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Tinterne Abbey on the Wye.

Sudden the change; at once to tread
The grass-grown mansions of the dead.
Awful to feeling, where, immense,
Rose ruin'd grey magnificence;
The fair wrought shaft all ivy-bound,
The tow'ring arch with foliage crowned,
That trembles on its brow sublime,
Triumphant o'er the spoils of time.
There, grasping all the eye beheld,
Thought into mingling anguish swell'd,
And checked the wild excursive wing,
O'er dust or bones of priest or king;

Or rais'd some Strongbow warrior's ghost,
To shout before his banner'd host.

But all was still. The chequered floor
Shall echo to the step no more;

No airy roof the strain prolong,

Of vesper chant or choral song

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Forgive me, abbey of the watered vale―
Forgive that, when I feel my spirit swell
With an unwonted energy, I fail
To hymn thy desolated glories well!
Not yet the chrysalis has burst its shell-

Not yet expanded its immortal wings;
The restless rudiments of vast powers tell

The soul a deathless thing; from earth she springs,
But fast and feebly falls, the while of thee she sings.

J. C. Earle, St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford,

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Appendir.

Or the Abbots of Tinterne the historical notices are very scanty. The following occur in the "Parliamentary Writs," by Sir Francis Palgrave :—* A.D. 1294.—Abbas de Tynterne is summoned to a council of the clergy, to

be held before the King in person, at Westminster, on the Feast of St. Matthías the Apostle, on the twenty-first day of September, and twenty-second of Edward I. Again

1295.—The Abbas de Tynterne is summoned to Parliament at Westminster, on Sunday next after the feast of St. Martín, thirteenth day of October, and twenty-third year of the reign of Edward I., prorogued to Sunday next, before the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, the twenty-seventh of November. Thirdly

1296.-Summoned to Parliament at Bury St. Edmund's, on the morrow of All-Souls, November the third day, and twenty-fourth year of the reign of Edward I.

1300.-Abbas de Tynterne-Letter of Credence addressed to him concerning the expedition against the Scots-at Blith, the seventeenth day of January, and twenty-eighth year of the reign of Edward I. Again, the same year, the abbot was summoned to Parliament in London, on the second Sunday in Lent, being the sixth day of March. 1301.—Abbas de Tynterne is summoned to Parliament at Líncoln—in eight days of St. Hilary—the twentieth day of January, and twentyeighth year of the reign aforesaid.

1305.-Summoned to Parliament at Westminster, on Tuesday, in fifteen days

of the Purification, the sixteenth of February; afterwards prorogued to Sunday next, after the Feast of St. Matthías the Apostle, the twenty-eighth day of February-but to which he was not resummoned and thirty-third year of the reign of Edward I.

1316.-Abbas de Tynterne, certified pursuant to writ, tested at Clipston, March the fifth, as one of the lords of the township of Acle,† in the county of Norfolk, in the ninth year of the reign of Edward II.

* Published by order of Parliament, 1827.

+ Acle, or Oakley, eleven miles east from Norwich, and situated near the Bure, on grounds which rise sud

denly from the marshes below. The church, dedicated

to St. Edmund, is a rectory, value £20.

1316.-Johannes de Tynterne, certified in like manner, as holding part of the burgh of Lyme-Regis, in the county of Dorset, in the ninth year of the reign of Edward II.

The following is the original document referred to in various passages of the foregoing articles on Chepstow and Tinterne :

Genealogia Fundatoris (Ex MS. Codice in Bibl. Cottoniana [sub Effigie Vitellii, F. 4], fol. 7).

Gunnora Comitissa Normanniæ duas habuit sorores, una Turulpho de Ponte-Adamaro conjuncta erat in matrimonio, et procreavit Humfríðum de Vetulis qui fuit pater Rogerí de Bellomonte, ex quo comites de Warwike et Leicestriæ processerunt.

Turketillus fuit frater istius Turulphi, cujus filius Hasculfus de Harecurt aliam sororem predictæ Comitissæ Gunnoræ con erat duos procreavit filios; scilicet alterum de Giffard, primogenitum, qui alium Walterum procreavit, et dictus fuit Walterius Giffard secundus. Rohesia, una sororum Walteri (duas plures enim habuit) conjuncta in matrimonio Ricardo filio comitis Gislebertí, qui in re militari, tempore Conquestoris omnes sui temporis magnates præcessit. Prædicta Rohesia supervixit et renupta Eudoní, dapifero Regis Nomanniæ qui construxit castrum Colecestriæ, cum cœnobio, in honore Sancti Johannis, ubi sepultus fuit, cum conjuge sua, tempore Henrici primi. Margareta filia eorum nupta fuit Williclmo de Mandevill, et fuit mater Gaufredi filii comitis Essexiæ et jure matris, Normanniæ dapifer. Prædictus Ricardus apud sanctum Neotum jacet sepultus. Huic rex Willielmus concessit baroniam De Clare, villam verò cum castello de Tunbridge, de Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, pro aliis terris in Normannia, perquisivit in excambium. Baldwinus, frater istius Ricardi, Willielmum, Robertum, et Ricardum, cum tribus sororibus genuit. Ex prædicta Rohesia hanc sobolem procreavit Ricardus, Rogerus natu secundus terras patris sui in Normannia adeptus est; Walterus dominium Wenciæ inferioris, in Wallia, qui construxit Abbatiam de Tinterna, anno Domini MCXXXI; obiit sine prole.*

The Deed, by which the privileges originally granted by the founders were confirmed and completed by Roger Bigod, after the lapse of a hundred and seven years, is expressed in the following terms:

Rogerus le Bygod Comes Norfolciæ, et Mareschallus Angliæ, Salutem in

Monast. ii. 724, v. 269.

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