Montecute, Cluniac. Sommer.sh. the Abbot and 13 Monks Tavenstock, Bened. Sommer.sh. the Abbot and Shaftesbury Nunnery, Dorsetsh. the Abbess Hinton, Carthus. Sommersetsh. the Prior and Brutton Cannons-August. Sommer.sh. the Abbot and 14 Monks Hide, Bened. Hampsh. Bp. Bangor Commend. and 21 Mon. in April, but no date. Without date there are four. Franciscans, Cambr. the Guardian and 23 Frat. Thetford, Dominic. the Prior. 20 March. 20. 23. 25. 31. Sancta Maria de Pratis, the Abbot and 19 Monks. Hospitals resigned this Year. St. Thomas Southwark, the Master and one 1 April. 25 July. 3. 20. St. John Wells, the Master and 3 Brothers Bridgwater, the Master and 7 Brothers St. John Exon, the Master and 2 Brothers All the former Resignations have the Covent Seals put to them, except those of some few Houses of Begging Friars, which perhaps had no Seals: they are also enrolled in the 1st, 2d, 3d, and 5th Claus. Rolls of that Year. There are likewise some few more enrolled, of which the Originals are lost, which follow. Hales-Owen, Premonst. Sallop. the Abbot Clattercott. Gilbert. the Prior. Bedford, Francis. the Warden.. Stamford, Francis. the Warden Derleyghs, Cisterc. Staffordsh. the Abbot. .... De-la-pray Nunnery, Northam.sh. the Abbess.. Northallerton. Carmel. Yorksh. the Prior. Newburg, August. Yorksh. Bath Cathedral, Bened.. Brusyard Nunnery, Suffolk, the Abbess 9 June. 20. 5 Nov. 16 Dec. 20. 16 Jan. 27. 17 Feb. 8 March. Here follow the Resignations made in the 31 Year of the King's Reign, of which the Originals are yet extant. KIMME Can. August. Lincolnsh. the Prior and 9 Monks Bevoll Carthus. Notting.sh. the Prior and 7 Monks Irthforth Nunnery, Lincolnsh. the Prioress and 17 Nuns.. Nuncotton Nunnery, Yorksh. without Subscriptions 6 July. 8. 9. 11. 11. Hynings Nunnery, Lincolnsh. no Subscriptions 11. St. Osith, Can. August. Essex, the Abbot and 16 Elistu Nunnery, Bedfordsh. the Abbess Swine Nunnery, Yorksh. no Subscriptions Haughmond Can. August. Sallop. the Abbot and 10 Monks Nunnkeling Nunnery, Yorksh. no Subscription, Nunniton Nunnery, the Prioress, 27 Crosses for 21. 28. 26 Aug. 31. 3 Sept. 9. 10. 12. Ulnescroft, Leicestersh. the Prior and 11 Friers. 15. St. Bartholomew Smithfield, the Prior A Commission for the surrender of St. Allborrough, Chesh. Berkin Nunnery, Essex, the Abbess 15. 19. 25 Oct. 4 Nov. 7. 14. Tame, Oxfordsh. Bp. Reonen *. and 16 Monks 16. Godstow Nunnery, Oxfordsh. subscribed by a Studley Nunnery, Oxfordsh. signed as the Thelsford, Norfolk, the Prior and 13 Monks 17. 17 Nov. 19. 16 Feb. 16 Jan. Perhaps Roanen: King, Abbot of Osney, had the title Episcopus Roanansis. A Commission to the Arch-Bpp. of Canterb. for taking the Surrender of Christ-Church Canterbury. And another for the surrender of Rochester, Waltham Benedict. Essex. the Abbot and 17 St. Mary Watte, Gilber. Bpp. of Landaffe Com- 20 March. 23. There is also in the Augmentation-Office, a Book concerning the Resignations and Suppressions of the following Monas teries. St. Swithins Winchester. St. Mary Winchester. Wherewell, Hampshire Christ's Church, Twinham, the Commendator thereof is called Episcopus Neopolitanus... Winchelcomb Ambrose Bury. St. Austins, near Bristol Billesswick, near Bristol Malmesbury. Cirencester Hales.... St. Peter's Gloucesterwark Teuksbury 15 Nov. 17. 21. 28. 3 Dec. 9. 9. 15. 19. 24. 2 Jan. 9. There are also several other Deeds enrolled, which follow. St. Mary-Overhay, in Southwark 14 Oct. St. Michael, near Kingston upon Hull, Carthus. 9 Nov. Newshame, Dunelme St. Cuthberts Cathedral of Duresme St. Bartholomew Nunnery, in Newcastle.. Egleliston, Richmondsh. St. Mary Carlile, Cumber. Hoppa Premonst. Westmorland 18 Dec. 22. 22. 29. 31. 3 Jan. 5. 9. 14. 20. 21. 24. 