referred. The great cross, which is represented in the first illustration to this book, was burnt by Bishop Henry on this occasion.

XIX. HUGH DE LENS succeeded in A.D. 1142. He is called by some writers HUGH SCORCHEVYLEYN, which may be a nickname, or perhaps refers to another abbot. Abbot Hugh is stated in this Register to have received no monks into the brotherhood, and to have been deposed. This was the result of an appeal to Rome1 against him by the abbey in A.D. 1149.

XX. SALIDUS, or SELIDUS, succeeded in A.D. 1149, or with better probability in 1151. His death is recorded in A.D. 1171.2 In his time he received twenty-two conversi, thirteen pueri, two juvenes, and four sacerdotes—a total of forty-one new entries in twenty years, and pointing perhaps to a staff or roll-call of not far from one hundred souls. In his time is recorded the obit of William de Curcella, no doubt a prominent benefactor.

After a vacancy of five years,

XXI. THOMAS, the Prior of Montacute, a Cluniac monastery in Somersetshire, according to Astle's marginal note, but of Bermondsey according to Edwards, succeeded3 in A.D. 1171 or 1177, as there is a discrepancy in the date assigned by two records. He resigned in A.D. 1180 or 1181.*

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XXII. JOHN SUTHILL, or SUTHIL, succeeded in A.D. 1181; according to Willis he was Prior of Cluny, but this is doubtful. There is an entry in this MS. showing that this abbot appointed a distribution of five shillings among the poor by the hands of the chamberlain and almoner of

1 Edwards, p. 6.

2 Ann. Monast. Wint., p. 60.

3 Ann. Monast. Wint., p. 61, ad an. 1175.

4"A.D. 1181. Thomas renuntiavit abb. de Hyda et Johannes illam suscepit," ex. anon. Monachi de H. annalibus, Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 4797, f. 16.

5 See p. 1, n. I.

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the abbey on the occasion of the burial of any of the brethren. During this abbot's rule the Annals of Winton state that in A.D. 1182 a manifestation of St. Barnabas took place at Hyde by miracles, and then the renovation of the abbey church was commenced.1 In A.D. 1185 it is recorded that he was sent to Rome to bring home the pall for Baldwin, Archbishop-Elect of Canterbury. He was an active participator, on viii Ides of May, A.D. 1198, at the translating by Geoffrey Fitz-Peter, a Hyde benefactor, of the remains of his father from the cemetery to the church, 3 4 According to the Patent Rolls, Abbot John received letters patent of King John, "de simplici protectione," August, 5 John, A.D. 1203. On 5 February, A.D. 1205, King John ordered Earl Mareschal to give to Chertsey Abbey seisin of all the manors of Hyde Abbey, so that "no Jew or Christian may take anything therefrom while it is in our debt," Chertsey paying 200 marks yearly. On 25 May, in the following year, the keepers of the Abbey of Hyde are credited with forty pounds paid to William, Archdeacon of Taunton, at Porchester, on Whit-Tuesday, for livery of the ships at Portsmouth, 25 May, A.D. 1206.6 In A.D. 1208, King John ordered restoration by Adam Tysun and Thomas Esturmy to the Abbot of Hyde of the abbey which had been taken into the king's hands by reason of the interdict. In A.D. 1216 the same king ordered the abbot to pay to William Briwerre twenty pounds due for a fine for knights' service. He died in A.D. 1222. He

14 Hoc anno innotuit se primus Sanctus Barnabas apud Hidam per miracula a Deo meritis ejus perpetrata, et tunc cepit renovari et meliorari eadem ecclesia," Ann. Mon. Wint., p. 63. 2 Ibid, p. 62. 3 Ibid, p. 67. P. 18.

4Rot. Lit. Pat., p. 33, col. 1.

5 Rot. Lit. Claus.,
8 ib., p. 264.

9 Ibid, p. 84, and in the Waverley Annals (same

series), p. 296. There was a subprior of Hyde, by name Thomas, at this period, circ. A. D. 1198, of whom a curious account is given in Ann. Mon. Wint., p. 68.

admitted fifty-four monks into the fraternity. His seal1 is attached to a charter in the British Museum (Add. ch. 24,613), confirming half a hide of land in Sandestuda, or Sanderstead, co. Surrey, to William de Pirelea, son of Osbert de Pirelea, i.e., of Purley, the principal seat in the parish. To this charter also is attached an impression of a very ancient seal of the abbey, which has escaped the notice of all writers on the abbey; by the permission of the British Archæological Association I am enabled to give illustrations of these seals. Edwards gives some interesting particulars concerning this abbot.

