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A36798	Monasticon anglicanum, or, The history of the ancient abbies, and other monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches, in England and Wales with divers French, Irish, and Scotch monasteries formerly relating to England / collected, and published in Latin, by Sir William Dugdale, Knight ..., in three volums; and now epitomized in English, page by page; with sculptures of the several religious habits.; Monasticon anglicanum. English	Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.; Dodsworth, Roger, 1585-1654.; Stevens, John, d. 1726. History of the antient abbeys, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches.; Wright, James, 1643-1713.	1693 (1693)	Wing D2487; ESTC R8166	281,385	375

Hospitals for the Infirme Of St. AUGUSTINS Order It was Decreed in the Council of Lateran An. Dom. 1179. That where a Number of Leperous People are gather'd together in Community they shall be permitted to enjoy to themselves a Church Church● yard and Priest of their own But they must take care that this be no ways injurious or prejudicial to the Rights of Parish-Churches Yet shall not the Leprous or Lazer-houses be compelled to pay Tithes of the increase of their own proper Cattle St. LEONARD's Hospital in York ANno Dom. 800. King Egbert in a Parliament at Winchester chang'd the name of his Kingdom of Britain into that of England A. 924. Athestan succeeding his Father King Edward the elder in this Kingdom he substituted Ho●el King of Wales and Constantin King of Scotland saying it was more glorious to make a King than to be one Which Constantin more Scottorum perjurium non timens they are the Authors words soon after rebell'd against him and wasted the Northern parts about Northumberland Hereupon King Athelstan rais'd an Army and in his Journey towards Scotland made his Supplications to God for Victory at Beverlay York and Durham after which he overcame Constantin and imploring Almighty God to shew some token whereby the present and future Ages might know that the Scots ought to be subject to the Kings of England he strook his Sword into a Rock of Stone near Dunbar Castle and made therein a gash of an Ell deep which remains says my Author to this day This King returning out of Scotland Victorious did divers works of Charity in particular he gave to the Clergy or Ministers of the Church of St. Peter at York call'd Colidei for the better Relief of the Poor and Maintenance of Hospitallity certain Revenues and a piece of Ground for erection of an Hospital which Hospital when built was call'd the Hospital of St. Peter until the Reign of King Steven who built there a Church in honour of St. Leonard after which it was called the Hospital of St. Leonard King William Rusus King Henry the I. King Hen. the II. and others were Benefactors to this Hospital Walter de Langton Master of this Hospital in the 22 E. 1. made certain Orders for Government of the Brothers and Sisters in the same containing an exact direction how the Chaplains were to spend the day both in the Church and out of it in their Religious Offices c. That the Lay Brothers should not go beyond the Door of the Nave of the Church unless in processions that the Sisters have a convenient place appointed for them in the Church that neither any of them nor the Lay-Brothers go out of the Bounds of the Hospital without leave c. Valued at 362 l. 11 s. 1 d. ob per Annum CARMANS Spittle in Yorkshire FOunded by one Acehorne in the time of King Athelstan for one Alderman and fourteen Brothers and Sisters in the Town of Flixton Designed for the Relief of Travellers that they might not be exposed to Wolves and other wild Beasts of the Woods the said Founder endowing it with divers Possessions in Flixton with common of Pasture for twenty four Cows and one Bull c. The Vicar of the Church of Folketon in which Parish this Hospital was situate was used yearly on the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle to cellebrate a Solemn Mass in the Chappel of this Hospital the Assistants at which Mass enjoy'd several Indulgences King Henry the VI. An. 25. confirm'd the Possessions and Liberties of this Hospital naming it for the future Carmans Spitell St. GREGORY's Hospital in Canterbury FOunded by Lansranc Archbishop of