The ‘Lanthony Secunda Augustinian Rule’, with commentary.

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Written and illuminated for, and most probably at, the Priory of Lanthony Secunda, almost certainly by one of the community’s own inmates. The house was founded in 1136 by the English statesman Miles de Gloucester, Earl of Hereford and constable of Gloucester, as a refuge for the monks of Llanthony Priory founded. 1108 in the Vale of Elwas, Monmouthshire (which fell within his lordship as one of the lords of the Welsh Marches), after repeated attacks by the local Welsh. The monks received significant local support from both the family of Miles de Gloucester and the well-known Bohun family, and the two houses of Llanthony continued in coexistence with Llanthony Priory drawing its revenues from its Welsh estates, Llanthony Secunda drawing its revenues from its West Country estates and an amicable division made of the occasional payments to come from their Irish properties. Both were suppressed together in 1538, and the lands and buildings of Lanthony Secunda were sold to Arthur Porter, a local landholder who had previously been under-steward to the priory. The present volume is item 175 in the community’s library list, printed by H. Omont in Centralblatt für Bibliothekwesen, IX (1892), and reprinted by T.W. Williams, ‘Gloucestershire Medieval Libraries’, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, XXXI (1908), p. 148, where it is recorded it was kept on the second shelf of the third ‘armarius’ or bookcase in the library there. Antiquarian interest in

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