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heads of the Order to a Parliament which he held ut Lincoln, and then threatened to have them trodden to death beneath the horses of his attendants. But during the following night the king was visited with a feai-fiil dream, which diverted him from his cruel pin-pose. It seemed to him that he was led before a certain judge, around whom the Cister- cian Abbots were standing in order, and the judge having heard their complaint, ordered the Abbots to inflict a severe scourging nj)Ou the royal back. This they did; and when the king awoke the next morning he declared that he still suffered from the effects of the punishment. " ' This dream he related to a certain ecclesiastic of the court, who assured him that the Almighty had been above measure merciful to him, who had tiiougiit fit to afford this paternal correction to him, — and advised him inuncdiately to send for the Abbots, to express his sorrow, and to make them restitution. This accordingly he did. He granted them a charter for a new Abbey, and he endowed it with a large tract of land in the New Forest (900u acres), declaring that he had done BO by the Divine suggestion. He also endowed it with the manors of Great and Little Farringdon, in Berkshire, Great and Little Coxwell, and several other lands and possessions. He also directed his treasurer to pay one hundred marks towards the building of the Abbey, and issued an order to all Cistercian houses to contribute their help towards the same object.' "The church, as appears by the Waverley Annals, was completed in 1227, but the solemn dedication did not take place till 12G4, when, on the nativity of St. J(jlm Baptist, the whole Abbey and church was conse- crated with great pomp, in the jiresence of King Henry III., his queen (Eleanor of Provence), P]dward Prince of Wales, Richard Flantagenet^ Eiirl of Cornwall, KiiKj of the Romam, together with many prelates and nobles; the Bishops of Winch'ester, Worcester, and Lichfield; William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, Gilbert de Clare, De Vere, Bohun, and Bigod. "The King, it is said was so gratified with the si)lendour of the Dedication Feast, that he remitted a considerable fine, w hich the Abbot had incun-ed by a tresjjass in the Aew Forest. " No sooner (proceeds the Chronicler) had the solemn dedication been comjJete than Kichard Earl of Cornwall took thirteen monks from the bosom of this church to found a monastery of Hales Owen, near Winch- combe, in Worcestershire. "This was not the first migration that took place from Beaulieu, for King Henry III. had ])reviously transferred a convent of thirteen monks from thence and e.stal)lished them at Netley Abbey, which he then founded upon the banks of the Southampton Water. "A third migration again took place from Beaulieu, a.d. 1246, when John de Ponti, ]irior of Beaulieu, started, with twelve followers, to found the abbey of Newenham, in Devonshire, as rect>rded in the Waverley Annals: * Hoc anno fundata fuit Abbatia do Newenham Filia Tertia Belli Loci Re</is.' " The first ])ei-8on of distim tion destined to receive interment in the Abbey was Isabella, wife of iiichard, King of the Komans. She was daughter of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, and the widow of Gilbert de Clare. Hollinshed tells us that Earl Kichani gi-eatly 'lamented her loss, and liouourably buried his wife at Bellaud of Beau-