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Collections towards the History 



A.D. 1229. 



" Stephanus abbas de Stanleia factus est abbas de Saviniaco." 



\_Annales de Waverleia.~\ 



This man may have been the Stephanus de Lexington, who was 

 presented by King John, on the 23rd May, 1215, (sede vacante) 

 to the prebend of ScrophuM and Oxton, or Oxton pars secunda, in the 

 deanery of Southwell, 



A.D. 1230, Vigil of the Feast of St. Mary. 



Walter, Abbot of Stanley, occurs in the Malmesbury Chartulary, 

 in the Record Office, folio 188 b., and MS. Lansdowne, in British 

 Museum, 417, f. 90. [See W. de G. Birch on " The Succession of 

 the Abbots of Malmesbury," in the " Journal of the British 

 Archaeological Association," vol. xxvii., p. 330^.] 



" Pagina " of W. de Cumba, (Combe, in Co. Warwick,) W. de 

 Stanleia, and O. de Alencestria, (Alcester, Co. Warwick,) abbates, 

 reciting a rescript from Pope Innocent (III). Dat. v. kal. Julij a 0 , 

 pont. iij. (27th June, 1245), determining a cause between the Canons 

 of St. James, Northampton, and W. de Roverio, Persona Ecclesie 

 de Stokes. (B. M., Additional Charter, 6109.) This may be 

 Stanley Park, or Stanley in the Dale, Co. Derby. 



A.D. 1246. 



" Terremotus factus est magnus et horribilis, x°. KV Marcii. M.cc.xlvij. 

 Ingressus est conventus de Stanley e in Wiltes, novum monasterium." 



[MS. Bighy 11,/. 184.] 



37 Henry III. 



" Pat. pro abbate de Stanlegh quod dominici canes Abbatise suae ac omnium 

 grangiarum suarum quas habet infra metis forestse non expeditentur, etc." 



[C. P. R.,p. 26 ] 



19th October, 43 Henry III. (1259.) 



" Fratres de Stanlegh in Ardern,spreto habitu suo, et professione sua, ordinem 

 Cisterciensem egressi, vagantes per plures comitatus regni arrestari jubet rex." 



[MS. Earl., 6957,/. 69.] 

 " Patentes de fratribus Apostatis de Stanlegh arrestandis." 



[G B. P., p. 31.] 



