Early in the pages of our chronicler comes before us poor old Abbot Hugo, broken in health, and even at his best estate unfixed and irresolute, a kind of Benedictine Ethel?red the Unready, never doing to-day what could be put off to to- morrow .... The priors were often natives of the county : Joh. de Athelington, Joh. Brandish, Tho. de Troston, etc. Little enough can be seen of or recorded about Alborne, in the ancient parish of Hallowtree, between Ipswich St. Clement and ...
