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Volume XXVI of Cole’s [Reverend William Cole] General Collections, and volume IV of his extracts from the episcopal registers of Ely, folio, ff. 238, and additional pp. 239-249.

1. Extracts from the register of John Alcock, Bishop of Ely, 1486-1500. ff. 1-88.

2. Extracts from the register of Nicholas West, Bishop of Ely, 1515-1528. ff. 89-151.

3. Extracts from the register of Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely, 1534-1554. ff. 152-229. Interspersed on the intermediate and additional pages occur the following articles, viz.

i. Memorandum of Richard Parentyn, Prior of Maxstoke, county Warwickshire. p. 1.

ii. Extracts from the Harleian catalogue of manuscripts, relating to Bodmin Priory in Cornwall; Durham Priory; Walden Abbey; Trinity College, Cambridge; Jesus College, Cambridge; St. Edmundsbury Abbey; Christchurch Priory, Canterbury; Richard Vaughan, Bishop of London; John Lavender, A.M. of Queen’s College, Cambridge; Badesley Preceptory, in Hampshire; Blakemore Priory, Essex; Magdalen College, Cambridge; Henry Lacy of Cambridge; Henry Gold of St. John’s College, Cambridge; Bishop Lancelot Andrews; Moulton in Lincolnshire; Matthew Prior; lists of abbots, bishops, etc. pp. ii, iii, iv.

iii. References to Thorpe’s Registrum Roffense, and Dugdale’s History of Imbanking, concerning Higham Priory; Cobham College; Horton Priory; Lesmes Abbey, all in Kent; and the abbey of St. Mary of Grace near the Tower of London. p. iv.

iv. Collacio Schole Gramaticalis in Elimosinaria Eliensi Johann Downham, Jun. Capellans. 28 March 1448. (Ex libro 13 Episc. Eliens). p. v.

v. Schola Gramaticalis Eliensis concessa eidem Johanni Downham Inn. Capellano, ad terminum vite. 3 Feb 1465. (Ex eod. libro). pp. v, vi, vii.

vi. Corrodium Dúi Ricardi Erustas, capellani. Dúi Henrici Peterburgh, Prioris Eliensis, factum ao. 1468. (Ex eod. libro). pp. vii, viii.

vii. Arms of John Alcock, Bishop of Ely. ff. *1, 1b.

viii. Memoranda relative to the treatise entitled ‘The Abbey of the Holi Goost,’ written by John Alcock. ff. 1b, 2b.

ix. Transcript of manuscript notes by Browne Willis, esquire, in his survey of York Cathedral, with additional notes by Cole. ff. 3b, 4b, 5b, 6b, 7b, 8b, 9b, 10b, 11b, 12b, 13b, 14b, 15b, 16b, 17b, 18b, 19b, 20b, 21b, 22b, 23b, 24b, 25b, 26b, 27b, 28b, 29b, 30b, 31b.

x. Dedications and bells in the diocese of York. ff. 32b, 33b, 34b, 35b, 36b, 37b, 38b, 39b, 40b, 41b, 42b.

xi. Transcripts of manuscript notes by Browne Willis, esquire, in his survey of the diocese of Man, with additions by Cole. ff. 43b, 44b, 45b, 46b, 47b.

xii. Transcripts of manuscript notes by Browne Willis in his survey of Lichfield Cathedral, with additions by Cole. ff. 48b, 49b, 50b, 51b, 52b, 53b, 54b, 55b, 56b, 57b, 58b, 59b, 60b.

xiii. Dedications and bells in the diocese of Lichfield. ff. 61b, 62b, 63b, 64b, 65b, 66b, 67b.

xiv. Transcript of Cole’s manuscript notes in his copy of the Antiquities of Lichfield, at the end of Abingdon’s Antiquities of Worcester. f. 68b.

xv. Transcript of manuscript notes by Browne Willis, in his survey of Hereford Cathedral, with additions by Cole. ff. 69b, 70b, 71b, 72b, 73b, 74b, 75b, 76b, 77b, 78b, 79b, 80b, 81b, 82b, 83b, 84b, 85b, 86b, 87b, 91b, 92b, 93b, 94b, 95b.

