THE ABBOTS OF DALE. 85 
de lavenden. Hii duo in diebus suis splendiderunt in ordine ut 
lucifer et Hesperus in celi cardine.” © 
Nothing further is known of him. 
4th Dan Hugh de Lincoln ruled 14 years and a half and one 
quarter. 
Hugh de Lincoln was Abbot in 1260, when he was party to an 
agreement that whereas Ralph de Halum was bound to the Abbey 
in xij. marks by which they had delivered him from the Jews, the 
said Abbot at his request, agreed that in case the said sum was 
paid by S. Martin’s Day (the deed being dated on Vigil of SS. 
Peter and Paul) the lands in the Park of Kirk Hallam enfeoffed 
to the Abbey should revert to him without dispute.* 
5th Dan Simon ruled five years and 11 days. 
This man was Abbot in 1270, when he appears as party to a 
covenant made on the feast of S. Benedict.t 
He is commemorated in the Beauchief Obituary, on September 
a7: 
6th Dan Lawrence ruled 16 years and one quarter, 
The Chartulary contains two deeds in which this Abbot is 
named, dated 1275 (the feast of St. George) and 1278 respectively. t 
There is extant a more valuable portion of his history in the 
_ form of a letter addressed to him by one brother Robert de Derby 
on behalf of an apostate member of the Order, from which we 
_ learn that he resigned the abbacy of his own free will. Unfortu- 
nately it is without date. It is here given from Peck’s transcript 
- from the Prémontre Registers, but the Latin of the copy is so 
_ corrupt it is useless attempting to give a translation: 
_Fratris Roberti de Derbi Fratri L. nuper Abbati de Dala, pro 
Reconsiliatione Edmundi Zouche Apostate Litera supplex. 
1. Reverendo Patri suo in Christo ac ampliori Honore nunc 
quam prius excolendo, Fratri L. teneri quondam Presidenti de 
Dala, suus Filius, si placet, nunc ut prius per omnia et in omni- 
bus, Frater Robertus de Derbi, quicquid Honoris et Reverentie 
optari poterit tanto Patri, cum Salute. 
* Chartulary, f. 552. + Tbid, f. 100. + Lbid, ff. 87 and 140d. 
Reg. 
Przmont. 
Jol. 308. 
