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glQ HISTORY OF
Ecce Radulphus ita Selby jacet hie caenobita,
Doctor per merita, praepotens lege perita:
Legibus ornatus, a regibus et veneratus:
Ordo, ejusque status per eum conciliatus.
M. C. quater X. bis post partnrn Virginis iste
Micliaelis festo tibi spiravit, bone Christe.
About the year 1401, died Richard de Cirencestre, who became a monk of
Westminster about the middle of the reign of Edward III. He is known by a
history or chronicle of his composing, from the year 449, or the first invasion of
the Saxons, to the year 1348, and which has never been printed. He also wrote
a brief commentary on the situation of Britain, and the Roman stations in it.
He was likewise a commentator on the Nicene and the Apostles' creed, a work
whose actual existence is very doubtful.
William Sudbury, another monk of this house, during the abbacy of De
Colchester, formed tables and indexes to Lyra and Thomas Aquinas.
RICHARD HARWEDEN.
He derived his name, it seems, from a place in the county of Northampton;
and was received as a monk about the year 1398, and afterwards discharged
several of its annual offices*. The care of the buildings of the monaster)*" had
likewise been entrusted to him for several years, under the title of Gustos novi
operis. He was also one of the treasurers appointed to receive the money given
by Henry V. for the purpose of rebuilding the west part of the abbey, which had
been left unaltered when Henry III. rebuilt the choir or east part of the church.
It is not improbable that his assiduity and upright conduct in these offices might
* The Archives of the Church.
Ecce Radulphus ita Selby jacet hie caenobita,
Doctor per merita, praepotens lege perita:
Legibus ornatus, a regibus et veneratus:
Ordo, ejusque status per eum conciliatus.
M. C. quater X. bis post partnrn Virginis iste
Micliaelis festo tibi spiravit, bone Christe.
About the year 1401, died Richard de Cirencestre, who became a monk of
Westminster about the middle of the reign of Edward III. He is known by a
history or chronicle of his composing, from the year 449, or the first invasion of
the Saxons, to the year 1348, and which has never been printed. He also wrote
a brief commentary on the situation of Britain, and the Roman stations in it.
He was likewise a commentator on the Nicene and the Apostles' creed, a work
whose actual existence is very doubtful.
William Sudbury, another monk of this house, during the abbacy of De
Colchester, formed tables and indexes to Lyra and Thomas Aquinas.
RICHARD HARWEDEN.
He derived his name, it seems, from a place in the county of Northampton;
and was received as a monk about the year 1398, and afterwards discharged
several of its annual offices*. The care of the buildings of the monaster)*" had
likewise been entrusted to him for several years, under the title of Gustos novi
operis. He was also one of the treasurers appointed to receive the money given
by Henry V. for the purpose of rebuilding the west part of the abbey, which had
been left unaltered when Henry III. rebuilt the choir or east part of the church.
It is not improbable that his assiduity and upright conduct in these offices might
* The Archives of the Church.