DUDLEY PRIORY, WORCESTERSHIRE.
(PLATE I.)

This priory stands a small distance west of Dudley Castle. It was founded about the year 1161 by Gervase Painel, lord of this manor, and of several others in these parts. In the preamble to his charter he sets forth, that it was done in consideration of a like endowment intended by his father.

IT was dedicated to St. James, and filled with Cluniac Monks from Wenlock, in Shropshire, to which it was deemed a cell.

THE founder granted to these monks the ground on which the church of St. James stood, as also the churches of St. Edmund and St. Thomas, at Dudley; and those of Norkphel, Segefle, Ingepenne, and Bradfel, with the tithes of his bread, game, and fifth, as long as he resided at Dudley or at Herden; also pasture, wood, and divers other privileges.

ANNO 1190, Pope Lucius by his bull ordained, that the rules of the order of Clugni should be for ever observed in this priory, and that all its poffeffions should remain undiminished; namely, the church of St. James at Dudley, and the chapels of the said town of St. Edmund and S—, the church of Segefle with its appurtenances, the church of Northfield, with the chapel of Cofton, the church of Ingle and its appendages, the church of Bratefelde, with the chapel of Engle-

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