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XIII.—The Foundation of the Priories of St. Mary and of St. John, Clerkenwell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
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On the first page of M. Delaville le Roulx' sumptuous Cartulaire Général of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem there is printed a charter relating to Clerkenwell, in which the Hospitallers are mentioned, and which is there assigned to circa 1100. As the Order itself was only founded (if indeed it was) in the year preceding, this would be the earliest charter in which it is mentioned in Europe, and its well-known priory at Clerkenwell, the first to be founded. It is again on the authority of this charter, which “se place vers 1100,” that M. Delaville le Roulx asserts in his introduction that:
“L'Ordre comptait dans les Iles Britanniques de nombreux établissements, dont les plus anciens remontaient aux premières années du xiie siècle ” (p. clvii.).
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page 223 note a Vol. iv. App. ii.
page 223 note b Vol. i. 183. It was similarly stated by Mr. Pettitt Griffith, F.S.A., in his paper read in June, 1867, before the London and Middlesex Archæological Society, that the priory (of St. John's) was founded about 1100 by Jordan Briset and Muriel his wife (iii. 157).
page 223 note c Ed. 1883.
page 223 note d Monasticon, vi. 805.
page 224 note a Land was given at Willingale by Eustace, son of Adam (fo. 21), whose gift was confirmed by his son Richard (fo. 21 d). The latter charter was witnessed by Otho Fitz William, sheriff of Essex (1181–1189) and Simon his brother, and confirmed by William de Hispania, lord of Willingale (Spain), who was himself, with his wife Agnes, a benefactor to the nunnery (fo. 22).
page 224 note b Cott. MS. Faust. B. ii.
page 225 note a Domesday, ii. 9B, 12, 12B.
page 225 note b Red Book of the Exchequer, ed. Hall, 541 (Hobrndge is there tentatively and wrongly identified as Heybridge).
page 225 note c Domesday, ii. 74B, 75.
page 225 note d Ibid. ii. 417.
page 225 note e Red Book of the Exchequer, 479.
page 225 note f Ibid. 591.
page 225 note g See my Geoffrey de Mandeville, 742.
page 225 note h Cott. MS. Faustina, B. ii.
page 226 note a See my Feudal England, 475–6, 575.
page 226 note b Ralf the dean, William, Richard, and Richard the archdeacons, Master Aubrey, and Robert de Auco.
page 226 note c Fo. 113. But the date has been added in another hand.
page 226 note d We read of it in Mackenzie Walcott's English Students' Monasticon: f[ounder] Jordan Brisett, 1100 (ii. 99).
page 227 note a Cott. Chart, 83 C. 26.
page 227 note b Cott. MS. Faustina, B. ii. fo. 23B.
page 227 note c This is proved by a charter of Maurice, in which he speaks of his wife Muriel and of Lecia filia ejus, Lecia (or Letia) being Muriel's daughter by Jordan de Breiset. It may be of interest to note that a charter of Reginald de Ginges and Emma his wife (see pedigree) is witnessed by “Mauricio de Totham, Muriel de Munteni matre nostra, Lecia sorore nostra” (fo. 24D); this use of nostra for the wife's mother and sister is remarkable. The pedigree was as follows:
page 228 note a Archaeological Journal, 1. 235.
page 228 note b Ibid. 236.
page 228 note c London and Middlesex Archaeological Transactions (1862), iii. 157.