ll, were
inserted as a memorial to Lord Mount-Temple, who died in 1888. To the same
firm are due the windows in the transept, which commemorate the Hon. Ralph
Dutton, Lady Mount-Temple, Mr. Tylee, Professor Ramsey, and the Rev. E. L.
Berthon, and the one in the north chancel aisle erected to the memory of
the wife of the Right Hon. Evelyn Ashley. The window at the east end of
the north aisle is by Kempe, and commemorates Mr. G. B. Footner.

The #Font# is in the north aisle of the nave, dates from about the middle
of the last century, and stands on the same spot as the ancient font of the
church of St. Laurence. The conventual church, of course, would not need a
font. But in post-Reformation times one stood on a raised platform at the
west end of the church.

[Illustration: THE SOUTH TRANSEPT]

CHAPTER IV

THE ABBESSES OF ROMSEY

A complete list of the abbesses who ruled the religious house at Romsey is
not in existence; there are several gaps of many years in the succession.
The exact dates of the election of some of those whose names have been
handed down to us are not known. The following list is as complete as
possible. The names printed in ordinary type are taken from a board
suspended in the retro-choir, those printed in italics are added from a
list given in the "Records of Romsey Abbey," by the Rev. H. G. D. Liveing,
1906, which embodies the result of the most recent research. Whenever the
date is uncertain _c._ for "circa" is prefixed; the date of death when
known is added, marked with _o._ for "obiit." The spelling of many of the
names is uncertain; in the list below the spelling follows that given by
the authorities quoted above:

_c._ 907 AElflaeda, _o._ _c._ 959.
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966 S. Merwenna.
_c._ 999 Elwina.
_c._ 1003 AEthelflaeda.
_c._ 1016 _Wulfynn._
_c._ 1025 _AElfgyfu._
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_c._ 1130 Hadewis.
_c._ 1150 Matilda, _o._ 1155.
1155 Mary, married 1161, _o._ 1182.
_c._ 1171 Juliana, _o._ 1199.[5]
1199 Matilda Walrane.
1219 Matilda (Paria), _o._ 1230.
1230 _Matilda de Barbfle_, _o._ 1237.
1237 _Isabella de Nevill._
1238 _Cecilia._
1247 _Constancia._
1261 Amicia _de Sulhere_.
1268 Alicia Walerand, _o._ 1298.
1298 _Philippa de Stokes._
1307 Clementia de Guildeford, _o._ 1314.
1314 Alicia de Wyntereshulle, _o._ 1315.
1315 Sybil Carbonel, _o._ 1333