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AN   ILLUSTRATIVE   APPENDIX. 


BY   THE   REV.    GEOBGE    OLIVER,    D.D. 


EXETER: 

WILLIAM    EGBERTS,    BROADGATE. 
1861. 


NOV-81934 


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WILLIAM    HOBERtS,    F*I>iTKP,   BEOAnGATE,  EXETER. 


DEDICATION. 


Exeter,  7th  August,  1860. 
DEAR  AND  HONOURED  SIR  THOMAS, 

CORDIALLY  I  thank  you  for  kindly  permitting  me  to  dedicate 
to  you  this  humble  compilation.  Your  ancient  descent — your  con- 
nection with  what  is  most  respectable  in  this  city  and  diocese  — your 
acknowledged  literary  taste— your  distinguished  character  for  sterling 
integrity,  will  afford  it  the  best  introduction  to  the  public. 

Long  may  you  realise  in  your  dignified  retirement  the  portrait  of 
the  Aureus  Senex,  and  enjoy  the  retrospect  of  a  well-spent  life  :  happy 
in  the  testimony  of  a  good  conscience ;  blest  with  the  devotedness 
of  your  respected  family  and  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  a  wide 
circle  of  friends ;  cheered  with  the  grateful  attachment  of  your 
tenantry,  and  of  the  surrounding  poor ;  and  possessed  of  the  public 
veneration. 

With  every  sentiment  of  personal  regard  arising  from  an  intimate 
and  friendly  acquaintance  dating  from  your  first  appearance  in 
public  life, 

I  have  the  honour  to  be, 

Tour  obliged  Servant, 

GEORGE  OLIVER. 

To  SIR  THOMAS  DYKE  ACLAND,  Bart. 


PREFACE. 


IN  offering  this  compilation  to  a  discerning  and  indul- 
gent public,  I  have  'had  but  one  object  in  view — the 
elucidation  of  historic  truth.  I  have  wished  to  stand 
clear  of  all  prejudice  and  all  party — to  act  with  candour 
and  impartiality — and  I  am  prepared,  in  the  words  of 
Cicero,  to  submit  to  fair  criticism  and  thankfully  to 
retract  any  error  into  which  I  may  have  unwarily 
fallen  :  "  Sequimur  probabilia,  nee  ultra  id  quain  quod 
verisimile  occurrerit  progredi  possumus ;  et  refellere 
sine  pertinacia,  et  refelli  sine  iracundia,  parati  sumus." 

It  is  a  pleasing  duty  to  acknowledge  obligations. 
And  in  the  very  first  place  I  am  bound  to  offer  my 
meed  of  gratitude  to  the  memory  of  that  inestimable 
friend  and  diligent  coadjutor  of  my  literary  labours, 
Mr.  PITMAN  JONES  ;  of  whom  death  bereaved  me  on 
5th  January  of  the  present  year  (I860),  aet.  75. 

My  ever  lamented  friend  was  a  native  of  this  city, 
born  7th  October,  1785  :  educated  at  our  Grammar- 
school  and  at  Eton  College,  he  adopted  the  legal  pro- 
fession of  his  father;  after  whose  decease,  in  1801,  he 
became  associated  with  his  first  cousin,  Mr.  John 

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vi  PREFACE. 

Jones,*  of  Franklyn,  near  this  city — a  gentleman  dis- 
tinguished alike  by  professional  eminence,  and  archae- 
ological attainments  of  a  superior  character.  After  many 
years. of  extensive  practice,  my  friend  retired  from  the 
active  duties  of  his  profession,  and  kindly  devoted  his 
systematic  energy  to  the  labour — to  him  a  labour  of 
love — of  assisting  me  in  my  literary  researches.  During 
an  interval  of  half  a  century,  I  am  happy  in  the 
reflection  that  no  unkind  word — no  moment  of  alienated 
attachment  ever  disturbed  the  uniform  tenour  of  our 
friendship,  or  interrupted  the  continuance  of  our  joint 
labours.  For  this  I  claim  no  credit  for  myself;  for 
indeed  his  kindness  and  invaluable  aid  ceased  only 
with  his  life  : 

Purpureos  spargam  flores,  animamque  Sodalis 
His  saltern  accumulem  donis,  et  fungar  inani 
Munere. 

To  my  friends  Messrs.  Ralph  Barnes,  Edward  Smirke, 
John  Gidley,  Colonel  Harding,  John  Carew,  Mark 
Kennaway,  Thomas  E.  Drake,  and  John  B.  Gould,  I 
can  never  repay  my  obligations  ;  but  they  will  please 
to  accept  the  homage  of  a  grateful  heart. 

After  a  residence  of  above  53  years  in  Exeter,  it  is 
to  me  a  gratifying  reminiscence  to  retrace  the  expe- 
rience of  much  courtesy  and  encouragement,  from  all 
classes.  Providence  has  vouchsafed  to  grant  me  a 


*  This  gentleman  had  also  favoured  me  with  his  friendship.  His  grave- 
stone in  St.  Thomas's  churchyard,  with  his  characteristic  modesty,  records  his 
birth  9th  April,  17C8  ;  his  death,  8th  November,  1821. 


PREFACE.  vii 

lengthened  career,  and  I  hope  that  I  have  studied  to 
avoid  the  giving  of  offence  to  any  individual.  I  have 
ever  felt  bound  to  extend  to  others  the  same  credit  for 
sincerity,  which  I  claimed  for  myself;  and  to  believe  it 
unbecoming  and  unreasonable  to  grudge  to  others  the 
freedom  of  viewing  literary  and  political  questions  in  a 
different  light : 

Hanc  veniam  petimusque  damusque  vicissim. 

And  I  trust,  whilst  life  is  spared  me,  to  pursue  my 
course  with  a  conscience  void  of  offence  towards  God 
and  Man. 

GEO.  OLIVER 


CONTENTS. 


LIVES  OF  THE  BISHOPS. 

Page 

Ancient  See  of  Wessex  (Kent  to  Cornwall) 1 

BISHOPS  OF  CREDITON       ......      ..      ....      2 

BISHOPS  OF  EXETER  (united  sees  of  Crediton  and  Cornwall  translated  to 
Exeter  in  1050)  :— 

1.  Bishop  Leofric       ..      ..      ...     ...     6 

Charter  of  King  Edward  the  Confessor  to  Leofric  (his  chaplain) 

of  Holcombe  in  Dawlish  ..      ..       ..      ..      ..       8 

Confirmation  of  the  same,  and  of  Bampton  in  Oxfordshire,  by 

William  the  Conqueror 10 

2.  Bishop  Osbern       ..      ..      ..      11 

3.  William  Warelwast       ..      ..      ..      14 

4.  Eobert  Chichester ..  17 

Bull  of  Pope  Eugenius  III.  confirming   the  property  of  the 

Church  of  Exeter      18 

5.  Kobert  Warelwast , 20 

6.  Bartholomew,  "  the  Luminary  of  the  English  Church  "   ..      ..  22 
Bishop  Bartholomew's  Confirmation  of  Land    in  Coffinswell, 

Devon        26 

Grant  of  the  Church  of  Colebrook  to  the  Church  of  Exeter      . .  27 

7.  John  "  the  Chantor " 29 

8.  Henry  Marshal     ib. 

9.  Simon  de  Apulia   ..      .,      32 

10.  William  Briwere 34 

11.  Richard  Blondy ..      ..      37 

12.  Walter  Bronescombe     ..      39 

Appropriation  of  the  Churches  of  St.  Bruered  and  Bockerell  to 

the  Dean  and  Chapter       :      43,  46 

13.  Peter  Quivil  ..      ..      46 

Endowment  of  Subdeanery . .      ....      . .      49 

Dean  and  Chapter's  agreement  to  celebrate  the  Obit  of  the 

Bishop        ....      51 

14.  Thomas  de  Bitton         ..      ..       52 

15.  Walter  de  Stapeldon 54 

Foundation   of  Bishop   Stapeldon's   Chantry   in    St.   Clement 

Dane's  Church,  London 67 

Royal  License  for  the  appropriation  of  the  Church  of  Draynet 

in  Penwyth,  Cornwall      (58 


x  CONTENTS. 

Page 

BISHOPS  OF  EXETER,  continued. 

Koyal  Grant   of  Hue-and-Cry  in  the   Lands  of  the  See  of 

Exeter,  in  Cornwall,  to  the  Bishop  and  his  successors  . .      . .  69 
Grant  by  the  Burgesses  of  Asperton   of   the  Chapel  of  St. 

Laurence  for  a  Chantry  for  Bishop  Stapeldon        ib. 

16.  James  Berkley       70 

Pope  John's  Confirmation  of  Bishop  Berkley's  Election  and 

Consecration      73 

17.  John  de  Grandisson      75 

Episcopal  Prohibition  of  unseemly  Pastimes      87 

18.  Thomas  de  Brantyngham      89 

19.  Edmund  de  Stafford 94 

Bull  of  Pope  Boniface  IX.    ..      ..      ..      ..      ,.      ..      .,      ..  -98 

20.  John  Catterick      99 

21.  Edmund  Lacy      ..      ..      ..      100 

22.  George  Nevyll      .;      ..      ..      .-.      ;.      ..      ..  104 

23.  JohnBothe 106 

24.  Peter  Courtenay .<      a  109 

25.  Richard  Fox 112 

26.  Oliver  King 114 

27.  Richard  Eedmayne       ..      ..      ..  115 

28.  John  Arundell      116 

29.  Hugh  Oldham       117 

30.  John  Veysy,  alias  Harman  (restored  iri  1553) 120 

Royal  Letters  to  Bishop  Veysy 125-128 

Letters  of  Lord  John  Russell  to  the  Bishop  and  Chapter          128-131 

Royal  Letter  forbidding  the  sale  of  Church  Ornaments,  &c.    . .  131 

31.  Myles  Coverdale (      ..  132 

32.  James  Turberville         135 

33.  William  Alley       138 

34.  William  Bradbridge      140 

35.  John  Woolton       ib. 

36.  Gervase  Babington        142 

37.  William  Cotton     ..      ....      ..      143 

38.  Valentine  Gary 144 

39.  Joseph  Hall 145 

40.  Ralph  Brownrigg 147 

Valuation  of  the  Estates  of  the  Bishopric 149 

41.  John  Gauden         *&. 

42.  SethWard 151 

43.  Anthony  Sparrow . .      154 

44.  Thomas  Lamplugh       155 

45.  Jonathan  Trelawny      157 

46.  Offspring  Blackall 160 

47.  Launcelot  Blackburne *" 161 

48.  Stephen  Weston 162 

49.  Nicholas  Clagget  ..      ...      ...     *'&. 

50.  George  Lavington 163 

51.  Frederick  Keppel *. 


CONTENTS.  xi 

Page 

BISHOPS  OF  EXETER,  continued. 

62.  John  Ross 164 

53.  William  Buller     ..      ..  ib. 

54.  Henry  Reginald  Courtenay 165 

55.  John  Fisher ib. 

56.  George  Pelham      166 

57.  William  Carey      ib. 

58.  Christopher  Bethell       167 

59.  Henry  PhUl potts  (the  present  Lord  Bishop)     ib. 


HISTORY,  ANCIENT  CUSTOMS,  TEEASUKES,  MONU- 
MENTS, &c.,  OF  THE  CATHEDRAL. 

[NOTE.— The  Abbey  Church  of  St.  Mary  served  as  the  Cathedral  of  Exeter  till  Bishop  William 
Warelwast  rebuilt  another  early  in  the  12th  century.  This  third  cathedral  was  commenced  at 
the  latter  end  of  the  13th  century]. 

CHAP.   I.-r-History  of  the  Cathedral 173 

„       II.— Account  of  the  Fabric-Rolls      183 

„      III. — Survey  of  the  Interior  of  the  Cathedral ..  189 

„      IV. — Ancient  Customs  of  the  Cathedral 219 

„       V. — The  Treasures  of  the  Church  in  Plate,  Vestments,  Orna- 
ments, and  MSS 231 

„      VI. — Sepulchral  Brasses  and  ancient  Epitaphs         236 

„     VII.— Survey  of  the  Exterior  of  the  Cathedral 243 

„  VIII.— Environs  of  the  Cathedral,  called  "  The  Close  "     . .      . .  249 


APPENDIX. 

No.  I. — FASTI  ECCLESLE  EXONIENSIS. 

I.  Heraldry  of  Exeter  Cathedral         269 

II.  List  of  Bishops         ib. 

„        Deans 274 

„         Precentors    ..      * ..      ..  278 

„        Chancellors 280 

„         Treasurers 283 

„         Archdeacons        ..      284 

„                 „             of  Exeter       285 

„                 „             of  Cornwall 287 

„            ofTotnes        290 

„                 „             ofBarnstaple         292 

„         Sub-Deans 295 

No.  II. — INVENTORY  of  VESTMENTS  and  ORNAMENTS  given  by  Kings, 
Bishops,  Canons,  and  others,  from  the  time  of  Bishop  Leofric 

(1050)  to  that  of  Bishop  Grandisson,  made  Sept.  1327       ..  207 


xii  CONTENTS. 

Page 

No.  III.— -CATALOGUE  of  the  Cathedral  Library,  Sept.  1327 301 

Inventory  of  Chalices  and  other  articles  of  plate,  &c 310 

Inventory  of  Vestments  ..  ..  ..  ..  312 

Banners 316 

Sundry  Gifts  made  subsequently  to  the  completion  of  the 

Inventory  317 

Bishop  Myles  Coverdale's  Citation  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter 

of  Exeter  '..  ..  ..  ..  320 

Inventory  of  1506 ib. 

MSS.  given  by  the  Dean  and  Chapter  to  the  Bodleian 

Library,  Oxford 376 

[Mention  is  made  of  this  gift,  A.D.  1602,  in  Wood's  '  Hist,  et  Antiq.  Oxon.'  Part  II.  p.  51]. 

No.  IY. — FABRIC-ROLLS. 

Extracts  from  the  Rolls  of  the  Gustos  Novi  Operis  Ecclesie 

Sancti  Petri  Exonie,  1279  to  1439     379 

Transcript  'of  the  Fabric-Roll  of  Exeter  Cathedral,  Mich. 

1299  to  Mich.  1300 392 

No.  V. — CHARTERS,  &c.,  chiefly  relating  to  the  City  and  Diocese. 

Charter  by  Bishop  Robert  Chichester  to  Walter,  of  the 
Archdeacon  of  Exeter's  house 408 

Endowment  of  Colebrook  Chantry ib. 

Confirmation  of  Chapter  Property  by  Bishop  Robert  Chichester  410 

Bishop  Robert  Warelwast's  Grant  of  the  Manor  of  Mela  to 
his  Chapter 411 

Appropriation  by  Bishop  John  of  the  Churches  of  Eglosgruc 
and  Ashburton 412 

King  John's  License  to  Hubert  Archbishop  of  Canterbury 
to  hold  in  custody  convicted  Clerks 413 

Grant  of  Lanutho  Church  to  the  Chapter  by  Bishop  Marshal      ib. 

Appropriation  of  Gwennap  to  the  Chapter 414 

Appropriation  of  Littleham  to  the  Chapter 415 

Composition  respecting  Harberton ib. 

Arrangements  respecting  Alternon         417 

Inquisition  on  the  Small  Tithes  of  Harberton       418 

Bishop  Brewer's  Appropriation  of  Harberton,  Winkleigh, 
Sancreed,  and  Trevalga,  to  the  Chapter 419,420 

Confirmation  of  the  Churches  of  Bockerell,  Up-Ottery,  and 
Stokeley-Pomeroy,  to  Bishop  Bronescombe  and  his  suc- 
cessors    ,. 421 

Gift  of  the  Church  of  Bockeland  to  the  same  by  Henry  de 
Bott,  Abbot  of  Glasneye ib. 

Gift  of  the  Manor  of  Kelly  to  Bishop  Thomas  de.  Bitton     . .     422 

Appropriations  of  the  Churches  of  Up-Ottery,  St.  Bruered, 
Widdecombe-in-the-Moor,  and  St.  Uvely,  to  the 
Chapter  422-430 

The  Chapter's  Letters  of  Confraternity  to  King  Edward  II. 
and  the  Royal  Family 431 

Agreement  between  the  Dean  and  Chapter  and  the  Mayor 
and  Chamber  concerning  the  City  Walls  adjoining  the 
Close  (1322) 432 

Endowment  of  Bishop  Stapeldon's  Chantry 434 


CONTENTS.  xiii 

Page 

CHARTERS,  &c. — continued. 

Inventory  of  Bishop  Stapeldon's  Effects        438 

Bishop  Grandisson's  Will        444 

Charge  on  Parochial  Chapels  of  Ease     453 

Pardons  by  King  Richard  II.  to  Bishop  Brantyngham,  for 

Escapes  of  his  Clerical  Prisoners        454,455 

Will  of  Canon  Langton 455 

Approbation  of  Bishop  Lacy's  '  Office  of  St.  Raphael ' ..      ..  457 

Foundation  of  Bishop  Stafford's  Chantry       458 

Statutes  and  Ordinances  of  Bishop  Oldam  (1511)        ..      ..  465 
Endowment  of  Silke's   Chantry  in  the   North  Tower  of 

Exeter  Cathedral 469 

Synopsis  of  the  Statutes  of  his  Cathedral  by  Bishop  John 

Veysy 471 

Dean  Heynes'  Proposals  to  Henry  VIII.  for  the  Govern- 
ment of  the  Church  of  Exeter     477 

Letter  of  William  Prouz,  M.P.,  to  the  Corporation  of  Exeter  483 
Appropriation  of  Morthoe  by  Bishop  Brantyngham  to  the 

Dean  and  Chapter        484 

Queen  Elizabeth's  Grant  to  the  Church  of  Exeter  488 


LIST   OF   PLATES. 


No.  1. — The  Seal  of  BISHOP  OSBEBN. 

2.  „  „  WILLIAM  WABELWAST. 

3.  „  „  KOBEBT  CHICHESTEB. 

4.  „  „  BABTHOLOMEW. 

5.  „  „  JOHN  YE  CHANTOB. 

6.  „  „  SIMON  DE  APULIA. 

7.  „  „  THOMAS  DE  BITTON. 

8.  „  „  WALTEB  STAPELDON. 

9.  „  „  JOHN  GBANDISSON. 

10.  „  „  S.  THOME  DE  BBANTYNGHAM. 

11.  „  „  EDMUND  STAFFOBD. 

12.  „  „  EDMUND  LACY. 

13.  „  „  RICHARD  REDMAYNE, 

14.— Obverse  of  the  old  Chapter  Seal  attached  to 
a  Deed,  2  July,  1133. 

15. — Reverse  of  ditto. 


LIVES 


OF 


THE  BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 


THE    LIVES 


OF   THE 


BISHOPS   OF    EXETER. 


EXETER  CATHEDRAL. 

BEFORE  we  enter  on  this  wide  field  of  investigation, 
we  may  premise  that  Wessex  originally  formed  but  one 
episcopal  see,  under  St.  Birinus,  who  first  introduced 
the  lamp  of  faith  into  that  kingdom  in  the  year  634. 
This  saintly  prelate  fixed  his  residence  at  Dorchester,  a 
town  seated  on  the  Thames  in  Oxfordshire,  and  there 
ended  his  course  after  fifteen  years  of  apostolical  labour.1 
About  fifty  years  after  his  death,  Bishop  Hedda,  the 
friend  of  King  Ina,  transferred  this  see,  which  lay 
exposed  to  the  inroads  of  the  Mercians,  to  the  important 
city  of  Winchester,  where  the  sovereigns  of  Wessex 
held  their  court.  But  it  was  out  of  the  range  of 
possibility  for  a  single  bishop  to  superintend  a  flock 
scattered  from  the  frontiers  of  Kent  to  the  extremities 
of  Cornwall ;  upon  Hedda's  death  the  diocese  of  Shire- 
burn,  comprehending  Wilts,  Berks,  and  the  counties 
of  Dorset,  Somerset,  Devon,  and  Cornwall,  was  taken 
from  that  of  Winchester,  and  was  assigned  to  the 
charge  of  Aldhelm,  the  learned  abbot  of  Malmesbury. 

1  According  to  the  Saxon  Chronicle,  I  twenty-seventh  year  of  his  episcopacy. 
xEgelburght  succeeded  St.  Birinus,  and  |  Venerable  Bede  in  his  '  Ecclesiastical 


sat  thirty-five  years.  His  nephew, 
Hlother,  was  consecrated  his  successor 
by  Archbishop  Theodore,  and  governed 
for  seven  years.  '  St.  Hedda  succeeded, 
and  died  in  703,  or  rather  in  705,  in  the 


History,'  book  iii.,  places  Wini  for  a 
time  between  ^Egelburght  and  Hlother 
as  Bishop  of  Wessex,  c.  7,  c.  12.  For 
the  character  of  Hedda  see  book  v.,  c.  19, 
of  Bede's  Hist. 


LIVES  OF  THE 


This  arrangement  continued  in  force  upwards  of  two 
centuries,  when,  according  to  the  evidence  of  William 
of  Malmesbury,  the  librarian  and  precentor  of  that 
renowned  monastery,  both  sees  becoming  vacant  about 
the  year  910,  Plegmund,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
availed  himself  of  the  opportunity  to  establish  three 
several  dioceses,  viz.  Cornwall,2  Devon,  and  Somerset.3 
Of  course  we  reject  the  letter  of  Pope  Formosus  to 
King  Edward,  who  did  not  ascend  his  throne  until 
five  years  after  that  Pontiff's  death ;  as  also  the  asser- 
tion that  Plegmund  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  in 
consequence  of  such  letter,  proceeded  to  consecrate 
seven  bishops  on  one  and  the  same  day  of  the  year 
910.  The  Saxon  Chronicle  shows  that  as  early  as  870, 
Aelthred  Bishop  of  Wilts  had  been  translated  to  Canter- 
bury. From  the  Saxon  Chronicle,  and  our  ancient 
writers,  we  collect  the  following  series  of  the  Bishops 
of  DEVON,  who  fixed  their  see  at  CREDITOR,*  where  it 
remained  about  140  years  : — 

The  first  we  believe  to  have  been  EADWULF,  or 
^EDULPHUS,  or  ADULPHUS.  After  filling  the  episcopal 
chair  twenty-one  years,  he  died  in  931,  and  was  buried 


2  Whitaker's  attempt,  in  his  '  Cathe- 
dral of  Cornwall,'  vol.  i.  section  4,  to 
make  out  the  succession  of  the  Cornish 
prelates  (of  which  William  of  Malmes- 
bury confesses  his  ignorance)  is  any- 
thing but  satisfactory.  Kalph  do  Diceto 
states  that  Athelstan  was  appointed 
Bishop  of  Cornwall  in  910.  In  a  charter 
of  King  Athelstan  we  meet  with  Ealred 
as  its  bishop,  and  in  the  manumissions 
entered  in  the  copy  of  the  Bodmin 
Gospels,  preserved  in  the  British  Mu- 
seum, with  Bishops  Vulspie  or  Wulsie, 
Wulsige,  jEthelgar,  Comoere,  and  Bu- 
ruhwold,  which  last  is  also  named  in 
the  charter  of  Canute,  A.D.  1018.  In  the 
Calendar  Book  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter 
of  Exeter,  page  59,  we  read,  "  Isti  se- 
quentes  fuerunt  in  sede  EPISCOPALI 
SANCTI  GERMANI  IN  CORNUBIA,  a 
tempore  Regis  Edwardi  filii  Regis  Al- 
fredi  usque  ad  tempus  Regis  Cnouti 
Danici :— 1.  Athelstanus  ;  2.  Comanus; 


3.  Ruydok;  4.  Adelredus;  5.  Britwyune; 
6.  Wolsi;  7.  Woronus  ;  8.  Wolocus;  9. 
Stidio;  10.  Adelredus;  11.  Burewoldus." 

3  Et  in  pago  Summersetensi  qui  habe- 
bat  episcopum  olim  apud  Welles,  qui 
nunc    est    Bathonise :   erant  que    duo 
episcopatus,  unus  in  Credinton  Devene- 
schire,  alter  apud  Sanctum  Germanum 
in  Cornubia  ;  nunc  est  unus,  et  est  sedes 
ejus  Exoniae.     Wil.  Malm.,  fol.  18,  '  Do 
Gestis  Regum.' 

4  To  Hoker's  account  of  this  period, 
so  servilely  adopted  by  Bishop  Godwin, 
we  can  attach  no  credit.     He  seats  one 
Werstanus  at  Bishop's  Tawton  (which 
was  a  manor  attached   to  the  see  of 
Devon),  and  provides  him  with  a  suc- 
cessor there  in  one  Putta,  who  travels 
down  to  Crediton  to  pay  his  respects  to 
some  king,  or  to  one  Uffa,  Earl  of  Devon ; 
but  whose  servants  put  him  to  death  in 
the  year  912. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 


at  Crediton.     See  Will,  of  Malm.  <  De  Gestis  Pontif.,' 
lib.  2,  and  *  Chron.  Florentii  Wigorniensis.' 

^THELGAR  or  ALGAR  was  the  next  Bishop  of  Cre- 
diton. Matthew  of  Westminster  writes  thus  :  —  "  Anno 
gratise  931,  Eadulfus  Crediensis  Episcopus  diem  clausit 
extremum  cui  ^Ethelgarus  successit."  In  a  charter  of 
Athelstan  30th  Dec.  938,  copied  by  William  of  Malmes- 
bury  in  his  '  Life  of  St.  Aldhelm,'  part  ii.,  he  occurs  as 
a  witness.  He  died  in  952,  and  was  buried  at  Crediton. 

^ELFWOLD  or  ALFWOLD  was  selected  by  King  Edred 
for  the  next  prelate  of  Devon,  at  the  recommendation 
of  St.  Duns  tan,  as  Matthew  of  Westminster  informs  us. 
He  appears  in  966  as  Episcopus  Dumnoniae.  See  Mr. 
Kemble's  '  Diplomata,'  vol.  ii.,  p.  418.  He  died  in 
972,  in  the  nineteenth  year  of  his  episcopacy,  according 
to  Florentius's  '  Chromcon,'  and  was  buried  at  Crediton  ; 
he  was  succeeded  by 

SID  KM  AN,  according  to  the  author  of  the  '  Flores  His- 
toriarum,'  Matthew  of  Westminster.  He  had  been 
appointed  abbot  of  a  congregation  of  monks,  whom 
King  Edgar  in  968  had  formed  in  Exeter,  "anno 
gratise  968,  Eadgarus  in  Exonia,5  monachos  congregans, 
virum  religiosum  Sidemannum  illis  vice  abbatis  prae- 
fecit."  The  date  of  his  promotion  to  the  episcopacy  is 
unknown  ;  but  he  died  rather  suddenly  on  30th  April, 


5  A  monastery  had  existed  here  more 
than  two  centuries  before.  St.  Boni- 
face, a  native  of  Crediton,  who  in  the 
sequel  became  the  Archbishop  of  Mentz 
and  the  Apostle  of  Germany,  and  was 
martyred  on  the  5th  of  June,  755,  set.  75, 
received  his  early  education  under  Wulf- 
hard,  abbot  of  the  monastery  "  in  Exan- 
chester,  quod  modo  Exonia  dicitur,"  says 
Bishop  Grandisson  in  his  '  Legenda 
Sanctorum.'  It  was  to  this  monastery, 
we  believe,  thai  the  body  of  Prince 
Cyncheard  was  brought  for  interment  in 
785.  See  Dr.  Lingard's  'History  of 
England,'  vol.  i.  p.  141  (ed.  1837).  Per- 
haps the  community  had  failed  for  want 
of  members  when  King  Edgar  revived 


it.  If  Orgar,  Duke  of  Devonshire,  the 
father-in-law  of  that  monarch,  was  buried 
at  Exeter  in  971,  as  Florentius  affirms, 
probably  his  remains  were  deposited  in 
this  abbey.  At  every  step  of  the  period 
before  the  Conquest  we  have  to  bemoan 
the  loss  of  the  numerous  libraries  at- 
tached to  the  monasteries,  which  were 
destroyed  by  the  ruthless  Danes.  See 
Ordericus  Vitalis  '  Hist.  Eccl.'  lib.  iv. 
p.  206  ;  and  in  his  sixth  book  he  ob- 
serves, '  Veterum  monimenta  cum  mundo 
pretereunte,  a  memoria  presentium  de- 
ficiunt,  quasi  grando  vel  nix  in  undis, 
cum  rapido  flumine  irremiabiliter  fluente 
defluunt." 


B    2 


4  LIVES  OF  THE 

977,  whilst  assisting  at  a  great  synod  held  at  Kyrlington 
in  Oxfordshire.  The  Saxon  Chronicle  relates  that  the 
bishop  had  expressed  his  wish  to  be  buried  with  his 
predecessors  at  Crediton ;  but  that  King  Edward  the 
Martyr  and  St.  Dunstan  directed  that  his  remains 
should  be  honourably  deposited  in  the  chapel  of  St. 
Paul's,  on  the  north  side  of  St.  Mary's  Minster  at 
Abingdon. 

ALPRICUS  or  ALURICUS,  the  aged  and  learned  abbot 
of  Malmesbury,  was  next  promoted  to  the  vacant  see  of 
Crediton^but  survived  his  preferment  scarcely  four 
years  ('Angl.  Sacra/  vol.  ii.,  p.  33).  He  left  some 
MSS.,  "  non  exigua  ingenii  monumenta,"  the  life  of 
St.  Adelwold,  an  abridgment  of  the  death  of  St.  Ed- 
mund King  and  Martyr,  and  many  translations  into 
English  of  Latin  books. 

^ELFWOLD  the  Second,  or  ALEWOLD,  succeeded.  We 
learn  from  the  Wilton  register,  in  the  possession  of  the 
Earl  of  Pembroke,  and  printed  at  the  expense  of  the 
late  Sir  Richard  Colt  Hoare,  that  our  bishop  in  988 
witnessed  a  charter  of  King  Ethelred  as  "  Crediensis 
Ecclesie  Archimandrita ;"  as  also  another  charter  of  the 
same  sovereign  in  995. 

EDNOD,  EADNOTH,  EDWYNUS,  or  EADWINE,  <qui  et 
Wine'  (Will,  of  Malmes.,  p.  145),  was  consecrated 
in  1022,  and  governed  the  diocese  about  ten  years. 
Some  scholars  have  supposed  him  to  be  the  same 
as  LIVINGUS  ;  and  indeed  we  sometimes  find  sub- 
scribing witnesses,  before  the  Conquest,  passing  by 
different  names  :  thus,  in  King  Ethelred's  confirmation  of 
the  possessions  of  Woolverhampton  Church,  we  observe 
"  Ego  Leofricus  Abbas,  qui  alio  nomine  Ethelnoth 
vocatur,  subscripsi "  ('  Mon.  Angl.'  vol.  vi.  p.  1446). 
But  the  'Chronicon'  of  Florence  of  Worcester,  calls 
this  Livingus  "  Eadnothi  Successor,"  and  we  have  the 
authority  of  our  own  Bishop  Stapeldon  to  confirm  this. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  5 

In  the  foundation-deed  of  the  Archpresbytery  of  Whit- 
church  (Regr.  fol.  165),  dated  14th  January,  1321,  this 
prelate  enjoins  perpetual  prayers  for  them,  as  distinct 
bishops,  " pro  animabus  Edivyni  et  Livingi,  quondam  epis- 
coporum  Exon" 

LIVINGUS,  originally  a  monk  of  St.  Swithun's,  Win- 
chester, afterwards  appointed  Abbot  of  Tavistock. 
Whilst  discharging  this  office,  he  accompanied  his 
sovereign  Canute  to  Rome.  On  the  king's  return  in 
1031,  by  way  of  Denmark,  he  despatched  this  abbot  to 
England,  with  a  letter  announcing  to  his  council  the 
object  of  his  journey  to  Rome  and  its  results.  The 
letter  may  be  seen  in  Malmesbury,  and  the  '  Chronicon ' 
of  Florence  of  Worcester.  Shortly  after,  the  abbot  was 
preferred  by  the  king  to  the  vacant  see  of  Crediton  ; 
and  on  the  demise  of  his  uncle  Burhwold,6  the  Bishop 
of  St.  Germans  in  Cornwall,  succeeded  in  obtaining 
from  Canute  the  consolidation  of  the  two  dioceses  in 
perpetuity.  In  1030  King  Harold  added  to  his  prefer- 
ments the  vacant  see  of  Worcester.  This  eloquent 
bishop,  as  he  is  styled  in  the  Anglo-Saxon  Chronicle, 
held  them  all,  till  his  death  20th  March,  1044,7  or  more 
probably  23rd  March,  1047,  according  to  the  Saxon 
Chronicle.  The  place  of  his  death  is  unknown  ;  but  his 
remains  were  conveyed  for  interment  to  Tavistock 
Abbey,  and  in  William  of  Malmesbury's  time  the 
grateful  monks  continued  their  supplications  for  the 
repose  of  his  soul  ('  De  Gestis  Pontificum).' 8 

6  In  the  archives  of  the  Dean  and  |  fric,  "  Ego  Lifingus  Crydiauensis  Ec- 
Chapter  of  Exeter  is  a  charter  of  King     clesise  Pontifex,  rogatus  a  Kege,  calamo 
Canute,  dated  1018,  granting  "  quatuor     scripsi." 

cassatas  teme  (hides)  in  Landhertun  et        8  "Humatus  est  Tavistokise,  quo  loci 

Tinieltun  citidam  meo  fidelissimo  epis-  j  multa  spectabilia  contulerat,  tantamque 

copo  qui  noto  vocitamiue   nuncupatur  {  sui  gratiam  apud  inonachos  locaverat, 

Burhwold."  j  ut  hodieque  xv  graduum  psalmos,  coii- 

7  In  1044  he  attested  King  Edward's  j  tirmata  per    successores  consuetudine, 
grant  of  Holcumbe  to  his  chaplain,  Leo-  pro  ejus  decautent  quiete." 


LIVES  OF  THE 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 

LEOFRICUS  (the  Leuricus  of  Domesday)  descended 
from  an  illustrious  family  in  Burgundy,  but  reared  and 
educated  in  Lorrain,  had  probably  formed  an  acquaint- 
ance with  Edward  the  Confessor  abroad.  Shortly  after 
his  accession  to  the  English  throne  we  meet  Leofric  as 
his  chaplain,  to  whom  he  gave  an  estate  now  called 
Holcombe,  in  the  parish  of  Dawlish,  in  the  county  of 
Devon,  "  cuidam  meo  idoneo  capellano,  Leofrico  onomate 
nuncupato,  septem  mansas  in  Doflishe."  The  original 
grant  is  in  the  archives  of  the  cathedral.  He  further 
made  Leofric  his  chancellor  for  a  short  period ;  and 
promoted  him  to  the  charge  of  the  united  sees  of 
Devon  and  Cornwall.  The  district  had  greatly  suffered 
from  the  incursions  of  pirates ;  and  we  learn  from 
a  manuscript  in  the  Bodleian  Library  (No.  579)  that 
our  zealous  and  faithful  prelate  exerted  himself  in 
visiting  and  administering  comfort  to  his  afflicted  flock 
— that  he  was  assiduous  in  preaching  God's  Word — that 
he  trained  up  his  clergy  in  religious  discipline,  erected 
several  churches,  and  was  exemplary  in  the  discharge 
of  his  spiritual  functions.  Crediton  was  then  a  defence- 
less town,  in  comparison  to  Exeter,  which  had  rapidly 
recovered  from  its  disasters  inflicted  by  the  Danish 
invaders ;  and  Leofric  contemplated  a  removal  of  his 
residence  into  this  fortified  city,  the  capital  of  Devonia, 
laeta  fluviis  nemorumque  coma.  To  succeed  in  his 
object  he  despatched  his  confidential  chaplain  Landbert 
to  Rome,  to  explain  to  the  saintly  Pope  Leo  IX.  the 
expediency  of  such  translation  of  residence,  and  to 
request  his  holiness  to  recommend  the  measure  to  his 
sovereign.  The  pope  readily  consented ;  his  recom- 
mendation met  the  royal  approval,  and  King  Edward 
bestowed  on  our  prelate  the  monastery  of  St.  Mary 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  7 

and  St.  Peter  in  Exeter  for  his  future  residence,  and,  in 
the  course  of  the  year  1050,  assisted  with  Editha  his 
queen,  at  the  installation  of  the  bishop  in  the  said  abbey- 
church,  in  the  presence  of  a  numerous  assemblage  of  the 
nobles  of  England.  The  monks,  who,  according  to 
Leland  ('  Itin.'  vol.  iii.  p.  67),  were  but  eight  in  number, 
were  transplanted  to  Westminster,  and  twenty-four 
secular  canons,  and  twenty-four  vicars  were  appointed 
to  perform  the  daily  and  nightly  service  in  his  new 
Cathedral.  These  canons  adopted-  in  a  great  measure 
the  rule  of  St.  Chrodegang,  Bishop  of  Metz,  who  had 
died  6th  March,  766 — a  rule  which  had  found  favour  at 
the  great  national  council  of  ^Enham  (Hants),  at  which 
the  primate  Elphege  presided  in  1009.  It  enjoined 
celibacy,  attendance  at  choir  during  the  seven  canonical 
hours,  eating  together  in  the  same  refectory,  and 
sleeping  in  a  common  dormitory  ;  but  in  process  of  time 
such  convictus  became  obKgatory  on  the  vicars  only. 
Leofric  found  his  church  ill  provided  with  revenues  and 
ornaments,  and  especially  books.  From  his  private 
resources  he  maintained  his  cathedral  staff  until  he  suc- 
ceeded, by  his  industrious  zeal  and  influence  with  the 
state,  in  recovering  some  of  the  alienated  property  of 
the  late  monastery  at  Culmstock,  Branescomb,  Saltcumb, 
St.  Mary  Church,  Staverton,  St.  Sidwell,  &c.9  With 
the  permission  of  William  the  Conqueror  in  1069,  he 
conveyed  to  his  church  the  above-mentioned  estate  at 
Holcombe,10  with  property  at  Bampton,  Estiun  and 
Ceommaiiyng  in  Oxfordshire  ;  and  in  the  second  volume 
of  the  '  Monasticon  Anglicanum,'  p.  527  (ed.  1819),  may 
be  seen  a  catalogue  of  his  numerous  and  valuable 
donations.  The  editors,  however,  have  overlooked 
some  other  books  mentioned  in  the  original  manuscript, 
in  the  possession  o'f  the  Dean  and  Chapter,  viz.  the 

9  Where  is  Sweartse  Fons  ?  our   chapter.    It  is  witnessed   by  Ar- 

10  The  Eoyal  License,  in   excellent     fastus,  the  chancellor, 
preservation,  remains  in  the  archives  of 


LIVES  OF  THE 


'Hymns  of  Prudentius,'  Bede's  'Commentary  on  St. 
Luke's  Gospel,  as  also  u  Liber  Persii,  et  Sedulii  Boc, 
et  Liber  Oratoris,  et  Liber  de  Sanctis  Patribus."  Several 
of  these  books  were  parted  with  by  the  Dean  and 
Chapter,  and  are  now  in  the  Bodleian  Library.  In 
1061  our  bishop  witnessed  the  grant  by  King  Edward 
the  Confessor  of  the  manor  ,of  Ottery  St.  Mary  in  this 
diocese  to  the  cathedral  church  of  Eouen.  On  the 
10th  of  February,  1072-3,  this  worthy  prelate  was  called 
to  his  repose,1  and  was  buried  in  the  crypt  of  his  church 
"  in  crypta  ejusdem  ecclesias,"  supposed  to  be  under  the 
present  vestry  of  the  Priest-vicars'  or  St.  James's  Chapel. 
In  the  fabric  roll  of  the  cathedral  of  1419  is  a  charge 
"  Pro  scriptura  lapidis  Domini  Leofrici,  primi  ecclesiae 
Exon  episcopi."  In  1568  a  memorial  to  him,  partly  com- 
posed of  ill-assorted,  but  beautiful  marble  fragments, 
was  erected  within  the  south  tower.  The  crypt  afore- 
said had  served  for  several  years  as  a  wine-vault  for  the 
episcopal  palace ;  but,  having  been  previously  cleared 
by  order  of  the  chapter,  an  excavation  was  made  on  30th 
April,  1847,  to  ascertain  if  the  remains  of  the  bishop 
were  actually  there,  yet  without  any  satisfactory  result. 
Can  that  beautifully  designed  sepulchral  monument 
against  the  south  wall  of  St.  James's  Chapel  be  in- 
tended to  perpetuate  his  memory  ? 

ARMS: — Or,  a  cross  fleiaree,  sable,  having  on  the  fess  point  a 
mitre  proper. 

CHARTER  of  KING  EDWARD  the  CONFESSOR  to  his  Chaplain  LEOFRIC,  of 
HOLCOMBE  in  Dawlish. 

CARTA  de  vij  mansis  de  Dowchlics  quos  Sanctus  EDWAEDUS  I\EX  dedit 
LEOFRICO  capellano  suo  in  tempore  Lyfingi  Episcopi  Cridianensis,  sub 
anno  Domini  M°.xlmjto. 

Regis  cunctorum  regum  regimine  reguntur  omnia  supera 
ima  profundaque,  cujus  quoque  immensa  benivolentia  sub 
inde,    quem   sibi  obtemperantem    perspexerit  et   praesentibus 

1  In  Alford's  '  Annales  Eculesiae  Sanctos  numeratur."  And  in  his  '  Index 
Anglican®,'  vol.  iii.  p.  574,  \ve  read  Sanctorum  A nglije'  lie  asserts  that  his 
"  Leofricus  Episcopus  Exoniensis  inter  feast  was  kept  26th  April. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  9 

locupletat  habunde  opibus,  et  post'  istius  misere  vite  de  cursum 
— facit  eum  pennis  angelicis  transcendere  ad  regna  supernorum 
gaudiorum.  Qui  etiam  solus  voluntate  eterni  patris  disponit 
sceptra  juraque  regnorum:  est  nempe  dux  ducum  rexque 
omnium  procul  dubio  regum.  Cujus  rei  autem  gratia  a  nobis 
inclioatus  sit  hie  donationis  libellus  consequenter  manifestabitur 
in  precedente  paginula.  Igitur  ego  Eduuardus,  opitulante 
potentissimo  Deo,  possidens  totius  monarchiam  Anglicae  necne 
et  Brittannise  telluris  baud  modice,  concedendo  concessus  sum 
cuidam  meo  idoneo  capellano  Leofrico  onomate  nuncupate 
quoddam  rus  in  villa  que  ab  incolis  regionis  illius  vocitatur 
Doflise  scilicet  vii  mansos  illi  et  ad  arandum  eo  tenore  quo 
omnibus  diebus  vite  sue  absque  aliqua  machina  sub  illius  hono- 
rifice  regatur  dominio  atque  potestate  postque  finem  dierum 
illius  habeat  potestatem  cuicumque  placuerit  tribuendi  aut 
erogandi.  Precepimus  autem  ut  antefatum  rus  sit  liberum  ab 
omni  fiscali  tributo  vel  vectigali  cum  omnibus  ad  se  rite  per- 
tinentibus  tarn  in  maximis  quam  in  modicis  rebus,  campis 
pascuis  pratis  silvisque,  exceptis  istis  tribus,  expeditione,  pontis, 
arcisque  constructione.  His  itaque  a  nobis,  prout  debuimus 
ceuque  placuit  reverentie  nostre  et  voluntati  stabilitis,  adhuc 
quod  minime  est  oblivioni  tradendum,  volumus  ut  hie  presens 
codicellus  nostre  Keen  tie  scriptus  dampnet  conculcet  atque 
anathematizet  cunctos  emulorum  si  qui  contra  eundem  reperti 
fuerint,  libellos.  Siquis  autem  quod  futurum  minime  autumo 
presumptione  audaci  instinctuque  diabolico  contra  nostrum 
decretum  hanc  donationis  karterulam  adnihilare  vel  pro  nihilo 
ducere  temptaverit  inprimis  quod  gravius  est  iram  Dei  omni- 
potentis  genitricisque  ejus  videlicet  alme  et  intacte  Marie 
incurrat,  dehinc  meam  omniumque  satellitum  meorum  noscat- 
que  se  obiioxium  atque  reum  omnibus  horis  atque  momentis 
solorum  fiatque  pars  illius  cum  Dathan  et  Abyron  cumque 
tortuoso  Beelzebub  principe  muscarum  in  baratro  inferiori  et 
quod  indigne  seu  procaciter  repexit  ne  eum  clicet  sed  cum 
dedecore  multimodo  expulsus  sit  a  nobis  nisi  prius  hie  digna 
penitudine  studuerit  ultro  ne  coactus  emendare.  Anno  incar- 
nationis  dominice  M.XLIIII  indictione  xn  epactaque  xvni  et 
concurrents  vii  scilicet  bissextili  anno  karaxata  est  hec  kartula 
gubernante  piissimo  Anglorum  catervam  rege  feliciter  Eaduuardo. 

Ego  Eduuardus  rex  totius  Anglice  gentis  htijus  donationis  liber- 

tatem  hilari  animo  fieri  concessi. 

Ego  Eadsinus  Christi  ecclesie  archipresul  corroboravi. 
Ego  ^Elfricus  Eboracensis  ecclesie  archi  episcopus  consolidavi. 
Ego  Lifingus  Crydiunensis  ecclesie  pontifex  rogattis  a  rege  calamo 

scripsi. 

Ego  ^Eluuinus  episcopus  assensum  prebui. 
Ego  Brihtuuoldus  episcopus  conimnavi. 


10  LIVES  OF  THE 

Ego  Dodico  episcopus  consignavi. 
Ego  Ealdredus  episcopus  corroboravi. 
Ego  ^Elfuuimis  abba  nove  ecclesie. 
Ego  jiEgeluuardus  abba  glestoniensis  ecclesie. 
Ego  ^Ethelstamis  abba.  Ego  Atsorus  minister. 

Ego  Uulfuueardus  abba.  Ego  Godricus  minister. 

Ego  Goduuinus  abba.  Ego  ^Ifuuinus  minister. 

Ego  Goduuimis  dux  stabilivi.      Ego  Ulfcytel  minister. 
Ego  Leofricus  dux.  Ego  Osmarus  minister. 

Ego  Suuegen  dux.  Ego  Ecgulfus  minister. 

Ego  Sigeuuardus  dux.  Ego  Goduuinus  minister. 

Ego  Haroldus  nobilis.  Ego  .yElfriciis  minister. 

Ego  Tofti  nobilis.  Ego  ^Ethelwerdus  minister. 

Ego  Leofuuinus  nobilis.  Ego  Wulfwerdus  minister. 

Ego  Odda  nobilis.  Ego  ^Ethelricus  minister. 

Ego  Ordgarus  nobilis.  Ego  Livingeus  minister. 

Ego  ^Elfgarus  nobilis.  Ego  Uulfarus  minister. 

Ego  Ordulfus  nobilis.  Ego  Brihtwinus  minister. 

Ego  Dodda  nobilis.  Ego  Uulfsige  minister. 

Ego  Brihtricus  nobilis.  Ego  Burkyl  minister. 

Ego  Osgodus  minister.  Ego  Toui  minister. 

Ego  .^Elfstanus  minister.  Ego  ./Ethelwinus  minister. 

Ego  Ecglafus  minister.  Ego  Thurstanus  minister. 

Ego  ^Ethelmaerus  minister.  Ego  JElfgeat  minister. 

Ego  Karl  minister.  Ego  Manni  minister. 


CONFIRMATION  by  King  WILLIAM  the  CONQUEROR  to  Bishop  LEOFRIC,  of 
Holcombe,  in  Dawlish,  and  Bampton,  in  Oxfordshire. 

Mundo  accrescentia  mala  minantur  etiam  mundi  appro- 
pinquare  excidia,  et  beatius  est  hominem  mortalem  illuc 
mentis  passibus  tendere,  ubi  post  finem  hujus  vitae  beatis  datur 
perenniter  vivere.  Hoc  enim  vivere  beatissimum  oportet  Kegem 
Christianum  omni  mentis  conamine  sibi  alacriter  emere,  quia 
miserabile  est  regem  hoc  seculo  coronari  et  in  futuro  seternis 
poanis  mancipari.  Hsec  vero  vigili  mente  intuens,  his  quoque 
ne  succumbam  precavens  Ego  Wilhelmus  victoriosus  Anglorum 
basileus  concessi  fidelem  meum  Leofricum  Episcopum  septem 
mansos  terrae  in  privatis  locis,  hoc  est  apud  Bemtun  &  Estiun 
&  Ceommanyg,  ac  Holacumb  secclesise  Sancti  Petri  Apostoli  in 
Exonia  ubi  ejus  episcopalis  sedes  est,  donare  &  canonicorum 
ejusdem  aecclesiae  victum  ampliare  hereditario  jure,  tarn  in 
magnis  quam  in  modicis  rebus  ad  se  rite  pertinentibus,  videlicet 
agris,  silvis,  pratis,  pascuis,  cultis  &  incultis  exitibus  &  reditibus, 
eo  tenore  ac  concessu,  ut  prefata  terra  ab  omni  censu  sit  libera, 
excepta  expeditione,  pontis  ac  urbis  constructione  &  restaura- 
tione.  Si  quis  autem,  quod  absit,  diabolo  instigante  meum 
regalem  concessum  presumat  evertere,  &  beneficia  predictse 
rccclesiae  &  canonicis  data  detrahere,  vel  in  aliquo  minuere,  nisi 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  11 

conversus  reddendo  &  dupliciter  restituendo  sanctae  Dei  seccle- 
siae  satisfaciat,  in  resurrectione  beatorum  divina  voce  damnatus 
fiat  socius  omnium  demoniorum.  Anno  dominicae  incarnationis 
millesimo  LXVIIII  consentiente  Wilhelmo  rege  data  est  hsec 
terra  Ecclesiae  Sancti  Petri  Apostoli  in  Exonia  civitate  a  vene- 
rabili  presule  Leofrico  sub  testimonio  eorum  qui  subscript!  sunt. 

4-  Ego  Wilhelmus  Dei  gratia  Rex  Anglorum  hanc  donationein 

perpetue  memorie  mandavi. 
4-  Ego  Mahtilda  regina  adjuvi. 

4-  Ego  Stigandus  Archiepiscopus  Christi  Ecclesie  confirmavi. 
4-  Ego  Odo  episcopus  consolidavi. 
4-  Ego  Herimannus  episcopus  corroboravi. 
4-  Ego  Leofricus  episcopus  concessi  et  subscripsi. 
-f-  Ego  Gosfredus  episcopus  consensi. 
4-  Ego  Giso  episcopus  assensum  prebui. 
+  Ego  Wilhelmus  episcopus  confortavi. 
-f-  Ego  Balduuinus  abbas  dignum  duxi. 
4-  Ego  Rodberius  comes. 
4-  Ego  Wilhelmus  comes, 
-f-  Ego  Brient  comes. 
4-  Ego  Eduuinus  comes. 
4-  Ego  Morkrrinus  comes. 
4-  Ego  Eaulpus  comes. 
4-  Ego  Arfastus  cancellarius. 
4-  Ego  Ingelricus  presbiter. 
4-  Ego  Wilhelmus  vicecomes. 
4-  Ego  Eodbertus  vicecomes. 
4-  Ego  Boegerius  vicecomes. 
4»  Ego  Leopnofus  minister. 
4-  Ego  Kicardus  minister. 
4-  Ego  Folco  minister. 
4-  Hugo  minister. 
4-  Ego  Kaulpus  minister. 

Indorsed. — Confirmatio  Kegis  Willelmi  de  6  Hidis  de  Bentun  et 
de  Estun  et  de  Ceommanig  et  de  una  hida  et  virgata  et 
dimidia  in  Devonia  ad  Holecumb  de  terra  de  Doflisc. 

Carta  Willelmi  Eegis  de  Bamptun       j 

Carta  de  Bampton  et  Holecumb  infra  >  In  a  much  later  hand, 
manerium  de  Docwlysch 

This  is  the  dede  of  sex  hide  en  Oxenford  Schire  at  Bampton 
&  at  Eston  and  at  Chemenye  &  thilke  1  hide  &  other  half  hide 
Lande  en  Devonschire  at  Holcombe  of  Dawlisch  lande  that 
Leofric  Bisshop  gaf  on  to  his  Bisschiprych  of  Excestr  by 
Kyngis  leve  will  for  his  Sowle. 


OSBERN  or  OSBERT  was  ^  Norman   by  birth,  and 
brother   to    William   Fitz-Osbern,   Earl    of  Hereford, 


12  LIVES  OF  THE 

a  principal  commander  in  the  battle  of  Hastings,  and 
styled  by  Ordericus  Yitalis,  "  Dapifer  Normannise, 
Regis  Yicarius  et  magister  militum  bellicosus,"  (lib.  iv.). 
The  historian  of  Jumieges  Abbey  says  of  him,  "  Ipse 
cum  Willielmo  duce,  Anglos  maxime  perdomuit,  et 
comitatum  Herefordise  cum  magn&  parte  regni  sensu 
et  viribus  obtinuit."  The  earl  was  the  founder  of 
St.  Mary's  Abbey  of  Lire,  in  the  diocese  of  Evreux, 
and  of  St.  Mary's  at  Cormeilles,  in  the  diocese  of 
Lisieux,  Falling  in  the  battle  of  Bavinchove,  near 
Cassell,  22nd  Feb.  1071,  he  was  buried  at  Cormeilles. 
His  wife  Adeliza  was  interred  at  Lire.  Sir  Henry 
Spelman  in  his  '  Glossary/  part  i.  p.  409,  considers  him 
to  have  been  the  first  chief  justice  of  England.  (See 
Ordericus  Vitalis,  lib.  iv.)  Osbern  had  left  his 
native  country  to  reside  in  the  court  of  Edward  the 
Confessor,  to  whom  he  was  nearly  related,  "  quippe  qui 
cognationem  regiam  vicino  attingeret  gradu."  (Will, 
of  Malm.  '  De  Grestis  Pont.,'  p.  145.)  As  chaplain  to 
that  sovereign  he  had  the  satisfaction  of  witnessing  the 
dedication  of  the  church  of  Westminster  Abbey,  and  its 
charter  of  privileges  granted  by  the  royal  saint  on 
28th  December,  1065. 

Osbern  was  consecrated  at  St.  Paul's,  London,  on 
28th  March,  1073,  as  successor  to  Leofric  in  the  see  of 
Exeter,  by  the  primate  Lanfranc  ;  and  at  Easter  that 
year  assisted  at  the  Council — begun  to  be  holden  in  the 
Royal  Chapel  within  Winchester  Castle  and  completed 
at  Pentecost  at  Windsor — to  join  his  episcopal  brethren 
in  their  confirmation  of  the  primacy  of  Canterbury 
(Wilkins'  '  Concilia,'  vol.  i.  p.  325),  to  which  King 
William,  his  Queen  Matilda,  Hubert  the  Papal  Legate, 
Lanfranc  Arehbishop  of  Canterbury,  and  Thomas 
Archbishop  of  York  added  their  signatures.  We  meet 
him  again  at  the  Council  of  London  in  1075.  The 
Domesday  Survey,  commenced  and  finished  in  his  time, 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  13 

shows,  that  besides  the  possessions  of  his  see  in  Devon 
and  Cornwall,  he  had  landed  property  also  in  Sussex, 
Surrey,  Hants,  Berks,  Gloucester,  Norfolk,  and  Oxford- 
shire. In  his  time  Exeter  must  have  greatly  increased 
in  population  and  prosperity ;  for  King  William  the 
Conqueror  allowed  a  sum  to  be  paid  for  ever  from  the 
city  taxes  at  Easter  and  Martinmas  to  its  twenty-nine 
chapels.  William  of  Malmesbury  admires  him  for  the 
decided  preference  which  he  manifested  for  the  sim- 
plicity of  English  manners  and  habits,  for  his  personal 
frugality,  for  his  bounty  to  the  poor,  and  his  blameless 
character.  It  would  seem  that  in  advanced  life  he 
exhibited  an  unpleasant  feeling  to  a  colony  of  monks 
from  Battle  Abbey,  that  had  settled  themselves  in 
St.  Nicholas'  Minster  here  ;  but  on  receiving  the  letter 
of  Pope  Paschal  II.,  directing  him  to  allow  to  the 
members  of  that  community  the  right  of  sepulture 
within  their  own  inclosure,  and  to  extend  to  that  esta- 
blishment his  fostering  care  and  protection  (Wilkins' 
'  Concilia,'  vol.  i.  p.  378), — and  again  the  paternal 
appeal  of  his  primate  St.  Anselm,  to  suffer  them  to 
ring  their  bells  according  to  the  regulations  of  the 
Benedictine  order,  and  to  encourage  the  faithful  to 
assist  them  in  completing  their  conventual  church, — 
he  was  induced  to  befriend  and  patronise  the  strangers, 
as  we  have  shown  in  the  Monasticori  of  the  diocese 
(Article  St.  Nicholas*  Priory).  We  further  learn  from 
its  chartulary  that  he  confirmed  to  them  the  church  of 
Collumpton  (No.  13),  and  also  the  appropriation  of 
Hydon  (No.  390). 

Blindness  and  bodily  infirmity  prevented  this  ven- 
erable prelate  from  assisting  at  the  Council  holden  in 
London  in  the  autumn  of  1102:  late  in  the  ensuing 
year  he  meekly  surrendered  his  soul  to  God.2  Of  the 
place  of  his  burial  we  collect  nothing  authentic. 

2  "  Vixit  ad  quartum  annum  Regis  Henrici." — Wm.  Malms. 


14 


LIVES  OF  THE 


In  a  document  within  the  cathedral  archives  is  a 
deed  of  Leowine,  a  priest  and  canon  of  the  church  of 
St.  Mary  and  St.  Peter  of  Exeter,  in  which  he  be- 
queaths to  it — "  pro  anim&  Osberti  Episcopi  et  sua," 
the  text  of  the  Gospels  ;  a  silver  chalice,  gilt  inside  arid 
out,  weighing  two  marks  and  fifteen  pence ;  silver 
cruets,  weighing  sixteen  shillings  and  eight  pence ; 
a  silver  thurible,  gilt  outside,  weighing  eleven  marks 
and  fifty-five  pence ;  a  silver  dish,  weighing  three 
marks  four  shillings  and  four  pence ;  a  pixis  or 
ciborium,  gilt  inside  and  out,  "  ad  corpus  Domini 
reservandum ;"  and  a  silver  processional  cross,  set  with 
precious  stones  and  inclosing  relics,  with  some  other 
pious  memorials.  He  concludes  thus,  "  Si  quis  vero 
aliquid  istorum  (nisi  in  usus  pauperum,  tempore  famis, 
expendatur)  prsedictse  ecclesiae  subtraxerit,  perpetuoe 
subjaceat  maledictioni — Arnen.  Fiat.  Fiat.  Anien." 
AEMS  : — Gules,  a  bend  argent,  surmounted  by  a  fess  or. 

WILLIAM  WARELWAST.S — Owing  to  the  controversy 
between  the  Church  and  the  Crown,  concerning  the 
right  demanded  by  the  Sovereign  of  investing  bishops 
and  abbots  elect  with  the  ring  and  crosier,  the  reputed 
emblems  of  spiritual  jurisdiction,  our  diocese  continued 
for  some  years  unprovided  with  a  chief  pastor.  The 
Popes  Gregory  VII.,4  Victor  III.,  Urban  II.,  and 


3  In  the '  Chronicon'  of  John  Brompton, 
printed  among  the  Decem  Scriptores, 
p.   984,  is  a  strange    misnomer,  viz., 
"A.D.  1088  Galfridus  Exoniensis  Epis- 
copus  a  Bristollia  prodiens,  urbem  Ba- 
toniensem    et    Barcheley,    et    circum- 
jacentia  destruxit." 

4  It  was  indeed  a  melancholy  period 
for  the  Church  when  simony  was  sup- 
ported by  imperial  and  royal  authority 
throughout    Christendom.     Even    Vol- 
taire ('  Annal  de  TEmpire,'  an.  1076) 
admits  "Cette  autorite  avait  tout  envahi. 
Les  Empereurs  nommoient  aux  e'veche's, 
et  Henri  IV.  lee  vendoit."     Our  very 
learned  author,  Sir  Francis  Palgrave,  in 
his  '  History  of  Normandy  and  of  Eng- 
land,' vol.  i.,  has  treated  this  point  with 


great  force  and  discrimination.  Speak- 
ing of  Gregory  VII.,  or  Hildebrand,  he 
thus  expresses  himself : — 

"  In  respect  of  the  episcopacy,  Hilde- 
brand, labouring  with  all  his  heart  and 
soul  for  the  general  reformation  of 
western  Christendom,  contended  against 
two  inveterate  abuses,  then  equally  de- 
structive and  disgraceful  to  the  Church 
and  to  State.  The  Sovereign  was  un- 
questionably entitled  to  a  large  share  of 
influence  in  the  selection  of  his  bishop ; 
but  the  Sovereigns  would  not  be  con- 
tent with  less  than  the  whole,  and,  by 
the  operation  of  lay  investiture,  they  in- 
truded their  nominees  into  the  seat 
without  any  regard  to  the  fitness  of  the 
individual,  or  the  opinions  of  the  Church 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 


15 


Pascal  II.,  had  uniformly  protested  against  this  laical 
claim,  as  an  innovation  and  an  encroachment  on  the 
liberties  of  the  Church.  The  Sovereign,  from  whom 
the  prelate  elect  was  to  receive  the  temporalities  of  his 
office,  unquestionably  was  entitled  to  the  undivided 
civil  allegiance  and  homage  of  his  subjects  ;  still,  by 
those  who  are  conversant  with  the  history  of  these 
times,  it  must  be  admitted  that  the  ulterior  claim  paved 
the  way  to  arbitrary  exactions,  and  grievous  injuries, 
and  scandalous  abuses ;  and  that  the  poor,  who  then 
looked  up  to  the  Church  for  assistance  and  maintenance, 
felt  as  if  deprived  of  their  patrimony.  King  Henry  I. 
had  the  good  sense  to  relinquish  the  claim,  granted 
freedom  of  election  to  the  prelates,  and  restored  Church 
property  to  its  rightful  owners  (Wilkins'  '  Concilia,' 
vol.  i.  p.  387). 

The  individual  now  selected  to  fill  the  vacant  see  of 
Exeter  was  a  special  friend  of  the  above-mentioned 
monarch.  His  name  was  William  Warelwast,  nephew 
to  the  Conqueror  ("  filius  sororis  Willelmi  Conquestoris," 
says  William  of  Worcester,  Itin.  p.  100),  and  had 
served  the  two  last  kings  in  the  quality  of  chaplain. 
He  had  early  proved  himself  a  most  obsequious  courtier ; 
nay,  in  the  autumn  of  1095,  had  treated  his  primate 
Anselm  at  Dover  with  such  vexatious,  even  rude 
indignity,  as  could  only  be  surpassed  by  the  passive 


— that  is  to  say,  the  community ;  Church 
and  people  being  here  convertible  terms. 
The  second  abuse  was  simony. 

Interpreting  these  acts  according  to 
modern  ideas,  the  first  exhibits  the 
Crown  forcing  the  Lord  Mayor  upon 
the  Corporation  of  London,  or  nomi- 
nating the  Kecorder ;  the  other,  a  jobber 
buying  a  borough,  or  a  legal  shark 

fravitating  upon  the  bench  —  as  in 
tuart  times  —  by  the  weight  of  the 
purse  slipped  into  the  hands  of  the 
Lord  of  the  Bedchamber.  Both  on  the 
part  of  the  clerks  who  purchased,  and  on 
the  part  of  the  patrons  who  sold,  there 
prevailed  the  most  scandalous  cor- 


ruption ;  and  Hildebrand,  sparing  neither 
the  bribed  nor  the  bribers,  incurred  the 
inveterate  odium  of  all  the  delinquents. 
Hildebrand  had  no  respect  to  persons 
in  judgment.  Sin  level  led  emperors  and 
beggars  before  him.  The  stigma  at- 
tached to  Hildebrand's  name  speaks  the 
world's  opinion  of  his  inflexible  zeal  and 
impartial  justice.  Talleyrand  designated 
history  as  a  universal  conspiracy  against 
truth.  Never  was  this  sarcasm  more 
pungeiitly  appropriate  than  when  ap- 
plied to  the  treatment  sustained  by 


Becket,    Anselm, 
(Pp.  Ill,  112.) 


and    Hildebrand. ' '  — 


16  LIVES  OF  THE 

submission  and  meek  forbearance  of  that  saintly  metro- 
politan. Probably  he  now  regrette^d  such  unclerical 
proceedings :  with  four  or  five  other  bishops  elect  he 
received  consecration  from  the  hands  of  Anselm  him- 
self at  Canterbury,  on  Sunday,  llth  August,  1107. 

From  his  contemporary  Ordericus  Yitalis  we  learn 
that  our  bishop  accompanied  his  Sovereign  to  Nor- 
mandy in  1113  («  Hist.  Eccl.'  lib.  xi.). 

The  '  Chronicon '  of  the  Church  of  Exeter  assigns  to 
him  the  honour  of  rebuilding  the  cathedral.  Of  that 
structure  we  have  remaining  the  north  and  south 
towers,  forming  the  transepts  of  the  present  church, 
and  some  traces  in  the  chapels  of  St.  Andrew  and  St. 
James,  and  in  the  south-east  door  leading  into  the 
cloisters.  In  the  '  Monasticon '  of  the  diocese  we  have 
detailed  the  noble  use  he  made  of  his  ample  fortune,  in 
founding  Plympton  Priory,  and  in  reorganising  and 
endowing  the  religious  houses  of  Bodmin  and  Laun- 
ceston.  Dying,  according  to  the  Tywardreth  obituary, 
on  26th  September,  1137,5  on  1st  October  he  was 
buried  in  the  chapter-house  of  Plympton  Monastery 
(Leland's  '  I  tin.'  vol.  iii,  p.  33).  His  effigy  on  his  seal, 
like  that  of  his  immediate  predecessor,  represents  him 
in  his  pontifical  robes,  holding  a  short  simple  crook  in 
his  left  hand,  in  the  act  of  blessing  with  the  right,  and 
without  a  mitre.  From  both  King  Henry  I.  and  King 
Stephen  he  obtained  the  confirmation  of  the  rights  'and 
property  of  his  church  ;  but  blindness  and  the  infirmi- 
ties of  advanced  age  prevented  his  attesting  at  Oxford 
the  celebrated  charter  of  King  Stephen,  which  con- 
firmed all  the  privileges  and  liberties  of  the  Church  of 
England.  Leland's  statement  "that  he  abdicated  his 
see  to  become  a  canon  of  Plympton,  and  that  his  death 
occurred  in  1127,  in  the  twenty-eighth  year  of  King 

5  Kal.  Oct.  Depositio  Domini  Willelmi,  Exoniensis  Episcopi  anno  ab  incarna- 
tione  Domini  M°.CXXXVII. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETEK.  17 

Henry  the  First "  ('  Collectanea/  vol.  i.  p.  79),  is  mani- 
festly incorrect.      * 

AKMS  : — According  to  Izacke,  Azure,  a  saltier  or ;  but  according 
to  Westcote,  the  better  historian  of  the  two  (Had.  MS.),  Per 
pale  gules  and  or ;  in  the  first  two  keys  paly  of  the  second  ; 
the  second  charged  with  a  sword  point  in  point  of  the  field. 

ROBERT  CHICHESTEH,  Dean  of  Salisbury,  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  vacant  see  of  Exeter  at  the  Council 
holden  at  Northampton  in  April,  1138,  and  was  conse- 
crated on  the  18th  of  December  that  year  by  the 
Primate  Theobald,  whom  he  accompanied  to  Rome 
after  the  Christmas  holidays,  as  we  learn  from  Simeon 
of  Durham.  Godwin  conjectures  that  our  Bishop  pro- 
ceeded thither  on  a  pilgrimage,  and  with  the  view  of 
enriching  himself  with  many  relics  ;  but  the  truth  is  he 
went  in  compliment  to  his  Metropolitan,  who  received 
from  the  Pope  on  this  occasion,  for  himself  and  his  suc- 
cessors, Archbishops  of  Canterbury,  the  title  of  "  Apos- 
tolicse  Sedis  Legatus."  Amongst  the  documents  in  the 
possession  of  our  Chapter  is  a  deed  of  Bishop  Chichester, 
dated  Sunday,  15th  August,  1148,  by  which  lie  appro- 
priates to  the  Canons  of  his  cathedral  the  churches  of 
Brankescombe,  St.  Mary  Church,  Dawlish,  East  Teign- 
moutb,  Sidbury,  Staverton,  and  Stoke,  towards  their 
better  support.  This  deed  or  gift  was  laid  by  the  donor 
on  St.  Peter's  altar  in  tbis  cathedral  in  the  presence 
of  Patrick  Bishop  of  Limerick,  and  of  the  clergy  and 
citizens  of  Exeter.  From  another  document  which  he 
addressed  to  Walter,  one  of  bis  Canons,  we  learn  that 
the  Bishop  bad  brothers  of  the  name  of  Peter  and 
Philip.  They  also  witness  a  deed  of  Chapter  in  note 
below.6  We  have  printed  in  the  '  Monasticon '  of  the 

6  Capitulum   Ecclesie    Sancti   Petri  ;  cessisse   terram  que   fuit  Keinfridi  et 

Exonie.     Omnibus  Sancte  Matris  EC-  ;  Hedegrove  et  Hailemanni  que  sita  est 

clesie  Fidelibus  Salutein.     Notum  fieri  ;  in  vico  Sancti  Martini,  Jordano  nepoti 

volumus   universitati  tarn   presencium  Aluredi  Archidiaconi  Jure  hereditario 

quam  futurorum  nos  dedisse   et  con-  sibi   et    heredibus   suis  to  to   Tempore 


LIVES  OF  THE 


guine  Dei  et  Domini  Eedemptoris  nostri  Jhesu  Christi  aliena 
fiat,  atque  in  extreme  examine  districte  ultioni  subjaceat. 
Cunctis  autem  eidem  loco  justa  servantibus,  sit  pax  Domini 
nostri  Jhesu  Christi.  Quatenus  et  hie  fructum  bone  actionis  pre- 
cipiant,  et  apud  districtum  judicem  premia  eterne  pacis  in- 
veniant.  Amen.  Amen.  Amen. 

Ego  Eugenitts  Catholice  Ecclesie  Episcopus.     (S.) 
-\-  Ego  Conradus  Sabinensis  Episcopus.     (S.) 
+  Ego  Imams  Tusculiensis  Episcopus.     (S.) 
-f-  Ego  Hugo  Hostiensis  Episcopus.     (S.) 
4-  Ego  Oto  Diaconus  Cardinalis  Sancti  Georgii  ad  velum  au- 

reum.     (S.) 

4-  Ego  Guido  Cardinalis  Diaconus  Sancte  Marie  in  Portion.  (S.) 
-f  Ego  Jacintus  Diaconus  Cardinalis  Sancte  Marie  in  Cosmy- 

dyn.     (S.) 

4-  Ego  Girardus  Diaconus  Cardinalis  Sancte  Marie  inviolate.  (S.) 
+  Ego  Gregorius  Presbiter  Cardinalis,  tituli  Sancti  Calixti.  (S.) 
4-  Ego  Aribertus  Presbiter  Cardinalis,  tituli  Sancte  Anastasie.  (S.) 
+  Ego  Gerardus  Presbyter  Cardinalis  tituli  Sancti  Stephani  in 

Celio  Monte.     (S.) 

-f  Ego  Johannes   Presbiter   Cardinalis   Sanctorum   Johannis   et 
Pauli,  tituli  Pamachii.     (S.) 

Datum  Laterani  per  manum  Bosoms  Sancte  Komane  Ecclesie 
Scriptoris,  II  Id.  Martii,  Indiccione  prima,  incarnacionis 
Dominice  Anno  M°COLOII°.  Pontificatus  vero  Eugenii  Pape 
tertii  anno  nono. 

To  the  lead  seal,  the  heads  of  Saints  Peter  and  Paul  on  one 
side,  and  Eugenius  P.P.  III.  on  the  other,  are  appended. 

ROBERT  WARELWAST,  nephew  to  William  the  third 
bishop  of  Exeter,  had  filled  the  office  of  Archdeacon  of 
Exeter,  and  during  the  last  seventeen  years  had  been 
Dean  of  Salisbury,  was  now  chosen  successor  to  the  late 
prelate.  The  consecration  was  performed  at  Canter- 
bury on  5th  June,  1155,  by  the  primate  Theobald,  assisted 
by  the  Bishops  of  Salisbury,  Chichester,  Ely,  and 
Rochester 8  ('  Chronicon  Gervasii ').  It  was  to  this 
bishop  and  to  his  successors  that  Henry  II.  confirmed 
the  grant  of  the  tithe  of  royal  fish  taken  on  the  coasts 
of  Devon  and  Cornwall — a  privilege  previously  granted 


8  The  custom  of  having  at  least  two 
assistant  prelates  at  an  episcopal  conse- 
cration is  lost  in  the  remotest  antiquity. 
Venerable  Bede,  mentioning  the  conse- 


cration of  St.  Chad  by  Wini  Bishop  of 
Wessex,  says,  "  fecit  eum  episcopum, 
vocatis  ad  se,  in  ministerium  ordina- 
tionis,  duobus  episcopis." 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  21 

by  King  Henry  I.  (See  Grandisson's  '  Register/  vol. 
ii.  27  ;  Brantyngham's  '  Register/  vol.  ii.  27  and  37  :  see 
also  «  Mon.  Angl.'  vol.  vi.  p.  305.)  On  1  st  March,  1 1 60, 
he  confirmed  the  right  of  sepulture  to  the  newly  esta- 
blished community  of  Benedictine  nuns  at  Polslo  near 
this  city ;  and  about  the  same  time  bestowed  on  his 
Chapter  for  their  better  maintenance  "manerium  de 
Meela  (Melhuish)  cum  omnibus  pertineniiis  suis,  quod 
Dei  auxilio  ego  adquisivi."  Amongst  other  witnesses 
to  this  deed  of  gift  is  Roger,  the  bishop's  nephew. 
Sigebert  in  his  '  Ohronicon '  (Paris  ed.  1513)  describes 
our  prelate  as  "  vir  religiosus  et  timens  Deum."  After 
presiding  over  the  diocese  for  a  short  period,  he  died 
happily  on  22nd  March,  1161,  and  was  buried,  accord- 
ing to  Godwin,  near  his  episcopal  uncle  in  Plympton 
Priory ;  but  if  so,  his  remains  must  have  been  removed 
by  Bishop  Stapeldon  early  in  the  1 4th  century  to 
Exeter  Cathedral;  for  in  the  Fabric  Roll  of  1320  we 
read  a  charge  for  his  grave  "in  fossato  Dni.  Roberti 
Warwest  Epi. ;"  and  in  the  regulations  approved  of  by 
the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Exeter  in  the  said  Bishop 
Stapeldon 's  time  (as  appears  by  their  statute-book,  fol. 
112),  it  is  stated,  that  he  was  buried  in  the  choir  of  his 
cathedral.  "  In  obitu  episcoporum  super  unumquem- 
que  debet  poni  pannus  sericus  et  duo  cerei  dum  Placebo 
et  Dirige  cantatur,  et  dum  missa  de  eo  cantatur ;  tantum- 
modo  episcopus  scilicet,  Robertus  Warmest,  qui  jacet  in 
choro9  habet  quatuor,  dum  celebratur  pro  eo." — At 
obituary  services  of  the  bishops,  over  the  hearse 
should  be  placed  a  silken  pall  and  two  wax-lights ; 
whilst  vespers  for  the  dead  and  matins  and  the  mass 
of  requiem  are  sung  :  only  in  the  case  of  Bishop  Robert 
Warwest,  who  lies  in  the  choir,  four  wax-lights  are 
used  when  celebrating  for  him. 

We  have  seen  a  document  of  this  bishop  taken  from 
the  register  of  Rouen  Cathedral,  certifying  that  he  was 


22 


LIVES  OF  THE 


present  when  our  most  serene  lord,  Henry  II.,  King 
of  England,  gave  in  Frankalmoigne  to  the  canons 
of  that  Church,  a  moiety  of  the  manor  of  Kilon  (now 
called  Kilham  in  the  East  Biding  of  Yorkshire),  and 
handed  his  charter  to  its  Archdeacon  G-ildo.9 

ARMS  ut  prius. 

BARTHOLOMEW,  the  ornament  and  pride  of  Exeter, 
and  "  the  luminary  of  the  English  Church,"  for  so  he 
was  designated  by  Pope  Alexander  III.,  was  of  humble 
origin  in  this  city ;  but  a  rare  felicity  of  genius  recom- 
mended and  enhanced  by  modest  merit,  commanded 
public  attention.  Embracing  the  ecclesiastical  state, 
honours  and  preferments  courted  his  acceptance  :  from 
Canon  and  Archdeacon  of  Exeter  he  was  selected  to 
become  its  bishop.  The  Primate  Theobald,  then  dan- 
gerously ill,  gave  directions  to  his  own  brother  Walter, 
Bishop  of  Eochester,  to  perform  in  his  stead  the  office 
of  consecrating  the  elect ;  but  before  he  could  proceed 
to  do  so,  the  archbishop  died  on  the  18th  April,  1161 ; 
and  a  new  commission  was  therefore  issued  by  Gilbert, 
the  Prior  of  Christ  Church,  Canterbury,  to  enable  the 
said  Walter  to  perform  the  ceremony. 

All  the  contemporaries  of  Bartholomew  extol  him  for 
his  wisdom  and  learning.  His  dialogue  against  the 
Jews  was  pronounced  in  later  times  by  Leland  as 
"  acuminis  et  nervorum  plenissimum,"  and  in  his  work 
'  De  Scriptoribus  Brit/  p.  225,  he  enumerates  the 
Prelate's  treatises"  de  Praedestinatione,  de  libero  arbitrio 
et  de  Pcenitentia,"  to  which  Pitseus  adds  "  de  obitu  S. 


9  Robertas  Dei  gratia  Exoniensis 
Episcopus  omnibus  ad  quos  present 
scriptum  pervenerit  in  domino  salutem 
in  domino.  Caritatis  opus  cst  fraterni- 
tatis  gaudere  successions,  et  in  pre- 
scritibus  subvenire,  et  futuris  obviaro 
periculis.  Ne  igitur  donationem  medie- 
tatis  manerii  de  Kilon,  canonicis  Rotlio- 
magensis  ecclesie  a  sercuissimo  domino 


nostro  Rege  Anglorum  Henrico  secundo 
factam,  edax  posset  abolere  vetustas, 
presentis  scripti  testimonium  perkibe- 
mus,  quia  nos  presentes  fuimus,  ubi  pre- 
nominatus  dominus  noster  Rex,  prefati- 
manerii  medielatem,  prefatis  canonicis 
in  perpetuam  elemosinam  concessit  et 
in  manu  Domini  Gildonis,  Rothoma- 
gcnsis  arcliidiaconi,  truditionem  fecit. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  23 

Thomas  Cantuariensis,  Contra  falsitatis  errorem,  De 
mundo  et  corporibus  ccelestibus  ;  and  his  Epistolse.  In 
the  catalogue  of  our  cathedral  library,  taken  in  1506, 
we  meet  also  with  his  "  Sermones  et  Summa." 

Of  his  acts  within  the  diocese  we  glean  but  slender 
details;  but  we  know  that  St.  German's  Priory  re- 
garded him  as  her  second  founder,  and,  until  its  dissolu- 
tion, distributed  yearly  4/.  on  Maundy  Thursday  amongst 
the  poor,  in  grateful  remembrance  of  his  bounty ;  and 
that  Plyrnpton  Priory  and  St.  Mary  Magdalene's 
Hospital,  Exeter,  venerated  him,  as  a  special  benefactor. 
To  the  infant  nunnery  of  Polslo,  near  this  city,  he 
assigned  a  pension  from  the  episcopal  domain  at  Ash- 
burton.  To  his  chapter  he  appropriated  the  Church  of 
Colebrooke,  but  with  the  reserved  pension  of  ten  shil- 
lings to  the  brethren  of  St.  John's  Hospital  of  Jeru- 
salem in  London.  And  he  must  ever  be  intitled  to 
commendation  for  his  generous  patronage  of  scholars, 
especially  of  Baldwin,  his  poor  townsman,  afterwards 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  to  whom  he  proved  himself  a 
Mecaenas,  and  more  than  a  father.  His  grand  title 
to  panegyric,  however,  in  the  view  of  modern  writers, 
is  fierce  opposition  to  his  primate  St.  Thomas  of 
Canterbury.  "  He  was  a  great  adversary  of  Arch- 
bishop Becket,"  say  the  editors  of  the  late  edition  of 
the  '  Monasticon  Anglicanum '  (vol.  ii.  p.  515).  Of  the 
merits  of  that  controversy  no  one  can  be  competent  to 
form  a  correct  judgment,  who  does  not  transfer  himself 
to  the  middle  of  the  twelfth  century,  and  take  his  stand 
by  the  then  established  constitution  of  England,  with- 
out reference  to  subsequent  or  present  usages  and 
statutes.  That  King  Henry  II.  had  solemnly  confirmed 
at  his  coronation,  to  God  and  the  English  Church,  all 
the  rights  which  the  clergy  had  possessed  in  the  reign 
of  his  royal  grandfather,  the  first  Henry,  is  undeniable  ; 
and  that  he  had  pledged  his  faith  to  renounce  and 


24  LIVES  OF  THE 

abolish  all  the  bad  customs  and  innovations,  which  the 
former  monarch  had  renounced  and  abolished,  is  equally 
unquestionable  (Wilkins*  '  Cone.'  vol.  ii.  p.  426).  It 
is  also  a  recorded  fact  that  a  general  feeling  of  alarm 
pervaded  the  nation  at  the  accession  of  Henry  II.,  from 
the  notoriety  of  his  capricious,  despotic,  and  vindictive 
character.10  And  perhaps  no  man  was  better  qualified 
to  arrive  at  a  sounder  opinion  on  the  subject  by  his 
previous  intimate  acquaintance  with  the  king's  feelings 
and  habits,  and  by  his  knowledge  of  the  laws,  than 
Thomas,  "  who  fulfilled  all  the  functions  of  chancellor 
most  satisfactorily,  and  was  celebrated  for  his  impar- 
tiality "  (Campbell's  '  Lives  of  the  Lord  Chancellors,' 
vol.  i.  pp.  97-100)  It  cannot  be  denied,  that  in  the 
early  part  of  the  controversy  our  bishop  did  side  with 


10  Giraldus  Cambrensis,  in  relating 
the  ceremony  of  Thomas's  consecration 
by  Henry  de  Blois,  Bishop  of  Win- 
chester, as  performed  at  Canterbury  on 
Pentecost  Sunday,  1162,  relates  that  the 
latter  thus  addressed  him— "Dearest 
brother,  you  will  have  now  to  make 
your  option,  whether  you  will  forfeit 
the  favour  of  the  King  above,  or  that  of 
your  earthly  sovereign."  For  he  knew 
the  disposition  of  Henry  was  decidedly 
opposed  to  the  freedom  of  the  Church. 
Thomas  instantly  raising  his  eyes  and 
hands  towards  heaven,  exclaimed — "  By 
the  grace  and  help  of  God,  never  will  I 
forfeit  for  the  love  and  favour  of  an 
earthly  monarch,  the  love  and  favour  of 
the  King  on  high."  Both  confirmed 
this  choice  and  pledge  by  a  flood  of 
tears  :  and  the  consecrating  bishop  sanc- 
tioned it  with  a  blessing. 

Three  circumstances  appear  to  me  to 
have  been  much  overlooked  by  modern 
writers — 1st,  that  the  king,  after  the 
murder  of  the  primate,  released  all  the 
bishops  from  observing  their  promise 
of  maintaining  his  innovations  called 
customs,  and  engaged  never  to  enforce , 
them  for  the  future  v  Concilia,  Paris  Ed. 
1644,  voL  xxvii.  p.  392). 

2.  That  our  sovereigns,  especially  our 
English  Justinian,  King  Edward  I.,  and 
indeed  all  who  became  eminent  in  the 
State  or  hi  the  Church  of  England  for 
nearly  the  four  next  centuries,  viz.,  until 


that  "  royal  felon  hi  sacrilege "  (as 
Whitaker, '  Cathedral  of  Cornwall,'  vol. 
i.  p.  100,  designated  Henry  VIII.)  de- 
clared open  war  against  the  very  name 
and  ashes  of  St.  Thomas,  in  September, 
1538,  all  united  in  venerating  his  me-" 
mory  as  that  of  a  patriot.  To  use  the 
words  of  Somner,  "he  may  be  rightly 
said,  like  a  stout  champion,  to  have 
stood  in  defence  and  maintenance  of 
ecclesiastical  liberty,  usque  ad  aras  " 
('Antiq.  Cant.' p.  486). 

3.  His  unrivalled  patronage  of  scho- 
lars, which  compelled  that  obsequious 
courtier  Leland  to  proclaim,  "  Stat  sta- 
bitque  Thomas  perpetuum,  hoc  uno 
nunquam  satis  laudatus  calculo,  quod 
talem  eruditorum  sibi  non  parvo  tern- 
pore  numerum  retinuerit,  qualem  ab 
eo  tempore  Episcoporum  Britannicorum 
nullm  sibi  comparavit;  sed  neque  Fu- 
turorum  quisquam,  quantum  ego  ex- 
istismare  possum,  comparabit "  ('  De 
Script.  Brit.'  part  i.  p.  216,  sub  Gervasio 
Cicestr.}. 

We  may  add,  that  King  Henry  VIII. , 
as  appears  from  his  '  Household  Book,' 
up  to  December,  22nd  year  of  his  reign, 
sent  to  Canterbury  by  one  of  the  royal 
chaplains  his  offering  "toSaynt  Tliomas." 
What  had  the  saint  done  amiss  by  llth 
June,  1538,  to  be  stigmatised  as  a  trai- 
tor, perjurer,  and  rebel?  See  Wilkins' 
'Concil.'  iii.  836. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 


25 


the  majority  of  the  prelates  against  the  primate,  and 
was  even  employed  by  the  king  as  ambassador  to  Pope 
Alexander  III.  at  Sens  to  prefer  charges  against  him. 
But  it  is  not  less  true  and  certain  that  both  Bartholomew 
and  Roger,  Bishop  of  Worcester,  saw  sufficient  cause  to 
alter  their  minds  on  the  merits  of  the  question — that 
they  sought  a  reconciliation  with  the  exiled  archbishop 
—that  Bishop  Bartholomew  proposed  to  remain  with 
him  in  voluntary  banishment,  and  was  only  prevented 
from  doing  so  by  the  primate's  persuasion.  Our  vener- 
able bishop  submitted  to  this  counsel ;  but  employed  his 
influence  at  home  in  protecting  the  friends  and  kindred 
of  Thomas  from  the  vexatious  prosecution  of  the  court 
officials ;  and  he  occasionally  conveyed  to  him  pecuniary 
succour — a  service  of  considerable  difficulty  and  peril 
('  Angl.  Sacra,'  vol.  ii.  p.  429),  and  when  at  last  the 
cathedral  church  of  Canterbury,  desecrated  by  the  effu- 
sion of  the  primate's  blood,  was  to  be  reconciled,  who 
was  selected  by  his  fellow  bishops  to  preach  on  the 
occasion  but  our  Bartholomew  ?  He  took  for  his  text 
the  words  of  the  Psalmist,  xciii.  19  of  the  Vulgate, — 
"  Secundum  multitudinem  dolorum  meorum  in  corde 
meo,  consolationes  tuse  Isetificaverunt  animam  meam  " 
(Ralph,  <De  Diceto,'  Mat.  Paris,  &c.).  Through  him 
we  suspect  were  obtained  some  of  the  relics  of  the  saint 
for  this  cathedral.  In  the  catalogue  of  them,  written 
in  the  characters  of  the  12th  century,  we  read  "  De 
capite  et  sanguine  S.  Thomas  Marty ris,  et  pars  magna 
cilicii  ipsius,  et  maxima  pars  ejus  Camisise  intincta  san- 
guine ipsius"* 


1  Bishop  Grandisson,  in  his  '  Legenda 
Sanctorum,'  read  formerly  in  our  cathe- 
dral, relates  :  "  Unus  carnificum  Wil- 
lielinus  de  Traci  postea  Dyocesaiio  suo 
bonse  memoriae  Bartholomeo  Exoniensi 
Episcopo  confessus  est ;  quod  hi  Viri, 
cum,  quodam  etiam  ardenti  animo  et 
cordis  tripudio  ad  Viri  Dei  necem  ac- 
celerassent,  niox  tamen,  peracto  flagitio, 


regressis  videhatur  singulis  quasi  tre- 
mulis  passibus,  quod  terra  aperta  esset, 
et  parata  ad  eos  vivos  pariter  absor- 
bendos."  This  Carnifex,  soon  after 
granting  the  manor  of  Daccombe  in 
Morton-Hampstead  parish  to  Canter- 
bury Cathedral,  died  at  Cosenza  in 
Italy. 


26  LIVES  OF  THE 

The  last  public  act  of  our  Prelate  is  his  witnessing 
in  1177  the  award  of  his  sovereign  in  the  dispute 
between  Alphonsus  king  of  Castille,  and  Sanctius  king 
of  Navarre  (Rymer's  'Fcedera,'  torn.  v.  48). 

Closing  a  lengthened  life  by  a  pious  death,  on  14th 
December,  1184,  he  was  buried  in  his  cathedral. 
"  Senio  molestatus  obiit,  in  sua  Ecclesia  sepultus,"  says 
Bale  C  Cent/  p.  224.  Basle  ed.  1557).  He  is  the  first 
of  our  Bishops  whose  effigies  is  decorated  with  a  mitre  ; 
on  the  reverse  of  his  seal  are  introduced  a  male  and 
female  figure  with  hands  joined,  with  this  motto 

CREDE  DVOBVS.  ' 

ARMS  : — According  to  Izacke,  Party  per  pale  gules  and  sable, 
six  dolphins  naiant,  argent.  According  to  Westcote,  Per 
pale  sable  and  argent,  six  dolphins  transmuted. 


CONFIRMATION  by  BISHOP  BAKTHOLOMEW  of  Land  in  Coffinswell,  Devon. 

COPIA  CONFIRMACIONIS  Episcopi  BARTHOLOMEi  de  quadam  terrula  de  la 

Wylle. 

BARTHOLOMEUS  Dei  gratia  Episcopus  Exoniensis  omnibus  fide- 
libus  ad  quos  presens  scriptura  pervenerit  salutem.  Noverit 
Universitas  vestra  quod  Willielmus  filius  Galfridi  Dominus  de 
Willa  veniens  ante  nostram  presenciam  testificatus  est  coram 
nobis  et  multis  aliis  se  dedisse  et  concessisse  Deo  et  Ecclesie 
Sancti  Bartholomei  de  Willa  pro  anima  sua  et  pro  anima  patris 
sui  Galfridi  et  matris  sue  et  pro  animabus  antecessorum  et  suc- 
cessorum  parentum  suorum  ad  perpetuam  elemosinam  quandam 
terrulam  de  dominio  suo  in  jam  dicto  manerio  de  Willa  liberam 
et  quietam  ab  omni  querela  et  omni  servicio,  assensu  et  voluntate 
Nicholai  de  Daccumba  que  videlicet  terrula  jacet  sita  .... 
Domini  de  Villa  et  inter  prata  domini  de  Daccumba  subtus  viam 
regiam  et  sicut  idem  Willielmus  ibidem  confessus  est  ad  liujus 
donacionis  recognicionem  et  majorem  corroborationem  et  ut  ilia 
donacio  in  posterum  rata  et  inconcussa  permaneat  Ilbertus 
sacerdos  persona  ejusdem  ecclesie  jledit  ei  unam  marcam  argenti 
et  unum  naidum  palefridum  et  ipse  hanc  donacionem  fecit  per 
cultellum  suum  solempniter  super  altare  predicte  ecclesie  vigilia 
pentecostin  anno  ab  Incarnatione  Domini  M°.C°.LIX°.  Hiis 
Testibus  Osberto  presbitero  de  Carswilla,  Willielmo  Capellano 
de  Carswilla  Eegis,  Koberto  Breuerid,  Osberto  Clerico  fratre 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  27 

prefati  Willielmi  Domini  de  Willa  Rogero  Clerico,  vero  Nicholao 
Domino  de  Daccumba,  Roberto  fratre  prefati  Willielmi  Domini 
de  Willa,  Parpchianis  de  Willa  Alwardo,  Martino,  Alwardo  filio 
ejusdem  Martini,  Nicholao  Sacrista,  Ailuno,  Hachevil,  Willielmo 
Rwyno  pullo  de  Daccumba,  Rdwyno,  Ascatillo,  Jordano,  Roberto, 
Alfico  filio  Wyseman;  supplicavit  eciam  nobis  sepedictus 
Willielmus,  ut  quoniam  ipse  sigillo  carebat,  nos  predictam  ejus 
donacionem  sicut  ex  ipsius  confessione  cognovimus  testificamus, 
nostri  impressione  sigilli  confirmaremus.  Quod  et  factum  est  anno 
ab  incarnatione  Domini  M.  c.  L.  xiiu  hiis  testibus  Baldevino 
Arcliidiacono  Totton,  Magistro  Johamie  Paz,  Magistro  Ricardo 
filio  Reinfridi,  Magistro  Roberto  filio  Gille,  Magistro  Roberto 
de  ,  Wero  Clerico  de  Teignton,  Ricardo  Clerico  de  Linham, 
Osberto,  Clerico  de  Lelia,  Ricardo  Flanmando,  Willielmo  de 
Daccumba,  Willielmo  de  Bottalanda. 


BAETHOLOMEI  Episcopi  de  Ecclesia  de  Colebroch. 

HENRICO  Dei  gratia  illustri  Regi  Anglie  ceterisque  Dei 
fidelibus  ad  quos  presens  scriptum  pervenerit.  Bartholomeus 
Divina  miseracione  dictus  Episcopus  Exon,  Salutem  in  Domino. 
Noveritis  quod  cum  ecclesia  de  Colebroc  quondam  vacaret,  miles 
quidem  Alexander  nomine,  asserens  se  habere  jus  advocationis 
ejusdem  Ecclesie  quicquid  ipse  potuit  in  Ecclesia  ipsa  concessit 
Waltero  tune  Priori  et  fratribus  Hospitalis  Jerosolimitani, 
voluitque  si  aliquatenus  posset  eandem  ecclesiam  ipsis  fratribus 
perpetuo  possidendam  conferre.  Ego  vero  ipsius  Alexandri 
voluntatem  intelligens,  et  sciens  quod  ego  habebam  utrumque 
jus  advocationis  scilicet  et  institutionis  in  Ecclesia  de  Colebroch, 
sicut  et  Predecessores  mei  Episcopi  habuerunt,  qui  earn  semper 
quando  vacabat,  sine  cujuslibet  laici  presentatione  aut  contradic- 
tione  donaverunt;  maxime  cum  villa  de  Colebroch  membrum 
initio  quasi  pars  quedam  semper  fuerit,  et  adhuc  sit  manerii  de 
Cridiatona,  que  cum  omnibus  pertinentiis  ac  dignitatibus  et 
libertatibus  suis  ad  ecclesiam  Exon  et  sedem  episcopalem 
integre  pertinet,  predictam  ecclesiam  de  Colebroch  divino  intuitu 
concessi  et  in  perpetuam  elemosinam  donavi  Ecclesie  beati 
Petri  et  Capitulo  Exon,  cumque  super  hoc  lis  verteretur  inter 
jam  diet  os  prior  em  et  fratres  hospitalis  Jerosolimitani  et 
Capitulum  Exon,  Priore  et  fratribus  suis  de  concessione 
Alexandri  de  Colebroch  nitentibus,  et  Capitulo  Exon  de  mea 
donatione  e  contra  nitente,  tandem  mediantibus  viris  honestis  et 
discretis  et  maxime  auctoritate  mea  interveniente,  presente 
sepefato  Alexandro  et  non  contradicente  sollemniter  in  Ecclesia 
Exon,  talis  inter  eos  facta  est  compositio.  N^idelicet  quod  Prior 
et  fratres  predicti  aiinuatini  percipiant  tantum  decem  solidos  de 


28  LIVES  OF  THE 

ilia  Ecclesia  et  totum  residuum  de  obventionibus  ejus  cum 
pleno  jure  et  possessione  ipsius  habebunt  inperpetuum  Ecclesia 
et  Capitulum  Exon  ad  luminaria  Ecclesie  et  ad  augmentum 
commune,  ita  quidem  quod  tune  assignati  erant  viginti  solidi  ad 
luminaria  et  viginti  solidi  ad  communam  reddendi  annuatim  per 
manum  Pagani  Capellani  perpetui  vicarii  memorate  Ecclesie 
sub  annua  pensione  quinquaginta  solidorum.  Hoc  autem  ideo 
sic  communiter  disposuimus  quia  per  hec  duo  scilicet  per  lumi- 
naria et  per  communam  principaliter  adimpletur  servitium 
Ecclesie  Exon  et  sustentantur  hii  qui  in  ea  assidue  ministrant ; 
hiis  vero  ita  sollempniter  'dispositis,  auctoritate  Episcopali  et 
communi  assensu  prenominatorum  Prioris  et  Capituli  Exon, 
nullatenus  etiam  contradicente  prefato  Alexandro  qui  hiis 
omnibus  interfuerat  coram  majori  aJtari  Ecclesie  Exon  publice 
Anathemati  subjecimus  omnes  qui  contra  hoc  aliquatenus  venire 
presumerent,  vel  alicujus  instinctu  hanc  compositionem  et  hanc 
nostram  super  dicta  Ecclesia  de  Colebroch  ordinationem  in- 
fringere  attemptarent;  et  ut  hec  omnia  firma  semper  et  inconcussa 
permanerent,  ea  scripto  et  sigilli  mei  appositione  confirmavi. 
Vestramque,  illustris  Rex  et  Karissime  Domine,  excellentiam  et 
prudentiam  ceterosque  sancte  matris  Ecclesie  filios  et  fideles 
humiliter  et  devote  deprecor  quatenus  divino  intuitu  et  pro 
reverentia  beatorum  apostolorum  Petri  et  Pauli  necnon  et  pro 
spe  retributionis  eterne  jura  et  possessiones  Ecclesie  Exon 
defendere  et  illesa  ac  integra  conservare  velitis,  et  earn,  nee  in 
prescripta  Ecclesia  de  Colebroch,  nee  in  ceteris  possessionibus 
suis,  diminutionem  aliquam  pati  faciatis,  aut  aliquatenus 
sustineatis.  Yalete  semper  in  Christo. 

[The  Label  has  been  deprived  of  its  Seal.] 


CABTA  BABTHOLOMEI  Episcopi  de  Ecclesia  de  Colebroc  Capitulo  Concessa. 

Bartholomeus  Dei  gratia  Exoniensis  Episcopus.  Omnibus  ad 
quos  presens  scriptura  pervenerit  Salutem.  Noverit  universitas 
vestra  nos  concessisse  et  donasse  Ecclesiam  de  Colbroc  cum 
omnibus  pertinentiis  suis  Capitulo  Exon  Ecclesie  ad  comrnuni- 
onem  canonicorum  ita  tamen  ut  decem  solidos  annuatim  inde 
persolvat  nomine  elemosine  fratribus  Domus  Hospitalis  Jerusa- 
lem et  viginti  solidos  ad  luminaria  Exon  ecclesie  juxta  disposi- 
cionem  Episcopi  et  Thesaurarii  qui  pro  tempore  erunt.  Hanc 
autem  donationem  fecimus  salvo  per  omnia  jure  diocesani  Epis- 
copi servicio  congruo  et  debito  matrici  ecclesie.  At  ut  ratum 
permaneat  sigilli  nostri  impressione  et  subscriparum  persona- 
rum  attestatione  roboramus,  Hugonis  Archidiaconi,  Petri  Archi- 
diaconi,  Johannis  Cantoris,  Baldwini  de  Wincester,  Johannis 
Paz,  magistri  Rieardi  filii  Eeinfridi,  Eogeri  de  Sidebury,  Phi- 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  29 

lippi  de  Furn,  Koberti  de  Furn,  Kicardi  Peccatoris,  Walter!  filii 
Jacob!,  magistri  Baldwin!  filii  Hugonis,  magistri  Robert!  filii 
Grille,  Eicardi  de  Sarum,  Baldwin!  Lambrict,  magistri  Robert! 
de  Auc,  magistri  Roger!  de  Baggat,  magistri  Algati,  Helie, 
Ascatilli,  Simonis,  Gilliberti  filii  Walter!,  Galfridi  Long!. 
[The  Label  only  remains.] 


JOHN. — He  is  better  known  as  the  Chantor  or  Pre- 
centor of  Exeter,  an  office  he  had  filled  for  thirty  years 
before  his  promotion  to  the  episcopacy.  At  the  time 
of  his  election  to  the  vacant  see,  he  was  also  Subdean  of 
Salisbury.  Our  townsman  Baldwin,  then  Archbishop 
of  Canterbury,  performed  the  office  of  his  consecration 
on  4th  October,  1186.  Shortly  after  his  accession  he 
appropriated  to  his  Chapter  the  Church  of  Ashburton, 
as  also  the  Church  of  Egloscruc  (now  called  St.  Issey) 
in  Cornwall,  "  in  manerio  nostro  de  Polton&."  On  3rd 
September,  1189,  we  meet  with  him  as  an  assisting 
prelate  at  the  coronation  of  King  Richard  I.  Several 
impressions  of  the  bishop's  seal  are  attached  to  deeds 
in  the  Guildhall  of  this  city,  confirming  the  property  of 
Plympton  Priory.  The  mitre  is  of  the  crescent  form. 
Dying  on  1st  June,  1191,  he  was  buried  within  the 
south,  or  St.  John's,  tower  of  his  Cathedral,  where  his 
tomb  remains  undisturbed,  and  was  formerly  covered 
with  a  brass,  probably  with  an  inscription  on  it :  the 
wooden  coffin  has  been  seen  belted  with  hoops ;  and 
formerly  it  was  inclosed  within  a  chantry,  called  St. 
Michael's. 

AKMS  : — Argent  a  cross  sable ;  a  chief  of  the  second. 

HENRY  MARSHAL. — In  consequence  of  the  absence  of 
King  Richard  in  the  Holy  Land,  and  his  subsequent 
arrest  and  close  imprisonment  by  Leopold  Duke  of 
Austria  and  Henry  YI.  Emperor  of  Germany,  upwards 
of  two  years  elapsed  before  the  see  of  Exeter  was  pro- 
vided with  its  pastor.  Henry  Marshal,  who  for  five 
years  had  been  Dean  of  York,  and  was  brother  to 


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LIVES  OF  THE 


William  Earl  of  Pembroke  and  Marshal  of  England, 
was  the  person  selected  for  this  office.2  Whilst  bishop 
elect,  viz.  10th  Feb.  1194,  he  joined  several  of  the 
prelates  and  abbots,  John  Earl  of  Mortain,  and  his 
rebellious  partizans.  Shortly  after  his  consecration  by 
the  primate  Hubert,  he  assisted  at  the  second  coronation 
of  King  Richard  at  Winchester  on  17th  April,  1194, 
and  on  26th  May,  five  years  later,  at  the  coronation  of 
his  brother  King  John.  This  sovereign,  we  believe, 
assigned  to  him  and  his  successors  the  tithe  of  tin  in 
Devon  and  Cornwall. 

This  noble  prelate  had  the  honour  of  religion  deeply 
at  heart,  and  employed  his  influence  and  fortune  in 
promoting  it.  He  is  entitled  to  commendation  for  com- 
pleting the  Cathedral  designed  and  commenced  by  his 
predecessor  William  Warelwast  nearly  a  century  before. 
That  the  faithful  of  the  diocese  might  testify  their 
respect  for  this  their  mother-church,  he  enjoined  that 
every  householder,  as  we  learn  from  Bishop  Grandisson's 
'Register'  (vol.  ii.  fol.  191),  should  imitate  the  esta- 
blished custom  of  other  dioceses,  by  contributing  to  it  at 
Pentecost  one  half-penny  at  least  "  unum  obolum  ad 
minus"  not  a  half-penny,  or  less,  as  Mr.  Britton  trans- 
lates it  ('  Survey  of  Exeter  Cathedral,'  p.  24). 

On  24th  May,  1203,  he  granted  the  emoluments  of 
the  Church  of  Lanuthinock  in  Cornwall  (qy.  Perran 
Uthno)  towards  the  repairs  of  the  Cathedral,  and  on 
22nd  November,  1205,  he  added  the  pension  of  21.  3s.  M. 
to  his  Chapter,  charged  on  the  Church  of  St.  Just 
de  Lanlioch,  which  overlooked  the  lake  of  Falmouth 
harbour,  in  Cornwall,  to  meet  the  expense  of  incense 
for  two  thuribles  at  their  ^  daily  high  mass.  But  the 
Bishop's  consideration  for  the  daily  and  nightly  services 


2  Godwin  confounds  him  with  Henry, 
Archdeacon  of  Stafford,  an  office  never 
filled  by  Marshal.  The  Archdeacon 
Henry  was  elected,  but  never  confirmed, 


Bishop  of  Exeter,  viz.  in  1209,  three 
years  after  Bishop  Marshal's  decease. 
('  Annal.  Wigorn.  in  Anglia  Sacra,'  vol. 
i.  p.  480.) 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 


31 


of  the  twenty-four  vicars3  of  his  Cathedral,  and  for  the 
inadequate  compensation  which  they  received  for  their 
labours,  deserves  special  commendation.  Having  ac- 
quired from  Abhot  Jordan  and  the  Convent  of  St. 
Michael  in  Normandy,  the  Church  of  St.  Swithun  in 
Woodbury,  with  all  its  appurtenances,  he  made  it  over 
to  the  choral  vicars.  This  example  induced  Reginald 
and  William  de  Albermarle,  knights,  and  successively 
lords  of  the  manor  of  Woodbury,  to  add  to  their 
emoluments  and  privileges. 

After  governing  his  church  for  about  twelve  years 
and  a  half,  Bishop  Marshal  died  on  26th  October,  1206, 
and  was  interred  on  the  north  side  of  his  cathedral- 
choir  under  an  altar-tomb  of  grey  marble.  Two  seals  of 
the  prelate  are  extant :  one  resembling  the  effigy  on  his 
tomb  ;  the  crosier  as  tall  as  his  figure,  but  very  simple  in 
form.  The  legend  commences  in  the  centre  of  the  oval 

4-  Henricus  .  Dei .  gratia  .  Exoniensis  .  Eps. 
The  reverse  is 

4.  Presul  Exonie  Henricus. 

The  other  seal  has  suffered  the  partial  mutilation  of 
the  obverse,  but  the  reverse  presents  a  winged  mes- 
senger, with 

*£f  PRESV2  .  EXONIE  .  SV  .  NVNCIVS. 

ARMS  : — According  to  Izacke,  Or,  a  lion  rampant  gules, 
within  a  bordure  azure,  mitred  of  the  first.  According 
to  Westcote,  Per  pale  or  and  vert,  a  lion  rampant  gules 
armed  and  langued  within  a  bordure  azure  entoyred  with 
mitres  proper. 


3  We  are  utterly  at  a  loss  to  conceive 
how  Godwin  should  have  ventured  it 
as  his  opinion,  after  having  been  Canon 
and  Subdean  of  Exeter  for  fifteen  years, 
that  Bishop  Marshal  was  the  first  insti- 
tutor  of  vicars  to  supply  the  places  of 
the  absent  canons!  He  might  easily 
have  satisfied  himself,  by  referring  to 
Bishop  Walter  Bronescombe's  Statutes, 
28th  April,  12G8,  that  the  institution  of 
twenty-four  vicars  was  coeval  with  the 


foundation  itself  of  the  Church  of 
Exeter.  "  Sicut  antiquorum  traditione 
accepimus,  et  nos  ipsi  experimento  no- 
vimus,  a  tempore  fundationis  Ecclesiss 
Exoniensis,  certo,  videlicet  xxiv  canoni- 
corum  numero,  ecclesia  ipsa  floruit. 
Item,  a  tempore  fundationis  ecclesise  pre- 
dictfe,  fuerunt  et  ipse  tenentur  in  ipsa 
ecclesia  xxiv  Vicarii,  singulis  canonicis 
intitulati ! .'" 


32 


LIVES  OF  THE 


SIMON  DE  APULIA. — The  confusion  and  disturbances 
of  the  times,  and  the  duration  of  the  interdict4'  from 
22nd  March,  1208,  to  29th  June,  1214,  occasioned 
a  tedious  interval  in  the  succession  of  our  bishops.  It 
is  true  that  King  John  issued  his  mandate  to  Eugenius 
Archbishop  of  Armagh  to  exercise  episcopal  functions 
within  this  diocese  (Prynne's  'Records/  vol.  iii.  p.  13), 
and  that  the  king  named  also  for  the  see  Simon  de 
Apulia,  who  had  long  been  the  Dean  of  York,  and.  an 
avowed  partisan  of  the  royal  pretensions  against  those 
liberties  of  England  which  the  primate  Stephen 
Langton  and  the  barons  of  the  realm  so  stoutly  asserted  ; 
nay,  we  discover  that  our  chapter,  impatient  of  the 
delay,  proceeded  to  elect  Henry  Archdeacon  of  Stafford 
to  supply  the  vacant  see  ;  but  all  these  attempts  proved 
abortive.  At  length  the  king,  listening  to  reason, 
recalled  the  clergy  whom  he  had  outlawed.  This  fact 
is  reported  by  Bishop  Stapeldon  in  his  'Register,'  fol. 
13,  — "  Johannes  Dei  gratia  Rex  Anglie,  Dominus 
Hibernie,  Dux  Normannie  et  Aquitannie,  Comes 
Ardegavie,  omnibus  Christi  fidelibus  ad  quos  presens 
scriptum  pervenerit,  Salutem.  Sciatis  per  Interdictum, 
quod  vulgariter  Utlagacio  nunctipatur  et  quod  proponi 
fecimus  contra  personas  Ecclesiasticas,  publice  revo- 
cavimus  et  revocamus,  et  pro  testamur  per  has  nostras 
patentes  literas  id  ad  nos  de  personis  Ecclesiasticis 
nullatenus  pertinere,  quodque  illud  de  cetero  contra 


4  John  at  his  coronation  had  solemnly 
sworn  to  maintain  the  immunities  of 
the  Church  and  the  rights  and  liberties 
of  the  people,  but  had  notoriously  vio- 
lated his  oath  before  Pope  Innocent  III. 
resorted  to  this  Interdict :  a  singularly 
extreme  and  obnoxious  measure — thus 
opposing  tyranny  by  tyranny.  Yet  it  is 
manifest  to  all,  that  in  the  feudal  ages 
sovereigns  themselves,  in  their  disputes 
with  each  other,  or  with  their  confede- 
rated barons,  were  in  the  habit  of  in- 
voking the  interference  of  the  papal 
authority ;  and  a  learned  Protestant 


writer  maintains  that  there  is  no  ex- 
ample in  history  where  a  pope  pro- 
ceeded against  princes,  who,  confining 
themselves  to  the  assertion  of  their  own 
rights,  did  not  attempt  the  invasion  of 
the  rights  of  others.  "  Jure  affirmari 
,poterit,  ne  exemplum  quidem  esse  in 
omni  rerum  meinoria,  ubi  pontifex  pro- 
cesserit  adversus  eos,  qui,  juribus  suis 
intenti,  ultra  limites  vagari  in  animum 
noninduxeruntsuum."  ('Henrici  Christ. 
Seckenburg,  Method.  Jurisp.,  Addit.  IV. 
de  Libert.  Eccles.  Germ.'  §  iii.) 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  33 

personas  Ecclesiasticas  non  faciemus  promulgari.  Revo- 
cavimus  etiam  et  revocamus  utlagacionem  laicorum  ad 
negotium  quod  inter  nos  et  Ecclesiam  Anglie  diucms 
versatum  est  pertinencium.  Remittimus  etiam  omnia, 
que  post  interdictum  Regni  nostri,  ab  Ecclesiarum 
hominibus  recepimus,  preter  Regni  consuetudiriem  et 
Ecclesiasticam  libertateni.  Teste  meipso  apud  Ber 
xxviii.  die  Junii,  anno  Regni  nostri  quinto  decimo" 
(1213). 

In  the  same  folio  of  the  Register,  Bishop  Stapeldon 
has  entered  the  charter  of  King  John,  granting  free- 
dom of  election  of  prelates,  and  is  dated  from  the  New 
Temple  15th  January,  17th  year  of  his  reign  (1216). 
This  was  confirmed  by  Pope  Innocent  II.  on  30th 
March,  1216.  Later  he  indemnified  them  for  their 
losses,  and  engaged  to  govern  by  law,  and  confirmed, 
both  in  the  beginning  and  at  the  conclusion  of  the 
Great  Charter,  that  the  English  Church  should  be  free, 
and  possess  its  rights  in  full  integrity.  Simon,  above- 
mentioned,  a  native  of  Apulia,  one  of  the  Neapolitan 
States,  was  admitted  by  the  chapter  and  king,  and  con- 
firmed and  consecrated  by  that  redoubted  champion  of 
constitutional  liberty  Archbishop  Langton.  Matthew 
of  Westminster  supposes  that  the  consecration  took 
place  on  5th  October,  1214,  but  the  annals  of  Wor- 
cester date  the  ceremony  on  the  1st  of  that  month 
('  Ang.  Sac.J  vol.  i.  p.  482).  We  find  our  new  prelate 
a  witness  to  King  John's  agreement  to  pay  the  dowry 
of  Berengaria,  the  relict  of  his  brother  the  late  King 
Richard.  He  assisted  at  the  coronation  of  King  Henry 
III.,  then  but  in  his  tenth  year,  at  Gloucester,  on  28th 
October,  1216,  and  probably  at  his  second  coronation 
at  Westminster  on  Whit  Sunday,  1220.  Of  the  acts  of 
his  episcopate  we  collect  but  slender  materials.  He  is 
said  to  have  fixed  the  boundaries  of  the  parishes  in  this 
city  and  its  immediate  suburbs,  which  had  been  varying 


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LIVES  OF  THE 


from  thirty-four  to  twenty-eight.  Several  of  these 
have  long  since  ceased  to  exist ;  such  as  St.  Bar- 
tholomew's, St.  Peter's  the  Less,  St.  James',  St.  Edward's, 
St.  Thomas',  St.  Cuthbert's,  and  St.  Radegunde's,  as  is 
evident  from  the  taxation  of  Pope  Nicholas  IV.  Our 
prelate  died  on  9th  September  (on  which  day  his  obit 
was  kept),  1223,  and  was  buried  in  his  church. 

ARMS  : — According  to  Izacke,  Azure,  three  mitres,  or,  two 
and  one.     According  to  Westcote,  Mascley,  or  and  sable. 

WILLIAM  BRIWERE,  or  BRUERE,5  of  an  ancient,  noble, 
and  religious  stock,  after  serving  the  office  of  precentor 
of  Exeter,  was  consecrated  its  bishop  at  Canterbury 
by  Cardinal  Langton  on  30th  April,  1224.  The 
4  Chronicon '  of  our  Church,  as  preserved  in  the  Har- 
leian  manuscripts,  most  incorrectly  affirms  that  he  was 
consecrated  at  Rome  by  Pope  Honorius  III.  on  Easter 
Sunday  in  that  year.  Few  men  were  more  active  in 
the  performance  of  pious  and  charitable  deeds  than  this 
excellent  prelate.  At  the  recommendation  of  the  above- 
mentioned  primate  he  introduced,  in  the  latter  part  of 
the  year  1225,  a  dean  into  his  cathedral,  over  which 
the  precentor  had  hitherto  presided;  and  to  this  new 
officer  he  appropriated  the  churches  of  Braunton  and 
Bishop's  Tawton,  with  the  latter's  dependent  chapels 
at  Landkey  and  Swimbridge,  also  the  church  of 
Colaton  Ralegh  ;  and  for  his  residence  here  he  assigned 
the  premises  that  were  actually  in  the  occupation  of  the 
Archdeacon  of  Totnes.  Three  other  canons  were 
elevated  to  the  rank  of  dignitaries  under  the  dean, 
viz.  the  precentor,  the  chancellor,  and  the  treasurer. 
To  the  office  of  treasurer  had  been  attached,  at  least 
as  early  as  1163,  the  estate  of  Beer  in  Honiton's  Clist, 


6  Ordericus  Vitalis,  in  his  '  Hist.  Eccl.' 
lib.  iv.,  mentions,  A.D.  1078,  a  tract  called 
'  Blancalanda  vel  Brueria,'  which  his 
learned  editor  and  commentator  states 
to  have  been  then  a  vast  territory,  poor 


and  sandy,  extending  "  an  midi  du  Loir, 
depuis  Sainte  Colombe,  faubourg  de  la 
Fleche,  jusqu'a  Saint  Mards  de  Ore,  ou 
il  existe  encore  une  ferme  portant  lo 
nom  de  Blanchelaude." 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETEK.  35 

Morceshull  (now  Marshal)  in  Ide,  and  Doulisford,  but 
he  added  to  it  the  churches  of  St.  Probus,  and  further 
Bishop's  Nympton  on  24th  April,  1242.  (See  Bishop 
Lacey's  '  Register/  vol.  iii.  p.  233.)  Besides  superiority 
of  rank,  we  cannot  discover  any  substantial  emolument 
which  he  conferred  on  the  precentor  and  chancellor ; 
and  yet  his  epitaph  in  the  choir  designated  him  as  the 
founder  of  the  four  principal  dignities  of  his  church. 

His  venerable  uncle  William  Briwere,  "  venerabilis 
vir  W.  Briwere  avunculus  noster,"  having  on  29th 
September,  1226,  granted  the  church  of  Pensigenans 
(now  Gwennap  in  Cornwall)  to  the  dean  and  chapter 
of  Exeter,  our  prelate  confirmed  this  appropriation. 
On  the  28th  May,  1227,  he  confirmed  to  the  priest- 
vicars  of  his  cathedral  the  donations  of  his  predecessor 
Bishop  Marshal,  and  subsequently  bestowed  upon  them 
a  pension  of  twelve  marks  charged  on  the  church 
of  Alternon  in  Cornwall.  On  17th  March,*  1234,  with 
the  consent  of  the  abbot  of  Shireburn,  he  conveyed  the 
church  of  Littleham  to  his  chapter,  and  he  proved 
himself  a  liberal  benefactor  to  Polslo  Priory,  to  the 
Dominican  Convent  at  Exeter  which  he  founded,  and  to 
the  abbeys  of  Tor  and  Dunkeswell. 

For  nearly  five  years  Exeter  had  to  regret  the 
absence  of  her  bishop  in  the  Holy  Land ;  but  we  learn 
from  Matthew  of  Paris  that  he  was  actively  employed 
with  his  colleague  Peter  de  Rupibus,  Bishop  of  Win- 
chester, in  administering  to  the  temporal  and  spiritual 
wants  of  his  countrymen.  On  his  return  King  Henry  III. 
selected  him  to  accompany  the  Princess  Isabella  his 
sister  to  the  court  of  the  Emperor  Frederick  II.,  who 
had  sued  her  and  obtained  her  in  marriage.  The 
nuptial  ceremony  was  performed  on  Sunday  the  20th 
July,  1235. 

We  meet  with  our  bishop  in  Cornwall  on  26th 
August,  1238,  when  he  consecrated  the  church  of 

D  2 


36  LIVES  OF  THE 

St.  Berian  the  Virgin ;  and  about  the  same  period  he 
appropriated  the  church  of  Okehampton,  with  its  now 
ruinous  chapel  in  the  castle  of  that  town,  to  the  Bene- 
dictine Priory  of  Cowick  near  Exeter.  To  Michael 
Abbot  of  Glastonbury  and  his  convent  he  appropriated 
the  church  of  Up-Lyme  on  16th  December,  1238. 
In  July,  1239,  he  appropriated  to  his  chapter  the 
church  of  St.  Winnoc,  and  on  the  Feast  of  the 
Epiphany,  1242,  he  added  to  their  emoluments  tjie 
churches  of  Winklegh,  St.  Sancredus,  and  Trevalga. 
About  the  same  time  he  founded  a  cell  for  a  recluse 
near  St.  Lawrence's  Chapel  at  Crediton.  On  26th 
November,  1243,  he  procured  from  King  Henry  III. 
the  confirmation  to  his  see  of  the  chapel  of  Boseham, 
with  the  manor  of  Chedham  in  Sussex,  the  manor 
of  Farringdon  in  Hants,  and  the  manor  of  Horsleigh 
in  Surrey,  and  the  same  king  granted  to  him  and  his 
successors  the  manor  of  Penryn,  with  its  rights  and 
appurtenances ;  and,  what  is  remarkable,  the  bishop 
granted  to  the  burgesses  of  Penryn  a  charter  of  en- 
franchisement very  shortly  after,  viz.  29th  August, 
1236.  (See  'Monasticon  Exon  Dioc.,'  p.  415.)  In 
fine,  his  days  were  signalised  by  deeds  of  mercy  and 
charity.  In  the  vigour  of  life,  death  arrested  his  career 
of  usefulness  on  the  24th  November,  1244.  According 
to  the  Martyrologium  his  mortal  remains  were  deposited 
nearly  in  the  centre  of  the  choir  of  the  Cathedral. 
When  the  floor  was  relaid  in  1 763  the  marble  slab  that 
covered  his  remains  was  removed,  and  a  coffin  shaped 

thus   O  was  discovered   and   opened ;   the  body  was 

wrapt  in  a  coarse  serge,  ^ith  a  leathern  girdle  tied 
round  the  waist ;  a  pewter  chalice  lay  by  it,  with  part 
of  a  crosier. 

ARMS  : — Gules,  two  bends  wavy,  or. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  37 

RICHARD  BLOND  or  BLOND Y.— The  Newenham  Abbey 
Register  informs  us  that  he  was  a  native  of  Exeter, 
and  Hoker  in  his  MS.  history  relates  that  he  was  the 
son  of  Hilary  Blondy,  who  filled  the  mayoralty  chair 
here  in  1227.  For  many  years  he  had  discharged  the 
office  of  Chancellor  of  this  Cathedral,  and  is  commended 
for  his  blameless  life  and  learned  attainments.  Strange 
to  say,  both  Godwin  and  his  continuator  Richardson 
appear  to  confound  him  with  John  Blondy,  who  had 
been  accuseiof  simony  in  obtaining  his  election  to  the 
see  of  Canterbury  in  the  autumn  of  1232 !  Our 
worthy  prelate  was  consecrated  at  Reading  on  1st 
December,  1245  :  we  meet  with  him  at  Beaulieu  on  the 
7th  July  following,  where  he  confirmed  the  appro- 
priation of  St.  Breaca's  Church,  Cornwall,  granted  by 
Richard  Earl  of  Cornwall  to  Hales  Abbey.  In  the 
4  Monasticon '  of  the  diocese  we  have  published  in 
p.  59  a  deed  of  this  bishop  in  favour  of  the  Collegiate 
Church  of  Crediton,  and  another  in  p.  165,  concerning 
Holbeton  vicarage. 

"On  6th  January,  1247,  he  confirmed  Bishop  Mar- 
shal's mandate  respecting  the  sixteen  chapels  or 
churches  within  the  walls  of  Exeter  and  its  immediate 
suburb,  viz.  Trinity,  St.  James,  St.  Michael  in  the 
Deanery,  St.  Mary  Major,  St.  Mary  Minor,  St.  Petrock, 
SS.  Simon  and  Jude,  St.  Martin,  Christ  Church, 
St.  Kerrian,  St.  Cuthbert,  All  Saints  on  the  Walls,  All 
Saints  in  Goldsmith-street,  St.  Clement,  St.  David,  and 
St.  Sidwella. 

Godwin  represents  him  as  weak-minded  and  indolent, 
and  that  his  officials  and  servants  took  advantage  of 
his  easy  character  to'enrich  themselves,  by  counterfeit- 
ing collations  to  ecclesiastical  preferments.  This  erro- 
neous impression  originates  in  the  confusion  of  times 
and  circumstances.  Had  the  biographer  turned  to 
pages  1  and  5  of  the  register  of  his  successor,  Bishop 


38  LIVES  OF  THE 

Walter  Bronescombe,  he  would  have  ascertained  the 
following  facts  : — 1st,  that  Richard  died  in  his  palace 
here  on  26th  December,  1257  ;  that  his  successor  in  the 
see,  on  hearing  the  report  of  such  forgeries,  "sub 
nomine  defuncti  episcopi,"  directed  a  commission  of 
inquiry  on  the  Friday  after  Candlemas  Day,  1259,  to 
the  Dean  and  Archdeacon  of  Exeter,  to  proceed  to  the 
excommunication  of  the  parties  offending,  who  had 
acted  "prseter  conscientiam  et  mandatum  venerabilis 
Patris  Ricardi  predecessoris  nostri ;"  tha^fc  Walter  de 
Loddeswell,  chancellor  to  the  deceased  prelate,  and 
Richard  de  Totton,  notary  public,  moved  by  a  sense  of 
true  repentance,  appeared  before  the  bishop  in  the 
Chapter-house  of  Buckfastleigh  Monastery  on  19th 
March  next  ensuing,  and  then  and  there  voluntarily 
confessed  before  him,  and  the  Abbot  of  Buckfastleigh, 
and  others,  that,  on  being  sent  for,  they  reached  Bishop 
Blondy's  chamber  in  the  night,  and  found  some  of  his 
household,  clerks  and  laymen  there  assembled,  who 
related  that  the  bishop  was  reduced  to  the  last  ex- 
tremity of  weakness,  and  that  they  were  occupied  in  the 
disposal  of  his  effects,  in  granting  away  benefices,  and 
in  drawing  up  and  signing  letters  for  that  purpose — 
that  they  had  bound  each  other  to  perpetual  secrecy, 
and  that  they  did  actually  dispose  of  benefices,  and 
draw  up  and  sign  such  letters  ;  but  whether  the  bishop 
was  then  a  corpse  or  not,  deponents  cannot  say  :  cer- 
tainly they  never  heard  him  utter  a  syllable,  and  never 
afterwards  saw  him  alive, — that  the  other  persons 
present  on  the  occasion  were  John  Fitz-Robert,  the 
official,  G-ervase  of  Crediton,  Thomas  of  Molland, 
Henry  the  chaplain,  Henry^  of  Christow,  Thomas  the 
panter  (Panetarius),  and  his  son  Reginald,  William 
de  Fuleford,  and  Caynoc  the  chamberlain — that  the 
said  John  Fitz-Robert  and  Grervase  dictated  the  letters, 
and  that  Thomas  of  Molland  and  Richard,  the  afore- 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  39 

said  notary  public,  did  write  them,  and  that  Henry,  the 
chaplain,  signed  them — that  after  the  parties  were 
distinctly  satisfied  of  the  bishop's  death,  many  other 
letters  were  written  and  signed.  The  said  two  depo- 
nents now  most  humbly  and  devoutly  solicited  the 
benefit  of  absolution.  The  Register  adds,  that  on  the 
next  Easter  Monday  Walter  Loddeswell  "  in  capella 
Domini  Episcopi  apud  Exon "  publicly  and  solemnly 
cleared  himself  of  any  guilty  or  fraudulent  act  of 
writing,  signing,  or  alienating ;  but  that  Richard  de 
Totton,  being  convicted  of  having  received  orders, 
under  false  testimonials,  since  the  bishop's  death,  was 
"  hoc  ipso "  suspended,  and  that  he  submitted  to  a 
course  of  penance  before  he  received  absolution.  Bishop 
Blondy  is  said  to  have  been  buried  on  the  north  side  of 
the  choir  of  his  church,  and  an  ancient  inventory 
records  his  gift  of  a  covering  for  his  tomb.  He  had 
purchased  an  estate  in  Lovenetorre,  in  Paignton  parish, 
and  assigned  it  to  his  chapter  for  the  maintenance 
of  his  obit.  It  was  subsequently  conveyed  to  the  see 
itself,  as  we  find  by  Bishop  Quivil's  deed  of  P^ebruary 
3rd,  1283,  for  the  yearly  payment  of  II.  13s.  4d.,  to 
fulfil  the  donor's  intention. 

ARMS  : — Lozengy  or  and  sable. 

WALTER  BRONESCOMBE. — We  have  stated  in  the 
preceding  article  that  Bishop  Blondy  died  in  Exeter 
Palace,  on  26th  December,  1257.  The  dean  and  chapter 
met  on  the  Tuesday  after  the  ensuing  Epiphany  to 
deliberate  on  the  choice  of  a  successor,  and  on  the  23rd 
February  Walter  Bronescombe,  a  native  of  Exeter, 
who,  though  but  in  deacon's  orders,  had  for  nearly  the 
last  six  years  been  Archdeacon  of  Surrey,  was  unani- 
mously selected  to  fill  the  vacant  see.  His  register 
informs  us,  that  on  Midlent  Sunday,  the  3rd  March, 
the  election  was  announced  to  King  Henry  III.  at 


40 


LIVES  OF  THE 


Westminster,  who  signified  his  approbation  of  it,  and 
directed  letters  for  its  confirmation  to  the  Primate 
Boniface,  the  queen's  uncle.  The  archbishop  happened 
to  be  so  engaged  with  public  and  private  business  as 
to  be  unable  to  certify  his  confirmation  until  three 
days  later.  This  was  done  in  Bexley  Church,  Kent, 
in  the  presence  of  Ralph  Archbishop  of  Tarento,  and 
many  others ;  and  the  elect  took  the  oath  of  fealty  to 
his  sovereign  on  the  very  same  day,  and  was  duly 
put  in  possession  of  his  temporalities.  On  Saturday, 
9th  March,  he  was  ordained  priest  at  Canterbury  by 
the  said  primate,  with  Simon  de  Walton,  elect  of 
Norwich,  and  Roger  de  Longespee,  elect  of  Coventry ; 
and  on  the  following  day  was  consecrated  to  episcopacy 
by  the  primate,  assisted  by  the  Bishops  of  St.  David's 
and  Salisbury.  The  14th  April  witnessed  his  en- 
thronization  (intronizatus  est)  in  Exeter  Cathedral. 

Bishop  Bronescombe  has  the  merit  of  commencing  a 
regular  series  or  register  of  his  acts.  His  register  is 
indeed  a  valuable  record,6  supplying  abundant  evidence 
of  his  unwearied  attention  to  his  ministerial  duties,  of 
his  unsullied  integrity  of  character,  of  his  promptitude 
and  successful  energy  in  asserting  the  rights  and  pri- 
vileges of  his  see,  both  against  ecclesiastics  and  powerful 
laymen ;  but,  above  all,  of  his  generous  personal  sacri- 
fices to  uphold  and  extend  the  means  of  divine  worship 
and  provide  for  the  comforts  of  the  forlorn  poor. 

That  he  was  distinguished  for  circumspection  and 
integrity  of  conduct  may  be  inferred  from  having 
steered  with  such  safety  and  honour  through  the 
perilous  and  furious  contests  between  the  king  and  his 


6  After  the  brutal  murder  of  Bishop 
Walter  Stapeldon,  on  the  15th  October, 
1326,  this  Register  was  long  missing : 
it  was  sold  to  some  one  who  seems 
to  have  taken  pleasure  in  disfiguring  it. 
In  the  beginning  Bishop  Grandisson 
lias  written  this  memorandum — "  Quod- 


dam  Registrum  Primi  Walteri,  Episcopi 
Exoniensis,  de  Anno  Dni.  MCCLVII. 
Et  sciendum,  quod  caiicellationes  hie 
factne,  vel  per  nigrum  tractae,  ab  aliquo 
ignorante,  vel  non  pertinente  fiebant, 
qui  Registrum,  post  necem  Secundi 
Walteri,  emit,  et  retinuit  multum  diu." 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  41 

barons.  And  when  the  power  of  the  latter  was  beaten 
down  by  the  decisive  action  fought  at  Evesham,  on  the 
4th  August,  1265,  the  name  of  our  prelate  stands 
the  first  on  the  committee  of  the  twelve  bishops  and 
barons  appointed  to  arrange  and  settle  differences. 
Their  award  in  the  happy  pacification  called  the 
4  Dictum  de  Kenilworth '  was  subsequently  confirmed 
by  the  king  and  parliament. 

In  1270  he  obtained  from  the  crown  a  market  and 
fair  for  Bishopsteignton ;  and  on  the  8th  May  of  that 
year  the  confirmation  of  the  royal  charters  granted 
to  his  see  during  the  last  276  years.  They  are  copied 
at  the  end  of  his  register,  and  are  printed  tolerably 
correctly  in  vol.  ii.  of  the  last  edition  of  Dugdale's 
<Mon.  Ang.'  p.  535.  William  of  Worcester  styles  our 
bishop  "Walter  le  Goode"  (<  Itin.J  p.  128),  and  he 
merited  the  title  by  the  excellence  of  his  character  and 
his  deeds  of  munificence.  The  registrar  of  Newenham 
extols  his  numerous  acts  of  bounty  to  that  abbey,  his 
donation  of  600  marks  towards  the  building  of  their 
conventual  church,  and  his  gift  of  six  altars  for  it,  viz. 
St.  Gabriel's,  St.  Thomas',  St.  Catharine's,  on  the  north 
side,  and  of  St.  John's,  St.  Anne's,  and  St.  Nicholas', 
on  the  south  side :  and  the  Grey  Friars  of  Bodmin 
venerated  him  as  their  special  benefactor.  At  Olist  he 
rebuilt  the  convenient  manor-house,  with  its  gateway 
bearing  the  appropriate  motto,  "  Janua  patet :  Cor 
magis,"  which  became  the  favourite  residence  of  his 
successors ;  and  he  amply  endowed  its  chapel  of  St. 
Gabriel.  He  did  much  to  restore  the  collegiate  esta- 
blishment of  Crediton  to  its  ancient  splendour,  and  he 
nobly  founded  another  college  of  St.  Thomas  at  Glase- 
ney ;  of  both  of  which  a  detailed  history  may  be  seen 
in  the  '  Monasticon '  of  the  diocese.  We  stop  not  to 
notice  the  senseless  calumny  broached  by  Hoker,  God- 
win, and  Izacke,  to  depreciate  his  memory,  in  the  pur- 


42 


LIVES  OF  THE 


chase  of  Cornish  Wood;  for  it  stands  victoriously  con- 
futed in  the  conveyance-deed,  fortunately  preserved  in 
his  register,  and  which  we  have  printed  in  the  second 
volume  of  the  t  Ecclesiastical  Antiquities,'  p.  34.  On 
the  15th  January,  1271,  he  appropriated  to  his  dean 
and  chapter  the  church  of  Up-Ottery.* 

King  Henry  III.  dying  on  the  16th  November, 
1272,  our  bishop,  in  the  company  of  his  old  friend 
Godfrey  Gifford,  Bishop  of  Worcester,  proceeded  in  .the 
following  May  to  Paris,  to  meet  King  Edward  I.  on 
his  return  from  the  Holy  Land.  In  the  ensuing  year 
he  assisted  at  the  14th  General  Council  holden  at 
Lyons,  which  opened  in  May  and  closed  in  July,  1274. 
The  annals  of  Worcester  inform  us  that  Eleariora,  the 
queen  of  Edward  I.,  having  been  delivered  of  a  son — 
who  is  called  by  Matthew  of  Westminster  "  Eegis  primo- 
genitus"  (p.  372) — at  Bayonne,  our  bishop  was  invited 


7  The  churches  of  Up-Ottery,  Bokerel, 
and  Stokeleigh  Pomeroy,  appear  to  have 
been  originally  granted  by  the  Pomeroy 
family  to  the  abbot  and  convent  of  St. 
Mary  de  Valle,  in  the  diocese  of  Bayeux, 
Normandy.  Ralph,  the  abbot,  and  his 
convent,  having  surrendered,  for  some 
reason  unknown,  the  three  named 
churches  to  Sir  Henry  de  la  Pomeroy, 
this  knight,  by  his  deed  dated  Crediton, 
14th  August,  1267,  made  an  absolute 
grant  of  them  to  Bishop  Bronescombe. 
The  deed  is  still  in  the  possession  of 
our  Dean  and  Chapter.  Such  was  the 
confidence  reposed  on  the  Bishop's 
honour  and  judgment,  that  the  said 
abbot  and  convent  conveyed  to  him 
their  priory  of  St.  James  of  Tregony 
in  Cornwall  and  the  church  of  Berry 
Pomeroy  in  Devon,  with  all  their  pro- 
perty and  rights  in  the  diocese  of 
Exeter,  and  elsewhere  in  England,  on 
the  Tuesday  after  Lammas,  1267,  to 
dispose  of  as  he  should  think  fit  in  the 
arrangements  to  be  made  between  them 
and  the  prior  and  convent  of  Merton  in 
Surrey.  Our  readers  are  aware  that 
Merton  Priory,  in  Surrey,  founded  by 
King  Henry  I.,  in  the  year  1122,  ob- 
tained in  the  ensuing  century,  viz.  1278, 
considerable  property  in  Devon  and 


Cornwall.  la  this  county  it  possessed 
the  manor  of  Canonteign  in  Christow 
parish,  the  rectory  of  Berry  Pomeroy, 
and  the  presentation  to  the  churches  of 
St.  George's  Clist  and  Ashcombe,  and 
to  the  church  of  St.  Laurence  in  Exeter, 
and  of  St.  James  at  Tregony  in  Corn- 
wall. We  have  been  favoured  with  the 
sight  of  the  oval  common  seal  of  Mer- 
ton, far  superior  to  the  one  mentioned 
in  the  late  edition  of  the  '  Monasticon 
Anglicanum,'  vol.  vi.  p.  247 ;  for  that 
omits  a  word  of  the  legend  of  the 
obverse,  and  passes  unnoticed  any  re- 
verse. The  subject  of  the  former  is  the 
Virgin  Mother,  seated  and  crowned,  in 
bold  relief;  on  either  side  is  the  profile 
of  a  head  (King  Henry  I.  and  his  second 
queen,  Adelicia).  The  legend  is — 

6IGILL :  .  ECCLESIE  .  SANCTE  .  MARIE  .  DE  .  MEBITONA. 

The  Seal  of  the  Church  of  Holy  Mary,  of  Merton. 

The  reverse  represents  St.  Augustine, 
doctor  of  the  church,  whose  rule  was 
"followed  by  the  canons  of  Merton  mo- 
nastery. The  saint  stands  under  a 
pointed  canopy,  in  his  pontifical  robes, 
and  mitred.  The  legend  is— 

MDNDI  .  LUCERNA  .  NOS  .  AYGYSTINE  .  GUBERNA. 

Augustine,  the  Light  of  the  World,  govern  us. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  43 

to  perform  the  baptismal  rite  on  the  24th  November, 
1275,  and  that  the  child  was  named  Alphonsus,  in 
compliment  to  the  godfather,  the  King  of  Spain  ('  Angl. 
Sac/  vol.  i.  501).  This  royal  child  dying  in  his  10th 
year  (19th  August,  1284)  was  buried  in  Westminster 
Abbey. 

By  his  firm,  but  conciliatory  spirit,  he  succeeded  in 
recovering  the  rights  and  privileges  of  the  see  from 
the  encroachments  of  Prince  Edmund,  the  Earl  of 
Cornwall.  Their  amicable  composition  of  all  differences 
may  be  seen  in  the  Bishops'  Register,  fol.  61,  which 
we  have  printed  in  the  '  Monasticon '  of  the  diocese, 
p.  426.  It  is  dated  from  Lambeth  Chapel,  Thursday 
after  12th  March,  1274-5. 

For  the  better  regulation  of  his  cathedral  establish- 
ment, he  had  collected,  revised,  and  amended  the  con- 
stitutions and  statutes  of  his  predecessors,  and  procured 
their  ratification  from  Cardinal  Ottobonus,  the  papal 
legate  in  England. 

On  the  5th  September,  1278,  he  appropriated  to 
his  dean  and  chapter  St.  Bruered's  Church  in  Cornwall, 
as  well  to  maintain  the  celebration  of  the  feast  of  his 
great  patron  St.  Gabriel  on  the  first  Monday  in  Sep- 
tember yearly,  as  to  meet  the  expenses  of  his  own  obit 
on  the  day  following.  The  subjoined  ordinance  may 
interest  our  readers,  the  original  of  which  may  be  seen 
in  his  register  : — 

"  To  all  sons  of  our  Holy  Mother  the  Church  who  shall  see  or 
hear  this  present  writing,  Walter,  by  divine  mercy,  Bishop  of 
Exon,  everlasting  salvation  in  the  Lord.  To  the  intent  that, 
with  more  holy  affection  and  more  fervent  zeal,  even  our  service 
may  not  be  wanting  to  the  spirits  of  the  heavenly  court ;  we 
endeavour,  according  to  the  measure  of  our  weakness,  to  bestow 
such  honour  as  we  are  able.  To  which  heavenly  company  we 
believe  and  hope  the  guardianship  of  human  frailty  is  deputed, 
under  certain  blessed  angelic  spirits,  and  the  souls  of  the  faithful 
are  mercifully  intrusted  by  the  most  high  Maker  of  heaven. 
Therefore,  being  desirous  to  honour,  as  much  as  we  are  able,  the 


44  LIVES  OF  THE 

renowned  Brideman  of  the  same  court,  namely,  the  memory  of 
Saint  Gabriel,  of  whose  favour,  the  divine  clemency  so  willing 
it,  we  have  often  felt  the  benefit ;  we  do  assign,  and,  so  assigned 
by  the  evidence  of  this  present  writing,  do  appropriate,  in  form 
hereunder  noted,  to  our  beloved  sons,  our  Dean  and  Chapter  of 
Exon,  perpetually  to  be  possessed  to  their  proper  use,  the  church 
of  Saint  Bruered  in  Cornwall,  of  which  the  advowson  is  known 
to  belong  to  us,  as  of  our  canonical  acquisition  (that  is  to  say), 
that  the  aforesaid  Dean  and  Chapter  and  their  successors,  every 
year  on  the  first  Monday  of  the  month  of  September,  in  our 
great  church  of  the  blessed  Peter  of  Exon,  shall  for  ever  solemnly 
celebrate  the  memory  of  the  same  Saint  Gabriel  with  the  like 
honour,  in  lights  and  other  things,  as  hath  been  accustomed  to 
be  done  on  the  day  of  the  Nativity  of  our  Lord,  or  at  Easter  : 
ordaining  that   each   canon   being  bodily  present  at  the  said 
solemnity  shall  over  and  above  his  daily  distribution  of  that  day, 
receive  of  the  goods  of  the  church,  two  shillings ;  each  vicar,  in 
like  manner,  present,  twelve-pence ;  each  secondary,  six-pence  ; 
and  each  choir-boy  of  the  choir,  being  within  the  due  number, 
two-pence.     We  ordain  that,  on  the  next  ensuing  Tuesday  of 
the  same  month,  namely,  on  the  morrow  of  the  same  feast,  there 
shall  be  had,  in  our  church  aforesaid,  a  solemn  anniversary  day, 
by  the  aforesaid  Dean  and  Chapter,  and  their  successors,  for  our 
soul,  and  for  the  souls  of  William  and  Richard,  our  predecessors 
of  good  memory,  and  for  the  souls  of  our  successors,  Bishops  of 
Exon,  and  for  the  souls  of  our  father  and  mother,  and  of  our 
benefactors,  and  of  all  the  faithful  departed  this  life.     Therefore, 
each  canon  present  at  this  solemn  commemoration,  shall  perpe- 
tually receive  yearly,  on  that  day,  of  the  goods  of  the  same 
church,  two  shillings ;  and  each  vicar,  twelve-pence ;  and  each 
secondary,  six-pence ;  and  each  choir-boy,  two-pence ;  appoint- 
ing that  the  aforesaid  Dean  and  Chapter  and  their  successors 
shall,  in  every  year  on  the  aforesaid  Tuesday,  feed  annually  five 
hundred  feeble  poor  ;  so  that  the  allowance  of  provisions  to  each, 
be  of  the  value  of  one  penny  in  meat  and  drink.     We  will  also 
and  ordain  that  all  the  residue  of  the  proceeds  of  the  said  church 
of  Saint  Bruered  be  equally  divided  amongst  the  canons  who 
shall  happen  to  assist  at  both  the  aforesaid  solemnities,  and  be 
not  converted  to  other  uses ;  save  a  competent  vicariate  in  the 
same  church  of  Saint  Bruered,  which  we  ordain  shall  consist  of 
the  whole  *  Altalage?  and  the  whole   sanctuary  together  with 
40s.  in  the  sheaf  tithes,  and  of  all  the  tithes  of  hay,  to  be  by  us 
and  our  successors  honestly  paid.     We  appoint  also  and  ordain 
that  every  Dean,  at  his  creation,  shall  swear  to  observe  this  our 
statute   and   ordinance,  together   with    the   other   ancient   and 
approved  ones  of  the  church  of  Exon.     In  witness  whereof  we 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  45 

have  caused  our  seal  to  be  affixed.  Given  in  our  chapter  of 
Exon,  on  the  nones  (5th)  of  September,  in  the  year  of  grace 
1278,  and  of  our  consecration  21." 

For  some  time  the  prelate's  health  had  been  de- 
clining, and  he  had  already  prepared  St.  Gabriel's 
Chapel  at  the  south-east  end  of  his  cathedral  for  his 
place  of  interment.  Leaving  London  early  in  June, 
1280,  he  reached  Bishop's  Olist  by  the  end  of  that 
month,  whence  he  proceeded  to  his  manor-court  at 
Chudleigh ;  but  after  a  short  interval  moved  to  his 
residence  at  Bishopsteigntoii.  The  routine  of  official 
business  experienced  no  interruption ;  but  two  days 
before  his  death  he  appropriated  to  his  chapter  the 
church  of  Bokerell  (Beg.  fol.  97);  and  on  the  very 
day  of  his  death,  22nd  July,  1280,  he  admitted 
Walter  de  Guldeford  to  Knowstone  Church,  and  with- 
drew the  interdict  laid  on  the  abbot  and  convent  of 
the  recently  founded  monastery  of  Bucland  for  having 
presumed  to  celebrate  divine  service  in  their  precincts 
without  having  obtained  his  previous  license. 

His  stately  monument  in  St.  Gabriel's  Chapel  was 
inscribed  with  the  following  epitaph,  manifestly  com- 
posed after  his  death,  and  perhaps  after  the  death  of 
the  second  Walter  (Bishop  Stapeldon)  : — 

Olim  sincerus  Pater,  omni  dignus  amore 

Primus  Walterus  magno  jacet  hie  in  honore. 

Edidit  hie  plura  dignissima  laude  statuta 

Quse  tanquam  jura  servant  hie  omnia  tuta. 

Atque  hoc  Collegium  quod  Glaseney  plebs  vocat  omnis 

Condidit  egregium,  pro  voce  data  sibi  somnis. 

Quot  loca  construxit  ?    Pietatis  quot  bona  fecit  ? 

Quam  sanctam  duxit  vitam  ?  vox  dicere  quae  scit. 

Laudibus  immensis  jubilet  gens  Exoniensis 

Et  chorus  et  turbse,  quia  natus  in  hac  fuit  Urbe. 

Plus  si  scire  velis,  festum  statuit  Gabrielis, 

Gaudeat  in  coelis  igitur  Pater  iste  fidelis. 

Did  the  learned  prelate  borrow  the  idea  of  his  motto, 
"  Patientia  vincit,"  from  our  townsman  Joseph's  epic 


46  LIVES  OF  THE 

poem  '  de  Bello  Trajano,'  lib.   2,  v.  357,  "  Patientia 
Yictrix"? 

AKMS  : — Or,  a  chevron  sable,  charged  with  three  cinque- 
foils  of  the  first,  between  two  keys  erect  in  chief  and  a 
sword  erect  in  base  of  the  second. 


APPKOPBIATIO  ECCLESIE  de  BOCKEEELL  Decano  et  Capitulo  Exon. 

Universis  sancte  matris  Ecclesie  Filiis  presentes  Literas 
visuris  vel  audituris  Walterus  miseracione  Divina  Exoniensis 
Episcopus,  Salutem  in  Domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  univer- 
sitas  vestra  quod  nos  exitum  vanitatis  mundane  considerantes 
et  de  suppremis  cogitantes,  concedimus  et  confirmamus  Divine 
caritatis  intuitu  et  pro  salute  anime  nostre,  Decano  et  Capitulo 
Exoniensis  Ecclesie,  ad  sustentationem  duoruna  Capellanorum  in 
Capella  fere  de  novo  constructs  juxta  capellam  Beate  Marie  in 
Ecclesia  nostra  Cathedrali  Exoniensi  exparte  australi,  ubi  locum 
elegimus  sepulture,  perpetuo  divina  celebrancium  pro  anima 
nostra,  benefactorum  nostrorum,  omniumque  fidelium  defunc- 
torum,  Ecclesiam  de  Bukerel,  cujus  sumus  patroni,  cum  omnibus 
juribus  obvencionibus  et  omnibus  aliis  pertinenciis  suis  in  usus 
proprios  predictorum  Decani  et  Capituli  Canonice  perpetuo  possi- 
dendam,  salva  competenti  vicaria  in  eadem  vicaria  de  Buckerel 
per  nos  vel  successores  nostros  taxanda  ad  quam  iidem  Decanus 
et  Capitulum  nobis  et  successoribus  nostris  tenentur  presentare. 
Ita  quod  dicti  Decanus  et  Capitulum  duodecim  marcas  sterling- 
onum  dictis  capellanis  solvant  annuatim  imperpetuum  ad  sus- 
tentacionem  suam  in  festis  Sancti  Michaelis  et  Pasche  equis 
porcionibus.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  sigillum  nostrum 
presentibus  apponi  fecimus.  Datum  apud  Teynton  in  Festo 
Beate  Margarete  Yirginis,  anno  gracie  MCC°  octuagesimo,  et 
coi^secracionis  nostre  vicesimo  tercio. 


PETER  QUIVIL  was  tbe  son  of  Peter  and  Helewisa 
Quivil,  of  Exeter,  and  in  early  life  found  a  friend  and 
patron  in  Bisbop  Brones combe,  wbo  in  due  time,  viz. 
28th  December,  1276,  collated  him  to  the  canonry  and 
prebend  of  this  Cathedral,  void  by  the  death  of  Henry 
Mountfort.  At  tbe  time  of  his  election  to  tbe  see  of 
Exeter,  he  was  also  Archdeacon  of  St.  David's.  King 
Edward  I.,  on  7th  October,  1280,  signified  bis  approba- 
tion of  our  chapter's  choice,  and  restored  him  tbe 


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47 


temporalities  four  days  later.  On  10th  November 
he  was  consecrated  at  Canterbury  by  Archbishop 
Peckham ;  and  thus  was  the  third  Exonian  in  succession, 
who  rose  to  be  the  bishop  of  his  native  city.  In  the 
archives  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter  is  his  receipt  to 
the  executors  of  his  predecessor  of  their  delivery  of  the 
one  hundred  oxen,  the  accustomed  legacy  to  the  new 
diocesan.  It  bears  date  Thursday  after  St.  Matthias 
(Feb.)  "  consecrationis  nostrse  anno  primo."8  Unfor- 
tunately his  register,  commencing  with  the  18th  July, 
1281,  is  incomplete,  and  has  been  greatly  injured  by 
the  application  of  galls ;  but  the  fabric  rolls  afford 
abundant  evidence  of  the  zeal  and  taste  which  he 
manifested  in  the  new  work  of  his  cathedral. 

Towards  the  efficient  support  of  its  precentor,  he 
appropriated  on  5th  July,  1282,  the  rectories  of 
Paignton  and  Chudleigh  ('Reg.'  folio  118).  On  20th 
April,  1283,  he  annexed  to  its  chancellor  the  rectories 
of  St.  Newelina,  in  Cornwall,  and  of  Stoke  Gabriel,  in 
Devon;  and  on  7th  July,  1284,  he  had  endowed 
the  new  office  of  its  subdean  or  penitentiary,  with  the 
church  of  Egloshiel,  in  Cornwall  ('Reg.'  folio  125). 
To  his  chapter  also  he  was  a  considerate  and  bountiful 
benefactor.  He  encouraged  Sir  John  de  Wiger,  Knt., 
to  grant  to  its  members  the  manor  of  Thorverton,  and 
he  confirmed  its  appropriation  on  Ash  Wednesday, 
1283  ('Reg/  folio  120),  as  well  as  Roger  de  Rous' 
donation  to  them  of  Wydecomb  Church  and  St.  Leonard's 
Chapel  in  Spickwich,  on  3rd  February  following. 
Towards  their  better  maintenance  he  granted  to  them 
the  church  of  Constantine,  in  Cornwall,  on  21st  July, 
1285 ;  and  on  27th  July  of  the  ensuing  year  the 
churches  of  Broadhembury  and  Dunsford.  In  the 


8  It  appears  from  the  will  of  Richard 
de  Synefeld,  Bishop  of  Hereford,  the 
contemporary  of  our  Bishops  Quivil,  &c., 


that  "  quilibet  Episcopus  Hereford&iisis 
ab  antique  consuevit  suo  proximo  relin- 
quere  succeseori  quinquaginta  Marcas." 


48 


LIVES  OF  THE 


spirit  of  gratitude  for  his  zeal  in  commencing  his 
cathedral  at  great  personal  expense,  and  for  his 
generous  attention  to  their  comforts,  the  chapter 
engaged  to  maintain  his  yearly  obit,  and  that  in  the 
memento  for  the  dead  in  the  canon  of  the  mass  his 
name  should  have  precedence  "  primum  et  prsecipuum." 
An  important  synod  was  holden  in  this  city  in 
April,  1287,  under  the  presidency  of  our  bishop ;  its 
acts,  consisting  of  52  chapters,  may  be  seen  in  Spel- 
man's  and  Wilkins'  Councils ;  but  in  most  instances  are 
declaratory  of  the  common  ecclesiastical  law  of  England. 
The  synod  decrees  the  administration  of  confirmation 
shortly  after  baptism ;  it  requires  that  the  marriage 
contract  be  celebrated  publicly  and  at  the  church  door  ; 9 
that  every  church  should  keep  a  record  of  its  endow- 
ment at  the  time  of  its  consecration,  with  the  date 
of  the  day  and  year  of  that  event,  and  the  name  of  the 
consecrating  prelate  ;  that  no  parishioner,  .except  the 
patron  or  a  noble  person,  could  claim  a  fixed  seat  in  the 
church;  but  that  the  first  comers  were  at  liberty  to 
choose  seats  for  themselves ;  that  no  brute  animals, 
whether,  belonging  to  the  parson  or  to  others,  should 
be  permitted  to  graze  in  the  churchyard ;  that  no 
priest  presume  to  celebrate  mass  twice  on  the  same  day, 
except  on  Christmas-day,  Easter  Sunday,  or  on  the 
occasion  of  an  interment  in  his  own  church ;  and  it 
distinctly  lays  down  this  general  rule,  as  to  the  building 
or  repairing  of  churches  and  chapels,  viz.  that  the 
building  and  repairing  of  the  chancel  of  the  mother- 
church  appertains  to  its  rector,  and  of  the  nave  to  the 
parishioners ;  but  as  to  dependent  parochial  chapels,  as 
they  were  originally  license<J  for  the  ease,  convenience, 
and  comfort  of  the  distant  parishioners,  the  whole 


8  In  ancient  times,  for  publicity  sake, 
many  transactions  were  accomplished 
at  the  porch  or  door  of  the  church  : 
thus  the  Patent  Rolls,  28  Henry  III., 


show  that  Richard,  the  king's  brother, 
endowed  his  wife  Sanchia  at  the  church- 
door,  "  earn  ditavit  in  ostio  ecclesiav' 


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burthen  of  their  erection  and  maintenance  was  to  rest 
with  those  in  whose  favour  they  were  allowed ;  never- 
theless they  continued  chargeable  with  assisting  to  the 
repairs,  or  even  rebuilding  of  the  nave  of  the  mother- 
church,  according  to  such  equitable  proportion  as  the 
archdeacon  of  the  place  should  determine. 

On  13th  March,  1285,  Bishop  Quivil  united  to 
and  merged  the  ancient  but  reduced  parish  of  St. 
Cuthbert's,  in  Exeter,  into  St.  Paul's. 

In  the  '  Monasticon '  of  this  diocese,  p.  331,  we  have 
refuted  the  accusations  of  Hoker  and  Godwin,  as  to  the 
prelate's  avowed  hostility  to  the  Franciscan  Friars 
of  Exeter,  and  their  supposed  malicious  revenge.  That 
he  died  on  4th  October,  1291,  appears  certain,  as  also 
that  he  was  buried  before  the  altar  of  the  Lady  Chapel 
here,  under  a  slab  inscribed 

"  Petra  tegit  Petrum,  nichil  offlciat  tibi  tetram." 

But  of  this  we  shall  treat  more  at  large  in  the  third 
chapter  of  the  history  of  this  Cathedral. 

ARMS  : — Azure  a  cross  argent,  between  two  roses  in  chief, 
and  two  fleurs  de  lis  in  base,  or. 


*    ENDOWMENT  of  SUBDEANERY. — 15th  July,  1284. 
BISHOP  QUIVIL'S  REGISTER. — Fol.  125.     Ides  of  July,  1284. 

In  nomine  Domini  amen,  anno  nativitatis  ejusdem  MCCLXXXIIII, 
Indictione  xii,  nonis  Julii,  Pontificatus  Domini  Martini  Pape 
quarti  anno  quarto,  in  provincia  mei  notarii  et  testium  sub- 
scriptorum  ad  hoc  specialiter  vocatorum  et  rogatorum  Beveren- 
dus  Pater  Dominus  Petrus  Dei  gratia  Exoniensis  Episcopus 
attendens  et  considerans  [pericula]  animarum  que  ex  defectu 
penitentiarii  quo  sua  carebat  Exoniensis  Ecclesia,  proveniebant 
pro  tempore  ac  poterant  provenire,  volensque  eciam  suam  Exoni- 
enem  Ecclesiam  aliis  ecclesiis  cathedralibus  regni  Anglie  con- 
formare,  habito  solempni  ac  diligenti  tractatu  cum  suo  Ex- 
oniensi  capitulo  canonicisque  ipsius  Ecclesie  legitime  prout 
decuit  convocatis,  de  expresso  consensu  et  assensu  ipsius  capituli 
Ecclesiam  de  Egglosheil  in  Cornubia  vacantem  per  mortem  bone 
memorie  Magistri  Johannis  de  Esse  quondam  archidiaconi 

E 


50  LIVES  OF  THE 

Cornubie  et  ad  collationem  Domini  Episcopi  spectantem,  que 
etiam  Ecclesia  de  patronatu  ipsius  Domini  Episcopi  existebat, 
prebende  discreti  viri  Domini  Willelmi  de  Bisiman,  quam  in 
dicta  Exoniensi  Ecclesia  obtinebat,  legitime  et  canonice  annexit 
seu  appropriavit,  statuens  nichilominus  et  decernens  ut  quis- 
quam  canonicus  Exoniensis  de  cetero  dictam  habuerit  prebendam, 
penitenciarius  Episcopi  nominetur  ac  onus  penitentiarie  sub- 
portet  necnon  in  dicta  Exoniensi  Ecclesia,  per  duas  partes  anni 
continue  vel  interpolatim  residentiam  faciat  personal  em,  ac  semel 
in  anno  per  diocesim  Exoniensem  discurrat,  ut  infirmi  qui  ad  civi- 
tatem  non  possint  accedere,  ab  eo  animarum  suaruin  remedium 
recipiant  salutare,  et  quod  tanquam  residens  per  mensem  -plene 
completum  prout  premittitur,  per  diocesim  ipsum  discurrere 
ceperit  cotidianas  distributiones  recipiat  ac  pro,  residente  per 
unum  mensem  in  dicta  Exoniensi  Ecclesia  habeatur.  Insuper 
volens  statuens  ac  expresse  decernens  de  sui  Exoniensis  Capituli, 
ut  superius  est  expressum,  consensu  expresso  pariter  et  assensu 
predictus  Dominus  Episcopus  quod  penitentiarius  qui  pro 
tempore  in  eadem  Exoniensi  Ecclesia  fuerit,  suam  vocem  inter 
personas  in  ipsa  Exoniensi  Ecclesia  dignitates  seu  personatus 
habentes,  in  electionibus  Episcoporum  et  Decanorum  in  Capitulo 
ac  in  omnibus  aliis  et  singulis  tractatibus  ipsius  Ecclesie,  optineat 
et  habeat,  ac  eciam  quod  primum  locum  post  dictas  partes  in 
processionibus  habeat,  nichilominus  statuendo  ac  eciam  dis- 
cernendo  et  expresse  ordinando  ipsi  penitentiarie  nulla  cura 
penitus  sit  annexa,  et  quod  officium  diurnum  Decanus  in  ipsa 
Exoniensi  Ecclesia  presens  non  fuerit  exerceat  subdecani :  post 
haec  autem  omnia  prefatus  reverendus  pater  propriis  manibus  in 
certo  stallo  chori  dicte  Exoniensis  Ecclesie  aperte  dextro  post 
stallum  decani,  juxta  ipsius  et  Exon  archidiaconi,  prefatum 
Dominum  Willielmum  tanquam  penitentiarium  suum  et  sue 
Exoniensis  Ecclesie  legitime  et  canonice  installavit,  necnon  etiam 
et  procuratorem  locum  tenentem  discreti  viri  Magistri  Stephani 
de  Erindeham,  cui  prebendam,  que  in  Exoniensi  Ecclesia  per 
mortem  Magistri  Johannis  de  Esse  vacabat  ad  suam  collationem 
spectantem  contulerat,  nomine  ipsius  Magistri  Stephani  juxta 
statuta  et  consuetudines  ipsius  Exoniensis  Ecclesie  prout  decuit 
canonice  installando  per  installationem  hujusmodi  alicui  pre- 
judicium  facere  non  intendens.  Actum  Exon  in  choro  dicte 
Exoniensis  Ecclesie  presentibus  venerabilibus  viris  Magistris 
Roberto  de  Evesham  archidiacono  Exon,  Henrico  de  Bollet 
Cornubie,  Thoma  de  Bodeham  Totton,  archidiaconis,  Domino 
Willielmo  de  Wereplesdon  Exon  canonico,  Domino  Henrico  de 
Schipton  Bellicampi,  ac  Magistro  Eodulpho  Germyn  de  Oppeton 
pinn,  Ecclesiarum  Rectoribus,  et  aliis  testibus  ad  hoc  specialiter 
vocatis  et  rogatis.  Et  ego  Bartholomeus  de  Sancto  Laurentio, 
publicus  apostolica  et  imperial!  auctoritate  notarius  omnibus  et 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  51 

singulis  preinissis  interim  et  ut  supra  legitur  totum  de  verbo  ad 
verbum  scribsi  et  publicavi  meoque  signo  consueto  signavi 
rogatus.  Ad  majorem  autem  cautelam  et  evidenciam  pleniorem 
sigilla  Domini  Exoniensis  Episcopi  et  Exoniensis  Ecclesie 
Capituli  sepius  nominatorum  superius  huic  instrumento  publico 
sunt  appensa.  

"AGREEMENT  by  the  DEAN  and  CHAPTER  to  celebrate  the  Obit  of 
BISHOP  PETER  QUIVIL. 

Universis  ad  quos  presens  scriptum  pervenerit,  Andreas 
Decanus  Ecclesie  Sancti  Petri  Exon  et  ejusdem  loci  Capitulum 
eternam  in  Domino  Salutem.  Cum  venerabilis  Pater  Dominus 
Petrus  bone  meniorie  quondam  Episcopus  noster  multa  bona 
nobis  et  successoribus  nostris  fecerit  et  contulerit  tarn  inter  vivos 
quam  in  ultima  voluntate  Ecclesias  plures  absque  sui  Episcopii 
diminucione  quacunque,  Ecclesie  nostre  annectendo  seu  appro- 
priando,  et  eandem  Ecclesiam  quoad  novam  ejus  fabricam  am- 
pliando  et  pro  magna  sui  parte  sumptu  proprio  consummando, 
Nos  volentes  eidem  pro  modulo  nostro  gratitudinis  vicem  re- 
pendere,  quamquam  tantis  beneficiis  non  condignam,  concedimus 
et  ordinamus  quod  die  anniversarii  sui  in  Ecclesia  nostra  singulis 
annis  perpetuo  solempniter  celebrandi  viginti  solidos  sterHng- 
orum  de  bonis  nostris  communibus  de  Scaccario  nostro  per 
manus  senescallorum  nostrorum  qui  pro  tempore  fuerint  ad  hoc 
liberandi  in  choro  sicut  a  tempore  obitus  sui  hactenus  observa- 
tum  est,  distribuantur.  Volumus  insuper  et  concedimus  ac 
eciam  ordinamus,  quod  vicarii  Ecclesie  nostre  quibus  celebrandi 
missam  de  Beata  Virgine  onus  incumbit  pro  anima  dicti  Patris 
cujus  corpus  ante  altare  Beate  Marie  humatum  quiescit,  in  sin- 
gulis missis  celebrandis  de  Beata  Maria  Yirgine  in  eodem  altari, 
exceptis  diebus  festivis  duplicibus,  unam  collectam  hanc  scilicet 
"  Deus  qui  inter  apostolicos  sacerdotes"  cum  secreta  et  post  com- 
unione  collecte  ejusdem  perpetuo  dicere  teneantur,  et  nomina 
ipsius  in  memento  quod  in  canone  misse  dicitur  pro  mortuis, 
primum  et  precipuum  memorentur :  et  ut  hoc  onus  quanquam 
leve  libentius  agnoscant  et  devocius  impleant  volumus  conce- 
dimus et  ordinamus  quod  sexdecim  solidos  sterlingorum  de  bonis 
nostris  communibus  de  Scaccario  nostro  per  manus  senescallorum 
nostrorum  qui  pro  tempore  fuerint  ad  quatuor  anni  terminos  in 
Ecclesia  nostra  consuetos  eis  solvendos  et  inter  eos  equis  porci- 
onibus  dividendos  perpetuo  percipiant  annuatim.  In  cujus  rei 
testimonium  sigilla  nostra  cum  sigillis  trium  vicariorum  nomine 
suo  et  nomine  ceterorum  omnium  presenti  scripto  indentato 
sunt  appensa.  Datum  in  Capitulo  nostro  Exonie  VIIJ  Idibus 
Februarii,10  Anno  Domini  M°.CC  nonogesimo  nono. 

The  Chapter  and  Dean's,  and  three  other  little  Seals,  remain. 
1°  6th  Feb. 

E  2 


52 


LIVES  OF  THE 


THOMAS  DE  BUTTON,  or  BITTON,  a  native  of  Glou- 
cestershire, and  of  a  worshipful  family,1  was  promoted 
from  the  deanery  of  Wells  to  the  see  of  Exeter  in 
November,  1292  (Prynne's  'Kecords,'  vol.  iii.  p.  474), 
and  the  temporalities  were  restored  to  him  on  2nd 
December  that  year.  Unfortunately  his  register  has 
long  since  perished,  but  in  that  of  his  successor  Walter 
Stapeldon  is  preserved  (fol.  28)  the  interesting  report 
of  his  visitation  of  the  collegiate  church  of  Boseham, 
in  Sussex,  on  28th  July,  1294;  and  again  (in  folio 
175)  his  appropriation  to  his  dean  and  chapter  here  of 
the  church  of  St.  Uvelus  or  Ewal  in  Cornwall.  The 
original  instrument,  dated  Exeter,  15th  October,  1297, 
with  the  beautiful  seal  of  the  bishop  attached,  is  care- 
fully preserved  in  their  exchequer-room,  with  King 
Edward  I.'s  license,  dated  10th  April  following. 

In  1292  the  bishop  appropriated  to  St.  John's 
Hospital  at  Wells,  the  church  of  West  Down ;  and 
two  years  later  obtained  a  market  for  Paignton,  and 
also  for  Newport,  near  Barnstaple. 

A  curious  document  may  be  seen  in  the  episcopal 
archives  here,  namely,  a  grant  of  forty  days'  indul- 
gence, by  three  several  archbishops  and  five  bishops, 
dated  at  Rome  A.D.  1300,  in  the  sixth  year  of  the 
pontificate  of  Boniface  VIII.,  in  favour  of  all  true 
penitents  who  should  avail  themselves  of  our  bishop's 
ministry,  or  pray  for  his  prosperity  during  his  life,  or 
for  the  repose  of  his  soul  after  his  death,  and  for  the 


1  His  parents,  probably  Sir  Walter 
de  Bitton,  knight,  and  Matilda  his  wife, 
were  buried  on  the  north  side  of  the 
church  of  Bitton,  near  Bristol.  With 
the  license  of  Godfrey  Giffard,  Bishop 
of  Worcester,  dated  13th  May,  1299,, 
Bishop  Button  erected  St.  Catherine's 
Chapel  there,  and  endowed  it  as  a  per- 
petual chantry.  The  late  vicar,  Henry 
Thomas  Ellacombe,  in  November,  1826, 
whilst  making  some  alterations  there, 
discovered  the  sepulchral  slab  with  the 
incised  effigies  of  the  gallant  Crusaders, 


with  the  family  arms,  ermine  a  fess 
gules.  See  Appendix  to  the  •  Archseo- 
logia,'  vol.  xxii.  Mr.  Ellacombe,  in  his 
communication,  9th  May,  1850,  says : 
"  I  have  lately  had  the  pleasure  of  get- 
ting Bishop  Bitton's  chantry  restored. 
The  seven  windows  are  filled  with  rich 
coloured  glass,  and  on  the  front  altar- 
steps  I  have  inserted  on  tile  letters, 
'  f  In  memory  of  Thomas  de  Bitton, 
Bishop  of  Exeter,  the  founder  of  this 
chantry  chape],  A.D.  1299.'  " 


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53 


departed  souls  of  his  parents,  brothers,  and  sisters. 
Three  of  the  eight  seals  originally  attached  to  the 
instrument  are  in  fair  preservation,  those  of  Basil 
archbishop  of  Jerusalem,  of  Adenulphus  bishop  of 
Cosenza,  and  Manfred  bishop  of  St.  Mark's,  Venice.2 
The  rest  have  perished. 

In  nearly  the  beginning  of  Bishop  Bronescombe's 
'Register,'  already  mentioned,  is  sewed  in  Bishop 
Bitton's  purchase-deed,  dated  Sunday  before  St.  Lau- 
rence, 1302,  by  which  he  obtained  the  estate  of  Kelly, 
in  the  parish  of  St.  Alun,  Cornwall,  of  William  de 
Rostourek,  for  ten  pounds  of  silver.  His  sensible 
regulations  for  the  collegiate  church  of  Crediton  are 
printed  in  the  €  Monasticon '  of  the  diocese,  p.  445. 

To  his  dean  and  chapter  on  15th  October,  1297, 
he  had  granted  the  church  of  St.  Uvelus^in  Cornwall 
for  the  perpetual  maintenance  of  his  obit,  and  to  the 
abbey  of  Tavistock  on  26th  August,  1304,  he  appro- 
priated the  church  of  Burrington,  and  on  31st  December, 
1305,  he  assigned  the  church  of  Walkhampton  to  the 
use  and  benefit  of  the  abbot  and  convent  of  Buckland. 

Our  bishop  was  unable  to  attend  the  parliament 
summoned  to  meet  at  Carlisle  within  the  octave  of 
St.  Hilary,  1307,  the  last  year  of  the  reign  of  King 
Edward  I.,  to  treat  "  super  ordinatione  et  stabilitate 
terrse  Scotise  "  ('  Placita  Parl.'  Lond.  edit.  1661,  p.  319). 
According  to  the  '  Chronicon J  of  Exeter  Church  he 
died  on  17th  September  that  year  (Hoker  says  21st), 


2  The  seal  of  the  Archbishop  of  Je- 
rusalem represents  him  with  a  long 
beard,  arrayed  in  his  pontifical  dress 
and  mitred,  and  with  a  limbus  or  square 
piece  of  embroidery  in  the  lower  part 
of  the  alb  ;  the  right  hand  is  elevated 
in  the  act  of  benediction  ;  in  his  left  he 
bears  a  crosier,  which  rises  to  the  top 
of  the  mitre,  and  finishes  with  the  letter 
Tau.  From  a  nodus  near  the  top  of  the 
crosier  hangs  a  pennon.  Over  his  head 
is  the  Epigonation  or  Veronica,  which 


is  repeated  on  the  back  of  the  seal. 
Adenulphus  appears  seated  in  full  dress 
and  holding  a  splendid  crosier.  In  an 
arch  above  him  is  the  half-figure  of  the 
Virgin  Mary  and  the  divine  infant. 
Below  the  prelate  is  a  shield  charged 
with  a  lion  rampant.  The  seal  of  Man- 
fred is  perfect :  he  stands  robed,  with 
a  piece  of  embroidery  on  his  alb,  like 
the  Archbishop  of  Jerusalem  :  the  cro- 
sier is  simply  curved.  His  legend  is — 

S:  MANFKEDI  .  DEI  .  GRA:  .  EPISCOPI .  SCI:  MARCH!. 


54  LIVES  OF  THE 

but  we  prefer  the  authority  of  the  Cathedral  Calendar, 
or  Marty rologium,  which  states  it  to  be  on  25th 
September,  and  was  buried  just  before  the  lowest  step 
of  its  high  altar.  According  to  Leland,  the  grave- 
stone was  inscribed  THO:  BVTTEN.  EPVS.  EXON:  (4Itin/ 
vol.  iii.  p.  57).  It  was  embellished  with  a  sepulchral 
brass. 

That  he  was  a  general  favourite  among  his  episcopal 
brethren  of  the  province  of  Canterbury  is  evident, 
from  the  encouragement  they  gave  to  the  faithful 
of  their  respective  dioceses  "  ad  orandum  pro  anima 
bonse  memoriae  Thomse,  quondam  Exoniensis  Episcopi." 

Godwin  commemorates  the  tasteful  decorated  brass 
on  his  tomb ;  but  that  has  long  disappeared.  In 
relaying  the  floor  of  the  choir  in  August,  1763,  a 
large  slab  was  removed,  covering  a  very  shallow 
walled  grave,  in  which  lay  a  leaden  coffin  of  ancient 
shape,  six  feet  long ;  the  upper  part  was  partly 
decayed — the  skeleton  was  nearly  entire.  On  the  right 
side  stood  a  small  chalice  covered  with  a  paten,  and  a 
piece  of  silk  or  linen  was  wound  round  the  stem ; 
amongst  the  dust  was  discovered  a  fair  gold  ring,  with 
a  large  sapphire,  and  on  the  left  were  some  fragments 
of  a  wooden  crosier.  The  remains  were  respectfully 
covered  in,  but  the  ring  and  chalice  are  preserved  in 
the  chapter-house.  In  the  inventory  of  the  cathedral 
plate,  A.D.  1327,  the  bishop  is  recorded  as  the  donor  of 
two  silver  candlesticks,  parcel  gilt,  weighing  one 
hundred  and  eleven  shillings  and  eight  pence,  and  of  a 
silver  holy-water  vase,  with  two  sprinklers,  weighing 
one  hundred  and  one  shillings. 

ARMS  : — Ermine,  a  fess,  gules. 

WALTER  DE  STAPELDON. —  The  next  person  who 
graced  the  mitre  of  Exeter  was  Walter  de  Stapeldon, 
son  of  William  de  Stapeldon  and  Mabilla  his  wife,  born, 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 


55 


it  seems,  at  Annery,3  the  seat  of  his  family,  in  the 
parish  of  Monkleigh,  Devon.  Adopting  the  eccle- 
siastical state,  his  acquirements  and  virtues  soon  raised 
him  to  distinction.  The  University  of  Oxford  placed 
him  in  her  chair  of  professor  of  canon  law ;  and  at  the 
time  of  his  election  to  the  see  of  Exeter  he  was  pre- 
centor of  its  cathedral,  rector  of  Aveton  Griffard,  and 
chaplain  to  Pope  Clement  Y.  From  his  register  (fol. 
29)  we  collect  that  on  the  Monday  after  Martinmas, 
1307,  twenty-three  canons  assembled  for  the  election  of 
a  successor  to  their  late  prelate  ;  that  fifteen  votes  were 
in  favour  of  the  precentor,  three  for  Dean  Lechelade, 
three  for  Thomas  de  Ohirleton,  archdeacon  of  Totnes, 
and  two  for  Canon  John  de  Godelegh.  On  this 
announcement  of  the  scrutiny  the  votes  concurred 
at  once  in  the  election  of  Stapeldon ;  yet  in  the  sequel 
Richard  de  Plympstock,  rector  of  Exminster  and 
Uffculm,  entered  an  invidious  protest  against  the  pro- 
ceedings, which  occasioned  some  delay,  but  which  he 
afterwards  withdrew.  King  Edward  II.  urged  the 
above-mentioned  pope  to  expedite  the  business  (Wilkins' 
'Cone.'  vol.  ii.  p.  290).  The  primate  Robert  Win- 
chelsey  (the  connecting  link  between  the  bishops  of  his 
province  and  His  Holiness)  was  then  abroad,  and  labour- 
ing under  some  disgrace  with  the  holy  see  :  reconciled, 
however,  to  Pope  Clement  Y.  at  Poictiers,  on  15th 
January,  1308,  he  issued  his  commission  to  confirm  the 
election,  which  was  duly  carried  into  effect  on  Wed- 
nesday, 13th  March,  that  year  at  Reading.  On  the 
Saturday  following  the  king  restored  the  temporalities 


3  Such  was  the  tradition  in  Westcott's 
time.  In  the  bishop's  own  deed,  dated 
Exeter,  25th  February,  1323,  he  states 
that  his  birthday  occurred  on  the  1st 
of  February,  "  prout  ex  parentum  rela- 
tione  didicimus."  With  his  family  he 
assigned  the  manor  of  Broadwoodwiger 
to  the  priory  and  convent  of  Frithel- 


stock.  See  '  Monastic.  Dioc.  Exon.'  pp. 
81,  221.  His  brother,  Sir  Kichard,  one 
of  the  Puisne  Judges  of  the  King's 
Bench,  resided  principally  in  Stapeldon 
Manor,  within  Milton  Damerell  parish. 
See  Register  of  Stapeldou,  fol.  114. 
Their  sister  Joan  married  Thomas 
Kaynes  of  Winkleigh. 


56  LIVES  OF  THE 

(Stapeldon's  <Reg.'  fol.  30).  From  the  delay  of  the 
primate's  return,  and  the  subsequent  pressure  of  busi- 
ness, the  consecration  was  postponed  as  late  as  the 
13th  October  ('Reg.'  fol.  35).  Towards  the  end  of 
Brantyngham's  'Register,'  vol.  ii.  fol.  36,  is  inserted 
the  composition  between  our  bishop  and  the  Lord  Hugh 
Courtenay,  dated  22rid  December,  1308  (copied  into 
the  '  Monasticon '  of  the  diocese,  p.  323),  which  proves 
that  the  ceremony  of  the  episcopal  enthronisation  must 
have  been  very  splendid.  At  his  accession  he  found 
the  rebuilding  of  his  cathedral  had  been  commenced, 
but  the  progress  was  slow ;  and  he  applied  himself 
diligently  to  the  prosecution  of  the  plan.  The  fabric 
rolls  testify  that  he  was  a  benefactor  to  the  amount  of 
eighteen  hundred  pounds !  His  example  enlisted  the 
co-operation  and  benevolence  of  the  clergy  and  laity, 
as  the  resolution  of  8th  May,  1310,  demonstrates  :  the 
twenty-four  canons  contributed  a  moiety  of  their 
annuity  of  six  marks  received  in  the  name  of  Prebend 
('  Grand.  Reg.'  vol.  i.  fol.  39),  and  the  monasteries 
within  the  diocese  simultaneously  agreed  to  admit  to  a 
participation  of  all  their  masses,  prayers,  alms-deeds, 
and  other  good  works,  every  true  penitent  who  should 
lend  the  bishop  a  helping  hand  in  his  pious  under- 
taking. That  he  vaulted  a  part  of  his  choir  is  certain — 
that  he  prepared  a  large  stock  of  materials,  glazed 
several  windows,  provided  a  gorgeous  canopy  over  the 
silver  high  altar  cannot  be  questioned,  and  to  him 
is  assigned  the  erection  of  the  matchless  sedilia  on  the 
south  side  of  the  sanctuary.  With  his  sovereign, 
Edward  II.,  he  deservedly  possessed  the  highest  favour. 
He  made  him  his  treasurer,  and  for  his  valued  services 
granted  to  his  see  on  12th  November,  1320,  the  power 
of  holding  pleas  of  hue-and-cry  in  the  lands,  tenements 
and  fees  of  the  bishopric,  within  the  county  of  Cornwall. 
This  grant  is  preserved  in  our  episcopal  archives.  He 


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57 


further  allowed  him  two  additional  fairs  for  Crediton, 
as  also  fairs  for  Ashburton,4  Chudleigh,  and  Clist ;  and 
we  learn  from  the  bishop's  register  (fol.  63)  that  the 
king  had  bestowed  on  him  the  lordship  of  the  hundred 
of  Budleigh.5  A  learned  man  himself,  Stapeldon  was 
anxious  for  the  enlightenment  of  the  public  mind  and 
the  extension  of  the  circle  of  knowledge  ;  and  for  this 
purpose  he  founded  and  liberally  endowed  Hart's  Hall 
and  Stapeldon's  Inn  in  Oxford,  afterwards  consolidated 
into  Exeter  College  ;  and  he  left  funds  to  establish  in 
St.  John's  Hospital  here  a  grammar  school  to  prepare 
them  for  that  university  (see  Wood's  '  Hist,  and  Antiq. 
Oxon,'  and  the  'Monast.  Dioc.  Exon.'  p.  306). 

Notwithstanding  his  office  of  lord  treasurer,  and  the 
duty  of  attending  the  cabinet  councils,  and  the  person 
of  his  sovereign,  he  never  forgot  what  was  demanded 
by  his  episcopal  character ;  and  his  invaluable  '  Ee- 
gister '  bears  ample  testimony  to  his  diligence  in  visit- 
ing his  diocese,  and  how  attentive  he  was  to  the 
administration  of  holy  orders.  But,  during  the  last 
two  years  of  his  life,  the  service  of  his  king  and  country 
demanded  much  of  his  absence.  He  left  the  diocese  in 
September,  1324,  having  previously  addressed  his  dean 
and  chapter  on  9th  August,  from  Lawhitton  in  Corn- 
wall, on  the  neglected  state  of  several  of  the  parochial 
churches,  exhorting  them  to  look  to  their  substantial 
repairs,  and  especially  calling  on  the  dean,  as  holding 
archidiaconal  jurisdiction  in  the  peculiars  of  the 


4  He  was  a  great  benefactor  to  Ash- 
burton.  To  the  provost  and  commonalty 
of  its  borough  he  granted  all  the  obven- 
tions  and  offerings  of  St.  Laurence's 
Chapel,  situate  "  infra  ambitum  curise 
suse  de  Ashperton,"  for  a  chantry. 
Under  their  common  seal  they  testified 
their  grateful  sense  of  his  liberality,  on 
16th  August,  1314.  The  legend  of  the 
seal  is — 

S:  PREPOSITI  .  ET  .  CfflTATIS .  BVEGI .  DB  .  ATSpTON. 


6  It  was  usual  for  our  cathedral 
establishments  to  admit  the  reigning 
sovereign  and  his  royal  family  to  a 
share  in  all  their  prayers,  alms,  and 
good  works,  as  special  founders  and 
benefactors.  We  have  seen  the  form 
of  admission  of  King  Edward  II.  and 
his  queen  Isabella,  dated  Exeter,  25th 
March,  1315.  The  same  form  had  been 
adopted  in  favour  of  King  Edward  I. 
and  his  second  wife,  Margaret  of 
France. 


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LIVES  OF  THE 


chapter,  to  enforce  obedience  to  this  episcopal  ordinance.6 
With  his  inbred  sense  of  honour  and  patriotism  he 
must  have  been  annoyed  at  the  progress  of  disaffection 
goaded  on  by  the  faithless  queen  consort,  and  that  the 
king  could  not  be  induced  to  estrange  himself  from  his 
unworthy  and  obnoxious  favourites  and  evil  counsellors. 
According  to  Adam  de  Murimoth's  '  Chronicle '  the 
queen  left  England  for  France  in  May,  1325  :  by  the 
king's  desire  our  bishop  on  9th  September  following 
accompanied  Prince  Edward,  the  heir  to  the  throne,  to 
do  homage,  in  place  of  his  father,  to  the  French 
monarch,  for  the  provinces  of  Aquitaine  and  Poitou. 
Dr.  Lingard  justly  describes  our  prelate  as  "a  minister 
of  irreproachable  integrity ;"  his  vigilance,  his  uncom- 
promising regard  for  the  interests  of  his  royal  master 
proved  a  vexatious  restraint  to  the  adverse  party 
abroad,  who  even  attempted  his  life.  Returning  to 
England  his  penetration  satisfied  him  that  everything 
portended  a  speedy  revolution.  At  last  the  king 
became  sensible  of  his  danger,  and  fearful  that  treason 
had  done  its  worst,  when  Isabella  and  her  paramour 
Mortimer  had  effected  a  landing  on  the  coast  of  Suffolk 
with  a  powerful  force,  on  28th  September,  1326, 
he  issued  a  proclamation  from  the  Tower  against  them 
(Rymer's  '  Fcedera/  vol.  v.  p.  233).  Next  committing 
the  custody  of  London  to  this  faithful  bishop  on  2nd 
October,  he  hurried  off  to  Bristol.  Our  bishop  had 
concurred  with  some  of  the  privy  council  in  pro- 
mulgating the  sentence  of  excommunication  against 
those  who  had  invaded  the  realm;  but  the  king's 
flight,  and  the  successful  advance  of  the  queen's  army 
towards  London,  encouraged  its  citizens  to  break  out 
into  open  rebellion  against  the  Government.  In  the 


6  The  bishop  must  have  paid  a  hasty 
visit  to  Exeter  in  the  middle  of  Sep- 
tember, 1326,  for  we  find  him  here  on 


the  22nd  of  that  month  confirming  an 
agreement  between  his  chapter  and  the 
nuns  of  Polslo. 


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59 


French  '  Chronicle '  of  London,  published  in  1844  by 
the  Camden  Society  (page  52),  it  is  stated  that  "the 
Bishop  of  Exeter,  riding  towards  his  inn  or  hotel  in 
Eldedeanes-lane  for  dinner,  encountered  the  mob,  and, 
hearing  them  shout  '  Traitor/  he  rode  rapidly  to 
St.  Paul's  for  sanctuary,  but  was  unhorsed,  and  taken 
to  Cheapside,  stript  and  beheaded.  William  Walle 
(his  nephew)  and  John  Padyngton,  the  bishop's  steward, 
met  with  the  same  fate.  About  the  hour  of  vespers,  the 
same  day,  15th  October,  the  choir  of  St.  Paul's  took 
up  the  headless  body  of  the  prelate,  and  conveyed  it  to 
St.  Paul's,  but,  on  being  informed  that  he  died  under 
sentence,  the  body  was  brought  to  St.  Clement's  beyond 
the  Temple,  but  was  ejected ;  so  that  the  naked  corpse, 
with  a  rag  given  by  the  charity  of  a  woman,  was 
laid  on  a  spot  called  '  Le  Lawles  Chirche,'  and,  without 
any  grave,  lay  there  with  those  of  his  two  esquires, 
without  office  of  priest  or  clerk."  Other  circum- 
stances attending  this  murder  are  thus  supplied  by 
Thomas  of  Walsingham  ('  Historia  Brevis,'  p.  1 04)  : — 
"  The  citizens,  continuing  their  rage,  assailed  the 
house7  of  the  Bishop  of  Exeter,  Master  Walter  de 
Stapulton,  and  setting  fire  to  the  gates,  entered  it,  but 
not  finding  the  bishop,  whose  destruction  was  their 
object,  they  plundered  his  jewels,  plate,  and  furniture. 
It  happened  in  an  evil  hour  that  the  bishop  returned 
from  the  country,  who,  although  he  had  been  apprised 
of  these  violences,  yet  felt  no  dread  of  them.  He  rode 
on  horseback,  and  when  he  had,  with  boldness  enough, 
arrived  at  the  north  gate  of  St.  Paul's,  he  was  pre- 
sently seized  by  the  populace,  wounded,  torn,  thrown 
down,  and,  at  length,  dragged  to  the  place  of  execution. 
When  they  had  dragged  him  to  the  street  of  Chepe, 


7  He  had  obtained  an  excellent  site 
on  a  property  near  Temple  Bar,  which 
had  belonged  to  the  Knights  Templars, 


and  erected  a  large  and  convenient 
mansion,  called  Exeter  Inn,  for  the 
benefit  of  his  episcopal  successors. 


60  LIVES  OF  THE 

they  there  proclaimed  him  a  public  traitor,  a  seducer 
of  the  king,  and  a  destroyer  of  the  liberties  of  their 
city.  The  bishop  was  clad  in  a  kind  of  armour,  which 
we  commonly  call  Aketon,  and,  being  stripped  of  that, 
and  of  his  other  apparel,  he  was  beheaded.  Two  others 
of  his  household,  namely,  his  esquire  and  his  valet, 
underwent  the  same  fate.  This  sacrilege  being  perpe- 
trated, they  fixed  the  head  of  the  bishop  on  a  long 
pole  by  way  of  trophy,  that  it  might  be  to  all  be- 
holders a  lasting  memorial  of  the  attempted  crime. 
His  body,  like  that  of  an  excommunicated  person,  and 
without  any  funeral  rites,  they  cast  into  a  pit,  in  a 
certain  old  cemetery,  which  had  formerly  belonged  to 
the  fraternity  called '  Freres  Pyes,'  but  was  then  entirely 
neglected.  The  cause  of  their  enmity  was  that,  when 
he  was  treasurer  of  the  kingdom,  of  the  king's  council 
he  procured,  that  the  justices  in  Eyre  should  sit  in  the 
City  of  London  ;  on  which  occasion,  because  the  citizens 
had  committed  various  offences,  they  were  heavily 
punished,  by  the  loss  of  their  liberties,  by  pecuniary 
mulcts,  and  by  bodily  chastisement,  as  they  deserved. 
It  was  also  said  that  he  had  collected  a  great  number 
of  forces  to  act  against  the  queen  and  her  son  the 
Duke  of  Aquitain,  and  therefore  the  Londoners  endea- 
voured, as  they  said,  to  hinder,  as  quickly  as  possible, 
the  bishop's  enterprise.1'  Again  differing  from  the 
preceding  relation  is  that  of  WILLIAM  DE  PAKINGTON, 
clerk  and  treasurer  of  Prince  Edward's  (the  Black 
Prince)  household  in  Gascony,  in  a  '  Chronicle '  by  him 
written  in  French,  and  dedicated  to  his  master,  thus 
translated  by  Leland  ('  Lei.  Coll.'  vol.  i.  p.  467):- 
"  In  the  yere  1326,  Elizabeth,  Edwarde,  Edmund  of 
Wodestock  Erie  of  Kent,  and  John  of  Henaude  arrived 
at  Harwiche.  After  the  landding  of  them  King  Ed- 
warde heard  that  the  Londoners  were  minded  to 
rendre  them  self  to  them.  Whereupon  he  sent  Walter 


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61 


Stapleton  Bishop  of  Excestre,  his  Tresorer,  for  to  be 
gardiane  of  the  cyte  with  the  mayre,  and  he  cummying 
to  the  Guildhaulle  desired,  according  to  his  commission, 
the  keyes,  and  custody  of  the  cyte.  To  whom  the 
commons  answered  that  they  worde  kepe  the  towne  for 
the  king,  the  quene,  and  his  sunne.  And  the  bishop, 
not  content  with  this  answer,  they  toke  hym  and 
smith  of  his  hedde  in  the  middle  of  Westchepe,  and 
after  beheddid  2  Esquires  that  waytid  on  hym. 
Wylliam  Waulle  his  nephew  was  the  one,  and  John 
Padington  the  other,  and  after  they  behedid  a  Burges 
one  John  Mareschal,  Espy  yn  London  for  the  Dis- 
pensars.  At  this  tyme  Walter  Stapleton  was  making 
a  faire  toure  on  the  very  Tamys  side  at  this  place,  with 
oute  Temple  bar,  and  lakking  stone  and  lyme  to  finishid 
it,  sent  a  force  to  the  Chirch  of  the  White  Freres 
(Freres  de  la  Eie),  and  toke  it,  and  yn  despite  of  this 
the  Loundener  biryid  Stapleton  and  his  2  Esquires  in 
the  hepe  of  rubrische  aboute  his  toure,  as  they  had 
bene  dogges.  And  no  mervel.  For  he  was  fu- 
mische,  and  without  pite.  But  after  xi.  weeks  at  the 
requeste  of  Quene  Isabels  lettres  the  Bishops  body  was 
caried  to  the  chirch  thereby,  and  after  to  Excestre. 
And  the  2  Esquires  bodyes  were  caryed  to  S.  Clementes 
Chirch 8  and  there  buried." 

Those  who  do  not  pronounce  on  events  merely  from 
their  success,  who  attend  to  the  springs  and  principles 
of  actions,  must  award  the  tribute  of  praise  and  admira- 
tion to  this  high-minded  bishop  and  minister ;  they 
will  appreciate  his  zeal  and  energy  to  sustain  the 
declining  fortunes  of  his  royal  master,  and  venerate 
him  for  his  disregard  of  self,  and  for  his  incorruptible 
honour  and  loyalty  under  every  discouragement. 


8  King  Henry  II.  granted  this  church 
of  St.  Clement,  "  quse  dicitur  Dacorum," 
to  the  Knights  Templars  ;  and  on  their 
suppression  it  appears  that  King  Ed- 


ward II.  conveyed  it  to  Bishop  Stapel- 
don.  It  had  within  it  a  chapel  of  St. 
John. 


62  LIVES  OF  THE 

The  remains  of  the  heroical  bishop  were  permitted, 
by  the  adultress  Queen  Isabella,  in  January,  three 
months  after  his  murder,  to  be  consigned  to  Christian 
burial,  probably  in  St.  Clement's  Church,  London. 
The  '  Chronicon '  of  Exeter  Church  (Harleian  MSS. 
No.  545,  &c.)  simply  states  that  on  28th  March,  1327, 
the  body  was  solemnly  interred  "  solemni  traditur 
sepulturse,"  without  specifying  where.  In  a  letter  of 
Henry  Gower,  Bishop  of  St.  David's,  bearing  date 
from  York  16th  August,  1328,  in  the  possession  of  our 
dean  and  chapter,  he  recommends  Bishop  Walter's 
soul  to  the  prayers  of  the  faithful,  and  mentions  his 
actual  interment  in  Exeter  Cathedral  "  cujus  corpus  in 
Ecclesia  Cathedrali  Exoniensi  est  humatum."  The 
Eegistrar  of  Newenham,  fol.  117,  a  contemporary, 
after  mentioning  his  decapitation  on  Tuesday  15th 
October,  1326,  "pro  magn&  fidelitate  su&,  est  sepultus 
apud  Exon."  But  we  know  not  how  to  reconcile  this 
assertion  with  the  omission  of  all  charges  for  such 
removal  of  the  body  in  the  accounts  of  the  bishop's 
executors  ;  and,  above  all,  with  the  letter  of  Bishop 
Grandisson  ('Beg.'  vol.  ii.  fol.  183  6)  addressed  to  one 
of  them,  Bobert  de  Tauton,  a  canon  of  this  Cathedral  so 
late  as  30th  June,  1334,  in  the  8th  year  after  the  sad 
tragedy,  commending  his  pious  intention  of  erecting 
a  tomb  and  chapel  and  founding  a  perpetual  chantry  in 
suburbio  London,  where  the  body  "primitus  quiescit 
humatum "  (Appendix).  As  for  the  present  "epitaph 
on  his  monument  on  the  north  side  of  the  Cathedral- 
choir,  it  was  composed  by  John  Hoker  in  Queen 
Elizabeth's  reign  (1568),  and  put  up  at  the  expense 
of  Bishop  Alley. 

In  Stapeldon's  '  Begister,'  Fel.  170,  is  his  ordinance, 
dated  2nd  March,  1321-2,  for  the  maintenance  of  his 
own  obit  in  the  cathedral,  as  also  his  sovereign's  license 
for  that  purpose,  dated  Tewkesbury,  12th  November, 


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63 


1322.  Copies  are  also  preserved  in  the  archives  of  our 
dean  and  chapter.  IJeland  (*  Itin.'  vol.  iii.  p.  45) 
asserts  that  the  monument  in  the  wall  of  the  north 
aisle  of  the  cathedral  choir,  and  opposite  to  the  bishop's, 
was  erected  to  the  memory  of  his  brother,  Sir  Richard 
de  Stapeldon,  Knight.9  It  may  be  the  case  ;  but  there 
is  no  truth  in  the  tradition  that  he  fell  a  sacrifice,  with 
his  episcopal  brother,  to  the  frantic  violence  of  the 
mob.  There  is  no  reason  for  even  supposing  that  he 
was  then  in  London.  He  certainly  was  living  on  2nd 
April,  1330,  as  is  manifest  from  the  deed  of  his  brother 
Thomas  of  that  very  date.  His  anniversary,  moreover, 
was  kept  here  on  10th  March  ;  whereas  the  bishop's 
was  observed  on  the  15th  of  October,  the  day  of  his 
murder,  and  the  feast  of  St.  Wulfran.  (Obitus  Eicardi 
Stapeldon,  Militis,  Martii  x  ;  obitus  Walteri  Stapeldon, 
EpL,  xv  Octobris.  Ex  Antiquo  Kalendari  Exon.).  Bishop 
Grandisson's  ordinance  to  this  effect,  dated  28th  June, 
1328,  is  in  Bishop  Brantyngham's  '  Register,'  vol.  ii. 
fol.  6,  where  it  is  added  that  Bishop  Stapeldon  not 
only  complied  with  the  ancient  custom  of  his  prede- 
cessors in  leaving  an  hundred  oxen  to  the  see,  forty  to 
work  the  farms  in  Devon,  thirty  those  in  Cornwall, 
and  thirty  for  those  elsewhere  ;  but  added  another 
hundred  oxen,  with  directions  that  at  his  anniversary 
one  hundred  poor  should  then  be  fed  in  the  hall  of 
Exeter  Palace,  or  at  its  outer  gate. 


9  King  Edward  II.,  on  21st  October, 
1314,  licensed  this  learned  knight, 
under  the  great  seal,  to  appropriate  an 
acre  of  land  in  Draynet  in  Penwith, 
with  the  advowson  of  the  church  of  St. 
Wynnerus  there,  to  the  dean  and  chap- 
ter of  Exeter,  "  in  subsidium  duodecim 
Scolarium  in  Universitate  Oxon,  causa 
studendi  morantium  et  successorum 
suorum  moraturorum  imperpetuum." 

