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THE MONKS OF MARMOUTIER. 
have had to go to all sorts of places in order to obtain infor¬ 
mation. I am glad to be able to say that from various sources 
I have procured what must be almost a complete list. At 
Selby the names of 36 abbots are known ; at Fountains, 39 ; 
at S. Mary’s, 30. Here is the list of 35 of the Holy Trinity 
Priors I have been able to collect: 
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Name. 
Date. Source of Information. 
1 Hermarus or Hicmarus .. 
2 Martin . 
3 Robert . 
4 Helias Pagnell. 
5 Philip. 
6 Robert . 
7 William. 
8 Stephen. 
9 W. 
10 
11 
12 
13 
J 4 
15 
16 
17 
iS 
J 9 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
25 
26 
27 
28 
29' 
30 
31 
32 
33 
34 
35 
Geoffrey . 
Roger Pepyn. 
William W'enge . 
Hamo. 
Bartholomew . 
Theobald . 
Geoffrey de Bello Monte.. 
John . 
Oliver de Bages . 
Geoffrey . 
Hugh Aubyn. 
John . 
Hugh or Eudo. 
John de Chesiaco. 
Peter . 
Walter Skirlaw(“ custos ”) 
Robert . 
John de Castello. 
John . 
John Burn. 
William Pykton . 
John Parke . 
Thomas Darn ton. 
Robert Huby . 
Robert Hallowes. 
Richard Speght . 
occurs 1100-1104 . 
ante 1122.. .. 
occurs 1130 . 
resigned 1143 . 
occurs 1154-1175 . 
occurs 1200-1210 . 
occurs 1218 . 
admitted 1231 . 
occurs ‘‘custos” 1248.. 
occurs 1252-1254 . 
occurs 1258-1264 . 
occurs 1263 . 
occurs 1265-1273 . 
ante 1274 . 
occurs 1273 (?). 
occurs 1276 ; died 1281 
occurs 1283-1304. 
occurs 1307, 1308. 
occurs 131S-1323 . 
occurs 1327-1331 . 
occurs 1338-1341 . 
occurs 1341 . 
occurs 1356-1363 . 
occurs 1369 . 
occurs 13S8 . 
uncertain: post 1341 .. 
appointed 1383; oc. 1414 
occurs 1435 . 
occurs 1449-1454 . 
occurs 1455 . 
occurs 1455-1467 . 
occurs i 464-!473 . 
occurs 1472 . 
occurs 1478-1503 . 
occurs 1531; surrender'd 
1538 
French Archives. 
Stapleton . 
Stapleton and Tanner.. .. 
Selby Coucher Book .... 
French Records . 
Monasticon Anghn.. 
Notitia Monastica . 
Mon. Ang. 
Archbp. Gray’s Register.. 
Close Rolls. Ed. Ill. 
Monastic Notes, Baildon.. 
Monastic Notes . 
Notitia Monastica . 
Papal Letters . 
Monastic Notes . 
Notitia Monastica . 
Patent Rolls. 
Archbp. Grenefield's Reg. 
Close Rolls . 
Patent Rolls. 
Year Books, 15 Ed. III. .. 
Year Books, 15 Ed. III. .. 
Mon. Ang. 
Monastic Notes . 
Stapleton and Baiidon .. 
Stapleton . 
Patent Rolls. 
De Banco Rolls . 
Monasticon Ang. 
Monastic Notes . 
Davies’ W 7 alks. 
Davies’ W’alks. 
Patent Rolls. 
Surtees Soc. Corpus Xti.. 
Mon. Ang. 
These Priors were elected, not by the monks of Holy Trinity, 
but by the mother Abbey at Marmoutier. At S. Mary’s here, 
when an abbot died, the monks elected his successor, but at 
Holy Trinity they had to procure their new Prior from the 
Abbey on the banks of the Loire. This arrangement worked 
very well at first, when many of the monks themselves were 
also from France, but as the time passed there got to be a 
