JOHN NEWTON was his successor. He was chaplain to the King, Doctor in Divinity, and at the time of his election, was Prior of St. Cuthlack's, near Hereford. A violent opposition was made to his election, and though the majority was in his favour, John Huntley, the cellarer, with sixteen monks, made an unsuccessful appeal to the Bishop of Worcester. He was installed in December 1510; and died in January, 1514.

WILLIAM MALVERN, alias PARKER, was elected in May, 1504, and confirmed the first of June following. He was a Doctor in Divinity by the request of the University of Oxford. In 1524, he compiled a compendious history of this Abbey, printed in the second volume of Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle. He much improved the buildings belonging to the Abbey, and built the chapel in which his intended monument is to be seen. His motto MERSOS REATU SUSCITA, raise up those that are drowned in guiltiness, has been considered, but probably with no better reason than that of Seabroke, as prophetical of the raising the Abbey into a Bishoprick, by Henry VIII. This Abbot, Richard Skidmor, and other monks, to the number of thirty-four, subscribed to the King's supremacy, and he continued till the dissolution. To what place he retired is not certainly known: Rudder supposes, where the Parkers resided; if so, it must have been to Notgrove, where the family estates then lay; for the Hasfield property did not come to the Parkers before 1655. -There are some ancient tombs in Notgrove churchyard, but no marks by which any one can be assigned to Parker.

According to Atkyns, Malverne and Parker were distinct persons, but as he has not mentioned when the former died, or the latter was elected, it is presumed that the account of Anthony Wood, and other writers, who make them the same

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is correct. So that there were thirty-two Abbots, and not thirty-three, according to Atkyns.

During Parker's abbacy, Osberne, the cellarer, repaired the old Ram opposite St. John's church, in the Upper Northgate-street, over the gate of which the following lines still appear in old characters:

Eu ruinosa domus, quondam quam tunc renovavit Monachus urbanus Osberne John rite vocatus. Besides the Priory of Evias, and the Priory of Kilpeck, this Abbey had four other cells, subordinate to it, viz.

1. The Priory of St. Cuthlack or Guthlac, formerly consisting of a Provost, and secular Canons, without Bishopsgate-street, in the east suburbs of Hereford. It had a Prior, Præcentor, Sub-prior, and three monks, the ordering, placing, or removal of whom, was at the will of the Abbot of St. Peter. This collegiate church, with all the revenues belonging to it, being given A.D. 1101, by Hugh de Lacy, son of Walter, to this Abbey, the Provost and secular Canons were changed into a Prior and Benedictine monks, who were removed into the east suburb without Bishopsgatestreet, where Kobert Betun, Bishop of Hereford, gave them the ground whereon was built the monastery of St. Peter and St. Paul, and St. Guthlac. At the dissolution, it was valued at £121. 3s. 3d. ob. per annum; and the cell of St. Gutlac, parcel of St. Peter's, Gloucester, was granted 34 Hen. VIII. to John Ap Rice.-Mon. Ang. tom. 1, p. 113, &c. Leland, Atkyns, Rudder, &c.

2. The Benedictine Priory of Ewenny, or Gwenny, or Wenny, county of Glamorgan, founded by Sir John Londres, Lord of Ogmore Castle, and given by Maurice de London, as a cell to Gloucester Abbey, A.D. 1141. It was dedicated to St. Michael, endowed 26 Hen. VIII. with a yearly revenue of £78. 8d. in the whole, and £59. 4s. clear,

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and upon the dissolution, was granted as part of the possessions of St. Peter's, Gloucester, to Edward Carot, 37 Henry VIII.-Monas. Angl. tom. 1, p. 114. Rudder.

3. Stanley St. Leonard's, county of Gloucester, a small monastery, of a Prior and Canons, founded in the church of St. Leonard, which, being given by Roger Berkley, A. D. 1146, to St. Peter's, in Gloucester, became a cell of Benedictine monks to that Abbey. About the time of the dissolution, here were only three monks, and the annual revenues of the house amounted to £71. 6s. 8d. or according to Speed, £126. 8d. The scite as parcel of Gloucester Abbey, was granted to Sir Anthony Kingston.—Monast. Angl. tom. 1, p. 118, &c. Atkyns, Rudder, &c.

