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LomliniafM, 



[Oct. I, 



%vards tlic whoJc, of Rotl.erhiUie ; the 

 manor of Dulwich, in C^ambt rwell ; and 

 the uiaiior of Weft-Grecinvich, or Dcpl- 

 fortl. 



Among their fpirituahties \va? the ad- 

 vowfoii of i?t. Saviour's, Bcriiiondfcy, 

 given tlsem bv king VVilliaui II., ni 

 1031; that of !^t. George, in Suuthwurk, 

 hy 'Ihonias Anltrn, in '\V>'Z ; the reciorr 

 of Hothprhiilie, in tlie fame ye;ir ; that of 

 Altliough Lclaiid, Stow, and others, CanihcTuell, in Surrey, by William Eail 



p»c«ffion to Pt. P;ml's, in 1557, " was 

 made very pompou* with fourlcorc ban- 

 ners and llrcaniers, and the waits of the 

 city playing, an(^ tlireefcore priefts and 

 clarkes in copes ; and divers of the Inns 

 of Court were there, who went next the 

 priefts, &c."— (.See Strype's EcclefialUcal 

 Wemoriab, vol. 3, p. 377.) 



BER.MOXDSEY. 



)lace the fonndation of tl^e |.rioiy here 

 at an earlier time, it a[)(;ear> iVmn the 

 befi accounts that it was foinidul in the 

 rear 1082 by Al"in Child, a citizen of 

 London. Some indeed have afcrihed it 

 to the Conquemr himfelf, v.ho proljaljly 

 ■countenanced and promoted it ; others 

 to \\ iiliam Knfus, whofc beiitfa^lions, it 

 mult he owned, were confiderahle : but 

 the (iifi fteps fecni to have bei-n taken by 

 Child, howe\er inconhderable the ad- 

 vances lie was able to make in it. 



In the Df/mcfday Survey, the church 

 IS Ciiiied '■ novd ft pvlchru cvclefia." 



Cliild'.^ firit work was the fimndation of 

 a church, dedicated to our Saviour, on 

 the fouth of, :in<l contiiruous to the fpot 

 on \\hich tin; prefent parochial church of 

 .*^t. Mary Magdalen is litnatod. To this 

 he annexed a convciit of Chmiac monks, 

 fent hitl cr in the year 1089, at the in- 

 flaiice of I.anfi-mc AichhilliDp of Can- 

 terbury, fiom the priory of la Churili 

 fur la Liiirr, to which it accordingly be- 

 came fuLordinate as a Cell. 



In the -Lith of Edward III. it was fe- 

 ♦I'.icfuied, amonjj other tdien priories, to 

 tl>c nff of the crown ; but le-cllal.lilhod 

 by Richard in tlie fccoud year of his 

 ni.n ; will) alfo, two years afterwards, in 

 coiifidersi'ii>n of a tine of two hundred 

 marks, eni'ianchiled it. thereby enabling 

 the nieinbers of it to purchafe and poffels 

 land in tl'.^ir own rij:lit, and to their own 

 proper ufe :,nd benetit : and about 

 ri^htec 11 yoar<! at'ter, in liiP9, he convert- 

 ed it into ;Ui ;bl fy. 



The et'atcs belonging to this priorv 

 wtre by no means inconliderable, being 

 of the exti'nded value of at leaft three 



thoufuud pounds a-year of our pi-cfent was 5481. S.s. .0$d. 

 currency. 



Their fmaller parcels of land, and rent- 

 cljarpes, we omit. Ainonsi the moft ma- 

 terial of ti.eir manoi's are tliofe of ]*ief- 

 ton, I. car Yeovil, and Kyninardefton, 

 in Soinerfeiftilre ; Charlton, in Kent ; 

 Quickbury, in tiie parilli of SherinL'. Ef- 

 fcK ; and Ijernunulfcy. In the neiiih- 

 bourh/od of London, the niai.or of 

 Biocklboum ; firll a moiety, and at'ter- 



or(;li)Uce(ler, in 1151; and Bedingtou, 

 in 1159. Eroni l:i',!l till the dilVoiution 

 of llic convent, the monks jircfented t« 

 the rectory of St. George, in Botulpi.- 

 lanc. In Vo'i2 they Ix^came pofleU'cd of 

 the advowfun of St. .Andrew's, H;jlborl> : 

 fruMi the fame period till the dill'ilutiim 

 tlicy had the alternate prefeuiation to 

 St." .Magnus, Jjjiidon-britlde ; and in 

 1:100 thcv obtained a grant of tiie recto- 

 ry of Croydon. 



Tiie h(i of priors is a Ions; one : it mar 

 be enough to fay, that the forty-teven 

 firIt were foreigners ; and that liiLbard 

 Denton, or Dunton, was the firft Englidi- 

 inaii who filled the oltice, in 1372. Un- 

 der his adminifiration, in 1380, the 

 monks were i-eleafed from thuir fnlicc- 

 tion to the alien priory in Nonnandy : be 

 rebuilt the doiiter and refeaory : and 

 was a great benefactor to the i)riory. Oa 

 his rchirnution, in 1390, John Attelbnrtrh 

 was elect isd ; uho liavini; procured the 



{•riory to be erected into an abbacy, rund 

 limfelf created the iirft abbot, by Pope 

 Boniface IS.., in 1399, religned hfii 

 clinrgc. 



The fuhfpquent abbots were, 



1399. Henrv Toiufon. 



1413. TlioiiiflsThetfonl. 



1-132. .Ii;!.n Broinleuii. 



1473. John de !Mariow. 



1520. Robert 'Vharlon, alias Parfew, 

 The laft of whom, havina; been confecra-* 

 ted Kifliop of St. Afaph in l.'>36, fnrren- 

 dercd his abbey to the Mini: the year fol- 

 lowing, and in 1554 was tranllatcd to 

 the fee of Hereford. 



Its revenue, at the furrcnder, ocrord- 

 injr to what aopeais the bell eltimate, 



Aiiout tlu'ce years and a Jialf afi/r- 

 wards (the 8th of July, 1541,) the ine 

 was granted to .*>ir Robert Sonthwelt : 

 foon after which the church was taken 

 down by Sir 'Jhomas Pope, by wlioin it 

 had been purchafed. 



The few relics which are now feen of 

 Rermondfey Abbev exijibit little more 

 than foiiie fcuttered portioiio of its Outer 

 wails. At tJie nortli-n eft corner, Jiow- 



