File:Collectanea topographica et genealogica (1834) (14577321399).jpg

Identifier: collectaneatopog05madd (find matches)
Title: Collectanea topographica et genealogica
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Madden, Frederic, 1801-1873 Bandinel, Bulkeley, 1781-1861 Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873
Subjects:
Publisher: London : John Bowyer Nichols and Sons
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
their place of worship. The nuns choir, as shown in the Plan, occupied the western half of the nave; the other half, with the chancel, on the north side of which was the chantry of the family of Asc, being left for the use of the parish. The church has in quite recent times been reduced in size, and the former chancel is now without a roof. A Great part of the nave was on that occasion pulled down and rebuilt, using the old materials; but the steeple, with its bell-house, remains untouched. The monastic buildings were on the south and west sides of the church (see Plan), and the extent of the cloister court may still be traced, but the structure is almost wholly destroyed. Instead of the convent being placed on a small farm, as Mr. Clark-son supposes, the endowment of Roger de Asc comprised a third part of the entire vill of Marrigg, a whole carucate, the boundaries of whic hare thus set forth in the deed; viz. from the Elm-pool in the river Swale* See the engraving in Whitakers Richimondshire.
Text Appearing After Image:
100 XI. GROUND PLAN AND CHARTERS OF ST. ANDREW S PRIORY IN THE PARISH OF MARRIGG, NORTH RIDING, CO. EBOR. The account of this Benedictine Nunnery in the new edition of the Monasticon, is taken from Clarksons History of Richmond, whose sources of information were apparently limited to the ecclesiastical sur-veys, the confirming charter of Edward the Third, as printed from the transcript on the charter rolls by Dugdale, who omits a considerable portion, and to the meagre notice in Burtons Monasticon Eboracense. The documents, which through the kindness of W. C. Tupper, esq., in whose possession they remain, I am enabled now to make known, formnearly a complete series of all the grants made to this religious esta-blishment, inclusive of the original charter of the founder, Roger de Asc. This is addressed to Archbishop Roger, who was consecrated to the see of York in 1154, some few months before the death of King Stephen; but as the Archbishop, in his letter of protection and ratification, ex-press

Note About Images