Canterbury without the North-Gate of the City For infirm Men and Women to live a part in separate Divisions of the House The said Lanfranc built near this Hospital a Church in honour of St. Gregory the Pope placing Canons therein who were to take care of the Souls of the said Poor and were to receive their Provision daily from the Hospital these Canons were endow'd with fair Revenues which in the year 1384. were taxt or estimated in the whole at 133 l. 15 s. These Canons were at first Secular as establisht by Lanfranc but afterwards they were changed into Regulars by William Archbishop of Canterbury Valued at 121 l. 15 s. 1 d. per Annum BRACKLEY in Northamptonshire RObert Earl of Mellent who came into England with the Conqueror founded this Hospital where his Heart was kept intire preserved with Salt An. 6 Hen. 5. Matilda Widow of Iohn Lord Lovel granted her Mannor of Bagworth and Thornton in Leicestershire to certain Trustees and their Heirs for them to grant to Thomas Coltone and several others then Members of this Hospital Pensions for Life and by another Deed dated 8 H. 5. declared her Intention and Will to be to change this Hospital into a Priory of Friers Preachers consisting of twelve and a Prior the Kings License being first obtain'd after which the said Trustees to reenseoff her or her Heirs with the said Mannor or convey it to them back again Vid. Vol. 3. p. 83. St. JULIANS near St. Albans in Hertfordshire THe Church and House of St. Iulian near Eyewode was founded for Lazares by Gaufridus Abbot of St. Albans with the advice and consent of his Convent and endow'd with divers Tithes and parcells of Tithes in St. Albans Bradewey and elsewhere Confirm'd by King Henry the II. For the Government of these Brethren several Orders were made as that their Habit should be a Tunick and Supertunick of plain Russit that they should be single or if married to separate from their Wives both parties being willing that no Woman should enter into the House except the common Laundress or a Mother or Sister to visit their Relation when sick with License of the Custos that every Brother at his admitance should make Oath to obey the Abbot of St. Albans and his Archdeacon c. RIPPON in Yorkshire FOund by Inquisition that it was founded by Thurstan Archbishop of York for the Relief of Poor and Leprous People Endow'd with Revenues given at first to certain Sisters who lived here wherewith to find a Chaplain to celebrate in the said Hospital and to relieve all such Leperous People who being born in Ripschire should repair to this House where they were to receive one Garment called Bak and two pair of Shooes per Annum and every day to each man one Loaf half a Flagon of Ale c. Which said Sisters being dead the Archbishop that then was gave the Hospital to the Possession and Government of a Master and certain Chaplains but in time Leperous People decaying in the 15 E. 3. there were neither Brothers nor Sisters in this Hospital otherwise it remain'd as it ought Vid. Vol. 3. p. 89. St. GILES in the S●burbs of London QUeen Maud Wife of King Henry the I. built on the West side of London a House for the Relief of Leperous People with an Oratory and call'd

Gospellaries and Epistollaries richly adorn'd with Silver Gold and precious Stones Jewells affixt to Shrines and Tombs of almost inestimable value Altar Cloaths and hangings very rich Copes of Tissue Damask and Velvet white red blew green purple and black with other Vestments of the same Colours Besides this there was a great Treasure in the Common Chest in Gold Chains collors of S S. c. with Sums of old Gold and Silver deposited in the years 1517 1518 1519 and 1520. HEREFORD Cathedral MIlefrid King of the Mercians built and endowed this Church and constituted a Bishop here this he did as a kind of expiation for the death of Ethelbert King of the East-Angels murdered by Offa King of Mercia and reputed a Saint and Martyr King Edward the Confessor granted Liberties to the Priests of this Church In the time of the said King Edward Walter then Bishop of this Church had one hundred Masuras wanting two each Masura contains about four Oxgangs of Land Robert Bishop here who succeeded the other found forty Hides of Land belonging to this See but all wasted The Canons of Hereford held many Mannors and Lands c. in right of