The  statutes  of  the  bishop  for  Stapel- 
don Hall  are  dated  April,  1316,  and  it 
is  pleasing  to  observe  his  anxiety  that 
in  the  election  of  scholars  "  cessante 
omni  favore,  timore,  consanguinitate  vel 


amore,  illos  nominabunt,  quos  credide- 
rint  ad  proficiendum  aptiores,  in  mori- 
bus  honestiores,  et  in  facultatibus  pau- 
periores  ;  vel  saltern  illos,  in  quibus  istae 
tres  conditiones  magis  conveniunt." 

The  obit  of  the  bishop's  brother 
Thomas  was  kept  in  the  cathedral  on 
3rd  October,  and  of  Kobert  on  21st 
May :  this  latter  had  died  about  the 
feast  of  the  Ascension,  1311,  rector  of 
Tawstock  :  the  former  survived  till  late 
in  1342,  when  his  canonry  was  given  by 
Bishop  Grandisson,  on_3rd  October  that 
year,  to  Thomas  de  ~ 
vol.  iii.  fol.  48).  ^X"  rf$  Of"  ' 


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64  LIVES  OF  THE 

It  is  painful  to  reflect  how  this  barbarous  murder 
was  suffered  to  pass  over  with  apathy  and  impunity. 
About  eighteen  months  later,  Bishop  Grandisson, 
writing  to  Pope  John  XXII.,  conjures  His  Holiness  not 
to  lose  sight  of  that  revolting  tragedy — that  the  im- 
punity for  such  an  atrocious  deed  was  a  scandal  to  the 
nation — that  His  Holiness' s  clemency  should  beware  of 
admitting  the  excuses  of  the  Londoners ;  for  common 
report  affirmed  that  some,  even  of  the  bishops,  had 
been  induced  by  costly  presents  and  future  promises 
of  the  citizens  of  London  to  discolour  the  facts,  and 
conceal  the  truth  from  the  holy  see — that  their  success 
would  injure  the  reputation  of  His  Holiness  in  the 
opinion  of  many,  and  would  cover  the  writer  (himself) 
with  shame  and  grief :  "  et  me  filium  sedis  apostolicae, 
etsi  juvenern  ;  et  defensorem,  licet  invalidum  retunderet 
obruentem"  ('Reg.'  vol.  i.  fol.  37). 

In  the  episcopal  archives  is  preserved  an  interesting 
roll  or  inventory  (though  sadly  injured  by  the  wanton 
use  of  galls)  of  the  deceased  prelate's  effects,  as  deli- 
vered to  Bishop  Grandisson  in  June,  1328,  by  the 
executors,  Richard  de  Coleton,  precentor,  Thomas  de 
Stapeldon,  brother  to  the  testator,  and  Richard  de 
Braylegh,  then  subdean,  all  canons  of  Exeter,  in  the 
absence  of  their  co-executor,  Robert  de  Tauton  (the 
canon  above  mentioned).  It  comprises  the  effects  of 
his  chapel,  library,  chamber,  wardrobe,  cellar,  plate, 
and  household  goods,  and  the  live  and  dead  stock  on 
the  farms.  The  ornaments  of  his  chapel  are  numerous 
and  valuable.  His  books,  valued  at  20U.  10s.  6c?., 
treated  chiefly  on  Holy  Scripture  and  Canon  Law,  with 
a  few  historical  works  and  some  sermons.  He  had  pre- 
viously granted  to  the  cathedral  library  a  Catholicon, 
beginning  with  the  words  "  Temporum  Surnma,"  valued 
at  5/.,  and  the  Chronicles  of  Westminster,  "  de  Gestis 
Anglorum,"  valued  at  \L  6s.  8d.  In  his  chamber  were 


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65 


found  1006  florens  "  de  agno,"  4000  florens  "  de  Flo- 
rencia  et  unus  florens  de  regina  "  and  in  ready  money, 
"  pecunia  numerata,"  801/.  Sd.  sterling ;  "  in  platis 
argenteis"  to  the  value  of  515/.  His  rings  amounted 
to  ninety-one ;  one  was  broken ;  three  of  them  hand- 
some, the  rest  ordinary,  value  unknown :  but  the 
pontifical  and  best  rings,  "  tempore  mortis  defunct i 
fuerunt  Londoni  deprsedati."  The  "  vasa  argentea" 
must  have  been  splendid,  combining  gifts  from  the 
Kings  of  England  and  France  and  from  various  noble- 
men; yet  not  rated  higher  than  170Z.  The  cellar  had 
been  reduced  in  quantity ;  but  we  find  a  pipe  half  full 
de  vino  de  Warnath,10  valued  at  4£.,  whereas  two  other 
hogsheads  of  wine  were  priced  at  the  same  sum.  The 
stock  on  his  farms  of  Petershays,  Flockston,  Clist, 
Chudleigh,  Bishop's  Teignton,  Paignton,  Crediton,  &c., 
was  very  valuable,  but  the  prices  moderate,  compared 
with  the  present  times.  Good  debts  were  estimated  at 


10  This  was  a  medicated  wine,  pre- 
pared with  an  infusion  of  wermut,  the 
German  word  for  wormwood.  Sir  Henry 
Ellis  and  Mr.  Albert  Way  inform  us 
that  the  Germans  in  the  Rhenish  and 
viniferous  districts  delighted  in  vinum 
absinthianum,  and  that  the  more  north- 
ern nations  mingled  the  herb  with  their 
beer.  Our  ancestors  fancied  this  bitter- 
ness gave  a  relish  and  whetted  the 
appetite.  We  still  retain  in  some  parts 
of  England  "  bitter  ale."  We  all  re- 
member that  Horace,  in  his  ode  '  Natis 
in  usum,'  applies  the  epithet  severus  to 
the  fine  Falernian.  wine  ;  and  that 
Seneca  (63  Epist.)  says,  "in  vino  nimis 
veteri,  ipsa  nos  amaritudo  delectat." 

In  the  inventory  a  draught  horse  is 
valued  at  5s. ;  an  ox  or  a  bull  at  6s.  Sd. ; 
a  cow  at  5s.  6d. ;  a  heifer  2s.  ;  a  calf 
Is.  Qd. ;  a  sheep  or  ewe  at  Is. ;  a  ram 
at  Is.  2d. ;  lambs  varied  in  price  from 
6d.  to  Sd. 

In  the  will  of  Simon  Grendon,  made 
and  proved  A.D.  1411,  he  leaves  10Z.  to 
be  laid  out  in  the  purchase  of  twenty 
cows,  to  be  given  to  as  many  poor  per- 
sons. About  120  years  later '(1520)  the 
rental  of  Rochester  Priory  states  the 
piirchase  of  a  cow  at  8s. ;  another  supe- 
rior cow  cost  the  community  lls.  8d. ; 


and  they  paid  "  pro  una  vacca  cum 
vitulo  "  as  much  as  15s.  In  the  rental 
of  the  chapter  of  Exeter  we  observe 
that  eggs — a  great  article  of  consump- 
tion— were  cheaper  in  1401  than  in 
1398.  In  the  former  year  they  were 
purchased  at  5d.  the  hundred ;  but 
three  years  before  at  5%d.,  and  even  5£  d. 
King  Edward  II.,  in  1 31 5,  in  his  writ 
to  the  Chancellor  of  Oxford,  required 
that  the  price  of  a  fat  goose  should  not 
exceed  2^d. ;  of  a  good  fat  capon  or  hen 
2d. ;  of  two  chickens  Id. ;  of  four  pigeons 
Id. ;  of  twenty-four  eggs  Id.,  &c. 

In  the  inventory  of  the  goods  of  John 
de  Yaldeforde  hi  Thorverton  parish, 
taken  in  December,  1362,  we  find  eleven 
quarters  of  wheat  appraised  in  toto  at 
27s.  6d. ;  twenty  quarters  of  oats  in  toto 
at  20s. ;  twelve  acres  of  wheat  growing 
in  the  ground  at  20s. ;  seven  oxen  at 
35s. ;  one  cow  at  3s. ;  four  boviculi  at 
10s.;  fifty  sheep  at  25s.;  four  hogs  at 
2s. ;  five  geese  at  12d. ;  one  wenrop  Qd.; 
a  mare  and  colt  at  5s. 

But  what  is  this  price  to  the  one 
charged  on  the  estate  of  Ralph  de 
Limesey  in  Bosintone  manor,  county  of 
Somerset,  viz.  xxiiij  oves,  aut  v  solidos 
unoquoque  anno?  ('P^xeter  Domesdav,' 
p.  473). 


66  LIVES  OF  THE 

3 8 II.  7s.  6d. ;  but  the  executors  despaired  of  recovering 
others  to  the  amount  of  378£  7s.  6c?.,  "  propter  nimiam 
paupertatem  debitorum."  Before  his  death  the  bishop 
had  sown  609  acres  and  a  half  with  wheat  and  rye, 
valued  at  15 II.  Us.  8c?.,  or  85.  4c?.  the  acre — fifteen 
acres  of  winter-barley,  valued  at  II.  10s.,  or  2s.  the 
acre ;  and  in  his  peculiar  manors  1 60  acres  and  a  half 
of  wheat  and  rye,  valued  at  26£.  15s.,  or  3s.  kd.  an  acre. 

In  the  archives  of  the  dean  and  chapter  is  Bishop 
G-randisson's  acquittance,  dated  Chudleigh,  28th  June, 
1328,  to  the  said  executors.  Within  two  months  later, 
viz.  26th  August,  they  engaged,  in  St.  Mary's  Chapel 
within  the  palace  at  Exeter,  to  pay  Bishop  G-randisson, 
in  lieu  of  all  dilapidations  and  demands,  the  sum  of 
300£.,  to  present  him  with  a  precious  mitre  belonging 
to  the  late  bishop  ;  also  with  a  silver  bason  and  jug, 
the  gift  of  the  King  of  France.  They  further  surren- 
dered to  him  all  the  dead  stock  set  forth  in  the 
inventory,  and  promised  him  100/.  more  if  he  would 
assist  them  in  recovering  the  debts  due  to  the  estate 
('  Reg.'  vol.  ii.  fol.  62),  and  they  obtained  his  lordship's 
receipt  in  full  of  all  demands  on  the  24th  March 
next  ensuing  ('Reg.'  vol.  ii.  fol.  117). 

The  executors  distributed  210£.  8s.  Sd.  in  legacies 
and  charities :  amongst  the  items  we  find  3Z.  6s.  Sd. 
towards  the  building  of  the  chancel  of  Pilton  mo- 
nastery, and  13s.  4d.  to  the  fabric  of  Pilton  Church; 
to  the  repairs  of  Cowley  Bridge  and  its  approaches 
3Z.  6s.  lOicZ. ;  to  the  repairs  of  New  Bridge  juxta  Tau- 
ton,  21. ;  towards  the  bridge  at  Bovey  Hethfeld,  one 
mark ;  pro  ponte  de  Bickley,  II.  5s. ;  to  the  prior  and 
convent  of  Launceston  for  repairing  their  church,  10/. ; 
to  the  abbot  of  Athelney  (where  King  Alfred  once 
found  shelter,  and  in  gratitude  founded  its  monastery) 
for  repairs  of  the  church  and  building  of  the  tower,  4/. ; 
"  in  subsidium  reparationis  ecclesiae  de  Plymptree  pau- 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  67 

perimse,"  105. ;  for  Stoke  Bridge,  4/. ;  Spilstor  Bridge, 
20s. :  for  Wonorde  Bridge,  near  Axminster,  205. ; 
towards  Barnstaple  Bridge,  4£,  with  21.  for  its  wardens ; 
for  the  repairs  of  Salcombe  Church,  51. ;  for  a  cloth 
embroidered  with  figures,  for  the  use  of  the  high  altar 
of  the  cathedral  of  Exeter,  131.  3s.  4J.,  and  for  a 
covering  of  the  same,  II.  8s. 

The  bishop's  brother,  Canon  Thomas  Stapeldon, 
granted  a  rent  of  II.  4s.  charged  on  a  tenement  that 
once  formed  the  corner-house  of  the  High  Street  and 
North  Street,  Exeter,  for  the  maintenance  of  his  obit 
and  the  obits  of  the  family.  He  further  granted  four 
shops  in  the  High  Street  of  Exeter  to  his  brethren  of 
the  chapter,  with  the  licence  of  King  Edward  III.  for 
the  same  purpose.  In  conclusion  we  may  add  that 
Eoger  de  Ealegh,  Abbot  of  Hartland,  and  his  convent, 
to  perpetuate  their  grateful  sense  of  the  services  of  our 
prelate  to  their  monastery,  agreed  to  maintain  his 
solemn  obit  on  the  15th  of  October  at  all  future  times, 
and  that,  after  this  office  was  performed,  thirteen  poor 
persons  should  be  fed  in  the  abbot's  hall,  "  et  quod  in 
die  obitus  sui  xiii  pauperes  in  aula  abbatis,  pro  ipsius 
anim&,  pascantur." 

ARMS  : — Argent,  two  bends  wavy,  sable. 


FUNDATIO  CANTARLX:  Dm.  WALTERI  DE  STAPELDON,  Exon  Epi.,  in  Ecclesia 

S.  dementis,  London. 

Universis  &c.,  Johannes  Exoniensis  Episcopus,  Salutem  &c. 
Piis  operibus  dare  consilium,  et  presentis  vite  subsidium  queritur 
et  eterne  retributionis  premium  expectatur.  Cum  itaque  dilec- 
tus  films,  vir  providus  Dominus  Dominus  Kobertus  de  Tauton, 
nostre  Exoniensis  Ecclesie  canonicus,  humanitatis  ductus  officio, 
ad  id,  sicut  accepimus,  sue  mentis  affectum  destinat  sedulo,  ut 
locum  ad  iiostram  episcopalem  mensam  pertinentem  (Sancti 
dementis  Danorum)  quo  felicis  recordationis  Walter!  de  Sta- 
peldono,  Exoniensis  Episcopi,  predecessoris  nostri  Corpus  in 
suburbio  London  primitus  quiescit  liumatum,  magnificare  valeat 
sepultura,  et  capellam  ibidem  erigere  et  fundare,  missasque 

F  2 


68  LIVES  OF  THE 

cotidianas  et  orationes  alias  in  ea  perpetuo  celebrari  facere,  in 
ipsius  predecessoris  nostri,  et  nostri  ac  omnium  alioram  predeces- 
sorum  nostrorum  et  successorum  Exonie  Episcoporum,  omnium 
fidelium  defunctorum  suifragium  anunarum,  desideriis  suis  hujus- 
modi  favore  benevolo  annuentes,  habitoque  super  hoc  cum 
dilectis  filiis  Capituli  Ecclesie  nostre  prelibate  tractatu  solempni 
et  diligenti,  eisque  consentientibus,  cum  ad  dampnum  Ecclesie 
nostre  predicte  vel  mense  trahi  nequeat,  ei,  quoad  id,  licentiam 
concedimus  et  liberam  facultatem,  dictum  locum  cum  adjacente 
area,  quatenus  nobis  existit  licitum,  ad  dictum  usum  etiam  con- 
ferendum.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  sigillum  nostrum  una  cum 
sigillo  Capituli  Ecclesie  nostre  predicte  presentibus  duximus 
apponendum.  Datum  &c.,  ultimo  die  Junii  MCCCXXXIV. 


Edwardus  Dei  gratia  Rex  Anglie  Dominus  Hibernie  et  Dux 
Aquitannie,  omnibus  ad  quos  presentes  Littere  pervenerint, 
Salutem.  Licet  de  communi  consilio  regni  nostri  statutum  sit 
quod  non  liceat  viris  religiosis  seu  aliis  ingredi  feodum  alicujus 
ita  quod  ad  manum  mortuam  deveniat  sine  licencia  nostra  et 
capitalis  Domini,  de  quo  res  ilia  immediate  tenetur :  per  finem 
tamen  quern  dilectus  et  fidelis  noster  Eicardus  de  Stapeldon 
fecit  nobiscum  concessimus  et  licenciam  dedimus  pro  nobis 
et  heredibus  nostris  quantum  in  nobis  est  eidem  Eicardo,  quod 
ipse  unam  acram  terre  cum  pertinenciis  in  Draynet  in  Peiiwyth 
et  advocacionem  Ecclesie  ejusdem  ville  dare  possit  et  assignare 
dilectis  nobis  in  Christo  Decano  et  Capitulo  Ecclesie  Beati  Petri 
Exonie,  habendum  et  tenendum  sibi  et  successoribus  suis  in 
subsidium  sustentacionis  duodecim  scolarium  in  Universitate 
Oxonie  causa  studendi  morancium  et  successive  moraturorum 
imperpetuum.  Et  eisdem  Decano  et  Capitulo  quod  ipsi  predictas 
terram  et  advocacionem  a  prefato  Eicardo  recipere  et  Ecclesiam 
predictam  sibi  appropriare  et  in  proprios  usus  una  cum  terra 
predicta  tenere  possint  sibi  et  successoribus  suis  predictis  in 
subsidium  sustentacionis  scolarium  predictorum  in  perpetuum 
sicut  predictum  est,  tenore  presencium  similiter  licenciam  dedi-,« 
mus  specialem.  Nolentes  quod  predictus  Eicardus  aut  heredes 
BUI  vel  predicti  Decanus  et  Capitulum  seu  successores  sui  predicti 
racioni  statuti  predicti  per  nos  vel  heredes  nostros  inde  occasion- 
entur,  molestentur  in  ahquo  seu  graventur  salvis  tamen  capit- 
alibus  Dominis  feodi  illius  serviciis  inde  debitis  et  consuetis.  In 
cujus  rei  testimonium  has  litteras^nostras  fieri  fecimus  patentes. 
Teste  me  ipso  apud  Windesore  vicesimo  primo  die  Octobris  anno 
regni  nostri  sexto.  Clyp.  per  finem  centum  solidorum  factum 
coram  Thesaurario. 

The  Great  Seal  of  England  is  attached. 

Indorsed  "  Licencia  Domini  Regis  super  Ecclesia  Sancti  Wynieri 
in  Cormibia  appropriate," 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  69 

GUANT  by  KING  EDWARD  II.  to  BISHOP  STAPELDON  and  his  successors,  Bishops 
of  Exeter,  of  Hue-and-Cry  in  the  Lands  of  the  See  of  Exeter  within  the 
County  of  Cornwall. — 12th  Nov.  (14  Edw.  II.)  1320. 

De  PLACITIO  de  HUTESIIS  et  CLAMORIBUS  levatis  in  Comitatu  Cornubie. 

Edwardus  Dei  gracia  Rex  Anglie  Dominus  Hibernie  et  Dux 
Aquitannie,  Archiepiscopis  Episcopis  Abbatibus  Prioribus  Comi- 
tibus  Baronibus  Justiciariis  vicecomitibus  Prepositis  ministris 
et  omnibus  Ballivis  et  fidelibus  suis,  Salutem.  Sciatis  quod  pro 
bono  servicio  quod  venerabilis  pater  Walterus  de  Stapeldon 
Exoniensis  Episcopus,  Thesaurarius  noster,  nobis  hactenus 
impendit  et  impendet  in  futurum  in  instanti  parliament©  nostro 
apud  Westmonasterium  convocato  de  assensu  prelatorum  comitum 
et  Baronum  ibidem  existencium  concessirnus  ei  et  hac  carta 
nostra  confirmavimus  quod  ipse  et  successores  sui  imperpetuum 
habeant  et  teneant  placita  de  hutesio  et  clamore  levatis  in  terris 
tenementis  et  feodis  ad  episcopatum  predictum  pertinentibus  in 
comitatu  Cornubie  in  que  idem  Episcopus  habet  visum  franci 
plegii.  Quare  volumus  et  firmiter  precipimus  pro  nobis  et 
heredibus  nostris  quod  predictus  Episcopus  et  successores  sui 
imperpetuum  habeant  et  teneant  placita  de  hutesio  et  clamore 
levatis  in  terris  tenementis  et  feodis  ad  episcopatum  predictum 
pertinentibus  in  comitatu  predicto  in  quibus  idem  Episcopus 
habet  visum  franci  plegii  sicut  predictum  est.  Hiis  testibus 
venerabilibus  patribus  W.  Cantuariensi  Archiepiscopo  tocius 
Anglie  primate,  J.  Norwyc  Episcopo,  cancellario  nostro  Thoma 
comite  Norff.  et  marescallo  Anglie,  fratre  nostro  carissimo 
Adomaro  de  Valencia  comite  Pembr.,  J.  rle  Warenn  comite 
SUIT.,  Hugone  le  Despenser  Seniore,  Bartholomeo  de  Badeles- 
mere  Senescallo  hospicii  nostri,  et  aliis.  Datum  per  manuni 
nostram  apud  Westmonasterium,  duodecimo  die  Novembris  anno 
regni  nostri  quarto  decimo. 

Per  breve  de  private  sigillo. 

The  Great  Seal  of  England  is  attached. 
[In  the  possession  of  the  Bishop  of  Exeter.] 


CART  A  BURGENSIUM  ASPEETON  super  Cantaria  in  Capella  situata  in  curia 
Episcopi  ibidem. 

Universis  ad  quos  presentes  litere  pervenerint  prepositus  et 
communitas  Burgensium  ville  de  Ashperton,  Salutem  in  Domino. 
Cum  venerabilis  pater  et  dominus  noster  dominus  Walterus 
[Stapeldon]  dei  graci&  Exoniensis  Episcopus  de  consensu 
Uapituli  sui  Exonie  concesserit  omnes  obvenciones  et  oblaciones 
Capelle  Sancti  Laurencii  infra  ambiturn  curie  sue  de  Ashperton 
situate  uni  presbitero  idoiieo  per  nos  eligendo  et  officiali  peculi- 
aris  jurisdiccionis  de  Ashperton  oportunis  loco  et  tempore  annis 


70  LIVES  OF  THE 

singulis  presentando,  qui  pro  salubri  statu  clicti  Episcopi  et  pro 
ipsius  anima  cum  ab  hac  luce  migraverit  et  animabus  omnium 
predecessorum  et  successorum  suorum  in  eadem  capella  divina 
imperpetuum  celebrabit,  prout  in  literis  dictorum  Episcopi  et 
Capituli  que  penes  nos  resident  plenius  est  contentum.  Nos 
divini  cultus  augmentum  pro  viribus  affectantes  ne  predicta 
cantaria  tarn  sancte  et  salubriter  ordinata  pro  defectu  exhibi- 
cionis  et  stipendiorum  ipsius  presbiteri  quod  absit  depereat, 
infuturum  obligamus  nos  heredes  nostros  et  successores  ad  in- 
veniendum predicto  presbitero  ibidem  ut  premittitur  celebraturo 
plenam  et  sufficientem  exhibicionem  una  cum  oblacionibus  et 
obvencionibus  supradictis  in  suis  stipendiis  coniputatis.  Ita 
quod  eadem  cantaria  pro  defectu  exhibicionis  et  stipendiorum 
ipsius  presbiteri  nullo  tempore  deperibit,  quodque  ipsam  capel- 
lam,  libros,  et  ornamenta  ipsius  ad  cultum  divinum  oportuna 
sufficienter  reparabimus,  quociens  oportuerit,  et  in  bono  statu 
sustinebimus  omnibus  ternporibus  secuturis :  ad  que  omnia  et 
singula  facienda  obligamus  nos  et  nostrum  singulos  nostrosque 
heredes  et  successores  et  omnia  bona  nostra  et  ipsorum  mobilia 
et  immobilia  spiritualia  et  mundana  cohercioni  et  districcioni 
dictorum  Episcopi  et  Capituli  et  successorum  suorum  et  cujus- 
cumque  alterius  judicis  ecclesiastici  vel  secularis  quern  Epis- 
copus  Exoniensis  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit  aut  capitulum  Ex- 
oniense  duxerit  eligendum.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  huic 
scripto  Sigillum  nostrum  commune  duximus  opponendum.  Hiis 
testibus  Dominis  Koberto  Dei  gracia  Abbate  Tavistoch,  Mathia 
Priore  de  Plympton,  Petro  Abbate  Buffestr,  Jocelino  Priore 
Tottoni,  Rogero  de  Charleton  Archidiacono  Totton,  et  aliis. 
Datum  apud  Ashperton  die  veneris  in  crastino  Assumpcionis 
Beate  Marie,  anno  Domini  millesimo  tricentesimo  quarto 
decimo. 

[S.  Prepositi  et  Coitatis  Burgi  de  Ayspton.] 


JAMES  BERKLEY. — When  the  news  reached  Exeter 
that  their  beloved  bishop  Walter  Stapeldon  had  fallen 
a  victim  to  the  popular  phrensy  in  London,  the  dean 
and  chapter  assembled  to  deliberate  on  a  suitable  suc- 
cessor. Their  choice  was  unanimous  in  favour  of  their 
colleague  James  Berkley,  §.T.P.  For  the  last  eight 
years  he  had  been  also  Archdeacon  of  Huntingdon,  and 
was  powerful  by  his  family  connections.  He  was  the 
third  son  of  Thomas  de  Berkley,  who  was  summoned 
to  Parliament  from  the  23rd  of  King  Edward  I.  (1295) 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  71 

to  the  14th  of  King  Edward  II.  (1321),  by  Joane  his 
wife,  daughter  of  William  de  Ferrers  Earl  of  Derby. 
According  to  Le  Neve,  the  royal  assent  was  given 
to  the  election  on  12th  December,  1326,  and  six  days 
later  the  king  addressed  a  letter  from  Kenilworth  to 
Pope  John  XXII.,  extolling  the  elect  for  pre-eminence 
of  merit,  noble  descent,  learning,  and  circumspection, 
and  praying  that  no  obstacle  might  be  opposed  to  his 
consecration.  To  the  cardinals  individually  the  king 
on  the  same  day  addressed  letters  to  the  same  purpose 
(Eymer's  '  Fcedera,'  torn.  iv.  p.  240).  From  William 
le  Dene's  '  Hist.  Eoffensis '  we  learn  that  the  primate 
Walter  Eeynolds l  consecrated  the  elect,  at  Canterbury, 
on  Midlent  Sunday,  22nd  March  following,  assisted 
by  the  Bishops  of  Eochester  and  Chich ester  ;  or  perhaps 
on  15th  March,  as  the  'Chronicon'  of  Exeter  asserts. 
But,  after  the  consecration,  the  pope  interfered  :  on 
22nd  April  he  announced  that  he  had  reserved  to 
himself  the  power  hac  vice  of  providing  a  successor 
to  Walter,  of  happy  memory.  Godwin  has  unfairly 
represented  this  interference,  and  takes  occasion  to 
vituperate  the  Holy  See  :  nay,  goes  so  far  as  to  attribute 
the  premature  death  of  the  consecrating  primate,  and  of 
the  new  bishop,  to  the  terrors  excited  by  the  acerbity 
of  the  pope's  language.  How  wide  this  is  from  the 
truth  must  be  evident  from  the  bull  addressed  to  his 
venerable  brother  James  Berkley,  at  the  date  above 
mentioned,  which  is  fortunately  preserved  in  Bishop 
Grandisson's  'Eegister'  (vol.  i.  fol.  35).  With  great 
good  sense  and  feeling,  after  affirming  his  right  to 
provision,  in  this  particular  case  of  reserve,  he  excuses 
the  parties  on  the  ground  of  their  being  ignorant  of  his 
intention,  ratifies  his  election  and  consecration,  supplies 
every  defect,  and  commands  that  no  prejudice  shall 

1  This  primate,  as  his  moimmeiit  at  Canterbury  shows,  died  16th  November, 
1327. 


72  LIVES  OF  THE 

accrue,  and  no  obstacle  be  interposed  to  the  canonical 
government  of  his  diocese  of  Exeter. 

Here  we  may  be  allowed  to  observe  that  the  canons 
assigned  to  the  pope  the  confirmation  of  a  primate 
elect ;  but  that  provisions  to  vacant  bishoprics  in  this 
country,  so  often  claimed  by  the  Holy  See  from  the 
reign  of  King  Edward  I.  to  that  of  King  Henry  VIII., 
was  an  abuse, — an  encroachment  on  the  rights  of  chapters 
under  a  national  hierarchy,  and  on  the  prerogative 
of  the  crown.  King  John  had  very  properly  restored 
to  the  chapters,  episcopal  and  conventual,  the  unfettered 
power  of  electing  their  future  prelates,  after  they  had 
solicited  and  obtained  the  sovereign's  licence,  for  such 
as  were  of  royal  foundation.  The  subsequent  assent  of 
the  crown,  "  ex  debito  justitiae  et  non  ex  gratia,"  could 
not  be  withholden  but  for  good  cause  shown.  If  no 
reasonable  objection  was  offered,  the  elect  was  referred 
to  the  metropolitan  for  confirmation,  and,  this  obtained, 
the  consecration  followed  of  course.  As  to  the  restora- 
tion of  the  temporalities,  either  before  or  after  consecra- 
tion, that  was  an  affair  that  belonged  exclusively  to  the 
crown ;  and  it  would  be  an  infringement  of  the  royal 
prerogative  for  the  spiritual  power  to  pretend  to  exer- 
cise it.  The  distinction  between  the  spiritual  authority 
and  the  temporal  power  was  rightly  understood  by  the 
English  barons,  as  is  manifest  from  their  memorable 
reply  to  Pope  Boniface  VIII.,  in  the  year  1301 ;  and  it 
is  deeply  to  be  lamented,  that  any  of  our  sovereigns 
from  pusillanimity  or  indolence,  or  views  of  temporary 
or  political  expediency,  could  so  far  forget  what  was 
due  to  themselves  and  to  the  national  honour,  as  to 
connive  at,  arid  much  more  to  suffer  and  encourage, 
usurpations  of  their  own  prerogative.  Thus,  for  in- 
stance, we  find  in  Bishop  Stafford's  '  Register,'  vol.  ii. 
fol.  224,  that  King  Richard  II.,  by  letters  patent,  dated 
at  Coventry  on  16th  January,  1398,  after  reciting  the 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  73 

Act  of  Parliament  passed  nine  years  before  "  contra 
provisores"  proceeds  to  add,  that  for  the  honour  of  God 
and  the  Holy  See,  and  for  his  special  affection  for  the 
reigning  pontiff  Boniface  IX.,  he  modifies  that  statute, 
and  sanctions  its  infringement  and  violations  from  the 
8th  December  last  past,  until  the  Easter  next  ensuing ! 

Quid  leges  sine  moribus 
Vanss  proficiunt? 

But  to  return  to  Bishop  Berkley :  notwithstanding 
this  satisfactory  brief,  he  was  snatched  away  by  death' 
fourteen  weeks  after  his  consecration.  The  event  took 
place  at  his  episcopal  manor  of  Petershayes,2  in  the 
parish  of  Yartecombe,  on  24th  June,  1327,  as-  the 
'  Register '  of  Newenham  affirms.  He  was  buried  on 
the  south  side  of  his  cathedral  choir,  with  this  simple 
epitaph,  according  to  Leland  ('  Itin.'  vol.  iii.  p.  45)  : — 

"  In  Berkley  natus,  jacet  hie  Jacobus  tumulatus." 

From  a  manuscript  in  the  possession  of  the  Dean 
and  Chapter  we  find  that  he  was  a  donor  to  the  church 
on  7th  May,  1327,  of  some  purple  vestments  richly 
garnished  with  pearls. 

Arms : — Gules,  a  chevron  between  ten  crosses  patee — according 
to  Westcote,  or ;  but  according  to  Izacke,  argent. 


POPE  JOHN  XXlI.'s  CONFIRMATION  of  BISHOP  BERKLEY'S  Election  and 
Consecration.— 22nd  April,  1327. 

CONFIRMACIO  Electionis  et  Consecrationis  Dni.  JACOBI  DE  BERKELEY  dudum 

Exon.  Epi.3 

Johannes  Epiis.,  servus  servorum  Dei,  venerabili  fratri  Jacobo 
Epo.  Exon.,  Salutem  et  Apostolicam  Benedictionern.  Apos- 
tolice  Sedis  benignitas  circa  Ecclesiarum  utilitates  intentam  se 
exnibet,  ut  earum  profectus  augeat  et  personis  bene  meritis  se 


2  In  the  inventory  of  Bishop  Stapel- 
doii's  effects  it  ib  called  Petrishegh, 
and  there  we  find  two  sumpter-beasts 
valued  at  10s. ;  sixteen  oxen  at  51. 6s.  8d., 
or  6s.  Sd.  per  head ;  one  Lull  at  6s.  8d. ; 
a  yearling  Is.  6d.,  and  189  sheep  at  91., 
or  twelve  pence  each.  In  the  grange 


was  corn  to  the  value  of  91.  6s.  The 
dead  stock,  with  timber,  lime,  laths, 
"  et  lapidibus  sculptis  pro  novis  edi- 
fieiis"  valued  at  91.  Is.  Timber  at 
Madeford  worth  10g. 

3  'Keg.  Grandisson,'  vol.  i.  fol.  35  b. 


74  LIVES  OF  THE 

exhibeat  graciosam.  Dudum  siquidem  cupientes  regimini 
Exoniensis  Ecclesie  per  obitum  bone  memorie  Walter!  Exon. 
Epi.  tune  vacantem  de  persona  ydonea  per  nostre  provisionis 
studium  provideri,  provisionem  ejusdem  Ecclesie  ilia  vice 
dispositioni  nostre  et  Sedis  Apostolice  duximus  specialiter 
reservandam,  decernentes  extunc  irritum  et  inane,  si  secus 
super  hiis  a  quoquam  quavis  auctoritate  scienter  vel  igno- 
ranter,  contingeret  attemptari.  Post  que  dilecti  filii  Canonici 
ejusdem  Ecclesie,  hujusmodi  nostre  Keservationis  et  Decreti 
forsitan  ignari,  Te  tune  ejusdem  Ecclesie  Canonicum  in  Sa- 
cerdotio  constitutum,  et  in  Sacra  Theologia,  in  Exon.  Epum. 
concorditer  elegerunt,  prestitoque  per  se  Election!  predicte  con- 
sensu  venerabilis  frater  noster  Archiepus.  Cantuariensis,  loci 
Metropolitans,  presentatam  sibi  electionem  ipsam,  dictorum 
Eeservationis  et  Decreti,  ut  asseritur,  inscius,  de  facto  auc- 
toritate Metropolitica  confirmavit.  Quibus  ad  audientiam  nos- 
tram  deductis  Nos  electiones  et  confirmationes  easdem,  post 
et  contra  hujusmodi  reservationem  et  decretum  factas,  inanes, 
prout  erant  et  irritas  reputantes,  de  ipsius  Ecclesie  ordinatione, 
ne  dispendia  prolixe  vacationis  incurreret,  paterna  solicitudine 
cogitantes,  cum  iiullns,  preter  nos,  e&  vice  de  ordinatione  ipsius 
Ecclesie  se  intromittere  posset,  Keservatione  et  Decreto  obsis- 
tentibus  supradictis,  ac  cupientes  eidem  Ecclesie  talem  pre- 
esse  Pontificem,  per  quem  posset  dicta  Ecclesia  utiliter  dirigi 
et  salubriter  gubernari :  ac  demum  attendentes  concordem 
ipsorum  eligentium  voltmtatem,  quam  habuerunt  in  election e 
predicta,  post  deliberacionem  quam  super  hoc  cum  fratribus 
nostris  habuimus  diligentem,  ad  Te,  multiplicium  virtutum 
dotibus  prout  ex  fideli  testimonio  accepimus  insignitum,  dir- 
eximus  aciem  mentis  nostre,  ac  de  persona  tua  tune  absente, 
eidem  Ecclesie,  de  dictorum  fratrum  consilio,  auctoritate  apos- 
tolica,  duximus  providendum ;  preficientes  Te  illi  Ecclesie  in 
Episcopum  et  Pastorem  ac  curam  et  administrationem  ipsius  in 
Spiritualibus  et  Temporalibus  committendo.  Verum  post  pro- 
visionem et  prefectionem  nostras  hujusmodi  de  te  factas,  Tu 
adhuc  earundem  reservationis  et  provisionis  ac  prefectionis 
ignarus,  innitens  election!  et  confirmation!  predictis,  absque 
licentia  et  auctoritate  ejusdem  Sedis  a  prefato  Metropolitan 
tuo,  alias  tamen  rite  obtinuisti  tibi  munus  consecrationis  im- 
pend! :  quare  nobis  humiliter  supplicasti,  ut  providere  tibi  super 
hoc  de  oportuno  remedio  curaremus.  Licet  igitur  per  reserva- 
tionem, inhibitionem  et  decretum  hujusmodi  ac  provisionem  et 
prefectionem  de  persona  tua  ad  predictam  Exoniensem  Eccle- 
siam  per  nos  factas,  sic  ad  nos  et  Sedem  predictam,  hujusmodi 
negotium  quoad  plenum  effectum  ipsius  totaliter  fuit  revocatum, 
ut,  absque  juris  offensa,  per  Metropolitanum  tuum  non  potueris 
consecrari,  ob  tuarum  tamen  multiplicium  dona  virtutum,  ac 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 


75 


ejusdem  Ecclesie  commodum  necnon  animarum  profectum 
gregis  Dominici  tibi  commissi,  tuis  supplicationibus  inclinati,  de 
dictomm  fratrum  consilio,  Consecrationem  predictam  ratam  et 
gratain  habentes,  defectum  qui  propter  premissa  extitit  in  eadem 
supplemus  de  Apostolice  plenitudine  potestatis,  Tibi  nichil- 
ominus  concedentes,  ut  adniinistrationem  ejusdem  Ecclesie  in 
Spiritualibus  et  Temporalibus,  tarn  quod  ea  que  sunt  ordinis, 
quam  quoad  ilia  que  jurisdictionis  existunt,  libere  exercere 
valeas,  premissis  non  obstantibus,  ex  quibus  nullum  Tibi  pre- 
judicium  parari  volumus  vel  obstaculum  interponi.  Nulli  ergo 
omnino  hominum  liceat  hanc  paginam  nostre  suppletionis,  conces- 
sionis  et  voluntatis  infringere,  vel  ei  auso  temerario  contraire. 
Datum  Avenione,  x  Kal.  Maii,  Pontificatus  nostri  anno  xi°. 


JOHN  DE  G-RAXDissOxY,  second  son  of  William  de 
Graiidisson4  (summoned  to  parliament  among  the 
barons  of  the  realm  tempore  Edward  I.  and  Edward  II.), 


4  Otho  de  Grandisson,  the  bishop's 
uncle,  cousin-german  to  the  Emperor  of 
Constantinople,  to  the  King  of  Hungary, 
and  Duke  of  Bavaria,  and  son  of  Peter 
de  Grandisson,  Lord  of  Grandisson,  by 
his  wife  Agnes,  daughter  of  Ulrick, 
Count  of  Neufchatel,  did  homage  as 
Earl  Palatine  of  Burgundy,  in  January, 
1281,  and  was  summoned  to  the  English 
Parliament  on  21st  September,  1299. 
King  Edward  I.  had  appointed  him  one 
of  his  executors  as  early  as  18th  June, 
1272.  In  his  •  Eegister'  (vol.  i.  fol.  55) 
Bishop  Grandisson  affirms  that  he  held 
of  the  crown  "Insulas  de  Gernesy  "  for 
his  life.  Obiit  2nd  April,  1328.  His 
honours  and  estates  descended  to  his 
brother  William,  who  survived  till  27th 
June,  1335.  His  lady,  Sibilla,  had  gone 
before  him,  the  21st  of  September  pre- 
ceding, and  both  were  buried  at  Dore 
Abbey  in  the  county  of  Hereford.  Otho 
and  William  had  a  brother  Gerard, 
Bishop  of  Verdun,  whose  obit  was  kept 
on  13th  October.  Lord  William  left 
five  sons  and  four  daughters. 

First  son,  Peter. — This  nobleman 
married  Blanche,  daughter  of  Eoger 
Mortimer,  Earl  of  March.  She  died  3rd 
June,  1347.  He  died  2nd  July,  1358, 
and  was  buried  in  Hereford  Cathedral. 

Second,  John,  the  Bishop  of  Exeter, 
the  subject  of  this  memoir. 

Third,  Otho,  a  wealthy  knight,  to 
whom  King  Edward  III.  granted  the 
county  of  Tipperary  in  Ireland.  He 


married  Beatrix,  daughter  and  coheir 
of  Sir  Nicholas  de  Malmaynes,  knight, 
and  left  a  son,  Thomas,  and  a  daughter, 
Elizabeth.  Otho  died  on  21st  May, 
1359,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Mary's 
Church,  Ottery.  See  his  will,  '  Testa- 
menta  vetusta,'  vol.  i.  p.  62. 

Fourth,  Thomas,  a  clerk,  who  died 
young.  His  obit  was  kept  14th  July. 

Fifth,  William,  collated  by  his  epis- 
copal brother  to  a  canonry  in  Exeter 
Cathedral,  30th  March,  1330,  and  on 
the  14th  April  to  the  archdeaconry  of 
Exeter ;  but  died  on  the  5th  July  the 
same  year  ('  Keg.'  vol.  iii.  fol.  14,  15). 

First  daughter,  Agues,  married  to  Sir 
John  Northwode,  knight.  Ob.  4th  De- 
cember, 1348. 

Second,  Catharine,  a  renowned  beauty. 

She    married   William   de  Montacute, 

Earl  of  Salisbury,- whom  she  survived, 

I  and  was  buried  in  the  Augustinian  mo- 

1  nastery  of  Bisham,  Berks,  founded  by 

her  husband.     Her  obit   was   kept  on 

23rd  April. 

Third,  Mabilla,  married  to  Sir  John 
de  Pateshull,  knight. 

Fourth,  Matilda,  a  nun  of  the  Au- 
gustinian convent  of  the  Holy  Cross 
and  St.  John  at  Acornbury  in  the 
county  of  Hereford,  of  which  she  be- 
came prioress  (Leland's  '  Itinerary,' 
vol.  iii.  p.  53).  It  is  clear  from  the 
bishop's  will  that  she  had  died  before 
him. 


76  LIVES  OF  THE 

by  Sibilla  de  Tregoz  his  wife,  daughter  of  John  de 
Tregoz,  and  granddaughter  of  Juliana  de  Cantilupo, 
who  was  sister  to  St.  Thomas  Bishop  of  Hereford, 
which  William  de  Grandisson  had  accompanied  Edmund 
Earl  of  Lancaster,  brother  of  King  Edward  I.,  into 
England,  and  is  said  to  have  been  introduced  by 
Edmund  to  the  acquaintance  of  the  said  Sibilla,  a 
wealthy  heiress. 

John  was  born  in  the  parish  of  Ashperton  or  Aslxton 
in  the  county  of  Hereford  in  1292.  Embracing  the 
ecclesiastical  profession,  he  was  collated  in  due  time  to 
the  prebend  of  Haydore,  in  the  cathedral  of  Lincoln, 
and  to  the  archdeaconry  of  Nottingham,  after  study- 
ing theology  at  Paris,  under  that  eminent  professor 
James  Fournier,  afterwards  Cardinal  and  Pope  Benedict 
XII.  :  (see  Grandisson 's  '  Reg.'  vol.  i.  fol.  40,  as  also 
the  bishop's  will).  Whilst  chaplain  to  Pope  John  XXII. 
he  was  joined  in  a  commission  with  William  Arch- 
bishop of  Vienna,  and  Hugh  Bishop  of  Orleans,  to  nego- 
tiate the  peace  of  Gascony,  and  was  actually  engaged 
in  this  honourable  embassy  when  the  news  reached  the 
papal  court  at  Avignon  of  the  premature  death  of 
Bishop  James  Berkley  on  the  preceding  24th  June. 
His  Holiness  at  once,  viz.  on  llth  August,  provided 
John  de  Grandisson  to  the  vacant  see,  and  directed  his 
vice-chancellor  Peter,  Cardinal  Bishop  of  Praeneste,  to 
perform  the  ceremony  of  the  consecration.  This  was 
done  on  Sunday  18th  October,  1327,  in  the  Dominican 
Church  at  Avignon,  in  the  presence  of  many  cardinals, 
prelates,  and  nobility  ('  Reg.'  vol.  ii.  fol.  39-41).  Thomas 
de  Cherleton,  the  elect  of  Hereford  and  a  canon  of 
Exeter,  was  consecrated  at  the  same  time.  John  was 
then  about  thirty-five  years  old  (<  Ordinale,'  fol.  5). 
On  2 1st,  August  he  had  announced  to  his  Dean  and 
Chapter  his  unsolicited  appointment,  and  earnestly 
implored  their  co-operation  in  the  good  government 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 


77 


of  the  diocese  (vol.  i.  fol.  52).  On  23rd  December  he 
left  Avignon  for  England,  but,  owing  to  the  in- 
tensity of  the  frost  and  a  very  tempestuous  season  he 
did  not  reach  Whitsand  (a  much  frequented  port  about 
ten  miles  north  of  Boulogne)  to  embark  for  Dover, 
until  Wednesday  3rd  February,  1328.  On  the  Friday 
he  arrived  at  Canterbury,  and  was  met  at  the  gate  of 
Christ's  Church  by  the  prior  and  convent  in  their  rich 
copes,  according  to  custom.  Proceeding  to  the  high 
altar  he  made  before  the  prior  and  convent  the  pro- 
fession of  canonical  obedience  to  the. metropolitan  see 
then  vacant  by  the  death  of  the  primate  Walter 
Reynolds.  On  10th  February  he  left  Canterbury  for 
the  north  of  England  to  do  homage  to  his  youthful 
sovereign  King  Edward  III.,  and  reached  York,  where 
the  king  was  then  holding  his  court,  on  Sunday  6th 
March.  The  next  day,  after  the  king  had  assisted  at 
mass,  he  was  duly  presented  in  the  chapel  of  St. 
Sepulchre  adjoining  the  minster,  and  was  graciously 
received ;  and  having,  according  to  established  custom, 
openly  and  expressly  renounced  every  expression  in  the 
papal  bulls  prejudicial  to  the  royal  prerogative  and  the 
rights  of  the  crown,5  the  bishop  was  put  in  possession 
of  the  temporalities  of  his  see  on  9th  March,  and  on  the 
very  same  day,  in  virtue  of  the  royal  mandate,  the 
usual  pension  of  five  marks,  "  ratione  novae  creationis," 
was  agreed  on  to  the  king's  nominee,  Hugh  Bosi  clerk, 


5  In  the  '  Calendarium  Rotulorum 
Patentimn,'  No.  1249  (34  Henry  III.), 
one  is  entitled  "  Contra  abusus  Papales," 
and  another,  fourteen  years  later,  "  Li- 
terse  Regis  misse  Bonifacio  Archi- 
episcopo  Cantuariensi  in  Francia  de- 
genti  experimentes  prserogativam  regis, 
ac  leges  contra  usurpationes  et  abusus 
tarn  Papse  quam  totius  cleri  ac  regis 
potestatem  in  clerum."  From  1302 
until  the  Reformation  all  our  bishops 
acknowledged  that  they  could  receive 
their  temporalities  from  no  one  but  the 
king. 

Of  the  taxes  paid  to  the  papal  ex- 


chequer the  most  ancient  was  the 
Rome  Feoh,  or  Peter's  Pence,  collected 
between  29th  June  and  Lammas  Day. 
This  was  a  trifle,  never  exceeding 
201?.  9s.  King  John's  grant  of  a  thou- 
sand marks,  as  an  acknowledgment  of 
his  holding  the  crown  of  England  in 
fee  of  the  sovereign  pontiff,  was  most' 
obnoxious  to  the  national  spirit,  and, 
after  many  refusals,  was  abrogated  for 
ever  towards  the  close  of  King  Ed-1 
ward  III.'s  reign.  Yet  the  claim  of  the 
first-fruits  of  the  sees  and  benefices 
proved  an  intolerable  burthen. 


78  LIVES  OP  THE 

until  the  bishop  should  provide  him  with  a  competent 
benefice.  During  his  stay  at  York  our  prelate  received 
a  commission  from  its  archbishop  "William  de  Melton,  to 
reconcile  the  church  of  St.  Lawrence  in  Walmegate 
beyond  the  walls  of  that  city.  Thence  he  pursued  his 
journey  to  Oxenhale,  the  residence  of  his  noble  father 
near  Gloucester,  where  he  continued  until  he  was  sum- 
moned to  attend  the  parliament  at  Northampton.  At 
length,  on  9th  June,  1328,  he  was  enabled  to  enter 
Devonshire,  and  for  the  first  night  he  took  up  his 
quarters  in  the  rectory-house  of  Honiton.  On  the 
following  day  he  proceeded  onwards  to  his  mansion  at 
Bishop's  Clist,  but  was  met  on  the  road  by  the  dean, 
treasurer,  subdean,  and  many  of  the  canons  of  the 
cathedral,  who  honourably  escorted  him  to  that  agreeable 
residence,  where  all  shared  in  his  hospitable  entertain- 
ment ('Reg.'  vol.  ii.  fol.  48).  From  his  letter  to  Pope 
John  XXII.  we  learn  that  he  was  installed  at  Exeter 
within  the  octave  of  the  Assumption  of  our  Lady, 
notwithstanding  the  protestations  of  the  prior  of  Canter- 
bury,6 without  the  usual  pomp  and  bustle  of  his  prede- 
cessors,— "  absque  pompis  et  strepitu  praeter  Anglicanum 
ritum"  ('Reg.'  vol.  i.  fol.  27). 

In  the  beginning,  our  bishop  had  many  difficulties  to 
contend  with,  and  his  pre-eminence  must  have  been 
painful  to  his  feelings.  General  consternation  had 
taken  hold  of  men's  minds — a  want  of  confidence  pre- 
vailed throughout  the  nation,  and  the  tragical  fate 
of  the  lamented  Walter  de  Stapeldon — the  premature 
death  of  his  immediate  successor — the  plunder  com- 
mitted in  the  episcopal  manors — the  neglected  cultiva- 
tion of  the  farms  ('Beg.'  vol.  i.  fol.  37) — the  confusion 
of  all  accounts — the  unfortunate  demands  of  payments 
from  the  crown,  from  the  church  of  Canterbury,  and 

6  Probably  he  apprehended  the  loss  I  and    amount    in   the    Preface    to   the 
of  fees  and  perquisites.    See  their  nature  j  'Monast.  Dioc.  Exon.'  p.  10. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  79 

the  papal  court — the  deficiency  of  books  and  vest- 
ments * — and  the  less  than  half-finished  state  of  the 
cathedral  church,  were  considerations  sufficient  to  appal 
and  overwhelm  a  mind  less  stout  and  energetic  than  his. 
In  the  present  and  prospective  emergency  he  had  recourse 
to  his  family  and  friends  for  temporary  assistance  : 
amongst  others  he  addressed  a  letter  to  his  cousin  Hugh 
de  Courtenay,  the  second  of  that  name,  who  was  Baron 
of  Okehampton,  and  shortly  after  created  Earl  of 
Devon,  praying  for  a  loan  of  200/.  on  such  security  as 
his  lordship  might  require.  It  is  dated  from  Ohudleigh 
24th  January,  1329,  and  he  requests  an  answer  by  the 
bearer.  Both  are  inserted  in  his  Register  (vol.  i. 
fol.  63,  Appendix  N).  After  professions  of  respect 
the  baron  lets  him  know  that  he  had  lately  been 
at  considerable  expense  by  the  marriage  of  his  daughter 
(qy.  Isabella  Courtenay  to  Lord  L'Isle),  as  also  in  wind- 
ing up  the  affairs  of  his  late  mother  (Eleanor  Despenser, 
who  had  died  26th  September,  1328),  and  therefore 
begged  to  be  excused.  Besides,  Bishop  James  Berkley 
had  died  indebted  to  him,  and  hitherto  he  had  been 
looking  in  vain  to  his  executors  for  the  settlement 
of  that  account.  He  then  makes  bold  to  censure  the 
bishop  for  affecting  more  reserve  and  grandeur  than 
any  of  his  predecessors,  and  to  advise  him  to  practise 
rigid  economy,  and  carefully  to  shun  singularity.  The 
bishop  lost  no  time  in  replying  to  the  baron,  and  signi- 
fying to  his  lady  Courtenay  (Agnes,  sister  to  Lord 

"  In  '  Reg.'  vol.  i.  fol.  55  b,  may  be  i  erit  eligendum.  Infonnatus  est  enira 
seen  his  letter  to  the  Bishop  of  Lau-  i  per  nos  de  hiis  quibus  ad  prsesens  vehe- 
sanne.  He  requests  that  the  ornaments  i  mentius  indigemus."  In  fol.  67  he  ad- 
in  the  chapel  of  his  uncle,  Otho  de  j  dresses  a  letter  to  Walter  Henry,  Arch- 
Grandisson,  and  books,  especially  '  De  j  deacon  of  Salisbury,  imploring  the  loan 
Usu  Anglicano,'  may  be  forwarded  to  j  of  a  pontifical  for  copying,  alleging 
him.  In  fol.  56  is  his  letter  to  the  j  that  amongst  the  property  of  the  late 
Abbot  of  Dore,  to  show  and  deliver  to  !  Bishop  Stapeldon  which  "  tempore 
its  bearer  Arnold  "  pannos  aureos  et  j  mortis  suse  Londini  praedonum  rapa- 
capas  et  cetera  ecclesiastica  ornamenta,  i  citas  auferebat,"  several  volumes,  and 
quse  olim  erant  Domini  Alani  Plokenet,  |  the  pontificals  that  he  used,  had  dis- 
et  quicquid  ad  usus  nostros  idem  dux-  appeared  irrevocably. 


80 


LIVES  OF  THE 


St.  John)  how  mortified  he  was  at  such  uncalled  for 
insinuations  and  charges,  and  proceeds  to  refute  them 
seriatim.  In  process  of  time,  however,  matters  took 
a  favourable  turn ;  from  his  family  connections  he 
received  timely  supplies  ;  legacies  dropped  in  ;  the  exe- 
cutors of  Bishop  Stapeldon  came  forward  most  liberally ; 
the  clergy  and  laity  of  the  diocese,  witnessing  his  mag- 
nanimity, disinterested  zeal  and  active  habits  of  busi- 
ness, vied  with  each  other  in  extricating  him  from  actual 
embarrassments;  even  his  cousin  Lord  Courtenay 
became  so  gracious  and  friendly  that  the  bishop 
preached  his  panegyric  in  Latin  and  in  French  at  his 
funeral  5th  February,  1340,  in  St.  Andrew's  Church, 
Cowick  Priory  ('  Monast.  Dioc.  Exon.'  p.  155),  and 
eventually  by  surviving  the  members  of  his  family  and 
succeeding  on  the  death  of  his  brother  Peter,  Lord 
Grandisson,  in  1358,  to  the  peerage,  he  became  the 
wealthiest  lord  bishop  that  Exeter  had  hitherto  pos- 
sessed ;  and  it  is  safe  to  add,  that  none  before,  or  since, 
did  more  to  promote  the  splendour  of  religion,  and 
to  benefit  the  poor  of  the  diocese  of  Exeter.  In  our 
account  of  the  Cathedral  we  shall  have  to  enlarge  on  his 
taste  and  munificent  spirit.  To  the  '  Monasticon '  of 
the  diocese  we  must  refer  our  readers  for  his  noble 
foundation  of  St.  Mary's  College  at  Ottery,8  for  the 
generous  interest  he  manifested  for  Crediton  Church, 
Canoiisleigh  Abbey,  and  for  St.  John's  Hospital  within 
this  city.  On  25th  May,  1338,  he  appropriated  to  his 
chapter,  with  the  papal  sanction,  the  church  of 
St.  Marina  in  Cornwall  towards  the  maintenance  of 
his  obit  and  those  of  his  parents  and  promoter  Pope 
John  XXII.  ;  and  on  2nd  October  the  same  year  he 


8  In  his  '  Kegister '  may  be  seen  the 
correspondence  between  him  and  the 
dean  and  chapter  of  Rouen,  of  whom 
lie  purchased  the  manor  of  Ottery.  Un- 
fortunately most  of  the  records  of  Rouen 


either  perished  or  were  purloined  during 
the  French  Revolution.  Their  earliest 
volume  now  commences  with  16th  Au- 
gust, 1366,  to  27th  March,  1373. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  81 

added  to  the  gift  the  church  of  Bratton.  For  his 
successors  in  the  see  of  Exeter  he  obtained  the  appro- 
priation of  the  church  of  Radway,  within  the  manor  of 
Bishop's  Teignton ;  and  in  its  glebe  he  erected  conve- 
nient and  costly  buildings,  as  he  relates  in  his  will, 
"  impetravi  eis  appropriationem  ecclesise  de  Radeway  in 
manerio  eorum  de  Teyngton  Episcopi  ac  domos  utiles 
et  sumptuosos,  ibidem  in  sanctuario,  construxi."  The 
former  residence  there  had  been  so  dilapidated  that 
it  was  judged  expedient  to  demolish  it  before  Bishop 
Quivil's  death.  Liberality  increased  with  his  means ; 
the  inventory  of  the  church-plate  and  ornaments 
proclaims  his  unrivalled  bounty :  arid  his  successor 
Bishop  Brantyngham  admits  ('  Register,'  vol.  i.  fol.  21) 
that  on  1st  June,  1372,  he  had  received  from  the 
executors  the  princely  sum  of  two  thousand  marks,  or 
13331.  65.  4c£.,  besides  his  best  crosier  and  mitre,  and  all 
the  dead  stock  appertaining  to  husbandry.  His  Re- 
gister in  three  folio  volumes  furnishes  abundant  testi- 
mony to  his  talents,  and  to  his  devotion  to  his  episcopal 
duties  and  his  decisive  firmness  of  character.  However, 
we  cannot  commend  him  for  his  resistance,  though 
it  proved  successful,  to  the  visitation  of  this  diocese  by 
his  metropolitan,  Simon  Mepham.  Such  visitations 
were  conformable  to  the  canons — had  been  of  long  usage 
here,  and  were  continued  after  his  time ;  and  we 
cannot  help  believing  that  it  was  unworthy  of  his 
reputation,  as  also  a  dangerous  departure  from  regular 
discipline,  and-  affording  an  evil  precedent,  to  have 
sheltered  himself  under  special  briefs  of  his  patron  Pope 
John  XXII.,  bearing  date  20th  December,  1331,  4th 
January,  30th  May,  1st  September,  1332  ('Reg/  vol.  i. 
fol.  89,  99).  His  manner  also  of  resistance  was  most 
objectionable,9  and  we  may  add  that  such  personal 


9  Stephen  Birchington,  in  his  Life  of 
Simon  Mepham  ('  Angl.  Sac.'  vol.  i. 
p.  18),  observes,  "Hie  visitavit  jure  me- 


tropolitico  dioeceses  Roffeiisem,  Ciees- 
trensem,  Sarisburiensem,  Bathoniensem 
et  Wellensem ;  et  cum  vellet  dioacesem 

G 


82  LIVES  OF  THE 

privileges,  though  familiar  and  too  often  coveted, 
as  history  shows,  reflect  little  credit  on  the  receiver 
or  the  giver. 

Our  bishop  assisted  at  the  synod  holden  at  St.  Paul's, 
London,  in  1342,  at  which  the  primate  John  Stratford 
presided.  '  The  constitutions  may  be  seen  in  Lynwode's 
6  Provinciale,'  or  in  Wilkins's  '  Councils.'  On  Sunday 
8th  July,  1347,  our  Cathedral  offered  a  memorable 
spectacle  (as  reported  in  the  '  Register/  vol.  i.  fol.  148), 
namely,  in  the  consecration  of  Richard  Fitz-Ralph 
Dean  of  Lichfield  to  the  metropolitan  see  of  Armagh, 
in  virtue  of  Pope  Clement  VI.'s  bull,  dated  at  Avignon 
on  12th  of  the  preceding  January.  The  bishops  of 
Bath  and  Wells,  Salisbury  and  St.  Asaph,  the  abbots 
of  Hartland,  Torre,  Newenham,  and  Buckfastleigh, 
with  the  prior  of  Plympton,  assisted,  and  an  immense 
concourse  of  clergy,  regular  and  secular,  knights,  &c. 
After  the  ceremony  the  new  primate  of  all  Ireland  rode 
through  the  midst  of  Exeter  in  his  pontificals,  on  a 
palfrey  covered  with  a  white  cloth,  according  to  the 
fashion  of  the  Roman  Court,  "  idem  consecratus  postea 
equitavit  per  medium  civitatis  Exon  indutus  pontifi- 
calibus,  super  palefridum  albo  panno  coopertum,  prout 
in  Romana  curia  fieri  consuevit."  This  primate  in  the 
sequel  was  elected  Chancellor  of  Oxford,  and  died 
in  1366  ('Hist,  et  Antiq.  Univ.  Oxon./  1.  i.  p.  181). 

Bishop  Grrandisson's  will,  dated  from  his  favourite 
residence  at  Chudleigh,10  on  8th  September,  1368,  was 
proved  ten  days  after  his  death,  an  event  that  occurred 
on  15th  July  (the  Feast  of  St.  Swithin),  1369,  in  the 
77th  year  of  his  age,  and  the  42nd  of  his  episcopacy. 

Exoniensem  jure  metropolitico  visitasse,  j  "Visitationis  negotio,  est  compulsus." 
impeditus  fuit  nequiter  m  armatd  per        I0  There  is  a  tradition  that  he  was  at 
Johannem  de  Grandissono   Episcopum    the  expense  of  conducting  the  water- 
Exoniensem,  no  visitationem  hujusmodi    course,  commonly  called  the  Potwater, 
impenderet,  sicut  ad  officium  suum  per-  !  from  Haldon  to  the  town  of  Chudleigh, 
tinuit :   sicque  archiepiscopus  ille,  lit-  I  and  thence  to  his  palace — a  great  public 
teris  regiis  et  aliis  turbatiouibus  illicitis,     benefit, 
de  dicta  recedere  dioacesi,  infecto  hujus 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  83 

After  desiring  to  be  buried  as  soon  as  convenient  in  the 
chapel  outside  the  west  door  of  his  cathedral,  and  with 
as  little  ostentation  as  possible,1  he  directs  that  an 
hundred  poor  persons  be  clothed  for  that  occasion — 
that  money  should  be  distributed  among  the  sick  and 
prisoners,  and  that  a  general  distribution  of  alms, 
chiefly  in  bread,  take  place  on  the  day  before  or  after 
the  funeral.  To  his  cathedral,  to  his  successors,  bishops 
of  Exeter,  to  the  collegiate  churches  of  Ottery,  Crediton, 
and  Glasney  his  bequests  are  numerous  and  valuable. 
To  Pope  Urban  Y.  he  leaves  a  very  rich  cope  of  purple 
velvet  embroidered  with  figures,  and  a  noble  orfrey  ; 
also  the  sermons  of  St.  Bernard  and  200  florens  for  the 
papal  exchequer.  To  King  Edward  III.  he  gives 
a  splendid  piece  of  embroidery  of  Roman  work,  repre- 
senting the  crucifixion  of  our  Lord.  To  Edward  (the 
Black  Prince)  and  his  brother  John  Duke  of  Lancaster, 
and  to  his  Duchess  Blanche,  the  bishop's  cousin,  to  each 
a  piece  of  plate  or  a  jewel.  To  Isabella,  the  king's 
eldest  daughter,  his  psaltery.  To  the  archbishop  of 
Canterbury  some  tapestry  representing  the  coronation 
of  Our  Lady,  with  the  apostles  seated  on  thrones,  also  a 
pontifical  ring  and  fifty  marks  sterling.  To  his  poor 
clergy,  to  every  abbey  and  priory,5  and  many  hospitals 
in  his  diocese,  and  to  some  religious  establishments 
elsewhere  he  proves  himself  a  considerable  benefactor. 
To  him  we  may  apply  the  text  "  Eleemosynas  ilKus 
enarrabit  omnis  Ecclesia  Sanctorum "  (Ecclesiast.  c. 
xxxi.). 

According  to  his  directions  he  was  buried  in  the 
chapel  of  St.  Radegundes,  which  he  had  prepared  for 
the  purpose  twenty  years  before.  Until  the  suppression 
of  chantries  his  grateful  children  of  St.  Mary's  College, 


1  "  Corpus  vero  meum  quod  corrum- 
pitur  et  aggravat  animam  volo  quod 
sepeliatur  extra  ostium  occidentale  Ec- 
clesie  Exon,  ita  ccleriter  sicut  fieri 


poterit  bono  modo,  non  invitando  pa- 
rentes  nee  niagnos  Dominos  sed  solum- 
raodo  aliquos  episcopum  vel  episcopos 


vieinioivs. 


G   2 


84 


LIVES  OF  THE 


Ottery,2  religiously  maintained  his  obit  here.  Hoker, 
in  his  original  M.S.  history,  1590,  is  silent  as  to  the 
sacrilegious  violation  of  the  founder's  remains ;  but  in 
his  fair  transcript,  nine  years  later,  for  the  use  of  the 
corporation  of  Exeter,  relates  that  "  his  tombe  was 
of  late  pulled  up,  the  ashes  scattered  abroad,  and  the 
bones  bestowed  no  man  knoweth  where."  Hoker  died 
in  1601.  Westcote,  in  his  '  Survey  of  Devon/  com- 
pleted in  1630,  observes  that  "he  was  taken  up 
shrouded  in  lead,  not  long  since,  the  lead  melted,  and  the 
chapel  defaced — an  unworthy  deed ;  and  it  is  to  me  a 
marvel  that  they  escaped  unpunished,  in  regard  the 
very  heathen  had  laws  against  violating  or  defacing 
of  monuments  or  sepulchres"  (edit.  1845,  p.  167). 
Izacke  in  his  '  Memorials,'  p.  59,  states  that  "  his  tomb 
was  of  late  ransack'd  by  sacrilegious  hands  ;  his  leaden 
coffin  (in  hope  of  a  prey)  taken  up,  the  ashes  scattered 
about,  and  his  bones  thrown,  I  know  not  where. 
Surely  the  reliques  of  this  worthy  prelate  deserved 
a  more  reverend  respect  even  amongst  savage  beasts." 

This  highly  gifted  bishop  in  1337  compiled  a  volume 
of  105  folios,  called  the  Ordinale,  or  book  regulating  the 
offices  performed  in  his  cathedral.  He  was  indeed 
anxious  that  everything  there  should  be  done  decently^ 
and  according  to  order,  and  in  folio  12  insists  that 
in  the  recital  of  the  psalms,  hymns,  and  other  portions 
of  the  service,  in  vain  will  the  tongue  labour  if  the 
heart  prayeth  not ;  that  what  air  or  wind  is  to  the  fire, 
devotion  is  to  words  uttered  in  the  sanctuary.  In 
folio  136  he  refers  to  an  accurate  antiphonary  "  quod 
dicitur  G-rantson,  et  illud  Gradale  Antiquum  cum 
Psalteriis,"  which  he  had  presented  to  his  church.  We 
are  disposed  to  think  that  the  present  Ordinale,  in  the 


2  In  the  certificate  of  the  chantry 
rolls  made  according  to  the  commission 
dated  14th  February,  "37  Henry  VIII. 
(1546),  it  is  stated  that  the  pension 


was  made  to  the  priest  by  the  said 
college,  "but  dissolved  this  yere  last 
past  on  suppression  of  the  college  of 
Ottrey  St.  Mary." 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  85 

possession  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter,  is  not  the  original, 
from  the  difference  very  perceptible  in  the  handwriting 
in  various  parts,  and  again,  from  certain  entries,  for 
example  fol.  71  6,  "  In  crastino  octavse  Assumptions 
Sancte  Marias  fiat  semper  memoria  vel  obitus  Joannis 
de  Grandissono  Episcopi  Exoniensis,  cum  distributione 
LX8." 

On  Lady-day,  1366,  the  39th  year  of  his  episcopacy, 
he  presented  two  folio  volumes  for  the  use  of  his 
cathedral,  which  are  still  in  good  preservation.  One 
contains  the  lessons  from  the  Bible,  as  also  the  homilies 
appointed  to  be  read;  the  other  comprises  the  lives 
of  the  saints,  with  the  offices  in  common,  that  have 
no  proper  collects  and  lessons.  In  the  beginning  of 
the  *  Legenda  de  Sanctis '  is  written  "  Ego  I.  de  Gr. 
Exon.,  do  Eccle.  Exon.  libra  istu  cum  pari  suo,  in  festo 
Annuntiationis  Dominice.  Manu  mea,  anno  consecra- 
tionis  mee  xxxix."  He  was  also  the  author  of  a  Life  of 
St.  Thomas  of  Canterbury,  for  whose  memory  he  enter- 
tained a  special  veneration.  In  his  letter  written 
to  Pope  Benedict.  XII.  early  in  1335,  he  expressly 
says  ".Vitam  beati  Thome  Martyris,  ex  multis  scriptori- 
bus  per  me  noviter  redactam,  Sanctitatis  vestrse  oculis 
destino  intuendam "  ('  Reg/  vol.  i.  fol.  46).  We 
suspect  that  the  whole  of  this  life  is  condensed  in  the 
numerous  lessons  in  the  above-mentioned  '  Legenda 
Sanctorum,'  as  read  in  our  cathedral  29th  December, 
5th  January,  and  7th  July.  A  copy  is  preserved  in 
the  Supellex  Libraria  of  the  see  of  Canterbury.  It  com- 
mences, "  Benedictionibus  Divinse  dulcedinis,"  and 
concludes  "  In  saecula  saeculorum "  (MS.  Gr.  75).  The 
spirited  representation  of  the  Saint's  Martyrdom,  intro- 
duced in  a  nodus  of  the  vaulting  of  our  cathedral  nave, 
we  imagine  the  bishop  had  borrowed  from  the  obverse 
of  the  seal  of  Stephen  Langton,  the  renowned  primate 
of  Canterbury.  In  his  will  he  gives  two  other  books, 


86  LIVES  OF  THE 

perhaps  Pontificals  of  his  compilation,  to  his  successors, 
"  Lego  eisdem  libros  meos  episcopates,  majorem  et 
minorem,  quos  ego  compilavi." 

His  lordship  had  an  extensive  library,  which  he 
divided  principally  between  his  chapter  and  the  colle- 
.giate  churches  of  Ottery,  Crediton,  and  Boseham,  and 
Exeter  College,  Oxford.  All  the  works  of  St.  Thomas 
de  Aquino  he  bequeathed  to  the  Dominican  convent 
here.  To  Simon  Islip,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  he 
presented,  as  an  heir-loom  to  that  metropolitan  see, 
on  9th  April,  1364,  a  magnificent  copy  of  St.  Anselm's 
letters,  now  in  the  British  Museum,  where,  in  July, 
1846,  we  copied  the  following  memorandum  in  the 
beginning  of  the  volume  from  his  well-known  hand- 
writing : — 

Do  et  lego  cuicunque  archiepo.  Cant. 

Ut  memor  sit  miseri  Johannis 

Qui  hoc  manu  sua  scripsit. 

Hie  infra  potest  videri  status 

Tarn  Ecclesise,  quam  Eegni  Angliae. 

Utinam  renovetur  per  Xtum  Dim.  nru., 

Qui  vivit  et  regnat,  Kex 

Kegum  et  summus  Sacerdos  et  Pon- 

tifex  in  seternum.     Amen.     Amen. 

Anno  Dni.  MCCCLxnu0 

Et  setatis  meae  LXXIIJ° 

Et  officii  mei  xxxviu0 

Mense  Aprili,  die  nono. 

In  the  inventory  of  the  treasures  of  Windsor  College 
mention  is  made  of  a  book,  "  De  Legendis  et  Missis 
de  B.  Y.  Maria  ex  Dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono, 
Episcopi  Exon"  ('Mon.  Angl.'  vol.  vi.  p.  1362). 
His  successor  in  the  see  acknowledged,  1st  June,  1372, 
to  have  received  of  Sir  John  ^iontacute,  Knight,  Robt. 
de  Wykford,  Nicholas  de  Braybroke,  arid  William  de 
Braybroke,  executors  and  administrators  of  John  de 
Grrandisson,  the  deceased  bishop  of  Exeter  (as  already 
mentioned),  the  sum  of  two  thousand  marks,  his  best 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  87 

crosier  and  mitre,  "  cum  toto  instauro  mortuo  ipsius  ad 
husbandriam  pertinente  "  ('  Beg.'  vol.  i.  fol.  21). 

We  cannot  conclude  this  article  without  submitting 
to  our  readers  the  benevolent  act  of  our  bishop  as  com- 
municated to  us  by  our  learned  friend  and  antiquary 
Mr.  Edward  Smirke,  who  discovered  that  Bishop 
Grandisson  abolished  all  personal  servitude  in  the 
manor  of  Ottery  in  consideration  of  a  fixed  yearly  rent 
of  2s.  6d.  a  ferling.  The  words  of  the  grant  are — 
"Quilibet  custumarius  qui  tenet  unum  ferlingatum 
terrae  dabit  per  annum,  pro  licenti£  maritandi  filias  suas 
tarn  infra  manerium  quam  extra,  et  pro  operibus  hyema- 
libus  et  autumpnalibus,  aruris,  messionibus,  averagiis, 
&c.,  et  aliis  operibus  et  consuetudinibus  exonerandis 
(except  suit  to  mill,  heriots,  &c.)  ns.  vid." 

This  redemption  of  marriage-fines  distinctly  proves 
that  the  servitude  was  personal  and  not  territorial  only. 

ARMS  : — Paly  of  six  argent  and  azure,  a  bend  gules,  charged 
with  a  mitre  between  two  eaglets  displayed,  or. 


INHIBICIO  EPISCOPI  de  Ludis  inhonestis.3 

Keverendissimo  in  Christo  Patri  ac  eorum  Domino  Domino 
Johaimi  Dei  gracia  Exoniensi  Episcopo  sui  humiles  et  de- 
votissimi  filii  et  oratores,  custos  et  Capitulum  Ecclesie  vestre 
Collegiate  Sancte  Marie  de  Otery,  vestre  fundacionis  patronatus 
et  diocesis  obedienciam  et  reverenciam  tanto  patri  debitas  cum 
omni  honore.  Mandatum  reverende  paternitatis  vestre  xij  die 
mensis  Novembris  proxime  preterito  [1360]  recepimus  in  hec 
verba : — Johannes  miseracione  divina  Exoniensis  Episcopus 
dilectis  in  Christo  filiis  custodi  et  capitulo  Ecclesie  Collegiate 
Sancte  Marie  de  Otery  nostre  fundacionis  patronatus  et  diocesis 
salutein  et  morum  clericalium  honestatem.  Ad  nostram  non 
sine  gravi  cordis  displicencia  et  stupore  pervenit  noticiam,  quod 
annis  preteritis  et  quibusdam  precedentibus  in  sanctissimis 
dominice  nativitatis  ac  Sanctorum  Stephani,  Johannis  Apostoli 
et  Evangelist  e,  ac  Innocencium  solempniis,  quando  omnes 
Christi  fideles  divinis  laudibus  et  officiis  ecclesiasticis  devocius 
ac  quiecius  insistere  tenentur,  aliqui  predicte  ecclesie  nostri 
niinistri  cuni  pueris,  nedum  matutinis  et  vesperis  ac  horis  aliis, 

3  Grandissoii's  '  Kegister,'  vol.  i.  fol.  208. 


88  LIVES  OF  THE 

sed  quod  magis  detestandum  est,  inter  missarum  solempnia, 
ludos  ineptos  et  noxios,  honestatique  clerical!  indecentes,  quam 
verius  cultus  divini  ludibria  detestanda,  infra  ecclesiam  ipsam 
immiscendo  conimittere,  divino  timore  postposito,  pernicioso 
quarumdam  ecclesiarum  exemplo,  temere  presumpserunt,  vesti- 
menta  et  alia  ornamenta  ecclesie  in  non  modicum  ejusdem 
ecclesie  nostre  et  nostrum  dampnum  et  dedecus,  vilium  scilicet 
scenulentorumque  sparsione  multipliciter  deturpando.  Ex  quo- 
rum gestis  seu  risibus  et  eachinnis  derisoriis  nedum  populus 
more  catholico,  illis  potissime  temporibus  ad  ecclesiam  con- 
veniens,  et  debita  devocione  abstrahitur,  sed  et  in  risum  incom- 
positum  ac  oblectamenta  illicita  dissolvitur  cultus  que  divinus 
irridetur  et  officium  perperam  impeditur.  Sicque  quod  ad  ex- 
citandum  et  augendum  fidelium  devocionem  fuerat  primitus 
adjumentum  ex  talium  insollenciis  in  Dei  et  sanctorum  irre- 
verenciam  et  contemptum  non  sine  reatu  blasphemie  conversum 
vel  pocius  est  perversum.  Nequeuntes  igitur  ulterius  sana  con- 
sciencia  abusiones  tarn  nephandas  sub  dissiniulacione  absque 
remedio  pertransire  vobis  injungimus  et  mandamus  sub  pena 
suspensionis  et  excommunicacionis,  quatenus  ab  hujusmodi  in- 
sollenciis et  irrisionibus  decetero  totaliter  desistatis  et  nulla 
talia  exnunc  in  eadem  ecclesia  fieri  quomodolibet  permittatis, 
sed  ad  explendum  divinum  officium,  prout  ipsorum  dierum 
exigitur  reverencia,  devocius  solito,  intendatis.  Et  ne  ex  igno- 
rancia  quisquam  exnunc  unquam  in  hac  parte  se  valeat  ex- 
cusare,  vobis  custodi  precipimus  quod  presentes  literas  nostras 
ante  instans  festum  Natalis  Domini  in  presencia  omnium  minis- 
trorum  solempiiiter  publicetis,  easdemque  literas  nostras,  ne  in 
oblivionem  transeant,  in  quatuor  vel  quinque  libris  ecclesie 
magis  usualibus  transcribi  fideliter  faciatis.  Si  qui  vero  contra 
presens  mandatum  nostrum  venire  presumpserint,  citetis  seu 
citari  faciatis  peremptorie,  quod  compareant  coram  nobis,  tercio 
die  juridico  post  lapsum  dictarum  festuitatum,  super  tarn  teme- 
rariam  presumpcionem  responsuri,  et  condignam  penitenciam 
recepturi.  De  die  vero  recepcionis  presencium  et  quid  in  hac 
parte  feceritis  nos  citra  festum  Circumcisionis  Domini  eertificetis 
per  vestras  patentes  literas  harum  seriem  continentes  sigillo 
vestro  communi  consignatas.  Datum  in  manerio  nostro  de 
Chuddelegh,  decimo  die  mensis  Novembris,  anno  Domini  mille- 
simo  cccrao  sexagesimo,  et  consecracionis  nostre  xxxiiij10.  Quod- 
quidem  mandatum  vestrum  die  supradicto  per  nos  reverenter 
admissum  corani  niinistris  ecclesie  jomnibus  et  singulis  publica- 
vimus  et  hujusmodi  mandatum  restrain  in  quinque  libris 
ecclesie  magis  usualibus  ad  perpetuam  memoriam  transcribi 
fecimus  nosque  omnes  et  singuli  eidem  mandate  vestro  reverenter 
paruimus.  Et  quia  milli  contra  presens  mandatum  vestrum 
venire  presumpserunt  ad  citandum  hujusmodi  delinquentcs 


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89 


minime  processimus.  Et  sic  mandatum  vestrum  reverendum  in 
omnibus  reverenter  sumus  executi.  Datum  apud  Otery  Sancte 
Marie  penultimo  die  mensis  Decembris  anno  Domini  supra- 
dicto. 

[A  similar  Mandate  was  forwarded  to  the  Dean  and  Chancellor  of  the 
Cathedral  of  Exeter,  to  the  Precentor  and  Chapter  of  the  Collegiate  ChuTch 
of  the  Holy  Cross  at  Crediton,  and  to  the  Provost  and  Chapter  of  the  Colle- 
giate Church  of  St.  Thomas  the  Martyr  at  Glasney,  all  of  whom  returned 
similar  answers  to  the  above.] 


THOMAS  DE  BRANTYNGHAM.4 — This  canon  of  Exeter 
Cathedral  was  unanimously  selected  as  a  fit  successor  to 
Bishop  Grandisson.  From  an  early  period  of  life  he 
had  been  brought  up  in  the  court  of  King  Edward  III. 
and  his  royal  consort  Queen  Philippa.5  From  the 


4  His  family    seems    to   have  been 
settled  at  Brantyngham,  near  Bernard 
Castle,  in  the  county  of  Durham.     The 
bishop  had  a  brother  Robert,  who  was 
buried  at  East  Horsleigh,  Surrey.     In 
the  '  Issue  Roll '  of  1370,  published  by 
Mr.  Frederick  Devon,  we  find  two  other 
brothers,   William  and   Ralph.      That 
Bishop  Brantyngham  was  a  benefactor 
to  Exeter  College,   see  Wood's  'Hist. 
et  Antiq.  Oxon.'  lib.  ii.  p.  101. 

5  It  is  reasonable   to   suppose   that 
Bishop  Walter  de  Stapeldon  had  been 
in  some  degree  instrumental  in  bringing 
about  the  union  of  the  king  and  this 
Philippa,   though   he  did  not  live  to 
witness  its   accomplishment.    For  his 
4  Register '  (fol.  142)  shows  that  King 
Edward  II.  had  employed  that  most 
faithful  minister,  if  not  to  negotiate  a 
match  for  his  son,  the  heir  apparent,  at 
least  to  prepare  the  way,  by  obtaining 
a  correct  report  of  her  person  and  man- 
ners, full  seven  years  before  the  sig- 
nature of  that   contract.     Stapeldon's 
'  Register '  sets    forth    that,  after    be- 
ing at  court,  the  bishop  proceeded  to 
Canterbury    on    6th   July,    1319,    and 
that   ho    had    reached    Ashhill,    near 
Ilminster,  on  his  return  to  his  diocese, 
on  20th   August ;    and  we   apprehend 
his   inspection   was   made  during   this 
very   interval.     In    the  margin  of  the 
'  Register,'  after  the  words  "  Inspectio 
et   descriptio  Filie   Comitis   Ilanonie," 
is  a  memorandum  subsequently  made, 
and  very   much  resembling  the  hand- 
writing   of    Bishop    Grandisson,     viz., 
"quo  vocatur  Fhilippa,  ft  fuit  Regina 


I  Anglie    nupta    Edwardo    Tertio    post 
Conquestum." 

But  we  now  subjoin  the  description 
of  Philippa,  with  the  best  translation 
we  are  able  to  render. 

BISHOP  STAPELDON'S  'REGISTEH,'  fol.  142. 

"  Anno  Domini  MCCCmo  decimo  nono> 
et  consecracionis  Domini  Walter! 
Exoniensis  Episcopi  anno  unde- 
cimo. 

"  Inspeccio  et  descriptio  filie  Comitis 
Hanonie  [Hainault]  que  vocatur 
Philippa  et  fuit  Regina  Anglie 
nupta  Edwardo  Tercio  post  Con- 
questum. 

"  La  damoisele  que  nous  veymes  si 

ad  les  chevaux  assez  beaus  entre  bloy 

et  bran ;  la  teste  nette ;  le  front  long  et 

lee,  et  se  boute  auques  avant ;  le  visage 

centre  les  deus  oils  plus  estreit,  et  le 

visage  contreval  plus    grelle    et  plus 

esclendre  uncore  que  nest  le  front ;  les 

oils  bruns,  et  auq'es  noirs,   et  auq'es 

profond ;    le    nees   assez   uni  et  owel 

j  sauve  que  a  la  poynte  si  est  grossett  et 

1  auq'es  platt  mes  nient  camus ;  les  na- 

i  rilles  auq'es  larges ;  la  bouche  largette ; 

les  leveres  et  nomiement  celle  desouz 

|  grossett ;  les  dentz  que  sunt  chaynz  et 

recrus   assez   blanks,  et  les   autres   ne 

!  sunt  pas  si  blanks ;   les  dentz  desouz 

sunt  assis  unpoi  dehors  ceux  dcsus,  mes 

ceo   ne   apert   fors   que   mou   poi ;   les 

•  orailles  et  le  menton  assez  beaux ;  le 

col,   les   espaules,    et  tot  le  corps  et 

m  ombres  contreval  assez  de  bone  taille 

''  et    les    membres    bien    fourniz    sanz 

maliayn    ot   rien    no    cloce    que    horn 


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LIVES  OF  THE 


issue  roll  of  the  year  1370  it  appears  that  he  had  been 
keeper  of  the  wardrobe  ;  but  at  the  time  of  his  election 
to  the  see  of  Exeter  was  filling  the  office  of  Lord  High 
Treasurer  of  England,  with  a  salary  of  300Z.  a  year, 
and  an  outfit  of  100Z.  In  his  subsequent  appropriation 
to  his  Dean  and  Chapter  of  the  rectory  of  Morthoe, 
which  he  had  purchased  previous  to  his  promotion  to 
the  episcopal  dignity,  he  feelingly  professes  his  many 
obligations  to  his  royal  master  and  mistress,  and  his 
anxiety  to  perpetuate  his  grateful  attachment  to  the 
memory  of  such  patrons  and  benefactors.  On  the 
notification  to  Pope  Urban  Y.  of  his  election,  His  Holi- 
ness waived  all  claim  to  provision.  The  bulls,  dated 
Rome,  4th  March,  1370,  may  be  seen  in  the  beginning 
of  the  second  volume  of  the  bishop's  register ;  and  on 
Sunday  the  12th  May  following  the  primate  Simon 
Sudbury  performed  the  ceremony  of  the  consecration  at 
Stepney,  assisted  by  Geoffry  Archbishop  of  Damascus, 
and  John  Bishop  of  Bayonne.  Four  days  later  our 
bishop  was  put  in  possession  of  the  temporalities ;  but 


puisse  apercevoir ;  et  si  est  brime  de 
qui  reyn  par  tut  et  molt  resemble  an 
pere,  et  en  totes  autres  choses  assez 
pleisante  si  come  il  nous  semble.  Et 
sera  la  damoisele  del  age  de  ix  anz  a 
la  feste  de  la  Nativite  Seint  Johan  pro- 
chein  avenir  si  come  la  mere  dit.  Ne 
trop  grande  ne  trop  petite  quant  a  tel 
age,  et  si  est  de  beau  port  et  bien  aprise 
come  a  son  estat,  et  bien  proise  et  bien 
ame  de  pere  et  de  mere  et  de  tote  la 
meignce,  si  avant  come  nous  le  poyoms 
ver  enquere  et  savoir." 

"  The  young  lady  whom  we  saw  has 
hair  sufficiently  handsome,  between 
blond  and  brown ;  the  head  graceful ; 
the  forehead  long,  wide,  and  advancing ; 
the  face  in  either  profile  is  straiter, 
and  downwards  is  smaller  and  narrower, 
than  the  forehead;  the  eyes  brown, 
blond,  and  blackish;  the  nose  suffi- 
ciently regular  and  even,  except  that 
the  point  is  a  little  enlarged  and  de- 
pressed ;  the  nostrils  sufficiently  wide  ; 
the  mouth  largish  ;  the  lips,  especially 
the  lower  one,  thickish  ;  the  teeth 


which  have  been  shed  and  grown  again 
are  pretty  white,  the  rest  are  not  so 
white  ;  the  under  teeth  are  a  little  more 
forward  than  the  upper  ones,  but  this 
is  scarcely  observable ;  the  ears  and 
the  chin  handsome  enough ;  the  neck, 
shoulders,  and  all  the  body  and  limbs 
perfect,  without  fault  or  deformity,  as 
far  as  could  be  perceived.  The  pre- 
vailing complexion  is  dark,  and  she 
much  resembles  her  father,  and  is  in 
every  respect  quite  agreeable  in  our 
opinion.  The  young  lady  will  be  nine 
years  of  age  at  the  feast  of  the  Nativity 
of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  as  her  mother 
says.  She  is  neither  too  tall  nor  too 
short  for  her  age,  and  is  of  good 
carriage  and  manner,  becoming  her 
fank,  and  much  approved  and  well 
beloved  by  her  father  and  mother  and 
all  the  household  hitherto,  as  well  as 
we  could  observe  and  hear  and  learn." 

This  Philippa  was  married  to  King 
Edward  III.  at  York  on  25th  January, 
1827,  and  she  boro  him  a  progeny  of 
seven  sons  and  five  daughters. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 


91 


public  business  detained  him  at  court  for  upwards  of  a 
year,  nor  was  he  able  to  visit  his  cathedral  until  the 
Monday  after  St.  James's  (July),  1371.6  At  the  acces- 
sion of  the  new  sovereign  Richard  II.,  six  years  later, 
his  presence  was  demanded  at  court.  He  was  required 
to  reassume  the  functions  of  Lord  Treasurer.  He  im- 
proved this  opportunity  by  getting  the  youthful 
monarch  to  confirm  all  the  previous  grants  made  by  his 
royal  progenitors  to  the  church  of  Exeter.  At  a  later 
period  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  fourteen  commis- 
sioners to  govern  the  kingdom.  The  truth  is,  he  com- 
manded the  public  confidence  by  his  character  for 
discretion,  moral  integrity,  and  honourable  conduct. 
Warned  at  last  by  the  infirmities  of  declining  age,  he 
solicited  and  obtained  permission  to  devote  the  re- 
mainder of  his  days  to  the  immediate  duties  of  his 
diocese.  The  king  on  26th  August,  1390,  released  him 
from  future  attendance  in  parliament  and  privy  council, 
in  consideration  of  his  past  services  to  himself  and 
to  his  royal  grandfather  King  Edward  III. 

The  two  volumes  of  his  register  abundantly  testify 
to  his  talents  for  business. and  the  interest  he  took  in  the 
concerns  of  his  diocese.  To  his  cathedral  he  added  the 
ornamented  western  facade,  and  in  great  measure 
substituted  a  new  for  the  old  cloister.  For  the  conve- 
nience of  the  priest-vicars  he  provided  a  common  hall 
and  kitchen,  with  suitable  chambers  and  offices  ('  Beg/ 
vol.  i.  fol.  184).  The  'Chronicon'  of  his  church  fixes 


6  He  had  hardly  visited  his  diocese 
when  one  John  de  Canterbyri  violated 
the  liberties  of  St.  Stephen's  Fee,  Ex- 
eter, by  there  seizing  John  Eyre,  a 
priest,  in  his  bed,  and  dragging  him 
to  the  public  gaol.  Excommunication 
rapidly  pursued  the  offender,  and  he 
humbly  implored  the  benefit  of  abso- 
lution ;  but  the  bishop,  on  28th  Oc- 
tober, 1371,  condemned  the  culprit  to  a 
public  penance.  On  a  Sunday  he  was 
to  march  to  St.  Stephen's  Church,  "  sine 


capucio,  zona  et  mantello,"  and  at  the 
high  mass  to  offer  a  wax-candle  of  half- 
a-pound  weight.  On  the  ensuing  Satur- 
day to  proceed  to  the  house  where  lie 
had  arrested  the  priest,  habited  as  be- 
fore, bearing  a  wax-candle  of  one  pound 
weight ;  thence  march  to  the  prison- 
gate  by  the  very  same  way  he  had 
taken  the  priest ;  then  attend  high  mass 
at  the  cathedral,  arid 
c-iuulle  at  tin: 
vol.  i.  14). 


ST.    MICHAEL'S 
COLLEGE 


92 


LIVES  OF  THE 


his  death — which  took  place  at  Bishop's  Clist,  where  he 
had  long  been  sojourning — on  3rd  December,  1394; 
but  this  is  manifestly  incorrect,  for  his  will  .was  made 
on  the  13th  of  that  month  and  year,  and  proved  on 
30th  December.  He  was  buried,  says  Hoker  ('  MS. 
Hist.'  85),  "  in  the  nave  of  his  church,  near  the  north 
porch  opposite  the  Courtenay  monument."  Westcote 
adds,  "his  interment  was  under  a  chapel  builded  by 
himself  in  the  body  of  the  church.  The  chapel  was 
lately  demolished,  but  the  stone,  sometime  inlaid  with 
brass,  only  remains  to  testify  it ;  for  his  epitaph  is  worn, 
or  rent  away  with  the  brass."  We  were  present  at  the 
opening  of  the  tomb  on  3rd  December,  1832,  and  all 
the  witnesses  agreed  that  the  hand  of  sacrilegious 
spoliation  had  done  its  worst.7 

Our  readers  are  aware  that  attached  to  the  palace  of 
Exeter  was  a  prison  for  the  confinement  of  convicted 
clerks.  In  the  absence  of  Bishop  Brantyngham,  six  of 
such  felons,  viz.  Nicholas  Hopworthy,  John  Hennely, 
alias  Columpton,  Stephen  Telyng  de  Drogdaa,  Simon 
Whyte  de  Dordraght,  Thomas  Westowe  de  Hareford, 
and  John  Russell  de  Penard  in  Wales,  who  had  been 
delivered  over  to  the  bishop's  commissary  according  to 


7  Formerly  the  portrait  of  the  bishop 
inlaid  with  brass,  with  his  armorial 
bearings,  and  an  inscription  on  the  four 
sides  of  the  leger-stone,  were  visible, 
but  these  appear  to  have  been  stripped 
away  when  the  revolutionary  fanatics 
of  1646  enacted  their  wanton  and  sacri- 
legious scenes  with  impunity  through- 
out this  sacred  edifice.  During  the 
actual  relaying  of  the  pavement  in  the 
nave  it  became  necessary  to  move  the 
leger-stone  that  covered  the  bishop's 
remains;  and  this  was  carefully  done. 
The  stone  had  rested  in  the  centre  on 
two  cross  iron  bars.  The  vault  was  half 
filled  with  earth  and  tiles.  The  body 
had  been  buried  in  a  wooden  coffin, 
which  had  entirely  mouldered  away. 
Some  of  the  large  nails  were  in  a  state 
of  preservation,  but  nothing  remained 
of  the  bishop  except  a  considerable  por- 


tion of  the  bones.  From  the  examina- 
tion of  the  skull  and  teeth  the  inspectors 
were  satisfied  that  the  venerable  prelate 
must  have  lived  to  a  good  old  ago ; 
and  it  is  further  evident  that  the  grave 
had  been  opened  before,  and  rifled  of 
the  chalice  and  ring,  which  must  have 
been  buried  with  him.  The  bones  and 
the  earth  were  immediately  replaced 
with  great  decency  and  respect. 

One  peculiarity  occurred  to  me  as  an 
inspector.  The  rubric  de  Exequiis  en- 
joins that  the  feet  of  the  corpse  of  a 
.layman  should  be  placed  towards  the 
high  altar  at  the  funeral  service,  as 
also  in  the  grave ;  but  the  corpse  of  a 
clergyman  should  have  the  head  laid 
towards  the  altar.  This  rubric  was  not 
observed  in  the  case  before  us,  as  the 
bishop's  head  lay  due  west. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  93 

the  law  of  England,  broke  prison  on  the  night  of 
Tuesday  after  the  feast  of  Assumption  of  Our  Lady, 
1389:  after  murdering  Simon  Prescote,  the  chaplain 
and  *keeper  of  the  said  palace,  and  Thomas  the  jailor, 
grievously  wounding,  and  leaving  even  for  dead, 
Thomas  Chamber,  keeper  of  the  wardrobe,  and,  after 
plundering  their  chambers,  effected  their  escape.  The 
king,  with  the  advice  of  his  council,  and  especially 
of  William  Wickham  of  Winchester  his  treasurer,  and 
Henry  'Percy,  his  cousin,  Earl  of  Northumberland, 
issued  a  pardon  to  the  bishop  for  the  escape  of  such 
desperate  felons.  It  bears  date  at  Westminster  3rd 
September,  1389.  Four  years  later  seven  convicted 
felons  and  clerks  (including  that  John  Russell  de 
Penard,  who  in  the  interval  must  have  been  recaptured), 
viz.  John  Brown,  John  Yunderbrok,  Warin  Penghelly, 
William  Elys,  Robert  Kesyl,  and  Henry  Riche,  having 
been  delivered  over  by  the  king's  justices  to  the 
bishop's  commissary  for  safe  custody,  made  their  escape 
from  the  same  prison  on  the  Saturday  night  before 
23rd  November,  1393,  but  no  case  of  violence  is 
charged  against  them.  The  king  once  more  issued 
a  special  pardon  to  our  aged  prelate  on  llth  December 
following,  thus  clearing  the  bishop  of  all  legal  actions 
on  the  part  of  the  crown,  by  reason  of  such  escapes. 

In  the  second  volume  of  his  Register  (fol.  37,  ad 
calcem)  is  a  dateless  petition  to  the  Holy  See.  It  sets 
forth  that  the  temporalities  of  this  extensive  bishopric 
are  detained  in  the  king's  hand  at  every  vacancy,  and 
frequently  also  at  the  suggestion  of  evil-minded  coun- 
sellors are  seized  and  grievously  wasted,  in  which  cases 
the  bishop  has  no  other  resource  to  depend  upon  than 
Teignton  Episcopi,  which  is  of  the  value  of  thirty 
marks,  more  or  less ;  and  prays  therefore  that,  by  the 
Papal  authority,  the  parish  churches  of  Bridestowe, 
of  the  value  of  thirty  marks,  and  of  Poweton  alias 


94 


LIVES  OF  THE 


Nanzant  (now  called  St.  Breocks),  of  the  value  of  forty 
marks,  at  the  death  or  cession  of  the  actual  incumbents, 
may  be  assigned  and  appropriated  for  ever  to  the 
maintenance  of  the  bishop's  table.  What  was  the 
result  of  such  application  does  not  appear. 

AKMS  : — Sable,   a  fess    crenelle,    between    three   Catharine 
wheels,  or. 

EDMUND  DE  STAFFORD  was  descended  from  a  family 
rivalling  the  most  ancient  and  illustrious  within  the 
realm  of  England.8  His  parents,  as  is  evident  from 
the  ordinatio  or  foundation-deed  of  his  chantry,  dated 
1st  October,  1408,  were  SirEichard  de  Stafford,  knight 
(who  was  summoned  to  parliament  among  the  barons 
of  the  realm  from  44th  Edward  III.  to  3rd  Richard  II.), 
and  Isabella,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Vernon  of 
Haddon,  knight,  by  Maud  his  wife,  eldest  daughter  and 
coheir  of  William  Lord  Camville.  His  uncle,  Baron 
Ralph  de  Stafford,  Knight  of  the  Garter,  had  been 
created  Earl  of  Stafford  on  5th  March,  1351.  Embrac- 
ing the  ecclesiastical  state,  Edmund  obtained  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Laws,  and  was  a  canon  of  York  Minster, 
when  Pope  Boniface  IX.  promoted  him  to  the  vacant 
see  of  Exeter,  by  his  bull  dated  Rome,  15th  January, 
1395,  inserted  in  the  beginning  of  the  first  volume  ^ 
of  his  register.  He  was  consecrated  at  Lambeth  by  the 
primate  William  Courtenay  on  Sunday  20th  June, 
1395,  assisted  by  Robert  de  Braybroke,  Bishop  of 
London,  and  John  Waltham,  Bishop  of  Sarum ;  and, 
according  to  custom,  "  ratione  novse  creationis,"  the 
new  bishop  assigned  the  pension  of  five  marks  to  a 


8  Hoker,  in  his  MS.  Hist.,  page  300, 
says  that  "  he  was  descended  from  the 
Lord  Stafford  who  lived  in  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Confessor,  and  was  made, 
or  rather  restored,  a  baron  in  the 
time  of  the  Conqueror.  Certainly  the 
'  Domesday '  gives  evidence  that  Robert 
de  Stafford  held  many  lordships  in 


•'England.  At  a  subsequent  period  we 
discover  several  ramifications  of  the 
family  at  Hook,  Pipe,  Clifton,  Grafton, 
Abbotsbury,  &c.  One  brancli  settled  in 
Ireland  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Eliza- 
beth, one  of  whose  members  was  dis- 
tinguished in  fcthe  Parliament  of  Kil- 
kenny, A.  r>.  1G46. 


BISHOrS  OF  EXETER. 


95 


clerk  named  by  the  crown,  until  he  could  institute  him 
to  a  suitable  living.9  As  public  business  prevented  his 
lordship  from  quitting  the  court,  he  lost  no  time  in 
appointing  an  efficient  vicar-general  ('Reg/  vol.  ii. 
fol.  1).  King  Eichard  II.  on  23rd  October,  1396,  nomi- 
nated him  Lord  High  Chancellor,  and  he  continued  in 
office  until  the  eve  of  the  king's  abdicating  the  crown  ; 
he  had  also  appointed  him  one  of  his  executors  (Rymer's 
6  Fcedera,'  vol.  viii.  p.  77).  Released  from  the  turmoils 
of  state  office,  he  hastened  to  visit  his  diocese.  On  his 
way  hither  from  London  we  find  him  arrived  at  Salis- 
bury on  18th  March,  1400 :  on  5th  April  he  was 
domiciled  at  his  manor-house  of  Bishop's  Clist,  and 
shortly  after  proceeded  in  his  visitation  through  the 
counties  of  Devon  and  Cornwall.  Thus  he  continued 
in  the  discharge  of  his  pastoral  functions  until  20th 
January,  1401,  when  he  started  for  London ;  and  for 
those  times,  and  at  that  season  of  the  year,  he  must 
have  travelled  expeditiously,  for  a  document  is  entered 
in  his  register  dated  but  six  days  later  "in  hospitio 
nostro  London."  King  Henry  IV.  probably  wished  to 
have  his  counsel  :  on  9th  March  that  monarch  restored 
to  him  the  Great  Seal  which  he  retained  for  nearly  two 


9  It  is  not  generally  known  that 
Bishop  Stafford  ordained  deacon,  in  his 
private  chapel  in  London,  on  26th  May, 
1396,  Henry  Chicheley,  then  appointed 
to  the  rectory  of  St.  Stephen's,  Wal- 
brooke,  afterwards  the  far-famed  pri- 
mate and  munificent  founder  of  All 
Souls'  College,  Oxford ;  or  that  Eichard 
Courtenay  (eldest  son  of  Sir  Philip 
Courtenay  of  Pouderham,  Knight,  and 
his  wife  Margaret  Wake),  afterwards 
Bishop  of  Norwich,  received  at  his 
hands,  in  St.  Michael's  Chapel,  Chud- 
leigh,  on  18th  December,  1400,  the 
order  of  priesthood,  at  the  early  age 
of  twenty.  He  had  previously  collated 
this  youthful  clerk  (already  Precentor 
of  Chichester)  to  a  prebend  and  canonry 
of  Exeter  Cathedral,  viz.  on  3rd  Octo- 
ber, 1399  ('  Keg.'  vol.  ii.  fol.  42).  In 
ordaining  him  priest  he  complied  with 


the  bull  of  dispensation  granted  by 
Pope  Boniface  IX.  (Cibo),  dated  Home, 
14th  December,  1399,  which  may  be 
seen  at  the  end  of  his  'Eegister,'  vol.  i., 
and  in  the  Appendix.  Fortunately  this 
young  ecclesiastic  justified  the  high 
opinion  entertained  of  his  merit.  He 
died  in  September,  1415,  aged  35,  and 
was  buried  in  Westminster  Abbey. 

His  'uncle  William  Courtenay,  the 
archbishop,  had  bequeathed  six  books 
to  his  church  of  Canterbury,  wliich 
Kichard  Courtenay  was  allowed  the  use 
of  for  his  life,  but  with  the  obligation 
of  their  being  restored  on  his  death, 
under  a  penalty  of  300?.  The  works 
were  the  '  Millelogium '  of  St.  Augustin, 
a  Dictionary  in  three  volumes,  and 
'  Nicholas  de  Lira,'  in  two  volumes, 
MS.  Arundel,  Brit.  Mus.  No.  68,  fol. 
34  b. 


98  LIVES  OF  THE 

in*  favour  with  the  king  and  nobility."  After  enu- 
merating his  preferments  and  chancellorship,  the  histo- 
rian continues  :  "  his  government  tended  very  much 
to  the  benefit  of  the  commonwealth;  he  was  a  great 
favourer  and  furtherer  to  good  learning.  A  singular 
man  he  was  in  that  age,  and  also  left  many  good 
memorials  behind  him." 

With  these  historic  details  before  us,  we  were  not 
a  little  surprised  at  the  character  affixed  to  his  memory 
by  Lord  Campbell  in  his  '  Lives  of  the  Lord  Chancellors 
of  England/  vol.  i.  p.  302,  as  "  one  presiding  over 
atrocities — possessing  little  theological  knowledge,  and 
without  any  knowledge  of  the  law — a  daring  and  reck- 
less politician — sanctioning  hasty  and  tyrannical  mea- 
sures, which  precipitated  the  fate  of  his  sovereign 
Bichard  II."  That  "  on  the  restoration  of  the  seals 
by  King  Henry  IV.  he  resigned  them  at  the  end  of 
February,  1403,  as  he  felt  himself  so  unfit  for  the 
office,  and  retired  to  his  diocese  to  exercise  baronial 
hospitality,  and  to  enjoy  hunting  and  the  other  sports 
of  the  field,  in  the  vain  hope  that  some  revolution  in 
politics  would  again  enable  him  to  mix  in  factious 
strife,  which  still  more  delighted  him.  But  he  con- 
tinued to  languish  in  tranquillity  until  he  was  gathered 
to  his  fathers."  Such  assertions,  unsupported  by  evi- 
dence, must  detract  from  the  merit  of  the  learned  and 
noble  biographer. 

ARMS: — Or,   a  chevron  gules,   his   addition,   entoyred  with 
Bishop's  mitres  proper. 


BULL  of  POPE  BONIFACE  IX.— 141i  Dec.  1399.10 

Bonifacius  Episcopus,  servus  "servorum  Dei,  dilectis  filio 
Richardo  de  Courtenay,  cantori  Ecclesise  Cicestriensis,  Salutem 
et  apostolicam  benedictionem.  Nobilitas  generis,  vitae  ac 
morum  honestas,  aliaque  laudabilia  probitatis  et  virtutum  merita, 

10  Stafford's  Eegister,  vol.  i. ;  copied  at  the  end. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  99 

super  quibus  apud  nos  fide  digno  commendaris  testimonio,  nos 
inducunt,  ut  te  specialibus  favoribus  et  gratiis  prosequamur. 
Tula  itaque  in  hac  parte  supplicationibus  inclinati,  tecum,  qui, 
ut  asseris,  decimum  octavum  tuee  aetatis  annum  excedis,  et  in 
subdiaconatus  ordine  constitutus,  ac  ex  utroque  parente  de  nobili 
genere  procreatus  existis,  ut  cum  vicesimum  hujusmodi  tua3 
setatis  annum  attigeris,  ad  diaconatus  et  presbyteratus  ordines 
statutis  anni  temporibus  promoveri,  libere  et  licite  valeas, 
Lugdunensium  Conciliorum  et  quibuscumque  constitutionibus 
apostolicis  ac  aliis  contrariis  nequaquam  obstantibus,  auctoritate 
apostolica,  tenore  presentium,  de  specialis  dono  gratise  dis- 
pensamus:  nulli  ergo  omnino  hominum  liceat  hanc  paginam 
nostrae  dispensationis  infringere,  vel  ei  ausu  temerario  con- 
traire.  Si  quis  autem  hoc  attemptare  praesumserit  indignationem 
omnipotentis  Dei  et  beatorum  Petri  et  Pauli  apostolorum  ejus, 
se  noverit  incursurum.  Datum  Komse  apud  Sanctum  Petrum, 
xvin  kalendis  Januarii,  pontificatus  nostri  anno  undecimo. 


JOHN  CATTERICK. —  This  distinguished  ecclesiastic 
(perhaps  a  native  of  Catterick  in  Yorkshire),  after 
filling  the  office  of  Apostolic  Notary  and  Archdeacon  of 
Surrey,  and  after  serving  King  Henry  IY.  as  ambas- 
sador to  France  in  1409  (Rymer's  'Fcedera,'  vol.  viii. 
p.  585),  was  provided  whilst  agent  at  the  Roman  court 
to  the  see  of  St.  David  by  Pope  John  XXIII.  on  27th 
April,  1414,  and  the  temporalities  of  which  were  re- 
stored to  him  on  2nd  June  following.  The  same  pontiff 
on  1st  February  next  ensuing  translated  him  to  the 
see  of  Lichfield  and  Coventry.  Within  two  years  later, 
King  Henry  Y.  sent  him  as  his  ambassador  to  the 
Council  of  Constance,  and  so  honoured  him  with  his 
confidence  as  to  appoint  him  one  of  the  executors  of  his 
will.  When  the  business  of  the  council  was  over  he 
accompanied  Pope  Martin  Y.  towards  Rome,  and  whilst 
the  Papal  court  made  some  stay  at  Florence,  intelligence 
reached  His  Holiness  of  the  death  of  our  aged  Bishop 
Stafford,  and  he  immediately  nominated  Dr.  Catterick 
to  the  vacant  see  of  Exeter,  and  on  the  same  day  (20th 
November)  William  Heyworth,  abbot  of  St.  Albans 

H  2 


100  LIVES  OF  THE 

(not  James  or  John  Gary,  as  Godwin  supposes),1  to 
Lichfield  and  Coventry.  But  our  prelate  never  lived 
to  see  his  new  diocese :  attacked  by  a  mortal  illness  he 
departed  this  life  on  the  28th  of  the  following  month 
(December),  1419,  and  his  remains  were  deposited 
under  the  central  dome  of  the  Franciscan  Church  de 
Santa  Croce  at  Florence.  A  beautiful  model  of  his  white 
marble  slab  there,  representing  the  bishop  in  his 
pontificals,  has  been  brought  over  by  Archdeacon  Bar- 
tholomew very  recently,  and  deposited  in  our  chapter- 
house. The  legend  is, — "  Hie  jacet  Dominus  Joannes 
Cattrick,  Episcopus  quondam  Exoniensis,  Ambassiator 
Serenissimi  Domini  Regis  Anglise,  qui  obiit  xxviii  die 
Decembris,  anno  Dni.  MCCCCXIX.  Cujus  animse  pro- 
pitietur  Deus."  Lassells,  in  his  Yoyage  to  Italy,  1650, 
describes  the  arms  on  the  monument  as  "  Sable,  three 
Cats  argent ;"  so  that  the  arms  attributed  to  'him  by 
Hoker  and  Izacke,  viz.  "  Argent,  on  a  Fess  engrailed 
sable,  three  Trefoils  or,"  must  be  rejected ;  they  also 
bury  him  at  Avignon.  Izacke  dubs  him  Bishop  of 
Chichester;'  Westcote  ('  Survey,'  p.  168)  omits  him 
altogether  in  his  catalogue  of  the  bishops  of  Exeter ; 
and  Sir  "William  Pole  translates  him  from  Chester 
hither,  and  buries  him  in  our  Cathedral !  ('  Description 
of  Devon,'  p.  30.) 

EDMUND  LACY. — This  prelate  was  the  son  of  Stephen 
Lacy  and  Sibilla  his  wife,  as  we  learn  from  his  Register 
marked  vol.  iii.  fol.  271  b.  His  parents  and  his  uncle 
John  Lacy  were  buried  in  the  Conventual  Church  of 
the  Carmelites  at  Gloucester.  The  site  where  they 
lay  was  endeared  to  him,  but  it  cannot  now  be 
distinguished ! 


that  this  John  or 
appointed  to  the 

Lnd  very  properly 
e  list  which  he 


gives  of  our  bishops  ('  Itin.'  vol.  iii. 
p.  51),  and  so  does  Sir  William  Pole, 
'  Description  of  Devon,'  p.  30. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  101 

In  early  life  Edmund  was  entered  at  University 
College,  Oxford,  where  he  took  his  degree  of  S.  T.  P. 
In  1398  he  was  appointed  president  of  that  college, 
which  he  governed  for  five  years  ('Hist,  et  Antiq. 
Oxon.,'  lib.  ii.  p.  59).  His  merits  soon  procured  him 
distinction.  We  find  him,  as  dean  of  the  Royal  Chapel, 
accompanying  his  sovereign  Henry  Y.  in  1415  to  the 
battle  of  Agincourt ;  and  within  two  years  he  was  pre- 
ferred to  the  see  of  Hereford,  of  which  he  had  been 
canon,  and  the  king  honoured  his  consecration  at 
Windsor,  on  18th  April,  1417,  with  his  presence.2 
When  His  Majesty  was  informed  of  the  unexpected 
demise  of  John  Catterick  Bishop  of  Exeter  at  Florence, 
he  directed  a  conge  d'elire  to  the  dean  and  chapter  here 
in  favour  of  his  friend  the  Bishop  of  Hereford.  His 
lordship  was  unanimously  chosen,  and  Pope  Martin  Y. 
confirmed  the  election  by  his  bull  bearing  date  5th 
May,  1420.  Owing  to  a  multiplicity  of  engagements 
and  the  king's  illness,  he  could  not  be  spared  for  a 
time  to  visit  his  new  diocese ;  but  in  the  interval  his 
Register  (vol.  iii.  fol.  23)  and  the  fabric  rolls  testify 
his  zeal  in  promoting  the  completion  of  his  cathedral 
and  its  cloisters.  King  Henry  Y.  constituted  him  one 
of  his  executors ;  and  we  meet  his  lordship  at  Windsor 
on  28th  September,  1422,  when  the  Chancellor,  Thomas 
Langley  Bishop  of  Durham,  delivered  up  the  gold  seal 
of  England  in  a  purse  of  white  leather  to  his  infant 
sovereign  Henry  YI.  (Rymer's  '  Foedera,'  vol.  x>  fol. 
253).  On  his  return  home  he  held  a  diocesan  synod. 

To  the  vicars-choral  of  the  cathedral  the  bishop 
proved  himself  a  considerable  benefactor ;  for  their 
better  maintenance  he  appropriated  to  them  the  rec- 


2  His  '  Register '  at  Hereford,  con- 
sisting of  322  pages,  sets  forth  that  he 
was  consecrated  at  the  time  above  spe- 
cified by  the  Primate,  Henry  Chicheley, 


Worcester,  and  Stephen  Partyngton, 
Bishop  of  St.  David's:  that  the  king 
was  present  at  the  ceremony,  with  an 
assemblage  of  noblemen,  "in  inferiore 


assisted  by  Thomas  Poverel,  Bishop  of  i  Capella  Castelli  de  Windsofe." 


102 


LIVES  OF  THE 


torial  tithes  of  Corn  wood  on  the  6th  June,  1432  ('  Reg.' 
vol.  ii.  fol.  19).  His  appropriation  of  the  church  of 
Ipelpen  on  13th  March,  1439,  to  the  custos  and  college 
of  Ottery  is  recorded  in  his  Register  (vol.  iii.  fol.  145). 
All  concur  in  opinion  that  he  was  a  ineek,  charitable, 
and  pious  bishop.  The  office  that  he  composed  in 
honour  of  the  Archangel  Raphael  (whose  festival  was 
kept  here  on  5th  October)  was  greatly  admired  by  our 
forefathers,  and  was  used  in  this  and  several  other 
dioceses.3  William  Boothe  Archbishop  of  York,  in  his 
letter  dated  "  in  inanerio  nostro  de  Suthewell,  10th 
October,  1454,"  in  adopting  it  for  his  cathedral,  extols 
the  author's  devotion  and  zeal,  and  acknowledges  his 
generous  donation  of  a  rich  set  of  vestments  for  high 
mass,  with  three  copes  of  red  velvet,  and  three  albs 
with  their  appurtenances  for  his  metropolitan  church, 
and  twenty  pounds  sterling  for  the  benefit  of  its  vicars 
choral.  Thomas  (Spofford)  Bishop  of  Hereford,  on  6th 
September,  1445,  had  admitted  and  approved  the  said 
office,  and  relates  that  our  prelate  had  given  a  set 
of  high  mass  vestments  and  three  copes  of  red  velvet, 
with  orfreys  of  gold  and  red  cloth,  together  with 
coverings  and  frontlets  of  cloth  worked  with  falcons, 
for  the  high  altar  and  its  two  collateral  altars,  the 
whole  exceeding  the  value  of  200  marks — "  considerate 
ejusdem  Ecclesise  nostrse  notori&  paupertate"  (Lacy's 


3  Pope  Eugenius  IV.  had  commis- 
sioned John  Suetsham,  the  Chancellor 
of  Exeter,  to  call  to  his  aid  six  other 
divines  to  examine  and  make  a  report 
of  this  office.  He  selected  the  follow- 
ing doctors  of  theology  : — Henry  Sever 
and  Richard  Chester,  the  royal  chap- 
lains, Thomas  Gascoigne,  Chancellor 
of  Oxford,  Robert  Thwaytis,  John  Bur- 
nebe,  and  William  Dowsyn.  On  14th 
June,  1444,  they  pronounced  as  fol- 
lows : — "  Prsedictum  officium  tarn  lit- 
tera  quam  spiritu  circumspeximus,  et 
diligenter  examinavimus,  nee  aliquid 
Scripturao  sacra)  dissonum  aut  canonicis 
institutionibus  contrarium  invenimus 


obviare.  Quamobrem  auctoritate  apo- 
stolica  in  hac  parte  commissa,  supra- 
dicti  Raphaelis  Archangeli  servitium, 
catholicum,  in  summseque  Trinitatis 
honorem,  Beatorum  quoque  laudem,  et 
specialiter  predicti  Sancti  Raphaelis 
Archangeli,  ac  ad  incrementum  et  aug- 
mentationem  Christianse  devotionis,  nec- 
noi>  in  auxilium  et  relevamen  Ecclesjse 
militantis  institutum,  fore  decernimus 
et  quilibet  nostrum  decernit  per  prse- 
sentes." 

We  have  not  met  with  the  form. 
Does  it  resemble  the  one  inserted  in 
some  of  the  Roman  breviaries  ? 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  103 

1  Beg.'  vol.  iii.  fbl.  486).  Eichard  Beauchamp,  trans- 
lated from  Hereford  to  Salisbury,  licensed  the  use  of 
this  office  for  his  new  diocese  on  20th  August,  1456. 
It  was  also  accepted  by  the  provincial  chapter  of  the 
English  Franciscans  holden  at  Ohichester  on  15th 
August,  1444. 

In  the  inventory  of  the  jewels,  plate,  and  ornaments 
of  Exeter  Cathedral,  drawn  up  on  6th  September, 
1506,  in  the  possession  of  the  dean  and  chapter,  and 
exhibited  to  the  commissioners  of  King  Edward  VI.  on 
30th  September,  1552,  we  find  it  still  possessed  the 
chalice  of  pure  gold,  weighing  23  ounces,  two  golden 
cruets,  two  silver  basons,  gilt  and  enamelled,  several 
splendid  vestments,  tapestry,  and  carpets  and  books, 
all  "  ex  dono  Edmundi  Lacy  nuper  Exon.  Episcopi." 
He  is  known  to  have  built  the  great  hall  in  Exeter 
House,  the  residence  of  our  bishops  in  London. 

The  ponderous  Registers  of  our  prelate,  comprising 
upwards  of  1700  pages,  are  decided  evidence  of  his 
indefatigable  attention  to  his  official  duties.  In  con- 
sideration of  his  increasing  lameness  and  weak  health 
he  was  excused  from  attending  on  parliament  (Rymer's 
'  Foedera,'  vol.  x.  p.  404).  The  death  of  the  venerable 
prelate  took  place  at  his  manor-house,  Chudleigh,  on 
18th  September,  1455,  as  his  Register  shows,  and 
he  was  buried  on  the  north  side  of  the  cathedral  choir. 
His  tomb  remains,  despoiled  of  its  brass,  or,  as  Leland 
expresses  it  (c  Itin.'  vol.  iii.  p.  45),  "  was  defaced  by 
Simon  Heynes,"  who  was  dean  between  1537  and 
1552.  From  Hoker  and  Godwin  we  collect  that 
the  bishop's  memory  was  long  venerated  in  this  diocese, 
and  that  pilgrims  resorted  to  his  tomb. 

The  will  of  the  bishop,  proved  8th  October,  1455,  in 
the  Prerogative  Court  (as  Dr.  Richardson  asserts  in  his 
edition  of  Godwin  '  De  Praesulibus  Anglias,'  p.  413)  no 
longer  exists  ;  but  we  learn  from  documents,  in  the 


104  LIVES  OF  THE 

archives  of  our  dean  and  chapter,  that  tenements,  which 
had  been  granted  them,  to  support  his  obit,  and  those 
of  Philip  Lacy,  Esq.,  and  his  wife  Isabella,  brought  in 
an  income  in  the  year  1467  of  7/.  18s.  Sd.  Queen 
Elizabeth,  by  her  charter  of  5th  July,  1587,  restored 
to  the  dean  and  chapter  "  three  barns  and  one  field 
with  its  appurtenances  near  Southernhay,  within  the 
county  of  the  city  of  Exeter,"  and  also  to  the  custos  and 
college  of  priest-vicars  the  rectory  of  Cornwood,  for- 
merly granted  to  maintain  the  obit  of  Edmund  Lacy 
the  bishop  in  the  cathedral  church  of  St.  Peter  at 
Exeter. 

In  conclusion  we  have  to  express  our  concern  at 
not  being  able  to  offer  further  information  of  a  prelate 
so  distinguished  in  his  generation.4  But  perhaps  of  a 
bishop  so  exemplary  in  discharging  the  duties  of  his 
office,  this  very  silence  on  the  part  of  political  con- 
temporaries may  be  the  best  commendation. 

AKMS  : — Azure,  three  Shoveller's  heads  erased  argent. 

GEORGE  NEVYLL. — On  the  death  of  Bishop  Lacy, 
John  Halse  Dean  of  Exeter  had  been  nominated  his 
successor  at  the  special  recommendation  of  King 
Henry  VI. ;  but  as  he  declined  the  proffered  dignity, 
Pope  Calixtus  III.  provided  George  Nevyll  to  the 
government  of  the  vacant  see.  He  was  the  youngest 
surviving  son  of  Richard  Nevyll  Earl  of  Salisbury 
(beheaded  at  York,  38th  Hen.  VI.),  by  Alice  his  wife, 
sole  daughter  and  heir  of  Thomas  Montacute  Earl  of 
Salisbury,  and  brother  of  the  celebrated  King-maker, 
Richard  Earl  of  Salisbury  and  Warwick  ;  and  received 
his  education  at  Balliol  College,  Oxford,  where,  on 
taking  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  in  October,  1452, 
the  sumptuous  entertainment  was  given,  recorded  by 

4  Sir  Nicholas  Harris  Nicolas  informs  I  1450  he  is  designated  by  his  badge  arid 
tis  that  in  a  satirical  poem  of  the  year  |  wheat-ear. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  105 

Wood,  its  historian  (lib.  i.  p.  219).  The  following 
year  witnessed  his  election  to  the  chancellorship  of  that 
university.  He  was  barely  in  his  twenty-fourth  year 
when  the  temporalities  of  Exeter  were  restored  to  him 
on  21st  March,  1456  (Rymer's  '  Fcedera,'  vol.  xi. 
p.  376).  His  Register  of  institutions  commences  with 
10th  April  that  year ;  for  the  primate  Thomas  Bour-1 
ehier,  his  cousin,  had  already  committed  to  him  the 
spiritualities ;  but,  notwithstanding  his  election,  confirma- 
tion, and  power  of  jurisdiction,  by  the  special  order 
of  the  Pope,  his  consecration  was  to  be  deferred  until 
he  should  enter  his  twenty-seventh  year  ;  and  it  was 
eventually  performed  on  25th  November,  1458.  In  the 
meanwhile  he  had  the  precaution  to  commit  the  admi- 
nistration of  the  diocese  to  experienced  theologians.  In 
March,  1459,  he  was  installed  in  his  episcopal  throne. 
His  Register  proves  that  he  conferred  holy  orders 
in  Crediton  Church  on  19th  May,  and  in  his  own 
cathedral  on  22nd  September  that  year  ;  that  early  in 
December  he  quitted  the  diocese  for  ever ;  and  that  on 
15th  of  that  month  he  had  arrived  at  Coventry  on  his 
route  to  London.  King  Henry  VI.,  on  25th  July, 
1460,  delivered  to  him  the  Great  Seal,  and  it  must  be 
admitted  that  he  disloyally  employed  the  commanding 
influence  of  his  station  against  his  too  confiding  sove- 
reign. For  this  treachery  he  may  have  considered  him- 
self recompensed  by  King  Edward  IV.,  who  reappointed 
him  to  the  chancellorship  on  5th  March,  1461,  and 
translated  him  to  the  archbishopric  of  York  in  1465. 
The  lavish  prodigality  of  his  installation  there  on  19th 
January,  1466,  may  be  seen  in  Godwin,  &c.  &c. 

The  course  of  restless  ambition  pursued  by  this  time^ 
serving  prelate,  his  fondness  for  intrigue  and  entangle- 
ment in  political  strife,  so  foreign  to  his  ecclesiastical 
profession,  involved  him  in  vexation,  disgrace,  and 
ruin  ;  thus  verifying  the  text,  "  Deceitful  men  shall  not 


106 


LIVES  OF  THE 


live  out  half  their  days."  On  8th  July,  1467,  the 
Great  Seal  was  abruptly  taken  from  him ;  his  revenues 
seized,  his  plate  confiscated,  his  mitre  converted  into  a 
crown,  and  his  jewels  divided  between  King  Edward  IY. 
and  the  Prince  of  Wales.  Committed  to  close  imprison- 
ment, partly  in  England  and  partly  at  G-uisnes,  at  the 
end  of  three  years  he  was  restored  to  liberty  ;  but  very 
shortly  after,  viz.  on  8th  June,  1476,  aged  44,  he  died 
of  a  broken  heart,  "  ex  angore  animi  interiit"  (Polydore 
Virgil's  <  History,5  p.  526). 

Yet  Lord  Campbell  offers  this  palliation  for  the 
unprincipled  Chancellor  (vol.  i.  p.  386,  'Lives,'  &c.). 
"  During  the  seven  years  he  held  the  Great  Seal  I  do 
not  find  any  charge  against  him  of  partiality  or  corrup- 
tion; and  his  sudden  changes  in  politics,  and  the 
violence  with  which  he  acted  against  his  opponents, 
must  be  considered  rather  as  characteristic  of  the  age 
in  which  he  lived,  than  bringing  any  great  reproach 
upon  his  personal  character"  ! 

AEMS  : — Gules,  a  Saltier  argent.  To  this  Westcote  adds,  "  A 
pile  of  three,  goboneted  argent  and  azure ;  his  mother's  coat, 
Argent,  three  Lozenges  in  fess  gules.  Yet  there  is  set  for  him, 
Gules,  three  Lozenges  in  fess  argent,  within  a  border  or." 

JOHN  BOTHE,  LL.D. — So  his  name  is  spelt  through- 
out his  Register.  He  was  the  member  of  a  family 
in  good  repute,  both  in  Cheshire  and  Lancashire,  and 
was  the  third  son  of  Sir  Robert  Bothe  of  Dunham  in 
Cheshire,  knight,  by  his  wife  Dulcia,  daughter  and 
coheir  of  Sir  Richard  Yenables,  knight.  Of  his  early 
life  and  education  few  details  are  recorded.  By  his 
uncle  William  Bothe,  Archbishop  of  York,5  he  was  col- 
lated to  a  stall  in  that  minster,^and  shortly  after  to  the 
archdeaconry  of  Richmond  ;  he  was  also  appointed  the 


5  William  Bothe,  Archbishop  of  York, 
was  the  son  of  John  Bothe,  of  Barton 
in  the  county  of  Lancaster  (by  Joane, 
his  first  wife,  daughter  of  Henry  Traf- 


ford),  and  half-brother  of  Laurence 
Bothe,  successively  Bishop  of  Durham 
and  Archbishop  of  York,  Chancellor  of 
England. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  107 

second  warden  of  the  Collegiate  Church  of  Manchester. 
On  the  translation  of  Nevyll  to  the  see  of  York,  King 
Edward  IY.  accepted  the  Papal  provision  of  Dr.  Bothe 
to  our  vacant  see,  and  restored  him  its  temporalities  on 
10th  June,  1465.  The  elect  and  confirmed  prelate, 
within  a  week  later,  appointed  his  dean,  Henry  Webber, 
to  administer  the  diocese  in  his  absence,  and  could  not 
have  made  a  better  choice.  On  7th  July  that  year, 
Archbishop  Bourchier  performed  the  ceremony  of  the 
episcopal  consecration ;  and  on  4th  February  following 
the  king  granted  him  a  special  pardon  for  all  offences 
during  the  tenure  of  his  office  of  warden  at  Manchester 
(Rymer's  '  Fcedera,'  vol.  xi.  p.  559). 

Business  prevented  his  visit  of  the  diocese  until 
February,  1467  ;  he  then  quitted  it  at  the  expiration  of 
two  years  for  London.  His  Eegister  shows  that  he 
had  returned  here  in  August,  1474,  and,  after  remain- 
ing five  months,  left  again  for  the  metropolis.  We 
meet  him  at  Bishop's  Clist  on  7th  March,  1476,  when 
he  passed  three  months  in  the  diocese.  This  we 
believe  was  his  last  visit. 

William  of  Worcester  asserts  that  King  Edward  IY. 
took  him  for  his  secretary :  his  family  had  been  noted 
for  zealous  attachment  to  the  house  of  Lancaster; 
perhaps  our  bishop,  conceiving  that  its  fortunes  were 
desperate,  satisfied  his  conscience  of  the  expediency  of 
serving  under  the  actual  reigning  dynasty,  for  the 
sake  of  public  peace  and  security.  Hoker,  in  his  '  MS* 
History,'  p.  319,  after  relating  his  respectable  descent, 
and  his  reputation  for  learning,  adds  that  "  he  was  well 
versed  in  the  laws  of  the  realm,  very  courteous  and 
affable  to  every  man,  good  to  the  poor,  and  liberal  in 
all  good  causes."  Whether  there  be  sufficient  grounds 
for  the  tradition  that  the  bishop  was  the  donor  of  our 
episcopal  throne  we  cannot  pronounce ;  but  it  is  evi- 
dently of  the  character  of  the  time.  ^  The  previous 


108  LIVES  OF  THE 

"  Cathedra  Episcopi "  was  of  stone,  as  we  collect  from 
the  fabric  roll  of  1328.  The  repeated  arms  of  Bothe 
in  the  vaulting  of  the  chapter-house  lead  us  to  think 
that  he  put  the  finishing  hand  to  this  beautiful  struc- 
ture, and  not  his  immediate  predecessor  Bishop  Nevyll 
in  transitu,  as  Leland  supposed  ('  Itin.'  vol.  iii.  p.  53).6 
On  quitting  the  diocese  in  the  summer  of  1476,  he 
repaired  to  his  favourite  residence  at  East  Horsleigh, 
a  manor  that  had  been  given  to  the  see  of  Exeter 
by  King  Henry  I.,  three  hundred  and  fifty  years  before. 
Dying  there,  he  was  buried  in  the  parochial  Church  of 
St.  Martin,  where  his  brass  effigy  represents  him  kneel- 
ing in  full  pontificals,  and,  what  is  unusual,  with  the 
chasuble  appearing  on  one  side  of  the  cope.  The  mitre 
and  crosier  are  of  superb  decoration ;  the  legend  is — 

Quisquis  eris  qui  transieris,  sta  :  perlege,  plora. 

Sum  quod  eris,  fueramque  quod  es.     Pro  me  precor,  ora. 

Hie  jacet  Johannes  Bowthe,  quondam  Exoniensis 
Episcopus,  qui  obiit  v°.  die  mensis  Aprilis,  A°. 
Dm  M°.CCCC°.LXXVIIIO. 

Weever,  in  his  *  Funeral  Monuments/  p.  444,  con- 
tends that  he  was  buried  at  St.  Clement  Danes',  London. 
The  maimed  epitaph  he  gives  commences  indeed  with 
Hie  jacet,  but  he  reads  primo  die  Aprilis,  which  unques- 
tionably is  incorrect.  His  brother  Sir  William  Bothe, 
knight,  who  died  6th  April,  1478,  was  buried  in 
St.  Clement  Danes.  In  a  deed  dated  2nd  September, 
1482,  under  the  seal  of  the  warden  and  canons  of 
St.  Mary's  College,  Ottery,  they  set  forth  that  Bishop 
Bothe,  late  Bishop  of  Exeter,  had  given  them  a  sum  of 
money  to  keep  his  obit — that  an  addition  had  been 
made  to  that  sum  by  John  Stubbes,  the  precentor  of 
Exeter,  and  Robert  Barfoth  Archdeacon  of  Barnstaple — 
that  they  had  invested  the  sum  total  in  the  purchase  of 

6  The  arms  of  Bothe  —  Argent  three  Boars'  heads  erased  erect  sable ;    in 
chief  a  label  of  three  points  gules. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 


109 


two  ferlings  of  land  in  Mettecombe,  within  the  parish 
of  Ottery,  to  meet  the  expenses  of  such  obit,  and  charge 
themselves  with  a  payment  of  ten  shillings  per  annum 
to  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Exeter,  if  they  fail^in  the 
fulfilment  of  this  obligation.  His  memory  was  also 
perpetuated  in  Exeter  Cathedral,  for  we  find  in  Queen 
Elizabeth's  regrant  to  its  church  on  5th  July,  1585,  an 
estate  in  the  parish  of  Crediton,  which  was  answerable 
for  the  expenses,  "  pro  manutentione  obitus  Johannis 
Bowthe,  quondam  Exoniensis  Episcopi." 

The  Register  of  our  prelate  commences  with  24th 
June,  1465,  but  has  not  been  so  carefully  conducted  as 
those  of  his  predecessors  ;  besides,  no  little  perplexity  is 
occasioned  to  its  peruser  by  the  transposition  of  the 
folios  through  the  ignorance  of  the  binder.  * 

PETER  COURTENAY  was  the  son,  not  the  second, 
according  to  Hoker,  but  perhaps  the  sixth,  of  Sir  Philip 
Courtenay,  of  Powderham,  knight,  by  his  wife  Eliza- 
beth,7 daughter  of  the  gallant  Walter  Lord  Hungerford, 
Knight  of  the  Garter.  After  pursuing  his  studies  with 
credit  at  Oxford,  he  proceeded  to  Padua,  then  regarded 
as  the  principal  seat  of  learning  in  Europe,  and  there 
obtained  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Canon  and  Civil  Law. 
Ecclesiastical  preferments  courted  him  on  his  return. 
On  30th  May,  1453,  he  was  admitted  to  the  family 
benefice  of  Moreton  Hampstead.  Nine  days  later  he 
was  collated  to  the  archdeaconry  of  Exeter,  which  he 
exchanged  on  7th  January,  1475,  with  Robert  Ayscough, 
for  the  canonry  and  prebend  of  Charminster  and  Beer 
Regis,  then  annexed  to  the  church  of  Sarum.  On 
7th  October,  1464,  he  was  also  collated  to  the  arch- 
deaconry of  Wilts.  In  the  course  of  1474  King 


7  She  must  have  survived  to  an  ad- 
vanced age.  On  the  death  of  her  hus- 
band, Sir  Philip  Courtenay,  16th  De- 
cember, 1463,  her  eldest  son,  William, 
was  found  to  be  35  years  old  and  more  ; 


and  we  find  him  the  holder  of  mes- 
suages and  lands  at  Wonewille  or 
Heavitree  in  the  22nd  year  of  King 
Edward  IV.,  1483. 


110 


LIVES  OF  THE 


Edward  IV.  appointed  him  his  secretary.  On  llth 
October,  1476,  was  installed  Dean  of  Windsor,  and 
was  also  appointed  master  of  St.  Anthony's  free  chapel 
and  hospital,  London,  which  King  Edward  IY.  had 
just  appropriated  to  the  Royal  Collegiate  Church  of 
Windsor.  On  27th  April,  1477,  was  promoted  to  the 
deanery  of  Exeter,  and  on  4th  December  the  same 
year  presented  to  the  valuable  living  of  Menhenniot  in 
Cornwall.8  Pope  Sixtus  IY.  provided  him  on  5th 
September,  1478,  to  the  vacant  see  of  Exeter ;  and  he 
is  the  first  instance  of  its  dean  mounting  to  its  pontifical 
chair.  King  Edward  IY.  restored  to  him  the  tem- 
poralities on  3rd  November  that  year,  and  on  Sunday 
8th  November,  1478,  he  was  consecrated  in  the  Royal 
Chapel  of  St.  Stephen's,  Westminster,9  by  Thomas 
Kempe  Bishop  of  London.  His  imperfect  register 
acquaints  us  with  his  residing  at  Bishop's  Clist  early  in 
the  ensuing  spring,  where  he  held  an  ordination  on 
7th  and  on  27th  March,  and  on  18th  December,  1479, 
and  again  there  on  18th  March  and  27th  May,  1480. 
It  appears  that  he  left  the  diocese  in  September  that 
year :  we  cannot  ascertain  the  precise  period  of  his 
return  ;  but  we  find  him  at  Bishop's  Clist  on  3rd  March, 
1482,  when  he  instituted  Dr.  Richard  Mayow  to  the 
vicarage  of  Branscombe,  and  in  the  summer  of  that 
year  he  was  in  Cornwall,  where  he  dedicated  St.  Agnes' 
Chapel  with  its  cemetery.  We  meet  him  in  Exeter 
on  1st  October,  1482,  and  we  suspect  that  he  was  here 
on  18th  October,  1483,  when  Henry  Earl  of  Richmond 
(afterwards  King  Henry  VII.)  was  proclaimed  the 


1 


8  Whilst  holding  Menhenniot,  King 
Edward  IV.  granted  the  license  of  ap- 
propriating it  to  the  rector  and  scholars 
of  Stapeldon  Hall,  or  Exeter  College, 
Oxford.  But  in  consequence  of  the 
death  of  Bishop  Bothe,  on  5th  April, 
1478,  it  was  necessary  to  obtain  the 
sanction  of  the  Primate,  Thomas  Bour- 
chior. 


9  He  was  actually  dean  of  this  chapel ; 
and  we  find  him  in  Waynflete's  '  Ke- 
gistcr,'  vol.  ii.  fol.  43,  presenting  on 
13th  February,  1476-7,  to  the  church  of 
Winchfeld  rectory,  "  ad  presentationem 
Petri  Courtenay,  Libere  Capelle  Regis 
Westmonasterii,  Decani  et  ejusdem  loci 
Capituli." 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  Ill 

rightful  sovereign.  It  may  be  thought  strange  that 
he  should  assist  at  the  splendid  coronation  of 
Eichard  III.  at  Westminster,  on  6th  July,  1483  ;  for 
he  knew  how  the  usurper  had  been  prevented  from 
gaining  possession  of  Ann  Duchess  of  Exeter,  a  great 
heiress  and  his  niece,  through  his  cautious  policy, 
and  therefore  he  was  marked  out  for  vengeance  by 
this  usurper.  Perhaps  he  could  not,  with  safety  to 
himself,  decline  being  officially  present ;  but  he  made 
his  escape  to  Bretagne  early  in  November.  He  had 
hardly  done  so,  when  the  tyrant  arrived  to  occupy  his 
palace,  which  he  found  abundantly  stored  with  provi- 
sions. In  the  sequel  Courtenay  made  himself  instru- 
mental in  establishing  Henry  on  the  throne  of  England, 
who,  in  gratitude  for  his  services,  had  him  translated  to 
the  see  of  Winchester.10  There  he  died,  according  to 
some  accounts  on  20th  December,  1491,  but  this  must 
be  incorrect,  for  he  authorised  his  suffragan,  Richard 
Bishop  of  Sidon,  to  hold  an  ordination  for  him  in  Win- 
chester Cathedral  on  26th  June,  1492.  In  fact  the 
last  act  in  his  Register  at  Winchester  is  dated  from  his 
palace  at  Wolvesey  16th  September,  1492,  "Anno 
translations  vi°."  It  is  probable  that  he  lived  till 
22nd  September  of  the  year  following  (see  '  Anglia 
Sacra,'  vol.  i.  p.  319)  ;  that  he  was  buried  not  at 
Powderham,  but  in  his  Cathedral,  appears  certain. 

Lord  Bacon,  in  his  iLife  of  King  Henry  VII.,' 
p.  16,  observes  that  "  His  Majesty  loved  to  employ  and 
advance  bishops,  because  the  wealthier  sees  carried  their 
reward  with  them  ;  yet  his  custom  was,  to  raise  them 
by  steps,  that  he  might  not  lose  the  profits  of  the  First 
Fruits,  which  by  such  gradation  were  multiplied."  In 
so  doing  His  Majesty  overlooked  the  ancient  canons, 

10  From  the  Kegisters  of  Archbishops  ;  and  that  the  monks  of  that  cathedral, 
Morton  and  Kempe  it  appears  that  Pope 

T J_      T71*     .1.  J/U  »~        "U,,11        «     .«^riJrt^l         l.i,,. 


Innocent  Eighth's  bull  provided  him 
to  Winchester  on  29th  January,  1487, 


unconscious  of  such  provision,  elected 
him  also  as  a  fit  successor  to  Bishop 
William  Waynflete. 


112  LIVES  OF  THE 

(especially  of  the  Council  of  Sardica,  347),  which  con- 
demned such  translations,  as  introductory  of  ambition 
and  covetousness  into  the  sanctuary.  Walter,  the 
bishop's  brother,  and  a  gallant  knight,  for  his  steady 
services  in  the  cause  of  King  Henry  VII.,  "tarn  in 
partibus  transmarinis  quam  in  regno  nostro  Anglie," 
was  rewarded  "  for  the  despoiling  and  pillaging  of 
his  goods  and  chattels  in  Devonshire,  by  John  Lord 
Scrope  of  Bolton,  and  other  of  his  affinite,  by  the 
grant  of  the  said  Lord  Scrope' s  manor  of  Nyssal 
in  Essex ;  the  manor  of  Feniton  in  Devon,  once 
the  property  of  Richard  Malherbe ;  a  property  in 
Exeter,  late  belonging  to  John  Atwill ;  the  manor 
of  Cory  ton  in  Devon ;  and  the  manors  of  Tencreek, 
in  the  parish  of  Creed,  and  Newton  in  St.  Hellion's, 
Cornwall,  late  the  property  of  John  Coryton."  Ac- 
cording to  Polydore  Yirgil,  p.  597,  Sir  Walter  Courte- 
nay  came  to  the  rescue  of  Exeter,  when  besieged 
by  Perkin  Warbeck  in  September,  1497. 

AEMS  : — Or,  three  Torteauxes,  in  chief  a  label  of  three  points 
azure,  each  point  charged  with  three  annulets  argent; 
Westcote  incorrectly  calls  them  plates. 

RICHARD  Fox. — To  this  chief  of  all  the  confidential 
friends  and  counsellors  of  King  Henry  YIL,  the 
temporalities  of  this  vacant  see  were  granted  on  2nd 
April,  1487,  and  he  was  consecrated  shortly  after 
(perhaps  at  Norwich,  on  8th  April,  by  Archbishop 
Morton)  ;  but  we  cannot  recover  the  date.  He  was 
the  son  of  Thomas  and  Helen  Fox  of  Ropesley  near 
Grantham,  and  by  his  natural  abilities,  cultivated  with 
indefatigable  industry  at  Magdalen  College,  Oxford, 
and  improved  by  acute  observation  of  men  and  manners, 
he  became  the  architect  of  his  fame  arid  fortune. 
Shortly  after  his  consecration  King  Henry  sent  him  as 
ambassador  to  the  court  of  Scotland,  where  he  nego- 
tiated the  marriage  of  Margaret,  his  sovereign's  eldest 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  113 

daughter,  with  James  IY.,  King  of  the  Scots — an  event 
which  in  the  progress  of  time  happily  united  the  two 
crowns  under  one  head,  and  has  even  consolidated  the 
two  kingdoms  under  one  empire.  Before  his  depar- 
ture, the  bishop  appointed  William  Sylke,  LL.D.,  a 
leading  dignitary  of  the  cathedral  of  Exeter,  to  be  his 
vicar  general.  The  letters  are  dated  from  Kenil worth 
31st  May,  1487.  From  his  Eegister  we  cannot  collect 
that  he  ever  visited  this  diocese ;  so  occupied  was  he 
with  embassies  abroad,  or  with  the  duties  of  Keeper 
of  the  Privy  Seal.  From  Sanford's  '  Genealogical  His- 
tory,' p.  449,  we  learn  that  King  Henry  VIII. ,  who 
was  born  at  Greenwich,  28th  June,  1491,  was  baptised 
in  the  parish  church  of  St.  Alphege  there  by  our 
bishop,  and  that  his  immediate  predecessor  in  this  see, 
Peter  Courtenay  Bishop  of  Winchester,  and  John  de 
Yere  Earl  of  Oxford,  stood  godfathers.  On  8th  Feb. 
1492,  he  was  translated  to  Bath  and  Wells,  and  the 
temporalities  of  that  see  were  restored  to  him  on  4th 
May  following :  two  years  later  Durham  had  the 
honour  of  receiving  him  for  her  bishop  ;  finally  he  was 
translated  to  Winchester  on  1st  October,  1501.  Hoker 
('MS.'  p.  336)  affirms  that  the  king  offered  him  the 
archbishopric  of  Canterbury,  which  he  declined,  and 
that  the  king  moreover  chose  him  to  be  godfather  to 
his  second  son  and  successor,  King  Henry  VIII.  This 
last-mentioned  sovereign,  on  30th  January,  1511,  at 
his  request,  confirmed  all  the  grants  of  his  royal  pre- 
decessors to  the  see  of  Winchester. 

This  highly-gifted  statesman  retained  the  office  of 
Lord  Keeper  of  the  Privy  Seal,  and  continued  to  nego- 
tiate treaties  until  the  infirmities  of  old  age  and  increas- 
ing weakness  of  sight,  which  terminated  in  total 
blindness,  compelled  him  to  retire  from  the  cabinet,  and 
induced  him  to  prepare  himself  for  eternity.  Yet  he 
strongly  and  successfully  exerted  his  influence  during 


114  LIVES  OF  THE 

the  summer  of  1523,  against  the  exorbitant  demand  of 
the  crown  of  fifty  per  cent,  on  the  yearly  income  of  all 
clerical  benefices.  Before  his  death,  which  took  place 
on  5th  October,  1528,  he  nobly  devoted  his  fortune  to 
the  founding  of  Corpus  Ohristi  College,  Oxford,  and 
grammar  schools  at  Grrantham  and  at  Taunton.  That 
he  was  hastily  buried  is  certain  ;  his  coffin  of  plain  oak- 
boards  was  fastened  with  pegs  of  wood.  And  when 
his  grave  was  opened  within  his  beautiful  chantry 
in  Winchester  Cathedral,  on  28th  January,  1820,  the 
following  memorandum  on  parchment,  inclosed  in  a 
leaden  box,  was  found  between  his  feet : — "  Quinto  die 
Octobris,  anno  Domini  millimo  quingentesimo  vicesimo 
octavo,  obiit  et  sepultus  est  Bichardus  Fox,  hujus 
Ecclesise  Epus,  qui  hanc  rexit  ecclesiam  septem  et 
viginti  annis  integre."  Harpsfield,  in  his  *  Hist.  Eccl. 
Angl.'  p.  644,  relates  that  the  venerable  prelate  lost 
his  sight  ten  years  before  his  death,  and  that  he  him- 
self, whilst  a  boy  in  Winchester  College,  recollects 
to  have  been  present  at  his  dirge  and  funeral.  Hoker, 
above  quoted,  pronounces  the  bishop  to  have  been 
"  such  a  man  for  wisdom,  knowledge,  learning,  and 
truth,  that  he  left  not  his  lyke  at  that  time  after  him." 
Indeed  it  would  require  a  volume  to  enumerate  his 
services  to  his  prince  and  country ;  and  the  considerate 
application  of  his  wealth  and  influence  to  perpetuate 
works  of  charity  and  to  diffuse  the  blessings  of  educa- 
tion, will  immortalise  his  memory. 

AKMS  : — Azure,  a  Pelican  in  her  nest  feeding  her  young  with 
her  blood,  or. 

OLIVER  KING,  a  native  of  London,  educated  at  Eton 
and  King's  College,  Cambridge.  He  is  described  in 
the  patents  of  1476  as  Master  of  Arts,  the  first  Licentiate 
of  Laws,  and  principal  secretary  to  King  Edward  IV., 
to  which  last  office  he  had  been  appointed  for  life. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  115 

When  Pope  Alexander  VI.  provided  him  on  1st 
October,  1492,  to  the  vacant  see  of  Exeter,  he  was  in 
possession  of  the  archdeaconry  of  Taunton  and  the 
deanery  of  Hereford.  He  was  consecrated  bishop  in 
the  course  of  the  ensuing  February,  perhaps  on  3rd,  at 
Lambeth,  by  Archbishop  Morton,  but  whether  he  ever 
saw  this  diocese  we  cannot  discover  from  his  Eegister. 
On  llth  March,  1494,  he  was  residing  at  Sheene, 
when  he  collated  Hugh  Oldam  (subsequently  Bishop  of 
Exeter)  to  the  canonry  and  prebend  of  this  cathedral, 
void  by  the  death  of  John  Paskewe.  On  6th  November, 
1495,  he  succeeded  Bishop  Fox  at  Bath  and  Veils. 
In  the  former  city  he  commenced  the  rebuilding  of  the 
abbey-church,  but  only  lived  to  see  the  west  end  and 
the  south  part  of  the  structure  in  an  advanced  state. 
From  its  lightsome  appearance  it  obtained  the  name 
of  "The  Lantern  of  England."  He  died  on  29th 
August,  1503,  and,  in  conformity  to  his  will,  was 
buried  on  the  north  side  of  the  choir  near  its  high 
altar. 

AKMS  : — Argent,  on  a  chevron  sable,  three  escalops  of  the  first. 

RICHARD  REDMAYNE,  of  a  respectable  family  at 
Levens  in  Westmoreland,  educated  at  Cambridge, 
entered  amongst  the  Norbertine  canons,  and  was 
chosen  abbot  of  Shap.  He  is  recorded  to  have  been 
consecrated  Bishop  of  St.  Asaph  about  the  middle  of 
the  year  1472,  and  to  have  expended  considerable  sums 
in  repairing  that  cathedral,  and  nearly  " rebuilding  it" 
according  to  Browne  Willis.  By  virtue  of  Pope 
Alexander  Sixth's  bull  dated  Rome  24th  September, 
1495,  he  was  thence  translated  to  Exeter,  and  its  tem- 
poralities were  restored  to  him  on  7th  January  follow- 
ing. That  he  devoted  himself  to  the  duties  of  a 
diocesan  is  evidenced  by  his  Register.  In  the  chapel 
of  St.  Michael,  within  his  manor-house  at  Chudleigh, 

i  2 


116 


LIVES  OF  THE 


he  held  an  ordination  on  23rd  September,  1497;  and 
three  others  within  the  chapel  of  St.  Mary,  in  his 
palace  at  Exeter :  viz.  31st  March,  13th  April,  and  9th 
June  of  the  following  year.  Removed  to  Ely  (in  which 
diocese  he  had  been  collated  to  benefices  in  early  life) 
on  26th  September,  1501,  his  career  of  usefulness  was 
equally  short,  for  he  died  at  his  palace  in  Holborn, 
London,  on  24th  August,  1505.  His  remains  were 
deposited  on  the  north  side  of  the  choir  of  Ely  Cathedral 
(<Angl.  Sac.'  vol.  i.  p.  675). 

ARMS  : — Three  Cushions — argent  according  to  Izacke,  ermine 
according  to  Westcote. 

JOHN  ARUNDELL,  third  son  of  Sir  Eainford  Arundell 
of  Lanhern,  near  St.  Columb  Major  in  Cornwall,  by  his 
wife  Jane,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Coleshull,  of  Trema- 
dart,  knight — a  family  once  so  powerful  as  to  be  de- 
signated by  Leland  ('  Itin.'  vol.  iii.  p.  3)  "  the  great 
Arundale  of  Lanherne."  He  received  his  education 
at  Exeter  College,  Oxford,  and  we  find  him  instituted 
on  22nd  March,  1474,  to  the  rectory  of  Duloe  in  his 
native  county  ;  shortly  afterwards  appointed  a  canon 
of  Windsor,  rector  of  Sutton  Courtenay,  prebendary 
of  York  and  Sarum,  elected  dean  of  Exeter  late  in 
1483,  consecrated  bishop  of  Lichfield  and  Coventry  on 
6th  November,  1496,  and  translated  to  the  government 
of  the  see  of  Exeter  on  29th  June,  1502.  The  import- 
ant office  of  registrar  he  committed  to  a  polite  scholar 
John  Sixtinus,1  a  Doctor  of  Laws  of  the  University  of 
Sienna ;  who,  in  the  prologue  to  the  '  Acts  '  of  his  epis- 
copacy, commends  his  patron  for  "  reflecting  honour  on 
his  ancient  and  illustrious  pedigree,  by  his  excellent 
learning  and  distinguished  virtues.  Every  day  his 
numerous  household  assembled  together  in  St.  Mary's 


1  The  will  of  this  LL.D.,  dated  24th 
March,  1518,  and  proved  7th  May,  1519, 
may  be  seen  in  the  '  Testamenta  Ve- 
tusta,'  vol.  ii.  p.  566.  He  was  buried 


in  St.  Paul's  Churchyard,  London. 
Amongst  other  legacies  he  left  151. 
towards  the  reparation  of  his  church  at 
Haccombe. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  117 

Chapel  within  Exeter  Palace,  where  the  service  was 
conducted  with  vocal  and  instrumental  music.  The 
most  cordial  hospitality  was  maintained ;  a  daily  distri- 
bution of  alms  took  place  at  the  palace  gate.  The 
bishop  was  anxious  to  reward  merit ;  and  all  his  chap- 
lains were  ready  to  witness  how  ready  he  was  to 
provide  in  the  church  for  their  future  comfort."  The 
tenor  of  his  life  was  distinctly  modelled  on  the  doctrine 
of  St.  Jerome  to  Nepotian,  "that  it  is  the  glory  of 
a  bishop  to  provide  for  the  wants  of  the  poor,  and  that 
it  is  a  disgrace  to  God's  priests  to  be  studious  of  accu- 
mulating riches."  In  the  Conventual  Church  of  St. 
German's,  Cornwall,  he  held  an  ordination  on  23rd 
September,  1503,  as  also  in  his  Manorial  Chapel  at 
Clist,  the  23rd  December  following.  Unfortunately 
for  his  diocese  this  exemplary  prelate  was  prematurely 
cut  off  by  a  short  illness  at  Exeter  House,  London, 
on  15th  March,  1504,  according  to  his  Register,  and 
was  buried  on  the  south  side  of  the  altar  of  St.  Clement's 
Church  adjoining.  He  had  purchased  two  messuages 
in  St.  Sidwell's,  which,  with  the  license  of  King  Henry 
.VII.,  he  appropriated  to  his  Dean  and  Chapter  to  keep 
up  his  obit  here.  One  was  called  "  The  Sign  of  the 
Ape ;"  the  other  was  immediately  contiguous.  At 
Wardour  Castle  is  a  good  portrait  of  the  prelate,  whilst 
Bishop  of  Lichfield  and  Coventry  in  1501. 

ARMS  : — Sable,  six — Martlets  according  to  Westcote ;  Swallows 
according  to  Izacke — three,  two,  and  one,  argent.  In  this 
Izacke,  and  not  Westcote,  is  correct. 

HUGH  OLDHAM,  a  native  of  Manchester,  or  its  imme- 
diate neighbourhood,  of  the  ancient  family  of  Oldham,  of 
Oldham  in  Lancashire,  studied  at  both  our  universities. 
Introduced  for  chaplain  to  Margaret  Beaufort  Countess 
of  Richmond  (mother  of  King  Henry  VII.),  perhaps  by 
her  third  husband,  Thomas  Earl  of  Derby,  he  soon  rose 
to  distinction  in  the  church  through  her  powerful 


118  LIVES  OF  THE 

interest.  His  resignation  of  the  living  of  Lanivet  in 
Cornwall  on  5th  July,  1493,  on  a  pension  of  twelve 
pounds,  to  be  deducted  from  the  income  of  his  successor 
John  Oby,  is  recorded  in  Bishop  King's  Register,  fol. 
166.  About  the  same  time  he  was  collated  by  that 
prelate  to  the  archdeaconry  of  Exeter,  and,  whilst  on  a 
visit  at  the  Royal  Manor  of  Shene,  obtained,  on  llth 
March  following,  the  canonry  and  -prebend  in  this 
cathedral,  void  by  the  death  of  John  Paskewe. 
Chaplain  to  his  noble  patroness  and  to  King  Henry  VII., 
he  assisted  on  24th  January,  1503,  at  the  laying  of  the 
first  stone  of  the  Royal  Chapel  in  Westminster  Abbey. 
Pope  Julius  II.,  by  his  bull  dated  Rome  27th  November, 
1504,  provided  him  to  the  see  of  Exeter,  void  by  the 
death  of  Bishop  Arundell,  and  the  temporalities  were 
restored  to  him  on  Epiphany-day  following,  but  we 
cannot  fix  the  precise  day  of  his  consecration.  His 
Register  commences  with  12th  January,  1505,  and 
is  fairly  kept.  In  September  of  that  year  he  reached 
his  diocese  and  commenced  its  visitation :  we  have 
before  us  a  copy  of  the  amended  statutes  of  his  cathedral, 
after  he  had  concluded  its  visitation  on  16th  June, 
1506.  With  the  license  of  his  sovereign,  dated  from 
Croydon  12th  January,  1509,2  he  appropriated  to  the 
priest- vicars  of  his  cathedral  the  chapel  of  Clist  Gabriel 
at  Sowton,  and  the  chapel  of  the  Holy  Ghost  at  War- 
lond  in  Totnes,  and  he  added  for  their  benefit  a  free 
gift  of  SQL  sterling,  which  they  gratefully  acknowledged 
on  8th  February  that  year.  In  the  '  Monasticon '  of 
the  diocese,  p.  92,  we  have  shown  his  promptitude  and 
success  in  opposing  the  encroachments  on  his  ordinary 
jurisdiction,  as  attempted  by  the  abbot  and  convent  of 
Tavistock.  But  what  entitles  him  to  the  highest 
praise  is  the  munificent  encouragement  he  extended  to 

2  King  Henry  VII.  died  shortly  after,  viz.  21st  April,  1509.    His  mother  sur- 
vived until  29th  June  that  year. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETEH.  119 

literature.  Towards  Corpus  Christ!  College,  the  founda- 
tion of  his  dear  friend  Richard  Fox  Bishop  of  Win- 
chester, he  contributed  the  large  sum  of  six  thousand 
marks  ('  Hist,  et  Antiq.  Oxon.,'  lib.  ii.  p.  2313),  and 
he  also  assigned  certain  lands  and  houses  in  Chelsea, 
which  he  had  purchased,  to  its  better  endowment.  At 
Manchester  he  erected  and  endowed  the  grammar- 
school  or  college  of  which  he  was  warden.  In  the 
catalogue  of  church  ornaments  belonging  to  Man- 
chester College,  we  read  of  "  a  cope,  a  chasuble,  and 
two  dalmatics  of  red  silk  shot  with  gold ;  the  chasuble 
having  images  of  the  blessed  Yirgin  Mary  and  other 
saints,  with  this  inscription  in  English, — '  Praye  for 
the  soul  off  Huogh  Oldham,'  and  the  cope  had  the 
same  inscription,  but  not  the  dalmatics." 

Hoker,  in  his  *  MS.  History'  (p.  337),  relates  the 
bishop's  punctuality  of  dining  at  eleven  o'clock  in  the 
morning,  and  of  supping  at  five  o'clock  in  the  afternoon, 
and  that  to  ensure  precision  he  had  a  house-clock  to 
strike  the  hours,  and  a  servant  to  look  after  it.  Should 
his  lordship  be  prevented  by  important  business  from 
coming  to  table  at  the  appointed  time,  the  servant 
would  delay  the  clock's  striking  the  hour  until  he 
knew  that  his  master  was  ready.  Sometimes,  if  asked 
what  was  the  hour,  he  would  humorously  answer, 
"  As  your  lordship  pleaseth,"  at  which  the  bishop 
would  smile  and  go  his  way. 

From  a  document  in  his  Register,  dated  30th  De- 
cember, 1513,  we  learn  that  he  had  then  completed 
St.  Saviour's  Chapel  in  his  cathedral  to  receive  his 
mortal  remains.  Finding  his  end  drawing  near,  he 
quitted  London  about  Easter  1519,  and,  after  passing 


3  His  effigy  is  preserved,  says  Carlisle 
('  Endowed  Grammar-schools,'  vol.  i. 
p.  672),  in  the  quadrangle  of  Corpus 
Christi  College.  There  was  formerly 
another  at  the  upper  end  of  the  school, 
which  in  Hollingworth's  time  was  newly 


painted  and  adorned,  but  was  pulled 
down  by  some  Parliamentary  soldiers, 
whose  rage  was  excited  by  his  episcopal 
habiliments.  See  there  the  feoffment 
deed  of  his  Grammar-school  at  Man- 
chester, dated  1st  April,  1524. 


120 


LIVES  OF  THE 


six  weeks  at  Bishop's  Clist,  removed  to  his  palace  in 
Exeter.  On  25th  June  he  instituted  Bernard  Travesse 
to  the  church  of  St.  Mary  Major,  Exeter ;  and  his 
Registrar  concludes  thus, — "  Ipsoque  eodem  die,  viz. 
xxv  die  mensis  Junii,  anno  Domini  millimo  quingen- 
tesimo  decimo  nono,  in  palatio  suo  Exon.,  Dominus  ab 
hac  luce  migravit.  Cujus  animae  propitietur  Deus, 
Amen."  His  will,  dated  16th  December,  1518,  was 
proved  16th  July,  1519.  The  bishop  had  a  brother 
Bernard,  who  was  collated  to  the  treasurership  of 
Exeter  Cathedral  on  5th  April,  1515,  but  who  died 
within  a  month  after  his  appointment. 

ARMS  : — Sable,  a  chevron  or,  between  three  Owls  proper ;  on 
a  chief  of  the  second,  three  Koses  gules. 

JOHN  VEYSY,  alias  HARMAN,  was  the  eldest  son  of 
William  Veysy,  or  Harman,  of  Sutton  Coldfield,  in  the 
county  of  Warwick,  Esquire,  by  his  wife  Joan,  daughter 
of  Henry  Squier,  of  Handsworth,  Staffordshire.4  Enter- 
ing Magdalene  College,  Oxford,  in  1482,  he  soon  rose 
to  distinction  by  his  assiduity  and  talents,  and  obtained 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Canon  and  Civil  Law.  The 
Bishop  of  Lichfield  and  Coventry,  John  Arundell,  an 


4  His  father  died  31st  May,  1470.  His 
mother  survived  till  8th  March,  1524. 
Both  were  interred  in  the  north  aisle  of 
Sutton  Coldfield  Church.  The  bishop's 
only  brother,  Hugh,  married  twice  :  first 
Ann,  daughter  of  Humphry  Golson. 
She  left  him  at  her  death  two  daugh- 
ters, Jocasa  and  Elizabeth.  Secondly, 
he  married  Jocasa,  daughter  of  William 
Kugely  of  Dunston,  by  whom  he  had 
two  sons,  John  and  William,  and  four 
daughters,  Jane,  Eleanor,  Margaret,  and 
Dorothy.  The  bishop's  sister,  Amicia, 
married  John  Leveson,  the  father  of 
William  Leveson,  who  was  Chancellor 
of  Exeter  for  nearly  half  a  century. 

The  bishop's  other  sister,  Amelia, 
married  William  Gibbons  ;  and  their  son 
John  had  previously  been  Chancellor 
of  Exeter  for  fifteen  years,  and  died 
late  in  1537.  Henry  Squier,  connected 
with  the  bishop  by  his  mother's  side, 
was  collated  to  the  archdeaconry  of 


Barnstaple  on  20th  April,  1554. 

In  a  lease  dated  1st  May,  1597,  we 
find  that  Ann,  relict  of  Henry  Brydges 
of  Tangly  in  the  county  of  Oxford,  and 
then  the  wife  of  William  Harman, 
Esquire,  had  a  life-interest  in  some  pro- 
perty in  the  parish  of  Chudleigh.  Was 
this  William  nephew  to  the  bishop  ? 

We  have  also  met  with  the  will  of 
William  Vesey  of  Exeter  (de  roba 
[livery]  Johannis  Vesey,  Exon.  Episcopi 
atque  Apparitoris  generalis  ejusdem 
Episcopi),  made  1st  January,  1544-5, 
who  left  by  his  wife  Agnes  two  sons, 
John  and  Hugh,  and  a  daughter,  Agnes. 
He  had  a  term  in  a  farm  in  Cheriton 
Episcopi,  and  must  have  died  in  easy 
circumstances.  To  his  friend  Dr.  Brew- 
ward,  the  Archdeacon  of  Barnstaple, 
and  overseer  of  his  will,  he  leaves  "  my 
best  gold  ring  that  hath  my  seale  in 
the  same." 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 


121 


excellent  judge  of  merit,  made  him  his  chancellor,  and 
instituted  him  to  the  rectory  of  St.  Mary's  Church, 
Chester.  On  the  translation  of  that  prelate  to  Exeter, 
his  lordship  collated  him  to  a  canonry  in  this  cathedral 
on  5th  August,  1503  ;  shortly  after,  he  was  made  Arch- 
deacon of  Barnstaple  and  Precentor  of  Exeter.  Salis- 
bury also  ranked  him  amongst  her  prebendaries.  On 
19th  November,  1509,  he  was  confirmed  Dean  of 
Exeter,  and  nearly  at  the  same  time  was  put  in  posses- 
sion of  the  deaneries  of  Windsor  and  of  Wolver- 
hampton.  By  Pope  Leo  X.'s  provision,  bearing 
date  31st  August,  1519,  he  was  advanced  to  the  see  of 
Exeter,  and  on  4th  November  King  Henry  VIII. 
restored  to  him  its  temporalities.  Two  days  later  the 
consecration  ceremony  was  performed  at  Otford  by  the 
primate  Wareham.  Yeysy  must  then  have  passed  his 
fiftieth  year.  King  Henry  VIII.  was  so  charmed  with 
his  accomplished  manners  and  his  talents  for  business 
that  he  appointed  him  president  of  the  Council  of  the 
Marches  of  Wales,  and  eventually  confided  to  him  the 
tutorship  of  his  daughter  the  Princess  Mary,  "  a  charge 
which  he  carefully  performed,"  says  Heylyn  ('  History 
of  Queen  Mary,'  p.  10).  But  the  historian  labours 
under  a  mistake  in  supposing  that  "  for  his  good  per- 
formance in  that  place  of  trust,  this  grave  man  was 
advanced  to  the  see  of  Exeter  in  1529  ;"  for  he  had 
been  bishop  ten  years  before  the  date  assigned  by 
Heylyn,  when  the  princess,  born  on  8th  February, 
1515,  was  but  four  years  old.5 

During  the  winter  of  1519  Bishop  Veysy  made  the 
visitation  of  his  diocese :  we  meet  him  at  Bodmin  on 
24th  February,  1520  ;  a  month  later  he  held  an  ordina- 
tion in  his  cathedral ;  and  another  also  in  St.  Michael's 


5  Miss  Strickland  has  fallen  into  the 
same  mistake  in  the  Life  of  Queen  Mary, 
when  she  asserts  that  Veysy  was  re- 


warded with  the  bishopric   of  -Exeter 
for  assisting  Mary  in   her   studies  at 

Hunsdon. 


122 


LIVES  OF  THE 


Chapel  at  Chudleigh  on  Easter  eve,  7th  April  that 
year.  In  the  early  part  of  his  episcopate,  he  spent 
a  portion  of  every  year  in  his  diocese,  but  at  a  later 
period  his  absences  were  long  and  frequent,  and  its 
management  was  left  to  grand  vicars  and  coadjutor 
bishops.6  On  30th  March,  1533,  his  lordship  officiated 
with  the  Bishops  of  Lincoln  and  St.  Asaph  at  the  con- 
secration of  the  primate  Thomas  Cranmer.  It  cannot 
be  denied  that  our  obsequious  prelate  went  all  the 
lengths  of  King  Henry  VIII.,  in  the  affair  of  the 
divorce  of  Queen  Katharine,  of  the  supremacy,  and  the 
dissolution  of  monasteries.  In  truth  he  was  a  perfect 
courtier — a  character  unsuitable  to  that  of  a  Christian 
bishop :  it  restrained  him  from  being  honest  in  bad 
times,  and  from  displaying  the  disinterested  zeal  and 
courage  which  became  his  age  and  elevated  station ; 
and  he  must  have  felt  humiliated  when  the  king,  as 
the  fountainhead  of  all  spiritual  power,  commissioned 
Thomas  Crumwell,  on  24th  November,  1535,  to  exer- 
cise it,  as  His  Majesty's  vicegerent  in  this  diocese,  and 
indeed  in  every  diocese  within  the  realm. 

Hoker,  Godwin,  Eichard  Carew,  Westcote,  and 
Heylyn  (<  History  of  King  Edward  VI.,'  p.  100),  with 
a  herd  of  subsequent  writers,  vilify  the  bishop's  memory, 
charging  him  with  the  utter  ruin  and  spoliation  of  his 
church.  Yet  it  is  but  truth  to  declare,  that  he  alienated 
no  possessions  of  his  see,  without  the  express  command 


6  Hoker  relates  that  Thomas  Bennet 
(vere  Dusgate\  a  Master  of  Arts  of 
Cambridge,  was  executed  at  Livery 
Dole  for  heresy  in  January,  1531 — that, 
after  teaching  a  school  at  Torrington, 
he  removed  to  this  city  and  continued 
the  same  office,  and  was  at  length  ar- 
rested in  the  Butchers'  Row.  It  is  said 
that,  frequenting  the  sermons  at  the 
Cathedral,  he  was  so  dissatisfied  with 
the  Catholic  doctrines  there  delivered, 
that  he  was  in  the  habit,  Sunday  after 
Sunday,  of  sticking  bills  on  the  doors  in 
confutation  of  them ;  and  that,  being  de- 


tected and  arraigned,  he  was  condemned 
by  the  bishop.  We  have  suspicion  of 
the  fact.  Hoker  at  the  time  must  have 
been  but  an  infant.  No  mention  is  made 
in  the  bishop's  "  Acts  "  of  any  such  trial ; 
and  as  to  the  idea  that  the  almshouses 
th^ere  were  founded  by  Sir  Thomas 
Dennis  as  an  atonement  for  presiding 
at  such  executions,  as  high  sheriff,  that 
must  be  incorrect,  for  they  were  not 
commenced  until  sixty  years  later  than 
the  supposed  execution,  and  full  thirty 
years  after  Sir  Thomas's  death. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 


123 


and  requisition  of  the  sovereign,  under  the  Privy  Seal. 
On  29th  June,  1548,  he  had  to  grant  the  manors  of 
Crediton  and  Morchard  Bishop  to  Sir  Thomas  Darcy, 
afterwards  Lord  Darcy,  but  reserved  a  rent-charge 
of  40 /.  per  annum ;  and  that  annuity  continued  to  be 
paid  to  the  bishops  of  Exeter  by  the  family  until  1640. 
In  the  Appendix  we  shall  print  some  original  letters, 
which  may  serve  to  extenuate  the  culpability  of  this 
timid  guardian  of  Church  property.  Probably,  if 
he  and  his  chapter  had  been  restive,  and  had  refused 
to  sacrifice  a  portion  to  the  royal  demands,  the  whole 
would  have  been  snatched  from  them.  All  the  bishops 
were  compelled  to  submit  to  the  rapacity  of  the  court 
and  of  its  harpies.  Cranmer  and  Ridley  were  in 
high  favour ;  yet  the  former  was  required  to  sur- 
render the  better  half  of  the  possessions  of  his  archi- 
episcopal  see,  and  the  latter  to  sacrifice  four  of  his 
principal  manors  in  a  single  day.7  One  important 
regulation  took  place  in  consequence  of  the  dissolution 
of  monasteries.  Hitherto  those  establishments  served 
for  the  archives  and  depositories  of  the  births,  marriages, 
and  deaths  of  the  members  of  families.  To  prevent 
confusion,  and  to  perpetuate  the  remembrance  of  events 
so  important  to  the  public  interest  and  benefit,  the 
king's  proclamation  was  issued  for  every  beneficed 
clergyman  to  keep  a  book  or  register  to  be  provided  by 
his  parishioners,  to  enter  the  day  and  year  of  every 
wedding,  christening,  and  burying  in  the  parish ;  that 
a  coffer  with  two  locks  and  keys  were  to  remain,  one 
of  the  keys  with  the  incumbent,  the  other  with  the 
churchwarden-,  that  the  book  was  to  be  produced 


7  Neither  the  property  of  the  Church, 
nor  the  estate  of  any  individual  or 
family,  could  be  secure  if  coveted  by 
the  crown  or  any  court  minion.  See 
Lysons's  '  Environs  of  London,'  article 
Stanwell  Manor,  the  ancient  seat  of  the 
Lords  Windsor,  vol.  v.  p.  251.  In  too 


many  of  the  transactions  of  this  melan- 
choly period  we  are  reminded  of  Ahab's 
conduct  to  Naboth  (1  Kings,  ch.  xxi.) ; 
and  in  most  instances  the  saying  was 
verified,  "  The  treasures  of  wickedness 
shall  profit  nothing  "  (Prov.  x.  2). 


124  LIVES  OF  THE 

every  Sunday,  and,  in  the  presence  of  the  church- 
wardens, record  to  be  made  therein  of  all  the  weddings, 
christenings,  and  buryings  of  the  preceding  week ; 
and  for  every  failure  of  so  doing,  a  penalty  of  three 
shillings  and  fourpence  to  be  incurred,  to  be  employed 
for  the  reparation  of  the  church.  The  Bishop  received 
this  royal  order  at  Clist  on  14th  October,  1538,  and 
inserted  it  in  his  *  Register,'  vol.  ii.  fol.  77  b. 

On  14th  August,  1551,  Bishop  Veysy  was  peremp- 
torily enjoined  by  the  privy  council  to  surrender  his 
see  into  the  hands  of  his  juvenile  sovereign.  He  sub- 
mitted "  pre  corporis  metu,"  as  the  patent  of  the  '  First 
of  Queen  Mary/  p.  2,  distinctly  states.  The  income  of 
the  see  had  been  rated  in  1535  at  1566/.  145.  6jd.  The 
deprived  bishop  was  to  be  allowed  a  net  pension  of 
48  5£.  9s.  3d.  Retiring  to  his  native  place,  he  spent  his 
income  in  works  of  charity  ;  he  rebuilt  the  aisles  of  the 
parish  church  of  Sutton  Coldfield,  and  added  to  its 
ornaments ;  erected  a  market-place  there,  paved  the 
town,  re-edified  the  street,  defrayed  the  cost  of  two 
stone  bridges,  gave  a  meadow  for  the  benefit  of  poor 
widows,  founded  a  grammar-school,  the  rental  of  whose 
endowment  is  now  valued  at  470/.  a  year,  and  he  intro- 
duced the  manufacture  of  "  Devonshire  kersies." 

King  Edward  VI.  dying  on  6th  July,  1553,  no 
sooner  was  his  sister  Mary  settled  on  the  throne,  than 
she  restored,  on  3rd  September  that  year,  the  nona- 
genarian prelate  to  his  see.  On  13th  November  that 
year  we  meet  him  at  his  palace  here,  where  he  re- 
mained nearly  two  months  arranging  the  affairs  of  the 
diocese.  The  Eegister  of  his  probate  of  wills  com- 
mences with  21st  November,  1553.  By  28th  January, 
1554,  he  had  returned  to  Sutton  Coldfield,  where  he 
continued  till  his  death,  as  I  imagine  at  the  age  of  92. 
His  Registrar  thus  concludes  his  acts: — "  Vicesimo 
tertio  die  Octobris,  anno  Domini  MDLIV,  in  manerio 

'    MICHAEL'S 
COLLEGE 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  125 

suo  de  More  Place,  infra  Parochiam  de  Sutton  Coll- 
fyld,  in  Com.  Warwick,  Dominus  ab  hac  luce  migravit. , 
Cujus  animse  propitietur  Deus,  Amen."  His  tomb  is 
still  to  be  seen  in  tbe  nortb  aisle  of  tbe  parish  church, 
and  is  engraved  in  Dugdale's  '  History  of  Warwickshire.' 
During  tbe  sbort  interval  between  his  restoration  and 
death,  his  suffragan,  William  Collumpton  Bishop  of 
Hippo,  the  last  prior  of  St.  Nicholas,  Exeter,  and  who 
had  been  a  residentiary  canon  of  the  cathedral  since  the 
2nd  May,  1534,  held  several  ordinations  for  him. 

Connected  with  the  church  of  Exeter  for  upwards  of 
fifty  years  as  canon,  archdeacon  of  Barnstaple,  pre- 
centor, dean,  and  bishop,  no  one  was  better  qualified 
than  Veysy  to  give  an  improved  synopsis  of  its  statutes. 
A  copy  will  be  inserted  in  our  Appendix. 

In  his  'Kegister,'  vol.  i.  fol.  10,  we  find  our  bishop 
on  llth  November,  1521,  at  his  manor  of  Old  Windsor. 
Was  this  his  private  property  ? 

AKMS: — Argent,  a  Cross  sable  charged  with  a  Buck's  head 
couped  between  four  Doves  argent ;  on  a  chief  azure,  a 
Cross — fleury  according  to  Westcote,  crosslet  according  to 
Izacke — between  two  roses  or. 


LITEEE  REGI^:,  ex  REGISTRO  JOHANNIS  VESTCY  Exon  Episcopi.8 

[Die  Veneris,  videlicet  xixma.  die  Decembris,  per  Magistrum  Henricum  Morgan 
receptum  Breve  sub  rioctem  ad  demolienda  altaria.] 

To  the  Eight  Keverend  Father  in  God  our  right  trustie 
and  welbelovid  the  Bishop  of  Exceter. 

Bight  Keverend  father  yn  God  right  trustie  and  welbelovid 
we  grete  you  welle  and  where  yt  ys  comme  unto  our  knowledge 
that  beinge  the  aultors  within  the  more  parte  of  the  churches  of 
this  our  realme  alredy  upon  good  and  godly  consideracions 
taken  downe,  there  dothe  yet  remain  aulters  yn  divers  other 
churches  by  occasyon  where  of  moche  variance  and  contention 
arrisithe  amongs  sondre  of  our  subjects  which  if  good  foresight 
were  not  had  might  perchaunce  engender  great  hurte  &  inconve- 
nience, we  late  you  wytt  that  myndinge  to  have  all  occasyons  of 

8  Vol.  ii.  fols.  1196,  121,  and  122, 


126  LIVES  OF  THE 

contention  taken  awaye  which  many  tymes  growe  by  those  and 
suche  like  diversities  and  consyderynge  that  amongst  other 
things  belonging  to  our  royal  oflyce  and  cure  we  do  accompt 
the  grettest  to  be  to  maynetayne  the  common  quyet  of  our 
reallme  we  have  thought  good  by  the  advise  of  our  Consayle  to 
requyre  you  and  neverthelesse  specially  to  charge  and  com- 
mande  you  for  the  advoydinge  of  all  matters  of  ferther  contencion 
and  stryff  about  the  standinge  or  takynge  awaye  of  the  said 
aulters  to  gyff  substancyall  orders  throughout  all  your  diocese 
that  with  all  dylygence  all  the  aulters  yn  every  churche  or 
chapell  as  welle  yn  places  exemptyd  as  not  exemptid  within  your 
said  diocese  be  taken  downe  and  yn  lyeu  of  them  a  table  sett  up 
in  some  cenvenyent  part  of  the  chaunsell  within  any  suche 
churche  or  chapell  to  serve  for  the  administracion  of  the  blessid 
Colon.  And  to  th'intent  the  same  maye  be  donne  without  th'offence 
of  suche  of  our  lovinge  subjects  as  be  not  yet  so  welle  persuadyd 
yn  that  behalf  as  we  wolde  wishe  we  sende  unto  you  herewith 
certayne  considerations  gatteride  and  collectide  that  make  for 
the  purpose  the  which  as  suche  as  you  shalle  think  myet  before 
the  takinge  downe  of  the  saide  aulters  so  as  bothe  the  weke 
conscience  of  others  maye  be  instructide  as  satisfiede  as  moche 
as  maye  be  and  this  our  plesure  the  more  quyetly  executide. 
For  the  better  doynge  where  of  we  requyre  you  to  open  the 
forsaide  consideracions  yn  that  your  cathedrall  churche  yn  your 
awne  person  yf  that  you  conveniently  maie  or  otherwise  by  your 
chauncelor  or  some  other  grave  prechar,  bothe  there  and  yn 
suche  other  merkett  towens  and  most  notable  places  of  your 
diocese  as  you  maye  thinke  moste  requisite.  Yeven  under  our 
signet  at  our  Palace  at  Westminster  the  xxiij  of  November  yn 
the  iiij  yer  of  our  raigne. 

E.  SOMERSET,  T.  CANT,  W.  WILTE, 
J.  WAEWYKE,  J.  BEDFORD,  W.  NORTH, 
E.  CLYNTON,  E.  WENTWORTH,  T.  DARCY. 


[16°  die  mensis  Mail,  anno  Domini  1551,  Magister  Blaxton  recepit  apud  Exon, 
Literas  sequentes.] 

Eight  Eeverend  Father  yn  God  right  trustie  and  welbelovide 
we  grete  you  welle.  And  where  as  yt  ys  come  to  our  knowledge 
that  there  be  diverse  lewide  and  »sedicious  persons  yn  certain 
partes  of  our  realme  that  practise  and  devise  the  means  to 
styreupe  unlefulle  assembles  and  comotions  to  the  trubble  and 
unquiett  of  us  and  our  lovynge  subjects  forasmoche  as  we 
intende  to  mete  with  the  saide  practises  yn  tyme  we  have 
thought  good  amongs  other  things  that  we  have  set  forthe  the 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  127 

purpose  to  addrese  unto  yo,  as  we  have  donne  the  like  to  all  other 
prelatts  of  our  realme  for  the  conteyning  of  our  subjects  yn 
quyet  and  good  order  and  the  suppression  of  rebellion  yf  at  anye 
tyme  anye  shulde  happen  to  be  practyside  or  begonne  within 
our  realme.  Wherefore  we  requyre  and  straytly  charge  to  gyve 
substanciall  order  through  owt  all  your  diocese  that  within  every 
parishe  churche  within  the  same,  the  sayde  act  may  be  openly 
and  distinctly  red  by  the  parson  or  curat  of  the  parochians  every 
Sondaye  or  seconde  Sondaye  at  the  leste,  at  such  tyme  in  the 
morninge  as  th'assemble  of  the  saide  parochians  ys  most  frequent 
to  th'ende  they  may  be  from  tyme  to  tyme  admonishide  of  there 
dewties  and  of  the  perell  that  shalle  ensewe  to  them  that  shalle 
devise  or  attempt  any  thinge  contrary  to  the  said  Act.  And 
like  as  we  yn  this  perellous  tyme  thought  yt  necessarye  for  the 
preservacion  of  the  common  quiett  of  our  realme  to  address  to 
you  and  the  reste  of  our  prelatts  these  our  Letters  with  the  said 
Act  so  our  speciall  truste  ys  that  ye  for  your  parte  wille  se  the 
same  effectually  donne  and  executide  through  your  diocese  so 
dewly  with  suche  regarde  and  care  as  th'emportance  of  the  case 
requirithe.  Where  of  fayle  ye  not  as  ye  tendre  our  plesure  and 
wille  advoyde  our  indignacion.  Yeven  under  our  signett  at  our 
manor  of  Grenewyche,  the  sixt  of  May,  the  fyve  eyre  of  our 
rainge. 

E.  SOMERSET,  T.  CANT,  E.  EYCHE, 
E.  CLYNTON,  T.  ELY,  J.  WYNGFELD. 

Cane.  W.  WYLTSHB,  J.  WARWIKE. 


[Item  xxiiij0.  Julii,  anno  Domini  155  L,  Magister  Blaxton  recepit  apud  Exon. 
Literas  sequentes.] 

To  the  Eight  Eeverend  Father  yn  God  our  right  trustie  and 
welbelovide  the  Bishop  of  Excetter,  and  yn  his  absens  to  his 
Chancelor. 

Eight  Eeverend  Father  in  God  right  trustie  &  welbelovide 
we  grete  you  welle  and  beinge  not  a  litell  disqietide  to  see  the 
subjects  of  this  our  realme  vexide  with  the  extreme  and 
suddaine  plage  that  daily  encreasithe  over  all  we  cannott  but 
lament  the  peoples  wickednes  throught  the  which  the  wrathe  of 
God  hathe  bene  thus  marvelously  provokyd  for  the  more  we 
studie  for  to  instructe  them  in  the  knowledge  of  God  and  his 
most  holy  worde  that  consequently  they  might  followe  and 
observe  his  lawes  and  presepts  so  moche  the  more  busie  is  the* 
wickide  sprite  to  alienate  there  harts  from  all  godlines,  and  his 
malice  hathe  so  moche  prevailide  that  becawse  the  people  as 
become  as  it  were  open  rebells  againste  the  divine  majestie  God 
after  one  plage  hathe  sent  an  other  and  an  other  encreasynge  it 
so  from  one  to  one  tyll  at  lengtht  seeinge  non  other  remedie  he 


128  LIVES  OF  THE 

hath  throne  forthe  this  most  extreme  plage  of  sodaine  deathe, 
and  because  there  is  none  other  waie  to  pacify  his  furie  and  to 
recover  his  grace  and  mercie  but  by  prayer  and  amendement  of 
lyf  considering  the  cure  and  charge  comyttide  unto  you  we  have 
thought  goode  to  call  upon  you  to  use  all  diligence  possible 
throught  out  your  hole  dyowse  as  well  by  your  self  as  by  your 
good  ministres  to  persuade  the  people  to  resorte  more  unto 
the  common  prayer  then  they  have  donne  and  there  not  onlie  to 
praye  with  all  there  harts  in  the  feare  of  God  as  good  and 
faythefull  men  shuld  do  but  also  to  have  a  better  regarde  unto 
there  levings  and  specially  to  refraine  there  greedie  appetid  from 
that  insaciable  serpent  of  covetuosnes  where  with  most  men  'are 
so  infectide  that  it  semethe  eche  one  wolde  devoure  an  other 
without  cherite  or  any  other  godly  respect  to  the  poor  to  there 
neighbours  or  to  there  commen  wealthe.  For  the  wiche  hathe  not 
only  powred  out  this  plage  that  after  this  liffe  shall  plage  them 
everlastingly,  where  yn  you  muste  use  those  persuations  that 
may  engender  a  terror  to  reduce  them  from  their  corrupt 
noughtines  and  detestable  vices.  But  yn  the  bodie  and  membres 
of  a  dull  or  a  sicke  hed  can  not  be  lustie  or  apt  to  do  well  so  in 
manie  cures  of  this  our  realme  as  well  the  chief  as  the  par- 
ticular ministre  of  the  churche  have  byne  bothe  so  dulle  and  so 
feble  in  discharginge  of  their  duties  that  it  is  no  marvaile 
thought  their  flock  wander  not  knowinge  the  voyce  of  their 
shepard  and  moche  lesse  the  voyce  of  their  principall  and 
soveraigne  Master.  We  trust  ye  are  none  of  those  but  if  ther 
have  ben  suche  negligence  within  your  jurisdiction  we  exort  and 
pray  you  &  nevertheless  charge  and  command  by  the  aucthorite 
geven  us  of  God  to  se  it  reformid,  encreasinge  also  amendment 
in  that  that  alredy  is  welle  begonne  in  suche  sorte  that  your 
diligence  maie  declare  you  worthie  of  your  vocation  and  th'effects 
there  of  yelde  unto  God  an  obedient  faythefull  &  fearfull  flock 
which  we  wishe  to  God  we  maye  shortly  see.  Yeven  under  our 
signett  at  our  Honor  of  Hampton  Court  the  xviij  of  July  the 
first  yere  of  our  reinge. 

E.  SOMERSET,  W.  WYLTSHE,  J.  BEDFORD, 

H.  SHREWESBURY,  H.  HUNTYNGDON,  T.  DARCY, 

G.  COBHAM,  T.  CHEYNE,  JOHN  GALE. 


LETTERS  of  LORD  JOHN  RUSSELL  to  BISHOP  YESEY  and  the  CHAPTER. 

To  my  veraie  good  Lorde  my  Lorde  the  Busshopp  of  Excestre 
his  good  Lordshipp. 

My  veraie  good  lord  aftre  my  most  hertie  commendacons 
unto  yor  good  lordshippe  I  understond  the  same  is  patrone  of  a 
certen  collaige  nere  to  the  citie  of  Chichestre  called  Bosham. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  129 

In  wicho  collaige  there  be  diverse  prebends  of  yor  collacion  and 
gift,  amongs  whome  one  is  called  the  prebende  of  Apledrara 
being  in  valor  about  viij"  by  yere.  Of  wiche  prebende  one 
Mr.  Marfar  stuarde  of  housholde  to  my  lord  Archbushopp  of 
York  is  incumbent  by  the  resignacon  of  Mr.  Bedle  late  pre- 
bendarie  thereof.  And  my  good  lord  being  instantlie  required 
by  one  that  is  my  verie  loving  frend  named  Mr.  Burne  servaunte 
and  secretaire  to  my  veray  good  lord  my  Lord  Pvee  Seale 
whose  lordships  chief  mansion  stondthe  wtin  vj  myles  of  the  said 
prebend,  I  have  thought  good  to  beseech  yor  good  lordshipp 
at  contemplacon  herof  to  graunte  to  me  and  my  sonne  Ffrauncs 
and  the  said  Mr.  Burne  jointelie  and  seveallie  an  advowson 
of  the  said  prebende  of  Appledram  undre  yor  lordships  seale  and 
the  seale  also  of  yor  chapitre  entending  to  beestowe  the  same 
whan  it  fallethe  upon  one  Mr.  Gilbert  Burne  who  is  a  man 
singlerlie  lerned  and  of  good  opinnon.  And  this  bearer  shall 
content  and  pay  all  the  chargs  of  the  said  seales.  And  yor 
lordshipp  dooeng  me  herin  a  singler  pleasuer  besides  that  ye 
shall  have  me  readie  to  reacquite  the  same  withe  the  semlable 
occasion  given  your  lordshipp  shall  also  find  an  honest  well  lerned 
man  to  bee  yor  oratr.  As  th'olie  Trinity  knowethe  who  have  you 
in  keping  and  send  the  same  long  lief  and  good  healthe.  From 
London  the  vjth  of  June. 

Yor  good  lordships  owne  assured, 

J.  RUSSELL. 


To  the  right  woshipfulles  and  my  very  lovinge  friends  the 
Deane  and  the  rest  of  the  Chapiter  of  the  Cathedrall  Churche 
of  Exceter  yeove  thies. 

Eight  worshipfulles  after  my  veary  herty  recommendacons 
wt  lyk  desires  of  your  healthes.  Whereas  my  very  good  lord 
the  Busshop  of  Exceter  hath  upon  my  herty  request  and  sondry 
consideracons  moving  him  therunto  graunted  to  me  xxx  yeres 
more  in  the  manoures  of  Cliste  and  Tawton  wich  I  have  of  him 
by  lease  (as  yo  know)  above  those  yeres  before  expressed  in 
th'olde  indentures  drawn  for  that  behalf  betwyn  us :  thees  ar 
even  most  hertely  to  reqwyre  yo  and  every  of  yo  wt  lyke 
gentilnes  and  gratuytie  to  ratefie  and  confirm  his  seyd  graunt 
by  yor  chapyter  seale,  as  heretofore  yo  have  used  when  first 
I  took  the  same  by  lease  ffurther  beseeching  yo  that  wheare  of 
yo  most  benevolent  mynd  and  zeale  towards  me  yo  gave  me 
th'office  of  stewardship  of  the  landes  of  that  yo  cathedrall  church 
yo  will  at  this  my  herty  desyres  and  for  my  sake  be  lykewyse 
contented  that  my  sonn  Ffrauncys  Kussell  be  joyned  in  patent 
wt  me  for  the  same.  Thomas  Hache  (whom  I  pray  yo  to  credytt 


132  LIVES  OF  THE 

taken  as  shalbe  expedient.  Thus  fare  your  lordship  right 
hartely  well  from  Hampton  Courte  the  xviith  of  October, 
1547. 

Yr  assured  frends, 

T.  SOM'SET, 

H.  ARUNDELL,  F.  SEYMOUR, 

WILLM.  PAGET,         WILLM.  PETRE. 


MYLES  COVERDALE,  S.T.P.,  born  near  Middleham, 
in  Yorkshire,  had  been  a  Religious  of  the  Augustinian 
Convent  at  Cambridge  (now  occupied  by  the  Physic 
Garden  of  its  University),  but  releasing  himself  from 
his  solemn  vows,  became  a  zealous  instrument  of  the 
Reformation.  In  Thomas,  Lord  Crumwell,  he  found  a 
powerful  abettor  :  his  labours  in  translating  and  editing 
the  Bible  in  1535,  must  place  him  among  the  leading 
scholars  of  the  times  ;  as  a  preacher,  he  was  celebrated 
at  home  and  abroad.  In  the  insurrection  throughout 
this  diocese  in  1549,  he  received  a  license,  with 
Doctors  Gregory  and  Reynolds,  from  the  infant  King, 
to  declare  the  Word  of  God  to  the  people,  in  such 
public  places  as  Lord  John  Russell,  the  general  sent 
down  to  oppose  the  insurgents,  should  appoint 
('Strype,'  vol.  ii.  p.  168).  The  very  day— 14th 
August,  1551 — which  witnessed  the  deprivation  of 
Bishop  Vesey,  saw  Dr.  Coverdale  appointed  his 
successor,  with  power  from  the  Crown  to  ordain  and 
promote  clerks  to  holy  orders  and  priesthood.  His 
consecration  took  place,  according  to  the  new  form,  on 
30th  August,  1551,  at  Croydon,  by  Archbishop  Cran- 
mer.  "  The  bones  of  his  see  had  been  so  clean  picked," 
says  Heylin,  p.  101,  "that  he  could  not  easily  leave 
them  with  less  flesh  than  he  found  upon  them."  It  is 
remarkable,  that  his  Register  commences  on  10th  Sep- 
tember, the  very  day  he  obtained  his  dispensation 
from  the  young  King,  for  himself  and  his  wife,  Eliza- 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  133 

beth,1  "  pro  carnibus  edendis,"  during  Lent,  and  every 
fasting  day,  for  the  remainder  of  their  lives.  Four 
days  after  this  royal  indulgence,  we  find  him  at  the 
Palace  at  Exeter,  where,  on  20th  December  that  year, 
he  ordained  four  deacons ;  one  of  whom,  Anthony 
Randall,  he  commissioned,  two  days  later,  to  expound 
and  preach  the  Word  of  God  in  Latin,  or  English,  in 
any  church,  or  other  decent  places,  throughout  the 
diocese.  Two  of  the  other  three  deacons  he  promoted 
to  priesthood  in  the  chapel  (sacello)  of  his  palace.  On 
1st  January,  1552,  he  ordained,  "infra  domum  suam," 
John  Grosse  deacon  and  likewise  priest  "  in  uno  et 
eodem  die."  His  other  ordinations  were  conducted  in 
his  cathedral :  viz.,  3rd  July,  1552,  of  two  deacons;  on 
24th  of  the  same  month,  of  one  deacon  ;  and  on  22nd 
May,  1553,  of  two  deacons:  one  of  whom,  Thomas 
Richards,  he  promoted  to  priesthood  also  "  in  uno  et 
eodem  die."  This  abuse  was  subsequently  forbidden, 
viz.  1603,  by  the  32nd  canon. 

We  regret  that  the  venerable  man  should  have  con- 
sented to  sit  as  a  judge  to  try  Yon  Parris,  the  Dutch 
surgeon  of  London,  who  was  committed  to  the  flames 
in  April,  1551,  for  maintaining  Socinian  opinions.  If 
he  and  Archbishop  Cranrner,  who  pronounced  sen- 
tence on  the  unfortunate  man,  claimed  for  themselves 
the  inherent  right  of  changing  and  upholding  their 
religious  belief,  how  unjust  to  punish  others  for  assert- 
ing the  same  liberty ! 

It  must  have  been  painful  to  the  bishop's  feelings,  if 
he  entertained  any  interest  in  the  credit  of  his  cathe- 
dral, to  have  been  joined  in  the  king's  commission  with 
Sir  Peter  Carewe  and  Sir  Thomas  Denys,  knights, 
William  Hurst,  the  mayor  of  Exeter,  and  John  Myd- 
wynter,  one  of  its  aldermen,  to  summon  peremptorily  his 

1  "  She  was  a  Scottish  woman  (called  I  John  Machabeus,  Preacher  to  the  King 
Macheson),  sister  to  the  wife  of  Doctor  |  of  Denmark."    Hoker's  MS.  p.  350. 


131 


LIVES  OF  THE 


Dean  and  Chapter  to  appear  before  them  in  his  palace 
on  30th  September,  1552,  "then  and  there  to  answer 
all  demands  and  questions  concerning  the  Jewells, 
plate  and  other  ornaments  of  your  cathedrall  churche." 
The  summons  is  dated  on  the  previous  29th  August.2 

At  Queen  Mary's  accession,  he  was  deprived  of  his 
see,  but  by  a  proper  Act  of  Council  was  permitted  to 
go  to  Denmark  "  with  two  of  his  servants,  his  bagges 
and  baggage,  without  any  unlawfull  lette  or  serche" 
('Archaeolog.,'  vol.  xviii.  p.  183).  During  his  absence 
from  England,  we  imagine  that  he  translated  into 
English  the  treatise  on  the  Eucharist  "  Compiled  by 
John  Calvine,  a  man  of  no  less  learnyng  and  litera- 
ture than  godly  studye  and  example  of  ly vyng ;  wher 
unto  is  added  the  Order  that  the  churche  of  Christe  in 
Denmarke,  and  in  many  places,  countries,  and  cities  of 
Germany  doth  use,  not  onelye  at  the  Holye  Supper  of 
the  Lorde,  but  also  at  the  ministration  of  the  blessed 
Sacramente  of  Baptisme  and  HolifWedlocke" — octavo, 
black  letter,  without  place,  printer's  name,  or  date. 
After  Mary's  death  he  returned  to  England,  and  might 
have  been  restored  to  his  bishopric ;  but  he  preferred 
to  lead  a  private  life.  Dr.  Grindal,  Bishop  of  London, 
collated  him  to  the  Rectory  of  St.  Magnus,  London 
Bridge,  but  he  was  too  poor  to  pay  the  first-fruits, 
60£.  165.  10d.,  and  at  length,  says  Strype  ('Hist. 
Reform.'  p.  367),  Queen  Elizabeth  was  induced  to 
forgive  him  that  debt.  He  died,  it  is  said,  on  20th 
May,  1565,  but  perhaps  on  19th  February,  1568,  aged 
81,  and  was  buried  in  the  chancel  of  St.  Bartholomew's 
Church,  behind  the  Exchange,  London.  "  His  funeral 


2  In  1551,  the  church  plate  of  the 
parishes  of  St.  George,  St.  Mary  Arches, 
St.  Mary  Major's,  St.  Stephen's,  St. 
^ancras,  St.  Olave,  and  St.  Kerriau,  as 
we  learn  from  the  Act  Book  of  the 
Corporation,  was  applied  "  to  the  use  of 
the  bringing  up  of  the  River  of  Exe," 
alias  the  canal.  It  weighed  741  07.  and 


4  tlwts.,  and  was  valued  at  191Z.  12s.  4^. 
To  the  same  purpose  were  appropriated 
"  a  cross  of  silver  gilt,  weighing  102  oz., 
a  silver  vessel  containing  the  holy  oils, 
and  a  silver  chalice,  weighing  44  oz., 
the  value  of  which,  when  sold,  fetched 
37?." 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  135 

was  graced  with  the  presence  of  the  Duchess  of  Suffolk, 
the  Earl  of  Bedford,  and  many  honourable  and  wor- 
shipful persons,"  says  Hoker,  who  probably  wrote 
his  epitaph.  For  a  list  of  his  works  we  refer  the 
reader  to  Chalmers*  '  Biographical  Dictionary,'  and 
Cooper's  'Athense  Cantabrigienses,'  vol.  i.,  but  of 
the  '  Spiritual  Perle,'  he  was  merely  the  translator, 
from  the  German  of  Otho  Wormulerus,  in  1550, 
reprinted  in  1812. 

