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VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS 


SOUTHWELL   MINSTEE. 


SKAL   OF   TIIK   COLU  EGIATK     CHL'IiCII     Ol     THE    BLESSED    MAKY    THE     V1HCTN    fT 

SOUTHWELL, 
IN    THE   COITXTY    OF    NOTTINGHAM,  COMMONLY  CALLED    SOUTHWELL   MIXSTER, 

From  an  Jwprrxxloii  nftnrhtd  to  the  Deed  oj  Stirniido-  to  Jlcm-y    V 111., 
\lth  Novrvihir,  1540. 


It  Hoems  to  portray  tlie  Virgin  scntcd  with  tlic  Child  on  licr  hi]i.  and  tlu>  legend 
'Sifjillum  S;incte  Mario  ....   welliv." 

Tlic  seal  Hccms  to  be  of  n  date  not  later  than  the  first  hall'  of  the  12th  century— 
perhaps  of  the  time  of  KaMred,  Arehhishop  of  York,  luCI-loT'.,  who  ^a.\c  the 
Canons  separate  prehends.  The  seiil  was  hniken  up  iiy  the  Chapter  in  luHS.  to 
invfilidate  some  deeds  fraudnlentlv  seidcd  with  it. 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMOEIALS 


SOUTHWELL    MINSTEE. 


EDITED  BY  ARTHUR  FRANCIS  LEACH, 

,ATE  FELLOW  OF  ALL  SOrLS'  COLLEGE,  05FOED  ;    ASSIbTAST  CHARITY  COMMISSIONER, 


PRINTED   FOR  'TffE^MIfiEN  SOCIETY 


M.DCCC.XCI. 


WESTMINSTER: 

PRINTED  BV  NICHOLS  AND  SONS, 

25.  PARLIAMENT  STREET. 


[new  series  XLYIIl.] 


COUNCIL  OF  THE  CAMDEN  SOCIETI 

FOR  THE  YEAR  1889-90. 


President^ 
THE  RIGHT  HON.  THE  EARL  OF  CRAWFORD,  LL.D.,  F  R.S. 
PROFESSOR  MONTAGU  BURROWS,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
JAMES  J.  CARTWRIGHT,  ESQ.,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Treamrer. 
REV.  J.  SILVESTER  DAVEES,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
REV.  J.  WOODFALL  EBSW^ORTH,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
JAMES  GAIRDNER,  ESQ.,  Secretary. 

SAMUEL  RAWSON  GARDINER,  ESQ.,  M.A.,  LL.D.   Director. 
REV.  F.  A.   GASQUET. 
REV.  W.  HUNT,  M.A. 
REV.  DR.  LUARD. 
W.   J.   C.   MOENS,  ESQ.,   F.S.A. 
ALEXANDER  MACMILLAN,  ESQ.,  F.S.A. 
THE  EARL  OF  POWIS,  LL.D. 
HENRY  REEVE.  ESQ.,  D.C.L.,  C.B.,  F.S.A. 
S.  R.  SCARGLLL-BIRD,  ESQ.,  F.S.A. 
PERCY  M.  THORNTON,  ESQ. 


The  Council  or  the  Camden  society  desire  it  to  be  uiider- 
btood  that  they  are  not  answerable  for  any  opinions  or  observa- 
tions that  may  appear  in  the  Society's  publications;  the  Editors 
ot  the  several  Works  being  alone  responsible  for  the  same. 


CONTENTS. 


Introduction  :  History  and  Constitution  of  Southwell  Minister     . 
-Contents  of  White  Book  of  Southwell         .... 

Contents  of  Chapter  Register  of  Southwell 

Visitations  and  Corrections  of  Ministers  of  Southwell  Collegiate  Churcli 
U69-15J2  ....... 

Wills  proved  before  the  Chapter  of  Southwell,  1470-1641 
Admissions  and  Resignations  of  Canons  and  Ministers  of  the  Church 
Extracts  from  Liber  Albus  : 

Inquisition  on  Customs  of  York  Minster,  1106   . 

Inventory   of    Ornaments   and   Goods   of    Southwell    Parish   Vicar 
1369        ...... 


Statutes  of  the  Collegiate  (Jhurch  of  the  Blessed  Mary 

Southwell,  1221-1335     .... 

Index,  General  ..... 

Names  of  Persons      .... 


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ci-cviii 

cix-cxi 

1-95 
96-146 
145-189 


201-216 
217-221 
223-234 


NOTE  ON  SEAL. 

I  liave  only  boon  al)le  to  hear  of  two  imiiressions  of  this  seal  now 
extant.  One  is  in  the  British  Museum  (Harl,  Ch.  83,  D.  2)  attached  to 
a  grant  to  Rufford  Abbey,  Notts,  witnessed  by  the  Chapter  of  Southwell, 
about  1220.  This  is  No.  4058,  vol.  i.,  p.  750,  of  Mr.  Birch's  Catologue 
of  Seals  in  the  MSS.  Department  at  the  British  Museum.  It  is  much 
damaged,  only  the  lower  part  of  the  drapery  of  the  Virgin  being  distin- 
guishable. Enough  remains,  however,  to  identify  it  as  from  the  same  seal  as 
the  second  impression,  viz.,  that  attached  to  the  Surrender  to  Henry  VIII., 
from  a  cast  of  which  the  engraving  is  taken.  This  impression  is  now  in 
the  Record  Office  (Augmentation  Office,  Surrenders,  218).  It  has  been 
further  damaged  since  the  cast  in  the  British  Museum  (Ixx.  58,  No.  4058 
in  Mr.  Birch's  catalogue)  was  taken  by  Mr.  Ready,  of  the  British  Museum, 
some  40  or  50  years  ago,  when  the  Augmentation  Office  Records  were 
still  at  Westminster. 

Mr.  W.  H.  St.  John  Hope  is  my  authority  for  the  date  of  the  original 
seal. 


INTKODUCTION. 


Southwell  with  its  Minster  is  a  curious  instance  of  a  place  of  rj.^^  ^^,^ 
arclntectural  beauty  and  historical  interest  of  the  first  rank,  which 
owing  to  its  lying  on  a  bypath,  apart  from  the  great  highways 
of  traffic  and  travel,  has  fallen  almost  into  oblivion.  In  pre- 
Reformation  times  Southwell,  owing  to  the  Minster  and  the 
adjoining  palace  of  the  Archbishops  of  York,  near  the  great 
Fossway,  and  the  important  castles  of  Newark  and  Nottingham, 
was  the  frequent  resort  of  kings  and  magnates.  Now,  being  on  a 
small  branch  line  between  ]\Iansfield  and  Newark,  accessible  only 
by  a  special  journey,  and  lying  off  the  main  road,  it  has  sunk  into 
something  less  than  a  market  town  and  is  passed  by  on  the  other 
side  by  a  hurrying  world. 

Yet  it  is  far  more  worth  a  visit  than  many  a  much-frequented 
spot.  The  Minster,  lying  in  a  most  striking  situation,  in  green 
meadows  bordering  the  old-world  town  of  Southwell,  is  of  cathedral 
proportions,  and  contains  in  its  chapter-house  one  of  the  most 
beautiful,  if  not  the  most  beautiful,  gem  of  Gothic  architecture  in 
the  world  ;  while  as  a  collegiate  church  of  almost  cathedral  dignity 
and  immemorial  antiquity,  whose  constitution  remained  essentially 
unchanged  from  the  time  of  King  Edgar  to  the  time  of  Queen 
Victoria,  it  possesses  a  historical  interest  which  is  absolutely 
unique.  Besides^  the  half-restored  ruins  of  the  noble  palace  of 
the  Archbishop  of  York,  with  its  memories  of  Wolsey  (and 
other  archbishops,  in  their  time  as  great  as  he),  almost  touching 

b 


us  in  r/uo. 


X  INTRODUCTION. 

the  south  side  of  the  Minster ;  and  on  the  west,  ahnost  opposite  the 
gates  of  the  Minster  yard,  the  ancient  Saracen's  Head  Inn,  liardly 
altered  since  Charles  I.  dined  or  slept  there  the  night  before  his  sur- 
render to  the  Scotch  at  Newark,  should  be  alone  enough  to  make  the 
l)lace  famous.  Yet  in  fact  Southwell,  if  its  name  is  known  at  all, 
is  known  chiefly  for  the  quite  modern  interest  attached  to  it  as 
the  newly-constituted  cathedral  of  the  newlj'-constituted  see  ot 
Nottinghamshire  and  Derbyshire,  whose  first  bishop.  Dr.  Ridding, 
is  likely  to  leave  his  mark  there  for  the  same  highmindedness, 
breadth  of  view,  and  generosity  as  he  has  at  Winchester  as  head 
master. 
Import  of  the  Sontli-  The  present  writer  must  confess  that  only  so  was  it  known 
rtgis  ci  .  ^^   him,  until   he  had   the   good   fortune   to   be   deputed   by  the 

Charity  Commissioners,  at  the  end  of  1886,  to  inquire  into  the  case 
of  Southwell  Collegiate  Grammar  School.  In  this  inquiry  it  became 
of  practical  importance  to  ascertain  exactly  the  position  which  the 
school  held  in  regard  to  the  collegiate  churcli.  Finding  but  little  said 
of  it  in  print,  research  into  the  ancient  MS.  records  of  the  church 
became  necessary.  In  this  search  the  unique  position  occupied  by 
the  Minster,  the  antiquity  of  the  school,  and  the  extreme  interest 
of  the  two  pre-Reformation  registers  of  the  church,  Avhich  are  still 
preserved,  at  once  arrested  attention.  Interest  in  the  question 
as  to  what,  in  point  of  life  and  morals,  was  the  real  state  of  the 
ecclesiastical  institutions  of  the  country  at  the  Reformation 
lias  been  strikingly  revived  by  Father  Gasquet's  brilliant  book 
on  Henry  VIII.  and  the  Monasteries,  and  by  Canon  Dixon's 
racy  History  of  the  Church  of  England.  As  bearing  on  this 
question,  the  later  of  the  two  registers,  extending  as  it  does  from 
the  year  14G9  to  the  year  1547,  and  containing  a  very  full  record 
of  the  inner  life  of  the  place  during  those  critical  years,  is  of  great 
importance.  The  records  of  the  triennial  visitations  of  the  church, 
held  with  fair  regularity  during  the  greater  part  of  this  period, 
supi)ly  most  valuable  evidence  on  the  main  thesis  of  Father  Gasquet, 
tli;it  the  alienations  brought  bv  Ilenrv  \'II1.  and  his  Conunissioners 


INTRODUCTION".  XI 

of  Inqiiiiy  against  tlie  monasteries  and  other  ecclesiastical  establish- 
ments -were  false  and  scandalous.  Owing  to  the  multiplicity  of 
legal  and  other  questions  arising  in  the  case  of  the  Southwell 
Grammar  School  itself,  and  the  onerous  requirements  of  official 
business  of  a  kind  which  demands  not  only  one's  whole  time  but 
more  than  one's  whole  brains,  so  that  only  scraps  of  time  snatched 
from  vacation  and  "  early  morn  and  dev\y  eve/'  or  rather 
night,  are  available,  the  execution  of  this  design  has  been  long 
delayed.  In  consequence,  the  appearance  in  1888  of  Dr.  Jessop])'s 
book  on  the  Visitations  of  the  Diocese  of  Norwich  1492-1532, 
has  to  some  extent  anticipated  tliis  book.  But  there  are  these 
very  important  differences  between  the  two.  First,  the  Norwich 
Visitations  are  mainly  of  monastic  establishments,  those  of  the 
very  few  collegiate  churches  in  that  diocese  being  somewhat 
superficial,  wdiile  the  Visitations  now  recorded  are  entirely  of  one 
of  those  collegiate  churches  which  most  of  the  leaders  of  the 
Reformation,  except  Cranmer,  were  desirous  of  leaving  wholly 
untouched.  Second,  and  more  important,  while  the  ISTorwich 
Visitations  are  those  of  an  outside  authority  to  whom  nothing 
would  be  personally  known,  and  to  whom  as  little  as  possible 
doubtless  was  communicated,  these  Southwell  Visitations  are  the 
records  of  a  domestic  forum,  in  which  the  facts  were  almost  as 
well  known  to  the  visitors  personally  as  they  were  to  the  persons 
visited;  tlie  judges  being  personally,  if  not  judicially,  cognisant  of 
the  characters  and  conduct  of  those  on  their  trial. 

The  interest  of  this  register  is  not  confined  solely  to  the  question 
of  the  conduct  of  the  inmates  of  Southwell  Minster,  it  is  equally 
interesting  also  for  the  picture  it  gives  of  the  whole  manner  of 
life  and  working  of  a  collegiate  church. 

It  is  remarkable. how  little  was  until  very  lately  known  of,  and  Collegiate  charches 

.  "^        .    "^    ,  n  ^        oi  secular  canons  m 

ho-sv  little  study  was  given  to,  the  collegiate  churches  ot  secular  general. 

canons,  even  to  those  which  were  cathedrals,  compared  with  the 
great  amount  of  research  that  has  been  devoted  to  the  con- 
ventual   establishments.       Indeed,    the    former    have    often    been 


xil  INTRODUCTION. 

confouiulcd  witli  tlio  liittcr  by  professed  autliorities  on  ecclesi- 
astical Iiisloiv,  and  the  canons  of  Beverley  or  Southwell  talked 
of  as  monks  or  friars,  or  identified  with  the  Augustinian  canons ; 
which  is  very  much  as  if  an  Oxford  coUof^c  were  confounded  with 
a  Jesuit  seminary  or  Salvation  Army  barracks.  Even  tlie  Dean 
and  Chapter  of  Kipon  informed  the  Cathedral  Commissioners  of 
18/54  that  their  predecessors  in  pre-Reformation  times  were 
Augustinian  canons,  a  statement  which  was  enough  to  make 
their  predecessors  turn  in  their  graves.  Yet  the  collegiate 
churches  of  secular  canons,  (or  prebendaries  as  they  were  after- 
wards called  by  way  of  contradistinction  from  the  canons  regular) 
were  probably  the  most  ancient,  certainly  in  historical  times  the 
most  important,  of  the  ecclesiastical  institutions  of  the  country, 
when  the  most  important  institutions  of  the  country  were  eccle- 
siastical. The  most  splendid  of  our  churches — old  St.  Paul's,  York 
Minster  and  its  three  sister  churches  (Southwell,  Beverley,  Ripon), 
Lincoln,  Salisbury,  Wells,  Windsor ;  and,  amongst  lesser  lights, 
Howden  in  Yorkshire,  St.  Mary's,  Stafford,  St.  Mary's,  Leicester, 
^.  St.  Mary's,  Warwick,  Wolverhampton,  Manchester,  Higliam  Ferrers 
— were  collegiate  churches  of  secular  priests,  not  abbey's  or  priories  or 
houses  of  monks  or  regular  canons,  still  less  friaries.  And  as  they 
were  some  of  the  most  ancient,  so  at  the  time  of  the  Reformation 
were  those  collegiate  churches  or  colleges  some  of  the  most  modern 
and  flourishing  of  ecclesiastical  foundations.  It  is  true  that  during 
the  whole  period  of  pre-Reformation  history  new  collegiate  churches 
were  continually  being  created.  But  the  fashion  prevailed  strongly 
for  monastic  foundations — from  the  Conquest  to  the  reign  of  Henry 
L,  in  favour  of  Benedictine  monasteries  ;  from  the  time  of  Henry  I. 
to  that  of  Henry  III.,  in  favour  of  regular  canons,  Augustinians, 
Pra:>monstratensians,  Gilbertines;  and  afterwards  in  favour  of 
friiiries ;  besides  occasional  outbreaks  in  favour  of  such  excej)tional 
reformed  orders  as  Cistercians,  (Wthusian.s,  and  the  like.  In  the 
time  of  Edward  III.,  however,  a  new  impetus  was  given  to  the  foun- 
dation of  establishments  for  secular  priests.     From  1350  onward 


INTRODUCTION.  XIU 

hardly  a  single  monastery  or  friary  was  established.  A  reaction 
set  in.  Collegiate  churches  or  colleges  became  again  the  fashion- 
able foundations,  as  they  had  been  before  Dunstan  and  Lanfrane, 
or  new  additions  were  made  to  the  collegiate  establishments  by 
the  institution  of  chauntry  priests.  From  the  great  institutions 
of  Windsor  with  its  canons  and  poor  knights,  Winchester  and 
Eton  with  their  fellows  and  poor  boys,  the  Newark,  Leicester, 
with  its  100  poor  men  and  women,  to  the  small  collegiate  chapels 
in  the  castles  of  Pontefract  or  Nottingham,  innumerable  collegiate 
institutions  of  all  sorts  and  sizes  arose.  Nor  was  there  any  difference 
between  these  more  modern  foundations  and  the  ancient  collegiate 
churches  of  secular  canons,  except  sometimes  in  name,  the  term  pre- 
bendaries, fellows,  chaplains,  clerks,  or  simply  secular  priests,  being 
used  instead  of  canons,  which  term  had  been  usurped  in  common 
parlance  by  the  Augustinian  canons  and  their  offshoots.  Only,  as 
the  Reformation  approached,  more  and  more  of  an  eleemosynary  or 
educational,  and  less  of  a  purely  ecclesiastical  character,  was  given 
to  them.  While  the  early  prebendaries  were  only  expected  to 
teach  and  preach  and  give  alms  at  discretion,  poor  knights,  or 
poor  men,  or  poor  boys  were  in  the  later  colleges  made  part  of 
the  foundation ;  and  the  prebendaries  or  fellows,  as  at  Archbishop 
liotherham's  college  of  Jesus  at  Rotherham,  in  Yorkshire,  Arch- 
bishop Chicheley's  at  Higham  Ferrers,  in  Northamptonshire, 
were  to  be  masters  in  grammar,  in  song,  or  theology,  even  in 
reading,  writing,  and  arithmetic,  instead  of  mere  priests.  Besides, 
these  collegiate  churches  being  always  parish  churches  as  well, 
were  far  more  living  institutions  and  more  intimately  connected 
with  the  life  of  the  country  than  the  monasteries.  It  was  from  the 
ranks  of  the  secular  canons,  not  of  the  regulars,  that  the  great 
ecclesiastical  statesmen,  the  Beckets,  the  Grossetestes,  the  Wyke- 
hams,  the  Wolseys  rose.  They  furnished  the  lawyers  and  judges, 
the  civil  service,  and  the  diplomatic  service  of  the  day.  If  they 
did  not  furnish  so  many  writers  of  history  as  the  monasteries,  they 
supplied  what  is  more  important  perhaps— the  makers  of  it.     Nor 


XIV  INTRODUCTION. 

were  their  services  to  learning  any  way  inferior  to  that  of  tho 
monks  and  friars.  Tliey  did  not  produce  so  many  ilhuninated 
service  hooks.  But  the  collegiate  churches  were  tho  direct  parents 
and  models  of  tho  universities,  and  more  especially  of  the  colleges 
therein  ;  they  wei'c  the  direct  keepers  and  founders  of  a  verv  largo 
number  of  the  ancient  grammar  schools  of  the  country  now  exist- 
ing, as  well  as  of  an  immense  number  swept  away ;  and,  indirectly, 
through  Winchester  and  Eton  they  were  the  ])arents  of  our  great 
public  schools.  Through  the  chauntries,  which,  in  fact,  made  so 
many  parish  churches  into  small  colleges,  they  were  also  indirectly 
the  nursing  mothers  of  by  far  the  largest  proportion  of  the  existing 
grammars  schools  of  the  country.  Indeed,  wherever  a  grammar 
school  exists,  which  can  trace  its  existence  as  far  back  as  1625,  wo 
may  be  pretty  sure  that  it  is  descended,  directly  or  indirectly,  trom 
a  preReformation  school  kept  by  a  collegiate  church,  or  a  chauntry 
priest,  on  the  same  spot. 

Of  the  more  than  200  collegiate  churches  existing  at  the  Refor- 
mation, from  the  magnificent  York  Minster  with  its  36  canons, 
and  Windsor  with  its  £1,600  a  year  (equal  to  £20,000  or  £30,000 
of  our  money),  down  to  the  small  college  of  Astley,  Warwickshire, 
with  its  dean  and  two  canons  and  three  vicars  choral  on  £39  10s.  Gd. 
a  year,  nearly  all — Avhich  were  not  cathedrals — were  swept  into 
the  pockets  of  Henry  YIII.  and  Edward  VI.  and  their  courtiers. 
Not  even  the  royal  cliapel  of  St.  Stephen's,  Westminster,  in  the 
precinct  of  the  royal  palace,  founded  by  Edward  III.  on  the  same 
day  as  Windsor ;  not  even  the  gorgeous  Newark  at  Leicester,  tho 
special  creation  and  Campo  Santo  of  the  Dukes  of  Lancaster,  through 
whom  the  Tudors  claimed  the  throne,  were  spareil.  The  very 
fabrics  were  in  most  cases  utterly  destroyed.  Even  the  educational 
foundations,  sucii  as  Rotherham,  shared  the  same  fate,  while 
Eton  and  Winchester  and  the  colleges  of  the  universities  were  on 
tlie  brink  of  destruction.  Some,  like  Beverley,  Ripon,  and  Stafford, 
were  i)urchased  by  tho  inhabitants  and  made  parish  clmivhos. 
A    bare    half-dozen,    like   Windsor,   Manchester,   Wolverhampton, 


INTRODUCTION.  XV 

Middleliam,    Southwell   itself,  were  spared.     Of  these,  the  most 

famous,  the  most  ancient,  and  one  of  the  largest  and  richest  was 

Southwell  Minster.    Almost  a  cathedral  before  Lincoln  or  Salisbury 

Cathedrals  existed,  a  college  of  secular  canons  before  Windsor  or 

Manchester  were  thought  of,  and  in  point  of  fabric,  amongst  the 

most  ancient  and  the  most  beautiful  of  all  the  collegiate  churches 

which  were  not  cathedrals,  the  Collegiate  Church  of  the  Blessed 

Mary  the  Virgin  of  Southwell  has  a  unique  and  manifold  interest. 

The   fabric  of  Southwell   Minster  is  a  splendid  one.     Its  total  Southwell  Minster- 

^  /^     1      1     1     ^'''^  architecture, 

length  is  307  feet,  about  20  feet  only  less  than  Lichfield  Cathedral, 

Except  for  traces  of  Saxon  architecture  in  its  north  transept, 
the  present  building  does  not  probably  date  back  further  than  the  Normau  nave. 
early  part  of  the  reign  of  Henry  1.  The  Norman  nave  is  on  the 
very  model  of  Chichester,  even  down  to  such  details  as  the  exist- 
ence of  nodes  and  notches  in  the  arches  of  the  triforium,  apparently 
intended  for  smaller  interlacing  arches  which  have  been  broken  or 
removed.  Chichester  could  not  have  been  begun  till  after  1075, 
when  the  see  was  transferred  from  Selsey  to  Chichester.  In  the 
oldest  register  of  Southwell,  called,  as  at  York  Minster,  the  Liber 
Albus,  is  a  copy  of  a  letter  of  Archbishop  Thomas^  addressed  ''  to  all 
his  parishioners  "  (i.e.  people  in  his  diocese)  "of  Nottinghamshire." 
"  We  pray  you,  dearest  sons,  that  in  remission  of  your  sins,  ye 
will  give  help  from  the  blessings  of  your  alms  to  build  the  church 
(ad  faciendam  ecclesiam)  of  S.  Mary  of  Suwell.  And  whosoever 
there,  even  in  the  least  degree  gives  assistance,  shall  be  to  the 
end  of  this  age  a  partaker  of  all  the  prayers  and  blessings  (bene- 
ficiorum)  which  shall  be  done  in  it,  and  *in  all  our  churches:  And 
that  ye  may  the  more  willingly  do  this  We  release  to  you  that  ye 
need  not  visit  every  year  the  church  of  York,  as  all  our  other 
Parishioners  do,  but  the  Church  of  S.  Mary  of  Suwell,  and  have 
there  the  same  pardon  that  ye  have  at  York."  This  release  from 
attendance  at  York  at  the  Whitsuntide  procession  fixes  the  date 
to  Archbishop  Thomas  I.  or  11.  For  this  jDrivilege,  which,  in 
effect,  made  Southwell,  if  not  so  before,  the  cathedral  of  Netting- 


XVI  INTRODUCTION. 

liamsliirc,  was  enfurecd  by  Papal  Bull  in  1171  by  Pope  Alexander 
III.  addressed  to  the  canons  :  "  Moreover  as  lias  been  granted 
to  you  by  the  same  Arclibislioj)  (viz.  of  York)  and  for  a  long  time 
observed,  -we  enact  (statuinuis)  that  as  well  clerks  as  laymen  of  the 
county  of  Nottinghamshire  shall  go  at  Pentecost  in  solemn  pro- 
cession to  your  church,  and  that  every  year  according  to  ancient 
and  reasonable  custom  of  the  same  church  a  synod  shall  be  held ; 
and  there  the  chrism  shall  be  brought  by  the  Deans  of  that 
county  from  the  church  at  York,  and  thence  distributed  through 
the  other  churches."  The  only  question  is  whether  it  was 
Thomas  I.  of  Ba3'eux,  the  first  Norman  Archbishop,  1075-1100, 
or  Thomas  II.  of  Beverley,  his  nephew,  1108-1114,  who  wrote 
the  letter.  According  to  the  Rev.  J.  L.  Petit  (Archaeol.  Jour. 
1848,  p.  197),  confirmed  by  Mr.  Ewan  Christian,  the  style  is 
nearer  the  later  date  than  the  earlier ;  and  it  is  thought  that 
the  energies  of  the  first  Thomas  were  given  to  the  building  of 
York,  while  the  second  Thomas,  his  successor,  devoted  himself  to 
Southwell. 

Early  Kn<''i:,b  dioir.  "^^^^  ^^^^^  ^^  ^^^®  beautiful  Early-English  choir  is  even  more 
definitely  fixed  by  an  Indulgence  gi'anted  by  Archbishoj)  Walter 
Grey  in  1235  for  contributions  to  the  Fabric  of  Southwell,  printed 
in  Canon  Eaine's  edition  of  Grey's  Register. 

Decorated  chapter-  The  building  of  the  Decorated  chapter-house  is  similarly  deter- 

mined by  a  statute  of  Archbishop  John  le  Romaine  in  1293, 
addressed  to  the  Chapter  of  Southwell,  directing  that  "  the  houses 
of  alien  Canons  threatening  ruin  shall  be  duly  repaired  within  a 
year,  to  which  repair  we  will  and  command  (hat  they  are  to  be 
compelled  by  you,  under  heavy  penalty  to  be  assessed  by  you, 
the  chapter,  according  to  the  defects  ;  which  (|)enalty)  is  to  bo 
apjilied  to  the  fabric  of  the  new  chapter-house. "  It  is  satisfactory 
thus  exactly  to  fix  the  date  "^  of  so  exquisite  a  work,  which  brings 

•  Mr.  DiiiKJck,  a  late  vicar-choral  of  Southwell,  lo  whoso  research  the  dates  of  the 
architecture  of  the  church  above  given  arc  due,  has  carefully  collected  from  the 
White  Book  all  the  datiiigs  of  documents  "  in  capitnlo  "  or  "  in  domo  nostra  capitu- 


INTRODUCTION-.  XVll  '. 

it  to  practically  the  same  period  as  the  Angel  Choir  in  Lincoln  ; 

Cathedral.     The  chapter-house  is  on  the  plan  and  model  of  that 

at  York^  but  smaller  and  far  more  beautiful.     Like  that  of  York,  it 

stands  on  the  north  side  of  the  church,  and  is  approached  by  a  long  j 

straight  passage  leading,  on  the  right,  to  the  octagonal  chapter-house.  ! 

This  has  no  central  pillar.    Nothing  can  surpass  the  elegance  of  the 

windows,  or  the  rich  yet  chaste  beauty  of  the  carvings  of  the 

capitals  of  the  columns  of  the  stalls,  and  the  arcadings  on  the  walls,  i 

and  elsewhere,  in  imitation  of  natural  foliage.      But  the  crowning  i 

glory  is  the  entrance  arch  through  which  the  chapter-house  itself  is  , 

seen  and  approached.     It  is  simply  lovely.     Nothing  can  hope  to 

rival  the  splendid  symmetry  of  its  proportions  and  the  exquisite  i 

lightness  and  grace  of  its  poise.      In  general  effect,  the   Sainte  'i 

Chapelle  at  Paris,  the  Angel  Choir  at  Lincoln,  fall  into  a  second 

rank  compared  with  this  Southwell  chapter-house.    Rosslyn  Chapel 

is  almost  barbarous,  the  Percy  tomb  at  Beverley  seems  too  florid,  i 

compared  with  the  serene  self-restraint  and  yet  luxuriant  beauty 

of  this  perfect  work  of  art.       In    design    and    execution    alike, 

in  its  general  proportions  and  its  minutest  detail,  it  is  impossible  i 

to  conceive  anything  more  beautiful.     It  is  the  most  perfect  work 

of  the  most  perfect  style  of  Grothic  architecture. 

Though  the  dates  of  the  present  fabric  of  Southwell  Minster  are  Origin  of  the  ; 

thus  exactly  ascertainable,  the  date   and   origin  of  the  original  -"^i^^*^^'-  j 

Minster  and  its  inhabitants  are  "lost  in  the  mists  of  antiquity."  [ 


lari"  of  Southwell.    From  his  list  it  appears  that  the  earliest  document  dated  "in  '  ' 

capitulo  ''  (one  of  the  earliest  in  the  book)  is  in  12GG.    There  is  however  one  so  dated  | 

in  12(J0.     The  next  so  dated  is  not  till  1291,  from  Mhich  time  till  1352  frequent  i 

examjjles  i-emain.    From  thence  onwards  the  usual  dating  was  "  in  domo  nostra  i 

capitulari."    Is  it  not  a  legitimate  inference  that  the  old  chapter-house  was  burnt  . 

or  otherwise  destroyed  or  pulled  down  in  or  shortly  after  126G,  and  that  the  new  < 

chapter-house  was  finished  in  1291?    As  some  of  the  later  documents  dated  "in  ■ 

capitulo"   (which  undoubtedly  means  "chapter-house"  as  well   as  "chapter")   are  | 

contemporaneous  with  the  earlier  documents  dated  "  in  domo  capitulari,"  it  would  j 

not  appear  that  the  change  into  the  later  formula  from  the  earlier  shows  any  change  I 

of  house.  ' 


Xviii  INTRODUCTION. 

Of  course  it  1ms  been  asserted  that  it  'svas  founded  by  Paubnus, 
the  first  Bisliop  of  York,  or  Apostle  of  Northumbria,  in  or  about  625. 
No  better  authority  is,  however,  i)roduced  than  a  statement  of  Bede's 
that  Paulinus  preaclied  and  baptized  on  the  Trent,  "  juxta  Tiovul- 
fingeeeaster,"  -which  straightway  has  been  identified  with  Southwell, 
without  the  smallest  evidence  of  identity  either  topographical  or 
etymological.^  Indeed,  such  evidence  as  there  is,  is  all  against 
identity.  Southwell  is  not  on  the  Trent,  but  on  the  Greet,  u  tiny 
trout  stream  which  falls  into  the  Trent  three  or  four  miles  from 
Southwell,  and  which  would  hardly  suffice  for  the  baptism  of  a 
cliild  of  five  years  old,  as  baptism  was  then  understood,  viz.,  by 
total  immersion,  still  less  for  the  stalwart  Saxon  savage.  Nor  is 
it  an  open  stream  where  the  heathen  would  assemble  in  their 
thousands  to  hear  and  be  dipped.  Moreover,  Southwell,  as  a 
name,  bears  antiquity,  and  its  origin  in  a  holy  well,  on  the  face  of 
it.  According  to  Dickinson's  History  of  Southwell,  a  well  or 
spring  called  Lady's  Well,  "  in  the  church  yard,  immediately 
under  the  walls  of  the  choir,  on  the  north  side,  near  the  chaj)ter- 
house,"  was  only  covered  over  in  1764,  owing  to  some  one 
tumbling  into  it  and  being  drowned.  Another  well  "  was  situated 
in  the  inclosure  on  the  right  of  the  doyster  loading  to  the  chapter- 
house. Rising  within  the  precincts  of  the  church  it  obtained  the 
name  of  Holy  Well.  This  has  long  been  covered  up  or  filled  over." 
What  is  there  in  this  to  identify  Southwell  with  Tiovulfingeceaster? 
More  probable  is  the  origin  claimed  for  the  college,  by  the  canons 
residentiary,  to  Henry  VIII.'s  Commissioners  of  Chauntries  and 
Colleges  in  1546   (Record  Office,  Certificates  of  Chauntries,  No. 

»  The  latest  attempt  in  this  direction  is  to  say  that  "  Tiovul  "  was  dropped  and 
"  Fiiigeceastcr"  corrupted  into  "Finster"  or  "Fister,"  "ton"  \yas  then  tacked  on 
and  so  Fiskerton,  a  village  on  the  Trent  near  Southwell,  is  arrived  at.  This  is 
almost  as  bud  as  Dickinson's  etymology  "of  Saxon  Ticlo,  industry,  Honian  vulgus, 
multitude,  Saxon  Feiigan  (whence  finger),  to  lay  hands  on,  and  Jioniun  Castrum, 
l.r.  the  place  where  much  industry  was  employed  in  laying  hands  on  the  mul- 
ttudo"!  Besides,  Fiskerton  belonged  to  Thurgarton  I'riory,  not  to  Southwi'll 
Minster.  And,  if  the  derivation  were  correct,  after  all,  Fiskerton,  a  village  three 
mill  s  off,  is  not  Southwell.  Fiskerton  is  far  more  probably  the  town,  as  Fiskargatc, 
now  Fibhergate,  at  York,  was  the  street  of  fishermen. 


INTEODUCTION.  XIX 

13),  that  it  was  "  of  aimcieiit  tyme  foimdecl  by  the  righte  fomous 
of  memoiye  Edgare,  the  King's  majestie's  most  noble  progenitour:" 
a  claim,  as  to  which  the  commissioners  (Sir  John  jMarklnim^  WiUiani 
Cowpei',  Nicholas  Powtrell,  and  John  Wyseman)  are  careful 
to  add,  "  withoute  any  foundation  in  writinge  showed  to  the 
Commyssioners. " 

In  regard  to  the  prebend  of  Oxton,  held  by  the  then  senior 
canon  residentiary,  it  is  stated  that  it  Avas  ''  founded  by  Zebbe  et 
Edgare,  the  King's  most  noble  progenitors,"  "as  by  the  certificate 
of  John  Fitzherbert^  prebendarie  of  the  same,  doth  appere, 
withoute  any  farther  writinge  shewed  to  the  Commyssioners." 
Who  Zebbe  may  be  I  am  unable  to  discover.  An  almost  fatal 
.objection  to  attributing  the  foundation  to  King  Edgar  is  that  he 
was  entirely  under  the  influence  of  Dunstan,  who  sanctioned,  if  he 
did  not  order,  the  secular  canons  from  Winchester  Cathedral,  and 
from  all  other  places  that  he  could,  to  -replace  them  by  Benedictine 
monks ;  while  Edgar  was  credited  with  the  foundation  of  forty 
monasteries  himself.  It  is  extremely  improbable,  therefore,  that 
he  would  have  newly  founded  a  college  of  secular  canons. 
The    earliest  alleged  document  relating  to    Southwell  is  a   m-ant 

o  o  o 

of  King  Eadwy,^'  in  958,  to  Bishop,  i.e.  Archbishop  Oscytel, 
"  cuidam  desiderabili  meo  Oscytello,  Episcopo,"  witnessed  by 
Odo,  Archbishop  of  C!anterbury,  "  Edgar,  the  King's  brother," 
&c.,  of  "  partem  telluris  meie,  ubi  dicitur  ad  Suwellam,  xx 
mansas."  This  is  printed  in  Dugdale,  from  the  Magnus  Liber 
Albus  of  York,  and  is  No.  472  in  Kemble's  Codex.  Eadwy 
may  be  the  Zebbe  of  Master  John  Fitzherbert.  But  it  is 
difficult  to  see  how  this  grant  can  be  genuine.  In  958  both 
Northumbria  and  Mercia  were  in  revolt  from  Eadwy,  under 
Edgar,  and  he  neither  had  the  land  to  give,  nor  was  he  likely  to 
give  to  the  archbishop  of  his  enemies.  Oscytel,  too,  was  an  in- 
timate friend  of  Dunstan,  and  of  his  own  successor,  Oswald  of 
Worcester,  a  friend  of  monks  and  enemy  of  the  secular  canons.  A 
farther  argument  that  Edgar,  who  the  same  year  succeeded  Eadwy 
*  So  spelt  in  the  document  itself. 


XX  INTRODUCTION. 

and  was  already  a  rival  king  or  under-king,  woukl  not  have 
^vitncsscd  Eadwy's  deed,  breaks  down,  if  the  new  edition  of  this 
o-rant  in  Mr.  De  Gray  Bircli's  Cartiilarium  Sa.vojiicum  (vol.  iii.  p. 
230),  from  a  coHation  by  Canon  Raine,  is  correct.  For  the  new 
readinr--  is  "  Eagelr'  frater  regis,"  instead  of  Edgar."  The  date  too 
is  wrong.  The  yenr  of  Indiction  is  given  as  the  14tli,  whereas 
058  was  the  1st.  Again,  in  the  witness-clause  Eadwy  is  called 
simply  ''  Eadwi  re.\  "  whereas  in  other  grants  he  is  "  rex  Anglorum  " 
or  "  Basileus  totius  Britannia^ '",  or  with  some  description  of  the  people 
over  whom  ho  reigns.  It  is  a  further  element  of  suspicion  that 
tlie  same  year  there  is  u  grant  from  King  Edgar  to  Oscytel  of 
lands  at  Sutton  and  Scroby,  also  in  Notts.  It  is  hardly  probable 
that  Oscytel  should  have  been  "  in  "  with  both  parties,  and  got  a 
grant  from  two  successive  occupants  of  the  throne  in  the  same 
year.  The  list  of  witnesses  in  the  two  documents,  both  Bishops 
and  Thanes,  is  almost  wholly  different.  Both  documents  can  hardly 
be  genuine,  and  the  Sutton  grant  has  all  the  notes  of  genuineness. 

The  foundation  of  Southwell  must  be  attributed  probably  to  a 
date  when  the  Xorthumbrian  power  was  supreme  south  of  the 
Humber,  and  Nottinghamshire  and  Lincolnshire  were  subject  to 
it.  Seeing  that  the  canons  of  York  were,  according  to  Canon 
Raine,  called  Colidei,  or  Culdees,  as  late  as  the  reign  of  Henry  I., 
seeing  the  intimate  connection  always  existing  between  Southwell 
and  York,  and  that  the  neighbouring  cathedral  of  Lichfield  was 
also  of  Culdee  origin,  under  Chad,  and  that  no  one  has  ever 
suggested  (as  it  has  been  alleged  by  monkish  writers,  with  but 
scant  evidence,  was  the  case  at  Beverley  and  Ripon)  that  South- 
well was  ever  monastic,  it  is  probable  that  a  far  earlier  date  than 
the  middle  of  the  tenth  century  saw  its  first  foundation.  But  to 
attempt  to  assign  any  more  approximate  date  is  hopeless,  and  must 
be  mere  guesswork. 

All  that  is  certain  is  that  a  great  church  or  minster  existed  here 

"  Canon  Kaine  kindly  allowed  mc  to  sec  the  original  coi)T  in  the  White  Book. 
Un(loiil)tedly  it  is  Kayclr'.  It  is  suspicious  that  in  this  book  the  grant  of  Eadwy  is 
placccl  after  the  grant  from  Kdgar. 


INTRODUCTION.  XXI 

before  tlie  Conquest,  inhabited  ah  initio  by  secular  canons,  while  at,  Date  of  establish- 

or  probably  before,  the  Conquest  its  constitution  had  so  far  de-  ™"^  °  picjcn  b. 

veloped  that  those  canons  were  already  prebendaries.  This  appears 

from  Domesday  Book.     ^^  Siwdngahamscire.     Terra  Archiepiscoin ; 

Torgartone^    Wapentac.     In    Sudvvella    and    its    Berewicks,  .  .   . 

three  clerks  have  4  carucates  of  land  and  a  half;  ...  of  it  two 

oxgangs  are  in  prebend.     In  Nordmuscham  1   carucate  and  a  half 

subject  to  taxation  (ad  geldam).     Bingeliam  liou    Wapentac.     In 

CrophilP  and  Hegelinge^'  S.  IMary  of  Sudwell  has  2^  carucates. 

There  the  canons  have  in  demesne  2  carucates,  and  5  sochmen,  and 

12  villeins,  and  4  bordars,  having  G  carucates,  and  2  oxgangs  and 

20  acres  of  meadow,  ...     In  Nortwelle  S.  Mary  of  Sudwell  has 

12  oxgangs  of  land." 

The  unequivocal  evidence  thus  offered  by  Domesday,  that  the 
canons  were  already  prebendaries,  is  confirmed  by  one  of  the  earliest 
historians  of  York^  Hugh  the  Chaunter,  or  precentor,  who  was  a 
canon  of  York  by  1130,  and,  having  access  to  the  records,  may  be 
taken  to  be  an  unimpeachable  authority.  He  says  that  Archbishop 
Aldred,  the  last  English  archbishop,  1061-1075,  "bought  many 
lands  out  of  his  own  property  and  added  them  to  his  churches, 
and  from  some  of  these  he  made  prebends  at  Suthwella.  He  also 
established  refectories,  where  the  canons  could  eat  together,  one  at 
York,  one  at  Southwell."  He  also  says  that  Archbishop  Kinsius, 
or  Kinsige,  1051-61,  gave  bells  to  Southwell  Minster  (Hist, 
of  Church  of  York,  ii.  p.  353,  ed.  Canon  Raine,  Rolls  Series).  As 
the  canons  of  York  itself,  he  tells  us  in  another  place,  did  not 
acquire  separate  prebends  till  the  time  of  Thomas  L,  who  became 
archbishop  in  1075,  and  found  his  cathedral  deserted  by  all  but  three 
canons,  and  its  lands  wasted  (by  the  Conqueror),  there  can  be  no 
question  that  this  shows  a  very  high  antiquity  and  dignity  in 
Southwell  Minster.  At  Chichester  Cathedral  the  canons  are 
expressly  said  to  hold  their  lands  in  common  {communiter),  and 
not  as  separate  prebends.     At  Exeter,  the  separate  prebends  were 

"  Thurgarton. 

*>  Crop-W'cll  (Bishop)  and  Hickling. 


XXll  INTRODUCTION. 

not  established  till  late  in  the  twelfth  oentury,  as  at  the  Conquest  it 
was  under  the  rule  of  Chrodegang.  Neither  at  Lichfield  nor  at 
Wells  do  the  canons  seem  to  have  had  prebends.  It  is  commonly 
said  that  only  "  at  St.  Paul's,  and,  perhaps,  at  Harold's  foundation  of 
Waltham  Abbey,  separate  prebends  -were  established,  as  at  South- 
well, before  the  Conquest.  At  the  sister  church  of  Beverley 
Minster,  the  canons  hardly  attained  in  full  to  the  position  of  pre- 
bendaries, or  owners  of  separate  estates,  but  to  the  last  received 
stipends  out  of  the  common  estates  managed  by  the  provost— an 
exceptional  arrangement,  exceptionally  marked  by  their  being 
called,  not,  as  in  most  collegiate  churches,  from  the  names  of 
places  where  the  estates  lay,  but  by  the  names  of  various  saints 
to  whom  altars  in  the  Minster  were  dedicated;— an  arrangement 
of  which  there  are  early  traces  at  Eipon. 

What  the  ])rccise  number,  position,  or  mode  of  life  of  the  secular 
canons  at  Southwell  was,  at  the  time  of  Domesday,  cannot  with 
certainty  be  determined.  According  to  the  certificate  of  Henry 
VIII. 's  Chauntry  Commissioners,  "  the  collegiate  church  comenly 
called  Southwell  Mynstre  "— (the  only  document  by  the  way  in  which 
I  have  seen  the  word  minster  used)— is  "  reputed  and  taken  for  the 
lied  mother  church  of  the  towne  and  countic  of  Nottingham,  Avherein 
is  sedes  archiepiscopalis  and  so  allowed  by  the  King's  ]\Iajestie's 
grace  in  yers  past,  by  an  Act  of  Parliament,"  &c.  And  this  no 
doubt  gives  the  true  raison  d'etre  of  this  establishment.     It  was  the 

"  This  however  is,  I  think,  open  to  douLt.  As  far  as  Domesday  is  concerned 
there  is  no  evidence  that  the  canons  of  Waltliani  had  separate  prebends  ;  though 
in  the  Invcntio  Critcis  it  is  absolutely  stated  that  they  had.  That  being  so,  it  is 
very  i)r»bable  that,  though  not  specifically  appearing,  other  colleges  and  cathedrals 
had  prebends  too.  In  all  probal)ility  the  canons  of  Hereford  had,  since  at  I'reston 
we  find  "  two  canons  "  holding  land.  The  evidence  that  the  canons  of  St.  Paul's, 
Bedford  (afterwards  moved  to  Xewenham  and  ma<le  Augustinian),  had  prel)cnds  is 
of  the  same  kind  as  that  for  St.  Paul's,  London,  viz.,  the  names  of  the  canons  holding 
lands  are  given.  At  Holy  Trinity  Twyncham,  afterwards,  when  made  Augustinian, 
Christ  Church,  Hantp,  there  is  similar  evidence.  At  St.  Mary's,  Stafford,  it  is 
distinctly  stated  that  the  king  has  thirteen  c.inons  with  prebends  (canonicos 
prebcndario.s). 


INTRODUCTION.  XXlll 

cathedral  of  the  Archbishop  of  York  for  the  county  of  Nottingham, 
perhaps  before  Lincohi  was  cut  off  after  the  Conquest,  for  the  whole 
Southumbrian  portion  of  the  diocese  of  York ;  since,  as  has  been  said, 
it  probably  owes  its  foundation  to  Northumbrian  predominance,  and 
the  endeavour  of  some  triumphant  Northumbrian  king  to  consoli- 
date his  Southumbrian  acquisitions  or  possessions  by  giving  his 
archbishop  a  Southumbrian  see.  York  was,  in  effect,  a  diocese 
with  four  cathedrals  (or  matrices  ecclesice,  as  they  are  often 
called  in  Avills),  York;  Ripon  for  the  West  Riding,  Beverley  for  the 
East  Riding,  Southwell  for  Notts.  The  archbishop  had  round  him 
in  Southwell  his  staff  of  priests,  missionai'ies,  and  itinerant  evange- 
lisers  for  Nottingham,  just  as  he  had  at  York  for  Yorkshire.  They 
were  supported,  no  doubt,  at  first  by  the  archbishop,  but  eventually 
a  certain  specified  portion  of  his  lands  was  assigned  to  them  for 
their  common  support.  As  late  as  1106,  we  find  that  at  York  the 
canons'  lands  were  called  "  St.  Peter's  Table  "  (Mensa  S.  Petri),  a 
term  which  points  to  a  time  when  these  lands  were  held  in  common 
to  keep  a  common  table.  At  Southwell  we  have  the  direct  evidence 
of  Hugh  the  Chaunter,  already  quoted,  that  the  canons  had  a 
common  refectory.  Bishop  Stubbs,  in  his  jjreface  to  The  Founda- 
tion of  Waltham  Abbey  (originally  the  collegiate  church  of  the 
Holy  Cross,  a  college  of  secular  canons  founded  by  Harold,  who 
were  dispossessed  in  favour  of  regulav  or  Austin  canons  by  Henry  11. 
in  1177),  says,  "  The  difference  between  a  monastery  of  monks  and 
a  minster  of  secular  priests  or  canons  consisted  in  the  fact  that  the 
former  were  bound  by  laws  of  obedience,  poverty,  and  chastity,  but 
were  not  necessarily  in  holy  orders;  those  of  the  latter  were  ordinary 
clergymen,  bound  by  no  particular  vows^  but  living  together  on 
common  estates,  serving  a  common  church,  and  under  common 
local  statutes." 

The  monk  was  supposed  to  have  sunk  his  own  individuality  in 
that  of  his  convent.  He  lived,  or  was  supposed  to  live,  in  his 
monastery,  and  to  devote  himself  wholly  to  or  for  it,  not  to  the 
general  public  or  the  outside  world.  The  origin  of  the  secular 
canons    is    said    to    be  that   of  missionary  priests,  the    assistants 


XXIV  INTRODUCTION. 

and  advisers  of  the  bishop.  They  were  not  only  attendants 
on  tlio  services  of  tlie  common  church,  which  was  also  a  parisli 
church,  but  also  scr\ed  the  other  churches  around.  Probably  even 
before  they  became  prebendaries  (that  is  separately  endowed  with 
separate  prebends,  provision,  or  estate),  they  were  already,  besides 
being  canons  at  the  mother  church,  sharing  in  the  common  fund 
of  the  church,  also  rectors  or  parish  priests  at  the  churches 
attached  to  the  mother  church.  It  was  as  such  rectors  or 
parish  priests  that  they  received  their  prebends,  taking,  to  their 
own  individual  and  particular  use,  the  profits  of  the  lands  attached 
to  those  parish  churches.  In  the  earliest  documents  fit  South- 
well we  find  proof  that  the  canons  each  had  his  separate  pre- 
bendal  mansion  at  Southwell,  and  also  his  separate  prebendal 
mansion  at  his  prebendal  manor,  or  parsonage. 

Essentially,  the  monk  was  a  person  devoted  to  saving  his  own 
soul  by  severing  himself  from  this  world,  and  devoting  himself  to 
the  world  to  come.  Essentially  the  secular  canon  was  a  person 
devoted  to  saving  the  souls  of  others,  and  endeavouring  to  improve 
this  world.  WJiile  the  monk  became  dead  in  law  on  entering  the 
living  tomb,  his  monastery,  and  had  no  call  to  be  a  priest  at  all,  tlio 
secular  canon  was  bound  to  fill  at  least  two  important  positions, 
that  of  a  landlord  and  that  of  a  priest.  As  a  canon  he  had  "  stall 
in  choir  and  place  in  chapter,"  to  sing  in  the  common  church,  and 
deliberate  on  the  common  affiiirs.  But  as  a  prebendary  he  had 
also  to  manage  his  own  estates,  perform  service  in  his  own 
prebendal  church,  and  do  priest's  duty  in  his  own  prebendal 
parish.  Up  to  sixty  years  after  the  Conquest,  in  England  (and  it 
would  seem  in  Normandy  too,  for  both  the  first  and  the  second 
Thomas  of  York  were  sons  of  priests),  the  canons,  like  other 
secular  clergy,  were  married.  This  was  the  real  grievance  of 
Dunstan,  and  in  after  days  of  Lanfranc,  against  them,  and  this, 
rather  than  the  possession  of  separate  estates,  was  the  reason  they 
were  ejected  from  Winchester  Cathedral  by  Ethclwold,  under  Edgar, 
and  not  permitted  to  be  restored  by  Walkelin,  under  the  Conqueror. 
Marriage  was  an  insuperable  obstacle  to  the  common  dormitory ; 


INTRODUCTION.  XXV 

it  was  also  a  great  obstacle  to   the  common  refectory,  and  to  the 

common  life.     Hence  at  Southwell,  as  at  York,  the  common  refec-  < 

tory  speedily  and  quickly  disappeared.     About  1125  Pope  Hon-  | 

orius  in  a  letter,  preserved  in  the  York  White  Book,  to  Archbishop  ! 

T[hurstanl  says,  "  In  your  churches  "  (which  the  context  shows  to  ; 

mean  the  four  minsters)  "  be  earnest  to  reform  discipline  (religionem  I 

reformare  satage)   and  restore  the  Refectoiy  of  Suthwella  to  the  j 

good  condition  in  which  it  existed  in  times  past."    Traces  of  it  con-  1 

tinned  to  exist  in  the  custom  of  the  residentiaries  entertaining:  the  I 

I 

other  members  of  the  church  at  their  tables  ;  and  it  was  reproduced  j 

in  the  common  halls  of  the  subordinate  bodies  of  vicars  choral  and  ', 

chauntry  priests,  who  in  later  times  really  performed  the  duties  of  the  I 

canons.     By  the  time  that  celibacy  was  enforced  on  the  clergy  the  \ 

constitution  of  the  collegiate  churches  had  become  too  firmly  fixed,  ; 
and  too  secularly  useful,  to  allow  of  the  revival  of  a  strict  monastic 
life.  And  Henry  VIII.  and  Cranmer,  in  effecting  their  conservative 
revolution,  and  restoring  the  right  of  marriage  to  the  canons  of 
Southwell,  and  reetoring  the  married  secular  canons  to  Win- 
chester and  elsewhere,  were  only  "the  whirligigs  of  time  bringing 
about  his  revenges."    They  were  only  giving  effect  to  the  general 

feeling  of   Christendom  as  evinced  in   the  gradual    decay  of  the  ', 

old  strict  monasticism,   and,   by  the  freer  character  of  the  new  \ 
institutions  of  the  Augustinian  canons,  then  of  the  friars,  lastly  of 

the  new  collegiate  churches,  that  monasticism  had  been  tried  and  : 

found  wanting,  or  at  least  had  done  its  work  and  was  out  of  date.  | 
What  was  the    original  number    of  the   canons    at    Southwell    Number  of  original      ' 

must  be  to   a  large  extent  a  matter  of  coiijecture.      Probably  it   ^^^  ^^"'''  i 

was  seven.     That  was  the  original  number  at  York,  at  Beverley,  : 

at  Lichfield,  perhaj)S  at  Ripen.     Further,  Domesday  Book  men-  ' 
tions   estates  of  the  canons  at  Southwell,  Cropphyll  (now  known 

as  Cropwell  Bishop),  and  Northwell  (now  Xorwell).     It  also  has  \ 

the   following  entry  as   to    Udeburg,  now    Woodborough  :     "  In  ^  i 

Udeburg  7  oxgangs  of  land  to  geld.     Land  of  2  carucates.    There,  ' 
Y  a  carucate  in  demesne,  and  2  villains,  and  1  bordar,  having  one 

d 


XXVI  INTRODUCTION. 

carucate.  Belongs  to  Sndincelle.  Tl)ere  liolds  one  clerk  under 
the  Arclibishop  one  bovate  of  land  to  geld."  The  words  "  Ad 
Suduwelles  pertin."  taken  in  conjunction  with  the  statement 
that  one  clerk  under  the  archbishop  holds  a  bovate,  must  surely 
mean  that  it  belonged  to  the  church  of  Southwell,  and  that  the  clerk 
was  a  prebendary.  The  word  clerk  is  often  used  for  canon  in 
Domesday.  Now  on  these  very  estates  we  afterwards  find  seven 
jirebcnds :  one  of  Xormanton,  three  of  Norwell,  two  of  Crojjwell, 
one  of  Woodboi-ough.  There  was  no  prebendary  of  Southwell 
itself,  any  more  than  there  was  of  York  or  Ripon  ;  but  the  viwirage 
of  Southwell  was  in  the  presentation  of  the  i)rebendary  of  Nor- 
manton,  i.e.  Normanton-by-Southwell,  a  hamlet  in  the  ])arish  of 
Southwell  just  across  the  Gi'cet,  and  he  took  the  tithes,  or  the 
greater  part  of  the  tithes,  of  Southwell  parish.  Crophyll,  in 
conjunction  with  Oxton,  afterwards  gave  its  name  to  two  preben- 
daries, commonly  called  Oxton  and  Crophyll,  and  Oxton  second 
part ;  and  Norwell  gave  its  name  io  three  prebendaries,  called 
Norwell  Overhall,  Norwell  ralishall,  and  Norwell  third  part.  In 
Domesday  Norwell  had  a  church  and  priest.  In  later  times  its 
parihli  church  had  two  rectors,  and  two  vicars,  corresponding  with 
two  prebendaries  only,  and  the  third  part  was  very  much  ])oorer 
than  the  other  two  prebends,  from  which  it  is  perhaps  to  be  in- 
ferred that  the  third  ])art  was  a  later  creation  and  not  one  of  the 
original  seven.     Woodborough  always  supported  one  prebendary. 

Other  prebends,  of  the  foundation  of  which  no  evidence  remains, 
are  North  Muskham  and  the  Sacrist  prebend.  Thei-e  are  deeds  of 
augmentation  (which  may  or  may  not  be  conteniporaneous  with 
the  foundation)  of  the  ])rebend  of  South  Muskham.  A  page  has 
been  cut  out  of  the  "White  Book  at  this  ])lace  which  -vvoidd  probably 
have  settled  the  question  of  the  date  of  this  })rebend.  The  Sacrist 
prebend  was  never  a  prebend  in  the  full  sense,  that  is  it  had  no 
lands,  except  a  house  and  garden  attached  to  it,  and  no  jjrebendal 
chiu'ch.  It  was  a  dignity  or  office  executed  in  the  church,  and  its 
liolder  was  8U])ported  out  of  the  oblations  in  the  church.  It  is 
probable  therefore  that  this  was  not  an  original  ])rcbcnd.     It   is 


INTRODUCTION.  XXVll 

farther  probable  that  North  Muskham  was  an  original  prebend, 
and  tlmt  Oxton  11.  was  not.  For  the  addition  of  Oxton  to 
Cropwell,  which  is  a  considerable  way  from  it,  seems  of  later  date 
than  Domesday,  wliile  Nordmnscham  is  specially  mentioned  in 
Domesday  as  part  of  and  a  "  berewick  "  of  the  manor  of  Southwell. 
Of  all  the  other  prebends  the  foundation  deeds  are  preserved  in 
the  White  Book.  All  but  one  were  founded,  by  Archbishops  of 
York,  out  of  their  own  or  th«  archiepiscopal  estates,  no  very  exact 
distinction  being  drawn  between  them;  but  one  of  them,  Dunham, 
is  stated  by  Henry  II.  as  having  been  given  by  him  to  Archbishop 
Thurstan,  apparently  for  the  purpose.  All  the  prebends  were  in 
Notts,  and  the  earlier  ones  were  none  of  them  more  than  a  dozen 
miles  from  Southwell.  The  later  prebends  were,  in  order  of  date  : 
South  Muskham,  probably  founded  by  Thomas  II.,  1108-1114; 
Beckingham  and  Dunham  by  Thurstan,  1119-35;  Hallough- 
ton,  or  Halton,  by  Roger  of  Bishopsbridge,  about  1160;  Eampton, 
by  Paviaand  Robert  Malluvel,  her  son,  about  1200  ;  Eton,  by  John 
le  Romaine,  in  1290;  and  finally  North  Leverton,  carved  out  of 
Beckingham  by  the  same  prelate,  in  1291. 

Then  the  church  stood  complete  with  its  sixteen  canons  and 
prebendaries,  as  it  remained  until  the  year  1540,  and  indeed 
until  1841. 

Its  great  increase,  while  Ripon  was  left  with  its  original  number 
and  Beverley  only  increased  to  nine,  is  no  doubt  due  to  Southwell 
being  the  most  southern,  and  therefore  the  safest,  plcasantest,  and 
most  fashionable,  manor  and  residence  of  the  archbishops. 

The  arrangement  of  the  stalls,  before  the  recent  restoration, 
though  it  presents  some  puzzles,  supports  the  theory  above 
advanced.  There  were  six  stalls  facing  east,  the  original  stone 
backs  of  which  still  remain.  The  stall  on  the  right  of  the  entrance 
to  the  choir  from  the  nave  is  much  more  highly  ornamented  than 
the  others,  in  beautiful  diaper  work.  After  the  Reformation  this 
was  occupied  by  the  vicar-general  of  the  chapter,  and  in  all  proba- 
bility this  was  the  archbishop's  stall.  It  was  so  at  Beverley.  The 
first  on  the  left  was,  after  the  Reformation,  occupied  by  the  canon 


INTRODUCTION. 


residentiary,  tliere  being  only  one  at  a  time  ;  before,  it  was  pro- 
bably occupied  by  the  senior  residentiary.  The  other  stalls  were 
thus  arranged — 


No  Name. 

Hampton. 

Sacrist. 

N.  Leverton. 

No  Name. 
Gangway  Stall. 

Dunham. 

Beckingham. 

South  Muskham. 

Oxton(and 
Crop- 
well)  I. 

Norwell. 
Palisball. 

Canon 
Kesident. 

Prior  of  Thur- 
garton. 

Halloughton, 

Eaton. 

Oxtou  and  (Crop- 
well)  II. 

No  Name. 
Gangway  Siall. 

Woodborongh. 

North  Muskham. 

Norwell  III. 

Arch- 
bishop. 

Nonvell. 
OverLall. 

Norman- 
ton. 

North  Muskham,  it  will  be  observ^ed,  ranks  considerably  InVher 
than  Oxton  and  Cropwell  II.  The  puzzles  are  (1)  the  prior  of 
Thurgarton  sitting  in  the  seat  which  Avould  rightly  belong  to  the 
prebendary  of  Normanton,  who  was  ex-oficio  chancellor  of  the 
church,  and  (2)  the  sacrist  or  treasurer  not  sitting  in  the  extreme 
north-oast  seat.  As  lor  this  last,  it  appears  that  thin  seat  was  left 
vacant  for  the  reader,  in  post-Reformation  practice,  and  it  is 
j)robable  that  the  sacrist's  name  was  transferred.  It  is  for  reasons 
stated  in  dealing  with  the  Sacri-st  morally  certain  that  he  did  at 
first  sit  at  the  end.  The  effect  of  the  prior  of  Thurgarton  taking 
the  Normanton  stall  was  to  make  Norwell  III.  and  North  Musk- 
ham a  seat  lower  than  they  would  have  been.     If  moved  up,  the 


INTRODUCTION.  XXIX 

seven    iDrebends — Norwell    I.  and    II ,   Normanton,    Cropliyll    I.,  j 

North    Muskham,    South    Muskham,   Woodboroiigh — would    take  j 

their  natural  rank,  as   the  elder  creations^   above  all  the  others,  1 

Norwell  III.  having  been  inserted  when   cut  off  from  the   other  j 

Norwells.     The  present  choir,  it  must  be  remembered,  is  not  the  .  I 
original  one. 

How  or  when  the  prior  got  in  is  a  mystery.     Dickinson  says  he   Stall  of  Prior  of  ; 

claimed  a  seat  over  the  heads  of  all  the  canons  as  a  right,  but  when       "I'garton.  : 
he  cannot  say.     But  his  seat  is  not  over  the  heads  of  all  the  canons, 
and  he  certainly  could  not  have  claimed  it  as  a  right.    His  presence 
is  indeed  a  proof  that  the  animosity  between  the  regular  and  secular 
canons  was  not  so  great  as  is  sometimes  supposed.   He  was  admitted, 

no  doubt  by  courtesy,  as  the  nearest  distinguished  ecclesiastical  j 

stranger — perhaps  in  1 225  in  return  for  the  convent  of  Thurgarton  j 

having  given  up  Rolieston  Church  to  the  archbishop  for  Southwell  f  j 

or  in  return  for  having,  in  pursuance  of  a  Bull  of  Pope  Urban  IV.,  \ 

in  1263,  addressed  to  him,  recovered  for  the  chapter  certain  lands  i 

and  tithes,  &c.,  wrongfully  granted  away  for  insufficient  eonsidera-  I 

tion.  (W.  B.,p.  5).    The  prior  of  Thurgarton  was  no  doubt  a  greater  \ 

person    than  any  canon   taken   separately,  and  he  was  the  chief  i 

ecclesiastic  of  the   county,   as   evinced  by  his  being  in   1291    the  ; 

collector  of  the  tithes  given  by  the   Pope  to  Edward  I.,  the  collec-  j 
tion  of  which  was  the  origin  of  the  record  known  as  Pope  Nicholas' 

taxation.     But,  however  great  a  person,  he  was  not  so  great  as  the  | 

chapter  of  Southwell  collectively,  and  could  not  possibly  have  got  | 
his  seat  as  of  right.^ 

Generally  speaking,  the  constitution  of  Southwell  was  founded   Constitution  of 
on  that  of  York.     Just  as  in  municipal  charters  London  was  made 
the  model  by  reference  to  which  rights  and  liberties  were  bestowed 
on  other  cities ;  just  as  Archbishop  Thurstan  by  his  charter  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  I.  conferred  upon  the  burgesses  of  Beverley  "  the 

"  See  p.  liii.  post. 

^  At  Wells  the  Prior  of  Muchelney  had  a  prebend  and  place  in  chaptei-.    At  Chi-  ', 

Chester  the  Prior  of  Wilmington,  or  his  superior,  the  Abbot  of  Grestein  in  Normandy, 
had  a  stall.    But  these  were  definite  foundations  and  appropriations  for  the  purpose. 


XXX  INTRODUCTION. 

same  liberties  hy  tlie  same  laws  as  the  men  of  York  have  in  their 
citv,"  ''  with  their  Hans  honse  free  as  that  of  York;"  so  the  liberties 
and  privilerres  of  the  church  and  canons  of  Southwell  are  confirmed 
to  them,  by  reference  to  those  of  St.  Peter's  and  the  canons  of  York. 
The  earliest  extant  dcjcument  relating  to  them  is  a  Bull  of  Pope 
Alexander  III.,  1171,  granted  perhaps  in  view  of  the  searching 
inquiry  ordered  by  Henry  II.,  in  1170,  into  the  administration  of 
justice,  not  only  in  the  royal  courts,  but  also  in  the  lay  and  ecclesias- 
tical franchises.  This  Bull,  after  confirming  to  the  canons  all  the 
possessions  of  the  church  present  or  future,  goes  on  :  "  Moreover 
the  ancient  customs  and  the  liberties,  those,  namely,  which  the  church 
of  York  is  knotvn  to  have  had  from  old  time  and  still  to  have,  as  they 
liave  been  granted  to  you  and  your  church  by  the  archbishops, 
chapter  of  York,  and  illustrious  kings  of  the  English  with  pious 
and  reasonable  wisdom,  and  confirmed  by  their  authentic  charters, 
Ave  have  determined  to  confirm  by  apostolic  authority  [prohibiting]'* 
under  the  denunciation  of  anathema  [that  any  should  dare  rashly] 
to  infringe  the  same,  or  with  rash  presumption  to  countenance 
those  who  do." 

The  earliest  statement  of  the  privileges  of  St.  Peter's  Minster  at 
York,  bv  reference  to  which  those  of  Soutlnvell  had  to  be  ascer- 
tained, is  that  printed  ut  p.  190  seq.  of  this  book.  It  is  a  letter  of 
the  chapter  of  York  to  the  chapter  of  Southwell,  stating  the  result 
of  a  solemn  Inquisition  held  at  York  in  ll()6  by  the  Chancellor  of 
England  and  other  special  judicial  oflicers  of  the  King  sent  for  the 
purpose,  when  Osbert,  the  sheriff  of  Yorkshire,  had  tried  to  invade 
the  franchises  of  the  archbishop  and  the  canons,  not  only  of  York, 
but  of  Beverley  and  llipon  as  well.     The  finding  of  this  Inquisition 

»  It  is  noteworthy  that  though  this  Bull  wns  in  fact  the  fundamental  charter  of 
the  church,  and  aiiparcutly  the  earliest  written  evidence  of  its  privileges,  the  scribo, 
in  entering  it  in  the  White  Book,  omitted  the  words  in  brackets,  though  tiiey  arc 
absolutely  needed  to  make  the  sentence  sense,  and  they  are  only  inserte<l  on  the  Hy- 
leaf  in  another  and  later  hand.  The  authentic  charters  mentioned  in  it,  except  the 
letter  of  Archbishop  Thomas  before  ([uoted,  seem  to  have  disappeared,  if  they  ever 
existed. 


INTRODUCTION.  XXxi 

was  very  soon  after — (the  exact  date  does  not  appear) — confirmed, 
and  a  large  part  of  it  set  out  in  a  charter  of  Henry  I.  as  the  ancient 
liberties  "  under  ancient  kings  and  archbishops,  and,  what  many 
(pleriquej  can  remember,  under  King  Edward  and  Archbishop 
Aldred  was  the  custom  of  noble  liberty  (consuetudo  egregise  liber- 
tatis)  of  St.  Peter's  Church."  It  was  also  effectively  pleaded  at 
Ripon  in  1228,  (as  appears  from  a  document  printed  in  Mr.  Fowler's 
Memorials  oj  Ripon,  Surtees  Society,  vol.  74),  against  the  com- 
bined aggression  of  King  Henry  III.'s  sheriff  and  Archbishop 
Walter  Gray's  bailiff,  and  solemnly  allo^ved  by  the  King's  justices, 
among  whom  is  to  be  noted  Robert  de  Lexington,  a  canon  and 
benefactor  of  Southwell.  Henry  I.'s  charter  is  recited  and  con- 
firmed, and  more  privileges  added  to  it,  to  suit  the  existing  state  of 
things,  by  a  charter  of  Henry  III ,  also  given  in  the  Southwell 
White  Book,  dated  at  Portsmouth  in  July,  1253.  Finally  the 
rights  of  the  canons  were  challenged  again,  in  the  case  of  South- 
well itself,  early  in  Edward  III.'s  reign,  by  Quo  icarranto  proceed- 
ings, which  occupy  a  large  space  in  the  White  Book  ;  and  solemnly 
confirmed  again  by  his  charter  26  November,  1333. 

These  documents  show  an  absolute  imperium  in  imperio.  The 
chapter  in  the  common  lands,  the  canons  in  their  prebends,  were 
alike  little  kings  and  little  bishops,  free  from  all  jurisdiction, 
spiritual  or  temporal,  of  king  or  archbishop.  The  king's  writs  did 
not  run  on  the  Minster  lands  without  the  allowance  of  the  canons ; 
no  distress,  no  surety  could  be  taken  by  the  sheriff  without  their 
leave.  The  canons  had  civil  and  criminal  jurisdiction  over  all  their 
tenants  and  people  in  their  liberty.  The  judges  on  circuit  had  to 
hold  the  pleas  of  the  Crown  at  the  south  door  of  the  church  ;  in 
criminal  cases  in  one  of  the  canon's  houses,  outside  the  Minster 
yard.  They  had  to  make  a  return  of  their  proceedings  to  the 
canons,  and  the  fines  and  forfeitures  inflicted  went  to  the  canons, 
and  not  to  the  king.  The  canons  exercised  also  the  municipal 
power  of  assizes  of  bread  and  ale,  and  punished  forestallers, 
regraters,  and  adulterators,  and  other  like  offenders.     The  canoiis 


xxxii  INTRODUCTION. 

and  thoir  tenants  were  free  from  all  tolls  and  taxes ;  it  was  even 
decided  bv  a  process,  recorded  in  the  White  Book,  that  they  need 
not  contribute  to  the  expenses  of  knights  of  the  shire,  as  they  paid 
for  their  own  proctor  in  C'onvocatlon.  They  were  freed  even  from 
the"triiiocla  necessitas,"  the  threefold  obligation  of  bridge-building, 
castle-making,  and  attendance  in  war,  which  was  expressl}-  kept 
alive  in  the  charter  of  Eadwy  to  Archbishop  Oscytel  already 
discussed,  but  was  expressly  abrogated  as  regards  "  the  four 
churches  "  by  special  charter  of  Henrj^  I.,  printed  in  Memorials 
of  Ripon. 

It  would  not  appear  that  at  Southwell  there  was  required  even 
the  limited  attendance  in  war  which  was  shown  at  York,  Ripon, 
Beverley,  and  Hexham  by  sending  a  standard-bearer  with  St. 
Peter's,  Sr.  AVilfrid's,  St.  John's,  or  St.  Andrew's  banner  with 
their  respective  burgesses.  At  least  we  hear  of  no  banner  of  our 
I/ady  of  Southwell.  Nor  do  we  meet  in  the  register  with  any  entry 
such  as  that  in  the  Beverley  Chapter  Register  (now  at  the  Society  of 
Antiquaries),  where  leave  of  absence  is  given  John  de  Rolleston,  the 
vicar  choral  of  the  archbishop's  stall  and  chauntry  chaplain  of 
the  Brotherhood  of  St.  Michael  in  the  same  church,  to  carry  the 
standard  of  St.  John  of  Beverley  to  Edward  II.  before  his  disastrous 
march  to  Bannockburn;  or  the  curious  letter  in  French  written  by 
the  chapter  of  Beverley  to  Edwartl  III.  when  sending  Thomas  de 
Hugate  to  liim,  with  the  same  banner,  in  133a. 

In  spiritual  matters  Southwell  was  free  from  all  archlcplscopal 
jurisdiction  except  by  way  of  appeal.  The  church  was  indeed 
subject  to  the  archbishop's  visitation  to  see  that  its  statutes  were 
observed.  But  in  their  own  immediate  district,  the  chapter  and 
the  canons  alone  exercised  jurisdiction  over  the  vicars  choral  and 
chauntry  priests,  over  their  prebcndal  or  parochial  vicars  whom 
they  instituted,  and  over  the  laity  in  their  "  peculiar." 

The  su])remacy  of  the  church  as  the  cathedral,  or  mother  church, 
of  Notts  was  estaljllshed  by  the  comjmlsory  attendance  of  laity  and 
clergy  at  the   "Whitsuntide   ])rocessIor.,  and  of  the    clergy  at   (ho 


INTRODUCTION.  XXXI 11 

yearly  synod,  and  by  the  distribution  of  tlie  chrism,  or  holy  oil  and 
cream  used  in  baptisms,  from  thence  throughout  the  county. 

They  possessed  all  archiepiscopal  functions  except  ordination, 
and  they  could  present  whom  they  liked  for  ordination,  and  it 
would  almost  seem  that  the  archbishop  could  not  refuse  to  ordain 
the  presentee.  The  chapter  was  addressed  as  Venerable,  the  title 
given  in  Magna  Charta  to  the  archbishops  and  bishops,  though  in  these 
days  fallen  to  archdeacons.  They  had  the  power  of  excommunication 
against  any  who  broke  the  sanctuary  of  the  church,  or  used  violence 
in  its  precincts  or  the  houses  of  canons,  or  invaded  its  hberties  and 
privileges.  They  were  the  ordinaries  of  their  deanery,  and  held 
their  courts  like  the  officials  of  the  consistory  court,  or  the  arch- 
deacons. In  these  courts  they  took  cognisance  of  matrimonial  and 
sexual  offences,  of  slander  and  perjury  (then  of  ecclesiastical  cog- 
nisance), even  of  debt  or  a. breach  of  promise  to  pay,  and  of  course 
of  probate  of  wills  and  administration  of  goods  of  deceased  persons ; 
and  all  these,  not  only  of  the  clergy,  but  of  the  laity.  The  chapter 
court  was  also  the  court  of  appeal  in  civil  cases  from  the  courts  of 
the  prebendaries ;  and  cases  of  descent  of  land,  claims  to  dower 
and  property  in  general,  were  decided  by  them,  and  numerous 
instances  are  given  in  the  White  Book  of  such  appeals. 

The  chapter  and  the  prebendaries,  those  at  least  of  the  earlier 
prebends,  the  endowments  of  which  consisted  of  lands — (the  endow- 
ment of  the  later  ones  being  mainly  tithes) — as  lords  of  manors,  also 
held  their  views  of  Frankpledge  and  other  manorial  courts.  Coitions 
examples  of  these  are  given,  with  statements  of  the  curious  customs 
of  the  manors,  their  fines  and  services.  We  hear  especially  a  great 
deal  about  the  fine  of  5s.  4f?.  j'^paid  by  the  daughter  of  a  native  or 
villein  on~  marriage,^under  the  name  of  "  marchet,"  perhaps  a 
corruption  of  ''  maritagium,"  and  of  the  same  amount  under 
the  significant  name  of  "  lecherwyte  "  for  seduction  ;  while  it  is 
solemnly  decided  that  when  seduction  is  followed  by  marriage  tiic 
fines  were  due  under  both  headings. 

Though  Southwell  Minster,  in  its  rights  and  privileges,  was  thus 


INTKUDUCTION. 


modelled  on  York,  its   constitution    differed  in   some    important 
respects  from  that  of  its  prototype.     IMost  im])ortant  difference  of 
Southwell  Chapter,      all    was    that    Southwell   ^Minster,  unlike    every   other   collegiate 
"^^^^^   ^^'  cluirch  or  college  in  the  country,  except  Ripon,  had  no  head.     It 

acknowledged  no  monarch  or  principal  like  the  dean  at  York, 
the  provost  at  Beverley,  the  warden  at  Manchester,  the  master  at 
Higham  Ferrers.  It  did  not  even  give  a  recognised  supremacy  to 
any  canon,  such  as,  at  Hipon,  was  given  to  the  prebendary  of 
Stanwick.  It  was  a  singular  instance  of  a  republic  among  the 
surrounding  monarchies.  It  had  of  course  to  some  extent  a  head 
in  the  Archbishop  of  York,  who  as  in  York  and  his  other  collegiate 
churches  appointed  the  canons,  and  was  in  causes  of  negligence  or 
misfeasance  a  court  of  appeal.  The  regular  way,  too,  of  making 
statutes  of  the  church  was  by  enactment  of  the  archbishop.  He 
also  had  the  visitatorial  power  of  visiting  the  church  and  correct- 
ing infractions  of  the  statutes.  Still,  he  could  only  make 
statutes  in  chapter,  with  the  assent  and  consent  of  the  canons 
in  chapter  assembled.  And  his  power,  extensive  as  it  probably 
was  in  early  times,  very  quickly  fell  into  a  mere  constitutional 
form,  and  his  real  share  in  legislation  was  that  only  of  a  con- 
stitutional king  in  Parliament,  who  enacts  laws  Avitli  the  assent 
and  consent  of  Parliament,  or  of  the  Lord  Mayor  of  London, 
who  makes  Acts  with  the  assent  and  consent  of  the  citizens 
in  common  council  assembled.  Moreover,  the  statute-making 
power  quickly  became  a  mere  bye-law  authority  for  internal 
regulations,  Avhicli,  it  would  seem  from  the  collected  statutes  of 
the  Minster,  was  more  often  exercised  by  the  chapter  alone 
than  by  the  archbishop  in  chapter.  The  visitatorial  power  too 
soon  sunk  into  little  more  than  a  power  of  rebuke,  and  ordering  to 
amend,  in  such  matters  as  immorality  and  neglect  of  duty.  To  all 
])ractical  intents  and  purposes,  the  chapter  was,  in  historical  times, 
a  sovereign  republic.  It  alone  visited  and  punished  the  inferior 
ministers  of  the  church  and  the  prebends.  It  alone  made  bye- 
laws  and  granted  dispensations  to  its  own  members  from  the 
observance  of  the  statutes.     Its  position  was  exactly  like  that  of 


INTRODUCTION.  XXXV  ! 

Florence   or    Hamburg    under    the    nominal    sovereignty    of   tlie  j 

Emperor    of    the    H0I3-    Roman    Empire,   an    independent    self-  ; 

governing    republic.       To    the   pedantic  lawyer  of  the    scholastic  ; 

S(.'hool    Avhom    Coke    followed,    who    laid    down    that    as     there  ! 

could  be  no    natural    body,   so    tliero    could    be    no    corporation  i 

aggregate  or  body  politic  without  a  head,  and  who  exen  held,  that,  j 

in  the  vacancy  of  the  headship,  the  corporation  was  in  a  slate  of  j 

suspended  animation,  and  could  not  grant  a  lease  or  do  any  act 
but  elect  a  new  head,  the  chapter  of   Southwell  without  a  dean  ; 

but  with  a  common  seal  must  have  been  a  kind  of  "  monstrum 
horrendum,  informe,  cui  lumen  ademptum ;" — a  prodigy  as  great  as 
the  secular  canon  was  to  the  monastic  pedant  who  derided  the 
"  wordly  unw^orldly  "  clerk,  the   "  canonicum  sine  canone,"    "the  ; 

regularemirregularem,"  "  the  man  of  rule  who  had  no  rule."    And  j 

accordingly,  when  Ripon  Minster  was  revived  under  James  I.,  it  I 

was  given  a  dean  as  well  as  canons.     But,  there  is  no  doubt  about  .. 

it,  that  the  chapter  of  Southwell  was  a  corporation  by  prescription,  i 

without  a  head,  from  time  immemorial  long  before  the  Conquest 
to  the  reign  of  Henry  VIH.,  and  by  Act  of  Parliament  from 
Henry  VIII.  to  Victoria, — except  for  one  short  and  puzzling  period. 

There  is  a  space  of  perhaps  ten  or  twenty  years — it  cannot  be  more  Hugh,  ])ean  of 
and  is  probably  much  less — during  which  the  White  Book  certainly     °^^  ^^ 
shows  something  like  a  head  of  tne  chapter  in  the   shape  of  a 
dean.      Some  thirty  deeds  are  scattered  about  in  it, — chiefly  deeds 
referring  to   gifts  for  the  fabric  of  the  ]\linster,  for  lamps   and 
incense    therein,    but    as    to    one    for    an    augmentation    of    the  i 

prebend  of  South  Muskham,— to  which  "  Hugh,  Dean  "  is  a  witness.  ; 

None  of  the  deeds  are  dated ;  but  from  the  names  of  the  other 
witnesses,  especially  one  Robert  of  Lexington  or   Laxton,  a  canon  j 

of  the  church  and  judge,  and  founder  of  the  earliest  chauntry  in  j 

it,  of  Walter  Mauclerk,  another  canon,  who  was  made  Bishop  of  j 

Carlisle  in  1223,  and  from  some  of  the  other  witnesses  also  witness-  | 

ing  a  deed  dated  "  the  first  year  after  the  translation  of  Thomas  the  ] 

Martyr,"  i.e.  1221,  their  date  can  be  fixed  to  about  the  last-named  \ 

year.     "  Dean  "   cannot  be   a  proper  name,  as  in  one  deed  he  is  1 


XXXVl  IKTRODUCnON. 

"  Hu;^one,  Uecano  de  Suwell,"  in  two  '' Hugone,  Decano  de  Suth- 
well."  Nor  can  he  be  merely  a  rural  dean.  There  would  hardly  be 
a  rural  dean  in  the  "  peculiar"  of  Southwell.  Besides,  wherever'  he 
occurs  "  Hugh,  Dean  "  signs  before  the  other  witnesses  (except  once 
after  Henry  of  Nottingham,  a  canon),  while  in  one  deed  the  witness 
clause  runs,  "  Witnesses  the  chapter  of  Southwell,  namely,  Hugh, 
Dean  "  and  others,  who  were  canons,  by  name.  It  is  impossible 
tlierefore  to  avoid  the  conclusion  that  at  one  period  during  the 
episcopate  of  "Walter  Gray,  a  dean  was  instituted  at  Southwell, 
perhaps  by  way  of  bringing  the  church  under  stricter  discipline 
and  control  of  the  archbishop.  In  this  connexion  it  is  a  signifi- 
cant coincidence  that  1 225  was  the  date  of  the  creation  of  the 
deanery  of  Exeter  Cathedral,  which  had  previously  been  acephalous 
like  Southwell;  while  in  1230  Archbishop  Gray  himself  instituted  a 
kind  of  principalship  at  Ripon  in  the  prebendary  of  Stanwick,  who 
was  made  precentor  and  choir-rector,  and  required  to  be  always 
resident.  At  Southwell,  however,  tlsere  was  only  one  dean, 
whose  name  was  Hugh,  but  whence  he  came,  or  what  became 
of  him,  we  know  not.  It  is  (rue  there  is  in  a  copy  (W.  B.)  of 
another  deed  of  about  the  same  date,  a  "  Henr  Decano  Suthwell,'' 
who  signs  after  the  Archdeacon  of  Nottingham.  But,  as  in  the  same 
deed,  Robert  Lexington  appears  as  Ralph,  we  may  feel  perfectly 
certain  that  in  this,  as  in  many  other  cases,  a  mistake  in  the  name 
has  been  made  by  the  copyist.  This  dean  must  have  ceased  to 
exist  by  1257,  as  in  that  year  (W.  B.,  p.  119)  a  solemn  summons 
is  issued  to  all  the  canons  for  a  chapter  to  treat  of  certain  urgent 
business,  viz.,  to  provide  for  the  debts  of  the  Jiow  Archbishop  Scwull 
de  Bovill,  incurred  in  obtaining  his  confirmation,  and,  while  the 
names  of  the  canons  arc  given,  there  is  no  mention  of  a  dean. 
The  odd  thing  is  that  "  Hugh,  Dean,"  might  be  supposed  to  have 
ceased  to    exist   by   1225,    as   in    that  year    a    most    important 

•  In  IJrit.  Mu3,  Cart.  Ilarl.  83  F.  4 G,  however,  there  is  a  confirmation  by  William, 
son  of  Maurice  de  Kclum,  of  grants  to  l{uff(»r<l  Abbey  to  which  arc  witnesses  in  the 
following  order  :  Ilobert  de  Afuschnm,  llartholomcw  canon  de  Suclla,  Master 
Uichard  dc  Wulesbi,  Magister  Hug'  do  Suclla,  dmplain  (capell')  of  Hokcrton,  '•  Hug* 
Decano  SucUiic,"  "and  many  others." 


TXTKODUCTION.  SXXvii 

ordinance  was  made  by  the  arcLbisliop  dealing  with  tlie  division 
of  tlie  profits  of  the  church  of  Rolleston,  and  this  ordinance 
is  said  to  be  by  assent  of  the  chapter  only,  not  as  it  would  have 
been  at  York,  by  the  assent  of  the  dean  and  chapter,  nor  is  any 
mention  of  a  dean  or  of  Hugh  in  it.  Yet  Hugh  had  been  a  witness 
to  the  deed  already  mentioned,  by  which  this  very  church  of  Rolleston 
was  granted  by  the  prior  and  convent  of  Thurgarton  to  the  arch- 
bishop, the  date  of  which  can  be  fixed  to  the  year  1221,  wlicn  a 
fine  was  levied  to  complete  this  grant.  In  the  same  year,  by  anodier 
deed,  it  was  granted  by  the  archbishop  **  to  the  use  of  Southwell 
Church  to  be  converted  to  the  augmentations  of  the  commons  of 
the  residentiaries."  In  1225,  however,  it  seems  that  Hugh  Dean 
was  alive  and  active.  For  in  Archbishop  Gray's  Register,  edited 
by  Canon  Raine  (Surtees  Society,  No.  56,  p.  SO),  in  April,  1229,  a 
vicar  of  Biddlesthoi-p  is  instituted  who  is  stated  to  have  been  pre- 
sented by  ••  Hugh,  Dean  of  Suwell,  parson  of  Biddlesthorp."  In 
June,  1234,  the  same  person  is  presented  to  the  parsonage  of  tlie 
same  place,  called  this  time  Bildeston,  *•  the  said  Hugh  being  dead, 
and  the  living  having  come  to  Us  by  lapse,''  This  place,  Biddles- 
thorp, or  Bildeston,  now  called  Bilsthorpe,  was  in  the  soke  of  the 
chapter.  Hugh  the  Dean,  tlierefore,  remains  a  mystery.  Probably 
he  \\as  an  unsuccessful  "  try  on  "  of  the  archbishop's,  and  lasted 
no  longer  than  a  year  or  two.  He  had  his  day,  and  ceased  to  be, 
with  no  predecessors  and  no  successors.  But,  though  he  came  like 
a  shadow  and  so  departed,  it  seems  impossible  to  deny  him  a 
substantial  existence  while  he  lasted.  And  so,  this  dean  of  1221 
must  be  accepted  as  one  of  the  interesting  incidents  of  the 
histoi-v  of  the  Minster,  a  curious  exception  on  an  exception,  the 
solitary  and  short-lived  monarchical  excrescence  in  the  thousand- 
year  republican  life  of  the  head-less  chapter  of  Southwell. 

The  place  of  the  dean  was  iilled,  apparently,  by  the  senior  canon  The  Senior  Resi- 
in  residence  for  the  time  being,  quite  independent  of  what  stall  he  ^ime  be'in-rwas 
occupied.      He  seems  to  have  been  chairman  of  the  chapter,  and  Tresident'of  Chapter, 
when  it  sat   "  pro  tribunali  "  as  a  criminal  court,  he  presided  as 
judge.     He  appears  to  have  enjoyed  some  special  privileges  in  the 


XXXviii  INTRODUCTION. 

way  of  j)atronage  and  profits,  as  in  an  agreement  (printed  on  page 
164)  made  in  1527,  llio  true  senior  resigns  liis  seniority,  and  there- 
with tlie  farm  of  a  certain  rectory  of  Upton-by-Sonthwcll  belonging 
to  tlie  cliaptcr,  taking  in  excliange  the  farm  of  the  rectory  of  the 
ah-cady-mentioned  cluireli  of  liolieston,  and  also  making  an 
arrangement  about  the  patronage  of  chauntries  and  sub-deaconries. 

There  being  no  regular  body  of  statutes  at  Southwell  defining 
the  duties  of  the  various  members  of  the  chapter,  as  at  Salisbury 
in  1091,  or  Lichfield  in  1190,  it  is  not  possible  to  say  exactly  how 
far  the  constitution  of  Southwell  developed  itself  like  that  of  York. 
Had  the  archdeaconry  of  Nottingham  been  fixed  at  Southwell  ex 
ojicio  (as  it  was  generally  in  point  of  fact  by  the  archdcacoji 
being  also  a  canon),  no  doubt  the  church  would  have  received  the 
full  equipment  of  the  four  personce  or  dignitaries  of  a  cathedral, 
the  dean,  precentor,  chancellor,  treasurer;  and  distinct  endow- 
ments would  have  been  attached  to  them.  As  it  is,  except  in  the 
case  of  the  sacrist  or  treasurer,  we  can  only  by  casual  notices  and 
by  inference  a.scertain  that  in  point  of  fact  the  duties  of  these 
officers  were  attached,  certainly  as  to  the  chancellor  and  probably 
as  to  the  precentor,  to  the  holders  of  certain  stalls  and  prebends,  or 
certain  stalls  or  prebends  were  annexed  to  these  offices.  This  was 
not  without  precedent,  as  at  Salisbury  the  prebend  of  Colne  was 
annexed  in  1220  to  the  office  of  treasurer  {Re(jister  St.  Osmnnd, 
ii.  p.  20,  Rolls  Series). 

Mr.  Fowler  .says  {^L>m.  of  liipon)  that  there  was  no  precentor  at 
Southwell  and  no  treasurer  at  Beverley,  as  there  was  no  chancellor 
ai  Itipon.  As  regards  Beverley  and  Southwell,  however,  ho 
scorns  to  bo  mistaken.  At  Beverley,  in  a  chapter  held  in  1.304, 
an  order  is  made  for  payment  of  arrears  of  salary  duo  to  tho 
canons,  the  .sacrist,  and  the  chancellor,  owing  to  tho  misfeasance 
of  tho  provost,  who  had  been  removed  for  divers  misdemeanours 
amongst  others  i)lin-ality,  in  being  at  the  same  time  precentor  of 
liyons,  provost  of  Mevcrloy,  provost  of  Lausanne,  and  rector  of 
Dnngarvan  in  L'cland,  all  tho  time  not  being  a  priest.     At  the 


INTRODUCTION.  XXXIX 

same  chapter  the  precentor  is  also  mentioned,  showing  Beverley 
with  its  full  four  dignitaries,=^  if  indeed  the  provost  is  quite  a  dean. 

At  Southwell  the  Precentor  certainly  existed  at  the  same  time,  piccentor  of  South- 
He  was  a  person  Avhom  it  was  impossible  to  dispense  with  in  a  body  ^'^11- 
which  was  before  all  things  a  singing  establishment;  and  there  are 
numerous  references  to  him  in  the  registers,  though  it  is  not 
possible  to  identify  him  with  the  holder  of  any  particular  prebend. 
In  a  letter  of  Archbishop  Thurstan,  about  a.d.  1 120,  addressed 
"  to  all  my  successors,""  stating  the  foundation  of  the  prebend  of 
Beckingham,  he  says  that  he  had  given  for  a  prebend  to  Herbert 
the  churches  of  Beckingham  and  Leverton,  and  "  in  Suthwell  the 
mansion  which  belonged  to  Willebert  (or  Gilbert)  the  chaunter  " 
{^'  in  Suthwella  mansum  quod  fuit  Willeberti  cantoris "  W.  B., 
p.  21  ;  in  a  later  copy,  at  p.  237,  Suthwell  is  "  Sudwella,"  and 
Willeberti  "Gilberti").  It  is  just  possible  that  this  may  be 
a  precentor  of  York,  though  when,  in  another  place,  the  house  of 
William  the  Treasurer  is  mentioned,  he  is  called  expressly  "of  York." 
But  the  precentor  of  Southwell  is  specially  mentioned  in  the  statutes 
of  Archbishop  Thomas  de  Corbridge,  a.d.  1302  (W.  B.,  p.  51)  : 
"  Let  all  the  books,  at  least  those  with  the  music  (notati),  be 
well  examined  by  the  precentor  or  his  deputy  (per  precentoreni 
vel  ejus  vices  gerentem),  that  they  may  not  be  contradictory 
with  one  another,  or  discordant  (ne  sibi  invicem  contra- 
rientur,  vel  discordent  in  nota)."  As  late  as  1503,  we  find,  at  a 
visitation,  a  complaint  that  there  is  needetl  a  proper  deputy  of  the 
precentor.  "  Provideatur  ut  aliquis  sufficiens  assignetur,  qui 
vicem  cantoris  implere  valeat." 

The   Treasurer,  who   was    not    the   bursar,    but    the    "custos   Sacrist  or  Treasurer. 
jocalium  " — as  the  corresponding  official  was  called  at  All  Souls' 

"  They  all  occur  repeatedly  in  the  Beverley  Chapter  Register  ;  on  the  very  first 
page  of  the  Provost's  Book,  compiled  in  HI  8,  now  in  possession  of  the  Rev.  H.  E. 
NoUoth,  Vicar  of  Beverley  Minster ;  frequently  in  Poulson's  Beverlac  in  extracts 
from  accounts  in  the  Augmentation  Office,  and  in  which  the  Sacrist  is  sometimes 
called  Treasurer;  their  stalls  are  placed  in  Dugdale,  vi.,  p.  1309.  They  were  not 
also  Canons. 


Xl  INTRODUCTION. 

College— the  keeper  of  the  jewels,  plate,  ornaments,  and  vestments, 
the  paraphernalia  of  divine  worship,  or  in  a  word  of  the  5acr«of  the 
church,  was  at  Southwell  called  the  Sacrist,  Sacristan,  Segeston, 
or  Sexton,  and  held  a  prebend  of  that  name.  As  early  as  1293  he 
had  to  be  corrected,  for  neglect  of  duty,  by  Archbishop  John 
the  Roman  at  his  visitation,  and  is  enjoined  '•  to  sleep  in  the 
church,  and  ring  according  to  the  clock  at  the  due  hours"  (jaceat 
in  ecclesia  ct  secundum  orlogium  debitis  pulset  horis)  "  while  the 
clerks  who  are  deputed  to  keep  the  doors  of  the  chni'ch  are  to 
be  corrected  by  him,  and  unless  they  obey  him  and  otherwise 
behave  themselves  in  honest  fashion,  Ave  will  that  they  be  removed 
by  him."  Two  years  earlier,  14  Kal.  Nov.,  1291  (W.  B.,  p.  24), 
in  creating  a  new  prebend  of  North  Lcverton,  the  same  archbishop 
assigned  the  new  prebendary,  "  a  stall  in  the  choir  on  the  north 
side,  next  the  stall  of  the  sacrist."  This  identifies  the  sacrist 
with  the  treasurer,  since  the  new  canon  would  naturally  be 
assigned  the  least  honourable  place  in  the  choir,  and  that  would  be, 
in  the  absence  of  archdeacons,  the  seat  next  the  treasurer,  who 
sat  at  the  extreme  east  end  on  the  cantoris  or  north  side,  as  the 
chancellor  did  at  the  extreme  east  of  the  decani  or  south  side, 
in  York,  Lincoln,  Lichfield,  Salisbury,  &c.  That  the  sacrist  could 
not  then  have  sat  last  but  one,  as  he  did  afterwards,  is  clear; 
otherwise  the  archbishop  would  have  had  to  say  whether  the  new 
canon  was  to  sit  on  his  right,  or  on  his  left  hand.  In  the  later, 
fifteenth-century,  register  the  sacrista  is  continually  mentioned,  and 
complaints  are  frequently  made  of  his  neglect  of  duty  in  not 
sleeping  in  the  church,  not  keeping  the  vestments  in  propter  repair, 
or  not  having  them  properly  washed,  in  supplying  bad  wine  and 
sour  bread  for  the  sacraments,  and  not  ringing  the  bells  punctually. 
But  these  complaints  appear  to  refer  to  the  deputy  or  vicar 
choral  of  the  sacrist,  and  not  to  the  canon  himself,  who  was 
connnonly  non-resident.  It  is  curious,  however,  that  the  last 
holder  of  the  sacrist  prebend,  appointed  on  the  eve  of  the 
Jioformation,  was  a  residentiary,  and  had  the  unenviable  task  of 
lianding  over  to  Sir  Edwai'd  North,  the  Chancellor  of  the  Court  of 


INTRODUCTION.  xH 

Augmentations,  "  to  the  King's  ]\lajestie's  use "  (in  response  to 
pressing  letters,  preserved  in  the  White  Book),  what  the  Chauntry 
Commissioners  descrihed  as  ''  a  chalice  of  gold  with  a  patente,  a 
cross  of  gold  with  a  foot  of  gold  sette  with  divers  stones,  a 
Tabernacle  of  our  Lady  of  sylver  and  gilte,  with  two  tables  of 
silver  and  gilte  enclosing  the  same,"  and,  as  we  learn  from  North's 
letters,  "  having  the  pictures  of  Our  Lady  and  other  saints  on  it," 
and  "  ii.  basens  of  sylver  weyinge  xlvii.  oz.  taken  by  the  said 
John  Adams  for  his  cost  in  the  carriage  of  the  same  plate."  More 
plate  had  been  expended  only  two  or  three  years  before,  "  aboughte 
the  sewts  and  necessaries  of  the  newe  erection  of  the  said  college," 
after  the  surrender  to  Henry  VIII. 

The  Chancellorship  was  annexed  to  one  of  the  first,  and  most  Chancellor  of 
ancient  prebends,  that  of  Normanton,  a  fact  which  suggests  that  here, 
as  at  York  and  at  Waltham,  the  Magister  Scolarum  was  the  earliest 
dignitary.  All  collegiate  churches  and  cathedrals  were  bound  to  keep 
schools ;  and  the  teaching  of  the  grammar  school  was  regarded  in 
early  days  as  an  even  more  important  part  of  the  duties  of  the  official, 
who  afterwards  was  known  as  the  chancellor,  than  his  legal  and 
clerkly  business.  It  is  indeed  only  through  his  scholastic  functions 
that,  at  Southwell,  we  learn  there  was  a  chancellor  at  all,  though 
when  he  appears  in  written  evidence  he  no  longer  teaches  school 
himself,  but  only  sees  that  others  do  so.  This  he  does  not  only  in 
Southwell  Grrammar  School  itself,  but  throughout  the  county  of 
which  Southwell  was  the  mother  church.  So  the  schools  of  the 
University  of  Oxford  were,  at  first,  under  the  superintendence  of 
the  chancellor  of  Lincoln,  as  chancellor  of  the  mother  church  of 
the  diocese.  La  the  White  Book  (p.  136)  is  preserved  an  agree- 
ment between  Cardinal  Stephen,  canon  of  Southwell,  and  the 
prior  and  convent  of  St.  CathHrine''s,  made  in  1238,  to  settle  a 
dispute  which  had  arisen  between  them  as  to  the  right  of  jn-esenta- 
tion  to  the  mastership  of  Newark  Grammar  School*  This  car- 
dinal appears  to  have  claimed  the  right  as  canon  and  prebendary  of 

*  This  is  wrongly  described  in  Dickinson's  History  of  SouthweU  as  a  contest 
about  the  presentation  of  a  scholar. 


xlii  INTRODUCTION. 

Nornianton,  tlio  convent  of  St.  Catliarine's-by-Lincoln  as  owners  of 
the  cliurc-li  of  Newark.  Tlie  agreement  was  that  the  convent  might 
present  a  fit  ])er.son  to  the  canon  or  his  deputy  in  chaj)ter  at 
Soutliwoll,  and  the  person  presented  was  to  swear  obedience  to  the 
canon  and  chapter  ;  and  the  convent  were  to  be  obliged  to 
remove  liim,  for  cause  sliown,  on  tlie  mandate  of  the  cha])ter. 
But  tin's  cardinal  was,  like  so  many  of  the  canons  of  English 
collegiate  churches  at  this  period,  a  foreigner  and  non-resident, 
and  therefore  careless  of  the  rights  of  his  office.  Hence  an  indig- 
nant person,  writing  apparently  at  the  period  the  White  Book  was 
composed,  has  penned  a  note  in  the  margin  that  "  Since  the 
collations  of  grammar  schools  through  the  whole  archdeaconry  of 
Nottingham  belong  alone  and  wholly  to  the  prebendary  of  Nor- 
nianton in  the  collegiate  church  at  Southwell,  as  chancellor  of  the 
name  church,  although  this  agreement  may  have  been  made  it  can 
be  of  no  authority,  as  appears  from  its  tenor,  because  it  is  bad  in 
many  respects  (quia  peccat  in  ])luribus)."  The  annotator  was 
clearly  right,  as,  in  the  Chapter  Register  (p.  347,  printed  at  p.  52 
of  this  book),  we  find  in  1485  the  then  prebendary  of  Nonnanton, 
John  Danvers,  who  was  vice-chancellor  of  Oxford,  and  held  the 
prebend  for  thirty-two  years,  ])resenting  to  the  mastership  of 
Newark  Grammar  School.  In  1475  he  had  presented  to  Southwell 
Grammar  School  itself,  and  in  1477  the  master  of  Nottingham 
Gnimniar  School  was  removed  for  negligence  either  by  him  or  the 
chapter,  and  he  presented  a  new  one. 

In  further  proof  of  his  cancellarial  duties,  if  proof  wei'e  needed, 
we  find  from   the  certificates  of  chauntries  that  the  prebendary  of 
Nornianton  paid  the  stij)end  of  the  master  of  Southwell  Gramnuir 
School  a  magnificent  salary  of  £2  a  year. 
Nt.M-rtsidLiue  of  Ono  of  the  most  striking  features  in  the  history  of  collegiate 

chm-ches  is,  that  no  sooner  had  their  constitution  been  firmly 
established  than  it  at  once  began  to  fall  to  ])ieces,  owing  to  the 
excessive  exercise  of  "  the  sacred  right  of  devolution."  Non- 
residence  produced  almost  at  once  the  most  complex  developments 
in  the  constitution  of  collegiate  churches.    It  produced  the  distinc- 


I'llUOIIH. 


INTRODUCTION.  xlui 

tion  between  ''  canons  residentiary  "  and  mere  ''  prebendaries," 
as  they  are  called  in  modern  parlance  ;  it  caused  the  institution  of 
vicars  choral,  and,  indirectly,  of  chauntry  priests,  and  in  Southwell 
it  gave  rise  to  the  exceptional  offices  of  churchwardens,  who  were 
also  bursars. 

iSfon-residence,  and  doing  duty  by  deputy,  were  almost 
inseparable  accidents  of  the  secular  canon  from  the  first,  and 
became  quite  inseparable  as  soon  as  prebends  were  established. 
The  canon  and  prebendary  was  necessarily  obliged,  either  to  be  in 
two  places  at  once,  or  to  be  represented  in  one  of  the  two  places  by 
a  deputy.  The  dilemma  as  to  whether  he  was  to  reside  at  South- 
well as  a  canon  and  have  a  deputy,  say,  at  Norwcll,  ten  miles  off; 
or  to  reside  in  Northwell  as  a  prebendary,  and  have  a  deputy  as  a 
canon  at  Southwell,  was  very  quickly  solved  much  in  the  same 
way  as  a  celebrated  parliamentary  barrister  solved  the  difficulty  of 
being  in  half-a-dozen  committee  rooms  at  once,  when  he  did  equal 
justice  to  all  his  clients  by  appearing  by  deputy  for  all,  and  taking 
a  ride  in  the  park  himself.  The  canon  had  two  deputies  or  vice- 
gerents, or  vicars  as  they  were  then  called,  one  in  his  stall  in  the 
choir,  who  was  called  his  vicar  choral,  the  other  in  his  prebendal 
church,  who  was  his  vicar  parochial  or  parish  vicai*.  Meanwin'le 
he  himself  either  resided  in  another  collegiate  church  or  in  another 
rectory,  or  sought  his  fortunes  at  the  university,  or  in  the  law 
courts,  or  the  service  of  the  king  or  other  magnate. 

The  very  earliest  English  cathedral  statutes,  those  of  St. 
Osmund,  of  Salisbury,  in  1091,  contemplate  non-residence  as  a 
likely  thing  to  happen,  when  they  provide  that  ''  dean  and 
chaunter,  chancellor  and  treasurer,  shall  always  be  resident  in  the 
church  of  Sarum,  all  hope  of  absence  being  put  away."  Further, 
while  providing  that  these  four  officers  are  to  have  a  double  share 
of  the  communia  or  common  fund,  and  the  rest  of  the  canons  a 
single  one,  there  is  inserted  the  clause,  "  but  no  one  shall  share  in 
the  common  fund  who  is  npt  resident."  Either  tlierefore  at  Bayeux 
(from  whence  St.  Osmund,  like  Thomas  of  York,  who  had  been 
treasurer  of  Bayeux,  is   shown   by  Mr.  Bradshaw  in  his  w^ork  on 


xliv  INTRODUCTION. 

the  Black  Book  of  Lincoln,  to  have  drawn  his  inspiration),  or  in  the 
cathedrals  and  collegiate  churches  of  England  and  Normandy,  and 
most  jtrobahly  in  all,  the  disease  of  non-residence  had  already 
begun.  It  rapidly  developed  itself.  Nor  is  it  surprising  that  it 
did.  Not  only  was  the  actual  choir  attendance  with  its  multiplied 
services  and  manifold  repetitions  a  most  onerous  duty,  most  trying 
to  those  of  most  activity  and  intelligence,  but  the  pecuniary  burdens 
of  residence  were  considerable.  A  canon  not  only  had  to  entertain 
the  inferior  ministers  of  the  church  at  his  own  table,  but  also  to 
entertain  strangers  as  well.  At  Chichester,  in  1251,  a  residentiary 
on  coming  into  residence  had  to  pay  twenty-five  marks  to  the 
chapter,  twenty-five  marks  to  the  fabric  fund,  to  give  a  feast, 
"  convivium,"  to  the  dean  and  chapter  and  all  ministers  of  the 
church,  to  dine  daily  the  vicar  of  his  stall,  two  other  vicars, 
the  doorkeeper,  two  sacrists,  one  chorister.  °  All  this  he  could 
escape  by  non-residence,  and  be  earning  income  somewhere  else 
as  well. 

At  Southwell,  non-residence  on  the  prebends  must  have  been 
well  established  by  1170,  as  the  Bull  of  Alexander  III.  of  that  date 
especially  insists  on  the  right  of  the  canons  '•  to  institute  fit  vicars, 
whom  they  please,  in  their  prebendal  churches  without  interference  " 
by  any  one.  Unfortunately  we  have  no  earlier  statute  of  the 
church  than  1225,  when  Archbishop  Walter  Gray  endeavoured  to 
counteract  the  attractions  of  non-residence  by  increasing  the  pay 
of  the  residents.  But  the  very  fact  that  he  did  so  shows  how  the 
j)ractice  of  non-residence  had  become  confirmed.  By  this  statute 
every  canon  attending  matins  on  ordinary  feast  days,  '^  days  of 
nine  lessons,"  Avas  to  have  from  the  common  fund  3(/.,  and  on  any 
'' double  "  feast  6cZ.,  while  the  residue  was  to  be  divided  equally 
among  the  canons  resident;  and  those  were  to  be  *' esteemed  resi- 

'  At  Lincoln,  according  to  the  "  ancient  customs  "  as  stated  in  the  Black  Book 
in  1440,  the  Residentiary  "in  course"  for  a  M-eek,  like  a  Winchester  prefect,  had 
to  dine  on  Sunday  twenty-two  ministers  of  the  Church,  every  day  deacon  and  suh- 
deacon  and  vicar  choral  in  course  as  rector  chori ;  and  breakfast  two  bellriugers. 
On  certain  feasts  the  numbers  were  even  larger. 


INTRODUCTION.  xlv 

dent  who  for  three  months  continuously,  or  in  two  instalments, 
have  lived  in  the  church  at  Southwell."  But  even  so  those  studying 
theology  were  to  count  as  residents.  And  the  residents  might 
get  leave  of  absence  from  their  brethren  even  during  the  three 
months  "  for  urgent  business  "  if  they  made  the  time  of  three 
months  up  during  the  year. 

That  Southwell  canons  were  not  singular  in  having  to  be  bribed 
to  attend  the  services  to  which  they  were  bound,  is  shown  by  the 
contemporary  statutes  of  Chichester  in  1232,  where  the  canons 
"nomine  vini,"  "  for  wine,"  were  to  have  I2d.  for  attending  at 
six  principal  "  prime  dignity "  feasts,  6d.  for  the  rest  of  prime 
dignity  feasts,  and  3d.  at  other  feasts.  In  an  earlier  statute 
at  Chichester,  in  1197,  each  canon  present  at  matins  and  vespers 
throughout  the  week  had  been  given  I2d.,  and  each  vicar  choral 
Sd.,  so  that  the  tariff  for  attendance  rose  rapidly.  The  term  of 
residence  varied  considerably  in  different  places.  At  Chichester, 
as  late  as  1247,  it  would  seem  that  residence,  instead  of  being  for 
twelve  weeks  only,  was  for  the  whole  year  less  three  weeks  a 
quarter,  or  twelve  weeks  in  all.  At  Exeter,  in  1268,  residence  was 
to  be  for  forty-six  days  in  each  quarter,  or  a  full  half  of  the  year. 
At  Salisbury,  in  1222,  for  three  years,  forty  weeks^  residence  was  to 
suffice;  in  1305  a  quarter's  residence,  less  twelve  days,  was  enough. 
At  Lincoln,  in  about  1236,  residence  was  to  be  thirty- four  weeks 
and  four  days.  At  York,  in  1221,  it  was  twenty- four  weeks. 
At  Beverley,  Archbishop  Greenfield  in  1317  relaxed  a  previous 
ordinance  of  John  le  Eomaine,  and  fixed  residence  at  twelve 
weeks  "■  according  to  the  minor  residence  at  York."^  At  Ripon,  in 
1332,  Archbishop  Melton  being  very  indignant  at  finding  nobody 
resident  in  the  church,    which  was   "  quasi    penitus   desolatam," 

*  The  York  residence  is  rather  mysterious.  In  the  first  year  the  "  greater  resi- 
dence "  iraplied  twenty-six  weeks  continnously  sleeping  in  his  house  in  York,  and 
presence  at  all  hours.  The  "  lesser  residence "  seems  to  be  fixed  at  twenty-four 
weeks,  twelve  in  each  of  the  halves  of  the  year.  But  in  1291,  when  a  residentiary 
had  made  his  greater  and  lesser  residence  and  obtained  the  first  vacant  farm  or 
lease  of  chapter  lands,  he  had  only  to  reside  twelve  weeks. 


xlvi  INTRODUCTION. 

ordained  that  tlio  residcntlaries  *'  sliall  reside  twelve  weeks  a  year, 
as  lias  been  observed  at  Southwell  and  Beverley." 

In  12G0  the  canons  of  Southwell,  by  an  act  of  chapter,  affected 
to  modify  or  put  a  gloss  on  the  statute  of  1225  (which  had  been 
regularly  made  by  the  archbishop  and  chapter  under  seal,  and 
could  only  be  altered  in  the  same  way),  explaining  that  they  under- 
stood studying  theology  only  to  count  as  residence  if  studied  ''  at 
Paris,  Oxford,  or  Cambridge  in  the  regular  course,  and  at  least 
for  two  ternn  of  the  year" — an  ordinance  probably  aimed  at  the 
Italian  canons  thrust  in  by  Papal  "  provisions,"  and,  partly  perhaps, 
at  such  casual  universities  in  England,  as  -wore  half  established  at 
Stamford  and  Salisbury.  Absence  of  a  canon  at  his  prebend  "''  for 
the  sake  of  preaching,  or  hearing  confessions,  or  doing  such  things 
as  the  due  care  of  his  prebend  requires,"  if  he  does  not  sleep  more 
than  three  nights  out  of  Southwell,  and  has  asked  leave  of  the  other 
canons  resident,  is  not  to  count  as  absence.  It  is  only  absence 
without  leave,  or  with  leave  at  another  than  his  prebendal  church, 
which  he  has  to  make  up  within  the  year. 

