by ... but the Canons being removed to 2. Repingdon A. D. 1172. by Maud widow to Ranulph II. Earl of Chester Calk became a Cell to this Monastery Here had been in ancient times a famous Monastery wherein several of the Saxon Kings of Mercia were interr'd but it was destroyâ—d in the Danish wars This latter foundation was dedicated to the holy Trinity and St. Mary and valued at the Dissolution at 118 l. 8 s. 6 d. Dugd. 167 l. 18 â— 2 â— Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 280. T. 3. P. 1. p. 97. 3. Derby A College dedicated to All-Saints and valued at the Dissolution at 38 l. 14 s. per an 4. Derby A Priory of Black Canons dedicated to St. Hellen. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 1. p. 61. 5. Gresley An Abby founded by one Will. Fitz-Nigel â— ... to the honour of St. George It 's yearly revenues at the Suppressioâ—n were worth 31 l. 6 â— Dugd. 39 l. 13 s. 8 d. Speed 6. Daâ—leigh Hugh Dean of Derby temp Hen. II. built here a Priory of Black Canons to the honour of the blessed Virgin It 's yearly revenues at the Suppression were worth 258 l. 14 s. 5 d. Dugd. 134 l. Leâ— Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 230. T. 3. P. 1. p. 57. Regist. MS. in Bibl. Cotton 7. De Bello-Capite or Bâ—anchief A Priory of
Praemonstratenses founded temp Hen. II. by Rob. Fitz-Ranulf one of the Murderers of Thomas Becket to whose memory this Monastery was dedicated It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 126 â— 3 s. 4 d. per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 607. * Kalendarium Mon. de Bello-capite inter MS. Dugdal 74. 8. Dala or de Parco Stanley Serlo de Grendon founded here a Cell of Black Canons to the Abby of Calk but afterwards about A. D. ... Galfred de Salicosamora and Maud his wife brought hither a Convent of eight Praemonstratensian Canons from Newhouse It was dedicated to St. Mary and endowed with lands to the yearly value of 144 l. 12 s. at the Dissolution Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 616. T. 3. P. 1. p. 73. * Registr penes Sam. Roper de Heanore in Com. Derb. 9. Derby juxta A Nunnery of Benedictines called the Monastery of St. Mary de Pratis founded by ... rated 26. Hen. VIII at 18 l. 6 s. 2 d. Vide Mon. Angl T. 1. p. 505. T. 2. p. 897. 10. Yevelay A Praeceptory of the Knights of St. Iohn to whom it was given by Will. Meynill A. D. 1268. at the Suppression it was worth 93 l. 3 s. 4 d. ob Vide Mon. Ang. T. 2. p. 546. 11. Bredsall or Brisol An Abby of ... valued 10 l. 17 s. 9 d. 12. Brend in the Peak A Monastery founded by Sir Rob. Duin Knight Speed 13. Barrow A Priory of Black Monks subordinate to St. Iohn's in Colchester endowed with 107 l. 3 s. 8 d. per an Speed 14. Derby A Cell of Cluniack Monks to Bermondsey dedicated to St. Iames ☞ Mr. Speed placeth Faverwell in this Shire but 't is in Staffordshire and as for Pollewerk I take it to be the same with Pollesworth in Warwickshire Chesterfield was but a Gild of Lay Brethren DEVON-SHIRE 1. Exeter IN ancient times within the precincts of the Close were three Religious Houses The first was a Nunnery which is now the Deans house the other was a house of Monks reported to have been built by King Ethelred about A. Ch. 868. The third was a Monastery of Benedictines founded by King Aethelstan A. D. 932. but the Monks not long after his death forsook it for fear of the Danes till A. D. 968. at which time King Edgar restored them Upon the removal of the Bishops See hither from Crediton A. D. 1050. the Monks were translated to Westminister Bishop Leofricus uniting the three forementioned Monasteries into his Cathedral Church placed here some Secular Canons but the Chapter was not settled till Bishop Brewer A. D. 1235. established and endowed a Dean and twenty four Prebendaries This Church is dedicated to St. Mary and St. Peter Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 220. Quaedam Historica ad Ecclesiam S. Petri Exon. spectantia cum Catalogo Reliquiarum MS. super D. 1. Art 76. in Bibl. Bodl. * Chronicon Exoniensis Ecclesiae MS. in Bibl. Bodl. Laud. I. 71. * Registr MS. in Bibl. Bodl. Wood. 9. 2. Crediton Upon the division of the Diocese of Shirborn A. D. 985. by King Edward and Arch-bishop Plegmund Eadulphus was made Bishop of Devonshire who built his Cathedral Church here And tho' the Bishops See was removed to Exeter A. D. 1050. yet here remain'd a Collegiate Church dedicated to the Holy Cross consisting of a Dean and twelve Prebendaries till the general Dissolution at which time it was endowed with 140 l. 14 s. 5 d. per an 3. Pilton A Benedictine Priory founded by King Aethelstan and dedicated to St. Mary It was subordinate to Malmsbury in Wiltshire and rated at the Suppression at 56 l. 12 s. 8 d. ob Dugd. 4. Tavystock An Abby of Benedictines founded here by Ordgar Earl of Devonshire A. D. 961. and dedicated to St. Mary and St. Rumon It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 902 l. 5 s. 7 d. per an Dugd. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 217 995. Cartularium penes Joh. Maynard Arm. MS. 5. Clive Qu. About A. D. 1005. Ailmar Earl of Cornwall built a Monastery of Black Canons to the honour of St. Mary Magdalene Speed 6. Plimpton Here was a Collegiate Church of the foundation of some of the Saxon Kings for a Dean and four Prebendaries which being dissolved W. Warwast Bishop of Exon. temp Hen. I. founded a Priory of Black Canons and dedicated it to the Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul It 's yearly revenues at the Dissolution were worth 912 l. 12 s. 8 d. ob Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 6. 7. Ottery Made a Cell to the Abby of St. Mary in Roan by King Edward the Confessor A. D. 1060. but granted by the Abbat and Convent 8. Ed. III. to Ioh. Grandison Bishop of Exeter who A. D. 1337. founded a College here consisting of a Warden eight Prebendaries ten Vicars a Master of Musick a Master of Grammer two Priests eight Deacons eight Choristers and two Clerks to the honour of Christ Iesus the blessed Virgin Mary and King Edward the Confessor It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 303 l. 2 s. 9 d. per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 549. T. 3. P. 2. p. 59. 8. Hertland Githa wife to Earl Godwin placed Secular Priest's in the Church of St. Nâ—ctan here who were changed into Canons of the Order of St. Austin by Galfrid de Dynam temp Hen. II. It was rated at the Dissolution at 306 l. 3 s. 2 d. q. per an Vide Monast. Angl. T. 2. p. 285. 9. Totteness An Alien-Priory Cell to the Abby of St. Sergius and St. Bachus at Angiers to which Abby it was given by Iuhellus fil Aluredi temp Will. Conq. It was dedicated to St. Mary and was not suppressed till 27. Hen. VIII at which time it was endowed with revenues to the value of 24 l. 9 s. 2 d. per an Dugd. 124 l. 10 s. 2 d. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 1023. 10. Barnstaple Ioel fil Alluredi temp Will. Conq. founded here an Abby of Cluniack Monks and dedicated it to St. Peter and St. Paul and St. Mary Magdalene It was subordinate to St. Martin de Campis in Paris and rated at the Dissolution at 123 l. 6 s. 7 d. Dugd. 129 l. 15 s. 3. q. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 684 1024. 11. Exeter A little Priory built by Will. Rufus to the honour of St. Nicholas and by him annexed as a Cell to Battel Abby valued at 154 l. 12 s. Speed 147 l. 12 â— Dugd. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 352. * Registrum quondam penes D. Wilh le Neve Regem Armorum nunc in Bibl. Cotton 12. Axmouth An Alien-Priory Cell to the Abby of Mount-borow to which it was given by Richard de Redvers temp Hen. I. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 992. 13. Brightley Here Richard Redvers Sheriff of Devon-shire A. D. 1136. founded an Abby for Cistertian Monks who afterward removed to 14. Ford. Which place was given to them A. D. 1142. by
per an Dugd. 623 l. 13s 2d ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 253. 6. Horton A Monastery of Benedictines founded by Ordgar Earl of Devon temp K. Edgari but annexed by Roger Bishop of Sarum to Shirburn about A. D. 1120. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 62 220. 7. Abbotesbury A. D. 1026. Orcus and Tola his wife built an Abby for Black Monks to the honour of St. Peter It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 390l 19 s. 2d ob Dugd. 485. 3 s. 5 d. ob q. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 276. * Reg. penes D. Joh. Strangways de Abbotsbury 8. Frampton An Alien-Priory being given by R. Will. Conq. to the Abby of St. Stephen at Caen in Normandy Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 571. T. 2. p. 955. 9. Shirburn Not long after the removal of the Bishop's See to Sarum the Canons Secular here were changed into Benedictine Monks by Roger Bishop of Sarum about A. D. 1122. This Abby was dedicated to St. Mary and endowed with 682 l. 14 s. 7 d. ob q. per an at the Suppression Vide Mon. Angl T. 1. p. 62 423. 10. Lodres An Alien-Priory to the Abby of Mountborow in Normandy to which it was given by Riâ—â—ard de Redveriis temp Hen. I. King Rich. II. bestowed it upon the Priory of St. Ann near Coventry Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 570 966. T. 2. p. 992. 11. Warham The Church of St. Peter and St. Ethelwold here being given by Rob. Bossu Earl of Leicester about A. D. 1160. to the Abbat and Convent of Lira in Normandy it became a Cell to that Abby But during the wars between England and France the Alien-Priories were seised into the King's hands so that King Rich. II. gave this to the Abby of Mount-grace in York-shire Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 968. T. 2. p. 985. 12. Bindon Rob. de Novo-Burgo built an Abby for Cistertian Monks here to the honour of St. Mary A. D. 1172. It was valued at the Dissolution at 147 l. 7 s. 9d per an Dugd. 229 l. 2 s. 1 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 911. 13. Tarent A Nunnery of the Cistertian Order founded by Richard Poor Bishop of Sarum about A. D. 1228. It was dedicated to the blessed Virgin and at the Suppression found to be seised of revenues worth 214 l. 7 s. 9 d. per an Dugd. 239 l. 11 s. 10 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 887. 