xvi. Arms of Nicholas West, Bishop of Ely. ff. 88b, 89b.

xvii. Memorandum of a charter granted by William Gray, Bishop of Ely, to John Dunham, clerk, Master of the Hospital of St. John of Cambridge, of 20 acres 1 rd of pasture in Littlefort. 8 Jan 4 Edward IV. f. 90b.

xviii. Dedications and bells in the diocese of Hereford. ff. 95b, 96b, 97b, 98b, 99b.

xix. Transcript of manuscript notes by Browne Willis in his survey of the Cathedral of St. David’s, with additions by Cole. ff. 100b, 101b, 102b, 103b, 104b, 105b, 106b, 107b, 108b, 109b, 110b, 111b.

xx. Dedications and bells in St. David’s diocese. ff. 112b, 113b, 114b, 115b, 116b, 117b.

xxi. List of degrees taken at Cambridge at the commencement, 1765. ff. 118b, 119b.

xxii. Transcript of manuscript notes by Browne Willis in his survey of the Cathedral of St. Asaph, with additions by Cole. ff. 120b, 121b, 122b, 123b, 124b, 125b, 126b, 127b, 128b, 129b, 130b, 132b, 133b, 134b, 135b, 136b, 137b, 138b, 139b, 140b, 141b, 142b, 143b, 144b, 145b, 146b, 147b.

xxiii. Arms of James Stanley, Bishop of Ely. f. 131b.

xxiv. Dedications and bells in the diocese of St. Asaph. ff. 148b, 149b.

xxv. Manuscript notes by Browne Willis in his survey of Bangor, relative to St. Asaph. f. 150b.

xxvi. Arms of Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely. ff. 151b, 152b.

xxvii. List of the abbots of Feversham, transcribed from Browne Willis’s lists, in a copy of Southhouses monsasticon Favershamiense. f. 153b.

xxxviii. Transcripts of manuscript notes by Browne Willis, in his survey of the Cathedral Church of Bangor, with additions by Cole. ff. 153b, 154b, 155b, 156b, 157b, 158b, 159b, 160b, 161b, 162b, 163b, 164b.

xxix. Dedications and bells in the diocese of Bangor. ff. 164b, 165b, 166b.

xxx. Transcript of manuscript notes by Thomas Baker and Browne.

Willis, in the second volume of the latter’s History of Abbeys, with Additions by Cole. ff. 167b, 199.

These notes relate to the following religious houses:

County Bedfordshire

St John’s Hospital, in Bedford. f. 168b. Bissemede. Ib. Caldwell. Ib. Beaulieu Priory, alias Maddry. Ib. Chicksand. f. 169b. Dunstable. Ib. Elnestow. Ib. Margate. Ib. Newenham. Ib. Norrell College. Ib. Wardon. Ib. Woburne. f. 170b. Dunstable Fraternity. Ib. Todington. Ib.

County Berkshire

Abington. Ib. Buttlesham or Bisham. f. 171b. Bromhall Priory. Ib. Dunningham. f. 172b. Pughley. Ib. Sandleford. Ib. Hurley. Ib. Wallingford College. Ib. Wallingford Priory. Ib.

County Buckinghamshire

Ankerwick. Ib. Ashridge. Ib. Bittlesdon. f. 173b. Bradwell. Ib. Burnham Abbey. Ib. Chetwode. Ib. Ivingho. f. 174b. Lavenden Abbey. Ib. Luffeild Priory. Ib. Little Marlow Priory. f. 175b. Medmenham Abbey. Ib. Missenden Abbey. Ib. Newton Longueville. f. 176b. Nutley Abbey. Ib. Ravenston Priory. Ib. Snellshall Priory. Ib. Tickford Priory. Ib. Wing Priory. f. 177b. Chantries in Buckinghamshire. Ib. and f. 178b. Aylesbury Friars. Ib.

