BEC, NORMANDY.

A Benedictine abbey, founded by Hellouin or Herluinus, who was its first abbot, in the year 1034, and rebuilt by Lanfranc in 1060-77.

BEGHAM (BAYHAM), SUSSEX.

An abbey of the Premonstratensian order, founded by Robert de Turneham in the year 1200. Dedication, the Virgin Mary. £125. 28. 8d.

BERMONDSEY, SURREY.

St. Saviour's. A convent of monks of the Cluniac order from France under the government of a prior, founded by Alwyn Childe, citizen of London, about the year 1082. It was augmented by William Rufus and erected into an abbey in the year 1399. £474. 14s. 4ąd.

BINDON, DORSET.

In the parish of Wool, an abbey of the Cistercian order, founded by by Robert de Newburgh and Maud his wife, in the year 1172. £147. 78. 9ąd.

BISHAM MONTAGUE, BERKS.

Domus de Bustelesham, on the bank of the river Thames, a preceptory of the Knight's-Templars originally, but came into the hands of William de Montacute, earl of Salisbury, who made it a priory for canons of the order of St. Austin in the year 1138. Dedication, in Wykeham's time, the Holy Trinity. £285. 11s. Old.

BITTLESDEN, BUCKS.

An abbey of the Cistercian order, founded by Ernald de Bosco, steward to Robert, earl of Leicester, in the year 1147. Dedication, the Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas. £125. 4s. 3 d.

BLACKMOOR, DORSET.

Domus de Blakemore, a little priory for Friars-Eremites observing the rule of St. Austin, who were settled at Hermitage, near Cerne, in Blackmoor forest, before the year 1300. Later it became a free chapel in honour of the Virgin Mary, annexed to Cerne abbey.

BODMIN, CORNWALL.

An ancient British house of secular canons, refounded by one Algar about the year 1120 for regular canons of St. Austin under a prior. Dedication, the Virgin Mary and St. Petrock. £270. Os. 11d.

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BORDESLEY, WORCESTERSHIRE.

A Cistercian abbey, founded by the empress Maud in the year 1138, though some ascribe it to Waleran de Beaumont, earl of Mellent and Leicester. Dedication, the Virgin Mary. £388. 9s. 10 d.

BOSHAM, SUSSEX.

Or Boseham, a royal free chapel, established by William Warelwast, bishop of Exeter, under Henry I. It was a peculiar of the archbishop of Canterbury, and the bishop of Exeter was dean or provost. Dedication, the Holy Trinity.

BOXGRAVE, SUSSEX.

An alien priory of the Benedictine order, founded by Robert de Hayâ, temp. Henry I. It was a cell to the abbey of Essay, in Normandy. Dedication, St. Mary and St. Blase. £145. 10s. 2d.

BRADENSTOKE, WILTS.

A priory of black canons, built and endowed by Walter d'Evreux in the year 1142, or earlier. Dedication, the Virgin Mary. £212. 19s. 3d.

BRADLEY, LEICESTERSHIRE.

A priory of the order of St. Austin, founded by Robert Bunde, or Burnebe, temp. John. £20. 3s. 4d.

BREAMORE, HANTS.

Domus de Brommore, a priory of black canons, founded by Baldwin de Redvers, near the end of the reign of Henry I. Dedication, St Michael. £154. 14s. 1d.

BRISTOL.

St. Augustine's, a priory of black canons, founded by Robert Fitz Hardynge, mayor of Bristol, in the year 1148. Under Henry II it became an abbey and was refounded by Henry VIII as the cathedral church. £670. 13s. 11d.

St. James', a priory of the Benedictine order, founded under Henry I by Robert, earl of Gloucester. It was a cell to Tewkesbury abbey.

St. Mark's, a hospital built by Maurice de Graunt before the year 1329 for a chaplain and one hundred poor corrodiers, and usually called Graunt's Hospital. £112. 9s. 9d.

BRUERN, OXON.

Domus de Bruerâ, the house on the heath, an abbey of the Cistercian order, founded by Nicholas Basset in the year 1148. Dedication, the Virgin Mary. £124. 10s. 10d.

BUCKFASTLEIGH, DEVON.

Domus de Bukfestre, an abbey of the Cistercian order, founded by Ethelwerd, son of William Pomerei, in the year 1137. Dedication, the Virgin Mary. £466. 118. 24d.

BUCKLAND, DEVON.

An abbey of Cistercian monks, founded by Amice, countess-dowager of Devon, in the year 1278. Dedication, the Virgin Mary and St. Benedict. £241. 178. 9 d.

BUILDWAS, SHROPSHIRE.

Domus de Buldewas, an abbey of the order of Savigny, afterwards merged in the Cistercian order, founded by Roger, bp. of Chester, in the year 1135. Dedication, St. Mary and St. Chad. £110. 19s. 3 d.

BURNCESTRE (BICESTER), Oxon.

A priory of eleven black canons under a prior, founded by Gilbert Basset in the year 1182. Dedication, the Virgin Mary and St. Eadburgh. £147. 2s. 10d.

BURNHAM, BUCKS.

