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LELAND'S ITINERARY IN ENGLAND
AND WALES

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS
PORTUGAL ST. LINCOLN'S INN, W.C.
CAMBRIDGE : DEIGHTON, BELL & CO.
NEW YORK: THE IIACMILLAN CO.
BOMBAY: A. H. WHEELER & CO.

THE ITINERARY

JOHN LELAND

IN OR ABOUT THE YEARS

1535— 1543
PARTS IV AND V

WITH AM

APPENDIX OF EXTRACTS FROM
LELAND'S COLLECTANEA

EDITED BY

LUCY TOULMIN SMITH

LONDON

GEORGE BELL AND SONS
1908

CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AM) CO.
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

PREFATORY NOTE

THE three portions of the present volume vari-
ously illustrate Leland's activity. Part IV' is
not Itinerary, but consists of notes for it, chiefly on
men and families in certain counties (which I have
attempted to indicate in the margin), Leland often
stating his authorities by extracts from family pedi-
grees or rolls, and in verbal information given him by
local gentry. Some of his scanty notices relating to
Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex, Sussex, and
Surrey, are found in this Part. Part V is narrative
Itinerary through the counties indicated by asterisks
on page vii, and shown by the red route on Map III.
The Appendix is not Itinerary, but the detached
part of Leland's Collectanea found at Cheltenham (see
p. 1 17 note). It is an interesting example of his reading
and research into past history and " antiquities," and
shows him at work extracting from lives of saints
and chronicles in the abbey libraries of Croyland and
Bury St. Edmunds, soon after their suppression ; also
more critically drawing upon the later collections of
John Rowse or Ross of Warwick, for early historical
notices of Oxford and Cambridge universities and of

* The first twenty-seven folios of Part IV belong to the Itinerary in
Wales (vol. iii of this edition).

vi PREFATORY NOTE

the ancient midland Warwick and Worcester. Two
letters bearing on Leland's own work, unfortunately
not dated, are found among these papers. Some notes
on Staffordshire families close this Appendix (for full
" Contents " see p. 1 16).

COUNTIES IN THIS VOLUME

Berkshire, pp. 2, 3.

•Buckinghamshire, pp. 4, 111-113.

Cambridgeshire, pp. i, 157, 166.

Derbyshire, p. 28.

Durham, p. 9.

Essex, pp. 1 6, 20, 31.

♦Gloucestershire, pp. 53-64.

Hampshire, pp. 7, 8, 19.

•Herefordshire, pp. 64-76.

Huntingdonshire, pp. 29, 142-144.

Kent, p. 30.

Lancashire, pp. 20, 21.

Leicestershire, p. 7.

Lincolnshire, pp. 18, 122-132, 146-148.

•Middlesex, pp. 113, 114.

•Monmouthshire, pp. 70, 71.

Norfolk, p. II.

•Northamptonshire, pp. 17, 18, 30, 35-38.

Nottinghamshire, p. 11.

•Oxfordshire, pp. 13, 33-35, 38-40, 109, no, 151-156, 160,

161.
•Radnorshire, pp. 70, 73.
•Shropshire, pp. 21, 26, 76-86.
Suflfolk, pp. 25, 28, 148-150.
Surrey, pp. 11, 12.
Sussex, pp. 12, 13.
•Staffordshire, pp. 99-105, 168-172.
•Warwickshire, pp. 27, 28, 40-52, 96-98, 105-109, 165.
Wiltshire, pp. 23, 24, 27, 162, 163.

•Worcestershire, pp. 15, 51, 52, 53, 86-96, 158-160, 163-165.
Yorkshire, pp. i, 2, 6, 7, 15, 16, 19.

Note, The asterisks denote the counties included in Part V (pp. 33-
1 14), the only portion of the Itinerary proper contained in this volume.
See Prefatory Note.

ERRATA

Page 29, for " Lunetote " read " Luvetote."
„ 66, lines 5 and 4 from the bottom add note to the
names Lorengo and Kynelme, "Stubbs gives these as
Losinga and Reinhelm."

Page 12$, for "Waldenus" read "Waldevus."
„ 151 note *, line ^^for "(Collectanea, ed. 1715, vol. iv
no, 211, 221)" read "Collectanea, De viris illustribus,
(MS. Top. Gen. c. 4) fos. in, 342, 343."

Page 158 margin, for "Worcester" read "Warwick."
„ 163, de/e note *. Probably both Rowse and Leland
had in mind the early Saxon Hwiccas, dwellers in the
district afterwards known as Gloucester, Worcester and
part of Warwick. But on p. 165, Dugdale makes the
correction Wigorniensibus,

Page 167, line 3 from bottom, /^r " Kinotus" read " Kino-
cus."

▼ui

THE ITINERARY OF JOHN LELAND.
PART IV*

HENRY LACEY, Erie of Lincolne, had emong many Cambridge
other lordshipes Grantcester by Grantebridg, wher he fo. i.
set up one of his kinnesmen, as far as I can conject, a
bastard of his, and endowid hym with landes partely there
and partely yn other places; and commaundid that this
Lacey so set up in Grantecester should and his successors
ever-to name theyr sunnes and heyres by the name of
Henry: the which thinges hath beene religiously observid
hyther to. And this was the original beginning of the house
of the L[aceys of Grante]cester in Grante[bridge shire as I
lernyd of] hym that [now ys heyre of these lands.] Henry
the VI. [emonge other things gave] onto the [College that he
made] yn Grantebrige [his lordship of Grant]cestre. This
Henry [by enheritaunce ... of Henry Lacey that was Earle
of Lincolne lands.]

Wyvel of the northe, that was the auncientest of that
name, had his principal house at Slingesby yn Yorkshire.
And this Wyvelle was a man of fair landes. Slyngesby
about a v. miles from Malton yn Riedale in the way from
Malton to Newborow, that is distant xii. miles from
Malton. The house of Slyngesby and the landes of this
Wyvelle be devolvid to the Lord Hastinges by heires
general.

That Wyvell that now is duel[lynge at] Burton Parva by Yorkshire.
Mas[ham in Richejmontshire, cummithe [of a yongjer
brothar of the [Wyvelle of S]lyngesby. [He ha]th Burton
Parva by an [heyre generalle] of one of the [Pygotes] of the

[* Leland's MS. voL iv, fos. 1-50 (Gen. Top. e 11). Stow's copy
MS. TaDner 464, vol. iii, fos. 36-48, old fig. See note p. 31. In this
Part the counties are only indicated for the principal groups of places.]

LELAND'S ITINERARY

Golaffre de
Cerceden,

Oxon.

Yorkshire, northe. [Sergeant] Pygot aboute Henrye the [. . . dayes]
was a man of faire [lands, and] was of a nother yonger
[brothar of the Pigotes, and his landes, as I remember, be
fo. 2. also] descendid to heyres generales.

The house caullid Clifton, like a pile or castelet, distant
aboute a mile and [an] half from Litle-Burton, was the
Lorde Scropes of Masham.

This Lorde Scropes landes in continuaunce devolvid to
3. doughters of one of them. Wherof one of them was
maryed to Strangaise* of Harlesey, a nother to Danby, the
3. to Strelley, com. Nott. Of this thirde descendid 2.
doughtters, wherof one was maryed to Bingham, the other
to Wyvelle that now liveth [and hath Clifton by her].

Dhs jRogerus Golaffre Miles^ dhs de Cercedene tempore
Joanms Regis. Hie g^nuif] Rogerum, quifuit Miles tempore
Henrici 3. &* Edwardi i. Uterque humatus in Domo Capi-
tulari de Bruera in Comit, Oxoh.

Dns Joannes Miles^i filius Rogerijunioris^ genuit ex Alicia
Colworp uxore sua Thomam armigerum^ &* Rogerum, ac
GuL Joannes obiit a^ Z?. 1297, Non.Jun, &* Regni Edwardi
primi 25. Sepultus fuit in Ecclesia de Bruera. Thomas armi-
ger ex Joanna ejus uxore genuit Joannem^ qui Miles fuit,
Obiit Thomas anno [6.] Edwardi 3. Rogerus Thomaf rater
non habuit liberos, Thomas sepultus est in Bruera, Joannes
Miles^ Thonue filius^ ex Elisabeth \Jilia &* herede Joannis
Fyffeld armigeri Dni de Fyffede in ConUt, Barkshir, genuit
Thomam armigerum positum in recta linea^ &* Gulielmum^
ac Julianam filiam in charta positos ad dextram^ acjoannem
armigerum^ &* Nicolaum militem positos in leva charta,
Joannes miles obiit 3. Januar, anno dom, 1363. dr* Edwardi
fo-3» 3- 39. Sepultus"] est in Eccl, de Fyffede, Elisabeth ejus uxor
obiit ante eum i*. Febr, ad, D, 1360. (5r» Edwardi 36. Sepulta
est in Eccl. Parochiali de Fyffede,
Berks. Thomas, armiger, first weddid Margaret Foxley, doughter
to Thomas Foxley, and syster to Syr John Foxley, knight, of
Barkshir, caullid Margaret Parker, Lady of Radeley beside
Abingdon, and had by her issue only John Golaffre that last
died, and no mo. And the sayde Th[omas dyed] at Radeley

[• Leland wrote guise^ then corrected it to gaisf.]

[t I omit a small rough sketch in the margin of the Golaffre arms.]

PART IV 3

beside Abin[gdon the xxvi.] of August the yere of oure Lorde Berks.
1378. [anno 2. Rijchardi 2. and was buried in [the quier] of
the Blak Freres in Oxford. Margaret his wyfe dyed anno
Dom. [1396.] and was buried with [hir husband Thomas].

Thomas Golaffre, armiger, had John a squier, that first was
weddid the Lady Brun, mother to Syr Morice Brun, knight,
Steward of Housold with my Lord of Glocester. 'After John
Golaffre weddid the Lady Ingelfeld, and after the Pole, wife
to Sir Quaker Poole, and had no issue of his sayde 3. wifes.
He dyed at Fifede the xxiii. of February ao, D, 1441. et 20.
Henrici 6., and ys buried in the chirch of Fifede* in Bark-
shire.

William Golaffre squier, sun to Syr John Golaffre and
Elizabeth, heir of Fifede, and a yongger brother to Thomas
Golafre squier, weddid Alice Bisshop, doughter and hejrr to
John Bisshop of Abingdon. Both they dyed without issue.
William was buried yn the Gray Freres in Oxford. Alice was
buried in her paroche chirch [at Abyngdon].

Juliane Golaffre, sister to this William, was maried to Ro- fa 4-
bert of Wightham** in Barkshire, had Richard and divers
other childem.

Robert dyed a®. D. 1406. Juliane dyed a®. D. 1408. Both
were buried in the chirch of Witham.

Richardus de Wightham weddid Alison Daundesey,
doughter of Walter Daundesey gentilman of Oxfordeshir:
and by her had issue a doughter caullid Agnes, maryed to
William Browning by John Golaffre esquier. the wich John
toke Agnes his cosyn in the secund degre for his right heire.

Marie, Elizabeth, Eleanore, Catarine, Margaret, Felice,
Agnes, right sisters to Richard Wightham.

John Golaffre esquier, sun to John Golaffre knight and
Elizabeth, heir of Fifede, had issue [John,] after knight.

This John knight maried [Amice] doughter and heir [to
Thomas of Langeley Lorde of Langeley. But she shortly
dyed without issue by hym.]

Then maried this Syr John Golafre Isabel Lady Missende,
dwelling at Missenden and Queinton * in Bukkenghamshir,
doughter to Syr Bernard Brocas : but he had no issue by
her.

» Fyfield. ^ Wytham. Quainton.

4 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Bucks. But he had in his wife Isabel's tyme issue by a leman,
cauUid Johenet Pulham, Alice, after priores of Bumham by
Windesor, and John, after knight.

John Golafre, knight, father to John the bastard, dyed at
Queinton an**. D. 1379. and was buried in the Gray Freres at
Oxford.

Isabel his wife was byried after at Missenden Priory.

Syr John Golaffre bastard weddid Dame Philip Lady

Fitzgualter. He died at Walingford a<*. Di, 1396. &* 20^

JReg, Richardi 2. and was biryed ny Richard the 2. tumb at

fo. 5. Westminster. [This Philipe] after maryed the Duke of York

that was killid at the batel of Agingcourt in Fraunce.

This Dame Philip dying yn Henry the 6. dayes was buryed
at Westminster nere her husband Syr John Golaffre the
bastard and lord of Langeley.

Brouninges wife afore rehercid after the deth of Brouning
was maried to a younger brother of the Homes, the which
though he had no issue that livid by hym,* yet he procurid of
hir to his use the maner of Circeden in Oxfordshire, and the
principal house with it of the Golaffres.

This Home after marying, had issue father to Home the
pensionar.

The familie of the Home rose by a riche marchaunt
stapele[r] of that name about Kent w[hos] testament cam
to a XX. [thousand] poundes, as I have harde s[ay. The]
heyres landes of [hym be sparkelyd, but a pece remaynithe
to the chefe Framelingham of Southfolke, whose mother
was heir generall to this Home.

Gualter de la Rivers was the first of that name that had
landes yn Yorkeshir.

Mowbray Erie of Northumbreland gave Water the lord-
ship of Bransby, wher the chief house of the Ryvers yet is,
and a nother lordship by it that yet remaynith to the Ryvers.

This lande was gyven firste to Gualter but for terme of
his life.

Bransby 3 miles from Shiref-hutten* and 4. miles from
Newborow,** yn the high way almost betwixt booth.

[* Sic^ query read h%r,'\

Sheriff Hutton. ^ Newburgh.

PART IV 5

Nicolas, sunne and heir to Walter, had this lande gyven
to hym and to his heires.

The Ryvers yn tyme past had the lordship of Hooke in
Lincolnshir, that is i6o. poundes by the yere.

The Ryvers had also Helperby by York, but I think that
these 2. lordship cam to them by manage of heires general.

VVylliam Delapole Duke of Southefolk had to his wife fo. 6.
[Alice*] doughtter and heir to Chaucer, lord of Ewelm,t
Dunington,J Hoke-Northon § and other land. This William
with Chaucer's doughter his wife was founder of the hospital
of Ewelme.

This Willyam was a very great man with Henry the vi.
and had gatherid by autorite great sum of treasoure for hym,
of the which apon a tyme he tooke a certein part withowt
licens to a feete || at his own pleasure, and setting owt a cer-
tein navie of his own mynde was after encounterid with
other shippes and taken, behedid, and the bodie of hym
laide on the shore about Dovor side.

This William's wife is honorably buried in the hospitale
of Ewelme.

Pole of Darbishire, beside the partition of the landes of
Chaundoys that he hath with Bridges of Glocestreshir, hath
partition of Muttons a knight sumtyme of Leircestershir
with one Vincent, the which dwellith at Pekkerton, the George
hedde house of the Muttons. Vincent.

Syns I hard that Harington of Rutheland had parte of the
Muttons landes.

There was a Vicount of ... in Normandie caullid Ber-
tine or Berthram Eintwesel that cam into Englande, and
was much of the faction of King Henry the vi. and slayn at
one of the batelles of S. Albane, and buried yn the paroche
chirch of S. Albane under the place of the lectern in the
quier, wher is a memorial of hym.

There yet remaynith yn LeicshireT a mene gentilman of
the name of Eintwesil.

[* Leland left this blank, Heame adds Alice, referring to Part II,
fo. 6, our vol. i, p. ii2.]

It Ewelmelm in original.] \X Donnington Castle, Berks.]

§ Hook Norton, Cb^on.] [|| he, t /eat or exploit.]

[IT Leland first wrote Northamptonshire, the above correction is ap-
parently in his hand, but Stow has the first]

6 LELAND'S ITINERARY

There was a doughter of this [Gounte] Eintwesil caullid

Lucy [of whom mastar Brudene] yn Northamptonshir des-

cendith.

fo. 7. * John Darcy* baron that dwellid at the lordship of

[Snape, Snafe toward Trente in Lincolnshir betwixt Torkesey and

Linc,^\ Gainesborow had to wife Marye the widow of Gounte

S. Paule, doughter to Edwarde 2. alias Gairarvon, and sister

to Edwarde the 3., and by her he had a sun caullid John.

And he had with her . . . lordship in Darbyshir. This sun

John Darcey maried Elisabeth doughter and heir to the

Lord Menel. Darcy the sunne by this mariage was muche

avancid.

This John the sunne had by Elizabeth, John and Philippe,
men childem. John died without issu.
[KiTr^.jt Philip had 2. doughters, wherof the one was maried to
Stranways, the other to Gonyers.

The Lorde Menel was principal lorde of al Gliveland,*
and al the gentilmen yn it for the most part did hold there
landes of the Menel fee. And the Lorde Menel held of the
Arche[bishop of] Gantewarbyri. Wherapon at this presente
tyme the Archebishop hath 2. lordshipes of such landes as
were the Menelles by north during the nonage of the Lord
Gonyers that now is.

Whorleton** in Gliveland was the principal house of the
Lord Menelle, which syns cam to Mr. Strangways in par-
tition.

The Lord Menel was also Lord of Yam*^ lordship in
Gliveland, Semar** and Midleton lordshipes in Gliveland,
and Grenho* in the egge of Blakmore. Menel was also
lord of other lordshipes in Gliveland.

Menel was lord of al Ghiveot in Northumbreland and
other ii. lordshippes there. Master Strangwaise and Gonyers
after devided the landes betwene them of the Lord Falcon-

[* At this point three leaves (fos. 7, 8, 9) are missing in vol. iv of
the MS., they are found in the MS. vol. viii, where Burton inserted
them as pages 41-46 (the old figures can be seen under the new), whence
they are here printed * — *. Stow has them in due order.]

[t Added by Burton.]

» Cleveland. ^ Whorleton Castle. « Yarm.

^ Seamer. • Greenhow.

PART IV 7

bridg, to whom Skelton Castelle in Cliveland longgid, the Yorka.
which ys now in Coniers possession by partition, fo. 8.

My Lorde Dakers of Gillesland told me that the Castelle
of Nawarde" belongid sumtyme onto the Vaulx; and that it
cam by heires generale yn to the handes of the Dakers
afore or ever the landes of the barony of Greistoke felle
onto them. He told me also that there is yet in those
quarters a meane gentilman cauUid Vaulx of the house of
Vaulx of Nawarde.

Sins I lemid of Mr. Bowes that Cospatrik the chief lorde
of Westmerland, Cumbreland and Northumbreland lay at
Naward Castelle sumtyme as a place of his owne. But he
thinkith that the Vaulx were re^fiers of it.

The familie of the Chaveneis^ of Leycestershire cam, as I fo. 9-
have lemid, out of the quarters of Poiters in Fraunce, wher Leicester-
there be yet gentilmen of the same name. The first of "hire,
them, as it is saide, cam out of that parte with the Blak
Prince sunne to Edwarde the 3. after the batelle of Poiters,
and had landes given him in Leircestreshire. The name of
Chaveneis leasis yet remainith not very far from Bever
Castelle. The Yerle of Rutheland hath them now.

Chaveney that was great with the Blak Prince had 4.
sunnes that were of Richard the secunde partie, of the which
3. dyed in the quarelles betwixt Richard the 2. and Henry
the 4., wherapon old Chaveney gave parte of his landes to
Croxton Abbay and to Newbow: and Jening Chaveney
superviving his father had summe parte. This man was
graundfather to Chaveney now living. The land is almost al
gone.*

This familie took name of a paroche in Northumbreland, fo. 10.
wher hath beene gentilmen of that name. Belingeham.^

Of later time there hath beene menne of estimation of
this name in the town self of Kendale. wherof one is now
in the courte a pensionar to the Kinge.

The auncient house, as far as I can leme, that the Sannes Sannes.
hath possessid is Choldretoun,"^ a mile and a half from Hampshire.
Andoverin Hamptonshire; wher yet remainith a fair maner
place buildid for the moste part of flint.

• Naworth, Cumberland. ^ Chaveney.

^ Bellingham. ^ East Cholderton.

LELAND'S ITINERARY

Hampshire. The Vine by Basingstoke was also of the auncient landes
of the Sannes,* but it was given owt in manage to one of the
Brokesses: and so remainid ontil the late Lorde Sandes afore
he was made baron recoverid it into his possession ; at the
which tyme ther was no very great or sumptuus maner
place, and was onely conteinid within the mote. But he
after so translatid and augmentid yt, and beside buildid a
fair base court, that at thys time it is one of the principale
houses in goodly building of all Hamptonshire. The great
encresing of the landes of this Syr William Sannes, after
lord, cam by his wife nepos ex fratre to Syr Reynald Bray.
This Bray going to Blakeheth Feeld left Sannes tanquam
heredetn: and Bray after this feeld purchasid a thousand
fo. II. markes of lande by the yere more then he had afore; and
after died, leving no other wille then that that he made at
the tyme of Blake-Heth feld. Wherapon great controversie
rose, Sannes claiming the landes by the testament, and
young Bray nepos ex fratre to Syr Reynald Bray. This con-
troversie was after ended by the King and his counsel, that
made a certen partition of Syr Reynald Bray's landes
betwixt them.

The Lorde Sannes that lately died made an exchaunge
with the King, and gave Chelsey by Westminstre for Motes-
font Priory ^ in Hamptonshire, wher he began to translate
the old building of the priory, and to make a fair maner
place, but the work is left onperfecte.

The Lorde Sannes now beyng hath to wife the Erie of
Ruthelan sister: and hath 4. sunnes and 6. doughtters yet
living by her.
Moriimar, I saw at Mr. Yorkes in a rolle of petygre 12. of the
Mortimers sette owte in roundelettes, wherof the first was
Hugh that cam yn, as it was written there, with the Con-
querour King William.

The secund was Roger founder, as it was there writen, of
Wigmore Abbay in the marches of Wales.

The 3. was Radulphe that weddid Gladuse Duy, doughter
to Lleweline Prince of Wales.

The syxt was Roger the first Erie of Marche, that had to
wife the doughter of Geneville.

* Sandes or Sandys family.

^ Now Mottisfont Abbey.

PART IV 9

The last was Roger.* Durham.

The Bowes were gentilmen in the Bisshoprike of Dirham fo. 12.
long afore Henry the 5. tyme, and had the chief land and Bowes,
house of theyr name that they have there, yet one of this Mourner de
house caullid Syr Gul. Bowes was chaumbrelayne with the ^^^^^
Duke of Bedeforde, brother to Henry the 5. and uncle to
the 6, and Protector and Governour in Fraunce; by whos
favor Bowes, caullid in Frenche Mounser de Arches, being
yn Fraunce with hym a xvij. yeres, waxid riche, and comming
home augmentid his lande and fame. Bowes of the Kinges
Counsel at Yorke is a younger brother of the chief house
of the Bowes. And Bowes that was in Fraunce was great
grauntfather to this Bowes of the Counselle. And he is
also uncle to the best of the Bowes that now is.

Syr William Bowes that was in Fraunce with the Duke of
Bedeford did builde h fundamentis the manor place of
Stretlam* in the Bisshoprik of Dirham, not far from Barnardes
Castelle.

The chief house and the aunciente of the name is in the
bisshoprike at . . .

Ros, that dwellith at Ingmanthorpe in Yorkshir a 2. miles Ros.
a this side Wetherby, cummith of a yongger brother in
descentes tjone past of the house of the Lord Ros. Wetherby
longgid yn tjones paste also to the house of this Ros, and
diverse other theraboute.

Ther was a lorde in Hertefordeshire caullid the Lorde fo. 13.
How. And his manor place by the name of How yet there The Lord
partely remainith about the quarter of S. Albanes. '^<"«'-

Syr Geofrey Boleyn Mair of London, as I hard, maried BoUine.
one of the doughtters and heyres of the Lord How.

This Sjn: Geffrey was Mair of London an. D. 1457.

Syr Geffrey got togither about an 100. markes of lande.

Syr Geffrey buildid a fair house of brike at . . . yn North-
folke.

Syr Geffrey died a great rich man.

Syr Geffrey was borne at Thomege^ toward Walsingham,

[* Leland first wrote Edmunde.]

» Streatlam. * Thomey.

lo LELAND'S ITINERARY

a lordeship of the old landes of the Se of Norwich, and ther
be yet sum husbandmen of that [name].*

Geffrey had William, and he maried one of the 2.
doughters and heires, and Seintliger the other, of Boteler
Erie of Ormund and Lorde Rocheforde.

William had Thomas lately Erie of Wileshire.

But the lordeship of How in Hertefordeshir longgid a
late to Richard Farmer, marchaunte of London, before the
forefaicte takeij of hym for mesprision.

Copley had a nother doughter and heir of the Lord Howe.

Caro had a nother, of whom Syr Nicolas Carow, Master
of the Horses, cam.

The 4. was maried to [DevenisX],

So that emong these 4. was a 320 A. landes by yere devidid.

Mr. Gage, Controller of the Kinges Howse, hath the
substance of the landes of the Sainct Clere that was the
chiefest of that name yn Devonshire by the heire generale.

One told me that much of the lande that Mr. Gage hath
landes of the S. Clares in Kente.f

There is yet m Devonshire one of the Sainct Cleres, a
\ man of meately fair landes, that descendith of a yongger

I brother of the principal house of S. Clere of Devonshire.

I fo. 14. There hath beene of the Dalaunsons in Lincolnshir that

^/&'*!t^'^ hath beene menne of very fair landes many yeres syns:
but of laters dayes they wer not of any great landes ; not
passing a C. li. or a C. markes.

I askid Doctor Dalaunsun, brother to the heire of that

name that now is, but he could telle me litle of that name

or of the cumming up of it in Lincolnshir.

Vere of Lin- Mr. Sheffeld told me that Dalaunsun of Lincolnshir hath

colnshire, a part of the [landes] of Vere of Lincolnshir, that [came out]

of the house of the Erles of [Oxfor]de.

These thinges folowing I gatherid out of an old rolle
of Master Streitley of Notinghamshir.

StreytU alias Robcrtus Stretley pater ^ &* Robertus ejus filius vixerunt
Siurley. primis annis Regni Edwardi primi,

[♦ Supplied, L. T. S.]

[t So Leland. Stow has it " One told me that mastar Gage hathe
miche of the Clares lands in Kent"]

« aliiu Daii-

\ sunne.

PART IV II

Stretky habuit terras in Stretley, ChibvtlU (5r» Adingburgh. Notts.

Hawisia uxor Roberti Stretley,

Ermegarda uxor Roberii Siretley,

Gulidmus Vavasor Vicecomes Regis Henrici 3. in Noting-
hamshire dr* Darby shire^ ac custos Ca[strum] de Notinghatn.

Harstane ac [Bo/esou]er.

Ifarestan, Bolesover, Castella in Skardah 4. miUibus pas-
suum a Chesterfeld,

Robertus fi\lius Gu/,] Vavasor,

Elisabeth ac Annora filia &* heredes Roberti Vavasor
tempore Edwardi primi,

Joannes Blakeburne, dr» Joannes Harington^ ac Matilde
ejus uxor, consanguinea Roberti Stretie, filii Roberti, litiga-
bant cum Roberto filio pro terris in Stretle, ChilweUe 6-
Adingburgh,

lidem litigabant cum Hawisia 2. uxore Roberti Stretley
(ut ego colligo) patris, pro terris in Oxto[n] HoUbek S*
Triberhaw,

Sampson Stretley * miles ejusdem familia longo post tem-
pore.

The father of John Heydun began to gette sum land, and fo. 15.
inhabited at Baconthorp, wher be likelihod the Bacons yn Heydune,
tymes past had been men of sum reputation. Norfolk.

John apperteinid al to the law, and purchasid landes, and
began the front or the gate-house of the new maner place of
Baconthorpe: and dyed withoute farther building there.

Henry, sunne to John, passid not; of the gaines of the
law, or to any great getting by service, but al for profite at
home. And yet he did great feates.

Fyrst he performid with an exceding cost the hole house
wherof John began only the fronte.

He purchasid 300. markes of land yn yerely rent.

Wherof an hunderith li, by yere is at Wikam' by Lew- Surrey,
sham in Surrey, toward Croydon, wher he buildid a right
fair manor place, and a fair chirche.

He left xl. It, land by yere to eche of his 2. yongger
sunnes.

[• Leland notes, " Strelley hie scriptum erat.*']

ft Wickham.

LELAND'S ITINERARY

Surrey. John Heydun knight now lyving, sun to Henry.

Al these 3. wer men of fair age: and al their landes cam
by purchace.
Townesende. The graundfather of Townesende now lyving was a meane
man of substance.

The father of Townesende now living got about a hun-
derith pound of land by the yere with much traveling yn
the law.

Townesende now beyng, first by enclining to the law, and
good husbandrie at home, hath encreasid his lande to the
sum of a nother hunderith //.

And this Towneshend now lyving by mariage of a doughter,
heir generale to Hansarde of Lincolnshir, hath aboute 300.
markes byside of landes and yerely rente.

He hath had fair issue by this woman, so that his sunne and
heire shaul be a man of a 600**. markes of land by the yere.

Yet cam not al the landes of the Hanshardes to Townes-
ende. For there be yet left of the name.

The eldest house of the Gravilles is within a 2. miles of
Banbyri at Drayton, the which village is in Oxfordshir.

Sum hold opinion that the Gravilles cam originally in at
the conquest.

The first notable encrese of the landes of Graville of
Draiton cam by one Lewis Graville, that maried Margaret
the doughter and heire of a noble caullid Syr Giles Ardene.
The wife of the which Syr Giles was namid Philip, and she
likewise was a woman borne to faire landes. So that the
possessions of Giles and Philip descendid onto Lewys
Graville, whos fair tumbe is yet sene in the paroche chirch
of Draiton.

The sunne of Lewys had to wife the doughter and heire
of one Corbette.

And his sunne had the doughter and heire of one
Pointez.

And Court RoUes remayne yet at Draiton that the Gre-
villes landes ons by yere [were] • 3300. markes.
Sussex. And Gravilles had Knap-Castel' and Bewbusch-Parke

[* No blank in Leland, but supplied by Stow.]

Hansard of
Lincolnshir,

fo. 16.
Graville,

Oxon.

" Knepp Castle.

PART IV 13

and other landes in Southsax by descentes of theire name: Sussex.
the which afore longid to the Breoses; and sins after much
sute and composition they cam to the Hawardes Dukes of
Norfolk.

Ther was one of the Gravilles of Draiton after that they Oxon.
cam to the great landes that much usid the se and dyed in
warfare. This Graville left one Somerton, a meane gentilman
of Draiton in Oxfordeshire, a peace of whos house as in a
gate yet remainith, to whom he left his land in feoment
withowt declaration of wylle to any use. Wherapon Somer-
ton sold much of it, and sum convertid to his owne heires,
the name of whom a late remiained. And thus began the
land to decay.

And the graunt-father of the heire of Graville of Drayton
yet lyving sold much.

Gravilles of Drayton claime to be heyres to the Lord fo. 17.
Denham.

Graville now lyving heir of Draiton is a man of a 400.
markes of land by the yere.

The yongger brother of the heir of Draiton now lyving Fulco Gra-
hath a good peace of the Lorde Brokes land by an heir «**'^-
generale.

Ther hath beene divers other of the Gravilles as yongger
brethem of the house of Draiton that hath purchacid fair
landes, and otherwise cum to landes by manage of heires
generalles.

Though a great peace of the landes of Giles Arden cam
to Lewys Graville,* yet is ther one Arden at this tyme in
Warwikeshir that is a man of a 300. markes of land by
yere.

This Pointes afore rehercid f cam thus oute of the house
of Pointz of Acton in Glocestershir. Roberte Pointz had 2.
sunnes, Nicolas and Thomas.

Thomas had landes given onto hym an honest portion by
Robert his father.

Thomas had a sunne cauUid Roberte, and this Robert
lefte heire, or heires general maried to one of the Gravilles
of Draiton.

[* Leland here corrects to Greville^l

[t Addition by Leland referring to fo. 16, before, p. 12,]

LE LAND'S ITINERARY

Menelleof
Darhishtr,

fo. i8.

INewhall,
Derbyshire,^

Clarevaix,

Finez Lard
Dacres.
Fina Lord
Clinton,
Finez Lorde
Saye.

Wikam of
Broughton,

fo. 19.
Throkmertnn,
Worcester-
shire.

Part of this landes given owt is sins partely by purchase,
partely by exchaunge, retumid to the Pointz of Acton.

One Menelle, a gentilman of reputation in Darbyshire,
owner of Langeley betwixt Rocester and Darby, and of
Ascheton on Trent in Darbishir, that is within lesse then 2.
miles of Duningtune-Castelie yn Leircestreshir, and also of
Newhaul not far from Burton apon Trent, left 3. doughters,
whereof one part, that is to say Langeley, cam by descent of
one of the sisters, doughters to Menelle, onto Mr.* Basset
of Derbyshire.

Asscheton cam by a nother to one Hunte.*

Newhaul cam to the lot of Dedike in pardon [Ppartition] :
and so evrey one of them had a 100. markes by yere and a
manor place.

The Baron of Hilton in the Bisshoprik of Duresme maried
the heyre of the Clarevalx by Tese: but she hath bene long
maried and hath no childem.

The Lord Dacres of the south is cauUid Fines by propre
name; and so is cauUid the Lord Clinton. There was also
in Henry the v. and the vi. tyme one of the Lorde Sayes
caullid Fynez.

The last of the Lorde Sayes being in renowme was twise
taken prisoner, wherby he was much punishid by the purse.
Wherapon he was fain to lay most part of his land to mor-
gage and solde clerely part of it. So that sins the name of
the barony of Say is extinctid, but the heire males of the
Lord Say in descent yet remainith caullid by the name of
Fines.

Richard Farmer's doughter hath maried the heires of these
Finez, a man of fair landes booth yn Oxfordeshire and
Southamptonshire. But his most landes cam by descentes
onto hym by the heir generale of one Wikam, maried into
this house of the Finez.

Wikam was owner of the lordeship and fair maner place
of Broughton in Oxfordshire about a mile from Banbyri.*

John Throkmerton was the first setter up of his name to
any worship in Thorkmertun village, the which was at that
tyme nother of his inheritaunce nor purchace, but as a thing

[* FoL 18 is missing in vol. iv, but is found in vol. viii as pages 39,
4a Printed here * — *.]

PART IV 15

taken of the sete of Wiccestre in farme, bycause he bare the Worcester-
name of the lordeship and village. thire.

This John was Under-Treasorer of Englande about the
tyme of Henry the v. and lyith biried at the paroche of
Flatbyri a lordship of his a 6. miles from Eovesham in
[Worcester *]shire. wher be other of his name and linage .
buried in the same chirch.

This John had a sunne and heire cauUid Thomas.

Thomas had a sun and heire caullid John.

John had Roberte.

Robert had Sjn: George Thorkmertun.

George had a sun and heir caullid Sr. Robert, and he hath
Thomas.

The Throkmertons landes be augmentid by manage with
the heires of Spiney and Olney.

The firste setting up of the house of the Nedams of
Chestershir cam but a 2. descentes from the heir of the
Nedams now lyving, and being a knighte by one Nedam a
iuge yn the law.

One Ecmundetoun, a gentilman of auncient name, maried Yorkshire,
one of the heires generales of the Lorde Davelles. Wherby Tke Lard
he and his heires yet have a manor place of his yn the Masse ^^^^\
a part of Yorkshir, at Fokerby* in the paroch of Ethelingflete,* Ecmundetun,
wher an arme castith owte of Ure.

This Fokerby is aboute half a mile from Ethelingflete.

Ethelingflet is the best toun of al Masse land, and yet it
ys but an uplandeisch town.

There be buried, as I harde, one or 2. of the Davelles yn
the paroch chirch of EtheHng[flet].

Ecmundetown hath beside l[andes] of the Spaines. Spayne,

And of one of the Stapletons. StapUtun,

Ecmundeston landes cum now to a 140. li. landes by
yere.

[Ethelingflete vj. myles beyond Buterwyke.]

^i^Turwith f now being yn the courte a late a haunchman fo. 20.

[* In another hand.]

[t Eighteen leaves are here missing in vol. iv, viz., fos. 20-37. Of
these only six, fos. 20-25 are found in vol viii, with Burton's paging as

* Masse, a manorial estate (Lat. massa), the mansion at Fockerby.
^ Adlingfleet.

LE LAND'S ITINERARY

Lincoln-
shire.

Bssez.

Babiharf of
IVarwikeshir
cam out of
the House
ofBabthorp
of Yorkeshir,

fo. 21.

MofUeforte of

Richemont'

shir.

hath maried the heir generale of the eldest house of the
Oxenbridges of Southsax, by whom he shaul have 140. //.
lande by yere.

This yonge Turwhit is sun and heir to olde Turwhites
sunne of Lincolnshire.

Master Estsax of Barkshire cummith oute of the house of
Estsaxis long sins knighttes of fame yn Estsax. The landes
of Estsax of Estsax were disparkelid, and the glorie of that
familie was almost extinctid.

One William Estsax that died a 60. yeres ago was a poli-
tike felaw, and in favor of the King, and was Under Tresorer
of the Excheker, the which office Mr. Weston a late had.
This Estsax purchacid landes aboute London, and is byried
in an isle of the chirch of the late priory of S. Barptolemes in
Smithefeld in London.

This William Estsax sun and heir maried the doughter
and heire of Babthorpe of Warwikeshir, and by her had a
hunderith markes by yere of landes.

Estsax now lyving, sun to the doughter of Babthorp, toke
to wife the doughter and sole heire of Rogers of Barkeshir,
and by her he had 300. markes of landes by the yere in
Barkeshir and theraboute.

Rogers of Barkshir cam owt of the house of Rogers of
Dorsetshir, and 3. of them dwelt by descent in Barkshire.

The landes of the Montefortes of Richemontshir hath
beene devidid to heires generale, and so decayed. Of late
one of the Montefortes dyed, and left 2. doughters that hath
yn devision a 240. //. landes by yere.

This Monteforte lay much at Hecforth* in Richemont-
shire wher as Cuthebert Tunstale Bisshop of London was
borne, base sunne to Tunstal, as I hard, by one of the
Coniers doughters.

25-36 (printed here * — *). The other twelve leaves seem to have been
lost before Stow's time, as his cop^ runs on from fo. 25 (in MS. voL viii)
to fo. 38 (MS. vol. iv). Heame did not notice this, he thinks that Stow
left out many things, and abridged the eighteen leaves '* according to
his own fancy" ("Itinerary," first edition, 1710-12, vol. ix,p. 179);
Stow certainly did this in some places, but not in this instance. J

a Hackforth, Yorkshire.

PART IV 17

Girdelington marled one of the doughters of Montefort, Yorkshire,
and his sunne now dwellith in Hacforth.

One of the Coniers maried the other doughter of Monte-
fort.

As for as I could gather of yong Walgreve of the courte Walgreue.
the eldest house of the Walgreves cummith owt of the
towne of Northampton or ther aboute, and ther yet remayn- Northants.
ith in Northamtonshire a man of landes of that name.

One of the Walgreves descending of this house hath a
manor place in Southfolke at Smaulbridge not far from Sud-
byri. Old Syr William Walgreve, graundfather to Walgreve
of the courte, cummith of this house, but his landes most ly
in the weste contery. For ther he hath ii. houses ; Pynne ' a
3. miles from Excester, and Spaxton aboute Bridge-Water.
This Spaxtun was one HiUes. Pynne was longging to one
Cheney. This Cheyney had Hilles landes by an heire
generale. Cheney died leving too doughters, wherot the one
was maried to Walgreve.

The auncient land and maner place of the Sheffeldes of fo. 22.
Axholme was by the Spitle streat in Lincolnshir at a place
caullid Hemmeswelle; and from thens they cam to Butter-
wik** in Axholme.

The Lord Clynton that now lyvith had a noble man to
his greate grauntfather that was Erie of Huntendune. And
he beyng, and sun also, taken prisoner yn Fraunce was
putte to so great rawnsum that ther the glory and landes of
that familie sore decayed.

The Vicount Duddeley now being is of the Buttons that [J^hn Dudley
maried the heyres general of the Dudeleys. ^'^^^uHL

He cummith by his mother side of the Talbot, Lord or ^^%^^^
Vicounte Lisle. 34*^. 8.

The Vicount Lisle now bej^g derivith hymself from the i543»]*
Erie Somerey and the Lorde Thays.

Dykeby, as far as can be conjectid, cummith by lineal
descent owt of the towne of Dikeby,*' a village yn Lincoln-

[• Burton's note.]

• The Pynes, Exeter. ^ Spittal; Butterwick, Lincolnshire.

o Digby.

LELAND'S ITINERARY

Lincoln-
shire.

Stoki in
Ruikeland,

Stoke Dttu-
betuyin
Northamp'
tomhir.

fo. 23.

shire, wher as yet the heir of the eldest house of the Dike-
byes hath a x. //. land by the yere.

As far as I can leme the eldest place that the Dikebyes of
Lincolnshir had in Leircestreshire was at Tilton not far from
Shevingtunne.

At Palmesunday feld Digeby* the best of that stok namid
Everard, as I remembre, was slayne civiU bello betwixt
Henry and Edward, and the landes of hym was attaintid,
but after restorid.

Thist Dikeby had by heire general as by his wife, as I re-
membre, a manor and a place at it cauUid Stoke by Luding-
ton the Bisshop of Lincolns place in Ruthelandshire, the
which afore longgid to one Gierke.

Stoke Dawbeney, as I hard say, is not in Ruthelande, but
in Northamptonshir.

One of the Dikeby, sunne to Dykeby attaintid, was of the
bande of the Duke of Claraunce, brother to King Edwarde
[the fourthe]:.

At the cummingyn of Henry the 7., vi. brethem al of the
Dikeby of Tilton and Stoke cam to King Henry the vii. at
Bosworth Feld, and toke his part: wherof 3. wer welle
rewardid.

And one of this 3. had attaintid landes given hym in
Leircestreshire to the value of a hunderith markes by the
yere, and after was Knight Mareschal of the Kinges Mares-
challery, but after for escape of certen prisoners he left his
office paying much of the forfect, wherby he was compellid
to selle his stokke of the staple in Calays wher he occupied:
and then King Henry the vii. offerid hym a great office in
the marches of Calays for mony, the wich he forsakid not
withoute summe indignation of the King, and Vaulx the
riche knight after had it.

This Dikeby had also a peace of the Bellars landes, and
bought besides a part or 2. of the same lordship that he was
partener yn.

Eche of these 2. houses of the Dikebys % hath now almost
equale landes, a 360. markes by the yere.

[* Lelvid first wrote Digeby, then corrected it to Dikeby,"]
[t Leland wrote Thid.l

[i The words '^ of the Dikehys " are interlined. Stow and Heame
misplaced them, but a caret shows the right reading, as above.]

PART IV

William Pole Duke of Southfolk maried the Countes of
Henaude secretely, and gotte a doughtter by her that was
after maried to Syr William Barentine's graundfather now
being, but Chaucher doughter and heir was after solemnly*
maried to William Duke of Southfolk, by whom he had very
fair landes, and she provid Barentines wife doughter to the
Countes of Renault to be but a bastarde.

Barentine for making a riot on Duke William's wife lost a
100. //. lande by the yere.

Olde Fortescue doughter in Henry the vii. tymes maried
the simne and heire of Stoner.

And after, as I hard, old Fortescue sunne maried the
doughter and heire of Stoneher.

Fortescue that late was behedid had by Stoners heire
generaul 2. doughters: wherof one was maried to the Lord
Wentforth now lyving, the other to Fitz-Gerald that was
hanggid: but now booth partes be cum [to the] Lord Went-
[forth].

The Bisshop of Wincester hath a ferme place agayne S.
Dionise yn Hamptonshir on the farther side of the haven
cauUid Bitheme. At this Bitherne remayne yet tokens and
mines of a castelle.

Sir Arture Hopton told me that the substance of the
landes that he hath longgid to the Swillingtons that sum tyme
were menne of 2000. markes of landes by the yere or more.

The chief house of the Swillingtons was at Suillington yn
Yorkshire a 4. miles from Pontefract castelle toward tiie
quarters of the ryver of Aire.

This Swillington ys yet in Syr Arture Hopton's handes,
and ys the principal pece of land that he hath. (It was a
late sold to Master North, and he exchaungid with Syr
George Darcy for Einesham.f)

Such landes as Syr Arture Hopton hath by the Swilling-
tons yn south aboute the quarters of Blitheborow be of the
tenure of Richemont feode.

Syr Arture told me that the Lorde Marquise hath a good
peace of land that was Swillingtons.

William Pole
Duke of
Southfolk,
Barentine,
Chaucer,

fo. 24.

Biihem
Castelle,
[Hants.]

Swillington,
[Yorks.]

[* MS. has solemnyJ]

[t Eynsham. This paragraph was written by Leland in the margin
^t a Uter time.]

LELAND'S ITINERARY

BssesL
TumbeU-
sUmne nunc
Plescy.

fo. 25.

(iileaveslost,
see p. 16,11^^.)

fo. 38.
Lancashire.

Syr Arture told me that he ys the syxte or the eight of the
Hoptons that hath enherited Swillingtons landys.

Ankerwike nunnery a lite above Stanes on the Tamise
bank on Midlesax side.

Litle Morley' a nunry sum what above Windesore bridge
on the Tames side in Bukinghamshire.

One of the coUege of Plescy** yn Estsax told me that he
hath hard of men of knowlege that the toun and place
wher the castelle now standith was of auncient tyme caullid
Tumblestoun, and that the new name is writen thus, Castel
de Placeto.

It longgid to the Mandevilles: but whither they had it
straite after the Conquest or no I cannot know for a surety.

Ther was a great man caullid de Placetes that maried the
heire general of the Erie of Warwik.

Thomas Erie of Bukingham sunne to Edward the 3. was
[ownar] of this castelle: and b[uyldyd] the college there.

This Thomas maried Elenor doughter, and one of the
heires general of Humfre de Bohun Erie of Hereford, and
had by her a doughter caullid Anne.

Elenor is buried in S. Edmundes chapelle at Westminster.

Stafford Erl of Staford maried Anne doughtter and heir to
Thomas and Elenor.

Syns one Humfrede Duke of Bokingham was buried with
his wife and 3. of his sunnes at Plascey, wher of one, as I
hard, was Erie of Wilshir.^^

The Gray Freres College in the north-west side of the
toune of Preston in Acmundrenes was sette in the soile of a
gentilman caullid Prestun, dwelling yn the town self of
Preston, and a brother or sunne of his confirmid the first
graunt of the site of the house, and one of these 2. was after
a great man of possessions, and Vicount of [GumuLSton\ as
I hard say, in Ireland.

Diverse of the Prestons were buried yn this house.

But the original and great builder of this house was Ed-
munde Erie of Lancastre, sunne to Henry the thyrde.

Syr Robert Holand, that accusid Thomas Erie of Lan-
castre of treasun, was a great benefactor to this house, and
ther was buried.

* Little Marlow.

Pleshey.

PART IV 21

This Holand, as I hard, was founder of the Priory of Lancashire.
Holand, a place of blak munkes by Latham in Lancastre-
shir.

Ther lay in the Gray Freres at Prestun divers of the Shir-
bums and Daltuns gentilmen.

Ther was a hous of ... . Freres at Waringtun.

Ther was a house of Blak Freres at Dancaster.

The toun of Prestun longith to the dukedum of Lancastre. fo. 39.

Ribchestre is a vij. miles above Preston on the farther
ripe of Ribyl as Prestun is.

Ribchestre is now a poore thing, it hath beene an aun-
cient towne. Great squarid stones, voultes, and antique
Coynes be founde ther: and ther is a place wher that the
people fable that the Jues had a temple.

WhauUey ' Abbay a 4. miles above Ribecestre on th« same
ripe.

Sawley Abbay a . . . miles above that, but it stondith
ripa citeriori.

There is no bridge on Rible betwixt Prestun and the se.

It flouith and ebbith in RibyP most communely more
then half way up betuixt Prestun and Ribcestre, and at ragis
of spring tydes farther.

I redde in a book of Master Garter's that one of the So-
mersetes did mary with a doughter of the Hollandes. Ed-
munde Duke of Somerset.

Mr. Milles of Hampton ° told me that be old sayinges the
toun of Hampton sumtymes stoode aboute Wood-Milles, at
the mouth of Winchestre ^ Ryver, not far from Newhampton.

And he said also that the old toim was brent by the
pinesses of the Spaniardes.

The Giles of Oxfordshir were of some caullid shortly DcylUy,
Doilly for de Oilleio.

Cute of a RoUe of the olde Erles of Shrobbesbyri. fo. 40.

Rogerus de Belesmo, Erie of Shrobbesbyri and founder of Shropshire,
the Abbay of Shrobbesbyri, was buried in our Lady Chapelle
of Shrobbesbyri Abbay.

There were 3. sunnes of this Rogerus de Belesmo buried

• Whalley. »> Ribble r.

^ SouthamptOD. ^ Itcheo r.

LELAND'S ITINERARY

Shropshire, yn the Chapitre House of the Abbay of Shrobbesbyri : wher-
of one was caullid Hughe de Belesme.

* (The Erie of Shrobbesbyri, of whom -^neas Sylvius Bis-
shop of Rome doth make right famose mention, was slayn in
Fraunce, and his eldest sunne, [fy his second wi/e]^ that was
Lord Lisle, with hym.

Then was the [eldest] t sunne of the Erie [elder] t brother
to the Lorde Lisle made Erie, and after was slayne or be-
heddid at Northampton-feelde.

This Erie had diverse sunnes and doughters.

Emong whom John was the eldest, and was Erie, beyng a
good simple manne, and died at Coventre non sine suspitione
veneni.

This John had emong his brethem one caullid Gilbert
Talbot, after a knight of fame, the which buried the Erie his
grandfathers bones brought out of Fraunce at Whitechirche
in a fair chapelle, wher he is also buried hymself.

The Erie John lefte George his heir and Erie after hym.
George left Fraunces now Erie.

fo. 41.

Owte of the Petygre of the Talebotes Barons.

Philip Talebot was a man of fair landes in Herefordshir
and Glocestershir, and was buried at Cerdingfeld,' wher he
had a fair lordship.

Gilbert Talbot his sunne made the Priory of Wormisley,
and ther was buried, and dyvers after of his line.)

The propre name of the Lord Audeley now beyng ys in
olde bookes written Touchet, and not Twichet

I saw in a booke of Master Garther's of the Nevilles
that William Neville, sunne to Da Raby and Jane the base
doughter of John a Gaunte, was Erl of Kent. But looke
more for the treuth of this.
LangevtUe, The eldest house or manor place of the Langevilles yet

[* These passages between ( ) are written on the verso of fo. 40 and
recto of fo. 41, upside down. Leiand evidently thus made additions to
his notes from the Shrewsbuiy Roll.]

[t Leiand wrote second and yongger\ Barton has written elder and
eldest on those words.]

Touchet.

NeviUeErU
of Kent.

* Irchenfield.

PART IV 23

remaynith at Litle-Billinge, about a 3. miles est from North-
ampton : and ther ly divers of them buried.

Syns of later tymes half the barony of Roche in Wales cam
by manage to them : and therby also landes in other partes.*

The lingevilles of later tymes hath lyen and buildid fairly
at Wolverstun ' in Bukinghamshire [n€re Stony-Stratford\.

Langeville an 103. yeres old made his landes from his
heires general to his bastard sunne Arture. The yonger bas-
tard is now heir.

Hedington ^ [in Wiltshire,]

Hedington of auncient tyme was a prebende longging to fo» 4^ ▼
Rumesey an abbay of nunnes in Hampshire. Wilts.

Hedington Prebend was an hunderith markes by the yere
and more.

Hedington, Bisshop of Winchester, t was borne at this Hed-
ington.

Hedington the Bisshop beyng cheefe rular of England with^
King Edwarde the 3. and Edwarde the [Black Pnnce] § did
war yn Fraunce.

Hedington buildid a fair new chirch at Hedington, and
there made a collie ¥ritii a deane and xii. ministers, wherof
parte were prebendaries.

Hedington caussid the Prebende of Hedington to be re-
movid from the title of Rumesey, and to be impropriated to
his college.

Hedington procurid beside a 200. markes of landes by
yere to his college.

And this was doone about the time that King Edward
wan Calays.

Prince Edward caullid the Blak Prince had a great favor fo. 42.
to the Bones-Homes beyond the se. Wherapon cumming
home he hartely [besought] || Bisshop Hedington to chaunge
the ministers of his college into Bones-Homes. Hedington

[* MS. has paries a/so, the two words are interlined.]

