The antiquities of England and Wales . r ; a fecular canon; a canon regular of thePrsemonftratenfians. The fitting figures are, a regular canon of St. Auguftine; a regular canon ofIhe Holy Sepulchre j a canon of the Hofpital of St. John at Coventry ; chaplain of the order of of Jerufalem. (n) The oracle of the law faith, i 585, Twenty-fix abbots and two priors had baro-nies, and thereby were lords of parliament. In i Inftit. 97, he faith, There were an hundred andeighteen ntonafterics, founded by kings of England ; whereof fuch as he\d per baro»iam, and weretailed to parliam
The antiquities of England and Wales . r ; a fecular canon; a canon regular of thePrsemonftratenfians. The fitting figures are, a regular canon of St. Auguftine; a regular canon ofIhe Holy Sepulchre j a canon of the Hofpital of St. John at Coventry ; chaplain of the order of of Jerufalem. (n) The oracle of the law faith, i 585, Twenty-fix abbots and two priors had baro-nies, and thereby were lords of parliament. In i Inftit. 97, he faith, There were an hundred andeighteen ntonafterics, founded by kings of England ; whereof fuch as he\d per baro»iam, and weretailed to parliament by writ, were lords of parliament, and had places and voices there ; but not ifthey were not called by writ; for Feverfham was founded by King Stephen to hold by barony ; bujthe abbot not being called to .parliament, did not fit there. This is alfo in Weaver, p. 113. CowEL, ywA voce Mitred, faith, Thefe abbots were not called to parliament) becaufe they weremitred^ but becaufe they received their temporals from the king. Collier,. PREFACE. 91 copal power within the limits of their houfes, (o) gave folemnbenediction, confirmed the lefler orders, wore mitres, (p) fan-dais, &c. and carried crofles or paftorals in their hands, andfome of their houfes were exempted from the jurifdidion even ofthe archbifliop, (q) and fubjecl to the pope alone. Fuller faye\ that Collier, Ecc. Hift. vol. ii. p. 164., faith, they held of tlie klnghi caplte per beroniam; theirendowment being at leaft an entire barony, which confiftcd of thiiteen knights fees, and therebythey were advanced to the ftate and dignity of fpiritual lords : but of the parliamentary abbies,fome were founded by fubjefls, fome by kings of Mercia, &c. and about eight only by kin^s ofEngland. The abbot of Thorney pleaded, A. D. 133S, that he did not hold by barony, but by ; Colleft. Wren, vol. ii. p. 18, ex jcg. Sim. Epifc. Elienf. and yet was then cat-led toparliament, as Fuller, book vi. p. 292, and Stevenss
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