their Church at the time of the Conquest as appears by Domesday-Book a true Copy whereof expressing the particulars in the several Hundreds where they lay is transcribed and printed * P. 182 183 184. the whole in the said Bishoprick amounting to 300 Hides of Land Ralph Bishop of Hereford granted to the Dean and Chapter of that Church all his Land of Hamme then valued at 15 l per Annum which he had lately purchased of Simon de Clifford to hold by the service of one Knights Fee and a half and the said Dean and Chapter granted to him to celebrate the Divine Offices on the day of his Obit yearly The Mannor of Hamme in which the said Land lay was given to the Prior and Convent of Crassewell by Walter de Lascy and by the Prior and Convent of Crassewell sold and convey'd to Peter de Aquablanca Bishop of Hereford and his Heirs for the Sum of five hundred Marks which Peter gave the said Mannor and several other good Gifts to the Church of Hereford King William the Conqueror restored to this Church divers Mannors unjustly taken from it by Earl Herald Ralph Murdac confirmed to the Church of St. Mary and St. Ethelbert and to the Canons of the same the Church of Putley given them by William D'evereus his Predecessor LANDAFF Cathedral ANno Dom. 156. Lucius King of the Britains having applied himself to Pope Elutherius He and the Chief of his Kingdom were baptized into the Christian Religion the sincere Doctrines of which they preserved uncorrupted till the Pelagian Heresie arose to reform and confute which St. Germanus and Lupus being sent for out of France they before they went back consecrated Bishops in several parts of this Isle in particular they consecrated Dubritius a holy and great Doctor an Archbishop and appointed for him an Episcopal Seat which was by the grant of King Mouric founded at a place called Podum Lantani in honour of St. Peter and by that King endow'd with all between Taf and Eiei and by Apostolick Authority with great Ecclesiastical Priviledges This Dubricius founded divers Churches and settled Bishops in the Right side of Britain per dextralem Britanniam in particular he consecrated Daniel Bishop in the City of Bangor Guorduc offered up immolavit his Virgin Daughter Dulon to Dubricius Archbishop of Landaff whom he consecrated a Nun for ever her Father gave with her divers Lands An. Dom. 612. St. Dubricius Bishop of Landaff departed this life and in the year 1120. was with great Solemnity translated from the Isle of Enli to his Church of Landaff at which time and action some miraculous Events are said to happen Vrban Bishop of Landaff complained to Pope Calixtus that whereas this Church was at its first erection the Mistress of all the Churches of Wales and had once four and twenty Canons of which there remained at that time but two and the Revenues almost desolate by the Invasion of Laymen and Monks and also of his own Brothers the Bishop of Hereford and the Bishop of St. Davids he therefore prays the said Pope to succour him and his Church Idon a British King was a great Benefactor to this Church in the time of St. Teliau Successor to the foresaid Dubricius Also King Margetud and King Aircol and one Tutuc gave to the same Archbishop Teliau divers Lands and Possessions as an expiatory penance for certain Murders ●ing Mouric before mentioned was the Son of King Teudiric who having settled his Kingdom in Peace resigned the Government to his Son and himself became a Hermit but his Kingdom being afterwards invaded by the Saxons and his Son in great danger of losing it he was admonisht by an Angel that he should leave his Retirement and head the Army that they would fly at his sight and that he should however receive a wound and die in peace after three days all which happened as foretold and he dying in an Isle call'd in Welch C●hni his faid Son built there an Oratory and Cimitery and gave all the Territory about it to the Church of Landaff this was in the time of Oudoceus the third Bishop of this See The said Mouric having by treachery killed Cynvetu after he had sworn to a firm peace with him before the Relicks of the Saints was Excommunicated for redemption of which and as part of his pennance he gave to this Church four Towns with their Liberties King Morcant and Augustus King of Brecknoc and King Iudhail were Benefactors so