[t William EdendoD or Edington, bishop of Winchester, 1346-1366.]

[t MS. wt/.l

[§ No blank, Leland*s omission.]

[II Stow. Leland omits.]

» WoWerton. *> Edington.

LELAND'S ITINERARY

Wiilughby
first Lord
Brooke of that
Namt,

fo. 43-

Wilts, at his desier entreatid his collegians to take that ordre. And
so they did al saving the Deane.

Hedington sent for ii. of the Bones-Homes of Asscheruge ^
to rule the other xii. of his college.

The elder of the ii. that cam from Asscheruge was caullid
John Ailesbyri, and he was the first rector at Hedington.

Hedington gave greate substance of mony and plate onto
his college.

One Blubyri, a Prebendary of Saresbyri * and executor of
the wille of Hedington, caussid a great benefice of the
patronage of Sceaftesbyri* monastery to be impropriate to
Hedington.

Blubyri, as I hard, was buried at Hedington.

Syr Richard Penley a knight gave the lordship of Ildesle
in Barkshire a 2. miles from Wantage, a market toune.
This Penley lay long at Hedington, and ther died and was
biried.

Rouse a knight gave to Hedington his fair Lordship of
Bainton, aboute half a mile from Hedington.

Rouse ys buried at Hedington.

John Willoughby that cam out of Lincolnshire and maried
an heire general of the Lorde Broke, and after was Lord
Brooke hymself, lyith buried at Hedington, and was a bene-
factor to that house.

As I remembre, the sunne of this Lord Broke was steward
of King Henry the vii. house; and his sunne was the thirde
Lorde Brooke of that name.^^ f And he had a sunne by his
firste wife, and that sunne had ii. doughters maried to Daltery
and Graville.

He had by a nother wife sunnes and doughters.

The sunnes, toward yong men, died of the sweting sykenes.
The Lord Mounjoye % now lyving maried one of tiie dough-

[• This seems to be John of Blebury, Prebendary of London. See
Le Neve's Fasti, ed. 1854, vol. ii, 439.]

[t Another leaf, 43, here missing in Leland's MS., vol. iv, is found
as pa^es 37, 38, in the miscellaneous vol. viii. Printed above between

[t Charles Lord Mounjoye who died 1544. 36. H. 8. — Bnrton,\

Ashridge, Bucks.

Shaftesbury.

PART IV 25

ters; PoUette sun and heire to the Lord • S. John maried
the other.

Mr. Hopton of Blitheburg told me that there appere at a Suffolk,
litle village caullid Wenhestun' about half a mile above
Blitheburg on the same side of the ripe that Blitheburg is on
certen dikes and tokins wher sum great notable place. And Sic.
sum devine that ther was sum great place of the kinges of the
Easte Angles, and that ther about was the olde abbay that
Bede spekith of in historie.

Sum say that the castelle and abbay that Bede spekith of
was on the farther side of Blithe, wher a creke cummith yn
a mile from Dunewiche, and about a mile and a half from
Blitheburge at a place caullid . . . hille wher yet appere
dichis and hilles, wherof one is notable: and this is more
likely to be the place that Bede spekith of.^

Mr. Sheffeld told me that afore the old Erie of Oxford fo. 44.
tyme, that cam yn with King Henry the vii., the Castelle of
Hengham ^ was yn much mine, so that al the building that
now ys there was yn a maner of this old Erles building, ex-
cept the gate-house and the great dungeon toure.

Mr. Sheffelde told me that a litle beside Colne Priorie yn
Estsax, wher the Erie of Oxford usid to be buried, was a
manor place of theirs, the dikes and the plotte wherof yet
remaj^e, and berith the name of the Haulle Place.

Syns the mine of this manor place the Erles hath buildid
hard by the priory.

Borow Castelle standith aboute the quarters of Laistofte^
yn Southfolk. Great mines of the waulles of this castelle yet
appere.

Purefey f an alyance of JeofTrey father of H. the 2d. came

[* William Pawlet created Lord S. John of Basing 9th March,
30 H. 8. 1538.

[These two notes, added by Burton in the margin of Leland*s MS.,
are useful to help settle the date of Leland's journey.]

[t This paragraph, later than Stow's copy, was not written by Leland.
As suggested in a note, vol. iv, p. 25 of second edition, this may have
been added by one of the Purefoys (into whose possession Lehind's

*■ Wenhaston, near Blythbureh.
^ Henham. <" Burgh Castle, Lowestoft.

26 LELAND'S ITINERARY

with hym into England, took parte with his wife Dame Maude
the Empress against K. Steven, dwelt first in Tyckell Castell in
Yorkshyre, after setled beside Lutterworth in Leyrcestershyre in

Sasture grondes, called after his name, maned one of the
aughters and heires of Waure (of Waver or Over,*) and the
heyr of Shircforde in Warwickshire : after maried Ayotes heir
in Buckinghamshyre. (Thomas*) a yonger sonne in Edwarde
the Thirdes tyme maried Whellosborow^he daughter and one
of his heyrs, and one other maried Norbunes daughter and heyer
with Bingham's heyr, who was heyr to Strelley of Lynby, and
he to Chamelx and Hunt A yonger of that yonger maried
Brettz heir who was Palmers, and an (other*) yonger in that
discent maried one of Hardwikes heyers, who was heyr of
Flaunders, Foundny, Lynley, Ashbroc and Bugg.

fo. 45. Ponsbyri * is but an uplandisch tounlet, and is 4. miles

Shropshire, toward the south west from Shrewsbyri. There risith a

brooke out of an hille therby caullid Ponslithe a litle above

the towne, and thens renning goith into Severn aboute half

a mile above Shrewsbyri toun.

Ponsbyri is ultra Sabrinam^ as Shrewsbjrri is : but it [is]
of oft Seveme ripe a 3. miles by . . .

In the chirch of Ponsbyri is a dene and 3. prebendaries.
Cole, Subdene of the Kinges Chapel, late Dene of Ponsbyri,
did much coste ther of the Mansion House. Ther be 2.
other fair houses of the prebendaries.

The Lorde Powys is patrone ther.

On the south side of the chirche yarde appere greate tokens
and stones faullen downe of a great manor place or castelle:
and therby yet remaynith the name of the castelle paviment.

A quarter of a mile or more of from Ponsbjrri Chirch is a
wood caullid Hokstow-Forest^ longging to the Icmlship of
Caourse.

In the midle way betwixt the chirch of Ponsbyri and this
wood appere certen mines of a castel or pile apon % longging
also to the Lord Powys. From this hille a man may see to
Shrousbyri and other partes there aboute.

MSB. came, see Introduction, vol. i, p. xviii). The passage has been
corrected by a later hand again.]

[* Interhned by later hand.] [t I.e., offfrom,]

\X Sic]

■ Pontesbury. *> Hogstow Forest.

PART IV

Martinus de
Turribus,

Wilts.

Bedwine

CastelU.

fo. 46.

Warwicks.

The wood and foreste of Hokstow hath dere and is * large, Shropshire,
and one way cummith almost to Caourse Castelle ' longging
now to the Lorde Stafford.

The chauntor of S. Davides tolde me that one Martinus
de Turribus a Norman wan the countrey of Kemmeys in
Wales, about the tyme of King William Conqueror; and that
this Martinus foundid the abbay of S. Dogmael in Kemeis,
and that he lyith buried in the quier there.

There hath bene at . . . Bedwine in Whileshire a castelle
or forteres, the mines and plot wherof is yet seene, and the
towne there is privilegid in parlament for a burges town.

There is yn the countery of Denbigh in Wales a chapelle
by a paroch chirch in a place caullid corruptely Nanclin for
Nantglin by Astrat-brooke,** where as divers sainctes were
of auncient tyme buried.

The toune of Strateford is apon Avon ryver in ripa ulter^
as men cum from London to it, and stondith juste vii. [myles]
above Eovesham, and then 2. miles to Warwik apon Avon.

The bridge ther of late tyme was very smaulle and ille,
and at hygh waters very harde to passe by. Wherapon in
tyme of mynde one Cloptun, a great rich marchant, and
Mayr of London, as I remember, borne about Strateforde,
having never wife nor childem convertid a great peace of
his substance* in good workes in Stratford, first making a
sumptuus new bridge and large of stone, wher in the midle
be a vi. great arches for the maine streame of Avon, and at
eche ende certen smaul arches to bere the causey, and so to
passe commodiusly at such tymes as the ryver risith.

The same Clopton made in the midle of the towne a right
fair and large chapdle, enduing it with 50. h, lande, as I hard
say, by the yere, wher as v. prestes doth sjmg. And to this
chapel longgith a solemne fraternite. And at such tyme as
needeth, the goodes of this fraternite helpith the commune
charges of the towne in tyme of necessite.

The fair that longith to Stratford is a thing of a very great
concourse of people for a 2. or 3. dayes.

Here marke that Tewkesbyri, Persore,*' Eovesham, . . .

[• His in Leland's MS.]

» Cawres (Cause) Castle.

*> Astiad.

^ Pershore.

LELAND'S ITINERARY

fo. 47.
Suffolk.

Saresbyri,

Warwicks. Stratford and Warwik stande al on the farther ripe of Avon
river.

There is one Clopton a man of fair landes that dwellith
by Strateforde apon Avon, and of likelihod much set up by
Clopton Mair of London.

George Ferras told me that the men of Dunewich desiring
socour for their town againe rages of the se, adfirme that a
great peace of a foreste sumtyme therby ys devourid up, and
turnid to the use of the se.

The towne of New-Windelesore ' was erectid sins that
King Edwarde the 3. reedefied the castelle there.

Egidius Bisshop of Saresbyri ** was a great helper to per-
forming of the cathedral chirch there.

This Egidius, as sum say, buildid the fair stone bridge
caullid Harnham at Saresbyri, and so was the high-way
westward made that way, and Wilton way lefte, to the mine
of that towne.

I harde say also that this Egidius made the Collie of the
Scholars of Vaubc in Saresbyri.

Walterus de La Ville, Bisshop of Saresbjni, erectid the
College of S. Edmunde in Saresbyri.

Nicolaus de S. Quintino was first provost of S. Edmundes,
and lyith buried there.

There is an hospital in Saresbyri nere the Collie of the
Scholars de Vaulx, and is, as I remembre, dedicate to S.
Nicolas.

Mr. Balthasar told me that he found about the cliffes of
the Heremitage of Dovar serpentes tumid into stone; and
rounde stones of a good biggenes aboute the shore parte of
the doune of Dovar, the which broken shoid to have had
much metalle, but broking and byding the fier they came to
assches.

Bolsover is a fair lordship of the Kinges in Scardale a 4.
miles from Chesterfeld: wher as yet remainith a great build-
ing of an olde castelle.

There is a praty townelet by Bolsover castelle bering the
same [? name] now.

Mr. Ferrars told me that one of the Tames did make the
fair chirch of Fairford a litle above S. John's bridge on Ise,

fo. 48.
Derbyshire.

■ New Windsor.

^ Salisbury.

PART IV 29

There was an house of a few nunnes by Crepilgate withyn
the waulle of LfOndon.

Then came one Elsing, a marchaunt of London, and got
this house of the king, and sett chanons regular ther, erect-
ing an hospitale also and enduing it with landes: and syns
the house bare the name of Elsing Hospitale.

Thinges that I hard of Mr. HauUe of Huntingdon.

The Erie Ferrars was a lord and owner about Eynisbyri' Hunts,
by S. Neotes.

The best and surest knowen limes that can be sette in the
fennes in the upper part of Huntenduneshire is the Nene
river.

The Delphe ** as much as standith in . . . hundrede is yn
the shir of Huntingdune, and a litle part of it on Norman-
Cros hundrede yn the same shire.

And it is totally to speke of* in Huntendunshir: and
if ther be any part of the Delphe over the Nene longging to
Thomey, it is no great thinge.

Spaldwik and Bukden geven out of the fee of S. Ethel-
drede to the Bisshop of Lincoln for the jurisdiction of the
Bisshop of Ely in Cambridgeshir.

Rotheram Bisshop of Lincoln buildid the new brike towr
at Bukden. He clene translatid the haul, and did much
coste there beside.

Engayne had sumtyme Broughton, the barony in Hunten-
duneshir, of the abbate of Ramesey.

Al the hole shir of Huntendune hath beene, as it is saide,
forrest ground: but it is ful long sins it was deforestid.

Huntingduneshir in old times was much more woddy
then it is now: and the dere resortid to the fennes: and
part of the re[dde] of this forest of later times kept Thomey
fennys.

Lunetote translatid the chanons from the place wher now fo. 49.
S. Maries chirch is in Huntingdune to the place withowt the
toun wher it alate stoode.

[* Leland has " is in," the is redundant.]
a Eynesbury. ^ ? King's Delf or Dyke.

LELAND'S ITINERARY

Hunts. One of the Simons Saincte Liz made Psaltre* abbay.

There is a limes at Papworth Agnes** betwixt Huntendune
and Cambridge shires.
Northants. Malery told me that ther was a late a collegiate chirch at
Cotterstok almost in the midle way betwixt Foderingey and
Undale, but cumming from Foderingey onto Undale* it
standith a litle owt of the way on the right hand. In this
college was a M'. a 3. prestes and a 3. clerkes. The per-
sonage of Cotterstok was appropriate to it, and praty landes
beside.

One Giffard was, as I hard, the first founder of it. One
Nores clayming to be founder even of late hath gotten away
the landes that longgid to it. So that now remainith only
the benefice to it.

Mr. Shefefelde told me that the very name of Sir George
Carow in the weste cuntery, and of his familie, ys Monte-
gomerik : and that Carow is a name of honor taken apon the
name of a barony so caullid.

Mr. Carow affirmid the same.

Kent, etc. Stoone castelle in Kent a 3. miles a this side Grevesende
halfe a mile from the shore of Grenehith on the Tamise.

This house longid a late to Champion an aldreman.
fo. 50. Syr John Cutte, knight and Under-Treasorer of England,
bought of one Savelle, a man of fair landes in Yorkshir then
beyng yn troble, the lordship of Godhurste,"* with the mines
of a castelle that standith aboute a 2. miles from the bank of
Medwege ryver, and a 2. milys from Maidestone.

This lordship at that tyme was partely a ground much
overgrouen with thornes and busshes, and was but xx. markes
by the yere. Now it is clensid, and the value much enhaunsid.
And much goodly wood is yet aboute it

Old Cutte maried the doughter and heyre of one Roodes
aboute Yorkshir, and had by her a 3. hunderith markes of
landes by the yere.

Old Cutte buildid Horeham-haule ' a* very sumptuus

[• MS. has as.]

• Sawtry. »» Papworth St. Agnes. <* Oundle.

^ Godard's CasUe, • Horham HaU,

PART IV 31

house in Estsax by Thaxstede, and there is a goodly pond Essex, etc.
or lake by it and faire parkes there about.

Cutte buildid at Childerley in Cambridgshir.

Cutte buildid at [Salsbiry Parke] by S. Alban's.

Yong Cutte,* sun and heire to olde Cutte, maried one
. . . and by her by the procuremente of my Lady Lucy

Langland Bisshop of Lincoln told me that Waynflete WaynJUL
Bisshop of Winchestre was borne at Waynflete yn Lincoln-
shire.

Wainflete was scholar at Winchestre, felow of the New-
Coll^e of Oxford, and after schole-master at Winchestre.

Wainflete was very great with Henry the vi. wherby he
was in great dedignation with Edward the 4.

Wainflete made a good part of Eiton-CoUege, begon to be
buildid by Henry the vi. but left very onperfect and rauly.

Wainflete buildid Magdalene College in Oxford.

Wainflet buildid a fre-schole at Wainflete.

Waynflet fled for fere of King Ed. into secrete corners;
but at the last he was restorid to his goodes and the kinges
favor.t

[• See Part VIII, fo. 11 as to " yong Cutt"]

[t The remainder of this Part IV, fos. 51-77 (first part of vol. iv,
pages 31-55, of Heame's print) we have transferred to pages 12-38 of
Part VI (vol. iii) in order to brine the whole of the notes on Wales
together. Monmouthshire being a border county contains many Welsh
names, the two leaves relating to it were therefore included.]

PART V*

FROM Haseley to Ikeford bridge 2 miles; here dothe fo. 53.
Tame streame breke into 2 armes in the medowes and Oxfordshire,
sone aftar cummithe to one streame.

The arme on the lyfte hand as the watar descendith hathe
a stone bridge of 2 archis. The othar a wood bridge not far
from the othar. Shonington bridges be a mile above these
bridges on Tame. And as the course of the watar is, Tame
bridge at Tame towne is a 2 miles above Shonington.

Whateley* bridge of 8 arches of stone is a 3 miles lower
by water on Tame then Ikeford bridges. From Ikeford
bridge to Welstreme in Bukynghamshire a 3 miles. This is
a praty longe village and in it is a fair auncient howse of the
Redes welle motid, having a sqware gate-howse of stone at
the entering of it. There are fayre woods all about Wel-
strem as coverts for the deare of Bamewood ^ foreste.

From Welstreme to Amecote village a 3 miles and halfe.
There is Blake Thome bridge of wood, and a broke rising

[* Leland's original of Part V is lost ; we therefore have to rely on
first, Stow's copy (Tanner MS. 464, vol. v, fos. 53- 105b, old number-
ing), and second, Burton's own copy, called here Burton (a), (Gough,
gen. top., ii, fos. 91-120). The passages omitted by Stow and preserved
by Burton, bearing the marks of Leland's original, are so considerable
in this Part that I have simply placed them between [ ] ; to indicate
them in italic type as perhaps added by Burton would not be just. The
first six pages, as far as " come and gresse, " p« 38, 1. 20 — the original leaves
of which must have dropped out of Leland's volume before it came into
Burton's hand — were pnnted, unaccountably, by Heame, from Stow,
in the beginning of his vol. vii, pt. i (Leland's MS., vol. vii), although
they stand in Stow as here prmted, without break in his MS., con-
tinuing at the point where H. begins his vol. iv, pt. 2. Burton (a) does
not give these passages at all, beginning, of course, as Heame does.
Heame printed this part from Burton (b).]

* Wheatley. *> Bemwood.

II. D

34 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Oxfordshire, not far of that aftar as I gessyd runithe in to Charwel
ryver.

From Arnecote to Burcester* a mile and halfe. Good
wodds about sum partes of Burcester. There be goodly
meddowes and pastures about Burcester. There is a com-
mune market at Burcester every weke on — day.

There risythe hard by Burcestar a litle broket* passyng
thrwghe a pece of the towne and aftar thoroughe the priory,
it goithe a 4 miles of about Otmore into Charwell river.

The Bassets were lords of this towne, aftar the Straunges,
fo. 53 b. and now the Erie of Derby. Sum say that Bassets had his
mansion place where the comon pound is now in the midle
of the towne. Some say that Bassets howse was where the
late priorie of Burcestre stode. Gilberte Basset and i^glean
Courtney his wyfe were originall foundars of the priorie of
chanons in Burcester. Gilbert Basset as some thinke was
buried beyond the see. This Gilbert was but a knight: and
he was a great companion in warres to one GifTard a noble
knight.

Aglean Courteney was buried in the priorie of Burcester.

There were divers of the Damaries, auncient gentlemen,
buried in the priorie of Burcester.

There was also one of the laste of the Lords Lestraunges
buried. The priorie churche was dedicate to saint Edburge
the virgine.

The psuroche churche is also dedicatyd to Seint Edburge.

There is buried in the quier of the paroche churche of
Burcester one William Standley esquier, lorde of Bygnelle,**
a mile from Burcester and parte of Burcester paroche; this
Standley maried Alice doughtar and heire to John Frauncys
knight Standley died anno domini 1498.

There is a woddy hille a 3 miles by southe out of Bur-
cester caulyd the Erles hill where some thinke hathe bene a
maner place.

From Burchestar to Oxford 10 miles.

From Burchestar to Tame 9 miles.

[* The brook runs into the Ray, which crosses Otmoor and flows into
the Cherwell.]

• Bicester. ^ Bucknell.

PART V

From Burchestar to Bukingbam x. miles. fo. 54.

From Burchestar to Banbyri x. miles. Oxfordshire.

From Burchestar to Brakeley vii. miles.

Studlege * priory is a 3. miles from Burcester in the way
toward Oxforde.

The village and castle of Midleton in Oxfordshire is 2.
myles by west from Burchestar. The castle stode hard by
the churche. Sum peces of the walls of it yet a litle apeare;
but almoast the whole site of it is over growne with bushys.

Sum say that this was Bassets castle, syns Lestrangs,
and now the Erie of Derbyes. The lordship is a fiftie li. by
yere.

One told me that suche lands as the Erie of Darby now
hathe in Oxford were the Bassets, and after the Lestraungs
lands; as Burcestre, Midleton, Wicheford and Compton to-
ward Cheping-norton, Kyngssutton in the way almoste be-
twixt Brakeley and Banbyri : but I take that some of these
lordships were the Lord LovelFs, and gyven by atteindure
to Standley Erie of Derby.

From Burcester to Brakeley* vii. mils by very fruitfuU Northants.
grownd havynge t good come, grace and some wood, many
conies, but litle enclosynge ground.

I enteryd into Brakeley by a litle stone bridge in a botom,
of one arche, undar the whiche Use riveret rennithe, there
being a letle streame.

From this bridge the great streate of the towne goith up
apon a pratie hille: at the pitch whereof there turnithe a
nothar streat by este to Seint Peter's, the heade churche of
the towne.

The towne of Brakeley by estimation of old mines hath fo. 54 b.
had many stretes in it, and that large.

The lengthe from S. James churche at the southe end of
the towne to the chapelle of Seint Leonard hathe bene halfe
a mile in building. Sic,

The compas hathe bene almost 2. miles.

[* Brackley. — Brakeley in Northampton-shire. I had mys-placed it,
as to be in Glocestar-shere. — Marginal note in the AfS.]
[t Stowe wrote gavyngg,]

• Studley.

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Northants. This towne florishid in the Saxons tyme ontyll the Danes
rasid it.

It florishid agayne syns the Conquest, and was a staple for
wolle, privilegid with a major, the which honor yet re-
maynethe to this pore towne.

There was a fayre castle in the southe-west end of the
towne on the left hand or ripe of the riveret The site and
hille where it stode is yet evidently sene, and berithe the
name of the Castle Hill; but there is not sene any peace of a
waull stondinge.

There ly 2. praty smaul low medowes hard by west of
this Castle Hille, and beare the name of the Fische Weeres:
and a great likelyhode there is that they were sometyme
fishe pooles.

Divers rowes of howsynge hathe bene about the quarters
of the castle now clene doune.

There were 3. goodly crossis of stone in the towne, one
by southe at the end of the towne, throwne doune a late by
theves that sowght for treaswre.

A nothar at the west end of Seint James churche.

The third very antique, faire and costly in the inward

fo. 55. parte of the Highe Streate. Ther be dyvers tabernacles in

this with ladies and men armyd. Sum say that the staplears

of the towne made this: but I thinke rathar sume noble

man lorde of the towne.

There is a churche as a chaple of ease of Seint James in
the southe end of the towne, an old pece of worke, and on
the southe syde of the chaunsell of it is a faire chapell or
isle, and there be in the wyndow sydes, in stone, imagis
beringe woll sakks in theyr hands, in token that it was of the
stapelers makyng.

There is in the midle of the towne a churche of Seint
James and S. John, somtime a college and an almose house
or hospitale. This was suppressyd and gyven to S. Magda-
lenes college with lands.

There ly buryed in tumbes dyvers noble men and women
in the presbitery of this churche: first 2. noble men in one
tombe havynge in theyr shelds a lyon rampant and flures de
luce.

There lyeth on the southe syde in the wall a noble man
havynge in a feld of gules 10. besants of gold.

PART V 37

And at his feete lyethe a nothar havynge in his sheld a Northants.
lion rampant.

Ther lyethe also Robart Holand that dyed in ctnno dni.
1373. Mawd his wyfe lyethe there also.

Ther lyethe a noble man and his wyfe. He berithe in his
shild varre gold and gules.

One told me that of late dayes one of the Lordes Lovells fo. 55 b.
was taken for foundar there, and that by his graunt it cam in
gyft to Magdalene coledge.

The churche of Seynt Petere, beinge the chefe churche of
the towne and mothar churche of the hole denery of Brake-
ley, is in the est syde of the towne. I saw no tumbe or
great antiquiti in it

In the churche yarde lyethe an image of a priest revestid;
the whiche was vicar of Barkeley, and there buried quike by
the tyranny of a lord of the towne for a displeasure that he
tooke with hym for an horse taken, as some say, for a mor-
tuarie. But the lord, as it is there sayde, went to Rome for
absolution, and toke greate repentauns.

The parsonage of S. Petars was inpropriate to the abbey
of Leircestar, and ther was a vicar endowid.

There be 2. faire springs, or wells, a litle west north west
from S. Peter's churche. The one of them is caullyd S.
Rumoaldes Welle, wher they say, that with in a fewe dayes
of his birth he prechid. The other is caullyd Welle. There
issuithe a very litle streamelet out of eche of them being
not the cast of a coyte distant, and straite cum to one
streamelet, not so abundaunt of watar as it hathe bene. For
the sayenge is that it hath driven in tymes past a cutlers
myll thereby.

There is also a faire springe in the highe streate of the
towne, and out of it issuith a little pirle.

The Lord Lovell was in Kynge Richard the third's dayes
lord of Brakeley, and by his land beinge attaintyd by Henry
the 7. this lordshipe, and also halfe thereby was gyven to
Standeley Erie of Darby, or to his sune. fo* 56.

The ryver of Ise, or Use,* that rennith at the south ende
of Brakeley risithe alitle above Stene, wher the LordSannes
hathe a maner place, sumtyme the Lord Morleys, beinge a
mile and an halfe west from Brakeley.
» Ouse r.

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Northants. From Brakeley to Bukkingham v. mils.

From Brakeley to Northampton i4myles, 7 toTouecestar
and 7 to Northampton. 7 miles to Brakeley and 7 miles to
Brayles, 7 miles to Camden, and 7 miles to Hayles.

Camden is a market towne in Glocestershire. From
Brakeley to Chiping-norton 14 longe miles, 6 miles to
Dadington,* and 8 to Chiping-norton. There hathe bene a
castle at Dadington, and it is in Oxfordshire.

From Brakeley to Banbyry 7 miles.

From Brakeley to Oxford —

Brakeley market is now desolatyd, it was wont to be kept
on Wednesday.

Brakeley standithe in Northamptonshire, and Northamp-
tonshire goithe that way a mile farthar by southe to Einho,**
and this is the uttermost village that way in Northampton-
shire.

There was a howse of Whit-monkes caulyd a 2 myles

from Brakley.

I rode from Brakeley to Kyngs Southtown * 4 miles of, al
by champayn come and gresse.

The spire of Sowthetowne churche is a fayre peace of
worke. St. Rumoalde was borne in this paroche. There was
of late a chapell dedicate to hym, standinge about a mile
from Sowthetowne in the medes, defacid and taken downe.
fo. 56 b. There lyeth one Westhaul in a [tombe in a] chapell on
the south syd of the church. He new ruffid the church of
Southetowne.
Oxfordshire. From Southetowne to Banbyri a 3. miles, all by cham-
paine baren of wood. Scant a mile bynethe Southtowne I
passyd by a stone bridge of one arch over Charwell ryver.

The moaste parte of the hole towne of Banbyri standithe
in a valley, and is inclosyd by northe and est with low
grownde, partely medowes, partely marsches; by southe
and southe-west the ground somewhat hillithe in respecte
of the site of the towne.

The fayrest strete of the towne lyethe by west and easte
downe to the river of Charwelle. And at the west parte of
this streat is a large area invironed with meatlye good build-
inge, havynge a goodly crosse withe many degrees about it.

» Deddington.

Aynho.

« King's Sutton.

PART V 39

In this area is kept every Thursday a very celebrate market. Oxfordshire.
There renithe a prile of freshe watar throwghe this area.

There is another fayre strete from southe to northe ; and
at eche end of this strete is a stone-gate. There be also in
the towne othar gates besydes thes. Yet is there nothere
eny certayne token or lykelyhod^ that ever the towne was
dichid or wauUyd.

There is a castle on the northe syde of this area havynge fo. 57 a.
2. wardes, and eche warde a dyche. In the utter is a terrible
prison for convict men.

In the north parte of the iner warde is a fayre peace of
new building of stone.

I cannot se or learne that there was any castle or fortress
at Banbyry afore the Conquest. Alexandar bysshope of
Lyncolne in Henry the first dayes buildyd this castle.

There is but one paroche churche in Banbyry, dedicate to
our Lady. It is a large thinge, especially in bredthe. I saw
but one notable tumbe in the chirche, and that is of blake
marble; wherein [William] Coope, coferer to Kynge Henry
the vii is buried.

In the chirche yarde be howsis for cantuari pristes.

The personage of Banbyry is a prebend of Lincoln.
There is a vicar indowid. There is a chapel of the Trinity
in the midle of the towne. Ther is a bridge of 4. fayre
arches of stone at the este ende of the towne where Cher-
well rennithe. This bridge partithe Oxford-shir from North-
ampton-shir.

Oxford-shire goeth a 3. miles farther by northe then
Banbyri towne. The Bysshope of Lincolne is lord of Ban-
byry, and [the] hole hunderithe of Banbyry hath bene of
longe tyme gyven out by Kinges in fee-ferme to the Bysshops
of Lyncoln. The bysshope hath ^180. of this lordship.

The Headde and Course of Charwelle Ryver. fo. 57 b.

Charwell ryseth out of a welle or a litle poole, in Charlton
[Cherwelion] village about a 7. miles above Banbyri by
northe northe est, and boilith so fast out fro the hed that strait
it maikithe a stremelet.

From Banbyri to Coventre 20. miles; — 10. miles to
Southan a market-toun, and 10. miles to Coventre.

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Warwick^

shire.

Oxfordshire. From Banbyri to Northampton [14.] miles.

Rockstein • a priory of chanons a 2. miles from Banbyri.
Mr. Pope hathe it.

From Banbyri to Danetre [10. miles.]

From Banbiry to Oxford 20. miles.

From Banbyry to Warwicke 14. miles.

Mr. Cope hathe an old maner place, caulyd Hardwike, a
ipile by northe from Banbyri. [There was Herdwik of
Herdwik,]

He hathe another at Hanwelle a 2. miles from Banbyri by
northe west, and is in Oxfordshire. This is a very pleasaunt
and gallaunt house.

I rode from Banbury to Warwik 12. miles by champayne
ground, frutefull of corn and gresse, baren of woodde, and

2. miles by some enclosyd and wooddy ground.
About halfe a myle or I enteryd into Warwike I passyd

ovar a stone bridge of one arch, and there rennithe a praty
broket toward Avon river.

The towne of Warwike hathe bene right strongly dykyd
and waulyd, havynge the compas of a good mile within the
wauls. The dike is moste manifestely perceyvyd from the
fo. 58 a. castle to the west-gate, and there b the greate creaste of
yerth that the wall stode on. Parte of the wauls nere the
gates be yet sene.

The easte gate and the west yet remayne. The northe
gate is downe. The strengthe of the bridge by the castle
stondithe for the southe gate.

The magnificent and stronge castle of Warwike lieing at
the west-southe-west end of the towne, hard by the right
ripe of Avon, is sett apon an highe rokke of stone, and hathe

3. goodly towers in the este fronte of it. There is a fair
towre on the northe syde of it. And in this parte of the
castle K. Rich. 3. puUyd downe a pece of the waulle, and
began and halfe finishid a mighty tower, or strengthe, for to
shoute out gunns. This peace as he left it so it remaynethe
onfinishid. The doungeon now in mine stondithe in the
west-north-west parte of the castle. There is also a towre
west-northe-weste, and thrugh it a posteme-gate of yron.

All the principall lodgyngs of the castle with the haul and

a Wroxton.

PART V 41

chapel ly on the southe syd of the castle, and here the King Warwick-
dothe muche cost in makynge foundations in the rokkes to ■^i"*-
sustayne that syde of the castle, for great peces fell out of
the rokkes that susteyne it.

There was synce the Conquest a collegiate churche in the fo. 58 b.
castle of Wanfnke.

The towne of Warwike stondithe on a mayne rokky hille,
risynge from est to west.

The beawty and glory of the towne is in 2. strets, whereof
the one is cauUyd the Highe Strete, and goith from the est
gate to the west, having a right goodly crosse in the midle of
it. The other crossith the midle of it, makynge Quadriviutn^
and goith from northe to southe.

Within the precinct of the towne is but one paroche
chirch, dedicate to St. Marye, standing in the midle of the
towne. This churche is faire and large. Rogerus de Bello-
monte Erie of Warwike dyd translate the college in the
castle to this paroche churche, indowinge it with faire
possessions.

Thomas de Bello-Campo E. of Warwike, and graund
fathar to Richard E. of Warwike, leive-tenaunt to Kynge
Hen. 6. in Fraunce, commaundyd by testament, (as I hard
say) that his executors shuld reedifie of new the chauncell
or este parte of St. Mary churche; and so they did; and he
is buried there and his wife.

Richard Erie of Warwike, Lievetenaunt of Fraunce, de-
vised a right fayre, large, and somptuus chapell on the southe
the syd of the quiere. This stately pece of worke was after fo. 59 a.
made by the executors of his testament, and there he is
entumbid right princly, and porturyd with an image of
coper and gilt, hoped ovir with staves of coper and gilt lyke
a chariot.

Noblemen buried in the body of our Lady Church
of Warwike.

John Tunstall Kt. [familiar to one of the late Earles of
Warwike].

William Bareswell* Deane of Warwike, [one of the exe-
cutors of the testament of E. Richard that sawe the bilding

[* Burton writes BarkeswelL]

42 LELANDS ITINERARY

Warwick- of our Lady Chappell and the new buildinge of the colledge

shire house begun by E. Richard finished].*

Johannes Rouse, Capellanus Cantuaria Gibclif [Guy-
clifife] qui super porticum australem Ubrariam construxit^ et
Ubris ornavit. Obiit 14. Jan. 149 1. This Rouse was well
lemid in those dayes in Mathesi, and was a great historio-
grapher, borne (as it is supposed) of the house of the Rouses
of Ragley by Alcester.

In the southe isle.

Power armiger.

Ther ly 3. of the Hungfordes, heires of Edmunscote
aboute hidfe a mile above Warwike on Avon. [And] Beau-
fort esquier to whome parte of Hungfords lands desendyd.

In the crosse-isle [betwixt the body of the church
and the quire].

Tho. de Bello-Campo [in a goodly tombe of marble. He
was father to E. Richard Lieutenant of France].
Guil. Peito dominus de Chestreton et ejus uxor,
Alester Deane of Warwike [lyeth in the same place, at the
west end of our Lady, wher E. Rich, first lay buried. This
Alester translated the body of E. Richard into our Lady
Chappell.

Mr. Haly, a well learned man that lately dyed.]
Haseley Dene of Warwike, [sometime] schole-mastar to
King Henri the Seaventh.

fo. 59 b. In the quier.

Tho. de Bello Campo and his wyfe [He was grand-
father to Earle Richard.]

Catheryne, eldest dowghtar to the sayd Earle [Thomas, is
buried under a flatt marble stone, at the head of her father's
tombe.]

[* This and the passages between * and * on pp. 43, 44, given by
Burton, MS. a, fo. 93, may have been in Leland and omitted % Stow,
who often did not copy genealogical details.]

PART V 43

In our Lady Chapell. Warwick-

Richard, Earle of Warwike with his epitaphi [who dyed
30. Apr. 1439. 17. H. 6.]«

♦ " Praye devoutly for the soule (whom God assoyle) of Burton (a),
one of the most worshipful! knyghtes in his dayes, of man- fo« 93-
hood, and omninge, Richard Beauchampe late Erie of
Warwike, Lord Despenser, of Abergeveny and many othar
great lordshippes, whose body here resteth under this
toumbe, in a full faire vault of stone set in the bare rocke;
the which visyted with long sicknesse in the castle of Rohan
therein deceased full christianlye 30. Apr. 1439, be being at
that tyme Lieutenant of Fraunce, and of the Duchy of Nor-
mandy, by sufficient authoritye of our soveraigne K. Hen. 6.
The which body with great deliberation and worshipfuU
conduct by sea and by land, was brought to Warwike 4.
October, in the sayd yeare, and was layed with solemn
exequies in a faire chest made of stone in the west dore of
this chappell, accordinge to his last will and testament,
therein to rest 'till this chappell by him devised in his life
tyme were made. All the which chappell founded on the
rocke, and all the members thereof his executors did fully
make, and appareled by the authority of his sayd last will
and testament : and thereaftar by the sayd authoritye they
did translate worshipfuUy the sayd body into the vault above
said. Honoured be God therefore."

[* Stow here (MS., vol. v, p. 59 v<>) breaks off, continuing with the
passage beginning, "There was in that coledee," p. 44. He has a
marginal note, "loke y« 3 boke y« 73 lefe for y« epiuphe." This
" book 3 " is bound into vol. ii of his MSS. (Tanner, 464, vol. ii),
folio 73 being the first leaf, and the ''epitaphie** commencing on the
lower part. What precedes the epitaph is in substance the same as the
paragraphs beginning "Johannes Rouse Capellanus Cantuariae,'* but
with several variations. What follows the epitaph also to the bottom of
leaf 73 vo is the same in substance as our print as far as the *, p. 44.
Evidently Stow wished to save copying the same thing twice. Leland
had written these notes out twice, with variations; both his original
books in which they occurred happen to be lost; Burton had copied
one (printed by Heame as vol. iv, pt. 2 = Part 5) before it was lent to
Dr. Burton (see Introd., p. xxvi), and we can thence restore what Stow
omitted ; the other was printed by Heame (as vol. viii, pt. 2 = Part 11)
from Stow's copy. The reader may compare the two; Leland's first
form of notes may have been those in Fart 11.]

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Warwick- Thinges excerpted out of the est glasse windowe of

Bliirc ^ our Lady Chappel.

Elizabeth daughter and heire to Thomas L. Berkeley and
Lisle, first wyfe to Rich. Beauchamp Earle of Warwicke.
The sayd Richard and Elizabeth had 3. daughters; Mar-
garett maried to John E. of Shrewsbury, Eleonor marled to
Edmund Beaufort Earl of Somerset, Elizabeth maried to
George Nevile L. Latimer. Earle Richard had to his second
wife Isabell Lady Spenser of Glamorgan and Morgannok.

Henery Duke of Warwick, sonne and heire of Earle
Richard and Isabell, married Cicile da. to Rich. Nevill
Earle of Salesbury.

Anne, daughter of Rich. Beauchampe E. of Warwik and
Isabell, was married to Richard Nevill, sonne and heire to
Rich. Nevill second Earle of Salesburye.

There lyeth buried (as some saye) in the west end of our
Lady Chappell one of the Nevills L. Latimer slayne at
Edgcotefeild by Banbury (as some suppose;) but there is
neither tombe nor scripture scene. This was Sir Hen.
Nevill, sonne and heire to Geor. Nevill Lord Latimer. But
he was never Lord; for he dyed before his father. This
Henry Nevill was grandfather to the Lord Latimer now
living.

The ould mansion-place of the coUedge and deanry of
St. Maries in Warwik stood there where now the east
south east part of the cemitery is. The new coUedge lodging,
hard without the east end of the cemitery, was builded by
the executors of the testament of Rich. Earle of Warwike.
Most of the Prebendes houses be at the west end of our
Stow, V, Ladyes Church in the streete.* There be* in that coledgea
fo. 59 b. deane and 5. prebendes.

There is over the east-gate a fayre chappell of St. Peter.
There is over the west-gate a goodly chappell of St. James.

On the north syde of St. James is a pretty coUedge,
havinge a 4. preistes that sing in St. James Chappell, [and
they belong to a Fraternity of our Ladye, and St. George.
Some thinke that this Fraternity beganne about E. Richardes

[♦ Stow wrote "was" for "be."]

PART V 45

dayes, and that he was a benefactor to it. The burgesses of Warwick-
Warwike be rulers of this.] nlnrt.

The suburbe without the est-gate is caullyd Smithe's
Streat; I hard ther that the Jewes sometyme dwellyd in it.
In this suburbe was a college of [dedicate to] St John, and
an hospital in it.

There is a suburbe in the south est syde of the towne
wherein is a paroche churche of St. Nicholas apropriat to
St. Maris college [in Warwike.]

The suburbe lying southe beyond the bridge is callyd the
Bridge End.

There is a chappie of St. John in the Bridge [Ende]
suburbe, that longyd to the Prior of St. John's at London.

EThe landes of this came to the commandery of Balleshall
)y Warwike.]

The suburbe without the west-gate is cawlyd the West-
end. It is a very large strete. There was a colege of Blake
Friers in the northe parte of this suburbe. It was a large
hows, [and the Botelers L. Sudley, and the Mountforts were
founders of it (as I hard saye.) But hitherto I have not
read of any notable act in foundation made since the Con-
quest in Warwike, but by the Earles of Warwik.]

There is a suburbe in the northe syd of Warwike, and in fo. 60 a.
this is a chapell of St. Michaell, where sometyme was a
coledge, [havinge a master et confratres; but now it is taken
as a free-chappelL The Kinge giveth it. The buildinge of
the house is sore decayed].

There is a right goodly chapell of St. Mary Magdalene
upon Avon river, ripa dextra^ scant a myle above Warwike.
This place of some is caulyd Gibclif, of some Guy-clif ; and
old fame remaynethe with the people there, that Guydo Erie
of Warwike in K. Athelstan's dayes had a great devotion to
this place, and made an oratory there.* Some adde unto
[it,] that aftar he had done great victories in outward partes,
and had bene so long absent that he was thought to have
bene deade, he came and lyved in this place lyke an here-
mite, onknowne to his wife Felicia ontyll at the article of
his deathe he shewyd what he was. Men shew a cave
there in a rok hard on Avon ripe, where they say that he

[♦ MS., in this place.]

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Warwick- asyd to slepe. Men also yet showe fayr springs in a faire

shire. medow thereby, where they say that Erie Guido was wont

to drinke. This place had fore the tyme of Richard E. of

Warwike only a smaul chappelle and a cotage wherein an

heremite dwellyd.

Erie Richard beringe a greate devotion to the place made
there a goodly new chapell, dedicate to St Mary Magdalen,
and foundyd 2. Cantuars prists there [to serve God.] He
set up there an ymage of E. Guido great lyke a giant, and
fo. 60 b. enclosyd the silver welles* in the medow with pure whit
slike stone like marble, and ther set up a praty house open
lyke a cage coveryd, onely to keepe cummers thithar from
the rayne. He also made there a praty howse of stone for
the Cauituary Prists [by the chappelL The landes that he gave
to it lye about the house.] It is a place of pleasure, an
howse mete for the muses; there is silence, a praty wood,
antra in vivo saxo, the river rollynge with a praty noyse
over the stones, nemusculum [ibidem opacumi\ fontes liquidi
\et jemneif] prata florida^ [antra muscosa^ rivi ievis et per
saxa discursus^ necnon solitudo et quies musis amicissima,]

There be 3. parkes neere to Warwike by north; the neerest
is Wedgnok.* There is anothar almost joyning to it caullyd
Grove. The third is caulyd Haseley.

There is a priory of nunes caullyd [Wroxhall, about] a 3.
miles by north from Warwike.

The course of Avon and bridges that be notable on it

Thent to Edmundescote *• bridge.

Then about halfe a mile lower to the goodly stone brydge
of 12. arches at Warwike.

Then to Berford*' Bridge of 8. fayre arches a 2. miles.

And an halfe mile lower it leaveth Fulbroke Parke and
Castelet on the right ripe. And a myle and halfe lower it
fo. 61 a. leveth Charlecote Mr. Lucies [mannour placet] on the left
ripe.

[* The catch-words at bottom of the page for turning over are
(rings or welles."]
A few Unes left blank here.] [t Stow has " huse " (honae.)]

Wedgnock. Emscote. <^ Barford.

'i?'

PART V 47

And at the bake-syde of Mr. Lucies huse cummethe in Warwick-
by the left rype a broke[t] risynge a 3. miles of from south "hire.
est.

Thence to Stratford-Bridge a 3. miles. There be 14. great
arches in the bridge, and 5. smaller arches.

Thence to Bitforde • Bridge of stone, a late emendyd withe
parte of the stone of Aulncester "^ Priory, a 5. miles.

There is a praty thorowghe fare at Sawford," a — miles
lower cummithe Arrow and Aubie** rivers both in one botom
into Avon.

A 4. miles lower then Bitford is a narow stone bridge for
footmen at Uffenham over Avon.

A mile lower is Eovesham bridge of 8. goodly large arches.

Three miles lower, at Fleodanbirig® alias Flatbyri, cum-
mithe in by the right ripe into Avon Pildowr broke.

And a litde above this confluence is of late a praty bridge
made over Pildour.

Avon a 2. miles lower rennithe undar Pershore Bridge.

I lemyd [at Warwike] that the moste parte of the shire
of Warwike, that lyeth as Avon river descendithe on the
right hand or rype of it, is in Arden, (for soe is auncient
name of that parte of the shire;) and the grownd in Arden
is muche enclosyd, plentifull of gres, but no great plenty
of come.

The othar part of Warwyk-shire that lyethe on the lefte
bond or ripe of Avon river, muche to the southe, is for the
moste parte champion, somewhat barren of wood, but very fo. 61 b.
plentifull of come.

I roade from Warwike to Bereford Bridge of 8. fayre
arches a 2. miles [of Warwike.] Here I sawe halfe a mile
lower apon Avon on the right ripe by northe a fayr parke
caullyd Fulbroke. In this parke was a praty castle made
of stone and brike, [and, as one tould mee,] an Erie of
Bedford had layne there. There is a litle lodge or peace of
buildinge in this parke caullyd Bergeiney, made, as I con-
jectur, by some Lord, or Lady of Bergeyney.* This castle of

[* Built by Joan, wife of William Beauchamp, Lord Abergavenny.]

• Bidford. «> Alcester. « Salford.

<* Alne. * Fladbnry.

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Warwick- Fulbroke was an eyesore to the Erlis that lay in Warwike
shire, v Castle, and was cause of displeasure betweene each lord.
Sir William Compton, keper of Fulbroke parke and castle,
seing it going to mine helped it forward, takinge part of it
[as some saye] for the buyldinges of his house at Compton •
by Brayles in Warwikshire, and gave or permityd other to
take peces of it downe.

From Berford Bridge to Telesford a mile. Here was a
priory [of] Maturines, otherwise called Ordtnis Sanctae
Trinitatis, [It was an house of very small possessions.
(And they saye about them)] the Lucies were founders of
this priory ;t and divers of them laye there.

From Telesford* to Charlcote a mile. Here hath Mr. Lucy
an ancient manar place, on the left rype of Avon.

There cumithe in hard at the very manar place of

[the] Lucies a litle broke on the left ripe into Avon. This

fo. 62 a. broket cummithe from Wellesbume, a myle of. From

Charlecote to Stretforde a 3. miles by champain grownd,

good come and greese.

About a myle from Charlecote I rode over a ford where
passyd downe a beke toward Avon, but a lesse water then
Wellesburne.
Stratford. The towne of Stratford stondithe apon a playne ground

upon-Avon. on the right hand or ripe of Avon, as the watar descendithe.
It hathe 2. or 3. very lardge stretes, besyde bake lanes. One
of the principall stretes ledithe from est to west, anothar
from southe to northe. The bysshope of Worcestar is lorde
of the towne. The towne is reasonably well buyldyd of
tymbar. There is ones a yere a great fayre at Holy-Rode
Daye [14. of Sept] The paroch church is a fayre kuge
peace of worke, and stondithe at the southe end of the
towne. Some conjecte that where the paroche churche is
now was the monasterye cawlyd Streotford, gyven in aug-
mentation of Eovesham in St. Egwin Byshope of Wircester
tyme, but the certeinte of this is not knowne.

The church [of Stratford] now stondinge, as it is sup-

[• Compton- Winyate or Wyniates.]
[t Stow has "it'Mor "this priory.**]

• Thelsford.

PART V 49

posyd, was renewyd in buildinge by [John de] Streotforde /Warwick-
[ Archjbyshope of Cantarbery [in the begininge of the raigne «^"«.
of K. E. 3., whoe was] borne in Streotford, whereof he tooke
his name. He made this of a simple paroche churche a
collegiate churche, augmenting it with some landes.

Ther belongyd to the coledge a gardian, 4. priests, 3.
clerkes, 4. choristres, and their mansyon place, an ancient
pece of worke of square stone hard by the cemitory. The fo. 62 b.
churche is dedicate to the Trinite. The quire of the church
was of late tyme reedified by one Thomas Balsalle Doctor
of Divinite and gardian of the coladge there. He dyed
anno domtni 1490, and liethe in the northe syd of the presbi-
terye [in a fayre tombe.]

There is a right goodly chappell in a faire streate toward
the southe ende of the towne dedicate to the Trinitie. This
chapell was newly reedified in mind of man by one Hughe
Clopton, Major of London. About the body of this chaple
was curiously paynted the Daunce of Deathe commonly
called the Daunce of Powles, becawse the same was some-
tyme there paynted abowte the cloysters on the north-west
syd of Powles churche, pulled downe by the Duke of Somar-
set, tempore E. 6.* This Clopton buildid also by the north
syde of this chapell a praty howse of brike and tymbar,
wherein he lay in his lattar dayes and dyed.

There is a gramar-schole on the sowthe syde of this
chapell, of the foundation of one Jolif a mastar of arte,
borne in Streotford, whereabout he had some patrimonye;
and that he gave to this schole.

There is also an almase-house of 10. pore folke at the
southe syde of the chapell of the Trinitye mayntaynyd by a
Fraternitie of the Holy Crosse.

Clopton aforesayde made also the great and sumptuose
bridge apon Avon at the este end of the towne. This bridge
[hath] 14. great archis of stone, and a longe cawsey made of
stone and now waullyd on eche syde, at the west end of the
bridge.

Afore the tyme of Hughe Clopton there was but a poore
bridge of tymber, and no causey to come to it ; whereby many fo. 63 a.

[* About E. 6. This paragraph was added later, probably by

Stow himself.]

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Warwick- poore folkys [and] othar refusyd to cum to Stratford, when
shire. Avon was up, or cominge thithar stoode in jeoperdy of
lyfe.

Clopton * was a gentle man borne by Stratford at Clopton
village, where yet one of the name, whos howse he moche
advaunsyd, dwellythe halfe a myle of Streotford by noxthe.
This Hewghe Clopton was nevar weddid.

Graville, an auncient gentilman dwellythe at Milcote,
scant a mile lower then Streotford toward Avon ripa
dcxtra,

Mastar Trusselle, an auncient gentleman, dwdlithe at
[Billesley] a 3. miles from Streotford. Litle wood nere in
sight about Streotford.

From Streotford to Warwike 7. miles.

From Streotford to Bitford a thrughe fayre on the ripe of
Avon 5. miles.

From Streotford to Eovesham a 10. miles.

From Streotford to Alcester a 5. miles.

From Streotford to Hanley [5. miles.]

I rode from Streotford by champaine ground, frutfuU of
come and grasse, a 5. miles to a forde and a smaule wood
bridge, where I passyd over Aulne-brooke, that cam downe
as I markid from the northe. Thens 2. myles by champaine
ground to Coughton. I passyd at Coughton by a wood-
bridge over Arow ryver.

Mr. Throgmorton hathe a fayre maner place moated at
Coughton.
fo. 63 b. The paroche church of Coughton is very faire, exced-
yngly well glasyd and adomyd, partly mad by Sir George
Throgmorton's father, partly by Ser George hym selfe.
[There is a goodly tombe in the body of the church, made
by Sir George his father that dyed in peregrination going to
Hierusalem.J

From Coughton to Alcester 2. myles by enclosid ground.
I markyd the contrye about Coughton and Alcester to be
meatly well woddid. Part of the forest of Fekenham in Wor-
cestershire is withe in 3. miles of Coughton.

[* Stow later added in the margin: Cloptons of Sufiblke, theyr
armes (as saythe Master Cole) was an eagle spred on a tunne, for
Clapetonne.]

