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fhe feems to have made every provifion for the payment of the
fum ftipulated within the appointed time ; and to have felt much
anxiety left her death, or the negledt of her executors or afligns,
might fruftrate her intentions.— “ Et li contingat me in folucione
“ predicte pecunie annis prediftis in parte aut in toto deficere,
“ quod ablit; concedo et obligo pro me et aflignatis meis, quod
“ Vice-Comes - - - Oxon et ---- - qui pro tempore fuerint, per omnes
“ terras et tenementa, et omnia bona mea mobilia et immobilia
“ ubicunque in balliva fuafuerint inventa ad folucionem predi&am
“ facienclam poflent nos compellere.” And again— “ Et ft con-
“ tingat diclos religiofos labores feu expenfas facere circa pre-
“ diftam pecuniam, feu circa partem dicte pecunie; volo quod
“ diftorum religioforum impenfe et labores levantur ita quod pre-
“ diclo priori vel uni canonicorum fuorum fuperhiis fimplici
“ verbo credaturline alterius honere probacionis; et quod utrique
“ prediftorum virorum in unam marcam argenti pro cujuflibet
“ diftrincione fuper me facienda tenear. — Dat. apud Wareborn die
“ fabati proxima ante feftum St. Marti evangelifte, anno regni regis
“ Edwardi tertio decimo
But the reader perhaps would wifh to be better informed refpect-
ing this benefadtrefs, of whom as yet he has heard no particulars.
The Ela Longfpee therefore^above-mentioned w‘as a lady of high
birth and rank, and became countefs to Thomas de Newburgh-, tire
fixth earl of Warwick: fhe was the fecond daughter 6f the famous
Ela Longfpee countefs of Salijbury, by William Longfpee, natural fon
of king Henry II. by Rofamond.
* Ancient deeds are often dated on a Sunday, having been executed in churches
and church-yards for the fake of notoriety, and for the conveniency of procuring feveral
witnefles to atted.
Our
Our lady, following the fteps of her illuftrious mother“, “ was
“ a great benefadtrefs to the univerfity of Oxford, to the canons
“ of Ofeney, the nuns of Godfow, and other religious houfes in
“ Oxfordjhire. She died very aged in the year 1300*, and was
“ buried before the high altar in the abbey church of Ofeney,
“ at the head of the tomb of Henry D ’Oily, under a flat marble,
“ on which was inlaid her portraiture, in the habit of a vowefs,
“ engraved on a copper-plate.” I-------- jj Edmondfon’s Hijlory and
Genealogical Account of the Grevilles, p. 23.
n Ela Longfpee, countefs. of Salijbury, in 123» founded a monaftery at Lacock, in
the county of Wilts, and alfo another at Hendon, in the county of Somerfet, in her widowhood,
to the honour of the Blefled Virgin and St. Bernard. Camden.
x Thus ftie furvived the foundation of her chantry at Selborne fifteen years. About
this lady and her mother confult Dugdale's Baronage, I. 7a, 175,177.—— Dugdale's War-
wicjtfhire, I. i% i}---Leland's I tin. II, 45.