was Gurvodius upon his having obtained a great Victory over the Saxons In the time of Bishop Gurvan Teudor and Elgist Kings of Brecknock swore a firm and mutual Peace with each other before the Relicks of the Saints after which King Teudor took occasion to Kill Elgist for which Homicide and Perjury being excommunicate and upon his Absolution being Enjoyn'd for Penance Almes Prayer and Fasting he gave in Almes to this Church of Landaff divers Lands and Revenues Briteon hail Son of Devon sacrificed immolavit to God and St. Dubricius six Churches with all their Liberties and Profits in one day King Clotri and King Iudgvalaun having sworn a firm Peace before the holy Gospells and Reliques upon the Altar in Presence of Bishop Berthguin and the Clergy after which Clotri killing Iudgvalaun he was for his homicide and perjury excomunicated with all his Progeny and Kingdom by the said Bishop and Clergy in a full Synod Afterwards being absolved and enjoyn'd Penance as part of the same he gave divers Lands to this Church of Landaff Guidnerth having slain his Brother was for his homicide and Fratricide excommunicated by Bishop Oudoceus in a full Synod and after three years having perform'd an enjoyn'd Pennance into Cornwal the Brittons and those of Cornwal being of the same language and Nation tho' divided in territory

after Bishop of Lincoln Robert de Mariscis 1260. William de Lenington 1262. Richard de Mephum 1273. Iohn de Maydencton 1275. Olive Sutton 1276. after Bishop of Lincoln Nicholas de Hecham 1280. William Wicham 1577. after Bishop of Lincoln and Winchester Philip de Willughby 1289. Gotzesinus de Kyrington 1305. Raymundas a Cardinal 1307. Roger de Martival 1310. after Bishop of Sarum Henry de Mansfield 1315. Anthony Beak 1328. after Bishop of Norwich Iohn de Nottingham 1340. William de Norwich 1343. after Bishop of Norwich Iohn de Offord 1345. Simon Bresley 1348. Iohn de Stretley 1364. Iohn de Shepy 1388. Iohn Mackworth 1412. Robert Fleming 1451. George Fitzbugh 1483. Ieffry Simion 1505. Thomas Wulcy 1509. afterwards Bishop of Lincoln and York and Cardinal Iohn Constable 1514. George Heneage 1528. Iohn Tayler 1539. after Bishop of Lincoln Mathew Parlur or Parker 1552. after Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Francis Mallet 1554. Iohn Whitgift 1571. after Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of Canterbury Ralf Griffin 1585. Iohn Rainold 1598. William Cole 1599. Laurence Staunton 1601 Roger Parlur 1613. Anthony Topham 1629. Michael Honywood 1660. Anno 1536. 28. Henry VIII An Inventory was made of all the Jewels Vestments and other Ornaments belonging to the Revestry of of this Church consisting in Chalices in number six one of which was all Gold enricht with Pearls and divers precious stones in the foot weighing thirty two Onnces Several rich Feretrums one of Silver and gilt for the Sacrament weighting 341. ounces several rich Philatories Ampuls and Tabernacles with Relicks in them Rich Images Silver and gilt Divers Rich Chests for Relicks Pixes Crosses and Crucifixes some of Gold some of Christial and some of Silver and gilt one of which weighed 128 Ounces besides the Baes c. Divers Rich Candlesticks among which one Pair of extraordinary size and Workmanship was all Gold and weigh'd 450 Ounces the gift of Iohn Duke of Lancaster Son of King Edw. III. Five Pair of Censors Silver and gilt Several rich Basons Silver and gilt c. Pastoral Staves Texts of the Gospells with Rich Covers Chrismatories and Ampuls sot Oyl Silver and gilt eight Myters Chesables and Copes of Cloath of Gold Sattin Velvet imbroidered red white some of Damask some set with Pearls of purple and blew some of which had the Donors names imbroidered thereon with Orate pro anima c. of green of black rich Morses of Silver and gilt Garlands of Silver and gilt set about with precious Stones and Pearls rich Altar-cloaths of Cloth of Gold and images imbroidered c. King Henry VIII directed his Letter dated the 6th of Iune in his two and thirtieth year to Dr. George Heneage then Archdeacon of Taunton and others to take down a Shrine and the superstitious Jewels Plate Copes c. in this Cathedral Church of Lincoln and to see the same safely and surely to be convey'd to his Jewel-house in the Tower Which Commission was executed on the 11th of Iune 1540. And