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186 HISTORY OF
relate, that afterwards certain inhabitants of London gave a yearly rent to the
value of fifty-six pounds, and that eight brothers, consisting of six chaplains and
two laymen, were added to perform divine and other service for those afflicted
women.
In the year 1335, Henley obtained a licence from the king to be absent from
the monastery for seven years, in order to pursue his studies at Oxford; but the
particular reasons which induced him to apply for the licence, or the advantages
which he derived from it, are no where mentioned.
In the year 1338, he was chosen one of the presidents of the Benedictines at
their triennial chapter held at Northampton*.
He remitted to the monastery nine dishes of meat, six conventual loaves, and
three flaggons of beer, which were used to be daily furnished for the abbot's table
when he was at Westminster or the manor-house of Neyte; as also thirty pieces
of oak timber yearly from the wood at Hendon. He likewise gave a costly pas-
toral staff, or crosier, to add to the ceremonial state of the abbot.
He died at Oxford, October 29, 1344, and was brought from thence to the
abbey, where he was buried on the fourth day of the succeeding month, under
the lower part of the pavement, before the high altar-j-. The epitaph, such as it is,
-describes him as a man of many virtues.
Hie Abbas Thomas Henle jacet, aspicito mors.
Petre, pater Romae, memor csto tui, rogo, Thomas
Fratres jure regens, sacram vitam, scio, degens ;
Verax sermone fuit, et plenus ratione,
Auxilians vere genti, quam vidit egere.
Quos sanctos scivit monachos, lios semper adivit;
Alque sibi talcs monachos fecit speciales,
Rex et magnates laudant ejus bonitatcs.
* Rcyner de Antiq. Bcnedictorum Anglice.
t Flete.
relate, that afterwards certain inhabitants of London gave a yearly rent to the
value of fifty-six pounds, and that eight brothers, consisting of six chaplains and
two laymen, were added to perform divine and other service for those afflicted
women.
In the year 1335, Henley obtained a licence from the king to be absent from
the monastery for seven years, in order to pursue his studies at Oxford; but the
particular reasons which induced him to apply for the licence, or the advantages
which he derived from it, are no where mentioned.
In the year 1338, he was chosen one of the presidents of the Benedictines at
their triennial chapter held at Northampton*.
He remitted to the monastery nine dishes of meat, six conventual loaves, and
three flaggons of beer, which were used to be daily furnished for the abbot's table
when he was at Westminster or the manor-house of Neyte; as also thirty pieces
of oak timber yearly from the wood at Hendon. He likewise gave a costly pas-
toral staff, or crosier, to add to the ceremonial state of the abbot.
He died at Oxford, October 29, 1344, and was brought from thence to the
abbey, where he was buried on the fourth day of the succeeding month, under
the lower part of the pavement, before the high altar-j-. The epitaph, such as it is,
-describes him as a man of many virtues.
Hie Abbas Thomas Henle jacet, aspicito mors.
Petre, pater Romae, memor csto tui, rogo, Thomas
Fratres jure regens, sacram vitam, scio, degens ;
Verax sermone fuit, et plenus ratione,
Auxilians vere genti, quam vidit egere.
Quos sanctos scivit monachos, lios semper adivit;
Alque sibi talcs monachos fecit speciales,
Rex et magnates laudant ejus bonitatcs.
* Rcyner de Antiq. Bcnedictorum Anglice.
t Flete.