The General Chapter met at Premontre each year on 9th October (CLAPHAM, C/WC).  The abbot of Premontre exercised the right of visitation and claimed an annual subsidy from all the abbeys under his jurisdiction (C41E).  All abbots were bound to attend general chapter each year.  Abbots at general chapter might be called upon to sing an inaugural Mass, be a visitor, or even be abbot of Premontre (C41E).
abbot of Welbeck, at Dale 13 May 1506;  he then went on to Lichfield at the Dale abbot’s expense, and then to Halesowen.
In 1366 a visit to Halesowen to supervise an election cost £20 4s. 4d (C/WC).
By April 1411 Welbeck had not been visited for 20 years.  Abbots would not travel in winter or Lent (C/WC).

Bishop Redman's (abbot of Shap and vicar general in England of the abbot of Premontre (C41)) visitation reports survive:  in 25 years at Dale Abbey there were 30 canons, of whom 5 were guilty of serious misdemeanours i.e. 16%. This is exactly average (C41).  C41 also From 1279’s Statute of Mortmain, the appropriation of lands by monastic houses required a royal licence and a fine.  This was an expensive business, which is explained in C41E.
details the manner of a visitation.
Redman died at Ely House, Holborn in 1505;  he was succeeded by Thomas Wilkinson, abbot of Welbeck, at Dale 13 May 1506;  he then went on to Lichfield at the Dale abbot’s
expense, and then to Halesowen.

2 examples of inquisitio quo warranto are given in C41E, 1281 and 1330/1.  The abbot was being treated as a feudal tenant.

Abbots had also to inspect hospitals and take the oaths of allegiance of newly-elected abbots or priors (C41E).  By the 13th century there was no more missionary zeal.  An order of Pope Clement in 1188 gave special privileges authorizing the abbots to let ¾ of their canons serve parish churches.

They sometimes had to prosecute or defend a lawsuit (C41E).

Abbots had little to do with the local bishop:  they could appoint canons to serve vicarages without permission;  they only needed the bishop to ordain them.  Relations were usually amicable (C41E).

Many English abbeys broke away from paying taxes to Premontre in 1311, (see Abbot no. 10) but there was complete exemption only in *1511 when the Abbot of Welbeck was made head of the order in the UK (COLVIN) 1512(WARD)by bull of Pope Julius II in  1512 (CLAPHAM).
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