Certificate. Alcester, Benedictine abbey. [1158-1159] (1159). . Certificate of T[heobald], archbishop of Canterbury, after consultation with other bishops and in the presence of Robert, Earl of Legre[cestre], the founder of the abbey, that the monks of Alencester have the right of free election of their abbot, (being the prior) against the claim of A[lured], the bishop and monks of Worcester, who withdrew their alleged claim. [Printed in the 'Monasticon' as being in Dugdale's time "in bibl. Hattoniana".