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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
About the time in which Bishop Herbert de Losinga founded the cathedral of Norwich [a] he appears to have also begun the construction of a monastery on the south side of that building: this religious house was destined to the reception of Benedictine monks, [b] who were to be employed in the cathedral service: the work was completed in 1101, in the September of which year the foundation-charter was signed by Herbert, and sixty monks who had been collected together, and who had for some time resided in the Priory of St. Leonard, [c] were then removed, and fixed in the new monastery. [d]
page 311 note [a] In 1096, according to Weever, (Funetal Monuments, p. 788,) but, according to Stowe, in 1097.
page 311 note [b] Speed's Chronicle, p. 1066.
page 311 note [c] This priory was situated on Mosswold-hill; some remains of its walls are still to be traced; it finally became a cell to the cathedral monastery.—See Tanner's Notit. monast.
page 311 note [d] Blomefield's Norfolk, Vol. II. p. 331, &c.
page 312 note [e] Mon. Ang. Tom. III. fo. 7.
page 312 note [f] Blomefield's Norfolk, Vol. II. p. 431, 436.
page 312 note [g] Chronicle, p. 1066.
page 312 note [h] Chiefly in some of the windows and doors perhaps, which were very numerous and irregular on the north side of the building.
page 312 note [i] The church of the priory, i.e. the cathedral, and the southern upper-close-gate, seem to have suffered most on this occasion; a new gate (still remaining,) was erected by the citizens of Norwich, in 1275, on the spot where the old one had stood, and they were farther condemned to repair the priory-church at the expense of 3000 marks. Speed's Chronicle, 625, and Blomefield as above, p. 39, 40, 436, and 526.
page 313 note [k] The statutes of the cathedral were afterwards revised and renewed by Edward VI. and Elizabeth: they were again altered, in some respects, by James, by Charles I, and by Charles II. Six minor canons, an episteler, a gospeller, and eight lay clerks, were appointed in lieu of the sixteen vicars-choral.
page 313 note [l] No portion of the monastery, perhaps, retains externally more of its original form than the house of the organist, and the library room which adjoins to it.
page 313 note [m] A long building (to the south of the cloisters,) in which the monks all slept together, according to the decree of a council held 816, “nisi in dormitorio cum cateris, absque causa inevitabili nemo dormire presumpserit.”