_St. Albans, William, Abbot of._--Archbishop Morton addressed a monition in
1490 to William, Abbot of St. Albans. It is to be found in Wilkin's
_Concilia_, iii. 632., and is extracted from Archbishop Morton's
_Register_, fol. 22. b. Now, in Tanner's _Notitia_, and in Dugdale's
_Monasticon_, it is stated that William Wallingford, Abbot of St. Albans,
died in 1484; and that the chair was vacant until 1492, when Thomas Ramryge
was elected abbot. Archbishop Morton's original letter is, I believe, to be
seen in the register at Lambeth, and its date is distinctly 1490. This
date, moreover, agrees with the Excerpta of Dr. Ducarel in the British
Museum.
Can any of your readers solve this difficulty for me, as I am anxious to
know immediately whether I may safely identify "William," the notorious
evil-liver of Morton's monition, with "Wallington," who bears a respectable
character in Dugdale's _Monasticon_.