100 Mr. N. F. Robarts’s 
name of St. Saviour’s); this was confirmed to them by Henry L., 
1127. 
_ In 1158 William de Watteville gave them the advowson of the 
Rectory of Warlingham, a chapelry of Chelsham, in Surrey, 
which was confirmed to them by the King the year following, 
which in the 28th Ed. I. they obtained the bishop’s, and in 
8th Ed. II. the King’s licence to appropriate. They continued in 
possession of these until the dissolution. 
In 1159, 5th Henry II., the advowson of the rectory of Bed- 
dington was given to the priory by Inglegram de Furteneys and 
Sybil de Watteville (sister of William aforesaid and wife of Alan 
Pirol), which grant was confirmed to them by the King the same 
year, and afterwards by King Edward III. 
In the 38th Henry III., anno 1246, they recovered an annual 
pension of 100s. payable to them out of this rectory, and also 
two marks sterling for tithes of lands in the said parish formerly 
belonging to Richard Huscarle, which was continued to them as 
a pension in lieu of the said tithes. 
The Abbey possessed a cell at Derby. 
The first abbot was John Attilburgh, made prior in 1390, and 
abbot in 1899. As an abbey the house continued for over two 
hundred years, until on 1st Jan. 1538 it voluntarily surrendered its 
estates, the abbot getting a pension of £338 6s. 8d. per annum 
(500 marks), and the six monks £38 13s. 4d. between them, and 
£7 6s. 8d. was distributed in other annuities. Thus ended the 
Abbey of St. Saviour’s, Bermondsey, and we must now follow 
the fortunes of the building, apart from the prior and monks. 
In 1541 Henry granted the site of the Abbey to Sir Robert 
Southwell, Master of the Rolls, at a yearly reserved rent of 10s., 
who at once conveyed it to Sir Thomas Pope, Kt., and Elizabeth 
his wife in fee, who is said to have taken down the church and 
its adjacent building and erected a dwelling house as mansion of 
the manor from the materials. This was henceforth called Ber- 
mondsey House. I doubt if Sir Thomas Pope really pulled down 
the whole of the buildings, except the church. It seems much 
more likely that he pulled down part and rebuilt with all modern 
improvements. The house is said to have been surrounded by a 
property of about twenty acres in extent. 
Important transactions took place at various times at this 
Monastery. In 1154 King Henry IL., after his first coronation, 
held his Court there when he treated with his nobles on the state 
of the kingdom. 
In the reign of King Henry III., many of the nobility having 
taken the cross upon them, met at this house to deliberate on the 
order of their journey. 
The Bishop of Winchester, who then lived at Winchester 
House, Southwark, on the river-bank near to St. Mary Overie’s, 
