Note 245 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES (continued 3)

So, during a vacancy at Abbotsbury under Henry I, 'cum Rogerus Episcopus habuit custodiam Abbatiæ, duas hidas, ad maritandam quandam neptem suam, dedit N. de M., contradicente conventu Ecclesiæ'.245 Henry of Winchester has left us a similar record of the action of his predecessors at Glastonbury.246 His narrative is specially valuable for the light it throws on the power of subsequent revocation, perhaps in cases where the corporate body had protested at the time against the grant. Of this we have a striking instance in the grants of Abbot Æthelwig of Evesham, almost all of which, we read, were revoked by his successor.247 Parallel rather to the cases of Middleton and Abbotsbury (vide cartas) would be the action of William Rufus during the Canterbury vacancy.248