ARMS  : — Quarterly  per  fess  indented  gules  and  or :  in  chief  a 
Eose  between  two  Fleurs-de-lis ;  in  base  a  Fleur-de-lis  be- 
tween two  Koses,  all  counterchanged. 

JAMES  TURBERVILLE,  descended  of  the  ancient 
family  of  that  name,  settled  at  Beer  Eegis,  in  the 
county  of  Dorset,  was  the  second  son  of  John  Tur- 
berville,  Esquire,  by  his  wife  Isabella3  (Cheveral). 
Having  distinguished  himself  in  the  College  at  Win- 
chester, and  at  New  College,  Oxford,  he  took  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity,  and  was  a  Prebendary  of 
Winchester  when  King  Philip  and  Queen  Mary,  on 
10th  March,  1555,  issued  their  conge  d'elire  to  the 
Dean  and  Chapter  of  Exeter  for  his  supplying  their 
vacant  see.  On  6th  May  the  elect  was  allowed  its 
temporalities  from  the  Michaelmas  last  past,  and  he 
was  consecrated  at  St.  Paul's,  London,  by  its  bishop, 
Edmund  Bonner,  in  the  company  of  Hugh  Cur  wen, 
elect  of  Dublin,  and  William  Grlynn,  elect  of  Bangor, 
on  8th  September,  1555.  Early  in  the  ensuing  March 
he  reached  Exeter,  and  on  16th  April  received  from 
Cardinal  Pole,  the  Primate,  and  Legate  of  the  Holy 
See,  ample  power  to  make  the  visitation  of  his  diocese. 
To  Queen  Mary's  honour4  be  it  said,  that  she  released 

3  What  relation  was  he  to  Robert  [  4  Weever  states  that  "  Mary,  moved 
Turberville,  Esq.  (who  had  died  26th  by  conscientious  motives,  frankly  and 
February,  1529)  and  to  Dorothy  his  i  freely  restored  to  the  church  what 
wife,  who  had  died  7th  October,  1521,  |  possessions  she  could,  saying  (with  a 
and  were  buried  within  St.  Stephen's  Christian  and  princely  resolution,  I 
in  St.  Albans  ?  See  Weever's  '  Fun.  must  confess)  to  certain  of  the  counsel- 
Moii.'  p.  582.  lors,  '  that  she  set  more  by  the  salvation 


136  LIVES  OF  THE 

the  clergy  from  the  payment  of  tenths  and  first-fruits 
to  the  Crown,  whose  livings  did  not  exceed  the  yearly 
value  of  twenty  marks  ('Heylin's  Hist/  p.  53),  a  con- 
cession which  her  sister  and  successor,  Queen  Eliza- 
beth, withdrew  four  years  later  (Heylin's  *  Hist,  Queen 
Elizabeth,'  p.  108).  She  also  restored  to  the  see,  on 
18th  July,  1556,  the  borough  and  manor  of  Crediton 
('  Act  Books  of  the  Chamber,'  p.  84).  Our  bishop  must 
have  also  gained  possession  of  the  favourite  residence 
of  his  predecessors  at  Clist,  for  we  find  him  holding 
some  small  ordinations  in  its  chapel  of  St.  Gabriel  on 
13th  March,  8th  and  llth  June,  and  18th  December, 
1557;  on  26th  March,  1558,  and  3rd  September  that 
year.6  His  other  ordinations  were  held  in  St.  Mary's 
Chapel,  within  the  palace  of  Exeter,  on  8th  and  llth 
June,  and  18th  September,  1557,  and  again  on  the 
eves  of  Easter  and  Trinity  Sundays,  1558,  and  in  the 
church  of  the  Holy  Cross  at  Crediton,  on  16th  Septem- 
ber in  the  last  mentioned  year.  His  Register  proves 
his  moderation  of  conduct,  and  diligent  attention  to  his 
episcopal  duties ;  and  to  those  who  have  examined  the 
wills  proved  during  his  short  pre-eminence,  it  must  be 
gratifying  to  witness  a  reviving  spirit  of  commendable 
zeal  to  contribute  to  the  beauty  of  God's  house,  and  to 
provide  for  the  wants  and  comforts  of  the  poor.  On 
18th  March,  1557-8,  he  blessed  a  spot  of  ground  at 
Ringswell,  given  by  John  Petre,  Esq.,  for  the  interment 
of  executed  criminals,  and  which  was  inclosed  by  the 
charitable  widow,  Mrs.  Joan  Tuckfield.6  About  Mi- 

of  her  soul,  than  she  did  by  ten  king-  With  the  change  of  owners  it  became 
doms.'  " — '  Fun.  Mon.'  p.  135.  Browne  >  desecrated  to  profane  uses.  All  honour 
Willis,  in  his  'Survey  of  Cathedrals,' ;  to  the  present  proprietor,  J.  Garrett, 
admits  that  she  restored  abundance  of  Efcq.,  who  is  now  engaged  in  gutting,  ro- 
manors  to  the  church  ;  so  that  to  her  pairing,  and  tastefully  restoring  it  to  its 
the  cathedrals  are  indebted  for  a  con-  j  original  purpose — a  "House  of  Prayer." 
siderable  part  of  their  present  revenues.  6  The  bishop's  Register  is  perfectly 
5  This  was  the  last  episcopal  function  silent  on  the  lamentable  persecution  of 
performed  in  this  commodious  chapel,  Agnes  Prest  for  religious  opinions.  If  she 
which  measured  about  50  feet  in  length,  j  suffered  death  for  them  in  August,  1558 
18  in  breadth,  and  about  25  in  height.  I  — another  account  says  15th  November, 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 


137 


chaelmas  1558,  he  left  the  diocese  for  London.  The 
Queen's  dissolution  was  rapidly  approaching,  and  she 
expired  on  17th  November,  1558,  aged  42.  Queen 
Elizabeth,  on  5th  December,  summoned  our  bishop  to 
attend  the  new  Parliament  to  be  holden  at  Westmin- 
ster on  23rd  January,  1559  :  but  as  his  conscience 
would  not  suffer  him  to  subscribe  to  her  Majesty's 
supremacy  in  all  spiritual  and  ecclesiastical  causes  as 
well  as  in  civil,  he  was  subjected  to  the  penalty  of 
deprivation  of  office  on  18th  June  that  year,  and  at 
once  committed  to  the  Tower.  Hoker  says,  "  he  was 
soon  enlarged,  but  commanded  to  keep  his  house  in 
London,  where  he  lived  a  private  life  ;  and  in  the  end, 
there  died."  He  was  certainly  living  on  23rd  January, 
1560,  but  the  precise  date  of  his  death  we  have  looked 
for  in  vain.  In  Izacke's  manuscript,  in  the  ( Archives 
of  the  Mayor  and  Chamber  of  Exeter,'  it  had  been 
originally  written  "  he  was  buried  at  Beer  Regis, 
Dorset ;"  on  a  subsequent  revision,  a  stroke  was  drawn 
through  the  words  as  above,  and  the  following  substi- 
tuted, "  in  the  body  of  the  choir  of  his  own  church." 
The  Cathedral  Register  of  Burials,  commencing  full 
thirty  years  later,  can  throw  no  light  whatever  on  the 
subject.  Heylin,  in  his  '  History  of  the  Reformation ' 
(Part  ii.  p.  114),  merely  states,  that  he  was  permitted 
"  to  enjoy  his  liberty  ;  and  being  by  birth  a  gentleman, 
could  not  want  friends  to  give  him  honest  entertain- 
ment." Yet  Dr.  Nicholas  Sanders,  in  his  treatise  '  De 
Schismate  Anglicano,'  numbers  Turberville  amongst 
the  bishops  "  who  died  either  in  prison,  or  exile,"  and 
Dr.  Bridge  water,  towards  the  end  of  the  '  Concertatio,' 
writes  as  follows  :  "  Rmus  Turbevilus  Eps  Exoniensis 
obiit  in  vineulis."  Godwin  relates  "  cum  per  multos 
annos  privatus  vixisset,  in  summa  libertate  defunctus." 


1557 — it  must  have  been  when  Bishop 
Turberville  was  absent.  "Indeed," 
says  Fuller,  "  her  death  was  procured 


more  by  the  violence  of  Blaxton,  the 
chancellor,  than  by  any  persecution  of 
the  bishop." 


138 


LIVES  OF  THE 


But  Mr.  T.  Duffus  Hardy,  in  his  '  Fasti  Ecclesiae  Angli- 
canae,  1854,'  vol.  i.  p.  378,  believes  that  "he  died  1st 
November,  1559,  and  was  buried  in  Exeter  Cathedral. 
Letters  of  administration  to  this  bishop  were  granted  so 
long  after  his  death  as  April,  1667  !  See  the  Calendar 
of  that  year." 

AKMS  : — According  to  Izacke — ermine,  a  Lion  rampant,  gules, 
crowned,  or,  langued  and  armed  azure ;  according  to  West- 
cote — argent,  a  Lion  rampant,  gules,  crowned,  or. 

WILLIAM  ALLEY,  S.T.P.,  a  native  of  Wycombe, 
Bucks,  and  educated  at  Eton,  but  finished  his  course  of 
studies  at  Cambridge  and  Oxford,  whilst  Prebendary 
of  St.  Paul's,  London,  was  fixed  on  by  Queen  Elizabeth 
to  succeed  the  deprived  Turberville.  On  27th  April, 
1560,  she  issued  her  conge  d'elire  to  our  Dean  and 
Chapter.  It  was  delivered  to  the  President,  Chancellor 
Levison,  on  5th  May,  in  the  absence  of  the  newly- 
elected  Dean,  Dr.  Gregory  Dodds :  the  election  took 
place  on  20th  that  month ;  but  his  consecration 7  14th 
July  that  year  (Parker's  '  Register/  fol.  80).  The 
revenues  of  the  see  and  of  his  chapter  had  of  late  been 
lamentably  reduced  :  fortunately  the  Rectory  of  Hon- 
iton  was  given  to  the  Bishop  towards  the  better  main- 
tenance of  his  rank ;  and  in  its  parochial  church,  and 
even  in  the  rectory-house,  he  held  several  ordinations 
"  in  Rectoria — in  domo  Domini  Episcopi  apud  Hony- 
ton,"  as  we  learn  from  his  Registers.8  Owing  to  the 


'  The  Precentor,  Richard  Petre, 
George  Squire,  Archdeacon  of  Barn- 
staple,  George  Harvey,  Archdeacon  of 
Cornwall,  Thomas  Nutcome,  the  Sub- 
dean,  with  eight  other  Canons,  viz. 
those  forming  the  great  majority  of  the 
Chapter,  kept  themselves  aloof.  The 
names  of  these  Canons  were  John 
Kenall,  William  Evaunce,  Geo.  Mason, 
Robert  Brocke,  Nicholas  Wotton,  Wal- 
ter Wryght,  Humphry  Stanley,  and 
John  Harpsfield.  See  Alley's  '  Regis- 
ter,' fol.  62. 

8  In  a  note,  p.  95,  on  Bishop  Stafford, 
wo  have  referred  to  the  hasty  promotion 


of  Richard  Courtenay  to  the  priesthood. 
In  Bishop  Alley's  Register,  fol.  70,  is  a 
similar  instance.  His  lordship,  on  22nd 
November,  1560,  collated  Lewis  Swete, 
a  scholar,  aged  18,  to  the  vicarage  of 
Kenwyn,  and  allows  him  two  years  to 
prepare  for  holy  orders. 

Prom  the  Register  of  St.  Mary  Major  s 
parish  we  copy  the  following  extract : — 

"  1565.  xxiii.  daye  of  September  was 
christined  Austin  Alleye,  the  sonuo  of 
the  Right  Worshipfull  My  Lord  William 
Alleye,  Bisshoppe  of  Exeter"  (by  his 
wife  Sybil). 

We  apprehend  his  son  Roger,  collated 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  139 

impoverished  state  of  the  finances  of  his  Dean  and 
Chapter,  with  the  unanimous  consent  of  its  members, 
and  under  the  Royal  authority,  he  diminished  the 
number  of  the  Canons  of  the  Cathedral  from  twenty- 
four  to  nine.  His  statute  for  this  purpose  is  dated  22nd 
February,  1560-1.  Attempts  were  made  at  subsequent 
periods  to  set  aside  this  ordinance,  which  conferred  the 
power  and  emoluments  on  'the  favoured  nine,  to  the 
exclusion  of  the  other  fifteen ;  but  it  proved  useless  to 
combat  with  a  practice,  legalised  by  time  and  due 
authority.  Hoker,  who  knew  the  bishop  well,  com- 
mends his  affability  of  manners,  regularity  of  life,  and 
singular  learning  ;  adding  that  "  his  library  was  reple- 
nished with  all  the  best  sort  of  writers,  which  most 
gladly  he  would  impart,  and  make  open  to  every  good 
scholar  and  student,  whose  company  and  conference  he 
did  most  desire  and  embrace ;"  but  in  his  MS. '  History/ 
p.  359,  in  describing  the  Mayor,  Robert  Midwynter,  he 
says,  that  "  in  office  he  showed  himself,  as  he  was,  an 
upright  justice,  and  governed  the  city  in  very  good 
order.  In  nothing  was  he  more  stowte,  than  he  was 
against  Bishop  Alley,  when  he  brought  a  commyssion 
to  be  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  within  the  citie,  contrary  to 
the  lybertes  of  the  same."  After  governing  the  diocese 
for  about  nine  years  and  a  half,  he  died,  according  to 
his  epitaph,  on  15th  April,  1570,  aged  60,  and  was 
buried  in  the  choir  of  his  cathedral.  He  is  known  to 
the  literary  world  by  his  '  Poor  Man's  Librarie,'  printed 
in  folio  by  John  Day,  London,  1565,  or  'Lectures 
upon  the  First  Epistle  of  Saint  Peter,  red  publiquely  in 
the  Cathedrall  Church  of  Saint  Paule,  within  the  Citye 
of  London,  in  1560.  Here  are  adioyned  at  the  ende  of 
euery  special  treatise,  certain  fruitful  annotacions  called 
miscellanea,  because  they  do  entreate  of  diuerse  and 
sundry  matters.' 

too  prematurely  to  the  Archdeaconry  of  I  mitted  Hector  of  Pyworthy  in  the  sum- 
Cornwall,  13th  October,  1563,  was  ad-  |  mer  of  1581 :  ob.  1610. 


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LIVES  OF  THE 


ARMS  : — According  to  Izacke — azure,  a  pale  engrailed  ermine 
between  two  Lions  rampant,  argent,  langued  and  armed, 
gules ;  *  according  to  Westcote — azure,  a  pale  between  two 
Lions  rampant,  ermine,  crowned,  or. 

WILLIAM  BRADBRIDGE,  born  in  London,  but  of  a 
Somersetshire  family.  From  Dean  of  Salisbury  he  was 
promoted  on  26th  February,  1571,  to  this  vacant  see, 
and  on  18th  of  following,  month  was  consecrated  at 
Lambeth  by  Archbishop  Parker.  In  consequence  of 
the  impoverished  estate  of  the  bishopric,  Queen  Eliza- 
beth and  that  Primate  licensed  him  to  hold  two  bene- 
fices in  commendam, — one,  Newton  Ferrers  in  Devon, 
the  other,  Lezante  in  Cornwall.  Strange  that  the  new 
prelate,  at  the  age  of  seventy,  should  embark  largely  in 
agricultural  speculations !  The  result  soon  appeared, 
by  his  becoming  a  ruined  man.  "  He  was  far  indebted 
to  the  Queen's  Majesty  for  the  monies  received  of  the 
clergy  for  tenths  and  subsidies,  so  that  immediately 
upon  his  death,  all  his  goods  were  seized  for  her  use  " 
(Hoker).  The  Patent  Book  of  the  see  in  the  principal 
Registrar's  office  at  Exeter,  p.  84,  records  that  "  he  died 
1400£.  in  debt  to  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  had  not  where- 
with to  bury  him."  This  is  repeated  in  Bishop  Ward's 
Register,  fol.  69.  His  death  happened  suddenly  at 
Newton  Ferrers  (where  he  generally  resided,  to  the  great 
inconvenience  of  his  clergy),  when  no  one  happened 
to  be  present,  between  twelve  and  one  o'clock  of  the 
day,  on  28th  June,  1578,  aged  77;  and  his  Register, 
fol.  44,  concludes  his  acts  with  the  old  formula,  "  Cujus 
animae  propitietur  Deus,  Amen."  He  was  buried  on 
the  north  side  of  the  choir  of  the  cathedral. 
ARMS  : — Azure,  a  Pheon's  head,  argent. 

JOHN  WOOLTOX,  nephew   to    the    celebrated    Dean 
Nowell,  was  born  at  Whalley,9  in  the  county  of  Lan- 

9  It  is  so  asserted  in  his  epitaph  ;  and  But  his  son-in-law,  Bishop  Godwin,  in 
certainly  his  uncle,  Dr.  Nowell,  was  his  work  'DeProssulibus,'  assigns  Wigan 
born  at  Read  Hall,  in  Whalley  parish,  as  the  place  of  his  birth. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 


141 


caster,  and  distinguished  himself  at  Brasenose  College, 
Oxford.  In  Bishop  Alley,  who  brought  him  into  his 
diocese,10  and  in  Francis,  Earl  of  Bedford,  he  found 
zealous  and  liberal  patrons.  On  15th  August,  1561,  he 
was  instituted  to  the  living  of  Sampford  Peverel,  then 
to  Whimple,  was  collated  to  a  canonry  of  this  cathedral 
(in  which  office  during  the  plague  in  the  summer  of 
1570  he  was  exemplary  in  his  attendance  on  the  sick, 
says  Hoker,  p.  356  *  MS.  Hist.'),  also  to  the  Rectory  of 
Kenn,  on  15th  October,  1573,  to  the  Wardenship  of 
Manchester  College  in  1575,  and  to  the  Rectory  of 
Spaxton  in  the  deanery  of  Bridgewater.  The  death  of 
Dr.  Bradbridge  opened  to  him  the  See  of  Exeter,  to 
which  he  was  consecrated,  by  Archbishop  Edmund 
Grindal,  at  Lambeth,  on  2nd  August,  1578,  and  in 
which  he  was  installed  on  21st  March  following.  To 
enable  him  the  better  to  support  his  rank  he  was  fur- 
ther promoted  to  the  Rectory  of  Haccombe,  on  20th 
October,  1581,  by  the  Carew  family.1 

This  bishop  remodelled  the  statutes  of  his  church ; 
but  his  assertion  in  the  preamble,  that  hitherto  they 
were  confused  and  utterly  indigested — "  hactenus  con- 
fusa  et  nullo  ordiiie  digesta" — may  be  questioned  by 
those  who  are  acquainted  with  the  diligence  and  expe- 
rience of  his  predecessors.  That  he  was  a  learned 
scholar  is  manifest  from  the  six  treatises  published  in 
London  in  1576.  He  had  the  gratification  of  witness- 
ing, on  5th  July,  1585,  the  restitution  by  the  Crown  to 
his  Chapter  of  the  lands,  tenements,  and  rents  so  rudely 
wrested  from  their  hands,  and  which  had  been  origi- 


10  The  bishop  had  collated  him  to  a 
canonry  and  prebend  of  Exeter,  22nd 
March,  1565  ;  and  we  read  in  the  Regis- 
ter of  St.  Mary  Major's  parish,  Exeter, 
"1567,  the  24th  daye  of  October,  was 
baptysed  Sara  Woulton,  daughter  of 
Mr.  Woulton,  clarke." 

1  During  his  episcopacy,  viz.  in  1581, 
a  collection  was  made  in  Exeter  for 


the  relief  of  Geneva,  to  the  amount  of 
59Z.  6s.  8d.  From  the  clergy  of  the  dio- 
cese of  Exeter,  144Z.  3g.  "2d.  Total, 
203Z.  9s.  Wd.  was  received :  both  sums 
were  forwarded  by  Bishop  Wool  ton  to 
the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  to  be 
remitted  to  Geneva,  and  duly  acknow- 
ledged, as  the  'Act  Book'  shows. 


142 


LIVES  OF  THE 


nally  granted  for  the  maintenance  of  obituary  services. 
The  Crown,  however,  reserved  a  yearly  pension  of  145Z., 
which  continued  to  be  paid  for  eighty-eight  years,  when 
King  Charles  the  Second,  on  30th  July,  1673,  trans- 
ferred the  payment  from  the  Crown  to  the  ex-Treasurer, 
Thomas,  Lord  Clifford,  Baron  Chudleigh,  and  his  heirs 
male  for  ever.  The  bishop  had  the  further  satisfaction 
of  seeing  the  Queen  at  the  same  time  re-granting  to 
the  priest-vicars  of  his  church  the  greater  part  of  their 
former  possessions.  For  some  time  before  his  death  he 
had  suffered  from  asthma,  which  terminated  his  life  at 
the  Palace  at  Exeter  on  Wednesday  morning,  13th 
March,  1593-4,  aged  57.  His  remains  were  deposited 
seven  days  later  on  the  south  side  of  the  cathedral 
choir ;  but  the  monumental  inscription  has  been  placed 
in  the  south  tower.  The  Register  of  the  cathedral 
burials  commences  with  his  interment.  Some  years 
before  his  death  he  had  purchased  Pilland  Estate  in 
Piltoii,  of  the  Brett  family  ;  his  son,  John  Woolton, 
M.D.,  eventually  giving  up  his  practice  in  Exeter, 
retired  to  Pilland. 

AEMS  : — Argent,  a  Lion  rampant  jessant  a  saltier  engrailed, 
gules. 

GERVASE  BABINGTON,  a  native  of  Nottinghamshire. 
Whilst  Chaplain  to  Henry,  Earl  of  Pembroke,  he 
assisted  the  noble  Countess,  Mary  Sidney,  in  Jier  trans- 
lation of  the  Psalms.  Through  the  interest  of  such 
patrons,  he  was  promoted  to  the  See  of  Llandaff,  to 
which  he  was  consecrated  by  the  Primate,  Whitgift,  on 
29th  August,  1591.  On  the  death  of  Bishop  Woolton, 
Queen  Elizabeth  recommended  him  to  our  Dean. and 
Chapter  in  her  letters  patent,-  dated  2 2nd  March,  1594, 
as  a  successor.2  It  is  highly  creditable  to  Dr.  Godwin, 


2  In  the  '  Act  Book  of  the  Mayor  and 
Chamber,'  vol.  iv.  p.  154,  we  find  an 
order  recorded,  a  week  later,  that  "  Mr. 


Receiver  shall  provide  a  hogshead  of 
good  sacke  (sec)  or  canary  wine,  and 
bestow  the  same  upon  tho  new  bishop 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  143 

the  biographer,  then  Canon  and  Subdean  of  Exeter, 
that  he  did  all  he  could  to  prevent  this  new  bishop 
from  injuring  the  see,  by  surrendering  to  the  Crown 
the  manor  and  borough  of  Crediton  :  yet  all  opposition 
proved  abortive.  Queen  Elizabeth  had  no  sooner 
secured  this  property,  than  she  granted  it,  on  15th 
May,  1595,  to  William  Killigrew,  Esq.,  one  of  the 
Grooms  of  her  Chamber.  Heylin  has  very  incorrectly 
charged  this  wrongful  dismemberment  to  the  memory 
of  Dr.  Cotton,  the  successor  of  Babington  ('Hist. 
Reform.'  part  ii.  p.  58).  Perhaps  this  act  of  obsequious 
subserviency  to  the  royal  wish  induced  her  Majesty  to 
translate  our  prelate  to  the  wealthier  see  of  Worcester, 
on  4th  October,  1597.  He  could  not  be  regretted  here : 
he  left  the  palace  in  a  dilapidated  state,  as  we  shall 
show  hereafter. 

After  sitting  at  Worcester  nearly  thirteen  years,  he 
died  on  17th  May,  1610.  The  library  of  that  church 
he  "  enriched  with  many  choice  books  "  ('Athen.  Oxon.' 
part  i.  p.  754).  His  previous  printed  works,  comprising 
6  Notes  on  the  Pentateuch,'  '  Exposition  of  the  Creed, 
the  Commandments,  and  the  Lord's  Prayer,'  'A  Con- 
ference betwixt  Man's  Frailty  and  Faith,'  and  three 
Sermons,  were  published  in  a  folio  volume  in  1615,  and 
1622. 

ARMS  : — Ten  Torteauxes — four,  three,  two,  and  one,  in  chief  a 
label  of  three  points  azure  ;  Westcote  omits  the  label. 

WILLIAM  COTTON,  a  native  of  London,  but  descended 
of  an  ancient  family  in  Staffordshire :  educated  at 
'Queen's  College,  Cambridge,  and  whilst  Prebendary  of 
St.  Paul's,  London,  and  Archdeacon  of  Lewes,  was 
nominated  by  Queen  Elizabeth,  on  18th  August,  1598, 
to  supply  the  vacant  See  of  Exeter.  The  ceremony  of 
his  consecration  took  place  on  12th  November  that 

Dr.  Babington,  as  a  gift  from  the  city."  I  until  2nd  May,  1595.     Hoker's  MS.  96. 
But  his  lordship  did  not  reach  the  city  | 


144 


LIVES  OF  THE 


year,3  but  did  not  reach  this  city  until  16th  May,  1599. 
He  soon  made  himself  conspicuous  by  his  hostility  to 
the  Puritans,  and  by  his  rigid  exaction  of  the  most 
unequivocal  conformity  to  the  State  religion  from  all. 
But  with  earnest  zeal  for  the  Church,  his  '  Act  Book ' 
shows,  that  he  was  very  neglectful  of  the  32nd  of  the 
Canons  of  1603,  forbidding  making  of  persons  "deacons 
and  ministers,  both  together  upon  one  day."  That  he 
was  deficient  in  temper  and  domineering  in  his  manner, 
is  manifest  from  his  conference  at  Silverton — his  usual 
place  of  abode — on  5th  April,  1616,  with  the  Rev.  Joseph 
Hassarde,  who  had  been  warmly  recommended  by  the 
mayor  and  chamber  of  Exeter,  and  duly  licensed  by 
the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  to  deliver  Dr.  Bodley's 
lectures  here.  No  parent  could  be  less  unmindful  of 
providing  for  his  family  in  the  Church :  his  Act  Book 
shows  that  he  derived  very  considerable  profit  from 
dispensations  to  eat  flesh  meat  on  fasting  days,  and 
licenses  for  marriage  at  prohibited  times.  Dying  of 
the  stone  at  Silverton  on  Sunday,  26th  August,  1621, 
his  remains  were  deposited  on  the  31st  in  the  south 
aisle  of  the  choir  of  this  cathedral.  His  widow, 
Mary  Cotton,  was  buried  near  him  on  29th  December, 
1629. 
AKMS  : — Argent,  a  bend  sable  between  three  pellets. 

VALENTINE  CARY,  Master  of  Christ's  College,  Cam- 
bridge, and  Dean  of  St.  Paul's,  London,  was  presented 
to  this  see  by  King  James  I.  on  14th  September,  1621, 
and  was  consecrated  by  Archbishop  Abbot  on  18th 
November  the  same  year.  His  Majesty4  preferred  him 


3  On  8th  May,  1599,  our  Corporation 
had  voted  that  a  hogshead  of  secke  (vin. 
sec  ?)  should  be  placed  by  their  receiver, 
with  all  convenient  speed,  in  the  Lord 
Bishop's  cellar  ;  but  in  the  course  of  the 
month  deemed  "a  cup  of  silver  gilt"  a 
more  suitable  offering.  To  my  Lord 


Bishop's  wife,  two  loaves  of  sugar  were 
presented. 

4  The  king  insisted  that  this  prelate 
should  be  a  justice  of  peace  for  Exeter. 
The  mayor  and  aldermen  opposed  his 
admission  as  an  infringement  of  their 
charter,  and  were  supported  by  the 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  145 

also  to  the  Vicarage  of  Exminster  in  commendam  on 
13th  July,  1624  (Bymer's  4  Fcedera,'  vol.  xvii.  p.  608). 
His  government  was  short  indeed  :  dying  in  his  house, 
Drury-lane,  London,  on  10th  June,  1626,  he  was 
buried  in  the  south  aisle  of  Old  St.  Paul's  Cathedral, 
and  with  this  inscription  :  "  Hie  jacet  Yalentinus  Gary, 
Same  Theologies  Doctor,  olim  decanus  hujus  Ecclesise, 
qui  obiit  Epus  Ex  on."  A  cenotaph  "  in  Memoriam " 
was  placed  to  his  memory  in  the  south  part  of  the  Lady 
Chapel  in  this  cathedral,  subsequently  removed  to  its 
present  situation  in  the  north  aisle  of  the  choir.  West- 
cote  incorrectly  states  that  the  bishop  himself  was 
buried  here.  The  silence  of  the  Cathedral  Register  of 
Burials  disproves  his  assertion. 

ARMS  :  — Argent,  on  a  bend   sable  three  Roses  of  the  first. 
Westcote  adds,  "  His  difference,  a  Mullet." 

JOSEPH  HALL,  a  man  of  great  eminence.  He  was 
second  son  of  the  twelve  children  of  John  Hall,  of 
Bristow  Park,  in  the  parish  of  Ashby  de  la  Zouche,  and 
was  born  there  on  1st  July,  and  baptized  on  4th  July, 
1574.  Educated  at  Emmanuel  College,  Cambridge,  he 
was  appointed  the  first  Master  of  BlundelFs  Grammar- 
school  at  Tiverton,  but  resigned  it  almost  immediately 
on  being  offered  the  Rectory  of  Halsted,  in  Suffolk. 
He  was  then  appointed  to  the  Deanery  of  Worcester. 
In  the  sequel,  King  Charles  I.  promoted  him  to  the 
vacant  see  of  Exeter,  and  he  was  consecrated  on  23rd 
December,  1627.  His  theological  acumen  had  recom- 
mended him  long  before  to  King  James  I.,  who  made 
him  his  chaplain,  and  commissioned  him  to  attend  the 
Synod  of  Dort  in  1619  ;  but  the  weak  state  of  his  health 
compelled  him  to  return  after  a  short  stay.  To  enable 

attorney-general  and  clerk  of  the  crown,  j  M.P.,  to  the  mayor,  aldermen,  and  coun* 
The  king  would  then  grant  him  a  non  \  cil,  in  the  city  archives,  dated  28th  June, 
obstanlc.  See  the  letter  of  William  Proiiz,  j  1622. 


146  LIVES  OF  THE 

him  to  maintain  his  station  of  bishop,  the  Rectory  of 
St.  Briock,  in  Cornwall,  was  given  him  in  commendam. 
His  Register  testifies  to  his  diligence  in  his  official 
duties,  as  also  his  care  in  providing  good  benefices  for 
his  children.  In  his  transactions  with  the  Mayor  and 
Chamber  of  this  city  he  was  frank  and  honourable.  In 
one  of  his  letters  he  says :  "  I  beseech  you,  let  us 
mutually  have  all  fayre  termes,  without  trenching  upon 
each  other's  libertyes;  that  so  neither  part  have  any 
cause  of  grievance."  His  numerous  writings — moral, 
theological,  ascetic,  and  poetical — display  abundant 
evidence  of  nervous  vigour  and  genius :  still,  his 
warmest  admirers  must  concede  that  his  religious  zeal 
would  have  been  improved  by  greater  meekness  and 
moderation.  In  evil  times,  viz.  on  16th  November, 
1641,  or  as  his  '  Act  Book'  affirms,  on  16th  December, 
he  was  hence  translated  to  the  wealthier  see  of  Nor- 
wich ;  yet  the  promotion  was  far  from  adding  to  his 
peace  and  comfort.  There  he  adopted  for  his  seal,  the 
ark  of  Noah  on  the  waters,  with  the  dove  bearing  the 
olive-branch,  the  sun  rising  above,  and  the  inscription 
DA  PACEM  DOMINE.  In  the  exergue,  the  arms  of  the  See 
of  Norwich,  Azure  three  mitres  or,  impaling  his  family 
arms,  Sable,  three  Talbots'  heads  erased  argent.  The 
legend  SIGILLVM  .  IOSEPHI  .  HALL  .  NORWICENS  .  EPISC. 
The  venerable  and  learned  prelate  had  to  endure  much 
personal  ill-treatment  and  barbarous  persecution.  He 
sunk  under  it  at  his  house  (now  the  Dolphin  Inn),  at 
Higham,  close  to  Norwich,  on  8th  September,  1656,  aged 
82,  and  was  buried  in  the  parochial  church  the  same 
day.  His  monument  represents  him  as  a  skeleton,  hold- 
ing in  the  right  hand  his  .bond  to  Death,  sealed  and 
signed  "  Debemus  Morti  nos  nostraque;"  and  in  the 
left  hand  the  same  bond  cancelled  and  torn,  with  the 
endorsement  "  Persolvit  et  quietus  est."  Dr.  Peterson, 
Dean  of  Exeter,  had  married  his  daughter  Elizabeth, 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  147 

28tli  July,  1629.6  His  works  were  published  in  1625 
in  a  large  volume  folio,  but  a  much  enlarged  edition,  in 
ten  volumes  octavo,  appeared  in  1739. 

The  late  Rev.  William  Lisle  Bowles,  in  his  '  History 
of  BrombilV  P-  177  (1813),  laments  that  he  and  Bishop 
Davenant,  of  Salisbury,  and  others  present  at  the  Synod 
of  Dort,  should  have  fostered  the  spirit  of  Calvinism ; 
and,  unaware  of  its  bitter  fruits,  should  have  planted 
this  Upas  tree  of  unconditional  Calvin istic  decrees,  and 
watered  its  roots  in  its  first  growth  in  this  country. 
Bishop  Hall  lived  to  publish  "  his  hard  fare,  when  his 
library,  his  house,  and  his  goods  were  sold." 

ARMS  : — Sable,  three  Talbots'  heads  erased  argent 

RALPH  BROWNRIGG,  born  at  Ipswich,  was  Prebend- 
ary of  Ely,  Master  of  Catharine  Hall,  Cambridge, 
Archdeacon  of  Coventry,  and  Rector  of  Barley,  in 
Hertfordshire,  when  King  Charles  I.  nominated  him 
to  the  See  of  Exeter,  void  by  Bishop  Hall's  translation 
to  Norwich.  His  consecration  was  performed  by  Arch- 
bishop Laud,  on  3rd  May,  1642,  according  to  the 
Register  here  ;  but  he  was  never  installed  (unless  by 
proxy)  ;  though  Dr.  Walker  asserts  that  he  was,  on  1st 
June  that  year  (*  Sufferings,'  &c.,  part  ii.  p.  23).  The 
truth  is,  "  he  never  came  hither,"  says  Izacke ;  "  he 
never  saw  his  diocese,"  states  his  epitaph.  On  27th 
November,  1643,  he  appointed  a  Commission  to  admi- 
nister the  diocese  in  his  stead ;  but  reserving  for  his 
own  maintenance  the  livings  of  Little  Torrington,  arid 
Beer  Ferrers.  The  times  were  troublesome  and  peril- 


5  She  died  8th  July,  1650,  set.  41  :  her 
husband,  6th  December,  1661,  set.  74  : 
her  brother,  Samuel  Hall,  subdean  of 
Exeter,  died  iu  1674,  set.  63;  and  all 
three  were  buried  in  Stoke  Canon  church. 
Their  mother  Elizabeth  (Wiffin)  had 
been  buried  at  Higham,  28th  August, 
1652,  set.  69.  Her  sister  Ann  married 
to  Gascoign  Weld,  of  Bracken  Ash, 


1638,  set.  32,  recently  married  to  James 
Rodd,  gent.,  was  buried  in  our  cathe- 
dral, as  were  their  brothers  Robert  and 
Joseph.  As  for  George,  Bishop  of 
Chester,  he  was  buried  at  Wigan ;  John, 
LL.B.,  was  interred  at  Higham ;  and 
Edward,  the  youngest  son,  and  the  Ben- 
jamin of  his  parents,  was  buried  in  the 
choir  of  Nt.  rwiuh  Cathedral :  lie  died 


Norfolk  ;  Mary  died  on  Christmas  day,    24th  December,  1642,  sdif  3f>X 


148  LIVES  OF  THE 

ous ;  and  the  bishop  came  in  for  his  full  share  of  losses 
and  bitter  persecution  ;  but  the  house  of  his  friend, 
Mr.  Rich,  of  Sunning,  in  Berkshire,  afforded  him  hos- 
pitality and  protection.  The  benchers  of  the  Temple 
chose  him  for  their  Preacher,  in  which  office  he  conti- 
nued until  his  death,  on  7th  December,  1659,  when 
that  Honourable  Society  defrayed  the  expenses  of  his 
funeral  in  their  church  on  17th  of  that  month  and 
year. 

Dr.  John  Gauden,  who  had  preached  the  sermon  on 
that  occasion,  and  was  appointed  his  successor  in  the 
see,  after  his  election  on  3rd  November,  inscribed  the 
following  epitaph  to  his  memory  : — 

Sumptibus  et  auspiciis  Honorab.  Societat.  Templi 
Subtus  positae  sunt  Keliqujae  Radolfi 
Brownrici  S.T.D.  Cant,  reverendiss.  Episc. 
Exon,  quern  honorem  optimk  merait,  et  per 
annos  XIX  tenuit,  malo  tamen  seculi  fato, 
bellis,  schismatibus,  sacrilegiis  et  Regicidiis  fero- 
sciente,  nunquam  exercuit.     Tandem  anno 
setatis  LXVII,  Provinciam  terrestrem  nondum 
visam  deserens,  ad  caolestem  migravit, 
sera  Christi  MDCLIX  illusfrescente  CAB.  II«".     . 
faBlicissimo  redditu  L.M.P.I.G.  Episc. 
Exon  Electus. 

This  bishop   elect   should   have   assigned   seventeei* 
instead  of  nineteen  years  for  the  period  of  his  episcc 
pacy  ;  and  is  also  incorrect  in  stating  that  he  neve 
exercised  his  authority ;  for  by  commission  he  institutec 
and  collated  several  clergymen.     Wills  continued  to  b 
proved  in  his  court  until  Midsummer,  1646,  and  caveat* 
were  registered  till  llth  June,  1649.     But  he  is  enti- 
tled to  praise  for  the  pains  he  took  in  arranging  the 
sermons  and  manuscripts  of  his  friend  and  predecessoi 
for  the  press,  though^they  were  not  published  until 
1685,  by  W.  Martyn,  in  two  folio  volumes. 

AKMS  : — Argent,  a  Lion  rampant  sable,  gutty  d'or,  langned 
and  armed  gules,  between  three  crescents  of  the  last. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 


149 


EXTRACT  from  a  Valuation  of  the  Estates  of  the  Bishoprics  of  England  and 
Wales  in  1647.  Published  in  the  '  Collectanea  Topographica  et  Genealo- 
gica,'  vol.  III.  page  41. 

EXONIENSIS  EPISCOPATUS. 

Surveyors: — HUMPHRY  LOWER,  JOHN  CASBEARD,  SHERRINGTON  FAREWELL, 
and  THOMAS  HOWELL. 


Temporalities. 

Present  Rents  and 
I'rofitts  per  Ann. 

Improvements  above 
per  Ann. 

Timber,  Wood,  &c. 
Value  in  Grosse. 

Bishop's  Pallace       . 
Petershayes    .... 
Bishop's  Nympton     . 
Anilities               .      • 

£.     8.    d. 

564 
10    0    0 
37    1     5 
61  19    4 

£.     S.      d. 

21  13    8 
108  10    0 
178    3    1 

£.       8.     d. 

405    0    0 
66  13    4 

Peiiryn  Forayn  &  Minster 
Borough  of  Penryn   . 
Cuttingbeake  &  St.  Ger-1 
mayns    j 

62     0    9 
12    0    0 

64    3    4 
60    0    0 

218  15    3 

200 

222    2  11 
242    1     2 

10    0    0 
21    3    4 

Tregayre   ..... 

36    6    2 

169    5    4 

Burneire    .      .      .      ... 
Lawhitton       .... 

31  17  11 
62    4    0 

183  15    9 
168     1     0 

Totall      .     . 

442  19     3 

1514    8    2 

502  16    8 

Rectoryes. 

Present  per  Ann. 

Future  above. 

Reprizes. 

Pynhoc      .      .     .     .     . 
Brampford      ,     .     .     . 
St.  Goran        .     .     .     ^ 
Pencyons  .     .     .     .     • 

£.      8.     d. 

10    0    0 
300 
100  10    0 
6  13    4 

£.     s.    d. 
130    0    0 
37    0    0 
119  10    0 

To  Sir  Francis 
Drake,  out  of 
Petershawes, 
per      annum, 
10s.  Wd. 

Totall    .     .     . 

120    3    4 

286  10    0 

Totall  generall. 

563    2    7 

1790  18    2 

The  Improvements  of  the  Copyholds  are,  per  annum 

£      s.    d. 

The  four  Surveyors,  Dayes  245       .      .  490    0    0 
Extraordinary  charges    .....     24    0    0 


£     8.    d. 
4314  15    5 


Totall 


514    0    0 


JOHN  GrAUDEN. — With  the  Restoration  of  the  Mon- 
archy re-appeared  public  confidence  and  individual 
security.  One  of  the  first  acts  of  the  Government  of 
King  Charles  II.  was  to  reinstate  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land in  her  pristine  rights  and  privileges,  as  enjoyed 


150 


LIVES  OF  THE 


before  the  usurpation.  Exeter,  in  consequence,  reco- 
vered its  dignity  of  an  episcopal  see. 

Dr.  John  Gauden  before  mentioned,  Dean  of  Bock- 
ing,  in  his  native  county,  Essex,  and  Master  of  the 
Temple,  was  consecrated  Bishop  in  Westminster  Abbey 
on  2nd  December,  1660,  by  the  Prirnate  Juxon.  Un- 
questionably he  was  a  man  of  considerable  ability  :  yet 
his  three  letters  in  Thurloe's  *  State  Papers/  (vol.  v. 
pp.  589,  600),  are  too  frothy,  too  replete  with  unmean- 
ing liberality,  to  redound  to  his  credit  and  character. 
His  works  are  enumerated  by  Wood,  in  the  *  Athense 
Oxonienses.'  Whether  he  was  the  author  of  the 
'EIKHN  BASIAIKH;  or  the  Portraiture  of  King 
Charles  I.,  has  long  been  a  mooted  question,6  but  the 
probability  is  in  the  Doctor's  favour ;  and  such  he  was 
believed  to  be,  by  King  Charles  II.  and  his  royal 
brother. 

Within  a  fortnight  after  his  consecration,  Dr.  Gauden 
had  reached  Salisbury  on  his  road  hither.  He  arrived 
in  Exeter  on  21st  December,  1660,  and  must  have  been 
gratified  by  his  reception  in  the  diocese.  To  use  the 
words  of  Izacke,  an  eye-witness,  "  he  was  in  the  way 
saluted  by  sundry  gentlemen,  both  of  the  city  and  the 
country,  and  being  attended  on  by  several  coaches,  and 
some  hundreds  of  horse,  was  with  great  joy  arid  solem- 
nity brought  herein."  The  mayor,  as  the  king's 
escheator,  had  been  ordered  to  restore  to  his  lordship 
the  temporalities  of  the  see  within  the  city  and  suburbs 
since  25th  August  last  past.  But  his  palace  having 
been  used  as  a  sugar  refinery,  and  not  being  in  a  state  to 


6  '  Edinburgh  Review,'  No.  Ixxi.  p.  17. 
'  Nichols's  Lit.  Anecd.'  vol.  i.  p.  522.  la 
the  folio  edition  of  Milton's  Works,  Am- 
sterdam, 1698,  is  this  memorandum : 
"  King  Charles  the  Second  and  the  Duke 
of  York  did  both  in  the  last  sessions  of 
Parliament,  1675  (when  I  shewed  them 
in  the  Lords'  House  the  written  copy  of 
this  book,  wherein  are  some  corrections 


and  alterations  written  with  the  late 
King  Charles  the  First's  own  hand), 
assure  me,  that  this  was  none  of  the  said 
king's  compiling,  but  made  by  Dr.  Gau- 
den,  Bishop  of  Exeter,  which  I  here 
insert  for  the  undeceiving  of  others  in 
this  point,  by  attesting  so  much  under 
my  own  hand. — ANGLESEY." 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  151 

receive  him,  his  lordship  accepted  the  accommodations 
offered  him  by  a  respectable  lady,  Mrs.  Alice  Ford, 
relict  of  the  late  mayor,  Thomas  Ford. 

On  13th  January  following,  he  ordained  forty-four 
presbyters  and  deacons  in  his  cathedral :  three  months 
later  he  departed  for  London,  as  it  appears  that  his 
brother,  Sir  Dennis  Gauden,  had  placed  his  excellent 
house  at  Clapham  at  his  disposal  (Lysons*  '  Environs 
of  London,'  vol.  i.  p.  162).  He  returned  in  the 
following  September,  and  after  a  stay  of  nearly  ten 
weeks  took  his  final  leave. 

Before  his  departure,  he  left  with  his  chaplain  fifty 
pounds,  to  be  bestowed  amongst  our  parochial  poor, 
'Act  Book,'  No.  ix.  p.  159.  His  complaints  of  the 
poverty  of  his  see  induced  King  Charles  II.  to  translate 
him  to  Worcester,  10th  June,  1662  ;  but  he  can 
scarcely  be  said  to  have  experienced  the  benefit  of  the 
change,  dying  of  the  strangury  on  the  20th  September 
following,  aged  57.  His  widow  erected  his  monument 
in  Worcester  Cathedral.  Aubrey  states  that  the  bishop 
was  the  author  of  a  treatise  on  '  Artificial  Beauty/ 
Did  he  not  publish  a  4to.  on  the  Liturgy?  He  certainly 
wrote  the  life  of  the  celebrated  Ei chard  Hoker. 

ARMS  : — Azure,  a  chevron  between  tliree  Leopards'  faces  or. 

SETH  WARD,  a  native  of  Hertfordshire,  and  an  orna- 
ment to  science  and  the  republic  of  letters,  but  of  vacil- 
lating political  principles  in  early  life,  according  to 
Anthony  Wood.  During  the  Commonwealth,  Dr. 
Brownrigg,  on  receiving  intelligence  of  the  death  of 
his  precentor,  William  Cotton,  collated  his  friend 
Dr.  Ward,  Professor  of  Astronomy  at  Oxford,  to  the 
vacant  dignity,  observing  jocosely,  "  that  which  seems 
now  Awpov  cfiwpov  may  prove  of  some  emolument  to 
you."  For  the  instrument  of  collation,  Ward  paid  to 
the  bishop's  secretary  the  full  fees.  He  was  heartily 


152  LIVES  OF  THE 

laughed  at  by  his  friends,  says  his  biographer,  Dr.  Walter 
Pope  (pp.  29,  30),  for  so  doing.  "I  have  heard  them 
tell  him,  they  would  not  give  him  half-a-crown  for  his 
precentorship :  to  whom  he  replied,  though  he  should 
never  make  a  penny  of  it,  it  was  as  acceptable  to  him, 
as  if  he  were  to  take  possession  the  next  moment.  This 
was  the  first  flower  that  ever  grew  in  his  garden,  and 
the  foundation  of  his  future  riches  and  preferments." 
But  he  could  not  be  admitted  to  his  office  of  precentor 
until  the  15th  September,  1660.  Dr.  William  Peterson, 
the  truly  venerable  dean  of  our  church,  dying  on  6th 
December,  1661,  aged  74,  King  Charles  II.  at  once 
recommended  Dr.  Ward  for  his  successor ;  and  he  was 
elected  on  the  26th  of  the  same  month,. and  confirmed 
in  that  dignity  on  the  13th  January  following.  Whilst 
filling  this  situation  he  gained  to  himself  immortal 
honour.  We  give  the  words  of  his  biographer,  Dr. 
Walter  Pope  (pp.  55-6):  "He  first  cast  out  of  the 
temple  (the  cathedral)  the  buyers  and  sellers  who  had 
usurped  it,  and  therein  kept  distinct  shops  to  vend  their 
wares.  At  his  Majesty's  restoration  the  non-confor- 
mists there,  being  buoyed  up  by  some  powerful  friends, 
who,  for  their  private  interest,  drove  on  and  hoped  to 
obtain  a  general  toleration  of  all  religions,  except 
Popery,  took  the  boldness  to  petition  the  king  that  the 
partition'1  in  the  cathedral  might  not  be  taken  down 
that  they  might  enjoy  altare  contra  altare.  But  to  give 
them  their  due,  they  were  so  generous  as  to  allow  one-half 
of  the  church  to  the  use  of  the  episcopal  party,  to  whom 
all  did  of  right  belong,  that  therein  divine  service 
might  be  celebrated  according  to  the  Act  of  Parlia- 
ment for  uniformity  of  worship  ;  reserving  the  other  part 
to  themselves  to  meet  and  hold  forth  in.  But  their  design 
was  prevented  by  the  early  application  of  the  dean  to 


7  This  was  "the  monstrous  Baby- 
lonish wall"  referred  to  by  the  Rev. 
John  Reynolds  in  his  sermon  in  the 


cathedral,  27th  July,  1684.  An  Act  of 
Chamber,  dated  llth  August,  1657,  had 
ordered  its  erection  at  the  sum  of  150Z. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  153 

the  king  and  council,  from  whom  he  procured  an  order 
to  restore  the  church  to  its  ancient  form  and  shape,  and 
remove  the  innovations.8  He  accordingly  caused  the 
partition  to  be  pulled  down,  and  repaired  and  beauti- 
fied the  cathedral ;  the  expenses  whereof  amounted  to 
25,000£.  He  next  bought  a  new  pair  of  organs, 
esteemed  the  best  in  England,  which  cost  2000£."  Such 
a  reformer  deserved  advancement;  and  the  king,  on 
Dr.  Grauden's  translation  to  Worcester,  nominated  our 
dean  to  the  vacant  see,  to  which  he  was  consecrated  on 
20th  July,  1662.  In  consideration  of  its  reduced  rental, 
he  was  allowed  to  hold  the  rectory  of  St.  Briock  and 
the  vicarage  of  Manhenniot  in  commendam,  and  he 
further  obtained  the  king's  letters  patent  for  the  annex- 
ation of  the  deanery  of  St.  Burian  to  his  see,-  determi- 
nable  on  the  death  of  the  then  incumbent.  Though 
his  lordship,  by  his  subsequent  translation  to  Salisbury, 
derived  no  personal  emolument  from  the  last-men- 
tioned grant,  yet  several  of  his  successors  did,  until  it 
was  surrendered  back  to  the  Crown  about  forty-five 
years  later,  and  is  now  held  as  parcel  of  the  Duchy  of 
Cornwall.  Bishop  Ward,  on  28th  March,  1663,  under 
the  royal  authority  and  with  the  concurrence  of  the 
dean  and  chapter,  confirmed  the  limitation  of  the 
number  of  the  canons  of  his  church  to  nine,  but  raised 
the  stipend  of  the  fifteen  prebendaries  from  four 
pounds  to  twenty  pounds  a-year. 

Another  proof  of  his  sovereign's  favour  was  dis- 
played in  his  translation  to  Salisbury,  on  12th  Septem- 
ber, 1667,  on  which  promotion  he  resigned  the  valuable 
vicarage  of  Manhenniot.  There  the  same  active  zeal 
distinguished  his  career.  Within  two  years  he  reco- 
vered for  that  see  the  title  and  appurtenances  of  the 
chancellorship  of  the  most  noble  Order  of  the  Garter. 

8  Wo  have  seen  a  charge  for  mending  I  away,  and  for  cleaning  the  church  just 
the  locks  "  after  that  the  soldiers  went  I  before  the  Restoration." 


154  LIVES  OF  THE 

Learned  himself,  he  was  an  encourager  of  learning  ; 
charitably  disposed,  he  employed  his  substance  in  assist- 
ing useful  undertakings  and  benevolent  institutions. 
His  endowed  almshouses  at  Salisbury  for  ten  clergy- 
men's widows,  an  asylum  at  Buntingford,  in  Hertford- 
shire, for  four  men  and  for  as  many  women  who  had 
seen  better  days,  will  perpetuate  his  memory.  Dying 
at  Knightsbridge  on  6th  January,  1688-9,  aged  72,  his 
remains  were  conveyed  to  Salisbury  for  interment  in 
the  cathedral  there. 

For  the  enumeration  of  his  publications,  see  Wood's 
6  Athenge  Oxon.'  part  ii.  p.  627 ;  and  for  his  services  in 
establishing  the  Royal  Society,  the  '  Annual  Register ' 
of  1798. 

AEMS  : — Azure,  a  Cross  fleuree  or. 

ANTHONY  SPARROW,  a  native  of  Depden,  Suffolk, 
Master  of  King's  College,  Cambridge,  and  Archdeacon 
of  Sudbury,9  was  elected  to  the  vacant  see  on  14th 
October,  and  consecrated  by  Archbishop  Sheldon  on 
3rd  November,  1667.  When  Cosmo  III.  visited  our 
cathedral  on  7th  April,  1669,  he  describes  in  his 
*  Travels  '  (p.  130)  this  bishop  "  as  seated,  with  his  wife 
standing  there,  and  his  children,  nine  in  number."  His 
lordship  was  exemplary  in  his  public  and  private  cha- 
racter, and  was  justly  reputed  as  an  able  scholar  and 
learned  ritualist.  His  '  Rational,'  and  '  Collection  of 
Articles,'  &c.,  are  works  of  frequent  reference.  We 
learn  from  his  Register  that  he  was  translated  to 
Norwich  on  18th. September,  1676,  where  he  died  on 
18th  May,  1686,  and  was  buried  in  the  chapel  erected 
by  his  predecessor,  Dr.  Reynolds,  near  the  episcopal 
palace.  His  eldest  daughter,  Elizabeth,  married  the 


9  Ho  had  been  ejected  from  his  living 
of  Hawkdon  by  the  Puritans.  With  his 
wife  and  six  children  he  was  forced  to 
abscond,  and  to  live  in  great  poverty 


until  the  restoration  of  monarchy,  when 
he  was  reinstated  in  his  benefice,  and 
collated  to  the  Archdeaconry  of  Sud- 
bury. 


i 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  155 

Rev.  Edw.  Drew,  Archdeacon  of  Cornwall,  and  died 
18th  November,  1679.  His  second  daughter,  Ann, 
who  had  married  1st  October,  1672,  Nicholas  Hall, 
Treasurer  of  Exeter  Cathedral,  had  died  on  26th  June, 
1684,  aged  34.  Bridget,  another  of  the  bishop's 
daughters,  had  married  the  Rev.  Prebendary  Thomas 
Long,  on  15th  August,  1676,  and  died  in  Exeter,  7th 
December,  1707;  to  whom  the  see  of  Bristol  was 
offered  in  1684,  but  he  declined  it. 

ARMS  : — Ermine,  three  Eoses  argent,  seeded  or. 

THOMAS  LAMPLTJGH,  of  the  ancient  family  of  Lamp- 
lugh, of  Lamplugh,  in  the  county  of  Cumberland, 
Rector  of  St.  Martin's-in-the-Fields,  London,  and  Dean 
of  Rochester,  was  confirmed  bishop  on  2nd  November, 
and  consecrated  successor  to  Bishop  Sparrow  on  12th 
November,  1676.  Prince,  the  biographer,  in  his  addi- 
tions to  Westcote's  'View  of  Devon,'  observes  that 
amongst  many  excellent  qualities  of  a  Christian  bishop, 
"  he  was  a  lover  of  hospitality,  which  he  expressed  to 
all,  especially  to  his  clergy,  whom  he  bade  very  wel- 
come to  his  table/'  On  the  death  of  Dr.  Gary,  Rector 
of  Shobrooke,  on  2nd  February,  1681,  the  new  bishop 
had  interest  enough  to  procure  for  his  see  the  perpe- 
tual annexation  of  that  rectory.  To  its  church  he 
presented  a  very  substantial,  handsome  silver  flagon, 
bearing  his  arms,  and  this  inscription :  "  Gratitudinis 
ergo  benedicat  Deus  Thomse  Lamplugh."  In  a  printed 
sermon,  delivered  by  the  Rev.  John  Reynolds  on  27th 
July,  1684,  on  the  occasion  of  setting  up  seats  and  a 
pulpit  in  the  nave  of  the  cathedral  (the  removal  of 
which  in  1834  redounded  to  the  credit  of  the  members 
of  the  then  chapter),  the  preacher  commends  this 
bishop  for  his  special  zeal  in  repairing  churches  and 
chapels,  and  for  restoring  the  monuments  of  several  of 
his  episcopal  predecessors  to  their  original  sites,  "  which 


156 


LIVES  OF  THE 


during  the  Commonwealth  had  been  thrust  into  the 
darkest  corners  of  the  cathedral,  and  there  were  rudely 
misplaced  and  obscured."  He  further  praises  his  lord- 
ship's assiduity  in  "  attending  three  times  a-day  in  the 
cathedral,  besides  a  fourth  time  in  his  private  chapel, 
with  a  course  almost  as  constant  as  the  rising  and 
setting  of  the  sun." 

When  the  Prince  of  Orange  landed  in  Torbay,  the 
bishop  made  a  show  of  loyalty  by  exhorting  the  clergy 
and  laity  of  the  diocese  to  remain  steadfast  in  their 
sworn  allegiance  to  their  crowned  and  legitimate  king, 
James  II.  Nay,  his  lordship  refused  to  receive  tlio 
prince,  and  retired  to  London.  In  the  life  of  that 
unfortunate  monarch  compiled  from  the  Stuart  papers 
by  order  of  King  George  IV.  (vol.  ii.  p.  237),  we  iv;ul, 
"  to  recompense  this  dutiful  comportment,  his  Majesty 
conferred  the  Archbishopric  of  York  upon  him.10  Tlir 
ceremony  was  forthwith  performed  at  Lambeth,  in 
November,  1G88,  and  the  next  day,  after,  he  did 
homage  to  the  king  for  the  translation  :  a  great  reward 
for  one  single  act  of  duty ;  and  more  suitable  to  the 
king's  generosity,  than  his  real  merit,  who  retracted  so 
soon  his  short-lived  loyalty,  and  was  as  ready  to  fly  in 
his  prince's  and  benefactor's  face  as  the  rest,  W!UMI 
there  was  no  more  to  be  expected  from  him."  Unques- 
tionably he  became  a  principal  instrument  in  placing 
the  crown  on  the  Prince  of  Orange.  But  the  old  man 
enjoyed  his  honours  and  fortune  for  u  very  l>riH%  IHTUH!, 
and,  in  the  words  of  JPrince,  "  within  three  years'  con- 
tinuance in  that  high  throne  of  York,  he  was  sum- 
moned before  an  higher."  His  epitaph  in  the  minster 


10  The  Soo  of  York  had  boon  void  sinco 
the  death  of  its  primate,  Archbishop 
Dobbin,  llth  April,  1G87  ;  then  fore, 
not  "more  than  two  years  ami  a  halt'," 
as  Maeaulay  assert*,  vol.  ii.  'Hist.'  p.  li>7, 
rd.  f>.  Dr.  Richardson,  the  learned 
rontiiuiator  of  Godwin,  has,  unwit  lin:;l\ , 
lent  the  sanction  of  his  name  to  the 


insinuation,  that  the  kinv;  kept  the 
archiepiscopal  see  open  with  a  view  of 
intruding  into  it  "  Dr.  James  Smith,  the 
rocenllv-appoinl*  d  titular  I'.ishop  of  ('a 
lipoli.s  mid  Yicar  Apostolic  of  the  north 
of  KnHaiid,  or  perhaps  Father 
Pet  re,  I  he  Jesuit!" 


msnors  OF  EXKTEU.  i«r>7 

tccords  his  death  on  5th  May,  1691,  aged  70.  Wo  may 
he  allowed  to  withhold  our  assent  to  Dr.  Richardson's 
assertion,  that  ho  was  elevated  to  the  metropolitan  see 
of  York  much  against  his  inclination  and  entreaties, 
"  tandem,  licet  dignitatem  mill  tarn  doprecatus,  in  Sedem 
hanc  Metropolitanain  evectus  est." 

AIIMS  : — Or,  a  Cross  fleur<$e  sable. 

JONATHAN  TRELAWNY,  of  an  ancient  and  valiant1 
Cornish  family,  was  born  at  Trelawny,  in  the  parish  of 
Pelynt,  on  24th  March,  1650,  and  educated  at  West- 
minster School,  and  thence  elected  a  scholar  in  Christ 
Church,  Oxford,  which,  college  ho  entered  in  Michael- 
mas term,  1668,  whore,  to  use  his  own  expression,  "  he 
ate  his  bread  for  more  than  twenty  years."  By 
the  death  of  his  elder  brother  John,  shortly  before 
the  decease  of  their  father,  Sir  Jonathan  Trelawny, 
the  second  baronet,  ho  succeeded  to  tho  heirship  of 
(lie  title  and  estates.  He  was  then  a  boneficed  clergy- 
man— Rector  of  Southill  since  4th  October,  1677,  and 
of  St.  Ives,  12th  December  that  year,  and  had  distin- 
guished himself  at  Christ  Church  College,  Oxford.  His 
sovereign,  King  James  II.,  appointed  him  to  tho  soo 
of  Bristol  (in  opposition  to  Archbishop  Bancroft's 
advice,  as  we  learn  from  Tn-l.-nvny's  letter  of  lOili 
December,  1687),  to  which  he  was  consecrated  at  Lam- 
beth on  8th  November,  1685.  That  wrong-headed 
king,  on  4th  May,  1688,  when  tho  national  mind  was 
in  a  state  of  feverish  excitement,  insisted  that  his  pro- 
clamation for  liberty  of  conscience  should  bo  read  in 
I  lie  churches.  Dr.  Trel;i\vny  \v;is  0110  of  the  80VOH 
bishops  who  petitioned  against  tho  measure  ;  and  for 
this  exercise  of  \\lini  they  considered  a  prudent,  le^.-il, 

and  conscientious  ri^hl,  \verc  committed  to  the  Town-.' 

1  It  WIIH  mi  <>!•:  I!  Cornwall:  I      *  Amongst  III'H    |>:I|MTS    ;il    Tnl;i\\ri\ 

"  A   Tivl:i\\n\    iir\rr    \\  .ml  t  •,  I  ,  ,  nil  ;i  •• .  •,  ;i  I   I  louse,  IS   <  UK'  flit  it  I.  •.  I,  "  \\  ll..  I    l.,n.l     to 

Ghxlolphin  wit,  and  uGrcnville  loyalty."  I  the  Km-  m  iin    closet,       "Tii 


158 


LIVES  OF  THE 


After  three  weeks'  imprisonment,  they  were  brought  to 
trial,  when  an  honest  jury  pronounced  their  acquittal, 
to  the  joy  of  all  classes. 

When  the  king  translated  Dr.  Lamplugh  to  York,  he 
appointed  Dr.  Trelawny  his  successor  to  Exeter,  hoping 
that  "  this  promotion  would  have  warmed  his  heart  to 
a  sense  of  grateful  loyalty  and  dutiful  attachment ;  but 
it  produced  a  contrary  effect,  and  enabled  him  to  wield 
his  powerful  influence  in  Cornwall  in  favour  of  the 
revolution  "  ('  Stuart  Papers').3  Can  Macaulay  be  cor- 


after  he  had  read  our  petition,  treated 
us  with  bitterness,  reviling,  and  threats, 
saying  he  knew  the  meaning  of  our  peti- 
tion, '  'Twas,  as  that  to  his  father,  to 
make  him  a  glorious  king.  This  had 
the  same  tendency,  and  was  to  carry  a 
rebellion.'  Struck  with  the  word  rebel- 
lion, I  fell  on  my  knees,  and  in  haste 
and  confusion  spoke  thus :  *  Kebellion, 
Sire !  I  beseech  your  Majesty,  do  not 
say  so  hard  a  thing  of  us  :  for  God's  sake 
do  not  believe  we  are,  or  can  be  guilty 
of  a  rebellion.  It  is  impossible  for  me, 
or  my  family,  to  be  guilty  of  a  rebellion : 
your  Majesty  cannot  but  remember,  that 
you  sent  me  to  quell  Monmouth's  rebel- 
lion ;  and  I  am  as  ready  to  do  what  I 
can  to  quell  another.  We  will  do  our 
duty  to  your  Majesty  to  the  utmost,  in 
every  thing  that  does  not  interfere  with 
our  duty  to  God.'  The  king  flung  him- 
self out  of  his  closet  with  these  words  : 
'  I  will  be  obeyed !'  I  was  served  at 
Bath,  Wednesday,  30th  May,  by  Mr.  H. 
Legat,  one  of  his  Majesty's  messengers, 
with  a  warrant  from  the  Earl  of  Sunder- 
land,  dated  White  Hall,  27th  May,  to 
appear  at  the  Council,  June  8th,  where 
I  was,  with  the  Archbishop,  the  Bishops 
of  S.  Asaph,  Ely,  Chichester,  Bath  and 
Wells,  and  Peterborough,  committed  to 
the  Tower ;  and  were  by  Habeas  Corpus 
brought  to  Westminster  Hall,  Friday, 
June  15th,  where,  all  our  pleas  being 
over-ruled,  we  were  required  by  recog- 
nizance to  appear  the  Friday  fortnight, 
the  29th.  After  a  trial  from  nine  in  the 
morning  till  seven  at  night,  we  were 
ordered  to  attend  Saturday  the  30th. 
The  jury  about  ten  that  morning  brought 
us  in  Not  Guilty.  We  went  immediately 
to  Lambeth  in  the  Archbishop's  barge. 
The  Archbishop  himself  read  Psalms 
ciii.  cxv.,  the  Dean  the  Prayer  of 
Thanksgiving,  and  his  chaplains  the 


Litany." 

3  One  can  hardly  comprehend  the 
unsettled  notions  of  the  country  and  the 
extreme  credulity  and  prejudice  that 
prevailed  amongst  the  people  at  this 
period,  yet  all  scholars  were  aware 
that,  by  the  authority  ef  Pope  Julius 
HI.,  at  the  petition  of  the  bishops  and 
clergy,  Cardinal  Pole  published  from 
Lambeth,  on  24th  December,  1554,  the 
renunciation  of  all  claim  to  their  former 
church  property,  and  that  the  actual 
possessors  of  church  lands  held  them 
by  as  secure  a  tenure  as  the  holders  of 
any  private  property.  They  must  have 
also  read  the  book,  printed  at  the  ex- 
pense of  King  James  II.,  by  Henry 
Hills,  intitled,  <  The  Assurance  of  Ab- 
bey and  other  Church  Lands  to  the  pos- 
sessors cleared  from  the  doubts  and 
arguments  raised  about  the  danger  of 
resumption.'  Davies  Gilbert,  in  his 
'  Parochial  History  of  Cornwall,'  vol.  i. 
p.  1 05,  informs  us  that  the  dispersion  of 
the  declaration  of  the  prince,  accompa- 
nied with  these  doggrel  rhymes,  said  to 
have  been  composed  by  Father  Petre — 

Henricus  Octavus, 
Sold  the  land  that  God  gave  us, 
But  Jacobus  Secundus 
Shall  refund  us. 

made  all  possessors  of  church  lands  and 
impropriators,  together  with  all  rectors 
and  vicars  of  churches  in  Cornwall  (ex- 
cept James  Beauford,  R.  of  Lanteglos, 
and  the  Rev.  Thomas  Polwhele,  V.  of 
Newlyn),  to  renounce  their  allegiance  to 
King  James ! ! 

King  Henry  VIII.  took  from  Eton 
College  the  land  on  which  St.  James's 
Square,  St.  James's  Street,  Pall  Mall, 
&c.,  now  stand.  He  also  took  much 
from  King's  College,  Cambridge,  and 
gave  to  each  in  exchange  what  was 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETEK. 


159 


rect  in  stating  that,  "as  Bishop  of  Bristol,  he  was  the 
first  to  welcome  the  Prince  of  Orange's  troops  into 
that  second  city  of  the  realm  "  ('  Hist,  of  England/  vol. 
ii.  p.  529)  ? 

According  to  Prince,  the  bishop  made  Trelawny,  the 
family -seat4  in  the  parish  of  Pelynt,  his  usual  place  of 
residence,  "  a  measure  less  convenient  to  the  occasions 
of  his  clergy  and  the  public  exercise  of  charity  and 
hospitality."  There  he  erected  and  consecrated  a  large 
domestic  chapel  on  Sunday,  the  23rd  November,  1701. 
Within  six  years  later,  viz.  on  14th  June,  1707,  Queen 
Anne  translated  the  prelate  to  Winchester.5  Dying  at 
Chelsea  on  19th  July,  1721,  aged  71,  his  mortal 
remains  were  conveyed  to  the  family  vault  at  Pelynt. 

By  his  wife  Rebecca  (Hele),  only  daughter  and  heir 
of  Thomas  Hele,  of  Bascombe,  Devon  (whom  he  mar- 
ried on  his  birthday),  he  had  a  family  of  thirteen 
children.  His  son  Edward  lived  to  be  appointed 
Governor  of  Jamaica ;  Henry  shared  the  fate  of  Sir 
Cloudesley  Shovel,  lost  on  the  Gilston  Rock,  on  22nd 
October,  1707.  None  of  his  sons  left  issue,  nor  any  of 
his  daughters  except  Letitia,  born  llth  October,  1689, 
who  married  her  cousin,  Henry  Trelawny ;  and  Re- 
becca, born  on  Saturday,  4th  January,  1695,  old  style, 
married  to  John  Fowncs  Buller,  of  Morvall,  Esq. 

To  the  honour  of  Dr.  Trelawny  we  may  state,  that 
whilst  Bishop  of  Exeter  he  refused  7000£.  for  the 
reversion  of  the  manor  of  Cuddenbeck,  in  the  parish  of 
St.  Germans,  as  he  thought  it  worth  2000Z.  more,  and 
would  not  injure  his  successor  in  this  see.  On  renew- 
ing a  term  in  the  manor  of  Addersbury,  whilst  Bishop 


not  an  equivalent :  whence  the  strange 
hexameter  verso — 
Henrlcus  |  octa  ]  vus  totik  a  |  way  from  us  | 
more  than  lig  |  gave  us. 

4  It  had  been  purchased  of  the  Crown 
by  Sir  John  Trelawny,  Knt,  in  1600. 

5  It  is  related  of  this  prelate  that  he 
\vas  much  given,  according  to  the  custom 


of  his  time,  to  profane  swearing — a  cus- 
tom which  perhaps  ho  adopted  to  mani- 
fest his  distance  from  Puritanism.  Being 
reproved  for  this  unbecoming  practice, 
he  excused  himself  by  saying,  that  ho 
did  not  swear  as  a  bishop,  but  simply  a* 
Sir  Jonathan  Trelawny.  See  '  Four 
Years  in  France,'  p.  311. 


160 


LIVES  OF  THE 


of  Winchester,  he  instantly  gave,  of  the  fine  received , 
the  sum  of  500  guineas  to  the  Corporation  of  the  Sons 
of  the  Clergy,  and  1000/.  towards  the  Incorporated 
Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel. 
AEMS  : — Argent,  a  chevron  sable. 

OFFSPRING  BLACK  ALL,  born  in  London  (of  which  city 
his  father,  Thomas  Blackall,  was  an  alderman),  but  of 
an  Oxfordshire  family  originally,6  educated  at  Catha- 
rine Hall,  Cambridge,  Rector  of  St.  Mary's  Alderman- 
bury,  London,  and  Chaplain  to  Queen  Mary,  the  con- 
sort of  King  William  III.  The  translation  of  Bishop 
Trelawny  opened  the  see  of  Exeter  (by  the  Queen's 
command,  in  opposition  to  the  wishes  of  her  ministers) 
to  this  respectable  scholar  and  theologian,  and  he  was 
consecrated  by  Archbishop  Tenison  on  8th  February, 
]  708.  By  his  interest  at  Court  he  succeeded  in  retain- 
ing for  his  life  the  deanery  of  S.  Burian,  and  on  20th 
August,  1708,  appointed  Mr.  William  Denham  his 
registrar  there.  From  the  conviction  that  society  ought 
to  promote  with  all  the  means  in  its  power  the  enlight- 
enment of  the  indigent  classes,  he  warmly  recommended 
the  institution  of  charity  schools  in  Exeter ; 7  and  he 
lived  to  see  the  schools  in  a  flourishing  condition.  His 
death,  which  took  place  on  29th  November,  1716,  aged 
66,  in  consequence  of  a  fall  from  his  horse,  excited  deep 
and  universal  regret.  Had  Queen  Mary  lived,  Ely 
would  probably  have  had  him  for  her  bishop,  instead 
of  Exeter. 

The  remains  of  the  prelate  were  deposited  on  2nd 
December  on  the  south  side  of  the  cathedral  choir.  In 
his  will,  bearing  date  4th  July,  1715,  he  directed  that 
his  "  burial  may  be  decent,  but  very  private,  and  with- 


6  But  according  to  the  Register  of  St. 
Petrock,  Exeter,  a  respectable  family  of 
the  same  name  was  established  in 
Exeter,  at  least  from  the  time  of  King 
Henry  VIII. 


?  First,  in  a  sermon  preached  before 
the  mayor,  aldermen,  and  common  coun- 
cil, and  again  in  a  circular  addressed  to 
his  clergy. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  161 

out  a  funeral  sermon,  in  the  place  where  I  shall  happen 
to  die  ;  neither  would  I  have  a  stone  with  any  inscrip- 
tion over  my  grave,  nor  any  monument  erected  to  my 
memory."  By  his  relict  Ann  (Dillingham),  who  sur- 
vived him  till  29th  December,  1762,  he  left  a  family 
of  seven  children — John,  Theophilus,  Charles,  Eliza- 
beth, Ann,  Mary,  and  Jane.6  In  virtue  of  the  Primate 
Tenison's  letter  of  4th  June,  1709,  Bishop  Blackall  was 
installed  Treasurer  of  Exeter  Church ;  since  which 
period  succeeding  bishops  have  retained  this  dignity  in 
commendam. 

His  works,  collected  and  edited  by  his  friend, 
Dr.  Dawes,  Archbishop  of  York,  testify  how  decidedly 
he  was  opposed  to  the  democratical  principles  of  Dr. 
Hoadley,  afterwards  successively  Bishop  of  Bangor, 
Hereford,  Salisbury,  and  Winchester ! 

John  Blackall,  Esq.,  M.D.,  great  grandson  of  the 
bishop,  has  an  excellent  portrait  of  the  prelate  by 
Michael  Dahl.  This  Swedish  painter  was  much  patron- 
ized by  Queen  Anne's  court,  and  died  in  England  in 
1743,  aged  87. 

ARMS  : — Argent,  a  Greyhound  courant  sable,  collared  or ;  on 
a  chief  dancette  of  the  second,  three  besants. 

LAUNCELOT  BLACKBURNE,  after  being  connected 
with  this  church  as  canon  since  15th  January,  1691, 
and  filling  the  office  of  dean  since  1705,  was  conse- 
crated its  bishop  on  24th  February,  1716-17.  A  mode- 
rate man,  everything  seems  to  have  passed  off  quietly 
under  his  government,  which  was  short ;  for  he  was 
translated  to  York  on  28th  November,  1724.  Dying 
in  London  in  1743,  he  was  buried  in  St.  Margaret's 
Church,  Westminster.  He  had  married  the  sister  of 
William  Talbot,  Lord  Bishop  of  Sarum. 

6  John  was  born  23rd  January,  and  I  Martha,  baptized  13th  June,  1714,  buried 
baptized  in  the  cathedral  2nd  February,  1st  July,  1715  ;  Samuel,  baptized  18th 
1709-10.  Charles  Offspring,  born  1st,  March,  1715-16,  buried  9th  July,  1716 ; 
and  baptized  at  the  cathedral  10th  May  ;  Thomas,  buried  25th  September,  1711. 

M 


162 


LIVES  OF  THE 


ARMS  :— Argent,  a  Fess  nebule  between  three  Mullets  pierced 

sable. 

STEPHEN  WESTON,  of  Farnborough,  in  the  county  of 
Berks;    educated  at  Eton,  and  King's  College,  Cam- 
bridge.    Through  the  interest  of  his  friend  Sir  Robert 
Walpole,  this  excellent  scholar  was  advanced  to  the  see 
of  Exeter,  and  consecrated  its  bishop  on  27th  December, 
1724.     His  splendid  monument,  in  the  south  aisle  of 
the  cathedral  choir,  records  his  having  governed  -the 
diocese  with  the  highest  credit  until  his  death  on  8th 
January,  1741-2,  aged  76.     He  was  buried  four  days 
later,  and  his  widow  Lucy,  of  the  Sleech  family,  was 
laid   near    him    on  6th   March    following.     His    son, 
Captain  William  Weston,  died  30th  June,  1773,  and 
his  daughter  Mary  had  married  George  Baker,  Arch- 
deacon of  Totnes ;  and  his  daughter  Elizabeth,  Canon 
John  Grant.7     His  son  Stephen  had  been  married  to 
Mary  Gibbs  in  the  Palace  Chapel,  7th  July,  1734,  by 
his  right    reverend  parent.     His   sermons   were   pub- 
lished by  Dr.  Sherlock,  five  years  after  his  death,  in 
two  volumes  octavo,  with  his  portrait. 

Bishop  Weston  introduced  the  custom  of  keeping  the 
episcopal  registers  in  English. 

ARMS  : — Argent,  a  Cross  surmounted  on  three  greeses  gules, 
on  a  chief  azure  five  besants. 

NICHOLAS  CLAGGET,  of  a  family  settled  at  Bury 
St.  Edmunds,  had  been  consecrated  Bishop  of  St.  David's 
23rd  January,  1731-2,  upwards  of  ten  years  before  his 
translation  to  Exeter,  on  2nd  August,  1742.  Early  in 
the  following  month  he  was  welcomed  on  his  arrival 
at  the  Eastgate  of  our  city  by  the  mayor  and  chamber. 
Little  else  is  recorded  of  him  than  his  death  in  London, 


*  We  read  in  the  Cathedral  Register  : 
"  The  Kev.  John  Grant,  of  Ruan  Lan- 
chorn,  and  Elizabeth  Weston,  were  mar- 
ride  by  her  father,  the  Bishop  of  Exeter, 


in  his  chapell  there,  November  ye  22nd, 
1726. 

"  Witness  his  hand, 

STEPHEN  EXON." 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETEE.  163 

on    Monday,    8th  December,  1746,  and  his  burial  in 
St.  Margaret's,  Westminster. 
ARMS  :—  Ermine,  on  a  Fess  sable  three  Pheons'  heads  or. 

GEORGE  LAVINGTON,  born  at  Mildenhall,  in  the 
county  of  Wilts,  had  been  collated  to  prebends  in  the 
cathedrals  of  Worcester  and  St.  Paul's,  London,  before 
he  was  promoted  through  the  courtly  interest  of  the 
Duke  of  Newcastle  and  Lord  Hardwicke  to  the  vacant 
see  of  Exeter.  The  ceremony  of  his  consecration  was 
performed  at  Lambeth  on  8th  February,  1746-7.  His 
well-written  epitaph  by  Subdean  Barton,  on  a  'tablet 
behind  the  sedilia  in  the  south  aisle,  describes  him  as  a 
pattern  for  Christian  bishops.  He  died  on  13th,  and 
was  buried  on  19th  September,  1762,  aged  79.  His 
relict  followed  him  to  the  grave  on  29th  November  in 
the  following  year.8 

ARMS:—  Argent,  a  Saltier  gules;  on  a  chief  of  the  second, 
three  Boars'  heads  couped  or. 

FREDERICK  KEPPEL,  third  son  of  William  Keppel 
the  second  Earl  of  Albemarle,  by  his  wife,  the  Lady 
Anne,  daughter  of  Charles  Lennox,  Duke  of  Eichmond 
was  born  19th  January,  1728-9.  Whilst  a  canon  of 
Windsor,  he  was  recommended  by  King  George  III. 
to  the  chapter  of  Exeter  for  their  bishop,  and  on  7th 
November,  1762,  was  consecrated  to  that  dignity. 
Towards  his  better  maintenance,  the  deanery  of  Wind- 
sor was  assigned  to  him  in  commendam.  This  affable, 
open-hearted,  and  bountiful  prelate  expended  consider- 
able sums  on  the  improvement  of  the  palace  here,  and 
took  a  special  interest  in  the  comforts  of  his  inferior 
clergy,  whose  means  of  decent  subsistence  had  hitherto 
been  too  little  considered.  In  the  vigour  of  life  he  was 

8  His  daughter  Aim,  married  in  our   first  of  which,  Frances   was  born  14th 


August,  1753,  and  had  six  children  ;  the 

M   2 


164  LIVES  OF  THE 

taken  off  at  Windsor,  on  27th  December,  1777,  and 
was  buried  in  its  collegiate  church.  His  daughter 
Laura  had  married  George  Ferdinand,  Lord  Southamp- 
ton, and  was  buried  18th  June,  1798,  in  this  cathedral : 
her  mother  was  a  natural  daughter  of  Sir  Edward 
Walpole,  K.B.,  second  son  of  the  celebrated  Sir  Eobert 
Walpole,  created  a  peer  9th  February,  1742.9 

ARMS  : — Gules,  three  Escalops  argent. 

JOHN  Ross,  born  at  Ross,  in  the  county  of  Hereford, 
on  25th  June,  1719.  This  learned  Member  of  the 
Royal  Society — as  modest  as  he  was  learned — was 
elected  successor  to  Bishop  Keppel  on  12th  January, 
1778,  was  consecrated  on  25th  of  same  month,  and 
reached  the  diocese  on  8th  June  following.  His  career 
was  gentle  and  unpretending,  making  himself  affable 
to  all.  Dying  at  the  palace  here  on  the  14th,  he  was 
buried  in  the  south  aisle  of  the  choir  of  his  cathedral 
on  18th  August,  1792. 

AEMS  :  -  Gules,  three  Water-budgets  argent. 

WILLIAM  BULLER,  youngest  son  of  John  Francis 
Buller,  Esq.,  by  Rebecca  his  wife  (daughter  of  Sir 
Jonathan  Trelawny,  Baronet,  D.D.,  sometime  Bishop 
of  Exeter,  and  afterwards  Lord  Bishop  of  Winchester), 
and  uncle  of  Sir  Francis  Buller,  Baronet,  the  celebrated 
judge  of  the  Common  Pleas,  was  baptized  at  Morvall, 
in  Cornwall,  on  9th  August,  1735.  Whilst  filling  the 
office  of  dean  (to  which  he  had  been  elected  on  25th 
March,  1784),  he  gave  up  his  residentiary  house  near 
the  cathedral  to  his  Majesty  King  George  III.  and  the 
royal  family,  when  they  honoured  Exeter  with  a  visit 
in  August,  1789.  Such  dutiful  and  hospitable  atten- 
tion was  rewarded  in  the  following  year  by  his  prefer- 
ment to  the  deanery  of  Canterbury ;  and  his  Majesty 

9  See  Banks'  '  Peerage,'  vol.  iii.,  p.  581,  note. 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETER.  165 

was  further  pleased  to  promote  him  to  this  vacant  see, 
and  on  2nd  December,  1792,  he  was  consecrated  at 
Lambeth.  He  lived  but  four  years  after  this  appoint- 
ment, dying  on  12th  December,  1796,  and  was  buried 
on  17th  of  same  month  in  the  south  aisle  of  the  cathe- 
'  dral  choir.  His  relict  Ann  (daughter  of  John  Thomas, 
D.D.,  Bishop  of  Winchester)  died  28th  August,  and 
was  interred  near  him  on  3rd  September,  1800,  aged 
63. 

ARMS: — Sable,  on  a  Cross   argent  quarterly,   pierced,   four 
Eaglets  displayed  of  the  first. 

HENRY  REGINALD  COURTENAY,  second  son  of  Henry 
Reginald  Courtenay,  the  fourth  son  of  Sir  William 
Smyth  Courtenay,  was  born  in  the  parish  of  St.  James, 
London,  on  27th  December,  1741.  This  respected  gen- 
tleman married,  24th  January,  1774,  Elizabeth,  eldest 
daughter  of  Thomas  Howard,  second  Earl  of  Effing- 
ham  ;  had  been  a  prebendary  of  Rochester,  rector  of 
Lee,  in  Kent,  and  of  St.  George's,  Hanover-square, 
London,  and  consecrated  Bishop  of  Bristol,  llth  May, 
1794,  before  his  translation  hither  on  10th  March, 
1797.  His  amiable  and  courteous  deportment  could 
not  fail  to  secure  to  him  the  affectionate  regard  of  all 
parties.  Dying  in  London  on  9th  June,  1803,  he  was 
buried  in  the  cemetery  of  Grosvenor  Chapel  there.  By 
his  lady,  who  survived  him  twelve  years,  he  left 
William,  the  late  Earl  of  Devon,  and  several  other 
children. 
ARMS  : — Or,  three  Torteauxes. 

JOHN  FISHER. — On  the  death  of  Bishop  Courtenay, 
John  Fisher,  D.D.,  canon  of  Windsor  (the  eldest  of  nine 
sons  of  John  Fisher,  Clerk,  M.A.,  Rector  of  Colborne, 
in  the  Isle  of  Wight),  was  nominated  his  successor.  He 
had  been  tutor  to  Edward,  Duke  of  Kent,  father  of  her 
present  Majesty,  Queen  Victoria.  His  consecration 


166  LIVES  OP  THE 

took  place  at  Lambeth,  according  to  his  Register,  on 
Sunday,  24th  July,  1803  ;  and,  shortly  after,  King 
George  III.  appointed  him  to  superintend  the  educa- 
tion of  his  royal  grand-daughter,  the  Princess  Charlotte 
of  Wales.  Of  this  responsible  charge  he  acquitted 
himself  with  exemplary  propriety  and  credit.  To  mark  • 
the  royal  approbation,  he  was  translated  to  Salisbury 
on  20th  July,  1807.  The  worthy  prelate  died  at  his 
house,  Seymour-street,  London,  on  8th  May,  1825, 
aged  76,  and  was  interred  in  St.  George's  Chapel, 
Windsor.  His  brother,  Jonathan  Parker  Fisher,  D.D., 
many  years  subdean  of  Exeter  and  rector  of  Faringdon, 
died  31st  July,  1838,  aged  79,  and  was  buried  in  this 
cathedral. 

ARMS  : — Sable,  on  a  Mound  of  Turf  proper,  two  Stags  salient 
respecting  each  other  argent,  collared  and  chained  or. 

GEORGE  PELHAM,  a  younger  son  of  Thomas,  second 
Earl  of  Chichester,  had,  previously  to  his  embracing 
the  ecclesiastical  profession,  entered  the  military  ser- 
vice. After  presiding  at  Bristol  for  four  years  as 
bishop  (having  been  consecrated  27th  March,  1803),  he 
was  installed  here  on  28th  September,  1807,  and  con- 
tinued for  thirteen  years  expecting  higher  preferment. 
At  length  he  was  translated  to  Lincoln,  in  October, 
1820.  He  died  at  his  house,  in  Connaught-place, 
London,  on  7th  February,  1827,  aged  61,  of  pleurisy, 
as  was  reported,  contracted  at  Windsor  whilst  attend- 
ing the  funeral  of  the  late  Duke  of  York,  on  20th 
January  that  year. 

ARMS  : — Azure,  three  Pelicans  argent,  vulning  themselves  in 
the  breast  gules. 

WILLIAM  CAREY  had  been  a  king's  scholar  at  West- 
minster, and  rose  to  become  its  head  master,  an  office 
which  he  filled  for  thirteen  years  with  great  satis- 
faction and  credit.  Elected  Bishop  of  Exeter  on  28th 


BISHOPS  OF  EXETEK,  167 

October,  1820,  he  was  consecrated  on  12th  November 
following.  Two  months  later  he  was  installed.  All 
concurred  in  opinion  that  he  was  exemplary  in  the  dis- 
charge of  his  official  duties.  On  7th  April,  1830,  he 
was  translated  to  St.  Asaph,  void  by  the  death  of 
Bishop  John  Luxmoore.  Here  he  sat  for  sixteen  years  ; 
dying  at  his  house  in  Portland-place,  London,  on  13th 
September,  1846,  aged  77. 

ARMS  : — Argent,  a  Bend  sable  charged  with  three  Roses  of 
the  first ;  on  a  chief  gules  two  Crosses  patee  or. 

CHRISTOPHER  BETHELL,  of  the  ancient  family  of 
Rise,  in  Yorkshire,  but  actually  born  at  Isleworth,  in 
1773.  He  was  educated  at  Eton,  from  whence,  in 
1791,  he  was  removed  to  King's  College,  Cambridge. 
Consecrated  Bishop  of  Gloucester  llth  April,  1824, 
translated  hither  from  Gloucester  in  April,  1830,  he 
had  hardly  seen  the  diocese,  when  he  was  transferred' 
to  the  see  of  Bangor  on  llth  November  following.  But 
we  may  say,  that,  in  consequence  either  of  the  non- 
residence,  or  the  translations10  to  richer  sees,  of  several 
of  his  predecessors,  the  Exeter  palace  had  been  suffered 
to  go  so  much  out  of  repair,  as  scarcely  to  be  habitable. 
After  attaining  the  good  old  age  of  86,  he  died  on  19th 
August,  1859. 

HENRY  PHILLPOTTS,  D.D.,  the  present  Lord  Bishop, 
"  son  of  John  and  Sibella  Phillpotts,  was  born  at 
Bridgewater,  6th  May,  1778,  at  5i  P.M."  At  the  age  of 
only  thirteen  years  and  a  half  he  was  elected  a  scholar  of 
Corpus  Christi,  Oxford,  was  ordained  deacon  by  Bishop 
Randolph  in  1802,  and  priest  by  Bishop  Majendie  in 
1804,  in  which  year  he  published  his  'Sermon  on  5th 
November,'  delivered  before  the  University  of  Oxford. 

10  Not  what  the  preacher  says,  The  preacher's  comment  on  the  text 

But  docs,  is  chiefly  to  ho  noted  :  Appears  a  variation  : 

"  Be  ye  immovable,"  he  cries,  Not  that  th'  original 's  perplex'd. 

But  off  he  goes — promoted.  The  fault 's  in  hie  translation. 


168  LIVES  OF  THE  BISHOPS  OF  EXETER. 

Since  that  period  his  ready  and  vigorous  pen  has  been 
employed  in  numberless  political  and  religious  produc- 
tions. Whilst  rector  of  Stanhope  and  dean  of  Chester, 
and  a  prebendary  of  Durham,  he  was  elected  by  the 
Chapter  of  Exeter  successor  to  Dr.  Bethell,  on  22nd 
November,  1830,  confirmed  on  9th  December,  conse- 
crated on  2nd  January,  1831,  and  installed  here  twelve 
days  later.  His  lordship  found  the  palace  in  a  very 
unfit  state  to  receive  him;  but  he  has  restored  it 'in  a 
most  creditable  manner.  And  all  must  admit  that, 
whilst  he  has  presided  longer  than  any  of  his  prede- 
cessors since  the  days  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  so  none  have 
surpassed  him  in  talents,  in  energetic  zeal  for  his 
church,  in  attention  to  the  respectability  and  comforts 
of  the  inferior  clergy,  and  in  the  diffusion  of  education. 


1ST0 


PALMER,  LITH. 


N?      9 


10. 


PALMER    EXETER. 


N?    15. 


14*. 


JST?     15 


PA  l.M  ER,  LITH,  EX 


HISTORY  OF  THE  CATHEDRAL. 


AN     ATTEMPT    TO     ILLUSTRATE 


THE 


CHRONOLOGICAL  HISTOEY, 


AND  THE 


ANCIENT  CUSTOMS,  TREASURES,  &  MONUMENTS, 


OF  THE 


CATHEDRAL  CHURCH  OF  EXETER; 


WITH  A 


DESCRIPTION  OF  ITS  ENVIRONS, 

CALLED  "THE  CLOSE." 


HISTORY  OF  THE  CATHEDRAL, 

&c.  &c. 


CHAPTER   I. 


HISTORY  OF  THE  CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER. 

A  CATHEDRAL  edifice  has  been  properly  described  as  a 
monument  of  art  and  science — an  important  record  of 
the  ecclesiastical  customs,  manners,  and  taste  of  our 
ancestors.  It  shows  what  our  forefathers  were,  and 
what  they  did,  and  how  they  operated.  It  serves  at 
once  to  make  us  wise  and  humble,  as  it  induces  us  to 
emulate  their  merits  and  to  question  our  own.  As  an 
object  of  beauty  and  curiosity — and  of  a  remote  period 
— venerable  in  its  economy  and  sacred  rites,  and  dedi- 
cated to  the  sublimest  purposes,  it  may  be  safely  con- 
tended that  no  work  of  man  is  to  be  compared  to  the 
grand,  ancient,  Christian  church.  The  philosophic  and 
scientific  antiquary  analyses  its  design  and  execution, 
and  thence  endeavours  to  appreciate  the  characteristics 
of  the  age  and  of  the  artist.  In  its  chronological  his- 
tory it  points  out  the  progress  of  improvement  in  the 
principles  of  taste  and  beauty.1 

Of  the  abbey  church  of  the  Blessed  Mary  and  St. 
Peter,  founded  in  Exeter  by  king  Athelstan 2  about  the 
year  932,  and  reinforced  by  a  body  of  monks  by  king 
Edgar  thirty-six  years  later,  and,  with  its  charters, 


1  See  Mr.  Britton's  '  History  and  De- 
scription of  Bath  Church  in  1825  ;'  also 
his  evidence  taken  before  the  Select 
Committee  of  the  House  of  Commons 
on    National    Monuments,    27th  May, 
1841. 

2  Prefixed  to  the  ancient  Catalogue 
of  Relics  formerly  kept  in  this  cathe- 
dral is  a  memorandum  stating  that  the 


donor  of  the  greatest  part  of  them  was 
the  glorious  King  Athelstan,  "  primus 
fundator  ecclesise  S.  Mariae  et  S.  Petri, 
Exon."  The  collection,  however,  does 
little  credit  to  his  discrimination.  In 
the  archives  of  the  dean  and  chapter 
may  be  seen  his  grant  of  five  "  cassati 
terras"  (carucates),  or  rather  messuages, 
in  Culmpstock  to  this  his  abbey  church. 


174 


HISTORY  OF  THE 


utterly  destroyed  and  reduced  to  ashes  by  Sweyn  in 
August  1003,  no  details  have  reached  our  times.  Of 
its  successor,  so  liberally  endowed  by  Canute,  as  his 
charter  to  its  abbot,  Akelwoldus,  abundantly  proves, 
we  glean  but  slender  materials.  Probably  it  was  low 
in  height  and  curtailed  in  dimensions,  yet  may  have 
been  the  best  ecclesiastical  edifice  in  this  city,  for  it 
was  assigned  by  Edward  the  Confessor,  in  1050,  to 
Bishop  Leofric  for  his  cathedral.  To  the  seven  bells 
which  Leofric  found  there  he  is  recorded  to  have  added 
six  others  and  a  dozen  smaller  ones,3  perhaps  for  chimes. 
A  building,  however,  that  may  have  satisfied  the  first 
bishop  of  Exeter,  and  even  his  immediate  successor 
Osbern,  a  noted  lover  of  primitive  simplicity  ("  con- 
suetudines  Regis  Edwardi  efferens,  veteribus  contentus 
edificiis" — Wil.  Malm.),  would  ill  accord  with  the  taste 
and  views  of  the  next  prelate,  William  Warelwast.  He 
had  been  a  frequenter  of  the  court  of  his  uncle,  William 
the  Conqueror,  and  of  his  royal  cousins,  William  Rufus 
and  Henry  I. ;  he  had  been  employed  in  various  foreign 
embassies ;  he  had  witnessed  throughout  other  parts  of 
England  the  rapid  progress  of  a  grander  style  of  archi- 
tecture;4 he  had  ample  resources  at  his  command;  he 
was  in  possession  of  his  sovereign's  favour ;  and  he 
determined  on  erecting  a  cathedral  that,  by  style  and 
execution,  should  do  honour  to  religion  and  to  the 
spirit  of  the  age.  The  date  of  its  commencement,  1112, 
is  supplied  by  the  Chronicon  of  the  Church  of  Exeter, 
preserved  among  Archbishop  Laud's  collection  of 


3  "Erant  autem   antea  nisi  septem 
campansB  suspensse  mine  sunt  tredecim 
suspensse,    preter    duodecim    tintinna- 
bula." — 'Mon.  Angl.'  vol.  ii.  p.  527,  edit. 
1817. 

4  "Videas  ubique  in  villis  ecclesias, 
in  vicis    et   urbibus   monasteria    novo 
sedificandi    gencre    consurgere."— Wil. 
Malmes.  '  De  Gestis  Rerum,'  lib.  iii.  p. 
102,   edit.    Frankfort.      To    the    same 
purpose  Ordericus  Vitalis  had  written 
in  the  1  Oth  book  of  his  '  Ecclesiastical 
History    : — "  Henrici    Regis    tempore, 


omnis  ordo  religiosorum  pace  fruens 
et  prosperitate,  in  omnibus  quse  ad 
cultum  Deitatis  omnipoteiitissimse,  intus 
ef  exterius  suam  diligentiam  satagit  ex- 
hibere.  Unde  Templa  Domosque  fer- 
vens  fidelium  devotio  prsesumit  proster- 
nere,  eademque  melioranda  renovando 
iterare.  Prisca  ergo  JEdificia,  quae  sub 
Edgaro  vcl  Eduardo  illisque  Christianis 
regibus  constructa  sunt,  dejiciuntur,  ut 
amplitudine,  seu  magnitudine,  vel  ope- 
ris  elegantia  ad  laudem  Oeatoris  com- 
pe tenter  emendentur." 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  175 

manuscripts  at  Oxford,  and  the  Harleian  manuscripts 
in  the  British  Museum,  "  Anno  Domini  M°  centesimo 
xu°  primo  fundata  est  Exon  ecclesia."  Yet  this  cathe- 
dral was  destined  to  suffer  considerable  injury,  even 
before  the  death  of  the  founder,  for  King  Stephen 
besieged  the  city  in  the  summer  of  1136.  It  was  three 
months  before  he  subdued  it,  and  in  the  course  of  his 
assaults  he  had  caused  such  damage  to  the  church  that 
lie  granted  to  its  Chapter  a  yearly  rent  of  11.  105., 
charged  on  the  manor  of  Colyton,  as  a  compensation  — 
"pro  restauratione  dampnorum  quae  feceram  eidem 
ecclesias  in  obsidione."  It  may  have  sustained  further 
damages  in  the  year  1161,  when  Exeter  was  the 
victim  of  a  conflagration.5 

Of  this  church  we  can  trace  no  portions  except  in 
the  massive  north  and  south  towers,  in  the  great  cir- 
cular door  leading  into  the  Cloisters,  and,  perhaps,  in 
the  walls  of  the  chapels  of  St.  Andrew  and  St.  James, 
which  may  have  served  for  transepts.  Whoever  will 
carefully  inspect  these  chapels,  and  the  groining  of  the 
corbels  of  the  Exchequer-room  over  St.  Andrew's,  and 
of  the  Muniment-room  over  St.  James's,  will,  we  appre- 
hend, arrive  at  the  same  conclusion.  At  what  period 
this  later  alteration  was  accomplished,  in  contemplation 
of  a  larger  cathedral,  must  remain  an  open  question. 
May  we  be  allowed  to  suggest  that  it  was  effected 
during  the  episcopate  of  Bishop  Walter  Bronescombe, 
between  1258  and  1280.  6  The  Exchequer-room  over 
St.  Andrew's  Chapel,  on  the  north  side,  may  have  been 
first  completed,  as  a  place  of  security  for  royal  charters, 
papal  bulls,  title-deeds,  and  other  valuable  records  ;  and 
we  observe  at  the  end  of  this  bishop's  Register  a  cata- 
logue of  13  C  documents  of  this  description,  with  the 
following  heading  —  "  Ista  fuerunt  in  Thesauraria  Exon, 
tempore  Walteri  primi  dimissa." 

5   "  Anno    MCLXI    Exonia    combusta    vol.  i.  p.  300. 


est."  —  'Annal.  Eccl.  Wint.   Ang.  Sac.' 


6  He  died  on  22ud  July,  1280. 


176 


HISTORY  OF  THE 


Unfortunately  the  fabric-rolls  are  not  extant  pre- 
vious to  the  year  1279.  Yet  this  first  roll,  commenc- 
ing with  Michaelmas-day  in  that  year,  contains  a  pay- 
ment made  on  the  following  day  of  85.  9d.  for  making 
three  windows  in  St.  James's  Chapel  by  order  of 
the  steward  —  "  In  crastino  Sancti  Michaelis,  A.D. 
MCCLXXIX,  pro  in  fenestris  ad  capellam  beati  Jacobi, 
ex  precepto  Seneschalli,  vms.  ixd."  Under  this  chapel, 
due  south  of  St.  Andrew's,  is  a  crypt,  coeval,,  we 
think,  with  William  Warelwast's  foundation. 

The  altar  of  St.  John  the  Baptist  had  stood  within 
the  south  tower,  and  the  altar  of  St.  Paul  within  the 
north  tower,  until  their  removal,  as  we  learn  from  the 
fabric-rolls  of  1284  and  1285,  into  the  chapels  adjoin- 
ing, which  still  retain  their  names.  %0f  the  ancient 
nave,  which  may  have  extended  to  the  north  porch, 
inclusively,  we  can  recover  but  few  particulars.  From 
the  deed  of  appropriation  of  Up-Ottery  Church  in  1270 
by  Bishop  Bronescombe  to  his  Dean  and  Chapter  ('  Reg.' 
fol.  46),  we  collect  that  a  mortuary  altar,  under  the 
title  of  St.  John  the  Baptist  and  Saints  Blaze  and 
Pieran,  stood  in  that  nave — "  Altari  in  honore  beati 
Johannis  Baptistse  et  Sanctorum  Blasii  et  Pyrani  in 
navi  dictse  ecclesise  Exoniensis  dedicato,  et  ad  hoc 
assignato."  *  We  meet  in  Bishop  Quivil's  confirmation 
of  the  church  of  Wydecombe-in-the-Moor  to  the  Chapter, 
dated  3rd  February,  1283,  with  the  altar  of  Saints 
Richard  and  Radegundes,  as  assigned  to  celebrate  the 
obit  of  the  late  Dean,  Roger  de  Thoriz.  In  another 
deed,  dated  Exeter,  30th  December,  1292,  we  find  that 
the  late  precentor,  Walter  de  Lechelade,  lay  buried  in 
front  of  the  altar  of  St.  Edward  the  Confessor  ;  and, 


7  Subsequently,  it  seems,  such  pecu- 
liar and  privileged  altar  was  removed 
to  a  chapel  in  the  cemetery,  north-west 
of  the  church,  near  St.  Peter's  Conduit. 
It  is  sometimes  called  the  Charnel 
Chapel.  John  de  Lydeford  was  ap- 


pointed on  18th  March,  1323,  Chantry 
Priest  "  capellse,  que  in  cemeterio  ina- 
joris  ecclesiae  Exon.  situata,  vulgariter 
vocata  Charner."  —  Stapeldon's  'Reg.' 
fol.  175.  In  the  Fabric-roll  of  1329  it 
is  styled  "Nova  Capella." 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  177 

again,  Walter  de  Puntyngdon,  Precentor  of  the  cathe- 
dral, had  granted  to  the  Chapter  on  2nd  February, 
1301,  yearly  rents  amounting  to  31.  Ss.  £d.  to  maintain 
his  obit — "  Ad  altare  beatae  Mariae  et  beati  Thomse 
martyris,  juxta  vestibulum  Ecclesise  Cathedralis."  The 
mending  of  one  great  window  in  this  nave  is  mentioned 
in  the  fabric-roll  of  1318. 

To  Bishop  Peter  Quivil,  the  successor  of  Walter 
Bronescombe,  belongs  the  honour  of  obtaining  new 
transepts,  by  breaking  through  the  inner  walls  of  both 
the  Norman  towers,  and  of  forming  an  arch  in  each,  of 
the  height  of  the  intended  choir  and  nave.  It  was  a 
bold  conception,  and  as  skilfully  executed.  The  fabric- 
rolls  of  his  time  demonstrate  that  he  introduced  a 
larger  window  in  either  tower,  and  we  are  disposed  to 
believe  that  he  altered  the  architectural  features  of  the 
Lady  Chapel  and  inserted  its  present  windows.  In  the 
centre  of  this  chapel  were  deposited  his  mortal  remains. 

The  Eegister  of  his  successor  in  the  see,  Thomas 
Bitton,  has  been  lost  for  centuries.  The  fabric-rolls, 
however,  testify  to  the  encouragement  he  gave  to  the 
prosecution  of  the  new  work  in  collecting  materials,  flag- 
ging part  of  the  south  aisle  of  the  choir,  and  glazing 
the  windows  of  the  Lady  Chapel  and  of  St.  Mary  Mag- 
dalene's and  St.  Gabriel's  also.  The  appropriation- 
deed  of  Westleigh  to  the  Chapter,  dated  17th  August, 
1310,  commemorates  the  zeal  and  liberality  of  this 
deceased  prelate  in  promoting  the  undertaking. 

The  memory  of  the  next  bishop,  Walter  de  Stapel- 
don,  must  ever  be  entitled  to  grateful  admiration  for 
his  indefatigable  spirit  and  munificence.  The  fabric- 
rolls  attest  that  he  contributed  upwards  of  1800/. 
sterling  to  the  work ;  an  enormous  sum  in  those  days. 
In  the  Appendix  will  appear  his  benefactions  in  books 
and  vestments.  During  the  period  of  his  government 
considerable  cargoes  of  stone  were  imported  from  the 

N 


178  HISTORY  OF  THE 

quarries  of  Caen.  He  completed  the  gorgeous  high- 
altar  of  silver,  with  its  costly  canopy  and  matchless 
sedilia.  It  seems  that  he  commenced  the  new  cloisters, 
for  we  meet  with  a  charge  for  heads  or  corbels  for  the 
vaulting  or  groining,  and  for  Silverton-stone  to  form 
the  guttering ;  and  he  rebuilt  the  four  higher  arches  on 
either  side  of  the  choir,  with  the  corresponding  portions 
of  the  north  and  south  aisles. 

In  the  patent-rolls  of  1317  is  recorded  King  Edward 
II/s  confirmation  of  this  bishop's  grant  of  a  tenement 
in  Paignton  to  Robert  Fitz- Walter  by  the  service  of 
one  penny,  and  of  ringing  the  bells  and  repairing  the 
organs  and  clocks  in  the  church  of  Exeter. 

But  it  was  reserved  to  Bishop  Grrandisson  to  accom- 
plish the  new  work.  At  his  accession  he  found  ready 
at  his  hand  an  immense  accumulation  of  materials — 
stone,  iron,  lead,  timber,  and  scaffolding.  One  of  the 
last  purchases  of  Bishop  Stapeldon  in  London  had  been 
of  timber  for  his  church,  in  the  course  of  the  year 
1326  ;  but  his  barbarous  murder  on  the  15th  October, 
in  the  same  year,  arrested  further  progress. 

When  Grandisson  visited  his  diocese  he  found  the 
cathedral  in  a  very  unfinished  and  deplorable  condi- 
tion. To  use  his  own  language,  it  had  been  begun  in 
a  respectable  and  magnificent  manner,  yet  the  greater 
portion  of  the  edifice  remained  to  be  completed — 
"  Fabrica  ecclesise  Exon  decenter  et  magnified  inchoata 
pro  majori  parte  adhuc  remanet  construenda  "  ('Reg.' 
vol.  i<  fol.  39).  He  forwarded  the  works  of  the  choir 
with  such  activity  that  on  Sunday,  18th  December, 
1328,  he  was  enabled  to  perform  the  dedication  of  its 
high-altar  in  honour  of  our  Lady  and  the  apostles 
Peter  and  Paul — "  Memorandum  quod  die  Dominica 
proximo,  post  festum  Sanctae  Luciae  Yirginis,  scilicet 
xv  kalendaa  Januarii  (18th  December),  anno,  &c. 
(regni  Regis  Edwardi  tertii  a  conquestu  secundo) 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  179 

Dominus  dedicavit  majus  altare  in  choro  Ecclesiae 
Catliedralis  Exon,  in  honore  beatissimae  Dei  Genetricis 
atque  semper  Yirginis,  et  beatorum  Apostolorum  Petri 
et  Pauli,  quibus  etiam  curam  et  custodiam  ejusdem 
altaris  commendavit "  ( '  Reg.'  vol.  ii.  fol.  102).  Of 
this  event  lie  gave  notice  to  his  promoter,  Pope  John 
XXII.,  and  to  the  College  of  Cardinals,  and  he  hesi- 
tated not  to  add,  that  the  fabric  now  nearly  half 
finished  would,  if  completed,  be  admired  for  its  beauty 
above  every  other  of  its  kind  within  the  realms  of 
England  or  France — "  Ecclesia  Exoniensis  fere  ad  me- 
dium constructa,  mirabili  super  ceteras  in  genere  suo 
Anglie  vel  Francie,  si  perficiatur,  pulchritudine  reni- 
nebit "  ('Reg.'  vol.  i.  fol.  37);  and  Grandisson  sur- 
vived to  finish  the  nave  in  a  style  of  uniformity  and 
good  taste  which  must  ever  immortalize  his  memory. 

The  *  Fabric  Rolls '  do  not  enable  us  to  pursue,  so 
satisfactorily  as  we  could  wish,  the  details  of  progress. 
In  January,  1333,  William  Canon,  a  resident  mason  at 
Corfe,  in  Dorsetshire,  contracted  to  furnish  the  Chapter 
with  Purbeck  pillars  for  the  nave,  viz.  twelve  great 
columns  and  two  half-columns  at  10£.  16s.  the  column, 
and  bases  and  capitals  at  5s.  each.  Immense  quantities 
of  building-stone  were  procured  from  the  quarries  of 
Silverton,  Wonford,  Whipton,  Raddori,  Barley,  Brans- 
combe,  Saltcombe,  and  Beer  in  Devonshire ;  from 
Hameldon  in  Somersetshire  ;  and  from  Caen  in  Nor- 
mandy. The  Bishop,  on  receiving  a  petition  from  the 
Dean  and  Chapter  for  a  grant  of  more  timber  to  com- 
plete the  work,  issued  the  following  order  on  5th  July, 
1338,  to  his  agents  at  Chudleigh,  for  the  delivery  of 
twelve  suitable  oaks  from  his  wood  there  ('  Reg.'  vol.  ii. 
fol.  2105). 

"  Au  Bailiff  et  Provost  de  Chuddelegh,  Saluz.  Parceo 
que  le  Dean  et  Chapitre  d  Excestre  nous  ount  ore  tard 
requis,  que  nous  lour  cidessioms  de  merym  a  perfourmer 

N  2 


180 


HISTORY  OF  THE 


loeur  (oeuvre)  de  nre  Eglise  d  Excestre,  nous  mandoms 
que  vous  facez  liverer  au  gardeyne  de  meisme  loevr  xii. 
cheynes  convenables  pour  la  dite  Eglise  et  a  meyndre 
damage  de  nous,  selont  lavisement  Sir  Thomas  de 
Doultecote  nre  clerk  et  Maistre  Thomas  le  Maceoun. 
Et  les  ramailles  et  les  braunches  larbres  faites  carrier  a 
nre  Court  pour  notre  demoere  en  yver.  Don  a  nre 
manoir  de  Clist  le  v  jour  de  Juyl  Tan  de  notre 
Sacre  xi."  8 

But  amidst  all  these  preparations  the  Bishop,  taking 
into  consideration  the  emergencies  and  difficulties  of  the 
times  and  the  progress  of  the  mortality  which  was  deso- 
lating the  European  continent,  and  subsequently  visited 
and  ravaged  this  country  at  Michaelmas,  1348,  may  have 
calculated  that  he  should  never  live  to  complete  the  nave, 
and  that  it  would  therefore  be  expedient  to  provide 
for  himself  a  place  of  interment.  The  ground-plan  of 
the  church  lay  open  before  him,  and  he  fixed  that  his 
remains  should  be  deposited  on  the  south  side  of  the 
intended  grand  western  entrance.  We  think  it  pro- 
bable that  the  spot  formed  the  site  of  an  ancient  chapel 
dedicated  to  St.  Radegundes  (the  queen  of  Clotaire  I.), 
and  who  died  13th  August,  587.  The  name  of  this 
chapel  within  St.  Peter's  Cemetery  twice  occurs  in  a 
deed  belonging  to  the  Chapter,  and  is  dated  in  the 
mayoralty  of  Walter  Turbert,  A.D.  1220,  and  attested 
by  Simon  de  Apulia,  then  bishop,  and  by  Henry,  then 
archdeacon,  of  Exeter.  The  '  Fabric  Roll '  of  the  year 
1350  contains  the  charges  for  glazing  the  two  windows 


8  Chudleigh  Wood  had  for  centuries 
been  the  property  of  the  see.  Bishop 
Bartholomew  had  granted  in  the  12tlv 
century  the  bark  of  its  felled  trees  to 
the  Lepers'  Hospital,  Exeter.  In  Sta- 
peldon's  'Keg.'  fol.  4,  is  his  order, 
dated  4th  May,  1308,  for  the  delivery 
of  four  good  trees  "  de  bosco  nostro  de 
Chuddelegh,"  to  be  used  in  rebuilding 
the  rectory  house  at  Ermington,  pro- 
vided always,  that  the  trees  marked 


("signati  pro  fabrica  novi  operis  Exon.") 
remained  untouched.  In  times  of  the 
vacancy  of  the  see  it  appears  that  the 
Crown  made  free  for  its  own  purposes 
with  the  episcopal  woods.  Thus  King 
John,  on  6th  April,  1208,  issued  his 
order  to  the  bailiffs  of  the  bishopric 
of  Exeter  to  deliver  here  from  the  woods 
of  the  bishop  "centum  cheverones  et 
quadraginta  gistas  ad  reparationem 
castri  nostri  Exon." — '  Close  Rolls.' 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  181 

of  St.  Radegunde's  Chapel ;  as  also  the  charge  for  nine 
bars  of  iron  to  secure  those  windows ;  and  in  this  very 
chapel,  according  to  the  founder's  will,  dated  8th  Sep- 
tember, 1368 — "Corpus  vero  meum  volo  quod  sepeli- 
atur  extra  ostium  occidentale  Ecclesiae  Exon.  ita  cele- 
riter  sicut  fieri  poterit " — were  "honourably  deposited 
his  remains  after  his  death,  which  occurred  15th  July, 
1369,  and  were  religiously  protected,  until  they  were 
ungratefully  disturbed  and  flung  aside  by  sacrilegious 
fanaticism  towards  the  conclusion  of  Queen  Elizabeth's 
reign. 

Within  three  years  after  the  adaptation  and  fitting 
up  of  this  chantry  chapel  we  find  the  following  memo- 
randum in  the  '  Fabric-Boll ': — "  Prima  Septimana  post 
festum  Trinitatis,  viz.  xx  die  Maii,  MCCCLIII,  fait 
inceptio  novi  operis  ecclesiae  beati  Petri  cor  am  magna 
cruce"  In  other  words,  the  nave,  from  the  roodloft, 
was  commenced  20th  May,  1353,  and  the  venerable 
prelate  survived  sixteen  years  to  finish  the  work  and 
to  perform  its  solemn  dedication.  We  bitterly  lament 
that  the  Rolls  of  this  very  interesting  period  remain 
undiscovered. 

Bishop  Thomas  Brantyngham,  successor  to  Grandis- 
son,  may  claim  the  honour  of  erecting  the  west  front, 
or  fa9ade,  and  the  greater  portion  of  the  cloisters.  To 
designate  each  one  of  the  sixty -eight  statues  (includ- 
ing the  four  emblematic  figures  of  the  Cardinal  Virtues 
over  the  west  porch  of  the  north  aisle) — representing 
the  apostles,  the  kings  of  England  before  and  after  the 
Conquest,  and  the  bishops  up  to  his  accession — after 
such  a  lapse  of  years,  such  exposure  to  the  weather, 
such  neglect,  and  so  much  injury  inflicted  by  wanton 
mischief,  must  be  a  conjectural  task.  St.  George,  how- 
ever, on  the  right  of  the  west  entrance,  in  his  hauber- 
geon  of  chain-mail  with  sleeves,  may  be  recognised  by 
his  escutcheon  on  his  cyclas  (argent,  a  Cross  gules). 


182 


HISTORY  OF  THE 


His  arms,  legs,  and  hands,  are  protected  by  plate- 
armour,  and  he  wears  the  military  belt.  Athelstan, 
the  original  founder  of  the  church,  appears  with  his 
shield  (saltier,  gules  and  azure ;  on  a  mound  a  Cross 
botony,  crowned  or).  Edward  the  Confessor  (azure, 
a  Cross  potence,  between  five  Martlets  or).  And  King 
Richard  II.,  who  impaled  the  arms  of  England  with 
those  of  Edward  the  Confessor.  The  three  last  figures 
were  replaced  by  the  late  John  Kendall.  The  spec- 
tator will  observe  that  the  lower  tier  is  supported  by 
angels.  Originally  this  fa9ade  was  painted  and  gilt ; 
and  although  such  a  style  of  decoration  may  appear  to 
be  incongruous,  yet  it  must  have  proved  a  protection 
from  the  effects  of  the  sea-air  and  the  variations  of  our 
climate.  We  must  also  admit  that  gold  on  marble  was 
in  vogue  with  the  ancients,  as  the  works  of  Phidias  in 
the  Parthenon  demonstrate ;  and  none  of  us  can  forget 
the  description  in  the  first  book  of  the  -ZEneid — 

"Farms  lapis  circumdatus  auro." 

Thus  in  the  space  of  about  120  years  the  new  work 
of  this  cathedral  was  completed.  Well  might  Bishop 
Brantyngham,  who  died  in  December,  1394,  dignify  it 
as  "  the  mother  and  mistress  of  all  the  churches  in  the 
diocese"  ('Reg.'  vol.  i.  fol.  2155.).9 


9  Bishop  Grandisson,  on  26th  May, 
1335,  confirmed  an  ordinance  of  Bishop 
Marshall,  made  140  years  before,  and 
sanctioned  shortly  after  by  Bishop 
Brewer,  that  all  residents  within  the 
diocese  should  testify  to  the  honour 
and  dignity  of  the  cathedral  by  their 
offerings  at  Pentecost,  as  was  customary 
in  other  churches.  With  this  view  all 
incumbents  are  enjoined  to  keep  a  list 
of  their  parishioners'  names,  and  to 
transmit  a  copy  of  the  same  to  be  pre- 
served in  the  cathedral  archives,  adding, 
"  Quilibet  capellanus  pro  quolibet  paro- 
chiano  suo,  qui  locum  et  focum  teneat, 
et  cum  facultas  suppetat,  de  obolo  re- 
spondeat  ad  minus." — 'Reg.'  vol.  ii.  fol. 
191.  The  late  Mr.  John  Jones,  in  his 
'  Account  of  the  Constitutions  of  Exeter 


Church,'  p.  33,  and  Mr.  Britton  in  his 
'History'  of  it,  p.  24,  have  confined 
their  attention  to  the  Letters  Patent  of 
King  Henry  VIII.,  dated  9th  November, 
1538,  viz.  : — "  Henricus  Octavus,  Dei 
gratia  Anglie  et  Francie  Rex,  Fidei 
Defensor,  Dominus  Hibernie,  et  in  terra 
Supremum  Caput  Anglicane  Ecclesie 
universis  et  singulis,  utriusque  sexus 
personis  per  civitatem  et  diocesim  Ex- 
^pnie  ubilibet  constitutis,  Salutem.  Ra- 
cioni  congruit  et  convenit  equitati  ut  ea 
que  pro  Ecclesiis  Cathedralibus  in  statu 
prospero  et  decoro  conservandis  pio  et 
longevo  usu  homimna  racionabiliter  in- 
troducta  sunt.irrefragabili  confirmationis 
robore  muniantur :  cum  itaque  sicut  ficle- 
digno  accepimus  testimonio  in  civitate 
et  diocesi  predictis  ab  immemorabili 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  183 

For  chaste,  correct,  and  uniform  adherence  to  the 
best  style  of  English  Pointed  architecture  we  may 
challenge  it  to  compete  with  any  cathedral  in  the 
kingdom . 


CHAPTER  II. 

ACCOUNT  OF  THE  FABKIC-KOLLS. 

THESE  Rolls  extend,  with  some  interruptions,  during 
the  course  of  160  years,  viz.  from  Michaelmas,  12T9, 
to  Michaelmas,  1439.  Some  have  been  damaged  by 
wet ;  some  injured  from  the  unskilful  application  of 
galls ;  some,  we  fear,  have  irrecoverably  disappeared ; 
but,  for  the  greater  part,  they  are  in  a  fair  state  of 
preservation.  They  were  kept  very  methodically  by 
the  "  Gustos  novi  operis  ecclesise  beati  Petri  Exon.,"  an 
officer  appointed  by  the  dean  and  chapter,  with  a  salary 
of  12s.  6d.  per  quarter,  and  he  was  frequently  allowed 
an  assistant.  The  Rolls  are  usually  headed  with  the 
balance  in  hand  from  the  last  audit,  with  the  receipts 
arising  from  the  personal  sacrifices  of  the  dignitaries 
and  canons,  from  collections  made  throughout  the  dio- 

evo  talis  inoleverit  consuetude,  ut  vide-  que  ad  usum  supradictuin  petere  et 
licet  omnes  et  singule  utriusque  sexus  j  levare,  absque  impedimento  nostro  vel 
persone  larem  et  domicilium  in  civitate  j  heredum  iiostrorum,  aut  aliorum  quo- 
vel  diocesi  hujusmodi  pro  tempore  j  rumcumque.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium 
foventes  sive  moram  infra  easdem  tra-  ;  has  Litteras  nostras  fieri  fecimus  pa- 
hentes  unum  quadrantem  monete  nostre  j  tentes.  Teste  me  ipso  apud  Westmo- 
Anglie  ad  usum  t'abrice  Ecclesie  Cathe-  ]  nasterium,  IIODO  die  Novembris,  anno 
dralis  Sancti  Petri  Exonie  quotannis  regni  nostri  tricesimo."  This  ordinance 
teneantur  erogare,  nos  consuetudinem  j  was  confirmed  by  Queen  Elizabeth,  4th 
hujusmodi  piam  et  laudabilem  reputan-  '  March,  1563. 

tes  earn  motu  proprio  et  ex  certa  nostra  In  the  will  of  Hugh  Utlegh,  rector  of 
sciencia  pro  perpetuo  confirmamus  ac  St.  Martin's,  Exon.,  bearing  date  14th 
preseiitis  scripti  nostri  patrocinio  commu-  |  May,  1544,  and  proved  before  John 
nimus.  Ita  quod  licebit  prefate  Ecclesie  j  Blaxton,  Bishop  Veysey's  Commissary, 
Cathedralis  nunciis  seu  procuratoribus  j  on  6th  October  following,  is  this  clause 
ad  vos  et  ecclesias  vestras  parochiales  j  — "  I  give  and  bequeth  to  every  house- 
pro  dictis  colligendis  quadrantibus,  juxta  holder  payenge  Dominicale  offerynges 
morern  preteriti  temporis,  accedere,  eos-  withyn  Saynt  Martyn  ys  Paryshe  iind." 


184  HISTORY  OF  THE 

cese,  from  contributions  of  individuals,  from  bequests, 
from  burial-perquisites  within  the  church  and  adjoining 
cemetery,  from  the  sales  of  waste  materials,  from  the 
obventions  at  Pentecost  and  on  the  feast  of  St.  Peter 
ad  Yincula  (1st  August),  and  from  the  offerings  dropped 
into  the  red  box — "area  rubea" — placed  in  the  nave 
for  that  purpose,  and  into  another  box  lying  at  the  feet 
of  the  figure  of  old  St.  Peter — "  ad  pedes  veteris  Petri " 
—a  figure  repainted  in  1426  by  John  Budd,  an  Exeter 
artist.  Then  follow  the  expenses  incurred  in  each  of 
the  thirteen  weeks  of  the  Michaelmas  quarter,  either  in 
wages  to  the  several  workmen,  or  in  the  purchases  of 
materials  and  the  charges  of  carriage.  The  quarter's 
amount  is  then  summed  up,  and  the  same  system,  with 
the  exception  of  the  heading,  is  pursued  through  the 
other  quarters.  The  four  quarters  were  then  sewed 
together ;  after  which  follow  the  expenses  of  obits,  the 
details  of  extraordinary  and  of  necessary  disbursements, 
with  the  dead  stock  in  hand,  and  the  balance  of  money 
to  be  carried  on  to  the  next  year.  The  whole  account 
was  then  submitted  to  the  auditors  appointed  by  the 
chapter.  These  Rolls  are  on  parchment,  and  of  various 
lengths ;  several  from  nine  to  fifteen  feet :  one  extends 
to  the  length  of  eighteen  feet.  They  are  invariably 
nine  inches  wide. 

The  trades  of  quarryman,  mason,  carpenter,1  plumber, 
and  painter,  were  always  rewarded  with  higher  wages. 
In  1308  the  quarryman  had  Is.  2d.  a  day.  Generally 
master-masons  and  plumbers  received  at  the  rate  of  from 
4Jd.  to  6d. ;  carpenters  and  painters  averaged  the  same ; 
but  the  head-mason,  or  overseer  of  the  works,  had  an 
additional  salary  of  II,  6s.  Sd. 

To  the  artist  the  minutest  details  about  oil  painting 

1  We  are  therefore  surprised  that  I  penter,  who  was  maimed  whilst  working 
King  Edward  III.  should  have  limited  |  at  the  repairs  ordered  by  the  king  at 
his  pension,  anno  1357,  to  three  half-  |  Westminster, 
pence  a-day  to  Kichard  Banwell,  car- 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  185 

will  afford  special  interest.  As  early  as  1301  we  find  a 
charge  for  painting  some  of  the  vaulting  with  gold, 
silver,  azure,  and  other  colours.  In  1308  we  meet  with 
purchases  of  red  and  of  white  lead,  of  sinople,  varnish 
and  oil.  In  1320  Bishop  Stapeldon  procured  in  London 
for  the  new  work,  considerable  quantities  of  verdigris, 
and  azure,  and  ynde  bandas,  and  vermilion,  white  var- 
nish, sinople,  and  gold-leaf,  and  blamplyn,  and  oil,  pro 
picturd.  In  the  following  year  occur  payments  "  pic- 
tori  pro  imaginibus,"  and  for  a  plate  to  grind  his 
colours.  But  we  cannot  subscribe  to  Mr.  Britton's 
opinion,  in  his  description  of  this  cathedral  (p.  121), 
that  the  thirteen  oil-paintings  in  the  arched  compart- 
ments of  the  roodloft,  representing — 

1.  The  Creation. 

2.  The  expulsion  of  Adam  and  Eve  from  Paradise. 

3.  The  Deluge. 

4.  The  submersion  of  Pharaoh  and  his  Army  in  the  Eed  Sea* 

5.  The  Pillage  and  Destruction  of  Solomon's  Temple. 

6.  The  building  of  the  Second  Temple. 

7.  The  Angel  Gabriel's  appearance  to  Zacharias  the  Priest. 

8.  The  Nativity  of  our  Lord  at  Bethlehem. 

9.  The  Baptism  of  Christ  by  John. 

10.  The  taking  down  of  Christ  from  his  Cross. 

1 1.  The  Kesurrection  of  Christ. 

12.  The  Ascension  of  Christ. 

13.  The  Descent  of  the  Holy  Ghost  on  the  assembled  Apostles 

at  Pentecost — 

are  coeval  with  the  roodloft  itself,  and  rank  among  the 
very  earliest  examples  of  oil-painting  in  this  country. 
The  costumes  of  the  figures  and  the  style  of  architec- 
ture introduced  would  seem  to  prove  that  they  were 
executed  three  centuries  later.  Evidently  they  are 
painted  on  a  stone  surface  which  had  never  been 
painted  before?  as  the  late  Sir  Samuel  Rush  Meyrick 
and  Edward  Smirke,  Esq.,  distinctly  ascertained,  after 
minute  examination,  in  the  summer  of  1847.  Though 
we  have  not  positive  evidence,  we  are  inclined  to 


186  HISTORY  OF  THE 

believe  that  they  were  executed  in  the  reign  of  King 
Charles  I. ;  perhaps  ahout  the  time  when  Archdeacon 
Helliar  defrayed  the  expense  of  the  late  altar-piece, 
painted  by  William  Cavell  of  Exeter,  which  bore  the 
date  1639,  and  was  removed  in  1818  to  make  place  for 
Mr.  John  Kendall's  seven  canopied  recesses  forming 
the  present  reredos. 

Of  the  stone  used  in  constructing  the  cathedral  we 
made  mention  in  the  preceding  chapter ;  to  which  -we 
might  have  added  that  a  small  quantity  was  brought 
from  Portland.  Thus,  in  the  'Fabric-Roll'  of  1304 
occurs  the  entry  of  "  Bargia  petrarum  de  Portlonde 
cariata  xs."  Iron  was  occasionally  purchased  at  War- 
minster  and  at  Lopene  (?).  The  timber  was  of  English 
growth,  from  Norton,  Brenton,  Huxham,  Lustleigh, 
and  Chudleigh  woods ;  but  some  large  baulks  of  oak 
were  carted  from  Langford  in  Somersetshire.  We 
have  stated  before  that  Bishop  Stapeldon  had  made 
considerable  purchases  of  wood  in  London.  Lead  was 
for  the  most  part  procured  at  the  great  market  or  fair 
at  Boston  (Sancti  Botulphi)  in  Lincolnshire.  In  the 
Roll  of  1300  we  observe  that  wax  was  purchased  to 
mix  with  the  mortar — "  ad  cementum  " — but  the  wax 
to  be  used  at  the  numerous  altars  was  generally  pro- 
cured at  the  fairs  of  Winchester,  Barnstaple,  and  Tor- 
rington.  Glass,  coloured  and  plain,  was  mainly  im- 
ported from  the  manufactory  at  Rouen  in  Normandy. 
Tiles,  as  we  infer  from  the  Roll  of  1437,  were  obtained 
from  Flanders.  Many  of  these  tiles  bear  heraldic  de- 
vices. Thus,  in  St.  Paul's  Chapel  we  observe  the 
Plantagenet  arms — Gules,  three  Lions  passant  guardant 
or ;  Poitou,  Argent,  a  Lion  rampant  gules :  within  a 
bordure  of  the  ancient  arms  of  Scotland,  sable,  bezanty  ; 
Clare,  three  Chevronels.  We  meet  also  with  the  eagle, 
with  the  crown  at  the  four  points  of  the  bordure,  borne 
by  the  king  of  the  Romans.  All  these,  in  the  opinion 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  187 

of  James  Pulman,  Esq.,  Clarencieux,  have  reference  to 
.Richard  second  son  of  King  John,  created  by  his  royal 
brother,  King  Henry  III.,  in  1225,  Earl  of  Poitou  and 
Cornwall,  and  elected  in  1256  King  of  the  Romans; 
as  also  to  his  son  Edmund,  who  married  Margaret  de 
Clare,  daughter  of  Richard  Earl  of  Gloucester,  and  on 
whose  seal  his  escutcheon  hangs  from  the  beak  of  an 
eagle,  with  this  legend — "  S.  Eadmundi  de  Alemannia, 
comitis  Cornubie."  This  Edmund  flourished  during 
the  building  of  St.  Paul's  Chapel. 

Oats,  whole  or  ground,  form  a  considerable  article  of 
expense  to  feed  the  numerous  horses  employed  in  the 
carriage  of  materials  for  the  building.  In  the  year 
1300  they  varied  from  $d.  to  Is.  8d.  the  quarter. 

In  these  '  Fabric-Rolls '  occur  several  bells ;  one 
called  "  The  Walter,"  from  its  donor,  Bishop  Walter 
Bronescombe ;  another  "  Germaneyn,"  probably  from 
Ralph  Germyn,  precentor  of  the  cathedral  from  1308 
to  1316.  Four  bells  hung  in  the  north  tower.2  One 
was  named  "  Bokerel,"  another  "  Chauncellor,"  another 
"  St.  Mary,"  and  the  fourth  appears  to  have  been  called 
"Peter,"  which  was  recast  in  1330 — "de  novo  facta" 
— but  is  not  to  be  confounded  with  the  supposed  gift 
of  Bishop  Peter  Courtenay,  before  his  translation  to 
the  see  of  Winchester  in  1487.  In  the  south  tower 
hung  the  "Jesus  Bell,"  the  "Grandisson,"  the  "  Trinity," 
the  "  Bracton,"  the  "  Cobthorne,"  the  "  Stafford,"  and 
some  others,  whose  names  we  are  unable  to  recover. 
All  have  been  recast ;  but  none  of  the  present  ring  of 
ten  bells  in  the  south  tower — the  grandest  peal  in 
England — bears  a  date  before  the  year  1630.  As  for 
the  great  "  Courtenay  Bell,"  in  the  north  tower,  it  was 
recast  in  1676.  We  regret  that  when  the  bells  were 


2  In  Risdon's  '  Survey  of  Devon,'  he  I  lately  a  cage    of   four    small    broken 
states  that  in  this  north  tower    "  was  |  bells."    p.  108. 


188 


HISTORY  OF  THE 


recast   no    copies   were   taken  of  the  inscriptions  on 
them. 

From  the  Eolls  we  further  collect  that  three  vestries 
were  attached  to  the  church,  viz.,  one  to  the  Lady 
Chapel,  a  second  behind  the  high  altar,  and  a  third 
was  formed  in  the  early  'part  of  the  fifteenth  century, 
communicating  from  the  lower  part  of  the  south  side 
of  the  choir,  and  was  immediately  behind  St.  John's 
Chapel.  Its  entrance  is  now  blocked  up  and  the 
building  removed.  The  vestry  of  the  Lady  Chapel 
appears  to  have  been  first  altered,  and  finally  dispensed 
with,  after  Bishop  Oldam  completed  the  Saviour's 
Chapel.  The  principal  vestry  behind  the  high  altar 
was  probably  cleared  away  after  the  spoliation  of  the 
church  in  the  reign  of  King  Edward  VI. 

Attached  to  the  cathedral,  and  we  believe  to  the 
south  ambulatory  of  the  cloisters,  was  the  Library  of 
the  church,  of  which  one  of  the  annivellar  priests 
had  the  custody,  with  a  salary  of  65.  Sd.  Sometimes 
business  was  transacted  "  in  domo  Librarian  Ecclesiae 
Cathedralis  Exon.,"  as  we  find  in  an  agreement  between 
the  chapter  and  the  treasurer,  dated  31st  October,  1423. 
Perhaps,  however,  the  Chapter-house  was  then  under 
repair.  In  the  Appendix  will  be  given  the  catalogue 
of  the  books  in  this  library  as  compiled  in  1506  ;  but 
a  small  portion  of  the  collection  has  lasted  to  the 
present  period.3 

We  have  mentioned  the  Chapter-house,  which  was 
a  necessary  appendage  to  every  conventual  and  cathe- 
dral church.  Here  business  was  transacted,  elections 
conducted,  oaths  administered,  admonitions  given, 


3  Many  collections  of  this  kind  must 
have  been  most  valuable ;  but  several 
must  have  perished  from  gross  neglect, 
inattention  to  security,  and  from  a  spirit 
of  wanton  mischief.  Leland  ('  De 
Script.  Brit.'  p.  483)  bemoans  the  care- 
less destruction  by  fire  at  Canterbury  of 


Tillyer's  collection,  which  contained 
Cicero's  '  Treatise  de  Republica.'  For- 
tunately another  copy  has  recently  come 
to  light,  and  been  given  to  the  public 
through  the  industrious  zeal  of  Cardinal 
Mai. 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  189 

and  sentences  pronounced  and  enforced.  On  a  seal 
attached  to  a  deed  dated  2nd  July,  1133,  and  preserved 
in  the  archives  of  this  city,  is  represented  the  west 
front  of  the  then  Chapter-house  of  the  cathedral.  In 
the  centre  over  the  entrance-door  a  turret  was  sur- 
mounted by  a  weathercock,  and  is  flanked  by  a  turret 
on  either  side :  that  on  the  north  side  has  an  entrance 
similar  to  the  central  one,  but  there  is  no  entrance-door 
in  the  turret  surmounted  by  a  vane.  The  inscription  is 

+  SIGILLVM  ,  SCI  .  PETRI  .  APLI  .  EXONIENSIS  .  ECCLE.-j- 

We  have  seen  another  representation  on  a  seal  about 
sixty  years  later ;  but  the  variation  is  inconsiderable, 
except  in  the  legend  +  SIGILLVM  .  CAPLI  .  sci  .  PETRI  . 
EXONIE.  +  Both  these  were  circular.  A  third  was 
oval,  and  was  used  "  AD  .  CAVSAS,"  and  attached  to  a 
deed  dated  in  March  1344.  It  presented  a  short  square 
front  with  a  trefoil  arched  door  in  the  centre ;  over 
which  rose  a  spire  surmounted  with  a  vane ;  at  either 
extremity  a  lower  spire  was  placed,  terminating  in  a 
Greek  cross. 

But  the  present  Chapter-house  exhibits  110  such 
antiquity  ;  and  indeed  in  the  Fabric-Roll  of  1412  we 
find  John  Tilney,  a  mason,  called  in  by  the  chapter, 
"  ad  videndum  ruinam  in  domo  capitulari  cum  cano- 
nicis."  Of  the  present  beautiful  edifice  we  shall  have 
to  treat  in  the  sequel. 


CHAPTER  III. 

SURVEY  OF  THE  INTERIOR  OF  THE  CATHEDRAL. 

WE  commence  with  the  inspection  of  the  Lady 
Chapel,  often  designated  as  "  Capella  beatse  Marine 
Yirginis,  in  capite  Ecclesise — ad  capud  Ecclesiae." 
A  Lady  Chapel  existed  here  in  1237,  as  we  find  in 


190 


HISTORY  OF  THE 


Bishop  Brewer's  appropriation  of  Alternon  Church  to 
the  dean  and  chapter  ('  Monasticon  Diocesis  Exon.,' 
p.  55),  and  we  are  led  to  think  that  Bishop  Quivil, 
in  carrying  out  the  plan  of  the  new  cathedral  about 
half  a  century  later,  altered  the  style  of  this  very 
structure  and  introduced  the  present  windows.  The 
magnificent  eastern  one  is  extended  to  seven  compart- 
ments or  divisions,  commonly  called  lights :  the  first 
and  the  second  windows  on  either  side  correspond  with 
each  other  ;  but  the  two  higher  ones  have  four  com- 
partments only,  whilst  the  two  lower  ones  have  five. 
Beyond  them  a  pointed  arch  opens  on  the  north  side 
into  the  chapel  of  St.  Mary  Magdalen,  and  a  similar 
arch  into  the  chapel  of  St.  Gabriel  on  the  south  side. 
Every  spectator  must  feel  the  absence  of  stained  glass, 
enriched  with  figures  and  heraldic  devices,  to  temper, 
soften,  and  subdue  the  glare  of  cross  light.  Under 
the  centre  of  the  eastern  window  is  a  graceful  canopied 
niche,  which  once  contained  the  statue  of  the  Virgin 
Mother  of  Christ  :  before  it  a  lamp  was  suspended  from 
the  vaulting.  Beneath  the  first  window  on  the  south 
side  are  a  double  piscina 1  and  three  graduated  sedilia  ; 
as  also  a  very  decorated  doorway,  but  of  a  much  later 
period,  which  formerly  opened  into  a  vestry2  appa- 
rently having  a  communication  with  the  episcopal 
palace.  Under  the  second  south  window,  within  arched 
recesses,  are  the  Purbeck  tombs  of  Bishop  Bartholomew, 
who  died  an  old  man — "  Yir  senex,"  as  his  cotemporary 
Walter  Mapes  describes  him  (de  nugis  curialium)  in 
1184, — and  Bishop  Simon  de  Apulia,  whose  death  is 
recorded  nearly  forty  years  later.  These  tombs  were 
discovered  in  October,  1820.  The  former  tomb  was 


1  "  Piscina  a  cornu  epistolse,  quo  ab- 
lutionem  prqjiciebant." — '  Cancellarii  de 
Secretario  Basilicas  Vaticanse,'  vol.  i.  p. 
273. 

2  "  Vestiariura  beatae  Maria)  ad  capud 


Ecclesise''  is  mentioned  in  the  '  Fabric- 
Koll '  of  1285.  From  the  Eoll  of  1437 
we  collect  that  this  vestry  was  then 
rebuilding  at  the  expense  of  the  estate 
of  Koger  Bolter,  the  late  precentor. 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER. 


191 


removed  hither  from  the  opposite  recess  in  the  north 
wall  during  the  month  of  May,  1822 :  its  sculptured 
effigy  presents  little  relief;  the  prelate  wears  mous- 
taches ;  his  beard  jagged  ;  the  mitre  low,  concave  and 
pointed  ;  the  crosier  very  simple,  and  not  so  high  as 
the  person.  The  figure  of  Bishop  Simon  is  of  very 
superior  design  and  execution  :  the  robes,  the  jewelled 
mitre,  the  tout  ensemble,  denote  the  progress  of  tasteful 
decoration  ;  but  unfortunately  this  beautiful  monument 
has  suffered  considerable  decomposition  from  exposure 
to  humidity,  perhaps  during  part  of  the  time  that  the 
church  was  in  the  course  of  erection. 

In  corresponding  recesses  on  the  north  side  are 
costly  monuments  of  Sir  John  Dodderidge,  Knight,3 
who  died  at  Forsters,  near  Egham,  Surrey,  on  15th 
September,  1628,  aged  73  ;  and  of  his  lady,  Dorothy, 
daughter  of  Sir  Amias  Bamfylde,  who  had  died  on 
1st  March,  1615. 

On  the  north  side  of  the  Lady  Chapel  is  the  altar- 
tomb  of  Bishop  Edmund  Stafford  ;  on  the  south  side 
the  monument  of  Bishop  Walter  Bronescombe  :  on 
either  may  be  seen  figures  in  distemper,4  executed,  as 
we  imagine,  during  the  episcopacy  of  Bishop  Edmund 
Lacy,  whose  shield — Azure,  three  Shovellers'  heads — is 
introduced.  Of  these  figures  several  have  been  mis- 


3  This  learned  Judge  of  the  Court  of 
Common  Pleas,  and  who  had  been  Re- 
corder of  Bristol,  was  buried  here  by 
torch-light  at  ten  o'clock  at  night  on 
14th  October,  1628.  He  had  married 
thrice.  The  arms  of  his  first  wife,  Ger- 
myn,  do  not  appear  on  the  monument ; 
those  of  his  second  wife,  Culme — Azure, 
a  chevron  ermine,  between  three  Peli- 
cans' wings  displayed  or ;  those  of 
Dorothy  Bampfyiuo,  his  third  wife, — Or, 
on  a  bend  gules,  three  Mullets  argent ; 
arms  of  Dodderidge, — Argent,  crusuly 
gules,  three  Pallets  undy,  azure.  On 
his  gravestone  was  this  motto,  "  Lex 
norma  morum,"  under  the  shield.  We 


have  met  with  a  deed  of  Walter  Dod- 
deridge and  Benedicta  his  wife,  in 
September,  1285,  by  which  they  sur- 
render their  right  of  entrance  into  the 
Close  from  their  house  in  the  High- 
street,  Exeter,  to  the  Dean  and  Chapter. 
The  Dodderidge  family  were  also  tenants 
in  the  parish  of  Newton  S.  Gyres  to 
the  prior  and  convent  of  Plympton,  as 
appears  by  their  '  Rental '  of  1481. 

4  In  the  eighth  book  of  '  Ordericus 
Vitalis '  we  find,  early  in  the  12th  cen- 
tury, that  "  Rainaldus  Pictor  variis 
coloribus  arcum  tumulumque  depinxit" 
in  the  abbey  church  of  Evreux. 


192  HISTORY  OF  THE 

chievously   defaced,   and    even   obliterated  altogether. 
In  the  panels  we  recognise  — 

First. — Ezekiel ;  and,  beneath,  this  text  from  his  prophecy : — 

"  Ego  aperiam  tuniulos  vestros,  et  educam  vos  de  sepulchris 

vestris." — Chap,  xxxvii.  12. 
Second. — St.  John  the  Apostle  and  Evangelist.     "  Qui  credit 

in  me,  etiam  si  mortmis  fuerit,  vivet." — Chap.  xi.  25. 
Third. — St.  Paul.     *'  Omnes  quidem  resurgemus  in  novissima 

tuba."— 1  Cor.  xv.  52. 
Fourth. — St.  John  repeated ;    with  "  Beati   mortui,    qui  *  in 

Domino  moriuntur." — Apocalyps.  xiv.  1 3. 
Fifth. — Judas   Maccabeus.       "Sanctum   et   salubre   est   pro 

defunctis  exorare." — II.  Lib.  Maccab.  xii.  46. 
Sixth. — Job.     "  In  novissima"  die  surrecturus  sum." — Chap. 

xix.  26. 

Turning  now  to  Bishop  Bronescombe's,  on  the  oppo- 
site side,  three  figures  only  have  been  spared — 

First. — St.  John  the  Apostle ;  with  the  words  of  Martha  in 
his  Grospel :  "  Scio,  quia  resurget  in  novissinul  die." — Chap, 
xi.  24. 

Second. — St.  Peter ;  but,  curiously  enough,  with  a  text  from 
St.  Paul's  address  to  the  Athenian  Senate :  "  Statuit  diem, 
in  quo  judicaturus  est  orbem  in  sequitate." — Acts  xvii.  31. 

Third. — St.  Paul ;  with  "  Canet  enim  tuba,  et  mortui  resur- 
gent."—! Cor.  xv.  52. 

The  spectator  will  concur  with  us  in  opinion  that  the 
tomb  of  Bishop  Stafford,  with  the  exception  of  the 
effigy,  canopy,  and  vaulting,  is  a  careful  imitation  of 
the  more  ancient  one  of  Bishop  Bronescombe.  We  do 
not  repeat  their  epitaphs,  as  we  have  inserted  them  in 
their  biographical  sketches. 

The  orbs,  nodi,  or  bosses,  at  the  intersections  in  the 
vaulting  of  the  Lady  Chapel  cannot  fail  to  be  admired 
for  the  boldness  of  their  sculpture.  We  invite  atten- 
tion to  the  most  eastern  one,  of  Christ  crowned  with  a 
peculiar  nimbus,  encompassed  with  the  emblems  of  the 
four  Evangelists  as  satellites. 

In  the  centre  of  the  floor,  under  a  very  large  slab, 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  193 

reposes  Bishop  Quivil,  the  principal  originator  of  the 
new  work.  A  deed  of  the  Chapter,  dated  January  25th, 
1299,  expressly  states  of  the  prelate  "  Cujus  corpus  ante 
altare  beatae  Marias  humatum  quiescit."  The  slab,  says 
Westcote  (in  his  *  Yiew  of  Devon/  A.D.  1630,  p.  164), 
was  engraven  with  a  great  long  cross,  and  in  the 
circumference  this  rhyme  for  an  epitaph — 

Petra  tegit  Petnun,  niliil  official  sibi  tetrum. 

"  Which  verse  was  written  in  an  ancient  character,  each 
letter  distant  from  the  other  at  least  four  inches ;  so 
that  this  short  verse  supplied  the  whole  large  circum- 
ference, and  cost  me  some  labour  in  finding  out  and 
reading  it." 

For  the  greater  part  of  two  centuries  this  marble 
slab  lay  removed  just  within  the  west  entrance  of  the 
cathedral :  the  cross  and  letters  by  constant  friction  of 
feet  were  nearly  obliterated,  when  the  late  Mr.  John 
Jones  of  Franklyn  induced  the  Chapter,  in  November 
1820,  to  have  it  restored  to  its  original  site,  and  the 
cross  and  the  letters  were  recut  under  his  superinten- 
dence. Here  regular  service  was  daily  performed 
accompanied  with  the  organ,  at  which  five  of  the 
priest-vicars,  five  secondaries  and  four  chorister  boys 
were  enjoined  to  attend.  In  the  'Expenses'  of  1389 
is  a  payment  of  12s.  4c£.  "  in  emendationem  organorum 
capellse  beatae  Marise  in  capite  ecclesise."  An  anni- 
vellar  priest  had  the  custody  of  this  chapel,  and  was 
styled  "  Clericus  Capellse,"  and  sometimes  "  Minister 
altaris  beatae  Mariae."  We  have  seen  a  deed  by  which 
Ranulfus  de  Stodeia  granted  some  little  property  in 
the  Parish  of  Aylesbeare  to  this  chapel,  "  beatae  Marias 
ad  caput  beati  Petri  Exoniae ; "  and  subsequently,  viz., 
on  6th  April,  1324,  John  de  Eaglescliff,  Bishop  of 
Llandaff,  being  then  at  Exeter,  encouraged  the  faithful 
to  assist  at  the  services  in  this  chapel — <4in  capite  Eccle*- 


194  HISTORY  OF  THE 

sise  Cathedralis  Exonise."  The  <  Fabric-Roll'  of  1434 
mentions  the  purchase  in  London  of  a  large  chandelier 
weighing  341  pounds,  to  be  suspended  in  it;  and, 
judging  from  the  '  Inventory '  of  1506,  the  chapel  must 
have  been  fairly  provided  with  plate,  vestments,  and 
books,  for  the  service.  From  a  'Rental'  of  1525,  it 
seems  that  it  had  a  special  fund  of  about  3?.  a  year. 

The  mayor  and  chamber  on  22nd  December,  1657, 
"  ordered  that  the  library  at  St.  John's  Hospital  near 
Eastgate  be  removed  to  the  Ladye  Chapel  at  the 
Easter  End  of  Peter's  Church,  and  fitted  and  prepared 
for  that  use."  Dr.  Yilvaine  is  said  to  have  defrayed 
the  expenses. 

The  interior  length  is  60  ft.  by  28  ft.  broad.  The 
height  nearly  40  ft. 

Passing  the  ambulatory,  we  proceed  by  the  north 
side  to  St.  Mary  Magdalen's  Chapel,  where  in  subse- 
quent times  stood  the  altar  called  also  "  of  St.  John  the 
Evangelist."  The  first  time  we  meet  with  the  chapel 
itself  is  in  the  *  Fabric-Roll '  of  1284.  A  figure  of  the 
former  saint  must  have  been  near,  for  we  find  the 
following  clause  in  the  Will  of  John  Cockwater,  in 
Bishop  Lacy's  <  Register,'  dated  27th  October,  1431, 
directing  his  interment  to  be  "  extra  vestibulum  coram 
ymagine  Sanctae  Marise  Magdalenae."  The  truly  splen- 
did alabaster  effigy  of  Bishop  Stafford,  with  the  elabo- 
rate canopy,  must  at  once  rivet  attention.  Though 
neatly  engraved  both  in  Lysons'  '  Devonshire '  and  in 
Britton's  account  of  this  cathedral,  yet  no  delineation 
can  render  sufficient  justice  to  the  exquisite  minuteness 
and  delicacy  of  the  original.  In  the  panels  we  re- 
cognise again  the  figures  :— 

First. — Of  Ezekiel ;  but  the  text  is  no  longer  legible. 
Second. — Of  St.  John   the   Evangelist ;    with  the  words  of 

Christ :  "  Omnes  qui   in  monumento   sunt  audient  vocem 

JFilii  Dei."— v.  28. 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  195 

Third. — Job  ;  with  "  Putasne  mortuus  homo  rursum  vivet  ?  " 
xiv.  14. 

The  tomb  is  decorated  with  shields  commemorative 
of  alliances  with  the  noble  family  of  Stafford.  The 
first  is  entirely  obliterated.  The  second,  in  the  opinion 
of  Mr.  Pulman,  may  have  been — Quarterly,  first  and 
fourth  Stafford — Or,  a  Chevron  gules  ;  second  and  third 
unknown.  The  third  is  clearly  Grey  of  Ruthin — Barry 
of  six  argent,  quartered  with  Hastings — Or,  a  Manche 
gules,  quartering  Valence — Barry  of  ten  argent  and 
azure,  an  orle  of  Martlets  gules  :  Lord  John  Hastings 
had  married  Isabella,  eldest  sister  and  coheir  of  Aymer 
de  Valence,  Earl  of  Pembroke.  The  fourth  is  Charlton 
Lord  Powis — Or,  a  Lion  rampant  gules  :  John  de  Charl- 
ton, second  Lord  Powis,  married  Joan,  daughter  of 
Ealph  Lord  Stafford.  The  fifth  bears  the  arms  of 
Thomas  Lord  Boos — Gules,  three  Water-bougets  argent ; 
and  of  Baddlesmere,  his  mother's  family — Argent,  a 
Fess  double-cotised  gules.  This  Lord  Roos  married 
Beatrix,  Bishop  Stafford's  cousin-german. 

On  the  south  side  are  :  first,  Courtenay's — Or,  three 
Torteauxes  gules,  with  a  Label  of  three  points  azure. 
Second,  Stafford — Or,  a  Chevron  gules.  Third,  Bishop 
Stafford  as  above,  but  entoyred  with  nine  Mitres. 
Fourth,  Neville — Gules,  a  Saltier  ermine  :  Margaret 
Stafford  was  the  first  wife  of  Ralph  Neville,  Earl  of 
Westmoreland.  Fifth,  Michael  de  la  Pole,  Earl  of 
Suffolk — Argent,  a  Fess  gules  between  three  Leopards' 
heads  or,  quartering  the  arms  of  his  mother  Elizabeth, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  John  Wingfield — Argent,  a 
Bend  gules,  charged  with  three  Wings  or :  the  earl 
married  Catherine,  daughter  of  Hugh  Earl  of  Stafford . 

At  the  head  of  the  tomb  is  the  shield,  first,  of  Stafford 
of  Hook,  with  a  Border  engrailed  sable  for  difference. 
Second,  the  arms  of  the  See  of  Exeter — Gules,  a  Sword 
erect  in  pale  argent,  pomelled  and  hilted  or,  surmounted 

o  2 


196  HISTORY  OF  THE 

by  two  Keys  in  saltier  of  the  last.  Third,  Stafford  of 
Pipe — Or,  a  Chevron  gules  between  three  .Martlets  sable. 
From  the  tomb  the  eye  settles  on  the  east  window 
of  the  chapel,  with  its  five  bays  richly  dight  with 
tabernacle-work,  and  figures  and  heraldic  achievements. 
In  the  centre  we  observe  Bishop  Stafford  on  bended 
knee,  with  hands  elevated  in  prayer,  and  a  label  in- 
scribed "  Sancta  Maria  Magdalena,  intercede  pro  me  !  " 
The  armorial  bearings  are  :  first,  Bishop  Grandisson's — 
Paly  of  six  argent  and  azure ;  on  a  Bend  gules,  a  Mitre 
between  two  Eaglets  or.  Second,  Courtenay  as  before, 
but  quarterly  with  Rivers — Gules,  a  Lion  Rampant  or, 
and  impaling  Bohun — Azure,  a  Bend  argent  cotised  or, 
between  six  Lions  rampant  of  the  same.  Third,  Bishop 
Stafford's  as  before.  Fourth,  Charlton  of  Powis  as 
before,  quartered  with 


The  north  window  of  the  chapel  has  six  bays,  but 
has  been  stripped  of  its  coloured  glass.  Here  we  remark 
that  the  bosses  of  the  vaulting  are  more  ancient  and 
considerably  less  than  those  in  the  corresponding  chapel 
of  St.  Gabriel,  to  which  we  may  now  adjourn. 

Bishop  Bronescombe,  in  his  '  .Register,'  fol.  97, 
expressly  states,  that  for  the  most  part  this  chapel  had 
been  rebuilt  and  that  he  had  chosen  it  for  his  place  of 
interment,  "fere  de  novo  constructa  juxta  capellam 
beatse  Marias  ex  parte  australi,  ubi  locum  elegimus 
sepulturse."  The  tomb,  worthy  of  that  distinguished 
prelate,  has  been  engraved  by  Messrs.  Carter,  Britton, 
and  Kendall.  From  the  finished  execution  of  the 
original,  from  the  designation  of  him  in  the  epitaph 
as  Primus  Walterus  to  distinguish  him  from  Secundus 
Walterus  (Stapeldon),  we  may  fairly  conclude  that  it 
was  not  erected  to  his  memory  until  about  half  a 
century  after  his  death.  His  arms — Or,  a  Chevron 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  197 

sable,  charged  with  three  Cinquefoils  of  the  first  between 
two  Keys  erect  in  chief,  and  a  Sword  erect  in  base  of 
the  second — are  several  times  repeated.  In  the  west 
panels  may  be  seen  three  figures  : — 

First. — St.  James  ;   with  the  text  from  his  Epistle  : — "  Que 

est  enim  vita  vestra?   Vapor  est  ad  modicum  parens-,  et 

deinceps  exterminabitur." — Chap.  iv.  5. 
Second. — St.  John.     "  Vitam  habetis  eternam,  qui  creditis  in 

nomine  Filii  Dei." — 1  Ep.  Canonica  v.  13. 
Third.— St.  Jude  ;  with  the  text  from  his  Epistle :— "  Ecce 

veniet  Dominus  facere  judicium." — Verse  14. 

The  eastern  window  is  enriched  with  coloured  glass. 
In  the  centre  stands  St.  Gabriel,  patron  saint  of  the 
bishop,  who  is  kneeling  with  a  label,  inscribed  "  O 
Sancte  Gabriel  Archangele,  intercede  pro  gratia ! " 
Towards  the  right  the  bishop  is  again  introduced  in 
the  same  supplicating  attitude,  with  the  words  "  Kata- 
rina  beata,  pro  me  intercede  !  "  The  armorial  bearings 
must  have  been  introduced  chiefly  in  the  time  of  Bishop 
Grandisson,  viz.  :  first — Gules,  a  Fess  betwixt  six  Owls 
or.  Second — Quarterly  England  and  France.  Third, 
Ralegh — Gules,  five  Fusils  in  Bend  argent  with  a  Mart- 
let for  difference.  Fourth  :  Or,  two  Chevronels 
gules,  a  Crescent  in  base  of  the  second.  Fifth,  Courte- 
nay  impaled  with  Bryan — Or,  three  Piles  in  point  in 
base  azure.  Hugh  Courtenay  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Guy  Lord  Bryan.  Sixth,  North wode — 
Ermine  a  Cross  engrailed  gules.  Sir  John  Northwode 
married  Agnes,  a  sister  of  Bishop  Grandisson.  Seventh, 
Bohun — Azure,  a  Bend  argent  charged  with  three 
Mullets  sable,  cotised  or,  between  six  Lions  rampant 
of  the  same.  Eighth,  Grandisson 's  impaled  with  the 
See  of  Exeter.  We  may  mention  once  for  all,  that  the 
original  bearings  of  Grandisson's  family  were — Paly 
of  six  argent  and  azure,  on  a  Bend  gules  three  Eaglets 
or  ;  that  the  bishop,  instead  of  the  centre  Eaglet,  assumed 


198  HISTORY  OF  THE 

a  Mitre,  and  that  some  cadets  of  the  family  bore  three 
Escalops,  and  some  three  Buckles  instead  of  the  three 
Eaglets.  Ninth,  Northwode  impaled  with  Grandisson. 
Tenth,Montacute — Argent,  three  Lozenges  in  fess  gules. 
William  de  Montacute,  Earl  of  Salisbury,  had  married 
Catherine,  another  of  Bishop  Grandisson's  sisters. 

Who  can  quit  this  interesting  chapel  without  lament- 
ing that  its  piscina  should  lie  wantonly  shattered, 
and  that  the  place  should  be  darkened  and  choked  and 
disfigured  by  such  incongruous  and  unmeaning  statuary, 
and  sitting,  standing,  and  recumbent  figures  ? 

Turning  now  to  the  adjoining  chantry  chapel  of  the 
Holy  Saviour,  the  elevation  of  which  has  been  beauti- 
fully engraved  by  the  late  Mr.  Kendall,  the  spectator 
witnesses  the  characteristics  of  its  age,  in  lavish  re- 
dundancy of  sculptured  decoration  in  the  walls  and 
vaulting,  multiplication  of  statues,  rebuses,  double  roses, 
portcullises  and  heraldic  devices.  In  the  biography  of 
Bishop  Oldam,  its  founder,  we  have  observed  that  he 
erected  the  chapel  to  be  the  repository  of  his  remains 
after  his  death.  In  a  deed  belonging  to  the  priest- 
vicars,  bearing  date  30th  December,  1513,  it  is  de- 
scribed as  "  Capella  Sancti  Salvatoris  non  parvis 
sumptibus  Reverendi  Patris  (Hugonis  Oldam)  decenter 
et  honorifice  constructa,  ubi  corpus  suum  post  mortem 
et  obitum  requiescere  et  tumulari  disponit." 

Whilst  several  of  the  statues  in  the  niches  of  the 
fa9ade,  and  the  whole  of  the  altar  screen — which  repre- 
sented the  Annunciation  of  the  Blessed  Virgin,  and  the 
Manifestation  of  Jesus  Christ  to  the  Wise  Men,  and 
his  doleful  Crucifixion  on  Mount  Calvary — have  been 
hacked,  hewn  and  demolished,  the  effigy  of  the  prelate, 
extended  under  an  ogee  arch,  has  fortunately  escaped 
ill  treatment,  and  still  retains  its  original  painting  and 
gilding.  He  is  attired  in  splendid  pontificalia ;  his 
hands  are  joined  in  prayer ;  the  thumbs  are  encircled 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER. 


199 


with  a  single  ring,  whilst  the  fingers  are  studded  with 
rings.  His  initials  appear  within  circles  in  the  quatre- 
foils  of  the  spandrils ;  and  the  inscription  is  "  Hugo 
Oldom  Eps,  q1  obiit  xxv°  die  Junii,  An0  Dni  Millo 
ccccc°xix  :  cujus,  &c."  The  bishop's  variation  of  the 
arms  of  the  see5  cannot  fail  to  arrest  attention.  Besides 
his  family  coat — Sable,  a  Chevron  or  between  three 
Owls  proper,  on  a  chief  of  the  same  three  Koses  gules, 
we  observe  the  arms  of  King  Athelstan  and  of  Edward 
the  Confessor,  and  of  England  and  France. 

Facing  the  Saviour's  Chapel  is  St.  George's  Chantry, 
founded  by  Sir  John  Speke,  Knight,  a  representative 
of  one  of  the  oldest  families  in  Devonshire.  To  secure 
the  maintenance  of  his  obit  and  that  of  his  wife,  a 
daughter  of  William  Somaster,  of  Netherexe,  Esq.,  he 
endowed  it  with  "  lands,  tenements,  and  hereditaments, 
in  Langford,  Fivehead  and  Ashill,  in  Somersetshire  :" 
a  property  robbed  by  King  Edward  VI.  from  the  dean 
and  chapter,  but  restored  within  forty  years  by  Queen 
Elizabeth.  This  chapel  is  even  more  luxuriant  in  pro- 
fusion of  ornament  than  the  former;  but  in  1657  its 
east  window  and  Decorated  altar-piece  were  swept 
away  to  open  a  thoroughfare  "  into  the  great  church, 
or  Peter' s-in-the-East,  partitioned  from  West  Peter's 
by  a  brick  wall  erected,  plastered,  and  whitened  on  both 
sides  by  Walter  Deeble,  at  the  expense  of  150/."  This 


5  Of  the  ancient  arms  of  the  see, 
which  appear  from  time  to  time  to  have 
undergone  some  slight  changes,  the 
earliest  example  in  the  cathedral  is — 
Gules,  a  Sword  in  bend  sinister  argent, 
pomelled  and  hilted  or,  surmounted  by 
two  Keys  accosted  in  bend  dexter  of 
the  last.  A  more  recent  one  is — Gules, 
a  Sword  in  beii>3  argent,  pomelled  and 
hilted  or,  surmounted  by  two  Keys  ad- 
dorsed  in  bend  sinister  of  the  last ;  and 
a  still  later  one  is— Gules,  a  Sword 
in  bend  sinister  argent,  pomelled  and 
hilted  or,  surmounted  by  two  Keys 
addorsed  in  bend  dexter  of  the  last. 


Bishop  Oldam,  in  turn,  adopted  the 
last  two  of  these,  and  finally  made  the 
alteration  in  the  disposition  of  the 
charges  to  what  they  have  ever  since 
been  and  still  are.  This  is  demon- 
strated by  an  inspection  of  the  heraldry 
in  St.  Saviour's  Chapel,  and  in  the 
spandrils  of  the  arch  of  approach  from 
the  south  aisle  to  the  palace.  It  is 
possible  that  this  bishop  may  have  con- 
trived the  final  alteration  for  the  pur- 
pose of  avoiding  the  too  great  similarity 
between  the  ancient  arms  of  this  see 
and  those  of  the  see  of  Winchester, 
which  are  almost  identical. 


200  HISTORY  OF  THE 

barbarous  innovation  was  perpetrated  in  virtue  of  the 
act  of  the  mayor  and  chamber,  bearing  date  llth 
August,  1657;  but  though  the  hideous  wall  of  sepa- 
ration was  cleared  off  with  the  restoration  of  monarchy,6 
this  thoroughfare  has  continued  ever  since.  It  could 
hardly  be  expected  that  the  effigy  of  the  knightly 
founder  and  benefactor,  though  incased  in  plate-armour, 
could  be  protected  after  this  from  mutilation.  Here 
the  arms  of  Speke — Argent,  two  Bars  azure,  over  'all 
an  Eagle  displayed  gules,  and  Somaster's — Argent,  a 
Castle  triple-towered  and  Portcullis  sable  between  five 
Fleurs-de-lys  of  the  same,  with  the  Porcupine  (the  crest 
of  Speke),  are  multiplied  inside  and  out.  Second, 
Bishop  Courtenay — Or,  three  Torteauxes  gules,  with  a 
Label  of  three  points,  surmounted  by  a  Mitre.  Third, 
Bishop  Fox — Azure,  a  Pelican  vulning  herself  to  feed 
her  young.  Fourth,  Bishop  Oldam  as  before.  Fifth, 
Veysey  as  Precentor — Argent,  on  a  Saltier  azure,  a 
Fleur-de-lys  or ;  also  his  family  shield,  viz. — Argent, 
a  Cross  sable  charged  with  a  Buck's  head  couped  be- 
tween four  Doves  argent.  On  a  chief  azure,  a  Cross 
flory  between  two  Roses  or.  Yeysey  was  collated  to 
the  precentorship  on  26th  May,  1508,  and  confirmed 
dean  19th  November,  1509.  Sixth,  Courtenay  aod 
Rivers — Quarterly  as  before,  impaled  with  the  Royal 
Arms  of  England'  and  France,  showing  the  alliance 
of  William  Courtenay,  Earl  of  Devon,  with  the  Princess 
Catherine,  daughter  of  King  Edward  IV.  Seventh, 
three  Bars  between  ten  Bells — four,  three, 
two,  and  one. 


6  Prebendary  John  Reynolds,  in  his  i  We  are  now  assembled.  You  cannot 
sermon  preached  on  the  occasion  of  j  forget  the  monstrous  Babylonish  wall 
erecting  and  opening  the  pews  in  the  '  which  was  raised  here  to  divide  the 
nave  of  this  cathedral,  27th  July,  1684,  ;  cathedral  into  two  parts.  Many  of  us 
before  Bishop  Lamplugh,  observes —  have  seen  not  only  the  monuments  of 
"  Many  of  us  have  been  sorrowful  wit-  the  dead,  but  even  the  very  ashes  and 
nesses  to  great  disorders  and  profana-  '  bones  of  some  of  them,  disturbed  and 
tions  in  this  very  House  of  God  where  j  violated." 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  201 

Looking  westward,  the  simplicity  of  the  groining  of 
the  aisle  of  the  choir  presents  a  striking  contrast  with 
the  profusion  of  the  bold  ribs  and  elaborate  bosses  of 
that  of  the  nave.  Passing  down  then  from  St. 
George's  Chantry  we  observe  three  monuments  in 
the  north  wall.  The  first  is  engraved  by  Britton,  and 
is  assigned  by  Leland  ('  Itin.,'  vol.  iii.  p.  45)  to  Sir 
Richard  de  Stapeldon,  Knight,  whose  shield — Argent, 
two  Bends  wavy,  sable — was  visible  when  Sir  William 
Pole  wrote  his  ' Description  of  Devon'  (p.  100).  For 
the  history  of  the  worthy  knight  we  refer  the  reader 
to  our  account  of  his  episcopal  brother. 

The  second  is  of  very  inferior  design  and  finish,  and 
was  placed  to  the  memory  of  Anthony  Harvey,  of 
Columb  John,  Esq.,  who  died  23rd  May,  1564,  and 
had,  fortunately  for  his  worldly  interest,  been  steward 
of  the  abbeys  of  Hartland,  Buckland,  Newenham,  &c., 
at  the  suppression  of  religious  houses.7  Arms — Gules, 
on  a  Bend  argent  three  Trefoils  vert, 

The  third  exhibits  in  sculpture  an  emaciated  corpse 
or  skeleton  :  a  mortuary  memorial  not  unusual  in  our 
churches.  Thus  Bishop  Fox  desired  to  be  represented 
in  his  noble  chantry  in  Winchester  Cathedral.  Here 
we  have  another  instance  below  in  the  north  tower, 
of  the  precentor  William  Sylke.  Above  the  effigy, 
the  verses — 

Ista  figura  docet  nos  omnes  prsemeditari 

Qualiter  ipsa  nocet  mors,  quando  venit  dominari — 

explain  the  meaning ;  not  referring  to  any  individual 
as  some  persons  imagine,  but  a  moral  lesson  and 
admonition  to  the  beholder,  of  the  revolution  which 
death  produces.  In  the  tour  made  in  August  1635, 
and  preserved  in  the  Lansdown  Manuscripts,  this 

7  Amongst  other   properties   he   ob-  I  Bishop,   then   lately  belonging   to    the 
tained   of  King   Henry   VIII.    on   4th  |  abbey  of  Tewkesbury.     This  he  sold  to 
July,  1545,  the  manor  of  Mydlond  or  I  Robert  Davy,  of  Crediton,  clothier. 
Medland,  in  the    parish   of   Cheriton  j 


202  HISTORY  OF  THE 

very  figure  is  designated  as  "  The  Anatomy  of  one 
Parkhouse,  a  Canon."  Had  the  tourist  looked  into 
the  adjoining  chapel  of  St.  Andrew,  he  would  have 
seen  the  tombstone  over  the  grave  of  William  Park- 
house,  "  a  philosopher,  physician,  and  canon  residentiary 
of  this  cathedral,  who  died  on  1st  March,  1540." 

In  this  north  aisle  was  a  painting  of  the  Crucifixion 
of  Christ,  before  which  John  Morton,  a  canon  of  the 
church,  directed  by  his  will,  dated  9th  September,  1457, 
that  his  body  should  be  deposited — "  ante  imaginem 
Crucifixi  ibidem  depictam"  (Nevyll's  Reg.  139). 

St.  Andrew's  Chapel  under  the  Exchequer-room  con- 
tained two  altars,  St.  Andrew's  and  St.  Catherine's. 
We  have  seen  Bishop  Bitton's  ordination,  dated  30th 
August,  1305,  concerning  the  chantry  services  to  be 
performed  at  the  former  altar,  for  the  souls  of  Andrew 
de  Kilkenny,  once  Dean  of  Exeter ;  William  de  Kil- 
kenny, once  Bishop  of  Ely ;  Henry  de  Kilkenny,  once 
Archdeacon  of  Chichester ;  Henry  de  Kilkenny,  once 
Rector  of  Bridestowe ;  and  for  another  Henry  de 
Kilkenny,  a  Canon  of  Exeter,  but  then  living.  The 
corresponding  chapel  of  St.  James  had  also  two  altars — : 
St.  James's  and  probably  St.  Thomas's.  In  the  will  of 
David  ( Hopton,  Archdeacon  of  Exeter,  dated  17th 
January,  1491,  he  leaves  to  this  altar  of  St.  Andrew, 
"  subtus  Scaccarium  Ecclesise,"  a  missal,  a  set  of  red 
vestments,  a  chalice,  a  pax,  of  silver-gilt,  two  silver 
cruets,  a  great  portiphorium  to  be  chained  there,  and 
eight  marks  yearly  for  a  chaplain  during  the  space  of 
three  years,  to  celebrate  at  that  altar  for  his  soul. 
These  chapels  formed,  in  our  opinion,  the  transepts  of 
Bishop  Warelwast's  Cathedral. 

May  not  the  stonework  ancient  sedilia  in  the  north 
wall  of  this  chapel  have  once  served  for  the  reredos  of  the 
choir  until  Bishop  Stapeldon  erected  the  present  more 
graceful  ones  in  their  place  ?  Or  perhaps  in  the  Lady 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  203 

Chapel  before  the  actual  ones  were  introduced  at  a 
later  period  ? 

But  before  we  leave  the  north  aisle  of  the  choir, 
we  may  request  the  spectator's  attention  to  a  boss  in 
the  vaulting  behind  the  pulpit,  of  a  mitred  head  with 
moustaches  and  a  curled  beard.  As  it  is  near  the  com- 
mencement of  Bishop  Grandisson's  new  work,  may  it 
not  be  intended  for  Bishop  Quivil,  the  principal  origi- 
nator of  the  present  edifice  ? 

The  only  armorial  bearings  in  the  north  aisle,  on 
stained  glass,  are  in  the  fourth  window.  First  of 
Grandisson,  as  before.  Second,  of  Lacy — Azure,  three 
Shovellers1  heads  erased  argent.  Third,  in  a  bad 
state,  but  apparently  Speke,  matched  with  the  Yalle- 
torts  of  Clist  St.  Lawrence — Argent,  a  Fess  and  two 
Mullets  in  chief  sable ;  and  Somaster,  of  Netherexe — 
Argent,  a  Castle  between  three  Fleurs-de-lys  sable. 
Fourth,  Speke  as  before.  Fifth,  Montacute  as  before, 
Quarterly  with  Mounthermer — Or,  an  Eagle  displayed 
vert.  Sir  John  Montacute,  nephew  of  Bishop  Grandis- 
sou,  married  Margaret,  daughter  and  heir  of  Thomas 
Lord  Mounthermer,  of  Stokenham.8 

Retracing  our  steps,  and  passing  the  ambulatory  be- 
hind the  High  Altar,  we  enter  the  south  aisle,  which 
is  a  foot  wider  than  the  north  aisle  of  the  choir. 
Here  we  observe,  under  a  Decorated  ogee  arch,  the 
cenotaph  of  Humphry  de  Bohun,  the  eighth  of  that 
name,  Earl  of  Hereford  and  Essex,  who  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  King  Edward  I.  This  noble- 
man was  killed  at  Burrough  Bridge,  16th  March, 
1321,  and  was  buried  in  the  Dominican  Convent  at 
York,  though  the  family  place  of  interment  was  usually 
at  Lanthouy  Priory,  near  Gloucester,  or  at  Waldene 


8  In  Grandisson's  Reg.,  vol.  iii.  fol. 
113,  is  the  institution  of  Canon  Henry 


the  presentation  of  Sir  John  de  Monta- 
cute,  Knight,    in   right   of   this    lady, 


de  Blakeborne  to  the  valuable  living  of  j  daughter   and    heir    of   Thomas    Lord 
Stokenham,    7th    December,    1357,   on  |  Mounthermer. 


204  HISTOKY  OF  THE 

in  the  county  of  Hereford.  His  daughter  Margaret, 
who  was  married  to  Hugh  Courtenay  the  second  of 
that  name,  Earl  of  Devon,  may  have  erected  this 
memorial.  To  Polwhele's  '  History  of  Devon '  we  refer 
the  reader  for  the  epitaph  which  John  Hoker  composed 
for  him.  In  Sir  William  Pole's  time  ('  Descript.  Devon/ 
p.  109)  the  arms  of  Bohun  were  visible  on  the  shield — 
Azure,  a  Bend  argent  cotised  or,  charged  with  three 
Mullets  sable  between  six  Lions  rampant  or.  Adjoining 
is  another  monument  of  a  gallant  knight  of  the  Ralegh 
family  (whose  arms  have  been  adopted  by  the  Chi- 
chesters,  viz. — Cheeky  or  and  gules,  a  Chief  vairy). 
Both  knights  are  represented  as  Crusaders,  who  either 
had  served  or  vowed  to  serve  in  the  Holy  Land.  Sir 
Samuel  Meyrick,  on  18th  October,  1847,  observed 
"  the  recumbent  cross-legged  effigies  are  both  of  the 
close  of  the  reign  of  Edward  I.,  or  beginning  of 
Edward  II.,  in  regard  to  costume  :  the  flattened  coiife 
of  that  which  is  said  to  have  borne  on  the  shield  the 
arms  of  Ralegh,  would  rather  bespeak  the  early  part 
of  Edward  I.,  as  such  was  designed  for  a  cylindrical 
helmet ;  but  both  knights  recline  their  heads  on  conical 
ones,  for  which  the  rounded  coiffe  of  that  of  Humphry 
de  Bohun  was  particularly  appropriate.  The  sword- 
guard  or  cross  to  the  first  figure  being  bent  downwards 
on  each  side,  gives  another  criterion  of  date  as  marking 
that  of  Edward  I.  The  guige  or  strap  by  which  the 
shield  was  suspended  from  the  neck,  with  its  buckle,  is 
very  conspicuous ;  and  the  apex  of  each  conical  helmet 
demonstrates  the  manner  in  which  the  cointisse  was 
attached  to  it." 

In  the  fourth,  fifth,  and  -sixth  windows  are  some 
heraldic  shields.  In  the  fourth  window :  First,  St. 
George's — Argent,  a  Cross  gules.  Second,  Bishop  Lacy's 
as  before.  Third,  Quarterly  Montacute  and  Mount- 
hermer,  as  before.  Fourth,  Bishop  Grandisson's. 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  205 

In  the  fifth  window:  First,  St.  George's  repeated. 
Second  :  Edward  the  Confessor's.  Third :  Montacute 
and  Mounthermer. 

St.  George — also  Gules,  a  Chevron  between  three 
Combs  argent;  which  may  have  belonged  to  Robert 
Botell  or  Botyll,  Prior  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem  from 
1439  to  1469. 

In  the  sixth  window  :  First,  Or,  an  Eagle  displayed 
double-headed  argent ;  the  shield  hanging  on  a  tree. 
Second  :  Edward  the  Confessor's.  Third  :  Bishop  Gran- 
disson's. 

We  have  already  noticed  St.  James's  Chapel,  when 
its  present  windows  were  introduced  in  1279  prepara- 
tory to  its  two  altars.  The  third  window,  mentioned 
in  the  same  roll,  appears  to  have  been  blocked  up  when 
the  beautiful,  but  mutilated,  mural  monument  was 
placed  against  its  south  wall.  Can  it  have  been  erected 
to  the  memory  of  Bishop  Leofric  ?  The  spectator  will 
hardly  fail  to  observe  the  painted  bosses  of  King 
Edward  II.,  his  consort  Isabella,  and  of  Satan,  in  the 
south  aisle  behind  the  throne.  Before  entering  into 
the  choir,  we  must  profess  our  inability  to  determine 
the  precise  period  when  the  stone  screen  dividing  it 
from  the  aisles  was  first  erected.  Bishop  Lacy  we 
know  gave  hangings  to  be  placed  behind  the  stalls  of 
the  canons  and  vicars,  to  protect  them  from  the  wind 
and  cold ;  and,  sixty  years  later,  mention  is  made  of 
"panni  pendentes  in  choro." 

And  now  through  the  south  door  we  may  introduce 
the  reader  into  the  choir.  At  once  the  sight  is  greeted 
and  enchanted  with  the  rich  glow  of  its  eastern  window  : 
a  perfect  contrast  to  Wm.  Peckitt's  diluted  tints  in 
the  west  window,  with  the  unequalled  canopied  sedilia, 
well  engraved  in  the  '  Transactions  of  the  Exeter 
Diocesan  Architectural  Society '  (Vol.  I.,  Part  2,  1843), 
with  the  towering  and  majestic  throne,  with 


206  HISTORY  OF  THE 

able  vista  of  columns,  arches,  and  clerestory,  and  the 
embowed  and  interlaced  vaulting.  As  soon  as  the  eye 
can  recover  itself  and  admit  of  repose,  it  will  fix  itself 
on  the  great  east  window.  Before  we  attempt  to 
describe  it,  we  may  observe,  that  it  was  considerate  in 
the  guardians  of  the  church,  when  reading  was  confined 
to  the  comparative  few,  to  aim  at  the  instruction  of 
the  people  by  the  lively  representation  of  events  re- 
corded in  the  Holy  Bible  and  ecclesiastical  history. 
An  appeal  was  thus  made  to  the  head  and  heart  of  the 
spectators ;  they  became  intelligibly  reminded  of  the 
blessings  and  graces  of  the  Almighty — were  excited  to 
a  sense  of  gratitude,  and  urged  to  the  imitation  of 
God's  servants. 

The  merit  of  enlarging  this  gable  window,  as  it  is 
called  in  the  acts  of  the  chapter,  in  the  Perpendicular 
style,  and  of  providing  it  with  coloured  glass,  must  be 
given  to  Henry  de  Blakeborn,  a  canon  of  this  church 
and  formerly  a  prebendary  of  Hundegate  in  Lincoln 
Cathedral.?  On  21st  April,  1389,  he  offered  the  sum 
of  100  marks  for  the  work ;  and  in  the  '  Fabric  Roll ' 
of  that  year  is  an  entry  for  the  skin  of  parchment  to 
sketch  out  the  design,  "  pro  I  pelle  pergameni  empt& 
ad  pingendum  magnam  fenestram."  On  7th  May, 
1391,  an  agreement  was  concluded  in  St.  Andrew's 
Chapel  above  mentioned,  between  the  dean  and  chapter 
of  the  one  part,  and  Robert  Lyen,10  the  glazier  of  the 
church,  of  the  other  part;  whereby  the  said  Robert 
Lyen  covenanted  to  glaze  the  great  window  newly 
made  at  the  head  of  the  church  behind  the  High  Altar. 
For  each  foot  of  new  glass  he  was  to  receive  twenty 
pence ;  for  fitting  the  old*  glass  he  was  to  receive 

9  He  exchanged  this  prebend  in  Lin-    canonry  here,  Nicholas  Bubbewyth,  be- 
coln  church  in  July,  1378,  with  Robert    came  also  Bishop  of  London, 
de    Braybroke,    shortly    after    elected  |      10  He  had  been  sworn  into  office  on 
Bishop  of  London  and  appointed  Lord    28th  April  that  year,   with   a  yearly 
Chancellor.    Henry  died  in  the  summer  j  salary  of  II.  6s.  8d. 
of   1399 ;    and    his    successor    to    the  I 


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207 


three  shillings  and  fourpence  per  week,  and  his  man 
two  shillings.  He  was  to  find,  at  his  own  cost  and 
charge,  what  might  be  necessary  for  glazing  ;  but  what- 
ever quantity  of  new  and  old  glass  might  be  required 
for  the  work,  was  to  be  provided  by  the  dean  and 
chapter. 

Probably  this  gable  window  shone  in  all  its  beautiful 
combination  and  arrangement  of  colours  until  the 
Grand  Rebellion,  when  it  suffered  partial  injury.1 

To  the  varied  elegance  of  design  which  appears  in 
the  figures,  costume,  ornaments,  turrets,  niches  and 
foliage,  the  painter  alone  can  do  justice.  But  we  pro- 
ceed to  the  explanation  of  the  window ;  beginning  with 
the  first  and  lowest  series,  containing  nine  figures  : — 

First. — St.  Thomas  the  Apostle,  holding  in  his  right  hand  a 
lance,  the  instrument  of  his  martyrdom.  Perhaps  this  saint  is 
introduced  in  compliment  to  the  bishop  of  the  time,  Thomas 
Brantyngham  (1370-1394)  ;  but  beneath  are  the  arms  of 
Bishop  Blondy — Lozengy  or  and  sable,  and  of  Bishop  Stafford 
as  before. 

Second. — St.  Catherine,  supporting  the  wheel  in  her  right 
hand.  Arms  of  Bishop  Chichester — Cheeky  or  and  gules,  a 
Chief  vairy :  also  of  Bishop  Osbern — Gules,  a  Bend  argent  sur- 
mounted by  a  Fess  or. 

Third. — St.  Mary  Magdalene,  bearing  in  her  left  hand  the 
alabaster  box  of  perfume.  Below,  the  arms  of  the  see  and  of  its 
founder,  Edward  the  Confessor. 

Fourth. — St.  Barbara,  bearing  a  -palm-branch  in  her  right 
hand  and  a  tower  in  her  left.  Below  are  the  arms  of  Bishop 
Berkeley — Gules,  a  Chevron  between  ten  Crosses  patee,  six 
above  and  four  below. 

Fifth. — The  Virgin  Mary,  and  her  Divine  Infant  on  her  left 
arm  :  under  her  feet  the  inscription  SCA  MARIA.  Below,  the 
arms  quarterly  of  France  and  England. 

Sixth. — St.  Martin,  Bishop  of  Tours :  SCE  MAETINE.  Below, 
the  arms  of  Bishop  Peter  Courtenay — Or,  three  Torteauxes,  in 
chief  a  Label  of  three  points  azure. 


1  We  say  partial :  for  the  damage 
clone  by  the  Puritans  is  greatly  exagge- 
rated by  Dr.  Ryves  in  his  '  Mercurius 
Kusticus  :' — "  They  broke  and  defaced 
all  the  glass  windows  of  the  church, 
which  cannot  be  replaced  for  many 


hundred  pounds,  and  left  all  those  an- 
cient monuments,  being  painted  glass, 
and  containing  matter  of  story,  only  a 
miserable  spectacle  of  commiseration 
to  all  well  affected  hearts  that  beheld 
them"  (p.  241). 


208  HISTORY  OF  THE 

Seventh. — St.  Peter,  with  the  pallium,  holding  the  church 
in  his  right  hand  and  its  keys  in  his  left.  Beneath  are  the  arms 
of  King  Athelstan — Party  per  saltier,  gules  and  azure,  on  a 
Mount  a  Cross  patonce  crowned  or :  also  the  arms  of  Leofric, 
the  first  bishop  of  Exeter — Or,  a  Cross  flory,  sable,  having  in 
the  fess-point  a  Mitre  of  the  first. 

Eighth. — St.  Paul,  with  the  sword  in  his  right  hand,  and  a 
book  in  his  left.  Beneath  are  the  arms  of  William  and  Kobert 
Warelwast,  bishops  of  Exeter — Azure,  a  Saltier  argent.  Also 
Bishop  Brewer's — Gules,  two  Bends  wavy  or. 

Ninth. — St.  Andrew,  with  the  Cross  in  saltier.  Below  are 
the  arms  of  Stapeldon — Argent,  two  Bends  wavy  within  a 
bordure  sable.  Also  Bishop  Nevyll's — Gules,  a  Saltier  argent. 

Of  these  nine  figures — with  the  exception  of  St. 
Barbara,  the  Virgin  Mary,  and  St.  Martin — the  heads 
are  modern  ;  supplied,  we  understand,  by  Mr.  William 
Peckitt,  of  York. 

The  second  series  contains  seven  figures  : — 

First. — St.  Sativola,  or  Sidwell.  This  virgin  martyr  of  the 
eighth  century  is  gracefully  attired :  her  right  hand  reposes  on 
her  breast ;  her  left  supports  a  scythe.  The  rebus  on  her  name 
is  completed  by  the  water  in  the  background  flowing  from  the 
well 

In  the  6  Catalogue  of  Relics  '  given  to  this  church  by 
King  Athelstan,  are  numbered  "  Reliquiae  Sanctse  Sati- 
volae  Yirginis  et  Martyris." 

Second. — The  Empress  -St.  Helena,  crowned :  in  her  right 
hand  she  holds  the  cross,  on  the  top  of  which  is  the  affixed  title 
i. N.R.I.  ;  in  her  left  is  a  book. 

Third. — St.  Michael,  supporting  a  banner  ornamented  with  a 
dove. 

Fourth. — St.  Lucy.  On  her  left  shoulder  rests  a  naked  sword. 
Some  unconnected  fragments  of  an  inscription  may  be  traced. 

Fifth. — St.  Catherine  repeated.  In  her  right  hand  is  the 
wheel ;  in  the  left  a  sword.  SCA  KATHARINA. 

Sixth. — St.  Edward,  King  and  Confessor.  His  right  hand 
exhibits  the  bezel  of  the  celebrated  ring  given  by  the  pilgrim  ; 
his  left  supports  the  sceptre,  surmounted  with  the  cross. 

Seventh. — St.  Edmund,  King  and  Martyr.  His  right  hand 
grasps  a  bundle  of  arrows,  the  emblems  of  his  martyrdom 
in  870. 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  209 

The  third  series  contains  three  figures  only  : — 

First. — Abraham,  who  is  regarding  the  angel  above,  and 
listening  to  his  words,  Genesis  xvii.  19  :  "  Sara  uxor  tua  pariet 
tibi  filium  ;  vocabisque  nomen  ejus  Isaac." 

Second. — Moses,  with  his  right  hand  extended,  addressing  his 
people,  Deuteron.  xviii.  15:  "De  gente  tu&  prophetam  vobis 
suscitabit  Deus." 

Third. — Isaiah.  The  label  contains  his  famous  prophecy, 
xi.  1 :  "  Egredietur  virga  de  radice  Jesse." 

The  remaining  armorials  are  the  arms  of  the  See 
and  Bishop  Bitton's — Ermine,  a  Fess  gules.  Bishop 
Laey's  as  before — Quarterly  first  and  fourth,  an  Eagle 
displayed,  double-headed,  sable ;  second  and  third, 
(rules,  a  Lion  rampant  argent.  Arms  of  William 
Courtenay,  as  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  impaled  with 
his  family.  The  arms  of  England  and  France.  Some 
of  the  shields  have  no  labels  of  three  points :  one 
however  is  charged  with  the  three  points  ermine ; 
another  has  the  points  charged  with  two  Eoundlets 
argent.  Bishop  Brantyngham's — Sable,  a  Fess  em- 
battled, counter-embattled,  between  three  Catherine- 
wheels  or.  Bishop  Lavington's — Argent,  a  Saltier 
gules;  on  a  chief  of  the  second,  three  Boars'-heads 
couped  or.  Kingdom  of  the  West  Saxons — Gules,  a 
Griffin  segreant  or ;  over  them  "  R.  S.  Godfrey  pinxit 
1765."  Bishop  KeppeFs — Gules,  three  Escalops  argent, 
a  martlet  for  difference  ;  Argent,  a  Cross  gules  between 
four  Crescents  sable.  Bishop  Grandisson's  and  Courte- 
nay's,  with  Bohun's. 

The  parapet  under,  with  the  canopied  screen,  was 
executed  by  Mr.  John  Kendall  of  this  city,  in  1818. 

Below  this  splendid  window,  and  under  a  costly 
screen,  stood  the  silver  altar ;  the  gift,  according  to 
Leland,  of  Bishop  Stapeldon.  In  the  Fabric-Roll  of 
1324,  two  years  before  that  prelate's  assassination,  we 
discover  a  payment  to  "  John  the  goldsmith  "  for  work 
done  about  the  silver  table,  "pro  opere  tabulse  argen- 

p 


210  HISTOEY  OF  THE 

teae ; "  and  we  know  that  his  executors  supplied  a  froritel 
and  a  covering  of  rich  embroidery  for  it,  which  cost 
in  those  days  14/.  85.  4<i.  Above  the  altar  was  sus- 
pended a  dove,  containing  a  golden  Pyxis,  in  which 
the  consecrated  hosts  were  reserved.  There  were  also 
two  small  collateral  altars  here,  of  St.  Stephen  and 
St.  John.  In  the  middle  of  the  choir  hung  by  a  silver 
chain  a  vase  of  the  same  metal,  in  which  a  wax-light 
was  kept  continually  burning.  In  the  '  Fabric-Eoll  '•  of 
1386  it  is  called  "  Corona/7  and  was  adapted  to  receive 
a  number  of  lights  around  it.  This  wax-light  we 
apprehend  was  originally  provided  by  the  Archdeacon 
of  Exeter,  in  virtue  of  Bishop  Bronescombe's  ordinance 
of  3rd  September,  1270,  to  burn  before  the  High  Altar 
at  matins  and  high  mass.  A  third  chandelier  hung 
lower  down  in  the  choir  from  a  silver  chain. 

The  throne  of  the  bishop  was  originally  of  stone,  and 
appears  to  have  been  removed  about  the  year  1470 
to  make  room  for  its  stately  successor.  We  cannot 
but  regret  that  it  has  been  shoved  back  from  its 
pristine  advanced  position,  as  much  to  its  own  detri- 
ment as  to  the  injury  of  effect.  To  succeed  in  thrust- 
ing it  sideways — instead  of  giving  it  a  position  under 
the  centre  of  the  arch  or  of  bringing  it  forwards — the 
superior  mouldings  of  the  arch  itself  have  been  hacked 
away,  and  a  pinnacle  of  the  throne  also  has  been 
broken  off;  the  front  pannels  have  likewise  been  ex- 
changed for  two  incongruous  ones.  After  examining 
the  misereres  or  subsellia,  or  seats  of  the  canons  and 
vicars,  we  cannot  doubt  that  the  stalls  were  in  correct 
keeping  with  the  episcopal  throne,  before  their  canopies 
and  finials  were  pared  down,  in  1745,  for  their  present 
demure  and  stunted  substitutes. 

On  certain  solemn  occasions  the  choir  was  hung 
with  silks  and  tapestry,  and  blazed  with  a  multitude 
of  lamps  and  wax-lights,  whilst  a  numerous  clergy,  in 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  211 

their  magnificent  robes,  amidst  clouds  of  fragrant 
incense,  and  peals  of  the  tuneful  organ,2  lifted  up  their 
voices  to  their  Heavenly  Father^  and  joined  in  the  me- 
lodious anthems  of  the  angelic  and  seraphic  hosts 
(Isaiah  vi.  3,  Rev.  v.  8).  What  a  glorious  spectacle 
must  this  sanctuary  have  offered  on  the  8th  July,  1347,  f 
prepared  as  a  bride  adorned  for  her  husband  (Rev.  x.  2), 
when  the  immortal  Grandisson — assisted  by  Ralph, 
Bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells,  Robert,  Bishop  of  Salisbury, 
John,  Bishop  of  St.  Asaph — consecrated  Richard  Fitz- 
Ralph,  Dean  of  Lichfield,  to  the  archiepiscopal  see  of 
Armagh ;  in  the  presence  of  the  Abbots  of  Hartland, 
Torre,  Newenham,  and  Buckfastleigh,  the  Prior  of 
Plympton,  and  a  countless  number  of  clergy  and 
nobility !  How  splendid  must  have  been  the  reception 
of  our  monarchs  Henry  VI.,  Edward  IV.,  and  Henry 
VII. !  How  imposing  the  ceremony  of  installing  our 
bishops  ;  the  visitation  of  our  primates ;  the  reconcilia- 
tion of  the  public  penitents  on  Maunday  Thursday ; 
and  the  grand  ordinations  before  Christmas,  Easter, 
and  Pentecost ! 

But  who  can  leave  this  sanctuary  without  bending 
reverently  over  the  tomb  of  that  martyr  of  loyalty  and 
bountiful  benefactor  to  the  edifice,  Bishop  Stapeldon? 
We  forbear  to  describe  it,  after  its  delineation  and 
notice  by  Mr.  Britton.  The  same  author  has  given 
three  views  of  the  beautiful  altar- tomb  and  effigy  of 
Bishop  Marshal ;  and  here  occurs  the  earliest  instance 
we  have  met  with  of  St.  Paul  holding  the  sword  by 
the  point :  the  episcopal  ring  is  on  the  middle  finger 
of  the  right  hand.  As  for  the  mitre,  though  the  bishop 
died  as  late  as  1206,  his  mitre  is  the  lowest  we  have 
seen,  not  exceeding  three  inches  and  a  half  from  the 
front  rim  to  the  apex.3 

2  In  the  Chapter-Roll  of  1429  are  I  3  Bishop  Bartholomew's  mitre  (ob. 
expenses  "pro  novis  organis  faciendis."  |  1184)  rises  to  five  inches  and  a  half; 

p  2 


212  HISTORY  OF  THE 

On  turning  from  the  choir  into  the  nave  we  are 
struck  with  the  beautiful  display  of  light  and  shade ; 
with  the  extent  before  us  ;  with  the  boldness  of  the 
conception  to  produce  transepts  from  the  twin  towers ; 
with  the  enlarged  girth  of  the  columns,  and  wider 
span  of  the  arches ;  with  the  Minstrel  Gallery  in  the 
north  clerestory,  and  with  the  undulating  tracery  of 
the  western  window. 

As  soon  as  the  spectator  can  feel  himself  capable  'of 
fixing  his  attention,  he  may  proceed  to  the  north,  or 
St.  Paul's  Tower.  In  the  west  wall  is  retained  the 
original  Norman  window.  A  similar  one  occupied  the 
space  where  the  clock  now  stands.  Another  fronted 
the  west,  before  Bishop  Quivil  opened  the  communica- 
tion with  St.  Paul's  Chapel.  It  is  worthy  of  remark, 
that  the  south  wall  of  the  corresponding  tower  had  two 
circular  Norman  windows  in  it,  and  that  the  pointed 
window,  which  Bishop  Quivil  substituted,  is  smaller 
than  the  corresponding  one  which  he  introduced  in 
the  north  tower.  In  this  north  tower  was  formerly  an 
altar  of  the  Holy  Cross,  which  was  removed  apparently 
in  the  early  part  of  the  15th  century.  In  its  place 
was  erected  a  crucifix,  and  the  offerings  made  at  its 
foot  are  referred  to  in  an  agreement  made  between  the 
chapter  arid  the  treasurer  on  31st  October,  1423,  "  ad 
Crucem  in  boreali  campanili,  ubi  nuper  altare  fuerat 
situatum  ad  honorem  ejusdem." 

