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.
![4)t'tor» of ©oltringhatn. 114S in loco tuto et competenti, assignabimus, antequam inde disseisientur. Et ecclesiam nostram dc Trmn, in liberam, puram, et perpetuam elemosinam, ad faciendum inde pr®- bendam unam in ecclesia sancti Patricii in suburbio Dub- liniae. Et quod habeant nundinas in villa de Surdes, qu® est de archiepiscopatu Dublinensi singulis annis circa festum sancti Kelumkilli, per octo dies duraturas, sicut idem archi- episcopus ea tenet in praesenti, et sicut cart® nostrae, quas pr®dict® ecclesi® Dublinensi, tempore quo fuimus comes Moreton, fieri fecimus rationabiliter testantur. Quare vo- lumus et firmiter praecipimus, quod praedictus archiepisco- pus, et successores sui habeant et teneant omnia supradicta; scil. episcopatum et abbaciam de Grlindenth, et terram de Caillach, et ecclesiam de ,Trinn; et nundinas de Swerdes, bene et in pace; et cast era ad ea pertinentia, sicut pr® dictum est.. Testibus domino P. Winton. episcopo; W. de Fer- rariis comite Derebi®, et aliis. Data per manum R. de Mar. apud Porstkot xxx. die Julii, anno xv. SCOTTISH MONASTERIES. Pnorg of Cofotnrjijam; ©oil to tfje ©atijebral priarp of Durfjam, in ©nglanb. DUGDALE, in an Extract from a Manuscript in the Bodleian Library, and Bede, in his Ecclesiastical History, both favour the conjecture that Coldingham Priory, which was for Nuns as well as Monks, was founded by Ebba, or AEbba, aunt of Egfrid, king of Northumberland, some time before 673; in which year AEdilthryd, or Etheldreda, Eg- frid’s wife, took the veil under Ebba as a Nun.a Pennant speaks of Coldingham as the most ancient foundation of its kind in Scotland, and conjectures, from the name of Coludi, by which Bede mentions it, that its site had been originally inhabited by the religious called Culdees. Another Abbess of Coldingham, of the name of Ebba, at a later period by two hundred years, immortalized this place for heroism. She, and her Nuns at her instance, to preserve themselves inviolate from the Danes, cut off their lips and noses, thus rendering themselves objects of horror. The Danes, from disappointment, burnt both the Monastery and its inhabitants. From this time till 1098, Coldingham lay deserted, when Edgar, King of Scotland, founded upon its site a Priory of Benedictines, which he bestowed upon the Monks of Durham, with all lands, waters, wrecks, &c. Smith, in his Appendix to Bede, Num. xx. pp. 760- 764, has printed various charters relating to this House, as a Cell to Durham. One of Edgar’s states that that monarch attended the dedication of the Church of St. Mary of Cold¬ ingham, and offered a grant of endowment to it, upon the altar, of the vill of Swinton. In 1216, this Monastery was again burnt by Kino- John. It was afterwards rebuilt, and, in 1327, according to an Instrument given by Dugdale, taken under the espe¬ cial protection of King Edward the Third. A Chartulary of this House is preserved in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Durham,6 who also possess a very large collection of original charters relating to this House, with Seals appendant. Bishop Nicholson, in Num. vii. of the Appendix to his Scottish Historical Library, edit. 1776, p. Ill, has printed a List of them. The Harleian MS. 4623, tom. i., also contains another Index of Charters, entitled, “ Cart® Priorum et Conventus de Coldingham.” Another Harleian MS. 4693, fol. 19b, preserves a Drawing of the SEAL of this House. It represents, in the area, a figure of the Virgin Mary seated, bearing a mound and cross; the word maria upon a label behind her. In¬ scription round, sigill.one ..ris.de. COLDINGHAM. IJrtaratttg Hr ffioltmtgfiam, ©Ella JJnoratusS QtwrlmcttStg in Anglia. NUM. I. . De Fundatione ejusdem. [Ex Hist. MS. in bibl. Bodl. vol. iv. 4 Jur. lib. 22. cap. 3.] .... Sancta verb Ebba, ex regali progenie orta: soror enim Oswi Northanhumbrorum, et Egfridi regis amita fuit; quorum temporibus, velut mater regni et decus enituit, qu® regnum mundi, et omnem omatum seculi contempsit propter amorem Filii Dei, quern mundo corde dilexit; et a sancto Finano Lindisfarnensi episcopo, sanct® conversationis vela- men accepit: dominicam servitutem nobilitati pr®tulit; spiritualem paupertatem divitiis, et honoribus spontaneam abjectionem. Petebatur autem & quodam Scotorum tyranno, rege Eadano, in uxorem; quo raptum meditante et amore simul et violentia earn persequente, traditur ad montem Coludi, id est Coldyngham, fugisse, et ad preces ejus a me- ridie in altum mai . . . se erigens, subject® vallis alveum transcurrens, hosti triduo continuis fluctibus obstitisse; et cooperante Domino, munitionis pr®sidium virginis pr®sti- tisse. Habet enim mons ille fontes duas, ad su® solitudinis et h®remetic® conversationis solatium; unus enim ad radices t * Bede, Hist Eccles. 1. iv. c 19. VOL. VI. ejus latice perpetuo madet; alter in cacumine ejus ad calores ®stivos quandoque arescit. Horum haustu salubri, meritis S. Ebb®, multi debiles et infirmi sanitatem consecuti sunt : ex hiis enim beata Ebba et su® congregationis cives potare consueverunt. In hujus vastitate deserti, utrum Spiritu Sancto pr®venta, religionis cultum primo instituerit, an ab antecessorum studiis institutum invenerit, incertum est; nichil autem verius quam quod ibi sobrie, juste, ac pie con- versata sit; et beatum c®lo spiritum, relicta terr® corporis ejus gleba, intulerit. Aliud autem monasterium foeminarum, ex dono fratris sui Oswy, juxta ripam Dorwencionis fluminis construxit; eique, ex nomine suo, Ebbecestre, in Castrum Ebb®, voca- bulum dedit; quod quale quantumque in se olim fuerat, dum staret, ex ruinis suis manifeste nunc docet: mutato namque ut assolet statu temporum, interfectis habitatoribus suis, a nephandis principibus Inguar et Ubba, subversum est, et in plurimam nemorum vastitatem, et animalium pascua, sicut hodie videtur, commutatum. In Coludi enim monasterio, virorum et virginum con- gregationi beata Ebba pr®fuit; et contigua utrique ibidem ‘ Gougb, Brit. Top. vol. ii. p. G09. 7 P](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30455832_0007_0701.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)