Southwick Priory
Southwick Priory, Southwick and Widleycounty:
Hampshire
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- Hampshire
Southwite, a Monastery of Canons Regular of St. Augustine, founded and endowed with divers Lands, by King Henry I. who granted them not only a Freedom from Taxes, and all other Exactions, but all sorts of Liberties; as not to be impleaded for any Matter, but in the Presence of himself, or his Heirs, &c. The Manor and Parsonage of this Town, valued at 60 l. 15 s. 1 d. besides the Salary of 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. paid out of it yearly to the Curate, belonging to it, and was after the Dissolution exchanged with the Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas Wriothesley, by King Henry VIII. Reg. 38. for other Lands. Valued at 257 l. 4 s. 4 d. Dug. 314 l. 17 s. 10 d. ob. Speed, per Annum.
- Hampshire
BY the Charter of King Henry III. appears to have been founded by King Henry I. who gave to it all the Privileges and Exemptions already oft mention'd.
- Hampshire
... Religious Houses ... deliver'd to King Henry VIII. in the 26th Year of his Reign, with the yearly Value ...
value l. s. d. q.
Southwike Pr. Can. St. Aug. 257 4 4 0
Southwik ... The fame of it stoode by the priory of the Blake Chanons there and a pilgrimage to our Lady.
Minns says:- The priory was originally founded within Portchester Castle in the reign of Henry I., but within fifty years was removed to Southwick, the church and buildings being within the limits of the present park
founded by Henry I, 1133