Mentioning  the  clock,  we  find  one  in  the  Fabric-Eoll 
of  1376,  arid  an  expenditure  of  10/.,  "circa  cameram  in 
boreali  turre  pro  horologio  quod  vocatur  'clokke';" 
another  seems  to  have  replaced  it  in  1424,  when  John 
Budde  was  paid  the  large-  sum  of  31.  13s.  4J.  for 
painting  it.  Though  probably  altered  from  time  to 


Simon  de  Apulia's  (1223)  to  six  and  a 
half;  Bronescombe's  (1280)  to  eight 
and  a  half;  Stapeldon's  a 326)  to  nine 


inches,  and  Stafford's  nine  and  three- 
quarters. 


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time,  especially  whilst  Peter  Courtenay  governed  the 
church,  it  may  be  in  substance  the  present  piece  of 
mechanism.  In  Westcote's  time  (1630)  were  subscribed 
the  following  lines'— 

Festinando  dies  sub  soils  luce  jucundi 
Diuturna  quies  docet,  et  modo  tempus  eundi 
Prseterit  iste  dies  :  nescitur  origo  secundi 
An  labor,  an  quies  ?  sic  transit  gloria  mundi ! 

At  present  is  the  simple  motto — 

Pereunt  et  imputantur. 

To  the  treasurer  of  the  church  appertained  "  custodia 
clokke  sive  horologii." 

In  the  'Act  Books'  of  the  mayor  and  chamber,  19th 
June,  1649,  is  an  order  u  that  Mr.  Eeceiver  doe  see 
the  clock  in  Peter's  Church  repaired  and  set  in  order, 
and  pay  Grincking  the  watchmaker  30s.  for  doing  it, 
and  he  is  to  have  10s.  yearly  for  keeping  it." 

Underneath  the  clock  is  the  small  neglected  arid 
mutilated  chantry  of  William  Sylke,  Doctor  of  Laws, 
for  many  years  a  leading  dignitary  of  this  cathedral. 
Bishop  Courtenay  appointed  him  his  vicar-general, 
collated  him  to  a  canonry  here  on  20th  November, 
1479,  and  six  months  later  to  a  prebend  in  the  church 
of  the  Holy  Cross  at  Crediton.  Bishop  Fox,  on  31st 
May,  1487,  selected  him  also  to  administer  the  diocese 
in  his  absence.  On  15th  April,  1499,  Bishop  Eed- 
mayne  bestowed  on  him  the  Precentorship  of  Exeter, 
which  he  held  during  the  remaining  nine  years  of  his 
life.  For  his  attention  to  the  interests  of  the  priest- 
vicars  of  the  cathedral,  they  had  engaged  to  keep  his 
obit ;  and  the  abbot  and  convent  of  St.  Mary's  of 
Cleeve,  Somerset,  from  a  sense  of  gratitude  to  him  and 
to  Canon  Richard  More,  late  treasurer,  agreed  to  pay 
yearly  to  our  dean  and  chapter  the  sum  of  6Z.  13.5.  4d. 
for  the  maintenance  of  their  anniversaries. 

Corresponding  with  this  chantry  was  St.  Michael's 
in  the  south  tower,  inclosing  the  tomb  of  Bishop  John 


214  HISTORY  OF  THE 

(who  had  died  on  3rd  September,  1189),  distinguished 
with  the  simple  quatrefoil.  This  chapel  is  particularly 
mentioned  in  the  Roll  of  1397. 

The  jube  or  roodloft  divides  the  nave  from  the  choir. 
It  is  supported  on  three  arches  of  exquisite  beauty ; 
the  central  one  forms  the  entrance  into  the  choir.  On 
the  south  side  was  the  Lady's  Altar,  often  called 
Bratton's  ;  on  the  north  side  St.  Nicholas's.4  In  the 
reign  of  King  James  I.,  a  double  rose  and  thistle  of 
cumbrous  and  graceless  sculpture  were  suffered  to  dis- 
figure the  front  of  this  specimen  of  architectural  beauty, 
as  if  to  mark  the  decline  of  the  arts  and  the  degrada- 
tion of  taste. 

Now  let  us  advance  into  the  nave.  The  eye  is 
attracted  to  the  "  Vetus  Ostium"  as  it  is  called  in  the 
Fabric-Rolls,  or  the  ancient  doorway  opening  into  the 
cloisters ;  then  we  turn  to  the  altar-tomb  of  Hugh 
Courtenay,  the  second  of  that  name,  Earl  of  Devon,  and 
of  his  Countess  Margaret  (Bohun),  married  to  him  on 
llth  August,  1325.  She  survived  her  lord  fifteen 
years,  and  died  on  16th  December,  1391,  aged  80. 
By  the  earl's  will  written  in  French,  4th  August, 
1375,  he  had  directed  that  his  remains  should  be  de- 
posited in  St.  Peter's  Church,  Tiverton ;  but  by  a 
codicil  in  Latin,  dated  28th  April,  1377  (Bishop  Bran- 
tyngham's  <  Register,'  Vol.  I.,  fol.  27,  Part  II.),  just 
before  his  death,  he  desires  to  be  buried  in  this  cathe- 
dral. In  the  Fabric-Roll  of  1378  is  entered  a  receipt  for 
fifty  shillings  for  supplying  three  marble  stones  "  pro 
tumba  Comitis."  From  Brantyngham's  '  Reg.'  (Vol.  II. 
fol.  90),  we  learn  that  William  Courtenay,  then  Bishop 
of  London,5  in  1381  consecrated  the  altar-stone  for  this 


4  Near  the  south  side  may  yet  be 
seen  on  the  pavement  an  altar-slab 
marked  with  a  cross  at  the  four  corners 


ster — in  due  time  collated  to  a  canoiiry 
in  this  cathedral :  whilst  Bishop  of 
Hereford  he  paid  frequent  visits  to  his 


and  in  the  centre.     It  is  degraded  into  I  venerable  parents   at  Tiverton  Castle, 

an  inscribed  gravestone.  j  and  rendered  valuable    service  in  the 

5  Born  in  the  Manor-House,  Exmin-  j  performance  of  episcopal  functions  for 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER. 


215 


his  parents'  chantry.  Westcote  in  his  '  View  of  Devon/ 
p.  209  (1630),  describes  the  chantry  as  "a  sumptuous 
curious  little  chapel,  lately  taken  down."  As  the  altar- 
tomb  was  greatly  sunk,  it  was  taken  down  on  4th 
May,  1833,  to  be  resettled.  We  then  observed  that  the 
leaden  coffins  of  the  earl  and  countess  were  lying  side 
by  side,  barely  sixteen  inches  below  the  surface  of  the 
floor ;  that  the  skulls  were  tolerably  perfect,  but  that 
the  bones  had  been  wantonly  disturbed,  probably  in 
the  search  for  rings  and  jewellery.  The  coffin  of  the 
countess  had  experienced  much  more  injury  than  the 
earl's.  We  believe  this  chantry  was  dedicated  to 
St.  Agatha. 

On  the  opposite  side,  nearly  facing  the  north  porch, 
was  the  chantry  of  Bishop  Brantyngham,  which  he 
endowed  with  the  Eectory  of  Morthoe  with  the  consent 
of  the  Crown,  on  8th  July,  1379.  Izacke  laments  "  the 
embezzlement  of  his  brass  effigy  in  this  sacrilegious 
age."  Previously  to  the  relaying  of  the  flags,  on  the 
removal  of  the  pews6  in  the  nave,  the  grave  was 


our  diocesan,  Bishop  Brantyngham.  At 
the  end  of  six  years  he  was  translated 
to  London ;  he  sat  about  the  same 
number  of  years  at  London,  when  he 
was  promoted  to  Canterbury.  He  had 
hardly  been  installed  Primate  when,  on 
15th  November,  1381,  he  obtained  King 
Kichard  the  Second's  license  to  erect 
dwellings  in  our  Close  towards  the 
"  Cookrewe,"  on  an  area  of  200  feet  in 
length,  the  rents  of  which  were  to  serve 
"pro  sustentatione  duorum  capellano- 
runi  Divina  singulis  diebus  in  ecclesia 
cathedrali  Exon.  celebraturorum."  He 
himself  had  intended  to  be  buried  near 
his  parents,  but  afterwards  altered  his 
will,  and  desired  to  be  buried  at  Maid- 
stone.  Dying  on  31st  July,  1396,  at 
the  age  of  66,  whilst  the  said  king  was 
at  Canterbury,  his  Majesty  commanded 
that  the  interment  should  take  place  in 
his  own  metropolitan  church,  which 
was  accordingly  done  on  the  4th  of 
August ;  but  we  may  observe  that 
eleven  years  before  the  archbishop's 
death,  the  rectory  of  East  Coker  in 
Somersetshire  had  been  conveyed  by 
the  family  to  the  dean  and  chapter  to 


maintain  the  objects  of  this  Courtenay 
chantry.  That  a  memorial  was  erected 
to  the  archbishop  at  Maidstone  is  stated 
by  Weever,  '  Fun.  Mon.,'  p.  285. 

6  The  erection  of  this  seating  was  de- 
frayed by  a  legacy  of  Precentor  Henry 
Bold.  On  the  ceremony  of  opening 
them,  27th  July,  1684,  a  memorable 
sermon  was  delivered  by  Prebendary 
Kev.  John  Reynolds,  which  was  pub- 
lished. At  the  time,  this  disfigurement 
to  the  church  was  considered  a  vast  im- 
provement; but  happily  in  1834  it  was 
removed.  The  handsome  pulpit,  with 
the  figures  of  the  four  Evangelists 
carved  by  Grinlin  Gibbons,  was  trans- 
ferred to  St.  James's  Church  in  St.  Sid- 
well's.  The  original  pulpit  in  the  nave 
was  of  stone.  The  first  mention  we  find 
of  pews  is  in  the  will  of  John  Younge 
of  Herne,  dated  26th  May,  1458,  whereby 
he  leaves  ten  marks  "to  make  seat's 
called  puyinge  in  the  church  of  Herne 
in  the  diocese  of  Canterbury,  so  that 
the  same  be  done  within  two  years 
after  my  decease." — '  Testamenta  Ve- 
tusta,'  vol.  i.  p.  289. 


216  HISTORY  OF  THE 

opened,  when  it  soon  became  evident  that  it  had  been 
carefully  searched  for  plunder.  Indeed  there  is  too 
much  cause  to  fear  that,  when  the  nave  was  converted 
into  a  guard-house  for  the  Puritan  soldiers  in  1646, 
all  the  graves  were  explored  by  sacrilegious  covetous- 
ness.  Mr.  Eeynolds,  in  the  sermon  referred  to  supra, 
expressly  states  that  "many  of  us  have  seen  not  only 
the  monuments  of  the  dead,  but  even  the  very  ashes 
and  bones  of  some,  disturbed  and  violated."  This 
chantry  we  believe  was  dedicated  to  St.  Anne,  for 
whom  the  founder  had  a  special  veneration.  From  the 
publication  of  Pope  Urban  the  Sixth's  Bull,  dated 
21st  July,  1381,  in  her  honour,  the  devotion  of  the 
faithful  to  her  memory  greatly  increased  in  this  diocese 
(Brantyngham's  '  Reg.'  I.  fo.  108). 

We  have  mentioned  the  north  porch,  and  suspect 
that  here  was  the  termination  of  Warelwast's  Cathedral ; 
so  that  Bishop  Grandisson  extended  the  original  length 
westward  by  four  other  arches.  Certainly  this  porch 
existed  before  the  present  nave  was  constructed,  as  the 
examination  of  its  walls  and  the  blank  window  in  the 
aisle  and  clerestory  sufficiently  indicate.  Its  exterior 
front  is  evidently  new  faced.  Under  an  obtuse  arch 
below  the  base  of  the  blank  window  in  the  clerestory, 
you  enter  a  projecting  gallery,  suited  for  a  band  of 
musicians  to  be  stationed  for  the  performance  of  instru- 
mental pieces  during  solemn  receptions  of  illustrious 
persons  and  the  processions  of  the  whole  cathedral 
staff.  Mr.  Britton,  in  his  description  of  the  cathedral, 
has  furnished  engravings  of  it  (Plates  VIII.  and 
XVII.).  There  are  fourteen  winged  figures — twelve 
in  front,  and  one  in  each  return.  The  twelve  in  front 
are  provided  with  instruments.  The  first  to  the  west 
sustains  a  guitar  of  six  strings ;  the  second  is  playing 
the  bagpipes ;  the  third,  a  hautboy ;  the  fourth,  a 
violin ;  the  fifth,  a  harp  ;  the  sixth,  a  small  instrument 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  217 

like  a  Jew's  harp  ;  the  seventh,  a  trumpet ;  the  eighth, 
an  organ  blown  with  the  left  hand  and  fingered  with 
the  right ;  the  ninth,  a  guitar  with  five  strings  ;  the 
tenth,  some  unknown  wind-instrument ;  the  eleventh, 
a  tambour ;  the  twelfth,  cymbals.  Below,  over  the 
capitals  of  the  clustered  columns,  are  two  empty  niches, 
which  formerly  contained  statues  of  St.  Mary  and 
St.  Peter  ;  as  we  collect  from  the  wills  of  Canon  John 
Germyn,  made  on  21st  February,  1459,  and  Canon 
Richard  Martin,  dated  31st  July,  1461. 

In  the  porch  itself  was  buried  John  Orum,  Chancel- 
lor of  Exeter.  By  his  will,  proved  27th  September, 
1436,  he  left  forty  pounds  to  the  choristers  of  the 
church,  "  pro  antiphona  imperpetuum  decantanda  in 
predicto  porticu."  St.  Edmund's  Chapel,  at  the  extre- 
mity of  the  north  aisle,  and  now  used  for  the  Consistory 
Court,  is  designated  in  the  'Inventory'  of  1506  as 
"  Capella  Sancti  Edmundi  supra  ossilegium  in  Ceme- 
terio."  Can  there  be  a  crypt  here  ?  This  chapel  must 
have  been  contiguous  to  the  Chapel  of  the  Blessed  Mary 
"  infra  Cemeterium,"  7  where  lectures  on  divinity  were 
sometimes  delivered  and  ordinations  occasionally 
holden.  In  this  Chapel  of  St.  Mary,  generally  called 
the  '  Charnel  Chapel/  the  treasurer,  John  Ryse,  on  18th 
March,  1522,  founded  a  Mass  of  the  Holy  Grhost  to  be 
daily  celebrated  for  his  prosperity  during  his  life,  and 
of  Requiem  after  his  death,  which  happened  early  in 
May,  1531.  Before  the  end  of  the  sixteenth  century 
St.  Mary's  Chapel  had  disappeared  altogether. 

In  the  nave  we  meet  with  large  chandeliers  in  the 
Fabric-Rolls,  as  also  with  the  pulpit.  John  Udy,  a  canon 
of  the  church,  in  his  will,  dated  18th  February,  1462, 
desired  to  be  buried  "  in  navi  ecclesie  Sancti  Petri  juxta 
pulpitum." 


7  We  believe  it  is  first  mentioned  in 
the  '  Register '  of  Bishop  Stapeldon,  fol. 
175,  when  that  prelate,  on  18th  March, 


1322,  authorised  John  de  Lydeford  to 
have  service  performed  in  it. 


218  HISTORY  OF  THE 

In  the  vaulting  of  the  nave  are  a  few  armorial  bear- 
ings :  Bishop  Stapeldon's,  Bishop  Bytton's,  Bishop 
Berkley's,  Bishop  Grandisson's,  and  Montacute's,  already 
described.  Two  shields  have  been  effaced  by  the 
daubers,  as  also  the  label  from  Bishop  Grandisson's 
kneeling  figure,  directed  towards  the  spirited  represen- 
tation of  the  martyrdom  of  St.  Thomas  of  Canterbury 
(Plate  XIX.,  No.  5). 

Here  we  may  observe  that  the  original  baptismal 
font  was  removed  to  make  room  for  a  marble  bason  on 
the  occasion  of  christening  the  Princess  Henrietta,  21st 
July,  1644.  After  serving  its  purpose  for  nearly  200 
years,  the  present  octagonal  one,  made  by  Simon 
Rowe,  was  given  to  the  church  in  June,  1843,  by 
Canon  John  Bartholomew,  and  is  thus  inscribed : — 

"  Indignus  sum,  Doinine  Deus, 
Qui  hsec  tibi  offeram.     Oro 
tamen  accipias  propter  merita 
dilecti  Filii  tui,  et  concedas 
ut  qui  hie  sint  ex  aqua  et 
Spiritu  geniti,  vivant  et  moriantur 
gratia  pleni,  per  Jesum  Christum 
Dominum  nostrum.   Amen,  Amen." 

In  examining  the  roof,  we  think  it  safe  to  pronounce, 
that  the  carpentry  must  yield  the  palm  to  the  masonry. 
Evidently  the  roof  swings  westward,  occasioned  by 
cutting  off  the  arch-brace  or  tie-beam  over  the  vaulting. 
We  cannot  pass  the  western  door  without  inspecting 
St.  Radegunde's  Chapel,  and  remarking  the  obtuse  arch 
over  the  site  of  its  altar,  and  without  a  deep  sigh  of 
regret  that  Exeter  should  have  permitted  with  impu- 
nity the  wanton  violation  of  the  sacred  remains  of  its 
noble  benefactor,  Bishop  Grandisson.  Alas!  the  same 
ungrateful  spirit  of  profanation  had  scattered  the  ashes 
of  the  patriotic  King  Alfred,  at  Winchester  ! 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  219 


CHAPTER  IY. 

ANCIENT  CUSTOMS   OF   THE   CATHEDRAL. 

NOT  only  national  churches,  but  even  distinct  dioceses, 
adhered  to  peculiar  rites  and  forms.  St.  Osmund, 
Bishop  of  Sarum,  who  died  on  4th  December,  1099, 
had  the  merit  of  introducing  throughout  this  country  a 
stricter  uniformity  in  the  celebration  of  Divine  Service. 
His  '  Ordinale,'  composed  in  1080,  served  for  the  sub- 
stance and  groundwork  of  the  improved  system  of 
conducting  the  offices  of  our  cathedral :  yet  Bishop 
Grrandisson  was  unwilling  that  the  entire  credit  should 
be  engrossed  by  the  church  of  Sarum ;  for,  in  No.  77 
of  his  statutes  for  his  collegiate  church  of  St.  Mary  at 
Ottery,  he  requires  of  its  members  that  they  should 
not  profess  to  maintain  the  '  Use  of  Sarum,'  but  rather 
the  '  Use  of  Exeter.'  In  the  course  of  this  chapter  we 
shall  refer  to  some  peculiar  customs  mentioned  in  the 
4  Ordinale9  which  Bishop  Grrandisson  compiled  in  the  year 
1337  for  the  regulation  of  the  church  services,  and  also 
to  some  others  mentioned  in  the  episcopal  registers  and 
ancient  documents. 

According,  then,  to  the  ancient  custom  of  the  church 
of  Exeter,  its  clerical  staff  rose  throughout  the  year  at 
midnight,  or  soon  after,  for  the  performance  of  matins 
— "  semper  media  nocte  vel  cito  postea "  ('  Ordinale,' 
fol.  12).  Each  of  the  residentiary  canons,  however,  was 
allowed  one  night's  respite  from  attendance  during  the 
week.  From  the  original  foundation  of  the  cathedral  in 
1050,  twenty-four  canons  and  twenty-four  vicars  were 
attached  to  it ;  and  this  establishment  was  gradually 
reinforced  and  augmented  by  an  indefinite  number  of 
chantry-priests,  called  annuellars,  or  annivellars,  twelve 
secondaries,  and  four  custors.  When  Bishop  Gran- 


220  HISTORY  OF  THE 

disson  made  the  visitation  of  his  cathedral  on  26th 
November,  1337,  he  gave  in  his  report  ('  Reg/  vol.  i. 
fol.  98)  the  names  of  all  the  members  of  the  church  ; 
and  amongst  them  are  twenty-one  chantry-priests. 
None  of  the  secondaries  were  in  priests'  orders,  but  all 
of  them  were  in  minor  orders :  some  were  even  sub- 
deans,  and  even  deacons.  The  four  dignitaries  of  the 
church  possessed  peculiar  endowments,  annexed  to  their 
offices ;  and  over  their  stalls  were  inscribed  the  follow- 
ing Leonine  verses,  as  we  learn  from  Bishop  Grandis- 
son's  '  Ordinale,'  fol.  1  b  : — 

Dean's. — "  Tardius  atque  mane  residens,  rege  cuncta,  Decane." 
Precentor's. — "  Hie  residendo  chorum  rege,  cantor,  Dux  pue- 

rorum." 

Chancellor's. — "  Hac  qui  sede  sedes,  jura  sacrata  leges." 
Treaswer's. — "  Tresauros     conde,     Kesidens,     pro    Lumine 

sponde." 

The  four  archdeacons  of  Exeter,  Totnes,  Barnstaple, 
and  Cornwall  were  not  necessarily  canons,  in  virtue  of 
their  office  :  neither  was  the  sub-dean  or  penitentiary — 
an  institution  not  founded  until  7th  July,  1284.  All 
the  residentiary  canons  were  required  personally  to 
assist,  not  only  at  the  matins  and  lauds  of  the  day  in 
the  choir,  but  also  at  the  canonical  hours  of  prime, 
tierce,  sext,  none,  and  vespers,  with  complin,  or  the 
completion  and  conclusion  of  the  daily  service.  What 
with  masses,  processions,  and  other  prayers  to  be  per- 
formed at  the  Lady  Chapel,  the  clerical  body  must 
have  been  occupied  in  the  church  every  day  from  four 
to  five  hours.  They  could  truly  say  with  the  royal 
Psalmist,  "  Seven  times  a  day  do  I  praise  Thee." 
(Ps.  cxviii.) 

The  dean's  place  was  at  the  right  hand  of  the 
entrance  into  the  choir  :  next  to  him  the  archdeacon  of 
Exeter  :  then  the  sub-dean,  by  virtue  of  Bishop  Quivil's 
foundation-deed  of  that  office  :  twelve  canons  followed, 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  221 

according  to  seniority  of  appointment ;  then  their 
twelve  vicars :  the  archdeacon  of  Totnes  stood  •  next : 
the  chancellor  occupied  the  stall  adjoining  the  epis- 
copal throne. 

On  the  left  side  of  the  entrance  were  ranged,  first, 
the  precentor ;  then  the  archdeacon  of  Cornwall ;  then 
the  twelve  other  canons,  according  to  seniority,  with 
their  twelve  vicars;  next  the  archdeacon  of  Barn- 
staple  ;  and,  lastly,  the  treasurer,  whose  door  of  exit  to 
the  Treasury  was  behind  his  stall — where  the  Seymour 
mural  monument  in  the  north  aisle  of  the  choir  is  now 
placed.1 

The  twelve  secondaries  occupied  the  second  rank,  or 
form,  with  the  annivellars,  and  were  equally  divided  on 
either  side,  as  well  as  the  choir  boys.2 

The  custores,  or  vergers,  having  lighted  the  candles, 
and  the  pealing  of  the  bells  having  ceased,  the  appointed 
rector  or  leader  of  the  choir,  bearing  his  staff  of  office, 
after  a  short  prayer  in  silence,  commenced  with 
intoning  the  invitatory  of  matins.  If  the  bishop  was 
present,  and  signified  his  intention  of  reading  a  lesson 
of  the  nocturns,  the  cross-bearer,  supported  by  two 
acolyths  holding  lighted  torches,  stood  in  front  of  the 
throne,  and  when  the  bishop  pronounced  the  words 
"  Jube,  Domine,  benedicere,"  the  choir  responded  u  Ora 
pro  nobis,  Pater"  («  Ordinale,'  fol.  27  5). 

After  matins  and  lauds,  the  clergy  separated ;  some 
for  repose,  others  for  private  meditation,  others  for 

1  In  the  examination  of  several  wit-  j  Treasurer's  house,  might  see  the  rebels 
nesses  to  the  bounds  and  limits  of  the  which  came  then  with  halters  about 

their  necks  before  him  to  sue  for  par- 


cathedral  churchyard,  in  1557,  before 
Bishop  James  Turberville  and  John 
Peter,  Mayor  of  Exeter,  Robert  Beale, 
aged  80,  deposed  that  there  had  been  a 


don.—'  Hoker's  M.S.,'  fol.  43. 

2  For  the  training  of  these  youths 
the   dean   and    chapter,   on   4th   July, 


row  of  sixteen  trees  going  from  the  I  1276,   assigned  some  premises  on  the 


bank  before  Mr.  Treasurer's  door  unto 
the  north  door  of  St.  Peter's  Church  ; 
that  eight  of  these  trees  were  cut  down 
when  King  Henry  VII.  (in  October, 
1497)  visited  this  city,  that  the  king, 
standing  in  the  new  window  of  Mr. 


south  side  of  the  Close  for  the  Suc- 
ceritor,  Elias  de  Cirencester,  with  a 
Schola  Cantus.  Bishop  Bronescombe 
sanctioned  the  grant  on  the  following 
day  ('  Reg.'  fol.  70.) 


222  HISTORY  OF  THE 

study,  others  for  preparation  to  celebrate  mass  at  the 
several  altars.  The  -earliest  that  was  performed  was 
called  "  Brattoris"  founded  by  Henry  Bratton,  or 
Bracton,  Archdeacon  of  Barnstaple  and  Chancellor  of 
Exeter,  in  the  reign  of  King  Henry  III.  It  com- 
menced, "in  aurora  diei,"  at  the  altar  of  the  Yirgin 
Mary  under  the  roodloft,  for  the  convenience  of  the 
industrious  population  before  they  began  their  daily 
labour.  By  the  21st  canon  of  the  Synod  holden  here 
in  the  spring  of  1287,  no  priest  was  permitted  to  cele- 
brate twice  on  the  same  day,  except  on  Christmas-day 
and  Easter  Sunday,  or  when  a  corpse  was  to  be  buried 
in  the  parish  church. 

When  prime,  tierce,  sext,  and  none  were  over,  high 
mass  followed,  which  was  performed  nearly  in  the  same 
manner  as  is  done  at  present  in  Eoman  Catholic 
churches.  During  the  whole  of  Advent,  and  from 
Septuagesima  Sunday  until  Maundy  Thursday,  the 
assistant-deacon  and  sub-deacon  wore  chasubles  instead 
of  the  dalmatic  and  tunic,  except  on  special  solemnities. 
But  if  the  bishop  celebrated,  he  was  to  be  attended  by 
at  least  three  deacons  and  as  many  sub-deacons ;  and 
when  the  deacon  presented  him  at  the  offertory  with 
the  wine,  he  implored  a  blessing,  without  moving  from 
the  centre  of  the  altar,  in  these  words,  "  Ab  ipso,  de 
cujus  latere  fluxerunt  sanguis  et  aqua  in  redemp- 
tionem."  It  appears  to  have  been  the  practice  before 
Bishop  Grandisson's  time  to  incense,  from  a  motive  of 
respect  for  departed  worth,  the  tombs  of  such  bishops 
as  were  buried  within  the  choir  :  this  was  discontinued 
by  his  injunction  ('  Ordinale,'  fol.  14).  He  alleges  that 
they  were  not  better  entitled  to  this  mark  of  reverence 
than  his  predecessors,  who  reposed  out  of  the  choir. 
However,  he  is  ready  to  make  an  exception  in  favour 
of  any  bishop  that  was  canonized,  "  nisi  aliquis  canoni- 
zaretur" — a  privilege  awarded  to  none. 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  223 

Bishop  Marshal,  on  24th  May,  1205,  had  granted  to 
his  cathedral  a  pension  of  2£.  13s.  Ad.  to  meet  the 
charge  of  incense  for  two  thuribles  at  the  daily  cele- 
bration of  high  mass,  "  administrandum  cum  duobus 
thuribulis  incensum  in  major  is  missae  celebratione  sin- 
gulis  diebus  in  perpetuum."  This  sum  continued  to  be 
applied  for  that  purpose  for  upwards  of  a  century, 
when,  at  the  suggestion  of  Subdean  Braylegh,  it  was 
transferred  by  Bishop  Stapeldon  on  12th  April,  1322, 
to  the  office  of  p'enitentiary ;  but  with  the  obligation  of 
supplying  two  suitable  torches  at  the  grand  public 
processions  on  Palm  Sunday  and  Corpus  Ohristi  ('  Reg/ 
168  6). 

Should  the  bishop  celebrate  mass  at  any  altar,  the 
regulation  was,  that  no  ecclesiastic  of  inferior  station  to 
him  could  officiate  at  it  during  the  day,  unless  necessity 
intervened  ;  nor  then  without  his  permission — "  et  tune 
licentia  Episcopi  fiat"  (<  Ordinale,'  fol.  24). 

In  the  '  Register'  of  Bishop  Quivil,  fol.  130,  is  a  man- 
date that  at  high  mass,  before  the  'Agnus  Dei'  was 
said  by  the  priest  and  sung  by  the  choir,  the  clergy 
should  prostrate  themselves  before  the  altar,  when  he 
began  the  cxxii.  Psalm  of  the  Vulgate,  "  Ad  Te  levavi 
oculos  meos,"  &c.,  with  Gloria  Patri,  &c.,  Kyrie  Eleison, 
Christe  Eleison,  Kyrie  Eleison,  Pater  Noster,  &c.,  Et 
ne  Nos,  &c. 

Versicle.  Fiat  misericordia  tua,  Domine,  super  nos. 

Response.  Quemadmodum  speravimus  in  Te. 

V.  Domine,  salvum  fac  Regem. 

R.  Et  exaudi  nos  in  die  qua  invocaverimus  Te. 

V.  Salvum  fac  populum  tuum,  Domine,  et  benedic  hsere- 

ditati  tuse. 

R.  Et  rege  eos,  et  extolle  illos  usque  in  aeternum. 
V.  Domine,  exaudi  orationem  meam. 
R.  Et  clamor  meus  ad  Te  veniat. 
V.  Dominus  vobiscum. 
R.  Et  cum  spiritu  tuo. 


224  HISTORY  OF  THE 

Oremus. 

Deus,  refugium  nostrum  et  virtus,  adesto  piis  Ecclesise  tuae 
precibus,  auctor  ipse  pietatis,  et  prsesta,  ut  quod  fideliter  peti- 
mus,  efficaciter  consequamur.  Per  Dominum,  &c. 

Qusesumus,  omnipotens  Deus,  ut  famulus  tuus  N.  Kex  noster, 
qui  tu&  miseratione  suscepit  regni  gubernacula,  virtutum  etiam 
omnium  percipiat  incrementa,  quibus  decenter  ornatus,  et  viti- 
orum  monstra  devitare,  et  ad  Te,  qui  via,  veritas,  et  vita  es, 
gratiosus  valeat  pervenire.  Per  Dominum,  &c.  (Without  men- 
tion of  the  Queen  Consort.) 

The  celebrant  then  rose,  and,  proceeding  to  the  altar, 
repeated  the  '  Agnus  Dei/ 

Processions,  also,  were  an  interesting  ceremony. 
Some  of  these  were  in  public,  with  streaming  banners  : 
others  were  confined  to  the  precincts  of  the  church. 
Originally  there  were  but  two  public  ones  :  the  first  on 
Palm  Sunday,  after  the  "  Benedictio  Florum  et  Fron- 
dium,"  ('Ordinale,'  fol.  87)  ;  the  second  on  the  Rogation- 
days,  before  the  feast  of  Christ's  Ascension,  at  which, 
from  very  early  times,  the  parochial  clergy  of  the  city, 
and  even  the  religious  communities  of  the  place,  were 
expected  to  attend.  (See  Bishop  Osberne's  Ordinance 
in  '  Mon.  Dioc.  Exon.'  p.  113.)  A  third,  and  the  most 
splendid  of  all,  was  instituted  here  in  Bishop  Brones- 
combe's  time,  whilst  Roger  de  Thoriz  was  dean,  about 
the  year  1270,  in  honour  of  Corpus  Christi,  and  was 
highly  encouraged  by  Bishop  Stapeldon,  especially 
after  the  fifteenth  General  Council  at  Yienne  in  Dau- 
phiny,  A.D.  1311.  From  the  '  Ordinale,'  p.  90,  we  collect 
that  on  these  occasions  they  proceeded  with  several 
banners — the  first  representing  a  dragon,  embroidered ; 
the  second,  a  lion.  Usually  they  advanced  towards 
some  station  or  church  in  the  city  or  suburbs  :  that  on 
Palm  Sunday  and  Corpus  Christi  day  extended  invari- 
ably beyond  the  Eastgate — "  extra  Portam  orientalem 
civitatis  Exonise,  ex  more  Ecclesise  nostrse,"  says  Bishop 
Stapeldon  ('Reg.'  168  £).  When  King  Edward  IV. 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  225 

visited  Exeter  on*  14th  April,  1470,  the  next  day  being 
Palm  Sunday,  he  very  courteously  took  a  part  in  the 
procession. 

As  to  the  riding  of  the  choristers  and  dependents  of 
the  canons  on  28th  June,  the  Vigil  of  the  Feast  of 
St.  Peter  and  St.  Paul,  bearing  paper  shields  with  the 
arms  of  the  church  painted  upon  them,  we  find  no 
mention  of  the  custom  before  the  middle  of  the  fifteenth 
century. 

The  private  processions,  as  we  learn  from  the  '  Ordi- 
nale,'  fol.  28,  were  conducted  from  the  steps  of  the  High 
Altar  in  the  following  order  : — 

1.  A  boy,  in  his  surplice,  carrying  the  vase  of  holy  water. 

2.  Two  acolyths,  in  silk  copes,  bearing  each  a  cross,  and  sup- 

ported on  either  side  by  a  torchbearer  in  his  alb. 

3.  An  acolyth,  in  dalmatic,  with  a  thurible. 

4.  Two  acolyths,  in  dalmatics,  holding  the  Holy  Gospels. 

5.  A  boy,  in  surplice,  with  the  Collect  Book. 

6.  The  officiating  priest  of  the  day. 

7.  The  priests  of  the  cathedral,  two  and  two. 

8.  The  deacons  of  the  cathedral,  two  and  two. 

9.  The   bishop,  mitred  and  bearing  the  crozier,   closed  the 

procession. 

They  passed  through  the  north  gate  of  the  choir, 
near  the  treasurer's  stall,  turned  east  towards  the  ves- 
tibule of  the  Lady  Chapel,  and  so  entered  the  south 
gate  of  the  choir  near  the  episcopal  throne,  and  then 
proceeded  to  the  High  Altar.  During  this  progress, 
hymns  and  prayers  were  chaunted  from  the  proces- 
sional books.  Occasionally,  instead  of  re-entering  by 
the  south  door  of  the  choir,  they  pursued  their  march 
to  the  western  extremity  of  the  nave,  and  then  making 
the  circuit  of  the  baptismal  font,  they  entered  the  clois- 
ters by  the  door  (now  blocked  up)  near  the  font,  and 
then  passing  the  ambulatory  on  the  west,  south  and 
east  sides,  returned  into  the  church  by  the  ancient 
south  door,  "  vetus  ostium"  and  halted  before  the  rood- 


226  HISTOKY  OF  THE 

loft.  If  no  sermon  was  to  be  addressed  from  the  pulpit  in 
the  nave  to  the  people,  they  proceeded  directly  through 
the  west  door  of  the  choir  towards  the  High  Altar.  On 
solemn  occasions  the  whole  line  was  strewed  with  carpets. 
From  the  pulpit  in  the  nave,  just  mentioned,  was 
sometimes  issued  the  sentence  of  excommunication 
against  evil-doers,  when  the  people  had  assembled  in 
their  greatest  number  to  attend  divine  worship.  The 
episcopal  Registers  supply  several  instances  :  one  may 
suffice.  After  the  brutal  attack  made  by  some  ruffians, 
armed  with  bludgeons,  on  Canon  Thomas  Redman  and 
his  vicar,  Hugh  Bevyn,  during  the  night,  in  passing 
through  the  cathedral-yard,  Bishop  Lacy  issued  his 
mandate,  dated  8th  March,  1426,  to  Dean  Oobthorn,  to 
denounce  the  offenders  and  their  accomplices  on  Mid- 
Lent  Sunday.  At  the  appointed  time  the  excommuni- 
cation was  thus  published,  as  soon  as  the  bells  had 
ceased  tolling  and  the  lighted  torches  were  thrown 
down  on  the  pavement : — "  Sicut  lumen  candelse  extin- 
guitur,  ita  eorum  bona  opera  extinguantur  ante  Deum, 
nisi  resipiscant.  Fiat,  Fiat,  Amen "  ('  Reg.'  vol.  iii. 
fol.  55). 

Our  readers  are  aware  that  the  nave  of  the  church 
was  appropriated  to  the  laity,  and  that  females  occupied 
the  western  part,  "  in  occidentali  parte  mos  est  ibeminis 
orare."  The  Apostolical  Constitutions,  supposed  to  have 
been  compiled  in  the  third  century,  require  the  sepa- 
ration of  the  sexes  in  places  of  public  worship  ;  and  an 
inscription  of  the  fourth  century  in  the  portico  of  the 
Vatican  Basilica,  describing  the  position  of  a  grave 
near  the  second  column,  "  quomodo  intramus  sinistra 
parte  virorum,"  shows  that  the  women  used  to  enter 
the  church  through  the  door  on  the  right  hand.  By 
the  21st  Canon  of  the  Exeter  Synod,  A.D.  1287,  the 
laity  were  excluded  from  entering  the  choir  during* 
divine  service. 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  227 

On  Ash- Wednesday,  the  bishop,  or  the  celebrant, 
placed  ashes  on  the  forehead  of  each  of  the  faithful, 
saying,  at  the  same  time,  "  Memento  homo  quod  cinis 
es  et  in  cinerem  reverteris  :  in  nomine  Patris  et  Filii  et 
Spiritus  Sancti.  Amen"  ('  Ordinale,'  fol.  85). 

In  the  same  Ordinale,  fol.  30,  is  given  an  account  of 
the  Episcopus  Puerorum,  or  Boy-Bishop,  or  Barn- 
Bishop,  as  he  is  called  in  the  inventory  of  Lincoln 
Cathedral.  This  custom  prevailed  also  at  York  and 
at  Salisbury.  From  a  manuscript  in  our  city  archives 
the  election  of  the  chorister  appears  to  have  taken 
place  on  the  Yigil  of  St.  Thomas  the  Apostle  (20th 
December).  His  term  of  office,  however,  did  not 
begin  until  the  evening  of  the  27th,  and  expired  with 
the  evening  of  the  following  day,  the  Feast  of  the 
Holy  Innocents.  A  collection  was  made  in  the  city 
and  suburbs  for  the  benefit  of  the  youth  in  future 
life  ;  but  the  regulations  carefully  guarded  against  the 
extravagant  outgoings  incurred  by  the  captain  of  the 
school  at  the  Eton  Montem.  At  the  first  vespers  of 
the  Holy  Innocents,  the  child  appointed  to  act  the  part 
of  the  Boy-Bishop,  attended  with  his  chorister-compa- 
nions, all  in  silk  copes,  proceeded  to  the  altar-steps, 
when  the  diocesan  made  the  sign  of  the  cross  on  the 
child  "  who  was  to  personate  Christ,  the  true  and 
eternal  High-Priest,"  and  then  intoned  the  response  to 
the  lesson  of  the  first  nocturn  of  the  matins,  "  Centum 
quadraginta  quatuor  millia." —  Revelations  xiv.  1. 
This  was  taken  up  by  the  choir  and  sung  throughout. 
A  procession  was  then  formed,  during  which  were 
sung,  "  Hi  empti  sunt,"  "  Vidi  sub,"  &c.,  from  the  same 
chapter.  On  returning  to  the  High  Altar,  the  cambu- 
carius,  or  crosier-bearer,  of  the  Lord  Bishop,  took  the 
crosier  from  the  prelate,  and,  turning  towards  him, 
sung  the  antiphon,  "  Princeps  Ecclesise  ; "  and  when  he 
came  to  the  words  "  cum  mansuetudine,"  he  turned  to 

Q  2 


228 


HISTORY  OF  THE 


the  choir,  and  sung  the  remainder.  At  the  end,  the 
choir  responded  "  Deo  gratias,"  and  the  crosier  was 
redelivered  to  the  Lord  Bishop.  Then  the  Boy-Bishop, 
making  the  sign  of  the  cross  on  his  breast,  intoned — 

V.  Adjutorium  nostrum  in  nomine  Domini. 
R.  Qui  fecit  ccelum  et  terram. 

V.  Sit  nomen  Domini  benedictum. 
R.  Ex  hoc  nunc,  et  usque  in  saeculum. 

Then  turning  himself  towards  the  choir,  he  gave  the 
usual  episcopal  blessing.  At  complin  he  officiated,  and 
repeated  the  benediction  as  before.  On  the  following 
day  he  assisted  at  the  cathedral  service  in  his  silk  cope, 
and  gave  the  solemn  benediction :  "  et  sic  compleatur 
officium  Episcopi  Puerorum  hujus  diei."3  Wynkyn 
de  Worde  printed  at  London,  in  quarto,  between  the 
years  1489  and  1496,  a  sermon  "pro  Episcopo  Puero- 
rum/* on  the  text  "  Laudate  Pueri  Dominum.'' — Pt. 
112,  3.4 


3  In    Carranza's    *  Summa  Concilio- 
rum,'  p.  276,   Antwerp   edit.   1569,  it 
appears  that  the  abuse   of  electing  a 
Boy-Bishop  and  even  Patriarch,  "  statis 
quibusdam  diebus,"  took  its  rise,  "in 
aulis  principum,  quo  se  oblectarent,"  as 
early  as  the  9th  century  at  least ;   and 
was  condemned  by  the  Eighth  General 
Council  at  Constantinople,  "ut  in  de- 
decua  ecclesise  accersita,  sub  gravibus 
censuris." — Canon  XVI. 

4  The  folio  whig  are  the  'Regulations' 
for  the  Boy-Bishop  at  Exeter  :  — 

Penes  Major  em  et  Communitatem  Civi- 
tatis  Exon. 

1.  Nulla  fiat  delacio  vini  nee  torticii 
vigilia  Sancti  Thome  Apostoli  ad  Ka- 
landarhay. 

2.  Nullum  fiat  jentaculum  die  Sancti 
Thome  Apostoli   in    camera  Episcopi 
choriste;   sed  eat  Episcopus  simulque 
choriste  et  servientes  canonicorum,  ad 
domum  magistrorum  suorum,  ut  aliis 
diebus  ire  solent. 

3.  Fiat  distributio  cirothecarum  infra 
clausum,  per  duos  vel  tres  de  habitu 
chori :  ac  in  civitate  et  suburbiis,  per 
duos  tres  vel  quatuor  de  servientibus 
canonicorum  magistri  Episcopi,  secuu- 


dum  discretionem  dicti  magistri  depu- 
tandos. 

4.  Nullum  regardum  dabit  Episcopus 
fratribus  ejus  choristis  die  Sanctorum 
Innocentium. 

5.  Nulli  vocentur  ad  prandium  die 
Sanctorum  Innocentium,  expensis  Epis- 
copi, ad  domum  magistri  sui,  nisi  fue- 
rint  speciales  amici  dicti  Episcopi,  et 
tamen  non  ultra  numerum  vi  persona- 
rum.    Quo  casu  solvat  Episcopus  ma- 
gistro  suo  canonico,  si  recipere  voluerit, 
pro  prandio  cujuslibet  sic  interessentis 
iiijd.     Et  Episcopus  reputabit  se  con- 
tentum  cum  servicio  magistri  sui. 

6.  Provideatur  die  Sanctorum  Inno- 
centium per  canonicum  magistrum  Epis- 
copi, quod  servientes  sui  Domini  Epis- 
copi ordinari  et  preparari  faciat  unum 
denarium  panis,  unum  potellum  tenuis 
cervisie  et  ii  vel  iij  denarios  carnis  vel 
i   denarium  casei  sive  butiri  ;    ea  ad 
cameram  Episcopi,  tempore  "  Preciosa  " 
deferant  ibique  Episcopus  cum  suis  fra- 
tribus choristis  ea  cito  sirnul  sumat,  et 
ad  Prioratum  Sancti  Nicholai  descendat, 
proviso  quod    expense    dicti   jentaculi 
suinmam  iiij  vel  vj  denariorum  non  ex- 
cedant. 

7.  Ordinatum  est,  quod  dictus  Epis- 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER. 


229 


Christmas  Eve  was  always  kept  most  solemnly. 
After  the  morning  chapter,  the  dean,  or,  in  his 
absence,  the  president,  is  directed  ('  Ordinale,'  fol.  25  b) 
to  admonish  all  present  to  perform  the  approaching 
service  with  edifying  devotion  and  recollection,  and 
thus  do  honour  to  the  mystery  of  their  Saviour's  Nati- 
vity. Whilst  the  first  lesson  of  the  first  nocturn  at 
matins  was  being  chanted,  a  youth  suddenly  appeared 
from  behind  the  High  Altar,  apparelled  in  alb  and 
amice,  holding  a  lighted  torch  in  his  left  hand,  and 
took  his  station  on  the  highest  altar-step.  Just  as  the 
lesson  finished,  he  turned  his  face  to  the  choir,  and 
sung  out,  in  a  clear  and  melodious  voice,  the  begin- 
ning of  the  response,  "  Hodie  nobis  Cselorum  Eex  de 
Yirgine  nasci  dignatus  est."  At  the  words  "  Caelorum 
Eex  "  he  lifted  up  his  right  hand  towards  the  heavens. 
At  the  words  "  de  Virgiiie  nasci,"  he  extended  his 
hand  to  the  statue  of  the  Virgin  Mary.  Then  turn- 
ing himself  towards  the  altar,  at  the  words  "  dig- 
natus est,"  he  fell  upon  his  knees.  The  choir  then 
continued  the  response,  "  Ut  hominem  perditum  ad 
Caelestia  Eegna  revocaret.  Gaudet  exercitus  angelorum, 
quia  salus  seterna  humano  generi  apparuit."  Whilst 
the  choir  was  thus  engaged,  three  chorister  boys  from 
either  side,  similarly  dressed,  proceeded  to  the  lowest 
step  of  the  altar,  when  the  first  youth  descended  to 
them,  and  all  seven  wheeling  round,  sung  in  concert 
the  next  versicle,  "  Gloria  in  excelsis  Deo,  et  in  terra 
pax,  hominibus  bonas  voluntatis."  As  soon  as  they 


copus  et  cruciferarius  suns  simul,  diebus 
post  dictum  Festum  Sanctorum  Inno- 
centium  exerceant  chorum  et  scholas, 
sicut  ceteri  choriste  ;  et  quod  amodo 
non  discurrant  per  Ecclesiam  nee  alia 
loca  cum  cirothecis  nisi,  quando  comi- 
tatus  vel  sessiones  pacis  Exonie  habean- 
tur,  vel  cum  aliqua  honesta  et  extranea 
persona  infra  terminum  predictum  aliis 
diebus  ad  ecclesiam  vel  domum  alicujus 
canonici,  accedere  contigcrit.  Et  hoc 


tantum  cum  licentia  Precentoris  vel 
Succentoris,  sive  clerici  capelle  Beate 
Marie. 

Item  quod  pecunie  oblate  Episcopo 
die  Innocentium  aperte  sine  mora  infra 
Ecclesium  numerentur  coram  uno  cle- 
rico  scaccarii  vel  alio  honesto  presby- 
tero  de  habitu  chori  per  canonicum 
magistram  Episcopi  deputando,  et  de- 
inde  serventur  per  aliquem  de  amicis 
Episcopi. 


230  HISTORY  OF  THE 

concluded,  they  passed  on  in  procession  through  the 
midst  of  the  choir,  and  disappeared  beyond  its  western 
entrance.  From  the  ancient  '  Martyrologium '  of  the 
church  we  discover  that,  on  25th  June,  a  solemn  ser- 
vice was  performed  for  all  the  deceased  priests  within 
the  diocese  of  Exeter :  "  Solemnis  memoria  fiat  omnium 
Sacerdotum  Exoniensis  Episcopatus  defunctorum." 

The  reconciliation  of  penitents  on  Maunday  Thursday 
took  place  "in  atrio  Ecclesias"  ('  Ordinale,'  fol.  87' 6). 
The  bishop,  if  present,  or  the  dean  in  his  absence,  went 
down  in  procession  to  the  western  doors,  and,  after  the 
absolution  had  been  pronounced,  the  penitents  were 
led  by  the  hands  of  the  clergy  to  the  High  Altar,  and 
restored  to  the  bosom  of  the  church  and  communion  of 
the  faithful.  (See  also  Bishop  Quivil's  'Kegister,' 
fol.  120,  anno  1282.) 

We  may  be  permitted  to  add,  that  it  was  usual  for 
the  choir  to  sing  an  antiphon  daily  in  the  nave  "  in 
honore  nostri  Salvatoris  coram  summ&  Cruce."  Bishop 
Oldam,  as  we  learn  from  his  deed,  dated  21st  February, 
1515,  granted  an  indulgence  of  forty  days  to  all  true 
penitents  who  should  assist  at  this  ceremony,  and 
devoutly  repeat  a  Pater  Noster  and  Ave  Maria. 

And  here  we  may  notice  an  abuse,  which,  in  defiance 
of  the  prohibition  of  Pope  Innocent  III.  (1210),  had 
crept  into  some  other  churches,  "  pernicioso  quarum- 
dem  Ecclesiarum  exemplo,"  and  insinuated  itself  into 
this  cathedral,  as  also  into  the  collegiate  churches  of 
Crediton,  Ottery,  and  Glasney,  of  having  miracle-plays 
and  scenic  exhibitions  at  Christmas-time.  This  roused 
Bishop  Grrandisson's  zeal  for  God's  house,  and,  in 
November,  1360,  he  issued  his  prohibition  of  such 
unbecoming  performances,  under  pain  of  suspension 
and  excommunication  :  he  required  the  formal  publi- 
cation of  his  mandate  before  the  Christmas  of  that 
year,  and,  to  perpetuate  its  remembrance,  to  have  it 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  231 

copied  in  four  or  five  books,  the  most  in  use  in  their 
church  service  ('  Reg/  vol.  i.  fol.  208  6). 

But  it  has  been  justly  observed,  that  these  scenic 
exhibitions  were  at  first  confined  to  the  illustration  of 
Scripture  history,  for  the  benefit  of  those  who  could  not 
read ;  being,  in  fact,  the  recognised  mode  of  represent- 
ing by  dialogue  and  action  the  several  characters  in 
the  Holy  Bible.  In  the  last  volume  of  Dugdale's 
'  Monasticon,'  p.  1534,  may  be  seen  some  of  these 
dramata  sacra.  The  friars  at  Coventry  were  celebrated 
for  performing  them ;  but  they  acted  their  pageants  on 
theatres  drawn  upon  wheels  to  the  principal  parts  of 
that  city,  and  not  in  the  churches. 


CHAPTER  Y. 

THE  TREASURES  OF  THE  CHURCH  IN  PLATE,  VESTMENTS, 
ORNAMENTS,  AND  MANUSCRIPTS. 

ALL  who  are  conversant  with  the  Old  Testament  must 
have  been  struck  with  the  explicit  directions  given 
by  the  Almighty  Father  to  His  children,  as  to  the 
manner  of  performing  worship  in  the  Tabernacle — 
how  minutely  He  describes  the  models  of  the  sacred 
vessels  to  be  employed  in  His  service — the  very  form, 
colour,  quantity  and  embroidery  of  the  vestments  and 
linen — the  mode  of  adorning  the  several  materials  with 
gold  and  precious  stones — the  wood  to  be  used — and 
the  method  of  compounding  the  oil  for  the  lamps 
and  for  the  holy  anointing,  and  the  pure  incense  of 
sweet  spices.  And  if  they  turn  to  the  history  of 
Solomon's  Temple,  the  wonder  increases,  on  surveying 
the  extent  of  that  glorious  edifice — the  exquisite  deli- 
cacy of  the  carvings — the  bold  relief  of  the  figures 


232  HISTORY  OF  THE 

projecting  from  the  walls — the  disregard  of  expendi- 
ture, insomuch  that  the  very  hinges  and  nails  were  of 
solid  gold.  God  vouchsafed  to  accept  the  good-will 
of  His  people  :  they  offered  their  gifts  to  Him,  with 
great  and  cheerful  hearts,  acknowledging  that  to  His 
bounty  they  were  indebted  for  everything  which  they 
possessed;  that  it  was  meet,  right,  and  a  bounden 
duty  to  honour  Him  with  their  substance.  In  return 
He  rewarded,  blessed  and  prospered  them  for  their 
filial  confidence  and  affectionate  gratitude.  The  sub- 
sequent history  of  Judah  is  intimately  connected  with 
that  of  her  Temple ;  she  flourished,  or  she  declined,  as 
she  reverenced  or  profaned  His  sanctuary. 

And  no  sooner  did  the  professors  of  the  Christian 
faith  emerge  from  the  deserts,  the  caverns,  the  crypts 
and  catacombs — no  sooner  did  they  begin  to  breathe 
the  air  of  freedom  from  the  vigilance  and  persecutions 
of  the  tyrants — than  they  commenced  the  erection  of 
noble  temples  to  the  eternal,  true  and  living  God. 

Whoever  has  read  the  beautiful  hymn  of  Prudentius 
on  St.  Laurence,  martyred  in  258,  must  have  remarked 
the  tyrant's  reproaches  against  the  Christians  for  using, 
in  the  celebration  of  the  sacred  mysteries,  silver  goblets 
and  wax-lights,  fixed  in  golden  candlesticks,  and  that 
they  possessed  concealed  treasures. 

In  the  course  of  time,  by  the  charity  of  the  faithful 
and  the  liberality  of  princes,  the  Christian  Church  be- 
came abundantly  rich  ;  but  she  always  regarded  her 
wealth  as  a  deposit,  to  be  employed  beneficially  in  times 
of  public  calamity,  in  pestilence  and  famine  for  the 
relief  and  benefit  of  the  poor,  and  for  the  redemption 
of  captives.  She  believed  that  the  best  use  she  could 
make  of  her  treasures,  was  to  dedicate  them  to  the  aid 
of  the  living  temples  of  the  Holy  Ghost. 

Independently  of  seasons  of  public  distress,  Christians 
were  persuaded  that  nothing  was  too  precious  to  be 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  233 

appropriated  to  the  service  of  the  Deity,  and  to  the 
celebration  of  His  worship  :  they  loved  the  beauty  of 
His  House  ;  they  vied  with  each  other  in  erecting 
splendid  edifices  to  His  honour ;  they  introduced  the 
improvements  of  architecture,  sculpture,  and  painting ; 
they  provided  the  rarest  productions  of  art.  Materials 
were  a  secondary  consideration  to  the  skill  and  taste 
of  workmanship.  It  is  true,  that  religion  itself  is 
interior  and  spiritual ;  yet  in  our  state  of  humanity,  we 
must  feel  the  impressive  force  of  the  senses  and  imagi- 
nation. It  is  rare  indeed  to  meet  persons  that  confine 
themselves  to  what  is  purely  abstract  and  intellectual, 
and  whose  religious  feelings  are  not  awakened  by 
example,  by  outward  and  sensible  things.  If  we  were 
angels,  as  Fleury  remarks,  we  might  pray  equally  well 
in  the  midst  of  the  public  streets  and  market-places,  in 
the  bustle  of  a  court  levee  and  in  the  confusion  of  a 
crowd,  as  in  a  secluded  beautiful  temple  ;  but  in  order 
to  control  the  rovings  of  imagination  and  to  restrict 
and  regulate  our  senses,  we  instinctively  retire  into 
our  interior,  and,  closing  the  doors  after  us,  we  can 
hold  uninterrupted  conversation  with  our  Heavenly 
Father.  He  can  require  no  oratories  or  churches,  but 
we  do.  And  though  He  is  everywhere  present  and 
equally  accessible  in  every  place,  yet  we  are  not  always 
fitly  disposed  to  approach  and  commune  with  Him ; 
and  therefore  are  admonished  thus,  "  Before  prayer, 
prepare  thy  soul ;  and  be  not  as  a  man  who  tempteth 
God"  (Eccles.  xviii.). 

The  personal  sacrifices  of  our  forefathers  to  supply 
everything  that  is  becoming  the  beauty  of  God's  House, 
are  worthy  of  every  praise  ;  to  their  own  persons, 
houses  and  castles,  they  denied  the  luxury  of  decora- 
tion, in  order  to  render  tribute  to  God  and  to  embellish 
His  sanctuary.  England  yielded  to  no  country  in  her 
love  of  God's  House.  We  have  but  to  open  the 


234  HISTORY  OF  THE 

*  Monasticon  Anglicanum,'  and  to  inspect  the  published 
inventories  of  what  piety  poured  into  the  treasuries  of 
York,  Winchester,  Lincoln,  Canterbury,  and  some 
other  cathedral  and  collegiate  churches.  Our  readers 
we  hope  will  be  gratified  with  the  inventory  of  the 
donations  also  made  to  this  cathedral  (see  Appendix), 
from  the  days  of  our  first  Bishop  Leofric  in  1050, 
during  a  period  of  500  years,  until  our  Chapter  was 
insulted  with  a  summons,  as  preparatory  to  a  deed  'of 
sacrilegious  robbery,  to  appear  in  the  very  Episcopal 
Palace  of  Exeter,  on  30th  September,  1552,  before 
Myles  Coverdale,  Lord  Bishop  of  Exeter  (who  ought 
to  have  been  their  natural  guardian  and  pro  viribus  in- 
trepid defender),  and  before  William  Hurst,  Mayor  of 
Exeter,  Sir  Peter  Carew  and  Sir  Thomas  Denys, 
Knights,  and  Alderman  John  Midwynter,  then  and 
there  "  to  answeare  to  such  demands  and  questions 
concerning  the  jewels,  plate,  and  other  ornaments  of 
your  Cathedrall  Church,  as  by  the  King's  Majesty's 
Commission  unto  us  directed,  apertaineth."1 

Amongst  the  list  of  our  royal  donors  are  the  names 
of  King  Henry  III.  and  his  queen,  Richard  King  of 
the  Romans,  and  King  Edward  II.  Amongst  the 
Archbishops  of  Canterbury  are  named  Theobald, 
William  Courtenay,  and  Cardinal  Morton.  Amongst 
the  nobility  are  numbered  as  benefactors,  the  venerable 
Lord  William  Brewer,  who  gave  a  silver-gilt  cup  and 
a  golden  chalice,  the  Mohuns,  the  Courtenays,  the  Lord 
William  Martyn,  John  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  Lady 
Dymoke,  Sir  William  Cheyney,  Knight,  &c.,  &c. 

Our  bishops,  however,  were  by  far  the  most  generous 


1  According  to  Hoker's  MS.,  p.  349  I, 
the  Commissioners,  after  taking  an  "  in- 
ventory of  all  the  plate,  jewels,  goods, 
and  ornaments  whatsover,  perteyning 
to  everey  church  within  the  citie  and 
countie  of  Exeter,  prayed  there  might 
be  deducted  out  of  their  Certificate  the 


value  of  about  a  thousand  ounces  of 
plate,  which  some  of  the  parishes  had 
given  before  to  the  citie  towards  making 
of  the  New  Haven."  But  he  does  not 
say  that  the  appeal  met  with  any  atten- 
tion from  the  King's  Council. 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  235 

of  what  was  most  useful  and  ornamental,  and,  amongst 
these,  Bishops  Brewer,  Bytton,  Stapeldon,  Stafford, 
and  Lacy ;  but,  far  above  all,  Bishop  Grandisson  holds 
pre-eminence  in  the  rank  of  benefactors.  Of  the  last- 
mentioned  prelate,  the  compiler  of  the  catalogue  affirms 
that  he  was  the  giver  of  all  the  choir-books,  and  of 
vestments  of  every  colour,  and  of  innumerable  orna- 
ments, as  God  knows,  who  knows  all  things — "  ut  Deus 
scit,  qui  omnia  novit."  The  four  dignitaries  of  the 
church  and  many  of  the  canons  left  abundant  proofs 
of  the  interest  they  took  in  furnishing  God's  House, 
and  we  believe  that  the  inventories  will  satisfy  every 
reader  that  few  cathedrals  in  the  kingdom  were  better 
provided  with  what  was  requisite  for  the  convenience 
and  splendour  of  Divine  worship.  In  our  Biography 
of  Bishop  Lacy,  we  have  alluded  to  his  generous  dona- 
tion of  rich  apparel  to  the  cathedrals  of  York,  Hereford, 
and  Salisbury. 

The  Library  of  the  Church  was  commenced  by 
Leofric,  a  few  of  whose  manuscript  books  are  still  in 
the  catalogue.  By  degrees  the  collection  swelled  in 
number  and  variety.  It  is  true  the  great  bulk  con- 
sisted of  copies  of  Scripture  and  glosses  or  commenta- 
ries, treatises  of  theology,  canon  law,  sermons,  and 
national  history ;  yet  it  is  a  relief  to  meet  with  such 
works  as  '  Josephus,'  the  tw^o  '  Plinys,'  '  Egesippus,' 
the  '  Metaphysicks  of  Aristotle/  some  of  Cicero's  trea- 
tises, J  Yegetius  de  Re  Militari '  and  '  Julius  Solinus.' 
Leland,  on  his  visit  here,  seems  to  have  overlooked  the 
Cathedral  Library.  In  the  Catalogue  of  1506  we  dis- 
cover five  books,  '  Impressoriae  Artis.' 

At  last  this  accumulation  of  church  property  began 
in  the  true  Judas  Iscariot  style  to  be  regarded  as  mere 
waste,  and  the  voice  of  avarice  doomed  it  to  be  seized, 
under  the  pretence  of  necessity,  to  maintain  His  Majesty 
King  Edward  the  Sixth's  household  !  Yet,  as  Heylin 


236  HISTORY  OF  THE 

justly  remarks,  in  his  Life  of  that  unfortunate  monarch, 
page  134, "  in  all  great  fairs  and  markets  there  are  some 
forestallers;  so  that  although  some  profit  was  hereby 
raised  to  the  king's  exchequer,  yet  the  far  greater  part 
of  the  prey  came  into  other  hands,  insomuch  that  many 
private  men's  parlours  were  hung  with  altar-cloths, 
their  tables  and  beds  covered  with  copes,  and  many^ 
made  carousing  cups  of  the  sacred  chalices,  as  once 
Belshazzar  celebrated  his  drunken  feast  in  the  sancti- 
fied vessels  of  the  Temple.  It  was  a  sorry  house,  and 
not  worth  naming,  which  had  not  somewhat  of  this 
furniture  in  it,  though  it  were  only  a  fair  cushion  made 
of  a  cope  or  altar-cloth  to  adorn  their  windows,  or  to 
make  their  chairs  appear  to  have  somewhat  in  them 
of  a  chair  of  state.  Yet  how  contemptible  were  these 
trappings,  in  comparison  of  those  vast  sums  of  money 
which  were  made  of  jewels,  plate,  and  cloth  of  tissue, 
either  conveyed  beyond  seas,  or  sold  at  home,  and  good 
lands  purchased  with  the  money  !  Nothing  the  more 
blessed  to  the  posterity  of  them  that  bought  them,  for 
being  purchased  with  the  consecrated  treasures  of  so 
many  temples!" 

But  let  us  retire  from  these  scenes  of  tyrannical 
oppression  of  the  poor,  and  sacrilegious  avarice,  at 
which  pagans  would  blush. 

Cur  eget  indigmis  quisquam,  te  divite  ?    Quare 
Templa  ruunt  antiqua  Deum. 

HOEATII,  Sat.  ii.  lib.  2,  line  103. 


CHAPTER  YI. 

SEPULCHRAL  BRASSES  ANl5  ANCIENT  EPITAPHS. 

EVERY  lover  of  the  arts,  we  believe,  would  decidedly 
prefer  the  ancient  position  of  altar-tombs  under  arches 
or  in  recesses,  or  between  pillars,  to  the  present  arrange- 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER. 


237 


ment  of  piles  of  monumental  statuary,  that  serve  to 
disfigure  and  darken  portions  of  the  fabric  and  inter- 
fere with  its  architectural  effect.  These  modern 
novelties  look  awkwardly  enough,  as  if  they  had  no 
business  here ;  and  it  is  delightful  to  know,  that  the 
feelings  of  the.  guardians  of  our  cathedral  are  opposed 
to  the  reception  of  such  incongruities  and  monstrosities, 
however  perfect  they  may  come  from  the  sculptor's 
hand.  Let  us  turn  from  such  misplaced  specimens  of 
modern  taste,  and  inspect  the  ancient  sepulchral  brasses 
and  epitaphs.1 

We  cannot  doubt  that  several  of  our  bishops  and 
dignified  clergy  and  nobility  had  the  surfaces  and 
leger-stones  of  their  tombs  embellished  with  orna- 
mental brasses,  so  characteristic  of  the  costumes  and 
designs  of  the  times.  Godwyn,  in  the  reigns  of  Queen 
Elizabeth  and  King  James  I.,  admired  the  sepulchral 
brass  once  on  Bishop  Bitton's — "jacet  humatus  sub 
marmore  acreis  affabre  ornato."  Bishop  Brantyng- 
ham's  beautiful  brass  on  his  slab  was  wrenched  off 
by  sacrilegious  avarice,  probably  during  the  Common- 
wealth. The  fanaticism  of  Dean  Heynes  stripped  off 
Bishop  Lacy's.  We  have  seen  formerly,  here  and 
there,  the  brass  pins  that  held  the  inlaid  ornaments, 
and  the  hollows  which  had  contained  figures  or  in- 
scriptions. 

Guided  by  covetousness,  or  overruled  by  some  new 
fangle  in  religion,  certain  persons,  says  Heylin  ('  Hist. 
of  Queen  Elizabeth,'  p.  134),  after  defacing  the  images 
of  Christ  and  his  Apostles,  all  paintings  which  pre- 
sented any  history  of  the  Holy  Bible,  as  they  found 


1  The  earliest  bepulchral  brass  that 
we  have  met  with  is  the  one  on  Mauri- 
tius, Archbishop  of  Rouen,  who,  dying 
on  9th  August,  1067,  was  honourably 
interred  before  the  roodloft  of  his  cathe- 
dral. The  epitaph  over  him,  "  in  cupri 
laminis,"  composed  by  a  canon  of  his 


church,  may  be  seen  in  our  countryman 
Ordericus  Vitalis's  '  Hist.  Eccles.,'  lib.  4, 
p.  169.  The  same  author  gives  the  epi- 
taph of  Hugh,  Bishop  of  Lisieux,  who 
died  17th  July,  1077,  "in  laminis  cu- 
pri, litteris  aureis  exaratum  "  (lib.  5,  p. 
310). 


238  HISTORY  OP  THE 

in  any  windows  of  their  churches  and  chapels,  pro- 
ceeded also  to  the  breaking  down  of  all  coats  of  arms, 
to  the  tearing  off  of  all  the  brasses  and  monuments  of 
the  dead,  in  which  the  figures  of  themselves,  their 
wives  or  children,  their  ancestors  or  their  arms,  had 
been  reserved  to  posterity. 

The  notorious  William  Dowsing,  Parliamental 
Visitor  (1 644)  of  Churches  in  Suffolk,  prides  himself  for 
taking  up  "  thirty  brazen  superstitious  inscriptions  in 
All  Saints'  Church,  Sudbury."  The  <  Act  Book '  of  our 
corporation  shows  that  proclamation  was  made  in  this 
city  against  defacing  the  ancient  monuments  of  the 
nobility,  and  the  pulling  down  of  bells  in  the  churches, 
on  25th  September,  1560. 

Fortunately  the  graceful  effigy  in  the  nave,  of  Sir 
Peter  Courtenay,  Knight  of  the  Garter,  sixth  son  of 
Hugh  Courtenay  (the  second  of  that  name  who  was 
Earl  of  Devon)  by  his  wife  Margaret  (Bohun),  has  in  a 
great  degree  escaped  mutilation.  By  the  inquisition, 
post  mortem,  it  appears  that  the  gallant  knight  died 
on  the  2nd  February,  1405.  He  lies  under  a  gorgeous 
canopy,  in  full  armour,  with  his  feet  resting  on  a 
spaniel.  The  escutcheons  that  remain  contain  the 
arms  of  his  parents.  The  whole  length  of  the  brass 
is  8  ft.  4i  in. ;  that  of  the  knight  5  ft.  8  in. ;  the  sword 
is  3  ft.  3J  in.  in  length  ;  the  dagger  1  ft. ;  his  left  leg 
is  encircled  with  the  garter.  The  original  verses 
were : — 

Devonie  natus  comitis,  Petrusque  vocatus, 
Regi  cognatus,  camerarius  intitulatus, 
Calesie  gratus  capitaneus,  ense  probatus, 
Vita  privatus  fuit  hinc  super  astra  relattis, 
[Et  quia  sublatus  de  mundo  transit  amatus], 
Celo  finnatus  maneat  sine  fine  beatus. 

•> 

The  fifth  line  no  longer  remains. 

In  St.  Mary  Magdalene's  Chapel  is  the  sepulchral 
brass  of  William  Langeton,  cousin  of  Bishop  Stafford, 
canon  of  this  cathedral  and  a  well-endowed  ecclesiastic, 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  239 

who  died  at  Clist  on  the  same  day  that  he  made  his 
will,  viz.  29th  January,  1413-14. 

He  is  represented  kneeling  and  bareheaded,  in  an 
alb  and  richly  embroidered  cope,  studded  with  the 
Stafford  knot ;  with  hands  joined,  and  supplicating  in 
the  words  of  the  response  at  '  Matins  for  the  Dead  ' — 

Domine  Jesu,  secundum  actum  meum  noli  me  judicare  ! 

The  inscription  below  this  interesting  figure  is  as 
follows  :— 

Hie  jacet  Magister  Willielmus  Langeton,  consanguineus  Ma- 
gistri  Edmundi  Stafford,  Exoniensis  Episcopi,  quondam  Canon- 
icus  hujus  Ecclesie,  qui  obiit  xxix  die  mensis  Jamiarii,  Anno 
Domini  Millesimo  cccc 

The  rest  has  been  despoiled,  with  the  exception  of 
Bishop  Stafford's  arms — Or,  a  Chevron  gules  within  a 
bordure  entoyred  with  Mitres  proper. 

Such  was  the  rage  for  erasing  and  defacing  funeral- 
monuments  towards  the  latter  end  of  the  reign  of 
King  Henry  VIII.,  the  whole  reign  of  King  Edward 
VI.,  and  the  beginning  of  Queen  Elizabeth's,  that  the 
said  queen  in  the  second  and  again  in  the  fourteenth 
year  of  her  reign  had  to  issue  severe  proclamations 
against  the  perpetrators  of  such  excesses.  "  By  them," 
she  says,  "  not  only  the  churches  remain  at  this  day 
spoiled,  broken  and  ruinated,  to  the  offence  of  all  noble 
and  gentle  hearts,  and  the  extinguishing  of  the  honour- 
able and  good  memory  of  sundry  virtuous  and  noble 
persons  deceased ;  but  also  the  true  understanding  of 
divers  families  in  this  realm  (who  have  descended  of 
the  blood  of  the  same  deceased  persons)  is  thereby  so 
darkened,  as  the  true  course  of  their  inheritance  may 
be  hereafter  interrupted  contrary  to  justice." —  Weevers 
fc  Funeral  Monuments,'  pp.  50,  52.  And  in  p.  661  he 
inserts  additional  epitaphs  and  inscriptions  upon  tombs 
and  gravestones  in  certain  churches  of  London,  col- 


240  HISTORY  OF  THE 

lected  by  himself  and  others  not  many  years  before, 
feelingly  observing,  "Few  or  none  are  remaining  in 
the  said  churches  at  this  present  day ;  such  is  the  de- 
spight,  not  so  much  of  time,  as  of  malevolent  people, 
to  all  antiquities,  especially  of  this  kind." 

The  multitude  of  successive  interments  in  the  cathe- 
dral has  constantly  occasioned  the  removal  of  tomb- 
stones, and  the  substitution  of  others.  This  has  been 
particularly  the  case  during  the  last  half-century,  yet 
some  of  these  have  been  judged  by  heralds  of  special 
importance :  for  example,  one  that  was  in  the  north 
aisle  of  the  choir,  of  Anthony  Clifford,  of  Boscombe 
near  Salisbury,  Esq.  (descended  of  the  Earls  of  Cum- 
berland, and  who  died  on  12th  September,  1580),  had 
been  copied  and  inserted  in  the  pedigree  of  the  Clifford 
family,  drawn  up  by  Francis  Sandford,  Rouge  Dragon 
Poursuivant,  and  approved  by  Edward  Walker,  Garter, 
Edward  Bysshe,  Clarenceux,  and  William  Dugdale, 
Norroy  King-at-Arms,  on  12th  May,  1673  ;  the  original 
pedigree  of  which  is  at  Ugbrooke. 

For  modern  epitaphs  we  refer  the  reader  to  the 
descriptions  of  Polwhele,  Jenkins,  Lysons,  &c.,  and 
content  ourselves  with  subjoining  the  more  ancient 
ones,  regretting  however  that  the  ledgers  of  Thomas 
Austle,  the  treasurer,  who  had  lodged  King  Henry 
YII.  in  his  residentiary  house,  when  the  king  visited 
Exeter  on  7th  October,  1497  (ob.  18th  March,  1515), 
and  of  John  Ryse,  treasurer,  the  benefactor  of  the 
priest- vicars  and  friend  of  the  poor,  who  died  on  5th 
May,  1531,  had  disappeared,  before  we  were  enabled  to 
copy  them. 

In  the  Nave — 

Hie  jacet  Magister  Ricardus  Manchester,  quondam  hujus 

Ecclesie  Canonicus  Residentiarius,  et  Vicarius  de  Kere 

.  .  .  ntoco,  qui  obiit  xx  die A.D.  MCCCCCXLI  :  cujus  anime 

propitietur  Deus.  Amen. 

Hie  jacet  Magister  Johannes  Mogrigge,  nuper  hujus  Ecclesie 


i 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  "241 

Canonicus  et  Residentiarius,  qui  obiit  xxviu  die  Junii,  An.  Dm. 
Millio  cccccxxiv. 

Hie  jacet  Magister  David  Hopton,  quondam  Archidiaconus 
Exon.  ac  Canonicus  Sarum  et  Hereforden,  qui  obiit ....  Marcii, 
MCCCCLXXXXI  :  cujus  anime  propitietur  Deus.  Amen. 

In  St.  Paul's  Tower- 
Hie  jacet  Dns.  Robertus   Lewer,  quondam    Canonicus,  qui 

obiit  xx  die  Septembris,  Anno  Dom.  Millimo  cccxxx :   cujus 

anime  propitietur  Deus.     Amen. 

On  Precentor  Sy Ike's  Monument — 
Sum  quod  eris,  fueram  quod  es ;  pro  me,  precor,  ora. 

In  a  recess  of  the  North  Wall  of  St.  Paul's  Chapel- 
Hie  jacet  Willelmus  Pylton,  quondam  Canonicus  et  Residen- 
tiarius hujus  Ecclesie,  Secretarius  Regi  Henrico  quarto,  et  Archi- 
diaconus Eboracensis. 

Before  St.  Paul's  Altar- 
Hie  jacet  Ricardus  Gilbert,  Doctor  Decretorum,  unus  filiorum 
Otonis  Gilbart,  Armigeri,  et  Canonicus  hujus  Ecclesie,  qui  obiit 
xi  die  Aprilis,  A.D.  MCCCCCXXIIII  :  cujus  anime  propitietur  Deus. 
Amen. 

In  the  North  Aisle  of  the  Choir — 

Hie  jacet  Magister  Henricus  Webber,  quondam  hujus  Ecclesie 
Decanus  et  Canonicus,  antea  Dni.  Edmundi  Lacy  Episcopi 
Cancellarius,  qui  obiit  xin  die  mensis  Februarii,  Ano.  Dni. 
Millo  CCCCLXXVI  :  cujus  animam  in  gaudio  I  H  s  collocet  sempi- 
terno.  Amen. 

Hie  jacet  Dominus  Ricardus  Hellier,  quondam  Archidiaconus 
Cornubie,  et  hujus  Ecclesie  Canonicus,  qui  obiit  xv  die  mensis 
Decembris,  Anno  Dni.  MCCCCLVI  :  cujus  anime  propitietur  Deus. 
Amen. 

Hie  jacet  Magister  Willelmus  Fylham,  Archidiaconus  Cor- 
nubie, hujus  Ecclesie  Canonicus,  Morechurch  et  C.  Morchard 
Rector,  qui  obiit  xin  die  mensis  Novembris,  Anno  Dni. 
MCCCCLIIII  :  cujus  anime  propitietur  Deus.  Amen. 

Hie  jacet  Magister  Martinus  Parys,  quondam  hujus  Ecclesie 
Canonicus,  qui  obiit  vm  die  mensis  Julii,  Anno  Dni.  Millimo 
ccccxxxviii :  cujus  anime  propitietur  Deus.  Amen. 

B 


242  HISTORY  OF  THE 

In  St.  Andrew's  Chapel — 

Orate  pro  anima  Magistri  Willelmi  Parkhouse,  Philosoplii 
ac  Medici,  quondam  Canonici  Residentiarii  in  Ecclesi&  Cathe- 
drali  Exon.,  qui  obiit  I  die  mensis  Martii,  Ano.  Di.  Millesio 
CCCCCXL  :  cujus  anime  propitietur  Deus.  Amen. 

In  the  Transverse  Aisle  behind  the  High  Altar — 

Hie  jacet  Magister  Johannes  Fulforde,  films  Baldewini  Ful- 
forde,  militis,  hujus  Ecclesie  Residentiarius,  postea  Archidia- 
conus  Totton,  deinde  Cornubie,  ultimo  Exon.,  qui  obiit  xxx  die 
Januarii,  A.D.  xvc.xvm  :  cujus  anime  propitietur  Deus. 

Deus  misereatur  anime  Magistri  Thome  Harryes,  Canonici. 
Amen.  Quondam  Cornubie  Archidiaconi  et  Wells  Thes.,  ac 
hujus  Ecclesie  Precentoris,  qui  obiit  ultimo  die  Decembris, 
Anno  Dni.  Millimo  cccccxi. 

In  St.  Gabriel's  Chapel- 
Hie  jacet  Magister  Martinus  Lercedekne,  quondam  Canonicus 

hujus  Ecclesie,   qui  obiit  mi  die  mensis  Aprilis,  Anno   Dni. 

Millmo.  ccccxxxin  :  cujus  anime  propitietur  Deus.     Amen. 

In  the  South  Aisle  of  the  Choir — 

Jacet  hie  venerabilis  vir  Richardus  More,  quondam  Archidia- 
conus  Exon.,  ac  hujus  Ecclesie  Thesaurarius  et  Canonicus  Resi- 
dentiarius, qui  obiit  xx  die  Februarii,  A.  Dni.  MCCCCCXII  :  cujus 
anime  propitietur  Deus.  Amen. 

Hie  jacet   Magister   Johannes    Cokworthy,    quondam   hujus 

Ecclesie  Canonicus ,  qui  obiit  quinto  die  mensis  Maii, 

Anno  Dni.  Millo  ccccxxxin :   cujus  anime  propitietur  Deus. 
Amen. 

There  were  two  other  ancient  gravestones  inscribed 
to  Canons  Nicholas  Henshawe  and  John  Williams,  but 
too  far  effaced  to  be  copied. 

Whether  the  following  epitaph  was  placed  on  the 
leger-stone  of  Canon  John  Pyttes,  as  directed  by  his 
will  (dated  1st  September,  1464),  in  Bishop  Bothe's 
1  Register/  fol.  51,  we  cannot  determine  : — 

Subjacet  hoc  lapide  Johes  Pyttys,  musicus  ille 
Qui  fuit  Ecclesie  quondam  Canonicus  hujus, 
Presulis  Edmundi  Lacy  Cantorque  Capelle, 
Rector  de  Tavy  Petri,  Parkham  simul  extans ; 
Pro  quo  menta  pia,  rogo,  dicite  "  Sancta  Maria." 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  243 

We  conclude  with  lamenting  that  we  have  not  had 
a  Weever  amongst  us  to  preserve  the  funeral  inscrip- 
tions of  our  church  ;  but  it  is  a  consolation  to  know, 
that  a  proper  spirit  of  conservatism  is  reviving,  and  is 
encouraged  by  the  public  voice  and  feeling.  May  we 
add  for  the  credit  of  the  cathedral,  in  the  words  of 
Addison,  that  "inscriptions  on  public  monuments 
should  be  submitted  to  the  perusal  of  men  of  learning 
and  genius,  before  they  are  put  in  execution." 


CHAPTER  VII. 

SURVEY  OF  THE  EXTERIOR  OF  THE  CATHEDRAL. 

THE  Cathedral  Church  of  St.  Peter  is  the  pride  and 
glory  of  Exeter,  and  the  noblest  monument  of  the 
religious  zeal  and  taste  of  our  forefathers  in  the  West 
of  England.  It  is  the  first  object  that  attracts  the  eye 
of  the  stranger  approaching  this  city,  and  the  principal 
one  to  challenge  his  attention  on  his  arrival  here. 

The  first  impression  produced  on  his  mind  in  ad- 
vancing towards  this  cruciform  building,  is  its  ponder- 
ous majesty,  arising  principally  from  the  square  massive 
Norman  towers,  which  bear  some  resemblance  to  the 
two  at  the  west  front  of  the  Abbey  Church  of  the 
Holy  Trinity  at  Caen  in  Normandy.  When  our 
Bishop  Peter  Quivil  introduced  in  each  of  the  towers 
a  large  pointed  window  in  lieu  of  the  small  circular 
ones,  it  might  have  been  supposed  that  he  would  have 
added  to  the  elevation  of  these  towers  by  surmounting 
them  with  spires,  the  natural  offspring  of  the  pyra- 
midal or  Pointed  style,  as  was  actually  done  to  the 
towers  of  the  Abbey  Church  of  St.  Stephen  at  Caen. 
Gradually  the  oppressive  effect  subsides  :  and  on  taking 

R  2 


244  HISTORY  OF  THE 

in  the  range  of  the  expanding  structure — its  numerous 
crocketed  pinnacles,  its  flying-buttresses,  its  high 
pitched  roof  and  varied  windows,  the  eye  becomes 
reconciled  to  it,  as  a  grand  whole.  The  only  lingering 
regret  is,  that  it  does  not  stand  isolated  from  dwelling- 
houses  of  such  disparate  character. 

The  style  of  the  windows  is  the  very  best,  showing  a 
fecundity  of  invention  in  the  diversified  tracery,  as 
exemplified  in  the  reigns  of  our  first  three  Edwards 
after  the  Conquest,  when  the  equilateral  triangle  was 
the  point  studied  in  the  form  of  the  arch  in  preference 
to  the  unsightly  contraction  of  the  acute  angle,  and 
the  oppressive  effect  of  the  obtuse,  or  depressed  arch  of 
the  Florid  style. 

From  the  period  that  the  vaulting  the  churches  with 
stone,  as  a  protection  against  fire,  was  adopted,  and  the 
formation  of  increased  openings  in  the  walls,  to  admit 
windows  of  larger  dimensions,  came  into  use,  it  became 
essential  to  counteract  the  lateral  pressure  by  the  aid 
of  buttresses.  Originally  these  were  plain  and  heavy  : 
gradually  they  were  relieved  by  the  arc-boutant  or 
flying-buttress,  often  terminating  in  graceful  arid  elabo- 
rate pinnacles,  and  sometimes  embellished  with  niches. 
Great  judgment  has  been  exercised  by  the  architect  of 
our  cathedral  in  several  of  the  buttresses  on  the  south 
side  of  the  nave,  and  in  two  on  the  north  side,  by 
opening  arches  below,  both  for  the  admission  of  light 
and  the  convenience  of  passing ;  besides  saving  a  con- 
siderable expense  of  labour  and  materials. 

The  towers  rise  to  the  height  of  nearly  one  hundred 
and  forty  feet,  and  are  truly  bold  and  venerable.  The 
south  one  is  richer  in  ornament,  and  the  capping  of 
both  appears  subsequently  to  have  been  altered  ;  but 
we  have  no  data  as  to  the  time.  In  either  tower  may 
be  recognized  the  work  of  Bishop  Quivil,  viz.,  his 
introduction  of  a  Pointed  window  through  the  Norman 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER. 


245 


series  of  blank  arches.  Formerly  the  Great  Peter  bell 
in  the  north  tower  was  hung  much  higher  than  at 
present,  within  an  octagonal  cupola,  and  surmounted 
by  a  spire,  like  the  one  at  St.  Mary  Church,  Ottery.1 
From  the  plate  prefixed  to  the  second  edition  of 
Izacke's  *  Memorials/  in  1724,  it  must  have  been  an 
unsightly  object ;  and  was  ordered  by  the  Chapter,  on 
25th  April,  1752,  to  be  removed,  and  the  bell  to  be 
lowered  to  its  present  situation. 

On  the  south  wall  of  the  nave  may  be  seen  several 
of  the  consecration  crosses.  The  year  of  the  consecra- 
tion is  not  recorded;  but  probably  in  1367.  The 
feast  was  kept  on  21st  November  with  an  octave  :  in 
this,  following  the  example  of  Judas  Maccabeus  and 
his  brethren,  and  all  the  church  of  Israel  (1  Mace, 
iv.  59). 

Between  the  south  tower  and  the  Chapter-house  is  a 
chapel,  in  which  stood  the  Altar  of  the  Holy  Grhost, 
"  altare  Sancti  Spiritus  in  claustro :"  and  perhaps 
appropriated  to  the  invocation  of  the  assistance  of  the 
Divine  Spirit  before  the  dean  and  his  canons  proceeded 
to  their  deliberations  and  elections.  When  the  com- 
munication was  made  through  the  south  tower  in  the 
year  1814,  a  portion  of  its  western  extremity,  as  well 
as  of  the  Chapter-house  itself,  was  taken  off,  to  make  a 
vestibule  or  passage.  According  to  the  '  Tourist's 
Manuscript,'  in  August,  1635,  in  the  Lansdowne  Col- 
lection, "  this  chapel  was  artificially  covered  with 
joyner's  work."  We  have  seen  the  original  book  of 
Edmund  Toll,  Notary  Public  and  Registrar,  detailing 
consistorial  business  done  in  this  chapel  from  Friday, 
19th  February,  1635,  O.S.,  to  20th  July,  1638,  "in 


1  During  the  tremendous  hurricane 
on  Friday  night,  25th  November,  1703, 
the  lead  of  this  steeple  was  ripped  up, 
two  mullions  of  the  church  windows 
were  driven  in,  twenty  trees  in  the  yard 


were  laid  prostrate,  great  injury  to 
chimneys  and  houses  was  occasioned, 
but  fortunately  no  lives  were  lost.  See 
'  Kegister '  of  the  Parish  of  the  Holy 
Trinity. 


246  HISTORY  OP  THE 

Capella  Spiritus  Sancti  infra  ambitum  clausi  Ecclesiae 
Cathedralis  Divi  Petri,  Exon."  It  afterwards  became 
a  lumber-room.2 

The  Chapter-house  is  truly  a  cheerful  and  well-pro- 
portioned room,  75  feet  long,  including  the  above- 
mentioned  vestibule,  by  30  wide,  and  nearly  40  high. 
Its  east  window  is  said  by  William  of  Worcester  to 
have  been  the  gift  of  Bishop  Nevyll,  and  has  seven 
bays.  The  four  windows  on  the  north  side  and  the 
three  windows  on  the  south  side  have  but  four  bays. 
The  late  Mr.  John  Kendall,  in  1821,  inserted  a  new 
window  at  the  west  end,  and  made  the  present  gallery. 
Ten  niches  of  graceful  character  formerly  contained 
statues  of  the  Minor  Prophets,  some  of  whose  names 
may  yet  be  traced.  Before  this  room  was  adapted  to 
serve  also  the  purposes  of  a  library,  a  Purbeck  slab  of 
a  coffin  shape,  but  without  inscription,  and  within 
twelve  feet  opposite  to  the  entrance,  was  let  into  the 
floor.  In  this  Chapter-house  it  was  not  unusual  for 
bishops  to  initiate  clerks  by  the  tonsure.  From  all 
that  we  can  collect,  we  are  satisfied  that  Bishop  Lacy 
rebuilt  the  Chapter-house  upwards  from  the  arcade, 
and  that  the  beautiful  fan-roof  was  completed  by 
Bishop  Bothe. 

The  Cloisters,  nearly  finished  by  Bishop  Stafford, 
have  disappeared,  with  the  exception  of  part  of  a  fluted 
column  at  the  west  corner  of  the  carpenter's  shop ! 
Certainly  they  must  have  been  inferior  to  those  of 
Worcester  and  Gloucester  Cathedrals :  for  the  ambu- 
lacrum on  the  south  side  of  our  church  was  intrenched 
upon  and  narrowed  by  the  massive  bases  of  the  flying- 
buttresses.  Still  they  provided  much  convenience  for 
the  studious  and  contemplative  :  there  was  even  on  this 
side  of  the  church  sufficient  space  for  religious  pro- 

2  On  29th  December,  1657,  the  Mayor  taken  down,  and  the  same  used  and 
and  Chamber  "  ordered  that  the  wayn-  imployed  in  the  Church  of  Peter's  the 
scott  in  the  Holy  Ghost  Chapel  be  East." 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  247 

cessions  and  the  purposes  of  exercise,  and  also  for 
interments.  This  useful  appendage  to  a  cathedral,  by 
those  enemies  of  taste  the  Puritans,  was  doomed  to 
destruction  ;  yet  previously  to  this  their  bad  spirit  had 
been  at  work  to  desecrate  it.  Bishop  Hall,  in  his 
'  Act  Book,'  p.  30,  sets  forth  in  his  mandate,  dated 
28th  February,  1637-8,  that  this  quadrangle  had  been 
consecrated  ground,  separated  from  all  profane  pur- 
poses, and  appropriated  to  the  interment  of  the  bodies 
of  the  faithful  departed ;  yet  for  some  years  back, 
"  aliquot  annos,"  had  been  converted  into  a  garden  ; 
and  as  Bartholomew  Cemetery  had  been  recently 
opened,  this  quadrangle  must  be  resumed  for  its  origi- 
nal purpose,  and  be  appropriated  to  the  burial  of  the 
deceased  inhabitants  of  the  Close.  Shortly  after, 
Puritanism  obtained  the  ascendancy  :  the  cloisters  were 
levelled  ;  the  most  miserable  hovels  were  knocked  up 
with  the  ruins  and  gilded  bosses,  &c. ;  and  the  Chamber, 
on  30th  October,  1657,  removed  from  South-street 
"  the  Friday  Cloth  Market  for  Serges  and  other 
Drapery  "  to  this  sacred  spot !  The  desecration  con- 
tinued till  December,  1660,  when  the  hucksters  and 
their  packages  were  bundled  back  into  South-street. 

Turning  now  to  the  western  front,  who  can  fail  to 
admire  the  easy-flowing  tracery  of  its  beautiful 
window  ;  the  north  entrance,  elegant  in  its  simplicity ; 
and  the  south  porch,  once  charged  with  sculpture,  but 
now  wearing  a  mournful  appearance,  from  the  mutila- 
tion of  the  subjects  of  the  Annunciation  of  the  Virgin 
Mary  (Luke  i.),  and  the  Apparition  of  the  Angel  to 
Joseph  (Matthew  i.),  on  the  right  hand,  and  of  the 
Manifestation  of  Christ  at  Bethlehem  to  the  Wise  Men 
from  the  East  (Matthew  ii.)  ?  This,  and  indeed  the 
whole  of  the  interesting  facade,  deserves  to  be  tho- 
roughly cleaned  and  repaired. 

The  outer  walls  of  the  church,  from  east  to  west, 


248  HISTORY  OF  THE 

extend  nearly  four  hundred  feet  in  length,  and  about 
eighty  feet  in  breadth.  The  more  the  spectator  fami- 
liarizes himself  with  the  study  of  this  monument  of 
national  skill  and  piety,  the  more  beauties  will  he 
discover.  God  forbid  that  the  day  should  ever  return, 
that  Exonians  should  cease  to  regard  their  Cathedral 
as  their  most  precious  jewel !  And  who  is  there  that 
can  stand  at  the  grand  western  door  open  before  him, 
and  not  be  reminded  of  the  scenes  that  have  been  exhi- 
bited within  these  sacred  walls  ?  Here  matrimonial 
vows  have  been  exchanged,  and  registered  by  witness- 
ing angels  ;  here  countless  myriads  of  pious  souls  have 
worshipped ;  here  persons  afflicted  have  sought  for 
support  and  courage ;  here  many  penitents  have  expe- 
rienced peace  and  consolation.  On  his  right  hand,  by 
the  treatment  awarded  to  the  remains  of  the  illustrious 
Bishop  Grandisson,  the  spectator  is  admonished  of  the 
oblivion  and  ingratitude  of  mankind,  and  the  instabi- 
lity of  all  human  things  and  projects.  Through  this 
very  door,  how  many  Royal  Personages  and  Primates, 
Prelates  and  Noblemen  have  passed,  amidst  the  gaze 
of  endless  spectators ;  and  where  are  they  now  ?  How 
many  thousands  of  the  faithful  are  resting  here,  until 
the  signal  is  given  to  come  forth  for  judgment !  And 
as  his  eye  wanders  along  the  clustered  columns  to 
the  distant  perspective  —  as  it  soars  to  the  storied 
windows,  glowing  with  all  the  colours  of  the  rainbow, 
and  to  the  embowed  roof  webbed  with  mysterious 
tracery — he  must  exult  that  the  self-denying  piety  and 
the  good  taste  of  Englishmen  should  have  erected  this 
magnificent  sanctuary  to  the  Giver  of  all  good  gifts : 
and  he  may  well  exclaim,  in  "the  words  of  Jacob  (Gen. 
xxviii.  17),  u  This  is  none  other  but  the  house  of  God, 
and  this  is  the  gate  of  heaven!  " 

The  following  notice  has  been  kindly  furnished  by 
Sir  Walter  C.  Trevelyan,  Bart.,  who  copied  it  from  the 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  249 

original  black-lettered  handbill,  probably  printed  in  the 
early  part  of  Henry  VIII. 's  reign,  before  the  sup- 
pression of  monasteries,  whilst  John  Veysy  was  Bishop 
of  Exeter  : — 

In  the  name  of  God.  Amen.  It  ys  to  be  remebred  that  ye 
great  indulgence  and  pardon  which  dyverse  holy  fathers,  popes, 
cardynalles,  archbysshops,  and  bysshops  have  given  and  granted 
to  all  the  brothers  and  systers,  and  good  doers  of  the  cathedrall 
church  of  Exeter,  extendeth  to  the  somme  of .  liiii.  yeres  and  one 
lent.  ([  Also  all  the  brothers  and  systers  of  the  sayd  church 
ben  specyally  praed  for  that  dysposeth  or  bequetheth  any  part 
of  ther  goodes  to  the  reparacyons  of  the  sayd  churche,  whether 
yt  be  golde,  sylver,  or  any  other  goodes,  they  shall  be  parteners 
of  all  the  masses  sayd  and  done  wythin  the  sayd  church :  and  in 
all  colleges,  abbeys,  and  priores  wythin  the  dyoces  of  Exeter, 
as  in  the  colleges  of  Penryri,  Otery,  and  Credyto,  the  abbeys  of 
Tavestoke,  Hertlonde,  Torre,  Buckfast,  Bucklad,  Newhiri,  and 
Ford,  the  priores  of  Plympton,  Launcetd,  Bodman,  Trewardreth, 
Tottenes,  Barnstaple,  and  Pylto:  &  in  al  places  of  relygion 
wythyn  the  sayd  dyoces.  {£  Also  al  the  brothers,  sisters,  and 
good  doers  of  the  sayd  church  ben  specially  prayd  for  in  the 
pulpit  and  recommeded  to  the  devout  prayers  of  the  people 
there  beynge.  {[  Also  there  ben  .iiij.  yycars  ordayned  in  the 
sayd  church  for  evermore  to  say  masses  and  to  pray  specially 
for  all  the  brothers,  systers,  and  good  doers  of  the  same. 

SAlso  the  reverend  father  in  God  the  bysshope  of  Exeter 
it  nowe  ys,  hath  graunted  to  all  the  good  doers  of  the  sayd 
church  .xl.  dayes  of  pardon,  Godde's  blessyng,  and  hys.     Amen. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 

ENVIKONS  OF  THE  CATHEDKAL,  CALLED  "  THE  CLOSE." 

WE  begin  with  observing,  that  from  time  immemorial 
the  Cemetery,  or  poliandrmn,  of  Exeter  was  adjoining 
the  Cathedral  Church,  and  that  the  right  of  free  ingress 
and  regress  had  been  enjoyed  by  the  occupiers  of  the 


250  HISTORY  OF  THE 

surrounding  houses,  and  by  the  inhabitants  of  every 
part  of  the  city.  Subsequent  experience  abundantly 
proved  that  the  privilege  interfered  with  the  tranquil- 
lity of  divine  worship,  and  with  the  protection  of  pro- 
perty and  the  personal  safety  of  the  clergy  and  others 
who  assisted  at  the  services  of  the  church,  which  were 
then  performed  by  night  as  well  as  by  day.  The 
Cemetery  was  under  the  immediate  superintendence  of 
the  Treasurer  of  the  Cathedral,  who  was  entitled  .to 
six  shillings  a  quarter  from  the  Chapter  for  his  duty  in 
this  regard ;  but  it  was  always  a  subject  of  difficulty  to 
keep  it  clear  from  profanation  and  criminal  excesses : 
and  this  eventually  led  to  the  public  wish  of  enclosing 
the  sacred  precincts  with  walls,  gates,  and  posterns. 
Yet  we  cannot  believe  that  the  idea  of  enclosing  this 
large  area  originated  in  the  murder  of  the  Precentor, 
Walter  Lechelade,  on  returning  to  his  house  from 
matins,  on  the  9th  or  10th  November,  1283,  or, 
as  some  maintain,  in  1285 :  yet  Bishop  Quivil's 
6  Register '  proves  that  the  said  Walter  was  collated  to 
that  office,  void  by  the  resignation  of  Henry  de  Somer- 
set, on  1st  August,  1282 — he  lived  to  possess  this 
dignity  fifteen  months  only.  He  died,  according  to 
the  church  obituary,  on  9th  November,  and  on  the 
19th  of  the  same  month,  1283,  Bishop  Quivil's 'Re- 
gister '  informs  us,  that  Andrew  de  Kilkenny  succeeded 
to  the  Precentorship,  void  "  per  mortem  Magistri 
Walteri  de  Lechelade,"  and  on  the  same  day  that  the 
Queen's  nephew  was  collated  to  the  prebend,  "  ad 
prebendam  quse  fuit  Magistri  Walteri  de  Lechelade,  in 
Ecclesi&  Exoniensi,  vacantem  per  mortem  ejusdem." 
Here,  and  throughout  the  Register,  no  allusion  is  made 
to  any  act  of  violence  against  the  deceased — a  silence 
unaccountable  in  those  days  of  ecclesiastical  influence. 
In  the  composition  deed  between  the  Mayor  and 
Chamber  of  the  one  part,  and  the  Bishop,  Dean,  and 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  251 

Chapter  of  the  other  part,  as  also  in  King  Edward  the 
First's  license  for  the  purpose,  and  confirmation  of  the 
same,  no  notice  is  taken  of  such  a  sacrilegious  murder ; 
and  therefore  we  were  disposed  to  reject  the  assertion 
that  "  Alfred  Duport,  the  late  Mayor,  and  the  Porter 
of  Southgate,  were  indicted,  arraigned,  found  guilty, 
and  executed  accordingly ;  for  that  the  Southgate  was 
that  night  left  open,  by  which  means  the  murderer  of 
the  Precentor  escaped."  We  certainly  find  this  mayor, 
who  had  filled  the  chair  of  chief  magistrate  eight  times 
to  the  satisfaction  of  his  fellow-citizens,  witnessing  a 
contract  on  the  Sunday  after  the  Feast  of  St.  Matthew, 
late  in  September,  1285,  between  the  Dean  and  Chap- 
ter of  the  one  part,  and  Walter  de  Dodderigge  and 
Benedicta  his  wife  of  the  other  part ;  whereby  the  latter 
agreed  to  forego  their  right  of  egress  and  ingress 
through  the  doors  of  their  house,  which  opened  into 
this  cemetery ;  and  we  cannot  believe  that  King 
Edward  I.,  coming  here  with  his  Queen  to  pass  the 
Christmas  of  1285,  could  be  guilty  of  such  injustice 
and  barbarity,  as  to  order  the  execution  of  the  said 
mayor.  We  may  add,  that  in  a  deed  preserved  in  our 
chapter  archives,  of  Brother  John,  Prior  of  the  Hos- 
pital of  St.  John  Baptist  at  Wells,  dated  30th  December, 
1292,  which  minutely  states,  that  with  the  moneys 
given  to  his  house  by  the  executors  of  the  deceased 
Walter  de  Lechelade,  of  happy  memory,  he  had  suc- 
ceeded in  purchasing  the  advowson  of  West  Down,  for 
the  express  purpose  of  maintaining  Walter's  perpetual 
obit  in  Exeter  Cathedral ;  that  his  body  lay  opposite  to 
St.  Edmund's  Altar  there  ;  that  a  perpetual  chaplain 
would  celebrate  at  the  said  altar,  "  pro  anima  supradicti 
defuncti" ;  that,  on  his  anniversary,  a  distribution  of 
money  would  be  given  to  the  assistant-clergy  :  yet  no 
allusion  whatever  is  made  to  a  death  occasioned  by 
violence.  Moreover,  similar  licenses  of  inclosure  were 


252 


HISTORY  OF  THE 


making  about  the  same  period,  in  favour  of  the  deans 
and  chapters  at  Lincoln,  York,  and  London  ;  as  may 
be  seen  in  Prynne's  '  Records,'  vol.  3.  We  had  written 
the  above,  when  we  stood  corrected  by  Thomas  Duffus 
Hardy,  Esq.,  who  has  discovered  undeniable  evidence, 
in  the  Record  Office  of  the  Tower,  that  the  atrocious 
murder  of  the  Precentor,  Walter  de  Lechelade,  had  been 
perpetrated.  He  has  obligingly  furnished  us  with  copies 
of  four  letters  addressed  to  King  Edward  I.  on  the 
subject.  The  first  is  from  the  Primate  John  Peckham, 
dated  10th  March,  1285-6  ;  the  other  three  from  Bishop 
Peter  Quivil,  all  admitting  the  homicide,  but  interceding 
for  the  liberty  and  restitution  of  property  of  four  clergy- 
men— viz.,  Lucas,  of  St.  Leonard's  ;  John  de  Wotring- 
ton,  Yicar  of  Ottery  St.  Mary ;  John  de  Christenstowe, 
Yicar  of  Heavitree ;  and  John  de  Pycot,  of  Exeter — 
who  had  canonically  and  satisfactorily  established  their 
innocence  of  such  murder.  All  our  ancient  chronicles 
are  silent  on  the  subject.1  The  Royal  Licence  for 
enclosing  this  precinct  was  issued  by  the  king  at 
Exeter,  on  1st  January,  1286  ;  and  in  the  deed,  bearing 
date  on  Monday  after  Lady-day,  seven  entrances  into 
the  Close  were  to  be  formed,  viz. — one  opposite  the 
bishop's  palace  ;  another  at  Fissand,  for  carriages,  after- 
wards called  St.  Michael's,  or  Broadgate ;  a  third,  for 
carriages,  at  St.  Martin's  Lane ;  and  another,  eight  feet 
wide,  for  pack-horses,  and  commonly  called  Beregate.2 
Another  opposite  St.  George's  Church,  with  a  wicket 
five  feet  wide  for  foot  passengers,  but  where  the  great 
entrance  into  the  cemetery  formerly  was,  "ubi  lata 


1  Andrew   Brice,   in    bis    •  Mobiad,1 
written  in  1738,  will  bave  it  that  it  was 
John  the  Chaunter  was  murdered  as  he 
was  going  early  to  matins  1 !      Izacke 
will  have  it  that  Walter  Lechelade  was 
the  first  chaunter  of  this  church  ! ! ! 

2  This  gate  does  not  appear  to  have 
had  any  building  over  it  till  the  reign 
of  Queen  Elizabeth.     On  2 1st  January, 


1584,  the  Mayor  and  Corporation  re- 
quired "that  Mr.  Barcombe  shall  pay 
two-pence  yearly  during  his  estate  in 
the  house  called  The  Beare,  for  and  in 
consideration  of  his  new  building  over 
the  gate  going  into  the  churchyard  by 
the  said  Bear  Gate."  This  must  have 
been  demolished  during  the  Common- 
wealth. 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  253 

porta  fait."  This  is  still  called  "  Little  Stile."  The 
sixth  entrance  was  in  the  direction  of  the  Dominican 
Convent,  and  is  often  styled  Erceneske,  or  Bicklegh 
Gate,  from  the  adjoining  house  of  the  Erceneske  and 
Bicklegh  family  ;  but  after  the  foundation  of  St.  Cathe- 
rine's Almshouses  nearly  two  centuries  later,  obtained 
the  name  of  Catherine  Gate  ;  and,  lastly,  St.  Petrock's 
Gate,  being  a  thoroughfare  through  that  Parochial 
Church.  All  these  gates  were  closed  at  the  tolling  of 
Curfew,  from  Easter  till  Michaelmas,  at  nine  o'clock  in 
the  evening,  and  from  Michaelmas  to  Easter  at  eight 
o'clock,  and  were  opened  at  dawn  of  day  for  the 
mass  called  Bratton's.  The  enclosed  area  was  sacred 
ground,  and  favoured  with  special  privileges.  It  was 
almost  entirely  inhabited  by  persons  attached  to  the 
cathedral :  indeed  we  know  of  no  house  within  its 
precincts  that  was  not  the  property  of  the  chapter 
but  the  abbot  of  Buckfastleigh's,  which  has  recently 
been  purchased  by  the  dean  and  chapter.  From  28th 
Sept.  1845,  it  had  been  the  property  and  occasional 
residence  of  the  Eolle  family  for  nearly  two  centuries. 

Our  bishops  claimed  the  right  of  granting  licences 
for  tradesmen  to  follow  their  business  in  the  Close.  Thus 
Bishop  Jonathan  Trelawney,  as  late  as  1st  May,  1696, 
granted  a  special  licence  to  Ambrose  Hawkyns,  to  open 
and  keep  shop  in  the  Close,  and  to  make  clocks  and 
watches  and  jacks.  Yet  Thomas  Strybling,  who  kept 
a  tailor's  shop  there,  in  May,  1562,  was  summoned  to 
the  Guildhall  to  take  up  the  Freedom  of  the  City,  or 
to  have  "  a  fyne  sett  upon  his  hedde  "  ('  Act  Book,' 
No.  11,  p.  89  b). 

It  may  be  observed  here,  that  the  Mayor  and  Cham- 
ber held  such  dominion  of  the  city  walls,  that  on  22nd 
November,  1608,  they  granted  permission  to  Dr.  Bar- 
rett, Archdeacon  of  Exeter,  to  make  a  stairs  up  from 
his  garden  (now  Mr.  Ealph  Barnes's)  to  enable  him  to 


254  HISTORY  OF  THE 

walk  on  the  city  walls  and  enjoy  the  prospect,  "  pro- 
vided he  do  not  impair  or  annoy  the  said  walls  or 
barbigans." 

The  next  object  to  the  cathedral  deserving  of  atten- 
tion, is  the  Episcopal  Palace,  which,  we  are  satisfied, 
has  ever  retained  the  same  local  position.  The  chapel 
of  St.  Mary  is  now  the  most  ancient  part  of  the  edifice. 
Its  east  window,  with  its  three  lancets  of  the  earliest 
English  style,  is  singularly  rich  and  graceful.  We 
suppose  it  to  have  been  erected  in  the  time  of  Bishop 
Brewer  (1224-1244).  This  Chantry  Chapel  was 
founded  for  perpetual  prayers  for  the  departed  bishops 
of  the  see.  In  this  chapel,  "  in  Capella  Domini  Episcopi 
apud  Exon.,"  the  Chancellor,  Walter  Loddeswell,  on 
Easter  Monday,  1259,  cleared  himself  of  all  participa- 
tion of  fraudulent  act  in  the  disposal  of  benefices 
(Bronescombe's  'Register/  fol.  5).  Alwyngton  Church 
was  charged  on  1st  August,  1270,  with  the  yearly  pay- 
ment of  four  marks,  and  Harberton  Church  of  two 
marks,  to  the  support  of  the  bishop's  chaplain  here 
(Id.  'Register,'  fols.  44,  45).  The  Survey  of  the 
chapter  manors  and  livings  in  1281,  under  the  head  of 
Harberton,  states  "  Solvit  vicarius  annuatim  capellano 
Capelle  Domini  Episcopi  apud  Exon.  n  Marcas." 

The  dean  and  chapter  wejre  in  the  habit  of  offering 
it  two  wax  candles  of  a  pound  weight  on  the  Festival 
of  St.  Faith  (6th  October) ;  and  Bishop  Brantyngham, 
on  the  18th  of  August,  1381,  referred  to  the  "  fructus 
et  proventus  cantarie  infra  Palatium  nostrum  Exonie, 
pro  animabus  predecessorum  nostrorum,  ipsius  funda- 
torum "  ('  Reg.5  vol.  ii.  67  b).  Regular  service  was 
accustomed  to  be  performed  in'it  with  music,  and  in  the 
will  of  Canon  William  Langeton,  dated  29th  January, 
1413,  is  a  legacy  of  100  shillings  to  be  divided  amongst 
the  chaplains,  clerks,  and  boys  serving  in  this  chapel.  In 
the  last  chapter,  we  have  mentioned  the  musical  John 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  255 

Pyttes,  who  describes  himself  as  chaunter  of  this  chapel 
in  Bishop  Lacy's  time.  In  the  Prologus  of  John  Six- 
timis  to  Bishop  Arundell's  '  Register,'  he  commends  his 
lordship's  piety,  saying,  "  Cujus  in  Deum  pietatem  quo- 
tidianus  Dei  in  suo  sacello  cultus  ostendit;  tot  suis 
capellanis  ac  domesticis,  cum  symphoniacis  pueris  ange- 
licam  harmoniam  in  Dei  ac  Dive  Yirginis  laudem,  bis 
quotidie  canoris  vocibtis  vocalique  jubilo  efficientibus." 

The  Registers  testify  to  the  numerous  ordinations 
holden  within  its  sacred  walls. 

We  regret,  in  the  late  alterations  of  the  Palace,  the 
loss  of  an  oriel  window  introduced  by  Bishop  Peter 
Courtenay,  the  sides  of  which  were  charged  with  his 
favourite  Tau,  the  badge  of  St.  Anthony's  Hospital, 
London,  of  which  he  was  the  master ;  and  the  three 
Sickles,  forming  a  triangle,  the  device  of  Hunger  ford, 
his  mother's  family.  The  splendid  mantelpiece  has 
been  removed  from  the  dining-room  into  the  hall,  and 
fortunately  without  injury.  The  central  finial  rises  to 
12  ft.,  and  is  flanked  by  two  columns,  10  ft.  3  in.  high, 
capped  with  foliage.  The  width  is  8  ft.  The  centre 
finial  consists  of  the  arms  of  France  and  England 
within  the  Garter,  and  the  motto — "  Honi  soit  qui  mal 
y  pense,"  surmounted  by  the  arched  diadem  of  King 
Henry  VIL,  having  for  supporters  the  two  Greyhounds 
accolled,  of  his  consort  Elizabeth  of  York.  Beneath 
the  royal  escutcheon  appears  the  Portcullis,  the  cogni- 
zance of  the  Beauforts,  from  whom  the  king  was  de- 
scended. This  cognizance  is  repeated  in  the  decorated 
soffit  below,  and  actually  serves  for  a  capital  to  the 
dexter  column,  as  the  double  Rose  does  to  the  sinister 
one ;  thus  marking  the  union,  in  his  person,  of  the  two 
houses  of  York  and  Lancaster.  Beneath  the  Royal 
Arms,  and  within  the  pointed  arch,  is  a  splendid  jewel- 
led Mitre,  to  which  are  attached  two  Pendants  richly 
fringed  between  the  Sword  and  Keys  addossed,  in 


256  HISTORY  OF  THE 

saltire,  the  arms  of  the  see  of  Exeter ;  and  above  and 
on  the  sides  may  be  seen  the  Tau,  or  St.  Anthony's 
Cross.  The  motto  referring  to  St.  Peter  and  St.  Paul, 
the  patron  saints  of  the  cathedral,  is  as  follows  :— 

Colompne  ecclesie  et  veritatis  precones. 

Immediately  under  the  Mitre  are  the  arms  of  the  see 
of  Exeter,  the  Sword  and  the  Keys  in  saltire,  and  im- 
paled with  the  arms  of  Courtenay — Or,  three  Tor- 
teauxes  (or  roundlets  of  a  red  colour),  with  a  Label  of 
three  points,  each  point  charged  with  three  Annulets, 
argent ;  and  not  Plates  as  Cleaveland  in  his  '  Genea- 
logical History'  of  the  family,  pp.  270,  281,  286,  asserts. 
The  Label  shows  the  bishop's  descent  from  the  first 
house :  the  Annulet  marks  his  descent  from  Sir  Philip 
Courtenay,  of  Powderham,  Knight,  the  fifth  son  of 
Hugh  Courtenay,  the  second  of  that  name,  Earl  of 
Devon,  by  his  wife  Margaret  Bohun.  This  escutcheon 
is  encircled  by  three  Dolphins,  naiant  and  embowed, 
and  on  either  side,  within  the  perpendicular  moulding, 
are  repeated  the  T  and  the  Bell,  the  emblems  of  St. 
Anthony  of  Egypt.  The  angles  of  this  middle  circle, 
as  also  of  the  other  two,  are  filled  up  with  the  three 
Sickles  in  triangle,  of  Hungerford,  or  with  the  Wheat- 
sheaf  (derived  from  the  Peverels,  whose  arms  were— 
Azure,  three  Garbs  or — a  Garb  or,  with  a  Sickle  proper, 
united  by  a  golden  cord).  The  dexter  circle  bears  the 
arms  of  Courtenay,  supported  by  two  Swans,  collared 
and  chained.  The  scroll  above  has  the  words  "  Honor 
Deo  et  Begi,"  and  below  "  Arma  Petri  Exon.  Epi."  The 
sinister  circle  contains  the  arms  of  Courtenay,  impaled 
with  Hungerford — Sable,  two  Bars  argent,  three  Plates 
in  chief;  supporters,  two  Boars  Argent,  bristled  and 
tusked,  and  collared  with  the  Courtenay  Label  charged 
with  Annulets.  The  upper  scroll  has  the  legend  "  Honor 
Deo  et  Regi,"  the  lower  "  Arma  Patris  et  Matris."  In 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER,  257 

the  horizontal  moulding  below,  the  favourite  T  is  re- 
peated five  times,  and  the  bishop's  initials,  P.  0.,  four 
times. 

The  original  entrance  into  the  Palace  itself  was  by 
the  noble  archway,  which  everyone  must  admire. 
Near  this  Porta  Forensica  was  the  Hall,  where  100 
poor  were  occasionally  fed  (Brantyngham's  '  Reg.'  vol. 
ii.  fol.  5).  The  whole  was  embattled,  by  the  license 
of  Kings  Edward  the  First  and  Second.  Formerly  it 
covered  a  larger  space  of  ground  than  at  present,  but 
it  appears  from  a  report  made  on  9th  May,  1599,  that, 
in  the  early  part  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  reign,  several 
portions  were  taken  down  either  by  Bishop  Alley  or 
Bishop  Bradbridge,  as  superfluous  and  burthen  some 
from  the  diminished  resources  of  the  see  of  Exeter 
(Bp.  Cotton's  '  Reg.,'  65).  On  recent  inspection  it  was 
found  to  be  in  such  a  ruinous  state  that  the  Ecclesi- 
astical Commissioners,  on  30th  June,  1845,  appropriated 
a  considerable  sum  to  the  rebuilding  a  part,  and  the 
substantial  repair  of  the  remainder. 

King  Henry  VIII.  on  dedicating  his  work  *  Assertio 
Septem  Sacramentorum  '  to  Pope  Leo  X.,  commences' 
with  stating,  u  Sanctitati  tuae  dedicavimus,  ut,  sub  tuo 
nomine,  qui  Christi  vicem  in  terris  geris,  publicurn 
judicium  subeat."  On  the  Pope's  granting  to  His 
Majesty,  on  the  llth  of  October,  1521,  the  title  of 
Defender  of  the  Faith,  Bishop  Veysey  set  up  in  this 
chapel  the  Royal  Arms,  with  the  inscription  "  Henricus 
Octavus,  Fidei  Defensor,"  and  below  "  Clientis  Devocio." 

Whilst  Dr.  Valentine  Cary  was  bishop  here  (1621- 
1626)  he  applied  to  the  mayor  and  chamber  for  per- 
mission to  make  a  door  through  the  city  wall,  by  which 
he  might  pass  from  the  palace  in  and  out  privately 
into  the  open  fields  (Southernhay)  for  his  health  and 
recreation,  and  avoid  the  gaze  of  the  public.  On  the 
refusal  of  the  mayor  and  aldermen,  the  bishop  repre- 

s 


258  HISTORY  OF  THE 

sented  his  case  to  the  Sovereign,  James  L,  when  His 
Majesty  addressed  a  letter  to^  them  under  his  signet  at 
Westminster,  6th  March,  1623,  requiring  them  to  suffer 
the  said  bishop  to  make  a  convenient  door  through  the 
city  wall,  and  to  have  the  use  thereof,  being  ready, 
when  any  public  necessity  should  require,  to  make  it 
up  again.  The  mayor  and  aldermen  remonstrated  : 
on  which  the  King  referred  the  subject  to  the  Privy 
Council,  who,  on  the  9th  of  May  that  year,  issued  their 
order,  that  the  bishop  should  have  the  passage  desired ; 
but  that  the  door  should  not  exceed  2i  ft.  in  breadth 
and  6  ft.  in  height ;  that  the  passage  over  the  ditch 
next  without  the  wall  under  the  Barbican  should  be 
set  upon  posts,  in  order  that  the  water  in  the  ditch 
might  pass  clearly  under ;  that  a  single  key  be  made 
for  the  door,  and  kept  by  the  bishop  himself  during 
his  time  of  residence,  but  should  he  be  absent  for  the 
space  of  four  days,  the  custody  of  the  key  should  be 
with  the  mayor,  until  his  lordship's  return ;  and  lastly, 
that  the  bishop  should  defray  all  charges  occasioned 
by  such  passage,  and  be  ready  to  have  it  closed  in  case 
of  tumult,  insurrection,  or  the  like,  if  the  city  magis- 
trates demanded  it. 

During  the  Commonwealth3  (1647),  the  surveyors  of 
the  estates  of  the  suppressed  bishoprics  sent  into  the 
Parliamentary  Committee  their  valuation  of  the  palace, 
with  the  timber,  &c.,  at  the  sum  of  40  5Z.  On  the  10th 
of  August  that  year,  the  mayor  and  chamber  deter- 
mined on  becoming  the  purchasers  at  the  additional 
price  of  450£.  then  required  by  the  commissioners  ;  and 


3  If  we  may  credit  the  'Mercurius 
Eusticus,'  p.  243,  "  the  Bishop's  Palace 
the  Rebels  might  have  called  'their 


5f  the  cloisters  from  Mr.  Embrey  for 
1600Z.  agreed  on  by  the  Chamber;" 
and  again,  14th  October,  1656,  "the 


Smithfield,' for,  in  and  about  it,  they  kept  !  Mayor  produced  Mr.  Embrey 's  receipt 
their  fat  oxen  and  sheep  and  all  their  !  for  2230Z.,  for  the  purchase  of  the  clois- 


plundered  provisions." 

In  the  Chamber  '  Act  Books '  we  find 
on  29th  January,  1655,  "the  purchase 


ters,  the  privileges  of  St.  Peter's  Church- 
yard, and  Archdeacon  Cotton's  house." 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  259 

it  was  conveyed  to  their  agent,  Simon  Snowe,  Esq.,  and 
Alderman  Adam  Bennet,  for  that  sum,  on  the  2nd  May, 
1 648,  "  to  have  and  hold  unto  the  Mayor,  Bailiffs,  and 
Commonalty  of  Exeter  and  their  successors  for  ever- 
more." On  the  25th  March,  1650,  the  mayor  and 
chamber  conveyed  their  purchase  to  the  governors  of  St. 
John's  Hospital  for  400/.  These  new  proprietors  leased 
it  to  a  sugar-baker,  who  retained  undisturbed  possession 
during  Bishop  Gauden's  government  of  the  see,  after  the 
restoration  of  monarchy.  But  Bishop  Seth  Ward  in 
1662,  as  we  learn  from  his  biographer,  Dr.  Walter 
Pope,  "retrieved  the  palace  out  of  the  hands  of  the 
sugar-baker,  repaired  it,  and  made  it  habitable." 
When  Bishop  Carey,  in  1821,  was  making  alterations 
in  the  Palace,  the  troughs,  &c.,  on  the  groundfloor  of 
the  sugar-baker's  refinery  were  distinctly  visible. 

Attached  to  the  Palace  on  the  west  side  was  the 
prison  for  clergymen  convicted  of  scandal  and  felony. 
Such  prisons  early  in  the  13th  century  had  been 
allowed  by  King  John  to  Hubert,  Archbishop  of  Can- 
terbury, and  were  required  by  the  statute  of  Archbishop 
Boniface  in  every  diocese.4  In  Bishop  Grandisson's 
'Register'  (vol.  i.  fol.  172)  is  inserted  Archbishop 
Islip's  regulation  of  the  diet  for  such  prisoners  :  on  the 
Wednesdays,  Fridays,  and  Saturdays,  they  were  to  be 
served  with  bread  and  water,  once  in  the  day ;  on 
Mondays,  Tuesdays,  and  Thursdays,  some  small-beer 
was  to  be  allowed,  to  which  was  added  on  Sundays  a 
small  portion  of  legumes.  This  prison  was  confined 
and  gloomy.  The  chapel  at  the  top  of  the  house  was 
ascended  by  a  stone  staircase,  taken  down  in  1846 ; 
the  piscina  was  then  in  excellent  preservation.  We 


4  A.D.  1260.  "  Quilibet  episcopus 
habeat  in  suo  episcopatu  unum  vel  duos 
carceres  ad  clericos  flagitiosos,  depre- 


gibilis  fuerit  et  consuetus  ad  flagitia 
committenda,  pro  quibus  etiam  Laicus 
esset  secundum  leges  seculi  ultimum 


liensos  in  crimine,  vel  convictos  juxta  j  deberet  pati  supplicium,  talis  clericus 
censuram  canonicam,  detinendos.  Et  j  perpetuo  carceri  adjudicetur." — Lyn- 
si  clericus  aliquis  malitiosus  et  incorri-  |  wode  s  '  Provinciale,'  p.  321. 

s  2 


260  HISTORY  OF  THE 

find  in  the  <  Act  Books '  of  the  chamber,  No.  11,  p.  147, 
that  this  prison  was  used  in  November  1566. 

In  our  biography  of  Bishop  Brantyngham,  we  have 
related  two  cases  of  desperate  jail-breaking  here,  accom- 
panied with  brutal  violence  and  murder.  Hoker  in 
his  *  Manuscript  History,'  p.  334,  mentions  a  prisoner 
Robert  Laskey,  who  escaped  ;  but  on  being  retaken, 
was  pardoned  by  Bishop  Oldam,  in  the  beginning  of 
the  16th  century,  on  his  abjuring  and  forswearing  the 
diocese  of  Exeter. 

From  the  first  foundation  of  ecclesiastical  revenues 
under  the  Christian  emperors,  it  was  customary  for 
the  bishops  to  provide  and  maintain  an  hospital  or 
almshouse,  which  was  usually  in  the  vicinity  of  the 
principal  church.  Fronting  the  west  end  of  our  cathe- 
dral was  a  similar  institution.  Leland  ('  Itin.'  vol.  iii. 
p.  52)  calls  it  "  an  old  almose  house  of  xn  poore  menne 
and  as  many  women  ;"  but  from  a  much  more  ancient 
authority,  viz.,  a  deed  of  the  chapter  at  the  very  end 
of  the  twelfth  century,  it  is  evident  that  the  community 
consisted  of  twenty  brethren,  "  viginti  fratres  civi- 
tatis  Exon.  Kalendarii." — That  in  consequence  of  their 
surrendering  their  right  to  the  chapel  of  St.  Peter  the 
Less,  and  to  the  chapel  of  St.  Paul,  they  were  to  receive 
yearly  from  the  chapter  the  sum  of  10s.,  and  to  be 
allowed  "  servitium  kalendse  suae,"5  to  be  performed  in 
St.  Mary  Major's  Church.  Attached  to  a  deed  of  1260, 
we  have  met  with  the  common  seal  of  this  little  com- 
munity :  a  small  oval,  representing  a  tower  surmounted 
with  a  high  spire,  and  flanked  with  two  turrets  in  front. 
The  legend  was — 

S  .  FRV  .  D*  .    KALEKD  .  EXONIE. 

When  Bishop  G-randisson  in  the  following  century 


5  A  deed  is  extant,  dated  November, 
1271,  by'  which  John,  a  canon  of  Ex- 
eter, gave  certain  tenements  in  Smythen 


Street  "  Fratribus  et  Sororibus  do  Ka- 
lenderheie." 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  261 

enlarged  and  refounded  the  hospital  of  St.  John  near 
Eastgate,  Exeter,  he  removed  these  brethren  into  that 
establishment,  intending  to  appropriate  the  site  to  the 
purposes  of  a  college  for  the  priest-vicars  of  the  cathe- 
dral, who  had  hitherto  resided  in  the  smaller  Calendar- 
hay,  "  Lytel  Kalendarhay  in  S.  Martin's  Lane."  But 
it  was  reserved  for  his  successor  Bishop  Brantyngham 
to  enable  the  vicars*  to  live  in  community ;  and  he 
informs  us  in  his  Eegister,  A.D.  1388,  that  he  had  com- 
pleted for  them  a  public  hall,  private  chambers,  a 
kitchen,  and  all  suitable  offices,  "  pro  vicariorum  cohabi- 
tatione  vitaque  communi"  (vol.  i.  fol.  194).  Amongst 
our  bishops  they  met  with  special  benefactors.  Bishop 
Marshal,  their  principal  one,  had  granted  to  them  the 
church  of  St.  Swithun,  at  Woodbury ;  Bishop  Brewer 
had  bestowed  upon  them  an  annuity  of  12  marks, 
charged  on  the  church  of  Alternon  in  Cornwall ; 
Bishop  Lacy,  on  6th  June,  1432,  assigned  to  them  the 
profits  of  the  church  of  Corn  wood.  On  10th  February, 
1508-9,  Bishop  Oldam,  with  the  license  of  King  Henry 
VII.,  assigned  to  them  the  churches  of  Melan  and 
Westlegh,  with  the  hospitals  of  Clyst  Gabriel  and 
Werlond,  besides  presenting  them  with  the  sum  of 
80£.  sterling;  and  King  Henry  IV.,  by  charter  of  the 
26th  of  February,  1401,  had  erected  them  into  a  cor- 
poration, by  the  title  of  "  Custos  et  Collegium  Vicario- 
rum de  choro  Ecclesie  Cathedralis  Exonie,"  with  the 
privilege  of  a  common  seal — a  charter,  confirmed  on 
3rd  June,  1557,  by  King  Philip  and  Queen  Mary. 
Bishop  Stafford  had  confirmed  all  their  rights  and 
privileges  as  early  as  8th  April,  1405.  Their  oval 
seal  is  still  in  use,  representing  St.  Peter  sinking  in 
the  billows  and  supplicating  Christ,  who  is  walking 
upon  them  and  bearing  the  cross  in  his  left  hand — to 
come  to  his  rescue.  Our  Lord  extends  to  him  his 
right  hand,  saying,  "  Quare  dubitasti?"  Under  an 


262  HISTORY  OF  THE 

obtuse    arch   appear   the   heads   of  six   figures.     The 
legend  is — 

s .  COE  :  CVSTODIS  :  z  COLLEGII  :  VICAKIOKVM  :  DE  :  CHOKO  : 

ECCLIE  :  CATHEDRALIS  :  EXONIE. 

The  arms  of  Bishop  Oldam  still  appear  in  the  west 
and  east  ends  of  the  college  ;  and  his  friend  and  vene- 
rable treasurer  John  Ryse,6  formerly  chaplain  to  King 
Edward  IV.,  rebuilt  their  College  Hall,  where  may  be 
seen  the  portraits  of  Bishops  Leofric,  Marshal,  Lacy, 
Brantyngham,  Stafford,  Fox,  and  Oldam.  On  8th 
April,  1647,  it  was  converted  into  "a  common  Wool 
Hall  or  place  to  sell  and  keep  wool  in." 

From  the  original  number  of  twenty-four  vicars,  the 
body  was  reduced  in  1547  to  eight  vicars  or  petty 
canons,  and  twelve  lay  vicars.  Sixteen  years  later, 
viz.  20th  September,  1563,  the  number  was  diminished 
to  six  priest-vicars  and  ten  lay  vicars.  Within  a  few 
years  later  the  priest- vicars  were  reduced  to  the  present 
number  of  four,  and  this  reduction  was  sanctioned  and 
confirmed  by  Bishop  Cotton  in  1613. 

Adjoining  the  Vicars'  College  is  the  Deanery,  for- 
merly the  residence  of  the  Archdeacon  of  Totnes,  as  is 
manifest  from  the  deed  of  the  Primate  Langton  in 
1225.  It  is  a  respectable  building,  and  formerly  had 
its  chapel  dedicated  to  St.  Michael.  The  present 
esteemed  and  learned  dean  has  greatly  improved  the 
premises.  Here  royalty  has  frequently  taken  its  abode. 
Catherine  of  Spain,  the  celebrated  queen  of  King 
Henry  VIII.,  passed  two  days  from  21st  October, 
1501  ;  King  Charles  II.  (who  had  lodged  here  in  June, 
1644,  as  Prince  of  Wales)-. honoured  the  house  with 
his  visit,  23rd  July,  1671  ;  William  Prince  of  Orange 


6  Hoker  informs  us  that  he  was  about 
90  years  old  at  his  death  (9  May,  1531), 
that  he  was  his  godfather,  that  he  was 
a  great  housekeeper  and  of  good  hospi- 


tality, liberal  to  scholars  and  good  to 
the  poor,  and  that  Kobert  Hoker,  the 
historian's  father,  was  his  executor. 


CATHEDRAL  OP  EXETER.  263 

arrived  here  on  Friday  the  9th,  and  remained  here 
till  the  20th  November,  1688 ;  and  our  late  most 
gracious  Sovereign  King  George  III.,  with  Queen 
Charlotte  and  three  of  the  Princesses,  took  up  their 
quarters  here  in  August  1789.  In  the  drawing-room 
are  two  portraits  of  King  William  III.  and  George  II. ; 
and  in  one  of  the  windows  under  the  armorial  bearings 
of  the  former  monarch,  Dean  Milles,  in  1768,  has  in- 
scribed to  him  the  memorable  lines  borrowed  from 
Claudian,  as  addressed  in  394  to  the  Emperor  Theo- 
dosius  : — 

O  nimium  dilecte  Deo,  cui  militat  aether 
Et  conjurati  veniunt  ad  classica  venti. 

The  residence  of  the  precentors  has  been  so  altered 
and  modernized  as  almost  to  defy  description.  But 
the  great  hall  retains  a  stately  mantelpiece,  which 
was  placed  here  by  the  precentor,  John  Combe  :  he 
died  in  office  early  in  1499,  and  his  initials  appear  on 
either  side.  Whilst  Dr.  Milles  filled  the  same  dignity, 
between  1747  and  1762,  he  repainted  it,  and  sur- 
mounted it  with  the  arms  of  his  family  and  those  of 
his  father-in-law,  Dr.  John  Potter,  who  died  Archbishop 
of  Canterbury  in  1747.  Dr.  Milles  was  elected  Dean 
of  Exeter  on  28th  April,  1762,  and  dying  in  London, 
on  16th  February,  1784,  set.  70,  was  buried  in  St. 
Edmund's,  Lombard-street. 

The  armorial  bearings  are — 

1st — Of  Canterbury,  impaled  with  Potter's. 
2nd — Dexter  side.     The  Precentor's  of  Exeter — Argent,  on  a 
Saltier  azure,  a  Fleur-de-Lys  or.     Impaled  with  Milles's. 
3rd — Sinister.     Milles's  impaled  with  Potter's. 

On  the  deep  moulding— 

1st — Precentor's  impaled  with  Koger  Keys's.  He  died  in 
office  11  th  November,  1478.  He  had  rendered  valuable  service 
to  King  Henry  VI.  in  the  erection  of  Eton  College.  See  'Excerpta 
Hist.'  No.  9. 


264  HISTORY  OF  THE 

2nd — Bishop  Grandisson's. 

3rd — Bishop  Lacy's. 

4th — Precentor's,  and  John  Combe's. 

Below  the  mouldings  — 

1st — In  the  centre.  The  arms  of  St.  Edward,  King  and 
Confessor,  as  adopted  by  King  Richard  II.,  with  the  arms  of 
France  and  England. 

2nd — Dexter.     The  see  of  Exeter  impaled  with  Courtenay. 

3rd — Intended  either  for  William  Bruer  or  Walter  Stapeldon, 
who,  from  the  Precentorship,  was  raised  to  the  see  of  Exeter,; 
but  neither  had  three  bends  wavy.  The  arms  of  the  former 
were — Gules,  two  Bends  wavy  or;  and  of  the  latter — Argent, 
two  Bends  wavy  sable. 

In  the  lane,  sometime  called  "  Paternoster  Lane," 
leading  from  St.  Martin's  Church  to  St.  Catherine's 
Almshouse,7  was  another  college,  of  the  Annivellars  or 
Annuellars,  or  chantry  priests.  Bishop  Lacy,  in  an 
ordinance  dated  llth  December,  1446,  thus  describes 
them  :  "  Cantariarum,  qua  sin  Ecclesia  nostril  in  decorem 
ejus,  et  multiplicationem  numeri  Deo  servientium  in 
eadem,  antiqua  bonorum  fundavit  devotio,  rninistri, 
Annivellarii  nuncupantur."  When  Bishop  Grandisson 
made  the  visitation  of  his  cathedral  on  26th  November, 
1337,  he  found  twenty-one  of  these  chantry  priests 
attached  to  it.  For  the  '  Ordinatio  Annivellanorum ' 
of  the  eighteen  chantries  in  our  cathedral,  see  Bishop 
Lacy's  'Register/  vol.  iii.  fol.  437.8  One  entrance 
into  their  college  was  nearly  opposite  the  north  porch 
of  the  cathedral ;  the  other  in  Catherine  Street  is  closed 
up,  to  form  the  tap-room  window  of  the  country  public- 
house  !  These  clergymen  were  bound  to  follow  the 
choir  and  canonical  hours,  like  the  vicars. 


7  This  was  a  foundation  by  John  Ste- 
vens, M.D.,  a  canon  of  Exeter.  His 
will,  dated  3rd  February,  1457,  and 
proved 27th  February,  1460,  maybe  seen 
in  Nevyll's  '  Register/  fol.  124.  In 
Bishop  Oldarn's  '  Register '  is  an  ac- 


8*In  Hoker's  MS.  of  Exeter  the 
write'r  states,  p.  341,  that  Jolin  Ryse, 
who  was  his  godfather,  but  who  died 
in  1531,  "  gave  some  portion  of  lande 
to  the  Chauntrey  Priests,  called  the 


count  of  a  considerable  ordination  in  i  litie. 
this  chapel  on  6th  December,  1516. 


Annyvellers,   for  kepying  of  hospita- 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  265 

Within  the  Close  are  three  parish  churches  :  first, 
St.  Mary  Major's,  perhaps  so  called  to  distinguish  it 
from  St.  Mary  Arches  and  St.  Mary  Steps.  Some- 
times it  is  called  St.  Mary  de  Turre,  from  its  most 
ancient  and  massive  tower.  Its  south  side  bears  the 
appearance  of  Eoman  work,8  and  may  have  originally 
served  for  a  fortified  watch-tower.  At  a  later  period 
it  was  surmounted  by  a  lofty  spire  covered  with  lead  : 
the  noise  of  its  weathercock  on  the  summit  so  dis- 
turbed and  terrified  the  Princess  Catherine  of  Arragon, 
when  she  sojourned  at  the  deanery  after  landing  at 
Plymouth,  on  8th  October,  1501,  that  it  was  taken 
down  for  a  time.  The  spire  itself  having  fallen  into 
decay,  "  a  very  decent  and  beautiful  monument," 
according  to  Hoker,  its  removal  was  ordered  by  Bishop 
Alley  and  the  Dean  and  Chapter,  on  3rd  July,  1568; 
but  on  the  18th  of  the  following  month,  the  Chamber, 
in  their  anxiety  to  preserve  it,  voted  the  sum  of  sixty 
pounds  to  put  it  in  substantial  repair.  This  proving 
insufficient,  Bishop  Woolton,  on  llth  February, 
1580-1,  confirmed  the  former  order  of  the  Chapter,  as 
we  find  in  his  6  Register,'  fol.  56  ;  and  we  learn  from 
Hoker's  Manuscript  that  the  above-mentioned  replaced 
weathercock,  having  been  blown  off  by  a  storm  in 
1580,  "  not  long  after  the  whole  steeple  was  pulled  down 
also."  The  mayor  and  chamber,  on  16th  August,  1692, 
bestowed  three  trees  out  of  Duryard  Wood  towards  the 
repairs  of  this  church,  and  for  "  hanging  the  bells  in  the 
tower,  being  all  new  cast ;  "  but  the  upper  part  of  the 
tower  being  pronounced,  in  1766,  to  be  in  a  dangerous 
state,  about  forty  feet  more  of  its  masonry  were  taken 
down,  and  the  present  cupola  substituted.  To  defray 
the  expense,  five  of  the  bells  were  sold. 

In  this  tower  stood  the  altar  of  St.  Apollonia,  as  we 

8  We  say  appearance,  for  Sweyn  in  1003  demolished  the  city,  leaving  it  but  a 
pile  of  ashes. 


266  HISTORY  OF  THE 

find  from  the  will  of  Robert  Lingham,  the  Rector  of 
the  church  in  1427. 

The  nave,  comparatively  to  the  tower,  is  modern. 
On  6th  November,  1336,  Bishop  Grandisson  dedicated 
its  High  Altar  (<  Reg.'  vol.  ii.  fol.  204). 

Second :  St.  Petrock's  Church  is  named  after  the 
saintly  prelate  who  died  in  Cornwall,  4th  June,  564. 
It  is  a  mis-shapen  edifice,  and  formerly,  as  appears 
from  the  warden's  accounts,  was  lighted  on  both  sides, 
having  nine  windows  in  all.  Four  altars  were  stowed 
in  it — St.  Petrock's,  St.  Thomas's,  Jesus's,  and  Mary's. 
From  Bishop  Oldam's  'Register,'  fol.  48,  we  collect 
that  it  was  consecrated  anew  on  22nd  July,  1513.  The 
license  to  erect  its  present  cupola  is  dated  1st  March, 
1736.  The  parishioners  were  usually  buried  in  that 
part  of  the  Close  adjoining  to  their  church ;  and  in 
the  warden's  accounts  of  1476,  we  find  their  payment 
"  pro  purgatione  Cemeterii."  In  the  will  of  Alice 
Martin,  dated  llth  February,  1598,  she  desires  "  to  be 
buried  in  the  churchyard  of  St.  Peter,  where  St.  Pethe- 
riclcs  parish  use  to  be  buried  in." 

Third  :  St.  Martin's,  so  called  from  the  holy  Bishop 
of  Tours,  who  died  in  397.  From  its  ancient  missal 
we  collect,  that  the  feast  of  its  dedication  was  kept 
on  6th  July,  1065.  "  Anno  ab  Incarnatione  Domini 
M°LXVt0-,  Indictione  IIIL,  II  Nonas  Julii,  dedicatum 
est  hoc  Templum  ad  honorem  Domini  Jhesu  Christi,  et 
Sancte  Crucis,  et  Sancte  Marie,  Matris  Christi,  et  Sancti 
Martini  Episcopi,  omniumque  Sanctorum  Dei."  Bishop 
Stafford,  however,  in  consequence  of  the  concurrence  of 
festivals,  and  for  better  convenience,  on  13th  July, 
1409,  transferred  its  celebration  to  the  Sunday  after 
the  7th  July.  The  handsome  perpendicular  window  at 
the  west  end  appears  to  have  been  introduced  in  the 
time  of  his  successor,  Bishop  Lacy. 

In  Grandisson's  '  Register,'   vol.  ii.  fol.  223,  is  an 


CATHEDRAL  OF  EXETER.  267 

order,  dated  22nd  June,  1339,  for  the  removal  of  a 
pent-house  recently  erected  near  the  church  by  an 
individual  "  in  solo  notorie  sacro  ac  dedicate." 

Who  can  leave  the  Close,  this  area  of  interment  of 
the  dead  of  Exeter  during  a  thousand  years,  without 
being  reminded  of  the  instability  and  emptiness  of  all 
that  passes  with  time,  and  that  all  of  us  must  inevit- 
ably be  forgotten  ?  In  this  "  great  magazine  of  mor- 
tality" not  one  tombstone  or  inscription  remains  to 
record  the  profession,  sex,  age,  rank,  or  even  family  of 
the  innumerable  multitude  lying  undistinguished  below 
our  feet.  But,  however  neglected,  unhonoured,  and 
forgotten,  yet  at  the  shrill  clangour  of  the  angelic 
trumpet,  a  commotion  of  all  this  dust  shall  take  place : 
the  bones  shall  start  to  meet  their  joints ;  they  shall 
once  more  be  clothed  with  flesh,  and  shall  stand  before 
the  Almighty  Judge,  to  hear  their  definitive  sentence 
for  Eternity.  May  it  be  propitious  to  us  all !  Amen. 


(     269     ) 


APPENDIX. 


No.  I. 
FASTI    ECCLESI^     EXONIENSIS. 


I.— HEKALDBY  OF  EXETER  CATHEDEAL. 

THE  arms  of  the  See  are — Gules,  a  Sword  erect  in  pale  argent, 

Eomelled  and  hilted  or,  surmounted  by  two  Keys  in  saltier  of  the 
ist.1 
Those  of  the  four  dignities  are  : — 

DEAN — Azure,  a  Stag's  head  caboched  and  ensigned  with  a  Cross 
pattee  fitchy,  argent. 

PRECENTOR — Argent,  on  a  Saltier  azure,  a  Fleur  de  Lys  or. 

CHANCELLOR— Gules,  a  Saltier  argent  between  four  Crossets  or. 

TREASURER— Gules,  a  Saltier  engrailed  between  four  Leopards' 
heads  or. 


H.— LIST  OF  BISHOPS. 

LEOFRIC  removed  the  see  from  Crediton  to  Exeter  A.D.  1050; 
died  10th  Feb.  1071-2.  Arms — Or,  a  Cross  fleury  sable,  having  in 
the  fess-point  a  Mitre  proper. 

OSBERN,  consecrated  in  1072 ;  died  in  1103.  Buried  in  St.  James's 
Chapel.  Ellis,  in  his  'Index  to  Domesday,'  vol.  i.  p.  417,  says 
Osbern  was  consecrated  28th  March,  1072,  and  died  in  1103.  Arms 
— Gules,  a  Bend  argent,  surmounted  by  a  Fess  or. 

WILLIAM  WARELWAST,  consecrated  llth  Aug.  1107  ;  died  in  1136  : 
the  'Martyrology  of  Exeter  Cathedral'  says  27th  Sept.  1137.  The 
'  Ty wardreth  Calendar'  says  he  died  26th  Sept.  1137.  Arms, 
according  to  Izacke — Azure,  a  Saltier  or ;  but  according  to  West- 
cote,  the  better  historian  of  the  two  (*  Harl.  MS.'),  "  Per  pale  gules 


1  Of  the  ancient  arms  of  the  see,  which 
appear  from  time  to  time  to  have  undergone 
some  slight  changes,  the  earliest  example  in 
the  cathedral  is  —Gules,  a  Sword  in  bend 
sinister  argent,  pomelled  and  hilted  or,  sur- 
mounted by  two  Keys  accosted  in  bend  dexter 
of  the  last.  A  more  recent  one  is — Gules, 
a  Sword  in  bend  argent,  pomelled  and  hilted 
or,  surmounted  by  two  Keys  addorsed  in 


bend  sinister  of 'the  last.  And  a  still  later 
one  is — Gules,  a  Sword  in  bend  sinister  ar- 
gent, pomelled  and  hilted  or,  surmounted  by 
two  Keys  addorsed  in  bend  dexter  of  the  last. 
Bishop  Oldam,  in  turn,  adopted  the  last 
two  of  these,  and  finally  made  the  alteration, 
in  the  disposition  of  the  charges,  to  what 
they  have  ever  since  been  and  still  are. 


270  APPENDIX. 

and  or ;  in  the  first,  two  Keys  paly  of  the  second ;  the  second 
charged  with  a  Sword  point  in  point  of  the  field." 

ROBERT  CHICHESTER,  consecrated  17th  Dec.  1138;  died  28th 
March,  1155.  Buried  on  the  south  side  of  the  choir,  near  the  upper 
steps,  under  an  aperture  in  the  wall.  Arms — Cheeky  or  and  gules, 
a  Chief  vairy. 

ROBERT  WARELWAST,  consecrated  5th  June,  1155;  died  J22nd 
March,  1160  :  his  obit  was  kept  22nd  March.  Arms  as  before.* 

BARTHOLOMEW,  consecrated  in  1161  ;  died  15th  (the  '  Martyrology ' 
says  14th)  Dec.  1184.  Buried  under  the  first  arch  of  the  south  wall 
of  the  Lady  Chapel.  Arms,  according  to  Izacke — Party  per  pale 
gules  and  sable,  six  Dolphins  naiant  argent :  according  to  Westcote 
— Per  pale  sable  and  argent,  six  Dolphins  transmuted. 

JOHN,  consecrated  4th  Oct.  1186;  died  1st  June,  1191.  Buried 
in  the  South  Tower.  Arms — Argent  a  Cross  sable  ;  a  chief  of  the 
second. 

HENRY  MARSHAL,  consecrated  in  1194;  died  in  Oct.  1206.  Buried 
in  the  north  wall  of  the  choir.  Arms,  according  to  Izacke — Or,  a 
Lion  rampant  gules,  within  a  Bordure  azure,  mitred  of  the  first : 
according  to  Westcote — Per  pale  or  and  vert,  a  Lion  rampant  gules 
armed  and  langued  within  a  Bordure  azure  entoyred  with  Mitres 
proper. 

SIMON  DE  APULIA,  consecrated  5th  Oct.  1214;  died,  according  to 
the  'Martyrology,'  9th  Sept.  1223.  Buried  in  the  second  arch  of 
the  south  wall  of  the  Lady  Chapel.  Arms,  according  to  Izacke — 
Azure,  three  Mitres  or,  two  and  one :  according  to  Westcote — 
Makuly  or  and  sable. 

WILLIAM  BRUERE,  BRIEWER,  or  BRIWERE,  consecrated  30th  April, 
1224;  died  24th  Oct.  1244.  Buried  in  the  choir.  Arms— Gules, 
two  Bends  wavy  or. 

RICHARD  BLONDY,  consecrated  in  December,  1245;  died  26th  Dec. 
1257.  Buried  on  the  north  side  of  the  choir.  Arms,  according  to 
Izacke — Lozengy  or  and  sable  :  according  to  W^estcote — Azure, 
three  Bishops'  Mitres  proper.  Thus  these  two  writers  disagree  in 
assigning  the  two  coats  to  their  respective  owners,  Bishops  Simon 
and  Blondy. 

WALTER  BRONESCOMBE,  consecrated  10th  March,  1257-8  ;  died  22nd 
July,  1280,  at  Radway,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Gabriel's  Chapel. 
Arms — Or,  a  Chevron  sable,  charged  with  three  Cinquefoils  of  the 
first,  between  two  Keys  erect  in  chief  and  a  Sword  erect  in  base  of 
the  second. 

PETER  QUIVIL,  consecrated  10th  Nov.  1280;  died  4th  Oct.  1291. 
Buried  in  the  centre  of  the  Lady  Chapel — "  Petra  tegit  Petru,  nihil 
officiat  sibi  tetru."  .  Arms — Azure,  a  Cross  argent,  between  two 
Roses  in  chief,  and  two  Fleurs  de  Lys  in  base  or. 

THOMAS  BITTON,  or  DE  .BUTTON,  promoted  to  the  see  before  2nd 
Dec.  1292;  died  21st  Sept.  1307.  Buried  before  the  High  Altar. 
Arms — Ermine,  a  Fess  gules. 

WALTER  STAPELDON,  consecrated  13th  Oct.  1308  ;  murdered  15th 
Oct.  1326.  Buried  on  the  north  side  of  the  choir,  near  the  High 
Altar.  Arms — Argent,  two  Bends  wavy  sable. 


FASTI  ECCLESI^E  EXONIENSIS.  271 

JAMES  BEEKLEYE,  consecrated,  it  is  said,  15th  March,  1326-7  ;  died 
at  Petershayes,  in  the  parish  of  Yartescombe,  24th  June,  1327. 
Arms — Gules,  a  Chevron  between  ten  Crosses  patee,  according  to 
Westcote,  or :  according  to  Izacke,  argent. 

JOHN  GRANDISSON,  consecrated  18th  Oct.  1327  ;  died  15th  July, 
1369.  Buried  in  St.  Kadegunde's  Chapel,  on  the  south  side  of  the 
great  western  entrance.  Arms — Paly  of  six  argent  and  azure, 
a  Bend  gules  charged  with  a  Mitre  between  two  Eaglets  displayed, 
or. 

THOMAS  BRANTYNGHAM,  consecrated  12th,  and  received  the  tempo- 
ralities 16th  May,  1370 ;  died  at  his  palace  at  Clist,  Dec.  1394,  and 
buried  near  the  north  door  of  the  nave — stone,  with  brass  pins,  at 
the  end  of  the  wooden  seats.  Anns — Sable,  a  Fess  crenelle,  between 
three  Catherine-wheels,  or. 

EDMUND  STAFFORD,  consecrated  20th  June,  1395  ;  died  3rd  Sept. 
1419.  Died  at  Clist,  and  buried  in  St.  Mary  Magdalene's  Chapel. 
Arms — Or,  a  Chevron  gules,  his  addition,  entoyred  with  Bishops' 
Mitres  proper. 

JOHN  KETERICK,  translated  hither  from  Lichfield  and  Coventry 
by  Pope  Martin  the  Fifth's  bull,  dated  23rd  Nov.  1419  ;  but  died 
at  Florence  28th  Dec.  that  year.  Arms— Sable,  three  Cats  argent. 

EDMUND  LACY,  consecrated  18th  April,  1417,  translated  hither 
from  Hereford  3rd  July,  1420 ;  died  18th  Sept.  1455.  Buried  on 
the  north  side  of  the  choir.  Arms — Azure,  three  Shovellers'  heads 
erased  argent. 

GEORGE  NEVYLL,  appointed  10th  April,  1450  ;  consecrated  in  Dec. 
1458  ;  translated  to  York  19th  Jan.  1465.  Arms^-Gules,  a  Saltier 
argent.  To  this  Westcote  adds,  **  a  File  of  three  gobonetted  argent 
and  azure  :  his  mother's  coat — Argent,  three  Lozenges  in  Fess 
gules.  Yet  there  is  set  for  him — Gules,  three  Lozenges  in  fess 
argent  within  a  border  or." 

JOHN  BOTHE,  Archdeacon  of  Eichmond,  consecrated  7th  July, 
1465 ;  died  5th  April,  1478.  Arms — Argent,  three  Boars'  heads 
erased  erect  sable,  in  chief  a  Label  of  three  points  gules. 

PETER  COURTENAY,  consecrated  8th  Nov.  1478,  at  St.  Stephen's, 
Westminster,  by  Thomas,  Bishop  of  London;  translated  to  Win- 
chester in  1487.  Arms — Or,  three  Torteauxes,  in  chief  a  Label  of 
three  points  azure,  charged  (says  Westcote)  with  nine  Plates. 

EICHARD  Fox  succeeded  2nd  April,  1487  ;  translated  to  Bath  and 
Wells  in  1491;  thence  to  Durham;  and,  finally,  to  Winchester. 
Arms — Azure,  a  Pelican  in  her  nest,  feeding  her  young  with  her 
blood,  or. 

OLIVER  KING,  consecrated  in  the  early  part  of  1492  ;  he  appointed 
Thomas  Gilbert  his  Vicar- general,  4th  Feb.  1492,  first  year  of  his 
consecration ;  translated  to  Bath  and  Wells,  6th  Nov.  1495.  Arms 
— Argent,  on  a  Chevron  sable,  three  Escalops  of  the  first. 

EICHARD  EEDMAYN,  translated  hither  from  St.  Asaph,  7th  Jan. 
1496  ;  and  hence  to  Ely  in  Sept.  1501.  Arms — Gules,  three  Cushions 
argent,  according  to  Izacke — Ermine,  according  to  Westcote — tas- 
selled  or. 

JOHN  ARUNDELL,  consecrated  bishop  6th  Nov.  1496;  translated 


272  APPENDIX. 

hither  from  Lichfield  and  Coventry  29th  June,  1502;  died  15th 
March,  1503-4.  Arms — Sable,  six  Martlets,  according  to  Westcote 
— Swallows,  according  to  Izacke — three,  two,  and  one ;  argent.  In 
this  Izacke,  and  not  Westcote,  is  correct. 

HUGH  OLDAM,  consecrated  towards  the  end  of  1504;  died  25th 
June,  1519.  Buried  in  St.  Saviour's  Chapel,  south  aisle  of  the  choir. 
Arms — Sable,  a  Chevron  or,  between  three  Owls  proper;  on  a  chief 
of  the  second,  three  Koses  gules. 

JOHN  YEYSEY,  alias  HAEMAN,  consecrated  6th  Nov.  1519 ;  surren- 
dered the  see  14th  August,  1551.  Arms — Argent,  a  Cross  sable 
charged  with  a  Buck's  head  couped  between  four  Doves  argent,  on 
a  chief  azure  a  Cross  Henry,  according  to  Westcote — Crosslet, 
according  to  Izacke — between  two  Eoses  or. 

MILES  COVEBDALE,  appointed  14th,  and  consecrated  30th  August, 
1551 ;  deprived  on  the  accession  of  Queen  Mary  :  act  of  council  for 
his  departure  dated  19th  Feb.  1554-5.  Arms — Quarterly  per  Fess 
indented  gules  and  or,  in  chief  a  Eose  between  two  Fleur  de 
Lys,  in  base  a  Fleur  de  Lys  between  two  Eoses,  all  counter- 
changed. 

JOHN  VEYSET,  restored  28th  Sept.  1553 ;  died  23rd  Oct.  1554. 
Arms  as  before. 

JAMES  TUBBEBVILLE,  consecrated  8th  Sept.  1555 ;  deprived  early 
in  1559.  He  was  certainly  living  on  22nd  Jan.  1559-60.  Arms, 
according  to  Izacke — Ermine,  a  Lion  rampant  gules,  crowned  or, 
langued  and  armed  azure:  according  to  Westcote — Argent,  a  Lion 
rampant  gules  crowned  or. 

WILLIAM  ALLEY,  or  ALLEIN,  consecrated  22nd  Sept.  1560 ;  died 
15th  April,  1570.  Buried  in  the  choir.  Arms,  according  to  Izacke 
— Azure,  a  Pale  engrailed  ermine,  between  two  Lions  rampant 
argent,  langued  and  armed  gules :  according  to  Westcote — Azure,  a 
Pale  between  two  Lions  rampant  ermine  crowned  or. 

WILLIAM  BBADBRIDGE,  consecrated  by  Archbishop  Parker,  at 
Lambeth,  18th  March,  1570-1 ;  died  28th  June,  1578,  set.  77.  "  Hie 
jacet  reverendus  Pater  Gvilihelmus  Bradbridge,  nuper  Ex6n  Epis- 
copus,  qui  obiit  27th  die  Junii,  Anno  Dni.  1578."  Buried  on  the 
north  side  of  choir.  Arms — Azure,  a  Pheon's  head  argent. 

JOHN  WOOLTON,  consecrated  by  Archbishop  Grindall,  at  Lambeth, 
early  in  August,  1579.  He  was  enthroned  21st  March,  1579-80; 
died  13th  March,  1593-4,  and  buried  on  the  south  side  of  the  choir. 
"  Hie  jacet  reverendus  ille  Joannes  Woolton,  quonda  Exoniensis 
Episcopus,  qui  praefuit  huic  Ecclesiee  anos  xm,  obiit  xiu  die  Martii, 
Ano.  D.  1593."  Arms — Argent,  a  Lion  rampant  jessant  a  saltier 
engrailed  gules. 

GEBVASE  BABINGTON,  translated  hither  from  Llandaff,  enthroned 
22nd  March,  1594-5  ;  and  hence  to,  Worcester  4th  Oct.  1597.  Arms 
— Argent,  ten  Torteauxes,  four,  three,  two,  and  one ;  in  chief  a 
Label  of  three  points  azure.  Westcote  omits  the  label. 

WILLIAM  COTTON,  consecrated  12th  Nov.,  installed  30th  Dec.  1598; 
died  26th,  buried  31st  Aug.  1621,  in  cathedral,  on  the  south  side 
of  the  choir.  Arms — Argent,  a  Bend  sable  between  three  Pellets. 

VALENTINE  CABY,  Dean  of  St.  Paul's,  S.T.P.,  President  of  Christ's 


FASTI  EGOLESS  EXONIENSIS.  273 

College,  Cambridge,  consecrated  18th  Nov.  1621  ;  died  10th  June, 
1626.  There  is  a  cenotaph  to  him  in  the  north  wall  of  the  choir. 
Arms  as  before.  Westcote  adds,  "  his  difference,  a  Mullet." 

JOSEPH  HALL,  consecrated  23rd  Dec.  1627;  translated  to  Nor- 
wich 16th  Nov.  1641  ;  will  dated  21st  July,  1654,  ob.  8  Sept.  1656, 
aet.  82.  Arms — Sable,  three  Talbots'  heads  erased  argent. 

RALPH  BBOWNBIGG,  consecrated  3rd  May,  1642 ;  died  7th  Dec. 
1659.  Arms — Argent,  a  Lion  rampant  sable  gutty  d'or,  langued  and 
armed  gules  between  three  Crescents  of  the  last. 

JOHN  GATTDEN,  consecrated  2nd  Dec.  1660  ;  translated  to  Wor- 
cester 10th  June,  1662.  Arms — Azure,  a  Chevron  between  three 
Leopards'  faces  or. 

SETH  WABD,  consecrated  20th  July,  1 662 ;  temporalities  restored 
25th  Aug,  1662;  translated  to  Salisbury  12th  Sept.  1667;  obiit 
1668.  Arms — Azure,  a  Cross  fleury  or. 

ANTHONY  SPAEEOW,  consecrated  3rd  Nov.  1667  ;  translated  to 
Norwich  18th  Sept.  1676.  Arms — Ermine,  three  Eoses  argent, 
seeded  or. 

THOMAS  LAMPLTTGH,  consecrated  12th  Nov.  1676 ;  translated  to 
York  on  the  landing  of  the  Prince  of  Orange,  in  Nov.  1688  ;  obiit 
5th  May,  1691,  set.  76.  Arms — Or,  a  Cross  fleury  sable. 

SIE  JONATHAN  TEELAWNY,  BAEONET,  translated  hither  from  Bristol 
on  the  same  day  that  Bishop  Lamplugh  was  translated  to  York ; 
translated  hence  to  Winchester  14th  June,  1707.  Arms — Argent, 
a  Chevron  sable. 

OFFSPBING  BLACKALL,  consecrated  8th  Feb.  1707-8;  died  29th 
Nov.,  buried  2nd  Dec.  1716,  in  the  south  side  of  the  choir.  Arms — 
Argent,  a  Greyhound  courant  sable  collared  or ;  on  a  chief  dancette 
of  the  second,  three  Besants. 

LATJNCELOT  BLACKBUENE,  elected  by  the  Chapter  the  7th,  con- 
firmed Thursday  21st  Feb.,  consecrated  24th  Feb.,  installed  by 
proxy  19th  March,  1716-7  ;  translated  to  York  in  Nov.  1724.  Arms 
—Argent,  a  Fess  nebuly  between  three  Mullets  pierced  sable. 

STEPHEN  WESTON,  confirmed  24th,  and  consecrated  27th  Dec. 
1724;  died  8th,  buried  12th  Jan.  1741-2,  on  the  south  side  of  the 
choir.  Arms— Argent,  a  Cross  surmounted  on  three  greeses  gules, 
on  a  chief  azure  five  Besants. 

NICHOLAS  CLAGGET,  translated  hither  from  St.  David's,  confirmed 
the  2nd  Aug.  1742  ;  died  8th  Dec.  1746.  Arms — Ermine,  on  a  Fess 
sable  three  Pheons'  heads  or. 

GEOEGE  LAVINGTON,  confirmed  6th,  consecrated  8th  Feb.  1746-7; 
died  13th,  buried  19th  Sept.  1762,  in  the  south  aisle  of  the  choir. 
Arms — Argent,  a  Saltier  gules ;  on  a  chief  of  the  second,  three 
Boars'  heads  couped  or. 

FEEDEEICK  KEPPEL,  uncle  to  the  Earl  of  Albemarle,  confirmed 
5th,  consecrated  7th  Nov.  1763;  died  27th  Dec.  1777.  Arms- 
Gules,  three  Escalops  argent. 

JOHN  Ross,  F.R.S.,  elected  12th  Jan.  1778;  died  14th  Aug.  1792; 
buried  in  the  south  aisle  of  the  choir.  Arms — Gules,  three  Water- 
budgets  argent.  ('  Gent's  Mag.'  1792,  p.  864.) 

WILLIAM  BULLEE,   consecrated  2nd    Dec.   1792;    died  12th  Dec. 


274  APPENDIX. 


1796.     Arms—  Sable,   on  a  Cross   argent  quarterly,  pierced,  four 
Eafflets  displayed  of  the  first. 

HENRY  EEGINALD  COUBTENAY,  Prebendary  of  Eochester,  and 
brother  to  the  first  Viscount  Courtenay,  translated  hither  trom 
Bristol  ;  elected  21st  Feb.  1797  ;  died  9th  June,  1803.  Arms-Or, 


HNis  5th  July,  1803;    translated  to  Salisbury, 

30th  June,  1807.     Arms-Sable,  on  a  Mound  of  Turf  proper  two 
Stags  saliant  respecting  each  other  argent,  collared  and  chained  or^ 

GEORGE  PELHAM,  translated  hither  from  Bristol  21st  July,  con- 
firmed  12th  Aug.,  and  installed  28th  Sept.  1807  ;  translated  to 
Lincoln  19th  Aug.  1820.  Arms—  Azure,  three  Pelicans  argent, 
vulning  themselves  in  the  breast,  gules. 

WILLIAM  CAEEY,  Prebendary  of  Westminster,  elected  28th  Oct. 
and  consecrated   12th  Nov.  1820  ;  took  possess  ion  4th  Jan.  1821: 
translated   to   St.   Asaph,  7th   April,  1830;  died   3rd  Sept   1846 
^77      Arms  -Argent,  a  Bend  sable  charged  with  three  Eoses  of 
the  first  ;  on  a  Chief  gules,  two  Crosses  pat^e  or. 

CHRISTOPHER  BETHELL,  D.D.,  translated  from  Gloucester  to 
Exeter,  elected  12th  April,  and  confirmed  llth  June,  1830  ;  trans- 
lated to  Bangor,  llth  Nov.  following. 

HENRY  PHILLPOTTS,  D.D.,  elected  22nd  Nov.  and  confirmed 
Dec.  1830. 

DEANS. 

SERLO,  promoted  to  this  dignity  from  the  archdeaconry  of  Exeter, 
by  Bishop  Brewer;  elected  25th  Nov.  confirmed  2nd  Dec.  1225; 

^OGER  DE  WYNKLEGH  succeeded  Serlo  ;  died  13th  Aug.  1252. 

WILLIAM  DE  STANWEY,  who  died  31st  Dec.  1268. 

EOGER  DE  THORIZ  was  collated  to  this  dignity  from  the  archdea- 
conry of  Exeter  ;  died  29th  April,  1274. 

JOHN  NOBLE  was  confirmed  as  Eoger's  successor  20th  Sept.  1274. 

JOHN  PYCOT  was  the  next  dean,  but  I  cannot  meet  with  nis  c 
lation  in  the  episcopal  Eegisters. 

ANDREW  DE  KILKENNY,  elected  25th  Feb.,  was  confirmed  by  the 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  Aug.  1281  ;  installed  13th  March, 
1284-  died  4th  Nov.  1302. 

HENRY  DE  SOMERSET  succeeded  :    elected   on  Thursday  alter  1 
Epiphany,  1302-3  ;  his  obit  was  22nd  Dec.  1307. 

THOMAS  DE  LECHLADE  was  the  next  dean,  and  died  in  the  spring 
of  1309  Bishop  Bytton's  <  Eegister,'  which  might  have  supplied 
the  dates  of  collation  in  these  two  instances,  has  unfortunately 
perished.  Bishop  Stapeldon,  on  16th  April,  1309  (fol.  40),  circiter 
horam  vesperarum,  granted  licence-to  the  Chapter  of  Exeter  to  elect 
one  of  the  canons  to  the  office  of  dean.  On  2nd  May  following 
ffol  40  6)  his  lordship  collated  to  the  prebend  and  canonry 
Eobertde  Stapeldon,  Professor  of  Civil  Law,  which  Master  Thomas 
de  Lechlade  lately  obtained  in  the  Church  of  Exeter,  and  which 
was  now  void  by  his  death.  The  bishop  granted  a  second  licence 
Tprocled  to  another  election  on  6th  July,  1309  (fol.  42),  two 
hours  after  receiving  the  Chapter's  petition. 


FASTI  ECCLESLE  EXON1ENSIS.  275 


r?o!l  1  X     lam  a?Pea  6d  t0  the  PHmate'  Robert  Winchelsey   wh 
recalled  the  consideration  of  the  affair  to  his  own  court      Tn^ 
meantime  William    died,  when  the  primate  referred  the  case  ^o 
Bishop  Stapeldon's  discretion,  who,  after  mature  deliberation  re 
confirmed  Bartholomew  in  the  office  of  dean  at   thf>  tf™       £' 
mentioned.     The  day  of  his  obit  was  27th  No  v  1326  ab°V6' 

KICHARD  DE  COLETON  occurs  as  dean  on  6th  Feb.  1327  and  di^d 
on  Monday  after  1st  Aug.  1335. 
^RICHARD  DE  BRAYLEGH,  confirmed  successor  to  the  above  2nd  Oct. 

^REGINALD  BE  BUGWELL,  admitted  on  Papal  provision  28th  June, 

ROBERT  STJMPTER,  admitted  18  Aug.  1364. 
THOMAS  WALKYNGTON  occurs  23rd  Feb  1378 


JOHN  COBETHOBN,  confirmed  2nd  Sept.  1419;  ob.  25th  Sept.  14 
trv   25th   ^'  W14°,rS  c°nsecrate.d  Bi^op  of  Lichfield  and  Co^n- 
Eelifter  appomtment  as  dean  is  not  in  the 


-  1478- 


hie  promotion 

EDWARD  WILLOUGHBY,  who  died  23rd  Nov.  1508 

7th  Feb- 


19th  Nov-  1509-  Ten  yeare  after- 

ed  8th  July   1527 
rated  cardinal  of  that  na 

'  was  confirmed  dean  23rd 


RICHARD  PACE,  who  resigned  8th  July   1527 

BEGINALD  POLE  (the  celebrated  cardinal  of  that  name),  from  beine- 

n 


T   2 


276  APPENDIX. 

SIMON  HEYNES,  S.T.P.,  was  elected  his  successor  16th,  confirmed 
28th  July,  1537  ;  died  in  October,  1552.  He  was  Dean  of  Windsor 
and  sometime  chaplain  to  Kings  Henry  VII.  and  VIII.  His 
canonry  and  prebend  were  given  to  John  Blaxton  on  28th  Dec.  1552. 

JAMES  HADDON,  S.T.P.,  was  installed  on  the  bishop's  mandate 
10th  July,  1553.  I  find  him  collated  to  a  canonicate  in  the  cathe- 
dral, vacant  by  the  death  of  Anthony  Belasis,  31st  Dec.  1552,  but 
was  deprived  by  Queen  Mary. 

THOMAS  EEYNOLDS,  S.T.P.,  elected  9th  Feb.  1554  ;  nominated  7th 
Nov.  1558,  by  Queen  Mary  to  the  see  of  Hereford,  but  in  conse- 
quence of  her  death  did  not  receive  episcopal  consecration.  His 
appointment  was  cancelled  by  her  successor,  Queen  Elizabeth.  He 
died  in  the  Marshalsea  Prison,  24th  Nov.  1559.  '  Athenae  Oxoni- 
enses,'  London,  1691,  vol.  i.  p.  689,  states  that  he  succeeded  to  the 
deanery  in  1554,  on  the  death  of  Dr.  John  Moreman. 

GREGORY  DODDS,  elected  10th,  confirmed  dean  by  Archbishop 
Mathew  Parker  25th  Feb.  1559-60  ;  died  in  the  spring  of  1570.  On 
9th  May,  1571,  his  canonry  and  prebend  in  the  cathedral  were  given 
by  Bishop  Win.  Bradbridge  to  Wm.  Marston. 

GEORGE  CAREWE,  Dean  of  the  Queen's  Chapel,  father  of  George, 
Earl  of  Totnes,  and  of  Sir  Peter  Carewe,  Knight  (Lib.  2,  '  Hist, 
and  Antiq.  Univ.  Oxon.'),  succeeded,  and  confirmed  by  Archbishop 
Parker,  12th  Jan.  1570.  Carew's  appointment  does  not  occur  in 
the  «  Eegister.'  On  his  death  in  June,  1 583,  aet.  85, 

STEPHEN  TOWNESEND,  S.T.B.,  confirmed  5th  Oct.  1583.  He  died 
in  office. 

MATTHEW  SUTCLIFFE,  D.D.,3  confirmed  27th  Oct.  1588;  on  whose 
death, 

WILLIAM  PETERSON,  S.T.P.,4  and  Rector  of  Diptford  and  Brooke, 
was  confirmed  his  successor  18th  July,  1629  ;  on  whose  death, 

SETH  WARD,  D.D.,  was  elected,  26th  Dec.  1661,  at  the  King's 
recommendation,  and  confirmed  1 3th  Jan.  following ;  on  whose 
resignation  for  the  see  of  Exeter, 

EDWARD  YOUNGE,  S.T.B.,  was  elected  21st  Aug.  1662.  Will  made 
6th  June,  proved  14th  Aug.  1663. 

GEORGE  GARY,  elected  5th  Sept.  1663  ;  died  (die  Purificationis) 
2nd  Feb.  1680-1,  aet.  69.  He  was  twice  offered  the  mitre  of  Exeter 
by  King  Charles  II. :  first,  on  the  translation  of  Bishop  Ward  to 
Salisbury ;  and,  secondly,  on  the  translation  of  Bishop  Sparrow  to 
Norwich — but  modestly  and  humbly  declined  the  dignity.  He 
was  buried  at  Clovelly,  to  which  rectory  he  was  presented  by  King 
Charles  I.,  29th  April,  1638.  His  canonry  on  his  death  was  given, 
on  23rd  March,  1680,  to  Richard  Annesley,  S.T.B. 

THE  HONOURABLE  RICHARD  ANNESLEY,  S.T.B. ,  who  became  third 
LORD  ALTHAM,  nominated  to  the  deanery  9th  Feb.,  by  King  Charles 

8  Dr.  Sutcliffe,  Dean  of  Exeter,  was  taken  he  was  married  to  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  the 
into  custody  in  1621  for  writing  against  the  Lord  Bishop  Hall,  by  Dr.  Burnell,  Chan- 
Spanish  match,  by  the  orders  of  King  James  I.  --11  mi  rv—  J!--1  "-1  wv"  •"""  -L 
See  page  186,  vol.  i.,  of  Macaulay's  «  History 


of  England'  (1763). 

4  By  an  entry  in  the  Cathedral  Register 
it  appears  that  Dr.  Peterson  was  restored  to 
his  deanery  in  1660.  On  28th  July,  1629, 


cellor.  The  Dean  died  6th  Dec.  1661,  at. 
74  ;  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Hall,  had  died  8th 
July,  1650,  at.  41  ;  her  brother,  Samuel 
Hall,  the  sub-dean,  died  1 674,  jet.  63.  They 
are  all  interred  at  Stoke  Canon. 


FASTI  ECCLESLE  EXONIENSIS.  277 

II.;  made  canon  23rd  Mar.  and  elected  6th  April,  1681;  died 
16th  Nov.  1701. 

WILLIAM  WAKE,  D.D.,  elected  14th  and  confirmed  20th  Feb. 
1702-3  ;  on  whose  promotion  to  the  see  of  Lincoln, 

LAUNCELOT  BLACKBUENE  was  elected  3rd  Nov.  1705.  He  became 
Bishop  of  Exeter  in  1716-17. 

EDWARD  TRELAWNY,  Archdeacon  of  Exeter,  elected  18th  Mar., 
1716-17,  and  continued  to  hold  both  offices  till  his  death,  24th 
Oct.  1726. 

JOHN  GILBERT,  elected  27th  Dec.  1726,  and  confirmed  7th  Jan. 
following ;  on  whose  promotion  to  Llandaff, 

ALTJRED  CLARKE,  D.D.,  Prebendary  of  Westminster  and  Win- 
chester, was  elected  12th  and  confirmed  27th  Jan.  1740-1.  He  laid 
the  foundation  stone  of  the  Devon  and  Exeter  Hospital,  on  27th 
Aug.,  1741 ;  and,  with  John  Tuckfield,  Esq.,  the  city  member,  may 
be  ranked  as  founder;  died  31st  May,  1742. 

WILLIAM  HOLMES,  D.D.,  President  of  St.  John's  College,  Oxford. 
See  his  epitaph,  p.  404,  vol.  8,  '  Nichols'  Lit.  Anecdotes ' ;  elected 
14th  Aug.  and  confirmed  14th  Sept.  1742;  died  4th  April,  1748, 
set.  59  ;  buried  at  St.  John's,  Oxford. 

CHARLES  LTTTELTON,  LL.D.,  President  of  the  Antiquarian  Society, 
brother  of  George  Lord  Lyttelton,  elected  1st  and  confirmed  6th 
June,  1748  ;  on  whose  promotion  to  the  see  of  Carlisle  (he  died  a 
bachelor  22nd  Dec.  1 768,  and  was  buried  at  Hagley), 

JEREMIAH  MILLES,  D.D.,  afterwards  President  of  the  Antiquarian 
Society,  son-in-law  of  Archbishop  Potter,  was  elected  28th  April, 
and  confirmed  8th  June,  1762;  died  16th  Feb.  1784,  aet.  70.  See 
p.  472,  vol.  iv. '  Literary  Anecdotes.'  He  was  nephew  to  the  Eight 
Kev.  Dr.  Thomas  Milles,  who  died  Bishop  of  Waterford,  13th  May, 
1 740,  and  to  the  Eight  Eev.  Dr.  Eichard  Pococke,  Bishop  of  Meath. 
He  was  buried  at  the  church  of  St.  Edmund  the-King,  Lombard 
Street,  London,  where  an  elegant  monument,  by  Bacon  is  inscribed 
to  his  memory.  Dr.  John  Milles  resigned  a  canonry  in  Exeter 
Cathedral  in  Aug.  1705. 

WILLIAM  BULLER,  D.D.,  half  brother  of  Mr.  Justice  Buller,  elected 
25th  March,  1784 ;  on  whose  resignation  for  the  deanery  of  Canter- 
bury, 

CHARLES  HARWARD,  M.A.,  Dean  of  Chichester,  was  elected  16th 
July,  and  confirmed  13th  Aug.  1790  ;  died  15th  July,  1802,  set.  79. 

CHARLES  TALBOT,  B.D.,  elected  31st  Dec.  1802,  installed  and 
confirmed  3rd  Jan.  1803  ;  on  whose  resignation  for  the  deanery  of 
Sarum, 

GEORGE  GORDON,  B.D.,  was  elected  his  successor,  15th  April, 
1809  (obiit  at  the  Deanery,  Lincoln,  2nd  Aug.^1845,  aet.  84,  D.D.) ; 
on  whose  resignation  for  the  deanery  of  Lincoln,  on  5th  Feb. 
1810, 

JOHN  GARNETT,  D.D.,  was  elected  and  installed  24th  Feb.,  and 
confirmed  17th  March,  1810 ;  died  12th  March,  1813,  aged  65. 

WHITTINGTON  LANDON,  D.D.,  Provost  of  Worcester  College, 
Oxford,  elected  24th  April,  1813.  He  died  at  Betchcott  near 
Ludlow,  Shropshire,  29th  Dec.  1838,  aged  80. 


280  APPENDIX. 

JAMES  SMITH,  the  Archdeacon  of  Barnstaple,  collated  27th  Jan. 
1661-2 ;  died  in  office,  30th  June,  1667,  in  his  Rectory  at  Alphington. 

JOHN  WILKINS,  S.T.P.,  collated  1st  July,  1667;  on  whose  pro- 
motion to  the  see  of  Chester, 

HENRY  BOLD  was  elected  on  the  king's  presentation,  and  installed 
30th  Nov.  1668;  died  9th  Sept.  1677. 

GEORGE  HOOPER,  Dean  of  Canterbury,  admitted  16th  Oct.,  1677  ; 
on  whose  resignation  for  the  see  of  St.  Asaph, 

WILLIAM  JANE  was  collated  5th  May,  1704;  resigned  for  the 
deanery  of  Gloucester. 

THOMAS  NEWEY,  collated  3rd  Dec.  1706 ;  died  6th  May,  1723. 

EICHARD  IBBOTSON,  Rector  of  Lambeth,  was  instituted  29th  May, 
1723;  died  1st  Sept.,  1731. 

PETER  FOULKES,  D.D.,  collated  1st  Oct.  1731 ;  died  30th  April, 
1747,  aet.  71.  Buried  in  the  cathedral  3rd  May. 

JEREMIAH  MILLES,  D.D.,  collated  llth  May,  1747;  on  whose 
resignation  for  the  deanery, 

JOHN  SNOW,  M.A.,  was  collated  22nd  Feb.,  1762;  on  whose 
death,  1st  March,  1772, 

DANIEL  BURTON,  D.D.,  was  instituted  3rd  April,  1772;  on  whose 
death, 

THOMAS  SKYNNER,  LL.D.,  brother  of  Lord  Chief  Baron  Skynner, 
was  collated  8th  June,  1775  ;  died  7th  Aug.  1789,  ast.  61.  Buried 
in  the  cathedral. 

GEORGE  GORDON,  M.A.,  collated  29th  Aug.,  1789 ;  on  whose 
resignation  for  the  deanery, 

THOMAS  BARTLAM,  M.A.,  was  collated  8th  April,  1809,  and  in- 
stalled the  same  day ;  died  Friday,  30th  March,  and  buried  in  the 
cathedral,  Friday  6th  April,  1832,  aged  64. 

THOMAS  HILL  LOWE,  M.A.,  was  installed  precentor  and  pre- 
bendary, Saturday,  15th  Sept.  1832.  He  resigned  for  the  deanery, 
27th  June,  1839. 

WILLIAM  JOHN  PHILLPOTTS,  A.M.,  eldest  son  of  Bishop  Phillpotts, 
collated  21st  Nov.  1840,  on  the  promotion  of  Thomas  Hill  Lowe. 


CHANCELLORS. 

HENRY  OF  WARWICK  was  the  first,  as  we  find  by  the  Marty rology 
of  the  Church,  "  Magister  Henricus  de  Warwick,  Primus  Exoniensis 
Ecclesie  Cancellarius."  Died  28th  April,  1227. 

RICHARD  BLONDY  (afterwards  Bishop  of  Exeter),  I  believe,  suc- 
ceeded Henry.  He  was  certainly  chancellor  whilst  Serlo  was 
dean,  and  witnessed  with  him  Sir  Reginald  de  Albamarra's  grant 
to  the  vicars  choral  of  Exeter  Cathedral ;  and  I  meet  with  him 
again  in  the  sixth  year  of  Bishop  Brewer's  episcopate,  1230  ;  again 
3rd  Aug.  1233  ;  again  in  Aug.  1243. 

WALTER  LODESWELL  was'chancellor  at  the  death  of  Bishop  Blondy. 
See  Bronescombe's  *  Register,'  fol.  5. 

HENRY  DE  WENGHAM  was  collated  6th  March,  1258-9;  resigned 
on  his  promotion  to  the  see  of  London. 


FASTI  ECCLESI^  EXON1ENSIS.  281 

ROBERT  DE  TYFFORD,  appointed  in  commendam,  in  July,  1259. 

HENRY  DE  BRATTON,  collated  from  the  Archdeaconry  of  Barum, 
18th  May,  1264. 

OLIVER  DE  TRACY,  collated  3rd  Sept.  1268. 

RICHARD  DE  BREMMELE,  who  died  in  office,  21st  May,  1275. 

RALPH  DE  HENGHAM  was  collated  in  Oct.  1275. 

CLEMENT  DE  LANGEFORD,  collated  21st  Feb.  1279.  On  20th 
April,  1283,  Bishop  Quivil  annexed  Stoke  Gabriel  and  St.  Newe- 
lin's  churches  to  this  chancellor  and  his  successors,  to  secure  con- 
tinual residence. 

HENRY  DE  SOMERSETE  occurs  chancellor  in  April  1297,  and  was 
promoted  to  the  deanery  in  1303. 

THOMAS  DE  LECHELADE,  who  also  succeeded  to  the  deanery. 

JOHN  DE  BRUETON,  collated  in  1307. 

JOHN  DE  EUDON,  by  King  Edward  II.,  20th  May,  1308. 

ROGER  DE  OTERY  was  appointed  in  commendam  22nd  Jan.  1309, 
and  collated  23rd  Aug.  the  same  year ;  on  whose  death, 

WALTER  GIFFARD  was  collated  2nd  Dec.  1314;  on  whose  death, 

HENRY  OF  NYWETON,  S.T.B.,  was  collated  23rd  Sept.  1322,  but 
resigned  a  few  months  after. 

WALTER  DE  MERIET,  collated  28th  of  the  ensuing  Jan.  Bishop 
Grandisson  (Register,  vol.  2,  fol.  211)  severely  rebuked  him  for 
neglect  of  duty.  King  Edward  III.,  on  18th  July,  twenty-eighth 
year  of  his  reign,  licensed  the  appropriation  of  a  house  in  Exeter 
to  the  dean  and  chapter,  to  maintain  the  anniversary  of  William  de 
Meryet  "nuper  Cancellarii  Ecclesie  Exoniensis." 

HENRY  DE  STOWFORD  occurs  in  1323. 

BENEDICT  DE  PASTON  occurs  in  Feb.  1340. 

THOMAS  DE  BOKYNGHAM,  collated  25th  March,  1346. 

JOHN  WYLIET,  S.T.P.,  occurs  29th  Dec.  1355 ;  12th  Sept.  13716; 
and  March,  1374. 

THOMAS  BARNOLBY  died  in  office  early  in  1384. 

ROBERT  BOSON  succeeded,  and  died  21st  Jan.  1399. 

ROBERT  RUGGE,  collated  30th  Jan.,  1400  ;  on  whose  death, 

RICHARD  SUETSHAM  was  collated  12th  April,  1410  ;  died  in  the 
winter  of  1416. 

THOMAS  HENDEMAN  was  collated  19th  Jan.  1417 ;  on  whose 
death, 

JOHN  ORUM  succeeded  23rd  Feb.  1429.  Orum's  will  was  made 
27th  Sept.  1436. 

HENRY  WEBBER,  collated  21st  Sept.  1436.  (Q.  How  could  Le 
Neve  omit  him,  when  the  gravestone  even  proclaims  him  to  have 
been  Bishop  Lacy's  chancellor  ?) 

WILLIAM  FYLHAM.     On  whose  death, 

JOHN  SUEYTSHAM  was  collated  1st  March,  1439.  His  will,  dated 
15th  March,  1447,  was  proved  20th  Sept.  1448. 

RICHARD  RODERHAM,  collated  3rd  July,  1448.  His  will,  dated 
24th  Oct.,  1453,  was  proved  16th  Sept.  1455. 

6  In  the  Martyrologium  of  Exeter  Church  I  obiit  Petrus  Chacepork,  Caucellarius  Exon  et 
we  find  the  following  entry: — "24- December  |  Canonicus." 


282  APPENDIX. 

JOHN  GERMEYN  succeeded.  His  will,  dated  21st  Feb.  1459,  was 
proved  20th  July  following. 

JOHN  SHIREWODE  occurs  late  in  1460. 

OWEN  LLOYD  occurs  chancellor  in  February  1467,  in  an  inquisi- 
tion respecting  the  presentation  to  St.  Dominick's,  in  Cornwall. 

NICHOLAS  GOSSE  appears  in  a  deed  of  15th  July,  and  in  a  deed 
15th  Oct.,  14  Edward  IV. 

JOHN  TAYLOR  is  met  with  in  or  about  1486. 

CHRISTOPHER  URSWICKE  died  23rd  March,  1521-2,  get.  74  (Le  Neve 
says  24th  Oct.  1521).  His  epitaph  at  Hackney  may  be  seen, 
p.  384  of  Camden's  '  Remains.' 

JOHN  GYBBONS,  collated  25th  March,  1522;  on  whose  death, 

WILLIAM  LEVESON  was  collated  by  his  uncle  Bishop  Veysy,  22hd 
Dec.,  1537  ;  on  whose  death, 

JOHN  LEACH  was  instituted  6th  April,  1583,  on  the  presentation 
of  one  Edmund  Reynolds,  and  died  in  1613. 

EDWARD  COTTON,  collated  27th  June,  1613  :  resigned.  He  was 
opposed  by  King  James  I.,  who  had  bestowed  the  chancellorship  by 
Letters  Patent  under  the  Great  Seal,  on  Roger  Bates,  clerk,  who 
was  duly  installed.  The  king's  letter  from  Westminster,  19th  Feb., 
1617,  is  preserved  by  the  dean  and  chapter.  Bishop  Valentine 
Gary  accepted  the  office  in  commendam  for  a  short  time. 

LAURENCE  BURNELL,  D.D.,  succeeded  22nd  July,  1624,  per  man- 
datum  Regis  per  lapsum  :  he  had  been  made  a  canon  7th  July 
previous.  Died  12th  Nov.  1647,  set.  68. 

RICHARD  MERVINE,  Rector  of  Bratton-Clovelly  and  Throwleigh, 
installed  chancellor  1st  Sept.  1660 ;  died  17th  Oct.  1669,  aet.  69. 

THOMAS  TONKYNS,  S.T.B.,  collated  8th  Nov.  1669;  died  22nd 
Aug.  1675. 

EDWARD  DREWE,  collated  25th  Aug.  1675.  He  resigned  it  in 
the  September  following. 

JOHN  COPLESTON  succeeded  18th  Sept.  1675;  died  24th  Aug. 
1689. 

JOHN  JAMES,  Vicar  of  Harberton,  collated  30th  Aug.  1689 ;  died 
18th  Jan.  1702-3. 

WILLIAM  JANE,  collated  2nd  Feb.  1702-3 ;  resigned  5th  May, 
1704,  for  the  precentorship. 

THOMAS  NEWEY,  collated  5th  May,  1704  ;  resigned  for  the  pre- 
centorship. 

JOHN  PENNECK  succeeded  llth  Dec.  1706  ;  died  15th  April,  1724. 

PETER  FOULKES,  D.D.,  collated  27th  May,  1724 ;  resigned  for  the 
precentorship. 

JOHN  FURSMAN,  M.A.,  collated  1st  Oct.  1731;  died  4th  Dec. 
1757,  set.  79. 

NUTCOMBE  QUICKE,  afterwards  called  NUTCOMBE  NUTCOMBE,  LL.B., 
collated  9th  Dec.  1757  ;  died  22nd  Nov.  1809,  set.  83. 

THE  HONOURABLE  HUGH  PERCY,  M.A.,  son  of  Algernon,  Earl  of 
Beverley,  collated  30th  Jan.,  installed  Saturday  3rd  Feb.  1810  ;  on 
whose  resignation,  13th  July,  1816, 

THOMAS  JOHNES,  M.A.,  was  collated  26th  July,  installed  17th 
Aug.  1816  ;  ob.  21st  April,  1826,  set.  77. 


FASTI  ECCLESLE  EXONIENSIS.  283 

JOSEPH  HOLDEN  POTT,  Archdeacon  of  London,  collated  27th  May, 
1826;  ob.  17th  Feb.  1847,  set.  88. 

EDWARD  CHARLES  HARRINGTON,  A.M.,  collated  16th  July,  1847. 

TKEASUREKS.7 

JOHN. 

WILLIAM,  died  14th  Feb.  1154. 

JOHN  DE  SARISBERIA  occurs  in  1174. 

JOHN  OF  EXETER  occurs  about  1186. 

ANSELM  CRASSUS  was  treasurer  in  1205,  and  retained  his  office 
until  his  promotion  to  the  see  of  St.  David's,  in  1230. 

WILLIAM  DE  RALEGH.  He  witnessed  Henry  the  Third's  charter 
to  Exeter,  24th  March,  twenty-first  year  of  his  reign.  He  was 
hence  promoted  to  the  see  of  Norwich  in  1239. 

JOHN  occurs  as  treasurer  in  the  time  of  Bishop  Brewer  before  1244. 

WILLIAM  DE  MOLENDINIS,  Rector  of  Winkleigh,  occurs  in  a  deed 
dated  Exeter,  15th  Aug.  1249. 

WALTER  occurs  in  a  deed  of  22nd  Feb.  1257,  and  29th  Aug.  1261. 

JOHN  DE  BRADLEGH,  collated  20th  Jan.  1264. 

WALTER  FITZ-PETER  occurs  in  1267. 

JOHN  OF  EXETER  enjoyed  this  dignity  in  1281,  and  20th  July,  1284. 

WILLIAM  DE  BISMARIO  occurs  in  February,  1287-8.  In  conse- 
quence of  increasing  years  and  infirmities,  he  was  allowed  a  co- 
adjutor by  Bishop  Stapeldon,  on  llth  Sept.  1309,  in  the  person  of 
Hugo,  Rector  of  Tallaton. 

THOMAS  DE  HENTON,  collated  22nd  of  the  ensuing  January;  on 
whose  resignation, 

ROBERT  or  RICHARD  DE  WIDESLADE  was  collated  17th  May,  1329. 
He  died  in  1367. 

PETER  DE  PATESHULL. 

ROBERT  BROKE  occurs  29th  July,  1381  ;  died  in  1389. 

WILLIAM  TRENELLYS  succeeded ;  on  whose  death, 

JOHN  DODYNGTON  was  collated  26th  Aug.,  1399.     He  died  in  office. 

RICHARD  HALS  succeeded  27th  Sept.  1400.  His  will,  made  1st 
May,  1417,  was  proved  25th  May,  1417.  He  died  18th  May. 

ROGER  BOLTER,  collated  25th  May,  1417,  but  resigned  llth  April 
after. 

MICHAEL  LERCEDEKNE,  collated  23rd  April,  1418.  His  will  was 
made  5th  Jan.  1442,  and  proved  23rd  of  the  ensuing  month. 

HENRY  WEBBER,  collated  20th  Jan.  1442 ;  resigned  for  the  pre- 
centorship  in  1453. 

JOHN  BURNEBY  succeeded  17th  May,  1453. 

JOHN  KYRKEBY  occurs  in  1459  (Hoker  says  he  was  Master  of 
the  Rolls)  ;  on  whose  death, 

JOHN  STUBBES  was  collated  10th  Dec.,  1477  ;  resigned  the  year 
following. 

ROBERT  BARFORTH,  collated  16th  Nov.  1478  ;  but  resigned  also 
soon  after. 

7  Two  valuable  documents  relating  to  the  I  between  Fols.  44  and  45  of  Bishop  Bothe's 
office  and  profits  of  Treasurer  arc  inserted  |  Register. 


284  APPENDIX. 

THOMAS  LANGTON  succeeded  18th  Feb.  1479. 

JOHN  COMBE  enjoyed  the  dignity  1484. 

THOMAS  AUSTELL.  King  Henry  VII.  lodged  in  his  house  during 
his  visit  to  Exeter  in  1497.  After  holding  the  office  many  years, 
died  early  in  1515. 

BERNARD  OLD  AM  was  collated  5th  April  that  year,  but  died  six 
weeks  after. 

EICHARD  MORE,  D.D.,  collated  24th  May,  1515. 

ADAM  TRAVESSE  succeeded,  but  resigned  soon  on  a  pension  of  201. 

JOHN  RYSE,8  collated  10th  Jan.  1518  ;  on  whose  death  early  in 
May,  1531, 

THOMAS  SOTHORN  was  collated  8th  May,  1531  ;  died  in  155J. 

NICHOLAS  WOTTON  succeeded  2nd  June,  1557,  on  the  presentation 
of  George  Medleye,  gent.,  and  resigned  at  the  end  of  eight  months. 

JOHN  BLAXTON,  collated  20th  March,  1557-8  ;  on  whose  depriva- 
tion, 

RICHARD  TREMAYN,  S.T.P.,  was  installed  10th  Feb.  1559  ;  after- 
wards deprived;  and  again  installed  27th  Oct.  1561 ;  will  proved, 
15th  Dec.  1584;  on  whose  death, 

ROBERT  LAWE  was  collated  3rd  Dec.    1584;  died  in  1629. 

ROBERT  HALL,  S.T.P.,  collated  by  his  father,  Bishop  Joseph  Hall, 
25th  June,  1629.  He  had  been  metde  canon  4th  March  previous. 
Will  is  dated  25th  April,  1667 ;  died  29th  May,  buried  5th  June, 
1667,  86t.  61,  in  the  cathedral. 

BALDWIN  ACLAND  succeeded  10th  June,  1667  ;  on  whose  death, 
27th  Aug.  1672,  aged  64, 

EDWARD  COTTON,  grandson  of  the  bishop,  was  collated  31st  Aug. 
1672;  died  2nd,  buried  in  the  cathedral,  16th  Nov.  1675. 

NICHOLAS  HALL,  born  at  Bridford,  collated  15th  Nov.  1675; 
died  25th  April,  1709. 

BISHOP  OFFSPRING  BLACKALL  accepted  the  office  4th  June,  1709, 
by  virtue  of  the  letters  of  Thomas  Tennison,  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury; since  which  time,  the  succeeding  bishops  have  held  this 
dignity  in  commendam. 

ARCHDEACONS. 

In  a  deed,  bearing  date  2nd  July,  1133,  I  find  the  following  names 
of  archdeacons  : — ROBERT,  WILLIAM  DE  Auc,  ERNALDUS,  and  ODO. 

In  another  deed,  of  the  same  age,  I  find  that  Bishop  William 
Warelwast  (1107  and  1136)  had  purchased  a  house  and  garden  in 
Exeter  of  the  Archdeacon  ASCELINUS. 

In  Bishop  Robert  Chichester's  time,  between  1138  and  1155,  the 
following  archdeacons  come  forward  as  witnesses : — WILLIAM  DE 
Auco,  WALTER,  HUGO,  and  RADULPHUS  ;  but  I  know  not  how  to  fix 
them  in  their  respective  archdeaconries.  An  Archdeacon  WILLIAM 
is  stated  in  the  Martyrologium  to  have  died  29th  May,  1189.  In 

8  Hoker  says  that  he  was  about  90  years     the  new   part  of  the  priest^virars'  college. 
old  at  his  death ;  that  he  had  been  chaplain  j  The  historian  adds  that  he  himself  was  the 
to  King  Edward  IV. ;  that  he  was  a  great  j  Treasurer's  godson,  and  that  his  father  was 
housekeeper  and  of  good  hospitality,  liberal  |  his  executor, 
to  scholars  and  good  to  the  poor.     He  built 


FASTI  ECCLESLE  EXONIENSIS.  285 

the  Martyrology  is  the  following :— "  10  Cal.  Sept.  (23  Aug.) 
obiit  JOHANNES  LUMB,  archidiaconus.  29  Dec.  1189,  obiit  WILLIEL- 
MUS,  archidiaconus  et  canonicus." 

ARCHDEACONS  OF  EXETER. 

ODO,  who  died  22nd  June,  1083. 

ROLAMNUS,  who  died  llth  March,  1104. 

ERNALDUS,  who  died  14th  March,  1136. 

ROBERT  DE  WARELWAST,  afterwards  the  fifth  bishop  of  this  see. 
King  Stephen  addressed  a  letter  to  this  archdeacon,  de  terra  de 
Niweton. 

WALTER  DE  COUTANCES  occurs  in  1143. 

HENRY  FITZHARDING  about  the  year  1148. 

RALPH,  who  died  17th  Feb.  1154. 

BARTHOLOMEW  occurs  in  1155,  and  was  raised  to  the  see  in  1161. 

BALDWIN  occurs  in  1165,  and  afterwards  promoted  to  the  see  of 
Worcester  and  the  Archbishopric  of  Canterbury. 

JOHN  DE  ALENZON  was  in  office  in  June,  1190. 

WALTER  occurs  about  1200. 

JOHN  frequently  occurs  soon  after. 

HENRY  DE  MOLESIIS,  who  died  in  1221.  He  witnessed  Bishop 
Marshal's  appropriation  of  Otterton  Church  to  the  priory  there, 
31st  Aug.  1205. 

SERLO,  who  became  the  first  dean  in  December,  1225. 

BONUS  witnessed  Bishop  Brewer's  grant  to  St.  John's  Hospital. 

BARTHOLOMEW  witnessed  a  deed  in  Aug.  1243,  and  on  26th  Nov. 
1236;  he  died  in  office  22nd  Sept.  1247. 

ROGER  DE  THORIZ  occurs  in  1249.     He  was  elected  dean. 

JOHN  NOBLE,  collated  3rd  Sept.  1270 ;  afterwards  succeeded  to 
the  deanery. 

JOHN  DE  PONTISSARA  collated  22nd  Dec.  1274  ;  afterwards  Bishop 
of  Winchester. 

PETER  DE  TNSULA  occurs  1st  Aug.  1280 ;  again  18th  Nov.  1292. 
He  may  have  resigned  and  accepted  the  office  again  on  the  death  of 
Robert  de  Evesham.  He  certainly  assisted  in  making  the  '  Taxatio 
Ecclesiastica '  for  the  province  of  York  in  1292,  and  is  there  styled 
Archidiaconus  Exon. 

ROBERT  DE  EVESHAM  succeeded.  We  meet  with  him  20th  July, 
1284,  and  again  in  August  1287.  His  obit  was  kept  26th  April. 

