South East View of St Bees Priory, in the County of
Cumberland.
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Print, uncoloured engraving, The South East View of St
Bees Priory, in the County of Cumberland, drawn and engraved
by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck, 1739, reprinted by Hudson
Scott and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1877.
With descriptive text of 1837. No.16 in The Castles, Abbeys, and Priories of the County of Cumberland, 1877. |
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THE SOUTH-EAST VIEW OF ST. BEES-PRIORY, IN THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. |
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To Sr JAMES LOWTHER Bart. Knight of the Shire for the County of Cumberland This Prospect is most gratefully Inscrib'd by his much Oblig'd and very humble Servants : Saml : & Nathl : Buck. dedication |
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THIS Priory of Benedictines qas founded in the reign of K. Hen. I. by William de Meschines Lord of Copeland. He Dedicated it to the Honour of St. Bega of Begogh, an Irish Virgin & Saint, who is said to have lived here some time in great Abstinence & Piety. He made it a cell to ye Abbey of St. Mary at York, wch. was to keep a Prior & Six Monks constantly here. It was endow'd partly by Himself, partly by his Son Ranulph, by Wm. Forz or de Fortibus El. of Albemarle & other Nobles. It is now a Parochial Church. The Impropriator is Sr. James Lowther Bart. An. Val. L143 : 17s : 2d. Dugd. L149 : 16s : 6d. Speed. Saml. & Nathl. Buck delin : et sculp : Publish'd according to Act of Parliament March 26. 1739. |
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