Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries, as were in manner connected with religious houses in England / Originally pub. in Latin by Sir William Dugdale...[Now ed., enriched with a large accession of materials taken from leiger books, chartularies, rolls, and other documents preserved in the national archives, public libraries, and other repositories; the history of each religious foundation in English being prefixed to its respective series of Latin charters. By John Caley...Henry Ellis...and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel.
- William Dugdale
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries, as were in manner connected with religious houses in England / Originally pub. in Latin by Sir William Dugdale...[Now ed., enriched with a large accession of materials taken from leiger books, chartularies, rolls, and other documents preserved in the national archives, public libraries, and other repositories; the history of each religious foundation in English being prefixed to its respective series of Latin charters. By John Caley...Henry Ellis...and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![domus nostrse beatae Marise Oxon. tenore prsesentium tluxi- mus exemplificandura. In cujus, &c. T. regeapud Westm. vii. die Maii. NUM. II. Carta lieyis Edwardi Tertii pro Receptione unius Fratris in eodem Hospitali. [Pat. 14 Edw. II. p. 2, m. 10.] Rex dilectis sibi in Christo magistro et fratribus hospi- talis S. Bartholomaei juxta Oxon. salutem. Licet inter caetera, quae pro relevatione et honestate status hospitalis praedicti, de consilio nostro in parliamento nostro Lincolniae, anno regni nostri nono ordinavimus; ordinaverimus, quod cum idem hospitale per progenitores nostros quondam reges Angliae, ad sustentationem infirmorum antiquitus fundatum fuisset, et tunc de fratribus sanis et validis contra ipsam fundationem occupatum existebat, quod fratres sani in eodem hospitali nunc existentes suis temporibus morerentur, etquod aliquo fratrum eorundem decedente, seu ex aliqua caush ra- tionabili amoto, loco suo ibidem, unus frater infirmus admit- teretur, et sic fieret subsequenter, quousque numerus sex fra¬ trum infirmorum impleretur ; pro eotamenquodmaheremium capellee dicti hospitalis putridum est et debile, ac ruinam minatur; et quod capellam illam de bonis ejusdem hospi¬ talis reparare non valetis quoquomodo; quodque Johannes filius Laurencii Serthe sanus, de bonis et catallis suis xviii. marcas ad capellam illam reparandam conferre vult hospitali praedicto, per sic quod in eodem hospitali post mortem proxi- mi fratris in eodem decedentis, frater admittatur suo per- petuo, tanquam alius frater ibidem percepturus, sicut plenius informamur: nos ad insufficient am vestram in hac parte respectum habentes, de gratia nostra speciali concessimus, quod post mortem proximi fratris in dicto hospitali dece¬ dentis, pnefatus Johannes frater, in eodem hospitali in forma prsedicta, sine occasione aliqua admittatur, suo perpetuo tanquam alius frater ibidem percepturus ordinatione nostrfi praedicti, quam extunc in omnibus et singulis inviolabiliter observari volumus, non obstante. In cujus, &c. T. rege apud Westm. xviii. die Maii. hospital or IJriorg of JBagfcm 3Bra&lrg tit 2UtItsl)ttt. IN the latter end of the reign of K. Stephen, says Tanner, or the beginning of that of K. Henry II. Manasser Biseta founded here an Hospital for poor leprous women, under the care of some secular brethren or priests, who were to provide necessaries and manage their estates for them. But Hubert bishop of Salisbury, about the year 1190, changed those seculars into a Prior and Canons of the Order of St. Austin. It was dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary, and, about the time of the Dissolution, consisted of eight Canons and.poor Sisters, who had yearly revenues amounting, according to Dugdale, to 180/. 10s. 4d. : accord¬ ing to Speed, 197/. 18s. 8c?. The difference of these sums is no doubt made by one taking the gross, the other the clear income. The Valor of the 26th Hen. VII Ith says, “ Summa totalis Receptae 198/. 18s. 8d.” Several of the chief Instruments relating to this Priory are given in the Appendix to the present Account, and others are printed in Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum, pp. 22, 255, 314, 362,368. Tanner refers to a REGISTER of Mayden Bradley “ penes Thomam Foley de Whitley arm.but this has not been seen by the present Editors.11 There is a Paper Survey also of this Priory temp. Hen. VIII. in the Aug¬ mentation Office. In the 26th Hen. Vlllth Richard Jenvn occurs Prior: and so continued till the dissolution: he died rector of Shipton Moyne in the county of Gloucester, in 1553.c The Site of this Monastery was granted in the 29th Hen. VIII. to Sir Edward Seymour Viscount Beauchamp. Two SEALS of this Priory, one, the COMMON SEAL, and the other the Seal of the Prior and Procurator or Proctor, are engraved in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1823, part. i. p. 305. BratiRg iprioratus Canonicorum &. 