2  Ibid.  torn.  i.  fol.  88.
32  ON    THE    ABBEY   OF

to  receive  in  any  fit  place  within  the  diocese,  the  abbatial
benediction  from  the  hands  of  any  Catholic  Bishop  having
the  grace  and  favour  of  the  Apostolic  See.1  On  the  29th
of  August  of  the  same  year  (1344),  John  de  Trillek  was
consecrated  Bishop  of  Hereford,  in  the  Abbey  church,
by  Ralph  de  Stratford,  Bishop  of  London,-  assisted  by
the  Bishops  of  Winchester,  Sarum,  and  Worcester.2  The
Abbot  of  Waverley  fell  a  victim  to  the  plague  in  1349,
which  also  carried  off  several  of  the  monks  and  servants
of  the  monastery.3

JOHN  was  also  the  name  of  his  successor.  On  Sunday,
the  24th  of  May,  1349,  in  the  episcopal  chapel  of  Esher,
he  was  solemnly  blessed  as  Abbot  by  Bishop  William  de
Edyndon,3  and  made  the  usual  profession  of  obedience
to  the  Bishop  : — "  I,  Brother  John,  elected  to  rule  the
monastery  of  Waverley,  of  the  Cistercian  Order,  in  the
diocese  of  Winchester,  and  after  the  manner  of  my  pre-

1  Licencia  quod  abbas  de  Waverleye  posset  munus  benedictionis  re-
cipere  a  quocunque  episcopo.     ADAM,   permissione  divina,  Wintoniensis
episcopus,  religiose  viro  filio  in  Christo  dilecto  domino  Johanni,  abbati
monasterii  de  Waverleye,  Cisterciencis  ordinis,  nostra?  dicecesis,  salutem,
gratiam  et  benedictionem.     Ut  a  quocunque   episcopo  catholico,  sedis
apostolica?  gratiam  et  sui  executionem  officii  optinente,  in  quocunque,
idoneo  loco  nostrse  dioecesis,  munus  benedictionis  recipere  licite  valeatis ;
vobis  et  eidem  episcopo  hujusmodi  benedictionem  vobis  impendere  et
manus  imponere  volenti,  liberam  tenore  praBsentium  concedinms  facul-
tatem.     Data   apud  Farnham,   xiiij.  die   mensis  Maii,    anno   Domini
moccc^oxliiij10  etnostraB  translationis  xjmo. — Ibid.  fol.  125  b.
