. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times . ,Woodlwuse, Dec. 28, 1778. * H. R. The Drawing was made September 20, Anno 1778. MALVERN MONASTERY, IN WORCESTERSHIRE. One Aldwin, an anchorite, with his brethren, began to build the houseat Malvern, in the eighteenth year of King William the Conqueror, anddedicated the church to the blessed Virgin Mary, Anno Dom. King and his son Henry endowed it with possessions. Henry theSecond, Henry the Seve
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times . ,Woodlwuse, Dec. 28, 1778. * H. R. The Drawing was made September 20, Anno 1778. MALVERN MONASTERY, IN WORCESTERSHIRE. One Aldwin, an anchorite, with his brethren, began to build the houseat Malvern, in the eighteenth year of King William the Conqueror, anddedicated the church to the blessed Virgin Mary, Anno Dom. King and his son Henry endowed it with possessions. Henry theSecond, Henry the Seventh, and his great favourite Sir Reginald Bfay,Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter; Gilbert de Clare, Earl ofGloucester and Hereford; Gsborn Bridges and Richard Bridges, anddivers other noble personages were also benefactors to it. Avicot, in thecounty of Warwick, where were four monks, and Brockbury, in theparish of Colwall, in the county of Hereford, where Avere two monks,were cells to it. The aforesaid Aldwin had been made a monk byWol tan, the holy Bishop of Worcester, who dissuaded him from goinga pilgrimage to Jerusalem, as he intended, with an assurance that the place. 377 place of Malvern, which he had chosen for his habitation, would hewonderfally favoured by God, which Aldwin in some measure sawfulfilled, living tj have thirty monk> of the order of St. Benedict underhim, who were all plentifully supplied by the neighbouring; people, whothought themselves happy in assisting them. The grant of King Henrythe First gives to Malvern one rood of land at Balduxhall, and the landof Achisey, for which the former paid two shillings rent, two hides ofland, the one in Worcestershire and the other in Staffordshire, with thelands of VYordesfield and Limhery; also the churches of Tantaraboton,Lecton, and many other particulars to be seen there. The charter ofKing Henry the Second confirms all former grants made to this church,and also of his own, the town of Langen in Gl
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