settled in favour of the College. Thomas Antiq. Mag. Malo. p. 47.

This claim of the see of Canterbury was renewed more than once, and excommunications denounced with uncommon severity; all persons were forbidden to sell them any bread, wine, or victuals, for their sustenance; to pay them tithes; to buy any thing of them, or even to have any connection with them: but on the interference of the royal authority, the decrees were in a great measure revoked, though the Archbishop still refused to absolve the Prior, till the King issued his mandate to the keeper of the spiritualties of that province to have him absolved, which had its proper effect. About the year 1303, William de Geynesborough, Bishop of Worcester, and his official, were prohibited by royal mandate from exercising any ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the priory; and its peace was entirely established in 1318, by a general prohibition against any encroachments on its liberties or privileges. From this period few events occurred, except such as related to the general management of the Priory in the acquisition and exchanges of property, till it shared the common fate of other religious houses at the dissolution. Many benefactions occur in the public records, which were at different times confirmed by successive Kings, particularly by Hen. E. and Rich. II.

In the grant of the tenths of the clergy to Edward I. in 1290, their temporal property in the county of Gloucester was valued at £23. 138. 8d. and was situated at Colewell, Norton, Parthon, Compton, and Havenepenne, Ellesworth, and Aston, besides a portion of 8s. from Lassindon, and 13s. 4d. from Wydecomb.

In a similar grant to Henry VIL in 1487, the value was assessed at £23. 3s. 94. for temporalties: and at the disso

lution, the priory was valued at £90. 10s. 24d. and about seven canons were found in the house.

The site of the Priory, with all its houses and lands in the city and suburbs of Gloucester, and some other property, was granted for £100. to John, afterwards Sir John Jennyns, Knt. whose son → Jennyns, left the Priory to his daughter, married to Kemp, from whom it passed to Agnes their daughter, wife of --- Wright, whose son Richard had livery in 1575. In 1720, Mr. Bridges Pattishall was the proprietor, and from him the passage leading from Half-street to the Priory, was called Pattishall's Alley. Through several proprietors it came to the late John Newton, clerk, who devised it to the son and daughter of his brother Benjamin Newton, clerk.

The site of the Priory was N.N.W. of St. Peter's Abbey, upon the bank of one of the ancient channels of the Severn; and it is said that the old key or wharf was near it; but that it was removed in consequence of a dispute between the monks and the townsmen. The buildings have long since been demolished; but Rudder seems to think that enough remains to shew that there was once a small quadrangle, with a gate on the south side, and another on the north, leading to the church adjoining. In its present ruir.ous state, there are sufficient proofs of its antiquity. The church was beaten down by the besiegers' artillery in the great rebellion, and has not been rebuilt.

The following list of Priors is given, as collected from the register books of York and Worcester, and other records:→ 1153. Humphrey, a member of Lanthony, and the first Prior after the introduction of regular canons.

1260. William, when Geffry Cuttstick and Walter Huich were Prepositi of Gloucester.

1281. Richard de Bachampton. Guido died 1289. Peter

de Malburn, elected. 1289. On resignation of the last, Walter de Bingham succeeded in 1301. He resigned in 1910, and was succeeded by Humphrey Lavynton, who resigned in 1312, when John Ayshwell was elected, and resigned the same year to Richard Kidderminster, who was amoved, and John Ayshwell restored. In 1352, William Heved occurs. 1398, Thomas Duk. 1404, John Players. 1408, John de Shipton. 1433, John Suckley. 1434, John Higins. 1447, John Inglis, Canon of Cirencester, county of Gloucester, collated by the Archbishop of York. 1491, Nicholas Falkner, a Canon of Lanthony, collated by the Archbishop of York. 1530, William Eylford, alias Jennens, or Giffard, alias Jenings. He held the Rectory of Rudford, by presentation from St. Peter's Abbey, in commendam, with the Priory, till 1536, when he resigned it. After the dissolution of the Priory, he became a monk of St. Peter's, and in 1541, was made the first Dean of the Cathedral. N. B. The extracts in italics are from Rudder; the other parts are mentioned both by Rudder and Tanner, in Nasmith's edition, p. xxxviii.

THE GREY FRIERS,

Or the House or College of Friers Minors or Franciscans.

This house, situate to the east of Crypt Church, was founded by one of the Lords of Berkeley, and was constantly under the protection of that family. In 1350, a dispute. was settled between the Friers and the Abbey, relative to a grant of water from Robins-wood-hill, by William Gerard. It was agreed that the Friery should have a third, and the Abbey the residue. The place from which the water issued, was called Brerestlow spring, In 1362, Thomas Lord

Berkeley gave some lands and tenements, and in 1491, William, Marquis of Berkeley, by his will, ordered that a frier should perpetually officiate for himself and relations in this house, towards rebuilding of which, according to Leland, he gave £20. The lady of James Lord Berkeley was buried in the choir of this monastery in 1452. She died in imprisonment in the castle of Gloucester, where she had been confined for many years by Margaret, Countess of Shrews. bury, in consequence of some family disputes.

In 1515, Maurice Lord Berkeley, through respect to his grandmother last-mentioned, gave £6. 13s. 4d. per annum, to repair the church.

In 1538, this house was surrendered to Richard, suffragan Bishop of Dover, in the presence of the Mayor and three Aldermen. W. Lightfoot, afterwards Vicar of Tetbury, John Beacheley or Berklay, Henry Tacket, George Cooper, and John Kebul, afterwards Rector of St. Aldate's, were then friers in the house, and permitted to change their habit.

Sir John Jennings received from the Crown in 1542, a grant of the site, with a close of pasture ground on the east side the church-yard, a garden in the Southgate-street, and other appurtenances, for twenty-one years, at 33s. a year. In this grant the King reserved a power of throwing down and carrying away the buildings, but the same year this was given up, and the perpetuity conveyed to the same person. From him it passed to Hugh Gethyn, and through several proprietors, till Mr. Thomas Pury granted it, in 1630, to the corporation of the city. The building is now converted into dwelling-houses and manufactories, in the possession of Mrs. Goodyer, Mr. Maddy, and Mr. Linton; and on the ground, which is called by Corbett the Frier's Orchard, a handsome house was erected by the late Shadrach Charlton,

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Esq. now by purchase the property of Charles Brandon Trye, surgeon..

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At the time of the dissolution, this monastery was described as a goodly house, much of it new builded, especially the church, choir and dorture (dormitory); the rest small lodgings. It is probable that little alteration had been made in the buildings, except the conversion of them into dwelling-houses, till the time of the siege, when considerable damage was done by the King's artillery. The choir : was till some late alterations, so perfect in its exterior, as to exhibit a very fine specimen of the architecture of the fifteenth century: the tracery of all the windows was rich, but the east window in particular was large and beautiful, covering the whole end of the building. The other building of the same size and length, running parallel with it, was probably the south aile; and the Prior's lodgings to the south of that, connected by a gate-way, over which a communication might be kept up with the church. In digging out the foundations for a house at the west end, lately built by Mr. Philo Maddy, several corpses were found; and near the base of one of the pillars, a banner which formerly belonged to the company of brewers or innholders, and was probably deposited here by a warden of that company, when the building was used as a brewery. It bore the appropriate devices of the trade to which it belonged.

Called the Black Friers, or the House or College of Friers Preachers.

This house was founded about 1239, by Henry III. and Stephen Lord of, Harulull it was enlarged by permission