7. THE ABBEY OF BEAULIEU
It would appear that in 1203 King John
granted to the house of St. Mary of Citeaux,
as the head of the Cistercian order, the manor
of Faringdon in Berkshire, where some monks
of this order had established themselves, upon
the condition that a monastery should be built
there. (fn. 1) In the following year the king founded
in the New Forest the monastery of St. Mary
of Beaulieu of the same order with provision
in it for thirty monks. (fn. 2) The foundation
charter is dated 25 January, 1204-5. (fn. 3) By
this charter the bounds of the precincts are
accurately defined, and the monks were
endowed with the manors of Great and Little
Faringdon, Great and Little Coxwell, Shilton
and Inglesham, and the churches of Shilton
and Inglesham and the chapel of Coxwell,
and all that the king had in Langford. Beaulieu being thus founded the monks of Faringdon were transferred to it, and Faringdon
was made a cell to Beaulieu.
The small chartulary of 179 folios, in the
Cotton collection, (fn. 4) opens with a transcript of
the charter of King John, dated 2 November,
1203. This is followed by three charters of
Henry III. and an elaborate confirmation
charter of Edward III., dated 23 February,
1328. The particulars with regard to the
different vicarages, and more especially as to
the customs of the numerous manors (Shilton,
Great and Little Faringdon, Great and Little
Coxwell, Langford, Inglesham and Westbrook),
which are given in great detail, are of considerable interest but pertain to the history of
Berkshire.
Among the Harley MSS. is a transcript of
a register or chartulary of Beaulieu, copied
from one in the possession of the Duke of
Portland, in 1739, and collated with the
original in 1836 by Sir F. Madden. (fn. 5) It
opens with the long foundation charter by
John, relative to the important cell at Faringdon. This is followed by the charter of
Henry III., regarding the New Forest, and
confirming the grants of Bishop Peter and
William Briwer. The third charter is that
of the same king confirming 239 acres of land
in the New Forest, granted at the dedication
of the church, when the king and Queen
Eleanor and Prince Edward were present.
The charters referring to the possessions of
the abbey in Berkshire are numerous; there
are also many pertaining to Soberton, Bucks;
Blacheford, Hants; the town of Southampton, and the church of St. Keverne, Cornwall.
In 1204 John gave the monks a hundred
marks towards the construction of the abbey,
a gold chalice, and a hundred cows and ten
bulls for their dairy; in 1205 they obtained
the royal gifts of twenty additional cows and
two bulls, further money, and a large grant
of corn; in 1206 came the first gift of a tun
of wine for the use of the church from the
officers of the king's prisage at Southampton;
and in 1207 further large grants of oxen
and corn. (fn. 6) On 16 August, 1205, the king
sent letters to all the Cistercian abbots entreating their assistance in the building of the new
abbey. (fn. 7)
In March, 1208, came the famous interdict
of Innocent III. over all England which lasted
until the king's submission in May, 1213, at
which time Hugh, the first abbot of Beaulieu,
acted as an intermediary between the king
and the pope. On 4 April, 1208, the abbot
obtained the royal passport for the conveyance
of himself and servants and five horses across
the Channel at Dover, evidently on a mission
to Rome touching this business. (fn. 8) In the
following month the pope issued a monition
to King John to fulfil his promise to the
abbot of Beaulieu to receive the cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury and to make due restitution, and again in the following August
he instructed the Bishops of London, Ely and
Worcester to warn and induce the king to
carry out at once his various promises made to
the abbot of Beaulieu. (fn. 9) Meanwhile the king,
whilst staying at Waverley, the earliest of the
English Cistercian foundations, on the immediate confines of the county, issued an order
by which he restored to the monks all the
lands which had been seized by occasion of
the interdict. Abbot Hugh returned to
England in November, and received from the
king 30 marks for himself, 30 marks for fees
and vails, and 40s. to buy himself a palfrey.
