English Monasteries [Illustration: _Allen & Sons_] [_Nottingham_ CHAPTER-HOUSE CHAPEL, NEWSTEAD PRIORY (Austin Canons) [In continuous use since the Dissolution]] ENGLISH MONASTERIES From Saxon Days to their Dissolution London G. J. PALMER AND SONS PORTUGAL STREET 1904 CAMBRIDGE PRINTED BY JONATHAN PALMER ALEXANDRA STREET _Introduction_ In accordance with many requests, the following sketch of some of the features of monastic life in England is reprinted from _The Church Times_, in a somewhat extended and slightly amended form. It has been suggested that it would be helpful to students to give a list of authorities on which these pages are based. A large number of authorities, such as monastic chartularies and customaries, and episcopal registers, only exist in manuscript; but the following are some of the principal printed books, in addition to the extended edition in eight vols. of Dugdale’s _Monasticon_: _English Monastic Life_ (1904). Abbot Gasquet. _Customary of the Benedictine Monasteries of St. Augustine, Canterbury, and St. Peter, Westminster_ (1902). Henry Bradshaw Society. _Observances of the Austin Priory of Barnwell_ (1897). J. Willis Clark. _Mediæval England_ (1903), Chaps. 3, 9, 15. Mary Bateson. _Rites and Customs of Durham_ (1842). Surtees Society. _Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis_ (1886). Surtees Society. _Durham Account Rolls_, 3 vols. (1898-1900). Surtees Society. _St. Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertines_ (1902). Rose Graham. _Gesta Abbatum S. Albani_, and other monastic volumes of the Rolls Series, including Nos. 8, 28, 29, 33, 36, 43, 45, 72, 78, 79, 85, and 96. _The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakeland_, of Bury St. Edmunds (1903). Sir Ernest Clarke. _The Obedientiaries of Abingdon Abbey_ (1902). Camden Society. _Records of Wroxall_ (1904). J. P. Rylands. _Saint Anselm_ (1888), Chap. 3. Dean Church. _A Consuetudinary of St. Swithun’s_ (1886). Dean Kitchin. _Obedientiary Rolls of St. Swithun’s_ (1892). Dean Kitchin. _Charters and Records of Cluni_ (1888). Sir G. Duckett. _Rentalia et Custumaria of Glastonbury._ Somerset Record Society. _Visitations of the Diocese of Norwich_ (1888). Dr. Jessopp. _Collectanea Anglo-Premonstratensia_ (1904). Abbot Gasquet. _Inventories of Christ Church, Canterbury_ (1902). Messrs. Legg and Hope. _Chartularies of Finchale Priory_ (1837); _of Jarrow and Monkwearmouth_ (1854); _of Fountain’s Abbey_ (1863-78); _of Whitby Abbey_ (1879); _of Newhouse Abbey_ (1878); _of Rievaulx Abbey_ (1889); _of Giseburne Priory_ (1889); _and of Brinkburn Priory_ (1893). Surtees Society. _Chartularies of St. Peter’s, Bath_ (1893); _of Bruton and Montacute Priories_ (1894); _and of Muchelney and Athelney Abbeys_ (1899). Somerset Record Society.