MYNCniN BUCKLAND PRIORY. 11 



Hugh Wallis, Bishop of Lincoln, by his will, macle in the 

 year 1211, left the sum of twenty marcs "ad fabricam 

 ecclesiaj de Bokland." This structure, it appears, was 

 dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and S. Nicholas.* 



Hugh de Alneto, or D'Auney, Prior of the Hospital of S. 

 John of Jerusalem, gave, with the consent of the Chapter, 

 permission to the Lady Loretta, Countess of Leicestei", to 

 find a Chaplain to celebrate daily the mass of the Virgin 

 in the Church of the Sisters, in returu for certain lands 

 and rents which the Countess gave to the Hospital, 

 to be converted to the proper uses of the Sisters afore- 

 said of Buckland, so that the aforesaid Chaplain should 

 be deputed to no other service save the proper and peculiar 

 ministry of the Virgin in the Church aforesaid.f We pos- 

 sess the charter of the Countess of Leicester contained in 

 one of " inspeximus " and confirmation granted shortly 

 after by King Henry IH., and dated at Westminster, the 

 16th of July, 1227. As it is of considerable interest, both 

 from its subject matter and from the names of the places 

 with which it furnishes us, some of my readers may be glad 

 to have it in a literal translation. It is as follows : — 



" Be it known to all the faithful of Christ, as well present 

 as future, who shall see or hear this writing, that I Loretta, 

 Countess of Leycester, have given and granted to God, 

 and Blessed Mary, and S. John Baptist, and the blessed 

 Poor of the House of the Hospital of Jerusalem, towards 

 the sustenance of the Sisters of Boclaund serving God, 

 and towards the finding of a certain Chaplain in the same 

 House, who daily and for ever may celebrate mass in 

 honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the greater Church 



* Rot. Chart. 1 Joh. m. 17. 



t MS. Cütt. Tib. E. IX. f. 23. MS. in Coli. Arm. L. 17. f. 153 b. 



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