When the trouble of the interdict was over
the building at Beaulieu was immediately
resumed. In 1213 orders were made by the
king for 400 marks towards the building at
Michaelmas, and 500 marks at Michaelmas
of the next year, and in 1214 an additional
£200. (fn. 1) In 1214 a prior was elected, Anastasius by name; to him the second donation
of £100 of that year was addressed, when
the abbot was probably absent. (fn. 2) On 9 April,
1215, John made his last donation, 50 marks,
to the monks of Beaulieu. (fn. 3)
The abbot of Beaulieu was the fourth of
the envoys sent by John to Pope Innocent in
September, 1215; and in that capacity, as
one of the king's proctors, he exhibited articles
against the Archbishop of Canterbury at the
fourth Lateran Council. (fn. 4)
On 24 February, 1219, Abbot Hugh was
consecrated Bishop of Carlisle in York
Minster. (fn. 5) He died in 1223. His successor,
Azo of Gisors, was a good deal engaged in
diplomacy, and was dispatched by the king to
France in the year of his appointment.
Henry III. carried on his father's work at
Beaulieu with vigour. On 15 March, 1217,
he instructed the keeper of his herd of horses
in the New Forest to hand over all the profits
to the monks of Beaulieu until November,
1220. (fn. 6) In 1220 the king gave 50 marks, in
1221, 17½ marks, and in 1222, £100 to the
building. (fn. 7)
The annals of Waverley, which can scarcely
in such a matter be wrong, describe the monks
of Beaulieu as entering with great joy into
their new church on the vigil of the Assumption, 1227. (fn. 8) This entry has been supposed
to clash with the definite statement of the
same annals and of Matthew Paris twenty
years later. The term ecclesia however is
sometimes used to apply to the whole of a
religious house, and the explanation seems to
be that the great conventual church was
opened in 1227, but that the cloister and conventual buildings as a whole were not ready
for occupation until 1246.
The king's generosity to the Cistercians of
Beaulieu continued year by year; it would be
tedious to reiterate the specific benefactions.
At last the whole of the great fabric was
finished, the monks quitted their temporary
building (doubtless of wood), and on 17 June,
1246, the conventual buildings were dedicated
by the Bishop of Winchester in the presence
of the king and queen, the Earl of Cornwall,
and a great concourse of prelates and magnates
of the realm. At the feast of the dedication
the abbot made an offering of 500 marks.
The young Prince Edward was also present at
the dedication, but was seized with illness,
and the queen stayed at the abbey three weeks
to nurse him, in contradiction, as the annalist
says, of the Cistercian rule. As a proof of
the strict observance of their rule, it is recorded
that at the next visitation both prior and
cellarer were deposed from their offices,
because they had supplied seculars with meat
on the occasion of the dedication festival. (fn. 9)
Pope Gregory IX., in 1231, granted a
licence, at the request of Henry III., to the
abbey of Beaulieu to appropriate the churches
of Shilton and Inglesham, with the chapel of
Coxwell, in the dioceses of Salisbury and
Lincoln. (fn. 10) The same pope, in 1235, licensed,
at the request of the king and his brother,
the Earl of Cornwall, the appropriation by the
abbey of the church of St. Keverne, Cornwall,
the patronage of which, together with ten
marks rent in Helston, the earl had already
granted for the health of his soul and that of
his father King John, due provision being
made for a vicar. (fn. 11) This appropriation led in
1236 to a dispute between the rector and the
convent as to the right of presentation. The
convent sent a proctor to Rome, asserting
that the Earl of Cornwall had given them
the patronage, and alleging that they needed
money for hospitality; but they concealed the
fact that they had a £1,000 of yearly rents,
and being in a desert place had little or no
hospitality to exercise. It was stated on
behalf of the rector that the convent of Beaulieu revelled in their goods, which could
support many more monks, and that they
had turned the church of St. Keverne into
a grange, and admitted scarcely a single
guest. (fn. 1)
In the first instance Gregory seems to have
been willing to listen to any attack on the
monks of Beaulieu, and in his original mandate to the legate Otho (given in full in the
chartulary) he denounces them, writing of
them as debachantes in their monastery.