An abbey of nuns of the order of St. Austin, founded by Richard, king of the Romans, in the year 1165. Dedication, the Virgin Mary. £51. 2s. 41d.

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BURTON-ON-TRENT, STAFFORDSHIRE.

An abbey for monks of the order of St. Benedict, founded by Wulfric Spotte in the year 1104. Dedication, the Virgin Mary and St. Modwen. £267. 14s. 3d.

BURY ST. EDMUNDS, SUFFOLK.

A house of secular priests originally, to which the body of Edmund the King was translated from Hoxne in the year 903, and so continued until the year 1020, when Canute established it as an abbey of the Benedictine order. £1659. 13s. 111d.

CANONS LEGH, DEVON.

A priory of Austin canons founded by Walter Clavele under Henry II, but turned by Maud de Clare, countess of Hereford and Gloucester, into a nunnery of the same order early in the reign of Edward I. Dedication, the Virgin Mary, St. John Baptist, and St. Etheldreda.

CANTERBURY.

St. Augustine's priory was founded by Ethelbert on his conversion to Christianity about the year 605 for St. Augustine and the monks that came over with him. Under Lanfranc about the year 1080 it became Benedictine and so continued. £1413. 4s. 11ąd.

St. Gregory's, founded by archbp. Lanfranc for secular priests in the year 1084, and made a priory for Austin canons by archbp. William de Corboil, 1123-1138. £121. 15s. 1d.

St. Sepulchre's, a Benedictine nunnery under a prioress, founded by Archbishop Anselm about the year 1100. £29. 12s. 5d.

CARISBROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.

An alien priory, cell to the Benedictine abbey of Lire in Normandy, founded by William Fitz Osborne, a kinsman of the Conqueror. Dedication, the Virgin Mary.

CAUCE, or CHAUCEY, SUSSEX.

A priory of the order of St. Austin, near Chichester.

CERNE, DORSET.

An abbey of the Benedictine order, founded by Aylmer, earl of Cornwall, in the year 987. Dedication, St. Athelwold. £515. 17s. 10d. CHACUMBE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

A priory of black canons, founded under Richard I, or earlier, by Hugh de Chacumbe. Dedication, SS. Peter and Paul. £83. 18s. 9§d.

CHERTSEY, SURREY.

An abbey of the Benedictine order, founded by Erkenwald before he was bishop of London, and afterwards refounded by Eadgar and bishop Athelwold to the honour of St. Peter. £659. 15s. 83d.

CHICHESTER.

The parochial prebends anciently existing in the church of Selsey were transferred to the cathedral church of Chichester when the episcopal see was transferred by Stigand in the year 1075; and the dean and chapter were incorporated by bishop Seffrid (1197-1220).

CHRISTCHURCH TWYNHAM, HANTS.

A collegiate church of twenty-four secular canons under a dean, founded by Ralph Flambard, bp. of Durham, and augmented by Richard de Redvers, earl of Devon, temp. Hen. I, but his son, earl Baldwin, about the year 1150, had the secular canons exchanged for regular canons of the order of St. Benedict. £312. 78. Od.

CLATTERCOTE, Oxon.

A small house of the Sempringham order, consisting of four canons under a prior, situate in the parish of Claydon. Dedication, St. Leonard. £34. 19s. 11d.

CLIFFORD, HEREFORDSHIRE.

A priory of the Cluniac order, founded by Simon Fitz Richard Fitz Ponce, temp. Henry II. It was subordinate to the priory of St. Pancras, Lewes. Dedication, the Virgin Mary. £57. 7s. 4d

COLCHESTER, ESSEX.

St. Botolph's, a monastery of Austin canons, founded by one Ernulphus, who became first prior early in the reign of Henry I. It was looked upon as the first house of the order in England. £113. 12s. 8d. St. John's abbey. Founded by Eudo in the year 1096 for monks of the Benedictine order. £523. 7s. 04d.

COLDENORTON, Oxon.

A priory of the order of St. Austin, founded by William Fitzalan early in the reign of Henry II. Dedication, the Virgin Mary, St. John the Evangelist and St. Giles. It escheated upon the death of the last prior for want of canons to elect another and was granted to the dean and chapter of St. Stephen's, Westminster, of whom bishop Smith bought it and gave it to Brasenose college in 5 Hen. VIII.

COVENTRY.

St. Anne's was a Carthusian house, founded by Richard II to please his consort, Anne, on a site given by the Lord Zouch in the year 1381. £131. 6s. 4d.

CREETING, SUFFOLK.

The alien priory situate in the parish of Creeting St. Mary was cell to the abbey of Bernay, in Normandy, and was by Henry VI made part of the endowment of Eton college.

CROYLAND, LINCOLNSHIRE.

An abbey of black monks to the honour of the Virgin Mary and St. Guthlac, founded by Ethelbald, king of Mercia, in the year 716, and rebuilt under Eadred about the year 948. £1083. 15s. 10d.

CROXTON, LEICESTERSHIRE.

An abbey for Premonstratensian canons, founded, according to Leland, by Sir Andrew Lutterel, kt., under Edward I, to the honour of St. John the Evangelist. £385. Os. 10ąd.