26. SECTION IV. It seems there was generally a Confession made with the Surrender: Of these some few are yet extant, though undoubtedly great care was taken to destroy as many as could be in Queen Mary's time. That long and full one made by the Prior of St. Andrews in Northampton, the Preamble whereof is printed by Fuller, and is at large printed by Weaver, is yet preserved in the Augmentation-Office. There are some few more also extant, six of these I have seen, one of them follows. FORASMUCH as we Richard Green, Abbot of our Monastery of our Blessed Lady St. Mary of Betlesden, and the Convent of the said Monastery, do profoundly consider, That the whole manner and trade of living, which we and our pretensed Religion have practised and used many days, does most principally consist in certain dumb Ceremonies, and other certain Constitutions of the Bishops of Rome, and other Forinsecal Potentates, as the Abbot of Cistins, and therein only noseled, and not taught in the true knowledg of God's Laws, procuring always Exemptions of the Bishops of Rome from our Ordinaries and Diocesans: submitting our selves principally to Forinsecal Potentates and Powers, which never came here to reform such disorders of living and abuses, as now have been found to have reigned amongst us. And therefore now assuredly knowing, that the most perfect way of living is most principally and sufficiently declared unto us by our Master Christ, his Evangelists and Apostles, and that it is most expedient for us to be governed and ordered by our Supream Head, under God, the King's most noble Grace, with our mutual assent and consent, submit our selves, and every one of us, to the most benign Mercy of the King's Majesty; and by these presents do surrender, &c. The Surrender follows in common form, signed by the Abbot, Subprior, and 9 Monks, 25 Septemb. Regni 30. There are others to the same purpose, signed by the Guardian and seven Franciscans at Alisbury, the 1st of October. By the Franciscans at Bedford the 3d of October. The Franciscans in Coventry the 5th of October. And the Franciscans in Stamford the 8th of October. And the Carmelites in Stamford on the same day, which I shall also insert, the former four agreeing to it. FORASMUCH as we the Prior and Friers of this House of Carmelites in Stamford, commonly called the White Friers in Stamford, in the County of Lincoln, do profoundly consider, that the perfection of Christian living doth not consist in some Ceremonies, wearing of a white Coat, disguising our selves after strange fashions, dockying and becking, wearing Scapulars and Hoods, and other-like Papistical Ceremonies, wherein we have been most principally practised and noseled in times past; but the very true way to please God, and to live a true Christian Man, without all hypocrisy and feigned dissimulation, is sincerely declared to us by our Master Christ, his Evangelists, and Apostles; being minded hereafter to follow the same, conforming our self to the Will and Pleasure of our Supream Head, under God, on Earth, the King's Majesty; and not to follow henceforth the superstitious Traditions of any Forinsecal Potentate or Power, with mutual assent and consent, do submit ourselves unto the Mercy of our said Sovereign Lord, and with the like mutual assent and consent do surrender, &c. Signed by the Prior and 6 Friers. SECTION V. Of the manner of suppressing the Monasteries after they were Surrendered. THE Reader will best understand this by the following account of the Suppression of the Monastery of Teuksbury, copied from a Book that is in the Augmentation-Office, which begins thus: The Certificate of Robert Southwell Esquire, William Petre, Edward Kairne, and John London, Doctors of Law; John Ap-rice, John Kingsman, Richard Paulet, and William Bernars, Esquires, Commissioners assigned by the King's Majesty, to take the Surrenders of divers Monasteries, by force of his Grace's Commission to them, 6, 5, 4, or 3 of them, in that behalf directed; bearing date at his Highness's Palace of Westminster, the 7th day of Novemb. |