RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



Hereward,^' occurs 1 216 and May, 1235 



Richard,'" occurs 1240 



Henry," occurs 1246 and April, 1261 



Adam de (? le) Blake,'^ occurs July, 1269, and 

 1278 



Thomas,'' occurs September, 1286 and 

 1288 



Robert of Formby,"* occurs 1289 and 10 Sep- 

 tember, 1290 



Roger,'" occurs 1300 



Thomas,'^ occurs August, 1305, and 22 March, 

 1307 



Roger,'' occurs 131 1 and 1331 



William of Boston,'^ occurs 1334 and 10 Oc- 

 tober, 1340. 



Robert of Carleton,'' occurs July, 1347, died 

 20 March, 1354 



Jordan of Bosedon,^"" elected 4 May, 1354, 

 and occurs 30 November, 1364 



Richard,^"^ occurs 21 November, 1382 



Thomas,^"^ occurs 1386-7 and 1388-9 



William Stainford,^"' occurs 1393 



Thomas of Burgh,^"^ occurs 1395 and 1403 



Thomas Green,^"* elected 6 July, 1410, 

 occurs 1436-7 



® Hist, of Lane. Ch. 49 ; Chartul. 169. 



°° Ibid. 520. A deed whose date lies between 

 1235 and 1249 mentions an abbot Roger ; ibid. 

 1013. The editor refers it to the time of the early 

 abbot of that name, but the names of the witnesses 

 point to the date given above. Possibly he is an 

 abbot hitherto unnoticed, but the abbreviated forms 

 of Richard and Roger were often confused, and there 

 may be an error in one or other of the above passages, 

 most probably in the first, as the second is taken from 

 the original deed. 



" Fumess Coucher (Chet. Soc), 349 ; Chartul. 147. 



^ Ibid, xxi, 150, 548 ; Coram Rege R. 6 Edw. I, 

 41, m. 28. An Abbot William who held office temp. 

 Hen. Ill appears in Pal. Plea R. No. 11, m. 39. 



'^ Cal. of Pat. 1281-92, p. 251 ; De Banco R. 



73. m- 7- 



"Assize R. 404, m. 3; Cal. of Pat. 1281-92, 

 p. 384; Reg. Archiepis. Ebor. 



'' Reg. Archiepis. Ebor. 



'" Coram Rege R. 183, m. 26 ; Chartul. 784. 



" Dodsworth MSS. (Bodl. Lib.), cxlix, fol. 147^. ; 

 Assize R. 1404, m. 19. 



'« Chartul. 384, 750 ; Cur. Reg. R. 8 Edw. Ill, 

 m. 121; Lanes, and Ches. Antiq. Notes, ii, 4. 



'' Cal. of Pat. 1345-8, p. 387 ; Inq. a.q.d. 35 

 Edw. Ill, No. 18. 



™ Reg. Archiepis. Ebor.; Chartul. 386; Pal. of Lane. 

 Plea R. No. 1 1, m. 39. 



"' Inq. p.m. 6 Ric. II, 112 s.v. Lane. 



"' Chartul.-] i,o, 1 147. He occurs in B.M. Add. MS. 

 32104, fol. 261^, dated 24 Jan. in the third year of 

 John of Gaunt's regality (i.e. 1380); but this must be 

 an error of transcription unless Abbot Richard came 

 between two called Thomas. 



"' Screen in Mitton church ; Chartul. xxii. 



'"* J. P. Rylands, Local Gleanings Lanes, and Ches. 

 ii, 225 ; Sloane MS. 4935, fol. \l\b. 



"' Reg. Archiepis. Ebor. ; Rylands, loc. cit. ; Lanes. 

 Final Cone, iii, 127. 



Robert Egremont,"" elected 1444, occurs 



1474 

 William Lucas,^"' died 1477 

 William Bowland,^"' elected 1477, ^^^^ 149° 

 John Preston,^"" elected 16 December, 1490, 



occurs 1500 

 James Skipton,™ elected 20 December, 1502 

 Henry Stayning,'" elected 7 October, 1505 

 John Croune,"^ elected 11 May, 1509 

 George Billington,"' occurs 15 20-1 and 



27 September, 1522 

 John Bowland,'" occurs 22 January, 1524, 



and 20 May, 1527 

 — Newsham^'* 



Gilbert Ainsworth,"" elected 25 March, 1531 

 Robert Kendal,^" elected 16 October, 1531 

 Robert Poulton,"** elected 27 May, 1533, 



surrendered 29 January, 1538-9 



The common seal of the abbey is pointed oval 

 and represents three niches one above another ; 

 in the upper one God the Father in the attitude 

 of benediction, on each side a demi-angel swing- 

 ing a censer ; in the centre one the Virgin 

 crowned with the Child on her left arm ; in the 

 lower one the abbot in prayer.^" Legend : — 



-f- s' BE MARIE ET AVGVSTI COVET d' COK'sAD 



A seal of Abbot Henry (c. 1242-50) is at- 

 tached to a deed among the Trafford muniments 

 printed in the chartulary (p. 723). It is vesica- 

 shaped {\\ in.X i^ in.), much rubbed and worn, 

 apparently bearing the right fore-arm and hand 

 of a canon outstretched, holding a crozier. Le- 

 gend in Gothic characters hardly discernible : — 



SIG . HENRICr . ABBATIS . DE . COKIRSAND 



"* Reg. Archiepis. Ebor.; Chartul. 819; Pal. of 

 Lane. Writ of Assize, 14 Aug. 145 1 ; Dodsworth 

 MSS. 70, fol. 161 (if there were not two Roberts, 

 one in 1444—51 and a second in 1474). 



™ Coll. Anglo-Premonstr. i, 96. 



•™Ibid. 97, III. 



""Ibid. 112; MS. Ashmole (Bodl. Lib.), 15 19, 

 fol. 142(5. 



"° Reg. Archiepis. Ebor. ; Rylands, loc. cit. ; cf. 

 Chet. Soe. Publ. (Old Ser.), Ivii (2), 29. See above, 

 p. 156. 



'" Reg. Archiepis. Ebor. "= Ibid. 



"' Rylands, op. cit. ii, 226 ; L. and P. Hen. Fill, 

 iii (2), 2578. 



'" Duchy of Lane. Rentals and Surv. ptfo. 5, No. 4, 

 m. 4 ; Whitaker, Hist, of Richmond, ii, 335. In 1527 

 he had been abbot for four years ; Rentals and Surv. 

 ptfo. 5, No. 15. 



"' Ibid. No. 4, m. 4. 



"^ Reg. Archiepis. Ebor. 



"' Ibid. 



'" Ibid. ; Dep. Keeper's Rep. viii, App. ii, 16. 

 Either Poulton or his predecessor appointed a procu- 

 rator for Garstang on 7 May, 1533 ; Rentals and 

 Surv. loc. cit. 



"»£.M. Cat. of Seals, i, 514. 



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