Naturally the abbot as well as the Earl of
Cornwall protested. The result announced
in the pope's name by Otho in February,
1237, was that Beaulieu retained the appropriation, and that the rector was to receive
from the monks a pension of 20 marks until
he obtained a competent benefice. (fn. 2)
Isabel of Gloucester, the wife of Richard,
Earl of Cornwall, died on 17 January, 1239;
and was buried before the high altar of the
new church of Beaulieu, her heart being sent
to Tewkesbury. (fn. 3) The Earl of Cornwall,
among his various deeds of piety, founded the
monastery of Hales, for the establishment of
which in 1246 twenty monks and thirty lay
brothers were sent from Beaulieu. (fn. 4) About
the same time another party of monks left
Beaulieu to colonize the newly founded
monastery of Newenham in Devonshire. The
monastery of Netley had already been colonized
from Beaulieu in 1239. (fn. 5)
At the end of the chartulary proper, already
referred to, (fn. 6) come certain memoranda, among
which is one to the effect that in 1274, at the
general Council of Lyons, when a subsidy for
a crusade for six years was enjoined, the pope
granted to the Cistercians that the abbot of
Citeaux should be responsible for the contributions of their whole order. The abbot,
with the advice of the chapter-general, taxed
each individual house of the order, according
to his will, for the six years. Beaulieu, with
its three daughters of Netley, Hales and
Newenham, for the first and second year were
to pay £26; namely Beaulieu, £13; Hales,
£5 6s.; Netley, £4 14s.; and Newenham,
£3. In 1276, when the English Cistercian houses paid £1,000 to Edward I., twothirds of which were due from Canterbury
province, Beaulieu's share came to £23 6s. 8d.;
Netley, £12; Hales, £14 13s.; and Newenham, £5. Beaulieu's share was higher than
any other of the forty-nine Cistercian houses
of the province; the next on the list was
Warden, rated at £22 13s. 4d.
In January, 1275, the takers of the king's
wines at Southampton were ordered to serve
the abbot with three tuns of wine at a cost of
60s. for use in his church, for the first three
years of the king's reign, in accordance with
claim made under a charter of Henry III,
Order was issued yearly for this tun of wine
until 1279, when a mandate was served on
Matthew de Columbariis, the king's wine-taker
at Southampton, and his successors to deliver
the tun yearly without having to obtain a
special letter or other mandate. (fn. 7) In February,
1275, the abbey received a further or second
tun of wine from Southampton, in lieu of the
tun that the king's steward received from the
warden at Beaulieu for the use of the royal
household on the occasion of the king's last
visit. (fn. 8)
Edward I. frequently sojourned at Beaulieu; he was there in 1275 and 1276, and
again in 1285. It seems somewhat inconsistent with subsequent royal visits to find that
in July, 1276, protection was granted by
letters patent for the abbey of Beaulieu, in
accordance with the ordinances passed in the
first parliament of Edward I., when it was
ordained that no one should be lodged in a
house of religion, or take victuals or carriage
therein, or in any of its manors. (fn. 9)
About this period the abbots of Beaulieu
were frequently abroad on the business of their
house and order. In March, 1274, the abbot
(probably Dennis), who held the king's licence
to cross the seas, appointed two of his brother
monks to act as his attorneys until the following feast of All Saints. In May, 1276, he
appointed two other monks as his attorneys,
for a like reason, until Christmas, unless he
returned in the interval, and in April, 1279,
a like arrangement was made. (fn. 10) The abbot
also obtained leave to cross the seas from
8 September to Midsummer in 1282; from
7 September to Christmas in 1285; and
from April to All Saints in 1286. (fn. 11) These
absences would be mainly to attend the
general chapter which was held at Citeaux
every year, opening on 14 September. Every
abbot was bound to attend, under pain of a
severe penance, unless there was a legitimate
excuse, in which case he was to acquaint some
neighbouring abbot and to send letters. From
this duty of yearly attendance, exemptions
were made from time to time on the score of
the poverty of the house or its distance,
notably at the general chapters of 1260, 1263
and 1270. (fn. 1)
Some light is thrown upon the history of
the monastery as a trading community by the
grant of a protection and safe conduct to the
abbey in 1281 for taking a ship laden with
corn and other goods from time to time to
Gascony and other places within the king's
power, and bringing thence wine and other
goods. (fn. 2)
From the taxation roll of 1291 we find
that the temporalities of Beaulieu in the archdeaconry were then valued at producing an
annual income of £100, of which the immediate environs of the abbey supplied £66 13s.
4d. The temporalities in the archdeaconry
of Berks produced an income of £91 1s. 8d.;
those of the archdeaconry of Oxford £32
1s. 10d. There was also £11 11s. 8d. from
St. Keverne in Cornwall, and £6 13s. 4d.
from houses and fisheries in Little Yarmouth.
In spiritualities there was the rectory of
Shilton with an income of £7 6s. 8d., and
Inglesham with an income of £4 6s. 8d.
