e do not read that Peterborough suffered.
Robert is said to have written a history of the monastery. He died in
1222. He had attended the fourth Lateran Council at Rome, in 1215; and
had fought in person for King Henry III. at Rockingham.

=Alexander of Holderness= (1222-1226), the Prior, was next appointed.
Dean Patrick gives, from Swapham, an account of a noteworthy agreement
that was made for mutual benefit between this Abbot and the Abbot of S.
Edmunds Bury. The convents "by this league were tied in a bond of
special affection, for mutual counsel and assistance for ever. They were
so linkt together, as to account themselves one and the same convent: so
that if one of the abbots died, the survivor being desired was
immediately to go to his convent; and there before him they were to make
a canonical election; or if already made, they were to declare it in his
presence. If the friars of either place were by any necessity driven
from their monastery, the other was to receive them, and afford them a
familiar refuge and aid: with a place in their Quire Chapterhouse and
Refectory, _secundum conversionis suae tempus_." This abbot is said to
have been much beloved by the monks. He died in 1226.

=Martin of Ramsey= (1226-1233), one of the monks, was chosen to succeed
Alexander. He remained only six years. After his death another monk,
=Walter of S. Edmunds= (1233-1245), was elected. He was a great builder.
It was during his time that the minster was solemnly re-dedicated. This
abbot made no less than three visits to Rome. On the third occasion he
was summoned in consequence of some irregularity in an appointment to
the living of Castor; but he seems to have managed his case very
adroitly, and to have escaped all censure by assigning an annuity of L10
a year to the Pope's nephew. Another account, however, represents the
abbot as being so distressed at the indignities he suffered at the Papal
Court, that, being unwell before he went there and his infirmities being
increased by his journey, he died very soon after his return to England.
"He left the abbey abounding in all good things; stored with horses,
oxen, sheep and all cattle in great multitudes, and corn in some places
for three years." He died in 1245.

=William de Hotot= (1246-1249), another monk of the house, succeeded
Walter. He held the office only three years, when he resigned and was
assigned a residence at the manor of Cottingham, afterwards exchanged
for one at