Journal of the British Archaeological Association Volume 140-141 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... ON THE SUCCESSION OF THE ABBOTS OF MALMESBURY. ADDENDA. BY W. DE Q. BIRCH, ESQ. Wulfsinus.--Bishop Kennet, in one of his valuable MSS. containing various collections relating to the ecclesiastical history of England, gives several quotations from Wharton's Collectanea respecting Malmesbury. The MS. is among the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum, No. 935, foL 176. According to him Wulfsinus died in 1040. Godefridus.--The same authority finds this abbot occurling under the year 1090 in the Register of Wells. A charter of William II, printed in the Dissertatio Epistolaris of Hickes (p. 47), dated in 1090, contains this abbot's name among the subscriptions. Kennet places his death in 1105. Johannes.--Kennet finds him occurring in 1140, according to the continuation of Florence of Worcester's Chronicle. Petrus.--Kennet finds him also in 11 40, and states that, according to the same Chronicle, he had been Abbot of the Monastery of St. Urban the Pope, "in diocesi Catalunensi." Greyorius occurs in 1162, according to Radulfus de Diceto. He made his profession to Archbishop Theobald. Died in February according to MS. Cotton, Nero, D. Vil (Kennet.) Robertus.--Bromptou's Chronicon, in Twysden's Decern Scriptores, p. 1105. (Ibid.) Osbertus occurs in the Annals of Winchelcom.be. Died on the 16th of the kalends of April, 1181. (Ibid.) Walterus Loryng.--Died in 120b. (Ibid., in error.) Willelmus de Colerne.--Kennet calls him Coler. Willelmus(IIF) occurs in the Appendix to Heynev's Apostolatus Benedictinorurn in Anglia, p. 143. (Ibid.) Johannes Andover.--He was formerly Prior of Pilton in Devonshire, a cell to Malmesbury Abbey. Elected after January 1445-6, and made Abbot of Malmesbury in the next year. (Dugdale.) Thomas Olveston occurs as late as...