The antiquities of England and Wales . ofpitallar ; a fecular canon; a canon regular of thePrasmonftratenfians. The fitting figures are, a regular canon of St. Auguftine; a regular canon ofthe Holy Sepukhe ; a canon of the Hofpital of St John at Coventry ; chaplain of the order of St-John of Jerufalem. (n) The oracle of the law faith, a Inftit. p. 585, Twenty-fix abbots and two priors had baro-nies, and thereby were lords of parliament. In 1 Inftit. 97, he faith, There were an hundred andeighteen monafteries, founded by kings of England ; whereof fuch as held- per baroniam, and werecalled to p
The antiquities of England and Wales . ofpitallar ; a fecular canon; a canon regular of thePrasmonftratenfians. The fitting figures are, a regular canon of St. Auguftine; a regular canon ofthe Holy Sepukhe ; a canon of the Hofpital of St John at Coventry ; chaplain of the order of St-John of Jerufalem. (n) The oracle of the law faith, a Inftit. p. 585, Twenty-fix abbots and two priors had baro-nies, and thereby were lords of parliament. In 1 Inftit. 97, he faith, There were an hundred andeighteen monafteries, founded by kings of England ; whereof fuch as held- per baroniam, and werecalled 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 ; butthe abbot not being called to parliament, did not fit there. This is alfo in Weaver, p. 183. Cowel fub 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 lelfer orders, wore mitres, (p) fan-dais, &c. and carried crolfes or paftorals in their hands, andfome of their houfes were exempted from the jurifdiction even ofthe archbifhop, (q) and fubject to the pope alone. Fuller fays, that Collier, Ecc. Hill. vol. ii. p. 164, faith, they held of the king in capiteper baroniam; theirendowment being at leaft an entire barony, which confifted of thirteen knights fees, and therebythey were advanced to the ftate and dignity of fpiritual lords : but of the parliamentary abbies,fome were founded by fubje&s, fome by kings of Mercia, &c. and about eight only by kings ofEngland. The abbot of Thorney pleaded, A. D. 1338, that he did not hold by barony, but by frankal-moigne; Collect. Wren, vol. ii. p. 18, ex reg. Sim. Epifc. Elienf. and yet was then called toparliament, as Fuller, book vi. p. , and Stevenss Appen
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