BARTHOLOMEW  DE  SANOTO  LAURENTIO  ;  afterwards  dean. 

RICHARD  DE  PLUMPSTOCK,  collated  by  King  Edward  II. 's  favour 
25th  March,  1308-9. 

WILLIAM  FITZ  ROGO,  collated  20th  June,  1311,  but  died  soon 
after. 

JOHN  WELE,  appointed  5th  of  the  following  March. 

RICHARD  DE  MORCESTER,  collated  2nd  Feb.  1318. 

THOMAS  HEREWARD  succeeded  llth  June  the  same  3'ear;  and,  on 
his  death, 

JOHN  DE  NORTHWODE  was  collated  29th  Nov.  1329,  but  resigned. 

WILLIAM  GRANDISSON,  the  bishop's  brother,  was  collated  14th 
April,  1330,  but  died  in  less  than  three  months  after. 


286  APPENDIX. 

WILLIAM  DE  LA  ZOUCHE  was  collated  12th  July  the  same  year. 

THOMAS  DE  NASSINGTON  succeeded  14th  June,  1331.  The  will  of 
Ralph  Atterlane  was  proved  before  him  30th  Sept.  1331.  He  re- 
signed in  1345. 

OTHO  DE  NORTHWODE  was  collated  15th  Dec.  1345. 

PHILIP  DE  BELLO  OAMPO,  appointed  16th  Nov.  1360,  but  tendered 
his  resignation,  which  Bishop  Grandisson  accepted  27th  Dec.  that 
year. 

STEPHEN  DE  PENPEL  was  appointed  Philip's  successor  the  same  day. 
He  resigned  for  the  deanery  of  Wells  in  Sept.  1361,  and  died  2nd 
Feb.  1379.  '  Anglia  Sacra,'  Yol.  i.  p.  589. 

PHILIP  DE  BELLO  CAMPO  accepted  the  office  on  the  resignation  of 
Stephen,  about  a  twelvemonth  later,  and  held  it  during  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life. 

THOMAS  SWABY,  collated  20th  Aug.  1371. 

CARDINAL  DE  PETER  DE  EVERINO  was  appointed  Archdeacon  of 
Exeter  in  March,  1375.  His  proxy  at  the  induction  was  Ralph 
Pylaton. 

JOHN  CHEYNE  occurs  10th  July,  1379. 

PHILIP  DE  ALENCON  occurs  23rd  Feb.  1384. 

WALTER  COOK,  collated  16th  Oct.  1399. 

THOMAS  HENDEMAN  occurs  23rd  Nov.  1411  ;  on  whose  resignation, 

ROGER  BOLTER  was  collated  25th  Jan.  1417.     He  resigned  also. 

JOHN  SCHUTE  succeeded  21st  Sept.  1417.  His  will  was  made 
2nd  May,  1425. 

JAMES  CARSLEGH  was  collated  27th  Sept.  1425 ;  on  whose  death, 

PETER  STUCKLEGH  succeeded  5th  Dec.  1438.     He  resigned,  when 

JOHN  DRUELL  was  appointed  21st  March,  1444 ;  on  whose  death, 

PETER  COURTENAY  was  collated  8th  June,  1453.     He  resigned. 

ROBERT  AYSCOGH  succeeded  him  7th  Jan.  1475. 

DAVID  HOPTON  was  the  next.  Will  dated  17th  Jan.  1491-2. 
On  whose  death, 

RICHARD  NYKKE  was  collated  3rd  Feb.  1492,  and  he  resigned 
within  a  year  to  become  vicar-general  to  Richard  Fox,  then  Bishop 
of  Wells,  and  after  becoming  archdeacon  of  that  church  and  Canon 
of  York  and  Windsor,  he  was  preferred  to  the  see  of  Norwich  in 
1501,  and  died  14th  Jan.,  1536.  'Anglia  Sacra,'  Vol.  i.  pp.  419, 
804. 

HUGH  OLD  AM  succeeded.  He  was  made  Bishop  of  Exon  in  1504. 
Collated  llth  March,  1493,  by  Bishop  Oliver  King  to  the  canonry 
and  prebend  void  by  the  death  of  John  Paskewe,  whilst  his  lordship 
was  on  a  visit  at  the  royal  manor  of  Sheen. 

RICHARD  MORE,  collated  13th  Jan.  1505. 

JOHN  FULFORD,  collated  19th  June,  1515 ;  on  whose  death,  30th 
Jan.  1518-19, 

ADAM  TRAVESSE,  or  TRAVORS,  was  collatedl  9th  Jan.  1518-19.  Will 
dated  24th  Dec.  1555,  proved  January  following.  On  whose  death, 

GEORGE  CAREWE,  Dean  of  the  Queen's  Chapel,  succeeded  30th 
Jan.  1555-6,  on  the  presentation  of  Anthony  Harvy,  Esq. ;  on  whose 
resignation,  with  a  pension  of  £20  per  annum, 

ROBERT   FYSHER  was  instituted,  20th  Oct.  1569,  on  the  presenta- 


FASTI  ECCLESLE  EXONIENSIS.  287 

tion  of  Francis  Russell,  Earl  of  Bedford.  Will  dated  30th  Sept. 
1582,  proved  30th  Jan.  after.  On  whose  death, 

THOMAS  BARRETT,  son-in-law  of  Bishop  John  Woolton,  was  insti- 
tuted 14th  Jan.  1582-3,  on  the  presentation  of  James  Woolton,  of 
London,  gent.,  and  William  Brewton,  of  Exeter,  notary  public.  He 
commenced  his  visitation  6th  April,  1583,  and  insisted  in  his  second 
article  of  inquiry  on  the  clean  defacement  of  all  statues  and  other 
superstitious  things  in  churches,  and  the  taking  down  of  rood-lofts. 
In  the  16th  article,  he  appears  to  have  been  credulous  on  the  point 
of  witchcraft  and  sorcery.  Died  25th  Nov.  1633,  a3t.  82,  and  buried 
in  cathedral  the  next  day. 

AARON  WILSON,  D.D.,  succeeded  15th  Jan.  1633-4;  died  in  1643. 

EDWARD  YOUNG,  D.D.,  installed  21st  Sept.  1643  ;  on  whose  resig- 
nation, 

ROBERT  CART  was  appointed  8th  July,  1662  ;  resigned. 

DANIEL  ESTCOTT,  appointed  18th  Jan.  1664-5. 

ANTHONY  SPARROW,  Bishop  of  Exeter,  held  this  dignity  in  com- 
mendatn  until  his  translation  to  Norwich,  in  Sept.  1676. 

EDWARD  LAKE,  S.T.P.,  instituted  24th  Oct.  1676  ;  died  1st  Feb. 
1703-4.  Preceptor  to  the  Princesses  Mary  and  Anne. 

SIR  JONATHAN  TRELAWNY,  BART.,  bishop  of  this  diocese,  accepted 
this  dignity  in  commendam  1st  April  following,  and  held  it  until 
his  translation  to  Winchester,  three  years  after. 

OFFSPRING  BLACKALL,  bishop  of  this  see,  accepted  also  this  dignity, 
and  held  it  until  his  death, 

EDWARD  TRELAWNY,  M.A.,  instituted  1st  March,  1716-17,  on  the 
presentation  of  King  George  I. ;  on  his  death, 

RICHARD  IBBETSON,  S.T.P.,  the  precentor,  was  instituted  llth  Nov. 
1726. 

STEPHEN  WESTON,  bishop  of  this  see,  in  1732,  accepted  this  office 
in  commendam ;  and  his  eight  episcopal  successors  continued  to 
hold  the  same  until  the  translation  of  Bishop  Pelham  to  Lincoln. 

JOHN  MOORE,  M.A.,  nephew  of  the  late  George  Moore,  Archdeacon 
of  Cornwall,  was  instituted  to  this  dignity  29th  Dec.  1820. 

AKCHDEACONS  OF  COKNWALL. 

ALNOTHUS.     Died  13th  June,  1098. 

ERNALDUS,  in  1110,  according  to  Le  Neve. 

HUGO  DE  Auco,  about  1135. 

WILLIAM,  about  1143. 

A.  about  1150. 

WALTER,  who  died  30th  April,  1157. 

RALPH  LUCE  witnessed  the  grant  of  the  advowson  of  St.  Mary  de 
Wych  to  the  Priory  of  Tywardreth,  in  the  episcopate  of  Bishop 
Bartholomew.  Judelethus,  archpresbyter  of  Cornwall,  is  mentioned 
in  the  confirmation  of  the  property  belonging  to  Tywardreth 
Priory  dependent  on  the  monastery  of  St.  Sergius  at  Angers  by 
Archbishop  Becket,  11 62-1]  70. 


PETER,  who  died  7th  Sept.  1171.  S\^$~  ( 

GALTERUS  held  this  dignity  about  11.80.  /<£&* 

I     ^S         or      Mir.HAEL'S         \^1 


8T.    MICHAEL- 
COLLEGE 


290  APPENDIX. 

EDWARD  COTTON,  S.T.P. ;  on  whose  resignation  for  the  treasurer- 
ship, 

EDWARD  BREWE,  of  Grange,  and  Rector  of  Bridestowe,  succeeded 
3rd  Sept.  1672;  died  17th,  and  buried  21st  Dec.  1714,  set.  70,  in 
cathedral.  This  Edward  Drewe  married  Jane  Webb,  of  Exeter, 
widow,  in  June,  1681. 

LANCELOT  BLACKBURNE,  instituted  25th  Jan.  1714-15  ;  successively 
Dean  and  then  Bishop  of  Exeter,  and  finally  Archbishop  of  York. 

CHARLES  FLEETWOOD,  only  son  of  Bishop  Fleetwood  of  Ely,  col- 
lated 7th  Feb.  1731-2 ;  on  whose  death,  27th  July,  1737, 

GEORGE  ALLANSON  was  collated  14th  Sept.  1737  ;  on  whose  death, 

JOHN  SLEECH,  M.A.,  was  collated  25th  Aug.  1741 ;  died  1st  Feb. 
1788. 

GEORGE  MOORE,  M.A.,  collated  7th  Feb.  1788;  died  12th  March, 
1807,  set.  76,  and  buried  in  Heavitree  Church,  18th  of  the  same 
month. 

WILLIAM  SHORT,  D.D.,  Prebendary  of  Westminster,  collated  8th 
April,  1807  ;  installed  the  same  day ;  resigned  shortly  before  his 
death,  which  took  place  at  Kingsworthy,  Hants,  23rd  May,  1826, 
set.  68. 

JOHN  BULL,  D.D.,  collated  6th  Feb.  1826,  on  Short's  resignation, 
and  installed  4th  March  following.  He  resigned  for  the  arch- 
deaconry of  Barnstaple. 

JOHN  SHEEPSHANKS,  A.M.,  collated  llth  May,  1826,  and  installed 
20th  May,  on  Bull's  resignation. 

WILLIAM  JOHN  PHILLPOTTS,  A.M.,  eldest  son  of  Bishop  Phillpotts, 
collated  6th  Jan.  1845. 

ARCHDEACONS  OF  TOTNES. 

JOHN  DE  BRADELEGH. 

HUGH  DE  AVIGO  occurs  in  1143. 

ASCELLINUS. 

BALDWIN,    I  are   witnesses    to    deeds  of    Bishop  Bartholomew's 

ROBERT,      |  between  the  years  1161  and  1184. 

BERNARD,  who  died  3rd  June,  1190. 

JOHN  FITZ-JOHN. 

GILBERT  BASSET  occurs  in  1206. 

WALTER  DE  GREY  occurs  10th  May,  1207. 

JOHN  DE  BRIDPORT  occurs  in  Aug.  the  same  year. 

SERLO  witnessed  a  deed  as  Archdeacon  of  Totnes. 

R.  was  archdeacon  in  1219. 

YSAAC  was  commissioned  to  install  Serlo,  the  first  dean,  in  Dec. 
1225. 

HUGH. 

JOHN  DE  KENT  witnessed  a  deed  while  Serlo  was  dean.  His  obit 
was  kept  2nd  Dec. 

ROGER  DE  WTNKLEGH  witnessed  Bishop  Brewer's  confirmation  of 
Woodbury,  28th  May,  1228,  and  became  the  second  Dean  of 
Exeter. 

THOMAS  PINCERNA  witnessed  a  deed  of  Bishop  Brewer's,  dated  3rd 


FASTI  ECCLESLE  EXONIENSIS.  291 

Dec.  1242,  as  Thomas  le  Butteler.  We  meet  with  him  again  at 
Easter,  1254. 

JOHN,  who  died  20th  Feb.  1258. 

GALFRID  occurs  in  1262. 

WALTER  OP  PEMBROKE,  collated  from  the  archdeaconry  of  Barn- 
staple,  llth  Jan.  1263. 

EICHARD  BLUND,  likewise  collated  from  the  archdeaconry  of  Barn- 
staple,  1st  Nov.  1265. 

THOMAS  DE  HERTFORD,  collated  in  Jan.  1271.  He  occurs  again 
14th  Aug.  1273. 

JOHN  DE  ESSE  succeeded. 

THOMAS  DE  BOLLEY,  collated  25th  Dec.  1275 ;  resigned  for  the 
archdeaconry  of  Cornwall,  when 

THOMAS  DE  BODHAM  succeeded  8th  July,  1282  ;  occurs  28th  Sept. 
1294.  He  must  have  died  before  15th  Oct.  1297. 

HENRY  DE  BOLLEEO  occurs  in  a  deed  of  Bishop  Quivil's  on  3rd 
Feb.  1283-4. 

EOGER  DE  Eous  occurs  in  April,  1297. 

THOMAS  DE  CHARLETON  occurs  in  1302. 

WILLIAM  DE  PUNTYNGTON,  28th  Sept.  1303,  and  4th  April,  1306. 

EGBERT  Frrz-GiLDE,  about  1310.   He  died, we  think,  16th  Jan.  1325. 

EOGER  DE  CHARLETON.     He  died  in  office  in  1338. 

JOHN  NORTHWODE  succeeded  13th  June  that  year. 

OTHO  NORTHWODE,  collated  31st  Aug.  1349. 

PETER  DE  GHILLDISBOURGH  occurs  24th  Dec.  1352. 

WILLIAM  STEELE,  who,  in  May,  1371,  exchanged  for  the  living  of 
Sampford  Courtenay,  with 

HUGO  BRYDHAM,  collated  18th  May  that  year.  He  resigned  in 
May,  1385. 

JOHN  LYDFORD  was  collated  immediately.  His  will,  made  12th 
March,  1406,  was  proved  13th  Dec.  1407. 

WILLIAM  HUNDEN,  collated  26th  Jan.  1408;  exchanged,  in  1415, 
with 

WILLIAM  BARTON,  who  died  in  office  nearly  six  years  after. 

JOHN  THIFARN,  M.D.,  collated  3rd  Nov.  1421  ;  on  whose  resig- 
nation, 

ALAN  KYRKETON  was  collated,  16th  July,  1433. 

JOHN  BURNEBY,  who  resigned  for  the  treasurership. 

THOMAS  MANNING  succeeded  4th  June,  1453. 

THOMAS  CHIPPENHAM  succeeded ;  at  whose  death, 

OWEN  LOID  was  collated  15th  Feb.  1478. 

WILLIAM  WAGOTT  was  archdeacon  24th  June,  and  7th  Oct.  1479  : 
he  witnessed  the  taxation  of  Broadwoodwidger,  7th  Oct.  1479,  and 
23rd  June,  1480. 

EDMUND  CHATERTON,  collated  26th  March,  1491. 

EALPH  HETFCOTE  succeeded,  and  died  early  in  1 500. 

JOHN  FULFORD,  collated  15th  March  that  year;  on  whose  removal 
to  the  archdeaconry  of  Cornwall,  18th  April,  1515, 

EICHARD  SYDNOR  succeeded,  and  died  early  in  1534. 

GEORGE  CAREWE,  collated  28th  April,  1534;  on  whose  resig- 
nation, 

TJ  2 


292  APPENDIX. 

WILLIAM  VIVYAN,  Bishop  of  Hippo,  was  collated  10th  Aug.  1549. 

WILLIAM  FA^VELL,  who  died  early  in  1557-8. 

JOHN  POLLARD,  collated  2nd  March  the  same  year. 

THOMAS  KENT,  who  died  late  in  1561. 

ROBERT  LOUGHEB,  collated  21st  Feb.  1561-2.  Wood,  'Fasti,' 
vol.  i.  p.  93,  incorrectly  calls  him  chancellor.  He  died  in  June, 
1583. 

OLIVER  WHIDDON,  instituted  5th  June,  1568  ;  died  late  in  1580, 
as  his  will  was  proved  10th  Dec.  that  year. 

JOHN  COLE,  collated  24th  Nov.  1580 ;  died  three  years  later;  will 
proved  16th  Sept.  1584. 

LEWIS  SWETE,  collated  12th  Feb.  1583-4. 

WILLIAM  PARKER  ;  on  whose  resignation  for  the  archdeaconry  ol 
Cornwall, 

JASPER  SWIFT,  D.D.,  succeeded  from  the  archdeaconry  of  Corn- 
wall, 30th  Oct.  1616  ;  died  20th,  and  buried  27th  Jan.  1619-20,  in 
cathedral.  A  license  for  his  marriage  with  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
John  Shapleye,  Mayor  of  Totnes,  was  granted  on  the  30th  April 
preceding  his  death. 

WILLIAM  COTTON,  collated  17th  March,  1619-20.     Resigned. 

EDWARD  COTTON,  M.A.,  the  bishop's  son,  collated  15th  Feb. 
1621-2;  died  in  1647. 

FRANCIS  FULLWOOD,  S.T.P.,  son  of  Canon  Snell,  installed  31st  Aug. 
1660;  died  27th  Aug.  1693. 

GEORGE  SNELL,  collated  18th  May,  1694  ?  on  whose  death, 

FRANCIS  ATTERBURY  was  collated,  18th  Jan.  1700-1 ;  installed  by 
proxy  llth  June  following ;  resigned  on  his  promotion  to  the  see  of 
Rochester.  He  died  in  1732. 

NICHOLAS  KENDALL,  instituted  on  the  presentation  of  Queen  Anne, 
28th  July,  1713  ;  died  3rd,  and  buried  7th  March,  1739-40,  ast.  84, 
in  cathedral. 

GEORGE  BAKER  (son-in-law  of  Bishop  Stephen  Weston,  and  father 
of  Sir  George  Baker,  Bart.,  M.D.,  late  President  of  the  College  of 
Physicians),  collated  26th  March,  1740 ;  died  28th,  and  buried  in 
the  cathedral  31st  Jan.  1772,  set.  86.  Two  entries  in  the  Dean 
and  Chapter's  book  fix  his  death  on  8th  Jan.  1772. 

THOMAS  SKYNNER,  LL.D.,  collated  lOih  March,  1772;  on  whose 
resignation  for  the  precentorship, 

RALPH  BARNES,  M.A.  (son  of  Henry  Barnes,  Esq.,  one  of  the 
Secondaries  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  the  well-known  law 
reporter),  was  collated  16th  Aug.  1775  ;  died  20th  May,  1820,  aet.  89. 

ROBERT  HURRELL  FROUDE,  M.A.,  instituted  30th  May,  1820;  ob. 
23rd  Feb.  1859,  aet.  89. 

JOHN  DOWNALL,  M.A.,  succeeded  12th  March,  1859. 

AKCHDEACONS  OF  BARNSTAPLE. 

A  LURED  is  the  first  we  have  met  with. 
RALPH  is  said  to  have  enjoyed  this  dignity  in  1143. 
WILLIAM    DE   Auco,   Archdeacon   of  Barnstaple,    together    with 
BARTHOLOMEW,    Archdeacon   of  Exon,    and    PETER,    Archdeacon  of 


FASTI  ECCLESI.E  EXONIENSIS.  293 

Cornwall,  are  witnesses  to  a  deed  of  Bishop  Robert  Warelwast's 
between  1155  and  1160. 

ROGER  witnessed  Bishop  Bartholomew's  grant  to  the  lepers  of 
Exeter,  as  also  a  confirmation  of  Plympton  Priory  by  Bishop  John. 

THOMAS  occurs  as  witness  to  Bishop  John's  appropriation  of 
Egloscruck  to  the  Dean  and  Chapter  about  1186. 

THOMAS  we  meet  with  as  a  witness  to  a  deed  of  the  fourth  year  of 
King  John,  1203. 

RALPH  DB  WEEEWELL  was  presented  30th  Sept.  1209. 

JOHN  occurs  in  1213. 

RALPH  witnesses  a  deed  of  Bishop  Simon  in  1219. 

ROBERT,  Archdeacon  of  Totton,  ROGER,  Archdeacon  of  Barum,  and 
WALTER,  Archdeacon  of  Cornwall,  witness  to  a  deed  without  date 
before  the  foundation  of  the  deanery  in  1225. 

ISAAC  died  possessed  of  this  dignity  8th  Feb.  1227. 

WALTER  DE  PEMBROKE,  after  holding  it  many  years,  accepted  the 
archdeaconry  of  Totnes.  He  occurs  Archdeacon  of  Barum  in  Aug. 
1243. 

HENRY  DE  BRATTON,  collated  21st  Jan.  1263 ;  resigned  for  the 
chancellorship. 

RICHARD  BLUND  succeeded  25th  May,  1264;  resigned  for  Totnes. 

GODFREY  GIFFARD,  collated  6th  Nov.  1265 ;  resigned  in  May,  1267, 
to  become  Lord  Chancellor,  and  the  year  following  was  made 
Bishop  of  Worcester.  He  was  brother  to  Walter  Giffard,  Archbishop 
of  York. 

JOHN  DE  BRADLEGH  succeeded  immediately.  He  witnessed  a  deed 
on  Thursday  after  1st  Aug.  1267. 

THOMAS  DE  HERTFORT,  collated  in  Jan.  1271. 

PHILIP  OF  EXON,  collated  28th  Aug.  1279.  He  is  met  with  27th 
Feb.  1281-2. 

RALPH  GERMEYN  succeeded,  and  held  it  until  his  promotion  to  the 
precentorship  in  1308. 

WILLIAM  DE  MELTON,  collated  13th  Oct.  1308. 

JOHN  WELE,  collated  30th  March,  1309. 

BARTHOLOMEW  DE  SANCTO  LAURENTIO  held  it  until  his  first  confir- 
mation in  the  deanery  ;  but  the  demur,  occasioned  by  the  appeal  to 
the  primate,  here  causes  some  confusion. 

WILLIAM  FITZ-ROGO  held  it  for  a  short  period. 

WALTER  GIFFARD,  resigned  for  the  chancellorship  3rd  Dec. 
1314. 

RICHARD  DE  MORCESTER  was  appointed  7th  Feb.  following ;  died 
in  1318. 

RICHARD  DE  WIDESLADE,  collated  22nd  Sept.  1318  ;  resigned  the 
year  after. 

WILLIAM  LA  ZOUCHE,  collated  10th  Dec.  1329  ;  on  whose  resig- 
nation, 

JOHN  DE  NASSINGTON  was  appointed  17th  Dec.  1330. 

JOHN  DE  DERBY  followed,  23rd  Feb.  1355. 

HENRY  WHITEFELD  occurs  23rd  Feb.  1384. 

ROBERT  RUGGE  occurs  8th  Sept.  1399. 


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APPENDIX. 


RICHARD  ALDRINGTON,  alias  COLCOMB,  collated  17th  Aug.  1400. 

JOHN  ORUM,  S.T.P.,  collated  1st  Nov.  the  same  year.  He  is 
numbered  by  Wood  among  the  writers  of  the  University  of  Oxford, 
*  Hist,  et  Antiq.  Univ.  Oxon.'  lib.  ii.  p.  62.  On  whose  resignation, 
in  1429, 

JOHN  WARTN  was  collated  2nd  Aug.  that  year.     He  died  in  1442. 

RICHARD  HELTER  succeeded  3rd  Aug.  the  same  year.     Resigned. 

MICHAEL  TREGOIRE  was  appointed  16th  June,  1445.     Resigned  also. 

ROGER  KEYS,  collated  25th  Jan.  1450. 

WILLIAM  FULFORD,  son  of  Henry  Fulford,  occurs  12th  July,  1462  ; 
on  whose  death, 

JOHN  STUBBES  was  collated  27th  Oct.  1475  ;  on  whose  resignation, 

OWEN  LOID  succeeded  10th  Dec.  1477  ;  on  whose  resignation, 

ROBERT  BARFORTH,  or  BAROFOTE,  was  collated  18th  Feb.  1478. 
He  died  8th  Oct.  1485. 

WILLIAM  ELYOT  succeeded,  and  was  living  in  February,  1503. 

JOHN  VEYSEY  succeeded.  He  was  made  a  canon  by  Bishop 
Arundell,  5th  Aug.  1503,  who  had  probably  known  him  when 
Bishop  of  Lichfield  and  Coventry  :  he  occurs  Archdeacon  of  Chester 
in  January  1504,  was  Rector  of  St.  Mary's  Church,  Chester,  and  re- 
signed for  the  precentorship. 

RICHARD  NORTON  followed,  3rd  Aug.  1508. 

JOHN  YONG,  who  resigned  early  in  1515,  on  a  pension  of  30?. 

JOHN  TYAKE,  collated  12th  April,  1515  ;  on  whose  death, 

RICHARD  TOLLET  succeeded  19th  Jan.  1518  ;  died  26th  April,  1528. 

THOMAS  BRERWOOD,  collated  26th  April,  1528;  died  in  1544. 

JOHN  POLLARD,  collated  16th  June,  1544;  on  whose  deprivation, 

HENRY  SQUIRE,  Fellow  of  Magdalene  College,  was  collated  20th 
April,  1554.  He  resigned  in  1582. 

ROBERT  LAWE,  M.A.,  instituted  7th  Jan.  1582-3,  on  the  presenta- 
tion of  Hugo  Osbourne,  the  Registrar  of  Barnstaple.  He  became 
treasurer. 

WILLIAM  TOKER,  collated  24th  April,  1585 ;  on  whose  resigna- 
tion for  the  deanery  of  Lichfield, 

WILLIAM  HELLIAR  was  collated  27th  Nov.  1605  ;  died  about  the 
end  of  1645. 

JAMES  SMITH,  B.D.,  installed  31st  Aug.  1660  ;  resigned  for  the 
precentorship. 

JOSHUA  TUCKER,  who  died  in  the  summer  of  1679. 

WILLIAM  READE  of  Exeter,  succeeded  29th  Aug.  1679 ;  on  whose 
death, 

ROBERT  BURSCOUGH  was  collated  24th  Sept.  1703  ;  on  whose  death, 

THOMAS  LYNFORD  was  collated  9th  Sept.  1709  ;  at  his  death, 

LEWIS  STEPHENS,  D.D.  (afterwards  Archdeacon  of  Chester,  and 
Rector  of  Drokinsford,  in  Hampshire ;  the  munificent  founder  of 
the  exhibitions  in  Exeter  Free  Grammar-school,  within  the  hospital 
of  St.  John  Baptist),1  was  collated  14th  Aug.  1724.  Resigned. 


1  See  Carlisle's  '  Endowed  Grammar 
Schools,'  vol.  i.  p.  304,  and  Chalmers's 
/Hen.  Biograph.  Diet,,'  sub  voce  Trimnell, 


Bishop  of  Winchester,  vol.  xxx.  p.  3.3,  edit. 
London,  1816.  Stephens's  will  is  dated 
14th  Nov.  1745. 


FASTI  ECCLESI.E  EXONIENS1S.  295 

JOHN  GRANT,  collated  28th  Oct.  1731  ;  on  whose  death  (he  was 
buried  in  the  cathedral,  25th  Feb.  1744-5), 

WILLIAM  HOLE,  B.D.,  was  collated  16th  March,  1744-5 ;  died  26th 
Oct.  1791,  set.  82.2 

ROGER  MASSEY,  M.A.,3  collated  3rd  Nov.  1791  ;  on  whose  death, 
22nd  Feb.  1798, 

JOHN  ANDREW,  M.  A.,  Rector  of  Powderham  (son  of  John  Andrew, 
M.D.,  by  his  wife  Isabella,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Courtenay,  of 
Powderham,  Bart.,  and  sister  of  the  first  Viscount  Courtenay),  was 
collated  14th  March,  1798  ;  died  3rd  July,  1799,  set.  49. 

PEREGRINE  ILBERT,  M.A.  (grandson  of  Bridget,  another  daughter 
of  the  same  Sir  William  Courtenay,  by  her  husband,  William 
llbert,  Esq.),  collated  25th  July,  1799  ;  died  28th  June,  1805. 

JONATHAN  PARKER  FISHER,  B.D.,  now  D.D  ,  collated  16th  Aug. 
1805,  and  installed  the  next  day  ;  resigned  for  the  subdeanery. 

THOMAS  JOHNES,  M.A.,  collated  3rd  and  installed  7th  Nov.  1807 ; 
advanced  to  the  chancellorship  in  1816. 

JOHN  BULL,  D.D.,  collated  6th  May,  1826,  on  his  resignation  of 
the  Archdeaconry  of  Cornwall. 

GEORGE  BARNES,  D.D.,  son  of  Ralph  Barnes,  Archdeacon  of  Totnes, 
collated  18th  March,  1820  ;  died  at  Sowton,  29th  June,  and  buried 
there,  7th  July,  1847,  aged  64. 

JOHN  BARTHOLOMEW,  A.M.,  collated  3rd  Aug.  1847. 

SUBDEANS. 

WILLIAM  DE  BISIMAN,  collated  the  first  subdean  by  the  founder, 
Bishop  Quivil,  9th  July,  1284.  We  meet  with  him  20th  July, 
1284. 

JOHN  DE  UPHAVEN.  Bishop  Stapeldon  confirmed  to  him  the  appro- 
priation of  Eglosheyl,  26th  July,  1313,  who  died  26th  April,  1318. 

RICHARD  BRAYLEGH,4  collated  1 1  th  May  that  year. 

RICHARD  DE  KYRKEBY,  appointed  1st  June,  1336. 

HENRY  PIKE,  promoted  5th  Nov.,  1350.  [WILLIAM  DE  POL- 
MORNA,  S.T.B.,  had  been  appointed  in  commendam  9th  June,  1349. 
He  was  in  office  29th  Dec.  1355.] 

JOHN  PESEMER  ;  on  whose  resignation, 

THOMAS  DRAPER  succeeded.  He  exchanged  15th  May,  1376,  for 
Hethlegh  Rectory,  in  Hants,  with 

JOHN  PODESDON  ;  on  whose  death, 

THOMAS  NOELL  was  collated  9th  Oct.  1399 ;  on  whose  death, 

THOMAS  ESTBROKE  was  collated  13th  Sept.  1417.  He  made  his 
will  10th  Aug.  1441.  It  was  proved  23rd  November  following. 

JOHN  RAWE  succeeded  28th  Aug.  1441.  His  will  is  dated  8th 
Sept.  1462,  and  proved  4th  Dec.  1463. 

WALTER  WYNDEFORD,  or  WINDESORE,  occurs  in  1480  and  1482. 

WILLIAM  SUMASTER  died  in  office  in  1504. 

JOHN  TYAKE  was  collated  22nd  January  following;  resigned  for 
the  archdeaconry  of  Barnstaple. 

2  Sec  the  '  Gentleman's  Maga/ine '  of  the  I  3  Rector  of  Lawhitton  and  Cheriton  Bishop, 
month  of  March,  1817,  pp.  228  et  seq.  4  He  was  Dean  in  the  autumn  of  1335. 


296 


APPENDIX. 


RICHARD  TOLLETT,  collated  13th  May,  1515 ;  resigned,  within 
three  years,  for  the  same  archdeaconry. 

ROBERT  WESTON,  collated  28th  April,  1518;  on  whose  death, 
towards  the  end  of  Sept.  1539, 

NICHOLAS  WESTON,  nephew  to  the  preceding  sub-dean,  succeeded 
6th  Oct.  1539  ;  on  whose  death, 

JOHN  BLAXTON  was  collated  7th  March,  1546-7 ;  on  whose  re- 
signation for  the  treasurership, 

THOMAS  NUTTCOMBE  was  collated  13th  April,  1558;  on  whose 
deprivation, 

RICHARD  GAUMON  was  presented  to  the  sub-deanery  in  January, 
1560  (Rymer's  'Foedera,'  vol.  xv.  p.  563). 

CHRISTOPHER  BODLEGH  succeeded  12th  March,  1566. 

FRANCIS  GODWYN,  M.A.  (the  celebrated  historian,  and  biographer 
of  the  bishops  of  England,  son  of  Thomas,  Lord  Bishop  of  Bath  and 
Wells,  and  son-in-law  of  Bishop  John  Woolton),  collated  llth  June, 
1587;  he  had  been  appointed  canon  14th  of  the  preceding  July; 
on  whose  promotion  to  the  see  of  Llandaff  (whence  he  was  finally 
translated  to  that  of  Hereford,  and  died  29th  April,  1633)  he 
resigned  his  canonry,  which  was  granted  on  9th  Feb.  1602,  to 
Edw.  Tuke,  and  the  sub-deanery  was  granted  on  18th  Feb.  to  John 
Sprott. 

JOHN  SPROTT  was  collated  18th  Feb.  1602-3  ;  on  whose  death, 

HUGO  CHOLMELEY,  S.T.B.,  was  collated  29th  March,  1632;5  died 
15th,  and  buried  17th  Sept.  1641. 

SAMUEL  HALL,  M.A.,  fourth  son  of  Bishop  Hall,  admitted  22nd 
Sept.  1641 ;  on  whose  death  1674,  aged  83, 

NICHOLAS  HALL  was  collated  17th  March,  1674-5  ;  resigned  for 
the  treasurership. 

BERNARD  GALARD,  collated  15th  Nov.  1675  ;  on  whose  death, 

EDWARD  CART,  the  dean's  son,  was  collated  1st  Dec.  1693;  who 
died  soon  after  his  promotion. 

LANCELOT  BLACKBURNE,  collated  9th  Jan.  1694-5 ;  resigned  in  1702. 

LEWIS  BURNETT  succeeded  8th  April  that  year.  He  had  been 
Rector  of  Faringdon,  where  he  was  buried,  for  25  years ;  on  his  death, 

LANCELOT  BLACKBURNE  was  collated  27th  July,  1704;  resigned 
for  the  deanery. 

EDWARD  TRELAWNY,  collated  3rd  Nov.  1705;  resigned  for  the 
deanery. 

PETER  FOULKES,  D.D.,  collated  25th  June,  1723  ;  resigned  for  the 
chancellorship. 

JOHN  GILBERT,  collated  4th  June,  1724;  resigned  for  the  deanery. 

JOHN  FURSMAN,  M.A.,  collated  3rd  Jan.  1726-7  ;  resigned  for  the 
chancellorship. 

CHARLES  HAWTREY,  M.A.,  collated  2nd  Oct.  1731 ;  died  3rd, 
buried  8th  May,  1770,  aetatis  8 4, "in  the  cathedral. 

PHILIP  BARTON,  S.T.B.,  collated  29th  May,  1770 ;  died  24th  June, 
1796,  set.  78. 


5  Charles  L,  on  15th  Jan.  1632,  conferred 
ou  him  the  canonry  in  this  cathedral  holden 
by  Lawrence,  S.  T.  P.,  but  which  had  lapsed 


at  this  time  to  the  Crown  "  per  pravitatem 
simonie." — Rymer's  *  Foedera,'  vol.  xix.  p. 
441. 


VESTMENTS,  &c. 


297 


JOHN  STUEGES,  D.D.,  chancellor  of  the  diocese  of  Winchester,  col- 
lated 20th  Oct.  1796 ;  died  on  2nd  Oct.  1807. 

JONATHAN  PARKER  FISHER,  D.D.,  (brother  of  the  present  Bishop 
of  Salisbury,)  from  the  archdeaconry  of  Barnstaple,  installed  17th 
Oct.  1807 ;  ob. 

KICHARD  STEPHENS,  collated  13th  Oct.  1840,  on  the  death  of  Fisher, 
ob.  8th  April,  1858,  when  the  emoluments  of  the  office  lapsed  to 
the  Ecclesiastical  Commissioners,  but  the  bishop  on  5th  July,  1860, 
collated  to  the  title  Dr.  John  Walter  Trower,  Bishop  of  Glasgow. 


No.  II. 

De  PALLIS,  CAPIS,  CASULIS,  TUNICULIS,  et  aliis  ECCLESIASTICIS  ORNAMENTIS,  a 
Regibus,  Episcopis,  Canonicis,  et  aliis  Ecclesie  Exoniensi  collatis.1 

PRIMO,  de  dono  Leui*ici  Episcopi : — Casula,  tunicula,  dalmatica,  de 
samitta2  diversi  coloris,  cum  griffonibus  et  cambuca  eburnea.  De 
dono  venerabilis  Simonis,  Exoniensis  Episcopi : — unum  par  vesti- 
mentorum  plenarie  de  samitta  alba,  cujus  alba  est  de  serico.  Item, 
aliud  par  de  rubea  samitta  cum  avibus  duo  capita  habentibus.  Item, 
tercium  de  rubea  samitta  sine  casula.  Item,  tunica  et  dalmatica, 
crocei  coloris.  Stola  et  Phanulla 8  de  puro  aurifragro.4  Item,  stola 
et  phanulla,  brodata  de  rubea  samitta,  et  una  stola  de  serico  bene 
operata.  Item,  unum  pomum  de  cupro  deauratum,  et  duo  candelabra 
cum  pedibus  de  argento.  Item,  iij  baculi  cooperti  cum  argento,  cum 
tribus  vexillis.  Item,  xv  cape,  quarum  una  est  de  baudekyn s  de 
rubea  samitta,  iiijor  et  iiijOT  crocei  coloris.  Due  sunt6  Indi  coloris  et 
una  albi  coloris  de  samitta.  Item,  iij  cape  ad  usum  et  plenarie  ad 
usum  iiijor  infancium.  Item,  i  palla  cum  papejays 7  et  unum  culci- 
tum  cum  leonibus,  una  capa  viridis. 

De  dono  Henrici  (Marshal)  Episcopi : — i  palla  Indi  coloris  cum 
leopardibus,  et  una  crocei  coloris  bordata  inferius  et  superius,  et 
unum  albi  coloris,  una  casula  de  rubea  samitta  brodata  super 
scapulas  alba,  amicta  dalmatica  et  tunica  ad  processionem  deputate, 
stola  et  phannum.  Item,  iij  cape  de  rubea  samitta.  [tern,  i  cam- 
bucea  de  pondere  c.  s.  cum  baculo.  Item,  ij  thuribula  de  argento, 
et  tercium  parvum  similiter  de  argento. 

[Istud  parvum  habemus  nos  Johannes  Episcopus,  quod  feci  deau- 
rari  pro  successoribus  nostris.J 

De  dono  Episcopi  Bartholomei : — Unum  nobile  pallium  cum  parvis 
papejays.  Una  capa  de  diapra  diversi  coloris  cum  rotulis,  una  capa 
de  nobili  samitta  brodata  cum  paucis  genimis  stellis  et  quibusdam 
avibus.  Item,  una  de  alba  diapra  cum  noviluniis.  Item,  dalmatica 


1  Ex   '  Manuscripto  de   Consuetudinibus 
Ecclesie  Exon,'  penes  Decanum  et  Capitulum 
Exon.,  fo.  114. 

2  Satin. 

3  Phanulla,  phanus,  fano,  a  maniple. 


4  Orfray,  or  gold  brocade. 

5  Gold  tissue,  with  silk  embroidery. 

6  Blue,  from  Indigo  dye. 

7  Popinjays. 


298  APPENDIX. 

et  tunica  de  diapra,  quarum  una  est  cum  besantis  et  altera  cum 
leopardibus  parvis  et  conjunctis  ad  processionem  duplici  festo  depu- 
tate  et  sandalia  ejusdem  coloris.  Item,  casula  stola  et  phano  Indi 
coloris  cum  noviluniis  et  stellis.  Item,  stola  et  phano  cum  vinea 
aurea  et  cum  ymaginibus  in  inferiori  parte  de  auro.  Item,  ije  albe 
Indi  coloris  cum  apparatibus  brodatis,  quarum  una  est  cum  sagit- 
tariis,  alia  cum  luna  et  stellis,  et  una  amicta  ejusdem  coloris.  Item, 
una  casula  Indi  coloris  cum  parvis  gemmis  sive  margaritis. 

De  dono  WiUielmi  Brewere,  Episcopi : — ij  cape  brodate  Indi  coloris 
cum  nobbis  de  argento.  Una  capa  de  viridi  samitta  et  veteri.  Item, 
iij  culcitra,  quorum  unum  est  bordatum  de  viridi  et  unum  crocei 
coloris,  tercium  rubei  coloris.  Unum  ^tabernaculum  ebumeum  cum 
ymaginibus  beate  Marie  et  multa.  Item,  ij  palle  cum  equitibus 
aves  portantibus.  Item,  due  palle  de  serico  diversi  coloris.  Item, 
i  longa  palla  de  burel.  Item,  I  parva  palla  de  rubea  diapra,  que 
solet  dependi  juxta  Hostium  cum  panno  qui  est  cum  draconibus. 
Item,  palla  rubea  cum  quibusdam  literis  et  elephantis  et  quadam 
avi  in  superior!  parte.  Item,  velum  quadragesimale  pulcrum  et 
nobile.  Stamna  cum  scapularibus  et  capucium  rubeum  cum  barba 
rubea.  Item,  una  casula  crocei  coloris  cum  dalmatica  et  tunicula 
bene  ligata  aurifragio  cum  ymaginibus  de  auro.  iij  libri  rubeo 
coreo  cooperti.  Item,  casula  cum  dalmatica  et  tunicula  de  alba 
diapra,  cum  alba  de  serico,  stola  et  phano  Indi  coloris  cum  aquilis 
et  aliis  animalibus  deauratis  et  amicta  ejusdem  coloris.  Item,  unum 
tabernaculum  cum  nobili  pictura  de  coreo.  Item,  casula  dalmatica 
et  tunicula  Indi  coloris  ligate  aurifragio.  Item,  alba  cum  apparatu 
de  floribus  et  leonibus  deauratis.  Item,  tunicula  Indi  coloris  cum 
bisantis  et  parvis  floribus  deauratus.  Item,  vij  cervicalia.  Una 
cambuca  argentea  bene  ornata  auro  et  gemmis,  quam  habet  Epis- 
copus  Walterus.  Due  mitre  de  alba  samitta  egregie  ornate  auro  et 
gemmis  et  cirotece  cum  gemmis.  Duo  brachia  argento  cooperta.  Unum 
cristallum  cum  apparatu  de  argento,  plenum  reliquiis.  Unum  cum 
quibusdam  capillis  Sancti  Petri.  Unum  cristallum  cum  reliquia 
Sancti  Demetrii-Alabastrum.  Unum  cristallum  cum  capillis  Domini 
nostri  Jesu  Christi.  Unum  cristallum  cum  reliquia  Sancti  Stephani. 
Unum  cristallum  cum  oleo  Sancte  Katerine.  Duo  cornua  de  ebore. 

De  dono  Episcopi  Ricardi  (Blondy)  : — Due  palle  de  baudekyno  * 
una  rubea  et  una  stragulata.1  Una  crocei  coloris  cum  avibus.  Una 
cum  campo  rubeo  et  parvis  avibus.  Una  crocei  coloris  cum  aviculis. 
Unum  tapetum  ad  cooperiendum  tumbam  suam.  Unum  barudum 2 
pulerum  et  magnum  cervical  coopertum  coreo  cum  floribus.  Una 
mitra,  sandalia  virida  cum  aquilis  deauratis  et  cirotecis. 

De  dono  Episcopi  Walteri  (Bronescombe)  Primi : — Due  palle  nove 
de  baudekyn  que  ponuntur  circa  majus  altare  in  duplicibus  festis  et 
una  in  medio  altare  cum  majestatibus.  Item,  una  cum  leonibus  de 
baudekyn  et  una  diversi  coloris. 

De  dono  Decani  Serlonis : — Una  magna  culcitra  rubea,  una  capa 
purpurea. 

De  dono  Johannis  Episcopi : — Una  capa  samitta  cum  leonibus 
deauratis. 

1  Tapestry,  see  Proverbs,  c.  xxxi.  v.  22.  2  A  bier. 


VESTMENTS,  &c.  299 

De  dono  Roger!  Decani : — Una  culcitra  bordata  cum  vinea  et  ununi 
vetus,  una  capa  baudekyn. 

De  dono  Johannis  Rof,  Archidiaconi  Cornubie  : — Una  nigra  palla 
cum  aquilis.  Una  frontella  rubea  ante  altare  Sancte  Crucis,  parvi 
precii.  Una  capa  de  alba  samitta  cum  pavoiiibus.  Duo  vexilla  cum 
Petro  et  Paulo.  Item,  due  pelves  majores  de  argento. 

De  dono  Decani  Willielmi  Stanwey: — Una  palla  crocei  coloris 
cum  floribus. 

De  dono  Rogeri  de  Toriz,  Archidiaconi  Exon : — Una  capa  baudele 
viridis  cum  avibus  cornutis  et  duo  capita  habentibus. 

De  dono  Bartholomei  Archidiaconi.  Due  majores  culcitre  Alex- 
andri.  Una  culcitra  rubei  coloris  et  crocei.  Una  longa  palla  stra- 
gulata  et  vetus.  Una  capa  bordata  purpurei  coloris.  Unum  par 
vestimentoruin  plenum,  sacerdotum  de  alba  diapra,  casula,  dalmatica, 
tunicula  purpurei  coloris.  Una  capa  de  palla  ad  usum  infancium 
cum  porphesiis  et  leonibus  deauratis. 

De  dono  Archidiaconi  Thome  le  Boteler  : — Una  calcitra  rubei  et 
crocei  coloris.  Una  cambuca  eburnea,  mitra  de  albra  diapra  ornata 
aurifragio  et  cirotece  ad  usum  Episcopi  Innocencium.  Una  capa  de 
baudekyn  cum  quibusdam  avibus. 

De  dono  Rogeri  Cornubie  : — iij  culcitre  Alexandri. 

De  dono  Johannis  Necton : — ij  culcitre  Alexandri,  minoris  precii. 

De  dono  Daniel : — Una  palla  cum  albis  columbis,  una  longa  Indi 
coloris.  Una  capa  de  baudekyn  cum  cucullis.  Item,  due  cape  de 
palla  cum  equis  et  avibus.  Unum  vexillum  Indi  coloris  cum 
avibus. 

De  dono  Eustachii: — i  palla  de  baudekyn  veteri.  Una  palla 
rubea  et  stragulata.  Una  capa  crocei  coloris  cum  rotulis  et 
majestate. 

Due  palle  invente  quondam  cum  reliquiis  bordate  cum  leonibus. 

De  dono  Magistri  Walteri  Penbrok,  Archidiaconi  : — Una  culcitra 
bordata  Indi  coloris,  una  capa  rubea  cum  linura  viridi,  sandalis,  et 
una  de  diapre.  Unu  par  vestimentoruin  plenum  ad  usum  diaconi  et 
subdiaconi  de  alba  samitta  et  amictu  cum  angelorum  ymaginibus  et 
floribus  deauratis.  Unum  cervical  coopertum  de  filo  albo.  Unum 
parvum  scrinium  eburneum. 

De  dono  Domini  primi  Johannis  (Precentoris)  Exon : — Una  capa 
baudekyn  cum  parvis  aquilis  ii  capita  habentibus. 

De  dono  Willielmi  de  Molendinis,  Thesaurarii  Exon  : — Una  palla 
albi  coloris  cum  cervis  et  avibus.  Una  capa  de  baudekyn  rubea. 
Unus  calyx  deauratus. 

De  dono  Martini  Prodom  : — Una  longa  palla  et  stricta.  Una  capa 
purpurei  coloris  cum  floribus. 

De  dono  Henrici  Regis  Anglie  [tercii] : — Una  palla  de  novo 
baudek,  et  una  de  veteri  baudek,  duorum  colorum. 

De  dono  Ricardi  Regis  Almannie : — Una  longa  palla  stragulata. 
Una  capa  de  baudek  nigra,  cum  aquilis  deauratis. 

De  dono  Walteri  de  Topsham,  Vicarii  Exon : — Una  palla  crocei 
coloris. 

De  dono  Reginald!  Mohuni : — Unum  baudek. 

De  dono  Jacke  de  Sully  : — Unum  culcitrum  vetus  cum  campo 
viridi. 


300  APPENDIX. 

De  dono  quondam  uxoris  Walter!  de  Baton  : — i  palla  stragulata. 

De  dono  quorumdam  Comitum : — ij  palle  crocei  coloris.  Item, 
xxiiij  palle  veteres,  de  quorum  dono  nescitur. 

De  dono  Eegine  Almannie,  uxoris  Ricardi  Eegis  Almannie  : — Una 
palla. 

De  dono  Walter!  filii  Petri  Thesaurarii : — Una  capa  et  una  casula 
de  viridi. 

De  dono  Gulielmi  de  Bisiman  quondam  Archidiaconi  Cornubie  : — 
Una  capa  de  baudek  viridi  cum  magnis  avibus  et  parvis  leonibus. 

De  dono  Magistri  Johannis  de  Sancto  Gorano : — Una  capa  de 
rubea  baudek  cum  avibus  nigra  capita  habentibus. 

De  dono  Willielmi  Wolaneston  : — Una  capa  de  rubea  samitta. 

De  dono  Anselmi,  Thesaurarii  Exon : — Una  capa  baudek  viridis 
et  idem  levavit  aulam  Thesaurarii. 

De  dono  Magistri  N.  de  Plynipton : — Una  capa  baudek  cum 
milvis  et  parvis  draconibus. 

De  dono  Henrici  de  Cicestre : — Una  capa  baudek  cum  scutis. 
Unum  rnissale.  Una  cuppa  deaurata  pendens  ultra  majus  altare  cum 
corpore  Dominico.  Ista  cuppa  furata  fuit  et  loco  suo  dedit  Epis- 
copus  Johannes  de  Grandissono  aliam. 

De  dono  Thome  de  Herford  : — Una  capa  bordata  cum  Apostolis  et 
leonibus  deauratis. 

De  dono  Magistri  Roberti  de  Tyfford : — Una  capa  purpurea  plana 
bordata  cum  aurifragio. 

De  dono  Willielmi  de  Bisiman,  senioris  : — Una  capa  de  rubea 
samitta  cum  morsu. 

De  dono  Magistri  Willielmi  de  Byketon . — Una  capa  de  rubea 
samitta  cum  angelis,  militibus  equitantibus  et  armatis  equitantibus 
deauratis. 

De  dono  Archidiaconi  Henrici : — Una  capa  bordata  de  rubea 
samitta  cum  angelis  thurificantibus  deauratis. 

De  dono  Willielmi  Ralegh : — Una  capa  de  rubea  samitta  cum 
bono  aurifragio  et  pulcro. 

De  dono  Roberti  de  Dovere : — Una  capa  de  viridi  samitta  cum 
bono  aurifragio. 

De  emptione  Thome  le  Botiler : — Due  cape  de  rubea  samitta  cum 
largo  aurifragio  et  bono. 

De  dono  Willielmi  Kernum : — Una  capa  de  rubea  samitta  auri- 
fragio bordata. 

De  dono  Roberti  Courtenay,  Canonici : — Due  cape  de  alba  diapra 
cum  morsu  et  parvis  gemmis. 

De  dono  Willielmi  Burk : — Una  capa  de  baudekyn  cum  aquilis, 
duo  capita  habentibus. 

De  dono  Magistri  Ade  de  Sancta  Brigida : — Una  capa  de  rubea 
samitta. 

De  dono  Henrici  de  Warwyk  :'- — Una  capa  de  rubea  samitta  et 
veteri,  ij  pelves  de  argento,  et  iiijor  fiola  de  argento. 

De  dono  Willielmi  de  Sweyndon : — Duo  cape  de  alba  diapra  cum 
floribus  circa  bordarium. 

De  dono  Hugonis  de  Wylton: — Una  capa  de  alba  diapra  cum 
punctis  deauratis. 

De  dono  Thome  Maudit : — i  capa  purpurea  vetus. 


BOOKS,  &c.  301 

De  dono  Eogeri  de  Lymsy : — Una  capa  de  rubea  samitta  et  veteri. 
De  dono  Magistri  Ysaac : — Una  capa  de  rubea  samitta  et  veteri. 
De  dono  Willielmi  Brewere,  senioris  : — Una  cuppa  de  argento  et 
deaurata,  et  calix  de  auro. 

Summa  caparum  in  universo  LXIX. 
Quarum  xxi  sunt  ebdomedarie. 

De  dono  Willielmi  de  Cheny,  Militis : — Una  palla  crocei  coloris 
cum  leonibus  cornua  habentibus. 

De  dono  Magistri  Johannis  de  Esse,  Archidiaconi  Cornubie  : — ij 
cape  de  baudek,  bone  et  honeste. 

Summa  Caparum  Anno  Domini  MCCLXXvij,  die  Sancte  Trinitatis  ejusdem 
anni,  LXXIV.     Et  summa  pallarum  anno  et  die  supradictis  LXXXXIV. 

De  dono  Magistri  Jacobi  de  Berkelay,  Episcopi,  postea  facto  nonas 
Maii,  Anno  Domino  Millesimo  cccmoxxvijmo : — Unum  par  vestimen- 
torum  cum  casula,  est  purpurei  coloris  et  interius  de  viridi  syndone 
lineata,  et  est  ipsa  casula  stola  cum  phano  et  paruris  ad  albam 
egregie  cum  perlis  ornata — amictus  vero  predictorum  vestimentorum 
est  sirniliter  egregie  omatus  cum  grossioribus  perlis  quam  cetera 
supradicta. 

Memorandum  quod  Magister  Johannes,  filius  Roberti,  recepit  de 
Thesaurario  aurifragium  ad  ligandam  capam  suam  de  baudek  pro 
xxx  solidis,  de  quibus  cum  debuit  aliud  aurifragium  ad  casulam 
tunicas  et  dalmaticas  ordinandum.  Ista  alienacio  mutacio  et  ordi- 
nacio  facta  fuit  Anno  Domini  Millesimo  ccLXviij™10  in  festo  Sancte 
Margarete,  in  presencia  Magistri  Rogeri  de  Thoriz,  Archidiaconi 
Exonie,  Ricardi  le  Blundy,  Archidiaconi  Totton,  Thome  Canonici, 
Johannis  de  Exon,  J  ohannis  Nobyl,  Johannis  Precentoris. 

De  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono  Episcopi : — 

Libri  chori  omnes.  Vestimenta  omnis  coloris.  Ornamenta, 
Jocalia  auri  et  argenti  et  alia,  quorum  non  est  pre  multitudine 
numerus  hie  vel  alibi  plene  scriptus,  quia  in  vita  sua  et  postea  sunt 
super  numeruni  multiplicata.  Deus  scit  qui  omnia  novit. 


No.  III. 

INVENTARIUM  Librorum,  Vestimentorum  et  alioram  Ornamentorum  bonorum 
ECCLESIE  BEATI  PETEI  EXONIENSIS,  factum  per  discretum  virum  Dominum 
RICARDUM  DE  BRAiLEGH,  Subdecanum  Ecclesie  predicte,  et  liberatum 
Domino  THOME  DE  HINTON,  ejusdem  Ecclesie  Thesaurario,  die  Mercurii 
proxima  ante  festurn  Nativitatis  beate  Marie  Virginis,  Anno  Domini 
M.ccc.xxvij,  et  per  dictum  Thesauranum  omnia  predicta  liberata  fuerunt. 
Domino  WILLELMO  VIALDE,  Subthesaurario  dicte  Ecclesie,  die  Mercurii 
memorato. 

LlBKI    AUGTJSTINI. 

Super    Psalterium,    tria   volumina    que    sic    incipiunt :  £.  s.    d. 

"  Aurelii  Augustini,"  pretii  omnium   ..       ..       ..       ..  030 

De    consensu    Evangelistarum,    qui    sic    incipit :    "  Per 

eosdem  annos "      040 


302  APPENDIX. 

£.   s.    d. 

Super  evangelium  Joliannis  :  "  In  nomine  Domini  "       ..  0  13     4 

Contra  Faustum  :  "  Faustus  quidam "        013     0 

Super  Epistola  S.  Joliannis  :  "  Meminit  sanctitas  "  ..       ..  0     2     0 

Confessionum :  "  Confessionum  mearum "          0  10     0 

De  Civitate  Dei :  "  Longissimam  civitatem  " 100 

Epistole  :  "  Domino  illustri  "       100 

Exceptiones  Flori  super  Epistolas  Pauli  de  libris  Augus- 

tini  :   "  Paulus  Apostolus  " ..       ..100 

De  verbis  Domini  :  "  Audivimus  "      080 

De  Moribus  Ecclesie  :  "  In  alii  s  libris  " 0     5     0 

De  ordine  rerum :  "  Ordinem  rerum  "        020 

De  Libro  Retractationum  :  "  Tarn  dudum  "       0     5.0 

De  lapsu  niundi :  "  Omnis  homo  "       020 

DeSymbolo:  "  Accipite  Regulam  " 040 

Retractationum  Epistola  :  "Jamdiu"         020 

Contra  Mendacium :  "  Multa  miclii "          0     1     6 

De  bono  conjugali  :  "  Unusquisque  "          040 

De  verbis  Domini :  "  Agite  penitentiam  "          020 

Confessionum:  " Magnus  es  Domine "        0     5     0 

Contra  Felicianum :  "Extorsisti"      050 

Enchiridion:  "  Dici  non  potest  "        040 

LIBBI  GREGORII. 

Duo   volumina   moralium   Gregorii    super  Job,  quorum 

unum  "  Quociens"  et  aliud  "  Dudum  te  frater  "        ..  400 
Duo  Libri  Omeliarum  Gregorii  :  "  Dominus  ac  Redemptor 

noster" 0  12     0 

Quadraginta  Omilie  :  "  Exiit  edictum  vel  quia  largiente  "080 

In  primam  partem  Ezechiel :   "  Dei  Omnipotentis  "         ..  030 

Registrum  Gregorii  :  "  Credo  in  unum  Deum  "        ..       ..  0  10     0 

Dialogus  Gregorii :   "Qualemdie" 030 

Alter  Dialogus,  qui  eodem  modo  incipit 010 

Tertius  Dialogus,  qui  eodem  modo  incipit         040 

Tres  Pastorales  Gregorii  in  tribus  voluminibus :  "  Pasto- 
rales Gregorii;"  pretii  unius  5s.,  alterius  4s.,  et 
tertii  2s. 

LIBEI  JERONIMI. 

Super  Ysaiam  in  minore  volumine  :  "Expletis"  ..  ..  0  13  4 
Super  Ysaiam  in  majori  volumine,  qui  eodem  modo 

incipit 0  10  0 

Super  Osee  in  quaternis :  "  Dominum  Prophetarum  "  ..  010 
Super  quibusdam  capitulis  quaterni  Evangeliorum  :  "  Et 

factum  est " 0  1  0 

Epistole  Jeronimi  in  magno  volumine :  "  Credimus  in 

Deum" - 200 

Vitas  Patrum:  "  Inter  multos "  0  13  4 

Contra  Jovinianum :  "  Quod  sancti "  0  2  0 

„  Ebraicarum  :  "  Qui  in  principio  librarum "  ..  ..  0  3  0 

De  distantiis  locorum :  "  Eusebius  " 0  10  0 

Pammachio  :  "  Sanctus  aliquis "  0  3  0 

De  viris  illustribus :  "  Hortaris  "  050 


BOOKS,  &c.  303 

LIBBI  AMBBOSII.  £  s  d 

Hexameron:  "  Tantum  he  opiniones "  0  5  0 

Super  Epistolas  Pauli :  "  Principia  rerum  "  040 

De  officiis  ministrorum  :  "  Non  arrogans "  030 

De  Sacris  :  "  De  moralibus  "  020 

De  Expositionibus  beati  immaculati  justicia  040 

De  Graciamim  imperatorem  de  fide  :  "  Kegina  austri  "  ..  040 

Apollogia  :  "  Apollogiam  Prophete  "  030 

Liber  Julian!  Toletani  Episcopi :  "  Diem  ilium  "  ..  ..  020 

Super  Ysaac  et  Anima,  "  In  patre  nobis  "  ..  ..  020 
De  Misteriis  :  "  Ex  moralibus,"  et  in  eodem  volumine 

liber  Guymundi  de  Corpore  et  Sanguine  Domini     ..  010 

LIBEI  BEDE. 

Super  Epistolas  Canonicas :  "Jacobus" 0     1     0 

De  tabernaculis :  "Locuturi" 030 

De  ternporibus  :  "  Naturas  rerum  " 0     ]     0 

De  temporibus :  "  De  temporum  racione "         0     1     0 

Super  Apocalypsim:   "Apocalypsim  Sancti  Johannis"  020 
De    ecclesiastica    ystoria    gestis    Anglorum :    "  De    Situ 

Britannie" 050 

LIBBI  YSYDOBI. 

Etymoligiaruin :   **  In  nomine  Sancte  Trinitatis  "     ..       ..  040 
Etymoligiarum  :  "  Domino  meo,"  dimidium  marce 

Ad  Florentinam  :  "  Judei  nepharia  " 0     2     0 

Ad  Florentinam  de  Miraculis  Christi :  "  Quia  Christus  "    . .  0     1     0 

Super  Genesym  :  "  Ystoria  sacre  legis  :' 040 

Rabanus  de  compoto  et  Ysidorus  de   naturis   rerum   in 

uno  volumine  :  "  Dilecto  fratri  "         050 

Super  Exodum  :  "  Hec  sunt  nomina  "       0  10     0 

Osorius  de  Deo  et  superioribus  Creaturis  :  "  Sciendum  est."  030 

De  Interpretacione  nominum :  "  Dominum  meum  "         ..  010 

LIBBI  SANCTOBUM  PATBUM. 

Dionisius  lerarchia  in  quaternis  :  "Multis"      020 

Liber  Athanasii  Epfecopi  de  Trinitate  :  "  Tu  unus  Deus  "050 

,,     Angelomi3  super  regum  :  "  Incipit  prefacio "         ..  030 

,,     Amalarii4:  "  Postquam  scripsi  libellum "       ..       ..  040 

„     Alcunii  de  Trinitate  :  "  Domino  glorioso  "      ..       ..  010 

„     Alcunii  Wydoni  Comiti :  "  Dilectissimo  filio  "       ..  010 

LIBBI  ANSELMI. 

Plures  libri  Anselmi  in  uno  volumine  :  "  Tres  tractatus  "020 

Libellus  Anselmi :  "  Eeverendo  "       030 

Liber  de  Corpore  Domini :  "Legis"          040 

LIBBI  ISTOBIABUM. 

Josephus  magnus  :  "  Josephus  Mathie  filius,"  11  marcas 

Josephus  parvus :  "Quambellum"            0     1     0 

3  Floruit  anno  850.  4  Floruit  Episcopus  Trevirensis,  anno  820. 


304  APPENDIX. 

Plinius   de   natural!   historia :    "  Plinius   secundus,"    2  £.    s. 

marcas. 

Egesippus  :  "  Quatuor  libros  " 03 

Ecclesiastica  Historia  Eusebii  :  "Perceorum  dicunt "     ..  04 

•  Orosius  in  septem  peciis  quaternis  :  "  Orosius  presbiter  "  0     1 

Duo  Yegecii  in  septem  peciis  quaternis  :  "  Antiquis  tern-  0     1 

poribus"         03 

Liber  bestiarum  et  alii  plures  in  uno  volumine  :    "De 

tnbus  naturis "      0     5 

Julius  Solinus  :  "  Cum  et  aurum  "      03 

Sydonius  :  "  Domini  precipis  " 03 

Liber  moralium  Epistolarum,  quatuof  sunt       0,10 

LIBRI  CANONUM  ET  LEGUM. 

Breviarium  Canonum  Apostolorum  in  magno  volumine, 

inYtalia          20 

Canones  Apostolorum  et  canones  magni  Niceni  Concili  et 

aliorum:  "  Episcopus  a  duobus "         04 

Exceptiones  ex  decretis  Komanorum  Pontificum  et  Epis- 

tole  dementis  Pape  :  "  Clemens  urbis  Rome  "         ..06 
Canones  Ecclesiastici  sive  Statuta  Synodi  Myceni :  "  Cre- 

dimusinunum" 02 

Decreta    Brucardi,    Decreta    Ivonis,  Decreta    Graciani : 

"  Brumconi  fideli  "         10 

Decreta  Ivonis  :  "  Excepciones  ecclesiastice  "          ..       ..      05 

Unus  Liber  Penitencialis :  "  Institutio  ilia  " 05 

Regula  clericorum  :  "Obsecrovos" 0     1 

Liber  de  Ordine  Canonicorum  :  "  Si  trecentorum  "  ;  et  in 

eodem  volumine  alius  liber :  "Obsecro"  ..       ..      03 

Martirologium  Latinum  et  Anglicum  :  "  Circumcisio  "    ..      02 
Liber  de  Institutione  Monachorum  :  "Veteris"       ..       ..      0     1 

Digestum  vetus  quod  :  "  Reipublice "      0  10 

Unus  Codex:  "  Hec  que  necessaria  "          1     0 

Liber  no vellarum  Institucionum :  "Indigestis"     ..       ..     0     5 
Duo  volumina  Institutorum :  "  In  nomine  Domini  "        ..      04 

Decreta  Graciani :  "  Humani  genus  "         04 

Decreta,    sine    asseribus,    prima    distinctio    et*  primum 

capitulum  deficit,  2  marcas. 

Lex  Ribuariourum  :  "  Si  quis  ingenuus  "          0     1     0 

Unum  par  Deere talium  vetus :  "  Juste  judicate,"  1  marca. 
Aliud  par  Decretalium,  quod  eodem  modo  incipit,  1  marca. 

LIBRI  WILHELMI  EPISCOPI. 

Una  Biblia  magna  in  duobus  voluminibus,  10  marcas. 

Alia  Biblia  consimilis  in  duobue  voluminibus,  10  marcas. 

[Ostiensis  in  duobus  voluminibus,  10  marcas. 

Keceptus  de  Domino  Johanne  Episcopo   in  Escambio  pro   duabus 

Bibliis  in  duobus  voluminibus  ejusdem  precii.8] 
Liber  Omeliarum  :  "  Passionem,"  1  marca. 

5  In  a  different  hand. 


BOOKS,  &c.  :il)5 

Alius  Liber  Omeliarum  :  **  Quum  video,"  1  marca.  £.    s.    d. 

Tercius  Liber  Omelium ;  "  Igitur  quam  "          0     1     0 

Passionarius,  in  tribus  voluminibus ;  quorum  primum 
"Quain  Deo,"  secundum  "  Sulpicius  Severus,"  ter- 
cium  "  Silvester  igitur "  200 

Una  Biblia  in  uno  volumine,  4  marcas. 
*?  L. —  Comrmmis  Liber  Sanctorum  de  Usu  Rotomagensi :  "  Archi- 

tectus"      ..       ..       ..       0  10     0 

Unus  Liber  Sanctorum  de  eodem  Usu,  in  duobus  volumi- 
nibus,  quorum  unum  "  Erit  in  novissimis  "  et  aliud 
"Cum  complerentur" 300 

Legenda  Sanctorum  :  "  Stabat  Johannes "         1  10     0 

LIBRI  BABTHOLOMEI  ET  DE  BEATTON. 

Legenda  Sanctorum,  in  duobus  voluminibus,  quorum  unum 

"  Stabat  Johannes  "  et  aliud  "  Clarissimis  viris  "     ..      400 

Passionarius:  "Legitur"  0        2 

Liber  in  octo  peciis  in  uno  quarterio,  partim  de  communi 

et  partim  de  proprio  :  "  Tempore  quo  Maximianus  "040 

Collectarius :  "  Domine  omnipotens "        •     0     5     0 

Benedictionalis :  "Primoomni"        020 

Duo  volumina  Sermonum,  quorum  unum  "Fratres  ex- 
purgate "  et  aliud  "  Quum  adventum  Christi  "          ..040 
Dialogus  Bartholomeii  Episcopi  contra  Judeos  :    "  Quam- 

vis  fides"       040 

Historia  Britonum  :  "  Cum  mecum  multa  "      040 

Legenda  Sanctorum  :  "  Tempore  quo  Maximianus "        ..      1   10     0 

Liber  Sermonum :  "Duolegimus" 050 

Collectarius:  "  Per  omnia  secula " 0     5     0 

Legenda  de  Adventu  sive  Breviarium :  "  Erit  in  novissi- 
mis," 1  marca. 

Aliud  Breviarium  :  "  Erit  in  novissimis  "         020 

Legenda  bona  de  temporali,  in  duobus  voluminibus  de 
dono  Bratton,  quorum  unum  "  Visio  Ysaye  "  et  aliud 
"Facti"  300 

LIBRI  ALUREDI  DE  CERDE. 

Legenda  de  temporali,  in  duobus  voluminibus,  quorum 

unum  "Dicebat"  et  aliud  "Visio  Ysaye  "         ..       ..  300 

Psalmorum  et  pars  Cronicorum  Anglie :  "Beatusvir"   ..  0     10 

Legenda  Sanctorum  :  "  Post  dominice  " 110     0 

MISSALIA. 

Quatuordecim  Missalia  :  quorum  duo  cum  tropariis  unum 
5  marcas  ct  alterum  31. ;  tercium,  bonum  notatum 
sine  tropario,  5  marcas ;  quartum,  notatum,  '31. ;  quin- 
tum,  vetus  notatum,  21.  10s.  ;  sextum,  vetus  non  no- 
tatum, 21.  10s. ;  septimum,  bonum  notatum  cum  tro- 
pariis cum  multis  ymaginibus  subtilibus  de  auro  in 
canone,  31. ;  octavum,  non  notatum,  21. ;  nonum, 
absque  Epistolis  Evangeliis  et  gradualibus,  10s. ;  deci- 
muni  absque  Epistolis  et  Evangeliis,  de  usu  ignoto, 

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306  APPENDIX. 

10s. ;  undecimum,  5s. ;  duodecimum,  2s. ;  tercium  deci-  £.    s.    d. 

mum,  2s. ;  decimum  quartum,  2  marcas  et  dimidium. 
Item,  unum  Missale  novum,  sine  Epistolis  et  Evangeliis, 

de  grossa  litera,  21,  pro  quo  dedit  unum  Missale  cum 

Epistolis  et  Evangeliis  qua  est  in  magno  altari. 

Unum  Manuale  de  usu  ignoto      006 

Summa  Pauperum  cum  catena  que  incipit  "  Compendium 

operis,"  dimidium  marci. 

ANTIPHONARIA. 

Quatuor  Antiphonaria :  quorum  unum,  cum  psalterio  et 
collectario,  3L  ;  aliud,  absque  collectario,  quatuor,  ter- 
cium, sine  collectario,  21.  10s. ;  quartum,  cum  imnario 
principio,  21.  5s. — quod  quidem  quartum  ordinatum 
donum  Ecclesie  de  Wydeb  per  decanum  et  capitulum. 

Duo  Epistolaria 1   10     0 

Item  unus  novus  liber  Epistolarum 110     0 

Legenda  de  Commemoracionibus  Sanctorum,  que  incipit 

"  Cum  duodecim "         068 

Septem  Gradalia,  quorum  3  cum  troperiis,  pretii  cujus- 

libet  per  se v 1     0     0 

Et  duo  cum  troperiis,  precii  cujuslibet  per  se        ..       ..      0  13     4 
Et  duo  sine  troperiis,  precii  cujuslibet  per  se        ..       ..      0  10     0 

Item,  duo  troperia  per  se,  quorum  unum  precii  6s.  Sd. 
et  aliud  5s. 

Item,  liber  vetus  quern  habent  de  Consuetudine  in  Con- 

sistorio  ad  jurandum 0     2     0 

PSALTERIA. 

Octo  Psalteria :  quorum  unum  cum  Placebo  et  Dirige  non  notatum 
et  alterum  notatum,  precii  1  marce  ;  aliud,  cum  Placebo  et  Dirige  et 
imnario  notato,  precii  10s. ;  tercium  et  quartum  cum  imnariis,  precii 
utriusque  10s. ;  quintum  duplicatum,  viz.  Jeronomi  et  Ambrosii, 
precii  dimidii  marci ;  sextum,  cum  multis  orationibus,  precii  5s. ; 
septimum,  de  antiqua  litera,  precii  3s. ;  octavum  vetus,  precii  2s. 

Item,  Ajrtiphonarium  vetus  cum  Collectario  et  imnario,  precii 
1  marce. 

Item,  unum  Portiforium  vetus  notatum,  precii  40s. 

Item,  aliud  Portiforium  bonum,  de  dono  B.  Decani,  precii  6  marce. 

Item,  unum  Manuale  bonum,  de  dono  ejusdem,  precii  20s. 

Martirilogia  et  Collectaria  —  Duo  Martirilogia,  quorum  unum 
precii  4s.  et  aliud  I2d. 

Item,  Placebo  et  Dirige  cum  Sepultura  Mortuorum,  in  duobus  volu- 
minibus,  precii  2s.  ^ 

Quinque  Collectaria,  quorum"  unum  precii  4s.  et  quatuor  precii 
4s.,  quia  non  sunt  in  usu. 

Item,  unum  Collectarium  novum,  precii  1  marce. 

Textus  quatuor  Evangeliorum,  in  asseribus  ligneis,  precii  2s., 
qui  sic  incipit,  "Beatissimo." 

LIBRI  DIVINE  PAGINE. 

Genesis  glosatus,  "  In  Principio,"  precii  dimidii  marce. 
Liber  Duodecim  Prophetarum,  "  Quam  quidem,"  precii  3s. 


BOOKS,  &c.  307 

Glosatura  super  Psalteria,  principium  deficit,  precii  Qd. 

Cantica  canticorum,  in  duobus  voluminibus,  "  Osculetur  me," 
precii  l'2d. 

Epistole  beati  Pauli  glosate  per  Sanctum  Anselmum,  "Paulus 
Servus,"  precii  dimidii  marce. 

Actus  Apostolorum  glosati,  "  Primum,"  precii  4s. 

Epistole  Canon  ice  glosate  et  Apocalipsis  Johannis,  "  Apocalipsis 
Jesu  Christi,"  precii  12s. 

Genesis  glosatus,  de  dono  Thome,  "  Deus  Celum,"  precii  2s. 

Genesis  glosatus,  de  dono  Petri,  precii  4s. 

LIBRI  de  dono  Eoberti  de  Blound,  et  Henrici,  Archidiaconi  Totton  : 

Job  glosatus,  "  Vir  erat,"  precii  4s. 

Quatuor  Evangelia  glosata,  "  Liber  generationis>"  precii  1  marce. 

Antique  Glose  super  Psalterium,  "  In  hoc  Psalmo,"  precii  I2d. 

Epistole  Pauli  glosate,  "Paulus  servus,"  quibus  magna  pars 
textus  deest,  precii  3s. 

Mattheus  et  Marcus,  in  uno  volumine,  "  Mattheus  ex  Judea," 
precii  1  marce. 

Tractatus  super  Lucam,  "  In  mense,"  precii  2s. 

Item,  Mattheus  et  Marcus,  de  dono  Henrici,  Archidiaconi  Totton, 
"  Mattheus  ex  Judeis,"  precii  20s. 

Lucas  et  Johannes  glosati,  in  uno  volumine,  "  Fuit  in  diebus," 
precii  dimidii  marce. 

Mattheus  glosatus,  in  quaterno  de  5  peciis,  "Mattheus  in 
Judea,"  precii  2s. 

Ezechiel  Propheta,  "  Hie  Ezechiel,"  precii  2s. 

Quarta  Thome,  de  dono  Eicardi  Wiclesslade. 

LIBRI  de  dono  Willielmi  de  Cicestrie,  et  aliorum  subscriptorum  ; 

Boecius  Consolacionis,  "  Boecius  iste,"  precii  2s. 

Partes  Boecii,  in  uno  quaterno  de  quatuor  peciis,  "Domino 
Patri,"  precii  I2d. 

O  Prudentii,  plurima  opuscula,  "Per  quinquennia,"  precii  lid. 

Liber  ejusdem,  *'  Senex  fidelis,"  precii  3d. 

Alius  glosatus,  "  Senex  fidelis,"  precii  6d. 

Arator,  Prosper,  Sedulius,  "  Inter  florigeras,"  precii  3s. 

Liber  Persii,  precii  3s. 

Glosa  antiqua  super  magnum  Statium,  precii  I2d. 

Psalterum  glosatum,  de  dono  Pagani  Capellani,  "Cum  omnes," 
precii  40s. 

Item,  Epistole  Pauli  glosate,  de  dono  Eoberti  de  Hane,  "  Prin- 
cipia,"  precii  £3. 

Epistole  Pauli  glosate,  de  dono  ejusdem  Eoberti,  precii  50s. 

Mattheus  et  Marcus  glosati,  in  uno  volumine,  de  dono  ejusdem, 
"  Mattheus  ex  Judea,"  precii  1  marce. 

Libellus  Johannis  Crisostomi,  "  Quis  dabit,"  precii  2s. 

Psalterium  glosatum,  de  dono  Henrici,  Archidiaconi  Totton, 
"  Cum  omnes,"  precii  40s. 

Liber  Sententiarum,  de  dono  Willielmi  de  Molendino,  "  Cupi- 
entes,"  precii  20s. 

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308  APPENDIX. 

Alius  Liber  Sententiarum,  de  dono  Henrici,  Archidiaconi  Totton, 
precii  20s. 

Sexdecim  libri  Manuales  Benedictionales  et  Capitulares,  qui  non 
appreciantur,  que  nou  sunt  de  usu. 

Epistole  Pauli  glosate,  de  dono  Henrici  Episcopi,  "Prima 
rerum,"  precii  2  marce. 

Unus  textusjrubius,  "  Principium,"  precii  3s.  Qui  innovatus  per 
Dominuni  Johannem  Episcopum,  videlicet  cum  cruce,  Johanne  et 
Maria  argenti  deaurati  et  bene  amelati  cum  duobus  scutis  ejusdem 
Domini. 

Unus  liber  ad  ordines  faciendos,  "  Eedemptor." 

Ordinale  de  veteri  usu,  precii  I2d. 

Unurn  Manuale,  ex  dono  Eogeri  Gosee,  "  Ordo  qualiter,"  precii  2s. 

Psalterium  interlineare  glosatura  de  Anglico,  precii  2s. 

Liber  Sapiencie  et  Ecclesiastici,  in  uno  volumine  glosate,  "  Dili- 
gite  justiciam,"  precii  dimidii  marce. 

Lucas  et  Johannes  glosati,  in  uno  volumine,  "  Lucas,"  precii  20s., 
de  dono  Ade  de  Sancta  Brigida. 

Psalterium  Anselmi  glosatum,  brevis  glosature,  precii  dimidii 
marce. 

Psalterium  vetus  per  loca  glosatum,  precii  3s. 

Marcus  glosatus,  sine  asseribus,  "  Initium  evangelii,"  precii  4s. 

Aurelius  super  Johannem  glosatum,  "  In  principio  erat  Verbum," 
precii  4s.,  et  illud  initium  versus  medium  libri. 

Portille  super  Johannem  et  Lucam,  "  Omnium  porna,"  3s. 

Leviticus  glosatus,  "  Cum  autem  Moisen,"  5s. 

Marchianus  de  7  Artibus,  "  Titulus  iste,"  5s. 

Liber  12  Prophetarum  glosate,  "  Non  idem  ordo  est,"  1  marca. 

Johannes  glossatus  in  principio,  "  Hie  est  Johannes,"  12J. 

Lucas  glosatus,  non  ligatus,  "  Quam  quidem,"  2s. 

Ysayas  glosatus,  Inmologion  Ancelmi,  et  alia  in  eodem  volumine, 
quod  sic,  "  Inter  super  Judam  et  Jerusalem,"  dimidium  marce. 

Epistole  Decretalium  veterum,  3s. 

Epistole  Decretalium  Philosophia,  Magistri  Willielmi  de  Conchis, 
sine  asseribus,  "  Queris  Dux,"  2s. 

Andrononichus  super  Genesim,  "  Cum  superna,"  12d. 

Clementarium  Papie,  novumet  bonum,  "  Fili,"  20s. 

Ordinale  ligatum  cum  catena,  5s. 

Venitarium  pro  duplicibus  festis,  2s. 

Legenda,  in  uno  quaterno  de  festo  Sancti  Gabrielis,  I2d. 

Historia  cum  legenda  de  Corpore  et  Sanguine  Christi,  4s. 

Epistole  de  Communi  Sanctorum,  "  Ecce  sacerdos,"  3s. 

Actus  Apostolorum  cum  Epistolis  Canonicis  et  Apocalipsi,  glosata, 
"Primum  quidem,"  10s. 

Liber  de  Corpore  et  Sanguine  Domini,  "Karissimo  suo,"  2s. 
Johannis  de  Cornubia,  "  In  concilio  Turonensi,"  2s. 

Liber  Sapientie  Salamonis  glosatus,  sine  asseribus,  2s. 

Epistole  Jacobi  glosate,  2s. 

Parvus  Liber  de  Sacris  dedicationibus,  12s. 

Liber  Marciani,  \1d. 

Sermones  Bernardi  Abbatis,  "  Hodie  fratres,"  3s. 


BOOKS,  &c.  309 

Breves  glose  super  Psalterium  et  Apocalipsim  glosatam,  sit  in 
quaternis,  "  Propheta,"  \2d. 

Penetentiale  vetus  et  alia  plura,  cum  Anglico  in  fine,  "  In  prin- 
cipio,"  I2d. 

Sermones  in  Festivitatibus  Sanctorum,  "  Propiciante  Divinitate," 
2s. 

Historia  Britonum,  "  A  Principio  mundi,"  6d. 

Sermones  diversorum  Doctorum  super  Epistolis  et  Evangeliis,  ab 
Adventu  Domini  usque  Pascha,  "Fratres  scientes,"  dimidium  marce. 

Liber  Ivonis  de  Gestis  Regum,  2s. 

Liber  Sedulii,  "  Domino  meo  sancto,"  12d. 

Parabole  Salamonis,  6d. 

Liber  Prosperi,  6d. 

Consimilis  Liber  Prosperi,  sine  asseribus,  2d. 

Vetus  Liber  Sermonum,  sine  asseribus,  fid. 

Sexdecim  Libri  Manuales  Benedictionales  et  Capitulares,  qui  non 
appreciantur,  qui  non  sunt  de  usu. 

Multi  alii  libri  vetustate  consumpti  Gallice,  Anglice,  et  Latine 
scripti,  qui  non  appreciantur,  que  nullius  valoris  reputantur. 

LIBRI  provenientes  tempore  Thome  Thesaurarii,  per  personas  sub- 
scriptas  : — 

Liber  Concordaneiarurn,  ex  dono  Magistri  Willielmi  Roges,  4 
marce. 

Alquinus  super  Evangelis  in  duobus  voluminibus,  de  dono 
Magistri  Thome  de  Lechelade,  precii  4  marcarum. 

Distinctiones  Fratris  Mauricii,  jle  dono  Eicardi  Germeyn,  "  Ab- 
jecto,"  20s. 

Distinctiones  Fratris  Nicholai  seu  Goroni,  de  dono  ejusdem, 
dimidium  marce. 

Vetus  Biblia  de  gracili  litera,  de  dono  ejusdem,  20s. 

Liber  Sententiarum,  de  dono  ejusdem,  2  marcarum. 

Psalterium  glosatum,  de  dono  ejusdem,  1  marca. 

Sermones  Guydonis,  sine  asseribus,  de  dono  ejusdem,  1  marca. 

Manipulus  Florum,  sine  asseribus,  dimidii  marce,  ex  dono  ejusdem. 

Unum  Missale  bonum,  de  dono  Johannis  Wele,  5  marcarum.  Quod 
est  ad  altare  Sancti  Johannis. 

Unum  Portiforium  magnum  in  duobus  voluminibus,  100s.  Quod 
est  in  choro  in  catena  ad  deserviendum  populo. 

Unum  Psalterium  bonum,  de  dono  ejusdem,  in  catena  cum  porti- 
forio  predicto,  1  marca. 

Liber  Gramaticalis  qui  dicitur  Catholicon,  de  dono  Domini 
^Walteri  de  Stapeldon  Episcopi,  100s. 

Cronica  Westmonasterii  de  Gestis  Anglorum,  "  Tempora  summa," 
de  dono  Walteri  de  Stapeldon  Episcopi,  2  marce. 

Cronica  Martini  in  duobus  quaternis,  "  Quam  scire,"  de  dono 
Roberti  de  Otery,  4s. 

De  dono  Domini  Ricardi  de  Braylegh,  pro  anima  sua  et  Domini 
Eoberti  de  Aysperton,  unus  liber  continens  ^V  isitacionem  Infirmo- 
rum  et  Officium  de  Defunctis,  et  incipit  "  Ordo  brevis." 

Unum  Processionale,  pro  anima  dicti  Domini  Roberti. 


310  APPENDIX. 

De  dono  Domini  Johannis  Mounteyn,  unus  liber  qui  vocatur 
"  Brito." 

Unum  Portiphoriuin  "bonum,  de  dono  Bartholomei  Decani,  6 
marcarum. 

Unum  Manuale  bonum,  de  dono  Kicardi  Brayleghe  Decani,  20s. 


CALICES  CUM  CETERIS  VASIS  ARGENTEIS. 

Duo  calices  de  auro,  quorum  unus  de  auro  puriori  ponderis  79s.  4d. 
et  alius  49s.  Gd. 

Decem  calices  deaurati,  quorum  unus  magnus  emalatus,  ponderis 
67s.  6c?.,  et  unus  cum  perulis  in  pede,  ponderis  25s.  10d.,  et  tercius 
cum  pomello  emalato,  ponderis  27s. ;  quartus  magnus  vetus,  ponderis 
37s.  5d. ;  quintus  magnus  cum  pede  quilerato,  ponderis  34s. ;  sextus 
cum  pede  dentato  et  parvo  agno  in  cooperculo,  ponderis  lOs.  parte ; 
septimus  cum  rotundo  pomello  piano,  ponderis  26s.  Id. ;  octavus  cum 
pede  planis  et  stella  in  cooperculo,  ponderis  19s.  (yd. ;  nonus  cum 
pede  et  cooperculo  planis,  ponderis  21s.  4d. ;  decimus  crusatus  in 
pede  et  cooperculo,  ponderis  20s.  6d. 

Unus  calix  albus  non  deauratus,  ponderis  17s.  6d. 

Duo  capita  argenti  deaurati,  pro  baculis  pastoralibus,  quorum 
unum  ponderis  70s.  et  aliud  30s.  6d. 

Unus  baculus  pastoralis  eburneus  argento,  ligatus  per  loca  due. 

Due  mitre  albe  debiles.  Tercia  indii  coloris  cum  bonis  perulis 
paucis  et  aliis  lapidibus.  Una  de  rubreo  samicto,  et  alia  rnitra  de 
sarnicto  crocei  coloris. 

12  pectines  ebumei,  unde  septem  debiles. 

1  phiola  argenti  magna  pro  oleo,  cum  literis  [B.C.  1]  in  circum- 
ferencia,  sine  cooperculo,  ponderis  35s.  lOd 

2  phiole,  argenti  deaurate  cum  triffura  exterius  et  cooperculis, 
ponderis  18s.  4d. 

Unum  novum  par  phiolarum  bene  amelatarum,  ponderis  17s. ;  de 
dono  Johannis  de  Wewlingworth,  aurifabri. 

1  philiola  argenti  sine  cooperculo,  ponderis  5s.  2d. 

Par  pelvium  argenti,  de  dono  Johannis  Eof,  ponderis  53s. 

1  pelvis  argenti  cum  triffura  per  loca  deaurata  cum  4  ymagi- 
nibus,  ponderis  39s.  2d. 

1  par  pelvium  argenti  cum  ymaginibus  episcoporum  fundatorum, 
de  dono  Magistri  Henrici  de  Warwik,  ponderis  65s.  Sd. ;  excambi- 
atum  par  executores  Episcopi  Thome  pro  uno  pari,  ponderis  30s. 

Una  pelvis  argenti,  vetus  et  fracta,  de  dono  Theobaldi,  Archie- 
piscopi  Cantuariensis,  ponderis  17s.,  liberata  Episcopo  Johanni. 

2  navicule  argenti  cum  2  coclearibus  argenti,  ponderis  37s.  Qd. 

6  thuribula  argenti  cum  catenis  argenteis,  quorum  4  deaurata 
exterius  cum  triffura  subtili,  unde  unum  ponderis  10  marcis  aliud 
7  marcis,  tercium  73s.,  quartum  45s.,  et  duo  per  loca  debiliter 
deaurata,  ponderis  41  18s. ;  item  duo  nova  cum  catenis  exterius 
deauratis. 

Duo  candelabra  argentea  fracta  et  debilia  cum  pedibus,  ponderis 
cum  ligno  reperto  inter hin  77*. 


CHALICES,  &c.  311 

Duo  candelebra  argenti  nova,  per  loca  deaurata,  de  dono  Epis- 
copi  Thome,  ponderis  5L  Us.  Sd. 

2  cuppe  argenti,   quarum  una  cum  catena  et   triffura  exterius 
deaurata  ponderis  5?.  6s.  Sd.  et  alia  alba  in  medio  deaurata  pon- 
deris 61s.  Sd. 

Unum  vas  argenti  ad  aquam  benedictam  cum  duobus  aspersoriis 
argenti,  per  loca  deauratum,  de  dono  Episcopi  Thome,  ponderis 
5?.  Is.,  tria  brachia  ligni  exterius  argenti  et  lapidibus  ornata. 

1  brachium  ligneum  cupro  ornatum. 

Tres  cruces  nove  deaurate  et  emalate,  quarum  una  est  cum  tabula 
argenti  ultra  magnum  altare. 

Una  crux  ligni  argento  ornata  et  deaurata  cum  triffuris,  et  4 
magnis  berillis  plena  reliquiis. 

Una  crux  ligni  argento  ornata  et  deaurata  cum  diversis  lapidibus 
et  ymaginibus  eburneis. 

Tres  parve  cruces  debiles  et  fracte  ornate  argento  et  cupro, 
quarum  ymago  unius  est  eburnea. 

Quatuor  cornua  eburni  argento  falleratica,  quorum  duo  cum 
reliquiis. 

Quatuor  pixides  eburni  cum  reliquiis. 

Quatuor  scriniola  eburni  cum  reliquiis,  quorum  duo  fracto. 

Unum  scriniolum  fractum  ligneum. 

6  scriniole  ligni,  unde  quedam  cum  reliquiis. 

Una  parva  coffra  depicta :  in  qua  sunt  9  phiole  cristalline  argento 
ornate  cum  reliquiis,  et  16  filatoria  argenti  ornata  cum  reliquiis,  et 
unum  filatorium  argenti  cum  osse  beati  Brannoci,  de  dono  Bartholomei 
Decani ;  et  calix  beati  Dunstani  cum  reliquiis,  et  una  manus  argenti 
cum  junctura  (a  joint)  Sancti  Wolstani  et  Alabastrum  beate  Marie 
Magdalene,  cum  pede  argenti. 

Due  cruces  parve  de  cupro  et  vitro  ornate,  modici  valoris. 

Unum  parvum  scriniolum  de  ebano  nigro,  cum  multis  lapidibus 
cristalli. 

Due  parve  pixides  de  ebore,  quarum  una  argento  debiliter  ornata 
continet  diversos  lapides. 

Tria  ova  griffonum,  quorum  duo  fracta. 

Filatorium  argento  ornatum  cum  ligno  Dominico,  cui  est  parva 
crux  argenti  appensa. 

Una  parva  bursa  miri  operis  et  diversi  coloris,  cum  diversis 
reliquiis  falleratis  argento. 

Una  parva  crux  auri  cum  ligno  Dominico  et  longa  catena  argenti 
deaurata,  parva  pixis  argenti,  ponderis  2s. 

7  textus  cum  asseribus  argenti  ornati,  unde  unus  bene  ornatus 
argento  et  lapidibus  emalatus,  unde   1  fuerat  condonatus  custodibus 
per  Episcopum  et  Capitulum. 

3  parva  scriniola  argenti  cum  reliquiis. 

Unum  majus  scriniolum  argenti  deauratum  cum  diversis  lapidi- 
bus et  perulis  preciosis,  de  dono  Episcopi  Walteri  de  Stapeldon. 

Unum  parvum  per  loca  deauratum,  de  dono  Johannis  Wele. 

Caput  beate  Margarete,  falleraticum  per  domim  Thome  de 
Henton,  cum  argento  bene  deaurato. 

Duo  chaufepoyns  de  cupro  deaurato. 

Imago  beate  Virginis  eburni  in  tabernaculo  eburneo  fracta. 


312  APPENDIX. 


VESTIMENTA. 

TRIA  filatoria  cum  capitibus  auri,  unde  unum  longum  et  largum 
et  duo  ;  unum  filatorium  de  serico  bonum  stragulatum  cum  serico 
diversi  coloris ;  duo  filatoria  de  serico  plana  et  alba  scilicet  stragu- 
lata  in  capite  cum  auro ;  sex  paria  de  serico  debilia  diverse  secte ; 
tria  filatoria  linea,  unde  unum  pro  desco. 

Decem  albe  festivales,  cum  paruris  brondatis,  stolis  manipulis,  et 
amictis  de  secta  diversa,  quarurn  una  alba  de  serico  cum  suo 
arnicto  cujus  paruera  non  est  de  secta,  unde  una  stola  rubra  debilis. 

2  albe  de  serico  cum  paruera,  una  stola  et  manipulo  sine  amictis, 
una  alba  cum  parura,  stola  et  manipulo  et  amicto  de  perulis,  de 
dono  Jacobi  de  Berkelegh. 

3  albe  cum  paruris  tantum  et  amictis. 

4  paria  vestimentorum  plenaria,  cum  casulis,  tunicis,  dalmaticis  et 
toto  alio  apparatu ;  quorum  unum  album  diaspre,  secundum  croceum, 
tertium  rubrum,  quartum  viride. 

Quatuor  albe,  cum  nigris  perulis,  stolis,  manipulis  et  amictis. 

2  casule,  quarum  una  nigri  coloris  et  alia  crocei  coloris. 

Una  casula,  tunica,  dalmatica,  et  duo  scapularia,  de  samito  nigro. 

Una  casula  de  samicto  rubeo,  non  linita  (lined). 

Una  casula  de  bourde  de  Elisandre  diversi  coloris,  cum  alba,  stola 
et  amicto  et  manipulo,  parvi  valoris,  pro  turre  Sancti  Johannis. 

Una  casula,  tunica  et  dalmatica  de  rubro  velveto,  de  dono  Magistri 
Willielmi  de  Kilkenny. 

Una  casula,  tunica  et  dalmatica,  facte  de  piano  de  Desaintes,  ex 
assignatione  executorum  Domini  Walteri  de  Stapeldon  Episcopi. 

Una  alba  cum  toto  apparatu,  de  eadem  secta. 

Una  alba  cum  amicto,  de  eadem  secta. 

Una  alba  cum  toto  apparatu  cum  perulis  rubei  samicti  cum 
leopardis. 

Una  alba  cum  toto  apparatu,  de  armis  regum  Francie  et  Anglie, 
de  dono  Domini  Walteri  de  Stapeldon. 

Una  alba  cum  amicto  et  perula  rubei. 

Una  casula  varii  colons,  cum  alba,  amicto,  stola  et  manipulo,  pro 
cruce ;  due  albe,  cum  paruris  amictis,  stolis,  et  manipulis,  et  duobus 
filatoriis. 

Tres  albe  veteres  cum  paruris  et  amictis  tantum. 

Una  alba,  cum  paruris  consuetis  stola,  manipulo  et  phano,  de 
dono  Walteri  de  Lychelade. 

Una  alba  festivalis  cum  paruris  consuetis  cum  serico  amicto  de 
secta,  eadem  stola  et  manipulo  sericis  alterius  secte. 

Una  alba  cum  paruris  frettatis  amfreto  stola,  et  manipulo  ejusdem 
secte. 

Una  alba,  cum  amicto,  stola  et  manipulo,  cum  paruris  coloris 
Indei  nigri  lineatis,  pulverizatis  lunis  et  stellis. 

Una  alba  cum  amicto,  stola  et  manipulo,  cum  paruris  veteribu« 
Hneatis. 

Una  alba  debilis  tantum. 


VESTMENTS.  313 

Una  alba  cum  amicto  tantum  cum  rubeis  paruris  brondatis. 

Unum  par  vestimentorum,  videlicet  capa,  casula,  tunica,  dalmatica, 
cum  una  alba  et  uno  pan  parura,  quatuor  amictis,  una  stola  et  uno 
manipulo  de  rubeo  samicto  cum  fretta  et  clavibus  brondatis  auro,  de 
dono  Walteri  de  Stapeldon  Episcopi. 

Una  capa,  casula,  tunica,  dalmatica,  alba,  cum  amicto  stola,  et 
manipulo  cum  parura,  que  omnia  sunt  viridis  coloris  diverse  tamen 
secte,  de  dono  Eicardi  de  Braylegh. 

Una  casula  de  purpure  cum  serico  aurifragio  de  parulis,  de  dono 
Domini  Jacobi  de  Berkeley. 

Tres  albe  cum  amictis,  stolis  et  manipulis,  cum  perula  Indei 
coloris. 

Una  casula  de  samicto,  que  assignatur  altari  Bracton,  Indei  coloris 
una  alba  cum  amicto,  stola  et  manipulo  cum  paruris  diversi  coloris, 
pro  altari  beati  Thome. 

Due  albe  debiles  cum  duobus  amictis,  et  uno  manipulo  cum 
parura  de  secta. 

Una  casula  de  armis  Anglie  et  Francie  frettata. 

Una  casula  albi  coloris  cum  aurifragio  de  Castellis,  cum  tunica  et 
dalmatica  et  capa  de  albo  serico,  cum  alba,  stola,  amicto  et  mani- 
pulo, cum  paruris  auro  textis. 

Una  casula,  tunica,  dalmatica  de  panno  de  Antioche  cum  volu- 
cribus,  et  una  capa  cum  pavonibus  et  griffonibus,  et  uno  amicto 
parurato  ejusdem  secte. 

Una  alba  cum  amicto,  stola  et  manipulo,  cum  paruris  brondatis 
super  panno  Indei  coloris  cum  scutis. 

Una  capa,  casula,  tunica,  dalmatica  de  nigro  samicto  ;  cum  una  alba 
stola,  amicto  et  manipulo,  cum  paruris  brondatis  cum  ymaginibus ;  et 
una  mitra  de  nigro  samicto. 

Una  alba  cum  amicto,  stola  et  manipulo,  consutis  de  diversis 
armis. 

Una  parura  pro  amicto,  per  se  brondata  cum  auro  et  argento  de 
diversis  armis.  Empta  ab  executoribus  Episcopi  Walteri  Sta- 
peldon. 

Una  casula  tunica  dalmatica  de  albo  panno  sericto,  de  emptione 
Wynton. 

Una  casula  de  novo  panno  de  Venise,  cum  bestiis,  crocei  coloris. 

11  amicti  festionales,  unde  1  cum  parura  viridi  brondata  cum 
ymaginibus. 

7  amicti  feriales. 

13  stole,  unde  3  bone  et  ceteri  debiles  ;  12  manipuli  debiles. 

Velum  quadragesimale  preciosum. 

5  tualle  cum  paruris,  quarum  4  Debiles  et  fracte. 

Una  tualla  pro  magno  altari,  cum  volucribus  de  serico. 
Una  tualla  de  caumbre  serico  stragulata. 

4  tualle  sine  paruris,  quarum  2  debile,  et  omnes  iste  predicte  pro 
magno  altari. 

3  tualle  curte,  consumuntur  cum  paruris. 

6  tualle  curte,  quarum  2  bone. 

6  custodiis  pro  magno  altari,  unde  2  de  Sindone  alba  cum  paruris 
de  serico,  et  2  de  dono  Eicardi  de  Braylegh. 


314  APPENDIX. 

Una  tualla  nova  de  Regis,  pro  magno  altari. 

3  tualle  nove,  pro  magno  altari  de  panno  de  Rains. 
Una  tualla  curta  stragulata  in  extremitatibus. 

Alia  tualla  pro  patena,  cum  capitibus  serico  contextis. 

5  manntergia,  quorum  2  debilia. 

Unum  manutergium  de  Eylisham. 

Unum  repositorium  ligneum  pro  corporalibus,  coopertum  cum 
saccis  de  serico. 

Aliud  repositorium,  brondatum  cum  Crucifixo  et  Coronacione. 

Unum  repositorium,  brondatum  cum  Crucifixo  et  Majestate. 

Unum  repositorium,  consutum  cum  armis  de  auro  et  serico. 

2  repositoria  comrnunia,  et  onmia  ista  predicta  pro  magno  altari. 

5  repositoria  debilia,  pro  minoribus  altaribus,  unde  2  consu- 
muntur. 

5  vexilla  de  rubea  Sindone,  cum  ymaginibus,  quorum  2  parva. 

7  zone  de  serico,  unde  4  debiles. 

8  baldekine,  quorum  4  bone  et  4  communia. 

Unus  pannus  vetus  de  Venise  convertitur  in  usus  puerorum. 

6  panni  de  serico  et  canabo,  unde  duo  albi  de  dono  Domini  Thome 
de  Henton,  et  quorum  unus  cum  parvis  circulis  rotundis  cum  bestiis 
et  unum  frontallum  de  dono  Ricardi  de  Braylegh,  et  unus  prove- 
niens  cum  filio  Domini  Willielmi  Martini,  et  alius  dono  ejusdein 
cum  Avelina  de  Giffard,  unde  facte  sunt  parure. 

10  cervicalia,  unde  4  debilia,  unum  coopertum  ex  altera  parte 
cum  panno  de  sancto,  brondata  cum  capite  Sancti  Johannis  et  5  scutis. 

8  quissini  debiles,  unde  4  de  serico ;  unus  quissinus  bonus,  cujus 
una   pars  est  cum  diversis    armis    brondatis,  de   dono    VValteri  de 
Stapeldon,    Episcopi   Exon;    unus   quissinus    de    panno  viridi   de 
serico. 

10  capule  pulcre  festivales  de  priori  inventario,  due  de  Baude- 
kine ;  4  casule,  quarum  3  valde  debiles,  I  liberata,  ad  altare  beati 
Nicholai. 

Una  capa,  casula,  tunica,  dalmatica,  cum  una  amicta  et  uno  pari 
parurarum  de  panno  viridi  cum  volucribus  aureis,  de  dono  Ricardi 
Germeyn,  cum  alba  et  amicta. 

Una  casula  de  panno  de  auro,  cum  zona  preciosa  et  aurifragio, 
de  legato  Episcopi  Walteri  de  Stapeldon. 

9  paria  tunicarum  et  dalmaticarum  festivalium. 

4  paria  tunicarum  et  dalmaticarum,  unde  tres  de  secta  et  quarta 
in  modico  discordat.     Tres  tunice  seu  dalmatice  diverse  secte ;  una 
parva  tunica,  pro  Episcopo  Puerorum. 

Due  cape,  una  casula,  tunica  et  dalmatica  nova,  de  nigro  panno 
bono  de  serico  bono,  de  emptione, 

20  cape  de  rubeo  samicto,  quarum  4  valde  debiles  et  tres  eciam 
debiles,  quarum  due  convertuntur  inlisus  puerorum. 

5  cape  purpurei   coloris,  quarum  una  cum  bestiis  brondatis  et 
alia  plana. 

6  cape  viridi  coloris,  quarum  quatuor  valde  debiles. 
4  cape  Indei  coloris,  unde  una  fere  nova. 

4  cape  albe,  quarum  3  nove  unde  una  brondata,  do  dono  Walteri 
Episcopi  de  Stapeldon. 


VESTMENTS.  315 

Una  capa  alba,  pro  memoriali  Magistri  Koberti  de  Stapeldon. 
7  cape,  unde  tres  debiles  et  cetere  consumpte. 

5  cape  crocei  coloris,  mediocris  valoris. 

3  cape  de  nigro  samicto,  debiles. 
Una  capa  alba  de  panno  de  Luk. 

Una  capa  bona  de  rubeo  samicto,  brondato  cum  historia  Jesse,  de 
dono  Episcopi  Thome. 

Una  capa  bona  Indei  coloris  brondata,  3  nolis,  de  dono  Willielmi 
Breuwere. 

Una  capa  de  nigro  samicto,  brondata  cum  ymaginibus  et  nolis,  de 
dono  dicti  Willielmi. 

6  cape  mbri  coloris  brondate,  quarum  3  debiles. 

1  capa  de   rubeo  panno   de    serico,    brondato  cum  clavibus  et 
crucibus. 

Una  capa  rubea  de  samicto  solempnis  brondata  ymaginibus,  de 
dono  Episcopi  Walteri  primi. 

Una  capa  de  Sandalin  debilis,  brondata  cum  ymaginibus  et 
bestiis. 

Capa  de  Antioch,  de  dono  Domini  Thome  de  Cherleton. 

Capa  alba  de  Antioch,  de  dono  Ade  de  Murymouth  primi. 

Capa  alba  de  eadem  secta,  de  dono  Ade  Murymouth  secundi. 

2  capa  crocei  coloris  de  samicto,  de  emptione  scaccarii. 
Una  capa  alba,  de  dono  Magistri  Thome  Ate  Knolle. 

Una  capa  Indei  coloris  cum  clavibus,  de  dono  Magistri  Ricardi  de 
Morcester. 

Una  capa  viridis  coloris  cum  stola,  de  dono  Magistri  Benedict!  de 
Paston. 

Una  capa,  de  dono  Magistri  Roberti  de  Veteri  terra. 

12  cape  antique  de  Baudekine. 

4  cape  de  Baudekine. 

Una  capa  rubea  frettata  cum  circulis  de  auro,  de  dono  Magistri 
Thome  de  Hertford. 

Due  cape  ruba3  cum  bestiis  in  circulis  auri,  altera  debilis. 

Due  cape  de  rubeo  samicto  cum  rosis  albis  brondate,  de  dono 
Johannis  de  Brenton  et  Thome  de  Henton. 

Una  capa  rubea  brondata,  cum  clavibus  et  crucibus  Andree,  de 
dono  dicti  Johannis  de  Brenton. 

Una  capa  de  rubeo  samicto,  brondata  cum  ymaginibus  in  taber- 
naculis  auri,  de  dono  Magistri  Johannis  Wele. 

Una  capa  cooperta  cum  auro  et  brondata  cum  ymaginibus,  ex 
legato  Episcopi  Walteri  de  Stapeldon. 

Una  capa  de  panno  auri  Antioch,  de  dono  Willielmi  de  Kinges- 
cote. 

Una  capa  panni  de  Nak,  Indei  coloris,  de  dono  Johannis  de  Dyre- 
wyne. 

Una  capa,  de  albo  samicto,  frettata  et  brondata  cum  rosis,  de  dono 
Domini  Ricardi  de  Brailegh,  cum  uno  MORSO  de  argento. 

Una  capa  de  panno  rubeo  Antioch  cum  bono  aurifragio,  de  dono 
Willielrni  de  Kilkenny. 

Una  capa  de  albo  samicto,  brondata  cum  ymaginibus  auri,  de  dono 
Roger!  de  Cherleton. 


316  APPENDIX. 

Una  capa  de  panno  de  Nak  viridi,  quern  pannum  dederunt  execu- 
tores  Edwardi  Regis  [2]  pro  memoriali  suo. 

Una  capa  de  panno  viridi  de  Nak,  de  emptione  scaccarii. 

Una  capa  nova  de  samicto  de  Tule,  brondata  cum  ymaginibus 
beati  Edmundi  Martiris  et  leopardis,  de  dono  Eicardi  de  Wydeslad. 

1  morsus  argenteus  amelatus,  ponderis  33s.  4cf.,  de  dono  Johannis 
de  Wenlig,  aurifabri. 

1  morsus  consimilis  operis,  ponderis  25s.  7d.,  de  dono  Episcopi 
Walteri  de  Stapeldon. 

1  morsus  argenteus  deauratus,  cum  ymaginibus  beate  Virginis 
et  pluribus  lapidibus  et  perlis,  ponderis  20s.  Wd.,  de  dono  Willielmi 
Brewere. 

1  morsus  argenteus  deauratus  rotundus,  cum  ymagine  Salvatoris, 
ponderis  15s.  3d.,  de  dono  Episcopi  Walteri  primi. 

I  morsus  de  cristall  falcratus,  cum  argento  deaurato. 

II  morsi  de  metallo  deaurato,  cum  ymaginibus  et  petris  diversis. 
1  morsus  brandatus  cum  Veronica,  de  dono  Episcopi  Thome. 


PANNJ  DE  SERICO. 

PANNUS  magnus  de  papejay,  vetus  et  fractus  per  medium  (conver- 
titur  in  alios  usus). 

2  panni  de  samicto,  brondato  cum  fretturis  et  crucibus  et  clavibus, 
de  dono  Episcopi  Thome  [Bitton]. 

Unus  pannus  de  Venise,  cum  volucribus,  crocei  coloris,  de  dono 
Thome  de  Bodeham. 

Unus  pannus  Indei  coloris  besantatus. 

Unus  rubrus  longus  et  stratus  cum  circulis. 

Duo  magni  purpurei  coloris,  cum  leopardis  et  borduris  in  capi- 
tibus  cum  crucibus  et  clavibus. 

Duo  panni  rubei,  linnei  cum  carduis  Indei  coloris. 

Unus  pannus  sericus  curtus,  rubei  coloris  interius  et  crocei  coloris 
exterius. 

Unus  pannus  de  serico.  cum  griffon  ibus  in  circulis  cum  grossa 
linea  tela. 

Unus  pannus  sericus,  cum  accipitribus  in  circulis  vetus. 

1  pannus  sericus,  cum  volucribus  et  aliis  bestiis,  de  dono  sororis 
Domine  Margarete  de  Mulis. 

Una  culcitra,  de  legato  Domine  Matilde  le  Archediakene,  de 
panno  viridi  cum  volucribus  et  leunculis  auro  contexto. 

Una  culcitra  vetus  rubea  Sindonp  cooperta. 

Due  culcitre  de  Baudekinis,  cum  "bordura  et  crucibus  et  clavibus. 

Unus  pannus  de  Nak  Indei  coloris,  cum  volucribus  auri,  de  legato 
uxoris  Domini  Willielmi  Martin. 

Unus  pannus  de  Nak  viridi  coloris,  cum  volucribus  de  auro,  de 
legato  Domini  Willielmi  Martini. 

Duo  panni  besantati  minutim,  ex  assignatione  executorum  Epis- 
copi Walteri  de  Stapeldon. 


BANNERS  AND  SUNDRY  GIFTS.  317 

Due  pecie  de  velvet  rubeo,  continentes  16  ulnas  et  dimidium  ex 
emptione.  Inde  venduntur  Willielmo  de  Kelly  9  nine  pro  tunica  et 
dalmatica. 

Tres  baculi  de  eburno,  pro  rectoribus  chori. 


BANCARIA. 

Duo  bancaria  bona  cum  diver  sis  armis,  quorum  unum  magnum  et 
longum. 

Unum  tapetum  magnum  Anglicanum  frettatum,  de  dono  Willielmi  de 
Potton. 

4  bancaria  strata  strangulata,  1  tapetum  magnum  frettatum,  de 
dono  Domini  Johannis  Episcopi. 


Post  confectionem  dicti  Inventarii  pervenerunt  subscripta  ex  dono  diversarum 
personarum  prout  intitulantur. 

Unum  vas  cristallinum  bene  faleratum  cum  argento  deaurato,  pro 
Eucaristia  imponenda,  de  dono  Johannis  Episcopi. 

Una  culcitra  de  serico  et  canabo  stragulata,  de  dono  executorum 
Johannis  Toyler,  consensiente  Domino  Kogero  de  Nonaunt,  milite. 

Unum  repositorium  pro  corporalibus,  brondatum  cum  ymagine 
Crucifixi  ex  una  parte,  et  Coronacione  beate  Virginis  ex  alia  parte, 
ex  dono  executorum  Episcopi  Walteri  [Stapeldon]. 

Una  crux  cristallina  cum  ymagine  argenti  deaurata  et  pede 
argenteo  bene  emalato,  de  dono  Episcopi  Johannis. 

Una  Psalterium  bonum  et  correctum  et  bene  punctuatum,  per 
eundem  Johannem  Episcopum. 

Unum  Antifonarium  bonum,  cum  Capitulario,  Collectario,  Ympna- 
rio  et  Psalterio,  de  dono  ejusdem  Domini  Johannis  Episcopi. 

Due  parve  libre  de  Actibus,  cum  litera  Ebraica,  de  dono  dicti  Epis- 
copi Johannis. 

1  pannus  pro  magno  altari  linteus,  cum  carduis  viridibus,  de  dono 
ejusdem. 

1  parura  pro  magno  altari  de  Nak,  de  dono  ejusdem,  cum  2  tuallis 
stragulatus. 

2  textus  pro  magno  altari. 

1  Legenda  nondum  posita  in  asseribus,  continens  Temporale  de 
Sarum. 

1  Psalterium  cum  Ympnario  et  Collectario. 

1  Collectarium  et  1  Gradale,  pro  rectore  chori. 

2  filatoria  pro  surnmo  altari,  et  2  frontalla  de  rubea  samicta,  picta 
leopardis,  pro  altaribus  Sanctorum  Thome  et  Stephani  Martirum. 

1  tuella  de  serico  pro  summo  altari. 

1  tualla  pro  desca  in  choro. 

1  par  corporalium  cum  repositorio  coSperto  cum  serico. 


318  APPENDIX. 

1  casula  de  rubia  baudekyn  cum  diversis  armis  in  dorso. 

1  casula  purpurea,  cum  floribus,  griffonibus  et  parvis  leonibus, 
pro  Adventu  et  Septuagesima. 

1  casula,  dalmatica  et  tunica,  Indi  coloris. 

1  capa  de  rubeo  velvet  et  2  cape  de  albo  samicto. 

1  capa  de  violet  cum  aurifragio  lato,  et  2  cape  purpuree  stragu- 
late,  pro  Adventu  et  Septuagesima. 

1  stola  et  fanula  Indi  coloris. 

Due  rubea  cape  de  samicto,  de  dono  ejusdem. 

Due  cape  de  violet  et  una  casula  cum  duabus  scapularibus,  de 
dono  ejusdem. 

3  cape,  et  casula,  tunica,  et  dalmatica  purpurei  coloris,  de  eadein, 
ad  utendum  in  Die  Animarum  et  in  istis  anniversariis  sequentibus  : 
videlicet,  Domini  Johannis  Episcopi,  Gulielmi  patris  sui,  Sibelle 
matris  sue,  Jonanriis  Pape  XXII. 

Unus  pannus  viridis  coloris  pro  magno  altari,  de  dono  Magistri 
Ade  Murimoth  primi. 

Unus  pannus  pro  magno  altari  de  alba  samicta  cum  ymaginibus 
Episcoporum,  de  dono  ejusdem  Epi. 

Unus  pannus  pro  magno  altari  de  diversis  coloribus,  de  dono 
ejusdem  Johannis  Episcopi. 

1  tualla  bona,  cum  nigris  literis  in  capite  et  purpura  de  armis 
Anglie  et  patris  ejusdem  Episcopi. 

Una  alba  cum  apparatu,  cum  parura  rubei  coloris  operata  cum 
leopardibus. 

Duo  amicta  pro  diacono  et  subdiacono  cum  paruris  de  scuto 
ejusdem  Johannis  Episcopi. 

Duo  gradalia  nova,  ex  dono  dicti  Domini  Johannis  Episcopi,  ut 
unum  jaceat  coram  Decano  et  aliud  coram  Thesaurario. 

Unum  frontale  rubrum  cum  ymaginibus  Sancte  Trinitatis,  et  12 
Apostolorum,  pro  memoriali  Domini  Walteri  de  Stapeldon,  nuper 
Exoniensis  Episcopi,  pro  magno  altari. 

1  casula  cum  Salutatione  beate  Marie  in  dorso,  cum  dalmatica  et 
tunica  albi  coloris,  ex  dono  Johannis  Exoniensis  Episcopi. 

1  Missale  pulcrum  et  magnum,  ex  dono  ejusdem  Episcopi. 

1  Antiphonale  novum,  ex  dono  ejusdem  Episcopi. 

Duo  Psalteria  pro  utraque  parte  chori,  ex  dono  ejusdem 
Episcopi. 

3  cape  chori  albe,  viz.  2  pro  rectoribus  et  1  pro  sacerdote,  pro 
duplicibus  festis,  ex  dono  ejusdem  Episcopi. 

Una  capa  alba  de  samicta,  pulcra  et  optima  cum  scutis  ejusdem 
Johannis  Episcopi. 

Una  casula  rubea  cum  volucribus  deauratis  et  floribus  argenteis, 
et  tunica  et  dalmatica  ejusdem  secte,  de  dono  ejusdem  Episcopi. 

2  Antiphonaria   cum  Ympnario   bofca   cum   Collectario,  de  dono 
ejusdem  Johannis  Episcopi. 

2  Antiphonaria  cum  Psalteriis,  de  dono  ejusdem  Johannis  Epis- 
copi. 

1  Portiphorium  bonum  cum  auro  illuminatum  et  cum  velvet 
cooperto,  de  dono  ejusdem. 

4  Gradalia  cum  troperiis,  de  dono  ejusdem  Johannis  Episcopi. 


SUNDRY  GIFTS.  319 

1  Psalterium  cum  Canone,  Placebo,  et  Dirige,  de  dono  ejusdem. 

1  Legenda  Sanctorum  nova  per  annum  et  altera  de  temporal!,  de 
dono  ejusdem  Johannis  Episcopi. 

3  vexilla  de  Bokeram  alba  et  rubea,  de  dono  ejusdem. 

1  scrinolum  eburneum  cum  reliquiis,  bene  apparatum,  de  dono 
ejusdem. 

1  Psalterium  bone  punctuatum  de  dono  ejusdem  Johannis  Episcopi. 

3  ampulle  argenti,  quarum  1  deaurata,  pro  oleo,  de  dono  ejusdem. 

Una  capa  et  casula,  in  qua  idem  Dorninus  Episcopus  consecratus 
fuit,  cum  tunica  et  dalmatica  ejusdem,  coloris  albi. 

3  cape  albe  pro  choro  et  sacerdote  pro  pueris. 

3  cape  crocei  coloris,  viz.  2  earum  pro  rectoribus  chori,  et  tertia, 
de  velveto,  pro  sacerdote. 

I  casula  cum  tunica  et  dalmatica  et  3  cape,  viridis  coloris. 

1  casula  cum  tunica  et  dalmatica,  crocei  coloris. 

3  albe  cum  paruris  de  armis  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  cum  2 
stolis,  3  fanonis  et  3  amictis. 

Item,  1  casula  cum  tunica  et  dalmatica,  et  capa  albi  coloris  cum 
papingays. 

3  Legende  nove,  viz.  de  Temporali  and  Sanctis. 

TJnum  .  .  .  . ,  6  Lectionaria,  unum  Gradale  et  unum  Psalterium. 

Unus  liber  Epistolarum  et  alius  Evangeliorum. 

Una  alba  et  amicta  viridis  coloris  cum  stola  et  fanone. 

4  Gradalia. 

1  liber  pro  gradu  chori  et  pulpiti. 

1  liber  Epistolarum  et  Evangeliorum. 

Duo  Ordinalia. 

Unum  Missale  pro  majore  altari  cum  libro  Epistolarum  et  Evange- 
liorum. 

Una  capa  cinerei  coloris,  pro  Die  Cinerum. 

Due  cape  de  samita. 

Due  cape  albe  de  eadem  secta  cum  aurifragio  de  leonibus  et 
leopardis. 

Due  alie  cape  de  simplici  secta  cum  aurifragiis  diversis  frettatis. 

Due  cape  albe  cum  floribus  et  tribulis  frettatis,  et  aurifragio  cum 
ymaginibus  in  dorso. 

Due  cape  purpurei  coloris  de  velvet  cum  aurifragio  de  diversis  armis. 

Una  capa,  cum  casula,  tunica  et  dalmatica  de  velvet  cum  aurifragio. 

Unum  frontale  cum  ymaginibus  et  armis  Domini  Johannis  Epis- 
copi, et  una  tuella. 

Unum  frontale  de  diversis  color ibus. 

Unum  frontale,  decem  cape.     Unum  mantellum. 

Una  casula,  tunica  et  dalmatica,  et  alba  amicta  et  alio  apparatu, 
de  viridi  colore. 

Unum  Psalterium  bonum  cum  Calendario. 

(A  few  more  have  been  rendered  indistinct  by  the  application  of  galls.) 


320  APPENDIX. 


BISHOP  MYLES  COVERDALE'S  CITATION  OF  THE  DEAN  AND 
CHAPTER  OF  EXETER. 

AFTER  Or  hartie  comendations  this  shalbe  to  requyre  you  that  you 
and  ev'y  of  you  appere  before  us  at  the  Bysshops  palace  wthin  this 
Citie  of  Exon  the  morow  upon  Michaelmasse  Daie  next  co'mi'ge,  w"h 
shalbe  the  laste  Daie  of  September,  there  to  answeare  to  suche 
dema'ds  and  questions  co'cerni'ge  the  Jewells,  plate,  and  other  orna- 
me'ts  of  yor  cathedrall  churche,  as  by  the  king's  mate  comission^unto 
us  directed  apertaineth,  and  this  faile  you  not  to  do  as  ye  will 
answere  to  the  co'trarie.  This  hartelie  fare  you  welle,  the  xxixli  daie 
of  August,  A°.  1552. 

Yor  lovinge  Frends, 
MYLES  Exon  WILLM.  HURST 

P.  CAREW 
THOS.  DENYS 
JOHN  MYDWYNTER 
To  the  Bight  Worshipfull  Mr. 
GEORGE  CAREW,  Chaunter  of 
the   Cathedrall  Churche   of 
Exetr,  and  to  all  other  his 
bretherin    Residentiaries    of 
the  same. 


INVENTARIUM 

Omnium  JOCALIUM  et  BONOEUM  ECCLESIE  CATHEDRALIS  BE  ATI  PETRI  EXON 
existencium  sub  custodia  Magistri  THOME  AUSTELL,  Thesaurarii  Ecclesie 
predicte,  ac  JOHANNIS  DEYMAN,  JOIIANNIS  PRYLL,  THOME  THACHER,  et 
W.  SABYN,  custodum  et  aliorum  ut  infra  patebit :  factum  vi  die  mensis 
Septembris  Anno  Domini  Millesimo  cccccmo  vito  per  Magistros  RICARDUM 
NORTON  et  JOHANNEM  NANS  per  Decanum  et  Capitulum  ad  hoc  electos. 

In  primis,  1  pixis  auri  cooperati  pendens  super  magnum  altare  pro 
Corpore  Dominico  intus  pervando,  ponderis  3  uncias  et  dimidium 
quarterii. 

Item,  1  capa  argentea  et  deaurata  pro  dicta  pixida  cooperienda, 
ponderis  26  unc. 

(We  omit  in  future  the  word  Item,  which  occurs  throughout,  and  also 
the  word  Ponderis,  where  the  sum  is  not  carried  out.) 

1  pixis  magna  argentea  deaurata  pro  Corpore  Dominico  intus  por- 
tando,  operata  cum  diversis  ymaglnibus  tarn  in  pede  quam  in  cooper- 
culo,  cum  una  cathena  argentea  in  pomello  ejusdem,  ponderis  61  unc. 

1  pixis  argentea  deaurata,  stans  super  4  pedes,  operata  cum  diversis 
lapidibus  preciosis,  in  qua  olim  erant  cerothece  beate  Virginis,  modo 
tamen  sunt  cum  reliquis  reliquu  posite,  continet  quoque  110 
lapides  et  73  margaritas. 

Caput  Sancte  Margarite  cum  una  tabula  lignea  in  fundo  inclusum 
in  una  theca  argentea  deaurata,  operata  cum  diversis  lapidibus  pre- 


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ciosis,  videlicet  in  circulo  corone  9    et  in  collo  ac  inferior!  parte 
humeromm  25. 

Una  cathena  aurea  cum  parva  cmce  aurea,  in  qua  est  pars  ligni 
Sancte  Crucis. 

1  pixis  argentea  deaurata  cum  sex  diversis  armis  in  superior  parte, 
ex  dono  seu  provisione  Magistri  William  Fulforde. 

Ymago  Sancti  Petri  argentea  et  deaurata,  portans  in  manibus 
librum  et  claves,  cum  armis  Johannis  de  Grandissono  quondam 
Exoniensis  Episcopi  in  pede,  et  stans  super  tres  leones,  ex  dono 
supradicti  Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

Ymago  Sancti  Pauli  argentea  et  deaurata  tenens  in  manibus  gla- 
dium  et  librum  cum  armis  dicti  Johannis  de  Grandissono  in  pede, 
stans  super  tres  pedes,  ex  dono  ejusdem. 

Ymago  magna  argentea  et  deaurata  Sancti  Pauli,  portantis  librum 
in  manu  dextra  et  gladium  in  manu  sinistra  cum  armis  Domini 
Johannis  Dynam,  ex  dono  uxoris  dicti  Johannis. 

Una  crux  argentea  et  deaurata,  stans  super  magnum  pedem  argen- 
teum  deauratum  et  amellatum  cum  duobus  angelis,  tenentibus 
dictum  crucem  et  cum  4  Evangelistis  cum  uno  birillo  in  medio 
ejusdem,  pro  Corpore  Dominico  intus  ponendo,  portando  Die  Ee- 
surrectionis  Domini,  de  dono  Johannis  Comitis  quondam  de  Hun- 
tyngdon. 

Alia  crux  argentea  et  deaurata,  stans  super  4  leones  cum  magno 
pede  amellato  supportata  cum  2  angelis  in  utraque  parte  et  Cruci- 
fixo  cum  beata  Maria  et  beato  Johanne  in  summitate  ejusdem  cum 
vitro  in  medio,  pro  corpore  Dominico  intus  ponendo  et  processione 
portando,  de  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

Alia  crux  alta  argentea  et  deaurata  cum  magno  pede,  cum  4  leo- 
nibus,  cum  rosis  amelatis,  cum  22  margaritis;  supportata  cum  4 
columpnis,  cum  Crucifixo,  Maria  et  Johanne,  de  dono  Edmundi 
Stafford  quondam  Exoniensis  Episcopi. 

Alia  crux  argentea  et  deaurata,  stans  super  magnum  pedem  cum 
4  Evangelistis  et  4  scutis  de  armis  Johannis  de  Grandissone  et 
aliorum  aceciam  cruce  Maria  et  Johanne  de  .  .  .  necnon  ymagi- 
nibus  beate  Virginis  ac  Petri  et  Pauli  ammellatis  operatis  cum  78 
lapidibus  preciosis  et  9  margaritis,  habens  intus  partem  Sancte 
Crucis  ordinatam  ad  ponendum  in  sepulcro. 

Altera  crux  argentea  et  deaurata  cum  Crucifixo,  Maria  et  Johanne 
cum  diversis  ymaginibus  in  pede  amellata  et  4  Evangelistis  supra, 
ordinata  ad  portandum  cum  baculo  in  majoribus  festis. 

Due  cruces  unius  secte  argenti  et  deaurate  cum  crucifixo  et  4 
Evangelistis.  et  armis  Sancti  Petri  in  pede  ornate,  ad  portandum 
super  baculos  in  festis  majoribus. 

Alia  crux  parva  argentea  et  deaurata,  ad  portandum  super  baculum 
in  diebus  ferialibus. 

Unus  pes  argenteus  et  deauratus  pro  dicta  cruce  cum  uno  pyn 
ligneo  pro  cruce  imponenda. 

3  pecie  argentee  et  deaurate  cum  3  bossis  argenteis  et  deauratis 
et  amellatis  ad  portandum  crucem  in  festis  principalibus. 

2  pecie  argentee  albe  cum  6  bossis  argenteis  et  deauratis,  ad  por- 
tandas  cruces  in  festis  duplicibus. 

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Una  crux  argentea  deaurata  cum  ymaginibus  in  pede  amellatis 
et  cruce  de  berillo  in  eadem. 

Super  capita  ymaginum  beate  Marie  et  Filii  ejus  duo  corone 
argentee  et  deaurate  in  frontispicio  magni  altaris. 

Calices. 

Unus  calix  cum  patena  de  puro  auro,  ex  dono  Edmundi  Lacy 
nuper  Exoniensis  Episcopi,  ponderis  23  uncie. 

1  calix  argenteus  et  deauratus  cum  patena  et  cum  Crucifixo, 
Maria  et  Johanne  et  9  aliis  ymaginibus  in  pede  amellatis  ac  1 
Majestate  in  patena  amellata. 

1  calix  cum  patena  argentea  et  deaurata  planus  cum  Crucifixo  in 
pede  et  una  manu  in  patina  sculpta  dante  benedictionem,  ponderis  . 

1  calix  cum  patena  argenteus  et  deauratus  cum  ymagine  pietatis 
beate  Marie  et  armis  Eegis  Anglie  in  pede. 

Unus  calix  cum  patena  argenteus  et  deauratus  cum  Crucifixo  et 
armis  Johannis  de  Grandissono  sculptis  in  pede  ejusdem. 

Unus  calix  partim  deauratus  cum  tribus  ymaginibus,  videlicet 
Salvatoris,  Petri  et  Pauli  cum  Veronica  in  patena. 

Unus  calix  deauratus  cum  floribus  de  lyce  in  pede,  ac  manu  in 
patena. 

Calices  existentes  in  Scaccario. 

Imprimis,  unus  calix  argenteus  ac  partim  deauratus  cum  Crucifixo 
in  pede  ac  Veronica  in  patena. 

Unus  calix  planus  deauratus  cum  agno  in  patena. 

1  calix  argenteus  deauratus  sculptus  et  pomised  in  pede  cum 
manu  in  patena  sole  et  luna. 

1  calix  argenteus  et  deauratus  cum  Crucifixo  et  foliis  traylyd  in 
pede  et  Jesus  in  patena. 

1  calix  argenteus  et  deauratus  cum  Crucifixo,  Maria  et  Johanne 
in  pede  cum  ymagine  beati  Petri  coronati,  tenentis  crucem  in  sinis- 
tra  manu  et  benedicentis  cum  manu  dextera. 

1  calix  argenteus  et  deauratus  cum  8  bossis  in  medio  ac  agno  in 
patena,  et  4  floribus  trifoliatis  in  circuitu  agni. 

1  calix  argenteus  deforis  in  toto  deauratus  et  in  pede  fractus  cum 
sex  bossis  in  medio,  cum  agno  amellato  et  Jesu  in  patena. 

Due  pecie  unius  fracte  patene,  cruce  in  medio  interioris  pecie. 

Tabula  volubilis. 

Item,  una  tabula  volubilis  argentea  et  deaurata  cum  Crucifixo, 
Maria  et  Johanne,  in  medio  ac  12  Apostolis  et  aliis  diversis  yma- 
ginibus infra  amellatis,  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  prout 
patet  in  dorso  ejusdam  :  deficient  9  flores  in  le  crest. 

Pftiole. 

Due  Phiole  auree,  ex  dono  Edmundi  Lacy  nuper  Exoniensis 
Episcopi. 

Due  phiole  argentee  et  deaurate  swagyd  cum  armis  Magistri 
Michaelis  Arcedeken  in  cooperculis  earum,  ex  dono  supradicti 
Michaelis. 


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Due  phiole  argentee  et  deaurate  plane  in  pede,  et  in  cooperculis 
embatelate  et  cum  litera  B.  in  cooperculis  earundem. 

Due  phiole  argentee  et  deaurate  cum  sculptura  Jesus  Christus 
sculpta  in  eisdem,  ex  dono  Magistri  Johannis  Swetysham. 

3  paria  phiolarum  de  stagno,  pro  collateralibus  altaribus. 

1  phiola  argentea  et  deaurata  cooperata  cum  aquila  in  coopertorio 
ex  dono  Matildis  Courtenay. 

Candelabra. 

Duo  candelabra  magna  argentea  et  in  toto  deaurata. 
Duo  candelabra  argentea  alba  cum  armis  Johannis  de  Grandis- 
sono  in  pede. 

Duo  candelabra  de  cupro  deaurata,  ex  dono  Edmundi  Lacy. 
Duo  candelabra  argentea  in  parte  deaurata. 

'Textus  et  Tabule. 

1  textus  argenteus  et  deauratus  cum  Crucifixo,  Maria  et  Johanne 
ac  diversis  ymaginibus  et  armis  Domini  Johannis  de  Grandissono, 
continens  Evangelia,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Ab  Jerosolimis." 

1  textus  argenteus  deauratus  cum  Crucifixo,  Maria  et  Johanne  ac 
4  Evangelistis  in  4  partibus  et  2  angelis  cum  thuribulis,  supra 
capud  crucifixi  annexis  cuidam  libro,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Cujus  venti- 
labum." 

1  textus  argenteus  cum  Crucifixo,  Maria  et  Johanne  ac  4  Evange- 
listis et  1  manu  supra  capud  crucifixi  dante  benedictionem  annexis 
cuidam  libro,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Alius  aliter." 

1  textus,  2  fo.,  "Dei  et  audierunt,"  cum  Crucifixo,  Maria  et 
Johanne  ex  una  parte,  et  ex  altera  cum  ymagine  beate  Marie  portantis 
Filium  in  brachio  dextro. 

1  textus  pro  Quadragesima,  2  fo.,  "  Tus  est  rex." 

1  vetus  textus,  2  fo.,  "  Tus  est." 

2  parva  pulvinaria  pro  eisdem  textibus  portandis. 

1  pila  cuprea  deaurata  pro  summo  altari  ad  manus  celebrantis 
califaciendas. 

1  casula  lignea  operata  et  cooperta  cum  panno  acuali,  in  qua  con- 
tinctur  1  textus  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  cum  Crucifixo, 
Maria  et  Johanne  ex  1  parte,  et  ex  alia  ymago  beate  Marie,  2  fo., 
"  Erat  verbum." 

Textus  argenteus  et  deauratus  cum  Crucifixo,  Maria  et  Johanne, 
cum  4  Evangelistis  in  4  angulis,  cum  1  olla  subtus'pedem  crucifixi, 
cum  hac  scriptura  subtus  eandem  romanis  literis  sculptam  "  Hie 
textus  est  ornatus  ex  communi  erario  Leofrici  Episcopi  curialium- 
que  ejus,"  2  fo.,  "  Semina  pulularent." 

Alius  textus  argenteus  et  deauratus  cum  Crucifixo,  Maria  et 
Johanne  ac  aliis  ymaginibus  per  circuitum,  cum  cruce  de  puro  auro 
tyled  per  totum,  in  cujus  medio  crucifixus  imponitur  supradictus, 
2  fo.,  "  Operarii." 


Due  pelves  quondam  Edmundi  Lacy,  stellate  cum  rosa  rubea  am- 
mellata,  in  fundo  argentee  et  deaurate. 

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324  APPENDIX. 

Due  pelves  argentee  et  deaurate  cum  armis  Edmundi  Stafford 
in  fundo,  ex  dono  ejusdem. 

Due  pelves  argentee  cum  bossis  et  rosa  ammellata  in  fundo  et 
per  fibrarum  circuitum  deaurate,  ex  dono  Domini  Eicardi  Helyer. 

Due  pelves  antique  argentee  cum  armis  Comitis  Devon  in  fundo, 
ex  dono  ejusdem. 

Due  pelves  argentee  swagyd  cum  stellis  in  fundo,  ex  dono  Magistri 
Walter!  Collys. 

1  pelvis  argenteus  cum  cathena  argentea  et  birillo  rotundo  in 
fine,  pendens  ante  magnum  altare. 

1  pelvis  argenteus  cum  cathena  argentea,  pendens  inter  gradum 
chori  et  summum  altare. 

1  malhuim  de  latone  rotundum,  pro  aqua  ad  ablutionem  manuum 
ministorum  evacuandum. 

1  pelvis  argenteus  cum  cathena  et  pila  argentea,  pendens  ad  gra- 
dum chori,  pro  cero  supportando. 

1  olla  rotunda  argentea  et  cooperata,  pro  vino  quereiido  pro 
celebratione  missarum. 

1  ollea  stagnea,  pro  aqua  gerenda  pro  celebratione  missarum. 

Acerra. 

1  acerra  argentea  partim  deaurata,  pro  incenso  imponendo  cochlear 
argenteum,  cum  ymagine  Sancti  Michaelis  in  capite  ejusdem  deau- 
ratum,  1  uncia  et  quarta  et  dimidium  quarte. 

1  antiquus  baculus  cum  4  aulis  argenteis  deputatus,  pro  tenenda 
patena  per  choristam  ante  summum  altare. 

Unum  tintinabulum  de  argento,  ad  portandum  coram  Corpore 
Christi,  tociens  quociens  opus  fuerit,  ponderis  6  uncie  et  dimidium 
uncie  et  1  quaterum. 

Citula  ague  benedicte  Absconsa  et  Virge. 

1  citula  argentea,  cum  manubrio  argenteo,  pro  aqua  benedicta 
portanda. 

Dua  aspergilla  argentea  cum  crinibus. 

Absconsa  argentea  deaurata  cum  armis  Eogeri  Keys,  ex  dono 
ejusdem. 

1  virga  argentea  deaurata,  ad  portandum  in  processionibus,  ex  dono 
predict!  Eogeri  Keys. 

Alia  virga  argentea  alba  cum  armis  predicti  Eogeri,  ex  dono 
ejusdem. 

1  citula  enea,  pro  aqua  in  eadem  benedicenda. 

Thuribula. 

2  thuribula  argentea  deaurata  unius  forme,  cum  armis  Johannis  de 
Grandissono,  ac  4  cathenis  argenteis  in  utroque. 

Duo  thuribula  argentea  cum  "4  cathenis  argenteis  in  utraque 
pounsyd  et  chasyd. 

Thuribula  in  Scaccario. 

1  thuribulum  argenteum  deauratum  de  opere  Sancti  Dunstani 
cum  5  cathenis  albis  argenteis. 


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Aliud  minus  thuribulum  quasi  ejusdem  operis  argenteum,  non 
adeo  bene  deauratum,  cum  quinque  cathenis  argenteis. 

Tercium  thuribulum  argenteum  et  debiliter  deauratum  quasi 
ejusdem  operis,  cum  quinque  cathenis  argenteis. 

Ampulle. 

1  ampulla  argentea  et  deaurata  operata  cum  diversis  ymaginibus, 
viz.,  Papa,  Eege  et  Episcopo,  cum  arrnis  predict!  Domini  Johannis 
de  Grandissono  extra  in  fundo  ejusdem. 

1  ampulla  argentea  et  deaurata  operata  cum  arboribus  et  fron- 
dibus,  cum  armis  predicti  Johannis  in  fundo. 

1  ampulla  argentea  partim  deaurata  operata  cum  foliis  uvarum, 
et  uvis,  cum  armis  predicti  .Johannis. 

Sciphus  et  Pixides. 

1  sciphus  quasi  lapidibus  ligatus  cum  argento,  qui  vocatur 
Sciphus  Marie  Magdalene. 

1  pixis  argentea  et  deaurata,  cum  vexillo  et  lacte  beate  Marie. 

1  parva  pixis  de  puro  auro,  in  qua  includatur  1   spina  de  corona 
Domini. 

45  pecie  argenti  deaurati  diversarum  formarum  cum  diversis 
reliquiis,  in  eisdem  inclusis  in  duabus  cistulis  impositis. 

Custine  pro  summo  altari  et  collateralibus. 

2  curtine  albi  et  viridis  coloris  palyd,  pro  summo  altari. 
2  curtine  collaterals  albi  coloris  de  opere  ly  dyaper. 

6  antiqui  ridelli. 

Mitre  et  Baculi  pastorales  in  custodia  Custodum. 

1  mitra  alba  de  panno  aureo  cum  diversis  ymaginibus  et  perlys, 
operatis  ac  armis  Domini  Johannis  de  Grandissono  infra  les  labbels 
ejusdem. 

1  alia  mitra  glauca. 

Alia  mitra  nigra. 

1  baculus  pastoralis  argenti  et  in  parte  deauratus  cum  armis 
Domini  Johannis  de  Grandissono  ac  diversis  ymaginibus,  supra 
in  cruce  amulatis  ac  duabus  ymaginibus  de  Coronacione  beate 
Marie,  infra  eandem  crucem  cum  tribus  juncturis  argenteis,  cujus 
unaquaque  junctura  est  quasi  longitudinis  unius  cubiti. 

1  vetus  par  cyrothecarum  operatarum  cum  perlis. 

Sudaria. 

2  sudaria  viridis  coloris. 

2  sudaria  de  albo  serico  cum  leonibus  in  fine. 
Quinque  sudaria  de  albo  serico  stragulato. 

Duo  sudaria  de  violatio  sive  purpureo  colore,  ex  dono  Patricii 
Holyburton,  que  portavit  de  Terra  Sancta  Jerusalem. 
1  sudarium  de  panno  rubro  non  serico. 

Fronte  et  Frontellule. 

1  fronta  cum  frontella  cum  tuello  eidem  annexe  de  manual i  opere 
aureo  unius  secte,  cum  ymagine  beate  Marie  in  medio  dicti  frontis 


326  APPENDIX. 

ao  diversis  aliis  ymaginibus,  cum  armis  Johannis  de  Grandissono  in 
utroque  fine,  pro  summo  altare  in  festis  principalibus. 

1  fronta  de  albo  satino  pro  eodem  altari,  operata  cum  quinque 
ymaginibus  episcoporum  ac  octo  armis  predicti  Johannis  de  Gran- 
dissono, ex  dono  ejusdem. 

1  fontella  de  panno  aureo  operata  cum  leonibus  et  undecim  armis 
predicti  Johannis  de  Grandissotfb,  cum  tuello  eidem  annexo. 

1  fronta  de  rubio  satino  operata  cum  quindecem  diversis  ymagi- 
nibus aureis  et  28  armis  diversorum  Dominorum,  ex  dono  Walteri 
Stapeldon. 

1  parva  frontella  de  panno  aureo  latitudinis  et  2  pollicum,  operata 
cum  diversis  bestiis,  cum  1  tuello  eidem  annexo. 

1  fronta  de  panno  rubio  et  viridi,  dperatum  per  totum  pannum 
cum  armis  diversorum  Dominorum,  sine  frontella,  illius  secte. 

1  fronta  de  blodio  satino,  operatum  cum  ymaginibus  beate  Katerine 
et  Margarite,  cum  auro  et  perlys  ac  diversis  stellis  de  auro,  pro 
festis  majoribus. 

1  frontella  de  panno  aureo  pro  eadem  fronta,  operata  cum  diversis 
ymaginibus  Agni  Dei  et  armis  predicti  Domini  Johannis  de  Gran- 
dissono in  utroque  fine,  cum  tuello  eidem  annexo. 

1  fronta  de  albo  velvet,  cum  Crucifixo,  Maria  et  Johanne  de  auro 
in  medio,  ac  diversis  stellis  aureis. 

1  frontella  ejusdem  secte,  operata  cum  stellis  aureis,  cum  1  tuello 
eidem  annexo. 

1  fronta  de  rubio  panno  aureo  cum  helmys  coronatis  cum  viridi. 

1  frontella  ejusdem  secte  cum  1  tuello  eidem  annexo. 

1  fronta  de  rubro  serico,  operata  cum  clavibus  et  crucibus  de 
auro. 

1  frontella  rubea,  operata  cum  floribus  de  lyce  aureis,  et  1  tuello 
annexo. 

1  fronta  glaucii  et  diversi  coloris,  pro  festis  Confessorum. 

1  frontella  ejusdem  secte  cum  tuello  annexo. 

1  fronta  de  rubro  serico,  operata  cum  bestiis  et  volucribus,  pro 
festis  cum  regimine  chori. 

1  frontella  rubii  serici,  operata  cum  clavibus,  et  tuello  annexo. 

1  fronta  de  blodio  serico,  operata  cum  floribus  de  lyce  glaucii 
coloris,  cum  literis  J.  B.  in  medio. 

1  frontella  glaucii  coloris,  operata  quasi  cum  rosis,  cum  tuello 
annexo. 

1  fronta  de  viridi  serico  cum  aureis  canibus,  cum  1  frontella 
ejusdem  secte  et  tuello  annexo. 

1  fronta  de  viridi  coloris,  operata  cum  leonibus  et  volucribus 
aureis,  cum  2  sudariis  cheeky,  ad  implendum  longitudinem. 

1  frontella,  operata  cum  16  armis  predicti  Johannis  de  Grandis- 
sono, cum  tuello  annexo. 

1  fronta  viridis  coloris,  cum  armis  predicti  J.  de  G.  in  medio 
ejusdem,  pro  ferialibus  diebus. 

1  frontella,  operata  cum  clavibus  et  crucibus,  cum  1  tuello  annexo. 

1  fronta  rubii  coloris  de  satino,  cum  ymaginibus  Crucifixi,  Sancte 
Anne,  Sancti  Johannis  Baptiste  et  Michaelis,  cum  scriptura  "Domi- 
nus  mihi  adjutor,"  ex  dono  Edmundi  Lacy  Exoniensis  Episcopi. 


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1  frontella  ejusdem  secte,  cum  armis  dicti  Domini  in  tribus  locis 
ejusdem  et  tuello  annexe,  ex  dono  dicti  Domini  Edmundi  Lacy. 

1  fronta  mbii  coloris,  cum  cyrogrillis  aureis  in  medio  cum  alba 
cruce  pulverisata,  cum  floribus  aureis  traylid,  pro  altare  Sancti 
Michaelis,  continens  in  longitudine  2  virgas  et  in  latitudine  1 
virgam,  duplicatam  cum  blodio  bokeram. 

1  fronta  de  albo  chamblet,  cum  rosis  diversorum  colorum  et 
frondium. 

1  frontella  ejusdem  secte  cum  tuello  annexe. 

1  frontella  nigra  de  damasco  le  Cipris,  cum  tuello  ejusdem. 

Corporalia  cum  casis. 

3  corporalia,  cum  1  casa  de  panno  aureo,  cum  Crucifixo,  Maria 
et  Jonanne  ex  1  parte  et  Coronacione  beate  Marie  ex  altera. 

1  corporale  cum  casa  de  panno  aureo,  cum  Salutacione  ex  una 
parte  et  Nativitate  Domini  ex  altera. 

2  corporalia  cum  casa  de  rubio  velvete,  ex  una  parte  cum  scrip  - 
tura  "  Jesus,  mercy ! "  et  litera  W.  ex  parvis  perulis,  et  ex  blodio 
damasco  cum  supradicta  scriptura  et  litera  M.  ex  parvis  perulis 
i  n.  medio  ejusdem  ex  parte  altera. 

3  corporalia  in  1  casa  de  rubio  tussyw  ex  una  parte  et  crymsyn 
velvete  ex  altera. 

1  casa  de  albo  damasco  cum  aureis  scaleppys  ejusdem  panni  et 
operis  ex  utraque  parte  absque  corporali. 

3  corporalia  in  casa  lignea  cooperta  cum  panno  serico,  operata 
cum  diversis  armis. 

Tuella  pro  altaribus  benedicta. 

1  tuellum  de  opere  Parisiensi  cum  1  nigra  cruce  in  medio,  conti- 
nens in  longitudine  6  virgas. 

1  tuellum  de  opere  Parisiensi,  continens  in  longitudine  6  virgas 
largas  et  in  latitudine  1  virgam  3  quarteria  larga. 

1  tuellum  de  opere  Parisiensi  cum  1  nigra  cruce  flowry,  in  medio 
signato  cum  litera  P.,  continens  in  longitudine  5  virgas  3  quar- 
teria largum  et  in  latitudine  1  virga  dimidium  et  dimidium 
quarterii. 

1  tuellum  de  opere  Parisiensi  continens  in  longitudine  5  virgas, 
et  1  quarterium  operatum  in  utroque  fine  cum  filo  blodio,  in  latitu- 
dine 1  virga  dimidium  quarterii. 

1  tuellum  opere  Parisiensi  cum  rubio  filo  in  4  partibus,  continens 
in  longitudine  6  virgas  dimidium  et  in  latitudine  3  quarteria. 

3  tuella  de  opere  Parisiensi,  ex  dono  Magistri  Walteri  Collez, 
quorum  unum  in  longitudine  6  virgas  et  1  quarterium,  alia  in 
longitudine  5  virgas,  et  tercia  in  longitudine  6  virgas  continet. 

Tuellum  de  Flemmysh,  continens  in  longitudine  6  virgas  large 
et  in  latitudine  1  virgam. 

1  tuellum  de  opere  Parisiensi,  in  longitudine  6  virgas  et  1  quar- 
terium continens  et  in  latitudine  vix  duas  virgas. 

1  tritum  tuellum  et  pene  coiisumptum,  operatum  in  utroque 
fine  cum  palis  rubiis  et  nigris,  longitudinis  4  virgarum  1  quar- 
torium. 


328  APPENDIX. 

Pulvindria. 
Nulla. 

Carpet  et  Panni  coram  altari  sternendi. 

1  larga  carpeta,  ex  dono  reverend!  Georgii  Nevell  nuper  Exoni- 
ensis  Episcopi,  continens  in  longitudine  6  virgas  dimidium  et  in 
latitudine  2  virgas  dimidium. 

1  carpet,  continens  in  longitudine  3  virgas  3  quarteria  et  in 
latitudine  1  virga  dimidium,  ex  dono  Domine  Elizabeth  Courtenay, 
operis  cheeky. 

1  carpet,  continens  in  longitudine  vix  4  virgas  et  in  latitudine  1 
virga  et  dimidium,  ex  dono  Domini  Kicardi  Helyer. 

1  pannus  de  Arys  de  historia  Ducis  Burgundie,  continens  in 
longitudine  10  virgas  dimidium  et  in  latitudine  4  virgas,  ex  dono 
executorum  Edmundi  Lacy. 

3  panni  blodii  cum  rosis  albis  et  armis  Domini  Johannis  de  G., 
pro  frontispicio  magni  altaris  tempore  Quadragesimali  cooperiendo, 
de  dono  ejusdem. 

Apparatus  pro  sepulchro. 

Unus  selor  de  rubio  serico  duplicate  cum  rubio  bokram. 

1  curtina  de  rubio  serico,  pro  le  testo  predict!  selor. 

Due  rubie  pullie  sirnul  confute  cum  hyndys  aureis  tenentibus  1 
braunche  viridis  coloris  in  ore,  continentes  in  longitudine  4  virgas 
dimidium  et  in  latitudine  2  virgas  et  dimidium. 

Due  pallee  rubie  cum  volucribus  et  diversis  bestiis  aureis, 
ex  dono  Domini  Petri  Courtenay  militis,  utraque  in  longitudine 
3  virge  et  dimidium  et  in  latitudine  una  ulna. 

4  pallee  rubei  coloris  cum  ramis  et  volucribus  aureis  et  blodiis 
pedibus,   ex  dono  Eegis,  quarum  cujuslibet  longitudo  est  3  virga- 
rum  1  quarterium. 

1  pallea  rubea  cum  cimbis  et  cignis  ac  frondibus  aureis,  conti- 
nens in  longitudine  3  virgas  1  quarterium  et  in  latitudine  1  virgam 
1  quarterium. 

Vexilla. 

1  vexillum  de  rubio  serico,  stayned  cum  Salutacione  beate 
Marie. 

1  vexillum  de  rubio  serico,  stayned  cum  ymaginibus  Apostolorum 
Petri  et  Pauli. 

1  vexillum  de  rubio  serico,  stayned  cum  ymaginibus  Sancti  Andree 
et  Sancti  Johannis  Baptiste. 

1  vexillum  de  rubio  serico,  stayned  de  Eesurrectione  Domini. 

1  vexillum  de  rubio  serico,  stayned  de  Ascencione  Domini. 

1  vexillum  de  serico  blodio  et  j-ubio  cum  armis  Sancti  Petri  et 
Edmundi  Lacy. 

1  vexillum  de  armis  Comitis  Devon. 

1  vexillum  cum  armis  Sancti  Edwardi. 
S  1  vexillum  cum  armis  Eegis  Arthur!. 

1  vexillum  cum  armis  Ducis  Buckynghani. 

1  banerium  rubeum  pro  Cruce,  cum  ymagine  Petri  et  Pauli. 


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1  banerium  viride  pro  Crnce,  cum  ymagine  beati  Petri  ex  una 
parte  et  Sancti  Pauli  ex  altera. 

3  baneria  ex  panno  lineo  cum  rtibiis  crucibus. 

1  banerium   viridis   color  is,  cum    ymagine   Assumpcionis  beate 
Marie  in  medio. 

2  alia  baneria  viridis  coloris,  de  Resurrectione  et  Ascencione. 

Pendentia  et  Pensella  pro  cereo  pascali. 

2  pendentia  de  armis  Edmundi  Lacy. 

4  pendentia,  de  dono  dicti  Edmuudi,  operata  cum  papejays. 
28  pensella,  pro  majori  parte  de  dono  ejusdem. 

4  vexilla  pro  cereo  pascali,  ex  dono  ejusdem. 
1  pendens  cum  uno  apro. 

Lectronalia. 

1  lectronale  de  albo  serico  duplicato,  cum  panno  lineo,  continente 
in  longitudine  duas  virgas  dimidium. 

1  lectronale  de  albo  stragulato  cum  auro  duplicato  cum  panno 
lineo,  continente  in  longitudine  2  virgas  1  quarterium. 

1  lectronale  de  rubio  baudekyn,  operato  cum  floribus,  et  dupli- 
cato cum  blodio  bokram,  continente  in  longitudine  2  virgas 
dimidium. 

1  lectronale  de  rubio  panno  aureo  cum  helmys  et  cum  viride, 
coronato  duplicato  cum  blodio  bokerain,  continens  in  longitudine 
2  virgas  1  quarterium. 

1  lectronale  de  viridi  baudekyn,  operato  cum  diversis  frondibus, 
et  duplicatum  cum  blodio  bokeram,  continens  in  longitudine  2  virgas 
dimidium. 

Baculi  pro  rectoribus. 

1  baculus  de  ebore,  cum  12  peciis  argenti  in  parte  deaurati,  et  2 
ymaginibus  de  ebore  in  summitate. 

1  baculus  de  ebore,  cum  4  peciis  de  cupro,  et  1  elifaiit  de  ligno 
in  summitate. 

1  baculus  de  ebore,  cum  3  peciis  de  cupro  et  1  de  argento,  et  in 
summitate  duo  capita  de  ebore. 

I  baculus  de  buxo,  cum  1  pecia  argentea,  et  ymaginibus  Sancti 
Johannis   Baptiste  et    Sancte   Katerine  de  Ebore,   et  duo    capita 
draconum  in  summitate,  1  parvus  baculus  de  buxo  cum  leone  in 
summitate. 

Baculi  pro  crucibus  portandis. 

II  baculi  diverse  fortis,  pro  crucibus  et  vexillis  portandis. 

Cathedre  pro  rectoribus  chori. 

4  catnedre  ligni  volubiles  cooperte  cum  coreo. 
1  cathedra  de  forro  cooperta  cum  coreo. 

Lectrina. 

1  desciis  volubilis  de  ferro,  pro  Evangelic  supra  legendo. 

2  alia  lectrina  lignea. 


330  APPENDIX. 

Fronta  et  Frontella  pro  cottateralilus  altaribus. 

1  fronta  de  blodio  satino  cum  Crucifixo,  Maria  et  Johanne  de  auro 
in  medio,  operata  cum  diversis  stellis  aureis,  et  1  frontella  de 
panno  aureo  eidem  annexa,  cum  1  tuello  similiter  annexe. 

1  fronta  de  blodio  satino  cum  ymaginibus  Sanctorum  Edmundi 
et  Thome  Cantuariensis  de  auro,  operata  cum  diversis  stellis 
aureis,  et  1  frontella  de  panno  aureo  cum  tuello  eidem  annexo. 

1  fronta  de  albo  damasco,  operata  cum  diversis  arboribus  et  stellis 
aureis,  cum  1  frontella  ejusdem  secte  et  tuello  annexo. 

1  fronta  et  frontella  ejusdem  secte,  in  omnibus  pro  eisdem  altar- 
ibus operata. 

2  fronte  de  rubio,  operate  cum  Helmys,  cum  duabus  frontellis  de 
panno  aureo,  et  duobus  tuellis  eisdem,  simul  consutis. 

2  fronte  et  2  frontelle  rubee,  operate  cum  rosis  aureis,  et  2  tuellis 
eisdem  annexis,  ex  dono  E.  Lacy. 

2  fronte  de  panno  aureo,  operate  cum  rosis  et  volucribus,  cum  2 
frontellis  et  2  tuellis  annexis. 

Vestimenta  pro  collateralibus  altaribus. 

2  vestimenta  unius  secte,  continentia  2  casulas  de  panno  argentes 
cum  orphrey  de  panno  aureo  blodio,  cum  2  amictibus,  2  albis,  2  stolis, 
2  phanels  de  rubio  baudekyn,  operata  cum  volucribus. 

Vestimentum  unius  secte,  continens  2  casulas  de  rubio  satino 
cum  orphrais  de  panno  blodio  aureo,  cum  paruris  fanonibus,  albis, 
amictibus,  et  stolis. 

2  vestimenta,  continentia  2  casulas  de  viridi  serico  cum  orfreis  de 
panno  aureo  debili,  2  albe,  2  amicte,  2  stole,  2  fanones,  cum  paruris 
diversi  coloris. 

1  vestimentum,  ex  dono  executorum  Magistri  Martini  Diar,  con- 
tinens 1  casulam  blodii  coloris  cum  floribus  aureis,  1  alba,  1  amicta, 
1  stola,  1  fanona,  cum  paruris. 

1  vestimentum,  ex  dono  Magistri  Henrici  Webber,  blodii  coloris, 
cum  ymagine  in  medio  crucis  ejusdem. 

2  paria  vestimentorum  viridis  baudekyn,  pro  eisdem  altaribus 
collateralibus. 

2  paria  tintinabula  pro  collateralibus  altaribus. 

2  vestimenta  de  albo  damasco. 

Alia  2,  rubei  coloris  de  damasco  et  floribus  aureis. 

Panni  pendentes  in  choro. 

Duo  panni  glaucii  et  rubii  coloris,  operati  in  textura  ad  modum 
Dammask  cum  armis  Edmundi  Lacy  annexis  eisdem,  ex  dono  dicti 
Edmundi,  ad  tabulam  per  sedilium  longitudinem  retro  Canonico- 
rum  et  Vicariorum  dorsa,  estivo  tempore  tegendam. 

Duo  alii  panni,  ex  dono  ejusdem,  de  tapstre  viridis  coloris  cum 
floribus,  pro  tempore  hiemali. 

Missalia. 

magnum  longum  et  latum  Missale,  cum  2  clapsis  argenteis 
,  2  fo.,  "  Baculum." 


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1  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Enim  Dalmatica." 
1  Missale,  2  fol.,  "  De  celis." 
1  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Sequentia." 
1  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Illustres." 
1  magnum  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Ad  te  levavi." 
1  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Diluculo." 
1  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Dominicis." 

1  parvnm  Missale  de  missis  in  processionibus  celebrandis,  2  fo., 
in  textu  "  Diligit  me." 

1  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Notas  fac." 

Liber  Organic  us. 
1  magnus  Liber  Organicus,  2  fo.,  "Deus  creator." 

Evangelia  et  Epistole. 

1  liber  cum  Evangeliis,  de  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  2  fo., 
"  Ysaia  propheta." 

1  Epistolarum,  ex  dono  ejusdem,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Vocavi  eum." 

Pontificalia. 

1  Pontificale  vetus,  ex  dono  Willielmi  "Warwest,  retro  magnum 
altare,  2  fo.,  titulo  "Nono  vivatis." 

Pontificale,  ex  dono  Edmundi  Lacy,  2  fo.,  "  Veritatem." 

Manualia. 

1  Manuale,  ex  dono  Edmundi  Stafford,  2  fol.,  "  Est  Judicare." 
1  Manuale,  ex  dono  Henrici  Brokelond,  2  fo.,  "  Dignetur." 
1  Manuale  deserviens  choro,  2  fo.,  "  Accessus." 
Aliud  Manuale,  ex  dono  Edmundi  Stafford,  2  fo.,  "  Deus  qui." 
1  liber  de  omni  officio  episcopali,  continens  chororum  (modum) 

quando  episcopus  incipit  se  parare  ad  celebrandum  ac  de  consecia 

cione  virginis,  ad  recludendum  inclusum,  et  de  consecracione  olei, 

2  fo.,  "  Seris  nobis." 

Alius    liber    de   officiis   predict! s,    ex  dono    predict!  Edmundi 

Stafford,  2  fo.,  "Nos  vivificabis." 

Libri  Cathenati  juxta  et  retro  Magnum  Altare. 

1  Liber  papie,  2  fo.,  "  Abdita." 

Liber  vocatus  Summa  Confessorum,  2  fo.,  "  Non  erat  a  Deo." 
Liber  vocatus  Summa  Pauperum,  2  fo.,  "  Danda  sunt." 
1  presbiteris  liber  de  Meditacionibus  beati  Anselmi,  2  fo.,  "  Vir- 
ginis gloriose." 

1  parvus  liber  Orationum,  continens  summe  sacerdos,  2  fo., 
"  Sacro  tecta." 

Antiphonaria  et  Portiforia. 

1  Antiphonare,  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono  ex  parte  Decani 
Cathenatum,  2  fo.,  "  Chorus." 

1  Antiphonare,  ex  dono  Edmundi  Stafford,  2  fo.,  "  Omnia 
secula." 

1  Antiphonare  sine  Psaltorio,  2  fo.,  "  Katum." 


332  APPENDIX. 

1  Antiphonare,  2  fo.,  "  Quandocumque  chorus." 

Antiphonare,  ex  dono  Edmundi  Stafford  ex  parte   precentoris, 

2  fo.,  "  Ubi  ad  vos." 

Antiphonare,  2  fo.,  "Nus  veniet." 
Antiphonare,  2  fo.,  "  Cum  loqueris." 
Antiphonare  sine  Psalterio,  2  fo.,  "  Presul  ad." 
Antiphonare  sine  Psalterio,  2  fo.,  "  Ad  vigiliam  Pasce." 
Antiphonare  Cathenatum  in  secunda  forma,  ex  parte  Decani,  sine 

Psalterio,  2  fo.,  "  Ecce  apparebit." 

Antiphonare  ex  eadem  parte,  2  fo.,  "  Ad  omnes  horas." 
Antiphonare  Cathenatum  in  secunda  forma  ibidem  sine  Psalterio, 

2  fo.,  "  Vel  oro  Deus." 

Antiphonare  vocatum  Clopton,  2  fo.,  "Tu  in  nobis." 
1  Portiforium  ante  stallum  Archidiaconi  Exon,  2  fo.,  "  Dicamus." 
Antiphonare  Cathenatum  coram  Cancellario,  2  fo.,  "Periculis." 
Portiforium  coram  Thesaurario,  2  fo.,  "Presta,"  ex  dono  Magistri 

Ilenrici  Webber  Decani. 

Antiphonare  ante  Decanum,  2  fo.,  "  Pace  ut  letentur." 
Antiphonare  ante  Precentorem  pertinens  officio  ejusdem,  2  fo., 

"  Sanctis  ad  vesperas." 

Ordinale  ante  precentorem,  2  fo.,  "  Alicujus  de  capitulo." 
Ordinale  ante  succentorem,  2  fo.,  "Debent." 
Cathenatur  ibidem,  1  liber  de  modo  psallendi,  2  fo.,  "  Sillabam." 
1  magnum  Portiforium,  ex  dono  Magistri  Henrici  Webber,  2  fo., 

"  Dicamus  dicat." 

Aliud  Portiforium,  ex  dono  ejusdem,  2  fo.,  "  Die  et  quotidie." 
Aliud  Portiforium,  ex  dono  Domini  Edmundi  Lacy,  2  fo.,  "  Gloria 

et  Honor." 

I  parvum  vetus  Portiforium,  2  fo.,  "  Laude  letemur." 

1  Portiforium  pro  rectoribus  chori,  ex  dono  Edmundi  Lacy,  2  fo., 

"  Feliciter." 

1  dimidium  Portiforii  Cathenati,  2  fo.,  "  Peccatorum  nostrorum." 

Aliud  dimidium  Portiforii  Cathenati,  2  fo.,  "  Quantum." 

1  Portiforium  notatum,  2  fo.,  "  Cumque." 

1  Ordinale  ad  usum  Sarum,  2  fo.,  "  Nisi  dum." 

Gradalia  ex  parte  Decani. 

1  Gradale,  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  2  fo.,  "  Cum  vero." 
1  Gradale,  2  fo.,  "  Alleluia." 

1  Gradale,  ex  dono  Edmundi  Stafford,  2  fo.,  "  Deus  a  quo." 
1  Gradale,  2  fo.,  "  Meus  in  te." 

1  Gradale  in  secunda  forma,  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono, 
2  fo.,  "  Num  observe tur." 

1  Gradale,  2  fo.,  "  Deant  me." 

1  Gradale  ante  stallum  Decani,  2Xo.,  "  Populus." 

Gradalia  ex  parte  Precentoris. 

1  Gradale,  ex  dono  Edmundi  Stafford,  2  fo.,  "  Quarum." 
1  Gradale,  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  2  fo.,  "  Missa  de." 
1  Gradale,  ex  dono  dicti  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  2  fo.,  "Fini- 
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1  Gradale  in  secunda  forma,  ex  dono  ejusdem,  2  fo.,  "Per  adven- 
t-um." 

1  Gradale  Cathenatum,  ex  dono  ejusdem,  2  fo.,  "  Die  natalis." 
1  Gradale  pro  Eectoribus  Chori,  2  fo.,  "  Episcopi  fiat." 
1   Gradale,  ex  dono  predicti  Johannis    de   Grandissono,  2    fo., 
"  Semper  quando." 

1  Gradale,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Nes  iniquitates." 

1  Gradale  assignation  officio  Precentoris  per  Jphannem  de  Grand- 
issono, ex  dono  ejusdem,  2  fo.,  "  Ad  earn." 

Psdlteria. 

1  Psalterium  Cathenatum  in  secundo  forma  ante  Archidiaconnm 
Exon,  ex  dono  Domini  Willielmi  Hayford,  2  fo.,  "  Domini  est  salus." 

1  Psalterium  ex  parte  Decani,  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono, 
2  fo.,  "  Eeges  eos." 

1  Psalterium,  ex  dono  Ade  de  Charleton,  2  fo.,  "  Servite  Do- 
mino." 

1  Psalterium,  ex  dono  predicti  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  2  fo., 
"  Domine  quid." 

1  Psalterium  de  secunda  forma,  2  fo.,  "  Ges  terre." 

1  Psalterium  ex  parte  Precentoris,  ex  dono  dicti  Johannis  de 
Grandissono,  2  fo.,  "  Multi  dicunt." 

1  Psalterium,  ex  dono  ejusdem  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  2  fo., 
"  Eeges  eos  in  virga." 

1  Psalterium,  ex  parte  predicti  Cathenatum,  2  fo.,  "A  fructu." 

1  Psalterium,  2  fo.,  "  Ego  autem." 

1  Psalterium,  ex  dono  Domini  Johannis  Yott,  2  fo.,  "  Et  gloria- 
buntur." 

1  Psalterium,  ex  dono  executorum  Magistri  Johannis  Burton, 
2  fo.,  "  Dedisti  leticiam." 

1  Psalterium,  ex  dono  Domini  Johannis  Hyott,  2  fo.,  "  Domine, 
salvum." 

1  Psalterium,  ex  dono  Domni  Johannis  Wytt,  2  fo.,  "  Tu  autem." 

Legende  Sanctorum  et  Temporalium. 

1  Legenda  Sanctorum,  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  2  fo., 

"  Crux  que." 

Legenda  Sanctorum,  2  fo.,  "  Enim  regem." 

Legenda  Temporalium,  2  fo.,  "  Quia  os  Domini." 

Legenda  Temporalium,  ex  dono  dicto  Johannis  de  Grandissono, 

2  fo.,  "  Manus  vestras." 

1  Legenda  cum  legenda  Sancti  Brannoci,  2  fo.,  "  Querit." 

1  Liber  Yersiculorum  cum   aliis   contentis  pro  choristis,  2  fo., 

"  Exacerbation  e." 

Collectaria  et  Martirilogia. 

1  Collectarium,  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  2  fo.,  "  Deus 
auctor." 

1  Collectarium,  2  fo.,  "  De  Sancto  Spiritu." 

1  Martilogium,  ex  dono  dicti  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  2  fo., 
"  Claras  doctrina." 

1  Martilogium,  2  fo.,  "Eome  via." 


334  APPENDIX. 

Processionalia.     (xxii.) 

Processionale,  2  fo.,  viz. : — "  Mici  et  ipsum  ;  "  **  Que  et  quod  ;  " 
"  Tentur  cell ; "  "  Laudem  quia  ; "  "  Misericordiam  tuam ;  "  "  Ecce 
ancilla ; "  "  Pauperum  suorum  ;  "  "  Detur  ex  te ;  "  "  Cum  tuum ;  " 
"  Veniet ;  "  Luya  in  Introitu  Chori,  cum  literis  rubris  scriptis ; 
'*  Justicia ;  "  "  Aspercione." 

1  magnum  Processionale,  2  fo.,  "  Deus  qui  ad." 

1  Processionale,  ex  dono  Magistri  Henrici  Webber,  assignatum 
officio  Precentoris,  2  fo.,  "  Cipio  et  nunc." 

Processionale,  2  fo.,  viz. : — "  Gloria  Patri  ;  "  "  Alleluia; "  "  Nas- 
cetur  ;  "  in  Introitu  Chori ;  "  Immensam ; "  "  Neribus ; "  "  Spi- 
ritualis." 

LSbri  Cathenati  inter  gradum  Chori,  et  gradum  Altaris  ex  parte  australi. 

1  Psalterium,  2  fo.,  "  Yoce  mea." 

1  Pica,  2  fo.,  "  Capite  vero." 

Lynwood,  2  fo.,  "Et  in  L." 

Liber  Pastoralium  Gregorii,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Amare  hinc." 

Liber  trium  sanctorum  Regum  Colonie,  2  fo.,  "In  vicesimo 
septimo." 

Liber  Parisiensis  de  Viciis  et  Virtutibus,  2  fo.,  *'  Omnis." 

Liber  Constitucionium  Octonis  et  Octoboni  cum  glossa  Johannis 
de  Aton,  2  fo.,  "  Dicione." 

Liber  Orationum  sive  Meditationum,  2  fol.,  "  Exhortatio." 

Manipulus  Curatorum,  2  fo.,  "  Que  eos." 

Liber  vocatus  Cronica  Cronicorum,  "  In  principio." 

Libri  ex  boreali  parte. 

Januensis  in  suo  Catholicon,  2  fo.,  "  Imitantur." 
Racionale  Divinorum,  2  fo.,  "  Post  tabulam  pensandum  est." 
Postilla  super  Johannem  edita  per  Nicholaum  de  Lyra,  2  fo., 

"  Desuper  ipsorum." 

Pupilla  Occuli,  2  fo.,  in  tabula,  "  Quid  si  quis." 

Libellus  de  utilibus  et  necessariis  contentis,  2  fo.,  "  Capitula." 

Epistole  Pauli  glosate,  2  fo.,  "  Predicta  superbia,  est." 

Psalterium  glosatum,  2  fo.,  "  Ordine  quoque." 

Liber  Augustini  super  Johannem,  2  fo.,  "  Meum  a  Domino,"  ex 

dono  Magistri  Thome  Kyrckby. 

Compendium  Morale,  2  fo.,  "  Non  semper,"  de  dono  ejusdem. 

Pallia. 

1  pallium  blodii  coloris,  cum  volucribus  turrettis  et  zonis  fratrum 
minorum  circa  collum. 

1  pallium  de  blodio  panno  aureo,  operate  cum  hawkys  aureis  et 
bestiis  rubiis,  et  continens  in  longitudine  3  virgas  et  1  quarterium. 

1  pallium,  ejusdem  coloris  et  operis. 

1  pallium  blodii  coloris,  cum  avibus  aureis  cum  blodiis  turrettis 
circa  collum,  ligatis  cum  zona  aurea,  ordinis  fratrum  minorum. 

1  pallium  nigrum,  cum  leonibus  et  avibus  albis. 

1  blodium  pallium,  cum  draconibus  aureis  cum  scriptura  rubea. 


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1  blodium  pallium,  cum  avibus  et  draconibus  aureis  displanatis. 

2  veterata  pallia  ex  uno  opere,  quorum  unum  blodii  coloris  et 
aliud  viridis. 

1  rubeum  veteratum  pallium,  cum  diversis  pagentis  do  Nativitate 
Domini. 

2  veterata  pallia  blodii  coloris,  unius  secte. 

1  blodium  pallium,  cum  volucribus  et  bestiis  aureis  ac  scriptura 
rubea. 

Cape  in  inferiori  Vestiario  rubei  coloris. 

1  capa  serica  rubei  coloris,  cum  garbis,  liberdis  et  volucribus  aureis. 

Alia  capa  de  rubeo  satino,  operata  cum  crucibus  Sancti  Andree, 
cum  gladiis  et  clavibus  aureis,  ac  Petro  et  Paulo  in  dorso. 

Alia  capa  rubea,  cum  diversis  ymaginibus  infra  circulos. 

1  capa  rubea,  cum  leopardis  aureis  passant  et  diversis  ymaginibus 
aureis  in  dorso. 

1  capa  rubea,  cum  clavibus  et  crucibus  flory  aureis. 

1  capa  rubea,  cum  leopardis,  lunis  et  stellis  aureis. 

1  capa  rubea,  cum  gryffonibus  et  floribus  de  lyce  ac  lunis  aureis. 

Due  cape  rubee,  unius  secte  cum  floribus  albis  de  6  poyntis. 

1  capa  rubea  de  antique  velvete,  cum  armis  Johannis  de  Grandis- 
eono  in  le  orfreis. 

10  cape  de  rubeo  satino,  cum  diversis  orfreis. 

1  capa  rubea,  cum  leonibus  et  draconibus  aureis. 

1  capa  rubea  aurea,  cum  cokentricibus  aureis  et  viridi  talpa  in 
le  morse. 

1  capa  cheeky  rubei  et  viridis  coloris. 

Cape  glaucii  colons. 

2  cape  de  serico  glaucii  coloris,  unius  operis  sine  secte  cum  blodiis 
orphrais  panni  aurei. 

2  cape  de  serico  glaucii  coloris,  cum  armis  Johannis  de  Grandis- 
sono  in  le  morsie. 

1  capa  de  glaucio  velvete,  cum  armis  dicti  Johannis  de  Grandis- 
sono. 

1  capa  de  panno  aureo  glaucii  coloris,  cum  draconibus  et  volu- 
cribus aureis. 

1  capa  de  panno  aureo  glaucii  coloris,  cum  diversis  armis  in  le 
orfreye. 

1  capa  de  panno  aureo  glaucii  coloris,  cum  armis  Eegis  et 
Johannis  de  Grandissono  in  capicio. 

1  capa  glaucii  coloris  de  panno  aureo,  tyled  intus  blodii  coloris. 

Capa  de  glaucio  satino,  unius  secte. 

Cape  albe. 

Albe  due  cape  cum  viridibus  columbinys  trayled. 

Due  albe  cape  de  damasco,  cum  Agnis  Dei  in  le  orfreis. 

Due  albe  cape  de  damasco,  cum  leonibus  aureis  nigris  et  rubeis  in 
le  orfreis. 

1  capa  de  albo  satino,  operata  cum  floribus  de  lyce  et  rosis  in 
circulis. 


336  APPENDIX. 

Due  albec  ape  de  damasco,  unius  secte,  le  orfreis  de  panno  aureo 
blodio. 

Due  albe  cape  de  damasco,  unius  secte,  le  orfreis  operate  cum  auro 
et  armis  Johannis  de  Grandissono  in  le  morse. 

Due  cape  de  albo  damasco,  unius  secte,  cum  le  orfreis  de  panno 
aureo  tray  led  cum  avibus. 

1  capa  de  albo  damasco,  le  moose  de  viridi  velvete,  cum  angelo 
portante  arma  Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

Due  cape  de  satino  albo,  unius  secte  tarn  in  capis  quam  in  le 
orphreis. 

8  albe  cape  de  fustiano,  unius  secte. 

Cape  virides. 

f-Fl    capa   viridis    panni    aurei,    cum   pavonibus   et   cokentricibus 

aureis. 

g  1  viridis  capa,  cum  leonibus  et  griffonibus  albis  in  panno. 

;    1  capa  viridis,  cum  besauntis  aureis  de  panno  aureo. 

1  capa  de  viridi  panno  aureo,  cum  cervis  et  griffonibus  aureis  ac 
volucribus  in  circulis. 

1  capa  de  viridi  panno  aureo,  cum  Coronacione  beate  Marie  in 
capicio. 

Due  cape,  unius  secte  de  viridi  secto  cum  ymaginibus  Sancti 
Johannis  Baptiste  demonstrantis  Agnum  Dei. 

1  viridis  capa,  operata  cum  arboribus  et  papinjays  aureis. 

Cape  pro  Adventum. 

^Tres  cape  de   purpureo  serico,  quasi   unius   secte   propter  Ad- 
ventum. 

Cape  propter  tractus  in  Obitubus. 

4  cape  serice  blodii  coloris,  propter  tractus  in  obitubus,  quasi 
unius  secte. 

Cape  nigre  pro  Obitubus. 

^5  cape  de  serico  nigro,  pro  Exequiis  et  Missis  Animarum. 

3  cape  de  russeto  velvete,  in  omnibus  quasi  unius  secte. 
r  1  capa  stragulata  cum  viridibus  et  rubeis  palis  ac  cheeky,  pro 
patina  tenenda  ante  magnum  altare. 

1  alba  capa  de  fustino  quasi  vastata,  pro  patena  ante  dictum  altare 
tenenda. 

12  cape  de  albo  fustino,  pro  choristis  in  processionibus. 

13  cape  paly  et  parum  checkety,  pro  choristis  vastate. 

1  veterata  et  fracta  eapa  de  albo  panno  aureo,  cum  griffonibus  et 
foliis  aureis  ac  parvis  floribus  de  lyce,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali, 
operata  cum  diversis  nodis. 

Due  antique  spisse  palle  serice  ordinate  ad  cooperandas  capas 
jacentes  in  triangulis  ibidem. 

1  draco  cum  baculo,  ad  portandum  in  processionibus  Diebus  Eoga- 
cionum. 

1  leo,  portandus  in  eisdem  processionibus. 

6  longe  palme,  a  canonicis  portande  in  processionibus  dominice  in 
Rainis  1'almarum. 


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9  parve  palme  et  due  minores,  ordinate  pro  eisdem  processio- 
nibus. 

9  cape  albe  de  fustino,  cum  rubiis  orfrais  cum  brussis  et  bedis  in 
le  moos  et  capicio,  ex  dono  Magistri  Thome  Austell,  Thesaurarii. 

Secte  de  albo  damasco  cum  capis  suis. 

1  secta  de  albo  damasco,  continens  unam  casulam,  4  tuniculos 
cum  toto  apparatu,  operata  cum  aquilis  aureis  displanatis  fissis,  in 
capite,  le  offreis  de  rubeo  velvete  operato  cum  caterfoliis  et  angelia 
aureis. 

10  cape  ejusdem  panni  et  quasi  operis  tarn  in  fundo  quam  in 
orfreis,  ex  dono  diversorum  canonicorum. 

1  capa  ejusdem  secte  et  operis  exceptisque  le  orfreis  et  de  opere 
acuali,  ex  dono  Magistri  Ricardi  Roderham. 

Casule  cum  tuniculis. 

1  casula  cum  duobus  tuniculis  et  peruris  pro  presbitero,  de  viridi 
et  rubeo  velvete  cheeky,  pro  commemoracione  Apostolorum  Petri 
et  Pauli. 

1  casula  cum  duobus  tuniculis  de  rubio  panno  aureo,  cum  pavo- 
nibus  blodiis  in  circulis  pro  Martiribus. 

1  casula  cum  2  tuniculis  de  albo  damasco,  pro  commemoracione 
beate  Marie. 

1  casula  cum  2  tuniculis  de  albo  damasco,  pro  virginibus  sine 
regimine  chori. 

3  albe,  3  amicte,  due  stole  et  tres  fanule,  pro  duabus  precedentibus 
sectis. 

1  casula  cum  duobus  tuniculis  glaucii  coloris,  sine  albis,  amictis, 
stolis  et  fanulis,  pro  festis  Confessorum ;  9  lectionum  cum  regimine 
chori. 

1  casula  per  se  glaucii  coloris  cum  duabus  tumiculis  planis  de 
serico  ejusdem  coloris,  pro  confessoribus  sine  regimine  chori. 

1  casula  nigra  de  Baudekyn,  cum  tuniculis  et  orfreis  de  blodio 
panno  aureo,  cum  tribus  albis,  cum  toto  reliquo  apparatu,  pro 
omnibus  obitubus  ferialibus. 

1  casula  cum  2  tuniculis,  quondam  viridis  coloris  modo  glaucii, 
ex  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  pro  missis  capitularibus,  sine 
albis,  stolis,  amictis  et  paruris. 

1  casula  de  blodio  serico  cum  2  tuniculis,  sine  aliquo  alio  appa- 
ratu, pro  missa — "  Salus  Populi." 

1  casula  cum  2  tuniculis  de  rubio  satino,  sine  aliquo  alio  appa- 
ratu, deserviens  a  Passione  Domini  usque  ad  Pascha. 

1  casula  per  se  de  rubio  satino,  cum  albis  orfreis  de  panno  aureo, 
sine  alio  apparatu. 

1  casula  per  se  de  purpureo  serico,  propter  vigiliam  Apostolorum, 
absque  alio  aparatu. 

1  blodia  casula  per  se  de  panno  lineo,  stayned  cum  rubeis  rosis, 
propter  Sexagesimam,  cum  duabus  dalmaticis  sive  paruris  et  aliis. 

1  casula  de  viridi  serico  cum  2  tuniculis  non  tarn  boni  coloris, 
sine  aliquibus  stolis,  paruris,  &c. 

4  tuniculi  de  rubeo  panno  aureo,  le  orfreis  de  blodio  panno  aureo, 
cum  quatuor  albis  et  4  amictis  pro  choristis. 

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338  APPENDIX. 

4  tuniculi  de  albo  baudekyn,  cum  orfreis  de  rubeo  satino,  cum  4 
albis  et  amictis  pro  choristis. 

4  tuniculi  glaucii  coloris,  cum  rubeis  orfreis  de  bordalisaunder. 

4  tuniculi  de  albo  fustiano,  cum  orfrais  rubiis  de  bordalisaunder, 
pro  choristis. 

4  tuniculi  de  rubio  bordalisaunder  cum  blodio  bokram  operati 
cum  glauco  serico,  pro  choristis. 

8  albe  cum  octo  amictis,  cum  paruris  diversi  coloris,  pro  predictis 
4  sectis  tuniculorum. 

4  tuniculi  de  albo  chamblott,  cum  floribus  aureis,  le  orfreis  de 
blodio  satino  cum  floribus  aureis  de  lyce,  cum  4  albis,  et  4  amictis, 
pro  choristis. 

Remanent  due  magne  ciste  in  dicto  vestiario,  quarum  una  triangularis  pro  capis  con- 
servandis,  altera  quadrata  pro  vestibus  imponendis. 

Vestiarium  guotidianum. 

Ibidem,  1  casula  rubea,  cum  2  tuniculis  sine  apparatu  ac  4  capis 
de  rubeo  panno  aureo  cum  stellis  aureis,  le  orfreis  de  blodio  damasco 
operata  cum  signis  aureis  coronatis  -et  scriptura — "  Gaudete  in 
Domino." 

1  principalis  capa,  ejusdem  panni  et  secte  tamen,  le  orfreis  de  opere 
acuali,  ex  dono  Willielmi  Courteney  Archiepiscopi  Cantuariensis. 

1  casula  rubea  cum  2  tuniculis  ac  toto  apparatu  de  panno  aureo, 
cum  galeis  albis  coronatis  cum  viridibus  coronis  vocata  Stafford 
Sewte,  ex  dono  ejusdem,  le  orfreis  de  opere  acuali. 

I  principalis  capa  ejusdem  panni  cum  orfreis  de  opere  acuali,  ex 
dono  ejusdem. 

II  cape  ejusdem  panni  et  secte,  cum  blodio  orfreis  de  leonibus  et 
hyndes  aureis,  ex  dono  ejusdem. 

1  casula  de  rubeo  velvete,  pulverisata  cum  caterfoilys,  le  orfrey 
de  bono  opere  acuali,  cum  armis  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  ex  dono 
ejusdem. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni  sine  orfreis,  cum  tribus  albis  et  paruris, 
2  stolis  et  2  fanonibus,  ex  dono  ejusdem. 

1  capa  ejusdem  panni,  cum  bono  orfrey  de  opere  acuali,  ex  dono 
ejusdem. 

1  casula  de  rubeo  panno  aureo,  cum  orfreis  de  bono  opere  acuali, 
cum  armis  Johannis  Grandissono,  sine  paruris,  stola  et  fanone. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni,  sine  orfreis,  paruris,  stolis  et  fanone. 

1  capa  ejusdem  panni,  cum  consimili  orfreis  sicut  in  casula,  ex 
dono  dicti  Domini  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  cum  armis  ejusdem  in 
pectorali. 

1  rubea  casula,  operata  per  totum  cum  crucibus  Sancti  Andree  ac 
clavibus  et  gladiis  aureis  et  Salutacione  beate  Marie  in  dorso  de 
opere  acuali. 

2  tuniculi  de  rubeo  damasco,  ac  4  strakys  aureis  ante  et  retro, 
cum  albis,  stolis,   fanonibus   et   paruris   dissimilibus,  sive   diversi 
panni  et  operis,  deservientibus  dicte  oasule. 

1  casula  de  panno  aureo,  rubeo  cum  armis  Eegis  et  Johannis  de 
Grandissono  in  le  orfrey. 


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2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni,  sine  orfreis,  paruris,  stolis,  albis  et 
fanonibus,  ex  dono  Domini  Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

1  casula  de  rubeo  satino,  operata  per  totum  cum  1  frett  ac  cru- 
cibus  flowry  et  clavibus  Sancti  Petri,  aureis  cum  orfrey  viridis  et 
blodii  coloris,  operatic  cum  crucibus  flowry  et  clavibus  aureiis. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni  sine  orfreis,  cum  tribus  albis  et  panuris, 
1  stola  et  1  fanone. 

1  casula  de  rubeo  velvete,  operata  cum  leopardis  rapant  aureis 
cum  orfrey  de  opere  acuali  cum  diversis  armis. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni  sine  orfreis,  1  alba  cum  paruris  de  satino, 
operate  cum  leonibus,  cum  1  stola  et  1  fanone. 

1  bona  alba  cum  paruris,  operatis  cum  opere  acuali  de  diversis 
armis,  cum  stola  et  fanone. 

1  alba  per  se  cum  paruris  rubiis,  operatis  cum  leonibus  et  aquilis 
aureis,  cum  1  fanone  sine  stola. 

1  alba  per  se  cum  paruris  rubeis,  operatis  cum  leopardis  aureis  in 
circulis,  ac  cum  amicta,  stola  et  fanone  diversi  operis. 

1  alba  per  se  cum  paruris  rubeis,  operatis  cum  leopardis  passant  et 
leopardis  mountant  aureis,  cum  stola  et  fanone  operatis  cum  ymagi- 
nibus  de  auro  in  1  trayle,  et  amicta  cum  leopardis  et  griffonibus 
aureis. 

3  albe  per  se  cum  paruris,  3  amictis,  3  fanonibus  et  2  stolis  de 
piano  viridi  satino. 

1  alba  per  se  cum  paruris  amicta,  1  stola,  et  1  fanone  de  opere 
acuali,  cum  diversis  ymaginibus  in  diversis  pagentis. 

1  alba  per  se  et  cum  paruris  blodiis,  operatis  cum  hominibus 
partitis  cum  bestiis  in  1  trayle  aurea  sagittantibus  ad  bestias,  cum 
amiota  operata  cum  capitibus  Regum  et  Episcoporum,  ac  stola  et 
fanone  operatis  de  opere  acuali. 

1  alba  per  se  cum  blodiis  paruris,  operatis  cum  griffonibus, 
leopardis  et  aquilis  aureis  infra  circulos,  ac  stola  et  fanone  ejusdem 
operis  sine  circulis,  et  amicta  de  blodio  panno  aureo. 

1  alba  per  se  cum  paruris,  operata  cum  diversis  armis,  ac  cum  1 
stola,  1  fanona  et  2  amictis  ejusdem  operis. 

1  alba  per  se  cum  paruris  de  panno  bipartite  de  viridi  et  croceo, 
operato  cum  nodis  et  perillis,  cum  amicta. 

1  alba  per  se  cum  paruris  de  purpura,  operata  cum  diversis  armis 
et  leonibus  aureis  rapant,  cum  1  amicta,  stola  et  1  fanone  ejusdem 
operis. 

3  albe  cum  paruris  de  plana  purpura,  3  amictis,  2  stolis  et  3 
fanonibus,  ejusdem  panni. 

1  capa  serica  cum  diversis  ymaginibus,  vocat  le  Abbets  Cope. 

1  vetus  capa  cum  ymaginibus  et  scriptura  per  dorsum,  et  1  capa 
de  panno  aureo  cum  volucribus  leonibus  et  frondibus,  pro  domi- 
nicis  per  estatem  ad  matutinas. 

Vestimenta  et  Secta. 

1  casula  de  albo  panno  aureo  cum  scaloppis,  4  tuniculis,  4  amictis, 
3  stolis,  4  fanonibus  ac  paruris  ejusdem  panni,  omnes  les  orfreis  de 
opere  acuali,  ex  provisione  capituli,  cum  quinque  albis. 

6  cape  ejusdem  panni  et  operis  in  le  orfreis  cum  casula. 

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340  APPENDIX. 

1  casula  de  albo  velvete,  operate  cum  stellis  aureis  et  ymaginibus, 
les  orfreis  de  opere  acuali. 

4  tuniculi  cum  quinque  albis  ejusdem  secte  cum  orfreis  de  rubeo 
velvete,  operati  cum  ymaginibus  in  tabernaculis  aureis,  et  quinque 
amictis,  2  stolis,  4  fanonibus  cum  albis  paruris  ejusdem  panni,  opere 
acuali  de  Passione  Domini. 

1  principalis  capa  ejusdem  panni  et  operis  cum  orfreis,  et  quinque 
cape  ejusdem  pani  et  operis  cum  orfreis  de  rubeo  velvete  ut  in  tuni- 
cules,  ex  dono  Thome  Brentyngham. 

1  casula  alba  cum  branchiis  rubiis  et  blodiis  ac  foliis  aureis,  le 
orfreis  de  opere  acuali  cum  Eadice  Jesse. 

1  capa,  2  tunicule  ejusdem  panni  et  operis  per  totum,  cum  2  stolis, 
3  fanonibus,  3  amictis  et  tribus  albis,  cum  paruris  ejusdem  panni, 
ex  dono  Edmundi  Stafford  Episcopi. 

1  casula  alba,  operata  cum  papinjays  viridibus  tenentibus  flores 
columbinas  in  ore,  cum  orfreis  de  opere  acuali  de  armis  Johannis 
de  Grandissono,  cum  ymaginibus  aureis. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,   sine  orfreis,  albis,  paruris, 
amictis,  stolis  et  fanonibus. 

2  cape  ejusdem  secte,  cum  orfreis   de   ymaginibus   sine   armis, 
operatis  opere  acuali,  ex  dono  Domini  Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

1  casula  alba,  operata  cum  frondibus,  foliis  et  floribus  columbinis, 
et  in  dorso  Salutacione  beate  Marie,  Nativitatis  Domini  et  Coronacione 
beate  Marie. 

Due  tunicule  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  sine  albis  paruris,  amictis, 
stolis  et  fanonibus. 

1  capa  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  cum  orfreis  de  opere  acuali,  operata 
in  dorso  cum  Coronacione  beate  Marie  ac  Tribus  Kegibus  Colonie, 
et  Purificacione  beate  Marie,  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

3  albe  cum  paruris  de  armis  predicti  Johannis  de   Grandissono, 
cum  tribus  amictis,  2  stolis  et  tribus  fanonibus,  ejusdem  operis. 

3  albe,  3  amicte,  2  stole  et  tres  fanones,  cum  paruris  de  nigro 
satino. 

1  alba  et  amicta  cum  paruris  cheeky  velvete  viridi  et  rubeo  ac  1 
stola  et  1  fanona. 

3  albe  cum  paruris  de  paniio  aureo  cum  volucribus  et  bestiis,  pro 
commemoracione  beati  Petri  et  Martirum,  cum  1  stola,  1  fanone 
ejusdem  panni,  ac  1  stola  cum  signis  ac  M.  et  W.  coronatis,  et  2 
veteribus  rubeis  fanonibus. 

3  albe  cum  paruris  albis,  3  amictis,  2  stole  et  2  fanones,  pro 
commemoracione  Sancte  Marie. 

6  albe  de  cressecloth  sine  paruris,  deservientes  pro  Dominica  in 
Eamis  Palmarum. 

10  amicte  de  eodum  panno,  pro  eodem  die  et  pro  pueris,  Die 
omnium  Sanctorum,  et  vigilia  Xa^talis  Domini. 

1  par  linthiaminum  de  raynys  pro  sepulcro,  ex  dono  Domine 
Matildis  Courtenaye,  signatum  cum  literis  H.  et  C.,  continens  in 
longitudine  3  virgas  3  quarteria  larga  et  in  latitudine  3  folia. 

1  alba  pro  Puero  Episcopo,  Die  Innocentium  de  Eaynes,  sine 
paruris. 

8  tuella  pro  collateralibus  altaris  de  cressecloth. 


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2  hankers  deservientes  pro  foramlis  cooperiendis  tempore  ser- 
monum,  de  blodio  et  rubio  paly,  quorum  1  in  longitudine  continet 
4  virgas  dimidium  et  aliud  quinque  virgas  dimidium. 

IN  SUPERIORI  VESTIAKIO. 

1  nigra  casula  de  satino,  cum  rosis  aureis,  le  satyn  figury,  le 
orfreis  de  viridi  satino  figury  cum  floribus  et  trefoylis  aureis. 

Duo  tuniculi  cum  tribus  albis,  2  stolis  et  3  fanonibus  ejusdern 
panni  et  operis,  cum  paruris  de  magno  velvete,  ex  dono  Edmundi 
Lacy. 

1  blodia  casula  cum  pavonibus  aureis  et  alba  orfrey,  operata  cum 
armis  Comitis  Devonie  et  nodulis  aureis  in  quadratis  peciis  rubeis 
et  viridibus. 

2  tuniculi  sine  orfreis,  cum  2  stolis  et  2  fanonibus,  ejusdem  panni 
et  operis. 

3  albis  cum  paruris,  ejusdem  panni  et  operis. 

3  cape  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  ex  dono  Comitis  Devon. 

1  capa  de  blodio  satino,  pulverizato  cum  stellis  aureis  cum  yma- 
gine  Salvatoris  ostendentis  vulnera  sedentis  in  cathedra,  et  Spiritu 
Sancto  de  puro  perle  descendente  super  Apostolos,  et  Ascencione 
Domini,  et  omnes  ymagines  ornati  cum  perlys. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  cum  aliis  diversis  ymaginibus 
omatis  cum  perlys,  sine  albis,  paruris,  stolis  et  fanonibus. 

1  capa  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  cum  1  oifrei  de  opere  acuali  cum 
Agno  Dei  et  capitibus  leopardorum  factis  de  peryll,  cum  Tribus 
Regibus  coronatis,  Salutacione  beate  Marie  et  Coronacione  eciam, 
ornata  cum  perle,  ex  dono  Comitis  Devon. 

1  casula  nigra,  trayled  cum  blodiis  floribus  et  parvis  draconibus 
de  auro  volantibus,  et  orfrei  de  opere  acuali,  cum  ymagine  crucifixi 
in  dorso. 

2  tuniculi,  1  stola,  2  fanones,  ejubdem  panni  et  operis,  cum  rubeis 
orfreis  powdred  cum  pre          albis  et  avibus  albis,  habentibus  colla 
et  capita  viridia,  3  albe  cum  paruris  panni. 

1  capa  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  cum  orfreis  de  acuali  opere. 

1  capula   de  russeto   damaske   et   orfrei  de  aureo   opere   acuali, 
powdred  cum  rosis  albis  et  rubeis. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni,  cum  paruiis  in  eisdem  de  rubeo  panno 
aureo,  2  stola,  3  fanones,  3  albe  cum  paruris  predicti  russeti  panni. 

1  capa  ejusdem  panni,  cum  oifrei  de  opere  acuali  ex  diversis 
ymaginibus,  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

1  casula  de  blodio  satino,  operato  magnis  nodulis  griffonibus  et 
leonibus   aureis,  et   in   dorso   ymagines  Crucifixi,  beate    Marie   et 
Johannis,  ac  aliis  ymaginibus  aureis. 

2  tuniculi,  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  sine  stolis,  fanonibus  et  albis. 

1  casula  de  purpyll  velvete,   cum   orfrei   de   opere  acuali,  cum 
diversis  armis  in  quadrangulis. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni,  sine  orfreis,  stolis,  fanonibus  et  albis. 

1  capa  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  cum  orfreis  sicud  casula,  ex  dono 
Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

1  casula  alba  .cum  rasis  aureis,  le  orfrei  blodii  coloris,  operata 
cum  aquilis  di^planatis  et  fccissis  in  capitibus. 


342  APPENDIX. 

2  tnnicnli  ejnsdem  panni  et  opens,  com  mis  orfreis,  sine  stolis, 
fanonibus  et  albis, 

1  capa  ejusdem  panni  et  open*  cum  sno  orfreia. 

1  casula  quasi  rubea  cnm  clavibus  aureis  ac  quasi  latin  de  rubyn 
viridis  colons  oonnezis  quasi  una  caterfoile  aureo,  com  strictis 
orfreis  tri  partite*  in  fimbria,  et  Kummitate  de  opere  acnali  diversi 
colons,  cum  1  stola  et  1  fanone  ejnsdem  panni 

1  alba  et  3  amictis  cum  pararis  ejusdem  panni. 

1  capa  ejusdeni  panni  cum  orfreis  de  opere  acuali,  operata  cum 
diversis  armis,  ex  dono  Walter!  Stapyldon, 

1  casula  de  blodio  et  rubeo  panno,  operato  cum  armis  et  leonibos 
et  flowre  de  lysez  in  d  i  vc-ris  quadratis,  infra  1  frett  album  p al ve ri  - 
zatnia  cum  rotis  calcarium  de  auro,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acnali  operatis 
cum  di  versis  nodis  de  viridi  et  albo, 

2  tun icul i,  non  ejusdem  panni,  deserrientes  tamen  dicte  casulef 
de  blodio  et  albo  j/anuo  aureo,  cheeky  cum  leonibns  mbiis  et  anreis 
rampant. 

