p. 30.] NOMINA FRATRUM NOVI CęNOBII PINTONIENSIS ECCLESIAE. SALUATORIS COSMI HONORE SACRATAE. Si. Domnus Presul Ædelgarus. Egregius et insignis ipsius monasterii fautor et instructor. Algarus 1 primus abbas huius loci. prefuit huic Ecclesie annis. xiij. tempore Edgari Regis et sancti Athelwoldi Wyntoniensis Episcopi sub anno domini DCCCCLXV. qui postea in archiepiscopatum mortuus est anno domini DCCCCXCVIJ . cui successit Alsinus vel Alsius abbas hic prefuit huic ecclesie xvij annis. 1 This paragraph along the inner margin of the leaf in a handwriting of the fourteenth century. 2 Abbot of Newminster, occurs A.D. 993-997, Kemble, Cod. Dipl., Nos. DCLXXXIV (DCLXXXVII-DCXCII, DCXCVI), DCXCVIII (MCLXXXIX, MCCXCII). Abbot of Newminster, A.D. 995. He died xvi kal. April, 1012, according to the Saxon Calendar, Cott. MS., Titus D. xxvii, ff. 46, 156. 4 Abbot of Newminster, A. D. 1008? to 1021, or 1032; Dugd. Mon. Angl. 5 Dugdale records Alnothus, abbot of Newminster, A. D. 10137-1035; Æbelnopus, the abbot, died iv non. Nov. according to the Saxon Calendar, Cott. MS., Titus D. xxvii, f. 9. 1 Occurs in Kemble, Cod. Dipl., No. DCCCCXLIX, between A.D. 1049-1052. See also Birch, On two Anglo-Saxon MSS. in the Brit. Mus. (Roy. Soc. Lit. xi, pt. 3, New Ser.) pp. 39, 47. Abbot Elfwine died 8 kal. Dec. A.D. 1057, MS. Titus D. xxvii, ff. 86, 186. D 2 Alwyus or Alwinus, A. D. 1063 or 1064. See page 1. This abbot took part with his nephew Harold upon the Norman invasion, and accompanied him to the field of Hastings with twelve monks and twenty soldiers, where he was killed. In consequence of Alwy's conduct, the Conqueror is said, according to Dugdale's Editors, to have been so enraged that he treated the Abbey of New Minster with more than common severity, seizing upon all the estates and not allowing a new abbot to be chosen for two years. 3 The numeration is faulty here in the MS. 4 A.D. 1069, degraded 1072. Dugd., ib. 5 Pulfric. Here an erasure of the words " qui postea factus abbas-occisus cf. also No. xxxix above, with whom this No. 6 Conversus ? in bello cum Harald. lii (=lvii) appears to be confounded. 20 25 |