St Swithun's Priory
St Swithun's Priory, Winchestercounty:
Hampshire
- Winchester parish: - Hampshire
Winchester, ... King Alured, who built a new Monastery with[in] the Yard of the Cathedral, and endowing it with sufficient Possessions, gave the Government of it to St. Grimbaldus; King Edward, his Son and Successor; King Ethelstan, his Son; King Edred, his Brother; King Edgar, Q. Emma, who having performed her Purgation by the Ordel, gave nine Manors to this Church; and Bishop Elwin; all whose Gifts were confirmed by King Edward the Confessor, Anno 1059, and by Pope Innocent, who moreover granted to it divers Privileges, as not to pay any Tithes for their Land or Cattle in their own Hands, to celebrate divine Offices in the Time of an Interdict, with a low Voice, &c. Secular Canons were at first placed in this Church, but Bishop Ethelwold having been Abbot of Abington, was very zealous for a Monastick Life, and by the Assistance of King Edgar, expelled the Secular Clergy, and put in Monks of the Order of St. Benedict. This Monastery, at the Dissolution, was valued at 1507 l. 17 s. 2 d. per Annum.
King Alured translated the British Laws into English, and many other Books, and divided the Country into Hundreds and Tithings, for the better apprehending of Robbers. He built ... a new Monastery in the Church-yard of Winchester, which he endow'd with many Possessions.
- Winchester parish: - 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.
St. Swithin Ab. Winton Bened. 1507 17 2 1
- hospital
Ther was an hospitale for poore folkes a very litle without the Kinges Gate maynteinid by the monkes of S. Swithunes now suspressid.
otherwise: Old Minster
founded by Cenwalh, about 643
