Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England Part 56

For singing _Gloria in Excelsis_ at the mattens time upon Xmas Day in the mornyng.

To the Abbot of Miserewle [Misrule] on Xmas (?)

To the yeoman or groom of the vestry for bringing him the hallowed taper on Candlemas Day?

To his lordship's chaplains and other servts. that play the play before his lordship on Shrofetewsday at night xx_s._

That play the play of Resurrection upon Estur Daye in the mg. in y lorde's chappell before his lordship.

To the yeoman or groom of the vestry on Allhallows Day for syngnge for all christynne soles the saide nygthe so it be past mydnight 3_s._ 4_d._

The Earl and Lady were brother and sister of St. Christopher Gilde Yorke, and pd. 6_s._ 8_d._ each yearly; and when the Master of the Gild brought my lord and my lady for their lyverays a yard of narrow violette clothe and a yard of narrow rayed cloth, 13_s._ 4_d._ (_i.e._ a yard of each to each).

And to Proctor of St. Robert's, Knasbruge, when my lorde and my lady were brother and sister, 6_s._ 8_d._ each.

At pp. 272-278 is an elaborate programme of the ordering of my lord's chapel for the various services.

At p. 292 is an order about the washing of the linen of the chapel for a year. Eighteen surplices for men, and six for children, and seven albes, and five altar cloths for covering of the altars, sixteen times a year against the great feasts.

At p. 285 is an order that the vestry stuff shall have at every removal [for it was carried about from one to another of my lord's houses] one cart for the carrying of the nine antiphoners, the four grailles, the hangings of the three altars in my lord's closet and my ladie's, and the sort [suit] of vestments and single vestments and copes "accopeed" daily, and all other my lord's chappell stuff to be sent afore my lord's chariot before his lordship remove ("Antiq. Repertory," iv. 242).

[455] Whose emoluments at the beginning of the sixteenth century are all given in the "Valor" of Henry VIII., vol. ii. p. 317.

[456] "Valor," ii. p. 153.

[457] "Taxatio," p. 298.

[458] Where there was a single chaplain, he probably always had a boy who "served" him at ma.s.s, and also acted as his personal attendant.

[459] Whitaker's "Craven."

[460] "Taxatio," p. 18.

[461] Page's "Yorkshire Chantries."

[462] "Early Lincoln Wills," p. 6.

[463] "Valor Eccl.," ii. 403.

[464] An oratory differs from a church; a church is appointed for public worship, and has an endowment for the minister and others; an oratory is not built for saying ma.s.s, nor endowed, but ordained for a family to perform its household worship in. A bell might not be put up in an oratory, because it was not a place of public worship.

[465] The exemption from the jurisdiction of the ordinary of royal chapels is recognized by a bull of Innocent IV. ("Annales de Burton," p. 275).

[466] Grostete summoned Earl Warren and his chaplain for having Divine service celebrated in his hall at Grantham, being an unconsecrated place ("Letters of Grostete," Rolls Series, p. 171).

[467] Eyton's "Shropshire," ix. 326.

[468] There are similar conditions in a licence in 1310, to Dame Matilda de Hywys for her chapel of Tremetherecke, in the parish of Duloc (Register of Bishop Stapledon of Exeter, "Hingeston-Randolph," p. 300).

[469] Newcourt's "Repertorium," ii. 434.

[470] See "Description of the Vyne," by the late Mr. Chute, the proprietor.

[471] The clerk whose duty it was to keep the bishop's register sometimes grew weary of writing the so-frequent record in full, and simply noted that licence was granted to so-and-so, _in forma communi_, or _in forma consueta_ ("Grandisson's Register," pp. 492, 509, etc.).

[472] Canon Hingeston-Randolph's "Register of Edmund Stafford," p. 271.

[473] Edit. J. Raine, p. 58.

[474] Edit. J. Raine, p. 271.

[475] "Register of Bath and Wells" (Rev. T. Hugo's "Extracts"), p. 158.

There are other instances, at Maystoke, Hoddesdon, Atthorpe, in the "Papal Letters," vol. i. pp. 192, 522.

[476] Edited by Mr. George Nichols for the Camden Society.

[477] "Suss.e.x Archaeol. Coll.," iii. 112.

[478] G. Offor, "Life of Tyndale."

[479] A. Gibbons, "Early Lincoln Wills," p. 136.

[480] "Richmondshire Wills," p. 34.

[481] "Test. Ebor.," p. 220.

[482] A. Gibbons, "Early Lincoln Wills," p. 57.

[483] Ibid., p. 111.

[484] "Lichfield," p. 168, S.P.C.K.

[485] "Eccl. Proceedings of Courts of Durham," p. 44.

[486] "Register" of Bishop Gray of Lincoln.

[487] In 1348 the Convent of St. Augustine, Canterbury, and in 1365 the Convent of Westminster, pet.i.tioned the pope to have Divine offices celebrated in the chapels of their manors and churches, _i.e._ rectories ("Papal Letters," vol. i. pp. 139, 506).

[488] "Hingeston-Randolph," p. 319.

[489] Ibid., p. 378.

[490] Walcott's "Chichester Registers."