Collections relating to the county of York, by Nicholas Wanton | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Collections relating to the county of York, by Nicholas Wanton

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. B. 450

Summary

On the first fly-leaf (which, under the words "Nicholaus Wanton me jure possidet," bears a coat of arms, arg. a chevron sable) there is a note upon the number of bishoprics, benefices and religious houses in England, which then proceeds thus: "Notwithstanding there was a booke brought into Paules Churchyard in written hand to be bound up, the collection whereof, as it was there reported, stood the partie in foure hundred pounds; in which booke (of a huge volume in a small hand) there were set downe all the religious houses that ever haue bene in this realme, what land was given unto them, where it yet lyeth, who gave it, how long since, upon what condicion and proviso, when, by whom, how much, and wherein altered, diminished, or increased, and in whose possession it is at this present."