the Church of Lincoln, by the approbation of seven of his brethren, who assisted at the ceremony.
Little more concerning this Castle occurs in history, except what is recorded of the free Royal Chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, wherein were a Dean and several secular Canons or Prebendaries, to which Henry de Augo or Ewe (who lived in the time of Henry I.) was benefactor. It was said, 27th Edward I. that the gift of the Prebends had been in the Crown ever since the Barony. Hastings came into the King's hands but before that, Conan Augi was Patron. In the 26th Henry VIII. the Deanery was valued at £20 per ann. and all the seven Prebends at £41 13s. 5d. The College and Deanery were granted 38 Henry VIII. to Sir Anthony Brown. It appears, by a patent, 5th Edward III. that the Dean had licence to build himself a mansion within the walls of the Castle.
Prynne, in his history of Papal Usurpations, mentions the following circumstances -
