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WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 135
Le Grass and Theobald, who were both priors of Hurley. Le Grass was em-
ployed abroad by the king on different occasions* : he was also, by royal recom-
mendation, elected Abbot of Evesham-)-, and afterwards promoted to the great
sealj. He died in France while he was engaged in the king's service, and
immediately after his nomination to the bishopric of Litchfield and Coventry.
Matthew Paris represents him as a man of excellent character and superior
talents§.
In the time of Abbot de Berking lived Roger Black, a monk of this mona-
stery, who was an eminent divine and a doctor in divinity of the university of
Oxford. He is memorable for the sermons which he composed, and died in the
year 1241.
* Rymer's Fcedera, torn I. p. 344.
+ Matt. Paris, p. 420.
t Ibid. p. 434, 519, 597.
% Ibid. p. 614.
Le Grass and Theobald, who were both priors of Hurley. Le Grass was em-
ployed abroad by the king on different occasions* : he was also, by royal recom-
mendation, elected Abbot of Evesham-)-, and afterwards promoted to the great
sealj. He died in France while he was engaged in the king's service, and
immediately after his nomination to the bishopric of Litchfield and Coventry.
Matthew Paris represents him as a man of excellent character and superior
talents§.
In the time of Abbot de Berking lived Roger Black, a monk of this mona-
stery, who was an eminent divine and a doctor in divinity of the university of
Oxford. He is memorable for the sermons which he composed, and died in the
year 1241.
* Rymer's Fcedera, torn I. p. 344.
+ Matt. Paris, p. 420.
t Ibid. p. 434, 519, 597.
% Ibid. p. 614.