The  plague  of  non-residence,  however,  was  not  stayed.  It  was, 
indeed,  so  far  recognised  as  the  regular  thing,  that  in  1291,  in 
founding  two  new  j)rebends,  the  Archbishop  John  le  Romaine  makes 
provision  at  the  same  time  for  their  vicars  choral  and  jiarocliial. 
In  1293,  after  a  visitation,  he  ordains  that  every  absent  canon  shall 
have  a  pro])eriy  authorised  proxy,  that  perpetual  vicarages  shall 
be  estal)lished  in  all  the  prebendal  churches,  and  that  all  the  vicars 
choral  shall  be  regularly  paid  60s.  a  year  by  the  prebendaries. 
His  successor,  Thomas  of  Corbridge,  after  a  visitation  held  in  1300, 
introduced,  from  York,  a  statute  to  stop  "colourable"  residence, 
and  to  have  some  fixed  beginning,  that  "  every  canon  who  has  held 
])eaceful  possession  for  a  year,  wishing  and  intending  to  make  his 
first  residence,  before  beginning  his  residence  shall,  on  Michaelmas 
Day,  or  within  eight  days  aitcrwards,  for  three  days  before  the 
canons  in  the  chapter-house,  if  any  shall  then  be  resident,  i>ublicly 
protest  and  give  notice  of  his  coming  and  beginning  his  residence." 
The  solidarity  of  the  collegiate  churches  is  strikingly  e.\empliHed 


INTRODUCTION.  xlvii 

in  regard  to  this  provision,  as  in  a  statute  of  Wells  Cathedral,  made 

in  1301,  in  almost  identical  terms,  it  is  stated  that  the  statute  is 

made  in  order  to  bring  the  practice  at  Wells  into  conformity  with 

that  in  other  cathedrals. 

In    1302   the   same  Archbishop  is  very  strong  on   the   subject 

of  residence,  putting  it  in  the  front  rank  of  things  to  be  reformed 

in  consequence  of  his  visitation.      ''  In  the  first  place,"  he  says^ 

"  statutably  inioininff  (statuentes  et  firraiter  injungentes)  vou  the  Canons  residentian 

.^*     /  ,==  ^  .^,         ,.    .  1.  .u      ■  p  at  Southwell, 

canons  — ni  whose  absence  neither  divme  worship,  nor  the  mass  ot 

the  glorious  Virgin  Mary,  in  whose  honour  the  church  was  founded, 
are  fitly  sustained,  nor  have  corrections  been  duly  made  in  choir, 
or  chapter,  of  the  excesses  of  ministers — to  make  residence  accord- 
ing to  the  statutes  of  the  church,  which  on  your  admission  you 
swore  to  observe.  Do  ye  take  care  to  provide  by  your  special 
statutes,  as  to  other  matters,  that  neither  divine  worship  be 
neglected  nor  excesses  remain  uncorrected;  while,  for  keeping  resi- 
dence, let  it  be  thus  arranged :  that  at  all  times  of  the  year  three, 
or  at  least  two,  canons  shall  be  resident  in  the  church,  who  may 
hold  chapter,  and  personally  in  consultation  direct  and  handle 
business."  But  a  loop-hole  is  left  by  this  further  provision  :  "  But 
if  by  some  inevitable  cause,  on  lawful  licence  obtained  from  us, 
there  should  be  for  a  time  no  canon  in  residence,  let  the  rule  of 
the  church  be  committed  to  some  discreet  person  under  oath,  until 
the  canons  return  to  keep  residence." 

This  statute  fixed  the  constitution  of  the  church  in  a  sense 
probably  verv  different  from  what  its  author  intended.  Henceforth 
"  three  or  at  the  least  two  "  canons  residentiary  became,  not  the 
minimum,  but  the  maximum  number  of  residentiaries  ;  but  instead 
of  there  being  always  two  or  three  resident  together  at  every  part 
of  the  year,  the  greater  part  of  the  year  there  was  only  one  resi- 
dentiary, while  under  the  fatal  proviso  for  delegating  their  power 
to  some  fit  person,  more  often  than  not  there  was  no  canon  in 
residence,  and  the  government  of  the  church  was  intrusted  to  two 
churchwardens,  who  were  two  of  the  vicars  choral.  How  soon  or 
how  rapid  the  decline  in  the  number  of  residents  to  the  minimum  was 


xlviii  IKTRODUCTION. 

there  are  no  exact  means  of  knowing.  The  i:)reamble  to  statutes 
of  1329  sliows  four  canons  present  in  person  and  four  by  proxy, 
the  rest  being  described  as  contumaciously  absent.  The  preamble 
to  statutes  of  1335  shows  six  canons  present  in  person  (two  of 
whom  were  among  those  appearing  by  proxy  in  1329),  the  rest  by 
proxy,  and  two  only  ''  contnmaciously  absent."  But  as  early  as 
1361  (W.  B.,  p.  129),  we  have  Robert  de  Edenstow,  canon  resi- 
dentiary, by  himself  "  making  and  Jiolding  a  chapter."  In  the 
period  comprised  in  the  later  register  we  find  on  one  occasion,  in 
1470,  four  canons  residentiary  excommunicating  a  recalcitrant 
vicar  choral,  and  in  1492  three  residentiaries  try  a  charge  of  fielony. 
On  other  occasions  never  more  than  two,  and,  as  a  rule,  only  one 
residentiary  appears.  We  constantly  have,  as  on  (p.  17)  30th 
July,  1473,  a  single  residentiary  sitting  as  a  tribunal,  described 
as  "making  a  chapter."  In  1484  (p.  46)  even  so  solemn  a^ 
function  as  the  Triennial  Visitation  is  held  by  the  "  guardians,"  or 
churchwardens,  in  the  absence  of  any  canon.  After  that  visitation 
the  detected  offenders  are  called  up  before  a  residentiary  canon 
some  months  later.  But  the  power  of  the  churchwardens  seems 
to  have  increased,  as  in  1534  (p.  92^  we  find  the  wardens  them- 
selves suspending  a  deacon,  and  summoning  a  chauntrj'  priest  for 
not  attending  services,  though  by  a  statute  of  1248  it  is  expressly 
provided  that  they  (custodes  ecclesite  et  altaris)  are  to  report  de- 
linquencies to  the  canons  in  residence.  The  last  entry  in  the 
register,  in  1542  (p.  94),  shows  a  vicar  choral  summoned  for 
adultery  before  a  single  guardian  and  the  chapter  registrar,  them- 
selves vicars  choral.  In  1535,  when  the  Yalor  Ecclesiasticus  was 
taken,  Edward  Basset  is  returned  "  as  no  we  being  residentiary  ye 
soole."  In  1546  and  1547  there  were  three  residentiaries. 
Vuluc  of  prc»>eml!i.  There  is  some  difficulty  in  making  out  whether  a  simple  single 

canonry  was,  as  a  rule,  an  adequate  endowment  for  the  kind  of 
person  who  became  a  canon,  at  least  in  the  later  days.  The 
prebends  at  Southwell  varied  very  much  in  value.  The  sacrist, 
according  to  one  estimate,  received  under  £*2  a  year  clear,  from 
property.      The  prebend  of  Dunluun,  however,  was  worth   some- 


INTRODUCTION.  xlix 

thing  like  £36  a  year.  An  average  canonry  would  be  worth  about 
£20  a  year.  This  was  very  good  pay  for  an  ordinary  priest, 
who  was  happy  if  he  could  get  a,  £5  a.  j^ear  chauntry.  But  this 
would  hardly  tempt  the  cleverest  and  best  educated  men  of  the  day 
to  settle  down  as  residents  in  Southwell,  with  no  opportunity  for 
progress  and  distinction.  Nor  would  the  common  fund,  if  it  came 
to  be  divided  among  all  the  canons,  produce  a  very  great  addition 
to  their  income.  In  1525  its  product  in  a  year  was  a  little  over 
£45,  which  was  divided  among  three  residentiaries.  Added  to  the 
perquisites  arising  from  vacant  prebends,  gifts  for  presentations 
to  chapter  livings  and  other  patronage,  besides  matins  money 
and  so  forth,  this  sum  made  a  very  snug  little  addition  to  the 
prebend.  No  doubt  also  there  were  fines  for  renewals  of  leases 
even  in  those  days,  and  these  fines,  so  far  as  concerned  the 
common  fund,  were  no  doubt  something  considerable.  Still,  divided 
among  rfxteen  persons,  £45  a  year,  even  with  perquisites  and 
windfalls,  would  not  come  to  much,  and  offered  no  sufficient  induce- 
ment to  residence. 

As  regards  the  separate  prebends,  whether  as  the  cause  or  the 
effect  of  non-residence,  the  fines  on  leases  were  too  intermittent  to 
be  of  much  value.  It  was  clearly  the  practice  to  let  the  prebend 
as  a  whole,  even  including  the  prebendal  mansion-house,  with  a 
reservation  of  a  right  of  user  of  a  room  or  two  on  occasion.  It 
was  let  at  the  ancient  and  accustomed  rent,  as  seen  in  Pope 
Nicholas'  taxation.  But  there  was  no  limit  apparently  on  the 
length  of  leases^  and  long  terms  of  years  were  granted,  doubtless  [ 

for   valuable   consideration   in    the    way  of   money  down    to    the  : 

grantor,  which  left  the  grantor's  successors  in  the  prebend  nothing- 
more  than  its   bare   annual  rent  for  99   or  even   150   years  and  i 
longer.     Hence  residence  became  impossible  for  the  whole  body  of 
canons.  ; 

Still,  a  remedy  would  probably  have  been   found   if  every  one  riurality  of  prebemls.   i 
concerned  had  not  really  been  interested  in  non-residence. 

One  weighty  reason  why  residence  of  canons  was  not  more  firmly 
enforced  was  that  the  popes  and  archbishops,  even  those  who  thundered 

^  i 

1 


1  INTRODUCTION. 

most  fiercely  against  it,  found  non-residence  extremely  convenient. 
Non-residence  became  the  basis  of  a  f^lorious  system  of  pluralities 
and  patronage.  Tiie  popes  treated  the  P^nglish  Church  as  their  lawful 
spoil.  They  crowded  the  prebends  of  cathedrals  and  collegiate 
churches  on  Italians  who  never  set  foot  in  England  ;  and  the 
archbisliops  were  forced- to  put  in  Italian  nominees  of  popes  and 
cardinals,  if  they  Avanied  to  get  anything  done  at  the  Court  of 
Rome.  The  kings  of  England  were  not  behind  them,  nor  the 
arclibishops  themselves.  Anyone  who  got  the  favour  of  an  Arch- 
bishop of  York  was  singularly  unfortunate,  or  moderate  in  his 
requirements,  if  he  was  not  at  least  a  canon  of  his  four  matrices 
ecclesia?,  York,  Beverley,  Ripon,  and  Southwell.  Of  later  instances 
of  the  astounding  plurality  which  resulted  from  tliis  system,  some 
are  noted  in  the  lists  of  canons  given   (pp.  145-160  post). 

Perhaps,  howe\er,  the  most  salient  instance  on  record  ia  that  of 
William  of  Wykeham,  who  was  a  canon  of  Southwell.  In  1366 
he  had  to  send  in  a  list  of  his  ])referments  to  the  Bishop  of  London, 
the  Pope  having  caused  inquiries  to  be  made  by  way  of  annoying 
the  King,  with  whom  he  was  then  quarrelling,  and  who  had  been 
heaping  preferments  on  the  anti- Papal  party  in  the  Church, 
The  original  return  is  given  in  full  in  Moberly's  "  Life  of 
William  of  AVykeham."  It  is  sufficiently  com])rehensive.  Wyke- 
ham is  described  as  Keeper  of  the  privy  seal,  and  this  is  what  he 
held  in  the  Church  : — 

£ 

Archdeaconry  of  Lincoln "       -             -             -             -  350  a  year. 

Canonry  and  prebend  of  Sutton  in  Lincoln  Cathedral  -  172  ,, 

,,                     Laghton  in  York  iMinstcr       -  72  ,, 

,,                     Dunham  in  Southwell  Minster  36  ,, 
if                     St.   Mary's  Altar  in  Beverley 

Minster     -              -              -  16  „ 

•  This  is  described  as  "a  benefice  with  cure  [of  souls]  alid  [tliercforo]  not  com- 
patible with  anotlier  benefice  witli  cure."  The  prebends  arc  described  as  without 
cure  of  souls  und  compatible. 


INTRODUCTION.  K 

Caiioniy  and  prebend  of  Totenhall  in  St.  Paul's  Cathe- 
dral -  -  -     10      „ 
,,                     Fordington       in       Salisbury 

Cathedral  -  -  -     16      ,, 

„  Wherwell  in  AYherwell  Min- 

ster (Nuns)  -  -     40      ,, 

,,  Iwerne  in  Shafton,  or  Shaftes- 

bury, ]\Iinster  (Nuns)  -     20  a  year. 

,,  Swords  in  St.  Patrick's  Cathe- 

dral, Dublin  -  -     60      „ 

Provost,  canon,  and  prebendary  of  Wells  Cathedral    -     45      ,, 
Canonry  and  prebend  of  Athelney  in  Bridgnorth  Free 

Chapel       -  -  -  -  -  -     23      ,, 

Rectory  of  Many hy net,  Cornwall '^     -  -  -       8      ,, 

£866 

He  had  also  been  appointed  to  a  canonry  and  prebend  in  Bishop 
Auckland  Collegiate  Church,  but  as  he  would  not  submit  to  exami- 
nation, as  required  by  the  Pope,  he  had  given  it  up.  He  would  also 
seem  to  have  bad,  at  or  about  the  same  time,  a  canonry  and  prebend  in 
Hereford  Catliedral,  in  Bromyard  Collegiate  Church,  in  St.  David's 
Cathedral,  in  Abergwili  Collegiate  Church,  Carmarthenshire,  and 
Llanddewi  Brevi  Collegiate  (Jhurch,  Cardiganshire,  in  Hastings 
Collegiate  Church,  and  the  Chapel  of  St.  Stephen's,  Westminster. 
Only  the  year  before  he  had  resigned,  no  doubt  for  good  con- 
sideration, his  deanery  of  St.  Martin's-le- Grand,  the  chapel  and 
cloister  of  which  he  rebuilt,  and  which  he  held  before  he  had 
taken  priest's  orders,  or  even  been  ordained  an  acolyte. 

Except  the  canonry  in  Bridgnorth,  which  is  given  at  its  "  true 
value,"  the  rest  of  the  preferments  are  given  at  the  value  in  Pope 
Nicholas'  taxation  one  hundred  and  seventy  years  before,  which 
we  may  suppose  was  as  much  below  the  true  value  as  the  land- 
tax  valuation  of  to-day  is  below  the  true  value  of  the  land.  Even 
on  Pope  Nicholas'  taxation,  Wykeham  drew  some  i,*16,000a  year, 

*  This  he  says  he  has  resigned. 


lii 


INTRODUCTION. 


J]flFect  of  non- 
residence. 


The  greater  and 
lesser  chapter. 


of  our  money,  when  he  had  been  just  tlu'ee  years  a  priest,  without 
reorard  to  the  rich  secuhir  offices  lie  also  held.  Of  course,  as  a 
pluralist  he  was  nothin*,^  to  compare  with  Wolsey,  who  held 
the  archbislio])ric  of  York  at  the  same  time  as  the  richest  bishopric 
and  the  richest  abbey  in  the  kingdom,  and  drew  his  thousands  where 
Wykeham  drew  his  hundreds.  The  art  of  plurality  had  improved 
in  the  inter\'ening  century  and  a  half.  A  full  list  of  all  the  prefer- 
ments, say,  of  Richard  Pace,  canon  of  Southwell,  Wolsey's  secretary 
of  state,  would  no  doubt  be  quite  as  startling  as  Wykeham's. 

It  is  very  possible,  indeed  it  is  pretty  certain,  that  the  world  at 
large  suffered  not  at  all  from  the  system  of  non-residence  and 
pluralities.  The  canonries  came  to  be  used  as  rewards  for  lawyers, 
diplomatists,  and  statesmen  who  were  at  least  as  useful,  to  put  it 
no  higher,  working  in  the  world,  as  they  would  have  been  if 
they  had  crawled  through  their  lives,  huddling  through  their 
duties  or  neglecting  them  idtogether,  to  spend  a  little  more  time 
catching  moles,  dicing,  or  flirting,  or  worse,  with  the  wives  of  the 
masons,  carpenters,  and  petty  yeomen  of  a  country  town  like 
Southwell  or  Beverley,  The  non-resident  canon  stood  then  in 
much  the  same  position  as  the  non-resident  fellow  of  a  college 
does  now  ;  or  did,  until  the  last  university  reform.  Many,  perhaps 
most,  did  as  good,  perhaps  better,  work  for  their  money  than  the 
residents. 

It  would  seem  that  at  Southwell,  as  at  York,  unlike  many 
cathedrals,  the  residentiuries  never  established  them.selvcs  as  the 
chapter  to  the  complete  exclusion  of  the  non-residents.  In  1257, 
in  1329,  in  1338,  great  stress  was  laid  on  the  presence  by  proxy, 
if  not  in  person,  of  all  the  canons  resident  or  non-resident.  Several 
references  in  the  chapter  register  to  the  proctors  or  proxies  of  non- 
resident canons  seem  to  show  that  their  presence,  real  or  notional, 
was  slill  thought  necessary  to  constitute  a  chajjter.  Thus,  on  p.  45, 
complaint  is  made  of  there  being  no  sufficient  hedge  or  wall  between 
the  vicar's  garden  and  (Jhawndeler's  prebendal  mansion,  "through 
the  default  of  the  i)rebendary  and  his  proxy." 

At  Kipon,  in  15:54,  it  was  expressly  stated  in   an   injunction  of 


INTRODUCTION.  liii 

Archbishop  Lee,  addressed  to  one  of  the  resident  canons  who  had  i 

affected  to  exclude  the  precentor^  who  was  technically  non-resident,  i 

from  the  chapter,  and  acted  by  himself,  that  the  chapter  consisted  .' 

of  all  the  canons  resident  and  non-resident,  and  all  must  be  sura-  : 

moned.    Bj^tlie  Southwell  statutes,  however,  many  duties  and  powers  ; 

were  conferred    expressly    on    the  residentiaries  only.      Thus,  in  I 

1248,  the  accounts  of  the  warden  of  the  fabric  were  to  be  presented  < 

to  the  canons  resident;   they  were   to  examine  and  promote  the  1 

ministers  of  the  church  ;  they  were  to  visit  the  prebendal  churches 
and  chapels,  and  in  default  of  the  prebendary  of  the  place  were  to  J 

correct  the  ministers,  &c.;  they  alone  were  to  govern  the  vicars  ] 

choralj  and  chauntry  priests,  and  to  present  to  all  benefices  in  the  j 

church,  and  generally  have  its  whole  internal  administration     As  I 

a  fact,   this    control    was   largely  exercised  through   the   church-  ; 

wardens.  i 

The  powers  and  duties  of  these  churchwardens  are  rather  a  Churchwardens  of 
singular  development,  and  are  the  strongest  evidence  of  the  early 
and  wide  development  of  non-residence.'  When  Walter  Gray 
gave  the  church  of  Ilolleston  to  augment  the  commons  of  the 
canons  in  residence,  a  statute  was  thereon  mnde  in  1225  :  "  The 
ancient  communia  of  the  church  and  the  church  of  Rolleston, 
which  we  have  given  them  (the  chapter)  in  augmentation  of  their 
communia,  and  all  future  accretions  of  the  said  communia,  should 
be  conjoined  into  one  sum,  to  be  divided  among  the  canons  by 
the  hands  of  wardens  (custodum)  annually  provided  for  this 
purpose  by  the  canons  "  In  1248  a  statute  of  the  canons  of 
Southv/ell^  in  chapter  assembled,  provided  that  "  the  churchwarden 
(custos  fabricEe  ecclesise)  every  year,  once  a  year,  shall  render  his 
accounts  before  two  canons  in  residence  of  all  his  receipts,  and 
some  canon  or  vicar  of  the  church  shall  be  a.9S0ciated  with  the 
said  warden,  who  may  be  able  to  bear  evidence  of  his  receipts." 
In  the  same  statutes  the  "  wardens  of  the  church  and  altar,"  who 
must  be  the  same  officers,  are  spoken  of  in  the  j^lural.  In 
1258  Domini  Symon  and  Thomas,  "proctors  or  wardens  of  the 
dve  evidence    as    to    the    division    of 


Southwell. 


liv  INTRODUCTION. 

oblations  between  the  parish  and  hifjh  altars,  that  is  between  the 
pockets  of  the  chapter,  and  of  the  parish  vicar,  respectively.  In 
the  statute  of  12G0,  already  quoted  for  another  purpose,  it  is 
again  jirovided  that  "  the  warden  of  the  fabric  shall  have  a  fellow, 
some  chai)lain  of  the  church,  given  him  by  the  re^5idents,  who 
shall  be  able  to  give  evidence  at  his  account  of  his  receipts,  nor 
shall  he  begin  any  work,  in  the  church  or  out,  except  by  the  consent 
of  the  brethren  present  in  general  convocation,  and  of  the  jjroctors 
of  those  absent.  Also,  the  wardens  of  the  comnmnia  shall  render 
their  accounts  at  the  end  of  the  year,  as  has  already  been  ordained." 
If  these  two  offices  of  warden  of  the  fabric,  and  of  tho  common 
lands  of  the  chapter,  were  still  distinct  in  1260,  they  had  certainly 
ceased  to  be  so  by  1295,  as  in  that  year  (W.  B.  p.  23)  in  a  letter 
to  the  chapter  giving  the  result  of  an  inquiry  helil  at  South 
Muskham  with  a  view  to  the  institution  of  a  perpetual  vicarage, 
where  there  had  been  no  regular  parish  vicar  hitherto,  they 
describe  themselves  as  "  wardens  of  the  comnmnia  of  the  canons, 
and  of  the  fabric  of  the  church." 

In  1302  they  were  so  definitely  recognised  that  by  the  statutes  of 
Thomas  de  Corbridge,  "  it  is  provided  that  no  one  sworn  to  suit  of 
choir  of  the  church  of  Southwell  shall  absent  himself  from  the 
church  in  any  way,  without  leave  from  a  canon  resident  asked 
and  obtained,  or  from  the  wardens  of  the  chapter  (custodibus 
capituli),  if  the  case  should  happen  that  no  canon  is  then  present." 
And  the  protestatioii  of  a  canon,  on  entering  his  residence,  is  to 
be  *'  before  the  canons  in  the  chapter-house,  if  any  of  the  canons 
is  then  resident,  otherwise,  before  the  wardens  of  the  chapter  of 
Southwell  in  the  chaj)ter-house,  at  Treciosa."  In  a  statute  made 
by  "  a  convocation  of  the  canons  of  Southwell  Church,"  1329,  it  is 
ordered  and  decreed  (statutum)  that  every  year  at  the  audit  next 
after  tho  Feast  of  Trinity,  general  wardens  of  the  commons  of  the 
canons  (custodes  generales  communiae  canonicorum)  are  to  be 
elected;  and  whereas  in  1293  the  great  seal  of  the  ehajjter  was  to 
be  under  the  seals  of  three  canons,  and  the  little  seal  for  citations 


INTRODUCTIOX.  Iv 

under  the  seal  of  one  canon,  now  the  three  chests,  in  one  of  which 
the  muniments  and  moneys  of  the  church,  in  another  the  pLite 
(jocalia)  and  relics,  in  the  third  the  books  of  the  community 
(communitatis)  are  to  be  kept  by  tlie  two  wardens  and  the  sacrist. 
The  wardenship  of  the  commons,  though  nominally,  and  by  express 
statute  of  1260,  an  annual  office,  seems  to  liave  become  practically 
one  for  life.  The  statute  of  1260  provides  that  the  "  wardens  of 
the  commons  shall  deliver  in  their  account  at  the  end  of  the  year, 
and  then  shall  give  up  their  office  with  the  keys  and  everything 
committed  to  their  care  into  the  hands  of  the  canons  then  resident, 
who  shall  deliberate  for  two  or  three  daj's  to  whom,  viz.  whether 
to  them  or  to  others,  they  choose  to  assign  the  office."  Yet  we 
find  in  the  White  Book  (pp.  147,  148,  159,  169)  the  same  two 
vicars  "  Avardens  of  the  commons"  in  1^^08,  "wardens  of  the 
church"  in  1312,  and  "  wardens  of  the  commons"  in  1324.  In 
1329  it  was  again  expressly  enacted  that  "some  certain  form 
should  be  ordered  by  the  chapter  by  which  their  power  should  be 
limited  to  single  years."  If  this  was  intended  to  prevent  the 
continuance  of  the  same  persons  in  office  in  successive  years  it  did 
not  do  so.  For  in  the  register  we  find  the  same  vicars  choral, 
guardians,  or  wardens,  or  bursars  fgardianis  sive  iconomis,  p.  3), 
from  1469  to  1490 ;  and,  on  one  of  them  being  made  parish 
vicar  of  Southwell,  his  fellow  goes  on  with  a  new  colleague  to 
1492.  Again  John  Bull  is  guardian  from  1522  to  1534,  and 
Christopher  Walker  from  1532  to  1542  (the  last  entry  in  the 
book).  One  election  of  the  wardens  by  the  canons  in  residence  is 
entered,  in  which  it  is  expressly  stated_,  that  they  laid  down  their 
office  at  the  end  of  the  year,  and  were  re-elected.  Xo  doubt  they 
would  have  been  as  much  astonished  not  to  find  themselves 
re-electedj  as  the  remembrancer  of  the  City  of  London,  also  a 
nominally  annual  officer,  was  entitled  to  be  in  a  late  cause 
cMebre. 

The  complicated  character  oC  Southwell  collegiate  church  may  be 
best  seen  from  the  certificates  of  chauntries  of  Henry  VIII.     The 


Ivi  INTRODUCTION. 

commissioners  say  •  "  In  the  wliieli  cliurclie  tliei'e  be  daylyo  att 
this  claye  resyaunte  and  abydynge  xlvii  persons,  whereof 

iii.  Chanons  Residentars. 

Tlie  Parisshe  Vicar. 

xvj.  Vicars  Choriall. 

xiij.  Chauntrie  Prysts. 

iiij.  Deacons  and  Subdeacons. 

\-j.  Choristars. 

ij.  Thuribulers. 

ij.  Clerks, 
dailye  there  to  mayntayn  Gods  service,  as  is  abovesaid,  withe 
other  godlye  causes  and  consideracyons."  The  h'st  leaves  out 
of  account  the  thirteen  other  canons  or  prebendaries  who  were 
non-resident.  The  registrar  or  scribe,  the  master  of  the  Grammar 
school,  tlie  master  of  the  Song  school,  and  the  master  of  Our 
Lady's  works,  the  "  vurgers,'^  and  the  churchwardens  and  bursars, 
or  guardians  of  the  fabric  and  the  common  fund  of  the  chapter, 
are,  except  perhaps  the  virgers,  included  among  those  named. 

Vicars  choral.  The  vicars  choral  were  the  body  who  in  truth  discharged  the 

canonical  functions  of  the  canons,  if  it  be  true,  as  stated  in  the 
chauntry  certificates,  that  "  the  said  collegiate  churche  was,  atte  the 
firste,  chefFely  founded  for  mayntenaunce  of  Gods  worde,  and 
mynystringe  of  the  most  blessed  sacraments,  and  for  to  have  all 
dyvine  service  there  dayleye  songe  and  sayde." 

While  the  non-resident  canons  had  become  mere  rent-receivers, 
and  the  resident  canons  lawyers  and  men  of  business,  tluir  vioars 
choral  were  bound  to  the  performance  of  the  daily  hours  and 
the  daily  masses,  a  task  of  no  slight  labour  if  didy  and  diligently 
performed,  beginning  as  it  did  with  matins  at  five  a.m.,  going  on 
with  very  slight  intermission  till  noon,  and  with  vespers  and  com- 
pline in  the  afternoon  an<l  evening.  The  vicars  were  all,  and 
always  in  jn-c-llcformation  times,  fidly  ordained  j)ricsts,  not  even 
excepting  apparently,  two  or  four,  who  acted  as  deacons  and  sub- 


INTRODUCTTOK-.  Ivii 

deacons,  or  held   the  offices  of  the  deacons  and  sub-deacons   in 
addition  to  their  own. 

The  earliest  direct  mention  of  the  vicars  choral  at  SouthAvell  is 
in  the  statutes  of  1248,  where  a  canon  or  vicar  is  to  be  associated 
with  the  warden  of  the  fabric.  These  statutes  are  throuo-hout  mainly 
concerned  with  the  vicars  choral,  and  might  well  be  called,  like  the 
similar  statutes  at  Lincoln,  which  haAe  been  traced  up  to  the 
year  1236,  "  Statuta  Yicariorum."  They  show  an  already  well- 
established  and  organised  body,  the  members  of  which  had 
attained  such  dignity  and  position  that  one  of  them  was  to  be 
associated  with  the  canon  residentiary,  and  registrar  of  the  chapter, 
who  by  the  same  statutes  are  directed  once  a  year  "  to  visit  the 
prebendal  churches  and  chapels  belonging  to  the  commons,  to 
inquire  into  the  life  and  honesty,  morals,  condition,  and  behaviour 
(conversatione)  of  the  priests  and  other  ministers  in  the  said 
churches,  and  of  the  public  delinquencies  of  the  parishioners  who 
are  tenants  of  prebends,  and  the  books,  vestments,  and  other 
ornaments  of  the  church,"  and  to  see  that  any  defects  are  repaired 
and  excesses  corrected.  Even  their  stipends  from  the  canons  had 
by  this  time  become  fixed,  since  an  increase  of  "  '2s.  a  year  beyond 
their  accustomed  stipend  "  is  ordered  to  be  paid  by  each  canon  in 
return  for  the  celebration  of  the  mass  for  dead  brethren.  There- 
fore the  vicars  choral  must  have  existed  much  earlier.  At 
Chichester  they  are  recognised,  as  established,  in  a  statute  of 
Seffrid  11.  in  1197,  getting  3c/.  a  week,  while  a  canon  got  Is. 
a  week,  for  attendance  at  matins  and  vespers.  At  Exeter  in  1 205 
(or  1194  according  to  Mr.  Freeman)  the  vicars  were  given  a 
separate  endowment,  and  in  12C8  are  said  to  have  existed  "ex 
fundatione  ecclesire."  They  received  205.  a  year  from  their 
masters  in  addition  to  dividing  the  profits  of  their  separate  endow- 
ment, which  stipend,  or  stall  wages,  was  augmented  by  half  a  mark 
(6s.  Sd.)  At  Wells,  the  vicars  are  mentioned  in  1241,  and 
statutes  to  enforce  their  living  to  some  extent  together,  "  at  least 
two  in  a  house,"  were  made  in  1244.     At  York  the  vicars  choral 

h 


Iviii  INTRODUCTION. 

Averc  incorporated,  or,  to  speak  more  accurately,  their  custos  or 
warden,  the  suc-centor,  Avas  incorporated,  in  1252,  for  tlie  sake  of 
better  securing  the  management  of  their  corporate  property  "  as 
before."  Yet  at  Ripon,  so  late  as  1303,  Thomas  of  Corbridge  had 
to  order  the  canons  to  have  perpetual  instead  of  casual  vicars 
choral,  and  it  was  not  till  the  following  year  that  a  house  was  given 
for  their  habitation. 

B}^  this  statute  of  1303  £3  was  assigned  as  the  pay  of  the  vicars 
choral  at  Ripon,  the  same  amount  which  had  been  directed  at 
Southwell,  by  a  statute  of  the  preceding  archbishop,  ten  years  before. 
At  Southwell  this  Avas  an  increase  on  the  previous  stipend"  "  to  relieve 
the  vicars,  who  had  been  too  much  burdened  owing  to  the  two 
vicars  of  the  two  new  prebends  sharing  in  the  oblations  and  obits." 
Strong  measures  were  to  be  taken  with  any  canons,  who  did  not  jjay 
the  stipends  regularly.  In  1302  Thomas  of  Corbridge  used  for- 
cible language  about  the  arrears  in  the  payment  of  the  vicars' 
stipends,  '^  lest  for  want  of  them  neglecting  the  divine  service 
(ob.sequium)  to  which  they  are  daily  bound,  and  in  which  they 
ought  to  be  vigilant  and  assiduous,  and  to  your  own  and  the 
church's  scandal,  they  be  com])elled  to  rove  about  the  country,  as 
they  used  to  do,  and  so  provoke  an  outcry."  How,  or  when,  this 
stipend  was  raised  to  £4,  at  which  figure  it  stood  at  the  time  of 
the  register  and  up  to  the  Reformation,  does  not  appear. 

Some  time  before  1250  (W.  B.,  p.  306),  it  would  saem  the  vicai-s 
choral  already  enjoyed  common  lands,  and  in  the  statutes  of  1248 
provision  is  made  that  they  are  ''  to  have  a  custos  or  warden  of  their 
commons  (communia)  by  them  elected,  who  shall  divide  all  the  goods 
and  legacies  bequeathed  to  the  brotherhood  of  the  church  of  South- 
well equally  amongst  them  ;  each  of  whom  {i.e.  the  vicars)  shall  be 
bound  by  his  corporal  oath  that  whatever  shall  come  to  his  lumds 
either  for  an  annual,  or  for  a  trental,  or  for  any  legacy  left  to 
the  said  brotherhood  of  the  .•^aid  church,  or  from  any  income  which 
has  been  customarily  regarded  as  belonging  to  the  petty  commons 
(*f  the  vicars,  he  will  faithfully  and  Avithout  any  deduction  hand 

•  This  was  jicrliups  only  £1  ii  ycnr,  tlic  iiinoiiiit  fixed  l)y  Anlihisliop  WiUtcr 
Orny  nt  York  half  a  centnry  before,  12o2. 


INTRODUCTION.  lix 

over  to  the  aforesaid  -warden,  to  be  distributed  equally  among  tlic 
vicars,"  on  pain  of  a  tine  of  two  shillings. 

In  1379  the  site  of  the  present  vicars'  court  at  the  east  end  of 
the  church,  till  then  part  of  the  churchyard,  was  given  for  the 
vicar's  hall  or  common  house.  But  it  appears  from  the  record  of 
the  proceedings  which  then  took  place  that  there  had  been  pre- 
viously a  common  house  for  the  vicars,  but  that  it  had  been  built  a 
long  while  ago,  that  it  was  some  way  off,  and  the  way  between  was 
deep  and  dirty,  that  it  had  fallen  into  such  ruin  that  for  a  long 
time  the  vicars  would  not  live  in  it,  but  lived  by  themselves 
scattered  about  the  town  in  hired  lodgings,  "  whereby  divine 
worship  in  the  church  is  minished,  occasions  of  insolence  are 
given,  popular  obloquy  is  engendered,  and  scandals  and  dangers 
to  souls  arise."  Accordingly  Kichard  of  Chesterfield,  one  of  the 
canons,  got  leave  to  build  the  new  common  house  on  the  present 
site,  "  next  to  the  prebendary  of  Bekingham's  mansion,"  a  pro- 
cess which  required  several  solemn  citations  of  the  inhabitants  of 
Southwell  and  its  dependent  townships,  an  archiepisco])al  authority, 
and  a  papal  Bull.  The  same  benefactor  made  a  considerable  grant 
of  property  a  few  years  later  (1392)  to  the  chapter  as  trustees  for 
the  vicars  choral.  In  spite  of  this  a  most  piteous  tale  was  told 
on  their  behalf  by  Cardinal  Kemp,  then  Archbishop  of  York,  to 
Henry YI.  a  few  years  later,  to  obtain  from  him  what  in  the  White 
Book  is  headed,  "  Great  Favour  (Magna  Gracia)  of  Henry  YI.,  of 
Eavendale,"  the  grant,  namely,  of  the  suppressed  alien  priory  of 
West  Ravendale  in  Lincolnshire.  The  cardinal  told  the  king, 
"  Canons,  vicars,  chaplains  of  chauntries,  deacons,  sub-deacons, 
choristers,  and  other  ministers  to  the  number  of  sixty  persons  or 
thereabouts  have  come  to  such  scantiness  fcxilitatem),  and  are  so 
much  diminished,  that  neither  the  said  vicars,  deacons,  sub-deacons, 
nor  the  chaplains,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  cf  the  chaplains,  can 
be  sustained  out  of  the  portions  assigned  to  them,  to  the  number  of 
forty  persons  or  thereabouts  ;  that  these  consequently  are  likely  to 
depart  from  the  church  to  its  detriment  and  desolation,  unless  speedy 


Ix  INTRODUCTION. 

succour  be  afforded  by  the  king."  On  hearing  wliieh  highly-pitched 
jeremiad,  the  king  gave  the  priory  of  West  Ilavendale,  worth  £14  a 
year,  to  the  chapter  "for  the  relief  and  sustenance  of  all  the  said 
ministers."  The  "  great  grace  "  is  almost  as  exaggerated  as  the 
archbishop's  story,  since  the  arclibishop  paid  300  marks  (£200)  for 
the  grant,  which  is  at  the  rate  of  between  fourteen  and  fifteen  years' 
purchase,  and  real  estate  could  not  have  been  Avorth  much  more 
than  that.  There  were,  however,  some  advowsons  attached  to  it, 
which  doubtless  enhanced  the  real  value.  Including  the  com- 
mon lands,  however,  the  value  of  a  vicar  choralsliip  in  1535  was 
between  £7  and  £8  a  year. 

It  is  odd  that,  neither  in  1379  nor  in  1439,  were  the  vicars 
choral  of  Southwell  incorporated,  as  they  were  in  so  many  churches 
at  about  these  dates.  This  incorporation  was  jiart  of  a  great  move- 
ment in  favour  of  the  better  endowment  and  stricter  life  of  the 
minor  ecclesiastics,  shown  by  the  erection  of  colleges  for  the 
students  at  the  university,  as  well  as  by  the  many  new  colleges  or 
halls  now  built  for  vicars  choral  and  the  like.  Thus  the  minor 
canons  of  St.  Paul's  had  a  new  hall  in  1353,  and  were  incorporated 
in  1394.  The  vicars  choral  of  Chichester  were  incorporated  as  "  the 
principal  and  community  of  vicars  choral  "  in  1334.  At  Exeter  a 
new  college  was  built  in  1388,  and  they  were  incorporated  as  the 
'Svarden  and  college  of  vicars  of  the  choir"  in  1401.  At  Lichfield 
they  were  incorporated  as  ''  the  sub-chanter  and  vicars  choral." 
At  Hereford  they  were  incorporated  in  139G,  by  a  charter  under 
the  privy  seal  of  llichard  II.,  as  "  the  warden  and  vicars  of  the 
choir  of  the  church  of  Hereford."  At  Salisbury,  the  vicars  had  a  new 
hall  in  1338,  and  were  incorporated  in  1410.  At  Wells  they  were 
incorporated  in  1348  ;  at  Lincoln  in  1441.  At  York,  as  we  have  seen, 
they  were  partially  incorporated  in  1 252.  They  were  fully  incorporated 
in  1421  as  "  the  sub-chanter  and  keeper  of  the  house  or  college  of  the 
Bcdcrn  and  his  brethcren  the  vicars  choral."  At  the  sister  church 
of  llipon  they  were  incorporated  in  1414  as  ''  the  college  of  the 
Bedern."  As  regards  Southwell,  Thoroton  (ed.  Tliro.sby,  1787, 
iii.  150)  under  Noi'tli  Mu^kham,  cites  a  confirm:itit)n  of  a  gift  of 


IKTEODUCTION„  Ixi 

lands  in  Batheley  and  Mnskliam  by  Richard  de  Sutton,  canon,  to  ; 

Hugh  de  Morton  his  chamberlain,  to  hold  of  the  vicars   choral  at  j 

10s.  a  year,  to  which  deed   "besides   and   before  the    chapter's  \ 

seal"  was  set  the   common  seal    of  the  vicars  choral,    inscribed  ] 

''  Commune  sigillum  Yicariorum."  This  is  said  to  be  "  ex  autoo-r. 
penes  Will  Scrimshire."  Dickinson  says,  in  1801,  "This  instru- 
ment is  not  now  extant."  Was  it  ever?  The  conveyance  of  lands  to 
the  chapter  in  trust  for  the  vicars  in  1372  seems  conclusive  against  i 

their  ever  having  been   a  corporation,  by  prescription  or   other-  | 

Avise.      Incorporation  did    not  take  away  the    control   which  the  j 

chapter  w^ere  supposed  to  exercise  over  the  vicars.     The  colleges  i 

of  vicars  still  remained  part  of  the  Church  and  a  subordinate 
corporation,  subject  to  the  control  and  to  the  statute-making  power 
of  the  chapters  ;  while  the  vicars,  as  individuals,  still  remained 
subject  to  their  visitation  and  correction.  The  vicars  choral  may 
well  have  thought  that  as,  through  the  wardens  of  the  fabric  and  ; 

the  commons,  they  had  oomplete  control  of  the  possessions  of  the  , 

church,  and  almost  of  the  canons  themselves,  incorporation  was  a 
superfluous  expense,  and  that  a  legal  vesting  of  their  lands  in  ■ 

the  chapter  as  trustees,  was  equivalent  to  vesting  in  themselves,  I 

In  respect  of  the  vicars  choral  as  in  respect  of  the  dean,  there-  ; 

fore,  Southwell  remained  in  a  state  of  arrested  development ;  and,  \ 

though  its  vicars    choral   had  common  lands,   a   common    house,  i 

common  meals,  and  common  statutes  or  bye -laws,  they  had  not  a 
common  seal,  and  never  became  in  strict  law  a  corporation.  i 

I 
The  chauntry  priests  (presbyteri  cantariales),  or  chaplains  (capel-  Chauntry  priests. 
lani  cantariarum),  or  cantarists  (cantaristse),  as  they  were  often 
more  shortly  styled,  were  at  first  an  offshoot  of  and  appendix 
to  the  vicars  choral.  Their  special  function  was  to  pray  for  the 
souls  of  their  founder,  his  relations  and  benefactors.  This  was  in 
fact  the  duty  of  the  vicars  choral,  but  a  mere  general  prayer  was 
not  sufficient  to  satisfy  those  who  were  intent  chiefly  on  the 
salvation  of  their  own  particular  souls.  So  avo  find  Eichard 
Sutton,   canon   of  Southwell,  in  1260   (W.  B.,  p.  28)   making  a 


Ixii  INTKODUCTION. 

special  arrangement  with  the  vicars  choral,  that  "  daily  for  ever 
when  the  missa  do  defunctis  is  celebrated  in  their  church  for 
the  brethren  and  benefactors  of  the  church,  a  special  i)ra}'er 
shall  be  said  for  the  said  Kichard,  and  another  special  prayer  for 
the  souls  of  Robert  de  Sutton  his  father  and  Alicia  his  wife ;  also 
that  they  will  find  for  ever  for  the  soul  of  the  said  Richard,  one 
■wax  taper,  to  burn  at  the  mass  of  the  Blessed  Virgin,  which 
every  day  is  celebrated  solemnly  in  their  church."  But  even  this 
did  not  content  him.  He  must  needs  have  his  special  and  particular 
priest  to  pray  at  his  special  and  particular  altar.  So  Oliver  Sutton, 
Bishop  of  Lincoln,  his  brother  and  executor  of  his  Avill,  in  1274 
founds  a  chauntry,  in  accordance  with  Richard's  dii'cctions,  for  a 
priest  "  to  celebrate  for  ever  for  his  soul,"  at  a  stipend  of  six 
marks,  or  £-i  a  year,  payable  quarterly.  This  was  not,  however, 
the  earliest  chauntry  in  Southwell,  and  Southwell  in  this  respect 
seems  to  have  been  a  little,  though  very  little,  later  in  development 
than  the  cathedrals.  At  Chichester,  according  to  Mr.  Mackenzie 
Walcot,  the  earliest  chauntry  was  ''  for  the  soul  of  William  the 
Dean,"  who  died  in  1180.  At  Wells,  in  1198,  Bishop  Saveric 
augmented  the  commons  of  the  residentiaries,  and  established  two 
chauntry  priests  from  the  same  church,  with  two  and  a  half  marks 
a  year  each,  and  commons  of  bread  like  the  vicars.  At  Lincoln, 
the  earliest  seems  to  have  been  that  of  Hugh  de  Welles,  who  died 
in  1235.  At  Ripon,  the  earliest  chauntry  was  in  1234.  At  South- 
well, it  was  in  1241  that  Robert  of  Lexington,  canon,  and  a  judge 
of  the  King's  Bench,  founded  a  chauntry  for  two  priests  at  the 
altar  of  Thomas  the  Martyr,  i.e.  Becket,  in  the  church.  It  is 
not,  however,  quite  clear  whether  he  had  not  already  founded  a 
third,  apparently,  at  first,  as  a  separate  cliapel  in  the  town  dedicated 
to  the  same  high  saint,  but  which  in  1547  appears  also  to  have 
been  in  the  church."  Extracts  fi-om  the  foundation  deed  are  given 
in  a  note  at  p.  179  i^ost.     The  essential  part  of  it  for  our  present 

»  Tlic  explanation  perhaps  is  that  a  special  set  having  hccn  mailo  against  Thomas' 
saintship  his  chapel  in  the  Burgage!  had  been  destroycil,  and  the  chauntry  converted 
into  cue  to  Thomas  the  A^iostlc,  in  the  church. 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixili  j 

purpose  is,  that  not  only  were  tlie  two  cliaiintiy  priests  to  celebrate  \ 

in  their  chauntry  for  the   soul  of  the  founder,  and   King  John,  J 

and  other  his  benefactors,  but  also  "  to  follow  the  choir  after  the  ; 

manner  of  the  vicars."     This  came  to  be  the  settled  rule  of  all  j 

chauntry  priests,  and  as  no  less  than  ten  ehauntrics  were  founded  \ 

at  various  times  in  Southwell  Church  before  1372,  and  thirteen  by  ■ 

1469,  when  the  later  register  begins,  a  material  addition  was  made 

to  the  singing  staff  of  the  church.     One  important  result  was  that  • 

the   perpetual    shirking  of  services    which    prevailed    among   the 

vicars  (and  the  chauntry  priests  too)   did  net  leave  the  choir  an  i 

absolute  desert.     By  the  statutes  of  1248,  under  the  heading  of  ■ 

''  the  rest  of  the  chaplains  who  are  bound  to  suit  of  choir  (sequi  I 

chorum)  like  the  vicars,"  the  chauntry  priests  were  brought  under  ! 

the  same  discipline  as  the  vicars.     In  1415,  Thomas  Haxey,  canon,  '  \ 

founded  a    chauntry,  and  gave   certain  endowments   for   the  ten  i 

chauntry  priests  then  existing,  in  common.     These  common  lands  ' 

were  valued  in  1546  at  £6  16s.  ohd.,  and  in  1547  at  £6  Ss.  8cl. 

He  also  built  them  a  "  common  house,"   such   as  had  been  built  The  Channtry-irouse 

for  the  vicars  choral,  and,  like  it,  taken  out  of  the  minster  yard, 

but  at  the  north-Avest  corner.     This  stood  intact  till  1784,  thouo-h 

after   the    Reformation   it   was   let   piecemeal   to   various  people.  1 

There  is   a  quite  pathetic  provision  in  a   lease  of  .1574  (in    the 

Register  of  Leases)  of  the  west  part  of  the  chauntry -house  to  a 

layman;     he    is    to    allow  "Sir  Francis    Kail  and  Sir    Richard  The  last  of  the 

Harryson,    sometime     chauntrie    priests,"    to    enjoy    their    two   t'^^untiy  Priests. 

several    chambers    therein    for    their    lives.       Hall  was  then   69, 

and  Harrison    77    years    of  age.     Being    "  unlerned "    they   had 

lingered  on  in  the  old  spot,  unable  to  get  other  promotion.     The 

site  is  now   occupied  by  a  hideous  red-brick  building,  to   which 

the  grammar   school  was  removed  from  the  Booth  chauntry,  on 

the  south-west  side  of  the  church,  in  which  it  had  been  carried  on  ; 

for  nearly  400  years,  the  chapter  having  pulled  down  the  chapel  i 

as    "  spoiling    the    symmetry    of    the    buildings."       Archbishop 

William  Booth,  who  died   at  Southwell  and  was  there  buried  in 

1464,  gave  further  endowments  in  connnon  among  the  chauntry 

priests,    who    had   increased    to  the   number  of  thirteen.      These  j 

I 


Ixiv  INTRODUCTION. 

wore  valued  in  1547  at  £3  175.  4.d.  only.  Several  of  the  chauntries 
had  outlying  chauntries,  which  were  chapels  of  case  to  prebendal 
parish  churches,  attached  to  them.  One  of  the  chauntry  priests 
"vvas  also  usher  in  the  grammar  school.  The  vicars  choral  were 
generally  filled  up  by  jn'omotion  from  their  ranks. 

At  York,  the  chauntry  priests  of  the  cathedral  were,  like  the  vicars 
choral,  incorporated,  and  formed  into  "  St.  William's  College  "  in 
1460,  and  the  fourteen  chauntry  priests  at  Wells  into  the  Mountery 
College  in  1444.  At  Southwell  the  chauntry  priests  remained  in 
a  state  of  arrested  development.  The  chapter  were  made  trustees 
for  their  common  lands,  as  they  were  for  those  of  the  vicars-choral ; 
and  though  they  lived  in  a  common  house,  under  common  statutes, 
they  never  had  common  seal.  Several  of  the  vicars  choral  held 
chauntries  as  well.  The  value  of  the  chauntries  varied  considerably, 
but  taking  them  all  round  they  were  worth  from  £5  to  £10  a  year. 
FaT)ric  fund,  or  Our  The  fabric  at  Southwell,  as  at  most  if  not  all  collegiate  churches, 

^''^^     °'  ^'  had  its  separate  foundation  of  various  lands  given  "  to   God  and 

the  fabric,"  or^  in  the  ancient  form,  "  to  God  and  St.  Mary  of 
Southwell,  for  the  support  of  the  fabric."  In  later  documents,  as 
in  some  of  the  wills  in  this  volume,  the  gifts  were  "  to  Our  Lady's 
works."  Wo  have  seen  that  the  warden  of  the  fabric  existed 
before  1248.  But  though  during  the  Avhole  period  down  to  tho 
lleformation  Our  Lady's  works  received  perpetual  small  increments 
of  endowment,  chiefly  in  the  town  of  Southwell,  the  annual  value 
of  the  fabric  fund  only  amounted  clear  to  £14  6s.  W^d.  according 
to  the  certificate  of  1546,  and  £13  6s.  8d.  according  to  that  of  1547. 
From  this  had  to  be  deducted  various  obits  and  payments.  Tho 
two  keepers  of  the  storehouse,  as  they  are  called  in  one  certificate, 
the  masters  of  the  works  as  they  are  called  in  another,  wlio  were 
])crhaps  the  same  as  the  custodes  fafricce,  received  13s.  4d.  each; 
the  "  keeper  of  the  organs,"  £1  ;  the  se.xton  or  sacristan's  clerk, 
"  for  keeping  of  the  cloke,"  13s.  4d.;  "the  clerk  of  S.  Leonard's 
altar  for  serving  at  the  highe  altaro,"  13s.  Id.  llonce  only  from 
£7  15s.  5d.  to  £1)  10s.  IU'7.  was  left  for  tho  actual  "  repairing 
and  mayntayning"  of  tho  fal)rio.     This  was,  however,  supplomontod 


INTRODUCTION.  IxV 

bj  the  niies  iimictecl  for  various  offences  ao-ainst  discipline.  As 
early  as  1225  we  saw  the  ap[)ropriation  of  fines  to  the  fabric,  and 
this  continued  up  to  the  Keformation,  As  the  fines,  however,  were 
very  small  and  not  often  enforced,  this  must  have  been^  in  later 
days,  a  precarious  source  of  revenue.  All  additional  and  new 
buildings  were  apparently  done  partly  by  taxing  the  prebends, 
as  in  several  early  entries  in  the  White  Book,  but  chiefly  by  the 
contributions  of  the  faithful,  to  whom,  as  we  have  seen,  many 
privileges  and  indulgences  were  given  as  an  inducement. 

The  list  of  separate  endowments  is  not  even  yet  exhausted.  Deacons  and  sub- 
The  two  deacons,  who,  at  the  date  of  the  certificates,  were  two  of '^ 
the  vicars  choral,  had  their  conmion  lands  in  Notts,  Yorkshire, 
and  Lincolnshire,  amounting  to  £6  19.s.  4d  net.  There  were 
"  lands  and  possessions  appointed  for  the  exhibition  of  two 
sub -deacons  there "  in  Notts  and  Yorkshire,  of  the  value  of 
£5  5s.  3d.      The  sub-deacons  also  were  vicars  choral. 

Even  the  six  choristers  had  their  common  lands,  value  Choristers. 
£2  7s.  6d.  Whether  the  two  thuribulers  or  incense  bearers  had  ^^^^^^^  ^^''^™^"^- 
really  separate  common  lands,  of  the  value  of  33.s.  lOd.,  is  not  quite 
certain  ;  as,  though  some  lands  are  so  called  in  the  certificate  of 
1547,  they  are  described  as  "  certaine  rents  comming  of  the  issues  of 
the  said  college,"  which  looks  as  if  they  were  merely  charges  on  the 
common  lands  of  the  chapter.  In  the  certificate  of  1546  they  are 
said  to  have  lSs.4d  out  of  the  common  fund,  and  "  no  more  wages 
to  find  them  meat  and  drink,  than  before  is  sett  upon  their  beds." 
But  probably  this  13s.  Ad.  was  extra,  over  and  above  the  33s.  \0d., 
just  as  the  £4  payable  to  each  vicar  choral  by  his  prebendary  was 
in  addition  to  his  share  of  the  common  lands. 

The  master  of  the  grammar  school  was  always  a  vicar  choral  Grammar  and  song 
or  chauntrj-  priest,  as  the  stipend  of  £2  a  year  paid  him  by  the 
canon  of  Normanton  as  chancellor  was  not,  at  this  period,  sufiicient. 
So  was  his  usher.  Presumably  the  master  of  the  song  school  was 
too,  as  his  pay  from  the  chapter  was  only  £1  a  year.  There  was 
also  some  charge,  but  apparently  a  variable  one,  on  the  common 


Ixvi 


INTRODUCTION. 


Organist. 


Vergers. 


Value  of  whole 
minster. 


fund  for  tl)c  support  of  scholars  [in  the  scliools,  as  it  is  said  in 
the  1546  certificate  that  it  is  answerable  "  al.<o  for  the  relyvinge 
of  porre  scolers  thither  resor tinge  for  their  erudycion,  cither  in 
grammer,  or  songe,"  an  entry  which  is  important  as  showing,  what 
is  sometimes  sought  to  be  challenged  by  those  who  dislike  recog- 
nising the  claims  of  schools  on  cathedral  and  collegiate  church 
endowments;  viz.,  that  the  grammar  school  at  least  was  distinct 
from  the  song  or  choristers'  school,  and  that  both  were  open  to  out- 
siders, who  were  not  choristers,  and  not  members  of  the  church. 

The  organist,  or  "  player  at  the  organs,"  in  like  manner  was 
commonly  a  chauntry  priest.  Apjiarently  it  was  a  regular 
appointment  and  not  an  office  executed  in  rotation,  as  we  find 
on  one  occasion  that  a  certain  chauntry  priest  is  complained  of  for 
shirking  choir  "so  that  the  organs  arc  not  played."  His  fee  was 
only  13s.  4cZ.,  and  would  not  therefore  support  an  independent 
educated  person. 

The  vergers,  or  wand-bearers,  are  specially  mentioned,  and 
their  pay,  half  a  mark  a  year,  is'stated. 

The  annual  value  of  the  college  in  1291  had  been  assessed  in 
Pope  Nicholas'  taxation  at  £342  13s.  4d.  According  to  the  A'alua- 
tion  given  in  Edward  VI.'s  time,  Particulars  of  Grants  (Xo.  37), 
the  total  net  value  of  its  property,  connnon  fund,  prebends, 
vicars  choral,  chauntries,  fabric,  and  all  was  £463  10s.  7hd. 
The  gross  was  £691  7s.  9cZ.,  or,  with  the  value  of  the  arch- 
bishop's Southwell  manor,  £833  lis.  lie?.  It  is  rather  difficult 
to  coni])are  this  exactly  with  the  income  of  other  bodies,  as  the 
deductions  appear  to  vary  considerably  in  different  cases,  and  no 
two  valuations  even  of  the  same  property  are,  within  wide  limits, 
the  same.  The  value  of  York  Minster  is  put  in  the  Liber 
Valorum  at  £2135  a  year,  Windsor  at  £1602.  The  great 
Benedictine  monastery  of  St.  Mary's,  York,  had,  according  to 
Dugdale,  £1650  clear,  witl;  50  monks.  The  great  Cistercian 
abbey  of  Fountains,  with  30  moid<s,  hnd  £941  a  year.  The 
Cistercian  Kufibrd  in  Nottinghamshire,  had  £176  a  year.     Bolton 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixvii 

Priory  of  Angustiniaii  or  Black  Canons  was  valued  at  £212  a  year. 
Of  the  Nottinghamshire  Augnstinian  priories  :  Worksop,  with  a 
prior  and  fifteen  canons,  was  worth  £239  a  year;  Xewstead,  £219; 
Thurgarton,  £259;  Shelford,  £13G.  The  Prienionstratensian  Wel- 
beek  Abbey  had  £249  a  year.  The  Gilbertine  Mattersey,  with 
four  canons,  had  only  £55  a  year.  The  Carthusian  Bevale,  for  a 
prior  and  twelve  monks,  had  £196.  St.  Mary's  Collegiate  Church, 
Stafford,  with  a  dean  and  fi\e  canons,  was  only  worth  £73 
a  year. 

In  point  of  riches,  therefore,  Southwell  Minster  stood  in  the 
second  rank,  as  compared  with  the  great  cathedrals  and  the  great 
abbeys,  but  equally  distinctly  to  be  classed  among  tlie  greater 
and  not  among  the  lesser  ecclesiastical  foundations. 

Such  then  was  the  history,  the  constitution,  and  the  position  of  The  registers, 
the  great  college,  the  doings  of  whose  inmates  are  noted  in  the 
registers  which  form  the  text  of  the  present  work. 

The  earliest  and  largest  of  these,  the  Liber  Albus  or  White  The  White  Book. 
Book,  is  a  folio  volume  of  476  pages  of  parchment  with  a  few 
additional  interleaved  insertions,  bound  in  thick  boards  of  oak 
with  a  white  vellum  covering,  from  which  it  derives  its  name. 
The  original  clasps  or  fastenings  have  disappeared,  but  one  of 
the  two  leather  straps  with  brass  end  and  a  j)ierced  brass  centre, 
fastened  on  to  two  pins  or  something  of  the  sort  in  the  middle  of 
the  cover,  still  remain.  The  book  is  in  very  good  preservation.  It  is 
mainly  a  chartulary.  It  was  commenced  and  the  first  sixty  pages 
written,  by  the  same  hand,  about  the  year  1335,  in  consequence 
probably  of  the  Quo  Warranto  proceedings  of  Edward  III.,  who, 
like  Henry  I.  and  Henry  III.  before  him,  and  Charles  II.  after 
him,  challenged  for  the  sake  of  filthy  lucre  the  prerogatives  and 
privileges  of  many  ancient  bodies.  First  comes  a  huUarmm, 
a  collection  of  the  papal  Bulls  in  favour  of  the  Church  and  canons, 
beginning  with  one  of  Alexander  III.  dated  "at  Tusculanum  by 
the  hand  of  Gratian,  sub-deacon  of  the  holy  Roman  Church  and 


Ixviii  INTRODUCTION. 

notary,  5  kalends  of  August,  4tli  Ind lotion,  in  the  year  of  the 
incarnation  of  our  Lord  1171,  and  12tli  year  of  the  Pontificate 
of  Lord  Alexander,  Pope,  the  Third."  Here,  as  throughout  the 
book,  the  word  "Papa"  has  been  carefully  erased,  and  so  has 
the  AYord  ''  Bulla."  All  the  Bulls,  which  occupy  the  first  five 
pages  of  the  book,  have  been  cancelled  by  cross  lines  scratched 
through  them,  in  accordance  with  the  injunctions  of  Cromwell's 
visitors  under  Henry  VIIL  After  the  Bulls  come  letters  j)atent  of 
Edward  IlL,  dated  26th  November,  7th  of  his  reign,  i.e.  1334, 
reciting  the  Quo  Warranto  proceedings,  and  restoring  or  confirming 
the  privileges  thereby  impeached.  Then  follow  in  order  of  date, 
royal  charters,  beginning  with  one  of  Henry  I  ,  about  1125, 
confirming  the  establishment  of  an  additional  prebend,  and  ending 
with  one  of  Henry  III.,  in  12o3,  partly  an  impeximns  charter, 
and  partly  a  grant  of  new  privileges.  So  fiir  as  it  is  an  impe.vi- 
mns  charter,  it  partly  embodies  the  most  ancient  document  in  the 
book  (printed  p.  190),  being  the  record  of  an  inquiry  held  at 
York  in  1106  into  the  ancient  English  customs  and  privileges 
of  that  minster.  After  this,  come  the  foundation  deeds  and  grants 
of  the  later  prebends,  created  between  1066  and  1293,  of  the 
parochial  vicarages  of  some  prebends,  of  the  earliest  chauntry  in 
the  church,  in  1242,  and  of  augmentations  of  the  common  fund 
of  the  church  in  1221.  Apropos  of  this  is  given  the  earliest 
extant  statute  of  the  church,  made  by  Archbishoj)  "Walter  Gray,  in 
1225,  followed  by  the  statutes  of  the  archbishops  in  1203,  1302, 
and  certain  early  grants  of  land  for  lights  in  the  church,  &c. 

Up  to  page  Gl  the  writing  is  almost  like  print,  and  the 
initial  letters  are  illuminated  in  blue  and  red.  From  that  page 
onward  the  writing  is  later,  is  more  of  a  cursive  character,  and 
unilluminated.  The  most  interesting  documents  given  in  this 
part  are  the  laudable  customs,  5  Richard  IL,  i.e.  1382, 
being  customs  on  the  chai)ter  and  prebendal  manors;  examjilcs 
of  cases  heard  in  the  courts  of  the  prebendaries  and  re-heard 
on  appeal  by  the  chapter,  view9  of  frank-j)Iedge  by  the  chapter 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixix 

and  the  prebendaries  at  varions  dates  in  Edward  III.  and 
Hciuy  IV.,  1327-1411.  The  rest  of  the  book  is  taken  up  with 
grants  of  land  and  rents  to  the  fabric  fund,  lamps,  vicars 
choral,  and  others  ;  documents  relating  to  the  prebend  of  Northweli 
Overhall,  apparently  taken  as  a  specimen  of  the  rest;  muniments 
of  the  various  chauntries,  &c.  The  latest  document  referring  to 
Southwell  entered  in  the  book  at  the  time  appears  to  be  a  con- 
firmation by  the  chaj)ter  of  the  enfranchisement  of  a  serf  by  the 
prebendary  of  Oxton,  8th  August,  1460  (p.  430).  The  actual  latest 
entries  are,  however,  copies  of  the  letters  of  Sir  Edward  North, 
chancellor  of  the  Court  of  Augmentations  (probably  written  in 
1546  at  the  time  of  the  Chauntries  and  Colleges  Act),  asserting 
that  the  chapter  were  making  away -with  their  plate  and  ornaments, 
and  ordering  their  surrender  for  the  use  of  the  king.  There  are 
also  inserted  at  p.  445  a  grant  of  Edwin  Sandys,  Archbishop  of 
York,  dated  1582,  expressly  stated  to  be  entered  by  Lee,  the  then 
registrar;  and  on  p.  432,  a  deed  of  composition  of  7  James  L, 
1610,  between  the  chapter  and  a  defaulting  tithe-payer.^ 

The  second  register  is  a  quarto  volume  of  355  pages  of  paper,  '^^^  Cbai^tcr  register. 
bound  in  parchment.  It  is  a  register  of  the  Acts  of  Chapter  from 
9tli  November,  1469,  to  23rd  July,  1542.  *  A  full  index  of  its 
contents  is  printed  at  the  end  of  this  Introduction.  It  contains  records 
of  the  chapter  courts  in  slander,  debt,  tithe,  and  perjury  cases,  visi- 
tations by  the  chapter,  "  corrections  "  of  vicars  choral  and  parochial, 
and  others,  wills  proved  before  the  chapter,  admissions  and  resig- 
nations of  canons,  vicars  choral,  and  other  officers  of  the  church, 
presentations  to  livings  of  the  chapter  and  vicars  choral,  one 
or  two  leases  of  prebends,  augmentations  of  vicarages,  and  under- 

"  Some  of  the  most  interesting  documents  of  ttis  book  have  ah-eady  been  printed 
by  Dugdale  and  Dickinson,  and  have  not  therefore  been  included  here.  There  are  a 
great  many  more  which  might  be  printed  with  advantage,  but  the  White  Book  really 
requires  a  separate  volume  to  do  justice  to  its  contents.  I  have  only  printed  the 
earliest  document  in  it,  one  which  shows  the  position  of  the  church  as  a  parish  as 
well  as  collegiate  church,  and  the  pre-Eeformation  Statutes,  which  were  very  inac- 
curately printed  by  Dickinson,  and  with  many  lacunte. 


Ixx  INTRODUCTIOX. 

takings  to  pay  pensions,  &c.  It  is  written  by  tlie  several  registrars 
or  cluptcr  clerks  in  a  cursive  hand,  full  of  abbreviations,  the 
largest  part  being  -written  in  the  very  vile  hand  of  Mr.  Robert 
Skayff,  notary  public,  registrar  and  scribe  of  the  acts  of  chapter, 
who  lasted  from  1469  to  1492.  Then  comes  a  lucid  interval  under 
llichard  Norman,  1498  to  1511,  and  William  Brodhed,  1511  to 
1522,  who  is  most  legible  of  all,  but  unfortunately  made  very 
few  entries.  Richard  Bradshaw,  who  succeeded  him  till  1534,  is 
bad;  Edward  Brereley,  the  last  registrar,  from  1534  to  1542,  is 
worse ;  but  the  worst  of  all  are  two  documents  entered  by  the 
Elizabethan  registrar  Lee.  In  most  the  ink  is  good  enough,  only 
a  very  few,  chiefly  in  Mr.  Skayf^s  writing,  ha\ing  faded. 

The  bulk  of  the  present  book  is  taken  from  this  i-egister. 
.The  visitations  by  the  chapter  have  been  printed  in  full,  and 
also  the  corrections  of  officers  of  the  church.  Some  corrections 
of  vicars  parochial  have  been  given  as  specimens,  and  some  out- 
Ride  chapter  business;  but,  as  the  book  was  intended  to  exhibit 
the  church  in  its  inner  relations,  not  all  of  these.  As  they 
are  not  numerous  I  regret  now  that  I  did  not  include  them  all. 
The  wills  and  probates  have  all  been  printed  in  full.  Specimens 
only  have  been  given  of  the  forms  of  admission  and  resignation  of 
canons,  canons  residentiary,  vicars  choral,  chauntry  priests, 
deacons  and  sub-deacons,  choristers  and  incense  bearers  ;  and  lists 
compiled  of  all  those  entered.  These  lists  are  very  imperfect ;  and 
except  of  the  canons,  where  the  archiepiscopal  registers  in  Torre's 
collection  come  to  the  rescue,  complete  lists  cannot  bo  given. 
The  main  difficulty  in  regard  to  the  whole  has  been  the  terribly 
scattered  way  in  which  the  entries  are  made;  corrections, 
admissions,  resignations,  wills,  and  all  and  sundry  business  being 
mixed  up  in  the  most  extraordinary  way,  without  regard  to  date  or 
subject. 
Register  of  leases.  There  is  a  third  chapter  register  called  the  register  of  leases, 

which  is  in  fact  post-Reformation,  though  it  contains  some  pre- 
Rcformation  documents.     It  has  been  referred  to  as  it  contains  the 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxi 

history  of  the  two  falls  and  re-erectlons  of  the  church.  It  is  a  volume 
of  775  parchment  pages  bound  in  a  parchment  cover.  After  a  few 
copies  of  pre-Reformation  leases,  it  gives  the  documents  on  which 
the  constitution  of  the  church  depended  from  1540  to  1840.  These 
are  an  inspeximus  charter  of  Elizabeth  dated  26"th  May,  1566,  which 
recited  the  Act  of  Henry  VIII.,  re-establishing  the  church  in  1543, 
and  another  of  Philip  and  Mary,  dated  20tli  June,  1558,  reciting  the 
proceedings  in  the  Exchequer  Court  of  that  year,  which  ended  in  the 
re-re'storation  of  the  church  after  eleven  years'  intermission;  another 
inspeximus  charter  of  Elizabeth  unfinished  and  undated,  reciting 
the  beginning  of  the  certificate  of  chauntries  of  1  Edward  YI.,  i.e. 
1547  ;  and,  letters  patent  entered,  as  of  2ord  July,  1605,  2  James  I., 
confirming  the  possessions  and  privileges  of  the  church.  The 
rest  of  the  book  is  made  up  of  leases  of  lands  and  property 
of  the  chapter  and  of  the  prebendaries,  and  other  legal  docu- 
ments connected  with  the  possessions  of  the  church,  the  latest 
appearing  to  be  a  lease  dated  11th  October^  1624,  22  James  I. 

It  is  curious  to  find  the  fabric  lands  still  let  as  "  ladie  land  "  late  in 
James  I.'s  reign,  and  a  prebendary  reserving  a  chamber  in  his 
prebendal  mansion  and  stabling  for  three  horses,  so  that  he  may 
come  and  do  duty  when  necessary,  not  staying  longer  than  three 
or  four  days  at  any  one  time.  In  1588  (p.  297)  proceedings  are 
set  out  at  enormous  length,  which,  in  consequence  of  fraudulent  use 
having  been  made  of  the  common  seal  to  grant  leases,  &c.,  at  an 
undervalue,  ended  in  the  old  seal  being  broken  up  and  a  new  one 
made,  thus  destroying  one  of  the  most  interesting  links  with  the 
past.  There  is  also  an  interesting  table,  dated  1591,  apropos  of  a 
successful  lawsuit  in  the  Exchequer  by  the  Crown,  claiming  under 
the  Chauntries  Act,  the  Pentecostal  oblations  due  from  the  various 
towns  and  villages  in  Notts  at  the  Pentecostal  procession,  which 
formed  the  subject  of  one  of  the  earliest  grants  in  the  White  Book. 
In  1594,  the  chapter  petition  Sir  John  Eortescue,  Chancellor  of 
the  Exchequer,  for  payment  to  Thomas  Crashawe,  the  grammar 
schoolmaster,  of  the  salary  of  £10  a  year  ordered  by  Edward  VI.'s 


Ixxii  INTRODUCTION. 

Commission,  tlicn  in  arrcar  for  six  years,  and  ask  that  lie  may 
not  have  to  go  "  100  miles  or  tlicrcabout"  to  "Westminster  to  get  it, 
as  heretofore;  a  petition  Avhich  liad  to  be  rei)eated  nearly  150  years 
later,  when  Sir  Robert  Walpole  was  Ciianccllor  of  the  Exchequer. 
With  these  exceptions  the  documents  do  not  seem  of  interest, 
except  to  the  local  genealogist  and  topographer. 
Visitations  by  arch-  Q^jjp  visitations,  Avhicli  form  the  most  interesting  portion  of  the 
chapter  register,  are  unfortunately  doubly  imperfect.  They 
contain  only  the  visitations  by  the  chapter  of  the  inferior  ministers; 
they  do  not  contain  visitations  of  the  chapter  itself,  or  the 
prebendaries,  by  the  archbishop.  The  Rev.  J.  C.  Cox  was  good 
enough  to  search  for  me,  and  I  also  searched  myself  all  the 
archiepisopal  registers  from  Greenfield's  downwards,  but  there  is  no 
entry  of  any  such  visitation.  It  appears  that  the  i)ropcr  place  for 
such  entry  Avould  be  the  chapter  and  not  the  archiepiscopal 
register.  The  Beverley  register,  1289-1347^  almost  exactly  two 
centuries  earlier  than  this  one,  does  contain  repeated  visi- 
tations of  that  chapter.  That  anciently  there  were  visitations 
of  the  chapter  of  Southwell  appears  from  the  White  Book, 
as  the  statiites  of  1293  and  1303,  so  often  quoted,  slate  that 
they  were  made  to  reform  what  had  been  found  amiss  on  the 
visitations.  If  we  may  judge  by  the  analogy  of  Beverley, 
where,  in  1314,  the  chancellor  of  the  church  was  convicted 
not  only  of  breaking  the  customs  of  the  church  in  regard  to  the 
grammar  school^  by  appointing  the  master  for  life  instead  of 
for  a  term  of  three  years,  but  also  of  misbehaviour  with  no 
less  than  four  ditfcrent  women,  one  of  them  a  married  woman, 
these  residentaries  of  Southwell  were  in  need  of  visitation  as  much 
as  their  subordinates.  As,  however,  the  chancellor  in  question 
was  allowed  to  purge  himself,  "  sua  sola  manu,"  by  mere  denial, 
and  dismissed  witj^a  caution  not  to  do  it  again,  and  to  remove  two 
of  the  ladies  from  his  house,  it  is  quite  possible  that  visitation  of 
the  chapter  may  have  fallen  into  desuetude  because  it  had  become 
a  farce.     At  Ripon  there  were  two  visitations  by  the  archbishops 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxiil 

duriiif^  this  period.  Both  were  by  commission.  One  was  licld  for 
the  sake  of  visiting  the  fabric,  Avhich  was  in  a  state  of  ruin,  and  also 
St.  John's  Hospital  The  other  was  in  consequence  of  the  sole 
residentiary  having  been  accused  of  phindering  tlie  college  property. 
There  are  entered  in  Archbishop  Booth's  Register,  p.  1 94,  under 
date  1456,  letters  from  the  arclibishop  to  four  different  prebendaries 
of  Southwell  ordering  thern  to  repair  their  houses,  Avhich  had  fallen 
into  ruin,  and  one  of  these,  John  Lacj  of  AVoodborough,  appears  in 
our  register  as  in  arrear  in  paying  the  stipend  of  his  vicar  choral. 
But  it  does  not,  on  the  face  of  it,  appear  that  these  letters  were  in 
consequence  of  a  visitation,  though  from  similar  complaints  forming 
important  items  of  the  Eeformanda  in  the  statutes  after  the  visita- 
tions of  1293  and  1300,  it  may  perhaps  be  inferred  that  a  visitation 
had  been  held.  However  that  may  be,  during  the  years  1469  to 
1542,  covered  by  this  register,  and  whatever  the  cause  may  be, 
the  archiepiscopal  visitations  had  ceased.  It  is  a  misfortune,  as  we 
cannot  tell  whether  the  prebendaries  of  Southwell  deserved  the 
attacks  of  Cranmer  or  the  support  of  Henry  VIII.,  and  whether 
they  were  as  bad,  better,  or  worse  than  their  subordinates. 

The  triennial  visitations  by  the  chapter  of  the  inferior  ministers  Visitations  by 
are  also  defective.  In  some  years,  as  in  1510  and  1529,  the  mere  ^^-'^P*^^^- 
fact  of  the  visitation  having  been  held  is  alone  reported.  In  some 
cases,  as  e.g.  1469,  1496,  1529,  1532,  1535,  and  1538,  visitations 
can  only  be  inferred  to  have  been  held  from  corrections  being- 
reported  for  offences  in  all  probability  detected  at  visitations  held 
in  those  years.  No  record  remains,  from  which  any  visitation 
can  even  be  inferred,  be tiveen  1519  and  1529,  and  the  traces  of 
visitations  to  be  seen  in  "  corrections"  after  1529  are  very  scant}*. 
One  correction  in  1532,  one  in  1535,  two  in  1538,  are  all  that  have 
been  entered.  Two  corrections  in  1540  are  probably  the  sequel  of  the 
visitation  of  Cromwell's  visitors,  which  took  place  in  that  year,  and 
ended  in  the  surrender  of  ihe  minster  to  Henry  VIII.  The  visita- 
tions of  the  prebendal  churches  and  chauntries  can,  from  many 
chance  references  and  correctionsof  the  parochial  vicars  and  chauntry 

k 


Disclosures  at  visi- 
tations. 


Ixxiv  INTRODUCTION. 

priests,  be  ascertained  to  liavo  been  beld ;  but  there  is  no  regular 
record  of  them,  and  as  they  are  rather  off  the  immediate  subject  of 
the  book,  I  have  only  printed  a  few  of  them  Avhich  happened  to  be 
mixed  up  with  matters  conneelcd  with  the  collegiate  church.  It 
is  enough  to  say  that  they  show  the  same  laxity  of  discipline,  in 
regard  alike  to  duty  and  morals.  Of  the  visitations  of  1475  to 
1484,  and  of  1490,  1499,  1503,  1506,  full  records  remain,  those 
from  1475  to  1484  inclusive,  and  tiio.sc  of  1503  and  1506  being 
particularly  full. 

The  visitation  was  held,  as  a  rule,  only  by  one  canon  residentiary, 
and  in  1454  it  was  held  by  the  churchwardens  in  the  absence  of 
any  residentiaries.  In  1490  and  1529  two  canons  opened  the 
proceedings. 

The  process  was  to  examine  every  vicar  choral,  chauntry  priest, 
and  deacon  separately  as  to  what  he  had  to  say  and  what  complaints 
he  had  to  make,  while  if  any  special  complaint  liad  been  made 
of  any  particular  person,  or  on  any  particular  subject,  it  seems  to 
have  been  nsual  to  ask  questions  of  the  examinees  on  such  points. 
Two  occasions  when  special  inquiries  were  held,  and  each  vicar 
choral  was  examined  separately  and  secretly  on  the  behaviour  of 
a  certain  vicar  choral,  are  recorded.  In  one  case  the  answers  of  each 
are  noted  down,  in  the  other  merely  the  names  of  the  vicars,  and 
the  result  to  the  accused.  At  three  of  the  visitations,  those  of  1475, 
1481,  and  1484,  the  names  of  the  examinees  and  their  complaints 
are  given,  but  of  the  rest  the  "detecta"  or  offences  only  aro 
noted,  with,  as  a  rule,  the  result,  e.fj.  "dismissed,"  or  the  warning 
given  or  punishment  inflicted,  inserted  after  the  entry  of  the  offence 
charged. 

The  oddest  farrago  of  offences  is  presented  to  us  in  these  visita- 
tions. Crimes  of  the  darkest  complexion  are  mixed  up  with  the 
most  trivial  delinquencies.  Leaving  the  church  door  open,  sleep- 
ing at  matins,  talking  and  laughing  during  service,  spitting  and 
blowing  your  nose  in  tiic  choir,  arc  jundjjcd  up  higgledy-piggledy 
with  stabbing  and  fighting,  stealing  and  adultery  ;  and  it  is  hard 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxv 

to  say  "whether  either  the  witnesses  or  the  judges  really  think  there 
is  much  difference  between  tliem.  The  general  rule  being  in  every 
case  to  say,  "  Don't  do  it  again  on  pain  of  punishment  according  to 
the  statutes,"  little  discrimination  was  possible.  The  one  unpar- 
donable sin  was  "  contumacy" — to  deny  or  defy  the  jurisdiction  of 
the  chapter  or  insult  its  members.  That  Avas  always  prosecuted 
with  the  utmost  rigour  of  the  laws  until  the  offender  was  brought 
to  his  knees.  This  may  be  seen  by  the  opening  entry,  where  pages 
are  taken  up  with  excommunicating  Thomas  Gurnell  for  having 
beaten  the  chapter's  apparitor  or  summoner,  and  intermeddled  with 
the  goods  of  a  deceased  canon  when  they  were  under  sequestration 
by  the  chapter.  Next  to  contumacy,  revealing  the  secrets  of  the 
chapter,  or  of  the  vicars'  hall,  to  the  laity  seems  to  have  been  the 
most  heinous  crime.  Nothing,  however,  is  too  small  or  too  great 
to  escape  notice.  The  canons  themselves  do  not  go  unchallenged. 
At  the  visitation  of  1475  several  complaints  are  made  of  vicars' 
stipends  not  having  been  paid  by  their  prebendaries  ;  in  1481  the 
residentiary  canons  are  said  to  have  only  been  in  residence  eight 
weeks  instead  of  the  full  term  of  twelve,  having  given  each  other 
dispensation,  and  left  the  vicars  and  others,  whom  they  were  bound 
to  entertain  during  their  residence,  without  compensation.  In 
1484  it  is  again  complained  that  the  canons  do  not  keep  their 
statutory  residence  ;  that  they  let  the  prebendal  mansions  go  to 
ruin  both  in  Southwell  and  in  the  country,  i.e.  at  the  prebends. 
They  do  not  keep  sufficient  lesson-books  (legenda?)  ;  at  another 
visitation  it  is  said  there  are  not  enough  graduals,  i  e.  mass  anthem- 
books  ;  in  1503  some  of  the  stalls  in  choir  have  no  stools;  in  1506 
the  gradiials  have  no  clasps.  Certainly  the  residentiary  canons 
were  pretty  free  in  giving  each  other  dispensation  from  residence. 
Thus,  in  1479,  they  did  so  on  account  of  the  plague  ;  in  1471  they 
had  done  the  same  ;  and  in  1470  they  gave  themselves  leave  of 
absence  for  a  fortnight,  no  reason  whatever  being  assigned.  One 
does  not  wonder,  however,  either  that  they  or  the  other  ministers 
found  life  at  Southwell  dull.     They  Avere  not  allowed  apparently 


Ixxvi  INTRODUCTION. 

to  indulge  in  any  manly  sports  or  amusements ;  in  theory,  they 
liad  jio  time  for  them ;  und,  besides,  they  were  reprobated 
as  "  unbecomintT  the  dignity  of  the  priesthood."  Thus  Paynreth 
is  complained  of  for  hawking,  hunting,  and  mole-catching.  It  is 
true  he  is  said  to  know  neither  how  to  read  or  to  sing  ;  and  so, 
like  a  naughty  boy,  he  might  be  considered  not  entitled  to  play 
till  he  had  learnt  his  lessons.  But  John  Baxter,  vicar  choral  in 
1537,  is  warned  to  abstain  equally  from  hunting  and  hawking,  and 
from  shirking  choir  ;  and  "William  Bullock,  in  1503,  is  warned  to 
abstain  from  hunting  and  cock-fighting  simpUciter.  Bowls,  tops 
or  marbles  (spirula3),  backgammon  (tabulaa)  seem  to  be  equally 
prohibited.  One  vicar  choral,  having  made  too  free  with  his 
sister's  maid,  is,  among  other  things,  warned  not  to  shoot  with  a 
bow  for  more  than  AcL  a  game.  Cards  and  dice  are  under  an 
equal  ban,  though  every  visitation  is  full  of  complaints  of  playing 
at  dice  or  "  hazard,"  and  one  vicar  choral  is  accused  of  keeping  a 
"  school  of  dice  "  in  his  room  in  the  vicars'  hall. 

The  prohibition  of  sports  and  games  does  not,  however,  seem 
to  have  had  the  effect  of  securing  that  undivided  attention  to  duty 
which,  presumably  was  the  object.  The  visitations  re-echo  with 
complaints  of  shirking  services  altogether,  or  of  sleeping,  laughing, 
talking,  or  walking  about,  Avhen  present  at  them.  "  Come  late, 
go  early,"  is  an  oft-repeated  entry.  Shirking  or  sleeping  at 
matins,  considering  they  were  at  five  a.m.,  can  hardly  be  con- 
sidered a  heinous  crime.  But  there  is  no  canonical  hour  which 
is  not  shirked  with  almost  equal  impartiality.  C^anonical  hours, 
by  the  way,  seems  to  have  acquired  a  s])ecial  limited  meaning  at 
this  period,  being  often  distinguished  from  matins  and  prime. 
One  vicar,  who  is  had  up  for  the  heinous  offence  of  proclaiming 
at  the  top  of  his  voice  that  he  was  not  going  to  be  corrected  by 
the  ''guardians,"  had  an  ingenious,  though  not,  it  seems,  an 
entirely  novel,  way  of  getting  through  his  duties,  "  saying  the 
canonical  hours  at  matins,  though  it  was  forbidden  to  him  and 
others  at  the  visitation."     Others  gabble  the  psalms,  mutter  the 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxvii 

"  hours  "  instead  of  singing  tlicm  ;  shirk  choir,  shirk  chauntry, 
shirk  chapter.  Tliey  begin  service  before  the  lamps  are  lighted, 
they  loll  on  the  seats,  they  shout  their  prayers  when  they  ought  to 
whisper  them,  and  say  the  hours  when  they  ought  to  sing.  They 
even  celebrate  mass  in  their  gowns  without  their  habits.  The 
vestments  are  torn  and  dirty,  their  apparels  are  pulled  off,  the 
choral  habits  are  thrown  about  anyhow ;  the  books  get  their  backs 
broken,  and  doves  get  in  and  defile  them.  Lamps  and  candles 
are  not  lighted  when  and  where  they  ought  to  be.  Even  the 
organ  is  not  played  when  it  ought  to  be,  because  the  organist  is 
elsewhere.  No  difference  is  made  between  feasts  and  ordinary 
days.  Bowing  and  turning  to  the  altars,  standing  and  sitting  and 
kneeling  at  the  proper  times,  are  disregarded  ;  the  processions 
shuffle  along  all  huddled  together.  The  very  choristers  brawl 
and  swear,  to  the  disturbance  of  the  priest  celebrating  Our  Lady's 
mass.  Listead  of  "  hearing  the  pealing  organs  blow  to  the  full- 
voiced  choir  below,"  it  would  appear  that  the  casual  visitor  to 
Southwell  Church  would  have  heard  ordinaril}^  two  or  three  singing 
on  each  side,  the  rest  being  absent,  or  wandering  about  the  church. 
In  spite  of  all  prohibitions  to  the  contrary,  he  would  probably 
find  one  teaching  his  boys  singing  or  grammar  while  choir 
was  going  on,  another  confessing  to  his  brother  walking  about ; 
and  from  the  side  chapels  he  would  hear  half-a  dozen  galloping 
through  their  masses,  while  they  ought  to  be  taking  their  part 
in  choir. 

The  larger  part  of  one  visitation  (1484)  was  taken  up  with  Career  of  Cai-twright, 
complaints  against  Sir  Thomas  Cartwright,  vicar  choral,  for  some 
new-fashioned  method  of  singing  which  he  had  adopted  in  the 
psalms,  and  "  in  singing  the  faburdon,"  or  harmony.  Thus,  on 
the  evidence  of  the  senior  vicar  choral,  Mery,  "  it  is  detected 
(detectum)  that  (Dominus)  Sir  T.  Cartwright  does  not  observe  the 
custom  (ritum)  of  the  choir  in  psalmody  and  singing  faburdon, 
but  makes  great  discord  in  singing,  having  a  foreign  (extrinsicam) 
fashion  not  used   among  the   choir    (chorales)."      "  Rochell   de- 


vicar  choral  1484-G. 


Ixxviii  INTRODUCTION. 

poses  the  same  of  Sir  Thomas  Cartwright  as  Sir  John  Mery." 
"  The  same  Sir  Thomas,  sitting  by  the  fire  in  the  vicars' 
house,  girds  at  liis  colleagues  and  their  singing,  and  commends 
himself  above  the  rest  for  liis  knowledge  of  singing,  so  that,  owing 
to  his  boasting,  the  other  ministers  are  excited  to  quarrels,"  Bull 
says  the  same  as  Mery ;  Gre  or  Grey  also,  "  adding  especially 
that  he  sings  the  psalms  badly ;  "  Gregory  :  "  Cartwright  does 
not  conform  himself  in  singing  faburdon  to  the  use  of  the  choir, 
but  creates  discord  in  singing  amongst  the  ministers  of  the  church. 
The  same  Sir  Thomas,  at  time  of  divine  (service),  walks  about  round 
and  round  (circumeirca)  the  church  in  his  choir  habit,  not  attend- 
ing to  the  divine  offices  in  choir."  Keyll  says,  "  Sir  Thomas  Cart- 
Avright  sings  faburdon  in  such  an  outlandish  fashion^  that  the  rest 
of  the  choir  are  unable  to  keep  in  time  with  him,  and  he  creates 
great  discord  amongst  his  brethren."  "  Smyth :  Sir  Thomas 
Cartwright  does  not  pause  in  the  psalms,  and  impedes  the  other 
ministers  and  disturbs  them  in  singing  foburdon,  and  makes 
great  discord  in  the  choir."  Smyth  also  brings  the  graver  charge 
tliat  "  Sir  John  Bull  and  Sir  Thomas  Cartwright  commonly  carry 
daggers  or  whinyards  secretly  under  their  gowns  in  the  vicars' 
mansion  against  the  special  ordinance  made  in  that  behalf;" 
Avhile  Penkith  says  that  ''  Bull  and  Cartwright  do  not  come 
to  Preciosa,"  i.e.  to  the  reading  of  the  martyrology  in  the 
chapter-house,  after  which  the  services  of  the  next  day  and 
the  duties  of  each  were  announced,  and  other  and  more  secular 
chapter  business  transacted.  After  all  this,  all  that  happens 
to  Cartwright  is,  that  on  the  6th  of  May  next  year,  nearly  a 
whole  year  after  the  visitation  was  held,  he  is  summoned  before 
Master  John  Barnby,  residentiary,  and  warned  to  amend,  on 
))ain  of  suspension  for  six  days  from  office  and  benefice.  Yet 
Sir  Thomas's  record  was  by  no  means  a  clear  one.  Three  years 
before,  the  visitation  of  1481  is  full  of  precisely  the  same  com- 
plaints against  him  about  his  singing,  with  the  addition  that 
"  during  divine  service  ho  plays  at  tables,"  i.e.  backgammon,  "  and 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxix 

boasts  of  having  done  it."  And  furtlier  back,  on  14th  February, 
1479,  he  had  been  actually  suspended  for  striking  Robert  Layn,  a 
chauntry  pi-iest,  with  his  dagger.  On  this  occasion  he  had  been 
made  to  do  peiKince  by  walking  on  a  Wednesda}'  or  Friday  in 
Lent  "  like  a  humble  penitent,  before  the  cross-bearer  publicly  in 
procession,  clad  only  in  his  surplice  and  almuce,  and  to  say  the 
psalms  of  the  passion  kneeling  before  the  high  altar,  publicly 
during  high  mass,"  and  "  also  to  abstain  from  the  house  of  widow 
Archa,"  who,  it  may  be  inferred,  was  the  cause  of  the  quarrel, 
"  except  with  honest  persons,  and  to  behave  himself  well  and 
honestly  to  the  ministers  of  the  church."  He  was  then  threatened 
that  if  he  carried  a  dagger  again  he  would  be  at  once  suspended. 
Yet  in  September,  1485  (p.  45,  an  entry  which  should  have 
followed  the  visitation  of  1484),  he  was  again  warned  "  to 
show  himself  kindly  and  pleasant  to  his  fellows  "  on  pain  of  a  fine 
of  40s.  On  the  27th  October,  1486,  when  "  nearly  all  the  vicars 
came  before  the  guardians  in  the  chapter-house  at  Preciosa,  to 
complain  that  he  does  not  conduct  himself  in  a  way  becoming  a 
priest,  especially  in  choir  and  singing,"  he  is  still  only  warned  and 
ordered  to  amend  on  pain  of  a  fine  of  40s.  Yet  once  aghin, 
later  in  the  same  year,  "  last  day  of  February,  1486,"  (in  an 
entry,  omitted  by  mistake  from  the  print,)  he  signs  his  name  in 
the  register  (p.  116)  to  a  copy  of  a  solemn  undertaking,  which 
he  read  out  before  the  chapter  "  from  a  certain  paper  schedule," 
'' to  be  of  good  behaviour,  as  well  at  table  as  elsewhere,"  and  to 
conform  in  singing  to  his  brethren.  Unfortunately  he  seems  to 
have  died  soon  after  this,  and  we  lose  sight  of  him. 

The  career  of  John  Bull  will  serve,  however,  for  an  equally  Career  of  Bull,  yicar 
curious  illustration  of  the  maimers  and  customs  of  the  vicar  choral,  priest,'anci  church- 
as  we  can  trace  him  from  his  hot  youth  to  cold  old  age,  and  the  grave,  warden,  1470-1537. 
He  first  appears  as  a  vicar  choral    giving  evidence  against  the 
morals    and    manners    of    Thomas    Gurnell    in    1470.      In    1475 
"suspiciously  and  at  a  suspicious   time  he  has   frequented  since 
last  Christmas  the  house  of  Agnes  Saynton,  so  much  so  that  the 


IxXX  INTRODUCTION. 

neighbours  saw  liim  leaving  her  garden  at  first  peal  for  matins." 
He  docs  not  celebrate  for  the  chaun  tries  for  which  he  is  bound 
(he  appears,  as  were  many  of  the  vicars  choral,  to  have  been 
a  chauntrv  priest  as  well),  and  is  defamed  wit4i  ^largaret,  the 
a[)othecary"s  wife.  For  this  he  is  ordered  to  amend  on  pain  of 
suspension.  He  also  ''  laid  violent  hands  on  Sir  John  Gregory, 
and  Gregory  laid  in  wait  for  Bull  to  strike  him,  in  the  church." 
For  this  he  is  to  pay  Gs.  Sd.  fine,  unless  he  can  get  his  brethren  to 
let  him  off.  Two  years  later  he  is  haled  before  the  churchwardens 
for  "  having  been  defamed  with  Agnes  Saynton  by  her  rival 
Agnes  Harcold."  He  was  allowed  to  purge  himself,  according  to 
the  old  fiishion,  by  witnesses  to  character,  eight  in  number,  but 
was  warned  to  keep  away  from  the  said  Agnes,  ''  church  and 
market  alone  excepted."  On  1st  July,  1478,  '^  it  is  detected 
that  Bull,  when  the  great  gate  of  the  vicars  is  shut  and  before 
its  opening,  has  been  seen  praying  in  the  church,  whence  arises  a 
presumption  that  he  often  spends  his  nights  out  of  the  vicars' 
house."  "  Thrice  or  four  times  *a  week  he  absents  himself  from 
matins,  prime,  and  hours,  and  sometimes  twice  or  thrice  a  week 
does  not  appear  in  choir  at  all."  "  He  often  leaves  the  town 
without  leave  from  the  chapter."  "  He  has  never  been  punished 
for  beating  Gregory  in  the  churchyard."  He  is  defamed  with 
Cristina  Saynton.  ''  He  shirks  Preciosa.  Twice  this  week  ho 
slept  at  matin.s."  A  note  is  added  :  ''  Examine  into  the  matter 
of  Bull  and  Cristina  Saynton."  Finally  comes  the  sentence : 
"  Because  Sir  John  Bull  frequents  the  house  of  Agnes  Saynton,  a 
woman  forbidden  him  once,  twice,  and  thricoon  pain  of  suspension, 
let  him  be  suspended  for  three  days  from  office  and  benefice."  The 
next  entry  is  12th  February,  the  same  year,  of  Bull  and  Kendall 
(another  vicar  choral)  "having  quarrelled  in  tlie  churchyard  at 
the  instigation  of  the  Tarosower,  so  much  that  each  striking  the 
other  produced  great  bloodshed  ;  And  because  the  Kevorend  Father 
Lawrence  (Booth),  Archbishoi)  of  York,  was  then  staying  in  his 
manor  at  Southwell,  lest  crimes  remain  unpunished,  and  because 


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the  rifflit  reverend  father  took  it  much  amiss  that  even  in  his 
])resence  the  ministers  of  the  church  did  not  desist  from 
quarrelling  and  fighting,"  therefore  it  is  decreed  that  no  vicar 
choral  shall  carry  arms,  "  unless  about  to  leave  town  by  license  of 
the  chapter,  on  pain  of  a  fine  of  Ss.  8d.  to  the  fabric  ;  "  if  he  does, 
and  strikes  any  one,  "he  shall  also  be  deprived  of  the  weapon  and 
suspended  for  ever,  without  hope  of  return."  But  then  comes 
the  usual  saving  clause  which  made  ecclesiastical  discipline  over 
ecclesiastics  so  futile,  "  except  by  special  grace  of  the  chapter." 
At  the  visitation  of  1481,  Bull  had  changed  his  stall,  and  was  then 
vicar  of  the  sacrist  prebend,  and  as  sacrist,  his  canon  being 
non-resident,  he  had  to  sleep  in  the  church.  He  did  not  do  so. 
He  and  Cartwright  sang  in  choir,  without  paying  any  attention 
to  each  other,  so  as  to  disturb  the  choir.  He  slept  at  matins,  he 
left  the  church  doors  open,  he  was  "  a  bad  attendant  at  choir, 
especially  at  prime."  If  anything  happened  to  him  it  does  not 
appear.  In  1483  he  was  accused  of  adultery  with  one  woman 
and  with  soliciting  another;  and  suspended,  to  a  day  nine  days 
thence,  until  he  could  clear  himself  by  six  compurgators. 
Whether  his  purgation  took  place  we  are  not  informed.  In  1484 
he  and  Kendall  are  accused  of  intimacy  with  women  of  bad 
character,  "  whom  they  take  under  suspicious  circumstances  into 
their  chauntries ;  they  have  been  corrected  by  the  guardians  for 
this."  He  does  not  sleep  in  the  church, — for  which  he  is  warned, — 
he  carries  a  dagger  secretly,  he  shirks  chapter.  At  the  visitation 
of  1503  he  contumaciously  absents  himself,  and  is  ordered  to 
pay  a  pound  of  w.nx  to  the  standard  light.  This  is  the  record  of  a 
man  who  in  1505  is  promoted  to  another  stall,  and  from  1511 
onwards  acts  as  churchwarden  and  corrects  others,  and  dies  in 
office  in  1537.  It  is  true  that,  assuming  he  was  made  a  vicar 
choral  at  twenty-four,  he  must  have  been  at  least  sixty  years  old 
when  he  appears  as  a  churchwarden,  and  that  all  his  graver 
delinquencies  which  are  reported  occurred  when  he  was  under 
forty.     But  it  is  surely  an  odd  state  of  discipline  which  enables  a 

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Ixxxii  INTRODUCTION. 

man  with  such  a  record  to  attain  high  office  in  tlie  church,  in 
regular  seniority,  and  govern  others. 

It  may  be  thought  that  Cartwright  and  Bull  have  been  selected 
as  "  shocking  exam})les "  because  they  were  worse  than  all  the 
dwellers  in  Southwell.     This  is  not  so.     To  mention   one  proof  to 
the  contrary,  half-a-dozen  at  least  of  the  vicars  choral  and  chauntry 
priests  are  intimate  with  Agnes  or  Cristina  Saynton.     But  let  us 
take,  for  example,  the  earliest  and  the  latest  visitations,  which  are 
given  fully,  those  of  1475  and  1506. 
Specimen  visitations,       The  general  complaints  are  more  or  less  trivial,  though  they 
present  a  picture  of  general  carelessness  and  neglect  of  the  due 
performance  of  services,  the  only  duty  which  had  to  be  performed. 
"  The  ministers  of  the  church  do  not  observe  the  rests  in  singing 
the  psalms."     "  The  chauntry  chaplains  do  not  come  to  Preciosa." 
"  The  vicars  choral  have  certain  bye-laws  which  are  not  enforced  ; 
the  chapter  must  interfere,  or  crimes  will  remain  unpunished." 
"  The  secrets  of  the  chapter  and  the  vicars  are  revealed  in  the 
town,  especially  in  Isabella  Bury's  house."     "  The  chauntry  par- 
sons (persor.se)  pay  no  attention  to   the  precentor  in  chauuting." 
"  The  ministers  of  the  church  shirk  service,  especially  at  Whitsun- 
tide and  on  synod  days."     "  The  officiating  priest  of  the  week  is 
commonly  not  in  the  choir  when  the  bells  have  done  ringing  ;  the 
choir-masters  (rectores  chori)  are  tardy  too."     "  The   cemetery  is 
not  properly  kept,  but  animals  are  allowed  to  defile  it."     "  Only 
one    gradual    on    the    north    side    (of  the   choir)    and    two    on 
the    south."      The   ])articular   charges   against   individuals    arc    a 
mixture     of    trivitdity    and     gravity :     "  Stephen    Clark    shirks 
matins  twice  or  thrice  a  week ;  neglects  to  j)crform  the  masses  of 
his  chauntry  ;  is  a  common  tavern-hunter,  shirks  preciosa,  rarely 
celebrates  mass."     "  Norton  habitually  shirks  prime  and  the  other 
canonical  hours  ;  "  when  he  is  there  goes  in  and  out,  "  at  vesjiers 
six  or  seven  times; "  "  is  a  common  talker  in  choir  during  service; " 
"  is  a  common  ribald  and  scold  among  the  laity  to  the  opprtbrium 
of  clerics  ;  "  reveals  the  chapter  secrets.     Ledenam  is  "  a  counnon 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxxiii 

tavern-hanter,  often  drunk,"  shirks  his  chauntry  duties.  John  Bull 
we  have  already  had.  Knolles  "  hardly  ever  attends  matins  or 
prime,  and  sleeps  at  matins  three  or  four  times  a  week,  suspiciously 
frequents  Jane  Cook's  house,"  "  commits  adultery  with  her." 
Button,  Custans,  Barthorp,  Tykhill,  Warsopp,  shirk  choir.  Tykhill 
carries  on  business  on  holy  days,  and  shirks  his  chauntry.  Gregory, 
sacrist,  sleeps  outside  the  church  and  neglects  his  duty.  Gregory 
and  Bull  fight,  as  we  have  seen.  Gregory  and  Norton  fight  in  the 
chapter-house,  and  Gregory  would  have  killed  Norton  in  Isabel 
Bury's  house  if  she  had  not  stopped  him.  Gregory  breaks 
Warsopp's  head  in  the  vicars'  hall.  Betbank  administered  noxious 
herbs  for  an  unlawful  purpose  to  Catherine  Bexwyk.  He  purges 
himself  with  six  witnesses,  kindred  spirits  among  the  vicars  choral. 
Hyll,  Knolles,  and  Norton  do  not  pay  their  debts.  Even  the  pre- 
bendaries come  in  for  their  share.  The  prebendaries  of  Wood- 
borough  and  of  Eton  have  let  their  vicars'  salaries  fall  into  arrear. 
Roper  is  not  paid  by  the  chapter.  At  the  end  of  the  visitation  are 
some  grave  proceedings,  on  an  action  of  slander  by  a  layman, 
in  which  four  vicars  choral  and  throe  chauntry  priests  are  mixed 
up  in  some  charge  of  felony.^  Knolles  is  suspended  till  he  has  paid 
the  costs  of  the  proceedings.  Out  of  sixteen  vicars  choral  and 
thirteeen  chauntry  priests,  some  of  whom  are  also  vicars  choral, 
thirteen  are  impeached  for  neglect  of  duty  or  for  graver  offences. 
Shirking  matins  and  prime  is  no  doubt  a  not  very  heinous  offence  in 
itself,  though  when  you  are  paid  on  purpose  to  attend,  it  shows  a 
pretty  general  slackness.  In  the  view  of  the  ministers,  too,  habitual 
shirking  generally  implied  a  graver  offence  behind  it,  and  was 
commonly  accompanied  by  drunkenness  and  immorality.  But  of 
all  those  incriminated  and  found  guilty,  not  one  was  actually 
punished  except  Gregory,  who  was  fined  a  substantial  sum,  £l ; 
the  rest  were  merely  warned  to  amend  on  pain  of  suspension. 
In  the  last   fully   reported  visitation,  that  of  1506,  the  com- 

•  That  the  felony  was  not  Betbank's  offence  above  noted  is  clear.     It  was  one  in 
which  four  vicars  and  three  chauntry  priests  were  concerned. 


Ixxxiv  INTRODUCTION. 

plaints  are  more  general,  and  the  record  seems  to  end  abruptly. 
The  following  delinquencies  are  detected.  Vicars  and  chauntry 
priests  shirk  choir  and  come  tarde,  especially  at  prime  and 
the  other  canonical  hours.  Many  laugh  and  talk  during  ser- 
vice. The  choir-masters,  officers  apparently  going  in  some  sort 
of  rotation,  *  leave  the  choir  in  their  copes  and  walk  about  the 
chapels  and  aisles,  especially  at  matins.  They  hurry  the  psalms 
and  mumble  them  espociHlly  in  Lent.  The  processions  are  dis- 
orderly, and  they  go  in  a  flock  instead  of  separately  and  severally. 
Bowing  and  turning  to  the  altar  at  the  beginning  of  hours,  at 
glorias,  and  creed  are  ignored.  The  vicars  and  chauntry  priests 
have  to  be  warned  to  be  home  by  curfew,  not  to  sleep  in  the  town, 
not  to  frequent  public-houses,  or  to  have  suspect  women  to  their 
rooms.  In  regard  to  religious  duties,  they  are  to  perform  their 
chauntry  duty,  not  to  confess  to  each  other  walking  about,  not  to 
breakfast  before  mass,  to  come  to  canonical  hours  as  they  are 
sworn  on  admission,  not  to  throw  their  habits  about,  but  to  put 
them  in  the  chests. 

Of  particular  complaints  the  first  is  very  odd.  Penketh  scratches 
or  blows  (stringit)  his  nose  so  that  he  makes  it  bleed,  to  the  annoyance 
of  the  other  vicars,  and  he  spits  too  far,  and  sometimes  into  the  faces 
of  the  choir-masters ;  when  he  is  choir-master  he  leaves  the  choir  in 
his  cope.  Bekyrke,  when  he  is  the  officiating  priest,  goes  out 
immediately  after  the  opening  prayer  and  comes  back  at  the  end  ; 
he  also  s|)its  too  much,  and  that  over  the  books  and  spoils  them. 
Fryth  shirks  choir  and  sleeps  outside  the  vicars'  house.  Steill,  "  a 
very  bad  choir-keeper,"  lolls  about  on  the  stalls  and  reads  the 
books,  rarfly  sings ;  he  and  Woodiiouse  come  home  from  the  town 
too  late,  after  curfew,  or  even  after  nine  o'(;lock.  Vincent,  Wylson, 
Martyn,  Babyngton,  Farrer,  shirk  choir  or  sleej)  at  matins.  Farrer 
is  fined  a  pound  of  wax  for  having  put  the  clock  back  one  morning 
and  made  every  one  late. 

•  At  Lincoln  the  period  seems  to  have  I'cen  a  furtnight.  Annan  lUg'istrunu  eil. 
Bp.  Wordswortb,  p.  42. 


INTfiODUCTION.  IxXXV 

Wright  suspiciously  frequents  the  widow  Yomaii's  house,  and 
she  is  perpetually  coming  to  his  room.  He  swears  "she  is  his 
spiritual  sister  and  cousin,"  but  she  is  not  to  come  to  his  room  again 
unless  he  is  sick.  As,  at  the  previous  visitation,  another  vicar 
choral  had  confessed  to  relations  with  this  lady,  for  whicli  he  had 
been  fined  2  lb,  of  wax  ;  as  four  years  before,  yet  another  vicar  had 
been  solemnly  made  to  resign  and  be  readmitted  on  condition  of 
having  no  more  to  do  with  her ;  and  as,  two  years  before  that 
again,  still  another  vicar  or  chauntry  priest  had  been  frequenting 
her  hoiTse,  "  to  the  peril  of  his  soul  and  the  grave  scandal  of  the 
church,"  we  may  perhaps  wonder  at  the  ease  with  which  the 
chapter  admitted  the  spirituality  of  the  relationship.  As  in 
1475,  so  in  1506,  the  only  result  of  the  visitation  is  "pro- 
mised to  amend."  How  futile  this  was  may  be  seen  from  George 
Vincent's  case.  In  1503,  when  he  was  a  deacon,  he  had  been 
alleged  to  be  guilty  of  one  of  the  worst  crimes  charged  in  the  "  Black 
Book  of  the  Monasteries  " ;  when  he  reappears  to  public  notice 
at  the  Visitation  of  1519  he  is  charged  with  neglect  of  his  duty 
as  organist,  with  shirking  choir  or  sleeping  at  matins,  and  with 
graver  offences  with  one  of  the  numerous  Agneses  who  frequented 
Southwell,  and  yet  in  1519,  as  before,  he  is  only  called  on  to 
"  promise  to  amend." 

There  are  just  eight  instances  in  the  whole  book  in  which  sus-  Penalty  of  susijenbiou. 
pension  of  vicars  choral  or  chauntry  priests  actually  took  place  ; 
three  being  for  "  contumacy "  in  disobeying  the  orders  of  the 
chapter,  one  for  slander  of  u  layman  that  he  had  forged  letters  to 
cause  certain  vicars  to  be  indicted  for  felonj-,  one  for  stealing  part 
of  a  deer  out  of  the  lodge  in  the  archbishop's  park,  in  which  case 
apparently  the  suspension  was,  "  until  cei'tain  peoples'  anger  is 
abated."  Only  two  out  of  the  innumerable  cases  are  actually  sus- 
pended for  sexual  misbehaviour.  One  of  the  susjiensions  is  curious, 
as  a  good  specimen  of  the  identity  of  the  medieval  excommunica- 
tion with  the  modern  boycott.  AVilliam  Buller,  the  venison-stealer, 
was  charged  before  W.  Fitzherbert,  canon  residentiary,   "  in  the 


IxXXvi  INTRODUCTION. 

chapter-house  publiely  making  a  chapter,"  with  beincr  ipso  facto 
excommunicate  for  having  hiid  violent  hands  on  Robert  Pendereth, 
in  a  tavern,  in  mixed  company  of  clerks  and  laymen.  He  did 
not  deny  the  charge ;  whereon  he  was  declared  excommunicated, 
ordered  to  divest  himself  of  his  choral  habit,  "and  not  to  eat  or 
drink  with  his  fellow  vicars  sitting  at  tiible  with  them,  but  to  be 
served  with  necessary  food  by  the  vicars'  servant  while  sitting 
by  himself  at  table,  either  on  the  right  or  left  hand."  Six 
days  later  he  appeared  again  before  the  chapter  and  was  asked, 
"'Why  he  had  disobeyed  the  order  given  him?'  to  which  he 
not  humbly  but  in  an  insolent  spirit  answered,  '  AVhy  do  I  pay 
the  same  for  my  food  and  table  as  the  rest  of  my  colleagues  ?  ' 
The  canon  said,  '  I  see  you  are  a  son  of  iniquity,  and  neither  dis- 
posed to  grace  nor  good  manners  nor  good  conduct.'  Whereon 
the  vicar  fatuously  said  '  that  he  would  not  come  to  the  chapter  to 
learn  wisdom  or  prudence.'  Whereon  the  canon  warned  all  the 
ministers  of  the  church  '  to  avoid  his  company  and  not  to  hold 
any  communication  with  him.'  "  The  boycott  was  very  quickly 
effectual.  Next  day  "  Sir  William  appeared  before  the  same 
venerable  canon,  sitting  as  a  court  in  the  chapter-house,  in  tears, 
humbly  begging  pardon  on  his  bended  knees  ;  whereon  Master 
William  seeing  the  same  Sir  William  contrite  for  his  monstrous 
crime  and  contumacy,  satisfaction  having  been  made  to  the  injured 
party,  he  was  absolved,  and  touching  the  sacred  gospels  he  (the 
canon)  enjoined  him  (the  vicar  choral)  next  Sunday  with  bare  feet 
Penalty  of  penance.  and  uncovered  head  to  walk  before  the  procession  carrying  a  wax 
taper  in  his  hand,  and  before  the  image  of  the  Blessed  Virgin 
Mary,  at  mass,  to  say  the  penitential  psalms  on  his  bended  knees." 
This  was  the  regular  form  of  penance  in  use  at  Southwell.  We 
meet  with  none  of  the  ferocious  "  fustigations  "  or  floggings  round 
the  church,  churchyard,  or  town  freely  resorted  to  at  Ilipon  or 
Durham  in  the  same  period,  especially  against  the  woman  in  the 
case.  Nor,  on  the  other  liand,  are  there  any  punishments  of 
quite   such   a   comic   character   as   that   resorted  to  at  Wells  in 


INTRODUCTION.  Ixxxvii 

1511,  when  a  viear  choral  convicted  of  several  adulteries  was 
ordered  "  to  paint  one  king  before  the  choir  door  which  is  not  yet 
painted,  and  if  he  escaped  prosecution  in  the  king's  court,  to  paint 
another  king  not  yet  painted."  This  experiment  seems  to  have 
been  so  successful  that  another  chauntry  priest  having  been  ordered 
'  candle  penance  '  for  a  similar  offence,  it  is  commuted  to  "  painting 
the  image  of  St.  Michael  and  its  canopy  (tabernaeulo)."  Whetherfrom 
the  milder  manners  of  the  Midlands,  or  some  other  cause,  Southwell 
steered  a  middle  course,  and  adopted  the  mild  but  sufficient  candle- 
and-sheet  penance.  It  was,  however,  rarely  inflicted  on  the  staff 
of  the  minster,  there  being  only  four  cases  of  it  in  the  book, 
whereas  whenever  the  woman  was  caught  she  got  the  full  penance. 
Agnes,  or  Cristina,  Saynton  (she  is  called  both  in  the  same  sentence) 
had  to  go  for  three  Sundays  ''  in  front  of  the  procession  with  the 
cross-bearer,  with  a  wax  candle  worth  a  penny  in  her  hand,  with 
bare  feet  and  legs  (tibiis,  i.e.  bare  from  the  knee  downwards), 
clothed  only  in  a  loose  shift  (tunica  soluta),  with  a  loose  towel  on 
her  head,"  while  her  companion  Warsopp,  after  many  warnings, 
was  only  suspended. 

