[189], 9. Abbot of Cluny. This was Hugh, Abbot of Reading from 1180 to 1199, when he was appointed Abbot of Cluny. Much information about him may be found in Dr. J. B. Hurry's admirable History of Reading Abbey, 1901, whence the following note as to precedence is taken: "Sir Henry Englefield (Archaeologia, vol. vi. p. 61) states that the Abbot of Reading took precedence after the Abbots of Glastonbury and St. Albans. But it is probable that no such definite order was observed.... In the Articles of Faith under Convocation, 28 Henry VIII., the following is the order of signatures—St. Albans, Westminster, St. Edmunds Bury, Glastonbury, Reading."
CHAPTER XVI.
[190], 6. Numbers xi. 26.
[191], 1. When the Prior died. Mr. Rokewode assigns Robert's death to 1200, perhaps because the narrative of the election of his successor follows in the Chronicle the account of the visit to the monastery of Hugh, Abbot of Cluny.
[192], 9. Proverbs xix. 11.
[193], 19. Deut. xvii. 8.
[196], 19. [Herbert] the new prior. This election seems to have taken place in 1200. After Samson's death in 1211, Herbert had a great deal of anxiety arising out of King John's refusal to accept the choice of Hugh II. (then Prior of Westminster and afterwards Bishop of Ely) as Abbot; and the narrative of the Electio Hugonis takes up 102 pages of Mr. Arnold's vol. ii. Herbert died in September, 1220, and was succeeded as Prior by Richard of Insula (afterwards 12th Abbot).
[197], 20. Acts xxvi. 24.
[197], 23. Nihil omne parte beatum. Hor. Odes, i. 16.
[198], 7. Exitus acta probabit. Ovid, Heroides, ii. 85.