PART V

Alchurch,* the bysshope of Wircester's fayr manor place, Worccster-
is a 6. miles from Coughton. shire

Alcester is a praty market towne in Warwike-shire. The Warwick-
market is kept there on the Twesday. The towne hathe shire,
bene a great thinge. Some say that there hathe bene 13.
paroche churches in it.

Some say that the priory of Alcestar, now a litle without
the towne by este norfiie est, was in the midle of the towne.
Many tokens of buyldinges and bones of men be found in
placis without the towne, especially in Blake-Filde. The
people there speke muche of one S. Cedde^ Bysshope of
Lichefild, and of injuries there done to him.

The priorye was of auncyent tyme a great monastery, syns
impropriate to Eovesham. The Beauchamps were lordes of
that towne, and they had a howse by Alcestar priory caullyd
Beauchamps-Hawle. It came sence by manage to the Lords
Broko, and now by mariage it is in Fulco Gravill's handes. fa 67 a.*
Fulco now buildithe at Beauchamp's Hawle, and takythe
stones from Alcestre priorie [the which he hath also.

The personage of Aulcester is impropriate to Aulcester
priory.]

Alcester, as it is now, stondythe on the rype of Arow
water. Yet seinge that it berithe the name of Aulne, it is
an evedent token that the old towne stode moste by Aulne.

About the este ende of Auhicester towne is the conflu-
ence t of Auhie and Arow. Aulne cummithe by Henley ° a
market towne 5. miles above this confluence, and hathe
divers wood bridges on it.

Arow (as I hard one say) cumithe frome the Blake Hills
that be [a 7. or] 8. miles and more above Coughton, and so
comithe thoroughe divers wood bridges to Aulncestar. And
at Aulnecestar by este the towne is a bridge on Arow. The
foundation of it is stone and is plankyd over.

[* Stow skipped three figures in numberine his leaves (none are
missing), and continues in the error. This lea^ which ought to be 64,
is 67.1

[t Stow has "confines," but "confluence'' (as Burton writes) must
be intended.]

* Alvechurch.

Henley in Arden.

•> St. Chad's.

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Warwick- Arow halfe a myle benethe Alcester levithe a maner place

shire. of Mr. Conwais called Arow, and two miles and a halfe

lower at Sanford goith into Avon by the right ripe of Avon.

Mr. Browne a knight hathe a faire manar place about a
mile or more by southe southe west out of Aulcester. The
nunry of Coukefeild stode about a myle by sowthe west out
of Alcester. Fortescwe, Grome-Porter of the Court, hathe
it nowe.
fa 67 b. Wurcester-shire is som way within a mile of Aulncester.

[There be 3 of the Tancrevilles, the father, the sunne,
and his sonne, buried in the chapter house of the priory of
Kenelworth that after •]

From Aulnecestar to Hanley 5. miles.

From Anlnecestar to Worcestar 10. miles.

From Aulnecestar to Stratford apon Avon 5. good miles.

From Aulnecestar to Ewesham 7. long miles.

Worcester- I rode from Aulnecestar toward Eovesham a 2. miles by

sliire. woody and enclosyd ground, and then a mile by grounde

lesse enclosyd, but having more come then wood. Thens 4.

mils by cleane champain. Some wood about Eovesham on

the right rype of Avon.

The towne of Eovesham is metely large and well buildyd
with tymbar. The Market-Stede is faire and large. There
be divers praty streats in the towne. The market kept at
Eovesham is very celebrate. In the towne is no hospitale
nor othar famose foundation but the late abbey.

This abbey was of the foundation of Kenredus King of
the Merches, and Egwinus Byshope of Wurcestar.

Ther was no towne at Eoveshame afore the foundation of
the abbay.

The place where the towne standithe now was of the old
Saxons caulyd Hetheholme. [The edifices of the abbey
have beene made by many men in continuance.

Clement Lichfeild, the last Abbot of Evesham save one,
did very much cost in building of the abbey and other
places longing to it. He builded much about the quire in
adorning it. He made a right sumptuous and high square
tower of stone in the cemitory of Eovesham. This tower
had a great bell in it, and a goodly clock, and was as a gate-

[* From Burton (a), p. 96. Not printed by Heame.]

PART V

house to one pece of the abbeye. This abbot builded at his Worcestcr-
mannor at Uffenham, about a mile above Evesham upon ahirc
Avon ripa dexfra,] There be withein the precincte of the
cemitery of the abbey of Eovesham 2. parish churches,
[whither the people of the towne resort; but the whole pro-
fit, saving a vicarage of one church, was appropriate to the
abbey.]

There was of old tyme an abbey at Fleodan byrig in Fladbury.
Worcestar-shire, standinge a 3. miles lowar then Eovesham
upon Avon ripa dextra. This abbay in Egwinus tyme was fo. 68 a.
appropriat to Eovesham. It is now communely caullyd
Fiadbyri. [The personage of it nowe is jQZo by the yere.

There was a farme or mannor place a 6. miles from Eove-
sham called Amberley, where the last Abbot of Eovesham
now lyeth.]

From Eovesham to Hails a 6. miles.

From Eovesham to Winchelescombe a 7. miles.

From Eovesham to Persore a 5. miles.

From Eovesham to Twekesbiri a 9. miles.

From Eovesham to Worcestar 12. miles.

From Eovesham I passyd a 6. or 7. miles all by cham-
paine grownd in the Vale of Eoveshame, being al or moste
parte in Worchestar-shire, to Stanway-village, standynge in
the rotes of the hills caullyd Coteswolde.

The vale of Eovesham is as it were for suche an angle the
horreum of Wurcester-shire, it is so plentifull of come. It
lyethe from the left ripe of Avon to the very roots of Cotes-
wolde-hilles.

There is in Stanwey [Com. Glouc] a fayre manor place Qloucester
and lordshipe, at the east ende of the churche, a late longing •lii'«.
to the abbay of Tweukesbyri, where he some tyme lay. Mr.
Tracy hathe it now in ferme.

There comithe downe from est-southe-est a broket that
aftar goithe to Toddington streame.

From Stanway a mUe to Dydbroke, and a quarter of a
mile beyond is Hayles. There cummithe downe a prile of
watar from the sowthe syde of Hayles abbay and goithe
toward Todington water.*

Frome Hailes tp Winchelescombe ^ a mile and halfe by

* Isbome r.

*> Winchcomb.

54 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Gloucester- fayre plentiful! hills. The towne of Winchelescombe stand-

^^^' ithe from a litle valley by est, and so softely risethe in

fo. 68 b. lengthe of one principall streate into the west. The towne of

certente, as it apperithe in divars places, and especially by

southe toward Sudeley-casde, was waullyd; and the l^en<^

or lyfe, of St. Kenelme doothe testifie the same.

There was a forteres or castelle right again the southe
syde of St. Peter's. The paroche churche of Wincheles-
combe, cauUyd of latar dayes (as apperithe by writyngs in
Winchelescombe abbay) Ivy-castelle, now a place where a
fewe poore housys be and gardines. I thinke that the old
buildings of it faullynge into ruine, and yvie growynge on
the waulls of it, causyd [it to be called byj the name of Ive-
castle.

[The last prior of Winchelescombe tould mee that he hath
heard that there was a fort or castle about the east or north-
east part of the towne of Winchelescombe.]

Kenulphus, Kynge of the Merches, had a place^ in this
towne, and first buildyd a famous abbay in it, [and dedicated
it with a glorious solemnity.] This abbay was at 2. sundry
tymes defacyd with fier and reedifyed.

[Rich, de Kiddermister, the last abbot saving one, did
great cost of the church, and enclosed the abbey towardes
the towne with a maine stone-wall ex quadrato Saxo.l

There laye beryed [in the east part of the church of the
monastery of Winchecombe,] Kenulphus and Kendmus,
the fathar and sonne, bothe Kyngs of the Merchies. There
laye [in St. Nicholas chappell at the east end of the High
Aulter one Henry Boteler, that covered the body of the
church of the monastery with lead. This Boteler was of the
house of the Botelers of Sudeley. There laye other of the
Botelers of Sudley in the church of the monasteryct] There
was of auncyent tyme a churche of St. Nicholas in the east
parte of the towne, decayed many yers sence.
Burton (a). [In King Henry 5. t)rme, the parish church of the towne
was kept in the body of the church of the monasterye. But
in K. H. 6. tyme one William Winchelesecombe, abbot of

[♦ Burton has " pallace " for " olace."]

ft Stow has for this paragraph simply, "divars of the Batlars of
Sudiey."]

PART V 55

Winchelesecombe, beganne with the consent of the towne Glouccster-
a parish church at the west end of the abbey, where of «b^*
ould tyme had beene and then was a little chappell of St.
Pancrace.

Abbot William made the east end of the church. The
parishioners had gathered a ;^2oo and beganne the body of
the church; but that summe being not able to performe so
costly a worke Rafe Boteler Lord Sudley helped them and
finished the worke.

I marked in the south isle of the quire, fyrst the image of
Tho. Boteler Lord Sudeley. Then were there images of
these his sonnes followinge, John, William, Thomas and
Rafe, and an image (as I take it) of Elizabeth wife to Rafe
L. Sudeley. There were also in the glasse windowes in
the north isle of the quire images of 4. gentlewomen,
whereof one was named Alicia, Da, to Tho. Boteler L.
Sudeley.

This parish church is dedicated to St. Peter.]*

There was once an hospitall in the towne, [but now the
name only of Spittle remaineth.]

The broke that cummithe downe by the southe parte of
the towne is comonly caulyd Eseburne.* It risethe about a fo. 69 a.
3. miles above the towne by west, and so rennith by est to
the very botom of the towne of Winchelescombe. Then it
tumithe somewhat northe and to Tudington, not 2. miles of,
and at . . . goeth in to the river of . . .

The castle of Sudeley is about halfe a myle from Win-
chelescombe.

. . . Botelart L. Sudeley made this castle h Jundatnentis^
and whan it was made it had the price of all the buyldings
in those dayes. I rede but of one Lorde Sudelay of the
Butelers, and his name was Thomas, as it apperith in the
glase windowes at Winchelescombe in St. Petar's churche.
Therefore I take that it was this Thomas that made the
castell. Yet dyd Mr. Thracy tell mee, that Rafe Butlar

[* All within these [ ] is summarized by Stow thus, " A paroche
churche lately buyldyd of S. Petar."]

[t Stow has no blank, but inserts "by," which seems without
meaning.]

* Isbome r.

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Gloucester- buildyd the castle; but he shewyd no autorite, whi. Indede
shire. Thomas had a sonne callyd Rafe set as yongest in ordar in

the glase wyndows of St. Peter's churche.

Lord Sudley that builded the castle was a famous man of
warr in Heniy the 5. and Henry the 6. dayes, and was
admirall (as I have hard) on se; whereupon it was sup-
posed, and spoken, that it was partly buildyd by spoyles
goten in Fraunce; [and some speake of a towre in it
called Potmare's Towre, that it should be made of a ransome
of his.]

One thinge was muche to be notyd in this castle, that
parte of the wyndows were glasyd wi&i berall. [There had
bene a manour place at Sudley before the building of the
castle, and the plott is yet scene in Sudley parke where it
stoode.

Kynge Edward the fourthe bare no good will to the Lorde
Sudeley, as a man suspectyd to be in hart Henry the 6. man ;
whereapon by complaynts he was attachid, and goinge up to
London he lokyd from the hill to Sudeley, and sayde, " Sud-
ley castelle thou art a traytor, not I." After he made an
honest declaration, and sould his castle of Sudeley to Kynge
Edward.

Henry the 7. gave the castle of Sudeley to his unde
Gasper Duke of Bedford, or permitted hym to have the use
of it. Now it goith to mine, more pitie. The Thracies of
Todington were set up by lands gyven them by the Butlers.

There comithe a praty lake out of Sudley parke downe by
the castell, and cummithe into Easeburn broke, at the
southe syd of Winchelescombe.

From Winchelescombe to Tewkesbyri a 7. miles.

From Winchelescombe to Worcestar 14. miles.

From Winchelescombe to Persore a 9. miles.

From Winchelescombe to Cirencestre 15. miles.

From Winchelescombe to Gloucester 12. miles.

From Winchelescombe to Eovesham 7. or 8. miles.

From Winchelescombe to Southam a 3 miles
fa 69 b. by good corne, pasture, and wood but somewhat hilly.
Here dwellithe Ser John Hudelstan, and hatbe buyldyd a
pratye maner place. He bought the land of one Good-
man.

To Chiltenham, a longe toune havynge a market, a 4 or

PART V 57

5 miles. It longid to the abbay of Tewkesbyry, now to the Gloucester-
kyng. A broke * in the southe syd of the towne. shire.

From Chiltenham to Glocestar a 6. miles all by low
grounde, corne, pasture and medow. All the quartars there-
about from Winchelescombe to Eovesham and to Twekes-
byry, and all the way from Chiltenham to Glocestar, and fo. 70 a.
thens to Twekesbery, and partly downe from Glocestar on
Severne ripes to Newenham muche low grownd, subjecte to
al sodeyne rysinges of Syveme : so that aftar reignes it is
very foule to travayle in. I passyd over 2. or 3. smale bekks
goinge betwixt Clultenham and Glocestar, and they resorte
to Severne.

The towne of Gloucestar is auncient, well buildyd of tym-
bar, and large, and strongly defendyd with waulls, wher it
is not fortified with a depe streame of Severne watar. In the
wauU be 4. gates by este, west, northe and southe, and soe
here the names, but that the est-gate is commonly caullyd
Aillesgate.t

The auncient castle stondinge southe on the towne by
Severne lefte ripe. The key on Severn lyfte ripe, whithar
picards and small shippis cum, is almost by the castle. I
leamyd there that the old key on Severne stode hard by St.
Oswaldes, and for strife betwixt the towne and the howse of
St. Oswald it was thens remevyd. When the key was by St.
Oswalds, there were divers praty streates that now be cleane
decayed, as St. Bride's Strete, and Sylver Gerdle Strete.
The trothe is thos streats stod not moste holsomly, and
were subject to the raginge flode of Severn, therefore men
desired more to inhabite in the higher places of the toun.
The beautie of the towne lyeth in too crossing stretes, as fa 70 b.
the gates of the towne ly; and at the place of the midle
metynge, or quaterfors of thes stretes, is aquaduklyd in-
castellid.t

There be suburbes without the est, north, and south gates
of Glocestar. The bridge only withe the causey lyethe at
the west gate. The bridge that is on the chefe arme of

r* The Chelt r.]

[t This is not given among the gates of the dty named by Fos-
brooke, " City of Gloucester," p. 65.

[t Burton has " or quartars of diese streetes is an Aquaeduct inca-
sellated." His copyist (Burton b) has " incaUated" for the last word.]

58 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Gloucester- Seveme, that renethe hard by the towne, is of 7. great arches
shire. ^f stone. There is anothar a litle more west of it, that

hathe an arche or 2, and servythe at a tyme for a diche or
dreane of the meads. A litle way farthar is anothar bridge,
hard witheout the weste gate, and this bridge hathe 5.
greate archis. From this bridge there goithe a greate causey
of stone, forcyd up thrughe the low meds of Severn by the
lengthe of a quartar of a myle. In this cawsey be dyvers
doble arched bridges, to drene the medows at flods. At the
end of this causey is a bridge of 8. arches not yet finished.

Bell a marchaunt of Gloucestar [now livinge, consideringe
to a common-wealth bridges and cawseys be, and to the
towne of Gloucester*] hathe gyven x. li. lands the yere
toward the mayntenans of thes bridges.

There be a 1 1. parish churches t in Gloucester towne. In
the . . . suburbe is St. Ewines. I cannot tell sewrly whither
this be one of the 1 1.

The Graye Friers [coUedge] stod without the towne not
far from the southe gate. One of the Lord Barkeleys was
foundar of it. It is now a brew-house,
fo. 70 bis. Kynge Henry thej3. and one Stephene dominus de Hams-
hull miies were founders of the Blakefriers about the yere
of our lord 1239. The Blakefriers stood withe in the towne
not far from the castle. This hows is by one Bell made a
drapinge howse.

The White Fryers [coUedge] stode in the suburbe without
the northe gate. There is in that suburbe [somewhat more
by north] an hospitall for poore folks [endowed with landes
dedicate to St. Margaret. The township hath the order of
this.t]

Nat far from that is anothar [poore hospitall] of St. Mary
Magdalen, [somewhat more by north then St. Margarettes.J
The prior of Lanthony was taken foundar [there, and was
wont to maintaine it with certaine charity of bread.]

[There is an hospitall of St. Bartholomew a lide within
the west-gate. This hospitall had once a master and 52.

[* The words in brackets are given by Burton only, but either he
omitted something, or Leland did so, and hence Stow did not copy
what he found incomplete.]

[t Stow has X in the first place and XI in the second.]

B Stow only has «* of St. Margaret."]

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poore men, and now it hath a master and 32. poore men and Gloucester,
women. The bishop of Worcester doth give this hospitall.' shire.
Some saye it was of the kinges foundation. One Pancefoote, '^'^•
that was livinge in the mind of ould men, is buried in the
chappell of this hospitall. Whitmaster a suffragane, now
ruler of this house, raised this hospitall that afore was very
subject to the rising of Severne, and a-builded a faire lodging
for himselfe in the hospitall.] •

Things gatheryd out of certayne writyns in the wall of the
northe ile of the body of the church in Gloucester.

Osrik first under kynge and lord of this contry, and the
kynge of Northombarland, with the licence of Ethelrede
kynge of the Merch, first foundyd this monastery anno 681.
Osrike by the counsell of Bosel, first Byshope of Worcestar,
put in nunes, and makith his systar Kineburge abbas there.

Thre noble wimen Kineburge, Edburge,t and Eva,
qwenes of Merche only abbasses for the tyme of the nunes,
whiche was 84. yeres.J The nunes were ravyshid and dryven
away by warres betwyxt Kynge Egberte and the kynges of
the Merches.

Bernulph Kynge of the Merche bringethe in secular
chanons and clerks [givinge possessions and liberties to
them.]

Kynge Canute for yll ly vynge expellithe the seculer clerks, fo. 70 bis b.
and by the counsell of Wolstan Byshope of Worcester bring-
ethe in monks.

Aldred Byshope of Wurcestar translatyd to Yorke takythe
a greate parte of the lands of Glocestar Abbay to reaedifie
the [minster §] of Yorke.

A nobleman cauUyd Wolphine Lekne (Lereve||) for 7.
pristes kyllyd had penaunce to finde perpetually 7. monks
in Glocestar.

Thomas Archbyshope of Yorke restoryd the lands agayn

[* For thb ^Lssage Stow has only " withe in the west gate is an hos-
pitall of seint Barthelmew."]
[t Burton (a) has " Eilbuxge."]
It Barton (a) has '* 84. and 4 yeres."]
[§ Stow has "churche."] [1| Written over Lekne.]

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Gloucester- to Glocestar whiche Aldredus [Archbp. of Yorke wrongfully
shire. did withould.] *

[William the Conquerour gave the Abbey of Gloucester
decayed to Serlo his chaplaine. Serlo monachus ScH.
Michailis in Normannia.

K. William the Conquerour an his sonnes gave possessions
and liberties to the Abbey of Gloucester.

Sancta Arilda virgin, martyred at Kington by Thome-
bury, translated to this monastary, had done many
miracles.]

Roger Lacy Erie of Hereford, Roger Lord Berkeley, Hugh
de Portu, Helias Giffard, Joannes Maungeant [Canon of
Hereford] were monks in Gloucester.

The quire and southe isle of Glocestar churche [were]
made by oblations done at the tumbe of Edward the 2.

Names of noblemen buried in the monastery of
Glocestar.

Osricus, foundar of Glocestar-Abbay, [first laye in St-
Petroners chappell, thence removed into our Lady Chappell,
and thence removed of late dayes, and layd under a faire
tombe of stone on the north syde of the high aulter; at the
foote of the tombe is this written in a wall:

Osricus Rex primus Jundator hujus mondsterii^ 681.]

Robert Courthose, sonne to William Conquerar, [lyeth in
the middle of the presbiterie. There is on his tombe an
image of wood peinted, made longe since his death.]

K)mge Edward 2. [of] Caimarvon [lyeth under a faire
tombe in an arch at the head of King Osric tombe.

Serlo, Abbot of Gloucester, lyeth under a faire marble
tombe, on the south syde of the presbiterye. There was of
late taken up a corse wrapped in a bulles hyde under an
arche at the head of the tombe of Edw. of Caemarvan,
where Malveme alias Parker, late Abbot of Gloucester made
a chappell to be buried in. A monke tould me that it was
the corps of a lady Countesse of Pembroke.

Abbott Horton lyeth under a flat stone in the north part
of the transept of the church.

[♦ Stow has "had withheld."]

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Abbot Froncester lyeth in a chappell at the south west part Qlouccater-
of the quire.] •^'*-

Gamage a knight of Wales, and his wyfe, [lye in a chap-
pell in the north east part of the body of the church.]

Things written in ,the waulls of the chapiter-house and
cloyster at Gloucestar.

Hicjacei • Roger Lacey Comes [de] Hereford.
Hie j<uet Ricus Strongbowe filius Gilberti Comitis [de]
Pembroke.
Hicjacet Gualterus de Laceio.

Hicjacet Phillippus de Foye miles. fo. 71.

Hicjacet Berunardus de Novo Mercatu.
Hicjacet Paganus de Cadurcis.
Hicjacet Adam de Cadurcis.
Hicjacet Robertus Curtus.

[These notable things following I learned of an ould man, Burton (a>
made lately a monke of Gloucester. ^*°- *°''

Abbotts of Gloucester; Hanley, Farley, Horton, Sebroke,
Froncester, Morwent.

Serlo reaedified Gloucester Abbey. Abbot Hanley and
Farley made our Lady Chappell, at the east end of the
church. Abbot Horton made the north part of the crosse
isle. The south part of the crosse isle and much of the
presbiterie vault was made by oblations at the tombe of
King E. 2.

Abbot Sebroke made a great part of the exceedinge faire
and square tower in the midst of the church. This tower is
a pharos to all partes about from the hilles.

Abbot Froncester made the cloister, a right goodly and
sumptuous peece of worke.

Abbot Morwent newly erected the very west end of the
church, and 2. arches of the body of the church, one on
each syde, minding if he had lived to have made throughly
the whole body of the church of like worke. He also made
the stately and costly porche on the south syde of the body
of the church.

[* Stow writes jadt throughout this list.]

62 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Qloncester- One Osbeme celerer of Gloucester made of late a fa]rre
Bhirc. new tower or gate-house at the south west part of the abbey

cemiterye.

These fajn^ villes or mannor places belong to the Abbot
of Gloucester.

Prinkenesse* on a hill, where is a faire parke 3. miles
from Gloucester by east.

Vyneyard a goodly house on an hillett at the cawsey end
at Gloucester by west.

Hertlebury 4. miles by north-west from Gloucester.

Froncester,** where sometimes was a coUedge of preben-
daries, suppressed and given to Gloucester Abbey, is distant
8. miles from Gloucester, and standeth a mile beyond
Standeley '^ Priory. The King hath it nowe, it is an 100. m.
by the yere.

Bromefeild, where sometimes was a litle coUedge, since
impropriate to the Abbey of Gloucester, a 2. miles from
Ludlowe.]

The Priory of St. Oswald stood north north west from
Glocestar Abbay upon Seveme ripe. Ethelredus Erie of
the Marches and Ethelfleda his noble wyfe, dowghtar to
Edward the first afore the Conquest, foundyd this howse,
[instituting prebendaries in it,] and thethar translatyd from
Bardeney the body of Oswald Kynge of Northumbarland,
[and there richly entombed it].

[It chanced that soone after the Conquest a bishop of
Lincolne, great with the king, required other jurisdiction or
landes in Lindesey belonging to the seate of Yorke, for
(which?) the king entreated the archbishop, being at that
tyme also B. of Worcester. Whereupon the B. of Yorice
desyringe (? desired) the king to have the colledge of St
Oswald impropriate to the seate of Yorke, and so he had.
Whereupon he practized with the prebendaries of a new
foundation, and that they should be chanons r^ular.
Some were content, some would not: but the B. brought
his purpose to passe by power, and there instituted a house
of canons reguler, impropriating benefices unto them and
giving them coyletts of land, reserving the goodly landes

• Prinknash Park. ^ Frocester.

Stanley.

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to the church of Yorke, that at this tyme be yet possessed Qloucester-
of it.] • "Wre-

The Priory of Lanthony, of chanons regular, stood on the
lefte ripe of Seveme, a litle benethe Glocestar. One Milo
Erie of Hereforde was foundar of it, and it was first but a
cell to L[l]anhondeney in Brekenokeshere. [This priory
had goodly landes, whereof a notable part was in Ireland.
There longid to this priory many fayre mannour places.]

Newarke a praty howse of stone hard by Lantony;
Quadesley* a 3. miles of Brokworth; Barendene* in Cotes-
wold; Alverton* by Severn a 3. miles from Chepstowe; all
thes belongyd to Lantoney.

The ryver of Severne brekethe into 2. armes in the
medowes a litle above Glocestar, whereof the principall
arme strikethe hard by Glocester towne syde, the other
goithe thowrughe a great bridge at the west ende of the
cawsey at Glocestar and a litle benethe Lantony Priorie they
meete togethers. This isle or mediannis betwixt these 8.
armis is al very goodly medow ground, and that about
Lantony, for cheese there made is in [great] price.

There is no bridge on Seveme benethe Glocestar. There
is no bridge on Seveme above Glocester, tyll the townlet of fo. 71 b.
Upton a II. or 12. miles from Glocestar, whithar at high
tydes Seveme se doth flow.

There be few notable buildings on Seveme betwixt
Glocestar and Aust Clif, where the fery is over Seveme into
the Forest of Dene.

Newenham, an uplandishe tounlet in the Forest of Dene
on the right ripe of Seveme, is a 8. miles bynethe Glocestar.
There at the full se Seveme is halfe a myle of bredthe.

A 2. miles lower Seveme is at the full sea a 2. miles and
halfe over, and at Aust Clif 2. good miles over.

Barkeley an 18. miles from Glocester somewhat distaunt
fix)m the Seveme shore.

Thombyri a 22. miles of Glocestar, and a 4. miles above

[* Burton, a, p. loi. I add the words in ( ) as something is wanting
to explain the sense. L. T. S.]

* Quedgley. ^ Barington. « ElbertoiL

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Oloucester- Auste not very far from Severn shore. There comithe a
Bhirc. creke up by the Marshes from Seveme to ThombyrL

From Glocestar to Twekesbyri a 7. miles.

From Glocestar to Wurcestar a 20. miles.

From Glocestar to Cirencester 18. miles.

From Glocestar to Monemuth 26. miles.*

From Glocestar to Newent 6. miles.

From Glocestar to Rosse 12. miles.

From Glocestar to Brightestowe 30. miles.

From Glocestar to Hereford 20. miles.

As sone as I passed ovar the arme of Seveme at the west
end of Glocestar I enteryd into the Forest of Dene, the
whiche thens downeward alonge Seveme on the moudie of
Wy ryver, (where it goithe into Seveme) and on the othar
parte agayne from Monemouthe to the mouthe of Wye is
devided from Wales by the lefte ripe of Wye river.

The soyle of the Forest of Dene for the moste parte is
more fratefull of wood and grasse then of come, and yet
ther is good come sufficient for the inhabytaunts of it. The
ground is frutefull of yron mynes, and dyvers forges be there
to make yren.

Flaxley Abbay of white monks stode in Dene Forest 5. or
6. miles from Glocestar.

Mastar Baynonnf dwellithe at Westbyri in the Forest of
Dene a 6. miles from Glocestar.

[The castle of Hereford.]

Hereford- The castle of Hereford stondithe on the lifte ripe of Wy
shire. ryver, and a litle benethe the bridge, and is strongly diched

ubi non defenditur flumine. The waules of it be highe and
stronge, and full of great towres, but now the hole castle
tendithe toward mine. It hath bene one of the fisurest,
largest and strongest castles of England. It hathe 2. wardes,
and eche of them were environid with water. There cam an
arme of a broke that rennithe thrwgh a great pece of the
towne dike by an arche made in the towne wauUe into the
castle dyke, and so compassynge halfe the castle went into

[* Burton (a) has '* Monmouth 20. miles."]
[t Burton has <* Bainham."]

PART V 65

Wy : so that withe the principall arme of it goinge thoroughe Hercford-
the castle dike, and with the mayne streame of Wy river, «hire.
the hole castle was environyd; but now the arme of the fo. 7 b.
broke cumithe not thorwe the castle, yet might it be sone
returnyd thither.

The second warde where the dungeon is was also envi-
ronyd withe watar. For a pece of the watar that cam
thrwghe the dyche was turnyd that way.*

The dungeon of the castle is highe and very stronge,
havynge the utter waull or warde 10. lo'Nxts forma semicir-
culari^ and one great towre in the inner warde.

There was a great bridge of stone archis, and a draw
bridge in the midle of it, to entre into the castle. It stode
on the northe west syde of it. It is now clene downe.

There is a faire chapell of St. Cuthebert, the este parte
whereof is made opere circulari. There were sometyme
prebendaries; but one of the Laceis translatyd them thens
onto St. Peter's in Hereford towne, and that coledge was
thens translatyd into the este suburbe of Hereford, and
a priorie of monkes erectyd there, and made a cell to
Glocestar.

There is a fayre and plentifull springe of watar within the
castell, and that and the pece of the broke comminge out
of the diche dyd drive a mille within the castle.

Some thinke that Harold began this castle, aftar that he
had conqueryd the rebellion of the Walche in Kynge Edward
the Confessor's tyme.

Som thinke that the Lacies Erles of Hereforde were the
great makers of it, and the Bohuns Erles of Heriforde. It fo. 73.
hathe still decayed syns the Bohuns tyme.

The towne of Hereforde stondithe somewhat lowe on
every t syde. There be hills by est and southe on the ryght
rype of Wy ryver, well wooddyd, and not far distaunt from
Hereforde toune.

The name of Hereford toune of some in Welche is caulyd
Heneford of an old forde by the castle, by the whiche many

[• In Burton's copy the first part of this description, beginning, " The
castle" to " that waye" is transposed after the passage ending " syns
the Bohuns tyme."]

[t " Every " in Burton; Stow has ** the very."]
II. F

66 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Hereford- passyd over, or evar the great bridge on Wy at Herford
shire. were made.

Some caull Herford in Walche Trefarrithi hfagis quarum
copia in agro illo crescebat The towne seUe is within the
compasse of the walls a good mile.

There be in the wauls of Hereford 6. gates: Wy Gate;
Frere Gate standithe west, cauUyd of the Gray Freres house
standinge without it; Inne Gate toward west north west;
Wigmarsh Gate flat northe; [Wigmarch a marsh ground a
little without the gate or suourbe:] Bysshop Strete Gate
northe est; St. Androws Gate by est, so caullyd of St
Androwes pariche in the suburbes without this gate.

There is a litle broke that cummithe a 5. miles by west
from Hereforde, and so circuitithe the diches of Herford
towne walls, ubi non defenditur vaga^ and goithe downe
levynge the castle on the right hand, and there drivynge 2.
mills for come goith into Wy a flite shot bynethe Wy bridge
and hard by benethe the castle,
fo. 73 b. The waull and gates of Herford be right well maintainjrd
by the burgesses of the towne. The comon voice is that Uie
towne of Herford was scant fortified with wauls at suche
tyme as Griphine Prince of Wales destroyed the towne
[and] kyllyd the Bysshope Leofgarus and his clerks by the
assystance and consent of Algarus sonne to Leofric Erie of
Merches.

One Richard Philippes marchaunt of Herford, buried of
late days in cemiterio S, Mariae infra claustrum S. Mariat
in septo ecclesiae \de Hereford^ tegitur saxo quod erat super
altare prioratus de Acronbyri,

The castle of Hereford standithe on the southe syde of
the towne hard apon Wy bynethe Herford bridge. It was a
great thing.

There be 4. paroche churches within the waulls, St Peter,
St. Nicholas, Alhallows, and St. John's.

The cathedrall churche stondithe in the southe parte of
the towne as in the highest grownd of it nere to the castle.

Robert Lorengo Bysshope of Heriford began a new

churche there, and Byshope Kynelme of Herford dyd muche

unto it.

fo. 74. Milfridus Regulus and Quenburge his wyfe first founders

of the cathedrall churche of Herford. There is a suburbe

PART V 67

without Wy-Gate, and therein is a chapell of our Lady of Hereford-
Alingtre prope furcaSy another of S. Aegidii. There is a ■hire,
churche of St Martin in Wy-Gate suburbe bynethe the
bridge.

The brige ovar Wy hathe . . . great arches of stone.

There be but few howses without Freres Gate.

The Grey Friers howse was foundyd by Sir William Pen-
bridge. [The Bishop of Hereford gave them some landes.]

Ther ly beried at the Gray Friers some of the Chaundos
and Comwalls. Owen Mereduke, alias Tyder, [buried in
the Grey Freyers in navieccUsiae in saceliosine idla sepulchri
ptcfnoria,]

There is a suburbe without Inne Gate, and in it is a
chappell of St. Giles first founded for Lazars, now convertyd
to the use of othar pore folke. The burgesses be patrons
of it.

[There is a suburbe without the north-gate alias] Wig-
marche Gate.* [This] is the fayrest suburbe of the towne.
In this suburbe was the Blake Friers, first foundyd by Dein-
ville a knight and finished by Edward the third.

Ther was buried William Beauchampe Lord of Bergaveny ;
William Lord Hastyngs Erie of Penbroke, tyll he was re-
movyd to the Grey Friers in London [for which the Black
Fryers of Hereford had an hundred poundes].

Ser Richard Delaber.

Ser Roger Chaundos and his wyfe.

Ser Nicholas Clare.

Ser John Burley.

Ser John EUesforde.

Mabilia Rouse.

Ser Thomas Rehan.

Henry Oldcastle.

Alexandar Bagche episcopus Castrencis, confessor to Ed-
ward 3, [buried in &ie quire]. He dyed at Herford,
Edward the 3 with the prince and 3 archbyshops beinge
there at the dedication of the Blake friers churche.

There was an hospitall of St. John, sometym a howse of fo. 74 b.
Templaries, now it is an almeshouse with a chaple. At the

[* Stow adds <* suburbe," making one sentence, and omits the words
between [ ].]

68 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Hereford- northe ende of this suburbe is a broke caullyd Smaul Purse,
shire. cumming out of a [medowe called] Erode Medow thereby.
It rennithe by the Blake Freres, and drivynge mils goithe
under Inc Bridge of one stone arche and so into Wy.

There is a prat>- suburbe without Bysshops-gate-Strete.
There was the priory of St. Guthelake, a cell to Glocestar.
This priori was afore in St. Peter's churche in Herford,
translatyd thens to witheout the Bysshopgate suburbe by
Hugh Lacy.

[Betun B. of Hereford gave them situm noviioct.']

There was a tombe of one Bernard Quarre, a provost or
ruler of St. Peter's in Herford afore the erectynge* of
S. Guthlak's Priory, slayne at the altar, and aftar in continu-
aunce translatyd to the chapiter of S. Guthlake.*

There is a suburbe without St. Andrew's gate. Ther is a
parocshe church of St. Andrew in the midle of the strete.
There is an hospitall of St. Giles, wher ons wer friers Giaye
and the Templaries. Kynge Richard gave this chapel! to
the towne, and then it was mad an hospitalL
fo. 75. From Hereforde to Leonminstre an 8. miles, and so by the
right way 7. miles more to Ludelow.

There is a hill caullyd Comforte Castle, where of sum
ruines yet appere, about a myle northe of from Leon-
minstre.

From Herford to the Hay a 12 myles.

From Herford to Brekenoke, 24 miles. Hay being almoste
in the mydle way.

From Herford to Wormebridge 6 miles, thens to Ailstone*
bridge a 2 mils.

Thens to Lincote wode a 3 miles, and 5 miles to Afare-
geveny.

From Herford to Dowef abey southe southe west a 6
mils.

From Herford to Monemuth 12. miles; to Chepstow 6.

[• • This passage was placed by Burton (a) after the words " Hiiffh
Lacy," three lines above.] •»«*"

[t Burton has «• Dare." Now Dore Abbey, 00 river Dore.]

* ?Elslon.

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miles; to Becheley* on Seveme right ripe 2. miles; to Ast Hereford-
Clife over the fery 2. miles; to Brightstow* 12. miles. shire..

From Hereford to Lee 14. miles, and thens to Glocestar
8. miles and more.

From Hereford to Worcestar about 20 miles.

From Hereford to Bromeyarde, a market towne in Heri-
fordshire, 1 2. miles, in dextra ripa Frame fluvii.

From Hereford to Wygmore a 14. miles; 8. to Leon-
minster and 5. to Wygmore townelet. The abbay of Wig-
more is a myle beyond Wygmor towne.

From Herford to Webbeley'' 7. miles by west northe west.
It is a market towne in Herforde-shire, where is a goodly
castell, but somewhat in decay. It was as the chefe lord-
shipe of the Devereux.

The castle of LinshauU,* of some writen Leonshaul, is a
2. miles from Webbeley. It longgid also to the Devereux,
and there is a parke.

The very old lords of Lmshall wer the Marbires. This fo. 75 h.
castle cam to the Devereux by an heire generall of the Mar-
beries.

There is no bridge on Wy from Herford to Buelth up-
ward. There is a bridge newly repayryd with tymbre.
Buelth is a . . . miles above the Hay on Wy ripa dextra,
[There is a wood bridge by Rosse.] There is no bridge by
nethe Herforde on Wy, unto a lytle above the confluence of
Wy and Mone ryver.

[There is a lordshippe and mannor place called Ewias
castle, where Tregoz dwelled, on the . . . ripe of Wye a
. . . miles beneath Hereford. It hath beene a notable
thinge.]

There is a bridge of wood to passe from Monemouth to
the Forest of [Dene.] There is no bridge on Wy by nethe
Monemouth to the very mouthe of Wy. There was one of
tymbar at Chepstow.

The confluence of Lug and Wy is a lytle bynethe Mordi-
forde bridge of stone on Lug. Mordiford bridge is a 3.
miles from Hereford. Lug commithe within a mile of Her-
ford.

There be benethe Leonminstre these bridges of stone on

• Beachley. ^ Bristol. <» Weobley. d Lyonshall.

Hereford-
shire.

fo. 76.

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Luc : . . . a quartar of a myle benethe Leonminstie. llie
second is Ford bridge of 3. arches, a 2. miles lower. The
third is at Hampton, somtyme a manor of the barons of
Burford, now of Conisbyes, a myle lower then Ford bridge.
Hampton stondithe ripa sinistra. The fourthe is at Wistes-
ton village a 3. myles lower. The fifth is Lug bridge of
stone. The sixth is Lug-Wardine, where (ripa sinistra)
Chaundos had a maner place, syns longynge to Bridgis, now
sould to Warme-Combe. The seventh is Mordiforde, and
is the biggest of all the residewe.

Bridges on Lug above Leon-Minstar.*

A bridge of stone over Lug in the . . . part of Leon-
minster towne selfe. A bridge of stone a 2. miles uper
caullyd Kyngesland-bridge. A bridge of stone by Limbroke
a four miles upper.

There was the priory of nuns of Lbebroke,* it is a quartar

of a myle or more from the lyfte rype of Lugge.

Radnor- There is a 2. miles upperward a stone bridge ovar Lug at

shire. Presteine; [which towne of Presteine (was) endowed of late

yeres with priviledges and a market by the intercession of

Rich. Martin Rich. Martin Bishop of St. David, and before chaunoellour

h'^8 ^^^^^^^ o^ ^^® Merches, emoassadour into Spaine and other strange

countries.]t
Monmouth- The river of Mone** risethe in a place caulyd Foresthene
shire. about a 2. miles by J west from Monemouth.

The castle of Skenfrith standithe 5. miles above Mone-
mouth toune on Mone ryver on the very ripe§ of it [secun-
dum decursumfluviiy'] and in tymes paste be al lykelyhod the
ryver dyd go about the castle dyk. Muche of the uter warde
of this castle yet standithe, the site of it is sumwhat low.
There is a stone bridge over Mone a lytle above the castle.

[♦ See also p. 73.]

[t For this paragraph Stow has merely " a new market towne."]
[X Burton has ** about 20. miles."]

[§ Burton's ** very ripe " seems the correct reading. Stow has " very
right ryght," an evident error.]

* Limerock Abbey,

Monnow.

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Hubertus de Burgo Erie of Kent was lord of Skenfrith, and Monmouth-
the noble Edmund Erie of Kent had it. sWrc

The castle of Grossemount • standithe a 3. miles above
Skenfrith, on the right hand of Mone water, secundum dtcur- fo. 76 b.
sumfluviiy halfe a myle from the rype. It stondithe strongly
on a rokky hill dry dychid, and a village of the same name
by it. Moste parte of the castle wauls stand.

The third castle of the lordshipe of Tirtre or 3. townes is
caullyd White-Castle, three miles flat southe from Grosse-
mounte. This castle stohdythe on a hill, and is dry motyd.
It is made almoste all of great slate stone, and is the greatyst
of the three.

The contry is champain about it, and no great woods at
hand, but the forrest of Grossenmont by northe. Good
come and pasture about this and the othar two.

The towne selfe of Monemouthe, by the^confluence of
Mone and Wy, is on the lyfte ripe of Mone, and there is a
bridge of stone at the towne over Mone.

One John of Monemouthe a knight was lord of Mone-
muthe, and foundar of Gracedew Abbay or Trodi 2. miles
[ripa dextra] from Monemouth by west north west.

From Herford to Dynemore hille by enclosyd grownde, Hercford-
not very hilly, plentifull of all good come and pasture and ■hire,
metely well woodyd a 4 miles.

About a mile a this syde Dinmore hil I cam by a [litle]
village caulyd Wilington,^ and there I passyd ovar a bridge
of three stone arches. The broke that rennith undar this fo. 77.
bridge is comonly caulyd Wormeley** watar. It risethe a 4.
or 5. miles of toward the west, and so cummith to Worme-
ley vyllage, and thens to Willington, and halfe a quartar of a
myle benethe Willington it goithe into Lugge by the right
rype of it.

The hill selfe of Dynemore is very stepe, highe, well
woodyd, and a specula to se all the contry about.

There standithe a lytle by west of the very toppe of Din-
more hill, on the lefte hand as I rode, a commaundry withe
a fayr place that lon^d to the Order of the Knights of St.
John [of Hierasalem] in London.

• Grosmont. ^ Wellington.

« Wormesley.

72 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Hampton From Dynmore hill passynge a mile farthar I saw Hamp-

Court in ton-Courte a goodly manar place on the lefte rype of Lugge,

s^erTrnow ^nd there is a stone bridge over Lug.

it is in Here- This place was erectyd sumptuously by one S' Lenthall,
ford.] [Kt.] that thus rose up by service; he was yeman of the

robes with Kyng Henry the 4., and beinge a galante fellaw,
othar a dowghtar or very nere kynswoman of Henry the 4.
fell in love with hym, and in continuance was weddyd onto
hym. Whereapon aftar he fell into estimation, and had
gyven hym a 1000. li lands by the yere for the mayntenaunce
of hym and his wyfe, and to theyr heires, among the whiche
lands he had Ludlaw for one parte,
fo. 77 b. This Lenthall [was victorious at the battaile of Agin-
Court, and tooke many prisoners there, by the which prey
he beganne the new building and] ♦ mannour place at Hamp-
ton, and brought from an hill a spring of watar, and made a
litle pool with it in the toppe of his howse. [This Lenthall
had a sonne by his wife; but he after a few yeares dyed.
Then left he of to build any more at Hampton, and soone
after his wife dyed. Then after he maried the daughter of
. . . L. Grey of Codnor.]

From Hampton to Leominstre a 3. miles by some en-
closyd grownde and good come, but no great wood at hand.
Halfe a mile a this syde Leominster I passyd ovar a bridge
of 3. arches of stone, undar the whiche Arow rennithe, and
the bridge berithe the name of it.

Arow Cometh thrwghe Penbridge towne havynge a good
market, and there is a bridge of stone ovar it. Then it
comyethe a 2. miles and halfe to luington village f and lord-
shipe a late longing to Leonminstre, and ther is a bridge
ovar [Arowe] of stone.

Thens about halfe a myle lower to Arow bridge, and
about a quartar of a myle lower into Lug, by the right
ripe.

The ground about Arrow bynethe Ivington is low, and
there by many fayr medows be there ovsuflowne, and the
gresse of them scant savyd ons in six yeres.

The towne selfe of Leonminstar, [alias Lemster], stand-
ee Stow has " buildyd the new."]
[t Burton (a) has " Emington mille."]

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ithe somewhat low, and all the ground very nere about it far Hereford-
lower, shire.

In the west end of the towne ar three stone bridgis. The
first over Penfilly, a streame that cummithe a 5. miles of, out fo. 78.
of a more by west sowthe west, and renning a 3. miles
takethe with hym a litle broket that risethe not muche above
the churche of Kyngesland, and this comythe undar the
aforesayd bridge in Leonminster, and so goithe thrwghe the
very howse of the priorye, and thens not far of into Lugge
by the right ripe.

The second over Ken watar, that aftar a small cowrce
bynethe this bridge goithe into Lug. This Ken is an arme
of Lug, and brekethe out of it at a were a qwartar of a mile
above Lug-bridge in Leonminster; from* the greatar parte of * Sic,
Lug is dryven by a damme or were to serve the kyngs mills
a litle lower then the damme.

The third is caulyd Lugge-bridge, and, as I remembar, it
is the greatyst of the 3, and hathe most arches.

There be 3. notable stone bridgis on Lug betwixt Leon-
minstre and Prestein otharwyse in Welsh caullyd Lan
Andrew.

The first is caullyd Kyngsland-bridge, becawse it is by
Kyngsland village, and this is a 2. miles above Leon-
minstre.

The second is caulyd Linbroke-bridg (as I take it) of
some confluence of a little broke caullyd Line, or of some
village beringe the name of Limbroke.*

The late priory of nunes at Lynbroke stood not farre fo. 78 b.
from this bridge npa laeva Luge. This bridge is a 3. miles
above Kingsland bridge. The third is at Presteine.*

Preisteine was but a Walsche village about Kynge Edward Radnor-
the 4. tyme: untyll [Rich.] Martyn, Bysshope of St. Davyds ■*>*'*•
and chauncelar of the Marches, got privileges for it, and
made it a market towne, that now is very celebrate for
come.

The towne of Leonminstar is meatly large and hathe good Hereford-
buyldinge of tymbar. The antiquitie of the towne is moste "hire,
famous by a monastery of nunnes, that Merwaldus Kynge
of the Marches buildid there, and endowyd it with all the

* Limerock. See Part VI, p. 48. •> Presteign.

74 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Hereford- teritoris thereabout savynge only the lordshipe now caulyd
shire. Kingsland. And it is supposyd of clerkis that the old name
of this towne tooke beginninge of the nunes, and was caullyd
in Walche Llan-Uieny, idem locus velfanum monialium^ and
not of a lyon that is writon to have apperyd to Kynge Mer-
walde, apon the whiche vision he began (as it is sayde) to
build this nunry. Othar kyngs of the Merches inmedmtly
folowinge Kynge Merewald were benefactors unto this
nunry.

[Some saye that the nunnery was after in the Danes warres
destroyed, and that after a colledge of prebendaries sett
there.

The certainty is knowne that the abbey of Shaftesbury
had rule at Lemster, and possessed much landes there, and
sent part of the reliques of St. Edward the Martir to be
adored there,
fo. 79. King Hen. I. annexed the landes of Lemster to his abbey
of Reading, and there was a cell of monkes instituted at
Lemster by the abbots of Reding.]

There is but one paroche churche in Leonminstar; but it
is large, somewhat darke, and of an auncient buildynge: in-
somoche that there is a great lykelyhod, that it is the
churche that was somewhat afore the Conquest. The churche
of the priorie was hard joynyd to the est end of the paroche
churche, and was but a smaull thinge. [Some saye, that the
monkes of the priory sayd that they had the skulles of the
heades of Merewald and Ethelmund Kinges ctf Modbes.
Mr. Hackluit tould me that the body of Kinge Merewald
was found in a wall in the old church of Wenlok.]

The towne of Leonminster by reason of theyr principall
wolle usyd great drapinge of clothe, and thereby it florishid.

Syns of later dayes it chauncid that the cities of Herford
and Worcester complainid of the frequency of people that
cam to Leonminstre, in prejudice of bothe their markets in
the shyre townes, and also in hinderinge their drapinge.
Whereapon the Saturday market was remevid from Leon-
minstre, and a market on Friday was newly assignyd onto
it. Syns that tyme the toun of Leonminstar hathe decayed.
The commune fame of the people about Leonminstar is, that
Kynge Merwalde, and some of his successors, had a castle
or palace on an hill syde by the towne of Leonminstre half a

PART V 75

mile of by est. The place is now cauUyd Comfort-castle, Hcreford-
where now be some tokens of dyches where buildings hathe "^"^
bene. The people of Leonminstar thereabout cum ons a
yere to this place to sport and play.

There was a castle at Kyngsland a 2. miles west northe west
from Leonminster, the diches whereof and a parte of the kepe fo. 79 b.
be yet sene by the west parte of Kyngsland churche.

Constaunt fame saythe that Kynge Merwald sometyme
lay in this place. Syns of latar tymes it longyd to the erles
of March, now to the kynge.

From Leonminster to Eyton a mile of by west northe west.

One William Hakcluit that was with Kynge Henry the 5.
at the batell of Egen Courte set up a house at this village,
and purchasyd lands to it. He had one St. George, a noble-
man of Fraunce, to his prisoner. Hakcluit now lyvynge is
the third in descent of the house of Eiton. The chefe and
auncientest of the Hakcluiths hathe bene gentlemen in
tymes out of memory, and they toke theyr name of the
Forest of Cluid in Radnorland, and they had a castle and
habitations not far from Radnor. There were 3. knyghts of
the Hakcluiths about the tyme of Kynge Edward the 3.
whereof one was namyd Edmund. It chauncid in Kynge
Edward the 3. tyme that one of the Hakcluits toke parte
withe Llewelin, Prince of Walys, agayn Kynge Edward the 3.
Whereupon his lands were attayntyd and devolvid to the
Kynge or to Mortimer lord of Radenor, and never were
restoryd.

There was at that tyme one of the Hakcluiths that fledd
into the mountains of Walls, and livyd as a banishid man, fo. 8a
but he aftar was pardonyd, and havynge a knyght that ten-
deryd hym because he was his godsonne or kynesnmii, and
had noe ysswe, he made hym his heire, and those lands yet
remayn to the elder howse of the Hakcluiths.

From Eyton I ryd a mile and halfe toward Ludelawe, and
there I saw a mile of on the ryght hand the manor place of
Cornwall that descendyth of a yongar howse of the Comwalls
barons of Burford.

I sawe also on the left bond, a mile of, Crofte, the manor
of the Croftes, sett on the browe of a hill, somewhat rokky,
dychid and waullyd castle like.

Thence [I rode a] 4. miles by goodly come grownd,

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Hereford- partly enclosyd and havynge praty wood, to Richardes
ehirc. castle.

Richards Castell stondith on the tope of a very rokky hill,
well woodyd, and at the west end of the paroche churche
there. The kepe, the wauUs, and towres of yt yet stond but
goynge to ruyn. [There is a poore house of tymbar in the
castle garth foi a farmer. It longeth now to the king, it
longed of late to the Lord Vaulx, then to Pope.J There is a
parke empaled and well woodyd, but no dere m it. From
Shropshire. Richards castle to Ludlow a 2. miles.

The bridge apon Tende* at Ludlow devidithe withe the
streame downe alonge Herfordshire from Shrobbesshire.

The towne of Ludlow beinge in Shrobbesshire on the
left ripe of Teme ryver is set apon an hill; so that a man
cumming to it any waye conscend [ith] * It is well wauUyd,
and by estimation it is about a mile in compas.

There be in the wauUs 5. gates. BroderGate, and that
fo. Sob. leadythe to Brod-Strete, the fayrest parte of the towne.
Olde Gate is alsoe toward Temde, as Brod-Gate is, but not
so nere. Galfride-Gate, Corve-Gate toward the left ripe of
Corve river, Mil-Gate. The castle hemithe in one parte of
the towne and stondithe on a stronge rokke well dichid be-
twixte Corve-Gate and Mille-Gate.

