44, Notes on Lacock Abbey. 
5, Agnes, abbess in 1299. 
6. Johanna de Montefort, abbess in 13031 and 1315%, probably 
identical with Johanna, 1325.3 
7. Sibilla de Seyntecroiz, abbess in 1329.4 
8. Faith Selyman. 
9. Agnes de Wick, elected 1380,5 on death of Faith Selyman. 
10. Elena de Montefort, probably identical with Elena, 1408,° 
abbess in 14217 and 14268 
1 Stevens, from Cartulary of Lacock Abbey, fol. 40, b. He has supplied the 
surname from some other source. There are two cartularies, one apparently 
rather older than the other, of which it is evident that Stevens only saw the later 
one. They contain, in general, the same deeds, but there are some deeds of 
interest in the earlier which are not in the later volume. There is nothing to 
show that John Stevens was ever at Lacock. In the preface to his) A¢dition to 
Dugdale’s Monasticon, vol 1., p. ii., in acknowledging assistanca received, he 
says :—“Ivery Talbot of Lacock, in the County of Wilts, Esq., of bjs generous 
disposition to serve the Publick, freely furnished a curious Register Book of the 
Nunnery of Lacock which has been in his Family ever since the Dissolution, &.” 
And in vol. 2, p. 143, he says :— Having been favoured with a very fair Register 
Book of this Nunnery, by that worthy and communicative gentleman Ivery 
Talbot of Laycock in Wiltshire, Esq., the present possessor of that place, I shall, 
in the Appendix, give many charters and extracts of all the less considerable 
which cannot be all inserted in a work of this nature, by reason they would swell 
it to an immoderate bulk, &c.” Stevens’s volumes were published in 1722 and 
1723. His abstract was simply re-printed by Bowles and Nichols, some mistakes 
that he made being re-produced, but that was no fault of Mr. Nichols, who 
desired to consult the original and had not the opportunity of doing so. 
2 Wiltshire Archeological Magazine, vol. xvi., p. 350. 
3 Court of Wards and Liveries Deeds, Box 94, B. No. 2, in Public Record 
Office. I am indebted to A. Story Maskelyne, Esq., of the Record Office, fer 
information respecting these deeds. 
4 Court of Wards, &c., Deeds, Box 94, B. No. 4, in Record Office. Sibilla de 
Seyntecroiz, abbess, grants a holding in Beuelegh (Bewley, in the parish of 
Lacock) to Thomas Baaloun and Johanna his wife, for their lives. Roger 
Baalon was Vicar of Lacock, 1342, and died 1348 (Bowles and Nichols, p. 301). 
5 She was previously prioress (Bowles and Nichols, p. 280). The date is fixed 
by the older cartulary of Lacock, fol. 86, b. 
6 Bowles and Nichols, p. 281. 
7 Older cartulary of Lacock Abbey, fol. 79 b. 
8 Jackson’s Aubrey, p. 92, note, where a deed is printed, from a cartulary of 
the Hungerford family, by which it appears that Geoffrey Rokell abducted (from 
Lacock Abbey) Elianor, daughter of John Montfort. She was probably a 
relation of the abbess, whose surname was not known when the Aubrey volume 
was published. 
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