A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



of the style of William of Malmesbury, whose 

 phrases he often adopts.' '" A later Furness 

 chronicle is based on William of Newburgh, of 

 whom, together with the Stanley entries, it is 

 called the Continuation. It is a purely Furness 

 chronicle from 1263, and seems to have been 

 written up at intervals from memoranda ; per- 

 haps, as Mr. Hewlett suggests, in order to fulfil 

 the king's commands in 129 1, when Edward 

 sent a transcript of the submission of the Scotch 

 claimants to Furness, with the desire ' quod 

 eadem faciatis in cronicis vestris ad perpetuam 

 dei gesti memoriam annotari.' ^^ The chronicle 

 ends in 1298, and contains several records of 

 local and monastic interest. 



In a heraldic visitation of 1 5 30 the arms of 

 the abbey are given : Sable, a bend cheeky 

 argent and azure. Behind the shield is a crozier 

 through a mitre.^^' The common seal attached 

 to the deed of surrender bears the legend, 

 ' Sigillum commune domus beate Marie de 

 Furnesio.' It represents the Virgin under a 

 canopy, suh/imis inter sidera, holding in her right 

 hand a globe, while her left supports the infant 

 Christ. On each side is a shield, dexter with 

 the arms of England, sinister with those of 

 Lancaster, suspended from sprigs of nightshade, 

 and upheld by monks proper. Beneath is a 

 wyvern, the device of Thomas, second earl of 

 Lancaster.**" 



Abbots of Furness 



(* According to the Furness custom, only those 

 abbots were put in the mortuary roll who died as 

 abbots after ten years' successive rule ; Coiuhcr, lo. 

 These, previous to the date of the Coucher, are marked 

 with an asterisk. Names not annotated only appear 

 in the list in the Coucher.') 



* Ewan d'Avranches (de Abrincis), 1 127**' 

 Eudes de Surdevalle, occurs 11 30, 11 34*" 

 Michael of Lancaster 

 Peter of York, occurs 1 147 °-^ 



'" Hardy, op. cit. 208. 



'" See Ciron. of Stephen, &c. (Rolls Ser.), ii, pp. 

 Ixxxviii, 503-83. The contrast between this chroni- 

 cle and the Ciron. Manniae is so marked that there 

 can be no connexion. It is unlikely that a lost 

 Furness chronicle could be the basis of the Manx 

 (Oliver, Monumenta, i, xii), to which Munch gives a 

 Melrose origin (op. cit. ed. Goss, i, 34). A letter 

 of March, 1538, refers to 'a book of the decisions of 

 disputes heretofore in Furness,' in the possession of 

 the deputy steward ; L. and P. Hen. VllI, xiii (i), 

 427. 



"' Surt. Soc. Publ. xli, 92. 



""West, op. cit. App. xiii; Beck, op. cit. 351. 

 Beck also gives a plate of the abbot's seal. 



"' Coucher, 10. In spite of Mr. Atkinson's argu- 

 ment (Introd. rsvii), it seems better to assume that 

 Ewan was appointed abbot by the Savigniacs before 

 the foundation of Furness, or even of Tulketh. 



*" Coucher, 9 ; Oliver, op. cit. ii, 4. 



*" Coucher, 9 ; Joum. Brit. Arch. Assoc, vi, 420-22. 



Richard de Bayeux,'-* elected c. 11 50 



* John of Cancefeld, occurs 1 152, 1 158 "' 

 Walter of Millom, occurs 1 175 **' 

 Jocelin of Pennington, c. 1182'*' 

 Conan de Bardonle 



* William Black (Niger), occurs 1190, prob- 



ably ruled c. 1 1 83-93 *^ 

 Gerard Bristald, c. 1 1 94 '*" 

 Michael of Dalton, c. 1 196 *'" 

 Richard de St. Quentin 



* Ralph of Fletham, ruled c. 1 198-1208 '" 

 John of Newby 



Stephen of Ulverston 



Nicholas of Meaux, consec. 121 1, resigned 

 c. 1217*'^ 



* Robert of Denton, elected 12 17, alive in 



1235*32 

 Laurence of Acclorne 



* William of Middleton, occurs 1246, died 



1266-7 *" 



* Hugh le Brun, elected 1267, occurs 



1282*'= 

 William of Cockerham, occurs 1289, 



1294 



2.1s 



Hugh Skyllar, occurs 1297, deposed 1303*" 



* John of Cockerham, elected 1303, died 



1347*38 



* Alexander of Walton, elected 1347, died 



1367"' 



*" Seep. 115. 



"' Coucher, 591 ; Lanes. Pipe Rolls, 308. 



"' Coucher, 9, 539. 



*" Coucher, 61 3 ; Anct. D., L. 374. 



"* Atkinson, Introd. xxxix. 



»" Anct. D., L. 449. «'« Coucher, 9, 666. 



" Coucher, 647 ; perhaps ' R. Abbas ' of the deed 

 m Lanes. Pipe Rolls, 339 {c. 1 198). Chron. Manniae, 

 s. a. 1 189, has the wrong entry, 'Obiit Rodulfus, 

 Abbas de Furness in Mellefonte.' 



"' The dates of previous abbots make it almost 

 certain that it was Nicholas who was consecrated in 

 1 2 1 1 ; Chron. de Mailros, 1 1 1 . He was elected 

 about 1217 to the see of Man {Chron. de Melsa, i, 

 380; Joum. Brit. Arch. Assoc, vi, 328), which he 

 resigned about \zzi^{Cal of Pop. Letters, i, 97). Some 

 confusion has arisen from the fact that his predecessor 

 as bishop seems also to have been called Nicholas ; 

 Chron. Manniae, which, dates his episcopate 1203-17) ; 

 Joum. Brit. Arch. Assoc, u. s. ; cf. Anct. D., L. S. in). 



"^ Coucher, 254. 'G. abbas,' ibid. 246, is prob- 

 ably an error. 



"* Anct. D., L. 451 ; Cont. Will Newb. ii, 552. 



"' Coucher, 5, 381. Apparently it was Hugh who 

 had been scholaris et discipulus of the archbishop of York ; 

 see Robert de Graystanes, Hist. (Surt. Soc), ix, 62. 



"'Pat. 17 Edw. I, m. 13 ; Coucher, 450', 474 ; 

 Coucher B. fol. 1 1 'jb. 



^' Coucher, 478 ; Beck. op. cit. 245. In the De 

 Banco Rolls he appears 32-4 Edw. I ; R. 151, m. 

 97</. ; 159, m. 188. 



'"* He professed obedience to the archbishop of 

 York on 18 November, 1303; Beck, op. cit. 245. See 

 also De Banc. R. 155, m. 133,/. ; 348, m. 427 

 (20 Edw. Ill) ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. iv, 392. 



"^ Beck, op. cit. 267, 274. 



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