A HISTORY OF SURREY 



them, and have sent your mastership the true ex- 

 tent value and account of our said monastery. 

 Beseeching your good mastership, for the love of 

 Christ's passion, to help to the preservation of 

 this poor monastery, that we your beadsmen may 

 remain in the service of God with the meanest 

 living that any poor men may live with in this 

 world. So to continue in the service of Almighty 

 Jesus, and to pray for the estate of our prince and 

 your mastership. In no vain hope I write this to 

 your mastership, forasmuch as you put me in such 

 boldness full gently, when I was in suit to you the 

 last year at Winchester, saying, ' Repair to me for 

 such business as you shall have from time to time.' 

 Therefore, instantly praying you, and my poor 

 brethren with weeping yes ! — desire you to help 

 them ; in this world no creatures in more trouble. 

 And so we remain depending upon the comfort 

 that shall come to us from you — serving God daily 

 at Waverley. From thence the ix day of June, 1536. 

 William the poor Abbot there, your chaplain 

 to command.' 



It is evident that the fair site of the 

 abbey possessed attractions in covetous eyes. 

 J. Husee, writing to Lord Lisle a few days 

 previously suggesting religious houses that it 

 might be desirable for the king to grant him, 

 remarks, ' I am told Waverley is a pretty 

 thing." On 14 June 1536 Sir Richard Page 

 wrote to Cromwell stating that divers of the 

 commissioners who were sitting at Waverley 

 for suppressing that house had sent for him. 

 He desired to know the king's pleasure in the 

 matter.' The abbey was doomed ; notwith- 

 standing its celebrity the smallness of its en- 

 dowment brought it within the mesh of the 

 earlier Act for the suppression of religious 

 houses. Abbot Alyng not many days after 

 his earnest appeal surrendered his house and 

 estates to Richard Weston and the other 

 commissioners,* and the site of the monastery, 

 the house of the foundation of the bishops 

 of Winchester, passed into the hands of Sir 

 William Fitzwilliam, K.G., treasurer of the 

 king's household. ° 



Abbots of Waverley 



John,' died 11 28 

 Gilbert,^ 1 128-9 

 Henry,^ died 11 82 



Henry of Chichester," 1 182, resigned 11 87 

 Christopher" (abbot of Bruerne, Oxf.), 

 1 1 87, removed from office 11 96 



» L. and P. Hen. Fill. x. 1097. 

 ' Ibid. X. 1058. 3 Ibid. 1135. 



* Aug. Off. Misc. Bks. ccccvi. 



6 Pat. 28 Hen. VIII. pt. ii, m. 6. 

 « Ann. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), ii. 221. 



• Ibid. 8 Ibid. p. 242. 



9 Ibid. p. 244. 10 Itid. and p. 250. 



88 



John n. (hospitaller)," 1196, died 1201 

 John in. (cellarer)," 1201, died 12 16 

 Adam (sub-prior)," 121 6, resigned 1219 

 Adam II." (abbot of Garendon, Leics.), 



1 2 19, resigned 1236 

 Walter Gifferd*" (abbot of Bittlesden, 



Bucks), 1236, died 1252 

 Ralph ^' (abbot of Dunkewell, Devon), 



1252, resigned 1266 

 William de London," 1266 

 William de Hungerford," resigned 1276 

 Hugh de Leukenor," 1276, died 1285 

 Philip de Bedwinde,'''' 1285 

 William,^' occurs 1 31 6 

 Robert,^^ occurs 1335 

 John IIL," 1344 

 John IV.," 1349, died 1361 

 John de Enford,^^ occurs 1385-6 

 William Hakeleston,^' 1386, died 1399 

 John Brid," 1399-1400 

 Henry ,^' occurs 1433 

 William," occurs 1452 

 William Martyn,'" 1456 

 Thomas,'^ occurs 1478 and 1500 

 William,^' occurs 1509 

 John,^' occurs 1529 

 William Alyng,'* occurs 1535 



A pointed oval counterseal '* (a.d. 1282) 

 represents a hand and arm holding a crozier ; 

 on the right a crescent and star ; on the left 

 a branch of five foliations. Legend : con- 



[tRASIG :] ABBACIE : DE : WAVERLEIA. 



A pointed oval fourteenth century seal" 

 represents the crowned seated Virgin, with 

 Holy Child on left knee, and flowering branch 

 in right hand, beneath a trefoiled canopied 



" Ibid. p. 253. 13 Ibid, and p. 286. 



" Ibid, and p. 292. 1* Ibid, and p. 316. 



" Ibid, and p. 345. " Ibid, and p. 373. 



" Ibid. 18 Ibid. p. 387. 



'9 Ibid, and p. 403. 20 Ibid. 



21 Rot. Orig. 9 Edw. II. m. 24. He was a monk of 

 the convent. 



" WilHs, Hist, of Mitred Abbies, ii. 236. 



23 Winton. Epis. Reg. Orlton, f. 125. This 

 abbot fell a victim to the plague in 1349. 



2* Ibid. Edendon, ii. f. 21. 



2^ Ibid. Wykeham, ii. f. 224-5. 



2« Ibid. I, f. 3osd. 



^ Ibid I, f. 302d. The last three abbots had 

 been monks of Waverley. 



28 Inq. p. m. 12 Hen. VI. No. 50. 



29 Winton. Epis. Reg., Waynflete, i, f. 20. 

 so Ibid. f. 4od. 



31 Ibid. ii. f. 15 and Harl. Ch. 75 G. 14. 



32 Winton. Epis. Reg., Richard Fox, ii. f. 144. 



33 L. and P. Hen. VIII. iv. pt. iii, p. 2607 

 3* Ibid. ii. 452. • ^ "y/ 

 3» Add. Chart. 8548, 26, 611. 

 3« Harl. Chart. 75 G. 14. 