1  stola,  1  fanone,  1  alba  et  1  amicta,  ac  parnris  de  rubeo  et  blodio 
panno  aureo,  cheeky  de  flowre  de  lyce  et  leopardis. 

1  al>jat  1  anucta,  1  stola  et  1  fanona,  cum  parnris  quasi  mbiis 
cum  leo^jardis  passant,  infra  1  Frett  de  blodio,  pulrerizato  cum 
flowre  de  lysez  aureis, 

1  casula  de  purpyll  panno  aureo,  plena  per  totum  cum  parvis  be- 
«auntis  aureis,  orfreis  de  albo,  opere  acuali  tripartito  in  summitate 
et  fimbria  cum  nodis  aureis  in  peciis  quadrat  is, 

2  tumcnli  ejusdem  panni  et  opens,  sine  alba,  amicta,  stola,  fanone 
et  {jaruris, 

1  casula  viridis  serici,  operata  per  totum  cnm  dirersit  armis,  cnm 
1  stricto  orfrei  aureo. 

1  casula  viridis  de  panno  aureo,  cum  bobns  et  aribus  ac  frondibns 
aureis,  le  orfrei  de  purpy  11  panno  aureo  cnm  2  episcopis  attro,  operatis 
in  fimbriis  dicti  orfrei. 

2  tuniculi  eju*dem  panni  et  operis,  sine  orfreis,  1  stola,  1  ^«<»w^ 
1  amicta  et  1  alba,  cum  paruris  ejusdem  panni 

1  casula  de  viridi  panno  aureo,  cum  papynjays,  flowre  de  lysez, 
canibns  et  arboribns  aureis,  le  orfrey  albi  cokiris,   operato  cnm 
nodis  aureis  in  diveris  coioribus. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  sine  orfreis,  cnm  1  alba  et 
amicta,  cum  parnris  ejusdem  panni,  ac  1  stola  et  1  fanona  pro  eadem 
casula  alterins  panni 

1  casula  de  satino  glaucii  colons,  cum  rnbeo  orfrey  larga  circa 
humeros,  operata  com  diversis  ymaginibus  aureis  sedentibus  in 
cathedris  et  angelis,  cum  thuribulls  aureis, 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni,  sine  orfreis  et  sine  albis,  amictis,  stolis, 
fanonibus  et  paruris, 

1  casula  de  panno  aureo,  glaucy  coloris,  cnm  aquilis  displanatis 
<:t  aliis  fantasiis  aureiis  in  curulis,"le  orfrey  pro  parte  posteriori  de 
diversis  peciis  rnbeis  et  albis,  cum  albis  et  rubiis  peryllis  - 
peoii  mntoM  rotendk  ':f.  cUiantfi, 

2  tuniculi  sine  orfrais  alterins  panni,  deseryientes  dicte  casule, 
de  panno  aureo,  paly  et  cheeky  blodii  colons  in  les  jialis,  cum 


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aureis  fimbriis  de  opere  acuali,  1  stola  et  fanona,  1  alba,  1  amicta, 
cum  paruris  de  panno  ca«ule,  ex  dono  Walter!  Stapyldon. 

1  casula  de  panno  aureo,  glaucii  coloris,  cum  floribiw  in  parvis 
circulis  et  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali,  cum  diversis  armis  super  panno 
viridi  operatis. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni,  sine  orfreis  et  sine  stolis,  fanonibus, 
amictis  et  albis. 

1  casula  alba  de  panno  aureo,  cum  griffonibus  aureis,  et  in  dorso 
Salutacio  beate  Marie  stantis  in  tabernaculis  cum  orfirey  tri partita  in 
summitate,  et  fimbriis  de  opere  actual!,  aureo  de  diversis  nodi*. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni,  sine  orfreis,  sine  stolis  et  fanonibus, 
cum  paruris  in  fimbriis  tuniculorum  de  purpyll  panno  aureo,  ex 
dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

1  casula,  in  qua  consecratus  erat  Johannes  de  Grandissono,  de 
albo  panno,  aureo  cum   avibus  albis  habentibns   capita   et  pedes 
aureis,  cum  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali,  continente  diversas  ymagines 
in  circulis. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni,  sine  orfreis,  cum  paruris  in  tuniculi 8 
de  panno  aureo,  sine  stolis,  fanonibus,  amictis,  albis  et  paruris,  ex 
dono  dicti  Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

1  capa  ejusdem  panni,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali,  cum  diversis 
ymaginibus  et  nodulis  de  parvis  peryllis,  et  4  lapidibus  viridibus, 
ex  dono  ejusdem. 

1  casula  de  rubeo  satino,  operata  cum  nnbibus  chorus  cantibus 
aureis  ac  scriptnra  "Dominus  mihi  adjutor,"  le  orfrey  de  blodio 
velvete,  operatum  de  opere  acuali,  cum  archangelis  cum  poperd 
heddis  per  totum  circnitum. 

1  stola,  1  fanona,  1  amicta,  1  alba,  cum  paruris  ejusdem  panni  et 
operis,  ex  dono  Edmundi  Lacy. 

2  tuniculi  alterius  panni  de  rubeo  panno  aureo,  le  orfreys  de 
blodio  satino   fignry,  operatum  cum  aquilis  aureis   displanatis,    1 
stola,  2  fanones,  2  amicte,  2  albe,  cum  paruris  ejnsdem  panni,  ex 
dono  executorum  domini  Ricardi  Helyer,  nuper  Archidiaconi  ( W- 
nubie. 

1  larga  casula  de  piano  purpyll,  cum  orfreis  de  opere  acuali,  tri- 
partitim  in  summitate  et  fimbriis,  operato  cum  pluribus  nodis  de 
puro  peryll  in  eisdem,  et  similiter  f/perato  cum  hujusmodi  jx^r)*!! 
per  totum  circuitum,  1  stola  et  1  fanona,  1  ami  eta  et  1  alba,  cum 
paruris  eciam,  sic  operatis  cum  peryll,  ex  dono  Domini  Johannis  de 
Grandissono. 

1  casula  larga  de  purpyll  satyn,  le  orfrey  de  stricto  panno  aureo 
de  opere  acuali,  cum  parvis  volucribus  albis. 

2  dalmatice  ejusdem  panni,  cum  albis  orfreis  strictis  de  opere 
acuali,  sine  atolls,  fanonibus,  amictis,  albis  et  paruris,   ex   dono 
Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

1  casula  rubea  de  piano  satino,  cum  orfrey  de  opere  aculi  aureo, 
et  1  bend  aun  per  circuitum. 

2  dalmatice  ejusdem  panni,  cum  strictia  albis  orfreis,  sine  stolia, 
fanonibus,  amictis,  albis  et  paruris,  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Grandis- 
sono. 

1  casula  de  piano  rubio  aatiuo,  le  orfrey  tripartitim  in  summitate 


344  APPENDIX. 

et  fimbriis  similiter  cum  una  cruce  braunchyd  de  opere  acuali  auro, 
operatis  cum  3  amatistis,  2  perulis,  ac  aliis  minoribus  perulis  in 
quinque  circulis. 

1  larga  casula,  usitata  in  Dominicis  Adventus  et  Quadragesime, 
de  purpull,  operata  per  totum  opere  acuali,  cum  magnis  bestiis 
aureis  in  circulis  aureis  ac  minoribus  diversis  bestiis  inter  circulos 
aureos,  cum  stricto  aureo  orfrey  in  pectore. 

1  casula  in  blodio  satino,  cum  lunis  et  poynted  caterfoilez  aureis, 
le  orfrey  circa  humeros  operata  cum  bestiis  et  avibus  aureis  infra 
nodulos,  ornatos  per  circuitus  cum  parvis  perlys  et  lapidibus  vitrinis. 

1  casula  de  nigro  serico,  pro  Die  Paraschive,  cum  1  orfrey  quasi 
rubii  coloris,  cum  crucifixo  pendente  in  viridi  cruce,  ex  dono 
Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

1  casula  de  blodio  panno  aurea  operata  per  circuitum  fimbfie  in 

1  trayle   aureo,    cum   poperdys  heddys  albis,  le   orfrey   de   opere 
acuali,  operatum  cum  Assurnpcione  beate  Marie  ac  aliis  diversis 
ymaginibus  ornatis  cum  peryll. 

2  tuniculi  cum  orfreis,  2  stolis,  3  faiionibus,  3  albis,  3  amictis  ac 
paruris,  ejusdem  panni  et  operis. 

3  cape  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  cum  diversis  ymaginibus,  ex  dono 
Edmundi  Lacy. 

1  casula  blodii  panni  aurei  tissiwe,  cum  orfrey  de  opere  acuali, 
operata    cum    Crucifixo,    tribus    angelis   circa    crucem   tenentibus 
calices. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  cum  aliis  ymaginibus. 

1  stola,  3  fanonibus,  3  amictis,  3  albis,  cum  paruris  ejusdem  panni, 
ac  1  stola  de  alio  panno  aureo  blodio,  due  cape  ejusdem  panni  et 
operis  cum  aliis  ymaginibus,  ex  dono  Edmundi  Lacy. 

1  casula  de  purpyll  panno  aureo  tissiwe,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali, 
operata  cum  Crucifixio  cum  rotulo  albo  et  nigris  literis  i  •  N  •  R  •  i 
super  crucem,  cum  aliis  ymaginibus  in  eodem  orfrey,  duo  tuniculis 
ejusdem  panni  et  operis  operati  cum  diversis  ymaginibus  in  eodem 
orfrey,  cum  tribus  amictis,  2  albis  cum  paruris  ejusdem  panni,  ac 

2  stolis,  3  fanonibus,  1  alba  cum  paruris  de  alio  panno  aureo  rubeo, 
ex  dono  Edmundi  Lacy. 

3  cape  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  cum  aliis  diversis  ymaginibus  in 
le  orfrey,  ex  dono  dicti  Domini  Edmundi  Lacy. 

1  casula  de  panno  aureo  rubeo  tissiwe,  operata  per  circuitum  cum 
albis  poperdys  heddys,  les  orfrey  de  opere  acuali,  operate  in  dorso 
cum  Trinitate,  viz.,  Patre,  Spiritu  Sancto,  et  Crucifixo,  ornata  cum 
grosso  peryll,  et  aliis  ymaginibus  in  eodem  sic  omatis. 

1  alia  casula  ejusdem  panni  et  operis  per  circuitum,  le  orfray  de 
opere  acuali,  operatum  cum  Ascencioiie  Domini,  cum  rotulo  super 
capud  scrip  turn  cum  nigris  literis,  "  Hie  est  Filius  meus  dilectus," 
cum  aliis  ymaginibus  ornatis  cum  grosso  peryll. 

4  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,   operati  cum   diversis  aliis 
ymaginibus  et  quatuor  grossis  peryll,  6  fanones,  9  amicte,  6  alba 
cum  paruris  ejusdem  panni  sine  peryll  et  ymagine. 

Cape  rubee. 
4    cape    ejusdem    panni,    quarum    due    operaiitur    in    pectorali 


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cum  poperdys  heddys  de  peryll,  et  omes  4  operata  in  le  orfreis 
cum  diversis  ymaginibus,  ornatis  cum  grosso  peryll,  ex  dono 
Edmundi  Lacy. 

1  capa  de  argentea  tissiwe,  le  orfrey  de  blodio  velvete,  operata  de 
opere  acuali  cum  floribus  de  lysez  aureis  et  angelis  aureis  ac  aliis 
parvis  foliis,  ex  dono  Edmundi  Lacy. 

1  capa  de  rubeo  panno  aureo,  cum  floribus  aureis,  le  orfrey  de 
panno  aureo  russati  tissiwe,  cum  1  bordyll  per  circuitum  de  blodio 
panno  aureo,  ex  dono  Magistri  Henrici  Webber  Decani. 

1  capa  de  rubeo  velvete,  operata  de  opere  acuali,  cum  armis 
Johannis  de  Grandissono  in  circulis  aureis  grayled,  le  orfrey  de 
purpyll  velvete  operata  de  opere  acuali  cum  diversis  ymaginibus 
stantibus  in  tabernaculis  aureis  operata  cum  pynsheds  de  puro  auro, 
ex  dono  Johannis  Grandissono. 

1  capa,  vulgariter  vocata  Capa  Sancti  Petri,  operata  per  totum 
cum  opere  acuali  de  Passione  Domini  ac  diversis  aliis  passionibus 
sanctorum,  ac  in  le  orfrey  operata  cum  puro  peryll  in  capidibus 
leopardorum  synkfoilez  et  ymaginibus,  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Gran- 
dissono. 

1  capa  de  rubeo  panno  aureo  de  draconibus  volantibus  ac  tenent- 
ibus  caudas  proprias  in  ore,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali,  operata  cum 
ymaginibus  aureis  stantibus  in  tabernaculis  aureis,  ac  cum  Besur- 
rectione  Dominica  in  capicio. 

1  capa  de  rubeo  panno  aureo  cum  leonibus  parvis  cuniculis  et 
misis  aureis,  cum  magnis  frondibus  viridibus,  le  orfrey  de  opere 
acuali  operata  cum  2  ymaginibus  insimul,  stantibus  in  tabernaculis 
aureis,  ex  dono  Magistri  Johannis  Orurn. 

1  capa  de  rubeo  damasco,  operata  de  opere  acuali  cum  radicibus 
aureis  ac  nubibus  blodiis  chorustantibus  aureis,  et  "  Jesus  "  scriptus 
in  medio,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali  operata  cum  ymaginibus  et  1 
stogyn  de  armis  in  pectorali,  ex  dono  Willielmi  Pylton  ornata  cum 
peryll  in  capicio. 

1  capa  de  albo  damasco,  ejusdem  operis  et  armis,  ornatis  cum 
peryll  in  capicio,  ex  dono  ejusdem. 

2  capie  rubie  de  panno  aureo  cum  draconibus  aureis  tenentibus 
trayles  aureos  in  ore  ac  les  orfreys  de  blodio  opere  acuali,  operata 
cum  literis  J.  et  M.  et  Caterfoyles  de  puro  peryll,  ex  dono  Johannis 
de  Grandissono. 

1  capa  de  panno  aureo  nigro  cum  magnis  pavonibus  et  griffonibus 
habentibus  capita  aurea  et  pedes  aureos,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali 
operata  cum  diverts  ymaginibus,  cum  tribus  botons  argenteis  albis 
in  pectorali. 

1  capa  de  panno  aureo  rubeo  cum  figuris  stantibus  super  cimbas 
subtus  1  fronde,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali,  cum  rotulis  argenteis  sine 
literiis,  operatis  inter  diversas  yrnagines. 

1  capa  rubea  de  panno  aureo  cum  bestiis  et  avibus  stantibus  inter 
duo  folia,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  velvete  operata  de  opere  acuali,  cum 
ymaginibus  stantibus  in  tabernaculis  aureis  et  corone  auree  inter 
tabernacula,  ex  dono  Johannis  Lugans. 

2  cape  rubie  de  panno  aureo  cum  leonibus,  griffonibus  et  canibus 
aureis  provenientibus  de  blodiis  et    albis   nubibus  cum  rotulis  in 


346  APPENDIX. 

pedibus,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali  operata  cum  ymaginibus  capitibus 
in  igne  jacentibus  in  uno  orfrey  et  diversis  ymaginibus  operatis 
infra  tabernacula  de  serico,  ex  dono  Episcopi  Brantyngham. 

1  capa  rubia  de  panno  aureo  cum  albis  hyndis  ligatis  ad  arborem 
aureum  cum  foliis  aureis  et  rotulis  in  medio,  le  orfrey  de  opere 
acuali  operata  cum  ymaginibus  stantibus  in  tabernaculis  sericis  altis, 
ex  dono  Domini  Thome  Barton. 

1  antiqua  bona  capa  per  totum  de  opere  acuali  operata  cum 
diversis  ymaginibus  in  magnis  circulis  et  maremaydis  et  aliis  fan- 
tasiis  in  minoribus  circulis,  le  orfrey  ejusdem  operis  cum  arboribus 
rubiis  et  viridibus,  ex  dono  Walteri  Stapyldon  Episcopi. 

1  veterata  capa  glaucii  coloris,  de  opere  acuali  operata  in  dorso 
cum  Coronacione  beate  Marie  et  Passione  Sancti  Edmundi  Regis?  ac 
leopardis  aureis  passant  et  le  orfrey  operata  cum  diversis  armis,  ex 
dono  Ricardi  Wydeslade. 

1  capa  de  rubio  satino  de  opere  acuali  operata  cum  Jesses  more, 
le  orfrey  ejusdem  operis  cum  ymaginibus  stantibus  in  tabernaculis, 
ex  dono  Thome  Bytton  Episcopi. 

1  capa  de  rubeo  satino  operate  per  totum  cum  ymaginibus  stanti- 
bus in  tabernaculis  aureis  viridibus  papynjays  tenentibus  trefoylis 
aureis  in  ore,  le  orfrey  ejusdem  operis  cum  ymaginibus  diversis 
stantibus   in   tabernaculis   et  avibus    super   tabernacula,  ex   dono 
Magistri  Johannis  Vele. 

2  cape  rubie  de  panno  aureo  cum  signis  tenentibus  frondem  in 
ore,  le  orfrays  de  blodio  panno  aureo  trayled  cum  floribus  aureis. 

3  cape  rubie  de  panno  aureo  cum  floribus  aureis  infra  trayle,  sine 
circulis,  cum  1  orfrey  de  panno  aureo  blodio  ut  supra. 

1  capa  de  panno  aureo  rubeo  cum  ]  bestia  aurea  in  scripturam 
oblongam,  le  orfrey  ut  proxima  supra. 

2  cape  de  panno  aureo  rubeo  cum  trayles  et  leonibus  aureis,  le 
orfrey  ut  proxime  supra. 

1  capa  de  purpyll  satino  piano,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali  operata 
cum  angelis,  griflfonibug,  draconibus  et  aliis  avibus  diversis  operis, 
et  armis  in  pectorali  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  ex  dono  ejusdem. 

1  casula   de   panno  aureo   rubeo  cum  ymaginibus,  viz. : — beate 
Marie,  Johannis  Evangaliste,  et  Sancte  Barbare  in  le  orfrey  trayled 
de  grene  velvete  cum  synkfoylis  albis  et  rubeis,  ex  dono  Thome 
Harris  Archidiaconi  Cornubie. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni  et  operis. 

3  albe  cum  3  amictis  cum  paruris,  ejusdem  panni. 

3  cape  quasi  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  cum  Salutacione  beate  Marie, 
in  capicio  tercia  cum  ymagine  Patris  sedentis  panno  lineo  utrisque 
manibus  tenentis  in  capicio  dicte  cape,  ex  dono  supradicti  Magistri 
Thome  Harris. 

1  capa  de  rubeo  panno  aureo  cum  blodio  panno  aureo  in  fimbriis 
ac  Salutacione  beate  Marie  in  capicio,  ex  dono  Domini  Thome 
Webber. 

1  casula  de  purpyll  velvete  cum  floribus  et  angelis  aureis  tenen- 
tibus scrip turam  in  manibus  scilicet  "  Da  gloriam  Deo,"  ac  cum 
ymagine  Crucifixi  in  le  orfrais  cum  duobus  angelis  tenentibus  calices 
ad  suscepcionem  sanguinis  Christi,  cum  Spiritu  Sancto  in  sumniitate 


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dicte  crucis,  et  armis  Magistri  Thome  Austell  sub  pede  ejusdem,  ex 
dono  dicti  Magistri  Thome  Austell  Ecclesie  hujus  Thesaurarii. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  3  albe,  3  amicte  cum  reliquo 
apparatu  dicte,  casule  et  tuniculis  deservientibus,  ex  dono  dicti 
Thome  Austell. 

1  capa  ejusdem  panni  cum  Assumpcione  beate  Marie  in  capicio 
cum  floribus  aureis  et  quinque  angelis  in  dorso  ejusdem  ;  quorum 
medius  tenet  hanc  scripturam  utrisque  manibus  "Da  gloriam  Deo," 
ex  dono  dicti  Thome  Austell. 

1  capa  rubea  de  panno  aureo  cum  avibus  aureis  volantibus  inter 
flores  aureos,  le  orfrey  viridis  coloris  operata  de  opere  acuali,  cum 
griffonibus  aureis  in  panno  blodio  infra  circulum  purpureum,  pulver- 
izatum,  cum  duplicibus  rosis  aureis  et  argenteis,  ex  dono  Johannis 
de  Grandissono. 

Due  cape  de  crymsyn  velvete  cum  floribus  aureis,  le  orfreys  de 
opere  acuali,  cum  hoc  scrip tura  in  pectorali  "  Orate  pro  anima  Wil- 
lielmi  Elyott,"  ex  dono  ejusdem. 

Cape  albe. 

1  capa  de  albo  satino  operata  de  opere  acuali  cum  pluribus  armis 
Johannis  de  Grandissono  pendentibus  in  traylez  aureis,  le  orfrey 
ejusdem  operis  cum  diversis  ymaginibus  stantibus  in  tabernaculis 
sericis  et  avibus  diversis  super  tabemacula,  ex  dono  dicti  Johannis 
de  Grandissono. 

1  capa  de  albo  satino  operata  de  opere  acuali  cum  diversis  ymagi- 
nibus infra  1  trayle  cum  clavibus  et  crucibus  aureis  moleyne,  le  orfrey 
ejusdem  operis  cum  diversis  armis,  ex  dono  Walteri  Stapyldon. 

1  capa  de  albo  satino  operata  de  opere  acuali  cum  1  frett  aureo, 
et  infra  idem  frett  1  frons  virides  cum  rosa  rubea,  le  orfrey  ejusdem 
operis  cum  ymaginibus  stantibus  in  tabernaculis  sericis,  cum  scrip- 
tura  nominum  supra  eorum  capita. 

1  capa  de  albo  panno  aureo  cum  diversiis  bestiis,  avibus  et  rosis 
aureis,  ac  rosiis  et  foliis  viridibus,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali  cum  1 
frett  aureo  nodoso,  et  infra  albis  rosis  argenteis  cum  tribus  botons 
argenteis,  deauratis  in  pectorali  cum  armis  Johannis  de  Grandissono, 
ex  dono  ejusdem. 

2  cape  de  panno  albo  aureo  cum  barris  aureis  dauncy  et  denty  et 
flowre  de  lycez  aures,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  velvete  operate  de  opere  acuali 
cum  angelis   aureis  stantibus  infra  nodos  virides  grayled,  ex  dono 
Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

1  veterata  capa  de  albo  satino  operata  de  opere  acuali  cum  papyn- 
jays  aureis  et  rosis  rubiis,  cum  magna  ymagine  beate  Marie  in  dorso 
cum  puero  in  brachiis  ac  Petro  et  Paulo  stantibus  in  tabernaculis 
prope  orfrey  de  opere  acuali  cum  nodis  aureis  et  Agnis  Dei 
argenteis. 

1  alba  capa  de  panno  aureo  cum  diversis  avibus  volantibus  inter 
trayles  aureos  et  flores  aureos,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  damasco  operata  de 
opere  acuali  cum  rosis  aureis  ac  ostryge  fethers  insertis  in  rosis,  ex 
dono  Magistri  Johannis  Holond. 

1  capa  de  albo  damasco  cum  duobus  leonibus  insimul  prospicien- 
tibus  et  duobus  draconibus  pariformiter  respicientibus,  le  orfrey  de 


348  APPENDIX. 

opere  acuali  de  diversis  coloribus  cum  griffonibus,  aquilis  aureis 
infra  circulos  albos  et  aureos,  gray  led  ac  diversis  minoribus  avibus 
extra  circulos. 

Quinque  cape  unius  secte  de  panno  albo  aureo  cum  floribus  aureis 
ac  parvis  avibus  aureis  tenentibus  ramum  aureum  in  ore,  cum  cater- 
foyles  rubeis,  le  orfrey  de  blodio  panno  aureo. 

1  principalis  capa  de  panno  albo  aureo  cum  frondibus,  floribus  et 
papynjays  aureis  stantibus  inter  flores,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali 
operata  cum  ymaginibus  infra  tabernacula  serica  et  supra  singula 
tabernacula  duo  parvi  angeli. 

Due  cape  ejusdem  panni,  le  orfreis  de  opere  acuali  operata 
cum  tribus  leopardis  et  armis  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  ex  dono 
ejusdem. 

4  cape  unius  secte  de  albo  panno  aureo  cum  bestiis  ad  instar  Tiir- 
corum  cum  alis  et  leonibus  aureis,  le  orfreis  de  opere  acuali  operata 
cum  armis  Johannis  de  Grandissono  et  armis  de  3  feusillis  rubeis 
et  2  leopardora  leopardis  et  armis  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  ex  dono 
ejusdem. 

1  capa  de  albo  damasco  cum  aquilis  aureis  displanatis  et  avibus 
aureis  et  fimbriis  aureis,  cum  blodiis  orfreis  et  displanatis  aquilis 
aureis  in  le  orfreis,  ex  dono  Magistri  Doctoris  Sylke  Precentoris. 

1  capa  de  albo  damasco  cum  aquilis  et  angelis  aureis  tenentibus 
in  manibus  "  Gloria  in  excelsis,"  et  avibus  aureis,  le  orfreis  de  blodio 
colore  et  aquilis  aureis  displanatis  in  le  orfreis,  ex  dono  Magistri 
William  Elyott  Archidiaconi  Barnastopol. 

1  alia   capa  absque   avibus   ejusdem   coloris   et    operis   tarn   in 
capa  quarn  in   le  orfreis  cum  fimbriis  de  rubeo  tissiwe,  ex  dono 
ejusdem. 

Alia  capa  de  albo  damasco  cum  aquilis  aureis  displanatis  cum 
scriptura  scilicet  nominis  beate  Marie  in  diversis  locis,  cum  diversis 
ymaginibus  in  tabernaculis,  in  le  orfreis  aureis  cum  Coronacione 
beate  Marie  in  capicio,  ex  dono  Magistrorum  Eoberti  et  Willielmi 
Aschu. 

2  cape  unius  secte  de  albo  damasco  cum  aquilas  aureis  displanatis 
cum  diversis  ymaginibus  in  le  orfreis  cum  Salutacione  beate  Marie 
in  capiciis,  ex  dono  diversorum  canonicorum. 

1  capa  de  panno  albo  aureo  cum  armis  diversorum  dominorum  in 
le  orfrey  cum  Coronacione  beate  Marie  in  capicio,  ex  dono  Magistri 
Johannis  Comb  nuper  Precentoris. 

Alia  capa  de  panno  albo  aureo  cum  armis  Domini  Johannis 
Morton  nuper  Archiepiscopi  Cantuariensis,  de  panno  aureo  in  le 
orfrey,  ex  dono  ejusdem. 

Cape  blodie. 

Due  cape  de  blodio  satino  operate  de  opere  acuali  cum  angelis 
aureis  habentibus  "  Alas  "  in  capite  et  in  corpore  cum  rotis  rotundis 
sub  pedibus,  le  orfrey  de  opere  actiali  operata  cum  ymaginibus  et 
angelis  sfantibus  infra  trayles  grayled,  quarum  1  ex  dono  Eicardi  de 
Colyton  et  alia  Ricardi  Norys. 

1  capa  nigra  vestata  operata  per  botum  de  opere  acuali  cum 
ymaginibus  prope  orfrey  leonibus,  griffonibus,  scaleppis  et  riodis 


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aureis  flowry,  le  orfrey  de  panno  aureo  acuali,  pulverizata  cum  nodis 
diversorum  colorum,  ac  2  peciis  argenteis  in  pectoral!,  ex  dono 
Willielmi  Bluer  Episcopi. 

1  capa  de  blodio  satino  operata  per  totum  de  opere  acuali  cum 
Petro  et  Paulo  in  dorso,  ac  1  trayle  cum  clavibus  aureis  et  argenteis, 
le  orfrey  de  opere  alba  acuali  operata  cum  nodis  aureis  super  blodeo 
viridi  et  rubeo. 

1  blodia  capa  de  satino  de  opere  acuali  per  totum  operata  cum 
regibus,  episcopi,  et  aliis  ymaginibus  sedentibus  in  foliis  aureis 
infra  circulos  aureos  et  infra  circulos  scripture  auree,  le  orfrey  de 
albo  opere  acuali  pulverizato  cum  parvis  avibus  et  trayles  cum  flowre 
de  lysez  albo,  ex  dono  Willielmi  Brewer  Episcopi. 

1  blodia  capa  de  panno  aureo  cum  frondibus  habentibus  rosulas 
albas  et  rubea  et  folia  ad  instar  nodorum,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali 
operata  cum  vita  Sancti  Johannis  Baptiste,  ex  dono  Magistri  Eoberti 
Daggiscomb. 

1  capa  de  blodio  panno  aureo  cum  avibus  aureis  volantibus  et 
vertentibus  dorsa  insimul  inter  flores  aureos  rubeos  et  albos  tray  led, 
le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali  operatum  per  totum  super  blodio  cum  auro 
unius  operis  et  aquila  tenente  anna  Johannis  de  Grandissono  in 
pectorali,  ex  dono  dicti  Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

1  capa  de  blodio  tissiwe  cum  ymagine  Sancte  Katerine  in  sum- 
mitate  et  tribus  aliis  ymaginibus  ex  eadem  parte  in  le  orfrey  ac  cum 
ymagine  beate  Marie  Magdalene  cum  tribus  aliis  ymaginibus  in  le 
orfreis  ex  altera  parte  cum  Assumpcione  beate  Marie  in  capicio. 

Alia  capa  ex  consimili  panno  cum  ymagine  Sancti  Pauli  in  capicio 
et  cum  armis  in  pectorali. 

Alia  capa  de  blodio  tissiwe  cum  Tribus  Regibus  Colonie  in 
capicio,  ex  dono  Magistri  Jacobi  Hamlyn. 

1  consimilis  capa  cum  Tribus  Eegibus  Colonie  in  capicio  ac 
ymagine  Sancti  Nicholai  in  pectorale,  cum  scriptura  nominis,  Ma- 
gistri IS'icholai  Gosse,  ex  dono  ejusdem. 

Consimilis  capa,  cum  ymagine  Salvatoris  in  pectorali  et  Nativi- 
tate  Domini  in  capicio. 

1  consimilis  capa,  cum  ymagine  Sancti  Johannis  Baptiste  in 
pectorali  et  cum  Salutacione  beate  Marie  Virginis  in  capicio. 

1  consimilis  capa  cum  ymagine  Sancti  Andree  in  summitate  le 
orfray  ex  una  parte  et  ymagine  Sancte  Appollonie  in  le  orfrey  ex 
alia  parte,  cum  Assumpcione  beate  Marie  in  capicio. 

1  consimilis  capa,  cum  ymagine  Sancti  Edmundi  in  summitate  le 
orfrey  ex  una  parte  et  cum  ymagine  Sancti  Edwardi  in  summitate  le 
orfrey  ex  alia  parte,  cum  Coronacione  beate  Marie  in  capicio,  et 
ymagine  Sancti  Pauli  in  pectorali. 

1  capa  de  blodio  velvete  cum  mantellis  aureis  et  le  russett 
tissiwe  in  le  orfrey  et  pectorali. 

Cape  nigre  cum  casulis. 

1  casula  de  nigro  velvete  cum  rubeo  velvete  in  le  orfrey. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni  et  secte. 

3  albe  et  3  amicte,  cum  toto  apparatu. 
3  cape  ejusdem  panni  et  secte. 


350  APPENDIX. 

Cape  purpurie. 

Due  cape  plane  de  purpyll  damasco,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali 
operata  cum  diversis  ymaginibus  stantibus  infra  columpnas  sericas 
cum  armis  Johannis  de  Grandissono  et  armis  Comitis  Saruui  in  pec- 
torali,  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

Panni  quadragesimales. 

Duo  panni,  vocati  le  "  Lent  Cloth,"  unius  sortis  cum  scriptura  in 
summitate,  "  Querite  Dominum  dum,"  &c. 

1  pannus  lineus,  stayned  cum  cruce  et  aliis  signis  de  Passione 
Domini  pro  cruce  cooperiendi  in  choro. 

1  pannus  stragulatus,  cum  magna  rubea  cruce  per  medium, 
operatus  cum  leopardus  glaucii  coloris,  pro  magna  cruce  coope- 
rienda. 

1  longum  pulvinare  de  rubro  baudekyn  pro  sedili  episcopal!. 


SEQUITCTR  DIVERSARUM  RERUM  INVENTARIUM  QUE  NOVO  SCACCARIO 
CONTINENTUR. 

Missalia  cum  aliis  Libris. 

1  Missale,  secundo  folio,  "  Induantur." 

1  liber  vocatus  '  Eeportorium  Domini  Johannis  Myles,'  2  fo.,  c.  1, 
"  Et  idem." 

Summa  angelica,  2  fo.,  "  Absolucione." 

Statuta  Regis  Anglie,  2  fo.,  "  Pursuit  dni." 

1  Legenda  Sanctorum,  ex  dono  Domini  Johannis  de  Grandissono, 
2  fo.,  "  Lex  et  verbum." 

Alia  Legenda  de  Temporal!,  ex  dono  ejusdem,  2  fo.,  "  Cum  non 
possint." 

1  Collectarium  pulcrum,  2  fo.,  "  Filii  ejus." 

1  Legenda,  de  dono  Magistri  Willielmi  Ponnestoke,  2  fo.,  "  Am 
judices." 

1  Legenda  de  Sanctis,  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  2  fo., 
**  Possidere  videbantur." 

Mitre  et  Baculi  pastorales. 

1  pectorale  de  argento  deaurato  cum  ymagine  Deitatis  in  medio 
sedentis,  librum  sinistri  manu  tenentis  et  dextra  manu  benedicentis, 
cum  ymagine  beati  Petri  in  dextra  parte  et  Sancti  Pauli  in  sinistra, 
cum  quatuor  Evangelistis  per  circuitum,  et  quatuor  viridibus  lapi- 
dibus  cum  crucifixo  Maria  et  Johanne  ex  altera  parte. 

1  mitra  blodii  coloris  cum  diversis  lapidibus  positis  in  argento 
deaurato,  operata  cum  parvis  perlys. 

1  mitra  alba  de  serico  albo,  operata  cum  12  ymaginibus  ac  perlys 
et  33  lapidibus  preciosis  in  mitra  et  41  in  le  labellis. 

1  mitra  alba,  cum  duabus  coronis^epineis  ex  1  parte  et  2  ex  altera 
in  fimbriis,  et  utraque  parte  deaurata  absque  labellis. 

1  baculus  ligneus  cum  tribus  peciis  argenteis,  pro  episcopi  Sancti 
Nicholai. 

1  crux  pastoralis  argentea  deaurata,  continens 


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lapides  in  capite,  cum  ymagine  in  medio  sedente  et  librum  manu 
sinistra  tenente. 

1  vetus  par  Cyrothecarum  cum  2  ochys  operatis  do  perle,  et 
duobus  knoppys  argenteis  deauratis. 

Oche  pro  manu  Episcopi,  continent  6  lapides  preciosos,  quia  1 
perditur. 

Pectorale  argenteum  cum  ymagine  beate  Marie  deaurate  et  37 
lapides  preciosi. 

1  collare  pro  Episcopo,  operatum  cum  auro,  continens  12  lapides 
preciosi  et  knoppis  de  argento. 

1  collare  de  panno  aureo  cum  8  lapidibus  preciosis. 

1  pectorale  argenteum  et  deauratum,   cum  9  lapidibus  ex  1  parte 
cum  cupro  ex  alia  parte. 

2  paria  sandaliorum. 

C&rporalia. 
1  corporale  cum  casa. 

Pallia. 

1  pallium  blodium  cum  volucribus  aureis  et  scriptura  blodea  circa 
collum. 

1  pallium  blodium  cum  volucribus  in  aqua  et  hawks  habentibus 
rubeum  florem  supra  dorsum. 

1  pallium  nigrum  cum  albis  leopardis  et  leporibus. 

1  aliud  simile  pallium  coloris  viz.  et  operis. 

* 

Casule  cumfronte. 

1  casula  de  rubeo  serico  paled,  duplicata  cum  viridi  sarcenett. 
1  casula  de  tawny  velvete  cum  cruce  de  rubio  velvete. 
1  front  cum  leonibus  aureis  et  avibus  blodeis,  cum  1  cruce  de  albo 
serico  et  foliis  aureis  in  medio. 
1  pecia  de  viridi  damasco. 
Due  pecie  de  blodio  tissiwe. 
1  pecia  de  nigro  chamlett. 

LIBKI  IN  ANTIQUO  SCACCARIO. 

1  Legenda  de  Temporali,  2  fo.,  "  Consensu  non  superat." 
1  Antiphonale,  2  fo.,  "  Quorundam  etenim." 
1  Collectarium,  2  fo.,  "  Nostras  et  tocius  noctis." 
1  Legenda  de  Temporali,  2  fo.,  "  Kalenda  nostras." 
1  liber  Leofrici  primi  Exoniensis  Episcopi,  2  fo.,  "  Benedictio 
anuli." 

1  Evangelium  et  Epistolare,  2  fo.,  "  Lite  ingemissere." 
1  Biblia,  2  fo.,  "  Tes  bonum  et  rnalum." 
1  Pontificale,  2  fo.,  "  Qui  hoc  modo." 

^-— ~1  liber  Conclusionem  Innocencii,  2  fo.,  "  Expressa  ex  tenore." 
1  Collectarium,  2  fo.,  "  Nostrorum  periculis." 
1  Pontificale,  2  ft).,  "  Custodi  pro  quo  mundo." 
1  Manuale,  2  fo.,  "Tuam  super  hos  cereos." 
1  Collectarium,  2  fo.,  per  omnia  in  litteris  aureis. 


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1  Ordinale  *  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  2  fo.,  "  Nativitate  beate 
Virginis." 

1  parvum  Ordinale,  2  fo.,  "  Crucem." 

1  Missale,  scilicet  Usum  Komanorum,  2  fo.,  "  Placare." 

1  parvum  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Mundicia." 

1  Collectarium,  2  fo.,  "Nostra  in." 

1  liber  vocatus  '  Casus  Bernardini,'  2  fo.,  "  Cum  fuerint." 

1  avis  cuprea  et  ammellata  stans  super  coronam. 

1  antiqua  crux  cuprea,  cum  ymagine  Crucifixi  et  4  lapidibus  cris- 
tallinis. 

30  libri  antiqui. 

4  baculi,  pro  pallio  portando  super  corpus  Dominicum  in  Die 
Corporis  Ohristi. 

Due  tabule  mensales,  deservientes  in  obitubus  nobilium. 

Due  antique  pallie  auree,  ad  capas  cooperiendas  in  superiori 
vestiario. 

CAPELLA  BEATE  MARIE. 

1  calix  argenteus  deauratus,  embosyd  in  pede  cum  frondibus  et 
ymagine  Potestatis  in  patena  sedentis  super  nubum,  cum  4  Evan- 
gelistis  in  circuitu  inferiori  scriptis  per  circuitum  exteriorem. 

1  calix  cum  patena  argenteus  et  deauratus,  enameled  in  pede  cum 
6  ymaginibus,  et  subter  dictas  ymagines  scuta  pro  armis  inscripta 
per  circulum,  et  in  patena  Majestas  enameled  benedicens  et  rnachi- 
nam  mundi  tenensfc 

Due  phiole  argentee  albe  cooperate  tantum  deaurate  per  les 
bordells. 

1  magna  pelvis  argentea  deaurata  in  le  bordell  cum  rosis  in  1 
trayle,  et  cum  parva  rosa  enameled  infra  magnam  rosam  deau- 
ratam.2 

1  parva  pelvis  alba  argentea,  cum  rosa  in  fundo  et  scriptura  in  le 
border  per  totum.8 

1  thuribulum  argenteum  et  deauratum,  cum  quatuor  cathenis  albis 
argenteis,  aliud  thuribulum  ejusdem  secte  et  operis. 

Duo  candelabra  alba  argentea  cum  armis  Johannis  de  Grandis- 
sono, et  duobus  aliis  armis  cum  una  cruce  engrayled  de  campo  de 
ermyn. 

1  navis  argentea  pro  incenso,  cum  1  cocliare  parvo  argenteo. 

1  parva  crux  cum  crucifixo,  et  alia  cruce  in  summitate  ejusdem  de 
cupro  deaurato,  operata  cum  novem  lapidibus. 

1  textus  cum  crucifixo  argenteo  Maria  et  Johanne,  deaurato  cum 
quatuor  Evangeliis  in  quatuor  angulis,  2  fo.  in  libro,  "  Ad  pruden- 
tiam  justorum." 

1  parva  pelvis  de  stagno. 

1  os  capitis  Sancti  Nicasii  Episcopi  inclusum  in  argento,  deau- 
rato ex  parte  exteriori  operate  cum  sex  lapidibus  et  in  parte 


1  This  is  not  the  Ovdinale  now  in  the 
Cathedral  which  commences  fo.  2,  "  Fami- 
liarem  recipere." 

2  These  two  pelves  seem  to  be  the  gift  of 


the  Precentor  Roger  Bolton.  See  his  Will, 
dated  8th  June,  1436,  and  proved  llth 
December  that  year.  'Lacy's  Reg.'  vol. 
iii. 


INVENTORY  OF  1506.  353 

posteriori  cum  tribus  ymaginibus  albis  portantibus  capita  in 
manibus. 

Reliquie  Sanctorum  Pauli,  Thome,  et  Laurencii,  incluse  ex  una 
parte  in  laminibus  argenteis  et  ex  altera  parte  operata  cum  quatuor 
lapidibus  et  dimidio  angeli  deaurati. 

Ossa  Sancte  Marie  Magdalene,  inserta  in  laminibus  argenteis  ex 
una  parte  deauratis  trayled  operatis  cum  tribus  lapidibus  et  ex  alia 
parte  cum  ymagine  dicte  Marie  enameled. 

Reliquie,  viz. :  Ossa  inclusa  ad  modum  crucis  in  laminibus  argen- 
teis deauratis  ex  una  parte  et  alia  parte  albis  cum  uno  rotundo 
birello. 

1  parva  crux  deaurata,  continens  particulam  Sancte  Crucis,  pon- 
deris  2  quarterium  unius  uncie. 

1  parva  crux  argentea  deaurata,  continens 

1  alia  parva  crux  argentea  alba,  continens     .     .     . 

1  pectorale  de  ebore  integrum  et  unum  fractum. 

Sudaria. 

Unum  album  sudarium  sericum  stragulatum  de  rubeo  et  auro. 
1  sudarium  de  russeto  serico  operatum  de  se  cum  viridibus  et 
rubeis  barrys. 

Case  cum  Corporalibus. 

Una  casa  cum  cuchyll,  duplicata  cum  panno  lineo  operata  cum 
diversis  armis  opere  acuali,  cum  sex  diversis  corporalibus  in 
eadem. 

1  casa  cum  corporali  de  opere  acuali,  operata  ex  una  parte  cum 
crucifixo  Maria  et  Johanne  et  ex  alia  parte  cum  cruce  de  rubyn 
aureo,  2  coronis  et  2  stellis  aureis  super  rubrum. 

1  casa  cum  corporali  de  opere  acuali,  ex  una  parte  cum  ymagine 
Sancti  Petri  et  ex  alia  pannus  glaucii  coloris. 

1  casa,  absque  corporali,  de  rubeo  velvete,  operata  ex  una  parte 
cum  Coronacione  beate  Marie  et  ex  altera  parte  cum  Salutacione 
ejusdem. 

1  casa  cum  corporali,  operata  ex  utraque  parte  de  opere  acuali 
cum  diversis  armis. 

1  casa  cum  corporali  de  nigro  velvete  cum  baculo  Sancti  Jacobi, 
cum  4  literis  W.  ex  una  parte. 

1  casa  de  nigro  velvete  cum  4  corporalibus. 

1  casa  de  bordalysaunder,  absque  corporali. 

Missalia  cum  ceteris  Libris. 

1  Missale  pro  diversis  missis  beate  Marie  celebrandis  per  annum 
post  tabula,  2  fo.,  "  In  die  pas." 

1  Missale,  2  fo.,  post  Kalendare,  "  Tue  visitacioni." 
1  parvum  ac  novuni  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Missam  de." 
1  integrum  Missale,  2  fo.,  post  Kalendare,  "  Sionem." 
1  liber  Organicus,  cum  armis  Rogeri  Keys,  in  tercio  fo. 
Alius  liber  Organicus,  2  fo.,  "  Domine  Fili." 
Alius  liber  Organicus,  2  fo.,  "  Kyrie." 

2  A 


354  APPENDIX. 

1  liber  continens  Epistolas  et  Evangelia  ibidem  cantanda  per 
annum,  2  fo.,  post  Kalendare,  "  Cum  ad  vineam." 
1  Gradale  ex  parte  Decani,  2  fo.,  "  Ficacionem." 
1  Gradale  ex  parte  Precentoris,  2  fo.,  "  De  Thalamo." 
1  vetus  Gradale,  2  fo.,  "  Verbum." 
1  liber  papiri  regalis  de  prycksong,  2  fo.,  "  Et  in  terra." 

Fronts  et  Frontelle  cum  tuellis. 

1  front  de  panno  albo  aureo  cum  rubeo  satino  in  medio  operate  de 
opere  acuali  cum  Salutacione  beate  Marie. 

1  frontella  pro  eadem  de  panno  aureo,  cum  4  peciis  aureis  in 
eadem,  de  opere  acuali  cum  tuello  annexo. 

1  tuellum  de  veteri  serico  cum  barris  diversi  coloris  in  utroque 
fine,  pro  eisdem  front  et  frontella. 

1  front  de  albo  damasco,  operata  de  opere  acuali  cum  stellis  et 
ymaginibus,  viz. :  Crucifixi,  Marie  et  Johannis  in  medio,  ex  dono 
Edmundi  Lacy. 

1  frontella  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  cum  1  tuello  de  diaper 
annexo,  ex  dono  ejusdem  Edmundi  Lacy. 

1  tuellum  de  panno  lineo,  operatum  de  opere  acuali  cum  diversis 
bestiis  et  avibus  rubeis  sericis. 

1  front  de  albo  serico,  stragulato  per  totum  Eaybarrys  diversi 
coloris. 

1  front  de  viridi  serico  operate  ad  modum  palle. 

1  frontella  de  albo  damasco  cum  stellis  aureis,  et  barris  de  opere 
acuali,  cum  tuello  annexo  de  diaper. 

1  front  rubea,  cum  ymaginibus  quondam  aureis,  cum  tuello  de 
canvas  annexo,  pro  tempore  Quadragesimali. 

1  frontella  de  veteri  opere  acuali,  cum  armis  Johannis  de  Gran- 
dissono  in  unico  loco,  eum  veteri  consumpto  tuello  annexo. 

Vestimenta. 

1  nova  casula  de  albo  damasco,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  velvete  operata 
de  opere  acuali  cum  floribus  viridibus. 

Duo  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  cum  paruris,  3  albe,  3 
amicte,  2  stole  et  2  fanones,  ejusdem  panni,  ex  dono  Radulphi 
Morewyll  et  capituli. 

1  casula  de  albo  damasco,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali  operata  cum 
armis  Johannis  de  Grandissono  et  leopardis  in  diversis  modis. 

2  tuniculi   ejusdem  panni,  cum   parvis   orfreis   de   opere   acuali 
operate  per  latera,  3  albe,  3  amicte,  cum  magnis  paruris  de  opere 
acuali,  videlicet  in  1  alba  operata  cum  diversis  armis,  cum  amicta 
quadratis. 

Alia  cum  diversis  armis  quadrangulatis,  cum  amicta  et  tercia  alba 
de  albo  serico,  operata  cum  tribus  ymaginibus  de  opere  acuali  et 
amicta,  cum  6  ymaginibus  parvis,  1  stola,  1  fanon  ejusdem  panni, 
operata  cum  ymaginibus. 

1  casula  de  albo  serico  cum  orfrey  tripartita  de   opere  acuali, 
operata  cum  auro  et  nodis  diversis  coloris. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni,  cum  parvis  orfreis  per  latera  de  opere 
acuali,  sine  albis,  amictis,  paruris,  stolis  et  fanonis. 


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1  casula  de  albo  panno  aureo,  le  orfrey  tripartita  de  opere  acuali 
aureo  cum  nodis  et  sic  per  fimbrias. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni,  cum  4  parvis  orfreis  de  opere  acuali  ex 
utraque  parte. 

1  casula  alba,  cum  orfreis  tripartitis,  operatis  de  opere  acuali  de 
panno  serico  viridi,  powdred  cum  parvis  rosis. 

2  tuniculi  ejusdem  panni   et  operis,  cum  tribus   parvis   orfreis 
nodosis,  absque  alio  apparatu. 

1  casula  antiqua  de  blodio  panno  serico,  le  orfrey  de  opere  acuali 
glaucii  coloris  et  crucifixo. 

1  antiqua  alba  cum  bonis  et  magnis  paruris  et  manicis  de  opere 
acuali  operata  cum  griffonibus  aureis  super  pecias  virides  et  Agnos 
Dei  albos  super  pecias  rubias,  1  amicta  cum  nodis- aureis  super 
blodium  et  rubeum. 

1  vetus  casula  alba  cum  rubeo  orfrey  de  serico,  operata  cum 
crucifixo  et  1  arbor  aurea  cum  floribus  viridibus. 

1  casula  de  rubeo  baudekyn  cum  avibus  et  carribus  aureis,  le 
orfrey  de  blodio  baudekyn  cum  avibus  et  canibus  aureis,  1  alba,  1 
amicta,  et  1  stola. 

1  fanon  et  parura,  ejusdem  panni. 

1  casula  de  rubeo  damasco,  cum  stola,  fanula,  amicta  et  alba,  cum 
paruris  de  eodem  panno,  le  orfrey  de  nigro  panno  aureo,  ex  dono 
Domini  Thome  Filcomb. 

1  casula  per  se  de  russeto  panno  argenteo,  le  orfrey  de  opere 
acuali  stricte  tripartite  cum  nodis. 

1  alba,  1  amicta,  1  stola  et  1  fanon,  cum  paruris  de  opere  acuali 
operatis  cum  diversis  particulis  rubeis  et  blodiis  cum  griffonibus 
aureis  et  aquilis  albis. 

1  amicta  per  se,  le  parure  operata  de  opere  acuali,  cum  1  trayle 
aureo  et  diversis  capitibus. 

1  longa  stricta  stola  et  1  fanon  de  opere  acuali  aureo  cum  nodis 
rubeis  et  blodiis. 

2  albe  stole  de  serico  cum  diversis  ymaginibus  et  peciis  rubeis  in  fine. 

1  par    vestimentorum   de   albo   damasco   cum   orfrey   de   rubeo 
damasco  et  floribus  de  auro  et  de  viridi  colore  tarn  in  casula  quam 
in  orstreto. 

2  albe  cum  1  amicta,  1  stola,  1  fanella,  cum  diversis  magnatum. 
1  alba  cum  patura  ymaginibus  operata. 

1  amicta  de  albo  serico  cum  ymaginibus  Domini  nostri  et  beate 
Marie,  Sanctorum  Johannis  Baptiste  et  Johannis  Evangeliste  et 
Apostolorum  Petri  et  Pauli. 

1  alba  cum  paruris  de  lineo  panno,  barred  in  modum  crucis,  cum 
strictis  peciis  aureis  et  floribus  aureis  in  quadrangulis. 

1  alba  bona  cum  paruris,  stola  et  fanella,  ejusdem  secte,  cum  7 
armis  quadratis  in  paruris,  quarum  campus  est  argenteus  et  totum 
residuum  in  predictis  armis,  reliqua  pars  totius  parure  est  stragulata 
ex  auro  et  coloris  rubei. 

Cape. 

Due  albe  cape  de  panno  serico  pro  secundariis,  le  orfreis  glaucii 
et  albi  coloris  per  pecias. 

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356  APPENDIX. 

Quinque  cape  de  albo  fustiano  pro  clioristis,  cum  floribus  aureis, 
le  orfreis  rubei  coloris  cum  preculis  ex  utraque  parte  brusci  in 
pectoral!  et  capicio. 

Lectronalia  cum  edits  rebus. 

1  lectronale  de  panno  lineo,  operato  de  opere  acuali  cum  bariis 
diversi  coloris  majoribus  et  minoribus. 

1  album  lectronade  de  panno  serico,  stragulato  per  longum  cum 
peciis  viridibus  et  aureis. 

2  parva  pulviiiaria,  pro  missali  et  textubus  supportanda. 
Due  antique  ciste  sine  seruris,  quarum  una  frangitur. 

1  corona  argentea  et  deaurata  super  capud  pueri  Jesus  in  bracliio 
beate  Marie  sedeiitis  super  altare. 

Due  pecie  de  aras,  pendentes  ex  utraque  parte  Chori  de  Mbrte 
sepultura  et  Assumpcione  beate  Marie,  ex  dono  Edmundi  Lacy. 

Due  longe  curtine  et  due  minores  de  albo  panno  stragulato, 
trahende  circa  altare. 

1  vetus  carpett  jacens  ante  altare,  ex  dono  Georgii  Nevell. 

1  aliud  melius  carpett  pro  consimili  servicio  ordinatum  glaucii 
et  rubii  coloris  cum  nodis,  ex  dono  Willielmi  Colles. 

1  carpett  bonum  et  integrum  cum  diversis  nodis. 

1  vetus  palla,  retro  presbiterium  pendens. 

Tuella. 

8  tuella  de  ly  dyaper,  quarum  tria  sunt  bona  et  integra,  reliqua 
aliquantulum  fracta  et  quasi  con-sumpta. 

PBO  ANNUELLARIIS  IN  CAPELLA  BEATS  MARIE. 

1  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Ad  missam." 

1  calix  cum  patena  argentea  deaurata,  cum  duobus  armis  Magistri 
Johannis  de  Grandissono  crucifixo,  ac  in  patena  cum  tribus  crucibus 
nigris  et  "  Jesus  "  subscripto. 

1  casula  de  viridi  bordalysaunder,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  panno  aureo 
cum  griffonibus  aureis,  cum  1  alba,  1  amicta,  1  stola  et  1  fanon  cum 
paruris. 

1  casula  de  rubeo  bordalysaunder,  le  orfrey  de  viridi  bordaly- 
saunder, alba,  ainicta,  stola  et  fanon  cum  paruris. 

1  corpora]  e  cum  blodia  casa,  ex  una  parte  operata  cum  leone 
aureo  super  rubeuni  et  ex  alia  cum  3  leonibus. 

1  corporale  in  casa  cheeky  ex  una  parte  et  ex  alia  parte  cum  2 
griffonibus  aureis  super  rubeum  infra  cirulum  album. 

1  novum  par  vestimentorum  de  albo  damasco. 

1  corporale  in  casa  de  purpyll  sarcaneto,  cum  1  flore  aureo  ex  1 
parte. 

1  cista  cum  serura  pro  conservacione  vestimentorum. 

ALTARE  SANOTI  GABRIELIS. 

1  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Asperges  me,"  ex  dono  Magistri  Martini 
Lechedeken. 


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1  calix  argenteus  deauratus  cum  patena,  ponderis  21  unciarum, 
ex  dono  ejusdem. 

2  phiole  argentea  et  deaurate,  ponderis  7  unciarum  et  dimidi,  ex 
dono  ejusdem. 

1  pax  argentea  et  deaurata  Cum  crucifixo,  Maria  et  Johanne  et 
armis  dicti  Magistri  Martini,  ponderis  7  unciarum  dimidii  et 
quaterii  et  dimidii. 

1  pax  eburnea  inclusa  in  capsa  lignea. 

1  casula  de  albo  damasco,  pulverizata  cum  cervis  aureis  et  Salu- 
tacione  Angelica  in  dorso,  cum  alba,  amicta  et  tota  parura  cum 
corporali  in  casa  de  viridi  panno  aureo,  ex   dono   dicti   Magistri 
Martini. 

2  corporalia   in   1   casa   viridi   cum  diversis  operibus  de  opere 
acuali. 

1  paiyum  pulvinare  de  cheeky  serico. 

1  casula  deserviens  tarn  pro  blod  quam  albo  colore  cheeky,  cum 
alba,  amicta,  stola,  fanone  et  parura. 

6  tuelle  pro  altare. 

1  tuellam  cum  cruce  in  medio,  pro  altare. 

10  tuella  pro  manibus  tergendis. 

1  par  vestimentorum  de  albo  damasco,  cum  orfrey  de  viridi  satino. 

1  frontella  cum  panno  grosso  eidem  annexe  et  cilicio. 

1  pannus  de  blodio  bokeram,  ad  cooperiendum  altare. 

1  veterata  front,  stayned. 

1  front  de  panno  lineo  picto  cum  ymaginibus  Salutacionis  beate 
Marie  et  Apostolorum  Petri  et  Pauli. 

1  tabula  depicta  cum  ymagine  beate  Marie  pietatis. 

1  pannus  de  blodio  bokeram,  pendens  per  anulos  pro  le  front 
cooperiendo  tempore  Quadragesimali. 

1  descus  pro  Missale  supportando. 

2  corporalia  in  1  casa  de  viridi  velvete  cum  duabus  literis  aureis, 
viz.  W  et  A. 

1  front  de  lineo  panno  picto  cum  ymagine  beate  Marie  in  medio 
et  ymagine  Katarine  et  Margarete  ex  utraque  parte. 

ALTARE  SANOTI  JOHANNIS  EVANGELISTS. 

1  calix  argenteus  operatus  cum  crucifixo,  ymaginibus  beate  Marie 
et  Sancti  Johannis  cum  "  Jesus  "  et  "  Christus  "  scriptus  in  pede  et 
in  patena  scribitur  per  circuitum  "  Jesus  Nazarenus,"  &c. 

Due  parve  phiole  albe  argentee  cooperte. 

1  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Duplicibus." 

1  Psalterium  Cathenatum  infra  descum  inclusum,  2  fo.,  "  Cum 
invocarem." 

1  liber  Orationum  Cathenatus  in  eodem  desco,  2  fo.,  "Id 
beatum." 

1  Psalterium  Cathenatum  ex  alia  parte  infra  descum,  2  fo., 
"  Tremore." 

1  casula  de  panno  rubeo  aureo,  cum  amicta,  stola,  fanon,  alba  et 
paruris  unius  secte,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  velvete  operata  de  opere 
acuali  cum  ymagine  beate  Marie  in  dorso  et  floribus. 


358  APPENDIX. 

1  casula  de  purpyll  et  russeto  panno  serico  cum  floribus  viridibus 
super  nigrum,  le  orfrey  de  panno  albo  aureo,  continens  3  pecias  de 
albo  et  2  de  rubeo  in  dorso,  cum  amicta,  alba,  stola,  fanon  et 
paruris. 

1  casula  de  nigro  wosted,  le  orfrey  de  panno  aureo,  cum  amicta, 
alba,  stola,  fanon  et  paruris. 

1  casula  de  blodio  serico  et  magnis  stellis  albis,  le  orfrey  de  viridi 
panno  aureo  cum  signis  aureis,  amicta,  alba,  stola,  fanon  et  paruris. 

1  casula  de  viridi  bodalysaunder  cum  parvis  floribus  albis,  le 
orfrey  de  rubeo  bordalysaunder,  amicta,  stola,  fanon  et  paruris. 

1  alia  casula  de  viridi  bodalysaunder  cum  coronis  aureis,  le  orfrey 
de  rubeo  bordalysaunder,  amicta,  alba,  stola,  fanon  et  paruris. 

1  alia  casula  de  viridi  bodalysaunder  cum  avibus,  le  orfrey  de 
rubeo  panno  aureo  cum  floribus  aureis  et  albis  leonibus  rampant, 
amicta,  alba,  stola,  fanon  et  paruris-.  0 

1  casula  diversi  operis  et  coloris,  le  orfrey  de  panno  alba  aureo. 

1  frontella  de  purpureo  velvete,  cum  capitibus  12  apostolorum. 

1  front  de  rubeo  panno  aureo,  in  utroque  fine  et  in  medio  de 
rubeo  velvete  operato  opere  acuali  cum  floribus  aureis. 

1  front  de  viridi  panno  serico,  cum  leonibus  passant  regardant 
annexis  uni  pecie  de  blodeo  bokeram. 

1  frontella  ejusdem  panni,  cum  tuello  annexe. 

1  front  de  viridi  bordalysaunder  cum  tuello  annexo. 

1  front  de  peciis  rubeis  et  blodiis  de  panno  aureo  cum  tuello 
annexo. 

1  frontella,  in  utroque  fine  de  panno  nigro,  et  in  medio  de  rubeo 
operata  cum  ymaginibus  et  griffonibus,  cum  tuello  annexo. 

4  tuello  diverse  longitudinis  et  panno  plani  linei  et  2  manutergia, 
pro  lavatorio. 

Due  curtine  stragulate  de  viridi  serico. 

Duo  paria  curtinarum  de  panno  lineo,  picto. 

Duo  corporalia  in  2  casis,  quarum  ambe  ex  1  parte  de  rubeo  panno 
aureo  et  ex  alia  parte  de  rubeo  velvete. 

Duo  corporalia  in  1  casa  operata  de  opere  acuali  ex  1  parte  cum 
beata  Maria  et  Puero  et  ex  alia  parte  de  viridi  satino. 

1  corporale  cum  casa  de  viridi  vetere  panno  serico. 

2  corporalia  in  1  casa  de  albo  panno  aureo. 

1  paxbred  de  vitro  iiioluso  in  lignea  tabula  cum  ymagine  beate 
Marie. 

1  descus  pro  Missali  supportando. 

1  pannus  de  nigro  bokeram  pro  Quadragisima,  cum  Jesus  in 
medio. 

1  cista  cum  serura  pro  vestimentis  conservandis. 

ALTARE  SAXCTE  KATARIJTE  ET  ALTARE  SANCTI  ANDREE. 

1  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Quod  altare."* 

1  calix  argenteus  et  deauratus  cum  ymagine  Crucifixi  in  pede 
cum  scriptura  "Jesus,"  "Maria,"  in  eodem,  cum  capite  Salvatoris 
in  patena,  ac  cum  scriptura  "  Benedicam  Dominum  in  omni  tern- 
pore  "  per  circuitum  ipsius. 


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1  paxillum  argenteum  et  deauratum  cum  ymagine  Crucifix!  ac 
ymaginibus  Marie  et  Joliannis,  cum  una  ansa  volubili  ex  argento. 

2  corporalia  in  1  casa  de  opere  acuali  cum  2  annis  Joliannis  de 
Grandissono  et  2  aliis  armis  ex  eadem  parte,  cum  panno  aureo  rubei 
colon's  ex  alia  parte. 

1  Portiforium  cathenatum  in  desco,  2  fo.,  "  Dominus  vobiscum." 

Due  phiole  argentee  cooperte  ac  partim  deaurate. 

1  frontale  de  antique  panno  aureo  cum  floribus  de  lyce  in  modum 
crucis  infra  nodos  quadrangulatos,  cum  frontello  serico  et  tuello 
eidem  annexo. 

1  casula  de  viridi  baudekyn,  le  orfrey  dornyck,  cum  toto 
apparatu. 

1  alia  casula  de  viridi  baudekyn,  le  orfrey  cum  rosis  et  stellis 
aureis,  cum  toto  apparatu. 

1  casula  de  rubeo  velvete  fygury,  le  orfrey  de  blodio  velvete  cum 
aquilis  aureis,  cum  toto  apparatu. 

Due  curtine,  depicte  cum  angelo  ex  utraque  parte. 

1  front  cum  pictura  passionis  Sancte  Katerine. 

1  corporale  in  1  casa  de  viridi  baudekyn. 

1  front  de  flavo  baudekyn  cum  leopardis  et  cervis,  cum  1  frontella 
et  tuello  eidem  annexis. 

4  tuella  de  crese  cloth  et  1  de  canvas,  pro  eidem  altaribus. 

1  veteratus  pannus  lineus  depictus  cum  capitibns  leopardoruni 
et  armis  infra  circulos.  * 

1  pannus  veteratus  depictus  cum  ymaginibus  Sancti  Andree  in 
medio  et  Petri  et  Pauli  ex  lateribus. 

1  front  de  lineo,  stayned  cumscriptura  "  Honor  Deo." 

1  front  cum  tuello  annexo,  stayned  cum  Crucifixo,  Maria  et 
Johanne,  Petro  et  Paulo. 

Due  curtine  unius  secte,  cum  cruce  rubea  et  florida  cum  coronis 
spineis  et  scriptura  "  Jesus  "  in  medio. 

1  front  ejusdem  secte  cum  tuello  annexo. 

1  front  cum  tuello  annexo  cum  scriptura  "  Maria"  in  capite. 

1  front  cum  tuello  annexo  cum  signis  Passionis  Christi. 

8  parvi  panni  linei  stayned,  pro  ymaginibus  cooperiendis. 

LlBRI   CATHENATI   RETRO    STALLUM    THESAURARII. 

1  Biblia  in  tribus  voluminibus,  in  quorum  primo  volumine,  2  fo., 
"  Salvato  ;  "  in  secundo  volumine,  2  fo.,  "  Eripuerit ;  "  et  in  tercio 
volumine,  2  fo.,  "Et  ydola,"  ex  dono  Edmundi  Stafford,  Exoniensis 
Episcopi. 

Doctor  [Nicholas]  de  Lyra,  in  tribus  voluminibus,  in  quorum 
primo  volumine,  2  fo.,  "  Eodem  ordine;"  in  secundo  volumine, 
2  fo.,  "  Eadix  genealogiea ; "  et  in  tercio  volumine,  2  fo.,  "  Gehenne 
deducendo." 

1  Liber  Concordanciarum,  2  fo.,  "  24  di  consilium  ejus,"  ex  dono 
Johannis  de  Grandissono. 

LlBRI    CATHENATI    RETRO    STALLTJM    SuCCENTORlS. 

Ff.       novum,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Finit  triplicem." 
Codex,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Vocabulo." 


360  APPENDIX. 

Ff.       inforciat,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  In  fructu." 

Primum  volumen,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Justicia  est." 

Hugucius  super  Decreta,  2  fo.,  "  Omne  preceptum." 

Deere ta,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Ta  pontificum." 

Decretales,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Quelibet  earundem." 

Liber  Clementis  cum  omnibus  suis  doctoribus,  2  fo.,  in  textu 
"  Apostolica." 

Liber  Sextus  cum  omnibus  suis  doctoribus,  2  fo.,  in  textu 
'«  Quibus  ad." 

Hostiensis  in  summa,  2  fo.,  "  Gei  processerunt." 

Speculum  Judiciale,  2  fo.,  "  Ver  illi  autem." 

Innocencius,  2  fo.,  "     tificari." 

Ff.       vetus,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Gatis  et  fidei." 

Cimis  super  Codice,  2  fo.,  "  Et  Hostiensis." 

ALTARE  SANCTI  PAULI. 

1  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Cha  usque." 

1  calix  argenteus  et  deauratus  cum  solo  crucifixo  et  in  patena 
manus  benedicens  in  cruce  patente. 

1  casula  rubea  operata  de  opere  acuali  per  totum  cum  floribus 
infra  trayle  rotundis,  le  orfrey  cum  Majestate  ac  ymagine  Trinitatis, 
Crucifixi,  tribus  Mariis  et  Angelo,  cum  alba,  amicta,  stola  et  fanone, 
de  rubeo  panno  aureo,  et  paruris,  frjusdem  coloris  et  operis. 

1  casula  de  rubeo  bordalysaunoer,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  panno  aureo 
cum  unicornibus,  alba,  amicta,  stola,  fanone  et  paruris,  ejusdem 
coloris  et  operis. 

1  casula  de  viridi  bordalysaunder,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  bordaly- 
Baunder,  alba,  amicta,  stola,  fanone  et  paruris. 

1  casula  de  serico  glaucii  coloris,  le  orfrey  de  panno  btodio  aureo, 
alba,  amicta,  stola,  fanone  et  paruris. 

1  casula  glaucii  coloris,  le  orfrey  de  blodio  cum  avibus  albis. 

1  alba  per  se  cum  paruris  de  panno  serico,  glaucii  coloris,  cum 
rube  is  rosis,  et  amicta  quasi  ejusdem  coloris. 

Quinque  tuelle  de  panno  lineo  diverse  longitudinis,  pro  eodem 
altare. 

2  parva  manitergia,  pro  lavacro. 

1  corporale  cum  casa  de  panno  aureo  ex  una  parte  et  ex  altera 
cum  1  volucre  depicta. 

2  corporalia  in  1  casa,  de  vetere  panno  serico. 

1  corporale  cum  casa  de  russeto  tussy  ex  1  parte  cum  rubio 
damasco  ex  altera. 

1  corporale  cum  casa  de  nigro  velvete,  cum  literis  aureis  W.  et 
S.  simul  connexis. 

1  casula  de  rubio  serico,  le  orfrey  de  blodio  serico  cum  rosis  et 
synkfoyl  aureis  albis  rubeis  et  blodiis,  alba,  amicta,  stola,  fanone 
et  paruris. 

1  casula  de  nigro  wosted  cum  scriptura  "  Eogerus  Keys,"  alba, 
amicta,  stola,  fanone  et  paruris. 

1  front  de  nigro  bokeram,  cum  signis  Passionis  Domini. 

1  suffront  ejusdem  panni  et  operis. 

1  front  de  panno  lineo,  stayned  cum  ymagino  beate  Marie  in 


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medio,  et  ymagine  Johannis  Baptiste  et  Sancti  Antonii  ex  1  latere 
et  ymagine  Sancte  Kate'rine  et  Sancti  Nicholai  ex  altera. 

1  suffront,  stayned  cum  ymagine  Cru'cifixi  in  medio  et  ymagi- 
nibus  Marie  et  Johannis  Evangeliste,  Johannis  Baptiste  et  Bartho- 
lomei. 

1  Psalterium  cathenatum,  2  fo.,  "  Ab  eo." 

1  phiola  de  argento. 

2  phiole  de  stagno. 

1  coopertorium  de  blodio  bokeram,  ad  cooperiendum  dictum 
altare. 

1  pax  cum  Resurrectione. 

1  descus  pro  Missali  supportando. 

1  candelabrum  cum  2  nasis  ferreis. 

ALTARE  SANCTE  CRTJCIS. 

1  calix  deauratus,  le  pomell  enamelyd  in  medio  et  solo  crucifixo 
in  pede  et  in  patena,  cum  inanu  benedicente  in  circulo. 

1  missale  de  papiro  artis  impressione,  2  fo.,  post  Kalendare  in 
rubro  missale. 

1  Portiforium,  2  fo.,  "  Dominus  veniet." 

1  casula  de  rubeo  satino,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  panno  aureo  operato 
de  opere  acuali  cum  garters  regiis,  cum  alba,  amicta,  stola  et  fanone, 
cum  paruris. 

1  casula  de  albo  panno  aureo  cum  leonibus  rubeis,  le  orfreis  de 
rubro  satino  in  anteriori  parte,  cum  alba,  amicta,  stola,  fanone  et 
paruris. 

1  corporale  in  casa  rubea,  cum  crucifixo  Maria  et  Johanne. 

1  corporale  in  casa  de  rubio  panno  aureo  ex  utraque  parte. 

1  corporale  in  casa  de  viridi  tussyn  ex  una  parte  et  rubeo  velvete 
ex  alia. 

1  corporale  de  casa  de  blodio  velvete. 

1  front  de  panno  lineo,  stayned  cum  Crucifixo,  Maria  et  Johanne, 

1  front  de  panno  lineo,  stayned  cum  Salutacione  beate  Marie. 

1  front  cum  2  angelis  thurificantibus. 

1  curtina,  ad  cooperiendum  crucifixum,  de  panno  lineo, 

1  coopertorium  de  canvas,  pro  altare  cooperiendo. 

3  tuelle  diversi  sortis,  pro  altare. 

2  tuelle  pro  manibus  tergendis. 
2  phiole  de  stagno. 

2  paxys  diverse  sortis,  cum  2  tintinabulis. 
2  curtine  de  panno  lineo,  stayned. 
1  candelabrum  de  latone. 

ALTARE  BRATTON. 

1  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Hec  autem." 
1  calix  albus  cum  patena  cum  sola  cruce  in  pede. 
1  front  de  rubeo  panno  aureo  cum  leopardis  aureis  et  rosis  albis, 
cum  tuello  annexe. 

1  calix  argenteus  et  deauratus  cum  2  armis  Johannis  de  Grandis- 


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sono  in  pede,  cum  ymagine  crucifix!  inter  eadem,  cum  patena 
argentea  et  deaurata  cum  Jesus  in  medio. 

Front  de  panno  lineo,  depicto  cum  tribus  ymaginibus,  viz., 
Michaelis,  Johannis  Evangeliste  et  Georgii. 

Aliud  front  cum  parva  ymagine  beate  Marie  stantis  in  porta 
aurea,  cum  aliis  ymaginibus. 

1  casula  de  viridi  bordalysaunder  et  rubeo  orfrey  ejusdem  panni, 
alba,  amicta,  stola,  fanone  et  paruris. 

1  casula  alba  de  filo  cum  nodis  rubeis  et  blodiis,  le  orfrey  de 
opere  acuali  cum  nodis  diversis,  cum  alba,  amicta,  stola  et  fanula, 
cum  paruris. 

1  casula  glaucii  coloris  cum  blodio  cheeky  le  orfrey  de  opere 
acuali  cum  nodis  cum  alba,  amicta,  stola,  fanulo  et  paruris  alterjus 
coloris. 

1  casula  per  se  de  rubeo  panno  serico  cum  albis  synkfoylys. 

1  stola  et  1  fanon  diversi  operis  de  opere  acuali. 

3  tuelle  de  panno  lineo  piano  et  1  coopertorium  pro  altari  de 
canvas. 

1  corporale  cum  casa  de  opere  acuali  ex  una  parte  cum  ymagine 
et  panno  serico  ex  altera. 

1  corporale  in  casa  de  opere  acuali  in  modum  losyng  operata. 

Due  antique  curtine  de  blodio  bokeram. 

1  pannus  de  blodio  et  albo  palyd  ad  cooperiendum  le  front  altaris 
tempore  Quadragesime. 

2  phiole  de  stagno. 
1  paxbred  lignea. 

1  candelabrum  ligneum. 

1  quaternus  de  diversis  commemoracionibus,  2  fo.,  rem  cordis. 

1  descus  pro  Missali  supportando. 

ALTAKE  SANCTI  NICHOLAI. 

1  calix  argenteus  et  partim  deauratus  cum  ymagine  Salvatoris  ac 
ymaginibus  Petri  et  Pauli  ex  utraque  parte  cum  Veronica  in  patena. 

1  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Omnibus." 

1  pax  de  ebore  inclusa  in  ligno. 

1  corporale  cum  casa  de  rubeo  velvete  operatum  de  opere  acuali 
cum  frondibus  et  signis  ex  1  parte. 

Duo  corporalia  in  casa  de  albo  panno  serico  in  parte  aurea. 

1  casula  de  viridi  bordalysaunder  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  baudekyn 
cum  unicornibus  aureis,  cum  alba,  amicta,  stola,  fanone  et  paruris. 

1  casula  de  albo  filo  lineo  operata  cum  nodis  rubeis  et  blodiis , 
le  orfrey  de  rubeo  satino,  cum  alba,  amicta,  stola,  fanone  et  paruris. 

1  casula  de  serico,  glaucii  coloris,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  satino,  cum 
alba,  amicta,  stola,  fanone  et  paruris  de  viridi  baudekyn. 

1  casula  de  albo  serico,  cum  strictis  orfreis  tripartitis  aureis, 
stola,  fanone  et  paruris,  sine  amicta*,-  de  panno  alterius  coloris  cum 
1  fanone  per  se  de  panno  alterius  coloris. 

1  front  de  rubeo  panno  aureo  cum  leopardis  et  avibus  aureis  ac 
rosis  albis. 

1  front  et  frontella  de  panno  lineo,  stayned  cum  signis  Passionis 
Domini. 


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1  front  et  frontella  de  panno  lineo,  stayned  cum  ymagine  beate 
Katerine  in  medio,  cum  1  tuello  annexe. 

1  curtina  de  panno  lineo,  stayned  cum  beata  Virgine,  Sancta 
Katerina,  et  Sancto  Dionisio. 

1  curtina   de   panno   lineo,  depicta   cum   cruce   et   aliis  signis 
Passionis  Domini. 

4  tuella  de  cresecloth  pro  altare,  cum  quodam  veteri  coopertorio 
de  opere  sericali,  ad  cooperiendum  altare. 

2  veteres  curtine  de  blodio  bokeram. 
1  descus  pro  Missali  supportando. 

1  cista  pro  vestimentes  supportandis. 

ALTARE  SANCTI  JOHANNIS  IN  TURRI  EX  AUSTRALI  PARTE  ECCLESIE. 

1  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Me  Ysopo." 

1  casula  de  blodio  bordalysaunder,  le  orfrey  de  viridi  bordaly- 
saunder,  cum  toto  apparatu. 

1  casula  de  nigro  wosted,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  cum  scrip tura 
"  Kogerus  Keys,"  cum  toto  apparatu. 

1  front,  stayned  cum  -ymagine  Sancte  Marie  in  medio,  cum 
scriptura. 

1  front,  stayned  cum  ymagine  Sancti  Johannis  in  medio. 

1  front. 

1  corporale  in  casa  de  viridi  bordalysaunder. 

ALTARE  BRENTTGHAM. 

1  calix  cum  patena  deaurata  cum  sola  ymagine  in  pede  sculpta  et 
manu  benedicente,  cum  cruce  in  patena. 

1  calix  cum  patena  deauratus  infra  ciphum,  cum  literis  T.  et  B.  in 
pede  et  manu  in  nube  et  cruce  benedicente. 

2  Phiole  albe  argentee. 

Yetus  front  de  panno  aureo  rubeo,  cum  floribus  aureis,  cum  2 
viridibus  peciis  de  serico,  eidem  consutis. 

1  frontella  ejusdem  panni  cum  tuello  de  crese  eidem  annexe. 

Front  de  panno  aureo  blodio  et  albo  paly,  cum  frontella  annexa. 

1  frontella  ejusdem  panni,  cum  tuello  annexo. 

1  front  et  frontella  de  pano  crese,  stayned. 

7  tuella  diversi  panni  et  sortis,  pro  altare,  et  1  coopertorium  de 
canvas. 

1  parvum  tuellum,  pro  lavaco  ad  manus  celebrancium  tergendum. 

2  corporalia  in  1  casa,  de  opere  acuali  operata  de  Resurrectione 
Domini  ex  1  parte  et  Ascencione  ex  altera. 

1  corporale  cum  casa  ex  1  parte  de  opere  acuali  cum  4  ymagi- 
nibus  et  avibus  ex  alia,  de  glauco  serico. 

1  corporale  cum  casa  stragulata  de  panno  rubeo. 

2  corporalia  in  1  casa  ex  1  parte  de  rubeo  panno  aureo  et  scriptura 
nigra  ex  alia  parte  de  bordalysaunder  quadrata. 

2  corporalia  in  1  casa  alba  operata  ex  utraque  parte  cum  stella 
purpyll. 

1  casula  de  rubeo  panno  aureo  cum  hyndys  ligatis  per  cathenam, 


364 ;  APPENDIX. 

le  orfrey  de  blodeo  panno  aureo,  cum  alba,  amicta,  stola,  fanona  et 
paniris. 

1  casula  de  panno  aureo  viridis  coloris,  cum  leonibus  mordentibus 
albas  hyndys,  le  orfrey  rubeo  panno  aureo  cum  albis  avibus  aureis 
et  noribus,  albis,  amicta,  stola,  fanula  et  paruris. 

1  casula  de  viridi  serico  operata  de  opere  acuali  cum  alba  littera 
M.  coronata  cum  auro,  continens  ainictam,  albam,  stolam,  farulam, 
et  paruris,  de  albo  panno  serico. 

1  casula  de  nigro  serico,  le  orfrey  de  panno  aureo  cum  cignis 
tenentibus  scrip  luram  in  ore  et  aliis  avibus,  cum  toto  apparatu. 

Duo  candelabra  de  stagno. 

1  pyxis,  pro  pane  servando, 

1  candelabrum  eneum,  pro  candela  super  altare  sustinenda. 

1  descus,  pro  Missali  supportando. 

1  paxbred  cum  angelo  et  albis  noribus  deauratis  supra  cuprum. 

1  Missale  cnm  claspis  argenteis  et  armis  Brentyngham,  2  fo., 
"  Erat  sequatur." 

1  casula  de  rubeo  bordalisaunder,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  bordaly- 
saunder,  amicta,  alba,  stola,  fanona  et  paruris. 

1  casula  de  rubeo  baudekyn  cum  fimbilis  aureis,  le  orfrey  de 
blodio  aureo,  cum  amicta,  stola,  fanon  et  paruris. 

1  casula  glaucii  coloris  jugiter  operata  cum  floribus,  arboribus 
et  cervis,  cum  amicta,  stola,  fanon  et  paruris. 

4  pecie  de  plumbo,  ad  servanda  tuella  super  altare. 

1  Quaternus  de  officiis  Sanctorum  Gabrielis,  Kaphaelis  et  aliorum, 
6  fo.,  "  Laudemus." 

Suffront,  stayned  de  blodio  bokeram  cum  ymagine  Crucifixi. 

Due  phiole  de  stagno. 

TUMBA  COMITIS  DEVON. 

1  Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Cell." 

1  calyx  argenteus  et  partim  deauratus  cum  sola  ymagine  Crucifixi 
in  pede  deaurata  cum  manu  benedicente  infra  circulum  in  cruce 
patente  in  patena. 

Due  pniole  de  stagno. 

3  corporalia  in  1  casa  de  stragulata  et  cheeky  velvete  ex  utraque 
parte. 

1  paxbred  de  cornu,  inclusa  in  tabula  lignea. 

1  front  et  1  suffront  cum  frontella  in  se  de  panno  lineo,  stayned. 

2  curtine  de  eodem  panno  et  opere,  cum  1  tuello  de  se. 

3  tuelle  diversi  sortis  et  panni. 
2  parve  tuella  pro  lavacro. 

1  front  de  albo  panno  serico  et  frontella  de  se,  et  1  pale  de  rubeo 
velvete  in  medio,  cum  tuellis  annexis. 

1  suffront  ejusdem  secte. 

1  front  de  viridi  velvete  operata^  opere  acuali  cum  armis  Comitis 
Devon  et  diversis  lapidibus. 

1  frontella  de  viridi  satyn,  fygury  cum  rosis  albis,  et  tuellis 
annexis. 

1  suffront  de  viridi  velvete  operata  opere  acuali  cum  armis  Comitis 
Devon. 


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1  front  et  1  suffront  ac  frontella  de  se  blodeo  serico,  operata  opere 
acuali,  cum  oystryge  fethers  aureis  et  sericis. 

1  front,  suffront  et  frontella  de  se,  de  panno  laneo,  glaucii  coloris, 
operata  opere  acuali  cum  armis  Comitis  Devon. 

1  casuala  ejusdem  panni  et  operis,  cum  alba,  amicta,  stola, 
fanula  et  parura  de  rubeo  baudekyn,  le  parure  amicte  de  panno 
blodeo  serico  et  ostiyge  fether. 

1  casula  de  viridi  velvete  operata  opere  acuali  cum  armis  Comitis 
Devon,  stola  et  fanon  et  blodio  serico  amicta,  le  parura  de  opere 
acuali  super  viride  et  rubeum  cum  nodis  aureis  et  parura  alba  de 
cheeky  velvete. 

1  casula  de  albo  damasco,  le  orfrey  de  blodio  serico,  operata 
opere  acuali  cum  cignis  albis  et  ostryge  fethers,  alba,  stola,  fanula 
et  parura  in  amicta  et  alba  ejusdem  panni. 

1  casula  de  blodio  serico  operata  opere  acuali  cum  oystryge  fethers 
sericis,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  seiico,  operate  cum  oystryge  fethers 
aureis,  stola,  fanula  ac  parura  in  amicta  et  alba,  ejusdem  panni  et 
operis. 

1  casula  de  rubeo  panno  aureo  cum  avibus,  le  orfrey  de  opere 
acuali  cum  Passione  Domini,  stola,  fanula  ac  parura  in  amicta  et 
alba,  ejusdem  panni. 

1  casula  de  albo  serico,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  piano  velvete,  stola  et 
fanon  ejusdem  panni,  ac  parura  in  amicta  et  alba  alterius  panni  albi. 

1  casula  de  albo  serico,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  serico,  stola  et  fanula 
de  alio  albo  panno  serico,  ac  parura  amicte  de  albo  baudekyn  cum 
viridibus  coronis  et  parura  alba  de  opere  acuali  glaucii  coloris  cum 
nodis. 

1  front  de  albo  serico. 

1  casula  de  nigro  bokeram  cum  aurea  cruce  flowry,  stayned,  sine 
alio  apparatu. 

1  tintinabulum. 

1  casula  de  blodio  serico,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  dornyck. 

3  pecie  de  plumbo,  pro  tuellis  servandis. 

1  cista  de  spruse,  pro  vestimentis  servandis. 

1  descus  lygneus,  pro  Missali  supportando. 

ALTAEE  SANCTI  SPIRITUS  IN  CLAUSTEO. 

1  calix  argenteus  et  partim  deauratus,  cum  ymaginibus  Salvatoris, 
Petri  et  Pauli,  deauratis  in  pede  et  Yeronica  deaurata  in  patena. 

1  'Missale,  2  fo.,  "  Deus  invicte." 

1  casula  de  rubeo  serico,  le  orfrey  de  stricto  panno  aureo  tri- 
partitim  in  summitate  et  fimbriis,  cum  alba  et  amicta,  stola,  fanon 
et  pararis. 

1  casula  de  nigro  wosted,  le  orfrey  de  viridi  cum  scriptura  in 
cruce  Jesus,  Maria  et  Johannes,  cum  toto  apparatu. 

1  casula  de  nigro  wosted,  le  orfrey  cum  rubeo  wosted,  cum  toto 
apparatu. 

Front  de  viridi  et  rubeo  damasco  braunched  paled,  cum  frontella 
et  tuello  annexis. 

Suffront  ejusdem  panni. 


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1  corporate  in  casa  de  opere   acuali,  cum   Crucifixo,  Maria  et 
Johanne  ex  1  parte  et  Coronacione  beate  Marie  ex  altera. 

2  tuelle  pro  altari. 

4  phiole  de  stagno,  cum  1  tintinabulo  et  1  candelabro  de  stagno 
et  yinago  Crucifixi  de  ebore. 

1  descus  pro  Missali  supportando. 

INVENTARIUM    OMNIUM    LlBRORUM     IN     LlBRARIA    INVENTORUM    PRIMUS 
DESCUS    IN   PARTE    OfilENTALI. 

Eepertorium  libri  sexti,  2  fo.,  "  Pena  Juris." 

Innocencis1  super  Decretales,  2  fo.,  "  Discerem." 

Tabula  Martiniana,  2  fo.,  "  Quod." 

Prima  pars  Hostiensis,2  2  fo.,  No.  1,  "  De  Jud." 

Secunda  pars  Hostiensis,  2  fo.,  *'  Si  renumerandi." 

Addiciones    Johannis    Andree3    super     Speculo    Juris,    2   fo., 

"  Judicis." 

Prima  pars  libri  provincialis  W.  Lynwood,  2  fo.,  "  Publicavi." 

Secunda  pars  libri  provincialis  W.  Lynwood,  2  fo.,  "  De  ea." 

Speculum  Judiciale,  2  fo.,  "Semper." 

Eepertorium  Johannis  Faber  super  Codice,  2  fo.,  "Li  dubium." 

Jacobus  de  Ravenna  super  Codice,  2  fo.,  "  Natura  cum." 

Mandagote,4  2  fo.,  "  Eo  qui  primo  invenit." 

Directorium  Juris  secunda,  fo.  de  con  di  2. 

Collectaneum  de  Gestis  et  Translacionibus    Sanctorum,    2   fo., 

"  Appella." 

Secundus  descus. 

Eepertorium  Petri,  2  fo.,  "  Procurris." 

Archidiaconus  in  Eosario,  2  fo.,  "  Et  die  quod." 

Prima  pars  Johannis  in  Novella,  2  fo.,  "  Que  est." 

Secunda  pars  Johannis  in  Novella,  2  fo.,  "  Jurgium." 

Albertinus  de  Bononia,  2  fo.,  "  Alia  quo." 

Antonius  de  Butrio,  2  fo.,  "  Amittitur." 

Eepertorium  libri  sexti,  2  fo.,  "  Tmm  per  se." 

Azo 5  in  summa,  2  fo.,  "  Dominum  nostrum." 

Petrus  de  Salmis  super  de  circa,  2  fo.,  "  Esse  plene." 

Directorium  Juris  Canonici,  2  fo.,  "  Transcendi." 

Decretales,6  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Christi  sunt." 

Eepertorium  Baldi  1  super  Innocenium,  2  fo.,  "  Solvendo." 


• 


1  Innocent  IV.     This  learned  pope  died 
7  Dec.  1254. 

2  Henry   de    Suza,   Cardinal   Bishop    of 
Ostia  (thence  called  Ostiensis),  was  reputed 
the   ablest   canonist  of  his  time;    ob.   an. 
1271. 

3  John  Andrea  was  Professor  of  Law  at 
Bologna,  and  died  of  the  plague  in  1348. 

4  William  de   Mandagot,  Archiepiscopus 
Ebridunensis,  was  a  celebrated  canon-law- 
yer;  died  at  Avignon  in  Nov.  1321. 

5  Azon  Portius,  a  distinguished  Professor 


of  Laws  at  Bologna  and  Montpellier ;  obiit 
circitev  an.  *1200. 

6  Once  for  all  we  may  state  that  Gratian, 
a  Benedictine  monk,  compiled  a  collection 
of  the  Decrees  of  Popes  and  Councils  ending 
with  the  year  1150,  and  that  St.  Raymund 
was  the  continuator  of  the  same  in  5  books 
up  to  the  year  1234. 

7  Baldus  (de  Ubaldis)  Peter,  Professor  of 
Law  at   Perugia,  Padua,   and   Pavia ;    ob. 
1400. 


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Lectura  Jacob!  (s/c),  2  fo.,  "  Justicie." 
Prima  pars  Henrici  Bowyck,8  2  fo.,  '*  Quitatis  patere." 
Secunda  pars  Henrici  Bowyck,  2  fo.,  "  Et  Goff  He." 
^Johannes  Aton,9  2  fo.,  "  In  hoc." 

Johannes  in  Addicionibus,  2  fo.,  "  Ar  ut  nostrum." 
Tractatus  de  Bello,  2  fo.,  "  Maxime." 
>  ^  —  Summa  Bartholomei,  2  fo.,  "  Absolvere." 
Summa  Summarum,  2  fo.,  "  De  Magistris." 

Tercius  descus. 

^-Oatholicon,  2  fo.,  "Dirimo." 

Ysidorus  Ethimologiarum,  2  fo.,  "Novum." 

Legenda  Sanctorum,  2  fo.,  "  Igitur." 

Postiliator  optimus  super  Psalterium,  2  fo.,  '*  Pro  re." 

Ysidorus  Ethimologiarum,  2  fo.,  "  Kadicitus." 

Hugonis,1  2  fo.,  "  Trix  cio." 

Legenda  Sanctorum,  2  fo.,  "  Sufferebat." 

Legenda  Sanctorum,  2  fo.,  "  Filium  Dei." 

Constitucio  Synodalis,  2*fo.,  "Ex  aliorum." 

Psalterium  glosatum,  2  fo.,  "  In  ecclesia." 

Legenda  Sanctorum,  2  fo.,  "Eibus." 

Nicholaus  de  Lyra  2  super  Psalterium,  2  fo.,  "  Secus  esset." 

Liber  de  Statu  Eegum,  2  fo.,  "0  Decus." 

Biblia,  2  fo.,  "  Ad  eum." 

Brito8  super  Yocabula  Biblie,  2  fo.,  "  Impellere." 

Liber  Sententiarum,  2  fo.,  "  Quo  modo  dicitur  pater." 

Legenda  Sanctorum,  2  fo.,  "  Ablactatus." 

Pastorale  Gregorii  Pape,  2  fo.,  "  Quod  aliter." 

Expositio  super  Apocalipsim,  2  fo.,  "  Transituri  ad  capud." 

Liber  de  Miraculis  Christi,  2  fo.,  "  Quare  mortuus." 

Musica  Boetii,  2  fo.,  "  Recte  linee." 

Vita  Patrum  3,  2  fo.,  "  In  alia  solitudine." 

Biblia,  2  fo.,  "  Et  facti  sunt." 

Dialogus  Gregorii,  2  fo.,  "  Quamvis  videmus." 

Sedulius,  2  fo.,  "  Quos  gracia." 

Liber  de  Institucione  Monachorum,  2  fo,,  "  Sufficiat." 
^^••HEiiber  Pastoralium,  2  fo.,  "  Putridam." 

Dialogus  Gregorii,  2  fo.,  "  Jam  nee." 

Martianus  Grammaticus,  2  fo.,  "  Yentus  ut." 

Pastorale  Gregorii,  2  fo.,  "Et  dissimulacionis." 

Sompnus  Scypionis,  2  fo.,  "  Turn  mortis." 
-^--  Liber  de  Viciis  et  Virtutibus,  2  fo.,  "  Quod  nequaquam." 

Liber  de  Yita  et  Ordine  Canonicorum,  2  fo.,  "  Accipiendam. 

Epistole  Synodii,  2  fo.,  "  Yenitur." 

Dialogus  Bartholomei  Exon  Episcopi,  2  fo.,  "  Yilegium." 


8  Hen.  Boyck,  LL.D.,  flourished  in  Lower 
Brittany  about  the  year  1390. 

9  Bishop  of  Vercelli  ahout  the  year  960. 

1  Hugo   de   Fleury,   who   wrote  on  the 
Kingly  and  Priestly  Power  in  the  eleventh 
century. 

2  This   celebrated    commentator    of   the 


Scriptures  had  been  a  Jew,  took  the  Fran- 
ciscan habit  in  1291,  and  died  in  1304, 
after  filling  the  office  of  Provincial  of  his 
Brethren,  at  Paris. 

3  William  Brito,  a  friar,  is  mentioned  by 
Leland  as  well  known  for  his  Lexicon  of  the 
Bible.  «  De  Script.  Brit/  1356. 


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APPENDIX. 


Quartus  descus. 

Dictur  Salerni,  2  fo.,  "  Sunt  bona." 
Tractatus  Nicholai  super  Lucam,  2  fo.,  "Et  cetera.'* 
Ysidorus  Ethimologiarum,  2  fo.,  "  Hostiam." 
Epistole  Ponti,  2  fo.,  "  Eevelatur." 
Epistole  Pauli  glosata.  2  fo..  "  Et  pax." 
Collectio  Amalarii,4  2  fo.,  "  Christo." 
Plurimu  Piudeutii  Opuscula  in  1  libro,  2  fo.,  "Ne  inens." 
Methafisica  Aristotelis,  2  fo..  "  Ees  enim." 
Liber  Solini,  2  fo.,  "  Ainbiguitatem." 
Marcus  glosatus,  2  fo.,  "  In  rubro  initium." 
Liber  Anselmi,  2  fo.,  "Me.'1 

Textus  glossatus  super  Johannem,  2  fo.,  "  Oculum." 
August  inus  Retractionum,  2  fo.,  "  In  noticiam." 
Confessio  Augustini,  2  fo.,  "Summe." 
Hieronimus  super  Ysayam,  2  fo.,  "  Apostatrices." 
Bartholomeus  de  proprietatibus  Eerum,  2  fo.,  "  Essencia." 
Liber  Cavminum  cujusdam  poete,  2  fo.,  "Spernere." 
Introductorium  Algabrici  ad  judicia  astrorum,  2  fo.,  "  Concordare." 
Historia  Egesippa,  2  fo.,  "  Buere." 

Compendium  Medicine  Gilbert! 5  Anglici,  2  fo.,  "  Perancia." 
Liber  diversorum  Tractatuum,  2  fo.,  "  Post  Kalendas  prodest." 
Lucas  et  Johannes,  2  fo.,  "Cherenti  Hebionis." 
_Xiber  Peiiitenci  alis,  2  fo.,  "  Si  quis." 
Lilium  Medicine,  2  fo.,  "  Digestionis." 
Boecius  de  Consolacione  Philosophic,  2  fo.,  "  Natura." 
Orosius  de  Historia  Mundi,  2  fo.,  "  Aut  ictibus." 
Aurelius,  2  fo.,  "  Eedit." 
Epistole  Jacobi  glosate,  2  fo.,  "  Nemo." 
Martianus 6  de  Septimis  Artibus,  2  fo.,  "  Habent." 
Petrus  Alfonsus,7  2  fo.,  "  Perficere." 

.Quintus  descus. 

Plinius  de  Naturali  Historia,  2  fo.,  "  Tror  et  plenum." 

Policronicus,  2  fo.,  "  Post  Kalendas  in  historia." 

Prima  pars  Speculi  Naturalis.  2  fo.,  "  Ausus  sum." 

Secunda  pars  Speculi  Naturalis,  2  fo.,  "  De  mutulo." 

Prima  pars  Speculi  Naturalis,  2  fo.,  "  Inter  diversa." 

Secunda  pars  Speculi  Naturalis,  2  fo.,  "  A  primo." 

Tercia  pars  Speculi  Naturalis,  2  fo.,  "  Post  Kalendas  timens." 

Liber  Eicardi  Hampull,8  2  fo.,  "  Atque  deliciarum." 

Cronica  Anglie,  2  fo.,  "  Nes  habitare." 

Flores  Historiarum,  2  fo.,  "  Lunio  cum." 

Ordinale  pro  Coronacione  Eegis  et  Eegine,  2  fo.,  "  Vitate." 

Cronica  Ivonis,9  2  fo.,  "  Prosperis," 


4  This  copious  writer  flourished  in  the 
ninth  century. 

6  See  Leland  « De  Script.  Brit.'  p.  356. 

6  Marcianus  Capella,  ob.  A.D.  490. 

7  Peter  Alfonsus,  a  converted  Jew  in  the 


twelfth  century. 

8  This  Augustinian  friar  died  at  Michael- 
mas, 1349.     Leland  «  De  Script.  Brit/  348. 

9  Ivo  died   21    Dec.    1115,    Bishop    of 

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Sompnium  Viridarii,  2  fo.,  "  Nobilitas." 
Gesta  Britonuin,  2  fo.,  "  Set." 
Rosa  de  Medicinis,1  2  fo.,  "  Que  fuit." 
Liber  Pronosticorum,  2  fo.,  "  Natura  cum  suis." 
Liber  Bestiarum,  2  fo.,  "  Dicuntur." 
Alcuinus  Wydani,  2  fo.,  "  De  sapiencia." 
Beda  de  Gestis  Anglorura,  2  fo.,  "  Scripsimus." 
Summa  Summarum,  2  fo.,  "De  censibus." 
Cinus2  super  Codice,  2  fo.  et  L.,  "  Presbiteri." 
Hostiensis  super  Primo   et  Secundo  Libro   Decretalium,   2  fo., 
Servat  dicitur." 

Primum  volumen,  2  fo.,  **  Via  ductus." 
Codex,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Digestione." 
Archidiaconus  in  Bosario,  2  fo.,  "  Preceptum." 
Hostiensis  in  Summa,  2  fo.,  "  Que  vocatur." 
Secunda  pars  Bowyck,  2  fo.,  "  Stipendiis." 
Digestum  vetus,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Aucte." 
Liber  Novellarii,  2  fo.,  "Post  Kalendas  missariis." 
Digestum  inforciatum,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Sed  pro  modo." 
Decreta,  2  fo.,  **  Ciones  remittere." 
Antiqua  compilacio  Decretalium,  2  fo.,  "  Si  quis." 
Digestum  novum,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Ciare  nisi." 
Antiqua  Compilacio,  2  fo.,  "  De  censibus." 
Liber  Decretalium,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Apellatur." 

Sextus  descus. 

Prima  pars  Bowyck,  2  fo.,  "Fuit  sen." 

Secunda  pars  Bowyck,  2  fo.,  "  Non  per  he." 

Archidiaconus  in  Rosariis,  2  fo.,  "  Questio." 

Sextus  Liber  Decretalium  cum  suis  doctoribus,  2  fo.,  "  Ea  que." 

Clementine,  2  fo.,  "  Sunt  varie." 

Decreta,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Obedire." 

Clementine  cum  Doctoribus,  2  fo.,  "  Verbo." 

Tabula  auctoritatem  Deere torum,  2  fo.,  "  Accipe." 

Hugucio  super  Decreta,  2  fo.,  "  Agat." 

Innocencius,  2  fo.,  "  Melius  quam  hoc." 

Johannes  in  Collectario,  2  fo.,  "  Cause." 

Decretales,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "Esse  credatur." 

Prima  pars  Johannis  in  Lyniano,  2  fo.,  "  Postea." 


Secunda  pars  Johannis  de  Lyniano,  2  fo.,  "  Depositum/^x"** 

Codex,  2  fo.,  "  Liricum." 

Liber  de  Consiliis,  2  fo.,  "  Nomina." 

Excepciones  de  Decretis,  2  fo.,  "Sensus."  f  tu 

"ohannes  Athon,  2  fo.,  "Et  depravat." 

Johannes  in  Novella,  2  fo.,  "  Declarata." 

Sermones  Ardmachani,  2  fo.,  "  Symone." 

Canones  Apostolorum,3  2  fo.,  "  Tanquam  laytus." 

Decreta  Ivonis,  2  fo.,  "  Ecclesie." 


1  John  Gatisden  was  the  author  of  the 
Rosa.    See  Leland  « De  Script.  Brit.'  355. 

2  Cinus,  alias  Cino :  this  eminent  canonist 


3  Richard  Fitzralph,  consecrated  at  Exe- 
ter on  8  July,  1347,  Archbishop  of  Armagh  ; 
died  at  Avignon,  16  Nov.  1360. 


of  Pistoia  died  at  Bologna  in  1336. 

2    B 


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Septimus  descus. 

Prima  Secunda,  2  fo.,  "  Simul." 

Doctor  Subtilis,  2  fo.,  "  Que  est  questionis." 

Secunda  Secunde  super  fratrem  Thomam,  2  fo.,  "  Sicut  patet." 

Thomas  de  Aquino,  2  fo.,  "  Questio." 

Sermones  Fratris  Jacob!,4  2  fo.,  "  Tuam." 

Legenda  Sanctorum,  "  Habet  sic." 

Articuli  Johannis  Wyckclyff,  2  fo.,  "  Certamine." 

Magister  Sententiarum,  2  fo.,  "  Utrum." 

Palladius  de  Agricultura,  2  fo.,  "  Utilis  semper." 

Vegetius  de  Ee  Militari,  2  fo.,  "  Infestum  est." 

Pascasius  Monachus,5  2  fo.,  "  Eciam  et." 

Summa  Ales,6  2  fo.,  "  Christiani." 
— Parvus  liber  et  bene  scriptus,  2  fo.,  "  Sedicionis." 

Ricardus  in  media  villa  (Middleton),  2  fo.,  "  Vere." 

Doctor  Subtilis  super  Secundum,  2  fo.,  "  Interius." 

Halcott  super  minores  Prophetas,7  2  fo.,  "  Natura  gratia." 

Conclusiones  Willielmi  Wyford,8  2  fo.,  "  Pietas." 

Egidius  de  Regimine  Principum,9  2  fo.,  "  Contemplacionis." 

Liber  Athanasii,  2  fo.,  "  Trinitas." 

Parisiensis,  2  fo.,  "  Gehenne  non  timent." 

Magister  Sententiarum,  2  fo.,  "  Proprietate." 

Clementine,  2  fo.,  "  Magister  gencium." 

Questiones  Fratris  Thome  Bungaye,  2  fo.,  "  Nichil  ad." 
Omelie  Gregorii,  2  fo.,  "  Ipse  ait." 

Omelia  super  Evangelium,  2  fo.,  in  rubro,  "  Dominica  prima." 
Liber  Sermonum,  2  fo.,  "  Inscripcio." 
Distinctiones  Fratris  Mauricii,  2  fo.,  "  Post  tabulam  eum." 
Sermones  super  Epistolas  et  Evangelia  Dominicalia,  2  fo.,  "  Mis- 
terium." 

Sermones  super  Epistolas  et  Evangelia,  2  fo.,  "  Mulieres." 
Bartholomeus  de  proprietatibus  Rerum,  2  fo.,  *'  Adjectiva." 
Beda  super  Lucam,  2  fo.,  "  Non  hec." 
Gregorius  in  prima  parte  Ezechiel,  2  fo.,  "  Preterite." 
Waldeby l  de  Expositione  Orationis  Dominice,  2  fo.,  "  Quantum 
decet." 

Libri  Quadriginta  Omeliarum  Gregorii,  2  fo.,  "  Post  tabulum." 
Distinctiones  Nicholai  Gorami,2  2  fo.,  "  Ut  sustentetur." 
Liber  de  Sermonibus  Sanctorum,  2  fo.,  "  Post  tabulam." 
Sermones  Bernardi,  2  fo.,  "  Ecce  fratres." 

nounced   by  Leland   to    have  been  "inter 
literatorum  proceres."     Ibid.  p.  402. 

9  John  Egidius  flourished  in  the  reign  of 
Hen.  III.,  and  was  a  distinguished  theolo- 
gian of  the  Dominican  Order.     Ibid.  251. 

1  Robert   Waldeby,   O.S.A.,   died    Arch- 
bishop of  York  in  1397,  and  was  buried  in 
St.  Edmund's  Chapel,  Westminster  Abbey. 

2  Nicholas  Gorham,  O.S.U.,  highly  com- 
mended by  Leland,    '  De    Script.  Brit.'  p. 
330;    he  died  late  in  the  fourteenth  cen- 
tury. 


4  Jacobus   de  Vitriaco   from   a   Regular 
Canon  was  made  a  Bishop  and  Cardinal,  and 
died  at  Rome  in  1244. 

5  Paschasius  Ratbeilus,  Abbot  of  Corbie ; 
ob.  26  April,  865. 

6  This  Alexander  Hales  was  a  luminary 
of  the   Franciscan  Order,   and   of  England 
also  ;  he  died  at  Paris  in  1245. 

7  Robert  Halcott,  a  learned  Dominican, 
flourished  in  the  reign  of  King  Edward  III. 
Leland  '  De  Script.  Brit.'  370. 

"William    Wideford,    O.  S.  F.,  is    pro- 


INVENTORY  OF  1506.  371 

Manipulus  Florum,  2  fo.,  "      ctoris." 
Tanuensis  in  Sermonibus,  2  fo.,  "  Propinquis." 
Liber  Aldwini  de  Trinitate,  2  fo.,  "  Neque  eum." 
Eacionale  Divinorum,  2  fo.,  "  Naculum." 
Lincolniensis 3  Dicta,  2  fo.,  "  Angelitus." 
Tractatus  Anselmi,  2  fo.,  "  Quid  sit." 
Sermones  Bartholomei,  2  fo.,  "  Desunt." 
Sermones  Fratris  Guidonis,4  2  fo.,  "  Veritas." 
Johannes  Lathbury,5  2  fo.,  "  Soli  loguus." 
Ecclesiastica  Historia  Eusebii,  2  fo.,  "  Suscepta." 

Octavus  descus. 

Gatterus  de  Floribus  Psalterii,  2  fo.,  "  Misterium." 
Prima  pars  Moralium  Gregorii,  2  fo.,  "  Multa." 
Secunda  pars  Moralium  Gregorii,  2  fo.,  "  Hie  inciditur." 
Prima  pars  Biblie,  2  fo.,  "  Fidelis." 
Secunda  pars  Biblie,  2  fo.,  "  Datam." 
Beda  super  Epistolas  Canonicales,  2  fo.,  "  Epistolam." 
Beda  de  Temporalibus,  2  fo.,  "  Naturas  Rerum." 
Defensorium  Pacis,  2  fo.,  "Qui  ambe." 
Eegistrum  Gregorii,  2  fo.,  "  Tarn  glorie." 
Pastoralium,  2  fo.,  "  Quod  aliter." 
Matheus  in  Sermonibus,  2  fo.,  "  Septenarium." 
Liber  Dialogorum  Gregorii,  2  fo.,  "  Quia." 
•Penitenciale  Gregorii,  2  fo.,  "  Post  tabtrlam  filiorum." 
*  Ecclesiastica  Bede,  2  fo.,  "  Digna?' 
Primum  volumen  Dictionarii,  2  fo.,  "  Verba  mea." 
Secundum  volumen  Dictionarii,  2  fo.,  "  Sic  dico." 
Tercium  volumen  Dictionarii,  2  fo.,  "  Ad  Deum." 
Quartum  volumen  Dictionarii,  2  fo.,  "  Loqui." 
Ecclesiastica  cum  Africana  Historia,  2  fo.,  "  Obscuro." 
Politicus  Johannis  Sarisburiensis,  2  fo.,  "  Deus  enim." 
Epistola  Augustini  ad  Julianum  comitem,  2  fo.,  "  Et  fact  is  ." 
Gregorii  Turonensis,  2  fo.,  "  Tate." 
Expositio  Bede  de  Tabernaculo,  2  fo.,  "  In  figura." 
Johannes  Bocasius  de  Mulieribus  Clavis,  2  fo.,  "Persons    ." 
Liber  contra  Johannem  Wyclyff,  2  fo.,  "  Undus." 
Tractatus  Sermonum  cum  aliis  tractatibus,  2  fo.,  "  Bene  novi." 
Alius  tractatus  super  Sermonibus  in  Evangeliis. 
Bocas  6  in  Sermone  Anglico,  2  fo.,  "  Sume." 

Nonus  descus. 

Prima  pars  Tabule  Theologie  qui  dicitur  *  Per  Peregrinum,'  2  fo., 
Turbetur." 

Secunda  pars  Tabule  Theologie  qui  dicitur  «  Per  Peregrinum,'  fo., 
Abofilis." 


3  Lincolniensis,  Robert  Grothead,  Bishop 
of  that  city,  a  most  voluminous   writer; 
ob.  1253. 

4  Guy,  O.S.D.  of  Evreux,  flourished  about 
the  year  1390. 


6  John  Lathbury,  O.S.F.  Leland,  <  De 
Script.  Brit.'  p.  358. 

6  John  Bocace,  born  at  Certeldo  in  Tus- 
cany 1313  ;  died  in  his  native  place  in  1375. 
Q.  Who  was  the  English  translator? 

2  B  2 


372  APPENDIX. 

Epistole  beati  Jeronomi  Presbiteri,  2  fo.,  "cPost  tabijlain  lueram." 
Hieronimus  de  Viris  illustribus,  2  fo.,  "      ^~raht  Evang." 
Ysodorus  ad  Florentium,  2  fo.,  "  De  latere." 
Hieronimus  de  Distancia  Locorum,  2  fo.,  "  Dicebatur." 
Ambrosias  super  Lucam,  2  fo.,  "  Virtutum." 
Epistole  Hieronimi,  2  fo.,  "  Vel  vita." 
Hieronimus  super  Ysayam,  2  fo.,  "  Ejusque  sapiencia." 
Questiones  Roberti  Kylwardby  cum  multis  aliis  contentis,  2  fo., 

"  Proxime." 

Ambrosius  ad  Gratianum  de  Fide,  2  fo.,  "  Errore." 

Liber  Juliani  Tholetani  Episcopi,  2  fo.,  "  Saltern  ut." 

Bonaventura,  2  fo.,  "  Devocius." 

Ambrosius  super  Epistolas  Pauli,  2  fo.,  "  Bat  liberare." 

Ambrosius  de  Ysaia  et  aliis,  2  fo.,  "  Studio." 

Diversi  Tractatus  Hieronimi  in  uno  libro,  2  fo.,  " 

Parvus  liber  cum  rubio  coopertorio,  2  fo.,  "Post  tabipkm  que 

non." 

Exposicio  beate  Bernardi  Abbatis  sed  Cantica  Canticorum,  2  fo., 

"  Beratus." 

Ambrosius  in  Exposicione  Psalterii,  2  fo.,  videtur. 

Hieronimus    de    quibusdam    capitulis   4    Evangeliorum,    2   fo., 

"  Quid  est." 

Fulgencius,  2  fo.,  "  Prolis." 

Ambrosius  de  Officiis  Ministrorum,  2  fo.,  "  Quod  ipse." 
Hieronimus  Questionum  Hebraicarum,  2  fo.,  "  Proferunt." 
Willielmus  Abbas 7  Sancti  Theodorici  de  Corpore  Christi,  2  fo., 

"  Locus." 

Omelie  Sancti  Augustini  super  Evangelia,  2  fo.,  "  Carnis." 

Appologia  Ambrosii,  2  fo.,  "  Qui  Domino." 

Epistole  beati  Augustini,  2  fo.,  "<Eost4atetilam  voluptas." 

Augustini  de  Baptismo  Parvulorum,  2  fo.,  "  lllud." 

Augustinus  de  Civitate  Dei,  2  fo.,  "Ut  effugerent." 

Aurelius  Augustinus  super  Exposicionem  Psalmi,  *  Quid  glori- 

aris'  usque  '  Domine  exaudi,'  2  fo.,  "  Abimelecli." 

Aurelius  Augustinus  de  Ecclesiasticis   Dogmatibus,  2  fo.,   "  Or- 

natus." 

Augustinus  de   Verbis   Domini,  2  fo.,  "xPSsT^talSMam  numquid 

vitat," 

Augustinus  de  Consensu  Evangeliste,  2  fo.,  "  Munere." 
Augustinus  de  Verbis  Domini  cum  aliis  traetatibus,  2  fo.,  "  Post 

tabulam  solet." 

Aurelius  Augustinus  in  exposicione  Psalterii,  a  psalmo  '  Beatus 

vir  '  usque  ad  *  Dixit  incipiens,'  2  fo.,  "  Deus." 

Tercia   pars  Aurelii  Augustini,    a    *  Domine   exaudi '   usque   ad 

finem,  2  fo.,  "  Auclitur." 

Augustinus  de  Linea  Conjugali,  2  fo.,  "  Presertim." 
Augustinus  contra  Faustum  Manicheum,  2  fo.,  "  Quid  non." 
Sermones  Augustini,  2  fo.,  "  Post  tabulam  ainbula." 
Augustini  Confessiones,  2  fo.,  "  Procter." 
Liber  Augustini  Retractionum,  2  fo. 

7  Win.  Abbot  de  St.  Thierry,  and  friend  of  St.  Bernard,  died  in  1150. 


INVENTORY  OF  1506. 


373 


Augustini  Confessiones,  2  fo.,  "  Zelas." 
Augustinus  de  Moribus  Ecclesie,  2  fo.,  "  Tingit." 
Augustinus  contra  Felicianum  Arianum,  2  fo.,  "  Ne  id." 
Augustinus  contra  Hereticos,  2  fo.,  "  Eacio." 
Liber  Encheridion,  2  fo.,  in  rubro,  "  Quid  intersit." 
Aurelius  Augustimis  contra  Mendacium,  2  fo.,  "  Mendacium." 
Sermones  beati  Augustini  de  Lapsu  Mundi,  2  fo.,  "  Quia  tu." 
Augustinus  de  Simbolo.,  2  fo.,  "  Quidam." 

Decimus  descus. 

Excepciones  Flory 8  super  Epistolas  Pauli,  2  fo.,  "  Paulus." 

Thomas  super  Matheum,  2  fo.,  "  Quia." 

Omelie  Augustini  et  aliorum  Doctorum,  2  fo.,  "  Dit  ad  celum." 

Glosa  super  Epistolas  Pauli,  2  fo.,  "  Intencione." 

Glosa  communis  super  Epistolas  Pauli,  2  fo.,  "  Temptante." 

Augustinus  super  Evangelium  Johannis,  2  fo.,  "  Jesus  quia." 

Thomas  super  Johannem  et  Lucam,  2  fo.,  "  Est  qui." 

Glosa  super  Evangelia  Luce  et  Johannis,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Ea- 

tionem." 

Liber  quinque  Prophetarum  glosatus,  2  fo.,  "  Nabitur." 

Liber  Sermonuin,  2  fo.,  "  Post  tabulam  in  mundo." 

Glosa  super  Actus  Apostolorum,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Accipietis." 

Omelie  Chrysostomi  super  Matheum,  2  fo.,  "  Matrimonio." 

Ysidorus  super  Genesim  et  alius  liber,  2  fo.,  "  De  nativitate." 

Jobus  glosatus,  2  fo.,  "  Que  de  illo." 

Ysidorus   de   Natura   Eerum,    2   fo.,   *'  Post  tabulam   ex   multi- 

tudine." 

Matheus  et  Marcus  glosatus,  2  fo.,  "  Deum  sic  prima." 

Glosa  super  Psalterium  in  exposicione  literali  Nicholai  Treneth, 

2  fo.,  "  Quia  ternarius." 

Psalterium  glosatum,  2  fo.,  "  Inspiracio." 

Joachim 9  Albas  super  Apocalipsim  Johannis,  2  fo.,  "  Congeries." 

Holcott  super  Sapienciam,  2  fo.,  "Sacra  est." 

Concordia  Evangeliarum,  2  fo.,  **  Post  tabulam  quia  viderunt." 

Ysaias  glosatus,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Unde." 

Antiquus  liber,  2  fo.,  " Pro  virginitatis." 

Glosa  super  actus  Apostolorum,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  In  multis." 

Augustinus  super  Epistolas  Johannis,  2  fo.,  "  Quibus  sanum." 

Communis  glosa  super  Exodum,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Quantoque." 

Liber  Genesis  glosatus,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Creavit." 

Lucas  super  12  Prophetas,  2  fo.,  "  Unde." 

Lectura  ordinaria  Fratris  Eicardi  Eystede,  2  fo.,  "  Cedrus  ista." 


Undecim  descus. 

Expositio  super  Matheum,  2  fo.,  "  Deum  laborat." 
Magister  in  Historia  Scolastica,  2  fo.,  post  tabulam, 
Prima  pars  doctoris  de  Lyra,1  2  fo.,  "  Ad  ipsam." 


Taretur." 


8  Florus,  a  member  of  the  Church  of 
Lyons,  flourished  in  the  ninth  century.  See 
his  Elogiuin  in  Oudin's  Supplement,  244. 


9  Joachim,  a  Cistercian  Abbot  and  volu- 
minous writer,  died  in  1202,  set.  72. 
1  Nicholas  de  Lyra  before  mentioned. 


374  \  APPENDIX. 

Secunda  pars  doctoris  de  Lyra,  2  fo.,  "Potentes." 
Tercia  pars  doctoris  de  Lyra,  2  fo.,  "Multiparie." 
Liber  Concordanciarum,  2  fo.,  106,  "  Descen." 
Matheus  glosatus,  2  fo.,  "  Cramentum." 
Josephus  de  Bello  Judaico,  2  fo.,  "  Corum." 
Liber  Leviticus,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Alitem." 
Opus  quoddam  Sancti  Hieronimi,  2  fo.,  "  Post  tabulam  parit." 
Josephus,  2  fo.,  "  Kestitisset." 
Glosa  super  Evangelium  Mathei,  2  fo.,  "  Fuit." 
Biblia,  2  fo.,  "  Philippus." 

Expositio  super  Tres  Libros  Eegum,  2  fo.,  "  Intimatur." 
Glosa  communis  super  Sapienciam  et  Ecclesiasticum,   2  fo.,  in 
textu  "Testis." 

Genesis  glosatus,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Et  mater." 

Libea  Exameron,  2  fo.,  "  Et  judicat." 

Parabole  Salamonis  et  cetera  glosata,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Fructu." 

LIBBI  CATHENATI  EBGA  OSTIUM  OCCIDENTALE. 

Lensis  in  Colloquio,2  2  fo.,  "  Sextum." 
Exposicio  super  Cantica  Canticorum,  2  fo.,  "Quoddam." 
Perusius  de  Septem  Sacramentis,  2  fo.,  "  Suis." 
Odo  Perusiensis  super  Psalterium,3  2  fo.,  "Post  tabulam." 
Alexander  Abbas  de  partibus  Yeteris  ac  Novi  Testamenti,  2  fo., 
"  Esset  barbarismus." 

Psalterium  glosatum,  2  fo.,  "  Ejus." 

Tabula  Januensis,4  2  fo.,  "  Suos." 

Historia  Scolastica,  2  fo.,  "  Post  tabulam  tu  suo." 

LIBBI  NON  CATHENATI  EX  TOTA  LIBEABIA. 

Codex,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Ut  sciant." 

Ff.         inforciatum,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Intercedat." 

Liber  de  Joseph  qui  Corpus  Christi  sepelirit,  2  fo.,  "  Dominus 
dixit." 

Dialogus  beati  Gregorii,  2  fo.,  "  Extincti  filii." 

Liber  Sacramentalis,  2  fo.,  "  Quis  cui." 

Breviarium  nocturnale,  2  fo.,  "  Gladium." 

Primum  volumen,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Universi  cives." 

Speculum  Judiciale,  2  fo.,  "  Obe  Judi." 

Tractatus  juris  Johannis  de  Bromyarde,5  2  fo.,  **  Post  tabulam 
quoque  faciat." 

Lilium  Sacerdotis,  2  fo.,  "Eat." 

Civis  super  Codex,  2  fo.,  "  Contingere." 


2  John  Gualensis,  or  Wallis,  O.S.F., 
flourished  in  the  latter  part  of  the  reign  of 
Hen.  III.,  and  was  called  «  Arbor  Vitse." 

8  Q.  The  second  Abbot  of  Cluny,  who 
died  in  942  ? 

*  This  James,  Archbishop  of  Genoa, 
sometimes  called  de  Voragine  (from  being 
like  M.  Cato  "Helluo  Librorum,"  Cic.  3  de 


Fin.),  but  more  probably  from  the  town  of 
that  name,  in  the  territory  of  the  city  of 
Genoa. 

*  According  to  Leland,  Bromyard  was  a 
Dominican  who  flourished  at  Oxford,  and 
was  "  Legum  consultissimus,  et  in  theo- 
logia  feliciter  versatus,"  '  De  Script.  Brit.' 
p.  35(5. 


INVENTORY  OF  1506.  375 

Unum  parvum  Breviarium,  2  fo.,  "  Ante." 

Ff.         vetus,  2  fo.,  "  Composuimus." 

Materia  super  4°  Libro  Decretalium,  2  fo.  "  Altering." 

Albas  super  1°  Libro  Decretalium,  2  fo.,  "Sentito." — Impressorie 
artis. 

Prima  pars  Abbatis  super  2°  Decretalium,  2  fo.,  "  Ut  cum." — Idem. 

Abbas  super  4°  et  5°  Decretalium,6  2  fo.,  "  Ubi." — Idem. 

Tercia  pars  Abbatis 6  super  secundo,  2  fo.,  "  Hec  lee." — Idem. 

Abbas  super  tercio  Libro  Decretalium,  2  fo.,  "  Gis  debent." — Idem. 

Psalterium  antiquum  glosatum,  2  fo.,  "  Plerique." 

Quinque  antiqui  libri  non  cathenati  et  1 1  quaterni  antiquiores, 

nullius  valoris. 

Liber  Decretalium,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Sua." 

Liber  Decretorum,  2  fo.,  "  Quadragesima." 

Liber  Institucionum,  2  fo.,  in  textu  "  Et  precipue." 

CAPELLA  SANCTI  EDMUNDI  SUPRA  OSSILEGIUM  IN  CIMETERIO. 

1  calix  argent eus  et  deauratus  cum  scriptura  "  Jesus  "  in  patena, 
ex  dono  Domini  Johannis  Major. 

1  Missale  impressorie  artis  in  pergameno,  2  fo.,  in  rubro,  "  Ecclesie," 
ex  dono  ejusdem. 

1  Manuale,  2  fo.,  "  Oraciones,"  ex  dono  ejusdem. 

1  par  vestimentorum  de  satino  figurato  nigri  coloris,  le  orfrey  de 
rubeo  velvete,  cum  ymaginibus  Crucifixi,  Marie  et  Joliannis  in 
eodem,  ex  dono  ejusdem. 

1  front,  depicta  cum  pagenta  et  signis  Diei  Judicii,  ex  dono 
ejusdem. 

1  liber  diversorum  novorum  Festorum,  2  fo.,  "  lllustres." 

4  tuella  diversi  sortis. 

Frontella  cum  tuello  annexo. 

1  togilla,  trium  virganim  in  longitudine. 

1  casula  per  se  de  blodio  bordalisaunder,  cum  1  fanula  ejusdem 
panni. 

1  casula  de  baudekyn  rubei  coloris  cum  coronis  aureis,  le  orfrey 
de  viridi  et  rubro  serico  cum  rosis  argenteis. 

1  casala  de  albo  serico  cum  canibus  aureis,  le  orfrey  de  rubeo  et 
viridi  serico  cum  leopardis  aureis. 

1  casula  de  rubro  baudekyn  cum  frondibus  et  floribus  viridibus, 
le  orfrey  de  rubro  et  blodio  baudekyn  cum  canibus  aureis. 

1  corporale  cum  casa  de  nigro  velvete. 

1  casa  absque  corporali,  de  rubeo  serico  cum  stellis  aureis  ex  1 
parte  et  blodio  serico  operata  cum  albo  serico  ex  alia. 

1  corporale  cum  casa,  de  rubeo  panno  aureo  ex  1  parte  et  albo 
satino  ex  altera. 

1  suffront  de  panno  lineo  alba  et  viridi  bokeram  paled. 

1  front  de  viridi  colore  cum  pavonibus  glaucii  coloris  duplicatis, 
cum  panno  lineo. 

1  Biblia,  2  fo.,  "  Et  Johannem." 

6  Abbas,  of  the  Order  of  St.  Benedict,  I  rished  early  in  the  fifteenth  century  ;    his 
promoted  to  the  See  of  Palermo,  and  flou-  |  real  name  was  Nicholas  Tudeschi. 


376  APPENDIX. 

2  curtine  stayned  de  panno  lineo  cum  angelis  thurificantibus. 
2  manutergia. 

1  pannus  linens,  depictus  cum  ymaginibus  Patris,  Filii,  et  Spiritus 
Sancti,  in  medio  et  ymaginibus  Petri  et  Pauli  ex  lateribus. 
1  pannus  albus  sericus,  cum  Crucifixo,  Maria  et  Johanne. 

1  front  pro  collateralibus  altaribus. 

2  suffront  pro  eisdem  altaribus. 
2  togille  pro  eisdem. 

1  pannus  de  albo  et  nigro  serico.7 


MSS.  GIVEN  BY  THE  DEAN  AND  CHAPTER  OF  EXETER  TO  THE 
BODLEIAN  LIBRARY,  OXFORD. 

Munificentissimis  atque  optimis  cujusvis  ordinis,  dignitatis,  sexus,  qui  Bib- 
liothecam  hanc  libris,  aut  pecimiis  numeratis  ad  libros  coenaendos,  aliove 
quovis  genere  ampliarunt,  THOMAS  BODLEIUS  eques  auratus,  honorarium  hoc 
volumen,  in  quod  hujuscemodi  donationes,  simulque  nomina  donantium  sin- 
gillatim  referuntur,  pietatis,  memories,  virtutisque  causa  dedit,  dedicavit. 

DONUM  DECANI  ET  CANONICOEUM  ECCLESIE  CATHEDEALIS  EXON. 

Moralium  B.  Gregorii  in  Job.     L.  14. 

Augustinus  in  Psalmum  101  et  sequentes. 

Moralium  B.  Gregorii,  pars  4 ;  a  libro  17  ad  35  inclusive. 

Augustinus  de  Civitate  Dei. 

Epistola  cjusdem  Augustini,  132. 

Glossae  Thome  Aquini  in  Jo.  et  Luc. 

Liber  qui  vocatur  Somnium  Viridarii. 

Homiliae  B.  Gregorii  in  Evang. 

Expositio  B.  Augustini  in  Epistolas  Pauli. 

De  Ecclesiasticis  Dogmatibus.  De  Utilitate  agendas  Poenitentiae. 
De  Natura  Boni.  Enchiridion.  De  Cura  pro  Mortuis  agenda. 
Contra  Medicum.  De  Mendacio.  Contra  5  Haereses.  Hypognosti- 
con.  De  10  Chordis.  De  Spiritu  et  Anima.  Hugo  de  Arra  Animse. 
Questiones  ad  Orosium,  Lib.  6.  Musicae,  &c.  Super  Canonicam 
Joannis.  Liber  Eetractationum.  De  Magistro.  De  Quantitate 
Animse.  De  Agone  Christiano.  De  Fide  ad  Petrurn.  kSoliloquia. 
De  Immortalitate  Animae.  De  bono  Conjugali.  De  Virginitate. 
De  Cognitione  verae  Vitae.  De  Fide  ad  Petrum,  et  ad  Donatum. 
Expositio  Symboli.  Contra  Infideles. 

^  Of  all  the  books  in  the  Inventory  the 
only  remaining  ones  in  1752  were  the  fol- 


lowing:— 


tractatus. 
Sancti  Ambrosii  de  Misteriis. 
Lanfranci  dialogus. 
Liber  Guimunde. 
De  Re  Medica,  2  vols. 
Rosa  Medicine. 


Historia  Policronica. 

Speculum  Mundi. 

Epistole  decretales. 

Rabanus. 

Isedorus  Hispalensis  de  Rerum  Natura. 

Inventarium  Jocalium,  de  1506. 

Pontificale  Edmundi  Lacy. 

Sermones  Dominicales. 

Lea;enda  Sanctorum. 


Somnium  Scipionis.  William  Wydford. 

Boetius  de  Musica.  Beda. 


MSS.  GIVEN  TO  THE  BODLEIAN  LIBRARY.  377 

Homiliarum  B.  Gregorii,  12  quaterniones.  Speculum  Juris 
Canonici,  vel  Summa  Summarium. 

Canones  Apostolorum  et  Canones  Magni  Niceni  Concilii  et  mul- 
torum  aliorum  Conciliorum.  Biblia  Vulgata,  Lat. 

Scholastica  Historia  P.  Comestoris  in  Pentateuchum. 

Libri  18.     Hieronymi  in  Isaiam. 

Speculum  Historiale  Fratris  Vincentii. 

Dicta  et  Sermones  Domini  Lincoln. 

Prima  pars  Augustini  super  Psalmos. 

Bartholomseus  de  Pisis,  De  Casibus  Conscientise. 

Ambrosii  Lib.  9,  de  Fide  ad  Gratianum. 

Beda  super  Lucarn  et  Marcum. 

Passiones  et  Vitas  diversorum  Sanctorum. 

Missale  antiquissimum. 

Eichardus  de  Media  Villa  super  4  libros  Sententiarum. 

Liber  de  Miraculis  Christi. 

Liber  Confessionum  S.  Augustini. 

Augustinus  de  Consensu  Evangelistarum. 

Poenitentiale  S.  Gregorii  Papae  urbis  Eomae. 

Prognosticon  Juliani  Toletani  Episcopi. 

Lectura  ordinaria  Eicardi  Eingstede  super  29  capitula  Parabo- 
larurn  Salamonis. 

Liber  S.  Isidori  ad  Florentinam  de  Miraculis  Christi. 

Hieronymus  contra  Jouinianum. 

Liber  qui  continet  Job  secundum  compilationem  Eicardi  Ham- 
poole  heremitae,  necnon  15  proprietates  de  Oculo  extractas  per 
Magistrum  de  Limochia,  &c. 

Doctor  Subtilis  super  4°  Sententiarum. 

Thomas  Aquinas  in  Matthaeum  et  Marcum. 

Nicholaus  de  Trineth  et  Nicholaus  de  Lyra  super  Psalterium. 

Liber  Augustini  contra  Faustum  Manichaeum. 

Beda  de  Tabernaculo  et  vasis  ejus,  a  vestibus  Sacerdotum. 

Augustinus  contra  Felicianum  Arianum.     De  Agone  Christiano. 

De  Cataclysmo.     De  Cantico  novo. 

De  Mysterio  Crucis.     Sermones  ejusdern  plures. 

De  Cura  pro  Mortuis  gerenda.  De  Symbolo.  Flores  Gregorii 
Papae. 

Augustinus  super  Epistolam  S.  Johannis  Apostoli,  &c. 

Introductorium  Algebraici  ad  judicia  astrorum. 

Liber  Imbrium  a  Jafar  Astrologo  editum,  et  a  Lenio  et  Mercurio 
correctum.  Liber  Tabith  filius  Cheeve  de  Sphaera  et  de  Circulis. 

Liber  de  28  Mansionibus  Lunae.  Tabula  ostendens  in  quo 
signo  sit  Luna  omni  die.  Liber  Alfragani  de  Aggregationibus 
Scientiae  Stellarum,  et  principiis  coalestium  motuum.  Centi- 
loquium  Ptolomsei.  Liber  Imaginum  Tabith  Lencoras.  Liber  vocatus 
Toe,  et  vocatur  Liber  Veneris  et  liber  10  Lapidum  Veneris. 

Problemata  naturalia.     Liber  sextus  de  Naturalibus  Avicennae. 

Philosophi  trai)slatus  ab  Archidiacono  Toletano. 

Quatuor  Evangelia  Latina. 

Boriaventura  de  Passione  Christi.  Quatuor  Meditationes  imaginis 
vitae  per  eundem. 


378  APPENDIX. 

Liber  B.  Athanasii  de  Trinitate  unitatis. 

Altercatio  contra  Arrium,  Sabellium,  &c. 

Glossa  communis  et  interlinearis  super  Genesim. 

Exceptio  de  Canonibus  Catholicorum  Patrum,  &c. 

Bartholomaeus  de  Proprietatibus  Kerum.    Hexameron  B.  Ambrosii. 

Legenda  Sanctorum.  Glossa  communis  et  interlinearis  in  Epi- 
stolas  Pauli. 

Gregorii  Honrilise  12  in  primam  partem  Ezechielis. 

Augustinus  contra  Mendacium.  De  Natura  et  Origiiie  Animae  ad 
Renatum. 

Ad  Petrum  Presbyterum  de  eadem  re.  Idem  ad  Vincentium  de 
eadem  re. 

Libri  quatuor  Dialogorum  B.  Gregorii. 

Sententiae  Isidori  de  summo  bono.  Determinatio  Fratris  et 
Magistri  Gulielmi  Widford  contra  Wyclif.  Flores  ex  variis  libris 
Augustini. 

Qusestiones  Robert!  Kylwarby  de  Conscientia.  Flores  Francisci 
de  Meronis  super  quatuor  libros  Augustini  de  Doctriria  Christiana. 

Flores  ejusdem  super  varies  libros  Augustini.  Wycklif  de 
Mandatis. 

Registrant  Gregorii.     Commentarius  anonymi  in  Psalmos. 

Opuscula  Ambrosii  4.     Concordia  discordantium  Canonum,  folio. 

Novella  Johannis  Andreas  super  quinque  libros  Decretalium. 

Homilie  Gregorii  4.     Augustinus  in  Psalmos,  folio. 

Lucas  et  Johannes  cum  Glossa  4.  Julius  Solinus  4.  Holcot 
in  12  Prophetas.  Boethius  de  Consolatione  Philosophise,  folio. 

Dialogi  Gregorii  libri  quatuor.  Super  Ezechiel  de  Mensura 
Templi. 

Sermones.  Sermones  Dominicales  Fratris  Jacobi  Archiepiscopi 
Januensis,  folio. 

Ambrosius  de  Officiis  Ministrorum.  Compendium  Medicine 
Magistri  Gilberti  Anglici.  Item  Compendium  super  Librum 
Aphorismorum  Hippocratis,  folio. 

Augustinus  Plypognosticon  et  Enchiridion  ad  Laurentium. 

Pastorale  Gregorii  4.     Beda  in  Epistolas  Canonicas  4. 

Magister  Sententiarum,  folio.     Holcot  super  Librum  Sapientiae. 

Libelli  Medicinae  4.  Augustinus  in  Evangelium  secundum 
Joannem. 

Sermones  Kicardi  Armachani  contra  Mendicantes. 


FABRIC-BOLLS.  379 

No.  IV. 
FABEIC-EOLLS  OF  EXETEE  CATHEDEAL. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  ROLLS  OF  THE  GUSTOS  NOVI  OPERIS 
ECCLESIE  SANCTI  PETRI  EXONIE.     (FROM  1279  TO  1439.) 

30  Sept.  1279  to  1284. — An  imperfect  Koll.  In  crastino  Sancti 
Michaelis  pro  tribus  fenestris  ad  capellam  beati  Jacob!  ex  precepto 
senescalli  85.  9d.  In  vitro  empto  16s.  Expenses  from  Midsummer, 
1280,  to  Easter  Eve,  1281,  III  Is.  2d. 

1284. — Expenses  are  mentioned  respecting  the  fabric  of  the  tower 
beyond  the  Exchequer.  Two  carpenters  2s.  Sd.  a  week,  and  to  a 
certain  workman,  probably  an  assistant,  l%d.,  for  work  about  the 
tower  in  capella  beate  Marie  Magdalene.  A  new  window  made  in 
St.  Paul's  (the  north)  tower,  and  the  altar  removed  from  St.  John's 
(the  south)  tower.  Pro  carriagio  maremii  de  Norton  8d.  In  opere 
ventilogii  (weathercock)  super  eandem  turrim  8d.  Fabro  pro  una 
virga  terrea  ad  ventilogium  2  Id. 

1285. — For  work  in  the  chapel  of  St.  Mary  Magdalene  5s.  Sd. 
Ad  fenestram  largiorem  faciendum  in  turri  predicta  et  ad 
altare  ejusdem  removendum  6s.  4d.  Towards  ^  glazing  the  same 
window  3s.  Qd.  Pro  una  fenestra  vitrea  in  turre  Sancti  Johannis 
5s.  Pro  fenestra  facta  in  turre  Sancti  Pauli  19s.  2%d.  For  glazing 
the  window  there  6s.  For  removing  the  altar  of  St.  Paul  and 
plaistering  the  window  I2d.  Total  30s.  l%d. 

1286. — Richard  de  Malmsbury  employed  as  a  painter  at  2s.  l^d.  per 
week.  Circa  organa  claudenda  4s.  About  the  bell  called"  Walter,"  and 
the  other  bells  2s.  In  muro  prosternendo  sub  archa  turris  Sancti 
Johannis  et  ad  magnam  fenestram  in  turri  Sancti  Johannis  aperien- 
dum  2s.  3d  Together  with  other  expenses  in  fitting  the  same 
window  31s.  Expenses  about  the  fabric  this  year  5?.  19s.  6%d. 
Paid  on  Saturday  before  the  Feast  of  St.  Peter  in  cathedra  for 
work  about  a  bell  called  "Germaeyn"  2d.  The  other  bell  was 
called  "Walter."  For  hanging  two  bells  called  "Bokerel"  and 
"  Chauncel "  2d. 

Michas.  1299  to  Michas.  1300. — Robert  de  Ashperton  and  Roger 
Mason  were  the  Wardens  novi  operis.  Summary  totius  custus  novi 
operis  de  isto  anno  179Z.  6s.  2d.  This  Roll  is  copied  in  extenso. 

1301  to  1302.— Receipts  281?.  14s.  3d.  300  stones  from  Silverton 
ad  voltam.  300  stones  from  Hamedon  cum  carriagio  for  the  steps 
before  the  high  altar  54s.  4rf.  Towards  painting  the  vaulting  cum 


380  APPENDIX. 

auro  argento  azura  et  aliis  coloribus  ad  idem  emptis  26  libre.  In 
1271  pedibus  vitri  ad  summas  fenestras  frontis  novi  operis  cum 
duabus  formis  in  utraque  parte  29?.  2s.  5%d.  Expenses  2521  5s.  6d. 
In  hand  39?.  8s.  Qd. 

1302  to  1303.  —  Receipts  187?.  Is.  Id.     A  bequest  from  Andrew 
Kilkenny,  Dean  of  Exeter,   of  61.  13s.  4d.      In  ala  australi  novi 
operis  pavianda  8s.  6d.     All  the  canons  contributed  towards  the 
nova  fabrica  ecclesie.     In  sex  libris  albi  plumbi  ad  picturam  emptis 
20^d.,  precium  libre  3frf.     In  uno  potello  olei  empto  lOrf.     In  uno 
potello  olei  ad  picturam  empti  Sd.     Expenses  104?.  14s.  7fc?. 

1303  to  1304.—  Receipts  246?.  14s.  4£d,  of  which  Bishop  Bitton 
had  contributed   124?.   18s.   Sd.     364  feet  of  glass  at  5£d  a  foot 
8?.  6s.  IQd.     Paid  Walter  the  glazier  for  fitting  the  glass  of  the 
gable  end  and  of  octo  summarum  fenestrarum  et  sex  fenestraium  in 
other  parts  of  the  new  work  4?.  10s.     For  140  feet  of  vitri  depicti, 
at  5%d.  a  foot,  64s.  2d.     Fitting  the  same  2s.     Considerable  sums  are 
charged   this   year  'for  lead  and  stone.     John,   Vicar   of  Tawton- 
Bishop,  was  a  benefactor.     Bargia  petrarum  de  Pdrtlonde  cariata 
10s.     Expenditure  197?.  Is. 


1306  to  1307.  —  Imperfect.  For  a  cart  hired  carriare  maremium 
de  Chuddelegh  usque  Hagheldon  (Haldon)  for  one  week  1  8s.  Car- 
riage of  four  great  pieces  of  timber  from  Chuddeleigh  7s.  Great 
quantities  of  stone  this  year  from  Berlegh. 

1308  to  1309.  —  Receipts  wanting.     Expense   of  plumbers'   and 
......  work  23?.  7s.  l|d     In  una  libra  et  dimidio  rubei  plumbi 

einpti  $£d.    Pro  decem  libris  de  blank  plumb  emptis  5s.,  pro  libra  5d. 
In  21  libris  ejusdem  alia  vice  emptis  7s.  lO^of.,  at  4&d.    In  una  libra 
cinopol  empta  2s.  9e?.*'  Una  uncia  ejusdem  2fof.     In  tribus  libris  et 
dimidia  de  vernise  2  Id.     In  7  galonis  et  uno  quarterio  olei  emptis 
11s.  3d.     The  total  expense  for  colours  and  oil  for  painting  the 
vaulting  29s.  7%d.  for  the  hay  purchased  juxta  parcum  de  Athel- 
ingebeare.     Expenses  194?.  10s.  8fd.     This  Roll  is  in  a  very  bad 
state. 

1309  to  1310.  —  Receipts  wanting.     For  two  shiploads  of  stone 
from  Caen  12?.  4s.     The  wall-  work  appears  to  have  been  begun  at 
this  time.     To  John  de  Glaston  for  removing  the   former  walls 
52s.  6d.     Three  fothers  of  lead  9?.  2s.,  purchased  in  nundinis  Sancti 
Botulphi  (Boston).     Paid  to  William  Canon  of  Corf   pro  marbre 
26?.  13s.  4d.     Three  fothers  of  lead  bought  at  Boston  fair  9?.  12s., 
price  per  fother  3?.  4s.     For  weighing,  marking,  and  the  customs, 
and  carrying  it  to  the  water  3s.   9d.     For  bringing  it  thence  to 
Topsham   18s.      Landing   it   there    17d.      Bringing   it  thence   to 
Exeter  3s.  5d.     Expenses  336?.  19s.  XI  id.,  which  this  year  exceeded 
the  receipts  by  70?.  Os.  4%d.     This  Roll  is  very  imperfect. 

1310  to  1311.  —  Receipts  385?.  9s.  lOd.    Amongst  other  benefactors 
are  121?.  18s.  8d.  de  dono  Domini  Walteri  Episcopi  and  100,s-.  de 
dono  Hagistri  Michaelis  Berham,  Chancellor  to  the  Archbishop  ol 


FABRIC-ROLLS.  381 

Canterbury.  In  this  year  a  general  collection  was  made  through- 
out the  diocese  towards  the  fabric  :  22s.  de  duobus  equis  veteribus  ; 
26s.  received  at  the  Pentecost  Offerings  in  navi  ecclesie  ;  7s.  3d.  de 
obventionibus  ad  gulam  August!  ;  6s.  Wd.  de  obventionibus  ad 
pedes  veteris  Petri.  A  great  deal  of  stone  from  Caen,  Two 
fothers  of  lead  in  nundinis  Sancti  Botulphi.  And  of  12s.  Qd.  de 
rubea  area.  Disbursements  383?.  17s. 


1312  to  1313.  —  Receipts  319?.  10s.  10£d  ;  including  124?.  de  dono 
Domini  Walteri  Episcopi  de  porcione  ipsum  contingente  ad  fabricam. 
The  cost  of  the  timber  ad  sedem  Episcopi  6?.  12s.  8%d.  Expenses 
225?.  4s.  lie?.  This  Roll  is  in  a  very  bad  state  indeed. 


1316  to  1317.  —  Receipts  229?.  15s.  10£d.  A  shipload  of  stones 
from  Caen  and  carriage  8?.  Same  payment  from  Bishop  Stapeldon 
per  annum.  Bequest  of  2s.  9c?.  from  Richard,  Rector  of  Honiton. 
For  a  bolt  ad  descum  decani  in  choro  lc?.  Great  quantities  of  oats 
procured  from  Cheriton  Episcopi.  Expenses  244?.  12s. 


1317  to  1318.—  Receipts  gone.     124?.  18s.  3d.  de  dono  Domini 
Episcopi.      629   pieces   of    white    glass    purchased  at   Rouen   for 
15?.    14s.    9d.       1203   pieces  de   colorato   for   10?.    3s.      Expenses 
255?.  4s.  lOj-c?.     This  Roll  is  in  a  very  bad  state  by  the  application 
of  galls. 

1318  to  1319.  —  Expenses  230?.  10s.  Ofc?.,  including  124?.  18s.  Sd. 
de  dono  Domini  Episcopi.     Repairing  the  ironrwork  of  two  bells  in 
St.  Paul's  Tower.     Mending  one  great  window  in  the  nave.     An 
iron  plate  to  grind  colours  I2d.    Plain  arid  coloured  glass  in  various 
parts  of  the  church  13?.  6s.  2%d.     Wyppe-cord  '3d.     Four  columns 
with  bases,  surbases,  and  capitals,  5?.  6s.  Sd.     243  feet  of  marble 
steps  pro  la  pulpy  tte,  at  4%d.  per  foot,  4?.  10s.  3fc?.     For  two  altars 
with  marble  fronts  26s.  Sd.     Allowed  the  custos  operis  for  the  tab- 
latura  magni  altaris  27?.  7s.  7  it?.     Expenses  of  materials  and  wages 
about  the  stone  screen  de  tablatura  lapidea  39?.  9s.  Id.     Expenses 
202?.  12s.  3%d. 

1319  to  1320.—  Receipts  215?.  9s.   l±d.     Six  bars  of  iron  for  the 
stone  tabernacle  of  the  great  altar  2s.     124Z.  18s.  8c7.  ex  dono  Epis- 
copi.    500  pounds  of  iron  to  make  the  great  bars  pro  la  pulpy  tte 
15s.  5(7.     For  two  great  bars  of  iron  for  the  pulpytte,  to  be  made 
of  the  weight  of  400  pounds,  12s.     For  16  pieces  of  coloured  glass 
20s.  Sd.     For  eight  pieces  of  white  glass  5s.   Sd.     For  iron-work 
about  a  great  bell  called  "Jesus"  2s.  6d.     84?.  19s.  3fd.  allowed  on 
account  of  the  screen  of  the  high-altar.     84?.  19s.  3fd  allowed  the 
accountant  pro  tablatura  majoris  altaris.     Expenses  132?. 

1320  to  1321.  —  Receipts  217?.  14s.  l$d.,  of  which  the  bishop  con- 
tributed  124J.    18s.   Sd.     The   tablature  of  the   screen  behind  the 
high-altar  cost  this  year  alone  81?.  19s.  lOfd     One  pound  de  azura 
empta  London  per  Dominum  Episcopum  3s.  6d.     One  pound  de 
Ynde  bandas  ISd.     Four  pounds  de  verdegris  2s.  4d.     Four  pounds 
de  vermilion  2s.  Sd-.     Five  pounds  de  verniz  alb  5s.  0-frf.     Three- 


382  APPENDIX. 

quarters  .  .  .  .  de  cinople  4s.  Sd.  M.  foliis  auri  28s.  4*7.  Six 
pounds  of  leaf-gold.  De  blampln  —  Lamp-black.  In  centum  libris 
de  blampln  emptis  per  Dominum  apud  London  18s.  In  500  foliis 
auri  per  Dominum  emptis  19s.  2d.  In  16  lagenis  olei  pro  pictura 
21s.  Gd.  Una  libra  de  vermilion  I4d.  In  fossato  Domini  Roberti 
Episcopi  Warwest  9d.  Expenses  208?.  5s.  4%d. 

1321  to  1322.  —  Eeceipts,  including  the  bishop's  donation  of 
1247.  18s.  8c?.,  are  265?.  4s.  Id.  For  making  two  images  for  the 
altar-screen  2s.  4c?.  Three,  four,  ditto,  4s.  Sd.  Five,  seven,  ditto, 
8s.  3d.  Picture  pro  tribus  imaginibus  faciendis  3s.  6d.  Four 
others  4s.  Qd.  Three  ditto  3s.  6d.  Two  ditto  2s.  4d.  A  consider- 
able quantity  of  oil  is  purchased,  as  well  as  petra  marmorea  pro 
coloribus  molandis,  Is.  6d,  and  also  vermilion.  [Were  the  above 
not  painted  figures?  as  pyttores  are  employed  throughout  the  Roll, 
and  molatores  colorum  are  employed  at  less  wages.]  A  door  is  men- 
tioned, retro  majus  altare.  The  expense  of  the  custus  tablature 
majoris  altaris  for  painting  materials  and  workmen  about  the  screen 
and  images  amounted  to  86?.  4s.  bd.  Expenses  179?.  17s.  5±d.  ;  so 
that  the  custos  operis  owed  85?.  7s.  lid.,  but  being  allowed  86?.  4s.  5d. 
for  his  account  of  the  above  tablatura  magni  altaris,  the  expenses 
exceeded  the  receipts  by  17s. 


1323  to  1324.  —  Receipts,  including  the  bishop's  124?.  18s.  8d, 
244?.  11s.  5d.  Towards  the  repair  of  the  bell  called  "Mary"  and 
the  base  21c?.  For  eight  heads  to  be  cut  for  vaulting  the  cloister 
8s.  For  12  pieces  de  vitro  colorato  (stained  glass)  8s.,  and  for  8 
pieces  de  albo  vitro  (plain  glass)  2s.  8d  55  pounds  de  blamplinn 
cum  carriatione  lls.  5-Jc?.  4  pounds  de  verdegris  3s.  Sd.  In  5  lignis 
maremii  extra  portam  episcopi  31s.  3d.  In  candelis  pro  pictore  5^d. 
In  11  lagenis  olei  pro  pictoribus  10s.  Id.  In  solutione  facta  ymagi- 
natori  de  Londonia  pro  ymaginibus  talliandis  ex  precepto  Thesaurarii 
39s.  For  a  cord  for  the  baptismal  font  3d.  A  donation  of  20s.  de 
testamento  Domini  Willielini  de  Tracy  quondam  rectoris  ecclesie  de 
Morteho.  Very  many  charges  for  timber  brought  from  Lustleigh 
to  Exeter.  Expenses  pro  campana  qui  vocatur  "  Jesus  "  2s.  A  charge 
for  an  image  in  angulo  pro  la  pulpy  tte.  Among  the  receipts  is  7s. 
de  corticibus  venditis  apud  Langhford.  Expenses  239?.  lls. 


1324  to  1325.  —  Receipts,  including  the  bishop's  donation  of 
124?.  18s.  8c?.,  249?.  13s.  Sid.  For  stone  from  Silverton  for  the 
gutters  of  the  cloisters  6s.  9d.  For  2000  tiles  pro  la  pulpy  tte.  [Was 
not  this  pulpit  a  distinct  building  on  the  north  side  of  the  cathe- 
dral, where  lectures  and  sermons  were  occasionally  delivered  ?]  A 
considerable  quantity  of  stone  from  Beer  and  from  Burls.  Quareria 
de  Salcumb.  Timber  from  Norton.  48  great  trees  bought  at 
Langford  11?.  9s.  The  name  Sege  very  frequently  occurs.  In  the 
reprint  of  Risdon's  '  Survey  of  Devon,'  p.  114,  Seige  appears  to  have 
been  in  the  parish  of  Topsham.  Magistro  Johanni  aurifabro  pro 
opere  tabule  argentee  5?.  1  8s.  [Query,  was  it  placed  in  front  of  the 
altar  ?]  3s.  were  allowed  for  a  boat  from  Topsham  usque  ad  abba- 
thiam  de  Torre  pro  duobus  lignis  ducendis  usque  la  Sege  ;  and 


FABRIC-EOLLS.  383 

from  Sege  to  Exeter  8d.  "  In  ausilio  [auxilio]  locate  pro  maremio 
apud  Thopysham  ad  terrain  ponendo  de  batillis  "  11s.  For  the  hire 
of  six  men  apud  Thopysham  ad  portandum  maremium  de  mari  usque 
ad  terrain  12s. 

1325  to  1326.—  Receipts  408?.  19s.  3jc?.  Eeceived  285?.  13s.  8d. 
as  a  benefaction  from  Bishop  Stapeldon  from  the  sum  of  1000  marks, 
"285?.  13s.  4c?.  the  remainder  of  a  sum  of  1000  marks  de  dono 
venerabilis  patris  domini  Walteri  Episcopi  dicto  operi."  6s.  Sd. 
de  testamento  Petri  Rectoris  de  Hokysham.  Quarry  at  Berleghe 
[query  Barley  ?],  carriage  of  timber  de  bosco  de  Sydebiry.  The  head 
mason  received  33s.  4d.  a  quarter's  salary  and  the  custor  operis 
12s.  6d.  This  was  generally  the  case.  Iron  wedges  for  the 
quarries.  15  great  poplar  trees  bought  for  scaffolds  11s.  6id,  and 
100  alder  trees  13s.  Qd.  10,000  lath  nails  7s.  Sd.  24  tackis  pro 
carectis  3s.  In  the  nine  weeks  of  the  Midsummer  quarter,  for 
timber  bought  by  the  Bishop  at  London  13s.  Qd.  In  the  tenth 
week  of  the  Midsummer  quarter  for  work  done,  super  claustrum, 
2s.  Id.  Expenses  365?.  9s.  5d. 

1328  to  1329.  —  Receipts  296?.  5s.  Sd.     For  32  board  nails  bought 
for  the  pulpit  in  St.  Paul's  tower  Id.     For  two  large  nails  and  20 
small  ones  pro  cathedra  Domini  Episcopi  2d.     Sum  of  all  expenses 
inside  and  out  192?.  19s.  Ofd.     This  roll  has  been  injured  by  galls 
and  damp. 

1329  to  1330.  —  The  beginning  of  the  roll  is  wanting.    Pro  uiia 
clavi  pro  campana  que  vocatur  "  Petre  "  de  novo  facta  3s.     For  work 
in  nova  capella  juxta  fontem  16s.  8c?.,  and  for  work  pro  horologio 
in  ecclesia  Sd.     Pro  una  clavi  pro  campana  ostio  chori  5d.     Stone 
brought   from    Silvertoii  for   the   porchia   on  the   west  side.      It 
appears  that  the  bishop's  throne  —  "  Cathedra  Domini  Episcopi  "  — 
was  of  stone.     Expenses  184?.  7s. 


1330  to  1331.  —  Receipts  5747.  19s.  8%d.  Bishop  Grandisson  gave 
60?.  this  year.  William  Canon  the  elder  of  Corf,  and  his  son  William 
after  his  father's  death,  received  in  toto  for  marble  furnished  by 
them  132?.  17s.  bd.  _  A  bell  called  the  "^Vlary  "  occurs.  For  iron  work 
circa  aquilam  in  la  pulpytte  4s.  6d.  Expenses  inside  and  out 
155?.  8s. 


1331  to  1332.  —  Receipts  with  arrears  147?.  13s.  Late  in  January 
1332-3,  William  Canon  resident  at  Corfe  agreed  with  the  dean  and 
chapter  to  furnish  marble  ad  fabricam  navis  ecclesie  beati  Petri 
Exon,  viz.,  11  columpnis  et  dimidio  magnis,  precium  columpne 
10?.  16s.,  total  124?.  14s.  And  60  pair  of  columns,  and  for  bases  and 
capitals  at  15?.,  the  price  of  each  base  with  capitals  and  columns 
to  be  5s.  Also  for  29  columns  for  the  cloister  1?.  Is.  Qd.  The  price 
of  each  column  to  be  9c?.  The  amount  of  all  these  columns  is 
140?.  5,9.  9d,  and  William  Canon  received  132?.  17s.  bd.  in  part  by 
three  different  payments.  It  seems  he  had  completed  his  work  by 
the  9th  of  September,  1334.  St.  Mary's  Bell  was  in  St.  Paul's 
Tower,  and  Jesus  Bell  in  St.  John's  Tower.  A  lock  for  the 


384  APPENDIX. 

church  door  *'  ubi  fuit  domus  panis."     All  expenses  inside  and  out 
145?.  16s. 


1333  to  1334.—  Receipts  1251  5s.  3jc?.     Expenses  100?.  5s. 
There  is  nothing  of  any  interest  in  this  roll. 

1341  to  1342.      Eeceipts    198?.  Os.   lie/.,   of  which   the   sum   of 
66?.  13s.  4d.  was  the  gift  of  Hugh  Courtenay  Earl  of  Devon.     50 
loads  of  stone  from  Wippeton,  carriage  2s.  6d.     A  great  proportion 
of  the  expenditure  this  year  was  for  stones  and  the  carriage  of  them. 
F.  Clifford,  sculpanti  capitalia,  3s.  9rf.     Expenses  190?.  14s.  lid. 

1342  to  1343.  —  Eeceipts  135?.  9s.  8jc?.     The  bishop  contributed 
20?.     Expenses  144?.  17s. 


1st  January  1346  to  1st  April  following.  —  Eeceipts  47?.  7s.  5%d.  Bishop 
Grandisson  gave  20?.,  of  which  31.  12s.  Id.  were  expended  in  digging 
for  and  bringing  water  to  the  church.  Expenses  35?.  5s. 


From  Midsummer  to  Michaelmas  1348.  —  Eeceipts  for  the  quarter 
37?.  Os.  3%d.  The  bishop  gave  10?.  Stone  from  Comer's  Hay,  pro 
redditu  domorum  camerarii  2s.  per  annum.  Expenses  for  the  fabric 
of  the  church  SI.  8s.  lid,  and  for  the  aqueduct  in  the  churchyard, 
"  Fons  Sancti  Petri,"  19?.  9s.  tyd.  Total  28?.  17s.  l\d. 

From  Michaelmas  1348  to  Michaelmas  1319.  —  Ten  pounds  were 
received  arising  from  gifts,  legacies,  and  burials,  "  tempore  mor- 
talitatis."  Expenses  50?.  15s.  5d,  et  sic  excedit  12s.  4d. 

1349  to  1350.  —  Eeceipts   30?.   11s.   Sd.      "  Custus   circa   muruni 
civitatis  Exon  extra  portam  orientalem  "  12?.  Is.  lid.     The  stone 
was  brought  from  Whipton  and  Silverton.     Expenses  29?.  6s.  Id. 

1350  to  1351.—  Eeceipts  27?.   15s.  Id.     Paid  John  Bellringer  ad 
mundandum  omnes  imagines  supra  magnum  altare  ecclesie  2s.   For  a 
wheel  for  a  bell  in  St.  John's  Tower  4s.  5c?.  ;  mats  for  the  chapter  house 
Is.  lid?.;  mending  the  bell  called  "Grandisson"  I2d.     For  a  man 
hired  to  dig  round  the  pipes  apud  Langbrooke,  and  for  repairing 
the  wall  at  Langbrooke  to  carry  the  water-pipes.     Paid  at  Christmas 
"  Uni  vitriario  conducto  in  grosso  ad  vitriandum  duas  fenestras  in 
capella  Sancte  Eadegundis  "  14s.      In  factura  56  librarum  ferri  et 
proprio  ferro  pro  novem  barris  pro  fenestris  capelle  Sancte  Eade- 
gundis 5s.  IQd.     Expenses  21?.  10s.  2fd 

1351  to  1352.—  Eeceipts  26?.   6s.   2d.     For  a  mason  for  making 
three  stone  steps  at  the  church  door  2s.     For  mending  the  pave- 
ment in  and  out  of  the  choir  2s.     For  mending  the  Peter  Bell  6s. 
For  a  new  key  to  the  door  next  the  great  altar  3d.     For  repairs  of 
the  tower  of  St.  John.     Expenses  52.  19s.  5d. 


1352  to  1353.—  Eeceipts  29?.  Os.  9jd  Prima  septimana  post 
Festum  Trinitatis,  viz.,  20  die  Maii,  1353,  fuit  inceptio  novi  operis 
ecclesie  beati  Petri  coram  magna  cruce,  the  expenses  of  which  were 
altogether  46?.  lljd  Expenses  25?.  8s. 


FABRIC-ROLLS.  385 

1371  to  137  -'.—-Receipts  311.  5s.  0%d.     William  Baker,  a  kartere, 
for  six  days'  work  5s.     500  laths  22£d     1800  nails  for  the  laths 
3.5.     In  cera  empta  pro  corona  ad  gradum  chori,  1  1  pounds'  weight, 
6.9.  lOd.     In  factura  ejusdem  6d     Precium  libre  l\d.     In  stipendiis 
custodis  operis  pro  termino  Sancti    Michaelis  12s.  6d      Expenses 
24?.  135.  8%d. 

1372  to  1373.  —  Receipts  148?.  8s.  8d.     Repairing  the  pavement 
of  ,  the  church  in  the  south  tower.     Six  pair  of  gloves  bought  for  the 
carpenter  for  raising  the  timber  12d     Expenses  about  the  clock 
boll  25s.  5d     2085  pounds  of  copper  purchased  of  John  Brazier  of 
Dartmouth  26?.  13s.  4d,  at  3  id  a  pound.     617  pounds  stagni  (tin), 
purchased  of  William  Ryks  of  Ashberton  5?.  2s.  lOd,  at  2d  a  pound. 
263  pounds  of  metal,   purchased   at   divers  places,   57s.  2d     For 
coals  and  fuel  "  in  purificatione  metalli  et  fusione  campane  et  in 
follis  conductis  ad  id  complendum,"  1?.  14s.  7  id     This  roll  contains 
but  three-quarters  of  a  year.      The   Disbursements   for   the   first 
quarter  are  51?.  17s.  7jd  ;  the  second  11?.  13s.  lid.;  and  the  third 
16?.  4s.  9d 


Michaelmas  1374  to  20th  November  1375.  —  Receipts  130?. 
For  making  a  clapper  for  the  "  Grandisson  bell,"  and  for  40  pounds 
of  iron  for  the  same,  13s.  ;  for  its  carriage  from  Colyton,  where  it 
was  made,  to  Exeter  4d.  For  the  expenses  of  Walter  to  Colyton 
pro  illo  clapper  faciendo.  Easter  Term  —  several  sums  for  work  ad 
frontem  ecclesie.  For  the  hire  of  a  horse  for  Walter  3d.  Expenses 
of  a  man  for  two  days'  work  circa  campanam  in  veteri  turre  [Query 
the  north  tower  ?]  14d  For  the  plumbers  ad  vestiarium  cooperiendum 
6s.  Custus  nove  domus  in  Calendarhay  vocate  "  Trasyng  hous  " 
9?.  19s.  7jd,  besides  the  timber  used  de  stauro  capituli.  Expenses 
of  the  year  and  four  weeks  121?.  16s.  4d 

1376  to  1377.  —  Receipts  108?.  Os.  6d  119s.  9d  are  charged  with- 
in a  quarter  of  a  year  "  circa  cameram  in  boreali  turre  pro  horilogio 
quod  vocatur  clock  de  novo  construendam."  The  whole  expense 
nove  camere  pro  horilogio  is  10?.  6s.  5J<?.  55  pounds  of  cramps 
and  seven  bolts  of  iron  pro  pinnaculo  frontis  ecclesie  4s.  7d.  25 
crockets  pro  eodem  pinnaculo  13d  Expenses  106?.  5s. 


Sunday  before  7th  July  1377  to  Michaelmas  137  '8.  —  Receipts 
200?.  14s.  3  id.  Paid  to  John  Gyffard  for  repairing  the  clock,  Is.  4d. 
Paid  for  a  cord  containing  40  fathoms,  240  feet,  pro  columba  ultra 
summum  altare,  in  which  dove  the  hosts  reserved  for  the  sick  were 
kept,  Id.  Paid  Peter  Painter  for  the  dove  and  the  images  annexed 
to  it  40s.  In  venditione  trium  petrarum  et  dimidii  de  marb.  50s. 
pro  tumba  comitis.  A  good  deal  of  timber  was  purchased  at  Bren- 
ton  in  the  parish  of  Exminster.  300  pounds'  weight  of  metal  pur- 
chased pro  campanis.  Expenses  125?.  18s.  7  id. 

Sunday  before  Michaelmas  1380  to  1381.  —  Receipts  156?.  7s.  3d 
For  work  done  circa  opus  claustrale  [Cloisters]  16s.  lid  Eight 
fathers  of  lead  were  employed  in  coopertura  navi  claustri.  Easter 
week  to  each  workman  is  an  allowance  of  four  days  and  a  half's 
wages  ut  mos  et  consuetude  hie  et  alibi  existit,  ac  circa  conventione 

2  € 


386  APPENDIX. 

firmatam  inter  capitulum  et  eosdem,  quod  dies  festivales  debereiu 
equanimiter  inter  eosdem  partiri.  Men  were  not  accustomed 
to  work  on  Saints'  days.  Expenses  1611  8s.  4%d.,  sic  excedit 
SI.  Is.  l%d. 

Michaelmas  1381  to  July  1382.  —  Receipts  65?.  8s.  lid.  For  iron 
work  for  glazing  the  windows  in  the  cloisters,  and  for  great  nails 
to  strengthen  certain  timbers  in  the  north  tower  I5d.  The  old 
cloister,  "  vetus  claustrum,"  occurs.  A  marble  stone  sold  to  the 
bishop  pro  altari  suo  in  ecclesia  for  26s.  Sd.  Expenses  84?.  5s.  6^d. 

Michaelmas  1382  to  Low  Sunday  1383,  26  weeks.—  Receipts  40?.  19s.  Id. 
Quaturno  papyri  purchased  for  inserting  different  accounts  5d. 
A  lance  for  a  standard  on  the  feast  of  the  dedication  of  the  church 
4d.  Expenses  39?.  3s. 


Michaelmas  1383  to  the  Sunday  after  Lady  Day  1384,  including  26 
weeks.  —  Receipts  58?.  4s.  9£c?.  Expenses  61?.  16s.  6%d.  :  indebted 
therefore  to  the  custos  71s.  8c7.,  but  he  received  Is.  pro  una  veteri 
imagine  Sancti  Vincentii  vendita  pictori. 

Michaelmas  1386  to  29th  June  1387.—  Receipts  45?.  5s.  7irf. 
Mason's  wages  3s.  a  week.  For  three  days'  work  about  the  "  Grandis- 
son"  bell  I4d.  Expenses  52?.  17s.  6ft?. 

For  the  remainder  of  this  year  there  is  another  account,  of  which 
the  receipts  are  27?.  3s.  8c?.,  and  the  expenses  12?.  10s. 


Michaelmas   1387  to  26th  September  1388.—  Receipts  49?.   2s.   106?. 
Expenses  54?.  Os.  %d. 

1389  to  1390.—  Receipts  97?.  12s.  9jc?.     For  a  new  key  for  the 
doors  on  the  north  side  of  the  high  altar  of  the  church  lOd.     To 
John   Brigg   for  his  labour  in  cleaning  the  front  of  the  Rerdos 
behind  the  great  altar   20c?.      Expenses  in   carrying  instrumenta 
Carpentaria  ad  Silvam  de  Rokebeare   5d.     For  a  key  to  the  door  of 
the   cloister  near  the  Precentor's  House   5d.      For   painting   the 
sword  of  St.  Paul  I6d.     200  tiles  were  bought  for  the  pavement  of 
the  church.     The  work  of  the  cloisters  was  going  on  during  the 
year.      The   mason's   wages  for   six   days    were   3s.  4d.  ;    mason's 
tender  2s.     Carpenter's  wages  the  same  as  the  mason's.     In  tribus 
cordulis  de  filo  albo  emptis  pro  columba  ante  magnum  altare  3s.  4d. 
Pro  26  libris  de  bras  pro  campana  beate  Marie  in  boreali  campanili 
20d.     For  1040  pedibus  de  petra  marmorea  pro  pavimento  claustri 
14?.  Is.  8^.,  unde  pro  quolibet  pede  3%d.     For  iron  bars  pro  fenestris 
claustri  6?.  2s.  7%d.      For   a   skin   of  parchment   ad   pinguendam 
magnam  fenestram  in  capite  ecclesie  2d.     Expenses  101?.  5s.  Q^d. 
In  the  extra  expenses  of  the  chapter  in  1389  is  12s.  4d.,  in  emenda- 
tione  organorum  capelle  beate  Marie  in  capite  ecclesie  et  stipendio 
operarii. 

1390  to  1391.—  Receipts  116?.  2s.  Ojd     For  12  cords  of  hemp  for 
the  windows  on  the  high  altar  1  2d.     For  the  carriage  of  a  horse 
load  of  poles  from  Stoke  Wood  to  Exeter  for  scaffolding  for  this 
window  2d.,  and  some  other  expenses  for  enlarging  it.     Expenses 
120?.  Us. 


FABRIC-ROLLS.  387 

About  1390. — An  imperfect  Roll.  The  Receipts  and  Expenses  of 
which  during  the  first  four  weeks  are  wanting,  but  the  total  ex- 
penses of  the  year  were  45?.  7s.  10fJ.  For  a  cord  for  the  great 
weight  for  the  clock  10s.  lOdf.  For  mending  the  cock  of  St.  Peter's 
Fountain  in  the  yard  Sd.  To  Richard  Herig  pro  custodia  librarie 
ex  precepto  capituli  6s.  Sd.  For  a  clapper  for  the  "  Grandisson  "  bell 
4s.  Carriage  of  six  horse-loads  of  stone  de  Wonford  14d.  30  oaks 
bought  at  Poltimore,  16d.  each,  40s.  Carriage  of  same  ISd.  The 
length  of  this  Roll  is  1 1  feet. 

1391  to  1392.— Receipts  14?.  13s.  Id.     Expenses  about  the  clock 
3s.  Ojd     For  the   carriage  of  Bere-stone,  viz.,  of  the  old  window 
at  the  head  of  the  church  from  the  bishop's  palace  unto  the  Close 
3s.  Sd.     Expenses  751  14s.  4d. 

1392  to  1393, — Receipts  103?.  18s.  6£d.     Several  sums  paid  for 
labor  circa  pavimentuni  chori.     Expenses  98?.  2s.  l^d. 

1393  to  1394. — Expenses  for  58  weeks  159?.  19s.  5-Jd.     25  horse- 
loads  of  stone  bought  at  Whipeton  for  the  south  tower,  which  with 
the  carriage  cost  9s.   3d.      3417    horse-loads   of    stone   bought   of 
Thomas  Sloo  et  sociis  at  Whipeton  15?.  14s.  Mr,  and  500  loads  of 
Gilbert   there   46s.   3cf.      Stone  bought  at   Raddon,  amounting   to 
12?.   11s.      Paid    for    timber   from   Norton   in    Newton   St.    Cyres 
19?.  10s.  2df.,   including  12d  to  the  carriers   ex   rewardo  quia   in 
hieme.      Paid  for  four  pair  of  panyerys  for  carrying  stone 
Expenses  99?.  15s.  lO^d.     This  Roll  is  nine  feet  and  a  half  long. 

1395  to   1396. — This    Roll    is    imperfect,    being    only    for    13 
weeks.     Receipts  18?.  8s.  7^d.     For  mending  the  clock  6d.     For 
a  cord  for  the  lamp  in  St.  Mary's  Chapel  2d.     For  five  mats  for  the 
Chapter-house  ISd.     For  mending  the  dragon  4d.     Several  charges 
for  tiles  to  pave  the  church.     Expenses  24?.  4s.  4|rf. 

1396  to  1397.— Receipts  12?.  10s.     For  a  clapper  to  "St.  Mary's" 
bell  in  the  south  tower  7s.  4d.     Also  for  four  pounds  and  a  half  of 
iron  employed  about  the  "Trinity"  bell.     The  "Grandisson"  and 
three  other  bells  were  in  the  north  tower.     Plumbers,  carpenters, 
and  helliers  generally  received  5d.  a  day,  but  the  Freemasons  were 
allowed  6d.   William  Foundyng  and  William  Gewys  (Gervys)  often 
occur.     The  former  had  a  salary  of  26s.  Sd.     Expenses  16?.  7s.  4d. 

1397  to  1398.— Receipts  33?.  16s.  Sd.     Among  them  is  3s.  Sd.  for 
Beer-stone  to  serve  as  a  base  for  St.  Michael's  image,  set  in  the  wall 
near  the  tomb  of  John  Mychel.     Also  5?.  received  of  Bishop  Bran- 
tyngham's  executors  for  stones  to  pave  the  cloisters.     St.  Michael's 
Chantry  appears   to   have    been   in   the   south   tower.     Expenses 
41?.  18s.  Hid. 

1399  to  1400.— Receipts  137?.  18s.  Ofef.  For  repairing  the  four 
bells  in  the  north  tower  I5d.  For  mending  the  clock  4s.  Qd. 
Raddon-stone  occasionally  occurs.  "St.  Mary's"  bell  was  in  the 
north  tower.  Expenses  138?.  2s.  7jc?. 

2  c  2 


388  APPENDIX. 

1400  to  1401. — "Receipts  79?.  9s.  4d.     Sundry  expenses  about  the 
north  and  south  towers  and  their  bells.     Expenses  68?.  lls.  7fdf. 

1401  to  1402. — Eeceipts  46?.  10s.   5d.     A  lock  and  key  for  the 
door  in  the  new  wall  near  the  north  door  of  the  church.     Six  days 
in  cleaning  the  church  and  the  cloister  20d.     Mason's  work  about 
the  new  wall  near  the  north  tower  2s.  6d.     Expenses  about  the 
clock.     Expenses  45?.  16s.  3|-cf. 

1402  to  1403. — Eeceipts  46?.  7s.  0%d.     Repairing  the  clappers  of 
the   "Trinity"  and  "Grandisson"  bells  19s.  2d.     For  a  hempen 
rope  to  support  the  veil  before  the  great  cross  in  the  roodloft  2s.  2d. 
Mending  the  clock  20s.     Among  the  receipts  is  a  legacy  of  29s. 
from  Henry,  Vicar  of  Liskeard,  by  the  hands  of  the  Eector  'of 
Lawitton,  to  be  expended  about  the  fabric.     Expenses  45?.  18s.  7f(i 

1403  to  1404.— Eeceipts  39?.  8s.  Id.     Eepairs  of  a  door  for  the 
cloister,  near  the  tomb  of  the  Earl  of  Devon,  19J<7.     Eepairs  of  the 
clock  5s.  4d.     Expenses  36?.  6s.  %%d. 

1405  to  1406. — Eeceipts  64?.  Is.  lOd.  One  rennyng  barr  for  the 
door  of  the  logge  5d.  Mending  the  dove  over  the  high  altar  2s.  Qd. 
Repairing  the  clock  4s.  Sd.  A  cramp  bought  for  the  little  door 
near  le  cokrewe  3d.  Carriage  of  timber  from  the  wood  de  Hoxham 
to  Exeter  4s.  2d.  Expenses  53?.  14s.  lid.  This  Eoll  is  nine  feet  long. 

1407  to  1408. — Eeceipts   70?.   5s.   8%d.     Eepairing  ironwork  for 
two  altars  in  the  choir  Qd.     Mending  three  locks  for  the  three 
doors  next  the  high  altar  and  one  door  near  the  great  cross  in  the 
aisle  on  the  south  part  Id.    Eepairing  the  clock  52s.  4d.    18  pounds 
of  wax,  at  fyd.  per  pound,  8s.  3d.,  to  be  burnt  before  the  little  cross 
in  the  choir.   Pro  cera  Eicardi  Braylegh  of  Halsworthy.     Expenses 
56?.  Os.  OjrZ.     This  Eoll  is  full  eleven  feet  long. 

1408  to  1409.— Eeceipts  87?.  10s.  Ofd     Mending  the  dove  and 
the  clock  6s.     Expenses  72?.  16s.  0  jd.     This  Eoll  is  also  eleven  feet. 

1411  to  1412. — Eeceipts  78?.  14s.  6jdf.     Expenses   50?.   8s.   3jd. 
This  Eoll  is  in  a  most  damaged  state. 

1412  to  1413.— Eeceipts  63?.  Os.  Ijd     For  ironwork  before  the 
altars  of  St.  Gabriel,  St.  Mary,  and  St.  John  the  Evangelist  9^. 
Chains  for  the   library  4s.   Qd.     To  John  Tinley,  mason,   for  his 
labour  "  videndum  ruiriam  in  domo  capitulari  (mm  canonicis,  126?." 
There  was  much  work   done   this   year  "  circa   domum   capituli." 
Expenses  50?.  15s.  Qd.     This  Eoll  is  more  than  twelve  feet. 

1412  to  1413. — For  the  Library  only.  Eeceipts  25?.  4s.  4%d.  For 
timber  and  iron  nails,  and  glue  and  drink  for  the  carpenters. 
Mention  is  made  of  67  books  that  were  sewed.  William  Hayford 
and  Eichard  his  man  were  employed  in  sewing  and  binding  the 
books  in  the  Library:  the  former  received  6?.  for  his  labour  and 
his  man  36s.  8c?.  A  considerable  expense  is  mentioned  for  chains 
to  secure  the  books  in  the  Library,  which  Library  adjoined  the 
cloister.  Expenses  35?.  l''s.  7jtf. 


FABRIC-ROLLS.  389 

1413  to  1414. — Receipts  647.  16s.  9jd.  28  chains  for  the  books  in 
the  Library  18s.  Sd.  For  the  carriage  of  earth  beyond  Southgate 
from  the  garden  of  the  Treasurer  of  the  Church  and  from  the  Close 
beyond.  For  the  clapper  of  the  "Jesus "bell  13s.  6d.  Expenses 
about  the  clock  and  the  dove  above  the  high  altar.  For  a  key  for 
the  door  called  "  Lytel  Styll "  2  Id.  Expenses  50?.  16s.  7 id. 

1415  to  1416.— Receipts  607.  11s.  5fd.  For  a  rail  in  the  pulpit 
step  and  for  mending  a  certain  stall  burnt  in  the  choir  of  the 
church  2s.  Timber  for  "  Bracton's "  bell  I4d.  For  convey  ing- 
earth  beyond  the  city  from  the  church,  cloister,  and  garden  of  the 
Treasury  3s.  Pro  duobus  ysopis  [asperges]  aque  benedicte. 
Much  masonry-work  was  going  on,  circa  domum  capitularem,  and 
much  carpentry-work  for  the  new  Vestiary  of  the  church.  A  pic 
ture  of  St.  John  the  Evangelist  was  placed  in  the  chapel  of  St. 
John  the  Baptist  in  the  south  tower.  Among  the  receipts  are 
3s.  2d.  in  Galyhalpans  de  ecclesia  parochiali  de  \\  oodbury  appro- 
priata  Vicariis  Exon.  Expenses  437.  5s.  5d.  This  Roll  is  fourteen  feet. 

1418  to  1419. — Receipts  577.  18s.  4jd.  For  mending  a  window 
of  the  bishop's  chamber  which  the  workmen  broke  when  employed 
on  the  new  Vestry  6d.  Several  sums  about  the  clock.  Six  mats 
bought  for  the  Chapter-house.  Pro  scriptura  lapidis  Domini  Leo- 
frici  primi  ecclesie  Exoniensis  episcopi  20d.  For  mending  the 
great  west  window  in  the  Chapter-house  6s.  Sd.  Paid  to  \V  alter 
Helyar  and  others  for  repairing  and  covering  "  claustrum  "  of  the 
bishop  which  had  been  injured  by  the  workmen  of  the  dean  and 
chapter  in  erecting  a  new  Vestry.  Paid  for  a  new  brass  cock  for 
St.  Peter's  Fountain  6s.  Sd.  For  four  quarterns  of  paper  Is.  6d. 
Expenses  587.  14s.  8fd. 

1418.— With  a  duplicate  from  8  May  to  29  Sept.  1418  only,  but 
neither  of  them  containing  receipts  or  disbursements.  4s.  lOd.  col- 
lected from  the  mayor  and  citizens  of  Exeter  pro  emendatione 
piparum  Fontis  beati  Petri  Exon.  For  carrying  away  earth  from 
the  dean's  door  Sd.  For  repairing  the  lock  on  "  Little  Style"  4d. 
For  clearing  the  vacant  space  between  the  church  of  St.  Peter  and 
the  bishop's  palace  3d. 

Michs.  1419  to  20  April,  1420.— Receipts  177.  3s.  4d.  Expenses 
147.  4s.  Ofd. 

15  April  to  Michs.  1420. — Receipts  97.  3s.  8fd.  Repairs  of  the 
clock  and  expenses  about  the  bells.  Expenses  67.  10s. 

1  Oct.  1420,  to  30  Sept.  1421.— Receipts  697.  17s.  5d.  Glass 
broken  by  the  wind  in  the  north  tower  4s.  Sd.  Expenses 
587.  14s.  5d. 

1422  to  1423. — Latter  part  of  the  Roll  only  remaining,  by  which 
it  appears  that  the  expenses  for  the  year  had  been  867.  15s.  3jd. 

Michs.  1423  to  Michs.  1424.— Receipts  817.  Os.  lljd.  To  Robert 
Hove  of  Bridport  for  a  cord  bought  pro  pelve  Ricardi  Braylegh 
quondam  Decani,  pendenda  in  medio  chori  3s.  For  another  cord  pro 


390  APPENDIX. 

magnis  lampadibus  in  navi  ecclesie  pendentibus  3s.  Seven  mats  for 
the  Chapter-house.  For  iron  bars  bought  pro  novo  horologio  con- 
servando  12s.  4d.  For  a  new  doo*  of  the  new  inclosure  made  before 
the  Vestiary  10s.  For  100  nails  bought  for  the  new  great  chest  in 
the  vestry  near  the  high-altar.  For  a  cupboard  for  keeping  the 
vestments  and  other  necessaries  in  the  vestiary  near  the  high-altar. 
To  John  Budde  of  Exeter,  painter,  for  painting  the  new  clock  made 
in  the  cathedral  church  of  Exeter  73s.  4d.  For  two  pitchers  of  oil 
purchased  pro  lampade  Bertini  2s.  6d.  Expenses  84?.  1  3s.  6d  This 
Roll  is  eighteen  feet. 

1424  to  1425.—  Receipts  52?.  2s.  Ojtf.     For  oil  for  Berlin's  lamp 
2s.  3d.     Expenses  of  John  Woolston  and  John  Umfray,  riding  with 
two  horses  from  Exeter  to  Barnstaple,  there  to  seek  Eoger  Clock- 
maker,  to  mending  the  clock,  viz.,  going  there,  staying  at,    and 
returning  with  the  same  Roger,  and  keep  of  his  horse  for  three 
days  5s.  3d     For  the  hire  of  two  horses  for  the  same  three  days 
2s.     The  expenses  of  Roger  Clockmaker  and  John  Umfray  riding 
back  from  Exeter  to  Barnstaple  for  two  days,  with  the  expenses  of 
the  said  John  from  Barnstaple  to  Exeter  again,  Is.  5%d.     8s.  were 
received  from  the  bishop's  steward  towards  the  yearly  pension  of 
26s.  Sd.  allowed  by  the  chapter  to  John  Harry,  Freemason,  who 
had  been  employed  by  the  bishop's  steward  for  16  weeks  at  Chud- 
leigh  at  6d.  a  day,  and  other  masons  were  allowed  but  5d.  a  day  ; 
labourers  4d.     A  master-plumber  6c?.,  and  his  servant  5d.     Harry's 
pension   was    paid    quarterly.      This    Roll   is   more   than  fifteen 
feet  long. 

1425  to  1426.—  Receipts  44?.  14s.  9fd.     Pxaid  to  Thomas  Lewys 
of  Hevitre  for  carrying  off  earth  and  soil  from  St.  Peter's  Cemetery 
4s.     For  a  rope  bought  of  William  Hore  pro  pelve  et  cereo  decani 
coram  summo  altare  pendenti  10s.     For  mending  the  Library  win- 
dow 20d.     For  oil  for  Berton's  lamp  1  6d.     For  a  key  for  the  door 
of  the  house  called  the  "  Storehouse,"  near  St.  Martin's  Church, 
and  mending  the  glazed  window  in  Libraria  Ecclesie  Sancti  Petri. 
In  denariis  solutis  Johanni  Budde  pictori  de  Exon  pro  pictura  ima- 
ginis  veteris  Petri  in  novam  picturam  ex  conventione  cum  ipso  facta 
per  capitulum  in  grosso  106s.  Sd.     Expenses  37?.  5s.  Sd. 

1426  to  1427.  —  Receipts  60?.  14s.  5d.     John  Woolston  and  John 
Harry,  Freemasons,  were  sent  this  year  from  Exeter  to  Bere  to 
provide  stone.     The  custus  necessarii  chiefly  relates  to  expenses 
about  the  bells,  and  is  very  much  injured.     Expenses  58?.  os. 


1429  to  1430.  —  Receipts  67?.  19s.  Sd.  Paid  for  glazing  a  new  win- 
dow, occidentali  turre  of  the  cathedral  1  5?.  Mending  the  clock  20d. 
Purchased  32  cart-loads  of  Bere-stone  at  the  quarry  64s.  ;  and  car- 
riage of  the  same  to  Exeter  6?.  18s.  St/.  Expenses  66?.  11s.  lid. 

1435  to  1432.—  Receipts  61?.  Os.  3|d  For  a  chain  for  the  book 
called  '  Rationale  Divinorum  '  to  be  chained  in  the  cathedral  church 
of  Exeter,  and  given  to  the  church  by  Rolder,  16d.  Repairs  of  the 
clock  2s.  Oil  for  Berton's  lamp  2s.  6<r/.  Three  loads  of  plaster  of 


FABRIC-ROLLS.  391 

Paris  2s.  Sd.  32  waggons  of  Bere-stone,  with  the  carriage,  6?.  19s.  4d. 
Among  the  receipts  is  the  sum  of  66s.  Sd.  of  Agnes  Champernowne 
for  her  burial  in  the  church,  and  5s.  4d.  more  for  materials  about 
.the  grave,  and  2s.  for  other  expenses  about  it.  In  this  Koll  is  enclosed 
part  of  another,  showing  that  the  whole  expenses  of  the  year  were 
48?.  19s.  0^-6?.,  which  begins  with  the  45th  week  of  the  year. 

1434  to  1435.— Receipts  64s.  8s.  Id.     John  Talbot,  it  seems,  left 
the  rent  of  two  shops  in  the  High  street,  opposite  St.  Stephen's 
Church,  ad  inveniendum  oleum  pro  lampade  Bertini  in  the  cathe- 
dral.    Paid  Eichard  Horige,  the  annivellar,  pro  custodia  librarie 
6s.  8d.     For  two  latin  chandeliers,  bought  in  London  for  the  Lady- 
Chapel,  weighing  341  pounds,  6?.  13s.  4d.     Carriage  of  the  same 
from  London  to  Exeter  13s.  4d.     33  carts  of  Bere-stone  and  their 
carriage  13?.  18s.  IQd.     Hooks  and  twists  for  the  door  made  in  the 
north  tower  to  keep  the  oil  for  the  dean  and  chapter.     Expenses 
55?.  2s.  9jd 

1435  to  1436. — Receipts  71?.  14s.  7%d.     300  large  stones  of  Won- 
ford,  bought  for  the  new  vestry  and  for  the  wall  made  at  Lang- 
broke  for  the  safe  keeping  of  the  iron  pipes,  30s.     For  32  horse- 
loads  of  the  same  stones  for  the  same  wall  32s.  2d.     Paid  to  Richard 
Horige,  an  anniveller,  as  librarian,  6s.  Sd.     Paid  to  John  Budd, 
painter  of  Exeter,  for  painting  57  nodi  in  the  south  ambulatory  of 
the  cathedral,  besides  the  70s.  which  had  been  given  by  the  priest- 
vicars  towards  the  work,  101s.     The  price  of  each  nodus  was  3s. 
For  oil  for  Berton's  lamp  20c£.     For  the  expenses  of  John  Harry 
the  Freemason  riding  from  Exeter  to  Dartmouth  to  purchase  wains- 
cot planks,  two  days,  including  the  hire  of  the  horse,  13c?.    For  389 
pounds  of  iron  for  the  windows  of  the  new  vestry  for  the  Lady's 
Chapel  56s.  Sd.   A  clapper  for  the  "  Trinity"  bell  3s.  4d.    Expenses 
55?.  4s.  6d.     This  Roll  is  fifteen  feet  in  length. 

1437  to  1438. — Receipts,  with  some  arrears,  97?.  Os.  lOd.     In  a 
marginal  note — "In  the  twelfth  week  John  Harry  the  Freemason 
first  began  to  work  about  the  new  vestry  for  the  Lady  Chapel,  for 
which  work  the  executors  of  Roger  Bolter,  late  precentor  of  Exeter, 
will  pay  all  costs — cujus  anime  propicietur  Deus,  Amen."   Expenses 
60?.  16s.  4fd     This  Roll  exceeds  any  of  the  others  in  length,  and  is 
full  nineteen  feet. 

1438  to  1439. — Receipts  87?.  18s.  lOfd.  ;  among  which  is  a  receipt 
for  materials  for  the  grave  of  Thomas  Cooke,  vicar-choral  in  claus- 
tro.    Solutum  pro  33  peciis  pavimenti  Flandrie  largis  pro  pavimento 
novi  vestiarii  2s.  9c?.     Many  waggons  of  Bere-stone  purchased  this 
year,  of  which  the  carriage  amounted  to  1 5?.  4s.    Solutum  pro  factura 
cujusdam  tabule  de  linea  Anglie  et  Francie  misse  ecclesie  cathedrali 
Exon  per  consilium  Regis  et  fixtura  in  eadem  ecclesia,  llcf.     Pay- 
ments 75?.  17s.  Ijc?.     This  Roll  is  eighteen  feet  long. 


392  APPENDIX. 


A  TKANSCRIPT  OF  THE  FABRIC  ROLL   OF  THE  CATHEDRAL  OF 
EXETER  FROM  MICHAELMAS  1299  TO  MICHAELMAS  1300.1 

Compotus  DOMINI  ROBERTI  de  Asperton  et  MAGISTRI  ROQERI  Cementarii, 
Custodum  novi  operis  ECCLESIE  BEATI  PETRI  EXONIE,  a  Festo  Sancti  Michaclis 
anno  Domini  M°CC.  iionogesimo  nono,  usque  Festum  ejusdem  Sancti  Mi- 
chaelis  anno  Domini  M°cccm0.,  videlicet  per  unum  annum  integrum. 

Avveragia. 

lidem,  reddunt  compotuni  de  42s.  lOd.  ob.  de  avveragiis  ultimi 
compoti.  Summa,  46s.  lOd.  ob.. 

Eecepta. 

lidem,  reddunt  compotum  de  351.  18s.  Sd.  Et  de  3/.  4s.  3d.  ab 
receptis  de  Thoma  de  Heviterue,  capellano  Domini  Episcopi, 
sine  tallia.  Et  de  12/.  ballard  receptis  de  Senescallo  Scaccarii 
Eeclesie  beat!  Petri,  sine  tallia.  Et  de  6?.  ballard  receptis  de 
Domino  Eoberto  de  veteri  terra,  de  bonis  Magistri  Eogeri  Be  , 
sine  tallia.  Et  de  66s.  Sd.,  de  Ecclesia  Sancti  Sancredi  Cornubie, 
per  manus  Willielmi  de  Mileburne  clerici,  per  uiiam  talliam. 
Et  de  6s.  8r/.  de  Domino  Eicardo  de  Hatche,  sine  tallia.  Et  de 
2s.  de  testamento  Vicarii  de  Hanok.  Et  de  6d.  de  testamento 
Willielmi  de  Plympton.  Et  de  3d.  de  testamento  Alicie  de 
Toriton.  Summa,  57?.  14s.  20d. 

Summa  Summarum  totius  recepcionis  cum  avveragiis  pre- 
cedentis  compoti,  60/.  Os.  19d. 

CUSTUS  NOVI  OPERIS  DE  TERMINO  SANCTI  MICHAELIS. 

Sabbato  primo. 

lidem,  computant  in  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme  Cementarii, 
2s.  3d.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  Walter!  de 
Hampton,  Johannis  de  Corf,  et  Willielmi  Maundevile,  Cementa- 
riorum, 10s.  lOrf.,  cuilibet  2s.  3d.  Et  Petri  de  Brideport  et  Ade 
Eeymund,  4s.  Et  Thome  de  Pilton,  et  Johannis  de  Worth, 
Walter!  de  Lovepitte,  Kicholai  Mantel,  Johannis  de  Cristchurche, 
et  Thome  Giles,  Cementariorum,  lls.,  cuilibet  22d.  Et  Eicardi 
de  Teingemewe,  Willielmi  Aston,  et  Philippi  de  Comubia, 
Cementariorum,  5s.  3d.,  cuilibet  20<f.  Et  Golofre  quareario, 
7s.  In  bateria,  5  ob.  In  stipendiis  4  operariorum,  3s.  4d.  Et 
2  operariorum  18<-/.  In  centum  summis  petrarum  de  Berlegh 
emptis,  3s.  Qd.  In  dimidio  libre  cere  empte,  6d.  In  ]3  libris 
picis  emptis,  12  denarii.  In  una  bargeata  petrarum  de  Brans- 
combe  cariata,  6s.  In  stipendiis  *4  careaariorum,  3s.  6d.  In  5 
quarteriis  dimidio  arene  emptis  6s.  Gd.  ob.  quad,  precium  quartern 
16d.  ob.  Summa,  67s.  Sd.  quad. 

1  The  size  of  the  original  Roll   is  5  feet  5  inches  in  length,  and  nearly  9  inches  in 
breadth,  written  on  both  sides. 


FAB1UC-ROLLS.  393 

Sabbato  secundo. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  11s.  3d.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Walter!  de  Hampton,  Johannis  de 
Corfe,  Willielmi  Maundevile,  10s.  Wd.  Et  Petri  de  Brideport, 
Ade  Reymund,  et  Willielmi  de  Pontington,  6s.  Et  Johannis  de 
Lolleworth,  Walter!  de  Lovepit,  Thome  de  Filton,  Johannis  de 
Cristchurch,  Nicholai  Mantel,  Robert!  Wyroc,  et  Thome  Giles, 
12s.  KM.,  cuilibet  I2d.  Et  Willielmi  Aston,  Ricardi  de 
Teingemewe,  et  Philippi  de  Cormibia,  5s.  3d.  Et  Golofre  qua- 
rario,  7s.  In  bateria,  4d.  ob.  quad.  In  stipendio  4,  operariorum 
3s.  4d.  Et  3  operariis  2s.  3d.  In  centum  petris  de  Berlegh 
emptis,  3s.  Qd.  In  centum  summis  arene,  2s.  In  stipendiis  4 
careaariorum  3s.  6d.  In  15  libris  sepi  emptis  ad  careaas,  Is.  Id. 
ob.  In  5  quarterns  6  busellis  [bushels]  arene  emptis  6s.  6d.  ob. 
quad.,  pretium  quarterii  de  5  quarterns  16  dimidio,  et  de  11 
busellis  2  ob.  quad.  Summa,  68s.  lOdf. 

Sabbato  terdo. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  2s.  3d.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Walteri  de  Hampton,  Johannis  de 
Corf,  et  Willielmi  Maundevile,  10s.  lOd.  Et  Petri  de  Brideport, 
Ade  Reymund,  et  Willielmi  de  Pentington,  6s.  Et  Johannis 
de  Lolleworth,  Walteri  de  Lovepit,  Thome  de  Filton,  Johannis 
de  Cristchurche,  Nicholai  Mantel,  Roberti  Wyroc,  Thome  Giles, 
et  Johannis  de  Forde,  14s.  8d,  cuilibet  22d.  Et  Willielmi  Aston, 
Ricardi  de  Teingemewe,  et  Philippi  de  Cornubia,  5s.  3d.  Et 
Golofre  quarario,  7s.  In  bateria,  5$d.  In  stipendiis  6  opera- 
riorum,  5s.  Et  3  operariis,  2s.  3d.  In  una  naviata  petrarum 
de  Kain  emptis,  16s.  In  eisdem  cariandis,  26s.  Sd.  In  bar- 
geata  petrarum  de  Branscombe  cariata,  6s.  In  centum  petris  de 
Berlegh  emptis,  3s.  6d.  In  stipendiis  4  careaariorum,  3s.  Qd. 
In  13  clippis  factis,  5d.  In  6  quarteriis  arene  8s.,  precium 
quarterii  IQd.  Summa,  117s.  9fd. 

Sabbato  quarto. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  2s.  3d.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  WTalteri  de  Hampton,  Johannis  de 
Corf,  Willielmi  Maundevile,  Radulfi  de  Abbodisbyri,  Willielmi  de 
Merton,  et  Thome  de  eadem,  17s.  4d,  cuilibet  2s.  2d.  Et  Petri 
de  Bridieport,  Ade  Reymund,  et  Willielmi  de  Puntington,  6s. 
Et  Johanni  de  Lolleworth,  Walteri  Lovepit,  Thome  de  Pilton, 
Johannis  de  Cristchurch,  Nicholai  Mantel,  Roberti  Wyroc,  Thome 
Giles,  et  Johannis  de  Forde,  14s.  Sd.  Et  Willielmi  Aston, 
Ricardi  de  Teingemewe,  et  Philippi  de  Cornubia,  5s.  3d.  Et 
Golofre  quarario,  7s.  In  bateria,  7£d.  In  stipendiis  6  opera- 
riorum,  5s.  Et  3  operariis,  2s.  3d.  In  centum  petris  de  Berlegh, 
3s.  Qd.  In  centum  summis  arene,  2s.  In  stipendiis  4  carea- 
ariorum, 3s.  6d.  In  9  quarteriis  grosse  avene  emptis,  14s.  3d., 
precium  quarterii,  ISd.  In  10  quarteriis  minutae  arene  emptis, 
lls.  8d.,  preciim  quarterii  I4d.  Summa,  4?.  15s.  3%d. 