14. Bridport An Alien-Priory dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist valued at 6 l. 15. Stowre An Alien-Priory Cell to the Abby of Preaus in Normandy 16. Holme A Cell to Montacute in Somerset-shire 17. Camestrum Qu. A Monastery of White Nuns dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene Speed DURHAM 1. Hartlepool Heortu Bed A Very ancient Nunnery founded by a Religious woman named Hieu But among many other outrages committed by the Danes in these parts this Monastery was raz'd to the ground 2. Iarrow ol Gyrwi 3. Wermouth King Egfrid A. D. 644. founded these two Abbies they were ruin'd in the Danish wars and never after recover'd their former glory but became Cells to Durham for two or three Black Monks in each The former being dedicated to St. Paul was endowed 26. Hen. VIII with 38 l. 14 s. 4d per an Dugd. 40 l. 7 s. 8 d. Speed The latter dedicated to St. Peter was rated at 25 l. 8 s. 4 d. per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 96. 4. Chester ol Cuncacester Bishop Eardulfus being forced A. D. 875. to fly from Lindissam founded the Bishops See here A. D. 883. which was A. D. 995. translated to Durham But at this Chester was afterwards built a College for a Dean and seven Canons of the foundation of Ant. Beck Bishop of Durham 20. Edw. I. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 38. T. 3. P. 2. p. 44. Angl. Sacr. T. 1. p. 699. 5. Durham The Bishops See was removed hither by Bishop Aldwin A. D. 995. The Secular Priests were changed into Benedictine Monks 18. Will. Conq. by Bishop Will. de Carilepho The Tutelar Deity of this Abby and Country was St. Cuthbert It was endowed at the Dissolution with 1366. 10 s. 9 d. per an Dugd. 1615 l. 14 s. 10 d. ob Sp. K. Hen. VIII A. D. 1540. restor'd the Secular Canons Vide Mon. Angl. T. â— p. 38. T. r. p. 845. Angl. Sacr. T. 1. Simeonis Dunelmensis aut potius Turgoti Historiam de Ecclesia Dunâ—lmensi Impress inter X. Scriptores Hist. Angl. Lond. 1652. The Legend of St. Cuthbert with the Antiquities of the Church of Durham by Rob. Hegge Lond. 1663. 12 â— The ancient Rites and Monuments of the Monastical and Cathedral Church of Durham publish'd by Io. Davis Lond. 1672. 12 o. * Cartular Eccl. Dunelem in Bibl. Cotton Faust. A. 6. Titus A. 2. * Nomina Benefactorum Ecclesiae Dunelm ab Edwino ad Hen. VIII in Bibl. Cotton Domit. A. 7. Collectanea MS. Aug. Baker in Bibl. Coll. Jesu Oxon. Vol. IV. * Reg. penes Decanum Capitul Dunelm Chronica Ecclesiae Dunelmensis MS. in Bibl. Bodl. Laud. H. 7. L. 53. * Historiam de vitis Episcoporum Abbatum Religiosorum de Lindisfarn Dunelmia MS. in eadem Bibl. Fairfax 6. * Catalogum Reliquiarum Ecclesiae Dunelmensis MS. in Bibl. Bodl. Digb 11. * Boldon-book sive Inquisitionem de Consuetudinibus redditibus Episcopatus Dunelmensis A. D. 1183. captam MS. in eadem Bibl. Laud. I. 52. 6. Finchale A Benedictine Priory of thirteen Monks subordinate to the Abby of Durham built by Hugh Pusar Bishop of Durham about A. D. 1180. to the honour of St. Godric the Hermite It 's yearly revenues at the Dissolution amounted to 122 l. 15 s. 3 d. Dugd. 146l 19 s. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 512. 7. Egleston A Priory of Black Canons founded by Gilbert de Leya about A. D. 1200. and commended to the Patronage of the blessed Virgin and St. Iohn Baptist. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 196. 8. Overton Alan de Wilton temp Reg. Ioh. founded a Priory of Gilbertines here and made it subordinate to Sempringham It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 11 l. 8 s. per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 825. 9. Langcester About 20. Ed. I. Anthony Beck Bishop of Durham built and endow'd a College here for a Dean and seven Prebendaries Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 38. 10. Aukland A Collegiate Church dedicated to St. Andrew founded by Anthony Beck Bishop of Durham for twelve Prebendaries Vide Monast. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 39. 11. Staindrop A Collegiate Church founded by Ralph Nevil Earl of Westmorland temp Hen. V. for a Master six Priests six Clerks six decay'd Gentlemen six Grooms and six poor men Endow'd with 126 l. 5 s. 10 d. per an Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 142. 12. Bernard-Castle Richard Duke of Glocester 17. Edw. IV. built a College here for a Dean
and twelve Secular Canons ten Clerks and six Choristers to the honour of Christ Iesus the Virgin Mary St. Margaret and St. Ninian Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. p. 203. 13. Nesseham A Nunnery valued at 26l 17 s. 7 d. per an Dugd. 26 l. 9 s. 9 d. Speed 14. Derlington A College of a Dean and six Prebendaries 15. Sampford or Stampford Qu. A Cell to Durham Abby Endow'd with 36 l. 17 s. per an Speed ☜ The Priory of Letham which is in Lancashire is falsly placed by Mr. Speed in this Bishoprick ESSEX 1. Barking THe first Nunnery in England founded about A. D. 680. by Erkenwald Bishop of London It was of the Order of St. Benedict and dedicated to St. Ethelburg or Alburg and St. Mary and endow'd at the Dissolution with 862 l. 12 s. 5 d. ob per an Dugd. 1084. 6 s. 2 d. ob q. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 79. Bed Eccl. Hist. Lib. 4. Cap. 6 7 8 9 10. Reyner Apost Bened. T. 1. p. 64. * Librum Abbatiae de Barking in Bibl. Cotton 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 number 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. 4 s. 3d. Dugd. 1079 l. 12 s. 1 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 11. D r. 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 3. Earles-Colne Alberic de Vere temp Will. Conq. founded a Priory of Benedictine Monks here to the honour of St. Mary and St. Andrew and annex'd it as a Cell to the Abby of Abbington It 's yearly revenues at the Suppression were worth 156 l. 12 s. 4 d. ob Dugd. 175 l. 14 s. 8 d. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 436. T. 2. p. 877. 4. Thremhale A Priory of Black Canons built by Gilbert Montfichet temp Will. Conq. to the honour of St. Iames. It was rated at the Dissolution at 60 l. 18 s. 7 d. ob per an Dugd. 70 l. 19 s. 3d. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 23. 5. Paunsfield An Alien-Priory Cell to the Abby of St. Stephen at Caen in Normandy thereunto given by K. Will. Conq. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 956. 6. Horsley Roger Earl of Shrewsbury temp Will. Conq. gave this Mannor to the Abby of St. Martin de Troarno in Normandy to which Abby it was a Cell till 45. Ed. III. at which time they exchang'd it with the Prior and Convent of Bruton in Somersetshire Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 604. T. 2. 〈…〉 7. Colchester A. D. 1096. Eudo Steward to King Hen. I. built an Abby here for Benedictine Monks to the honour of St. Iohn Baptist. It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 523 l. 17 s. Dugd. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 889. Reg. MS. penes Johannem Dom. Lucas 8. Dunmow A Priory of Black Canons founded by the Lady Iuga Baynard A. D. 1104. and dedicated to the blessed Virgin It was endowed at the Suppression with 150 l. 3 s. 4 d. per an Dugd. 173 l. 2 s. 4 d. Speed Vide Monast. Angl. T. 2. p. 75. Chron. de Dunmow per Nicholaum Bromfield ibid. Canonicum in Bibl. Cotton Cleop. C. 3. 16. 9. Colchester About A. D. 1110. Eynulfus founded a Priory of Canons of the Order of St. Austin and dedicated it to St. Botulph and St. Iulian. It 's yearly revenues at the Dissolution were worth 113 l. 2 s. 8 d. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 44. 10. Chich. A Priory of Black Canons built by Richard 〈◊〉 Bishop of London A. D. 1120. to the honour of St. Osith It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 677 l. 1 s. 2 d. Dugd. 758 l. 5 s. 8 d. Speed Vide Monast. Angl. T. 2. p. 182. 11. Hatfield-Peverell A Priory of Benedictine Monks founded by Will Peverell temp Hen. I. and by him made a Cell to the Abby of St. Albans It was dedicated to the blessed Virgin and endowed with 60 l. 14 s. 11 d. ob per an Dugd. 83 l. 19 s. 7 d. Speed at the Dissolution Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 330. 12. Wikes Walter Mascherell temp Hen. I. founded a Nunnery of St. Austin's Order here and dedicated it to St. Mary Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 282. 13. Tackly An Alien-Priory to the Abby of St. Valery in Picardy to which it was given by King Hen. I. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 1003. 14. Stratford-Langthorn A. D. 1135. William Montfichet founded here an Abby for Cistercian Monks It was dedicated to the blessed Virgin and it 's yearly revenues were worth at the Dissolution 511 l. 16 s. 3 d. q. Dugd. 573. 15 s. 6 d. ob q. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 883. 15. Walden parva or Saffron-Walden A. D. 1136. Galf. de Mandevil Earl of Essex built an Abby of the Order of St. Benedict here to the honour of St. Mary and St. Iames. It was valued at the Suppression at 372 l. 18 s. 1 d. per an Dugd. 406 l. 15 s. 11 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 445. Regist. de Walden MS. penes Com. Suffolchiae A. D. 1640. Chron. de Walden in Bibl. Cotton Tit. D. 20. Fundationem coenobii de Walden olim in Biblioth Arundel nunc in Bibl. Coll. Gresham London 16. Coggeshale King Stephen and Maud his wife founded a Monastery for White Monks here A. D. 1142. It was dedicated to St. Mary and endowed with 251 l. 2 s. per an Dugd. 298 l. 8 s. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 821. Chron. de Coggeshale ab A. Ch. â—114 ad 1155. in Bibl. Cotton Vespas D. 10. 2. 17. Cressing-Temple A Preceptory of the Hospitalers of St. Iohn of Ierusalem given them by King Stephen Vid. Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 543. 18. Horkesley A Cell of Cluniack Monks to Thefford founded by Rob. fil Godeboldi about A. D. 1150. to the honour of St. Peter It was rated 26. Hen. VI. at 27 l. 7 s. 11 d. per an Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 1. p. 30. 19. Tiltie or â—udeham An Abby of White Monks built by Maurice Fitz-Ieffery A. D. 1152. to the honour of S. Iohn Baptist. It was valued at the Suppression at 167 l. 2 s. 6 d. per an Dugd. 177 l. 9 s. 4 d. Speed Vide Monast. Angl. T. 1. p. 889. T. 3. P. 1. p. 75. 20. Prittlewell A Cluniack Priory subordinate to the Abby of Lewes to which it was given by Rob. Fitz-Swain temp Hen. II. dedicated to St. Mary and endowed at the Dissolution with 155 l. 11 s. 2 d.
