MYNCIIIN BUCKLAND PKIOUY. 9 



ladles slioukl be removed from their various places of r€?i- 

 dence and be placed in one common and conventual home 

 at Buckland, and that tbe Order sbould have no Sister- 

 hood belonging to it in England save and except in tbis 

 Housealone. Tbis occurred about tbe year 1180, orsome- 

 time about fifteen years after tbe original foundation. 



Tbe displaced Canons were removed by Garner, witb tbe 

 King's consent, to certain monasteries, selected probably 

 for tbeir bigh character and tbe sound State of their 

 internal discipline. Tbree were, on tbeir own petition, 

 consigned to tbe Hospital at Clerkenwell, and assumed tbe 

 babit of tbe Order; two were placed by Reginald Bisbop 

 of Batb, also on tbeir own petition, in tbe Priory of 

 Taunton; one in tbe Priory of Berlitz, and one in tbat 

 of S. Bartbolomew, in Smitbfield. Tbese preliminary 

 arrangements being satisfactorlly concluded, tbe uiain 

 design Avas fortbwitb carried out. Tbe Sistei's bitberto 

 residing, as already stated, in several of tbe preceptories, 

 were brougbt togetber and lodged at wbat was benceforth 

 called Myncbin or Nuns' Buckland. From tbe names wbich 

 bave been preserved, tbey appear to bave been at least nine 

 in number : — Sister Milisent, previously living at Standon, 

 in Ilertfordsbire; Sister Jobanna, at Hamton, in Middlesex; 

 Sister Basllia, at Kerebrooke, in Norfolk ; Sister Amabilia 

 and Sister Amicia, of Malketon, at Sbenegey, in Cambridge- 

 sbire ; Sister Cbristina, of Hoggesbawe, at Hoggesbawe, 

 in Buckingbarasbire ; Sister Petronilla, at Gosford, in Ox- 

 fordsbire ; and Sister Agnes, at Clanefelde, also in Oxford- 

 sbire. Tbey were located at Buckland, tbat, as it was 

 ßolemnly added, tbey and tbeir successors migbt serve God 

 in tbat place for ever* Sucb was tbe small beginning, and 

 sucb tbe first members of tbis aftcrwards famous Sisterbood. 

 » MS. in Coli. Arm., L. 17, fol. 153. Appcndi-x, No. IV. 



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