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The Early Years of Netley Abbey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

C. A. F. Meekings  and
R. F. Hunnisett
C. A. F. Meekings
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Public Record Office, London
R. F. Hunnisett
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Public Record Office, London
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It was in broken health that Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester (1205–38), returned for the last time to England, about Michaelmas 1236. On 31 October 1236, at Rochester, he made his last testament; this was given royal acceptance and confirmation at Windsor on 4 November, in the presence of some of the executors: Ralph de Nevill, bishop of Chichester (1222–44) and chancellor (1226–44), P. archdeacon of Winchester, Luke des Roches, archdeacon (by 1228–44) of Surrey, and the versatile architect and administrator Mr. Elias de Derham (c. 1167–d. 1245). Bishop Peter rallied, to take some part in national affairs, as well as in his diocese, during die next two years. He died at his episcopal castle of Farnham on 9 June 1238 and his body was buried in his cathedral; but his heart was buried at die Cistercian abbey of Waverley, a few miles soudi-west of Farnham. In 1237 he had petitioned the Cistercian chapter general for leave to have a Cistercian monk and two lay brodiers living with him. This, the heart burial, and the notices accorded him by Waverley's annalist, reflect die private preoccupations of his last years: die founding of Cistercian houses in his native country and in his English diocese. The arrangements, unfinished at his deadi, were left to be completed by his executors, who notified die Order's chapter general at its usual mid-September meeting in 1238, when die investigating commissioners for die new foundations were appointed.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 1979 , pp. 1 - 37
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148 Ibid., 484-5.

149 Cl. R. 1251–53, 296.

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154 Stat. Cap. Cist., 1243–20.

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157 Chronica Majora, iv. 228-9, 234-5. 257; CI. R. 1242–47, 69.