The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . ftheir number, to be under the government of a prior, nomi-nated by the founder and his heirs, subject to the approvalof the prior of Acre. The establishment, which was dedi-cated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, was largely endowed bythe founder, and enriched by many subsequent benefactions;out uf which half a mark of silver was to be paid annually toCastle Acre, by way of acknowledgment of their dependance,as a cell
The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain Accompanied with descriptions . ftheir number, to be under the government of a prior, nomi-nated by the founder and his heirs, subject to the approvalof the prior of Acre. The establishment, which was dedi-cated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, was largely endowed bythe founder, and enriched by many subsequent benefactions;out uf which half a mark of silver was to be paid annually toCastle Acre, by way of acknowledgment of their dependance,as a cell, on that monasterj*. At the dissolution of the smallreligious houses in 1536, this priory, with its revenues, wa3given as an addition to Bisham or Butlesham priory, in Berk-shire, and it shared the general wreck three years after. DOORWAY TO THE CHAPTER ROOM. At the dissolution, Mendham priory was granted to CharlesBrandon, duke of Suffolk, who had married Mary, the kingssister; and it was by him given, or sold to Richard Freston,his treasurer: the scite of the priory, with the lands attachedto it, now belong to the family of Rant, who inherit it bymarriage with the
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