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WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
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nobility. His tombstone, with the family arms engraved upon it, has survived
the intervening ages. The following lines composed his epitaph.
Pastor pacificus, subjectis vir moderatus,
Hac sub marmorea petra requiescit humatus,
Edmundus Kirton: hie quondam qui fuit abbas,
Bis denis annis cum binis connumerandis.
Sacra Scripturae doctor probus, immo probatus
Illustri stirpe de Cobildik generatus:
Coram Martino Papa proposuit iste,
Ob quod multiplices laudes habuit et honores.
Qui obiit tertio die Octobris, A. D. MCCCCLXVI.
Eleison Kurie, curando morbida mundi.
In the commencement of Kyrton's abbacy, Nicolas Ashby, a monk of West-
minster, and who had been prior from the year 1435, was made Bishop of LlandafF.
GEORGE NORWYCH.
When he succeeded to the dignity of abbot on Kyrton's resignation he was
not the prior, but one of the senior monks of Westminster. John Flete, the
historian of the abbey, and to whom all subsequent writers, who have treated
subjects connected with it, have been so much indebted, then held that office.
This abbot- managed the affairs of the monastery with such negligence and
indiscretion, and loaded it with such a weight of debt, that, alarmed at the me-
naced visitation of his conduct, which the monks were about to petition the king
to obtain*, he consented to assign over the administration of his office to the prior
and two of his monks, to retire from the abbey, and live as a pensioner in some
distant house of the Benedictine order, with a yearly allowance of one hundred
* Appendix, No. VII.
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nobility. His tombstone, with the family arms engraved upon it, has survived
the intervening ages. The following lines composed his epitaph.
Pastor pacificus, subjectis vir moderatus,
Hac sub marmorea petra requiescit humatus,
Edmundus Kirton: hie quondam qui fuit abbas,
Bis denis annis cum binis connumerandis.
Sacra Scripturae doctor probus, immo probatus
Illustri stirpe de Cobildik generatus:
Coram Martino Papa proposuit iste,
Ob quod multiplices laudes habuit et honores.
Qui obiit tertio die Octobris, A. D. MCCCCLXVI.
Eleison Kurie, curando morbida mundi.
In the commencement of Kyrton's abbacy, Nicolas Ashby, a monk of West-
minster, and who had been prior from the year 1435, was made Bishop of LlandafF.
GEORGE NORWYCH.
When he succeeded to the dignity of abbot on Kyrton's resignation he was
not the prior, but one of the senior monks of Westminster. John Flete, the
historian of the abbey, and to whom all subsequent writers, who have treated
subjects connected with it, have been so much indebted, then held that office.
This abbot- managed the affairs of the monastery with such negligence and
indiscretion, and loaded it with such a weight of debt, that, alarmed at the me-
naced visitation of his conduct, which the monks were about to petition the king
to obtain*, he consented to assign over the administration of his office to the prior
and two of his monks, to retire from the abbey, and live as a pensioner in some
distant house of the Benedictine order, with a yearly allowance of one hundred
* Appendix, No. VII.