Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England Part 52

[318] Neatly.

[319] Watchet, a kind of cloth.

[320] Small twigs of trees (? May blossom).

[321] Musical instruments.

[322] Page 75.

[323] Elizabeth Darcy, 13 Henry V., in her will, desires to be buried in the church of the nuns of Heynynges, and leaves to their chapel a great missal, and her portforium and great psalter to be fastened with an iron chain. She leaves a book of romances, called "Lesch.e.l.l de Reson," and two Primers, and a book called "Bybill," and another called "Sainz Ryall," and another called "Lanselake." CC_s._ for ma.s.ses, to be kept in a chest in some secret place in Lincoln Cathedral and distributed to the chaplains annually (A. Gibbons, "Early Lincoln Wills," p. 118). After the battle of Lincoln "Fair," in 1221, the victors "pillaged the churches throughout the city, breaking open the chests and storerooms with axes and hammers, and seizing all the gold and silver in them, clothes of all colours, women's ornaments, gold rings, goblets, and jewels" ("Roger of Wendover," ii. 218, Rolls Series).

[324] See instances of it in "Roger of Wendover," ii. 162, 165, and iii.

209, 211, Rolls Series.

[325] See Erasmus's "Praise of Folly," and an account of the "Sanctuaries at Durham and Beverley," by Rev. J. Raine (Surtees Society).

[326] See "Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages," pp. 157-194, by the present writer.

[327] Lyndewood's "Pontificale," pp. 298, 156.

[328] J. C. c.o.x, in "Curious Church Gleanings," p. 44.

[329] "York Fabric Rolls," Surtees Society, p. 248.

[330] Wilkins, "Concilia," ii. 170.

[331] See articles in the _Churchman's Family Magazine_ for 1865, p. 419.

[332] S.P.C.K., "Dioc. Hist. of Lincoln."

[333] Collier, "Eccl. Hist.," i. 438.

[334] Peckham, for example (see Collier, "Eccl. Hist.," i. 484).

[335] "Kingston-on-Thames," by A. Heales, p. 25.

[336] "Dioc. Hist. of Lincoln," p. 150, S.P.C.K.

[337] Boniface VII., in his decretal, allows a sub-deacon to take a benefice, and grants him seven years in which to qualify himself for the orders of deacon and priest, by dispensation or permission of his superior (Johnson, "Laws and Canons").

[338] Bishop Quivil, in 1281, gave a young rector the usual licence of absence for study, and to put his benefice to farm _salva Canonica Porcione a.s.signanda per Episcopum pauperibus ejusdem Parochiae prout in ultimo concilio Lambethensi est statutum_ (Quivil's "Register," p. 321).

See also pp. 32, 35, for donations to the fabric.

In 1322, the Bishop of Bath and Wells gave this licence to Emericus of Orchard, and also to Peter Pyke of Kyngeston, on condition that they each should say one hundred Psalms for the soul of the bishop, and of all the faithful departed (T. Hugo's "Extracts," vol. i. p. 86).

In 1312, Master William de Carreu, clerk, inst.i.tuted to Holsworthy, had dispensation for non-residence for three years for study, which in 1315 was renewed for a year, and again in 1316, 1317, and 1318. Master Richard de Honemanacole, sub-deacon, inst.i.tuted to Iddesleigh in 1320, had a dispensation for non-residence for three years for study, which was renewed in 1323 for a year in foreign parts, and in 1324 renewed again for two years (Bishop Stapledon's "Register").

[339] "Letters of Grostete" (Rolls Series), pp. 63, 68, 151.

[340] Quivil's "Register," p. 353.

[341] S.P.C.K., "Diocesan History of Bath and Wells."

[342] Matthew Paris, under 1251 and 1252 A.D., v. 256, 279.

[343] Grandisson's "Register," p. 520.

[344] A.D. 1338, Licence to John Hert, Rector of Croxton, to put his church to farm for four years, at the instance of Ade. Lymbergh. Leave of absence for a year to William de Colesbrok, at the instance of Dom. Thom.

de Astele. Leave of absence to Dom. Wells de Gresleygh, Rector of Hildresham, for two years, at the instance of the Countess Mareschal ("Register of Bishop Grandisson, of Exeter").

[345] "Transactions of the Ess.e.x Archaeological Society," vol. vi. part ii.

(New Series), p. 110.

[346] "Anglo-Saxons," iii. 297.

[347] Whitaker's "Craven," p. 164.

[348] Whitaker's "Whalley," p. 134.

[349] In the time of Edward I.

[350] A ground plan and elevations of some of the buildings of the palace and deanery are engraved in the Lincoln Volume of the Archaeol. Inst.i.tute, 1848 A.D.

[351] The vicars of the residentiaries lived at first in the residence houses in something like the capacity of chaplains ("The Cathedral," E. W.

Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury). Ralph of Shrewsbury, 1329-1361, incorporated them at Wells.

[352] Benson's (Archbishop of Canterbury) "The Cathedral," p. 35.

[353] Octagonal at York, Salisbury, Wells; decagonal at Old St. Paul's, Hereford, Lichfield, and here at Lincoln.

[354] Benson, "The Cathedral," p. 19.

[355] An example of a married canon.

[356] Benson, "The Cathedral," p. 12.

[357] Benson, "The Cathedral," p. 27.

[358] There is a portrait of Bishop Longland, at the beginning of a Benedictional written for him, in the Add. MS. 21974, in the British Museum Library.

[359] In the "Taxatio" of Pope Nicholas IV., A.D. 1291, p. 76, the goods spiritual and temporal of the bishop everywhere in the Diocese of Lincoln are returned at the round sum of 1000.

[360] J. Talbot was Prebendary of Cliffeton, Notts, worth 20, and had 6 13_s._ 4_d._ from the dean and chapter to find a cantarist for the chantry of Queen Eleanor at Harby, in the parish of Clifton, Notts. S. Grene or Foderby was Prebendary of Bedford Minor, worth 3 10_s._ 9_d._

[361] Probably a worker in _laton_, an alloy of bra.s.s.

[362] "Pulsan'ad organ;" it could not be the organ blower, for his stipend was twice as much as that of the carpenter and lathonius.