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be brought by force to Tupholme; who having been taken with 
pain of the heart was so far stimulated by diabolical device that in 
a hot bath letting blood from both arms, by a spontaneous, nay 
rather by an insane death he ended his life. 
Solitary, therefore, soiled and sallow sat the daughter of Sion 
the church of Depedale bereft for a time of her previous in- 
dwellers. But the Father of pity and God of all consolation who 
had mercifully chosen that place with the eye of his clemency 
looked down upon it and consoled it. Lest therefore that place 
lovely to God and venerable to men should be defrauded any 
longer of the divine observances, Dan William de Grendon (whose 
name on account of the sure signs of his deserts is sweet as 
honey in the mouth) sent and caused to be fetched hither five 
Canons of Welbeck* of the Premonstratensian Order. Their Prior 
was called William Bensyt under the Abbot Richard de South- 
well (a man in every way in things temporal and spiritual well 
proved)* 
Bote William 
- ssid: ~— Gieok of shih church but afterwards Prior of 
this holy congregation when I took the habit of religion who had 
been accustomed to tell us many things. There remained 
indeed these aforesaid five men having endured meanwhile 
on account of the asperity of the Order, in the greatest poverty, 
many and divers adversities. And when on a certain day one 
of them wished to draw up the lamps hanging before the altar, 
in a wonderful manner all falling downwards to the ground 
were broken to pieces; and having called the Prior into the 
auditorium™ and received leave to speak, he said, amongst other 
things “‘ Let us go hence because nothing prosperous happens to 
us, (but) all things incline to the contrary; and truly say I that 
the Lord has judged us unworthy of this place or perchance has 
reserved it for other better than us:” whose words became true 
pledges of future events as the issue of this affair afterwards 
proved, and the following circumstance will shew. 
* The text is here too corrupt to allow of translation. 
