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Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the Original Charters, Royal Grants, and Donations, Many With the Seals, in Fine Preservation, Monastic Chartulary, Official, Manorial, Court Baron, Court Leet, and Rent Rolls, Registers, and Other Documents: Constituting the Muniments of Battle Abbey, Founded by King William the Conqueror, to Perpetuate the Memorable Battle of Hastings and the Conquest of England; Comprising, Also, a Great Mass of Papers Relating to the Family of Browne
I Sir William Burrell, in his Manuscript Collections for Sussex, says the Parish of Battle, before the Conquest, was called the Parish of S. Mary in the Wood; but William the Conqueror, when he built and endowed the Abbey, exempted that Parish from Episcopal jurisdiction, and made the Incumbent, afterwards called the Dean, receive institution and induction from the Abbot; by a composition between whom, and the Bishop of Chichester, the latter was to grant the Dean a licence to enter upon the cure of souls. This, he adds, is what Dean Watson alludes to, when, in his Complete Incumbent, he speaks of the Dean of Battle. Donat. Ms. Brit. Mus. 5679, p. 67.
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