RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



and Chipping Norton, besides pensions and 

 charges. 1 



ABBOTS OF GLOUCESTER.' 



Edric, 1022 



Wilstan, 1058 



Serlo, 1072 



Peter, 1104 



William Godemon, 1113 



Walter de Lacy, 1 1 30 



Gilbert Folliot, 1 1 39 



Hamelin, 1148 



Thomas, 1179 



Henry Blunt, 1205 



Thomas of Bredon, 1223 



Henry Foliot, 1228 



John de Felda, 1243 



Reginald de Homme, 1263 



John de Carnages, 1284 



John Thoky, 1306 



John Wygmore, 1328 



Adam of Staunton, 1337 



Thomas Horton, 1351 



John Boyfeld, 1377 



Walter Froucester, 1381 



Hugh of Morton, 1412 



John Morwent, 1420 



Reginald Boulers, 1437 



Thomas Sebroke, 1450 



Richard Hauley, 1457 



William Farley, 1472 



John Malvern, 1498 



Thomas Braunche, 1 500 



John Newton, 1510 



William Parker or Malvern, 1514 



DEANS OF GLOUCESTER * 



of St. Oswald's, 

 Merton College, 



William Jennings, prior 



Gloucester, 1541 

 John Man, warden of 



Oxford, 1566 

 Thomas Cowper, 1569 

 Lawrence Humphrey, 1571 

 Anthony Rudd, 1585 

 Griffith Lewis, 1594 

 Thomas Moreton, 1607 

 Richard Field, 1609 

 William Laud, 1616 

 Richard Senhouse, 1621 

 Thomas Winniffe, 1624 

 George Warburton, 1631 

 Accepted Frewen, 1631 

 William Brough, 1643 

 Thomas Vyner, 1671 

 Robert Frampton, 1673 

 Thomas Marshall, 1681 



1 Valor Ecclei. (Rec. Cora.), ii. 409-18. 



* The list is taken from Dugdale, Mon. \, 531-6, 

 which has been carefully checked. 



'The deans of Gloucester up to 1825 are taken 

 from Le Neve, Fasti Eccleslae AngRc. corrected by 

 T. Duffus Hardy. 



6l 



William Jane, 1685 

 Knightly Chetwood, 1707 

 John Waugh, 1720 

 John Frankland, 1723 

 Peter Allix, 1729 

 Daniel Newcombe, 1730 

 Josiah Tucker, 1758 

 John Luxmoore, 1800 

 John Plumbtree, 1808 

 Edward Rice, 1825 

 Henry Law, 1862 

 H. D. M. Spence, 1886 



A seal of the fifteenth century represents St. 

 Peter seated in a carved gothic niche with a 

 crocketed canopy and tabernacle work at the 

 sides ; on his head a triple crown, in his right 

 hand a crozier, in the left two keys ; in base a 

 shield of arms, two keys in saltire, wards up- 

 wards, over all a sword of St. Paul in pale, hilt 

 downwards. 4 The legend is : 



SIGILLUM ' COMMUNE ' MON. . . . SANCTI * 

 PETRI ' GLOUCESTRIE. 



The private seal of Abbot Staunton represents 

 the abbot standing on a carved corbel in a 

 niche ; in his right hand a pastoral staff, in his 

 left a book. 1 



2. THE ABBEY OF TEWKESBURY 



According to the chronicle of Tewkesbury, 

 Oddo and Dodo, two Saxon lords who lived 

 during the reign of three Mercian kings, Ethel- 

 red, Kenred, and Ethelbald, founded the first 

 monastery at Tewkesbury.' Modern research 

 has shown that Oddo lived at least 300 years 7 

 after Dodo. It may be concluded that Dodo 

 was the founder of Tewkesbury. In 715 he 

 began to build a church in honour of the 

 Virgin at a place which was said to have re- 

 ceived its name from Theokus, a hermit, who 

 was reputed to have dwelt there about 655. 

 The endowment consisted of Stanway and 

 other lands. In the course of the next 200 

 years the monastery was plundered and burnt 

 on divers occasions. About the year 800 a 

 Mercian lord named Hugh is said to have been 

 a patron of the house ; he buried Brictric, king 

 of Wessex, within the church and was himself 

 laid to rest there in 8 1 2. About 980 Aylward 

 Meaw founded and endowed a monastery at 

 Cranbourne in Dorset for monks who should 

 keep the strict rule of St. Benedict, and he 

 made the priory of Tewkesbury a cell to that 

 house. 



At the Norman Conquest the lands of Ayl- 

 ward's grandson, Brictric, were confiscated, and 



4 Birch, Catalogue of Seals in British Museum, i, 566. 



Ibid. 567. 



* Dugdale, Mon. ii, 59. 



' Brist. and Glouc. Arch. Sof. Trans, xxv, 78 j 

 Blunt, Tetckesbury Abbey, 15-17. 