Such  then  was  the  state  of  the  church  and  clergy  of  Southwell  Estimate  of  results 
in  the  century  preceding  the  Reformation.  We  know  fi'om  such 
books  as  Mr.  Fowler's  edition  of  the  Ripon  Chapter  Acts,  and  Mr, 
Reynolds's  privately-printed  Wells  records,  that  things  were  no 
worse  at  Southwell  than  eLewhere.  It  is,  indeed,  sometimes  sug- 
gested that  such  records  do  not  show  the  real  state  of  affairs  ;  that 
the  scandals  are  mere  scandal,  the  malicious  gossip  and  backbiting 
of  small  communities.  If  this  were  so,  one  might  humbly  wonder 
what  good  to  the  inmates  or  the  world  such  malignant  and  nasty- 
minded  communities  were.  But  in  truth  it  is  not  so.  The  most 
immaculate  members  of  the  community,  those  against  whom  little 
or  nothing  is  alleged,  are  often  the  strongest  in  their  evidence 
against  their  fellows.  And  if  they  were  mere  backbiters,  the  back- 
bitten have  a  singularly  lamb-like  Avay  of  meeting  the  attack.  As 
a  rule,  they  submit  without  a  recorded  murmur  to  the  warning  or 


of  visitations. 


Ixxxviii 


INTRODUCTION. 


the  mild  punishments  imposed.  In  the  rrrent  majority  of  the 
offences  ''detected,"  the  offence  is  admitted  by  the  offender 
promising  to  amend,  or  submitting  to  a  warning. 

Thus,  at  the  Visitation  of  1475,  out  of  twelve  accused,  including 
two  for  unlawful  wounding  in  church  and  cha])tcr-house,  ten 
submit  to  warning  or  punishment ;  one,  accused  of  not  accounting 
for  surplus  incomp  of  his  chauntry,  successfully  defends  himself  by 
producing  his  foundation  deeds  ;  another,  accused  of  felony,  suc- 
cessfully goes  to  purgation,  i.e  ,  is  acquitted,  not  after  an  examina- 
tion of  facts,  but  by  the  production  of  half-a-dozen  of  his  colleagues  as 
witnesses  to  character.  In  1478,  out  of  eighteen  accused  of  offences, 
including  dicing  and  sexual  immorality,  all  but  one  submit  to  warning 
or  punishment ;  one,  accused  of  adultery,  goes  to  compurgation 
successfully.  All  the  "  detecta "  are  echoed  in  injunctions 
issued  by  the  chapter,  clearly  showing  that  the  judges  at  least 
thought  that  "  detecta"'  and  "comperta,"  dectection  and  convic- 
tion,were  practically  the  same.  At  the  Visitation  of  1481,  seventeen 
persons  are  "  detected,"  mostly  of  light  faults,  mere  shirking 
services,  and  no  results  are  given.  But  are  we  to  conclude  that 
the  proportion  of  guilty  is  any  less?  In  1484  seventeen  are 
charged ;  all  but  five,  including  some  grave  moral  offenders,  are 
warned  or  punished.  Of  the  other  five  we  hear  no  more  ;  but  it  is 
by  no  means  clear  they  were  not  guilty  or  not  warned  or  punished, 
as  the  records  are  very  incomplete.  We  need  not  pursue  the 
inquiry  into  later  visitations,  where  sometimes  the  results  are 
recorded,  sometimes  not.  From  the  facts  stated  we  may  fairly 
infer  that  when  it  was  said  an  oflfence  is  detected,  and  nothing  is 
recorded  to  the  contrary,  in  ninety-nine  cases  out  of  a  hundred 
it  was  taken  to  be  proved.  Even  in  the  infinitesimal  number  of 
cases  in  which  successful  purgation  took  place,  we  cannot  attach 
any  more  importance  to  it  as  a  proof  of  innocence  than  did  the 
judges  themselves, — men,  as  a  rule,  learned  in  the  law  and  skilled 
in  the  practice  of  the  busy  and  important  Ecclesiastical  Courts — 
who,  purgation  notwithstanding,  in  most  cases  warned  the  "  not 
guilty  "  not  to  do  it  again. 


INTRODUCTION.  IxXXlX 

Further,  a  large  proportion  of  the  worst  eases  in  the  record  do 
not  depend  on  ''detecta"  at  all,  but  occur  as  "  corrections,"  i.e., 
the  warning  or  punishment  only  is  recorded.  It  is  said  it  is  as 
unfair  to  judge  from  a  record  of"  corrections  "  what  the  state  of 
the  church  was,  as  it  would  be  to  judge  of  the  state  of  London  from 
the  reports  of  the  police  or  divorce  courts,  and  that  there  are  black 
sheep  in  every  flock-  But,  apart  from  the  fact  that  statistics  of 
police  courts  and  divorce  courts  do  shed  considerable  light  on  the 
state  of  society,  the  answer  is  that  these  visitations  are  not  the 
records  of  a  police  court,  in  which  only  notorious  or  open 
offenders  appear,  at  the  instance  of  those  who  have  suffered 
from  them,  but  are  the  more  or  less  unconscious  revelations  of  a 
domestic  forum,  in  which  the  whole  society  is  brought  under 
examination,  and  the  informers  are  the  friends  and  colleagues  of 
the  offenders.  Besides,  just  as  we  can  infer  from  the  punishments 
meted  out  in  police  courts  the  relative  heinousness  attributed,  for 
instance,  to  offences  against  the  person  as  compared  with  offences 
against  property,  and  the  relative  frequency  of  the  matters  charged, 
so  we  can  infer  from  the  sentences  inflicted  in  this  domestic  forum 
the  true  view  in  which  these  offences  are  regarded.  From  this 
point  of  view  we  can  only  conclude  that  neglect  of  duty  and  sexual 
immorality  were  so  common  that  they  were  never  punished,  except 
when  some  public  scandal  was  created  by  them.  And  the  reason 
why  contumacy  was  so  severely  dealt  with  was  that  the  chapter, 
being  a  public  court,  the  very  foundations  of  ecclesiastical  power 
were  shaken  if  its  own  subordinates  were  allowed  to  defy  its 
authority.  Moreover,  these  are  the  records  of  a  picked  section  of 
society  supposed  to  lead  a  higher  life  and  to  be  an  example  to 
others.  The  true  parallel  to-day  would  be  an  inquisition  on  the 
masters  of  a  public  school  or  the  dons  at  a  university.  We  should 
be  very  much  astonished  to  find  anything  like  the  record  of  detecta 
et  cornperta  after  such  a  visitation  that  we  do  here. 

A  further  defence  adopted  is  "  autres  temps,  aiitres  ma'urs.'^ 
The  manners  of  those  days  were  not  those  of  ours,  and  the  South- 
well clerks  were  no  worse,  even  perhaps  a  good  deal  better,  than 

m 


XC  INTRODUCTION. 

the  laymen  around  tlieni.  No  doubt  the  manners,  perhaps  even 
the  morals,  of  those  days  v/ere  not  those  of  ours.  The  ordinary 
middle-aged,  middle-class  citizen,  stdl  less  the  ordinary  priest  of 
to-day,  is  not  found  dicincr,  drinking,  duelling,  divorce-courting, 
duty-shirking.  But  it  is  not  much  of  a  testimony  to  the  utility  of 
faith,  if  the  "  ages  of  ftiith  "  have  to  fall  back  on  the  defence  that 
the  very  priests  of  the  altar  were  morally  below  the  bulk  of  the 
vulgar  of  to-day.  AVliether  the  clerks  or  the  laity  were  the 
worst  in  those  days  we  have  no  precise  means  of  knowing.  All 
we  can  say  is  that  it  would  not  have  been  easy  for  the  morals  or 
the  manners  of  Cartwright,  Bull,  Warsopp,  Penkith,  Lemyng, 
Vincent,  and  a  host  more,  to  be  much  worse  than  they  were. 
Henry  VIII.  himself,  with  all  the  advantages  and  opportunities  of 
his  position,  diced,  drank,  and  qualified  for  the  divorce  court  with 
no  greater  zeal  than  Gregory,  or  Nicholas  Walton.  But  then 
Henry  VIII.  was  not  sworn  to  chastity  nor  endowed  for  holiness. 
Gregory,  &c.,  were.  And  the  question  as  it  may  well  have  pre- 
sented itself  to  the  reformers  was  not  a  nice  interrogation  as  to 
whether  the  clergy  or  the  laity  were  the  most  given  to  breaking  the 
ten  commandments,  or  any  of  them,  but  wliether  it  was  worth 
while  to  appr(<priate  huge  endowments,  bearing  an  enormous  pro- 
portion to  the  whole  national  wealth,  to  diverting  from  the  ranks 
of  producers  and  workers  a  crowd  of  some  of  the  most  intelligent 
men  of  the  time,  and  to  paying  them  for  duties  which  they  did 
not  perform,  and  for  a  life  of  devotion  and  self-restraint  which  they 
did  not,  in  fact,  lead.  Tliey  may  well  have  thought  it  was  worse 
than  wasteful  to  endow  a  sj)ecial  corps  of  guides  to  the  stars,  who 
were  mostly  to  be  found  in  the  nearest  public- house. 
Secular  canons  com-  A  further  question  presents  itself  whether  the  secular  colleges  wc^re 
amul-ulai"caDons.  ^^'^^'^^  ^''^"  *^^^^^  monastic  rivals.  To  this  question  Dr.  Jessopp's  work 
supplies  a  partial  answer.  Norwich  was  a  cathedral  of  monks  in- 
stead of  secular  canons,  to  whom  the  bishop  visiting  was  an  outside 
])ower  to  be  ke[)t  at  arm's  length  and  to  be  told  no  more  than  could 
be  helped.  Yet  Bishop  Gold  well's  visitation  in  1-11)2  told  very  much 
the  same  tale  as  the   ►Southwell  visitations.     AVomen  stay  all  night 


INTRODUCTION.  XCl 

ill  the  monastery ;  the  phite  is  sold ;  they  talk  in  choir,  cloister, 
and  dormitory ;  the  master  of  the  altar  (corresponding  to  the 
Southwell  sacristan)  does  not  sleep  in  the  church ;  the  sub-sacrist 
spends  his  money  in  extravagance,  and  is  scandalously  familiar 
with  the  tailor  and  his  wife  ;  chauntry  priests  are  not  paid  ;  the 
choir  is  not  decently  served ;  the  monks  wander  about  the  church 
and  close,  and  talk  with  women  of  ill  fame ;  no  monks  are  sent  to 
the  university.  So  much  for  the  Cathedral  Benedictines.  At 
Wymondham  Abbey,  also  Benedictine,  the  divine  offices  are  not 
properly  celebrated,  the  monks  are  active  tradesmen,  they  hunt 
and  hawk,  they  do  not  go  home  in  proper  time,  the  buildings  are 
not  kept  in  repair,  the  monastery  is  robbed,  the  abbot  renders  no 
accounts.  iSimilar  complaints  at  Bekenham  Priory,  especially 
"  of  the  sub-prior  and  the  frequent  visits  of  Isabel  Warner." 

Take,  again,  the  visitation  by  Bishop  Nikks,  formerly  canon  of 
Southwell,  in  1514.  Four  priors  of  cells  plead  non-residence  as 
an  excuse  for  knowing  nothing  about  their  charges.  At  Norwich 
Cathedral  itself  there  are  ojily  thirty-eight  monks  instead  of  sixty ; 
the  chauntries  are  not  served ;  divine  service  is  not  properly  kept, 
specially  by  sub-j)rior  and  third  prior  ;  one  monk  has  had  a  child 
born  to  him  ;  sub-prior  and  three  others  suspect  with  sub-prior's 
servants ;  the  third  prior  says  women  have  suspicious  access  to  the 
monastery.  It  is  found,  generally,  that  religion  and  chastity  are 
not  observed,  the  sub-prior  setting  a  bad  example. 

At  Walsingham,  a  priory  of  those  ''  regular  canons  "  for  whose 
superior  sanctity  fashion  at  one  time  ousted  the  poor  secular  canons, 
the  whole  place  is  ruled  by  Jane  Smyth,  Avife  of  one  of  the  prior's 
servants,  who  wears  gold  rings  on  her  fingers,  and  is  able  to  ride  to 
Canterbury  on  the  prior^s  horse  ;  while  John  Smyth,  her  husband, 
is  said  to  be  worth  500  marks.  The  prior  struck  a  labourer  and 
killed  him  ;  he  keeps  a  fool,  whom  he  dresses  up  in  a  surplice  and 
makes  march  in  the  processions.  Many  canons  imitate  their  prior ; 
they  sit  up  drinking  all  night,  frequent  suspicious  females,  climb 
ov(U'  the  convent  walls  at  night,  and  sleep  at  matins,  when  they  go  to 
them  at  all.     The  prior  had  threatened  any  one  who  gave  evidence. 


XCU  INTRODUCTION. 

At  the  Benedictine  St.  Benet's  Hulme,  there  was  a  conspiracy  to 
tell  no  tales  ;  but  some  very  odd  talcs  are  told  of  the  prior  and  his 
robberies  of  the  convent,  and  goings  on  with  various  married 
women  ;  very  often  there  is  nobody  fit  to  celebrate  mass.  At 
Wymondham  similar  tales  are  told  of  the  prior,  camerarius,  and 
others.  At  Augustinian  "Westacre,  Thetford,  and  Cluniac  Bromehill, 
the  same  ;  in  the  latter  the  laundress  rules  the  prior  and  convent  as 
Jane  Smyth  did  at  Walsingham.  The  nunneries  seem  to  be  better, 
but  at  Flixton  the  prioress  imitates  tlie  priors,  and  in  two  other  cases 
evidence  of  immorality  is  given.  On  the  other  hand  in  only  one 
college,  that  of  Tompston,  are  similar  complaints  made  against  the 
master. 

It  is  evident,  therefore,  that  at  the  ver^^  least  it  is  a  case 
of  pot  and  kettle  between  secular  and  regular.  As  far  as  the 
evidence  goes,  it  would  seem  the  regulars  have  the  worst  of  it, 
owing  probably  to  the  greater  powers  and  consequent  temptations 
of  the  priors.  It  may  be  added  that  there  are  more  hints  of  the 
worst  crimes  of  the  "  black  book  "  in  the  Norwich  than  there  are 
in  the  Southwell  Visitations. 

After  reading  these  records  we  cannot  help  feeling  that  Avhat- 
ever  may  be  the  actual  facts  as  to  the  compilation  of  the  "black 
book  of  the  monasteries,"  and  whatever  the  character  of  the 
visitors  or  the  visitation,  there  was  certainly  no  lack  of  materials 
out  of  which  a  dozen  decently  sharp  lawyers  could  frame  and 
prove  a  damning  indictment,  and  compile  books  very  black 
indeed.  Making  every  allowance  for  difference  of  manners,  how 
long  would  the  universities  remain,  if  at  a  visitation  six  hcatls 
of  liouses  were  found  to  be  robbing  their  colleges,  and  living 
scandalous  lives?  Where  would  the  colleges  be  if  their  heads 
were  found  to  have  let  their  young  men  climb  out  of  college,  to 
have  plundered  their  fellows,  and  allowed  their  laundresses  or  their 
porters'  wives  to  reign  in  their  lodgings,  while  even  the  head  of  the 
Ladies'  Colleges  was  not  above  rej)r()ach  ?  Yet  if  we  want  to  realise 
the  state  of  the  collegiate  churches  or  religious  houses  in  the  loth 
century  that  is  the  kind  of  picture  we  have  to  jirosont  to  our  minds. 


INTRODUCTION.  XClll 

It  cannot,  however,  be  said  that  it  was  a  degenerate  and  specially  ^y^^  ^^  p,  .  , 
wicked  age.  The  records  of  Southwell,  the  records  of  Beverley,  tlegcnerate  ? 
the  records  of  Chichester  and  AVells  show  precisely  the  same 
state  of  things  in  the  13th  and  14th  centuries  that  existed  in 
the  15th  and  16th.  The  very  earliest  statutes  of  Southwell 
reveal  exactly  the  same  evils  as  the  latest  entries  in  the  register. 
The  quarrelling  which  was  so  conspicuous  among  the  brethren, 
"  dwelling  together  in  unity  "  there,  was  the  first  thing  aimed 
at  by  the  first  words  of  the  statutes  of  1248,  to  which  reference  is 
made  in  the  first  "  correction  "  of  a  vicar  choral  on  page  8,  as  the 
statute  which  begins,  "  But."  The  many  Agneses,  those  wolves 
under  the  name  of  lambs,  who  frequented  Southwell,  were  aimed 
at  by  the  statute  of  the  same  edition  "  ceterum  si  propter  in- 
continentiam."  The  shirking  "  hours,"  and  specially  matins,  is 
an  evil  specially  provided  for  by  the  same  statute,  and  a  penny 
fine  for  absenae  enacted.  Even  the  tavern-haunting  is  specially 
mentioned  and  prohibited.  As  early  as  1264  we  have  an  entry 
in  the  White  Book  of  the  misbehaviour  of  a  vicar  choral  with 
mulierem  solutam,  met  by  the  usual  inefficient  method  of  a 
warning  not  to  do  it  again.  He  is  indeed  suspended  for  eight 
days,  but  that  is  all.  In  1293  (after  a  visitation,  be  it  observed) 
the  first  injunction  is  "  that  the  vicars  and  clerks  abstain  for 
the  future  from  talking  and  laughing  in  the  choir,  especially 
when  they  are  bound  to  give  constant  attention  to  the  divine 
service ;  and  if  having  been  warned  and  rebuked  by  the  chapter 
they  have  neglected  this,  let  them  be  forthwith  expelled  from  the 
choir."  At  Beverley,  Wells,  and  Lincoln  it  would  be  easy  to 
trace  the  same  flow  of  complaints  right  down  the  stream  of  time, 
whether  of  canons,  vicars,  or  chauntry  priests. 

In  William  of  Wykeham's  statutes  for  AVinchester  about  1400,  ^ 
we  have  his  authoritative  and  remarkable  statement  that  nowhere 
are  the  rules  of  founders  observed.     "  Moreover  we  have  in  our 

»  They  were  sworn  to  first  in  1400,  but  it  would  seem  that  they  had  been  made 
and  revised  before  then.  The  New  College,  Oxford,  statutes,  which  contain  the 
same  words,  were  first  sworn  to  in  1390. 


XCIV  INTRODUCTION. 

time  diligently  examined  the  traditions  of  ancient  fathers  and 
the  various  ai)pro\-ed  rules  of  saints,  also  the  manifold  professors 
of  those  traditions  and  rules,  but  (as  we  are  sorry  to  say)  nowhere 
now,  as  of  old,  have  we  found  rules,  ordinances,  and  statutes 
observed  b}'  their  professors  in  accordance  with  the  intention 
of  the  founders,"  and,  lie  says,  he  considered  long  whether  it 
would  not  be  better  to  bestow  his  goods  on  the  poor  himself  than 
to  "  entrust  them  to  the  improvident  through  the  ages"  (usibus"* 
imprudentium  attribuere,  seculo  durante).  But,  being  anxious  for 
education,  he  finally  determined  to  give  them  for  the  relief  of 
*'  poor  scholars,  clerks,  in  the  schools,"  and  embarked  on  the  fruit- 
less task  of  trying  to  ensure  the  stability  of  his  statutes  through 
all  time  by  imprecations  on  those  who  interpreted  them  in  any 
but  their  literal  sense,  or  tried  to  alter  them.  Vain  hojjc !  In 
two  centuries  and  a  half  the  ten  priest-fellows  of  his  magnificent 
chauntry — for  Winchester  College,  as  distinct  from  Winchester 
School,  was  nothing  else — had  nothing  in  common  with  the  priest- 
fellows  of  his  statutes,  except  in  the  receipt  of  pay. 

It  is  owing,  we  may  suppose,  to  the  fact  that  these  failures  had 
gone  on  so  long  and  nothing  had  ha])pened,  that  we  find  not  the 
least  trace  in  the  register  of  any  anticipation  of  the  Reformation. 
It  is  indeed,  at  first  sight,  remarkable  how  little  we  hear  of  the 
Wars  of  the  Hoses  which  were  going  on  during  the  first  part  of  the 
period  or  of  an}^  of  the  external  events  of  the  world  around.  We 
dimly  see  Edward  IV.  presenting  one  person  to  a  i)rebend,  and 
Henry  VII.  another,  but  except  for  the  fact  that  the  imprisonment 
of  Archbisliop  Neville,  the  king-maker's  brother,  produced  an 
internal  convulsion  owing  to  the  feudal  obligation  on  the  canons  to 
assist  their  archbishop  and  so  caused  it  to  be  noticed  in  the  register, 
the  whole  i)erio(l  might  have  been  one  of  j.rofouud  peace.  And 
no  doubt  the  Wars  of  the  Hoses  made  but  little  diflerence  to  the 
ordinary  dailv  life  of  the  clerical  non-combatants  of  the  Prebendago, 
as  the  minster  portion  of  the  little  country  town  of  Southwell  was 

»  Usibus  is,  no  doubt,  used  in  tiie  sense  wbieh  it  bore  till  the  Statute  of  Uses,  for 
wbat  we  now  cull  "  trusts." 


INTRODUCTION.  XCV 

called.  It  is  just  possible  that  the  fierceness  of  the  fights  of  the  vicars 
choral,  and  the  prevalent  practice  of  carrying  daggers,  and  other 
arms  of  aggression,  may  be  a  reflex  of  the  violence  and  bloodshed 
which  overwhelmed  the  outer  world.  But  it  may  be  supposed  the 
daily  services  went  on,  as  the  daily  tillage  of  the  fields  went  on, 
except  where  the  war  actually  broke  out  hither  or  thither  in  its 
erratic  course,  just  the  same.  The  alternate  triumphs  of  the 
White  or  Eed  Rose  only  meant  that  the  prebends  were  packed 
with  the  lawyer  partisans  of  one  side  or  the  other. 

More  curious  is  it  to  find  no  breath  of  the  Reformation  in  the 
book.  Not  an  entry  would  lead  us  to  sujjpose  that  there  was  any 
great  change  in  the  air.  Even  in  the  wills,  where  at  least  we 
should  expect  some  indication  of  change  of  feeling  or  attitude 
towards  the  old  religion,  there  is  no  perceptible  alteration  until  the 
Reformation  is  already  a  half-accomplished  fact.  The  earliest  will  The  wills, 
recorded  here,  that  of  Custance,  a  chauntry  priest,  who  made  his 
will  in  1470  and  died  in  1480,  is  not  more  full  of  legacies  in 
support  of  the  system  than  that  of  William  Ynkersoll,  chauntry 
priest  at  the  end  of  the  fateful  year  1535.  It  is  easy  to  imder- 
stand  that  laymen  like  Robert  Nevyll  of  Ragnall,  in  1527,  or 
old  ladies  like  Agnes  Barra,  in  1525,  who  saw  the  thing  from 
outside,  should  crowd  their  wills  with  legacies  for  masses  and 
dirges,  torches  and  tapers,  to  friars  and  chauntry  priests,  and 
that  they  should   have  wished  to  be  admitted,   "  to  the  brother-  j 

hood"   of  the    Gray    Friars    or    the    Vicars    Choral.      But    how  I 

William  Custance,  who  saw  it    from  the  inside,   could   have  be-  '' 

queathed  6s.  8d.  ''  to  the  brotherhood  of  the  Vicars  Choral,  to  be  j 

received  amongst  them  ;  "  how  Richard  Worsley,  chauntry  priest,  j 

could    have    cared    to    have    his    brethren    to    say   his    exequies,  I 

"  with  the  morrow  mass  two  and  two,  at  the  price  of  3s.  4fZ.," 
or  to  direct  his  name  to  be  mentioned  by  the  parish  vicar, 
every  year  for  three  years,  at  Ad.  a  year  ;  above  all,  how  John 
Wyvell,  vicar  of  North  Leverton  and  ex-vicar  choral,  could,  in 
1523,  not  only  give  "a  silver  spoon,  or  else  3s.  4c?,"  to  every 
priest  present  at  his   "burial,  and  at  the  eighth  day"  to  "say  j 


XCVl  INTRODUCTION. 

David  psalter  for  his  soule,"  but  also  institute  a  chauntry  priest 
for  himself,  it  is  really  hard  to  explain,  except  by  force  of 
habit,  custom,  and  example.  Perhaps  they  hoped  that  their  par- 
ticular chauntry  priest  -would  sing  his  masses,  or  their  particular 
Black  Canons,  or  White  Friars,  or  what  not,  would  do  their  trentals 
or  obsequies,  and  not  neglect  them.  Or  probably,  though  by  their 
conduct  they  showed  they  but  half  believed  in  the  utility  of  the 
multiplication  of  services,  yet,lik:eihe  sceptical  Bishopin  St.  Praxed's 
church,  they  still  believed  in  it  enough  to  think  it  worth  while  to 
do  their  best  to  obtain  their  share. 

The  influence  of  the  Reformation,  however,  on  bequests  for  "  pious 
uses,"  when  it  did  begin,  is  very  marked.  The  will  of  Robert 
Blaunch,  vicar  choral,  in  the  end  (February)  of  1536,  contains  not 
a  single  bequest  of  the  kind  ;  the  will  of  Edmund  Hunt,  of  Nor- 
manton,  17  April,  1537,  a  rich  man  and  lessee  of  the  prebend  of 
Norrnanton,  contains  only  a  simple  legacy  of  3.s.  4d.  to  the  pai'ish 
vicar  ;  no  torches  or  tapers,  or  exequies  or  masses,  are  mentioned. 
The  will  of  William  Arnall,  of  Southwell,  in  the  end  of  1541,  may 
be  well  contrasted  with  that  of  a  member  of  the  same  family  ni 
June,  1521.  In  the  earlier  will  is  a  direction  to  sell  sheep  "  to 
the  sum  of  46s.  8d.,  and  that  sum  of  money  I  give  and  bequeath  to 
a  priest  to  sing  for  my  wife  and  me,  as  long  as  it  will  last.  Also  I 
give  and  bequeath  two  ewes  and  two  lambs  to  find  a  light  burning 
upon  the  sepulchre  at  Morton  "  (where  he  lived)  "  never  to  be  put 
forth  from  Good  Friday  that"  (i.e.  when)  "candles  be  lighted 
upon  the  sepulchre,  unto  the  resurrection  on  Easter  Day  in  the 
morning,  burning  with  it  the  other  days  following.  And  I  will 
that  my  wife  find  a  light  the  next  Good  Friday  Ibllowing,  of  the 
same  manner,  of  her  own  cost  Also  I  owe  five  strikes  of  barley  to  tho 
church  of  Morton,  the  which  I  will  that  it  shall  be  made  a  quarter," 
and  the  whole  residue  is  bequeathed,  as  was  custom  and  law,  to  his 
executors  "  to  dispose  for  the  health  of  my  soul."  In  the  Inter 
will  we  have  only,  "  I  bequeath  to  the  highways  of  Easthorpe 
6s.  8(7.  ...  to  my  ghostly  father  i2d.,  to  Our  Lady  at  the  high 
altar  12(7.,"  and  tho  bctiuest  of  residue  is  to  his  son,  instead  of  to 


INTRODUCTION.  XCVU 

his  executors  for  the  health  of  his  soul.  From  Avhich  we  may  fairly 
infer  that  the  laity  were  not  sorry  to  be  relieved  of  the  burden  of 
gifts  to  pious  uses. 

Here  we  must  say  farewell  to  the  collegiate  church  of  Southwell.  Southwell.  I5i0-i84l. 
To  trace  its  fortunes  further  in  detail  would  be  to  exceed  limits 
already  exceeded.  Suffice  it  to  say  that  though  it  and  all  its 
belongings  were  surrendered  to  Henry  VIII.  in  August,  October, 
and  November,  1540,  by  the  archbishop,  the  chapter,  the  indi- 
vidual canons,  the  vicars  choral,  and  the  chauntry  priests  jointly 
and  severally  :  it  was  seemingly  suffered  to  go  on  as  befoi-e  until 
1543,  when  by  a  special  Act  of  Parliament  it  was  legally  re-estab- 
lished. This  Act  enacted  "  that  the  colledge  and  church  collegiate 
of  Southwell  .  .  .  shall  stande  and  bee  in  his  hole  perfecte  and 
essentiall  estate  in  all  degrees  and  in  such  manner  and  forme  to  all 
intents  or  purposes,  as  it  was  or  stood,  the  first  day  of  June,  in  the 
32nd  yere  of  the  reigne  of  our  sovereign  lord  the  king,  or  at  anie 
time  before,  and  shall  j-emaine,  continue  and  be  for  ever,  a  perfecte 
bodie  corporate  by  the  name  of  the  chapter  of  the  collegiate  cluu'ch 
of  the  Blessed  Marie  the  Virgine  of  Southwell,  in  the  countie  of 
Nottingham."  All  its  property  and  officers,  including  lamps,  obits, 
chauntries,  and  chauntry  priests,  were  restored. 

At  this  time  it  is  clear  from  a  document,  said  to  be  in  Henry's 
handwriting,  printed  by  Strype  (J/em.  IL),  in  which  Southwell, 
with  other  places,  is  set  down  as  a  new  bishopric  to  be  erected  for 
Derby  and  Notts,  that  Henry  VIII.  intended  to  preserve  it  and  its 
revenues  intact,  or  even  augmented.  The  revenue  is  set  down  at 
£1003  a  year,  of  which  one-third  for  the  bishop,  who  is  designated 
in  the  person  of  Dr.  Cocks.  But  the  necessities  of  the  games  of 
hazard  and  of  war  were  too  much  for  Henry's  virtuous  resolutions, 
and  the  bishopric  of  Southwell  had  to  wait  for  near  three  centuries 
and  a  half.  Meanwhile  the  college  itself  has  been  twice  dissolved. 
In  1546  and  1547  came  the  Chauntries  Acts,  which  not  only  swept 
away  the  chauntries  as  superstitious  uses,  but  swept  away  also  the 
colleges  and  the  hospitals  and   the  guilds,  thus  striking  a  deadly 

n 


XCVIU  INTRODUCTION. 

blow  at  the  same  time  at  education,  provision  for  the  aged,  and  free 
municipal  institutions.  In  the  rush  of  the  tempest  Southwell  was 
swept  away.  In  1548  the  church  was  continued  as  the  parish 
church  on  the  express  petition  of  the  parishioners,  the  holder  of 
the  Sacrist  prebend,  John  Adams,  being  made  parish  vicar  with  a 
salary  of  c€20,  his  vicar  choral,  Matthew  Tort,  with  Robert  Salwyn, 
who  was  the  ])arish  vicar,  being  made  "assistants  to  the  cure" 
at  £5  a  year  each.  The  same  petition  having  asked  that  "  our 
gramar  scole  male  also  stande  Avith  such  stipende  as  apperteyneth 
the  like,  wherein  our  poore  youth  maie  be  instructed  and  that  also 
by  the  resort  of  their  parents  we  his  grace's  poor  tenants  and  in- 
habitants there,  maie  have  some  relief," — words  which  show  it  must 
have  been  a  boarding  as  well  as  a  day-school — this  also  was  con- 
tinued at  a  salary  of  £10  a-year,  by  the  same  commissioners. 
Sir  Walter  JMildmay,  founder  of  Emmanuel  College,  and  Robert 
Keilway.  Most  of  the  property  of  the  college  was  granted  to 
Beauchamp,  Earl  of  Warwick,  and  from  hiin,  fortunatelv  for 
Southwell,  a  large  part  of  it  went  to  John  Beaumont,  Master  of  the 
Rolls,  who  fell  into  disgrace,  and  by  Act  of  Philip  and  Mary  in 
1557  it  was  revested  in  the  Crown  in  part  discharge  of  his  debts. 
The  banished  prebendaries,  or  some  of  them,  were  then  allowed 
to  return,  and  an  information  (probably  collusive)  was  laid 
against  them  in  the  Exchequer  for  trespass.  Judgment  was  given 
in  favour  of  the  prebendaries,  on  the  ground  that  the  re-foundation 
by  Henry  VIII.  brought  the  college  within  the  exception  to  the 
Chauntries  Act,  in  favour  of  all  lands  granted  by  him  since  1540. 
Mr.  Dimoek,  in  a  pii])or  read  before  the  Lincoln  Architectural 
Society  in  Southwell  in  1854  (Associated  Architectural  Societies, 
vol.  3)  worked  up  a  great  deal  of  righteous  indignation  against 
"  the  plunderers  of  the  church  "  on  the  ground  that  it  was  only  by 
gross  illegality  that  Southwell  was  treated  as  within  the  Chauntries 
Act,  because  it  was  not  a  college,  but  a  collegiate  church. 
This  was,  however,  a  waste  of  good  anger.  All  collegiate 
churches  were  legally  speaking  colleges.      Southwell  was  certainly 


INTEODUCTION.  XCIX 

a  college,  as  much  as  Westminster  Abbey  or  Christ  Church  are 
colleges  now.  It  is  odd  that  Mr.  Dimock,  who  had  studied 
the  registers,  should  have  thought  otherwise,  as  before  1540 
Southwell  is  constantly  spoken  of  in  wills  as  "  the  college  of 
Southwell,"  and  in  the  refoundation  Act  of  1543  it  is  expressly 
called  "  the  college  and  church  collegiate."  If  it  was  not  excepted 
througli  the  refoundation  in  1543,  it  was  clearly  within  the 
Chauutries  Act ;  and  it  is  certainly  an  arguable  question,  whether 
it  was  excluded  under  s.  37  of  the  Chauutries  Act,  by  the  re- 
foundation. 

However,  the  question  was  at  all  events  decided  in  the  way 
required  by  the  powers  that  were,  first  Philip  and  Mary,  and  then 
Elizabeth,  and  was  upheld  in  the  many  suits  undertaken  by  the 
chapter  to  recover  their  property  in  the  coi-rt  of  the  Council  of  the 
North,  in  the  Assize  Courts,  and  the  C^)urt  of  Chancery.  The 
sixteen  prebendaries  therefore  came  back,  or  rather  had  the  right 
to  come  back,  for  in  fact  they  remained  even  greater  absentees 
than  before.  New  statutes  were  made  under  the  Great  Seal  in 
1585,  when  the  sixteen  vicars  choral,  being  now  allowed  to  marry 
and  live  cleanly,  were  wisely  reduced  to  six  in  number ;  of  whom 
one  was  parish  vicar,  and  another,  grammar  schoolmaster.  The 
thirteen  chauntry  priests  disappeared  as  "  superstitious  uses," 
though  the  chapter  rather  cleverly  managed  to  retain  their 
lands,  which  were  clearly  vested  in  the  Crown.  They  were 
much  molested  in  enjoyment  of  their  property,  however,  and 
had  to  get  from  James  I.  a  new  charter  of  confirmation.  After 
1693,  more  than  the  old  difficulty  in  getting  residentiaries  being 
felt,  all  sixteen  canons  took  it  in  turns  to  reside  for  a  year, 
that  is,  for  a  quarter  of  a  year.  And  so  the  college  continued 
intact  down  to  the  year  1841,  when  the  Ecclesiastical  Commis- 
sioners Act  again  disestablished  and  disendowed  it ;  and  a 
republic,  which  had  survived  the  shocks  of  the  attacks  of  Henry 
VIII.  and  Edward  YI.,  of  Thomas  Cromwell  and  Thomas  Cranmer, 
fell  before  Sir  Robert  Peel's  Ecclesiastical  Commission.     So,  since 


INTRODUCTION. 


Southwell  Cathedral 
1884. 


The  last  of  the  old 
college. 


rhanks. 


1876,  when  the  last  canon  died,  nothing  has  remained  of  this 
immemorial  institution  but  its  ancient  grammar  school;— for 
which  the  Elizabethan  stipend  of  £22  is  still  considered  by  the 
Ecclesiastical  Commissioners  an  adequate  endowment. 

In  1884  the  church  became  a  cathedral,  but  it  has  no  college 
of  canons.  The  bishop  has  indeed  been  installed  there,  not  as 
bishop,  but  (alack  !  the  unhistorical  and  unheard-of  innovation  !)  as 
dean,  with  the  rector  of  the  parish  as  sub-dean,  and  other  clergy 
in  the  old  stalls.  As  the  occupier  of  Thurgarton  Priory,  he  might 
more  appropriately,  and  with  less  breach  of  historical  fitness,  have 
been  installed  as  prior. 

It  is  just  a  question,  however,  whether  some  spark  of  the  cor- 
porate life  of  the  old  college,  some  scintilla  juris,  is  not  still  alive  in 
the  person  of  the  Rev.  R.  F.  Smith,  the  last  of  the  vicars  choral, 
though  it  is  to  be  feared  that,  nnder  the  Elizabethan  statutes,  he 
is  rather  an  officer  than  a  member  of  the  corporation.  To  him 
I  have  to  give  my  sincere  thanks  for  the  kindness  with  which, 
as  librarian,  he  has  allowed  me  access  to  the  archives,  and  also 
for  much  valuable  information,  and  help. 

I  have  also  to  thank  the  Rev.  Canon  Raine  for  having  allowed 
me  the  use  of  the  late  Mr.  Dimock's  MS.  translation  of  the  White 
Book,  which  has  been  of  the  greatest  possible  assistance  in 
references ;  the  Rev.  Christopher  Wordsworth  for  much  help, 
and  for  a  sight  of  the  introduction  to  Mr.  Bradshaw's  work  on 
the  Lincoln  Cathedral  Statutes,  which  he  is  editing ;  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Cox,  for  having  kindly  searched  the  York  Archiepisco})al 
Registers  for  me  ;  Mr.  W.  H.  St.  John  Hope,  of  the  Society  of 
Antiquaries,  for  much  assistance. 


LIBEK    ALBUS 


CONTENTS 


Bullariuin 


Alexander  III.  1171 
Urban  III.  1186 

Innocent  III.  1202 
Alexander  III,  ? 

Innocent  III.  1200 
Innocent  III.  1205 
Urban  III.  1186 

Urban  III.  1186* 

Innocent  III.  1206 
Innocent  III.  1204 
Innocent  III.        1205 

Urban  IV.  1262 

Nicholas  III.        1280 
Inspeximus  Charter  of  7  Edward  III.,  1333 
Placita  de  Quo  Warranto  3  Edward  III.,  1331 
Royal  Charters 

Henry  I.  circa  1120  (two) 

Hemy  II.,  between  11  Si  and  116: 

Richard  I.  1189      . 

Henry  I.  circa  1110 

Stephen,  circa  1136 

Henry  HI.,  1271     . 

Henry  II.,  1178      . 

Henry  II.,  between  llo-l  and  1162 

Henry  I.,  circa  1115 

Henry  III.,  1253,  reciting  Henry  I.,  circa  1106 
*  Same  Bull  as  p.  2. 


PAGE 
1 

2 


PAGE 
1-5 


6-11 

12 

13-17 

13 

13,14 

14 

15-17 


LIBER    ALDUS. 


Letter  of  Chapter  of  York,  recitiii};  Inijuisition  taken  110(5 
Ivettcr  of  Geoffrey  Tlantagenet,  Arcbhisliop  of  York,  circa  1200 
Division  of  Tithes  of  Southwell,  between  two  Prebendaries  of  Norwell 

and  Prebendary  of  Normauton,  12CG  ..... 
Charter  of  Henry  I.  of  Dunham  Prebend,  cirra  1120  ("repeated) 
Charter  of  Archbishop  Walter  Gray,  payment  from  Dunham  Prebend 

for  a  Roman  priest,  circa  122J 
Charter  of  Henry  I.  of  Bekyngham  Prebend,  circa  1120  (same  as  p.  i:}) 
Letter  of  Archbishop  Thurstan,  founding  same,  circa  1120 
Grant  by  William  de  Bramt<m  to  same 
Licence  in  Mortmain  of  Edward  IIL  of  Bekynghiim  Ciiauntry  (flatter 

part  cut  out),  later  than  1341    .... 
Grants  for  Southmuskham  Prel)end,  circa  1220 
Kstablisbnient  of  Vicarage  of  Southmuskham,  1225 
letter  of  John  de  Romaine  founding  Nortlileverton  Prebend,  1291 
(irants  to  Southmuskham  Prebend,  circa  1220 
Establishment  of  Southmuskham  Vicarage,  1295  . 
Bull  of  Urlian  *  (or  Alexander),  of  Halton  Prebend,  circa  IKJO 
Charters  of  Henry  II.  (two),  of  Halton  Prebend,  circa  1160 
Charter  of  Thuretan,  Archbishop,  of  Halton  Prebend 
Letters  Testimonial  of  Foundation  of  Halton  Prebend 
Charter  of  Archbishop  Roger,  founding  Halton  Prebend,  circa  llfiO 
Charter  of  Confirmation  by  Dean  and  Chapter  of  York,  circa  1160 
Charter  of  John  le  Romaine,  Archbishop,  of  Foundation  of  Eton  Prebend, 

1290 

Agreement  for  Prayers  l)y  Vicars  Choral  for  Soul  of  Robert  de  Sutton,  1260 
Establishment  of  Eton  Vicarage,  1290         ..... 
Tithes  Case,  Preliendary  of  Eton  and  Rector  of  Ordesal,  13.S2 
Foundation  Deeds  of  Richard  de  Sutton's  Chauntry,  1274-12H3    . 
Establishment  of  Bekj'ngham  Vicarage,  1.318  .  .  .  . 

Foundation  Deeds  of  Ramptcn  Prebend,  circa  1200-1220 

Rampton  Vicarage,  1287,  1301 
Bull  of  Innocent  III.,  confirming  Ramptou  Prelx;nd  and  South  Wheatley 

Rectory,  1206     ........ 

Deeds  relating  to  Hexgrave  Park,  circa  12ijO  .... 

Lamp  in  Kyrtlington  Chapel,  circa  1225    ..... 


F'AGB 

18-20 
20 


21   22 


26,  27 


28 


29-34 
3.^> 
.36 
37 


•  Urban  in  tlie  rubric  Jicnding,  but  Alexander  has  been  substituted  l)y  a  later  hand  in  the  initial 
word  of  the  body  of  the  Bull.    Alexander  III.  is  right. 


LIBER   ALBUS.  ciii 

PAGE  PAfJK 

Grants  in  support  of  Lamp  before  Crucifix  in  Southwell  Cburcb,  eirva 

1225         .........  41 

Grants  for  Incense  in  Southwell  Church,  circa  1225  ...  4J 

Documents  concerning  the  Commons,  and  Kights,  of  the  Kesident'aries  .  44-61 

Dseds  relating  to  Grant  of  Rolleston  Church  in  Augmen- 
tation of  Commons  by  Arc>ibishop  Walter  Grey,  1221         44 
Statute  of  Archbishop  Walter  Grey  concerning  Commons 

of  Residents,  1225       ...... 

Confirmation  of  Statute  by  Chapter  (insertion),  12G0       .  45 

Grant  by  Henry  III.  of  Tree  Warren  in  all  his  Lands  to 

Archbishop  Sewall,  1257         .  .  .  .  4(i 

Henry  III.     Perambulation  of  Sherwood  Forest,  1232     .  ,, 

Grant  by  Edward  I.  of  Free  Warren  in  Cawood,  Beverley, 
and  Southwell,  to  Archbishop  Thomas  de  Corbridge, 

1303 47 

Dismission   from  Suit   by    Archbishop    William    de   la 

Zouch  to  Chapter  of  Southwell,  1344  .  .         48 

Suit  as  to  Vicarage  of  Lunham,  Archbishop  v.  Chapter, 

1341-9  ....... 

Suit  in  Consistory  Court,  York,  as  to  Jurisdiction  of 

Chapter  over  Chauntry  Priests,  1303  .  .49,  50 

Suits    as    to    Vicarages    of    Dunham,    Rampton,    and 

Bekyngham,  1349        .  .  .  .  .  ,, 

Statutes  of  Archbishops  : 

Thomas  de  Corbridge,  1302    .  .  .  .  51 

John  le  Romaine,  1293  .  .  .  .  .52 

Grant  by  John  le  Romaine  of  Upton  Rectory  to  increase 

Residentiaries'  Commons,  1291  .  .  .53 

Inspeximus  Charter  of  Edward   III.  confirming   same, 

1335     .  .  .  .  .  .  .   .53,  54 

Deeds  relating  to  Kirklington  Chapel,  circa  1225  .  55 

Depositions   concerning  Disposition    of    Oblations    of 

Pai'ishioners  in  Southwell  Church,  1258        .  .    56,  57 

Wax  for  lights       ......    58,  59 

Charge  of  two  stone  of  Wax  for  Lights  in  Southwell 
Chm-ch  on  Prior  and  Convent  of  Thurgaiton, 
1221. 
Charge  of  3s.  a  year  on  Land  of  Prior  and  Convent 
of  Wirkesop. 


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Charge  of  20s.  a  year  on  Land  of  Chapter  of  Lautul         59 
Charge  of  three  stone  of  Wax  for  Lights  in  Soutliwell 
Church  on  Northmuskham  Rectory,  belonging 
to  Prior  and  Convent  of  Schelford. 
Grants  of  Land  to  Common  Fund  .  .  .    59-61 

Re-establishmcnt  of  Norwcll  Vicarage,  1284  ....  02 

Foundation  of  Chauntry  in  Calneton  (Caunton)  Church,  1349-51  .  63 

Grant  by  Thomas  Haxey,  Canon,  of  Lands  "ad  quoedam  onera  et  pietatis 

opera"  in  the  Church,  1415       ......  65 

Liberties  of  the  Collegiate  Church  and  of  the  Prebends  therein    .  .  66-80 

Henry  II.'s  Charter,  as  on  p.  13     .  .  .  .   66,  67 

Placita  de  Quo  Warranto,  1331,  as  on  pp.  6,  7     .  .   66,  67 

Placita  de  Quo  Warranto,  Assize  of  Bread  .  .         68 

Placila  de  Quo  Warranto,  1331     ....    69-75 

Inspeximus  Charter  and  Writs  of  Allowance  of  Richard 

II.,  1381 76,77 

Laudable  Customs  on  Chapter  Estates      .  .  .78,  79 

Cases,  removed  to  Chapter  Court,  on  appeal  from   Prebendal  Courts  : 

Views  of  Frankpledge  by  Chapter;   1327-1411  .  .  .         81-101 

Revocation  by  Edward  II.  of  Collation  to  Prebend,  finding  Prebendary 

not  dead  as  supposed,  1317        .  .  .  .  .  116 

Annexation  of  Bughton  Church  to  Kneesal,  1413  .  .  .  116 

Divers  Letters  of  Chapter  and  Canons        .  .  .  .  .11 7-22 

Order  on  seven   Defaulters  to   pay   sevenths    of    their 

Prebends  for  bu,siness  of  Church,  1294  .  .        117 

Excommunication  of  Prebendary's  Proxy,  1297  .  .        118 

Citation  of  Prebcndaiy's  Proxy,  1318      .  .  .118 

Order  on  four  Defaulters  to  pay  fifths  of  Prebends,  1297 

(taxation  of  Clergy)  .  .  .  .  .118 

Report  of   Inquiry  on  Vicar  Choral,  yropter  fornica- 

tionem,  1260  .  .  .  .  .118 

Summons  to  Chapter,  1257  .  .  .  .119 

Report  of    the    Inquisition   by    Sheriff    of    Notts    on 

Taxation  of  Chapter  Tenants,  1341  .  .        Il9 

Divers  Letters  appointing  Proxies,  &c.  1293-1295  .        119 

Order  as  to  Goods  of   W.  de  Sencdon,  deceased  Canon, 

1259     .  .....        121 

Letter  of  three  Canons  reporting  on  Grant.  1211  122 


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PAGE  PAGE 

Letters  of  Archbishops  to  Chapter  ...  .  .  .        123-125 

Thomas  de  Corbridge,  relaxing  Sequestration  of  Goods 

of  Canon,  1302 123 

Ordering  Chapter  to  hear  Case       .  .  •         „ 

Ordering  Canon  John  de  Evreux  to  pay  Debt  and 

Cope  due  to  Ripon  Minster,  1301        .  .  „ 

William  de  Melton,  ordering  Sequestration,  1318  .        124 

Thomas  [II.]  allowing  Pentecost  Procession  for  Notts  at 

Southwell  instead  of  Yocks,  c/rua  1108         .  .  ,, 

John  Kemp,  Grant  of  Lands  for  Chauntiy  Priests,  1440        125 
Letters  from  Officials  of  Consistory  Court  of  York  .  .  .       126-129 

Summons  to  Parliament,  1318        .  .  .  .126 

Order  to  distrain  on  Canon's  Goods  for  Debts  due  to 

Brabazon  and  others,  Merchants  of  Cena,  1301         .       127 
Order  to  pay  Procuration  to    Papal  Nuncio  (Rigaud  de 

Asserio,  Canon  of  Orleans),  1318     .  .  .       128 

Penance  imposed  by  Papal  Nuncio  (Gaucelin,  Cardinal 
Priest    of     S.S.    Marcellinus    and     Peter,    Vice- 
Chancellor  of  Rome),  1318     .  .  •  .128 

Instruments  touching  Beckingham  Prebend,  1361  .        129 

Foundation  of  Chauntry  in  Upton  Church,  by  John  Bray,  Usher  of  the 
Exchequer  ;    charge    on  Rufford  Abbey,    confirmed   by  Abbot  of 
Citeaux  in  full  Chapter ;  1349-59  .....  131 

Grant  by  Henry  VI.,  on  Payment  by  Abp.  Kemp,  of  Alien  Priory  of 

West  Ravendale,  for  Ministers  of  Church,  1439  .  .  .  133 

Letters  of  Archbishops         .......  134-6 

Henry   de   Newark,   Sequesti-ation    of    Goods  of   Canon   John  de 

Evreux,  1298. 
William  de  Melton,  Collation  to  Prebend  of  Woodburgh,  1329. 
Order  to  pay  Debt,  1322. 
Agreement  between  Cardinal  Stephen,  Chancellor  of   Southwell,  and 
Convent  of  S.  Catherine-by-Lincoln  as  to  Mastership  of  Newark 
Grammar  School,  1238  ......  136 

Letters  from  Ripon  Minster  as  to  mutual  Obsequies  for  Canons,  1239       .  „ 

„       Testimonial,  1269-    .......  137 

Inventory  of  Ornaments  and  Goods  of  Parish  Vicarage  of  Southwell, 

1369 138 

Grant  by  Chapter  to  S.  Giles'  Altar,  Edyngley      .  .  .  •  „ 

Ratification   by  Prebendar}^  of  Northmuskham      ....  140 

O 


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.  144-7 
148-160 
ir,2-156 
158-ir,9 
174 
.  176-8 
180-182 
.  182 
.  183 
184-192 
Vrchbishop   John 


205 
205-7 


Muniments  of  the  Fabric  Fund 

Lands  in  Laxton  and  Strctton,     1221-1334 
Lands  in  Welobv,  liolleston ,         1221 
Lands  in  Southwell  Burg,  1221-1329 

Lands  in  Southwell  Kasthorpe,      12(30-1400 
Lands  in  Upton-by- Southwell,      1220- 1250 
Lands  in  Normanton-by-Southwell,  1221-1200 
Lands  in  Kirtlington,  1220-1273 

Lands  in  Hallam,  1288-1322 

Lands  in  Eton,  1270 

Lands  in  Southwell  Burg,  1351-1411 

Establishment  of   Barnby-by-Newark  Vicarage,  by   j 

(Kemp),  cura  1440      ..... 
General  Pardon  to  Chapter,  &c  ,  by  Henry  YI.,  144G 
License  to  carry  Stones,  free,  from  Mansfield,  1337 
Confirmation  of  Assize  of  Bread  and  Beer,  1372    . 
Documents  concerning  Prebends  of  Oxton 

First  Perambulation  of  Forest  of  Sherwood,  as  on  p.  40 
Second  Perambulation  of  Edward  I.,  1301 

(Prebendary  and  Chapter,  rights  of  common). 
Compromise  of  Action  as  to  Park,  Pool,  and  Fishery, 

1280 207 

Building  Lease  (perpetuity),  1355  .  .  .209 

Re-grant  of  escheated  Copyholds,  1321     .  .  .211-12 

Inspeximus  Charter,  Richard  II.,  of  same,  1397  ,  211-12 

Inspeximus  Charter,  Henry  VI.,  granting  escheated  Lands,  wrongfully 

alienated  from  Chapter,  1441    ...... 

Bull  of  Martin  V.  to  Prior  of  Thurgarton  to  recover  for  Chapter  Lands 

wrongfully  withheld,  1429        . 
Vicar  of  Dunham  lx)und  to  support  two  Chapels  of  Ea^e,  1414 
Blank  ......... 

Documents  concerning  the  Prebend  of  Norwell  Overhall  . 

Grant  by  Henry  III.  of  Free  Warren  in  lands  of  Prebend  to 
John  de  Clarell  and  Successors,  1256  .  .       228 

Proxy  of  John  de  Clarcll's  Executor,  1301  ,  .       228 

Presentation  of  Vicar  of  Norwell,  1311     .  .  .228 

Dispute  as  to  Tithes  between  two  Prebendaries  and^Vicars 

of  NorweJl,  a,ud  the  Rector  of  Cromwell,  1371  .  229-37 


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193 
202 
203 
204 
205-212 


217 

217 

218-224 

225-285 


LIBER   ABBUS. 


Division  of  tithes  between  two  Prebendaries  of  Norwell, 

and  Prebendarj'  of  Normanton,  1266  .  .  .       237 

The  same  between  the  same  and  Prebendary  of  Bekyng- 

ham,  1340 238-9 

Courts  of  Prebendary  of  Norwell,  Robert  Wolden,  1406  240-269 
Inspeximus  Charter  of  Henry  IV.   freeing  Prebendaries 

from  expenses  of  Knights  of  Shire,  1409      .  270,  271 

View  of  Frankpledge  by  same  Prebendary,  1410  .  .       273 

Same  by  same,  1411  .  .  .  .  .283 

Survey  of  Lands  of  Chauntry,  in  Norwell,  1433,  founded  in  1340  .  289 

Muniments    of    Chauntry    of    St.    Nicholas    founded    by    William  de 

Wydyngton,  circa  1220-1325    ......        293-310 

Muniments  of  Chauntry  at  the  Altar  of  St.  John  Baptist  founded  by 

Heniy  de  Vavasour,  1275-1311,  (mostly  about  1280)  .  .  .        313-328 

Muniments  of  Chauntry  at  the  Altar  of  St.  Thomas-the-^Iartyr,  founded 

by  Robert  de  Lexington,  c/?ra  1241     .  .  .  .  .     333-333* 

Muniments  of  the  Chauntry  of  St.  jNIary,  founded  by  William  Guuthorpe, 

1.323-1395 337-363 

Rents  of  the  Lamp  burning  in  the  Choir  where  tlie  Mass  of  St.  Mary  is 

daily  celebrated,  1221    . 365-372 

Bull  of  Pope  Innocent  III.,  1206,  and  Charter  of  Geoffrey  Plantagenet, 
Archbishop,  Circa  1208  ;  granting  Church  of  Wheatley,  for  Taper  to 
burn  day  and  night  before  High  Altar  .  .  .  .  374 

Grant  for  three  Tapers  at  Lady  Mass  at  Prime,  and  for  a  Lamp  .at  Matins 

before  the  High  Cx-oss,  circa  1220         .....  374 

Muniments  of  Chauntry  of  St.  Stephen,  founded  for  the  Soul  of  Andrew 

the  Bailiff,  1245-1445   .......       377-412 

Deeds,  1315-68 377-384 

Blank  ......  385-391 

Deeds,  1437-1445 392-395 

Blank  .......        396 

Deeds,  ci>-ca  1245  .....  398-412 

Inspeximus  Charter  by  Chapter,  of  Inquisition  of  Chauntries  taken  1372, 

1413        .........       413-415 

Blank 416-421 

Muniments  of  Chauntry  of  St.  John  Evangelist,  founded  by  Henry  of 

Nottingham,  circa  1241-1398  ......        421-426 

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Inquisition  before  Regardatorof  Forestof  Sherwood, recognising  Chapter's 

right  to  enclose  a  piece  of  land,  145G-7  ....  426 

Receiptfor  Rent  from  Welbeck  Abbey,  1421  ....  428 

Receipt  for  Docnmeuts  of  Norwell  Chauntrj',  1448  .  .  .  428 

Muniments  of  Land  in  Southwell  granted  by  Gunthorpe  and  Speton  to 

Vicars  Choral,  1343-1446  ......  429-30 

Confirmation  by  Chapter  of  Manumission  of  Serf,  by  Nicholas  Gosse, 

Prebendary  of  Oxton,  1460      ......  430 

Suits  about  Kneesal  Church  against  Prior  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem,  1449  431 

Chapter  v.  Winckbnme,  Compromise  of  12  years'  arrears  of  Rent,  1608  .  433 

Muniments  of  Rent  of  9s.  lOd.  in  Normanton,  1398-1446  .  .  .  435-8 

Muniments  of  Chapter  Land  in  Southwell,  1402-1444        .  .  .         439-41 

Grant  by  Chesterfield  and  Gunthorpe  for  Vicars  Choral,  1392,  registered 

1583 443 

Hallam  Chapel-yard  made  a  Burial-ground,  1582  .  .  .  .  445 

Blank  .........         446-50 

Letters  of  Sir  Edward  North,  Knight,  Chancellor  of   Augmentations,  to 
Chapter  as  to  surrender  of  Plate  and  Jewels  (the  first  addre.<-sed  to 
''  Dean  and  Chapter  "),  circa  1546       .....  451 

Blank  .........         453-73 

Indentm-e  between  Gunthorpe,  Prior,  and  Convent  of  Newstead,  and 
John  Stanop  (Stanhope)  Esq.,  establishing  Obit  and  promising 
Letters  to  all  Religious  Houses  in  England  to  ask  for  Prayers,  &c., 
for  him,  1476     ........  474 


KEGISTRUM  CAPITULL 

(1469—1542.) 


CONTENTS. 

Value  of  Dividend  of  Commons,  circa  1525    ....  Fly 

Index    .........  Fly- 

Admissions  of  Canons,  loth  November,  1470,  to  5th  June,  1536 
Protestations  of  Canons  intending  to  reside,  29th  September,  1472,  to  21st 

Tebruary,  1532      . 
Admissions  of  Vicars  Choral,  1st  January,  1469,  to  20th  June,  1537 
Admissions  of  Wardens  of  Fabric  on  Election  of  Chapter,  12th  December 

1528 

Sequestration  of  a  Chauntry  for  Dilapidations,  22nd  February,  1532 

Exchange  of  Chauntries,  4th  April,  1533       . 

Admissions  of  Chauntry  Priests  ;  Feast  of  the  9,000  Virgins,  1472,  to  20th 

May,  1536  ....... 

Admissions  of  Vicars  (Parochial)  to  Prebendal  Churches,   2l8t  August, 

1470,  to  7th  July,  1501 

Admissions    of   Deacons  and   Sub-deacons,   23rd   August,    1469,  to   2nd 

October,  1531        ....... 

Corrections  of  Vicars  of  Prebendal  Churches,  31st  December,  1499,  to  17th 

August,  1534         ..... 
Admissions  of  Vicars  of  Prebendal  Churches,  23rd  April,  1506 — 1534 
Admissions  of  Incense   Bearers  (Thuribulariorum)   and  Choristers,    8th 

October,  1469,  to  7th  May,  1521  . 
Further  Admissions  to  Parochial  Vicarages,  4th  May,  1535,  to  2nd  Novem 

ber,  1537   .  . 

Leases  of  Prebends,  South  Muskham,  8th  October,  1524 
Dunham  (in  English),  27th  October,  31  Henry  VIII.,  i.e.  1639 


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PAGE 

Resignations  of  Canons  (none  entered)           .....  92 

Resignations  of  Vicars  Choral,  7th  Jnlj,  1473,  to  3rd  Noremljer,  1534        .  96-100 

Resignations  of  Chauntry  Priests,  22ml  August,  1470,  to  9th  October,  1476  102-3 
Resignations  of  Vicars  Choral  and  Parochial,   10th  March,  1479,  to  3rd 

November,  1534     ......••  104- < 

Probates  of  Wi\h:  of  Canons  (only  one,  Robert  Barra,  Canon  of  York  and 

Southwell),  10th  December,  1527  .....  108-10 
Probates  of  Wills  of  Vicars  Choral  and  Parochial,  28th  December,  1475,  to 

4th  (blank  in  original),  1490         ......  112-5 

Corrections  of  Thomas  Cartwright,  Vicar  Choral,  1486,  1487            .            .  116-8 

Probate  of  Will  of  Robert  Nevile,  of  Ragnel  (English),  9th  April,  1527  .  119-21 
Probates  of  Wills  of  Chauntry  Priests  and  others,  22nd  August,  1455,  to 

27th  November,  1512  (the  last  in  English)          ....  122-9 

Oath  of  John  Bull,  Vicar  Choral  of  the  Prebend  Sacrista,  on  his  admission  129 
Corrections  of  Vicars  [Choral]  and  other  Ministers  (of  the  Church),  22nd 

August,  1470,  to  4th  December,  1535  .....  130-156 
Institutions   to  Chauntries  and  Vicarages  in  Prebendal  Cliurches,    22nd 

August,  1470,  to  8th  June,  1536  .  .  .  .  .  .158-160 

Payments  of  Pensions,  &c.,  16th  March,  1472,  to  9th  April,  1534     .            .  160-8 
Various  Deeds  and  Agreements  relating  to  Advowsons  and  Rights  of  Pre- 
sentation, Trinity  Sunday,  1472,  to  28th  Februarj',  1532            .            .  171-7 
Dispensations  with  Residence,  All  Souls'  Day,  1 480,  to  25th  Scptcml)er,  1 482  1 78-80 
Corrections23rd  July,  1492,  to  8th  July,  1542             ....  183-6 

Probate  of  Will  of  John  Arnall,  of  Morton.  20th  February,  1521  .  .  189-90 
License  to  lease  Prebend  of  Norwell   Palishall:  Grant  of  Administration: 

Corrections  of  Laymen  pioptcv/ornicationem,  1471,  1479,  1522-3        .  191 

Corrections,  Vicars  Parochial,  Choral,  &c.,  1472  to  1521  .  .  .  lit2-204 
Will  of   Robert  Hall,  of  Bekingham,  4th  June,  1529,  with  Inventory  in 

English 205-6 

Will  of  Robert  Pepper,  of  Morton  (English),  9th  May,  1529              .             .  207 

Corrections  of  Laity,  17th  March,  1529           .....  208 

Foundation  of  Northleverton  Vicarage,  1344  •  .  .  .  210 
Complaints t  as  to  Vicars  Clioral  not  paying  tiieii-  battels 

•  ThLs  is  apparently  written  here  as  a  prcccUuMt  for  the  estahlishnient  of  Ule.l^by  vioanigo. 
t  Not  printed.    It  sliould  Iiavo  been. 


213 


REGISTRUM    CAPITULI. 


Fonndation  of  Bleasby  Vicarage,  1462  .  .  -  .  . 

Wills  (some  English),  1470  to  1537     ...... 

A  Parish  Vicar  warned,  2.Srd  August,  1470    .  .  .  .  . 

Presentations,  1473,  1534         ....... 

Corrections  20th  February.  1490,  and  17th  July,  1508 

Corrections,  1482,  1527  ....... 

Wills,  English,  1526  and  1542 

Admission  of  Master   of   Newark   Grammar  School,  on   Presentation  of 

Canon  and  Prebendary  of  Normanton,  5th  May,  1485     . 
Sundry  Chapter  Business,  including  a  summons  for  breaking  ash  trees  in 

Edyngley  Churchyard,  1523,  1470,  1519,  1512    .  .  .  . 

Triennial  Visitations  by  Chapter,  2nd  October,  1475,  to  31st  May,  1529  . 
Lease  of  Rolston  Rectory,  27th  May,  1534  ..... 
Tithe  Cases,  13th  May,  1517,  and  9th  June,  1519       .  .  .  *. 

Commission  from  "  houre  Soveraine  Lorde  the  Kinge  and  from  my  Lorde 

Legate  Cardinall  and  Archebisshop  of  Yorke,  Thomas  "  *  (contents 

not  stated)  21st  October,  1527       ..... 
Correction  of  Vicar  of  Oxton  ..... 

Beginning  of   unfinished    evidence   in   an   Action    before   the   Chapter 

31st  July,  1539      ....... 

Presentation  to  Mastership  of  Southwell  Grammar  School,  by   Canon  and 

Prebendary  of  Normanton,  20th  November,  1475 
Presentation  to  Nottingham  Grammar  School,  by  the  same,  8th  September. 

1477 

Corrections,  A.D.  1508  to  1510,  including  one  of  a  layman  for  usury,  and 

several  of  laymen  for  non-payment  of  debts 
Examination  of  Vicars  Choral  secretly  and  severally  on  Morals  of  Thomas 

Gurnell,  and  Thomas  Cartwright,  1470,  1485      . 


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341-2 


343 
344 


347 

347 

348-54 

365 


The  only  mention  of  Wolsey  in  the  book. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF 
SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 


Visitations  and  Corrections. 

A.D.  1469. 

p.  194.« — Dominus'^  Thomas  Gurnell  Vicarius  Choralis  Ecclesiee  Friday,  9  [10] 

Colleiriatae  Beatoe  Mariae  Suthwell  Eboracensis  Dioceseos  de  mandate  •^'^^-  ^^^•'• 
'.,.,,.,..      ,  ,    .      .  ,.       ^^  fi  Paul  II. 

venerabilis  Lapituli  ejusdemecclesise  citatuserga  diem  V  eneris  nonum 

viz.  mensisNovembris  Anno  Domini  millesimo  cccc™°lx°  ix"  ad  com-  Sir  Thomas 

pavendum  coram  eodem  venerabili  Capitulo  in  domo  capitulari  dictae  choral  snm.^'" 

ecclesiee  coUegiatae  Beatae  Mariae  Suthwell,  et  respondendum  quibus-  moned  to 
1  •      T  •  •      •        TN        •    •   rrii  ^  -,       .  appear  before 

dam  avticuhs  mera  motione  ipsius  Domini   Ihomae  Gurnell  salutem  John  Wraby 

concernentibus,  sibi  ex  officio  mero  dicti  Capituli  objiciendis;  eisdem  2"*^^^^"^'^^ 
die  loco  anno,  Indictlone  tertia,*^  Pontificatus  sanctissimi  in  Christo  residentiary 
patris    et  Domini    nostri    Domini  Pauli,    divina  prudentia  Papse,  JJsen^fie'd,  on 
secundi  anno  sexto.*^  coram  venerabilibus  vlris  Johanne  Wrabv   et  ^^^  '^"■y 
Ranulpho    Bryd   Canonicis    Residentiariis    ejusdem   ecclesiee    capi- 
tulariter  congregatis  et   Capitulum  ibidem   facientibus  personaliter 
comparuit :  objecto  que  primo  per  eosdem  venerabiles  viros  prsedictos  for  taking 
Domino  Thomte  quod  ipse  Dominus  Thomas  nonnulla  res   et  bona  [hT'^oodro^/ 
domorumque  utensilia  qute  fuerunt  bonae  memorise  Johannis  Terold  ^  defunct 

•    •    T  •    V  D      ■  1      ^-      •         1-   ^  1     •  11      •  .         residentiarr, 

canonici,aumvixitKesiaentiarius,  dict^ecclesiaecoUegiataenuperrime  though  they 

were  under 

«  This  and  the  subsequent  entries  seem  to  refer  to  delinquencies  detected  at  the  sequestration 
visitation  by  the  chapter  held   in  the  year  1469.     The  visitation  itself  is  not  re-  ^"^  the 
ported.  ^'li'^Pter. 

^  I  translate  Dominus,  which  is  the  title  invariably  given  to  the  vicar  choral 
and  parochial  and  chantiy  priests,  and  apparently  to  all  persons  in  orders,  by"  Sir," 
which  is  the  usual  translation  at  that  time.  I  shall  not  i-epeat  the  title,  which mus 
be  understood. 

«  This  is  the  only  instance  in  the  Eegister  in  which  either  the  Indiction  or  the 
year  of  the  Pope  is  given. 

CAMD.  SOC.  B 


^  VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 

A.D.  1469. 

defuncti  infra  jurisdictioncm   dicti  vencrabilis  Capltuli  existcntia, 

quae  etiam   res   bona  et  domorum  utensilia   sub    auctoritate    dicti 

Capituli  ex  ccrtis  causis  justis  legitimis  id  Capital um  moventibus 

interpofita  fuerant  sequestro,  absque  auctoritate  quacumque,  saltern 

in  hac  parte  sufficienti  vel  legitima,  temere  prsesumpsit  adininistrare 

Gnmell,  with   g^.    ^^    eisdem    disponcre    pro    suae   libito    voluntatis,    sequestrum 
arrogant  mind,        ^  ....  .  .  .  . 

promptly  says  liujusmodi  in  eis  interpositum  temere  violando,  in  animae  suae  pen- 
to  answer^to"^  *^"^"'^'  S^''^^'^  ^^  exemplum  plurium  ;  Quibus  vcnerabilibus  viris 
the  charge  or  Cai)itulum  sic  facientibus  idem  Dominus  Thomas  Gurnell  absque 
anv  part  of  it,  .  ii         i  •  i  ■•  n      •      •  •      i 

and  refnscs  to  intcrvallo  elato  ammo  respondet,  dicens  se  nolle  ipsi  articulo  seu 

take  the  alicui  ipsius  particulae  respondere;  neque  ipsos  venerubiles  viros  in 

his  judges ;       ipsius  judices  admittere,  seu  in  eos  aut*  suos  judices  quoquo  modo 

Venerable        consentire;    sed   eos  ad  tunc  et  eorum  examen  ore  tenus  sprevit, 

Kannlph  Byrd  recusavit,  et  contempsit,  prsefatum  venerabilem  virum   Dominum 

and  publicly '    Ranulphum  Bryd  f'alsumrecusatum  presbyterum  tunc  ibidem  vocando, 

asserts  that      supradictum   que  alterum  venerabilem  virum  Dominum  Johannem 

tti6  other 

venerable         Wraby  eidem   Domino  Ranulpho  in  sua  falsitate  favcntem  publice 

\Trabv  abets  ^^serendo,  aliaque  enormia  contumeliosa  et  opprobriosa  verba  contra 

him  in  his  eosdem  venerabiles  viros,  c:ipitulum  ut  praefertur  facientes,  irreve- 

other  ir-  renter  proferendo.    Et  quanquam  idem  venerabiles  viri  dictum  Domi- 

reverences.  num  Thomam  Gurnell  in  virtute  (p.  195)  obediential  sibi  per  eum 

warnings  debitae  et  factae  quod  a  verbis  hujusmodi  desisteret,  ac  objectis  sibi 

remains  P^*^  idem  Capitulum  ad  tunc  fideliter  responderet,  primo,  secundo, 

contumacious,  et  tertio,   peremptorie  et    sub  poena  juris  monuerant,   ipse   tatnen 

l)ended  from  Dominus  contumaci  spiritu   ea  se  nolle    facere   respondit.     Uiide 

his  choir-  idem  vencrabile  Capitulum  eundem  Dominum  Thomam  Gurnell, 
habit  and  .      .  }■  .  .     . 

inhibited  from  propter  ipsius  manifestam  rebellionem  et  contemptum  in  praemissis, 

on  pai'n  of  ^^  habitu  suo  chorali  suspendebat  tunc  ibidem  per  decretum,  Inhi- 

the  greater  bendo  eidem  Domino  Thomse  tunc  ibidem  nc  ipso  habitu  dc  cctero 

cation.        '  verteretur  donee  graciam  dicti  Capituli  obtinuerit,  sub  poena  excom- 

Present :  municationis  majoris  in  ipsius  personam  canonice  fuhninandae.    Pi-ae- 

Urkyll  and       scntibus    tunc    ibidem    discretis    viris   Dominis   Thoma    Urkyll  et 

]{ichard 

hoper,  Vicars 

"  It  is  written  "  aut  suos  "  but  it  should  be  '•  ut  suos." 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER.  6 

A.D.  1469. 

Kicardo    Roper    Vicariis    Choralibus     dictai    Ecclesiai    Colle^triatse  choral  and 

Gardianisque  sive  Iconomis  ejusdem  ecclesige  testibus  ad  praemissa  wardens  or 

vocatis  et  rogatis,  meque  Roberto    SkayfF  clerico  notario  publico  ^?;''"^'^7^  °^^ 

dictique  venerabilis  Capituli  actorum  scriba  et  registrario.  and  "me"' 

Subsequente  que  die  Sabbati  proximo  x™"  viz.  dieti  mensis  Novem-  g^^^y^  ^.^^^.^ 

bris,  prefati  venerabiles  viri  Doinlnus  Johannes  Wraby  et  Ranulplius  notary  public 

Bryd  in  dicta   domo  Capitulari  personaliter  existentes,  et   oapitu-  ^lerk  and 

lariter    congregati  ac  Capitulum   ibidem  facientes,   dictis  Dominis  registrar. 

Thoma  Urkyll  et  Ricardo  Roper  ad  tunc  personaliter  prgesentibus  The  following 
.       -^      ,.    .  .  '  ,      .  ,,       day  (10  Nov.) 

conjunctim  et  divisim  mandaverunt,  quod  citarent,  seu  eorum  alter  {.j^e  residen- 

citaret,  peremptorie   prsefatum    Dominum  Thomam   Gurnell,   quod  tuanes  in 

compareret  coram  eis  in  domo  capitulari  praedicta  die  lungs  proximo  assembled 

tunc    sequente,  causam    rationabilem    si    quam   haberet  aut  dicere  aLf  RonVr^to 

sciret,  quare,  pro  eo,  quod  ipse  Dominus  Thomas  Gurnell,  post  et  cite  Gurnell 

contra    decretum    suspensionis   ipsius    Domini    Thoma3    ab    habitu  Monday  to 

suo    chorali  pradicto,  ac    inhibitionis   inde  factum   in  choro  dictae  show  cause 

.  .  .  .  .      .    why  he  should 

EcclesiieCollegiatse,  habitu  suo  chorali  pr^dicto  tempore  celebrationis  not  be  excom- 

divinorum  die  Veneris  supradicto,  ipso  que    instante    die   Sabbati,  hl^ylu^  ^orn "" 

rebellione  et  ofFensione  publice  utebatur,  pro  manifesto  contumace,  his  habit  in 
,  ,.     .    ^,      .     ,.  .     .  spite  of  the 

mandatorum  que   aicti  Capituh  contemptore  pronunciari;    ac    pro  injunction  in 

ejus  manifestis  contumacia  ofFensa  rebellione  et  contemptu  in  praa- 1^*^* '^^^'^l'^- 

missis  excommunicari,  et  pro  excommunicato  publice  nuntiari,  non 

deberet,  in  forma  juris  allegaturus  propositurus  et  ostensurus  et  juri 

per  omnia  pariturus. 

Quo  die  lunae  adveniente  xii"  die  dicti  mensis  Novembris  anno  Monday, 

Domini  Tndictione  et  Pontificatu  supradictis,  coram  venerabilibus  viris  Nov.  Roper 

Johanne  Wrabyet  Ranulpho  (p.   196)  Bryd,  Canonicis  Residentiariis  appears  and 

supradictis,  in    domo    capitulari    dictaa    ecclesias    collegiatee    Beatas  cited  Gurnell 

Mariai    Suthwell  capitulariter    congregatis    et    capitulum    ejusdem  ^^g*'jn'!^^°j^^te 

ecclesi^ publice  facientibus,  comparuit  personaliter  prsefatus  Dominus  laid  on  him 

Ricardus  Roper,  et  viva  vocis  suas  oraculo  eosdem  venerabiles  viros,  covicar  by  the 

capitulum  sic   facientes,  publice  certificavit,  quod  ipse,  juxta  vim  chapter. 

formam    et  effectum  mandati    sibi    et   Thoma    Urkyll    convicario 

suo  facti,   Dominum   Thomam   Gurnell,   Vicarium  Choralem  dictse 


A.D.  14C9. 


Gurnell 
appears  but 
does  not  care 
to  show  cause, 
and  says  he 
will  use  his 
habit  notwith- 
standing the 
inhibition. 

The  chapter 
pronounces 
him  contu- 
macious and 
excommuni- 
cates him. 


The  form  of 
excomnmni- 
cation. 


4  VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 

Ecclesiae  Collegiatae  de  Suthwell,  peremptorie  citaverat  quod  coin- 
pareret  ipsis  die  lunge  et  doino  Capitulari  coram  venerabili  Capitulo, 
ad  alle<^andum  proponendum  et  ostendendum  in  o.-nnibus  et  per 
omnia  juxta  et  secundum  fbrmam  et  tenorem  mandati  sui  supra- 
dicti.  Qui  quidem  Dominus  Thomas  Gurnell,  de  mandato  dicti 
venerabilis  Capituli  publice  ad  tunc  praeconizatus,  coram  eodein 
Capitulo  personaliter  comparuit,  et  aliquam  causam  dicere  in 
Drajmissis  proponere  vel  allegare  non  curavit;  sed  ut  prius,  dicto  die 
Veneris  supradicto,  coram  dictis  veneralibus  viris  asseruit  se  in 
eos  ut  ejus  judices  noluit  consentire,  sed  se  velle  asseruit  dicto 
habitu  suo  Chorali  uti  et  gaudere,  eorum  decreto  inhibitione  in  hac 
parte  factis  in  aliquo  non  obstantibus.  Et  super  hoc  i'lem  venerabile 
Capitulum  dictum  Dominum  Thomam  Gurnell,  manifestum  contu- 
macein  rebellem  et  inobedientem,  in  contemptu  pronunciavit;  ct  pro 
ejus  manifestis  contumacia  et  oiFensa  contemptu  rebellione  et  in- 
obedientia  in  prsemissis  et  in  scriptis  excommunicavit,  et  pro  excom- 
municato publice  nunciari  et  declarari  decrevit  tunc  ibidem.  Tenor 
vero  ipsius  excommunicationis  et  decreti  scquitur  in  haec  verba. 

In  Dei  nomine  Amen.  Xos  Johannes  Wraby  et  Ranulphus 
Bryd  Canonici  Kesidentiarii  hujus  Incliti  "  Ecclesiae  Collegiata3  beataj 
Mari»  Suthwell  in  hac  domo  Capitulari  ejusdem  Ecclesise  capitu- 
lariter  congregati  et  Capitulum  ejusdem  publice  facientcs  Te 
Thomam  Gurnell  Vicarium  Choralem  ejusdem  ecclesiae,  pro  co, 
quod  tu  monitionibus  inhibitionibus  decretorum  et  mandatis  nostris 
legitimis  p.arere  et  obedire  non  curasti,  sed  rebclliter  con- 
tempsisti,  manifestum  contumacem  rebellem  et  inobedientem  fuisse 
et  esse  pronunciamus ;  ao  te  pro  tuis  manifestis  contumaciis 
offensis  rebellione  contemptu  et  inobedientia  contra  nos  factis  et 
illatis  excommunicatum  et  pro  excommunicato  publice  nunciari 
decernimus  et  declaramus  forinaliter  et  in  his  scriptis:  pia.'sciitibu3 
tunc  ibidem  prajfatis  dominis  Thoma  Urkyll  et  liicardo  lioper  me 
que  Roberto  SkayiF  supradictis. 


Sic  for  iuclitif. 


VISITATIONS   AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MINSTER.  5 

A.I).  1470. 

p.  193. — xxiil°  die  niensis  Junii  Anno  Domini  millesimo  cccc'"°  28  June,  1470. 

septuagesimo,  Dominus Thomas  Clerk  Vicarius  de  Blithworth  purgavit  vicar  of 

se  cum  sexta    manu   tam   clericorum  quam    laicorum,  super   eo   et  I^^itb^vorth, 

eo  viz.  quod  Agnetem  Queryngham  carnaliter  non  cognoverat,  post  self'of  a '  ^" 

Quara   earn  purgationem   leo-itime  factam  venerabilis  vir   Johannes  ^'^f^'^  "^ '"^'^' 

W  raby,  capituhim  faciens,  restituit  dictum  Dommum  Thomam  suge  with  Agues 

bonge  famge  publice  per  decretum;  et  monuit  eundem  sub  poena  xl^  if  re?tored'\'o' 

quod  dictus  Dominus  Thomas  abstineret  se  a  consortio  dictae  Agnetis  l>'s  good  fame 

.  ,  "^  bnt  wai'iied 

in  omni  loco  SUSpectO.  nnder  penalty 

p.  134.     xvi*°  die  mensis  Augusti  Anno  Domini  millesimo  cccc""^  °!^t**^- ^1? 

'■  _  "  abstain  Irom 

septuagesimo.*  Agnes' 

society. 

Correctiones  Vicariornm  et  aliorum  Ministrorum. 

p.  130.    xxii*^"  die  mensis  Augusti^  Dominus  Johannes  Warsopp  22  Aug.  1470. 

Vicarius  Choralis,  quia  negligenter  ssepius  invigilat  curse  chori,  per  g"  °  y\c1x 

Capitulum    primo    fuit    monitus    quod   vigilancius    cum    dilicrencia  choral,  warned 
.     ^  \  ,.^  ,-1  ,  a  first  time  for 

inposterum  observet  cursum  chori   et  sectam  "    ejusdem;  sub  poena  shirking  choir" 

statuti  quod  incipit  "  ceterum."  on  pain  of  the 

....  .  .  .  .  .         statute  which 

xxiii"  die  mensis  Augusti  dominus  Stephanus  Clerk  fuit   primo  begins  "  But." 

monitus    per   Capitulum    quod   melius  observet   sectam  Chori,  sub  l^^^^j^g^jj^j^^g^j'^ 

poena  suspensionis  ab  officio  et  beneficio,  trina  moniiione  precedente.  t'™e  to  keep 

Dominus  Thomas  Tykhyll  presbiter  Cantariaiis^  per  Capitulum  of  suspension 

after  the  third 
warning. 
"  This  entry  was  never  completed.  Thomas 

^  The  year  appears  from  one  of  the  subsequent  entries  relating  to  Gumell.  -^     -    ' 

<=  For  the  frequent  complaints  of  neglect  of  attendance  at  choir  serrices  and 

coming  late  thereto,  I  have  been  able  to    find  no  apter  or  shorter  expression  than 

the  words   in   use   at  Winchester  of  "  shirking  "    chapel,  or  coming  "  tarde  "  or 

"  tardy." 

^  "Sectam    chori  "=suit    of    the    choir.     Secta    is  a  word    adopted    from    the 

manorial  com'ts  ;  attendance  at  choir  being  regarded  as  "  suit  and  service  "  at  the 

Lord's  court. 

®  "  Chauntry  priest."     It  is  not  common  to  find  the  chauntry  priests  described 

thus.     They  are  more  often  called  shortly  "  cantaristte,"  and  Canon  Dixon  in  his 

•'  History  of  the  Church  of  England  "  calls  them  therefore  "  cantarists."     I  have 

used  the  name  by  which  they  are  best  known. 


6  VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTEE. 

A.D.  1470. 
chauntry  primo  nionitus  erat  die  supradicto  quod  melius  observet  sectam  cliori; 

to  kee'pThoir.   ^^^^  poena  suspensionig  ab  officio  et  bencficio,  trina  monitione  prcce- 

dente. 
Thomas  Lede-      Dominus  Tliomas  Ledenam  dicto  xxiii  die  fnensis  Augusti    per 

nam  warned  Capituluiii  monltus  eratprimo,  quod  melius  servet  sectam  chori:  sub 
to  keep  choir.  .      .        ,         ^    .  ,  ,.    . 

poena  suspensionis  ab    omcio  et   benelicio,  trina  monitione  prcce- 

dente. 
W  B  rth      «       Dominus    Willelmus    Bartliorp    monitus    erat    eodem     die    viz- 
warned  to        x.xiii"  die  mensis  Augusti  primo  per  Capitulum  quod  melius  servet 

sectam  chori:   sub  poena  suspensionis  ab  officio  et  bencficio,  trina 

monitione  precedente. 
,  ,    ™.  Die    Dominica    ante     festum     Sanctorum    Philippi   et  Jacobi, 

apolojiises  for  Dominus  Johannes  Warsopp  submisit  se  gratiae  Capituli,  pro  eo, 
tranter  on  ^  quod  Ipse  Verba  contumeliosa  protulit  festo  Sancti  Georgii  contra 
St.  George's     eundem;  sub  hac  forma:    quod  [si]   de  cetero  delinquat  puniretur 

secundum  statuta. 

p.  131.     xxiii°  die  mensis  Augusti  anno  Domini  millesimo  cccc'"'' 

fJurnell  septuagesimo.     ^agister  Thomas   Gurnell   per   Capitulum  monitus 

warned  a  first  .  i  i        j  j       x-^  i.  .   /»  • 

time  ao-ainst     ^rat  primo,  quod  prebendam  de   JNormanton  ut  hrmarius  non   oc- 

farmingthe  cupet  nec  est  procurator^  trina  monitione  praeccdente,  sub  poena 
jffebend  of  .      .         T      «»    •  i  f    •  i     •  • 

Normanton  ;    suspensionis   ab  officio  et  benehcio,  contra  ecclesiae  statutum  et  in- 

pav^hlspro-  denturas  inde  confectas  Capitulo  re  et  verbo  dimittcre   et  realiter 

curation  of  trad  ere. 

the  chapter;  Et  quod  procurationem  pro  prebcnda  de  Xormanton  infra  duos 

does  so  on  hi  s  dies    proximos   et   immediate    sequentcs,  sub    poena   sequcstrationis 

bended  knees,  fj.yp^^^^-j    ejusdem,  solverct :   quam   procurationem  secundum   praj- 

but  continues  ^      •      ,•  i         ^^■          n      •            -i              i    -^  •      /i      •      i 

to  occupy  the  ceptum  Capituli  huiniiiter,  tiexis  genibus,  solvit  in  (.apitulo. 

*'''■■"•  Et  quia  dictus   jMagister  Thomas   Gurnell,  non  obstante  prima 

Warned  a  monitione,  dictam  firmam  de  Normanton  occupavit,  die  Martis 

second  time,  '  .  i  •  , 

27  Aug.  viz.   xxvii"   die   mensis   Augusti,  secundo   monitus  erat,  sub  poena 

statuti,  quod   dictam   firmam    ulterius    non  occuparet.      Et  tlictus 

■  W.  Barthorp  was  a  chauntry  priest  and  deputy  acting  grammar-school  master. 
See  post. 

^  Crossed  out  in  original. 


VISITATIONS    AND   MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTEE.  7 

A.D.  1470. 

Magister    Gurnell    post    dlctam     monitionem    asseniit    publice   in  gays  he  will 

Capitulo  quod  dictam  firmam  ulterius  occupare  voluit:  ex  quo  tertio  ^'^''^  ^*- 

monitus  erat  quod  dictam  firmam  sub  poena  suspensionis  ab  officio  thirj"tiQie 

et  beneficio  minime  occuparet,  sed  magis  divinis  in  Choro  insisteret  andto  keep 
,  .  ^  choir  better, 

et  vacaret. 

Dicta   monitione  tertia   sibi  facta  non   obstante,  dictus   Thomas  Nevertheless 
Gurnell  pluries,  contra  monitionem  sibi  factam,  divinis  in  Choro  non  occupies  the 

.  ^  .  .  .  J^      .     ,  .    .  r  farm,  with 

vacavit,  sed  contra  monitionem  tertiam  per  Capitulum  sibi  lactam  his  waggons, 

dictam  firmam  occupavit,  tenuit,  et  custodit,  cum  suis  bigis  et  equis  hi*reTse^vants 
et  servientibus  conductis  vehendo  fructus  prebendae  de  Normanton  carrying  the 
,•         ^  ,  .  T      ^•  n  ■  crops  of  the 

pertmentes,    et    cetera   omnia    qu»   ad    dictam    iirmam    pertinent  prebend,  spite 

exercendo,  licet  in  Capitulo  publice  promisit  quod  eandem  firmam  °^  '"^  promise 

dimitteret  et  ulterius  non  occuparet.  trary. 

Et  quia  realiter  etiam  dictus  Thomas  Gurnell  publicus  negociator  Because  T. 

existit.exercendonegotiasecularia  in  emendo  silvas  et  aliamercimonia  ^^^"^1*  ^^'* 

°  .  .        .  public  trader 

ut  carius  vendat,  quod  de  facto  facit,  canonum  mstituta  et  lauda-  carrying  on 

bilia  consuetudines  et  statuta  hujus  inclyti  Collegii  contemnendo,  ^^^  insults 

ac  etiam  venerabilibus  viris  Capitulo,  ordinariis  suis,  verbis  contume-  t^e  chapter, 
T     .  ,    .     .  .    ,  .  •      /-I      •      1  n       his  Ordinaries; 

liosis  opprobriosis  et  mhonestis,  tarn  in  Capitulo  quam  extra,  pro ler-  carries  arms 

endo  inferendo  et  prsedicando  elato  spiiitu  et  contumaci  :  Ac  etiam  of  aggression 
1     .  ,111  .    .  and  threatens 

arma  mvasiva,  tarn  m  ecclosia  quam  extra,  ad  verberandum  mmistros  to  beat  or 

ecclesise  sive  e^estrieiidum  et  insidiandum  et  se  verberare  minando,  stab  the 

*^     .  .  .   ,  '  ministers  ot 

in  animse  sujie  periculum,  aliorum  exemplum  perniciosurn,  et  scanda-  the  church  ; 

lum   dicti  Collegii  et  ministrorum  ejusdem  ;  matura  deliberatione  Sentence  by 

propter  hsec  et  alia  enormia  statutis  nostris  contraria  J!^os  Johannes  Wraby,'Bird, 

Wraby  Ranulphus  Bryd  Willelmus  Worseley  et  Johannes  Hardyng,  w^^^J°^'t>    • 

CanoniciEesidentiariijCapitulariter  congregati  et  Capitulum  facientes  dentiarie's, 

dictum  Thomam  Gurnell  ab  officio  et  beneficio  suis  decernimus  fore  Gurnell^ 

suspendendum  et  a  Choro  rejiciendum,  nunquam  ad  aliquod  minis-  from  office 

terium  in  dicta  ecclesia  faciendum  admittendum;   monendo  eundem  and  injoinhi'm 

Thomam  sub  poena  excommunicationis  quod  habitum  ulterius  non  jigainst  enter- 

'^  _  ,  .  ■*  lug  choir  or 

gerat,  et  in  omnibus  nostris  mandatis  pareat  cum  effectu.  wearing  his 

Undecimo     die     mensis    Septembris    prsedicti    venerabiles    viri    ^  ^ ' 

Johannes  Wraby  Ranulphus  Bryd  Willelmus  Worsley  et  Johannes  Excommuni- 


teuce. 


8  VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 

A.D.  1470. 

lation  fill-  Harding  Canonicl  Residenti.irii  in  domo  c;ipitulari  ejusdem  capita- 
the°chapter  lariter  congregati,  coram  cunctis  fratribus  de  habitu  tarn  Vicanis 
forcoutinned  quam  Capellanis  Cantariarum  cum  aliis  minlstris,  sententiam  contra 
and^"dTs-'^^  dictum  Dominuni  Thomam  Gurnell  in  scriptis  redactam  juxta 
obedience.  tenorem  antedicti  processus  fulminaverunt,  sub  hac  verborum  forma: 
Form  of  sen-  In  Dei  nomine  Amen.  Nos  Capitulum  Ecclesise  CoUegiatae  Beatae 
Marise  Suthwell,  Quia  Dominus  Thomas  Gurnell,  Vicarius  Choralis 
prsedictse  ecclesiae,  juxta  statuta  laudabilia  et  consuetudines  ecclesiae 
prselibatffi  legitime  monitus  quod  firmam  prebendaj  de  Xormanton 
ulterius  non  occuparet,  Idem  tamen  dominus  Thomas  suae  salutis 
immemor,  licet  asseruit  se  praedictam  firmam  re  et  verbo 
dimittere,  eandem  tamen  firmam  realiter  tenuit  et  custodivit  cum 
biga  equis  servientibusque  suis,  f'ructus  dictaa  prebends  pertinentes 
vehendo  inhorriando  et  omnia  alia  ad  dictam  firmam  pertinentia 
exercendo,  in  animae  suae  grave  periculum  aliorum  que  perniciosum 
exemplum,  statutis  nostris  contraveniendo  acperjurium  incurrendo  : 
Et  quiaetiam  idem  dominus  Thomas  publicus  negotiator  existit,  contra 
canonicas  sanctiones  publice  negotiis  secularibus  immiscendo,  silvas 
et  alia  commercia  illicita  ut  carius  vendat  comparendo  et  exercendo, 
ita  quod  divinis  obsequiis  inherere  et  sectam  Chori  facere  minime 
po!-sit  ut  tenetur:  Ac  etiain  quod  nobis  ordinariis  suis  tarn  in  ecclesia 
quam  extra  verba  opprobriosa  contumeliosa  et  inhonesta  saape  saepius 
Esepissime  intulit,  protulit,  publice  praedicavit;  necnon  arma  invasiva, 
tam  in  ecclesia  quam  extra,  ecclesiae  ministros  comminando  extra  cleri 
honestatcm  publice  portavit ;  Quia  etiam  ab  aliis  pubiicis  notoriis 
et  enormibus  delictis  legitime  monitus  desistere  non  curavit, 
raandatis  nostris  minime  parendo  :  Idcirco  eundem  dominum 
Thomam,  tanquam  incorrigibilem,  juxta  tenorem  statutorum 
nostrorum  hincinde  editorum,  ab  officio  et  beneficio  suis  in  hac 
parte  suspendimus  publice  in  his  scriptis,  ac  cutn  a  Choro  rejicimus 
nunquam  ad  aliquod  ministerium  in  hac  ecclesiae  a'imittemlum. 
Monentes  eundem  primo  sccundo  et  tertio,  peremptoiie  pro  omnibus 
sub  poena  excommunicationis  quod  in  hac  ecclesia  habitum  clioralcm 
dcinceps  non  gerat  et  maudatis  nostris  in  omnibus  pareat  cum  elFectu. 


VISITATIONS   AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER.  9 

A.IJ.  1470. 

Procuratio  Capituli. 

p   251.     xxiii*'  die  mensis  August!  anno  domini  millessimo  cccc'"°  ^'^  "^"S-  ^'^^^• 

septuagesimo  dominus  Thomas  Gurnell  per  capitulum  monitus  est  q^^^^^^  ^ 

quod  infra  duos  dies  proxiinos  et  immediate  sequentes  procurationem  farmer  of 

capitulo  debitam,  rations  suae  visitationis,  pro  prebenda  de  Normanton  prebend, 

solvat ;  sub  poena  sequestrationis  fructuum  dictse  prebcndae.  warned  to  pay 

.  .  .  T     •  TIT      •  mi  /-(  n    procuration 

xxvii""*  die  mensis  Augusti  supradicti  Magister  ihomas  Orurnell,  due  to  chapter 

vivas  su^  vocis  oraculo,  in  capitulo  fatebatur  quod  re  et  verbo  firmam  ^^^^^^^  visita- 

de  Normanton  occupare  noluit,   et  exhibuit  indenturas  inde  con- 

fectas  ;  ex  quo  eodem  die  monitus  erat  sub  eadem  poena  quod  sic 

continuaret. 

Eodem   die    mensis  Augusti   dictus   Thomas   Gurnell  procurator 

Magistri  Johannis  Danvers  prebendarii*  13  Sept.  1470. 

Separate 
examination 
p.  355.  Examiiiatio''  vicariorum  discrete  et  singillatim   facta  xiii''  of  each  of  the 

die  mensis  Septembris  Anno  Domini  millesiino  quadragesimo  septua-  choral  on  the 

gesimo  de  moribus  Thomas  Gurnell.  conduct  of 

J\lery  dicit  quod  non  est  habilis  moribus.  Gurnell,  vicar 

Bylop  dicit  quod  non  est  habilis  moribus.  cwia  . 

Sledmer  dicit  quod  est  capitosus  voluntatis.  He  is  not  of 

Shirburn  dicit  quod  non  est  habilis  moribus.  viour  . 

Norton  dicit  quod  non  est  liabilis  moribus.  ^^  headstrong  ; 

"  The  entry  is  not  finished  ;  tliese  two  entries  seem  to  relate  to  the  same  proceed- 
ings as  those  already  set  out  from  p.  131. 

^  It  is  characteristic  of  the  curiously  haphazard  way  in  which  the  entries  in  this 
Register  are  made  that  this,  one  of  the  earliest  entries,  appears  on  the  last  page  of 
the  book,  and  there  having  been  a  small  space  left  between  the  examination  of  the 
fifteen  Vicars  Choral  on  their  colleague  Thomas  Gurnell  and  the  sentence  delivered 
by  the  Canons  Residentiaries,  an  entr}'  was  inserted  sixteen  years  afterwards  with 
regard  to  a  similarly  unanimous  complaint,  which  will  be  found  in  its  chronological 
order,  of  the  Vicars  against  Thomas  Cartwright,  while  the  warning  at  that  time 
given  to  Thomas  Cartwright  is  thrust  up  into  the  right-hand  corner  of  the  page, 
just  below  the  date  of  the  examination  as  to  Thomas  Gurnell.  In  the  middle  of 
the  page  stand  the  words  "  In  dei,"  which  would  seem  to  have  been  written  when 
the  book  was  first  made,  with  the  intention  of  marking  the  end  of  it  by  the  words 
"In  dei  nomine,  Amen,"  which  are  now  scrawled  in  the  right-hand  margin. 

C 


10 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMOEIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 


A.D.  1470. 

and  quarrel- 
some ; 


has  bad 
morals ; 

wishes  to 
have  every- 
thing his 
own  way ; 
could  behave 
better  ; 
is  not  an 
agreeable 
companion. 
Excommuni- 
cation of 
Gurnell  for 
again  wearing 
his  habit, 
entering  choir, 
occupying  his 
stall,  and  dis- 
turbing vespers 
and  matins. 


5  Sept.  1470. 
Canons  Kesi- 
dentiary  give 
themselves 
leave  of 
jibsence  for  a 
fortnight. 


Warsop  dicit  quod  non  est  habilis  moribus  scd  facit  jurgia  et 
discentlones  multitotiens  inter  vicarios. 

Bull  dicit  quod  non  est  habilis  moribus. 

lloper  dicit  quod  non  est  habilis  moribus. 

Stephanus  dicit  quod  non  est  habilis  moribus. 

Lednara  dicit  quod  habet  malos  mores. 

Yerburgh  dicit  quod  non  est  habilis  moribus. 

Dyson  dicit  ut  cceteri ;  quod  omnia  vellet  habere  secundum  suam 
voluntatem. 

Webster  dicit  quod  potest  emendare. 

Gregory  dicit  quod  non  est  habilis  inter  cseteros  socios. 

Urkell  dicit  quod  non  est  habilis. 

In  Dei  nomine  Amen.  Nos  Willehnus  Worseley,  legum  Doctor, 
Canonicus  Residentiarius  hujus  inclitas  ccclesias  collegiatai  Beataj 
MariaB  Suthwell,  una  cum  consensu  Johannis  Wraby  et  Ranulphi 
Byrd  confratrum  meorum  hie  prsesentium  capitulariter  congre- 
gatorura  et  capitulum  publice  facientium,  auctoritate  dicti  capituli 
Te  Dominum  Thomam  Gurnell  Quia  tu  de  novo  habitum  Choralem 
in  te  assumere  usurpasti,  ac  cum  eodcm  Chorum  prsesumptuose 
intrasti,  stallum  que  tuum  solitum  temere  occupasti  et  solempnes 
decantationes  vesperarum  et  matutinarum  nequiter  impediisti;  ex- 
communicamus  et  pro  excommunicato  nunciari  decernimus  senten- 
cialiter  et  diffinitive  publice  in  hiis  scriptis."* 

p.  307.  5*"  die  mensis  Septembris  anno  domini  millesimo  quad- 
ragcsimo  septuagesimo  Venerabiles  viri  Johannes  Wraby  Ranul- 
phus  Bryd  Willclmus  Worsley  et  Johannes  Hardyng,  Canonici 
Kesidentiarii,  capitulariter  congregati  et  capitulum  facientcs,  ex  certis 
causis  justis  et  legitimis  ipsos  ad  tunc  moventibus,  licentiam  dcde- 
runt  ad  invicem,  et  unusquisque  corum  alterum  in  j)lono  capitulo 
liccntiavit,  facicndi  absentiam  personalem,  si  aliquis  eorum  velit,  per 
quindenam  ad  uniusciijusque  eorum  bene  j)lacituin  in  his  eorumden 

"  Here  the  entry  ends,  but  the  bottom  of  the  page  has  been  cut  off.  It  probably 
contained  the  sentence  to  be  publicly  pronounced,  and  was  pcrhsips  cut  off  when 
Guruell  made  his  submission  and  was  absolved. 


VISITATIONS   AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER.  11 

A.D. 1471. 
residentlis ;  proviso  quod  in  eoruradem  absentia  Ministri*  Ecclesiae 
secundum    EcclesiEe    statuta    et   consuetudines   reficiantur   et   pas- 
cantur. 

Eodem  die  Dominus  Tiiomas  Gurnell  per  capitulum  monitus  erat  5  Sept.  1470. 
pro  secundo  et  tertio  peremptorie  quod  Johannem  rJarrett  appari- warned  not 
torein  nostrum  non  verberaret  nee  veberari  faciat  sub  poena  suspen-  *j!,j^'jfg*.*s  ^ 
sionis  ab  officio  et  beneficio.  apparitor. 

p.  144.     Capitulum  monuit  Thomam  Gurnell  ut  susciperet  in  se  i^  Nov.  1470. 
1----UT--T1  -K  •  Thnmas 

onus  admmistrationis  Magistn   Johannis"  aut  penitus  recusaret  ac,  Gurnell 

licet  bona  occupaverit  adminlstrationem  que  dicti  Magistri  Johannis,  to^^ccepTor^'^ 
onus   admlnlstrandi   In  se  suscipere    neque  voluit  neque  recusavit  renounce 

T    ,      ■  r^   •  -^1  i--i.        j'Ti  •  administration 

expresse  vei  tacite  :  Idcirco  capitulum  onus  aaministrandi  J ohanni  ^^^  j^j^^g^gj. 

Bromall  commiserat  x  die  Novembris  A.D.  M^cccc"  Ixx.  John." 

Licentia  facta  Canonicis  se  absentandi. 

p.   146.     ii'^*'  die  mensis   Auo-usti  anno  domlnl  millesimo  cccc™°  H,A°.T  W^" 
^  o  The  Residen- 


septuageslmo  primo,  Johannes  Wraby  et  Johannes  Hardyng,  Canonlcl  tiaries  gi 

Residentiarii  hujus   ecclesiae,  capitulariter  congregati  et  capitulum  iga^^o/^** 

faclentes,  in  domo  capltulari  ejusdem,  cum  consensu  plenario  Magistri  absence  for 

Willelmi  Wolseley  CanonicI  Kesidentiarll  Ibidem,  ob  certas  causas  account  of  the 

legitimas  et  necessarias,  viz.  propter  metum  morbi  pestiferi,  dictum  pest  then 

•      1  .        ^      ^      ^  .  .   ,F      ,  ,  reigning  m 

capituhim  moventes,  remiserunt  et  de  gracia  speciali  voluerunt  quod  Southwell, 

quillbet  Canonicus  Residentiarius  per  unum  mensem  a  die  dati  prae-  ["i^g^fg^gj^    ^ 

sentium,  si  voluerit,absentiam  faciat personalem ;  pi'ovlso Interim,  quod  the  ministers 
T^        .    .  TT-    ■       •         1     •  T  M  -1         of  the  church 

Domini  Ministri  ecclesiae  more  solito  et  consueto  temponbus  resicien-  accordinf  to 

tisedebltls  depascantur,  iuxta  dictse  eccleslffi  laudabiles  consuetudines.  I'^uflable 
^  .  .        .  custom. 

Et  quia  rognat  morbus  pestlferus  In  villa  Suthwell  et  fervet  exces- 
sive morbus  praedictus,  ut  ex  Inde  canonici  temporibus  residentlarum 
suarum  timent,  ex  justo  metu,  diet!  morbi  infectlonem  et  sic  vit» 
perlculum;  ob  illam  causam  prsesertim  licentlam  ut  prgefertur  eos 

The  canons  in  residence  were  expected  to  entertain  daily  their  vicars  choral  and 
clerks. 

"^  i.e.  probably  Master  John  Terold  see  p.  1  above.     He  had  been  collated  to  the 
prebend  of  Sacristan,  or  Segeston,  or  Sexton,  3  Jan.  1458.     (Le  Neve.) 


12  VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MINSTER. 


A.D, 1472. 


abseutandi  per  mensem  temporibus  suarum  Residentiarum  dedcrunt 

specialem. 

In  Visitation        p.  192.     xviii."  die  mensis  Septembrls  Anno  Domini  m°  cccc'"" 

held  18  Sept.    |xxii'i°   in    quadam  visitatione''   exercita,  in   dicta  ecclesia,   rite  et 

hy'william      legitime     exercita,  per    mugistrum    Willelmum    Worsley,    legiim 

Ll!D.?ipecial  doctorem,   dicti  Capituli  commissarium   specialiter  deputatiim,  ad 

commissiimer    bonum    rcifimcn    pacisque    iomentum    Capellanorum   Cantarialium 

fL*the'peTcr  circiter  extraneos  commensales  ibidem  taliter  est  decretum:   Quod 

of  the  chaan-  j-  .;  (-'opeHani  eoium  statuta  non  revelabunt  aut  patefacient  quo 
try  chaplains,    ""-  -  r  '  .  . 

that  none  vis  niodo  allcui  extraneo;  nee  quemcumque  extraneum  admittent  in 

theii  statutes  commensalem  dictse  domus''  qui  ad  statuta  et  secreta  ejusdem  erunt 

to  a  stranger,  conscii;   sed  omnino  eorum  statuta    et  quaecunque  secreta,  ratione 

st^rang"/ aTa  statutorum  suoium,  a  quibuscunque  extraneis  in  futurum  in  com- 

"  commoner "  mens'vlcm  residentibus  ibidem  celabunt,  occultabunt,  et  nullo  modo 
in  the  Chaun-  •      •      i      rv?    •        .  i  c   • 

try  Priests"  revelabunt;  sub  poena  suspensionis  ab  omcio  et  benelicio  per  mensem. 

^au'kiunvthe  P-  1^*^-  Super  quibusdam  queremoniis,  ministmtis  venerabili  viro 
secrets  of  the  Willclmo  Worseley,  legum  doctori,  prebendario  de  Norwell, 
aU  the"secrets  commissario  specialiter  dcputato,  in  visitatione  exercita  in  eadem 
from  the  resi-  gp^lcsia  Anno  Domini  millesimo  cccc"'"  Ixxii*^"  a  venerabili  capitulo 
dents  m  the  .  .  •      •       i      i        •        -kt-   i     i        t      n 

same  hall.        ejusdeui  ecclcsisB  publice  et  m  scnptis,  de  domino  JNichoiao  AnoUes 

Complaints       Capcllano  cautariali  per  omnes  et  singulos  socios  suos,  ad   manu- 
tenenduin  et  fovendum  pacem  et  concordiam  ejusdem  ecclesiae  dictus 


^"i.h 

Kmillcs  by  all  yenerabilis  commissarius  taliter  decrevit,  singulis  querelantibus  huius 

his  feilow  ...  rx         ^       \-  X-"    11  T'        11  1 

chauiitry  modi  decreto  consensientibus:    Quod  dictus  JSicholaus  KnoUes  de 


chaplains 


cetero  et  in  futurum  sc  pacifice  et  honeste  gerat  penes  socios  suos 

»  This  is  the  only  indication  that  the  regular  triennial  Tisitation  of  the  church 
was  held  in  1472. 

'•  This  is  a  curious  indication  of  a  fact  of  which  we  should  otherwise  have  hecu 
ignorant,  tliat  strangers,  probahly  laity,  were  admitted  as  "  commoners  "  to  the 
chauntry  priests'  house  or  college  (which  was  separate  from  that  of  the  vicars 
choral),  occupying  the  site  on  the  north-west  corner  of  the  churchyard,  now  the 
grammar  school,  in  the  same  way  as  similar  commoners  were  admitted  to  the 
religious  houses  and  to  the  universities  and  other  colleges.  Similar  "  commoners  " 
were  distinctly  contemplated  at  Winchester  College  by  William  of  Wykeham  in  bis 
original  statutes. 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER.  13 

AD.  1472. 
in  domo  cantariarum  praidicta  ;  et,  si  statutis  Cantariarum  laud-  he  is  ordered 
ablliter  editis  oiFensam  fecerit,  et  deliquerit  in  aliquibus  eorumdem,  pea^tS^for^'thc 
et  si  monitus  juxta  iseniores  ejusdem  domus,  defectus,  si  quos  com-  future,  and 

1  -^        ^     •      1     •      •  1      •         •  .if  having 

miserit,  non  emendaverit;  et  si,  de  ipsius  obstmacia  eorum  statutis  been  warned 

contraria,  quam  ipsius  accrescentermalitia  minime  valeant  reformare.  1^^  *Ji^  seniors, 

,  .      ,  .   „       .  he  oilends 

et  super  hac  capitulo  conquesti  luennt,  et  super  eorum  queremoniis  again  and 

reus   receptus  fuerit ;    extunc  summam  ix.  marcarum,   quam    alias  ISt'tothl 
merito  juxta  eorum  statuta  perdidlsset  propter  alios  reatus,  amlttet  ^"^^P*^"' ^e  is 

^    .  J  .  •   ^  T  1         .  to  be  fined 

et  in   eadem   merito   veniet   condempnandus,  juxta    eorum  statuta,  9  marlvs,  to  be 

commitivaj  dictorum  Capellanorum  cantaiialium  applicandam.  applied  to  the 

.  ^'  Society  of  the 

Billa  in  eadem  sista  recondita  est  de  Chauntry 

eodem  Nicholao  Knolles.  ^'"''''■ 

p.  141.  xix  die  mensis  Februarii  A.D.  m  cccc"'°  Ixxii''"  Reverendus  19  Feb.  1472. 

vir  Dominus  Ricardus  Fletcher,  prebendarius  tertise   prebendse  de  J^'^^cher, 
-IT  11      •       -1  .     ,      .  .      .  Frebendary 

JNorwell,   in  domo  capitulan   constituit   procuratores  Dominos  W.  of  Norweli 

Sliirburn  Vicarium  Choralem  et  dominum  Willelmum  Bartliorp  in  appoints 

omnibus  causis  se  et  prebendam  suam  concerneniibus,  dans  sibi  et  pi'octors  to 
.,.,     ^  .  .,  ,•       -1  •  act  for  him 

eorum  cuilibet  in  quibuscunque  convocationibus  canonicorum  pro  se  in  all  convo- 

et  nomine  suo  comparendi''  consentiendi  et  dissentiendi  ac  in  omni-  cations  of 

.  ,.  .  .  canons  or 

bus  aliis  causis  comparendi  cum  omnibus  clausulis  notariis.    Exposuit  other  acts  of 
Cancellarius  se  ratum  habere  etc.  chapter. 

p.  142.  Concordia''  Magistrorum  Scolarum  Xotingham  et  Willaton.  Agreement 
Ex    quadam    amicabili    compositione    Magister    Thomas    Lacy,  Jj^^rtSs  of  the 
magister  scolarum  grammaticae   Notinghame    convenit    cum    Do- schools  of 
mino  Willelmo  Cowper  de  WoUaton,  sub  hac  forma  ;    quod  pro-  ami  wmaton 
misit  durante  vita  sua  dicto  Domino  Willelmo  docere  xxvi  pueros  ^'^''^M^/™'."^'^^ 

i  should  during 

aut  viros  in  arte  grammatics  in   villa  de   WoUaton  et  quod  nullo  his  life  teach 

modo    excedet.      Approbata    erat    liujusmodi    conventio    per    me  wilSon  and 

Magistrum  Willelmum  Worsley  et  Capitulum  Suthwell.  °o  '""^'e- 

orv-r  t^    T  •      r-'   1  ••  1        .    .       .,,     .  ,    The  chapter 

p.  d(J7  xxv'°  die  mensis  i^ebruarn  anno  domini  millesimo  quad- approves. 

ragesimo  septuagesimo  secundo,  venerabiles  viri  Dominus  Johannes  l^  ^eb.  1472. 

