In the year 966 KING EDGAR in his great Council enacted Laws for the Government of these Monks [WILKINS Concil., tom. 1, fol. 240.] The Two Societies of OLD and NEW Minster, being so very near together, and disputes frequently arising between them, the Monks of NEW MINSTER submitted about A.D. II10 to remove to HYDE, which was a retired Situation on the north part of the CITY without the walls where (says Bp. Tanner) King Henry 1st, at the instance of Wm. Gifford, Bp. of Winchester, had founded a stately Abbey for them which was dedicated to the HOLY TRINITY, ST. PETER, and ST. GRIMBALD. On this House were conferred large Possessions and Privileges (1.) not only by the Munificence of the founder KING EDWARD, but also by several of his Successors, kings of England, viz. KING ATHELSTAN, KING EDWARD, KING EDRED, KING EDGAR, KING EDMUND IRONSIDES, KING EDWARD the Confessor, KING WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, and particularly KING HENRY IST, and his Queen MAUD. In this Monastery were interred several of our Saxon KINGS, PRINCES, etc., viz. KING EDWARD, and his son; Prince ELFRED, EADBURGH, daughter of KING EDWARD, ÆLFRED son of KING EDULF, and as some authors inform us, KING ALFRED. All which Princes' Bones together with the Relicks mentioned in this Book (2.) were with great solemnity removed from NEWMINSTER to HYDE. · The Possessions of this House were valued 26 HEN. VIII. at £856. 18s. the Scite was granted 37 HEN. VIII. to Richard Bethell. (1.) See the list of Benefactors, page 23. (2.) See page 100, 104, 105, 106. There are not the least remains of this once magnificent ABBEY, except the name; the very Ruins being as it were perished. This Destruction was made soon after the Reformation, and the Monuments were then demolished as appears from Leland's Hist., Vol. 3, P. 71. The Drawings at the beginning of this Book were made and the greatest part written in the time of King CNUTE IST, as appears not only from the Lists of KINGS, ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS, etc. but from various other Circumstances. The Lists of ABBOTS, MONKS, and LAY BROTHERS of this House from the first Foundation thereof seems to be very compleat, and these Lists are continued to the Dissolution of the ABBEY in the reign of King HEN. VIII. There are also the Names of many of the pious Benefactors to this Monastery and likewise the Lists of the Religious of several other Houses in the West of ENGLAND (1). Several Ancient Charters of Donations to this House are entered in different parts of the Book, the particular Contents of which are as follow :— THE TABLE OF CONTENTS. ... ... ... ... ... ... The Charter of JOHN ABBOT of Hyde, whereby he granted ... ... (1.) V. fo: 23, 25, 41-47. ... ... PAGE An historical Account of the Foundation, etc., of Hyde Abby, ... ... ... Nomina Regum Occidentalium Saxonum Nomina Filiorum Regum ... ... Nomina Archiepiscoporum Dorobernensium Nomina Episcoporum ... ... Orientalium Saxonum ... PAGE ... 5 ... 15 ... ... ... Nomina Fratrum veteris Cenobij Wentane (Wintoniæ) Ecclesiæ, sub protectione Domini Sancti Petri Apostoli Deo inibi Servientium Conventio inter Nos et Monachos Sancti Albana 1 ib. ... ... ... ... 38, 39, 40 ... ... 48-55 ... ... ... ... ib. Testamentum Ælfredi Regis cum Præfatione Her cyo ymbe pa halgan pe on Angelcynne Restað. An ... ... ... ... ... ... A further account of the burial Places of English Saints Religious Ceremonies, Customs, etc. as practised by our The Gospel in the Office for Palm Sunday, or Passion Sunday The second, or Matin Gospel, upon the Nativity The third Gospel at Daybreak upon The fourth after the third Mass upon The Gospel for the Octave of the Nativity on the Circumcision ... 73 ... ... ib. 80 A fragment of the Exultat said or chaunted on Holy Saturday, with Musical Notes used before the present Gamut was invented by Guido Aretinus, A.D. 1028 ... ... ... 1 N.B. This was written in 1031. 89 ... Another for the same VARIOUS BENEDICTIONS. The Blessing for Milk and Honey Blessing of the Pascal Lamb Peculiar Blessing for Mutton Another for the same ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Another for the same Blessing of New Bread Another for the same ... ... ... ἐδ. ... 93 ... 94 ... ... ... A List of Relicks formerly preserved in Hyde Abbey The Charter of Sunwall, granting Aweltone to the Monastery of Hyde for ever The Questions propounded by Pope Damasus ... ... ... ... 107 The Order of Mass as practis'd by the Saxons, viz : A continuation of the List of the Abbots, Monks, etc. of Hyde Abby brought forward from Page 36 |