by force thereof there was taken out of the said Cathedral in Gold two thousand six hundred and twenty one ●unces in silver four thousand two hundred and eighty five ounces besides a great number of Pearls Diamonds Saphires Rubies Turky Carbuneles c. The Bishop of Lincoln had a Miter wonderfully thick set with precious Stones Here were then two Shrines one of St. Hugh all of Gold the other of St. Iohn of Dalderby all of Silver In the seventh year of King Edward the VI. another Inventory was taken of what then remain'd in this Church which contain'd only three Chalices one Pix one Ampul and that was all the Plate the rest of the Treasure was in Copes of red green blew black and white some old and decayed with divers Chesables Tunicles and Albes c. Altar-Cloaths of Diaper meetly good and five other Cloths of Diaper sore worne In the fourth and fifth Ph. Ma. An. Dom. 1557. another Inventory was made and there was then in this Church seven Chalices Silver and gilt one of which weighed four and thirty ounces four Pixes with some few Phials Crostes Ampulls but most poor with divers Chesables and Copes red purple white blew green and black and divers Altar-Clothes some of Cloath of Gold and of Damask imbroidered with Gold c. St. PAUL's Cathedral in London ANno Dom. 185. Lucius King of the greater Britain now call'd England obtain'd from Pope Eleutherius two Doctors to be sent hither to instruct the King and Kingdom in the Christian Faith then were the Temples of Idols dedicated to the Service of the true God and three Metropolitan Seats placed in the three chief Cities viz. London to which all the Southern part of England was subject York under whose Jurisdiction was all the North of Humber and Scotland and Cehster whose Jurisdiction extended over Wales London continued the chief Episcopal Seat and Primacy till the coming of St. Augustin who in the year 604. transferr'd the Metropolitan Dignity to Canterbury and made Mellitus Bishop of London To which Mellitus King Ethelbert gave the Land then called Tillingham for the Support and Maintenance of his Monastery of St. Paul Pope Agatho granted to Erkenwald Bishop of the Monastry of St. Paul in London that the Election of the Bishop should belong solely to the Congregation of that Monastery Which Erkenwald was a Scholler to Bishop Mellitus and built two Monasteries one for himself at Chertsey in Sussex the other for his Sister Edleburga at Barking in Essex He was a man of most exemplary Piety and after the death of Bishop Cedde became Bishop of London He died at Barking after whose death his Body was much contested for by the Nuns of Barking the Monks of Chertey and the Citizens of London but the latter prevailed and he was buried at London with the Reputation of a Saint King Athelstan renewed and restored the Liberties of the Monastery of St. Paul the Doctor of the Gentiles in London King Edgar granted to the same divers Lands and Immunities in the year 867. Other Benefactors to this Church were King Ethelred C●●te King of Denmark and England King Edward the Confessor King William the Conqueror who confirm'd all their Lands and Liberties to be as free as he desired his own Soul to be in the day of Judgment he also granted and confirm'd the four and twenty Hides of Land adjoyning to the City of London which King Ethelbert gave to this Church when he founded it It appears by Domesday-Book that at the time of the Conquest the Church of St. Paul's held Lands in the Counties of Middlesex Essex in divers Hundreds there Hertford and Surrey An. 1070 A Provincial Council was assembled in the Church of St. Paul at London under Lanfranc Archbishop of Canterbury where among other things it was decreed that none should marry in his own Kindred till the seventh Degree That none should buy or sell holy Orders or an Ecclesiastical Office with cure of Souls which