There is but one paroche churche in the towne, but that
is very faire, and large, and richely adornyd, and taken for
the fayrest in all those quartars. It stondithe even in the
midle of the towne, and is in the highest ground of it. Thise
churche hathe bene muche avauncyd by a brothar-hode
therein foundyd in the name of St. John the Evangeliste.
The originall thereof was (as the people say there) in the
tyme of K. Edward the Confessor; and it is constantely
afirmyd there that the pilgrimes, that browght the ringe
from beyond the se as a token from St. John thevangelist to
Kynge Edward, were inhabitaunts of Ludlow.

This fratarnitie hathe a gardian chosen yerely amonge the
burgesses, and to this college longe now a tenne pristes,
partly found by endowment of lands, partly by gatheringe

[♦ Supplied by L. T. S.]
• Teme r.

PART V ^^

the devotion of the people [thereabout]. These pristes have Shropshire,
a fayr howse at the west end of the paroche churche yard;
and by it is an hospitall or almeshouse of a 30. pore folks
sometyme, and sometyme mo, mayntaynyd [partly] by the
fratamitie, [and partly by mony given for obiits of men
buried there in the church].

[•There was a very rich merchant in Ludlowe not long
synce called Hosier, buried in the parish church, who
founded a cantarie in a part of the aforesayd coUedge, en-
dowing it with 10. or 12. 1. land by the yeare. This stipend
is nowe geven to a schoole-maister.*]

The towne-waule enclosethe the northe syde of the cemi- fo. 81.
tery of the paroche churche.

[I noted these graves of men of fame in the church of
Ludlowe.]

Burialls in the churche.

Beaupie, somtyme coferar to Edward the 4. He gevethe
a leg in his armes.

Cokkis, a gentleman servitor to Prince Arture.

Doctor Denton, Mastar of St. John's in Ludlow.

. . . Sulyard, justiciarie in the Marchis [of Wales].

. . . Hosyar, the marchaunt.

There be 2. castelets for conduit watar in the towne,
servyd bothe from one springe [or head].

There were 2. fayre coleges of friers in Ludlow.

The Whit-Fryers t was a fayre and costly thing, and stode
without Come-Gate by northe, almoste in the ende of that
suburbe. One [• • • ] Ludelaw a knight, lord of Stoke-
castle or pile towards Bysshop's-castle, was originall fowndar
there.

Vernoun by an heire generall is now owner of Stoke, and
of late was taken [as] foundar of this howse.

The Augustin Friers stode without Galford-Gate.

I saw suburbes without all the gates [of Ludlowe], sav-
ynge that I was not at Mill-Gate.

[* — * For this passage Stow has, " one Hosiar a marchant-man gave
10 or 12 pound land a yere to this brotharhod, whiche was gyven toward
a scole mastar.'*]

[t Burton writes " White grey fryers." Stow crosses out Grty^ evi-
dently following Leland*s correction.]

78 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Shropshire. The subiirbe over Temde bridge by southe is caulljrd
Ludeford, and in it is a litle paroche churche.

There is on the northe syde of the bridge in ripa sinistra
Temde,* a churche of St. John standinge without Brode-
Gate, sometyme a coledge with a dene and fellows of one
Jordann's foundation. There be 3. fayre arches in this
bridge over Temde, and a praty chappie apon it of St. Cathe-
rine. It is but about 100. yeres syns this stone bridge was
erectyd. Men passyd afore by a forde a lytle benethe the
bridge,
fa 81 b» Ther is a faire stone-bridge ovar Temde at Lentwardine
village, a 5. miles above Ludlow. [Brompton^ pyle or castle
a 2. miles from Lantwarden, and] 5. miles above Lentwarden
is Knighton, a praty towne on Temde.

There is a stone bridge of 2. arches on Temde at Tern-
byri a market towne in [Hereford-shire. Tho. Evan tould mee
since that Tembury for a surety is in Worcester-shire, even
in the uttermost part of it.]* It is a 4. miles lower then
Ludelawe ripa dextra.

The Baron of Burforde's chefe howse cauUyd Burford is a
litle above Tembyri ripa sinistra in Shrobbshire. Lidwik"
brooke comithe into Teme about Tembyri ripa sinistra.

The river of Oney** risith toward the quartars of Bysshop's
castle at Shelbe" a 15. miles from the place where it goithe
into Temde' a litle bynethe Bromfelde.

There was a priori or cell of monks at Bromefeld longinge
to Glocestar abbay. There were somtyme prebendaries.
Giffard gave it to Glocestar-[abbey].

This howse stode betwixt Oney and Temde. Temde
renithe nerest to the howse selfe, that stondithe on the lefte
ripe of it. Oney cummithe by the bake syde of the orchard
by the howse, touchinge it with his right ripe, and a litle
bynethe the howse the confluence is of Oney and Temde,
and this is a 2. miles above Ludelawe.

There is a praty stone-bridge over Oney a litle above

[* For this passage in [ ] Stow has " the outermost port of Worcestar-
shire,'* thus merely copying Leland's correction.]

* Teme r. ^ Brampton Bryan. ^ Ledwiche Brocdc.

d Onny r. • Shelve. ' Teme r.

PART V 79

Bromfild. There is also a bridge of stone over Oney watar Shropshire,
at Whister* 2. miles above Bromefelde; and above this
Mastar Vernoun hath a place not far from Oney.*

[* The following from another part of Stow (Tanner, 464, vol. ii,
fo. 2), inserted where a blank leaf occurs in Leland's original, vol. v,
fo. 4, appears to be copied from a lost original of Leland's rough notes
on the preceding places.

" Luddeford suburbe and a paroche churche. Temde of 3 arches and
a chapell of S. Catherin ; it standithe yet. Made within this C yeres,
none ther afore but a ford a flite shot lower. S. John thevangelest
brotherhed set up in S. Edward the Confessor's tyme by the meanes of
2 pilgrimes of Ludlow that browght a ringe from S. John to Kynge
Edward: A College of a X priestes to the brotherhede. An almose
howse by the college longynge to the brotherhede havynge a 30 poore
folke or some tyme more of the towne : partly hoipe by distribution of
obits of men lyenge in the churche. Hosier an exceding riche mar-
chaunt of Ludlow made a chauntery at Ludlow and lyethe ther buried.
The chaunterye now is annexid of late to a schole mastar. Beaupie,
coferer to Kynge Edward the 4, buried in the body of the churche, and
one Cokks gentleman serviture to Prince Arthure. Doctor Denton
Mastar of Johns, and Suiurd,^ buried in the presbyterie. 2 conduts
castels to serve the towne bothe from one heaae. The castle the west
parte, Mortimers and the Duks of Yorke lords of it. Lady Genevile
Mortimers wyfe. The Whit friers by northe in Corvesgate suburbe.
Ludlowes, lord of Stoke Castle or pile towards Bysshops castle.
Founders a late Vernoun by mariage of one of the heirs generall of
Ludlow. The Aug;ustines Friers without Galforde gate. Mylle-gate,
Corv^te, Galfordegate, Old gate, and Brodegate, and within Brode-
gate, Brode Streate.

"Tenb3nri market Hpa dUxtra 4 miles by nethe Ludlow; Burford a
litle above ripa sinistra, Lidwik Broke a bridee of 2 arches at Tem-
byri. A bridge at Lentwardin media via to Knighton. . . . watar
risynge at Chapell Ascs above Bromefeld in Shropshire. Bromfeld 2
myles from Ludelaw, a bridge of stone a litle above so into Tend.
Brompton pile or castle a 2. myles above Lentwardine. Cle hills 3
miles est northe est from Ludlow.

** To Prestein a V miles, to Knighton 20 miles, to Shrobesbyri 20
miles, to Worcester 20 miles. To Treestop 20 myles. To Bridge water
a 15 miles. [These distances seem to be mere jesses. Presteign is
about 14 miles from Ludlow, Shrewsbury 29, Bridgewater should be
Bridgenorth (see after, p. 80), which is 18 miles from Ludlow, Knighton
is 15 as against 20 miles above, and 10 on p. 80. L. T. S.]

**A stone bridge ovar Oney at Whitster aboute a 2 miles above
Bromefelde. A motyd place by Bromefilde now long3mge to the Erie
of Oxford. Bromfeld priory stoode bytwyxt Tende and Oney hard
apon Teme ripa sinistra. The orchard of the howse lyethe on the

• ? Wistanstow. *» PSluiurd; see p. 77.

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Shropshire. There is liklyhod that the castle of Bromfeld longyd to
fo. 82. Giffard, and by force rased, stode where now is a farme
house motyd belonginge to the Erie of Oxford.

Cainham castle, of some callyd Caiholme, now downe,
stode (3.) miles from Ludelaw.

Cle hilles stond 3. miles est north este from Ludlow.

From Ludlaw to Worcester 20. miles.

From Ludlaw to Bridgenorthe 15. miles.

From Ludlaw to Prestein a 5. miles.

From Ludlaw to Knighton 10. miles.

From Ludlaw to Bysshop's^astle 20. miles.

[From Ludlaw to Shrewsbury 20. miles.]

From Ludlaw to Gloucester by Bromard a 30. miles.

Passynge out of Ludlaw by Corve-gate I cam strayte to
Corve-bridge of 5. fay re arches of stone. This Corve ryver
goithe from this bridge strayte downe by the castle of Ludlaw,
and a litle benethe it goithe into Teamd [Temde] by the left
ripe. Here I marked that Tend [Temd] cummythe by west
northe west out of Wales; and Corve cometh through
Corvedale in Shropshire by east north east.

From Corve-bridge at Ludlawe I rod a 6. miles partly by
meatly good come ground, partly by grownd myxt withe
wood ontyll I cam to a poore village caullyd Streford,* wher
was a litle broke that about halfe a myle lower rennithe into
Oney river ripa sinistra,

I lefte the Egge** and the Longe Forest, 2. great wodds
havynge roes,* on the right hande comynge to Streton.
Thens I rode a 3.t miles by well woddyd ground to Stre-
fo. 82 b. ton, a prati uplandishe townelet, where by die churche one
Brooke a lawyer hathe a praty howse, and here rennythe a
broke, [the same (as one tould me) that goeth by Stretford.]

This townelett is the chefist buildinge that is in Streton
Dale; Streton Dale is inclosyd with grete hills, well woodyd
in some places. It is in lengthe but a 3. miles, and in it be

right ripe of Oney. A bridge of stone over Oney a litle above the
orchards of Bromfeld. A bridge of tymbar at Bromefeld ovar Teme.
Frithe wood within a mvle of Ludlowe."]
[♦ Burton has " rods.^*] [t Burton has " a 43 miles."]

Stretford Bridge. ^ Wenlock Edge.

PART V 8 1

3. Stretons, Litle Stretton, Great Streton and old Stretton.* Shropshire.
This Stretton Dale longgith to th Erie of Arundle.

From Streton to Libot** Woode a thoroughe faire 3. miles,
by hilly and woody ground.

Thens a mile or more of I left a parke of Mr. Corbet's
hard on the left hand. Aftar I passyd a 4. mile by playne
ground, beringe some come, and then a 2. miles by a bettar
soyle for come to Shrobbesbyri.'' About halfe a myle or I
cam to Schrobbsbery I passyd by a forde over Mele broke,
and there was a longe narow bridge of tymber over Mele,**
bering the name of the broke. And a myle above Mele
bridge there is anothar tymbar bridge ovar Mele caullyd
Dagge-bridge. Ther is a stone bridge of 3. arches over
Mele as I enteryd into Shrobbesbyri hard by the abbay, and
hard byneth this bridge is the confluence of Mele and
Severn.

And here by this bridge brekith out an arme of Severn,
that at deade low waters in somer scant fletithe over the
strond. There is a bridge of 8. low arches ovar this arme,
and aftar that it passith thrwghe this bridge it strayte metythe
agayne with the great streame.

There be 2. great mayne bridges of stone on the hole
river of Severne at Shrobbesbyri. The greatyste and fayrest fo. 83.
and highest apon the streame is the Walche bridge havyng
6. great arches of stone, so cawlyd bycause it is the way out
of the towne into Wales. This bridge stondithe on the west
syde of the towne, and hathe at the one ende of it a great
gate to enter by into the towne, and at the othar end toward
Wales a mighty stronge tower to prohibyt enemies to entre
onto the bridge.

The second bridge is lower on Severn at the . . . parte of
the towne, and this hathe 4. great archis besyd the draw-
bridge.

The towne of Shrobbesbyri standithe on a rokky hill of
stone of a sadde redd earth,* and Seveme so girdethe in all

[♦ Stow has "girth" (misprinted "grith" hy Heame's editor), but
Barton's " earth ** seems correct.]

All are Stretton. ^ Leebotwood.

Shrewsbury. ^ ? Meole r.

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Shropihire. the towne that savinge a litle pece by ... it wer an isle.
It is comonly caullyd now in Walche Moythik. Writers in
Walsche caul it Penguem, id est^ caput Alneti,

Schrobbesbyri is the very Englyshe word truly writen,
not muche dissonant from Penguem, and Salapia in Latin
goith far from the Walche name.

The towne is strongly waulyd and defendyd with watar,
the whiche is to be countyd in a maner for the towne diche.
There be in the towne 3 gates.
1 The castle hathe bene a stronge thinge, it is now muche

I in mine. It stondithe in the n[o]rth parte of the towne. The

f towne is more then a mile in compasse within the wauUe.

i There be 4. parish churches within the towne. The

,. ! fo. 83b. principall is St Ceddes [Chadde]. Ther is a deane and

\\ \ 10. prebendaries in a colegiate churche of the patronage of

f ^^ the Byshope of Lichefild.

1 1 \ There is an hospitale by St. Ceddes, the society of the

\ Y mercers [of Shrewsbury] mayntayne it.

\ [The second] is St. Marie's, a colegiate churche with a

A dene and 9. pore prebendaries. The kinge is patron of it

) '* One Degorie Walter a marchant [of Shrewsbury] made an

\ \ hospitall in haminum memoria at the west [end] of St.

* I Marye's churche.

u The paroche churche of St. Alchmunde was impropriate to

LilleshuU priorie.
j The paroche church of St. Julian hard by St. Alchmunds

impropriate to Batelfeld chaple, a mile out of Shrobbesbyii
[north.]

The Grey Freres in Shrobesbury of the Charlton's founda-
tion, and there laye the Lady Charleton, [whome they tooke
as their foundresse. And] this howse stode apon Seveme
banke a litle above the bridge of 5. arches. [One D. Francis
a frere of late dayes reedified almost a great part of this
fryers house.]

The [house of the] Blacke Friers was of the Lady Gene-
viirs foundation, and this stode a litle without the waulle
apon Severn syd, at the end of Marwaulle Strete. Many
gentlemen kyllyd at Batelfild were buried in this churche of
Blacke Fryers.

The Augustin Friers were of the foundation of the Staf-
fords. It stode a litle bynethe the Walche bridge.

PART V 83

Owen Glendowre promisyd Percy to have joynyd with Shropshire
hym at Battaylfilde.

Batelfild chapell is a mile out of Shrobbesbyri by [north.]
Kynge Henry the 4. [foundyd this litle colledge, and en-
dowed] it. [A gentleman called . . . who was owner of the
ground whereon it was builded had the patronage thereof
geven to him and his heires.j

There is a fayre stone bridge on Severne a 4. miles above fo. 84.
Shrobbesbery caullyd Monford bridge, a late renewyd.
[Shrawarden castle is in ripa laeva of Severne 2. miles above
Mountford bridge, and a mile above this castle is Butting-
ton* bridge over Severne. There is also a bridge over
Severne about Welsh-Poole.]

There is a fayre stone longe bridge on Sevame to passe
ovar toward Roxcestar at Acham village.

Roxcester* is a mile and halfe lower on Severn than
Acham ** ripa sinistra.

The destruxtion of Roxcester be all lykelihod was the
cawse of the erection of Shrobbesbyri. For Roxcester was a
goodly waullyd towne ontyll it was destroied by the Danes.

The ryver of Teme cummithe into Severne, almoste in
the mydle waye betwixt Acham and Roxcester.

The Wreken hill, of som caullyd Mount Gilbert. The
roots of this hille standinge by the lefte rype of Severn be
not past a mile from Roxcester. This Wreken hille is the
highest ground of all the contrye thereabout, and standithe
as a Pharos, baren of wood. There is in the toppe of this
hille a delicate playne ground bennge good fine gresse, and
in this playne is a fayre fountayne.

There is of late a new bridge made over Terne by Ser
Rowland Hill a marchaunt of London, [a little above the
confluence of Teme and Severne.]

Crowlington bridge of stone and tymbar a 5. miles or
more above Teme.

Stoke bridge of tymbar a 3. miles highar, and Stoke*' a

[* Leland is in enor here. Buttington bridge is 16 miles higher on
Severn than Shrawardine Castle, and about 2 miles from Welshpool.
He cannot have gone there.]

* Wroxeter. ^ Atcham. « Stoke-upon-Tem,

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Shropshire, praty tounlet ripa sinistra^ and Hudelet* a townelet [. . .
Stoke] about a mile dextra ripa Term,

At Drayton a market towne a 2. miles hier is a small
bridge,
fo. 84 b. There is a stone bridge over Severn at Buldewas,* where
the abbey of Whit Monkes was ripa dextra. Els there is
none betwixt Acham and Brigenorth.

[Tho. Cleobury, sometimes Abbot of Doure, tould me
that there was one of the antient bishops of Lichfeild, that
was in Offa King of Merches tyme, that lived an hermites
life at Buldewas, after such tyme as the pall of the Arch-
bishop of Lichfeild was taken from Lichfeild and restored
againe to Canterbury.]

From Schrobbesbyri to Chestar a 30. miles.

From Schrobbesbyri to Oswestrye a 12. miles.

From Schrobbesbyri to Roxcester a 4. miles, comonly
cawlyd 3 miles.

From Schrobbesbyri to Wenloke 8. miles.

From Schrobbesbyri to Whitchurche a 15. miles.

From Schrobbesbyri to Mountgomery a 16. miles.

From Schrobbesbyri to Bridgenorth a 16. miles.

From Shrobbesbury to Counde a pore village a 4. miles •
by metely good ground, come and grasse, but noe greate
wood in sight. There cummithe downe from southe a praty
broke caullyd Rhe,^ passinge thrughe the smaull villag, and
a litle lower goithe into Severne. There is a narow bridge
of tymbre at Cound over Rhe brooke. From Cound to
Harley village a 2. miles.

Thens to Wenneloke a market towne, environid with
hills, in Shrobbeshire, where was an abbay, a 2. miles by
roughe ground, passynge ovar an highe rocky hill caulyd
Wenlok Egge.

There comithe by west from the hills by Wenlok a litle
broket, and passythe thrughe the midle of the towne. I have
hard this watar caullyd Rhe. It goithe into Severne, that is
about a 2. miles ripa dextra from Severn.

[• Burton has " 14. miles."]

» Hodnet. *> Buildwas. « Now Cound r.

PART V 85

From Wenloke to Morfeld * a village a 6. miles by sume fo. 85.
come, pasture and wood ground. I saw a litle priory or cell Shropshire.
cauUyd Morfilde on the right hand as I enteryd into this
village.

From Morefeld to Bridgenorthe two miles. The towne of
Bridgenorthe stondithe apon an eminent ground on the right
ripe of Seveme, ut aqua defluit. It hathe bene strongly
waullyd, but the waulls of it be now all in mine. There be
4. gates in the waulls.

There is a dyke for the waulls, savynge where Seveme is
nighe, for there nature hathe made a terrible dyke, Seveme
runninge in a depe valley betwixt 2. stepe hills.

The name of Bridgenorthe is but of late tymes usurpyd.
It is cauUyd in all auncient records Bridge. Some thinke
that this terme shuld cum up of a forest cauUyd Morthe •
thereby, right agaynst the towne trans Sabrinam. The towne
selfe is scant a mile in compace.

The castle stondithe on the southe parte of the towne,
and is fortyfied by est withe the profound valley instede of
a diche. The walls of it be of a great hight. There were 2.
or 3. stronge wards in the castle, that now go totally to
mine. I count the castle to be in compas more then the
third parte of the towne.

There is one [mighty] gate by northe in it, now stoppyd fo. 85 b.
up, and a litle posteme made of force therby thrwghe the
waull to enter into the castle. The castle grownd, and
especially the base courte, hathe now many dwelling howsys
of tymbar [newly] erectyd in it.

There is but one paroche churche in the towne, and that
is faire and dedicate to St. Leonard.

There is one very fayre strete in the towne goinge from
northe to southe, and of eche syde of this strete the bowses
be galeried; so that men may passe dry by them yf it rayne,
accordinge to some strets in Chestar citie.

The towne stondithe by clothinge, and that now decayed
there, the towne sorely decayethe therwith.

[* Stow has " Morthe " in the text, ** Morfe " in the margin. Burton
also writes ** Morfe." See p. 86.]

• Morville.

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Shropshire. Ther is a colegiate churche of St. Mary Magdalen of a
dene and 6. prebendaries within the castle. The churche it
selfe is now a rude thing. It was first made by Robertus de
Belesmo for a chapell only for the castle, and endowid it
with lands; and afore that this chapell was establishid in the
castle ther was a like foundation made at Quatforde of a
chaple of St Marie Magdalene by Robertus de Belesmo
Erie of Schrobbesbyri at the desyre of his wyfe, that made a
vowe thereof in a tempest on the se.

This Quateford is by northe est from Bridgenorthe on
fo. 86. Severn, whereas yet appere great tokens of a pile or mannor
place longing that time to Robertus de Belesmo.

There be in the bridge at Bridgenorthe stondynge est in
respecte of the towne 8. greate arches, and a chaple of St
Sythe apon it.

There is a praty longe strete of meane buildynge trans
pontem, and this is caullyd the Low Towne. In it is a chapell
of St. John.

Strayte apon this Low Towne, and este apon Bridgnorth,
is a grounde hilly and welle woddyd, called Morfe. It was a
forest or chace havynge deere; but now it hathe none.

In this forest or wood (as some constantly affirme) Kynge
Ethelstane's brother ledde in a rokke for a tyme an here-
mite's lyfe. The place is yet sene and is caullyd the Here-
mitage.

The glory of the wauUs of Bridgnorthe and the strenght

of the castle there have decayed syns suche tyme as one of

the Mortymers in a rebellion kept it by force.

Worcester- From Bridgnorthe to Kydermister meste by enclosyd

shire. grownde, somewhat hilly and daely, levynge Seveme on the

right hand, I roode a 12. miles. Some wylde ground by

the way, and in some places good corne and gresse, and

toward eche rype of Seveme, aftar I passyd the midle way,

great plenty of wood, whereof muche cummithe downe by

Severne to serve the partes aboute Glocestar. Enteringe

into the towne of Ketermister, a market towne in the counte

fo. 86 b. of Worcester, I passyd over by a fauburge, and so ovar a

bridge of 2. or 3. arches upon Stowre* ryvar. The hede of

this river is about the pools of the late priorie of Hale Owen

a 6. miles of.

* Stour r.

PART V 87

The fayre and chefe parte of Kiddermistar is on the lefte Worccttcr-
rype of Stowre stondinge on a hilly pece of ground. There sbirc
is a praty crosse environyd with 6. pillers about, and arches
of stone withe the 7th piller in the midle to beare up the
fornix; it is in the market place.

The churche is very faire, [and* one . . . Conye a knight Burton (a),
and richly buried there in the quire.] This towne stondithe ?• m«
moste by clothinge. In sum auncient tymes past this towne
longyd to the Bisetts, auncient gentlemen. Aftar it cam to
3. heires generall of the Bissetts, whereof one beinge as it is
sayd a lazar buildid an hospitall at Mayden Bradeley in
Wiltshire, syns translatyd to a priory of chanons. She gave
her parte there in pios usus^ and the parsonage of Kyder-
mister was impropriat to Mayden Bradeley. The othar 2.
parts came to the Lord Bergeveney, and in that familie it
yet remayneth.

Stoure ryver about a 4. miles bynethe Kidermester goith
into Severn ripa sinistra at a place cawlyd Rokstane.* This
place as the watar turnithe is a 3. miles bynethe Beudeley.

From Kyderminster to Bewdley a 2. miles by a faire
down, but somwhat baren, as the vayn is therabouts on
every syd of Bewdley for a litle compace.

I enteryd into Bewdley, in Schropshire,t [as some saye,]
by a fi;oodly fayr bridge ovar Severn of . . . greate arches of fo. 87.
stone, being even then in new reparation. This bridge is
only on Severn bytwixt Bewdeley and Worcester bridge. To
this bridge resorte many flat and longe vessels to cary downe
and up all maner of marchandise to Bewdlay and above
Beudeley. The est parte of the bridge at Beudlay and the
left rype of Seveme be in Wurstershire ; but [many saye
and hould, that] the west end of the bridge and the right
ripe of Seveme withe the towne of Bewdley be in Shrobb-
shire, and Wyre forest in Shrobbsher ioynethe to the parke
of Tetenhale.**

The towne [selfe] of Bewdeley is set on the syd of an hill,
soe coningly that a man cannot wishe to set a towne bettar.

f* Stow leaves a blank here; the sentence is imperfect, so he left it]
t Bewdley is now in Worcestershire.]

Now Stourport. *> Ticknell.

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♦ Worcester- It risethe from Seveme banke by est upon the hill by west;

> thire. so that a man standinge on the hill trans pontem by est may

descrive almost every howse in the towne, and at the rysynge
of the sunne from este the hole towne gliterithe, being all of
new buyldinge, as it wer of gold.

There be but 3. stretes memorable in the towne. One
from north to southe, all alonge Severne banke. The second
is the market place, a faire large thing and well buyldyd.
The third rennithe in lengthe from north to south on the hill
syd, as the first dothe in the valley by Severn.

In the towne is but a chappell of ease, and that is of

jl tymber in the harte of the towne.

^ To. 87 b. The paroshe churche stondithe a mile lower at Ripley in

^ dextra Hpa Sabrtnae^ as Bewdeley doeth. [Mr. Acton hath

a goodly mannour place at Ripley, ut aqua defluit ripa
dextra^ By the distance of the paroche churche I gathar
that Bewdley is but a very new towne, and that of old tyme
there was but some pore hamelet, and that apon the build-
inge of a bridge there apon Severn, and resorte of people
onto it, and comoditye of the pleasaunt site, men b^an to
inhabite there, and becawse that the plot of it semid faire
to the lokers it toke a Frenche name Beudeley quasi bellus

i* locus. [I asked a merchant there of the antientnesse of the

f towne, and he answered me that it was but but a new towne,

adding that they had libertys granted by K. Edward.] *
y There is a faire maner place by west of the towne stand-

I inge in a goodly parke well wooddyd, on the very knappe of

/ an hill that the towne stondithe in. This place is cauUyd

» Tikenhall.* Whithar there were any auncient hous there in

^''- tymes paste or no I am not asurid ; but this that now is there

; semithe but new, and, as I hard, was in a maner totally

L erectyd by Kynge Henry the 7. for Prince Arthure. It was

t repayryd for the Lady Mary. [Since I heard that Rich. E.

of Marche and D. of Yorke builded there. It was Mortimer's

E. of Marches land.] t

[* For the passage between [ ] Stow has "Their liberties wer
grantyd by Kynge Edward.'*]

[t Omitted by Stow ; probably a note added in the margin in Leland's
original.]

• Ticknell.

PART V 89

There was privylege of sanctuarie gyven to this towne Worcester-
that now is revokyd and abrogatyd. shire.

From Bewdley to Mitton village about a 4. miles by
woody ground, and some come in enclosures. Here dothe
Stoure ryver breke into 2. or 3. armelets, and servythe milles,
and a litle benethe Miton the hole streame of Stowre goithe
into Severne at a place caulyd Rokstane.

Passynge a 2. miles beyond Mitton by enclosyd ground, fo. 88.
wooddy and sandy, but somewhat bareyn of come, I left the
castle of Herthilbyri about halfe a mile of on the lefte hand.
This castle longithe to the Byshope of Worcester, and is well
buildyd by the acts of dyverse byshoppes. Ther be faire
pondes; there is a park with deere, and a waren for conyes;
but the soile about this castle is baren.

From this place I rode a 5. miles by enclosyd ground,
havinge meatly good grasse and com, and plenty ot wood,
tylle I cam to a stone bridge, under the whiche rennith a
brooke cumminge from the Wiche • where the salt is made,
and so a litle lower to a village caullyd Salope,^ whereof at
the bridge the brooke is caullyd Salope brooke, and thens
goithe downe to Ombreley'^ a goodly lordshippe of a 180.I.
by the yere, lately longinge to the abbay of Evesham, and
thens sone in to Seveme ripa sinistra*

From Salope brooke to Worcester a 3. miles by enclosyd
grownd and fmtefull. So that I reken Worcester to be a 14.
miles from Beudeley, thowghe it be communely countyd of
sum to be but 12. miles.

The towne of Worcester, caullyd in Welsh Cair Angon,
stondithe on the lyfte rype of Seveme apon a grownd some-
what condescending • from the ryver. It is reasonably well
waulyd and the waule is maynteynid. In the walle be [6.]
gates: the Bridge-gate on Seveme, having a goodly square
towre over it; a postem-gate by St. Clements chirche hard
by the northe syd of the bridge ovar Seveme; the fore gate
a faire peace of worke standyng by northe; Sudbyry-gate
standynge este in the way from Worcestar to London; St.
Martin's-gate; Trinitie-gate, this is but a posterne.

[♦ Burton. Stow has "consentynge."]
» Droitwich. * Salwarpe. « Omhersley.

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fo. 88 b. The castle stode hard on the southe parte of the cathe-
Worcester- drall churche allmoste on Seveme. It is now dene downe,
shire. and halfe the base courte or area of it is now within the

wauUe of the close of the cathedrall chtirche of Worcestar.

The dungeon hill of the castle is a greate thinge, ovar-
growne at this tyme with bnishe wood.

This castle fell to mine sonne aftar the Conquest, and
halfe the ground of it was gyven onto the augmentynge of
the close of the priorie.

There be dyvers fayre strets in the towne well buyldjrd
with tymbar; but the fairest and moste celebrate strete of the
towne is from the Bysshopp's palace-gate to Fore-gate alonge
by northe. There be 2. places in Worcestar where the
markets be comonly [kept]. The one is a litle within St.
Martyn's-gate, the othar is a litle within For[e]-gate.

The cathedrall churche standethe in the southe syde of
the towne. There be 8. paroche churches in the towne,
whereof St. Helenes is countyd the moast aundent, and it
was a prebend afore Kynge Edgar's dayes to the cathedrall
churche of Worcestar, and Bloxham in Worcestar-shire was
another as I have hard.

I have hard that all the churches in Wurster, afore the
Kynge Edgare set monks in the cathedrall churche, were but
chapells to the cathedrall churche.
fo. 89. The Blake Freres howse of the foundation of the Bew-
champs of Powike stode in the northe parte of Worcester
hard by the waull, just within it, and this grownd is the
highest plate of the towne, and hathe a faire prospect
from it.

There is a fayre suburbe beyond the bridge on Severn,
and the inhabytauntes thereof muche resort to St. Clements
churche cis porUetn,

The bridge is a royal peace of worke, highe and stronge,
and hathe 6. greate arches of stone. There is a longe and
fayre suburbe by north without the Fore-gate, and at the
north-este parte and very end of it is an auncient and fayre
large chaple of St. Oswald. This chappell as I lemyd was
first erectyd for monks then infectyd, or that aftar shuld
chaunce to be infectyd with leopry [leprosie]. Aftar it was
chaungyd to an hospitall, and there was a mastar, and
fellows and poore folkes, but of latar tymes it was tumyd to

PART V 91

a fre chapell, and berithe the name of Oswald, as a thing Worcester-
dedicate of old tym to hym ; and here were wont corces to shire,
be buried in tyme of pestilence, as in a publike cemiterie for
Worcestar.

This chapell of Seynt Oswald yet stondithe, and a fayre
mantion howse by it, muche repayryd of late tyme by one
Parker, cancellar to the Bysshope of Worcestar; but the
lands be alienatyd and taken away.

There was a place of nunes at the very northe syde of the fo. 89 b.
cemiteri of St. Oswald. It was caulyd Whitestan, now sup-
pressyd, the churche clene rasyd downe, and a ferme place
made of the resydewe of the buildings.

There is a faire suburbe without Sudbyry gate, and in it
was an hospitall caullyd St. Wolstanes, sum cauUyd it the
Commend^, where was a Mastar, priestes, and poore men.
Some say that it was originally of the foundation of a quene.
One Carter a marchaunt of Worcester, gave of later tymes
lands to it, and thereby renewyd the old foundation, and of
this almose were dyvers marchant men of Worcester fawlyn
in decaye and age relevyd. Morisine • hathe suppressyd this
house, and now a clothiar dwellythe in it. Ther is in t^is
suburbe a chaple of St. Godwalde. What [this St.] Godwald
was I enquired, but nothinge could I leame. [Some sayd he
was a bishop.]

There is a suburbe without [St.] Martyn's gate, and here-
about in a lowe morishe ground was a hows of Gray Friers
of the foundation of the erles of Warwike.

There is a chaple of St. Ursula a litle by southe without
the castle garthe of Wurcester.

The welthe of [the towne of] Worcestar standithe most by
draping, and noe towne of England, at this present tyme, fo. 90.
maketh so many cloathes yearly, as this towne doth.

I markyd at Worcestar, that the highe crests of Malveme
hills be to the syght nere to Wurcestar towne; but it is a 6.
miles to great Malvern priorie that is in the roots of the
hills, from Worcestar.

Malveme hills ly a greate way in lengthe from southe to

[* Richard Morison, gentleman of the privy chamber, was made
Master, and surrendered the hospital or preceptory in 1540; it became
part of the endowment of Christchurch, Oxford, in 1545. See " Victoria
County History," Worcester, vol. ii, p. 176.]

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Worcester- iiorthe, and the north-est of them be highest. One Gilbert
Bhire. ^e Clare Erie of Glocestar, and Joanne of Acres, Kynge

Edward the first dowghtar his wife, caused a fosse to be
made in the crestes of Malvern hills in the prejudice of the
limits and liberties of the bysshopes of Hereforde and Wur-
cestar.

Temde river cometh into Seveme ripa dexira at Powik
milles a mile bynethe Worcester.

From Worcester to Hereford a 20. miles.

From Worcester to Ludlow a 20. miles.

From Worcester to Bewdley 12. long miles.

From Worcester to Glocestar 19. miles, — 12 to Tewkes-
byri and 7 to Glocestar.

From Worcester to Eovesham 10. miles.

From Worcester to Pershore . . .

From Worcester to Bremesgrave a 12. miles.

From Worcester to Alcester 12. miles.

From Worcester to Winchelescombe 18. miles.

From Worcester to Bridgenorthe 24. miles, — 12 to
Kiddermister and 1 2 to Bridgnorth,
fo. 90 b. From Worcester I rode to the Wiche by inclosyd ground,
havynge metely good corne, sufficient wood, and good
pasture, about a 6. miles of.

The Wiche* standyth somewhat in a valley or low grownde
betwixt 2. smauU hills on the lefte ripe of a praty ryver that
not far benethe the Wiche is cawllyd Salop*' broke.

The beauty of the towne in a maner standithe in one
strete. Yet be there many lanes in the towne besyde.
There is a meane churche in the chefe strete, and in the
towne is once a weke a metely celebrate market. The
towne of itselfe is somewhat foule and dirty when any reyne
faullythe, with moche cariage thrwghe the stretes, [being]
over ill pavyd or not pavyd.

The great avauncement of the towne is by makynge of
salt; and yet thoughe the commoditie thereof be syngular
great, yet the burgesses be poore for the moste parte; by-
cawse gentlemen [have]* for the moast parte the great gayne

[• Stow, "hathe."]

• Droitwich. ^ Salwarpe r.

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of it, and the burgesses have all the labowre. I saw on a Worccster-
hillyt hard by the towne of the Wich, a litle or I enterid into •hire,
it, a paroche churche. I saw also anothar churche on a
hillet a litle beyond the towne in dextra ripafluviiy beyond
the wod bridge, and a litle above the principall salt
springe.

There be at this present tyme 3. salt springs in the towne fo. 91.
of Wiche, whereof the principall is within a but shot of the
right ripe of the river that there cummithe downe; and this
springe is double as profitable in yeldynge of salte liquer as
bothe the other. Some say that this salt springe dyd fayle
in the tyme of Richard de la Wiche Byschope of Chiches-
ter,* and that aftar by his intercessyon it was restorid to the
profit of the old course. [Such is the superstition of the
people. In token whereof, or for the honour that the Wiche-
men and saulters bare unto this Richard their cuntre-man,
they used of late tymes on his daye to hang about this sault
spring or well once a yeere with tapestry, and to have drink-
ing games and revels at it] There be a great number of
salt coots or fornaces about this well, wherein the salt watar
is decocte and brought to the perfection of pure whit salt.

The othar 2. salt springs be on the lefte ripe of the river,
lowar a praty way then the othar great springe and at the very
townes end; and at thes springs be also divers fornaces to
make salt; but the profit and plenty of these 2. springs be
nothinge comparable to the great springe.

I askyd a saltar how many fomacis they had at all the 3.
springes, and he numbryd them to an 18. score, that is 360,
sainge that every one of them payd yerly 6j. M, to the
Kynge.

The trewthe is that of old they had liberties gyven them
for 300 fumacis, or mo; and therapon they give a fee ferme
[or vectigal] of loo.l. yerely. The vectigal is as it was; but fo. 91 b.
the numbar of fornacis is now encreasyd to a 400.

[There was of late search made for another sault springe Burton (a),
at the Wiche, by the meanes of one Mr. Newport, a gentle- p« ii4-
man dwellinge in the Wyche; and the place where it was
appeared, and the wood and tymber that had beene sett

[• Rich, de le Wich dyed 2 Apr. 1253. 37. H. 3.— Burix)n's wor-
ginalmUtS^

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Worcester- about it for houldinge up the earth for falling in it. But
shire. this pitte was not occupied synce, whether it were for lacke

of plentye of the sault springe, or for lettinge the profitt of
the other three.]

Men thinke that yf wood and sale of salt would serve
they might dygge and finde mo salt springs about the Wiche.
I hard that of late yeres a salte springe was found in
anothar quartar of Worcestar-shire; but the Wichemen have
suche prevelege that they alone in thos quartars shall make
sault.

The Wychmen use the comodite of theyr salt springs in
drawynge and decoctynge the watar of them only by 6.
monthes in the yere, that is from Midsomer to Christemes;
as I gesse, to mayntayne the price of theyr salte, or for
savynge of wod, the whiche I thinke to be theyr principall
reason* For makynge of salt is a great and notable distruc-
tion [of wood,] and hathe be, and shall be hereaftar, except
men use muche coppisis of yong wood.

The lake of wood is now perceyvyd in places nere the
Wiche. For whereas in placis nere abowt they usyd to by
and take theyr wood, the wontyd placis [are] now sore
decayed in wood. They be forcyd to seke wood as far as
Worcester towne, and all the parties about Bremisgrove,
Alchirch and Alcester.

I askyd a saltar how muche wood he supposyd yerely to
fo. 92. be spent at the furnacis, and he answeryd that by estima-
tion ther was spent a 6000. loads by yere. And it is yonge
pole wood for the moste parte, easy to be devidid in pecis.*

The people that be about the fomacis be very ille colorid.
The just rate of every fomace is to make 4. loods of salt
yerely; and to everi lode goithe . . . quarters. If the fur-
nace-men make more in one fornace then foure loods it is,
[as it is] sayd, their owne avayle.

Goinge out of the townef s end] I sawe a faire new howse of
tymbar, longinge to one Mr. Newporte, on the right bond.
And on the left bond I saw a bridge of 4. archis of stone
ovar the broke that rennithe by the Wiche, and at the hither
end of this bridge was a fayre new chaple of tymbar.

I rod frome the Wyche to Bremisgreve a 4. miles by en-

[♦ Burton has "cloven."]

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closyd ground, havynge some good corne, meatly woodyd, Worcester-
and well pasturyd; and in this waye I passyd [over] 2. or 3. Mre,
tymes ovar the watar that comithe on* the Wyche: and, as
far as I could gather, [either Bromesgrove water] goith
a lytle benethe Bremisgreve into the Wiche watar, or els it
is the very same broke that goithe to the Wyche. [so it is.]*

The towne of Bremisgreve is all in a maner in one very
longe strete, stondynge on a playne grownd. Ther is once fo. 92 b.
a weke a metely good market. The towne standythe some-
what by clothinge. The harte of the towne is metly well
pavyd.

I came by a parke about a myle or I came to Bremisgrave
on the lefte hand. It is cauUyd Grafton. It longyd afore
Bosworth Feld to the Staffbrds, noble knightes. Sence by
atteindure it cam to the kynge, and was [geven by K. H. 7.]
to Sr. Gilbert Talbot, and in that name it yet remaynethe.
In this parke is a fayre mannar place, and one Talbote at
this present tyme dwellythe in it.

[Looke] as I came into Bremisgreve ovar a broke that
passyd downe on the right hand; so as I went almoste out
of the end of the towne, I passid againe over the same
broke, whereas the streme went downe on the lefte hand,
and then I rydd halfe a myle farthar, [and there] I saw
agayne that broke and anothar rille ioyninge with it, and so
passynge over it I lefte the broke totally on the lefte bond,
and so went by hills, valleys and woods a 3. or 4. miles to
Alchirch,*" a praty uplandyshe towne whereof the Bysshope
of Worcester is lorde.

Alchurche is a praty thrwgh-fayre, and in the botom of it
is a brooke, on the right ripe whereof the towne standythe;
the heade whereof cummithe a few miles off by west, and so
passinge by Alchurche it resortythe sone aftar into Arrow,
and so goith thens in Arow downe to Couhton where
Sr. George Throgmerton dwellithe.

The Byshope of Worcester hathe a fayre manar place a
litle by northe-est without the towne, stonding on an hille fo. 93.
trans fluviolutn ripa laeva. This place is made all of tymbar,

[* Burton has " bridges " for tymes and " from " for ^n.]

* I,i. the Salwarpe. ^ Alvechurch.

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Worcester and semithe to be no peace of old worke. It was of late

shire. tyme in decaye, and then bysshope Latimer repaired it.

Ther is a parke, and all the contry about Alchurche is well

woodyd. The soyle about it is very fowle aftar wett wethar.

Ridynge about halfe a myle from Alchurche toward
Northton I passyd o\%r from Arow river that comithe out
of the Blake hills about a 4. miles of by north-weste.
Warwick- Northeton* is a praty uplandyshe towne in Warwike-
shire. shire,* and there be some faire howsys in it of staplears,
that use to by woUe. There is a faire churche and a goodly
piramis of stone over the bell frame. There rennithe a litle
brooke at the est f end of the towne.

Good plenty of wood and pasture and meatly good corne
betwixt Alchirch, and Northton. And lykewyse betwixt
Northton and Bremischam that be distaunt from (each)t
othar 5. miles.

I cam thoroughe a praty strete or evar I enteryd into
Bremischam toune. This strete, as I remember, is caullyd
Dyrtey, in it dwelle smithes and cuttelers, and there is a
brooke * that devydithe this strete from Bremisham. Dyrtey*
is but an hamlet or membre longynge to . . . paroche
therby and is clene seperated from Bremischam paroche.

There is at the end of Dyrtey a propre chaple and man-
sion howse of tymbar,** hard on the rype as the brooke
cummithe downe, and as I went thrwghe the forde by the
fo. 93 b. bridge, the watar ran downe on the ryght bond, and a fewe
miles lowere goithe into Tame rypa dextra.

This broke riseihe, as some say, a 4. or 5. miles above
Bremicham toward the Blake hills *" in Worcestershire. This
broke above Dyrtey brekethe into 2. armes that a litle
benethe the bridge close agayne.

The bewty of Bremischam, a good market towne in the
extreme partes that way of Warwike-shire, is in one strete
goynge up alonge almoste from the lefte ripe of the broke

[* Burton has "Worcestershire," which is correct.]
[t Burton (b) has " west," (a) has "east."]
[% Supplied by L. T. S.]

■ Kings's Norton. *> Rea r. « Deritend.

* "Ord Crown" House, still existing, 1907. « Clent Hills.

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up a mene hille by the lengthe of a quartar of a mile. I saw Warwick-
but one paroche churche in the towne. There be many shire,
smithes in the towne that use to make knives and all maner
of cuttynge tooles, and many lorimars that make byts, and
a greate many naylors. So that a great parte of the towne is
mayntayned by smithes.

The smithes there have yren out of Staffordshire and
Warwikeshire and see coale out of Staffordshire.

A mile beyond Bremischam I passyd over Sharford-bridge
of 4. arches of stone. Tame river goythe under this bridge,
and the castle of Dudley is on this ryver a 6. miles above
Sharford-bridge. Ther be faire medows about Sharford-
bridge [on Tame.]

From Sharforde to Southeton [alias Sutton,] a 4. miles
by sandy grownde, betar woodyd then fertile of whete. For
the common come there is some rye, barley, and ots.
There be foure lodges in Southton Chace, Colfeld, Bere
wood, Linderige ' Hille- wood. The soyle is sandy and dry,
and good for conyes.

The towne of Southeton apon Colefeeld ^ stondinge in fo. 94.
Colefeld hethe was [belonging to the Spensers before it
came to the Beauchampes. This towne was] in estimation
in the Erie of Warwyks tyme, and had a market privel^yd,
[as the inhabitantes there saye.] The erles of Warwike had
a meane manar place there, a parke and chace. Some say
Richard Beauchampe Erie of Warwike in Henri the 5 dayes
made 5* goodly pooles there withe great [and] costly
heddes of stone; the Mille Poole, Crosse Poole, Wyndle
Poole, Kepers Poole, Bracebridge Poole, all 5 in the parke.
One of them is yet there seene, but agayne the west end of
the paroche church of Southtown. The heade of this pole
servithe for a way into the towne; it is a stronge waule of
stone, and there is an arche in it thrwghe the whiche a
broket coming out of the poole rennithe, and dryvethe a
mill, and thens resortith into . . .

[* Burton has '* 3. or 4."; but after "stone** has " five pooles were
there, viz.**]

Lindridge. ^ Sutton Coldfield.

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Warwick- The othar pooles be now made dry grownd by policye,
shire. and where they were is now good medow ground. There
was a lodge or meane manar place at Southton on an hille
by west [from] the paroche churche in Erie Richarde's
tyme: there was a [free] chaple of St. Blase • [of 5. markes
a yeare] in the manor place. Nevyll Erie of Warwike made
[as some say] a praty hawle of tymber there.

Aftar that the erledome of Warwyke was attayntyd and
cam to the King's hand, the towne of Southton stondynge
in a baren soyle fell dayly to decay, and the market was
clene forsaken.

[Wingston by authority of his office sould the tymber of
the mannor place, and had part of it himselfe. The hall
selfe was after sett up at Broadgate, the Marques of Dorsett's
house by Leicester, and there yet standeth.]
fo. 94 b. [John] Harman, alias Veysey, Bisshope of Excestar
borne in this towne, much lamentynge the decay of it got a
new prevelege of Kynge Henry the 8. for restorynge the
market there, and began to repayre and build new bowses
ther, and furtharmore obtayned licence to deforest the chace
there; whereupon he buildyd dyvars praty howsys of stone
in the forest, and plantyd his pore kynsemen in them,
allotynge ground conveniently unto the housys, for the
whiche the tenaunts here the Kynge a mean rent; bysydes
this the place where the Erie of Warwiks old howse t was,
is now convertyd to the use of a fermars howse, and in it
dwellythe one of the bysshop's kynsemen. The byshope
hathe also institutyd there a gramer-schole and endweyd it
with lands.

He hathe also buildyd there a praty t pile of brike, where
he sometyme lyethe. This pile stondythe in a grove about
halfe a mile from Sowthtowne churche by northe. Good
frewte trees sett there by the byshope grow with some
difficultie. [He built also the north and south part or isles
of the church and the steeple, and erected a neate monu-
ment for himselfe in the wall of the north isle.]

[* Stow and Burton (a); miscopied "Blare" in Burton (b).]

[t Burton has "old lodge or mannor place.'']

[X Called More-Hall, now the land of Fulke Gravener; 1628. B.
Harman dyed 1555. 3. Mary at More- Hall sitting upon his close-stoole.
—Burton (a).]

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Thus is Southtown by Harman set at a good stay and
dayly encreaseth.

From Southetonne to Lichefeld a [5.] miles by ground Stafford-
reasonably well woodyd and pastured, but not very apte to »W««.
bere good come, as a ground full of hethe and feme in many
placis.

The right way is to Sheinston * village 2. miles of, where
is a parke of the kings a 3. miles about, well deryd. Thens fo. 95.
3. miles just to Lichefild.

There is in the waye betwixt Sowthtowne and Lichefild
a broke caullyd Blakewatar,^ that comithe a . . miles of
by northe, and aftar resortythe into Tame river ripa sinistra
ut Tama defluit

The towne of Lychefild for all the substaunce of it
stondithe apon a low and equall ground, only the close and
the cathedrale churche, withe a longe streate, that lyethe
northe on the bridge of the towne is somewhate apon a highe
ground. There is no token that evar the towne was waullyd.

A diche was made in a parte of the towne by Langton,
Byshope of Lichefild.

There hathe bene a castle of auncient tyme in the southe
ende of the towne, but no parte of it standithe. The plote
with the dikes is sene, and is yet caullyd The Castle Felde ;
but in my coniecture the more lykely place wher it shuld of
very auntient tyme have stond is the very close of the palace.
That ground is some what castle like.

In the mayne towne that is a fayre large thing be 3.
paroche churches: St. Maries, a right bewtyfuU pece of
worke in the very market stedd; St. Michaels in the southe
est ende of the towne; Stow-churche in the est end of the
towne, whereas is St. Cedd's well, a thinge of pure watar,
where is sene a stone in the botom of it, on the whiche some
say that Cedde was wont nakyd to stond on in the watar, fo. 95 b.
and pray. At this stone Cedd had his oratorie in the tyme
of Wulphere Kynge of the Merchis.

At this tyme was all the contry about Lychefeld as a forest
and wyldemes.

There is a guilde or societie at the churche of St Marie
in the market stede. This was begone in about Kynge

* Shenstone. ^ Bourne brook.

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Stafford- Edward the thirds tyme and syns muche advaunced by one
shire. Heywod, Dene of Lichefeld, in remembraunce of men.
There be 5. prists longinge to this brotharhod, [and they
serve in St. Marie's church.]

There was a howse of St. John's in Lichefild at the very
south end of the towne, where was a mastar and fellawes as
religius men; but I could not leme who was first foundar
of it.

B. Smithe, Bysshope of Coventrie in Kynge Henry the 7.
dayes, and aftar Byshope of Lincolne, began a new founda-
tion at this place setynge up a mastar with 2. pristes, and 10.
pore men in an hospitall.

He set there also a scoll-mastar and an usshar to teach
gramer [that hath 10. L by the yeare, and an under-schoole-
Mr. that hath 5. 1. by the yeare], and mad a schole.

King H. 7. was a great forderar of this new foundation,
and gave to it an old hospitall caullyd Denhale in Wirehale *
in Chestershire, with the lands and the impropriation of
Burton-churche in Wirehale.

There was a howse of Gray Friers in Lichefild in the
southe west parte of the towne.

Alexandar B. of Lichefild [gave first certaine free burgages
in the towne for to sett this house on and] was the first
foundar of it.
fo. 96. There comithe a conducte of watar out of an hill browght
in leade to the towne, and hathe 2. castelets in the towne,
one in the est waule of this fryers close on the strete syd,
anothar about the market place.

And owt of the same hill comithe anothar into the close
havynge a castle ther, from the whiche watar is convayed to
the prebendary bowses, [to the vicarage houses, and the
choristers.]

There was of old tyme a fayre old crosse environid with
stepps in the market place of Lichefeld. Denton Dene of
Lichefelde invironyd this crose of late tyme with 8. fayre
arches of stone, makynge a round voult over them for pore
market folks to stond dry in. This Octaplus was made with
the expence of a 160. 1.

The northe parte of Lichefilde is devidyd from the sowthe

» Wirral.

