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parish will care to read the greater part of the compilation, but 

 perhaps if some one person in every parish were to follow my ex- 

 ample, and were to put together facts and reflections connected with 

 it, there might be for some future Macaulay a collection of materials 

 which could be turned to more general account. 



It only remains for me to thank, as I do most heartily, the Rev. 

 Canon Jackson ; Mr. Smith, of Yatesbury ; Mr. To well, of Buckland- 

 Filleigh ; Mr. Tooke, of Monkton Farleigh ; Mr. Henry Hancock, 

 of Bath; Mr. Adye, of Bradford-on-Avon ; and Mrs. Abbott, for- 

 merly Mrs. Wade-Browne, for their kindness in placing their labors 

 and papers and information at my disposal. 



A. 



The Order of Clugniacs. 



"When the fact is considered that a community of Clugniac monks 

 actually dwelt in our parish for a period of four hundred years, it 

 cannot but be interesting to know something of the history, customs, 

 and daily life of such a community. According to Dogdale (Monas- 

 ticon), the founder of the order was one Benon, and Odo was the 

 perfector of it, and the first Abbot of Clugni, A.D. 912. The first 

 monastery was established in A.D. 895. at Clugni in Burgundy, 

 and the rules adopted were those of St. Benedict. It was William 

 de Warenne, who married the Conqueror's daughter Gundreda, who 

 first introduced the order into England; and thereafter, according 

 to Tanner, twenty-seven, but according to Dugdale, forty-two 

 priories and three cells were established in this country, the greater 

 part of them before the reign of Henry II., but the last A.D. 1222. 



The cells were usually made up of a prior and twelve brethren, but in 

 the greater monasteries there were, besides the brethren, the following 

 ecclesiastical and lay officers : — An abbot, a great prior, deans, a 

 cloister prior, choristers, masters for the boys, a prcchaunter, a cup- 

 board-keeper of the Church books, a chamberlain in charge of the 

 clothing, a treasurer in charge of the Church treasure, a cellarer, a 



