Hark, ’tis midnight! but, unsleeping, Here their faithful vigil keeping; Pale <g>white friars</g> raise again, In lengthened chant, the solemn strain! Hark! throughout the sacred dwelling, High the mingled notes are swelling; Angels, stooping from the sky, Bear the sacrifice on high--AVE MARIA!--_W. B._ 1849. [Illustration] <g>Appendix.</g> Of the Abbots of Tinterne the historical notices are very scanty. The following occur in the “Parliamentary Writs,” by Sir Francis Palgrave:--[187] <g>A.D.</g> 1294.--<g>Abbas de Tynterne</g> is summoned to a council of the clergy, to be held before the <g>King</g> in person, at Westminster, on the Feast of <g>St. Matthias</g> the Apostle, on the twenty-first day of September, and twenty-second of <g>Edward</g> I. Again-- 1295.--The <g>Abbas de Tynterne</g> is summoned to Parliament at Westminster, on Sunday next after the feast of <g>St. Martin</g>, thirteenth day of October, and twenty-third year of the reign of <g>Edward</g> I., prorogued to Sunday next, before the Feast of <g>St. Andrew</g> the Apostle, the twenty-seventh of November. Thirdly-- 1296.--Summoned to Parliament at <g>Bury St. Edmund’s</g>, on the morrow of <g>All-Souls</g>, November the third day, and twenty-fourth year of the reign of <g>Edward</g> I. 1300.--<g>Abbas de Tynterne</g>--Letter of Credence addressed to him concerning the expedition against the <g>Scots</g>--at Blith, the seventeenth day of January, and twenty-eighth year of the reign of <g>Edward</g> I. Again, the same year, the <g>abbot</g> was summoned to Parliament in London, on the second Sunday in <g>Lent</g>, being the sixth day of March. 1301.--<g>Abbas de Tynterne</g> is summoned to Parliament at <g>Lincoln</g>--in eight days of <g>St. Hilary</g>--the twentieth day of January, and twenty-eighth year of the reign aforesaid. 1305.--Summoned to Parliament at Westminster, on Tuesday, in fifteen days of the <g>Purification</g>, the sixteenth of February; afterwards prorogued to Sunday next, after the Feast of <g>St. Matthias</g> the Apostle, the twenty-eighth day of February--but to which he was not resummoned--and thirty-third year of the reign of <g>Edward</g> I. 1316.--<g>Abbas de Tynterne</g>, certified pursuant to writ, tested at Clipston, March the fifth, as one of the lords of the township of <g>Acle</g>,[188] in the county of Norfolk, in the ninth year of the reign of <g>Edward</g> II. 1316.--<g>Johannes de Tynterne</g>, certified in like manner, as holding part of the burgh of <g>Lyme-Regis</g>, in the county of Dorset, in the ninth year of the reign of <g>Edward</g> II. * * * * * The following is the original document referred to in various passages of the foregoing articles on Chepstow and Tinterne:--