PART V loi

parte with 3 ponds or lakes, whereof bothe the 2. first lienge StafTord-
by west, be nothinge so greate as the third that liethe by shire
este. There be divers springs in thes pooles; but the
principall springe is a broke that enterithe into them, and
fedithe them. [It] cummith from Pipe aboute a mile and halfe
by west from Lichefelde.

The first westerae poole is devidyd from the second poole
by a greate mayne longe cawsey waullyd of eche syd with
stone; and in this causey be arches of stone for the watar to
ysswe into the second poole; and this cawsey servithe to fo. 96b.
com out of the sowthe parte of the towne into the northe.
This cawsey was last made with great expends by [Walter
de] Langton Byshope of Lichefild.

There is also a fayre stone cawsey, and an isswe for the
water, betwixt the second poole and the third poole leadynge
out of the towne hard to the southe gate of the close of the
cathedrall churche in Lichefild and on the este syd of it is a
fayre mylle.

This cawsey or bridge is litle more then a quartar so
longe as the first: and who last mad it I wot not; but I
thinke Bysshope Langton.

The third poole that lyethe by est is a very fayre thinge,
and plentiful! of fishe, and goithe in lengthe by my estema-
tion about halfe a mile or ever the hole watar be drawne into
a narow botom, that 3. miles lowar goithe into Trent by the
right ripe aboute the quartar whereas Mr. Griphin's* howse
caulyd [Wichnor] stondith.

[This place of Mr. Griffith is builded lowe, and is sore
subject to the risinges of Trent. There was of ould tyme a
manner place there builded in an higher soile; but that is
cleane decayed.]

The cathedrall church of Lichefild was first dedicate to
[the honour of] St. Marie and St. Petar, and a bysshoprike
there erectyd by Oswy Kynge of the Northumbars, and also
of the Merches, aftar that he had slayne Penda Kynge of
the Merches a pagan. Aftar the deathe of Oswy Kynge
Penda's sonns fauUynge to the faythe were settars forthe of
the same churche, and favorars of Cedd's. This church of fo. 97.
far latar tymes was renovatyd and dedicatyd to St. Marie

[♦ Burton has "Griffith."]

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Stafford- and St. Cedde. The whole closse of the chathedrall churche
shire was newly dikid and waullyd right strongely by Bysshope
Langton, and he made one gate of a majestic, and great stren-
kith at the west parte of the close, and anothar but a lesse
gate at the southe est parte of the close. He made also the
bysshop's palace at the este end of the close, besyde many
othar noble acts.

The prebendaries houses in the close buildyd by dyvers
men be very fair. The chorists have a goodly howse lately
buildyd by Bysshope Blithe.

Fayre Well, a small priorie of nunes supressyd by Tho.
Wolsey Byshope of Yorke, and gyven to Lichefild in recom-
pence of a pencion that shuld have be geven out of his
coledge in Oxford to Lichefild churche, was impropriat to
the chorists of Lichefild.

The library at the north west parte of the cathedrall
churche of Lichefild was erectyd by Tho. Heywod, Dene of
Lichefild.

The glory of the churche is the worke of the west end,
that is exceedynge costly and fayre.

There be 3. piramides of stone in the cathedrall churche,
2. at the west end, and one [in] the mydle of the churche.

That parte of the towne of Lichefild that liethe by northe
fo. 97 b. the great cawsey or bridge is but one faire strete in lengthe :
and in it was some tyme bothe sum prebendaries howsys,
and also the coledge of the vicars.

From Lichefild to Stafford 12. miles.

From Lichefild to Wulvorhampton . . .

From Lichefild to Darby 16. miles.

From Lichefild to Warwik a 20. miles.

From Lichefild to Tameworthe a 5. miles, and thens to
Nunne Eiton 9 miles in strayt way.

From Lichefild to Burton apon Trent a 8. miles.

The forest or chace of Cannok wood alias Cank Wood, is
as the front of it, yet standithe within a 4. miles of Lichefild,
and thens stretchithe within a mile of Stafford. There be in
this forest many springs, and heades of brookes. Whereas of
auncient tyme all the quartars of the contrye about Lichefild
were as forest and wild ground, and naturally somewhat
bareyne, now the grownd about it by tyme and culture
waxithe metely good, and the woods be in many places so

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cut downe that no token is that evar any were there. Stafford-
Whereapon in haminum memoria wood is waxid dere in «hirc.
respect of the old price at Lichefeld.

• The right way to Coventrie from Lichfeld is to Basset's
Crosse ' 5 miles, where is no building, thens to Coleshule 7.
miles. The priory of Canol ** a cell of one monke was about
halfe a mile from Basset's Crosse. The Bassets were foundars
of it, sins the Lisles. There is a broke a mile from the
crosse toward Lichefeld caullyd Wifford ^ in the highe way.
The Lord Lisle, and Ser Henri Willoughby faught at Wiford
bridge, and Willoughby was sore woundyd. [Puryfoye was
before slayne there by Willoughby in the quarrell of K. E. 4.
and K. H. 6.]t From Lichfeild to Hopper t village by
sandy ground, in many places hethey, havynge some wood, fo. 98.
pasture and come, a 4. miles. At the end of this village
goinge out of it I passyd over a stone bridge of 16 arches
beringe the name of the village undar the whiche Tame
river rennithe. Thens a mile by come grownd on the left
bond, and medowes on the right bond to Tamworth [towne.]
The river of Tame makithe 2. mediamnes bytwyxt Tam-
worthe towne and Hopper bridge. The confluence of the
lower is a litle above Hopper bridge. For there the hole
streme goithe togethar.

Saltans bridge on Tame river is a 4. [or 5.] miles lower.

Some counte the confluence of Tame and Trent rivers to
be a 10, miles bynethe Tameworthe towne. Tame goithe in
to Trent ripa dextra a 3 miles or more by nethe Mastar
Griphins howse, betwixt Burghton* and Repton, even a
mile above Repton.

[• Stow places these next few lines, **The right — wounded," some
way further on, after "a mile above Repton." Burton's placing is fol-
lowed above, as preferable. The passage probably was a margmal ad-
dition in Leland's lost MS.]

[t Perhaps added bv Burton, not copied^; he was related to the
Purefoy family, one of whom bequeathed to him the Leland manu-
scripts. See Introduction, p. xxiv.J

\X Now Hopvras. In the three mentions of this village Burton calls
it *• Hopwais " or ** Hopweys."]

• Drayton Basset. *> Canwell.

Weeford, on the Bourne brook. ^ Burton-on-Trent.

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fo. 98 b. I markyd that Tame cummithe downe to Tameworthe
Stafford- selfe from southe west; but the hedd of* Tameworth lieth
shire. by west-north west.

The towne of Tameworthe havynge a celebrate market is
of auncient memorye, and aftar the Danes had rasyd and
defasyd it, Ethelfleda, Lady of the Merches, and systar to
Kynge Edward caulyd Senior, repayred it. Tame the towne
in respect of the botom where Tame renithe and also Ancre
is set on the declive of a smauU hille syde, and the princi-
pall streate and buildinge of it lyethe by west and este.

The northe parte and syde of the principall strete of the
towne is in Warwike-shire, and on this syde is the paroche
churche of Tameworthe. The southe syde and parte of this
strete lyenge toward the right ripe of Anker is in Stafford-
shire, and the castle standithe on this parte at the very
pointe of the confluance of Anker and Tame.t I saw but
3. notable things in the towne; the paroche churche and
the castle, and the bridges. The churche is collegiate,
havynge a deane and 6. prebendaries, and every one of
thes hathe his substitute there; but I could there leame
of no man of whos erection the colledge was. Some thinke
that it was a collie afore the Conquest; some thinke that it
fo. 99. was of the foundation of the Marmions, and that [opinion]
is the more likely of treuthe. Marmions without dowbt were
in succession lords of the castle of Tamworthe. The kynge
at this [present] tym is taken as patron of the coledge.
There be divers fayre tombes of noblemen and wymen in
the este parte of this coUegiat churche, where of one is of
the Frevills, and his christen name, as some say, was
Balduinus and he was lorde of Tameworthe castle. There
lyethe also the graund-father and graunde-mother, and the
fathar and mother of Ferrares, now owner of Tameworthe
castell. Ther is a guilde of St. George in Tameworthe,
and to it longyd 5. //. of lands by yere, and of late one John
Bailie gave othar 5. //. land to it, and therewithe is now
erectyd a gramar-schole.

The castle of Tameworthe stondithe on a metly highe
grownde at the southe parte of the towne, even harde apon

[• "Of,"i.<f., oflF=from.]

[t Stow inadvertently added •' worthe."]

PART V 105

the ripe of Anker and at the mouthe of it. The base courte Stafford-
and greate warde of the castle is clene decayed, and the »hirc
waulls faulhi downe, therein be now but bowses of office of
no notable buildinge. The dungeon hille yet standithe, and
a great round towre of stone on it, wherein Mr. Ferrares
dwellithe, and now repayreth. The Marmions, Frevills and
Ferrares hathe bene lords of it syns the Conquest. Of the
2. bridges that be at Tamworthe the fayrar is Bowbridge,
thowghe it stand on Ancre a lesse river than Tame, and it is fo. 99 b.
as it were toward the est north este end of the towne in the
way to Polesworthe and Nuneitonn. The ryver of Anker
cummithe by est from the extreme partes of Leircestar-shire.
The othar bridge is caulyd St. Mary bridge, havynge 12.
great arches, and ledithe to Coventrye. It standith on Tame
hard bynethe the confluence, and a litle benethe the castle,
[and as it should seeme by a great stone upon the bridge,
bearinge the armes of Basset, to be built by the Lord Basset
of Drayton.]

There be 3. fayres yerly, the towne hath 2. and the
coUedge one, as I remembar. The towne [of Tamworth] is
all buyldyd of tymbar.

From Tameworthe to [Faseley] * village about 3 . miles, and Warwick-
cominge hethar I lefte a parke on the lyfte hand. The soyle •hire,
is sandy, bettar for wood and pasture then come. Then I
passed ovar [Faseley] bridge of 16. arches of stone over
Tame. About a mile beyonde [Faseley] I passyd by Midle-
ton parke, whereas Syr John Willoughby, sune and heire
to Ser Henri Willoughby (an old knight of the Sepulchre)
hathe a faire manar place of his owne inheritaunce.

The chefist howse of this Willowghby, and the eldist of
all the Willowghbyes is at Willowgtowne t by Nottingham.
Sr. John Willoughby maried one of the sistars and heires of
the last Lorde Lasle, and had no issue. Dudley maried the
othar. [Sr. Edw. Willoughbie, brother and heir to Sr. John,
hath a sonne that shall enjoye both Edward and John's land,
and hath married the L. Marq. Dorsett's sister.]

[* Burton (a), p. 118, had first copied "Crudworth," then crossed it
through and wrote " Faseley " in each of these three mentions, he also
altered the figure 3 to i. Stow has " Crudworth," but Burton corrects
Leland.]

[t Burton has *• Willoughby towne."]

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Warwick- A 2. miles fardar I passyd ovar a bridge of 6. arches of
shire. stone whereas . . .* ryvar passythe by comming from est,
and goynge into Brimisham watar by west, Brimicham watar*'
fo. loa goithe into Tame river a mile above Crudworthe^ bridge. A
mile or more of I came unto Colishulle bridge of . . . arches
of stone where rennithe a broke callyd CoUe** downe by the
. . . hand, and aftar goithe into . . .

CoUeshull* towne a praty thrwgh-faire in Werwikeshire,
lyeinge by northe and southe up[on] an hill, hathe but one
longe strete, and a paroche churche, at the southe end of it.
It is countyd almoste the midle way betwixt Tamworthe and
Coventrye.

Thence to Mariden' village a 4. miles by enclosyd grownd,
havynge some corne, wood and pasture. And at the end of
this village ran downe a broket on the lefte hand, and
thereby was a parke. Thens I passyd a 3. miles by lyke
ground, and there I rode over a broke i*^ and a myle farthar
I passyd ovar the same broke agayne, at the west ende of
Coventre towne, where the broke ran downe on the lefte
hand, and aftar comithe throwghe a bridge of a 2. arches
withein the towne selfe of Coventrye, and there the streame
rennithe on the left hand, and so goynge in the medowes by
thabbay of Coventrie tumithe agayne to the lyfte hand to a
bridge a myle lower in the way to London.

The towne of Coventre by west is set on a lowe grownd;
but by est it somewhat con[de]scendith. The towne was
begon to be waullyd about the tyme of Edward the 2. There
fo. loob* be . . . gates in the waulle thus namyd,* [viz. Bishop's-
gate, Gosford-gate, Gray-Fryers-gate, Litle-parke-street-gate,
Sponne-street-gate, Cooke-street-gate.]

There be many fayre towers in the waulle. The grite and
colour of the stone that the wauUs be buyldid of is of a
darkeshe depe redde, as it were ferragineus colour; and so
is all the grittf of the contrye thereabout. Moste parte of

[• Turning over his leaf here Stow forgot to copy the names of the
gates.]
[t Burton has "gritt," Stow here writes "greate."]

• ? Blythe r. ^ ? A turn of the Cole r. c ? Curdworth.

d Cole r. e Coleshill. ' Meriden.

B Sherboume r.

PART V 107

the stone in the waulls wer taken out of the diks by the Warwick-
waull. The diche goithe about moste parte of the towne shire,
walle. It is but late [ago] sence the waulls of Coventry
wer finished.

The privelege and digniti of a maior was gyven but an
180. yeres ago to Coventre. There be many fayre stretes in
Coventrye, well buyldyd with tymbar; but the strete that
goithe from west up to este southe est is the moste princi-
pal! of all the towne.

There were 3. stately churches in the harte and midle of
the towne, all in one cemitery. The abbey-churche, where
somtyme Kynge Canute the Dane made an howse of nunes.
Leofrike, Erie of the Merches, turnyd it in Kynge Edward
the Confessor's dayes to an howse of monks, and adornid it
withe gold and sylvar incredibly. It is now suppressyd.

St. Michall a paroche churche, an excedynge goodly and
ample peace of worke. St. [Trinity] is the third, a right
fayre pece of wirke also. There be no mo paroche churches
in the towne.*

There is a charnell chapell in the same semitery. There is
a churche or coUedge of St. John Baptist in the towne, and fo. loi.
ther was a mastar and brithem professyd and an hospitall.
The churche is yet stondinge, and a prist syngithe there; but
Hales with the clubbe foote hathe gotten entrest in this col-
ledge, and none (but the devell) can get hym outf

There is also a coUegiat churche at Bablake hard withein
the west-gate, alias Bablake-gate, dedicate to St. John and
other; it takythe the name by lyke of a conducte by it. It
is of the foundation of the burgeses of the towne, and ther
is a great priveleged guilde or fratemitie. In this coUedge is
now a mastar and 8. ministars, there hathe bene of late 12.
ministars.

One Bonde, a very riche marchaunt of Coventre, annixid
to Bablake of late days an hospitall well buildid for 10. pore
men and women to kepe them. There is also a prechar of
Bond's foundation, havynge 10. //. the yere.

There were 2 veri fayre howsys of friers in Coventre.

[* These two sentences are omitted in Burton (b).]
[t The last phrase, "and — out," was an after-thought, inserted in a
blank space, but in Stow's hand. Burton ends with ** coUedge."]

io8 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Warwick- The Grey Fryers [founded by . . .]
shire. The White Friers [founded by Sr. John Poultney 4. tymes

maior of London, an. do. 1342. 17. E. 3.]

The Cartusyans by without the towne, where a qwene was
especiall foundares. There be dyvars fayre suburbs without
the waulls of Coventrye. The kynge hathe a palace in
Coventrie now somewhat in mine. Ther was a parliament
kept at Coventry. There is a mint for coyning in Coven-
trye.
fo. loi b. The Bysshope of Coventry and Lichefild hathe an old
palace in Coventrie.

The towne rose by makynge of clothe and capps, that
now decayenge the glory of the city decayethe.

From Coventrie to Lichefild 12. miles.*

From Coventrie to Leichester 14. miles.

From Coventrie to Daventre 14. miles.

From Coventrie to Southeham 10. miles.

From Coventrie to Killingworthe 4. miles, and other 4.
miles thens to Werwike.

The broke* that cummithe from Coventryes towns end by
weste rennithe a mile lower then Coventrye in the highe
way to London undar a stone bridge of a 3. arches; and
there as I rode the streme goinge downe on the right hond,
that broke goithe a litle lower into Sow river, ripa dextra
bynethe Wynnell bridge.

Wynnoall** bridge on Sowe of 5. arches of stone is about
halfe a mile from the aforesayde bridge of 3. arches, and
lyethe in the highe waye frome Coventrie to London.

And a mille and halfe farthar in the way to London
I passed over Finfordt bridge on Avon ryver of 8. arches of
stone. This bridge is a 6. myles or more above Werwike as
Avon commithe downe.

Thelflorde bridge t of stone on Avon aboute a 3. miles

[* Burton has "Coventry to Lichfield 20. miles."]

[t Finham, on the Sow, appears to be meant.]

\X Chesford bridge seems intended ; Burton (a) has Chelford, Stow
has Thelflorde. There is perhaps a confusion with Thelsford, which is
some miles to the south.]

» Sherboume r. ^ Willenhall or Winhall.

PART V 109

lower, and is the passage from Kyllingworthe* over Avon. Warwick-
Yet standithe Killingworthe selfe well toward a mile from «hi«*c.
the right rype of Avon. ^^* '02.

Kynge Henry the 8. dyd of late yeres great coste in
repayringe the castle of Kyllyngworthe. Emonge these repara-
tions the praty banketynge house of tjn^nbre, that stood
thereby in the mere, and bare the name of pleasaunce, was
taken downe, and parte of it sete up in the base courte at
Killingworthe castle.

I rode from Finford bridge to Marton bridge of a 3.
arches of stone, and well cawsied with stone at bothe endes.
This bridge is a 3. miles beyond Finforde bridge. Leaume ^
ryver cumminge straite from est, passith under this bridge,
and goithe into Avon ryver by west about a mile above
Werewike. And Warwike is cowntyd to be about a 6. miles
bynethe this bridge.

There is a village as I rode trans pontem hard on the
southe syde of it called Marton. From Marton to Southe-
ham * a 4. miles. There was almoste no wood in the way on
no syd from Wynnoll bridge to Southeham; yet was there
good pasture and come al in champayne.

Southeham is a meane market towne of one streate,
standinge somewhat clyminge on the syde of a smauUe
balkynge grownde. It longide wythe dyvers othar smauU
lordshipps thereaboute to the priorie of Coventre, syns of
late to the Kynge by suppressyon, and now to Knightley by
exchaunge.

There is a litle broket by southe of Southeham renninge fo. 102 b.
downe on the right bond, as I rode ovar a litle bridge on it Oxfordshire,
in the way to Banbyry. From Southeham to Banbyry 10.
good miles all by champayne, no wood, but excedynge good
pasture and come.

Frome Banbyry to ... a smaule thrwghe-fayre a 3. or
4. miles al by champaine ground. Thens by lyke ground a
7. miles to Burgchestar alias Bisceter;** but or I cam by
a 2. miles space to Bisceter I cam by a 2. fayre woods on
the hilles sydes, and passyd in a glade or botom betwixt
them.

» Kenilworth. ** Learn r.

^ Southam. ^ Bicester.

no LELAND'S ITINERARY

Oxfordshire. Thens to Iselepe an 8. mile leving Ottemor on the right
hand, that yf the wateres had not beene up had bene the
next way. [In this Ottemor was the first foundation of
Tame abbey.]

Islepe a praty thrwgh-fayre on the lefte ripe of Charwelle
river. Hard by it is a fayre bridge ovar Charwell, well
archyd withe stone; and a mile and halfe above it is Gos-
ford-bridge ovar Charwell, and [a] 2. miles above Gosford
is Emmeley-bridge. And 2. miles above Emmeley is Hey-
wood-bridge ♦ on Charwelle.

From Iselepe to Oxford a 3. miles to go by the medowes
on Charwelle; but to go on the lyfte hand towarde the woody
hill is a 4. miles.

From Oxforde to Haseley a 4. miles. From Haseley to
Tame* market 4. miles. About Alexander Byschope of
Lyncoln's tyme the towne of Tame beinge the kyngs was
gyven for annuall rente in fee farme to the sete of Lincoln
as to the bysshope thereof and his successors,
fo. 103. This Alexander Bischope of Lyncolne buildyd at a parke
therby of his an abbay of white monks, now cawlyd Tame,
not bycause it stode on Tame ryver, but not very fare from
Tame towne.

I passyd a litle northe northe weste from Tame churche

over Crendon bridge of 4. stone arches apon Tame, and

thens by some hilly and aftar great pasture ground, and

Bucks, grounds fruitfuU of benes a 10. miles to Querendune in the

vale of Ailesbyry, where Mastar Anthony Legh dwellith.

[Querendon sometimes the Spensers land, and thereby
runneth a brooke under a stone bridge, resorting to Tame
river. The bridge is betwixt 2. houses of his.]

Thens 2. miles by greate champaine, frutfull for pastures
and benes to Birdsteine** in the vale of Eilesbury, wher
Mastar Legh hathe a goodly house with goodly orchards and
a parke. This Birdstaine is almost in the middle of the vale
of Alesburye.

[* Now Heyford. Heywood, Stow and Barton (a). Burton (b^ has
a marcinal note ** Heyford," said by Heame's editor to be in the nand
of Antnony k Wood.]

» Thame. * ? Burston (Upper and Lower).

PART V III

From Birdsteine * to Aillesbiri a faire markett toune, al by Buckinghain-
champayne, [a 3. miles. Of this towne all the champaine] shire,
thereabout is called the vale of Alesburye.

This vale goithe one waye to the forest beyond Tame
market. It goithe otharwyes to Bukynghame, to Stony
Stratford, to Newporte Panell, and alonge from Ailesbery by
the rootes of Chilterne Hills almoste to Dunstaple.

Or evar I passyd into Aillesbyri I rode over a litle bridge
of stone caullid Woman's Bridge, undar the whiche passithe
a brooke downe on the right hand as I rode; and from this
bridge to the towne is a cawsey of stone. [This is, as farre
as I can gather. Tame water.**]

The towne selfe of Aillisbyry** standithe on an hill in
respecte of all the gromid thereabout, a 3. miles flate northe fo. 103 b.
from Chilterne Hills. The towne is metly well buyldyd with
tymbar, and in it is a celebrate market. It standithe in the
high-waye from Banbyry to London, and in the highe way
from Bukingham to London. There is domus civica in the
midle [of the] markett place, a late reedified by [John]
Baldwine cheife Justice [of the Common-Pleas]; but the
kynge gave the tymbar unto it The comon gaoile or prison
for Bukyngham-shire is in this towne.

There is but one paroche churche in the towne standinge
west northe west in it; but that is one of the most auncientist
in all thos quartars, as it aperithe by the lyfe of St. Osithe.
Querendune a mile and halfe northe from Aillesbyri, also
Burton and Aillesborow in Chiltem 3. miles of by southe
with dyvers othar hamlets were in Aillesbyri paroche.

[It is said that a B. of Lincolne, desyred by a Pope to give
the personage of Alesbury to a straunger, a kinsman of his,
found the meanes to make it a prebende, and to impropriate
it to Lincolne church. At the which time also the personage
of Tame was impropriate and made a prebend in Lincolne,
so that the cures of both the churches with a right bare
livinge be reject unto the vicars.] St. Osithe, dowghtar to
Fredewalde, was borne in Querendune in Ailesbyri paroche,
and brought up with an aunte of hirs at Aillesborow in
Chiltern Hills a 3. miles from Ailesbyry by sowthe, whereof

• ? Burston. ^ Thame r.

« Aylesbury.

112 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Buckingham, the Erles of Saresbery were late lords, and now the kynge by
shire. attincture.

St. Osithe's body was translatyd for a whill for feare of
the Danes from Chic, alias St. Osithes, to Aillesbyrie. There
was, as some say, a nunery, or othar house of religion,
fo. 104. whereas the personage is now, and* [record yet remaineth
that this house should be of the Maturines, alias fratres
Ordinis Ste. TrinitatiSy of like sect to the friers of Tikhill
and Hundeslawe,* 10. miles from London.]

There was an howse of the Gray-Friers in the towne
toward the sowthe, foundyd about the tyme of Richard 2.
The Lord of Ormond was in tyme of mind countyd chefe
lorde of Ailesbyrie, syns Boleyne by partition of lande.

There rennithe a praty brooke undar a wooden bridge
almoste at the very end of Aillesbyri towne, by southe. This
watar cummithe downe from este and rennithe by weste into
Tame, by the lefte ripe of it about a mile bynethe Aillesbyri,
some what lower then Stone-bridge on Tame. I take the
hedde of this broke to be toward Wyndover thrwgh-fayre 3.
miles of the southe.

Tame rivar selfe, as I there lemed, rysethe in the ester
parts of all the Chiltem Hills toward Dunestaple, and the
hede of it by estimation is 7. miles from Stone-bridge on
Tame betwixt Querendune and Aillesbyri.

From Aillesbyri to Dunestaple about a 8. miles.

From Aillesbyri to Tame market 8. miles.

From Aillesbyri to Buckingham a 10. miles.

From Aillesbyri to Banbyri 19 or 20. miles.

Wyndover ** a praty thrwghe fayre, havynge 2. stretes well

buildyd with tymber, a 3 miles of. There is a causey made

almoste thrwghly to passe betwixt Aillesbery and it, els the

fo. 104 b. way in wet tyme as in a lowe stifle claye grownde were very

tedius and ille to passe by.

The tounelet selfe of Wyndover stondythe partely apon
one of the north-est cliffs of Chilteme Hills. The residew
and north-est parte of the towne standythe in the rootes of

[* Stow evidently missed the two or three lines here supplied from
Burton, the top line of fo. 104 ending with <* and *'.]

* Hounslow. ** Wendover.

PART V 113

the hills. Looke as the conterye of the vale of Aillesbvre Bucldngham-
for the moste parte is clene baren of woodde, and [is] «hii«-
champaine; so is all Chilteme well woodyd, and full of
enclosures.

From Windover to Great Missenden in Chiltern a 3. miles.
It is a praty thrwghe fayre, but no market towne. There is
a praty chapell of brike in the southe parte of it, and a lytle
by southe without the towne was Missendene, a priorie of
black channons. It standithe in the very botom of an hill,
and hathe goodly ground about and dyvers praty hills well
woodyd toward the est and southe. [It was founded by . . .
Doyley.]

A mile and a halfe furthar toward London is a strete
cauUyd Litle Missendene.

Hagmondesham, alias Hamersham/ a right praty market
[towne] on Friday, of on strete well buildyd with tymbar,
standynge in Bukinghamshire and Chiltern, 2. miles and
halfe from Litle Messenden. The Duke of Bukyngham
was chefe lorde of it, syns the kynge, now the Lord Russell fo. 105.
by gyft, that dwdlithe at Cheynes** 3. miles [of] by east.

The paroche churche standithe by northe est toward the
midle of the towne, and in a chaple of the north syde of it
liethe buryed one [Edmund] Brudenelle, fathar to [Sr.
Robert Brudenell, late cheife Justice of the Common-Pleas,
and Drew Brudenell, elder brother to the sayd Sr. Robert,
and Helen his wife, da. to Broughton, who dwelt*] at a
maner of his of 40. 1. by the yere. There comithe a brooke**
almoste from Missenden, and passith hard by Hagmonde-
sham levinge it almoste by full southe on the right ripe, and
aftar rennithe downe by the valeys of Chiltern Hills toward
Colne streme.

From Hagmondesham to Uxbridge a 9. miles by goodly Middlesex,
enclosydgrownd, of a gravelly soyle, havynge woods, medowes,
pasture, and corne. The hole towne liethe from the west,
risynge a litle to southe este. In it is but one longe streate:
but that for tymbar is well buildyd. There is a celebrate

[* For the passage between [ ] in Burton (a), Stow has '* Brude-
nelle the iudge; and this Brudenell dwelt there."]

* Amersham. ^ Chenies. ° Misboume r.

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114 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Middlesex, market ons a weke, and a great fayre ons a yere at the feaste
of St. Michaell. There is a chapele of ease in the towne.
The paroche churche is almoste a mile out of the towne, in
the very highe way to London, [called Great Hellindon'
which is] a token that Uxbridge selfe is no very olde towne.
There be 2. woodde bridgys at the west ende of Uxbridge
toune, and undar the westemist goithe the mayne arme of
Colne rivar. The lesse arme of Colne goithe under the
othar [bridge,] and eche of them servythe there a great
mille.
fo. 105 b. The divorce of Colne streme is scant a mile above Ux-
bridge but these 2. armes mete not agayne, for the byggar
goithe thrwghe the goodly medows strayt to Colbroke towne

3. miles lower, and so to the Thames. The othar goithe to
2. milles at . . . and they be a mile and a halfe est frome
Colebroke in the waye unto London, and thens that arme
goith into the Tamise.

From Uxbridge to Southehole^ a village about a 6. miles.
I came ovar a bridge^ of 6. archis a mile and more a this
syd Southole. The watar that goithe thrwghe it there ren-
nithe thrwghe Howndeslaw hethe, or els to Brentford.*

Thens [t\e. from Southall] to Acton a praty thrwghe fayre

4. miles. Thens to Maribone-broke^ and parke a 4. miles.
This broke rennithe by the parke-wauUe at St. James. To
London 2 miles.

[* The passage " I came — Brentford" is copied by Stow at the verv
end of the page. Burton places it before ** From Uxbridge — 6 miles.
It appears to have been one of Leland's marginal additions after the
lines "From Uxbridge — London 2 miles" had been written.]

» Hillingdon. ^ Southall.

o Over the Ycading r. ^ Marylebone.

APPENDIX.

CONTENTS OF THIS APPENDIX.*

PAGE

Extracts from Life of St Neots 117

From Life of St. Winifred, by Robert Prior of Shrewsbury 119

From Life of St. Guthlac, by Felix 122

From anonvmous writer, on the translation of the relics of

St. Guthlac 125

From Chronicle of the Abbots of Croyland ... 126
From Two tracts on the life and miracles of Waldev, Earl

of Northampton and Huntingdon, bv Croyland monks . 130, 133

From Tract on the Earls of Huntingdon and Northampton 134
From Life of St. Ivo the bishop and Prologue to it by monk

Joscelin of Bertin 142

On the translation and miracles of St. Ivo .... 143

Dr. London's notes on 'William of Wykeham . . . 144

Letter from Leland to Mr. Bane in Liouvain ... 145

More notes concerning Croyland 146

Letter of recommendation for Leland to see books in the

library at Bury, and Notes from them .... 148
Extracts from John Rowse, De AntiquUate Oxcmi et Aca-
demiae (interspersed by remarks of Leland), with lists of
Colleges and Halls at Oxford and Cambridge . . . 151
Extracts from Rowse, De Episcopis Wigomiae^ as to War-
wick, Lichfield, and other places 158

Various notes as to Oxford and Cambridge ... 160

Notes as to Salisbury, Worcester, etc 162

From Rowse, De Episcofis Wigom,^ concerning Warwick . 165

From a book on Cambndge 166

From Rowse, De Academm 167

Notes of Staffordshire Families 168

[* Little of the portion of the Collectanea in this Appendix belongs
to the Itinerary; but I retain it at the end of Part V, where Heame
put it, because it contains extracts relating to Warwickshire, as well as
to Worcestershire and Staffordshire, all counties treated in this Part,
besides something of Oxford and Cambridge. The extracts on pp. 122-
132 and 146 relate to the history of Croyland Abbey, Lincolnshire. The
two interesting Letters give glimpses of Leland at work. See vol. i.
Introduction, pp. xiii, naie 3, xiv, xx.]

APPENDIX*

Ex libro incerti autoris sed Monachi de Viti S. Neoti. Stow, vol. i,

fo. 70 v^.

NEOTUS evis, ut fertur, Britanniae, quae nunc Anglia,
partibus ortus.
Parentes Neod de genere Regum Orientalium An-
glorum.

[* Leland's original MS., Phillipps 121 11 ; Stow's copy, Tanner
464, vol. i, fos. 70 verso-~83 verso. (Hearne, Appendix to vol. iv.)

The Cheltenham MS. 121 11 was once part ot Leland's Collectanea
(it is the same shape and folio size), according to a note by Dugdale at
the end of his copy in the Bodleian (MS. Eng. Hist, c. 9, fos. 33-41)
made in 1677 1 Dut by whom it was separated does not appear. It fell
into the hands of Sir Henry St. George, and was bound oy him with
other collections; the volame afterwards passed to Mr. Oswald Beau-
voir, who detached this Leland piece again and bound it separately
(note on fly-leaf signed O. B.).

Stow copied a little more than half of this, with omissions, but he
added a piece at the beginning, "de vita S. Neoti," and at the end of
his cop^ he added extracts "in vitam d. Yvonis episcopi'* (p. 142),
both of which Hearne printed, and are given here. The Cheltenham
MS. and Dugdale's copy b^in with **ex libro Roberti prioris Salapes-
biriae"; neither of them have Stow's additions, which he may have
taken from some other portion of the Collectanea. Dugdale's copy,
otherwise complete, omits the letter from Leland to Mr. &ne (p. 145),
and the letter dated from Barnewelle (p. 148), but inserts in place of
the last a transcript of a sheet relating to Staffordshire families (in
English) which, being loose. Sir Henry St. George had also copied at
the end of his volume for fear of its being lost. Sir Henry's foresight
came true, the sheet is lost, but the transcript remains in his volume,
now Add. MS. 5937 in the British Museum, untouched by Mr. O.
Beau voir. In 1836 Sir Fred. Madden printed these Staffordshire notes
('* Collectanea Topographica et Genodogica," vol. iii, p. 339-342,
kindly pointed out to me by Mr. Falconer Madan of the Bodleian)
without being aware of Dugdale's copy; they are reprinted here at the
end of the Cheltenham MS.

A third copy of the Cheltenham MS. was made for Dr. R. Plot in

ii8 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Neotus monachus factus in Glastyngey.*

Occidentalium partes gentis Anglorum Britannicorum.

Natio enim ilia a Romanis Cornugallia vocabulata, per-
lustrare disposuit, locique mox penetralia deserti interiora
expetiit.

A. S. autem Petroci** Monasterio haec distat heremus de-
cern ferfe millibus. Tracto vero ab ipso beato viro nomine
Neotestoke a loci incolis est appelktus. Qui locus nemo-
rosis undique vallatur arboribus, perspicuisque emanat flumi-
nibus, maris quoque superstat a&iitate contiguus. Hie
vitam duxit anachoreticam Neotus.

Postea in eodem loco coepit edificare cenobium, quod
celeri attentione est ad unguem perductum.

Aluredus Rex familiarit^r usus est Neoto, plurimum ejus
tribuens consiliis.

Aluredus Rex a Neoto admonitus Scolas Anglorum Romae
reparavit.

Venerabile corpus Neoti in sui tumulatum est ecclesisl.

Corpus Neoti post septem annos translatum a monu-
mento ad borealem suae ecclesiae partem.
878. Anno Dom. 878 Outrun tyrannus cum innumerabili
Paganorum exersitu Britanniae Anglice insulam undique
invasit.

Est locus in ultimus Britanniae Anglorum partibus ad oc-
cidentem situs, cui nomen lingui Saxonum Ethelingaige,*"
quod apud nos sonat Clitonum insula, immensis salis palu-

1682, from which Heame printed, with the help of Stow. Several
errors in Plot's copy are corrected by my collation on the original.

At the end of the Cheltenham MS., occupying fos. 26-^9, is a list
of the religious houses in England, written in a clerk's hand temp.
Hen. VIII, corrected by Leiand himself in many places, followed by
the reli^ous houses in Wales written by Leiand; the lists are arranged
in counties with the sub-heading architpiscotatus^ episcopatus^ abbatia^
prioraiusy castra, casUilum, givmg about 588 houses in all. At the end
Leiand wrote the following: *'Summa villarum in Anglia exceptis
castris et civitatibus IxiiiJM. Summa feodarum militum bcMccxvj, de
quibus relip[iosi habent xxvjicxv." On the back of this last leaf is a list
of bishopncs and the counties in which they extend. These items do
not appear to have been copied by Stow, Dugdale, nor Plot, and were
not printed by Heame.]

* Glastonbury. ^ Bodmin. » Athelney.

APPENDIX 119

dibus circum circa septtis, quantula in medio planitie reten-
tus. Ibi ex insperato Rex Aluredus exul intercidit solus.

Postea adventandbus suis munitionis arcem ibidem pau-
cis perfecit diebus.

Nox erat, et curae mordaces pectora Regis

Vallabant, poterat nee somnum nosse quietis.

Ecce Neotus adest, Domini miserantis alumnus

Coram quo verbis primum sic fatur amicis. £t est ibidem
prosi Oratione: et sequitur,

Tis memor advenio solamen ferre laborum, et paulo Sic.
inferius,

Matuta demum roseo surgente cubili,

Rex pariter surgit, grates et strenuus egit,

Victori summo praeductorique Neoto.

Aluredus exercitum congregavit in loco qui lapis cogno-
minatur Ecgbrithi (Egbritstane).

Deinde propter loci campestrim amoenitatem promovit
castra juxta silvam Sealyndi (Sealwod)*

Deinde biduo transacto, quendam aptum adversariis mon-
tem Ethandune nomine cum omni exercitu suo antici-
pavit.

Hie fuit vetus exemplar Croilandensis Monaster: muti-
lum, quare quod reliquum erat de rebus Neoticis desidera-
batur.

Haec quae secuntur de translatione reliquiarum S. Neoti
in Croiland, et quandam pagella de ea translatione scripta
excerpsi.

Ex libro Roberti Prioris Salapesbiriae de Vita S. Wenefredae M§. Phillipps,
Virginis ad Guarinum Priorem Vigorniae. ^^- '•

Theuith vir potens filius Eluith dedit Benoo viro Sanctis-
simo locum in quo ecclesiam construeret: et Wenefredam
filiam suam unicam in religione instituendam ei tradidit.

Dedit etiam Bennoo villam liberam et quietam ab omni
exactione: et praedium in quo ecclesiam fabricaret, et habi-
tacula servis Dei inibi mansuris construeret.

Juvenis Caradocus, filius Alani Regis, inflammatus amore
Wenefredae venit ad aedes Theuith.

[* Sealnwalde nunc Selwodde. — Marginal fwte,'\

I20 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Virgo placide respondens Caradoco thalamum petit reditu-
ram se promittens.

At ilia hac arte amatorem elusit fiigiens versus Bennoi
ecclesiam.

Caradocus fugientem comprehendit, ac impudicos am-
plexus pernegantem, caput ejus gladio amputat.

Caput virginis praecisum £ clivo ad ecclesiae limen dela-
bitur.

Caput Wenefredae appositum corpori precibus Bennoi ad-
haesit, vitaeque virgo restituta est.

Postea albedo quaedam tenuissima in modum fili collum
ambiebat, et locum sectionis obducebat.

Locus vero ubi sanguis illius fusus est primitus Sicca Vallis
dicebatur.

Postquam autem caput virginis abscisum terrain tetigit,
fons ibi aquae salientis emanavit, qui de nomine puellae
vocabulum sortitus est.

Nam illorum lingua Fonnan Wenefredae* appellatur.

Lapides aspergine sanguinis infecti tarn in fontis scaturi-
gine quam in margine riparum amnis defluentis adhuc ibi
conspiciuntur.

Muscus vero qui lapidibus adhaeret thus redolet.

Wenefreda k Benoo sacro habitu velata. Wenefreda
velat[a] mansit per septennium in ecclesia k S. Bennoo con-
structa, ac chorum sacrarum virginum sibi commendavit.

Lapis nomine S. Bennoi appellatus prope fontem Wene-
fredae.

Bennous relicta Wenefreda aliam Walliae regionem litto-
ralem petit.

Wenefreda casulam lintheo involutam fonti suo commen-
dat; quod munus hinc in mare delapsum ad littus ubi Ben-
nous habitabat perlatum est, quod k fonte Wenefredae distat
50. millibus passuum. Ab hoc munere, quod Wenefreda
suo instructori singulis annis Calend. Maij transmisit, Ben-
nous cognomen accepit Casulisech, id est, Casula sicca.

Wenefreda relicto Monasterio suo Deiferum petit, 7. milli-
bus passuum hinc distantem.

Wenefreda consilio Deiferi Henthlaut petit ubi habitabat
S. Saturnus.

» HolyweU or St. Winifred's Well, Flint.

APPENDIX 121

Verba Saturni ad Wenefredam.

Est locus quidatn^ lVitheriacus^nuncupatus,muliorum Sanct-
orum pignoribus refertus^ et pro illorum veneranda conver-
satione adeo electus^ atque ab omni populo in magna revtrtntia
habitus^ hunc locum te invisere praecipit Deus,

Ibi est quidam abbas muliarum virtutum nomine Elerius^
ad hunc te destinare divino sum admoniius oraculo,

Ibi sunt Deo dicatae virgines in professione vitae sanctimoni-
alls coelibatum observantes,

S. Theonia Abbatissa Guitheriacensis, cui Wenefredam
Elerius concredidit, obiit et ab Elerio ibidem sepulta est.

Cura Guitheriacensium virginum commissa ab Elerio
Wenefredae. Obiit S. Wenefreda Guitheriaci 4. Non. No- fo. 2.
vembr. Sepulta est ^ S. Elerio juxta S. Theoniam.

In eodem quoque coemiterio multi quidem et magnonim
meritorum viri requiescunt, sed praeclariores et majoris
famae feruntur Chebius et Sevanus : quorum prior ad caput
ejus tumulatus est; alter vero in eodem ordine quo ipsa
jacet requiescit.

Qui utrique mag. virtutum viri apud indigenas memor-
antur.

Extant adhuc in eadem provintia nonnullae in eorum me-
moriam basilicae.

Elerius in basilica sui nominis sepultus est, ac usque in
hunc diem multis miraculis choruscare non destitit.

Tempore Gul. primi Regis Angl. Rogerus comes, vir illus-
tris, in urbe Salopesbiriae coenobium aedificare coepit.

Wenefreda dormienti Radulpho Subpriori Salopesbiriae
apparuit.

Septem monachi episcopum Bangorensem et principem
Northwalliae orant et exorant ut illis liceat reliquias Wene-
fredae Salopesbiriam transferre.

Erat hoc tempore, viz. circa initia Regis Stephani Here-
bertus Abbas Salopesbyriensis. Godefridus Abbas Salopes-
byriensis ante tempora Hereberti.

Quidam ex inhabitantibus de Guitheri more patrio ex
crudis animalium pellibus calceos sibi conficiens.

Reliquiae S. Wenefredae Salopesbyriam* perductae, ad

* Gwytherin, Denbighshire. ^ Shrewsbury.

122 LELAND'S ITINERARY

dies aliquot in ecclesia Sancti Aegidii in exitu urbis* positae
sunt.

fo. 3. Ex Praefatione Felicis in Vitam S. Guthlacif ad Aelfuual-
dum Orient. Angl. Regem.

Abbas Wilfridus et Cyssa Presbyter. Lelandus, Ab istis,
quibus Guthlacus fuit notissimus, ejus vitam praedidicit
Felix.

E libro Felicis de Vita Guthlaci.

Penuualdus de egr^a Merciorum stirpe, cujus mansio in
mediterraneorum Anglorum partibus fuit, pater Guthlaci.

Penuualdi progenies per nobilissimorum illustrium regum
nomina antiqua ab origine Ycles digesto ordine cucurrit.
Tetthe uxor Penuualdi et mater Guthlaci.

Ex appjellatione illius tribus, quam dicunt Guthlacinga,
proprietatis vocabulum velut ex coelesti consilio Guthlacus
percepit, quod ex qualitatis compositione assequentibus
mentis conveniebat. Nam, ut illius gentis gnari perhibent,
hoc nomen ex 2. integris constare videtur: hoc est, Guth et
Lac,t quod Ro. sermonis nitore personat belli munus; quia
ille cum vitiis belkndo aeternae beatitudinis munera cum
triumphali insula perhennis vitae percepisset.

Guthlacus juvenis egregius bellator.

Nam cum 24. aetatis suae annum peregisset, relictis omni-
bus suis,Monasterium Ripadun, usque pervenit, in quo mys-
ticam tonsuram accepit sub Abbatissa nomine Elffrida : ac
deinde accepto clencali habitu etc.

Est in mediterraneorum Anglorum Britanniae partibus
immensae magnitudinis acerrima palus, quae k Grontae
flumine ripis incipiens haud procul k castello, quod dicunt
nomine Gronte, nunc stagnis, nunc flactris, {s\e. incisuris,) in-
terdum nigris fusi vaporis laticibus, nee noncrebris§ insuk-
rum nemoribus intervenientibus, et flexuosis rivigarum||

[♦ Leland corrected extra urbem to in exitu urbis. The next page
is blank.]

[t Leland writes the th in Guth. invariably as iS, without the stroke ;
he makes his d diflferently.]

\X Gudlac mihi rectius significare videtur bonum ludum vel bonum
omen. — Marginal note by Lelofid^l

[§ aebU MS.'\ [il Sic,\

APPENDIX 123

anfractibus, ab austro in aquilonem mari tenus longiss. tractu
protenditur.

Ipse autem Tatuinus incola imperils viri Dei annuens, Croyland,
arrepta piscatoria scaphula, per invia lustra in tetrae paludis Llncoln-
margine, Christo viatore, ad praedictam insulam, quae lingua ""'^'
Anglorum Crulande' vocatur, pervenit; quae antea propter
remotioris heremi solitudinem inculta et ignota manebat.

Pervenit autem Guthlacus ad banc insulam inbabitandam
die quo S. Barptolomaei festivitas venerari debet.

Erat itaque in praefata insula tumulus agrestibus glebis
coacervatus, quem olim avari solitudinis frequentatores
ergo* lucri illic adquirendi defodientes scindebant, in cujus
latere velut cisterna inesse videbatur, in qua vir beatae
memoriae Guthlacus desuper imposito tugurio habitare
coepit.

Contigit itaque in diebus Conredi, regis Merciorum, cum
Britones infesti hostes Saxonici generis, bellis, praedis, publi-
cisque vastationibusque Angl. gentem deturbarent, etc.

Verba loquentis vulgi Britonicaque agmina tectis suis suc-
cedere agnoscit Nam ille aliorum temporum voluminibus
inter illos exulabat, quoad usque eorum strimulentas loquelas
intelligere valuit.t

Beccelinus clericus famulus Guthlaci4

Beccelinus k diabolo instigatus ut Guthlacum interficeret.

Erat sub eodem tempore quidam exul de inclita Mercio-
rum prole, vocabulo Ethelbaldus, (postea rex Merciorum,) qui
quodam die, ut assolebat, virum Dei visitare volens, comite§
Wilfrido praefato, adepta rate, usque ad praedictam insulam
pervenit.

Huctredus juvenis inclitae quidem, ut ferunt, sobolis de
Orient. Angl. terminis occupatus ab immundo spiritu.

Egga, Ethelbaldi exulis comes, k Daemone correptus.
Hedda episcopus venit ad Guthlacum.

[* Caussa supra /in.]

[t lUusio Daemonum assumpta Britan. spede.—Afarpina/ ncit,]

[t Gudlacus linguam Britann. utcumque intelligebat. — Marginal
Moie,]

[§ Hie est Wilfridus Abbas, de quo Felix in Praefatione.— ^a^'no/
ftote,]

■ CroyUad.

124 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Croyland. Wigfridus, librarius Heddae episcopi, arrogabat sibi judi-
cium de vita Guthlaci.

Guthlacus presbyter ab Hedda episcopo factus et inunctus.
Hedda episcopus consecrat oratorium Guthlaci in Crou-
landa.

Egcburcha Abbatissa, Aldulphi regis filia, misit ad Guthla-
cum sarcophagum plumbeum lintheumque in eo volutum.
fo. 4. Guthlacus de successore suo in heremo rogatus, respon-
disse fertur: Illius loci heredem in gentili populo fuisse^
nondum ad baptismatis lavacrum devenisse^ sed mox futu-
rumfore dicebat. Quod spiritu providentiae dixisse eventus
futurae rei probavit. Nam ipse Cyssa, qui nunc nostris
temporibus sedem viri Dei Guthlaci possidet, post annos,*
ut ipse narrare solet, lavachrum baptismatis in Britannia
percepit.

Quodam enim tempore cum exul ille, quem supra memo-
ravimus, Ethelbaldus hue illucque persequente ilium Ceol-
redo rege in diversis nationibus jactaretur, alio die deficiente
virium ipsius valetudine, suorumque inter dubia pericula,
postquam exinanitae vires defecere, tandem ad colloquium
S. Guthlaci, ut solebat, pervenit, etc. ut Guthlacus praedixerit
ilium aliquando regnaturum.

Beccelinus assidens morienti Guthlaco jussus est ab hero
ut ejus sororem Pegam conveniret. Pega soror Guthlaci.

Egberchtus anachorita notus Guthlaco.

Pega venit ad oratorium fratris sui Guthlaci.

Erat vir quidam paterfamilias in provincia Wisa.

Rex autem Ethelbaldus ut beatum consolatorem suum
miraculis choruscare comperit, locum sepulturae ejus gau-
dens expetiit, et ea quae beato viro jam regnum adeptus
donaverat servientibus ei perhenniter concessit. Nam quo-
dam tempore dum idem rex caussa visitandi patronum
suum antequam migraret Crolandiam adiret, et vir Dei
quietam mansionem in eadem insula sibi ab eo concedi pos-
tularet, quinque milliaria ad orientem, id est, usque ad fossam
quae Asendic dicitur, et tria ad occidentem, quinque ad
meridiem, et quinque ad aquilonem concessit, et ab omni
reddit atque consuetudine saeculari omnibus modis absolvit,
et idem chartam sigillo suo signatam in praesentia episcopo-

[* Annorum numenis fonan desideratar. — Heame,'\

APPENDIX 125

mm procenimque suorum confirmavit. £t quia p)alustris Croyland.
humus Crolandiae, ut ipsum nomen intimat, (Crolandia
enim crudam, id est, coenosam terram, significat,) lapideam
molem sustinere non poterat, praefatus rex ingentes ex
quercu palos innumerae multitudinis humo infigi fecit,
duramque terram novem milliariis per aquam de Uppolanda,
i,e, superiori terra, scaphis deferri et paludibus commisceri
statuit. £t sic lapideam, quia S. Guthlacus oratorio conten-
tus est ligneo, basilicam coepit et consummavit Deinde
religiosos viros ibi aggregavit, coenobium condidit, oma-
mentis et fundis aliisque divitiis locum ditavit, et ad honorem
Dei et S. anachoritae, quem valde dilexerat pro dulci con-
solatione quam ab eo dum exulabat multotiens perceperat.

Versus Felicis.

Gurgite multarum Cruland ambitur aquarum
Piscibus et rivis quoniam redimitur amoenis.
Multigenis latum dat piscibus unda natatum,
Suppeditat gurges foenum quoque pabula pisces.

Sequuntiu- praeterea quinque versus in antiquo codice.*

Ex libello incerti Autoris de translatione reliquiarum
S. Guthlaci.

Gunnilda sanctimonialis cultrix D. Guthlaci.

Waldenus Abbas Croilandiae rogatus k suis ut transferret
reliquias D. Guthlaci.

Facta est D. Guthlaci translatio anno Dni 1106. anno
primo Stephani regis.

Super kpidem vero decurio quidam Robertus de Grandi-
neto, mirae gravitatis veteranus, omni[um] religiosorum
amator, conductis aurifabrorum et gemmariorum primori-
bus elimatae amplitudinis artificiosae sculpturae repam in
sublime suspensam construxit, quam ex diversorum metal-
lorum lignorumque generibus compactam, auri argentique
laminis vestitam, crystallis variisque gemmis adornatam
ditavit, sicut usque in hodiemum humanis visibus apparet.

[* Marginal note.]

126 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Croyland. Villula quaedam, patrio idiomate Caua' nomen sortita,
sita est in confinio fluminis Humbrensis. Anno imperii regis
Stephani 12. decurio quidam mag. audaciae miles Regitml-
dus de Cornubia comitis Gileberti Gandensis ditioni et
honori militabat, et in ejus expeditionibus ad tempus tyro-
cinabatur. Cum vero comes ille in transmarinis partibus iter
fo. 5- agens non modicum nummorum censum k negotiatoribus
mutuatus fuisset; eundem Reinaldum vadem et obsidem
eorum mancipatui obligavit, etc. ut Reinaldus ibidem non
redemptus manserit, et tandem domum rediens captus gra-
viss. phrenitide liberatus sit precibus Guthkci.

