28 CHRONICLE OF DALE ABBEY. 
uncle, thanking him for his concessions, said, “And I will com- 
plete, and will cause to be done all these things inviolably in 
perpetuity, and because, being occupied as well on this side of 
the sea as on the other side the sea on the King’s business, I am 
unable to devote myself to such things of this affair as concerns 
the foundation of the house, I make Geoffrey de Salicosa Mara 
and Matilda my daughter, his wife, the executors in this matter, 
that is to say, concerning the foundation of the place and the 
recalling of the Canons. 
At his command, therefore, having received charters and other 
instruments necessary for the foundation of the house by the 
aforesaid noble man William, the said Geoffrey and Matilda 
went at his command to Newhouse® to lead forth thence 
a convent; for there were men of that monastery fragrant with 
the flowers of virtues, namely, with the rose of the utmost 
patience, with the lily of chastity, but most of all with the violet 
of the contemplation of celestial life, who the sincerity of life and 
probity of manners so honours that from sea to sea, and through 
all the bounds of the English province, their sanctity diffused 
an odour ; therefore, the said Geoffrey and Matilda arriving at New- 
house, met there the Abbot, Lambert by name, a man of all 
prudence, true in speaking, just in judgment, provident in counsel, 
faithful in his trust, in mediation vigorous, in goodness conspicuous, 
all probity of manners illustrious, who had so trained his subjects 
in the sweetness of celestial life that they could truly say with 
the apostle, ‘‘ Our conversation is in heaven.” Therefore, the 
said Geoffrey and Matilda having been honourably received by 
the aforesaid father, and having explained their business and the 
cause of their coming, the said Abbot having had careful 
deliberation with the brethren, vouchsafed to them nine canons 
to be conducted to Depedale, and to be established there in 
this Order. Now there were amongst them Walter de Senteney, 
aman of the highest religion, who previously going out to two 
places—namely, St. Agatha,* with the convent of Newhouse, had 
z.e., Easby, in Yorkshire. 
