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.
![acimus vobis,quod nos concedimus et ratam et gratam pe- nitus habemus, et hac praesenti carta nostra confirmamus illam concessionem et confirmationem, quam Michaelis de Mereio, quondam frater noster fecit abbathiae sanctae Trini- tatis de Exaquio, et monachis ibidem Deo servient.ibus, de decima molendini de Monte Crotel, siti in parochia sancti Petri de Felgeriis, et de terra quam Martinus le Marchaant tenuit de Nicholao de Felgeriis in feodo et hgereditate, de qua reddebat annuatim eidem Nicholao quinque bussellos frumenti ad festum sancti Michaelis, et duos panes et duas gallinas ad natale Domini; etviginti ova ad Pascha: quam terram Gaufridus le Marchaant vendiderat dicto Nicholao de Felgeriis. Haec autem praedicta concedimus et confirma¬ mus praedictis abbathiae et monachis, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam, liberam ab omnibus et quietam ; ita quod nos et haeredes nostri praedictam ecclesiam dictis abbathiae et monachis contra onmes homines defendere et garantizare, et de omnibus acquietare tenemur, et si necesse esset in residico feodi nostri excambiare competenter ad valorem. Et ut istud firmum et stabile perseveret imperpetuum, praesentem cartam sigillorum nostrorum munimine dignam duximus confirmandam. Actum est hoc anno millesimo ducentesimo quinquagesimo septimo mense Augusto. Nos autem cartas, ac omnia et singula in eis contenta, quoad dona et conces- siones praefatae abbathiae infra regnum Franciae, ac ducatum nostrum Normanniae, facta, et concessa, rata habentes et grata, ea pro nobis et haeredibus nostris, quantum in nobis est, acceptamus, approbamus, et dilectis nobis in Christo nunc abbati et conventui loci praedicti et successoribus suis (tenore praesentium) concedimus et confirmamus, prout cartae praedictae, quantum ad concessiones et dona cismarina, rationabiliter testantur; et prout idem abbas et conventus, et praedecessores sui, donis et concessionibus illis infra regnum Franciae et ducatum nostrum praedictum hactenus rationabi¬ liter usi sunt et gavisi. Nolumus tamen, nec intentionis nostrae existit, quod per hanc confirmationem praefatis abbati et conventui, aut successoribus suis adversus nos, seu quem- cunque alium in possessione vel proprietate, jus novum nul¬ lum acquiri valeat; nec quod nobis aut quibuscunque nostris subditis proinde praejudicium aliquod generetur; nec etiam quod praedicti abbas et conventus, seu successores sui, ali¬ quod jus vel clameum super aliquibus possessionibus infra regnum nostrum Angliae, colore praesentibus confirmationis, habeant, vendicent, seu clament quomodolibet in futurum. In cujus, &c. T. rege in exercitu suo ante Meleun, xxvi. die Septemb. 90bbn> of Jfffantp, ut THE town of Fecamp is situated in a deep valley- fourteen or fifteen leagues from Rouen, in the Pays de Caux. Its Abbey, dedicated to St. Stephen, was first founded for Nuns, by Count Waning, governor of the Pays de Caux, A.D. 664. It was burnt by, the Normans in 841, and rebuilt by Richard I. duke of Normandy, whose son, Robert archbishop of Rouen, dedicated it in 990. Richard II. duke of Normandy, removing the Nuns to Montivilliers, placed here in their stead some canons, and some time afterwards monks of the Order of St. Benedict. The English possessions of Fecamp do not appear to have been large: but the Account of the Alien Priories, vol. i. p. 9, informs us that in the dioceses of Rouen, Bayeux, Lisieux, Coutances, Chartres, and Beauvais, it presented to a hundred and thirty benefices, and that it enjoyed so many estates that its income was said to be forty thousand crowns ot dftdratu|)c, * NUM. I. Carta Willielmi Duds Norm amnia et Regis Anglian de Terra de