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30 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING: vol. iv.
II.
Kal. Marti i feria sexta convocavit. Manifesta
proceres suos quinto
^^^^a'^f^^^ ^^^^ causa et ad omnibus collaudata, cum eis ad ecclesiam B. Petri
MILLS apostoli adiit, ibique se abbatium constructurum palam testibus
'- multis devovit, totumque suburbium quod extra portam orientalem
1. Foundation, situm est, Sancto Petro donavit, et super aram per cirothecas suas
1083. donationem posuit.
Eodem anno Sagienses monachi Reinaldus et Frodo primitus
illuc convenerunt et monachilis officinas Odelerio et Guarino aliisque
multus adjuventibus condere coeperunt.
Primus abbas illius monasterii Gulielmo Rufo regnante eloquens
Fulcheredus fuit.
A new monastery at the east gate of his own [baronial] town,
Shrewsbury that is, in honour of St. Peter, principal of the
apostles, he, Earl Roger, purposed erecting on the border of the
stream called Mola, where it flows into the Severn.
Accordingly, in the year of the incarnation of our Lord one
thousand and eighty-three, the fourth indiction,* Roger, encouraged
by his faithful counsellors, that he might fitly verify his purpose,
convened Warine the sheriff, Picote of Seez [in Normandy],
and others of his nobles on the 5th-6th calends of March
[March 3-4].
of all when he
His object was made
went with them to the
manifest to the applause
church of St. Peter the
apostle, where publicly, in the presence of many witnesses, he
vowed to construct the abbey, and gave to St. Peter's the whole
of the suburb outside the east gate of the city ; laying his gloves in
testimony upon the altar.
The same year Reinaldus and Fredus, monks from Seez, first met
there and Odelerius and ;
Guarin, with many others, able workmen,
began to build the monastic offices.
The first abbot of the monastery was the eloquent Fulchard, of
the reign of William Rufus.
The only items in the foregoing account now needing
mention are such as will be found pertinent to this
enquiry.
The abbey was founded near the junction
of the Mola, i.e. the mill-brook, and the Severn in
1083, and the erection of the monastery
was com-
menced in the same year ; the abbey being opened
under the first abbot in the reign of William II., viz.
in 1087. Odelerius, one of the monks who began
the building operations, was the father of Ordericus,
our historian.
The next source of information is Domesday. The
* Ordericus makes a clerical error in terming this the fourth indiction year, as
that would be 1081 j the year 1083 being the sixth indiction.