[156] Fosbroke, p. 246.
[157] Ibid. p. 247.
[158] Conviv. Religios.
[159] Cruditis. Fosbroke, p. 253.
[160] Mem. de Petrarque, iii. 606. Fosbroke.
[161] Fosbroke, quoting Parsons’ MSS. in the Bodl. Libr., Oxford.
[162] One of the last important occasions, on which the abbey seal of Tinterne was used, was in ratifying an instrument, whereby the abbot and convent appointed Charles, Earl of Worcester, and Henry Somerset, Lord Herbert, his son and heir apparent, chief stewards of their manor of Acle, or Oakley, in Norfolk, 6th Hen. VIII.
[163] Taylor’s Index Monasticus Pref. ap. Brit. Monach. p. 229, note.
[164] MS. Harl. 1051. Fosbroke, art. Cloister.
[165] Monachus quidam Sagiensis cænobii de cella quadam in partibus Angliæ longinquis ad aliam cellam loci ejusdem remotis in Walliæ finibus, super mare Milvordicum et Hibernicum gyrovagando discurrens, ne solus esset in via, quia, vae soli!—non socium sibi, sed sociam, elegit; ejus turpitudo, terque quaterque, turpiter deprehensa fuit. Adeo quidem, quod à Castellanis partium illarum demum captus et in carcerem missus, sociaque ipsius et confusionis causâ ribaldis exposita fuerit et garcionibus prostituta. Tales autem honores, et tales honestates ex monachis ad cellulam missis ordine monastico pervenire solent.—MSS. Cott. Tiber B. 13. ap. Fosbroke, p. 271.