In 1312 licence for alienation in mortmain,
in favour of Beaulieu, was obtained for messuages and lands in Upton and Holebury, on
payment of a fine of 30s. (fn. 3) In 1316 the
abbey obtained a valuable grant of a messuage,
mill, 60 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow,
and 6 acres of wood at Hipley, (fn. 4) and in
March of the following year confirmation
was given to six small grants to the abbey. (fn. 5)
The advowson of the church of Ringwood
was granted to the abbey in February, 1329,
by Edward III. in fulfilment of a wish of the
late king; and on condition that four monks
should be maintained beyond the thirty-two
then at Beaulieu, to celebrate mass daily for
the souls of himself, his mother and his heirs. (fn. 6)
In 1332 this grant of Ringwood made by the
procurement of Roger de Mortimer was
revoked. (fn. 7) By the return of knights' fees of
1346 we find that the abbot of Beaulieu held
one fee in Over Burgate in perpetual alms. (fn. 8)
In the return for Berkshire for the feudal
aid of 1316 he held the hundred and vill of
Faringdon with Coxwell, Inglesham, and
Little Faringdon, and he and others held
Langford, Shilton and 'Bernynton.' (fn. 9)
The abbot of Beaulieu, whose predecessors
had sat in Parliament since 1260, by fine of
ten marks, obtained in 1341 the king's
sanction to be freed, for himself and his
successors, from attendance at Parliament,
inasmuch as all the abbey lands were held in
free alms, and not by barony or otherwise of
the king in chief. (fn. 10)
Abbot Herring presided for twenty years,
and on his death the custody of the abbey
was assigned, on 6 January, 1392, to Thomas,
Earl of Kent, and Tideman de Winchecombe,
one of the monks. (fn. 11) After some delay Tideman de Winchecombe was elected abbot,
but he only ruled for a very brief period; for
in August, 1393, he was elected Bishop of
Llandaff, at the instigation of the pope.
A grant of Edward III. in 1468 gave the
monks of Beaulieu a weekly Thursday
market within the precincts, and confirmed
their rights of pasturage in the forests of
Bere and Porchester, with other former privileges. (fn. 12)
On 15 December, 1483, the abbot of
Beaulieu was summoned, together with two of
his community, by Richard III. to appear at
Westminster, and bring with him all muniments and writings by which he claimed
special sanctuary rights, within six days after
the receipt of the mandate. (fn. 13) It has been
conjectured, with much probability, that this
summons arose from the abbey having given
shelter to the enemies of the Yorkist faction.
Every church and churchyard had certain
temporary sanctuary rights pertaining to them;
but in a few instances, of which Beaulieu was
the most celebrated English example in the
south, these rights were extended for an
indefinite period and over a far wider area
than the actual consecrated site. At Beaulieu
Innocent III. had granted these special sanctuary rights to the whole of the original
grant of land to the monks made by John,
the bounds of which were clearly defined in
the charter. Among those of note who
availed themselves of this sanctuary may be
mentioned Perkin Warbeck, Lady Warwick,
after the field of Barnet in 1471, and according to some writers, Margaret of Anjou.
Abbot Thomas Skevington was consecrated
Bishop of Bangor at Lambeth on 17 June,
1509, but he continued to hold the abbey in
commendam until his death in 1533.
The abbey's share towards the ' king's
personal expenses in France to recover the
Crown,' in 1522, was the large sum of
£66 13s. 4d. (fn. 1)
In a butlerage account of customs paid on
wine out of various ships at Southampton and
Portsmouth, in 1526, which yielded a sum of
£15 10s. on 155 tuns, it is stated that the
total prisage of wine was fifteen tuns, whereof
five tuns (one tun each) were delivered to
the monasteries of Beaulieu, Tichfield, Netley,
Waverley and St. Denis. (fn. 2)
The abbot of Beaulieu was summoned to
Convocation in 1529, but he was not present. (fn. 3)
In a list of ' fines made with divers persons
by the king's commandment' of 1531 occurs
the name of ' the Bishop of Bangor otherwise
called the abbot of Beaulieu,' for the heavy
sum of £333 6s. 8d., for his offences against
the statutes of provisions and præmunire. (fn. 4) In
the following year however we find the
abbot-bishop was put on the commission of
the peace for Hampshire. (fn. 5)
On 17 August, 1533, Abbot Skevington
died, and on the following day Harry Huttoft
wrote to Cromwell begging that the post
might be given ' to one of the same religion,
a good man, the abbot of Waverley,' adding,
' he will do his duty every way, and if you
knew of his manner of living you would be
his assured good master.' On 20 August,
Sir William Fitzwilliam wrote from Windsor
to Cromwell concerning the abbot's death,
and stating that he was in the king's displeasure for offences against the royal game.
