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[[Image:BourneAbbeyInterior.jpg|thumb|350px|The nave of Bourne Abbey today. The two nave arcades are consistent with a building date of around 1138 as are the responds from the [[chancel]] screen, visible at the entrance to the chancel. The repaired scars from the removal of the [[pulpitum]] can be seen below them. In the building there are stones carved into the form of arches of a style consistent with the later 12th century. These are likely to be from the eastern side of this pulpitum screen, which would have obscured the view of the chancel while allowing sounds out from it.]]

While the ''[[Domesday Book]]'' of 1086 makes it clear that there was a church in Bourne in 1066, and there is a suggestion that there was an [[Anglo-Saxon]] abbey,<ref name=roffe/> as far as is firmly known, the abbey was founded as a [[canonry]], by a charter granted in 1138, by Baldwin fitz Gilbert de Clare<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.geneajourney.com/clare.html#LineA3|title=Genealogy of Baldwin fitz Gilbert de Clare; c.1102-1154; his father was Gilbert Fitz Richard.}}</ref> (with the consent of Roger his son and Adelina his wife). He was a member of a post-[[Norman conquest|conquest]] [[Normans|Norman]] family, settled in [[Suffolk]], which later made its mark in Wales and Ireland. Adelina was a great-granddaughter of [[Hereward the Wake]], though the connection with the Wake family was not made until the generation after Baldwin and Adelina, when their daughter, Emma married Hugh Wake. The house was for up to 14 [[Canon (priest)#Canons regular|canons]] of the [[Arrouaise (Abbey and Order)|Arrouaisian]] reform of the [[Rule of St. Augustine]]. This was the height of the period of abbey founding and [[castle]]-building in England.

The abbey was dissolved in 1536 along with the other small monastic houses, in the first phase of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII's]]'s suppression[[Dissolution of monasteriesthe Monasteries]].

* Henry, (died) 1500

* Thomas Ford, 1500

* William Grisby, (died 1512)

* John Small, last abbot, occurs 1534

* Dissolution, 1536

<br /> Simon Watton was [[Excommunication|excommunicated]], though we do not know howhis heoffence hadis offendedunknown.

The ''[[Ormulum]]'', an important work in the form of a [[Bible|Biblical]] gloss, helps bridge the gap between [[Old English]] and [[Middle English]] in studies of the development of the language. It was probably written in Bourne Abbey by Orm the Preacher, in around 1175.<ref>{{Cite book |editor-last=Treharne |editor-first=Elaine |title=Old and Middle English: An Anthology |location=Oxford |publisher=Blackwell |year=2000 |isbn=0-631-20465-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/oldmiddleenglish0000unse/page/273 273] |url=https://archive.org/details/oldmiddleenglish0000unse/page/273 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Parkes |first=M. B. |chapter=On the Presumed Date and Possible Origin of the Manuscript of the ''Orrmulum'' |title=Five Hundred Years of Words and Sounds: A Festschrift for Eric Dobson |editor1-first=E. G. |editor1-last=Stanley |editor2-first=Douglas |editor2-last=Gray |location=Cambridge |publisher=D. S. Brewer |year=1983 |pages=115–127 |isbn=0-85991-140-3 }}</ref>

[[Robert Mannyng]], or Robert de Brunne, is well known among scholars of [[Middle English]] for his works dating from the early 14th century. He led the writing of English out of its eclipse by [[Latin]] and [[Anglo-Norman language|Anglo-Norman]]. He is often said to have been a [[monk]] in Bourne Abbey but he was a [[Gilbertine]] and the abbey was Arrouaisian or Augustinian. His name which associates him with 'Brunne', the form of 'Bourne' used in his time, is likely to have arisen from his having originated in the town. Since the [[nave]] of the abbey was the [[parish church]], Robert, the boyhe will have known it well as a boy until he left for [[Sempringham]] in 1288.

*[[Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent]] (1350/1354–1397)

*Needle, Rex. ''A Portrait of Bourne - the history of a Lincolnshire market town in words and pictures'' (1998–2008, on CD-ROM, including 3,000 photographs from past and present and an illustrated account of the church including the current restoration programme).

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