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probably in the time of King John, as Hoare mentions her name 

 (No. 3) with the date 1209. 



Margaeet. The name of this abbess occurs only once. See 

 Hoare's list, No. 4, with the date of second of Henry III. — 1217. 



Matilda de la Mar. A charter of this abbess from the Pem. 

 muniments, will be found summarized further on. It carries the 

 seal of the abbess, as well as the conventual seal of the monastery 

 (Nos. 2 and 5 of the plate). A somewhat similar document is 

 printed by Dugdale, and repeated in Hoare. This abbess is No. 5 

 in Hoare's list, he says she died not long before Henry III. ; that 

 king deceased in 1272. The period of the seal would indicate a 

 date of about 1275. Brown Willis gives the name of Matilda de 

 la Mar as abbess, with the date 1372. This error arose from the 

 fact of there being two abbesses Matilda. His reference, with that 

 date, should have been to Matilda de Bokeland, about a century 

 later. 



Juliana Giffoed. The name of this abbess occurs several times in 

 the Pem. charters during the reign of Edward I. The temporalities 

 of the monastery were restored to her in the fourth Edw. I. — 1276. 

 She is No. 6 of Hoare's list, who says that her death took place 

 about 1295. During the period of Juliana Grifford's presidency, she 

 was several times summoned by the king to supply her contingent 

 for military service. In 1277, as we learn from Palgrave's Parlia- 

 mentary Writs, the Abbess of Wilton was summoned to send her 

 service against Lewelin, Prince of Wales ; muster at Worcester in 

 eight days of S. John the Baptist, fifth of Edward I.— 1277 (p. 196). 

 Her name is afterwards entered upon the roll of the Constable and 

 Earl Marshall, but no acknowledgment or performance of service 

 recorded. In 1282 the abbess was again summoned to send her 

 service against the Welsh ; muster at Rhuddlan, on the morrow of 

 S. Peter ad Vincula, 2nd August, the tenth of Edw. I. In pursuance 

 of this summons, acknowledgment is made of the service of one 

 knight's fee, performed on her behalf by one knight. In this ease 

 we get the name of the knight who served. " In 1 282 Jacobus de 

 Trwe or Trowe, Knight, performed military service due from the 

 Abbess of Wilton." Master at Rhuddlan as above (Palgrave Alp. 



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