RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Clement, occurs about i i6o '* 



Henry, occurs about 1 165 '" 



E., occurs in reign of Henry II" 



G., occurs in reign of Henry IP' 



Pliilip, occurs about 1217°' 



William of Tewkesbury '''*' 



Henry, elected 1227,'"' resigned 1242 



John de Hele, elected 1242'°'' 



Lawrence de Bradford, elected 1246'"' 



John de Saunde, elected I26i,died 1286'°* 



Hugh de Staplebridge, elected 1286,'°' died 



1310 

 John Thornford, elected 1310,*"° died 1316 

 Robert de Ramsbury, elected 1316,'"' died 



1329 

 John de Compton, elected 1329,^"' died 1342 

 John de Henton, elected 1342,'°' died 1348 

 John de Frith, elected 1348 "" 

 Edward Goude, elected 1371,""* died 1385 "' 

 Robert Bruynyng, elected 1385,"" died 1415 

 John Bruynyng, elected 1415,^'' died 1436 

 William Bradford, elected 1436,'" died 1459 

 John Saunders, elected 1459,'" died 1475 

 Peter Rampisham, elected 1475,"^ died 1504 

 John Mere, elected 1505,"' resigned 1535 

 John Barnstable, elected 1535,^" surrendered 



the abbey 18 March, 1539^" 



'^ When he quitclaimed to Bishop Jocelin of Salis- 

 bury and the cathedral church the castle of Sherborne 

 (Reg. St. Osmund. [Rolls Ser.], i, 235). Willis gives the 

 year 1163 ; Hist, of Mitred jibbeys, ii, 71. 



** About that date Jocelin, bishop of Salisbury, by 

 charter to Henry the abbot and convent of Sherborne, 

 recited the rights of the abbot as the holder of a pre- 

 bend in the cathedral ; Reg. St. Osmund. (Rolls Ser.), i, 

 249.^ 



" The abbots E. and G. occur in charters of 

 Henry II, inspected and confirmed by Edward I ; 

 Chart. R. 20 Edw. I, No. 3. »» Ibid. 



^ Reg. St. Osmund. (Rolls Ser.), {,265. 



'°° Hutchins, without a date (Hist, oj Dorset, iv, 

 232) from the Kennett MS. 



"" Pat. II Hen. Ill, m. 15. 



"" Ibid. 26 Hen. Ill, pt. 2, m. 2. 



'»' Ibid. 31 Hen. Ill, m. 9. 



"» Ibid. 14 Edw. I, m. 17. 



'»'Ibid. m. 12. 



'°* Ibid. 3 Edw. II, m. 6 ; Sarum Epis. Reg. Simon 

 of Ghent, ii, fol. 89. 



"" Ibid. Mortival, i, fol. 182 ; Pat. 10 Edw. II, 

 pt. I, m. 6. 



"« Ibid. 3 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, m. I 5. 



■»' Ibid. 16 Edw. Ill, pt. 3, m. 6. 



"" Ibid. 22 Edw. Ill, pt. 3, m. 10 ; Sarum Epis. 

 Reg. Wyville, ii, fol. 1 98. 



""' Hutchins, op. cit. iv, 233. 



'" Pat. 9 Ric. II, pt. I, m. 39. 



'" Ibid. m. 40. 



'" Ibid. 2 Hen. V, pt. 3, m. 7. 



"* Ibid. 15 Hen. VI, m. 38. 



"' Sarum Epis. Reg. Beauchamp, i (2), fol. 53. 



'" Pat. 15 Edw. IV, pt. 3, m. 1. 



'" Sarum Epis. Reg. Audley, fol. 125. 



"» L. and P. Hen. Vlll, viii, 802 (27). 



'" Ibid, xiv (I), 556. 



An eleventh-century seal of the monastery 

 (round) gives a fine impression of the abbey 

 church from the north with apse, towers, and 

 porch ; the windows of the clearstory and towers 

 and the doorway are round-headed.^^'* Legend : — 



>54 SIGILLV • SCE • MARIE • SCYRBVRNENSIS 



A broken example of the above seal is to be 

 found attached to the surrender deed of the abbey 

 in I539."> 



The pointed oval seal of Abbot Clement 

 (circa 1 160) represents St. Benedict, half-length, 

 holding in his right hand a scroll inscribed : 

 VERTITE FiLii AVDiTE ME. In bars under two 

 round-headed arches are two half-length monks 

 looking upward. '^^ 



The legend is defective owing to the edge of 

 the seal being rubbed. 



. . . EMENTIS DE BVRN .... 



The seal of Abbot Laurence de Bradford 

 (1246-59), pointed oval, the impression very 

 imperfect, gives the abbot standing on a carved 

 corbel, in his right hand a pastoral staff, in his 

 left a book. The background diapered lozengy 

 with a reticular pattern and small annular de- 

 pression in each space. On the left is a counter- 

 sunk quatrefoil containing a monk's head, the 

 subject on the right corresponding is broken 

 away.'^^ 



RNI 



A small pointed oval seal, with very fine im- 

 pression but imperfect, represents on a church 

 with pinnacled turrets at the sides the Virgin, 

 half-length, holding the Child on the right arm. 

 In base, under a trefoiled arch, is an abbot with 

 pastoral staff, half-length, in prayer.^^* 



The legend, which is defective, runs : — 



CRA 



DEI MEM 



The signet of Abbot John de Flixton, attached 

 to an indenture dated 1347, small, oval, chipped 

 at the top, represents in a finely-carved and 

 pointed quatrefoil St. Margaret standing on a 

 dragon and piercing its head with a long cross 

 held in her right hand."' 



The legend is partly defective : — 



.... [vJiRGO • VERMEM • J'VO[c]aNDO • 

 VICIT • INER[mEM] 



The signet of Abbot John Frith attached to a 

 deed dated i 37 1, red, represents in a finely-carved 

 and pointed quatrefoil a dog sitting between two 



trees. 



126 



'» B.M. Seals, Ixii, 53. 



'" Deeds of Surrender, No. 112. 



'" B.M. Seals, Ixii, 54. 



'" Add. Chart. I 3969. 



"• B.M. Seals, Ixii, 55. 



"' Add. Chart. 6082. 



Ibid. 6083. 



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