Sherborn Priory
Sherborn Priory, Monk Sherborncounty:
Hampshire
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- Hampshire
Sherburn, a Benedictine Priory, founded by Henry de Portu or Port, who gave this Church to the West Part of the Town, and divers other Revenues to God, and St. Vigor Cerasius, which his Descendants confirmed to the Monks here. This being an alien Priory, was seized into King Henry V.'s Hands by Act of Parliament, and so remained, till King Edward IV. gave it to the Hospital of St. Julian or Domus Dei, at Southampton, Reg. 1. the Custody of which King Edward III. had before given to Queen's College in Oxford.
- Hampshire
Monastery in Hampshire, a Cell to the Abby of St. Vigor at Cerasy in Normandy.
HEnry Port gave to the Abby of St. Vigor at Cerasy all Shirburn, and the Church of that Town, and the Tithes, the Meadow of Longuebrug, and the Mill; the Churches of Brummelgue, Neoham, and Opperton, with their Tithes, &c. His Son John Port confirm'd the same, and Adam Port gave then the Tithe of all his Mills at Shirburn in Exchange for one Mill there.
- Hampshire
... ALIEN PRIORIES ... suppress'd in the Parliament held at Leicester, in the 2d Year of the Reign of King Henry V. and of our Lord 1414.
