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Title: Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain)
Subjects: Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain) Excavations (Archaeology) Natural history
Publisher: Shrewsbury (etc.) Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
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called variously Colun, Colon,Colum, and by the Britons Caer Coiun. To the south ofthat town was a monastery of Augustine Canons, founded inthe reign of Hen. I. (noo to 1135), and dedicated to St.Julian and St. Bodolph, by Ernulphus or Eynulphus, whoafterwards became prior. These Canons were brought intothis kingdom about the year 1109. This House (at Col-chester) was the first of that order in England, as appears bythe Bull of Pope Paschal II., directed to Ernulph and hisbrethren, dated in Aug. 1116. Some indeed have affirmedthat St. Gregorys in Canterbury was the first, and othershave placed them at Nosthel in Yorkshire, or at Trinitywithin Aldgatc, London; but, as Mr. J, Stevens well observes,this point is fully determined by Pope Paschals Bull in 1116,who, living so near the time, could not be misinformed, or, ifhe had, the monastery in England, that had been before it,would have claimed the precedence. ... However it be,Pope Paschal, in his Bull, gives them the pre-eminence above
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THE AUGUSTlNIAtf FRIARS, SHREWSBURY. IQJ all the Houses of their Order in England; and invests themwith authority and jurisdiction over them in general, em-powering them not only to punish delinquents and deserters,but also to govern all others, according to their own Rule,and to plant and distribute their members in* proper places as theyshould think convenient, putting at the same time the Churchesof Trinity and St. Leonards beneath their government andobedience. The Bull exempted them likewise from allsecular and ecclesiastical jurisdiction whatsoever ; andordained that, alter Eynulphs death, the succeeding priorsshould be chosen by their brother canons, or the majority ofthem, and be consecrated by the Bishop of London (or, if herefused, by some other Bishop) from whom they were toreceive a kind of Episcopal office or power. It does notappear that Eynulph settled on his new foundation any landsor possessions, except perhaps the site and gardens of thePriory. But it soon met with b

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