Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ard, and we should feel safe only in ascribing therebuilding of the monastery to the reign of King John. This coincides with the life and doings of Walter deLaci III. and Hugh III., his son, whom we find grantingcharters and many more lands to the ancestral married Mary, daughter of William de Breose, ofBrecknock, and died in 1241. We therefore become, firstsaware of the tendency to a great revival of Lantony Prima;next, we find ample evidence demonstrating a magnificentrebuilding and re-endowment of it; an
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ard, and we should feel safe only in ascribing therebuilding of the monastery to the reign of King John. This coincides with the life and doings of Walter deLaci III. and Hugh III., his son, whom we find grantingcharters and many more lands to the ancestral married Mary, daughter of William de Breose, ofBrecknock, and died in 1241. We therefore become, firstsaware of the tendency to a great revival of Lantony Prima;next, we find ample evidence demonstrating a magnificentrebuilding and re-endowment of it; and the Cottonian us that in the time of the eighth Prior, Mathew (orperhaps at his accession in 1203), there really occurred a Repartitio utriusque Llanthonias, or Renaissance ofthe elder Convent on a basis of complete independence ofthe daughter at Gloucester. This is a most critical point in the history of bothConvents, and the student of Gloucestershire History, (ifI may venture to judge by my own humble experience,) has1 Cf. Ashes Collection, fol. THE WEST FRONT OF OLD LANTONY
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