Sabbato  quinto. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  2s.  3d.     Et  Johannis  de  la 


394  APPENDIX. 

More,  Rieardi  de  Hegham,  Walter!  de  Hampton,  Johannis  de 
Corf,  Willielmi  Maundevile,  Radulfi  de  Abbodisbyri,  Willielmi  de 
Merton,  et  Thome  de  eadem,  175.  4d.  Et  Petri  de  Brideport, 
Ade  Reymund,  et  Willielmi  Puntington,  6s.  Et  Johannis  do 
Lolle worth,  Walteri  de  Lovepit,  Thome  de  Filton,  Johannis  de 
Cristchurch,  Nicholai  Mantel,  Roberti  Wyrok,  Thome  Giles,  et  Jo- 
hannis de  Forde,  14s.  Qd.  Willielmi  Aston,  Ricardi  de  Teingemewe, 
et  Philippi  de  Cornubia,  5s.  3d.  In  bateria,  3^d.  In  stipendiis 
7  operariorum,  5s.  Wd.  In  centum  summis  petrarum  de  Berlegh, 
3s.  Qd.  In  stipendiis  Johannis  hominis  chargiandis  pro  careaa 
meremii  cum  cartaria  per  4  dietim,  Id.  In  2  careaatis  me- 
remii  de  Chuddelegh  cariatis,  3s.  In  2  careaatis  petrarum  de 
la  Sege  car  I2d.  In  stipendiis  4  careaariorum,  3s.  Qd.  In 
stipendiis  Johannis  Carpenterii  eorundem  dentiurn  careaarum 
per  5  dies,  17  ^d.,  per  diem  3-Jd.  In  12  gopis  doulis,  3 

bendis  ad  truncos,  26  clipp  et  18  clutis  cum  clavis  de  proprio 
ferro  factis,  4s.  Summa,  68s.  Qd. 

Sabbato  sexto. 

In  conductione  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  22jd.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Walteri  de  Hampton,  Johannis  de 
Corf,  Willielmi  Maundevile,  Radulfi  de  Abbodisbyri,  Willielmi  de 
Merton,  Thome  de  eadem,  14s.  Qd.,  cuilibet  21fd.  Et  Petri  de 
Brideport,  Ade  Reymund,  Willielmi  de  Puntington,  et  Nicholai 
Mantel,  6s.  Qd.,  cuilibet  2Qd.  Et  Johannis  de  Lolleworth, 
Walteri  de  Lovepit,  Thome  de  Pilton,  Johanni  de  Cristchurch, 
Roberti  Wyroc,  et  Thome  Gyles,  9s.  3d.,  cuilibet  IQ^d.  Et 
Willielmi  Aston,  Ricardi  de  Tengham,  et  Philippi  de  Cornubia, 
4s.  4jd.,  cuilibet  17jd.  Et  Hugoni  de  Prato,  I5d.  Et  Golofre, 
7s.  In  bateria,  7s.  In  stipendiis  7  operariorum,  4s.  ll^d., 
cuilibet  Q^d.  In  centum  summis  petrarum  de  Berlegh,  3s.  Qd. 
In  centum  summis  arene,  2s.  In  stipendiis  4  careaariorum 
3s.  Qd.  In  16  quarterns  arene  emptis,  19s.  Qd.,  unde  precium 
cujusque  de  12  quarterns  I5d.,  et  cujusque  aliorum  I4d. 

Summa,  79s.  IJ/i. 

Sabbato  septimo. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  22jd  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Walteri  de  Hampton,  Johannis  de 
Corf,  Willielmi  Maundevile,  Radulfi  de  Abbodisbyri,  Willielmi  de 
Merton,  et  Thome  ejusdem,  14s.  Qd.  Et  Petri  de  Brideport,  Ade 
Reymund,  Willielmi  de  Pontington,  et  Nicholai  Mantel,  6s.  Qd. 
Et  Johannis  de  Lolleworth,  Walteri  de  Lovepit,  Thome  de 
Filton,  et  Johannis  de  Cristchurch,  6s.  2d.  Et  Willielmi  Aston, 
Ricardi  de  Teingemewe,  et  Philippi  de  Cornubia,  4s.  4-JdL  Et 
Hugonis  de  Prato,  15d.  Et  Golofre,  7s.  In  bateria,  S^d.  In 
stipendiis  3  operariorum,  2s.  6d.*.  Et  6  operariorum,  4s.  Qd., 
cuilibet  Qd.  In  centum  summis  petrarum  de  Berlegh,  3s.  Qd. 
In  L  summis  arene,  I2d.  In  trinis  bokets  ligandis  et  emen- 
dandis,  Id.  In  una  careaata  petrarum  de  Toppisham  careata,  Qd, 
In  una  careaata  inaremii  de  Chuddelegh  ,  ISd.  In  stipendiis 
4  careaariorum,  3s.  Qd.  Summa,  59s. 


FABRIC-ROLLS.  395 

Sabbato  octavo. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  22 %d.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Walter!  de  Hampton,  Johannis  de 
Corf,  WillehniMaundevile,  Raduifi  de  Abbedesbyri,  Willielmi  de 
Merton,  et  Thome  de  eadem,  14s.  Qd.  Et  Petri  de  Brideport, 
Ade  Reymund,  Willielmi  de  Pontington,  et  Nicholai  Mantel, 
6s.  S^d.  Et  Johannis  de  Lolleworth,  Walteri  de  Lovepit,  Thome 
de  Fylton,  et  Johannis  de  Cristchurch,  6s.  2d.  Et  Willielmi 
Aston,  Ricardi  de  Teingemewe,  et  Philippi  de  Cornubia,  4s.  4Jd. 
Et  Hugonis  de  Prato,  lod.  In  bateria,  4id.  In  laterna  cemita- 
riorum  scuranda  ad  tascam,  4s.  In  stipendio  3  operariorum, 
2s.  Qd.  Et  6  operariorum,  4s.  Qd.  In  2  petris  marmoreis  ad 
altare  emptis,  13s.  In  centum  summis  arene,  2s.  In  centum 
clavis  ad  bordas  emptis,  Qd.  In  centum  clavis  ad  lathas  emptis, 
lie?.  In  1  careaa  axianda,  2d.  In  stipendio  4  careaariorum, 
3s.  Qd.  Summa,  65s.  Qd. 

Sabbato  nono. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  22 \&.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  VValteri  de  Hampton,  Johannis  de 
Corf,  Willielmi  Maundevile,  Raduifi  de  Abbedesbyri,  Willelmi 
de  Merton,  et  Thome  de  eadem,  14s.  Qd.  Et  Petri  de  Brideport, 
Ade  Reymund,  Nicholai  Mantel,  5s.  Et  Johannis  de  Loleeworth, 
Walter!  de  Lovepit,  Thome  de  Filton,  et  Johannis  de  Crist- 
church,  6s.  2d.  Et  Willelmi  Aston,  Philippi  de  Cornubia, 
2s.  lid.  In  bateria,  7%d.  Et  Golofre,  7s.  Et  3  operariorum, 
2s.  Qd.  Et  3  operariorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  Qd. 

Summa,  46s.  3f  d. 

Sabbato  decimo. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  22%d.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Walteri  de  Hampton,  Johannis  de 
Corf,  Willielmi  Maundevile,  Raduifi  de  Abbedebyri,  Willielmi 
de  Merton,  et  Thome  de  eadem,  14s.  Qd.  Et  Ade  Reymund,  et 
Nicholai  Mantel,  3s.  4d.  Et  Johannis  de  Lolleworth,  I8%d. 
Et  Golofre  quarario,  7s.  In  bateria,  3%d.  In  stipendiis  3  opera- 
riorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  Qd.  In  10  quarterns 
minute  arene  emptis,  11s.  Sd.,  pretium  quartern  I4d. 

Summa,  48s.  5-Jd. 

Sabbato  undecimo. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  22^d.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Walteri  de  Hampton,  Johannis  de 
Corf,  Willielmi  de  Maundevile,  Raduifi  de  Abbedebyri,  Wil- 
lielmi de  Merton,  et  Thome  de  eadem,  14s.  Qd.  Et  Ade  Rey- 
mund, Nicholai  Mantel,  Willielmi  de  Pontington,  5s.  Et  Johannis 
de  Lolleworth,  IQ^d.  In  bateria,  Q%d.  In  stipendiis  3  opera- 
riorum,  2s.  Qd.  Et  3  operariorum,  2s.  3d.  In  centum  summis 
avene,  2s.  In  stipendiis  4  careaariorum,  3s.  Qd.  In  2  careaatis 
axiandis,  4d.  In  1  axa  empta,  2d.  In  1  coreo  dealbando,  Sd. 
In  stipendio  fabri  pro  novis  ferramentis  careaarum  iiovarum 
factis  de  proprio  ferro,  Sd.  In  carectis  per  3  dies  emendendis, 


396  APPENDIX. 

9d.      In    4    quateriis    arene    minute   emptis,    5s.   4d.,   pretium 
quarterii  IGd.  Summa,  48s.  llfd. 

Sabbato  duodecimo. 

In  stipendiis  Magistri  Johannis,  2s.  Et  Eicardi  de  la  Streme, 
22jd.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  Walteri  de 
Hampton,  Johannis  de  Corf,  Willelmi  Maundevile,  Eadulfi  de 
Abbodebyri,  Willielmi  de  Merton,  et  Thome  de  eadem,  14s.  Gd. 
Et  Ade  Eeymund,  Nicholai  Mantel,  et  Willielmi  de  Pontington, 
5s.  Et  Johanni  de  Lolle  worth,  I8$d.  Et  Golofre  quarario,  7s. 
In  bateria,  5%d.  In  stipendiis  3  operariorum,  2s.  Gd.  Et  3 
operariis,  2s.  3d.  In  50  summis  petrarum  de  Berlegh,  2ld. 
In  50  summis  arene,  I2d.  In  56  libris  pecis,  3s.  Gd.  In  sti- 
pendiis 4  careaariorum,  3s.  Gd.  In  2  carectis  axandis,  4d.  In  6 
clippis  apendendis,  Id.  In  12  paribus  cirothecarum  emptis,  6s. 
In  1  bargeata  petrarum  de  Saltcombe  cariata,  6s.  In  60  quarte- 
rns arene  emptis,  65s.,  precium  quartern  13d. 

Summa,  61.  4s.  4%d. 

Sabbato  tercio  decimo. 

In  stipendiis  Magistri  Johannis  per  3  dies,  12  den.  Et 
Willielmi  de  Merton,  I2d.  In  bateria,  2  den.  In  stipendio  3 
operariorum,  Ibd.  Et  1  operarii,  4%d.  Et  4  careaariorum, 
3s.  Gd.  In  stabulo  apud  Kiweton  locate  pro  una  die,  Gd.  In 
equis  marschallandis  per  eundern  terrninum,  9d.  In  ferrario 
equorum  per  eundein  terminum  cum  propriis  ferris,  I9d.  In  1500 
clavis  equorum  de  proprio  ferro  factis,  I5d.  In  1  quarterio 
arene  empte,  I5d.  In  stipendio  Magistri  Eogeri  Cementarii, 
30«.  Et  Eoberti  de  Asperton,  12s.  Gd.  Summa,  55s. 


Sabbato  quarto  decimo. 

In  stipendio  4  careaariorum,  3s.  Gd.  In  burla  empta  ad  hernes 
inde  per  implenda  et  emendanda,  4d.  In  pinguedine  empta,  Gd. 
In  stipendio  unius  hominis  etiam  dentium  panellorum,  3d. 
1  minute  corde  ad  wippas  emptis,  4d.  In  1  vinculo  ad  axem 
carecte  %d.  4s. 


Summa  summarum  tocius  expensi  termini  Sancti  Michaelis 
471.  10s.  Sd.  quadrans. 

[Here  a  second  skin  is  sewed  on.] 

Et  sic  debentur,  12?.  10s.  lid.  quadrans.     In  ballard. 

Et  in  eisdem  duplicatis  debentur,  6/.  5s.  5d.  obolus  quadrans. 


EBCEPTA   DE    TERMING   NATALIS   DOMINI,  PASCHE    ET    NATIVITATIS 
SANCTI  JOHANNIS. 

9» 

Avveragia  et  olid  Recepta. 

lidem  receptores  computant  de  6?.  5s.  5$d.  de  aweragiis  termini 
Sancti  Michaelis  in  ballard  dupplicatis  ut  superius  patet.  Et 
de  20?.  ballard  dupplicatis  receptis  de  Domino  Thoma  de  Harpetre, 
Capellano  Domini  Episcopi,  per  1  talliam.  Et  de  12  libris  de 


FABRIC-ROLLS.  397 

ballard  dupplicatis  receptis  do  Senescallis  Scaccarii  de  Prebenda 
Canonicorum  de  termino  Pasche  sine  tallia.  Et  de  Gs.  Sd.  de 
ballard  dupplicatis  de  testamento  Eicardi  de  Feres.  Et  de  54?. 
sterlingorum  receptis  de  Doniino  Thome  de  Harpetre  per  unam 
talliam.  Et  de  12?.  sterlingorum  receptis  de  Senescallo  Scaccarii 
de  Prebenda  Canonicorum  de  termino  Sancti  Johannis  sine 
tallia.  Et  de  10?.  receptis  de  dictis  Senescallis  de  testamento 
Magistri  Eogeri  le  Bous  sine  tallia.  Et  de  6?.  7s.  4d.  ster- 
lingorum de  dignitate  Decani  Exon.  pro  toto  anno.  Et  de  60s. 
de  dignitate  Precentoris  pro  toto  anno.  Et  de  20s.  sterlingorum 
de  testamento  ITenrici  de  la  Bastilonde.  Et  de  6s.  Sd.  de  testa- 
mento Thome  de  Sancto  Martino. 

Summa  totius  recepti  cum  avveragiis  primi  termini 
125?.  6s.  lid. 

CUSTUS   DE    TERMING    NATALIS    DOMINI. 

Sabbato  primo  secundi  termini. 

lidem  computant  in  stipendio  4  careaariorum,  3s.  Gd. 

Summa,  3s.  Gd. 
Sabbato  secundo. 

In  stipendio  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  3s.  l\d., 
cuilibet  25fd.  In  stipendiis  Johannis  carpentarii,  lOd.  Et  2 
operariorum,  20d.  Et  Golofre  quararii,  7s.  Et  4  careaariorum, 
3s.  Gd.  Et  in  una  careaa  axianda,  2d.  Summa,  16s.  9jd. 

Sabbato  tercio. 

In  stipendis  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  22^d.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  et  Eadulfi  de  Abbodesbyri,  5s.  5£d., 
cuilibet  21-feZ.  Et  Willielmi  Mandevile  per  4  dies,  14%d.  Et 
Willielmi  de  Pontington  per  4  dies,  I3^d.  Et  Johanni  de  Forde 
per  2  dies,  Gd.  Et  Golofre,  7s.  Et  Johanni  carpentario,  20d. 
Et  2  operariorum,  20d.  Et  Johanni  operarii  per  4  dies,  Gd. 
Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  Gd.  In  careaa  axianda,  2d.  In  stipendio 
Nicholai  Mantel  Cementarii,  20d.  Summa,  26s. 


Sabbato  quarto. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  22^d.  Et  Eicardi  de 
Hegham,  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eadulfi  de  Abbodesbyri,  et 
Willielmi  Maundevile,  7s.  3d.,  cuilibet  2ld.  Et  Nicholai  Mantel, 
Willielmi  de  Pontington,  3s.  4d.  Et  Johanni  de  Forde,  18jd. 
In  bateria,  Id.  In  Johanni  carpentario,  20d.  In  stipendio  4 
operariorum,  3s.  4d.  Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  Gd. 

Summa,  23s.  Id. 

Sabbato  quinto. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  22%d.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  Eadulfi  de  Abbodesbyri,  et  Willielmi 
Maundevile,  7s.  3d.  Et  Xicholai  Mantel,  Willielmi  de  Ponting- 
ton, 3s.  4d.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  et  Johannis  de  Lolleworth, 
3s.  1  d.  Et  Golofre,  7s.  In  stipendio  1  carpentarii,  20d.  Et  4 
operariorum,  3s.  4d.  Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  6d.  In  .2  cribis 
[sieves]  emptis,  2^d.  Summa,  31s.  3d. 


398  APPENDIX. 

Sabbato  sexto. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  T2\&.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  Radulfi  de  Abbodesbyri,  et  Willelmi 
Maundevile,  Is.  3d.  Et  Nicholai  Mantel,  Willielmi  de  Ponting- 
ton,  et  Ade  Reynmnd,  5s.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  et  Johannis 
Lolleworth,  3s.  Id.  In  bateria,  3fc?.  In  stipendio,  1  carpentarii, 
20c?.  In  1  carpentarii  cum  garcione  suo  per  4  dies,  20d.  In 
centum  lathis,  3^d.  In  4  centum  clavis  ad  lathas,  6d.  In  2 
canillis  [pipes],  3d.  In  stipendio  4  operariorum,  3s.  4d.  Et  4 
operariorum,  3s.  Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  6d.  In  1  careaa 
axanda,  2s.  In  15  clutis  cum  clavis  de  proprio  ferro  factis, 
18fd.  In  expensis  Domini  Robert!  et  Magistri  Rogeri  versus 
Minam.  In  33  quarterns  arene  emptis,  49s.  6d.,  precium 
quarterii  ISd.  Summa,  4s. 


Sabbato  septimo. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  22jd  Et  Johannis  de  la  More, 
Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Radulfi  de  Abbodisbyri,  Willielmi  Maunde- 
vile,  Willielmi  de  Merton,  et  Thome  de  Merton,  10s.  lO^d, 
cuilibet  21f<7.  Et  Nicholai  Mantel,  Ade  Reymund,  et  Willielmi 
de  Pontington,  5s.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  Johannis  de  Lolle- 
worth, 3s.  Id.  Et  Philippi  de  Cornubia,  17jd,  et  Golofre,  7s. 
Et  1  carpentario,  2Qd.  In  bateria,  fyd.  In  "4  operariis,  3s.  4d. 
Et  4  operariis,  3s.  In  malleo  ferri,  6  weggis,  ligone,  6  chippis, 
et  9  clutis  cum  clavis  factis  de  proprio  ferro,  5s.  6d.  In  acie 
[steel]  empta,  15d.  In  stipendio  4  careaarum,  3s.  6d.  In  centum 
summis  sablonis  emptis,  2s.  Summa,  50s. 

Sabbato  octavo. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  18-fc?.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Radulfi  de  Abbodesbyri,  Willielmi 
Maundevile,  Willielmi  de  Merton,  et  Thome  de  eadem,  9s.  !&?., 
cuilibet  17  id  Et  Nicholai  Mantel,  Ade  Reymund,  et  Willielmi 
de  Pontington,  4s.  2jd,  cuilibet  16  id  Et  Johannis  de  Ford,  et 
Johannis  de  Lolleworth,  2s.  7d,  cuilibet  15^.  Et  Philippi  de 
Cornubia,  15c?.  Et  Golofre,  7s.  In  bateria,  3%d.  In  1  carpen- 
tario, 16fe7.  In  stipendio  4  operariorum,  3s.  4d.  Et  4  operario- 
rum, 3s.  In  1  careaara  caiiante  meremium  de  Chuddelegh  3 
dies,  3s.  2d.  In  stipendio  4  careaariorum,  3s.  Qd.  In  18  quar- 
teriis  calcis  cariati,  3s.  Summa,  44s.  8f  d. 

Sabbato  nono. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  22^.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Radulfi  de  Abbodesbyri,  et  Willielmi 
Maundevile,  7s.  6d,  cuilibet  22%d.  Et  Willielmi  de  Pontington, 
20d.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  18jd  Et  Philippi  de  Cornubia, 
Johannis  de  Cherde,  2s.  Wd.  Et^Hugonis  de  Prato,  I5d.  Et 
Golofre,  7s.  In  bateria,  2d.  In  stipendio  1  carpentarii,  2Qd.  Et 
alterius  carpenterii,  18^c/.  Et  4  carpentariorum,  3s.  6d.,  cuilibet 
10jc7.  Et  4  operariorum,  3s.  4d.  Et  5  operariorum,  3s.  Qd.  In 
7  libris  sepi  ad  carectas  emptis,  2s.  In  5  quarterns  dimidio 
calcis  cariati,  1  Id.  In  centum  summis  arene  emptis,  2s. 

Summa,  42s.  l\d. 


FABRIC-ROLLS  399 

Sabbato  decimo. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  de  Merton, 
3s.  Qd.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Radulfi 
de  Abbodesbyri,  et  Willielmi  Maundevile,  7s.  Qd.  Et  Willielmi 
de  Pontingdon,  20d.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  et  Johannis  de 
Cruce,  3s.  Id.  Et  Philippi  de  Comubia,  et  Johannis  de  Chorde, 
2s.  lOd.  Et  Hugonis  de  Prato,  I5d.  In  bateria,  4d.  Et  4  opera- 
riorum,  3s.  4d.  Et  5  operarioram,  3s.  Qd.  Et  Golofre,  7s.  Et  1 
carpentarii,  2Qd.  Et  alterius  carpentarii,  IS^d.  Et  4  careaario- 
rum,  3s.  Qd.  In  7  quarterns  calcis  cariatis,  \4d.  In  stipendio  1 
cooperatoris  cum  garcone  suo  per  1  diem,  5d. 

Summa,  42s.  Q%d. 

Sabbato  undecimo. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  de  Meriet,  4s.  Qd. 
Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Radulfi  de  Abbo- 
desbyri et  WillielmiMaundevile,  8s.  8d.,cuilibet  2s.2d.  Et  Willielmi 
de  Pontington,  Ade  lieymund,  4s.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  et 
Johannis  de  Cruce,  3s.  Sd.  Et  Philippi  de  Cornubia,  et  Johannis 
de  Cherde,  3s.  Qd.  Et  Hugonis  de  Prato,  ISd.  Et  Ade  de  Chud- 
delegh,  carpentarii,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi  de  Herford,  2s.  Et 
Willielmi  de  Holdham,  22d.  Et  Roberti  Penington,  19 d.  In 
bateria,  2d.  In  4  operariis,  3s.  4d.  Et  5  operariis,  3s.  Qd.  Et  4 
cariariis,  3s.  Qd.  In  mille  clavis  ad  equos  de  proprio  ferro  factis, 
I2d.  In  9  quarterns  dimidio  calcis  cariendis,  19 d. 

Summa,  46s.  Sd. 

Sabbato  duodecimo. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  de  Meriet, 
4s.  Qd.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Radulfi 
de  Abbodesbir,  et  Willelmi  Maundevile,  8s.  Sd.  Et  Willielmi  de 
Pontington,  et  Ade  Reymund,  4s.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde, 
Johannis  de  Cruce,  3s.  Sd.  Et  Philippi  de  Cornubia,  et  Johannis 
de  Cherde,  3s.  Qd.  Et  Hugonis  de  Prato,  ISd.  Et  Michaelis 
le  Daulecot,  2s.  Et  Golofre  le  quareur,  7s.  In  bateria,  4d.  Et 
4  operariorum,  3s.  4d.  In  5  operariorum,  3s.  Qd.  Et  Magistri 
Walteri  carpentarii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddelegh,  2s.  Id.  Et 
Willelmi  de  Herford,  2s.  Et  Willielmi  de  Holdeham,  22d.  Et 
Roberti  Penington,  20d.  In  stipendio  4  careaariorum,  3s.  Qd. 
In  30  quarteriis  calcis  cariatis,  5s.  In  18  quarterns  arene  emptis, 
24s.,  precium  quarterii  IQd.  Summa,  41.  4s.  Id. 

Sabbato  tercio  decimo. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  de  Meriet, 
4s.  Qd.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Radulfi 
de  Abbod,  Willielmi  Maundevile,  et  Thome  de  Merton,  10s.  lOd, 
cuilibet  2s.  2d.  Et  Willielmi  de  Pontington,  Ade  Reymund,  et 
Kicholai  Mantel,  6s.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  et  Johannis  de 
Cruce,  3s.  Bti  Et  Philippi  de  Cornubia,  Johannis  de  Cherde, 
3s.  Qd.  Et  Hugonis  de  Prato,  I8d.  Et  Michaelis  de  Danbeur, 
2s.  In  bateria,  4^d.  In  stipendio  4  operariorum,  3s.  4d.  Et  5 
operariorum,  3s.  Qd.  In  stipendio  Magistri  Walteri  carpentarii, 
2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddelegh,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi  de  Herford, 


400  APPENDIX. 

2s.  Et  Willielmi  <le  Holdesham,  22d.  Et  Eoberti  Penington,  20d. 
In  15  quarteriis  calcis  cariandis,  2s.  Gd.  In  2  cordis  ad  opus 
ecclesie,  3s.  5d.  In  petra  de  Kain  cum  cariagio,  60s.  In  stipendio 
4  careaariorum,  3s.  6d.  In  una  bargia  petrarum  cariante  6s. 

Summa,  6?.  4s.  8%d. 

Sabbato  quarto  decimo. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  de  Meriet, 
4s.  6d.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  Eadulphi 
de  Abbodesbyri,  Willielmi  Maundevile,  et  Thome  de  Merton, 
10s.  Wd.  Et  Willielmi  de  Pontington,  Ade  Eeymund,  et  Nicholai 
Mantel,  6s.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  et  Johannis  de  Cruce,  3s.  Sd. 
Et  Philippi  de  Cornnbia,  et  Johannis  de  Cherde,  3s.  6d.  Et 
Hugonis  de  Prato,  I8d.  Et  Michaelis  de  Danbeur,  2s.  Et  Golofre 
le  quareur,  7s.  In  bateria,  2^d.  Et  Magistri  Walteri  carpentarii, 
2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddeleghe,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi  de  Herford, 
2s.  Et  Willielmi  de  Holdesham,  22d.  Et  Eoberti  Penington,  20d. 
Et  4  operariorum,  3s.  4d.  Et  5  operarierum,  3s.  9d.  Et  4  careaa- 
riorum, 3s.  6d.  In  10  quarteriis  calcis  cariati,  20d.  In  centum 
summis  arene,  2s.  In  stabulo  apud  Niweton  locato  pro  isto  ter- 
mino,  Gd.  In  equis  pro  toto  termino  marscallandis,  9d.  In 
ferrario  eorundem  cum  propriis  ferris  pro  toto  termino,  2s.  2d. 
In  carecta  axianda,  2d.  In  stipendio  fabri  emendantis  utensilia 
quarariorum  de  Beiieghe  per  vices,  2s.  6d.  In  candelis  ad  carectas, 
2s.  In  stipendio  Magistri  Eogeri  Cemetarii  pro  isto  termino, 
30s.  Et  Domini  Eoberti  de  Asperton,  12s.  Gd.  In  8  quarteriis 
arene  emptis  12s.,  preter  quarterium  ISd.  Item  in  20  quarteriis 
arene  emptis,  26s.  8d.,  precium  quarterii  16d. 

Summa,  71.  12s.  6%d. 

Summa  summarum  totius  custus  termini  Natalia  Domini, 
39?.  16s.  fyd. 

[On  the  back  of  the  Original.] 

CUSTUS  DE  TERMING  PASCHE. 

Sabbato  primo. 

In  500  clavis  ad  equos  de  proprio  ferro  factis,  Gd.  In  pingui- 
dine,  4%d.  In  uncto,  4s.  2d.  Et  in  3  libris  .  .  .  3d.  In  Herne- 
siis  emendandis,  2^d.  In  trinis  eciam  boketis  ligandis  et  emen- 
dandis,  3jtd.  In  stipendio  4  careaariorum,  7s.  6d.  In  3  quarteriis 
arene  emptis  4s.  4%d.,  precium  quarterii  17jdL  Summa,  13s.  8^. 

Sabbato  secundo. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  de  Meriet, 
4s.  6d.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  et  Eadulphi 
de  Abbodesbyri,  6s.  6d.  Item,  Willielmi  de  Puntingdon,  et  Ade 
Eeymund,  4s.  Et  Johannis  cfe  Forde,  et  Johannis  de  Cruce, 
3s.  Sd.  Et  Philippi  de  Cornubia,  et  Johannis  de  Cherde,  3s.  6d. 
Et  Hugonis  de  Prato,  18d.  Et  Michaelis  de  Danbeur,  2s.  Et 
Golofre  quararie,  7s.  In  bateria,  3d.  Et  Magistri  Walteri  Car- 
pentarii, 2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddelegh,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi  de 
Herford,  2s.  Et  Willielmi  de  Holdesham,  22d.  Et  Eoberti 


FABRIC-ROLLS.  401 

Penington,  20d.  Et  2  secatorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4  operariorum,  3s.  4d. 
Et  5  operariorum,  3s.  9d.  Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  6d  Et  in  bargea 
eciam  David,  lOrf.  In  20  quarterns  calcis  cariati,  3s.  4d. 

Summa,  59s.  9d. 
Sabbato  tercio. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  Willielmi  de  Meriet,  4s.  6d. 
Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  et  Eadulphi  de 
Abbodesbiri,  6s.  6d.  Et  Willelmi  de  Pontington,  et  Ade  Eeymund, 
4s.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  et  Johannis  de  Grace,  3s.  Sd.  Et 
Philippi  de  Cornubia,  et  Johannis  de  Cherde,  3s.  6d.  Et  Hugonis 
de  Prato,  ISd.  Et  Golofre,  7s.  In  bateria,  Id.  Et  Magistri 
Walteri  Carpenterii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddelegh,  2s.  Id.  Et 
Willielmi  "de  Herford,  2d.  Et  Willielmi  deHoldesham,  22d.  Et 
Eoberti  Pennington,  20d.  Et  2  secatorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4  operario- 
rum, 3s.  4d.  Et  5  operariorum,  3s.  9d.  Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  6d. 
In  20  quarterns  calcis  cariendis,  3s.  4d.  In  centum  summis  sabu- 
lonis  eniptis,  2s.  Summa,  58s.  9d. 

Sabbato  quarto. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  Meriet,  3s.  9J. 
Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  et  Eadulphi  de 
Abbodesbiri,  5s.  5JcZ.  Et  Willielmi  de  Pontington,  et  Ade  Eey- 
mund, 3s.  4d.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  et  Johannis  de  Grace,  3s.  Id. 
Et  Philippi  de  Cornubia,  et  Johannis  de  Cherde,  2s.  Qd.  Et 
Hugonis  de  Prato,  I5d.  Et  Michaelis  de  Danbeur,  20 d.  Et 
Golofre,  7s.  In  bateria,  Id.  Et  Magistri  Walteri  Carpenterii, 
22jrf.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddelegh,  2ld.  Et  Willielmi  de  Herford, 
20d.  Et  Willielmi  de  Holdesham,  18 Jd.  Et  Eoberti  Penington, 
16f  J.  Et  Gilfridi  de  Crace,  I5d.  Et  2  secatorum,  22&7.  Et  4 
operariorum,  2s.  IQd.  Et  5  operariorum,  3s.  l^d.  Et  4  careaario- 
rum, 3s.  6d.  In  13  quarterns  dimidio  calcis  cariandis,  2s.  3d.  In 
centum  summis  arene,  2s,  Suinma,  53s.  Id. 

Sabbato  quinto. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  Meriet,  4s.  6d. 
Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  Eadulphi  de  Abbod., 
et  Walteri  de  Hampton,  8s.  Sd.  Et  Willielmi  de  Pontington,  et 
Ade  Eeymund,  4s.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  Johannis  de  Cruce, 
et  Johannis  de  Lolleworth,  5s.  6d.  Et  Philippi  de  Cornubia,  et 
Johannis  de  Cherde,  3s.  6d.  Et  Hugonis  de  Prato,  ISd.  Et 
Golofre  quararii,  7s.  In  bateria,  4$d.  Et  Magistri  Walteri  Car- 
pentarii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddelegh,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi 
de  Herford,  2s.  Et  Willielmi  de  Holdesham,  22cT.  Et  Eoberti 
Penington,  22d.  Et  Giffardi  de  Cruce,  18cT.  Et  2  secatorum, 
2s.  3d.  Et  4  operariorum,  2s.  4d.  Et  5  operariorum,  3s.  9<£  Et 
4  careaariorum,  3s.  6d.  Et  in  9  clippis  factis,  4^f.  In  carecta 
axianda,  2d.  In  stipendio  facto  et  ejusdem  gimiford  ad  quariam 
de  Berlegho,  15oT.  In  10  quartern's  calcis  cariandis,  20d.  In 
centum  summis  arene,  precii  2s.  In  coreo  1  equi  dealbando,  Sd. 

Summa,  65s.  4d. 

Sabbato  sexto. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,   et  Willielmi  de    Meriet, 

2  D 


402  APPENDIX. 

4s.  6d.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  Willielmi  de 
Merton,  Kadulphi  de  Abbodesbiri,  et  Walter!  de  Hampton, 
10s.  Wd.  Et  Willielmi  de  Pontington,  et  Ade  Eeymund,  4s.  Et 
Johannis  de  Forde,  Johannis  de  Cruce,  et  Johannis  de  Lolleworth, 
5s,  6d.  Et  Philippi  de  Comubia,  et  Johannis  de  Cherde,  3s.  6d. 
Et  Hugonis  de  Prato,  ISd.  Et  Michaelis  le  Danbury,  2s.  In  bate- 
ria,  2d.  In  stipendio  Magistri  Walteri  Carpentarii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade 
de  Chuddelegh,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi  de  Herford,  2s.  Et  Willielmi 
de  Holdesham,  22d.  Et  Roberti  Penington,  20d.  Et  Giffardi  de 
Cruce,  ISd.  Et  2  secatorurn,  2s.  3d.  Et  4  operarioram,  3s.  4d. 
Et  5  operariorum,  3s.  9d.  Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  6d.  In  9  quar- 
teriis  dimidio  calcis  cariandis,  19cf.  In  1  libra  dimidio  cere  ad 
cementmn  einptis,  9<f.  Summa,  58s.  Qd. 

Sabbato  septimo. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  Meriet,  4s.  6d. 
Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  Walteri  de  Merton, 
Walteri  de  Hampton,  et  Eadulphi  de  Abbodisbiri,  10s,  lOcf.  Et 
Ade  Eeymund,  2s.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  Johannis  de  Cruce, 
Johannis  de  Cristchurch,  et  Johannis  de  Lolleworth,  7s.  4cT., 
cuilibet  22d.  Et  Philippi  de  Cornubia,  et  Johannis  de  Cherde, 
3s.  6d.  Et  Hugonis  de  Prato,  18cf.  Et  Michaelis  le  Danbeur,  2s. 
Et  Golofre,  7s.  In  bateria,  4%d.  In  stipendio  Magistri  Walteri 
Carpenterii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddelegh,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi 
de  Herford,  2s.  Et  Willielmi  de  Holdesham,  22d.  Et  Eoberti 
Penington,  20d.  Et  Giffardi  de  Cruce,  ISd.  Et  Galfridi  Unfrei 
et  Nicholai  Alain,  3s.  6d.  Et  Henrici  Odin,  et  Eadulphi  Pope, 
3s.  Et  Giles  de  Fercombe,  20d.  Et  2  secatorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4 
operariorum,  3s.  4d.  Et  5  operariorum,  3s.  9d.  Et  4  car^aariorum, 
3s.  6<f.  Et  in  9  doleis  vacuis  emptis,  6s.  Id.  In  17  quarterns 
calcis  cariandis,  2s.  Wd.  In  gimifris  et  martellis  ad  quariam  de 
Berlegh  emendandis,  2s.  6d.  Summa,  41.  2s.  9joT. 

Sabbato  octavo. 

In  stipendio  4  careaariorum,  3s.  6d.  In  CCL  ferris  ad  equos 
apud  Lopene  emptis,  15s.  In  2500  clavis  ad  idem  emptis,  3s;  2$d. 
In  1  pari  lagam  ferri  ad  caream  ibidem  empto,  6s.  Id,  In  1000 
grossioribus  clavis  ad  bordas  ibidem  emptis,  2s.  Id.  In  100  clavis 
ad  lathas  ibidem  emptis,  Wd.  In  expensis  1  hominis  euntis  apud 
Lopene  ad  dictum  ferrum  emptum,  12^f.  In  1  magna  corda 
empta,  13d.  In  20  quarterns  arene  emptis  16s.  8oT.,  pretium 
quartern  lOd.  Summa,  61s. 


Sabbato  nono. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  de  Meriet, 
4*.  6d.  Et  Eadulphi  de  Abbodesbiri,  2s.  2d.  Et  Michaelis  de 
Banbury,  2s.  Et  Golofre,  7sN  In  bateria,  3%d.  In  stipendio 
Ade  de  Chuddelegh,  Carpentarii,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi  de  Herford, 
2s.  Et  Willielmi  de  Holdham,  22d.  Et  Eoberti  Penington,  20s. 
Et  Giffard  de  Cruce,  18d.  Et  Galfridi  Unfrei  et  Nicholai  Alain, 
3*.  Gd.  Et  Henrici  Odin  et  Eadulphi  le  Pope,  3s.  Et  Gyles  le 
Ferncombe,  20d.  Et  2  secatorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4  operariorum, 


FABEIC-ROLLS.  403 

3s.  4d.     Et  2  operariorum,  I8d.    Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  Qd.      In 
centum  summis  arene,  2s.     In  3  quarterns  arene  emptis,  2s.  6d. 

Summa,  48s.  3%d. 

Sabbato  decimo. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  de  Meriet, 
4s.  Gd.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  et  Eadulphi 
de  Abbodesbiri,  6s.  Gd.  Et  Ade  de  Pederton  et  Ade  Eeymund, 
4s.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  22d.  Et  Golofre,  7s.  In  bateria,  3d. 
Et  Magistri  Walteri  Carpentarii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chudde- 
leghe,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi  de  Herford,  2s.  Et  Willielmi  de 
Holdham,  22d.  Et  2  becatorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4  operariorum,  3s.  4d. 
Et  2  operariorum,  I8d.  Et  1  careaariorum,  3s.  Gd.  Et  in  12 
doleis  vacuis  emptis,  8s.  Gd.  In  2  sellis  ad  earectis  emptis,  4d. 
In  9  libris  uncti  porcorum,  Gd.  In  16  quarterns  dimidio  calcis 
cariendis,  2s.  Qd.  In  100  summis  sabulonis,  2s.  In  6  quaiieriis 
dimidio  arene  emptis  5s.  5cZ.,  precium  quarterium  IQd. 

Summa,  62s.  4d. 

Sabbato  undecimo. 

In  stipendio  M ,  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  de 

Meriet,  4s.  Gd.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  et 
Eadulphi  de  Abbodesbiri,  6s.  Qd.  Et  Ade  de  Pederton  et  Ade 
Eeymund,  4s.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  22d.  Et  in  bateria,  3%d. 
In  stipendio  Magistri  Walteri  Carpentarii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de 
Chuddeleghe,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi  de  Herford,  et  Thome  de 
Molton,  4s.  Et  Willielmi  de  Holdleham,  22d.  Et  Eoberti  Pen- 
ington,  20d.  Et  Giffardi  de  Cruce,  I8d.  Et  2  secatorum,  2s.  3^ 
Et  4  operariorum,  3s.  4d.  Et  2  operariorum,  I8d.  Et  4  carea- 
ariorum, 3s.  Gd.  Et  in  stabulo  apud  Nyweton  locato,  Qd.  In 
equis  pro  toto  termino  Marschallandis,  dd.  In  ferris  equorum 
cum  propriis  ferris  pro  toto  termino,  22d.  In  1  bargeata  petra- 
rum  de  Saltcomb  cariata,  6s.  In  1  batello  locato  ad  cariandum 
petras  de  Saltcombe,  8s.  In  15  quarteriis  dimidio  calcis  cari- 
andis,  2s.  Id.  In  12  paribus  trahic  emptis,  5s.  In  stipendio 
Magistri  Eogeri  pro  toto  termino,  30s.  Et  Domini  Eoberti 
Vicarii,  12s.  6d.  Summa,  108s.  2%d. 

Summa  summarum  totius  custus  termini  Pasche,  33/.  13s. 


CUSTUS  DE  TERMING  SANCTI  JOHANNIS. 

Sabbato  primo. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  de  Meriet, 
4s.  G^d.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  et  Ea- 
dulphi de  Abbodesbiri,  6s.  6d.  Et  Ade  de  Pederton,  2s.  Et  Jo- 
hannis de  Forde,  22d.  Et  Golofre,  7.v.  In  bateria  3$d.  Et  Ma- 
gistri Walton  Carpentarii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddelegh,  2s.  Id. 
Et  Willielmi  de  Hertford  et  Thome  de  Molton,  4s.  Et  Willielmi 
de  Holdleham,  22d.  Et  Eoberti  Penington,  20d.  Et  Giffardi  de 
Cruce,  18d.  Et  2  secatorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4  operariorum,  3s,  4d. 
Et  2  operariorum,  18f/.  Et  4  careaariorum,  3,s.  6(7.  In  carecta 

2  D  2 


404  APPENDIX. 

axanda,  2d.     In  vippe  cordis,  5d.     In  centum  summis  arene,  2s. 
In  20  quarterns  arene  emptis,  13s.  4d.,  precium  quartern  Sd. 

Summa,  61s. 

Sabbato  secundo. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  de  Meriet, 
4s.  6d.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  et  Ea- 
dulphi de  Abbodesbiri,  6s.  6d.  Et  Ade  de  Pederton,  2s.  Et  Jo- 
hannis de  Forde,  22d.  Et  Golofre,  7s.  In  bateria,  3d.  In  sti- 
pendio Magistri  Walteri,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddeleghe,  2s.  Id. 
Et  Willielmi  de  Hereford  et  Thome  de  Molton,  4s.  Et  Willelmi 
de  Holdleham,  22d.  Et  Eoberti  Penington,  2Qd.  Et  Giffardi  de 
Grace,  ISd.  Et  2  secatorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4  operariorum,  3s.  4oT. 
Et  2  operariorum,  18c7.  Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  6d.  In  17  quar- 
teriis  calcis  cariandis,  2s.  lOd.  In  1  bargeata  petrarum  de  Salt- 
comb  carianda,  6s.  In  12  quarterns  arene  emptis,  18s.,  precium 
quarterii  lOd.  Sumrna,  63s.  IQd. 

Sabbato  tercio. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  de  Meriet, 
4s.  6d.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  et  Ea- 
dulphi  de  Abbodesbiri,  6s.  6d.  Et  Ade  de  Pederton,  2s.  Et 
Johannis  de  Forde,  22cT.  In  bateria,  4^d.  In  stipendio  Magistri 
Walteri  Carpentarii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddeleghe,  2s.  Id. 
Et  Willielmi  de  Herford  et  Thome  de  Molton,  4s.  Et  Willielmi 
de  Holdham,  22d.  Et  Eoberti  Penington,  20d.  Et  Giffardi  de 
Grace,  18cT.  Et  2  secatorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4  operariorum,  3s.  4d. 
Et  2  operariorum,  18cT.  Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  6cT.  In  26  alnetis 
emptis,  18s.  Id.  In  stipendio  1  carpentarii  prosternentis  eadem 
alneta,  13cf.  In  1  bargea  petrarum  de  Saltcombe  cariata,  6s.  In 
17  quarterns  calcis  cariandis,  2s.  lOd.  In  1  ancora  clutis  et 
clippis  de  proprio  ferro  factis  et  emendandis,  2s.  3d.  In  ligone 
et  gimifris  ad  quariam  de  Berleghe  emendandis,  5d. 

Summa,  69s.  9j<f. 
Sabbato  quarto. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  Meriet,  4s.  6cT. 
Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  et  Eadulphi  de 
Abbodesbiri,  6s.  6d.  Et  Ade  de  Pederton,  2s.  Et  Johannis  de 
Forde,  Philippi  de  Cornubia,  et  Johannis  de  Meriet,  5s.  4d.  Et 
Golofre  quararii,  7s.  Et  in  bateria,  2%d.  In  stipendio  Magistri 
Walteri  Carpentarii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddeleghe,  2s.  Id.  Et 
Willielmi  de  Herford,  et  Thome  de  Molton,  4s.  Et  Willielmi  de 
Holdham,  22d.  Et  Eoberti  Penington,  20d.  Et  Giffardi  de 
Cruce,  18rf.  Et  2  secatorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4  operariorum,  3s.  4d. 
Et  2  operariorum,  18ef.  Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  6d.  In  8  quar- 
teriis  calcis  cariandis,  16d.  In  1  bargea  petrarum  carianda,  6s. 

Summa,  56s.  HjcT. 
Sabbato  quinto. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  et  W'illielmi  de  Meriet, 
4s.  6d.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  et  Eadulphi 
de  Abbodesbiri,  6s.  6d.  Et  Ade  de  Pederton,  et  Ade  de  Eey- 
mund,  4s.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  et  Johannis  de  Lolleworth, 


FABRIC-ROLLS.  405 

3s.  Sd.  Et  Philippi  de  Cornubia,  et  Johannis  de  Meriet,  3s.  Gd. 
Et  Golofre  quararii,  7s.  In  bateria,  3$d.  In  stipendio  Magistri 
Walter!  Carpentarii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddelegh,  2s.  Id.  Et 
Willielmi  de  Hereford  et  Thome  de  Molton,  4s.  Et  Willielmi  de 
Holdeham,  22d.  Et  Boberti  Penington,  20d.  Et  Giffardi  de 
Cruce,  ISd.  Et  2  secatorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4  operariorum,  3s.  4d. 
Et  2  operariorum,  ISd.  Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  Gd.  In  dictis 
alnetis  de  bosco  portandis,  ISd.  In  19  quart eriis  calcis  cariandis, 
3s.  2d.  In  centum  summis  arene,  2s.  Summa,  60s.  Ofrf. 

Sabbato  sexto. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  de  Meriet, 
4s.  Gd.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  et  Eadul- 
phi  de  Abbodesbiri,  6s.  Gd.  Et  Ade  de  Pederton,  et  Ade  Eey- 
mund,  4s.  Et  Johannis  de  Forde,  et  Johannis  de  Lolleworth, 
3s.  Sd.  Et  Willielmi  de  Pontington,  2s.  Et  Philippi  de  Cornubia 
et  Johannis  de  Meriet,  3s.  Gd.  Et  Golofre,  7s.  In  bateria,  9-fc/. 
Et  Magistri  Walteri  Carpentarii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddelegh, 
2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi  de  Herford  et  Thome  de  Molton,  4s.  Et 
Willielmi  de  Holdham,  22d.  Et  Eoberti  Penington,  20d.  Et 
Giffardi  de  Cruce,  ISd.  Et  2  secatorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4  operari- 
orum, 3s.  4d.  Et  2  operariorum,  ISd.  Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  6d. 
In  21  libris  sepi  ad  carectas  emptis,  20s.  Summa,  57s.  6fd. 

Sabbato  septimo. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  de  Meriet, 
4s.  Gd.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Eicardi  de  Hegham,  et  Eadul- 
phi  de  Abbodesbiri,  Gs.  Gd.  Et  Ade  de  Pederton,  Ade  Eeymund, 
et  Willielmi  de  Pontington,  Gs.  Et  Johannis  de  Lolleworth,  et 
Johannis  de  Forde,  3s.  Sd.  Et  Golofre  quararii,  7s.  In  bateria 
et  utensilibus  acuandis,  I2d.  In  stipendio  Magistri  Walteri  Car- 
pentarii, 2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddelegh,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi 
de  Herford  et  Thome  de  Molton,  4s.  Et  Willielmi  Turgis,  2s. 
Et  Willielmi  de  Holdham,  22d  Et  Eoberti  Penington,  20s. 
Et  Giffardi  de  Cruce,  ISd.  Et  2  secatorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4  opera- 
riorum,  3s.  4d.  Et  2  operariorum,  Sd.  Et  4  careaariorum, 
3s.  Gd.  In  1  bargeata  petrarum  de  Salcombe  carianda,  6s.  In  6 
quarterns  arene  emptis,  5s.,  precium  quarterii  IQd. 

Summa,  65s.  Gd. 
Sabbato  octavo. 

In  stipendio  Eicardi  de  la  Streme,  2s.  3d.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
Mm*e,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Eadulphi  de  Abbodesbiri,  et  Walteri 
de  Hampton,  8s.  Sd.,  cuilibet  2s.  2d.  Et  Ade  de  Pederton,  Ade 
Eeymund,  et  Willielmi  de  Puntington,  6s.  Johannes  de  Lolle- 
worth et  Johannis  de  Forde,  3s.  Sd.  Et  Golofre,  7s.  In  bateria, 
3d.  Et  Magistri  Walteri  Carpentarii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chud- 
delegh, 2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi  de  Herford,  Thome  de  Molton,  et 
Willielmi  Turgis,  6s.  Et  Willielmi  de  Holdeham,  22d.  Et  Eo- 
berti Penington,  20d.  Et  Giffardi  de  Cruce,  ISd.  Et  2  secatorum, 
2s.  3d.  Et  4  operariorum,  3s,  4d.  Et  2  operariorum,  ISd.  Et 
4  careaariorum,  3s.  Gd.  In  una  bargea  petrarum  de  Saltcombe 
carianda,  6s.  Summa,  59s.  9rf. 


406  APPENDIX. 

Sabbato  nono. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  2s.  3d.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Walteri  de  Hampton,  et  Radulphi  de 
Abbodesbiri,  8s.  Sd.  Et  Ade  de  Pederton,  Ade  Reyrnund,  et 
Willielmi  de  Pontington,  6s.  Et  Johannis  de  Lolleworth,  22d. 
Et  Golofre,  7s.  In  bateria,  3d.  Et  Magistri  Walteri  Carpen- 
tarii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddelegh,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi  de 
Herford,  Thome  de  Molton,  et  Willielmi  Turgis,  6s.  Et  Willielmi 
de  IToldham,  22d.  Et  Roberti  Penington,  20d.  Et  2  secatorum, 
2s.  3d.  Et  4  operariomm,  3s.  4d.  Et  2  operariorum,  ISd.  Et  4 
careaariorum,  3s.  6d.  In  2  bargeata  petramm  de  Saltcombe  cari- 
andis,  22s.  In  1  ancora  emendenda,  lOd.  In  1  bemo  [beam] 
empto,  Sd.  In  4  quarterns  arene,  4s.  In  16  quarterns  arene, 
13s.  4d.,  precium  quartern  lOd.  In  10  quarteriis  calcis  cari- 
andis,  20d.  Summa,  41  2s.  lid. 

Sabbato  decimo. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  2s.  3d.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Walteri  de  Hampton,  et  Radulphi  de 
Abbodesbiri,  8s.  Sd.  Et  Ade  de  Pederton,  et  Ade  Reymund,  4s. 
Et  Golofre,  7s.  In  bateria,  3d.  In  stipendio  Magistri  Walteri 
Carpentarii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddelegh,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi 
de  Herford,  Willielmi  Torgis,  4s.  Et  Willielmi  fte  Holdham, 
22d.  Et  Roberti  Penington,  20d.  Et  4  operariorum,  3s.  4d. 
Et  2  operariorum,  ISd.  .  Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  6d.  In  28 
chippis  de  ipso  ferro  factis,  I4d.  In  9  quarteriis  arene,  9s.  9d. 

Summa,  53s.  3d. 

Sabbato  undecimo. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  2s.  3d.  Et  Johannis  de  la 
More,  Ricardi  de  Hegham,  Willielmi  de  Hampton,  et  Radulphi  de 
Abbodesbiri,  8s.  Sd.  Et  Ade  de  Pederton,  et  Ade  Reymund,  4s. 
Et  Golofre,  7s.  In  bateria,  3d.  In  stipendio  Magistri  Walteri 
Carpentarii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade  de  Chuddelegh,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi 
de  Herford  et  Willielmi  Turgus,  4s.  Et  Willielmi  de  Holdham, 
22d.  Et  Roberti  Penington,  20d.  Et  2  secatorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4 
operariorum,  3s.  4d.  Et  2  operariorum,  ISd.  Et  4  careaariorum 
3s.  6d.  In  10  quarteriis  calcis  cariandis,  20d.  In  5  quarteriis 
arene  emptis,  4s.  8jd.,  precium  quarterii  ll^d. 

Summa,  50s.  ll$d. 

Sabbato  duodecimo. 

In  stipendio  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ricardi  de  Heg- 
ham, Walteri  de  Hampton,  Johannis  de  la  More,  et  Radulphi  de 
Abbod.,  8s.  Sd.  Et  Ade  de  Pederton  et  Ade  Reymund,  4s.  In 
bateria,  5d.  Et  Magistri  Walteri  Carpentarii,  2s.  3d.  Et  Ade 
de  Chuddelegh,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi  de  Herford  et  Willielmi 
Turgis,  4s.  '  Et  Willielmi  de  Holdham,  22d.  Et  Roberti  Pening- 
ton, 20d.  Et  2  secatorum,  2s.  3d.  Et  4  operariorum,  3s.  4d.  Et 
2  operariorum,  ISd.  Et  4  careaariorum,  3s.  Cd.  In  coreo  unius 
equi  cooptando,  lOd.  In  duabus  rotisad  carectam  emptis,  5s.  Id. 
In  10  quarteriis  arene  emptis,  9s.  2d.,  precium  quarterii  lid. 

Summa,  53s.  4tf. 


FABRIC-ROLLS.  407 

Sabbato  tercio  decimo  et  proximo  ante  Festum  Sar/cti  Michaelis. 

In  stipend  io  Ricardi  de  la  Streme,  et  Willielmi  de  Meriet, 
4s.  6d.  Et  Johannis  de  la  More,  Ricardi  de  llegham,  Walter! 
de  Hampton,  et  Radulphi  de  Abbodesbiri,  8s.  Sd.  Et  Ade  de 
Pederton  et  Ade  de  Reynmnd,  4s.  Et  Golofre,  7s,  In  bateria, 
2^d.  In  stipendio  Magistri  Walter!  Carpentarii,  2s.  3d.  Et 
Ade  de  Chuddelegh,  2s.  Id.  Et  Willielmi  de  Herford,  et  Willielmi 
Turgis,  4s.  Et  Willielmi  de  Holdham,  22d.  Et  Robert!  Pening- 
ton,  20d.  Et  4  operariorum,  3s.  4d.  Et  2  operarionim,  ISd.  Et 
4  careaariorum,  3s.  6d.  In  stabulo  apud  Niweton  per  totum 
terminum  locato,  6d.  In  equis  Marschallandis  per  terminum, 
Qd.  In  eisdem  ferrandis  cum  propriis  terris  per  terminum,  23d. 
In  stipendio  Magistri  Roger!  Cementarii  pro  termino,  30s.  Et 
Domini  Robert!!  de  Asperton,  12s  6d.  In  3  quarterns  arene, 
2s.  9cZ.,  precium  quartern  11s.  3d. 

Summa  41  12s.  lljd. 

Custusferri. 

In  15  mullonibus  [mows]  ferri  diverse  pretio  emptis,  59s.  Id. 
In  cariagio  ejusdem  ferri,  videlicet  in  119  trussip,  13s.  7jd.  In 
uno  magno  mullone  inde  faciendo,  I3^d.  In  stramine  ad  cooper- 
turam  ejusdem  empto,  4d.  In  2  summis  perticarum  ad  idem 
emptis,  4^d.  In  eodem  cooperiendo,  Id.  In  3  mullonibus  ferri 
apud  Niweton  emptis,  13s.  Et  remanet  ibidem. 

Summa,  41.  8s.  l^d. 

Emptis  ferri. 

In  2  millenis  ferri  emptis  ad  Warnesturam,  40s.  Sd.     In  cari- 
agio ejusdem  per  mare  ad  Derttmewe  apud  Topsham,  I6d. 

Summa,  48s. 
Solutio  pro  Petris  de  Kain. 

In  solutione  facta  Herico  Mauger  mercatori  de  Kain,  pro  petris 
ab  eo  nuper  emptis  tempore  Domini  Petri  Episcopi,  40s.  Et  hoc 
precepto  Decani  et  Capituli.  Summa,  40s. 

Summa    summarum    totius    expensi    de    termino    Sancti 
Johannis,  50Z.  5s. 


SUMMA  SUMMARUM  TOTIUS  CUSTUS  DE  TERMINIS  NATALIS  DOMINI, 
PASCHE,  ET  SANCTI  JOHANNIS. 


Quia  primus  terminus  computatur  superius,  122?.  15s. 
Et  debet,  50s.  Sd.     Et  debet,  38s.  de  dignitate  Cancellarii,  et 
164s.  de  dignitate  Thesaurarii,  de  anno  present!. 
Et  sic  debet  de  claro,  11.  12s.  8d. 

Summa  summarum  totius  custus  novi  operis  de  isto  anno, 
170?.  6s.  2d. 


408  APPENDIX. 


No.  V. 

CHARTERS,  &c.,  CHIEFLY  RELATING  TO   THE  CITY 
AND  DIOCESE. 


CARTA/TANGENS  DOMUM  ARCHIDIACOMI  EXONIE. 

ROBEKTUS  [Chichester],  Dei  gratia  Exoniensis  Episcopus,  delecto 
filio  Waltero,  Salutem  et  paternam  benedictionem.  Et  equitatis 
ratio  et  paterna  nos  hortatur  affectio,  devotos  et  humiles  filios 
propensius  fovere,  et  sua,  eis  que  in  Ecclesia  in  qua  militaverint 
meruerunt  stipendia  conservare.  Ea  propter,  dilecte  in  Do- 
mino fili  Waltere,  devotionem  tuam,  quam  erga  Ecclesiam  beati 
Petri  in  qua  honestissime  militasti,  habere  dinosceris,  attendentes : 
personam  tuam  cum  bonis  tarn  ecclesiasticis  quam  mundanis 
que  in  presentiarum  legitime  possides,  sub  Dei  gratia  et  nostra 
protectione  suscipimus,  et  presentis  scripti  patrocinio  communi- 
mus.  In  quibus  hec  duximus  propriis  exprimenda  vocabulis, 
Prebendam  videlicet  tuam  quam  habes  in  Ecclesia  Exoniensi, 
Ecclesiam  de  Tautona,  duodecim  marcas  de  Archidiaconatu 
Exonie  annuatim  pro  equis  porcionibus  in  quatuor  terminis  tibi 
persolvendas,  scilicet  in  festo  Sancti  Michaelis,  in  Natali  Domini, 
in  Pascha,  in  Natale  beati  Johannis  Baptiste.  Domos  etiam 
tuas  in  fundo  Exoniensis  Ecclesie  sitas,  quas  propriis  expensis 
edificasti,  ut  eis  toto  tempore  vite  tue  tamque  propriis  utaris,  et 
cum  tibi  placuerit ;  libere  tibi  liceat  eas  in  cujus  cumque  volueris 
transferre  Dominium,  Salvo  jure  Exoniensis  Ecclesie  quod  habet 
in  solo  in  quo  predicte  domus  constructe  sunt.  Nulli  igitur 
hominum  fas  sit  personam  tuam  temere  perturbare,  aut  bona  tua 
auferre  seu  minuere.  Si  quis  autem  hoc  attemptaverit :  sciat  se 
in  districto  examine  racionem  redditurum.  Hujus  concessionis 
et  confirmacionis  testes  sunt,  Johannes  Decanus  Cicestrenis, 
Hugo  Archidiaconus,  Willielmus  Archidiaconus.  Petrus  frater 
Episcopi,  Magister  Ricardus. 

[The  seal  and  label  are  both  gone.] 


CANTARIA  DE  COLEBROK. 

OMNIBDS  Sancte  Matris  Ecclesie  filiis  ad  quorum  noticiam  pre- 
sentes  littere  pervenerint,  Walterus  de  Bathoni£  miles,  Domi- 
nus  de  Colbrok,  Salutem  in  Domino  sempiternani.  Nbverit 
universitas  vestra  nos  pro  salute  anime  nostre  et  pro  animabus 
heredum  nostrorum  et  predecessorum  ac  successorum  nostrorum, 
dominorum  de  Colbrok,  et  eciam  pro  animabus  omnium  fidelium 
dedisse  et  concessisse  pro  nobis  et  heredibus  nostris  donaciones 


CHARTERS,  &c.  409 

et  concessiones  subscriptas  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam 
ad  imam  cantariam  faciendam  in  honore  omnipotentis  Dei  et 
gloriose  beate  Virginia  Marie  ac  Omnium  Sanctorum  divina  cele- 
branda  annuatim  in  Ecclesia  parochiali  de  Colbrok  ad  altare 
beate  Marie  Virginis  imperpetuum,  videlicet  sexaginta  solidos 
argenti  annui  redditus  annuatim  percipiendos  apud  Colbrok  et 
solvendos  per  manus  nostras  et  heredum  nostrorum  vel  assigna- 
torum  nostrorum,  de  redditu  seu  proficuo  nostro  de  Colbrok,  ad 
duos  anni  terminos,  videlicet  ad  Festum  Sancti  Michaelis  et  ad 
Festum  Pasche  primo  sequentis  equis  porcionibus  sine  ulteriori 
dilacione  ad  unum  capellanum  ydoneum  sustentandum  pro  pre- 
dicta  cantaria  celebrandum.  Dedi  eciam  ad  dictam  cantariam 
totum  illud  tenementum,  quod  Bicardus  le  Wrehte  quondam  de 
nobis  tenuit  quod  continet  in  se  dimidiam  acram  terre  et  totam 
illam  peciam  terre  que  jacet  extra  portam  curie  nostre  inter 
predictum  tenementum  ex  parte  australi  et  vicum  nostrum 
quo  itur  versus  molendinum  nostrum  de  villa  de  Colbrok  que 
continet  in  se  unam  acram  terre  vel  circiter,  in  quo  tenemento  et 
pecia  terre  Capellani  dictam  cantariam  divine  celebraturi  erunt, 
honeste  inhabitare  poterint.  Item  volumus  et  concedimus  pro 
nobis  et  heredibus  nostris  ac  assignatis  quod  primus  Capellanus 
et  omnes  successores  sui  Capellani  dictam  cantariam  cele- 
brantes  habeant  communem  pasturam  ubique  in  dominico 
nostro  de  Colbrok  ubi  averia  nostra  pascuntur  per  totum  annum 
videlicet  ad  unum  equum  et  duas  vaccas  cum  duobus  vitulis 
donee  dicti  vituli  fuerint  superannuati ;  vel  ad  tres  vaccas  et  ad 
tres  vitulos  de  exitu  donee  superannuati  fuerint,  sine  equo  ad 
voluntatem  presbiteri  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit  ibidem  et  ad  duos 
porcos  sine  aliqua  contradlccione  vel  impedimento  nichil  dando 
pro  pastura  predicta.  Item  volumus  et  concedimus  pro  nobis  et 
heredibus  nostris  et  assignatis  quod  dicti  Capellani  habeant 
boscum  sufficientem  de  bosco  nostro  et  jam  pro  coquina  et 
camera  sua  per  visum  et  liberacionem  ballivorum  nostrorum  im- 
perpetuum. Et  quod  dicti  Capellani  molare  poterint  blada  sua 
ad  molendinum  nostrum  statim  post  bladum  nostrum  in  dicto 
molendino  existens  molandum  'vel  post  bladum  ipsius  cujus 
bladum  inventum  fuerit  molandum.  Habendum  et  tenendum 
omnes  donaciones  et  concessiones  et  libertates  eas  pro  nobis  et 
heredibus  nostris  ac  assignatis  ad  dictam  cantariam  in  puram  et 
perpetuam  elemosinam  duraturas.  Et  quod  ista  cantaria  semper 
detur  per  patronos  Dominos  de  Colbrok  cuicunque  Capellano 
ydoneo  sibi  placuerit  et  per  ipsos,  Decano  et  Capitulo  Ecclesie 
beati  Petri  Exonie  presentetur  et  per  ipsos  Decanuin  et  Capi- 
tulum  dictus  presentatus  instituetur  in  eandem  et  sic  fiat  quo- 
ciens  dicta  Cantaria  vacaverit  in  futurum.  Et  ad  predictum 
Eedditum  terminis  supradictis  plene  bene  solvendum  et  alias 
donaciones  et  concessiones  et  libertates  firmiter  tenendas  custo- 


410 


APPENDIX. 


diendas  et  warentizandas,  illesas  et  sine  aliquali  diminucione  in 
omnibus  obligamus  nos  et  heredes  nostros  et  totum  rnanerium 
nostrum  de  Colbrok,  ad  quorumcumque  manus  dictum  maneri- 
um  de  cetero  devenerit  quoquo  modo.  Et  si  forte  contingat  nos 
vel  heredes  nostros  in  solucione  predicti  Kedditus  terminis  pre- 
dictis  in  to  to  vel  in  parte  deficere,  quod  absit,  vel  alias  dona- 
ciones  concessiones  et  libertates  in  aliqna  sui  parte  diminuere 
vel  deteriorare  seu  a  professione  possidentis  ejusdem  aliquid  inde 
tollere  aut  subtrahere,  Yolumus  et  concedimus  pro  nobis  et 
heredibus  quod  dicti  Decanus  et  Capitulum  nos  excommunicent 
per  totam  jurisdictionem  suam  sentencia  majoris  excommunica- 
cionis,  donee  inde  fuerit  satisfactum  ad  plenum.  Et  eciam  cjfuod 
ballivi  Domini  Episcopi  de  libertate  de  Criditon  nos  distringant 
ubique  apud  Colbrok  donee  eis  satisfactum  fuerit,  ut  predictum 
est.  Et  quod  dicti  ballivi  habeant  pro  qualibet  districcione  sic 
facta  dimidiam  marcam  argenti  de  catallis  pro  expensis  suis  et 
labore.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  huic  presenti  Carte  nostre 
sigillum  nostrum  duximus  apponendum.  Hiis  testibus  Dominis 
Henrico  de  Campo  Ernulfi,  Mangero  de  Sancto  Albino,  Willielmo 
de  Bykelegh  militibus,  Waltero  de  Aure,  Thoma  de  Wotton, 
Willielmo  de  Godiscote,  Hugone  de  Coplestone  et  aliis.1 

[The  seal  is  gone.] 


OA11TA  ROBERTI  EPISCOPI,  DE  ECCLESIIS  COLLATIS  CAPITULO. 

EOBEKTUS  [Chichester],  Dei  gratia  Exoniensis  Episcopus,  omnibus 
Christiane  fidei  cultoribus  et  Ecclesie  Catholice,  dilectoribus  timo- 
rem  Dei,  pariter  et  amorem.  Quum  ex  injuncto  nobis  officio  de- 
bitores  sumus  ut  Ecclesiarum  et  ibi  Deo  famulancium  posses- 
siones  et  elemosynas,  tueri  et  augere  loco  et  tempore  studeamus ; 
eo  nimirum  intuitu  Canonicorum  nostrorum  Exonie  communio- 
nein  et  victum  substantialem  ad  honorem  Dei  et  servicium 
Ecclesie  nostre  roborandum  amplificare  decernentes  :  Ecclesias 
de  maneriis  Sancti  Petri,  omnibus  Canonicis  nostris  libere  et  ab- 
solute quos  prius  habueramus  in  commune  reddidimus,  offerentes 
eas  super  altare  Sancti  Petri  per  textum  Evangelii,  in  presentia 
et  testimonio  Patricii  Episcopi  de  Limeric,  et  universi  Cleri  et 


1  In  the  time  of  Bishop  Bartholomew, 
a  knight  of  the  name  of  Alexander  pre- 
tended to  grant  the  advowson  of  C/ole- 
brooke  church  to  Prior  Walter  and  his 
brethren  of  the  Hospital  of  St.  John  in 
Jerusalem.  Our  Bishop  on  receiving 
this  intelligence,  and  well  knowing 
that  he  and  his  predecessors  Bishops 
of  Exeter  had  ever  exercised  the  right 
of  patronage  and  institution  without 


any  lay  interposition,  and  that  Cole- 
brook  formed  a  member  of  the  manor 
of  the  see  of  Exeter  granted  ab  initio 
f»  its  cathedral  church,  pronounced  its 
appropriation  to  his  Chapter  with  a  re- 
served pension  of  10«.  only  to  the  said 
Hospital,  and  called  upon  Henry  II., 
King  of  England,  and  all  the  faithful, 
to  defend  the  rights  of  the  Church  of 
Exeter. 


CHARTERS,  &c.  411 

Populi  Civitatis,  in  die  Assumptions  Sancte  Marie  die  Dominica 
tune  anno  MCXLVIII  ab  Incarnatione  Domini.  Sic  tamen  pre- 
dictas  Ecclesias  cum  suis  pertinentiis  concessimus,  ut  nostro 
communi  assensu  disponantur,  et  honestis  vicariis  et  honestis  ex- 
pensis  eisdem  necessariis  coinmendentur  cum  vacaverint.  Porro 
interim  Hugo  Archidiaconus  Ecclesiam  de  Branchiscumba  et 
Ecclesiam  de  Sanctemariecherche,  in  diebus  suis  teneat.  Et 
Aluredus,  Ecclesiam  de  Duuelis  et  Ecclesiam  de  Teigemucta. 
Et  Rogerus,  films  Capellani,  Ecclesiam  de  Sideberia.  Et  Hugo 
Presbiter,  Ecclesiam  de  Stauertona.  Et  Ricardus,  filius  Gode- 
fridi,  Ecclesiam  de  Stoches,  in  vita  sua  similiter  habeant.  His 
vero  canonicis  prenominatis  et  clericis  de  medio  factis,  Ecclesie 
predicte  ad  Capituli  nostri  communionem  redeant,  prout  pre- 
taxatum  est ;  salvo  ubique  jure  nostre  subjectionis  et  dignitatis. 
Quod  ut  presentibus  et  futuris  inconcussum  et  ratum  permaneat : 
Sigilli  et  Carte  nostre  munimine,  et  testium  prelibatorum,  vide- 
licet Patricii  Episcopi  de  Limeric,  et  Cleri  et  Populi  Exonie,  et 
ipsorum  Canonicorum  astipulatione  confirmatum  assignavimus, 
orantes  ut  quicumque  hujus  nostre  largitatis  et  beneficencie  libe- 
ralitatem  Dei  pro  amore  manutenuerit,  sit  ei  Dei  misericordia 
clernens  et  delictoruin  suorum  indultrix.  Verum,  quisquis  ex 
adverso  huic  rei  contradixerit  et  obstiterit :  ultioni  divine  sub- 
jaceat,  nisi  resipuerit.  Amen.  Fiat,  fiat. 

[The  seal  has  been  removed  from  its  label.] 


CARTA  MANERII  DE  MELA. 

NOTUM  sit  omnibus  ad  quos  presens  carta  pervenerit :  me  Ro- 
bertum  secundum  [  Warelwast],  Dei  gratia  Exoniensis  Ecclesie 
Episcopum,  dedisse  Ecclesie  Sancti  Petri  Exonie,  manerium  de 
Mela  cum  omnibus  pertinentiis  suis  ad  communionem  Canoni- 
corum ibdem  Deo  famulantium  quod  Dei  auxilio  ego  adquisivi. 
Nullus  enim  predecessorum  meorum  quadraginta  retro  annis  et 
eo  amplius  illud  in  dominio  habuerat.  Quod  ut  ratum  et  incon- 
cussum permaneat :  presentis  scripti  attestatione  corroboravi,  et 
sigilli  mei  impressione  communivi.  His  testibus  Johanne  De- 
cano  Cicestrie,  Magistro  Bartholomeo  Archidiacono  Exonie,  Petro 
Archidiacono  Cornubie,  Willielmo  Archidiacono  Barnestapolie, 
Johanne  Cantore,  Philippo  de  Furnell,  Magistro  Johanne  Paz, 
Magistro  Baldewino,  Magistro  Eannulfo,  Thoma  Gilleberto,  Ca- 
iionico  Kegulari,  Kicardo  de  Dunestanvill,  Canonicis  predicte 
Ecclesie  Sancti  Petri,  Kicardo  filio  Godefridi,  Roberto  filio  Gille, 
Roberto  Camerario,  Roberto  Scriptore,  Rogero  nepote  episeopi, 
Aluredo  Dispensatore,  Roberto  Hurrel. 

[The  seal  of  the  Bishop  is  attached,  but  much  injured.] 


412  APPENDIX. 


DONATIO  JOHANNIS  EPISCOPI,  DE  ECCLESIE  DE  EGLOSCRUC. 

OMNIBUS  fidelibus  ad  quos  presens  scriptura  pervenerit :  Johannes, 
Dei  gratia  Exoniensis  Exclesie  minister,  Salutem  in  vero  salutari. 
Noverit  universitas  vestra  quod  nos  divino  intuitu  et  pro  honore 
Exoniensis  Ecclesie,  ad  cujus  honestatem  et  promotionem  sum- 
opere  providendam,  sicut  debemus,  summam  gerimus  devotionem : 
eidem  Ecclesie  ad  commune  melioracionem  et  servicii  sustenta- 
tionem,  in  perpetuam  elemosinam  concessimus  et  donavimus 
Ecclesiam  de  Egloscruc  in  Cornubia,  in  rnanerio  nostro  de  Pol- 
tona,  cum  Capellis  et  ceteris  omnibus  pertinentiis  suis,  libere  et 
plenarie  et  integre  perpetuo  possidendam.  Hanc  autem  dbna- 
tionem  iiostram  assensu  Willielmi  Lumbardi  tune  persone  ejus- 
dem  Ecclesie  fecimus  qui  earn  quantum  ad  ipsum  pertinebat : 
commune  Exoniensis  Ecclesie  simpliciter  et  absolute  conferri  et 
assignari  desideravit  et  postulavit.  Ob  hoc  autem  nullo  tem- 
pore  numerus  prebendarum  augebitur  sed  annuente  domino 
per  augmentum  commune,  decor  domus  Dei  ampliabitur  et  que 
ad  divina  pertinent  competentius  adimplebuntur.  Et  ut  hec 
rata  semper  et  inconcussa  permaneant,  presenti  scripto  et  sigilli 
nostri  appositione  ea  confirmavimus.  Hiis  testibus,  Galtero 
Archidiacono  Cornubie,  Thoma  Archidiacono  Barnestapoli,  Ma- 
gistro  Johanne  Thesaurario,  Bernardo  Precentore,  Magistro 
Baldwino,  Pagano  Capellano,  Kadulfo  de  Hospitali,  Magistro 
Koberto  de  Hanca,  Kicardo  Briwerre,  Turstino  Petro  Picot, 
Petro  filio  Kicardi,  Alano  de  Furnell. 

[The  seal  of  the  Bishop  is  attached.] 


CARTA  DE  ECCLESIA  DE  ASPERNATONA. 

OMNIBUS  fidelibus  ad  quos  presens  scriptura  pervenerit:  J. 
[John],  Divina  misceracione  Exoniensis  Ecclesie  minister 
numilis,  Salutem  in  auctore  Salutis.  Noverit  universitas 
vestra  quod  ego  divino  intuitu  et  reverencia  beatorum  Apostol- 
orum  Petri  et  Pauli  necnon  contemplacione  et  honore  Exoni- 
ensis Ecclesie,  ad  cujus  curam  et  sollicitudinem  Deo  annuente 
sum  vocatus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  concessi  et  dedi 
dilectis  in  Christo  filiis  Capitulo  Exoniensi,  Ecclesiam  de  Asper- 
neton  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis.  Salva  monialibus  de  Polsowe 
annua  pensione,  quam  predecessor  meus  bone  memorie  B. 
[Bartholomeus]  Episcopus  eis  donavit  et  confirmavit.  Quod 
ut  ratum  et  inconcussum  permaneat,  presenti  scripto  et  sigilli 
mei  apposicione  confirmavi.  Hiis  testibus,  Galtero  Cornubie, 
Kogero  Bernestapel'  Archidiaconis,  Henrico  de  London,  Magistro 


CHARTERS,  &c.  413 

Reginaldo,  Galtero,  Henrico,  Kicardo,  Capellanis,  Magistro 
Willielmo  et  Magistro  Milone,  Clericis,  Willielmo  Lumbardo, 
Koberto  Walnensi,  Aluredo  Custode,  Stephano  et  Galtero 
Clericis,  et  multis  aliis. 


GRANT  BY  KING  JOHN 

To  HUBEET,  ARCHBISHOP  OF  CANTERBURY,  OF  THE  CUSTODY  OF 
CONVICTED  CLERKS.1 

JOHANNES,  &c.,  justiciary's  vicecomitibus,  constabulariis  et  om- 
nibus ministris  et  ballivis  suis,  Salutem.  Sciatis  nos  concessisse 
venerabili  patri  nostro  Huberto2  Cantuariensi  Archiepiscopo, 
custodiam  omnium  clericorum  captivatorum  qui  pro  quocumque 
forisfacto  fuerint  capti  vel  detenti :  unde  vobis  firmiter  precipimus 
quod  eidem  Archiepiscopo  reddatis  omnes  clericos  quos  in 
custodia  vestra  habetis,  si  quos  in  custodia  habetis  vel  quos  vos 
pro  aliquo  forisfacto  quodcumque  sit  contigerit  habere.  Et 
prohibemus  ne  quis  aliquem  clericum  pro  quocumque  forisfacto 
detinere  presumat  postquam  prefatus  Archiepiscopus  ipsum 
requisiverit.  Teste  Willielmo  Marescallo  Comite  de  Pembroc  apud 
Aigeton  vij  die  Junii. 


DE  ECCLESIA  DE  LANUTHIO  CONCESSA 
OPERI  SANCTI  PETRI  EXONIE  POST  DECESSUM  HERVEII. 

UNIVERSIS  Sancte  Matris  Ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens  scriptum 
pervenerit.  H[enricus  Marshal],  Dei  gracia  Exoniensis  Epis- 
copus,  Salutem  in  Domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  nos 
caritatis  intuitu  concessisse  et  it  perpetuam  elemosinam  donasse 
Deo  et  Ecclesie  beati  Petri  Exonie,  ad  ejus  reparacionem,  duas 
marcas  argenti  ex  Ecclesia  de  Lanuthinoch  nomine  Pencionis 
annuatim  percipiendas,  ad  Festum  Sancti  Michaelis  unam 
marcam,  et  ad  Pascha  unam  marcam.  Statuentes  quod  dece- 
dente  Herveio,  ejusdem  Ecclesie  vicario,  Ecclesia  ilia  cum 
omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  ad  reparacionem  dicte  Exoniensis 
Ecclesie  in  perpetuum  convertatur.  Yolumus  eciam  ut 
quisquam  hujus  operis  custos  extiterit,  hujus  redditus  ad 
ministracionem  per  manum  nostram  vel  successorum  nostro- 
rum  Episcoporum  Exoniensium  accipiat.  Salvis  duabus  marcis 
tantuin  servicio  Capellani  ibidem  ministrantis  assignatis. 
Salvo  eciam  nostro  et  successoribus  nostris  jure  episcopal!  in 
omnibus.  Ut  igitur  hec  concessio  et  donacio  nostra  rata  et  incon- 
cussa  perpetuis  temporibus  permaneat,  earn  present!  scripto  et 

1  Bishop    Stapeldon's    Register,   fol.  {      2  Hubert  was  Archbishop  from  1193 
13.  till  his  death  29th  June,  1205. 


414  APPENDIX. 

sigilli  nostri  appositione  confirmavimus.  Datum  Exonie  ix° 
Kalendis  Junii,1  Pontificatus  nostri  anno  undecimo.  Hiis  testibus, 
Gualtero  Cornubie  et  Henrico  Exonie  Archidiaconis,  Anselmo 
Thesaurario,  W.  de  Svindd,  Magistro  Aluredo,  Magistro  Henrico 
de  Warwick,  Bicardo  filio  Drogonis,  Alano  de  Furn[ellis], 
Magistro  Milone,  Magistro  Ysaac,  et  multis  aliis. 


CAKTA  WILLIELMI   BRIWERE   DE  DONACIONE   ADVOCACIONIS 
ECCLESIE  WENEPPE  IN  CORNUBIA. 

OMNIBUS  Christi  fidelibus  ad  quos  presens  scriptum  pervenerit : 
Willielmus  Briewir,  Salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  quod 
cum  pium  sit  et  honestum  viris  discretis  et  Deo  servientibus  gratis 
prestare  beneficia;  et  maxime  illis  a  quibus  multos  sepissime 
recepimus  honores,  dedimus  et  concessimus  Deo  et  Ecclesie 
beati  Petri  Exonie  et  Capitulo  ejusdem  loci,  Ecclesiam  de 
Pensigenans,  que  ad  nostram  spectat  Donacionem,  sicut  ad  Dom- 
inum  fundi,  libere,  et  quiete,  integre,  pacifice,  honorifice  tenen- 
dam  et  habendam  in  proprios  usus  post  decessum  Kadulfi  de 
Wexham,  Persone  ejusdem  Ecclesie,  vel  aliter  quantum  ad 
patronos  pertinet  racione  presentandi.  Et  ut  hec  nostra  donacio 
et  concessio  rata  et  stabilis  permaneat,  et  omnis  occasio  malig- 
nandi  tollatur  in  posterum,  presentem  Cartam  sigilli  nostri 
appositione  roboravimus.  Hiis  testibus,  Domino  Willielmo 
Exoniensi  Episcopo,  Magistro  Martino  Archidiacono  Cornubie, 
Hereberto  de  Pynn,  Kicardo  de  Lomene,  Galfrido  Corbin, 
Thoma  Hertward,  Thoma  Pincerna,  Kadulfo  Spingham,  Ivone 
de  Esselegh,  Kogero  de  Blacford,  et  multis  aliis.  Datum  apud 
Exon  actum  in  Festo  Sancti  Michaelis,  anno  decimo  regni  regis 
Henrici.2 

[The  seal  is  gone.] 


APPROPRIACIO  ECCLESIE  SANCTE  WENEPPE. 

OMNIBUS  Christi  fidelibus  ad  quos  presens  scriptum  pervenerit, 
W.,  Dei  gratia  Exoniensis  Episcopus,  eternam  in  Domino  Salu- 
tem. Noverit  universitas  vestra  nos  Divine  caritatis  intuitu 
concessisse  et  confirmasse  S[erloni]  Decano  et  Capitulo  beat! 
Petri  Exonie,  Ecclesiam  de  Pensigenans  in  Cornubia  quam 
venerabilis  vir  W.  Briwere  avunculus  noster  eis  caritatis  intuitu 
concessit  in  proprios  usus  possidendam.  -Quod  ne  processu  tem- 
poris  alicui  vertatur  in  dubium,  cuin  presentio  scripti  paginam 
sigilli  nostri  appositione  corroboravimus. 
[The  seal  is  gone.] 
1  24  May,  1205.  2  29  Sept.  1226. 


CHARTERS,  &c.  415 


APPROPRIACIO  ECCLESIE  DE  LITELHAM. 

UNIVERSIS  Christ!  fidelibus  has  literas  visuris  vel  audituris  W., 
miseracione  Divina  Exoniensis  Ecclesie  minister  huinilis,  Salutem 
eternam  in  Domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  nos  de  communi 
assensu  et  consilio  Abbatis  et  Conventus  de  Schireburn,  ita  ordi- 
iiasse  circa  Ecclesiam  de  Littleham,  videlicet  ut  cum  earn  vacare 
contigerit,  improprios  usus  viginti  et  quatuor  Canonicorum 
Exoniensis  Ecclesie  convertatur  cum  omnibus  ad  earn  pertinen- 
tibus,  salva  vicaria  centum  solidorum  vicario  perpetuo  continue 
resident!  in  dicta  Ecclesia,  qui  sustinebit  omnia  onera  tarn  Epis- 
copalia  quam  Archidiaconalia.  Salvo  eciam  nobis  et  successoribus 
nostris  jure  Episcopal!  et  Exoniensis  Ecclesie  dignitate.  In 
cujus  rei  testimonium  tarn  sigillum  nostrum  quam  sigilla  dictorum 
Abbatis  et  Conventus  huic  scripto  sunt  apposita.  Datum  Exonie, 
sexto  deciino  Kalendis  Aprilis,  anno  consecracionis  nostre 
decimo.1 

[The  labels  for  three  seals  alone  remain.] 


CARTA  COMPOSITIONS 

INITE  INTER  EPISCOPUM  ET  CAPITULUM  EXON  ET  CANTOBEM  SARUM  ET 
J.  DE  BISIMANO  CANONICUM  EXON. 

NOVERINT  universi  presens  scriptum  inspecturi  quod  cum  con- 
troversia  mota  fuisset  inter  E.  Precentorem  Sarum  et  Dominum 
Galfridum  de  Besimano  Canonicum  Exon.  Item  inter  dictum 
precentorem  et  Dominum  Willielmum  Exoniensem  Episcopum 
et  Capitulum  Exonie  per  diversa  rescripta  Apostolica  a  Domino 
Papa  Gregorio  nono  impetrata  super  Ecclesia  de  Hurberton,  et 
in  ipso  negocio  coram  judicibus  a  diversis  partibus  impetratis 
aliquantum  citra  litis  contestationem  fuisset  processum,  tandem 
inter  omnes  predictas  partes  amicabiliter  est  compositum  in 
hunc  modum,  videlicet,  quod  omnis  rancor  et  indignacio,  actio 
petitio,  questio  et  controversia  expense  et  dampna  ab  omnibus 
predictis  partibus  penitus  remissa  sunt,  Ita  quod  nulla  ullo 
unquam  tempore  moveatur  vel  mover!  possit  questio  ei,  qui  pro 
tempore  fuerit  canonicus  prebende  de  Teinton  Regis  ab  Episcopo 
vel  Capitulo  Exon,  vel  alio  nomine  suo,  ratione  dicte  Ecclesie 
de  Hurberton,  preterquam  onerum  antiquorum,  consuetorum  et 
ordinariorum :  dictus  quidem  precentor  et  ejus  successores  in 
prebend  a  memorata  solvent  dicto  Galfrido  in  perpetuo  vel 
procurator!  ipsius  Galfridi  in  Cathedral!  Ecclesia  Exon  octo 
marcas  annuales  ad  quatuor  anni  terminos,  scilicet,  ad  Natale 
Domini  vel  infra  octavas  duas  marcas,  ad  Pascha  vel  infra 
octavas  duas  marcas,  ad  Festum  Sancti  Johannis  Baptiste 

1  17  March,  1231. 


416  APPENDIX. 

vel  infra  octavas  duas  marcas,  ad  Festum  Sancti  Michaelis  vel 
infra  octavas  duas  marcas.  Quod  si  dictum  precentorem  eideni 
prebende  cedere  vel  etiam  ipsum  decedere  contingat,  dictus 
Galfridus  nihilominus  integre  dictas  octo  marcas  percipiet  (de) 
prebenda  de  Teinton  et  canonico  ipsius  prebende,  quamdiu  vixerit 
idem  Galfridus,  ad  eandem  pecuniam  solvendam  remanentibus 
obligatis.  Ad  hoc  inter  omnes  predictas  partes  ita  amicabiliter 
convenit,  quod  dictus  precentor  presentaret  domino  Exon  vica- 
rium  ad  dictam  Ecclesiam  de  Hurberton,  qui  quidem  vicarius 
percipiet  a  dicto  precentore,  vel  ab  eo  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit 
canonicus  dicte  prebende  de.  Teinton,  quinque  marcas  annuales 
nomine  vicarie  ad  quatuor  anni  terminos  prescriptos  pro  equis 
porcionibus  solvendas.  Yerum  quamprimum  continget  dictum 
precentorem,  vel  eum  qui  pro  tempore  ipsi  in  eadem  prebenda 
successerit,  aprestatione  dictarum  octo  marcarum  prefato  Galfrido 
solvendarium  exhonorari,  ille  dicte  octo  marce  dicte  vicarie, 
quinque  marcarum  in  perpetuum  integre  accrescent  dictis  ter- 
minis  vicario  de  Hurberton  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit  pro  equis 
porcionibus  solvende,  omnibus  oneribus  ordinariis  antiquis  et 
consuetis  ad  dictam  Ecclesiam  de  Hurberton  spectantibus  extunc 
primum  vicario  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit  omnino  incumbentibus. 
Sed  dictus  precentor,  vel  ejus  pro  tempore  in  dicta  prebenda 
successor,  hec  ipsa  onera  usque  ad  prefatam  exoneracionem 
octo  marcarum  in  solido  sustinebit.  Quod  si  in  aliquo  prefate 
composicionis  memorate  a  quocunque  partium  obviatum  fuerit 
vel  contradictum,  licebit  domino  Bathoniensi  Episcopo  qui  pro 
tempore  fuerit  episcopus,  partem  renitentem  et  contradicentem 
omni  excepcione,  excusacione,  cavillacione,  appellacione  fori  pri- 
vilegii  juris  civilis  et  canonici  remedio  postpositis,  ad  omnium 
predictorum  observacionem  per  censuram  ecclesiasticam  com- 
pellere.  Ut  autem  hec  amicabilis  composicio  in  perpetuum 
robur  firmitatis  obtineat  et  inviolabiliter  per  omnia  observetur, 
tarn  Domini  Exon  et  Sarum  Episcopi  quam  eorum  capitula  dictam 
compositionem  approbarunt  et  confirmarunt  et  huic  scripto  in 
modum  cirographi  confecto,  sigilla  sua  una  cum  sigillis  dictorum 
precentoris  et  Galfridi  apposuerunt.  Actum  in  Cathedrali 
Ecclesia  Exon  in  crastino  Sancte  Katerine,1  Anno  Domini  M°CC° 
tricesimo  sexto,  mense  Novembri.  Hiis  testibus,  Magistro 
Eogero  de  Winkel  tune  decano  Exon,  Magistro  B[ar]tholomeo, 
Archidiacono  Exon,  Magistro  Eicardo  Blundo  Cancellario  Exon, 
Magistro  Koberto  Crispino,  Domino  Gilberto  de  Harewill 
Capellano,  Magistris  H.  Tesun,  ^et  Galfrido  de  Exon,  Helia  de 
Badeston  Clerico,  et  multis 


n                               n  H  n 

The  seal  of  Bishop          The  seal  of  the  A  label  The  seal  of  the 

Brewer.                Bishop  of  Salisbury.  only.  Precentor  of  Sarum. 

1  26th  Nov. 


CHARTERS,  &c.  417 


COLLACIO  DE  CAPELLA  BBATI  VIRGINIS  DE  ECCLESIA 
DE  ALTERNON.1 

UNIVERSIS  Christ!  fidelibus  ad  quos  presens  scriptum  pervenerit 
Decanus  et  Capitulum  Exoniensis  Ecclesie,  Salutem  in  Domino. 
Tenore  presencium  unanimiter  confitemur  et  recognoscimus  nos 
ex  collatione  et  concessione  venerabilis  Patris  Domini  Willielmi 
Exoniensis  Episcopi,  intervemente  etiam  assensu  et  voluntate 
prioris  et  conventus  de  Monteacuto,  necnon  et  Abbatis  Clunia- 
censis  consensu,  Ecclesiam  de  Alternon  cum  subscriptis  tantum 
oneribus  Divine  caritatis  intuitu,  cum  omnibus  suis  pertinentiis 
liberam  et  solutam  recepisse.  Tenemur  siquidem  vicario  per- 
petuo  in  eadem  Ecclesia  perpetuo  personaliter  resident!  et  eidem 
deservienti  qui  curam  habeat  animarura  sustentationem  de  bonis 
illius  Ecclesie,  bonorum  virorum  arbitrio  competentem,  sine  diffi- 
cultate  providere.  Ita  quod  summam  quinque  marcarum  non 
excedat  vicaria,  quem  quidem  vicarium  successive  tenemur 
Domino  Exonie  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit  presentare,  qui  quidem 
vicarius  Domino  Episcopo  et  Archidiacono  et  eorum  official!  in 
omnibus  integre  respondeat  de  hiis  in  quibus  rector  illius  Ecclesie 
ex  consuetudine  antiqua  et  ordinaria  respondere  consuevit.  Tene- 
mur eciam  ex  gratia  et  liberalitate  ordinationis  Domini  Episcopi 
viginti  quatuor  vicariis  Exonie  Ecclesie  duodecim  marcas,  et 
duodecim  clericis  de  secunda  forma  sex  marcas ;  quatuordecim 
vero  clericis  pueris  de  tercia  forma  horis  statutis  circa  cultum 
Dei  in  eadem  Ecclesia  laborantibus,  septem  marcas  annuas  inter 
se  juxta  statum  cujuslibet  predict!  gradus  pro  equis  porcionibus 
distribuendis  per  manus  Senescalli  Capituli  solvere:  quorum 
predictorum  vicariorum  quinque,  de  secunda  forma  quinque,  et 
de  pueris  predictis  quatuor  cotidiane  Misse  beate  Virginis  in 
Capella  ipsius  in  eadem  Ecclesia  Exoniensi,  omni  excusatione 
postposita  diligenter  intererunt  et  devote,  quod  qui  facere  neglex- 
erit,  nee  alium  sui  ordinis  ad  hoc  necessarium  pro  se  subroga- 
verit :  per  ministrum  altaris  beate  Virginis  super  hoc  accusatus 
et  convictus  coram  Decano  et  Capitulo  Exoniensi,  penam  sub- 
tractionis  porcionis  die!  sib!  debite  gratis  et  sine  contradictione 
pro  defectu  cujuslibet  die!  subibit,  et  quod  ei  scilicet  absent!  hac 
de  causa  fuerit  subtraction  presentibus  ejusdem  gradus  vel 
altering  ejusdem  Ecclesie  clericis  eodem  die  defectum  adim- 
plentibus.  Ita  quod  dictus  numerus  non  diminuatur  sine  dilacione 
accrescat,  fiet  autem  distributio  inter  predictos  vicarios  religiosos 
ut  predictum  est  qualibet  septimana  die  Sabbati.  Ita  quod 
quilibet  vicarius  predictorum  quinque  pro  qualibet  die  unurn 
denarium  cleric!  vero  predict!  et  pueri  pro  qualibet  die  obulum 

1  Pensio  de  Ecclesia  do  Alternon  sol-  I  tis  pro  obitu  Willelmi  Briwer  Exoniensis 
venda  vicariis  [vicars  choral]  et  ehoris-  |  Episcopi  et  "Willelmi  Briwer  senioris. 

2    E 


418  APPENDIX. 

recipient,  quolibet  autem  terinino  quando  fuerint  tailagia  canoni- 
corum  de  residue  per  senescallum  capituli  fiet  inter  oinnes  dis- 
tributio.  Ita  quod  quilibet  in  suo  gradu  de  summa  residui  por- 
tionis  sibi  assignate  sit  contentus.  Tenemur  eciam  et  volumus 
post  decessum  memorati  Domini  W[illelmi]  Exoniensis  Episcopi 
nostri  quolibet  anno  in  perpetuum  die  obitus  sui  anniversarium 
suum  solempniter  et  devote  celebrare.  Ita  dumtaxat  quod  sin- 
guli  canonici  qui  secundum  antiquam  ecclesie  consuetudinem  et 
approbatam  anniversarii  sui  celebrationi  interfuerint,  quatuor 
denarios,  vicarii  quoque  similiter  presentes  duos.  Alii  vero  qui- 
cumque  fuerint  in  choro  sive  in  prima  sive  secunda  forma  debito 
more  unum  denarium ;  clerici  vero  et  pueri  quotquot  similiter 
in  choro  fuerint,  scilicet  in  tercia  forma  singuli  singulos  obulos 
dicto  die  precipient.  Ob  ipsius  etiam  reverentiam  concessimus 
eidem  ut  singulis  annis  die  obitus  nobilis  viri  laudabilis  memorie, 
W[illelmi]  Briwer,  senioris  benefici  nostri  celebretur  in  Ecclesia 
nostra  solempne  anniversarium  ejusdem.  Observata  annua  pre- 
statione  denariorum  in  choro  tempore  Misse  secundum  quanti- 
tatem  in  obitu  Magistri  Ysaac  vel  obitu  consimili  taxatam.  Ad 
predicta  siquidem  tenenda  in  omnibus  et  in  singulis  bona  fide 
servanda  et  facienda :  nos  singillatim  et  communiter,  presentium 
testimonio  obligavimus,  et  ad  perpetue  memorie  firmitatem  in 
predictorum  omnium  et  singulorum  testimonium  et  evidentiam 
pleniorem  communi  sigillo  nostro  et  privato  presens  scriptum 
duximus  roborandum.  Datum  apud  Exoniam  anno  Domini 
M°.  co°.  xxxvu0. 

[For  the  seal  see  *  Monasticon  Exon.'  p.  56.] 


INQUISITIO  SUPER  VALORE  ALTELLAGII  DE  HURBERTON. 

ViRO  venerabili  et  discrete  Domino  Johanni  Archidiacono  Totton 
sui  devoti  Decanus  et  Capitulum,  Salutem  cum  omni  obedi- 
entia  reverentia  et  honore.  Ad  mandatum  vestrum  diligentem 
fecimus  inquisitionem  super  vero  valore  majorum  et  minorum 
decimarum  Ecclesie  de  Hurberton,  ad  quod  respondemus  et 
dicimus  quod  bladum  cum  fabis  et  pisis  extra  curtillagia  cultis 
predicte  Ecclesie  cum  Capellis  de  Halgewille  et  Legh  estima- 
tur  ad  xxx  marcas.  Est  ibi  vicarius  per  venerabilem  patrem 
Dominum  Willielmum,  Exon.  Episcopum  adinissus  et  institutus 
et  taxata  est  per  eundem  Episoopum  vicaria  et  consistit  in  por- 
tionibus  subscriptis,  videlicet,  decima  fabarum  et  pisarum  in 
curtilagiis  estimatur  ad  vi.d,  pomorum  ad  x.8,  lini  vi.8  vin.d  Ob- 
lacionum  die  Sancti  Andree  xm.s  iin.d,  die  Natalis  Domini  x.s, 
die  Pasche  xni.s  ini.d,  die  Sancti  Leonardi  in  Capella  de  Halge- 
wille x.8,  die  Omnium  Sanctorum  in  Capella  de  Legh  xvm.d 


CHABTEKS,  &c.  419 

Item  in  Capellis  de  Luscume,  Wasseborn,  et  Engleborn,  xv.d 
Item  decima  agnorum  VI.8  viu.d  Lane  XL.8  Abbaticum  argento 
VI.8  vni.d  Feni  x.8  Confessionum  v.s  Purificationum  n.8  Por- 
cellorum  Vitulorum  in.8  Mellis  xvm.d  Aucarum  n.8  Mer- 
catorum  et  artificiorum  xvm  denarii.  Sullorum  xii.d  Panis  et 
ova  vendita  ad  crucem  ad  Pascham  estimantur  ad  n.s  Decima 
argenti  pro  agnis  xn.d  Mortuaria  xin.8  im.d  Sponsalia  xn.d 
Sanctuarium  prout  vicaria  estimatur  ad  xx,d  Decima  molendi- 
norum  xv.8  Oblaciones  Dominicales  mi.8  im.d  Minute  decime 
curtillagiorum  xn.d  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  nos  Eicardus 
Vicarius  de  Brente  Decanus  Totton,  A.  .  .  .  ,  Kector  Ecclesie  de 
Aveton,  Willielmus  Persona  de  Depeford,  Thomas  Vicarius  de 
Radetre,  Petrus  Vicarius  Totton,  Petrus  Vicarius  de  Dene,  Wal- 
warinus  Vicarius  de  Bucfestre,  Rogerus  Vicarius  de  Hurberton, 
Willielmus  Vicarius  de  Tunstalle,  Ricardus  de  Stoke,  et  Johannes 
de  Didesham  Capellani,  presenti  Inquisitioni  Sigilla  nostra  appo- 
stiimus.  Datum  Totton  die  Jovis  proxima  post  Nativitatem 
Sancti  Johannis,  anno  gracie  M.c.c.  [cut  off,  probably  XL.] 


HURBERTON  DE  ECCLESIA  DE  TEYNGTON.     (Lytchfold.) 

UNIVEESIS  Christi  fidelibus  ad  quos  presens  scriptum  pervenerit 
W.  [Brewer],  miseracione  Divina  Exoniensis  Episcopus,  Salutem 
in  Domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  nos  dilectis  in  Christo 
filiis  Decano  et  Capitulo  Ecclesie  nostre  Exoniensis  tenore  pre- 
sencium  concessisse  liberam  et  specialem  potestatem,  nostro  vel 
cujuscumque  alterius  irrequisito  consensu,  ingredendi  corporalem 
possessionem  Ecclesie  de  Hurberton  cum  capellis  et  aliis  omni- 
bus pertinenciis  suis  quamcito  ipsam  vacare  contigerit  quam 
quidem  ecclesiam  per  consensum  omnium  eorum  quorum  intere- 
rat  nuper  eisdem  concessimus  in  proprios  usus  cotidiane  distribu- 
cionis  possidendam.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  presenti  scripto 
sigillum  nostrum  apponi  fecimus.  Datum  Exonie  xvn.  Kalendis 
Maii,  anno  Domini  M°.  cc°.  XL°  quarto  [15  April]. 

[The  seal  is  gone.] 


APPROPRIACIO  ECCLESIE  DE  WINKELEGH 

ET  ALTAKUM  ECCLESIARUM  DE  ADVOCACIONE  AfiBATIE  DE  TEUKESBIB, 
VIDELICET  DE  SANCTO  SANCREDO  ET  TREVALGA. 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  Ecclesie  filiis  presens  scriptum  visuris 
vel  audituris  Willielmus  miseracione  Divina  Exoniensis  Ecclesie 
Minister  humilis,  eternam  in  Domino  Salutem.  Noverit  uni- 
versitas vestra  nos  divine  pietatis  intuitu  dedisse  concessisse  et 

2  E  2 


420  APPENDIX. 

hac  present!  Carta  nostra  confirmasse  Decano  et  Capitulo  Exoni- 
ensis  Ecclesie  has  Ecclesias,  scilicet  Ecclesiam  de  Winkelegh 
in  Devon  et  Ecclesiam  de  Sancto  Sancredi  et  Ecclesiam  de  Tre- 
valga  in  Cornubia,  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  tarn  in  tern- 
poralibus  quam  in  spiritualibus,  cedentibus  vel  decedentibus 
earundem  rectoribus  pleno  jure  inperpetuum  tenendas  et  in 
perpetuam  elemosinam  libere  et  quiete  convertendas  in  pro- 
prios  usus  viginti  quatuor  Canonicorum  viginti  quatuor  anti- 
quarum  prebendarum  Exoniensis  Ecclesie.  Licebit  autem  dictis 
Decano  et  Capitulo,  nostro  vel  successorum  nostrorum  assensu 
et  consensu  ingredi  libere  dictas  Ecclesias  cum  eas  vacare  con- 
tigerit  et  ad  illas  deserviendum  tenore  presencium  eisdem  libe- 
ram  concedimus  auctoritatem.  Interim  autem  dicti  Decanus  et 
Capitulum  expensas  debitas,  et  consuetas,  omnium  earundem 
Ecclesiarum  percipient  pensiones  quas  Abbas  et  Conventus  de 
Teukbiri  hactenus  consueverunt  de  predictis  Ecclesiis  percipere. 
Et  ut  hec  nostra  donacio,  concessio  et  presentis  Carte  nostre 
confirmacio  robur  perpetuitatis  inviolabiliter  habeat  presens 
scriptum  sigilli  nostri  apposicione  duximus  roborandurn.  Hiis 
testibus  Domino  Manessero  filio  Mathei,  Eadulfo  Cole,  Petro 
Wimundo,  Waltero  Capellanis,  et  Thoina  Capellano  Canonico, 

,  Thoma  et  Henrico  tune  clericis  Episcopi,  et  multis 

aliis.  Datum  Die  [sexta  Jan.]  Epiphanie,  anno  gracie  millesimo 
ducentessimo  quadragessimo  secundo. 

[The  seal  of  Bishop  Brewer  is  attached.]1 


CARTA  ABBATIS  ET  CONVENTUS  DE  TEUKESBIR 

SUPER  ADVOCACIONE  ECCLESIE  DE  WYNKELEGH  ET  ALIARUM  ECCLESIARUM 

IN  CORNUBIA. 

Cyrographum. 

OMNIBUS  Christi  fidelibus  ad  quos  presens  scriptum  pervenerit 
Kobertus  Dei  gratia  abbas  Theoukesburie  et  humilis  ejusdem 
loci  Conventus,  Salutem  in  Domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra 
nos  de  communi  consensu  et  assensu  nostro  dedisse,  concessisse, 
et  hac  Carta  nostra  confirmasse  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  Ecclesie 
Sancti  Petri  Exonie  et  ejusdem  Ecclesie  Capitulo,  advocaciones 
Ecclesie  de  Wynkeleija  in  Devonia,  et  Ecclesiarum  Sancti 
Sancredi  et  Trevalga  in  Cornubia,  simul  cum  omnibus  pensio- 
nibus  quas  inde  percipere  consuevimus,  et  cum  pleno  jure  patro- 
natus  absque  ullo  retinemento  ad  opus  nostrum  vel  Ecclesie 
nostre  in  perpetuum.  Ut  autem  hec  nostra  donatio,  concessio 

1  This  deed  has  suffered  much  from  wet. 


CHARTERS,  &c.  421 

et  confirmacio  perpetue  firmitatis  robur  obtineant  present!  scripto 
sigilla  nostra  duximus  apponenda.  Datum  anno  gratie  millesimo 
ducentesimo  quadragesimo  secundo,  octavo  decimo  Kalendis 
Februarii.1 

[The  seal  is  gone.] 


CONFIRMACIO  HENRICI  DE  POMERAYE 

DE  ECCLESIIS  DE  BOKBEL,  UPOTERY,  ET  SlOKELE  POMERAYE, 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  Ecclesie  filiis  presentes  litteras  inspec- 
turis  vel  audituris  Henricus  de  la  Pomeraye  Dominus  de  Berij, 
Salutem  in  Domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  quod  ego  pro 
salute  anime  mee  et  antecessorum  meorum  concedo  pro  me  et 
heredibus  meis  quietum  clamo  et  tenore  presencium  confirmo  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  Deo  et  Ecclesie  beati  Petri 
Exonie  ac  venerabili  Patri  Domino  Waltero,  Dei  gratia  ejusdem 
loci  Episcopo,  et  suis  successoribus  Episcopis,  advocaciones 
Ecclesiarum  de  Upotery,  de  Bokerel,  et  de  Stokeleg  Pomeraye, 
Exoniensis  Diocesis,  vacancium  per  resignationem  et  dimis- 
sionem  Radulfi  Abbatis  Ecclesie  beate  Marie  de  Valle  in  Nor- 
mannia,  et  ejusdem  loci  Oonventus  Baiocensis  diocesis.  Et  ut 
hec  mea  concessio  quieta  clamantia  et  confirmacio  perpetuum 
robur  firmitatis  obtineant  presens  scriptum  sigilli  mei  impres- 
sione  confirmavi.  Hiis  testibus  religiosis  viris  Henrico  de 
Buffestr.,  Briano  de  Tore  Abbatibus,  Magistro  Johanne  de 
Blakedon  Precentore  Exoniensi,  Koberto  Andre  de  Berliz, 
Dominis  Willielmo  de  Fishacre,  Waltero  de  Vernon  militibus, 
Eoberto  de  Cunnerton,  Kogero  le  Arcenesk,  et  aliis.  Actum  et 
datum  apud  Cryditon  in  vigilia  Assumpcionis  beate  Marie,  anno 
Domini  M°.  cc°.  sexagesimo  septimo. 

[The  seal  is  gone.] 


ECCLEI3IA  DE  BOCKELAND.    [FILLBIGH.J  2 

SCIANT  presentes  et'futuri  quod  ego  Henricus  de  Bott,  Prepositus 
de  Glasneya,  dedi  concessi  et  hac  presenti  Carta  mea  confirmavi 
venerabili  patri  in  Christo  Waltero,  Dei  gracia  Exoniensi  Epis- 
copo, totam  terram  meam  de  la  Wodecrofte  una  cum  advo- 
cacione  Ecclesie  de  Bokelond  filii  Walteri,  cum  omnibus  per- 
tinenciis  suis  quas  habui  de  dono  Domine  Ermigarde  relicte 
Domini  Willielmi  de  Ponchardon.  Tenendum  et  habenduni 
dicto  Domino  Waltero  et  cuicumque  dare,  legare,  assignare,  vel 

1  15  Jan.  2  Sewed  into  the  beginning  of  Bronescombe's  '  Register.' 


422  APPENDIX. 

aliquo  modo  appropriate  voluerit  in  quocumque  statu  fuerit  de 
dicta  Ermigarda  et  heredibus  suis  libere,  quiete,  jure  hereditario 
inperpetuum.  Et  ego  et  heredes  mei  tenemur  warantizare 
acquietare  et  defendere  dictam  terrain  et  advocacionem  dicte 
Ecclesie  predicto  Domino  Waltero  et  assignatis  et  legatariis  suis 
contra  omnes  homines  inperpetuum.  Quod  ut  ratum  et  stabile 
permaneat,  presenti  Carte  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus, 
Dominis  Alexandro  de  Oxton,  Kadulpho  de  Arundell,  Johanne 
Wyger  militibus,  Radulpho  de  Speketon,  Eeginaldo  le  Arcerieske, 
et  aliis. 


TERRA  DE  KELLT.1 

SCIANT  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego  Willielmus  de  Kostourck 
dedi,  concessi,  et  hac  presenti  Carta  mea  confirmavi  Domino 
Thome  de  Button,  Episcopo  Exoniensi,  totum  terrain  meani  de 
Kelly  in  Parochia  Sancti  Aluni  in  Cornubia  cum  suis  perti- 
nenciis.  Tenendum  et  habendum  predicto  Domino  Thome  de 
Button  et  heredibus  suis,  vel  assignatis,  libere,  quiete,  pacifice, 
integre,  jure  hereditario  inperpetuum  una  cum  domibus,  mes- 
suagiis,  clausis,  pratis,  pasturis,  viis,  et  aquis,  cum  omnibus  liber- 
tatibus  et  liberis  consuetudinibus  supradicte  terre  de  Kelly 
pertinentibus  tarn  in  sicco  quam  in  umido,  faciendo  inde  Dominis 
capitalibus  ejusdem  feodi  servicia  debita  et  consueta.  Pro  hac 
autem  mea  clonacione  concessione  et  presentis  Carte  confirma- 
cione  dedit  michi  predictus  Dominus  Thomas  decem  libras 
argenti  pro  manibus  in  recognicionem.  Et  ego  predictus  Wil- 
lielmus et  heredes  mei  totam  predictam  terram  de  Kelly  cum 
omnibus  suis  pertinenciis  predicto  Domino  Thome  de  Button 
et  heredibus  suis  vel  assignatis  tenemur  warantizare  contra 
omnes  homines  inperpetuum.  Et  ut  hec  mea  donacio  concessio, 
et  presentis  Carte  mee  confirmacio  rata  permaneat  et  stabilis 
inperpetuum,  eandem  sigilli  mei  impressione  roboravi.  Hiis 
testibus,  Dominis  Stephano  de  Bello  Prato,  Kicardo  de  Ceryciaus 
militibus,  Hugone  le  Gros,  Odone  de  Trereys,  Willielmo  de 
Reskylystyn,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Kargaul,  die  Dominica 
proxima  ante  Festum  Sancti  Laurencii,  anno  regni  Eegis 
Edwardi  filii  Kegis  Henrici  tricesimo. 


APPROPRIACIO  ECCLESIE  DE  UPOTERY.2 

Apud  Clist  in  crastino  Festi  Sancti  Hflarii  appropriavit  Dominus  Episcopus 
Ecclesiam  de  Upotery  Ecclesie  Exon  sub  hac  forma  : — 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  Ecclesie  filiis  presencium  seriem  lite- 
rarum    visuris    vel    audituris    Walterus,    miseracione   Divina 

1  Sewed  into  Bronescombe's  '  Register.'  "  Same  Register,  folio  46, 


CHARTERS,  &o.  423 

Exoniensis  Episcopus,  Salutem  in  Domino  sempiternam.  Noverit 
universitas  vestra  quod  nos  animarum  saluti  subvenire  cupientes 
ad  peticionem  quin  pocius  importunam  instanciam  dilecti  filii 
Domini  Thome  de  Herfort  Archidiaconi  Totton  et  Ecclesie 
nostre  Exon  Canonici,  preaccepta  beneficia  more  gracie  et 
hominis  benemeriti  reminiscentis,  accedente  assensu  et  voluntate 
expressa  dilectorum  filiorum  Kogeri  de  Tori3,  Decani  Exon  et 
ejusdem  loci  capituli,  concedimus  et  presencium  tenore  appro- 
priamus  Ecclesiam  de  Upottery,  cujus  vere  sumus  patroni, 
memoratis  Decano  et  Capitulo  cum  omnibus  pertinentiis  suis, 
excepta  vicaria  sufficient!  in  eadem  inperpetuum  possidendam, 
ad  sustentacionem  trium  capellanorum  pro  animabus  venerabi- 
lium  Patrum  Willielmi  Bruer  et  Kicardi  Blundi,  predecessorum 
nostrorum  Episcoporum  Exon,  nostr&,  dicti  Domini  Thome  et 
omnium  fidelium  defunctorum,  in  altari  in  honore  beati  Johannis 
Baptiste,  Blasii,  et  Pyrani,  in  navi  dicte  Ecclesie  Exon  dedicate 
et  ad  hoc  assignato  ministrandorum,  et  aliorum  onerum  sub- 
scriptorum  :  Ita,  videlicet,  quod  quilibet  de  capellanis  antedictis 
per  nianus  Senescallorum  ejusdem  Ecclesie  Exoniensis  sexaginta 
solidos  quatuordecim  panes  porcionarii  ad  officium  chori,  pro 
opere  deputati,  et  futuris  temporibus  in  perpetuum,  ad  Saluta- 
cionem  gloriose  Yirginis  matris  Domini,  singulis  diebus  post 
completorium,  sonora  voce  et  dulci  facie  adintitulati  viginti  et 
octo  solidos  in  quatuor  anni  terminis  principalibus  pro  vita 
annuatim  percipiant.  Et  quod  predicti  Decanus  et  Capitulum 
obitum  dicti  dicti  Domini  Thome  postquam  de  hac  vita  sub- 
tractus  fuerit  duodecim  solidos  singulis  annis  die  obitus  sui, 
secundum  antiquam  Ecclesie  Exoniensis  consuetudinem,  per 
Senescallos  suos  in  choro  distribuendos  fieri  faciant.  Et  panem, 
vinum,  candelas,  et  cetera,  omnia  dictis  capellanis ;  quos  sin- 
gulis horis  in  dicta  Ecclesia  in  posterum  psallendis  interesse 
voluimus  et  ad  orationem  in  Missis  suis  in  vita  et  in  morte ; 
altissimo  pro  nobis  specialiter  et  jugiter  effundendam  intitulamus 
in  altari  predicto  faciendam  quod  incumbit  necessaria  inveniant 
et  competenter  subministrent,  cura  animarum  predicte  Ecclesie 
de  Upottery  et  onere  ordinario  ad  vicarium  qui  pro  tempore 
prefuerit  in  eadem,  totaliter  pertinentibus.  In  cujus  rei  testi- 
monium,  etc.  Actum  in  Capitulo  Exoniensi,  die  Jovis  postFestum 
Sancti  Hyllarii,  M°.  cc°.  septuagesimo. 


COLLACIO  SANCTI  BRUEEEDI.1 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  Ecclesie  filiis  presens  scriptum  visuris 
vel  audituris  Walterus  miseracione  Divina  Exoniensis  Episco- 

1  Bronescombe,  folio  88  6. 


424  APPENDIX. 

pus,  Salutem  in  Domino  sempiternam.  Eo  puriori  desiderio  et 
fervenciori  zelo  felici  celestis  curie  senatui,  licet  nostro  non 
egeat  ministerio,  honorem  quern  possimus  pro  nostro  infirmitatis 
modulo  impendere  nitimur,  quo  eundem  humane  fragilitatis 
custodie  credimus  et  speramus  deputatum  certis  beatis  spiriti- 
bus  angelicis  certis  fidelium  animabus  a  summo  celi  opifice 
misericorditer  assignatis.  Proinde  celebrem  ejusdem  curie 
paraniniplii  Sancti,  videlicet,  Gabrielis  memoriam  cujus  bene- 
ficium,  Divina  volente  clemencia,  frequenter  sensimus  nobis 
profuisse,  sicut  possimus  lionorare  cupientes,  Ecclesiam  Sancti 
Brueredi  in  Cornubia,  cujus  advocacio  ex  nostra  canonica  adqui- 
sicione  ad  nos  pertinere  dinoscitur,  dilectis  filiis  Decano  et 
Capitulo  Exoniensi  nostro  in  proprios  usus  assignamus  et  assig- 
natam  presentis  attestacione  scripture  appropriamus  in  forma 
inferius  arinotata  perpetuo  possidendam,  videlicet,  quod  prefati 
Decanus  et  Capitulum  et  eorum  successor es  singulis  annis 
prima  die  Lune  mensis  Septembris  in  nostra  majori  Ecclesia 
beati  Petri  Exonie  ejusdem  Sancti  Gabrielis  memoriam  consi- 
mili  lionore  in  luniinaribus  et  aliis  que  in  die  Natalis  Domini 
vel  Pasche  fieri  consuevit  sollempniter  celebrent  imperpetuum. 
Ordinantes  quod  quilibet  canonicus  presenciam  suam  corpo- 
ralem  dicte  solempnitati  exhibens  preter  cotidianas  distribu- 
ciones  ipsa  die  duos  solidos,  quilibet  vicarius  similiter  presens 
duodecim  denarios,  quilibet  clericis  de  secunda  forma  in  sacris 
constitute  sex  denarios,  quilibet  puer  chori  infra  debitum 
numerum  existens  duos  denarios,  de  bonis  ecclesie  memorate 
percipiant  annuatim.  Ordinamus  insuper  quod  in  proxima 
sequenti  tertia  feria  mensis  ejusdem,  videlicet  in  crastino  festi 
predicti,  fiat  in  Ecclesia  nostra  predicta  imperpetuum  solemp- 
nis  anniversarius  dies  per  prefatos  Decanum  et  Capitulum 
eorumque  successores,  pro  anima  nostra  et  pro  animabus  bone 
memorie  Willielmi  et  Kicardi  predecessorum  nostrorum,  et  pro 
animabus  successorum  nostrorum  Episcoporum  Exoniensium,  et 
pro  animabus  patris  et  matris  nostre,  benefactorum  nostrorum, 
omniumque  fidelium  defunctorum.  Ita  quod  quilibet  canonicus 
in  hac  solempni  commemoracione  presens  duos  solidos,  quilibet 
vicarius  duodecim  denarios,  quilibet  clericus  de  secunda  forma 
in  sacris  constitutus  sex  denarios,  quilibet  puer  chori  duos 
denarios,  ipso  die  de  bonis  ejusdem  ecclesie  perpetuo  participant 
annuatim ;  sfatuentes  in  quolibet  anno  tertia  feria  predicta, 
prefati  Decanus  et  Capitulum  et  eorum  successores  quingentos 
pauperes  debiles  pascant  annuatim.  Ita  quod  annona  cujus 
libet  unum  denarium  valeat  in  esculentis  et  poculentis.  Volu- 
mus  eciam  et  ordinamus  ut  totum  residuum  proventuum  dicte 
Ecclesie  Sancti  Brueredi  inter  canonicos  quos  utrisque  sollemp- 
nitatibus  predictis  interesse  contigerit,  equaliter  dividatur  et  non 
in  alios  usus  convertatur.  Salva  competent!  vicaria  in  dicta 


CHARTERS,  &c.  425 

•% 

Ecclesia  Sancti  Brueredi,  quam  in  toto  altalagio  et  toto  sanc- 
tuario,  Exceptis  duabus  acris  Anglicanis  terre  in  quibus  dicti 
Decanus  et  Capitulum  possint  edificare  una  cum  decimis  Gar- 
barum  ville  minoris  Lank  et  tota  decima  feni  consistere  ordi- 
namus,  per  nos  et  successores  nostros  honeste  persone,  que 
omnia  onera  ordinaria  debita  et  consueta  sustinebit,  perpetuo 
conferenda.  Statuimus  quoque  et  ordinamus  quod  quilibet 
Decanus  et  Canonicus  in  sui  creacione  hanc  nostram  ordina- 
cionem  una  cum  aliis  antiquis  et  approbatis  Ecclesie  Exoni- 
ensis  consuetudinibus  juret  observare.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium 
sigillum  nostrum  presentibus  duximus  apponendum.  Datum 
in  Capitulo  nostro  Exoniensi  nonis  Septembris,  anno  gracie 
M.°CC.°LXX°  octavo,  et  consecracionis  nostre  vicesimo  primo. 


ECCLESIA  DE  WYDECOMB. 
(Rous.) 

CARTA  MAGISTRI  ROGERI  LE  Rus  DE  ADVOCACIONE  ECCLESIE  DE  WYDECUMB. 

(Lytchfeld.) 

SCIANT  presentis  et  futuri  quod  ;  ego  Kogerus  le  Kus,  filius 
Eadulphi  le  Kus  militis,  dedi,  concessi,  et  hac  presenti  Carta 
mea  confirmavi  ac  omnino  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis  quietum 
clamavi  Decano  et  Capitulo  Ecclesie  beati  Petri  Exoniensis  et 
successoribus  suis  in  puram  liberam  et  perpetuam  elemosinam 
unam  acram  terre  apud  Wydecombe  cum  advocacione  Ecclesie 
Sancti  Pancracii  de  Wydecomb  et  Capelle  Sancti  Leonardi  de 
Spikewyk  dicte  matrici  ecclesie  adjacentis  et  omnibus  aliis 
dicte  terre  pertinentiis,  que  quidem  acra  terre  jacet  in  Wode- 
haye  prope  sanctuarium  ecclesie  supradicte,  et  extendit  in  longi- 
tudine  a  predicto  sanctuario  ex  parte  occidental!  usque  ad 
regalem  viam  per  quam  itur  a  dicta  Ecclesia  de  Wydecombe 
versus  Dunsterston  ex  parte  orientali.  Tenendum  et  habendum 
dictam  terram  cum  advocacione  ecclesie  et  capelle  prenominate 
et  omnibus  aliis  pertinenciis,  sibi  et  successoribus  suis  de 
Domino  de  Wydecombe,  libere,  quiete,  bene,  pacifice,  et  integre 
inperpetuum.  Eeddendo  inde  annuatim  dicto  Domino  de 
Wydecomb  unum  par  cyrothecarum  vel  unum  denarium  ad 
Festum  Sancti  Micliaelis  pro  omni  servicio  seculari,  sicut  carta 
Domini  Eadulphi  filii  Eicardi  feofatoris  mei  michi  inde 
confecta  proportat  et  testatur.  Pro  hac  autem  mea  donacione, 
concessione,  confirmacione  et  quieta  clamancia,  concesserunt 
dicti  Decanus  et  Capitulum  et  bona  fide  promiserunt  se  solu- 
turos  singulis  annis  de  Scaccario  ipsormn  Exoniensi  decem 
marcas  argenti  ad  facienda  quedam  divina  servicia  annuatim  in 
ipsa  Ecclesia  Exoniensi  pro  anima  bone  memorie,  Eogeri  de 


426  APPENDIX. 

Thoriz,  quondam  Decani  Exonie,  in  quodam  alio  scripto  plenius 
specificanda.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  hanc  presentem  Cartam 
sigilli  mei  munimine  roboravi.  Hiis  testibus,  Dominis  Thoma 
de  Pyn  tune  vicecomite  Devonie,  Willielmo  de  Bykebyr., 
Kogero  de  Prydiaus,  et  Kadulpho  le  Kus,  militibus,  Egidio  de 
Fissacre,  Kadulpho  .  .  .  .  ,  Willielmo  de  Spikewyk,  Johanne  de 
Byuile,  Kicardo  de  Alre  et  aliis. 

[The  seal  is  gone  and  the  deed  has  suffered  from  damp.] 


APPROPEIACIO  ECCLESIE  DE  WYDECUHB. 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  Ecclesie  filiis  presencium  litterarum 
seriem  inspecturis  Petrus  miseracione  Divina  Exoniensis  Epis- 
copus,  Salutem  in  Domino  sempiternam.  Nobis  Ecclesie  nostre 
Exoniensis,  quam  utpote  sponsam  nostram  debito  caritatis  am- 
plexu  perstringimus,  statum  retractantibus,  velut  inconveniens 
occurrit  quod  inter  omnes  Cathedrales  Ecclesias  vicinas  mori- 
bus  et  honestate,  dono  Dei,  ditissima,  omnibus  sit  ipsa  pauperior 
rerum  substantialium  facilitate.  Ejus  igitur  possessionum 
exilitatem  considerantes,  et  memoriam  pie  recordacionis  Magistri 
Kogeri  de  Toriz  quondam  Decani  Ecclesie  memorate  recolentes, 
ad  dilecti  filii  nostri  Magistri  Kogeri  le  Kus  et  coexecutorum 
suorum  testamenti  dicti  defuncti  importunam  instanciam  et 
supplicacionem  assiduam,  Ecclesiam  de  Wydecumb  nostre 
diocesis  Decano  et  Capitulo  Ecclesie  nostre  supradicte  veris 
ejusdem  patronis  cum  Capella  de  Spykewyk  et  omnibus  aliis 
pertinenciis  suis,  concedimus,  confirmamus  et  tenore  presencium 
appropriamus.  Ita  quod  cedente  vel  decedente  Johanne  filio 
Kicardi  nunc  Kectore  dicte  Ecclesie  de  Wydecumb,  liceat  prefatis 
Decano  et  Capitulo,  possessionem  ejusdem  cum  pertinenciis 
auctoritate  presencium  irrequisito  nostro  vel  successorum  con- 
sensu,  ingredi  et  earn  sibi  et  successoribus  suis  habere  et  pleno 
jure  tenere  et  possidere  imperpetuum.  Salva  vicariis  ibidem 
pro  tempore  existentibus  per  nos  et  successores  nostros  ad  pre- 
sentacionem  supradictorum  Decani  et  Capituli  instituendis 
quibus  ipsius  Ecclesie  cura  animarum  incumbet,  vicaria  sua  per 
nos  vel  successores  nostros  taxanda.  Salvis  eciam  decem  marcis 
sterlingorum  singulis  annis  inperpetuum  de  Scaccario  eorundem 
solvendis  et  per  subscriptas  particulas  in  supradicta  Ecclesia 
Exoniensi  annuatim  distribuendis,  videlicet,  cuidam  idoneo  et 
honesto  capellano  per  dictos  Decanum  et  Capitulum  deputando, 
et  non  sine  justa  et  rationabili  causa  dum  vixerit  amovendo,  pro 
anima  dicti  defuncti  ad  altare  Sanctorum  Ricardi  et  Radegundis 
in  eadem  Ecclesia  nostra,  ubi  corpus  dicti  defuncti  jacet  Imma- 
tum,  successive  celebranti  nomine  stipendii  sex  marcis,  cui 
nichilominus  capellano  pro  tempore  existenti  dicti  Decanus  et 


CHARTERS,  &o.  427 

Capitulum  in  libris  vestimentis  et  aliis  ad  celebrandum  neces- 
sariis,  hiis  que  ad  presens  in  predicto  altari  habentur  vetustate 
deficientibus,  de  scaccario  suo  providebunt  et  ea  invenient.  Ad 
obitum  vero  ipsius  defuncti  singulis  annis  faciendum  singulos 
triginta  solidos,  ita  scilicet  quod  quibus  canonicus  ipsius 
Ecclesie  qui  ipso  die  obitus  presens  fuerit  in  Missa  pro  prefato 
defuncto  celebranda  duodecim  denarios  inde  percipiat,  quilibet 
vicarius  sex  denarios,  quilibet  clericus  de  secunda  forma  duos 
denarios,  et  quilibet  puer  de  choro  unum  denarium:  absen- 
tibus  autem  cujuscunque  gradus  existant  nichil  omnino  solvatur. 
Et  si  quid  de  predictis  triginta  solidis  ultra  hoc  remanserit  inter 
capellanos  et  clericos  chori  et  civitatis  per  dispositionem  senes- 
callorum  dicti  capituli  fideliter  distribuatur.  Ad  obitum  eciam 
prenominati  Magistri  Kogeri  le  Kus  postquam  de  medio  sublatus 
fuerit,  die  anniversarii  sui  in  eadem  Ecclesia  nostra  Exoniensi 
in  forma  communi  celebrandum  singulis  annis  singulos  decem 
solidos.  Et  ad  Festum  de  Corpore  et  Sanguine  Jhesu  Christi 
per  prefatum  defunctum  in  dicta  Ecclesia  primitus  introductum 
in  cera  et  cotidiana  distribucione  ac  aliis  circumstanciis  instar 
Festi  Assumpcionis  beate  Marie  Virginis  duplicandi  unam 
marcam.  Quicquid  autem  de  proventibus  dicte  Ecclesie  cum 
pertinenciis  residuum  fuerit  deductis  vicaria  et  decem  marcis 
predictis  et  supradictis  capellano  ad  celebrandum  necessariis  in 
augmentum  cotidianarum  distribucionum  canonicorum  ejusdem 
capituli  nostri  qui  in  majore  refeccione  diei  in  civitate  presente 
fuerint,  volumus  et  statuimus  converti.  In  quorum  omnium 
testimonium  et  perpetuam  firmitatem,  sigillum  nostrum  una 
cum  sigillo  predicti  Capituli  nostri  presentibus  est  appensum. 
Datum  Exonie,  in  crastino  Purificacionis  beate  Marie,  anno 
Domini,  M.°C.°C.,  octogesimo  tercio,  et  consecracionis  nostre 
anno  quarto.1 

[Little  remains  of  the  two  seals  of  Bishop  Quivil  and  of  the  Chapter.] 


OBLIGATIO  DOMINI  RANDULPHI  FILII  RICARDI,  SUPER  ADVOOACIONE  ECCLESIE 
DE  WYDECUMB.     (Lytchfeld.) 

OMNIBUS  Christi  fidelibus  ad  quorum  noticiam  presentes  litere 
pervenerint,  Kadulphus  films  Kicardi  Miles  et  Kogerus  le  Kous, 
Kector  Ecclesie  de  Nordhull,  Salutem  in  Dominum  sempiternam. 
Noverit  universitas  vestra  quod  anno  Domini  millesimo  ducen- 
tesimo  octogesimo  tercio  ita  convenerit  inter  nos  quod  ego  dictus 
Eadulphus  vendidi  et  tradidi  dicto  Kogero  le  Kous  unam  acram 
terre  de  Dominico  meo  de  Wydecumb  cum  advocacione  Ecclesie 
Sancti  Pancratii  de  Wydecumb  et  Capelle  Sancti  Leonardi  de 

1  3  Feb.  1283-4. 


428  APPENDIX. 

Spichwyke  predicte  matrici  ecclesie  adjacentis,  pro  octogiiita 
marcis  argenti,  ad  usum  meum  proprium  recipiendum,  et 
viginti  marcis  in  auxilium  filie  mee  maritande  convertendis.  De 
qua  quidem  pecunia  dictus  Eogerus  triginta  et  quinque  marcas 
mihi  solvit  pre  manibus.  Ego  vero  prefatus  Eogerus  totum  re- 
siduum predictarum  octoginta  et  viginti  marcarum,  videlicet 
sexaginta  et  quinque  marcas  teneor  et  bona  fide  promitto  solvere 
supradicto  Domino  Eadulpho  sive  ejusdem  certis  assignatis  ter- 
minis  subscriptis  sine  ulteriori  dilacione.  Scilicit  in  Festo  Sancti 
Martini  anno  supradicto  vel  ejus  octavis  quindecim  marcas,  et 
in  Festis  Purificacionis  beate  Marie,  Pentecostes,  et  Sancti  Mi- 
chaelis  proximis  sequentibus,  triginta  marcas  equis  porcionibus. 
Et  infra  finem  anni  proximo  subsequentis  illas  predictas  viginti 
marcas  predicto  Domino  Eadulpho  ad  filiam  suam  maritandam 
promissas  et  debitas.  Ad  quam  quidem  pecuniam  dictis  terminis 
fideliter  solvendam  obligo  me  et  omnia  bona  mea  mobilia  et  im- 
mobilia  habita  et  habenda  ubicunque  in  vita  vel  in  morte  in- 
venta  dicto  domino  Eadulpho  et  ejus  assignatis  subjiciens  in 
premissis  me  res  redditus  et  omnes  possessiones  meas  cohercioni 
offieialis  Domini  Exoniensis  Episcopi  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit, 
volens  et  concedens  quod  quociens  in  solucione  predicta  suis 
terminis  facienda  defecero,  quod  idem  officialis  me  per  suspen- 
cionis,  excommunicacionis,  et  interdicti  sentencias,  appellacione 
remota  strepituque  judiciali  omnino  cessante,  ad  hoc  compellat. 
Volo  eciam  et  concedo  quod  si  dicta  pecunia  nondum  persoluta 
in  fata  decessero,  nulla  bonorum  meorum  utpote  ad  predictam 
solucionem  specialiter  obligatorum  fiat  administracio  donee  pre- 
fato  Domino  Eadulpho  vel  suis  certis  assignatis  fuerit  in  hac 
parte  satisfactum.  Et  ego  siquidem  prenominatus  Eadulphus 
bona  fide  et  sacramento  corporaliter  prestito  pro  me  et  heredibus 
meis  et  assignatis  promitto,  quod  predictam  acram  terre  cum 
advocacione  antedicta  et  aliis  pertinentiis  suis  dicto  Eogero  et 
quibuscumque  dictam  terram  et  advocacionem  appropriare, 
sive  assignare  voluerit  warentizabo  imperpetuum.  Ita  quod 
si  ipse  heredes  sui  vel  assignati  vel  eciam  hii  quibus  dicta  ad- 
vocacio  imposterum  fuerit  appropriata  per  me  vel  heredes  meos 
vel  eciam  ad  quorumcunque  manus  dictum  manerium  rneum  de 
Wydecumb  processu  temporis  pervenerit  impeditus  seu  impediti 
fuerit  vel  fuerint  quominus  de  Ecclesia  predicta  cum  Capella 
sive  ad  eas  cum  vacaverint  presentando,  sive  ipsas  in  proprios 
usus  retinendo  ordinare  et  ad  voluntatem  suam  disponere  possint, 
dabimus  eidem  Eogero,  sive  illis^  qui  predicto  modo  fuerint  per 
nos  vel  hujusmodi  successores  nostros  impediti,  ducentas  marcas 
argenti  tarn  de  dicto  manerio  meo  de  Wydecumb,  quam  de  aliis 
terris  meis  ubicumque  in  Devonia  existentibus  per  vicecomitem 
Devonie  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit  cujus  districtioni  omnes  dictas 
terras  meas  in  hac  parte  subjicio  levandas,  et  prefato  Eogero  sive 


CHARTERS,  &o.  429 

cuicumque  dictum  impedimentum  passo  vel  passis  solvendas. 
Et  si  contingat  dictum  vicecomitem  ea  occasione  aliquam  dis- 
trictionem  in  dictis  terris  meis  facere,  quociens  earn  fecerit  tociens 
de  bonis  meis  vel  dictas  terras  tenencium  habeat  quadraginta 
solidos  pro  labore  suo  in  proprios  usus  convertendos.  Et  ad  pre- 
dictas  ducentas  marcas  in  casu  memorato  solvendas  omnes  pre- 
dictas  terras  meas  tenore  presentis  scripti  obligo  et  assigno.  Et 
ut  fides  in  omnibus  premissis  utrobique  observetur  tarn  ego  pre- 
fatus  Eadulphus  quam  ego  Eogerus  de  predicta  convencione 
fideliter  tenenda  affidavimus,  et  ad  majorem  securitatem  huic 
present!  scripto  indentato  et  inter  nos  bipartite  et  deciso  sigilla 
nostra  alternatim  apposuimus.  Hiis  testibus,  Dominis  Thoma 
Pyn  vicecomite  Devonie,  Willielmo  de  Byckebury,  Eogero  de 
Prediaus  militibus,  Eandulpho  de  Dodscumb,  Egidio  de  Fys- 
sacre,  Johanne  de  Bouyle,  Eicardo  de  Aure,  Thoma  Peytewyn, 
et  aliis.  Datum  Exonie  die  Sabbati  proxima  ante  Festum  Nati- 
vitatis  beate  Marie,  anno  regni  Eegis  Edvvardi  undecimo.1 
[The  seal  has  disappeared,] 


CARTA  APPROPRIACIONIS  ECCLESIE  SANCTI  UVELY 
AD  OBITUM  DOMINI  THOME  EPISCOPI  EXONIE,  ETC.,  PEOUT  PATET  INTUEKTI. 

UNIVEBSIS  presentis  literas  inspecturis  Thomas  permissione 
Divina  Exoniensis  Episcopus,  Salutem  et  pacem  in  Domino  sem- 
piternam.  Si  celestis  regni  participes  effici,  si  perennis  glorie 
Dyademate  coronari  concupiscimus  et  sitimus,  profecto  summo 
desiderio  vigilantique  studio  debemus  diem  extremum  examinis,  in 
quo  Deus,  qui  cuncta  creavit  ex  nichilo,  judicaturus  est  mundum, 
et  redditurus  unicuique  sive  bonum  sive  malum  secundum  suorum 
exigenciam  meritorum,  modis  quos  restat  omnibus,  prout  est  pos- 
sibile,  bonis  operibus  prevenire.  Ut  igitur  post  depositam  mor- 
talitatis  nostre  materiam  per  exercitium  bonorum  operum  que 
fecerimus  eternorum  intuitu,  dum  sumus  in  via,  indulgenciam  cul- 
parum  quas  cotidie  contrahimus  ac  remissionem  penarum  quibus 
nos  mundus,  demon  et  carnis  opera  reddunt  obnoxios,  incessanter 
sanctorum  meritis  et  oracionum  suffragiis  suffulti  cum  ipse  Deus 
et  Dominus  omnium  ad  judicandum  venerit,  facilius  consequa- 
mur.  De  premissis  non  immerito  sollicite  cogitantes,  Ecclesiam 
Sancti  Uvely  in  Cornubia,  qui  de  nostro  patronatu  existit  cum  suis 
juribus  et  pertinentiis  universis,  una  cum  jurisdiccione  in  spiri- 
tualibus  ejusdem  Ecclesie  cum  plebe  sua,  consimili  qualem  Archi- 
diaconi  Exoniensis  dyocesis  optinent  in  Ecclesiis  et  plebibus 
sibi  subjectis,  dilectis  in  Christo  filiis  Decano  et  Capitulo  nostro 
Exoniensi  in  usus  proprios  assignamus  et  per  presentis  attesta- 

/§P 

ST.    MICHAEL'S 
COLLEGE 


430  APPENDIX. 

cionem  scripture,  appropriamus  in  forma  inferius  annotata  per- 
petuo  possidendam,  videlicet  quod  predicti  Decanus  et  Capitulum 
suis  sumptibus  perpetuo  inveniant  duos  presbiteros  ydoneos  et 
perpetuos,  quorum  unus  pro  salubri  statu  nostro  quoad  vixerimus 
Missam  de  Sancto  Spiritu  cum  horis  canonicis  nocturnis  et 
diurnis.  Et  postquam  de  presenti  vita  migraverimus  pro  anima 
nostra  oniniumque  animabus  predecessorum  nostrorum,  progeni- 
torum  ac  eciam  benefactorum  spiritualiumque  nostrorum,  Missam 
pro  Defunctis,  cum  Placebo  et  Dirige  ac  Commendacione,  sin- 
gulis  diebus  hora  matutinali  ad  altare  beate  Marie  Virginis  in 
dicta  Exoniensi  Ecclesia,  alteram  vero  pro  anima  Magistri  Thome 
de  Bodeham,  quondam  Archidiaconi  Tottonye,  omniumque*  re- 
quie  defunctorum  idem  officium  pro  defunctis  et  in  forma  pre- 
dicta  ad  altare  beati  Gabrielis  Arcbangeli  cotidie  celebrabunt. 
Presbiter  vero  pro  nobis  intitulatus  quinque  marcas  sterlingorum, 
celebraturas  autem  pro  anima  dicti  Archidiaconi  quatuor  marcas 
cum  dimidia  nomine  stipendiorum  per  manus  Senescallorum  dic- 
torum  Decani  et  Capituli  ad  quatuor  anni  terminos  principales 
percipient  annuatim.  Si  vero  aliquis  eorurn  decesserit,  vel  alias 
propter  culpam  suam  merito  amotus  fuerit,  alius  presbiter  ydo- 
neus  per  nos  dum  vixerimus  et  post  mortem  nostram  per  ipsos 
Decanum  et  Capitulum  in  locum  sic  defuncti  vel  amoti  absque 
mora  qualibet  subrogetur,  et  nichilominus  dicti  Decanus  et  Capi- 
tulum omniaque  eisdem  presbiteris  fuerint  necessaria  ad  divi- 
norum  officia  exequenda  imprimis  et  pro  anima  Celebris  memorie 
Domine  Alijanore  quondam  consortis  Domini  illustris  Kegis 
Anglie  fiat  solempnis  Missa  de  Sancto  Spiritu  ad  majus  altare 
in  Ecclesia  Exoniensi  per  dictos  Decanum  et  Capitulum,  eorum- 
que  successores.  Et  post  mortem  nostram  annis  singulis  eo  die 
quo  nos  rnigrare  contingat  e  seculo,  per  singulas  anni  revolu- 
ciones,  solempnis  anniversarius  Dies  pro  anima  nostra  in 
perpetuum  per  eosdem,  ita  quod  quilibet  canonicus  tarn 
in  ipsa  solempni  Missa  celebranda  de  Sancto  Spiritu  nobis 
viventibus  quam  post  mortem  nostram  die  anniversarii  nostri 
predicti  dum  hujusmodi  sollempnia  agantur,  corporaliter  presens 
in  choro  duos  solidos,  quilibet  vicarius  duodecim  denarios, 
quilibet  clericus  de  secunda  forma  sex  denarios,  quilibet 
puer  chori  duos  denarios,  clericus  de  scakario  cum  ministris 
suis  duos  solidos.  Custores  pro  classico  duodecim  denarios  et 
quilibet  presbiter  de  civitate  et  suburbio  Exonie  tune  presens 
unum  denarium,  per  manus  Senescallorum  dictorum  Decani  et 
Capituli  dum  ipsa  ministeria  divina  celebrantur  in  choro  juxta 
antiquam  ipsius  Ecclesie  consuetudinem,  et  fratres  minores 
Exonie  duos  solidos  ad  Pytanciam  de  bonis  ipsius  Ecclesie  per- 
petuo percipiant  ipso  die.  Proviso  tamen  quod  si  aliquis  in 
dicta  Exoniensi  Ecclesia  duplici  aut  pluri  officio  fungatur,  non 
officii  set  persone  duntaxat  in  dicta  distribucione  racio  habeatur. 


CHARTERS,  &c.  431 

Et  nichilominus  ipsi  Decamus  et  Capitulum  invenient  quatuor 
cereos  circa  sarcofagum  in  quo  quiescimus  dum  Placebo  et 
Dirige  celebrabitur  et  per  totum  diem  sequentem  die  obitus 
nostri  continue  ardentes  cum  sufficient!  thure  quod  eodem  die 
ad  divinum  ministeriiim  requiretur.  Volumus  eciam  et  ordinamus 
ut  totum  residuum  proventuum  dicte  Ecclesie  Sancti  lively  inter 
Canonicos  quos  predicte  solempnitati  personaliter  interesse  con- 
tigerit  equaliter  dividatur,  et  nequaquam  in  usus  alios  conver- 
tatur  salva  competenti  vicaria  in  dicta  Ecclesia  Sancti  lively 
quam  in  toto  altilagio  et  toto  sanctuario  consistere,  volumus 
sicut  consistere  consuevit  ab  antique,  per  nos  et  successores 
nostros  honeste  persone  que  omnia  onera  ordinaria  debita  et 
consueta  sustinebit,  in  quibus  reparacionem  cancelli  includi 
intelligimus  perpetuis  temporibus  conferenda.  Statuimus  etiam 
et  ordinamus  quod  quilibet  Decanus  et  Canonicus  Exoniensis 
in  sui  creatione  hanc  nostram  ordinationem  una  cum  aliis 
antiquis  et  approbatis  Ecclesie  Exoniensis  consuetudinibus  juret 
per  omnia  observare.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  preseritibus 
literis  sigillum  nostrum  duximus  apponendum.  Actum  et  datum 
Exonie,  Idibus  Octobris,  anno  Domini  millesimo  ducentesimo 
nonagesimo  septimo,  et  consecrationis  nostre  sexto.1 

[A  beautiful  impression  of  Bishop  Bitton's  seal  is  attached.] 


LETTERS  OP  PARTICIPATION  OF  THE  PRAYERS  AND  GOOD 
WORKS  OF  THE  CHAPTER,  granted  to  KING  EDWARD  II.  AND  THE 
ROYAL  FAMILY. 

UNIVEKSIS  sancte  matris  Ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presentes  littere 
pervenerint,  Decanus  or  Capitulum  Exonie,  Salutem  in  Domino 
sempiternam.  Dum  inclitam  stirpis  Eegie  prosapiam,  dum 
sanguinis  generositatem  precellentem  Serenissimi  Principis 
et  Domini  nostri  Domini  Edwardi,  Dei  gratia  illustris  Kegis 
Anglie,  sub  cujus  protectione  gubernamur,  tutamur  et  defendimur 
quiescentes  in  pace,  profunda  mente  pensamus,  dumque  sua  et 
predecessorum  suorum  quondam  Kegum  Anglie  qui  Ecclesiam 
Exoniensem  a  piissimo  et  Deo  devotissimo  Kege  Athelstano 
fundatam,  subsequentibus  postea  diversorum  temporum  curriculis 
magnifice  ditarunt,  et  ab  omni  censu  et  gravedine  seculari  ex- 
emptam  et  liberarn  reddiderunt  facta  preclara  et  Deo  accepta 
frequenti  meditacione  revolvimus,  profecto  zelo  devocionis  indu- 
cimur  et  speciali  dilectionis  fervore  ignimur,  ut  pro  tot  et  tantis 
beneficiis  sic  acceptis  et  que  speramus  receperimus  in  futurum 
de  bonis  nostris  spiritualibus  beneficia  et  dona  spiritualia  qualia 
possumus  et  sufficimus  impartiamur  eisdem.  Volentes  igitur 

1  15  Oct.  1296. 


432  APPENDIX. 

quod  votis  gerimus  prompta  operis  execucione  supleri,  habito 
super  hoc  in  Capitulo  nostro  Exoniensi  inter  nos  diligent!  trac- 
tatu  ex  deliberate  consilio  et  unamini  consensu  prefatum 
Dominum  Kegem  illustrem,  una  cum  Consorte  sua  preclarissima 
Domina  Ysebella,  illustri  Kegina  Anglie  eorumque  filiis,  in 
Ecclesie  Exoniensis  et  congregationis  nostre  fraternitatem 
perpetuain,  devoto  et  humili  animo  suscipimus.  Ordinantes  et 
statuentes  quod  annis  singulis  feria  proxima  vacante  post  Festum 
Translations  beati  Thome  Martyris  quo  idem  Dominus  et  Kex 
noster  illustris  Divina  disponente  dementia,  Kegni  sui  suscepit 
gubernacula,  una  Missa  solempnis  de  Sancto  Spiritu  pro  salubri 
statu  eorundem  quoad  vixerint,  et  postquam  a  presenti  seculo 
migraverint  pro  se  suisque  filiis,  progenitoribus,  ac  aliis  predeces- 
soribus  suis  Kegibus  Anglie  supradictis,  plenarie  Servicium  pro 
Defunctis,  cum  solempni  Missa,  Placebo,  Dirige,  et  Commen- 
datione,  in  Ecclesia  Exoniensi  sollempniter  celebretur.  Et 
nichilominus  singulis  diebus  dominicis,  per  anni  circulum  curren- 
tibus  cum  preces  pro  vivis  et  defunctis  benefactoribus  nostris  in 
Ecclesia  Exoniensi  fuerint  faciende,  coram  Clero  et  Populo  ipsis 
viventibus,  cum  psalmo  '  De  profundis '  cum  oracionibus  ad  hoc 
convenientibus  fiant  nominatim  suffragia  specialia  pro  eisdem. 
Ordinamus  insuper  et  tenore  presencium  concedimus  quod  tarn 
ipsi  cum  filiis  suis,  quam  progenitores  sui  et  predecessores  quon- 
dam Keges  Anglie  benefactores  nostri  predicti,  omnium  bonorum 
spiritualium  que  fiunt  et  fient  pro  tempore  in  Ecclesia  Exoniensi 
tarn  in  Missis  quam  orationibus,  vigiliis,  jejuniis,  psalmodiis  tarn 
diurnis  quam  nocturnis,  et  ceteris  quibuscunque  aliis  caritatis 
et  misericordie  operibus  efficiantur  participes  et  consort es.  Que 
quidem  omnia  et  singula  ad  perpetuam  rei  memoriam  in  registro 
Scaccarii  nostri  Exonie  fecimus  registrar!.  In  cujus  rei  testi- 
monium  sigillum  nostram  commune  presentibus  est  appensum. 
Datum  in  Capitulo  nostro  Exoniensi,  octavo  Kalendis  Aprilis, 
anno  Domini  millesimo  tricentesimo  quinto  decimo.1 

[No  seal  appears  to  have  been  attached.] 


REPAIR  OF  THE  CITY  WALLS. 

COMPOSITION  made  in  January,  1322,  between  the  DEAN  and  CHAPTER  of  the 
CATHEDRAL  CHURCH  of  ST.  PETER  in  EXETER  and  the  MAYOR  and  CORPO- 
RATION of  the  City  of  Exeter,  concerning  the  REPAIRS  OF  THE  CITY  WALLS 

ADJOINING  THE  CLOSE.2 

NOVERINT  universi,  quod  cum  nuper  major  et  communitas  Civi- 
tatis  Exon  muros   Clausi  venerabilis   Patris    Domini   Walteri 

1  25  March,  1315. 

2  Extracted  from  Bishop  Brantyngham's  'Register.'  vol.  i.  fol.  236. 


CHARTERS,  &c.  433 

[Stapeldon],  Dei  gratia  Exon  Episcopi,  ad  muros  civitatis 
predicte  attachiatos,  ac  etiam  muros  de  Clause  Cancellarii 
Ecclesie  Cathedralis  Exon,  necnon  de  Clausis  Archidiaconorum 
Exon  et  Cornubie  simili  modo  muro  civitatis  predicte  attachiatos, 
Clausa  separata  facientibus,  fregissent,  ex  quo  materia  discordie 
inter  dictos  Patrem,  Decanum  et  Capitulum  Cathedralis  Ecclesie 
Exon  ac  personas  predictas  Clausa  sua  in  ilia  parte  habentes,  et 
majorem  et  communitatem  civitatis  predicte  fuerat  suborta ; 
tandem  pacis  amatoribus  intervenientibus  conquievit  in  hunc 
modum,  viz.,  quod  predicti  major  et  communitas,  eorum  heredes 
et  successores  muros  predictos  per  ipsos  cum  lapidibus  et  cemento 
competent!  usque  ad  Kernerios  muri  civitatis  predicte  compo- 
tenter  faciant,  et  eisdem  muris  iidem  major  et  communitas  eorum 
heredes  et  successores  bonas  posternas  tante  latitudinis  quante 
murus  infra  Kernerios  latus  existit  propinquius  dictis  Kerneriis 
quo  fieri  poterit  situandas,  fortiter  seratus  seruris  duabus,  quarum 
clavis  una  penes  majorem  et  communitatem,  et  alia  penes  cus- 
todem  curie  dicti  Domini  Episcopi  et  successorum  suorum,  et 
sic  de  aliis  personis  ecclesiasticis  muros  similes  habentibus  re- 
manebunt :  que  quidem  posterne  semel  in  anno  aliquo  die  compe- 
tenti  inter  Festum  Sancti  Michaelis  et  Festum  Omnium  Sanctorum 
per  premonitionem  octo  dierum  clavibus  communibus  aperiantur. 
Ita  quod  predictis  majori  et  communitati  eorum  heredibus  et 
successoribus  de  civitate  predicta  pateat  ingressus  ad  murum 
civitatis  in  ea  parte,  si  constructione  aut  reparatione  indigeat 
videndum,  tarn  super  murum  quam  in  latere  dicti  muri.  Et  si 
ingressus  eisdem  denegetur  in  posternis  predictis,  licebit  eisdem 
seras  frangere  ad  premissa  facienda.  Et  si  invenerint  quod 
murus  predictus  reparatione  aut  constructione  indigent  dicti 
Dominus  Episcopus,  Decanus  et  Capitulum  et  persone  ecclesias- 
tice  predicte  et  eorum  successores  viam  sufficientem  ad  cariandum 
lapides,  calcem  et  cetera  que  ad  murum  ipsurn  necessaria  fuerint 
aut  oportuna  quotiens  et  quando  opus  fuerit,  fact&  premonitione 
predicta,  invenient :  alioquin  licebit  ipsis  majori  et  communitati 
eorum  heredibus  et  successoribus  muros  ipsius  patris  ac  omnium 
ceterarum  personarum  ecclesiasticarum  et  eorum  successorum 
predictos  ad  Kernerios  muris  civitatis  predicte  attachiatos  juxta 
murum  civitatis  ubi  posterne  situantur,  prosternere  ;  ita  quod 
competentem  habeant  introitum  ad  cariagia  sua  facienda  pro 
reparatione  et  constructione  muri  civitatis  predicte.  Et  licebit 
eisdem  majori  et  communitati  eorum  heredibus  et  successoribus 
interius,  si  fundamentum  predicti  muri  civitatis  defieiat,  suffi- 
cienter  fodere  in.  terra  predicti  patris  et  ceterarum  personarum 
ecclesiasticarum  pr  edict-arum  eorumque  successorum  et  murum 
eadem  latitudine,  qua  nunc  est,  fundare  et  usque  ad  completionem 
construere,  et  stationem  sufficientem  super  terrain  predictormn 
Domini  Episcopi  et  aliamm  personarum  ecclesiasticarum  pre- 

2  F 


434  APPENDIX. 

€lictarum  et  successorum  eoram  muro  predicto  et  fundamento 
ejusdem  propinquiorem,  dum  in  operando  fuerint,  pro  suis  oper- 
ariis  habere,  ita  tamen  quod  postquam  operarii  in  muro  seu  in 
fundamento  predictis  operari  inceperint,  de  die  in  diem  opera- 
bilem  continue  et  celeriter  usque  ad  completionem  ejusdem 
operis  operentur.  In  tempore  vero  guerre  muri  predicti  per 
sexdecem  pedes  in  longitudine  a  Kerneriis  proximiores  proster- 
nantur:  ita  quod  majori  et  communitati  eorum  heredibus  et 
successoribus  ac  aliis  ad  eivitatem  predictam  venientibus  pro 
defensione  ejusdem  civitatis  pateat  ingressus.  Cessante  vero 
guerra  et  insultu,  dicti  muri  et  posterne  per  majorem  et  com- 
munitatem  civitatis  predicte  et  eorum  heredes  et  successores 
indilate  reparentur  sicut  prius  inperpetuum  et  per  episcopum  et 
ceteras  personas  ecclesiasticas  predictas  sustententur  et  posterne 
predicte  per  eosdem  majorem  et  conimunitatem  reparentur  et 
inperpetuum  sustententur.  Datum  Exon,  die  Yeneris  post 
Festum  Sancti  Hilarii,  anno  regni  Kegis  Edwardi  secuncli 
decimo  quinto. 


OBITUS  DOMINI  WALTERI  EPISCOPI.1 
2nd  March,  1322. 

(In  the  handwriting  of  Bishop  Grandisson.    Ista  ordinacio  minus  est  Canonica.) 

EDWAKDUS  Dei  gracia  Eex  Anglie  Dominus  Hibernie  et  Dux 
Aquitanie,  omnibus  ad  quos  presentes  Littere  pervenerint, 
Salutem.  Inspeximus  Literas  patentes  venerabilis  Patris  Walteri 
Exoniensis  Episcopi  in  hec  verba.  Universis  Literas  inspecturis. 
Walterus  permissione  Divina  Exoniensis  Episcopus,  Salutem  in 
Domino  sempiternam.  Terribilem  diem  ilium  quo,  tremendi 
Judicis,  recepturi  prout  in  corpore  gessimus,  astabimus  tribunal!, 
talium  plantacionum  operibus  expedit  prevenire,  quarum  fructi- 
bus  eidem  cotidie  presentatis,  exasperati  mulceatur  animus,  placa- 
biliorque  reddatur.  Ad  hec  igitur  nostre  consideracionis  aciem 
dirigentes  et  nullatenus  ignorantes,  quod  inter  humana  presidia, 
que  post  solutum  universe  carnis  debitum  mortuis  ministrantur 
precipuum  locum  optinent,  oblacio  dominice  corporis  in  altari,  et 
oracio  sacerdotum,  habito  cum  dilectis  filiis  Decano  et  Capitulo 
Ecclesie  nostre  Exoniensis,  communi  tractatu  diligenti,  qui 
requiritur  et  solempni,  de  ipsorum  unamini  consilio  pariter  et 
assensu  ordinamus  et  statuimus  imam  perpetuam  cantariam 
unius  sacerdotis,  qui  in  capella;  que  in  atrio  seve  cimiterio 
inajoris  Ecclesie  nostre  Exoniensis  situata,  Charne  vulgariter 
nuncupate,  pro  salubri  statu  nostro,  dum  vixerimus,  Missam 
de  Sancto  Spiritu,  vel  de  Die ;  et  post  decessum  nostrum,  pro 

1  Bishop  Stapeldon's  'Register,'  fol.  169,  170, 


CHARTERS,  &c.  435 

nostra  nostrarumque  predecessorum  et  successorum  Episco- 
porum  Exoniensium  omniumque  benefactorum  nostrorum,  et 
Ecclesie  nostre  Exoniensis  supradicte,  necnon  defunctorum 
omnium  fidelium  animabus,  Missam  pro  Defunctorum  Requie, 
ab  Ecclesia  salubriter  institutam  et  communiter  usitatam, 
statim  post  finitas  duas  missas,  que  apud  altare  quod  vulgariter 
vocatur  Brattones  woned,  in  majori  Ecclesia  Exoniensi  solent 
communiter  celebrari,  vel  saltern  ilia  hora  qua  finiri  consue- 
verunt  temporibus  retroactis,  per  se  vel  si  canonice  fuerit 
impeditus  per  alium  celebrare  et  nihilominus  plenum  mortu- 
orum  obsequium,  videlicet,  Placebo,  Dirige  et  Comendacionem, 
horis  competentibus  dicere  diebus  singulis  teneatur :  ad  que 
omnia  et  singula  bene  et  fideliter  exequendum  sacerdotem 
primitus  deputandum  et  quemlibet  inposterum  subrogandum 
eidem,  deputacionis  et  subrogacionis  tempore,  juramentum 
prestare  statuimus  et  precipimus  corporale.  Idoneum  vero 
hujusmodi  sacerdotem  per  nos  dum  vixerimus  deputari  volumus  ; 
statim  autem  postquam  ab  hac  luce  subtract!  fuerimus,  ad 
cantariam  hujusmodi  si  tune  vacaverit  deputandi,  et  extunc 
quociens  ipsam  cantariam  vacare  contigerit,  alium  subrogandi, 
Decano  in  Ecclesia  nostra  Exoniensi  predicta,  et  ejus  succes- 
soribus  qui  pro  tempore  fuerint,  et,  vacante  Decanatu,  Capitulo 
Ecclesie  nostre  Exoniensis  perpetuis  temporibus  per  hanc 
nostram  ordinacionem  cum  consillo  et  assensu  dictorum  Decani 
et  Capituli  factam,  concedimus  potestatem  :  quos  sub  inter- 
minacione  divini  Judicii  obtestamur  ut  ydoneum  et  honestum 
sacerdotem  ad  prefatam  cantariam  deputare  ac  eciam  subrogare 
studeant  cum  effectu,  qui  commissum  sibi  officium  velit  et 
valeat  sagaciter  adimplere.  Ordinamus  insuper  et  statuimus, 
ad  id  similiter  accedentibus  ipsorum  Decani  et  Capituli  unamini 
consilio  et  assensu,  quod  cum  nostri  corporis  dissolucionem 
attulerit  sors  humana,  dies  obitus  nostri  anniversarius  in 
Ecclesia  nostra  Exoniensi  singulis  annis  perpetuo  solempniter 
celebretur :  ad  hujusmodi  vero  sacerdotis  sustentacionem  annuam, 
quinque  marcas  et  dimidium  sterlingorum,  et  ad  memoratum 
diem  obitus  nostri  anniversarium  celebrandum,  preter  alia  que 
dudum  ad  anniversarium  hujusmodi  assignavimus,  sexaginta 
solidos  ejusdem  monete  de  bonis  spiritualibus  ad  mensam  Epis- 
copalem  Exoniensem  pertinentibus,  sinodatico  videlicet  et 
cathedratico  ab  Archidiaconatu  Tottonie  provenientibus,  cum 
consilio  et  assensu  dictorum  Decani  et  Capituli,  et  specialiter 
Magistri  Eogeri  de  Cherleton  nunc  Archidiaconi  Tottonie, 
titulo  permutacionis  cum  quibusdam  terris  et  redditibus  de 

quibus  inferius  fit  mencio  per  huiusmodi  ordinacionem  nostram 

•      e        -\  M  •  •  i 

irretragabilem  assignamus,  quam  quidem  peccume  summam  a 

bonis  Episcopii  nostri  Exoniensis  cum  dictorum  Decani  et 
Capituli  assensu  per  hujusmodi  ordinationem  nostram  irrefra- 

2  F  2 


436  APPENDIX. 

gabilem  assignamus  quamquidem  pertinere  summam  a  bonis 
Episcopii  nostri  Exon  cum  dictorum  Decani  et  Capituli  assensu 
totaliter  separamus,  et  ad  usum  predictum,  titulo  memorato, 
imperpetuum  concedimus  et  assignamus:  Ita  videlicet,  quod 
Archidiaconus  Tottonie  et  sui  successores,  qui  pro  tempore 
fuerint,  prefatas  decem  marcas,  quas  Archidiaconi  Tottonie, 
temiporibus  retroactis,  Episcopo  Exoniensi  de  bujusmodi  sino- 
datico  et  cathedratico  solvere  consueverunt,  Decano  et  Capitulo 
Exoniensi  in  terminis  antea  consuetis  annis  singulis  solvere,  et 
ipsis  de  cetero  teneantur  satisfacere  integraliter  de  eisdem,  et 
ab  obligacione  qua  quantum  ad  hujusmodi  peccunie  solucionem 
Episcopo  Exoniensi  consueverant  astringi,  dum  tamen  hujusinodi 
decem  marcas  prefatis  Decano  et  Capitulo  solverint  seu  de  eisdem 
satisfacerint,  ut  est  dictum,  penitus  liberati  existant.  Volumus 
eciam  et  inviolabiliter  observari  precipimus,  quod  predicti 
Decanus  et  Capitulum  bujusmodi  sacerdoti  quinque  marcas  et 
dimidiam,  de  quibus  supra  fit  mencio,  in  Festis  beati  Michaelis, 
Nativitatis  Domini,  Pasche,  et  Nativitatis  beati  Johannis  Baptiste, 
pro  equalibus  porcionibus  solvant,  et  de  sexaginta  solidis  una 
cum  aliis  assignatis  et  assignandis  ad  premisa,  prout  supra  tangi- 
tur,  que  ad  sex  marcas  vel  circiter  in  present!  se  extendunt,  die 
obitus  nostri,  quern  eo  die  per  anni  circulum  revoluto,  celebrari 
volunius,  quo  subtracti  fuerimus  ab  hac  luce  inter  canonicos, 
vicarios,  et  alios  ipsius  Ecclesie  ministros,  qui  exequiis  tune 
faciendis  personaliter  interfuerint  in  forma  que  subsequitur  dis- 
tribuendas,  ita  videlicet  quod  singuli  canonici  qui  officio  vesper- 
tino  personaliter  interfuerint  sex  denarios,  et  qui  misse  in 
crastino  similiter  personaliter  interfuerint,  sex  denarios  :  singuli 
vicarii  qui  in  officio  vespertine  ut  premittitur  personaliter  inter- 
fuerint tres  denarios,  et  qui  in  missa  tres  denarios,  singuli  vero 
ministri  dicte  Ecclesie  de  secunda  forma,  qui  in  officio  vespertino 
personaliter  fuerint,  duos  denarios,  et  qui  in  missa  duos 
denarios ;  et  singuli  pueri  cbori,  qui  in  officio  vespertino  pre- 
sentes  fuerint,  singulos  denarios,  et  qui  in  missa  similiter, 
singulos  denarios  habeant  et  recipiant,  satisfacere  teneantur ; 
custodes  autem  Ecclesie  memorate,  pro  classico  pulsando  post 
mortem  nostram,  octo  denarios  habeant.  Presbiter  vero  qui 
anniversarium,  de  quo  premittitur,  celebraverit,  tantum  percipiet 
in  officio  vespertino  et  die  obitus  nostri  hujusmodi  de  distii- 
bucione  tune  tantummodo  facienda,  quantum  canonicus  aliquis 
Ecclesie  supradicte  dum  tamen  exequiis  personaliter  inter- 
fuerit  secundum  formam  canonic^  ante  datam.  Alioquin  nichil 
se  noverit  de  distribucione  hujusmodi  recepturus,  volentes 
insuper  quod  in  Ecclesia  nostra  Exoniensi  in  qua,  permittente 
Domino,  Presidemus  dum  vitam  gerimus  humanam,  in  cele- 
bracionc  divinorum  nostri  memoria  specialiter  habeatur,  et 
attendcntes  quod  ita  circa  Festum  Purificacionis  beate  Virginis 


CHARTERS,  &c.  437 

in  Ecclesia  nostra  Exoniensi  multorum  obituum  est  concurrus,. 
de  consilio  et  assensu  dictorum  Decani  et  Capituli  volumus  et 
ordinamus,  quod  singulis  annis  proximo  Die  precedente  Festum 
Purificacionis  quo  die,  prout  ex  parentum  nostrorum  relatu 
didicimus,  a  maternis  visceribus  segregati  primordia  recepimus 
hujus  lucis,  una  Missa  de  Sancto  Spiritu  pro  salubri  statu  nostro 
dum  vixerimus  solempniter  celebretur.  Quo  quidem  "die 
canonici,  vicarii  et  ceteri  ministri  ipsius  Ecclesie  qui  in  cele- 
bracione  hujusmodi  misse  personaliter  presentes  fuerint,  tantum 
percipient  quantum  superius  ordinatur  percipere  debebunt,  in 
hujusmodi  officio  vespertino  et  die  obitus  memorati  quod  eis 
exsolvi  volumus  eodem  die,  inter  ipsius  misse  solempnia  juxta 
modum  ipsius  Ecclesie  in  consimilibus  distribucionibus  consue- 
tum,  clericos  vero  de  scaccario  dicte  Ecclesie  communem  pistorem 
canonicorum,  et  custodem  Bosci  eorundem  canonicorum  de 
Stokewode  tarn  in  dicta  distribucione  facienda,  die  obitus  nostri 
quam  in  celebracione  Misse  de  Sancto  Spiritu  memorate  tantum 
percipere  volumus  et  jubemus  quantum  percipiunt  et  percipere 
consueverunt  in  obitibus  simplicibus  in  dicta  Ecclesia  Exoniensi 
ab  aliis  ordinatis.  Si  quis  vero  duo  officia  fortassis  gesserit  in 
Ecclesia  supradicta,  in  distribucionibus  hujusmodi  secundum 
modum  superius  distinctum  recipiet  unius  officii  quod  maluerit 
racionem.  Id  autem  quod  de  pecunia  ad  premissa  specialiter, 
ut  premittitur,  assignata  postquam  ea  que  superius  et  prout  in 
hac  parte  ordinavimus  plenarie  sunt  complete,,  residuum  fuerit 
inter  canonicos  dicte  Ecclesie  Exoniensis  in  premissis  divinis  et 
animarum  obsequiis  presentialiter  existentes,  pro  rata  temporis 
quo  eisdem  obsequiis  fuerint  sic  presentes  distribuatur.  Ceteris 
non  presentibus  canonicis  in  totum  exclusis,  a  percepcione  cujus- 
que  quote  residui  memorati.  Pro  hujusmodi  vero  quantitate 
pecunie  quam  a  mensa  nostra  Episcopali  separavimus  ut  est 
dictum.  Quando  terram  intra  manerium  nostrum  de  Chudeham 
cum  advocacione  tercie  partis  advocacionis  Ecclesie  de  Thorneye 
in  comitatu  Sussex,  et  terras  de  Pokehaie  in  manerio  de  Yerte- 
combe,  Torre,  et  Waddene  in  manerio  de  Chuddelegh  in  comitatu 
Devonie,  et  nonnullos  eciam  alios  terras  et  redditus  tarn  in 
dicto  comitatu  Devonie  quam  Cornubie,  quarum  terrarum  et 
aliorum  reddituum  exitus  et  proventus  ad  quadraginta  libras 
sterlingorum  et  amplius  valorem  annuum  se  extendunt,  nostris 
industria  et  laboribus  mediantibus  de  bonis  nostris  peculiaribus, 
nobis  et  successoribus  nostris  adquisivimus  et  terris  et  posses- 
sionibus  nostris  Episcopalibus  incorporavimus  et  univimus,  ea 
duntaxat  intencione,  ut  predictarum  decem  marcaruni  sum  mas 
quam  excedunt  in  quantitate  notabili,  compensarent,  et  sic  qui 
meliora  prospeximtis,  dici  non  possuinus  Ecclesie  nostre  Ex- 
oniensis, per  hanc  nostram  ordinacionem,  lesionem  aliquam 
intulisse.  Ex  quibus  terris  et  redditibus,  ut  premittitur, 


438  APPENDIX. 

adquisitis,  eciam  porcionem  ad  congruam  predictam  sacerdotis 
sustentacionern,  et  premissum  diem  obitus  celebrandi  aliquando 
proposuimus  assignasse.  Sed  ue  vel  communio  discordiam,  et 
divisio  dispendium  generaret,  utile  fore  decrevimus  nostro 
cuilibet  successor!,  turn  propter  vicinitatem  aliarum  terrarum, 
ad  mensam  Episcopalem  pertinencium,  turn  propter  alias  causas 
ipsas  terras  sibi  relinquere  tenendas  insolidum  et  habendas, 
ut  prefatum  onus  agnoscat  aliunde.  In  quorum  omnium  et 
singulorum  testimonium  atque  fidem  sigillum  nostrum  una 
cum  sigillo  communi  dictorum  Decani  et  Capituli  presentibus 
est  appensum.  Et  nos  Decanus  et  Capitulum  mernorati  super 

fremissis  omnibus  et  singulis  articulis,  cum  venerabili  Patre 
Waltero]  nostro  Episcopo  secundo,  tractatu  habito  per  nos  dili- 
genti  qui  requiritur  et  soiempni,  labores  et  merita  dicti  patris, 
quibus  nos  Ecclesiam  nostram  et  mensam  Episcopalem  Ex- 
oniensem,  tarn  in  adquisicione  dictorum  terrarum  et  reddituum, 
quam  in  aliis  honoravit  multipliciter  perpetui  muneris  laude 
dignos,  ut  astringimur,  reputantes,  omnibus  et  singulis  que  in 
eisdem  articulis  et  circa  eos  per  venerabilem  patrem  predictum, 
ut  premittitur,  acta  sunt  et  gesta,  concorditer  assentimus  ipsa- 
que  omnia  et  singula  quantum  ad  nos  attinet  approbamus.  Et 
in  signum  consensus  et  approbacionis  hujusmodi  has  literas 
nostri  communis  sigilli  munimine  fecimus  reborari.  Datum  et 
actum  in  capitulo  nostro  Exoniensi  secundo  die  mensis  Marcii 
anno  Domini  millesimo  cccmo.  XXJ°.  Nos  autem  ordinaciones, 
statuta,  concessiones,  assignaciones  asseiftum,  approbacionem,  et 
omnia  alia  in  predictis  literis  contenta,  rata  habentes  et  grata, 
ea  pro  nobis  et  heredibus  nostris,  quantum  in  nobis  est,  conce- 
dinius  et  confirmamus,  sicut  litere  predicte  racionabiliter  tes- 
tantur.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  lias  literas  nostras  fieri 
fecimus  patentes.  Teste  me  ipso  apud  Tutteburi  xu.  die 
Novembris  anno  regni  nostri  sexto  decimo. 


INVENTORY  OF  THE  EFFECTS  OF  WALTER  STAPELDON, 
BISHOP  OF  EXETER.1 

(Murdered  in  Cheapside,  London,  15th  October,  1326.) 

THE  following  is  the  substance  of  a  Latin  roll  belonging  to  the 
church  of  Exeter.  Unfortunately  it  has  been  so  wantonly  defaced 
in  some  parts,  by  the  application*^  galls,  as  to  allow  but  certain 
words,  here  and  there,  with  an  occasional  line,  to  be  deciphered. 
The  roll  is  eight  feet  long,  and  purports  to  be  a  true  inventory  of  the 
personals,  goods,  and  chattels,  of  the  late  Lord  Bishop  of  Exeter, 

1  Referred  to  ante,  p.  04. 


CHARTERS,  &o.  439 

Walter  de  Stapeldon,  who  was  murdered  by  a  London  mob,  on 
15th  October,  1326.     It  is  divided  into  the  following  heads : — 

1.  Church  ornaments.  6.  Cellar. 

2.  Books.  7.  Bakehouse. 

3.  Chamber.  8.  Kitchen. 

4.  Wardrobe.  9.  Larder. 

5.  Hall.  10.  Plate,  vasa  argentea. 

Then  is  given  the  live  and  dead  stock  on  the  estates  belonging 
to  the  See  of  Exeter,  v.  g.,  at  Petersheghs,  in  Yarcombe  parish ; 
at  Floxton,  in  Ottery  St.  Mary's ;  at  Clist,  in  Farringdon  parish, 
near  this  city ;  in  Chudleigh,  in  Bishop's  Teignton,  Paignton, 
Ashburton,  and  Bishop's  Tawton,  all  in  Devon ;  at  Chuddeham 
and  Thorney,  in  Sussex  ;  Horsleigh  and  Tyting,  in  Surrey  ; 
Farringdon,  in  Hants.  Then  follows  the  property  in  Cornwall, 
viz. :— at  Lawhitton,  Berneyr,  Trewood,  Pouton,  Kergaull, 
Lanergh,  Penryn  and  Gaffos,  Tregair  and  St.  Germans;  then 
returns  to  Devon,  viz. : — to  Staunton,  in  Loddiswell  parish  ; 
Norton,  in  Newton  St.  Gyres  ;  Stodburi,  in  Plympton  St.  Mary ; 
and  Ayshill,  in  Bishop's  Teignton. 

1. — CHURCH  ORNAMENTS. — This  paragraph  has  been  un- 
mercifully treated  by  the  lover  of  galls.  But  copes,  chasubles, 
dalmatics,  tunics,  &c.,  may  be  traced ;  some  ornaments  had  been 
purchased  of  the  executors  of  a  Bishop  of  Durham,  for  twenty 
marks ;  a  chasuble,  embroidered  with  the  arms  of  France  and 
England,  is  valued  at  eight  marks ;  mention  is  made  of  a  chasuble 
cum  imagine  Salvatoris  ;  several  of  the  dresses  had  birds,  beasts, 
and  griffons  worked  on  them  ;  an  Expository  is  described  as  de- 
corated with  pearls  and  rubies,  and  the  representations  of  Christ 
on  the  Cross,  the  Trinity,  the  blessed  Virgin  and  her  corona- 
tion ;  and  we  meet  with  several  yards  of  red  velvet,  of  cloth  of 
gold,  baudekyn,  and  of  Venice. 

2. — The  2nd  paragraph  contains  the  Appraisement  of  the 
Bishop's  looks.  As  his  lordship  had  been  Professor  6?  Canon 
Law  in  the  University  of  Oxford,  before  his  elevation  to  the 
see  of  Exeter,  we  were  not  surprised  at  finding  in  his  library  so 
many  works  on  jurisprudence.  The  whole  may  be  deciphered 
as  follows  : — 

1.  The  Decretals   (Gratian's),    with    cases   and   histories    in 

the  margin,  value  10  marks. 

2.  Another  copy  of  the  Decretals,  11.  6s.  Sd. 

3.  The  first  part  of  Eosarius  super  Decreta,  6  marks. 

4.  The  second  part  of  ditto,  6  marks. 

5.  Apparatus  Hugonis  super  Decreta,  5  marks. 

6.  Lecture  super  Decreta,  10.9. 

7.  Lecture  Petri  de  Salmis  super  Decreta,  13s.  4d. 

8.  A  fine  copy  of  the  Decretals,  10  marks. 


440  APPENDIX. 

9.  Another  fine  copy  of  ditto,  8  marks. 
10.  A  copy  of  ditto,  bound  in  leather,  5  marks. 
11  and  12.  Copies,  one  the  property  of  the  late  treasurer  of 

Exeter,  the  other  of  the  rector  of  Manaton,  each  4  marks, 

8  marks. 

13.  The  first  part  of  the  Lecture  Hostien,  on  the  1st,  2nd,  and 

4th  books  of  the  Decretals,  6  marks. 

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CHARTERS,  &c.  441 

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442  APPENDIX. 

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Item.  Duo  Coffini  pro  libris  infra  cariandis,  Is. 

The  third  section  is  entitled  Camera.  His  lordship's  chamber 
contained  a  great  horn  or  drinking  cup,  called  de  Bugle,  tipped 
with  silver  gilt,  valued  at  6s.  Sd. ;  an  inferior  one  at  Is.  8d. ; 
another  black  horn,  de  Bugle,  10s. ;  an  old  ivory  horn,  3s. 
Unum  Spectaeulum  cum  duplici  oculo,  2s. !  After  enumerating 
several  trifling  articles  it  concludes  with  the  following  valu- 
ables : — 

1006  Morenos  de  Agno. 

4000  Florenos  de  Fflorencia. 

Unus  Florenus  de  Regina  [Isabella  ?] . 

In  pecunia  numerata,  80 11.  Os.  Sd.  sterlingorum. 

In  platis  argenteis,  515?.,  per  estimationeni. 

Item.  91  annuli  et  umis  fraotus,  unde  tres  pulcri  et  ceteri  com- 
munes et  donativi.  Annuli  Pontificales  et  meliores  tempore  mortis 
defunct!  fuerunt  London!  depredati.  Item.  Una  cathena  argentea 
pro  sigillo,  2s. 

The  fourth  heading  is  the  Wardrobe. 

The  items  are  numerous,  and  have  been  spared  by  the  lover 
of  galls.  They  amount  to  nearly  601.  value.  It  appears  the 
town  of  Dynant  carried  on  a  considerable  trade  in  table-cloths 
and  towels. 

The  fifth,  the  Hall  of  the  Palace,  which  seems  to  have  been 
used  as  a  lavatory. 

The  sixth,  the  Cellar,  was  indifferently  supplied  with  wine.  A 
pipe  half  full  de  vino  de  Warnath,  valued  at  4:1.,  and  two  full 
hogsheads  of  wine,  amounting  to  the  value  of  4£,  was  all  that 
remained. 

7th,  8th,  9th,  the  Bakehouse,  Kitchen,  and  Larder,  have  little 
to  challenge  attention. 

10th. — But  the  Yasa  Argentea  occupies  a  large  assortment  of 
richly  wrought  plate,  many  of  which  were  engraved  with  the 
arms  of  England  and  France,  of  the  Lord  William  Martyn,  and 
of  the  families  of  Dynham,  Button,  Hereford,  and  Drokenford. 
Several  of  the  drinking-cups  were  made  at  Tours.  The  value  of 
the  united  pieces,  as  well  as  can  be  made  out,  amounted  to  nearly 
1701.  sterling.2 

2  Amongst  other  pieces  of  plate  was  i  qf  Exeter,  he  had  little  opportunity  of 
"  Cuppa  emalata  cum  aquario  ex  dono  rendering  them  any  assistance,  and  ac- 
Regis  Francie,"  which  the  bishop  willed  i  cordingly  they  presented  the  "Cuppa 
to  his  successor  in  the  see  of  Exeter,  i  cum  aquario  "  to  his  successor,  Bishop 
together  with  a  precious  mitre,  to  obtain  i  Grandisson,  on  the  21st  September, 
his  favour  for  the  executors  of  his  testa-  I  1328,  and  the  mitre  on  the  ]  1th  Decem- 
merit.  As  Dr.  James  Berkley  died  very  i  ber  that  year.  See  Grandisson's  '  Ke- 
sliortly  after  being  enthroned  Bishop  '  gister,'  vol.  ii.  fol.  62-69-101. 


CHARTEHS,  &c.  443 

Live  and  dead  stock  on  the  Episcopal  farms  and  manors. 

At  Petershegh  were  found  2  draught  horses,  valued  at  10s.; 
oxen8  16,  valued  at  51  Os.  8d,  at  6s.  Sd.  per  head ;  1  bull,  at  6s.  Sd. ; 

1  yearling,  Is.  6d. ;  180  sheep  at  9?.,  or  I2d.  a  head.     In  the  grange 
the  corn,  9?.  6s.     The  dead  stock,  in  timber,  lime,  laths,  and  cut 
stone  for  the  new  buildings,  valued  at  10?.  Is. ;  and  the  timber  at 
Madeford,  10s. 

At  Flokeston.  1  draught  horse,  at  4s. ;  ten  oxen,  at  3?.  6s.  8d,  at 
6s.  Sd.  per  head;  eight  yearlings,  at  II.  6s.  Sd.,  at  3s.  4d.  each;  313 
sheep,  15/.  13s.,  at  I2d.  each.  The  corn  and  hay  at  the  grange, 
worth  10  marks;  dead  stock,  15s.  2$d. 

Clist.  5  heifers,  at  1?.  5s.,  at  5s.  per  head ;  24  oxen,  at  8?.,  6s.  Sd. 
per  head  ;  a  bull,  6s.  Sd. ;  27  cows,  at  7?.  8s.  6d,  price  of  each  5s.  Qd. ; 

2  bullocks,   4s.;  8  calves,  12s.,  at  Is.  Qd.  each;  49  sheep,  21.  9s.; 
6  rams  and  65  ewes,  31.  11s.,  at  I2d.  per  head;  8   draught  horses, 
which  were  at  Lomene  with  5  colts,  at  41.  13s.  4d.     At  the  grange 
the  com  was  valued  at  20?.,  and  the  hay  at  1?.     The  dead  stock  at 
41  8s. 

Chuddelegh.  22  oxen,  71  6s.  Sd.  at  6s.  Sd.  per  head ;  a  bull  at 
6s.  Sd. ;  the  other  beasts  and  cattle  at  the  prices  above  stated.  But 
here  were  5  peacocks  and  peahens  valued  at  5s.  (We  meet  with 
these  birds  at  Paignton  also,  but  not  elsewhere  in  the  inventory). 
The  corn  was  rated  at  17?.  6s.  8c?.  The  dead  stock  at  3?.  4s.  7J., 
una  cum  iii  rogis  calcis  pretii,  7?. ;  2  lime  kilns. 

The  same,  or  nearly  the  same,  prices,  prevail  throughout  the 
other  manors. 

In  conclusion,  the  executors  express  a  hope  that  of  the  debts 
to  the  estate  of  the  deceased,  381?,  7s.  Gd.,  may  be  recovered ; 
but  apprehend  that  others,  amounting  to  378?.  7s.  Qd.,  must  be 
considered  as  pure  loss — propter  nimiam  paupertatem  debitomm. 
The  land  sowed  with  wheat  and  rye  during  the  season  preceding 
the  bishop's  death,  was  609  acres  and  a  half.  This  had  been 
done  at  the  expense  of  101?.  11s.  Sd.  Price  of  acre  3s.  4d. 
Fifteen  acres  of  winter  barley  at  2s.  per  acre ;  and  in  the 
peculiar  manors  or  demesnes  of  the  bishop,  160  acres  and  a  half 
were  sown  with  wheat  and  rye  at  the  expense  of  26?.  15s.,  at 
3s.  4d.  per  acre. 

The  executors  then — Kichard  of  Coleton,  Dean  of  Exeter, 
Thomas  de  Stapeldon,  surviving  brother  of  the  deceased,  and 
Richard  de  Brattegh,  Subdean  of  Exeter,  who  had  associated  to 
themselves  as  coadjutor,  Robert  de  Tawton  (but  who  was  actually 
absent),  all  Canons  of  Exeter — set  forth,  that  they  submit  this 


3  We  learn  fiom  Bishop  Brantyng- 
ham's  '  Eegister,'  vol.  ii.  fol.  6,  that 
Bishop  Stapeldon  not  only  complied 
with  the  ancient  custom  of  his  prede- 
cessors in  the  see  of  Exeter,  by  be- 
queathing to  his  successor  100  oxen, 
viz.  -40  for  the  episcopal  farms  in  j  at  its  outer  gate. 


Devon,  30  for  those  in  Cornwall,  and 
30  for  those  elsewhere;  but  he  added 
100Z.  more  for  their  benefit,  that  his 
obit  might  be  observed  by  them,  and 
that  on  his  anniversary  100  poor  might 
be  fed  in  the  hall  of  Exeter  Palace,  or 


444  APPENDIX. 

inventory  to  Bishop  Grandisson,  pledging  themselves  to  become 
answerable  for  all  deficiencies  that  may  reach  their  knowledge ; 
they  express  their  anxiety  to  fulfil  all  the  intentions  of  the 
deceased,  and  hope  to  be  excused  for  the  delay  in  producing 
their  accounts,  by  reason  of  the  dispersion  and  consumption  of 
the  property  of  the  deceased  after  his  death  :  of  the  recovery  of 
which  they  still  remain  uncertain — nor  can  they  yet  ascertain 
what  their  liabilities  are,  and  how  far  they  may  extend. 


COPY  OF  THE  WILL  OF  BISHOP  GRANDISSON. 
8th  Sept.  1368.— Obit  15th  July,  1369. 

