ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



ment of guests. 1 In 1242 he visited St. Augustine's, Bristol, and compelled 

 the abbot to resign. 8 He strove to enforce the constitutions for the reform 

 of the Benedictine order, which were issued by Gregory IX in 1238 and by 

 Innocent IV in 1253,' and accordingly in 1251,* and again in 1253,' he 

 subjected Tewkesbury to a very strict visitation, when he himself examined 

 the monks one by one, but found nothing of which he could complain. 



In providing for the spiritual needs of the poor and the outcast, Bishops 

 William de Blois and Cantilupe were helped by the coming of the friars into 

 their diocese.' The Dominicans were established at Bristol in 1228, at 

 Gloucester in 1239. The Franciscans went to Gloucester in 1231 and to 

 Bristol in 1234. It is probable that as elsewhere the older orders were 

 hostile to them, but only the Benedictines of St. James's Priory at Bristol 

 are known to have manifested their resentment at the popularity of the friars. 

 When in 1230, at the request of the Dominicans, Bishop William of Blois 

 came to dedicate their altar and burial-ground, the monks protested, urging 

 that the friars should be forbidden to receive oblation or to have a cemetery. 7 

 The chronicler of Tewkesbury records that the building of the friars' oratory 

 was to the great prejudice and loss of the church of St. James. 8 It is 

 significant, perhaps, of the power and influence of the friars in the diocese 

 that at the synod in 1240 Bishop Cantilupe decreed that the anniversaries of 

 St. Dominic and St. Francis should be kept as high festivals. 9 It is probable 

 that like Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln, 10 Cantilupe had difficulties with the 

 alien priories, which claimed exemption from episcopal visitation, and had 

 the right of presentation to several parish churches. In 1264 he made an 

 agreement with the abbot and convent of St. Denis by which the abbot 

 appointed one of his monks as prior of Deerhurst and presented him to the 

 bishop by reason of his cure of souls in that church," for the nave was 

 parochial. The prior was bound to obey the bishop in all things saving 

 the privileges of the monastery of St. Denis. In 1260 Cantilupe gave his 

 consent to the grant of the priory of Horsley, which was a cell of the 

 Benedictine monastery of Trouarn, to the Augustinian canons of Bruton," 

 and the priory thus became subject to the regular visitation of the bishop. 1 ' 

 The establishment of the collegiate church of Westbury-on-Trym may most 

 probably be ascribed to him, though its subsequent importance was due to 

 his successor. 14 



Like Grosseteste he was opposed to the spoliation of the church to fill 

 the treasuries of the crown and papacy." In the barons' war he espoused the 

 cause of Simon de Montfort, and was excommunicated by the papal legate, 

 Cardinal Ottoboni, in 1265. Afterwards, when he was dying, he was 

 reconciled and absolved by the legate. 



Ann. Man. (Rolls Ser.), i, 146. 



Ibid, iv, 433. V. C. H. Glouc. ReRgiout Hoiuei, Bristol, 76. 



Matt. Paris, Chron. Maj. (Rolls Ser.), iii, 499-516 ; ri, 234. 



Ann. Man. (Rolls Ser.), i, 146. * Ibid. 152. 



y. C. H. Glouc. Religious Houses, Friariti, 109, 1 1 1. ' Ann. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), i, 94. 



Ibid. * Wilkins, Concilia, \, 675. 



Roberti Groneteite Efistolae (Rolls Ser.), 168, 319. 

 11 Wore. Efii. Reg. GifarJ (Wore. Hist. Soc.), 10. 

 " Cartul. of Bruton and Montacutt (Somerset Rec. Soc.), 76. 



" y.C. H. Glouc. Religious Houses, Horslej, 91. " Ibid. Rrfigious Houses, Wettburj, 107. 



" y. C. H. Worcester, ii, 20, ' Eccles. Hist.' ; Ann. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), iv, 1 80. 



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