298 Collections towards the History 
A.D. 1229. 
“¢ Stephanus abbas de Stanleia factus est abbas de Saviniaco.” 
[Annales de Waverleia.| 
This man may have been the Stephanus de Lexington, who was 
presented by King John, on the 23rd May, 1215, (sede vacante) 
to the prebend of Scrophull and Oxton, or Oxton pars secunda, in the 
deanery of seats pay 
A.D. 1230, Vigil of the Feast of St. Mary. 
Walter, Abbot of Stanley, occurs in the Malmesbury Chartulary, 
in the Record Office, folio 188 b., and MS. Lansdowne, in British 
Museum, 417, f. 90. [See W.de G. Birch on “ The Succession of 
the Abbots of Malmesbury,” in the “Journal of the British 
Archeological Association,” vol. xxvii., p. 830z.] 
“Pagina” of W. de Cumba, (Combe, in Co, Warwick,) W. de 
Stanleia, and O. de Alencestria, (Alcester, Co. Warwick,) abbates, 
reciting a rescript from Pope Innocent (III). Dat. v. kal. Julij ae, 
pont. iij. (27th June, 1245), determining a cause between the Canons 
of St. James, Northampton, and W. de Roverio, Persona Hcclesie 
de Stokes. (B. M., Additional Charter, 6109.) This may be 
Stanley Park, or Stanley in the Dale, Co. Derby. 

A.D. 1246. 
‘“‘ Terremotus factus est magnus et horribilis, x°. Kl’ Marcii. M.cc.xlvij. 
Ingressus est conventus de Stanleye in Wiltes, novum monasterium.” 
[MS. Digby 11, f. 184.] 

87 Henry III. 
‘Pat. pro abbate de Stanlegh quod dominici canes Abbatie sues ac omnium 
grangiarum suarum quas habet infra metis forest non expeditentur, ete.’’ 
[C. P. R.,p. 26.] 
19th October, 43 Henry ITI. (1259.) 
“ Fratres de Stanlegh in Ardern, spreto habitu suo, et professione sua, ordinem 
Cisterciensem egressi, vagantes per plures comitatus regni arrestari jubet rex.” 
[MS. Hari., 6957, f. 69.) — 
‘¢ Patentes de fratribus Apostatis de Stanlegh arrestandis.” 
[C. Rs P., 9. Sey 

