A HISTORY OF SURREY 



and the Cistercians ' having refused to con- 

 tribute, Waverley fell under the heavy dis- 

 pleasure of the king : ' Waverley with all her 

 privileges withdrawrn and monks and lay 

 brethren scattered abroad throughout England, 

 patiently sustained the wrath of the king. 

 Abbot John III. in fear (of the king) left his 

 house and fled away by night, and the king 

 forbad any of the Cistercian Order to cross 

 the sea or to come over into England.' ^ In 

 1 212 John, continuing his persecution of all 

 ecclesiastics in the kingdom, and especially the 

 Cistercians, extorted from them felse letters 

 resigning their property to him.^ The king s 

 irritation against Waverley seems to have 

 allayed when peace had been made with the 

 pope,* and in October 1 2 14 the abbot of 

 Waverley, with the abbot of Reading and 

 other envoys, was sent on a mission in the 

 king's service in connection with which the 

 treasurer of the Exchequer was directed to 

 pay the abbot of Waverley the sum of ten 

 marks," and the bailifFs of Dover were in- 

 structed to find the envoys a good and secure 

 ship to carry them, the charges for which 

 would be made good at the Exchequer." 



On 10 July in the same year, 1214, the 

 new church, the building of which had been 

 carried on in spite of many difficulties, had 

 so far advanced that five altars were dedicated 

 by Albin, Bishop of Ferns, in the presence of 

 Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester. At 

 the same time the cemetery of those who had 

 died during the interdict was blessed, and the 

 consecration crosses of the church anointed 

 and blessed.' The spring called Ludwell, 

 which had abundantly supplied the lavatory 

 and aqueduct constructed by the brethren in 

 1 1 79 * and had served all domestic offices, dried 



> Matt, of Paris states that the order was 

 compelled to pay 40,000 pounds of silver. Matt, 

 of Paris, Hist. Minor. [Rolls Ser.], ii. 123. 



2 Ann. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), ii. 265. Both at this 

 time and in subsequent difficulties they were pro- 

 hibited attending their general chapter. Matt, 

 of Paris, Hist. Minor. [Rolls Ser.], ii. 123 



3 Ann. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), ii. z68. 



♦ It is stated that during the interdict the order 

 fell under the ban of the pope for celebrating 

 divine service in their churches, and when by 

 special concession celebrations were permitted 

 weekly in conventual churches, they were pro- 

 hibited from sharing the privileges. Matt, of 

 Paris, Hist. Minor. [Rolls Ser], ii. 132. 



5 Qose, 16 John, m. 18. 



« Ibid. It appears from entries in Pat. 16 John, 

 m. II, that they were sent to the towns of Ghent 

 and Ypres to bring back certain moneys due to the 

 king. 



' Jnn. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), ii. 282. 



8 Ibid. p. 241. 



up in 1216." Brother Simon then began to 

 consider how this inconvenience might be 

 remedied, and gave himself to the t^k of dis- 

 covering a fresh spring, in which after a dili- 

 gent search he was successful, and brought the 

 water by an underground conduit to the 

 house. The new spring was named St. 

 Mary's Well." The building of the church 

 proceeded slowly, and the builder, William 

 de Broadwater, passed away long before his 

 task was completed, and was buried near the 

 south wall of the church in 1222: *on 

 whose soul may He have mercy who alone 

 after death is able to heal.' " It was not 

 until 1278 that the work was fully accom- 

 plished. On the feast of St. Matthew in 

 that year it was dedicated in honour of the 

 glorious Virgin Mary, Mother of God," by 

 Nicholas de Ely, Bishop of Winchester, who 

 granted a year's indulgence to all present in 

 pious devotion, and forty days' remission in 

 perpetuity to all who should frequent the 

 church on the anniversary of its dedication. 

 Joy and feasting marked this great occasion, 

 and the bishop, in order that nothing should 

 be wanting that could add to the general 

 happiness, supplied ample provisions at his own 

 expense for all assembled throughout the nine 

 days' solemnities." Six abbots and other pre- 

 lates with knights and ladies " not a few were 

 among the concourse, and it is even stated, 

 probably with some exaggeration, that as many 

 as 7,066 sat down to meat on the first day.*" 

 At an earlier date than the building of the 

 great church the chapel of the infirmary was 

 dedicated at the latter end of I20i" by 

 Albin, Bishop of Ferns, previously mentioned, 

 himself a Cistercian monk. Abbot Adam, 

 who resigned his office in 1 219''' but lived till 

 1229,'* established a new ordinance for his 

 house, a private mass to be said for all guests 

 dying in the infirmary of the seculars on the 

 day or morrow of their burial." Gifiard, the 

 tenth abbot, instituted a private mass to be 



» Ibid. p. 284. 



1" Ibid. The pipes were found in 1903 in the 

 parlour south of the chapter house. 



»i Ibid. p. 296. 



>2 It was a rule of the Cistercians that all their 

 houses should be founded in honour of the B.V.M. 



" Ibid. p. 390. 



'* The rule which forbad the entrance of women 

 within a Cistercian monastery made an exception 

 on the occasion of the dedication of an abbey 

 church, when they were permitted to enter during 

 the nine days' celebration (Cistercian Statutes, ed. 

 by Rev. J. T. Fowler, p. 22). 



15 Jnn. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), iv. 474. 



'" Ibid. ii. 253. " Ibid. p. 292. 



" Ibid. p. 305. >» Ibid. 



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