the Authority of Pope Alexander King Henry the II. and Richard Archbishop of Canterbury Which King Henry the II. gave to the said Nunnery of Font Everard this Church as a Cell with many other Lands and great Liberties all which were confirm'd by King Iohn in the first year of his Reign with a Gift of 50 s. per Annum out of the Exchequer for ever in the fifth year of his Reign Vid. 2. Vol p. 868. Valued at 495 l. 15 s. 2 d. per Annum MIDLETON in Dorsetshire KING Athelstan having upon false accusations unjustly banisht his youngest Brother Edwyn and put him to Sea in an old Vessel without either Sails or Oars where he was drown'd and being afterwards extream penitent he built and endowed here a Church and Monastery in honour of St. Mary and St. Sampson the Archbishop and stored it with Black Monks for the Soul of his said Brother Edwyn He also purchased from Rome and other places beyond the Seas several holy Reliques and gave them to this Monastery as a piece of our Saviour's Cross a Great Cross composed of Gold Silver and precious Stones the Arm and several Bones of St. Sampson the Archbishop c. King Athelstan's Charter of Endowment bears date in the year 843. and was exemplified and confirm'd by King Henry the II. The same Founder built another Monastery on the same occasion at a place called Michel in Dorsetshire Valued at 578 l. 13 s. 11 d. ob per Annum POLESWORTH in Warwickshire EGbert King of the West Saxons built here a Nunnery and made his Daughter Edith the first Abbess there King William the Conqueror gave this Estate to a Favourite of his called Sir Robert Marmyon whose chief Seat was at the Neighbouring Castle of Tamworth he expell'd the Nuns for a while but not long after restored them again to their old Estate and was reputed their Founder The Nuns of Polesworth had a Cell at Olbury which was given to their Monastery by Walter de Hastings and confirm'd to them by Roger Bishop of Chester then the same Diocess with Coventry and Litchfield and others Valued at 87 l. 13 s. 3 d. per Annum St. WERBURGS at Chester THE holy Virgin Werburg was Daughter of Wulfer King of Mercia and Ermenilda his Wife She lived and died in a Monastery at Chester which had been built of old time for the Habitation of Nuns but after the Conquest Hugh Earl of Chester placed Monks there The Monastery was built by King Edgar in the year 858. Hugh Earl of Chester having establisht Monks here endow'd the Foundation with great Revenues his Barons also giving very liberally to the same whose Charter bears date Anno Dom. 1093. The Particulars given may be seen in the Monasticon at large p. 201. 202. See more of this House p. 985. Valued at 1003 l. 5 s. 11 d. per Annum ATHELING in Somersetshire KING Elfred being driven out of his Kingdom by the Danes conceal'd himself for some time in this place then compast about with Marishes and Water that it was inaccessable but with a Boat Upon his restoration he built here a Church and Monastery His Charter of Endowment bears date Anno Dom. 878. About the same time that King Elfred founded this Monastery for Monks he founded another for Nuns at Shaftesbury Valued at 209 l. 0 s. 3 d. q. per Annum PERSHORE in Worcestershire THE Monastery here was built in the time of King Edgar by Duke Egelwardus but the greatest part of its Estate was in after-time transferred by King Edward and King William to Westminster Others say it was founded about the year 604. by Oswald Nephew of King Athelred Oswald did at first place here secular Canons which were after changed to Monks then Canons restored and then Monks once again introduced by King Edgar Anno Dom. 1223. there happened a grievous fire here and the Monks for some time having left the place their Estate was usurpt by the Monks of Westminster The Deeds and Charters of Priviledges of this House being burnt Witnesses were examined and made several Depositions of the ancient Liberties and Customs used and of right belonging to this Monastery which may be seen in the Monasticon at large Valued at 643 l. 4 s. 5 d. per Annum HIDE in Dampshire THIS is otherwise called the new Monastery at Winchester and was designed by King Elfred but built after his death by his Son King Edward who placed therein secular Canons under the Rule of a holy man call'd Grimbaldus This new Monastery being at first built within the City close to the Cathedral Church was on the account of several inconveniencies in the Scituation removed in the year 1121. to the place called Hide Great was the Revenue given to this Monastery and many the Benefactors besides the Founder as King Athelstan King Edmund King Edred King Edgar who expell'd the Canons and placed Monks here King Edmund Ironside Edward the Confessor William the Conqueror Henry 1. and Maud his Queen c. But