valued 26. Hen. VIII at 1051 l. 7 s. 1 d. ob per an Speed Dugd. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 89. * Registra duo penes W. Masters de Cirenc Arm. * Registr penes D. Henr. Pool de Saperton in Com. Glouc. 8. Boxwel A Nunnery destroyed by the Danes Lel. 9. Newent Niwetton Speed King Henry I. gave this Mannor to the Abby of Cormeiles in Normandy and so it became an Alien-Priory to that Monastery King Henry IV. gave it to the Collegiate Church at Fodringhey Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 962. T. 3. P. 2. p. 159. 10. Lanthony A. D. 1136. Milo Earl of Hereford founded a Monastery at Hyde near Glocester for the Black Canons of Lanthony in Monmouthshire from which Abby this was also called Lanthony It was dedicated to St. Mary and endowed with 648 l. 19 s. 11 d. ob q. per an Dugd. 748 l. 11 d. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 60. * Historiam Abbatiae de Lanth in Bibl. Cotton Jul. D. 11. 11. Kingswood An Abby of Cistercians built by William de Berkele A. D. 1139. to the honour of the blessed Virgin but immediately after the foundation the Monks were removed to Tettebury then to Hasilden and at last fixed again at Kingswood about A. D. 1170. It was rated 26. Hen. VIII 244 l. 11 s. 2 d. per an Dugd. 254 l. 11 s. 2 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 811. Reg. penes Joh. Smith de Nibley in Com. Gloc. A. D. 1651. 12. Flexely Roger Earl of Hereford temp R. Steph. built an Abby here for Cistercian Monks The blessed Virgin was the Tutelar Saint of this Monastery whose annual revenues were worth at the Suppression 112 l. 13 s. 1 d. Speed Dugd. Vide Mon. Ang. T. 1. p. 884. 13. Stanley A Cell to the Abby of St. Peter in Glocester to which it was given by Roger de Berkele A. D. 1146. St. Leonard was Patron of this Priory whose annual revenues amounted at the Dissolution to 126 l. 8 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 1. p. 64. 14. Bekeford A Cell to the Abby of St. Martin and St. Barbara in Normandy to which it was given by Rob. Fitz-Alan ... King Henry VI. bestowed it after the Dissolution of the Alien-Priories upon Eaton College Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 1010. T. 3. P. 2. p. 200. 15. Brimsfield or Bromfield An Alien-Priory Cell to the Abby of St. Stephen de Fontney in Normandy King Edw. IV. gave it to the College at Windsor Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 75. 16. Hales A. D. 1246. Richard Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans founded an Abby here for twenty Cistercian Monks It was dedicated to St. Mary and All-Saints and valued 26. Hen. VIII at 357 l. 7 s. 8 d. ob per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 928. Parochial Antiquities of Ambrosden Burcester c. by White Kennet A. M. Chron. MS. Monasterii de Hailes ab initio mundi ad A. D. 1304. in Bibl. Cotton Cleop. D. 3. 1. 17. Queinington A Preceptory of the Templars founded by Agnes Lacy William of Poictou and the Countess Cecilia A. D. ... It was valued at 137 l. 7 s. 1 d. ob per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 548. 18. Lechlade A Priory of Black Canons of the Duke of Clarence's Patronage Lel. 19. Magnotsfield A Nunnery part of the Cloister remained in Leland's time 20. Minchin-Hampton A Nunnery Camd. Speed 21. Westbury A College consisting of a Dean and five Prebendaries founded by William Cannings Mayor of Bristol A. D. ... It was endowed at the Suppression with 232 l. 14 s. q. per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 202. ☜ Goldcliff is said to be in this County by the Monasticon but 't is in Monmouth-shire HAMP-SHIRE 1. â—edbridge HEre Camden tells us was that ancient Monastery call'd by Bede Eccl. Hist. Lib. 4. Cap. 16. Arundinis vadum or Redford 2. Winchester Altho' the foundation of the Church and Bishoprick here may be ascribed to Kinewalcus King of the West-Saxons about A. D. 640. yet the original of the Monastery was of later date for it was in A. D. 963. that Ethelwold the Bishop by the command of King Edgar expell'd the Secular Canons and placed here Monks of the Order of St. Bennet who remain'd till the general Suppression at which time they were endowed with 1507 l. 17 s. 2 d. per an St. Swithin was the Tutelar Saint of this Church King Henry VIII in the room of the Monks put in a Dean and twelve Prebendaries Vid. Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 31 979. Angl. Sacr. T. 1. Annales Winton in Bibl. Cotton Domit. A. 13. * Cartas Originales Registra penes Decanum Capitulum 3. Winchester A Benedictine Nunnery built by Alswitha wife to King Alfred to the honour of the blessed Virgin and St. Edburg about A. D. 900. It s yearly revenues at the Dissolution amounted to 179 l. 7 s. 2 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 212. 4. Winchester Here was a College of Secular Canons built by King Edward the elder according to the Will of his Father King Alfred It was called New-Minster to distinguish it from the Old-Minster or Cathedrall The neighbourhood of these two Monasteries occasion'd great differences between them so that the Monks of this New-Monastery who were placed here in the room of the Secular Canons by Bishop Ethelwold A. D. 963. were removed without the walls to 5. Hide Where King Henry I. and Will. Giffard Bishop of Winchester founded a stately Abby for them Which was dedicated to the Holy Trinity St. Peter and St. Grimbald and rated 26. Henry VIII at 865 l. 18 s. ob q. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 208. Chron. MS. Abb. de Hide in Bibl. Cotton Vitell. F. 2. Domit. A. 14. * Annales Mon. de Hida extra Winton MS. in Bibl. Bodl. NE. A. 13. 19. * Reg. penes Ch. Hatton Mil. 6. Rumsey A. D. 907. King Edgar founded a Nunnery here of St. Beâ—net's Order and commended it to the Patronage of the blessed Virgin Mary It was rated at 393 l. 10 s. 10 d. ob per an Dugd. 528 l. 8 s. 10 d. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 219. 7. Wherwell A Benedictine Nunnery of the foundation of Elfridâ— wife to King Edgar It was dedicated to Holy Cross and St. Peter and endowed at the Suppression with 339 l. 8 s. 7 d. per an Dugd. 403 l. 13 s. 4 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 256. T. 3. P. 1. p. 9. Registr MS. Abbatiae de Wherwell penes Carol. Dom. de la Ware A. D. 1669. 8. Christ-Church or Twinham Here was a College of Prebendaries before the Conquest but Baldwin de Redvers Earl of Devon brought in Black Regular Canons temp Reg. Steph. It was dedicated to the Holy Trinity and valued 26. Hen. VIII at 312 l. 7 s. q. per an Dugd. 544 l. 6 s. Speed
p. 576. 31. Daunton Fulk de Neweham built a Benedictine Nunnery here to the honour of St. Mary Magdalene Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 501. 32. Ulcomb A. D. 1220. Stephen Langton Arch-bishop of Canterbury founded a Collegiate Church here * Vide Cartas penes Franc. Clerk de ead Armig. 33. Mottinden A Priory of the Order of the holy Trinity founded by Rob. de Rokesly A. D. 1224. It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 60 l. 13 s. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 833. 34. â—reweleigh An Alien Priory 35. Liâ—â—â— Cherche A Priory of Black Monks dedicated to S. Mary 36. â—ilsington A Priory of Black Canons founded by Iob. Maunsell Provost of Beverley A. D. 1253. and dedicated to the blessed Virgin It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 81 l. 1 s. 6 l. per an Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 333. 37. â—umney An Alien-Priory founded by Ioh. Maunsell Provost of Beverley A. D. 1257. * Vide Munimenta penes Custodem Socios Coll. Omn. Anim. Cxon 38. Wingham A College for a Rector and six Canons founded by Iohn Peckham Arch-bishop of Canterbury A. D. 1280. and endowed with 84 l. per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 52. 39. Ospring A Preceptory of the Templers 40. Swingfield A Preceptory of the Knights Templers valued 26. Hen. VIII at 87 l. 3 s. 3 l. ob per an * Vide Mun. penes Tho. Gomeldon Armig. 41. Badlesmere A Priory of Black Canons founded by Bartholomew Badlesmere 13. Edw. II. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 351. 42. Cobham Iohn Lord Cobham A. D. 1362 built a Collegiate Church here to the honour of St. Mary Magdalene It 's yearly revenues at the Suppression amounted to 128. 1 s. 9 d. ob Vide Hollinshed's History Vol. II. p. 1500. * Cartas penes D. D. Jos. Williamson Eq. Aur. 43. Dertford A Nunnery of the Order of St. Austin founded by King Edw. III. A. D. 1373. and commended to the Patronage of St. Mary and St. Margaret It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 380 l. 9 s. ob per an Dugd. 400 l. 8 s. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 357. * Particulas terrae ad Mon. de Dertford spectant in Bibl. Arundel 1645. nunc in Bibl. Coll. Gresham Lond. 44. Bredgare A College built by Rob. de Bradgare Clerk 16. Rich. II. and dedicated to the Holy Trinity Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 117. 45. Maidstone Will. Courtney Arch-bishop of Canterbury 19. Rich. II. founded a College here to the honour of All-Saints It was endowed with 159 l. 7 s. 10 d. per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 132. 46. West-Peccam A Preceptory of the Templers founded by Ioh. Culpeper 10. Hen. IV. valued 26. Hen. VIII at 63 l. 6 s. 8 d. per an 47. Waye A College of Secular Canons built by Iohn Kemp Arch-bishop of Canterbury 10. Hen. VI. St. Gregory and St. Martin were the Tutelar Patrons of this House whose yearly revenues were worth 93 l. 2 s. ob per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 191. 48. Ashford A College founded temp Edw. IV. by Sir Iohn Fogg LANCASHIRE 1. Lancaster AN Alien-Priory Cell to the Abby of St. Martin de Sagio in Normandy whereunto it was given by Roger Earl of Poictiers A. D. 1094. after the Dissolution of these Priories it was appropriated by King Hen. V. to Syon College Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 566. 2. Furnes A Cistercian Abby founded by Stephen Earl of Morton afterwards King of England A. D. 1127. and commended to the Patronage of the blessed Virgin Mary It was endowed at the Dissolution with 805 l. 16 s. 5 d. per an Dugd. 966 l. 7 s. 10 d. Sp. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 704. Registra duo in officio Ducatus Lancast. MS. * Rog. Dodsworthi Collectiones MSS. in Bibl. Bodl. vol. 39. 3. Cokersand or Pyling Theobald Walter temp Hen. II. built an Abby for Praemonstratensian Canons here which he dedicated to the blessed Virgin It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 228 l. 5 s. 4 d. ob per an Speed 157 l. 14 s. ob Dugd. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 631. Registr MS. vel penes Rob. Bolton de Thornham in Com. Lanc. vel in Bibl. Hatton * Coll. MSS. Rog. Dodsworth in Bibl. Bodl. vol. 149. 