XXIII. WALTER de AystuNE, or ASTON, a monk of this abbey, received the royal assent to his election, 7 July, A.D. 1222. Thirty-eight monks were admitted to the roll of membership by this abbot. According to Luard's edition of the Annals of Burton,5 he was a witness to Henry III's Magna Charta, in A.D. 1225. A royal summons was sent to him, 27 September, A.D. 1226, to produce all his charters of Liberties of the Forest which had been granted to the abbey by the royal predecessors. He died in A.D. 1248,7 and was succceeded by

XXIV. ROGER DE SANCTO WALERICO, or ST. VALERY, called ROGERIUS in this Register, who received royal assent on 21 April, A.D. 1248. He admitted twentyseven monks, whose names are recorded at p. 45. He

1 See p. lxx.

2 See p. 292.

3 See pp. lxix, lxx.

4 During this abbot's time King Henry III granted to the Abbot and Convent of Hyde the disafforesting of Luuemor wood, "quod boscus eorum que vocatur Luuemor (Lomer ?) imperpetuum deafforestetur et clausus remaneat, ita quod de cetero sit quietus de vasto et regardo et visu forestariorum, viridariorum et ministrorum eorum et de omnibus aliis quæ ad forestam pertinent," 15 Feb., 23 Hen. III, A.D. 1239 (Cartæ Antiquæ, PP. 39, MS. Harl. 85, f. 2156).

5 Ann. Mon. (Roll series), vol. i, p. 232.

6 Rot. Lit. Claus., vol. ii, p. 156.

7 Ibid, Winton, p. 91.

died in A.D. 1263.1 There is a charter 2 extant among the Cottonian collections in the British Museum, whereby in January, A.D. 1260 (1261), this abbot and the convent of Hyde admit Bishop Giles de Bridport and the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury to spiritual confraternity, and declare that the grant has been entered into the Martyrology of the abbey, that is, into this Register, but, if it was so entered, the page which contained the entry is among those that are lost. This charter has escaped notice by the writers upon Hyde Abbey.

XXV. WILLIAM DE WIGORNIA, or DE WORCESTER, succeeded. He died in A.D. 1281. Seventeen monks entered the abbey during the abbot's rule. In 10 Edw. I, probably during this vacancy, the king committed the custody of the abbey to William de Hamelton."

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Passing on to page 168 (page 113 of the MS.) the list of abbots and contemporary monks is resumed:

XXVI. ROBERT, or ROGER DE POPHAM received the temporalities of the abbey 2 June, A.D. 1282. He is called ROBERTUS in the List. In his time fourteen new members were entered in the abbey Register. In 13 Edw. I, William de Monemue bequeathed houses in the City of Winchester to the abbey, for the support of the lights before the Virgin in the church."

XXVII. SYMON DE KANINGES, or SIMON CANNING, received the royal assent to his election on the 26 July,

1 Ibid, p. 100. There is a letter from this abbot to the king, informing him that on account of his age and infirmities he has resigned the abbacy into the hands of the Bishop of Winchester, 21 September, A.D. 1263. Inventory of Records in the Tower, App. II, p. 239; Calendar of Royal Letters in the Wakefield Tower, No. 1612.

2 British Museum, Cotton ch. viii, 1. See Appendix, p. 293.

3 John, Bishop of Worcester, informs King Henry III that he has confirmed the election of William de Worcester as Abbot of Hyde, and prays that the temporalities may be restored to him, 18 October, A.D. 1263. Inventory of Records in the Tower, ut supra, No. 43, p. 142.

4 Abbreviatio Rot. Orig. (Record series), p. 40.

5 ib., p. 50.

and the temporalities 12 August, A.D. 1292. During the tenure of the abbacy fourteen new monks entered the abbey, and one presbiter was added to the roll of inmates (p. 168). XXVIII. GEOFFREY DE FERRINGES, or FERYNGES, received the temporalities 30 October, A.D. 1304.

In

2 Edw. II, A.D. 1308-9, this abbot made a fine with the king for leave to appropriate the church of Aultone.1 The Calendar of Close Rolls records, under date 9 June, 3 Edw. II, A.D. 1310, the enrolment of an undertaking by the abbot and convent to indemnify the king for any damage he may sustain upon any voidance of the abbey, by reason of the annuity of sixty pounds that they have granted by the king's licence to Master John Morant, clerk, for various manors. He resigned on 13 March, A.D. 1317. Seventeen new monks are placed on the list during his abbacy; and with them also one presbiter (p. 169). He was succeeded by

XXIX. WILLIAM DE ODYHAM, who received the temporalities 26 April, A.D. 1317. During his short span of office, only six names-of which, however, one is apparently marked for erasure-were placed on the record (p. 169). On this vacancy arising, the prior and convent paid 200 marks fine to the king for custody of the abbey for two months.2

XXX. WALTER DE FYFYDE, or FIFIELD, perhaps an Abingdon monk, received royal assent to election 26 June, A.D. 1319, and temporalities 1 August. Queen Isabella had right to the advowson of the abbey in A.D. 1320, by virtue of a grant for life of the farm of the City of Winchester. In A.D. 1330 the royal licence to appropriate the churches of Abbots Stanham, Pidele, and Chyselden were given. He held the office of " Custos villæ de Hampton,"