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212 HISTORY OF
of this name both in the counties of Lincoln and Suffolk : but as Kyrton is the
name of a place in each of these provincial divisions, in both of which the abbey-
had lands, and as their arms agree respectively with those of the abbot*, it is not
possible, without more decided information, to determine in which of them he
was born.
He assumed the habit in this monastery about the year 1403-f-; was head
or prior of the Benedictine scholars at Gloucester Hall, now Worcester College,
in Oxford, in 14231, and was held in respect and consideration by those of
his order.
He was advanced to this dignity some time between May 27 and August 20,
1440; but of the precise date of his elevation, or the mode of his appointment,
no traces now remain. He was esteemed an excellent divine, and is said to have
added to his reputation by the sermons which he preached before Pope Martin V.
He also revisited the court of Rome in 1437, being sent thither by the university
of Oxford, with one Phillip Norreys, head of a hall there, who had been
irregularly cited to appear before Pope Eugenius IV. §
This abbot resigned his office October 23, 1462, from the same cause as his
predecessor; old age and infirmities. He received an annual pension of two hun-
dred marks during his life, which he enjoyed about four years, as he died in Octo-
ber 1466, and was buried in St. Andrew's chapel; the screen of which he had
enriched with ornamental decorations, consisting of birds, flowers, and cherubim,
carved in wood, and varied with the arms, devices, and mottos of several of the
• A chevron gules between three cross crosslets, gules, in a field argent,
t Archives of the Church.
% He gave books to the library of this college, some of which, with his name prefixed, Anthony
Wood states to have been in the university in his time.
% Wood's Historia Academics, Oxon.
of this name both in the counties of Lincoln and Suffolk : but as Kyrton is the
name of a place in each of these provincial divisions, in both of which the abbey-
had lands, and as their arms agree respectively with those of the abbot*, it is not
possible, without more decided information, to determine in which of them he
was born.
He assumed the habit in this monastery about the year 1403-f-; was head
or prior of the Benedictine scholars at Gloucester Hall, now Worcester College,
in Oxford, in 14231, and was held in respect and consideration by those of
his order.
He was advanced to this dignity some time between May 27 and August 20,
1440; but of the precise date of his elevation, or the mode of his appointment,
no traces now remain. He was esteemed an excellent divine, and is said to have
added to his reputation by the sermons which he preached before Pope Martin V.
He also revisited the court of Rome in 1437, being sent thither by the university
of Oxford, with one Phillip Norreys, head of a hall there, who had been
irregularly cited to appear before Pope Eugenius IV. §
This abbot resigned his office October 23, 1462, from the same cause as his
predecessor; old age and infirmities. He received an annual pension of two hun-
dred marks during his life, which he enjoyed about four years, as he died in Octo-
ber 1466, and was buried in St. Andrew's chapel; the screen of which he had
enriched with ornamental decorations, consisting of birds, flowers, and cherubim,
carved in wood, and varied with the arms, devices, and mottos of several of the
• A chevron gules between three cross crosslets, gules, in a field argent,
t Archives of the Church.
% He gave books to the library of this college, some of which, with his name prefixed, Anthony
Wood states to have been in the university in his time.
% Wood's Historia Academics, Oxon.