4. Burscough A Priory of Black Canons founded by Rob. Fitz-Henry Lord of Lathom temp Hen. II. It 's Tutelar Saint was St. Nicholas and endowed at the Dissolution with 80. 7 s. 6 d. per an Dugd. 129 l. 1 s. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 303. Cartular de Burscough in officio Ducatus Lancastriae 5. Conisheved A Priorv of Black Canons dedicated to St. Leonard and founded by Will. Lancaster Baron of Kendal temp Hen. II. Valued at 124 l. 2 s. 1 d. per an Speed 97 l. 2 d. Dugd. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 424. 6. Cartâ—cle A. D. 1188. Will. Mareschal Earl of Pembroke founded a Priory here of Canons of the Order of St. Austin It was dedicated to the blessed Virgin and rated 26. Hen. VIII at 124 l. 2 s. 1 d. per an Speed 91 l. 16 s. 3 d. Dugd. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 300. 7. Lythom Rich. Fitz-Roger temp R. Ioh. built a Priory of Benedictines here to the honour of St. Mary and St. Cuthbert and annexed it as a Cell to Durham Abby It 's annual revenues at the Suppression were worth 48 l. 19 s. Dugd. 53 l. 15 s. 10 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 499. * Registrum penes Tho. Clifton de Lythom 8. Penwortham Warin Bussel temp ... built a Priory of Benedictines here to the honour of the blessed Virgin which was subordinate to the Abby of Evesham and rated 26. Hen. VIII at 29 l. 18 s. 7 d. per an Dugd. 114 l. 16 s. 9 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 360. * Reg. penes Joh. Fleetwood de Penwortham Armig. 9. Whalley Henry Lacy Earl of Lincoln gave the Church here to the White Monks of Stanlaw in Cheshire whereupon they removed their Abby hither A. D. 1296. It 's yearly revenues were worth at the Suppression 321 l. 9 s. 1 d. ob Dugd. 551 l. 4 s. 6 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 897. Registr penes Rad. Ashton Mil. Bar. 10. Holland A. D. 1319. Walter Bishop of Litchfield by the consent and at the petition of Sir Rob. Holland Knight Patron changed the Collegiate Church of St. Thomas the Martyr into a Benedictine Priory It was valued at 53 l. 3 s. 4 d. per an Dugd. 61 l. 3 s. 4 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 544. T. 2. p. 889. 11. Horneby A Cell to the Abby of Croxton in Leicestershire 12. Manchester In 9. Hen. V. Thomas Lord De la Ware obtained licence of the King to found a College consisting of a Warden and a certain number of Priests in the parish
Church of this place Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 174. * Cartas c. penes custodem Socios LEICESTER-SHIRE 1. Belvoir A Priory of Black Monks subordinate to the Abby of St. Albans to which it was annexed by its founder Rob. de Totney about A. D. 1080. It was dedicated to S. Mary and endowed with 129 l. 17 s. 6 d. per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 327. Registrum penes Thomam Dom. Brudnell Registrum penes Math. Hales de Hosp. Lincoln A. D. 1629. * Cartularium penes Ducem Buckinghamiae * Registrum in Bibl. Cottoniana 2. Leicester Rob. Earl of Leicester temp Hen. I. founded a College of a Dean and twelve Prebendaries the Church of St. Mary the less in the Castle It was valued 26. Hen. VIII but at 23 l. 12 s. 11 d. per an because the lands of this College were alienated and annexed to the Abby of 3. S. Mary de Pratis juxta Leicester An Abby of Canons Regulars of St. Austin's Order built by Rob. Bossu Earl of Leicester to the honour of the Assumption of the blessed Virgin A. D. 1143. Its revenues were worth at the Dissolution 951 l. 14 s. 5 d. ob per an Dugd. 1062 l. 4 d. ob q. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 308. Wilhelmi Charite Rentale novum generale Abb. S. Mar. de Pratis Leicestriae In Bibl. Bodl. Laud. H. 72. * Wilh Charite Catalogum Librorum MSS. in Biblioth Monast. S. Mariae de Pratis In Bibl. Bodl. Laud. I. 75. 4. Launda Rich. Basset and Maud Ridel his wife temp Hen. l. founded here an Abby of Black Canons and commended it to the Patronage of St. Iohn Baptist. It 's yearly revenues at the Suppression were worth 399 l. 3 s. 3 d. ob q. Dugd. 510 l. 16 s. 5 d. ob q. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 90. 5. Bredon The Church of St. Mary and St. Hardulf being given by Rob. Ferrers Earl of Notingham about A. D. 1144. to the Abby of St. Oswald at Nosthell in Yorkshire it became a Cell of Black Canons to that Abby It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 24 l. 10 s. 4 d. per an Dugd. 25 l. 8 s. 1 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 39. T. 3. P. 1. p. 62. Registrum pen. Rob. Shirley de Stanton-Harold A. D. 1670. 6. Hinkley An Alien-Priory to Lyra in Normandy to which it was given by Rob. Bossu Earl of Leicester King Richard II. gave it to the Abby of Montgrace Vide Monast. Angl. T. 1. p. 603 983. 7. Gerondon or Garradon Gerewerdon Werewordon Speed A. D. 1169. Rob. Bossu Earl of Leicester founded here an Abby for Cistercian Monks and dedicated it to the blessed Virgin It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 186 l. 15 s. 2 d. Speed 159 l. 19 s. 10 d. ob Dugd. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 768. * Registrum penes Illustrissimum Ducem Buckinghamiae 8. Dalby 9. Hether 10. Rodely Three Preceptories of the Knights Templers the first of which was founded by Rob. Bossu Earl of Leicester temp Hen. II. The second was given to those Knights by Galfrid de Gresley A. D. ... Who was the donor of Rodeley I cannot find The yearly revenues of these three amounted to 231 l. 7 s. 10 d. 11. Croxton An Abby of Praemonstratenses built by William Parcarius temp Hen. II. and dedicated to St. Iohn the Evangelist It was valued at the Suppression at 385 l. 10 d. ob per an Dugd. 458 l. 19 s. 11 d. ob q. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 603. T. 3. P. 1. p. 73. Registr pen. Com. Rutlandiae apud Castrum de Belvoir 12. Olveston or Osulveston Robert Grimbold temp Hen. II. built a Priory of Black Canons here to the honour of St. Mary St. Andrew and All-Saints It was endowed at the Dissolution with 161 l. 14 s. 2 d. q. per an Dugd. 173 l. 18 s. 9 d. q. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 276. 13. Charley A Priory of the Order of St. Austin founded by Robert Blanchmaines Earl of Leicester temp Hen. II 14. Bradley A Priory of Black Canons founded by Roâ— Bundy temp R. Ioh. valued at 20 l. 3 s. 4 d. per an Dugd. 20 l. 15 s. 7 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 334. 15. Langley William Pantulf and Burgia his wife temp R. Ioh. built a Benedictine Nunnery here to the honour of the blessed Virgin It 's yearly revenues were worth at the Suppression 29 l. 7 s. 4 d. ob Dugd. 34 l. 6 s. 2 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 481. 16. Grace-Dieu A Cistercian Nunnery dedicated to the Holy Trinity and founded by Roisia de Verdun 24. Hen. III It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 101 l. 8 s. 2 d. ob per an Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 933. 17. Ulvescroft Rob. Quincy Earl of Winchester built here a Priory of Regular Canons of the Order of St. Austin temp Hen. III. It was endowed at the Dissolution with 83 l. 10 s. 6 d. per an Dugd. 101 l. 3 s. 10 d. Burton Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 362. 18. Stave Speed Stane MS. Bodl. Qu. A Benedictine Nunnery 19. Melton-Moubray A Cell to Lewes in Sussex 20. Noâ—sley A Collegiate Church consisting of three Priests three Clerks and four Choristers founded temp Edw. I. by Rog. de Martival afterwards Bishop of Sarum Valued at 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. 21. Kirkby-Beller Roger Beller temp Edw. III. built a College here for a Warden and twelve Secular Priests which his son changed into a Priory of Black Canons It was dedicated to St. Peter and endowed at the Suppression with 142 l. 10 s. 3 d. q. per an Dugd. 178 l. 7 s. 10 d. q. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 344. T. 3. P. 2. p. 49. 22. Leicester Collegium Novi Operis or the Collegiate Church of St. Mary the great consisting of twelve Prebendaries besides the Dean and Choristers was founded by Henry Duke of Lancaster temp Ed. III. It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 595 l. 7 s. 4 d. per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 139. 23. Sapcote Here was a College founded by Sir Ralph Basset 50. Ed. III. ☜ Mr. Speed placeth in this County Canwell which is in Staffordshire and Combe which is in Warwickshire The Monastery also of Cale which the same Author reckons among the Religious Houses of this Shire is mistaken for Calc in Derbyshire LINCOLN-SHIRE 1. Bardney AN Abby of Benedictine Monks founded by Ethelred Earl of Mercia A. D. 712. but being destroyed by the. Danes it was reedified by Walter de Gaunt A. D. 1115. It was dedicated to St. Peter St. Paul and St. Oswald the King and valued 26. Hen. VIII at 366 l. 6 s. 1 d. per an Dugd. 429 l. 7 s. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 142. T. 2. p. 847. Reg. penes Wilh Thorold Equit.
Bodl. NE. B. 1. 6. * Rentale Cartas c. hujus Ecclesiae in manibus Henr. Worsley Hosp. Lincoln Arm. * Cartularium Abbatiae Westmon penes Henr. Spelman * Registrum penes ... Okely de ... in Com. Salop. 1649. * Exemplar Rotulorum Curiae diversorum Maneriorum Abbatiae Westmon sc. de anno primo secundo Ricardi III. In Officio Armorum * Râ—ntale hujus Ecclesiae MS. in Bibl. Coll. Vniv. Oxon. I. 10. Imperf * Jo. Fleet MS. de Fundatione dedicatione Abbatiae Westmon In Bibl. Westmon Eccles. 3. College of St. Martin near Aldgate A College of a Dean and Secular Canons founded by one Ingelricus and Edward his brother A. D. 1056. and confirm'd by King William the Conqueror A. D. 1068. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 26. * Collect. MSS. Rogeri Dodsworth in Bibl. Bodl. Vol. 24. 4. Clerkenwell A Benedictine Nunnery built by Iordan de Briset A. D. 1100. to the honour of the Assumption of our Lady It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 262 l. 19 s. per an Dugd. 28 l. 16 s. 5 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 428. Registrum in Bibl. Cotton Faust. B. 2. * Collect. MSS. Ricardi James in Bibl. Bodl. Vol. 7. 5. S. Iohn of Ierusalem A Priory of Knights Hospitalers of St. Iohn of Ierusalem founded by Iordanus Briset A. D. 1100. Upon the Suppression of the Templers which Order began A. D. 1119. and was seated here in the New Temple A. D. 1185. the best part of their lands were given A. D. 1324. to the Hospitalers whose yearly revenues at the Dissolution were worth 2385 l. 12 s. 8 d. Speed 3385 l. 19 s. 8 d. Stow. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 505. Registr in Bibl. Cotton 6. Christ-Church near Aldgate A Priory of Black Canons founded by Rich. Beaumey Bishop of London A. D. 1107. to the honour of the blessed Trinity This being the first Monastery that was dissolv'd by King Hen. VIII it was given by him to Sir Thomas Audley then Lord Chancellor A. D. 1533. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 80. 7. S. Bartholomew's in Smithfield A. D. 1123. Raherus built a Priory of Black Canons here It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 653 l. 15 s. per an Dugd. 757 l. 8 s. 4 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 166. 8. S. Helens near Bishopsgate-street A Benedictine Nunnery founded by William Fitz-William about A. D. 1160. It was endowed with 314 l. 2 s. 6 d. per an Dugd. 376 l. 6 s. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 894. 9. S. Mary de Bethlem without Bishopsgate A Priory of Black Canons founded by Simon Fitz-Mary A. D. 1247. It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 478 l. 6 s. 6 d. per an Dugd. 557 l. 14 s. 10 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p 382. 10. Nunnery without Aldgate Edmund Earl of Lancaster 21. Edw. I. built a Monastery for Nuns of the Order of St. Clare or Minoresses to the honour of the blessed Virgin and St. Francis It 's annual revenues at the Suppression was worth 318 l. 8 s. 5 d. Dugd. 342 l. 5 s. 10 d. ob Speed 418 l. 8 s. 5 d. Stow. Vide Monast. Angl. T. 1. p. 541. 11. â—lsingspittle by Cripplegate In old time it was a Nunnery but William Elsing got this house of the King and placed therein a Warden and four Secular Canons A. D. 1331. whom he changed A. D. 1340. into Regulars of the Order of St. Austin Adjoining to it was also a Hospital of his Foundation They were endowed at the Dissolution with 193 l. 15 s. 5 d. per an Dugd. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 462. 12. Corpus Christi College in Candleweek-street Founded by Iohn Pultney Lord Mayor of London 20. Edw. III. It was rated at 79 l. 17 s. 11 d. per an 13. Westminster King Edward III. finish'd the College here begun by King Stephen and therein placed a Dean twelve Secular Canons and thirteen Vicars four Clerks six Choristers to the honour of St. Stephen 22. Edw. III. It was endowed at the Suppression with 1085 l. 10 s. 5 d. per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 61. 14. S. Mary of Grace near the Tower A Cistercian Abby founded by King Edw. III. 25. Edw. III. It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 546 l. 10 d. per an Dugd. 602 l. 11 s. 10 d. Speed Vide Mon. Ang. T. 1. p. 943. 15. Charter-house A Carthusian Abby built by Sir Walter Manny A. D. 1372. to the honour of the Salutation of the blessed Virgin It 's yearly revenues at the Dissolution amounted to 642 l. 4 d. ob Dugd. 757 l. 8 s. 4 d. Speed In room of this Thomas Sutton Esq temp R. Iac. I. founded and largely endowed a most magnificent Hospitall consisting of a Master a Chaplain and several other Officers also eighty decay'd Gentlemen Souldiers and Merchants besides a Schoolmaster and Usher to instruct fourty four Scholars Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 961. * Domus Carthusiana or an account of the founder and foundation of the Charterhouse London by Sam. Hern. Lond. 1677. 8 vo 16. S. Michael in Crooked-Lane A College founded by Will. Walworth for a Master and nine Priests 4. Rich. II. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 104. 17. Barking A College founded by King Richard the third in the Chappel of our Lady within the Church of All-hallows Barking Stow p. 131. 18. Whitingdon-College The Executors of Richard Whitingdon sometime Lord Mayor of London endowed a College in the Church of Pater Noster A. D. 1424. and dedicated it to St. Michael It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 20 l. 1 s. 2 d. per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 177 189. MIDDLESEX 1. Stratford-Bow A Benedictine Nunnery dedicated to St. Leonard and founded by William Bishop of London temp R. Will. Conq. It 's yearly revenues were worth 108 l. 1 s. 11 d. ob Dugd. 121 l. 16 s. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 443. 2. Kylburn A Priory of Nuns of the Order of St. Benedict founded by Herebert Abbat of Westminster about A. D. 1139 to which Abby it was subordinate St. Iohn Baptist was the Tutelar Saint of this Priory It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 74 l. 7 s. 11 d. per an Dugd. 121 l. 16 s. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 361. 3. Haliwel A Benedictine Nunnery built by Robert Fitz-Gelran Canon of St. Paul's London temp Ric. I. to the honour of St. Iohn Baptist. It was valued at 293 l. per an Stow. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 531. 4. Syon King Henry V. founded an Abby here for sixty Nuns of the Order of St. Bridget thirteen Priests four Deacons eight Lay Brethren and commended it to the Patronage of St. Saviour and St. Bridget It was endowed at the Dissolution with 1731 l. 8 s. 4 d. ob q. per an Dugd. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 360. * Constitutiones Mon. de Syon
who annexed it as a Cell to the Abby of Conches in France It was made Prioratus Indigena 16. Rich. II. and its yearly revenues at the Dissolution were worth 162 l. 16 s. 11 d. ob Dugd. 123 l. 2 s. 3 d. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 414. 13. UUymondham or â—Uindham Will. de Albini temp Hen. I. founded here a Priory of Black Monks subordinate to St. Albans it was dedicated to St. Mary and rated at 211 l. 16 s. 6 d. per an Dugd. 72 l. 5 s. 4 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 337. Registr penes Will. le Neve Reg. Arm. Clarent 1640. * Registrum in Bibl. Cotton 14. Binham A Priory of Black Monks subordinate to St. Albans built by Petr. de Valoniis temp Hen. I. and dedicated to St. Mary Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 178 343. * Reg. penes D. Th. Widdrington 15. Tofteâ— An Alien-Priory to the Abby of Preaux in France to which it was given by Rob. Earl of Mellent and Leicester temp Hen. I. After the Suppression of these Priories King Henry VI. annexed the revenues of this Cell to the College of Eaton Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 598. T. 3. P. 2. p. 198. 16. Bromholm or Baâ—etun A Priory of Cluniac Monks built by William Glanvill A. D. 1113. temp Hen. I. to the honour of St. Andrew It was subordinate to the Abby of Castel-acre and rated 26. Hen. VIII at 100 l. 5 s. 3 d. q. per an Dugd. 144 l. 19 s. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 632. T. 2. p. 909. 17. Hempton or Falkinhindon v. Falkenham Roger de S. Martino temp Hen. I. built here a Priory of Black Canons to the honour of St. Mary and St. Stephen It was rated at 32 l. 14 s. 8 d. per an Dugd. 39 l. 9 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 362. 18. Pentney Rob. de Vauz temp R. Steph. built a Priory of Black Canons here to the honour of the Holy Trinity St. Mary and St. Mary Magdalene It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 170 l. 4 s. 9 d. per an Dugd. 215 l. 18 s. 8 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 19. 19. Thetford A Priory of Canons Regular of the Order of the holy Sepulcher founded by William Earl of Warren temp R. Steph. It was endowed at the Suppression with 39 l. 6 s. 8 d. per an Dugd. 49 l. 18 s. 1 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 574. 20. Buckenham Will. Earl of Chichester temp R. Steph. built a Priory of Black Canons here and commended it to the Patronage of St. Mary and St. Iames. It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 108 l. 10 s. 2 d. per an Dugd. 131 l. 11 s. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 274. 21. Carow Cardiou Speed A Benedictine Nunnery founded by King Stephen and dedicated to the blessed Virgin It 's yearly revenues at the Dissolution were worth 64 l. 16 s. 6 d. per an Dugd. 84 l. 12 s. 1 d. Speed Vide Monast. Angl. T. 1. p. 426. 22. Carbroke A Commandery of the Knights of St. Iohn of Ierusalem given them by Maud Countess of Clare temp Hen. II. It was worth 65 l. 2 s. 9 d. per an at the Dissolution Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 546. 23. UUaburn Sir Ralph Meyngarin Knight temp Hen. II. founded a Priory of Benedictines here which was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 24 l. 19 s. 6 d. per an Dugd. 28 l. 7 s. 2 d. Speed Vid. Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 490. 24. Cokesford in Rudeham Budham Sp. Will. Cheny temp Hen. II. founded here a Priory of Regular Canons of St. Austin's Order and commended it to the Patronage of the blessed Virgin It 's yearly revenues were worth 121 l. 18 s. 10 d. ob Dugd. 153 l. 7 s. 1 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 234. 25. Reinham A Cell of Cluniac Monks to the Abby of Castel-Acre founded by William de Lisewis about A. D. 1180. St. Iohn the Evangelist was the Tutelar Saint of this Priory Vide Mon. Ang. T. 1. p. 636. 26. Shouldeham Galfr. Fitz-Piers Earl of Essex temp Rich. I. founded a Gilbertine Nunnery here and dedicated it to the Virgin Mary and the Holy Cross. It was endowed at the Suppression with 138 l. 18 s. 1 d. per an Dugd. 171 l. 6 s. 8 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 820. 27. Langley An Abby of Praemonstratensian Canons built by Rob. fil Rogeri temp R. Ioh. to the honour of the blessed Virgin It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 104 l. 16 s. 5 d. ob per an Dugd. 128 l. 19 s. 9 d. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 659. 28. Dickling A Priory of Black Canons dedicated to S. Austin and All-Saints founded by Theobald de Valentia temp Reg. Ioh. It was endowed at the Suppression with 100 l. 18 s. 7 d. ob q. per an Dugd. 137 l. 1 d. ob q. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 319. 29. Wirmegay A Priory founded by William de Warren temp Reg. Iohan. 30. Biston or Beeston A Benedictine Priory founded by the Lady Cressy valued 26. Hen. VIII at 43 l. 2 s. 4 d. ob per an Dugd. 50 l. 6 s. 4 d. ob q. Speed Vide Monast. Angl. T. 1. p. 545. 31. Blackborough A Benedictine Nunnery dedicated to St. Mary and St. Catherine founded by Roger Scalies and Muriel his wife endowed at the Suppression with 42 l. 6 s. 7 d. ob per an Dugd. 76 l. 3 s. 9 d. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 478. T. 2. p. 879. Registr in Biblioth Spelman 1640. 32. Crabhouse A Nunnery of St. Austins Order valued at 24 l. 19 s. 6 d. per an Dugd. 31 l. 16 s. 7 d. Speed 33. Thetford A Benedictine Nunnery dedicated to St. Gregory founded by ... Abbat of St. Edmundsbury Endowed with 40 l. 11 s. 2 d. ob per an Dugd. 50 l. 9 s. 8 d. Speed 34. Weybridge or Wexbridge A Priory dedicated to St. Margaret valued at 7 l. 13 s. 4 d. 35. Wirham A Benedictine Nunnery dedicated to St. Wynwale 36. Little Ingham A Priory of the Trinitarian Order founded by Will. Stafferton endowed at the Suppression with 61 l. 9 s. 7 d. ob q. per an Dugd. 74 l. 2 s. 7 d. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 833. 37. Flytcham A Nunnery Cell to Walsingham The annual income of this Priory at the Dissolution was 55 l. 5 s. 6 d. ob q. Dugd. 62 l. 10 s. 6 d. ob Speed 38. Marmound A Gilbertine Nunnery valued 26. Hen. VIII at 10 l. 7 s. 7 d. per an Dugd. 13 l. 6 s. 1 d. ob Speed 39. Lesingham An Alien-Priory founded by Sir Thomas de Lesmgham given by King Henry VI. to Eaton College Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 198. 40. Wenghale A Nunnery subordinate to the Monastery of