4. Bromfield, county of Salop. This was, temp. Hen I. a little college of Prebendaries, or secular Canons, who in 1155 turned Benedictine monks, and yielded up their church and all their lands to the Abbey of St. Peter's, whereupon were placed a Prior and monks here, who continued till the dissolution. It was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and valued in one place at £45. 11s. 8d. per ann. and in another at £78. 19s. 4d. but clear of deductions at £77. 18s. 3d. It was granted to Charles Fox, according to Tanner, 4 et 5 Phil. et Mar.-Mon. Ang. Tanner, &c. The Abbots had eight houses in the country.

1. The Vineyard, near the city. Here was a large house, built by Abbot Staunton, and surrounded by a moat. It was situated on an eminence, which commanded a pleasant view of Gloucester, and the adjoining country. At the dissolution, the Vineyard and Park were given to the Bishopric of Gloucester, and confirmed 6 Edw. VI. The Bishops of this see frequently resided there before the great rebellion, when it was demolished; the moat is still visible.-Rudder.

2. Hartpury, four miles north west of the city. This

manor, given by Offa, King of the Mercians, in the time of Eva the Abbess, belonged to the monastery till its dissolution. Walter Compton, Esq. died on the 26th of July, 7 Eliz. seized of the manor or demean of Hartpury, and of one capital messuage there, called the Abbot's place, and fifty yard lands belonging to the manor, all which he ob tained from William Harbert, Knight of the Garter, by his deed dated Feb. 20, 1551.-Rudder.

3. Prinknersh, Prinkenesse, Prinknash, or Prynkenash, three miles east of Gloucester. The Abbey had a park here, and free warren in all their demean lands in this place, granted by King Edward the Third, and confirmed by King Richard. The manor, which belonged to St. Peter's Abbey, at the dissolution was granted to Edward Bridges, and Dorothy Praye, 36 Hen. VIII. and the reversion of the house and park to Sir William Sandys and Thomas Spencer, 3 Jac. I. It was soon after purchased by Sir John Bridgman, from whose descendant, Henry Foy Bridgman, Esq. it passed by purchase to John Howell, Esq. and on his death, in 1802, by descent to his son Thomas Bayley Howell, Esq. the present proprietor.

Newnham, Berkeley, Thornbury, Frocester, Bromfield manor place, near Ludlow, county of Salop, are mentioned by Rudder, on the authority of Leland and Willis, as places where the Abbots had houses, but though they had manors, lordships, or small estates in these places, it does not appear that they had houses for occasional residence.

At Highnam, near Gloucester, the Abbot reserved in the lease a convenient part of the mansion house for the residence of himself and men, upon reasonable summons, when the plague should be in Gloucester, and as long as it should continue there. March 12, 1516.

At Standish, county of Gloucester, was a building called

the Almery, erected for the use of the Abbey. This place gave name to the chief Almoner of the Abbey, who was generally stiled the Almoner of Standish. This manor was given by Beornulph, King of the Mercians, in 821, to the monastery, and was the subject of many disputes in after times. In 1096 it was confirmed in the entire possession of the Abbey, and at the admonition of Mauger, Bishop of Worcester, was applied to charitable purposes. In 1516, Abbot Parker agreed with the members of his monastery, that, whereas the manor of Standish, being of the yearly value of £16. at least, with other small alms, viz. thirteen frize coats to thirteen poor people, to be provided by the town monk, two shillings, which the Abbey cellarer did yearly distribute to each of them, and a mess called the Abbot's dish, worth 8d. per week, used heretofore to be paid at the manor of Standish, in money, and since that in bread, and afterwards, the same was distributed within the Abbey in corn, which occasioned great inconveniences, therefore there should be thenceforth established a fraternity of thirteen men, called Peter's men, to be appointed by the Abbot, one of which should be Prior, and wear a black mantle for distinction. The town monk should provide for them yearly thirteen black gowns of cloth, which should be made close before, and with close sleeves, and a mantle, allowing three yards of cloth for each gown and hood, the cloth being not under twenty pence per yard, beside what is for the mantle. And each of them should have eight pence a week, and the prior nine pence. They should also wear continually a large hood, a great pair of beads, the arms of the monastery embroidered on their right shoulders, and a cross of red and blue on their breasts; all to be provided by the town monk. They should diligently attend divine service, and perform the duties required of them devoutly and

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