!6o NOTES ON THE BOOK OF CERNE. 



Simon of Ghent was then Bishop of Salisbury 1297-1315. 



Eighty-five years passed away between the dates of this last, 

 entry and of the next, the izth of November, 1396, when Henry, 

 Lord Bishop of Enaghdune, in Ireland, Suffragan of our Lord 

 Bishop of Salisbury, Richard Medford, dedicated two altars in 

 the Chapel of Nuthercerne namely, the high altar in honour 

 of All Saints, and an altar " in australi parte sive JEla." of the 

 same Chapel in honour of St. Ethelrede, virgin, " tempore 

 D.M., Roberti xxiv., afcfct Sacristaria in manibus ejusdem aBBt 

 existent." 



Henry Twillow, Suffragan to Richard Mitford or Medford, 

 Bishop of Salisbury, 1395-1407, was Bishop of Enaghdune, a 

 small bishopric some four or five miles from Tuam, in Ireland. 

 Jones in his "Fasti" says that he was made Suffragan igth 

 Jan., 1397 ; he was certainly acting in that capacity two months 

 earlier. 



The latest entry in point of date on this page is that : 

 A.D., 1418, on the seventh of March, Roger de Mortevaus, 

 Bishop of Salisbury, dedicated the Hgh altar of the Church of 

 Cerne monastery " in honore dei genetricis Marie et Sancti 

 Petri apostolorum principis," the Bishop. Roger de Mortival 

 was Bishop of Salisbury from 1415 to 1430. Turning over 

 the page we come upon a petition from " Robert of Cerne, 

 a humble servant of the Church, to his illustrious lord, Henry, 

 king of the English." Then come copies of Charters. I have 

 copied one : " Henricus rex Anglie et Dux Normaniae et 

 Acquitaniae et Comes Andegaviae. Vicecomitis et ministris 

 suis toti : ? Angliae salutem. Sciatis me concessisse abbatie de 

 Cerne Wrekcum per omnis terras suas super mare et bellum et 

 polam et forum in villa de Cerne cum omnibus libertatibus suis 

 militibus et libere tenentibus et eorum servitiis faciendo in 

 servicium duorum militum ad scutagium et unum militum in 

 expeditione. Test. Ric : epo. Winton et Willielme com de Arundel 

 et Reginaldo comite Cornubie apud Wodestokam." After various 

 memoranda comes an inspeximus of Henry II., dated 24th of 

 May, quinquagessimo quarto ; the witnesses are W. Archbishop 



