The History Of The Antient Abbeys, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedral and Collegiate Churches. Being Two Additional Volumes To Sir William Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum Containing The Original and First Establishment of All the Religious Orders that Ever Were in Great-Britain; Being Those of the Benedictins, Cluniacks, Cistercians, Regular Canons of St. Augustin, Carthusians, Gilbertins, Trinitarians, Premonstratenses, and Canons of the Holy Sepulchre, Treated of in the Monasticon Anglicanum: As Also of the Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, Augustinian Friers, Regular Canons of Arroasia, Brigittins, Monks of Fontevrand, of Savigni, and of Tiron, Crouched Friers, Friers of Penance, Or of the Sack, and Bethleemites, Not Spoken of by Sir William Dugdale, and Mr. Dodsworth. The Foundations of Their Several Monasteries. A Very Large Collection of Many Hundreds of Grants and Charters Belonging to Them, Besides Several Thousands Abridg'd. The Final Suppression of All Those Places, with Some Account of the Manner how Their Vast Lands and Possessions Were Dispos'd Of. There Are Added Catalogues of the Abbats, and Other Superiors of Those Religious Houses, and of All Persons Eminent, and Distinguish'd for Piety, Learning, and Other Accomplishments, in the Several Orders; with Short Lives of as Many of Them as Have Been Transmitted Down to Us. Collected from Above Two Hundred of the Best Historians Extant, and from Antient Manuscripts in the Bodleian and Cotton Libraries, and Many More in the Hands of Learned Antiquaries, and Other Curious Gentlemen, Whose Names May be Seen in the Preface. Adorn'd with a Considerable Number of Copper-Plates of the Several Habits of the Religious Orders, the Ichnographies of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and the Ruins of Sacred Places Destroy'd, Or Gone to Decay, and Prospects of Others that are Still Standing