Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England Part 60

S. St. Nicholas.

T. St. Thomas.

V. The Temple.

W. Ratcliff Gate.

X. Temple Gate.

Y. Newgate.

[583] J. Raine, "Historic Towns": York.

[584] Ellis's "Introd. to Domesday Book," ii. p. 491.

[585] Ellis's "Introd. to Domesday Book," ii. p. 491.

[586] A very complete inventory of the possessions of this Priory taken room by room, at the time of the suppression, is printed in J.

Wodderspoon's "Ipswich," p. 314.

[587] See an account of this chantry at p. 444.

[588] There is a diagram of it, with the chapel at the west end, in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for 1751, p. 296.

[589] Vol. iii. p. 147. At p. 145 the sum is given as 23.

[590] In 1233 the convent obtained a prohibition from the pope to erect an oratory or chapel within a Roman mile of their altar ("Papal Letters,"

vol. i. p. 137, Rolls Series).

[591] When the Countess of Clare, the lady of one of the manors at Walsingham, gave the Franciscans a site for a house here, in 21 Henry II., the prior and convent pet.i.tioned her against the foundation, but without success.

[592] See Wingham and Wye in Appendix III., pp. 564, 566.

[593] Ecclia de Roderham divisa est, Pars Abbis de Clervall, 16 13_s._ 4_d._; vicar ejusdem ptis, 5; pars Rogeri c.u.m vicar ejusdem partis, 21 13_s._ 4_d._; Pens' Prioris de Lewes in eadem eccles de Roderham, 1 6_s._ 8_d._ ("Taxatio," p. 300).

[594] The example set by the cathedrals for gathering the cantarists into a college, was followed by private benefactors in several towns, _e.g._ Newark, p. 525.

[595] At the time of the "Taxatio," the portion of the prior of Worksop in the Church of Sheffield was worth 10 ("Taxatio," p. 299).

[596] The Augmentation Commissioners of Ed. VI. return that the Parish of Newnham, Gloucestershire, where are houselying people, ciijx, has certain lands, tenements, and rents given to the parishioners to bestow the profits according to their discretion, "in reparying the pmisses, sometyme in mendyng of high weyes and bridgs within the same pshe; and sometymes, and of late, in findinge a prieste ther to serve for the soles of the givers and founders, and for cten Xtn works, worth 14 0_s._ 1_d._ Ornament, plate, and juellry to the same, none, r value x_s._"

(Notes on the Borough and Manor of Newnham.--R. I. Kerr, Gloucester, "Transactions," 1893).

[597] The castle chapel, dedicated to St. Philip and James, "was anciently given to the mother church" of Newark.

[598] A suburb outside the borough, called the North End, had a Hospital of St. Leonard, and was a separate parish.

[599] Dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen.

[600] p. 403.

[601] It was probable that he was the chaplain of the Castle Chapel.

[602] An effigy of Alan Fleming, merchant, who died in 1361, engraved, with canopy and ornamental work, on a great sheet of bra.s.s, is one of the finest of the "Flemish bra.s.ses," and one of the treasures of the church.

It is engraved in Waller's and in Boutell's "Monumental Bra.s.ses."

[603] Thoroton records the epitaph of R. Browne, armiger, late Alderman of the Gild of Holy Trinity of this church, and Constable of the Castle, and princ.i.p.al seneschal of the liberty of the town and receiver for Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal of York, and for the Lord John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln, and for the vice-count of the Counties of Notts and Derby, who died 1532.

[604] See p. 519.

[605] See p. 125.

[606] Thoroton gives the inscription on the tomb of Robert Kirkclaye, the first master of the Long School for forty-two years, who died in 1570 (?).

[607] See an account of them in "Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages." Virtue and Co.

[608] "Valor," v. p. 157.

[609] Ibid., ii. p. 54.

[610] Matthew Paris (under 1250 A.D.) relates a case in which Bishop Grostete deprived a clerk accused of incontinency; the clerk refused to give up his benefice; the bishop excommunicated him; at the end of forty days of grace, the clerk still refusing to submit, the bishop sent word to the sheriff to take and imprison him as contumacious; the sheriff, being a great friend of the clerk and no friend of the bishop, delayed or refused; the bishop thereupon excommunicated the sheriff; he complained to the king; the king applied to the pope, and obtained an order restraining the bishop (M. Paris, v. 109).

[611] "Greenfield's Register," quoted in _Church Times_, March 11, 1898.

[612] "Grostete's Letters," Rolls Series, p. 48.

[613] S.P.C.K., "Lichfield," p. 178.

[614] "Durham Ecclesiastical Proceedings," p. 47.

[615] There is a picture of the confession of clerics in the MS. 6 E. VII.

f. 506 _verso_.

[616] S.P.C.K., "Rochester," p. 224.

[617] Matthew Paris, v. 223.

[618] S.P.C.K., "Hereford," p. 87.

[619] "Papal Letters," vol. iii. p. 142, Rolls Series.

[620] "Gray's Register," York, p. 269.

[621] S.P.C.K., "Diocesan Histories: Bath and Wells," p. 129.

[622] Whitaker, "Craven," p. 149.

[623] S.P.C.K., "Diocesan History of Rochester," p. 189.

[624] Ibid., p. 231.

[625] S.P.C.K., "Rochester," p. 231.

[626] "Durham Eccl. Proceedings," p. 64.