Wraby  et  Magister  Willelmus    Worsley  in  domo  Capitulari  ibidem  absence  to 

Chaterton,  a 
*  Potestatem,  or  some  such  word,  seems  to  be  omitted.  residentiary 

•*  This  illustrates  the  wide  jurisdiction  of  the  chapter,  who,  as  ordinaries,  exer-  to  London^ 

cised  control  over  all  grammar  schools  in  Nottinghamshire.  ou  chapter 


14  VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 

A.D.  1472. 
i)usiness  for      Capitulariter    congregati,    et    Capitulum    facientcs    cum    Domino 
provided  he'      Edmundo  Chaterton  Canonico  Rcsidcntiario  hujus  ecclcsioe;   quia 

feed  the  profectus  est  London  propter  diversa  negotia  utilitatem  ccclesiaj  con- 

imnisters  of       ^  ,  ^  i      r  ,,,.,, 

the  church       cernentia,  dispensaverunt  cum   eodem  in  ipsius  absentia  per    tres 

fashion^^"^  septimanas,  quod  ipse  semper  proviso  depascat,  more  solito  et 
consueto,  ministros  ecclesiae  continue  a  dato  praesentium  usque  in 
finem  trium  septlmanarum  continue  numerandarum  completum. 
27  Feb.  1472.  p.  311.  xxvii™°.  die  mensis  Februari,  anno  domino  m°  cccc™"  Ixxiii 
^ande"  before  coram  Magistro  Willelmo  Worsley  Legum  Doctore  in  judicio 
the  chapter,  publice  sedentc,  Alicia  Row  de  Hallom''  contra  Thomam  Lumley  de 
f!ihtu^^  Calneton"  vivse  suae  vocis  oraculo  proponit  et  dicit,  quod  dictus 
versus  Thomas  Thomas  non  diifamandam  difFamavit  eandem  Aliciam  super  furto 
Cahietonlwho  ^1^  ^^^  fuerunt  Agnetis  Sliepardson  de  Halora,  super  quo  crimine 
had  accused  (ji^ta  Alicia  canonice  se  purgavit:  quare,  probatis  in  hac  parte 
her  of  steal-  ,      .         ,.  .,.   .  .^t.  m,  •       • 

ing  40s.  probatis,  dicta  Alicia  petit  dictum  J  homam  excommunican,  et  pro 

dicto  scandalo  et  iniqua  sua  diffamatione  canonice  puniri  ;  dictus 

Dominus  Thomas  animo  litis  contra  negat  narrata  prout  narrantur 

et  petita   prout  petuntur,  animo   litis    contestanda.      Datur   dicta; 

Alicise  dies  veneris  proximus  ad  produccndum. 

I'laintiff's  Thomas    Hardmeyte    de    Hallom,  aetatis    xxx  annorum,  libera; 

witnesses.  ,.  .      .  .  .  .    .  i     ,»i    • 

conditionis,  neutri  partium  connectus  consanguinitate  vel  amnitatc, 

juratus  et  debite  examinatus,   primo  de  notitia  personarum   dicit 

quod  novit  utramque  personam   per  v  annos  et   ultra ;  et  dicit, 

quod  audivit  dictum  Thomam  sibi  dicentem  quod  si  Alicia  Row 

vocctur  Alicia  Mastere  quod  [certum]''  pccuniam    subtractam    ab 

Agnete  Meyc  habuit.    Hajc  dixit  in  cimiterio  de  Hallom  die  festivali 

circitef  festum  Xatalis  Domini  ante  nonam,  nullis  praisentibus   nisi 

ipso  jurato  et  dicto  Thoma   Lameley;  ncc  est,  ut  dicit,  testis  con- 

ductus,   nee  sub  spe  mercedis  aliquid  deponit. 

VVaryn  can  "\\r^   Waryn  dc  Ilullom  xl  annorum,  liberse  conditionis,  deponit 

only  speak  ,.,,....,,.  ,.  ,  * 

from  hearsay,  quod  nil  audivit  nisi  dc  auditu  auditorum." 

*  Both  these  places  were  prebends  or  possessions  of  the  minister,  and  within  the 
soke  of  the  chapter. 

'•  There  seems  to  be  something  wrong  about  this  passage.  Apparently,  Laniloy  nnide 
some  offensive  joke  on  Alicia  Row,  imputing  theft  to  her.     The  entry  is  not  finished. 


VISITATIONS   AND    MEMORIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL   MINSTER.  15 

A.D.  1472. 

p.  141.     Vicarius  de  Cawnton  non  visitat  ecclesias  Suthwell  in    ?  Feb.  1472. 

fcsto  Pentecostse  cum  processioned  solempni  ut  solebat  facere,  cum  Cawnton^"^" 

ecclesia  de  Northmuskham  cum  sua  ecclesia  sit  membrum  ipsius,  shirks  the 

ac  parochianos  nostros  non  permittit  oblationes  suas  diiFerre  in  dicto  procession  at 

festo  :  prastextu  cuius  incurrit  sententiam  excommunicationis.  Southwell,  and 

'    ^  •-'  ..,     -r^        .  hinders  his 

p.  308.     5*°  die  mensis  Martn  A.D  m°  cccc™°  Ixxii'^"  Dommus  parishioners 

Willelmus  Hull  Vicarius  de  Cawnton^  quia  convictus  est  de  sorti-  thekofferfn^f 

legio  cum  testibus  manifeste,  prsestitit  corporale  juramentum  quod  by  which  he 

vicariam  suam  de  Cawnton  citra  festum  Sancti  Michaelis  Archangeli  mnnication. 

proximum  futurum  resignabit   aut    saltern    permutabit,   sub  poena  ?,5^^'^'*^'^'  ^'^^'^^ 

privationis.  Cawnton 

p.  142.     L)ie  Veneris  proximo  ante  Dominicam  in  Ramis  palmarum  gorcerV   ^ 

in  domo  Capitulari   Suthwell,  coram   Gardianis  publice  Capitulum  compelled  to 

facienlibus,    coinparuit   personaliter  Dominus    Johannes   Thornton       " 

Vicarius  ecclesige  de  Oxton  •/  et  ubi  alias  detectum  fiierat  quod  in 

visitationibus  tentis   apud   Oxton  ultimis  ibidem  celebratis  dictus  ^  .      , 

Dominus  Johannes  carnaliter  cognovisset  Agnetem  servientem  ejus^  before  Palm 

super  cvijus  crimine  incontinentise  dictus  Vicarius  erat  coram  dictis  john'rhom- 

Gardianis  in  dicto  domo  capitulari  conventus,  et  monitus  in  virtute  to°'  Vicar  of 

,      ,.        .  -   ,.  .  ,  .  .  Oxton, appears 

obeclientige  quod  dictam  Agnetem  a  domo  et  consortio  suo  penitus  re-  before  the 

moveret,  foro  et  ecclesia  duntaxat  exceptis;   dictus  tamen  Vicarius,  ^burchwardens 
....  ...  in  chapter 

monitione  sibi  facta  non  obstante,  inobedienter^  licet  dictam  Agnetem  assembled; 

ad  tempus  removeratj  eam  tamen  denuo  in  domum  suam  recepit,  man-  lalt' visitation, 

datum  Capituli  nequiter  spernendo  et  contempnendo.  Quocirca  dictus  ^^'^  ^*  O^ton, 
-rr-        •  1      .  T    .      ,      ,.        .         .  T     _         .,  been  warned 

Vicarius,  pro  hujusmodi  inobedientia  citatus,  ad  dicendam  causam  formisbeha- 

quare  pro  sua  inobedientia  perjuratum  et  pro  perjurato  debeat  minime  ^"^es'^hi's 

maid-servant. 
_,,,..  to  remove  her 

*  The  Whitsuntide  procession  was  a  great  sonrce  of  profit  to  the  Minster.    In  from  his 
recognition  of  its  position  as  Mother-Church  of  Nottinghamshire,  the  clergy  and  house  : 
laity  had  to  attend  the  sjiiod  and  solemnly  march  in  procession  and  make  offerings,  bad  done  so 
The  privilege  was  confirmed  by  Papal  Bull.  A.D.  1171.  fnd^then^taken 

^  Probably  this  entry  is  of  the  same  date  and  refers  to  the  same  vicar  as  the  last,  her  back 
It  would  seem  by  the  next  entry  but  one  he  did  resign  as  he  promised.  again  ; 

<>  Oxton   being  a  prebendal  church,   the  vicar  of   Oxton   being  the    parochial  summoned  for 
deputy,  as  the  vicar  choral  of  the  stall  of  Oxton  was  the  choir  deputy,  of  the  canon  ^  ^ 
or  prebendary  of  Oxton,  the  chapter  visit   Oxton   triennially  as  they  visit  the 
Minster. 


16  VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 

A.D.  1472. 

declarari;  codein  die  veniens  obstinati  spiritu  in  dicta  domo  capitular! 

declares  he        personalitcr,  coram  eisdem  gardlanis  praifatus  vicarius  personaliter 

becaus7 /r'^'^    respondebat,  quod   dictam    A<^netein   receplt  in  domo  sua,  pro  eo, 

was  reported     quod  post  expulsionem  suam,  divulgatum  erat  inter  vicinos  quod 

expulsion  that  secum  erat  iinpregnata  ;  et  Gardlani  monuerunt  eundem   Vicarium 

she  was  with     quod  incontinenter  exlnde,  sub  poena  privationis,  dictam  Agnetem 

child  hy  him  ;     '■  .  '  '  .  , 

ordered  to        ^  consortio  et  famdia  sua  removeret.     Ac  insuper  articulatum  erat 

remove  her;      eidem  Vicarlo  quod  carnaliter  cognovisset,  et  articulum  denegabat- 

directed  to        Indicitur  eidem  pur^are  cum  sua  xii  manu.  tarn   clericorum  quam 

puro;e  himself  ,.^      "  .     .  .  r>       i  •  r 

of  the  charge    laicorum,  erga  diem   Veneris  in  septimana  Paschae  proxima  futura, 

iiesses ^clerks  ^^  convicinis  honcstis  personis  dictae  villas  de  Oxton,  luicis,  aliis 
and  laymen,      que  presbyteris  vicinis,  et  ipsius  notitiam  pleniorem  habentlbus  de 

vita  et  conversatlone  ejus. 
16  March,  p.  161.    xvi'°  mensis  ]\Iartii  anno  doinini  m°cccc'"°  Ixii*^"  venerabiles 

Power  of  viri,  Johannes  Wraby,  et  Magister  "Willelmus  Worseley  legum  doctor, 

churchwardens  omnem  et  omnimodam  potestatem  per  se  alias  da  tarn  custodibus 
the  chapter  Kcclcsiffi  Suthwell  ad  quoscunque  actus  nomin'^  dicti  capituli  eisdem 
revoe  .  ^^^,  antea  concessam  qualitercunque  excrcendi  revocant;  et  inhibent 

eisdem  sub  pccna  incumbento,  praeterquam  in  hiis  quae  in  commis- 

sione  antiqua  inter  statuta  ecclesiae  inserta  exponuiitur,    nil  agant 

aut  super  se  assumere  praesumant. 

Master  John  Eodem  die  Magister  Johannes  Wraby  in  domo  capitulari,  prccsente 

dentia^y   ^**'"    ^I^gi.stro  W^'illelmo  Worseley,  asseruit  publice  quod  indies  deturbatur 

Canon,  on  morbo  paralytico,  nee  sanitate  mentis  gaudebat;  quare  in  absentia 
iiccount  of  ,.  ••1  1-  •      1  •  • 

failing  mind     iratrum  suorum  petiit  ob  causas  praedictas  se  exonerari  ab  e.xercitio 

asks  to  he  iurisdictionis  Capituli.  Et  prsefatus  Magister  Willelmus  Worseley, 
relieved  of         -^  ^  ...  .,..„.,. 

the  chapter      attendcns  causas  praedictas  esse  legitimas,  nomine  dicti  Capituli  et 

fhe'al.sencc  ^"  auctoritate  cjusdem,  ipsum  Magistrum  Johannem  Wraby  confVatrem 

of  the  other      suum  abcxercitio  omnisjurisdictionis  Capituli  in  confratrum  suorum 
residentiaries,      ,  .  ......  At       i      •  i       i  •      • 

which  is  absentia  exoneravit  ad  potitioncm  suam.     3lanilavit  quod  ad  ipsius 

granted  by        mandatum,  ex  quo  sic  fieri  cupiit,  nil  debituin  exequatur,  sed  tlilVer- 

Mastcr  WjI-  .  ^  ,.       .         , .  .  . 

liaiii  Worseley  atur  omnis  actus  usque  aliquis  alius  confratrum  suorum  Capltulo 
Residentiary.    pe,so„aliter  intcrsit. 

.''>  .Tune,  1472.  Quinto  die  mensis  Junii  .\nno  Domini  inillc>i  no  ([uailriigc^-imo 
.John  Francis,  .  i  i\        •  t    i  i-"  \' •■  i 

Vicar  of  septuagesimo  sccundo,    Uominus   Johnines    rraunces,    \  icarius  do 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER.  17 

A.D.  1472-4. 
Oxton,  super  isto  articulo,  quod  carnaliter   cognovissct   Elizabeth  Oxton,  con- 
Fraunces,  judicialiter  monitus    et   examinatus  fatebatur  articulum,  behavi!llir"-^'h 
et  gracise  Capituli  se  submisit.  Elizabeth 

Francis,  and 
submits  him- 
/^  ^ .  self  to  the 

torrectw.  chapter's 

grace, 
p.  201.    Pen  ultimo  die  inensls  Julii  Anno  Domini  millesimo  cccc'^'' 

Ixxiii"  Eeverendus  vir  magister  Willelmus  Worseley  leguin  doctor  ^YilUam^^^^' 

capitulum  faciens  in  domo  capitulari  ejusdem,  dominum  Willelmuin  Worseley, 

Hull    Vicarium  perpetuum  ecclesie  prebendalis   de  Cawnton  Quia  "making  a  ' 

usurpavit  nequiter  jurisdictionem  capituli,  et  sua  auctoritate  excom-  ^^'''P'^^"'"  . 

municavit  Agnetem  Legard  parochianam  suam,  cum  pulsatione  cam-  cated  William 

panarum  aliarum  que  juris  solemnitatum  in  ecclesia  sua,  ipsum  excom-  Cawnton '"^for 

municavit  publice  et  in  scriptis,  et  pro  excommunicato  declarari  et  ^^surping  the 
T  .  .  „  .  1  1-         1      T  •  chapter  autho- 

decerni  ipsum  ruisse  et  esse  publice  declaravit.  rity  inexcom- 

Depost  idem  Willelmus  signo  poenitentiae  compunctus  recognovit  A^^rif  ^ 

delicta  sua,  et  ipsum  male  fecisse  confessus  est  in  prsemissis,  et  super  in  Cawnton 

hoc  graciae  capituli  se  submisit ;   Idem  Reverendus  doctor,  propter  he'submits ; 

suam  humilem  submissionem,  ab  huius  modi  sententia  se  absolvit,  ^^ '^^^^^^^^'^  ^^ 
.    .  ,.,...  ,  ,  .  condition  that 

injungendo  sibi  psenitentiam  salutarem,  quam  subire  sponte  peragere  he  publicly 

tanctis  sacrosanctis  Dei  evangeliis  se  promisit ;  viz.  quod, die  Dominica  '^*^^'^^^^  ^^? 
"  '-  '17  excommuni- 

proxima  futura,  intra  missarum   solemnia  in  publico  ecclesise  su£e  cation  of 

declarabit  publice,  quod  executio  sententige  excom uiunicationis  per  infalid*^"^"* ' 

ipsum  factae  contra  prsefatam  Agnetem  Legard  erat  injusta,  invalida,  ^y^^  against 

et  sacns  canonicis  omnino  contraria  ;  ac  etiam,  quia  alias  propter  sua  canons,  and 

enormia  delicta   alias   perpetrata   promisit   se  resignare  beneticium  benfgce  b  f 

suum,  quod  etiam  eandem  vicariam,  citra  festum  assumptionis  Beataa  next  Lady- 

Marise  proximum  futurum,  resignabit,  aut  permutabit  etc;  sub  poena     '" ' 

privationis. 

p.    134.      Quinto  die  mensis  Augusti   Anno   Domine  m°  cccc™°  5  au"-.  1474. 

lxxiiii'°,  Dominus  Johannus  Warsopp,  Vicarius  choralis  in  Ecclesia  iP}^^ 

.  .  .  >»  arsopp, 

Collegiata  Beatas  Mariae  Suthwell,  monitus  erat  per   Reverendum  vicar  choral, 

virum  magistrum  Willelmum  Worsley  canonicum  Residentiarium  ^ofies  Sayn- 

ejusdera  ecclesise,  pro  eo,  quud  notatus  erat  super  crimine  fornica-  ton,  warned 

tionis  cum  Agnete  Saynton,  primo,  secundo,  et  tertio,  peremptorie, 

quod  de  cetero  vitaret  consortium  ejusdem  in  locis  pr^esertim  sus- 

CAMD.  soc.  D 


18  VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 

A.D.  1474-5. 
from  her  pectis;  sub  poena  suspensionis   ab  officio   ct  bcneficio  suis  in  dicta 

company,         ecclcsia,  iuxta  statuta  eiusdem. 

under  btatute.  ...  . 

2U  Sept.  1475.       Vicesimo  die  mensis  Septeinbris  anno  domini  millesinio  cccc'"° 

ton^(TApics)'  lxx™°  quinto,  coram  magistro  Willelmo   Worseley    legum  doctorc 

vonvicted  by     canonico  Residentiario  Ecclesiae  CoUegiatjE  Beatae  Mariae  Suthwell, 

reputation  .        ,  .     ,      .      .       ,  •      ^  -i  t       r     • 

with  Warsopp,  1"  domo  capitulari  ejusdem  capatulum  publico  laciente,  comparuit 

condemned  to   personaliter  Cristina  Saynton   de  Suthwell  praedicto;  et  obioctum 
do  penance        ^  .„...  .  ...  . 

by  walking       erateidcm,  quod  in  fornicationis  amplexibus  notorie  vivit  cum  Domino 

ruMin'^in*^^^  Johanne  Warsopp,  Vicuiio  chorali  dictae  ecclesiae,  unde  oritur  in 
procession  ecclesia  scandalum  manifestum :  ct  quia  dictum  crimen  adeo  notorium 
before  the  i  ii       ^        •  •  •  i     •  c 

Cross  with  a     erat,  quod    nulla    tergiversatione    possit    celan,  praelatus    magister 

wax  caudle,      WiHelmus  Worselev  iniunxit  eidem,  pro  suis  commissis  et  notoriia 

value  Id.,  in  ,  •         t   i 

her  hand,  bare  delictis  cum  praetato  Johanne,  poenam  salutarem ;  viz.  quod  per  tres 

and  only  a^^'  ^^^^  dominicales  proximos  futures  incedat  eadem  Agnes  publice  in 

loose  un-  processionibus  cum  crucem    ferente,  cum    cereo    in    manu    sua    ad 

ment  on  and  pretium  l'^,  nudis  pedibus  et  tibiis,  tunica  soluta  duntaxat  induta, 

a  towel  on  p^^^  flammeola*  soluta  super  capite  suum.*^ 

her  head.  ....     1              i     •       a             t^        •    •       -h     • 

Same  day  p.  ]  35.     Dicto  vicesimo  die  Septembris  Anno  Domini  millesimo 

Warsoiip  for    cccc™°.  Ixx.  quinto,  Magister  Willelmus  Worsley,  legum  Doctor,  in 

same  offence,    domo  capitulari  ejusdem  capitulum  publice  faciens,  articulavit  contra 

from  office  and  Dominum  Johannem  Warsopp,  vicarium  choralem  dictie  ecclcsiaj,  in 

benefice.  domo  capitulari  ejusdem   personaliter  comparentem,  quod  piu'fatus 

Dominus  Johannes  Warsopp;  pro  eo,  quod  sajpe,  saepius,  et  ssepissime, 

contra  honestatem  ecclesise  frequentavit  loca  suspecta  cum  Agnete 

Saynton,  quod  amplius    de  cetero  praefatus  dominus  Johannes    se 

absentaret  a  consortio  dicta6  Agnetis  in  locis  suspectis,  et  vitaret 

omnino  consortium   ejusdem,   ecclesia    et  foro    duntaxat   exceptis; 

alias  publice  inonitus  erat,  primo  secundo  et  tertio,  peremptorie  sub 

pcena  statuti  ecclesiai  quod  sic  incipit,  "  si  propter  inconiinentiam  ": 

praimissis  monitionibus  factis  non  obstantibus  Quia  praefatus  Dominus 

Johannes  statuto  ecclesicC  non  obtemperavit;    et  saepe,  saapius,   et 

sajpissime,  monitue  primo,  secundo  ct  tertio,  peremptorie  consortium 

»  I  owe  the  translation  of  this  to  Father  Gasquct,  wlio  found  in  Coram  Kcge 
Rolls,  Mich,  term,  1  Kdw.  VI.  ni.  128,  a  case  about  detention  i)r  theft  of  some  linen, 
&c.  inter  alia,  "  vigiuti  quatuor  flauimolas  vocatas  plcyuc  towclls." 

b  Sic. 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTEE.  19 

A.D.  1475. 
dictae    Agnetis    non   vitaverat,  sed    in    scandalum    ecclesiffi    seepius 
frequentavit  Idcirco  praefatus  magister  Willelmus  Worseley  dictum 
Dominum  Johannes  Warsopp  ab  officio  et  beneficio  suis  in  dicta 
ecclesia  publice  suspendebat. 

Eodem  die  et  dictis  die  et  loco,  coram  prsefato  Magistro  Willehno  The  same  day 
Worsley  cumparuit  personaliter  Dominus  Willelmus  Betbank,  et  Betbank,  after 
obiectum  erat  eidem  quod  pr^fatus  Dominus  Willelmus  alias  contra  ^bree  warn- 

•^  1  r  ^  ^  ings,  sus- 

monitionera  sibi  factam  primo  secundo  et  tertio  peremptorie,  suspecte  pended  for 
frequentavit  consortium   Caterinae  Bexwyk,  in  scandalum  ecclesise  S\"!i"com- 
manifestum  ;    et  quia  prasfatus  Dominus  Willelmus,  obstinaci  animo,  pany  with- 
in contsmptum  manifestum  monitionibus  alias  legitime  sibi  juxta  Bexwyk. 
statuta   ecclesiai  factis  non  obtemperavit,  sed  consortium  ejusdem 
frequentavit,  prasfatus  igitur  Magister  Willelmus  Worsley  prcefatum 
Willelmum  Betbank  ab  officio   et    beneficio  suis  in  dicta  ecclesia 
publice  suspendebat. 

Eodem  die  mensis  Septembris  in  domo  capitulari  ejusdem  prsefatus  The  same  day 
Magister  Willelmus  Worsley,  capitulum  publice  faciens,  Dominum  ^'orton,  after 
Willelmum  Xorton,  vicarium  choralem,  dictas  ecclesias,  quia  consor-  ^^^^^  ^g"^"^' 
tium  Isabellse  Dryng  contra  statuta  ecclesiae  et  monitiones  alias  sibi  peudedfor 

T        ^   ,      ,.  •       c     ^  1    i*         •        •  •  consortino- 

primo  secundo  et  tertio  peremptorie  iactas^  obstinaci  annuo  m  con-  ^yith  Isabella 

temptum  ecclesise  manifestum  dictam  mulierem  frequentavit,  eundem  Dryng. 

Dominum   Willelmum  Norton  a  suis  officio  et   beneficio  in   dicta 

ecclesia  publice  suspendebat. 

p.  136.    Cum  nuper  Dominus  Willelmus  Xorton,  vicarius  cboralis  25 Sept.Norton 
,.,.,,.  ,  .  ^  J  submits  to 

liujus  ecclesiffi  coilegiatge,  ut  superius  maniieste  patet,  pro  eo,  quod  grace  of 

loca  suspecta  cum  Isabella  Dryng  contra  monitiones  primo  secundo  Chapter,  is 

et  tertio  peremptorie  sibi  factas  per  venerabilem  virum  Magistrum  adhere  to 

Willelmum   Worsley  legum  doctorem   Canonicum   Kesidentem,   in  ^^^^l^  suspect, 

scandalum  ecclesia   obstinaciter  frequentavit,  in  animas   sujb   grave  and  to  abstain 
,       .  ,   T  .r  r  AT      •  TT7M    from  her 

detrimentum  et   scandalum    manifestum;    prselatus    Magister    VVil- society,  church 

lelmus    Worsley    eundem    Dominum    Willelmum    Xorton    P^'op^er  ^^^^^'^J^j'^^^*^^ 
hujus   sua    demerita   rebelliones    et    contemptus   a    suis   pfficio   et  to  carry  him- 
beneficio  in  hac  ecclesia  suspenderit  palam  publice   et  in  scriptis,  ^on^^abty 
justitiaid  poscente:  dictus  tamen  dominus  Willelmus  Xorton  pro  suis  towards  all  the 
-  .  .  ,  .,.,...  J.  •      o      i.  ministers  of 

dementis  multum  contritus  humili  spu'itu  xxv  die  mensis  beptem-  ^jjg  church, 

bris  extunc  proximo   sequenti,  coram  prsefato  Magistro   Willelmo  especially  the 


20  VISITATIONS   AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MINSTER. 

A.D.  1475. 
wardens,  on  AVorsley  Capitulum  publice  faciente,  in  domo  capitulari  gracise 
I^amo  expu-  (j^^pj^^j-  g^  submisit  offerens  sc  facturum  pro  suis  demerids 
penitentias  salutares  sibi  canonice  injungendas ;  preefatus  igitiir 
magister  Willelmus  Worsley  Quia  ecclesia  nulli  claudit  grcmium, 
praefatum  Dominum  Willelmum  Norton  de  gracia  speciali  prgefatum 
Dominum  Willelmum  Norton  de  perimplendo  subscriptas  peni- 
tentias* juratum  canonice  sibi  injunctas  ad  sua  officium  et  beneficium 
pristina  restituit,  per  decretum  injungendo  praefato  Domino 
Willelmo,  primo  quod  ipse  praefatae  Isabellae  Dryng  locis  suspectis 
non  adhgereat  et  se  ab  eadem  in  oinni  loco,  ubi  suspicio  aliquis  orin 
potest,  se  abstineat,  ecclesia  et  foio  duntaxat  exceptis  ;  et  quod 
praefatus  dominus  Willelmus  bene  et  honeste  gerat  se  penes  omnes 
dictaB  ecclesias  ministros  et  preesertim  dictae  ecclesise  custodes;  sub 
poena  suspensionis  ab  officio  et  bene6cio  suis  in  dicta  hac  ecclesia, 
nunquam  in  eventu  rei,  si  contra  preemissa  deliquerit,  ad  officium  et 
beneficium  sua  in  hac  ecclesia  admittendus,  sed  ab  eisdem  totaliter 
expellendus. 

VisiixVTiON  or  1475. 

Visitation  by        p.  253. — Visitatio  ministrorum  ecclesise  Suthwell  inchoata  2°  die 
^^apter  _    c  .  jj^gyjgjg  Qctobris  Anno  Domini  m^cccc^^lxxquinto. 

Stephen  Clerk       Detectum  est  primo  in  hac  visitatione  quod  dominus  Stephanus 
detected  for       ^,.    ,  .      ^  .      ,  ,  .  . 

shirking  Clerk  pro  majore  parti  absentat  se  ter  vel  quater  in  septimana  a 

matins  and  the  rnatutinis,  nec  consuete  celebrat  missas  cantariarum  ad  quas  obli- 
masses  of  his  '  ^ 

ohanntry,         gatur,  et  communis    frequentator   est   tabernarum,    nec   venit    ad 
frequenting:  •         i.       •  i   i       .. 

taverns,  and     prcciosa,"  missam  raro  celebrat: 

Chapter  '  There  is  an  /  written  here,  pro1)al)l_v  for  inratum  whiili  is  required  to  eonipletc 

the  sense. 

''  I'reciosa  is  a  vcrsiclc  and  response  (V.  Prcciosa  in  conspectu  Domini.  R.  mors 
sanctorum  ejus)  at  the  end  of  the  reading  of  the  Martyrohtgy  after  I'rime,  which 
took  i)lace  in  cathedral  and  collegiate  churches  in  the  Chapter  House.  Maskell,  Mon. 
Rit.  I.  clxxi.  quotes  Lichfield  consuetudinary:  "  Pnlsata  vero  Prima  statim  dicatur 
hora  in  choro.  Qua  finita  chorus  capitulum  intrct  ct  ibi  Icgatur  Martyrologium. 
P<»st  fcquatur  Prcciosii  cum  suis  oratiouibus."  "  quibus  pcractis  silcant  oniiics  donee 
dignior  persona  quaj  in  capitulo  fuerit.dicat '  Bencdictus,'  et  respondeanf  Dominus,' 
et  sic  nrgofia  trartentnr  qua:  in  capitulo  fuerint  tract  a  tula."'  The  offence  was, 
therefore,  not  merely  shirking  a  service  but  also  the  business  meeting  of  the  Chapter. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  21 

A.D.  1475. 

vi*°  die  Octobris  comparet  personaliter  dictus  dominus  Stephanus  G  Oct.  pleads 

coram  Magistro  Willelmus  Worsley  legum  doctore  Canonico  Resi-  Ameudment 

dentiario  dictaa  ecclesi^,  et  dictos  articulos  divisim  prsefato  Stephano  enjoined  on 

expositos    idem    Stephanus    fatetur.      Praaceptum    est   eidem  quod  susi^eusion. 

similes  defectus  emendet  et  suam  neglio-enciam  corrigat  et  prseser-  William 

.  .  .  °..  °  ^  Norton  habitu- 

tim  quod  vacet  divmis,  et  inserviat  cantariis  ad  quas  obligatur;  sub  ally  shirks 

poena  suspensionis  ab  officio  et  beneficio  suis  in  dicta  ecclesia,  juxta  j^" ™g  '^" 

statuta  ecclesise.  common 

Dominus  Willelmus  Norton  consuete  absentat  se  a  prima,  et  aliis  choir,  a 

horis  canonicis,   et   etiam  plerisque  tempore    divinorum  non    con-  '^o'"™^"  ribald 
.    ,  .    .    .  .,  .  and  scurrilous 

stanter  invigilat  divinis,  sed  exit  a  choro  et  redit  tempore  vesperarun  talker  among 

sexties  vel  pluries;   communis  garrulator  est  in  choro  tempore  divi-  reveals  {he 

norum;   communis  rebaldus  est  scurilia  proferens  inter  laicos,   in  secrets  of 

opprobrium  clericorum  ;    et  multitotiens  absentat   ?e   a  preciosa,  et  hall  and  the 

revelat  secreta  domus  vicarlorum  et  capituli.  ut  creditur,  in  domo  ^°^Ptcrin 

Henry  13ury  s 
Hcnrici  Bury.  house. 

vi^'^  die  mensis  Octobris  prgeceptum  est  per  praefatum  Magistrum  6  Oct.  ordered 

W.  Worsley  dicto  Domine  Willelmo  Norton  quod  diligencius  vacet  *°  amend. 

divinis  in  choro^et  quod  honeste  se  gerat,tam  moribus,  quam  gestura, 

scurilia  non  proferens  inter  laicos  ;    et  ceteros  defectus  emendet  de 

cetero ;    sub  poena  suspensionis  ab  officio  et  beneficio  suis  secundum 

statuta  ecclesiee. 

Dominus   Tliomas  Ledenam  communis  frequentator  tabernarum,  I-edenam,  common 
,  ,    .  ,       ,  ^    ^  ,     .  ,,....     frequenter  of  taverns, 

pierumque  ebrius  contra  honestatem  clericorum,  nee  vacat  divinis  m  often  drunk, shirks 

choro,  et  non  celebrat  pro  cantariis  pro  quibus  iuratus  est.  choir,  and  chantry 

.      i  p  ,        .         rni  masses. 

Praeceptum  est  y[^°  Oct.  prasfato  domino  Thoma3  quod  emendet  6  Oct.  ordered  to 

praemissos  defectus;    omnes   et   singulos,  sub  poena  suspensionis   ab  ™^'^'^''- 

officio  et  beneficio,  ut  supra. 

Dominus  Johannes  Bull   suspecte   et  tempore  suspecto  frequen-  John  Bull,  since 

tavit,  citra  festum  Natalis  Domini  ultimum,  domum  Agnetis  Saynton  eioiisk  frequents" 

in  tantum  quod  videbatur  a  convicinis  dictus  Johannes  exire  ortum  Agnes  Saynton,  seen 
-,.  _  ,  .      .  .  ,       .  .  leaving  her  garden 

dictae    Johannae    circiter    primam     pulsationem    matutinarum;    nee  at " fir.st  peal"  for 

celebrat  pro  cantariis,  pro  quibus  obligatur,  et  diffiimatur  cum  Mar-  "jj^*"^^'."!*^^^^^  ^^^ 
gareta   uxore  poticarii ;  praeceptum  est  x  die    Oct  pr^fato  Johanni  diffamcd  with 
quod  emendet  prajmitsos  defectus  sub  pa3na  suspensionis  ab  otficio  the^fpotVecaiy.^ 
et  beneficio  suis.  Ordered  to  amend. 


A.D. 1475. 

lests  not  observed 
a  the  psalms. 

inolles  shirks 
natins  and  prime, 
leeps  at  matins  two 
(r  three  times  a 
veek,  suspiciously 
requents  house  of 
Fane  Cook  :  9  Oct. 
irdered  not  to  go  to 
lane  Cook's  house 
xcept  with  honest 
)ersons. 

iobert  Button  shirks 
natins  and  prime. 
;^hauntry  chaplains 
hirk  Treciosa. 


^ustans  and  Bar- 
borp  shirk  choir, 
t  Oct.  Custans 
)rdered  to  attend 
m  pain  of  law. 
rykkyll  shirks  choir, 
loes  business  on 
east  days,  neglects 
[lis  chauntry. 
I  Oct.  ordered  to 
imeud. 

John  Warsopp  shirks 
)rime  and  hours  : 
irdered  to  amend. 

John  Gregory  shirks 
choir,  negligent  as 
Sacristan,  does  not 
deep  in  the  church, 
QCglects  the  vestry 
iind  the  plate  there. 
Richard  Sledmere 
unlawfully  plays  at 
ball. 

10  Oct.  ordered  to 
amend. 


22  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEE. 

Nota  generaliter : 

Ministri  ecclesia;  non  pausisant  psalmodiam  in  clioro. 

Dominus  Xicholaus  Knolles  vacat  minime  matutinis  et  prima;,  et 
dormit  matutinis  ter  vel  quater  in  septimana ;  et  suspecte  frequentat 
domum  Johanna^  Cook: 

Prajceptum  est  ix  Octobris  quod  dictus  Kicliolaus  melius  vacet 
divinis,  et  quod  emendet  se  in  prsemissis,  et  non  frequentet  domum 
dictaj  Johannaj  suspecte  nisi  cum  honestis  personis ;  sub  poena  sus- 
pensionis  ab  officio  et  beneficio  suis  in  dicta  ecclesia. 

p.  254. — Dominus  Robertus  Button  absenlat  se  niultitotiens  a 
matutinis  et  a  prima. 

Nota  generaliter: 

Capellani  cantarialcs  non  veniunt  ad  preciosa. 

Dominus  Willelmus  Custans,  Dominus  Willelmus  Barthorp,  ab- 
sentant  se  multitotiens  a  divinis  in  choro:  praeceptum  est  Domino 
W.  Custans  ix  Octobris  quod  melius  vacet  divinis,  sub  poena  juris. 

Dominus  Thomas  Tykhyll  non  vacat  divinis  in  choro ;  et  utatur 
negotiationibus  in  diebus  festivis;  nee  custodit  curam  suam,  viz, 
curam  Cantarise  suae:  ix  Octobris  praeceptum  est  dicto  Domino 
Thomas  quod  emendet  praemissos  dcfectus,  sub  poena  juris. 

Dominus  Johannes  Warsopp  non  vacat  divinis,  et  pra^scrtim 
primai  et  horis:  praeceptum  eidem  Johanni,  ix  Octobris,  quod  se 
emendet,  sub  poena  juris. 

Dominus  Johannes  Gregory  non  vacat  divinis  in  choro,  sed 
plerisque  absentat  se  a  divinis;  et  non  diligenter  custodit  curam 
sacristaria^  ^  suae,  et  jacet  extra  ecclesiam,  et  multum  negligens  est  in 
custodia  vestibuli  et  jocalium  ibidem. 

Dominus  Ricardus  Sledmer  illicitc  ludit  ad  speram :  x.  Octobris 
praeceptum  est  quod  se  emendet. 

"  The  sacrista  was  one  of  the  canons.  His  office  was  the  same  as  that  of  the 
thesaurarius  of  most  cathedrals.  lie  was  not  bursar  but  sexton,  and  his  duty  was 
to  take  care  of  the  treasures,  or  plate,  jewels,  and  robes  of  the  church.  By  a  statute 
made  after  a  vi.sitation  by  John,  Ardiliishop  of  York,  A.D.  12'J3,  which  shows  the 
ancient  and  persistent  way  the  duty  was  neglected,  he  was  ordered  always  to  sleep 
(jacerc)  in  the  church,  ct  secundum  orlogium  debitis  pulset  horis.  Of  course  ho 
"  devilled  "  his  duties,  and  ciiually  of  course  the  "  devil  "  neglected  them. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OP  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEK.  23 

A.D.  1475. 
p.  255.— Secundus  Mery :«  Detectum  est  quod  Dominus  AVillelmus  '^^^'^'^'"  Betbauk 
TD.iih--  •  c    •  T  11  11  accused  of  adminis- 

rJetbank  "  ministrari  lecit  succus  diversarum  herbarum  ad  destruen- tering  noxious  herbs 

durn  foetus  cum  quo  impregnata  erat  Katerina  Bexwyk''  ex  ipsius  for  a^n  unlawfJir^^'' 
generatione:  x.  Oct    comparet  dictus  Willelmus,  ncgat  articulum,  P^^Pose. 
?   ,     ^  .  ,  -  ^1  '  ^^  O'^t-  denies  the 

nabet  crastmum  ad  purganduin  se  cum  sua  sexta  manu.  charge. 

Quo  die  adveniente  dictus  Dominus  Willelmus  canonice  purgavit  ^^  Oct.  canomcally 
^  r      o  purges  himself  by 

cum  sua  sexta  manu.*'  six  witnesses. 

Nomina  purgatorum  Stephanus  Clerk. 

Kobertus  Webster. 

Johannes  Gregor. 

Thomas  Lednam. 

Nicholaus  Knolles. 

Laurentius  Litster. 

Atones  Saynton  "^  impregnata  est,  secundum  famam  publicam.  Agnes  Sayntou's 

"   .  •'  .   .  ....  .      ,     character. 

Tertius  Sledmyr:  Dicit  quod  habitatio  vicariorum   non  erit  in 

bona  fama,  dummodo  Betbank  ipse  permanserit  in  eadem.  rr^,    .     , 

'  .       . .  ,  .  .       The  byelaws  of  tlie 

Detectum  est  quod  vicarii  habent  qusedam  statuta  localia,  etdelin-  vicars  choral  are  not 

quentes  contra  eadem  non  puniuntur;  et  ideo  in  necligencia  eorum  ^°  ^rcec. 

capitulum  habent  interesse,  ne  crimina  remaneant  impunita.  ^,  ^  , 

\  '  r    ,.  ,  The  secrets  of  the 

W arsopp  Quartus :  Detectum  est  quod  secreta  capituh  et  domus  chapter  and  the 

vicariorum   revelantur  in  villa,  et  prtesertim   domo  Isabellee  Bury,  ^[(Un IsabdL-TB     -'s 
aut  per  Dominos  Willehnum  Norton,   Johannem  Mery,  uut  Doml-  house,  by  Norton, 

rrii  T    J  Mery,  or  Ledeuam. 

num  Ihomam  JLedenam. 

Quintus,  Shyrburn. 

p.  256.  6,  Norton:   Omnia  bene. 

"  Mery  is  the  person  examined  who  makes  this  charge.  The  numbers  are  in  the 
margin  of  the  original,  showing  the  order  in  which  the  persons  were  called.  They 
are  written,  except  ix  and  x  in  Arabic  characters,  up  to  number  5  with  "  us  "  added. 

•*  As  to  Betbank  and  Katharine  Bexwyk,  see  p.  19. 

"  The  old  legal  system  of  establishing  the  innocence  of  an  aecused  person  by 
bringing  "  compurgators "  or  witnesses  to  character  continued  in  Ecclesiastical 
Courts  even  up  to  the  lleformation.  The  value  of  the  system  at  this  date  may  be 
judged  by  the  fact  that  S.  Clerk  was  himself  convicted  of  his  own  confession,  at  the 
same  visitation  of,  inter  alia,  being  a  frequenter  of  taverns  (p.  253)  ;  Ledenam  of 
the  same,  as  well  as  being  often  drunk,  while  Knolles  "  suspecte  frequentat  domum 
Johaunae  Cooke." 

^  See  entry  as  to  John  Bull  above,  p.  21,  and  as  to  Warsopp  p.  18. 


24  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

A.D. 1475. 

The  chantry  Bull:   Personoi  cantarlales  non  attendunt  ad  precentorem   cliori 

attend  to  the  in  cantando. 

chauiiiiuff!"  Stephamis  ix:  Dominus  Stephanus"  conqucrltur  quod  non  solvltur 

Stephen  docs  stipendium  suum  sed  magister  Edmundus  Warter  est  a  retro,  xl  s., 

not  set  his  .     •      r,     -^r        •     •  r,  I-- 

stipend  paid,    pvo  terininis  S.  Martini  et  Pentecostse  ultimis  proeteritis. 

but  Mr.  E.  8   Lednam:  Omnia  bene. 

Warter  is  in  •         t  •        i    <• 

arrear  408.  for      xus  Dyson :  ^on    solvitur   eidem    stipendium    suum  in    defectu 

past.'^""^  ^^^  magistri  Lacy,  Prcbendarii  de  Wodborougli,  maglstri  sui. 

Dyson's  sti-  Webster  :   omnia  bene, 

pend  in  arrear.  , , 

There  is  only        ^  ota  generaliter : 

one  gradale  Betbank:  Ministri  Ecclesia2  non  vacant  divinis,  proesertim    Testis 

on  the  north  ...  .  . 

and  two  on       Pentecostse  et  in  diebus  sinodalibus. 

onhrchoTr'!^        Pticardus  Smytli :  Non  est  nisi  unum  gradule  ^'  ex  parte  boreali 

et  ex  parte  australi  duo. 

Grcgor:  Omnia  bene.      Penkitli :  Omnia  bene. 

258.— Blank. 

Rooper'ssti-         259. — Roper:    Hooper  conqueritur  quod  non  habet  stipendium 

i)end  in  arrear.  .  .       ,    „  •,    i- 

The  Ilcb-         suuin  pro  alino  mtegro  m  detectu  capituli. 

domadary  a-q^.^  generaliter : 

tardy  in  choir,  ^  ^  .  . 

and  the  Ebdomodarius '^  communiter  non   est  in   choro    post  completam 

c-hm"/ also '^^^    pulsationeui ;  nee  Rectores  chori  veniunt  temporibus  preescriptis,  sed 

tarda  ad  divina  in  choro  celebrant. 
Bull  assaulted       Dominus  Johannes   Bull   injecit  manus  violentas  in  Dominum 
Gregory'laid     Johannem  Gregor;    et  idem   Dominus  Johannes  Gregor  insidiatus 
in  wait  to         j^gj.  j)o,y)ino  Johanni  Bull  ad  percutiendi'.m  eum  in  ecclesia  ;    et  ista 
assault  him  in  .  *^  •  t\       ■  -t   ^  •    ni 

tlie  church,       delicta  nou  puniuntur :  prseceptum   dicto  Domino  Johanni    Gregor 

had  becii^'^'^  ^-  Octobris,  quod  solvat  xxs.,  citra  festum  Natalis  Domini  proximum 
punished.  futurum,  pro  istis  dclictis,  si  alitor  cum  Vicariis  non  concordct,  et 
Gregory  quod  se  abstiiicat  ab  hujus  modi  manuum  injectione  in  confratres  sues, 

urdered  to 

pay  20k.  fine  "  Stephen  was  a  vicar  choral,  and  his  pay  was,  like  that  of  all  the  vicars'  ohorali 

unless  the^  ^    ^^  ^  year,  paid  it  would  seem  (juarterly,  by  the  canon  whose  vicar  he  was.     The 

vicars  choral  as  a  body  had  common  estates  of  their  own  as  well. 

'•The   "gradale"    was   (Smith's   Diet.  Christ.   Antiq.)    the   "  Grayl,"  or   book 

containing  all  the  "  graduals  "  for  the  year,  and  generally  all  the  choral  parts  of 

the  mass.    The  graduals  propers  were  tiie  antiicms  sung  after  the  epistle. 

"  The  El)domodarius  was  the  person  whose  duty  it  was  to  officiate  as  priest  in 

the  services  for  a  week. 


icars  let  him 
off 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  25 

A.D.  1475. 
sub  poena  suspensionis  ab  officio  et  beneficio  suis  in  dicta  ccclesia :  ^"orton  and 

, .  ,        .  r   ,  .  ,         ,  .  ....  Gregory  struck 

prasceptum   est   uicto   domino   Johanni  quod  solvat  vi*.  viir.  pro  each  other  in 

hujus  modi,  nisi  quatenus  contigerit  eum  consocii  sui  "^  the  chapter 

Dominus  Williamus  Norton  manus  injecit  violentas  in  dominum  Gregorystruck 

Johannem  Gregor  in  domo  capitulari,  et  idem  Dominus  Johannes  tjje  -^p^^  [^ 

similimodo  percussit  Dominum  Wilhelmum  Norton  in  eadem  domo.  the  vicar's 
T^        •  T   1  />.  -1  -TT.        •  .     ,-.        .    hall  and  drew 

Dommus  Johannes  (jregor  in  domo  Vicariorum  percussit  Domi- blood:  and 

num  Johannem  Warsopp  super  capite,   in   tantum  quod   sanguinis  is!(|-*^^.^'^ 

efFusio  sequebatur.  Burys  house, 

Dominus   Joliannes    Gregor    in    domo    Isabella    Bury,  quasi    in  ),.^yg  i^jued 

promto  erat  levandi  baculum,  percutiendo    Dominum    W.   Norton  ^"'"  ^^  *^®  ^'^^ 

.      ,    .      .         ,  .  .  .  .  ,.  ,.         not  prevented 

quasi  ad  ipsius  destructionem,  nisi  quatenus  opus  impedierat  dicta  the  deed. 

I-bella  Bury.  ;jj-^°^f 

Pro  custodibus  ecclesise.  properly  kept, 

Cimiterium     non    honeste    custoditur    sed     animalia    deturpant  animals. 

cimiterium  in  defectu  custodum  Ecclesie:  prseceptum  est  dictis  cus-  Norton, 

todibus  quod  cimiterium  honeste  custodiunt  ab  illicitis  animalibus  Bielby,  owes 

sub  poena  iuris.  ^r^^f/^^f^ 

.  -r  .....  J.Hyll,mattins 

Dominus   W.   Norton    executor   Domini    Ricardi    Bielby   debet  priest,  ought 

Domino  Johanni  Gregor  pro  residencia  j\Iagistri  Hardy ng  viiis.  aU  he  receives 

Bull  bonus  sectator  chori:  Penkith  idem.  from  his 

p.  260. — Detectum  est  in  hac  visitatione  quod  dominus  Johannes  beyond  ten 

Hyll,     presbyter    matutinalis.    per    compositionem    suam,    omnem  ™1f''^^_^/°  ^^^ 

pecuniam  quam  dictus  Johannes  de  redditibus  dictai  suae  canturiai  i  Oct.'shewed 

ultra   X.  inarcas  recipit,  debet  computare  exinde  consociis  suis:   ^i  a^.^ordino- to ' 

Octobris  comparet  dictus  Dominus  Johannes  et  exhibuit  Capltulo  which  he  is 
, .  .  .  .  .  .  1-1  to  account  to 

dict^  cantariae  compositionem,  ratione  cujus  tenetur  dare  mde  com-  ti^g  chapter 

potum  capitulo  et  nulli  alii,  unde  idem  Dominus  Johannes  suscepit  ^"*-^- 

in  se  onus  computandi  de  receptis  dictse  cantariae  omni  anno  capi -  that  Helia's 

.^1  J  •    ..  said  that  all 

tulo  prffidlCtO.  the  proceeds  of 

Idem  dicit  Button.  his  chauntry 

■r>  T^-    •  11-  TT   T         T    •  1  •  •     beyond  ten 

Baxter :  Dicit  quod  dominus  Helias   dixit  quoa  omnis  pecunia  Quarks  ought 

procedens  de  cantaria  sua  ultra  x  marcas  debet  applicari  ad  repa- 1<^  go  to  repairs 
rationem    domorum    cantariae    et    ad    utilitatem    sociorum    ibidem  try  priests' 

A  .•  ball, 

aegentium. 

"  This  entry  is  apparently  unfinished. 
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26  VISITATIONS  AXD  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

A.D.  1475. 

and  the  benefit      Helias  :  Dicit  quod   Dominus   Johannes  Hyll  per  ordlnationem 
of  those  in  .  .  •  ,   ,  ,  i   i  i 

residence.         cantanae,  quam  ipse  quondam  possidebat,  ultra  x.  maicas,  debet  tie 

Ilelias  residue  dare  compotum  consoclis  dictaj  cantarise. 

connrms  this.  r 

Barthorp  says       Barthorp:  Dicitquod  Dominus  Xicliolaus  Knolles,ratione  cantariae 

ou"-ht  to  pay  suae,  debet  dare  annuatim  cantarioe  Sancti  Johannis  Baptistae  iis.  et 

~h'  ^l^^^  *^  ^^^  ^  retro  per  xi  annos:  et  dictus  iste  articulus  remittitur  arbitrio  et 

of  John  judicio  Thoinse  Molineux  ut  ipse  determinct  quam  cito  poterit. 
1^  deven^"^  Knolles  :  Dicit  quod  dictus  John  H^^ll  per  ordinationem  cantariaj 

in  aiTear.  suae  omnem  pecuniam  quam  recipit,  ultra  x  marcas,  debetur  reddcre 
Referred  to  ••         •        i  x-  i- 

arbitration.  tonsocus  suis  ad  reparationem  et  aha. 

Knolles  ought       Detectum  est  etiam  quod  idem  Nicholaus  Knolles  deberet  recipere 

to  receive  ^-         -,        •   ,  •    i     i  -,    ,   tt 

4s.  6d.  a  year    ^^nuatim  de  vieanis  mis.  vid.  pro  tenemento  quo  inhabitat  Horst- 

from  vicars      how  et  sunt  a  retro  per  xi   annos:   remittitur  arbitrio  et   iudicio 
choral  for  ^p,  ,,   ,.  ^  "^ 

Horsthow's       Ihomae  Molineux. 

SheTare  elUu      P'  261.— Tykhill.  Ilyll.  Brukschaw:   Dominus  Nicholaus  Knolles 

3-earsinarrear.  non  servat  cursum  in  processione  sicut  alii. 

arbitration.  Nicholaus  Knolles  daret  annuatim  cantariae  Beatie  Marias  viii  d. 

Knolles  does     et  est  a  retro  per  ix  annos. 

not  keep  .  i.  , 

course  in  Dominus  Xicholaus  Knolles  adulter  cum  uxore  Johannis  Cook. 

throSers-''^^      jMagister   Willelmus    Worseley    in    hac    visitatione    dispensavit 

ought  to  pay    cum  Domino  Laurencio  Brukschaw  pro  prima,  quod  possit  abesse, 

thechauntryof  causa  celebracionis  missye*  BeataeMariae  cum  nota,  ad  reficiendum  se 

the  Virgin,  is  cum  potu  et  cibariis  si  res  exi^it,  non  obstante  iuramento  suo  in 
nine  years  in  '  .  °  "^ 

:irrear;  is  an      contrarium. 
iidultcrer  with        ^    OAO        "Rl  ,,,U 
the^vifeof  p.  262.— Blank. 

John  Cook.  p.  263. — XX  die  mensis  Octobris  a.d.  millesimo  cccc™"  Ixx  quinto 

grants  dispen-  coram   Reverendo  viro  Magistro  Willelmo  \V.  Worseley,  Canonico 

nation  to  Residentiario  Ecclcsiae  Collcf'iatae  Beata;  ]\Iaria3  Southwell,  in  domo 

JjiinrcncG 

Brukschaw       capitulari  ibidem,  comparet  personaliterRicardus  Bruch,et  viva;  vocis 

refrcsM"i'msdf  ^"^  oraculo,  dicit,  allegat,  et  in  jus  proponit,  quod  cum  apud  bonos 

with  food  and   et  graves,  penes  quos  prius  extitit  bona)  famae  et  opinionis,  macula 

singing  Our     inlamiae   nequiter   est   aspersus    per    dominos    Nicholaum    Knolles 

Lady's  mass.'   qi  Willelmum  Bekbank,  capellanos  in  dicta  ecclcsia,  super  eo,  quod 

idem   Ricardus  literas  nuper  de  falso  ex  rancoris  Ibnte'^   labricaret 

•  The  Lady  Mass  followed  immediately  after  Trinic. 
''  It  is  written  "  fouutc." 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OP  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  27 

A.D.  1-175. 

ad  indlctari  faciendum  felonise  coram  Justiciariis  Domini  Regis  ad  20  Oct.  1475, 
T  1  .       .  ...  .      .     llichard  Bruch 

pacem     conservandam    deputatis,  in    sessionibus'^    nuper   tentis   in  complains  of 

Suthwell,  Dominos  Willelmum  Norton    W.   Shyrburn  Johannem  ^'"'"''^'' '^•^' 

Warsopp,  et  W.   Bekbank,  vicarios  chorales  in  dicta  ecclesia,   ac  Bekbank, 

Nicli™  Knolles  Laurentium  Brukcliaw  et  W.  Barthop,  capellanos  in  heTld^causeJ 

eadem    ecclesia;    super   cujus    iniqua    diffamatione    idem    Ricardus  ttiem  to  be 

,■,..,  p     ,       f>  1      •      1  1     •  falsely  iiidicttd 

canonice  se  purgavit,  ut  dicit;  quare,  lacta  hde  in  hac  parte  de  jure  at  Southwell 
requisita,   petit  prafatus    Ricardus  dictum   Nicholaum   Knolles   et  ^^j^^io^^  f*^'" 
W.  Bekbank  propter  hujusmodi  falsi  criminis  impositionem  canonice  that  they 
purgari  et  excommunicari,  ac  pro  excommunicatis  denunciari  pub-  conimunk-ated 
lice,  judicialiter,  et  in  scriptis,  nee  non  in  expensis  factis  et  faciendis  ^^^'-^  P-^y  ^°^^^- 
condempnari,  ad  prsemissa  probanda  se  astringendo  qua)  sibi  sufficient 
in  hac  parte  et  non  alia. 

Eodem  die,  coram  prsefato  venerabili  viro,  comparent  personaliter  Joii^der  of 
dictus  Dominus  W.  Bekbank  et  Nicholaus  Knolles,  et  negant  petita 
prout  petuntur,  et  dicit  se  et  eorum  alteram  falsi  criminis  impo- 
sitionem ut  praefatur  non  imposuisse,  et  petita  fieri  non  debere 
animo  litis  contestanda,  et  prEestiterunt  juramentum  de  calumpnia  : 
hinc  inde  ex  utraque  parte  petit  prasfatus  Ricardus  terminum  com- 
petentem  sibi  assignari  ad  primo  producendum :  unde  ex  con- 
sensu partlum  datur  terminus  incontlnenter  parti  actrici  ad  primo 
producendum.  Et  idem  Ricardus  producit  primo  in  testem  Ricardum 
Smyth  capellanum. 

Ricardus    Smyth,  capellanus,  primus   testis  productus  in  quadam  Witnesses  for 
causa    difFamationis    inter    Ricardum    Bruch    de    Suthwell    partem  i.Smyth,chap- 

actricem  parte  ex  una,  et  Dominos  Nicholaum  Knolles  et  W.  Bekbank  lain,  says  he 

'  heard  Bekbank 

capellanos  partem  ream  parte  ex  altera,  bono3  famse,  neutrius  parcium,  say,  in  the 

&c.  (p.  264),  examinatus:  primo,  an  audivit  Dominum  Nicholaum  aftersupper, 

Knolles,  aut  W.   Bekbank,  difFamantem   de   falso  R.   Bruch,  super  t^^t  Bruch 

hoc,  quod  idem  Ricardus  de  falso  fabricaret  literas  ad  indictare  facien-  fo\-.Te  letters 

dos  capellanos  quoscumque  in  dicta  ecclesia,  dicit,  quod  non  audivit  ^^.V"^^^' 

chaplains. 
»  It  was  one  of  the  privileges  of  Southwell  Minster  that  the  Canons  and  Ministers  of 

the  Church  should  not  be  tried  before  the  King's  Justices  elsewhere  than  at  the  South 

door  of  the  Church.     Apparently,  therefore,  the  assizes  were  regularly  held  three. 


28 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 


A.D  147.- 


2.  Gurnell 
met  KnoDes 
one  day.who 
said  Bruch 
was  forging 
letters  to 
cause  Norton, 
Warsopp, 
I^ittcster,  and 
Knoiles  him- 
self, to  be 
indicted,  and 
gave  tbeni to 
the  under- 
sheriff,  but 
Byngham  took 
them  away, 
saying,  they 
had  been 
punished  by 
the  chapter, 
and  should  not 
be  punished 
twice. 


3.  Richard 
Penkith  was 
one  day  in 
Jane  Cook's 
house,  when 
Knoiles  said 
that  Bruch 
exhibited  a 
bill  at  the 
sessions  lately 
held  in  South- 
well to  indict 
four  vicars 
choral  and 


Dominum  N.  Knoiles,  sed  Doininum  W.  Bekbank,  dicentem  una  vice 
in  Auk  Vicariorum  quod  idem  Dominus  Willelmus  jurabatur  quod 
liicardus  Bruch  vellet  fabricare  aliquas  literas  ad  indictandos  ali- 
quos  capellanos;  cui  respondet,  ut  dicit,  ad  tunc  iste  juratus,  quod 
noluit  illud  probari,  et  extunc  incontinenter  respondet  pra^fatus 
Dominus  Willelmus  isti  jurato,  quod  voluit  praemissa  probari :  in- 
terrogatus  quo  die  praemissa  erant  conimunicata,  dicit  quod  in  aula 
vicariorum  sed  non  recolit  de  die:  interrogatus  quo  tempore  diei 
dixit,  quod  post  cenam. 

Magister  Thomas  Gurnell,  sec-undus  testis  productus  in  dicta 
causa,  vir  bonse  famae,  neutrius  partium  in  causa  litigancium 
consanguis,  familiaris,  domesticus,  vel  affinis,  admissus  juratus  et 
debite  examinatus,  prlmo  de  notitia  personarum ;  et  dicit  quod 
novit  Dominum  Nicholaum  Knoiles  per  xvi  annos,  et  Ricardum 
Bruch  per  xv  annos:  ulterius  examinatus,  dicit  idem  quodam  die,  de 
quo  iste  juratus  non  recolit,  quod  in  ecclesia  collegiata  praedicta  post 
matutinas  iste  juratus  dedit  obviam  Domino  Nicholao  Knoiles,  et 
idem  Xicholaus  dixit  isti  jurato,  quod  Ricardus  Bruch  fiibricavit  de 
falso  litteras  ad  indictari  faciendos  Dominos  W.  Norton  Jolianneni 
Warsopp  Laurentium  Littester  et  pra^fatum  Dominum  Nicholaum 
Knoiles,  fabricavit  et  tradidit  easdem  litteras  subvicecomiti  et  eas 
teneretin  mnnu  aliquamdiu,  quas  ad  tunc  in?pexit  Ricardus  Byngham 
Armigor,  et  a  subvicecomitc  eas  literas  subtraxlt,  dicentlo  idem,  pro 
eo  quod  prasdicti  erant  correct!  per  capitulum,  non  venient  itcrato 
puniendi  per  alios. 

p,  265. — Dominus  Ricardus  Penkith,  tertius  testis  productus  in 
causa,  consanguis  R.  Bruch  ut  asseruit,  productus  admissus,  juratus, 
et  debite  examinatus;  primo,  an  scit  quod  Ricardus  Bruch  fabricavit 
litems  de  (also  ad  indictari  faciendos  capellanos,  dicit,  idem  quodam 
die  de  quo  non  recolit  iste  juratus,  fuit  in  domo  Johannis  Cook  in 
Suthwell  cum  Domino  Nieholao  Knoiles,  Domino  Stephano  Clerk, 
Galfrido  Penyngtcn,  et  ad  istum  juratum  in  pra;scntia  pra!dictorun> 
dixit  Dominus  Nicholaus  Knoiles,  ut  asseruit.  quod  R.  Bruch  porrexit 
blUam  in  sessionibus  nuper  tentis  in  Suthwell  Byngham  ad  indictari 


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A.D. 1475. 
faciendos  quatuor  vicarlos,  et  nescit  utrum,  tres  vel  duos  capella- two  or  three 
nos ;    et   ulterius    dicit    iste  juratus,    quod    audivit  Dominum    W.  ^^'^P'^^"^- 
Bekbank  quodam  die   ad  postnonum   in   dome  vicariorum  **    quod 
pr^fatus  Dominus  W.  audivit  esse  dictum,  quod  Ricardus  porrexit 
billam  in  sessionibus  tentis  nuper  apud  Suthwell  ad  indictari  facien- 
dos prsedictos  quatuor  capellanos  ut  pr^fatur. 

Dominus  Stephanus  Clerk  quartus  testis  in  dicta  causa  productus  4.  Stephen 
vir  bonse  &c.     Dicit  quod   quodam  die,  de  quo  non  recolit,  erat  in  clo'k's^house 
domo    Joliannis   Cook   in   Estborpe   una    cum   Dominis    Nicholao  ^eard  Knolles 
Knolles.  Ricardo  Penkitb,  Galfrido  Penyngton,  et  audivit  iste  juratus  Bruch^tried  to 
dictum   Nicholaum    dicentem,   ut    dicit,  publice  in  donio,  ouod   ^i  "'^^^'' ^'^"^^ 
Ricardus  conatus  esset  ad  mdictandum  aliquem  esset  culpandus  in  blame, 
re,  et  non  plus  iste  juratus  audivit  in  causa  esse  dictum  ut  asseruit. 

p.  266. — XX  die  me'nsis  Octobris   Anno   Domini  m°  cccc"°  Ixx  Judgment: 
quinto,  Reverendus  vir  magister  Willelmus  Worsley,  Legum  Doctor,  ^i^'if  ^of  ""^'' 
Canonicus  Residens  Ecclesi^  Collegiatas  prsedictas,  in  domo  capitulari  slander,  sus- 
eapitulum   publice    faciens,  Dominum    Nicolaum    Knolles,  pro  eo,  office'^ancr"^ 
quod  temere  et  maliciose  non  difFamandum  diffamavit  prjedictum  ^'^"^^^*^' ''^"^^ 

■T)-         1  T  11  •     •       ^  ••         1/v..  1/.  warned  not  to 

Ricardum  Bruch   de  prajmissis  depositis,  ab  officio  et  beneficio  suis  wear  bis  habit 
in  dicta  ecclesia  publice  suspendebat:  admonentes  eum  sub  posna  ^'^^j.^^^i'^^^f^j^ 
excommunicationis  ne    babitum   de  cetero  gerat  in   dicta  ecclesia  K.  Bmch  and 
Quousque  concordaverit  cum   dicto  Ricardo,  et  eidem  satisfecerit  de  and  costs. 
suae  bonae  famse  detrimento,  et  expensis  in  ea  parte  factis  etc. 

SoutJnoell  Schola  Grammaticalis. 
p.  347. — Venerabilibus  viiis,  capitulo  ecclesige   ccllegiatas   beatse  l  Dec.  1475. 
Mariae  Suthwell,  Ebor,  Johannes  Danvers,  Prebendarius  Prebenda?  tohi'Slire^to 
de  Normanton  in  eadem  ecclesia:   Reverentiam  tantis  viris  debitam  mastership  of 
cum  honore.     Ad  scholas  grammaticales  villse  Suthwell  supradict^  Grammar 
vacantes,  et  ad  meam  prsesentationem  jure  prebendse  meee  supradict^  fhaTer^on 
«pectantes,  dilectum  mihi  in  Christo  Johannem  Barre  vobis  prsesento,  presentation  of 
humiliter  supplicans  et  devote,  quatenus  ipsum  Johannem  ad  pr^fa-  Normant^^ 

"  "  dicentem  "  seems  to  be  omitted. 


30  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 


A.D.  1475-7. 


tas  scholas  admittere,  cum  suis  jurib'.is  ct  pertinentils  universis,  cetera 

que,  quae  peragere  in  vobis  incumbuntur  in  liac   parte,  peragere 

dif^nemini  graciose.     In  cujus  rei  testimonium  sigillum  meum  pra?- 

sentibus  apposui.     Dat.   London,  viccsiino  die  mensis  Novembris, 

Anno  Domini  m°  cccc™°  lxx"'<'  quinto. 

Post  quarum  literarum   exhibitionem  inspectionem  et  examina- 

tionem  capitulum  prgedictum  prajfatum  Johannem  Barre,  idoneum 

et  habilem  in  artibus  ct  scientia,  ad  prajsentationem  prjedicti  Johannis 

Dan  vers,  ad  scholas  grammaticales  Sutbwell  cum    suis  juribus  et 

pertiniis  universis,  prout  fieri  antiquitus  consuevit,  primo  die  mensis 

Decembris  in  domo  capitulaii  ejusdem  admisit  debite  cum  effectu. 

c,  May,  147G,         p.  329. — Sexto  die  mensis  Maii  Anno  Domini  mille?imocccc""'lxx""^ 

(irammar         scxto  coram  Dominis  Thoma  Urkyll  et  Kicardo  liooper,  capitulum 

School  master  facientibus,    in   domo   capitulari,   comparuit  personaliter  Johannes 

rites  Button,  '  •      i-  o      i         n 

executor  of       Barry,    Sculurum    Grammaticalium    Suthvvell   Jlagister,    et   contra 

Iofprvment*^°'  Thomam  Button,  executorem  testamenti  Domini  Koberti  Button, 
<,f  I4.s'5(l.  capellani  dum  vixit,  defuncti,  viv£E  sua3  vocis  oraculo  proponit  et 
dicit,  quod  prsefatus  Robertus  Button,  dum  vixit,  debuit  prajfato 
Johanni  xiiii^  v*^,  quare,  facta  fide  inde  de  jure  requisita,  petit  dictus 
Johannes  praefatum  Tliomam  Button  canonicecompelli  ad  solutionem 
dictoruin  xiiii^  v"^,  ulterius  que  fieri  etc.  aictus  Thomas  Button. 
Barry's  p,  353. —  Dominus  Thomas  Baxter  juratur,  et  dicit,  quod  in  camera 

Domini  Willelmi  Barthorp  praescntibus  isto  jurato  Dominis  Willelmo 
Barthorp  et  Johanne  Arnall  dc  Morton,  concessit  prajfatus  Thomas 
Button  dare  praefato  Johanni  xiiii^  \^      Dominus   Willelmus   Bar- 
thorp idem  dicit  et  concordat  cum  contcstibus  suis. 
Button  ordered       Scxto    Maii    condcmpnatus    Thomas    Button    dicto    Johanni    in 
to  pay  up.         xiiii*.  v^  solvcndis  Johanni:   datur  vigilia  Sanctai  Trinitatis  pi-aj- 
fato  Thomai  ad  solvendum  dictam  summam  xiiiI^   vd.  pncfato  Jo- 
hanni, sub  poena  excommunicationis. 
2  Ai)ril,1477.        p.  133. —  Sccundo  die  mensis  Aprilis  anno  doiuini  m"  cccc'""  Ixx'"" 
lu'ct  wltTi  septimo  in  domo  capitulari  Dominus  Johannes  Bull,  coram  Dominis 

A^'nes  Kayn-    Thoma  UrkvU  ct  llicardo   Hooper,  dictaj  ecclesia;  gardianis,  per- 
toii,  clears  ,.  ...  ...  .         ^  .      , 

himself  with    sonalitcr   comparuit,  ipsis    capitulariter    congregatis    et    cai)itulum 


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A.D.  1477-8. 
publiee    facientibug,    ac    super  criniine   incontinentise,  de  quo  per  eight  conipur- 
Agnetem   Harcold  semulam  suam    fuerat    diffamatus   cum    Agnete  ^'^  *^'^^' 
Saynton,  cum  sua  ix  manu  tarn  clericorum  quam  laicorum  in  forma 
juris  canonice  se  purgavit.     Qua  purgatione  canonice  facta,  dictum 
capitulum  restituit  prsefatum  Joliannem  Bull  suoe  bouse  famge  pristinas 
per  decretum ;  admonendo  eundem  Dominum   Johannem   quod  de 
cetero  abstineret  se   ab  omni  loco  suspecto  cum   dicta  Agnete,  et 
praesertim   domo  dictse  Agnetis,  ecclesia  et  foro  duntaxat  exceptis, 
sub  poena    suspensionis  ab  omni   officio  et  beneficio,  juxta  statuta 
ecclesise. 

p.    347. — viii.  die   mensis    Septembris  Thomas  Blakburn  »  anno  8  Sept.  1477. 
domini  millesimo  cccc™°  Ixxvii  in  artibus  Baccalarius,  ad  prjesenta-  BLakbnm 
tionem  Magister  Jolinnis  Danvers^  pro  eo,  quod  Magister  Thomas  master  of 

Lacy,  ultimus  magister  scolarum  villae  Notinojhame,  minus  ne^li-  ^^ottingham 

•^   .  °  ...  a  '  o       Grammar 

gens  m  docendo  pueros  et  alios  ibidem  tarn  ut  ex  relatione  fide-  School,  vice 

dignorura  ac  per  inquisitionem  constabat  et  de  regimime  dictarum  forTef^Ho^^iice 

scolarum  longo  tempore  absens  fuerat,  ad  dictas  scolas  per  capitulum 

et  jure  capitular!  admissus  fuerat,  et  magister    earumdem    debite 

constitutus. 

p.  353. —  v*'*  die  mensis  Novembris  anno  domini  m°cccc™°  septua-    ^  ^*^^-  ^^'''^■ 

gesimo    septimo    prsecipiuntur  ministri,    viz.   Vicarii   Chorales,  per  ^^^^J^  choral 

Gardianos,  ut  non  gerant  spatulas  infra  villam,  et  custodiant  pacem  to  wear 

adinvicem;  sub  poena  privationis  et  officio  et  beneficio;  et  prcecipue  lo^wn^amUo  ^ 

Domini  Cartwrisht  Kendale  et  Othersale.  ^eep  the 


YlSlTATION  OE  1478. 

p.  269. — Visitatio  ecclesioa  collegiate  Beatai  Marie  Suthwell  in-  Visitatiou, 
choata  in  domo  capitulari  ejusdem  et  solemniter  celebrata  per  Vene- 

"  The  Master  of  Nottingham  Grammar  School  (see  p.  13)  was  remoYed  for  negli- 
gence  and  absence  from  school,  and  a  new  Master  was  appointed  by  the  Chapter  ou 
the  nomination  of  John  Danvers,  who  it  appears  from  other  entries  was  Canon  or 
Prebendary  of  Normanton  and  Chancellor  of  the  Church  from  before  1475  to  1495 
(he  resigned  in  that  year,  Eegister,  p.  19),  and  as  such  apparently  not  only  pre- 
sented to  Sonthwell  Grammar  School  itself  (see  p.  29)  but  to  all  other  grammar 
schools  in  Nottinghamshire. 


32  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

A.D.  1478. 

rabilem   virum    Magistrum   Willelmum  Woisiey,  legum   doctorem, 

Canonicum  Kesidentem  ejusdem  ccclesiae,  ac  dicti  capituli  commis- 

sarium   sufficicntcr  et  lecritime  deputatum,  priino  die   rnensis  Julii 

A  D.  millesimo  cccc™  Ixxviii",   cum   continuatione   et  prorogatione 

dierum  sequentium,  si  oporteat,  et  locorura. 

Gregory  shirks      In  piimis  detectum  est  in  hac  visitatione  quod  Dominus  Johannes 

wine  sale"^°*^  ^'■^S°^   non  vacat  divinis  officiis  in    clioro   viz.   matutini?,   horis 

canonicis,  missse,  et  vesperis,  sicut  ceteri  Vicarii   Chorales   faciunt, 

sed  pluries  se  absentat  ab  eisdem. 

Answers  that        Dictus    Dominus    Johannes    Gregor    exercet    nei^otia     seculariu 

he  huys  wine  ■,.        .  ...  ,.    . 

for  church        emendi    vinuin,   pra^tcxtu   cujus    apphcat   se    tempore    divinorum 

purposes,  vendicioni  vini,  et  sic  non  facit  sectam  chori,  ut  tenetur.     Dictus 

Dominus  Johannes  respondet,  et  dicit,  quod  emit  vinum  non  causa 
lucii,  sed  ut  ecclesiae  cum  vino  debito  valeat  deservire.* 
Dimissus. 
Nota: 
Many  vicars          Plures  Vicariorum  diversis  noctibus  intrant  domum   Vicarioruni 
thdr  halTa/ter  P°^*  horam  novenam  in  nocte,  aliqui  decima  hora,  alii  xi,  alii  media 
9, 10,  or  11  at  nocte,  in   del'ectu  Domini    Johannis  Gregor,    Senescalli,  ad  quem 
night.  ,      .  ,. 

spectat  magnaj  clavis  custodia. 

Kendall  walks  Dominus  Johannes  Kendall  spaciat  in  choro  ecclesiae,  deambulans 
church  during  in  habitu  chorali,  tempore  celebrationis  divinorum  in  choro:  prae- 
service,  in  his  ceptum  est  eidem,  quod  de  cetero  non  faciat,  sub  poena  staiutorum. 
choir  habit.  V        •  rni  /-i  •    i       •  i  r     • 

Cartwnt;ht  Dominus   Thomas  Cartwnght  idem  lacit :   pra^ceptum  est  dicto 

does  the  same:  Domino  Thomas,  quod  de  cetero  se  cmendet,  sub  poena  statutorum 
must  amend.  ,     .  -rv-     • 

ecclesiae.     Dimissus. 

Keyle  several        Dominus  AVillelinus  Keyle  pluries  in  septimana  pernoctat  extra 

times  a  week     (>ct.lt.giam  in  domo  vicariorum  et  non  investibulo:  pra;ceptuin  est 

sleeps  in  vicars      ...  r  r 

hall  instead  of  dicto  Domino  Willelmo,  quod  dictum  detectum  emendet,  sub  p«jcna 

^^^  ^^'  statutorum  ccclesiae. 

Dimissus. 


■  This  defence  was  not  so  absurd  as  it  looks.     As  the  sacrist's  deputy  or  vicar,  it 
was  his  business  to  supply  the  wine  for  the  celebration  of  mass. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  33 

A.D.1478. 
p.   270. — Dominus   Johannes   Kendall  absentavit   se  pluries  ex  Kendall  shirks 
divinis  officiis  in  choro,  prsesertim  de  prima  et  quoquea  matutinis,  et  choir. and  stays 

.  ,  -.   ,  .        .  '        out  all  night 

idem  Johannes    pernoctat   extra   mansum  vicar lorum  ali [bi]  ,^  sed  from  the  ' 
ignoratur  ubi  jacet:    prseceptum  est   quod  se  emendet  supra  pra- sion'^^ij„'^'|"^g 

missis  defeetibus  sub  poena  statutorum.  not  known 

T^.     .  Avhere  he  lies: 

DimiSSUS.  ordered  to 

Nota :  amend. 

Dominus  Robertus  Buckley  non  psalmodizat  diligenter  cum  con-  Backley  does 
soriis  ut  tcnetur,  ncc  cantat,  sed  pluries  tacct,  quando  ceteri  vicarii  T*'-^.!"f,".V, 
cantant;  et  absentat  se  a  choro  pluries  tempore  celebrationis  divino-  choir  to  attend 
rum,  vacans  molendino,  ita  quod  vulgariter,  propter  intromissTbnem  thatTe  is^'^ 

cum  molendino,  vocatur  molendinarius:  pra^ceptum  est  eidem  quod  "^^'^"•'^'"cd  the 

IT  „.-,.,.  .  1-1  Miller, 

meuus    psalmodizet  et  laciat    duigentius   sectam   chori    sub    pa3na 

statutorum.     Dimissus. 

Dominus  Thomas  Tykhyll  et  Dominus  Eobertus  Layn  non  faci-  Tykhill  and 
nnt  sectam  chori,  ut  tenentur,  ?ed  maxime  sunt  abseutes  a  choro  alisentees^ of 
tempore  celebrationis  divinorum  inter  omnes  ecclesias  ministros.  ^^l- 

Clerici    ecclesise  non  consuete  pulsant  post  horam  viii    ad  igni- The  clerks  do 

tcgium,  sed  sepius  post  mediam  horam,  et  aliquando  tardius  :    praa-  "urfew   t^8 

ceptum    clericis    quod   hora    viii,   ut  consuete    solent,    pulsent    ad  o'clock,  hut 

often  after 
ignitegium.  half  past  or 

Dimissi.  ^^^^  l^ter. 

Sacrlsta  et  clerici  non  pernoctant  consuete  in  ecclesia  sed  pluries  Sacrist  and  his 
extra:  prseceptum  est  tarn  sacrislee  quam  clericis  quod  pernoctent  outside  the 
infra  ecclesiam  sub  poena  statutorum.  church. 

Dimissus. 

Non  habent  nisi  unum  gradale  ex  parte  boreali  chori,  in  defec-  Only  one 

tibus  omnium  canonicorum.  g'^ayl  on 

north  side  of 
-Bull :  choir  through 

p.  271. —  Item  detcctum  est  quod  Dominus  Joliannes  Bull,  quando  ^^f.°yYt 

porta  magna  vicariorum  serata  est,  et  ante  apericionem  ejusdem,  visus 

"  This  word  is  illegible  beyond  "  ali  "  with  a  twirl. 
CAMD.  SOC.  F 


34  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

A.D.  1478. 
Bull  is  found   est  idem  Joliannes  in  ecclesia  ante  matutinas  orans/ ex  quo  ni;tur 
in  the  churcli,  prajsumptio  quod  extra  doimim  vicariorum  pernoctat  plerique. 
gate  of  the  Domiiius  liobcrtus  Buckley  non  p?alinodizat  pro  niajori  parte  st-d 

vii-iirs'  hall  is      t    •     i  ^      •  ••       •  ^       .      j  -^ 

«hut,  pravinK    dicit  bassa  voce  partes  suas  quum  ccteri  consocii  sui  cantant;  donnit 


l.efore  matins,  niatutuiis  plerisque.     Dimissus. 

and  suspect  -^        .       ^  .        ,  •      /-.  h 

of  staying  feacnsta  non  iinplet  setulam  cuin  aqua  in  uunpot. 

out  all  night.  g^^jj . 

docs  not  till  the      Dominus  Joliannes  Bull  ter  vcl  quater  in  septimana  absentat  se  a 
water-vessel  in  rnatutinis/primis,  et  horis,  et  aliquando  bis  vel  ter  in  septimana  non 

vacat  divinis  in  chore. 
Three  vicars  DotTlinus  Johannes  Kendall,         ]     plurles  absentant  sc  a  divinis 

town  durin"  Uominus  Tliomas  Cartwria:ht,      \    in  ohoro,  et  pra3sertim  tempore 

prime.  Dominus  Johannes  Huddersall,    /     primai    dissolvunt  jejunia  sua 

in  villa  ;  praeceptum  est  quod  se  emendent  in  praemissis  deCectibus 

sub  poena  statutorum.     Dimissus. 

Sledniyr  walks      Dominus   Ricardus   Sledmyr  tempore   prima3    pro    majori    parte 

church  dmintr  spaciat  in  ecclesia,  et  non  venlt  ad  primam:  praeceptum  est  quod  se 

prime.  emendet  sub  poena  statutorum.     Dimissus. 

Kota  generaliter: 

The  vicars'  ?■  272. — Porta  domus  vicariorum  magna  secundum  statutavicari- 

^'^*^'l^^'"*f        orum  debet  claudi  hora  viii,  scu  saltem  hora  ix  tempore  Kstuali,  scd 
ought  to  he  ^.  .        .  .  .        .  .    .       ^    , 

.shut  at  8  or      non  clauditur,  contrariantibus  et   impedicntibus   Donsinis   Johanne 

sJmme;?but      Huddersall,  Cartwright,  et  Kendall. 

is  not,  owing  to      Nota  gcneraliter  : 

Huddersall,  -k-        i     i  i       •  ■       ^  ■        ■ 

Cartwright,  -^o"  habentur  praecentores  chori  ex  utraque  parte  ejusdem,  sicuti 

and  Kendall,    goliti  sunt  habere,  ad  quos  chorus  debet  attcndere  in  cantando. 
There  are  no         Dominus   Johannes    Gregory   inter   omnes  vlcarios    maxima    sc 

precentors  on    abscntat  a  divinis  obsequiis  in  chore:  prseceptum  ett  dicto  Domino 

each  side  the  .  .^  .        „     .  i-i 

choir  as  there    Johanni  quod  attentius  et  diligentius  laciat  sectam  chori  sub  poena 

^"^'      "   "■      suspensionis  ab  officio  et  beneficio.     Dimissus. 

Omnes  cantarista%  excepto   Domino   Thoma   Ba.xtcr,  non    lluiunt 

sectam  chori  ut  tenentur. 

»  It  is  a  singular  cause  of  suspicion  to  he  found  prujing;  l>ut  \u>  douht  Bull's 
brethren  had  good  grounds  for  the  interpretation  ])laced  upon  his  almnruial  piety. 
^  Gunpot  in  p.  54  was  the  lavatory  in  the  church. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  35 

A.D.  1478. 
Bull:  Bull  shirks 

Dominus  Johannes  Bull  non  vacat  divinis,  prassertim  bis  vel  ter  in  •^<^^'^''«^e  'iiid 

'  1  leaves  town 

septimana.  without  leave; 

Bull: 

Idem  Dominiis  Johannes  recedit  a  villa  pleriquo  absque  licentia 

capituli. 

Bull : 

Memorandum  :  has  never  been 

,  .  corrected  tor 

rson    est   correctus    idem    Dominus    Johannes   pro   vcrberatione  beating 

Domini  Johannis  Gregor  in  cimiterio.  cemetery^"     ^ 

Bull: 

p.  273. — Idem  dictus  Johannes  diffamatur  cum  Cristina  Saynton  Bull  diffamed 

kwith  Cristina 
Pswcarnis.  ^  ....     ^^^"ton. 

Dominus  Johannes  Kendall  tempore  primae  vadit  ad  iantacula  in  Kendall  goes 

r  1  J  J.Q  breakfast 

Villa.  during  prime: 

■gijl]  .  shirks  services 

Dominus  Johannes  Bull  semel  vel  bis  in  septimana,  aliquando  ter, 
absentat  se  a  divinis,  pree-^ertim  a  matutinis. 

Dominus  Thomas  Tjkhyll,  Robertus  Layn,  et  Dominus  Willelmus  Tykhyll  Layn, 
Barthorp  non  intendunt  divinis  obs(!quiis  in  choro,  sed  inter  ceteros  ^^^  Barthorp 

T     •    -TN        •    •     rni  r>    1  amongst  the 

maxime  sunt  absentcs  :  pnuceptum  dictis  Dommis  ihomfe,  Uoberto,  worst 

et  Willelmo  quod  inc-lius  vacent  divinis  obsequiis  in  choro  sub  poena  '''^'jentees: 
suspensionis  ab  officio  et  beneficio.     Dimissi.  amend. 

Dominus  Nicholaus  Knolles  tarde  venit  multitotlens  ad  matutinas:  Knolls  tardc: 
praeceptum  est  eidem  quod  eraendet  se  super  pra^missis   sub  poena  ^'jIj^ji*^    ° 

juris.       DimisSUS.  ,  Chauntrv 

Nota  sen eraliter :  Py^^sts  like  the 

^_  _        _  _  ,  vicars  shn-k 

Cantaristse  more  vicariorum  non  veniunt  ad  preciosa.  Preciosa : 

pi.  Bull  mostly 

^"^^  •  _  shirks. 

Dominus  Johannes  Bull  pro  majori  parte  non  venit  ad  preciosa.  The  church- 
CustodesfabricseEcclesiosratione  terrarum"-  quas  obtlnentexhiberent  tVnurc"of '^ 

tortam  ad  altare  Sancti  Petri  seu  Sancti  Leonardi  et  non  exhibent:  Fabric  lands 

ought  to  burn 
*  There  was,  as  was  usual  in  cathedral  and  collegiate  chin-chcs,  a  special  endow-  a  torch  ut 
ment  for  the  maintenance  of  the  fabric.     At  Soutliwell  it  w: 
Works." 


30  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

A.D. 1478. 
S.Leonard's     piseccptutn    est   custodibus   quod   exhibcant   tortain   sub  poena  jiirii<. 
altar:  are  to      Oimiggi, 

do  so.  -r>i  •  •  •  ■     1  • 

Several  vicars        p.    274. — Plures    vicannruiii    postquam    veniunt    a    colcbratione 
St^^Thomas"     rni^^^e  a  capella   S.  ThoiriOi  expectant  in   doniibus  pluriuni  in  villa, 
chapel  wait  in  absentantes  se  occasione  hujusmodi  niorae  a  divinis  in  cboro. 
houses  in  town        ,  ti  ii-n-  ti  t'iii/-.- 

and  shirk  choir.       Item  dicebatur  quod   Doininus  Johannes   Kendall    luit  in   vice 

Ken.lall  often   puj^lico  pluries  media  nocte. 

in    pUl)llC  *  T->1  T->11  IT- 

street  in  middle       Dominus  Robcrtiis  Backley  non  psalinodizat  sieut  coten  eonsoeii 
of  the  niyht.      g^j  -^  ^|^Q^Q_      Dimissus. 

Sledmvr  keeps      Dominus  Kicaidus  Sledinyr  custodit  .«colani  talorum  et  tabularum 

a  school  of        in  camera  sua  :  prajceptuni  est  quod  se  emendet  etc. 
dice  and  back-        ^    ,, 
franimon  in  his        iJUU  : 

chamber.  Dominus  Johannes  Bull  septirnana  pra2senti  doiiniebat  bi3  inatu- 

IJull  slept  _  '■  '■ 

twice  at  tinas. 

matmstus  Dominus  Johannes  Grcgor  male  facit  sectam  chori,      Dimissus. 

Gregory,  Dominus  Johannes  Huddersall  male  facit  sectam  chori:  prajccptum 

llnddersall,  .  ,        •  ^  ..         ..     .  i  i 

Tvkhill  est  eidem   quod   melius  laciat   sectam    clion  sub  pccna  statutorum. 

li'irhori  Diinissus. 

("hamhrlen  Dominus  Tliomas  Tykhill  male  facit  sectam  chori:  pia^ceptiim  est 

shirk  choir.       ei(Jem  quod  emendet  et  melius  faciat  sectam  chori  sub  pccna  siispen- 

sionis  ab  officio  et  beneficio.     Dimissus. 

Dominus    Thomas    Beylby    non    facit    bene   sectam   chori :  proe- 

ccptum  est  dicto  domino  Tlioma2   quod  melius  faciat  sectam  cJiori 

sub  poena  statutorum  ecclesi;e. 

p.  275. — Dominus  Wiilelmus  Barthorp  raro  vacat  divinis  olliciis 

in  chore,  pra3sertim  priii.se  et  horis  canonicis. 

Kochell  Dominus  Kicardus  Chambyrlen  non  facit  sectam  ehori. 

rl'^'^T^nl  ^^'^'^        Kobertus  liochell    difFamatur    super    lapsu    carnis    cum    famulu 

TykhyUs  '     .         ' 

servant,  con-     Tykhyll  :    dictus   Itobcrtus    fatetur  crimen:  praiceptum   est  eidem 

mtssed  with"     quod,  sub  poena  suspensionis  ab  officio  et  beneficio,  s>o  absentet  ab 

a  warning.        eadem.     Dimissus. 

Moncv  stolen 

from  box  rsota  bene: 

bclorc  linage         Pecunia  substracta  crat  dc  iiixide    coram  imai^ine    I'cata:   Mariai 
oi  Virgin  at  '  " 

High  Altar,      ad  sumiuum  altare. 


VISITATIONS  ANB  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.              37  j 

A.D.  1478.  1 

Dominus  Kobertus  Baikley  tcnuit  suspecte  in  camera  sua  tempore  ^Matilda  Swayn  sus-  i 

mattitinarum    uno    die  JMatildam   Swayn,  uxorem  Thomas  Swayn :  P'^i°i^i%  i"  I^ai'l^'ey's  1 

1  •  1        .  -T)    T       .  1  .    1  •    •  1  r     -  -1  chamber  at  matins' 

dicnis  dominus  Kobertus  respondet  et  dicit  quod  non  facit,  et  mde  se  time.  i 

purmit.      Dimissus.  Barkley  denies  and 

^       V"  , .  purges  himself. 

JNota  generaliter: 

In  processione  non  incedunt  convenienter  sed  nimis  spissate.  ^j^^^  ^,^jj,  ^^^  ^^^^^ 

I^ampas  exhiberetur  ardens,  aurorje  prgesertim  tempore,  per  cus- tog'^'^^^r  in  procession.  ' 

todfs  fabrica2  ecdesise.  et  non  exhibetur:   exhibita  est.     Dimissus.  i 

Dominus    Eicardus    Cbamberlen    tempore    processionum    diebus  Richard  Chamberlen  j 

j\Ieicurii  Veneris  et  Dominica  celebrat  missam.  celebrates  mass  ] 

Dominus  Robertus  Layn  non  liabet  evidentias  cantarise  suae  Wedn^&^lTys,''Fridays,  ' 
sed  eas  gubtraxit  executor  testimonii  Domini  Eoberti  Button.              ^^^  Sundays. 

p.  276. — Dominus  Nicbolaus  Knolles  detinet  evidentias  cantarise  Knolles  detains  title  1 

pancti  Xicholai  quam  prius  occupavit :   deliberavit.  deeds  of  S.  Nicholas'  i 

r.        •  T,    ^  I  1  •  1  •       •  1   ,  Chauutry:  gives  ] 

Dommus  Kobertus  Layn  tempore  altce  missge  m.ultitotiens  celebrat  them  up.  ] 

m.issam.  Layn  celebrates  • 

mass  during  High 

Examinetur  i''  ]\[ass.  j 

Quod  Dominus  Johannes  Bull  cum  Christina  Saynton.  J 

Bull :  i 
Quia  Dominus  Johannes  Bull  frequentat  domum  A^netis  Sayn-  j^^n  ^^^^^  g      ,  •_ 

ton,  mulieris  sibi  primo  secundo  et  tertio  sub  poena  suspensionis  ab  'litious,  frequents  ! 

officio  et  beneficio   prohibitas;  Idem  Dominus  Johannes  per  capi- Saynton:  suspended  ■ 

tulum    ab  officio  et  beneficio  suis  in  dicta  ecclesia  per  tres  dies  est  ^^'^  "^^^^  ^"^^ 

.  T      •  1-1  benefice  for  3  days, 

suspcnsu^^:    diiiertur  executio  garduinis  ecclesise   ad   eorum    bene- Execution  of  sen-  I 

placitum  fiendum.  fence  left  to  wardens.     \ 

277. — Memorandum  -d  •  ^  x   , 

Joints  to  be  noted: 
In  primis  de  tarde  venientibus  ad  chorum  in  tempore  divi-  coming  tarde  to 

choir:  I 

norum.  , 

Item  de  psalmodia  et  pausatione  in  choro.  observing  rests 

,,    de  ambulatione  in  proceseionibus.  walking  in  pro- 

,,     ,,  veniendo  ad  missam  Beatoe  Marian  sine  habitu.  cessions: 

coming  to  Lady 


Mass  without  habit : 


This  passage  is  illegible,  being  scribbled  in  the  margin  at  the  bottom  of  the  page. 


A.D. 1478. 

Bowing  and  turning 
to  altar  at  Glorias,  &c. 

Officiatinj:  priest  and 

rectors  of  choir  to 

come  in  t'me. 

No  qiiarrellinp  to 

take  place  because  of 

visitafion: 

that  the  vicars'  choral 

and  chauntry  priests' 

statutes  should  be 

kept: 

that  they  sleep  in 

tlieir  chamhc-s.  not 

in  town,  return  home 

before  curfew: 

fratcs  to  be  shut 

at  proper  time: 

no  quarrelling  at 

home : 

frequenting  taverns: 

that  no  suspect 
women  come  to 
their  chambers: 

carrying  baslards: 
(•hauntries  to  be 
duly  served: 

canonical  hours 
to  be  kept: 

walking  in  church 
iluring  service: 
confessing  walking 
about  in  corners: 
habits  lying  about: 
going  to  breakfast 
before  mass : 

rectors  of  choir 
leaving  choir 
daring  services: 
discord  in  singing  for 
want  of  succentor: 

that  the  rectors  of 
the  church  do  not 
loll  or  lean  on  the 
stalls  in  copes. 


38  VI.«iITATJOXs  AKD  MEMORIALS  or  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

Item  de  revc'iencia  et  versione  ad  altare  in  diccndo  Gloriam 
tibi  Doiiiine  vel  siinilia. 
,,    executore  officii  ut  tcinpestive  veniat  ct  incipiat. 
,,     llectoribus  chori  ut  veniant  tempestive  in  choro. 
,,     ne  fiat  contcntio  inter  ministros  propter  visitationem. 
,,    de  statutis  vicariorum  et  cantaristarum  ut  custodiantur 
et  ut  ministri    obediant  eis    sub   poena    suspensionis 
officii  et  beneficii. 
„    ut  vicarii  et  ceteri   ministri   Cantariarum  jaceant  iiifra 
cameras  suas  et  non  in  villa;  sed  veniant  tempestive 
domum,  viz,  ante  i^nitcfTium. 
,,     lit  serentur  portas  ad  lioras  per  statuta  limitatas. 
,,     ut  vicarii  et  ceteri  ministri  sint  imanimes  in  domo  et 
non  litigiosi  et  non  dantcs  occasionem  irascendi. 
278. — Item,  de  frequentatione  tabernarum. 

,,     ut  non  habeant  aliquas  mulieres  suspcctas  venientes 

ad  cameras. 
,,     de  portatione  spatularum  viz.  baslards." 
,,     ut  custodiant  vicarii   et  ceteri    cantaristie    cantarias 

suas  secundum  ordinationes  eorum. 
,,     ut  veniant  omnes  ministri  ad  boras  canonic;;s,  sicut 

sunt  jurati  in  admissione  sua. 
„     de  ambulatione  in  ecclesia  in  tempore  divinorum. 
,,     nc  quis  confitiatur  se  alteri  deambulando  in  anguiis. 
„     de  habitibus  jacentibus  in  partibus  ecclesia;. 
,,     de   transeuntibus  ad  jantaculum,  missa  iiequc  prius 

celebrata  noque  audita. 
,,     de  rectoribus  chori  excuntlbus  in  tempore  divinorum, 

et  praecipuc  in  matutinis,  missi.«,  et  vesperis. 
,,     de  discordia  in  cantu  tempore  servicii,  ea  de  causa 

quod  non  habetur  succentor. 
,,     ne  rcctores  ecclesiai  accubent  sive   appodlent    supra 
le  sialics  cum  cuppis. 
•  Haslards  are  large  daggers  w..rn  at  llic  girdle. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEK.  39 

A.D. 1478. 

hem  si  ornainenta  ecclesiaa  sint  sufficientia.  If  the  ornaments 

,,     si  saciista  jaceat  infra  ecclesiam  et  debite  pulset.  sufficient"^*^ 

,,     si  ministri  sint  nnanimes  et  conforines.  if  the  sacrist  sleeps 

.      ,     ^    .  in  church  and  rings 

,,     SI  portionistiB  aut  cantanstse  deputati  ad  officium  mor-  the  bells  properly: 

tuorum  capiant  annuale  vel  trecennale.  whether  chauntry 

_  1  ^         _  _  priests  take  annuals 

,,     si  aliquis  aliutn  affecerit  verbis  opprobriosis  aut  con- pr  trentals: 

1  ■      •     •    r  1     •  1     ^  .  if  any  one  attacks 

tunieliosis  intra  ecclesiam  vel  extra.  another  with 

,,     iii  celebrent  tempore  alt£e  missse.  offensive  words : 

.....  it  they  celebrate 

,,     SI  m  ecclesia  vagavennt  dum  horaa  cantentur.  during  high  mass  : 

„     si  marristri   scholarura   sint   sufficientes   et  in  omcio  !?  *^^^ ''?"''^''':' ^^''"^ 
"  _  _  ^  the  church  during 

diligentes.  singing  Hours: 

•     •        •  i-T      11-x       •  -^  •..  •    !•  if  the  schoolmasters 

,,     SI  vicarius  parochialis  debite  visitavent  iniirmos.  are  sufficient  and 

„     si  aliquodluminare  sit  abstinctum  quod  solet  accendi.  !'i'\5^''^°'' ' . 

■^11  the  parish  vicar 
r>    7  7  T^      7    77  visits  the  sick  : 

-buii-KendcUL  if  a„y  light  be  put 

-iQ-       n  "mo    r  -17  1,  ••  1       •    •        -n     •         out  which  ought  to  be 

p.  13/. —  bum  xu'""  die  mensis  i^ebruaru  anno  dommi  mil lesimo  lighted. 

cccc'""  Ixxviii,  in  cimiterio  Suthwell  inter  Dominos  Johannem  Bull 

et  Johannem  Kendall  Vicarios  Chorales  dictse  ecclesiaj  discordia  orta  John  Bull  and  John 

ei-at  instigante  zizilnnio[rum  ?]  satore  intantum  quod  alter  alterum  ad  h^^vS^quLnSled"^^^^^ 

invicem  percutiens  usque  ad  sanguinis  eiFusionem  enormiter  lasdebat,  the  minster  yard  at 

Et  quia  ad  tunc  reverendus  pater  Laurentius  ^  Eboraci  arcliiepisccpus  the  devif  to  the  'n-eat 

in   manerio   suo  ad   tunc    traxerat    nioram    Suthwell   pigedicto    Xe  ^°'Vo"^5'""  °*^^'^'^" 
.     .  .  .  .  .     .  c      ^  1  •  bishop  Laurence 

crimma    remaneant    impunita    et    quia    gravissime    lerebat    dictus  Booth  then  staying 

reveiendus  paler  hujusmodi  delictum  pro  eo  quod  ipso  prasscnte  a  J!^^    1^,'"?;"':'^".^'' 
litibus  et  jurgiis  maxime  difFerre  non  desistebant  ministri;  ad  metus  ordered  thatno 
aliorum  futurorum  ministrorum  ad   compescendum  lites  Capitulum  ehurchniay  carry 
prcedictum.de  consensu  et  voluutate  dicti  Reverendi  patris,  ordinavii '? '''^^^■^''.""less  be 

.  -,  .  ,  ,,  ,r-        •         /-,i         ,•        T  1     .      IS  going  into  the 

statuit   et  decrevit,  quod   nullus    Vicanus   Choralis    dictse    ecclesias  country,  and  then 

Cantarista  aliusve  minister  dicta;  ecclesise  de  ceterogerat  in  ecclesia,  the^chapter'^'"^ °^ 

aut  ipsius  cimeterio  aut  villa,  armicudium  sive  ffestrum,  publice  aut  I'enalty  6s.  8d.  to  the 
^  e.  '  I  ,     Ysihiic  fund. 

"  Laurence  Booth,  archbishop  of  York,  A.D.  1476-80,  like  his  brother  and  pre- 
decessor, William  Booth  (1452-64)  made  the  manor  or  palace  at  Southwell  his 
favorite  residence.  Both  were  burietl  in  the  Booth  chajjel  at  the  south-west  of  the 
church,  which  was  used  as  the  Grammar  School  till  pulled  down  by  the  chapter 
in  1784,  because  ''  it  destroyc<l  the  regularity  of  the  Iiuildings." 


40 


VISITATIONS  AND  MFJilORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  illNSTER. 


A.D.  1178-9. 

Any  one  who, 
carrying  a 
dagger  or 
hanger, 
nttiitks 
another  mi- 
nister of  the 
chnrch  shall 
also  surrender 
his  weaj)on  to 
the  chajiter 
and  forfeit 
it  and  be 
suspended 
from  office  and 
benefice  in' 
the  minster 
for  ever. 


5  July,  1479. 
Canons  resi- 
dentiary give 
themselves 
leave  of 
absence  for  the 
summer  on 
account  of  the 
plague. 


]•»  Feb.  1179 
IJarnby, 
n^sidentiar)', 
suspends 
C^art  Wright, 
vicar  choral, 
and  Layn, 
chauntry- 


privatim  prreterquam  in  casu  quod  profiscatur  sen  profiscisci  intendat 
ex  villa  Suthwcll  in  patriam,  de  licentia  capituli  prsedicti  obtenta: 
et  si  quisquam  dictoe  ecclesias  minister  contra  prajmissa  atteinptaverit 
seu  fecerit,  statutuin  est  et  decretum  quod  delinquens  in  contrarium 
vi*  viii''  amittet  ad  usum  fab'-icK  ccclesiai  applicandos;  et  etiain  quod 
si  aliquid  minister  tuliter  atteinptans  ocrendo  gestrum  sive  arnii- 
cudium  contra  praidictam  ordinationcm,  vim  alicui  sociorum  suorum 
ministrantium  in  dicta  ccclesia  inferat,  quod  ex  tunc  taliter  delin- 
quens nedum  vi*  viii*'  amittet,  verum  armicudium  suum  offeret 
capitulo,  et  realiter  illud  dimittet,  et  ab  olficio  et  beneficio  suo  in 
dicta  ecclesia  nisi  ex  speciali  gracia  dicti  capituli  veniet  impcr- 
petuum  suspendendus  absque  spe  redcundi  ad  ecclcsiam  suprudictaui 
tamquam  minister  ejusdem. 

Dispensatio  residentice. 
p.  185. — Quinto  die  mensisJulii  annodomini  millesima  ccccl.xxix". 
In  domo  capitulari  Ecclcsiaj  Collegiatai  Beatffi  ]\Iariae  Suthweli,  con- 
stitutis  personaliter  venerabilibus  viris  jNIagistro  Willelmo  \^'o^sclc'y 
legum  doctore,  et  Domino  Edmundo  Chaterton,  Canonicis  Ke.^iden- 
tiariis  dictK  ecclesiaj  collegiataj  et  cnpitulum  publico  facicntibus 
capitulariter  congregatis,  pro  eo,  quod  dira  pesiilentialis  stmgc?  in 
villa  Sutli well  verisimiliter  con tinuare  estimatur;  quod  que  ipsi  vcne- 
rabiles  viri  cum  eorum  familiaribus  infectionem  dictic  jicstifcne 
Btragis  timent  gravissime  incurrere,  justo  metu  ipsius  futuri  morbi 
dispensaverunt,  et  eorum  alter  dispensavit,  et  licentiam  alter  alteri 
eorum  dedit,  quoddurantc  hujusinodistragc,semissiamseabsentaroMt, 
absentaretque  alter  eorumdem  ab  eorum  residentiis  in  dicta  vilhi, 
move  solito  servando  sic  quod  cum  ministris  ccclesiaj,  proutconvenit 
fuerit  concordatum,  absque  dispendio  communi. 

,p.  138. — xiiii'"  die  mcnsis  Februarii  anno  Domini  millcsiino 
cccc'""Ixxix°  In  domo  capitulari  Sutliwcll  c'(jr:im  vi-nerabill  viio 
Magistro  Jobanne  Barnby  Canonico  Resident iinio  eiusdein  eerlesi;e 
personaliter  comparuit  Dominus  Tiiomas  Cart\vl•i^llt,  viem  ins  iliondis 
dictaj  ccclesia;,  et   Domimis    Kobi-rliis    I.avii,  <  "npelhiMu.^;  ("airtar'ulis 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  41 

A.D. 1479 

eiustlem  ecclesise;  et,  pro  eo,  quod  ipsi  ad  invicem  alias  iurtrantes  et  Priest, ff>r 
•  1  •       •  1  •      •     1       T  TN        •  mi  •       1-        striking  one 

ictus  ad  invicem,  hincinde,  dictus  Dominus  1  nomas  cum  armicudio,*  another, 

et  prrefatus  Dominus  Robertus  cum  baculo,  inferentes  in  cimiterio  °|"tcrer  the 

dictse  ecclesia3,  contra  honcstatem  sacerdotii  et  scandalura  ecclesise  other  with  a 

.,,.  .    ,       1  .,  .  1  1   1-    ,•        ^  club,  in  the 

pacem   et   tranquillitatem  violando  :  pro  quibus  quidem  delictis  et  ^.^^^l.^.lJyal.(l_ 

inquietationibu?,  praBlatus  venerabilis  vir  dictos  Dominum  Thomam 

et   Robertum  ab  eorum  habitu  suspendebat ;  et  pendente  per  ali- 

quantulum  temporis  hujusmodi  suppensione,  ipse  Dominus  Thomas  Cartwright 

^,      ^        .    i  ^  .  ^   .  ■,.  .         ^  r     •         •  1-    i.  submits,  and 

Lartwrignt,  animocontnto  sufe  neglio;encise  et  lasinoris  praedictorum  j^.  le^-tiued  to 

multum  pcenitcns,  gracise  capituli  se  submisit,  veniain  pro  suo  peccato  '"^  liabit,  on 

Inimiliter  postulantio;  et  praefatus  venerabilis  vir,  cor  contritum  et  penance,  viz.: 

humiliatum  despicere  nolens,  prEefatum  Dominum  Thomain  iterato  ad  ^"^  OT'Fi-fdav 

suum  habitum  admisit ;  et  sibi  pro  suis  demeritis  penitentiam  injunxit,  in  Lent  to 

videlicet,  quod  unico  die  Veneris  aut  Mercurii  in  xl™'"^,  more  humilis  theCroi<s- 

poenitentis,  dictus  Dominus   Thomas   incedat  ante  crucem  ferentem  bearer  m 

,  ,.       .  .  „.    .  .  -1  1  procession, 

publice  in  processione,  suppelhcio  et  amita  tantuni  mdutus,  et  psalmos  and  say  the 

passionis  genuflectens  coram   summo   altare   publice,  tempore  altae  ^j;|^g^|^^^°^J' ^^-^ 

missae,  die   i.lo  quo   peragit  suam   poenain    dicet,  tanquam  humilis  knees  before 

,,..""  .  ,     ,.  T-K        •  'I'l  the  high  altar, 

poenitens,  suis  pro  delictis;  et  etiam  quod  dictus  Dominus  ihc mas  clothed  only 

abstineat  se  a  domo  Archae"  viduse  praetcrquam  cum  honestis  personis;  ^^  surplice 

...,.,.       and  amice: 
et   quod  se  bene   et   iioneste    geret  penes  mimstris  dictae  ecclesias.  to  abstain  from 

Admonendo  eundem    Dominum   Thomam  quod  si  de  cetero  gei'at  JJ^^^^g^g^^IgJ^^ 

contra  statutum'^  dictai  erclesias  armicudium,  vim   cum    eo    alicui  iu  honest 

.    .  .  .        ,.  ,     .  .    ,  ,      company,  and 

sociorum  suoium  ministrantium  m  dicta  ecclesia  temere  in lerendo,  to  behave 

quod  extunc  ab  officio  et  bcneficio  suis  in  dicta  ecclesia,  ipsius  mera  P™P.^'"'y  *°  ^^'^^ 

^  ministers  ot 

culpa  precedente  veniet  suspendendus.  the  church: 

or  will  be 
ipso  facto 

Visitation  of  14S1.  ""''"^'^'- 

p.  285.   Visitatio  ecclesise  coUegiataj  Beatas  Marian   Suthwell   in-  Visitation 
choata   per    venerabilein    virum    iMagistnun    Willelmuui  AVorsley,  j^,_,|^|  |,;.\y^l_  ' 

Ham  VV(n-slt'y, 
*  See  note  on  p.  3D.  canon  resi- 

•>  As  usual,  there  appears  to  have  been  a  lady  in  the  case.  deutiaiy. 

<=  See  p.  1.37  of  the  Eegister,  12  Feb.  1-17S,  p.  39  above. 
CAMD.  SOC.  G 


42  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

A.D.  1481. 

Legum  Doctorern,  ibidem  xx'""  die  mensis  Julii  anno  Domini  mil- 
lesimo  cccc'"°  octogesimo  prime,  cum  continuatlone  et  prorogatione 
dierum  scquentium. 

Berkeley  has         Mery:    DetectTum   est   primo    in   liac  visitatione   quod    Thomas 

ioiI'^''ha[J'^        Berkeley  habet  crines  indeccntes  nimis  longas,  honestuti  sacerdotii 

nnbecoming      indecoras. 

hTOd"*^*''  Item  detectum  est  quod  Dominus  Johannes  Bull  non  pcrnoctat 

Bull  does  not    i„  ecclesia  ut  tenetur. 

cburch.  Sledmijr:  Item  detectum    est  quod  Dominus  Johannes   Gregor 

^hlfr^^  '^"'''  n^n  ^^^^'^  sectam  chori  ut  tenetur. 

Bull  and  Dominus  Johannes  Bull  et  Dominus  Thomas  Cartwright  objur- 

donot'sfutr       r?'^"t  in  cantando  in  choro  nee  unus  alteri  habet  aurem,  ut  pertur-" 

together,  and    Jjatur  choriis  cantu  divinorum. 

disturb  the  .   i  -i    i 

thorns.  Webster:  nicnil  deponit. 

Dyson :  nichil  deponit. 

Gregor:  Sacrista  non  pernoctat  in  eccle>ia;  sed  quaier  aliquando 

in  septimana  non  pernoctat  in  ecclesia,  et  dormit  pluries  matutinis. 

Lemynsone  Item  dicit  quod  post  mediam  noctem  Dominus  Johannes  Lemyng 

*^".\  l^^'"^""*'.^,  quodam   die  comedit  mel  et  butirum   et  ova  et  postea  c<;lebravit 

and  butter  and  ^  .  •,  ^■  ■  •       »  o 

eggs  before       missam  eadem  die:  et  etiam  leinpt-ivit  Agnetern  S^ynton  ut  carna- 

centh' exposed '■'*''''  t;ommiseeret  cuin  ea,  et  ostendit  ei  supra  scabellum  pudenda 

himself  to  sua. 

Savnton.  &7iyth  :   Iiern  Dominus  Johannis  Gregory  dormit  bis  vel  ter  in 

septimana  matutinis. 

Berkeley  Peiikyih :   item  Dominus  Hobertus  Berkley  durmit  bis  vel  ter  in 

sleeps  at  septimana  matutinas,  et  absentat  se  a  choro. 

J/yll :  niclul  deponit. 

OroTorr  Cartivrigld :  Dominus  Johannes  Gregor  male  liicit  t^eetaiu  chori, 

shirks  choir,      ct  prjcsertim  absentat  se  a  matutinis. 

Berkley,  Bull,       Berkley:  nichil  deponit. 
Kendill, depose         n    ii         •   i-i    i 
notbi:)g.  Bull:  nichii  deponit. 

Kendell :  nichil  deponit. 
Several  in  the  »'     ;?      di  •         i  i     i       .      •         i  •  •  ^ 

•  hoir  have  a  Aeyll:    i  lurcs  in  clioro  hal)cnt  singulai'Mn  viain   in  cantando  et 

peculiar  way  of  discrepant, 
singinp,  and  ' 

create  discords. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  43 

A.D.  1481. 

p.  287. — Baxter:   Duo   gradalia   in  choro  egent  correctione,   et  Two  graduals 
pluribus  partibu?  defecta  sunt,  ^"'  defective. 

Knolles  :  nichil  deponit. 

Littester :  Dominus  Robertus  Layn  tempore  altaj  missae  celebrat  Layn  cele- 
brates mass 
missam.  during  High 

BaHhorp  :  nichil  deponit.  Mass. 

Layn  :  nichil  deponit. 

Tyhhyll:    Item   detectum    est   quod   Thomas    Cartwright    l^abet  ^^^^^^^^'j^^*.^^ 
singularem  viam  in  cantando  et  non  dat  aures  in  cantando  ceteris,     way  of  singing 

Beyllby :  nichil  deponit. 

