Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . removed from his office in 1196. wick, county of Hants, were founded in 9 The Premonstratensian Canons of 1133. 54 DUREEORD ABBEY. twelfth century. There were probably additions to it, oralterations made subsequently; but of these the only traces Iwe now have are a few dispersed mouldings and capitalsof stone, which appear to belong to the thirteenth century,except one of a crocketed pediment apparently of a later active energy and kindness of Richard G. P. Minty, Esq.,of Petersfield, have search
Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . removed from his office in 1196. wick, county of Hants, were founded in 9 The Premonstratensian Canons of 1133. 54 DUREEORD ABBEY. twelfth century. There were probably additions to it, oralterations made subsequently; but of these the only traces Iwe now have are a few dispersed mouldings and capitalsof stone, which appear to belong to the thirteenth century,except one of a crocketed pediment apparently of a later active energy and kindness of Richard G. P. Minty, Esq.,of Petersfield, have searched out these relics, and furnished:drawings, from some of which the woodcuts are taken. Thereare also remaining the curved foliage of the boss of a vault in ihigh relief but much defaced, and the half figure of a man as a icorbel supporting a flat stone ; a large heavy stone mortar alsois lying in the garden, 16^ inches across the bowl and 12 incheshigh, in which perhaps the pepper, mustard, cumin, and othercondiments of the conventual kitchen were formerly pounded. DUREFORD ABBEY. 55. Among the early benefactors to the abbey were the suc-cessive Earls of Gloucester; Earl William (1147-1173); andhis Countess Hawysia gave it part of the moor towards Peters-field, and three acres near it, as well as freedom from toll forall their purchases of food and clothing in the market there,{quietanciam de omnibus acatis suis quwpertinent ad victum etvestitum illorum, f. 190). Their daughter Isabella and herhusband, John, Earl of Morton, afterwards king, for the sakeof holy piety (divine pietatis intuitu), confirmed this (f. 191).Earls William, Gilbert, Geoffry, and Almeric followed theexample, the latter adding the grant of a certain encroachmentbetween the abbeys assart and his own, and of a tenement inMapulderham of 16|- acres of land, pannage for ten pigs, andall the mill at Chalfuerth, with a piece of timber (unumfustum)annually from his wood to repair the mill, requiring only 1 lb,of
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