Monasticon Anglicanum: or, the history of the ancient abbies, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales. Also of all such Scotch, Irish, and French monasteries as in any manner relate to those in England ... Illustrated with the original cuts of the cathedral and collegiate churches, and habits of the religious and military orders / First publish'd in Latin by Sir William Dugdale ... To which are now added, exact catalogues of the bishops of the several dioceses, to the year 1717. The whole corrected, and supplied with many useful additions, by an eminent hand.
- William Dugdale
- Date:
- 1718
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Monasticon Anglicanum: or, the history of the ancient abbies, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales. Also of all such Scotch, Irish, and French monasteries as in any manner relate to those in England ... Illustrated with the original cuts of the cathedral and collegiate churches, and habits of the religious and military orders / First publish'd in Latin by Sir William Dugdale ... To which are now added, exact catalogues of the bishops of the several dioceses, to the year 1717. The whole corrected, and supplied with many useful additions, by an eminent hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![5 fi' iCt i;: clferv; item But flnce that Age was inflam’d with fo great an Ardor icr Monaftical I what Beginning and by what Degrees that Difcipiine came to be receiv’d into the Church. The Monaftical Life had its Original in Egypt. Paul’ was the inftitutor ot the Eremetical Life, Antony the Improver, who being 105 Years or Age, dy d in the Defert, Anno 55 7' A ne AIor.it Pa- chumius, Founder of the Monafteriss in Egypt, writ a Rule fit for both Sorts of Monks, which Jerome tranflated into Latin. There are, lays he, in Egypt th,-ee S01 ts cj AI/1L1 : Fif., TtJe Conventual, living ut common, divided into Tens and- Hundreds, Jo that one is ovei nine, and th.n aga.n t< e Il.-mni euth hc.s ten oj t kfe Chiefs under hint’, they keep afunder, but their little Cells are join’d. 2. ‘The Anchorites, mho line alone about the Deferts. 3. Thofe who live by two or'three, or few mere together, oj their own Direction and Difpofal, mcjlly in Towns and Cajlles. The firft Monk in Syria was Hilar ion. Baft! being about to take upon him that Courfe of Lite, and to introduce it into Pontus, found many Monks in Egypt; others in Paleft'me and Ccelofyria and Mfopotamia, whole Temperance in eating he admir’d, as well as their Patience in Labour. Audreus carry’d Monachifm out ot Mefopotamia into Scythia, and being ba¬ the. Mandra, that-is, the Monafteries of Mefopotamia, they flitter’d their Hair to grow like Women, and wore Sackcloth in Sight, which in other Places was criminal. Gregory Nix.ianz.en writes thus of the excefiivc Aufterity of the Monks of Pontus: Some torment them]'elves with Chains cf Iron; ethers, fiut tip like wild Bedfis, in freight Houfes, fee no Alan : They fafi and keep Silence 20 whole Days. 0 Christ, adds he, be favourable to thoje Souls, who I conjefs are pious, but not difereet enough. Bafd there prudently prcfcrib’d Rules to his Monks, which have been carefully obferv’d in the Eaft. The Monaftical Inftitute prevail’d alfo by degrees in the Weft; its Original is femewhat more obfeure. St. Augufiin, about the Year 388, faw at Milan an Habitation of many holy Men, over whom a Prieft prefided. He alfo knew feveral at Rome, where every' one rrefided over thefe that dwelt in his Houfe. And again St. Augufiin in his Confeffions, lib. 8. c. 6. fays. There was a Mona- ftery at Milan, without the Walls ot the City, full of good Brethren, under Ambroje, who main¬ tain’d them. In fiiort, there were Monks in moft Parts, and more particularly in the fmail Iftands, and from the Ifland Capraria they pafs’d over into Ajrick. The Heretick Donatifls earneftly oppos’d the introdu¬ cing of Monks, but in vain. Bat to return to our own Country. At the Time that a foiitary Lite had taken R.oot among the Latins, Patrick a B iton, born at Kirk- Patrick near the Weftern Sea, traveil’d through France, Italy, and the Iftands of the Tyrrhenian, or Tufi can Sea. The Youth faw his Uncle Martin in France, and had for his Inftrudor Germanus, Bifhop of Auxerre, who not long after was fent into Britain with Lupus. After having fpent 30 Years in his Studies and Spiritual Exercifes, Patrick, made a Bifhop, was fent to convert the Irijh by Pope Celeftin, who the Year belore had fent Palladius without faceteding. That Apoflleof the Irijh dy’d of a great Age in the Year 4512. About the fame Time when the Britijh Religion defended it fell in the Parts beyond the Severn again!! the Invafionsof the Saxons, David, Bsfhop of Menevia, (St. David’s) built a noble Monaftery, in which the Corner on the Irijh St and Relieving the Poor. Monks us’d to live by the Labour of their Hands; of the Original whereof I can give no good Ac¬ count. Columban, after having built the Monaftery at Armagh in Ireland, in the Year 565, came over into Britain to the Pills. Ninias, or Ninian, a Briton, had converted the Pills to the Truth in the Year 412, and made the Ifland HU a Bilhop’s Seat. This Ifland was given Columban by the Pi els to found a Monaftery. This Monaftery of HU was chief of very many other Monafteries thence pro¬ pagated by Columban and his Difciples in Britain and Ireland. Thus was the Monaftick Inftitute con- ftituted in Britain, without the Saxon Jurifdidtion. In England, the Original and Advancement of Chriftianity and of Monachifm was the fame. Au- gufliu, being ir.ftru&ed in the Monaftical Rules by the Appointment of Gregory, inftituted that Con- verfation, which at the firft Birth of the Church was among our Forefathers, who had- all Things in common. He built a Monaftery not far from the Cit y of Canterbury; and Peter, a Prieft, was the firft Abbat thereof. As Augufiin had taught the People of Kent, Aidan inftruefed the Northumbrians, and had a Monaftery in the Ifland of Lindi far n: The former had the Roman School, the latter that of Columban-, the formerfpread his Dc&rine in the North, the latter in the South, which not being altogether the fame, there follow’d a long Contention ; but the chief Matter in Difpute between them, was about the keeping of Eafier, and the {having of the Crown. In the Infancy of our Church the Monks did not differ from the Clergy ; for in former Times the Bifhop and his Clergy us’d toreflde in the fame Place as the Abbat and his Monks, (in the ALnaftery oj Lindisfarn) and the Monks were alfo under the Bifhop’s Care. A Cathedral Church is to this Day in Englijb call’d a Minfier, or Monaftery. T ime, as in all other Things, occafion’d a great Al¬ teration in Monaftical Affairs. Formerly it was not misbecoming for a Woman to prcftde over Men. Bede, hb. 4. c. 23. tells 11s, That Hilda, Abbefs of the Monaftery of Whitby, caus’d thole under her Direction to fpend fo much Time in reading ol the holy Scripture, that they might be fit to under- take the Eccleliaftical Degree. From that Monaftery came forth five Bifliops, all Men of lingular’ Merit and Sanftity. * At](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30455856_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