Chamherlen:    Item    detectum    est    quod     Dominus    Nicholaus  ^^"olles  pays 

.         -  .  no  rent  for 

llnolies  habet  ortum  de  croco  pertinentem  cantarise  suse,   et  non  his  garden  of 

vult  solvere  redditura,  ut  tenetur.  h?ou\r 

Rochell :  nichil  deponit. 

Worsley :  nichil  deponit. 

p.  289. — Detectum  est  in   hac  visitatione  quod   canonici,  anno  ^^j^  jj^"!'^"?^ 
prgeterito,  compleverunt  residentiarum   suarura  viii.  septimanas  et  dence  8  weeks 
non  plures,  et  tunc  alter  cum  altero  dispensavit  pro  residuo,  nichil  12,  and  gave 
relinquentes  in  recompensationem  ministris  ecclesise  quos  depascere  "°  cmnpensa- 
tenentur  per  iv  septimanas  non  completas,  ministers  of  the 

Dominus  Robertus  Dyson  non  petit  licenciam  in  absentia  Canoni-  th^yare  bound 

corum  de  capitulo  quando  recedere  et  devillare  intendit.  to  feed. 

/ ,  1  1     .  •  1  IT  1  Dyson  goes 

Oustodes  ecclesiae  et  sacrista  non  attendant  uihgenter  aa  campa-  out  of  town 

nas  et  eorum  apparituras  quae  debent  fieri  quando  pulsare  debeant.     ^j *^^'^"*' j,j v  ^\ 
Dominus  Robertus  Mery  nimis  negligens  et  remissus  est  in  officio  in  the  Bursary. 

Iconomorum  ecclesige. 

Dictum   est  quod   Dominus   Johannes   Bull   recessit  ab  ecclesia  Bull  goes  out 

,...,.  ,  .     .  or  church  and 

pluries  januis  ecclesi^  apertis  post  se  remissis.  leaves  the 

Dominus  Robertus  Berkley  nialus  est  sectator  chori.  ^°^^'^  °P°"- 

Domini  Thomas  Tykhyll  et  Thomas  Beylby  niali  sunt  sectatores 

chori. 

p.  290.— Dominus  Ricardus  Sledmyr  tempore  divinorum  ludit  ad  ^J^'^gYIcdc*-^'' 

tabulas^  pluribus  vicibus  propter  pecuniam.  gammon 

Dominus  Johannes  Gregory  malus  est  sectator  chori.  duri™^'serVice 

Dominus  Johannes  Bull  malus  est  sectator  chori.  time. 


44  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

A.l).  14S1. 

PiKii  an.l  jiccse  Porci  ct  an?;i}  habcnt  comniunem  incrcs?^uin  in  clmiterio,  etc. 

ailmisriTto"  p.  291.  — Domiiius  Uicanlus  Slcdmyr  tempore  divinoium  ludlt  ad 

the  church-  gp,.,an,.« 

yard.  '^                                               ,               i   i             • 

Sledmyr  phiys  Idem  tempore  altae  mi.>-sae  celcbrat  mii^sam. 

at  ball  •  Dominus  'I'hoinas  Cartwri'dit  tempore  divinorum  ludlt  ad  tabulas 

liariiig  service  .,..„. 

time.  et  se  inde  jacfitat  fecis^^e. 

Cartwrijrht  Dominus  Wobcrtus  Berkley  mains  e.«t  seotai  <r  chori. 

Ju^mnonat  Domiiius  Johannes  Bidl  malus  est  sectator  chori,  praeseriim  tem- 

scrvice  time:  .g  pi-inifC. 

boasts  of  It.         r  "^  .,,... 

Gre-oiv  the  Dominus  Johannes   Gregor  idem    tacit  et  inter  omnes  pessimus 

worst  keeper     scctator  chori  rcputatur. 
of  choir  of 

any.  p,  279. — Cum   in    visitationibiis    capituli  exercitatis    in  ecclesia 

])rsebendali  de  Oxton,  A.D.  1481    inter  cetera  erat    detectum,  quod 

The  vicar  of      Domiiuis  Johannes ''    x   Vicarius    de  Oxton    carnaliter    cognovisset 

victed  with       Agnetcm   quain  sceum  habet  in  domo  sua,  ut  solus  cum  sola;  super 

one  Agnes,  eodem  articulo  dictus  Vicarius,  quinto  die  Xovembris  conventus, 

whom  he  ^  \  .  ,  .     , 

keeps  in  his      articuluin   hujus  modi  carnalis  copula  denegavit,  sea   se  inde  non 

cumtola"*       purgavit,  submittcns  sc  gratiaj  capituli,  sub  hac  forma,  quod,  pro  eo 

fails  to  purge    quod  se    non  purgavit,  monuit  eum  capitulum  quod  dictam  Agne- 

tem  ab  ipsius  consortio  infra  mensem  post  monitioneui  sibi  lactam 

removeret,  et  se  absentaret  a  consortio  dicta3  Agnetis  ab  omni  loco, 

foro    et  ecclesiaB  duntaxat  cxeeptis ;  cui  monitioni  sibi  factse  dictus 

\'icarius,  pro  eo,  quod  capitulum  umnem  penitentiam  eidem  remiserat 

absque  strepitu  judiciali,  se  parere,  tactis  sacrosanctisDei  Evangeliis, 

ultro  ct  spoute  juravit  in  Domo  capitulari;  hiis  testibus,  Dominis 

'I'homa  Urkyll  et   Uicardo  Hooper   Gardianis  et  JMagistro  Roberto 

Skayft'dicti  capituli  Scriba. 

12  Sept.  I4f<3.       p.  147.   Bull. — Duodecimo  die  inensis  Septembris  Anno  Domini 

Bull  suspect     inlllesiiiio   ccc'""   Ixxxiii"  coram  venerabili  viro   Mamstro  Willelmo 

with  wives  of  ..,.,. 

W.  Warsopp    Worseley,  legum    Doctore,  Canonico    Residentiario    Ecclcsiae    Col- 

Laiicashire :      It'giataj    Beatce   Marise    Suthwell,  capitulum   publice  iiicientc,  coin- 

paruit  personalitcr  Dominus  Johannes  Bull,  A'icarius  Churalis  dictoe 


ordered  to 
clear  himself 


Does  spera  mean  bowls? 

The  name  is  left  blank  in  the  original 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OP  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER-  45 

A.D.  M83-5. 

ecclesiae;  cui  objectum  erat  quod   exercitabat  ct  f  requentabat  domos  by  G  compur- 
Willelini   Warsopp   et   Roberti    Longcaschyr  ;    quod    fama    publica  fhap^iains 
laborabat  eundem  Dominum  Johannem  commisisse  illicita,  prgesertim  3  laymen 
cum  uxore  dicti  Willehni  Warsopp  adultevium,  et  pluries  laborasse  meauwhile. 
uxoreiii  dicti  Roberti  Longcaschyr  ad  comniittendum   actum  vene- 
reum, praetextu  cujus  illiciti  laboris  aicta  Ecclesia  Cullegiata  patitur 
grave  scand.dum.     Ad  quae  dictus   Dominus  Johannes  personaliter 
comparens  respondebat,  negando  hujusmodifkmam  de  preemissis  uUo 
modo  pululasse:    Unde  idem  venerabilis  vir  indixit  eidem  Johanni 
purgationem    canonicam    die   Martis    proximo    ante   festum    Sancti 
Mathei  faciendam   cum   sua  sexta  manu,  trium  laicorum  et  trium 
capellanorum,  de  hujus  modi  fama  et  facto;  et  interim  suspendebat 
dictum   Dominum   Joliannem  Bull  a  suis  officio  et  beneficio  quous- 
que  se  purgaveiit  canonice  in  preemissis. 

Eodem  die,  prefatus  venerabilis  vir  in  eodem  capitulo,  Ricardum  Same  day 
Gurnell,  Diaconum,  propter  seminationem  rixarum   et  discordiarum  f[g.^p„jj  'j^^^g. 

inter  laicos  publice  in  villa  saepius  factam  in   scandalum   ecclesiae  pended  for 
,        .  ,   ,  ,  1  TT         1  T-i  1  quarrelling 

a  suo  habitu  suspendebat;   monendo  eundem  Kicardum   et   rainier -with  laity  in 

omnesque  clericos  sacristae,  sub  poena  suspensionis  ab  officio  et  bene-  FJ^*^^^^',    ,, 

ficio  suis  imperpetuum  in  dicta  ecclesia,  quod  vacent  cotidie  absque  the  clerks  of 

legiiimo  impedimento  Scolis  Grammaticalibus ;  et  quod  clerici  Sacristiee  earned  to 

jugiter  attendant  super  pulsatione  ignitegii^  hora  solita  et  consueta;  attend 

-,     .    .  .,     ■  ,       .  -  ,     .  ,     grammar 

et    quod  demceps,    post  illam   pulsationem  ab  ecclesia  se   non  a b- school  daily, 

sen  tent,  sed  omnes  vacent  curse  eiis  commissae  sub  poena  prsedicta  *°  fP^^'^^Jl^ 

in   eorum  cujuslibet  pdi'sonas  canonice  fulminanda  si  eorum  aliquis  proper  time, 

contrarium  attemptaverit  in  futurum.  to  their  duties. 

p.  355. — In    festo    Sancti    Egidii   fuit  Dominus   Thomas   Cart-  i  Sept.  1485. 
wryght  monitus  per  gardianos  ut  perhiberet  se  benigne  et  facete  erga   jl^^^^f 
socios  suos,  sub  poena  xl^     Anno  domini  m°  cccc™°  octagesimo  vto.      conduct  him- 

Memorandam  quod  in  vigilia  apostolorum  Symonis  et  Judae,  Anno  ^^  j^j^  ^^^^  ^ 

Domini  m"  cccc™°  octatresimo  sexto,  venerunt  vicarii  fere  omnes  in  leagues. 

°  '  27  Oct.  U86 


capitulum  ad   Preciosa    coram    gardianis,  conquerentes  de  Domino  Nearly  all  the 

Thomas    Cartwright,  dicentes    quod    lion    exhibet    se    in    moribus '^^^''^'^'^' '^^^''"■^ 

o      '  ...  .  came  to 

ut  conveniens    est    sacerdoti,  et  maxime    in    choro    et    in   cantu,  complain  to 

sed   perturbat   omnes    in   choro,  cantando  contra   morem   et  usum 


46 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 


A.D.  1484. 

the  wardens  at 
Preciosa  that 
Cartwri^lht  did  not 
behave  as  became  n 
priest,  especially  in 
singing  in  choir,  but 
disturbed  the  rest  by 
singing  contrary  to 
use  and  custom : 
ordered  to  amend  on 
pain  of  40s.  fine  to 
Fabric  fund. 
30  July,  1484,  visi- 
tation begun  and 
discontinued. 
28  Jan.  1484,  resumed 
by  the  churchwardens 
under  8j)ecial  com- 
mission from  three 
residentiaries. 


Cartwright  creates 
discord  in  the  choir 
by  his  new-fangled 
way  of  singing. 

6  May.  1485,  ordered 
by  Canon  Barnljy 
to  amend,  on  pain  of 
suspension  for  6  days. 


Chauntry  priests  do 
not  come  to  chapter. 
Bread  and  wine  often 
wanting  at  S.  I'eter's 
altar  through  the  de- 
fault of  the  clerks  of 
that  altar. 
Cartwriglit  over  the 
fire  in  the  vicar's  liall 
oauscs  disturbance  by 
bragging  of  his  sing- 
ing and  laughing  at 
the  otliers. 
Gurneii  plays  cards 
with  the  laity  the 
whole  year  through. 


cliori  :  Unde    prreccptuin    datur    ab    illls   ut   cmendet    se    in 
omnibus  sub  poena  xl»  ad  fabrlcam  ecclesiae. 


hlis 


Visitation  of  1481. 

p.  292. — Yisitatio  ecclesioe  collegiiita  Beatae  iMarise  Southwell,  in 
dicta  ecclesia  inchoata  penuUimo  die  mensis  Julii  anno  domini 
inille.=imolxxxiv'°,  quse  eadem  visitatio  erat  discontinuata,  et  iterum 
inchoata  xxvii""  die  mensis  Januarii  anno  Domini  supradicto,  exer- 
cita  debite  per  Dominos  Thoinam  Urkyll  et  Ricardum  Rooper 
dictee  ccclesioe  uardianos  de  speciali  mandato  vcnerabilinm  virorum 
Magistrorum  Willehni  Worsley,  legum  doctoris,  Kdmundi  Chatter- 
ton  et  Johannis  Barnhy,  canonicorum  residentiaiiorum  tunc  ibidem. 

Merif  :  Detectum  est  quod  Dominus  Thomas  Curtwrifrht  in 
psahnodia  et  in  cantando  labiirdon  non  servat  rituin  chori,  sed  faciD 
maj^nain  discordiam  in  cantando,  habens  viam  extrinsecam  non 
usitatim  inter  chorales;  vi'"  die  mensis  Maii,  anno  domini 
millesimo  cccc"'°  Ixxxv*"  praefatus  Dominus  Thomas  Cartwright 
personaliter  comparuit  in  domo  capitulari  coram  venerabili  viro 
Alagistro  Johanne  Barnby,  canonico  residentiario  et  capitulum 
fiiciente,  et  monit'us  est  quod  nedum  se  emendet  in  dicto  articulo 
?ed  etiam  in  omnibus  aliis  super  quibus  inferius  detegitur,  sub 
poena  suspensionis  per  sex  dies  ab  odicio  et  benelicio. 

Cantaristae  non  veniunt  ad  preciosa  ut  ten^ntur. 

Ad  altare  S,  Petri  deficiunt  plerumque  vinum  et  panis  in  defec- 
tihus  clcricorum  ejusdem  altari.*. 

Rochell:  idem  deponit  de  Domino  Thoma  Cartwright  sicut 
Dominus  Johannes  Mery.  Idem  Dominus  Thomas  sedens  prope 
ignem  in  domo  Vicariorum  reprobat  consortes  suos  in  cantando  et 
se  prce  ceteris  in  scientiu  cantus  commendat,  ut  ex  jaclura  sua  alii 
ministri  excitantur  ad  rixas. 

p.  293.  Dominus  Uicardus' (lurneli  nuihitotiens  per  totum  annum 
ludit  ad  cardas  cum  laicis  ut  per  hujusmodi  ludum  dissensiones 
oriuntur  ct  contwmcliflc,  et  fl're  de  verisimili  timetur  de  homicidio, 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  47 

A.D.  1484, 
quod  de  eodem  tota  villa  et  villani  habent  ipsuin  in  scandalum  et  and  quarrels 
odiuin,  et  sic  grave  scandalum  ecclesias  <xeneratur.  with  them  so 

'  o  -7  .  .      niuch  that 

Sledmyr :    Chorus   non  devote  ut  olim   cantat  psalmodiam   dis-  manslaughter 

tincte   et   aperte,  sed  nimis  velociter  cantat  contra   solitum   usum  jj^^g^^^l^oi^.^ ' 

ecclesise.     I{ota  generaliter.  sings  too  fast. 

Webster:   Do  minus    Robertus    Webster    frequentat    tabernas    in  Webster 
^^^  ^        ^   ^       ^-  •  1  ,    ^         •  hauuts  tavems 

villa    post  celebrationera   missse   suae  usque   chorus   cantat   primam  after  mass 

et  sic, post  nonam  et  post  coenam.  till  prime,  and 

Sexto  die  mensis  Maii  Venerabilis   Magistcr  Johannes  Barnby  after  nones 

monuit  dictum  Dominum  Robertum  quod  se  emendet  et  abstineat  ^^^ 

.  supper: 

se  prgesertim  a  frequentatione  tabernarum  tempore  divinorum,  sub  6  May  ordered 

to  amend, 
poena  statuti;  pro  una  et  prima  vice. 

Nota  generaliter:  Cantaristae  non  faciunt  sectam  chori  nee  veniunt  Channtry 
1  .  T\        •        -v^-   1     1        T-      11  priests,  except 

ad  preciosa  excepto  Uomino  Aichalao  Ivnolles.  Kiiolles  shirk 

p.  294. — Bull :   Idem  deponit  de  Domino  Thoma  Cartwrieht  sicut  ^'J^o^^'  ^^<i 
-nw        •  T   1  T\r  chapter. 

Dominus  Johannes  Mery. 

Dyson  :    Dominus  Johannes  Gregor  vacat    plus    tabernis   quam  Gregory 

divinis  officiis  in  choro.   Sexto  die  mensis  Maiicomparuit  personaliter  ^-P^^4^™°^^ 

'^         _    -T  time  in  taverns 

Dominus  Johannes  Gregory  coram  venerabili  viro  Magistro  Johanne  th.an  in  choir: 

Barnby  canonico  residentiario,  et  quia  alias  fuit  monitus  primo  et  tMrd^time  to 

secundo  de  emendando  se  in  faciondo  sectam  chori  et  inde  necgli-  amend. 

gens  fuit,   idcirco    prsefatus    Dominus   Johannes    Gregory  monitus 

erat  tertio  quod    melius   f'aciat  sectam  chori  ac  debite  ut  tenetur, 

cessante  causa  legitima  ;  sub  poena  suspensionis  ab  officio  et  beneficio 

suis  in    hac   ecclesia    imperpetuum    obtinenda.      liota    monitioneui 

contra  Dominum  Joliannem  Gregor. 

Duo  Diaconi  tenentur  dicere  Placebo, =*  Dirige^  immediate   cotidie  The  two 

post  completorium  et  speciale  collectum   viz.  Deus  qui  inter  Apos-  ^^^'^'^"^ 

tolicos,    pro    anima    Domini    Kemp    Cardinalis    ad    altare    Sancti  Placebo  and 
'r\  i  J-         i.       i  •        ^-  ^     •     J-  D  Dirige,andthe 

ihomae,  et  non  dicunt,  et  jurati  sunt  sic  dicere,  &c.  specilil  collect 

»  "  Placebo  "  means  the  eyening,  and  "  Dirige  "  the  morning  oiSce  for  the  dead,  K-g™^  „^  c^ 
so  called  from  the  first  words  of  the  antiphons  wi'h  which  they  began.     The  collect  Thomas's  altar 
beginning  ■'  Deus,"  etc.  was  a  collect  in  that  oiSce  in  commemoration  of   deceased  after  compline, 
bishops.     Cardinal  Kemp,  Archbishop  of  York  A.D.  142()-52,  had  no  doubt  left  a 
benefaction  for  his  own  commemoration.     He  lived   a  great  deal  at  his  Palace  at 
SoutHwell,  and  is  believed  to  have  built  the  Great  Hall  there,  lately  restored. 


48 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 


A.D.  1484. 
Litator  does  not  say 
Our  Lady's  mass 
before  8  o'clock,  but 
is  tardy. 

Gre  shirks  choir. 

Cartwright  sings  the 
psahns  badly. 
Tykhyll  frequents 
the  Bursary,  which 
keeps  hini  from 
choir. 

Bull  and  Kendall 
intimate  with  women 
of  bad  character,  take 
them  to  their 
chauntries  sus- 
]>iciously :  have  been 
corrected  for  this  by 
the  churchwardens. 

Canons  do  not  keep 
their  statutory 
residence:  do  not 
jjropcrly  correct  de- 
faults proved  at  visita- 
tifms,  and  especially 
the  want  of  repair 
of  prebendiil  liouses, 
some  of  which  have 
fallen  down. 

The  vicars'  <,'ardens 
belonging  to 
Chawndeler's 
prebendal  house 
are  leftunfenccd. 

Rectors  of  the  choir 
having  copes  shirk 
duty,  sing  indistinr  t'y 
and  too  quickly,  with- 
out observing  the 
rests. 


Several  vicars  choral 
and  chauntry  priests 
spend  service  time 
at  taverns,  especially 
during  prime. 


Doiiiinus  L:iurcncius  Litstcr  dcbitcpost  horam  octavain  non  ccle- 
brut  inissam  Beatee  Mariae  sed  pluries  tardius.  praeceptuin  e«t  eidcm 
quod  se  eincndat  de  cetero  (^c. 

Dominus  Thomas  Gre  non  vacat  debitc  dlvlnis  olTiciis  ct  proescrtitn 
primae  et  lioris. 

Kendell :  nichil  deponlt. 

Sledmyr  ludit  ad  speras  insolite  teinpors  divinoruin. 

p,  2^5.— Gre:  De  Cartwright  idem  deponit  sicut  ceteri,  addendo 
pracsertim  quod  male  psahnodizat. 

Tykhyll  frequentat  Iconoiniam  quod  impcdlt  se  a  divinis :  Dominus 
Laurcncius  simili  inodo  facit. 

Dominus  Johannes  Bull  et  Kendell  familiares  sunt  cum  meretii- 
cibus  et  mulieribus  malarum  dis'positionum,  et  ducunt  ipsas  ad 
cantarias  suas  suspccte :  sujicr  istis  correcti  sunt  per  gardianos. 

p.  296. — Canonici  non  custodiunt  residentias  suas  secundum 
statuta  ecclcsiae. 

Canonici  coinperta  in  visitationibus  suis  non  debits  corrigunt  ut 
tencntur,  et  praascrtim  reparationes  domorum  jircbendalium,  tarn  in 
villa  Suthwell  quiim  in  patria,  ut  pluivs  dotnus  vel  mansoruin 
prajbendaliuin  in  eorum  necgligentia  maxitnas  ruinns  et  eaium 
allquuj  ad  terrani  funditus  prosternuntur. 

Ortus  quidem  Vicariorum  viz.  pomarium  annexum  manso  Pre- 
bendali  Mngistri  Thoma;  Chawnileler  non  habent  suHicientem 
(dausuram  inter  ip^uni  ortum  et  dictum  niiinsum  Prcbendalc,  in 
defect u  Prebcndarii  et  pr^curatoris  sui. 

Nota  generaliter :  Rectores  Chorales  habentcs  co))as  chorales  non 
debite  attendant  eorum  solitis  officiis. 

Nola  qeneraliter  :  Rectores  superiores  simili  modo  non  attendunt 
eorum  olliciis.  Non  psalmodizant  distincte  psalmodiam  secundum 
consuetudinem  ecclesiaj  ncc  pausant  prout  antea  consueverunt  sed 
nimis  velocitcr  eurrunt  cum  psalinodia  et  non  distincte  prolerunt 
verba  cjusdem. 

p.  297. — Nu/a  (jeuenditer :  Plurcs  Viciiriorum  et  cantarlstarum 
tempore  divinoruin  vacant  tabernis  pracsertim  tempore  primtc. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  49 

A.D. 1484. 
Nota  generaliter :  cantaristse  non  veniimt  ad  preciosa. 

Nota  genera  iter :  Plures  Ministri  ssepe   devillant  absque  licentia  ^lany  go  out  of  to%vu 
^      T  .        ,  •     n  •  -without  leave  from 

(jrardianorum  la  absentia  tjanonicorum.  the  churchwardeus 

Webster :   niclnl  deponit.  '"'^^^  <=a^ons  are  away. 

Gregory:    Dominus    Thomas  Cartwriglit  non    conformat    se    in  Cartwright  does  not 
cantando  faburdon''  usui  chorali  sed  facit  discordiam  in  cantando  ^?"„?     ^.^^^^.^^q^^  ^j^j 
inter  ministros  ecclesias.  creates  discord. 

Idem    Dominus    Thomas    tempore    divinorum  in  habitu    chorali  Cartwright  often 

deambulat  circumcirca  in  ecclesia  non  attendendo  divinis  officiis  in  ^^urch^Iurinf  service. 

choro. 

Capellani  vel  cantaristse  non  veniunt  ad  preciosa  in  capitulo  sed  Chauntry  priests  do 
.  J^  >■  ^  not  attend  Preciosa 

penitus  se  absentant.  in  chapter. 

Legendge  dilascerantur  et  insufficienter  reparanter  in  defectibus  and  nof  repaired^ by^" 
Residentiariorum.  residentiaries. 

p.  298.    Hyll:    Dominus   Johannes   Gregory    non    vacat   ^"^^^^^^ 
officiis   in  choro  pro  majore  parte  anni   et  preesertim   se  absentat  a  processions. 
processionibus  festivalibus. 

Nota  qeneraliter:  Ministri  ecclesiee  non  vacant  scoloe  gra m ma ti- The  ministers  do  nut 

^  _  ...,.,.         attend  the  Grammar 

cali.     Magister  Grammaticalis  non  attendit  debitis  horis   doctrines  School.    TheGram- 

suoruni  soolarium  in  scola,  et  quam  pluries  indiscrete  dat  remedium^  ^trks^schooTajid 

suis  scolaribus  diebus  ferialibus,  quod  quasi  ad  tempus  nichil  addis-  gives  "remedies "to 

^  „  ,   ■         ■.  the  scholars  on  whole 

cunt  expendendo  bona  suorum  parentum  irustra  et  inaniter;  et  non  school  days,  so  that 

locuntur  latinum  in  scola  sed  anglicum.  they  learn  nothing, 

°                             ,  ....           spending  their  parents 

Nota  generaliter :  Cantaristce  non  vacant  prime  et  horis  in  choro  substance  for  nothing: 

j-T         ^          ^  J.           ^  and  thev  talk  English 

dihgenter  ut  tenentur.  j^  ^^j^^^l  i^^.t^^,^  -^ 

*  The  chief  complaint  at  this  Visitation  seems  to  have  been  some  new  way  of  I^f-tm- 
singing  introduced  by  Cartwright — and  specifically  his  singing  of  the  Psalms  and 
the  "  Faburdon."  Father  Gasquet  informs  me  that  this  is  the  equivalent  of  "faux- 
bourdon,''  and  this  was  the  first  attempt  at  harmony,  or  a  variation  on  plain-song, 
being  a  sort  of  "  drone  "  accompaniment.  Cartwright  was  probably  singing  a  second 
or  other  part:  "  prick  song  "  instead  of  "  plain  song,"  in  some  new  fashion. 

^  At  Winchester  the  word  "remedy  "  is  still  used  for  a  holiday  :  and  the  Head 
Master  when  he  grants  a  remedy  to  the  "  Pr^efect  of  Hall  "  still  gives  him  a  ring 
whereon  is  inscribed  "  Commendat  rarior  usus."  This  entry  explodes  once  for  all 
the  horrible  heresy  which  was  started  at  Winchester,  that  remedy  did  not  mean 
remedium  laboris,  but  was  corrupted  from  "  remission-day  "  to  '•  remi-day." 
CAMD.  SOC.  H 


50  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMOEIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEK. 

Gregor:  Dominus  Johannes   Gregor  non  facit  sectam  clioii  sed 

choir  so  often,  gg  absentat  ita   frequenter  quod    inter  omnes  chorales  in  faciendo 

one  like  him.    sectam  chori  non  est  sibi  similis. 

reynreth  does       Dominus  Robertus  Peynreth  neque  scit  legere  vel  cantare,  et  non 

not  know  how  ggj-y^t  cursum  chori  debitum  ut  ceteri  sui  consodales. 

to  rciid  orsing.  ^  .    ,  n -,        ^  t 

Keyll:  Dominus   Thomas    Cartwnght    cantat  faburdon  tali  ex- 

traneo  modo  quod  ceteri  chorales  nequeunt  cum  eo  concordare,  et 

facit  magnam  discordiam  inter  fratres  suos. 

Smuth:  Dominus  Thomas  Cartwright  non  pausat  psalmodiam 
suam,  et  alios  coinministros  impedit,  et  perturbat  in  cantando  fabur- 
don, et  magnam  discordiam  facit  in  choro. 

p.  299.— Dominus  Johannes  Bull  non  continue  pernoctat  in 
ecclesia  sed  multitotiens  se  absentat. 

Sexto  die  Mali  preeceptum  est  dicto  Johanni  Bull  per  magistrum 
Johannum  Barnby  quod  melius  invigilet  curae  sibi  commissae  et 
quod  emendet  se,  nedum  in  isto  articulo,  sed  etiam  in  aliis  subscriptis 
articulis  super  quibus  est  detectum :  sub  poena,  &c. 

Bull :  Cartwright :  Dominus  Johannes  Bull  et  Dominus  Tiiomas 

Cartwright  utuntur  communiter  subter  eoruin  togas  privatim  armi- 

secietly  under   cudia"    sive    ffcstra    infra    inansum    Vicariorum     contra    spccialem 
their  cloiiks  ,...,„ 

notwithstancl-   ordinationcm  inde  lactam. 

ordinance '^^^'^       Dominus  Johannes  Kendell  divcrsis  vicibus  reveniens  a  villa  de 

taberna  in  domum  Vicariorum  pluribus  noctibus,  sedens  cum  con- 

sortibus  suis  ad  ignem,  seruit  ex  superfliutate  cerebri  verba  contu- 

meliosa  inter  fratres,  qua3  plerumque  gcnerant  rixas. 

Sexto  die  mensis  jMaii  pricceptum  est   dicto    Domino    Kendell 

quod  se  abstineat,  et  ulterius  non  committat  prsemissa  hujusmodi. 

Penkith:  Dominus  Johannes  non  vacat  divinis  in  choro. 


A.D. 1484. 

Gregory  shirks 
choir  so  often, 
that  there  is  no 


Cartwright 
sings  fabnr- 
don  so  out- 
landishly  he 
makes  dis- 
cords. 


Bull  does 
not  sleep  in 
the  church: 
ordered  to 
amend. 


Bnll  and  Cart- 
wright wear 
daggers 


agamst  it. 
Kendell 
coming  back 
from  taverns 
in  the  town 
sits  over  the 
fire  in  the 
vicars'  hall, 
and  causes 
quarrels  by 
abusing  his 
Ijrethren: 
ordered  to 
amend. 


*  The  editor  of  the  Durham  and  Severity  Sanciunri/  records  (Surteet  Socict>/, 
1837,  vol.  i.)  in  a  note  on  entry  clxvii.  p.  (54,  says,  "  the  arniicudinm  M'as  probably  a 
small  stithy  used  in  making  plate  or  other  armour,"  misled  by  some  fancied  deriva- 
tion from  anna  and  incudc.  In  the  preface  he  offers  the  reader  the  choice  of  an  even 
wilder  derivation  as  "  cmicudum,"  an  oil-bottle.  There  Bccnis,  however,  no  reason 
to  suppose  that  it  is  anything  more  than  diminutive  of  arma,  meaning  a  small  s'vlv 
arm,  a  dagger,  or  whinyard  (gestrum). 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OP  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEE.  51 

A.D.  1484. 
Bull  et  Cartwright  non  veniiint  ad  preciosa.  Bull  and  Cart- 

Cantaristffi  simili  mode  non  veniunt  ad  prgciosa.  rhSntiy'^*^ 

Kendel  inservit  curis  aliarum   cantariarum    et    omittit   proprias  priests,  shirk 

cantarias  ad  quas  tenetur :  respcndet  idemDominus  Johannes  et  dicit  ^  ^^ '^,^" 

••■.     .  .  '         .  Kendell  serves 

quod  non  omittit  proprias  cantarias,  other  chaun- 

Gre  non  vacat  primae  et  horis,  et  in  medio  matutinarum  venit  in  ^e^igcts^i^ig 
chorum  ad  divina.  own:  denies 

^  .  the  charge. 

tantaristcB. 

p.  300. —  Tykhyll:  Dominus  Robertus  Peynreth  utitur  aucupacione  Peynreth 

,.    .  .  ,•       -1         i  1  hawks,  hunts, 

et  venatione  tempore  divinorum,  et  etiam  captationibus  talparum.       and  catches 

Briickschaic :   Dominus   Willelmus   Barthoi'p    non  vacat    divinis  "'^'^'^  *i'^.''^"g 
f^  .  „      .      ,.,  ....  .    service  tune, 

omciis  m  choro  diebus  restivalibus,  sed  multitotiens  se  absentat  aD  Barthorp 

iisdem  :    praeceptum     est     eidem   Domino   Willelmo   Barthorp    per  ^^^^^g^g^^^"^^' ^ . 

Magistrum  Johannem  Barnby  canonicum   residentem   quod  diebus  ordered  to 
,..,.,  ,.        p    .  1       .        1  attend, 

lestivalibus  melius  laciat  sectam  chori,  sub  poena. 

Columbse  deturpant  libros  in  defectibus  custodum  ecclesiaa.  The  doves 

.j^        .  ^    ,     '^  -r,  t      r  •  dirty  the  books. 

JJommus  Kobertus  Jreynreth  irequentat  aucupationem  et  vena-  Peymeth 

tionem   tempore  divinorum,  et  non  dicit  Placebo  Dirige  ut  tenetur,  Ji^^^'^saua 
_^  _        '  .  .    hunts,  and 

nec  ordinationem  cantari^  suse  ut  debet  observat :   Sexto  die  mensis  does  not  say 

Maii  prseceptum  est  dicto  Domino  Roberto  per  Magistrum  Johan-  dirigeas^he 

nem   Barnby  quod  abstineat  se  a  prgemissis  et  quod  observet  ordi-  ought: 

"^    ^  .  ,  ^     ,  o       ^  ordered  to 

nation  em  cantanae  suae  sub  poena  qua  decet,  cfec.  amend. 

Beylhy :    Dominus    Nicholaus    Knolles    ad  antiphonare  *  coram  Knolles  drags 

eodem    et    Domino    Thoma    Beylby   et    Domino    Thoma    Tykhyll  book"^  f^ont 

jacens  non  permittit  dictos  suos  consocios  habere  libri  aspectum  ut  of  himself 

,  ,.,..,     .,,     ,       ,.         .  ,.       ,  and  prevents 

ceteri,     sed.    se    totaliter    divertit   ad.    illud   alios   impediendo    ne  Beylby  and 

videant:  prjeceptum  est  dicto  Domino  Nicholas  quod  se  emendet  etc.  j^'-^u?^^'!^  ^5"°^ 

Peynreth:  nichil  deponit.  ordered  to 

Worsley:  deponit   qood   Dominus    Thomas    Shipton    non    vacat  ^^.^'^^ ' 

debitis  hons  divinis  officiis  in  choro,  et  dicit  quod  perdonatur,  ut  choir,  and  says 

dicit  iste  deponens.  ^^  is 'excused. 

*  The  antiphonary  was  to  the  daily  services  what  the  gradual  was  to  the  mass. 
It  contained  the  choral  parts,  particularly  the  antiphons,  or  short  anthems  which 
followed,  and  on  feast-days  preceded  also,  each  psalm. 


52  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

A.D.  1484-6. 

Beyll.y  talks  p.  30\.—K))olles:  Dominus  Thomas  Boylby  tempore  tllvinorum 
^  re'v^ents'hir*^  g^""^^^  "^  ccclesia  ct  impedit  suos  consocios  juxta  se  sedentes 
Eeighbours       cantare  divina  : 

singins.  Sexto  die  mcnsls  Mali  prfficeptum  est  per  ]\Ia<,nstrum  Joliannem 

abstain.  Barnby  pi^fato  Domino  Thomas  Beylby  quod  abstineat  se  ab  huius 

The  church-  ^j      ^ 

wardens  do  '  •  n  •   i  •  i 

not  light  the  Shlpto?i:  nichil  dcpoiiit.     JJeb:  nichii  deponit.     burton:  niclnl 

lamps  inac-        , 
cordance  with    deponit. 

the  fonndcrs'  Barthorp:  Custodes  Ecclesiae  non  illuminant  lampades,  et  pva?- 
ordinance.  .        ,  ,  .  t^     i     •  i  t      .•  r      j 

Barre  trets  40s.  sertim  lampadem  in  nave  Ecclesise,  eecundum  ordmationes  lunda- 

tVaching  the     torum  eorumdem. 

Grammar  Magister  Johannes  Barre  rccipit  pro  doctrina  scholarum   gram- 

does^'noUiing     maticalium   annuatim  xls.;  et  nichil  prohujusmodi  stipendio   tacit, 

forit,and         j^g^.  j^^jg  participat  cum  Domino  ^^'illehno  Barthorp  qui  habet  onus 

gives  no  share  .  . 

to  Barthorp,     docendi  grammaticam  pro  eodem. 

work.'""^' "'^         WillehTius  Norram  et  Johannes  Adcok  ac  Robertus  Cook,  clerici 

The  clerks  of    ecclesiaj,   non   frequcntaut  scohis  grammaticales  maxime  per  totum 

the  church  do 

not  attend  the    annum. 

Grammar  j;^         .   nichil  deponit. 

bchool  once  "^  ' 

throughout 

5^Mav"H8.5  P-  -"^^^ — Qn'^to  die   mensis   Mali   anno   domini   inillesimo  qua- 

Robert  liar-  diinf'esimo  Ixxx  quinto  Dominus  Eobertus  Harcourt  erat  admis- 
court  admitted  ^.  ,  •      i       j      -v  i  a      i  .  ^-  v\      r 

master  of         sus  ad  scolas  grammaticalcs  de  Aewark"*  ad  preesentationem  dilecti 

Newark  confratris  nostri   Masristri  Johannis  Dan  vers  Prebendarii  de  Nor- 

Gnimmar  "       .     .  .      .  .  . 

School  on        manton,  prout  perantea  fieri  consuevit,  juratus  etc.  per  resignationem 

oTl'rebeiXry  liberatTi  Xicholai  Bellerby  ultimi  praxcptoris  carumdcm  scolarum 

of  Normanton  yacantes  etc. 

on  resignation 

oi  last  master.  ^  whether  this  school  was  the  same  school  attached  to  the  parish  church  of 
Newark  which  Thomas  Magnus,  archdeacon  of  the.  East  Kidin^;,  endowed  in  A.D. 
1530,  or  whether  his  school,  which  still  subsists  and  flourishes,  was  n  new  creation, 
docs  not  certainly  api)ear.  This  Newark  School  was  very  ancient.  In  the  South- 
well Liber  Albus,  p.  VM),  the  Cliapler  and  I'rcbendary  of  Normanton  successfully 
asserted  their  jurisdiction  over  it  in  A.D.  1238  against  the  Trior  and  Convent  of 
S.  Catherine's,  near  Lincoln,  Gilbortiuc  Canons,  to  whom  Newark  church  belonged. 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMOEIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL   MINSTER.  53 

A.D.  1486-90. 

Visitation  oe  1490. 

p.  313. — xviii  Junii   Anno  Domini  in°cccc™°  lxxxx°  venerabilis  is  June,  1490. 

vir  mamster  Willelmus  Talbot,  Decretorum  Doctor,  Canonicus  liesi-  ^)'i°"^i'^i 
.     .  ...  .  .  ...  .     visitation 

cientiarius    hujus  inclitee   Ecclesia3,    Capitulum   publice  faciens,  in  postponed 

prjesentia  omnium  ministrorum  Ecclesise  decretum  visitationis,  quae  cwter. 

solite  fieri  solet  de  triennio  in  triennium,  hoc  instante  die  decrevit 

inchoatum,  et  continuandum  usque  ad  beneplacitum  Capituli  fore 

citra  festum    Sancta3    Trinitatis    proximum    aliquo    die    ad    eorum 

arbitria  limitando. 

p.  315. — Visitatio  Ecclesias   ColleffiatJB  BeatjB  Marias   Suthweil  f^.  9^*-.-^^^*^- 
.  .......  .  .     Visitation 

celebrata   in  domo   capitulari   ejusdem  xxviii  die   mensis   Octobris  held  by  J. 

Anno  Domini  millesimo  ccc™°  lxxxx™°  per  venerabiles  viros  Ma-  Y^^^xalbot' 

gistros  Johannem  Barnby,  Artium  Magistrum,  et  Willebiium  Talbot,  residentiaries. 

Decretorum    Doctorem,    Canonicos     Residentiarios    huius    inclitas  ,^. 

T-,      ,     .  .  .  ...  .  V  icars  and 

Ecclesiee,  cum  continuatione  et  prorogatione  dierum  scquentium.       chauntry 

Urhjll. — Detectum  primo  in  hac  visitatione   quod  tarn    Vicarii  ci^if  ^  ^ome 

quam  Cantaristas  non  intendunt  divinis  officiis  in  choro,  et  maxime  tardy,  espe- 

.     .  ,  .  .  -.         .  ill  cially  to  prime 

nimis  tarde   pro    majore    parte    veniunt    ad    primam    et    act    noras  ^nd  hours  • 

canonicas.  do  not  pause  in  the 

AT         r-     •       j_  i*  J    1  -i.  •  1         T  1  •  •     middle  of  the  verse 

Aon  taciunt  pausationem  debitam  in  psalmodizando  maxime  i"^  in  the  psalms 

medio  psalmorum.  Deacons  do  not 

T^.  .  ,.  ,  .  ...,,.  arrange  the  proces- 

Diaconi  non  ordmant  chorum  in  processionibus  debite,  ut  tenentur,  gjons  as  they  ought. 

et  frequenter  exeunt  villam  non  dimittendo   qui   supplerent  vices  ^'^^^^S^*^"*^  "^^.^^''^ 
■■■  _  _  ^  ^    _  ill  without  providing 

eorum,  nee  dicunt  Dirige  cotidie,  ut  tenentur,  nee  collectam  pro  substitutes ;  neglect 

Domino  Cardinali  Kemp  dicunt  ut  tenentur.  cShmTlvemp. 

Domini  Johannes  Kyrk,   Henricus  Frankych,  Robertus  Rochell  Kyrk,  Frankych, 

fabulantur,  rident,  et  ludificant  in  choro  tempore  Divinorum.     Sled-  laugh,  and  play  ' 

mer  non  venit  ad  primam  et  etiam  diebus  Dominicis  emit  ordia,  ^"'"'"S ''^^i^.'"^,*^-     . 

^         _  _  _  ..  Sledmer  shirks  prime, 

serta,  et  alia  caseum  et  pira  pilia""  cum  aliis.  buys  barley,  grain, 

p.  316.— Dominus  Willelmus  Schaw  non  venit  ad  primam  nee  ^Jj^^^^^;;^^^^^^^^^^ 

horas,  et  recedit  a  choro  statim  post  Te  Deum  et  ante  Laudes,  et  Sundays. 

deambulat  in  Ecclesia  tempore  divinorum.  and  hom-s^wSr^ 

"  What  pilia  is  I  cannot  find  out.  about  the  church 

during  service. 


54  VISITATIONS    AXD    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 

A.D.  1400. 

Plures  f^arnilant  in  choro  tempore  Divinorum.      Fiat  inde  gene- 

ralis  monitio. 

Vicars  choral  chant         Chorales  non  distlncte  cantant  psalmodiam  et  Icgendam.     Plures 

inaistiSk'!"'^ '^*'*'"^  etiam    chorales    tempore    matutinarimi,   mis?arum,   et  vesperarum, 

Many  saytheir  dicunt  submissa  voce  preces  suas,  et  non  cantant  divina  ut  tenentur. 

preccs  in  a  low  voice  <-,        .  •  i         i   i  j  ^  j 

instead  of  singing.  bacrista   panem    ct    vinum    ad   celcbrandum    non  praeparat,  sea 

The  sacrist  provides    plerumque  tam  panem   corruptum   quain   vinum    non    bonum    sed 
si)ur  bread  and  bad  j-       ,  -i  i-      »       i   i_„,„ 

wine  for  celebration,    corruptum  ordinat,  cum  quibus  non  licet  celebrare. 

Many  walk  about  Plures  tempore  divinorum  spatiantur  in  ecclesia,   et  prasertim 

l^i^liy^Sh^'''^''''  Schaw  cum  aliis  Cantaristis. 

Vicars  choral  do  not  Chorales   non    reverenter  se  habent    in  stando  vel    sedcndo  ad 

stand,  sit,  or  bow  invicem  et  se  inclinando  prout  ab  antiquo  fieri  solet. 

when  thev  ought.  t^iioi-                      i-                        ^• 

Penkvth  and  Shaw  Pcnkyth  et  Schaw  mcensant  altaria  cum  cerotecis  super  manus  et 

bless  the  deacons  with  sic  benedicunt  diaconos  cerotecati  more  pontificum. 

Hke^b1&*hops.*^"^   *°  ^       P-  317.— Dominus  Willelmus  Barthorp  non  vacat  debite  divinls 

iJarthorp  shirks  choir,  in  choro,  sed  extra  chorum  dicit  divina,  et  vix  bis  vel  ter  in  sep- 

timana  venit  ad  chorum,  continue  expectando  ibidem  duin  divina 

celebrantur,  ad  primam  et  horas  raro  venit. 
The  lavatory  called  Lavatorium  vocatum  Gunpot  cum  aqua  non  debite  attcnditur. 

Gunpot  IS  not  pro-  Chorales  in  cantando  faburdon  non   dant  vires  debitos  ad  invi- 

perly  sopphed  with 

water.  cem  Ut  concorditcr  cantent. 

(Tiireless  singing. 

11  Feb.  1490.    Shaw,      p.   237. — Undecimo   die   mensis    Februarii   Anno    Domini    mil- 
vicar  choral,  warned      1      •  „,„  1  n    T       ]  •.    1      •    C    i.1         11  I  • 

to  observe  the  lesimo  cccc™"  ixxxx"   In  domo  capitulari  ^lutliweU  coram  venerabi- 

statntes.  libus  viris  Magistro  Willel mo  Talbot,  Decretorum  Doctore,  Canonico 

Residentiario  hujus  Ecclesiaj,  ac  Dominis  Thoma  Urkyll  et  Roberto 
Dyson,  Gardianis,  ac  magistro  Roberto  SkayfF,  dicti  capituli  et 
actorum  scriba,  Dominus  Willelmus  Schaw,  vicarius  choralis,  per- 
sonaliter  comparuit,  cui  praefatus  venerabilis  vir  propter  diversos 
excessus,  crimina,  et  defectus  per  eundcm  notorie  alias  pcrpetratu 
secundam  monltioncm  dedit,  cum  alias,  nedum  dictus  venerabilis  vir, 
sed  etiam  magister  Johannes  Barnby,  Canonicus  Rcsidentiarius, 
publice  in  capitulo  propter  alia  scelera  perpctrata  per  eundem 
priino    monuit,  juxta    vim    formam    et  effectum    statutorum    dicti 


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A.D.  1490-92. 
capitiili,  quod  ipse  Dominus  Willelmus  ab  eisdem  iilicitis,  et  pne- 
sertim  de  transgressione  statutorum  dicta3  ecclesise  de  celero 
abstineret;  alioquin,  si  contrariurn  fecerit  et  reus  receptus  fuerit  in 
hiis  in  qiiibus  deliquerit  vel  similibus  prgemissorum,  extunc  idem 
WilleLnus  ab  officio  et  beneficio  suis  in  dicta  ecclesia  veniet  sus-  17  Ansj.  H95. 
pendendus,  nunquam  de  cetero  suum  habitum  de  cetero  habiturus.    summonecrfor 

p.  148. — Dominus  Johannes  Baf^all  :  xvii"  die  mensis  Augusti,  walking  about 
.  ^       .    .  .  .  ,  .,.,  .  .    the  town  at 

Anno  Domini  m*'cccc°  nonogesimo  quinto,  coram  venerabilibus  viris  unseasonable 

Magistro    Willebnus    Talbot    et    Magistro    Willelmo    Fitzberbert,  ^?'^,^",^  «^*^i« 
.  .  .     ..  .  .  night  and 

Decretorum  Doctoribus  et  Residentiariis  Ecclesias  Collegiatse  Beatse  throwing 

Marige  Suthwell,  in  Dorno  capitulari  et  capitulum  facientibus,  com-  L^^jj^ie's 

paruit  personaliter  Dominus  Johannes  Bagall:  cui  idem  capitulum  windows,  to 

,  .      .  ,  .  ,  ,  ,  .  1  ^-,.       .       .     their  expense 

objccit  quod  ipse  extra  lioras  debitas   et  extra  domum  Vicanse  in  and  annoyance 

nocte    deambulando    et    pervagando     stationes    faceret,    aliquando  ^^^  scandal  of 
lapides   projiciendo    ad    fenestras    commorantium  in  villa,  in    dis-  Submits  and 
pendium    et    gravamen    eorum,    et    aliorum    fidelium    perniciosum  ^^  enjoined 
'■  ,  •  1     •         ^  T  t^    ,         .  ,        nottodoit 

exemplum  et  totius  ecclesige  oliensam  non  modicum.     C^ui  quidem  again  on  pain 

Doininus   Johannes    prsedictus    submisit  se  correction!    capituli   et  ?*^°^^  °^  „    ^ 
1^  ^  ,  ...    benence:  first 

injunctum  erat  eidem  ne  illud  ultra  iteraret  sub  poena  amissionis  warning. 

beneficii.      Prima  monitio.  SlMaj,  1492. 

331.— Ultimo  die  mensis  Mail  A.D.  mcccc'^"  Ixxxxii'^^  dominus  Sth^'vic^Ir" 

Eicardus  Penkyth,  vicarius  choralis,  citatus  ad  comparendum  coram  Choral,  sum- 
,  ,  T  .  .,..,.  „   .  .       moned  before 

capitulo  eodem  die  super   certis   articulis  sibi  ex  oracio  canonice  the  chapter 

objiciendis  eidem,   pr^conizatus,  quia   non  comparuit,   pro   contu-  ^"'^  P^°' 

mace    publice   fuerat  declaratus,  et    incontinenter    ipso    pro    con-  contumacious 

tumace  declarato,  idem  dominus  Ricardus  Penketh  coram  capitulo  appearino-  • 

personaliter  comparuit  et  humiliter  correctioni  capituli  se  submisit.    appears  and 
„     .  ,  ,  T      T       •  -1  •  submits  to   ■ 

Ji,t  ideo  ad  prsesens  ad  ultenora  capitulum  non  processit.  correction  of 

Objectum  erat  eidem   eodem  tempore  quod  magister  Willelmus  ^^/^P'^^ -• 
Talbot  Canonicus  Residentiarius  dixisset  animo    diffamandi  quod  further 
ipse  Ricardus  Penketh  esset  pronuba.  strayed.  ^^^ 

Dominus  Willelmus  Schaw,  super  quo  articulo  examinatus,  con-  Talbot,  canon, 
fessus  est  in  capitulo  eodem  die  se  sic  dixisse,  et  nequiter  hujusmodi  ^^^  or"nn'\  . 
scandalum  fecisse,  et  quia    nullo  modo    dictum   suum   maliciosum  ral  crimes. 


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Sbawadmittcil  scaiidalum  probare  potuit  Idciico  capitulum  legitime  prccedens 
tddTlifbot  J^^^^  statutum  quod  sic  incipit  "actum  in  generali  conventioue"  et 
but  that  it  was  ceterum,  praedictum  dominum  Eicardum  de  suis  officiis  et  beneficiis 

sccum   alias  fuerat  ffiaciose  dis- 


a  malicious 
scandal 


22  June,  1492. 


dccrevit  fore  suspcndendum  nisi 
pensatum. 

241. — Seth   Orston  de  Suthwell,  xxii"^"  die  mentis   Junii  Anno 


S  Southwdi,    Domini  millesimo  cccc""'  Ixxxxii"*",  coram  Venerabili  viro  Willelmo 

to  be  excom-     Talbot  decretm-um  doctore    Canonico   Residentiario   dictae  ecclesisB 

mnnicated  for 

assaultiug 

R.  Harrison, 

clerk  : 


submits 
himself  to 
correction  of 
chapter; 

and  having 
sworn  to 
perform  any 
ponauce 
imposed, 
is  absolved 
and  penance 
respited. 
9  Nov.  1492. 
Barn  by, 
Talbot,  and 
Fitzherbert, 
residentiaries, 
in  public 
chapter 
assembled. 
Banks  and 
Turkyll, 
servants  of 
Talbot, 
accnsed  of 
unnatural 
crimes  and 
robbery  ; 


et  Dominis  Thoma  Urkyll  et  Roberto  Dyson  Gardianis  dictae 
Ecclesiae  in  domo  Capitulari  ejusdcm  personaliter  comparuit ;  cum 
dictus  Venerabilis  objecit  eidem  quod  extltit  excommunicatus  propter 
violentam  manuuin  injectionem  in  Ricavduin  Herryson  clericum  et 
dictai  ecclesiee  ministium,  et  pro  excommunicato  voluit  ipsum  decla- 
rare  locis  publicis,  nisi  legitiinam  habere  excusationem  in  hac  parte; 
dictus  Seth,  subjiciens  se  reum  in  praemissis,  humili  spiritu  submisit 
se  corrcctioni  dicti  Capituli,  prouiittens  se  perimplere  quamcunque 
pcenam  sibi  in  hac  parte  canonice  injungendam :  unde  de  consensu  dicti 
Ricardi  Herryson  expresso,  primitus  juramento  preestito  per  dictum 
Seth  et  satisfactione  facia  parti  lesaj  et  de  perimplcndo  pocnam  in- 
jungendam eidem  occasione  prtedicti  delicti,  eundem  Seth  de 
sententia  excommunicationis  absolvit  pra^dicta,  reservando  usque 
alias  pcenitentiam  pro  suis  demeritis  eidem  injungendam. 

p.  242.  Nono  die  mensis  Novembris  Anno  Domini  millesimo 
cccc"""  Ixxxxii*^".  In  domo  capitulari  Suthwell  coram  venerabililjus 
viris  magistris  Johanne  Barnby  artium  magistro  et  Willelmo  Talbot 
Canonicis  Residentiariis,  una  cum  Magistro  Willelmo  Fitzherbert 
decretorum  doctore  primam  suam  residentiiim  faciente,  capitiilariter 
congregatis  et  capitulum  publico  lacientibus,  prccsentibus  gardianis 
dicti  capituli  et  ]\Iagistro  Roberto  SkayfF  notario  publico  et 
actorum  scriba  capituli  ejusdcm, coinparucrunt  personaliter  Johannes 
Banks  et  Ricardus  Turkyll,  servientes  dicti  magistri  Willelmi  Talbot 
et  doniestici,  ubi,  alias  ut  asscrunt,  erant  apuil  bones  et  graves, 
penes  quos  extiterunt  bonas  fama3  et  opinionis,  nequiter  dillamati 
'^xistuut,  quod  ipsi,  seu  saltem  eorum  alter,  carnaliter  cognoverat 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER.  57 

A.D.  1492. 

eorum  alterum,  carnaliterque  cognovit  Johannam  Wod,  servientem 

Thomae  Orston,  vel  aliquam  aliam  mulierem  servientem  ejus  in  domo 

sua ;  et  ctiam   citra  hsec,  quod  nonnulla  res  et  bona  dicti  Thomse 

Orston   de   domo  ipsius   nequiter  subtraxissent  et    asportassent   et 

secum  detinerent    per    omnia  minus  juste.     Super  quibus  articulis 

publice  et  judicialiter  eigdem,  et  eorum  alteri,  per  dictum  capitulum 

ministratis  dictus  Johannes  Banks  et  Ricardus  Tbyrkyll  respondentes 

eisdem,  cos  constant!  animo  denegaverunt,  et,  pro  contradicentibus,  deny  the 

proclamationibus    de    mandato    dicti    capituli    primitus    factis    in  ^q  q^^' 

ecclesia  parochiali''  infra  dictam  ecclesiam  collegiatam  die  Dominico  appearing  to 

IT  r  n  'Tvr-  •  give  evidence, 

prsecedente  diem  et  festum  Sancti  Marci  proximum,  cum  nulla  vox  after  procla- 

reclamans  fueritin  contrarium,  dictum  capitulum  pra^fatos  Johannem  i^^tte^nai-ish 

Banks  et  Ricardum  Thyrkyil,  ad  eorum  instantem  petitionem,  ad  church  in  the 

suas    purgationes   in    hac   parte   admiserunt;  et  ipsi   Johannes    et  church, 

Ricardus  dictos  articulos  sibi  obiectos  in  forma  juris  publice  denega-  ^^®  permitted 

.  .,  .  =■     to  pui-ge 

verunt,  et  inde  cum   suis  purgatonbus  canonice  se  purgaverunt ;  themselves 

nomina  quorum  purgatorum  subsequuntur.     Et  idem  dictum  capitu-   ^,  "Mil- 
ium dictum  Johannem  Banks  et  Ricardum  Thyrkyil  eorum  famse 
pristinae  restituerunt  publice  per  decretum. 
Nomina  purgatorum: 

Radulphus  Longford,  Armiger 

Magister  Ricardus  Norman,  Notarius  publicus 

Dominus  Johannes  Keton,^  capellanus 

Robertus  Yoman 

Nicholaus  Schalcress 

Laurentius  Ellys 

Robertus  Cleyton  \ 

Ricardus  Walton  |     de  Suthwell. 

Thomas  Kynalton  ) 

*  It  thus  appears  that  at  Southwell,  as  in  so  many  other  collegiate  or  monastic 
churches,  the  collegiate  establishment  had  been  superimposed  on  an  ordinary  parish 
church. 

'•  This  appears  to  be  Dr.  John  Ketou,  appointed  chorister  25  March,  14:79,  after- 
wards Canon  of  Salisbury,  who  founded  the  Keton  scholarships  at  St.  John's,  Cam- 
bridge, in  1530,  for  Southwell  choristers.  See  Burn's  Ecclesiastical  Law,  vol.  iii. 
The  deed  is  set  out  in  the  Southwell  Register  of  Leases.  The  university  commis- 
sioners have  made  statutes  for  these  scholarships. 
CAMD.  SOC.  I 


Suthwell.        The  wit- 
nesses. 


58 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MINSTER. 


A.D.  1495-0. 


Thomas  Cook 
Thomas  AVollson 
Cristoforus  Elliswate 
Willehnus  Wygiall 


rle  Suthwcll. 


ir.  Sept.  149.5. 
Tall)ot  and 
Pitzherbcrt, 
residentiaries. 
Peter  Burton, 
channtrj 
priest,  sum- 
moned for 
permitting 
suspicious 
females  to 
Iiave  access 
to  his  chamber; 

denies  the 
charge  ; 

is  warned  not 
to  do  it  again. 


10  March,  HOG. 
Talbot,  residentiary, 
Smyth  and  Norman, 
churchwardens. 
John  Bagall  sum- 
moned for  not  oliserr- 
iug  statutes  and 
customsof  the  Church ; 
submits  and  is  en- 
joined to  be  of  good 
liehavionr  and  fame 
f(jr  the  future  <m  pain 
of  removal  from  office 
and  benefice  ;  second 
warning. 

Undated.  I,  Goldeyng, 
vicar  choral  of  tlie 
stall  of  the  prebend 
of  P^t()n,of  my  free 
will  promise  that, 
though  I  have  for 
.some  time  possessed 
my  said  vicarage  in 
peace  and  quiet,  yet 
through  my  carcicss- 
uess  and  insolence. 


p.  148. — xv°.  die  mensis  Scptembris  anno  Domini  m^cccc"  non- 
agesimo  quinto  coram  venerabilibus  viris  Magistro  Willelmo  Talbot 
et  Magistro  Willelmo  Fitzherbcrt,  Decretorum  Doctoribus,  et  Resi* 
dcntiariis  ecclesiaj  Suthwell,  in  domo  capituhiri  et  capitulum  facien- 
tibus,  comparuit  personaliter  Dominus  Pctius  Burton,  Cantarista;  cui 
idem  capitulum  objecit  quod  ipse  idem  Dominus  Petrus  permitteret, 
ut  dicebatur,  quasdam  muliercs  suspiciosas  aggressum  habere  ad 
cameram  ejusdem,  in  grave  animoe  suai  periculura,  et  tarn  clericoriim 
quam  laicorum  exemplutn  perniciosuin,  et  ecclesiie  Suthwell 
enormem  offensam  et  gravamen  :  cui  capitulo  idem  prasdictus  con- 
stanter  negavit;  et  si  opus  esset  purgationem  inde  f'aceret:  cui  prae- 
dictum  idem  capitulum  monuit  ne  tales  acccssum  abinde  ad  cameram 
suam  habcrent;  sub  poena,  &c. 

X.  die  mensis  ^lartii  Anno  Domini  M"cccc°  nonagesimo  sexto 
Dominus  Johannes  Bagall  comparuit  coram  Magistro  Willelmo 
Talbot,  in  domo  capitulari  capitulum  faciente,  et  Dominis  liicardo 
Smyth  et  Eicardo  Norman,  cui  idem  Dominus  Magister  Willehnus 
objecit  quod  in  scandalum  ecclesiai  non  observat  statuta  et  lauda- 
biles  consuetudines  ecclesiai:  idem  Dominus  Johannes  submisit  se 
corrcctiuni  capituli,  et  injuiictum  erat  oidem,  quod  amodo  esset  bonas 
conditionis  et  famai,  sub  poena  amotionis  officii  ct  benelicii :  et  hsec 
secunda  monitio. 

p.  149. —  Goldeyng.  In  Dei  noniine  Amen:  Coram vobis  vencnibili 
viro  Magistro  Willelmo  Talbot,  Decretorum  Doctore,  Canonico  Kesi- 
dcntiario  hujiis  Ecclesiae,  Dominisque  Thonia  Uikyll  ct  lloberto 
Dyson,  Gardianis,  ac  I\]agistro  lioberto  SkaylF,  Itogistrario,  capitula- 
riter  coiigrcgatis  et  capitulum  publicc  lacicntibus,  Kgo  llicardua 
Goldeyng,  admissus  ad  vicariam  Stalli  Prebcndai  dc  Eyton,  nulla 
cohcrciono,  .sod  ex  mea  spontanea  voluntate,  promitto  ct  fidem  presto, 


VISITATIOXS    AND    MEilOEIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTEK.  59 

A.D,  1496. 

quod,  licet  dictam  meam    vicariam  per   nonnulla   tempera    posse-  beiuK  given  to  the 
T  •/»  ^        •    .  •  •       i.  •        1      i-        •  1    J-     vanities  of  the  woiild, 

dissem  pacifice  et  quiete,  ac  ex  mea  incuria  et  insolenti  ammo  dedi-  frequenting;  public 

tus  fuerim  sgeculi  vanitatibus,  etc.,  eo  que  pr^textu  publica  spec-  spectacles,  dice,  cards, 

1     1      -  -IT    •  1  and  illicit  games, 

tacula,  alias  speras,  cardos,  aliosque  ludos^  ilhcitos  exercendo,  scan- 

dalum  michi  et  aliis  consortibus  meis  sacerdotibus  generando ;  Modo  ^^  ^^.  ^^^  ^^^  ^^ 

que    et  deinceps    sacro    flamine    inspirante,  de  novo  admissus   ad  colleagnes'  scandal, 

-  ,.  .  1  />  1  >i  1  T       the  sacred  breath'' 

eandem,  meos  mores  et  conditiones  malas  retormabo  nulla  publica  inspiring  me, 

spectacula,  alias  speras,  cardos,  ludos  que  illicitos  frequentabo;   non  ^^P"*^*"^  °*^."'^-\ ^° 
^    ^  ...  ..  .  .  .  omce,  promise  to 

sagittabo    nisi    in    honesta  comitia,  prgesertim   que    ubi    presbyteri  reform,  and  will 

sen  clerici  michi  associentur,  nee  quicquam  in  sacerdotii  dignitatis  |iays^ifToffend"again, 

scandalum  attemptabo.     Et  si,  quod  absit,  contrarium  fecerim,  infra  as  witness  my  hand. 

duos  dies  post  offensam  meam  in  aliquo  promissorum  dictam  meam 

vicariam  in  manus  dicti  capituli  resignabo,  pure,  sponte,  simplieiter, 

et  absolute.     Et  in  testimonium  preemissorum  nomen  meum  propriura 

ec  cognomen  manu  mea  propria  hie  in  hoc  Kegistro  subscripsi. 

p.  150. — Stokeley :  Quinto  die  mensis  Novembris  anno  Domini  ^  ^,''^;  l^^^- 
•n     •  ^       -^^  ,.,..-,.  Stokeley 

millesimo  cccc°  nonagesirao  sexto,  coram  venerabili  viro  Magistro  suspiciously 

Willclmo  FychherbertjDecretorum  Doctore,et  Residentiario  ecclesiae  housTof'the^ 

collegiatse  Beat^  Marise  Suthwell,  in  domo  capitulari  et  capitulum  clerk,  to  the 

faciente,  comparuit  Dominus   Robertus   Stokley,  Vicarius  Choralis:  pernicious 

cui   idem    Magister   Willelmus    obiecit,  quod  ille    idem   Dominus  ^,^^^^1^'®°^ 

.    .  ...  the  whole 

Robertus  suspiciose  frcquentaret  domum  scriptoris  in  grave  scandalum  collegiate 

et  perniciosum  exemplum  totius  ecclesiae  collegiate  Beatae  Marias  ^  ^^^  ' 
Suthwell ;  et  ob  hoc  prsecepit  eidem  Domino  Roberto  quod  ulterius  warned  first 
et  ab  hac  die  non  haberet  accessum  ad  eandem  domum  scriptoris, 
sub  poena  incumbente :  et  hcec  prima  monitio. 

p.  150. — 2°  die  mensis  Septembris  anno  Domini  millesimo  cccc°  o.^^'^,*"  ^^^^ 
nonagesimo  sexto,  coram  venerabili  viro  Magistro  Willelmo  Talbot,  accused  by 
Decretorum  Doctore,  Canonico  ac  Residentiario  ecclesiae  collegiatse  that^from^^ 
Beatffi  Marias  Suthwell,   ac   Dominis   Domino    Roberto  Dyson  et  Easter  to  the 
-o-jo  ri      T      '       •       ^  1-  -T-  •    present  hour 

Kicardo  bmyt  (aardianis  ejusdem  ecclesiae,  capitulariter  congregatis  he  had 

et    capitulum    publico    facientibus,    Lucia    uxor    Ricardi    Elys   in  ^^^^^^^^^'y 
*  Aliosque  ludos.     Ludos  aliosqixe,  MS.  ^  i.e.  Holy  Ghost. 


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A.D.  U96. 

asked  her  to 
get  her  muid 
to  be  his 
concubine, 
and.  being 
often  refused, 
aslied  her  to 
be  so  herself, 
promising  to 
assign  her  all 
his  salary  after 
providing  food 
and  clothing 
for  himself, 
and  she  vehe- 
mently craved 
to  swear  on 
the  (Jospels, 
and  on  her 
bended  knees 
wished  the 
devils  in  hell 
might  have 
her  if  this  be 
not  true. 

Stokeley 
denies,  but 
does  not  ask 
for  canonical 
purgation  ; 
ordered  to 
take  off  his 
habit  and 
not  resume 
it  without 
special  leave. 
He  resigns  the 
vicarage 
choral  of  pre- 
l>enil  of  Nor- 
Mianton  and  is 
reu(hnifted 
on  condition 
of  resigning 
if  lie  offends 
again  as  to 
Kllis  or  othcr- 


capitulum  cjusdem  eccleslac  vocata,  constant!  et  perseveranti  animo 
accusavit  dominuin  Robertum  Stokkeley  de  vicio  incontinentiae, 
diccns  et  affirmans  in  conscientiam  suam  quod  idem  Robertus,  a 
Festo  Pentecostae  usque  in  banc  horam,  primo  et  ante  omnia 
ancillam  ojusdem  Luciae  ab  eadem  ut  ejus  esset  concubina  multi- 
totiens  desidcravit.  Deinde,  post  negantia  plurima  ab  eadem  Lucia 
facta,  multipliciter  petiit  idem  dictus  Dominus  Robertus  quatenus 
eadem  Lucia  annueret  desiderio  ipsius,  ut  scilicet,  amplexibus  uteretur 
adulterinis,  promittenseidcm  Luciae,  ut  eadem  fatebatur,  quod  si  vote 
eju.s  annueret,  babitis  sibimctipsi  victui  et  vestitui  necessariis,  resi- 
duum salarii  sui  in  opus  ejusdem  Luciae  ccderet.  Quae  quidem  Lucia 
instanter  petiit  et  desidcravit  jurare  supra  sacrosancta  Evangelia 
ea  omnia  et  singula  per  eandem  dicta  esse  vera;  et,  fiexis  genibus,  a 
Deo  bumiliter  petiit  ut  Diabolis  in  inferno  haberetur,  nisi  taliter 
esset  ut  praemittitur ;  et  sic  cum  istis  verbis  prsodictis  et  aliis  biis 
similibus  a  capitulo  recessit.  Postmodum  vero  eisdem  die  et  anno 
supradlcto  Domino  Roberto  objectum  erat  per  idem  capitulum, 
utrum  in  eisdem  praedictis  oulpabilis  erat,  an  non.  Qui  quidem 
dominus  Robertus  per  eandem  Luciam  accusatrieem  suam  privmissa 
omnia  et  singula  negavit.  Non  tamen  purgationem  canonicam  sibi 
indici  postulavit,  sed  corrcctioni  capituli  se  submisit.  Habitaque 
deliberatione  non  modica,  injunctum  erat  eidem  praedicto  quatinus 
se  exucret  babitus  sui  vesiimenta,  eadem  iterum  non  acccptura"  nisi 
ex  speciali  gracia  eidem  in  futuro  concederetur,  &c. 

p.  152. — In  Dei  nomine.  Amen.  Coram  vobis  venerabili  viro 
Magistro  Willelmo  Talbot,  Decretorum  Doctore,  Canonico  Residen- 
tiario  bujus  ecclesias,  Dominisque  Roberto  Dyson  et  Ricardo  Smytb, 
Gardianis,  ac  Kicardo  Norman  Rcgistrario,  capitulariter  congrogatis 
et  capitulum  publice  faclentibus.  Ego  Robertus  Stokeley  admissus 
ad  vicariam  stalli  prebcndae  de  Normanton,  nulla  cobercionc,  sed 
mera  spontanea  voluntate,  promitto  et  (idem  presto,  quod,  licet  ilictam 


»  There  is  no  doubt  that  this  word  is  acceptura,  l)Ut  it  is  probaldy  a  mistake  for 
accepturus. 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MINSTER.  61 

A.D. 1496. 
meam  vicariam  per  nonnulla  tempora  possedissem  pacifice  et  quiete, 
ac  ex  mea  incuria  et  insolent!  animo  deditus  fuerirn  seculi  vanita- 
tibus  et  voluptatibus,  tabernas  exercendo  et  loca  inhonesta,  et  prgecipue 
domum  Kicaixli  Elys,  per  quae  scandalum  mihi  et  aliis  consortibus 
meis  sacerdotibus  multototiens  generavi,  Modoque  et  deinceps, 
dante  Deo,  de  novo  admis?us  ad  eandem,  meos  mores  et  conditiones 
malas  reformabo,  tabernas  et  loca  suspiciosa  et  inhonesta  abliinc  non 
frequentabo,  nee  quicquid  in  sacerdotalis  dignitatis  scandalum  at- 
temptabo :  Et  si,  quod  absit,  contrarium  fecerim,  infra  duos  dies 
post  ofFensam  meam  in  aliquo  prasmissorum,  dictam  meam  vicariam 
in  manus  dicti  capituli  resifynabo,  pure,  sponte,  simpliciter,  et  abso- 
lute. Et  in  testimonium  prgemissorum  nomen  meum  proprium  et 
cognomen  manu  mea  propria  hie  in  hoc  Registro  subscripsi. 

Eobertus  Stokley,  p^ste. 
p.  150. — xxii°.    die    mensis    Januarii    Anno    Domini   millesimo -^  J'^^uary, 

1-1:99. 

cccc™°    nonagesimo    nono,   citatus   comparuit   Dominus    Willelmus  Yong  spends 

Yong,    coram    venerabili   viro    Magistro    Willelmo    Fytzlierbord,  to^^^'lo^e^ 

Canonico  et  Residentiario  hujus  ecclesiae,  capitulum  publice  faciente:  times  two  or 

cui  idem  ]\Iagi?ter  objecit  quod  ipse  Dominus  "Willelmus  prtefatus  too-etherf 

in   sacerdotalis   dignitatis  scandalum,  et  in  sui  ipsius  dispendium  et  I'l*^}'"!.?  cards 

1  .  \     .        „^  ,  and  other 

vituperationes  plures   pernoctaret  in   villa,  et  exinde  aiiquando  per  illicit  games 

duas,  aiiquando  per  tres,  noctes  ludendo  ad  eardos  et  ceteros  ludos  ^^*^  laymen  ; 
inhonestos  cum  laicis.  Injunctum  erat  eidem  ne  hoc  iteraret  sub  J^^™^  ^  ''^ 
poena  amissionis  officii  et  beneficii.      Et  hsec  prima  monitio. 

p.  151. — viii.  die  mensis  Decembris  Anno  Domino  millesimo  8  Dec.  1496. 
cccc°  nonagesimo  sexto,  coram  venerabili  viro  Magistro  Willelmo  ^'J^inst^^"^ 
Talbot,  ac  Residentiario,  capitulum  faciente,  comparuit  Dominus  frequenting 
-iT--n   1  T  ■    ■^  1  ■      •  -    •  -T  iTT-n   i  •     the  house  of 

Willelmus   Leys;   cui   idem  objecit  quod  ipse  idem    Willelmus  m  Robert  Evyry. 

animae  suae  periculum,  et  in  grave  ecclesise  scandalum,  aggressum  sus- 

piciose  haberet  ad  domum  Roberti  Evyry:  injunctum  erat  eidem  ne 

ultra  eandem  domum  suspiciose  frequentaret,  sub  poena  amissionis 

beneficii:   et  heec  prima  monitio, 

Eisdem  die  et  anno  supradicto,  coram  eodem  maa'Ister  Willelmo  ^f^rtyn 

'■  "  charged  with 


62  VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 

A.D. 1498. 
adultery  with    Talbot  et  capitulum  facicnte,  comparuit  Dominus  Johannes  Martyn; 
Robert^'*        et  objcctum  erat  eidem  quod  ipse  in  animae  suai  pericnlum,  et  in 
Beswjke;         scandalum  ecck'siae,  suspiciose  frequentaret  domum  Koberti  Bcswyke ; 

et  in  locis  inhonestis  et  non  usitatis  confabulationes  et  colloquium 
submits  to  the  cuin  uxore  ejusdem  Rob'erti  haberet,  et,  quod  pejus  est,  prgesumitur 
the  chapter,      inter  nonnuUos  quod  adinvieem  amplexibus  adulterinis  uterentur. 

Idem  Dominus  Johannes  prsedictus  subraisit  se  correctioni  capituli. 

w'^n"^'  ^^^^*        Sexto  die  mensis  Junii  Anno  Domini  millesimo  cccc  nonagesimo 

Buller  steals     octavo,   coram   Venerabili   magistro  Willelmo  Talbot,  decretorum 

f  ^01  °  b  lif"^   Doctore,  in  dome  capitulari  Suthwell  capitulum  faciente,  et  Doininis 

in  the  Arch-     Roberto  Dyson  et  Ricardo  Smyth,  comparuit  personaliter  Dominus 

in  contempt  of  ^^'^illclm  us    Buller:    cui    articulatum   erat  per  eundem    magistrum 

the  archbishop  ^Yill^;!, J, um  Talbot,  Quod  ipse  Dominus  Willelnms,  in  opprobrium 
to  the  (lis-  ,,.,..    '.^  V-    •,-,•,■      •       -1  • 

credit  of  the     sacerdotahs  dignitatis  et  ordinis  clent-alis,  lurtive  in  domo  existente 

tl^*^^ ffence  of  ^"^^^  parcum  Domini  Archiepiscopi  quandam  partem  cujusdam 
Sir  William  damae  inde  extraxit,  et  penes  se  retinuit,  in  despectum  sive  con- 
Kn[ghf  •  temptum  Domini  Archiepiscopi  et  in  dedecus  Ricardi  Sammysbury, 

ejusdem  parci  et  domus  custodis,  et  in  maximam  oflfensam  et  grava- 
men Domini  Willelmi  Meryng  militis.     Quem  articulum  fatebatur 

is  deprived  of   idem  Dominus  Willelmus.     Iniunctum  erat  eidem  quod  pro  tem- 

his  habit  until  ,  "^  .     ,  . 

certain  pore  habitum  suum  demitteret  dum  modo  ira  et  indignatio  quorum- 

fs^abated*"^^'^  dam  sopiretur.     Etiam  piajceptum  erat  eidem  ne  talia  perpetraret 

sub  poena  &c.     Et  haec  prima  monitio. 

17  Jnlr,  149S.       p.  151. — In  Dei  nomine,  Amen.     xvii°  die  mensis  Julii,  Anno 
Peter  liurtoii,    -p.        .....     .  ,  ,  .  ,  .  .... 

chauntry  Uomini  miilesimo  cccc"'°  nonage.siino  octavo,  coram  v.obis  venerabili 

priest  of  the     yji-Q  ]\I;,nristro  Willelino  Talbot,  Decretorum  Doctore,  ac  Canonico 

second  chaun-  .... 

try  of  Law-      Rcsidentiario  hujus  ecclesiae,  Dominisque  Roberto  Dyson  et  Ricardo 

qmmdlm"'^^''''  Smyth,  Gardianis,  ac   Ricardo  Norman   Rcgistratore,  capitularitQr 

Archi)ishop      congregatis  et  capitulum  publico  facientibus,   Ego  Petrus  Burton, 

given  to'  Cantarista  alterius  Cantarioe  house  memoria  Domini  Laurentii  quon- 

fre(iucntiii<,'      J^,^l  archiei)it-copi   Eboraccnsis  nulla  colierrione  sed  mea  spontanea 

taverns  and  '         /  1    i-  ,     , 

Thomas  voluntutc,  prumitto  et  (idem  piaisto,  quod,  licet  deditus  (uerim  seculi 

Cowpers  vaiiitatibus  et  voluptatibus,  taberuas  cxercendo  ct  loca  inhoncsla,  et 


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A.D. 1498. 

pi-83clpue  domum  Thomas  Cowper,  per  quae  scandalum  milii  et  aliis  ^oiise,  s-svears 
^         .'■  ,.,'..  •        -»f     T  reformation, 

consortibus   meis  sacerdotibus  multitotiens  generavi :    Modoque  et  and  to  resign 

deinceps,  danle  Deo,  meos  mores  et  conditiones  malas  reformabo,  ^^^-^^^  offends 
et  loca  suspiciosa  et  inhonesta,  et  pisecipue  domum  prsedicti  Thomas  again; 
sive  aggressum  abjiinc  non  habebo  ;  nee  quicquam  in  sacerdotalis 
dignitatis  scandalum  attemptabo.  Et  si,  quod  absit,  contrarium 
fecerim,  infra  duos  dies  post  offensam  meam  in  aliquo  prsemissorum, 
dictam  meam  oantariam  in  manus  dicti  capituli  resignabo,  pure, 
sponte,  simpliciter,  et  absolute.  Et  in  testimonium  praemissorum 
nomen  meum  proprium  et  cognomen  manu  mea  pi'opria  hie  in 
Eegistro  subscripsi. 

Et  quia  huic  scripto   supradicto   contrarium   feci,   in  periculum  did  ofEeud 
animaa  me^  et  scandalum  ecclesias  populi  Dei,  propter  quod  exutus  rf&Tgned^Js 
eram  habitu  meo  et  dignitate:  Modo  in  graciam  noviter  receptus  i"efidmitted, 

...  Tr      •  T-j  1       ^1     .  r^  •  and  promises 

per    venerabilem    lUagistrum    JLamundum    barter,  Canonicum    ac  that  if  he 

Residentiarium    hujus  ecclesia  Suthwell,  promitto  et  fidem  prassto,  speaks  to 
quod  si  unquam  contrarium  sacerdotali  dignitati  egerim,  et  praecipue  again  he  will 
si  aliquo  modo  frequentationem  domum  Thomae  Cowper,  sive  col-  ^^^'^" 
loquium,  cum  uxore  pr^dicti  Thomae  habuero,  quod  tunc  cantariam 
meam  in  manus  capituli  resignabo,  pure,  sponte,  simpliciter,  et  abso- 
lute, &c. 

Fetrus  Burton. 

petrus  burton. 

p.  153. — Vicesimo  primo  die  mensis  Octobris  Anno  Domini  m°  20  Oct.  1498. 

cccc™°  nonao;esimo   octavo,  coram  mao-istro    Willelmo  Fvtzherbert,  Bi.\ller  Ticar 

"  .  ?  .     .  *■  choral  charged 

Decretorum    Doctore,    Canonico    Residentiario   ecclesi«   collegiatse  Avith  being  ipso 

Beatse    Marias    Suthwell,  in    domo    capitulari    ejusdem    capitulum  munkatrfor 

pub  lice  faciente,  comparuit  personaliter  Dominus  Willelmus  Buller,  striking 

.       -,  ,     .         .        .  IT  1.  .,  ,.         Penrith  in  a 

ejusdem  ecclesise  vicanus  choralis;  et  objectum  erat  eidem  quod  ipse  tarern ;  before 

erat  excommunicatus  ipso  facto,  eo  et  ex  eo,  quod  ipse  idem  Dominus  f  ^['^■^f  "i 

Willelmus  nocte  praecedente  manus  violentas  injecit  in  Dominum  scandal  of  the 

Robertum  Fendersth,  ipsum  percutiendo  publice  in  taberna  in  con-      ^^'^   ' 

spectu  sociorum  suorum  sacerdotum  et  laicorum,  in  maximum  scan- 


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VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTEE. 


A.D.  H98. 
excommunicated ; 


not  to  eat  or  drink 
with  his  colleagues 
sitting  at  table,  hut 
to  sit  apart  and  he 
served  by  himself. 


26  Oct.  1498. 


Asked  why  he  dis- 


dalum  ecclesiae.     Quem  articulum  conlessus  est  et  non  negavit.     Et 

sic  idem  magister  Willelmus  supradictus  declaravit  eundem  excom- 

niunicatum   fore   usque  ad   tempus,   prrccipiendo    eidem   saepedicto 

Domino    Willelino,  quod    ipse    imrrediate  exueret    se    habitu    suo 

chorali,  et  quod  non  coinederet  neque  bibeiet  ci^m  consortibus  suis 

Vicariis  cum  eis  sedentibus  in  mensa,  sed  per  ministrura  sive  servi- 

entem  Vicariorum  cibaria  necessaria  ministrarentur  eidem  Domino 

Willelmo  solummodo  sedenli  per  se  ad  mensam  ex  parte  dextera 

sive  sinistra,  &c.    Secunda  monitio. 

Vicesimo  sexto  die  et  anno  supradicto,  coram  venerabili  magistro 

supradicto   sedente  pro  tribunali  in  domo  capitulari,  comparuit  per- 

eonaliter  idem  Dominus  Willelmus  praedictus.     Cui  idem  magister 

obeyed  the"  order,  said, -^Yjllglj^yg  objecit  dicens  "  quare  transgressor  fuerit  pracepti   sibi 

sam^for*'my''d?nner     facti" ;  non  Humiliter  scd  protervo  spiritu  respondit  "  quare  pro  mensa 

as  my  colleagues  ?"     ^^  cibariis  solvo  sicut  ceteri  mei  consortes  faciunt,"  cui  idem  mngister 

to  which  the  canon  ,.  .  ,  .  , 

answered,"  I  see  yon  ait  "  video,  filius  iniquitatis  es  nec  dispositus  ad  graciam  ncque  art 

are  a  son  of  iniquity,    ^  mores  neoue  conditionem   bonam."     Cui  quidem  Dominus 

and  not  disposed  to  ^  .  ,  .      ,  ,. 

grrtce  or  good  con-       Willelmus  fatue  dixit  quod  "  noluit  venire  ad  capitulum  causa  erucli- 

vic^oVfatuously^  ^^'^  endi  sive  discendi  sapientiam  sive  prudentiam,"  et  alia  verba  incon- 
replied, "  he  did  not  yenientia  protulit  etc.  Consultum  erat  eidem  Domino  Willelmo  quod 
come  to  the  chapter  to       ,  ..    .        '  .       .  .      ,.  ,    .  -rr-j  -j 

be  taught  wisdom  ;"    subjicict  sc  correctioni  capituh  et  tamen  noluit.      V  idens  vero  idem 

magister  Willelmus  ipsum  sic  in  malitia  et  in  contuinacia  sua  per- 

durantem,  et  nullo  modo  volentem  se  correctioni  capituli  subjicere, 

commonuit  et  mandavit  omnibus  in  habitu  existentibus,  ut  evitarent 

ejus  consortium,  et  non  communicarent  cum  eo  ullo  modo  pra?ter- 

quam  a  jure  permisso.  Et,  ut  prius,  excommunicatus  contumax 
departs  contumacious.  .       „ 

recessit,  &c. 

Crastino  die  superveniente,  mcnse  ct  anno  supradicto,  coram  eodem 
27  Oct.  r  '  I  ' 

venerabili  viro  supradicto,  in  domo  capitulari  sedente  pro  tribunali, 
Next  day  begs  pardon  comparuit  personaliter  idem  Dominus  Willelmus  sajpedictus.  veniam 

pro  delicto  commisso  et  sua  contuinacia  ilexis  genibus  humiliter 
I'enancc  the  next  pctcns :  Qui  quidcui  magister  Willelmus  videns  eundem  Dominum 
Sunday  and  three  Sun-  WiUglmum  contritum  propter  cnomie  crimen  suum  «!i  contumaciam, 

days  following  to  walk  ,  .  ,  r  i       i  •        i  j 

in  front  of  the  proces-  salisfactione  prius  parti  lesffi  tacia,  absolutus  erat,  et  tactis  ab  eodem 


advised  to  submit 
himself,  refuses  ; 

his  colleagues 
ordered  not  to  com- 
municate with  him 


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A.D.  1498. 

sacrosanctis  Evangeliis,  injunxit  eidera  quod  sequente  die  Dominica,  sion  in  bare  feet  with 

nudis  pedibus  et  discooperto  capite,  coram  processione  cereura  in  f  '^^^  candle  m  his 

manu  sua  portans  prsecedet,  et  coram  imagine  Beatse  Mariae  Virginis,  seven  penitential 

tempore  missEe,  flexis  genibus,  septem  psalmos  penitentiales  diceret  et  before^ the  imagTof 

eodem  modo  tribus  aliis  dominicis  sequentibus  peragcret  sub  gracia,  ^^^  Virgin  during 

&c. 

p.  154. — In  Dei  nomine  Amen.  Coram  vobis  Venerabili  Magistro  ^^^^'^^}? 
\  _  "  resign  his 

Willelmo  Fytzherbert,  Decretorum  Doctore,  Canonico  Residentiario  vicar  choral- 

hujusecclesice,  Dominis  Roberto  Dyson  etEicardo  Smyth,  gardianis,  second  prebend 

ac  Ricardo   Norman  Registrario,  capitulariter  congregatis  et  capi-  ^f  Oxton  if 

tulum  publice  facientibus,  Ego  Dominus  Willebnus  Buller,  admissus  again. 

ad  vicariam  stalli  alterius  prebendse  de  Oxton,  nulla  cohercione,  sed 

ex   mea  spontanea  voluntate,  promitto  et  fidem  praesto,  quod,  licet 

dictam  meam  vicariam  per  nonnulla  tempora  possedissem  pacifice 

et  quiete,  ac  ex  mea  incuria  et  insolenti  animo  deditus  fuerim  seculi 

vanitatibus,  et  pr^ecipue   fuerim  percussor  cujusdam  consocii   mei, 

sacerdotis,  ac  etiam  plus  ?atis  venationes  et  Judos  frequentavi,  et  alia  Though  I  have 

.      /.     .       1  11  .,.,,..  .,        frequented  hunting 

mconvenientia  faciendo,  per  quse  scandalum  miliiet  aliis  consortibus  and  games  more  than 

meis    sacerdotibus    multitotiens    e;eneravi:      Modoque    et   deinceps  ^°.?"o^' ^^'^  ^■®^°'^''"' 
n        •  •        •  1     •  11  '^^"1  ^^^  frequent 

liamine  sacro  mspirante,  de  novo  admissus  ad  eandem  meos  mores  taverns,  &c.  but  will 

et  conditiones  malas  reformabo,  tabernas,  ludos  inhonestos,   vena-  fo^scH  jTure  readin" 
tiones,  et  alia  inconvenientia,  sicut  prius,  ab  hinc  non  frequentabo,  sed  ^nd  other  things 
..../Y...,  -^         li-iV         •  ••      necessary'  to  salvation, 

divmisomciisetsacree  scnpturse  lectuns  et  aliis  animae  meeenecessariis, 

Deo  dante,  magis  ac  magis  ascultabo,  sed  nee  quicquam  in  sacerdo- 
talis  dignitatis  scandalum  atteraptabo.  Et  si,  quod  absit,  contrarium 
fecerim  infra  tres  dies  post  oifensam  meam  in  aliquo  proemissorum 
dictam  meam  vicariam  in  manus  dicti  capituli  resignabo,pure,  sponte, 
simpliciter,  et  absolute.  Etin  testimonium  pr^emissorum  nomen  meum 
proprium  et  cognomen  manu  mea  propria  hie  in  hoc  registro  sub- 
scripsi. 

Dns  Wyllmus  Buller. 


CAMD.  soc. 


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VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MINSTER. 


A.D.  1409. 

Visitation  19  July, 
1499,  Edmund 
Carter,  residentiarj'. 


Stokeley  and  BuUer 
shirk  choir,  come 
late  and  go  early . 

Bagall  frequents  the 
house  of  K.  Vry,  twice 
forbidden  him. 
Gives  his  written 
pledge  not  to  do  it 
again. 


Burton  frequents  the 
house  of  Thomas 
C'owpcr,  in  spite  of 
bis  written  pledge; 
12  or  more  of  his 
lirethren  say  so, 
denies,  and  is  put  to 
purgation. 


Wylson  frequents  a 
widow's  house  lately 
come,  shirks  choir,  or 
leaves  at  Lauds,  and 
walks  about  the 
church. 

Says  he  never  spoke 
to  the  woman,  and 
is  ready  to  swear. 

Young  a  tavern- 
haunter  and  card- 
player,  and  quurrcl- 
some. 

20  July,  submits. 


Visitation  of  1499. 

p.  319. — Visltatio  Ecclesioe  Collegiatae  Beatae  Mariaj  Suthwell 
celebrata  et  inchoata  ibidem  per  Venerabilem  virum  Magistrum 
Efhnundum  Carter,  Residentiarium  ejusdem  ecclesiae,  xix°  die  mensis 
Julii  anno  Domini  millesimo  cccc'""  nonagesimo  nono,  cum  con- 
tinuatione  et  prorogatione  dieruin  sequcntium. 

Primo  detectum  est:  Dominus  Kobertus  Stokeley  et  Dominus 
Willelmus  Buller  non  sequuntur  sectam  chori,  ut  tenentur;  tarde 
veniunt  et  cito  recedunt. 

Dominus  Johannes  Bagall  frequentat  domum  Roberti  Vry,  prius 
bis  sibi  prohibitam,  et  hoc  detectum  est  per  decem  vel  plures  con- 
fratres  de  habitu,  in  grave  periculum  animie  suae,  et  in  malum  exem- 
plum  tarn  clericorum  quam  laicorum:  citatus  comparuit  et  subscripsit 
nomen  et  cognomen  suum,  submittendo  correctioni  capituli. 

Dominus  Petrus  Burton  frequentat  domum  Thomtc  Cowper,  et 
idem  subscripsit  nomen  et  cognomen  quod  non  frequentaret  eandem 
domum ;  et  hoc  etiam  detectum  est  per  duodecim  vel  plures  confratres 
etc:  citatus  comparuit, negatarticulum,habet  diem  purgationis  feriam 
tertiam  post  festum  Beatre  Marioe  i\Iagdalenie  cum  octava  sua  manu, 
tam  vicinorum  quam  sacerdotum  de  habitu. 

Dominus  Johannes  Wylson  frequentat  domum  cujusdam  vidua?, 
quae  noviter  venit,  habitantis  in  domo  cujusdam  Johannis  Brokby; 
non  venit  ad  chorum,  et  si  aliquando  venerit,  exit  ad  laudes  deam- 
bulando  in  ecclesia  sine  habitu:  citatus  comparuit  negavit  articulum 
et  preecipue  quod  unquam  locutus  fuerit  cum  praedicta  mulicre,  et 
ad  hoc,  si  neccsse  fuerit,  voluerit  prcestarc  juramentum. 

p.  320. — Dominus  Willelmus  Young  est  frcquentator  tabernaruin 
prtccipue  in  noctibus,  et  est  maximus  lusor  ad  taxillos  et  cardos,  in 
perniciosum  cxemplum  clericorum  et  laicorum,  et  est  maximus 
scminator  discordiarum  inter  fritros  :  xx"  die  mensis  Julii  anno 
Domini  m"  cccc'""  nonagesimo  nono  citatus  comparuit,  submisit  so 
correctioni  capituli,  et  promisit  se  emendarc:  injunctum  erat  eidcm 
ne  amodo  ilia  itcrarct,  sub  pccna  incumbontc. 


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A.D.  1499. 
Magister  Laurencius   Pypys  non   frequentat  chorura    secundum  Pjpys  shirks  choir,  is 

iuramentum  ab  eodem  prffistitum  in  admissione  sua;  praesumitur  a  ^^^^^'^f^  *'*?.f^^^^  ^^^ 
•'  ,  ^    .    t^  .  ^  .  chauntry,  likewise 

multis  quod  non  dlcit  horas  canonlcas,  nee  obsei'vat,  ut  creditur,  teaches  his  boys  in 

cantarlas    suas   temporibus   suis,  ad  quas    observandas  juramentum  j^J^^^g^^^^.j^'^^jg^^^^"^ 

praestitit.    Similiter  docet  pueros  suos  infra  cantariam  suam  boris  non  turbance  of  the  Vicars. 
,.   .  .     .  ,       .  .        .  -11  -1  When  he  does  come 

Ileitis  in  perturbationem  vicariorum:  raro  venit  ad  chorum,  et  nil  to  choir  for  the  most 

aliud  pro  majore  parte  facit,  quando  venit,  nisi  quod   fabulatur,  et  P'^,*^  ^°^^  nothing  but 

hoe  deteetum  est  per  plures. 

Juvenes  viearii  non  veniunt  ad  divina  officia,  ut  tenentur,  et  pr£e-  The  young  Vicars, 

cipue  Buller,  Stokley,  et  Brodbede,  etcum  venerint  cito  recedunt,  et  BJ^oatuiead  shu-k'^'^ 

praecipue  Buller  non  venit  ad  primam,  et  vix  vel  raro  expectat  horam  choir,  especially 

.  Buller,  who  does  not 

tertiain.  come  to  prime,  rarely 

Dominus  Johannes  Bekyrke,  procurator  sive  firmarius   Sacristee,  ^''■i*^>"g  to  tierce. 
non  servat  chorum  in  eirpis^  in  autumpno  et  in  nattis  in  hyeme  ut  ]ess7e  of't'hTsalrist 
solito  servabatur.      Idem  etiam  dicit  horas  canonicas  in  choro,  non  does  not  supply  the 

.  .  .    .  ,        .  choir  with  rushes  and 

cantando,  in  perturbationem  aiiorum   mmistrorum  et   asseaentium.  matting  as  he  ought, 

Et,  in  defectu    sacristas  sive  servientium,    candeliE  aliquando    non  ^y^.  *^?  ^•^"J"-'*  ^°''*'^''*^1 
'     _  _  '  f  ,       01  smgmg  them,  does 

illuminantur  tempore  divinorum  etc.     In  defectu    clericorum   sive  not  light  the  candles 

servientium  sacristse,  deficit  ignis  aliquando  in   lampade,  ita  quod  g "!^|°f  ^^.^gg^^^lg^j^^^^^^ 

sacerdotes    inehoantes    missam    stant    sine    lumine    aliquando    per  without  lamps  for  a 

, .        .  quarter  of  an  hour,  to 

quartam  unius  hora^,  et  in  tseoium  missam  audientium.  the  disgust  of  the 

Norman,  Stokley,  Brodbede,  Kvrkby  et  Buller  communes  fabu-  congregation. 

.  •'  ■'J  Norman,  &c.,  common 

latores  in  choro.  talkers  in  choir. 

p.  155. — xxvi"  die  mensis  Julii  anno  Domini  1499°,  coram  Yene-  26  July,  1499. 
rabili  viro,  Magistro  Edmundo  Carter,   Canonico   ae   Residentiario  ^^  ^1^^®^ ^^.j P^°YoiU°^ 
huius  ecclesia3  Suthwell.     Dominus  Willelmus  Yong  notatur  super  says  his  hours  during 

.     .         .      ,      ^.        .  ,  .       T  .      .  .  .       .  matins, 

erimine    mobedientise,  eo   quoa  non  paruit   decretis  in  visitatione 

factis,  perturbando  socios  suos  in  choro,  dicendo  tempore  matuti- 
narum  horas  canonicas,  quod  sibi  et  aliis  prohibitum  fuit  in  visita- 
tione.     Et  praecipue   quod  publice    er   manifeste  in  domo  cantaris-  ""^1  refuses  to  obey 
^  1  •  11-1  •     •  •    •  ''^^  wardens  in  the 

tarum  alta    voce  proclamavit  quod  noluit  redargui  sive  corngi  per  canons' absence. 

*  "  Cirpis  "  =  "  scirpis,"  rushes;  "nattis"  appears  to  mean  a  matting  of  reeds. 
(Ducange). 


68  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMOKIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MIXSTER. 

A.D. 1499. 

ics,  but  will  not     Gardianos  in  absentia  canonicorum,  contra  statuta  prius  inde  edita, 
ir  whether 
submits  to 


swear  whether  he  saia  >;ggj^^i|.  articuliim  sed  noluit  pi-cEStare  juramentum  utinm  sic  dixit 


correction.  vel  non ;  sed  humditer  submisit  se  correctioni  capituli  etc.     Lt  hajc 

t^econd  warning.  ,  .  . 

secunda  monitio. 

sitS'thfnsual  ^n   I^ei  nomine  Amen     xii"  die  mensis  Octobris  anno   Domini 

undertaking  to  1499°,  coram  vobis  Venerabili  Magistro  Willelmo  Fitzlierbert,  decre- 

chanmtr^oT John  the  toium   Doctore,  Canonico  ac   Residontiario  hujus  inclitae  ecclesiee, 
Baptist.  Dominisque  Roberto  Dyson  ct  Ricardo  Smyth,  gardianis,  et  Ricardo 

Norman  Registrario,  capitularitcr  congregatis  et  capitulum  publice 
f'acientibus.  Ego  Dominus  Willelmus  Yong,  Cantarista,  celebrans  ad 
altare  Sancti  Joliannis  Baptistse,  nulla  cohercione,  sed  mea  spontanea 
voluntate,  promitto  et  fidem  prrosto,  quod  abliinc  non  pernoctabo  in 
villa,  aut  exinde,  non  cxercebo  taxillos,  et  cardos,  et  alios  ludos  inhones- 
tos  cum  laicis,  nee  frcquentabo  tabernas  tempore  non  debito;  non  per- 
vagabo  in  nocte,  deanibulandoper  vicos  et  stratas  portando  baculum, 
cuitellum,  sive  aliqua  alia  arma  invasiva  ad  percutiendum  aliquos,  in 
sacerdotalis  dignitatis  scandalum,  et  mei  i])sius  dispcndium  et  vitu- 
perationes,  Sed  Deo  dante,  meos  mores  et  conditiones  malas  reform- 
abo;  Canonicis,  et  Gardianis  in  absentia  Canonicorum,  ero  obediens 
in  omnibus  Ileitis  et  honestis;  et  si,  inimico  humane  generi  sugges- 
tante,  contrarium  fecerim,  infra  duos  dies  post  offensam  meam  in 
aliquopra^missorum,  dictam  meam  cantariam  in  manus  dicti  capituli 
resignabo,  pure,  sponte,  simpliciter,  et  absolute.  Et  in  testimonium 
preemissorum  nomen  meum  ct  cognomen  meum,  manu  mea  propria, 
hie  subscripsi. 

AVill'm  Yong. 

p.  154. — In  Dei  nomine  amen  "    Coram  vobis  venerabili  ]\Iagistro 

Edmundo  Carter,  Canonico  Residentiario  hujus  ecclesix  Sutluvell, 

Dominisque    Roberto   Dyson    ct  Ricardo     Smyth,     Gardianis,    ac 

^'iS^'to^dice  umf^''     l^icardo  Norman  Registratoie,  capitularitcr  congregatis  et  capitulum 

cards  and  t're(|uentiug  puijiJu-Q    facientibus.       Ego    Dominus    Johannes    Bagell,    viearius 

Yoman,  alias  Vry;       choralis,   in  hac  inclita    ccclesia    Suthwcll,    nulla    cohercione    sed 
swears  to  resign  if  he 

offends  again.  »  This  entry  is  undated.     It  appears,  however,  to  have  followed  on  the  visitation 

of  H'Jl),  as  frequenting  Robert  Vry's  house  is  one  of  the  complaints  against  him. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OP  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  09 

A.D.  1499. 
nieu  spontanea  voluntate  promitto  et  fidem  prassto,  quod,  licet 
deditus  fuerim  seculi  vanitatibus  et  voluptatibus,  ludos  viz.  ad 
taxiilos  et  cardos  inter  laicos  exercendo,  et  loca  inhonesta  fre- 
quentando,  et  prsecipue  domum  Roberti  Yoman  alias  vocati  Vry, 
per  quae  scandalum  mihi  et  aliis  consortibus  sacerdotibus  multito- 
tiens  generavi:  Hinc  est  quod  deinceps  et  amodo,  flamine  sacro 
dante,  non  ero  lusor  inter  laicos  ad  taxiilos  et  cardos,  ut  prius,  neque 
loca  inhonesta  frequentabo,  et  prgecipue  domum  praefati  Roberti 
Yoman  alias  Vry,  et  etiam  promitto  et  fidem  prgesto  quod  abhinc 
aggressum  ad  eandem  domum  ssepedicti  Roberti  non  habebo  Et 
etiam  quod  nullo  modo  colloquium  sive  communicationem  fieri 
permittam  inter  mc  et  iixorem  prtefati  Roberti,  honestis  saluta- 
tionibus  in  ecclesia  et  foro  duntaxat  exceptis.  Et  si,  quod  absit, 
contrarium  fecerim,  infra  tres  dies  post  ofFensam  meam  in  aliquo 
pra^missorum,  dictam  meam  vicariam  in  manus  dicti  capituli 
resignabo,  pure,  sponte,  simpliciter,  et  absolute.  Et  in  testimonium 
praimissorum  nomen  meum  proprium  et  cognomea  manu  mea 
propria  hie  in  hoc  registro  subscripsi. 

Dns  Ihoes  Bagell. 

p.  156. — Viii"  die  mensis   Mali  anno   domini  millesimo  quingen-  8  May,  1500.  Wylson 

tesimo   Dominus  Johannes  Wylson  notatur  super   crimlne  fornica- j^g^^^^^j^f^"  ^^fj^^  °"^" 

tionis  cum  Isabella  Potter:  citatus  comparuit,  fatetur  articulum,  sub-  Isabella  Potter. 

.  .  .      .  -^    T        T    •        \  -1  1  •         T  Penance  to  walk 

misit  se  correctioni  capituli.     Injunctum  erat  eidem  quod  mcederet  before  the  cross  in 

proxima  die  dominica   cum   una    torciana   cerae,    portans  in  manu  Procession  next  Sim- 

.         -,.  day,  and  on  three 

sua,  ante  crucem,  nudis  pedibus  et  capite  discooperto,  quam  oflTeret  Sundays  following, 

post  processionem  etc.  ;  et  magis  tribus  dominicis  sequentibus  faciet  Ms  hamrbare  feet^^nd 

ex  gracia;   Irem   in  eundo  dicet  psalmos  pcenitentiales :  quas  pceni- '^^''^'J' tf^.say  the 

tentias  dominica   sequente   devote,  humiliter  et   contrite,  ab  oculis  Performs  his  penance 

lacrimis  emanantibus,  peregit.     Et  quia  humills  et  contritus  fuerat  °^^*'  Sunday  with 
'  ^  .  ,  tears,  and  is  given 

in   agendo  poenitentias  suas,   hinc   estj  quod  capitulum  considerang  Friday  instead,  and 

humilitatem   suam,   remisit  et  pardonavit    sequentes    dominicas,    et  [{ayg       e  ot  er  bun- 

assignavit    sibi    diem  Veneris    eodem    modo  ut  supra  antecedendo 

processionem:  injungendo   eidem   quod  nullo  modo   uteretur  con- 

sortio  ejusdem  Isabellas  Potter,  sub  poena  amissionis  cantariae  suee. 

Et  base  prima  monitio. 


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VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 


A.D.  1600. 

3  Nov.  1500. 
Leave  of 
absence  to 
Carter,  one 
of  the  resi- 
dentiaries,  to 
go  to  York  on 
chapter  bosi- 
ness  for  a  fort- 
night. 


21  March, 
1500. 
Leave  of 
absence  to 
Carter,  resi- 
dentiary, to 
go  to  York  on 
the  King's,  the 
Archbishop 
elect's  busi- 
ness, kc,  and 
the  common 
good  of  the 
Church  of 
Southwell,  for 
three  weeks. 


p.  308. — Tertio  die  mensis  Novembris,  anno  Domini  mille.=irao 
quingcntesimo,  venerabilibus  viris  Domino  Willelnio  Fytzherbert, 
Decretorum  Doctore,  et  Magistro  Edmundo  Carter,  Residentiariis, 
capitulariter  congregatis  et  capitulum  facientibu:;,  praedictus  Magister 
Wyillelmus  Fytzherbert  cum  eodem  Domino  Edwardo  Carter  in 
dome  capitulari,  iter  arripiendo  versus  civitatem  Eboracensem, 
propter  arduas  causas  "  et  pr£ecipue  propter  negotia  utilitatem  et 
bonum  communiae  ecclesice  Suthwell  et  ministrorum  ejusdem  con- 
cernentia,  dispensavit  et  licentiam  dedit  eidem,  pro  duobus  septimanis 
juxta  sequentibus,  faciendi  suam  absentiam  personalem  ;  proviso 
semper,  pro  tempore  praedieto,  quod  depascatmore  solito  et  consueto 
ministros  ecclesiae  continue  a  dato  praesentium  usque  in  finem  quin- 
denae  complete  numerandas. 

p.  309. — Vicesimo  primo  die  mensis  Martii  anno  Domini  mil- 
lesimo  quingcntesimo,  venerabilibus  viris  magistro  Willelmo  Fitz- 
herbert,  Decretorum  Doctore,  et  ]\Iagistro  Edmundo  Carter,  Residen- 
tiariis, capitulariter  congregatis  et  capitulum  (acientibus,  idem  ma- 
gister Willelmus  Fytzlierbert  cum  eodem  magistro  Edmundo  in 
domo  capitulari,  iter  arripiendo  versus  civitatem  Eboracensem  propter 
diversa  negotia  lam  Dominum  regem  quam  electum  Archicpisco- 
pum  Thomam  et  bonum  commune  ecclesia;  Suthwell  et  ministrorum 
ejusdem  concernentia,  dispensavit  ct  licentiam  dedit  eidem  ^lagistro 
Edmundo,  pro  tribus  septimanis  immediate  sequentibus,  faciendo 
suam  absentiam  personalem,  proviso  semper,  pro  tempore  prsedicto, 
quod  depascat  more  solito  et  consueto  ministros  ccclesiie,  continue  a 
dato  prffisentiura  usque  in  finem  termini  praedicti  complete  numerandi. 


3  May,  1503. 
Visitation  by 
Dr.  Fit/.ber- 
bert,  resi- 
dentiary. 


Visitation  of  1503. 

p.  321. — Visitatio  Ecclcsiai  Collegiatee  Beata;  Mari<x  Suthwell, 
celebrata  et  inclioata  il)idcm,  per  vencrabilem  virum  IMagistrum, 
Thomam  Fitzherbert,  Decretorum  Doctorem,  ac  Kesidentiarium  in 
eadem  ecclesia,  tertio  die  mensis  Maii  anno  Domini  millesiino  quin- 


'  Probably  connected  with  deatli  of  Arcbb 
election  of  his  successor,  Thomas  Savage. 


Uotberbaui,  L'C  May,  1500,  and 


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A.D.  1503. 
gentesimo  tertio,  cum  continuatione  et  prorogatione  dierum  sequen-  Books  in  choir 
tium.  called  "  stand- 

Detectum  est  quod  librl  in  choro  vulgariter  vocati  le  Standarths  properly  kept, 

non   observantur    tempore   hyemali    cum   candelis  cereis,  ut   antea  ?T^*V^'^^     , 

^  ,  .  ...        lights  or  rush 

servabantur,  sive  cum  candelis  de  cepo, in  defectu  Sacristee:  similiter  lights:  lights 

debitus  ordo  non  observatur  in  accensione  cereorum  coram   altari,  kept^before^he 

sicut  solitum  fuit,  sed  minuitur  ibl  ordo  cereorum  contra  antiquam  a-ltar,  candles 

consuetudinem,  m  deiectu  prjEcedentis;  et  etiam  candelee  Scepe  ex- prime  in  Lent 

tinguuntur  in  quadragesima  ad  primam,  et  aliis  temporibus  anni  non  «^"^^  "ther 
.,  .  T.  o  r  '  r  seasons, 

illuminantur;    et  hoc  detectum  est  per  plures. 

Item  cantaristee  et  alii  ministri,  qui  tenentur  legere  lectiones  in  Chauntry 

choro,  tempore  servicii  divini,  non  praevident  eas  super  tumba  ut  fieri  others^ i-ead 

solet,  sed  tractant  libros  legendarum  usque  in  stallis  suis,  qua  de  causa  tl^e  lesson- 
,.,.,,  .  ,        ,  .  .  ,       .  books  not  on 

libn  Jffiduntur,  quia  non  clauduntur  post  pra^visionem  et  lectiones.      the  reading- 
Item  detectum   est  quod  dominus  Johannes  Yngham  suspiciose  'j^  .  ^^^^^ 
frequentat  consortium  uxoris  Petri  Bassterfeld  in  quam  pluribus  locis  so  spoil  the 

suspectis,  et  etiam  in  ecclesia,  contra  prohibitionem  sibi  factam ;  et  hoc    °°  ^' 
,      ■  c^•     ■^•  ■  n     •  i       •    J^lin  Yngham 

detectum    est    per    omnes:    bimiliter    pessime   tacit   sectam    chori :  suspect  with 

similiter  ex  monitione  deterioratur.     Et  timent  plures  de  male  sibi  ^T?^  Basster- 

^  leld's  wite  m 

f'uturo  in  grave  scandalum  Ecclesise.  the  church 

Dominus    Petrus    Burton    frequentat    domum     Thomas    Cowper  g^j^j^g^^^^^j^.^^" 

antea*'^  sibi  prohibitam,  et  insuper  bis   subscripsit  suum   nomen  et  gets  worse  by 
,11  ,  being  warned, 

cognomen,  et  hoc  detectum  est  per  plures.  p^j.^^.  j3„j^,j-qjj 

Et  licentiatus  ut  illic  transiret  cum  consortio  duorum  honestorum  suspect  with 

Cowper's  wife. 


virorum  su 


per  hoc  assumpsit  secum  duos  pueros  loco  illorum  viro- 


.  To  bring  five 

rum.      x™*'  die  mensis  Octobris  anno  supradicto  citatus  comparuit,  compurgators, 

negat  articulum ;    injunctum   est  eidem,  aut  exhibere  purgationem  ^J^g^j.g^j*'^^^^.  ^.^ 

canonicam  cum  sua  sexta  manu  sacerdotum  de  habitu,  citra  festum  go  to  Thomas 
r,         ,•     T  T-i  T  •  r  •        T    •  1      Cowper's 

bancti    Lucee  iiivangeiistee  proximum  tuturum,  aut  simpliciter  de- house  without 

serere  domum,  consortium,  et  consuetum  colloquium  uxoris  proedicti  *^^°  liouest 

.  .  ...  men. 

Thomee    Cowper.     Etiam   si   se  canonice  purgaverit,   licitum  erit 

frequentare    dictam    domum    cum    consortio    duorum    honestorum 

virorum,  et  non  aliter. 

•  See  15  Sept.  1495,  17  July,  1498,  and  second  pledge  there. 


72  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

A.D.  1503. 
Robert  Stnkelcy  Dominus  Robertas  Stukeley  non  facit  debitam  sectam  cliori  seel 

S^'Jr'three  oiAhf*^^  absentat  se  fere  ab  omnibus  horis,  et  cum  venit  nescic  ibi  morari,  sed 
south  side  savs  there  vao^atur  huc  atque  illuc  in  villa;  etiain  si  viderit  duos  vel  tres 
ran  go!°aud  he^goel    ceteros  ex  parte  australi  dicit  quod  sufficientes  sunt  ibi,  quod  ipse 

potest  satis  congrue  exire  et  abesse  :   promisit  se  emendare  omnia 

praemissa. 
John  Bftfrcll  shirks  Dominus  Johannes  Bagell  non  frequentat  sectam  chori  sed  absens 

comes  to  mSns  ^^  ssjpe  est,  et  maxime  a  prima  ;  et  similiter  semel  vel  [bis]  in 
sleeps.  ebdomada  dormit  cum  veniret  ad  raatutinas:   promisit  se  emendare. 