9tttfus tint Btorr. jharum, m atjro OTfltomntst. NUM. I. [Lei. Coll. vol. i. p. 80.] Manserus Byset, baro, primus fundator, instituit do- 3 “ He was sewer to King Henry II. before he was King (Dugd. Baron, vol. i. p. 39.) as well as after. Leland, Itin. vol. iv. p. 105. saith, that ‘ this Hospital was builded to the Priory of Chanons by one of the three heirs general of the Bisets, who being a lazar gave her part of the town of Kidderminster in pios mus.’ This probably was the traditionary report at Kidderminster in Leland’s time, but the estate of the Bisets did not come into females till many years after this Religious House was built, which was originally an Hospital for leprous women ; and their relief and maintenance seems to be the principal view of the foundation ; the priests first, and afterward the Regular Canons, were added to be subservient to them, (being called ‘procuratores mulierum,’ Leland, Collect, vol. ii. p. 84. Madox’s Formul. p. 23.) though in pro¬ cess of time the Prior and Convent seem to have got the whole govern¬ ment of the House and its revenues, (Madox’s Formul. pp. 314, 362.) and to have dropped the sisters, who are first named in the old Deeds. Manasser Biset gave these women the manor of Bradley, ‘pro Alicia uxore sua, de cujus hsereditate manerium illud est.’ So that his wife was an heiress, and probably the leper hinted at by Leland. Camden seems to be mistaken in making the daughter of Manasser Biset the leper and foundress of the Hospital, and this to be distinct from the Priory founded by her father.’’ Tann. Tanner’s other References are. Vide “In cod. Cotton. Augustus, ii. 12. F.pistolam Alianorse Reginse Anglite escaetori, ne inquisitionem aliquam faciat de terra in Kidderminster, et advoc. Ecclesise ibidem, quam Prior et Conv. de Bradeley habuerunt ex dono et excambio Joannis de Rypariis, dat. 54 Hen. III. In bibl. Bodl. Oxon. MS. Dodsworth, vol. xxiv. fol. 45. Cartam 2 Edw. III. In bibl. Harleiana MS. 2044, fol. 7. Collectanea de hoc Prioratu ex rotulo diet. Rotulus de Crendon. Computos ballivorum, &c. in baga intit. Peryent Duke of Suffolk’s lands, in superiori archa quintae archse in Curia Augmenta- tionum. Cart. 15 Joan. n. 59. Cart. 16 Joan. m. 4, n. 76. pro feria apud Bradeley. Cart. 11 Hen. III. m. 4 et m. 40. Pat. 13 Hen, III. mum pro leprosis mulieribus ; et seculares presbiteros ibidem instituit, quos appellabat procuratores mulierum. Hubertus episcopus Sarum transtulit presbiteros in ca- nonicos regulares. Ecclesia de Kidermister appropriata. m. 4 d. de virgata terrrn in Hamstede Berks. Claus. 13 Hen. III. m. 19. de bosco suo de Bradeley deafforestando et l. acr. brueras vocat. Jernefield claudendo. Cart. 13 Hen. III. m. 11. Plac. coram Rege. 25 Hen. III. rot. 19. pro carucat. terrse in Huminton, ex dono Joannis fil. Galfridi de Nevil. Cart. 52 Hen. III. m. 12. pro mercat. ibidem. Pat. 53 Hen. III. m. . d. pro commun. pastur. infra dominium de Wytham. Pat. 56 Hen. III. m. 55. de domibus apud Totehull. Fin. div. com. 1 Edw. I. n. 2. pro terris in Bekinton, &c. Pat. 4 Edw. I. m. 33 d. pro ten. in Netherton. Plac. in com. Wilt. 8 Edw. I. assis! rot. 52. pro feria et aliis libertat. in Bradeley, &c. Plac. in com. Somerset. 8 Edw. I. quo war. rot. 65. de furcis et aliis libertatibus in Bekinton. Cart. 13. Edw. I. n. 21. Pat. 18 Edw. I. m. 22. pro mess, et terris in Honington. Pat. 3 Edw. II. p. 1, m. 43. pro mess, et terris in Jernefeld. Brev. 8 Edw. II. Hill. rot. 9. Pat. 10 Edw. II. p. 2, m. 23. pro mess, et terris in Grenefeld. Cart. 2 Edw. III. n. 24. Rec.' in Scacc. 5 Edw. III. Mich. rot.. Pat. 9 Edw. III. p. 1, m. 12 vel IS Pat. 11 Edw. HI. p. 3, m. 24 vel 25. Pat. 37 Edw. III. p. 2, m. 36.’ pro ten. in Frombranch et Raddene, Somerset, Shafton, Dorset. Whit- born, Corsley, et Horningham, Wilt. Pat. 43 Edw. III. p. ], m. 1. pro ten. in Bristoll. Pat. 14 Ric. II p. 1, in. 2. pro ten. in Bayleclive et Hull Deverell. Ibid. m. 3. pro eccl. de Fisherton approprianda. Pat. 17 Ric. II. p. 2, m. 36 vel 37. Pat. 1 Hen. IV. p. 3, m. 9. pro eccl. de Kidderminster. Pat. 3 Hen. IV. p. 1, m. 31. Ibid. p. 2, m. 5. pro ten. in Bradlegh, Hull Deverell, et Yernfield. Pat. 11 Hen. VI. p. 1, m. 18. Cart. 26, &c. Hen. VI. n. 46. pro returnis Brevium, bonis felonum, &c. Rec. in Scacc. 13 Hen. VIII. Hill. rot. 48. pro maner. de Kiddermister Wigorn.” See also the Taxat. P. Nich. IV. pp. 192 b 203. Rot. Hundred, vol. ii. pp. 120, 124,129, 137,138,139, 233, 248’ 262, 284, 335. Abbrev. Plac. p. 17. Plac. de Quo Warr. pp. 689' 700, 799. 11 ’ 0 Tanner’s Principals of Religious Houses. 4 N 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30455832_0007_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)