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Rh to sign, it would prove very little against them, and over against it may be set not only Dr. London's approval of the house which might be a poor compliment but the favourable report of the local commissioners. The abbot received a pension of 40; the cellarer, 6; the rest, eight in number, 5 6s. 8d. each; and the old abbot, Richard Benet, apparently kept his original pension of twenty marks. One of the monks, Richard Taylor of Northampton, was still living in 1552 as Vicar of Thornborough, and had never married.

The original endowment of the abbey included the vill of Biddlesden, 5 virgates in Whitfield, and the manor of Maryland in Syresham, Northants, as well as the advowson of half the church of Houghton, Northants, with lands and a mill in the same parish. The manors of Charwelton and Preston Capes in Northants were granted by William and Ralf de Cheinduit at the end of the twelfth century ; the manor of Boycott, Oxon, was the property of the abbey early in the thirteenth. In 1379 the church of Ebrington, Gloucestershire, was granted to the monks by William la Zouche of Harringworth in memory of his kinsman, William de Bosco ; and Sir Richard Corbett relinquished his rights in the same church on condition that a certain number of masses should be said for his soul. In 1284 the Abbot of Biddlesden held three fourths of a knight's fee in Dodford and a share in one half of Thornborough ; in 1302 he was returned as holding Dodford and Stowe with the Abbot of Osney, and half the village of Evershaw ; in 1316 his lands were the same as in 1 302, with the addition of one third of Thornborough. In 1291 the temporalities of the abbey amounted to £66 9s. $3d. The Valor Ecclesiasticus estimates its revenues at £125 4s. 3d. ; the local commissioners in 1536 at 130 4_r. $d. or £138 7s. 6d. ; the Ministers' Accounts of 1538 at £164 1s. 7d., including the manors of Boycott, Oxon, and Dodford, Bucks, with Charwelton, Preston and Gorall, Northants; and the church of Ebrington.

{{c|{{sc|List of Abbots}} Richard, occurs 1151 Alexander, occurs 1157 and 1166 Richard, died 1192 William, deposed 1198 Adam of Bath, elected 1198, occurs till 1209 Maurice, occurs 1219 and 1222 Henry, occurs 1226, died 1228 Thomas, occurs 1230 and 1232 Giffard, resigned 1236 Walter, occurs 1238 and 1240 Henry Mallore, occurs 1241 Philip, occurs 1245 to 1250 William, occurs 1254 to 1257 Roger, occurs 1259 and 1262 William Bisham, occurs from 1264 to 1286 {{smallrefs}} {{c|367}}