to sign, it would prove very little against them, and over against it may be set not only Dr. London's approval of the house [1] which might be a poor compliment but the favourable report of the local commissioners. The abbot received a pension of 40; the cellarer, 6; the rest, eight in number, 5 6s. 8d. each; and the old abbot, Richard Benet, apparently kept his original pension of twenty marks. [2] One of the monks, Richard Taylor of Northampton, was still living in 1552 as Vicar of Thornborough, and had never married. [3]
The original endowment of the abbey included the vill of Biddlesden, 5 virgates in Whitfield, and the manor of Maryland in Syresham, Northants, as well as the advowson of half the church of Houghton, Northants, with lands and a mill in the same parish.[4] The manors of Charwelton and Preston Capes in Northants were granted by William and Ralf de Cheinduit at the end of the twelfth century [5]; the manor of Boycott, Oxon, was the property of the abbey early in the thirteenth. [6] In 1379 the church of Ebrington, Gloucestershire, was granted to the monks by William la Zouche of Harringworth in memory of his kinsman, William de Bosco [7]; and Sir Richard Corbett relinquished his rights in the same church on condition that a certain number of masses should be said for his soul. [8] In 1284 the Abbot of Biddlesden held three fourths of a knight's fee in Dodford and a share in one half of Thornborough [9]; in 1302 he was returned as holding Dodford and Stowe with the Abbot of Osney, and half the village of Evershaw [10]; in 1316 his lands were the same as in 1 302, with the addition of one third of Thornborough.[11] In 1291 the temporalities of the abbey amounted to £66 9s. $3d.[12] The Valor Ecclesiasticus estimates its revenues at £125 4s. 3d. [13]; the local commissioners in 1536 at 130 4_r. $d. or £138 7s. 6d. [14]; the Ministers' Accounts of 1538 at £164 1s. 7d., including the manors of Boycott, Oxon, and Dodford, Bucks, with Charwelton, Preston and Gorall, Northants; and the church of Ebrington.[15]
{{c|List of Abbots[16]
Richard, [17] occurs 1151
Alexander, [18] occurs 1157 and 1166
Richard, [19] died 1192
William, [20] deposed 1198
Adam of Bath, [21] elected 1198, occurs till 1209
Maurice, [22] occurs 1219 and 1222
Henry, [23] occurs 1226, died 1228
Thomas, [24] occurs 1230 and 1232
Giffard, [25] resigned 1236
Walter, [26] occurs 1238 and 1240
Henry Mallore, [27] occurs 1241
Philip, [28] occurs 1245 to 1250
William, [29] occurs 1254 to 1257
Roger, [30] occurs 1259 and 1262
William Bisham, [31] occurs from 1264 to 1286
- ↑ L. and P. Henry VIII. xiii. (2), 422.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Exch. Mins. Accts. Bdle 76, no. 26.
- ↑ Harl. Chart. 84 H, 45-48, 85 c, 48, and Harl. MS. 4714, ff. 1-3.
- ↑ Harl. MS. 4714, ff. 58, 5gd, 100, 101d.
- ↑ Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 192.
- ↑ Harl. MS. 4714, f. 267d.
- ↑ Harl. Chart. 84, F. 5. Alms were still distributed to the poor in his name in 1535, and also for Arnold de Bois. Valor Eccl. iv. 238.
- ↑ Feud. Aids, i. 79, 81.
- ↑ Ibid. i. 100.
- ↑ Ibid. i. 108, 109.
- ↑ Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.).
- ↑ Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv. 238.
- ↑ Dugdale, Mon. v. 365.
- ↑ Dugdale, Mon. v. 368-9.
- ↑ }} This list is almost the same as that made out by Browne Willis. As it is mainly a list of occurrences (only three elections appearing in the episcopal registers), it is an evidence of his general care and accuracy, at any rate in dealing with his own county; and the verification of nearly all the names and dates which he gives is a presumption in favour of those which cannot so easily be traced. He seems to have had a considerable acquaintance with old wills, from which he may have obtained some of these.
- ↑ Harl. MS. 4714, f. 2.
- ↑ Browne Willis, History of Buckingham, p. 157.
- ↑ Ann. Mon. (Rolls Sen), ii. 248.
- ↑ Ibid. ii. 251.
- ↑ Ibid. Called Adam of Bath in Harl. MS. 4714, f. 33, and occurs with the date 1209 on f. 155d.
- ↑ Harl. MS. 4714, f. 26d: the second date is given by Browne Willis.
- ↑ Browne Willis, History of Buckingham, 157, gives the date 1226, and adds ' Stephen of Canterbury died 1228.' The mistake may easily be traced. Ann. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), iii. 109, has ' Eodem anno obiit Stephanus Cantuariensis; abbas de Bitlesden,' etc. It was probably Henry who died in 1228, if he was abbot in 1226.
- ↑ Feet of F. 16 Hen. III. 14.
- ↑ He was made abbot of Waverley in this year. Ann. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), ii. 316.
- ↑ Harl. MS. 4714, f. 2od; and Harl. Chart. 84 D, 32, have W. dated 1239 and 1240.
- ↑ Browne Willis, History of Buckingham, 157.
- ↑ Harl. MS. 4714, f. 20; Feet of F. 35 Hen. III. no. 3.
- ↑ Feet of F. 39 Hen. III. no. 4, and 55 Hen. III. no. 4.
- ↑ Harl. MS. 4714, ff. 6, 11d.
- ↑ The earliest reference, in Harl. MS. 4714, f. 338, is dated 1266; the latest, in f. 105, is 1286.
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