TESTAMENTQM  DOMINI  JOHANNIS  DE  GEANDISSONO  Episcopi  Exoniensis 
defimcti. l 

IN  nomine  Domini  nostri  Jesu  Christi  Filii  Virginis  Marie 
cum  Sancto  Spiritu  in  gloria  Dei  Patris  omnipotentis,  Amen. 
Ego  Johannes  de  Grandissono  Exoniensis  Ecclesie  minister 
inutilis  et  indignus,'  sanus  per  Dei  gratiam  mente  et  corpore 
condo  testamentum  meum  in  hunc  modum  :  spiritum  meum  com- 
mendo  meo  et  omnium  Creatori,  corpus  vero  meum  quod  cor- 
rumpitur  et  aggravatur  volo  quod  sepeliatur  extra  ostium  occi- 
dentale  Ecclesie  Exonie  ita  celeriter  sicut  fieri  poterit  bono 
modo  non  invitando  parentes  nee  magnos  Dominos  set  solum- 
modo  aliquos  Episcopum  vel  Episcopos  viciniores.  Et  volo 
quatuor  tantum  cereos  circa  corpus  meum  poni  ponderis  unius- 
cujusque  viginti  librarum,  ad  capud  unus  et  ad  pedes  et  ad  dex- 
tram  et  ad  sinistram :  ceteri  vero  cerei  quorum  quilibet  sit 
ponderis  unius  libre  ponantur  unum  ad  quodlibet  altare  per 
Ecclesiam  et  unus  remaneat  et  alii  Ecclesiis  parochialibus  in 
civitate  distribuantur.  Inhibeo  et  sub  pena  offensionis  divine 
potaciones  cum  speciebus  fieri  cle  nocte  in  chore  circa  corpus 
meum  set  fiant  si  oportuerit  in  Domo  Capitulari  vel  alio  loco  ad 
hoc  apto  vel  loco  talium  tantum  ministris  omnibus  de  choro 
presentibus  et  psalteria  dicentibus  centum  solidi  communiter 
distribuantur.  Volo  et  lego  quod  eadem  humacionis  die  centum 
pauperiores  indumenta  cum  capuciis  habeant  de  panno  si  in- 
veniri  poterit  grosso  albo  sue  grisco.  Item  sacerdotes  simplices 
eadem  die  sepulture  mee  interessentes  una  cum  omnibus  et 
singulis  viris  ac  mulieribus  religiosis  habeant  singuli  quatuor 
denarios.  Item  si  aliquis  Episcopus  vel  Episcopi  venerint  ad 
sepulturam  meam  habeat  quilibet  pro  expensis  prout  viclebitur 
executoribus  meis  simul  cum  uno  annulo  pontificali  aut  simplici 
mitra  aurifrasiata  vel  alio  jocali  competente  nisi  habuerit  me 
vivente.  Canonici  vero  Ecclesie  Exoniensis  eadem  die  intercs- 

1  From  a  book  endorsed  '  Witlcsey,'  fo.  103,  back. 


CHARTERS,  &c.  445 

sentes  habeant  quilibet  quadraginta  denarios  vicarii  presentes  qui- 
libet  duos  solidos  secundarii  vero  vel  annuellarii  quilibet  duodecim 
denarios  clerici  secundarii  quilibet  duodecim  denarios.  Pueri 
Choriste  quilibet  sex  denarios  Custores  ad  pulsandum  ita  quod 
breves  pulsationes  fiant  et  non  longe  quilibet  duodecim  denarios. 
Fratres  Hospitalis  Sancti  Johannis  Exonie  presbiteri,  quilibet 
duos  solidos  infirmi  ibidem  quilibet  duodecim  denarios  incarcerati 
.Exonie  pro  pane  emendo  quadraginta  denarios  infirmi  beate 
Marie  Magdalene  Exonie  inter  se  duos  solidos  Presbiteri 
Sancti  Grabrielis  de  Clist  quilibet  duos  solidos.  Item  lego 
cuilibet  Eectori  civitatis  Exonie  duos  solidos  et  aquebaulis  cui- 
libet  sex  denarios.  Volo  etiam  quod  a  die  sepulture  mee  usque 
ad  trigesimum  diem  sequentem  fiant  omni  die  exequie  cum 
missa  in  aliquo  loco  competenti.  Et  volo  quod  omnes  misse 
que  dicentur  pro  me  excepta  magna  missa  in  die  sepulture  mee 
et  qualibet  alia  die  una  tantum  de  requiem  sint  de  beata  Maria 
cum  oracione  pro  defunctis.  Et  per  illos  triginta  dies  quilibet 
canonicus  qui  aliquo  die  misse  et  vigiliis  interfuerit  habeat  pro 
singulis  diebus  singulos  sex  denarios  quilibet  vicarius  quatuor 
denarios  secundarius  quilibet  tres  denarios  et  quilibet  puer  duos 
denarios.  Et  si  aliquis  canonicus  missam  cantet  quacumque 
die  infra  Trigintale  habeat  ultra  sex  denarios  si  vicarius  tres 
denarios.  Nolo  etiam  quod  familiares  mei  induantur  vestibus 
nigris  set  robis  suis  de  secta  ejusdem  anni  et  sacerdotes  ac 
clerici  capelle  mee  superpelliciis  ac  albis  capuciis  sicut  conseu- 
verunt  nee  volo  quod  ipso  die  sepulture  mee  fiat  generalis  dis- 
tribucio  pauperibus  set  aliquo  die  alio  precedente  vel  sequente 
et  hoc  quantum  fieri  poterit  non  in  pecunia  set  in  pane.  Item 
do  et  lego  Ecclesie  Exoniensi  pulcriora  vestimenta  mea  alba 
videlicet  capulam  tunicam  et  dalmaticam  cum  capa  debrandata 
cum  aureo  rosareo  et  armis  meis  ac  dimidiis  Angelis  una  cum 
quatuor  capis  unius  secte  melioribus  de  panno  albo  serico  dias- 
prato  cum  castoribus  et  bestiis  aureis.  Item  lego  eidem  Ecclesie 
crucem  deauratam  cum  lapidibus  preciosis  ex  utraque  parte  que 
in  duas  partes  dividitur  et  intra  pars  crucis  Dominice  continetur. 
Item  lego  eidem  Ecclesie  duas  ymagines  Apostolorum  Petri  et 
Pauli  argenteas  deauratas  et  thuribulum  aureum  et  duo  alia 
thuribula  unius  secte  sculta  et  deaurata,  pelvim  argenteam 
capelle  mee  cum  cathenis  ad  pendendum  cereum  Archidiaconi 
ante  majus  altare.  Item  lego  eidem  Ecclesie  duo  antiphonaria 
duo  gradalia  et  duo  psalteria  majora  et  meliora  de  capella  mea 
et  Textum  Evangelii  Sancti  Johannis  de  antiqua  litera  cooper- 
turn  argento  cleaurato.  Lego  eciam  eidem  Ecclesie  vestimenta 
pro  diebus  Epiphanie  Pentecostis  et  Apostolorum  Petri  et 
Pauli  videlicet  casulam  tunicam  et  dalmaticam  cum  una  capa 
de  pannis  rubeis  et  aureis  qui  vocantur  de  nakta.  Item  casulam 
tunicam  et  dalmaticam  cum  capa  de  vel  veto  violacio  in  exequiis 


446  APPENDIX. 

meis  et  in  obitu  meo  et  aliorum  insignium  utendam.  Item  lego 
eidem  Ecclesie  terciam  meliorem  mitram  meam  cum  baculo 
pastorali  quern  emi  Parisiis  una  cum  anulo  et  cirothecis  et  aliis 
Episcopalibus  utendis  necessariis  in  eventum  quo  successors 
meos  vel  alios  Episcopos  ibidem  casualiter  contigerit  celebrare. 
De  illo  autem  precioso 'et  nimis  subtili  vase  sive  Jocali  cum 
angelis  portantibus  pro  Eucharistia  precii  ducentorum  floren- 
orum  volo  quod  remaneat  Ecclesie  Exoniensi.  Ita  quod  illudv 
quo  ibidem  utitur  in  Festo  Corporis  Christi  et  aliis  solempnibus 
ponatur  et  remaneat  apud  Otery.  Item  lego  custodi  ministro 
cantori  et  sacriste  Ecclesie  Collegiate  Sancte  Marie  de  Otrey 
cuilibet  quadraginta  solidos.  Item  lego  quilibet  vicario  ejusclem 
Ecclesie  quadraginta  denarios.  Item  lego  Domino  Willielmo 
Lunday  Cantori  Ecclesie  Sancte  Crucis  Criditon  quadraginta 
solidos  et  Decano  loci  unam  marcam.  Item  lego  cuilibet 
vicario  ejusdem  Ecclesie  sacerdoti  ad  orandum  pro  anima  mea 
quadraginta  solidos.  Item  lego  Ecclesie  Collegii  Sancte  Thome 
Martiris  Glasneye  pro  novo  opere  ibidem  viginti  marcas.  Item 
lego  cuilibet  canonico  ibidem  residenti  dimidiam  marcam  et 
cuilibet  vicario  ejusdem  Ecclesie  sacerdoti  ad  orandum  pro  anima 
mea  quadraginta  denarios.  Item  lego  Domino  nostro  Summo 
Pontifici  unam  capam  valde  preciosam  de  violacio  velveto  bran- 
datam  cum  ymaginibus  et  pulcrum  aurifrasium  meum  et  librum 
sermonum  Beati  Bernardi.  Item  lego  Camerario  Domini  nostri 
Pape  quia  eram  nuncius  Sedis  Apostolice  ducentos  florenos  de 
Florencia  aut  valorem  in  moneta  currente.  Item  lego  Domino 
nostro  Kegi  pulcrum  pannum  brandatum  de  opere  Eomano 
Passionis  Domini  Crucifixi  et  Latronum  pendencium  hinc  et 
inde.  Item  lego  Domino  Principi  Acquitanie  et  Wallie  et  ejus 
germano  Domino  Duci  Lancastrie  ac  ejusdem  Ducis  uxori  con- 
sanguinie  Blanchie,  cuilibet  ipsorum  aliquod  vas  vel  jocalem 
juxta  dispositionem  executorum  meorum  in  memoriam  mei. 
Item  Domine  Isabelle  Domini  nostri  Kegis  primogenite  pulcrius 
Psalterium  meum.  Item  lego  venerabili  in  Christo  Patri 
Domino  Cantuarie  Archi-Episcopo  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit  mag- 
num aule  dorsorium  meum  de  Coronacione  beate  Marie  cum 
apostolis  sedentibus  in  tronis  et  inter  se  simbolum  tenentibus 
una  cum  annulo  pontificali  ad  celebrandum  et  quinquaginta  mar- 
cas sterlingorum ;  Ita  quod  executores  meos  in  execucione  ultime 
voluntatis  mee  adjuvet  et  non  vexet  et  quod  nee  ipse  nee  offici- 
alis  suus  aut  alii  ministri  sui  quicumque  ejus  nomine  aliquid 
aliud  petant  ab  eisdem  executoribus  meis  vel  exigant  quovis 
modo.  Quod  si  secus  fecerint  careant  hujusmodi  legatis  et 
ilia  tune  lego  Camere  Domini  nostri  Pape  per  Sedis  Apostolice 
in  Anglia  nuncium  recipienda.  Ita  quod  ipse  vice  Domini 
nostri  Pape  executores  meos  adjuvet  et  defendat.  Item  lego 
eidem  clerico  sive  nuncio  Domini  nostri  Pape  ut  executores 


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meos  adjuvet  et  foveat  et  sit  unus  executorum  meorum  quin- 
quaginta  florenos  de  Florencia  vel  valorem.  Item  lego  succes- 
soribus meis  sub  condicionibus  infrascriptis  et  non  aliter.  In 
primis  illam  preciosam  mitram  quam  emi  ab  executoribus  pre- 
decessoris  mei  Walter!  pro  ducentis  marcis  sterlingorum  et 
postea  cum  centum  viginti  marcis  Parisiis  totalitei*  reparari  et 
meliorari  feci.  Item  lego  eisdem  successoribus  meis  baculum 
meum  pastoralem  meliorem  deauratum  et  deamellatum  et  secun- 
dam  meliorem  capam  non  legatam  rubeam  videlicet  cum  yma- 
ginibus  aureis  una  cum  duobus  anulis,  uno  ad  celebrandum  et 
alio  ad  utendum  cum  apparatibus  altaris  diversis  albo  scilicet 
rubeo  et  violacio  de  rosis  pulverisato  ac  cirothecis  et  sandaliis 
aliisque  necessariis  Episcopalibus  non  legatis.  Item  lego  eisdem 
libros  meos  Episcopales  majorem  et  minorem  quos  Egomet  com- 
pilavi  et  tria  missalia  unum  videlicet  preciosum  notatum  cum 
sequenciis  in  quo  seribitur — "  In  Principio  " — quod  remaneat 
successori,  aliud  novum  et  bonum  ejusdem  litere  sine  nota  et 
tercium  portabile  quod  duxerit  eligendum.  Item  lego  eisdem 
librum  Meditacionum  et  Oracionum  beati  Anselmi  et  beati 
Augustini  in  magno  volumine.  Item  dorsorium  meum  de 
martyrio  Apostolorum  Petri  et  Pauli.  Item  vas  aque  benedicte 
argenteum  cum  aspersorio  de  argento  et  calicem  aureum  cum 
phiolis  deauratis.  Item  duos  alios  calices  usuales  argenteos  deau- 
ratos  pro  capellanis  suis  et  crismatorium  meum  rotundum  quod 
fuit  Gulielmi  Durandi  speculatoris.  Item  duo  paria  tabularum 
pictarum  meliarum  non  legatarum.  Item  quatuor  candelabra 
argentea  minora  cum  duobus  thuribulis  melioribus  non  legatis 
et  navi  majori  pro  thure  ac  campanula  majori  argenteis.  Item 
crucem  deauratam  cum  gemmis  et  ymaginibus  Marie  et  Johannis 
quam  emi  Parisiis.  Item  textum  Evangeliorum  prout  leguntur 
per  annum  coopertum  argento  cum  ymaginibus  protractis 
Crucifixi,  Marie,  et  Johannis  ex  parte  una  et  cum  nigra  de  Neil 
coronacione  ex  parte  alia.  Item  lego  eisdem  successoribus  meis 
tria  Gradalia  portatoria  et  unum  majus  pro  seipsis.  Item  Legen- 
dam  integram  in  uno  volumine  de  camera  mea.  Item  Bibliam 
meam  meliorem.  Item  duos  libros  Omeliarum  ad  legendum 
coram  ipsis.  Item  majus  Antiphonarium  et  Psalterium  que 
jacent  in  capella  coram  me  cum  duobus  aliis  Psalteriis  pro 
clericis.  Item  lego  eisdem  albam  casulam  cum  tunica  et  dal- 
matica  diasperata  cum  castoribus  et  bestiis  aureis  mixtis  una 
cum  tribus  capis  ejusdem  secte.  Item  lego  eisdem  unam  casu- 
lam cum  tunica  et  dalmatica  et  capa  violacii  coloris  cum  rosis 
aureis.  Item  unum  par  vestimentorum  rubeorum  et  aliud 
croceoruin  cum  tunicis  dalmaticis  et  tribus  capis  utriusque  secte 
necnon  omnes  alias  tunicas  et  dalmaticas  pontificales  que  sunt 
pro  corpore  meo.  Item  tres  albas  cum  pertinentiis  de  armis 
operatis  et  duas  albas  pulchras  et  duas  alias  pro  seipsis.  Item 


448  APPENDIX. 

quatuor  pelves  argenteas  pro  aula  et  imam  pelvem  argenteam 
latam  pro  elemosina.  Item  lego  eisdem  quatuor  chargeria- 
argentea  viginti  quatuor  distos  argenteos  meliores  cum  totidem 
salsariis  duos  pottos  argenteos  duodecim  ciphos  argenteos  pianos 
et  meliorem  cuppam  argenteam  cum  picherio.  Item  cuppam 
argenteam  deauratam  ponderis  centum  solidorum  que  est  apud 
Otery  sculpta  de  armis  meis  et  ymaginibus  que  inscripta  est  in 
pede  quod  habeant  memoriam  de  Seint  Mary  Otery.  Item 
cocleare  aureum  et  aliud  deauratum  pro  seipsis  cum  viginti 
qimtuor  coclearibus  argenteis.  Item  lego  successori  meo  cen- 
tum boves  et  mille  oves  si  tot  habuero  et  centum  libras  sterling  - 
orum.  Et  volo  quod  mitram  ac  omnia  alia  predicta  ad  officium 
divinum  pertinencia  una  cum  dorsorio  et  ilia  cuppa  que  est 
apud  Otery  cum  centum  bobus  relinquat  successoribus  suis  im- 
perpetuum.  Ita  quod  tempore  vacacionis  sint  sub  custodia 
Capituli  Exoniensis  clerici  postquam  confirmatus  fuerit  per  in- 
denturam  committenda  nee  tradant  oblivioni  successores  mei 
qualiter  laboribus  et  expensis  meis  ad  Komanam  curiam  acce- 
dendo  impetravi  eis  appropriacionem  Ecclesie  de  Kadeway  in 
manerio  eorum  de  Teyngton  Episcopi  et  similiter  consensum  et 
cartam  Kegis ;  ac  domos  utiles  et  sumptuosas  ibidem  in  sanctuario 
construxi  ut  haberent  ubi  capud  suum  reclinarent,  si  in  manu  Kegis 
eorum  temporalia  caperentur,  super  quo  executores  mei  bullam, 
Comissionis  Apostolice  cum  litera  appropriacionis,  Ade  quon- 
dam Wygornie  Episcopi,  et  cartam  Eegis  in  coffinis  meis  poterunt 
reperire  :  habeat  et  idem  successor  meus  omnes  mensas  currus  ac 
carrectas  et  utensilia  lignea  quecumque  et  cetera  hujusmodi  de 
quocumque  mortuo  instauro  in  omnibus  maneriis  meis  de  quibus 
ego  a  predecessoribus  meis  nichil  habui  unde  volo  omnia  pre- 
dicta successori  meo  vel  successoribus  meis  legata  ita  intelligi 
si  pro  Dampnis  et  debitis  primitus  successor  nichil  amplius  a 
me  petat;  alioquin  nee  ipse  nee  alii  successores  mei  aliquid 
habeant  de  legatis  predictis  set  executores  mei  sibi  satisfaciant 
aliunde.  Item  lego  venerabili  in  Christo  Patri  Domino 
Ludovico  Dei  gratia  Herefordensi  Episcopo  unum  anulum 
pontificalem  cum  sandaliis  et  cirothecis  et  magnum  librum 
concordanciarum.  Item  lego  cuilibet  Confratri  et  Coepiscopo 
Cantuariensis  Provincie  unam  mitram  simplicem  qui  non 
habuerit,  me  vivente.  Item  inhibeo  ne  libri  mei  ecclesiastici 
vel  theologici  aut  vestimenta  mea  ecclesiastica  exponantur 
venditioni  nisi  forte  bonis  meis  aliis  non  sufficientibus  major 
imineat  necessitas  distrahendi  set  omnes  libri  mei  de  Capella 
ut  supradicitur  ponantur  ac  ceteri  non  legati  Ecclesiis  Collegiatis 
primo  de  Otery  ac  postea  Criditonie  et  libere  Capelle  Kegie  de 
Boscham  distribuantur,  libri  vero  theologici  modici  precii  distri- 
buantur  pauperibus  scolaribus  theologis  et  Aule  de  Stapeldone 
Oxonie.  Ita  tamen  quod  script  a  Nicnplai  de  Lira  et  Nicholai 


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de  Trynech  super  Psalterium  una  cum  melioribus  originalibus 
que  non  habentur  in  libraria  Ecclesie  Exonie  remaneant  ibidem 
in  archivis.  Et  Fratres  predicatores  Exonie  habeant  omnia 
scripta  Sancti  Fratris  Thome  de  Aquino  qui  fuit  de  ordine  eosun- 
dem.  Item  lego  pelvim  meam  que  fuit  Sancti  Edwardi  Con- 
fessoris  Ecclesie  Sarum.  Item  lego  Ecclesie  Conventual!  West- 
monasteriensi  in  mei  memoriam  frontale  latum  de  diversis 
ymaginibus  operis  Komani  cum  panno  altaris  de  armis  Anglie 
et  Francie.  Item  lego  Ecclesie  Collegiate  Sancte  Marie  de 
Otery  ymaginem  Beate  Marie  argenteam  deauratam  et  crucem 
cum  reliquiis  quam  dedit  mihi  Abbas  Glastoniensis.  Item  lego- 
Ecclesie  Collegiate  Sancte  Crucis  Criditon  pannum  pro  altari  cum 
ymagine  Majestatis  in  niedio  et  Angeli  ad  Virginem  ex  utraque 
parte  et  pannum  de  Passione  ejusdem  secte  desuper  pendendum. 
Item  lego  domui  Sanctimonalium  de  Acornbury  sex  marcas. 
Item  lego  Domino  Willielmo  de  Monteacuto  Comiti  Sarum  vas 
vel  jocale  aliquod  juxta  dispontionem  executorum  meorum  in 
memoriam  mei.  Item  lego  germano  suo  Domino  Johanni  do 
Monteacuto  unum  pottum  argenteum  pro  vino  majorem  deau- 
ratum  et  duas  pelves  argenteas  de  armis  Montisacuti  cum  ali- 
qua  cuppa  et  potto  alio  argenteis  deauratis.  Item  lego  eidem 
pelvim  meam  rotundam  magni  ponderis  pro  barbitonsorio  et 
unam  platam  argenteam  pro  speciebus.  Item  lego  eidem  et  ejus 
heredibus  relinquenda  anulum  rubeum  qui  fuit  Domini  Patris 
mei  et  pomum  argenteum  deauratum  cum  cooperculo  de  capella 
mea  pro  Corpore  Christi  super  altare.  Item  lego  Domino 
Edwardo  de  Arundell  et  Sibille  Uxori  sue  viglnti  libras  et 
unum  pottum  argenteum  cum  cuppa  deaurata.  Item  lego 
Magistro  Philippo  de  Bello  campo  pulcram  parvam  Bibliam 
meam  quam  nabui  de  Magistro  Koberto  Herward  una  cum 
Portiphorio  et  Psalterio  camere  mee.  Item  Missale  parvum  et 
pulcrum,  magnum  Decretum  et  Decretales  et  anulum  cum 
saphiro  pulcro  et  spisso  ad  modum  crucis  posito  et  unum 
vestimentum  videlicet  casulani  tunicam  et  dalmaticam  ac  capam 
unam  cum  alba  stola  manipulo  et  anaictu.  Item  lego  Magistro 
Willielmo  de  Courtenay  aliquem  librum  theologie  vel  Juris  Ca- 
nonici  quem  executores  mei  elegerint.  Item  lego  fratri  Eogero  de 
Westbury  decem  marcas,  Willielmo  de  Braybrok  viginti  libras, 
Johanni  de  Clyfibrd  viginti  marcas  quia  cum  in  vita  sua  aliunde 
respexi.  Item  lego  Kandulpho  Blaunkmonster  decem  marcas 
sterlingorum,  Johanni  Cissori  et  Galfrido  Barbitonsori  utrisque 
quinque  marcas,  et  hoc  si  usque  ad  mortem  meam  in  meis 
obsequiis  perseverent :  sacerdotes  et  de  secta  mea  commensales 
per  se  non  promoti  necnon  et  alii  familiares  mei  continui 
superius  non  nominati  respiciantur  pro  rata  temporis  quo  me- 
cum  steterint  juxta  dispositionem  et  conscientiam  executorum 

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450  APPENDIX. 

meorum :  sacerdotes  promoti  qui  mecum  per  triennium  continuum 
ante  mortem  meam  ac  tempore  mortis  mecum  steterint,  habeant 
quilibet  vas  vel  jocale  aliquod,  librum  vel  vestimentum  simplex 
juxta  dispositionem  executorum  meorum.  Item  lego  Prioribus 
Plympton,  Bodimen,  Launceston,  et  Sancti  Germani,  cuilibet 
sex  marcas  pro  exequiis  meis  et  obitu  meo  celebrandis.  Item  lego 
Abbathiis  de  Forda,  Bucfest,  Dunkeswyll,  Torre  et  Boclande,  et 
Prioratui  de  Frithelstok,  juxta  numerum  presbiterorum  in 
qualibet  domo  ut  orent  pro  anima  mea  cuilibet  presbitero  duo 
solidos.  Item  lego  Prioratui  Sancti  Nicliolai  Exonie  magnam 
nucem  meam  indicam  ad  bibendum  cum  pede  et  cooperculo 
argenteis  in  mei  memoriam  ibidem  perpetuo  remansuram,  ei 
centum  solidos  ad  emendum  ibidem  unam  campanam.  Item  lego 
domibus  sanctimonialium  de  Polslo,  Canounlegh,  et  Cornworthy, 
cuilibet  domui  quinque  marcas.  Item  lego  fratribus  predicatorlbus 
Exonie  centum  solidos,  et  fratribus  minoribus  Exonie  quinque 
marcas  sterlingorum,  fratribus  predicatoribus  de  Trueru  et 
minoribus  Bodiman  utrique  domui  quadraginta  solidos.  Item 
fratribus  Carmelitis  Suttonie  quadraginta  solidos  cum  uno 
simplici  vestimento  nisi  habuerint,  me  vivente.  Item  lego 
Ecclesie  parochiali  de  Chuddelegh  duas  campanes  majores  in 
campanili  capelle  mee  de  Chuddelegh.  Item  singulis  hospitalibus 
Leprosorum  et  aliorum  infirmorum  Episcopatus  Exonie,  juxta 
numerum  inhabitancium  cuilibet  infirmo  duodecim  denarios. 
Item  lego  Ecclesie  parochiali  de  Asshperton,  Herfordensis 
Diocesis,  ubi  oriundus  nil,  nisi  me  vivente  habuerit  unum  vesti- 
mentum competens  pro  presbitero  scilicet  casulam  cum  alba 
stola  et  manipulo.  Item  lego  Ecclesie  prebendali  de  Haydore 
juxta  Grantham  que  fuit  mea  in  Ecclesia  Lincoln,  unum  vesti- 
mentum cum  tunica  et  dalmatica  nisi  habuerit  me  vivente. 
Volo  autem  de  vestimentis  et  aliis  ornamentis  ecclesiasticis 
prelegatis  primo  capelle  mee  quantum  sufficiunt  predicta  fieri 
et  de  noviter  emendis  London,  cetera  si  oporteat  supleri.  Ita 
quod  per  Dei  graciam  nichil  omnino  de  hujusinodi  legatis 
ecclesiasticis  superius  dimittatur  set  omnia  fiant  si  commode 
fieri  possint  de  bonis  meis  de  rebus  et  vestibus  usualibus  corporis 
mei  ac  lectisterniis,  exceptis  illis  que  debentur  camerariis  ex 
consuetudine.  Volo  quod  inter  pauperes  presbiteros  sive  rectores 
sive  vicarios  indigentes  ac  vicarios  chori  Ecclesie  Collegii 
Cryditon  et  honestas  viduas  vel  reclusas  ac  hospitalia  dividantur 
juxta  dispositionem  et  conscienciam  executorum  meorum ;  omnia 
autem  aurifrasia  mea  simplicia  cum  frangiis  et  aliis  ad  vesti- 
menta  Ecclesiastica  pertinentibus  non  legatis.  Pono  et  lego  in 
disposicionem  Magistri  Nicholai  de  Braybrok  et  Thome  Tuggell 
residuum  vero  omnium  bonorum  meorum  si  quid  sit  non 
legatorum  lego  ad  faciendum  honestani  cohabitacionem  pro 


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vicariis  chori  Ecclesie  Exonie  et  ad  alia  opera  pietatis  ad  istud 
autem  testamentum  seu  ultimam  voluntatem  meam  exequendam 
supplico  venerabilibus  in  Christo  Patribus  Dominis  ac  con- 
fratribus  carissimis  Dominis  Dei  gracia  Ludowico  Hereford 
et  Willielmo  Wygorn  Episcopis,  ut  executorum  meorum  coad- 
jutores  et  supervisores  ac  consultores  esse  velint.  Et  ulterius 
ordino  facio  et  constituo  exeoutores  meos  Dominum  Johannem 
de  Monteacuto  nepotem  meum  necnon  nuncium  qui  pro  tern- 
pore  fuerit.  Item  Magistrum  Stephanum  de  Pompel  Decanum 
Ecclesie  Wellensis,  necnon  Magistros  Johannem  de  Shareshull 
Precentorem,  Johannem  Wylieth,  Cancellarium,  Eobertum  de 
Wykford,  Johannem  de  Holand,  et  Mcholaum  de  Braybrok, 
canonicos  Ecclesie  Exonie,  Dominum  Andream  de  Moor  Custodem 
Ecclesie  Collegii  Sancte  Marie  de  Otery.  Item  Willielmum  de 
Braybrok,  Dominos  Johannem  de  Mounceaux,  Thomam  Sage,  et 
Thomam  Tugge.  Ita  quod  si  non  omnes  execucioni  hujus  Testa- 
menti  voluerint  vel  non  poterint  interesse  recipiatur  et  fiat 
administracio  a  quatuor  vel  tribus  ad  minus  efficientibus  et 
ydoneis  qui  presentes  fuerint.  Et  lego  cuilibet  executorum  meo- 
rum predictorum  hujus  Testamenti  onus  subeunti  pro  labore  suo 
preter  expensas  unam  cuppam  argenteam  cum  picherio  vel  unum 
anulum  bonum  vel  aliquod  jocale  utile  et  acceptabile  unicuique 
eorum  cum  centum  solidis  sterlingorum  aliis  nichilominus  legatis 
superius  executoribus  ipsis  seu  alicui  eorundem  in  suo  robore 
duraturis.  Et  ego  predlctos  executores  meos  eosque  per  viscera 
Matris  Misericordie  et  aspersionem  sanguinis  Jesu  Christi  Filii 
sui  Domini  nostri  deprecor  adjuro  et  administracionem  hujus 
Testamenti  omni  voluntaria  excusatione  cessante  admittere  et  in 
eodem  contenta  cum  modestis  et  absque  voluptuariis  expensis 
exequi  studeant  fideliter  celeriter  et  diligenter  ut  ab  omni 
retributore  bonorum  vitam  percipiant  sempiternam.  Volo  autem 
et  rogo  quod  seribatur  in  plumbi  lamina  cum  corpore  reponenda 
sic — "Hie  jacet  Johannes  de  Grandissono  miserabilis  Episcopus 
Exonie,  Matris  Misericordie  miserimus  servus,  cujus  misericors 
Filius  ejus  precibus  est  miseratus  ut  de  misero  fieret  beatus  et 
ceteris  miseris  spes  detur  flendi  reatus."  In  quorum  omnium  et 
singulorum  testimonium  pre^sens  testamentum  meum  annuli 
mei  impressione  consignatur :  datum  in  manerio  meo  de  Chud- 
delegh  Exoniensis  diocesis,  octavo  die  mensis  Septembris,  anno 
Domini  milesimo  trecentesirno  sexagesimo  octavo,  et  consecrationis 
mee  quadragesimo  primo. 

SOBSCRIPTIO  Domini  Exoniensi  Episcopi  de  manu  sua  propria. 

Johannes  de  Grandissono  predictus  predicto  testamento  sub- 
scribe in  hac  precelsa  Festivitate  Beatissime  Semper  Yirginis 
Marie  que  gaudium  annunciavit  universe  mundo  ex  qua  ortus 

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452  APPENDIX. 

est  Sol  Justicie,  Christus  Dominus  noster,  qui  solvens  male- 
dictionem  dedit  benedictionera  et  confundens  mortem  donavit 
nobis  vitam  sempiternam.  Amen. 

PROBACIO  TESTAMENTI  Episcopi  Exoniensis  cujus  Copia  scribitur  in  sexto 
folio  precedente.2 

Nos  Willielmus,  &c.,  notum  facimus  universis  quod  octo 
Kalendarum  August!  Anno  Domini  millesimo  tricentesimo 
sexagesimo  nono  in  Capella  manerii  nostri  de  Lamhetli,  Testa- 
mentum  bone  memorie  Johannis  de  Grandissono  nuper  Exoniensis 
Episcopi  defuncti  presentibus  annexum  probatum  fuit  coram 
nobis  et  per  nos  insinuatum  et  approbatum  ac  pro  eodem  testa- 
mento  legitime  pronunciatum  Nosque  Willielmus  Cantuariensis 
Archiepiscopus  supradictus  et  prefati  testamenti  supervisor  per 
dictum  defunctum  specialiter  deputatus.  Volumus  et  expresse 
concedimus  per  presentes  quod  discrete  vir  Magister  Nicholaus 
Braybrok  Ganonicus  Ecclesie  Cathedralis  Exoniensis,  Thomas 
Tuggell,  et  Willielmus  Braybrok,  executores  in  dicto  testamento 
nominati  pro  inhuniacione  corporis  dicti  defuncti  bona  que 
fuerunt  ejusdem  defuncti  et  que  servando  faciliter  servari  non 
possunt  vendicioni  exponant  et  precium  pro  eisdem  bonis  receptum 
in  expensis  funeralibus  corporis  dicti  defuncti  secundum  dis- 
posicionem  et  arbitrium  dictorum  Magistrorum  Nicholai  Thome 
et  Willielmi  utiliter  convertantur :  residuum  vero  precii  bonoruni 
hujus  modi  venditorum  si  quod,  preter  expensas  funeris  dicti 
defuncti,  faciendum  fuerit  usque  administracionem  dictorum 
executorum  in  hac  parte  admittenda  integraliter  reservetur.  In 
quorum  omnium  testimonium  sigillum  nostrum  etc.  Datum 
loco  die  et  Anno  Domini  supradictis. 

Tenore  presentium  nos  Willielmus,  &c.,  notum  facimus  universis 
quod  secundis  nonis  Decembris  Anno  Domini  millesimo  tre- 
centesimo  sexagesimo  nono  comparuerunt  pariter  coram  nobis  in 
camera  nostra  manerii  nostri  de  Lamheth  venerabilis  et  discre- 
tus  vir  Dominus  Johannes  de  Monteacuto  miles,  et  Magister 
Nicholaus  Braybrok  Canonicus  Ecclesie  Cathedralis  Exonie 
executores  testamenti  bone  memorie  Domini  Johannis  de 
Grandissono  nuper  Exoniensis  Episcopi  defuncti  nostri  dum 
vixitet  Ecclesie  nostri  Cantuariensfe  Suffraganei  in  suo  testamento 
nominati  presentibus  annexi  quibus  administracionem  omnium 
bonorum  dictum  suum  testamentum  concernentiuni  ubicumque  in 
nostra  Cantuariensi  provincia  existentium  commissimus,  prestito 
primitus  per  eosdem  in  forma  juris  ad  Sancta  Dei  Evangelia 
juramento,  de  fideli  inventorio  omnium  bonorum  dicti  defuncti 
conficiendo  et  de  fideliter  administrando  omnia  bona  dicti  defuncti 
necnon  de  fideli  compoto  nobis  vel  successoribus  nostris  reddendo 

2  From  the  same  book,  fol.  109,  bock. 


CHARTEES,  &c.  453 

cum  fuerint  congrae  requisiti,  reservata  insuper  nobis  facilitate 
committendi  administracionem  bonorum  hujusmodi  aliis  execu- 
toribus  in  eodem  testamento  nominatis  cum  venerint  earn  in 
forma  juris  recepturam.  In  cujus,  &c.,  datum  loco  die  et  anno 
Domini  supradictis,  et  nostre  translationis  secundo. 

ACQUIETANCIA  ExECUTOEUM  Domini  Episcopi  Exoniensis  defuncti. 

Tenore  presencium  nos  Willielmus,  &c.,  notum  facimus  uni- 
versis  quod  audito  per  nos  compoto  sive  calculo  executorum 
bone  memorie  Domini  Johannis  de  Grandissono  nuper  Exoni- 
ensis Episcopi  defuncti  nostre  Cantuariensis  Ecclesie  dum  vixit 
Suffraganei  de  et  super  administracione  eorundem  in  bonis  dicti 
defuncti  ipsius  testimonium  concernentibus  invenimus  eosdem 
executores  bona  hujus  modi  juxta  defuncti  predicti  ultimam 
voluntatem  bene  et  fideliter  administrasse  et  ea  in  usus  ejusdem 
defuncti  convertisse.  Unde  nos  prefatos  executores  ab  ulteriori 
reddicione  compoti  sive  calculi  bonorum  sic  administratorum  ut 
prefertur  quatenus  ad  officium  nostrum  attinet  salvo  jure  cujus- 
cumque  absolvimus  et  ab  examine  nostro  dimittimus  per  pre- 
sentes  sigillo  nostro  consignatas.  Datum  apud  Otteford  decimo 
quarto  Kalendas  Maii,  anno  Domini  millesimo  trecentesimo  sep- 
tuagesimo,  et  nostre  translationis  secundo. 


CHAEGE  ON  CHAPELS  OF  EASE.* 

UNIVERSIS  presentes  literas  inspecturis  Thomas  miseracione,  &c., 
Salutem  in  Domino  sempiternam.  Cum  de  quarundam  con- 
stitutionuin  sinoclalium  notre  Diocesis  dudum  a  bone  memorie 
Domino  Petro  [Quivil]  predecessore  nostro  rite  editarum  et  pub- 
lice  promulgatarum  que  incipiunt  "Altissimus  de  terra,"  &c., 
tenore  et  effectu,  ac  ad  quern  secundum  eas  onus  constructionis  et 
reparationis  capellarum  nostre  Diocesis  distinctas  habentium  par- 
ochias  debeat  pertinere,  ut  intelleximus,  ab  aliquibus  hesitetur, 
nos  ad  omnem  inde  dubietatis  scrupulum  amovendum  universitati 
vestre  innotescimus  per  presentes,  quod  inter  cetera  in  eisdem 
constitutionibus  salubriter  ordinata  sub  titulo  seu  rubrica  de 
Ecclesiis  capellis  et  oratoriis  construendis  et  reparandis,  specia- 
liter  sic  cavetur  et  statuitur  sub  hiis  verbis : 2  "  Ad  hoc  onus 
constructionis  et  reparacionis  cancelli  matricis  Ecclesie  ad  ipsius 
Ecclesie  rectorem ;  navis  vero  Ecclesie  ad  parochianos  volumus 
et  precipimus  pertinere,  consuetudine  contraria  non  obstante ; 
vertim  onus  capelle,  que  distinctam  habet  parochiam,  ad  ipsos 
capelle  parochianos  totaliter  pertinebit ;  eo  quod  ob  ipsorum 

1  Brantyngham's  '  Kegistcr,'  vol.  i.  fol.  136. 

2  Wilkins, '  Concilia,'  vol.  ii.  p.  137.     Siuodi  Exouiensis,  cap.  9. 


454  APPENDIX. 

favorem  et  comodum  sunt  constructe  et  nihilominus  matrici 
Ecclesie,  si  refectione  indiguerit,  juxta  discretionem  locorum 
Archidiaconorum  ipsos  decernimus  subvenire."  Quas  quidem 
constitutiones  sinodales  novimus  fuisse  et  esse  a  clero  et  popnlo 
nostre  diocesis  admissas  et  approbatas  ac  hactenus  pacifice  obser- 
vatas,  easque  et  premissa  in  eis  contenta,  juxta  predictorum  ver- 
borum  seriem  et  effectum,  a  subditis  nostris  volumus  nostris 
temporibus  firmiter  observari.  Super  quibus  ad  omnium  quorum 
interest  notitiam,  veritati  testimonium  perhibemus  per  has  literas 
nostras  patentes  sigilli  nostri  munimine  roboratas.  Datum  in 
Palacio  nostro  Exonie,  &c.,  xv  die  Septembris,  1371. 

[This  Council  was  held  at  Exeter  12th  April,  1287.] 


PARDON  BY  KING  RICHARD  II. 

To  BISHOP  BRANTYNGHAM  for  the  Escape  of  Seven  Clerks,  convicted  Felons, 
from  the  Prison  within  the  Palace  of  the  Bishop  of  Exeter. 

30th  Sept.  1389. 

RICARDTJS  Dei  gratia  Bex  Anglie  et  Francie  et  Diis 
Hibernie,  omnibus  ad  quos  presentes  litere  pervenerint,  Sal. 
Sciatis  qd  de  gra  nra  speciali  et  ad  supplicationem  Ven. 
in  Xto  Patris  Epi  Wynton  Cancellarii  nri,  Epi  Meneyensis 
Thes.  nri,  necnon  Comitis  Northumb.  consanguinei  nri  et  aliorum, 
de  consilio  nro  perdonavimus  Thome  Epo  Exofi  escapia  Nichi 
Hopworthy,  Johis  Hennely — alias  dci  Columpton,  Stephani 
Telyng  de  Drogdaa,  Simonis  Whyte  de  Dordraght,  Thome  de 
Westowe  de  Hareforde,  Johannis  Eussell  de  Penard  in  Wallia, 
felonum  et  clericorum  convictorum ;  et  commissario  predict! 
Episcopi  Exoniensis  loci  ordinarii,  liberatorum  secundum  legem 
regni  nostri  extra  prisonam  ipsius  Episcopi  Exoniensis  infra 
palacium  suum  Exon  die  Martis  proxima  post  Festum  Assump- 
cionis  beate  Marie  ultimo  preteritum  prisonam  predictam 
noctanter  fregerunt,  et  ibidem  quendam  Simonem  Prescote 
capellanum  et  custodem  dicti  palacii,  et  Thomam  janitorem 
ejusdem  felonice  interfecerunt,  et  quendam  Thomam  de  la 
Chambre  Garderober  et  ipsum  graviter  vulneraverunt  et  pro 
mortuo  reliquerunt  et  cameras  eorum  depredati  fuerunt  et  sic  ut 
dicitur  evaserunt  et  quicquid  ad  nos  pertinet  pro  escapiis  supra- 
dictis.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  has  literas  nostras  fieri  fecimus 
patentes.  Teste  meipso  apud  Westmonasterium,  tercio  die  Sep- 
tembris, anno  regni  nostri  tercio  decimo  [1389]. 
Per  breve  de  privato  sigillo. 

FARYNGDON. 


CHARTERS,  &c. 


455 


SECOND  PARDON  BY  KING  RICHARD  II. 

To  BISHOP  BRANTYNGHAM,  under  similar  circumstances. 

llth  Dec.  1393. 

EICARDUS  Dei  gratia  Rex  Anglie  et  Francie  et  Dominus 
Hibernie,  omnibus  ad  quos  presentes  litere  pervenerint,  Salutem. 
Sciatis,  quod  cum  Johannes  Brown  capellanus,  Johannes  Yunde- 
brok  capellanus,  Johannes  Eussell  de  Penard,  Warinus  Pen- 
ghelly,  Willielmus  Elys,  Eobertus  Hesyl,  et  Henricus  Eiche, 
felones  et  clerici  convicti,  et  per  justiciaries  nostros  commissario 
venerabilis  patris  Thome  [Brantyngham]  Episcopi  Exonienis,  ut 
ordinario,  liberati,  secundum  legem  regni  nostri  Anglie  custo- 
diendi,  die  Sabbati  proxima  ante  Festum  Sancti  Clementis  ultimo 
preteriti,  noctanter  evaserint  extra  prisonam  ipsius  Episcopi  infra 
palacium  suum  Exonie  ut  accepimus;  Nos  de  gratia  nostra 
speciali  pardonavimus  predicto  Thome  Episcopo  evasiones  pre- 
dictorum  Johannis,  Johannis,  Johannis,  Warini,  Willielmi, 
Eoberti,  et  Henrici,  et  quicquid  ad  nos  pertinet  pro  evasionibus 
supradictis  ;  Nolentes,  quod  predictusEpiscopus  vel  aliquis  alius, 
occasione  evasionum  illarum  vel  alicujus  earundem,  per  nos  vel 
heredes  nostros  seu  ministros  nostros  quoscumque,  futuris  tem- 
poribus  impetatur  in  aliquo  seu  gravetur.  In  cujus  rei  testimo- 
nium  has  literas  nostras  fieri  fecimus  patentes.  Teste  meipso 
apud  Westmonasterium  xj  die  Decembris,  anno  regni  nostri 
decinio  septimo  [1393]. 

Per  breve  de  private  sigillo. 

FARYNGTON. 


CANON  LANGTON'S  WILL.1 

IN  Dei  nomine,  Amen.  Vicesimo  nono  die  mensis  Januarii, 
anno  Domini  millesimo  ccccmo.  tercio  decimo  in  manerio 
reverendi  in  Christo  Patris  et  Domini  Domini  Edmundi  Dei 
gracia  Exoniensis  Episcopi  apud  Clyst  Exoniensis  diocesis,  Ego 
Willielmus  Langeton  personaliter  existens  sanus  mente  condo 
testamentum  meum  meam  ultimam  continens  voluntatem  in 
hunc  modum.  Imprimis  lego  animam  meam  Deo  omnipotenti 
Creatori  meo  et  corpus  meum  sacre  sepulture  sepeliendum  in 
Ecclesia  Cathedrali  Exonie 2  ex  parte  dextera  vel  sinistra  tumbe 

1  Extracted   from  Bishop  Stafford's 
Register,  vol.  i.  versus  calcem. 

2  This  tomb  (as  was  frequently  the 
case)  was  erected  many  years  before 
the  bishop's  death,  which  happened  on 
3rd  September,  1419.      The   alabaster 
effigy  is  evidently   a  later   work  than 
the  tomb,  and   the  bishop's  face  was 


clearly  taken  from  a  cast  made  after 
his  death.  The  foundation  of  the 
bishop's  obit  at  the  altar  of  St.  John 
the  Evangelist,  near  the  Lady's  Chapel, 
in  the  cathedral,  is  dated  Crediton, 
10th  October,  1408.  See  his  '  Register,' 
vol.  ii.  fol.  281. 


456  APPENDIX. 

* 

reverend!  Patris  Domini  mei  Domini  Edinundi  Episcopi  Exonie 
antedicti.  Item  lego  Ecclesie  Cathedrali  Exonie  quinque  libros 
videlicet  corpus  juris  civilis  quod  habui  ex  dono  Magistri  Thome 
Stafford  ponendum  et  cathenandum  in  libraria  Ecclesie  antedicte 
ibidem  perpetuo  remansurum.  Item  lego  Ecclesie  parochiali 
de  Wellys  juxta  Walsyngham  Norvicensis  diocesis  unurn  Missale 
unum  Ordinale  et  unurn  librum  pupilla  oculi  nuncupatum  necnon 
unum  par  vestimentorum  videlicet  pro  presbitero,  diacono,  et  sub- 
diacono  cum  una  capa  ejusdem  secte  einendum  per  executores 
nieos  ad  valorem  decem  librarum.  Item  lego  Ecclesie  paro- 
chiali de  Kokeby  Conventriensis  et  Lichfieldensis  diocesis  unum 
par  vestimentorum  tantum  pro  presbitero  emendurn  per  execu- 
tores meos  ad  valorem  XL8.  Item  lego  Ecclesie  de  Warbytton 
Cicestriensis  diocesis  unum  par  vestimentorem  emendum  per  exe- 
cutores meos  ad  valorem  XLS.  Item  lego  Ecclesie  Collegiate  de 
Boseham  ejusdem  diocesis  unum  par  vestimentorum  ad  valorem 
XL*,  emendum  per  executores  meos  ut  supra.  Item  lego  Ecclesie 
parochiali  de  Wysbergh  diocesis  antedicte  unum  par  vestiment- 
orum valoris  XLS.  emendum  per  executores  meos.  Item  lego 
Ecclesie  Collegiate  de  Otery  Sancte  Marie  unum  par  vestiment- 
orum valoris  XL8,  emendum  per  executores  meos  et  eidem  Ecclesie 
liberandum  si  ipsius  Ecclesie  canonici  meos  executores  de  capa 
juxta  ordinaciones  et  statuta  ipsius  Ecclesie  racione  prebende  mee 
ibidem  dimittenda  exonerare  voluerint,  alioquin  ipsum  legatum 
adiino.  Item  lego  ad  fabricam  navis  Ecclesie  Collegiate  Sancte 
Crucis  Crediton,  jam  fere  ad  terrain  prostrate,  omnes  fructus 
redditus  et  proventus  ac  emolumenta  quecumque  racione 
prebende  mee  de  Prustecomb  in  eadem,  tempore  mortis  mee 
michi  debitos  et  juxta  discrecionem  executorum  meorum  leva- 
bilia  per  eosdem  levanda  ac  quam  cito  comode  poterint  ad  opus 
predictum  liberanda,  ultra  debita  si  qua  a  me  debeantur  Ecclesie 
Collegiate  predicte,  juxta  ipsius  Ecclesie  statuta  racione  prebende 
mee  antedicte.  Item  lego  Ecclesie  parochiali  de  Southpole 
Exoniensis  diocesis  unum  par  vestimentorum  pro  presbitero  cum 
una  capa  emendum  per  executores  meos  ad  valorem  LVXIS. 
vind.  Item  volo  quod  inter  pauperes  parochianos  Ecclesie  mee 
de  Wellys  predicte  distribuantur  66s.  8d.  juxta  meorum  execu- 
torum discrecionem.  Item  inter  pauperes  parochianos  Ecclesie  de 
Wysbergh  xx8.  et  inter  pauperes  parochianos  prebende  mee  de 
Westbrok  xx8.  ac  inter  pauperes  parochianos  prebende  quondam 
mee  de  Appeldurham  xxs.  necnon  inter  pauperes  parochianos 
Ecclesie  de  Warbylton  xx9.  ek  inter  pauperes  parochianos 
Ecclesie  mee  de  Southpole  xx8.  juxta  meorum  executorum  dis- 
crecionem distribuantur.  Item  lego  Willielmo  Pole  unum 
ciphum  argenteum  cum  suo  cooperculo  habentem  tres  pedes  ad 
similitudinem  trium  leonum.  Item  lego  Domino  Johanni  Wylle 
capellano  ad  orandum  pro  anima  mea  et  animabus  omnium 


CHARTERS,  &c.  457 

fidelium  defunctorum  20s.  necnon  unam  jupam  cum  capicio. 
Item  lego  capellanis  et  clericis  eciam  pueris  capelle  Domini 
mei  Exoniensis  0s.  inter  eosdem  dividendos.  Item  lego  ceteris 
familiaribus  Domini  mei  predict!  c8.  Item  lego  Johanni  Arderne 
unum  ciphum  argenteum  cum  cooperculo  in  cujus  cooperculi 
summitate  sculpta  sunt  arma  mea.  Item  lego  Margarete  uxori 
Johanni  Arderne  unam  jupam  de  scarleto  cum  sua  furrura. 
Item  residuum  omnium  bonorum  meorum  superius  non  lega- 
torum  lego  executoribus  meis  infrascriptis  ut  ipsi  primo  de  eodem 
residue  per  duos  vel  tres  annos  Willielmo  Portour  filiolo  meo  ad 
scolas  subveniant :  postea  remanens  de  residue  distribuatur  pro 
anime  mee  salute  et  animabus  omnium  fidelium  defunctorum. 
Et  ad  istud  testamentum  fideliter  exequendum  ordino  facio  et 
constituo  executores  meos  magistrum  Johannem  Schute 
vicarium  Ecclesie  parochialis  de  Peyngton  et  Johannem 
Arderne  armigerum.  Datum  loco  die  mense  et  anno  Domini 
supradictis. 

The  Testator  died  the  same  day. 

The  Will  was  proved  before  Bishop  Stafford  at  Clyst  on  7th  February, 
1413-14,  by  the  said  John  Schute  and  John  Arderne,  Esq.,  the  Executors,  and 
the  property  sworn  not  to  exceed  211Z.  lls.  6fc£. 


APPROBATION  OF  BISHOP  LACY'S  OFFICE  OF  ST.  RAPHAEL.1 

UNIVERSIS  Sancte  Matris  Ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presentes  littere 
pervenerint,  Thomas  Gascoigne,  sacre  Theologie,  Magister 
almeque  Universitatis  Oxoniensis  Cancellarius,  Salutem  in 
Domino  sempiternam.  Universitati  vestre  tenore  presentium 
iiinotescimus,  quod  cum  nos  ad  examinandum  quoddam  Sancti 
Kaphaelis  Archangeli  servicium,  per  reverendum  in  Christo 
Patrem  et  Dominum  Dominum  Edmundum  Exoniensem  Epis- 
copum  editum  et  compositum,  una  cum  infrascriptis  in  Sacra 
Theologia  Magistris,  videlicet,  Henrico  Severo,  Eicardo  Chester, 
Christianissimi  principis  Kegis  nostri  Anglie  capellanis,  Koberto 
Thwaytis,  Johanne  Burnebe,  et  Willielmo  Dowsyn,  per  Johan- 
nem Suetesham  predicte  Ecclesie  Exoniensis  Cancellarium 
sacreque  Theologie  Magistrum  et  in  hac  examinacione  Aposto- 
lice  Sedis  legatum  specialiter  ad  examinandum  officium  pre- 
dictum,  sex  aliis  Magistris  in  Theologia  sibi  assumptis,  deputatum 
prout  in  litteris  Apostolicis  inde  confectis  plenius  continetur, 
specialiter  rogati  fiierimus,  et  assumpti ;  predictum  officium  tam 
litteram  quam  spiritum  circumspeximus  et  diligenter  examin- 
avimus,  nee  aliquid  Scripture  sacre  dissonum  aut  canonicis  insti- 
tucionibus  contrarium  invenimus  obviare.  Quamobrem,  auctori- 
tate  Apostolica  in  hac  parte  commissa  supradicti  Kaphaelis  Arch- 

1  Referred  to  ante,  p.  102. 


458 


APPENDIX. 


angeli  servicium,  Catholicum  in  Summeque  Trinitatis  honorera 
beatorum  quoque  laudem,  et  specialiter  predict!  Sancti  Raphaelis 
Archangeli,  ac  ad  incrementum  et  augmentacionem  Christiane 
devocionis  necnon  in  auxilium  et  relevamen  Ecclesie  militantis 
institution  fore  decernimus,  et  quilibet  nostrum  decernit  per 
presentes.  In  quorum  omnium  testimonium  nos  Thomas  Gas- 
coigne  Cancellarius  antedictus  sigillum  officii  nostri  hujusmodi 
presentibus  duximus  apponendum.  Et  eas  per  Magistrum 
Kogerum  Keys,  Canonicum  dicte  Ecclesie  Exoniensis,  notarium 
publicuni,  scribi  ejusque  subscriptione  et  signo  requisivimus  com- 
muniri.  Presentibus  tune  ibidem  Johanne  Bobych  et  Johanne 
Page  litteratis,  Exoniensis  Bathoniensis  et  Wellensis  diocesium, 
testibus  ad  preraissa  vocatis  et  rogatis.  Datum  decimo  quarto 
die  mensis  Junii,  anno  Domini  miUesimo  ccccm°  XLiiuto. 

[The  seal  of  the  Chancellor  is  affixed,  but  is  much  injured.] 


FOUNDATION  OF  BISHOP  STAFFORD'S  CHANTEY. 

1st  October,  1488. 
ORDINACIO  CANTARIE  EDMUNDI  STAFFORD  IN  ECCLESIA  ExoxiENsi.1 

UNIVERSIS  Sancte  Matris  Ecclesie  filiis  presentes  litteras  in- 
specturis  Edinundus  miseracione  Divina  Exoniensis  Episcopus, 
Salutem  in  Domino  sempiternam.  Presentis  vite  condicio 
statum  habet  instabilem,  et  ea  que  visibilem  habent  essensiam 
tendunt  visibiliter  ad  non  esse  :  quod  nos  salubriter  cogitantes  et 
ea  racione  diem  nostre  peregrinacionis  extremum  salubri  dis- 
posicione,  et  presertim  oblacione  Divini  Corporis  in  altari  et 
oracionibus  sacerdotum  que  inter  humana  presidia  que  post 
solutum  universe  carnis  debitum  mortuis  ministratur  princi- 
puum  locum  obtinent,  et  aliis  pietatis  opibus  prout  continetur 
inferius  decrevimus  prevenire:  sane  cum  excellentissimus  in 
Christo  Princeps  et  Dominus  noster  Dominus  Henricus  Dei 
gracia  Kex  Anglie  et  Francie  illustrissimus  a  conquestu  Anglie 
quartus  dilectis  nobis  Willielmo  Ekerdon2  et  Edmundo  Elyot 
clericis  ac  Eoberto  Grey  per  suas  litteras  patentes  licenciam  con- 
cesserit  specialem,  quod  ipsi  possint  manerium  de  Wynterborn 
Wast,  Bokhampton  et  Swanewych  cum  pertinenciis  in  comitatu 
Dorset  ac  advocacionem  Ecclesie  dicte  ville  de  Wynterborn  Wast, 
que  de  ipso  Domino  Kege  tenentur  in  capite,  dilectis  nobis  in 
Christo  filiis  nostris  Decano  et  JCapitulo  Ecclesie  nostri  Cathe- 
dralis  Beati  Petri  Exonie  dare  concedere  et  assignare,  habendum 
et  tenendum  eisdem  Decano  et  Capitulo  et  successoribus  suis  ad 


1  Bishop  Stafford's  '  Register,'  vol.  ii. 
fol.  281  6. 

2  William  Ekerdon's  will  (Canon  of 
Exeter),  made  8th  November.  1418,  was 


proved  4th  December  next  ensuing. 
See  it  in  Bp.  Stafford's  '  Register,'  vol.  i. 
ad  finem. 


CHARTERS,  &c.  459 

inveniendum  tres  capellanos  divina  quolibet  die  in  Ecclesia 
cathedrali  predicta,  tarn  pro  salubri  statu  dicti  excellentissimi  in 
Christo  Principis  Domini  Henrici  antedicti  ac  filiorum  suorum 
dnm  vixerint,  et  pro  animabus  suis  cum  ab  hac  luce  migraverint, 
quam  pro  salubri  statu  nostro  ac  Humfridi  de  Stafford  militis 
consanguinei  nostri  dum  vixerimus,  et  pro  animabus  nostris 
cum  ab  hac  luce  migraverimus,  aceciam  pro  animabus  omnium 
fidelium  defunctorum,  et  ad  quemdam  obitum  quolibet  anno  post 
mortem  nostram  et  Humfridi  antedicti  in  predicta  Ecclesia 
cathedrali  tenendum  et  celebrandum,  et  ad  alia  onera  ac  pietatis 
opera  facienda  et  supportanda,  juxta  nostram  ordinacionem  in 
hac  parte  faciendam  imperpetuum,  prout  in  eisdem  litteris 
patentibus  prefati  Domini  Regis  inde  confectis  plenius  con- 
tinetur ;  cumque  subsequenter  prefati  Willielmus  Ekerdon  et 
Edmundus  Elyot  ac  Eobertus  Grey  dictum  manerium  de 
Wynterborn  Wast,  Bokhampton  et  Swanwych  cum  pertinenciis 
prefatis  Decano  et  Capitulo  dederint,  concesserint  et  assigna- 
verint  juxta  dictarum  litterarum  regiarum  exigenciam  et  efiec- 
tum,  prout  in  cartis  et  litteris  per  predictos  Willielmum,  Edmund- 
dum  et  Eobertum  prefatis  Decano  et  Capitulo  in  ea  parte  factis 
plenarie  poterit  apparere;  Nos  igitur  Edmundus  Episcopus 
antedictus  virtute  concessionis  et  assignacionis  predicte  ad 
ordinacionem  super  premissis  faciendam  juxta  exigenciam  litter- 
arum  regiarum  predictarum  procedere  cupientes,  ad  divini  cultus 
augmentum  prefatis  Ecclesie  nostre  Exoniensis  ac  Decano  et 
Capitulo  ejusdem  onera  subscripta  in  dicta  nostra  Ecclesia 
Exoniensi  sub  modo  et  forma  inferius  annotatis  supportanda,  in 
honore  Jhesu  Christi  Virginisque  Marie  genitricis  ejusdem  ac 
Apostolorum  Petri  et  Pauli  patronorum  nostrorum  in  quorum 
nomine  et  honore  dicta  Ecclesia  Cathedralis  Exonie  dedicata 
consistit,  indicimus  perpetuis  futuris  temporibus  inviolabiliter  ob- 
servanda :  volentes  imprimis  et  ordinantes,  quod  prefati  Decanus 
et  Capitulum  imperpetuum  de  et  cum  redditibus  et  proventibus 
prefati  manerii  de  Wynterborn  Wast,  Bokhampton  et  Swanwych 
cum  pertinenciis,  quod  in  rei  veritate  nostris  industria  et 
laboribus  mediantibus  de  et  cum  bonis  patrimonialibus  et  de 
peculio  nostro  ad  utilitatem  nostram  fuerat  et  est  adquisitum, 
duos  presbiteros  honestos  et  ydoneos  annivellarios  Edmundi  de 
Stafford  Episcopi  nuncupandos,  vicariam  in  choro  dicte  Ecclesie 
nostre  Exoniensis  aut  aliud  beneficicium  Ecclesiasticum  nul- 
latenus  obtinentes  nee  salarium  seu  stipendium  aliunde  perci- 
pientes,  per  ipsos  Decanum  et  Capitulum  admissos  et  constitutes 
habere,  invenire  et  sustinere  imperpetuum  teneantur,  missas 
ad  altare  Sancti  Johannis  Evangdiste  juxta  capellam  Beate 
Marie  in  eadem  Ecclesia  cum  ad  hoc  dispositi  fuerint,  cotidie  et 
continue  simili  tanien  modo  iiitelligendum  celebrantes  et  alia 
divina  officia  una  cum  Placebo  et  Dirige  ac  Commendacione 


460  APPENDIX. 

Animarum  diebus  singulis  quibus  secundum  Ordinale  Sarum 
Exequias  Mortuorum  dici  et  celebrari  est  institutum,  pro  salubri 
statu  nostro  ac  Humfridi  de  Stafford  antedicti  et  Elizabethe 
consortis  ejusdem  dum  vixerimus  et  vixerint,  ac  pro  salute  et 
requie  anime  nostre  cum  in  fata  decesserimus,  ac  animarum 
Ricardi  de  Stafford  militis  patris  nostri,  et  Isabelle  consortis 
ejusdem,  matris  nostre,  aceciam  Radulphi  de  Stafford  avunculi 
nostri  quondam  comitis  Stafford,  necnon  pro  animabus  dictorum 
Humfridi  et  Elizabethe  cum  ab  hac  luce  migraverint,  necnon 
pro  salubri  statu  illustrissimi  Principis  Domini  Henrici  Eegis 
antedicti  et  filiorum  suorum  dum  vixerint,  et  pro  animabus  suis 
cum  ab  hac  luce  migraverint,  aceciam  pro  animabus  predeces- 
sorum  et  successorum  nostrorum  et  omnium  fidelium  defunc- 
torum  diceiites.  Et  si  in  premissis  dicti  presbiteri  fuerint 
negligentes  aut  remissi,  volumus  et  ordinamus  quod  ipsi  per 
Decanum  et  Capitulum  in  ea  parte  coherceantur  et  alio  quo- 
cunque  modo  legitimo  juxta  ipsorum  Decani  et  Capituli  dis- 
crecionem  debite  puniantur,  ac  in  eadem  Ecclesia  habiturn  chori 
decentem  ferentes  et  ministrantes  in  eadem,  ad  modum  alioruin 
presbiterorum  annivellariorum  et  sicut  alii  presbiteri  annivel- 
larii  facere  tenentur  ad  solempne  divini  cultus  augmentum  et 
numeri  ministrorum  Ecclesie  supradicte,  eruntque  presbiteri 
hujusmodi  obedienciarii  dictorum  Decani  et  Capituli  sicut  alii 
presbiteri  annivellarii  ejusdem  Ecclesie,  et  ad  hanc  nostram 
ordinacionem  presertim  observandum,  erunt  in  sua  admissione 
astricti  vinculo  juramenti.  Et  cum  dicti  duo  presbiteri  obierint 
aut  eorum  alter  obierit  seu  aliquo  modo  cesserint  vel  cesserit 
aut  quocioque  modo  dictum  statum  suum  dimiserint  seu  dimis- 
erit  aliasve  inydonei  seu  inhabiles  effecti  fuerint  seu  fuerit,  et 
dicti  Decanus  et  Capitulum  alios  presbiteros  ydoneos  infra 
mensem  post  vacacionem  status  alicujus  presbiterorum.  predic- 
torum  proxim^  sequentem  non  elegerint,  admiserint  et  consti- 
tuerint,  extunc  liceat  nobis  et  successoribus  nostris  successive 
singulis  vicibus  quum  sic  contigerit,  de  illis  presbiteris  et  eorum 
quolibet  absque  difficultate  qualibet  providere,  contradiccione 
dictorum  Decani  et  Capituli  non  obstante.  Percipiet  autem 
annuatim  imperpetuum  uterque  presbiterorum  nostrorum  pre- 
di^torum  ab  eisdem  Decano  et  Capitulo  centum  solidos  sterling- 
orum  ad  terminos  usuales  et  porcionem  de  singulis  obitibus  in 
dicta  Ecclesia  sicut  alii  Ecclesie  presbiteri  annivellarii  quociens 
contingere  dinoscuntur.  Onus  vero  invencionis  et  sustentacionis 
libri  Missalis,  calicis,  vestimentorum  et  aliorum  ornamentorum 
altaris  ac  panis  vini  et  luminis  pro  dictis  presbiteris  celebraturis 
ad  dictos  Decanum  et  Capitulum  pertinebit,  dummodo  nos 
Exoniensis  Episcopus  hujusmodi  librum  Missalem  et  ornamenta 
necessaria  et  competencia  pro  hujusmodi  capellanis  semel  in- 
vuniemus  prima  vice:  swpradicti  quoque  presbiteri  temnore 


CHABTEES,  &c.  461 

admissionis  eorundem  coram  Decano  et  Capitulo  predicto 
securitatem  sufficientem  et  ydoneam  de  libris  vestimentis  et 
ornamentis  hujusmodi  non  alienandis  sed  bene  et  fideliter 
custodiendis  et  de  eisdem  cum  per  partem  eorum  Decani  et 
Capituli  fuerint  requisiti  integre  restituendis  invenire  teneantur, 
insuper  attendentes,  quod  in  dicta  Ecclesia  nostra  cathedrali  in 
qua  permittente  Domino  presidemus,  circa  festuni  Sancti  Lam- 
berti  minorum  obituum  est  concursus,  ideo  quocumque  tempore 
anni  iiostri  corporis  dissolucionem  attulerit  sors  humana,  volumus 
et  ordinamus  quod  dies  obitus  nostri  et  dictorum  Humfridi  ac 
Elizabethe  anniversarius  in  die  Sancti  Lamberti  in  dicta 
Ecclesia  nostra  Exoniensi  singulis  annis  extunc  perpetuo 
solempniter  celebretur,  et  quod  Decanus  et  Capitulum  ante- 
dictum  singulis  annis  eodem  die  solvant  et  solvere  teneantur 
cuilibet  canonico  ejusdem  Ecclesie  presenti  in  officiis  dicendis 
Placebo  et  Dirige  cum  Commendacione  Animarum  ac  Missa 
solempni  de  Kequiem  in  die  duodecim  denarios  sterlingorum, 
culibet  vicario  sic  presenti  sex  denarios,  cuilibet  presbitero  anni- 
vellario  sic  presenti  tres  denarios,  cuilibet  clerico  de  secunda 
forma  sic  interessenti  tres  denarios,  ac  cuilibet  puero  choriste 
duos  denarios,  iiecnon  principali  clerico  scaccarii  <5cto  denarios,  et 
secundo  clerico  scaccarii  quatuor  denarios,  aceciam  custoribus 
Ecclesie  pro  classico  et  pulsacione  campanarum  ac  labore  eorum 
in  exequiis  hujusmodi  duodecim  denarios.  Et  thesaurario  pro 
duobus  cereis  ac  aliis  luminaribus  tempore  Placebo  et  Dirige  ac 
misse  ut  moris  est  in  aliis  obitibus  Episcoporum  arsuris,  octo 
denarios.  Item  volentes  quod  singulis  annis  quamdiu  vitam 
gerimus  humanam  in  dicta  Ecclesia  Exoniensi,  nostri  et  dictorum 
Humfridi  et  Elizabethe  memoria  specialiter  habeatur,  ordinamus 
quod  dicto  die  Sancti  Lamberti  una  Missa  de  Sancta  Trinitate 
singulis  annis  quamdiu  vixerimus  pro  salubri  statu  nostro  et 
dictorum  Humfridi  et  Elizabethe  solempniter  celebretur,  quo 
quidem  die  canonici  vicarii  et  ceteri  ministri  ipsius  Ecclesie  qui 
in  celebracione  dicte  Misse  personaliter  presentes  fuerint  tantum 
percipient  quantum  superius  ordinatur  in  die  obitus  memorati : 
ceterum  quia  justum  fore  arbitramur,  ut  decrescentibus  facul- 
tatibus  dicti  manerii,  decrescant  et  onera  ejus  pretextu  indicta 
idcirco  ordinamus  et  volumus  per  presentes,  quod  si  quod  absit 
contigerit  in  futurum  dictum  manerium  de  Wynterborn  Wast, 
Bokhampton  et  Swaiiwych  cum  pertinenciis  in  comitatu  Dorset 
ab  eisdem  Decano  et  Capitulo  absque  eorum  dolo,  culpa  seu 
negligencia  quovismodo  evinci  in  toto,  quod  extunc  predicti 
Decanus  et  Capitulum  ad  invencionem  et  sustentacionem  dic- 
torum duorum  presbiterorum  seu  alia  onera  supradicta  nulla- 
tenus  teneantur,  quodque  eciam  si  contingat  hnposteruni  litem 
contra  eosdeni  Decanum  et  Capitulum,  de  et  super  dicto  manerio 
de  Wynterborn  Wast,  Bokhampton  et  Swanwyche  cum  pertinen- 


462  APPENDIX. 

ciis  quovismodo  moveri,  aut  redditus  et  proventus  dicti  manerii 
per  epidemiam  aut  mortalitatem  hominum  seu  alium  quemcum- 
que  casum  fortuitum,  absque  ipsorum  Decani  et  Capituli  dolo, 
culpa  seu  negligencia  taliterdecrescere  seu  quomodolibet  deperire, 
sic  quod  hujusmodi  redditus  et  proventus  non  sufficiant  ad  soluci- 
onem  sumptuum  litis  per  ipsos  Decanum  et  Capitulum  apponen- 
dorum,  et  ad  supportacionem  aliorum  onerum  predictorum,  quod 
pro  tempore  hujusmodi  litis  dependentis  et  casuum  sic  contiii- 
gencium,  fiat  per  eosdem  Decanum  et  Capitulum  cum  consilio 
Episcopi  Exoniensis  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit,  pro  rata  porcione 
diminucio  de  omnibus  supradictis.  Item  ordinamus  quod  prefati 
Decanus  et  Capitulum  eorumque  successores  de  cum  fructibus 
redditibus  et  proventibus  dicte  Ecclesie  de  Winterborn  Wast 
cujus  Ecclesie  advocacio  de  et  cum  Bonis  prefati  Humfridi  de 
Stafford  et  ad  ipsius  utilitatem  fuerat  adquisita  quamcito  dicta 
Ecclesia  eisdem  Decano  et  Capitulo  et  eorum  successoribus 
sumptibus  et  expensis  supradicti  Humfridi  fuerit  canonice  appro- 
priata,  unita  et  incorporata  et  in  proprios  usus  suos  perpetuo 
possidenda  concessa  et  ea  occasione  fuerint,  iidem  Decanus  et 
Capitulum  in  pacifica  possessione  perceptionis  fructuum  et  pro- 
ventuum  ejusctem  et  eosdem  percipere  poterunt  et  liabere  et 
eisdem  gaudere  pacifice  et  quiete,  salva  congrua  porcione  vicarii 
perpetui  in  eadem  ad  presentacionem  dictorum  Decani  et 
Capituli  per  loci  diocesanum  canonice  instituendi  quod  extunc 
invenient  tercium  capellanum  annivellarium,  honestum  et 
ydoneum  annivellarium  Humfridi  de  Stafford  nuncupandum 
vicariarn  in  Ecclesia  nostra  Cathedrali  antedicta  nullatenus 
optinentem  nee  alibi  beneficiatum  vel  salarium  aliunde  per- 
cipientem  per  ipsos  Decanum  et  Capitulum  electum  admissum 
et  constitutum  in  venire  et  sustinere  conformiter  imperpetuum 
teneantur,  Missas  ad  prefatum  altare  Sancti  Johannis  Evangeliste 
et  duo  alii  presbiteri  nostri  cotidie  celebrantem  et  alia  divina  in 
eadem  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  Exoniensi  pro  salubri  statu  nostro  et 
dictorum  Humfridi  et  Elizabethe  dum  vixerimus  et  vixerint,  et 
pro  animabus  nostris  cum  ab  hac  luce  migraverimus  et  migrave- 
rint  necnon  pro  animabus  consanguineorum  nostrorum  dum 
vixerint  videlicet  Kadulphi  de  Stafford  et  Hugonis  de  Stafford 
et  Hugonis  de  Stafford  quondam  comitum  Staffordie,  aceciam 
pro  animabus  Johannis  de  Stafford  militis  et  Margarete  con- 
sorfcis  ejusdem  parentum  prefati  Humfridi  militis,  ac  pro  salubri 
statu  Domini  Henrici  Kegis  antedicti  et  filiorum  suoruin  dum 
vixerint  et  pro  animabus  suis  £um  ab  hac  luce  migraverint  et 
pro  animabus  omnium  fidelium  defunctorum  cotidie  dicentem  et 
celebrantem  ac  habitum  chori  in  eadem  Ecclesia  deferentem  et 
ministrantem  in  eadem  sub  obediencia  Decani  et  Capituli  sicut 
duo  presbiteri  annivellarii  antedicti.  Et  cum  dictus  presbiter 
obierit  seu  aliquo  modo  cesserit  aut  quocumque  modo  statum 


CHARTERS,  &o.  463 

suum   hujusmodi    dimisserit   aliasve    inydoneus    seu    inhabilis 
effectus  fuerit  et  dicti  Decanus  et  Capitulum  alium  presbiter 
ydoneus  infra  mensem  post  vacacionem  status  dicti  presbiteri 
proxime   sequentem  non   elegerint  admiserint  et  constituerint 
extunc  liceat  nobis  et  successoribus  nostris  successive  quum  sic 
contigerit  de  illo  presbitero  absque  difficultate  aliqua  pro  vide  re 
contradictione  dictorum  Decani  et  Capituli  non  obstante  percipiet 
autem  annuatim  imperpetuum  prefatus  presbiter  de  proventibus 
dicte  Ecclesie  cum  ut  prefertur  appropriata  fuerit  ab  eisdem 
Decano  et  Capitulo  centum  solidos  ad  terminos  supradictos  et 
porcionem  de  singulis  obitibus  dicte  Ecclesie  Cathedralis  Exonie 
sicut  alii  presbiteri  annivellarii  ejusdem  Ecclesie  quociens  con- 
tingere  dinoscuntur  dies  vero  obitus  anniversarius   prefatorum 
Humfridi  et  Elizabethe  quocumque  tempore  obierunt  in  eadem 
Ecclesia  nostra  (cathedrali)  Exoniensi  in  crastino  Sancti  Lamberti 
singulis  annis  imperpetuum  celebretur.     In  quorum  Humfridi 
et  Elizabethe  anniversario  pro  anima  nostra  ac  animabus  con- 
sanguineorum  nostrorum    predictorum    videlicet  Kadulphi   de 
Stafford,   Hugonis,   Johannis    et  Margarete   consortis   ejusdem 
Johannis,  parentum  prefati  Humfridi  militis,  memoria  fiat  specialis 
cum  oracionibus  et  suffragiis  congruis  et   consuetis.     Decanus 
quoque  et  Capitulum  antedictum  singulis  annis  eodem  die  in 
crastino  videlicet  Sancti  Lamberti  de  proventibus  Ecclesie  de 
Wynterborn  Wast  antedicte  cuilibet  canonico  ejusdem  Ecclesie 
Exonie  presenti  et  interessenti  in  exequiis  mortuorum  videlicet 
Placebo  et  Dirige   cum  Commendacione   Animarum   et  Missa 
solernpni  de   Kequiem   ibidem  dicenda  intra  Misse   hujusmodi 
solempnia  octo  denarios  et  cuilibet  vicario  sic  presenti  quatuor 
denarios,  cuilibet  presbitero  annivellario  duos  denarios,  cuilibet 
clerico  de  secunda  forma  sic  interessenti  duos  denarios,  cuilibet 
puero  choriste  unurn  denarium  ac  principali  clerico  scaccarii  sex 
denarios  et  secundo  clerico  quatuor  denarios  necnon  custoribus 
Ecclesie  pro  classico  et  pulsacione  campanarum  ac  labore  eorum 
in  exequiis  hujusmodi  octo  denarios  et  thesaurario  pro  duobus 
cereis  circa  tumulum  ejusdem  Humfridi  si  in  eadem  Ecclesia 
nostra  sepultus  fuerit  alioquin  circa  formulam  pallio  mortuorum 
coopertam  quam  juxta  tumulum  nostrum  in  pavimento  in  ejus 
memoriam  exponi  volumus  et  collocari  ac  aliis  luminaribus  ea 
occasione  tune  arsuris  octo  denarios  solvere  teneantur ;  onus  autem 
invencionis  Missalis,  calicis,  vestimentorum,  panis,  vini  et  luminis 
pro  tercio  presbitero  hujusmodi  ad  ipsos  Decanum  et  Capitulum 
sub  modo  tamen  et  forma  prelibatis   spectabit  imperpetuum. 
Ordinamus  insuper  et  volumus  quod  si  dicta  Ecclesia  de  Wynter- 
born Wast  appropriata  non  fuerit  Decano  et  Capitulo  antedictis 
aut  quod  absit  contingent  in  futurum  hujusmodi  appropriacionem 
unionem  incorporacionem  et  annexionem  dicte  Ecclesie  paro- 
chialis  de  Wynterborn  Wast  semel  factam  dissolvi  quomodolibet 


464  APPENDIX. 

seu  cassari  vel  eciam  infirmari  aut  ipsam  Ecclesiam  ab  eisdem 
Decano  et  Capitulo  absque  ipsorum  dolo  culpa  seu  negligencia 
quovismodo  evinci  quod  extunc  predict!  Decanus  et  Capitulum 
ad  invencionem  et  sustentacionem  dicti  tercii  presbiteri  seu  alia 
onera  supradicta  pretextu  ejusdem  Ecclesie  de  Wynterborn  Wast 
per  nos  inposita  et  indicta  nullatenus  teneantur  quodque  eciam 
si  contingat  imposterum  litera  contra  eosdeni  Decanum  et 
Capitulum  de  et  super  eadem  Ecclesia  de  Wynterborn  Wast  seu 
jure  patronatus  ipsius  aut  eciam  occasione  unionis  et  appro- 
priacionis  predicte  quovismodo  moveri  aut  fructus  redditus  et 
proventus  ejusdem  Ecclesie  per  epidemiam  seu  mortalitatem 
hominum  aut  alium  quemcumque  casum  fortuitu  absque  ipsorum 
Decani  et  Capituli  dolo,  culpa  seu  negligencia  taliter  decrescere 
seu  quomodolibet  deperire  sic  quod  hujusmodi  fructus  et  pro- 
ventus  non  sufficiant  ad  solucionem  sumptuum  circa  defensionem 
hujusmodi  litis  per  ipsos  Decanum  et  Capitulum  apponendorum 
et  ad  supportacionem  aliorum  onerum  predictorum  quod  pro 
teinpore  hujusmodi  litis  dependents  et  casuum  sic  contingentium 
fiat  per  eosdem  Decanum  et  Capitulum  cum  consilio  Episcopi 
Exonie  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit  pro  rata  porcione  diminucio  de 
omnibus  supradictis  nunc  tercium  et  obitum  dictorum  Hum- 
fridi  et  Elizabethe  tangentibus.  Proviso  semper  quod  licet  forte 
decrescant  fructus  et  emolumenta  Ecclesie  hujusmodi  appro- 
priate :  nulla  tamen  ob  hoc  fiat  defalcacio  de  stipendiis  duorum 
presbiterorum  nostrorum  aut  anniversarii  nostri  antedicti  quos  in 
fructibus  et  proventibus  dicti  manerii  separatim  et  per  se  absque 
Ecclesia  hujusmodi  stabilivimus  et  stabilimus  per  presentes: 
habeant  eciam  iidem  presbiteri  annivellarii  veram  copiam  pre- 
sentis  nostre  ordinacionis  in  principio  aut  in  fine  libri  Missalis 
predicti  conscriptam  ut  occulata  fide  legere  valeant  formam 
juramenti  sui  prestiti  et  intelligere  pro  quibus  orandi  debitores 
existunt.  Que  omnia  et  singula  ut  superius  recitantur  per  pre- 
fatos  Decanum  et  Capitulum  ac  presbiteros  annivellarios 
memoratos  quatenus  eos  divisim  tangunt  et  concernunt  volumus 
et  ordinamus  per  presentes  firmiter  observari.  Salva  iiobis 
quamdiu  vixerimus  et  specialiter  reservata  libera  facilitate 
premissa  omnia  et  singula  si  et  quando  opus  fuerit  et  nobis 
placuerit,  cum  consensu  dictorum  Decani  et  Capituli,  declarandi 
interpretandi,  corrigendi,  supplendi,  et  addendi  quoque  ad  eadem, 
et  diminuendi  ab  eisdem,  condicionibus  tamen  modi's  et  pro- 
testacionibus  ceteris  substancialibus  premissis  in  suo  semper 
robore  duraturis.  In  quorum  oninium  testimonium  atque  fidem 
presentem  nostram  ordinacionem  in  tribus  membranis  separatim 
conscriptam,  quarum  unam  penes  Decanum  et  Capitulum  pre- 
dictos  in  eorum  thesauraria,  alteram  vero  penes  nostros  suc- 
cessores  Exonienses  Episcopos  in  eorum  archivis,  et  terciam 
penes  heredes  nostros  remanere  volumus  sigilli  nostri  appensione 


CHARTERS,  &c.  465 

fecimus  communiri.  Datum  in  manerio  nostro  Criditon,  primo 
die  mensis  Octobris,  anno  Domini  millesimo  quadringentesimo 
octavo,  et  nostre  consecracionis  anno  quarto  decimo. 

Et  nos  Decanus  et  Capitulum  Ecclesie  Cathedralis  Exonie 
premissa  omnia  et  singula  per  reverendum  in  Christo  Patrem 
Dominum  Edmundum  prelibatum  acta  gesta  et  recitata  col- 
laudamus  et  quantum  ad  nos  attinet  admittimus  ac  eisdem 
nostrum  prebenius  consensum  pariter  et  assensum.  Onera 
quoque  premissa  sub  modo  tamen  forma  et  condicionibus  supra- 
scriptis  suscipimus.  Eaque  omnia  et  singula  juxta  formam  in 
prefatis  litteris  traditam  cum  effectu  adimplere  et  observare  ex 
certa  nostra  sciencia  promittimus  per  presentes.  In  cujus  rei 
testimonium  sigillum  nostrum  commune  presentibus  apposuimus. 
Datum  in  domo  nostra  capitulari,  secundo  die  mensis  Octobris, 
anno  Domini  millesimo  quadringentesimo  octavo  supradicto. 


STATUTA  ET  ORDINACIONES  REVERENBI  PATRIS  HUGONIS, 

EXON.  EPISCOPI.      A.D.  1511. 

IN  primis  statuimus  quod  omnes  in  eadem  Ecclesia  nostra  Ca- 
thedrali  Ministri  Presentes  observent  et  plenarie  custodiant 
Usuin  et  Moduni  dicendi  Horas  Canonicas  secundum  Directorium 
et  Ordinale  Sarum.  PROVISO  tamen  quod  omnia  Festa  que  per 
specialem  Ordinacionem  certis  Temporibus  celebrari  solent  nec- 
nonExequie  Mortuorum,  Martirologia,  Lecciones  tarn  de  Tempore 
quam  de  Sanctis  et  cetera  Cerimonialia  deinceps  ut  prius  per 
omnes  Ecclesie  Vicarios  Annivellarios  aliosque  Ministros  quando 
et  quocienscunque  infra  Ecclesiam  nostram  Cathedralem  pre- 
dictam  solempniter  officiantes  fuerint,  integraliter  custodiantur. 
QUIBUS  inferioribus  Ecclesie  Ministris  predictis  Injungendo 
mandamus  quatenus  Custumarium  quatu  ad  Tempus  intrandi  et 
exeundi  Chorum  fideliter  custodiatur,  ut  simul  in  Choro  sint 
psallentes  omni  frivola  excusatione  postposita,  Secundariis  tantum 
exceptis  quando  intersunt  Scolis  grammaticalibus  vel  Scolis 
cantus.  QUIBUS  de  Consensu  Decani  et  Capituli  concedimus 
per  Presentes  ordinamus  quod  decetero  habeant  consueta  Feoda 
pro  Installacione  et  Inductione  Dignitatum  et  Canonicorum 
Ecclesie  Cathedralis  predicte  debita  olim  Decano  seu  Presidenti 
pro  Tempore  existente.  Et  quod  nullus  in  Secundariuin  admit- 
tatur  ante  decimum  octavium  etatis  sue  annum.  ULTEKIUS 
prohibemus  ne  Vicarii  aut  Annuellarii  Missas  celebrent  Tempore 
Processionis  vel  alte  Misse  seu  alio  Tempore  presertim  quando 
deficit  Numerus  Ministrorum  in  Choro  Psallentium,  Neque  supra- 
dicto Tempore  extra  Ecclesiam  Obitibus  intersint^B'efunctorum,^^ 
Nee  infra  Chorum  auriculariter  confiteantur  vd^stibmissa  Voce 

'2    H 


466  APPENDIX. 

in  parvis  Libris  sive  cum  Preculis  sine  justa  causa  orare  per- 
mittantur.  PEETEKEA  Vicariis  specialiter  inhibemus  ne  Ritum 
suum  perpetuo  dimittere  presumant  nisi  per  unum  anni  quarte- 
rium  Decano  sen  Presidenti  illud  prius  denunciaverint  sub  Pena 
Amissionis  totalis  Commodi  quod  sibi  debetur  pro  Tempore 
supradicto,  Annuellariis  eciam  omnibus  precipimus  quatenus 
Missas  cursorie  et  successive  celebrent  secundum  Statuta  et 
Tabu! am  inde  factam  sub  Pena  unius  Denarii  quociens  peccave- 
rint  infigenda.  Quibus  eciam  precipimus  quod  in  singulis  Missis 
in  Choro  solempniter  celebrandis  Epistolam  cantent  preterquam 
in  Festis  principalibus  et  in  Majoribus  Duplicibus  quando 
Vicarius  ad  Epistolam  intitulatur  ceteraque  facient  que  ad  Offi- 
cium  Subdiaconi  in  Ecclesia  quotidie  dinoscuntur  pertinere  in 
hac  Parte.  PRETEBEA  Custodes  neque  in  dispari  habitu  infra 
Chorum  sedere,  vel  extra  Cameras  sine  legitima  causa  infra 
Ecclesiam  pro  eisdem,  antiquitus  edificatas  jacere  permittantur. 
Et  eisdem  ulterius  precipimus  quatenus  solitas  Pulsationes  ad 
Horas  Canonicas  debita  Forma  faciant.  PROVISO  quod  ad  Ma- 
tutinas  et  ad  Vesperas  in  Feriis  et  Festis  cum  Eegimine  Chori 
vel  sine  tantomodo  loco  tempore  Pulsacionis  quotidiane  faciant 
sexaginta  aut  plures  Tintinaciones  cum  majori  campana  de 
tribus  minoribus  in  Australi  Turre  dependentibus.  Et  siniili 
modo  in  Festis  principalibus  et  Majoribus  Duplicibus  post 
terciam  Pulsacionem  dictas  faciant  Tintinaciones,  quibus  finitis 
sequatur  statim  completa  Pnlsacio  cum  aliis  Campanis  more  solito 
pulsanda.  Et  accensis  Luminaribus  statim  incipiatur  Divinum 
Officium. 

CUSTODIBUS  insuper  specialiter  inhibemus  ne  sine  Decreto 
Capituli  Yestimenta  aut  aliqua  Ecclesie  Ornamenta  accomodare 
presumant  extra  Ecclesiam.  Sed  precipimus  quod  predicta 
omnia  in  Vestibulo  super  Perticas  et  non  in  Domo  inferiori  per 
eosdem  melius  collocentur.  DE  QUIBUS  omnibus  et  ceteris 
Bonis  Ecclesie  universis,  que  omnia  ad  Thesaurarii  Custodiam 
pertinere  dinoscuntur,  fieri  volumus  Inventarium  inter  Capitulum 
et  ipsum  Thesaurarium  indentatum.  INSUPER  Clericis  Scaccarii 
inhibemus  aliquas  Prepositorum  aut  Firmariorum  Soluciones 
recipere  nisi  in  presencia  Senescallorum.  QUIBUS  eciam  pre- 
cipimus quatenus  coram  Capitulo  quolibet  Termino  certificent 
quantum  distribuitur  inter  Ministros  Ecclesie  pro  singulis  Obiti- 
bus  in  communi  portand.  INJUNGIMUS  preterea  Collector!  Red- 
dituum  infra  Civitatem  quatenus  coram  Capitulo  semel  in  anno 
inde  compotum  suum  ostendat.  PRETEREA  prohibemus  ne 
Carte,  Munimenta,  Pecunie,  vel  Jocalia  infra  Ecclesiam  per  ali- 
quos  extraneos  sine  Decreto  Decani  et  Capituli  custodienda 
deponantur.  STATUENTES  quod  magnus  Rotulus  Debitorum 
quolibet  anno  post  auditum  renovandus  et  decetero  duplicandus 
in  Quaternas  posthac  conscribatur  quo  facilius  ad  contenta  in 


CHARTERS,  &c.  467 

eodem  deveniri  possit  cujus  altra  Pars  extra  communem  cistam 
nullatenus  relinquatur.  Et  nichill  de  solutis  aut  receptis  in  ea 
scribatur  nisi  manu  Senescallorum  aut  Canonicorum  eomm 
Vicem  gerencium.  PRECIPIMUS  ulterius  Janitori  Clause  quate- 
nus  Januas  et  Hostia  claudat  a  Festo  Pasche  usque  ad  Festum 
Michaelis  ad  horam  nonam,  et  a  Festo  Michaelis  usque  ad 
Festum  Pasche  ad  horam  octavam.  Et  eadem  ultra  non  ape- 
riet  sine  causa  racionabili  ante  Missam  matutinalem  de  Bratton 
sub  Pena  ex  arbitrio  Decani  et  Capituli  limitanda.  PEETEKEA 
cum  nonnulli  Ecclesie  nostre  Cathedralis  Canonici  Kesidenciarii 
in  alia  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  similiter  residere  presumant,  unde 
contigit  quod  solita  hospitalitate  deserta  sepius  hinc  inde  dis- 
currere  coguntur  ut  sic  vicissim  hie  et  alibi  existentes  in  utraque 
Cathedrali  Cotidianas  Distributions,  contra  antiquas  et  lauda- 
biles  Consuetudines  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  Exon.  diucius  usitatas, 
Nos  igitur  animadvertentes  quod  per  hujusmodi  interpellatam 
Kesidenciam  Cultus  Divinus  miniutur,  antiqua  hospitalitas  tarn 
in  Ecclesia  nostra  Cathedrali  predicta  quam  in  Ecclesiis  paro- 
chialibus  quibus  presunt  notorie  violatur,  et  Ecclesia  preterea 
debitis  defraudatur  Consiliis  pariter  et  Obsequiis,  ut  omnis  igitur 
discurrendi  Occasio  eisdem  adimatur,  omnes  et  singulos  in  hac 
nostra  Ecclesia  Canonicos  Resideneiarios,  qui  decetero  similiter 
in  alia  Ecclesia  Cathedrali,  uno  et  eodem  anno,  Yel  in  aliqua 
Parte  ibidem  Kesidenciarius  existit  vel  erit  infuturo,  declaramus 
et  pronunciamus  mine  et  tune  et  tune  pro  nunc  quatenus  ad  Ec- 
clesiam  nostram  ficte  residenciarios  seu  residenciarium  per  pre- 
sentes.  YOBIS  DECANO  Decano  et  Capitulo  specialiter  injun- 
gendo  mandamus,  inhibentes  ne  alicui  Canonico  sen  Confratri 
vestro  infuturo,  similiter  in  alia  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  residenciarius 
aliquid  de  cotidianis  Distribucionibus  in  Ecclesia  nostra,  Pretextu 
ficte  Kesidentie  sue  hujusmodi,  decetero  persolvatis.  POSTREMO 
cum  per  placita  turn  alia  diversa  Onera  retroactis  Temporibus 
contingencia  Distribucionum  vestrarum  Porciones  sunt  admodum 
diminute,  et  de  veresimili  magis  erunt  infuturo,  cum  non  sit  in 
Ecclesia  predicta  commune  Erarium  pro  hujusmodi  omnibus 
supportandis.  UNDE  hospitalitas  et  cetera  que  ad  honorem  Dei 
in  dicta  Ecclesia  honorifice  fieri  consueverunt  ut  ante  hec  Tem- 
pora  solet  sustentari  nequeunt,  nisi  provideatur  de  Eemedio 
oportuno,  habito  super  iis  et  aliis  in  dicta  nostra  Yisitacione  de- 
tectis  diligenti  vobiscum  Tractatu,  quia  intelleximus  ea  fuisse 
et  esse  vera,  Ac  ECIAM  in  Conviviorum  et  Commessacionum 
Sumptus,  quos  Canonici  in  Introitu  Kesidencie  sue  Decano  et 
Capitulo,  Vicariis,  et  ceteris  Ministris  Ecclesie  facere  consueve- 
runt ad  Onera  predicta  supportanda  applicarentur  in  Ecclesie 
Kelevamine  ac  Canonicorum  de  novo  Kesidenciam  intrancium 
Commodum  cederet  non  modicum,  Nos  IGITUR  advertentes 
quod  tales  Pastus,  Convivia,  et  Commessationes  amodo  repro- 

2  H  2 


468  APPENDIX. 

bantur,  et  quod  pro  ea  Facilitates  Canonicorum  inutiliter  ex- 
hauriuntur  cuin  irrefrenata  ambiciosa  Yoluptas  in  tantum  excrevit 
nunc  Dierum,  in  hujusmodi  Conviviis  faciendis  ut  quod  olim  cum 
Viginti  Libris,  nunc  vix  cum  quinquaginta  perfici  queant  tales 
propterea  Pastus  et  Convivia,  de  cetero  fieri  et  per  vos  exigi  in 
Ecclesia  Cathedrali  nostra  predicta  omnio  prohibemus,  Statuentes 
vestro  unanimi  consensu  quod  quilibet  Canonicus,  posthac  Kesi- 
denciam  vobiscum  incepturus  non  antea  admittatur  ad  eandem 
quam  quadraginta  Libras  quas  inutiliter  in  hujusmodi  Commes- 
sacionibus  esset  consumpturus  in  Scaccario  vestro  deponant, 
quarum  decem  Ministris  Ecclesie  nostre  predicte,  ut  eo  libencius 
et  devocius  Divinis  Officiis  intendant,  viz.  communibus  Usibus 
Collegii  Yicariorum,  quatuor  Libras.  Item  Annuellariis  quatuor 
Marcas,  ac  Secundariis  quadraginta  Solidos,  necnon  Choristis 
viginti  et  sex  Solidos  et  octo  Denarios  persolut.  Keliquam  vero 
viz.  triginta  Libre  ad  Placita  defendenda  aliaque  Onera  com- 
munia  Ecclesie  et  ad  nullum  alium  Usum  applicanda  fideliter 
et  integre  convertantur.  PEETEKEA  cum  jam  pridem  fuerunt 
inter  vos  Canonici  pro  residenciariis  se  gerentes  qui  hospitali- 
tatem  et  honestam  comitivam  qui  bus  Ecclesia  Exon.  pre  ceteris 
Ecclesiis  Cathedralibus  decorari  consuevit  propter  Beneficiorum 
suorum  Exilitatem  sustentare  nequeunt,  Adeo  quod  quidam  vix 
cum  duobus  Servitoribus  incederint  ad  instar  unius  Vidue  pau- 
percule  in  Ecclesie  ac  ceterorum  Fratrum  suorum  Dedecus  et 
Scandalum,  id  circo  inherendo  Predecessorum  nostrorum  Statutis 
contra  fictos  residenciarios  editis  cupientes  honorem  Ecclesie 
nostre  predicte  nostris  Temporibus  illibatum  esse  volumus  et 
ordinamus  quod  nullus  de  cetero  ad  Eesidenciam  in  Ecclesia 
Cathedrali  predicta  admittatur  nisi  Tempore  Protestacionis  et 
Admissionis  sue  habeat  in  Possessionibus  ad  Sum  mam  quadra- 
ginta Librarum  omnibus  Oneribus  deductis  de  quo  Fidem  faciet 
Juramento  suo.  ITEM  statuimus  et  ordinamus  quod  de  cetero 
installandus  aut  inducendus  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  nostra  pre- 
dicta sive  sit  de  quatuor  Dignitatibus  Archidiaconatibus  vel  ad 
Subdiaconatas  Omcium  aut  simplicem  Canonicum  admissus 
Tempore  sue  Installacionis  seu  Induccionis  coram  Presidente  et 
Capitulo  ad  Sancta  Dei  Evangelia.  Jurabit  nichill  quicquam 
sese  petiturum  aut  vendicaturum  a  Predecessoris  sui  Executori- 
bus  Bonorumve  Administratoribus  Pretextu  Dilapidacionis  sive 
sit  pro  Mansione  ipsius  decedentis  seu  Domibus  aut  Ecclesiis 
eisdom  Diguitatibus  vel  Officiis  annexis  aut  appropriatis  nisi  id 
duntaxat  quod  ex  Decreto  Presidentis  et  Capituli  Ecclesie 
Cathedralis  nostre  predicte  sibi  adjudicatum  erit  pro  hujusmodi 
Dilapidacione  siqua  fuerit.  ET  si  CONTINGAT  eundem  ex  De- 
creto Presidentis  et  Capituli  aliquid  pro  Dilapidacione  recipe  re 
quod  totum  id  in  necessarias  seu  utiles  Keparaciones  Mansionis 
Domorum  Ecclesiarumve  predictarum  infra  Annum  a  Die  Ee- 


CHARTERS,  &c.  469 

cepcionis  computaudum  fideliter  collocabit  et  convertet.  VOBIS 
IGITUK  Decano  seu  President!  et  Capitulo  mandamus  Virtute 
Obedientie  quatenus  hujusmodi  Dilapidaciones  juxta  Equitatem 
6i  Favore  et  Timore  postpositis  pocius  in  decedentis  Favorem 
declinando  moderare  curetis.  ITEM  statuimus  et  ordinamus  de 
Assensu  et  Consensu  Decani  et  Capituli  nostre  Ecclesie  Cathe- 
dralis  predicte  quod  Capellani  remotim  apud  Topsam,  Stoke,  Ede, 
Honyngtonclyst,  et  Norton,  peculiaris  Jurisdictiohis  dictormn 
Decani  et  Capituli  ad  Animarum  Curam  ibidem  per  eosdem 
nominati  et  per  Decanum  admissi  de  cetero  sint  perpetui  quein- 
admodum  sunt  Vicarii  Chorales  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  nostra 
predicta.  PREDICTA  Ordinaciones  et  Statuta  nostra  Auctoritate 
et  Vestro  communi  consensu  commemorata  et  approbata  ab 
omnibus  Canonicis  ceterisque  Ecclesie  Ministris  quatenus  vos 
atque  eos  separatim  concernunt  precipimus  inviolabiliter  ob- 
servari  atque  in  Domo  capitulari  semel  saltern  in  Anno  per 
Decanum  aut  eo  absente  per  Kesidentem  publice  et  distincte 
legi.  OMNIA  alia  Statuta  Ordinaciones  et  Decreta  liiis  contraria 
necnon  que  in  Desuetudinem  abierunt  Tenore  Presencium  re- 
vocamus  et  anullamus.  PEK  premissa  tarn  en  non  intendimus 
Predecessorum  nostronmi  et  Ecclesie  nostre  predicte  Ordina- 
cionibus  et  Statutis  tangentibus  quatuor  Dignitates  in  aliquo 
derogare  vel  aliquid  ab  eisdem  detrahere  sed  volumus  ea  omnia 
et  singula  prout  continentur  in  Orcliiiacionibus  predictis  ob- 
servari.  IN  GUJUS  REI  Testimonium  Sigillum  nostrum  unacum 
vestro  communi  Presentibus  est  appensum. 


FOUNDATION  OF  SILKE  AND  MORE'S  CHANTRY. 

OMNIBUS  Christ!  fidelibus  ad  quos  presens  scriptum  indentatum 
pervenerit,  Willielmus  permissione  Divina  Abbas  Monasterii 
beate  Marie  de  Clive  in  Comitatu  Somerset  et  ejusdem  loci 
Conventus,  Salutem  in  Domino.  Sciatis  nos  in  pia  considera- 
cione  pensantes  ac  in  debitam  recompensacionem  centum  et 
quinquaginta  librarum,  tresdecim  solidorum,  et  quatuor  dena- 
riorum,  nobis  et  monasterio  nostro  antedicto  ad  pios  usus  dicto 
Monasterio  et  Conventui  ejusdem  necessaries  solutarum  per 
Thomam  Michell,  Clericum,  Sacre  Theologie  Professorem,  et 
Alnatheum  Arscote,  Clericum,  Canonicos  Ecclesie  Cathedralis 
Sancti  Petri  Exonie,  et  Laurencium  Dobell  Clericum,  ea  inten- 
cione  ut  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta  certa  Divina  servicia  de 
cetero  celebrentur  pro  animabus  Willielmi  Silke,  Clerici,  nuper 
Canonici  ac  Precentoris  Ecclesie  Cathedralis  predicte,  ac  Kicardi 
More,  nuper  Canonici  et  •Thesaurarii  ejusdem  Ecclesie,  benefac- 
torum  specialium  Ecclesie  antedicte  ex  nostro  communi  consensu 


470  APPENDIX. 

pariter  et  assensu  dedisse  concessisse  et  hoc  present!  scripto 
nostro  indentato  confirmasse  Decano  et  Capitulo  Ecclesie  Cathe- 
dralis  predicte  et  eorum  successoribus,  quandam  annuitatem  sive 
annualem  redditum  sex  librarum,  tresdecim  solidorum,  et  qua- 
tuor  denariorum  sterlingorum,  habendum  et  percipienduni  eis  et 
successoribus  suis  imperpetuum  annuatim  per  nos  prefatum 
Abbatem  et  Conventum  et  successores  nostros,  prefatis  Decano 
et  Capitulo  et  successoribus  suis,  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta, 
ad  duos  anni  terminos,  videlicet,  ad  Festa  Pasche  et  Sancti 
Michaelis  Arcnangeli,  per  equales  porciones  solvendas.  Et  si 
nos  prefati  Abbas  et  Conventus,  aut  successores  nostri,  in 
solucione  dicte  annuitatis,  sive  annualis  redditus,  sex  librarum, 
tresdecim  solidorum,  et  quatuor  denariorum,  ad  aliquem  termi- 
num  terminorum  predictorum,  quo  ut  prefertur  solvi  debeat, 
defecerimus  tune  nos  prefati  Abbas  et  Conventus  ex  ulteriori 
nostro  consensu  pariter  et  assensu  communi,  pro  nobis  et  succes- 
soribus nostris,  dedimus  et  per  presentes  concedimus  prefatis 
Decano  et  Capitulo  unam  aliam  annuitatem,  sive  annualem 
redditum,  quadraginta  solidorum  sterlingorum,  habendum  et 
percipiendum  dictam  annuitatem,  sive  annualem  redditum,  quad- 
raginta solidorum  prefatis  Decano  et  Capitulo  et  successoribus 
suis  imperpetuum  nomine  pene  in  forma  sequenti :  Solvendum 
ultra  predictam  annuitatem,  sive  annualem  redditum,  sex  libra- 
rum, tresdecem  solidorum,  et  quatuor  denariorum,  in  forma  pre- 
dicte solvendum,  scilicet  infra  mensem  tociens  quandocunque  ac 
postquam  nos  prefati  Abbas  et  Conventus  aut  successores  nostri, 
de  et  in  solucione  predicte  annuitalis,  sive  annualis  redditus,  sex 
librarum,  tresdecem  solidorum,  et  quatuor  denariorum,  aut 
alicujus  inde  parcelle  ad  terminos  solucionis  eorundem  prelimi- 
tatos  aut  aliquem  terminum  eorum  defecerimus.  In  cujus  rei 
testimonium  tarn  nos  prefati  Abbas  et  Conventus  quam  predicti 
Decanus  et  Capitulum  sigilla  nostra  communia  presentibus 
alternatim  apposuimus.  Datum  apud  Cleve  predictum  in  Domo 
nostra  Capitulari,  decimo  die  Octobris  anno  regni  Kegis  Hen- 
rici  octavi  decimo  septimo.1 

By  the  hands  of  me,  WYLLYA,  Abbott  of  Clyf. 

By  me,  DAN  JOHN  WEBB  By  me,  DAN  JOHN  BAKEII 

By  me,  DAN  JOHN  GRENE  By  me,  DAN  NICOLAS 

By  me,  DAN  NYCOLAS  By  me,  DAN  DAVI  DOWETT 

By  me,  DAN  JOHN  GAYE  By  me,  GEORGE  How. 

[Nothing  of  the  Conventual  Seal  is  left.] 


10  October,  1525. 


CHARTERS,  &c. 


471 


STATUTA  ECCLESIE  EXONIENSIS.1 
BISHOP  VEYSY'S  SYNOPSIS  of  the  STATUTES  of  EXETER  CATHEDRAL. 

JOHANNES  permissione  Divina  Exon  Epus,  dilectis  in  Christo 
filiis  Decano  et  Capitlo  Exon  Ecclesie,  Salutem.  Cordi  michi 
est  et  post  pastorale  Officium  assumptum  semper  fuit,  de 
animarum  vestrarum  salute  ac  dicte  Ecclie  honore  curam 
habere  precipuam  :  ad  que  plurimum  conducere  vos  arbitramini, 
si  consuetudines  et  statuta  (ad  quorum  observationem  quilibet 
canonicus  astringitur  corporal!  juramento)  fuerint  nostra  opera 
in  breviorem  libellum  redacta,  que  nunc  mixta  in  vestris  Codi- 
cibus  cum  aliis,  partim  desuetudine  partim,  legibus  regni  abro- 
gatis,  nee  non  proherniis  prolixis  et  repeticionibus  superfluis, 
afferunt  vobis  tedium  non  modicum  ad  legendum  et  aliquando 
dubitationes ;  pro  quibus  vitandis  hos  labores  non  invitus  vestro 
rogatu  suscepi,  et  eo  libentius,  quia  nemo,  ut  opinor,  rectius  hoc 
munus  exequi  possit,  cum  per  quadraginta  annos  et  ultra,  in 
Ecclia  Exon  residens  et  in  quinque  officiis  successive  versatus. 
Primo  Canonicus  simplex,  secundo  Archidiaconus  Barum,  tercio 
Precentor,  quarto  Decanus,  et  quinto  Episcopus. 

In  antiquis  codicibus  sepius  legi  et  expertus  sum,  subscripta 
pro  approbatis  consuetudinibus  et  statutis  Exoniensis  Ecclie 
fimiter  observari.  Imprimis  Walterus  bone  memorie  quondam 
Exoniensis  Epus  in  statuto  suo,  cujus  datum  est  A.D.  1266,  com- 
memorat  fuisse  observatum  a  Fundatione  Exoniefi  Ecclie  (uti 
nunc  est).  Quod  singuli  canonici  quo?!  numerus  consistit  in  24, 
percipiet  nomine  prebende  sue  sex  marcas  sterlingo?  sive  fuerit 
presens  sive  absens  et  quicquid  de  communibus  proventibus 
ipsius  Ecclie  superfuerit  aut  excreverit  (omnibus  debitis  et 
consuetis  deductis)  dividi  debet  nomine  quoditiane  distribucionis 
inter  vere  residences  honores  et  onera  Ecclie  presentialiter  susti- 
nentes  ac  divina  officia  ad  que  sunt  intitulati,  agnoscere  et  perfi- 
cere,  (nisi  canonicum  impedimentum  aut  causa  rationabilis  de 
licencia  sui  superioris  eos  excuset).  Que  vero  sunt  onera  et 
honores  ad  que  approbata  Exon  Ecclia  consuetude  jurata  arctat, 
idem  Walterus  et  ejus  successores,  Walterus  secundus,  Thomas 
Brentyngham,  et  Johannis  de  Grandissono,  specialiter  inter  alia 
commemorant,  videlicet,  Quod  ille  canonicus  tantummodo  pro 
residente  habeatur  in  perceptione  quotidiane  distribucionis,  qui 
matutinis  et  majori  Misse  et  mense,  vel  hore  prime  aut  vesperis 
personaliter  interfuerint,  intrando  chorum  et  ibidem  expectando, 
ut  in  antiquis  libris  consuetudinariis  continetur,  videlicet  in 
matutinis  et  hora  prima  ante  finem  hymni,  in  vesperis  ante 


1  Bishop  Bronescombe,  by  his  Ordi- 
nance of  Oct.  1270,  bound  the  Arch- 
deacon of  Exeter  to  provide  a  wax-light 


of  1  Ib.  weight  to  burn  in  the  Cathedral 
Choir  during  Matins  and  High  Mass. 


472  APPENDIX. 

finem  primi  Psalmi,  in  Missa  ante  fineni  prime  Collecte,  et  sic  in 
choro  expectando  usquequo  predicta  officia  terminentur :  Proinde 
in  Exequiis  Mortuo?  ante  finem  Psalmi  "  Verba  mea,"  etc.,  et 
in  Missa  ante  finem  Epistole  expectando,  donee  officia  hujusmodi 
perficiantur;  que  in  ceteris  quo?  Ecclie  ministris  observanda 
sunt.  Preterea  quilibet  canonicus  dictas  quotidianas  distribu- 
ciones  percepturus  tenetur  hospitalitatem  cum  domestico? 
honesta  commitiva  servare,  apertis  sue  domus  foribus  pro  hospi- 
tibus  honestis  ac  eciam  Ecclie  ministris,  ut  antiquitus  usitatum 
est.  Nicliilominus  Exoniensis  Ecclie  consuetude  ex  humanitate 
quadam  introducta  permittit,  canonicos  residentes  aliquando  ad 
invicem  prandere  et  cenare,  exceptis  majorum  refeccionum, 
sessionum,  assizarum  ac  festis  diebus,  quibus  pro  Ecclie  honore 
mense  proprie,  regiis  ex  injunctionibus,  eciam  interesse  tenentur, 
submota  ficte  residentie  omni  velamine,  ut  veri  residentes  inve- 
niantur.  Attamen  Canonici  residentes  legitime  impediti  vel  ex 
causa  rationabili  absentes  etiam  a  divinis  in  choro  et  a  mensa, 
percipere  consueverint  dictas  distribuciones  per  prescriptam 
consuetudinem  a  fundacione  Ecclie  observatam  in  subscriptis 
casubus.  Quo?  primus  est  pro  die  quo  canonicus  residens  ab 
itinere  suo  civitatem  Exon  introire  et  die  quo  eandem  Civi- 
tatem  ex  honesta  causa  exire  contingat,  adempta  omni  prorsus 
occasione  inutiliter  discurrendi.  Turn  etiam  quos  eas  contigerit 
aliquem  canonico?  residentium  per  totam  hebdomadam  continue 
residere  duos  dies  profestos  tamen  in  ilia  hebdomeda  studii  aut 
honesta  alia  relaxandi  animum  gracia,  ut  ex  antiqua  consuetudine 
usitatum,  est  libere  queat  sibi  assumere.  Secundus  casus  est 
si  canonicus  per  Capitulum  pro  communibus  Ecclie  negotiis 
missus  fuerit.  Tertius  casus  est  si  per  infirrnitatem  aut  aliam 
corporis  necessitatem  in  domo  sua  solita  residentia  contingen- 
tem  impeditus  fuerit  #ut  alioqui  quum  canonici  capitulariter 
congregati  pro  seriis  et  necessariis  Ecclie  negotiis  in  doino 
capitulari  aut  scaccario  de  iisdem  deliberent  et  consultent. 
Quartus  casus  est  si  sit  Seneschallus  et  circa  pecuniarum  recep- 
tiones  seu  soluciones  aut  alia  Ecclie  negotia  communia  neces- 
saria  occupatus  fuerit,  tune  unum  diem  in  hebdomada  habebit 
quo  propriis  negotiis  intendere  valeat.  Extra  hos  quatuor  casus 
consuetude  Exoniensis  Ecclie  non  consuevit  canon icis  a  choro 
et  inensa  absentibus  distributiones  quotidianas  concedere  licet 
impedimentum  et  absentie  causa  fuerint  justissima  tarn  ex 
antiquis,  dicte  Ecclesie  statutis  quam  longeva  consuetudine 
hactenus  usitata.  Nicliilominus.  tenebitur  canonico  resident! 
defuncto  ad  supplementum  Testament!  sui  communia  proximi 
anni  sequentis  post  ejus  decessum.  Ita  quod  earn  communiam 
quibus  et  in  quos  usus  pios  disponere  voluerit  integre,  possit 
libere  assignare,  Proviso  tamen  quod  nee  canonicus  defunctus 
nee  quisquam  alius  absens  etiam  in  dictis  quatuor  casubus 


CHARTERS,  &c.  473 

particeps  erit  de  octodecim  solidis  distribuendis  in  singulis  festis 
duplicibus  subscriptis  per  predecessores  iiostros  concessis  canon- 
icis  in  choro  et  mensa  interessentibus  tantum,  et  non  aliis,  ut 
ex  inspectione  appropriationum  Ecclia^  de  Hembury,  Wide- 
combe,  Thorverton,  et  pensione  quatuor  marca$  provenientiuin 
de  Ecclia  de  Donsforde  liquido  constat.  Que  vero,  supradictos 
octodecini  solidos  de  dictis  Eccliis  et  Pensione  appropriatis  excre- 
verint,  dividi  consuevit  et  debet  inter  canonicos  residentes,  etiam 
a  dictis  festis  absenties  in  fine  anni.  Festa  duplicia  in  quibus 
octodecim  solidi  sunt  dividendi,  sunt  hec,  Natalis  Domini,  cum 
quatuor  diebus  sequentibus,  Circumcisio,  Epiphania,  Conversio 
Sancti  Pauli,  Puriftcatio  beate  Marie,  Cathedra  Sancti  Petri, 
Festum  Sancti  Matthei  Apostoli,  Sancti  Gregorii,  Annuncia- 
tionis,  Pascha  cum  tribus  diebus  sequentibus,  Sancti  Ambrosii, 
Sancti  Marci,  Apostolorum  Philippi  et  Jacobi,  Inventionis 
Sancte  Crucis,  Sancti  Johannis  ante  Portam  Latinam,  Ascen- 
sionis,  Keliquia?,  Penticostes  cum  tribus  diebus  sequentibus, 
Sancte  Trinitatis,  Corporis  Christi,  Sancti  Barnabe  Apii,  Nativi- 
tatis  Sancti  Johannis  Baptiste,  Apostolorum  Petri  et  Pauli, 
Commemoratio  Sancti  Pauli,  Festum  beate  Marie  Magdalene, 
Sancti  Jacobi  Apli,  Sancti  Augustini  Episcopi,  Sancti  Ga- 
brielis, 'Nativitatis  beate  Marie,  Exaltatio  Sancte  Crucis,  Mathie 
Apli,  Sancti  Michselis,  Sancti  Jeronimi,  Sancti  Luce  Evan- 
geliste,  Aplofs  Simonis  and  Jude,  Omnium  Sanctorum,  Com- 
memoratio Anima$,  Dedicatio  Ecclie,  Sancte  Catherine,  Sancti 
Andree  Apli,  Sancti  Mcholai.  Item  ex  veteribus  Statutis 
usu  longevo  confirmatis  compertum  habeo,  etiam  quod  quilibet 
canonicus,  cujus  vicariam  vacare  contigerit,  providere  debet 
infra  mensem  a  vacatione  ejusdem,  de  alio  in  cantus  scientia 
et  modulandi  voce  sonora  idoneo,  per  Decanum  sive  presi- 
dentem  et  Capitulum  admittendo,  quibus  duobus  qualitatibus 
deficientibus  ejus  admissio  est  ipso  jure  nulla:  et  si  Cano- 
nicus sic  providere  neglexerit,  tune  Decanus  infra  octo  dies 
sequentes  provideat :  et  in  ejus  defectu,  Episcopus  (consue- 
tudine  Decani  de  Vicariis  Canonico?  absentium  ultra  mare 
providendis  semper  salva)  :  qui  Yicarii  chorales  singulis  horis 
canonicis  in  Ecclia  Exon  celebrandis  interesse  tenentur,  nisi 
canonico  impedimento  seu  causa  rationabili  de  licencia  super- 
ioris  excusentur  nee  a  suis  vicariis  sine  causa  rationabili  et 
Decani  et  Capituli  conniventia  dioscesaniq^  poterunt  amoveri. 
Tamen  pro  e?  excessubus  vel  negligentiis  debent/  per  Decanum, 
et  eo  absente,  per  presidentem  et  Capitulum  in  domo  capitulari 
corrigi  et  reformari.  Quo^  defectus  seu  absencia  a  divinis  per 
Procuratoreni  Capitulo  presentati,  ac  cedentium  et  decedentium 
Vicario?  commoda  tempore  vacationis  contingentia  accrescere 
consueverunt  et  debent  aliis  vicariis  divinis  interessentibus  in 
Ecclia  predicta.  Item  clerici  de  secunda  forma  vocati  Secundarii 
12  in  numero,  quo?  admissio  ad  Decanum  pertinet  debent  esse 


474  APPENDIX. 

bone  fame,  bene  cantantes,  et  competenter  literati :  ex  quibus, 
cum  opus  fuerit,  Vicarii  chorales  creari  possint;  qui  omnes  Divinis 
Officiis  diurnis  et  nocturnis  interesse  tenentur,  nisi  ex  caus&  pro- 
babali  de  licenci&  superioris  absint.  Item  pueri  vocati  choruste 
quatuordecem  numero,  quo?  admissio  ad  precentoren  pertinet, 
debent  habere  voces  senoras,  quor?  instructio  ad  clericum  capelle 
spectat:  debent  etiam  interesse  divinis.  Qui  vero  Secundarii 
et  Choriste  per  Canonicos  residentes  sustentari  debent.  Item 
cantariste  vocati  Annivellarii,  tenentur  etiam  interesse  Divinis, 
Officiate  subire  choralia :  ad  que  ipsos  intitulari  contingat  necnon 
post  primam  Missam  matutinam,  vocatam  "Bratton  ys  Masse,'* 
finitam,  Missas  suas  successive  et  ordinatim  celebrare,  prout 
hactenus  fieri  consuevit. 

Dignitates  in  Ecclia  Exonien  fundate  per  predecessores  nos- 
tros  sunt  quatuor.  Primus  est  Decanus  habens  honoris  et  pre- 
eminentie  insignia  ex  concessione  Epi  et  Capitli,  sicut  ceteri  De- 
cani Ecclia?  Cathedralium  Cant  Provincie  habent,  exceptis  quod 
in  presentationibus  ad  Ecclias  vacantes  et  in  firmis  concedendis 
sui  locandis,  et  aliis  Capitli  negotiis  communibus,  habet  vocem  et 
porcionem  ut  simplex  canonicus  tantum,  ut  in  primeva  funda- 
tione  dicte  dignitatis  liquido  constat.  Decanus  preterea  habet 
curam  anima?  et  jurisdicoem  archidiaconalem  in  omnibus  com- 
morantibus  infra  Clausum  Exon  Ecclie  et  consimilem  jurisdicoem 
in  Civitate  Exon,  et  suburbiis  ejusdem  quamdiu  Archidiaconus 
Exonien  non  sit  canonicus  in  Ecclia  nostra  Cathedrali,  habet  etiam 
consimilem  jurisdicoem  in  manerio  suo  de  Braunton  et  in  paro- 
chianis  ibidem,  ex  cujus  proventubus  tenetur  invenire  ceram 
continue  ardentem  coram  summo  altari  in  honore  Sacramenti. 
Decanus  tenatur  Missam  principalem  celebrare  omni  duplici 
majori  festo  per  annum,  Epo  absente,  et  in  prima  Dominica, 
Adventus,  in  Dominica  Palmarum,  feria  quarta  in  Capite  Jejunii 
in  tribus  diebus  ante  Pascha,  in  vigilia  Pentecostis,  in  anniver- 
sariis  Kegum,  Epo?,  Deca?  per  eos  fundatis.  Alia  onera  in 
choro  ut  rectoris  officium  Decani  non  consueverunt,  subire. 
Habet  etiam  ex  concessione  predecesso?  nro?  suo  officio  unitas 
cum  dictis  manerio  et  Ecclia  de  Braunton,  Eccliam  de  Tawton 
Epi,  et  Eccliam  de  Colyton  Kawlegh. 

Precentoris  dignitas  et  officium  est  chorum  regere,  e,t  que  ad 
chorum  spectant  singulis  septimanis  ordinare  curamq^  chorusta? 
tarn  in  moribus  quam  in  aliis  que  ad  eo?  instructiones  ac  ad  victum 
vestitumq^  pertinent  habere  precipuam,  pro  quibus  ejus  nomine 
faciendis,  dare  solet  annuatim^succentori  53s.  4>d.9  et  clerico 
capelle  robam  annuatim,  cum  esculentis  et  poculentis  ad  mensam 
suam,  si  presens  fuerit ;  et  habet  ex  concessione  predecesse?  nro? 
suo  officio  unitas  Ecclias  de  Paignton  et  Chudleigh  cum  manso 
et  Terris  apud  Ugbroke. 

Cancellarii  officium  est  sacram  Scripturam  per  se  vel  alium 
diebus  et  locis  consuetis  legere,  missivas  Capituli  literas  conci- 


CHARTERS,  &c.  475 

pere,  librosque  chori,  communibus  expensis  Capituli,  corrigere ; 
et  habet  Ecclias  de  Stokegabriel  et  Sancti  Newlini  in  Cornubia  ex 
concessione  predecessor  nro?  unitas  suo  officio. 

Thesaurarii  officium  est  omnes  libros  tarn  in  choro  quam  in 
communi  libraria,  ac  jocalia,  capas,  cetera^  ornamenta  Ecclie 
custodire  per  indenturam  singulis  annis  renovandam,  cujus  una 
pars  remanere  debet  cum  Capitulo  et  altera  cum  Thesaurario. 
Ejus  officium  preterea  est  campanas  consuetis  Temporibus 
pulsari  facere,  Eecliam  mundari,  luminaria  accendi,  vinum  pro 
celebrantibus  in  Ecclia  providere,  ac  alia  facere,  partim  suis  ex- 
pensis et  partim  communibus  Capli  prout  in  decreto  Edmundi 
Lacy  olim  Exon  Epi  continetur.  Item  tenetur  quatuor  custodes 
in  venire,  quo?  duo  debent  in  Ecclia  pernoctare,  qtu  in  sua  pri- 
meva  admissione  jurant  coram  Decano  et  Capitulo  fideles  fere  in 
suis  officiis,  et  habet  Eccliam  Sancti  Probii  in  Cornubia  cum  Tre- 
soresbeare  et  Morsell  ex  concessione  predecessor  nro^  unitas  suo 
officio,  unacum  Nymet  Epi. 

Officium  Subdecani  est  vices  Decani  supplere  in  hiis  que  ab 
Epo  vel  Decano  sibi  committuntur. 

Officium  Seneschallo?  est,  firmariof  et  alio$  debitor  solutiones 
faciendas  et  communem  cissam  in  Scaccario  recipere,  in  qua  cista 
(ut  rarior  ad  earn  fiat  accessio)  nichil  de  cetero  reponatur  nisi 
tantum  pecunie  et  alia  que  ad  Decanum  et  Capitulum  spectant 
in  communi.  Et  quod  citra  Festum  Natalis  Domini  proximum, 
post  "datum  presentium  nova  cista  in  Scaccario  fiat  pro  obituum 
et  loculorum  pecuniis  reponendis  qua?,  ut  olim,  sint  senes- 
challi,  unus  canonicus  et  alius  ecclie  minister  discretus, 
qui  de  receptis  et  expositis  singulis  terminis,  fidelem  compotum 
reddant  ad  que  facienda  uter$  eo$  in  Caplo  recipiet  juramentum 
corporale.  Preterea  Seneschallo?  officium  est  in  fine  cujuslibet 
termini  stipendia  ministro?  ecclia  consueta  solvere  temporibus 
usitatis  necnon  in  fine  anni  videlicet,  ante  primum  diem  De- 
cembris  annuatim  de  excrescenciis  singulis  canonicis  residenti- 
bus,  fideliter  quod  suum  est  solvere,  vel  solvi  facere,  sub  poana 
amissionis  distributions  contingentis  hujusmodi  Seneschallis,  pro 
Termino  in  quo  neglexerint  id  facere  :  ad  hujusmodi  vero  officium 
fideliter  faciendum  uterque  Seneschalo?  in  eorum  admissione, 
videlicet,  sexta  feria  ante  Festum  Michis  Archangeli,  recipiet 
juramentum  corporale. 

Officium  Janitoris  est  januas  et  fores  Clausi  statutis  tempori- 
bus claudere*et  aperire,  viz.  a  Festo  Pasche  us%  Festem  Michis  ad 
horam  nonarn,  et  a  Festo  Michis  Archi  usc^  Festum  Pasche  ad 
horam  octavam3  et  non  ante  Missam  matutinalem  vocatam  "  Brat- 
tonis  Masse  "  aperire.  Item  in  Codicibus  vestris  inter  alia  com- 
pertum  habemus  observatum,  quod  nullus  canonicus  ad  residen- 
dum  in  Ecclia  Exoniensi  est  admittendtis,  nisi  Tempore  incepte 
residente  habeat  in  Possessionibus  sivi  Kedditibus  annuatim  qua- 
draginta  libras  sterling,  omnibus  oneribus  deductis,  quodq^,  die 


476  APPENDIX. 

quo  residentiam  incepturus  est,  exponat  et  realiter  solvat  in  domo 
Capitular!  resident!  et  Capitulo  quadraginta  libras  sterling,  qua- 
rum  Vicariis  choralibus  dentur  quatuor  Libre,  Secundariis  40s., 
Clioristis  26s.  &<i,  Annivellariis  56*.  Sd.,  Clericis  Saccarii  utri- 
que  eorum  40d.  Proviso  quod  si  sint  de  habitu,  uno  Sallario 
sint  contenti.  Keliquum  vero  dictarum  40Z.  in  communes  neces- 
siaros  usus  Ecclesiae  omnino  et  ad  nullum  privatum  usum  con- 
vertatur.  Item  censuetudinem  illam  viz.  Quod  nullus  Canoni- 
cus  simplex  ad  residentiam  admittatur  priusquam  una  de 
Domibus  Canonicalibus  per  mortem,  cessionem  aut  resignationem 
vacua  fuerit,  in  qua  idem  Canonicus  Kesidentiam  suam  inchoare 
et  hospitalitatem  tenere  commode  possit,  de  integro  renovamus 
ac  deinceps  inviolabiliter  observari  districte  mandamus,  quate- 
nus  Regni  leges  et  statutua  permittunt.  Pretereaque  antiquum 
illud  Ecclesiae  statutum  et  per  annos  assidua  consuetudine  invio- 
labiliter observatum  concedit  Canoiiico  residenti,  qui  compleverit 
primum  annum  Residentiae,  juxta  formam  statuto?  ad  supple- 
mentum  testamenti  sui,  communiam  Eccliae  predictae  proximi 
anni  sequentis  post  mortem.  Et  ideo  iniquum  esse  arbitramur 
ut  Ecclesia  pro  una  Domo  una  anno  duplici  communia  one- 
retur.  Item  statuimus  quod  de  cetero  nullus  obtinens  aliquam 
de  quinque  Dignitatibus  aut  aliquis  de  quatuor  Archidiaconis 
quovismodo  ad  residentiam  admittatur,  nisi  propriam  Domum 
sive  Dignitati  aut  Archidiaconatui  adnexam,  bene  et  sufficienter 
sustentatam  possideat  et  inhabitet,  nisi  expresso  Decani  et  Ca- 
pituli  consensu  aliter  indultum  fuerit.  Item  ut  alia  vestra  bene- 
ficia  frequentiores  de  cetero  habeatis  accessus,  statutum  et  in- 
dultum per  Johannem  de  Grandissono,  olim  Exon  Episcopum, 
de  46  diebus  ad  residendum  in  Ecclia  Cathedrali,  quolibet  Ter- 
niino  abbreviari  fecimus,  vestro  desiderio  ad  36  dies,  conce- 
dentes  quatenus  de  jure  possimus,  quod  quilibet  Canonicus 
qui  per  dictos  36  dies  in  Choro  et  mensa  juxta  approbatam 
dicte  Ecclie  consuetudinem,  Kesidens  fuerit  quern  admodum  per- 
cipiet  de  excrescentiis  et  aliis  ecclesiae  proventibus,  percipere 
consuevit,  ex  statute  et  indulto  predecessoris  nostri  predicti, 
Proviso  quod  in  eorum  absentiis,  Ecclesiae  honoris  et  onera 
debita  et  consueta  supportentur.  Item  in  veteribus  codicibus 
compertum  habemus,  nactemus  inviolabitur  observatum  fuisse, 
ut  honor  debitus  exhibeatur  superioribus  per  canonicos  et  alios 
eccliae  ministros,  qui  transeuntes  Decano  inclinent  et  Decano 
transeunti  assurgant ;  quodque  in  majoribus  Eccliae  negotiis  com- 
munibus  disponendis,  Canonici  "absentes  per  15  dies  ad  minus 
vocentur,  et  quod  per  Decanum  cum  majori  parte  Capituli  con- 
cedenda  non  ante  sigillo  communi  signentur,  quam  per  tres  dies 
Sabbati  successive  sequentes,  Capitularis  tractatus  de  iisdem 
concedendis  communiter  habeatur,  nisi  aliqua  Eccliae  necessitas 
aut  evidens  utilitas  urgeat  aliter  faciendum. 


CHARTERS,  &c. 


477 


DEAN  HEYNES' l  PROPOSAL  TO   KING   HENRY   VIII.  FOR  THE 
GOVERNMENT  OF  THE  CHURCH  OF  EXETER. 

CERTEIN  ARTICLES  NOTED  FOR  THE  REFORMANCE  OF  THE  CATHEDRAL 
CHURCH  OF  EXCESTER,  submitting  them  unto  the  King's  Majestic. 

1.  First,  that  the  names  of  Dean  and  Chapter,  with  the  names 
of  Chaunter,  Treasorer,  Chauncelor,  Subdean,  Prebendaries, 
Chanons,  &c.,  may  be  chaunged  into  names  of  holy  scripture  as 


.  l  SIMON  HEYNES,  S.T.P.  was  an  ec- 
clesiastic of  very  considerable  eminence 
in  the  16th  century,  as  may  be  col- 
lected from  the  following  particulars  : — 
He  received  his  education  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Cambridge,  where  in  1516  he 
took  his  first  Degree  of  Arts  ;  two  years 
later  was  elected  Fellow  of  Queen's 
College,  Cambridge,  and  the  year  after 
commenced  Master  of  Arts.  In  1528 
he  was  chosen  Master  of  Queen's  Col- 
lege ;  in  1531  he  commenced  Doctor 
of  Divinity :  about  which  time  he  dis- 
played such  zeal  in  promoting  the  doc- 
trines of  the  Reformation,  as  to  be 
actually  committed  by  the  Government, 
for  a  short  time,  to  the  Fleet  prison. 
In  1533  he  was  Vice-Chancellor  of  the 
University,  and  the  year  following  was 
appointed  by  Henry  VIII.  to  preach 
there  against  the  supremacy  of  the 
Pope,  and  to  endeavour  to  reconcile  the 
minds  of  the  students  to  its  abolition. 
For  this  service  he  was  admitted  Vicar 
of  Stepney,  made  a  Canon  of  Windsor, 
and  presented  to  the  Rectory  of  Ful- 
ham.  On  the  deprivation  of  Reginald 
Pole,  the  Dean  of  Exeter,  Dr.  Heynes 
was  elected  to  succeed  him  in  that  dig- 
nity the  16th  July,  1537.  Nearly  three 
years  and  a  half  later,  viz.  17th  Dec. 
1540,  King  Henry  VIII.  appointed  him 
to  the  first  Prebendal  Stall  of  the  new 
Episcopal  Church  of  Westminster.  In 
the  Royal  Commission  dated  12th  April, 
1549,  he  was  associated  with  Arch- 
bishop Cranmer,  Bishops  Goodrick, 
Heath,  Thirlby,  Day,  Holbech,  Ridley, 
and  others,  for  inquiring  into  heretical 
pravity ;  and  in  the  following  month 
was  placed  amongst  the  Commissioners 
for  visiting  and  reforming  the  Colleges 
and  University  of  Oxford.  In  this  ca- 
pacity he  was  one  of  the  five  who  pre- 
sided at  the  public  dispute  held  in  the 
Divinity  Schools  there  for  three  days, 
between  Peter  Martyr  and  Dr.  Wm. 
Treshum,  Canon  of  Christ's  Church, 


and  others,  concerning  Transubstantia- 
tion.  But  he  is  chiefly  memorable  for 
this, — that  he  was  one  of  the  thirteen 
divines  who  originally  compiled  the 
Liturgy  of  the  Church  of  England. 
Their  names  are  given  by  Heylyn,  57-8 
of '  Hist.  Edward  VI.'  "  They  so  ordered 
it,  that  the  whole  office  of  the  Mass 
should  proceed,  as  formerly,  in  the 
Latin  tongue ;  even  to  the  very  end  of 
the  Canon,  and  the  receiving  of  the 
Sacrament  by  the  Priest  himself." 

Dean  Heyiies  died  in  October,  1552. 
His  Canonry  and  Prebend  here  were 
given,  on  28th  Dec.  1552,  to  John  Blax- 
ton;  his  Rectory  of  Newton  Ferrers, 
three  weeks  later,  to  John  Pollard. 
He  was  the  undoubted  author  of  the 
Articles  given  above,  and  probably 
composed  them  soon  after  the  dissolu- 
tion of  the  religious  houses.  As  they 
were  never  acted  on,  we  suppose  they 
never  received  the  Royal  approbation. 
Thensecond  Article,  recommending  the 
continuation  of  the  same  yearly  re- 
venues to  the  Church,  could  hardly  be 
agreeable  to  the  avarice  of  the  King 
and  his  hungry  courtiers.  They  are 
taken  from  the  Harleian  MSS.  No. 
604.  59. 

Leland  charges  Dean  Heynes  with 
defacing  Bishop  Lacy's  tomb,  in  the 
choir  of  Exeter  Cathedral.  For  the 
memory  of  that  prelate  the  people  had 
conceived  the  highest  veneration.  Hoker 
relates  that  "  after  the  death  of  Bishop* 
Lacy,  many  miracles  were  said  and  de- 
vised to  be  done  at  his  tomb ;  where- 
upon great  pilgrimages  were  made  by 
the  common  people  to  the  same."  And 
Westcot  (Harleian  MS.)  says,  "  his  in- 
tegrity and  zealous  devotion  was  so 
marvelled  at,  that  after  his  decease 
many  miracles  were  supposed  to  bo 
done  by  him  at  his  tomb,  which  caused 
great  repair  thither  and  many  pil- 
grimages to  be  made." 


478  APPENDIX. 

pastor  of  the  churche  and  prechars  of  the  gospell.  And  that 
all  londs  and  other  yerly  emoliments  heretofor  given  to  the  Dean 
and  Chapter  and  other  Dignitees  by  the  names  aforesaid  maie 
remaine  to  the  use  of  the  pastor  and  prechars  of  the  same 
Churche  and  be  emploied  only  to  such  uses  as  hereaffter  ensewith. 

2.  That  the  pastor  having  care  of  the  churche,  may  have  to 
his  owne  use  for  the  sustentacon  of  himself  and  his  howshold  all 
manner  yerly  revenewes  whiche  the  Dean  had  before,  with  the 
porcon  of  on  prechar  like  as  the  Dean  had  before,  this  office  of 
the  pastor  to  be  evermore  at  the  gift  and  disposicon  of  the  kings 
majeste.      The  pastor  to  be  ever  a  doctor  of  divinite  lafulli 
admitt  in  an  universite  of  this  realme. 

3.  That  there  may  be  also  eleven  other   prechars,  doctors 
orellis  bachelers  of  divinite,  lefully  admitt  within  an  universite 
of  this  realme,  whiche  with  the  pastor  shall  preache  by  cowrss  an 
sermon  within  the  said  cathedral  church  every  Sondaie  and  hali- 
daie  in  the  yer ;  every  of  them  to  have  yerly  ffiffty  pownds,  thes 
eleven  prechars  to  be  evermore  at  the  gift  of  the  Bushope,  pro- 
vided that  if  the  Bushope  do  by  any  sinister  affecon  promote 
any  unable  man  to  the  rowme  of  a  prechar,  that  then  he  shall 
forfaite  the  gifft  of  all  the  said  prechars  to  the  kyngs  grace 
during  the  liff  of  the  Bushop  so  offending,  and  the  unable  per- 
sone  nevertheless  to  be  deprived.     And  that  the  said   pastor 
because  he  hath  cure  of  the  churche  shall  be  bownd  to  preache 
four  sermons  over  and  besids  his    porcon  of  the  prechars  ser- 
mons, upon  these  four  fests  following,  that  is  to  say,  an  sermon 
upon  All  Hallowes  daie,  an  sermon  upon  Christmas  daie,  an 
sermon  upon  the  Epiphany  daie,  and  an  sermon  upon  thAssen- 
con  daie  and  that  in  his  owne  person,  if  he  be  present  and  not 
seike,  etc.,  and  if  he  be  absent  or  lettid  by  sekenes  or  otherwise, 
than  to  provide  at  his  owne  cost  and  charge,  that  the  said  ser- 
mons be  done  by  lerned  and  able  prechars.     Upon  all  the  resi- 
dew  of  Sondaies  and  halidaies,  the  pastor  shall  be  non  otherwise 
bownd  to  preache,  but  by  cowrss  and  as  other  prechars  are 
bownd.     Item  that  the  said  pastor  and  prechars  and  every  of 
them  may  be  bownd  yerly  to  preache  abrode  in  the  diocese  of  Ex- 
eester  spetialli  in  churches  appropriat  unto  the  said  cath.  churche 
eight  sermons,  that  is  to  saie  evry  quarter  two  upon  peine,  &c. 

4.  That  the  said  pastor  and  prechars  every  Sondaie  and  hali- 
daie  as  they  shall  be  resident  and  present,  may  be  bownd  to  sing 
high  mass,  and  to  execute  suche  divine  service  within  the  said 
cathedral  churche,  as  it  shall  pfease  the  kyngs  grace  to  assigne. 
Provided,  that  the  pastor  shall  execute  only  upon  the  fests  folow- 
ing  if  he  be  present  upon  All  Hallowes  daie,  Christmas  daie,  Epi- 
phani  daie,  on  the  Purification  of  our  Ladies  daie,  Good  Fridaie, 
Ester  daie,  Whitsonday  and  thAssencon  daie,  upon    all  other 


CHARTERS,  &c.  479 

Sondaies  and  halidaies,  tlie  said  eleven  prechars  by  cowrss  to 
sing  high  mass  and  to  execute  other  divine  service  as  they  shal 
be  present. 

5.  That  the  said  pastor  and  prechars  and  evry  of  them  may 
be  bownde  to  kepe  hospitalite  and  to  be  present  at  morow  mass 
or  ellis  at  high  mass  daily  by  the  space  of  forty  daies  together 
or  at  several  tymes,  evry  quarter  of  the  yer  and  evry  of  the 
said  forty  daies,  either  to  dyne  or  suppe  in  his  owne  howss. 
Provided  alwaie,  that  when  so  ever  it  shall  happen  the  said 
pastor  or  ony  of  the  other  prechars  to  be  seke  within  ther  own 
howses  at  Excester  that  during  the  time  of  ther  seknes  they 
may  be  discharged  of  the  qweir  provided  also  that  if  it  shall 
happen  ony  of  the  said  pastor  and  prechars  to  be  sent  ambas- 
sadors from  the  kyngs  majeste  unto  ony  forein  prince  or  place 
beyond  the  see,  orellis  to  be  sent  for  to  be  present  at  ony  con- 
Vocacon  or  cownsail  within  this  realme,  that  evry  of  them  so 
being  absent  by  the  kyngs  graces  commandement  shal  be  ac- 
cepted as  present  in  the  said  churche,  and  have  all  manifold 

Erofits  of  a  prechar  resident  and  keping  hospitalite  in  the  same, 
:om  the  daie  of  his  knowledge  of  the  kyngs  graces  pleasor  in 
the  premises,  unto  the  daie  of  his  retorne  unto  the  kyngs  ma- 
jeste and  eight  daies  affter.  And  unto  thend  of  suche  cownsaile 
or  convocacon,  and  eight  daies  affter  the  same  cownsaile  or  con- 
vocacon  is  ended.  Provided  also,  that  the  said  pastor  and 
prechars  being  absent  in  preching  ther  quarter  sermons  in  the 
diocese,  shalbe  accepted  as  present  for  so  long  as  ther  ar  oc- 
cupied in  that  busyness. 

6.  That  the  pastor  and  prechars  entering  residence  in  the 
said  cathedral  churche,  may  enter  frely  withoute  paying  ony 
money  to  the  cathedral   churche  or  to  any  other  persone  or 
.psones  for  the  same,  except  anly  the  first  fruts  and  the  tenth 
dew  to  the  kyngs  majeste  by  his  lawes  and  the  ordinari  fees 
dew  to  the  Bushop  and  pastor  for  institucon  and  induccon  in  the 
same.     Ony  statute  or  custome  of  the  said  churche  hertofore 
made  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding. 

7.  That  the  cor^acon  of  the  churche,  which  was  by  the  name 
of  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Seint  Peters  Churche  in  Excester  may 
be  changed,  and  to   be  called  now  the  pastor  and  prechars 
of  Christs  Churche  in  Excester  and  the  comen  seale  which  now 
hath  graven  in  it  the  image  of  Seinte  Peter  with  a  triple  crowne 
may  be  likewise  alterid. 

8.  That  the  correcon  of  the  priests  and  peple  within  the  Closs 
of  the  churche  of  Excester,  and  of  all  churches  and  parishes 
appat  to  the  same  may  pertyn  unto  the  pastor  aforesaid,  as  of 
right  it  perteyned  before  unto  the  Dean,  who  hath  the  juris- 
diccoii  of  an  Archedecon  within  the  churche,  and  within  all 
pishes  appropriat  to  the  same,  as  apperith  by  sufficient  writings 


480  APPENDIX.    • 

under  seale,  for  now,  neither  the  Archedecon  from  whom  they 
be  exempte,  nor  yet  the  Dean  unto  whom  such  correcon 
pteyneth,  do  correcte  the  enormitees  of  priests  and  other  within 
the  peculiar  jurisdiccon  of  the  said  Dean.  Maie  it  therefore, 
please  the  kyngs  majeste  to  restore  unto  the  pastor  the  juris- 
diccon of  an  Archedecon  with  like  comoditees  fees  and  profits 
within  the  said  cathedral  churche  and  parish e  churches  ap- 
propriat,  as  Archedecons  hath  of  churches  within  ther  juris- 
diccons,  &c. 

9.  That  ther  may  be  in  the  said  churche  a  lerned  man  in  holy 
scripture,  that  shall  rede  a  lecture  openly  in  the  churche  three 
days  evry  weke  (he  to  have  forty  marks  for  his  labor)  ami  that 
the  said  pastor  and  prechars  may  be  bound  daili  both  at  dyner 
and  supper  to  have  som  parte  of  holy  scripture  redd  at  ther 
tables,  &c.,  the  said  redar  to  be  chosen,  &  upon  just  causes  to  be 
removed  by  the  pastor  and  six  other  prechars  of  the  said  churche, 
and  the  said  pastor  and  prechars  being  in  towne  may  be  bound 
dailie  to  be  present  when  the  lecture  is  redd. 

10.  That  there  may  be  in  the  said  cathedral  churche  a  fre 
song  scole,  the  scholemaster  to  have  yerly  of  the  said  pastor  & 
prechars  twenty  marks  for  his  wages  and  his  howss  fre,  to  teach 
forty  children  frely  to  rede,  to  write,  syng  and  play  upon  in- 
struments of  music,  also  to  teach  them  ther  a.  b.  c.  in  greke  and 
hebrew  and  evry  of  the  said  forty  childre  to  have  wekely  12d. 
for  ther  meat  and  drink  and  yerly  6s.  8d.  for  a  gowne,  they  to 
be  bownd  daili    to  syng  and   rede  within  the  said   cathedral 
churche  such  divine  service  as  it  may  please  the  kyngs  majeste 
to  alowe.     The  said  childre  to  be  at  comons  all  together  with 
three  priests  hereaffter  to  be  spoken  of,  to  see  them  well  ordered 
at  their  meat  and  to  reform  their  manners. 

11.  That  ther   may  be  a  fre  gramar  scole  within  the   said 
cathedral  churche,  the  scholemaster  to  have  201.  by  yer,  and  his 
howss  fre,  the  ussher  101.  and  his  howss  free,  and  that  the  said 
pastor  and  prechar  may  be  bound  to  fynd  60  childre  at  the  said 
gramar  scole,  giving  to  evry  on  of  the  children  12d.  wekely  to 
go  to  comons  within  the  cite  at  the  pleasor  of  ther  frends,  so 
long  to  contynew  as  the  scholemaster  do  see  them  diligent  to 
lern.     The  pastor  to  appoint  e  eight,  every  prechar  four,  and  the 
scholemaster  four :  the  said  childre  serving  in  the  said  churche 
and  going  to  such  scole  to  be  preferred  before  strangers.     Pro- 
vided always,  that  no  child  be  admitted  to  thexhibicon  of  the 
said  churche,  whose  father  is  knowen  to  be  worth  in  goods  above 
3001.  or  ellis  may  dispend  above  401.  yerly  of  enheritance. 

12.  That  the  said  pastor  and  prechars  may  be  bound  to  find 
twenty-four  scolers  at  the  universitees,  twelve  at  Cambridge  and 
twelve  at  Oxford,  every  of  them  to  have  five  marks  yerly  and 
on  of  the  twelve  in  either  universitee  to  be  paimaster  unto  the 


CHARTERS,  &c.  481 

residew  and  he  to  have  13s.  4d.  yerly  above  the  porcon  of  others, 
the  scolers  browght  up  in  the  scole  of  Excester  to  be  preferred 
to  these  exhibicons  before  strangers.  Six  to4 be  assigned  by 
the  bushop,  six  by  the  pastor,  and  every  other  prechar  to  as- 
signe  one. 

13.  To  find  also  twenty-four  poor  men,  maymed  in  the  kyngs 
warres,  blinde,  lame,  or  aged  and  impotent,  having  no  londs  nor 
goods  to  live  on,  nor  able  to  get  ther  living  by  labor,  evry  of 
them  to  have  12d.  wekely,  and  yerly  a  gowne  price  6s.  8d.  and 
ther  howss  fre.     Non  of  them  to  begg,  upon  peyn  to  be  put 
owte  of  that  rowme.     The  maier  and  his  bretherne  at  evry  vaca- 
con  to  present  unto  the  pastor  and  prechars  three  of  the  moste 
poore  men,  and  the  pastor  and  prechars  to  be  bound  to  take  on 
of  three  so  by  the  maier  and  his  bretherne  named. 

14.  To  find  three  honest  prests  daili  to  say  morow  mass  in  the 
said  cathedral  churche  and  daili  at  the  same  tyme  to  declare 
unto  the  peple  being  present,  a  parte  of  the   Paternoster  in 
Englishe,  a  parte  of  the  ten  commandments,  orellis  a  part  of 
the  articles  of  Christs  faithe.     And  all  the  children  both  of  the 
song  scole  and  gramar  scole  to  be  bound  daili  to  be  present 
thereat,  with  ther  scolemasters.     And  that  on  of  the  said  priests 
also  by  cowrss  may  be  bownd  to  sing  daily  high  mass  and  evry 
of  thes  prests  to  be  bownd  to  be  present  at  all  divine  service, 
with  the  master  of  the  song  scole,  every  of  them  also  bownd 
whan  nede  shall  require  to  minister  all  sacraments,  and  to  visit 
seek  men  within  the  parishe  of  the  said  cathedral  church,  to  be 
chosen  by  the  pastor  and  six  of  the  prechars  and  upon  resonable 
causes  by  them  to  be  put  owte,  evry  of  the  said  three  so  long 
as  they  diligentli  execute  ther  office  to  have  yerly  for  ther 
wages  20  marks,  they  to  go  to  comons  together  with  the  scole- 
master  of  the  song  scole  and  all  the  forty  childre  with  them,  to 
thintent  they  may  see  the  good  ordre  of  the  same  childre. 

15.  That  two  of  the  said  twelve  prechars  may  be  yerly  chosen 
at  the  fest  of  Seint  Michael,  to  receive  and  pay  such  sumes  of 
money  as  ar  to  be  received  and  paid,  and  to  make  ones  in  the 
yer  a  trew  and  perfite  accompte  and  either  of  them  to  have  41. 
over  and  besids  ther  porcons  above  limetid. 

16.  To  fynd  also  a  clerk  to  write  their  rekenings  and    to 
make  ther  books  of  accompte  perfite,  he  to  have  yerly  20  nobles 
wages,  and  meat  and  drink  with  the  pastor  and  prechars  pre- 
sent, where  he  list  to  take  it. 

17.  To  fynd  a  lerned  man  in  the  lawes  of  the  realme  resi- 
dent for  the  more  parte  in  Devonshire  to  be  present  at  all  law 
daies  and  courts  of  the  said  pastor  and  prechars  to  se  justice 
executed  and  peace  kept  among  ther  tenants  and  he  to  have 
20  marks  fee  yerly. 

18.  To  find  an  honest  man,  to  be  verger  of  the  churche  to 

2  i 


484  APPENDIX. 

between  him  and  one  Mr.  Norden,  a  Surveyor  of  Lands  and  a 
dependent  upon  the  Prince's  service,  that  the  title  of  your 
manor  of  Exe  Island,  and  all  the  houses  and  land  belonging  to 
the  Castle  of  Exon,  with  Northernhaie,  is  likely  to  be  questioned 
by  the  Prince.  Upon  Mr.  Recorder's  persuasion  to  confer  with 
Mr.  Norden  (with  whom  I  have  some  acquaintance)  I  endea- 
voured to  speak  with  him,  but  being  gone  from  his  lodging  here 
into  Kent,  I  have  missed  him ;  and  yet  notwithstanding  have 
by  other  and  fitter  means  entreated  a  kinsman  of  my  wife's, 
attending  also  the  Prince's  service,  in  a  special  manner  to  sound 
Mr.  Norden  touching  the  title  pretended  by  his  Highness,  which 
he  hath  promised  faithfully  to  do  at  his  return  out  of  Kent, 
which  will  not  be  yet. 

I  have  now  received  70?.  from  Mr.  Earle  of  Sir  W.  Pole,  his 
due  upon  the  decree  by  my  former  letter.  I  entreated  direc- 
tions from  you  how  I  might  convey  it  down ;  and  finding  none 
by  the  parts  of  your  last,  do  intreat  to  be  advertised  by  warrant 
to  whom  I  shall  pay  it  here,  for  I  dare  not  send  it  by  the  car- 
rier, neither  doth  Mr.  Recorder  think  it  safe. 

It  is  said  that  our  Bishop  will  be  with  you  about  the  end  of 
July,  and  intendeth  to  lodge  with  Mr.  Chancellor.  I  wish  he 
were  gone  hence,  that  I  might  take  my  flight  westwards,  for  I 
am  very  weary  of  my  long  stay  here. 

My  duty  and  service  remembered  do  remain.  Your  obliged 
in  duty,  WM.  PROUZ. 

Our  Assizes  at  Exon  begin  the  5th  day  of  August,  and  our 
old  Judges  continue. 

To  the  Right  Worshipful  the  Mayor,  Aldermen,  and 
Common  Counsell  of  the  Chamber  of  Exon.1 


ECCLESIA  DE  MORTHOE. 

BISHOP  BRANTYNGHAM'B  APPROPRIATION  of  MORTHOE  to  the  Dean  and  Chapter. 

8th  July,  1739. 

UNIVEKSIS  sancte  matris  Ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presentes  litere 
pervenerint  Thomas  de  Brantyngham,  miseracione  Divina  Exoni- 
ensis  Episcopus,  Salutem  in  Domino  sempiternam.  Detestan- 
dam  ingratitudinem  in  omnibus  operibus  nostris  naturaliter  ab- 
horremus,  ne  preteritorum  benefjciorum  nobis  impensorum  apud 
Deum  immemores  judicemur,  contra  illud  quod  alibi  scribitur 
"  accepti  beneficii  memor  esto."  Justitia  namque  virtutum  pre- 
elarissima,  unicuique  tribuens  quod  est  suum,  exigit  quod  bene- 
factoribus  nostris  benefacere  debeamus.  Liberalitas  eciam  que 

1  28  June,  anno  1622. 


CHARTERS,  &c.  485 

est  pars  justitie  et  beneficiorum  erogatrix,  debet  benevolenciam 
pro  affectu,  et  beneficenciam  pro  effectu.  Sane  nos  considerantes, 
immo  verius  sentientes  quomodo  bone  memorie  Dominus 
Edwardus  Tertius,  quondam  Kex  Anglie  illustrissimus,  et  Domina 
Philippa  consors  ejus  Kegina  ab  adolescentia  nostra  usque  ad 
statum  gradus  Episcopalis,  ad  quern  licet  indigni  eramus  et 
sumus  assumpti,  et  cui  presidemus  de  present!,  in  aula  sua  Kegia 
in  sUo  nos  erexerint  servicio  retinentes.  Et  volentes  propterea 
pro  carnalibus  spiritualia,  et  pro  terrenis  transitoriis  gaudia  per- 
petua,  eisdem  pro  viribus  providere,  ad  perpetuam  animarum 
suarum  et  nostre  commendationem  in  Ecclesia  nostra  Exoniensi, 
ut  inferius  ordinatur,  celebrandam,  et  Divini  cultus  augmentum 
in  eadem,  onerumque  aliorum  canonicis  et  aliis  ibidem  ser- 
vientibus  in  Divinis  injunctorum  faciliorem  supportationem, 
Ecclesiam  parocliialem  de  Mortho,  cum  omnibus  suis  juribus  et 
pertinentiis  universis,  cujus  quidem  Ecclesie  jus  patronajus, 
licentia  ejusdem  Domini  nostri  Regis  tune  superstitis  preobtenta, 
et  per  Dominum  Kicliardum  Kegem  Anglie  modernum,  ejusdem 
Domini  Edwardi  successorem  immediatum  confirmata,  omnium- 
que  aliorum  quorum  interfuit,  et  interesse  poterit  in  hac  parte 
concurrentibus  consensu  et  assensu,  de  bonis  nostris  adquisitis, 
antequam  ad  dignitatem  Episcopalem  Omnipotens  nos  assumpsit, 
nobis  et  heredibus  nostris  adquisivimus,  prehabito  eciam  cum 
Decano  et  Capitulo  Ecclesie  nostre  antedicte  specialiter,  ut 
infra  scribitur,  tractatu  diligent!  et  solempni,  et  eorum  ac  Domini 
Archidiaconi  Barum,  in  cujus  Archidiaconatu  eadem  Ecclesia  de 
Mortho  situatur,  consensubus  ad  hec  accedentibus,  Ecclesie  nostre 
Cathedral!  Exoniensi,  nostra  auctoritate  pontifical!,  incorpora- 
mus,  annectimus  et  unimus.  Ita  quod  cedente  vel  decedente 
ejusdem  Ecclesie  rectore,  aut  Ecclesiam  ipsam  alias  quomodolibet 
dimittente,  liceat  Decano  et  Capitulo  nostro  Exoniensi  per  se, 
aut  alium  vel  alios,  pacificam  possessionem  ejusdem  Ecclesie  ac 
jurium  et  pertinentium  ejusdem  Ecclesie,  auctoritate  propria 
libere  apprehendere  et  nancisci,  ejusque  fructus,  redditus  et 
proventus  in  suos  et  diet!  Capituli  usus,  servata  per  omnia  ordi- 
nacione  nostra  subscripta,  convertere,  reservata  tamen  de  hujus- 
modi  fructibus,  redditubus  et  proventibus  ejusdem  Ecclesie  de 
Mortho  pro  perpetuo  vicario  ad  presentationem  dicti  Capituli 
nostri,  per  nos  et  successores  nostros  in  dicta  Ecclesia  instituendo 
congrua  porcione  juxta  nostre  discretions  arbitrium,  inferius 
moderata,  ex  qua  idem  Vicarius  poterit  congrue  sustentari,  jura 
Episcopalia  solvere,  et  alia  sibi  incumbencia  onera  supportare. 
Ita  eciam  quod  prefatum  Capitulum  imperpetuum  duos  per- 
petuos  habere  Capellanos  ad  statum  vicariorum  in  dicta  Ecclesia 
Cathedral!  prius  nullatenus  admissos  per  Episcopum  Exoni- 
ensem  quemcumque  ad  dicti  Capituli  presentationem  institutes 
set  invenire  teneantur  Missas  et  alia  divina  in  eadem  Ecclesia 


486  APPENDIX. 

Cathedral!  pro  statu  salubri  nostro  quamdiu  vixerimus  et  pro 
animabus  Domini  Edwardi  Tercii  post  Conquestum  nuper  Eegis 
Anglie  illustrissimi  et  Philippe  Kegine  consortis  sue  et  nostra 
cum  ab  hac  luce  migraverimus  cotidie  dicentes  et  celebrantes  ac 
in  eadem  Ecclesia  habitum  decentem  deferentes  et  ministrantes 
in  eadem  ad  modum  aliorum  annuellariorum  ad  solempne  divini 
cultus  augmentum  et  numerum  ministrorum  in  choro  Ecclesie 
supradicte  eruntque  obedientiarii  Decani  et  Capituli  Presbiteri 
hujusmodi  per  juramentum  sicut  alii  annuellarii  ejusdem  Ecclesie. 
Et  cum  dicti  duo  presbiteri  aut  eorum  alter  obierint  seu  obierit 
seu  aliquo  modo  cesserint  vel  cesserit  aut  quocumque  >modo 
dictum  statum  suum  dimiserint  seu  dimiserit  aliasve  inhabiles 
sive  inhabilis  effecti  fuerint  seu  fuerit  et  dicti  Decanus  et  Capi- 
tulum  alios  presbiteros  ydoneos  infra  mensem  post  vacacionem 
status  alicujus  presbiterorum  nostrorum  predictorum  proximo 
sequentem  nobis  et  successoribus  nostris  non  presentaverint, 
extunc  liceat  nobis  et  successoribus  nostris  successive  de  illis 
presbiteris  et  eorum  quolibet  sine  difficultate  quacumque  pro- 
videre  et  status  presbiterorum  seu  statum  presbiteri  vacantes  vel 
vacantem  canonice  conferre  contradiccione  dictorum  Decani  et 
Capituli  non  obstante :  percipiet  annuatim  imperpetuum  uterque 
presbiterorum  nostrorum  predictorum  ab  eisdem  Decano  et  Ca- 
pitulo centum  solidos  ad  terminos  usuales  et  de  singulis  obitibus 
in  dicta  Ecclesia  sicut  alii  ecclesie  ejusdem  annuellarii  quociens 
contingere  dinoscuntur ;  onus  verum  invencionis  et  sustentacionis 
libri  missalis,  calicis,  vestimentorum  et  aliorum  ornamentorum 
altaris  et  panis  vini  et  luminis  pro  dictis  duobus  presbiteris  cele- 
braturis  ad  dictum  Capitulum  pertinebit  dummodo  episcopus  in 
principio  cantarie  ornamenta  necessaria  semel  inveniat  et  com- 
petencia.  Ordinamus  insuper  quod  vicarius  perpetuus  in  dicta 
Ecclesia  de  Mortho  ad  presentacionem  dictorum  Decani  et  Capi- 
tuli imperpetuum  Episcopo  loci  presentetur  et  per  Episcopum 
predictum  aut  vicarium  ejusdem  in  spiritualibus  vel  sede  vacante 
per  custodem  spiritualitatis  si  ydoneus  inventus  fuerit  admittatur 
et  instituatur  et  ulterius  fiat  de  institute  hujusmodi  ad  mandatum 
Episcopi  sicut  in  aliis  similibus  beneficiatis  est  fieri  consuetum : 
jurabit  eciam  quilibet  institutus  vicarius  hujusmodi  coram 
episcopo  loci  quod  erit  per  omnia  fidelis  Decano  et  Capitulo 
Ecclesie  memorate  et  quod  nichil  amplius  percipiet  de  pro- 
ventibus  Ecclesie  de  Mortho  supradicte  quam  ut  sequitur  est 
per  nos  ordinatum,  et  quod  nunquain  contraveniet  ordinacioni 
ejusdem  vicarie  in  presentibus  hie  contente.  Ordinamus  eciam 
quod  idem  vicarius  percipiat  et  habeat  annuatim  ab  eisdem 
Decano  et  Capitulo  pro  annua  sustentacione  sua  decem  libras 
sterlingorum  ad  quatuor  anni  terminos  usuales  sibi  necessarios : 
habebit  insuper  idem  vicarius  pro  habitacione  sua  omnes  domos 
rectorie  de  Mortho  preter  unam  grangiam  et  unam  cameram 


CHARTERS,  &c.  487 

cum  stabulo  sub  eadem  camera  et  pro  curtilagio  suo  dimidiam 
acram  sanctuarii  dicte  Ecclesie  proximiorem.  Eecipiet  itaque 
idem  vicarius  a  dictis  Decano  et  Capitulo  in  Ecclesie  de  Mortho 
predicta  decem  solidos  sterlingorum  cum  quibus  et  pro  illis 
supportabit  annuatim  onus  solucionis  procuracionis  Archi- 
diaconalis,  Cathedratici,  Sinodatici  ac  denariorum  processionalium 
et  officii  Decani  ruralis  quociens  de  consuetudine  oportebit.  Et 
inveniet  dictus  vicarius  annuatim  panem  et  vinum  pro  divinis 
celebrandis  ac  communione  parochianorum  suorum,  et  incensum 
per  totuni  annum,  omnia  eciam  et  singula  onera  archidiaconalia 
ad  dictam  parochialem  ecclesiam  pertinencia.  Onus  autem  con- 
struccionis  cum  opus  fuerit  ac  eciam  refeccionis  et  emendacionis 
cancelli  dicte  Ecclesie  de  Mortho  necnon  invencionis  et  susten- 
tacionis  librorum  matutinalium  ad  parochianos  dicte  Ecclesie 
nullatenus  pertinentium,  dicti  Decanus  et  Capitulum  supporta- 
bunt  item  onus  invencionis  et  sustentacionis  libri  missalis, 
calicis,  vestimentorum  et  aliorum  ornamentorum  altaris,  ac 
panis,  vini  et  luminis  pro  dictis  duobus  presbiteris  celebraturis 
in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali,  ut  predicitur,  ad  dictos  Decanum  et 
Capitulum  pertinebit  imperpetuum.  Et  solvent  iidem  Decanus 
et  Capitulum  decimas  Domino  Pape  et  Regi,  alia  eciam  sub- 
sidia,  procuraciones,  cardinalium  et  aliorum  nunciorum  seu 
legatorum  Pape,  necnon  expensas  pro  procuratoribus  Cleri  mit- 
tendis  ad  Convocacionem,  sive  concilium  Domini  Cantuarie 
Archiepiscopi,  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit,  ac  alia  onera  ordinaria  et 
extraordinaria  quecumque  superius  vicario  nullatenus  assignata. 
Preterea  solvent  annuatim  dicti  Decanus  et  Capitulum  in  diebus 
obituum  dictorum  Eegis  et  Kegine  et  nostri  Thome  Episcopi 
videlicet  quolibet  anno  imperpetuum  in  eadem  Cathedrali 
Ecclesia  solemniter  celebrandorum  videlicet  canonico  present! 
in  officiis  dicendis  "  Placebo"  et  "  Dirige,"  cum  Commendatione  ac 
Missa  solempni  "  Requiem  eternam "  in  die  duodecim  denarios, 
cuilibet  vicario  presenti  sex  denarios,  cuilibet  annuellario  pre- 
senti  tres  denarios,  et  cuilibet  secundario  presenti  et  cuilibet 
custori  tres  denarios,  et  cuilibet  puero  choriste  presenti  ut  supra- 
dicitur  duos  denarios.  Et  Decanus  et  Capitulum  antedicti  sus- 
tinebunt  grangiam  et  unam  cameram  pro  granario  cum  stabulo 
sub  eadem  camera  situato  extra  ostium  australe  aule  rectorie 
Ecclesie  de  Mortho  supradicto.  In  quorum  omni  testimonium 
sigillum  ad  perpetuam  memoriam  presentibus  duximus  appo- 
nendum.  Datum  quoad  consignacionem  in  Hospicio  nostro 
Londoniensi,  octavo  die  mensis  Julii,  anno  Domini  millesinio 
cccmo  lxxmo  ?iono,  et  consecracionis  nostre  decimo.  Et  nos  De- 
canus et  Capitulum  Exoniense  supradictum  premissis  appro* 
priacioni,  annexioni  et  uiiioni  nostrum  cornmunem  consensum 
dantes  et  assensum  omnia  onera  superius  nobis  injuncta  pro 
nobis  et  successoribus  nostris  in  nos  et  ipsos  suscipimus  imper- 


488  APPENDIX. 

petuum  ac  nos  et  ipsos  ad  eadem  et  omnia  et  singula  nos  et  eos 
obligamus  per  presentes.  In  quorum  testimonium  sigillum 
nostrum  commune  presentibus  duximus  apponendum.  Datum 
in  domo  nostra  Capitulari  Exoniensi,  vicesimo  octavo  die  mensis 
Julii,  anno  Domini  supradicto.  Et  nos  Archidiaconus  Barna- 
stopolie  in  quantum  ad  nos  pertinet  et  archidiaconatum  nostrum 
ibidem  promissis  omnibus  et  singulis  nostrum  consensum  pre- 
bemus  et  assensum.  In  quorum  testimonium  sigillum  nostrum 
presentibus  apposuimus.  Datum  Exonie  die  mense  et  anno 
proxime  suprascriptis. 

[The  seal  of  the  Bishop  remains  appendant,  the  Chapter  seal  and  th6  Arch- 
deacon's are  gone.] 


QUEEN  ELIZABETH'S  GRANT  TO  THE  CHURCH  OF  EXETER.1 

Extract,  e  Charta  penes  Honoratissimum  Dnm.  Carolnm  Dominum  Clifford 
Baronem  Clifford  de  Chudleigh. 

CUM  ELIZABETHA  nuper  Eegina  Anglie  per  literas  suas 
patentes  sub  magno  Sigillo  suo  Anglie  confectas  gerentes  datum 
quinto  die  Julii  anno  regni  sui  vicesimo  septimo  [1585]  pro  con- 
sideratione  in  eisdem  expressa  dederit  et  concesserit  Decano  et 
Capitulo  Ecclesie  Cathedralis  Sancti  Petri  in  Civitate  Exonie 
et  successoribus  suis  totam  illam  rectoriam  de  Ellerkey  in  co- 
mitatu Cornubie  rectoriam  de  Mortho  cum  pertinentiis  in  comi- 
tatu Devonie  rectoriam  de  Upp  Otterye  cum  pertinentiis  in  pre- 
dicto  comitatu  Devonie  manerium  de  Thorverton  cum  perti- 
nentiis in  dicto  comitatu  Devonie  manerium  de  Winter  borne 
Wast  cum  pertinentiis  et  certam  terram  in  Brocthampton  et 
Swenwiche  in  comitatu  Dorsett  rectoriam  de  Duely  cum  perti- 
nentiis in  dicto  comitatu  Cornubie  rectoriam  de  Withecombe 
cum  pertinentiis  et  capellam  de  Spithweeke  cum  pertinentiis  in 
dicto  comitatu  Devonie  rectoriam  de  Westastye  cum  pertinen- 
tiis in  dicto  comitatu  Devonie  rectoriam  de  Estcoker  in  comitatu 
Somers'  manerium  de  Langford  Ffyfhed  et  alias  terras  et  tene- 
menta  in  Ffyfhed  predicta  et  Ashwell  cum  pertinentiis  in  pre- 
dicto  comitatu  Somerset'  Necnon  omnes  et  singulos  illos  an- 
nuales  redditus  exeuntes  de  possessionibus  et  hereditament]' s 
nuper  dissoluti  Monasterii  de  Plympton  cum  pertinentiis  in  dicto 
comitatu  Devonie  quondam  datos  pro  manutencione  cantarie 
vocate  Pembrookes  Chauntrey-in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta 
Aceciam  totum  illud  tenementum  cum  pertinenciis  in  Cooke- 
rewstreete  in  parochia  beate  Marie  Majoris  in  Civitate  Exonie 
adtunc  in  tenura  Willielmi  Selden  Aceciam  totum  illud  mes- 
suagium  sive  tenementum  cum  pertinenciis  juxta  Ecclesiam 

1  Referred  to  ante,  page  141. 


CHARTERS,  &c.  489 

Sancti  Georgii  in  Civitate  Exonie  Ac  tria  horrea  et  unum  clan- 
sum  terre  cum  pertinenciis  juxta  Southinghaye  infra  comitatum 
Civitatis  Exonie  predicte  quondam  data  pro  manutencione  obi- 
tus Edmundi  Lacy  Episcopi  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta 
Ac  omnia  ilia  duo  tenementa  cum  pertinentiis  in  Highstreete  in 
parochia  Sancti  Martini  in  dicta  Civitate  Exonie  adtunc  in  te- 
nura Richardi  Newton  et  Willielmi  Ward  cum  annuali  redditu 
exeunte  de  nuper  dissoluto  Monasterio  de  Cleyve  in  comitatu 
Somersett'  Aceciam  totum  ilium  annualem  redditum  exeuntem 
de  certis  terris  in  Knighston  in  parochia  de  Morchard  in  comi- 
tatu Devon  Aceciam  omnes  illas  duas  scliopas  cum  pertinenciis 
in  alto  vico  Civitatis  Exonie  quondam  datas  pro  manutencione 
obitus  Walteri  Stapledon  Episcopi  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  pre- 
dicta Aceciam  omnia  messuagia  terras  et  tenementa  cum  per- 
tinenciis in  Aylesbeare  in  comitatu  Devonie  adtunc  in  seperali 
tenura  Thome  Fforder  Thome  Lee  et  Johannis  Middleton  quon- 
dam data  pro  manutencione  obitus  Oweni  Loyd  Johannis  Mcur- 
ton  Cardinalis  et  Johannis  Kyse  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta 
Aceciam  totum  illud  messuagium  sive  tenementum  cum  perti- 
nenciis in  parochia  Sancti  Davidis  extra  portam  orientalem  pre- 
dicte Civitatis  Exonie  adtunc  in  tenura  Henrici  Ellacot  quondam 
datum  pro  anniversario  Willielmi  Ffulford  in  Ecclesia  Cathe- 
drali predicta  Aceciam  totum  illud  messuagium  sive  tenementum 
cum  pertinenciis  in  Cookrewstreete  predicta  in  Civitate  Exonie 
predicta  adtunc  in  tenura  cujusdam  Drewe  vidue  quondam  da- 
tum pro  manutencione  obitus  Hugonis  Thring  in  Ecclesia  Ca- 
thedrali predicta  Ac  omnia  ilia  terras  et  tenementa  cum  perti- 
nenciis in  Norton  infra  parochiam  de  Newton  Sancti  Cericii  in 
comitatu  Devonie  quondam  data  pro  manutencione  obitus  Ni- 
cholai  Bosse  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta  Aceciam  totum  illud 
tenementum  cum  pertinenciis  in  Cookrewstreete  predicta  in  pa- 
rochia beate  Marie  Majoris  in  Civitate  Exonie  adtunc  in  tenura 
Willielmi  Breenford  quondam  datum  pro  manutencione  obitus 
Johannis  Kirkby  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta  Aceciam  omnia 
ilia  terras  tenementa  et  redditus  cum  pertinenciis  in  Karford 
infra  parochiam  de  Crediton  in  comitatu  Devonie  adtunc  in 
seperali  tenura  Johannis  Wiiiell  et  Thome  Loke  quondam  data 
pro  manutencione  obitus  Eicardi  Hellier  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali 
predicta  Ac  omnia  ilia  terras  tenementa  et  redditus  infra  mane- 
riiun  de  Tiverton  et  Hunsham  in  comitatu  Devonie  adtunc  in 
tenura  Thome  Beare  quondam  data  pro  manutencione  obitus 
Thome  Harris  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta  Aceciam  totum 
illud  tenementum  cum  pertinenciis  in  Waterbeare-street  infra 
parochiam  Omnium  Sanctorum  in  Civitate  Exonie  adtunc  in 
tenura  cujusdam  Mauri  quondam  datum  pro  manutencione  obi- 
tus Johannis  Salter  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta  Aceciam 
omnia  ilia  terras  tenementa  et  hereditamenta  cum  pertinenciis 


490  APPENDIX. 

in  Tamerton  Ffollyett  Colbricke  et  Brixton  in  comitatu  Devonie 
adtunc  in  tenura  Johannis  Pyll  quondam  data  pro  manuten- 
cione  obitus  Johannis  Ffullford  Archidiaconi  in  Ecclesia  Cathe- 
drali  predicta  Aceciam  omnia  ilia  terras  tenementa  et  redditus 
in  Estenigmoth  Westenigmoth  Illerdescombe  et  Staplehill 
juxta  Tenigbridge  et  apud  Churchstowe  in  comitatu  Devonie 
adtunc  in  tenura  Bartholomei  Borington  quondam  data  pro  ma- 
nutenione  obitus  Davidis  Hopton  in  Ecclesia  Catliedrali  predicta 
Aceciam  totum  illud  messuagium  cum  pertinenciis  juxta  domum 
elemosinarium  Sancte  Catherine  in  Civitate  Exonie  adtunc  in 
tenura  Johannis  Baldwin  ac  unam  cameram  infra  domum  elemo- 
sinariam  predictam  adtunc  in  tenura  Johannis  Stanley  Ac  om- 
nia ilia  duo  messuagia  sive  tenementa  cum  diversis  parcellis 
terre  eisdem  pertinentibus  in  parochia  Sancte  Sativole  extra 
portam  orientalem  Civitatis  Exonie  predicte  adtunc  in  seperali 
tenura  Eoberti  Carew  et  Koberti  Periam  Ac  totum  illud  clau- 
sum  terre  in  parochia  Sancte  Sativole  predicte  adtunc  in  tenura 
Thome  Johnson  quondam  datum  pro  manutencione  obitus  Jo- 
hannis Stephens  in  Ecclesia  Cathedral!  predicta  Aceciam  omnia 
ilia  duo  tenementa  sive  messuagia  cum  pertinenciis  infra  paro- 
chiam  Omnium  Sanctorum  super  Muros  in  Civitate  Exonie  ad- 
tunc iu  tenura  Johannis  Wells  quondam  data  pro  manutencione 
obitus  Johannis  Vesy  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta  Aceciam 
omnia  ilia  quatuor  messuagia  sive  tenementa  cum  pertinenciis 
juxta  portam  vocatam  the  Little  Style  in  Civitate  Exonie  in 
parochia  beate  Marie  Majoris  adtunc  in  tenura  Willielmi  Trevet 
et  Willielmi  Greenwood  quondam  data  pro  manutencione  sepe- 
ralium  obituum  Thome  Chepington  cujusdam  Nevile  Episcopi  Jo- 
hannis Yott  Johannis  Hamlin  et  aliorum  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali 
Exonie  predicta  Aceciam  totum  illud  tenementum  cum  perti- 
nenciis in  Cookerewstreete  predicta  in  parochia  beate  Marie 
Majoris  predicte  adtunc  in  tenura  WTillielmi  Greenwood  quon- 
dam datum  pro  manutencione  obitus  Johannis  Ward  in  Ecclesia 
Cathedrali  predicta  Ac  totam  illam  rectoriam  Sancti  Uveli  cum 
pertinenciis  in  comitatu  Cornubie  adtunc  in  tenura  Johannis 
Lande  quondam  datam  pro  manutencione  obitus  Gilberti  Titing 
et  Thome  Bitton  Episcopi  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta  Ac- 
eciam omnia  illas  terras  et  tenementa  cum  pertinenciis  in  Cre- 
diton  in  comitatu  Devonie  adtunc  in  tenura  cujusdam  Bende 
quondam  data  pro  manutencione  obitus  Johannis  Bowthe  quon- 
dam Exonie  Episcopi  et  quorundam  Barefoote  et  Bourton  in 
Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta  Aceciam  omnia  ilia  terras  et  tene- 
menta cum  pertinenciis  in  Trewetha  et  Pilligenowe  in  parochia 
Maynhennet  in  comitatu  Cornubie  quondam  data  pro  manuten- 
cione obitus  Johannis  Edgecombe  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta 
Aceciam  totum  illud  messuagium  sive  terram  cum  pertinenciis 
in  parochia  beate  Marie  de  Gradibus  in  Civitate  Exonie  adtunc 


CHARTERS,  &c.  491 

in  tenursi  Jacob!  Taylor  quondam  datum  pro  manutenione 
obitus  Matthei  Downe  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predict**,  Aceciam 
omnia  ilia  terras  messuagia  redditus  et  revenciones  cum  perti- 
nenciis  in  Plymouth  in  comitatu  Devonie  predicta  ad  tune  in 
tenura  Thome  Denys  quondam  data  pro  manutencione  seperalis 
obitus  Radulphi  Kingsteed  et  Johannis  Skynner  in  Ecclesia  Ca- 
thedrali predicta  Aceciam  totam  illam  rectoriam  de  Brewred 
cum  pertinenciis  in  comitatu  Cornubie  Aceciam  omnia  illia  duo 
messuagia  sive  tenementa  cum  pertinenciis  in  Cookerewstreete 
in  parochia  beate  Marie  Majoris  in  Civitate  Exonie  predicts,  ad- 
tunc  in  tenura  Willielmi  Greenwood  quondam  data  pro  manu- 
tencione obitus  Petri  Williams,  Agnetis  uxoris  ejus  et  Johannis 
Mourton  Cardinalis  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta  Aceciam 
totum  illud  messuagium  cum  pe'rtinenciis  in  parochia  Sancti  Tri- 
nitatis  extra  portam  australem  dicte  Civitatis  Exonie  adtunc  in 
tenura  Richardi  Bragge  quondam  datum  pro  manutencione  obi- 
tus Kichardi  Martin  et  Johannis  Ryse  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali 
predicta  Aceciam  omnia  ilia  duo  messuagia  cum  pertinenciis  in 
parochia  Sancte  Sativole  extra  portam  orientalem  Civitatis  Ex- 
ouie  predicte  adtunc  in  tenura  Galfridi  Herman  et  Thome 
Lamder  quondam  data  pro  manutencione  obitus  Johannis  Arundell 
quondam  Episcopi  Exonie  Aceciam  totam  illam  rectoriam  Sancte 
Marine  cum  pertinenciis  in  comitatu  Cornubie  Aceciam  omnes 
ilia  terras  redditus  et  possessiones  dictis  Decano  et  Capitulo  quon- 
dam data  pro  manutencione  obitus  Walteri  Kilkenny  in  Ecclesia 
Cathedrali  predicta  Aceciam  omnia  ilia  terras  redditus  et  pos- 
sessiones dictis  Decano  et  Capitulo  quondam  data  pro  manuten- 
cione seperalium  obituum  Petri  quondam  Exonie  Episcopi  Thome 
Hertford  Walteri  Pembrooke  Walteri  Brewer  Johannis  Wiger 
et  Johannis  Kowse  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta  Aceciam 
totam  illam  rectoriam  de  Westanti  cum  pertinenciis  in  comitatu 
Devonie  Aceciam  totam  illam  rectoriam  de  Escoker  cum  perti- 
nenciis in  comitatu  Somersett'  Aceciam  totem  illam  rectoriam 
de  Widecombe  cum  pertinenciis  in  comitatu  Devonie  Aceciam 
omnia  ilia  terras  redditus  tenementa  et  hereditamenta  in  Lang- 
ford  Ffyhed  et  Ashill  cum  pertinenciis  in  dicto  comitatu  Somer- 
sett' dictis  Decano  et  Capitulo  quondam  data  pro  manutencione 
obitus  Johannis  Speik  militis  et  uxoris  sue  in  Ecclesia  Cathe- 
drali predicta  Aceciam  totam  illam  domum  mansionalem  sive 
messuagium  cum  pertinenciis  infra  Clausum  in  Civitate  Exonie 
predicta  adtunc  in  tenura  Archidiaconi  Totton  dictis  Decano  et 
Capitulo  quondam  datarn  pro  manutencione  obitus  Thome  Bod- 
hain  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta  Aceciam  totum  illud  tene- 
mentum  cum  pertinenciis  in  Cookrewstreete  in  parochia  beate 
Marie  Majoris  in  Civitate  Exonie  predicta  quondam  datum  ad 
manutencioiiem  quoraindam  usuum  superstitionis  in  Ecclesia 
predicta  Aceciam  omnia  et  singula  redditus  terras  et  tenementa 


*  92  APPENDIX. 

i  i  Stone  Sydbery  et  Sydford  in  dicto  comitatu  Devonie  dictis 
_)ecano  et  Capitulo  quondam  data  pro  manutencione  obitus 
]  togeri  Charleton  et  Thome  Charleton  Aceciam  omnia  ilia  red- 
( itus  terras  et  possessiones  dictis  Decano  et  Capitulo  Ecclesie 
( 'athedralis  Beati  Petri  Exonie  predicte  quondam  data  pro  ma- 
i  .utencione  obitus  Johannis  de  Mountacute  in  Ecclesia  Cathe- 

<  rali  predicta     Ac  totam  illam  rectoriam  de  Mortho  in  dicto 

<  }mitatu  Devonie     Aceciam  omnia  et  singula  maneria  redditus 
i  irras  tenementa  et  hereditamenta  cum  pertinenciis  in  Winter- 
borne  Wast  in  comitatu  Dorsett  predictis  Decano  et  Capitulo 
cuondam  data  pro  manutencione  obitus  Edmundi  Stafford  in 
Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta    Necnon  omnia  ilia  redditus  terras 
tenementa  et  hereditamenta  in  Stone  Sydbery  et  Sydford  in 
dicto  comitatu  Devonie  quondam  data  dictis  Decano  et  Capitulo 
pro  sustentacione  cantariste  sive  cantarie  sive  stipendii  in  Syd- 
bery predicta   Aceciam  omnia  et  singula  ilia  proficua  et  annualia 
proficua  centum  solidorum  per  predictos  Decanum  et  Capitulnm 
preantea  solubiles  per  cantariam  sive  cantar'  vocatum  Eoridge 
Chauntrey  et  salaria  sua    Aceciam  to  turn  illud  messuagium  sive 
tenementum  cum  pertinenciis  in  parochia  Sancti  Martini  in  Ci- 
vitate  Exonie  predicta  adtunc  in  tenura  Thome  Brereton    Nec- 
non totum  illud  tenementum  et  duas  shopas  cum  pertinenciis  in 
parochia  Sancti  Pancrasii  infra  dictam  Civitatem  Exonie  adtunc 
in  tenura  Eichardi  Prowse    Necnon  omnia  ilia  duo  tenementa 
cam  pertinenciis  in  parochia  Sancte  Sativole  predicta  infra  co- 
luitatum  Civitatis  Exonie  adtunc  in  seperali  tenura  Eichardi 
Mountstephen  et  Johannis  Oldham     Necnon  totum  illud  mes- 
suagium cum  pertinenciis  in  parochia  Sancti  Thome  in  comitatu 
Devonie  adtunc  in  tenura  Willielmi  Freer    Necnon  totum  illud 
messuagium  situatum  apud  Warmehill  in  parochia  Hennock  in 
dicto  comitatu  Devonie  adtunc  in  tenura  Thome  Denny s  datum 
dictis  Decano  et  Capitulo  Ecclesie  Cathedralis  beati  Petri  Ex- 
onie predicte  et  successoribus  suis  vel  quibusdam  ffeofatis  ad 
eorum  usum  ad  inveniendum  et  manutenendum  obitum  Eogeri 
Keyes  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta    Aceciam  totum  illud  mes- 
suagium sive  tenementum  cum  pertinenciis    infra  Clausum  in 
Civitate  Exonie  predicta  adtunc  in  seperali    tenura  dictorum 
Decani  Capituli  Ecclesie  Cathedralis  beati  Petri  Exonie  pre- 
dicte vel  Laurentii  Bodley  eorum  tenentis  quondam  datum  dictis 
Decano  et  Capitulo  Ecclesie  Cathedralis  predicte  et  successori- 
bus suis  pro  manutencione  obitus  Bartholomei  Decani  Weele  et 
Upham  in  Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta     Aceciam  totum  illud 
messuagium  sive  tenementum  cum  pertinenciis  infra  Clausum  in 
Civitate  Exonie  predicte  adtunc  in  tenura  dicti  Decani  et  Capi- 
tuli vel  Hugonis  Wyatt  eorum  tenentis  quondam  datum  pre- 
dictis Decano  et  Capitulo  et  eorum  successoribus  pro  manuten- 
cione obitus  Walteri  Merriott  et  Nassington  in  Ecclesia  Cathe- 


CHARTERS,  &o. 

drali  predicta  Aceciam  ilia  duo  messuagia  sive  tenementa  cutf ' 
pertinenciis  in  alto  vico  Civitatis  Exonie  predicte  in  parochul 
Sancti  Pancrasii  adtunc  in  seperali  tenura  dictorum  Decani  etf 
Capituli  vel  Willielmi  Skynner  eorum  tenentis  quondam  dati 
dictis  Decano  et  Capitulo  Ecclesie  Cathedralis  predicte  et  eorun;7 
successoribus  pro  manutencione  obitus  Willielmi  Capron  in  EC* 
clesia  Cathedrali  predicta  Aceciam  totum  illud  messuagium  siv<£ 
tenement um  cum  pertinenciis  in  parochia  Sancti  Stephani  i# 
predicta  Civitate  Exonie  adtunc  in  tenura  Willielmi  Garmyfr 
quondam  datum  pro  manutencione  obitus  Johannis  Holland  in 
Ecclesia  Cathedrali  predicta  Aceciam  totam  illam  rectoriam  dq 
Bockrell  cum  pertinenciis  in  comitatu  Devonie  HABENDUM 
ET  TENENDUM  seperalia  rectorias  maneria  terras  tenementa 
redditus  hereditamenta  et  cetera  premissa  predicta  cum  perti- 
nenciis prefatis  Decano  et  Capitulo  Ecclesie  Cathedralis  Sancti 
Petri  in  Exonia  et  successoribus  suis  imperpetuum  sub  annuali 
redditu  centum  quadraginta  et  quinque  librarum  ad  ffesta  Sancti 
Michaelis  et  Annunciationis  beate  Marie  Yirginis  per  equaled 
porciones  solvendo. 

King  Charles  II.  on  the  30th  of  July,  in  the  twenty-fifth  year  of  his  reigr 
(1673)  granted  this  yearly  rent  of  £145  to  the  Lord  Treasurer  Clifford  ancl 
his  heirs  male  for  ever. 


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Ellis,  H.  Esq.,  Grovelands,  Exeter. 

Elton,  Sir  E.  M.,  Bart.,  Widworthy  Court. 

Elton,  Eev.  Dr.,  Exeter. 

Exeter,  Eight  Eev.  the  Lord  Bishop  of,  Bishopstowe. 

Exeter,  Very  Eev.  the  Dean  of,  Exeter. 

Exeter,  the  Venerable  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of,  Exeter. 

Follett,  H.  B.,  Esq.,  25,  Norfolk  Street,  London. 

Ford,  Eev.  Prebendary,  Torquay. 

Ford,  H.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Fortescue,  Eight  Hon.  the  Earl,  Castle  Hill. 

Fortescue,  Hon.  and  Eev.  J.,  Poltimore. 

Fortescue,  Hon.  G.  M.,  Boconnoc,  Cornwall. 

Fortescue,  Eev.  J.  F.  C.,  Burlington  Hotel,  London. 

Fortescue,  Eev.  E.  H.,  Stockleigh  Pomeroy. 

Foweraker,  Mr.  E.  T.,  Cathedral  School,  Exeter  (2  copies). 

Franklin,  F.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Freeman,  Eev.  Philip,  Thorverton. 

Friend,  Walter,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Froude,  W.,  Esq.,  Paignton. 

Fulford,  Eev.  J.  L.,  Woodbury. 

Fursdon,  Eev.  E.,  Dawlish. 

Galton,  Eev.  J.  L.,  Exeter. 

Gard,  E.  S.,  Esq.,  M.P.,  Exeter  (2  copies). 

Garratt,  J.,  Esq.,  Bishop's  Court. 

Geale,  Hamilton,  Esq. 

Geare,  John,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Geaves,  J.  L.,  Esq.,  Heavitree. 

Gervis,  J.  J.,  Esq.,  Heavitree. 

Gibbs,  W.,  Esq.,  Tyntes$rd,  Bristol  (3  copies). 

Gibbs,  H.  H.,  Esq.,  St.  Dunstan's,  Eegent's  Park,  London  (2  copies). 

Gill,  Eev.  W.,  Venn,  Tavistock. 

Godwin,  Mr.,  Barnstaple. 

Godwin,  Mr.  J.,  8,  Walton  Street,  Oxford. 

Gould,  J.,  Esq.,  Highouse,  Kenton. 

Gould,  Daniel,  Esq.,  Honiton. 

Gould,  Mr.  J.  B.,  Exeter. 

Granger,  Dr.,  Exeter. 

Greenfield,  E.  W.,  Esq.,  Shirley,  Southampton. 

Gribble,  W.,  Esq.,  12*,  Abchurcl}  Lane,  London. 

Haggerston,  Lady,  Teignmouth. 

Hale,  the  Venerable  Archdeacon,  London. 

Hall,  Dr.  W.  Exeter. 

Halliday,  Eev.  W.  J.,  Glenthorne,  Lynton. 

Harding,  Lt.-CoL,  Exeter. 


LIST  OF  SUBSCRIBERS.  499 

Harding,  Rev.  John,  Goodleigh. 

Harding,  T.  Wrey,  Esq.,  Upcott,  Barnstaple. 

Harding,  Vincent,  Esq.,  Lincoln's  Inn  Fields,  London  (2  copies). 

Harding,  Eev.  J.  L.,  Littleham. 

Hare,  Miss  M.  J.,  Durnford  Street,  Stonehouse. 

Harington,  Rev.  Chancellor,  Exeter. 

Harris,  Rev.  Dr.,  Tor,  Torquay. 

Harris,  C.  A.,  Esq.,  Hayne,  Lifton. 

Hartnoll,  T.  W.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Hawker,  Rev.  R.  S.,  Morwinstow. 

Hay  ward,  J.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Head,  R.  T.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Heberden,  Rev.  W.,  Broadhembury. 

Hedgeland,  Rev.  Philip,  Penzance. 

Hodge,  Mr.,  Stationer,  Exeter  (2  copies). 

Hogg,  T.  D.,  Esq.,  Newton  Tracey. 

Holden,  Mr.,  Bookseller,  Liverpool  (6  copies). 

Holdsworth,  Rev.  Prebendary,  Brixham. 

Hole,  Rev.  N.,  Broadwoodkelly. 

Holmes,  G.  K.,  Esq.,  Budleigh  Salterton. 

Holroyd,  G.  C.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Hooper,  H.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Howell,  Rev.  Hinds,  Drayton  Rectory,  Norwich. 

Hugo,  Rev.  J.  P.,  Exminster. 

Hugo,  Rev.  T.,  5,  Finsbury  Circus,  London. 

Husband,  Rev.  J.  E.  Colvile,  Bath. 

Hutch inson,  Rev.  ^Eneas  B.,  Devonport. 

Huyshe,  Rev.  J.,  Clysthydon. 

Jackson,  Mr.  Thomas,  Exeter. 

Jagoe,  R.  S.,  Esq.,  Crescent,  Plymouth. 

James,  J.  H.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

James,  H.  M.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Jesse,  J.,  Esq.,  Llanbedr  Hall,  Ruthin. 

Jones,  Winslow,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Joslin,  Mr.  W.,  Exeter. 

Karslake,  Rev.  W.  H.,  Meshaw. 

Karslake,  Rev.  J.  W.,  Culmstock. 

Karslake,  E.,  Esq.,  Lincoln's  Inn,  London. 

Karslake,  J.,  Esq.,  8,  Fig  Court,  Temple,  London. 

Kell,  W.,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  Newcastle. 

Kelly,  J.,  Esq.,  Kelly. 

Kelly,  Admiral,  Saltford  House,  Bath. 

Kelly,  Mrs.,  Filleigh,  Chudleigh. 

Kekewich,  S.  T.,  Esq.,  M.P.,  Peamore,  Exeter. 

Kempe,  Rev.  J.  C.,  Merton. 

Kempe,  Arthur,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Kendall,  W.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Kennaway,  Sir  J.,  Bart.,  Escot,  Ottery  St.  Mary. 

Kennaway,  Mark,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Kennaway,  G.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

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498  LIST  OF  SUBSRIBEKS. 

Eales,  0.,  Esq.,  Bristol. 

Earle,  Kev.  J.  S.,  Swanwick  Eectory,  Bath.. 

Egremont,  Eight  Hon.  the  Countess  of,  Silverton  Park  (3  copies). 

Ellacombe,  Eev.  H.  T.,  Clyst  St.  George. 

Ellis,  H.  Esq.,  Grovelands,  Exeter. 

Elton,  Sir  E.  M.,  Bart.,  Widworthy  Court. 

Elton,  Eev.  Dr.,  Exeter. 

Exeter,  Eight  Eev.  the  Lord  Bishop  of,  Bishopstowe. 

Exeter,  Very  Eev.  the  Dean  of,  Exeter. 

Exeter,  the  Venerable  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of,  Exeter. 

Follett,  H.  B.,  Esq.,  25,  Norfolk  Street,  London.  *t; 

Ford,  Eev.  Prebendary,  Torquay. 

Ford,  H.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Fortescue,  Eight  Hon.  the  Earl,  Castle  Hill. 

Fortescue,  Hon.  and  Eev.  J.,  Poltimore. 

Fortescue,  Hon.  G.  M.,  Boconnoc,  Cornwall. 

Fortescue,  Eev.  J.  F.  C.,  Burlington  Hotel,  London. 

Fortescue,  Eev.  E.  H.,  Stockleigh  Pomeroy. 

Foweraker,  Mr.  E.  T.,  Cathedral  School,  Exeter  (2  copies). 

Franklin,  F.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Freeman,  Eev.  Philip,  Thorverton. 

Friend,  Walter,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Froude,  W.,  Esq.,  Paignton. 

Fulford,  Eev.  J.  L.,  Woodbury. 

Fursdon,  Eev.  E.,  Dawlish. 

Galton,  Eev.  J.  L.,  Exeter. 

Gard,  E.  S.,  Esq.,  M.P.,  Exeter  (2  copies). 

Garratt,  J.,  Esq.,  Bishop's  Court. 

Geale,  Hamilton,  Esq. 

Geare,  John,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Geaves,  J.  L.,  Esq.,  Heavitree. 

Gervis,  J.  J.,  Esq.,  Heavitree. 

Gibbs,  W.,  Esq.,  Tyntesf#d,  Bristol  (3  copies). 

Gibbs,  H.  H.,  Esq.,  St.  Dunstan's,  Eegent's  Park,  London  (2  copies). 

Gill,  Eev.  W.,  Venn,  Tavistock. 

Godwin,  Mr.,  Barnstaple. 

Godwin,  Mr.  J.,  8,  Walton  Street,  Oxford. 

Gould,  J.,  Esq.,  Highouse,  Kenton. 

Gould,  Daniel,  Esq.,  Honiton. 

Gould,  Mr.  J.  B.,  Exeter. 

Granger,  Dr.,  Exeter. 

Greenfield,  E.  W.,  Esq.,  Shirley,  Southampton. 

Gribble,  W.,  Esq.,  12*,  Abchurch  Lane,  London. 

Haggerston,  Lady,  Teignmouth. 

Hale,  the  Venerable  Archdeacon,  London. 

Hall,  Dr.  W.  Exeter. 

Halliday,  Eev.  W.  J.,  Glenthorne,  Lynton. 

Harding,  Lt.-Col.,  Exeter. 


LIST  OF  SUBSCRIBERS.  499 

Harding,  Eev.  John,  Goodleigh. 

Harding,  T.  Wrey,  Esq.,  Upcott,  Barnstaple. 

Harding,  Vincent,  Esq.,  Lincoln's  Inn  Fields,  London  (2  copies). 

Harding,  Eev.  J.  L.,  Littleham. 

Hare,  Miss  M.  J.,  Durnford  Street,  Stonehouse. 

Harington,  Eev.  Chancellor,  Exeter. 

Harris,  Eev.  Dr.,  Tor,  Torquay. 

Harris,  C.  A.,  Esq.,  Hayne,  Lifton. 

HartnoU,  T.  W.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Hawker,  Eev.  E.  S.,  Morwinstow. 

Hayward,  J.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Head,  E.  T.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Heberden,  Eev.  W.,  Broadhembury. 

Hedgeland,  Eev.  Philip,  Penzance. 

Hodge,  Mr.,  Stationer,  Exeter  (2  copies). 

Hogg,  T.  D.,  Esq.,  Newton  Tracey. 

Holden,  Mr.,  Bookseller,  Liverpool  (6  copies). 

Holdsworth,  Eev.  Prebendary,  Brixham. 

Hole,  Eev.  N.,  Broadwoodkelly. 

Holmes,  G.  K.,  Esq.,  Budleigh  Salterton. 

Holroyd,  G.  C.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Hooper,  H.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Howell,  Eev.  Hinds,  Drayton  Eectory,  Norwich. 

Hugo,  Eev.  J.  P.,  Exminster. 

Hugo,  Eev.  T.,  5,  Finsbury  Circus,  London. 

Husband,  Eev.  J.  E.  Colvile,  Bath. 

Hutchinson,  Eev.  JEneas  B.,  Devonport. 

Huyshe,  Eev.  J.,  Clysthydon. 

Jackson,  Mr.  Thomas,  Exeter. 

Jagoe,  E.  S.,  Esq.,  Crescent,  Plymouth. 

James,  J.  H.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

James,  H.  M.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Jesse,  J.,  Esq.,  Llanbedr  Hall,  Euthin. 

Jones,  Winslow,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Joslin,  Mr.  W.,  Exeter. 

Karslake,  Eev.  W.  H.,  Meshaw. 

Karslake,  Eev.  J.  W.,  Culmstock. 

Karslake,  E.,  Esq.,  Lincoln's  Inn,  London. 

Karslake,  J.,  Esq.,  8,  Fig  Court,  Temple,  London. 

Kell,  W.,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  Newcastle. 

Kelly,  J.,  Esq.,  Kelly. 

Kelly,  Admiral,  Saltford  House,  Bath. 

Kelly,  Mrs.,  Filleigh,  Chudleigh. 

Kekewich,  S.  T.,  Esq.,  M.P.,  Peamore,  Exeter. 

Kempe,  Eev.  J.  C.,  Merton. 

Kempe,  Arthur,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Kendall,  W.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Kennaway,  Sir  J.,  Bart.,  Escot,  Ottery  St.  Mary. 

Kennaway,  Mark,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Kennaway,  G.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

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500  LIST  OF  SUBSCRIBERS. 

Kennaway,  W.,  Esq.,  the  Shrubbery,  Exeter. 
Kerslake,  Mr.,  Bookseller,  Bristol. 
King,  R.  J.,  Esq.,  Fordton,  Crediton. 
Kingdon,  Kent,  Esq.,  Exeter. 
Kitson,  Rev.  T.,  Shiphay. 
Kitson,  W.,  Esq.,  Torquay. 
Knight,  Rev.  T.  H.,  Stoke  Canon. 
Knight,  J.  A.,  Esq.,  Axminster. 

Laidman,  C.  J.,  Esq.,  Exeter.  ' 

Latimer,  T.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Lawrence,  N.  H.  P.,  Esq.,  Ipplepen. 

Lee,  Eev.  Prebendary,  Exeter. 

Lee,  Col.,  Pennsylvania,  Exeter. 

Ley,  W.,  Esq.,  Woodlands,  Kenn  (2  copies). 

Ley,  J.  P.,  Esq.,  Teignmouth. 

Ley,  Rev.  T.  H.,  Rame,  Devonport. 

Lightfoot,  Rev.  J.  P.,  Exeter  College,  Oxford. 

Limpenny,  Mr.,  Exeter. 

Littleton,  Thomas,  Esq.,  M.B.,  Saltash. 

Lloyd,  Mr.  Horace,  Exeter  (2  copies). 

Luke,  H.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Luscombe,  J.,  Esq.,  Coombe-Royal,  Kingsbridge. 

Luscombe,  Rev.  E.  Knighton,  Gloucester. 

Luxmoore,  Rev.  Charles,  Eton  College. 

Luxton,  Rev.  J.,  Bondleigh. 

Lyne,  Rev.  Prebendary,  Tywardreath. 

Mackarness,  Rev.  Prebendary,  Honiton. 

Mackay,  Lieut.-Col.,  Fairhill,  Exeter. 

Maclaine,  J.  Esq.,  War  Office,  Pall  Mall,  London. 

Manley,  Mr.  W.  H.,  Exeter. 

Martin,  Rev.  Chancellor,  Harberton. 

Martin,  Rev.  G.,  D.D.,  St.  Breward,  Camelford. 

Mason,  Rev.  J.  H.,  Widdecombe-in-the-Moor. 

Matthews,  H.,  Esq.,  Bradninch. 

Matthews,  Capt.,  R.N.,  the  Lodge,  Sidmouth. 

Mears,  Mr.,  Exeter  (2  copies). 

Merivale,  Hermann,  Esq.,  Barton  Place,  Exeter. 

Miles,  W.,  Esq.,  Exeter  (6  copies). 

Milford,  J.,  Esq.,  Coaver,  Exeter. 

Milford,  F.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Miller,  Dr.,  the  Grove,  Exeter. 

Moore,  Mr.  W.,  Exeter. 

Mortimer,  Mrs.,  Exeter. 

Mountford,  J.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Mowbray,  Right  Hon.  J.  R.,  London. 

Mules,  H.  P.,  Esq.,  Honiton. 

Munk,  W.,  Esq.,  M.D.,  26,  Finsbury  Place,  London. 

Hunk,  Mr.  E.,  Exeter. 


LIST  OP  SUBSCRIBERS.  501 

Nagle,  Lady  H.  Chichester,  Calverleigh  Court,  Tiverton. 

Nation,  W.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Ness,  Rev.  J.  D.,  Morthoe. 

Newcastle  Literary  and  Philosophical  Society. 

Newman,  T.,  Esq.,  Mamhead. 

Newport,  Kev.  H.,  Exeter. 

Norris,  T.  G.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Northcote,  Sir  Stafford  H.,  Bart.,  M.P.,  Pynes,  Exeter. 

Northcote,  Kev.  Mowbray,  Monkokehampton. 

Northmore,  J.,  Esq.,  Rockbeare  Court. 

Padley,  Rev.  C.,  Bedwell  Hall,  Nottingham. 

Palk,  Rev.  W.  H.,  Ashcombe. 

Palk,  Rev.  H.,  Shillingford. 

Parker,  Mrs.,  Whiteway,  Chudleigh. 

Parker,  Messrs.,  Booksellers,  Oxford. 

Pascoe,  Rev.  T.,  St.  Hilbury,  Marazion. 

Pasmore,  Mr.,  Exeter. 

Patteson,  Right  Hon.  Sir  J.,  Feniton  Court,  Honiton. 

Pearse,  G.,  Esq.,  Bradninch. 

Pearse,  P.,  Esq.,  Penlee,  Devonport. 

Phillipps,  Sir  T.,  Bart.,  Middle  Hill. 

Phillips,  W.,  Esq.,  Mount  Radford,  Exeter. 

Pigott,  Rev.  J.  T.,  Fremington. 

Pinckney,  Rev.  R.,  Cullompton. 

Pitman,  Rev.  W.  P.,  Aveton  Gifford. 

Podmore,  Rev.  R.  H.,  St.  Columb. 

Pollard,  Mr.  W.,  Exeter. 

Ponsford,  Rev.  W.,  Drewsteignton. 

Porter,  Rev.  Reginald,  Kenn. 

Porter,  Rev.  Dr.,  Magdalen  Hill,  Exeter.    " 

Prideaux,  Sir  E.  S.,  Bart.,  Netherton  Hall,  Honiton. 

Prideaux,  G.,  Esq.,  Mill  Lane,  Plymouth. 

Prince,  Mr.,  14,  Gray's  Place,  Brompton,  London. 

Prior,  Rev.  John,  Lynby  Rectory,  Nottingham. 

Pyke,  Rev.  J.,  Parracombe. 

Radford,  Rev.  W.  T.  A.,  Down  St.  Mary. 

Rayer,  Rev.  W.,  Tiverton. 

Roberts,  Mr.  W.,  Bookseller,  Broadgate,  Exeter  (6  copies). 

Roberts,  Mr.  W.  T.,  Bookseller,  Exeter. 

Rogers,  Mrs.  Canon,  Dix  Field,  Exeter. 

Rogers,  J.  J.  Esq.,  Penrose,  Helston. 

Rogers,  Rev.  Saltern,  Gwennap. 

Rolle,  Right  Hon.  Lady,  Bicton  (4  copies). 

Roper,  Rev.  C.  R,,  Mount  Radford,  Exeter. 

Ross,  F.  W.  L.,  Esq.,  Topsham. 

Row,  W.  N.,  Esq.,  Cove,  Tiverton. 

Rowe,  Sir  Joshua,  C.B.,  10,  Queen  Ann  Street,  Cavendish  Square, 

London. 
Rowe,  Rev.  J.  J.,  Mont-le-Grand,  Exeter. 


502  LIST  OF  SUBSCRIBERS. 

Rowe,  Mr.  Mark,  Exeter. 
Eowlatt,  Rev.  J.  C.,  Exeter. 

St.  Aubyn,  J.  P.,  Esq.,  35,  St.  John  Street,  Bedford  Row,  London. 

Sanders,  Rev.  Lloyd,  Whimple. 

Sanders,  Rev.  H.,  Sowton. 

Sanders,  Ralph,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Sanders,  F.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Sanders,  E.  A.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Saville,  Rev.  F.  A.,  North  Huish. 

Scully,  Miss,  Torquay. 

Shaw,  Mr.,  Exeter. 

Sheffield,  T.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Sheppard,  J.  Esq.,  Cowley  House,  Exeter. 

Shapter,  Dr.,  Exeter. 

Smirke,  E.,  Esq.,  Vice-  Warden  of  the  Stannaries  (2  copies). 

Smith,  Montague,  Esq.,  M.P.,  London. 

Smyth,  Mrs.,  Regent's  Park,  Exeter  (2  copies). 

Snow,  T.,  Esq.,  Franklyn,  Exeter. 

Snow,  T.  M.,  Esq.,  Wear  Cliff,  Exeter. 

Southcomb,  Rev.  Hamilton,  Rose  Ash. 

Spinck,  Rev.  Marshall,  Saltash. 

Stevens,  J.  C.  Moore,  Esq.,  Winscott,  Torrington. 

Stephens,  Robert,  Esq.,  Athenaeum,  Plymouth. 

Stowey,  A.,  Esq.,  Kenbury,  Kenn. 

Stucley,  Sir  G.  S.,  Bart.,  Hartland  Abbey. 

Studd,  Major  General,  Oxton  House,  Kenton. 

Sweetland,  Miss,  Spurbarn,  Exeter. 

Sydenham,  Rev.  J.  P.,  Cullompton. 

Talbot,  J.  F.  G.,  Esq.,  Rhode  Hill,  Lyme. 

Tanner,  Rev.  T.,  Burlescombe. 

Tatham,  Rev.  Prebendary,  Broadoak,  Lostwithiel. 

Templeton,  J.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Thomas,  Rev.  C.  A.  Neville,  Chudleigh. 

Thomas,  Mr.  J.  L.,  Exeter. 

Throckmorton,  Sir  R.,  Bart.,  Buckland,  Faringdor 

Tiverton  Decanal  Library. 

Tombs,  W.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Toms,  Rev.  W.  H.,  Combmartin. 

Tonar,  Mrs.,  Exeter. 

Tonkin,  Sir  Warwick  H.,  Teignmouth. 

Tordiff,  J.  P.,  Esq.,  Hawktor. 

Traies,  Mr.  W.  H.,  Exeter. 

Treble,  Mr.,  Exwick,  Exeter. 

Treby,  H.  H.,  Esq.,  Goodamoor,  Plympton. 

Trefusis,  Hon.  Charles,  M.P.,  Heanton  Satchville. 

Trelawney,  Sir  W.  S.,  Bart.,  Hare  wood,  Tavistock. 

Trevelyan,  Sir  Walter,  Bart.,  Nettlecombe,  Taunton. 

Tripp,  Rev.  Dr.,  Silverton. 

Tucker,  C.,  Esq.,  Marlands,  Exeter. 


LIST  OF  SUBSCRIBERS.  503 

Tucker,  Mr.,  Bookseller,  Southmolton. 

Tuckett,  J.,  Esq.,  66,  Great  Kussell  Street,  London. 

Turner,  Mrs.,  Larkby,  Exeter. 

Turner,  Rev.  0.  C.,  Exeter. 

Turner,  C.  H.,  Esq.,  Dawlish. 

Turquand,  Eev.  A.  P.,  Ottery  St.  Mary. 

Tyrrell,  J.,  Esq.,  Newcourt,  Exeter. 

Vickary,  Mr.,  Exeter. 

Vowler,  J.  N.,  Esq.,  Leawood,  Bridestowe. 

Walker,  F.  J.,  Esq.,  Little  Matford,  Exeter. 

Walkey,  Rev.  0.  E.,  Clyst  St.  Lawrence. 

Walkey,  J.  E.  C.,  Esq.,  Ide,  Exeter. 

Walrond,  Bethell,  Esq.,  Dulford  House,  Cullompton. 

Warren,  F.  H.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Way,  Albert,  Esq.,  Alnwick  Castle  (2  copies). 

Webb,  C.  K.,  Esq.,  Exeter  (2  copies). 

Welman,  C.  Noel,  Esq.,  Norton  Manor,  Taunton. 

Were,  J.,  Esq.,  Broadclyst. 

Wescomb,  C.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Whitehead,  A.,  Esq.,  Weston-super-Mare. 

White  way,  J.  H.,  Esq.,  Fishwick  House,  Teignbridge. 

Wilcocks,  J.  M.,  Esq.,  Exeter. 

Wilkinson,  Thos.,  Esq.,  Plymouth. 

Williams,  Rev.  Philip,  Rewe. 

Williams,  J.,  Esq.,  Chudleigh. 

Wills,  Rev.  W.,  Holcombe-Rogus. 

Wilmot,  Paul,  Esq.,  Clift  House,  Northam. 

Wolston,  Rev.  Christopher,  Tor,  Newton. 

Wood,  J.,  Esq.,  Courtlands,  Lympston. 

Woollcombe,  Rev.  Canon,  Heavitree. 

Woolmer,  Mrs.,  Exeter. 

Wrey,  Sir  Bourchier  P.,  Bart.,  Tawstock. 

Wrey,  Mrs.  Robert,  Wear  Cliff,  Lyme  Regis. 

Yarde,  T.,  Esq.,  Culver  House,  Chudleigh. 
Yonge,  J.  B.,  Esq.,  Puslinch,  Yealmpton. 
Yule,  Rev.  J.  C.  D.,  Bradford. 

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