The history of Westminster abbey

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PREFACE

thon o tho mos part legonda , in tho Vs of William the Conqueror. Widmore three centurios astor toto, availed himsol o Fluto' labours, an also diligenti inv0stigatod the troasures of tho Munimon Boom: ho compiled a iStory, accurate, judiciolis an conciso, hieli has uentho Mundation o ali subsequent Work. It is probabi that tho xcollones of idniore' histor has b00n thoeaus why leto' own orti has lati s long in obscurit an has novorbos oro boon prinio l. Much of tho credit duo to in has meanwhilo been givon to nother monti, Richard portey, wh transcribod a large par of loto' book in a manuscript hiel, ound it way illi Cotton's librar into tho Britisti Museum and thusaeuam moro asit necessibleto tho historian and the antiqua . Tho proson edition is an attempto do tard justice to a riter, who thoughi display no grace of Stylo andio the most rudimenta

sense of humour, has devotod vast aliis to his assi has copiod actualdocumonis in attestation O his state menis, and refrain from guessingwhoro ho an in no evideneo. To havo aueompunised his dition illi adsequato notos ould avo meant an indefinite postponomunt of iis publication, and would avo domandod an intimato acquuintaneo illi monasti institutions towhieli ho present editor an maho no elaim. A rustWOrth textis horars an immediat 1100d. aliis is halcis here attempte i. Some

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xiii Preface

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INTRODUCTION

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Memorandum quod anno regni regis Henrici Sexti XXvi', fori iv xxv dis monsis Octobris, in susto sanctorum CriSpini et Crispiniani, circa horam novenam in nocte factum os incendium dormitorii per fratrem Georgium Norwycho.

Datum Domino Thesaurario ad concordandum cum ipso in pretio unius dolei vini 6.

Froni Michaolmas 1456 to ad Da 1457 0 fin Jolin toto attho Novum opus again. ut abolit his time holocame rior, and w0know nothin mor of him ill his dos th in 1465. The tor of the Foundation of the murch.

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Consecration re es Peter

i inprobabis that ostininstor ad iis own edition, illi appropriate supplements of the old Saxon Chroniel in a Latin dross. of tho consecration os tho Chureli by t Potor tot has transcribsed

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4 Flete' Histor of est iniuster

Bolla Series, ed. Vor, II 33 Hoc etiam testatur alia chronica, qui Liber Regius appellatur, in qua continetur: Hgitur post haec Harde nuton filio nutonis do Dacia

veniente, a proceribus Anglorum in regem est susceptus. Qui statim inauditum commisit. Haroldum enim ... et in Oemiteri Danorum Londonia tumulatur.' Et sequitur ad propositum Hic quidem H. . . . regalia ua in eodem reposuerat. '

D M. R. amos has found amon tho S at Corpus Christi College, Cambridgs,ono no 251 Whicli has lis Bur St Edmund pres mar and is entiti sed: Mistoria doBruto rege Britonum cum aliis regibus Angliae linealiter ab eo descendsentibus usque ad regem Ricardum secundum, qui praesento secit compilari historiam anno regni sui quarto decimo' ine. is patre istius Bruti historia vid0ntur dissonare. But his dossnot contain tho passag0s in question D Jamos suggest that it a b an abbreviationos tho trus 'Liber segius' it has margina referetices to chapter of an unnamed Workwhic is the ource of the greater par of the text. This is contains in the passago hiel, immediatet precedes leto' extract: Cumque eidom insigni loco beatum Etrum pariter eupore patrocinari, et ubi eius domus exornari poterat adde later volversi intentione speciali ecce quidam civium urbis non infimus cum uxore Sua regi astitit, diutinam Cordis sui Voluntatem super construonda idem apostolorum principi ecclesia dicit, si super hoc ab ipso inclyto rogo licontiam devotus petiit quo audit rex nimium est gavisus, annuitque et exhortatur praedivitem ad desideratum opus, et ut hoc quam citius inciperet commonet attentius : qui regio favors laetatus deo gratias agens domum repedavit laetissimus illustrat praefatam urbem regius amnis, ' c., as in Flete. In the margin are the ord 'Saborthus subregulus London.'; but Sulcard himself neve names the wealthy citiZen. toto has praedives Christicola obortus'; ut Sebertus is no in Sulcard' toxt. The fame remur appliecto ille meus amicus Sebertus lower down 9, Ti.