The  parish  vicar  has        Yicarius  parochialis  recepit  trentalia,"  unum  a  Johanne  Gaston  de 
irvTcrrs'chZl!C'    Normanton,et   aliud  a    N.    Sudberye:   atque  cum  iUis  trentalibus 
taking  trentals and      conducit  presbyterum  parochialem  in  prtejudicium  Vicariorum. 
to"say  masses,  10"^        Vestes  sacerdotales  non  sunt  munda,  et  sunt  abruptaa,  et  quicdam 
prejudice  of  vicars        ^^^^^^^  paruris. 

choral.  r  .   ,  .  ,       .  , 

Vestments  dirty  and  Dominus  Petnis  Burton  non  celebrat  missam  submissa  voce  sed 
torn  and  without  nimis  alte  profert  verba,  tam  infra  canonem  ''  quam  extra,  in  impe- 
appares, /.<.  or  ers.  ^jj^j^j^gj.^  ^^  pgj.j.yj.|3jjj.^Qj^g,-jj  aliorum  celebrantium  proprie :  et  similiter 
reter  Burton  docs  not  "^     ,  ,  ..,,.. 

celebrate  mass  in  a      dcambulando   infra    ecclesiam    cum    puero    suo    nimis    alte    dicit 

th^words^oo°lou"      servitium  suum;  et  monitus  ac  rogatus  saepe  non  emendat. 
both  inside  and  out-         p,  322.  Dominus  Jolianncs  Martyn  susoiciose  frequentat  domum 
side  the  canon,  to  the   .,  ,  •     n   i        •  -tr       '       •  1  • 

perturbation  of  others,  Margaretse,  quondam  uxoris  itoberti  loman,  in  tantum  quod  impe- 

and  '>vill  not  amend  (]ivit,  ut  dicitur,  dcsponsationem  ipsius :  Ita  ipsa  interrogata  ab  eo  quis 
John  Martyn  suspect  i^l^i"^'  nitcbatur  desponsurc,  juravit  se  nolle  renunciare  societati 
with  Margaret  illius  vel  sani  vcl  infirmi :  detectum  est   per  plurcs.     ix"  die  mensis 

Yoman.     D  Nov.  „  ,    .  t\       •    •  i-  -^  .  •  r 

Confesses.    Ordered    -Novcmbris    anno   Dommi  prxdicto   citatus  comparuit  contessus  est 

%  l'"^^^^''- ^^^^'^•'^  ^°  articulum,  submisit  se  correctioni   capituli.   Injunctum  est  ei  quod 
standards  at  high        solvat  luminaii  de  le  standards  coram  summo  altari  duas  libras  cerae, 
fron?Cr'compaDy       ^^  ^"°^  totaliter  abstineat  a   consortio  dictaj    mulieris,  sub   poena 
incumbentc. 

"  A  trcntal  was  30  masses  for  tlic  soul  of  a  dead  person  and  the  payment  for 
saying  them. 

^  The  canon  is  the  part  of  the  mass  in  which  the  consecration  of  the  elements 
takes  place.  It  extends  from  after  the  Preface  uj)  to  the  Communion,  and  is  done 
in  a  low  tone. 


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Dominus  Johannes  Wylson  frequentat  ssepe  suspiciose  societatem  John  Wylson  suspect 
uxoris  Petn   Basterfeld,  tarn  in  propria  domo  ubi  ipsa  manet  quam  S\^vifJ  ?iS?of 
in  manerio   Domini  Archiepiscopi,  et  ceteris  locis.     Et  monitus  pro  previous  warnings. 

•     •!•  •■       ,.  IT  .  ,  n  1     •     •      A  common  player,  and 

consimih  pemtentiam  publicam  peregit,  nee  tamen  adhuc  desistit :  sits  up  all  night  and 

similiter  communis  est  lusor,  et  debita  bora  non  vadit  dormitum,  sed  sje^ps  at  matins, 

.  ,  .     .  ,  shirks  hours,  seldom 

vigilatnoctu,  in  tantum  quod  saepissime  dormit  tempore  matutinarum,  or  never  waits  for 

nee  aliis  horis  facit  debitam  sectam  chori,  et  raro  vel  unquam  per-  joSiTes  the  lady,  and 
manet  in  choro  usque  ad  horam  nonam  percantatam.  offers  compurgation. 

..„     T  ••/->.    1     ••,    ,  .  .      ■,  n        Penalty  for  shirking 

xvu".  die  mensis  Uctobris  citatus  comparuit,  negat  articuluni  fre-  choir  to  read  First 

quentationis    societatis  uxoris    prsdictge,  et  proposuit   se  canonice  ^^sson  every  day 
'  ...  for  3.  week. 

purgare    cum    sua  sexta  rnanu,    citra    diem   dominicam  proximam  Defaults  next  day. 

futuram;  et  pro  poena  absentige  suae  a  choro  injunctum  est  ei  quod 
legat  primam  lectionem  cotidie  pro  una  septimana  integra. 

Quam  injunctionem  de  divinis  Johannes  non  implevit  sed  defec- 
tum fecit  in  crastino. 

Idem  revelavit  ad  externos  secreta  capituli.  Reveals  chapter 

Edmundus  clericus  et   socii  sui  faciunt  pulsationes  suas  tarn  ad  Edmuiid  the  clerk 

matutlnas  quam  ad  vesperas  nimis  breves,  nee  similiter  debitis  tem-  ^"*^  others  do  not 
.,  ,  ,         .  T        1  .  nng  the  bells  long 

poribus   pulsant  ad  pnmam  et  alias  horas  :  etiam  idem  Edmundus  enough. 

suspicatus  quod  sit  pronuba.^ 

Item  non  servatur  ordo  eonformis  in  processionibus  nee  debltus  ^^^mund  "  pronuba." 

ordo  in  psalmodizando  et  pausando;  Immo  nee  in  stando  sedendo  et  obTervecHn^proces- 

in  genuflectando  ac  aliis  ceremoniis  temporibus  in  dlvino  officio  ad  ^i°"^  ^^^  standing, 
1  T      1    h    1  •  singing,  and  bowing. 

hoc  secundum  ordinale  "  deputatis. 

*  Pronuba  Juno  dat  signum,  when  ^neas  and  Dido  are  sheltering  in  the  cave, 
^n.  iv.  166.  Pronuba,  according  to  Ducauge=;=baudetrot,  i.e.  femme  de  trottoir: 
applied  to  a  man,  a  pandar,  or  even  zfaSucoi.     See  above,  p.  .55. 

^  The  Ordinal  was  the  book  which  contained  the  "  order "  of  the  hours  and 
other  services:  what  psalms,  antiphons,  lessons,  &c,were  to  be  used  on  certain  days, 
and  in  what  order;  and  when  to  stand,  sit,  &c.  Whether  this  or  the  "  Directorium" 
mentioned  on  the  next  page  is  the  "  rule  of  the  Pie,"  mentioned  in  the  preface  to 
the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  is  doubtful.  Maskell,  in  his  Monumenta  Eccl.  Angl., 
appears  to  have  confused  them.  Probably  it  was  the  Directory,  which  was  a  kind 
of  guide  to  a  guide,  giving  rules  founded  on  the  Sunday  Letters  for  ascertaining 
when  there  was  a  "  conflict  of  feasts,"  &:c.,  and  what  you  did  in  such  case.  Neither 
contained  the  prayers,  &c.  themselves,  which  had  to  be  sought  in  psalters,  lection- 
aries,  antiphonaries,  breviaries,  &c.,  &.c. 

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74 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MIKSTEE. 


Vestments  disgrace- 
fully torn ;  copes 
not  repaired. 

Deacons  wander 
abont  the  town  in- 
stead of  studying. 
Steele  says  he 
knows  nothing 
without  book, 
though  he  is  con- 
tinually at  work; 
the  oth(  r  will  by  no 
means  attend  to  his 
books. 

Frequent  suspect 
women. 
Do  not  say  the 
collect,  &.C. 
George  Vincent, 
"  pronnba." 
Choristers  do  not  gird 
the  priest,  deacons, 
and  themselves 
properly,  misbehave, 
swearing  and  dis- 
turbing the  priest 
at  Our  Lady's  mass : 
are  not  well  whipped. 
A  vice- precentor 
wanted  to  chaunt 
responses,  &c. 
Proper  distinction 
should  be  made  in 
service  on  high  days 
and  ordinary  days. 
Seth  Or^ton  awake  all 
night,  and  asleep  all 
day,  shirks  mass, 
therefore  suspect. 
Vicars  choral  and 
chauntry  priests 
shirk  choir  and 
chauntry,  specially 
channtry  priests. 
Rectors  of  choir  come 
tardy  to  matins  and 
vespers. 

No  ordinal  with 
directory. 
William  Bullock 


A^estimenta  choristarum  et  aliorum  niinistrorum  carent  parurls 
et  sic  sunt  deformiter  lacerate:  cappa3  etiam  in  vestiario  non  sunt 
sufficienter  reparat£E. 

Diaconi  non  vacant  libris  et  suis  eruditionibus,  sed  cotidie  perva- 
gantur  in  villa  et  (Steele)  unus  illorum  dicit  se  non  scire  aliquid  sine 
libro  quamvis  continue  laboret,  alter  vero  nullo  modo  vult  intendere 
libris;  etiam  non  faciunt  debitam  sectam  chori,  prascipue  ad  laudes 
primam  et  horas.  Similiter  frequentant  domos  et  loea  suspecta  et 
societatcs  plurimarum  mulierum  suspectarum. 

Non  dicunt  coUectam  scilicet  "Deus  qui  inter  apostolicos"  etc.  nee 
placebo  et  dirige  ut  tenentur:  et  estimatur  quod  Georgius  Vincent 
sit  pronuba. 

Item  choristaa  non  bene  se  habent  in  cingendo  presbyterum  dia- 
conos  et  seip.sos  debito  modo,  et  male  etiam  se  habent  rabiando, 
jurando,  et  perturbando  presbyterum  celebrantem  missam  de  Sancta 
Maria  ;  etiam  male  castigantur. 

p.  323. — Provideatur  ut  aliquis  suflficiens  assignetur  qui  vicem 
cantoris  implere  valeat  in  respoiisoriis  antiplionis  et  ceteris  cantibus 
intonandis:  Etiam  quod  in  Testis  ix°  Icctionum  *  et  omnibus  com- 
memorationibus  ac  infra  octavas  priBcipuas  fiat  servicium  cum  cantu 
faburdon  et  cum  organis  pulsatis,  ut  sit  differentia  inter  servicium 
cum  regimine  chori  et  servicium  feriale. 

Seth  Orston  vigilat  in  noctibus  et  dormit  diebus  in  tantum 
quod  vix  aut  raro  diebus  dominicis  et  festivis  audit  missam  celebra- 
tam ;  unde  suspicatur  non  esse  perfects  habitudinis. 

Plures  tam  vicarioruin  quam  portionistarum  non  faciunt  debitam 
sectam  chori,  et  prjccipue  cantarista?  sive  portionista\  absentes  sunt 
pro  majori  parte  ab  omnibus  fere  horis. 

Rectores  chori  non  veniunt  tcmpestive  sed  minis  tardc  tam  ad 
matutinas  quam  ad  vesperas;  nee  providetur  ordinale  cum  directorio 
ut  servicium  divinum  debito  et  honorilice  persequatur. 

Dominus  Willelmus  Builoc  srcpe  absentat  se  a  choro  occupando 

•  The  feasts  of  i)  lessons  were  the  great  feasts,  wlien  at  matins  three  lessons  were 
sung  at  eacli  "  nocturu."     On  ordinary  days  there  were  only  three  lessons. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  75 

A.D.  1503. 

se  circa  venatlonem  et  pugnationem  gallorum.    Per  plures  detectum  oetcn  absent  bunting 
est :  promisit  se  emendare  de  cetero.  ^"^^^  cock-fighting. 

.  ,.,  T>n  ••  r  Promises  amendment. 

Domiiius  Johannes  iJagell  suspiciose  frequentat  domum  uxoris  j^j^j^  b,^„(,ii  g       ^.j 

Mosse,  et  antea  subscripsit  nomen  suum ;   citatus  comparet,  fatetur  with  Mosse's  wife, 

articulum,  submlsit  se  correctioni  capituli.     Iniunctum  est  exhibere      \      ' 

-,  T  1  ,       .  To  give  a  torch  to  the 

unum  torcheuin  ad  combureRdum  coram  summo  altari.  high  altar. 

Dominus  Willelmus  Yonge  suspiciose  frequentat  societatem  ux-  ,^.,,.      y 

oris  Thomse  Lyllye,  etiam  idem  Willelmus  cotidie  et  quasi  continue  suspect  with  wife  of 

inebriatus   ac  inter  quoscunque  secum  consortes   et  gesturam  ejus  and  repute/ an'idiot. 

cognoscentes  reputatur  ut  ydiota,  in  dehonestationem  et  scandaluni 

.       ,    -  .  T-T  .  .    .  ,         From  excessive  vigils 

totius  liabitus.     JNecnon  causa  excessivarum  vigiluirum  temporibus  at  nights  sleeps  at 

nocturnalibus  SiBpissime  dormit  tempore  matutinarum,  et  raro  mora-  ?^^'™^  rarely  waits 

^  ^  '  in  choir  till  nones 

tur  in  choro  usque  ad  horam  nonam  percantatatn.  are  over. 

Dominus   Johannes    Bagell    (promisit   se   emendare)  :    Dominus  joim  Bao-ell  R 
Ricardus  Goldyng   (promisit"  se   emendare)  :     Dominus  Willelmus  Goldyng,  W.  Yonge, 
^y.  ,  1        •      1  11  common  players  at 

J  onge  sunt  communes  lusores,  tam  ad  spirulas  quam  ad  talos,  et  ad  topsj-^dice,  &c., 

ceteros  ludos  illicitos  et  de  nocte  et  de  die.  '^^^^  ^^"^  "^S^*- 

Duo  vel  tria  stalla  in  choro  sunt  insufficientia  in  scal)ellis.  Choir  stalls  without 

Dominus    Ricardus    Penketh    ad    instantiam    Magistri    flenrici  II'°t1^'  ,   ^i,  ^ 

^     _  K.  renketh,  tor 

Carnebull  citavit  Seth  Orston,  commorantem  infra  jurisdictionem  summoning  Seth 
istius  capituli  ecclesise  collegii  BeatSB  Marise  Sutliwell,  ad  compa- orcUnrrylt°YoVk  in 
rendum  coram  ordinariis  sive  judicibus  in  curia  Eboraci  deputatis,  breach  of  thepri- 

.     ,.    .  ,.,  .    .,      .  ,.  vileges  of  Southwell; 

in  prgejudicium  et  contra  hbertates  privilegiorum  prsedicti  capituli.  is  condemned  to 

xvi°  die  inensisOctobris  citatus  comparuit;  confessus  est  articulum,  P'Y  four  shillings 
sed  dicit  quod  ignoranter  fecit;  quare  habet  in  poena  solvere  cistse  Mary's  chest,  called 
Beatas  Marise,  dictse  Rubra  cista,  iiii  s.  e    e       es . 

Dominus  Thomas  Bylbye  non  facit  debitam  sectam  chori  post  Thomas  Bylbye 

celebrationem  mispje  matutinalis;   et  pro  excusatione  illius   deb'fti  morning  mass. 

proponit   quod  cotidie   postquam  celebraverit  missam,   ante  quam  P^P?^^^,^^ '^^'^^"^ 

^     /           ,   -^  ^         \      ^                          _                           .                         penalty  to  say  ever 

faciet    aliquam  sectam    chori,   ipse    vult    dicere   psalterium    Beats  day  after  mass  the 

M-^  Psalter  o±  Blessed 

"  Spirulas.     Is  it  tops,  or  marbles:  and  if  tops,  is   it  some  form  of  teetotum 
gambling? 


76 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 


A.D. 1503. 

Thomas  Tykhyll 
suspect  at  William 
Watson's  house. 


Contumacy  of 
Tykhyll,  liylbye.and 
Bull  in  not  appearing. 
John  Wilson,  for 
contumacy,  to  walk 
before  the  Cross  three 
Sundays  runninjj, 
with  bare  head,  feet, 
and  legs,  a  candle 
burning  in  one  hand, 
a  rod  in  the  other, 
and  only  a  gown 
and  surplice  on. 
Bylbye,  for  contu- 
macy, to  pay  21b.  of 
wax  to  the  light 
of  the  standard. 


Tykhyll  the  same. 
Bull  to  pay  lib.  of 
wax. 

Yong  to  abstain  from 
taverns  for  a  whole 
week,  and  from  illicit 
^ames  altogether  ; 
to  purge  himself. 
24  June,  15U8.  Peter 
Basterfield,  jealous 
of  Yngham's  intimacy 
with  his  wife,  as- 
saulted him  publicly 
with  a  drawn  dagger. 
Yngham  su.spended 
till  another  liesi- 
dentiary  returns; 
and  meanwhile  to 
absent  himself  from 
the  wife  of  Baster- 
field, and  from  the 
Vicars'  table, 
dining  and  supping 
in  his  own  chamber, 
paying  for  his  com- 
mons the  same  as 
usual. 


Dominus  Thomas  Tykh}'ll  suspiciose  f'requentat  domum  Willelmi 
Watson  ill  burgo.  viii°  die  mensisXovembris  comparuit  in  capitulo 
et  promisit  de  cetero  se  absentare  a  frequentatione  dictaj  domus, 
excepto  consortio  honestoriiin  virorum. 

Tykhyll,  Bylbye,  et  Bull,  contumaces  in  non  compareiido. 

p.  324. — Quarto  die  inensis  Xovembris  a.d.  praedicto  Dominus 
Johannes  ^Vilson  citatus  comparuit,  et  confessus  est  suam  con- 
tumaciam et  inobcdientiam,  ac  submisit  se  correctioni  capituli:  unde 
injunctum  est  ei  quod  praecedat  crucem,  tribus  diebus  domiiiicis 
immediate  proxiinis  sequentibus,  nudo  capite  et  nudis  tibiis  et 
pedibus,  cum  candela  in  le  sconse  ardenti  et  virga  alia  manu,  sola 
toga  et  suppellicio  indutus. 

ix''  die  mensis  Novembris  A  d.  picedicto,  Injunctum  est  Domino 
Thomaj  Bylbye  propter  suam  contumaciam  quod  solvat  duas  libras 
cerae  ad  sustentationem  luminaris  de  le  standard  coram  summo 
altari,  citra  festum  Sancti  Edmundi  Archiepiscopi  proximum 
f'uturum. 

Eodem  die,  mense,  et  anno  prsedicto,  Injunctum  est  Domino 
Thoiiiee  Tykhyll  propter  consimilem  defectum  quod  solvat  duas 
libras  cer£E  luminari  praedicto. 

Eodem  die,  mense,  et  anno  praedicto,  injunctum  est  domino 
Johanni  Bull  solvere  praedicto  luminari  unam  libram  cer^e. 

Eodem  die,  mense,  et  anno  praedicto,  Injunctum  est  Domino 
Willelmo  Yonge  quod  abstineat  a  taberna  per  unam  septimunam 
integram,  et  quod  abstineat  totaliter  ab  omni  illicito  ludo,  et  similiter 
quod  laciat  purgationem  cauunicam  cum  sua  sexta  manu  sacer- 
dotum  de  habitu,  feria  tcrtia  proxima  I'utura  imminente. 

p.  156. — xxiiii'^die  mensis  Junii  anno  domini  millesimo  quingen- 
tesimo  tertio,  Dominus  Johannes  Yngham,  vicarius  choralis,  coram 
venerabili  viro  Alagistro  Thoma  Fitzherbert,  decretorum  doctore,  ac 
canonico  residentiario  in  hac  ecclesia,  notatur  super  crimine  adul- 
terii  cum  uxorc  Petri  Basterfield,  in  tantum  quod  idem  Petrus 
xvi"  die  inensis  praidicti  insultum  fecit  in  eundem  Johannem  et 
pcrsccutus  est  cum  publice  in  platea  cum  armicudio  evaginato:   qua 


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A.A.  Io03-G. 
de  causa,  idem  Magister  Thomas  suspendit  eundem  Johannem  ab 
officio  et  teneficio  usque  ad  tempus  reventus  Magistri  Willelmi 
Fitzlierbert,  Canonici  Residentiarii,  injungendo  eidem  Johanniquod 
absentaret  se  totaliter  a  consortio  dictee  mulieris  et  colloquio  ejus- 
dem  ubicumque  locorum,  sub  poena  incumbente;  et  insuper  quod 
absentaret  se  a  mensa  Vicariorum  quousque  secum  alias  fuerit  dis- 
pensatum,  et  quod  pranderet  et  csenaret  infra  cameram  suam,  non 
minus  solvendo  propter  communia  sua  infra  ecclesiara  per  idem  tempus 
quam  solveret  si  ibidem  continue,  sicut  ceteri  consodales,  interesset. 

p.  324. — xiii°  die  mensis  Martii  A.D.  millesimo  quingentesimotertio,  Goldyng, 'suspect 
Dominus  Ricardus  Goldyng'  conventus  super  crimine  fornicationis  with  his  sister's  maid, 

COHIGSSGS. 

cum  quadam  ancilla  sororis  suse,  fatetur  crimen  et  habet  injunctionem  Penance  to  go  before 
ut  eat  coram  processione  per   tres  dies  dominicas,  nudus  tibias  et  ^j^®  procession  on 
pedes,  in  curta  toga  genu  tenus,  cum  cereo  in  sua  manu  et  virga;  et  bare  legs  and  feet, 
ulterius  decretum  est,  quod  impetret  piaesentationem  stalli  ulterius  w°x 'candle  and  rod 
prebendee,  citra  festum  inventionis  sanctee  crucis  proximum  futurum.  in  ^lis  hands,  and  to 
V,  •  1  ,.,.,,.  xTT-11  change  his  stall. 

Jiitiam   decretum   est  per  venerabiles  viros   JMagistrum  WiUelmum 

Fitzherbert  et  Magistrum  Thomam  Fitzlierbert,  DecretorumDoctores 

ac    Canonicos    Residentiarios   in    ecclesia    collegiata  Beatge  Marise 

Suthwell,  judicialiter  sedentes  in  capltulo,  quod  preedictus  Dominus 

Ricardus  Goldyng  de  cetero  non  ludet  ad   tabulas  seu  taxillos  seu  Chapter  decrees  that 

ad  hassard  aut  ad  alios  ludos  taxillorum  que  cardorum  seu  aliarum''  aVr,'^"',^"  play  at 

^  "  tables,'    or  dice, 

quocunque  nomine  ceniseantur.     Nee  cum  arcu  suo  sagittabit  ultra  or  hazard,  or  other 

iiii"""  denarios  in  uno  ludo.     Et  si  in  aliquo  preemissorum  de  cetero  fice^nor  to^hoot 

defecerit,  sive  culpabilis  inventus  fuerit,  sit  ipso  facto  privatus  officio  ^°^'  ™°^"*^  ^^^^  '^^i-  '^ 

,  p    .       .  ,       .      .  .  .  ,  .  .  game,  on  pam  of 

et  benelicio  sme  ultenori  monitione.     In  quorum  omnium  et  smgu-  deprivation. 

lorum  fidem   et  testimonium    dictus   Dominus    Ricardus    Goldyng  18  Jan.  1.50.5,  John 

•  ^         ,  •  1        •      -^  Barry,  Grammar 

nomen  suum  panter  et  cognomen  manu  propria  subscnpsit.  School  master,  to  pay 

Dominus  Rycardus  Goldyng.         -Babyngton.x.\s.ayear. 
p.  Soi.*^ — xviii"  die     mensis   Januarii    Anno    Domini  millesimo 

*  See  above,  March  1-196. 

^  Sic.     But  I  suppose  it  means  alearum  or  dice. 

«  This  entry  is  explained  by  an  interesting  entry  under   date  3rd  Dec.  1504, 
p.  5-1,  of  the  Register,  from  which  it  appears  that  Babyngton  was  Barre's  assis- 


A.D.  1506. 


78  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

quingentesimo  quinto,  decretum  est  in  cnpitulo  per  canonicos  resi- 
dcntlarlos  quod  Johannes  Barre,  Magister  Scholarum  Grammatica- 
lium  Sutliwell,  solvet  Domino  Willelmo  Babyngton  ad  {bstum 
Penthccostse  xi*-  viii''  proximum  futurum,  ct  ad  festuni  Sancti 
Martini  extunc  proximum  sequentein,  xi*  viii'^  Et  in  quolibet  anno 
extunc  sequentc  xx*  ad  terminos  Pentecostce  et  Sancti  Martini- 


20  April,  1506. 
Visitation  by  Dr. 
Fitzherbert,  resi- 
dentiary. 


Vicars  choral  and 
chauntry  priests 
shirk  or  tardy  at 
choir. 


The  book-markers 
are  put  inside  the 
books  instead  of 
outside,  so  that  the 
books  are  getting 
spoilt. 

The  singing  is  too 
quick  and  indistinct, 
especially  in  Lent. 

Many  laugh  and  talk 
during  service. 
Rectors  of  choir  walk 
about  in  their  copes 
in  chapels  and  aisles 
during  matins. 


Visitation  of  1506. 

p.  325. — Visitatio  ccclesiee  collegiatee  Beatse  Mariae  Sutliwell, 
celebrata  et  inchoata  in  Domo  capitulari  ejusdoin  xx"""  die  niensis 
Aprilis  A.D.  millesimo  quingentesimo  sexto,  per  venerabilem  virum 
Magistrum  Thomam  Fitzherbert,  Decretorum  Doctorein,  ac  Canoni- 
cum  Residentiarium  in  eadem  ecclesia,  cum  ccntinuatione  ct  proro- 
gatione  dierum  scquentium, 

Detectum  est  primo  in  hac  visitatione  quod  tarn  Vicarii  quam 
Cantaristae  non  intendunt  divinis  ofhciis  in  choro  ut  tenentur,  et 
maxima  nimis  tarde  veniunt  ad  primam  et  ad  alias  horas  canonicas. 

Singuli  de  habitu  absentant  se  a  choro  tempore  matutinarum 
temporibus  intercisis. 

Registra  in  libris  ponuntur  in  infirmitate  libroruin  et  non  ex- 
tra nsverso,  unde  libri  lacerantur  et  preorantur. 

Non  faciunt  pausationem  debitam  in  psabuodizando,  maxima  in 
medio  psalmorum,  nee  cantant  psalmodiam  distincte,  maxima  tem- 
pore quadragesimali. 

Plures  confabulantur  et  rident  in  choro  tempore  divinoruin,  contra 
statuta  ecclesiaj  indc  edita. 

Rectores  chori  sacpc  gradiuntur  a  choro  cum  capis,  et  spaciantur 
in  capellisct  insulis  ccclesiee  extra  chorum,  cum  capis,  maximc  autem 
tempore  matutinarum. 

tant  in  the  Grammar  School,  and  the  sum  of  :C1  a  year  was,  in  part,  his  pay,  but 
he  was  admitted  to  his  chauntry  on  condition  of  teaching  in  the  Grammar  School. 
In  1484  (seep.  52  sup.)  complaint  had  been  made  by  the  previous  assistant,  IJabyng- 
ton's  predcccH.sor  in  the  same  chauntry,  that  IJarre  paid  him  nothing  for  his  services. 


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A.D.  1506. 
Debitus  ordo  non  servatur  in  processionibus,  neque  in  progressu,  Order  not  kept  in 
neque  in  statione,  sed  vadunt  quasi  gregatim  et  non  singillatim  et  f^'^'^^^j.^'J"^'  ^°*  ^^^^ 
successive. 

Debita  conversio  neque  reverentia  non  exhibentur  in  chore  in  in-  Bowing  and  turning 
1         .  ,  .  1  /^  1     •  T)  i.  •  J  to  the  altar  at  Glorias 

choatione  horarum  canonicarura,  neque  ad  (alonam  ratri,  neque  aa  j^^j  Confession  not 

Gloriam  Tibi  Doinine^  neque  ad  Confiteor.  observed. 

p.    326. — jMoneantur  Vicarii    et  Cantaristse    quod   jaceant    infra  Vicars  choral  and 
cameras  suas  et  non  in  villa,  et  ut  veniant  doraum  tempestivi  vide-  sieep^\n^heir  ^ 
licet  ante  ignetegii  pulsationem.  chambers,  and  not 

-r  °         °     ^     ^^.       .  /-<  ■         •  ,  in  the  town.    To  be 

Item  ut  statuta  tam  Vicariorum  quam  Cantaristarum  observentur  in  before  curfew. 

et  quilibet  obediat  eis  sub  poena  suspensionis  ab  officio  et  beneficio;  Statutes  of  vicars  and 

^     ^  ^  ^  I  ,  ,.     .     ,  chauntry  priests  to 

et  ut  serentur  portse  ad  noras  limitatas.  be  kept. 

Item   non  fiat  contentio  inter  ministros  ecclesise  propter  visita- Members  of  the 

uonem.  ...  .  quent  taverns. 

Item  quod  minlstri  ecclesise  non  frequentent  tabernas. 

Item   ut  Vicarii  nee  Cantaristse   non  habeant  mulieres  suspectas  Suspect  women  not 
,  to  be  admitted  to 

venientes  ad  cameras  sua?.  vicars'  and  chauntry 

Item  ut  Vicarii  et  Cantaristee  custodiant  cantarias  suas  secundum  priests'  chambers. 
ordinanonesearundem.  iTti^gatr 

Item  ne  quis  confiteatur  aliis  deambulando.  Not  to  go  to  break- 

Item  ne  quis  transeat  ad  iantaculam,  missa  neque  prius  celebrata  fast  before  mass.  To 
.    ^  ''  ^        '■  keep  hours. 

neque  audita. 

Item  ut  veniant  omnes  ministri  ad  horas  canonicas  ut  jurantur  in 

sua  admissione. 

Item  ut  habitus  ministrorum  non  ponantur  hie  et  ubique  palam,  Habits  to  be  kept  in 
1  •  •   ^•        ^  ^  i-  •  the  chests  and  not 

sed  ponantur  in  armariolis  ad  hoc  conditis.  jgfj  j^g^-g  j^^j  ^bere 

p.  327. — Item  detectum  est  quod  oradalia  non  habent  le  claspes  uncovered. 
,     \  .     .  in  1       -pj^g  gradalia  have 

in  defectu  Residentiariorum.  no  clasps. 

Dominus  Ricardus  Penketh  ssepe  stringit  nasum  suum  in  tantum  Richard  Penketh 
.     T         m    •      •    n         ^  •  ,  T  ••    blows  his  nose  in 

sanguis  inde  emuit  mrra   chorum  m  nocumentum  aliorum  vicari-  ^.j^^j^.  ^^q  j^  bleeds. 

orum,  et  similiter  spuit  nimis  procul  a  se,  et  quandoque  in   facies  ^nd  spits  too  far  and 

.  .  '  '^  sometimes  into  the 

KectoriS  chon.  face  of  the  choir- 

Idem    Dominus    Ricardus  saepe   exit   chorum  in  capa  cum  ^"^^^i*  jgaves  the  choir  in 
rector  chori.     Promisit  se  deinceps  emcndaturum.  his  cope:  promises 

amendment. 


80  VISITATIONS  AND  MEJIORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

A.D.  1506-7 
John  Bekyrke  when         Dominus  Johannes  Bekyrke  quotiens  fuerit  executor  officii  incipit 
officiating  minister      «  £)pyg  jj^  adiutorium  "*  ct  recedit  a  choro  usque  ad  tempus  inclioandi 
begins  services,  and  ''  i  i  -A  i 

then  leaves  the  choir    preces  ad  primam,  et  capitulum  ad  horas.    Detectum  est  per  plures. 

shirkrakrgr'^'  ^^®'"  Dominus  Johannes  nimis  abunde  spuit  et  praecipue  super 

part  of  each.  libros  per  quod  libri  peiorantur.  Promisit  sc  deinceps  emendaturum, 

OTer^h^Ss'and  Dominus  Johannes  Frylth  non  obscrvat  sectam  chori  ad  matutinas 

spoils  them.  sed  domiit  bis  in  septimana:  et  similiter  vagatur  spatiando  in  ecclesia 

Promises  amendment.  '  i 

John  Fryth,  inat-        inter  hiicos  indutus  habitu.     Detectum  est  per  plures. 

irmlt^inl"  and  wllkf      ^^^'"    Dominus  Johannes  ssepe    pernoctavlt    extra    vicariam    et 

about  the  church         semel  in  domo  Radulphi  Hyll. 

sleeps  out  of  the' '  Dominus  Thomas   Steill  pessime  facit  sectam  chori.     Detectum 

•'vicaraKe'-  ami   once  ^^t  per  plures. 

in  Ralph  HvUs  house.        ,  ,  -w^        .  mi  i  •        • 

John  JSteillshirks  Idem   Dominus   Thomas  non  est  pronus  neque  voluntarius  inter- 

S^n's  the  prick-  ^"'"  ^'^  cantandum,  le  pr>/ksonge^  ad  lectrinum  sed  aliquando  stat  in 

song  very  unwil-  stallo  aliquando  sedet  legendo  super  libros  et  minime  cantat. 

sitf reading  kiTis""*^^      Dominus  Thomas  Steill  (promisit  se  emendaturum)  et  Dominus 

stall  instead  of  'I'homas  Wodhouse   veiiiunt   doinum    a   villa    nimis    sero   viz.   post 

singing      Promises       ...  i-  i  i 

amendment.  isrnitegium  pulsatum,  et  aliquando  post  horam  novenam. 

JomeThCe'kte^Xr  '"  ?•  328.-Dominus  Georgius  Vincent  non  servat  debitam  seqtam. 

nine  o'clock.  chori.     Promisit  se  emendare. 

irregular  at  duty.  Dominus   Willelmus    W'ryght   suspiciose    frequentat    domum   et 

William  Wryght,        consortium  Margaretae  Yoman :  ipsa  etiam  habet  quasi   continuum 
.suspect  with  Margaret  °  .  '       .    .   „,.„    ,     .        ,1  tn 

Yoman.says  she  ishis  recursum  ad  cameram  ejusdem  Domini  Willelmi.      Idem  Dominus 

cousi\°  pmm[ser.she    ^^illelmus  vocatus  comparuit  et  juravit  se  nunquam  carnaliter  eam 
shall  not  come  to  his    cognovisse,  dicens  quod  ipsa  est  soror  ejus  spiritualis  et  etiam  con- 

sanguinea  ipsius,  et  promisit  quod  ipsa  deinceps  non  haberct  recursum 

ad  cameram  ejus  nisi  ipse  sit  infirmus. 

»  "  O  God  make  speed  to  save  ns,"  was  on  ordinary  days  the  beginning  of  prime 
and  the  other  hours,  after  the  psalter,  ave,  and  credo  had  been  said  "  secrete  "  by  the 
l)riest.  "Preces"  arc  technically  certain  short  verses  and  responses,  which  occur 
always  in  prime,  nearly  at  the  end.  The  "  cajiitulum  "  or  little  chapter  is  a  very 
short  lesson  from  the  Bible.  Except  in  prime,  there  is  only  a  "resjxjnsio  brevis  " 
and  "  collect  of  the  day,"  after  it.  Bekyrke  therefore  gave  himself  a  pretty  easy 
time  of  it. 

*>  Prick  song  is  opposed  to  plain  song,  and  means  harmony  as  distinguished  from 
"  Gregorians." 


room  except  when  he 
is  ill 


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A.D,  1506-7. 
Dominus  Edmundus  Farrer  dormit  tempore  matutinarum,  et  uno  Fan-er  sleeps  at 
die  suspectus  fuit  quod  ipse  alienavit  cursura  horologii  unde  plurimi  111''^*™^'  ^^  suspect  of^ 

distemperati  fuerunt  in   mane.      Injunctum  est  eidem  quod  solvat  back  one  morning. 

Ti  J  1        •  1       ..      J      J  Fined  lib.  of  wax  for 

unam  libram  cerse  ad  lummare  supra  le  standards.  ^-^^  standard  lio-ht 

Dominus    Johannes    Wylson    (promisit    emendare).     Dominus  Three  sleepers  at 

Johannes    Martyn     (promisit    emendare).        Dominus     Willehnus  ^^^^^^^^  promise 

•'    ,  ,'^  /  amendment. 

Babyngton  (promisit  emendare) ;  dormiunt  ScBpe  tempore  matuti- 
narum. 

Pauci  Vicariorum   aut  cantaristarum  veniunt  ad   primam  et  ali  Scarcely  one  or  two 
quando  vix  duo  intersunt  in  principio  primse.  irbe^in^ng^^t^prime. 

p.  333. — xxvii°  die  mensis   Maii    a.d.   millesimo   quingentesimo  27  May,  1506. 
sexto  Willehnus    Bljtton     de     Caunton     armiger     ad    instantiam  ^^^^^^  EsqT  °^ 
Thomse  Meryng  armigeri  firmarii  prebendse  de  Northmuscham  ut  se  appears  at  suit  of 
.        .,   ,  J   i.      .•      •      J      •  -J  -1        lessee  of  tithes  of 

assent  citatus  super  causa  detentionis  decimarum  cujusdam   suvse  prebend  of  Northmusc- 

comparuit,  et  dixit  quod  paratus  esset  solvere  dictam  decimam  sive  ^^'^  ^o^"  detention 

■       •        •        CL  •        •        •     *         •    J      •  1  1    u        .        X     «:      of  tithes  of  a  wood. 

vicario  sive  tirmario  si  sciret  cui  de  jure  solvere  deberet;   et  amr- Says  they  belong  to 

mavit  dictus  Willelmus  Blytton  quod  idem  vicarius  fuit  possessus  de  }''^?7!jl'^'^'  for°sixty 
decimis  diversarum  silvarum  venditarum  infra  parochiam  de  Cahie-  years  and  upwards. 

ton  per  triginta  annos  et  iiltra,  et  similiter  sui  predecessores  per  Professes  his 

•    ,  xi^L*  ^     ca  'i.  1-1  readiness  to  pay  the 

spatmm  sesagmta  annorum  et  ulterius,  et  amrmavit  quod  si  preben-  lessee  if  the  prebendary 
darius  prebenda?  de  Northmuscham  et  capitulum  Ecclesise  collegiatae  ^f  Northmuscham  and 
Beatse  Marias  Suthwell  voluerint  repellere  dictum  vicarium   a  sua  vicar  out  of 
possessione   praehibita,  ipse  solveret  firmario  decimam  suam  absque  po^^^^^^^^- 
dilatione  aliquali. 

Eodem  die  venit  Thomas  Mervng,  pars  actrix,  proponit  et  dicit  Thomas  Meryng, 
1  TTr-n   1     •  -n,  1     i-  rv    •        •  •      1  Esq.,  plaintilt,  alleges 

quod  responsum  VViilehni  Blytton  non  habit  suracientiam  in  lege,  that  Blytton's  plea 

sed   quod  allegat  idem  Willehnus  allegat  propter  dilationem  dicti  ^^  t^lilatory, 

Thomas,  unde  idem  Thomas  petit  allocutionem  in  curia;  et  si  dictus 

Thomas    in    hac    curia  tuerit  ulterius  compulsus  respondere   idem  and  that  if  the  vicar 
™,  ,.    .  .^  .  ,        .  -  .    ,,  did  receive  the  tithes 

ihomas  dicit  quod  nee  ipse  Vicarius  nee  predecessores  sui  luerunt  j^g  received  them 

possessi  pacifice  per  totum  spatium  sine  interruptione  et  si  habue-  wrongfully, 

■^  ^  /  •  1     ,  •         ^lid  that  sixty  years 

runt  habuerunt  per  usurpationem,  attamen  si  habuerunt  per  spatium  does  not  give  pre- 

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82  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

A.D.  1507-8. 
scriptive  title,  since  it  sexaginta  annorum  et  ultra  idem   Thomas  credit  illos  annos   non 
IVmani^and" dTimS'^  extcndere  ad  prajscriptionem  eo  quod  sunt  infra  memoriam  hominum : 
jud-rment.  unde  petit  judicium. 

witnesS's\?prme'^'^*'  Dies  datur  eidem  vicario  ad  exhibendum  testes  ad  probandum 
([uiet  possession  for  g,,an-i  nosscssionem  ct  predecessorum  suorum  per  tantum  spatium  Ix 
sixty  vears  only,  on  r  r  .,,1  ^      r,        ,  -r 

the  Vnday  after  annorum  viz.  dies  V  enens  in  hebdomada  renthecostee  sme  clistur- 

TjuneTS.  batione  modo  et  forma  praiallegatis. 

W.  Fitzherbert,  p_   317^ — Quario   die  nicnsis  Junii  anno  Domini  quingentesimo 

iSngXn 'd^Sry'^'  septi.nnMagister  Willelmus  Fitzherbert,  Decretorum  Doctor  etCano- 

priest,  for  contumacy,  j^-^^g  Rgsidentiarius  in  Ecclesia  Collcgiuta  Beatoe  Mariae,  capituhim 

faciens  ibidem   cum    Gardianis   Ecclesia?  et  Registratore   Capituli, 

Dominum   Edmundum  Kyngeston  cantaristam  pro  tertio   preeconi- 

zatum    propter   ipsius    contumaciam    suspendit    et    sic    suspensum 

17Jnly,1508.  declaravit. 

Chaplain  of  channtry  p.  237  — xvu"  die  mensis  Julii  anno  domini  millesimo  quin- 
iunSoned^for'not  gentesimo  octavo  Dominus  Willelmus  Uttyng,  Capellanus  Cantarise 
observing  the  terms  fundatse  in  ecclesia  de  Upton,  citatus  comparuit  coram  Magistro 
of  his  channtry,  and  t^.     1       1  1  1      .  •  -j        •     • 

not  keeping  residence;  Thoma  r  itzherbcrt,  decretorum  doctore,  ac  canonico   residentiario 

is  enjoined  to  do  so.  -^^  ^^^  ecclesia,  cum  Gardianis  et  Registratore  capitulum  facientibus, 
Et  objectum  fuit  sibi  quod  non  observat  compositionem  dicta? 
cantaricG  suae  in  divina  celebrando,  neque  personalem  et  continuam 
reslJentium  ibidem  faciendo  secundum  ordinationem  cjusdem.  Unde 
injunctum  fuit  sibi  quod  de  cetero  observet  dictam  ordinationem  in 
omnibus  articulis  suis,  sub  poena  privationis. 

Visitation  of  1510. 

4June,l5iO.  p.  3.37. — Memorandum  quod  iiii'"  die   mensis   Junii   a.d.   lolO 

Visitation^b^  Richard  j^choata  fuit  visitatio  eccle.-icC  collegiatai  BeatcB  iMariai  Suthwell 
Robert  Barra,  Doctor  per  venerabiles  viros  Magistrum  Ricardum  Wiatt,  Sacrcc  Thcologiee 
Professorem,  et  Magistrum  Robertum  Barra,  Decretorum  Doctorem, 
Canonicos  Rcsidentiarios  in  hac  ecclesia,  et  continuata  est  cadem 
visitatio  ad  placitum  dictorum  canonioorum,  et  suspensa  est  juris- 
dictio  omnium  et  singulorum  prebcndariorum  dictai  ecclesioe. 


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A.D.  lolO-l. 

ISTos,  capituluin  ecclesise  collegiatee  Beatse  Marije   Sutliwell,  de-  Inhibition  of 
ccrnimiis     jurisdictionem     omnium     et     singulorum      confratrum  ^"|j'^j^g^^j^^j^^°  1^^ 
nostrorum    canonicorum    et    prebendariorum    nostras    ecclesiae    fore  chapter  visitation, 
vacuam    et    suspensam    Inhibentes   ne   se   intromittant    in    aliquo 
jurisdictionem  concernente  quousque  nos  visitationem  nostram  plene 
executi'^  fuerimus. 

p.  328. — Vicesimo    die    mensis    Julii    a.d.    millesimo    quingen-  Decree  of 'or. 
tesimo  decimo  Decretum  est  per  jMagistrum  Thomam  Fitzberbert,  Fitzherbert  in  chapter. 
T^  T^  ^       ^  .%.,...     ,  ,     .  '  Thomas  Steill  is 

JJecretorum  JJoctorem,  ac  Oanonicum  Kesidentianum  m  hac  ecclesia  prohibited  from 

collegiata,  capitulum  facientem  cum   Gardianis  et  Eegistratore,  et  iYMr^'^"'^sV"xio-e's 
similiter  prEeceptum  est  Domino  Thomng  Steill  vicario  chorali,  quod  wife  on  pain  of  clepri- 
,         ,    .  .    .   TV  .     •  -u         1      •  J.-       J.  ..•     vatioTi,  after  previous 
absentet  se  totaliter  et  m  omnibus   locis  a   preesentia  et  consortio  ^g^^^^^gg^ 

uxoris  Willelmi    Stanege  de   Sutbwell   et  a  domo  ipsius  Willelmi 

sub  poena  privationis;  quam   sententiam  decretum  est  observari  et 

stabiliri,  ex  nunc  prout  ex  tunc,  et  ex  tunc  prout  ex  nunc,  quia  non 

paruit  duplici   monitioni  sibi  annis  praeteritis  in  hac  parte  factis. 

Et  huic  decreto  acquievit  dictus  Dominus  Thomas  Steill. 

p.  139. — Septimo  die  mensis  Februarii  anno  Domini   millesimo  7  Feb.  1.511. 

quingentesimo  undecimo  coram  V^euerabili  viro  Magistro  Willelmo 

Fitzherbert,  Decretorum  Doctore  ac  Canonico  Residentario  in  hac 

Ecclesia,  capitulum  facienteuna  cum  Gardianis  et  Eegistratore  actuum 

capituli,  oomparuit  Dominus  Nicholaus  Walton,  cantarista  ejusdem 

EcclesicB,   cui  obieetum  fuit  crimen  incontinentiaa  et  fornicationis  Walton,  channtry 

JL  .      ,  .  ...       priest,  summoned  for 

commisisse  cum  Helena  Uowper,  quem  articulum  m  prse^entia  ipsius  misbehaviour  with 

Helenee  denegavit.  Insuper  et  ipsa  palam  et  publice  affirmavit  quod  ""^go^dSTIhr'  ''^°^^^ 

ipse  dominus   Xicholaus  immunis   erat  illius  criminis  :     Unde  in- he  is  ordered  to 

junctum  est  eidem  Domino  Nicholao  quod    abstineat  se  totaliter  a  go'cjetv,  church  and 

consortio  ipsius  Helenas  prajterquam  in  ecclesia  et  in  foro,  sub  poena  ^f^i'l^et  excepted. 

deprivationis, 

^  Admissa  est  hsecinjunctio  per  me  Dominum  Nicholaum  Walton 

die  et  anno  praedictis. 

■  It  is  written  "  exequuti." 

^  In  a  different  hand,  apparently  N.  Walton's  own. 


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A.D.  1512-19. 

8  Aug.  1512. 
Berkeley,  patron, 
allowed  extension  of 
time  to  present  to  a 
chauntry  in  Upton 
church.' 


13  Nov.  1512, 
Dr.  Thomas  Fitz- 
herbert  and  Dr. 
Richard  Wiott  in 
chapter ; 

enjoin  Thomas 
Steill  to  find  another 
chauntry  by  Easter 
next,  and  meanwhile 
abstain  from  inter- 
course with  William 
•  Stanege's  wife  on 
pain  of  instant 
deprivation. 
30  Aug.  1518. 
Oliver  Bexwyke, 
chauntry  priest, 
warned  to  abstain 
from  the  company  of 
the  wife  of  liichard 
Dodge,  stonecutter,  of 
Southwell. 


12  April,  1519. 
Thomas  Lceke 
removed  a  stall  from 
Edyngley  church,  is 
to  restore  it, 


p.  251. — viii"  die  Mensis  Augusti,  A"  D'  1512"  lieverendi 
viri  Magister  Ricardus  Wiott,  sacrae  paginae  professor,  et  Magister 
Robertus  Barra,  Decretorum  Doctor,  Canonici  Residentiarii  capi- 
tulum  facientes,  liccntiaverunt  Magistruin  i\lauricium  Berkeley, 
patronum  Cantariae  fundataj  in  Ecclesia  de  Upton,  quod  ipse  libera 
possit  praisentare  idoneum  capellanum  citra  festum  Exaltationis 
Sanctae  Crucis  proximum  f'uturum,  non  obstante  quod  teneretur 
praesentare  infra  mensem  post  notionem  vacancise  dictae  cantariae. 

p.  328. — xiii°  die  mensis  Novembris  A.D.  millesimo  quin- 
gentesimo  duodecimo  praeceptum  est  Domino  TliomjE  Steill  *  per 
venerabiles  viros'  Magist'rum  Thomam  Fitzherbert,  Decretorum 
Doctorem,  et  Magistrum  Ricardum  Wiott,  sacrae  theologiae  pro- 
fessorem,  capitulariter  congregatos  una  cum  gardianis  et  registratore, 
et  injunctum  est  eidem  Thoinge  quod  provideat  sibi  de  alio  servicio 
erga  festum  Paschae  proximum  futurum,  et  quod  interim  absentet 
se  a  domo  et  consortio  uxoris  Willcimi  Stanege.  Et  si  non  obedierit 
injunctionibus  proedictis  incontinenter  dimittat  habitum  suum. 

p.  139. — Penultimo  die  mensis  Augusti,  A.D.  1518,  Injunctum 
e^t  per  capitulum  Domino  Olivero  Bexwyk  quod  deinceps  absti- 
neat  se  totaliter  a  consortio  uxoris  Ricardi  Dodge  de  Suthwell 
lathomi,  praeterquam  in  ecclesia  et  foro,  et  hoc  sub  poena  privationis 
cantariae  suae. 

Admissa  est  btec  injunctio  per  me  Dominum  Oliveruin  Bexwyke 
die  et  anno  proedictis. 

p.  143. — xii°  die  mensis  Aprilis  A.D.  1519  injunctum  est 
Thomae  Lceke  de  Edyngley  quod  restituat  stallum  in  ecclesiam  de 
Edingley,  quod  abstulit,  citra  diem  Sabbati  pro.ximum  futurum  sub 
poena  cxcommunicationis,  quam  injunctionem  idem  Thomas  accep- 
tavit. 

Postea  idem  Thomas  Leeke  et  Ricardus  Thomkynson  pro- 
miserunt  fide  media  de  stando  laudo  et  arbitrio  Johannis  Leeke  et 
Alexandri  Leeke  de  lialome  super  omnibus  causis  motis  inter 
eos. 

"  Sec  entry  20  July,  1510,  last  page. 


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A.D.  1519. 
Eodeni    die    xii°.    decretum    est    per    capitulum    quod    dictus  and  do  penance 
Thomas  Leeke  incedat  coram   processione   die  Dominica   proxiraa  whh^bfre°leo™^feer" 
futura  circa  eccleslam  de  Edyngley,  nudis  pedibus  et  tibiis  ac  nudo  find  head,  and  a 

T    1  .  ^..         .         ,  ..  penny  wax  candle  in 

capite,  cum  candeia  cerea  in  manu  sua  pretu  unius  denarii.  i^is  }ia.nd. 


Visitation  or  1519. 

p.  335.  —  Visitatio    Ministrorum     Ecclesise    Collegiatse    Beate  20  June,  1519. 
Marias  Suthwell,  celebrata  et  inchoata  ibidem,  per  venerabilem  virum  Richaid^wiott  pro-"^ 
Magistrum    Eicardum  Wiott,  sacrge  paginse  professorem,  vicesimo  lessor  of  the  Sacred 
die  mensis  Junii,  A.  D.  1519°,  cum  continuatione  et  prorogatione      "^ 
dierum  sequentium. 

Eodem    die,    per    modum    permutationis,     Dominus    Johannes  Admission  of  vicars 
Newbolde  admissus  est  ad  stallum  Vicarise  choralis  prebendse  de  ^^l^Trt cL^i-a offhe 
Overhaile,  et  Dominus   Ricardus  Levers  admissus  est  ad  stallum  prebends  of  Oyerhall 
Vicariae  choralis  alterius  PrebendaB  de  Oxton. 

Dominus  Georgius  Vincent  ssepe  dormit  tempore  matutinarum,  Vincent  sleeps  when 

ac  etiam  cum  venerit  magis  frequentat  navem  ecclesiae  quam  chorum :  ^®  o^slit  to  be  at 

<^  T-  i  matms;  and  when  he 

promisit  se  emendare.  does  come  frequents 

Idem  Dominus  Georgius  suspiciose   frequentat  domum   Agnetis  ^j,g  °|^q?,""^^^ '^  ^^ 

Ellyngthorpe  ssepius  die  et  nocte.  promises  amend- 

T  1  "^     -^^        •  r-i  •     .  •        1  •  ment ;  suspect  with 

idem  Dominus  Georgius  non  venit  ad  preciosa.  Agnes  Ellyngthorpe  ; 

Dominus    Willelmus    Brodhed    ssepe    tarde   venit  ad    divina  ac '1°^' °"* '''""^'^  ^'"^^  ' 

J^    .  .  ciosa. 

saspe  absentat  se  quando  opus  est;  promisit  se  emendaturum.  William Brodhead 


Dominus   Johannes    Lache    ssepe    absens    est    a    choro    tempore  gervfce";  promises 
divini  servicii:  promittit  se  emendaturum.  amendment. 

T-,,.  -r>-ioi  ...  ,,  .  John  Lache  shirks 

Dominus  Kicardus  btedman   venit    nimis   tarde  ad    matutmas  :  service;  promises 

promisit  se  emendaturum.  ?:,™^"'^™^,'^\ 

^  .  x\        •  Kichard  btedman 

Dominus  Edmundus    Farror    et    Dominus   Johannes    Newbolde  tardy  at  matins ; 

veniunt  tarde  ad  matutinas.  SS  f"™",'' 

Sacrista  non  causat  clericos  suos  pulsare  debite  ad  horas  limitatas.  John  Newbolde  tardy 
o        .  T         1  1       •  1       1  •  ^t  matins, 

bacnsla  non  ascendit  ad   campanas,  ut  tenetur,  ad  videndum   si  Sacristan  does  not 

fuit  aliqui  ibi  defectus  ut  emendentur  per  custodes  fabrics  ecclesiae.    ^^"^  *^?^  bells  rung 
^  ^  properly  ;  and  does 

not  look  after  them. 


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A.D.  1519. 
Officiating  priests  and      Executores  officii  et  Rectorcs  chori  veniunt  nimis  tarde  ad  lioras 
Hectors  of  choir  caiionicas. 

tardy  at  liours.  .  .     .  i  i        •  d      . 

Deacons  and  sub-  Diaconi   et  subdiaconi  veniunt   nimis    tarde    ad    missam   13catae 

deacons  tardy  at  the  Marioe;  et  quidain  Vicariorum  et  cantaristaruni  cantant  ad  eandein 
anTsome  come' with-  missain  in  togis  suis  sine  habitu.  Dominus  Edniundus  Farror, 
out  their  habit.  Dominus  Thomas  Birks,  Dominus  Ricardus  Stedman  et   Dominus 

Jour  couinion  talkers  ri     i  •        i 

in  choir.  Jacobus  Box  sunt  communes  fabulatores  in  choro. 

George  Vincent  Dominus  .Georgius  Vincent  pra}ter  delicta  antcdicta  frequentat 

frequents  Agues'  ,  ....  ,   ,  •  •  .     .      • 

house,  to  the  scandal    domum    Agnelis    in   sui    scandalum,  sociorum   que  ejus,  et   tonus 

of  himself  his  fellows,  ecclesifE  in  qua  habitat. 

and  the  whole  ^^  •  i   i  • 

church.  Dominus  Henricus  Glbbonson  solet  t^ajpius  celebrare  missam  tem- 

SLSs'massT.e-,    Po^'*^  processionis  aut"  misste  celebratfu  ad  summum  altare. 

in  his  own  chauntry)       Dominus  Ricardus  Levers  raro  venit  ad  matutinas,  et   suspectus 

during  processions  or  ,..,..  ... 

mass  at  high  altar.      est  cum  mulieribus  inlionestae  conversationis. 

Richard  Lewes  tardy  Robertus  ElHs  non  ministrat  vinum  conveniens  ministerio  altaris. 
at  matins  and  su.spect  i  •        i    i  i 

with  women  of  bad  Dominus  Edmundus  Farror  tarde  venit  ad  chorum,  nee  auscultat 

liJbert  Elli& gives  bad  ^<i  psalmodiam,  et  confabulatur  in  choro,  et  non  exercet  debitum 
wine  at  the  altar.  officium  suum  circa  offioiarios  ecclesiffi,  nee  monet  clericos  suos  ut 
Edmund  Farror  tardy,         ,     ,  ...  , .    .    .      ^    . . 

talks  in  choir,  does      excludant  ceteros  a  vcstiario  tempore  divini  oihen. 

not  keep  strangers  Prfficeptum  est  sacristffi  quod  faciat  albas  et  amictus  in  vestiario 

out  of  the  vestry  ^  .  "^  ,...,.  o     -m-   i       i- 

at  service  time.  repositos  honeste  lavari  et  honeste  custodin,  citra  festum  b.  JMichaeiis 

wTafeThrvtla-'^         proximum    futurum,  sub    poena    solutionis   pro  locatione   dictorum 

ments  honestly  vestimentorum  in  duplum. 

tcTpay  doubleXr  Dominus  Georgius  Vincent  saepius  absentat  se  a  choro  tempore 

hiring  others.  excQuiarum,    post    nonam    et    tempore    vesperarum,  ac    aliquando 

George  v  incent  often  ~i  '     r  _  a  i  /  ^ 

absent  from  afternoon  absens  est  tempore  matutinarum. 

matTs!''''''^"'''''"'^      Dominus  Willelmus  Elton  aliquando  incipithoras,quandoexecutor 
William  Elton  begins  officii  est  ex  altera  parte  chori,  et  antcquain  candelas  accenduntur. 
the  Hours  before  the         ,         .  tit-h   i  u       ^         ^    i\       •  ti  o^  i 

(undlcs  are  lighted.  Dominus   WiUclinus    ilynde    ct    Dominus     1  homas    bteie  srupe 

Three  absentees.         absentant  se  a  choro.     Dominus  Johannes  Ncwbolde   saepe  absens 
est  a  choro  et  ambulat  in  nave  ecclesiiu. 


'Aut"  is  repeated  by  mistake  in  the  original. 


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A.D. 1519. 

Dominus  Georgius  Vincent  absens  est  s^plssime  a  clioro,  qua  de  George  Vin- 
causa    organa    secundum    suum     officium    non    pulsantur    tempore  ^b^eut  *so  that 
divinorum.  the  organ  is 

p.  251.  xix°.   die   mensis  Marti i   anno  domini  millesimo  d°  xix° 
Johannes  Samson  de  Normanton  juxta  Suthwell  confessus  est  coram  y'ams'on'of 
capitulo   quod    ipse    genuit    prolem    ex    quadam    muliere,   nomine  Normanton 
Johanna  Stylte  circa  decennium  elapsum.  higa  child  by 

Et  continuata  est  causa  usque  ad  diem  Sabbati  proximum  futurum  f'^'^^  Stylte 

A  _  ••  _  ten  years  past ; . 

ab  illo    die    Sabbati   precedente,  et  continuata  est  prsedicta  causa  cause  con- 
usque  ad  diem  Martis  proximum  futurum. 

p.    203.^ — Vicesimo    die  mensis    Augusti   anno    Domini     1521,  20  Aug.  1521. 

,  Dominus  Johannes  Butterfeld  Vicarius  ecclesige  parochialis  de  Rol-  ^^f,  Vicar  of 
,      .   .  .  .  T      •  lioUcston 

leston  prseantea  legitime  citatus,  prgeconizatus,  et  diutius  expectatus,  church  not 

et  nullo  modo  comparens,  decretus  est  contuma,  et  in  poena  contu-  '^eclareTcon- 

macige  suae  suspensus  ab  ingressu  ecclesise,  &c.  tumacious  and 

p.  309.   Quinto  die  mensis  Augusti  anno  Domini   1522°  venera- 
biles  viri  ]\Iagister  Robertus  Barra,  Decretorum  Doctor,  et  Magister  Agreements 
Willelmus  Dragley,  in  legibus  Baccalaureus,  Canonici  Residentiarii  deiiti^aries  as^' 
in    hac    ecclesia,  inter    se  convenerunt   et   pacti   sunt  in   prassentia  to  share  of 
Dominoram    Thomae    Kyrkby   et    Johannis  Bull,  gardianoruin,  et  and  o^eese 
Willelmi   Brodhed    Registratoris  capituli,  quod  prsedictus  Magister  ^^'^^^^l  ^^ 
Robertus  Barra  percipiat,  a  festo  Sancti  Petri  quod  dicitur  ad  vincula 
ultimo  prajterito  ante  datum  praisentium,  usque  ad  idem  festum  anno 
revoluto  omnes   porcellos   et   aucas  decimales  pertinentes  capitulo, 
quas  decumge  sestimantur  ad  valorem  xiii^.  iiii'^.  unde  idem  Magister 
Robertus    solvet    pro    medietate     dictarum     decumarum    prcefato 
Magistro  Willelmo  vi^  viii"^. 

p.  250.  Memorandum  quod  quinto  die  mensis  Junii  anno  Domini  5  June,  1523. 

1523°  comparuerunt  coram  capitulo  Thomas  Lawe  de  Ferneffield  et  ^mmoJer' 

Johannes    Crichluwe    de  Edyngley,  et    submiserunt  se  correctioni  for  cutting 

T  1  -,  r       •  •    n         •     •       '         down  two  ash 

capituii,  pro  eo,  quod  prostraverunt  duas  iraxmos  infra  cimitenum  trees  in 

ecclesiee  de  Edyngley  absque  licentia  capituli  ecclesiaB  collegiatae  ■'^J^^-^.^f'^^  , 

de  Suthwell,   Rectoris  ejusdem    ecclesice.     Unde   idem    capitulum  of  which  the 

injunxit  eis  ut  solvant  dicto  capitulo,  aut  eorum  deputato,  tantam  rectors-  ^^^ 


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A.D.  1523. 

ordered  to  pay  as 
much  money  as  they 
paid  for  the  trees 
before  the  Trans- 
lation of  S.  Thomas 
the  Martyr  next. 
19  Jan.  152.S. 
Margaret  Foster  & 
Agnes  Drynge,  both 
of  Kdyngley,  sum- 
moned for  slander : 


evidence  in  favour  of 
Margaret's  character 
bailiff  of  Mansfield, 
and  others. 

Agnes  does  not 
appear  ; 

suspended  from 
entering  church. 


Appears  with  Mosse, 
parish  clerk,  both 
absolved;  the  clerk 
to  pay  9d. 


-,  April.  1524. 
Day  fixed  for  visita- 
tion of  Upton  chapel 


summam  monetae  quantara  solverunt"  pro  eisdeni  fraxinis,  citra  fcstum 
Trartslationis  sancti  Thomae  Martyris,  et  quod  hoc  facient  et 
observabunt  Willelmus  Foster  et  Hcnricus  Cowper  fidejussores  se 
esse  concesserunt. 

p.  239.  xix".  die  mensis  Junuarii  AD.  1523  decretum  est 
c.itationern  fieri  er<ra  Agnetem  Drynge  de  Edyngley  ad  conipa- 
rendumcornmcapitulodie  Mercurii  proximo  futuro,  ad  respondendum 
Margaretge  Foster  de  eadem  in  quadam  causa  diffamationis. 

Quo  die  adveniente  comparuerunt  utrajque  partes  et  habcnt  diem 
iterum  comparendi  die  Sabbati  proximo  futuro. 

Eodem  die  Sabbati  advenerunt  in  testimonium  ad  declarandum 
testimonium  innocentiK  prasdictaj  Margaretas  isti  honesti  viri, 
'  Thomas  Plardevvik,  Ballivus  de  Mansfeld,  Johannes  Hardewik,  et 
Leonardus  Wliitworth. 

Xos,  capituhim  Ecclesige  Coliegiatas  beatse  i\Iaria3  Virginis  Suth- 
well,  Agnetem  Drynge  de  Eilynglcy  legitime  monitam,prreconizatam, 
et  diutius  expectatam,  nullo  modo  comparcntem,  pronunciamus  et 
declaramus  contumaeem,  et  in  poenam  contumacise  ipsam  Agnetem 
suspendimus  ab  ingressu  ecclesise. 

Et  sic  suspensam  fore  declarando  decernimus,  decernentes  etiam 
ipsam  Agnetem  de  novo  fore  citandam  erga  diem  Mercurii  proximum 
futurum. 

Quo  die  Mercurii  adveniente  comparuerunt  tam  ipsa  Agnes 
quam  Alexander  Mosse,  clericus  parochialis  de  Edyngley,  qui 
utrique  absoluti  sunt  a  sententia  suspcnsionis,  Et  dictus  Alexander 
juratus  est  quod  solvet  pro  absolutione  sua  ix'^  infra  ebdomadam 
l^aschaj  proximam  futuram. 

p.  250. —  Memorandum  quod  quinto  die  mensis  Aprilis  Anno 
Domini  1524"  ex  consensu  concanonicorum  concordatum  fuit  quod 

"  This  is  somewhat  obscure.     The  words  would  imply  that  they  had  paid  some  ouo 
probably  the  vicar  of  K«lynglcy,  for  the  ash  trees  and  that  they  ^\ere  to  pay  the 
chapter  over  again  ;  l)ut  it  would  seem  more  likely  that  tliey  were  to  i)ay  the  chajjtcr 
what  they  got  for  the  trees. 


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A.D.  lo2G-8. 

visltatio    capellae    de    Upton    erit    celebrata    ibidem,    die    sabbati 

proximo  ante  festum  Sancti  Georgii  proximum  futurum. 

p.   302.  Anno  Domini  millesimo  quingentesimo  vicesimo  sexto,  17  Oct.  1526. 

die   raensis  Octobris  decimo    septimo,    in  domo    nostra    capitulari  ^.^'^^'g^^'^^j^gg^f 

coram   Venerabilibus  viris   Magistro    Roberto   Barra    et    Maoristro  J-  Willa,  R.  Walbank, 
„  ,  ,       -r.  -1  •      T^  •  ^■on  •      •     ~  andW.Browneberde, 

llrdwardo  Basset   in  decretis  Doctore  m  causa  ditiamatioiiis  com-  ^f  Norwell,  to  avoid 

paruerunt   uxores  Johannis  Willa,  Roberti  Walbank,  et  Guillielmi  scandal,  referred  to 
^  '  .  .  arbitration  ot  the  two 

Browneberde  de  Norwell;  subtracto  tum  legis  processu  per  discre- vicars  of  Norwell, and 

cionein   et  benignitatem   horum   Venerabilium    Virorum   ut  i^ajus  ^^.g^^'^^l^  ^^^jj.  j^^^g. 

ne    inde  oriretur    scandalum,    totius  niateriae  examinatio  et  etiam  bands  undertaking 
,  ..„.  T->-iAr  -r\-T^-Tii  to  pay  40s.  to  the 

determinatio  Dotnino   Ricardo  Marten  et  Domino  Ricardo  Aw  bye,  f.^l3i.ic  fund  if  their 

vicariis  de  Norwell,  Ricardo  Smytb,  Johanni  Grene  de  eadem  per-  b'^^'^^j-bitratoS^ 

mittitur.      Promiseruntque  illarum   mariti  (fide  media),  si   deter-  decision. 

minationi  praedictorum  virorum  non  obediverint,  se  ad  opus  fabricae 

ecclesiae  Suthwell  quadraginta  solidos  legalis  monetJB  soluturos. 

p.  243. — Dominus  Johannes  Nubolde,  Vicarius    de    Edyngley,  3  October  1527. 
.  -        ,•  ■      r\       ^    •        K  TA        .    ;  J.  Newbold,  vicar  of 

citatus  ut  compareret  tertio  die  mensis  Octobris  Anno  Domini  Edyngley,  suspect 
millesimo  ccccc™"  xxvii",  ibi  se  capitulo  ad  dictum  diem  preesentavit,  ^^'^^^  Arwood  s  wife; 
et  quia  publica  fama  volat  eum  fore  reum  criminis  incontinentise 
cum  uxore  Johannis  Arwood,  indixit  ei  Magister  Edwardus  Basset 
decretorura  doctor,  capitulum  faciens  cum  Magistro  Willelmo 
Dragley,  gardianis  et  registratore,  diem  iterum  comparendi,  vicesimo 
nono  die  ejusdem  mensis,  ut  aut  se  canonice  purgaret,  aut  se  correc- 
tion! capituli  submitteret,  aut  legitimam  assignaret  causam  quare 
se  purgare  noluit. 

Quo  die  adveniente  dictus  Dominus  Johannes   Newbolde  com- 
paruit,  dicens  se  nullo  modo  de  crimine  sibi  objecto  purgationem  pu^cr^atioii ; 
facere,  nisi  secundum  vim  et  eflfectum  hujus  scripturse  sequentis, 
cujus  tenor  talis  est. 

In  Dei  nomine  Amen  etc.   et  tum  respectuatur  causa  usque  ad 

diem  Jovis  proximum  futurum  post  festum  sancti  Hilarii  proximum  submits  to  chapter  s 

,  ^  ...,.,..  correction;  is 

futurum:  quo  adveniente  die  se  correctioni  capituli  submisit,  tum  enjoined  to  abstain 

que  praeceptum  est  ei  per  Magistrum  Edwardum  Basset,  decretorum  ^^""^  ^^^"  ^°^^*^^- 
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A.D.  lo28-9. 


doctorem,  subpoena  juris,  utseabscntetaconsortio  prwdicta^  mulievis, 
honestis  salutationibus  in  ecclesia  et  foro  tantummodo  exceptis. 

p  me  Johannes  Newbold. 

Correctiones. 

1  April.  1528.  D.  197. —  Primo    die    niensis    Aprilis    Anno    Domini    millesimo 

Agnes  Nothorne,  t  .  r   •        a  •    -v-     i 

penance  for  misbe-      quingentesiino    xxviu"    injunctum   iuit    Agneti  iSothorne  propter 

BensTn  •^tow^lk'"^^^  fomicationem  quam  commiserat  cum  Thoma  Benson,  ut  nudis  pedi- 
rounil  Edingley  bus,  cum  reticulo  super  capita  disperse,  circuiret  cimiterium  ecclesise 

churchyard  on  Palm  i  •   t      i      t- i         i        •       t  •  i  i        •    • 

Sunday  with  bare        parochialis  de  Edyngley  in  die  ramis  palmarum  dominica  proxima 

feet  and  a  net  spread    futupa  ac  etiam  in  die  Parasceves  proximo  futuro;  et  ipsa  veneranter 

on  her  head;  .  .  ^  .         ,. 

on  Good  Friday  to      (circumstanti  populo)   crucem  sanctam   genibus  curvatis  adiret,  et 

SrhendSf  knees  ^^P^^  pedibus  nudatis  et  capite  reticulo  tantum  cooperto,  et  visitet 

and  creep  to  the  eodem    die    duo    altaria   in  eadem   ecclesia  de  Edyngley,   dicendo 

altars  in  the  church  ,         ■^  n      •   \  •         ■  ^-  j        •    •  ^   x-  i    ^ 

and  say  on  bended  (genibus  ilexis)   quinquies  orationem   dominicam   ac  toties  saluta- 

knees  the  Lord's  tionem  angelicam  ad  eorum  utrumlibet  cum  siinbolo  fidei. 

Prayer,  the  Ave  °  ,      .  ,.  •      t   ^••    ^ 

ilaria, and  the  Creed       Iiijunctum  est  emmote*  iienson  decimo  die  mensis  Julu  Anno 

ve  tunes  at  each.       Domini  millesimoccccc*' vicesimo  octavo,ut  ipsa dominica die  proxima 
Benson  to  walk  in  .      •         i    ^  j-  vi  •  .    j- 

l)roce.ssion  with  bare    sequente  incedat,  nudis  pedibus,  coram  processione  et  discooperto 

feet  and  head  on  two  capite,  et  etiam  alia  dominica  proxima  sequente  eodem  modo  incedet, 

propter  fomicationem  quam  commiserit. 
29  April,  I52it.  p.   144. — Vicesimo    nono    die    mensis    Aprilis    A.D.    millesimo 

w\'ison'^fm-'li!rhtin  ccccc"'°  xxix''  Injunctum  erat  Dominis  Henrico  Gybonson  et  Thomaj 

not  to  frequent  Wilson  propter  rixas  et  liles  inter  se  motas,  et  propter  verbera  inter  se 

taverns  and  to  ^  •       •    /r    ,         ,  i         •  i  ,         •    .       • 

keep  all  canonical  alternatiin  inllicta,  ut  se  a  tabernis  pro  mense  absentarent,  et  intersint 

hours  for  a  nioiith,      omnibus  horis  canonicisdicto  mense,  nisi gravi  morbo  impediti  fuerint, 

and  to  say  the  Psalter  .  .  ta      •  •  i       •  n      ■  -i 

on  bended  knees  in      et  etiam  dicent  infra  mensem  Daviticum  psaherium,  ilexis  genibus, 

t  e     igh  Choir.  ^^  ^-^^^  choro.     Et  ulterius  promiserunt  quod  si  inquieti  et  pugnatores 

fuerint  amodo  inventi  inter  fratres,  et  alter  alterum  percusserit,  aut 

aliquem  alium  inter  socios,  tunc  penitus  ab  officio  et  beneficio  rece- 

dent,  omni  gracia  et  favore  postpositis.      Et  in  testimonium  praimis- 

sorum  nomina  et  cognoinina  subscripscrunt  die  et  anno  pra^dictis. 

per  me  llenricum  gybboson. 
per  me  Thoinam  Wylt:on. 
•  Emmote  is  written;  though  it  probably  refers  to  Thomas  Bens(.)n. 


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Visitation  of  1529. 

p.  337. — Ultimo  die  mensis  Maii  A.D.  millesimo  iiiii°  xxix°  31  May,  1529. 
Inclioata  fuit  visitatio  ecclesise  collegiatae  Beatse  Mari^  Virginis  Edwarcr^  ^ 
Suthwell,  per  venerabiles  viros  magistrum  Edwardum  Basset  Deere- ^'^^^^tt, 

1  •  -rrr-n    i  ta  i  •  i        -i  Doctor  of 

torum    doctorem    et   inagistrum     VVmeimum  Dragley   m    legibus  Decrees,  and 

Baccalaureum.  Canonicos  Residentiarios  in  eadem,  et  contiuuata  est  William 
...  .  .  .  Dragley, 

eadera  visitatio  ad  placitum  et  voluntatem  dictbrum  canonicoruni.  LL.B. 

Et  suspensa  est  jurisdictio  omnium  et  singulorum  Prebendariorum 

dictae  ecclesise  usque  ad  festum  Trinitatis  proximum  sequentem. 

Nos,  capitulum  ecclesiae  collegiate  Beataa  Mariaa  Virginis  Suth-  Inl'.ibi*'^?'^  °^  f 

well,  deceniimus  jurisdictionem  omnium  et  singulorum  confratrum  canons  during 

nostrorum  concanonicorum  et  prebendariorum  dictae  ecclesice  nostras  ^^tioQ 

fore  vacuam  et  suspensam  Inhibentes  ne  se  intromittant  in  aliquo 

jurisdictionem    nostram    concernente,    quousque    nos   visitationem 

plene  et  complete  executi  fuerimus. 

p.  303. — xiiii''   mensis  Augusti  Anno   Domini  millesimo    quin- 1*  Aug.  1529. 
-r.        .  T       1  A  1     1         1  •  Dispute  before 

gcntesimo  xxix"  Dommus  Jacobus  Alsebrooke,  per  prsesentationem  chapter  as  to 

ThomjB  Byfrge,  petiit  canonice  institui  in  vicariam  de  B  lithe  wo  rtlie:  ^^S^^  9^  P^"^" 

i^.'-^  .  .  „  .  .  sentation  to 

et  eodem  die  comparuit  Dominus  Georgius  Vessy  ad  prsesentationem  Blitheworth 

Domini  Willelmi  j\Ieryng,  militis,  patroni  ejusdem  vicari»  asserti ;  ^^*^^^^°^' 
deinde  diem  assignaverunt  eisdem  Jacobo  et  Georgio  ad  inquiren- 
dum de  jure  patronatus,  etc.,  diem  Jovis  proximum  post  datum 
presentium.      In  praesentia    Alsebrooke    allegat   se    habere    testes  Commission 
aliquos   senio  gravatos,  et  ad  ejus  petitionem  Domini  commiserunt  ao-ed  and  sick 

magistro  Christophero  Walker  potestatem  examinandi,  iurandi,  et  ^i*^'^*^^^^®^°'l 

'  J  '        report  to 

admittendi  eosdem,  et  ad  certificandum  die  et  loco  praedictis.    Et  si  chapter. 

altera  pars  defecerit  in  probatione,  Domini  intendunt  procedere  in 

contumacia,  etc. 

Quo  die  adveniente,  continuata  est  causa  usque  ad  quindenam,  Caseadjourned 
1     .     .  ,       .         ^  .         '  f or  a  fortnight 

Alsebrooke  petente  admissionem,  et  altera  parte  ultenorem  termmum  on  petition  of 


etiam  petente. 


parties. 


Et  eodem  die  Dominus  Johannes  Alsbrooke  promisit  fide  media  -A-lsbrooke  un- 

^  dertakes  tp 


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A.D.  1529-34. 

resign  to  the 
ordinarr,  i.e. 
the  chapter,  if 
right  de- 
mand it. 


shirks  choir 
warned  a  first 
time. 


15  Dec.  1534 
Kawlande, 
chauntry 
priest,  sus- 
pected with 
Agnes  Lylly. 


ad    resignandurn    vicariam    ecclesias    de    Blythewortlic    in   manum 

ordlnarii,  si  jus  verioris  patroni  id  expostulet. 

p.  145. — Decimo  die  mensis  Octobris  Anno  Domino  millesimo 

d"  xxxii**  Dominus  Willelmus    Rawlande,  quia   non    facit  sectam 
10  Oct.  1532.      ,      .         ,  .    .  ,  .  1    1      •    J-       • 

W.  Kawlande   cnon,  sed   saepissime  se  absentat,  et  communiter  ab  hons  diurnis; 

piimo  fuit  monitus  ut  melius  observet  sectam  chori,  sub  poena  sus 

pensionis  ab  officio  et  beneficio,  trina  monitione  praecedente;  et  liaec. 

pro  monitione  prima. 

p.  279. — Quintodecimo  die    mensis    Decembris    A.D.  millesimo 

quingentesimo  trigesimo  quarto,  coram  magistro  Edwardo  Bassett, 

Decretorum  Doctore,  Domino  Johanne  Bull  et  Christophero  ^^'alker, 

Gardianis,  et  Edwardo  Brereley  Registratore,  capitulum  facientibus, 

companiit  personaliter  Dommus  Willelmus  Rawlande,  Cantarista, 

super  crimine  incontinentiae  cum  quadam  Agnete  Lylly  erga  bonos 

et  graves  diffamatus  :  cui  data  fuit  dies  ad  purgandum  se  canonice 

cum    sua    septima    manu    sui    ordinis    viz.    dies   Martis,   vicesima 

secunda  dies  mensis  Decembris  instantis. 

Quo   die  adveniente  comparuit  dictus  Dominus  Willelmus  Raw- 

_  lande  et  purgavit  se   canonice   coram   prgefato   magistro   Edwardo 

Bassett,  Johanne  Bull,et  Christofero  Walker,  gardianis,  et  Edwardo 

Brereley  Registratore,  per  suum  juramentum  corporale,  cum  Domi- 

nis  Willelmo  Babyngton,  Johanne  Umfrcy,  Roberto  More,  Roberto 

Baily,  Willelmo  Gynkersell,  et  Thoma  Palmer,  sibi  compurgatori- 

restored  to        hyis:  cui  quidem  Willelmo  idem  capitulum  concessit  literas  restitu- 

good  fame,  but  _  ^  ,    '  ^ 

to  absent  him-  tionis  bonaj   famae;    et  praiterea  idem  capitulum   injunxit  prsefato 

Agnes'^r  the    Domino  Willelmo  quod  deinceps  abstineat  se  a  consortio  et  familiari 

future.  collocutione  prafatae  Agnetis  sub  poena. 

22  Jan.  1534.        p.  350. — Yicesimo  secundo   die   mensis  Januarii  Anno  Domini 


Tuesday.  22 
December. 
Canonical  pur 
gation  by  six 
compurgators 
of  his  order: 


Palmer,  deacon 
of  the  church, 
suspended  by 
the  church 
wardens  for 
contumacy. 


4  Dec.  153i 


millesimo  ccccc'""  trigesimo  quarto  Dominus  Nicholaus  Palmer 
Diaconus  propter  ipsius  contumaciam  manifestam  que  inobedientiam 
ab  officio  sui  diaconatus  pra3dicti  per  Dominos  Johannem  Bull  et 
Christopherum  Walker,  Gardianos,  suspensus  fuit,  non  itcrum  ad- 
mittendus  quoadusque  condignam  cgerit  pojnitentlam. 

p.  156. — (Quarto  die  mensis  Decembris  Anno  Domini  millesimo 


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A.D.  1534-7. 

quingentesimo  tricesimo  quinto,   Dominus  Thomas   Dune,  Canta- Thomas  Dune, 

~       ,.      .  .,  a  chauntry 

nstarum  unus,  coram  Gardianis  et  actovum  scriba,  conventus  propter  priest,  shirks 

lion  sectam  cliori,  juxta  suum  corporale  juramentum  in  hac  parte  ^^^^^ ' 

prsestitum,  de  qua  fuit  multitotiens  monitus,  promisit  se  emendatu-  ordered  to  give 
,   ,  ,     .  ...  .     T     .,  .    ^  wTitten  under- 

rum;  et  ad  hoc,  huic  monitioni  ex  parte  capituli  sibi  lactse  et  pro-  taking  of 

mission!  per  se  promissse,  nomen  et  cognomen  subscripsit.  amendment; 

Idem  Dominus  Thomas  renuit  sua  nomen  et  cognomen  subscribere,  departs  con- 
,  ,  •  tumacious. 

et  contumax  recessit. 

p.  241. — Quarto  decimo  die  mensls  Augusti  Anno  Domini  mil- 14  Aug.  1537. 
,.  .  .  ..  •-^^•T^  T)a.        Baxter,  vicar 

lesimo  qumgentesimo  trigesimo  septimo  Dominus  Johannes  ±Jaxter,  choral,  hunts, 

Vicariorum  unus,  coram  Capitulo  conventus  est  de  venatione  aucupa-  hawks  and 

,  .  .  .  p  .  .  ,    shirks  choir  ; 

tione  et  a  choro  absentatione,  convictus ;   primo  luit  monitus  ut  ab  warned  a  first 

utra  et  earum  qualibet  se  deinceps  absentaret,  et  huic  monitoni  se  ^^^^en  under- 
submisit  eidem  nomen  et  cognomen  addendo  et  subscribendo.  taking  to 

T  1  -       1        xr         amend, 
per  me  Johem  baxf^- 

Correctiones, 

p.  184.— Vicesimo  die  mensis  Novembris  Anno  Domini  millesimo  20  Nov.  1537. 

quingentesimo   trigesimo   septimo    Dominus    Henricus  Gibbonson,  pectwkhAlke 

Vicarius  Choralis  istius  Ecclesiae,  suspectus  de  crimine  incontinentiae  Chambers. 

cum  Alicia  uxore  Johannis  Chambers,  alias  Saddeler,  monitus  fuit  to  abstain  from 

ut  decetero  abstineat  se  a  consortio  dictse  Alicise  in  omni  loco,  ecclesia  company  of 
......  .      T  .  Alice,  church 

et  foro  solummodo  exceptis,  nisi  merit  m  prsesentia  duorum  virorum  and  market 

bonse  conditionis  etfamsehonestse ;  et  hoc  sub  pcena  juris  et  statutorum  uniesT^i*!^^^*^ 

istius  Ecclesite:  et  huic  primse  monitioni  dictus  Dominus  Henricus  presence  of  iwo 
^-1  ,  ,        .      .      ,.  ■,.     .         men  of  good 

(jibbonson  nomen  et  cognomen  subsci'ipsit  die  et  anno  supradictis.     estate  and 

per  me  Henricii  gybboson.  ^    J^gl^^'the  usual 
undertaking. 
Idem   Henricus  secundam  habuit   monitionem    quam  etiam  ac- 
cepit. 

Vicesimo  die  mensis   Novembrls  anno   domini  millesimo   quin- 20Nov.  1538. 
gentesimo    trigesimo    octavo    Dominus    Robertus    Collen,  Vicarius  ^icar  choral,  ' 

choralis  istius  ecclesiae,  suspectus  de  crimine  adulterii  cum  Agnete  suspect  with 

T^    1        .  J         r  _  .  „  .        .  .     .  „  .      Agnes  Plats ; 

uxore  Koberti  Plats,  peremptorie  monitus  fuit,  sicut  pnmitus  luit,  warned  as  he 


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A.D.  1537-8. 
had  been  before 
to  abstain  from 
her  conii)any 
on  pain  of 
deprivation : 
signs  his  name. 


20  Nov.  1538. 
Walton,  vicar 
choral,  sus- 
pect with 


Awmbry ; 
warned ; 
signs  his 
name. 


20  Aug.  1510. 
Gibbon son, 
vicar  choral, 


iX'^si'm  suspect 
with  Alice 
Chambers  ; 


warned  a 
third  time, 

signs  his 
name. 


•2(\  Aug.  1540. 
Walton 
suspect  again 
with  Agnes 
Awmbry. 


ut  de  cetero  abstineat  se  a  consortio  dictaj  Agnetis  in  omni  loco 
(ecclesia  et  foro  solummodo  exccptis)  sub  poena  amotionis  ab  officio 
et  beneficio;  et  secundee  monitioni  dictus  Dominus  Robertus  Collen 
nomen  et  cognomen  subseripsit  die  et  anno  supradictis. 

p  me  Robtum  Collen. 
Vicesimo  die  mensis  Novembris  anno  Domino  millesimo  quin- 
o-entesimo  trigesimo  octavo  Dominus  Xicholaus  Walton,  Vicarius 
choralis  istius  ecclesiaj,  suspectus  de  crirrine  adulterii  cum  Agnete 
uxore  Roberti  Awmbry,  peremptorie  monitus  fuit,  sicut  primitus 
fuit,  ut  decetero  abstineat  se  a  consortio  dictas  Agnetis  in  omni 
loco  (ecclesia  et  foro  solummodo  exceptis)  sub  poena  amotionis  ab 
officio  et  beneficio  suis;  et  huic  secundge  monitioni  dictus  Dominus 
Xicholaus  Walton  nomen  et  cognomen  subseripsit  die  et  anno 
supradictis,  &c. 

p  me  Dnm  Xicholarn  Walton. 

Plus  in  dorso  de  hiis. 
Cori'ectiories. 
p.  155. — Vicesimo  sexto  die  mensis  Augusti  Anno  Domini  mil- 
lesimo quingentesimo  quadragesimo  Dominus  Henricus  Gibbonson, 
Vicarius  Choralis  istius  ccclesise,  suspectus,  ut  supra,  de  inconti- 
nentia cum  Alicia  uxore  Johaunis  Chambers,  alias  Saddelcr,  per  hunc 
picnesentem  actum  peremptorie  et  tertio  monitus  est,  ut  <le  cetero 
abstineat  se  a  consortio  ipsius  Aliciaj  (foro  et  ecclesia  duntaxat 
exceptis)  sub  poena  privationis  officii  et  beneficil  juxta  statutum 
indc  factum  quod  sic  incipit  'ceterum  si  per  iiu-ontincntiam,'  &c. :  et 
huic  tcrtiiC  monitioni  nomen  et  cognomen  subseripsit,  et  eandem 
admisit  et  acccptam  habuit  die  et  anno  suprascriptls. 

p  me  Henricum  Gybbonson. 

Vicesimo  sexto  die  mensis  Augusti  Anno  Domini  millesimo 
quingentesimo  quadragesimo  Dominus  Nicholaus  Walton,  Vicarius 
(!horalis  hujus  ecclesiie,  suspectus,  ut  supra,  de  incontinentia  cum 
Agnete  uxore  Roberti  Awmbry,  per  hunc  praisentem  actum 
peremptorie  et  tertio  monitus  est,  ut  de  cetero  abstineat  se  a  con- 


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A.D.  1542. 
sortio  ipsius  Agnetis  (foro  et  ecclesia  duntaxat  exceptis)  sub  poena 
privitionis  officii  et  beneficii  juxta  statutum  inde  factum  quod  sic 
incipit  *  ceterum  si  per  incontinentiam/  etc.  Et  huic  tertise  moni- 
tioni  suum  nomen  et  cognomen  subscripsit,  et  eandem  admisit  et 
acceptam  habuit  die  et  anno  suprascriptis. 

per  me  Nicolau  Walton. 

p.    186. — Dominus    Eobertus    Collen,    Vicarius    Choralis   istius  28  July,  1542. 

ecclesige,  habuit  hunc  vicesimum  octavum  diem  mensis  Julii  Anno  jj^^jj^^'^J^*!^^ 

Domini   millesimo   qumgentesimo   quadragesimo   secundo,  ad  pur-  suspect  with 
J  ,  .         T    .  T    T  rv>  Ao'nes  Plats, 

gandum  se  cum  sua  quarta  manu  sui  ordinis,  eo  quod  diftamatus  est  ordered  to 

de  incontinentia  cum  Agnete  uxore  Eoberti  Platts  de  Suthwell,  a  ^^^'^^S  three 

.  .  .  .  .  ^      compurgators. 

cujus  quidera  Agnetis  consortio  ut  se  abstmeat  primo,  secundo,  et  Thrice  warned, 

tertio  monitus  fuit,  et  sibi  etiam  injunctum  ;  contra  quas  quidem  ^er  toTi"^*^^ 
monitiones  et  injunctiones  sibi,  ut  prgemittitur,  factas  idem  Dominus  chamber,  they 
Robertus  dictam  Agnetem  multitotiens  in  chameram  suam   intro- alone  too-ether 
duxit,  ibidem  existentes  soli,  prout  vere  Dominus  Robertus  Collen  as  he  confessed, 
....  -tTfr  11  /-I       1-  -n  1  1     Ti  but  now  denies 

coram  Dominis  Ohristorero  Walkar,  (jardiano,  et  Edwardo  Brereley  and  refuses  to 

Registratore,  confessus  fuit,  comparuit  sed  se  purgare  noluit :   con-  P"i"ge  himself ; 

tinuata  est  causa^  ad  diem  lunge  proximum  sequentem.  tinuedto 

Monday  next. 

"  It  does  not  appear  in  this  Eegister  what  became  of  Collen's  case  ;  and  there  is  a 
blank  of  several  years  before  the  next  Register,  which  begins  in  1560,  in  Elizabeth's 
reign.  The  wonder  is,  indeed,  that  the  blank  does  not  begin  earlier,  as  in  August, 
1540,  the  Archbishop  of  York,  as  head,  the  Chapter  of  Southwell,  the  individual 
Canons  or  Prebendaries,  the  Vicars  Choral,  and  the  Chauntry  Priests,  surrendered  ' 
the  church  and  their  possessions,  rights,  and  privileges  to  Henry  VIII.,  and  it  was 
not  till  1543  that  it  was  re-established  by.Act  of  Parliament.  In  1547  the  colle- 
giate church  was  again  suppressed  under  the  Chauntries  Act  of  Edward  VI.,  and 
though  the  Grammar  School  was  restored  by  certificate  of  Edward  VI. 's  Endowed 
Schools  Commission  in  1548,  the  Church  was  not  re-established  till  1558,  when, 
on  a  (probably  collusive)  information  in  the  Exchequer  by  the  Attorney-General 
against  the  chapter,  it  was  held  that  the  college  had  never  been  legally  dissolved 
under  the  Chauntries  Act.  The  decision  was  recited  in  an  Inspeximus  charter  of 
Philip  and  Mary,  20  June,  1558,  and  the  collegiate  church  was  thus  a  second  time 
re-established  ;  but  even  as  late  as  1565  the  chapter  #as  still  engaged  in  legal 
proceedings  to  recover  its  possessions. 

The  fact  that  these  proceedings  took  place  seems  to  show  that  the  college  was 
never  actually  dissolved  from  1540-3;  but  was  allowed  to  go  on  as  before,  pending 
its  legal  re-establishment. 


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Wills  proved  before  the  ChxVpter  of  Southwell. 
A.D.  1470—1541. 


I  May,  1470. 
Will  of  William 
Custance,  chaplain. 

Bequest  of  soul  to 
God,  &c. 

Body  to  be  buried  in 
the  church. 

Bequest  in  name  of 
principal  as  Ecclesi- 


Testamentum  Domini  Willelmi  Custance. 

p.  114. — In  Dei  nomine  Amen.  Primo  die  men?is  Mali  Anno 
Domini  millesimo  cccc™"  septuagesimo,  Ego  Wilielmo  Custance,'* 
Capellanus,  compos  mentis  et  sanae  momoriaj  condo  testamentum 
meum  in  hunc  modum.  In  primis  do  et  lego  animain  meam  Deo 
onmipotenti,  Beatae  Marina  et  omnibus  Sanctis,  corpusque  meum 
sepcliendum  in  ecclesia  Collegiata  Beatix)  Clarice  Suthwell.  Item 
do  et  lego  nomine  principalis*'  mei,  ut  mos  petit  ecclesiasticus.  Item 


"  Custance,  or  Custans,  was  channtry  priest,  but,  as  he  was  appointed  before  the 
register  opened,  of  what  chauntry  does  not  appear.  He  was  warned  in  the  visita- 
tion of  1475  to  attend  service  bettei". 

^  The  principal  was,  according  to  Lyndwood's  Constitutiones  (ed.  Oxon.  p.  196), 
the  same  as  the  mortuary,  and  was  the  "  best  beast "  of  the  deceased.  It  was  called 
"principal,"  because  "dying  persons  used,  and  in  some  places  still  use,  to  bequeath 
their  first  or  second-best  beast,  first,  and  before  other  legacies,  to  God  and  the 
church  for  the  good  of  their  souls."  It  arose  from  custom  which  the  church  through 
the  church  courts  crystallised  into  law.  In  Edward  I.'s  statute  "  Circumsijecte 
agatis"  the  Ecclesiastical  courts  were  expressly  recognised  as  the  proper  tribunal 
to  try  cases  of  mortuaries.  They  were  an  unpopular  exaction.  In  1 305  a  constitution 
of  Archbishop  Winchelsea  directed  the  clergy  "  in  taking  of  mortuaries  to  have  God 
before  their  eyes,"  "  considering  mainly  the  poverty  or  want  of  him  from  whom  it  is 
exacted,"  says  Lyndwood. 

Whether  Lyndwood  is  right  in  taking  the  principal  to  be  the  same  as  the  mor- 
tuary seems  doubtful.  In  Henry  the  Eighth's  Mortuaries  Act  the  mortuary  is  iden- 
tified with  "  corse-presents,"  and  principal  does  not  seem  to  mean  the  first  legacy,  but 
the  first  or  "  best  catell."  Probably  the  church,  in  imitation  of  or  as,  lords  of  the  mai;or, 
took  the  best  beast  as  a  kind  of  heriot  for  "  the  good  of  the  soul."  In  13C7  Arch- 
bishop Langham  told  the  clergy  to  take  the  second  best  beast,  if  some  one  else  (i.e. 
lord  of  the  manor)  had  a  right  to  the  best  boast,  if  three  or  more  beasts  were  left, 
Ijut  not  to  claim  any  if  there  were  only  two  beasts.  In  this  constitution  the  reason 
of  the  claim  seems  to  be  attributed  to  compensation  for  forgotten  or  withheld  tithes. 
It  would  seem  that  at  all  events  where  there  were  no  beasts  the  best  "  catell ''  in  the 
sense  of  "  chattle  "  was  taken  instead  "  in  name  of  principal." 


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do  et  lego    fraternitati    vicarioruin    clioraliuni  ccclesia3   collegia  I  ee  astical  custom 

prasdictee,  ut    sIm    fratcr  receptus  inter  eosdcm,   sex  solidos  octo  To'th^l"    th  -h    d    f 

denarios.       Item    do    et   lego    fratribus    meis    cantarialibus   decern  vicars  choral  to  be 

solidos.      Item    do    et   lego    Jacobo    consobrino    meo    manenti    in  0^801.*^' 

Skakelden  in  parochia  de  Hovcnliam  sex  solidos  et  octo  denarios,  '\^  ^^^  brethren  the 

,        .  *        ^  chauntry  priests  10s. 

vel  valorem  eorunacm.  To  his  cousin  James, 

Eesiduum  vero  omnium  bonoruni  meorum  non  legatorum  do  et  ||j^'"°.-^!l    j  ^^^'?'^"' 

lego   Willelmo   Barthorp   et   Domino  Tliomce  Beylby,  Capellanis,  iiam,  Gs.  Sd.  orthe 

r    •  T  ,  ...  ,  ,    .      .     T  '  equivalent, 

quos  meos  lacio  ordino  et  constituo  executorcs,  ut  ipsi  disponant  et  Ecsidue  to  Barthorp 

ordinent  pro  salute  animse   mcse,   prout  eiis'*    melius   praevideatur ''^'^'^^*^J'^^.>''^^J!^P^''^i"^» 

TT-'  •  -r\  •     •      mi  -r»  r  •  CXCCUtorS,  to  dispose 

expedire.  Hiis  testibus  Dommis  Thoma  Baxter,  Laurentio  Broke- for  health  of  his  soul, 
schaw,  Thoma  Tykhyll,  Capellanis,  et  muUis  aliis.  Dat.  die  mense  S-lSh^aw^T!*''' 
et  Anno  Domini  supradictis.  Tykhyll,  chaplains. 

Probatum  fuit  prcesens  testamentum  xiiij  die  mensis  Julii   coram  Probatel4 July,  1480. 
capitulo  Anno  Domini  m°  cccc™°  octogesimo.     Administratio  om- 
nium bonorum  dicti  defuncti  commlssa  erat  executoribus  in  dicto 
testamento    nominatis  in   forma  juris  juratis,      Acquietancia  data  Quittance  of  executors 
crat  de  dato  Anno  Domini  supradicti  ultimo  die  mensis  Novembris.  ^'"^  November,  1-180. 


Prohatio  Testamentorum. 

p.  216.     xxii'^o  die  mensis  Octobris  probatum  erat  testamentum  22  Oct.  1472. 
Cristince   Sainton '^    viduse   coram  gardianis  capituli,  ratione  tene- ^^^P^^^J^  g^^^^^^^^ 
menti   in   Esttliorpe  quondam  Willclmi  EUys.     Executores  nomi-  widow,  in  respect  of 
nati    ibidem    Dominus    Johannes    Baddesworth    et   Agnes  Lee  et 
administratio  eisdem  commissa  in  forma  juris  juratis. 

Probatum  erat  testamentum  Johannis    Stirton  ultimo  die  mensis  31  ilay,  1474. 
Mail   Anno  Domini  m°  cccc™°  lxxiiij*°   et  administratio   omnium  j^^^'^g^i^tQQ^jg^jfg 
bonorum  dicti  defuncti  commissa  erat  Isabellee  Stirton  uxori   dicti  Isabella  executrix. 

'^  Sic. 

^  This  seems  to  be  earlier  than  the  next  entry,  but  it  is  a  pity  that  no  express  date 
is  given,  as  Cristina  Saynton  is  a  difficulty.  She  was  certainly  wrongly  accused  with 
Warsopp  by  mistake  for  Agnes  Saynton  in  1475,  see  p.  18,  and  probably  in  147, 
with  John  Bull,  see  p.  35. 

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John  Stirton 
renouncing  probate. 

Same  (lay. 
Probate  of  will  of 
Johanna  Grcgson, 
willow,  of  ■\Vhcatley, 
John  Gregson, 
executor. 


defuncti,    renunciaritc    palam    Johannc    Stirton    coexccutorc    dlctl 
defuncti. 

Probatum  crat  tcstamcntum  Johanr.a)  Grcgson  vidua;  dcfunctcc, 
de  Whctlcy  dum  vixerat,  ultimo  die  mensis  Maii  Anno  Domini 
m"  cccc'"°  Ixxiiij'*'.  Commissa  erat  adminis-tiatio  omnium  bonoruin 
dicti  defuncti  Johanni  Gregson  executori  dicti  defuncti,  in  forma 
juris  jurato. 


28  Dec.  1475. 
Will  of  John 
AVarsopp,  vicar 
choral." 

Great'j  desiring  to  be 
dissolved  from  this 
Korld's  misery  and 
vale  of  tears,  and  to 
be  with  Christ,  and 
considering  that 
nothing  is  more 
certain  than  death, 
and  nothing  more 
uncertain  than  the 
hour  of  it,  so  that  liis 
niiud  is  in  manifold 
ways  disturljed  by  the 
fear  of  death,  for  the 
praise  of  God  and 
advantage  of  his  soul, 
makes  his  will. 
Bequest  of  soul  to 
Christ,  who  redeemed 
him  by  his  cross  and 
precious  [soul],  and 
tlie  most  l)Iessed 
Virgin  Mary,  his 
mother,  and  all  the 
citizens  of  Heaven, 
and  his  putrid  jjody 
to  be  buried  in  the 
church  near  S.  Peter's 
altar  in  the  choir,  with  •= 
liis  Ijcst  beast,  accord- 
ing to  the  custom  of 
the  country. 


Prohationes  Tedamentorum  Vicariorum. 

p.  1 12. — Testamentum  Domini  Johannis  Warsopp. 

In  Dei  nomine  Amen.  Ego  Johannes  Warsopp,  cleric.ui', 
vicarius  que  choralis  ccclesias  collegiataa  Beata2  jNIariaj  Suthwcll,  ab 
hujus  mundi  miseria  et  lacrimarum  valle  dissolvi  et  cum  Christo 
[esse]  valde  cupidus,  compos  mentis  et  sanas  memoria;  existens,  in 
corde  que  et  anima  mea  considerans  quod  nichil  certius  mortc  et  nil 
incerlius  quam  hora  cju^,  sic  quod  timor  mortis  animam  mcani 
multipliciter  conturbat,  quod  ad  Dei  laudem  anima3  que  utilitatem, 
die  instantc,  videlicet,  viccsimo  octavo  die  mcnsis  Deceinbris,  Anno 
Domini  millcsimo  cccc™°  septuagcsimo  quinto,  ordino  et  constituo 
testamentum  meum  in  hunc  modem. 

In  primis  lego  animam  mcam  salvatori  nostro  Ibesui  Christo, 
qui  me  per  crucem  et  prcciosam  suam  '^  redemit,  ac  Beatissima: 
Virgina)  Marice  matri  mea2,  et  omnibus  ca;li  civibus;  corpus  que 
meum  putridum  sepeliendum  in  Ecclesia  Collegiata  prcedicta  prope 
altarc  Sancti  Petri  infra  cliorum,cum  meo  optimo  animali  secundum 
patria;  consuetudinem.  Item  lego  quinquo  libras  cerae  comburendas 
circa  corpus  mcuin  die  sepulturoe  mca3,  et  die  septima,  et  iiil*"" 
torches   eisdem    diebus   circa   dictum  corpus  meum  comburendas, 

'  Of  what  Prebend  Warsopp  held  the  Vicar's  stall  docs  not  api)ear.  In  spite  of 
his  pious  exordium  he  was  rather  a  bad  character,  was  warned  in  lJ/0(p.  5); 
suspended  for  misconduct  with  Agues  Raynton  in  1473  (p.  18). 

•>  Sic. 

"  Sic ;  but  it  does  not  mean  that  he  was  really  buried  with  his  best  beast,  but 
that  he  bequeaths  it  as  a  mortuary. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEE.  09 

quorum    residuum    iisdcm  diebus   non    expcnditum    lego   altarlbus  5  jj,  ^^^^^^^^  ^j^,l^yj.jj^j^j 
Sancti  Johannis  Baptista?  et  Beatce  Mari eg  extra  chorum,  et  altera"^  round  his  body  at 
1         i        1  no         ,•  mi  n,T     ,•  •     -    r      ^  •  01      burial,  and  Oil  7th  diiy 

duo  torches  cnpellffi  bancti  IhomgQ  Martins  intra  burgaguim  Suth- and  4  torches. 

well  ibidem  expendenda.  Kemaiusoftwo 

:       ,,  .  .  .  .     torclics  to  go  to  the 

Item  lego  vicariis  choralibus  dictse  Ecclesise  Collegiataj  ut  me  in  altars  of  S.  John 

fratcrnitatem.  suam  recipiant,   ct  omnium  suorum  sufFragiarum  et  oJ).^jj^ '(.'^"-j.  ^.^^"^  ' 

oratlonum   me  partlclpem   faciant,   pro   diebus  fepulturas    mea3    et  *^thcr  torches  to  go  to 
.         J.  .  ^  '    ^  ^  chapel  of  S.  Thomas 

septimo  die,  XVl^.  the  Martyr  in  the 

Item  lego  Capellanis  Oantariarum  ad  exequias  et  missam   meas  |j|"'g?-se  of  Southwell 
^      ,     ^  ,  ....  -"-O  vicars  choral  to 

existentlbus  elsdem  diebus,  cuillbet  xli'^.  make  him  partner  in 

Item  lego  flibricos  ecclesioe  Beaton  Marlse  Suthwell  xl^    Item  lego  Trchaimtry  chaplains 

Eccleslce  de  AVhetley,  cuius  quondam   fui  Rector,  vl^  vlii'^.     Item  present  at  obsequies 
,  .„..,.  ,  =,        and  mass,  1 2d.  each, 

lego  quatuor  quarteria  Irumenti  m  die  sepulturre  mecC  paupenbus  To  fabric  JOs. 

distribuenda,    et     alia    quatuor    quarteria    frumenti     die     septima '^°  Y.^?.*'^^  ^'^™^^' 
.  .  ,      ,  ,  •'■  ■'•  ^01  which  he  was  once 

similiter  distribuenda    inter  pauperes.      Item    lego  decem    solidos  Rector,  Gs.  Sd. 

distribuendos  Inter  pauperrlmosparochianos  de  Barnalby  per  super-  be^dTs'trlbuted^to^wor* 
visionem  executorum  meorum.    Item  lego  ad  emendatlonem  vlarum  ^^  ^^^  burial,  and 
o     1        11  •   T  1  1     T.     1        1       1  same  on  7th  day. 

butnwell,  et  spccialiter  apud  le  Jiarhend,  xl^.  lOs.  for  poorest 

Residuum  vero  omne  bonorum  meorum  superius  non  lefijatorum  P/ii"ishioners  of 

^  _  &  Earnalby. 

do  et  lego  Thomas  Urkyll,  Roberto  Dyson,  Capellanis,  (p.  113)  et  For  mending  roads  of 

Henrico  Eyton;  quos  ordino  facio  et  constltuo  executores  meos,  ut  l^^^.^^^g^^^^^Og"''^  ^ 

ipsi,  proe  oculis  Deum  habentes,  ea  fideliter  dlsponant    pro    salute  l^°sidue  to  executors, 

.  ,.  ,.  .ii-  T  TT  Urkyll,  Dvson,  and 

animaj  mea2,  prout  ens  menus  videbitur  expedire.     item  ordino  et  Eyton,  to  dispose  for 

constltuo  hujus  mel  testament!  supervisorem,  Thomam  Orston.     -'^n  |^°^'^j''^  "^^^^^J^^^°^^^^^ 
cujus  fidem  et  testimonium  huic  pra3sentl  testlmonio  meo  sigillum  Thomas  Orston  to  be 
meum  apposul.     Hils  testibus,    Dominis  Ricardo  Rooper,  Johanne  ^Vi'tiiesses,  Rooper, 
Mery,  Roberto  Webster,  et  Willelmo  Warsopp,  lalco.     Dato  apud  ^ery,  Webster,  and 

/'  ,.     .  W.  AVarsopp,  layman. 

Sutnwell  die  et  anno  supradictis. 

Testamentam  Domini  GokUhorp,  Vicarii  Ecclesice  Prehendalis  de 
NortJi  Muslcham. 


p'.  113. — In   Dei  nomine  Amen.    Anno  Domini  miileslmo  cccc™°  wilfof  Kichard 

Ricardus    Goldthorp,   Capellanus,  (ioldthorp, 

^'         ^  '  Vicar  of  JS^ 

Sic.  Mnskham. 


IxxvP",    prime    die    Mail,    Ego    Ricardus    Goldthorpj   Capellanus_,  (ioldthorp,  chaplain, 
*■  "  Vicar  of  JS'^orth 


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Bequest  of  soul ;  and 

hodv  to  be  buried  in 

S.  Wilfrid's  church, 

North  Muskham,  with 

best  animal  iu  name 

of  principal. 

2  lb.  wax  to  be  burnt 

round  body  on  day  of 

burial. 

To  Burton  church  a 

psalter,  a  surplice, 

a  book,  "  part  of  the 

eye." 

To  high  altar  of 

Burton  8d. 

To  S.  Nicholas  light 

there  8d. 

To  North  Muskham 

church  6s.  8d.     To 

Halom  church  10s. 

Kesidue  to  Godlay, 

Wortley,  and 

Fotehott,  chaplain, 

executors,  for  health 

of  soul. 

Newton,  Tyllyng, 

chaplain  and  Fotott, 

witnesses. 

Probate  before 

Wardens  in  chapter, 

25  March,  1479, 


Fotott  renouncing. 


compos  mentis  ct  sana;  memoriae,  condo  tcstamcntuni  incum  inliunc 
modum.  In  primis  Icf^o  animam  meam  Deo  omnipotenti,  Beatae 
^larioc  Virgini,  et  omnibus  Sanctis  cju?,  corpus  que  menm  scpc- 
licndum  in  ccclesia  Sancti  Wilfridl  do  North  Muskham ;  cum  mco 
optimo  animali  nomine  principalis  mei.  Item  lego  duas  libras 
ccraj  ad  comburcndos  circa  corpus  mcum  die  sepulture  mcoe.  Item 
lego  ccclesiaj  de  Burton  unum  psalterlum,  ct  1  surplcssc,  et  iinum 
librum  "  pars  oculi."* 

Item  lego  summo  altari  de  Burton  viii''.  Item  lego  luminari 
ecclesiaj  Sancti  Nicliolai  in  eadem  ecclcsite  viii''.  Item  lego  ecclcsiai 
de  Xortli  Muskham  vl^.  viii'".  Item  lego  ecclesi.ne  de  Halom  x^ 
Residuum  vcro  omnium  bonorum  mcorum  non  Icgatorum  do  et  lego 
Willelmo  Godlay,  Thomai  Wortlay,  ct  Thomo3  Fotehott,  capellano, 
quos  ordino  ct  constituo  exccutorcs  meos  ut  disponant  ct  ordinent  pro 
salute  animo2  meas  prout  melius  videbitur  e.xpedlro.  Iliis  tc?tlbu5, 
Johannc  Xewton,  Thoma  Tyllyng,  capellano,  et  Thoma  Fotott 
capellano. 

Probatum  fuit  prassens  testamcutum  coram  Domino  Thoma 
Urkyll  et  Ricardo  Rooper,  Gardianis  Ecclesiee  Collegiatee  Bcatac 
Maria)  Suthwell,  capitulum  publico  facientibus  in  domo  capitulari 
cjusdem,  xx'"°  quinto    die  inensis  Martii  Anno  Domini    m"  cccc'"" 

Commissa  crat  administratio  dictorum  bonorum  defuncti  infra 
jurisdictionem  capituli  existentium  Willelmo  Godley  et  Thomio 
Wortlays  exccutoribus  prrenominatis,  renunciante  palam  ct  cxpresse 
dicto  Thoma  Fotott  capellano. 


Testamoitum  T/iomcv  Baxter,  clerici. 

21  May,  1482.  p.  217. — In   Dei   nomine  Amen.     Viccsimo  primo  die  mcnsis 

B^ixIct' clllq^^^^^^  ^^^'^^  Anno   Domini   millesimo  cccc"'"  octogcsimo  sccundo.     Ego 

dianntry  of  s.  .lolm  Thomas  IJaxtcr,  cai)ellanus  cantaruc  sancti  rluhanuls  I-^vangelista;  in 
tlic  Evangelist  in 


See  post  in  list  of  Southwell  rarisli  Vicars'  possessions  "  jiars  oculi  sacordotis. 


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ccclesla  collcgiata  Beatsc  Marice   Suthwell,  ac  ctiam  poenitentiarius  Southwell  church,  and 

Kevcrendissimi  in  Christo  patris  ct  domini  Domini  ThomEe  Ebor.  P<:"it^"t''i'-y  of  the 

\  ,  Jtight  Keverend  Lord 

Archiopiscopi_,  compos  mentis  et  sanse  memorise,  condo  testamentum  Thomas  Archbishop 

1  1  of  York, 

meum  in  nunc  modum. 

