A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



a grange, and admitted scarcely a single 

 guest. 1 



In the first instance Gregory seems to have 

 been willing to listen to any attack on the 

 monks of Beaulieu, and in his original man- 

 date to the legate Otho (given in full in the 

 chartulary) he denounces them, writing of 

 them as debachantes in their monastery. 

 Naturally the abbot as well as the Earl of 

 Cornwall protested. The result announced 

 in the pope's name by Otho in February, 

 1237, was that Beaulieu retained the appro- 

 priation, and that the rector was to receive 

 from the monks a pension of 20 marks until 

 he obtained a competent benefice. 2 



Isabel of Gloucester, the wife of Richard, 

 Earl of Cornwall, died on 17 January, 1239 ; 

 and was buried before the high altar of the 

 new church of Beaulieu, her heart being sent 

 to Tewkesbury. 3 The Earl of Cornwall, 

 among his various deeds of piety, founded the 

 monastery of Hales, for the establishment of 

 which in 1246 twenty monks and thirty lay 

 brothers were sent from Beaulieu. 4 About 

 the same time another party of monks left 

 Beaulieu to colonize the newly founded 

 monastery of Newenham in Devonshire. The 

 monastery of Netley had already been colonized 

 from Beaulieu in I239. 5 



At the end of the chartulary proper, already 

 referred to, 8 come certain memoranda, among 

 which is one to the effect that in 1274, at the 

 general Council of Lyons, when a subsidy for 

 a crusade for six years was enjoined, the pope 

 granted to the Cistercians that the abbot of 

 Citeaux should be responsible for the contri- 

 butions of their whole order. The abbot, 

 with the advice of the chapter-general, taxed 

 each individual house of the order, according 

 to his will, for the six years. Beaulieu, with 

 its three daughters of Netley, Hales and 

 Newenham, for the first and second year were 

 to pay 26 ; namely Beaulieu, .13 ; Hales, 

 5 6s. ; Netley, 4 145.; and Newenham, 

 3. In 1276, when the English Cister- 

 cian houses paid 1,000 to Edward I., two- 

 thirds of which were due from Canterbury 

 province, Beaulieu's share came to ^23 6s. Sd. ; 

 Netley, 12 ; Hales, 14 13*. ; and Newen- 

 ham, 5. Beaulieu's share was higher than 



1 Cal. of Papal Letters, i. 155. 



3 Harl. MS. 6603. 



3 Annales Monastlci (Rolls Series), i. 113. 



1 Ibid. ii. 337. 



B Ibid. p. 323. Newenham in Devonshire was 

 another Cistercian house colonized in the thirteenth 

 century from Beaulieu. Dugdale's Monasticm, v. 



8 Harl. MSS. 6603. 



any other of the forty-nine Cistercian houses 

 of the province ; the next on the list was 

 Wardon, rated at 22 13*. 4^. 



In January, 1275, the takers of the king's 

 wines at Southampton were ordered to serve 

 the abbot with three tuns of wine at a cost of 

 6cw. for use in his church, for the first three 

 years of the king's reign, in accordance with 

 claim made under a charter of Henry III. 

 Order was issued yearly for this tun of wine 

 until 1279, when a mandate was served on 

 Matthew de Columbariis, the king's wine-taker 

 at Southampton, and his successors to deliver 

 the tun yearly without having to obtain a 

 special letter or other mandate. 7 In February, 

 1275, the abbey received a further or second 

 tun of wine from Southampton, in lieu of the 

 tun that the king's steward received from the 

 warden at Beaulieu for the use of the royal 

 household on the occasion of the king's last 

 visit. 8 



Edward I. frequently sojourned at Beau- 

 lieu ; he was there in 1275 and 1276, and 

 again in 1285. It seems somewhat inconsis- 

 tent with subsequent royal visits to find that 

 in July, 1276, protection was granted by 

 letters patent for the abbey of Beaulieu, in 

 accordance with the ordinances passed in the 

 first parliament of Edward I., when it was 

 ordained that no one should be lodged in a 

 house of religion, or take victuals or carriage 

 therein, or in any of its manors. 9 



About this period the abbots of Beaulieu 

 were frequently abroad on the business of their 

 house and order. In March, 1274, the abbot 

 (probably Dennis), who held the king's licence 

 to cross the seas, appointed two of his brother 

 monks to act as his attorneys until the follow- 

 ing feast of All Saints. In May, 1276, he 

 appointed two other monks as his attorneys, 

 for a like reason, until Christmas, unless he 

 returned in the interval, and in April, 1279, 

 a like arrangement was made. 10 The abbot 

 also obtained leave to cross the seas from 

 8 September to Midsummer in 1282 ; from 

 7 September to Christmas in 1285 ; and 

 from April to All Saints in 1286." These 

 absences would be mainly to attend the 

 general chapter which was held at Citeaux 

 every year, opening on 1 4 September. Every 

 abbot was bound to attend, under pain of a 



7 Cal. of Close Rolls, Edto. I. i. 145, 148, 149, 

 265, 365, 462; Cal. of Patent Rolls, Edtv. I. i. 

 301. 



8 Close, 3 Edw. I. m. 22. 



9 Pat. 4 Edw. I. m. 14. 



10 Cal. of Close Rolls, Edtv. I. i. 116, 341, 



559- 



11 Cal. of Pat. Rolls, Edw. I. ii. 35, 191, 236. 



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