Quidam monachus impulsore Wlfuuino Priore redegit li-
bellum Felicis de vita D. Guthkci in epitomen, cujus
exemplar fuit in eodem codice quo liber Felicis.

£ libro de Abbatibus Croilandensis Monasterii* et
rebus ab eis gestis

Kenulphus primus Abbas, k quo Kenulphestane adhuc
dicitur lapis quem ipse pro limite contra Depinges*" posuit.

Patritius secundus.

Sukardus 3.

Theodorus 4.

Godricus $•
Variis bellorum tempestatibus Angl. postmodum pertur-
bata et k barbaris sub ducibus Hinguar, et Halfden, ac
Guthrun, aliisque tyrannis supervenientibus k Dacia Nore-
gama, Aiigligenarum regum, qui naturaliter Angliae prae-
fuerant, mutatione facta, Croilandense monaster, depopula-
tum est sicut alia plurima, omamenta sua sibi sunt sublata,
et villae destructae, laicisque contra Canonicum jus in
dominium redactae.
6. Ad^. Tempore Edredi regis, filii Edwardi Senioris, Turketillus
q|uidam clericus Londoniensis fuit, qui k praefato rege ut
sibi Croilandiam donaret expetiit: cui rex quod petierat

[* Monasteriis MS.}

« Cave, near HulL

b The Deepings, low fens in Lincolnshire.

APPENDIX 127

libenter annuit. Brat enim idem clericus de r^ali progenie Croyland.
cognatus Osketeli Ebor. metropolitani^ multas habens divi-
tias magnasque possessiones, quas omnes parvi pendebat
propter aetemas mansiones. Croilandiam quippe, ut dixi-
mus, non pro augendis fundis k rege poposcerat, sed quia
religiosos ibi viros esse cognoverat.

Ordinatis itaque prudenter rebus suis Croilandiae, mona-
chus factus est. £t aucta ibidem studio ejus monachorum
congregatione, Abbas eorum effectus.

Hie Turketillus, ut diximus, vir magnae generositatis fuit,
et 60. maneria de patrimonio parentum suorum possedit,
pro quorum animabus sex villas, scilicet Wenlingburch et
Bebi, Writhorp, Elmingtonam, Coteham et Hokintonam'
Croilandensi ecclesiae dedit, et testamentum idem sigillo
strenuiss. regis signatum confirmavit.

Egericus nepos ejus successit. EgeHcus

Successit et alter Egericus de ejus cognatione. ^^^, '^^'

Osketellus magnae nobilitatis monachus ejusdem loci ^^^2^
successit • OskiMus

Porro Leuina soror ejus Osketelli abb. Enolphesbuiae ^ Abbas 91.
domina erat, ubi tunc temporis corpus S. Neoti Abbatis et Lemna Dna
Confessoris jacebat, sed dignum tanto viro servitium ibi ErmUphi
tunc non fiebat. Undepraefatamulier Witleseiam*' accessit, ^'^^^
et fratrem suum Osketellum Abbatem illuc accersivit, ibique
corpus S. Neoti, quod reverenter secum detulerat, monachis
quos digniores se credebat tradidit. At illi munus k Deo
sibi collatum gratanter susceperunt, et juxta altare S. Dei
Genetricis Mariae in aquilonali parte honorabiliter colloca-
verunt

Godricus successit Godricus

Brichtinerus successit Tunc temporis Pegelandae"* coeno- ^*^/J°*
bium erat, cui nobilis vir Wulgeatus Abbas praeerat. Illic ^^J^,'^'*^
etenim S. Pega soror S. Gu^ci diu domino militaverat.
Quae postquam venerandus frater ejus defunctus est aus-

*• Wellingborough, Elmii^ton, and Writhorpe, Northants. ; Beeby,
Leic; Cotenham and Hockmgton, Camb. See "Notes" on p. 146.

^ Eynesbory, later St Neots, Hunts.

^ Whittlesea.

^ Peykirk, in Northants. — Pegelanda Monaster, inde vulgo Pekirke;
et est Parochialis eoclesia distans 5. millibus pass, k Petriburgo, et tot-
idem ^ Croilanda.— Afofjgiiia/ noU,

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Croyland.

Wi/geatHS
Abbas 12.
mfketdlus
Abbas 13.
fo. 6.

Ingulphus
Abbas 14.

Gcisfrtdus
{alias Jo ffri"
dus) AMas 15.

IValdenus
Abbas 16.

teriore labore vitam suam pro amore Christi examinare
conata est; unde Romam adiit sanctorum Apostolorum
liminna suplex pro se suisque requisivit, ibique 6. Idus
Januarii vitam finivit.

Postquam Brichtinerus Croilandiae Abbas 7. Idus April,
obiit, VVlfgeatus Pegelandiae Abbas Edwardum regem
Egelredi filium petiit ut greges 2. coenobiorum permitteret
adunari, et sub uno Abbate unum conventum effici, quod
ille statim benigne concessit.

Wlfgeatus Abbas Croilandiae.

Wlflketellus monachus Burgensis Croilandiae regimen k
beato Edwardo jussu Leofrici Abbatis sui suscepit.

Hie 24. annis Croylandiae praefuit, ecclesiamque novam,
quia vetus ruinam minabatur, construere coepit. Ejus ad
hoc opus, inspirante Deo, Wallevus comes Northampton,
filius Siuardi Ducis Northumbr. adjutor fuit, et villam quae
Bemetha dicitur Deo et S. Gudlaco dedit. Qui non multo
post malignitate Normannorum, qui eum ingenti ejus pro-
bitate metuerunt, injuste cum multorum luctu prid. Cal.
Jun. Winton. decollatus est: et corpus ejus, Juditha uxore
ejus rogante et Gul. rege permittente, ab Wlfketello Abbate
Croilandiam delatum. Post non multum temporis, idem
Abbas qui alienigena erat et Normannus exosus ab aemulis
accusatus est, et k Lanfranco Archiepiscopo depositus, et
Glestoniae claustro est deputatus.

Deinde Ingulphus Fontinellensis monachus Abbat. Croi-
landiae dono Gul. r^s recepit, et 24. annis plurima adversa
perpessus* illam rexit.

Hie Anglicus natione Hierosolym. petiit rediens mona-
chus Fontinellae k Gerberto Abbate factus.

Hie Croilandiae Abbas factus curavit ut Wlfketellus prae-
decessor restitueretur Burgensi ecclesiae. Sub hoc Abbate
pars ecclesiae cum officinis combusta.

Fecit corpus Gualdeui comitis transferri de capitulo in
ecclesiam.

Goisfredus Aurelianensis successit A^ D^ 1109, jussu
regis Henrici. Monachus fuit in coenobio S. Ebrulfi.

Novam basilicam et alia bona quamplura inchoavit.

Waldenus monachus Croilandiae successit, et 12. annis

[* Hearne's reading. The MS. hzspcrpessa perpessus J]

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129

praefuit. Accusatus k suis depositus est ab Alberico legato
tempore Stephani.

Godefridus Prior monasterii S. Albani successit et 4.
annis praefuit.

Edwardus monachus et Prior Ramesiensis, et praefuit 30.
annis. Hujus tempore iterum combusta ecclesia cum
officinis in die Nativitatis S. Mariae, sed iterum ab eo et
fratribus in melius reaedificata.

Robertus monachus de Radinges et Prior de Leonminstrae
successit.

Hie partes aliquot ecclesiae reaedificavit.

Henricus frater Gul.de Longo Campo, cancellari Richardi
r^;is et episcopi Eliensis. Hie erat Monachus Eoveshamcnsis.
praefuit strenue 46 [annis].*

Richardus monachus et celerarius Bardene successit
Hie latus ecclesiae versus aquilonem prostravit e in melius
reformavit.

Novale quod Asewic dicitur ex natiss. producebat marisco;
et novale quod dicitur Dunedale incepit Infirmanam con-
struxit. Undecim annis praefuit.

Thomas de Welle monachus Croilandiae successit. Sex
annis praefuit

Radulphus de Merch monachus Croilandiae successit.
Adquisivit manerium de Gedeney, ecclesiam de Quappelode
in proprios usus et advocationem ecclesiae de Eston.

Impetravit et k Dn5 rege Henrico mercata de Quappelade,
de Baston, et Croyland; et warennam in maneriis suis de
Croilande, Langetoft. Baston, Tetford, Burethorp, Buken-
hale, Halinton," Dunedik, Quappelade,** Holbech et Asewik.
Nen et Weland ^uvii. (Quappelode, vulgo Hoppelode,
forum etiam nunc prope minorem maris eruptionem versus
villam S. Botolphi.

Baston hoc tempore forum non habet. Est autem villa in
Kestevene, et distat k Buma® foro 3. pass, millibus.)

Frontem ecclesiae occidentalem cum turrellis vi ventorum
confractis reparavit.

[* Dugdale and Heame.]

Croyland.

Godefridus
Abbas 17.

Etbuardus
Abbas 1%,

Robertus
Abbas 19.

Henricus
Abbas 2D,

Richardus
Abbas 21.

Sic.

Thomas VuelU
Abbas 22. i

Radulphus 2'^.

* Thetford, Birthorpe, Bucknall, Hallington.
»> Whaplode. See p. 147.
II. K

Bourn.

I30 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Croyland. Fecit et turrim ecclesiae ultra chorum.

Fecit capelkm S. Martini juxta portam eleemosynariam.
Praefuit 26. annis. Obiit 1281.

RichardusdeCroiland24. Simon de Luff 25. Henricusde
Casewike 26. Thomas de Bern 27. Joannes de Asscheby
28. Thomas de Overton 29. Richardus de Upton 30.
Joannes deLitlington 31. Joannes Vischbiche 32. Richardus
Croyland 33. Lambertus Fossedik 34. Edmundus Thorp
35. Philippus Evererde: Gulielmus Gedying: Richardus
Berdeney; John Wellis ultimus.

fo. 7. Epitaphium Waldevi comitis^ comprehendens summatim
Vitam et Passionem, nee non et quaedam miracula ejus-
dem comitis, editum k Gulielmo Monacho Croilando.

Illustriss. celebrique memoria ac laude dignus Gualdeuus,
quondam comes Northampton et Huntendon, Siwardi mag-
nifici ducis Northumbrorum filius, vir magnanimus et in
armis strenuus, Deoque nihilominus extitit devotus: Qui
ducta in uxorem nepte Juditha Qui. Bastardi regis Anglo-
rum, cum quorundam magnatum Anglicanorum, adversus
eundem regem, in transmarinis partibus tunc agentem, con-
spirantium, ipsorum praeventus insidiis compulsioneque
Su, coactus, consilio ac consilio interfuisset; ductusque poeni-
tentia apud Lanfrancum Archiepiscopum Cantuar. puram
super haec fecisset confessionem : ex ejusdem Archiepiscopi
consilio regem in Normannia adiens, eique rem ex ordine
pandens, ipsius misericordiae ac beneplacito se commisit
Rex autem in Angliam remeans, judicioque curiae suae
quosdam praedictorum conspiratorum perpetua incarcera-
tione damnans, quosdam oculis erutis vel manibus truncatis
debilitans, quosdam k finibus Angliae terrae exterminans,
Gualdevum comitem, k Juditha uxore sua quod esset prodi-
tionis conscius accusatum, apud Wintoniam per annum
carcerali mancipavit custodiae: ubi ille commissa sua de-
flens, crebroque viris religiosis in spiritu humilitatis et in
animo contrito confitens, Psalterium quoque quod in infantia
didicerat cottidie psallens, ad Deum Deique cultum tota
mente se convertit. Postea vero k Normannis qui aemuli
ejus erant, et praedia honoresque ipsius ambiebant, laesae
majestatis mortisque reus in curia regis judicatus in monte

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131

extra civitatem Winton. ij. Cal. Jun. mane capitalem senten- Croyland.
tiam suscepit, ibique corpus ejus in fossa viliter est pro-
jectum, et viridi cespite coopertum. In cujus decoUatione
illud miraculosum ac menioria dignum fertur contigisse:
videlicet, quod cum ille flexis genibus, oculis ac manibus
in coelum intentus Orationem Dominicam incepisset, sed
nimietate fletus ac singultus vocem ejus intemimpente ipsam
complete nequisset; post capitis amputationem, cun[c]tis
qui adherant audientibus, clara et articulata voce eandem
complevit, dicens, Sed libera nos k niaio. Amen. Post
quindecim autem dies, Juditha uxore ejus petente, regeque
permittente, Wlketellus Abbas Croilandiae corpus S. comitis
adhuc integrum, ac ita cruentatum, ac si eadem die vir Dei
interemptus esset, Croikndiam deferri fecit, ipsumque in
capitulo monachorum reverenter sepelivit. Super cujus
tumulum, ut quidam ferunt, cum processu temporis Juditha,
poenitentia ducta, pannum sericum obtulisset, divina vir-
tute, velut venti vehementis impulsu, idem pannus longius
est projectus. Cum vero Ingulphus Abbas Croilandiae
corpus S. comitis decimo sexto ejus decoUationis anno k
capitulo in ecclesiam faceret transferri, ipsum omnino inte-
grum, sicut in die qua sepultum fuerat, caput quoque
corpori conjunctum repertum est, filum tantum rubeum
habens in coUo quasi pro signo decoUationis. Translato
autem corpore sancto, et honorifice per altare tumulato ob
sancti merita multa ibidem miracula in languidorum cura-
tione divina virtus ostendit. Ubi cum ex devotione populus
catervatim conflueret, et quidam monachus natione Nor- Audinus
mannus adventantes derideret, nee non adversus sanctum fnonachus,
probrosa ac detrectatoria verba proferret, ac ab Abbate
Josfrido super haec correptus, sed non correctus in pravilo-
quio pertinaciter perseveraret, coram eodem Abbate subita
aegritudine in praecordiis percussus, post paucos dies diem
clausit extremum. Sequenti vero nocte, cum idem Abbas de
his et aliis quae miraculose acciderant in lecto suo deyota
mente tractaret, tandem somno obrepente vidit in visione
Sanctos Dei Barptolomaeum Apostolum et Gudlacum con-
fessorem albis sacerdotalibus indutos secum ad sancti comitis
tumulum assistentes. Apostolus vero ut videbatur caput fo. 8.
comitis corpori redint^ratum dicebat, Acephalus non est^
cui S. Gudlacus, qui ad pedes stabat, respondit, Comes hie

132 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Bartholomaeus Juit Apostolus autem inceptum versum metrice perfecit,
versijicus. dicens, At modo rex est, Quam visionem cum Abbas
Croyland. fratribus intimasset ipsos tam ad impendendam reliquiis S.
comitis dignam reverentiam, quam ad persolvendas devotas
laudes, qui mirabilis est Sanctis suis vehementer accendit.
Post plurimorum vero curricula annorum Henricus Abbas
Croilandiae tumbam marmoream sancti comitis imagine
sculpta insignitam parari fecit: in qua, secus gradus magni
altaris k sinistra parte in loco decenti et eminenti consti-
tutam, reliquias S. comitis i6. Cal. Apr. astante et psallente
conventu cum debita transtulit devotione anno Domini
1219. k decollatione ejusdem comitis 129.

Epitaphium metrice ejusdem comitis ab eodem Gulielmo
editum.

Hie, Waldeve comes, tumularis et incineraris,
Parte tamen meliore tui super astra locaris.
Et merito. Nam cum juvenis in carne fuisti
Mortuus huic mundo coelestia regna petisti.
Cum fieres gemini comitatus clarus honore,
Clarior extiteras mentis morumque nitore.
Firma fides, stabilis spes, puri fervor amoris
Te collustrarunt intemi luce decoris.
Tu qui praeclarus praeclara stirpe fuisti,
Praeclaris meritis praeclarius enituisti.
Tu qui Marte potens famosa trophaea tulisti,
Temet vicisti felicius ac domuisti.
Tu qui dives opum per opes inopes relevasti
In coelo tibi thesauros hac arte parasti.
Sed te plus quam Job muliere Sathan mediante
Tentavit, propria tibi conjuge fata parante.
Haec accusavit. Rex credidit, et tibi mortem
Intulit, assignans cum damnatis tibi fortem.
En novus Herodes, mulieris se superari
Saeva fraude sinens, te jussit decapitari.
Rubra crurore tuo quondam Vintonia luxit,
Exuviis post freta tuis Croilanda reluxit.
Quam felix locus hie thesaurus cui datur iste.
Per quem languentes curat tua gratia Christe!
Clare comes, praecharae Deo, Gualdeve beate,
Wilhelmi sint quaeso tui laudes tibi gratae.

APPENDIX 133

£x altero libello de vita Gualdevi comitis, k Monacho, ut
videtur, Croilanden. scripto, sed longe ante tempora
Gulielmi, qui Gualdevi comitis epitaphium scripsit.

Gualdevus, amplae prosapiae comes, filius Siwardi ducis
Northanhumbr. filii Beom, filii Ulsii, filii Spratlingii, filii
Ursi, multam familiaritatem Gul. regis Angliae et ducis
Normanniae, qui Angliam adquisiverat, nactus est. Rex
enim praeteritarum offensarum immemor magis illi virtuti
attribuerat quam perfidiae, quod idem Waldevus in Ebor.
pugnae plures Normannorum solus obtruncaverat, unos et
unos per portas gradientes decapitans. Erat quippe nervosus
lacertis, thorosus pectore, robustus et procerus toto corpore,
filius, ut dictum est, Siwardi magnificentissimi ducis, quern
diera Danico vocabulo, id est, fortem cognominabant. Post-
modum praedictus Waldevus regi concordatus, Judithae *
neptis ejus connubio et magna regis amicitia donatus est,
pro nobilitate generis, et possessionum et proprietatum
amplitudinem concessit ei rex Gul. totam terram suam paci-
ficam, liberam et solutam, eique dedit ducendam in uxorem
neptem suam Juetam, filiam comitis Lamberti de Lens, "*
sororem nobilis viri Stephani comitis de Albermar[l]e, cum fo. 9.
qua rex ei contulit et concessit omnes libertates quae sunt
de honore de Huntendune. In celebratione vero matri-
monii et nuptiarum nomine dotis contulit comes uxori suae
omnes terras suas k flumine de Trente in austrum protensas :
quae processu temporis ex viro suo duas filias suscepit,
Mathildem videlicit et Aliciam.

Succedente tempore perturbatio maxima in Anglia orta
est, quae saeva nimis et dampnosa in multis in Anglia fuit.
Duo enim potentissimorum Anglorum comites, Rogerus
Herefordensis comes, filius Gulielmi, et sororius ejus Ra-
dulphus Norwicen., pariter decreverunt, ut pariter regi re-
bellarent, et principatu Angliae regi Gul. surrepto sibi jus
immo tyrannidem assumerent. Praedictus quippe Rogerus
Hereforden. comes, filius Gulielmi, Radulpho cognomento
de War, comiti Norwicensi sororem suam contra praeceptum
regis Gul. conjugem dedit, nuptiasque permagnificas cum

[* Juditha filia comitissae Albemarlae, quae fuit soror uterina Gul.
Nothi regis Anglia. — Marginal ftofe.]

134 LELAND'S ITINERARY

plurima multitudine optimatum in Grantebrigensi provincia
in villa quae dicitur Yxnige • celebrantes, magnam conjura-
tionem plurimis assentientibus contra regem fecerunt. £t
haec fraudulenter molientes, et ad conspirationem suam
multos instigantes, etiam Gualdevum Northamton. et Hun-
tendon, comitem accersunt, et multis eum modis ad con-
sensum hortantur, etc. ut postea omnem rem poenitudine
ductus Gualdevus I^nfranco episcopo Cantuar. aperuerit.

Sed Hereforden. comiti, ne transvadata Sabrina Radulpho
comiti ad locum destinatum cum suo exercitu occurreret,
restitit Wlstanus. Wigorn. episcopus cum magna militari
manu, et Ailwius Eoveshamensis Abbas cum suis, ascitis
sibi in adjutorium Ursone de bello campo vicecomite Wigom.
et Waltero de Lasceio cum suis copiis et cetera multitudine
plebis.

At vero Radulpho comiti, prope Cantabrigiam castrame-
tanti, Odo Baiocensis episcopus, frater regis, et Josfridus
Constant iensis episcopus, et Gul. de Warenna, et Richardus
de Benefacta, filius Gileberti comitis praecipue regis justitiae,
congregata magna copia tam Anglorum quam Normannorum,
ad bellum parati occurrerunt, et contra seditiosos acriter
dimicant, eosque expugnant. Ipse vero Radulphus comes
inde evadens clanculo ad Norwicum confugit, et castello
suae conjugi militibusque suis commendato ascensa navi
in minorem Britanniam fugit. Quem fugientem omnes ad-
versarii illius insecuti omnes quos de suis comprehendere
poterant vel interemerunt, vel diversis modis debilitaverunt.
Dein principes tam diu castellum obsederunt, quoad pace
data comitissae cum suis exire de Anglia liceret.
Gualdeuus Extra urbem Wintoniam dum adhuc populus dormiret,
seairiper- ductus est in montem ubi nunc ecclesia S. Aegidii con-
^^5^" structa est.

fo. 10. Ex libello incerti Autoris de comitibus Huntendun.

et Northampton.

Tradunt relationes antiquorum, quod vir quidam nobilis,
(quem dominus contra solitum ordinem humanae propaginis
ex quodam albo urso patre muliere generosa matre pro-

^ Ixning, on the border of Sufifolk.

APPENDIX 135

creari) Ursus genuit Spratlingum, Spratlingus Ulsium, Ulsius
Beom, cogn. Beresun, id est, Ursi filium. Hie Beom Daeus
fuit natione, conies egregius et miles illustris. In signum
autem illius diversitatis speciei ex parte generantium produx-
erat ei patemas auriculas scilicet Ursi. In aliis autem speciei
matemae assimilabatur. Hie autem post multas virtutis ac
militiae experientias filium genuit fortitudinis ac militiae
patemae probum imitatorem. Nomen autem huic Siwardus,
cog. Diere, i.e. Grossus; qui quasi supra se elatus prae gratia
probitatis ei innatae natu[ra]le * solum habuit contemptui,
patri suo jure hereditario succedere vilipendens. Jussitque
navem sibi fortem et magnam praeparari, et bene muniri in
cunctis necessariis, tam in armamentis navis quam in vic-
tualibus et armaturis corpori humano congruentibus. Quo
facto eandem ingressus cum quinquaginta militibus probis
et praeelectis sibi associatis mare conscendit, velaque ventis
applicans tandem apud Orkeniam portum invenit salubrem.
In insula ilia habitabat draco quidam, qui erat non solum
in bestiis verum etiam in populo strages maxima. Cuique
fama ad aures Siwardi rerum gesta deferente, cum eo pugnam
inire satagebat, non operas locans arenariorum more, sed
robor corporis et animi virtutem in hoc declarans eum
devicit, et ab insula effiigavit. Reversusque navem ingressus
aquam remis sollicitans processu temporis Northumbrelande
applicuit, ibique alterius draconis fama ad aures ejus con-
volavit, quem cum quaereret, ut eum similiter vel effugaret
vel interficeret, videt collem quendam arduum, et hominem
senem in summitate sedentem, ad quem cum se divertisset
ut rumores de dicto dracone inquireret, in coUe residens
eum suo proprio nomine salutans, sic allocutus: Siwarde,
bene tumi qua de causa iter istud proficisceris^ videlicet ut vires
cum drcuone experiaris, Sed in vanum ladcras^ eum invenire
non poteris; sed revertere ad socios tuos^ et dicam quid tibi
acddere fatatum est,f Cum navem fueris ingressus^ statim
aura tibi dabitur grcUa^ et prospero cursu cum vela ventis
applicueris^ portum invenies saluberrimum influmine quodam
cui nomen Tamisia, quem cum conscenderis tandem reperies

[* Corrected by Heame.]

[t Id €sty fiaito destinattim est Vide DaFresnii Gloss, med. et infim.
Ladn. voc Fatarb.— Hbarnb.]

136 LELAND'S ITINERARY .

civitatem quandam cut applicabis; {notnen autem ejus Lon-
donium.) ibidemque regem illius regni invemes, qui te in
servitio suo retinebit, et terram sine mag, morae dispendio tibi
conferet Siwardus autem respondit, se non adhibere fidem
ejus sermonibuSy et si sic reverteretur socii sui illud tanquam
Jigmentum arbitrareniur, Senex autem k sinu suo quoddam
vexillum extraxit, et ei tribuit, quo facilius socii ejus ei
fidem adhiberent. Nomen etiam vexillo idem imposuit senex
Ravenlandeye, quod interpretatur corvus terrae terror. Quo
accepto Siwardus ad socios suos rediens, navim ingressus
est, et juxta senis vaticinia post multas maris fluctuantis
inundationes demum Londinium applicuit, ubi regem
Edovardum invenit, ad quem sine mora pervenit rumor de
adventu Siwardi : ad quem rex nuncios destinavit, ut ad se
veniret, cum eo colloquium habituros apud Westmonaste-
rium. Siwardus autem annuit reverenter, et cum eo non
fo. II. nimio habito sermone retinuit eum rex in servitio suo, cui
promisit se primum honorem collaturum, qui in regno suo
ad manus ejus deveniret. Quo facto, ^ rege licentia impe-
trata, Siwardus cum sociis suis versus London, pedes re-
versus est, cui super pontem quendam, ^ monasterio non
longe distantem, obviabat comes de Huntendune, Tosti
nomine, Dacus natione. Rex autem eundem odio habuit,
quia duxerat in uxorem filiam comitis Goduini, sororem
reginae. Dictus vero comes adeo super ponticulum ilium se
Siwardo approximavit, quod pelles ejus pedibus suis lutosis
defoedavit. (Mos utique erat nobilibus tunc temporis pelli-
bus uti absque panno.) Cujus rei caussa sanguis circa cor
ejus accensus eum in iram vehementem exarsit. Tempera-
batur autem, nee confestim ad vindictam properabat, quia
dedecus illud ei fuit allatum, cum inferens adversus Dnl sui
curiam proficisceretur. Sustinebat autem super eundem
ponticulum cum sociis suis immobilis existens, quous-
que dictus Tosti \ curia rediret; quo redeunte, Siwardus
extracto gladio ei caput amputavit, quod sub pellibus ejus
in manibus gestans ad curiam regressus est. Et rogavit
regem, ut juxta pollicitationem regiam ei conferret domi-
nium et honorem de Huntendun, quam tunc a domino
vacare asserebat. Rex autem admirans, quia comes ille
paulo ante ab eo recesserat, credit sermone ejus [plus] quam
joculationis quam veritatis continere. Ad haec Siwardus,

APPENDIX 137

ejus interitum asserens, in signum infallibile rei gestae, ante
pedes regis caput abscissum projecit. Et rex confestim
juxta promissum, quod inviolabile voluit observare, contulit
[ei] honorem de Huntendune, et eundem inde comitem
investivit. Comes autem Siwardus k curia regressus invenit
socios suos, qui conflictum inierant cum hominibus inter-
fecti adhuc dimicantes. Conflictu autem in adventu ejus
excrebrescente homines Tostii gladio perierunt, et humati
fuerunt in territorio quodam prope London. Et in memo-
riam rei sic gestae constructa fuit ibi ecclesia quaedam, quae
ecclesia Daconim appellata est usque in hodiemum diem.
Postea vero aliquibus annorum circulis revolutis, accidit
quod Norrenses guerram moverent regi, qui vacillando
haesitabat quid sibi melius foret facturum. Qui tandem
animo et consilio concordi Northumb. Cumbreland et West-
merland comiti Siwardo contulit, eundem comitem inde
investiendo, qui terram illam undecunque pacificavit, et
contumelias et injurias regi illatas per multa vindicavit, ut
effectus negotii antiquae Anglorum historiae consonet,
spiritu quasi prophetico concinenti: quod promdentia divina
nasci permitteret ex specie rei irrationcUis cum rationcUi cam-
mixtae^ scilicet ex urso et muliere^ hotninem qui vindicaret
regem Angliae illustrem et gloriosum ab inimicis suis. Quod
totum adimpletum fuit in comite Siwardo, vindicante inva-
siones et oppressiones S. r^i Edwardo illatas. Processu
vero temporis multis Siwardi viribus et virtutibus expertis,
accidit quod rex Scotonim, Duneval nomine, k regno suo
fuit ejectus; qui instanter rogavit comitem Siwardum, ut
sibi contra malevolos auxilium praestaret, et consilium.
Cujus petitioni comes obtemperans, exercitum congregavit,
in subsidium regis usque ad Dunde progrediens. ubi nun-
ciatum fuit ei, quod homines sui de Northumbreland jam in
eum et suos adeo insurrexerant quod Osbertum Bulax
filium suum interfecerant. Comes autem reverti compulsus,
ira fervente commotus, bipenni, quam in manu gestabat,
globum quendam lapideum ictu vahdiss. secuit, vestigiis fo. 12.
adhuc imminentibus, terramque, quam contra regis inimicos
viribus invaserat et occupaverat, ipsi regi restituit: ad pro-
pria remeans inimicos suos et maleficos gladiis et aliis tor-
mentorum generibus perimens et trucidans. His autem tem-
poribus genuit sibi filium comitem illustrem et generosum

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LELAND'S ITINERARY

Juditha.

Hundredus
de FackeUve^
alias Faciei,

Waldevum nomine, et post multos annorum revolutiones
quasi senio decrepitus in civitate Eboraco fluxu ventris in-
temperate laborans aegrotabat, et vexillum suum, de quo
supra mentio habebatur, Ravenlandeye contulit civibus
Eboracensibus, tunc fuit reconditum in ecclesia S. Mariae
veteris. Morbo autem dicti comitis ingravescente, etsi cor-
poris, non tamen animi fortitudinis expers, dixit, ^uod turpe
et dtdecus inaestimabik esset^ si fortiss, tnilitum morbo
vaccarum praegraoatus more moreretur vaccino, Jussitque
suis circumstantibus, at eum erigerent, et eum lorica sua
impenetrabili succingerent, et omnibus insigniis militaribus
sese sic erectum induerent. Qui sic insignitus, membris
erectis, vultu ad Deum elevato, viam universae carnis in-
gressus est.

Cui successit per omnia in possessionibus et proprietatibus
filius suus comes Waldevus, qui non interfuit conflictui, cum
dux Gul. Bastardus Anglos oppressit et devicit

Reliqua de Gualdeuuo comite quaere paulo supra in libello
de ejus vita.

Quae sequuntur de Juetta, sive Juditha, in eodem sunt
libello quo * superiora de Siwardo comite.

Comitissa autem Jueta, comitis Waldevi relicta, post de-
cessum domini sui cum duabus filiabus suis dominationem
habuit honoris de Huntendune, qui ei nomine dotis fuerat
collatus, et ibidem moram faciebant quousque rex eam voluit
tradere nuptui cuidam militi Francigenae nomine Simoni
Sylvanectensi, scilicet de Seint \al, Venerant enim duo
milites fratres Francigenae in subsidium r^s eidem servituri
cum quadraginta militibus quos secum adduxerant, quibus
nomen Guamerus le Riche et Simon de Seint Liz; nomen
autem patris eorum Ranulphus le Riche. Post cujus obitum
Guamerus primogenitus ejus natale solum repetiit, ut patri
in bonis succederet. Simon autem junior remansit cum
rege : cui rex contulit villam de Northampton et hundredum
de Fackeley,f quod tunc valebat 40. libras annuas, ut inde
in equorum suorum ferratura sibi provideret Qui primo
construxit castrum de Northamton et abbatiam S. Andreae.

[♦ MS. has "quae."]

[t FalkeUy in John Brompton's Chronicle, ed. Twysden, 1652,
p. 975.]

APPENDIX 139

Postea vero cum per tempus non modicum stetisset in ser-
vitio regis, cum non esset contentus possessionibus quas ei
rex contulerat, rogavit regem ut sibi possessiones ampliaret,
et ut in uberiori respiceret emolumento: cujus petitionibus
rex favens voluit ei neptem suam relictam Waldeui matri-
monialiler associare. Quae instanter renuit, quia in parte
claudicabat. Rex autem ob hoc in indignationem prorupit,
et fervore irae succensus contulit dicto Simoni totum hono-
rem de Huntendune sicut ad manus r^ias devolutum: et ex
tunc fuit dictus idem Simon comes de Northampton et
Huntendune scilicet, et omnes terras et possessiones illis
pertinentes diu possedit. Comitissa vero Juetta latitando
fugit per mariscum de Ely, et alias cum filiabus latebras
quaerendo prae timore regis et comitis Simonis. Tandem fo. 13.
vero cum dictus Simon adhuc esset solutus, consilium iniit
cum amicis et fidelibus suis de uxore sibi associanda.
Tractatu vero super hoc habito omnes unanimi assensu con-
sulerunt, ut primogenitam Waldeuui supradicti duceret in
uxorem. Timebatur enim in retentia ilia, utrum r^num
Angliae remaneret sub potestate Normannorum, an ad
dominium Anglorum reverteretur? Unde provido delibera-
tum fuit consilio, quod si Normanni regni occupatum reti-
nerent, haberet comitatus praefatos, tanquam ex collatione
regia ei concessos. Si vero Angli convalescerent, haberet
saltem honorem de Himtendune ratione uxoris suae, quae
jure hereditario patri succedere deberet. Consilio quidem
sic praelocuto, comes Simon Mathildam primogenitam Wal-
deui sibi matrimonialiter associavit, et tunc ex terra ilia
quadraginta milites hereditarie investivit. Quorum heredes
pro magna parte easdem terras possident, nee eis unquam
privati fuerunt, etsi circa dominos capitales variae factae
fuerunt mutationes. Dictus autem Simon Aliciam sororem
uxoris fuae tradidit in uxorem nobili viro Radulpho de
Tony • cum centum libratis terrae de honore de Huntendune
cum Welchamestow, Kercelinges et aliis terris et possessioni-
bus. Comes autem Simon processu temporis ex Mathilda
comitissa prolem procreavit Simonem Waldeuum et Mathil-
dam. Waldeuus postea fuit Abbas de Mailros. Mathilda
tradita quidem fuit nuptui Roberto filio Richardi, ex quo sus-

[* Toneio interlined.

I40 LELAND'S ITINERARY

cepit prolem Walteram filium Roberti nomine. Simon autem
comes Northampton et Huntendune post multos annorum
circulos vexillo cnicis insignitus peregre proficiscens Hiero-
solym. adiit, et successu prospero ad propria remeavit.
Iterum autem urbem peregrinalem zelo dei accensus adire
anhelans, iter arripuit, propositoque frustratus in itinere ad
patres suos uppositus est; apud prioratum de charitate
mortuus et ibidem sepultus. Ejus autem relicta cum prole
suscepta et terns et possessionibus fuit in manu regis Hen-
rici primi, qui ante reginam sibi associaverat Mathildam
sororem Alexandri regis Scotonim et David fratris ejus.

David autem rogavit regem Henricum, ut comitissam
Mathildam, Simonis relictam, ei concederet ducendam in
uxorem. Rex autem annuit monitis et petitionibus reginae
perductus, et sic habuit possessionem comitissae et comitatus
ac parvulorum custodiam. Non longe vero post Alexander
rex Scotorum defunctusest: cui successit in regnum comes
David, qui postea ex Mathilda regina sua genuit sibi filium
nomine Henricum. Parvuli ante ex Simone et Mathilda pro-
creati, qui fuerant in custodia David, adducti fuerunt in
Normanniam, et commissi custodiae Stephani comitis Albe-
marle avunculi matris eorum, et in tantum sub ejus tutela
educati, q°d Simon primogenitus insignia militaria una cum
Gul. comite filio comitis Stephani, unde Henricus rex
Angliae indignationem conceperat. Henricus autem filius
regis David frater uterinus dicti Simonis secundi cum ad
plenam pubertatem devenisset gladio militari accinctus duxit
in uxorem comitissam Ade sororem Gul. comitis Warennae,
qui genuit ex ea Malcolinum, et Gul. postea regem Scotto-
rum, et fratrem eorum comitem David et filias aliquot.
Morte autem praeventus patre adhuc superstite succubuit.
Simon autem de Seint Liz secundus multotiens solicitavit
regem petitionibus et interpellationibus, ut ei hereditatem
suam restitueret, qui tamen rege vivente nunquam potuit
fo. 14. exaudiri. Sed post regis decessum castra Northamton et
Huntendun occupavit, et ea cum terns adjacentibus et per-
tinentiis toto tempore vitae suae possedit, et duxit in uxorem
Ysabellam comitissam filiam Roberti comitis Leycestriae, qui
fuit postea Justiciarius Angliae effectus, ex qua genuit
Simonem de Seint Liz tertium, et duas filias, quibus nomen
Amicia et Hawise. Post decessum autem Simonis secundi,

APPENDIX 141

filius ejus, Simon tertius cum terra sua fuit sub tutela Henrici
regis secundi per quinque annos vel amplius. Ita quod rex
proposuit adire Tolosam ut earn expugnaret: quo secum
adduxit Malcolmum regem Scottorum et reddidit ei honorem
de Huntendun, retentis tamen sibi castro et burgo North-
amton. dum tamen comes Simon tertius more pupilli adhuc
esset tutelae commissus. Sic autem ingressus honorem de
Huntendun rex Scotorum quamdiu vixerat eum possedit:
adeo quod comiti Simoni super hoc licet multoties requisita
semper tamen denegata fuit justitia. Defuncto vero rege
Malcolino successit ei in solidum GuL frater ejus. Cujus
etiam temporibus non potuit dictus Simon gratiam impetrare
quousque rex Henricus tertius primogenitus regis Henrici
Angliae secundi, et dictus Gul. rex Scotorum, et David frater
ejus, et comes Leycestriae, et alii nobiles et magnates insur-
rexerunt in regem Henricum. Rex autem qui tunc temporis
degebat in partibus transmarinis scripsit nobilibus viris
Richardo de Lucy, qui tunc erat justiciarius Angliae, et
comiti GuL et aliis magnatibus fidelibus suis ut exercitum
congregarent Angl. et progrederentur ad obsidendum et
expugnandum castrum de Huntedon, et totum honorem
traderent comiti Simoni, et obsidionem ejus ordinationi
committerent. Quo facto de judicio curiae regiae et Baronum
regni adjudicatus fuit comiti Simoni totus honor de Hunt-
endon tanquam spectans ad eum jure hereditario. Aliis
autem, qui prius ilium occupaverant, abjudicatus fuit et
merito, quia guerram fecerunt regi de eodem tenemento,
unde ei homines sui fuerant et fideles esse debuerant.

His ita per ordinem peractis, recessit Justiciarius cum
Baronibus quam plurimis : comes autem Simon in obsidione
et exercitu quasi dux remansit, ibidem moram faciens usque
ad adventum regis, cui confestim castrum tradebatur. Comes
autem Simon terras suas circumgirans terris et possessionibus
milites suosditavit, his quiei servierant abundanter stipendia
refundens. Hominibus autem, qui per Scottos ejecti fuerant,
jura sua integre restituit, et sic honorem de Huntendune
tota vita sua tempore regis Henrici sine querela et conten-
tione pacifice possedit. lUi etiam quos ipse investierat, post
obitum suum, cum etiam terra esset in manu regis fere per
annum sibi collata possederunt, quousque rex Henricus
honorem de Huntendon Gul. regi Scotorum, qui eum con-

142 LELAND'S ITINERARY

tinuo contulit David fratri suo: qui quidem comes absque
vocatione et judicio omnes illos ejecit, quos comes Simon
ultimus introduxerat, una cum multis de hiis, qui per Simo-
nem patrem suum fuerant introducti. Per haec autem quod
comes Simon, qui militari virtute adeo prae aliis fulgebat,
nunquam interpellavit regem per se vel alium de capit.
hereditate sua, videlicet Northumbreland, Westmerland,
Cumbreland, quam pater et avus uxoris suae obtinuerant;
nee postea rex David, qui relictam suam duxerat in uxorem ;
nee post Simon comes medius, qui viribus, sapientia, probi-
tate alios praecellebat; nee postea Malcolmus rex, nee rex
Gul. frater ejus, nee Simon comes ultimus, nee Mathilda
comitissa; liquidum est, et juri consonum, quod tria ilia ad
ordinationem r^s et arbitrium fuerant devoluta.

Stow, Ex • Prologo Gocelini ' Monachi Bertiniani in Vitam

^o- 82 ^- d. Yvonis Episcopi.

St. Ives, Quae de vita beati Yvonis referuntur a Venerabili Abbate
Hunts. Andrea celebrata noscuntur.

Per^rfe profectus est Andreas Abbas Hierosolymam: No-
men Yvonis in Graecia clarum.

Hie ergo gratia hujus patris (Yvonis) sanctiss. paulo
brevius collegi.

Gocelinus red^t in epitomen librum Andreae de Vita
S. Yvonis.

Ex libro Gocelini de vit^ S. Yvonis.

^ Yvo Episcopus ex Perside oriundus.

Yvo in Graecia
Yvo in Roma

Yvo a Gallia in Britanniam transmisit.
Yvo pervenit ad Huntendune in provintia Merciorum.
Yvo delegit sibi sedem in Slepa t villa.

[* From Ex Prologo to the paragraph ending Huniedun Pmovituicu^
p. 144, is found in Stow, fo. 82, only. See note before, p. 117.]
[t Slepe, now St. Ives. Slepa distat septem passus mille a Rjiinesia,
ibus ab Huntenduno.— ^a^'no/ note,"]

tril

* Joscelin of Bertin, near St Omer, Pas de Calais.

APPENDIX 143

Yvonis reliquiae plus minus centum lustris in Slepa St. Ivet,
delituere. Hunts.

Rusticus impresso molitus vomere terram
Impegit in hoc sacrosanctum Sarcophagum.

Monachus praepositus Slepensis villae Ednothum Abba-
tem inventi sepulchri admonet

Ednothus venit et ulteriorem spem pertentans sepulchra
duorQ socioru Yvonis una cum monimento Patricii cujus-
dam invenit, raptosque idem in ecclesia cum ipso b^to
Yvone in tempus decentioris translationis composuit Yvo
sepultus vestibus pontificiis una cum calicae deaurato.

Ut etiam res magis innotescat ex claritudine generis Mo- fo. 83.
nachi Praepositi Slepensis villae. Is erat sanctiss. atque
illustrissimo Ebor. Praesulae Oswaldo nobili advunculo,
germano quoque pollens cenobiali et priori equivoco Os-
waldo, ut liber ejus versificus testis est, erudito tam devotb
in Domino ut abstineret oblato Pontificio.

Inventio reliquiarum Yvonis decem annis a morte Ethel-
wini fundatoris Ramesiensis Monaster.* sepultus est Ethel-
winus in eodem Monasterio quod edificaverat.

Ex Libello de translatione Yvonis et ejus Miraculis.

Famosissimus Abbas Germanus Floriacensis institutionis
qui praeto (predicto) Oswaldo Archipraesuli diu adhaeserat,
quem inde glorisissimus Rex Edgarus Monaster. S. Kenelmi
Martiris Winchelcumbae ** praefecerat, filius quoque Edgari
successor Ethelredus cenobio Celesige praeposuerat, quod
suggestione Archiepus Sirici patema pietate constructum et
dicatum Monachis ordinaverat pro sancti fris sui scilicet
Edvardi regali martyrio, et pro r^ni muro.

Cum hoc qui egregio consorte Germano egregius Pater
Ednothus, R^e et Episcopis faventibus S. Yvonem et
reliquos Sanctos secum repertos transtulit in Ramesiense
habitaculum.

Abbas Ednothus noto^ omnium fratrum ecclesiam con- ^ Sic.
didit in honorem et memoriam beat! Yvonis in eodem scilicet
loco tumba sua atque inventionis.

Locus Mausolei nunc scatet fontani aqui.

* Ramsey Abbey, Hants. ^ Winchcombe, Glouc.

144 LELAND'S ITINERARY

fo, 83 vo. Dedicat Ecclesiam Ramesiensis CoenobiL S. Yvonis
St Ivfi antistes Siwardus, vir qui cum fratre Wlfredo per alta peri-
cula maris et nationum gentilium Chrisd miles comprol^tus
fuerat, qui pariter multis persecutionibus et opprobrijs invicti
gentem petitam lucrati sunt Salvatori, et tandem gkdiatore
deficiente in Angliam reversi sunt.

Huic Dedicationi intererat cum cetu nobilium incl3rta
Matrona Ethelfledis, orationibus jejuniis aliisque pietads
actibus venerabilis, quae etiam Coenobium Enulphesbyriae
honorific^ condidit, et magnified ditavit: his quoque quae
sibi memorabilis heros, egregius eleemosynator, et devotus
Dei cultor Ethelricus praetenderat, addidit.

Bluntesham villa.

S. Castrsberga opp:

Reliquiae trium sociorum Yvonis in capsa argentea relata
ad Slepam et in Ecclesia Yvoni sacra tempore Henrici R^is
collocata.

Paganus Peverel vendicabat sibi tempore Bernard! Abbatis
duas villas Ramesiensis coenob : sed causi cecidit.

Robertus Dapifer Pagani Peverel. Bugghedene' villa
Huntedun Provinciae.

PhilUppsMS., Doctor London.*

William of William Perot, alias Wikam, because he was bom at

Wickham. Wikam in Hampshire. Some suppose that he was a bastarde.
Perot the paroche-clark's son of Wikam.

[* Doctor John London, from whom Leland appears to have ob-
tained these notes upon Wykeham, the first of which being misquoted
greatly excited the wrath of Thomas Heame (see his Preface to vol. iv),
held several preferments in and about Oxford from 1502 till his disgrace
and death in 1543. Self-seeking, coarse and vile, he alternated his
persecution of the Lutherans, even to death, with the visitation and
spoliation of the monasteries, on which last he was employed from 1535
to 1538. The heading ''Doctor London" is omitted in Plot's copy,
Heame thus did not know he was the author of the objectionable re-
marks in 171 1 (when he published vol. iv); later, however, he received
a copy of these notes from a transcript in a Cottonian MS., which was
headed ** Doctor London his reporte, out not true.'' This copy, printed
in the Preface to Heame's vol. vii, needs correction by tne original
at Cheltenham, here printed for the first time.]

Buckden.

APPENDIX 145

Perot brought up by Mr. Wodale of Wikam, learned
grammer and to write faire.

The Conestable of Winchester-Casttele, at that time a
grete ruler in Hamp-shire, got Perot of Wodale and made
him his clerke.

Edwarde the 3. cummyng to Winchester-Castel, lyked
Perot and toke hym to service.

Edwarde the 3. understanding that Perot had mynde to
be preste, made hym first parsone of St. Martines in London,
and then Deane of St. Martines in London, then Archi-
diacon of Bukingham.

Edward the 3. made hym surveiar of his buildings, as of
Windsore, and Quinburge • in Kent, and other buildinges.

Then Edward made hym Berer of the Privie-Seale, Master
of the Wardes, and the Forests.

Wikam was Tresorer for the Revenwes of France.

Then he made him Bisshop of Winchester, Chancellor
and Treasorer of England, as it very manifestely apperith by
writing.

The Blak Prince scant favorid Wikam.

Wikam procured to kepe the Prince in battele out of the
realme.

John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster enemie to Wikam.

Alice Porrers, concubine to Edward the 3. causid Wikam
to be banished, and then he dwellid in Normandie and
Picardy a 7. years, Edward the 3. yet Ijrving.

Wikam restorid aboute the 2. year of Richard the 2., of
whom he had a generale pardone.

To my frende master Bane, studient yn Lovaine.* LcUnd

biographic.
Mr. Bane,
I am right gladde to heare of yowr manifolde successes in
al kyndes of good letters. And though ye sumwhat know
Mr. Dawes my frende, the bringger of this lettre, yet never-

[* This is a genuine letter on a folio sheet, with the address on the
folded back. On the same back, upside down, are written the pre-
ceding notes on Wykeham, taken from Dr. London. Dugdale did not
copy this letter, though he copied the notes.]

^ Queenborough.
L

146 LELAND'S ITINERARY

theles I shaul right hartely desire yow that he for my sake,
a man of yowr acquaintaunce in tymes paste, may be the
more commendid, as I may do the like pleasure and service
heere to my smaul powre. I shaul likewise right hartely
require of yow that ye wylle helpe Mr. Dawes as ye may
commodiusly yn a thing whereyn I have required his dilig-
ence : that is to say in procuring me at Lovaine a toward
young man, aboute the age of xx. yeres, leamid in the Latine
tungue and versifying: and that beside can yn the Greke
tungue sine cortice naiare. Suche a one I wolde interteine
tam honestis conditionibus^ modo candidi mores eruditioni
responderent^ that you wold wische a right good frende of
yowrs no better. Mr. Dawes can telle yow the hole circum-
staunce of my mynde in this behalf. Ye see how boldley I
use yow. I pray yow be as bolde of me. At London the
XII. of Novembre, by al your owne at commaundemente.

Joannes Lelandius,

fo. 16. Notes concerning certain Names and Things in the History

of Croyland.*

Welingborow in Northampton-shire.
Lincoln- Bebi in Leyrcestre. Writhorp in Northampton-shire by
shire. Staunford. Elmington by Oundel in "Northampton-shire.
Cotenham a 2. miles from Cambridge. Hokington 2. miles
from Cambridge.

Asewik a farm about 4. miles from Croyland be water
apon Weland Water. It was the abbates place. Dunesdale
on the hither side of Weland a 2. miles dim. above Croy-
land. It is a seny f place for the make.

Quapelode ix. miles from Crowland and 5. miles from
Asewike. Asewik is in Quapelode paroch. Quapelode on
Wyland, and the streame is fresch water there.

Gedeney 3. or 4. miles from Quapelode, a praty tounelet
for the cuntery. It longid ons to 3. sisters. Croyland had
one part, and that sister was biried at Croyland. Lord
Wenford hath another parte. Lord Pollet hath now the 3.

[• These notes are written on the back and run over to the blank
part left of the short letter which follows (on a folio sheet). They refer
to places cited before, pp. 127, 129.]

[f Sic I feny= fenny seems to be meant.]

APPENDIX 147

Baston sometime a market toune a mile from Market Croylaiid.
Deping in Kesten.*

Langetoft joynith to Baston.

Burethorp by Baston a 2. miles of. Tetford is the head
chirch to Baston Market, wher is a chapel.

Bukenhalle by Bullingbrooke.

Halington a 2. miles from Louth Market

Dunedik lordship joyneth upon the Wasch at Fosdik.

Holbech within a mile of Quapelode.

Flete ons a market in hominum memaria. It is but a mile
from Gedeney, and a faire on St. Magdalenes Day.

Thomas Muleton knight had his castel in the fenne halfe
a mile from Quapelode: wherof some smaul parte yet
standith.*^ The Lord Fizwalter hath it now, and Lorde
Marquis hath another parte of it. Lord Richard hath for
lif the Marquis parte.

Portesand* is a 14., about vii. miles every.* It was ons
arable groimd but low; but now for lak of cure fenne and
marisk, and joinith on Croyland Monastery by est, west
and northe. There is a paroche of xviii. score houseling
people.

[Fjriston * withoute doute stondith on the farther side of
Boston Water, and Buttervrik and Tofte also thereby long
to Friston celle, and 3. village beside in Kesten, and all
this was De la Crunnes land.

Alanus de Cruen, Lord of Friston, and that gafe Friston
to Croyland Abbay, was buried on the south side of the
hy altare of Croyland. He cam yn with King William the
Conquerour.

Watkyn Rodeley Esquire that married the Duches of
Somerset, ¥ras buried in our Lady Chapel on the south side
of the chirch. He was alife, as some say, in Henry the vii.
dayes. He was a great riche man.

Richard Welleby, Esquier of the body with Henry the vii.,
lay in a goodly tumbe in owr Lady Chappel. He was borne

[* Sic^ no blank, but some word is wanting.]

» Kesteven. ^ Moulton.

e Now Great Porsand. ^ Freiston.

148 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Croyland. in Multon in HoUande, and was a man ther of great porte
and pour in Holande.

His brother child, Thomas Welby, is the heyre. This
Thomas was also buried there.

Coldingham of old tyme was a celle gyven by a King of
Scotts to Croyland, and they recejrvid oftentime rentes
thense. And at the laste Dirham compounded to give
Croyland 8. pounds by yeer for it out of theyr celle of
St. Leonards by Staunforde.