In   primis  do  ct  lego   animam   meam    Deo   omnipotenti,  Beataj -^^dy  to  be  hurled 
Tvr     •  .  -u  ^'        •  T       -,  .     near  image  of  Blessed 

Mariie,  et  omnibus  Sanctis  ejus,   corpusquc  meum  sepeliendum   m  Mary,  Saint  Mary, 

dicta  ecclesia  Beatee  Marise  Sutliwell  iuxta  ymao-inem  Beatae  Maritc,  ^-"'^'^'7  of  Grace. 
,  ..  .•^*'°  'A  cow  for  mortuary, 

banctae  Manse,  Dominse  gracise.     Item  lego  unam  vaccam,  quae  est  To  fabric  6s.  8d. 

in  custodia  Johannis  StafForth,  loco  et  nomine  mortuarli  mei.    Item  ^s.ld  ^'TTbrethren 
lego  flibricse  ecclesise  supradlctse  de  Suthwell  vi^  viii'i.     Item  le^o  Chauntry  Chaplains 

•      •        ••       1       c    i.1         n  T    ,.  T.       •    ^  T       -1  r     If^s.  to  brethren  of 

xvi  vicanis  de    huthwcll  prsedicta  equaliter  inter  eos  distribuendos  Haxey's  chauntry  a 

vi^  viii*^.     Item  lee-o  dictis  fratribus  meis  capellanis  cantariarum  in  !i^^^^"Silt mazer  boAvI. 

1-  ,.  T  -...^        .,  To  2  deacons  4d. 

ecclesia  prsedicta  x^     Item  lego  dictis  fratribus  meis  capellanis  can-  each,  to  3  clerks  2d. 

tariarum  Thomse  Haxey  unam  murram  argentcam    ct  deauratam.  bearers  2d!each, 

Item  lego  duobus  diaconis,  utrique  iiij^.     Item  lego  tribus  clericis,  ^  choristers  2d.  each. 

cuilibet  ij'^     Item  lego   duobus  Thurribulariis,   utrique  ij'\     Item 

lego  sex  choristis  ut  unusquisque  illorum  liabeat  ij'\ 

Item   lego  Agneti  Parnell,  filise  fratris  mei,  unam  mappam   de  To  niece  Agnes 

Twyll.     Item  lego  dicta  Agneti  iij^  iiijd.     Item  volo  quod  execu-  ^^^'^^ ""  ^""''^^  *^^^' 

tores  mei  desponant  inter  pauperes  v^     Item  volo  quod  executores  to  poor  5s. 

ordinant  et  emant  duas  libras  et  dimidiam  libram  cerse,  operatse  in  ^h  lbs._  of  wax  to  be 
^     ^  .      .         -,         ,      .  ...  made  into  5  candles, 

quinque  cereos,  et  ut  ipsi  ardeant  circa  corpus  et  cimiterium  meum  to  burn  round  body 
quamdiu  durare  videntur,  ad  tempora  consueta  et  usualia.  ^^  "^"''^^  *""^^- 

Kesiduum  vero  omnium  bonorum  meorum  non  legatorum  do  et  Residue  to  Erokeshaw 
lego    Laurentio    Brokeshaw,  et   Koberto    Layne,    capellanis,    (^•^J^os  ^'''^  ^^J^^' ^^^^'^^o^^- 
ordino,  facio,  et  constituo  executores  liujus  mei  testamenti,  ut  ipsi 
disponant  pro  salute  animse  meas  prout  ipsis  videatur  melius  ex- 
pedire.     Hiis  testibus,  Tlioma  Schipton,  Thoma  Tykell,  Eoberto  Witnesses,  T. 
Penyrith,  capellanis,  et  aliis.     Dato  die  et  anno  supradictis.  i4mS; cTmplains, 

and  others. 

Testamentum  Rectoris  de  Whetley, 

p.  218. — In  Dei  nomine  Amen.     Quintodecimo  die  mensis  Maii  15  May,  1483. 
Anno  Domini  m'' cccc™Mxxxiii°.     Ego  Johannes  Hobson,  Rector  ^^'^' ""'^ '^°''"  "°^'°°' 


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Rector  of  S.  Helen's, 
South  \Vheatley. 

Body  to1)C  buried  in 
choir  of  South 
Wiic:itlcv. 


For  mortuarj',  best 
animal.     For  fabric 
of  8.  Whcatley 
church ,  40s.     To  a 
chaplain  for  a  trental, 
10s. 

4  lb.  of  wax  to  be 
bui-nt  i-ound  corpse. 
To  fabric  of  Wake- 
field church,  Gs.  8d. 
lU'siduc  to  William, 
Robert,  and  Richard 
Ilobson,  executors,  for 
health  of  soul. 
Witnesses,  Wytton, 
Pule,  Brown, 
chaplains. 


ccclcsise  sanctcc  Ilclcngs  de  Sutli  Wlictlcy,  compos  mentis  ct  sanju 
mcmorijc,  condo  tcstamcntum  mcum  in  hunc  modum. 

In  primis  lego  animam  Deo  omnipotenti,  et  Bcntrc  ^laiia?,  ac 
omnibus  Sanctis,  corpus  que  mcum  scpclicndum  in  clioro  cc.:lcsiaj 
praidictte. 

Item  lego  pro  mcomortuaiio"  meum  optimum  animal.  Item  lego 
fabrics  ecclesia?  prasdlctae  xl^  It-om  lego  cuidain  capellano  ad  celc- 
brandum  unum  trentale  pro  anima  mea  x^  Item  lego  in  ccra 
comburenda  circa  corpus  meum  quatuor  libras. 

Item  lego  fabriccE  ccclesim  de  Wakfield  vi^  viij**. 

Residuum  vero  omnium  bonorum  mcorum  superius  non  legatorum 
do  et  lego  Willelmo  Hobson,  Eoberto  ITobson,  ct  Ricardo  Hobson, 
fratribus  mcis,  ut  ipsi  ordinent  et  disponent  pro  salute  animne  mraj 
quos  facio  et  constituo  meos  exccutores  per  praiscntes:  hiis  testibus, 
Jolianne  Wytton,  Ricardo  Pule,  ct  Johanna  Brown,  capellanis. 
Dato  die  et  anno  supradictis. 


Prohationes  testamentorum  caniaristamm  et  alioritm. 


22  Aug.  1485. 
Will  of  T.  Gyles, 
chaplain  of  >.orth 
Muskham. 


Body  to  be  buried  in 
chaucelofS.  Wilfrid'! 
church,  North 
Muskham. 
.3  lb.  of  wax  to  be 
burnt  round  body. 
To  every  priest  at 
burial  4d. 
To  renovation  of 
canoi)y  of  S.  Wilfrid's 
38.  4d.,  to  altar  of 
B.  V.  M.  there,  I's. 
to  Holme  chapel  2(Jd. 
to  South  Muskham 
church  12d.,  to 
Cromwell  church  12d. 


p.  122.— In  Dei  nomine  Amen,  xxij*^"  die  mcnsis  Augusti  Anno 
Domini  millesimo  cccc'"Mxxxv*o.  Ego  Thomas  Gylys,  capellaniis  do 
Xorthmuskham,  compos  mentis  ct  sanae  memoriae,  condo  testimo- 
nium mourn  in  hunc  modum.  In  primis  lego  animam  mcam  Deo 
omnipotenti  Beata;  'Shvlx.  Virgini,  corpus  que  meum  sepeliendum  in 
cancellosancti  Wiiriidiecclcsiju  parochialisdc  Xorthmuskham.  Item 
lego  mcum  optimum  animal  nomine  principalis  mci.  Item  logo  iij 
libras  cerLC  comburendas  circa  corpus  meum  in  die  scpulturcc  nica;. 
Item  Ico  cuilibct  sacerdoti  ad  exequias  mcas  existcnti  iiij''  Item 
Icf^o  ad  renovationem  canopoei  dictaj  ecclcsioe  iij*  iiij"^.  Item  lego 
altari  Bcataj  Maria)  in  cadcm  ecclesia  ij».  Item  lego  capellac  de 
Holme  xx"*.  Item  lego  ecclcsiie  de  Soulhmuskham  xij*^.  Item  lego 
ecclcsiaj  de  Cromwell  xij'^ 

"  For  mortuary,  sec  note  p.  9G  on  "  principal." 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTEK.         103 


Item  lego  patri  meo  vj^  viij'^.     Item  lego  Roberto  fratri  meo  iij*  To  father  6s.  8iL,  to 
iv^     Item  lego  Jolianni  fratri  meo  iij^  iiijd.  J™t^<^i^  ?d^'acr'^ 

Kesiduum  vero  omnium  bonorum  meorum  non  legatorum  do  et  l^esiduc  to  brother 

1  -5T7-n   T  r     i.   •  n  ^  --i^i  ^^^    . .  t  William,  chaplain, and 

lego  Willelmo  Iratn  meo,  capellano,  ct  ihoma3  Llott,  quos  ordino  et  t.  Elott,  executor,  &c, 
constituo  executores  meos   ut  ipsi   ordinent  et  disponant  pro  salute 
animse  meee  prout  ells  melius  videbitu.r  expcdire. 

Dato   die  et  anno  supradictis:  liiis  testibus,  Thoma  Fotot,  capel- Witnesses,  Fotot, 
lano,  Thoma  Tyllyng,  vicario,-Johanne  Newton  et  multis  aliis.         S!'1"NSnf;nd 

Probatum   fuit  prsesens  testamentum   xxvi'°  die  mensis  Aiigusti  many  others. 

-p.       .    .  -,.    ,  A  1     •    •  .     ^-  1  .    r        .      .      Probate  26  Aug.  1485. 

anno  Domini  supradicto.     Aclmmistratio  vero  bonorum  mlra  juns- 

dictionein  dicti  capituli  existentium   commissa    erat    executoribus 

supradictis  personaliter  juratis  &c. 

Testamentum  Domini  Willelmi  Grene,  Vicarii  de  Rollsion. 

p.  123. — In  Dei  nomine  Amen,   Yicesimo  die  mensis  Mali  anno  20  May,  1487. 

Domini  millesimo  cccc'^°  Ixxxvii^^".   Ego  Willelmus  Greue,  vicarius  Will  of  W.  Grene, 
T       -r,   T,  .  .  ,  vicar  of  lloUeston. 

de  iiollston,  compos  mentis  et  sana3  inemoriaa,  condo  testamentum 

1  1  T  •     •       1  1  •  T^       Body  to  be  buried  in 

meum  m  luinc  modum.     In  primis  do  ct  lego  animam  meam  Deo  choir  of  Eollston 

omnipotcnti  Beatse   Mariaa   et    omnibus   Sanctis,    corpusque    meum  parish  church  before 

V      A  •  ^  1     •  1  •   1-        1       -n    11  image  of  B.  V.  M. 

sepcliendum     in     choro    eccIesicE    parochialis    de    Rollston    coram  of  pity. 

imagine  Beatte   Maria?  pietatis  ibidem.     Item  lego  nomine  princi- ^'^^^w^  °^^^°^^  ^^^* 

palis  mei  quod  justum  est.     Item  lego  fabrics  ecclesia3  de  Rollston  Barnburghchurch20s. 

prsedictaa  xx^    Item  lego  fabricee  ecelesise  parochialis  de  Barnburirh  To  son,  T.  Wilson, 

^  ^    33s.  8d. 

^^  •  To  Margaret 

Item  lego   Thomas  Wilson,   fllio   meo  x.xxiij^  viii'^     Item   lego  ^^"Ji^itley,  his  servant, 
Margarets  Brightley,  fiunulcB  meee  xl^     Item  lego  Aviciee  Feron,  Feron,  servant. 

famulas  mese  xiiiMiii'^     Item  lego  Ricardo  Alcock  famulo  meo  vi^  l'^,^- '^f-    '-^'oEichard 

.,  M-i        p   1  Alcock,  servant, 

viij^.    Item  lego  cuilibet  hololo  meo  et  holelaj''  meis  iiij'^.    Item  lego  Cs.  8d. 

Johanni  Sle  et  uxori  su£e  v  marcas.     Item  lego  Alicia^  filiiB  eorum  ek'ighter'4'd^'''''  ^""^ 
xiii^  iiii'^.     Item  lego  Thomaj  Smytli  de  Brerley  vi^  viii^l.  To  J.  Sic  and  wife 

T,     -J  °       .  .  -^  .       -^  ,     ^  5  marks,  to  Alice  their 

Residuum  vero  omnium  bonorum  superius  non  legatorum  do  et  dau^-hter  I3s  4d 


lego  ThomEe   Gurnell,  et  Roberto  Dyson,  quos  ordino  facio  et 


,._„    To  T.  Smyth,  of 
^""~  Brerley,  6s.  8d. 
„.  ^ .  Kcsidue  to  Gurne 

"'^'  "  and  Dyson,  vicars 

choral,"  executors. 


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VISITATIONS    AND    MEMOKIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTEK. 


Witnesses,  W.  Bull, 
T.  Hefekl,  etc. 
rrol)ato  27  July, 

1487. 


20  April,  148G. 
rrobatc  of  will  of 
John  Meiy,  Vicar 
choral.     Kooper  and 
Penkith,  vicars 
choral,  executors. 


stituo  cxccutorcs  liujus  mei  tcstamcuti,  ut  ipsi  dlsponant  pro  salute 
animaj  mca3  prout  clis  melius  videbitur  expedirc.  Iliis  testibus, 
Willelnio  Bull,  Tlioma  Hefeld,  ac  alils. 

Probatum  fuit  proescns  tcstanientum  coi\im  capltulo  xxvii"'°  die 
Julii.  Admlnistratio  commif&a  fuit  cxecutoribus  suprascriptis 
coram  eiis  in  forma  juris  juratis. 

p.  219.  Probatum  fuit  tcstamentum  Domini  Johannis  Mery, 
Vicarii  Choral  is  Sulhwell  xx"'"  die  mcnsis  Aprilis  Anno  Domini  m" 
cccc'"°  lxxxvi'°  et  administratio  omnium  bonorum  dicti  defuncti 
commissafuit  Dominis  Ricardo  Koopcr,  ct  Ricardo  Penkith,  Vicariis 
Choralibus  dictae  ecclesioc,  in  forma  juris  juratis. 


12  Sept.  1489. 

Will  of  John  Brown, 

Vicar  of  Eampton. 


Soul  toGod.B.V.M 
Michael  Archanf;cl, 
body  to  be  buried 
in  sanctuary  of  All 
Saints  Kamptou. 
For  prin.-ipal, 
according  to  custom 
of  Hampton  church. 
2  books  for  same. 
Another  book,  on 
condition  that  tl'.c 
ecclesiiistics  of  the 
charch  pay  20s.  to  his 
executors. 

To  Robert  Brown,  son 
of  \V^  Brown,  of 
Kamptuii,  and 
lOiizubeth  his  wife, 
and  the  heirs  of  their 
bodies  a  me.ssu:igc 
and  lauds  in  Hampton 
worth  Via.  4d.  a  year. 
Residue  to  W.  Brown 
and  wife  Joan, 
executors,  for  health 
of  soul. 


Testamentum  Johannis  Brown  Vicarii  de  Rampton. 

p.  115.  In  Dei  nomine  Amen.  Duodecimo  die  mensls  Scptem- 
bris  Anno  Domini  m"  cccc"'°  lxxix°:  ego  Johannes  Brown,  vicarius 
ecclesiaj  de  Hampton,  bonoc  et  sanse  mcmoiicC,  condo  testamentum 
meum  in  hunc  modum. 

In  primus  lego  animam  meam  Deo  omnipotenti  ac  beatissimec 
Virgini,  ]\Iichaeli  archiangelo  et  omnibus  Sanctis,  corpus  meum 
sepeliendum  infra  sanctuarium  ccclesitB  omnium  sanctorum  de 
Rnmpton  preedicta. 

Item  lego  pro  mco  principali  secundum  consuctudinem  istius 
ccclosia?  de  Rampton. 

Item  lego  duos  libros  ad  usum  ecclesiae  de  Rampton.  Item  lego 
ahum  libriim  ad  usum  ecclcsia)  prcedictoc,  sub  tali  conditione,  viz., 
quod  ecclesiastici  ecclesia)  pradictoc  solvant  scu  solvi  faclant  xx^ 
cxecutoribus  praedicti  Johannis  Brown. 

Item  lego  Roberto  Brown,  fillo  Willelnii  Brown  de  Rampton,  ct 
Elizabeth  uxori  suee,  et  hercdibus  eorum  duorum  legitime  procrcatis 
sen  procreandis,  unum  mcssuagium  ibidem  jacens,  cum  aliis  terrisct 
pratis  in  campls  et  pratis  de  Hampton  ad  valorem  xiii*  iv''  per  annum. 

Residuum  vcro  omnium  bonorum  meorum  superius  non  legato- 
rum  do  ct  lego  Willelmo  Brown  et  Johaniuc  uxori  sua;,  quos 
condo  meose.\ecutores,  ui  illl  ordlnent  et  tlispDiiant  pro  i^alute  aninui? 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMOPvIALS    03?    SOUTHTVELL    MINSTER.         105 

mcee  ;  liiis  testibus  RicarJo   Hanhyll   presbytcro,   Roberto   Cotoin  Witnesses,  Tucliard 

de  Eampton,  ct  Johanne  Wright  scniorc.     Date  die  ct  anno  supra-  Co^ioS  RaSpton, 

dictis.  and  J.  Wright,  scnr. 

Probatum    est    prsesens    testamentum     iiii^°    die    mcEsis-''    Anno  ^'^Sl'i'^'^  *      .,  ■^■^^^' 
>■  ...  .  ,         to  VV .  Brown,  the 

Domini    iii"cccc™°lxxxx°;    ct    administratio    commissa    erat    dicto  executrix  having  been 

AViUelmo  Brown,    executori    nominato,    coram    nobis    de    fjdeliter  *'''''''' *'°"' ^^^'"«^^- 

administrando  in  forma  juris  jurato,  altera  executrice  dicti  defuncti 

superius  nominata  ab  liac  luce  subtracta. 

Testamentum  Domini  Nicliolai  KnoUes,  Capellani  dudum 
Cantarialis. 

p.   124.  —  In  Dei    nomine  Amen.      Ouartodccimo    die     mensis  14  Aug.  1190. 

August!  Anno  Domini  m°cccc™°lxxxxo  Ego  Nicholaus  Knoll,  com- S^L^aun^^^^^^ 

pos  mentis  ac  sante  memoria3,  condo   testamentum   meum   in   hunc 

niodura. 

In  primis  lego  animam  meam  Deo  omnipotenti  Beatse  Marioe  et  Body  to  be  hurled  in 

•  1  ...  ,.-,.,,,     Southwell  church, 

omnibus  Sanctis  ejus;  corpusque  meum  sepchendum  m  ecclesia  col- near  chapel  of  S.John 

Icgiata    Beates  Marice   Sutliwcll,  juxta    capellam    Sancti    Joliannis  ^^''^"S^lif  >  i'l  *^^ 
T-  T  •       •      -VT      1     1  T.         1  •  .        ••  .  North  aislQ. 

livangelisise,  viz.  in  JNorthyie.     item  lego  nomme  inortuarii  mei 

hoc  quod  jus  requirit.     Item  lego  Magistro  ATillelmo  Talbot  xx*^  To  Master  W.  Talbot 

cum    uno    superpelicio    optimo.       Item    lego    cuilibct    Vicarlorum  20d!anrrbest''''^^' 

choralium    xij'^.     Item  lego    cuilibct    Presbiterorum    Cantarlalium  surplice. 

xij^i.     Item  lego  Isabellas  Lokay  vj^  viij'^  cum  uno  suppellecto  albo  and  chauntry  priest' 

et  pillow  de  Bustiano,  cum  una  toga  vlridis  coloris  cum  uno  capicio  ^^'^• 

viridi.     Item  lego  preedictse  Isabellse  j  mattress.     Item  lego  operi- To  Isabel  Lokay  6s.  Sd 

bus  Beatas  Marise  ad  magnum  campanile  ccccleslfe  prsedictee  vj'  viij<l.  a"d\Vow  oVbustlan 

Item   lego  Henrico  Knoll  filio  Roger!  Knoll  ij^     Item  lego  prse-  a  gown  and  hood  of 
T   i       XT        •  i  .1  1,      1     -nr      .  '11        r.  -■  green,  and  a  mattress, 

dicto    Menrico   unain   togam   talarem''    de  Mustre   viUers'^    cum    ij  To  Blessed  Mary's 

works  for  the  great 

"■  The  name  of  the  month  is  omitted  in  the  original.  llf'^iJ  t-'  ^iV 

hm        X1--        -jx  T-  ^         ,i„,..  To  H.  Knoll,  son  of 

^  Toga  talaris  is  said  to  mean  a  gown  reaching  to  the  ankles,  "  tali.''  jj  Knoll  2s.,  a  lone 

<=  It  is  doubtful  whether  muster  villers  is  the  name  of  a  stuff  or  a  colour.     In  gown  of  IMuster 

Anstey's  Miin.  Acad.  p.  604,  in  will  of  Mr.  Eobert  Hoskyn,  27  Jan.  1450,  is  a  villers  with  2 

bequest  of  "  togam  penulatam  cum  bevere,  coloris  de  musterdevillis."    lu  another  "'^^^"^^'^^• 

CAMD.  SOC.  P 


106         VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MINSTER. 

To  J.  Kuoll  a  green     dubletts.     Item  lc£ro  Johauiii  Knoll  i  suppcllcctilc  viridis  coloris, 

coverlet,  another  t       ,,  .        ,    V  ...  .    .     ""        '^'•..  .     ,.     ,  . 

M-hite,  and  2  best         cum  alio  albi  colons,  ct  ij   best  bolsters,  et  ij   puna  lintniaininuin. 

bolsters  and  2  pairs     Item  lego  piaedicto  Jolianni  Knoll  unam  zonam  argenteam  rubci 

of  sheets,  a  red  silver        i     •  , 

l)elt  with  a  pair  of       Colons  cum  uno  pare  knyfT.''     Item  lego  dicto  Johanni  Knoll  j  I'urr 

a  nIs?e\''gown.'^'^  ^"'^'    ^^  Bevers.    Item  lego  dicto  Jolianni  unam  togam  de  Ruseto.    Item 
To  Dyson  a  fur  lined  lego  Domino  Eoberto  Dyson  unam  togam  pcnulatam  de  violett. 
violet  gown.  i?     -j  i  .  , 

Kesidue  to  Dyson  and      JLicsiauum  vero  bonorum  mcorum  supenus  non  legatorum  do  et 

wftn^^ks^iriSeth  ^^°°  pieedicto  lloberto  Dyson  ct  Jolianni  Knoll,  quos  ordino  ct  con- 

ll.stockley,  chaplains,  stituo  mcos  fidclcs  cxccutorcs,  ut  ipsl  disponant  pro  salute  aniinoe 

^^'''  mcce  prout  melius  videbitur  expedire.    Dato  die  et  anno  supradictis. 

Hiistestibus:  Roberto  Penrcth,  Roberto  Stokley,  capellanis,cuin  aliis. 

Probatum  fuit  precsens  testamentum  coram  Magistro  W.  Talbot, 

i'rol)atc  18th  Sept.       Dccrctorum  Doctore,  Canonico  Residcntiario,  xvlij  Scpterabris  anno 

Domini  supradicto,  et  administratio  commissa  fuit  cxccutoribus  in 

dicto  testamento  nominatis,  in  forma  juris  juratis. 


U'M 


Testamentum  Domini  Ricardi  Worsleij,  Capellani  Cantarialis. 

Will'of  Kichard  P'  ^'^^' — ^^^  ^^^  nomine  Amen.     Yicesimo  die  mensis  Januarii 

Worsley,  chauntry       Anno  Domini    in°cccc""'lxxxx''.  Ego  Ricardus  "Worsley,  Capellanus 
chaplain  of  one  of  the  p,      ^     •    r  •  ^  />.      .     •  t^        •    •     t  .••     t.    .i 

2  chauntrios  of  Lord    '-'^ntanalis  unius  ciiuirum    Cantariarum    Domini    Laurcntu    iJothe 

Lawrence  I5"the  late   nupcr   Eboraci  ArchiepiscoDi,  in  ecclesia  colleo[iata  Bcatae  IMarioe 
Archbi.shopof  lork,     c     i        ii  •         r       i  • 

lately  founded  in         outliweli  novitcr  lundatarum,  sanus  mente  ammo  et  corporc,  mortis 

we    c  urch.        periculum  immincre  cernens,  condo  testamentum  meum   in  liunc 

modum.     In  primis  do  et  lego  animam  meam  Deo  omnipotenti, 

Ik-dy  to  be  buried  in    Bcatae  Maiioj  ac  omnibus  Sanctis;  corpusque  meum  scpeliendum  in 
the  church,  between  ,     .         ...  ..  ,      .  ,.  i,       r.  •    r 

the  chapel  of  S.  ccclcsia  cnllegiata  pracdicta,  Viz.  in  medio  capella;  Sancti  Lauiencu 

orj.liaravreV^''^'^"'  ^^  capellaj  Sanctce  MargaretcC.  Item  lego  nomine  mortiiarii  mci 
will,  p.  oCO,  "mcani  togam  novani  dc  inusterdcvclys."  In  will  of  Edmund  Hunt,  of 
Nottingham,  4  Sept.  1488,  Surtees  Society,  Tent.  Ehor.  iv.,  p.  34,  "  a  muster-dc- 
vilows  gown  furred  with  black  lawc  throughout."  Buck's  Drapers'  Dictionary 
seems  to  incline  to  its  being  the  name  of  a  stuff  derived  from  a  place  in  France. 
Hock  and  JIaskell  mention  "a  cloth  made  in  France  nt  a  town  called  Jlustrc- 
villiers,"  Textile  Fahricx,  p.  71.  It  is  nicntioued  twice  in  the  Paston  Letters 
(Xos.  107,  402,  ed.  Kamsay). 

"  Cf.  Anstey,  Munim.  Acad,  administration  to  Lasbrowc,  of  Vine  Hall,  24  Not 
14ij.",  "  unum  j)ar  cultellorum." 


VISITATIONS    AND   MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER.       107 

hoc  quod  jus  requirit.    Item  lego  xv"'"^'  Vicariis  choralibus  pro  mea  To  15  vicars  choral 
fratcrnitate,  iij^  iiij'\  quia  pauper  sum  in  pecuniis.  Item  lego  eisclem  ssl*  "a"^ because  I'am 

sexdecim  ^  vicariis  interessentibus  exequiis  et  missae  die   sepulturee  Pooi'  i»  monevs.    To 

....,  ••••fl        T  1  .  ■      f,        .,  .  ..    the  same  10  vicars 

mece  iiij',   summa  v^  luy.     Item   lego  xi""  tratiibus  meis  v^  vj*^.  pvcsent  at  my 

Item  lego  Vicario  parochice  eiusdem  rVK  obsequies  and  mass  on 

^  _  ^  "^      _  ^  _  _  _  (lay  or  my  Lurial  4(1. 

Item  lego  cuilibet   sacerdoti  infra  ecclesiam  existenti  extra  ha- in  all  5s.  4a.    To  my 
1  •,          — H  11  brethren  5s.  Gd. 

bltumiUJ^  To  the  parish  vicar  6(1 

Item  le2;o   duobus  diaconis  vi'^      Item   leo-o    tribus  clericis  vi'^.  '^*^  ^^^^^  priest  in  the 

T  1  11  1       .,,.....,        T  7  1       •     •  •     1    church  outside  the 

Item  lego  duobus  thuribulanis  iij  .     Item  lego  sex  choristis  ix  .  habit  4d. 

Item  volo  quod,  si  Magister  Johannes  Barnbj  et  ]\Iagister  Willel-  ^^  [J^  I  i^^'^^^l^^' 

mus  Talbot  interfuerint  exequiis  meis  et  missee,  habeant  xx*^.     Item  To  the  2  incense 
,  .       ^  .•••!,  1  i.        1        ^-1         i.         bearers  3d.     To  the 

lego  procampanis  etpane  et  serviciis'^  pro  clioro,  et  pulsantibus,  tarn  6  choristers  Od. 

infra  ecclesiam  quam  extra,  secundum  discretionem  executorum  meo-  To  Barnby  and  Talbot, 

^  '       ,  .  resulentiancs,  if 

rum.     Item    lego  pro  pane  distribuendo  inter  pauperes   die  sepul- present  at  my  exequies 

turae  meae,  quoad  opus  fuerit  secundum  multitudinem  populorum.      For  bdh' bread  and 

Item  volo  quod  in  octavo   die  quilibet  sacerdos  in  ecclesla  extra  beer  for  choir  and 
11-  1     1       ,    ••/!        T.  1  1    •  T    .  ,  T  .  ringers,  as  well  inside 

liabiium  habeat  ij*.     Item  volo,  quod  m  praedicto  octavo   die,  mei  as  outside  the  church, 

fratres  cantariales  dicant  exequias  mortuorum  pro   anima  mea,  per ''^'^ '''^ '^^^f'"^*^°^^  ^^ 
'■        ^     .  ,'_ '  -L        mv  executors. 

binos  et  binos,  cum  missa  in  crastino,  habeant  iij^.  iiij'^.     Item  volo  For  bread  among  the 
quod   vicarius   parochialis  cjusdem  dicat  exequias,   et    niissam   de  a°°^^°!]^'!Js  nia3-'i)e^ '^^ 

requiem  in  crastino,  et  habeat  iiii'^.      Item  lego  eidem  vicario  pro  necessary. 

.       .  ...,..,.  ^  ..,  ^       On  Sth  day  to  every 

recitationc  nomniis  mei  dominicaliter  per  tres  annos  xij^.  priest  in  the  church 

Item  lego  eidem  vicario  ut  specialiter  oret  pro  anima   mea  xii*^.  5,"^^^'^':^^'^^^*  "l^- 
°  ,  .       '^  ^  "^      Cnauntry  priests 

Item   volo  quod    quinque  librae   cerse  cremantur  super  sepulcrum  saying  office  of  the 
j'l.        c    L-      i-u  J'        1  •    ^     T        1  dead  with  morrow 

meuin    m    diebus  lestivalibus    quamdiu   duravennt    in     honorem  ^-lagg  two  and  two  to 

quinque  vulnerum'^  domini  nostri  Jesu  Christi  et  quinque   p-audi- 'I'^^^'c  ^s. -id. 

...  J.         J.         o  Parish  vicar  to  say 

orum  Iseatee  Marias  Virginis.  office  and  mass  of 

Item  lego  Priori  de  Be  vale  ^^  et  fratribus   suis    xx^    pro   duobus  ^'^'^"^^'"°Vi!'''    n 
o     _  _  _     ^  r  morrow  and  have  4d. 

trentalibus  missarum,  celebrantibus  specialiter  pro  anima  mea.  and  for  recital  of  my 

name  every  Sunday 

*  Sie.  "^  '•  Serviciis "  appears  to  be  for  "  cervisiis."  for  3  years  12d. 

=  The  five  wounds  appear  to  have  been  a  favourite  symbol,  particnlarly  at  this  '^°  same  vicar  to  pray 
time.     They  were  adopted  as  the  ensign  of  the  anti-reformers  in  the  Pilgrimage  of  y)^  '    '  ^ 

Grace  and  Aske's  rebellion.     The  five  joys  of  the  Virgin  were  the  Annunciation, 
Birth  of  Christ,  Gifts  of  the  three  Kings,  Resurrection  of  Christ,  and  Assumption. 

•1  Bevale  or  Beauvale,  "i)e  Pulcra  valle  in  parco  de  Gresseley,  Notts"  (Dugdale, 
vi.  11),  was  a  Carthusian  house  of  a  prior  and  twelve  monks. 


108  VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 

5  lb.  of  wax  to  1)0  Itcin  (]uod  quilibct  inonaclius  capiat  in  omni   inissa  illam  orati- 

oH^LTdai'TasTiIJ    oncm,  "  Inclina  Dominc  aurem  tuam"  pro  animabus   patris   mci 

as  they  last  in  honour  joi^jjjjjjis  ct  matris  mcDc  Margarctoc  ct  pucrorum  suorum    defunct- 
of  5  wounds  of  Christ  *^ 

and5joysofB.V.  M.  ovum. 

Jn/liis°bixdn-cirxx«         ^^^^^  "^'°^^  ^^  dcprccor  quod  quilibct  monachus  habeat  pro  onini 

for  2  trentals  of  niissa  ij'',  trentali  durante,  ut  spcclalius  oret  pro  anima  mca.     Item 

each  monk  Krin     volo  quod  prasdicti  prior  et  fratres,  si   celebrent   illam    missam  de 

cverj- mass  the  prayer  q^jfjquc  vulncribus    Jesu  Cliristi,    SO    humiliarent   quinquies    pro 

"  Incline  thine  enr,"      ^   .    ^  .         .  .  .  . 

for  the  souls  of  father  anima  mea  spcciali tor,  ct  quuiquies  pro  anima  patris   mei,  ct  quin- 

and  mother  and  their       j  anima  matris  mcsD,  cum    hac    oratione    "  Inclina "  pro 

dead  sons,  for  each  ^r^  ^  '  _  .... 

mass  2d.  pucris  suis,  ct  habeant  prior  ct  fratres  sui,  pro  omni  missa,  ij''. ;  summa 

The  said  friar  and  . .        .. .,, 

brethren,  if  they  ^  •  ^HJ  • 

celebrate  the  mass  of        Item  Ici^o  Robcrto,  fratri  mco,  ili^  iiii'^.     Item  Icfjo  Laurentio, 

the  5  wounds,  to  ^        .  "  ^         '  ^  5      J         J  _o 

prostrate  themselves  fratri  meo,  v^.     Item  lego  Lmmoe,  sorori  mcoc,  uj^  uij".     Item  lego 

5  tmies^f or^mv^soul^,  o  ]\largarctce,  uxori  AVillelmi  Ilempsell,  mcum  pileum  secundarium. 
soul,  5  times  for  my          Item  kgo  Ricardi  More  de  Wcstliorp,  filio  mco,  xij'\ 
2d!  each  a'^mass'^or^       ^^^^^  Icgo  Roberto  Caruc.ito  de  Ilalom  filio  meo  ij**.     Item   lego 

23.  8d.  in  all.  Domino  Petro  Burton,  sodali  mco,  mantcllum    meum    liibernicum. 
Aloncy  legacies  to  ta       •        t-.    i  t-.  i     ti    h  t^i        i 

brothers  and  sister.  Hcm  Icgo  Domiiio  Robcrto  rcntrctli  libe'llum  meum,  cum  Placebo, 

W  Hem  5selMnv°  ^^  Dirigc,  commcndationc,  ct  vij   psalmis  poenitcntialibu?.     Item   logo 

second-best  hat.  Rogcro  Batcmanson  alium  libellum  cum  placebo  dirigc.     Item  Icijo 

To  Kobert  Carucate,  .  .  ^     .  ,      ^  ^  ^        "  ,         " 

"ly  [god] son,  2d.         succcssori  mco  in  cantaria  mca  loctum  meum   ct  mcnsaui  ad  caput 

To  companion  Burton  lecti »  positam,  scd  nullam  vcstcin   lancam   aut  lincam.     Item  le<:o 

my  Irish  cloak.  i^,  .  .      .  ,     ,  ,        ^  ,  t  i 

To  R.  Pcntrcth  my      JLlcna},  sorori  mcoc,  si  vitam  habeat,  iij^  inj".     Item  logo  Johanna;, 

riaceb^"  i)IrSc ''       ^°^"°^'^  '^^^'  ^^  vitam  habcat,  v^  viij'l    Item  lego  Aliciic,  sorori  mcae, 

commendations,  and  7  iij''  iiij'^ 

T"]t!"B!itcinanson  Exccutorcs  hujus  tcstamcnti  ordino  facio   ct  constituo  Dominos 

another  book  with       Thomam  Bvclby  ct  Robcrtum  Layn  ut  disponant  residuum  bono- 

"  riacebo  Dirige.  '  J       J  j  r 

To  my  successor  in 

chauntry,  bed  and 

table  at  the  bed  head,       „  rn-  nt  >    r>   r     i    i    i     l      i 

but  no  linen  or  ^^-  Cli.i»'.cr  .s  Oxford  student,  who 

woollen  covering.  "  Wouldc  liever  han  af  Jii.s  bid\i  Juod 

To  2  sisters,  if  tliey  A  twenty  books  clothed  in  black  and  red 

E;dirto1j3^by  and  ^^  ^'■'^^°"'=  "^"^^  ^"^  philosophy."  than  any  lighter  anuiscments. 

Lavn,  executors. 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEHOEIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    3IINSTEB.       109 

rum    meorum,  superius    non   Icgatorum,  pro    salute    aniinee    mcoc 

prout  eis  melius  videbitur  expedire. 

In  ciijus  rei  tcsiimonium,  procscntibus  sigillum  mcum    apposui,  Witnesses,  Tykhyll, 

hiis   tcstibus,  Dominis   Tiioma   Tykhyll,  Roberto  Stokley,  Joham-io  and  jihauna  Wad' 

Abbotson  et  Johanna  ^Vad,  cum  multis  aliis.  Datis  die  mense  et  anno  ^"'^  ^^^^y  others. 

supradicto. 

Probatum  fuit  prjesens   tcstamentum  coram  nobis  Capitulo  Siith-  Probate  n  Feb.  1400, 

1,      .  -r-  ,  ..     v  ■!-.        •    •       n  mm  n        i.  '         r  •    and  administration  of 

Aveli  xj  lebruani  Anno  Domini  m°.cccc    Jxxxx°;   et  comm.issa  luit  goods  within  chapter's 

administratio    testamcnti    dicti    defuncti,    omnium   bonorum    infrii  J""^^^''^^^^^"' 8™^^^'^- 

jurisdictionem  capitulo  existentium,  executorlbus  in  codcm    tcsta- 

mcnta  nomlnatisj  in  forma  juris  juratis. 


Testamentum  Ricurdi  Reds. 

p.  218,  In  Dei  nomine  Amen.     Septimo  die  mensis  Decembris  7  Dec.  1491. 
Anno  Domini  m°.cccc°.  nonagesimo    primo  Ego  Eicardus  Reds  de  JI gl^^jj^^^'/J''''''^  ^^^'' 
Suthwell,  compos  mentis  et  in  bona  memoria  existens,  condo  tcsta- 
mentum mcum  in  bunc  modum. 

In  primis  lego   animam  meam  Deo  omnipotenti,  Beatce  Marine 
Virgini,    et    omnibus    Sanctis;    corpusque    mcum    sepeliendum    in  Body  to  be  buried  in 
cimiterio  ecclcsiae  Beatse  Marian  Suthwell.  Southwell  churchyard. 

Item  lego  meum  optimum  animtil  nomine  principalis  mei.     Item  To  altar  of  B.  V.  M. 

lego  altari  Beatge  Marise  Virginis  pro  decimis  et  oblationibus  oblitis  ^or  forgotten  hthes 

°  .  ^^    .     ^         1  .   T  12d.     To  parish  vicar 

xij°.     Item  lego  domino  Vicario  parochiali  xx''.  20d. 

Item  lego  Alicice   filige  mete  in   maritagium  suum,  valorem  xij  To  daughter  Alice,  for 

marcarum,  tarn  arcjento  quam  in  aliis  rebus.  mamag-e  portion,  _ 

^  ^  value  of  12  marks  m 

Residuum  vero  bonorum  meorum  non  legatorum  neque  datorum  silver  or  goods. 

do  et  lego  Margaretis,  uxori  mcffi,  quam  constituo  et  ordino  execu-  j/argaret^sole*^ 

tricem  meam,  ut  ipsa  Deum  pree  oculis  habeus  disponat  et  ordinet  executrix,  for  health 

pro  salute  animae  meae,  prout  ipsi  melius  videatur  expedire.     Hiis  witnesses,  Eoper, 

tcstibus:  Domino    Ricardo    Roper,    Vicario    parochiali,    Willelmo  P^^'jj'j^^.^^''^''' ^^'- ^''*''^' 

Reds,  Thoma  Banys,  cum  aliis.     Dato  die  et  anno  supradictis. 


mniini 


110         VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTEK. 


Jestamentum  Georcjii  RatcUffe,  niiper  de  SiiilnceU. 

2  Dec.  1498.  p. 127.  InDeinominc  Amen.  2°dicincnsi3DecenibrisAnnoDf 

R^'^\°ff  ^l^T^of  ;n''.cccc''.nonagcsimo    octavo   Ego    Georgius  Rutclyfle   dc  Suthwell, 

Southwell.  infirmus  (torpore  sed  sanus  mentc,  in  bona  memoria  existcns,  condo 

testamcntuni  meum  in  h\inc  modum. 
Body  to  be  bnned  in         j    pj.i,^-|jg  Iqctq  animam  meam  omnipotent!  Deo,  Beataj  Mariaj  ct 
church  near  the  font.  f  p  r      j  •      r^     i     •      ij      » 

omnibus  Sanctis,  corpusque  meum  sepeliendum   in  Jiicclesia  iieatje 

Marite  Sutliwell  juxta  fontem. 
"Wax  to  be  burnt  Item  lego  nomine  mortuarii  mei  meum  optimum  animal.     Item 

cretion  ot^executdx.  Icgo  in  ccra  comburenda  circa  corpus  meum  in  die  sepulturae  incaj 
To  choir  vicars  for  secundum  discretionem  executricis  meflB.  Item  lego  Vicari is  ebori 
brotherhood  7s.     To  .  ••=       t.         i  r  i    •  i     •  i. 

fabric  for  burial  fee     pro  fratemitate  niea,  vlj^     Item  lego  tabncae  ecclesiaj  pro  sepultura 

^'-  ^"^^  mea  vj^  viij*!. 

Kesiduc  to  Marcia,  his  Kesiduum  vero  omnium  bonorum  meorum  non  legatorum  ncque 
wife,  sole  executrix.                                    ,           ^  r       •                 •  ■  n     • 

datorum  do  et  lego  Marciae,  uxori  mcae,  quam  constituo   et  tacio 

executricem  meam,  ut  ipsa  prse  oculis  Dominum  habens  ordinet  et 
disponat  pro  salute  animse  mese,  prout  sibi  melius  videbitur  expe- 
dire.  Dato  die  et  anno  supradictis. 
Trobate  2G  July,  1499.  Probatum  fuit  lioc  prassens  testamentum  xxvj"  die  mensis  Julli 
Anno  Domini  1499°.  Et  administratio  commissa  fuit  executrici  in 
tcstimento  nominataj,  in  forma  juris  juratse,  &c. 


Testamentum  Domini  Ricardi  Roper,  Vicarii  Parochial  in 
Suthwell. 

20  July,  1499,  p.  127.   In  Dei  nomine   Amen,    xx"    die    mensis     Junii    Anno 

S.per"VSh  vicar  of  Domini  1499°  Ego,  Ricardus  Roper,  Vicarlus  parocbialis  Ecclesiaj 

Southwell,  at  altar  of  Colleo-jatac    BcatcB   MarioB    Suthwell    ad    altare    Sancti    Vincentii 
St.  Vincent  the  ^,       •  •       •       :  •  •  ^  i    •    c  j 

j^Iartyr.  Martins,  in   bona  mcmoria  existcns  sed   inlirmus    corpore,   condo 

testamentum  meum  in  lumc  modum. 

Body  to  be  buried  In   prlmis  Icgo  animam  meam   Deo  oinnipotcuti,  Beatrc  Murloc 

before  S.  Vincent's        ,_.      .    .  ".,  .  i.        , 

altar,  my  best  manual  Vii-L'ini  et  omnibussancti'^,  corpus(|ue   meum    sepeliendum    coram 

instead  of  a  principal. 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL   MINSTEE.         Ill 

filtari    Sancti  Vincentii  infra    ecclesiam    antedictam.      Item   lego 
manuale  "'  optimum,  ut  mos  est,  pro  nomine  principalis  mei. 

Item  lego  pro  cera  comburenda  circa  corpus  meum,  in  die  Tq  fabric  of  great 
sepultures  meee,  et  in  die  septimo,  secundum  dispositionem  execu-  ^^^^^  ^^a^''.OTa^'^^^' 
torum  meorum.     Item  leo;o  fabricaa  magni  altaris  xii*^.     Item  lego  my  promise  to 

CU'  '  '^'  J  ••  ^•-  Master  W.Talbot, 

labricas  magni  campanihs,   secundum  promissioncm  quam  promisi  iq^  ' 

magistro  meo  magistro  "Willelmo  Talbot  x^ 

Item  lego  cuilibct  vicariorum  choralium,  pro  exequiis  et  missa  in  To  each  vicar  choral 
die  sepultura.  ,„oa3,  et  die  septimo,  .xij*.  ^^ssSSrand  on 

Item  lego  cuilibet  capellano  cantariarum,  pro  primo   die  et  sep-  7th  day,  12(1. 

...,,'       T.         1  -Ti     ,    T  -,1  To  each  chauntry 

timo,  viu".     Item  lego  cuilibet  diaconorum  vj".  chaplain  Sd.    To 

Item  lego  cuilibet  clericorum,  thuribulariorum,  et   choristarum  c^ch  deacon  6d. 

"  '  To  each  clerk,  mcense 

iiij*^.  hearer,  and  chorister, 

Kesiduum  vero  omnium  bonorum  meorum  non  legatorum  neque  j^^ggjj^g  ^^  Dyson 
datorum  do  et  lego  Dominis  Eoberto  Dyson  et  Ricardo  Penkith,  and  Penkith, 
quos  constituo  et  facio  executores  rneos,  ut  ipsi  disponant  pro  salute 
animse   mese,  prout  ipsis    melius  videatur    expedire.     Hiis  tcstibus : -witnesses  Smyth, 
Dominis  Ricardo  Smyth,   Johanni  Hyll;,  et  Jobanne  Wrygbt,  cum  Hyll,  Wrjght,  and 
aliis.     Dato  die  et  anno  supradictis. 

Probatum  fuit  prgesens  testamentum  xxvj°  die  mensis  Julii  Anno  Probate  26  July,  1499, 
Domini  supradicto.     Et  administratio  vero  omnium  bonorum  infra 
jurisdictioncm    capituli    existentium     commissa    erat    executoribus 
supradictis,  personaliter  in  forma  juris  juratis,  &c. 

Testamentum  Roherti  Jaksone  de  Dunham. 

p.  220.   In  Dei  nomine  Amen.    Vicesimo  nono  die  mensis  Jiinil,  29  June,  1499. 
Anno  Domini   1499°  Ego  Robertus  Jakeson  de   Dunham,  compos  jy^^'^^^/^^^^^f^^g;^^^^ 
mentis  et  sanse  memorise,  condo  testamentum  meum  in  hunc  modum. 

In  primis  do  et  lego  animam  mcam  Deo  omnipotent!,  Beataa  ]\larise  Body  to  be  buried  in 
ct  omnibus  Sanctis  ejus,  corpusque  meum  ad  sepcliendum  in  ccclesia  Apostles  p'etei^and 
parochiali  Apostolorum  Petri  et  Pauli  de  Dunham  super  Trent.         Paul,  Dunham-on- 

"  It  is  written  "  man."     The  best  book  is  the  best  chattel  of  the  priest,  taking  the 
place  of  the  best  beast :  unless  indeed  it  be  not  merely  for  anim  [al] 


112         VISITATIONS    AND    MEMOIJIALS    OV    SOUT^^VELL    MINSTER. 


3  lb.  wax. 
30  masses  to  bo 
celebrated  for  soul, 
viz.  a  trcntal. 


To  danffbter  Alice 
10  marks.     To  little 
Elizabeth  Butbe  40s. 
To  Stoll's  3  boys  3 
ewes. 

To  all  boys  to  whom 
I  was  godfather  a 
lamb  each. 
To  priest,  clerk,  and 
])Oor  at  burial,  xx  s. 
Kesidue,  after 
jiavmcnt  of  debts,  to 
wife  Helen  and  son 
John,  executors. 


Witncsres,  Wavtyr, 
vicar  of  Dunham,  T. 
Jiyllyalc,  of  Great 
Markham,  J.  Baldyn, 
and  J. llaneson,  of 
Dunham,  and  others. 

30  Junc,U99. 
Ilyll  and  Kyrke, 
vicars  choral, 
executors  of  goods  of 
T.  Orston,  promise  to 
exhibit  a  true 
inventory  next 
Baturday. 


l!)July,  1499. 
Grant  of 

administration  of 
goods  of  T.  Orston, 
late  of  South w  11, 
intestate,  to  Gorvase 
Clyfton,  Kn',  and 
Master  T.  Orston, 
Bachelor  in  Decrees. 


Item  lego  nomine  mortuarii  mel  mcum  optimum  animal.  Item 
lego  fabricaa  ccclesiaj  villas  praidictse  xij''.  Item  lego  ut  combu- 
rantur  circa  corpus  meum  die  sepulturaj  mere  trcs  libras  certc.  Item 
ordino  ut  celebrcntur  triginta  missai  pro  salute  nnima2  mcas,  viz 
unum  trentale. 

Item  lego  Aliciae,  filiaj  mesc,  x  marcas.  Item  lego  parvuUe  Eliza- 
beth Buthe,  filise  Edwardi  Buthc,  x\\  Item  lego  tribus  pueris 
ThomaB  Stoll,  trcs  oves  matrices.  Item  lego  omnibus  pueris,  quibus 
fui  compater,  singulis  corum  per  se,  unam  agnellam. 

Item  lego  ut  distribuatur  in  die  scpultura;  meoe  xx^  presbitero, 
clericis,  et  pauperibus. 

Residuumque  omnium  bonorum  meorum  non  legatorum,  debitis 
meis  debito  solutis,  do  et  lego  Helense,  uxori  meae,  et  Willelmo 
Jakeson,  filio  mco,  quos  facio  et  ordino  exccutorcs  bujivs  tcstamenti, 
ut  ipsi  disponant  pro  salute  animaj  mex,  prout  eis  melius  videbitur 
supradictis.  Pliis  testibus:  Domino  Willelmo  Wartyr,  Vicario  de 
Dunham,  Thoma  Byllyale  do  Markham  i\Iajore,  Johanne  Baldyn,  et 
Johanne  llaneson  dc  Dunham,  et  aliis. 

p.  219.  Uhimo  die  mcnsis  Junii  Anno  Domini  m'',cccc'"".nona- 
gesimo  nono  Dominus  Johannes  Hyll  ct  Dominus  Johannes 
Kyrke,  vicarii  chorales  Suthwcll  et  excv  iitores  bonorum  Thomai 
Orston,  promiserunt  et  fidem  dederunt  capitulo  ecclcsiac  Suthwcll,  in 
domo  capitulari,  quod  quantum  in  eiserat,  verum  invcntarium  eidem 
capitulo  adhibercntet  demonstrarent,  de  omnibus  bonis  eidem  Thomic 
proedicto  ))ertinentibu?,  proximo  die  Sabbati  tunc  scqucnte. 

Capitulum  Ecclcsiae  Collegiata^  Beatai  Maria;  Suthwcll  DiL-ctls 
nobis  in  Chrlsto  Gervasio  Clyfton  militi  ct  Magistro  Tlioma;  Orston" 
in  decrctis  Baccalaurio  salutcm,  Dc  vestris  fidelitate  ct  industria 
quam  plurimum  confidcntes,  vos  administratores  in  bonis  Thomte 
Orston  nuper  de  Suthwcll,  ab  intestate  dcfuiicti,  ordinamus,  praecipi- 

«  A  T.  Orston  was  executor  to  the  will  of  Sir  11.  Clifton,   father  of  Sir  G. 
Clift(m,  1  April,  1170,  S.  S.  Text.  Khor.  iv  ,  p.  31. 


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mus,  et  deputamus  per  prsBsentes,  vo?,  in  virtute  juramcnti  vestri 
coram  nobis  in  hac  parte  corporaliter  prgestiti,  firmitor  onerantes, 
quatenus  verum  inventarium  in  bonis  dicti  defiincti  conficiatis,  et 
in  eisdem  fideliter  ministretis;  debitnque  ejusdem  quatenus  suppe- 
tant  facultates,  facta,  si  oportcat,  defalcatione  legitima  in  hac  parte 
requisita,  portionabiliter  persolvatis;  ulteriusque  exequamini  qure 
in  hoc  casu  fuerint  exequenda.  Itaque  de  administratione  vera,  si 
possitis,  nobis  fideliter  respondere  cum  super  hoc  fueritis  requisiti. 
Datis  apud  Suthwell  in  domo  nostra  capitulari,  sub  sigillo  nostro 
communi  ad  caiisas,  xix°  die  mensis  Julii  Anno  Domini  m^.cccc'"'' 
nonaojesimo  nono. 


Testamentum  Tliomce  Beljin  de  Calverton. 

p.  220. — In  Dei   nomine   Amen.     Decimo  die  mensis  Octobris  lo  Oct.  149D. 

Anno    Domini    m°cccc™°  nonac-esimo   nono,     E^o  Thomas  Belfyn  ^^}^  °^  ^-  3^6^"°  ff 

^  .  °  ''      Calyerton. 

de  Calverton  condo  testamentum  meum  in  huno  modum. 

In  primis  do  et  lego  animam    meam   Deo    omnipotent!,    Beatte  BocIt  to  be  buried  in 
Marige  Virgini,   et  omnibus  Sanctis  ejus,  corpusque  meum   sepeli- ^- ^^^^^"'^'^' 
endum  in  ecclesia  Sancti  Wilfridi  de  Calverton  prsedicta. 

Item  lego  meum  optimum  animal  nomine  principalis  mei. 

Item  lego  duas  libras  cerge  ad  ardendum  circa  corpus  meum  in  die  2  lb.  of  wax. 

sepulturse,  et  in  die  septimo.    Item  lego  fabrica3  campanilis  ejusdem  To  fabric  of  belfn 

ecclesias  xx^     Item  leo;o  fabricse   crucis  de  le   ston  in  parte  occi-  HP^v  ,  .     . 

'^        .        ,,,  ^  To  fabric  of  cross  ot 

dentali  villee  de  Calverton  vj^  viij*^.  stone  in  the  west  part 

T,         1  rpi  •       ,  •  niQ  •  Ti         1  .  1         of  Calverton  6s.  8d. 

Item  lego  ihomaa,  servienti,  meo  2^^  juvencas.     Item  lego  eidem  to  Thomas,  a  servant 

Thomas  2^^  oves  matrices.      Item  lego  cuilibet  confiliorum  meorum  2  heifers,  2  ewes. 

To  sons  a  ewe  apiecb 
unam  ovem  matricem.  For  a  trental  in 

Item  Wo  pro  uno  trentali  celebrando  pro  me  et  benefactoribus  9'^^L^^'^rM^^"V^^'^  ^^^' 
°     ^  _  ...  .         .      To  S.  Wilfred  s 

meis  in  ecclesia  de  Calverton  x^.     Item  lego  imagini  Sancti  Wil-  image  I2d. 

fridi  xii"^.  Item  lego  fabricse  pontis,  juxtale  yateintrantem  campum  o-^te  at  entrimce*^of 
borialem  eiusdem  villse,  v^^  viii'^  "oi"th  field  of 

T-  T  T-1  r^   M  ^  ••  Calverton  6s.  8d. 

item    lego    Johann?e    (jroldsmyth,   mca3   servienti,    unam   ovem 

CAMD.  see.  Q 


114         VISITATIONS    AND    MEMOPaALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 


To  Jane  Goldsmyth, 
servant,  a  ewe. 
To  T.  Uullur,  living 
at  the  vicar's,  a  ewe. 
To  the  vicar  for 
forgotten  tithes  Sec. 
20  d.    To  cousin  W. 
■\Vdrsopp  6s.  8d. 
To  daughter  Jane  and 
her  son  20  sheep. 
For  making  a  rood- 
loft  in  Calverton 
church  13s.  4d. 
For  2  torches  13s.  4d. 
To  cousin  Grandon 
best  gown. 
To  T.  Hajward  a 
tunic  and  whitey  gown. 
To  wife  Jane  all  lands 
and  tenements  for  her 
life,  and  after  her 
death  to  daughter 
Jane  in  fee  simple. 
Kesidue,  debts  paid, 
to  wife  Jane, 
e.xecuti-ix. 
Supervisors,  H. 
Odessell.  T, 
Holyngworth. 
Witnesses,  Lamley, 
Fychet,  Wylkynson, 
and  others.' 

4  April  ].-,03. 
Probate  of  will  of 
W.  Keeil,  vicar  choral, 
Hyll,  Uochell,  vicars 
choral.  Bylbye, 
cantarist,  executors. 


30  April,  1503. 
Probate  of  will  of 
George  Nicholson,  of 
Mylncthorpe,  in 
parish  of  Xorthwell, 
■wife  Katherine, 
executrix. 


matricem.  Item  lego  ThoiiiK  BuUur  manenti  cum  vlcario  unam 
ovem  matricem.  Item  lego  vicario  ecclesiae,  pro  decimis  oblitis  et 
aliis,  xx^.     Item  lego  Willelmo  Warsopp,  cognato  mco,  vj'.  viilj'*. 

Item  lego  Johannas,  filiae  meae,  et  puero  suo,  iusimul  xx  oves.  Item 
lego  factura;  unius  rodelofte  in  ecclesiu  dc  Calverton  xiij^  iiiij''. 

Item  lego  ad  eniendum  2"^  torchys  xiij^  iiij*^. 

Item  lego  Thonia>  Grandon  cognato  meo  meam  optimain  togam. 
Item  lego  Thoinee  Hayward  meam  tunicam  et  elbidam "  togam. 

Item  do  ex  lego  Joliannse  uxori  mcse  omnia  terras  et  tenementa 
mea  quae  habeo  in  villa  et  campis  de  Calverton  et  extra,  durante 
vita  sua:  et  post  decessum  ipsius  Johannge  volo  quod  rcmaneant 
Johanna^,  filiae  cjusdem  Johannse,  heredibus  et  assignatis  suis,  &c. 

Residuum  vero  omnium  bonorum  meorum  nondum  legatorum, 
debitis  meis  solutis,  do  et  lego  Joliannaj,  uxori  meae,  quam  facio 
executricem  hujus  testament!,  ut  ipsa  disponat  pro  anima  mea  prout 
ei  melius  videbitur  expedirc. 

Insuper  facio  et  constituo  Hcnricum  Odessell  et  Thomam 
Holyngworth  supcrvisores  hujus  testamenti.  Hiis  tcstibus:  Thoma 
Lamley,  Willelmo  Fychet,  Edmundo  Wylkynson  et  aliis.  Dato 
ut  supra. 

Probatum  fuit  testamentum  Domini  Willelmi  Keell,  Vicarii 
Choralis  Suthwell,  iiij'"  die  mensis  Aprilis  anno  Domini  supradicto, 
commissa  que  erat  administratio  omnium  bonorum  dicto  defuncto 
pertinentium  Dominis  Johanni  Hyll  et  Roberto  Rochell,  vicariis 
choralibus  ibidem,  et  Thoma^  Bylbye  cantaristae  cjusdem  ecclesiae,  in 
forma  juris  juratis,  etc. 

p.  221. — In  Dei  nomine  Amen.  Penultimo  die  meiisis  Aprilis 
Anno  Domini  millesimo  quingentcsimo  tertio,  Probatum  fuit  testa- 
mentum Georgii  Xycholson  de  Mylncthorpe  in  parochia  de  North- 
well,  et  administratio  omnium  bonorum  dicti  deluncti  commissa 
fuit  Katerina),  uxori  ipsius,  et  executrici  in  eodem  testamcnto 
nominatae,  in  forma  juris  juratae,  etc. 

»  What  this  means  I  cannot  discover.     Is  it  for  albidr.ni,  i.e.  whiic,  or  vhitii-h? 


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Probatum   fuit    tostamentum    Eicardi   Knoll    xxvi^*'   die  mensis  2G  May,  1503. 

M-r\        •    •  !•    .  •  i.       J      •    •  i.      ^*     Probate  of  will  of 

an,    anno   JJommi    supradicto,    eommissaque   erat   'i<J»ii'Tistratio  j^j^,|j^^^lj^^^]j  j^j^^ 

omnium  bonorum  dicto  defuncto  pertinentium,  Johanni  Knoll  filio  Knoll, executor; 

.  .      .  x^      1        1  T-^      1  1  •         sworn  by  deputy 

ejus,  in    forma  juris,    per    liaulandum    Dygbje  deputatum    ejus,  i^oiand  Dygbye. 

jurato,  etc. 

Robert  Batemanson  ^  of  SuthweU. 

p.  128.— In  the   name   of  God  Amen.     I    Robert   Batemanson  23  June,  1512. 
,  ...,■    1  ,.  T  1      •■••ti  c    ^  n  •  Will  of  Robert 

the  xxiii*'  day  of  June  the  iiir''  ycre  of  the  regne  of  our  soveraigne  Batemanson,  of 

lorde  Kyng  Henry  the  viii"'  havyng  my  hole  &  perfyte  mynde  and  Southwell. 

goode  remembraunce  by  goode  deliberacion  ordeigne  &  make  my 

testament  &  last  wyll  in  maner  &  forme  foloyng. 

Furst  I  bequeth  my  saule  to  almighty  god,  our  blessed  lady,  &  all  ^^dy  to  be  buried  in 
,111  1  •       T         1         1       ,  Abp.  W.  Booth's 

the  company  of  heven;  and  my  body  to  be  buryed  m  the  church  of  choir,  beneath  Abp. 

Suthwell  in  my  lorde  William  Bothe's  quer,  a  little  byneth  my  lorde  ^^^^^^J^^'  *^™^  ^^ 

Laurence  ^  tumbe,  beside  the  stall  there. 

Item  I  bequeth  my  best  horse  for  my  principall.     And  also  I  ^jfjj^^.J'JJf^  ^°^ 

wyll  that   at  the   howre  of  my  passyng   the  grettist   bell  in   the  Great  bell  to  be  rung 

■i         1     ,  ,1  f.  1      i  r   •  1       an  hour  at  passing: 

Church   be  rongen  the  space  of  an  owre,  and  at  my  dirige  anoaer  j^^^-p-      j^^^^^^jg^.  j^^^j.. 

owre  and  all  the  offeryng  tyme,  and  also  at  my  buriall  a  peeyle  fit  burial  a  peel. 

with  all  the  bells.     Also  I  will  that  a  preist  syng  at  the  alter  afor  p^-ay  for  soul  for  2 

our  lady  of  grace  for  the  saule  of  my  lorde  Laurence,  my  saule,  my  jjavir^mllls-bool/^^^'' 

wife  saule,  ray  fader  &,  moder  &  all  cristen  saulcs,  for  time  of  ij  yers  chalice,  and  vestment: 

next  after  my  deth,  luivyng  aather  yere,  vij  marke.    And  I  will  that '         '  ~    '  - 

«  He  was  a  witness  of  Abp.  Laurence  Booth's  will,  28th  Sept.  1479.  S.  S.  Test. 
Mor.  in.,  p.  249. 

^  L.  Booth,  in  his  will,  directed  "  corpusque  meum  sepeliendum  in  capella  Sancti 
Johannes  Baptistae  infra  ecclesiam  collegiatum  de  Suthwell  in  australi  parte  parietis 
ejusdem  capellas;  et  volo  si  opus  circa  capellum  prredictum,  per  me  inceptuni,  in  vita 
mea  finitum  non  existat  quod  tunc  executores  mei  post  decessum  meum  opus  illud 
performari  faciunt  juxta  intentionem  meam."  In  U91  Sir  Gervase  Clifton,  by  his 
will,  directed  "  liiij.  lib.  in  my  hands  of  ray  Lord  Laurence  Both  goodes  be  imploied 
and  spended  for  the  reparacion  and  wele  of  his  chauntre  and  chapel  at  Southwell  by 
my  executors."    Seep.  39  for  the  fate  of  this  chapel. 


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VISITATIONS   AND    MEMOEIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MINSTEE. 


to  S.  Vincent's 
collegiate  church, 
Bishop's  Auckland. 
4  treutals  at  Bevale, 
Thurgarton,  White 
Friars,  and  Grey; 
Friars,  Nottingham, 
for  10s.  each. 


To  Thurjrarton  Priory 

12  silver  spoons. 

Whole  choir  to  attend 

obit  at  burial  and  on 

month-day. 

Poor  at  burial  Id. 

each,  at  month's-day 

Id. 

Those  present  at 

offering  to  have  a 

dinner. 


Obit  by  whole  choir 
5  years  after  death. 

Gallows  of  iron  {i.e. 
for  carrying  a  pot). 


Devise  of  lands  tc 
brother  Koger  :  house 
in  burgage  of  South- 
well to  Agnes  Temple 
for  life,  then  to 
brother. 

Devise  of  lands  in 
Egmaiiton  to  Bain- 
bridge,  Archbishop 


the  saide  preist  shall  occupie  there  tlie  saide  ij  yercs  my  nicsse 
boke,  chales,  &  vestment.  And  tliat  doone  I  bequeth  them  to  the 
college  of  Sainte  Vincent  in  bisshop  Awkeland.  Also  1  will  that 
iiij  trentals  of  messes  be  doen  for  me  immediately  after  my  doth, 
that  is  to  say,  ooii  at  bevall,  anoder  at  Tliurgarton,  the  iii'^  at  ye 
Whyte  frers  at  Nutyngham,  and  the  iiii***  at  the  gray  frers  there, 
and  every  of  the  saide  houses  to  have  therfor  x^.  Also  I  bequeth 
to  t'he  house  of  Thurgaiton,^  xij  spons  of  silver.  Also  I  will  have 
an  obett  with  the  hole  quere  at  my  buryall,  and  an  oder  at  my 
moneth  day,  &  they  that  be  absent  without  a  reasonable  cause  to 
have  nothing  at  ye  saide  diriges.  Also  I  will  that  every  pore  man, 
woman,  and  childe,  have  at  my  buriall,  I'',  and  at  my  monetli  day 
every  of  them,  ob.  Also  I  will  that  such  persones  as  be  at  the 
offering,  cytlier  of  thos  ij  days,  have  a  covenient  dynncr,  if  it  please 
them  to  com  thereunto,  at  discrecion  of  my  executoures.  Also  I 
wyll  that  a  solempne  obbett  be  doen  for  me  by  the  hole  quere 
v  yeres  after  my  deth.  Item  I  bequeth  to  the  chauntrye  preist, 
after  the  decesse  of  Agnes  Temple,  oon  paire  of  galoes  of  yrne. 
Item  I  bequeth  to  Agnes  temple  all  my  corne  with  my  terme  of  a 
close  besyde  Henbek.^  Also  I  will  that  myn  executors  be  charged 
with  no  oder  of  my  goods  bot  such  as  by  me  shall  com  to  their 
hands. 

Also  I  will  that  my  feoffees  in  my  lande  in  Eastmarkham,  and 
of  my  copyholde  in  Suthwell,  stande  and  be  seased  to  the  use  of 
my  broder  lioger  and  liis  heires  after  my  deces;  And  of  my  house 
in  burgage''  of  Suthwell  with  the  appurtenance  to  the  use  of  Agnes 
temple,  terme  of  her  lyve,  and  reversion  to  my  saide  broder. 

And,  where  1  by  my  dede,  beyring  date  at  Egmanton  ye  xviii*'' 
day  of  June  in  y*^  vii^''  yere  of  ye  regne  of  King  Henry  ye  vii*'', 


"  Thurgarton,  Notts,  near  Southwell,  a  I'riory  of  Augustinian  or  Black  Canons. 
Parts  of  the  church,  and,  under  the  house,  the  cloisters  still  remain. 

''  Southwell  town  was  divided  into  the  prcbeudage,  i.e.  the  soke  of  the  Pre- 
bendaries, and  the  burgage  or  town  proper,  llenbeck  is  a  stream  in  Southwell 
which  flows  into  the  Greet. 


VISITATIONS   AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER.  117 

I 

infeoffed  Hu^rli  ClifFton,  William  Wjmendesolcle,  with  other  now  of  York,  to  found  a  ' 

deceased,  of  and  in  all  my  lands  and  tenements  with  ther  appurte-  Schoo?in'south    -ll  ' 

naunce  in  Egmanton,   I  wyll  my  saide   feoiFees   after  my  decesse  -n-ithin  4  years,  in    '  \ 

shall  stand  and  be  infeoffed  in   the  same    To  the  use  of  the  most  nSry^cr'^5  ye?rf "  ■ 
Reverend  Fader  in  God  Christover  Baynbryg,  Arbis?hoppe  of  York, 

and  his  heires  Upon  condition  and    to   the  entent  that  the  said  : 

Archbishoppe,  his  heires  or  executours,  within  iiij  yers  next  after  ■ 
my  decesse,  shall  founde  a  free  gramer  scole''  in  Suthwell,  ever  to 

endure,    paying   yerely   to  myn    executors    to    the    said    scole    be  j 

f)unded,  xFs.     And  if  it  fortune  ye  said  Archbishoppe,  his  heires  j 

or  executors,  not  to  provide  a  fre  scole,  as  is  aforsayde,  then  I  will  i 

that  my  sayde  feofFes  shall  stand  and  be  infeoffed  in  the  same    To  i 

the  use  and  behove  of  the  Prior  and  Convent  of  Thurgarton  and  j 

their  successors  for  ye  terme  of  Ixxxxix  yeres,  Upon  condicion  that  • 

the  saide  Prior  and  Convent  shall  yerely  gyve  to  the   Prior  and  ' 

Convent  of  Bevale,  oon  quarter  wheat,  and  anoder  quarter  yerly  ' 
to  ye  Frers  Observaunts  of  Newerke  durying  ye  terme  aforesaide. 

Item  I  ordeigne  and  make  my  executors  William  Wymondesolde  ''■ 
Agnew  Temple  and  Sir  John  Hyll. 

And  I  bequeth  to  ichone  of  them  for  their  besines  xl  s. 

In  witness  whereof  to  thies  present  I  have  set  my  scale.     Thies  ' 

beyng  wittnes:   Sir  Edmund  Kyngeston,  Sir  Thomas  Tykkell,  Sir  i 

John  Avotson,  and  Thomas  Selby  and  other,  &c.  ] 

.    .    Probatum  fuit  prsesens  testamentum  coram  Capitulo  Ecclesia  Probate  27  Nov.  i 

Suthwell,  xxvii°  die  mensis  Novembris  Anno   Domini   millesimo       "'  i 

quingentesimo  xii°,  et  commissa  est  administratio  omnium  bonorum  I 

dicti  defuncti  executoribus  supranominatis,  in  forma  juris  juratis.  ! 

i 

*  The  school  was  never  founded ;  at  least  no  txace  of  it  as  a  separate  institution  j 

from  the  Grammar  School  of  the  Collegiate  church  can  be  found.  ', 


118        VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MINSTEK. 

Richard  Coivper. 
wtuof  Richard  P'  ^^^'  ^^  ^^^  nomine  Amen.     Primo  die  mensis  August!   anno 

Cowper.  Domini  millesimo   d°  xiiij"  Ego  Ricardus  Coupar,  compos  mentis 

et  sanoe  memoria;,  condo  testamentum  meum  in  liunc  modum. 
Body  to  be  buried  in        Jn  primis  Icfjo  animam   meam  Deo    omnipotenti  etc.  corpusque 
S.  Peter  and  S.  Taul,  ^        t       i         •  i     •      a         .1  r>  .  •     .  d      r  j    A    . 

Qxton.  meum  sepeliendum  in  ecclesia  Apostolorum  retri  et  rauli  de  Uxton. 

Best  beast  as  Item  lego  meum  optimum  animal  nomine  principalis  mci.     Item 

principal.  I^g^  -^^  ^^j.^  j    jJiji-ani  ardendam  circa   corpus  meum  in  die  sepul- 

1  lb.  of  wax.  turffi    mea2.       Item  lego  oblationem   de    meis    propriis    sumptibus. 

To  Oxton  churc'a         Item  lego  ecclesise  de  Oxton  vj^  viij'\ 

''^-  ^^^-  Item  lego  istam  domum  cum  pertinentiis,  post  deccssum  uxoris 

Jert^tf  irciiUdefhe  mcffi,  Roberto  Childe,  et  volo  quod  ipse  dabit  Henrico  fratri  suo  iij^ 
to  give  to  his  brother  i\\j<^^  Item  lego  AlicisB  Childe,  soiori  me33,  unam  patellaiii.  Item 
To  sister  a  platter.  l^go  Simoni  Childe  ij"^  oves.  Item  lego  Johanni  Childe  ij"^  oves. 
rh"w"^2^h'^"^/°^'^  -^^"^"^  ^^S^  Vicario  de  Oxton  xij'^,  pro  decimis  meis  oblitis. 
To  vicar  of  Oxton  for  Residuum  vero  omnium  bonorum  meorum  superius  non  legatorum 
Residue 'to*^ wife  ^^  ^^  ^^S^  i^Iargcrie  uxori  mccB,  quam  fiicio  et  ordino  meam  veram 

Margerie,  execntrix.  executricem,  ut  ipsa  ordinet  et  disponat  pro  salute  animas  meae  ut 
supervisors.  melius  videbitur  expedire.     Insuper  volo  ut  Willelmus  Scotliorne  et 

Witnesses,  R.  Tailior,  Xhomas  Wilson  sint  supervisores  hujus  teslimenti.  liiis  testibus  : 
Scothorue,  Wilson,  Domino  Ricardo  Tailior,  Vicario  ejusdem  ecclesia^,  Willelmo  Sco- 
Wal tar" and" others      tliorne^  Thoma  Wilson,  Willelmo    Standyn,  Johanne    Waltar  cum 

aliis.     Dat° 
Probate  2G  Jan.  1514.      Probatum  fuit  pra?scns  testamentum    coram    Gardianis    capituli 
xxvj*"   die   mensis  Januarii   A°  D'  supradicto;  commissa  que  crat 
adrninistratio  bonorum  dicti  defuncti  Margerie  supranominata;. 

19  Jan.  \o2].  jj^^  ^^f.  tcstamentmn  Johannis  Arnall  7ii(per  de  Morton  defuncti. 

Will  of  John  Arnall,  p.  189. — In  the  name  of  God  Amen:  the  xix  daic  ofJanuarie 
of  Morton.  in  the  ycarc  of  our  Lord  God  m".ccccc°xxj    I  John  Arnall  ofMor- 

ton,  hole  of  mynde   and   good  of  reniembraunco,  maker"  tliis  my 
testament  and  last  will  of  this  manner  following. 

Furst  I  ^yvc  and  bequeath   my  soule   to  alniiglity  god,  to   our 
Ladye  Saynt  ]\Iarye  &  to   all  tlic  holllc  companye  ol  heaven:  and 


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iny  bodye  to  be  buryed  in  the  churche  yearde  of  Saint  Dyonys  of  Body  to  be  buriea  in 

Morton.     Also  I  gyve  and  bequeath  ray  best  good  to  be  my  mortu-  churchyard.  ' 

arie  as  the  use  of  the  countrye  is.  Best  good  as 

■'     .  mortuary. 

Moreover,  I  give  and  bequaith  to  John  my  eklest  sonne  an  house  Turner  House, 

in  Morton  named   '' turner  house,"  with  all  the   land  and  purte- ^^°'^*^°' *° '«"  J'^^"' 

naunces  longing  thereto,  within  Morton  towne  and  foyeder.* 

Aleso  I  gyve  &  bequaith  to  the  same  John  x  sheipe,  iij  bullocks,  with  10  sheep,  3 

one  of  two  yeares  old,  and  the  other  two  be  elder.     And  I  gyve  to  2^years^old"the  othei 

the  same  John  the  fole  of  my  brown  mare.     Also  I   will  that  my  to  be  older,  foal  ol: 
,     .       ,  ,  ,  ,  „      ,    .       ...fl  ,     ,  „  brown  mare, 

sheips  be  soulde  to  the  sumine  oi  xlvj^  viij  ;   and  that  summe  oi  sheep  to  value  of 

monyey  I  gyve  and  bequaith  to  a  preiste,  to  singe  for  my  wyfFe  and  *^®-  '^^-  ^^}^  ^°¥  *" 
J    J       i^J  1  r'  G       ^        J       J  .       pay  chauntry  priest 

me,  as  longe  as  it  will  last.     Also  J  give  &  bequaithe   twoo  ewes  as  long  as  it  will  last, 
and  ij  lambs  to  fy nde  a  lyghte  burning  afore  the  sepulcre  at  Morton,  forTi^ghTbefore  Uie' 

never  to  be  put  furthe  from  good  frydaye,  that  candles  be  lighted  sepulchre  in  Morton 

^     ,  ,     ^  -^.-^  „  ,..^,      church  from  Good 

afore   the   sepulcre,  unto  the  resurrection   on    Eastre    date   in    the  Friday  to  Easter  Day. 

morning:  burning  with  yt  the  other  daies  following.     And  I  will 

that   my  wyffe  fynde  a  lighte  the  next  good  frydaie  following,  of 

the  same  manner,  of  her  owne  coste. 

Also  T  owe  V  strike  of  barley  to  the  churche  of  Morton,  the 
which  I  will  that  it  shal  be  made  a  quarter.  Mereover  I  gyve  and 
bequaithe  all  my  goods  ungeven  and  bequaithed,  to  Richard  Arnall 
&  Emmott  my  wyfFe,  whom  I  make  my  executors,  that  thaie  niay 
dispose  theime  for  the  healthe  of  my  soule  as  thaie  thinke  best. 
And  I  will  that  my  brother  Kichard  shall  have  for  his  labor  vj^ 
viij'',  and  his  costes  made,  when  he  makes  enye  labor.  And  1  Avill 
that  my  father  William  Arnall  be  supervisor  of  the  same. 

Wy  tnes  thereof  Sir  Thomas  Dunne  &  Robert  Busshe  of  Morton : 
geven  the  yeare  &  daie  abovenamed. 

Probatum  fuit  preedlctum  testamentum  x:kP  die  raensis  Februarii,  Probate  20  Feb.  1521. 
Anno  Domini  1521,  in  domo  capitulari,  et  coram  Magistro  Roberto  Before  R.  Banti, 
Barra,  Decretorum  Doctore,  Canonico   Residentiario,  et  Willelmo  ^^^l*j^j.^^^^),y^J^g^^^-^' 
Brodheade  et  Ricardo  Stedraan,  vicariis  choralibus^  et  commissariis 

*  .  .  .  ?  and  for  ever. 


120         VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MINSTER. 

Stedman,  Vicars         Domini    Briani  Higdon,  Decani    Ecclesise  MetropoHtanic   Ebor  ct 

s^onersofR TiTgdon,  ^apituli    eiusdom,    legitime    dcputati?,    etc.     Commissa    que    fnit 

Dean,  and  the  Chapter  administratio  omnium  bonorum  etc  Ricardo  Arnall,  et  Emmotae, 

relictae   prredicti    defuncti,    coexccutoribus    in    eodem    testamento 

nominatis,  in  forma  juris  juratis,  etc.  salvo  jure  unius  cuiusque,  &c. 

Sir  JoJm  Wyvell. 

29  Jan.  1523.  n.  222. — In   the  name   of  god  Amen.     The  xxix*i»   day  of  the 

Will  of  John  Wyvell,  , i        .-  t  •      .i  c  i      i  j   i -oo    T    •     T  t, 

vicar  of  Northlcvcr-    rnonetli  01  January  in  the  yere   oi  our  lorde  god  \o26,  1  sir  John 

^""-  Wvvell,  vicar  of  Northleverton,  of  the  diocese  of  Yorke,  hoole  of 

mynde,  maketh  my  testament  and  last  will  after  the  maner  foloyng. 

Bodv  to  be  buried  in        Furst  I  gyve  and  bcquethe  my  soule  unto  almightie  god,  oure  ladie 

middle  of  chancel  of    gainte  marie,  and  to  all  the  saints  in  hey  vyn ;  and  my  bodie  to  be  buried 

Northleverton.  in  the  mydds  of  the  chauncell  of  Sainte  Martyn  in  Northleverton. 

.S6  lb.  of  wax  for  And  I  will  that  at  the  day  of  my  buriall,  and  the  viij*'^  day,  be 

^'^^V^^-  made  ilj  tapers,  xij  pounds  of  wax,  to  be  burned  aboute  my  bodie  in 

the  honor  of  god.  And  i  gyfe  for  my  mortuarie  my  best  beast,  as  the 

To  every  priest  custome  doth  rcquATC.    Also  I  wyll  &  bequetlie  to  every  prcist  that 

present  at  burial  and    .  i       •   n    o  i        •••*!    i  i  i      •••= ,i  i 

8th  day  a  silver  spoon  IS  at  my  buriall,  (fc  at  the  viij'"  dey,  a  syJver  spone,  or  else  uj^  mj  ;  and 

or  3s.  4d.  the  priests    ^\^n^x,  every  preist  sliall  say  david  psalter  for  my  saule.      Also  I  gyfe 

to  say  David  S  Psalter.  ^  ^^      -,  i  ,  ^  ,i  ^    ^      ^^  n  c^       ^  11         •■•      •      1 

To  college  church  of  unto  the  colledge  church  ot  our  blessed  ladie  of  Suthwell  xiij*  iv  . 
TrS'viL^i^chiuntry  ^^^^  ^  t'^^^  ^"*^  bequethe  unto  my  preist  named  sir  John  Davison, 
priest,  for  3  years  for  to  synge  for  me  and  for  the  saules  of  my  freinds  departed,  for 
£14  and  house  at  ...  ••••iii,  j  xi  •  i       •     •    i       x     i  i  ^i  i  •   i 

Northleverton,  and  all  "J  7*^^^,  xiiij"";  and  the  saidc  Sir  John  to  Iiavc  my  house,  the  which 

hives  of  bees  for  wax  \  purchcst  in  Northleverton  for  the  terme  of  lyve,  as  itt  doth  apcre 
for  light  ui  choir  of      .       ,       ,.     „  .  ,  ,  ,  -i       •      t   i  i 

Morton  church.  in  the  icoiiament  thereupon  made:  also  the  saide  sir  John  to  liavc 

all  iny  hyvcs  of  bcis,  for  to  fyndo  liglit  in  the  lampe   in  the  saide 

qucrc,  as  it  doth  apperc  in  the  saidc  fcolTament. 

To  nephew  house  and  Also  I  bcqucth  to  John  Wivcll,  the  son  of  Thomas  Wivell,  my 
land  in  Chirl)urgh.        ,  „  i       i      •      rn        i  i  *  i         t    i  i  ^  •  i 

Houseliold  stiifl  and     house  &  my  landc  in  Ulureburgh.     Also   1   boquethe  to  tlic  saide 
two  draught  of  oxen,  j^;^,^^  ^,^(1  to  sir  John  Davison  aforcsaidc,  both  togeders,  my  fermes 
which.  I  liave  taken   of  the  baylie  of  Mr.  Skovyngton  and  of  Sir 
John  Palmer:  and  all  my  household  stulfe  and  twoc  draghts.    Also 


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I  bequethe  to  be  distribute  to  poore  people  dwellyng  nigh  aboute  To  poor  £8. 
me  in  money  viij''. 

Also  I  bequeth  to  iiij  orders  of  frers  next  unto  me,  unto   every  To  4  friars'  houses 
ordre  iii^  iiij'^.     And  to  iiij  lazar  houses  to  every  of  them  xx^.  houtes  20d.'Sach. 

Also  I  will  that  Thomas  Hamerton  shall  have  my  house  in  East  House  in  East 
Ketford   and    to   his  heires,    and   I   will    that   Richard    Gee    make  I^^tfo'^'^- 
feoffees  for  his  behove;  and   that  he  shall  have  the  mone}-  which 
the  lettre  of  attourney  theruppon  made  doth  specitie :  also  I  bequethe 
to   William  Wivell    my  broder   my  tuffall*  of  paysen   the  which 
standeth  over  myn  oxen,  soe  that  he  be  good  to  John  Wivell,  tlie 
son  of  Thomas  Wivell.     Also   I   bequethe   to  sir  John  Wivell   my 
godsuh  my  best  sidegowne  and  to  every  oon   of  his  brothers  and  Side  gown, 
pisters  vj^  viij'^.     Also    1   bequethe  to  my  broder  Thomas  Wivell  a 
gowne  &   a   bukskyn  dublet.     Also  I  bequeth  to    my  sister  Jenet  Buckskin  doublet. 
Dykons  a  spruse  countre  &  a  cupboorde  :     Also  1  bequethe   to  Ro-  a  spruce  counter, 
bert   Wivell  a   cowe:     Also   I   bequethe  to  Thomas  Davison  my 
godson  Iiij'  iiij*^,  and  alle  my  bookes  for  to  fynde  hym  att  the  scole.  Books. 
Also  I  bequethe  to  every  of  my  god  children  a  shepe,  and  to  every  To  god-children  a 
of  my  houscholde  servaunts  a  ewie.     Also  I  bequethe  to  the  byyng  Cro^ss  for  North 
of  a  crosse  to  North  Leverton  church   xP   and  to   the   byyng  of  a  ^^^'^^^'ton  church, 
grele  and  a  processionarie  xP.     And  to  the  hjynrr  of  a  coope  to  the  sionll  and  rcope' 
saide  church  xxvj^  viij*^.     Also  I   bequethe  to  William  Bowne  my 
bonde  tuffall  which  stands  in  the  mydds  of  the  garth  uppon  the 
lords   grounde.     Also  I  bequethe  to  the  lights  of  Sain te  Katcryn  Two  cows  for  lights 
and    Sainte  Margarett  twos  kye.     Also  I  make  and  ordeio-ne   Sir  ^"  '^^ii'cli- 
Ti         TIT       111  f>oi      TT"-!       1  •       -n.  '^  Residue  to  J. 

John    Marshall,   parson    ot    bouth    \V  hetley,   sir    Robert    Walton,  Marshall,  vicar  of 

chauntre  preist  of  bekyngham,  William  Bowne,  bailiffe  of  North-  w.S7c\TuliTr'  ^' 

leverton,   and    sir  John   Davison,   myn   executors,  to   dispose  the  P"est  of  Bekyngham, 

residew    of  my  goods  above   not  legate,    my   debts  payed,  for  the  XorthTevertoV,  J.° 

helth  of  my  saule,  my  freinds'  saules  and  all  cristen  saules,  and  will  Davison,  priest, 

executors 
that  every  oon  of  my  saide  executours  have  for  his  labours  of  my  Witnesses,  W. 

goods,  xx^     Thies  beinar  witnes  of  this  my  saide  will  and  testament:  mu^'^*'-^?^'^HTr^' 

,    ,  ^.  .     ,  I horneton,  W. 

William  Nightyngale  of  Northleverton,  Thomas  Thorneton  of  the  Calton. 

same,  and  William  Calton  of  the  same. 

"  Query. 

CAMD.  SOC.  K 


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Probate  23  Feb.  1523. 
before  R.  Barra  and 
W.  Diagley, 
rcsidentiaries. 


\V.  Wyvell  ami  his 
son  J.  Wyvell,  clerk, 
as  to  disposal  of  resi- 
due, promise  to  abide 
award  of  Dr.  Farror, 
and  Vicar  of 
Gryngley,  if  made 
before  Michaelmas 
next ;  if  not,  case  to 
bi.'determined  by 
chapter. 


29  Nov.  1.524. 
(Sir)  J.  Wyvell 
appears  and  case  is 
respited  to  5th  week- 
day after  S.  Lucia 
(13  Dec.) 


Further  respite  to 
Siiturday  after  S. 
Hilary  (13  Jan.) 


20  Feb.  l.-,24. 
Wyvell  pronounced 
contumacious  for  not 
appear)  ni^  ;  case 
coutiuucd  to  next 


Probatum  fuit  praesens  tcstamentum  in  dorno  capltulari  Sutliwell 
Magistro  Roberto  Barra,  Dccretoruin  Doctoro,  et  Magistro  Wil- 
lelmo  Dragley,  in  legibus  baccalario,  Canonicis  Residentiariis  in 
hac  eccle?ia,  xxiii"  die  mensis  Februarii,  Anno  Domini  152?,°; 
coinmissa  que  est  administratio  omnium  bonorum,  quae  fuerunt 
priedicti  defuncti,  exeeutoribus  pra}nominatis  in  tcstamento,  in  forma 
juris  juratis. 

Memorandum :  quod  pra^dicto  23°  die  mensis  Februarii  Anno 
Domini  praedicto,  prajfati  executorcs,  ex  una  parte,  ct  Willelmus 
Wyvell  et  Dominus  Johannes  Wyvell  filius  ejusdem,  ex  altera 
parte,  compromiserunt  coram  capitulo,  fide  media,  quod  debitis  et 
legatis  testatoris  prredicti  solutis  et  adimpletis  per  dictos  exccutores, 
de  residuo  bonorum  partes  prjedictaj  stabunt  laudo  et  arbitrio 
Magistri  Doctoris  Farror  et  Vicarii  de  Gryngley,  sub  poena  foris- 
facturaj  XX*'  librarum  fabricse  ecclesiae  Sutbwell;  ita  quod  dictum 
laudum  sive  arbitrium  per  eosdem  arbitratores  detur  partibus  praj- 
dictis  in  scriptis  citra  festum  Sancti  Michaelis  Archangeli  proximum 
futuruin  post  datum  supradictum.  Sin  autem,  causa  inter  prasdictas 
partes  mota  ventilabitur  et  arbitrabitur  per  capitulum  Ecclesiae 
Collegiata3  Beataa  Marice  Virginis  Sutbwell. 

Penultimo  die  mensis  Novcmbris  Anno  Domini  lo2i°  comparuit 
Dominus  Johannes  Wyvell  coram  Capitulo,  et  respectuatur  causa 
usque  ad  feriam  quintam  post  festum  Sanctae  Luciae  Virginis  proxi- 
mum futurum,  et  procdictus  Dominus  Johannes  monitus  est  viva 
voce  ad  iterum  comparendum  in  domo  capitulari  Sutbwell,  et  ad 
respondendum  certis  articulis  sibi  adtunc  obiciendis;  et  hoc  sub 
poena  juris. 

Prasdicta  feria  quinta  comparuit  praedictus  Johannes  Wyvell,  ct 
respectuatur  causa  usque  ad  diem  Sabbati  proximum  post  festum 
Sancti  Ilillarii  proximum  futurum,  et  dictus  Dominus  Johannes 
habet  monitionem  iterum  comparendi  dicto  die  Sabbaii. 

Dominum  Johannem  Wyvell  presbiterum,  legitime  citatum 
erga  vicesimum  diem  mensis  Februarii  Anno  Domini  1524'^ 
prajconizatuin,    diutius  cxpectatum,   et  nullo  modo  comparentom, 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OP  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  123 

pronunciamus  contumacem,  et  in  poena  contumacias  continuamus,  day,  when  he  appears 

causam  usque  in  crastinum,  et  tunc  in  forma  juris  ulterius  proce-  to  28^Feb^]jext^°"*^ 

dendum.     Quo  die  adveniente  comparuit  dictus  Dominus  Johannes 

Wyvell,  et  causa  continuatur  usque  ad  ultimum  diem  mensis  Febru- 

arii  instantis,   et  idem  dominus  Johannes  monitus   est  ad  iterum 

comparendum  eodem  ultimo  die  Februarii,  et  liabet  etiam  in  man- 

datis  ad  ducendum   secum    Willelmum  Wyvell    patrem    suum,  ad 

respondendum  quare  non  debet  solvere  fabricaj  Ecclesise  Collegiatse 

Suihwell  xx^'  quia  non  paruit  decreto  superius  scripto,  23"  die  mensis 

Februarii  Anno  Domini  1523",  et  similiter  quare  non  debeat  puniri 

in  forma  juris  propter  violationem  fidei,  ut  paret  in  eodem  decreto.''  Case  continued  to 
T-,,.  ,.,.  -T-ii  •  -T  T\'         Saturday  before 

rr^dicto  die  ultimo  mensis  l^ebruarii  comparuit  dictus  Dominus  passion  Week  1525. 

Johannes  Wyvell,  et  continuata  est  causa,   quoad  actum   die   23 

mensis  Februarii,  Anno  Domini  1523,  usque  ad  Sabbatum  proximum 

ante    Dominicam    in    passione    Domini   proximam   futuram    Anno 

Domini  1525. 


Testamentum  Agnetis  Barra,  nnper  de  Snthwell,  viduce,  defuncicB. 


p.  246.  In  the  name  of  god,  amen.     The  xxvi*'^  daye  t)f  June  In  26  June  1525. 
the  yeare  of  our  Lord  God  m^ccccc^xxv  :   I  Agnes  Barra,  wyddowe,  of  Southweirwidow.' 
of  hole  mynde  and  good  memorie,  loved  be  god,  makys  my  wyll  and 
testament  in  manner  followinge. 

Fyrst  I  bequaythe  my  soule  to  almightie  god,  our  Blessed  Ladie, 
and  to  all  the  holly  companye  of  heaven;  my  bodye  to  be  buryed 
within  the  churche  of  our  Ladye  of  Suthwell  before  our  Ladye  of 
grace  :     And  my  best  quicke  good  to  be  my  inortuarie  as  custome  Best  living  good  as 
requyrithe.     Item   I  bequaithe   to  our  Ladic  works    ij    leads  t^^^t  rj,^  ^^^^^.j^ ^^^  ^    , 
standes  in  wherne  house.  from  mill  house. 

Item  I  bequaithe  to  Robert  Barra,  my  husbande  best  gowne,  and 
to  hys  wyfFe  my  best  gowne.     Item  I  bequaythe  to  Johan  Palmer  Kirtle  and  kerchief. 
wyfFe,  of  Suthwell;  my  be=t  kirtill  and  a  kirchiffe. 

*  This  case  is  rather  obscure.     Presumably  the  two  Wyvells  intermeddled  with 
the  estate  and  claimed  part  of  it  beneficially.     What  was  the  result  does  not  ai^pear. 


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House  to  16  vicars 
choral  for  99  years. 

Sherbrooke  Honse  to 
13  chaantry  priests. 

House  in  the  pale  to 
be  made  an  alms- 
house. 

Residue  of  lands  for 
health  of  soul. 


To  god-children  a 
candlestick  or  4d. 
each. 
Trentals. 


Basons  and  caudle- 
sticks. 

To  16  Ticars  choral 
7  cushions  with  harts 
worked  on  them. 
To  Mr.  Dr.  liarra  a 
chafer. 

To  16  vicars  a 
cresset. 


To  our  Lady's  works 
a  "jirdle  and  amber 
beads  with  silver 
'^^aiids  or  larj^e  beads. 
To  J.  I'alnier  and  K. 
Barra  buff  jerkins 
and  helmets. 
A  chauntry  for  8 
years. 

licsidue  for  soul. 


Item  I  wyll  that  the  xvj  Vicars  have  iny  house  that  I  dwell  in  for 
iiii"  yeares  and  xix;  and  thaie  to  kepe  my  obity  yearely  therefore. 

Item  I  wyll  that  the  xiii  chauntrie  prists  have  my  house  called 
Sherbrooke  house,  and  thaie  to  be  present  at  my  said  obytt.  Item  I 
wyll  that  the  house  and  grounde  within  the  pale,  which  Agnes 
Tollar  dwellithe  in,  be  made  a  bcade  house,  and  to  be  ordered  by 
my  executors. 

Item  I  wyll  tliat  the  residue  of  my  lands,  bothe  freeholde  and 
copyehoulde,  not  bequaythed,  be  distributed  and  ordered  by  thadvyse 
and  counsell  of  my  executors,  lor  the  healthe  of  my  soulc.  Item  I 
bequaithe  to  everie  godchilde  that  I  have,  a  candilsticke,  or  liij*^. 

Item  I  bequeaithe  to  the  house  of  Bevalle  for  a  trentall  x«. 
Item  I  bequaithe  to  tlie  frearcs  of  Xewarke  for  a  trentall  x^  Item 
I  bequaithe  to  Johne  Bannes  and  Eliza  Banes,  either  of  thelme,  a 
basinge  and  a  candelsticke.  Item  I  bequaithe  to  Margrett  Palmer 
a  basing  and  a  candel.-ticke. 

Item  I  bequaithe  to  tlie  xvj  vicars  vij  quysshyngs  with  luirts 
wrought  of  theime.  Item  I  bequaithe  to  ]\Ir.  Doctor  Barra  a 
chaffer:  and  yf  yt  please  god  that  Robert  B.irra  (maryed  man)  lyve 
after  hym,  then  the  said  Robertt  to  have  the  said  chaifTer.  Item 
I  bequaithe  to  the  xvj  vicars  a  cressett.  Item,  to  the  chauntrie 
priests  another  cressett.  Item  I  bequaithe  John  Saynton  a  gowne 
of  myddle  coloure. 

Item  I  bequaithe  to  Our  Lad^-e  worke  a  gyrfiell,  and  a  pay  re  of 
beades  of  amber,  with  sylver  gaudyes.  I  bequaithe  to  John  Palmer 
a  jacke  &  a  sallet.  Item  I  bequaithe  to  Robert  Barra  a  jacke  &  a 
sallet.  Item  I  wyll  that  a  priest  singe  for  my  soule,and  my  husband 
soule,  for  the  space  of  eight  years,  hauinge  everie  yeare  in  Wiiges 
vij  markes  of  good  and  lawfull  moneye  of  England. 

The  residue  of  my  goods  I  gev  and  bequaithe  to  Sir  William 
Blaunche,  Sir  James  Boxe,  Vicars  Chorall,  and  John  Palmer, 
whome  I  ordeyne  &  make  my  executors  for  to  dispose  thics  goods 
abovesaide,  wkh  all  other,  unto  the  pkasure  of  god,  and  healthe  of 
my  soule.  Tides  beinge  wytiies :  William  Arnalde,  Rychard 
Arnalde  of  Suthwell,  and  John  Palmer  o!"  B.irnebye,  with  other  mo. 


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Et  probatum  fuit  luijusmocli  testamentuni,  quarto  die  mensis  l^robate  4  Nov.  ]o2G. 
"Novembris,  Anno  Domini  millesimo  quingentesimo  vicesimo  sexto,  ?ommL=Xn^d1rected 
virtute  coininissionis  Decano  do    Suthwell  directag    ad  proband  urn  ^^  ^^'^'^  ^*^^"  of 

•  HIT-'  1-1  •  1      •  1     .    .  .     Southwell, 
illud,     JLt  postea  doctis  de   testainenti   approl)atione,  adirnnistratio 

bonorum  ejusdein   commissa  fuit  Dominis  Willelmo    Blauncbe    et 

Jacobo  Boxe,  vicariis   choralibus,  ac  Johanni  Pabner  dc  Suthwell, 

exeeutorlbus,  juratis  etc. 

Probationrs  Testamentorum  Canonicorum, 

p    108.    In   dei   nomine   Amen.       Quarto    die    mensis    Octobris  ^  9^*'-  ^•^-*^- 

AT^        •    •    ^  t;.-ic     J?  n    \       L         o  aT^  ^  T\      .         Will  of  Eobert  BaiTa, 

nno    Domini  1526,   Lgo    Kobartus    Barra,'*  Deeretorum   Doctor,  _Dec.  Doc.  Canon  of 

canonicus  et  prebendarius   in  ecelesiis   beati   petri  Eboracensis  ac  ^°^^  ^^^  Southwell, 
beatte  marice  virginis  Sutliwelliensis,  compos   mentis  et   sante  me- 
morias,  condo  et  ordino  testamentum  meum  in  bunc  modum. 

In  primis  do  et  lego  animam  omnipotent!  Deo  creator!  meo  et  Bequest  of  soul  to 
redemptori   meo,   beatse  marise   virginis    et   omnibus  coeli  civibus,  Creator  fmd  Re- 
liumiliter  supplicans   redemptori   meo   ut  animam   meam    dignetur  f^eemer,  B.  V.  M.  and 
.....  .    .  all  the  citizens  of 

recipere    suae    graciosslmaa    misevicordise,    tempore    sibi    placabili.  Heaven. 

Etiam  lego  corpus  meum   sepeliendum  inter  Christianorum  corpora  Bequest  of  body  to  be 

•  c  1  •  •  •  T    i.  1  buried  amonest  the 
infra  parochiam  lu  qua  anima  mea  egredjetur  de  corpo.re  meo:  et,  bodies  of  Christians 

si  moriar  apud   Suthwell,  tunc  volo  quod  corpus  meum   serelietur  ^^  t'^'' ?■'"*'!  ^v'^ere 

,.  ^      ,       .    .  .  ^    .      .    .^  ^^     K  hedied;  if  atSouth- 

ubi    rectores   chori   in    matutinarum    prmcipio   cantant  Venite  etc.  well,  to  be  buried 

Et  volo  funeralia  mea  fieri  decenter,  sed    sine   pompa,  pro   salute  ^'^f^  '^^f  ^^^^^}' 

^        r'r  rectors  at  matins 

auimse  mere.      Item    lego  xxxiij^   iiijfl   legalis   monetee   anglise  pro  sing  "  Venite." 

centum    missis   celebrandis,    quam    citius    poterint    celebrari,   post  masses    °^ 

mortem  meam,  pro  anima  mea.      Item  lego  ad   ornamenta  ccclesias  To  ornaments  of  his 

mess  Saneti  Andrea?  de  Myddelton  xx^     Item  lego  ad  ornamenta  ^"^JjJjjJ'J^^^ot"'^^'^'''" 

ecclesise  mcse  de  Hemilsay  xx^.  Of  his  church  at 

Item  lego  decenter  expendi  circa  sepulcra  parentum  meorum  xx^.  For^parentV  tombs 

Item  lego  Johanni   Barra   fratri  meo  xx^     Item  lego  Edwardo  20s. 
c    ^  •  ^  To  brothers  John  and 

fratri  meo  xx^  Edward  20s. 

"  Barra  was  collated  to  the  prebend  of  Dunham  on  25  Aug.,  admitted  27  Aug. 
1499.  This  will,  the  only  will  of  a  Canon  of  Southwell  in  the  Register,  has  I  find 
been  already  printed  by  the  Surtees  Society.     Test.  Ehor.  v.  p.  220. 


12G      VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTEE. 


To  nei)hew  Roberto 

40s. 

To  nephew  and 

servant  Robert 

5  marks. 

To  ornaments  of  his 

Prebendal  church  of 

S.  Peter,  Dunham 

XX  8. 

Forgives  John  Banes 
20  nobles  due. 
To  3  .sons  of  Banes 
3  cows. 

To  niece  Jane  Banes 
20s. 

To  his  servant  Burne 
20s.  and  a  horse  and 
saddle. 

To  nephew  Robert 
horse  and  saddle. 
To  his  cook  20s. 
To  Ootch  of  his 
kitchen  10s. 
To  J.  Drynge  3s.  4d. 
To  brother  James, 
priest,  all  utensils  in 
house  at  Mjddelton. 
To  niece  Margaret, 
widow  of  Pygge, 
Philipot,  and  Mcir  of 
Newark,  20s. 
To  Southwell  fabric 
40s. 

To  wife  of  Robert 
Cade  of  Newark, 
cousin,  a  silver-gilt 
spoon,  her  gift. 
To  Nephew  Edward 
Barra,  scholar,  if  he 
will  become  a  priest, 
£10,  and  fll  gram- 
matical, legal,  and 
canon  law  b<xjks,with 
Abbatt  on  Decretals, 
if  he  will  study  law 
or  canon  law. 


Item  lego  Roberto  Barra  do  Suthwell  nepotl  rneo  xl^  Item 
lego  Robarto  Barra,  servicnti  meo  et  nepoti  mc  •,  quinque  marcas 
logalis  monetaa  Anglioe  Item  lego  ad  oruamenta  ecclesiaj  meae  pre- 
bendalls  Sancti  Petri  de  Dunliam  xx*.  Item  lego  Gilberto  Byikhed 
xx*.  Item  lego  Johanni  Bancs  vlginti  nobllia,  quae  debet,  mihi  per 
cbligationein.     Item  lego  tribus  Cliis  Johannls  Banes  tres  vaccas. 

Item  lego  Johaiinic  Banes  nepoti  meoe  uxori  dicti  Johannis  Bunes 
xx^.  Item  lego  Willeliro  Burne,  servient!  meo,  xx*  et  equum  cum 
sella.  Item  lego  Roberto  Barra,  filio  Edwardi  Barra,  fratris  mei 
equum  cum  sella.  Item  lego  Ricardo  Rolliston,  coquo  meo,  xx*. 
Item  lego  Georgio  Ootch  de  coquina  mea  x^  Item  lego  Jolianna3 
Drynge  iij^  iiij'^  Item  lego  fratri  meo,  Domino  Jacobo  Barra, 
presbitero,  o.nnia  utensilia  meo  in  domo  mea  apud  ^lyddelton  in 
sua  custodia.  Item  lego  Margaretaj,  nepoti  meae,  relictae  Thomse 
Pygge,  Johannis  Philipot,*  et  nuperrime  Willelmi  Aleir  de  New- 
aike  xx^  Iteui  lego  fabricae  ecclcsia^  collegiatae  Beatae  Mariae 
Suthwell  xl*.  Item  lego  uxori  Roberti  Cade  de  ]S'ewarke,  consan- 
guineae  meae,  unum  cocloar  argenteum  deauratuin,  quod  prius 
dederat  mihi  Item  h'go  Edwardo  Barra  scolari,  nepoti  meo,  si 
vult  fieri  prcsbiter,  decern  libras  legalis  monetae  Angliae,et  omnes 
librc^s  meos  grammaticales,  legale?,  et  cursum  juris  caiionici,  cum 
Domino  Abb.itt  super  decretalibus,"'  si  velit  leges  vel  jus  canonicum 
addisccre:  alitor  non.  Item  lego  Domino  Johanni  episcopo  El- 
phinensi  et  Abbati  de  Welbcck  n)eum  optimum  coopertorium  lecti 
et  sex  optima  pulvinaria  mea. 

•  Of  Newark,  a  party  and  surviving  feofEee  of  Magnus'  deed  of  foundation  or 
augmentation  of  Newark  Grammar  i^chool. 

''  This  book  is  concealed  in  the  British  Museum  catalogue,  under  Tudcschi 
Nichilaus  de.  Archbishop  of  I'alermo.  His  "  Decretals  "  are  in  fact  written  under 
the  title  Abbas.  The  book  bequeathed  may  be  either  (i)  Domini  Abbatis  Siculi 
super  Dccretalibus.  C  vols.  Pol.  I'rinted  at  Basic  1477.  (5003.  g.);  or  (ii) 
Domini  Abbatis  Siculi  lectura  super  Dccretalibus.  5  vols.  Pol.  Printed  at  Venice 
1477.    (5063.  h.) 

The  books  were  seemingly  written  in  1 1-'5,  when  the  author  was  Abbat  Mama- 
censis,  or  Monocensis,  and  Auditor  of  the  I'apal  Chamber. 


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Eesiduum    vero    omnium     Lonorum     meorum     non    legatorum,  "r*^  J"'^o»  I^'s^'"'P  of 
1   ,  .  .  .  .    a  .         ^     Ti      •!     •      -i  1      •  ,  T  T^^lpliin  and  Abbot  of 

debitis   meip,    capis     meis,  et  dilapidatiombus    solutis,  volo  quod  Wclbeck,  best 

executores  mei  disponent  pro  salute  animae  meae,  sicut  vellent  me  ^??,*^^"''^'^ ''^"'^  ^  ^''^* 

1.  -r.  ,      .  .  pillows. 

pro  eis  bona  sua  disponere.     Et  executores  liujus  mei  testament!  Residue,  after 
ac  mea3  voluntatis   facio,  ordino  et  constituo  Reverendum  patrem  copesTnd^dilap^' 
Dominum  Johannem^  Elphinensem  Episcopum,  Abbatem  de  Wei- c^^'ions  to  be  disposed 
,       1  ^  11  1     1     1-^  ,•  -1  for  health  of  his  soul. 

becke,  et  pro  labore  suo  habebit  meum  optmium  ciphum  ar^enteum  Executors:  Bishop  of 

deauratum  stantem  et  coopertum,  ad  valorem  iiii°''  librarum  jecralis  F'^P^'"  (*^5! '^^^'^  ^'^  , 

T^.  -ri  T>  r>       best  standing  covered 

monetae  Anglice;  Item  Dominum  Jacobum  Barra  presbyterum,  fra-  cup  worth  £i  for  his 

trem  meum    et  Robei  turn  Barra  nepotem  meum,  filium  fratris  mei  his  brot'he™Eoberr' 
Johannis  Barra,  et  etiam  Robertum   Barra  nepotem  meum,  filium  Ibarra,  Johns  son, 
/.,.  •T^iT-r>  ••  r     •         T^  -i-i        Robert  Barra, 

Jratris  mei  Edwardi  Barra  mecs  etiam  executores  lacio.    Et  quihbet  Edward's  son  (each  to 

dictoium,  videlicet,  Jacobi,   Roberti,  et   Roberti,  pro  labore  execu- ^'^y^  ^^^- -^^^  ^^■'^ 

.     .  .  .    ,  .  .  pams). 

tionis  dicti   testamonti    mei  habebit  xl%  ultra  necessarias  expensas 

pro  causis  meis. 

In  cujus  rei  tcsximonium  Ego,  praedictus  Robertus  Barra,  omnia 

liaec  piaedicta,  manu  propria,  conscripsi  die  et  anno  supradictis. 

Robertus  Bairo,  decretorum  doctor  ae  Signed  Robert  Barra, 

no  tarius  publicus,  n  anu  propria,    ^^f^^*-  '^^J;*?''  '"^^'^ 
^  '  r     r  notary  public. 

Decimo  die  mensis  Decembris  Anno  Domini  millesimo    ccccc™°  10  Dec.  1527. 

xx^vij  in  domo  capilulnri  etc.  comparuit  pcrsonaliter  coram  Domino  Elphfnl'and  2^Robert 

Ed\\ardo  Basset  etc.   Reverendus  pater   Johannes  Elphinensis  de  ^'^"^ras. 

"W'^elbecke,  Robartub<=  Barra  et  Robcrtub^  Baira,  executores  Magi.stri 

Robarti   Barra,    quos   tunc    idem  Dominus    Edwardus   monuit   de  inypjjtor   to  b       d 

coi  ficiendo    fidele    inventarlum     citra    festum    Paschae   proximum  before  Easter. 

*  Apparently  a  cope  or  the  price  of  a  cope,  fixed  at  Ripen  at  10  marks,  had  to  bo 
paid  lo  the  chapters  of  which  he  had  been  a  member  by  the  executors  of  a  deceased 
canon  as  the  best  gcod  by  way  of  principal.  A  canon  on  leaving  the  Church  in 
any  way  had  to  pay  this.  Cf.  White  Booli,  p.  123 ;  letter  of  Thomas  of  Cor- 
bridge  in  1301,  to  the  Chapter  directing  them  to  make  Master  John  de  Ebroic  (/.  e. 
Evreux),  canon,  pay  to  Ripon  iMinster,  of  which  he  had  been  lately  canon,  certain 
debts,  and  also  "  a  cope,  in  which  he  is  bound  to  that  church  according  to  the 
custom  of  the  same." 

•>  John  Maxe  appears  to  have  been  a  shocking  pluralist.  He  was  Bishop  of 
Elphin  and  Abbot  of  Welbeck,  also  canon  of  Halloughton,  at  Southwell,  being 
admitted  thereto  26  Xov.  1520.    He  was  dead  in  1536.  «  Sic. 


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VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MIXSTER. 


Executors  promise  to   futui'um  etc.,  ct  insupcr  jurarl  fecit  eosdem  Robertum  et  liobertiim 

etc.,  et  insuper  tunc  ibidem  idem  executores  promiserunt  de  solvendo 

capam  decern  marcavum  citra  prse^ictum  festum  Pascliae  proximum 

futurum;  et  ultcrius  obligaverunt  se  de  servando  istud  capituluin  in- 

dcmpnatuin  pro  Icfjjatis  Edwardi  Barra,  jiixta  tenorem    test:imeiiti : 

et  rcco<rnovcrunt  tunc  ct  ibidem  sub  poena  ccntuin  marcarum  etc.,  et 

submiscrunt  sc  juris'lictioni  liujus  capituli  etc.,  et  de  realiter  delibe- 

rando   scriptiim,  sive    obligatioiicm.  in    hoc  capitulo    citra    festum 

Paschse    pro    indempnitatc   hujusmodi    etc. ;  dcsuper,  prestita  per 

Robertum  et  Robertum  fide  ad  sancta  Dei  evangolia  etc.;  et  quoad 

as!«ignationem    tutoris   praefati  Edwardi    Barra    prsefatus    Djminus 

{ruardians  for  Edward  £J\vardus  Bassett  continuavit  actum  luijupmadi,  usque  ad  etin  diem 
Barra  postponed  to       ,,       .  .  .    t^       •    •  •         ^\  •  ^  -^  i 

Tiiesday after  Martis    proximum    post  Dominicam    in    albis,    et    monuit   eosriem 

"Whitsuutide.  executorcs  ad  interessendum  ipso  die  ct  hoc  loco  audituros  volun- 

tatera  suam  in  hac  parte  etc. 


pay  a  cope  of  10 
marks  value. 


Bond  to  be  given. 


