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The history of Waltham-Abby in Essex, founded by King Harold by Thomas Fuller.
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Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
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1655
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scandal to scandal to thrust them out of house and home without any means or maintenance Secondly this Charter presents us with the ancient liberties of waltham-Waltham-Church that Semper fuit Regalis Capella ex primitiva sui fundatione nulli Archiepiscopo vel Episcopo sed tantùm Ecclesiae Romanae Regiae dispositioni subjecta And though since Reformation the Church hath been subjected to the arch-Arch-Bishops jurisdiction as succeeding to the Royal power and sometimes with grumbling and reluctancy to the Episcopal power yet it never as yet owned an Arch-Deacon or appeared at his Visitation The metioning of the consent of Pope Alexander to the suppression of Rome-land in Waltham Waltham Dean and Canons and substituting Augustinians in their room mindeth me of a spacious place in this Town at the entrance of the Abby built about with houses called Rome-land as Peter-pence were termed Rome-scot at this day It is generally believed that the rents thereof peculiarly belonged to the Church of Rome Thus the Pope would not be so bad a carver as to cut all away to others and reserve no corner to himself Anno Dom. 1189 Anno Regis Ric. 1 1. King Richard the first though generally not too loving to the Clergie Fitz-Aucher setled at Copt-Hall amply confirmed his Fathers Foundation and gave Lands to Richard Fitz-Aucher in this Parish to hold them in Fee and hereditarily of the Church of Waltham-Holy-Cross This Fitz-Aucher fixed himself at Copt-Hall a stately house in the Parish Whether so called contractedly quasi Cobbing-Hall from Cobbing Anno Dom. 1226 Anno Regis Hen. 3 10. a rivolet running not far off or from two ancient and essential Turrets of that house which are coped and covered with Lead or from in my minde most probable an high and sharp Hill thus Copeland so called in Cumberland whereon the house is founded In or about this Kings Reign Hugh Nevil with the consent of Jone his Hugh Nevil a bountiful benefactor wife and John his son bestowed the Manor of Thorndon on the Monastery of Waltham of whom largely before King Henry the third to spare Court-keeping came often and lay long at Abbies so that Waltham the nearest mitred Abby to London had much of his company Being a Religious Prince great were his desires but withall necessitous small his deeds in endowing Churches However what he wanted in giving himself he supplied in confirming the gifts of others And finding it the cheapest way of benefaction to give liberties then lands he bestowed on Waltham a weekly Market and a Faire so called à feriando from peoples playing there to last seven dayes which now is divided into two but of shorter continuance the one on the third day of May the Invention the other on the fourteenth of September the Exaltation of the Cross We now have a Market on Tuesday but cannot boast of much trading Waltham Market therein Indeed there is plenty of Flesh but little Corn brought thither and Bread is the staff as of a man so of a Market Nor let us impute the thinness of Chapmen in Summer to Husbandmens having no leasure as busied in tillage Hay or harvest or in Winter to their having no pleasure to repair thither in so deep and dirty wayes seeing the plain truth is no underwood can thrive neer the droppings of so great an Oke the vicinity of London The golden Market in Leaden-Hall makes leaden Markets in all the Townes thereabouts Anno Dom. 1245 Anno Regis Hen. 3 30. In the first year that Simon was made Abbot which by exactest proportion Broils betwixt the Abbot and the Townsmen about Commons we collect to be about the thirtieth year of King Henry the third the * M. S. of Edward Stacy written as appears by character 140 years since fol. 42. men of Waltham came into the Marsh which the Abbot and his Covent formerly enjoyed as several to themselves killed four Mares worth fourty shillings sterling at least and drove away all the rest The Abbot was politickly pleased for the present not to take notice thereof The next year some men of Waltham went to the Abbot the Thursday before Easter in the name of the whole Village and demanded of him to remove his Mares and Colts out of the Marsh This the Abbot refused to do adding withal that if his Bailiffs had placed his Cattle otherwhere then they ought they might do well to have it amended yet so as to defer the matter till Tuesday after Easter Anno Dom. 1246 Anno Regis Hen. 3 31. On that Tuesday Richard Brother to the King Duke of Cornwall came The sturdiness of the Townsmen to Waltham at what time both the men and women of the Town repaired to the gate of the Abbey to receive the Abbots final answer He told them that he could not speak with them for the present as providing himself for a long journey into Lincoln-shire there to visit the Justices itinerant but by his Prior and other Canons he desired them to be patient till his return when he would mend what was to be mended Not satisfied therewith and neither respecting the spiritual holiness of the Abbot nor Temporal greatness of the Duke railed at and reviled him Then into the pasture they go and in driving out the Abbots Mares and Colts drowned three worth twenty shillings spoiled ten moe to the value of ten marks and beat their keepers who resisted them even to the shedding of bloud But after the Abbot returned from Lincoln-shire the Townsmen fearing The most guiltie first accuse they should be trounced for their riot desired a Love-day submitted themselves unto him and profered to pay him damage But next day when the performance of these promises were expected away went the Waltham-men with their wives and children to the King to London inraging him as much as in them lay against the Abbot accusing him that he would disinherit them of their right Anno Dom. 1246 Anno Regis Hen. 3 31. bring up new customes take away their Pastures and to use their own words eat them up to the bones and that he had wounded and abused some of them who stood defending their own rights Which false report was believed of many to the great disgrace of the Covent of Waltham The Abbot would not put up so great a wrong but having Episcopal The Abbot comes off conqueror power in himself proceeded to the Excommunication of the Rebellious Walthamites But the Townsmen went another way to work namely to defend their right by the Common Laws of the Realm Whereupon Stephen Fitz-Bennet Simon of the Wood William Theyden and Ralph of the Bridge in the name of all the rest implead the Abbot for appropriating their Commons to himself But in fine after many cross pleadings here too long to relate the Abbot so acquitted himself that he made both his own right and the Townsmens riot to appear who at last at the Kings-Bench were glad