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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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Buck 1739/1837 (edn 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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