A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



niche with the Holy Child on left knee ; on 

 each side, in canopied niches, are five kneel- 

 ing monks. In base is a crown enfiled with 

 a crozier. Legend : SIGILLUM : COMMUNE : 

 MONASTERII : BELLI : Loci : REGIS. 



ABBOTS OF BEAULIEU 

 Hugh, 1 about 1208-19 

 Azo of Gisors, 1238 

 Dennis," about 1274-80 

 William de Gisors, cellarer, 3 1281 

 Robert de Boclonde, died in 1302 

 Peter de Chichester * 

 William de Hameldon 6 

 John Peres 



Walter Herring, 6 1372-92 

 Tideman de Winchecombe, about 



1 392-3 

 Richard de Middleton, 7 1394-7 



John Gloucester, 8 1397-1400 

 Richard de Middleton, 8 1400 

 Richard Bartelmelo, 10 1415 

 William Salbury, 11 1425-9 

 William Woburn, 1429 

 Humphrey, 1490 



Thomas Skevington, 12 1509, 1533 

 John Browning, abbot of Waverley, 



1533-6 



Thomas Stevens, abbot of Netley, 

 1536-8 



8. THE ABBEY OF NETLEY 



The abbey of Netley, Letley (L<etus Locus), 

 or Edwardstow(s<:/ Sancti Edwardi), dedicated 

 to the honour of the Blessed Virgin and St. 

 Edward the Confessor, was founded for Cis- 

 tercian monks by Henry III. in 1239. It 

 appears that Peter des Roches, Bishop of 

 Winchester (1205-38), purchased the land 

 of ' Hanseta ' and ' Cedrigia ' from William, 

 Bishop of Angers, and the dean and chapter 

 of Angers ; lands in Wellow from the abbot 

 of St. Mary de Pratis, Leicester ; lands at 

 Kingston Deverel from the bishop and chap- 

 ter of Le Mans; land called 'Ayhsleg' in 



1 He was made Bishop of Carlisle in 1219 and 

 died in 1223. 



1 Pat. 6 Edw. I. m. 10. 



3 Annales Monastic} (Rolls Series), ii. 395, iv. 479. 



* Dugdale's Monasticon, v. 693. 



6 Ibid. 



6 Winton. Epis. Reg., Wykeham, i. f. 42. 



7 Ibid. i. f. 232. 



8 Pat. 20 Rich. II. pt. 2, m. 6. 



8 Ibid. 1 1 Hen. IV. pt. 2, m. 6. Richard de 

 Middleton had been ejected and was restored. 

 10 Lateran Regesta, clxxv. 278b. 

 1 Salbury and the subsequent abbots are given 

 in the list in the Cole MSS. 



3 Made Bishop of Bangor in 1 509. 



Dorsetshire from the abbot of Croix St. 

 Leufroy ; and some other parcels of land, 

 apparently with the object of founding this 

 monastery. The bishop, however, died in 

 1238, before the completion of his object, 

 and the actual foundation was carried out by 

 Henry III. in the following year. 13 Hence 

 the king was usually referred to as the 

 founder. So soon as the monastery was 

 completed it was colonized by monks from 

 the Cistercian abbey of Beaulieu, who arrived 

 at their new home on St. James' Day, 1239." 



In August, 1243, Roger de Clare sold to the 

 abbey for 300 marks the tilled land and pasture 

 which lay between their manor of Gomshall 

 and the highway from Guildford to Dorking, 

 and also the advowson of the church of Shere," 

 which grant was confirmed by John de War- 

 ren, Earl of Surrey, in 1252. 



In 1244 Innocent IV. sanctioned under 

 certain conditions the appropriation by the 

 abbey of Netley of the churches of Shere 

 and Wellow, valued at .30 per annum. 18 

 The same pope in the following year con- 

 firmed to the abbot and convent of Netley 

 the privileges of not being compelled by 

 bishops or others to attend synods or assem- 

 blies outside their order, save only pro fide, 

 and of exemption from sentences of excom- 

 munication, suspension or interdict. 17 



In the same year Robert, abbot of Netley, 

 released to the Bishop of Winchester the manor 

 of Esher, with the advowson of the church and 

 all its appurtenances, save lOOi. worth of land 

 in Dorsetshire. 18 In August, 1247, tne abbot 

 and convent of Lieu Dieu, in the diocese of 

 Amiens, sold to the abbey of Netley for 600 

 marks their English manor of Nordley, their 

 rents in Oxford, their rents and rights in 

 Chaddleworth and their rent of five marks 

 from the church of Henton. 19 



Henry III. on 7 March, 1251, confirmed 

 to Netley Abbey (Sancte Marie de Loco Sancti 

 Edward!) the site of the monastery with the 

 lands of Netley, Hound, Wellow, Totton, 

 Gomshall, Nordley, Kingston Deverel, Wai- 

 don, Aynsley and Lacton, with rents in 

 Charleton, Southampton and Southwark, a 



13 Charter Roll, 24 Hen. III. No. 34. The 

 latter part of this charter is faded and torn. See 

 also Pat. i Rich. II. pt. 4, m. 35. 



14 Annales Monastic! (Rolls Series), ii. 323. In 

 this Peter des Roches is referred to as the founder. 



15 Woodward's Hist, of Hants, iii. 365. 

 1(1 Cal. of Papal Letters, i. 211, 286. 



17 Ibid. i. 212. 



18 Pat. 10 Edw. II. pt. 2,m. i, cited in confir- 

 mation at that date. 



18 Ancient Deeds, P.R.O., D. 153, 302. 



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