Excerpt from Collections for a History of Staffordshire: 1916 Before discussing the Will itself it' would perhaps be con venient to deal first with the personality and parentage of the testator. Not very much is really known about Wulfric Spot. There is a short article under his name in the Dictionary of National Biograpny, at the end of which most of the authorities are enumerated, but the best account of him that I have seen is in a Note to Freeman's Norman Conquest (3rd ed., i. 671, Note For authoritative information about the founder of an abbey one naturally turns to the monastic records, and here the main source of information besides the will itself must, I think, always be (1) the brief statement contained in the Annales Monasterzz Bartonensis, now at the British Museum (ms. Cotton, Vesp. E. III, fo. From which extracts are given in Dugdale's Monastieon Anglicanum (ed. 1655, i. 265 ed. 1817, iii. And which are printed in full among the Annales Monastici (rolls Ser. No. 36, i. 183; ii. And (2) the more detailed account given in the Historia Fandatoris, which is extracted from the Cnroniea Aboatatn and printed in the Monastieon from the original then (and presumably still) at Beaudesert. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.