The church of Bath called abbey. allowed him, not only to begin, but seemingly to finish, the great church of Saint Peter of Bath, of which a few traces only remain, and the nave only of which is represented by the present building.[1] And though, since the days of Ælfsige, there has never been an Abbot of Bath distinct from the Bishop, yet abbey, and not minster or cathedral, is the name by which the church of Bath is always known to this day.[2]
Disturbances on the appointment of Guy at Saint Augustine's.
Flight of Guy.
The disturbances at Saint Augustine's which followed
the death of Abbot Scotland, and the chief features of
which have been described elsewhere, must have taken
place earlier in the year. For the appointment or intrusion
of Guy took place while Odo was still acting as
Earl of Kent.[3] But the great outbreak, in which the
citizens of Canterbury took part with the monks against
the Abbot, did not happen till after the death of Lanfranc.
Then monks and citizens alike made an armed
attack on Guy, and hard fighting, accompanied by many
wounds and some deaths, was waged between them and
the Abbot's military following.[4] The Abbot himself
escaped only by fleeing to the rival house of Christ
Church. Then came two Bishops, Walkelin of Win-*obitum, monachi sancti
Augustini, præfato abbati suo Widoni palam resistentes, cives Cantuariæ
contra eum concitaverunt, qui illum armata manu in sua domo interimere
temptaverunt. Cujus familia cum resisteret, pluribus utrimque vulneratis
et quibusdam interfectis, vix abbas inter manus illorum illæsus evasit,
et ad matrem ecclesiam, quærendo auxilium, Cantuariam, fugit." This
last odd expression must be owing to the fact that Saint Augustine's stood
outside the walls.]
- ↑ Will. Malms. 195. "Sepultus est in ecclesia sancti Petri, quam a fundamentis erexerat, magno et elaborato parietum ambitu."
- ↑ The like usage is still more remarkable at Durham and Carlisle, churches which never had an abbot distinct from the bishop. At Carlisle the "abbey" seems to mean the monastic precinct rather than the church itself.
- ↑ See N. C. vol. iv. p. 409. The story is told in the Winchester Appendix to the Chronicles.
- ↑ Chron. Wint. App. 1089. "Post ejus [Lanfranci
