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Excerpt from Compotus Rolls of the Priory of Worcester of the Xivth and Xvth Centuries
Efore examining in detail the Accounts printed in the following selection, it may be well to give a brief account of the manors and lands from which the revenues of the Priory were derived.
Most of the manors recorded in Domesday as possessions of the Church of Worcester belong to the Hundred of Oswaldslow, which seems in fact to have been created (by Charter of King Edgar 1) for the express purpose of including them within a single jurisdiction. The royalty of this Hun dred was in the hands of the Bishop, to the exclusion of all interference from the Sheriff and other officers of the King. This privilege is clearly set forth in Domesday as established by the witness of the whole shirez; and had it not been that the See was held at the time of the Conquest by an Englishman, and that Englishman Saint Wulstan, it is easy to imagine how an enterprising Norman prelate might have built up for himself upon such a foundation a great temporal lordship, such as at a later time was enjoyed by the Bishops of Ely in their island. But Saint Wulstan had no ambition of this kind; and his secular energies were fully occupied in resisting encroachments on the possessions of his Church, a struggle in which his personal character, his tried loyalty, and, not least, his long life, finally won the day.
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