should be in Devonshire Westbury in Glocestershire and Fareley which is in Wiltshire STAFFORD-SHIRE 1. Litchfield KIng Oswy A. D. 656. built a Cathedral Church and placed here a Bishop for the Kingdom of Mercia King Offa about A. D. 786. made it an Arch-bishops See which honour it enjoy'd for ten years and then was again subjected to Canterbury It was translated A. D. 1075. to Chester and from thence to Coventry A. D. 1102. but the Bishops being not long after settled here again Bishop Clinton about A. D. 1140. built a new Cathedral Church and restored and augmented the Chapter Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 2. p. 216. Angl. Sacr. T. 1. p. 423. * Registra Cartas c. penes Dec. Capitulum ** Cronicon Litchfeldensis Ecclesiae MS. in Bibl. Musaei Ashmoleani Oxon. N. 770. * Acta Capitularia Transcripta Cartarum c. ad Eccles. Litchfeldensem spectantia Ibid. N. 794 827. 2. Stone Wolphere King of Mercia founded a College of Secular Canons here about A. D. 675. in memory of his Son Wolfade whom he here martyr'd After the Conquest Robert Lord Stafford temp Hen. I. erected a Priory of Black Canons here which was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 119 l. 14 s. 11 d. per an Sp. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 119. Registr in Bibl. Hatton 1640. 3. Tamworth Here was an ancient Benedictine Nunnery founded by Editha daughter to king Edgar But after the Conquest the Nuns were translated to Pollesworth by R. Marmion one of which family placed here Secualr Canons Camd. 4. Wolverhampton Here was a College of Secular Canons built by a Religious Matron called Wulfrunna about A. D. 996. to the honour of St. Mary and St. Peter It was afterward annexed to the Dean and Chapter of Windsor Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 988. Dr. Plot 's History of Staffordshire Chap. X. § 39 40. Oxon. 1686. fol. 5. Burton upon Trent A. D. 1004. Wulfric Spot founded this Abby for Monks of the Order of St Benedict and dedicated it to St. Mary and St. Modwen It was valued 26 Hen. VIII at 267 l. 14 s. 3 d. per an Dugd. 356 l. 16 s. 3 d. ob Speed Vide Mon Angl. T. 1. p. 265. T. 2. p. 869. Annales Burtonenses a Fundation◠ad A. D. 1262. Edit Oxon. A. D. 1684. fol. Registr penes Will. Dom. Paget de Beaudsert 1650. MS. 6. Lappele An Alien-Priory of Black Monks to the Abby of St. Remigius at Rhemes to which it was given by Earl Algar temp Edw. Conf. King Henry V. gave it to Tong College in Shropshire Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 1022. T. 3. P. 2. p. 145. 7. Iutbury A Cluniac Priory dedicated to the blessed Virgin founded by Henry Ferrers A. D. 1081 It was endowed at the Dissolution with 244 l. 16 s. 8 d. per an Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 345. T. 2. p. 873. Registr penes Henr. Agard de Foston mil. Registrum penes Will. Com. Devon * Collectanea quaedam ex Registro de Tutbury MSS. Ashmol 804. 8. Canwell Geva wife to Galfrid Ridell temp Hen. I. built a Monastery for Benedictine Monks here to the honour of St. Mary St. Giles and All-Saints Valued at 25 l. 10 s. 3 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 439. 9. Blythbury A Benedictine Nunnery founded by Hugh Malveism temp Hen. I. St. Giles was the Tutelar Saint of this Priory Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 468. 10. Penkridge The Church here being endowed and made Collegiate by one Hugo Huose temp R. Steph. the advowson of it was given by King Iohn to the Archbishoprick of Dublin Vide Plot 's Hist. of Staffordsh Ch. X. § 81 82. * Apographa Cartarum penes V. Doctiss. Joh. Mill S. T. Pr. Principal Aulae S. Edm. Oxon. 11. Trentham A Priory of Black Canons founded by Ramulph Earl of Chester temp R. Steph. It was endowed at the Suppression with 106 l. 3 s. 10 d. per an Dugd. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 260. * Munim pen. Will. Leveson Gower de ead Arm. 12. Roucester Richard Bacun about A. D. 1140. built a Priory of Black Canons here to the honour of the blessed Virgin It was valued at 100 l. 2 s. 10 d. per an Dugd. 111 l. 13 s. 7 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 267. 13. Fairweld A Nunnery of Benedictines founded by Roger Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield A. D. 1140. It was dedicated to St. Mary Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 441. 14. Radmore A Cistercian Abby founded by Ralph Earl of Chester temp R. Steph. hence removed to Stonely in Com. Warw. by Hen. II. A. D. 1154. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 820. 15. Sandwell Will. de Offney temp Hen. II. founded a Monastery for Cluniac Monks here valued at 38 l. 8 s. 4 d. per an Speed Vide Monast. Angl. T. 1. p. 475. 16. Dudley A Priory of Cluniac Monks subordinate to Wenlock it was built by Gervase Painell temp Hen. II. to the honour of St. Iames. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 614. 17. Stafford A Priory of Black Canons built by Ric. Peche Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield A. D. 1162. to the memory of St. Thomas of Canterbury It s yearly revenues were worth 141 l. 13 s. 2 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 316. * Reg. penes ... Fowler de ead 18. Croxton A. D. 1176. Bertram de Verdon founded a Cistercian Abby at Coats which was three years after removed hither and dedicated to St. Mary It 's yearly revenues at the Dissolution were worth 90 l. 5 s. 11 d. Dugd. 103 l. 6 s. 5 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 912. T. 3. P. 1. p. 40. Chronica in Bibl. Cotton * Reg. penes Will. Pierpoint de Tong Castel 19. Raunton A Priory of Black Canons subordinate to Haghmon in Com. Salop. built by Rob. fil Noeli about A. D. 1190. to the honour of the blessed Virgin It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 90 l. 2 s. 10 d. per an Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 143. 940. T. 3. P. 1. p. 53. Cartular in Bibl. Cotton 20. Calwich A Cell of Black Canons to Kenelworth of the gift of Nicholas Fitz-Nigel Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 119. 21. Delacres A Cistercian Abby founded by Ranulph Earl of Chester A. D. 1214. who translated the Monks from Pulton in Cheshire hither and dedicated it to St. Mary and St. Benedict It was endowed at the Dissolution with 227 l. 5 s. per an Dugd. 243 l. 3 s. 6 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 890. T. 2. p. 919. * Reg. penes ... Rudyard de ead 22. Hulton Henry de Audley A. D. 1223. erected a Cistertian Abby here to the honour of the blessed Virgin It was valued at 76 l. 14 s. 10 d. per an Sp. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 942. 23. Brewood A Benedictine Nunnery valued at 17 l. 10 s. 8 d. per an Dugd.
11 l. 1 s. 6 d. Speed 24. Catune A Benedictine Nunnery Speed 25. Briuerne Mr. Speed tells us that here was two Priories one of Black Monks dedicated to St. Mary the other for White Nuns dedicated to St. Leonard 26. Tetnall A Collegiate Church 27. Stafford A College of a Dean and Canons dedicated to St. Mory ☞ Mr. Speed placeth Chetwood in this County which is in Buckinghamshire and Merivall which is in Warwickshire SUFFOLK 1. Burgh-Castle or Cnobbersburgh AN ancient Monastery founded by one Fursaeus a Scot in the reign of Sigebert King of the East-Angles A. D. 636. Camd. 2. Stoke-Clare There was a College for seven Secular Canons founded by one Eluric temp Edw. Conf. at Clare A. D. 1090. Gilbert de Clare gave it to the Monks at Bec in Normandy so it became a Cell to that Abby A. D. 1123. Richard son to the said Gilbert removed the Monks out of the Castle to a neighbouring place called Stoke King Rich. II. made it Prioratus indigena and temp Hen. V. the Black Monks were again changed for Secular Canons by Edmund Mortimer Earl of March It was dedicated to St. Iohn Baptist and valued 26. Hen. VIII at 324 l. 4 s. 1 d. ob q. per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 535 1004. T. 3. P. 2. p. 164. Registr in Bibl. Cotton * Registrum penes Dominum Stanhope * Registrum penes Egidium Bernardiston de Clare A. D. 1638. 3. Fdmundsbury A. D. 1020. King Canute built a Benedictine Abby here to the honour of St. Edmund the King who was here martyr'd by the Danes It s yearly revenues at the Dissolution were worth 1659 l. 13 s. 11 d. ob Dugd. 2336 l. 16 s. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 284. Reyner Apost Bened. T. 2. p. 141. Registr in Officio Ducatus Lancastrensis Registr 3. penes Rogerum Bacon Eq. Aur. * Collectanea MS. Aug. Baker Mon. Ord. S. Bened. in Bibl. Coll. Jesu Oxon. Vol. I. * Reg. duo penes Sim. D'Ewes mil. uno Kemp altero Werketon nominato * Registrum penes Th. Edes LLD. 1641. * Cronicon Jocelini de Brakeland res domesticas Coenobii S. Edmundi Burgensis accurate narrans ab A. D. 1170. ad A. Ch. 1215. In Bibl. Cotton Vitellius D. 15. 2. 4. Eye A Priory of Benedictines founded by Robert Malet temp Will. Conq. and commended to the Patronage of St. Peter It was a Cell to Bernay in Normandy but Rich. II. made it Prioratus indigena and so it continued till the Suppression at which time it was rated at 161 l. 2 s. 3 d. per an Dugd. 184 l. 9 s. 7 d. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 356. Reg. penes Th. Dey de Eya Gen. 1650. 5. Blakenham Walt. Giffard temp Will. Rufi gave this Mannor to the Abby of Bec in Normandy and so it became a Cell to that Abby After the Dissolution of Alien-Priories King Hen. VI. gave it to Eaton College Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 573. T. 2. p. 954. T. 3. P. 2. p. 198. 6. Creting Rob. Earl of Morton about A. D. 1090. gave this Lordship to Grestein in Normandy to which it was an Alien-Priory King Hen. VI. gave it to Eaton College Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 982. T. 3. P. 2. p. 198. 7. Ixworth A Priory of Black Canons built by Gilbert Blund temp Will. Rufâ— to the honour of S. Mary It was endowed with 168 l. 19 s. 7 d. ob q. Dugd. 180 l. 9 s. 5 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 184. 8. Brisete About A. D. 1100. Ralph Fitz-Brian erected 〈◊〉 Priory here for Canons of the Order of St. Austin It s Tutelar Saint was St. Leonard Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 86. 9. Bliburgh An Abby of Premonstratensian Canons built â—o the honour of the blessed Virgin by ... Abâ—at of Chich temp Hen. I. Valued at 48 l. 8 s. 10 d. 〈◊〉 an Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 593. 10. Fdwardestow A Cell of Black Monks to Abingdon thereunto given by Hubert Munchensi about A. D. 1115. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 468. 11. Redlingfield A. D. 1120. Manasses Earl of Gisnes built a Benedictine Nunnery here to the honour of St. Andrew It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 67 l. 1 d. ob Dugd. 81 l. 2 s. 5 d. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 417. 12. Romburgh A Beneaictine Priory dedicated to St. Michael Cell to the Abby of St. Mary at York to which it was given by Alan Earl of Richmond about A. D. 1140. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 404. 13. Sibton A. D. 1150. Will. de Cayneto founded a Cistercian Abby here and commended it to the Patronage of the blessed Virgin In 26. Hen. VIII it was found able to dispend 2â—0 l. 15 s. 7 l. ob per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 866. T. 3. P. 2. p. 32. Registr in Bibl. Arundel nunc in Bibl. Coll. Gresham * Registr penes Tho. Scrivener 14. Snapes A Cell to the Abby of St. Iohn at Colchester founded by Will. Martell A. D. 1155. and dedicated to the blessed Virgin King Hen. VII gave it to the Canons of Butley It was rated at 99 l. 1 s. 11 d. ob Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 894. T. 3. P. 1. p. 74. 15. Butley A. D. 1171. Ralph Glanvill founded a Priory of Black Canons and dedicated it to St. Mary It was valued 26. Hen. VIII at 318 l. 17 s. 2 d. ob per an Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 245. T. 3. P. I. p. 110. 16. Leiston An Abby of Premonstratensian Canons built by Ralph de Glanvill A. D. 1183. to the honour of the Virgin Mary It s yearly revenues at the Suppression were worth 181 l. 17 s. 1 d. q. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 606. T. 3. P. 1. p. 74. Registr in Bibl. Cotton 17. Ipswich A Priory of Black Canons dedicated to the Holy Trinity founded by Norman fil Enott temp Hen. II. Endowed with 86 l. 6 s. 9 d. per an Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 295. 18. Bungey A Benedictine Nunnery dedicated to the holy Cross and founded by Roger de Glanvill and the Lady Gundreda his wife temp Hen. II. Endowed 26. Hen. VIII with 62 l. 2 s. 1 d. ob per an Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 513. 19. Campess Theobald de Valoins 5. Ioh. built a Benedictine Nunnery here and dedicated it to the blessed Virgin It was endowed with 182 l. 9 s. 5 d. per an Speed In the Chappel of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin within the Church of this Priory Maud Sister to Henry Earl of Lancaster founded 21. Edw. III. a Collegiate Chantry of a Warden and four Priests it was not long after removed to Brusiard Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 490. 20. Ipswich A Priory of Black Canons dedicated to St. Peter and founded by Thomas Lacy and Alice his wife It was valued
868. 16. Whiston A Nunnery founded by the Abbat and Convent of Worcester A. D. 1255 It was endowed at the Dissolution with 53 l. 3 s. 7 d. per an Dugd. 56 l. 3 s. 7 d. Speed 17. Cokehill A Priory of White Nuns founded by Isabella Countess of Warwick about A. D. 1260 Valued at 35 l. 9 s. 3 d. per an Dugd. 34 l. 15 s. 11 d. Speed 18. Astley An Alien-Priory to the Abby of St. Taurinus at Ebroix ☞ The Monasteries of Alnecester and Wotton-Wawen which are in Warwickshire are placed in Mr. Speed's Catalogue under this County where also are there said to be Halesowen and Penwortham the former of which is in Shropshire and the latter in Lancashire YORK-SHIRE 1. York PAulinus was consecrated the first Arch-bishop of York A. D. 625. who having converted Edwyn King of the Northumbers to the Christian saith built a small Church here to the honour of St. Peter This being destroyed by the Danes Thomas the first Norman Arch-bishop A. D. 1067. laid the foundation of the stately Cathedral now standing Vide Mon. Angl. T. 3. P. 1. p. 128. Thomae Stubbs Acta Pontiâ—icum Eboracensium Inter X. Script Hist. Angl. Lond. 1652. â—ol 2. Lestinghan An ancient Monastery founded by St. Cedd A. D. 648. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 62. 3. UUhitby ol Strenshall A Monastery founded by S. Hilda about A. D. 650. destroyed by the Danes but reâ—dified for Benedictine Monks by Will. de Percy to the honour of St. Peter and St. Hilda A. D. 1067. It s yearly revenues at the Dissolution were worth 437 l. 2 s. 9 â— Dugd. 505 l. 9 s. 1 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 71 988. Registr pâ—nes Hug. Cholmondley mil. 1640. 4. Rippon St. Wilfrid about A. D. 660. built a Monastery here which in succeeding ages became a College for a Dean and Secular Canons It was dedicated to St. Peter and valued 26. Hen. VIII at 35 l. 3 s. 8 d. per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 172. T. 3. P. 2. p. 87. Registra Cartas c. penes Decan Capit. Rippon * The history of the Collegiate Church of Rippon by Sir Tho. Herbert MS. penes V. Doctiss. Thomam Gale Scholae S. Pauli Lond. Archididascalum 5. Beverley A Monastery dedicated to St. Iohn the Evangelist founded by Iohn de Beverley about A. D. 720. It was destroyed by the Danes 146. years after but reedified by King Aethelstan in memory of S. Iohn de Beverley and Canons Secular placed here At the Suppression it was endowed with 109 l. 8 s. 8 d. ob per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 171. T. 3. P. 2. p. 1. * Registrum penes Franc. Thorp Baronem Scaccarii tempore Vsurpationis Cromwellianae * Statuta Cartularium hujus Collegii In Biblioth Coll. Univ. Oxon. F. 1. 6. York Here were Culdees in the Church of St. Peter A. D. 936. at which time King Aethelstan endowed it with lands but after the Conquest it became a Priory of Black Canons and an Hospital the Church being rebuilt by King Stephen it was by him dedicated to St. Leonard The foundation consisted of a Master thirteen Brethren four Secular Priests eight Sisters thirty Choristers two Schoolmasters two hundred and six Beadmen and six Servitors The revenues 26. Hen. VIII amounted to 362 l. 11 s. 1 d. ob per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 367. Registr in Bibl. Cotton 7. Selby A Benedictine Abby founded by King William the Conqueror and commended to the Patronage of St. Mary and St. German It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 729 l. 12 s. 10 d. per an Dugd. 819 l. 2 s. 6 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 371. Reyner Apost Bened. T. 2. p. 155. Registr penes Th. Walmesly de Dunkehalgh in Com. Lanc. Arm. 1620. Apographum bujus Registri est inter MSS. Viri rei Antiquariae peritissimi Nath. Johnston M. D. de Pontfract qui agri Eboracensis Antiquitates jam sub manibus habet unde pleniorem Abbatiarum Prioratuum aliorum locorum Religiosorum Historiam expectet Orbis eruditus Cartular in Archivis Ducatus Lancastr * Tenementa Mon. de Selby in Bibl. Cotton Cleop. D. 34. * Collectiones MSS. Rogeri Dodsworthi in Bibl. Bodl. Vol. 118. 8. York A. D. 1088. Alan Earl of Richmund built a stately Abby here for Black Monks to the honour of St. Olave but it was afterward dedicated to the blessed Virgin by the command of King William Rufus It s yearly revenues at the Suppression amounted to 1550 l. 7 s. q. Dugd. 2085 l. 1 s. 5 d. ob q. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 383. T. 3. P. 1. p. 9. Reyner Apost Bened. in Anglia Tr. 2. p. 145. Registr in Biblioth Deuvesiana 1646. Steph. Witebiensem de fundatione Mon. S. Mariae Ebor. Historia ejusdem Mon. una cum figuris Abbatum Sciagraphice depictis c. In Bibl. Bodl. NE. A. 3. 20. * Reg. penes Decan Capit. Eborac * Collectanea MS. Rogeri Dodsworthi in Bibl. Bodl. Vol. 7. 9. 9. York A Priory dedicated to the Holy Trinity and subordinate to Marmonstier in France It was founded by Ralph Painell A. D. 1089. for Benedictine Monks and valued 26. Hen. VIII at 169 l. 9 s. 10 d. per an Dugd. 196 l. 17 s. 2 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 563. 10. Hakeness A Cell to Whitby to which it was given by William de Percy temp Will. Rufi Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 414. 11. Richmond A Cell to the Abby of St. Mary at York to which it was given by Wymar Sewer to the Earl of Richmond about A. D. 1100. St. Martin was the Patron of this Priory which was endowed with 43 l. 16 s. 8 d. per an Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 388 401. * Reg. in Bibl. Cotton 12. Bridlington A Priory of Black Canons founded by Walter de Gant temp Hen. I. and dedicated to S. Mary and S. Nicholas It was rated 26. Hen. VIII at 547 l. 6 s. 11 d. ob per an Dugd. 682 l. 13 s. 9 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 161. Registr pen. Will. Ingleby de Rippon Equ Aur. * Cartularium penes Ric. Maleverer Bar. * Collect. MSS. Rogeri Dodsworthi in Bibl. Bodl. Oxon. Vol. 159. * Registrum penes Joh. Bellengham de Levens in Com. Westm. 13. Birstall An Alien-Priory to the Abby of St. Martin de Albamarle in Normandy to which it was given by Stephen Earl of Albamarle A. D. 1115. Vide Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 587. 14. Gisborn A. D. 1119. Rob. de Brus built a Priory of Black Canons here to the honour of the blessed Virgin It s yearly revenues at the Dissolution were worth 628 l. 3 s. 4 d. Dugd. 712 l. 6 s. 6 d. Speed Vide Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 147. T. 3. P. 1. p. 46. Annotationes Cartarum de Gisborn in Bibl. Cotton Cleop. D. 2. * Rogeri