this House was not without its misfortunes William the Conqueror at his first coming finding the Abbot and twelve of his Monks in arms against him seiz'd upon their Estate and held it from them almost two years And in the Reign of King Stephen Henry then Bishop of Winchester committed such extortions upon the Monks here that he got from them almost all their Church Plate and was so oppressive that of forty Monks there remain'd but ten in the House King Edgars Diploma to this House was written in Letters of Gold and dated Anno Dom. 966. The Priviledges of this House were agreed and settled between William Bishop of Winchester and Gaufridus Abbot here An. Dom. 1110. Valued at 865 l. 18 s. 0 d. ob q. per Annum WINCHESTER Monastery of Nuns ABout the year 903. Alswitha Wife of King Alfred began the Foundation of a Nunnery at Winchester which was after her death compleated by her Son King Edward the Elder Valued at 179 l. 7 s. 2 d. per Annum St. PETROCUS at Bodmin in Cornwall KING Athelstan was the first Founder of this Monastery for Monks which after the Conquest came into the Crown but was purchased by Alganus and stored with Canons regular St. GERMAINS in Cornwall KING Athelstan founded a Monastery here which at that time was the Seat of a Bishop but was afterwards removed by King Edward the Confessor from hence to Exeter Bartholonew Bishop of Exeter introduced into this Church by the King's Authority Canons Regular eight in number and a Prior. Valued at 243 l. 8 s. per Annum SHAFTESBURY in Dorsetshire KING Elfred built this Town in the year 880. Elgiva Wife of Edmund great Grand-child of the said Elfred built here a Monastery for Nuns King Edward the younger commonly called St. Edward the Martyr murder'd by his Mother-in-Laws procurement was here interr'd on which account this Church was afterwards call'd by his name Benefactors to this House were King Edmund King

Religious Houses viz. under the value of 200 l. per Annum hath these Words Forasmuh as manifest sin is dayly used and commonlycommitted in such little and small Abbies and Priories c. where the Congregation of such religious Persons is under the number of twelve persons c. Considering also that divers and great solemn Monasteries of this Realm wherein thanks be to God Religiou is well kept and observed be destitute of such full numbers of religious Persons as they might and may keep c. Therefore the said lesser Monasteries were dissolved and their Lands given to the King Sir Edward Coke in his 4th Institut p. 44. says In the Reign of Henry the VIII the Members of both Houses of Parliament were informed● on the King's behalf That no King or Kingdom was safe but where the King had ability to live of his own and to defend his Kingdom upon any sudden Invasion or Insurrection c. It was therefore projected that if the Parliament would give unto him all the Abbies Priories Nunneries c. that for ever in time then to come he would take order that the same should not be converted to private use but first that his Exchequer for the Purposes aforesaid should be enriched 2dly The Kingdom strengthened by a continual maintenance of forty thousand well trained Souldiers with skillful Captains and Commanders 3dly for the Benefit and Ease of the Subject who should never afterwards in any time to come be charged with Subsidies Fifteenths Loans or other common Aides 4thly Least the honour of the Realm should receive any diminution there being nine and twenty Lords of Parliament among the Abbots and Priors who held of the King per Baroniam the King would create a number of Nobles The said Monasteries and their Possessions were given to the King his Heirs and Successors Now observe the Catastrophe not long after the dissolution of the Monasteries the said King demanded and had two Subsidies and exacted divers Loans There were in the Reign of Henry the VIII 645. Monasteries and Religious Houses forty of which being granted to Cardinal Wolsey for the Endowment of his two Colledges Soon after as the Pope had given these to the Cardinal the King with the Parliaments assent took the rest An. 1536. those under 200 l. per Annum were granted amounting to 376 and soon after the Remainder being in all 605 Monasteries Besides them were given 96 Colledges 110 Hospitals and 2374 Chantries and free Chappell 's