CHRONICLE OF DALE ABBEY. 15 
sinceritas et morum honorat honestas ut a mari usque ad mare et 
per omnes fines regionis Anglicane illorum sanctitas redoleret. 
Dicti igitur Galfridus et Matildis venientes apud Neuhus 
invenerunt ibi Abbatem Lambertum nomine virum tocius pru- 
dencie. in sermone veracem. in judicio justum. in consilio 
providum. in commisso fidelem. in interventu  strenuum. in 
bonitate conspicuum. in universa morum honestate preclarum. 
qui sic suos subditos vite celestis dulcedine informaverat ut 
veraciter dicere” possent cum Apostolo. Nostra conversacio 
in celis est. Susceptis igitur honorifice dictis Galfrido et Ma- 
tilde a predicto venerabili patre. expositoque negocio et 
_adventus.sui causa. Idem Abbas habito cum fratribus diligenti 
tractatu concessit eis novem canonicos apud Depdala deducen- 
dos et hunc ordinem ibi instituendos fuerunt autem inter eos 
Walterus de Senteney vir summe religionis qui antea apud duo 
loca. scilicit. Sanctam Agathem cum conventu de Neuhus 
exiens ibidem Ordinem fundaverat. et Johannes de byford 
filius Baldewini de byford qui fuit socius Petri de Gausela 
fundatoris domus de Neuhus. et Hugo de* Grymesby et Rogerus 
de Alesby. et Willielmus le Sores. viri vite honeste & religionis 
magne cum aliis viris dei. Hii sunt O Dala lapides vivi. lapides 
electi. lapides preciosi in ecclesie . . . . fundamento ipso lapidi 
summo angulari connexi . . . . sinequo. . . . celsitudo feliciter 
gaudent ....domino.... 
TRANSLATION. 
PMap the Moly Marp he present at mp begining. 
To thy petition, dearest brother, since it is very proper and use- 
ful, being willing to accede, even though my mind, busied with the 
pious avocations of the sorrow which has lately fallen on me, takes 
the effort hardly, as the Divine Goodness has looked upon this 
place with pity and mercifully chosen it for its own indwellers— 
because It has not chosen a people on account of the place but 
the place on account of the people—by whom it was inhabited 
_ .” The rest of the transcript is missing, but the Edwardian addition to the 
original gives us the remainder. 