County Cambridgeshire

Anglesey Priory. ff. 178b, 179b, 180b. Bernwell Priory. f. 180b. St. John’s Hospital, Cambridge. f. 181b. St. Edmunds Priory, Cambridge. Ib. King’s Hall, Cambridge. Ib. St. Radegund’s Nunnery, Cambridge. Ib. Chateriz. f. 182b. Denny Abbey. Ib. Ely Priory. Ib. Ickleton Priory. Ib. Swafham Bulbeck Priory. f. 183b. Barham Priory. Ib. Sturbridge Chapel. Ib. Wisbrioh Gild. Ib. Chantries in Ely Diocese, etc. Ib.

County Chester

St. John of Jerusalem Hospital, Chester. Ib. St. Mary’s Nunnery, Chester. Ib. St. John’s Church, Chester. Ib. Carmelites, Chester. Ib. St. Ursula’s Gild, Chester. Ib. Cumbermere Abbey. Ib. Norton Priory. Ib. Vale Royal Abbey. Ib.

County Cornwall

Bodmin Priory. f. 184b. St. Burian’s College. Ib. St. German’s Priory. Ib. Penryn alias Glaseney College. Ib. St. Michael’s Mount Priory. Ib. Trewardreth Priory. Ib.

County Cumberland

St. Bees Priory. f. 185b.Calder Abbey. Ib. Graystock College. Ib. Holm Cultram Abbey. Ib.

County Derbyshire

Beauchief Abbey. Ib. Bradsol Park Priory. Ib. Dale alias Parco Stanley Abbey. Ib. Darleigh Abbey. Ib. Derby Dominicans. Ib. Greysley Priory. Ib. Repton Priory. Ib. Crich Chantry. f. 186b.

County Devon

Barnstable Priory. Ib. Cowish Priory. Ib. St. Nicholas’s Hospital, Exeter. f. 187b. Forde Abbey. Ib. Hartland Abbey. Ib. Modbury Priory. Ib. Kirton College. Ib. Newenham Abbey. Ib. Plimpton Priory. Ib. Ottery St. Mary College. Ib. Torre Abbey. Ib. Totness Priory. Ib.

County Dorset

Abbatsbury Abbey. Ib. Burdon Abbey. Ib. Cerme Abbey. Ib. Cranborne Priory. Ib. Frampton Priory. Ib. Midleton Abbey. Ib. Shaftesbury Abbey. Ib., and 188b. Sherborne Abbey. f. 188b. Tarraunt Abbey. Ib. Winborne Minster. Ib.

County Durham

Aukland College. Ib. Chester College. f. 189b. Finchale. Ib. Kepire Hospital. Ib. Lanchester College. Ib. Staynedrope College. Ib. Hartlepool. Ib.

County Essex

Barking Abbey. Ib., and 190b. Bikenacre Priory. f. 190b. Bileigh Abbey. Ib. Berden Priory. Ib. Blakamore. Ib. Colchester, St Botolph’s Priory. Ib. Colchester Abbey. Ib. Coln Priory. Ib. Coggeshall Abbey. Ib. Dunmowe Priory. Ib., and 191b. Hatfield-Regis Priory. f. 191b. Lees Priory. Ib. Chich alias St. Osith. Ib. Prittlewell Priory. Ib. Stratford-Langthorn Abbey. Ib. Thoby Priory. Ib. Titley Abbey. Ib. Tremhale Priory. Ib. Walden Abbey. Ib.

County Gloucestershire

Bristol, St. Augustine’s Abbey. Ib. Bristol, St. Mark’s alias Gaunt’s Hospital. Ib. Bristol, St. Mary Redcliffe Church. Ib. Bristol, Friar’s Minor. f. 192b. Bristol, Franciscans. Ib. Bristol, Dominicans. Ib. Bristol, White Friars. Ib. Bristol, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Ib. Criencester Abbey. Ib. Derehurst Priory. Ib. Flaxley Abbey. Ib. Gloucester, St. Peter’s. Ib. Gloucester, St. Oswald’s Priory. Ib. Gloucester, Gray Friars. Ib. Gloucester, White Friars. Ib. Gloucester, Black Friars. Ib. Hayles Abbey. Ib., and f. 193b. Kingswood Abbey. f. 193b. Lanthony Priory. Ib., and 194b. Tewksbury Abbey. f. 194b. Westbury College. Ib.