'I chanced, in communication with the king,
to mention one who a virtuous man and a
good husband(man), and had ever been good
to his game though the forests of Wolmer and
Windsor and other places are about his house,
and I thought he would make a good abbot
of Beauley. On his asking who he was, I
replied, the abbot of Waverley. He said it
was truth, and willed me to write to you to
put him in remembrance, on his coming to
London, that he might take order for the
same. I assure you the suggestion came from
myself alone, and not from any solicitation of
the abbot.'
On the same day Lord Audeley wrote to
the Duke of Suffolk as to the vacancy at
Beaulieu, for which much suit was being
made. He did not make any specific suggestion, but urged that whoever was appointed
abbot should be ' a man of great gravity and
circumspect, and not base of stomach or faint
of heart when need shall require, the place
standeth so wildly; and it is a great sanctuary,
and boundeth upon a great forest and upon
the sea coast, where sanctuary men may do
much displeasure if they be not very well and
substantially looked upon.' (fn. 6) In accordance
with the king's wish John Browning, abbot
of Waverley, the preserver of the king's game,
was speedily made abbot of Beaulieu. In
September Huttoft wrote a grateful letter as
to the appointment to Cromwell.
The Valor of 1535, taken when Browning
was abbot, gave the gross annual value of
Beaulieu as £428 6s. 8¼d., and the net value
£326 13s. 2¾d.
Under the Act of 1536, dissolving the lesser
monasteries, more than two-thirds of the
Cistercian abbeys were suppressed. Their
inmates were, as a rule, transferred to the
larger houses of the order. In March, 1536,
Abbot Browning died, and Thomas Stevens or
Stephens, abbot of Netley, was appointed his
successor. In the following February Netley
was suppressed, and the whole of the monks
went to their mother house at Beaulieu. (fn. 7)
Lord Lisle was most anxious to obtain the
fine spoils of Beaulieu, and wrote both in
February and June of 1536 to servants of
Cromwell to endeavour to secure them. On
the first occasion he was told that there was
no likelihood that Beaulieu would be suppressed; and on the second application he
was assured that it would be lost time to sue
for it, and recommended to try for St. Mary's,
Winchester, or for ' Waverley, which is a
pretty thing.' (fn. 8)
Shortly after Stevens' appointment as abbot,
we find him eager to curry favour with
Wriothesley. Hearing through a servant
that he wanted a horse—' My Lord of Beaulieu said he had nothing but should be at your
commandment, and sent his men to take up
for you his own riding horse, which you will
receive herewith. His only fault is that he
is too little for you, though the biggest in all
his park.' (fn. 9)
With regard to the ancient right of sanctuary at Beaulieu, it is not surprising to find
that neither Cromwell nor his royal master
had any scruple as to its violation. In September, 1537, the abbot received a letter
from Cromwell demanding the delivery to
the bearers of the body of James Manzy, a
Florentine. He replied that he would have
done so, but that Manzy had left sanctuary
on the previous Sunday when he was absent
from home. On hearing further from the
Lord Privy Seal, the abbot wrote to say that
in conjunction with Master Huttoft he had
gathered together all the conveyers of James
Manzy, and had so used them that he thought
they would ' love the worse hereafter to steal
sanctuary men from Beaulieu.' Manzy hid
day and night in woods, bushes and old
barns, and the abbot indignantly repudiated
the suggestion that he had connived at his
escape. At the same time Huttoft wrote to
like effect to Cromwell. 'I have made
search with my lord of Beaulieu these two
days, both aboard ship and in all the forest,
and have this night (28 September) found the
said James in a hay loft on a farm besides
Hampton. He was hidden half the mow
deep, and when discovered seemed more dead
than alive. After a while he fell to weeping,
saying his abuse was only for fear of your
lordship, and that his keepers menaced him
to be carried up like a prisoner. I beg you
will have pity on him for he has been
severely handled. The bearer Parpoynt has
spoken many words more than needeth. My
Lord of Beaulieu has used very good diligence
in this matter, and is also much discouraged
by the reports made of him.' (fn. 1)
On 2 April, 1538, the subservient abbot
signed the surrender of this great monastery
of royal foundation to the notorious commissioners Layton, Petre and Freeman, and
induced twenty of the monks to do the like. (fn. 2)
The site was immediately granted to Thomas
Wriothesley (afterwards Earl of Southampton).
