This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ... p. 158. + See margin of charter, and New Court Rept. of "Crokesby," county Lincoln, to the church of Waltham. This is followed by another--" Carta Willi Pollard de Ecclia. de Crokesby," which is confirmed by Agnes, widow of the said William Pollard, to the church at Waltham, 5 Edward I., 1277. Folio i2o3.--"Capella in domo ura. de Byllynggesgat, London." Folio 121 is a bull of Pope Alexander III. to Ralph, the prior and canon of Waltham, circa 1177. King Henry II. obtained the consent--privilegium--of Alexander to suppress the secular order of canons, and substitute the Augustine canons in their room. Roger de Hoveden, writes Mr Stubbs, "here runs together, with great risk of confusion, several events concerning the church of Waltham: (1.) The resignation of Dean Guy to the king, which took place at the council of Northampton; (2.) The formal resignation to the archbishop at Waltham; (3.) The expulsion of the canons, which took place June 11, 1177; and (4.) the appointment of Walter of Gant, which was made in July Ii84.',-f Accordingly the dean and secular canons resigned the deanery and prebends into the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Ralph, a prebendary of Chichester, was made their prior by the Bishop of London; and at his instalment, made a solemn profession of canonical obedience to that prelate.J Alexander III. occupied the papal chair from 1159 to 1180-1. He was an "avenger of the murder of Thomas a Becket," December 28, 1170. Richard, formerly Prior of Dover, succeeded him in 1171. Robert, or Gilbert, Foliot, was then Bishop of London, 1163-1187. This bull is followed by a letter of Walter, Abbot of Waltham, to Pope Clement III., 1187-1191. Ralph, the first prior, and his successors, were exempt ...
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