Thetford Bishop Herb. 148. Theyer John 162. S. Thomas of Canterb. 32. 90 103 110 126 166 167 200 206 219 269 284. Thorold Will. 101 118. Thoroton Rob. 172 176. Thorp Franc. 249. Threlkeld Rob. 36. Throgmorton Clem. 246. Thurstan Archbishop 254. de Tindale Adam 170. Todd Hugh 34 35. Todenei Ralph 147. Tola 53. Toney Ralph 84. Rog. 88. de Totney Rob. 111. Trevor Anth. 9. Sir John 254. Holy Trinity 3 9 37 46 67 76 77 79 80 104 106 115 134 137 142 148 151 166 173 176 213 224 225 234 253 266 269 270 281. Trusbut Galfr. 255. de Turbervill Walt. 240. de Turnham Rob. 102 265. Twine Brian 2. V de Valentia Peter 150. Theobald 153 214. S. Valery 63. de Vallibus Rob. 36 151. de Valoins see de Valentia de Verdun Bertram 206. Roisia 115. de Vere Alberic 24 61 65. Lucia 60. Rob. 102. Vernon ... 191. Sir John 242. S. Victor 242. S. Vincent 143. Ulton Countess 216. Unfranvile ... 170. de Vauz see de Vallibus W Wake Thomas Lord 269. Baldw. 119 120 Hugh 120. de S. Walerico Bern. 182. de Walingford Maud 239. Walmesly Tho. 250. Walter Sir John 180. Theobald 107. Walworth Will. 140. S. Wandragisilius 241. de la Ware Charles Lord 77. Tho. Lord 110. Warlewast William 30 31 43 221. Warren Regin 154. Will. 148 151 154 158 220 223 260. Warwick Countess Isabella 247. Earls Henry 228 229. Roger 229. Wells Bishop John 195. de Wendling Will. 157. Wentworth Joh. 263 264. S. Werburga 26 161. Westmorland Earls ... 21. Ralph 59. Whalley Rich. 174. Wharton Henry Wharton Lord ... 266. Whethamstede John 88. White Sir Tho. 186. Whitingdon Rich. 140. de Wickham Will. 83. Wictred King 98. de Widevile Sir Will. 164. Widdrington Sir Thom. 148 150. Wiglaf King 245. Wikes Tho. 179. S. Wilfrid 28 168 221 249. K. William Conq. 22 53 61 70 77 93 130 221 223 246 250. K. William Rufus 34 44. Willoughby Lord 117. de Wilton Alan 58. Wiltshire Bishop Ethelstan 237. Winchester Bishops Eleutherius 236. Ethelwold 20 21 75 76. Henry 15. John 82 233. Peter 80 190 212. William 76 83 197 218 219. Earl Robert 115. Windham Wadham 196 200. Wingfield Sir Robert 159 160. S. Winwale 155. de Wirce Galfr. 227. Witebiensis Steph. 251. S. Withburga 146. S. Wolfade 202. Wolsey Cardinal 17 178 214 286. Wood Ant. 49 178. de Woodstock Tho. 67. Woodward Rob. 4. Worcester Bishops Aldred 68. Egwin 244. Oswald 69 243 245. Will. 246. Wulstan 245. Worsley Henr. 4 136 178 180. Wortly Franc. 264. Wray ... 2. Wright John 187. de Wudetun John 179. Wulphere King 26 160 188 202. S. Wulstan 243 245 287. Wyckham Paganus 265. de la Wyle Walt. 241. Wymarus 214 251. Wyrley Will. 178 180. Y York Archbishops Paulinus 172 248. Rog. 261. Tho. 168 271. Thurstan 254. Duke Edward 163. Z Zouch Lord ... 167. Lord Will. 234. Sir Will 201. FINIS ERRATA PAge 7. l. 1. of is wanting p. 16. l. 3. and p. 68. l. 20. p. 73. l. 21. for M. A. read B. D. p. 35. l. 21. for Lowther read Whitehaven p. 56. l. 20. Lindisfarn p. 69. l. 29. strike out again p. 71. l. 9. leave out it p. 74. l. 13. VVilliam Cannings is upon the authority of Speed mentioned as Founder of VVestbury College whereas he is only Dean who was the Founder I cannot learn but Iohn Carpenter Bishop of Vâ—orcester was a great Benefactor to it about A. D. 1450. See Godwin de Prâ—sulibus Angliai p. 519. p. 85. l. 16. read Dominum p. 137. l. 21. leave out it p. 145. l. 6. for at read with p. 176. l. 27. for Edw. II. read Edw. IV. p. 178. l. ult p. 180. l. 19. Historia a Fundationis Abbatiarum de Oseney S. Fridiswid Oxon. que dicitur esse penes Henr. Worsley de Hosp. Lincoln Arm. est peculium Viri summâ— industria Oxoniensium Antiquitatum restauratoris Antonii Wood A. M. quem penes sunt plurimâ— Cartae Originales spectantes ad Abbatias Frioratus de Oseney Tame in Com. Oxon. Tickford Nutley Caldwell Ravenston in Com. Ruck S. Nichol. de Tiptree Blackmore Stanesgate in Com. Essex Tunbridge Lesnes Begham ix Com. Cant. Daventre in Com. Northamp Canwell in Com. Staff Walingford in Com. Berk. de Calceto juxtâ— Arundell in Com. Suss. p. 191. l. 21. for 1131. read 1411. p. â—29 l. 3. for Sim. read Iac. p. 270. l. 15. for Shirlaâ— read Skirlaw a Iâ— Praef. ad Britanniam b Fâ—n Mâ—â— a Dr. Ralph â—athuâ—st Pres. of Trin. Coll. Oxon. a Coâ—cil Tom. 1. p. 215. a Bromton col 994. Mon. Angl. Tom. 2. p. 572. b p. 158. c Surv. Lond. 930. d Antiquities of Canterb. p. 89. a Vid. Edm. Gibâ—oni Prâ—f in Chron. Saxon. Angl Saâ—r T. 1. p. 4â—9 b Ibid. p. 274. a Sir G. Mackensy in his defence of the Royal Line of Scotland p. 13. a Antiq. of the British Churches p. 185. b Th. Rudburn Hist. Maj. L. I. Cap. 3. a Britannia edit 1607. p. 457. b Wiâ—h Malmsb. de Antiq Glasâ—on Oxon. 1691. c De Regibus l. I. c. 22. d Spelm. Coâ—â— T. â— p. 25. a Eccl. Hist. Lib. II. c. 2. b Edit Oxon. 1691. p. 20. c Ibid. p. 21. d MS. discourse concerning the beginners of a Monasâ—ick Life e Eccl. Hist. II. 8. a X. Script Loâ—d 1651. col 2232. b XV. Script Oxon 1691. p. 58. a Leland Coll. MS. Vol. 1. fol. 8. b Angl. Sacr. T. 1. p. 2â—6 c X. Script col 1643. d Ibid. col 1645. a Lond. 1623. p. 145. a Bed Eccl. Hist. Lib. III. cap. 27. a X. Script col 206. b Collect. vol. 4. fol 37. c Fâ—n Monuâ— d Warwicksh p. 797. a Bâ—d Eccl. Hist. III. 5. IV. 11. b 〈◊〉 Gloss. 〈◊〉 Monasterium a Angl. Satr T. 2. p. 91. b Eccl. Hist. Lib. V. p. 3. c Sim. Dunelm Praef. d Edit Oxon p. 40. a X. Script col 132. b M. Paris Lond. 1684. p. 322. a X. Script col 1639. a X Script col 1310. b Ibid. col 1311. a Sir Will. Temple in his Intr. to Engl. Hist. p. 175. a See Sir Peter Leicesteâ—'s History of Cheshire b Transcript Coâ— Warwic ex 〈◊〉 inter MSS. Dugdâ—l in Musaeo c Ashmol Oxon. â—c d Transcript Com. Bâ—â—ks Sâ—â—â—â—ord ibid 〈◊〉 MSS. Ashmol e Dr. Thoroton's Hist. of Nottinghamsh a Inter MSS. Junian 121. a X. Script col 2363. Angl. Saer T. 1. p. 255. b See Sir Will. 〈…〉 p. 2â—4 a Aâ—nal Waverl in eâ—d anno Mat. Paris in A. D. 1151. b Walt. Hemingford Lib. II. cap. 73. a Pulton's Statâ—â—â— p. 43. b X. Script col 1691. a Puâ—tons Statutes p. 1â—â— a 〈…〉 b 〈◊〉 a Warwickshire p. 80â— 8â—1 8â—2 b MS. in Bibl. Cotton 〈…〉 a Letter of T. Norton to a Parl. Man in 〈◊〉 1581. 〈◊〉 Râ—g Twisdâ—â— Bar. Life of Henry VIâ—I by Lord Herbert p. 173. b
Qu. b Not Black Monks as MS. Bodl. c A. D. 1130. Speed d There are several of this family named Richard in the Baronage of England T. 1. p. 206. c. tho' I am not certain to which of them the Foundation of this Monastery is to be ascribed a William de Malbedeâ—g Speed b Not a Priory of Black Canons as in Speed's Catalogue c Leland Itinerary Vol. 5. f. 42. d Ibid. f. 41. a Thus the Inquisition Mon. Angl. T. 2. p. 5. but Lelanâ— Mon. Angl. T. 1. P. 2. p. 13. saith that the Regulars were introduced by Barth Bishop of Exon. who lived about A. D. 1170 b What Leland saith of this Monastery is very observable thâ—â— at Bodmin were first Monks then Nuns then Secular Priests then Monks again then Canons the last foundation was by Will Warlewast Bishop of Exon. Speed farther adds that after thâ— Black Canons were Grey Friers but this is one of his errors 〈◊〉 also is his assigning St. Peter to be the Patron of this Priory This last Author tells us of a Priory of Black Canons founded 〈◊〉 King Aethelstan to the honour of St. Petrorsi at Bonury buâ— in all probability it is the same with Bodmin c Camden in Damnoniis d Taxatio Beneâ—ic Angliae 20. Ed. I. MS. in Bibl. Bodl. e Not William as Mr. Speed has it whose two Monasteries of St. Michael de Monte and St. Michael de magno Monte were without doubt the same f It was an oversight of Mr. Speed to tell us that Walter Bronescone was Bishop of Oxford A. D. 1288. g I am yet to learn who are meant by Mr. Speed's Black Monks of the Angels of which Order he saith were three Monasteries in this Shire beside this viz. S. Mary de Val S. Michael de Monte and S. Anthony a Falsly placed in Yorkshire by Reyâ—er and Speed b Not in Lancashire as in Speed * Not Ranulph I. as in the Baronage T. 1. p. 38. for he died A. D. 1129. c Leland Coll. vol. 1. p. 46. a This Will. Fitz-Nigell was probably the same with the Founder of Norton Priory in Cheshire who lived about A. D. 1140. b Yevelay and Barrow were not both Praeceptories as Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 1039. but Yevelay only as Tom. 2. p. 546. c Leland Coll. voll 1. p. 60 d Reyner Catal. Mon. MS. Bodl. a I Hooker's History of the Cathedral Church of Exâ—ter in Hollingshed Vol 2. p. 1027. b Not founded by Baldw. Redvers of Devon temp Hen. III. as in Speed c Leland Coll. vol. 1. p. 76. d Speed saith that one Roger Newman was founder of this Priory e Falsly placed by Mr. Speed in Somersetshire f A Priory of Black Canons dedicated to St. Nicholas MS. Bodl. g Not Grey-Friers as in Speed's Catalogue h Leland Itin. Vol. 3. i Not two distinct Priories as in Speed k Founded by Thomas Earl of Devon-shire Speed l Speed Reyner m In 〈…〉 n Leland Erâ—oneously reckoned among the 〈…〉 a Falsly reckoned among the Wiltshire Monasteries by Mr. Speed b Dedicated to St. Mary and St. Saviour Sp. c S. Adelwold was also Patron of this Abby according to Speed d Dedicated to St. 〈◊〉 MS. Bodl. e Erroneously placed by the Editors of the Monasticon T. 1. p. 1036. in Wiltshire f 'T is a wide mistake of Math. Westminster Lib. 2. p. 145. to tell the World that this Nunnery was in Wiltshire g Not an Alien-Priory as in the Monasticon a White Canons MS. Bodl. Leland b Founded by Ralph of Multon MS Ashmol By Conan Earl of Britanny and Richmond Speed c Leland Liber Taxat MS. d Reyner Speed a Weaver's Funeral Mon. b Not A. D. 630. as in Râ—â—ner because Erâ—â—nwald was not made Bishop of London till A. D. 675. c Not in Hertfordshire where 't is placed by the Editors of the Monastiâ—oâ— d Erroneously called Pipewell by Mr. Speed e 'T is a great mistake in Reyner to place this Priory in Wiltshire f Founded â—mp Hen. III. Speed g Founded by Iohn Hawkwood Knight Iohn Oliver and Tho. Neweâ—ton Esquires Speed h Falsly placed in Hertfordshire by Mr. Speed who also confounds it with Mattersey or Marsey in Nottinghamshire i MSS Bodl. Ashmol Quaere whether it is not the same with Wkes a A. D. 1153. Regular Canons were placed here by Henry Arch-bishop of York Io. Hagustald b Not in Wiltshire where 't is placed Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 1â—â—5 c Not in Somerset-shire as in Speed a What Rudburn Hist. Maj. Lib. 1. cap. 3. relates concerning placing of Monks here by King Lucius A. D. 169. is very fabulous b Placed also in Devon-shire by Mr. Speed c Leland Collect. Vol. 1. p. 66. d Not in Wiltshire as in the Monasticon e Founded by Ranulph Flammard Bishop of Durham Rich. de Ripariis Earl of Devon and Will de Brewere temp Guiâ— Rufi Speed f Quaere Whether it should not be Andever g Leland Itin. Vol. 8. p. 88. h Erroneously placed in Berkshire by the Editors of the Monasticon a Not in Shropshire where 't is placed by Mr. Speed who is also mistaken as to the Order of this Priory for it was not of White Canons b A. D. 1172. Ann. Wigorn. c The Translator of the English Monasticon makes Robert Earl of Ferrers founder but he was only a Benefactor Mon. Angl. T. 1. p. 865. d MS. Ashmol e Not White Nuns as in Sp. f MS. Bodl. falsly said to be Grey-Fryers in Speed g White Nuns MS. Bodl. Speed a Placed in Cambridge-shire Mon. Angl. b Not in Hereford-shire as in the Monasticon c Monks Speed d Reyner Apost Bâ—ned a A. D. 986. Anâ—al Wigorn. b 〈…〉 by Earl Adelmus temp Edmundi Ironsâ—â—e Speed c 〈◊〉 d Reyner Apost Bened. a Not King Aethelred as in Speed b Ioh. Stratford Arch-Bishop of Canterbury was Founder according to Speed c A. D. 1137. Chronol S. Aug. Cant. d Leland Itin. Vol. 6. pâ— 28. e MS. Bedl. f Neither of these places are in Sussex where they are placed in the Monasticon and Speed â—* Somner's History of Canterbury p. 253. g MS. Bodl. h Leland Coâ—l Vol. 1. p. 84. a Founded by Will. of Lancaster temp Hen. II. Leland Itin. Vol. 5. f. 71. It was of the Cluniack Order founded by Ranulph de Meschines Speed Reyner b White Canons MS. Bodl. c Erroneously placed by Mr. Speed in the Bishoprick of Durâ—em d Placed also in Worcestershire by Mr. Speed where t is valued at 99 l. 5 s. â— d per an e The history of Leicestershire by Will. Burton a This Monastery is falsly placed in Hertfordshire by Mr. Speed and the Monasticon saith 't is in Lincolnshire but that famous Antiquary Mr. Burton in his description of this County tells us that tho' the Castle is in Lincolnshire yet the Priory is in this County b Not temp Hen. III. as in Burton