Crayford, one of the sub-commissioners for
suppression of monasteries, wrote to him on
17 April, saying that Abbot Stevens, immediately before his surrender, let out the mill,
parsonage, etc., of Beaulieu, and the lodge at
St. Leonard's grange to his sister. (fn. 3) On 26
April, the ex-abbot wrote to Wriothesley,
protesting against the detraction of his ' lewd
monks, which now, I thank God, I am rid of.' (fn. 4)
At the time of the dissolution the monastery held in Hampshire the manors of
Colbury, Hilton, Upton, 'Ippeley,' Holbury,
and the manor of Frerencourte in Fordingbridge, the rectories of Beaulieu, and lands,
rents, etc., in Southampton, Lymington,
' Esthamlode' in the Isle of Wight,' Gooreley,'
' Blayshford, Bremmer' and Avon, and Newchurch in the Isle of Wight; in Berkshire
the manors of Great Faringdon, Little
Faringdon, Inglesham, Shilton and Wyke,
and rents in Westbroke and Langford; in
Cornwall the manor of St. Kirian, a mill at
Tregonon, and rent in Helston; and a messuage in Southwark in Surrey. (fn. 5)
Stevens obtained a pension of 100 marks,
but in February, 1540, was instituted to the
rectory of Bentworth near Alton. In 1548
he was collated to the treasurership of Salisbury Cathedral, and died in 1550 seized of
both these preferments. Seventeen of the
monks also obtained small pensions.
With the suppression came the end of the
historic sanctuary rights throughout what was
termed ' the Great Close of Beaulieu.' On
the day of the surrender the commissioners
wrote to Cromwell stating that there were
thirty-two sanctuary men there for debt,
felony and murder, who had their houses and
grounds where they lived with their wives
and children. They declared that if sent to
other sanctuaries they would be undone, and
desired to remain there for their lives, provided no more were admitted. The commissioners wished to know the king's pleasure.
The ex-abbot also wrote to Wriothesley,
begging him to be a good master to the
Beaulieu sanctuary men who were there for
debt. He said they had been very honest
while he was their governor, and it would be
no profit to the town if they were to leave,
for the houses would yield no rent. Crayford
also wrote to Wriothesley about the same time,
asking for the king's protection for the ' miserable debtors,' stating that all the inhabitants
of Beaulieu were sanctuary men, and urging
the immediate departure of the murderers and
felons as ' hopeless men.' In the end the
debtors were allowed to tarry for their lives,
under protection, at Beaulieu; and one,
Thomas Jeynes, who had slain a man at
Christchurch, was granted a pardon. (fn. 6)
The circular elaborate fifteenth century
seal, of which an illustration is given, represents the crowned Virgin seated in a canopied
niche with the Holy Child on left knee; on
each side, in canopied niches, are five kneeling monks. In base is a crown enfiled with
a crozier. Legend : Sigillum : Commune :
Monasterii : Belli : Loci : Regis.
Abbots of Beaulieu
Hugh, (fn. 1) about 1208-19
Azo of Gisors, 1238
Dennis, (fn. 2) about 1274-80
William de Gisors, cellarer, (fn. 3) 1281
Robert de Boclonde, died in 1302
Peter de Chichester (fn. 4)
William de Hameldon (fn. 5)
John Peres
Walter Herring, (fn. 6) 1372-92
Tideman de Winchecombe, about 1392-3
Richard de Middleton, (fn. 7) 1394-7
John Gloucester, (fn. 8) 1397-1400
Richard de Middleton, (fn. 9) 1400
Richard Bartelmelo, (fn. 10) 1415
William Salbury, (fn. 11) 1425-9
William Woburn, 1429
Humphrey, 1490
Thomas Skevington, (fn. 12) 1509, 1533
John Browning, abbot of Waverley, 1533-6
Thomas Stevens, abbot of Netley, 1536-8