-----------+---------------------------------------------------- |Benedictines. | |Austin order. | | |Cluniacs. | | | |Cistercians. | | | | |Colleges. | | | | | |Preceptories. | | | | | | |Alien Priories. | | | | | | | |Premonstratensians. | | | | | | | | |Gilbertines. | | | | | | | | | |Carthusians. | | | | | | | | | | |Brigettan | | | | | | | | | | |order. | | | | | | | | | | | |Total. -----------+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+------ William I. | 16| 6| 6| | | | 14| | | | | 42 William II.| 7| 2| 4| | | | 9| | | | | 22 Henry I. | 30| 40| 5| 10| 4| 2| 13| | | | | 104 Stephen | 15| 25| 4| 35| 1| 2| 3| 6| 6| | | 97 Henry II. | 22| 30| 6| 20| 3| 6| 8| 8| 4| 1| | 108 Richard I. | 6| 4| | 1| | | 1| 4| 2| | | 18 John. | 7| 11| | 7| | 1| 2| 2| 6| | | 36 Henry III. | 4| 15| 1| 9| | | 1| 1| 1| | | 32 Edward I. | 3| 2| | | 3| 9| 1| | 1| | | 19 Edward II. | 2| 2| | | | | | | | | | 4 Edward III.| 3| 6| | 1| 17| | | | | | | 27 Richard II.| | | | | | | | | | | | Henry IV. | | | | | 4| | | | | 1| | 5 Henry V. | | 1| | | 6| | | | | 1| 1| 9 Henry VI. | | | | | 8| | | | | | | 8 -----------+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+------ | 115| 144| 26| 86| 52| 12| 51| 21| 20| 3 | 1| 531 -----------+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+------ To 531, add 130 before the Conquest; total, 661. ALIEN MONASTERIES. The governing bodies of the foreign or alien monasteries, to which landed estates, tenements, tithes, churches, etc., in England were granted, had built priories in convenient parts of England on their manors, and sent monks from their own monasteries to occupy them. The principal duties which these monks performed, were to collect the revenues from the properties, and transmit the money to the heads of the foreign monasteries. In fact they were their resident agents in this country. It is stated that not less than £2,000 a year, a sum equal to £60,000 at the present time, was forwarded, in the reign of Edward III., to Cluny, in France, by the twenty-six Cluniac priories in England. King Edward I., in his wars with France, was the first to put a stop to the transmission of money from the alien priories in England to the heads of the foreign monasteries in France. They were dissolved by Henry V. and Henry VI.