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The Abbots of the Monastery of S. Mary 
Ve Pareo Stanley, or Dale, Derbyshire. 
By W. H. St. Joun Hope, B.A. 
"Wey E ancient Register or Chartulary of the Abbey of Dale, 
4} now in the British Museum,* contains amongst other 
interesting items a biographical and chronological list 
of the Abbots.t This was evidently compiled at the 
commencement of the sixteenth century by some inmate of the 
monastery who had himself known probably the two last Abbots 
on his list, and heard from his seniors, or gathered from records 
“now lost, the information about those preceding. The notice of 
the first three Abbots is obviously taken from the chronicle t¢ of the 
monastery written by Thomas de Muskham, Canon, in the 
thirteenth century, who was personally acquainted with at least 
one of them. 
It is only in rare cases that we are able to make out complete 
lists of Abbots, and more rare still to discover anything beyond 
their names. No apology is therefore necessary for the appear- 
ance of the list of those who ruled over the Abbey of Dale. I 
have appended a literal translation with such additional parti- 
c as I have met with. 
2 The transcript was made direct from the original, and is here 
given in an extended form :— 
_ Memorandum et posteris nostris perpetue memorie commen- 
*MS. Cott. Vesp. E. 26. + Commencing on f. 178. 
t This is bound up with the chartulary. 
