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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1779 Excerpt: ...Nuns; but afterwards, this house came under the government of an Abbot, and continued till about the year 964. But.having susfered very much by the Danes, it came soon after, with all its possessions, into thehands of the Archbishop or Church of Canterbury, by whom they were enjoyed till the reign of King Henry VIIL m the twenty-ninth year of whose reign Archbishop Cranmer exchanged them for other lands with the crown; and King Henry VIII. in the thirty-sixth year of his reign, granted the manor of Liming, &c. to-Sir Anthony Aucher... The CHARTER is as follows: -f In Nomine Dm Di nostri IhuXpI, Ego Uihtredus Rex Cantuariorum, providens mihi in futuro, decrevi dare aliquid omnia mihi donanti, et Consilio accepto, bonum visum est conferre, Bassilicae beatae Mariae genitrlcis Dr quae sita est in loco qui dicitur Limingae. Terram iiii. Aratrorum quae dicitur Wieghelmestun, cum omnibus ad eandem Terram pertinentibus, juxta notissimos Terminos, id est, Bereueg et Meguines Pie's, et Strefleg. Quam donationem meam volo firmam esse in perpetuum: ut nec Ego, feu heredes mei, aliquid minuere praesumant. Quod si alicer tempratum fuerit a.'See nrore concerning this Charter inMon. Angl. Vol. I. p. 19. Hickes's Thef. Vol. II. p. 263. An ancient Copy is preserved in the Cotton Library, Aug. 2. 83. f This King built the Monastery of St. Martin in Dover, and was buried at Canterbury within the porch, on the south-side of the church of St. Mary, which had been built by his great grandsather King Eadbald. % This place was called Nunsoorougb, from its being the habitation of the Num. qualibet qualibet persona, sub Anathematis interdictione sciat fe praevaricari, ad cujus confirmationem, pro Ignorantia literarum f Signum Scac Crucis expreffi et Testes idoneos ut subscriberent..