Staniuge, et Bereministri, in Anglia. £Cart. Antiq. S. n. 1.] Ego Willielmus, Dei miseratione patronus Normanno- rum, rex etiam Anglorum; timore Dei tactus, et amore; et praecavens mihi in futurum, concedo et confirmo S. et indi- viduae Trinitati, et ecclesiae Fiscannensi, omnes terras suas in Anglia, terram scilicet de “Stannig, et terram de Bere¬ ministri, cum omnibus omnino appendiciis terrarum, cum omnibus legibus, et omnibus libertatibus, liberis consuetudi- nibus, et quietantiis, omnibus placitis, et querelis, et causis omnibus, quae sunt, vel fore possunt absque ulla inquietu- dine, vel diminutione cujuslibet secularis vel judiciariae po- testatis, sicut res ad fiscum dominicum pertinentes. Quare inviolabiliter praecipio, quod praedictae terrae cum omnibus omnino earum appenditiis, et earum possessoribus liberae sint et quietae ab omni consuetudine terrenae servitutis, et ab onmi dominatione, et subjectione baronum, vel principum et omnium aliorum. Et quod abbas et monachi ecclesiae Fi- scannensis, vel eorum ministri omnem regiam habeant liber- tatem, et consuetudinem, et omnem justitiam suam de om¬ nibus rebus, et omnibus negotiis, quae in terra sua evenient vel poterunt evenire ; nec aliquis, nisi per eos, se inde in- per annum. The possessions of this Abbey in Sussex are recorded in the Domesday Survey, tom. i. fob 17. Cotman, vol. ii. p. 79, has given an engraving of the southern entrance of the Church of Fecamp. Its dimensions, with some dates of different parts, will be found in the Alien Priories, vol. i. p. 10; and in Turner’s Letters from Normandy, vol. i. p. 64. Cogges in Oxfordshire, and Steyning in Sussex, were its English Cells. See also Neu- stria Pia, p. 193—258, where its history and charters are given at considerable length. Dugdale has given a Charter from the Conqueror to this Abbey, confirming the lands of Steyning and Beremi¬ nistri in England, with an agreement made in 1103 between the Monks and Philip de Braiosa, settling certain encroach¬ ments on the part of the latter. in Sucatu llormamtte* tromittat, quia hoc totum regale beneficium est, et ab omni servitute quietum. Similiter concedo et confirmo praedictae ecclesiae Fiscannensi, pro anima mea, et omnium praedecesso- rum meorum, omnes terras suas in Normannia, cum omnibus earum pertinentiis, cum omnibus dignitatibus, liberis con- suetudinibus, et quietantiis omnibus, quas dominus et pre¬ decessor meus, comes Normannorum Ricardus, in elemosi¬ nam praedictae dedit ecclesiae, quietas ab omni inquietudine vel diminutione cujuslibet secularis vel judiciariae potestatis, sicut res ad fiscum dominicum pertinentes; quod non solum multorum relatione didici, sed etiam ejus literis sigillatis. Si vero aliquis contra hanc confirmationem meam aliquid prae- sumpserit, iram Dei omnipotentis incurrat, et coactus auri libra centum ad fiscum dominicum persolvat. Hoc autem ut ratum et stabile omni tempore permaneat, assensu con- jugis meae, et prolis et procerum meorum, regia autoritate et crucis caractere confirmo, et manibus fidelium meorum cor- roborandum trado. Signum Willielmi regis Anglorum S. Matildis reginae Anglorum. S. Willielmi comitis filii regis. ►£< S. Roberti, comitis filii regis. S. Henrici de Bellomonte. S. Roberti de Bellomonte. S. Roberti de Montegomerico. S. Odonis episcopi Bajocensis. S. R. comitis Moritoniae. S. Hugonis comitis Cestriae. S. W. abbatis Cormeliensis. S. Osmundi cancellarii. S. Rogeri de Bellomonte. S. Fulconis de Mosteriolo. S. Bernardi filii Ospacii. * Stanings, in com. Susscxise, Celia Fiscannensis Ccenobii Vide Pat. 52 Hen. III. m.23.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30455832_0007_0634.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)