Leland A letter written in behalf of Mr. Leland.*

biographic.

In right harty maner I commend me on to yow. And
where as Master Leylande at this praesente tyme cummith
to Byri to see what bookes be lefte yn the library there, or
translatid thens ynto any other comer of the late monastery,
I shaul desier yow upon just consideration right redily to
forder his cause, and to permitte hym to have the use of
such as may forder hym yn setting forth such matiers as he
writith for the King's Majeste. In so doying ye shaul bynde
me to show on to yow at al tymes like gratitude: for if I
were present at this tyme with yow I wold gladly my self
fulfil his honeste requeste. Thus fare ye wel this ix. of
Novembre at Bamewelle.

fo. 17. Notes out of the Abbey of Saint Edmund's-Bury.t

Suffolk.

Anselmus Abbas fecit capellam S. Andreae. Item fecit

parari arte fusoria magnas navas occidentals Ecclesiae

S. Edmimdi.

Ecclesiam S. Jacobi aedificavit, ad quam transtulit paro-
chiam de navi ecclesiae S. Edmundi.

Hugo ejus nominis 2. Abbas S. Edmundi, postea epis-
copus Eliensis. Hie sepultus est ad pedes S. Ethelredae.
Simon Abbas demolita rotunda capella Prions, in qua
S. Edmundus ante translationem requievit, capellam beatae
Mariae k fundamentis in eodem loco sumptibus suis, par-
entum et amicorum aedificavit.

[• Title added bv Hearne.]

[t This marginal note is in a hand lat^r than Leiand's time.]

APPENDIX 149

Joannes Norwold Abbas capellam de Caraelo in coemi- Bury St.
terio fundavit et dotavit. Bdmundt.

Construxit etiam capellam S. Botulphi.

Edmundus de Brondisoh abbas fecit unam turrim super
aquam.

Richardus primus Abbas fecit tabulam argenteam deaur-
atam pro magno altari. Thomas Scales miles.

Joannes Gosford Prior S. Edmundi perquisivit manerium
de Huntingfeld Haulle in Estbraden.

Vicus chirothecarum in oppido S. Edmundi.

Joannes Gosford Prior incepit novum claustrum juxta
ecclesiam S. Edmundi, et auxilio amicorum perfecit.

Fecit etiam claustrum juxta infirmariam.

Gul. Conquestor rex Angl. dedit S. Edmundo maneria
de Brok et Hergrave, et quareium ad Burgum S. Petri.*

Vuio primus Abbas S. Edmundi sepultus in capella
infirmariae.

Stephanus rex remisit monaster. S. Edmimdi custodiam
40. nulitum castelli de Norwico.

Guarinus filius Geroldi dedit S. Edmundo Sabritches-
worth.**

Ex libello de Exequiis nobilium virorum et Abbatum
sepultorum in monasterio S. Edmundi.

Thomas Beaufort dux Exoniae tam corpus suum quam
Margaretae uxoris suae sepeliendum in monasterio S. Ed-
mundi commendavit.

Baldevrinus dedit conventui piscationem k Sidelesmere
usque ad Lakford, et 2^, stagna juxta monasterium.

Hie Baldewinus prostrata ecclesia S. Edmundi, ab Ail-
wino episcopo Estangliae constructa, aliam pulcheriorem et
eminentiorem k fundamentis de novo construxit, in quam
corpus S. Edmundi transtulit.

Sampson Abbas dedit crucem auream.

Aulam hospitum in curia, et aulam placitum, et aulam
scholarum, et aulam de Redgrave '^ lapideas aedificavit.

Aquae-ductum, et aquam per rivulos derivatam, et lava-
toria opere mirifico et magnitudine admiranda consummavit.

■ Peterborough. *» Sawbridgeworth.

^ Redgrave Hall, the Abbot's residence.

ISO LELAND'S ITINERARY

Bury St. Hospitale S. Salvatoris aedificavit.

Bdxnundt. Operimentum sepulchri S. Edmundi renovavit et auro
gemmisque disdnctum adomavit

Joannes de Gaunt dux Lancastriae septem fenestras
vitreas fieri fecit in ecclesia ex parte australi.

Bdmundus Bokenham Abbas emit Cagehalle in Mag.
Berton * pro loo. marcis.

Joannes Bohun Abbas.

Gul. Cratfeld Abbas redemit servitutem 3000. florenorum,
quae singuli abbates Edmundi in consecratione sua solebant
dare pontifici Romano.

Redemit etiam k Richardo secundo rege pretium uca-
tionis • Abbat. S. Edmundi, videlicet 40. libr.

Richardus primus dedit Ailsham S. Edmundo, vivaria de
Pakenham et Rugham.**
fa 18. D. Gul. Elinham et Elizabeth uxor.

Joannes rex Angliae dedit S. Edmundo imum sapphyrum
virtuosum, et unum rubeum sive carbunculum magni valoris,
et viginti quatuor homines cum terris suis in Ailesham.

Henricus 3. dedit monasterio S. Edmundi unam cupam
auream pro corpore Domini.

Thomas Abbas dedit magnam copiam vasorum argente-
orum monasterio S. Edmundi.

Joannes Lavenham sacrista fecit et fieri procuravit in
ecclesia S. Edmundi infra spatium 26. annorum campanile
novum supra chorum pretio 866. lib. 13. solidis et 4. den-
ariis.t Fecit fieri et max. campanam pretio centum triginta
trium librarum, sex solidorum et octo denariorum.

Domina Maria de Pakenham, et D*. Edmundus maritus
ejus, et D*. Thomas filius suus, et Radulphus de Hemenhale
inilites dederunt nobis reversionem manerii de Pakenham
inferioris, quod valet 40. libr. per annum. Robertus Hoel
miles.

Thomas Mountchesi et Joanna uxor ejus.

[* Sic in MS. Heame suggests that advocationis is intended.]
[f Sic. Read solidorum et 4 denariorum, — Hbarne. Fos. 17 and
18, I think, are not in Leland's hand, though in one contemporaiy.]

^ Great Barton. ^ Aylesham, Norf. ; Rougham, Suff.

APPENDIX 151

Ex collectionibus Joannis Rowse * de Antiquitate Oxonii et fo. 19.
Achademiae. £x libris Britannica lingua scriptis.

Oxford primo k conditore Mempricio Caer Mimbref Oxford,
dicta, deinde Belle-situm, forsan k bello monte vicino, postea
Ridohen, i.e. vadum bourn, et Caer Vossa, k comite quodam
qui floruit tempore Arturii.

Ex libro Universitatis Oxon.

Primo adducti sunt cum Trojanis per Brutum Graeci
Philosophi, k quibus postea locus eorum studiis deputatus
Grecelade dicebatur, ubi primum fuit generale studium
Britanniae.

Ibidem.

Philosophi de Grecelade propter amnium, pratorum et
nemorum amoenitatem studium suum transtulerunt k Grece-
lade ad Belle-situm tunc vocatum, quem locum postea
Saxones nominabant Oxoniam k quodam vado vicino sic
dictum.

Lechelade schola sic dicta k medicis.

S. Sampson archiepiscopus Eboru, et postea Dolensis
episcopus in parva Brit, studuit apud Grecelade4 Anno
D°*. Dccxxvii. obiit Frediswida monacha filia Didani reguli
et Safridae, translata fuit pridie Idus Februarii anno I)°*.
1 1 80. praesente r^e Henrico secundo, Richardo archiep.
Cantuar. et multis aliis episcopis.§

A®. D*. 821. fuit grave bellum inter Egbertum regem
West-Sax. et Ceolwlphum regem Merciorum inter Abing-

[* John Rowse, Rous, or Rosse, of Warwick, antiquary, who lived
from about 141 1 to 1491, the last forty-five years as chantry priest of
Guy's Cliff, Warwick. He wrote several works referred to by Leland
(Collectanea, ed. 1715, vol. iv, no, 211, 221); from one of these, De
Academiis Britannicis (Bale), the above extracts on Oxford appear to
have been taken; and another, De episcopis Wigorniciy is here quoted
by Leland, pp. 158, 163, 165. His two works which have come down
to modem times are a famous Roll of the Earls of Warwick, and « His-
toria Regum Angliae."]

[t Memprice was first written, then corrected to MimbreJ\
X David thesaur. Landavensis Eulogium historiarum Angliae. —
Marginal note,]
[§ Chronicon de Osney. — Marginal note,]

152 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Oxford, don et Oxford in loco qui Cherrenhul* dicitur, victore
Egberto.

Studium de Greclade translatum Belle-situm furore pagan-
orum cessavit, tandemque per Aluredum reparatum fuit.

Rex Alfredus, sive Aluredus, anno D"*. dccclxxiii®. primo
Doctores in Grammatica, in Artibus, et in Theologia instituit
Oxonii, principaliter in tribus locis, quos vocavit Aulas Uni-
versitatis, in nomine S. Trinitatis fundatas, quanim una in
• Sic. alto vico versus portam orientalem situata^ xxvi. Gram-
maticos omnibus necessariis sufficienter instructos, et haec
Aula parva Universitatis dicta. Alia aula erat versus muros
boreales constructa pro xxvi. Dialecticis seu Philosophis.
Tertia constructa pro Theologis in alto vico, versus portam
orientalem. Erant circa haec tempora et aliae Aulae k no-
bilibus, exemplo regis, fundatae: quo tempore ecclesia S.
Aegidii deputata erat eorum convocationibus et congrega-
tionibus, sicut nunc est ecclesia S. Mariae.

Rex Aluredus octavam partem proventus sui scholis gra-
tiose tribuitt

Edwardus Aluredi filius statuit Universitatem Canta-
brigiae.J

Rex Aluredus inter ceteros genuit Ethelwardum virum
literatissimum et philosophum in achademia Oxon. qui sepul-
tus est cum patre in monasterio de Hide.

Leyland.

Redbum historicus, quem Joannes Rowse aliquoties citat,
fuit monachus Wintoniensis. Rowse vero ejus chronicon
non citat post annum Domini 1229. sed hinc non tamen
satis liquet quo tempore vixerit.

Joannes Rowse in libello de Achademiis scribit se locu-
tum fuisse cum hoc Rodbumo. Unde satis liquet quo tem-

[• This place Heame suggested may have been Chilswell, on the
north of Foxcomb Hill, near Oxford (Preface to voL v of " Itinerary,"
p. iv, also p. 156).]

[t Marianus Scotus. — Marginal note,]

\X Ranulphus Castr. — Marginal note,]

APPENDIX 153

pore vixerit Scripsit duos libros chronicorum, majorem et Oxford.
minorem.*

S. Grimbaldus monachus S. Bertini, Dr. Parisiensis, per
Aluredum vocatus, docuit Oxonii. Idem fecit et Joannes
Scotus per eundem regem vocatus.

Anno D^. 979". tempore Aegelredi regis coenobium S.
Frediswidae monialium Oxon. destructum est per Danos, et
sic concussum et confractum mansit usque ad tempus Rogeri
episcopi Sanim, qui id reparavit, et primum ibi Canonicum
instituit Guimundum, virum per omnia probum.f

Anno D"*. 1015®. multi ex nobilitate Danica consilio
Edrici interfecti, pars vero petentes campanile S. Frediswidae
cum turre ibidem conflagraverunt.

Haraldus spoliavit scholas ab Aluredo institutas, uni theo-
logonim scholae parcens, quae schola postea iterum dotata
est k Gulielmo Archidiacono Dunelmensi.

Haraldus Levipes Oxoniae coronatus in regem auxilio
Leofrici comitis Cestriae Anno D*^. 10364

Mire aucta Universitas tempore Normannorum regum
usque ad Joannem regem.

Oxonia per Danos cremata a®. D\ 979^ et iterum anno
jy^. MIX®, per Danos incensa.§

Cantabrigia et Northamptona oppid. incensa per Danos
anno D*^. mx*.

Anno D"*. mcxxxiii. Robertus Poleyn resuscitavit studium
sacrum literarum Oxonii, quae jam fere absolverant. Hie
Robertus postea factus fuit cancellarius Romanae ecclesiae.

Joannes Veldenet scripsit librum cui titulus Fasciculus
temporum.

Anno Jy^, MLXXi". aedificatum fuit castrum Oxon. k
Roberto Oyly primo, et a^. Di. mlxxiiii. fundata est ecclesia
S. Georgii in castro per eundem Robertum.||

A**. D*. Mcxxix<*. fundata est ecclesia Canonicorum Regu-

[* This paragraph was added in the margin bv Leland. Thomas
Reidbum or Rudbome was a monk of St. Swithin s, Winchester, who
wrote in IA40 the Annals of the Church of Winchester ("Diet. Nat.
Biography'*).]

t Flores Histor. — Marginal noU,']

X Ranulphus Cestrensis. — Marginal note."]

§ Henr. Hunting. — Marginal note."]

ji Chronicon de Oseney, quod adhuc ibidem muro ecclesiae appen-
sum. — Marginal note, ]

154 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Oxford, larium in insula quae dicitur Oseney, k Roberto de Oyleyo
secundo, constabulario regis Henrici primi.

fo. 2a Ex tabella Joannis Rowse.

Universite Col. Theologi.
Collegium Ballioli. Artistae.
Collegium Regale de Oryel. Theologi et Artistae.
Collegium Reginae. Th. et Art.
Coll^um Mertonis. TheoL Art. et Legulei duo.
Collegium Exestriae. Th. et Art
Collegium Lincolniae. Th. et Art.
CoU^um Wintoniense, alias Novum Collegium. Th. et
Leg.
Collegium Animarum. Th. Art et Leg.
Collegium Magdalenae. Th. et Art.
Collegium Cantuar. Nigri Monachi.
Coll^. Dunelmiae. Nigri Monachi.
CoUeg. Glocestriae. Nigri Monachi.
Coll. S. Barnardi. Albi Monachi.
Coll. S. Mariae. Canonici Regulares.
Collegium Londini. Bumel Yn, idem Warwic Yn.
Coll. Londini. Nigri Monachi tempore meo.
Domus ordinis S. Trinitatis.
Quatuor ordines F^trum.

In vico Scholasticorum.

Aula de Brasnos. Art.

Aula Universitatis minor. Art.

Aula salutis desiderii. idem.

Salisburi. Art.

Aula S. Edmundi.* Art.

Aula vitrea. Art.

Aula Stapulia. Art.

Aula Castriae. Art.

[* Alia ab Aula Edmundi in parochia Sti. Petri ad Orientem, de
qua infra, pag. i6o. Nomen nempe duxit ab Edmundo Riche, Archi-
episcopo Cantuariensi, qui ab anno cijccxix. ad an. CIDCCXXVI. ibi-
dem legisse perhibetur. Vide Wood's '' Hist and Antiq. Univ. Oxon,'*
(1674, fol.) vol. ii, p. 9.— HSARNB.]

APPENDIX

155

In alto vico.

Oxford.

Takley Yn. Grammatici.
Haberdagh Haul. Art*
Brodegates. L^.
George Hawle. Leg.
Woodcok Hawle. Leg.
Deop Hawle. Leg.
Osney HawUe. Leg.

Ing Haule. Grammatici.

Wilby Haulle.

Parva Aula Uni versitatis.

Art.
Aula Bostaris. Theologi.
Whyght Hawle. Grammat.

Juxta Merton College.

Aula Urbani. Leg.
Aula S. Joannis. Art.
Berne Hawle. Art
Portmister Hawle. Art
Colsel Hawle. Art.
Aristotle HawUe. Leg. Hy-
bemi.

Albon HawUe. Art
Chymney Hawle. Leg.
Tenchwic Yn.
Leon Hawle. Grammat.
Andrew Hawle. Leg.

Juxta Oryel College.

Aula S. Mariae. Art.
Bedil Hawle. Art.
Cuthbert Hawle. Grammat.
Heron. EUiwle. Leg. Hi-
bemi.

Aula Angularis. Art.
Nunne Hawle. Leg. & Art.
Nevil's Yn. Leg.
Bekes Yn. Legistae.

Juxta S. Fredeswidam.

Aula Graeca.
Pekwater Yn.

Grammati

lando.t

Leg.

Leg. pnus
ci sub Ley-

Aula S. Edwardi. Wallici

Leg.
Vine Hawle. L^. Hibemi,
Seler Hawle. Leg.

Juxta Ecclesiam S. Aldati.

Polton Hawle.
James Hawle.
Mihel HauUe.

Leg.

Leg.
Leg.

Beof Hawle. Leg.
Dunstan Hawle. Leg.

[* Between this item and the next the words "In parochia omnium
Sanctorum " were written and crossed out.]

[t John Leland, a grammarian of reputation, who studied at Oxford
and taught at Peckwater Inn ; he died in 1428. Known as John Leland
senior, it is supposed that our Leland was connected with him by col-
lateral descent, but this is uncertain.]

156

LELAND'S ITINERARY

Oxford.

Penferthing Streate.
BulHauUe. Leg. Powle Hawle. Leg.
Egle Hawle.

Fisch Streat

Hinksey HauUe. Leg.
Bayly TrillokYn. Ley. quod
nunc dicitur Novum Hos-

pitium, quia noviter aedifi-
catur.

Juxta Collegium Lincoln.

Mildrede Hawle. Art. Laurence Hawle. Art.
Hampton Hawle. Art. Hawke Hawle. Leg.
Whyte Hawle. Leg. Yn. Elme Hawle. Leg. YnCheyne
Cheyni Lane. Lane.

In parochia Sti. Petri ad Orientem.

Edmunde Hawl.*
Blake Hawl. Art.

Hart Hawle. Art

In Norgate Street.

Coventre Hawle. Leg. Hybem.

Apud vicariam S. Mariae Magdalenae. Th. Morale.

Scholastici Eleemosynarii de Osney in Castro.

Aulae destructae tempore meo in Cat-strete, pro CoUegio
Animaru.

Bedford Hawlle. Art.f
S. Thomas Hawl. Art.
Salamon's Hawl. Art.

Leon Hawle. Grammat
St. John's Entre.
Hart Hawl. Art.

Aulae ante tempora mea destructae.

Cat Hawl yn Cat-street.
Mayden Hawle.
Penchrich Hawl.

Bumel Yn, modo London

Colleg.
Drowght's Hawl. Art.
Wyloughby Hawl. Art.

[* Recte Edmund Hawle, non St. Edmund Hawle. Nomen enim
tnudt ab Edmundo quodam, cive Oxoniensi, regnante Henrico HI. non
autem ab Edmundo Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, de quo supra pag. 158.
VicU Wood's "Hist, and Antiq. Univ. Oxon." (1674, fol.) vol. ii,
p. 351.— Hearnk.]

[t Lege, Berford.— Hbarne.]

APPENDIX

157

Cantebrigiae.

Cambridge.

Leg. 20

Regale collegium

ceteri Art.
Regia Aula. Leg. & Art.
Michael Howse. Theol. &

Art.
Gunwel Hawle. Theol. &

Art.
Clare Hawle. Theol. & Art.
Trinite Hawle. Leg.
Benet College. Theol. &

Art.
Pembroke Hawle. Theol. &

Art.
Peter Howse. Theol
CoU^ium Reginae.

&Art.
Goddes Howse. Art.
Bokingham College.

achi.
Quatuor ordines fratrum.

.& Art.
Theol.

Mon-

CoUegium Jesu.
Fishwic Hostel. Art.
Honyngis Yn. Leg.
Garret Hostel.
Gregory Hostel. Art
S. Margaret's Hostel.
S. Augustines Hostel. Art.
S. Thomas Hostel. Art.
S. Barnard's Hostel. Art.
S. Clement's Hostel. Leg.
Burdon Hostel. Leg.
S. Maris Hostel.
Trinite Hostel. Leg.
Harliston Place. Art.
S. John's Hostel.
S. Nicolas Hostel. Leg.
S. John's. Religiosi.
S. Paule's Yn. L^.
Canonici Albi.

David Thesaurarius Landavensis scriptor.*

Castria, alias Urbs L^onum, olim caput et Metropolis
Venedotiae.

Castria alias etiam dicta L^ecestria.

Joannes Stafford Franciscanus, cujus historiae Rowse
meminet. (Ley.)

Chronicon Henrici Knightoni.f

Leontius pater Leyri regis condidit Caer LLeo civitatem
Glamorganiae.

Rowse scripsit librum de comitibus Wereuicensibus.

Rowse scripsit Chronicon quod appellavit Waruic.

Waruic civitas olim, secundum Britan. testimonium, epis-
copum habuit, cujus sedes erat in ecclesia S. Joannis Bap-
tistae (ubi nunc schola Grammaticorum) in foro civitatis

fo. 21.

[• These notes, " David— fuisse," on top of the next leaf (p. 158) were
evidently made by Leland himself, who twice adds his name Ley, as
distingmshing them from the notes copied from Rowse.]

[t Knigtonus MS.]

158 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Waruicensis, quae postea translata fiiit ad ecclesiam Omnium
Sanctorum in castro.

Worcester. £x libro . . . Rowse de Episcopis Wigomiae.

Anno D"*. mcxxiii. tempore Theulphi Wigomiensis epis-
copi, consensu vero Rogeri de bello monte comitis Warwic.
facta est unio ecclesiae omnium sanctorum in castro War-
uicensi et S. Mariae extra castrum, ubi adhuc sunt canonici
seculares.

(Ley. Puto id temporis festum omnium sanctorum non
sancitum fuisse. Nam ecclesia ilia dedicata fuit omnibus
Sanctis tempore Henrici I. per Rogenim de Belmond comi-
tem Warwici. Verisimile est tamen antiquiorem ecclesiam
olim in castro fuisse.)

Domus leprosorum S. Michaelis Waruici fundata per
Rogenim de bello monte comitem Waruicensem.

Rogerus de bello monte induxit canonicos ordinis S.
Augustini in ecclesiam S. Sepulchri, quam Henricus de bello
monte pater ejus construxit at petitionem Hierosolymitano-
rum. Haec erat capitalis domus hujus ordinis per Angliam
et Walliam. Putantque Almaricum, hujus loci primum
Priorem, ad Patriarchalem sedem Hierosolymitanorum fuisse
translatum. Erat hoc coenobium in Parochia S. Mariae.
Tandem canonici, tempore Richardi secundi, ex pulsi sunt

Anno D^. mclxxxiii<* fundata est domus S. Joannis extra
muros per Gulielmum comitem filium Rogeri de bello
monte.

Domus Templariorum ex australi parte pontis Warwicensis
dedicata in honorem S. Thomae Cantuar.

Juxta orientalem portam Waruic. olim erat domus Hos-
pitalariorum ordinis S. Joannis j sed jam Templariorum et
Hospitalariorum de Warwic. possessiones devolutae sunt
Hospitalariis de Balshale/

Ex libro Joannis Rusi de episcopis Wigorn.

De S. Ceadda, Merciorum episcopo quinto, qui successit

S. Jearmanno.

Cedda datus est primis annis S. Aidano episcopo Lindis-
famensi educandus, et purioribus literis informandus, qui

> Balsall.

APPENDIX 159

K-

postea melioris vitae desiderio Hybemiam petiit, ubi plene

instructus rediit in Angliam, factusque Oswio regi Northum-

brorum familiarior electus fuit archiepiscopus Eboracensis, ;

cui tandem officio post triennium concessit, et se contulit ad

monasterium de Lestingay, quod frater suus Ceddus in ;

Northumbriae partibus construxerat. Inde secretum locum t

Staffordensis provinciae petens, aliquandiu lacte cervae •

pastus est Cerva vero venatione agitata, Wolfadum et Rufi- t

num, Wulferi, Merciorum regis, fiUos ad castra S. Ceddae \

perduxit, k quo baptizati sunt. Hujus postea episcopalis ^

sedes fuit apud Licdfeld, ubi etiam sepultus fuit. Lichefeld 1

vero nomen sumpsit k martyrum corporibus, ibi pro Christi

nomine interfectis, ut habetur apud S. Albanum in libris et

tabulis de vita sanctorum Albani et Amphibali. Nam anno y

domini cclxxxvi Dioclesianus in Oriente et Maximianus (

in Occidente* vastare ecclesias, affligi interficique Christianos

decimo post Neronem loco praeceperunt, et haec immanis

persecutio duravit per decem annos, quo tempore passus est

Albanus. Cumque compertum fuisset k Maximiano quod

Amphibalus S. Albani instructor versus boream recessisset,

misit qui eum persequerentur, et ipso k loco martyrii S. Albani

per 84'*'. miliaria invento praedicante subito imierunt in eos,

ipsum Amphibalum capientes, ceteros omnes occiderunt,

cadavera avibus et bestiis relinquentes devoranda. A quo

eventu locus ubi jacebant nomen traxit Lichefeld, quasi

campus cadaverum. Gulielmus de Pontifidbus capitulo

Ebor. invitabatur creberrime ab Wulfero Merciorum rege,

S. Wilfridus ocpulsus k sede Ebor. ad locum Lichfeld voca-

tum, ut ibi episcopatum vel coenobium faceret.

Stafford antiqua villa est, de qua Merlinus scribit: Duo
r^es dubium proelium committent propter leenam de vado
baculi.

In provincia Warwicensi civitas eodem tempore opulent-
issima, Anglice Alencestria dicta, quasi civitas Alani, nunc
vero comipte Alcestria* dicitur. (Lelandus. Aknus flu.
praeter labitur, unde et nomen.) Ad banc urbem S. Cedda
veniens,t ut pater filios instnicturus; sed brevi intellexit se

[• An vastari?— Hearne.] [f Sic, read venif,]

' Alcester.

i6o

LELAND'S ITINERARY

fo. 22.

Oxford.

Maith. Pari-
siensis.

ad bestias non ad homines venisse, qui non verbis nee
miraculis ad dei cognitionem perduci potuenint. Inde
multis opprobriis vir dei ejectus, habitatores maledixit. Ab
illo civitas olim nobilis facta est exilis. Coenobium ibi ab
antique situatum, ob S. Ceddae anathema, in alium locum
translatum est; et nunc Alcestria modicus vicus est, cujus
conditor erat Alanus vir Britonum tempore famosus et
potens. Haec habentur sparsim libro 2^*°. et 3*^ Joannis ad
Eustachium de Regibus Merciorum.

Richardus * primus natus fuit Oxonii in palatio R^s ubi
nunc est coenobium Carmelitarum.

Anno D"*. mccix®. regnante Joanne rege, Scholastici Uni-
versitatem Oxoniae prorsus reliquerunt; pars Cantebrigiam,
pars Radingum, pars Maidston petierunt. Causa fuit, quia
praeses oppidi scholasticum persecutus, qui mulierem inter-
fecerat, una cum illo innocentes aliquot comprehendit et
suspendit anno Domini 1232.

Joannes cog. Blundus, vir eminentis scientiae et Oxonii
professor Theologiae, electus in episcopum Cantuar. sed
Romae ipso praesente cassata fuit ejus electio, et electus
S. Edmundus. Studuerat hie Blundus Parisiis. Erat hie
Blundus etiam Eboraeensis canonicus. Ley. Summe hie ^
multis laudatur, nihil tamen, quod sciam, vidi ab illo
scriptum. Comites etiam studiorum habuit Lutetiae Parisi-
orum hos celebres viros Anglos, Alanum de Becoles, et
Nicolaum de Femham.

Anno D^. mccxxxiiii^. magna pars scholasticorum Oxoni-
ensium Stamfordiam se contulerunt studendi gratia propter
discordias inter scholasticos et Burgenses.

Anno D"*. mccxxxvii^ Otho legatus Romanus interfecto

uno de ejus familia Oxonii fugit in turrim ecclesiae
Osney, ubi k scholasticis obsessus fuit ad noctem.

Anno D"^ mccxlv®. die Purificationis S. Mariae Judaei
Oxonii k scholasticis spoliati.

Anno D°^. 1 248. Blundus canonicus Eboraeensis, Rogerus
Bacon, et Ricardus Fizacre mortui. (Alias legi Baconum
obiisse anno domini 1292. Ley.)
Aiaith. Pari' Anno D*. 1249. orta est Cantabrigiae dissensio inter

[* Here begins a fresh leaf of the MS., in the same ink and in
Ldand's hand.]

APPENDIX i6i

Scholasticos et Burgenses, ex qua ad rapinas, vulnera et Oxford,
homicidia ventum est.

Anno D*^. 1258. Scholastici Oxon. in sectas divisi, vexilla
explicantes, hostiliter inter se conflixerunt.

Anno D"*. 1249. ol>"^ Gulielmus de Dunholmo Rotho-
magi, rediens k Romana curia eminentissime literatus,
quondam etiam electus Rothomagensis.

Frater Rogerus Bacon in epistola de laude Artis Mathe-
maticae ad Papam Clementem, Gulielmum • Lincolniensem
thesaurarium (f. cancellarium) natione Anglum supra sydera
extoUit nomine eruditionis.

Joannes Rowse scribit hunc appellatum fiiisse Shyrwood,
et dedisse Aulae Universitatis Theologorum Oxoniae ubi
studuit trecentas libras pecuniae ad emendos agros in usus
scholasticorum, atque ut aliquo modo repararent jacturam
quam passi sunt sub Haraldo rege, qui spoliatis prorsus
reliquis scholasticis omnibus magna cum gratia illis nudam
domum reliquit.

Anno D"*. MCCLxiiii. scholastici Oxonienses multa damna
intulerunt regiis militibus dum obsiderent Northamptonam,
unde rex juravit, futurum ut omnes scholastici Oxonienses
suspenderentur.t

Henricus Knighton produxit historiam usque ad extrema
tempora regni Richardi secundi.

Ricardus de Wichia cancellarius S. Edmundi Abingdon
archiepiscopi Cantuariensis scholasticus fuit Oxon. et postea
Cicestrensis episcopus, qui post mortem Sancti nomen
meruit.

Hunc in scholis Oxon. secutus est Richardus filius
Radulphi, Armacanus aliter dictus k sede sua episcopali in
Hybemia, nunc canonizatus.

Richardus de Bury, alias Angravyle* dictus, episcopus
Dunelmensis scripsit Philobiblon.

Anno D°*. 1362^ Simon Islepe archiepiscopus Cantuar.
ftmdavit collegium Cantuariense Oxonii.J

(• Gulielmus Shirwod. — Marginal note.]
t Henri. Knighton historiographus. — Afarginal noieJ]
\X The notes on fo. 22 end here, leaving a long blank. Something
seems to have been lost before fo. 23, the top of which is torn.]

* Angarville.
M

i62 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Salisbury. Osmundus construxit ecclesiam Sarum, et in ea canonicos
fo. 23. instituit.

Osmundus donavit ecclesiam Sarum amplis terns et eccle-
siasticis possessionibus.

Scripta fuit haec charta et confirmata anno D*. 1091. a®. 4.
Gul. conquestoris regis Angliae, et ejus sigillo sigillata, sub-
scribentibus regni proceribus.

Hactenus ex charta.

Osmundus ordinavit in ecclesia Sarum quatuor personas
principales, decanum, praecentorem, cancellarium et thesaur-
arium: ac constituit 32'. praebendas in eadem ecclesia.

Deputavit etiam 4. archidiaconos, nee non subdecanum
et succentorem : quibus omnibus elargitus est possessiones
de ipsius dominio quod habuit tempore quo stetit comes
Dorsetiae.

Osmundus libros scribere, ligare ac illuminare non fasti-
divit.

Osmundus dedit multa ornamenta partim aurea, partim
argentea ecclesiae Sarum.

Henricus 3*"*. rex Angliae dedit terras, et fructus ecclesi-
asticos, ac libertates multas ecclesiae Sarum.

Agnes uxor Huberti de Ria et Henricus ejus filius ded-
erunt manerium de Hortun tempore Richardi Powr episcopi
Sarum.

Crocus venator eodem tempore dedit ecclesiae Sarum
terras quas Alwardus et Godus olim habebant in burgo
Sarum et Wilton.

Monasterium hederosum cum capella de Farlegh.

Charta regis Henrici 3. de nundinis beati Edmimdi
Sarum.

Charta ejusdem Henrici ad pontes transferendos et vias
mutandas.

Charta de feria et mercato de Bemistre.* Praebenda de
Bedminstre cum Ratclif.

Charta Priorissae de Bromhale.

manerium de

Torrington eccl. Sarum.

^ Beaminster.

APPENDIX

163

Gilbertus de Percy dedit ecclesiam de Cerdestok* ecclesiae Saiisbnry.
Sarum.

Eccl. Calne praebenda eccl. Sanim.

GuL Talebote, dominus hundredi de Alwarbyri. Capellae
de Chiriel et Berwik ** annexae eccl. de Calne.

Slape praebenda in parochia de Netherbyri.

Stratford praebend. in ripa Avonae non longe h veteri
urbe Sarum.

Decanus Sarum rector de Sunninges.

Praebenda de Blebury.**

Heitredesbury * ecclesia collegiata et appropriata decanatui
Sarum : et habet conferre 4. praebendas.

Longalata** prioratus ubi eccl. D. Radegundi dedicata.
Joannes Vernon miles primus hujus loci fundator.

Ex libro Joannis Rowse Warwicensis de episcopis
Wiccensibus.*

Chinestrita mater, Heorstanus pater Dunstani.

Osbernus monachus Canluar. scripsit vitam Dunstani.

S. Oswaldus episc. Wigorn. deinde archiep. Ebor. nepos
fiiit Odonis Dani archiep. Cantuar.

Monachi expulsis clericis in ecclesiam Wigorn. tempore
Oswaldi inducti.

(Rowse conjectura ducitur Oswaldum natum fuisse Rame-

sey.)t

S. Oswaldus episcopus Wigorn. consecravit ecclesiam
coenobii Ramesiensis.

S. Aelphegus [tunc] J Winton. episc. postea archiep.
Cantuar. tumulavit corpus Alwini comitis Orientalium An-
glorum apud Ramesei, cujus coenobii fundator erat.

Corpus Haraldi regis 2. sepultum apud S. Clementem in
suburbio occidentali.

Livingus ex monacho Tavistocensi factus episcopus

[* Leiand's error for Wigomiensibus^ see also p. 165.]

it This line seems to be a note of Leiand's own, interlined.]
t Tunc in Dugdale, who has, however, mixed this and the last
paragraph together. In the original the word is gone.]

[No fo. 24.]

Worcester,
fo. 25.

' Chardstock.
« PBlewbury,

* Heytesbury.

^ Cherhill and Bar wick.

« PLongleat.

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Worcester. Wigom. tempore Canuti cog. fortis, Tavestochiae tandem
1 sepultus est.

t Fodir et Thurstan huscarli Canuti cogn. fortis occisi k

I provincialibus Wigom. quam ob causam Wigom. postea k

i militibus Canuticis incensa et depraedata est. Venit cum

i aliis comitibus ad hunc tumultum compescendum, Rom.

■ comes Massetetensium,* id est, Herefordiensium.

Bemrege. Cives Wigorn. accepta insula in Sabrina nomine Benier-
sey" se defendebant quoad militum ardor refrigeret.
' Leofricus praesul tempore Edwardi Confessoris transtulit

sedem k Crideoduno Iscam," ubi expulsis Sanctis virginibus
induxit clericos in ecclesiam S. Petri,
i Anno D"^ mlxi°. Athelstanus episcopus Herefordiensis

"^ in sua ecclesia Herefordiensi sepultus est, quam ipse k fun-

damentis constmxerat.
! Liber in Scaccario regis dictus Domesday.

Wolstanus reparavit ecclesiam de Westbiri et monachos
cum abbate Colemanno induxit.

Wolstanus fabricata nova ecclesia dimebat eam quam
S. Oswaldus episcopus Wigorn. construxit.

Aldewinus monachus vitam heremiticam duxit eo loco
ubi nunc est coenobium Malverniae.

Robertus natione Lotharingus episcopus Herefordensis
ecclesiam suam ex integro aedificavit, imitatus formam
basilicae Aquensis.

Guliel. cantor Malmesbir. scripsit (si recte memini) tres

libros de vita S. Wolstani.f
I Anno D"^ mcxii. combustum fuit tectum basilicae Wi-

^ gorniensis. — (Leyland. Apparet ibidem tectum basilicae id

[ temporis fuisse ligneum sed plumbo vestitum, sed jam fornix

est ex pulcherrimis lapidibus.)

[* Dugdale has copied this name Masse Ventensium (MS. Eng. Hist.,
c. 9, fo. 41).]

[t Here in midst of the extracts from Rowse are inserted notes from
William of Malmesbury, Florence of Worcester, and Mat. Paris, with
Leland's occasional remarks. ]

^ Bevereye, or Bevere, Worcester ; Dugdale has Beuercge.
*> Crediton, near the Exe.

APPENDIX

165

Florenlius. Fulgentius historicus. — (Leyland. Fuit hie Worcester,
monachus Wigorn. Et obiit anno D"*. mcxviii.)

Anno D"*. mcxlix. Stephanus rex urbem Wigomiensem
obsedit, eepit, incendit ; sed Waleranus comes de Mellenti
et Leycestriae castrum defendebat.

Ex Matthaeo Parisiensi. Henricus 2". portavit coronam
Wigorn. cum pompa maxima a°. D"*. 1158. qua postea
nescio quo spiritu ductus memor humanae sortis crucifixi
imaginem coronavit, et ab illo corona nunquam utebatur.

Anno D°*. mclxxxi. Baldwinus Abbas Fordensis.

Balduinus ex Wigorn. factus archiep. Cantuar. tandemque
in expeditione contra Saracenos mortuus est Tyri.

Anno D"*. 1125^ corpus Joannis de Constantiis episcopi
Wigomiensis, prius decani cathedr. ecclesiae Rothomag.
dum aedificarent novam ecclesiam Wigomiensem elevatum
fuit, et adhuc prope sum mum altare in cista servatur. (Ley-
land. Superior pars basilicae forsan id temporis aucta et
magnificentior facta, nam inferior antiquioris structurae
est.)

An**. D"*. MCCii. tempore Joannis regis deflorata fuit
ecclesia Wigorn. incendio.

An°. D***. Mccxxii. Dominicani construxerunt oratorium
loco ubi nunc sunt scholae S. Edwardi. Postea translati
sunt extra muros.

An^ D^. Mccxxiiii. venerunt Franciscani in Angliam,
qui primum locum suae religionis Bedefordiae posuerunt.

An^ D"*. MCCXXIIII. inceptum est novum opus Wigomiae.

Haec quae sequuntur de antiquitate Warwicensi inserta Warwick,
sunt libro Joannis Rowse quem scripsit de episcopis
Warwicencibus [error for Wigornienstbus],

Warvic. civitas secundum quosdam dicta Caerline ex
ultima syllaba nominis Guithelini filii Gurguntii regis Bri-
tann. — Ley. In hac parte adducit pro se testimonium cu-
jusdam historiae quam vidit Eoveshami.

Warwic. k Constantine, patre Aurelii Ambrosii, reparata
et dicta Caerwinber, quod opus cito destructum fuit. Se-
cundum quosdam etiam Caer-Gwayr, i.e. mons dolorosus.
Guairenim, Britannice significat dolorem.

Warwic. dicta etiam secundum quosdam urbs Legionum.

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Warwick. Ley. Hie et allegat pro se nescio quem fictitium Gildam et
Chronicon Rading.

S. Caradocus comes Herfordiae condidit antiquam civit-
atem Sarum, qui postea sepultus fuit Aberhodne in pro-
vincia de Brecnoc.

Warwic. postea reparata k Guair consule circa tempera
Arturii, unde Warwic. Caer Guair. Hunc Guair secutus
est Arth. Gal in consulatu Caerguarensi, quem secuti sunt
Morindius et Martrudius.

Arth Britannice ursum significat; unde forsan comites
ursum pro insigni habent.

Warwic. postremo Saxonice Werewic. k Wereraundo Sax-
onico rege, ut patet libro Matthaei Parisiensis de gestis
Abbatum S. Albani.

Warwic. reparata per Aelfledam, regis Aluredi filiam, et
Ethelredi subreguli Merciorum uxorem, a^ D'. 915, et
iterum per Danos ante festum Epiphaniae, ducibus Canute
et Edraco proditore, ferro et flamma consumpta a". D*.
1 01 6. ab illo tempore ad pristinam nobilitatem restituta
non fuit.

Domus monachorum in parco prope Warwic. hoc tempora
destructa per Danos, et ecclesia monialium in Warwic. ubi
nunc est ecclesia, . . .* manentibus etiam nunc ibidem
veteris ecclesiae vestigiis.

Cambridge. Ex veteri sed fabuloso libro incerti authoris de antiquitate
fo. 26. Cantabrigiensi.

Cantabrigia tempore Gurguntii Britan. regis k quodam
Cantabro Graeco constructa, qui et philosophorum scholas
ibidem instituit, et postea ab ejus filio Grantino aucta.

Maxim ianus princeps militiae Dioclesiani Grantebrigiam
cum scholis et libris igne consumpsit.

Cantabrigia k Pictis et Saxonibus devastata.

Cantabrigia vastata ab Angero et Ubbone.

Ceadwalla rex instituit scholas apud Grekelade.

Palatium Etheoaldi regis Merciorum circa tempora Mil-
redi episcopi Warwicorum erat circa locum ubi nunc est
coenobium de Stonley monachorum Cistert. inter Warwicum

[* This being the last line on the margin at bottom of fo. 25, one or
two words are lost before maneniibus,'\

APPENDIX 167

et Coventriam. Castrum vero de Kenelworth non erat in-
ceptum post quadringentos ab illo annos.

S. Milredus sepultus apud Barkiswel septem ab Wareuico
miliaribus.

Folulphus episcopus Sidnacensis in Lindesia.

Joannes • Menevensis de monasterio S. David in Cambria,
vir eruditissimus, ab Alfredo rege Oxoniam ad profitendas
bonas literas vocatus.

Ex libello Joannis Rowse de Achademiis.

Gregorius publicas scholas Anglis interdixit propter Pela-
gianam heresim et alios Britannonim in fide errores.

Brennus BristoUiae conditor.

Gurguntius Bar-stnict, i.e. curta barba.

Non apparent in pago Grantcestrensi veteris urbis vel
muri vel fossae. Grancester, i.e. magna civitas. — Ley. Ego
sic dictam puto k Granta flu.

Egbertus 2. archiep. Ebor. praeceptor Albini et armarium
omnium disciplinarum.

Erant olim tempore Britannonim multae Achademiae,
Grecelade, Stawnford, Cantabrigiae, Bello-situm post Grece-
lade, Lechlad, Caerileon in Cambria, ubi tempore Arturii
ducenti philosophi erant. f

Sebertus rex Orient. Anglorum instituit scholas Grante-
brigiae instigante episcopo Felice.

Grimbaldus monachus S. Bertini ultra mare primus Abbas
novi coenobii Wintoniensis.

Edwardus Senior filius Alfredi reparavit et auxit scholas
Cantabriae.

Mewinus historicus, cujus mentio est apud Joannem
Hardingum historicum, qui Mewini autoritate scribit, Jo-
sephum fuisse Avalloniae.

De sedibus Britannorum episcoporum. Londini Loegriae
metropolis erat. Eboraci metropolis erat Albaniae. Sedes
etiam episcopalis in urbe Alcluth erat, et in Candida Casa
tempore Niniani. Kinotus erat tempore Britannorum epis-
copus LLanpaternensis, qui post Davida translatus fuit
Meneviam. et Silchestriae juxta Radingum sedes erat S.

[• Asserius in the margin.] [t See before, pp. 151, 152.]

i68 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Maugani. Glocestriae sedes erat S. Aldati; et Dubricius
erat episcopus Caerguerensis, cuique sedes • id temporis ubi
nunc ecclesia recentior Omnium Sanctorum in castro War-
wicensi, idem translatus ad ecclesiam Landavensem, cujus
primus erat episcopus, demum factus fuit archiepiscopus
civitatis Legionum, cui successit David, qui sedem trans-
tulit Meneviam.

Juti et Victi idem sunt.

Caerwrangon, i.e. Wicester, reparatum per Constantinum
avunculum Arturii.

Tempore Sewulphi praesulis, regnante rege Wulphero,
episcopatus Merciorum in quinque Dioeceses divisus erat
4**. sedes erat in Lindesia cujus cathedra erat in civitate
quae Sidneia olim dicebatur.

Tatfridus, vir eximiae literaturae, de coenobio Hildae
Abbatissae electus in episcopum Wicciorum, sed ante con-
secrationis munus obiit.

Ostopherus clericus coenobii S. Hildae insigniter eruditus
factus episcopus Wigom.

Egwinus Ostophorum secutus est. Fuit sundator Eovesha-
mensis coenobii, et filius secundum quosdam Brecani r^uli
-Breconiae. Ubi nunc coenobium de Eovesham fuit olim
ecclesiola, Britannorum reliquiae. Eovesham oppidum sic
dictum k pastore ejusdem nominis. Locus ante dictus est
Hethho.t

" Notes of some Families of Staffordshire taken by Leland
being his owne handwriting, being loose in folio 127 of
this booke, which I have transcribed in this place
fearing they might bee lost." J

Lord Stafford, at Stafford Castle.
Lord Audley.

[* Ley, De hoc dubito, margin.]

[t ** Hactenus ex Lelandi CoIIectaneis penes praedict. H. St. George
Norroy" (Dugdale's note at end of his copy).]

[t Note in St. George's hand at the head of his transcript (Brit. Mus.
Add. MS. 5937, fo. 203), Dugdale*s transcript, Bodleian, MS. Eng.
Hist, c. 9, fos. 37, 38. See before, p. 117. Two or three words in
[ ] here printed were suggested by Sir Fred. Madden.]

APPENDIX 169

Lord Ferrars of Chartley. The Lord Ferrars hath fayre Stafford-
lands in Herefordshire, and among others Webley Castle. shire.

Asheton hath Wandelep lordship, 4 miles from Leicester.

Asheton were wont to dwel at Heywood vpon Trent
againe Shuckesbyry the Byshop of Chesters house; howbeit
Shuckesborough of some is wrongly called Haywod. Sir
Edward of Asheton of Tixhaul, hee hath Tixhaul by his
mother, daughter to Sir William Littleton; shee was not
Littleton's heyre, for in his age hee gott a son, that had his
mannour of Frankeley, and goodly howse and parke in
Worcestershire, a 2 [miles] from Hales Owen.

Out of Frankley came all the Littletons that bee now.
Sir Thomas* Littleton that married Littletons heyre of
Frankeley, was afore called Westcote, and chaunged his
name at the desire of his Father-in-lawe. This Thomas had
3 sons, William his eldest son, Richard his second son had
purchased lands by his father, and the house and mannor
of Pillenhaul, hard by Penchriche.

Thomas the third son married one heyre generall

of Specheley out of Wicestre.

Heyres males of the three Littletons remayne yet.

Sir George Gresley dwelleth at the mannor place of
Coleton, and hath a greate parke there vpon Trent, a mile
lower than Haywod; hee hath vpon Trent, a mile lower
then Burton Towne, a very fayre mannor place and parke,
at Draykelo:* peradventure this Gresley came of the House
of Gresley Castle in Darbyshire.

Sir John Arecourt,t son to Sir Simond of Oxfordshire,
dwelleth at the barony of Elnehaul ^ in Staffordshire, where
is a very antient house, and a greate parke, a 5 miles from
Stafford, a mile from Ramton [Ronton] priory, and 2 miles
from Eccleshaul Castle. Sir John hath this by permission
of Sir Simon, for this is the olde Arecourts lande.

Arecourt of Ramton, a man of a hundred pound lands,
his house is by Ramton, a commeth of a younger brother.

[• Sir Thomas made " Littleton's Tenures." ? Leland's note in the
margin.]

[t Harecourt in the margin.]

>" Drakelow. ^ Ellenhall.

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Stafford* Percehaul of Horseley, a man of hundred marke lande,
■hire. and hee dwelleth at Horseley, a 2 mile from Ramton, and a
mile from Eccleshaul.

This Percehaul commeth of a younger brother of the
Percehauls of Knightley, whose heire generall was marryed
to Sir John Blunt of Kindilet.

Skrimesha a lawier now aliue, a new gentleman, hath
purchased the mannor with the place and parke of North-
byri, a 50" a yeare; 3 mile out of Newport in Shropshire,
but Northbyri • is Staffordshire, for Staffordshire cummeth to
Newport townes end. This Northbyri was Botelers of Hart-
fordshire. This Skrimesha hath now a 300 marke lande.

Sir John Giffard dwelleth at Chillington, where hee hath
a fa)^e house and a parke, it is 4 miles from Penckrich,** and
2 miles from Uluorhampton. This Giffard married Sir John
Montgomerik wife, and Thomas his sunne married the
eldest of Montgomerick.

Wratesley of Wratesley village; sumetime the Wratesleys
were men of more land then they bee now, and greate with
the Earles of Warwick; yet hee hath 200 marks of lande; at
Wratesley. is a fayre house and a parke, it is 2. mile from
Vluerhampton.

Asteley of Petesey hath a fayre mannor, and a goodly
parke, hard by Wratesley. The Logge in the parke, of
tymbre and lede, is excellent.

Swinerton of Swinerton. Swinerton self is a 2. miles from
Stone, but he lyith at Hilton manor, a 2. miles from Vluor-
hampton.

Thomas Luson of Uluorhampton at the townes end is the
auntients house of the Lusons.

James Luson of Vluorhampton, a merchant, hath 500 mark
of . . . lands.

Cumbreford of Cumbreford, a . . . miles out of Brere-
wood and ... of Penkriche.

Lane of Hide maner in Brerewood paroche; this Lane
be likelihood is the elder house to Lane of Northampton-
shire.

Standeley ^ of Pype by Litchfelde a mile . . of, left a late
2 daughters heyres, one of them was maried to Moile, a

* Norbury. *> Penkridge. c Stanley family.

APPENDIX 171

North . . man. This house of Standelyes had the manor of Suflford-
the pile of Echels * in Chestreshire ... of Standely Lord shire.
Chambrelayne. Standleys of Latham came out of the house
of Stanlyes of Hoton, in Cheshyre.

Standelye of Bromwich cummeth out of the House of
Standly of Latham in Lancashire; this Standelye marryed
Frebotoms daughter & heyre. Though hee dwells in Staf-
fordshire, yet is Castle Bromwich in Warwickshire, and
longeth to the Lord Ferrars.

Rigeley of the Hawkes yarde upon Trent, 4 miles from
Litchfeld, 100 markes.

There is a younger Rigeley in Langdon by Beaudesert
park, a 100 markes and better.

Swinesfeld of Swinefeld, 3. miles from Litchfeild.

Worseley of Worseley bridge on Trent, a mile from Rige-
ley, 5 from Stafford, 6 or 7 from Litchfeild, a 100". land.

Bagott of Blithfeld 200" lande, 2 mile from Worseley
bridge.

Yareswik* at Sandon village, a 3 mile from . ., loo
markes land.

Besford at Sandon, 100 marke land.

Chetweine of Inglestre his house by Trent, 200 marke
land.

Sir Phillip Draicote, a gentleman of an old stocke, his
father let his old house downe, and buildid in another place
of Draicote parish, a goodly house called Painsle.

Linesle of Loxle, 3 mile from Draicot.

Blunt of Blunt haule, halfe a mile from Vttoxcester, a 10"
land; some say that this is the antient house of the Blunts.

Basset of Bloer, in the Moreland, there of the common
people called the Kinge of the Morelande. Bloer is a goodly
antient howse, and hath a parke; it is in Staffordshire to-
wards the edge. Blore is a mile from Ashbourne in Darby-
shire. Basset hath a goodly [house] and parke in Langeley
parish, and called Langeley, and is in Darbyshire, 4. mile
from Darby.

Woker of Woker, a 100" land and a parke there.

[* Erdeswick in margin.]

» Etchells.

172 LELAND'S ITINERARY

Stafford- Maiuerel at Througley, 3. miles from Bloer, 4. from Ashe-
shirc. burne. Maiuerel and Basset be brotherne and sisters child-
erne, and so is Draicote.

Biddle of Biddle, 100 marke land; he married one of the
heires of Salway of Worcestershire.

Snede of Brodewal, a mile from Newcastle vnder Line,
his father Justice of Chestre, borne to 10" land, made it a
100".

Coleclough of Bloerton, 10" lande, in Morelande, 3 mile
from Newcastle; it is in Trentam parishe.

Hanbyri village a 4 miles from Burton on Trent in Staf-
fordsh., this peraventure is that that historyes call Ham-
burghe.

