This priory was not only confirmed by the charter of William Rufus, together with all the benefactions belonging to it; but that Prince also conferred upon the Prior and Monks the manor of Bermondsey, and erected a handsome and spacious conventual church for their accommodation. This priory, however, being an alien and a cell to one in France, it was among other foreign foundations sequestered by Edward III. in the year 1371, who constituted Richard Denton, an Englishman, Prior thereof. This priory was in 1391 converted into an abbey; and at the general suppression of monasteries in the year 1539 was surrendered to Henry VIII. when being granted to Sir John Pope, he demolished the old abbey, and erected in its room a stately edifice, which some time after came to the Earls of Sussex. _Stow’s Survey._ _St._ SAVIOUR’S _dock_, vulgarly called _Savory dock_, in Rotherhith, took its name from the above abbey, dedicated to the holy Saviour. _Maitland._ _St._ SAVIOUR’S _Mill_, vulgarly called _Savory mill_, also belonged to the above abbey, and was in the year 1536 let by the Abbot and Monks to John Curlew, at the yearly rent of 6_l._ which was then the value of eighteen quarters of good wheat; and he was also bound to grind all the corn used in the abbey. In the place where this mill stood, is now an engine for raising water to supply the neighbourhood. _Maitland._ _St._ SAVIOUR’S _School_, in St. Saviour’s church yard, Southwark, was founded by the parish, for the education of boys in grammatical learning, and confirmed by letters patent granted by Queen Elizabeth, so early as the year 1562, and the fourth of her reign; by which six of the vestry are for ever appointed Governors. To this school belong a Master and Usher, the former of whom has a salary of 30_l._ and the latter 20_l._ _per annum_. _St._ SAVIOUR’S _Southwark_, or _St._ MARY OVERIES, a church of great antiquity, situated to the south west of the bridge foot. In the place where it stands, is said to have been anciently a priory of nuns founded by one Mary a Virgin, the owner of a ferry over the river Thames, before the building of London bridge. Some time after the priory was converted into a college of Priests; but that establishment, as well as the former, proving of no long duration, it was in the year 1106 founded by two Norman Knights, and the Bishop of Winchester, for Canons regular, and from its dedication to the Virgin Mary, and its situation, was called St. Mary Overie, that is, St. Mary over the river. This edifice was destroyed by fire about the year 1207; but it being soon after rebuilt, Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, added to it a spacious chapel, which he dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen; and this being afterwards appointed for the use of the inhabitants, it at last became their parish church.