Volume 2

The history of the antient abbeys, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches. Being two additional volumes to Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon anglicanum ... / By John Stevens.

  • Stevens, John, -1726.
Date:
1722-1723
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    HISTORY OF THE Antient Abbeys, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathe¬ dral and Collegiate Churches. being TWO ADDITIONAL VOLUMES T O Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE’s Monafticon Anglicanum: CONTAINING The Original and firft Eftabliftiment of all the Religious Orders that ever were in G R EA T-B RITAIN; being thofe of the Benedictins, Cluniacks, Ciflercians, Regular Canons of St. Auguflin, Carthufians, Gilbertins, Tiinitarians, Premonflratenfes, and Canons of the Holy Sepulchre, treated of in the Monasticon Anglicanum i As alfo of the Francifcam, Dominicans, Carmelites, Auguflinian Friers, Regular Canons.of Arroajja> Brigittins, Monks of Fontewaud, of Savigni, and of Tiron, Crouched Friers, rriw of Penance, or of f/j? SucA, and Bethleemites, not fpo- ken of by Sir William Dugdale, and Mr. Dodfworth. The FO U N DAT IONS of their feveral Monasteries. A very large Collect ion of many hundreds of Grants and Charters belonging to them, befides feveral thoufands abridg’d. The final Suppression of all thofe Places, with fome Account of the manner how their vaft Lands and Poifeflions were difpos’d of. there are added Catalogues of the Abbats, and other Superiors of thofe religious Houfes, and of all Per- fons eminent, and diilinguifli’d for Piety, Learning, and other Accomplifhments, in the feveral Orders ; with ihort Lives of as many of them as have been tranfmittcd down to us. Collected from above Two hundred of the bed Historians extant, and from antient Ma- nufcripts in the Bodleian and Cotton Libraries, and many more in the Hands of learned Antiquaries, and other curious Gentlemen, whofe Names may be feen in the Preface. Adorn’d with a confiderable Number of Copper-Plates of the feveral Habits of the religious Orders, the Ichnographies of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and the Ruins of facred Places deftroy’d, or gone to Decay, and Profpe&s of others that are dill (landing. _By Jqh n Stevens, Gent. VOL. I. LONDON: Printed for T ho. Tay toil, Luke Stokoe, Jos. S.m it h, John S e n ex, W. Taylor, T. Meighan, J.Batiey, And. Johnston, W.Bray, R. King, and Tho. Cox. MDCCXXIJ, v* >