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 some brief interpolations as far as 1119; the final part, from 1119 to 1129, is an original composition. The ‘Historia Regum’ was afterwards continued by John of Hexham [q. v.] In addition to these two works, Bale attributes to Simeon: 1. ‘De Obsessione Dunelmi et de probitate Uchtredi Comitis.’ 2. ‘Epistola ad Hugonem Decanum Eboracensem de Archiepiscopis Eboraci.’ 3. ‘Epistolæ’ addressed to Elmer, prior of Christ Church. These letters have not survived. Simeon may also possibly be the author of the latter part of the treatise ‘De Miraculis et Translationibus Cuthberti’ (, Præf. vol. i. pp. xxx–xxxii). All Simeon's writings, together with some shorter pieces in continuation of his ‘Chronicles,’ or used by him in their preparation, were printed by Twysden in his ‘Scriptores Decem.’ The ‘Historia Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis’ was edited by Thomas Bedford, London, 1732. Mr. Hodgson Hinde edited all but the ‘Historia Dunelmensis,’ together with other ‘Collectanea,’ for the Surtees Society (vol. li. 1868). The first portion of the ‘Historia Regum’ is printed in the ‘Monumenta Historica Britannica.’ Simeon's complete works, with other ‘Collectanea’ and continuations, have been edited by Mr. Thomas Arnold for the Rolls Series in 2 vols. London, 1882, 1885.

[Authorities quoted; Arnold's Prefaces in Rolls Series, and Hinde's Preface in Surtees Soc.; Wright's Biogr. Brit. Litt. ii. 101–3; Hardy's Descriptive Cat. Brit. Hist. ii. 77.]  SIMEON STOCK, (1165?–1265), general of the Carmelite friars, is said to have been born in Kent of noble parents about 1165. From his earliest years he was devoted to religion, and, according to the legend, owed his surname to the fact that from his twelfth year he lived a hermit's life in the trunk or stock of a tree for twenty years. In 1201 he is alleged to have entered the Carmelite order, and afterwards to have studied at Oxford, graduating as bachelor in theology. In 1215 he became vicar-general of the order in the west, and on 30 Jan. 1226 obtained from Honorius III a confirmation of the Albertine rule, which was renewed by Gregory IX on 6 April 1229. Afterwards Simeon went to Palestine, and was present at the general meeting of the order in 1237, when the migration to the west was determined on. Simeon came to England with Alan the general in 1244, and at a chapter held at Aylesford in the following year was chosen sixth general of the order in succession to Alan. As general he obtained a revision of the Carmelite rule from Innocent IV in 1248. He died at Bordeaux on 16 May 1265. In 1276 Nicholas III sanctioned the celebration of mass in Simeon's honour in the Carmelite church at Bordeaux. The privilege was extended to all the churches of the order by Paul V. St. Simeon Stock is famous as the propagator of the ‘scapular,’ a garment consisting of two woollen bands worn over the shoulders—a peculiar distinction of his order, which is said to have been revealed to him by the Virgin in a vision in 1251, with the assurance that no one who died wearing it could be lost. The legend was contested by Launoy, the famous French theologian in the seventeenth century, who asserted that it was not to be found before John Palæonydorus, who wrote about 1480. The legend seems to be of older date than this, and possibly originated in the fourteenth century; but the ascription of it to Peter Swaynton, a disciple and contemporary of Simeon Stock, is not well founded. Simeon is credited with having written: 1. ‘Canones cultus divini.’ 2. ‘Homiliæ ad populum.’ 3. ‘De Christiana pœnitentia,’ inc. ‘Amos super Tribus sceleribus.’ 4. ‘Epistolæ ad fratres.’ 5. ‘Ad Christoparam Virginem Antiphonæ,’ inc. ‘Ave Stella Matutina.’ His writings are of little extent and less importance.

[Bale's Heliades in Harl. MSS. 1819 ff. 98, 129–32, and 3838 ff. 10–19, 54–5, and Centuriæ, iv. 7; Tanner's Bibl. Brit.-Hib. pp. 673–4; Launoy's De Simeonis Stockii Viso et … de Scapularis Sodalitate, Paris, 1653; Villiers de St. Etienne's Bibl. Carmelitana, ii. 750–61; Bollandists' Acta Sanctorum, Maii iii. 653–4, 762; Hist. Littéraire de la France, xix. 66–8.]  SIMEON (d. 1296), historian, became a Benedictine monk at St. Mary's, York, and in 1258 was elected abbot, receiving the temporalities on 25 July. In 1269 he obtained the forestry of Farindale Forest from the king, and in 1270 began the rebuilding of the choir of his abbey church. He died on 6 July 1296. Simeon wrote ‘Historia Cœnobii sui’ and ‘De regula patris Benedicti.’ Both are contained in Bodleian MS. 1892. An edition of Simeon's ‘Annals,’ with extracts from the ‘Chartularies of St. Mary's, York,’ has long been projected by the Surtees Society.

[Leland's Collectanea, i. 23–4; Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum, iii. 538; Tanner's Bibl. Brit.-Hib. p. 673.]  SIMEON, CHARLES (1759–1836), divine, the fourth son of Richard Simeon (d. 1784) of Reading, by Elizabeth Hutton, was born at Reading on 24 Sept. 1759. On his father's side Simeon was descended from the Simeons of Pyrton, Oxfordshire, the