County Herefordshire

Aconbury Priory. Ib. Clifford Priory. Ib. Downe Abbey. Ib. Flanesford Priory. f. 195b. Hereford Black Friars. Ib. Hereford, St. Guthlake’s Priory. Ib. Hereford Cathedral. Ib. Eurias Harold Priory. Ib. Lymbrook alias Linbroke Priory. Ib. Wigmore Priory. Ib. Wormesley Priory. Ib.

County Hertfordshire

St. Giles’s in the Wood Priory. Ib. Hartford Priory. Ib. Langley Priory. Ib. De la Pre Nunnery. Ib. Redburne Priory. f. 196b. Rowney Priory. Ib. Royston Hospital. Ib. Royston Priory. Ib. Sopewell Priory. Ib. Hitchin Fraternity. f. 197b.

County Huntingdonshire

Huntingdon Priory. Ib. Hinchinbroke Priory. Ib. St. Ives Priory. Ib. St. Neot’s Priory. Ib., and 198b. Sautrey Abbey. f. 198b. Stoneley Priory. Ib.

County Kent

Beigham Abbey. Ib. Bilsington Priory. f. 199b. Boxley Abbey. Ib. Canterbury, St. Gregory’s Priory. Ib. Canterbury, St. Sepulchrie’s Priory. Ib. Cobham College. Ib. Combwell Priory. Ib. Dertford Abbey. Ib. Dover Priory. f. 200b. Dover, Domus Dei Hospital. Ib. Feversham Abbey. Ib. Folkeston Priory. Ib. Heigham Priory. Ib. Langdon Abbey. Ib. Leeds Priory. Ib. Lesnes Abbey. Ib. Maidston College. Ib., and 201b. Malling Abbey. f. 201b. St. Radegund’s Priory. Ib. Shepeye Priory. Ib. Wengham College. Ib. Wye College. Ib.

County Lancashire

Burscough Priory. Ib. Conished Priory. Ib. Cantmele Priory. Ib. Cokersand Abbey. Ib. Furnes Abbey. Ib., and 202b. Horneby Priory. f. 202b. Holland Priory. Ib.Lancaster Priory. Ib. Manchester College. Ib. Whalley Abbey. Ib.

County Leicestershire

Bradley Priory. Ib. Burton Lazars Hospital. f. 203b. Croxton Abbey. Ib. Geronden Priory or Abbey. Ib. Grace-Dieu Priory. Ib. Langley Priory. Ib. Launde Priory. Ib. Leicester Abbey. Ib. Leicester, St. Mary’s College. Ib. Leicester, College of the Newark. Ib. Leicester, St. Clement’s, alias Black Friars. f. 204b. Leicester, Austin Friars, or St. Catherine’s. Ib. Leicester, Dominicans. Ib. Leicester, St. Francis. Ib. Nouseley College. Ib. Osulston Abbey. Ib. Ulvescroft Priory. Ib.