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Consecration by es Peter

Aster nomen accepit' 10 9 Flete addo sic. '; ut Sulcar continues: constructor autem ecclesiae multis cum uxore sua supervixit annis; et in ejus augendo provectu laborabant studio sanctae intentionis peractoque vitae mortalis cursu in eadem sepulti sunt in plumbeis sarcophagis, Ricut postea reperti sunt a quodam abbate celesiam revocant asdificiis' road illi Richar os tronossior ii 17 amplioribus renovanteasdificiis'J Mors again the ante Saberthus' appear in the margin.

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Consecration V es Peter

William os alnisesbur in his Gesta Pontifcum Anglorum, the fit Stoditio of hieli a publishod in Il25 Thoro tho oundation is ascribod o Mollitus, hocis suid o avo oon urgod lo it by t Peter

Αceordinito Hamilton Rolis Series odn p. viii. The hole passage p. 40 . is assollows: Tune vero Mellitus deo cooptiranis, set Ethselbirhi tutus amminiculo, Christianitatis fidem egregie in provincia propagavit. nam et monasterium beat Petro in occidentali civitatis parte fecit, ipsius apostoli, ut fertur, ammonitus nuntio qui et coram Visus ecclesiam recens factam per se dedicaverit, et per rusti eum epiScopo Xenium grati SSimum, grandem scilicet piscem destinaverit nec vero do dicto dubitare voluit, qui videret agrestis latuitatis hominom, qui nee Christianus essset, de Petro afferentem nuntium,

ejusdemquo corporis lineamenta quae Mellitus nosso ex pictura Veragiter pronuntiantem. Creditum ergo, nee eonsecrationis mysterium repetitum quam persectam monstrarent candelae per totam Ecclesiam accensae, cruces factne, nec minus aquae SperSne et aerati

olei locis obitis Don rivola vestigia cossit divino ostiei humana sedulitas, Pronuntia-Vitque Oee prophetica momenti magni futurum monasterium, in quo apostolus pontificaleeXercuisset obsequium sensim vaticinii veritas proesessit in medium, praesertim tempore regis EdWardi ultimi, qui ampliori convont ibidsm adunato celesiam aedificationis genere noVo fecit nec minus, sed multo etiam majus rex illelmus extulit locum, magnis redditibus praediorum, quod ibi regni susceperit insignia consuetudo igitur apud posteros evaluit, ut propter Edwardi inibi sepulti memoriam regiam regnaturi accipiant Orontam. 'COmp. 9. 17S: Hunc se WisSinum Dunstanus archiopiscopus, cum SSet Londoniae episcopus, abbatem apud Westmonasterium fecerat, instructo ad xii monachos coenobiolo in loco ubi quondam Mellitus occlesiam sancto stro fecerat.'

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8 Flete' Histor of Nesim inster

the talo as ne of the mos honoui ablo ovent in the bishop's careor

Osbertis Claro, a mon os ostminstor, ostiis to avo oon banishsed rom themonaster undo Abbot Horebori, o 1128 to 1130 ut ab ut 1136 he was bac again and Wa made prior. bout 1141 ho on to Romo, an on his occasion roto a lite os EdWard tho Consessor hioli ho dodiosis to tho togato Alborio, imploring asSistanc forthe obtaining f his canoni sation. his homovo was no grante unti 1161. Osbert's letters, rom hicli the chios facts acto his lis ars drawn wore publiAhed by R. Αnstrutheri Seriptores Monachi, 1846.