RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



commissioners arrived to receive the surrender. 1 

 The abbot secured a pension of ^80 a year, and 

 eleven canons received sums varying from 8 to 

 6. Wages were paid to forty-six officers 

 and servants. The custody of the church, 

 houses, and buildings was entrusted to Mannyng, 

 the king's farmer, until His Majesty's pleasure 

 was further known. 



x The clear yearly value of the property in 

 1539 was j6ga 2s. ~]d? 



ABBOTS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, BRISTOL* 



Richard, 1148 



John, 1 1 86 



David, 1216 



William of Bradstone, 1234 



William Longe, 1242 



Richard of Malmesbury, 1264 



John de Marina, 1275 



Hugh of Dadington, 1 280 * 



James Barry, 1294 



Edmund Knowle, 1306 



John Snowe, 1332 



Ralph Asch, 1341 



William Coke, 1353 



Henry Shellingford, 1365 



John Cernay, 1388 



John Daubeney, 1393 



Walter Newbery, 1428, deposed 1451 



Thomas Sutton, 1451 



Walter Newbery, restored 1456 



William Hunt, 1472 



John Newland, 1481 



Robert Elyot, 1515 



John Somerset, 1526 



William Burton, 1533 



Morgan ap Gwilliam, 1537 



DEANS OF BRISTOL 



William Snow, last prior of Bradenstoke, 1542 

 John Whiteheare, or Whythere, 1551 

 George Carew, 1552, deprived 1553 

 Henry Joliffe, 1554, deprived 1558 

 George Carew, restored 1559, resigned in 



1570, on being made dean of Exeter 

 John Sprint, archdeacon of Wilts 1571 

 Anthony Watson, 1590. In 1596 he was 



made bishop of Chichester, but held the deanery 



in commrndam until 1597 

 Simon Robson, 1598 

 Edward Chetwynd, 1617 



1 Aug. Off. Bk. 494, fol. 47. ' Ibid. 



* The list of Abbots has been taken from Abbot Ntto~ 

 lamfs Roll, Brist. and Clout. Arch, See. Train, xiii, 1 26-30. 

 It differs slightly from the Hit in Dugdale, Mm. vi. 

 364 ; there, Philip, who became abbot of By land, 

 is said to have been the second abbot of Bristol. The 

 statement occurs in the first edition of the Monaiticon. 

 It is unlikely that if Philip were the second abbot, he 

 would be omitted from Abbot Newland's Roll. 



4 Cat. of Pat. 8 Edw. I, m. 3 ; 9 Edw. I, m. 30. 

 Not 1 286 as in Newland's Roll. 



Mathew Nicholas, 1639. Dean of St. Paul's, 

 Lond., 1660 



Henry Glemham, 1660. Bishop of St. Asaph, 

 1667 



Richard Towgood, 1667 



Samuel Grossman, 1683 



Richard Thompson, 1684 



William Levett, 1685 



George Royse, 1694 



Robert Boothe, 1708 



Samuel Creswick, 1730. Dean of Wells, 



1739 



Thomas Chamberlayne, 1739 



William Warburton, 1757. Bishop of Glou- 

 cester, 1759 



Samuel Squire, 1760 



Francis Ayscough, 1761 



Cutts Barton, 1763 



John Hallam, 1781. Appointed Canon of 

 Windsor, 1775 



Charles Peter Layard, 1800 



Bowyer Edward Sparke, 1 803 



John Parsons, 1810 



Henry Beeke, 1813 



Thomas Musgrave, nominated 1837. Pro- 

 moted to see of Hereford, 1837 



John Lamb, 1837, ob. 1850 



Gilbert Elliott, 1850 



Francis Pigou, 1891 



A seal of the fourteenth century represents the 

 priory church with two saints, an archbishop on 

 the left and a bishop on the right, in doorways ; 

 in base, under a niche on the left, a bishop 

 with pastoral staff; under a similar niche on the 

 right, a destroyed subject ; in the field over the 

 roof, two estoiles and as many sprigs of foliage.* 



The legend is 



SIGILLV . co ... A ... STOLIA(?) 



An abbot's seal of the twelfth century repre- 

 sents the abbot, full-length, with vestments, 

 partly embroidered : in the left hand a pastoral 

 staff, in the right hand a book. 



The legend is 



SIGILL 



IOH IS 



ABBATIS 

 B . . ISC 



SCI . AUG 



DE 



7. THE ABBEY OF CIRENCESTER 



In the reign of Edward the Confessor there 

 was a collegiate church of secular canons at 

 Cirencester,* but it is impossible to write of its 

 origin with any certainty. When Christianity 

 was introduced into the province of the Hwiccas 

 in the middle of the seventh century, the Roman 

 city of Corinium still lay waste. 7 On the 

 authority of a manuscript, which cannot now be 



* Birch, Catalogue of Seals in Britiib Museum, i, 460. 



Dom. Bk. (Rcc. Com.) i66b. 



' Brist. and Ghiu. Arch. Sue. Trans, xv, 135. 



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