County Lincolnshire

Alsingham Priory. Ib. Oxholme Priory. Ib. Belvoir Priory. f. 209b. Berlinges Abbey. Ib. Bolyngton Priory. Ib. Bruern Preceptory. Ib. Brunne Abbey. Ib. Catley Priory. Ib. Deping Priory. Ib. Ellisham Priory. Ib. Freston Priory. Ib. Greenfeild Priory. Ib. Grimsby Nunnery. Ib. Hagnaby Abbey. Ib. Haverholm Priory. Ib. Kinksted Abbey. Ib. Louth Park Abbey. Ib. Leybourne Priory Ib. Lincoln, St. Catherine’s Priory. f. 210b. Lincoln, Carmelites. Ib. Markeby Priory. Ib. Nocton Priory. Ib. Newbo Abbey. Ib. Newsome Abbey. Ib. Newsted in Axholm Priory. Ib. Newsted juxta Stamford Priory. Ib. Nein-Ormesby Priory. Ib. Revesby Abbey. Ib., and 209b. Sempringham Priory. Ib. Sixle Priory. Ib. Spalding Priory. Ib. Swinshed Abbey. Ib. Stamford St. Michael’s Priory. f. 211b. St. Leonard’s Priory, by Stamford. Ib. Stainsfeild Priory. Ib. Stixwold Priory. Ib. Tattershale College. Ib. Thornholm Priory. Ib. Thornton Abbey. Ib. Thornton College. Ib. Welhove alias Grimsby Abbey. Ib.

County Middlesex

London, St. Bartholomew’s Priory, West Smithfield. f. 212b. London, Carthusian House. Ib., and 213b. London, Christ Church alias Trinity Priory, near Aldgate. f. 213b. London, Clerkenwell Priory. Ib. London, St. John of Jerusalem. Ib. London, Austen Friars. Ib. London, Black Friars. Ib. London, White Friars or Carmelites. Ib. London, Haliwell Priort. f. 214b. London, St. Helen’s Priory. Ib. London, Nunnery without Aldgate or Minoresses. Ib. Kilburne Priory. Ib. St. Laurence Pountney College. Ib. St. James’s Hospital. Ib. St. Martin’s College. Ib. St. Mary of Grace Abbey. Ib. St. Stephen’s College, Westminster. Ib. Stratford at Bow Priory. Ib. Syon Abbey. Ib., and 215b.St. Thomas of Acon’s College. f. 215b. Whittingdon College. Ib. Westminster Abbey. Ib.

County Monmouthshire

Abergaveny Priory. Ib. Chepstow Priory. Ib. Lanthony Priory. Ib. Tinterne Priory. Ib. Uske Priory. Ib. Monmouth Priory. f. 216b.

County Norfolk

Attleburgh College. Ib. Binham Abbey. Ib. Blackborough Priory. Ib. Bromeholme Priory. Ib. Carrow Priory. Ib. Castleacre Priory. Ib. Cokesford Priory. Ib. Creek Abbey. f. 217b. Derham Abbey. Ib. Haverland alias Mountjoy Priory. Ib. Holme St. Renets Abbey. Ib. Marham Abbey. Ib. Norwich, Augustines. Ib. Norwich, Carmelites. Ib. Norwich, Franciscans. Ib. Norwich Cathedral. Ib. Norwich, St. Giles’s Hospital. Ib. Norwich, St. Mary’s College in the Fields. Ib. Shouldham Priory. Ib. Thetford, Dominicans. Ib. Thetford, Canons St. Sepulchri. Ib. Thetford, St. Mary’s Priory. Ib. Walsingham Priory. Ib., and 218b. Wyrmegay Priory. f. 218b. Westacre Priory. Ib. Wymundham Abbey. Ib.

County Northamptonshire

Ashby Priory. Ib. Castesby Nunnery. Ib. Daventry Priory. f. 225b. Chacombe Priory. Ib. Aynhoe Hospital. Ib. De la Prie Abbey. Ib. Finnisheved Priory. Ib. Faderinghay College. Ib. Higham Ferrers College. Ib. Inttingburgh College. Ib. Northampton, St. Andrew’s Priory. f. 226b. Northampton, St. James’s Abbey. Ib. Pipewell Abbey. Ib. Rothwell Priory. f. 227b. Sewardsley Priory. Ib. Sulby Abbey. Ib.

County Northumberland

Alnwick Abbey. Ib. Hexham Priory. Ib. Newcastle, St. Bartholomew’s Priory. Ib. Tinmouth Priory. Ib., and 228b.Gisemund St. Mary’s Free Chapel near Newcastle. f. 228b.Newcastle, All Hallows Church. Ib.