The Revenue of all which is wisht to have been bestow'd for the Advancement of the Church Relief of the Poor c. rather than conferr'd with such a prodigal Dispensation on those who stood ready to devour what was sanctified To this purpose one Henry Brinklow a Merchant of London made a Complaint to the Parliament of the Abuse that follow'd in relation to Appropriations which as he said were the best Benifices and did amount to the third part of all the Parish Churches in England Touching the Alms says he that they dealt and the Hospitality that they kept every man knoweth that many thousands were well received of them and might have been better if they had not so many Great mens Horses to feed and had not been overcharged with such idle Gentlemen as were never out of the Abbies But now that all the Abbies with their Lands and Impropriated Parsonages are in Temporal mens hands where 20 l was given formerly to the poor yearly in more than one hundred places in England is not one meals meat given where they had always one or other Vicar that either preached or hired some to preach now there is no Vicar at all but the Farmer is Vicar and Parson too The Lord Herbert in his History of Hen. VIII says That the King was petition'd that some of the Houses both for the Vertue of the Persons in them and for the Benefit of the Country the Poor receiving thence great Relief and the richer sort good Education for their Children might be left for pious Uses Bishop Latimer also moved that two or three might for those ends be left in every Shire But Cromwell by the King's permission invaded all However the King thought fit to have this Proceeding confirm'd by Act of Parliament But the Christian World says my Lord Herbert was astonisht at these doings Beside the Houses and Lands taken away there was much mony made of the present Stock of Cattle and Corn of the Timber Lead Bells c. and chiefly of the Plate and Church Ornaments which is not valued but may be conjectured by that one Monastery of St. Edmunds Bury whence was taken five thousand Marks of Gold and Silver besides divers Stones of great Value The End of the First Volum MONASTICON ANGLICANUM ABRIDGED VOL. II. OF THE Canons Regular Of St. AVGVSTIN HOSPITALERS TEMPLARS GILBERTINES PRAEMONSTRATENSES and MATURINS or TRINITARIANS OF THE ORIGINAL OF CANONS OF the Author of this Institution there is great variety of Opinion Some ascribe it to the Aportles others to Pope Urban the I. about the year of Christ 230. Others to St Augustine Others to Pope Gelasius the I. about the year 495. c. Canons were first introduced in England by one Berinus An. Christi 636. The Canonical Life being by little and little relaxt and fallen off Canonical Clerks were in the Council of Mentz An. 813. reduced back to their first manner of living viz. to live in Common to have but one Table one Purse and one Dormitory About An. 1083 it was enjoyn'd that no Canon should dare to become an Abbot or Monk under the penalty of Excommunication In process of time Canons becoming loose and disorderly another sort of Canone began to be taken notice of who observing a stricter Discipline were call'd Canons Regular and the others Canons Secular The Canons Habit is a white Tunick with a Linnen Go●● under a black Cloak St. Iames the Apostle and the first Bishop of Ierussaem is said first to have assumed the Linnen Tunick after the manner of the ancient Levitical Priests This Order had formerly in Europe four thousand five hundred and fifty five Monasteries In Italy seven hundred Popes of this Order there have been thirty six Cardinals three hundred Holy men and such who have been reckon'd in the Catologue of Saine seven thousand five hundred For the Canons of this Order were made three Rules The first Rule which St. Augustin made for his Brethren who promised to live together in Common consists of nine Chapters and treats of the Community of Goods Self-denial c. The second Rule of St. Augustin appoints the manner and time of Praying Singing Reading Working Living and Conversing and consists of Five Chapters The third Rule of St. Augustin treats more largely of those things which appertain to the Community of living among Clerks and consists of Forty Five Chapters A CANNON REGVLAR OF S t AVGVSTINE Vol. 2. p 1. MONASTICON ANGLICANUM Vol. II. Of