The choice of Christchurch Priory as the site for this monument was due to the fact that the poet's son, Sir Percy Florence Shelley, who erected it, lived at Boscombe Manor, between Christchurch and Bournemouth. The tower contains a peal of eight bells. These are all old; the fifth and sixth bells have fourteenth-century inscriptions round their crowns, the others appear to have been cast early in the fifteenth century. [Illustration: THE SHELLEY MONUMENT.] CHAPTER IV DEANS OF THE SECULAR COLLEGE 1. Ralf Flambard, afterwards Bishop of Durham. 2. Godric. 3. Gilbert de Dousgunels. 4. Peter de Oglander. 5. Randulphus. 6. Hilary, afterwards Bishop of Chichester. PRIORS OF THE AUGUSTINIAN COLLEGE 1. Reginald, 1150. 2. Ralph. 3. Peter, 1195. He built the clerestory and carried out other Early English work. 4. Roger, 1225. 5. Richard. 6. Nicholas de Wareham. 7. Nicholas de Sturminster. 8. John de Abingdon, 1272. 9. William de Netheravon, 1278. 10. Richard Maury, 1286. 11. William Quenton, 1302. 12. Walter Tholveshide, 1317. 13. Edmund de Ramsbury, 1323. During his time Bishop Stratford's Injunctions were issued, 1325. See page 129. 14. Richard de Queteshorne, 1337. 15. Robert de Leyghe, 1340. 16. William Tyrewache, 1345. 17. Henry Eyre, 1357. He became blind in 1367 and was allowed a coadjutor. 18. John Wodenham, 1376. 19. John Borard, 1398. During his time Archbishop Arundel issued Injunctions, 1404. See page 130. 20. Thomas Talbot, 1413. 21. John Wimborne, 1420. 22. William Norton. 23. John Dorchester. 24. John Draper I., 1477. Bishop Langton's Injunctions were issued during his tenure of the priory. 25. William Eyre, 1502. During his time the choir was completed. 26. John Draper II. He surrendered the priory to Henry VIII.'s commissioners, 1539, and was allowed to retain Somerford Grange for life, and received a pension of L133, 6s. 8d. He died in 1552, and was buried in the nave near the entrance to the choir. VICARS OF CHRISTCHURCH By the council of Arles 1261, religious orders that held parish churches were bound to supply vicars to officiate. These were appointed by the canons, and were taken from their own body. The names of many of these are known. The 13th was Robert Harys, whose chantry stands in the south choir aisle; he died in 1325. In the time of the 15th, William Trapnell, the church was granted by Henry VIII. to the parishioners, 32nd year of Henry VIII. In the time of the 17th, Robert Newman, an inventory of the property was made by order of Edward VI.'s commissioner. John Imber, the 21st vicar, was expelled by the Parliament from 1647-1660, but was restored to his preferment in the same year as Charles II. gained the throne. The present vicar is the 32nd. STRATFORD'S INJUNCTIONS, 1325