A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



various rearrangements of the possessions of 

 other obedientiaries. 



In 1529-30^ all the offices^ were seques- 

 trated, and the monks were receiving stipends : 

 the prior ^40, the sub-prior j^ii, 47 brothers 

 sums ranging from ^^8 I'js. \d. to ffi 1 3 J. J[d., the 

 total amounting to ^416 13.?. 4^. Six students 

 at Oxford had each 1,10. The expenses for 

 illness^' were ^30 ijs. lid.. Fees and wages, 

 such as to the chief steward, solicitor, the 

 abbot's secretary, the organist ^' of the church 

 and others cost 3^74 13.?. 6d. The household 

 servants received 3^43 i6s. They numbered 

 thirty-five, and included a clerk of the 

 kitchen and three engaged in the work of 

 the kitchen, two butlers, three poor men to 

 assist the brothers celebrating mass, an 

 attendant for the sick, another for one 

 particular invaHd, the prior's carver, butler 

 and the keeper of his horses, two brewers, 

 people making the monks' clothes, and wash- 

 ing the linen of the convent and church, 

 the keeper of the church clock and bells, and 

 of the convent's firewood in the oriel. Liveries 

 due to ofiicers and servants were reckoned 

 separately and cost ^75 10s. ^d. Alms on anni- 

 versaries and for the soul of King Offa came 

 to £2 ; diet of 12 poor men praying daily for 

 King Ofla's soul, ^IJ 12s. i\d. ; payments to 

 the king and pope, ^48 is.; annuities, ^^138 

 iqs. 4^. ; cutting and carting wood for the 

 convent's use, ^^45 135. o\d. ; mowing and 

 making hay, ^7 Sj'. lod. ; shoeing the convent's 

 horses, ^14 os. Sd. ; purchases of wax, oil and 

 wine, ^ig 18s. yd. ; repairs, ^105 2s. '}d. Under 

 necessaries, which cost ^55 I5j'. i^d., are 

 included charcoal for the dormitory, expenses 

 of the justices in time of session, cleansing the 

 stream and ditch, mending the organs, mole- 

 catching, cords for the bells, mowing nettles 

 round the monastery, &c., the largest outlay 

 being £g fs. 2d. for candles. The money spent 

 that year amounted altogether to ^1,203 o^. ^\d. 

 The house must have been rich in treasures.^' 



2^ Aug. Off. Misc. Bk. cclxxiv. The folios are 

 not numbered. 



^' They numbered nine in 1525—6: the offices 

 of the kitchener, chamberlain, refectorer, sacristan, 

 almoner, infirmarer, and those of spices and of the 

 ordinances of Abbots Wheathampstead and Ramryge 

 (ibid, cclxxii). 



^^ Sixteen monks exclusive of novices had been ill. 



-' Henry Bestney, who received 2 marks a year and 

 his board. 



^ In the time of Henry IV it had 1 1 rings, 2 

 containing balas rubies, 7, sapphires, one, a topaz, and 

 one, a peridot ; 8 other precious stones, probably unset ; 

 2 gold chalices, 24 others of silver or silver gilt ; 

 26 phials of beryl or silver, 9 mitres, some of precious 

 work, 2 ' paxbreds,' 2 pastoral staves, 8 pectorals, and 

 5 censers of silver-gilt, &c. (Amundesham, .(/«Wifj, ii, 

 App. I). Large additions were made to its plate and 

 ornaments under Wheathampstead. 



At the Dissolution the gold of its brooches and 

 rings weighed 1 22 J oz.; of silver-gilt plate it 

 had 2,990 oz., of parcel gilt 680 oz. and of white 

 plate 354 oz.*» 



Abbots of St. Albans 



Willigod,*" 793, died 796 



Eadric, 796 



Wulsig, 9th century 



Wulnoth, probably early 1 0th century 



Eadfrith, loth century 



Wulsin, mid-ioth century 



.^Ifric, c. 968, made Bishop of Ramsbury 990, 



Archbishop of Canterbury 995 

 Leofric, 990, died c. 1 007 

 Ealdred, c. 1007 

 Eadmar, living 1045 

 Leofstan, surnamed ' Plumstan,' c. 1048, died 



1066 

 Stigand, 1066 

 Frederic, appointed c. 1066,^^ occurs 1072,'- 



fled to Ely c. 1077 ^^ 

 Paul, appointed 28 June 1077,^^ died 11 



November 1093 '* 

 Richard de Albini, appointed 1097,*' died 



16 May 1119^' 

 Geoffrey de Gorham, elected 1119,^' died 



25 February 1 146 ^' 

 Ralph Gubiun, elected 8 May 1146,^" died 



S July 1151 " 

 Robert de Gorham, received benediction 



18 June 1151,*^ died 23 October 1166" 

 Simon, received benediction 20 May 1167,** 



died 1183 ^^ 

 Warin, received benediction 8 September " 



1 183,*' died 29 April 1195 ^^ 



2' Monastic Treasures (Abbotsford Club), 29. 



'" For authorities for the sequence and dates of the 

 first twelve names see above, pp. 368-72. 



" Gesta Jbbat. i, 44. 



32 William of Malmesbury, De Gest'ts Regum Angl. 

 (Rolls Ser.), ii, 349-52. 



'3 He is said in the Gesta Ahhat. (i, 44) to have 

 ruled for twelve years, but this seems a miscalculation. 



^ Ibid. 50. 



35 Ibid. 64. 



38 Ibid. 66. 



" Ibid. 72. 



'* Ibid. 73. He was prior (Matt. Paris, Chrm. 

 Maj. ii, 148). 



38 Gesta Abbot, i, 95. 



^0 Matt. Paris, Hist. Angl. i, 276. 



*i Gesta Abbat. i, no. 



*2 Matt. Parb, Chrm. Maj. ii, 187. 



« Gesta Abbat. i, 182. 



^ Ibid. 183. The royal licence to elect had been 

 delayed for some months. 



^5 Matt. Paris, Chron. Maj. ii, 318. The year 

 given in the Gesta Abbat. (i, 194) is 1188, but this 

 is obviously a slip. One of Warin't acts is dated 

 1186 {Gesta Abbat. i, 205). 



^« Gesta Abbat. i, 195. 



^' See n. 45. 



^* Gesta Abbat. i, 217. 



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