Richard Bromsgrove (died 1435), was a monk of the

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abbey of Evesham.Midland history, Volume 7 University of Birmingham, Phillimore., 1982 Bromsgrove, who doubtless derived his name (which is sometimes given under the form of Bremesgrave) from

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as his birthplace. He was elected Abbot of Evesham when infirmarer of the

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, on 6 December 1418, and was consecrated in Bengeworth church by Bishop Barrow, of Bangor, who in the year previous had been Chancellor of Oxford. He died on 10 May 1435, after holding the abbacy for seventeen years, and was buried before the high altar in St. Mary's chapel in the abbey church. The register of his acts during his abbacy is preserved in Cotton MS. Titus C. ix. (ff. 1–38). It contains articles for the reformation of monasteries which were proposed by

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in 1421, with modifications suggested by various abbots. It appears from this register (f. 32) that he wrote a tract, 'De fraterna correctione canonice exercenda.' A transcript of the register exists amongst the collections of

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in Lansdowne MS. 227,

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