494 'Malmesbury Abbey. 



house which was previously the hall he made an ordinary camera. 

 Next the same hall he caused to be made a kitchen, and of the 

 larder he rebuilt the walls and strengthened the beams, and covered 

 it wifih stone." l 



At the Suppression the abbat's lodging was covered with lead, 2 

 and was to remain undefaced. It consisted of " the late abbott's 

 lodginge and the new lodging adyoynynge, with kytchin, larder, 

 Buttery, Pantery, and houses of Offyce w' lodgyngis theruppon 

 buyldyd pertey'nynge to the same. The abbotts Stable w 1 the wolle, 

 house, the Gate and houses over the same enclosinge the quadrante 

 of the seyde Buyldynges." 3 And the custody of these was granted 

 to Sir Edward Baynton of Bromham. 4 



In conclusion, the writer cannot close this paper without ex- 

 pressing his indebtedness to the late Bishop of Bristol for hearty 

 co-operation and sympathy at all times with his work both pro- 

 fessionally and archaeologically ; to Mr. E. S. Mackirdy, for ready 

 permission and very material help toward the excavations of the 

 cloister, and access at all times to the rest of his property ; to the 

 Vicar of Malmesbury, the Rev. Canon C. D. H. McMillan, and to 

 Mr. J, Moore, for generous permission to examine the respective 

 parts of the abbey in their charge ; to Mr. W. S. Brakspear, fori 

 the loan of the negatives for eleven of the illustrations ; and last, 

 but not least, to his old friend Sir William H. St. John Hope,, 

 for the transcript of the documents contained in the Appendices 

 II., III., and IV., and various suggestions as to the ritual arrange- 

 ments of the church. 



APPENDIX I. 



Registeum Malmesbueiense. (Rolls Series, 1880.) ii. 365. 

 William Coleene. 

 De edificiis factis infra abbathiam et per diversa maneria. 

 Juxta gardinum abbatis fecit aulam magnam et honestam, et aliam aulam 

 minorem ad gabulum ejusdem aulae, petra coopertam. 

 Et de domo quae prius aula fuit, cameram ordinari fecit. 

 Et juxta eandem aulam fieri fecit unam coquinam. 



1 See Appendix I. s See Appendix II. 



3 See Appendix IV. * See Appendix II. 