+++See the remaining portion of these notes in volume XXVII.

xxxi. Account of the Duke of Newcastle’s visit to the University of Cambridge, in July 1766. Of the statue of George II presented by him, and of the degrees conferred. (From the Cambridge Chronicle, 5 July 1766). ff. 205b, 206b, 207b, 208b.

xxxii. Memoranda concerning rural deans, and deans of Christianity. f. 229.

xxxiii. Epigram made by Dr. Byrom of Manchester, on two parish officers, named Bone and Skin. f. 238b.

xxxiv. Further extracts to the Friars Preachers, London; Wigmore Priory; Barking Abbey; Bustleham Priory; St. Bartholomews, West Smithfield; Conway Abbey; St. Frideswide’s Priory, Oxford; Dover Hospital; St. David’s bishopric; Merton Priory, county Surrey; Walden Abbey, county Essex; Thomas Knight, Bishop of St. Asaph; St. Mary’s Abbey, York; Horton Prebend, in Salisbury; St. Helen’s Priory, London; Lonthony Priory, county Gloucestershire; Syon Abbey, county Middlesex; Cobham College, county Kent; Norton Abbey and Nale Royal Abbey, county Cheshire; Brutley Priory, county Suffolk; Athelney Abbey, county Somerset; Canterbury Christ Church Priory, Brynham Abbey and Beeston Priory, county Norfolk; Manchester College, Caverham; Whitby Abbey, Rassedale Abbey, Wartre Priory, County York; Drax, Gisborne Priory, Carlisle Priory, Newbo Abbey and Bruern Preceptory, county Lincolnshire; Bileigh Abbey, county Essex; John Brygandyn Clerk; Witham Priory, county Somerset; Shaftsbury Abbey, Rufford Abbey, county Nottinghamshire; Tinmouth and Newminster Abbies, county Northumberland; Abingdon Abbey, Berkshire; Caermarthen Priory, Talley Abbey, county Berkshire; Chester St. Mary’s Priory; St. Paul’s Cathedral; St. Cross’s Hospital by Winchester; Sempringham Priory, county Lincolnshire; Hyde Abbey, Winchester; Tarrige Abbey, county Surrey; Austin Friars of Launde, county Leicestershire; Dunstable Priory, county Bedfordshire; St. Werburgh’s Abbey, Chester; John Boothe, Archdeacon of Hereford; St. John’s Collegiate Church, Chester; St. John of Jerusalem’s Hospital, Chester; Burton Lazars Hospital, county Leicestershire; St. Ursula’s Gild, Chester; Robert Rogers, Archdeacon of Chester; Stafford Austin Friars; Robert de Rodeswelle, Archdeacon of Chester; Cuinbermere Abbey, county Cheshire; Rushen Abbey, in Isle of Man; Delacres Abbey, county Staffordshire; John Deane, prebendary of Lincoln; Carmelites in Chester; St. John Baptists Hospital, Chester; Nuns at Chester; Castleacre Priory, county Norfolk; Norton Abbey, county Cheshire; Wenlock Priory, county Shropshire; St. John of Jerusalem’s, county Middlesex; Peter Sharpe, prebendary of Chester; George Snell, Archdeacon of Chester; Chester Dominicans; Shrewsbury Abbey, Burton upon Trent Abbey, Sondewalle Priory, county Staffordshire; Repton Abbey, county Derbyshire; Lilleshulle Abbey, county Shropshire; Roucestre Abbey, county Staffordshire; Wormbridge Priory, county Shropshire; Dartford Priory, Kent; Bury St. Edmunds’ Abbey; Bishop Moore of Ely; Nicholas Frome Abbat of Glastonbury; Minorcsses in London. pp. 239-249. Many of these monasteries have more than one entry.

An alphabetical index to the extracts from the Ely registers is added to this volume, extending from folio 229b to folio 238, and also ff. 219b, 220b, 221b, 222b, 223b, 224b.