RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Thomas Stangrief, occurs 1268'* 



William IV (de Ellerbeck),'"' 1268-75" 



William Daneby, 1275-85'' 



Thomas I, 1286-91 



Henry II, 1301 



Robert, 1303 



Peter, 1307 



Henry, occurs 1307 '' 



Thomas II, 1315 



Richard, occurs 3 June 1317*" 



William VI, 131 8 



William de Inggleby, occurs 1322" 



John I, 1327 



William VIII (de Langton), 1332-4 



Richard, 1349 



John II, occurs 1363 ^^ 



William IX, 1369-80 



John III, occurs 1380 *' 



William X, 1409 



John IV, occurs 1417" 



William (XI) Brymley, 1419 



Henry (III) Burton,** 1423-29 



William (XII) Spenser, 1436-49 



John (V) Inkeley, 1449*^ 



William (XIII) Spenser, 1471, 1487*' 



John (VI) Burton,*^ 1489-1510*' 



William (XIV) Helmesley,""" 1513-28 



»^ Baildon's MS. Notes. 



'*" William de EUerbeck was abbot before 1305 

 (Baildon, Mon. Notes, i, 179) and contemporary 

 with Adam de Hustwayt, Abbot of Byland (c. 1270- 

 83) ; Egerton MS. 2823, fol. 104, 



" Apparently deposed ; see above. 



'* Abbot in 1279 (see above) ; presumably the Abbot 

 William who made his profession of obedience in 

 1275 ; Chartul. ofRievoulx, no. xcvii. 



'' Baildon's MS. Notes. 



" Cal. Pat. 1 3 1 3-1 7, p. 697 (omitted by Dr. Atkin- 

 son). 



" Baildon's MS. Notes. 



« Ibid. " Ibid. 



" Ibid. 



*' Dr. Atkinson inserts an Abbot John between 

 these, but the Archiepiscopal Register (sed. vac. fol. 

 321) is definite. A commission was issued, 10 Nov. 

 1423, to Nicholas, Bishop of Dromore, to bless Brother 

 Henry Burton, monk of Sawley of the Cistercian 

 order, elected Abbot of Rievaulx, vacant by the free 

 resignation of William Brymley {sic) late abbot. 



*° Commission to John, Bishop of Philippopolis, 

 8 April 1449, to bless John Ingkelay vice William 

 Spenser, resigned ; York Archiepis. Reg. Kemp, fol. 

 420^. 



*' The question whether he was the same person 

 as Abbot William XII is discussed by Dr. Atkinson 

 {Rievaulx Chartul. Introd. p. cii), and decided by 

 him in the negative, but not altogether conclusively. 



*° Commission to William, Bishop of Dromore, to 

 bless John Burton, 29 Jan. 1489-90 ; York Archiepis. 

 Reg. Rotherham, i, fol. dzb. 



*'Test. Ebor. v, 21. 



'" Commission to John, Bishop of Negropont, 

 to bless William Hemsley, 18 Nov. 1513 ; York 

 Archiepis. Reg. Bainbridge. 



Edward Kirkby," 1530-1533 

 Rowland Blyton^^ 1533-8 



The 12th-century" seal is a vesica with the 

 abbot seated receiving a confession from one of 

 his monks. Of the legend there only remains : 



1^. . . N . . ERTI A TEGO CLAVSA 



REVELO 



An abbot's seal " in use at the end of the 

 1 2th century is a vesica, i|^in. by 1 in., with 

 the abbot seated reading at a lectern and holding 

 his crozier. The legend is : 



>Jh SIGNVM ABBATIS RIEVALLIS 



A 13th-century abbot's seal*^ has a full- 

 length figure of the abbot holding his crozier 

 and a book. The legend is : 



►Jh SIGILLVM ABBATIS DE RIEVALLE 



27. THE ABBEY OF ROCHE 



The abbey of Roche derived its name ' de 

 Rupe ' from a supposed miraculous sculpture of a 

 crucifix, found by one of the monks on a rock, 

 adjacent to which the monastery was afterwards 

 built. ^ It was the joint foundation of Richard 

 de Buili and Richard Fitz Turgis, who gave 

 two adjoining sites, divided by a small stream, 

 agreeing with each other that both should be 

 accounted founders, irrespective of the position 

 selected for the abbey buildings. 



The site actually selected was that granted by 

 Richard de Buili on the Maltby side of the 

 stream, and the monks who colonized it came 

 from Newminster, the abbot of which, in con- 

 sequence, became the pater abbas of Roche.^ 



On 7 April 1186 Pope Urban II confirmed 

 to Osmund, the fifth abbot, and his monks 

 some twenty gifts of land, in addition to the 

 sites given for the building of the abbey by the 

 two co-founders. 



John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, regarding 

 the magnificence of the stonework of the abbey, 

 and also the paucity of its monks, gave the 

 church of Hatfield to the abbey for the main- 



" Deprived 1533; Torks. Star Chamb. Proc. (Yorks. 

 Rec. Ser.), 48-51. See also Rievaulx Chartul. (Surt. 

 Soc), Introd. pp. ciii-ix. 



" Formerly Abbot of Rufford. 



" Cat. of Seals, ^.M.>390 5, Ixxv, i. 



" Ibid. 3906 ; Cott. Chart, v, 13. 



" Ibid. 3909, xlvii, 675. 



' Dugdale, Mon. Angl. v, 505. 



'John de Buili confirmed his father's gift, and 

 allowed the monks to inclose the land between 

 ' Maltebi ' (Maltby) and ' Sanbec ' (Sandbeck) except 

 two roads, viz. ' Bolgate ' and the road from Blida 

 (Blythe) ; B.M. Add. Chart. 20583. 



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