102 THE BURTON CHARTULARY. 
Tutbury in the year 1831. Itis evident that the bulk of the 
treasure had disappeared, and a part of it had been traced to the 
possession of the monks. They were therefore suspected very 
naturally of secreting the remainder. A mixed Staffordshire and 
Derbyshire jury found the Abbot guilty, and a fine of £300* 
was set upon the monastery; which on appeal was afterwards 
remitted by the King. The monks state that the jury was entirely 
composed of men badly disposed towards them; and this seems 
likely to have been the case, for their rapacity and unjust encroach- 
ments on their neighbours, of which their own Register affords 
many examples, must have made them very unpopular with all 
classes. ‘ 
The dates of the accession of the Abbots after the Conquest, 
according to the Annals of Burton, are as follows :— 
Leuric or Leveric, elected Abbot A.D. 1051, died a.D. 1085. 
Geoffrey de Mala Terra, was deposed a.D. 1094. 
Nigel, died in May, 1113. 
Geoffrey, elected A.D. 1114, died A.D. 1150. 
Robert, was deposed A.D. 1159. 
Bernard, elected a.D. 1160, died A.D. 1175. 
Robert, his predecessor, was re-appointed, and died A.D. 1177. 
Roger Malebraunch, elected A.D. 1178, died May, 1182. 
Richard, died a.p. 1188. 
Nicholas, died a.D. 1197. 
William de Melbourne, elected A.D. 1200, died A.D. 1210. 
Roger, elected A.D. 1215, died a.D. 1216, 
Nicholas de Walingford, died a.p, 1222. 
Richard de Insula, elected June, 1222, died A.D. 1233. 
Laurence de St. Edward, died a.D. 1260. 
John de Stafford, elected July, 1260, resigned a.D. 1280. 
Thomas de Pakinton, elected February 1281, died Oct. 1305. 
* This would be probably equivalent to a fine of more than £20,000 at 
the present date. Hallam, in his ‘‘ Middle Ages,” shows that the value of the 
knight’s fee fixed at £20 per annum by Edward I., would represent about 
41,500 a year at the present time, taking into account the difference of nomen- 
clature of money and its purchasing power. 
