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 184 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. the Surrender on Dec. 3, 1539, we are enabled to ascertain the real names of the subscribing parties, by comparison of the names appended to the bond with those in the list of inmates of the monastery, as enumerated in the schedule of pensions.^ During the interval of about fourteen months which had occurred since the execution of the bond, little change appears to have occurred in the establishment, and the subscribing parties, whose high-sounding names grace that document, re-appear under very ordinary and mean appellatives. This singular comparison is shown in the subjoined list, the second column comprising the names of the monks at the period of the Surrender. Signatures to the Bond, Oct. 17, 1537. Surrender, Dec. 3, 1539. RiCHARDUs Ancelmus, Ahhas. Richard Mounslow, last Abbot. Johannes Augustinus, Prior. John Hancock, Prior. WiLLELMUS OmERSLEY. WiLLIAM CrAKER. Johannes Gabriel. John Whalley. RicARDCs Angelus. Richard Freeman.* WiLLELMUS MaURUS. WiLLIAM BlOSSOM. AViLLELMUS OVERBDRY. WiLLIAM BraDLEY. Hugo Egwinus. Hugh Cowper. Ricardus Barnardus. Richard Boidon. Ricardus Martinus. Richard Parker, Georgius Leonardus. George Foo.' Johannes Anthonius. GULIELMUS HiERONYMUS. WiLLIAM TrENTHAM. Christoferus Benedictus. Christopher Chawnfdt. Walterus Aldelmus. Walter Cowper. Richardus Michahel. Richard Williams. WiLLELMUS KeNELMUS. WiLLIAM HoWARD.^ Ricardus Ambrosius. Richard Banister. One only, John Anthonius, occurs without a corresponding name in the later list. He may have died during the brief interval ; and Walter Turbot appears in the enumeration of 1539, who, it may be supposed, supplied the vacancy. It will be obser'ed that of the eighteen names appended to the bond two only are of the more usual class, taken from some locality, probably the birth-place of the individual ; these are Omersley, which may be Ombersley, a parish in Worcestershire, near Stourport ; the other is Overbury, a parish in the same county, on the confines of Gloucestershire. Amongst the saintly names thus assumed by the monks of Winchcombe, the reader Avill not fail to notice some which were specially appropriate ; not merely as that of St. Benedict, the founder of their order, but such as Egwin, the canonised founder of Evesham Abbey, not far distant, a scion of the royal race of Mercia ; he became Bishop of Worcester, A.D. 692 ; we find Aldhelm, also. Bishop of the West Saxons in the seventh century, a name cherished in local veneration ; and, above all, Kcnelm, the sainted Prince of Mercia, the son, moreover, of Kenulph, founder of the Abbey of Winchcombe, where the relics of the murdered Kenclm were subsequently enshrined, on their discovery under the thorn in Clent Cowbatch, in the adjacent county of Worcester. A. W. ' Willis, Mitred Abbeys, Addit. vol. i. p. 71. Dugd. Mon. Angl. vol. ii., p. 299, edit, by Caley. " Called Riehard Freemai'tcii, in tlie Return of 1553. ' Called George Rose, ibid. ' William Whorewood, Hid,