Nowell of Hillcourte, a mile from the Castle of Eccles-
haule; he hath 2 brethren maried to rich widowes.

Swinerton of Isehaul, hard by Eccleshaul Castle; hee is a
younger brother of Swinerton of Swinerton.

Sir George Grifl5th of Wichemor on Trent Bank, 4. miles
from Litchfeld; he hath fayre lands.

Horton on . . . Bank ... he maried one of the heires
of Stanton of . . . Guliam his vncle had the other daughter
of Staunton of, and dwelleth at Staunton.

John Vernon, Steward of Lechefeld, and a younger son of
Henry Vernon; this John married one of the heires of Sir
John . . . and had by her . . .

Chefel the younger brother .

Mitton* of Weston in Staffordshire, a man of a 100
marke land; his grandfather sold a 100 marke land; there
is a parke of his at Weston. He is, as some say, little kin to
him of Shropshire.

[* Madden printed Miltm, but the MS. has Mitton.l

INDEX OF PERSONS AND LANDOWNERS

{Tke word ** family y^ as here used, means thai several of the name are
referred to. The word temp, after a name indicates that the person
was living in Leland's time, )

Abergavenny, Joan, Lady, 47
note; William Beauchamp,
Lord, 67, 87.

Acton, Mr., of Ripley, Worc.^
temp,,^,

Aldred and Wolstan, Bishops of
Worcester, 59, 60.

Aldwin, a hermit, 164.

Alester, Dean of Warwick, tomb,
42.

Alfred, King, supposed founder of
Oxford University, 152.

Almaric, prior of Warwick, patri-
arch of Jerusalem, 158.

Angarville, Richard de Bury, alias^
161.

Arden, Sir Giles, his wife Philippa
and daughter Margaret, 12,

13.

Armagh, Bishop of, Richard, son

of Ralph, 161.
Arthur, Prince, son of Henry VII,

88; Cocks, his servitor, 77,

79 note.
Arundel, Earl of, owns Stretton

Dale, Salop, 81.
Ash ton family, 169.
Asser, John, of St David's, Wales,

167.
Astley of Petesey, Staff,, 170.
Athelstan, Bishop of Hereford

164.

Aylesbury, John, rector of Eding-
ton College of Bonhommes,
24.

Babthorpe family, 16.

Bache (Bagche), Alexander,

Bishop of Chester, buried

at Hereford, 67.
Bacon, Roger, 160; his eulogy on

William Shirwood, 161.
Bagott of Blithfield, Staff., 171.
Bailie, John, in Tamworth, 104.
Bainham, Baynham, Baynonn,

Mr., of Westbury, Glouc,,

temp., 64. (Perhaps George

Beyneham, J. P. of co. Glouc.

in 1542.)
Baldwin, John, Chief Justice,

temp.. III.
Balsall, Dr. Thomas, tomb, 49.
Bane, Mr., student in Lou vain,

Leland's letter to, 145.
Barentine, Barrentyne, Sir Wil-
liam, temp,, 19.
Bares well orBarkeswell, W. , Dean

of Warwick, tomb, 41.
Basset family, Derby s., 14; Oxon^

33, 103, 105; Staff,, 171,

172.
Beauchamp, William, of Lord,

Abergavenny, 67.

»73

174

LELAND'S ITINERARY

Beauchamps, Lords of Alcester,
51. See Warwick, Earls of.

Beauchamps of Powick, 90.

Beaufort, Thomas, Duke of Exe-
ter, and wife Margaret, tomb,
149.

Beaufort, tomb in Warwick, 42.

Beaupie, tomb in Ludlow, 77, 79
note.

Becoles, ? Beccles, Alan de, 160.

Bedford, Jasper, Duke of, 56.

Bel^me, Roger de. Earl of
Shrewsbury, and family, 21,
22 ; chapels founded by, 86.

Bell, merchant of Gloucester,
temp,^ 58.

Bellairs, 18.

Bellomonte, Roger de, and Wil-
liam, 158.

Berkeley, Roger, Lord, 60.

Bemulph, King of Mercia, 59.

Besford, 171.

Biddle of Biddle, Staff, ^ 172.

Bishop, John, of Abingdon, and
daughter Alice, 3.

Bisset family, 87.

Blebury, or Blubury, John of, pre-
bendary, 24.

Blundus, John, 160.

Blunt family, 171.

Bohuns, Earls of Hereford, 65;
Humphry, 20.

Boleyn, Sir Geoffry, and family,
9, 10, 112.

Boleyn, Thomas, Earl of Wilt-
shire, 10.

Bond, merchant of Coventry, 107.

Bosel, first Bishop of Worcester,

59.

Boteler, Thomas, Lord Sudley,
45, 56; family, 54, 55.

Bowes family of Durham, Mon-
sieur de Arches, 9.

Bowes, Mr., Ump., 7, 9.

Bray, Sir Reynald, 8.

Breose property, 13.

Bridges of Gloucestershire, 5.

Brocas, Isabel, of Missenden and
Quainton, and father Sir Ber-
nard Brocas, 3.

Brocas married to a Sandys with

land, 8.
Broko, Lords, 51.
Brooke, Lord, Willoughby femily,

24.
Browne, Mr., Knt., temp,^ 52.
Brudenel, Edmund, and wife,

tomb at Amersham, 113;

Robert, Chief Justice, 113.
Brudenel, Mr., temp,^ 5. See

Entwistle.
Bnm, Sir Morice, and mother,

Lady Brun, 3.
Buckingham, Humphrey, Duke

of, 20.
Buckingham, Thomas, Earl of,

and wife Eleanor, 20.
Burley, Sir John, tomb, 67.
Bury, Richard de, writer of ** Phi-

lobiblon," 161.
Butler, Earl of Ormond, 10.

Cadurcis, Paganus and Adam de,

61.
Canute, King, 59.
Carew, Sir George, true family

name Montgomery, 30.
Carew, Sir Nicholas, Master of

the Horse, Ump,^ 10.
Champion, Alderman, 30.
Chandos, Sir Richard, and wife,

67,69.
Chaucer, Lord of Ewelme, etc.,

5» 19.
Chaveneys family, Z^ir., 7.
Chetweine (Chetwynd)of Ingestre,

Staff,, 171.
Cheyney and daughters, 17.
Clare, Gilbert de, and wife, Joan,

92 ; Sir Nicholas, 67.
Clare vaulx, 14.
Clement of Lichfield, Abbot of

Evesham, 52.
Cleobury, Thomas, Abbot of

Dour, temp., 84.
Clinton, Lord, 17. See Fiennes.
Clopton, Hugh, of Stratford-on-

Avon, 27, 28; his works

there, 49, 5a

INDEX OF PERSONS, ETC. 175

Cokkis, ? Cocks or Cox, gentle-
man to Prince Arthur, 77,
79 note.

Coleclough of Bloreton, Staff, ^
172.

Colworp, Alice, 2.

Compton, Sir William, keeper of
Fulbrook, 48.

Coningsby at Hampton, Herrf.,
70.

Conway, Mr., temp,y 52.

Conye, Knt, tomb at Kidder-
minster, 87.

Conyers, 16, 17; Lord, temp.., 6.

Coope or Cope, William, cofferer
to Henry VII, tomb, 39.

Cope, Mr., temp., 40.

Copley, 10.

Corbett, 12; temp.^ 81.

Cornwall of Herefordshire, 75.

Courtney, Egeline, yEglean, wife
of Gilbert Basset, 34.

Croft of Croft Castle, Here/., 75.

Cruen or Crunne, Alan de, of
Freiston, tomb, 147.

Cumbreford of Cumbreford, Staff. ^
170.

Cutt, Sir John, of Kent and E^sex,
Under-Treasurer of England,
30; his son, 31.

Dacres of Gillesland, Lord, timp.,

7.
Dalaunson, Dalison, temp.^ 10.
Daltery, 24,
Daltons, 21.
Damarie, 34.
Daraby, father of Wm. Neville,

22.
Darcy, John, of Snape, Litu.y 6.
Darcy, Sir George, temp.^ 19.
Daunsey, Daundesey, Alison,

daughter of Walter, 3.
Da veil. Lord, 15.
Dawes, Mr., friend of Leland,

I4S» 146.
DeinviUe, KnL, 67.
Delaber, Sir Richard, tomb, 67.
Denton, Dr., Master of St. John's,

Ludlow, 77.

Derby, Earl of, 34, 35.

Devenish, 10.

Devereux, 69.

Digby, Dykeby family, 17, 18.

D*Oilley of Oxfordshire, 21;

Robert the II, 154.
Draycot, Sir Phillip, Staff. ^ 171.
Dudley, John, Viscount, temp.t

and the Talbots, 17.

Ecmundtovm, 15.

Edburga, Queen of Mercia, 59.

Edington, or Edenton, Bishop of

Winchester, 23, 24.
Edward II, King, tomb at Glou-
cester, 60.
Egbert, King, 59.
Elinham, William, and wife,

tomb, 150.
Ellesford, Sir John, tomb, 67.
Elsing, merchant of London, 28.
Ely, Bishop of, 29.
Engaine, of Broughton, Hunts^

29.
Entwistle (Eintwesel), Bertram,

Z^/V., 5 ; Mr. Brudenel

{Northants) descended from

him, t€fnp.j 6.
Erdeswick. See Yareswik.
Ethelfleda, wife to Ethelred, 62.
Ethelred, King of Mercia, 59,

62.
Ethelstane, King, his brother a

hermit, 86.
Essex, Mr., family of Berks, temp.,

16.
Eva, Queen of Mercia, 59.
Evan, Thomas, temp., 78.
Exeter, Harman, Bishop of, 98,

99.

Fackeley, or Falkley, 138.
Falconbridge, Lord, of Skelton,

6,7.
Farley, Abbot of Gloucester, 61.
Farmer, Richard, merchant, his

misprision, 10; his daughter,

temp.y 14.
Ferrars, Earl of, 29; Ferrars of

Chartley, 169.

176

LELAND'S ITINERARY

Ferrars, George, temp,^ 28, 104,

105.
Fiennes, or Fines, family, the

Lords Dacres, Clinton, and

Sayes, 14.
Fitzacre, Richard, 160.
FitzGerald, hanged, 19.
Fitzwalter, Lord, Ump., 147;

Philippa, Lady, 4.
Florence of Worcester, 165.
Fortescue family, 19; Groom-
Porter of the Court, temp.,

52.
Foxley, Margaret, called Parker,

2.
Foye, Phillip de, Knt., tomb, 61.
Francis, Alice, 34.
Freville, Baldwin, 104; family,

105.
Froncester, Abbot, of Gloucester,

61.
Fyfield, Elizabeth, daughter of

John, 2.

Gage, Mr., Controller of the

King's house, Ump., 10.
Gamage, Knt., of Wales, tomb,

61.
Giffard, Helias, 60; Giffard

owned Bromfield Castle, 80;

Giflfard family, 170.
Girdelington, 17.
Glendower, Owen, 83.
Golaffre family, of Cerceden

(Sarsden), Oxon, Fyfield,

BerkSj and other places, 2-4.
Gospatrick, or Cospatrick, lord of

Westmoreland, 7.
Graville, or Greville, family of

Drayton, 12, 13.
Gresley, Sir George, /<r////., 169.
Greville of Milcote, temp,, 50.
Griffith. See Griphin.
Grimbald, monk of Berlin, teacher

at Oxford, 153.
Griphin, or Griffith, Mr., of

Wichnor, Staff, , temp., loi,

103, 172.
Griphine, Gruffydd, or Griffith,

Prince of Wales, 66.

Guair, time of King Arthur, gave

name to Warwick, 166.
Gurmaston, Viscount, Ireland, 2a

Mackluit, Mr., temp., 74; Wil-
liam and family, 75.

Hales, with the club foot, at St.
John's, Coventry, temp., 107.

Hall, Mr., of Huntingdon, temp.,
29.

Haly, Mr., tomb, 42 (probably
John Haly, prebendary of
Wells in 1 53 1. See Let and
Pap., Hen. VIII, vol. v,
Nos. 529.30).

Hansard of Line., 12.

Harcourt, Harecourt family, 169.

Harding, John, historian, 167.

Harman, alias Veysey, Bishop of
Exeter, 98, 99, restores Sut-
ton Coldfield, 98.

Harnhull, Stephen de, Knt., 58.

Harold, time of King Edward the
Confessor, 65.

Harold Harefoot crowned, 153.

Harrington of Rutland, 5.

Haseley, Dean of Warwick, tomb,
42.

Hastings, William, Earl of Pem-
broke, tomb, 67.

Hereford, Bishops Lorengo and
Kynelm (Losinga and Rein-
helm, Stubbs), 66.

Hereford, Milo, Earl of, 63.
See Bohun and Lacy.

Heydon family of Norfolk and
Surrey, 11, 12.

Heywood, Dean of Lichfield, 100.

Hill, Sir Rowland, merchant of
London, bridge built by, 83.

Hoel, Robert, Knt, tomb, 150.

Holland, Sir Robert, lies at Pres-
ton, 20 ; Robert and wife lie
at Brackley, 37.

Hopton, Mr.,ofBlythburg, /^w/.,

25-

Hopton, Sir Arthur, temp., 19, 20.
Home family, from a merchant, 4.
Horton, Abbot of Gloucester, 60,
61.

INDEX OF PERSONS, ETC. 177

Horton, Staff. ^ 172.

Hosier, merchant of Ludlow, 77,

79 note.
Howards of Norfolk, 13.
Howe, Lord, 9, la
Hudleston, Sir John, tcmp.^ 56.
Hungfords of Emscote, tombs,

42.
Huntingdon and Northampton,

Earls of, 134-142. Set Wal-

dev.

Inglefield, Lady, 3.
Islip, Simon, Archbishop of Can-
terbury, 161.

John the Scot, teacher at Oxford,

153.
Jolif of Stratford-on-Avon, 49.
Joscelin of Berlin, 142.

Kenelm and Kenulph, Kings of
the Marches, 54.

Kent, Hubert de Burgo, and Ed-
mund, Earls of, 71.

Kineburga, Queen of Mercia, 59.

Knightley, temp.^ 109.

Lacy family of Grantchester, Cam-
bridge, I.

Lacy, Roger, Earl of Hereford,
60, 61 ; Walter, 61.

Lancaster, Edmund, Earl of, 20;
John of Gaunt, 145.

Lane family, Staff.^ 170.

I^ngland, Bishop of Lincoln,
temp,, 31.

Langley, Thomas of, 3.

Langville family, 22, 23.

Latimer, Bishop, temp. , 96.

Legh, Anthony, Mr., temp., no.

Leland, John, his remarks on ex-
tracts relating to Worcester,
164, 165, {see also Rowse);
his letter to Mr. Bane at Lou-
vain, 145; letter authorizing
him to use the library at Bury
St. Edmunds, 148.

Leland, John, senior, grammarian,
155 note,

Lenthall, Knt., temp., Henry IV,

72.
Leofgar, Bishop, 66.
Lereve, or Lekne, Wolphine, his

penance, 59.
L'Estrange, Le Strange, Lord,

Oxon, 34, 35.
Lichfield, Deans of: Denton, 100;

Thomas Hey wood, 102 ;

bishops: Alexander, 100;

Walter de Langton, loi, 102;

Blithe, 102.
Lincoln, Bishops of, 29; Alexan-
der, 39, no.
Linsley, Staff., 171.
Lisle, Lord, Earl of Shrewsbury,

22.
Lisle, Viscount, temp,, 17 ; family,

103.
Littleton family. Staff., 169.
Livingus, Bishop of Worcester,

163.
Llewelyn, Prince, his daughter

Gladys Duy, 8.
London, John, Dr., notes upon

William of Wykeham, 144,

145-
London, Mayor of, in 1457, 9.
Lovell, Lord, 35, 37.
Lucy of Charlcote, 46, 47, 48.
Ludlow, lord of Stoke Castle,

77, 79 note.
Luson, Thomas and James, of

Wolverhampton, 17a
Luvetot (Lunetote in text, error),

of Huntingdon, 29.

Malery, ? Thomas Malory, of the
Northants family, 30.

Malvern, alias Parker, Abbot of
Gloucester, 60.

Mandeville, 20.

Marburys, 69.

Marmions, lords of Tamworth
Castle, 104, 105.

Martin, Richard, Bishop of St.
David's, temp., 70.

Martinus de Turribus, 27.

Maungeant, John, Canon of Here-
ford, 60.

178

LELAND'S ITINERARY

Menell of Derbyshire, 14.
Mercia, rulers of. See Index of

Places.
Meredydd, alias Tudor, Owen,

grandfather of Henry VII, 67.
Merewald, King of the Marches

{Herefords.), 73, 74, 75; his

body found at Wenlock, 74.
Me win, historian, 167.
Meynell or Menel, Lord, his lands

and their partition, 6, 7.
Mills, Mr. , of Southampton, temp, ,

21.
Milton of Weston, Staff, y 172.
Montfort of Richmond, Yorks, 16,

17.

Morison, Richard, Master of St.
Wolstane's hospital, Worces-
ter, temp,, 91.

Morley, I>ord, 37.

Mortimer family, 8, 79 note^ 86 ;
Richard, Earl of March, 88.

Morwent, Abbot of Gloucester,
61.

Mountchesi (Mounchensi) Thomas,
and wife Joan, tomb, 1 50.

Mountforts, 45.

Mountjoy, Charles, Lord, temp.^
24.

Mowbray, Earl of Northumber-
land, 4.

Multon,or Moulton,Thomas,Knt.,
147.

Muttons of Leicestershire, 5.

Needham family, and Judge,

temp., 15.
Neville. George, Lord Latimer,

and Sir Henry, 44.
Neville, William, Earl of Kent (?),

22.
Newmarket, Bernard de, tomb,

61.
Newport, Mr., of the Wich, temp.,

93, 94.

Nicholas de Femham, 160.

Norris, filches the land of Cotter-
stock church, temp,, 30.

North, Mr., temp., 19.

Nowell, Staff., 172.

Oldcastle, Henry, tomb, 67.

Ormond, Lord of, 112.

Osbeme, cellarer, of Gloucester

Abbey, 62.
Osric, King of Northumberland,

founder of Gloucester Abbey,

59; tomb, 60.
Oswald, King of Northumberland,

tomb, 62.
Oxenbridge of Sussex, 16.
Oxford, Earls of, property of, 25.

Parker, Chancellor to Bishop of
Worcester, 91.

Peito, William, of Chesterton,
tomb, 42.

Pembroke, Earl of, William Hast-
ings, tomb, 67.

Penley, Sir Rich., Berks, 24.

Percehaul, PPearsall, family, 17a

Perot, William, alias Wykeham,

144, I4S-
Perrers, Porrers, Alice, 145.
Philipps, Richard, merchant of

Hereford, 66.
Pigot family, Yorks, i, 2.
Placetes, de, 20.
Pointz family of Acton, Glouc, 12,

I3» 14.

Pole, Lady, 3.

Pole of Derbyshire, his lands,
temp., 5.

Pole, William de la, Duke of
Suffolk, and wife Alice
Chaucer, 5, 19; first wife,
Countess of Hainault, 19.

Poleyn, or Pullen, Robert, re-
vived sacred studies, 153.

Portu. Hugh de, 60.

Poulett, Pawlet, William, Lord
St. John, 25.

Poulteney, Sir John, Mayor of
London, 108.

Powys, Powis, Lord, 26.

Preston family of Preston, Lanc,^
20.

Purefoy family, 25, 26, 103.

Quarre, Bernard, Provost of St.
Peter's, Hereford, tomb, 68.

INDEX OF PERSONS, ETC. 179

Ramsey, Hunts^ Abbot of, 143,
144.

Redburn, or Rudbome, Thomas,
monk of Winchester, cited by
Rowse, 152, 153 note.

Regulos, Milfrid, and wife Quen-
burga, of Hereford, 66.

Rehan, Sir Thomas, tomb, 67.

Rich, le, Guamer and Ranulph,
138.

Richard, son of Ralph, Bishop of
Armagh, Oxford Scholar,
161.

Rigley feimily, Staff,^ 171.

Rivers family and their lands, 4, 5.

Robert Courthose, Curtus, tomb
in Gloucester, 60, 61.

Rodeley, Walter, esquire, husband
to Duchess of Somerset, tomb,
147.

Rogers of Berkshire and Dorset,
16.

Ros of Ingmanthorpe, Lord, 9.

Rotherham, Bishop of Lincoln,
29.

Rouse, Knt., of Baynton, Wilts,
24.

Rowse, Rouse, or Ross, John,
Chaplain of Guy's Cliff Chan-
try, 151 note\ tomb, 42;
Mabilia, tomb, 67. Books
by, notedby Leland,iS7; Le-
land's remarks on certain
notes, 152, 158, 160 [bis),
161, 163, 165, 167. See In-
dex IL

Rutland, Earl or, 7, 8. See vol. i,
p. 98.

St. Aelphegus, Bishop of Win-
chester, 163.

St. Arilda, virgin martyr, 60.

St. Caradoc, 166.

St. Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, 51,
loi, 158, 159.

St. Clere, St. Clare, 10.

St. Edward the Martyr, relics at
Leominster, 74.

St. Frideswide, 153.

St. George, Norroy at arms, 168
note*

St. Godwald (?), 91.

St. Guthlac, 122-126, 127.

St. Hilda, 168.

St. Ivo the Bishop, 142.

St. Leger, 10.

St. Liz, Simon, 30, 138, 140.

St. Mildred, Bishop, 166.

St. Neots and his story, II7-II9*

St. Osithe, daughter to Frede-
wald. III, 112.

St. Oswald, Bishop of Worcester,
90, 91, 163, 164.

St. Paul, Mary, Countess, daugh-
ter to Edward II, 6.

St. Pega, 127.

St. Rumoalde, 37, 38.

St. Waldev of Croyland Abbey.
See Waldev, Earl.

St. Winifred the Virgin, her his-
tory by Prior Robert of
Shrewsbury, 119- 122.

Salisbury, Bishop of, and Provost
of St. Edmund's College, 28.

Salisbury, Earls of, lords of
Aylesborow in Chiltem, 112.

Salway of Worcestershire, 172.

Sandys, or Sannes, family, 7, 8;
temp,, 37.

Savelle of Yorkshire, 30.

Scales, Thomas, Knt., tomb, 149.

Scot, John, the teacher at Oxford,

153.
Scrope of Masham, Lord, 2.
Sebroke, Abbot of Gloucester,

61.
Serlo, Chaplain to William I and

Abbot of Gloucester, 60, 61.
Sheffield family of Axholme, 17.
Sheffield, Mr., temp,^ 10, 25, 30.
Shirbums, 21.
Shrewsbury, Earl of. See Be-

l^sme.
Skrimesha of Norbury, Staff, .f a

lawyer, temp,, 17a
Snede of Broadwall, Staff,, 172.
Somerey, Earl, 17.
Somerset, Edmund, Duke of, 21.
Somerton of Drayton, Oxon, 13.

i8o

LELAND'S ITINERARY

Spaine, 15.

Spenser, property of, 1 10.

Stafford, Lord, 27; family of

knights, 95.
Stanley, Earl of Derby, 35, 37.
Stanley family of Staffordshire,

Cheshire, etc., 170, 171.
Stanley, William, Esq., of Buck-

nell, and his wife, 34.
Stanton family. Staff, ^ 172.
Stapleton, 15.
Stoner, Stoneher, 19.
Strangewaise of Harlesey, 2.
Strangeways, Mr., 6.
Stratford, John de. Archbishop of

Canterbury, 49.
Streitley, Stretley, Strelley, alias

Sturley family, Notts^ 2, 10,

II.
Strongbow, Richard, tomb, 61.
Sudley, Lord. See Boteler.
Suffolk, William, Duke of, and

wife Alice, 5.
Sulyard, Justiciary of the Marches,

tomb, 77, 79 note.
Swillingtons of Yorkshire, 19, 20.
Swinerton of Swinerton, Staff.^

170; of Isehall, Staff, ^ 172.
Swinesfield, Staff, ^ 171.

Talbot, Gilbert, 22, 95; Philip,

22; William, 163.
Tame of Fairford, 28.
Tancrevilles, 52.
Thays, Lord, 17.
Throckmorton family, 14, 15, 50;

Sir George, temp,^ 50, 95.
Touchet, Tuchet, Lord Audley,

22.
Townsend family, tetnp.y 12.
Tracy family of Toddington, 56.
Tracy, Mr., temp,, 53, 55.
TregojE, 69.

Trussell, Mr., temp,, 50.
Tudor, Tyder. See Meredydd.
Tunstall, Cuthbcrt, Bishop of

London, 16.
Tunstall, John, Knt., tomb, 41.
Tyrwhit, Turwith, orTurwhit, 15,

16.

Vaulx, Lord, 76.

Vaulx of Naworth, 7.

Vavasor, Robert, and daughters,

II.
Vavasor, William, Sheriff of

Notts and Derby, 11.
Veldenar, Veldenet, Jan, ^Titer

and printer of Utrecht, 1480,

153.
Vere of Lincolnshire, 10.
Vernon, John, 163.
Vernon, Mr., temp,, 77, *j^note;

of Staffordshire, 172.
Vincent of Pekkerton (PPeckle-

ton), Leic, temp,, 5.

Waldev, Earl of Huntingdon and
Northampton, tomb at Croy-
land, 132; extracts from his
lives by several writers, 130-
142; his wife Judith, Count-
ess of Albemarle, 133, 138,

139.

Walgreve family, 17 ; of the court,
temp., 17.

Warme-Combe of Lugwardine,
temp,, 70.

Warwick, Deans of the Collegiate
Church of St. Mary's, tombs :
Alester, 42; William Bares-
well, or Berkeswell, 41 ;
Haseley, school master to
Henry VII, 42.

Warwick, Earls of, founders in
Warwick, 45 ; Roger de
Beaumont, 41 ; Thomas de
Beauchamp, 41, tomb, 42;
his son Thomas, tomb, 42 ;
daughter Catherine, tomb,
42; Richard, son of last
Thomas, Lieutenant of
France, 41; tomb and long
epitaph, 43 ; at Sutton Cold-
field, 97; other members of
the Beauchamp family, 44.

Warwick, Guido, Earl of, and
Guy's Cliff, 45, 46.

Warwick, Neville, Eari of, 98.

Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester,
31.

INDEX OF PERSONS. ETC. i8i

Wellby, Richard, Esquire, family,

147, 148.
Wentforth, Lord, temp.^ 19.
Westhall, tomb at Banbury, 38.
Wich, Richard de, an Oxford

scholar, 161.
Wikam of Broughton, 14.
William the Conqueror, 60.
William of Dunholm, 161.
William of Malmesbury, 164.
Willoughby family, 105.
Willoughby, Jolm, First Lord

Brooke, 24; Sir Henry, 103,

105.
Wingston, an official, 98.
Woker of Woker, ^/a/., 171.
Wolsey, Thomas, Bishop of York,

102.

Worcester, Bishops of: Lord of
Stratford, 48; St. Egwin,
481 52, 53. 168; Bosel, 59;
manor place at Alvechurch,

95.
Worsley, Staff,^ 171.
Wratesley family. Staff, ^ 170.
Wykeham, William of, reported

on by Dr. J. London, 144,

145.
Wyvell of Burton Parva, Yorks^

temp.y I, 2.
Wyvell of Slingsby, Yorksy i.

Yareswick, 171.

York, Thomas, Archbishop of,

59.
Yorke, Mr., temp,^ 8.

INDEX OF PLACES AND SUBJECTS

Abergavenny, 68.
Acton, near London, 1 14.
Adinburgh, Notts^ 11.
Adlingfleet, YorkSy 15.
Alcester Priory, 47, 50-52, 159;

Beaucharop*s Hall, 51.
Alne r., 47, 50; course of, 51.
Alvechurch, Worc,^ 51, 95.
Amberley, near Evesham, 53.
Amersham, 113.
Anker r., 104, 105.
Ankerwyke Nunnery, Bucks, 20.
Arden, ^Vanv., 47.
Amcot, Oxon, 33.
Arrow r., 47, 50, 95, 96; course

of, 51, 52, 72.
Asewick, Line,, 129, 146.
Ashton on Trent, 14.
Astrad brook, Denbighs,, 27.
Atcham, Salof, 83.
Athelney, 118.
Augustinians, chief house of the

order was at Warwick, 158.
Aust Cliff, ferry over Severn, 63,

64, 69.
Avon r., fVarw,, 40, 45; course

of, and bridges, 46, 47, 108,

109.
Aylesborow in Chiltern, iii.
Aylesbury town, ill, 112.
Aylesbury, vale of, no, 113; its

extent, in.
Aylesham, Not/,, 150.
Aynho, 38.

Bablake, near Coventry, 107.
Baconsthorpe, 11.

Balsall, 45, 158.

Banbury, 38, 39, 109; the Cross,

38; bridge, 39.
Barford, 46, 47.

Barington in the Coteswolds, 63.
Barnwell, Camb,, 148.
Baston, Line,, 129.
Battlefield, near Shrewsbury, 82,

83.

Baynton, IViltSy 24.

Beachley, 68.

Beaminster, 162.

Beaubush Park, Sussex, 12.

Bede's reference to ancient castle
and abbe^ in Suffolk, attempt
at identification, 25.

Bedford, first seat of the Francis-
cans in England, 165.

Bedwyn, fViUs, 27.

Beeby, Leic, 127, 146.

Bellingham, 7.

Bello-situm, 151, 167.

Belvoir Castle, 7.

Berkeley, Glouc, 63.

Berks well, 167.

Bernwood forest, 33.

Bertin, in France, monks of. See
Joscelin and Grimbald.

Beverey, isle in Severn at Wor-
cester, 164.

Bewdley, 87-89.

Bicester, 33, 34, 35, 109; late
priory, 33.

Bidford bridge, 47.

Billesley, Warw,, 50.
' Birmingham, 96, 97; Deritend
! hamlet, 96.

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INDEX OF PLACES, ETC. 183

Birthorp, Zi«r., 129, 147.
Bishop^s Castle, Salop^ 78.
Bishoprics in early England, seats

of, 167, 168.
Bithem castle, farm of the Bishop

of Winchester, 19.
Black Hills. See Clent
Blackthorn, Oxon,, 33.
? Blewbury, Blebury, 163.
Blithfield, Stc^,, 171.
Blore, Bloreton, in the Moorland,

Staff., 171, 172.
Blunt Hall, Staff,, 171.
Bluntisham, Hunts, 144.
Blythburgh, Suffolk, 19, 25.
Blythe r., 106.
Bodmin, 118.
Bolsover castle, 1 1, 28.
Bonhommes, order of, brought

from Ashridge to Edington,

23,24.
Books quoted or cited by Leland :

Bacon, Roger, Epistola de laude
Artis Mathematicoe, 161.

Book of burials in the Monas-
tery of Bury St. Edmunds,
149, 150; other notes from
the same Abbey, 148.

Cambridge, an unknown author
of old but fabulous book
upon, 166.

Chronicle of the Abbots of Croy-
land, 126-130.

Chronicle of Osney, 153.

Flores Historiarum, 153.

Henry of Huntingdon, 153.

Henry Knighton, 161.

Life of Earl Waldev of North-
ampton and Huntingdon, by
a monk of Croyland before
William of C, 133; epitaph
Life and passion of Earl Wal
dev, by William of Croyland
130-132; Book on the Earls
of Huntingdon and North
ampton by an unkno>vn au
thor, 134-142.

Lives of Saints, viz. , St. Dun
Stan, by Osbern, 163; St,
Guthlac, by Felix, 122-125

by unknown author, 125-126;
St. Ivo the bishop, by Jos-
celin of Bertin, 142, On his
translation and miracles, 143;
St Neots, copy in Croyland
Monastery, 1 17-119; St. Os-
ithe. III; St. Winifred the
Virgin, by Robert, prior of
Shrewsbury, 119-122.
Marianus Scotus, 152.
Paris, Matthew, notes from, on
the Universities, 160; on
Worcester, 165.
Ralph of Chester, 152, 153.
Rowse or Rous, John, De Aca-
demiis Britannicis, 167, 168;
Oxford, 151, 152, 154-156,
161; Cambridge, 157; De
Episcopis Wigomiae, 158, 159,
103, 165; De Regibus Mer-
ciorum, 160.
Veldenar, Jan, Fasciculus temp-
orum, a chronicle, 1480, 153.
William of Malmesbury's Life
of St. Wolstan, 164.
Bosworth battle, six brothers at,

18.
Bourne brook, Staff., 99, 103.
Bowbridge over Anker r., 105.
Brackley,A'i^r/Afl«/j, 35-38; castle,

36.
Brampton Bryan castle, Salop, 78.
Brandsby, Yorks, 4.
Brerewood parish, Staff., 170.
Bridges over rivers enumerated :
Avon, Warw., 46.
Cherwell, no.
Lugg, 69, 70, 73.
Meole, 81.

Severn, at Gloucester and Up-
ton, 63.
Teme, 78.
Bridgnorth, town and castle, 85,

86.
Bristol, 69.

Bromfield, Salop, 78, 79 note;
castle and moated house, 80.
Bromsgrove, 94, 95.
Bromyard, 69.
Broughton, Hunts, 29 ; Oxon, 14.

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LELAND'S ITINERARY

Bniern, Oxouy 2.

Buckden, Hunts ^ 29, 144.

Buckinghamshire gaol, ill.

Bucknall, LinCy 129, 147.

Bucknell, Oxouy 34.

Buildwas abbey and bridge, 84.

Builth bridge, 69.

Burford, Saiop^ 78; barons of,

75-
Burgh castle, Suffolk, 25.
Bunal alive at Brackley, 37.
Bumham, near Windsor, priory, 4.
Burston (Birdstane), in Vale of

Aylesbury, no.
Burton in Chiltern, ill.
Burton-on-Trent, 103, 172.
Bury St. Edmunds town, street of

the glove-makers, 149.
Bury St. Edmunds Abbey, notes

as to history and abbots of,

148; deeds of famous men

buried there, 149, 150.
Abbots, and one prior, Anselm,
148.

Edmund Bokenham, 150.

Edmund de Brondisch, 149.

Hugh the second, 148.

John Bohun, 150.

John Gosford, Prior, 149.

John Nor wold, 149.

Richard the first, 149.

Sampson, 149.

Simon, 148.

Thomas, 150.

Vuio, 149.

William Cratfeld, 150.
Other benefactors to the Abbey :

Baldwin, 149.

Guarin, son of Gerold, 149.

John Lavenham, 150.

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lan-
caster, 150.

K. Henry HI, 150.

K.John, 150.

K. Richard I, 150.

K. Richard H, 150.

King Stephen, 149.

Lady Mary of Pakenham, her
husband Edmund, and son
Thomas, 150.

Ralph de Hemenhale,knt.,
150.

William the Conqueror, 149.
Butterwick, Line,, 17, 147.
Buttington Bridge, Salop^ 83.

Cainham castle, Salop, 80.

Calnc, Wilts, 163.

Cambridge, Edward, son of King
Alfred, supposed founder of,
152, 167; Rowse*s list of
colleges, halls, and hostels,
1 57 ; dispute between scholars
and burgesses, 161 ; notes
from an old " but fabulous "
book, 166; and from Rowse,
167.

Camden, Chipping Campden,
Glouc, 38.

Can well priory, Staff., 103.

Caps made at Coventry, 108.

Camel chapel. Bury St. Edmunds,
149. See Chamel.

Castle Bromwich, 171.

Cave, near Hull, 126.

Cawres (Cause) lordship and
castle, 26, 27.

Celesice, ? Selsea, 143.

Chapel Ascs, Salop, 79 note,

Chardstock, 163.

Charlecote, Warw,, 46, 48.

Charlton, head of Cherwell r., 39.

Charnel chapel, in Coventry, 107.

Chaveneys leasis (? leasowes),
Lek., 7.

Chelsea, 8.

Cheltenham, 56, 57.

Chenies, 113.

Chepstow, 68 ; timber bridge, 69.

Cherhill and Barwick, Wilts,
163.

Cherwell r., 34, 38; course of*
39 ; bridges over, 1 10.

Chesford, bridge over Avon, 108.

Chester galleried streets, 85.

Cheviot, 6.

Childerley, Camh,, 31.

Chillington, 170.

Chilswell, near Oxford, 152.

INDEX OF PLACES, ETC. 185

Chiltern Hills, iii, 112, 113.

Chilwell, II.

Chipping Norton, 38.

Cholderton, East, Hants ^ 7.

Circeden. See Sarsden.

Cle Hills, 79 note, 80.

Clent Hills (Black Hills), 96.

Cleveland, lordships in, 6.

Clifton, Yorks, 2.

Clopton, IVarw,, 50.

Cloth and draping, 85, 91, 95,

108.
Coal, Staffordshire, 97.
Coldfield Heath, Warw,, 97.
Coldingham, Berwicks.y 148.
Cole r., fVanv,, 106.
Coleshill, 106.
Colnbrook, 114.
Colne priory, the " Hall Place,"

Essexy 25.
Colne r., 113, 114.
Compton, near Chipping-Norton,

^ 35-

Compton Wyniates, 48.
Conduits of water, Lichfield, 100.
Corve r., course of and bridge,

80.
Cotenham, Camfi., 127, 146.
Coteswold Hills, 53.
Cotterstock Collegiate Church,

30.

Coughton, 50, 51, 95.

Coukefield nunnery, near Alcester,
fVarw.y 52.

Council at York, King's, 9.

Cound village, Sa/op, 84; river,
84.

Coventry, 103, io6-io8; royal
Palace there, 108; caps, 108.

Crediton, 164.

Crendon and bridge, 110.

Croft castle, Her^ords.y 75.

Crosses, at Banbury, 38; at Brack-
ley, 36.

Crowland. See Croyland.

Crowlington, Salopy 83.

Croxton Abbey, 7.

Croyland, 123-125 ; monastery
and abbey, 119; list of abbots
and properties, 126-130; fur-

ther notes on Croyland his-
tory, 146-148.
Curdworth, 106.

Dagg bridge over Meole r., 81.
Dance of Death or Dance of

Paul's, painted at Stratford-

on-Avon, 49.
Deddington, 38.
Deepings, the, LinCy 126.
Delf or Dyke, the Kings, Bunts, ^

29.
Deritend, fVanv.y 96.
Didbrook, GlouCy 53.
Digby, 18.
Dinmore Hill, 71 ; commandery

of St. John of Jerusalem, 71.
Domesday Book, 164.
Doncaster, Black friars at, 21.
Donnington Castle, 5.
Dore Abbey, 68.
Dover hermitage, ammonites and

flint stones in the cliffs near,

28.
Drakelow, 169.
Dray cot parish, Staff, y 171,
Drayton Basset, Staff, y 103.
Drayton, Oxony 12.
Drayton, Salopy 84.
Droitwich, 89, 92-94.
Dudley castle, 97.
Dunedik, PDundyke, 129, 147.
Dunesdale, Linc.y 129, 146.
Dunstable, 112.
Dunwich, remains of ancient castle

and abbey near, 25 ; rages of

the sea, 28.

Eccleshall castle, Staff, y 169, 172.

Edington, WiltSy 23, 24; col-
lege of Bonhommes and its
endowments, 24.

Elberton, near Chepstow, 63.

Ellenhall, Staf,y 169.

Elmington, NorthantSy 127, 146.

Elston bridge, 68.

Emscote (Edmundscote), 42, 46.

Etchells, Cheshircy 171.

Eton College, 31.

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LELAND'S ITINERARY

Evesham, 27, 47, 48, 51, 52, 53;

monastery, 168; old name

Hetheholme, Hethho, 52,

168.
Ewelme, 5.

Ewyas castle and village, 69.
Exeter, the Pvnes near, 17.
Eynesbury (St. Neots), Hunts,

29, 127.
Eynesham, 19.
Eyton, Herefords,y 75.

Fair Well nunnery given to Lich-
field, 102.

Farlegh, chapel of, 162.

Faseley, IVarw,, 105.

Finford, PFinham, bridge, 108,
109.

Fladbury, 15, 47, 53.

Flaxley abbey, Glouc,, 64.

Fleet, Line, 147.

Fockerby in the Masse, Yorks,

IS-
Ford bridge over Lug r,, 70.
Foresthene, Monm,, 70.
Forests and Parks :
Bemwood, 33.
Cank wood or Cannock chace,

102.
Clwyd, Cluid, /Radnor, 75.
Dean, forest of, GiouCy 63, 64,

69.

Feckenham forest. Wore, 50.

Grafton park, Wore, 95.

Grove park, near Warwick, 46.

Haseley park, 46.

Hogstow forest, Salop, 26, 27.

Lincote wood, 68.

Long forest, Sa/op, 80.

Morfe forest or chace, 85, 86.

Prinknash park, 62.

Sutton chace or park, with four
lodges and five pools, 97.

Ticknell park, 87, 88.

Wedgnock park, 46.

Wyre forest, 87.
Foss dyke, 147.
Fotheringay, 30.
Frankley manor. Wore, 169.

Fraternities (gilds) :
Holy Cross, Stratford-on-Avon,

49.
St. George, Tamworth, 104.
St. John, Bablake, 107.
St. John Baptist at Ludlow,
76-80; their schoolmaster, 77.
St. Mary, Lichfield, temp., 99,
loa
Freiston, Line, 147.
Frocester, Gloue, 62.
Fulbrook park and castle, 46, 47,
48; Bergeyney Lodge there,

47.
Fyfield, Berks, 3.

Gedney, 129, 146, 147.

Gilds. See Fraternities.

Glastonbury, 118.

Gloucester, city and castle, 57-59 ;
notes from chronicles of
abbey, 59, 60; burials, 60,
61 ; abbots and possessions
of the abbey, 60, 61, 62;
Vyneyard, house near, 62;
bridge, 63.

Godard's castle, Kent, 30.

Gosford, Oxon, iia

Grantchester, 167.

Great Barton, Cage Hall in,
ISuff., 15a

Great Porsand, Line, 147.

Grecelade, 151, 152, 167.

Greenhow in Blackmore, 6.

Gresley castle, Derby s., 169.

Greystoke, barony, 7.

Grosmont castle, 71.

Guy*s CM, Warwick, legend of
Earl Guido, 45, 46 ; a charm-
ing place made by Earl
Richard, 46.

Gwytherin, Denbighs., 121.

Hackforth, Yorks, 16, 17.
Hales Owen, 86.
Hallington, Line, 129, 147.
Hampton bridge over Lug r., 70.
Hampton Court, Hereford, 72.
Hanbury, Staff., 172.

INDEX OF PLACES, ETC. 187

Han well, near Banbury, 40.
Hardwick, near Banbury, 40.
Ilarley village, Salop^ 84.
Harnham bridge at Salisbury, and

new ways from it, 28.
Harstane, Derbys,, 11.
Haseley, Oxon, 33, no.
Hawkesyard, the, Staff. ^ 171.
Hayles abbey, 53.
Helperby, 5.
Helmswell, Line,, 17.
Henham castle, Suff.^ 25.
Henley -in- Arden, 51.
Hereford: castle, 64, 65; town

and bridge, 65-69; Black

Friars, 07 ; bishops and

church, 164.
Hereford, meaning of name, 6$,

66.
Hertlcbury, 62; castle, 89.
Hetheholme, ancient name and

site of Evesham, 52, 168.
Heyford, Oxon, no,
Heytesbury, 163.
Heywood upon Trent, 169.
Hill Court, near Eccleshall, Siaff,^

172.
Hillingdon, Middx,<, 114.
Hill- wood, Sutton Chace, Warw,^

97.
Hilton, Durham^ 14.
Hilton, Staff, ^ 170.
Hockington, Camb.^ 127, 146.
Hodnet, Saiopy 84.
Hogstow forest, Salop^ 26, 27.
Holbeach, 129, 147.
Holbeck, Notts y 11.
Holland, Lanc^ priory of black

monks, 21.
Holland, Line,, 148.
Hooke, Linc.y 5.
Hook Norton, Oxon^ 5.
Hopwas, 103.
Horham Hall, Essex, 31.
Horscley, Staff., 170.
Hounslow, 114; Maturin friars at,

112.
How, Herts, 9.
Huntingdonshire : boundaries, 29,

30; forest land, 29.

Huntingfield Hall, East Braden,
149.

Ickford bridge, 33.

Ildesley, now Ilsley, Berks, 24.

Ingestre Hall, Staff,, 171.

Ingmanthorpe, Yorks, 9.

Iron mines and forges, in Forest
of Dean, 64 ; Staffordshire
and Warwickshire, 97.

Isbome r., 53, 55, 56.

Islip, Oxon, no.

Itchen r., 21.

Ivington, 72.

Ixning, Suff,, 134.

Jerusalem, Almaric, Patriarch of,
158.

Jerusalem, Order of St. John of:
commandery of Balsall, near
Warwick, 45, 158; the chapel
belonged to the prior in Lon-
don, 45 ; hospital of, at Here-
ford, formerly belonged to
the Templars, 67; comman-
dery at Dinmore, 71; house
of, and possessions of Temp-
lars at Warwick, 158.

Kemmes, abbey of St. Dogmael,

Pembroke, 27.
Ken r., 73.
Kendal, 7.

Kenilworth, 167; castle, 109.
Kesteven, 129, 147.
Kidderminster, 86, 87.
Kingsland village and bridge, 73,

74, 75.
King*s Norton, Warw,, 96.
King's Sutton, Northants, 35, 38.
Kington, near Thombury, 60.
Knepp castle, Sussex, 12.
Knightley, Staff., 170.
Knighton, Salop, 78.

Lackford, Suff, fishing rights

from Sidelesmere, 149.
Langley, 3, 4 ; in Derbyshire, 14,
Langtoft, Line., 129, 147.
LanUiony priory, Gloue., 63.

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LELAND'S ITINERARY

Lazar chapel at Hereford, 67 ; at
Worcester, 90.

Learn r. and bridge, 109.

Lechlade, 151, 167.

Ledwiche brook, 78, 79 note,

Leebotwood, 81.

Leicester, Broadgate, Marquis of
Dorset's bouse near, 98.

Leland, John. See Index I.

Lenthall family, 72.

Lentwardine, 78, 79 note,

Leominster, 70, 72, 74, 75 ; Com-
fort Castle, near, 68, 75 ; an-
cient nunnery there, 73.

Lepers. See Lazar.

Library at Bury St. Edmunds,
14^8; in Lichfield Cathedral,
102.

Lichfield, 99-103; castle, 99;
cathedral, loi, 102; steward
of, 172; Archbishop, 84;
hermit-bishop, 84.

Lichfield and St Chad, bishopric,
i58-i6a

Limerock priory, 70, 73; bridge,

73-

Lincote Wood, 68.

Lindrid^e, JVarw,, 97.

Little Billing, 23. |

Llanbadam, Kinocus or Cynoc, 1
Bishop of, 167.

London: Cripplegate nunnery, 1
afterwards Elsing Hospitsd, i
29 ; Marylebone and St. I
James's Park, 114; St. Bar- |
tholomew's priory, 16. j

Longleat priory, IVi/rsy 163.

Louvain, Mr. Bane in, 145.

Lowestoft, 25.

Loxley, S/qfiy 171.

Ludlow, town and bridge, 76-80;
Ludeford suburb, 78, 79 no/e,

Lugg r., 69, 70, 72, 73.

Lugwardine, 70.

Lyonshall, 69.

Maiden Bradley, 87.
Maidstone, 30.

Malvern hills and priory, 91, 92,
164.

Marches of Wales, Chancellor,
70.

Marlow, Little, 20.

Marton, 109.

Marylebone brook, near London,
114.

Masham, Yorks, 2.

Masse, the, Yorks, 15.

Maturin friars at Aylesbury, etc.,
112.

Med way r., 30.

Meole r. and bridges, 81.

Merche, or Mercia, three queens
abbesses of Gloucester, 59;
kings, Ethelred and Bem-
ulph, 59, Oswy and Penda,
loi; earls, Algar and Leo-
fric, 66.

Mercians, bishopric of, its divi-
sions, 168.

Meriden, IVarw., 106.

Middleton castle, Oxan, 35.

Middleton park, IVarw.f 105.

Milcote, IVarw., 50.

Mint in Coventry, 108.

Misboume r., 113.

Missenden, Great and Little, 3;
priory, 4, 113.

Mitton village, W^r^., 89.

Monmouth, town and bridge, 71.

Monnow r., confluence with Wye
r.,69, 70.

Montford bridge, 83.

Mordiford bridge, Hereford, 69.

Morville, Saiop, 85.

Mottisfont priory, 8.

Moulton and castle, in Holland,
Line,, 147, 148.

Nantglyn, Denbigh, 27.
Naworth, 7.
Nene r., 29, 129.
Nethcrbury, Dorset, 163.
Newark, 63.
Newburgh, 4, 7.
Newenham, Glouc., 57, 63.
Newhall, Derby s,, 14.
Norbury, Staff,, 170.
Norman Cross hundred, Hunts,
29.

INDEX OF PLACES, ETC. 189

Northampton, house of Walgreve

there, 17.
Northamptonshire, southernmost

village in, 38.
Norwich castle, 149.

Ombersley, 89.

Onny r., 78, 79.

Oseney church, founded by Rob-
ert D'Oilly II, 153, 154.

Otmoor, Oxan, 34, iia

Oundle, 30.

Ouse r., Northants^ 35, 37.

Oxford, 151-156, 160, 161; castle,
153; streets of, named, 154-
156; notes on early history,
Grecelade and King Alfred,
151, 152; events a.d. 979 to
1 1 29, 153; Rowse's lists of
colleges and halls, with their
special objects, 154-156; halls
destroyed in or before his
time, 156; Edmund Hall,
notes on, 154, 156; historical
notes from Matthew Paris,
Rowse, and Knighton, 160,
161.

Oxford, Black friars Church, 3.
Gray friars Church, 4.
Magdalen College, 31.

Ox ton, Notts y II.

Papworth St. Agnes, 30.

Paris, famous English students at,

160.
Pembridge, Hereford^ 72.
Penally r., course of, and bridge,

73.
Penkridge, 170, and Pillenhall,

169.
Pershore, 27.

Peterborough, quarry at, 149.
Peykirk, NorthantSy 127.
Pildour, 47.

Pipe, near Lichfield, loi, 171.
Pleshcy castle, Essexy anciently

Tumblestoun, 20.
Pontesbury, Salopy church and

castle, 26.
Powick mills, 92.

Presteigjn bridge and market, 70,

73-
Preston in Amoundemess, College

of Gray friars at, 20, 21.
Prinknash park, 62.

Quainton, 3, 4.
Quappelode. See Whapelode.
Quarrendon, BuckSy 110, ill.
Quatford, Salopy 86.
Quedgley, 63.
Queenborough, Kenty 145.

Radley, near Abingdon, BerkSy 2.
Ramsey Abbey, huntSy 143, 144,

163.
Ramton jjriory, 169.
Rea r. , Birmingham, 96.
Reading abbey, 74.
Redgrave Hall, Bury St. Edmunds,

149.
Repton, 103.

Rhe r. (now the Cound), 84.
Ribchester on the Ribble, 21.
Ribble r., 21.

Richard's Castle, Herefd.y 76.
Ripley, Worc^y 88.
Roche, Carmarthens.y 23.
Rockstane (now Stourport), 87,

89.
Roes in Shropshire forests, 80.
Romsey, Hants y 23.
Ross, wooden bridge over Wye r.,

69.
Rougham, Suff.y 150.

St. Albans, battle of, 5.

St. Albans, Salisbury park, 31.

St. Bartholomew's, Smithfield,

priory, 16.
St. Chad's Well, Lichfield, 99.
St. David's (Menavia), Pemb^yifyj,
St. Guthlac's priory, Herefordy 68.
St. Ives, HuntSy 142-144.
St. Leonard's by Stamford, cell of

Durham, 148.
St. Neots, HuntSy 127.
St. Oswald's chapel and cemetery,

Worcester, 90, 91.

192

LELAND'S ITINERARY

Wormbridge, 68.

Wonnesley r., 71.

Worseley bridge on Trent, Staff, ^

171.
Wratesley, 17a
Wreken hill, the. 83.
Writhorpe, Northants^ 127, 146.

Wroxall priory, 46.
Wroxeter, 83.
Wyer.,64, 65, 69.
Wytham, Berks, 3.

Yarm, Yorhs, 6.
York Minster, 59, 60.

CHISWICK PRESS: PRINTED BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

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