Assignment  of 


Testaxnentum  Roharti  Nevi/ll  senioris  nuper  de  Ragn  ill. 


;i  Ap.  ir)27. 
Will  of  Robert 
Nevyll,  sen.  of 
Ragnell. 


Body  to  be  buried 
before  S.  Leonard's 
image  in  Kagnell 
chapel  in  same  place 
ns  wife  Johan,  and 
the  tomb  to  be  made 
BO  that  Easter 
eepulcbrc  may  stand 
on  it 


p.  119. —  In  the  name  of  god  Amen.  In  tlie  ix'''  day  of  Aprillc 
ill  the  yere  of  howre"  m''.ccccc°.xxvii'^,  And  in  the  xviii"'  vere  of 
tlie  reigne  of  kynge  Ilenrie  theglit,  I  Robart  nevyll  of  Rngnall 
thchier,  beyngeof  hole  myndeand  sane  memorie,  do  n  ake  my  testa- 
ment and  last  Will  in  the  manor  of  forme  fulowyng:  First,  I 
beqwyeth  my  soule  to  god  almighty,  oure  ladic  Saynt  Marie,  and  to 
all  the  companye  off  hcvyn :  And  my  bodie  to  be  buried  tifore 
saynt  leonarde  in  the  chauncell  and  chapell  in  the  same  place  and 
stead  were''  iohan  my  wyff'e  is  burled,  and  thcoon  lumbe  to  be  made 
upon  a  convenient  heght  that  the  sepulcre  at>  Ea^^ter  lyme  may 
stand  upon.  Also  I  bequyeth  in  the  name  of  my  principall  and 
mortuaiie  my  best  gudds  or  catallies  alter  the  custome  of  the 
cuntreth. 

Also  to  the  hie  alter  of  my  parisi-he  churchc  of  Dunluini  for 
forgoten  tithes  vj"  viij''.     Also   1    will    that   in  day  of  my  buriall 


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placebo,  dirige,  and  masse,  be  songe  with  jDreists  &  clerks,  and  every  Cd.  for  priests  at 

preist  to  say  masse  y*^  day  of  requiem    or    ells  at  his  convenient  ^^^^"^j^  ^^"^  ,"J'^^^' ^'^■ 

leysour,  and  everychon  of  theym  to  have  vj'' ;    Also  to  every  clerke  others. 

that  can  synge  ij^  ;   And   to  all  other  that  cumeth  the  day  of  my 

buriall  iche  of  theym  j'^,  to  pray  for  my  soule.     Also  I  will  that  vij  7  torches  at  2s.  8d. 

torches,  the  price  ij^  viij''  every  torche;  and  every  torche  a  poore  ' 

man,  with  a  blakke  gowne  upon  hym  with  a  hode  of  the  same  of 

my  coste  and  charge,  redie  made  to  bear  and  holde  theym  brennyng 

abowte  my  Jierse  '^  that  day  to  my  bodye  be  broght  to  the  grounde: 

Also  viij  tapers  of  waxe  of  ix  or  x  poundes:  and  iij  or  iiij  poundes  §  wax  tapers  of  9  or 

of  prikketts'^  to  burne  also  abowte  my  herse  and  body  all  the  tyme  ^^  ^''^• 
c  1  n       T      -11      1  I  1   /-         1      1         T  „3or  4  poundsof 

'  ot  my  obett:     Also  i  will  that  my  kynsmen  and  frynds  the  day  oi  candles  for  " pricket " 

my  buriall  shall  have  meate  and  drynke  conveniently  at  their  dynner  candlesticks. 

as  shall  be   ordeyned    be  my   exccutours,    and    accordyng  to    the 

rowme  of  my  howse  and  place  at  Ragnell.     Moreover,  I  will  that  Gray  Friars  or  Friars 

the  gray  frers,  oderwais  called  minorres,  of  Lincoln,  and  the  blakke  Black  Friars  at  ^' 

f reers  at  the  greate  fote,"^  were  1  and  my  wife  were  in  bothe  places  Great  Foot,  where 

1        1      ,1        1     •  T  n    ^  1  •<.•••!  1    1       r>  Wife  and  he,  brother 

broder  "^  and  sister,  eyther  ot  theym  to  have  vj^  viij*^,  and  the  ireere  and  sister,  6s.  8d. 

Augustines  and  the  wyte  freers,  were  I  am  not  brother,  to  eyther  Auo-ustine  Friars, 
of  theym  iijs  iiij*!;  and  every  place  to  pray  and  say  an  obett  for  the  White  Fnars,  3s.  4d. 
soules  of  me,   my  wifFe,  and  for  all  thoose  that  I  am  most  bounde 
to  pray  fore,  and  for  all  cristen  soules:     Also  I  wyll  that  all  my  detts 
that  I  do  owe  to  any  man  or  woman  be  truly  payd  and  contented. 

p.  120. — Also  I  wille  that  the  chauncell  ofRagnell   chapell  of  lOmaiks  to  S. 
Saynt  leonarde  have  x  marcs  to  thuppholdyng  of  it:     Also  to  the  chrMe[,and  £20  to 

"  The  hearse  was  the  raised  canopy  abore  the  tomb.     The  framework  of  one  is        ■-  e  p    . 
to  be  seen  still  over  the  tomb  of  one  of  the  Earls  in  the  Beauchamp  chapel  at 
Warwick. 

^  Prikkets  are  candlesticks  having  a  prick  or  spike. 

<=  I  cannot  find  out  what  the  "  great  foot "  was.  The  llev.  C.  Wordsworth 
suggests  that  it  was  the  "  great  fonte  "  or  "  greet  well."  There  is  no  mark  of 
abbreviation  over  "fote,"  but  it  might  easily  be  omitted  by  ascribe  ignorant  of 
local  Lincoln  nomenclature. 

<*  It  was  the  custom  for  laymen  to  be  made  brothers  of  the  friars,  so  as  to  get  the 
banefit  of  their  prayers  and  the  odour  of  their  sanctity.  To  be  biu-ied  in  a  friar's 
gown  was  not  unusual. 

CAMD.  SOC.  S 


loO        VISITATIOKS    AND    M'iMOlUALS    OF    f:OUTII^VKl.L    MINS'JEU. 


Malt,  r}'e,  and  pease, 
and  20  fat  sheep  to 
be  dealt  to  poor. 


Heir  to  support 
Chauntry  i'riest  at 
liagnald. 


Cows  or  horses  to 
servants. 


Sons  Robert  and 
George  executors. 


Witnesses,  J.  Vnw^n 
])riest,  Anthony 
Stanton,  Andrew 
Nevvll,  Andrew 


sayd  chapcll  and  stcpull,  buyldyngc  and  reparacions  abouie  the 
same,  xx''. 

Also  I  willc  that  if  I  have  wronged  or  inured  any  man  agaynst 
ryght,  and  it  so  proved  afore  my  executores,  that  yche  of  theym  be 
satisfied  and  agreed  with  be  my  executors.  Also  I  wille  that  v 
quarters  malte,  iij  quarters  rye,  iij  quarters  of  peases,  and  xx"*  fatte 
shepe  be  deltc  to  the  most  poore  inhabltaunts  and  householders 
in  the  townes  next  aboute,  were  is  znost  nedefull,  be  thadvyse  & 
discrecion  of  myne  executors:  Also  I  will  that  my  sone  Robart 
and  heire,  or  suche  as  shall  fortune  to  be  my  heire  hereafter  my 
dccesse,  shall  fynde  imniediatly  parte  of  the  parlsshe  prelst  to 
synge  and  serve  at  Ragenhyll,  as  I  have  done  before  tyme,  to  pray 
for  my  soule,  my  wyfe  soule,  and  all  cristen  soules,  and  in  especiall 
wome  we  were  bound  to  pray  fore.  Also  I  bequyeth  to  bryan  my 
servaunte  a  horse  or  a  kowe,  to  be  delivyred  be  me  or  myne 
executors  after  their  discrecions:  And  to  thomas  bayle  a  horse  or 
a  kowe,  like  as  aboue.  To  AVilliam  Wilkens  a  kowe.  To  Antonic 
my  servante  a  koAvc.  To  radulph  patye  a  kowe.  To  iohn  Witc- 
side  a  kowe.  To  Alice  Koo  my  servante  xP.  off  lawfull  money 
toward  hir  marriage.  Alsol  wille  that  Richard  Wilkinson,  my 
chiluc  and  younge  servante,  have  xP  in  lawfull  money  toward  his 
socoure  and  lyvyng,  to  pray  for  my  soule. 

Finally,  this  my  present  testament  and  last  wille,  as  in  legacies 
abofe  and  detts,  to  be  perfourmed  and  finished:  I  wille  that  my 
sone  Robart  Nevyll,  and  George  his  sone,  take  of  my  gudds,  lands 
and  tenements,  if  my  gudds  wille  not  pcrlbrmc,  be  thadvyse  of  my 
feoffees  feoifed  in  the  same  to  my  use,  for  a  performent  of  the  same 
my  wille  abofe  or  any  will  hereafter  to  be  made,  whoes  pcrsones 
and  names,  Rcbert  and  gcorgc  aboffe,  I  do  make  myne  exccutours 
that  they  may  pcrforme  as  abofe. 

.  And  the  rcsidewe  of  my  gudds  not  bequylhed,  to  ordre  and 
dispose  of  theym,  as  they  shall  tliynke  best,  for  thelth  of  my  soule 
and  my  wife  soule,  and  to  the  pleasour  of  god.  Tiiies  beyng  witnesses 


YISITATIOXS  AXD  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MIXSTER.  131 

Sir    John   Unwyn,    prcist,    Antonye    Staunton,    Andrew  Xevyll ,  Bekyngham,  T. 

Andrew  Bekyngham,  and  Thomas  Apiohn  with  other:  Apjohn. 

p.  121. — This  is  my  histe  wi!le  of  all  mv  lands*  and  tenements  Will  of  lands  of  R. 

with  the  appurtenances   in  the  shires  of  Xotyngliam  and  lyncoln.  t^Jf^^^  ^^'^.^^^^^^^^^ 

First  I  will  that  my  feoffees  of  truste^  now  or  hereafter  shalbe,  of  ^i'l- 

and  in  all  my  mauers  lands  tenements  and  rents  within   the   said 

countie  of  lincoln  they  to  stande  and  be  full  seased  of  and  in  the 

same  to  thuse  of  me  for  terme  of  my  lyffe  and  for  a  performent  of 

my  laste  wille.     And  after  that  and  my  decesse  to  thoes  and  intent 

folowyng,  that  is  to  say,  that  the  said  feoffes  shall  stande  and  be 

seased  of  and  in  all  my  lands  and  tenements  with  thapurtenances  in 

Stirton,  wiche  late  were  mv  broderis  George  Xevyll,   and  balfron  ^^?£^  '^^  Stirton  and 

°  .  •'  .    ,  Balfron  to  Andrew 

landes  to  thuse  of  Andrew  Xevyll  and  the  heirs  males  of  his  bodie  Xevyll  in  tail  male, 

lawfullye  begotten;  and  for  defaulte  of  issue  males,  they  to  remane  •^"J^^^'^""^'' *''^^''' 

to  the  ryght  heires  of  me  the  sayd  Robert  forever.     And  also  I  will  Lands  in  Darlton, 

that  the  said  feoffes  stande  &  be  seased  of  &  in  all  the  lands  &  tene-  Little  Carlton, 

ments  with  thapurtenaunces  in  Darlton  within  the  countie  of  Xotinfj-  Carlton  Kyme, 

^  _  .      .        ^  Lincoln,  to 

ham.     And  also  of  &  in  all  the  lands  &  tenements  within  Xorthe-  J.  Xevyllin  tail  male, 

carleton,  litle  carleton,   &  earleton  kyme,  within   the    countie  of^^^f^g^  ^^ 

lincoln,  to  thuse  of  iohn  nevyll,  my  yongest  sone,  and  to  the  heires 

males  of  his  bodye  lawfully  begoten,  and  for  defaute  of  suche  issue 

they  to  remayne  to  the  ryght  heires  of  me  the  sayd  Eobert,  as  in 

forme  above  wryten,  for  ever. 

Also  I  will  tliat  Andrew  Bekyngham,  my  nevcw,  have  the  house  House  in  Bronghton 
•  1      1  •      1         ^  ^     r  i  i  i  i    t  •    ^o  nephe\s-  Andrew 

with  thapurtenances  m  braghton  before  rehersed  to  hym  and  his  Bekyngham  on  like 

heires  males  of  his  bodie  lawfullye  begoten,  wiche  I  did  purchase  of  ^^°^^'^'^^^'^°'" 

Richard  bekyngham ;  and  for  defaute  of  such  heires  as  abofe,  then 

the  sayd  house  withe  thapurtenance  to  remayne  to  the  ryght  heires 

of  me  the  said  Robert  for  ever  as  abofe. 

Also  I  will  that  my  sayd  feoffes  shall  stand  and  be  seased  of  and  in 

"^  Until  Henry  VIII. 's  Statute  of  Wills,  a  man  could  not  at  common  law  make  a 
will  of  lands;  but  by  the  intervention  of  equity  he  could  do  so  by  vesting  the  lands 
in  trustees  to  perform  the  uses  declared  in  hiswill. 


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VISITATIONS  AND  MEMOKIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 


for  life,  with 
remaioder  in  fee 


Deeds  to  be  kcjit  at 
capital  messuage  in 
Ragnall. 


all  my  niancrs  landcs,  tenements  rcntics  reversions  and  services,  with 
the  apurtenancc,  in  Ragenhill,  Wympton,  Dowham,  Drayton, 
Lands  in  Notts  to  self  Bortoii,  with  all  Other  within  the  countic  of  Xotyngham,  to  thusc 
of  me  for  terine  of  my  lyfe,  without  pcchment  of  waste,  and  after 
my  decesse  the  sayd  maners,  lands,  tenements,  rents,  reversions,  and 
services  with  the  apurtenancc  above  wryten  to  thuse  of  my  ryght 
heires  for  cuer. 

Also  I  will  that  all  such  evidences  as  conccrnyth  all  my  maners 
lands  rents  tenements  reversions  &  services,  as  abofe,  within 
the  shires  of  Notyngham  and  lyncoln,  do  remayne  &  ahyde  styll  in 
my  capltall  meas  in  Ragenhill,  there  to  be  puttc  in  suer  custodic 
and  kepyng,  for  every  ryght  title  to  be  knowen  hereafFter,  and 
interest,  according  to  the  disposion  of  this  my  last  Will  in  the 
same. 

Finally  I  the  said  Robart  do  renowncc  &  revoke  all  testaments 
afore  made  by  me,  and  willcs  &  disposions  of  &  in  all  my  posses- 
sions and  gudds,  moveable  and  unmovcable.  And  only  this  my  testa- 
ment and  last  willc  in  this  codicille  above  wryten  to  stand  and  take 
full  eflecte.  In  Witnesse  wcrcofF,  I  the  sayd  Robert  Nevyll  the 
elder,  hathe  subscribed  my  name  with  myne  owen  hande  to  the 
firste  wrytyng  and  trew  copie  of  this,  the  day  &  ycrc  abofc,  and  sctte 
my  scale  to  the  same. 


Revocation  of 
former  wills. 


Testamenium  Roherli  Pepper. 


9  May,  lo29. 
Will  of  Kol)3rt 
Pepper  of  Morton. 


p.  207. — In  Dei  nomine  Amen.  The  yere  of  oure  lordc  ihesus 
1529  ix  day  of  j\Iay  I  robert  Peper  of  morton,  hoole  of  mynde  and 
good  remembrance,  make  tliis  my  testament  and  my  last  Will  in 
Ibrme  foloyng. 

First  I  bequeth  and  give  my  saide  to  god  almyghty,  to  oure  hidie, 
sainte  marie  And  to  all  the  holie  cuinpaiiy  of  licvcn,  and  my  bodie 
to  be  buried  in  the  churche  yardc  of  morton.  And  my  best  goodc 
to  be  my  mortuarie  as  the  use  of  the  cuntre  is. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMOEIALS  OP  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEK.  lo3 

Al^o  I  give  and  bcquctlic  to  the  causey"  of  morton  a  quarter  of  To  causeway  of 

rye.     Also  to  sir  Thomas  Dunne   the  vicar  of  morton  iij^  iiijd^  ^^I^ton  a  quarter  of 

Also  to  the  churche  of  sainte  michaell  of  Horrysham  halfF  a  quarter 

of  barlye ;  And  to  the  churche  of  sainte  dionise  of  moiton  halff  a 

quarter  of  berlye.     Item  to  the  clnirche  of  sainte  Petre  of  burton  a 

busshell  of  weyte  ;  And  to  the  roode  off  loodame  halff  a  quarter  of  To  rood  of  Loodam 

barlie:  Item   to   the   mendyng   of^he  hye   gateb  frome   Eichard  S^'^.^^"'^'^"^' °* 

blackley  house  unto  ij  lands  of  Richard  moors,  were  the  most  nede  rr.   , .  ,  ,    ,  „ 

•^  -^  To  highway  a  bushell 

IS,  a  busshell  of  liye.  of  rye. 

Also  I  give   to   William  peper   a   russet  jaket  and   a   doublett.  Gusset  jacket  and 

JMoreover  I  will    that    John    peper,  my  brother,  William    peper, 

Tliomas  peper,  my  sonns,  be  my  executors  and  deale  for  my  saule  in 

the  day  of  my  buriall  iiij  marks.     Also  I  will  the  Vicar  of  Moiton  1  marks. 

sir  thomas  dunne,  have  x^  for  to  say  a  trentall  in  moiton  churche  lOs,  for  tventall. 

for  my  wiffe  saule  and  myne. 

And  all  my  other  goods,  ungyven  &  unbequeathed,  to  be  distri-  Residue  among 
1     .  1  II       1   u  in  children  equally, 

bute  and.  equally  dalte  amongs  my  chyldren. 

Witness    John  Coton    of  morton,   Thomas  busshe   and    thomas 

Arnall  :  made  the  yere  and  day  aforenamed. 

p.  205. — Testamentum  Boherti  Hall  de  heJcyjigham,  anno  Domini  28  May,  1529. 
miUesimo  cccc°  vicesimo  nono,  qui  erat  annus  visitationis  jper  cain-  of  Bckyno^iam     '^  ' 
tnlum  S uthwell  factce. 

In  Dei  nomine  Amen,  vicesimo  viij°  die  rnensis  Mali  Anno 
Domini  millesimo  quingentesimo  vicesimo  nono  Ego  Hobertus 
Hall  de  bekyngham,  compos  mentis  et  sanae  memoria?,  ccndo 
testamentum  meum  in  hunc  modum. 

In  primis  do   et   lego  animam  meam    Deo  omnipotenti,  Beatae 

]\rarla3.   ac  omnibus  Sanctis;   corpusque  meum  ad  sepellendum  in  Body  to  be  buried  in 

ecclesia  Omnium  Sanctorum  de  Bekyngham  pr^dicta.     Item  do  et  I^eckingham- church. 

lego   pro   prlncipali    meo   ut    nios    est.       Item   do   et  lego   summo  J°  ^'f''^ '^!^'""  ^°'',  ^, 
o       iT         f  I  D  forgotten  tithes,  ]2'\ 

'^  Causeway.     In  Yorkshire  the  paved  streets  arc  still  so  called. 
•>  High  road. 


134  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

To  fabric  of  cracifix  altarl  pro  dcciiiiis  oblitls  xij''.  Item  do  et  lego  fabricai  crucifixorii 
of  Beckingbam,  15'.     ^^  gekyngham  xv«. 

To  Carmaelite  friars  j^  ^^  j       ^  j         fiatribus   Cannaclitis  Beatjc   iMarlai   de  Don- 

and  Gordian  friars  n 

at  Doncastcr.  castcr  unum   modium  ordii.        Item   (Vatiibus    Gordianis   cjusdem 

To  Aufiustiuian  j.                 ,.•         t,.          r    <.  -i               i-    •      c        ,^'     a            ^-    • 

Friars  of  Tickhill,  unum    modium    ordii.      Item   tratribus  ordinis   bancti  Augustini 

and  Friars  Preachers  (\q  Tykhill  unum  modicum  ordii.  Item  fratrlbus  prcdicatoribus 
of  Lincoln,  a  bushel     ^.       \  ..  ^^^  ^  r        -,  ^  •,  i 

of  barley,  Lincoln  unum   modium   ordii.       Item  iratribus    observantibus  do 

o^f^SS.'ltur;''  ^'ewarke  unum  modium  Ihimenti. 

of  wheat.  Item  do  et  lego  Roberto,  filio  meo,  et  puero*  in  ventre  uxoris  mea3 

To  son  Robert  and  to  (]ccom  maica?.      Et  si  utcrque  eorum  moriatur,  tunc  tota  prsedicta 

unborn  son  or  the  ^  ..... 

survivor  10  marks:  summa  decem  marcarum  reinanebit  illi  qui  supervivet  alteram  :  et 
son  William.' '  ^  °  ^i  ambo  coriim  moriantur,  tunc  volo  quod  prasdicta  siunma  decern 
To  said  son  a  young    marcarum  rcmanebit  Willelmo  filio  meo.     Item  do  et  logo  piacdicto 

mare,  "Angiicc,  a  g^j^  ^^  equam  iuvcncm,  anglice  a  fele,  et  meam  optimam  tof^am. 
fele,    and  best  gown.  n  J  '       o  '  r  o 

A  white  heifer  to  son  Item  do  et  Icgo  Rogero,  fratri  meo,  alteram  togam.  Item  lego 
Robert.  praedlcto  Roberto,  filio  meo,  unani  albam  juvencam. 

Residue  to  wife  Rcsiduum   vero  bonorum  meorum  non  Icgatorum,    do   et  lego 

William.  Johannap  uxori  meae  et  Willelmo  filio  meo,  quos  constituo  meos 

veros  et  legitimes  executores,  ut  disponant  pro  salute  animas  meoe 
ut   eis    melius    videbitur.     Et   hsec    omnia   fiant    subter   visionem 
.  nperMsois.  Willelmi  Hall,  patris  mci,  et  Hugonis  Thorncyll,  patris  uxoris  mea:, 

ct  Roberti  Thornell,  Johannis  Hall,  et  Rogcri  Hall,  fratrnm 
meorum,  quos  vero  Willelmum,  Hugoncm,  Robcrtum,  Johannem, 
ct  Rogerum  facio  meos  fideles  supervisorcs  hujus  testamenti  mci. 
Iliis  testibus  :  Roberto  Henderson,  Vicario  ecclcsiaj  Bckyngbam, 
Thoma  Clifton  et  Thoma  SpafFolde  cum  aliis.  Dato  die  et  anno 
supra  scriptis. 
Probate  4  June,  1129.  Probatum  fuit  praescns  tcstamentum  iiij°  die  mensis  Junii  Anno 
Domini  millesimoccccc°xxix",  et  administratio  excecutoribus  supra 
nominatis  est  commissa. 

"  Supposing  the  posthumous  child  was  not  a  boy,  as  the  testator  seems  to  have 
determined  it  was  to  be,  there  would  have  been  an  intestacy,  probably,  as  to  these 
U)  marks. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OP  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEK. 


135 


Inventm'ium  ejusdem  Roherti  Hall. 


Inventory. 


In  primis  xj  horses  and  mars  and  felees,  price  . 

iij" 

xiij^ 

Item 

iij  oxon,  price 

xxxij^ 

)5 

xj  kye,  price 

iiij^' 

xiij^ 

55 

ix  coople  sheepe,  price    . 

xv^ 

55 

xij  swyne,  price 

xiij^ 

5  5 

ij  carts,  a  wayne     . 

xij^ 

55 

ploes  and  haroes 

iij^ 

S> 

ij  teymes  and  yooks 

ij^ 

55 

horse  harncs  and  colers    . 

iij^ 

53 

iiij  acres  weyt,  xv  acres  barlie, 
ofpeese    .         .         .         , 

xviij  acres 

vj" 

55 

xij  paire  of  shets  lynen,  vj  paire  harden 

xiij^ 

,, 

V  coverletts    .... 

. 

viij^ 

55 

vj  pclocs,  on  bolster 

. 

^j^ 

55 

iij  towelis,  ij  burde  clothes  '*     . 

, 

iij' 

55 

iiij  matres  on  twilte 

. 

x^ 

55 

a  countre,  a  olde  awmbre,'^  ij 

chores,  i^ 

forms,  a  hallynge  ^    . 

. 

viij^ 

55 
55 

ij  panns,  iij  ketells 
V  brasse  potts 

: 

xij^ 

■X? 

33 

xij  peese  of  pueter,  iij  sawsers 

. 

vjs 

55 

a  Iced,  ij  tubbs,  ij  bolls  . 

• 

,,js 

a   bason,  a  lav 

candelstycks,  ij 
a  cocke,  ix  henns    . 


a   chafyng    disho,    iiij 
saltesellers 


inj" 


lUJ^' 


iiij^' 


mj' 


inj^ 


iiij' 
viij' 


iiJ^ 


vnj'' 


xvjd 


*  Harden,  "a  common  linen  made  from  tow  or  the  coarsest  quality  of  Jienip  and 
fiax." — Beck's  Brai)crs'  Dictionary. 
^  Board  cloths,  i.e.,  table-cloths. — Catholicon  Anglicum,  Camden  Society. 
<=  Awmbre,  a  cupboard. 
^  Hallynge,  tapestry  to  hang  round  a  hall. 


136 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 


an  axe,  a  liacclict,  a  wymblc/  a  spade,  iij 
yren  forks,  ij  mucke  forks,  carte  roops 

a  spitte,  cobornes,''  a  raken,  potte  liooks,  a 
skonier,'^  a  laten  ladlo,*^  a  flakcf^ 


U^ 


]  1  March,  1529. 
Willi.am  Clerk  of 
Woodborougli 
snmnioned  for  not 
exhihiting  inventory 
of  father's  goods  ami 
for  administering 
dc  son  tort :  sus- 
loended. 


Submits  and  is 
absolved. 


9  Sept.  ir,.34. 
Will  of  John  Mar- 
fihall,  rector  of  S. 
Helen's,  South 


Wheately. 


T(j  our  Lady's  works, 
Southwell,  G'  S"". 
To  Egmanton 
church,  :J»  4''. 
To  4  ordeis  of 
Friars,  12''. 


p.  208. — Undecimo  die  mentis  ^lartii  Anno  Domini  millcsimo 
ccccc^xxix",  "Willebniis  Clerk  de  Wodborougb,  executor  ultimi 
tcstamenti  Johannis  Clerk,  patris  sui,  citatus  comparuit  coram 
capitulo  de  Sutbwcll,  etc.  Et  quia  noluit  obedire  mandatis  nostris 
legitimis  in  non  exbibendo  inventorium  verum  dc  bonis  dicti 
Johannis  patris  sui,  sed  violenter  usurpavit  ea,  absque  administratione 
seu  probatione  tcstamenti,  idco  capitulum  cum  in  pcenam  contu- 
maeiae  suae  declaravit  cum  fore  suspensum:  et  dictus  est  dies  ei,  ut 
com pareat  coram  capitulo,  die  sabbati  proximo,  etc.  Quo  advenientc 
die,  submisit  ,se  correctioni  capituli,  et  a  poena  suspcnsionis  abso- 
lutus  est. 

Testamentum  Johannis  Marshall,  Rectoris  de  Southiohetlei). 

p.  231. — In  the  name  of  god  Amen,  the  ix*^  day  of  the  moneth  of 
Septembre  the  yere  of  our  lorde  god  a  thowsande  ffyve  hundretli 
threty  &  foure,  I  John  Marshall,  parson  of  the  parisshe  churche  of 
Saynt  Ilelene  of  South whetley,  of  hoole  mynde  &  memory,  makythe 
my  testament  in  suche  manor  as  IFolowithe.  First  I  bequethe  my 
soule  to  allmighti  god,  our  lady  saynt  mary,  and  to  all  the  saynts  in 
hevcne  ;  and  my  bodie  to  be  buryed  in  the  churche  of  Saynt  Helen 
aforsaid.  Also  I  bequethe  to  the  churche  of  saynt  Helcne  aforsaid 
vj^  viij'^  Item  to  the  uplioldyng  &  mayntenyance  thereof.  Also 
I  bequethe  to  the  mother  churche  of  Suthwell  to  our  ladie  is  works 
vj''  viij'^  Also  I  bequethe  to  egmanton  churche  iij*  iiij*^  Also  to 
the  iiij  order  of  ffreers  to  every  ordrc  xij''.  Also  to  every  oon  of 
my  godechildren  iiij'*.     Also  to  dunnot  grove  a  half  quarter  of 

"  Wymble,  an  auger. 

''  Coborncs,  cob-irons,  the  irons  by  which  the  spit  was  supported. 

«  Skomcr,  a  skimmer,  a  fire  sh  )vcl.  ''  A  metal  ladle.  '■  V\  ikct,  a  ll.isk. 


VISITATIOIfS  AND  MEMOEIALS  OP  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  137 

malt  and  a  half  quarter  barly  and  a  half  quarter  pcese.     Also  I 
bequcthe  to  Elizabeth  grove  a  yewe  and  a  lame. 

The  Kesidue  of  my  goods,  befor  not  bequethed,  I  geve  &  bcquetho 
to  Thomas  mooke  &  margarct  his  wyfF,  whom  I  doo  make  myn 
executours  And  they  to  pay  my  detts  &  performe  this  my  last 
wyll  &  my  testament,  for  the  healthe  of  my  soul. 

Also  I  ordeigne  and  make  Mr.  Edwarde  bassett,  doctour  of  Lawes,  To  Dr.  Bassetfc, 
supervisor  of  this  my  testament  or  wyll,  &  he  to  see  my  testament  ^"P^^"^^^°^'  ^'-  '^  • 
and  last  wyll  truely  executed  &  fulfylled,  &  he  to   have  for  his 
labour  vj^  viij'^.     In  witness  of  all  these  premisses,  that  is  my  last 
will,  cristopher   walker  and    thomas   birks,   vicars   chorall    of  the  To  Witnesses— C. 
churche  of  Southwell,  also  Henry  peese,  vicar  of  North  leverton,  vicars  cWal  H. ' 
they  have   subscribed  this  in  their  own  hands  the  day  and  yere  J'cese,  vicar  of  North 
1  .  T  1  ,.  1  1  ,.        1    •    ■.  1  T    *         Leverton,  xx*!.  each, 

abovesaid,  and  every  oon  of  them  to  have  for  their  labour  xx^ 

cristofer  walker, 
thomas  birks. 
henry  peese. 

Probatum  fuit  prcescns  testamentnm  coram  nobis  capitulo  Eccle-  Probate,  18  Oct.  1534. 
slie  CoUegiatse  Beatas  Mariaj  Virginis  Suthwell  etc.  decimo  octavo 
die  mensis  Octobris,  anno  domini  millesimo  quingcntesimo 
trlgesimo  septimo  ;  administratioque  omnium  bonorum  rectoris 
defuncti  concessa  fait  executori,  in  eodem  testamcnto  nominate, 
primitus  jurato,  &c. 

Parher  of  Suthicell. 

v>.  232. — In  the  name  of  God  Amen  :  the  vli'^'  day  of  Novembre  7  Nov.  1531. 
.\  o  -r       n       r.     1  1  1        r  1         1       1      Will  of  T.  Tarkcr,  o£ 

m    the   yere    of   our    Lorde    uod    a    thowsande    iyvc    hundrcthc  Southwell. 

xxxiiij"  I  Thomas  Parker,  beyng  of  hooll  minde  &  of  hooll  memoryc, 

(Loved  be  God)  make  and  ordayne  my  testament  here  in  this  forme 

followynge  : 

Firste  I  bequethe  my  soule  to  allmighti  God  &  to  our  Ladye 
Sayncte  Marye,  &  to  all  the  hoolly  cumpeny  in  hevene,  &  my  bodio 
to  be  buryed  within  the  churche  yarde  of  our  Ladie  of  Suthwell. 

CAMD.  soc.  T 


138  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

Item  I  bequctlie  to  my  goostly  father  for  my  tytlies  forgotten 
xij'^  Item  I  wyll  that  my  wylT  geve  to  poor  men  &,  women  the 
day  of  my  buryall  xij'^.  Item  I  bequctlie  to  Baptiste  Parker  my 
son  xxvj^  viij*^.  Item  I  bcquethc  to  Robert  Parker  my  son  xxvj' 
viij''.  Item  I  bcquethc  to  John  Parker  my  son  xxvj^  vlij'^  Item 
I  wyll  that  my  house  in  Wcstgatc  with  the  Lands  bclongyng  there- 
unto be  given,  at  the  decease  of  my  wyfF,  to  whiche  of  mycliildren 
she  thynkithe  best,  &  that  she  gevithc  the  said  house  unto  to  have 
noo  money  for  his  child's  parte,  but  it  be  decided  betwext  the 
other  twoo,  soo  that  eyther  of  them  shall  have  xP  for  his  parte. 

The  Residue  of  my  goods  not  bequeathed,  my  detts  payde  of  the 
hoole,  I  gave  and  bcquethe  to  Ilelene  my  wyflP,  whom  I  make  my 
sole  executrix.  Thes  beyng  witnes :  Sir  Edmunde  Kyngeston, 
Robert  Barra,  Robert  Vavasour,  &  Arthur  Harlyngc  with  other. 

Dorathe  Kepeas. 

8  T)cc.  153J.  p.  224. — In  the  name  of  gode   Amen.     The  viij"'  dale  of  the 

Kqjcas,  of*Bccking-    iiiO"cthe  of  dcccmbre  in  the  yere  of  our  lorde  gode  a  thousande 

^*'"-  ^ywc  hundreth  and   xxxiiij  I  dorathe   kepeas   of  bekyngham,  the 

daughter  of  Richardc  Kepeas  of  matcrgay,    hole  in   myndc   and 

goodc  in  icmembraunce,  makyth  my  testament  in  this  maner. 

First  I  bcquethc  my  soule  to  gode  allmighti,   our  ladio  sancte 

marie,  &  to  all  the  sancts  in  heven,  and  my  bodie  to  be  buryed  in 

All  Hiillows,  Beck-      the  churclie  of  Hallhalows  of  bekyngham  afore  the  alter  of  our 

inK-liam  before  the       Ladic.     Also   I  gyffc  and   bcquethe   unto   the  vicar  for  my  prin- 

I'rincipal  according     cipall  accordyngc  to  the  actc"  of  parliament. 

to  Act  of  Parliament.  ^^^^  j  ^^^^  ^  bcquothc  unto  the  high  alter  in  bekyngham 
churche  xij''.  Also  I  gyffe  and  bcquethe  unto  the  vicar  cf  bekyng- 
ham to  pray  for  my  soule  &  all  christan  soules  xx''. 

"  This  was  the  Act  of  1529,  21  Henry  VIII.  c  I,  limiting  the  value  of  mortuaries 
to  be  taken,  to  .3".  4''.  where  the  goods  were  worth  between  10  marks  and  £;}0  ;  to 
C*.  8''.  on  £30  — £10:  and  to  £1  on  .-£40  and  upwards.  None  at  ail  wore  to  bo 
taken  unless  there  was  a  custom  to  that  effect,  nor  on  goods  below  10  marks  in 
value,  nor  I'roni  married  women,  children,  or  any  but  liousehuldcrs. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  139 

Also  I  gyfFe  and  bequetlie  to  agues,  dorathe  &  grace,  doughters 
of  William  Daweson  of  est  Ketforde  xx^'.  which  is  in  the  hands  of 

the  saide  William,  &  whiche  the  said  William  shulde  have  paidc,  : 

unto  me  the  daye  of  my  mariege.  I 

Also  I  gyff  &  bequethe  unto  every  cotage  house  in  bekyngham,  ■ 
matersay,  &  matersay  thorpe,  j'l 

The  residue  of  all  my  goods,  in  whate  place  or  in  whose  hands  \ 

they  be,  I  gyffe  &  bequethe  unto  n;y  brother  William  Spure  cf  ] 

bekyijgham,  John  Vessy  of  matersay,  &  Agnes  Kepeas,  my  syster,  ! 

whiche  William,  John,  &  Agnes  I  make  my  full  &  lawefulle  execu-  ' 
torsj  thes  men  being  witnes:  John  Grenley  of  bekyngham,  thomas 
Eleson&  John  Kirke  of  the  same,  with  other  moo,  the  daye  &  yere 

above  wrytten.  ' 

Probatum  fuit  prredictum  testamentum  in  domo  capitulari  Suth-  Probate,  1535.  i 

well  die  mensis*        anno  domini  1535°  ;  commissa  que  est  adminis-  j 
tratio  omnium  bonorum  quae  fuerunt  virginis  defunctte  cxecutoribus 

prtenominatis  in   testamcnto,  binis  eorum  viz.   Willelmo  Spure  et  1 

Johanni  Vessy  in  forma  juris  juratls,  tertia,  viz.  agnete,  tunc  in  I 

minoritate    constituta,    de    cujus    securitate   constat   per    quoddam  i 

scriptum  obligatorium.  > 


Greve  of  besthorpe. 


p.  229. — In  the  name  of  gode  Amen:  the  vij'''  daye  of  the  monthe  7  Feb., 


1535. 


of  february  in  the  yere  of  our  lord  gode  a  m^'^ccccc*'^  &  xxxv^^,  I  G^-eve,  of  Besthorpe, 

Kicharde  greve  of  besthorpe  hooU  of  mynde  &  of  perfite  memory, 

make  this  my  laste  will  in  maner  &  forme  as  folowithe. 

Firste  I  bequethe  my  soule  to  gode  allmighti,  to  our  Lady  sancte 

Mary  and  to  all  the  holy  cumpeny  in  heven,  &  my  body  to  be  ?°f^\^<' ^^  ^"'"^^'^.^^ 
•^       ,  .  J  ir      J  1  J  J  i-<.  Andrews,  Caunton. 

buryed  in  the  parishe  churche  of  sancte  andrewe  of  caunton.     Item  A  chest  to  Caunton 
I  geve  to  the  churche  of  caunton  oon  chiste.  '^  '^^^  ' 

Item  I  bequethe  to  Eobart  my  son  oon  pair  of  querne  stones  and  t^J^jtb^^™^^^  ^^'^  ^ 

»  BLank  in  oriiiinal. 


uo 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTUWELL  MINSTER. 


Coverlet  and  slicet 


To  Agnes  Baclielcr 
the  best  pan  and  ilic 
small  Tcssel. 


a  stone  trouge.  Item  I  geve  to  Robert  &  Christofer  my  sones  the 
litle  liowsc  at  besthorpe  with  fyve  lands  lyylng  of  Bekc  furlonge. 
Item  I  geve  to  cmmott  sudburye  oon  coverlcd  Sc  a  shcte.  Item  I 
geve  to  elizabeth  greve  a  cowe  &  a  pair  of  shetts  with  oon  coverlcd. 
Item  I  give  to  agnes  bacheler  my  best  gowne.  Item  I  geve  to  the 
churchc  of  Kncsall  xij'^  Item  I  geve  to  the  churche  of  bykeryng 
xij'^  Item  I  geve  to  the  churche  of  malbekc  xij'^  Item  I  geve  to 
the  churche  of  claypole  xij'^  Item  I  geve  to  sir  James  lee  vicar  of 
caunton,  for  oblivious  tithes  and  other  iij^  iiij'^. 

Item  I  geve  to  elizabeth  geve  oon  pot.  Item  I  geve  to  agnes 
bacheler  the  best  pane.  Item  I  geve  to  agnes  bacheler  the  small 
vesscll.     Item  I  geve  to  emmott  palet  oon  cnlf. 

The  Residue  of  my  goods  not  bequethcd  I  geve  to  christofer, 
Robert  and  agne?,  whom  I  make  my  executours,  that  they  dispose 
for  the  helthe  of  my  soule  as  tiiey  thinke  best.  Thes  bcyng  witnes: 
Sir  James  Leo,  vicar,  William  Kyngcston  &  AVilliam  Jolinson,  Avith 
other. 


Testamentum  Willelmi  Ynkersoll,  iireslnjteri  cantarudw. 


J4Fcb.ir,3.-. 
Will  of  William 
YnkcTsoll,  cdiaiintry 
priest  of  S.  Julin 
Baptist  cliauntry. 
Southwell. 


Soul  to  Trinity,  ^c. 

JJody  to  churchyard 
on  cast  side  of  our 
Lady's  chapel. 


p.  22.5. — In  Dei  nomine  Amen,  The  xiij"'  daye  of  the  monetli 
of  February  in  the  yerc  of  our  lorde  gode  a  m''ccccc'*'  &  xxxv*""  I 
sir  willlam  ynkersoll,  chauntre  priest  of  sancte  John  baptiste  chauntrc 
founded  in  the  coUegiat  churche  of  our  ladye  cf  Sutlnvell,  hooU  in 
mynde  &  of  perfite  memory,  makithe,  ordeignythe  &  declarythe  my 
testament  &,  and  last  wyll  in  maner  &  forme  folowyng. 

Firste  I  bequethe  my  sonle  to  the  holy  trinite,  the  blessed  virgyn 
marie,  &all  the  cumpcny  in  heven;  &  my  bodie  to  be  buryed  in  the 
churche  yerde  of  our  ladie  of  Suthwcll  beforesaide  of  the  est  side  of 
our  ladie  is  chapeli.  Also  I  bequethe  for  my  mortuaric  accordyng 
to  the  tenour  of  tlie  king's  acts. 

Also  I  bequethe  to  the  parislie  vicar  for  forgotten  tithes  xij''. 
Aho  I  bequethe  to  every  oon  of  the  xvj  vicars  present  at  myn 
exequies  iiij'^     Also  to   every  oon   of  the   chauntre  priests  vj'*,  to 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  Or  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEE.  141 

every  deacon  &  sub-deacon  ij'^,  to  every  clerke,  chorister  &  tliuri- 13  wax  tapers  to  be 

buler  jd:  in  wnx  to  be  burned  about  my  bodic  the  tyme  of  my  !fp',",';];:;;'i''!5^bd£ 

dirige  &  masse,  that  is  to  wytc,  xlij  serges.*     Item  ilj  pcalls  with 

V  bells.     Item  to  iiij  poor  Folks  iiij'^. 

Also  I  give  &  bequethe  to  John  Enkersell,  my  brother,  iij^  iiij''  in 

money,  &  my  best  coverleds  except  iii,  &  a  pair  of  shetts  with  a  mat-  ^^^^^\  \^^^  coverlet, 

•^ '  /  i        J '  r  pa,u-  of  sheets, 

terece  &  a  jakett.     Also  I  bequethe  to  Henry  Enkersell  my  brother  mattress,  and  jacket. 

iij^  iiij''  and  oon  silver  spone  with  a  squared  heed.     Also  I  bequethe 

to  my  sister  Helen  a  great  pane,  a  coverled  of  yelowe  &  blake,  a  a  great  pan. 

sylver  spone  with  a  squared  heed  iij^  iiij'\  a  plater,  ij  potagers  &  a  Silver  spoon  with 
^1  u    -I     •  squared  head, 

tlirowen "  cheir. 

Also  I  bequethe  to  Richard   Enkersell,  my  brother,  a  standyng 
cupebord  &  my  best  dublet.     Also   I  bequethe  to  James  enkersell 
my  brother  a  fetherbed,  a  bolster,  my  best  coverled  &  oon  kowe  in 
the  kepyng  of  William  Watts.     Also  I  bequethe  to  William  enker- 
sell, my  brother  John  son,  m^^  blake  gowne.     Also  I  bequethe  to 
Isabel!  my  said  brother  is  doughtev,  a  little  pott  &  a  little  pane  &  A  little  pot  and  a 
xij''.     Also  I  bequethe  to  every  oon  of  my  god  children  xijd.     Also  '    ^  ^^^"' 
I  bequethe  to  William  trentham  &  his  children  xiij^  iiij'^.     Item  to 
Cecily  trentham  xx''.     Also  I  bequethe  to  William  bulloke  &  his 
children  iij^  iiij''.     Also  I  bcqucth  to  Johan  ashton  my  shorte  tawnye  a  tawney  gown, 
gowne  without  lynyng.     Also   I  bequeth  to  the  chapell  of  Halugh- 
ton  iiij^  in  Eobert  Warde's  hands. 

Also  I  bequethe  to  John  Kechyn   my  porte-ses  •=  So   my  secondc  A  breviary  and 

pair  of  hoysse.     Also  I. bequethe  to  Agnes  Howden  my  thirde  pair  ^^^^g^"^    ^^  pairo 

of  hoysse.     Also  I  bequethe  to  Richard  of  the  kechyn  a  pair  shoys.  To  Agnes  Howden 
*  1       T  1  1  -n  •   1        1   TT  ^  r    ^  tt  i         third  best  hose  and 

Also  1  bequethe  to  Kichard  Hunt,  the  son  ot  thomas  Hunt,  my  best  pair  of  shoes. 

candellstik,  &  to  his  mother,  oon  plater.     Also  I  bequeth  to  every 

oon  of  my  brother  Richard  children  ij'',  to  every  oon  of  my  brother, 

John  children  ij"^,  to  every  oon  of  my  brother  Henry  children  ij"^,  to 

"  Serges,  i.e.,  cereos,  wax  tapers. 
^  Throwen  chair,  i.e.,  turned. 

<=  Tortesses  or  portiforia  were  breviaries,  i.e.  service-books  containing  the  offices 
of  the  hours  of  prayer,  for  daily  recitation  by  the  clergy  in  choir  or  at  home. 


142 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 


my  brother  tlionias  childe  ij''.     Also   I   bcqueth    to    Sir  Edwarde 
brcreley  '^  xx'^ 

The  Residue  of  my  goods  before  not  gevcn  nor  bcquctlicd  I 
give  &  bequethe  to  Richarde  &  James  enkersell,  my  brothers,  ^Yhom 
I  ordcgne  &  make  my  executors  of  this  my  last  will  &  testament, 
that  they  paye  my  detts  &  dispose  the  rest  for  the  helthe  of  my 
soule,  my  father  &  my  mother  is  soules  ;  &  the  supervisor  of  this 
my  last  will  &  testament  I  ordeigne  &  make  Sir  Thomas  dune,  to 
Avhom  I  give  and  bequethe  for  his  labour  my  best  bonett :  these 
beyng  witnes  Sir  edwarde  brereley,  priest,  Sir  Christofer  sare,^  Sir 
Roberte  Salven,  deacon,  &  John  Kcchyn. 


11  Feb.  153G. 
Will  of  Robert 
Blannch,  vicar 
choral. 


Sir  Robert  Blaunche. 

p.  229. — In  the  name  of  Gode  Amen  :  the  xi  daye  of  february 
in  the  yere  of  our  Lorde  a  m''cccc*'^  &  xxxvl*'^  I  Sir  Robert 
Blaunche,  beying  of  hooll  mynd  &  of  hooll  memory,  loved  be  gode, 
make  &  ordegne  my  testament  in  this  forme  folowyng  : 

First  I  bequeth  my  soule  to  allmighti  god,  to  our  lady  Sancte 
Mary,  and  to  all  the  holy  cumpeny  in  hevene,  &  my  bodie  to  bee 
buried  in  the  churche  yerde  of  our  ladyc  of  Suthwell. 

Item  I  bequethe  to  my  uncle  Sir  William  Blaunche  all  my 
goods  in  my  chamber  &  he  to  dispose  them  for  the  helthe  of  my 
soule  as  he  thinkithc  best.  Thcs  beying  witnes:  Sir  Edmund 
Kingeston,  Sir  Thomas  palmer,  &,  Sir  Robert  baily  with  other. 


17  April,  1537. 
Will  of  Edmund 
Hunt,  Noriiianton  by 
Southwell,  lessee  of 
prebend  of  Norman- 
ton. 


Testamentiim  Edmundi  Hunt  de  Normanion. 

p.  230. — In  the  name  of  god  Amen.  Twesdny  the  xvij"'  day  of 
Aprile  in  the  yore  of  our  J^orde  god  a  m"*  ccccc*''  &  xxxvij''  I 
edinunde  Hunt  of  Normanton  beside  Suthwell,  beyng  of  hooll 
mynde  &  goode  rcmembrauncc,  thanked  be  our  lorde  god,  makith 
this  my  testament  &  last  wyll  in  mancr  &  Forme  folowyng. 

"  The  registrar  of  the  chapter  of  SjuthwcU  and  a  vicar  choral. 
''His  name  was  Sawyer. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEK.  143  ! 

1 

First  I  bequetlie  my  soule  to  allmigliti  god,  my  maker,  &  our  To  Le  bmicdin  ! 

blessed  lady  his  mother,  &  to  all  the  saynts  in  heven  ;  and  my  body  ^"j^g*^  ei  =  aib  c   y 
to  be  buryed  in  the  colleage  churchc  of  our  lady  of  Suthwell,  in  ] 

saynt  petre  lie  beside  my  wyff.  j 

Item  I  bequethe  to  the  parishe  vicar  iij^  iiij'^.     Item  I  bequethe  i 

to  my  mother  xx^      Item  I  bequethe  to  Edward,  my  son,  when  he  i 

cummythe  to  the  aege  of  xxj'^  yerSj  xiij^  vj®  viij'^.     Item  I  bequethe 

to  Henry  my  son  xiij^'  vj^  viij*^.     Item  I  bequethe  to  Johan  my  1 

dough ter  xiij'^  vj^  viij'^.     Item   I  bequethe  to  the  iiij   children  of  Wife  to  administer  -i 

Elizabeth  my  wyff,  the  which  I  have  receyved  for  their  partes,  xl\  ^"*  *«  ^''^  ^^""""''^y-  \ 

Item  I  wooU  tliat  clizabeth  my  wyff  after  my  departyng  doo  and  j 

wooll  tak  upon  here  administration  of  my  goods  before  the  ordinary, 

that  she  shall  fynd  suffycyent  sureties  by  obligation,  as  my  super- 

visours  shall  thinke  mecte,  of  this  my  wyll,  and  suffycyent  for  the 

hooll  and  full  performaunce  of  this  my  last  wyll  and  testament.    And 

if  my  said  wyff  this  refuse  to  doo  upon  the  Request  of  my  super- 

visours,  bot  therein  make  delay,  then  I  wooll  that  my  supervisours  jj 

shall  take  upon   them   the  hooll  administracion  of  my  goods  ac-  J 

cordyng  to  this  my  wyll,  they  fyndyng  suffycyent  surety  to  the  ' 

ordinary  for  the   performance  of  all  and   singuler  the   premisses. 

Also  I  will  &  bequethe  to  Mr.  Doctor  bassett  &  my  cosen  John  Bequest  of  lease  of 

Marshall  my  lees  of  my  prebend  of  Norinanton  in  the  churche  of  f^,.  Jj^j-ingi^g^p  of 

Suthwell  to  the  bryngyng  up  &  custody  of  my  two  children  edward  children. 

&  John,  duryng  the  noon  aege  of  my  son  edwarde,  and  then  I 

woold  that  he  shall  have  it  if  he  lyve  ;  And  if  not,  I  wooll  that  my 

son  Henry  have  it.     Provided  allwayes  that  Elizabeth  my  wyff  shall  Wife  to  have  pre- 
,  ,     ■;  ,    ,  1  .  1  1        T    .  •  1    bendal  house  to  live 

have  the  house  belongyng  to  the  said  prebend  in  norm.anton  with  in. 

all  belongyng  therto  during  my  terme,  yeldyng  &  paying  to  the  said 

Mr.  Doctor  bassett  &  my  cosen  Johan  Marshall  iiij  marks  yerly,  in 

case  she  doo  not  recover  my  lands  in  Hokerton  to  my  son  and  heire; 

and  if  she  doo  recover  them  then  I  wooll  she  have  the  said  house 

clerly  without  paying  any  mancr  of  rent  during  my  terme.     Also  I 

wlool,  if  it  fortune  that  my  son  edwarde  departe  from  this  world,  then 

I  wooll  that  his  parte  shall  remayne  to  my  daughter  Johan  hoolly. 


144  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

The  Kesidue  of  my  goods  and  catalls  not  bcquethed,  ccrtaync 
lieiiioomcs  excepted,  as  apperith  by  a  bill  of  my  hand  wliich  I  wool! 
tliat  my  son  &  hch-e  shall' have,  my  detts  and  legacies  paid,  I  gcve 
&  bcquethe  to  Elizabeth  my  wyfT,  whom  I  make  my  executrix,  she 
to  dispose  for  the  hclthe  of  my  soule  as  slic  thinkyth  best,  with  the 
oversight  of  i\Ir.  doctour  bassett  &  my  cosen  John  Marshall,  whom 
I  make  the  supervisours  of  this  my  last  wyll,  &  they  to  have  for 
their  labour,  either  of  them,  x^  Thes  bcyng  witncs  :  sir  Symeon 
brynkley,"  sir  Fraunces  Hall,  John  Gilbie  with  other  moo. 
Trobatc  G  Oct.  1:'37.  Probatum  fuit  praesens  testamentum  coram  nobis  capitulo  ecclcsite 
collegiatae  beataj  mariee  virginis  Suthwell,  etc.  vj^°  die  mensiB 
Octobris,  Anno  Domini  millesimo  quingentesimo  tricesimo  scptimo  ; 
administratioque  omnium  bonorum  defuncti  concessa  fuit  Elizabeth 
uxori  sua3  execiitrici  in  eodem  tcstamento  nominataa  primitus 
juratai. 


r,  Afarch,  15-11 
Will  of  William 


Testamentum  WiUelmi  ArnalV^  nupcr  de  Suthwell  defuncti. 

p.  248. — In  the  name  of  God  amen.  The  vl"'  Daie  of  march  In 
Arnall  of' Southwell,  the  ycare  of  our  Lorde  god  m°ccccc"xli  I  william  Arnall,  of  Suthwell, 
being  of  hole  mynde,  &  of  hole  niemoric,  loved  be  gcd,  make  and 
ordeinc  my  testament,  in  this  manner  &  forme  following. 

First  I  bequaith  my  soule  to  almightie  god,  to  our  Lady  Saint 
Mariaj  &  to  all  the  hollic  companye  of  heaven  ;  and  niy  bodie  to 
be  buried  in  the  churche  yeard  of  our  Ladie  of  Suthwell. 

Item  I  bequaithe  to  my  sonne  Richard  Arnall  vj  oxen  &  vj 
horses,  Avith  all  the  geares  that  longcth  to  theime.  Item  I  bequaithe 
to    Agne.=s    Armdl,    Robert    Arnall    daughter,    a    cowe.     Item     I 

"  Brincklcy  was  cbauntry  priest  at  Norinautoii  ehapel.  Hall  was  a  cliauntry 
priest  also. 

''  This  is  about  the  worst  written  document  in  the  whole  book,  having  been  written 
in  the  reign  of  Elizalictb,  as  api>ears  by  the  note  at  the  end.  It  is  interesting  as 
being  the  earliest  will  af^cr  the  suppression  of  monasteries,  and  it  !s  remarkable 
to  sec  how  the  elaborate  and  expensive  provisions  for  torches,  tapers,  and  trcntals, 
doles,  ct  hoc  genus  omnc,  have  shrunk  to  a  beggarly  mark  for  the  liighways,  and 
a  shilling  apiece  for  the  parish  vicar  and  the  high  altar. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OP  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  145 

bequoith    to    John    Lyttclton    twoo    quarters    of  Barley,  and   one 
quarter  of  pease. 

Item  I  bequaitli  to  the  high  ways  of  Easthorpe  vj^  viij'^. 

Item  I  bequaith  to  John  Arnall  of  Morton  a  quarter  of  barleye, 
and  a  busshell  of  pease. 

Item  I  bequaith  to  my  gostlye  father  xii'^.  Item  I  bequaith  to 
our  Ladye  att  the  highe  alter  xii"^. 

The  Residue  of  my  goods  before  not  geven  nor  bequaithed  I 
gyve  and  bequaithe  to  my  son  Richard  Arnall,  whome  I  ordeyne 
and  make  the  executor  of  this  my  last  will  &  testament  ;  and 
John  Palmer  to  be  supervisor  of  this  my  will,  and  he  to  have  for  his 
labor  vi^  viii^.  Thies  being  witnes  Sir  Edmunde  Kingstone,  John 
Palmer,  Richard  Banes,  John  Lescoo  with  other  moo. 

Probatum    fuit  hujusmodi  testamentum  xxvi°.    die  mensis  J\laii  Probate  26  May, 
anno   Domini    1542°;    coram    magistro   Edwardo    Bassett,   Legum -g°  ^^^^  j,  g^^^^ 
doctore,   coinmissario   Revei-tndissimi  in   Christo  patris  et   domini  T-L.D.,  special com- 
Domini  Edwardi,  permissione  divina,  Eboracensis  archiepiscopi,  et  bishop  Edward  [Leel 
legitime  deputato  etc. 

Commissaque  fuit  administratio  omnium  et  singulorum  bonorum 
etc.  executori  in  dicto  testamento  nominato,  in  forma  juris  jurato  ;  et 
salvo  jure  cujuscunque. 

Nota  :  quod  repertum  et  registratum  fuit  praedictum  testamentum  Note.— This  was 
per  me  Johannem  Lee,  notarium  publicum,  Registrarium  Capituli  ^°"°*^/^"^  ^'^gi^tered 

EeclesiaB  collegiatae  de  Southwell;  anno  domini  1567°.  Notary  Public  and 

Chapter  Registrar, 
A.D.  1567. 


ADMISSIONS   OF   CANONS.^^ 

p.  1.  xv^°.  die   mensis  Novembris,  anno  Domini  millesimo  cccc™°.  15  Nov.,  1470. 

Master  John  Bower, 
"  The  list  of  admissions  given  below,  under  date  of  admission,  taken  from  the  S.T.P.,  admitted  to 
Southwell  Register,  is  curiously  incomplete.  2nd  prebend  of 

The  form  of  admission  of  canons  was  pretty  much  the  same  in  all  cases,  though  O-'^ton  and  Crophill, 
,         .  .  f       J  .         ,        ,  on  resignation  of 

there  is  a  curious  variety  of  expression  in  detail.    It  is  the  exception  when  the  canon  Randolph  Bird, 
is  admitted  in  person.     The  first  few  forms  are  given  as  specimens. 
CAMD.  SOC.  U 


146  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

His  proctor,  Thomas   septuagesimo  Maglster  Johannes  Bower,  sacraj  Theologiaj  professor, 

inst'illed  and^       '     admlssus  erat  ad    alteram    prebendani   de  Oxton   et   Crophyll  per 

inducted.  liberam    resignationem    Domini    Ranulphi    Bryd,"   ultimi   canonici 

ejusdem  ;  et   Thomas  Whyte   procurator  ojusdem,   cum   sufficienti 

mandato,  nomine  suo,  erat  admlssus,  installatus,  et  inductus. 

30  June,  H71.  Tenultimo   die    mensis    Junii,  Anno    Domini,   m°  (•ccc"'°  Ixxi", 

Master  John  Bamb}-,  ^r.  ti  -ni  •  nr-  i- 

M.A.,  admitted  to        Alagister  Johannes    iJarnby,  artium    Magister,    admissus  erat  per 

l)rehcnd  and  canonry  capitulum  ad  prebendam  et  canonicatum  de  Northleverton,  in 
of  North  I  evert  on,  ^  nr      •       •    -r,    i        •    i^  •  •    i      •  •  •        • 

vacant  l)y  death  of       persona  iMagistri  Koberii  Dey,  procuratons  sui  legitime  constituti, 

fn'pc?son"/Sr*^"'    P^^  rnortem  Magistri  Alexandri  Pyrwett  vacantem. 

proxy,  Itohert  Day.  Eodem  die  ^lagister  Robertus  Dey,  cum  sufBcienti  auctoritate, 

W.  Schyrhurn,  chap-  auctoritate  subsiituti,  de  et  tannuam  nomine  procuratoris  eiusdem, 
iain,  constituted  ,      .      .    ,     -.,r.,,    i  o   i  •    •  . 

deputy  proxy.  substituit"   Willelmum   Schyrburn,  capellanum,  sibi  dans,  nomine 

Domini  sui,  potestatcm  speclalem  et  generalem. 

8  Jan.  1471.  viii"  die  mensis   Januarii  Dominus  Eicardus  Fletcher  admissus 

Sp- Uichard  Fletcher  Q^at  ad  tcrtiam  prebendam  de  Xorwell,  auctoritate  literarum  Domini 

admitted  to  Aorwell,  ,  ... 

ord  part,  on  authority  Eegis    Edwardi,    capitulo    directarum    sub    ipsius    Domini    Regis 

Edwanl  iv."under''     signeto,   per  mortem  Domini  Johannis    Averel  ultimi  possessoris 

his  signet  ou  death  ciusdem  vacantem,  in  ipsius  propria  persona,  iuxta  dicta?  ecclesiae 
of  John  Averel.  ,       ,   i  -,  ,.  i^     f         f  »    J 

laudabilem  consuetudinem  e*c. 

IG  Jan.  1474  p.  2.  xvi"  die  mensis  Januarii  Anp.o   Domini  m"  cccc'"''  Ixxiiii*" 

.Sir  Kdmuiid  Chater- 
ton  collated  'jy 
George  Neville, 

•    ,'''■  °  ,  '      ,,  "  Itandulijh  Bird,  of  Kipon,  who  is  the  first  canon  we  come  across  (see  p.  1),  was 

inducted  personally        ,  ,         ,       ,  ^  „    ,    ,  .  ,         ,.  -r       ,  ,.     ,     , 

into  canonrv  and  ^''^^  "•  c'^"'^'"  ^'"'  prebendary  of   i  oik,  Kipon,  and  S.  Paucras,  Loudon.     He  had 

prelteixi  of  South-  been  appointed  canon  of  Nortlnvell  in  Southwell,  2G  Oct.  1457,  and  canon  ot  Oxton 
niuskhiini.  on  death  and  Crophyll,  2nd  part,  14  April,  14C2.  He  appears  to  have  become  a  residentiary 
stall  in  choir  and  at  York  on  resigning  this  prebend.     His  will,  proved  at  York,  is  given  in  Siirttrg 

place  in  chapter  Society,  No.  45,  Tcxtavimt.  Ebor,  vol.  iii.  cxiii.     It  is  dated  25  March,  14S3. 

assigned  to  him.  ''  This   proceeding   seems   to   ignore   the   legal   maxim   "  delegatus   iion    potest 

delegare." 

"  Chaterton  or  Chaderton  was  a  typical  secular  canon.  He  was  a  great  adherent 
of  Edward  IV.,  and  afterwards  of  Henry  VII.,  in  whose  reign  he  was  a  master  in 
Chancery,  and  to  whose  Yorkist  Queen  he  was  chancellor.  He  luid  held  the  sacrist 
prebend  since  2'J  Oct.  1472,  when  he  hecanie  a  residentiary;  he  held  the  prebend 
of  Southmuskham  only  for  a  year,  when  he  exchanged  it  for  Ntuthwcll  111.,  and 
this  again   10    Nov.   147G  for  Oxton  and   Crophill.  and  this  again   foi   Dunham 


Dominus  Edmundus Chaterton,*^  cui  Rcvcrendissimus  pater,  Dominus 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 


147 


Geororius '^  Eboraci  Arcliiepisccpus  contulit  canoniciitum  et  pre- 
bendam  de  Sutlimuskham,  per  mortem  Domini  Johannis  "VVraby 
ultimi  possessors  ejusdem  vacantem,  inductus  erot  in  realem 
possessionem  dioti  Canonicatus  et  prebendae;  stallum  in  Clioro 
et  locus  in  capitulo  ejusdem  Canonicatus  et  prebendae  per 
capitulum  fuerunt  assignata  &c. 


Date. 

Canon. 

Proctor. 

Prebend. 

Last  holder. 

p.  1 

25  Nov.  U70 

John  Bower  S.T.P. 

T.  Whj-te 

Oxton  & 
Crophyil 

Randolph  Bryd 
res. 

30  June  1471 

John  Bai'ub}'  M.A. 

R.Dey 

Magister 

North  Leverton 

Alex.  Pyrwett  al. 

Prowet 

d. 
John  Averel 

d. 

8  Jan.  7  471 

Richard  Fletcher 
Dominus 

In  person 

Norwell  III. 

p.    2 

16  June  1474 

Edmund  Chaterton 
Dominus 

do. 

Southmnskham 

John  Wrahy 

» 

Edmund  Lichfield 
Magister 

R.  Hardyng 

Rampton 

J.  Rawald  " 
d. 

10  Mar.  1474 

John  Doget  Dec.  D. 

R.  Deyne 
Chaplain 

do. 

E.  Lichfield 
res. 

p.    3 

19  Mar.  1474 

John  Warkworth 
M.A. 

T.  Orston 

Sacristaria 

J.  Barrow 
res. 

8  April,  1485.  He  was  also  a  canon  and  prebendary  of  Beverley,  Ripon,  Lincoln, 
S.  Paul's,  S.  Stephen's,  Westminster,  and  Salisbury  ;  Warden  of  Sibthorpe  College ; 
Rector  of  Calverton,  Bucks  ;  Dean  of  Barking  ;  and  Archdeacon  at  the  same  time  of 
Chester,  Salisbury,  and  Totness.  This  last  piece  of  pluralism  is  rather  astonishing, 
as  an  archdeacon,  unlike  a  canon,  had  cure  of  souls  ;  laxity  though  there  was  as  to 
plurality  in  benefices  without  cure,  the  line  was  generally  drawn  at  archdeaconries. 
Chaterton's  will,  6  April,  1499,  is  at  Somerset  House.  He  died  before  27  Aug., 
1499. 

*  George  Neville,  Bishop  of  Exeter,  brother  of  Warwick  the  kingmaker,  Chan- 
cellor  of  England,  made  archbishop  by  Edward  IV.  in  1465.  He  died  8  June, 
1476. 

*>  Sic,  but  the  name  was  Rainalds,  i.e.,  Reynolds,  as  appears  from  Archbishop 
Booth's  Register  where  his  collation  was  entered  in  1459. 


148 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEE. 


Date. 

Canon. 

Proctor. 

Prebend. 

Last  holder. 

19  Mar.  1474 

William  Clayton 
Dec.  Bac. 

T.  Orston 

Norwell  III. 

J.  Averel " 
d. 

p.    4 

17  Feb.  1475 

Edmund  Chaderton 
Dom. 

G.  Radcliff  Esq. 

do. 

W.  Clayton 
res. 

20  Feb.  1475 

Thomas  Cbaundeler" 
S.T.P. 

G.  Radcliff  Esq. 

Southmuskham 

Exchange  with 
Chaderton  for 
canonry  and 
jn-cbend  in 
Renal  Free 
Chiii>cl  l)eneath 
Westminster 
Palace 

p.    5 

6  May  1477 

Gervase  Clifton 
Clerk 

J.  Mere 
Chaplain 

Dunham 

John  Bate 
res. 

20  Nov.  1480 

Oliver  King" 

King's  Secretary 

G.  Clifton     sq 

Bekyughara 

J.  Suthwell 
d. 

5  Dec.  1480 

Robert  Frank 
Dec.  D. 

R.  Elot 
Chaplain 

Eton 

Exchange  ^  for 
Southhykham 
in  Lincoln 
Cathedral. 

p.    C 

24  April  1485 

William  Talbot 
Dec.  D. 

R.  Roper 
Dom. 

Oxton 

E.  Chaderton* 

" 

Edmund  Chaderton 
confrater  noster 
et  concauicns 

T.  Urkyll 
Dom. 

Douham 

James  Staneley 
res. 

»  This  is  rather  odd.  Fletcher  had  been  admitted  three  years  before  on  death  of  Averel  or  Averyll. 
Probably  it  is  a  mistake  of  the  clerk. 

^  Chawndler  (sc^e  p.  48,  where,  in  A.D.  1434,  he  is  accused  of  not  keeping  up  the  hedge  between  the 
vicars'  garden  and  his  prcbcndal  mansion  at  Southwell)  was  a  great  person.  He  was  admitted  a  Scholar 
of  Wiuchester,  A.D.  14.30;  was  Fellow  of  New  College;  Warden  of  Winchester,  a.d.  1450 ;  Warden  of 
New  College,  A.D.  14.">3  (Kirby's  Winchester  Scholarx),  lie  was  Chancellor  of  Wells  and  York,  Dean  of 
Chapel  Royal,  and  Secretarj-  of  State  ;  d.  2  Nov.  1490.  He  was  Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Oxford 
at  least  from  5  July,  1457  to  3  June,  14(i7.     (Anstey.  Mun.  Acad,  ii.,  p.  G67.  &e.) 

*  Canon  of  York  and  Windsor  ;  Bishop  of  Bath  and  of  I'^xetcr,  under  Henry  VII. 

•"  The  collation  is  accordingly  said  to  bo  made  by  John,  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  by  the  authority  of 
Thomas  (Rotherham)  Abj».  of  York. 

"  This  is  said  to  be  "  per  dimissionem  "  of  Chaderton,  in  the  seuise  of  surrender,  as  he  can  hardly 
have  leased  it. 


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149 


Date. 

Canon. 

Proctor. 

Prebend. 

Last  holder. 

p.    7 

26  July  1485 

John  Stoke 
M.A. 

In  person 

Southniuskham 

T.  Chaundeler 

res. 

25  Feb.  1485 

William  Byrley 
Clerk 

R.  Roper 
Dom. 

Northmuskham 

J. Ilardyng 
d. 

29  April  1486 

Robert  Grymston 
Chaplain 

In  person 

Eton 

R.  Franks 
res. 

p.    8 

" 

William  Skelton 
S.T.B. 

do. 

Southniuskham 

T.  Stok"* 
res. 

15  Feb.  1488 

William  Fitzherbert 
Dec.  D. 

do. 

Rampton 

Master  J.  Doket 
res. 

p.'    9 

5  Feb.  1492 

J.  Raynald 
LL.B. 

J.  Wygemore 
Dom. 

Bekyngham 

0.  King 

res. 

15  Feb.  1492 

Richard  Nykks  " 
LL.U. 

R.  Dyson 
Dom. 

Wadburghe 

J.  Laser 
res. " 

25  Feb.  1492 

Edmund  Carter  "= 
Dom. 

R.  Symthe 
Dom. 

Polyshall 

Hugh  Fuller 
S.T.D.  res. 

p.  10 

9  Dec  1494 

William  Carpenter  '^ 
LL.D. 

R.  Dyson 
Dom. 

Bekyngham 

J.  Raynald 
res". 

1  March  1495 

Henry  Horneby'' 
S.T.B. 

W.  Wyght 
M.A. 

Normanton 

J.  Danyers« 
res. 

p.  12 

29  Nov.  1496 

Nicholas  Halswellef 
Med.  Doc. 

T.  Orston. 

Bekyngham 

E.  Carpenter  >! 
res. 

p.  11 

22  Mar.  1497 

Brian  Sanford 
Dom. 

In  person. 

Halughton 

Walter  Waretj-r 
res. 

"  He  was  called  J.  Stoke  on  admission  the  year  before. 

*>  Nykks  or  Nikke  was  also  a  Canon  of  York,  and  became  Bishop  of  Norwich,  A.D.    1500-15.     His 
visitations  of  Norfolk  religions  houses  fill  the  greater  part  of  Dr.  Je'ssopp's  Camden  publication  in  1888. 
<=  Canon  also  of  Ripon  and  York,     See  Surtecs  Society,  3fem.  of  Ripon,  ii.,  p.  198. 
<»  Canon  of  Lincoln  and  Ripon.     See  S.  S.  Ripon,  II.  p.  197.     Edmund  Carpenter,  p.  12,  must  be  a 


«  J.  Danvers,  who  was  several  times  Chawndeler's  vice  chancellor  or  "  commissarius  generalis  "  at  Oxford 
(Austey,  Mun.  Acad.,  p.  680,  &c.),  and  was  also  Canon  of  York,  had  been  collated  to  Normanton,  13  ^March, 
1463.  He  retired  on  a  pension  of  £14  a  year,  the  agreement  for  paj-ment  of  which  by  his  successor  is  set 
out.     It  was  to  be  paid  at  the  High  Altar  of  S.  Magnus  the  Mart3T,  near  the  Bridge,  London. 

f  Probably  proctor  at  Oxford  for  All  Souls'  College  in  1480  ;  admitted  Fellow  there,  1468. 


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VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL    MINSTEE. 


Date. 

Canon. 

Proctor. 

Prebend. 

Last  holder. 

15  Jan.  1497 

Mark  Hus.se 
Mag. 

In  person 

Wodeburghe 

R.  Nykks 
res. 

12  June  1498 

Richard  Burton 
S.T.B. 

do. 

Sacristaria 

J.  Warkeworth 
res. 

p.  12 

20  Jan. 1498 

William  Fitzherbert 
Mag. 

In  person. 

Oxton  & 
Crophyll 

W.  Talljot 
d. 

1  Feb.  1498 

Ven.  Richard  Rat- 
cliffe  Clerk 

do. 

Rampton 

W.  Fitzherbert 
res. 

16  June  1499 

John  Wygmore 
Mag. 

do. 

Wodeburgh 

M.  Husse 
d. 

3  July  1499 

William  Symonds 
Mag. 

do. 

Xorth  Lcverton 

J.  AVygraore 
res. 

17  July  1499 

William  Symonds 
Mag. 

E.  Massburgh 

Bekyngham 

X.  IlalsweU 
res. 

" 

Thomas  Gree 
Mag. 

In  person 

X.  Leverton 

W.  Symonds 
res. 

14 

22  Aug.  1499 

Henry  Cranebole  » 
Mag. 

R  Batemanson 

Norwell 
Orerhall 

W.  Worsley 

27  Aug.  1499 

Robert  Barra" 
Mag. 

In  person 

Dunham 

E.  Chaderton 
d. 

2  Sept.  1499 

John  Fj-tzherbert 
Clerk 

R.  Fyt/.herbcrt 

Oxton  II. 

J.  Bower  S.T.P. 
res. 

11  Feb.  1499 

William  Carpenter  <= 
Dec.  B. 

R.  Norman 

Wodburgh 

Mark  Husse 
res. 

p.  15 

30  Sept.  1500 

Edward  Basset^ 

In  person 

Southmuskham 

W.  Skelton 
res. 

'  Cranebole,  otherwise  Cambull,  was  Canon  of  York,  Beverley,  Lincoln,  and  Fellow  of  Archbishop 
Rotherham's  magnificent  College  of  Jesus,  at  Rothcrhani,  in  Yorkshire,  au  imitation  of  Winchester 
College,  a  poor  remnant  of  which  still  constitutes  the  Grammar  School  foundation  there.  Carnbull's 
will  is  given  in  S  S.  Text.  Ebor.  v.,  28. 

■»  Barra,  or  Barry,  was  also  a  Canon  of  York.     His  will  is  given  supra,  p.  125. 

"  Carpenter,  also  Canon  of  Lincoln  and  RiiK)n.     See  S.S.  Ilipon,  ii.,  197. 

"^  In  the  entry  of  his  admission  it  is  stated  that  he  was  collated  by  Henry  VII.,  scdc  vaointe. 


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151 


Date. 

Canon. 

Proctor. 

Prebend. 

Last  holder. 

15  May  1501 

William  Atkynson 

s.T.r. 

Christ.  Johnson 

Norwell  III. 

W.  Watson 
d. 

17  Nov.  1.501 

Thomas  Fitzherbert 
Mag. 

In  person 

Eton 

R.  Grymston 
res. 

25  Oct.  1505 

G.  Savage 
Dom. 

do. 

Bekyngham 

W.  Symonds 
d. 

p.  16 

16  Nov.  1505 

Thomas  Dalbie 
Mag. 

Ed.  Verdon 

North  Leverton 

T.  Gree 
d. 

10  Dec.  1505 

Martin  Colyns  " 
Mag. 

R.  Rothwell 

Palishall  in 
Northwell 

E.  Carter 
res. 

15  Feb.  1506 

John  Hatton '' 

Bishop  of  Negro- 
pont 

T.  Westbie 

Sacristaria 

R.  Burton 
in  sue. 

3  Sept.  1507 

Richard  Wiott"= 
Ma- 

T.  Kendall 

Northwell 
Overhall 

H.  Carnebull 

res. 

12  Feb.  1507 

George  Dudley 

T.  Westbie 

Wo  d  burgh 

W.  Carijenter 
d. 

6  April  1509 

Christopher  Urs- 
wikke  t*  Mag. 

T.  Ingelarde 
Literate 

Northwell 
Palishall 

M.  Colyns 
in  sue. 

17  Ang.  1.509 

Walter  Blounte 

R.  Hardie 

Northwell 

W.  Atkynson 

Mag. 

III. 

in  sue. 

p.  17 

4  June  1510 

Richard  Paice « 
Mag. 

do. 

Northmuskham 

W.Byrley 
in  sue. 

10:\Iay  1514 

William  Dragley 
Priest 

do. 

Ox^on  and 
Crophyll 

W.  Fitzherbert 
d. 

"  Canon  and  Treasurer  of  York. 

^  He  was  Canon  of  York,  Archdeacon  of  Nottingham. 

"  Proctor  at  Cambridge  1501,  Canon  of  York,  d.  1522.     T.  Kendall  is  probably  a  mistake  for  J, 

^  He  was  probably  a  son  of  the  Recorder  of  London,  afterwards  Lord  Chief  Bai-on,  who  secretly 
admitted  Edward  IV.  to  London  on  his  final  return  to  power.  He  is  the  Sir  Christopher  Urswick  in 
Shakespeare's  Jiichard  III.,  Act  IV.,  Scene  5,  who  is  sent  by  the  Earl  of  Derby  to  Richmond  wth  the 
message  of  his  intended  treachery.  Urswick  had  his  reward  in  becoming  the  King's  almoner  and  Dean 
of  Windsor.  He  was  also  a  Canon  of  York,  having  been  Dean  there  and  Archdeacon  of  Richmond 
Wilts,  and  Surrey. 

<^  He  was  Secretary  of  State  during  Wolsey's  tenure  of  power,  and  Canon  of  York,  Dean  of  Exeter  and 
S.  Paul's  :  see  his  life  in  Milman's  "  Annals  of  S.  Paul's." 


152 


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p.  18 


p.    19 


Date. 

Canon. 

Proctor. 

Prebend. 

Last  holder. 

13  July  1514 

Robert  Langton 
LL.D. 

W.  Greene 

Northmuskham 

R.  Paice 
res. 

18  Jan.  1516 

Thomas  NichoUs 
Dec.  B. 

In  person 

do. 

R.  Langton 
res. 

6  May  1517 

Richard  Pygott 
Clerk 

J.  Bull  for 
W.  Brodhed 

Norwell  III.  or 
of  R.  Banfeld 

W.  Blounte 
d. 

20  June  1517 

Thoma-s  Edwards 
Priest 

R.  Wiott 
S.T.P. 

Sacrist. 

J.  Hatton 
d. 

15  Sept.  1518 

Francis  de  Dottis  » 
M.A.,  M.D. 

R,  Browne 

Noi-manton 

H.  Homeby 
d. 

26  Nov.  1520 

John  Maxe  i* 

Abbot  of  Welbeck 

In  person 

Halughton 

Brian  Sanforde 
res. 

2  June  1522 

Thomas  Wyntcr  <= 
Clerk 

J.  Bull 

Palishall 

Ursewikke, 
d. 

2  Aug.  1522 

Thomas  Wynter* 
Clerk 

J.  Lunde 

Overhall 

R.  Wiott 
d. 

31  Aug.  1522 

Richard 
Bishop  of  Negropont 

J.  Bull 

Palishall 

T.  Wynter 
cession. 

17  Sept.  1523 

John  Watson 
Chaplain 

In  person 

XorthwcU 

R.  Pigott 
res. 

17  April  1526 

John  Wilkynson 
Priest 

In  person 

Sacrist. 

T.  Edwards 
res. 

18  June  1526 

John  Alen  LL.D. 

N.  Browlx-e 
Notarj'  Public 

Nonnanton 

J.  Frauncis  de 
Dottis 

6  July  1526 

RoliertNookeS.T.B. 

W.  Bookc 
Literate 

North  Leverton 

T.  Dalby 
d. 

4  Oct.  1526 

William  Bcnct 
LL.D. 

R.  Hardy 
Dean  of  Chris- 
tianity and 
Chauntry  Priest 

Northmuskham 

T.  Nicols 
d. 

"  Canon  of  York. 

•'  See  note  on  p.  127. 

"=  This  was  Wolsey's  son,  whose  list  of  clerical  preferments  was  remarkable.  He  wa.",  amongst  other 
things,  Canon  of  York  and  Archdeacon  of  West  Riding  and  Richmond.  He  was  Dean  of  Wells  when,  on 
the  very  eve  of  his  fall,  6  Oct.  1528,  Wolsey  calmly  wrote  to  Henry  VIII.  to  suggest  that  his  '•jwre 
scoler"  should  be  made  Bishop  of  Durham  '•  when  I  shuldc  fortune  to  leve  the  same." 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER, 


153 


Date. 

Canon. 

Proctor. 

Prebend. 

Last  holiler. 

10  July  1527 

William  Clarburgh"^ 
LL.D. 

R.  Hardy 

Rampton 

R.  Ratcliffe 
d. 

20  Aug.  1527 

William  Clarburgh 

do. 

Dunham 

R.  Barray 
d. 

p.  20 

31  Oct.  1527 

Thomas  Westbie 
LL.B. 

T.  Westbie 
Literate 

RamiDton 

W.  Clarburgh 
res. 

19  May  1528 

William  Langforde 
S.T.P. 

E.  Jacson 

Eyton 
"  near  Retford 
in  le  Clay  " 

T.  Fitzherbert 
res. 

20  Sept.  1528 

Thomas  Donyngton 
Dec.  B. 

In  person 

Palishall 

Ric.  IMediensis 
Epis.  res. 

12  Oct.  1528 

John  Bell 
Dec.  D. 

do. 

Normanton 

J.  Alen 
res. 

6  July  1529 

Nicholas  Lentall 
Clerk 

W.  Booke 
Literatus 

North  Leverton 

R.  Nooke 
d. 

12  Dec.  1529 

J.  Olyver 
LL.D. 

In  person 

Norwell 
Overhall 

T.  Wynter 
res. 

x21 

4  Mar.  1529 

Thomas  Marcer '' 
LL.B. 

W.  Booke 

North  Leverton 

N.  Lentall 
res. 

12  May  1530 

Richard  Tomyew 
Literatus 

Norwell  III. 

J.  Watson 
d. 

22  April  1532 

Thomas  Byrton 
S.T.B. 

In  person 

Palyshall 

T.  Donington 
d. 

9  May  1533 

John  Keale 
Dec.  B. 

do. 

Sacrist 

J.  Wylkynson 
res. 

3.22 

21  Aug.  1533 

Matthew  Witton 
S.T.B. 

do. 

Eyton 

W.  Laugforthe 
res. 

18  Dec.  1533 

Henry  Willyams 
S.T.P. 

do. 

Northmuskham 

W.  Bennet 
d. 

30  April  1534 

John  Brandysby 
S.T.P. 

do. 

Dunham 

W.  Clarburghe 
d. 

°  Canon  also  of  York.  Lincoln,  Howden,  and  Hemingborough. 
^  A  chauntry  priest  of  York  Cathedral,  Canon  of  Ripon.     S.  S. 

CAMD   SOC.  X 


His  will  is  in  S.  S.  Test.  Ebm:,  V.  241. 
Rijjou,  II.  p.  243. 


154 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 


Date. 

Canon. 

Proctor. 

Prebend. 

Last  holder. 

1  Nov,  1535 

GeofFrey  Downcs 
S.T.P. 

In  person 

Palyshall 

T.  Ryrton 
d. 

p.  23 

15  Sept.  153G 

Richard  Dean 
Priest 

do. 

Halughton 

J.  KIphin  Episc. 

G  April  1537 

John  Adams 
Priest 

do. 

Sacristia 

J.  Keale 
res. 

4  June  1537 

Thomas  Horsley 
Clerk 

do. 

Norwell  III. 

K.  Thomyow 
res. 

Southxcell  Prehmdaries.^ 

Beckingham,  founded  by  Thuistan,  Abp.  1119-35. 

(W.  B.,  p.  13,  21,  237.) 

(North  Leverton  taken  out  of  it  in  1291). 

Endowment,'^ chiefly  tithe:   1291,  i;23  6s.  8d.  ;   1547,  £19  5s.  Od. 

A.D.     1446.  John  Suthwell,  admitted     6  July  ;  died. 

1480.  Oliver  Kyng,  ,,        20  Nov.  ;  resigned. 

149|.  John  Raynald,  LL.B.,  „  5  Feb.  ; 

1494.  William  Carpenter,  ,,  9  Dec.  ;          „ 

1496.   Nicholas  Halswcll  .M.D.,  „  8  Nov.  ; 

1499.  William  Symonds,  „         17  July ;  „ 

1505.  George  Savage,  ,,         25  Oct. 

Still  Prebendary  in  1535,  1540. 
1547.  William  Saxey 
1553.  do.  pensioner,  £6  13s.  4d. 

■  This  list  is  mainly  from  Le  Nere,  iii.,  p.  415,  drawn  up  by  Mr.  J.  F.  Dimcck, 
late  a  vicar  choral  of  Southwell.  The  reference  (W.  B.)  is  to  the  Southwell  AVhitc 
Book,  in  which  the  foundation  deeds  of  those  prebends  whose  foundation  is  known 
are  given.  A.D.  1535  was  the  date  of  the  Valor  EccUxiastlciis ;  1540  of  the  sur- 
render to  Henry  VIII.,  J'j/mcr's  Ftrdera,  \i.,i>.  W,  cd.  1741  ;  1547  of  the  Ccrti- 
Jicatcs  of  CoUrgcn  and  C'/idinitriin,  liecord  Office,  No.  37. 

^  The  nature  of  the  endowment  is  from  the  ^'tllol•  Ju-chsianfiriix,  1535.  12fll  is 
the  date  of  Pope  Nicholas's  taxation  ;  1547  of  the  last  (Edward  VI.)  Ctriljicatc*  of 
Channtr'icg.  It  is  to  be  noted  that  while  the  ancient  prebends,  whose  endowment 
was  mainly  land,  had  gone  up  in  value  ;  the  rest,  whose  endowment  was  largely 
tithe,  had  gone  down.  As  the  net  income  is  taken  in  both  cases,  one  explanation  is 
that  the  outgoings  are  larger.  The  lines  on  renewals  of  leases  do  not  appear  in  the 
value. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  155 

Dunham,  founded  by  Thurstan,  Abp.  1119-35. 
(W.  B.,  p.  13.) 
Endowment,  chiefly  tithe:  1291,  £36  13s.  4d.;   1547,  £23  17s.  9d. 
1442.  John  Bate,  collated  18  June. 

1478.  Gervas  Clifton,  admitted  6  May ;     resigned. 

1479.  James  Stanley,  collated      1  Nov.  ;       ,, 

1485.  Edmund  Cliaterton,  admitted  24  May  ;  died. 
1499.   Robert  Barra,  „        27  Aug. ;      „ 

1527.  William  Clairburgh,  LL.D.,       „        20  Aug.  ;     „ 
1534.  John  Brandisby,  S.T.P.,  „        30  April  ;     „ 

Still  Prebendary  1535,  1540,  1547. 

Eton,  founded  by  Abp.  John  Ic  Romaine,  3  Feb.,  1290. 
(W.  B.,  p.  28,  Dugdale,  p.  13.) 
Endowment,  chiefly  tithe:  1291,  £16  13s.  4d,;   1547,  £2. 
1458.   Thomas  Wyinbish  or  Wymbussch,  Dec.  Bac, 

collated  28  March;  resigned. 
1477.  John  Tram,  collated  12  Nov.,  1477; 

1480.  Robert  Frank,  Dec.  D.,       admitted  5  Dec; 

1486.  Robert  Grimston,  ,,       29  April; 
1501.  Thomas  Fitzherbert,  LL.D.,     „       17  Nov.; 

1528.  William  Langforde,  S.T.P.,      „       19  May; 
1533.  Matthew  Witton,  S.T.B.,         „      21  Aug. 

Still  Prebendary  in  1535,  1540,  1547. 

Halloughton,    founded   by  Roger  of  Bishopsbridge,  Abp.  1154-81, 
about  1160.    (W.  B.,  26-8.)  ' 
Endowment,  land:  1291,  £6  13s.  4d.;  1547,  £5  15s.  S^d. 
1450.   Edmund  Warter,^  collated    13  Oct.;   resigned. 

1497.   Brian  Sandford,  admitted  22  Mar. ;        ,, 

1520.  John  Maxe,  Abbjt  of  Welbeck,        „        26  Nov.;  died. 
Bp.  of  Elphin, 

a  It  is  not  certain,  but  probable,  that  he  is  the  same  person  as  Walter  Waretyr 
who  resigned  in  1497.  Edmund  Warter  was  still  prebendary  in  U75,  as  Stephen 
Clerk,  his  vicar  choral,  complains  (p.  24  su2)ra)  that  his  wages  are  in  arrear. 


156  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SODTHWELL  MINSTER 

I5.i6.  Richard  Dean,  admitted  15  Sept. 

Still  Prebendary  1540-1558  »     Pensioner,  £4,  1553.'' 

North  Leverton,  fbundei  by  Abp.  John  le  Romaine,  19  Oct.,  1291, 
out  of  the  prebend  of  Beckingham. 
(W.  B.,  p.  24.    Dugdale,  p.  12.) 
Endowment,  tithe:  1291,  £13  6s.  8d.;  1547,  £5. 
1448.  Alexander  Prowet,  Dec.  B.,         collated      7  June;  died. 
1471.  John  Barnby,  M.A.,  admitted  29  June;     ,, 

1492.  John  Wygmore,  collated  19  April,  1492;  resigned. 

1499.   William    Symonds,  admittei 

1499.  Thomas  Gree, 
1505.  Thomas  Dalby, 
1526.  Robert  Nookc,  S.T.B., 
1529.  Nicholas  Lentall,  ,, 

1529.  Thomas  Mercer,  LL.B  , 

Still  Prebendary  1535,  1540. 
1547.   William  Rede. 

North  Muskham,  founded  probably  by  Abp.  Thomas  II., 

A.D.  1109-1114. 

Endowment,  land  and  tithe  chiefly  in  North  Muskham  and  Caunton 

1291,  £40  Os.  Od. ;  1547,  £31  9s.  S^d. 


2  July; 

>> 

17  July; 

»> 

16  Nov.  ; 

(lied. 

6  July  ; 

5) 

6  July ; 

resigned 

4  Mar. 

1454.  Robert  Clyfton, 

13  May; 

resigned. 

1470.  John  Hardyng, 

died. 

1485.  WiUiinn  Byrley, 

ad 

mitteJ  25  Feb.  ; 

resigned. 

1510.  Richard  Paice, 

M 

4  June ; 

>» 

1514.   Robert  Langton, 

5> 

13  July  ; 

?> 

1516.  Thomas  Nicholls, 

>> 

18  Jan.  ; 

died. 

1526.  William  Benet, 

)> 

4  Oct.  ; 

)j 

1533.  Henry  Williams, 

,, 

15  Dec. 

Still  Prebendary  1540-1547. 

Pensioner, 

£13  6s.  8d. 

1553." 

»  Dean  was  precentor  and  residentiiiry  at  Kipou.  He,  with  Downcs  of  Norwcll 
I'alishall,  and  Marshall  of  Kanipton,  procured  a  charter  of  inspc.\inms  and  contiruia- 
tion  for  the  minster  from  Elizabeth  in  this  year. 

'•  According  to  a  list  given  by  Browne  Willis,  Mitnd  Abbhn,  vol.  2,  p.  IG'J. 


collated    22  July; 

died. 

admitted  16  Jan. ; 

resigned. 

20  Feb.; 

»> 

26  July; 

M 

,,           2  June, 

>5 

29  Sept 

>5 

collated     31  Oct.; 

died. 

VISITATIONS   AND   MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MINSTER.  157 

South  Muskham,  founded  probably  by  Abp.  Thomas  11., 
A.D.  1109-1114. 
Endowment,  chiefly  tithe:   1291,  £13  6s.  8d.  ;  1547,  £13  4s.  S^d. 
1449.  John  Wraby, 

1474.  Edmund  Chaterton, 

1475.  Thomas  Chaundeler,  ST.P., 
1489.  Thomas  Stoke, 
1488.  William  Skeltou,  S.T.B., 
1500    Edward  Basset, 
1535.  Richard  Langreth/ 

Still  Prebendary  1.740.'^ 
1547.  Stephen  Tenaunte. 

Normanton,  one  of  the  three'^  original  Prebends. 
Endowment,  land  at  Southwell  and  Normanton,  and  at  half  Whit- 
suntide oblations:   1291,  £26  13s.  4d.;  1547,  20. 
1463,  John  Danvers,  Dec.  D.,  collated    13  Mar.;  resigned. 

1405.  Henry  Horneby,  S.T.B.,  admitted     1  Mar.;  died. 

1518.  John  Frauncis  de  Dottis^  M.A. ;  M.D.,   ,,      15  Sept. ;  resigned. 
1520.  John  Allen,  LL.D.,  ,,18  June;       „ 

1528.  John  Bell,  Dec.  D.,  „      12  Oct. 

1535.  Thomas  Whyte.'i 

Still  Prebendary  1540-1547.     Pensioner,  £13  6s.  8d.,  1553. 

"  Archdeacon  of  Cleveland.  He  is  called  LangTysclie  in  the  surrender  to 
HenryVIII.  inlSlO. 

*>  In  1558  our  old  friend  Edward  Brerely,  the  chapter  clerk,  was  made  prebendary. 

"  This  is  Mr.  Dimock's  statement  in  Le  Neve,  apparently  founded  on  Dickinson's 
Eistcry  of  Southivcil.  There  hardly  seems  sufficient  reason  for  the  statement  that 
there  were  only  three  prebends  at  first.  It  is  probably  founded  on  the  Domesday 
entry  :  "  In  Sudwelle  tres  clerici  habent  iv  carucatas  terrte  et  dimidium,"  aud  an 
agreement  dated  St.  Oswald's  day,  1266  (White  Book,  p.  20)  between  the  prebendaries 
hi  Normanton  and  the  two  Northwells  for  the  division  of  the  tithes  of  Southwell 
parish  between  them.  But  Domesday  Book  really  suggests  that  there  were  more,  as 
it  specifies  lands  of  the  canons  also  in  Crophill  and  Woodburgh.  It  is  probable  there 
v/ere  originally  seven  canons,  as  at  York  and  Beveiley,  afterwards  represented  by 
the  prebends  of  Normanton,  three  of  Norwell,  Oxton,  Northmuskham,  and  Wood- 
burgh, as  there  are  no  known  foundation  deeds  of  these.  The  Sacrist  prebend,  of 
which  also  there  are  no  foundation  deeds  was  rather  an  office  than  a  prebend. 

^  White's  name  is  not  given  in  Le  Neve,  Mr.  Dimock  not  having,  apparently,  con- 
sulted Rymer  or  Chatmtry  Certificates. 


158  VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MINSTER. 

Norwell  Overhall. 
Endowment,  land  and  tithe  in  Norwell  and  Southwell : 
1291,  £30  13s  4d.;   1547,  £50. 
1453.   William  Worseley,  collated  30  Uar. 

1499.  Henry  Cranebull,  „     18  Aug.,  adm'^  22  Aug. ;  resigned. 

1507.  UichardWyat,  S.T.P.  „       1  Sept.,      „      3  Sept. ;  died. 
1522.  Tiiomas  Wynter,  ,,       2  Aug. ;  resigned. 

1529.  John  Oliver,  LL.D.,  „     12  Dec. 

Still  Prebendary  1535-1547. 

Norwell  Palishall. 
Endowment,  land  and  tithe  in  Norwell  and  Southwell  : 
1291,  £26  13s.  4d.;   1547,  £29  8s.  6^d. 
1451.  John  Porter,         collated  26  Nov., 
1479.  William  Clifton,  „        3  July, 

1491.  Hugh  Trotter, 

1492.  Edmund  Carter, 
1505.   Martin  Colyns,  LL.D., 
1509-  Christopher  Urswyclc,  LL.D., 
1522.  Thomas  Wynter, 
1522.  Richard,  Bp.  of  Negropont, 
1525.  Thomas  Donyngton,  Dec.  Bac. 
1532.  Thomas  Byrton,  S.T.B. 
1535.  Geoffrey  Downes,  S.T  P., 

Still  Prebendary  1540,  1547,  1559. 
Pensioner,  £13  6s.  8d.,  1553. 

Norwell  Tertia  Pars. 
Endowment,  tithe:   1291,  £10  ;  1547,  £5  Os.  0^ 
1462.  John  Averell,  collated  26  Oct.  died. 

1472.  Pt.  Fletcher  „      19  Feb. 

1474.  William  Clayton,  B. A.,  admitt'xl    2  Apr. ; 

1476.   William  Watson, 

1501.   William  Atkinson,  S.T.P.,  „        15  May;       ,, 

1509.  Walter  Blount,  ,,        17  Aug;       „ 


y» 

died. 

resigned, 

admit 

ted  28  Feb. ; 
10  Dec. ; 

" 

>i 

6  Apr.  ; 

died. 

,, 

2  June; 

resigned. 

,, 

31  Aug.; 

>> 

jj 

20  Sept.  ; 

;  died. 

M 

22  Apr. ; 
1  Nov. 

>> 

admitt( 

!  5 

3d  24  Apr.;  died. 
20  Jan.;    died. 

J5 

5» 

10  May. 
31  Oct. 

VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OP  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  159 

1517.  Richard  Pygott,  admitted     6  May;   resigned. 

1523.  John  Watson,  „          17  Sept.;  died. 

1530.  Ricliard  Tomyew,  ,,          12  May;   resigned. 

1537.  Thomas  Horseley,  ,,  5  June. 
1547.  Thomas  Hewett. 

1553.   Thomas  Hewett,  pensioner,  £4. 

Oxton  and  Cropwell. — I. 

Endowment,  land,  and  half  the  tithes  of  Oxton,  Cropwell,  Hickling: 

1291,  £20;   1547,  £23  4s.  4d. 

1461.  Ricliard  Andrew,  LL.D.,         collated    25  July;  resigned. 

Preb  &  D.  of  York. 
1476.  Edmund  Chaterton  collated     16  Nov. ;  resigned. 

1485.  William  Tolbot,  Dec.  D. 

1498.  William  Fitzherbert 
1514.  William  Dragley, 

1538.  Edward  Basset, 

Still  Prebendary  1540-1547. 

Oxton  »^  Cropwell— IT. 

Endowment,  land  and  half  the  tithes  of  Oxton,  Cropwell,  Hickling: 

1291,  £20;  1547,^24  19s.  7|d. 

1462.  Ralph  Bird,  or  Brid  collated     14  Apr.;  resigned. 
1470.  John  Bower,  S.T.P.,  admitted  15  Nov.;  resigned. 

1499.  John  Fitzherbert,  ,,  2  Sept. 

Still  Prebendary,  1535-1547. 
Rampton,  founded  circ.  1200  by  Pavia,  daughter  of  Nigel  de 
Rampton,  and   Robertt  Malluvel. 
Endowment, some  land, chiefly  tithes:  1291, £20;  1547,  £16  7s.9jci. 
1459.   John  Ranalds,  Dec.  B.  collated     7  Aug.;  died. 

1474.  Edmund  Litchfield,  M.A.,        admitted  16  Jan.;  resigned. 
1474.  John  Doget,  Dec.  B.  ,,  16  Mar,,;         ,, 

1488.   William  Fitzherbert,  Dec.  B.,        „  15  Feb.; 

1498.  Richard  Ratcliflfe,  „  1  Feb.;    died.. 

1527.  William  Clayburgh,  LL.D.  ,,  10  July;  resigned. 

1527.  Thomas  Westby,  LL.B.,  „         30  Oct. 


160  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

1540.  Tliomas  Wynter." 
1547.   Thomas  Mirsliall.'' 

Sacrista  or  Segeston  or  Sexton. 
Endowments,  land  at  Southwell;  mainly  oblations  in  churcli : 

1291,  £5;  1547,  £4  15s.  lOd.-^ 

1458.  John  Toraldc;  LL.B.,  collated     3  Jan. 
1472.  Edmund  Chaterton  held  it. 
1474.  John  Barrow,  resigned. 

1474.  Jolin  AVarkworth,  M.A.,  admitted  19  Mar.;  resigned. 

1498.  Richard  Burton,  S.T.B.,  „         12  June;  died. 
1509.  John  Hatton,  Nig.  Epis.  „         15  Feb.;       ,, 
1517.  Thomas  Edwards,  ,,          20  June;  resigned. 
1626.  John  Williamson,  „          12  April;        ,, 
1532.  John  Keale,  Dec.  D.,  „            9  Mar.;         „ 
1537.  John  Adams,  ,,            6  April;        ,, 

Still  Prebendary  1540-1547.     On  abolition  of  the  College  made 
Parish  Vicar,  1548. 
Woodburgh. 
Endowment,  land  in  Southwell,  tithe  at  Woodburgh: 
1291,  £6  13s.  4d.;  1547,  14s.  3s.  5d. 
1452.  John  Sutton,  M.A., 
1452.  John  Lascy,  resigned. 
1492.  Richard  Nikks,  LL  D  , 
1497.   Mark  Hiisse, 

1499.  John  Wygmore, 
1499.  William  Carpenter,  Dec   D. 
1507.   George  Dudley. 

Still  Prebendary  1535-1547. 

"  But  it  is  probable  that  the  name  has  been  misread  by  Rymcr,  asWyutcr  resi;;ued 
tlic  prebeiicl  of  NorwcU  Ovcrhnll  in  1529  on  Wolsoy's  fall,  wlien  he  was  made  lo 
resign  nearly  all  liis  preferments. 

''  Archdeacon  of  Lincoln,  15ol-9;  joined  in  jnocuring  a  new  charter  from  Eliza- 
iKJth  in  1558. 

"  In  1535  the  net  endowment  was  only  £1  2s.  O.Jd.  There  is  some  mistake  in  the 
arithmetic  in  1547,  as  the  fignrcs  .show  a  vtiniis  (luantity  to  go  to  the  prebendary 
but  the  total  as  in  the  text.     No  doubt  the  offerings  had  declined. 


collated  28  Aug.; 

resigned. 

idmittcd    15  Feb.; 
,,           15  Jan.; 

10  June; 

11  Feb.; 

resigned, 
died, 
i  resigned. 

VISITATIONS    AND    MEMOEIALS    0¥    SOUTHWELL    MINSTEE.  161 

Admission  of  Residentiary  Canons. 

Protestationes   Canonicorum.^ 

Penultimo  die  mcnsis  Septcmbris  ultimo  die  ejusdem,  ac  prim o  29  ami  30  Sept., 
die  mensis   Octobris,   A.D.  millesimo  cccc''Mxxii"^o ;  coram  vener- Before  Woisley  and 

abilibus    viris    Ma^istro    Willelmo   Worsley;'   Legum  Doctore,  et  )^^-f  J^^'^si'^c^tiarics 
°  _    ,  .  ,     ..  .  .        in  chapter  assembled, 

Domino    Johanne   Wraby,    Canonicis    Resideutiariis,    capitulariter  Warsopp,  as  proctor 

T'  T.  !•  •    •  ±  '  •iT^•  of  J.  Bate,  canon  and 

congregatis,  aliis  que  dictse  ecclesise  ministns,  coinparuit  Dommus  prebendary  of  Dun- 
Johannes  Warsopp,  procurator  sufficicnter  et  legitime  constitutus  liam,  publicly  protests 
,,..T-i  --^  /-(  •••!  1-  1         1"  the  canon's  intention 

Magistri  Johanni.s  Bate,  (Janonici  ejusdem  ecclesire,  ac  prebendani  ^g  ^lake  his  personal 

de  Dimham  in  eadem,  vice  et  nomine  dicti  magistri,  prote^tabatur  ^"^^  ^™°'^'f;''^^T^^^' 
'  ^  .  dence  for  the  term 

publice,  et  dicebat  quod  Dominus  suus  Johannes  Bale  antcdictuS;  limited  in  the  Statute 

ratione  dictorum  suorum  canonicatus  et  praebendas  in  eadem " 
ecclesia,  vult  et  intendit  residentiam  suam  personalem  et  canonicalem 
in  eadem  ecclesia,  juxta  et  secundum  statuta  et  consuetudines 
ejusdem  ecclesise,  et  prout  alii  Canonici  Residentiarii  perantea 
inchoare,  continuare,  et  perimplere  consueverunt,  in  persona  sua 
inchoare,  facere,  et  perimplere,  prout  ejusdem  ecclesia^  artant  con- 
suetudines et  statuta,  infra  terminum  in  dictis  statutis  limitatum. 

Prasdictis    tribus    diebus    mensis   Septembris   et   Octobris,  simul  Same  three  days, 
cum  dicto   Domino  Johanne  Warsopp,    Dominus  Johannes  Bull,  Sim  AVcrilL°' 
vicarius  choralis    ejusdem    ecclesia,    procurator    Domini    Johannis  canon  and  prebendary 
Averhyll,  ejusdem  ecclesise  Canonici  et  prebendarii  tertias  prebendse  docsThTsame.  ^  ' 
de   Norwell,   sufficicnter  et  legitime  constitutus,    vice   et    nomine 
Domini  sui,  palam  et  publice  coram  venerabilibus  viris  Magistro 
Willelmo  Worsley  et  Domino  Johanne  Wraby,  canonicis  antedictis, 
protestabatur  quod  dominus  suus  antedictus  vult  et  intendit,  ratione 

"  Any  canon  might,  it  seems,  become  a  residentiary  after  a  year  from  his  collation, 
if  at  Michaelmas  he  publicly  "  protested  "  or  declared  his  intention  to  reside.  Resi- 
dence only  meant  three  months  or  twelve  weeks  during  the  year.     See  Statutes,  post."] 

^  Worsley  was  afterwards  Dean  of  St.  Paul's.  In  Surtccs  Society  Tcstamcnta 
Ehor.  IV.  No.  77,  a  tremendous  list  of  his  preferments,  including  the  Archdeaconry 
of  Nottingham,  is  given. 

CAMD.  SOC.  Y 


162         VISITATIONS    AND    MEilOEIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 

suorum  canonicatus  ct  prcbendas,  pcrsonalcm  ct  canonicalera  suum 

residentiam   juxta    et  sccunda   statuta   ct   consuetudlncs   ejusdem 

ecclcslac,    ct    prout  alii    Canonici    Rcsidcntiarii    ejusdem   ecclesiae 

pcrantcainclioare,continuare,  et  pcriraplcre^  consueverunt,  in  persona 

sua  inchoare,  continuare,   ct  perimplcrc,  infra   terminum  in  dictis 

statutis  limitatum. 

The  same  three  days.       p.  25. — Dictis  diebus  tribus  mcnsis  Septembris  et  Octobrs,  com- 

a^'^^arsTcfr^Edmund    P^^'"^^  coram  dictis  vcncrabilibus  viris  ]\lagistro  Willelmo  Worsley 

Chatterton,  canon       et   Domino   Johanne    Wraby,    Canonlcis    Re?identiariis   praedictis 

the  Sacristv  with  a    Dominus    Johanncs    Gregore,    procurator     constitutus,    vice     et 

procuratiou  under       nomine  Domini  sui  Domini  Edmundi  Chatterton,  canonici  eiusdem 
seal  of  the  prior  and  ,  ,        ,     ..     p,        .         .        .  . 

convent  of  Thur-        ccclcsiae   ct   prcbcndaru   Sacnstarias   in   eadem,  cum   procuratorio 

^^^  ""■  sigillato  sub   siglllo   Prioris  et  conventus   de   Tliurgarton,  protes- 

tabatur    publico    quod   dominus   suus  antcdictus  vult  et  intcndit, 

rationc  dictorum  suorum  canonicatus  et  prcbendae,  suam  personalem 

ct  canonicalcm  residentiam,  juxta  ct  secundum  statuta  ct  consuc- 

tudines   cjusdam   ecclcsioe,    et    prout    alii    Canonici.    Ecsidentiarii 

inchoare,  continuarc,  et  perimplcrc  consueverunt,  in  persona  sua 

inchoare,  continuare,  ct  perimplcrc,  infra  terminum  in  dictis  statutis 

limitatum. 

Protestation  admitted      Q"^    protcstatione,    ut    pracmittitur,     facta,  dictus    Vcnerabilis 

subject  to  the  pro-       Magistcr  AVillclmus  Worsclcy,  dicti  capituli  commissarius  legitime 

curation  beint' sliown    ,         .,  ^     •  -i.     t-    .  .     ^    ,•  ii  ..• 

to  i)e  IcRal,  and  tlie     dcputatus,   admisit  dictum  protestationcm,   sub   hac   protcstatione, 

requisition  to  Thiir-    quod  dlctum  procuratorium  ''  Domini  Edmundi  Chatterton  de  cetero 

garton  [to  seal  it]  ^         .  ,      .  .  .  .  .        ,.  n.  •      • 

have  been  true.  repcriatur   Icgitimum,  ct   rcquisitio    facta   Prion   ct   convcntui   de 

Thurgarton  sit  Icgitima  ct  omnino  veritati  consona. 

xiii'°.  die  dicti  mcnsis  Octobris,  dictus  vcnerabilis  Magister  W. 

adm^ttdJSutd^^^  repcrit  requisitioncm    legitime   factam,    ct    admisit   sim- 

plicitcr  protestationcm  Domini  Edmundi  Chatterton. 

»  This  is  somewhat: mysterious.  Api)arently  the  "  {wwcr  of  attorney  "  to  Gregory, 
which  ought  to  have  been  sealed  with  Chatterton 's  own  seal,  wns  sealed  with  the  seal 
of  Tliurgarton  I'riory  on  his  I'cquest,  perliais  because  he,  as  a  sinijilc  and  newly 
in-omoted  i)rebcnd:iry,had  not  a  ^eal  or  had  not  one  sufliciontly  well  known,  so  he  got 
the  convent  to  authculicate  the  docnnunt  by  their  seal. 


YISITATIOJfS    AND    MEMOEIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER.  163 

p.  13. — ix  die  mensis  Septc.nbrls,  anno  Domini  millcsimo  cccc™° 
Ixxiiii*^",  Reverendus  vir  JNIagister  Willelinus  Worslcy,  Canonicus 
Residentiarius  ecclesiae  collegiate  Beatae  Marias  Suthwell,  in  domo 
capitulari  ejusdem  capitulum  piiblice  faciens,  in  prsesentia  omnium 
ministrorum  ejusdem  ecclesire  tarn  vicavariorura  choralium  quam 
aliorum  cantaristarura,  ex  eorum  consensu  pariter  et  assensu,  trac- 
tatu  prius  habito  per  eundem  Revcrenduni  virum  cum  f'ratribus  suis 
Dominus  Jolianne  Wraby  et  Edmundo  Chatterton,  Canonicis  Resi- 
dentiariis  ejusdem  ecclesiae ;  pro  eo  quod  Reverendissimus  in  Cliristo 
pater  et  dominus,  Dominus  Georgius,  Ebor  archiepiscopus,  in  pra- 
senti  non  gaudet  suam  libertatem^  sed  extra  regni  confinia  existit, 
.  dispensaverunt''  cum  prffifato  Edmundo  Chatterton  pro  Residentia 
sua  in  dicta  ecclesia,  anno  Domini  instantly  pro  xii  septimanis;  sub 
hac  forma,  quod  exponet  iabores  sues  in  adjuvando,  succurrendo, 
praefato  Reverendissimo  patri  quantum  in  se  erit,  quoad  in  sua 
gaudebit  libertate,  et  tantum  extunc  percipiet  de  coramunia  sua 
adeo  si  personalem  residentiam  in  dicta  ecclesia  fecisset,  prout  ex 
solito  fieri  solet. 

''Summa  liujus  anni'^:  quadraginta  septem  librse,  quinque  solidi,  Circa  1525. 
sex   denarii   et  unus  obulus  ;    quae  quidem     unt  divisa  inter  tres  mon*fu°nT£47  ss'cd. 
canonicos  ;    videlicet,    jMagistrum    Robertum    Barra,    Magistrum  besides  matins' 

Edwardum  Basset,  Mngistrum  Willelmum  Dragley,  ultra  pecunias  ITvacaiit^prebend 

divisible  among  three 

'^  The  archbishop,  like  his  brother  the  kingmaker,  had  changed  sides  so  often  that  BaiJjf'iiliriJmo^ev 
on  Edward's  readmission  to  London  in  1471  and  restoration  he  was  arrested,  and  each  ^is  15s.  2d. 
eventually  sent  prisoner  to  Calais  and  Guisnes.     He  was  released  in  1475,  but  died 
the  next  year. 

^  This  dispensation  was  in  accordance  with  a  statute  of  Archbishop  Walter  Grey 
in  1225,  "  Si  quis  antem  fratrum  infra  tempus  residentite  necesse  habnit  exire  pro 
negotio  urgenti,  de  liccntia  fratrum  tunc  residentium  ad  certum  tempus  exire  poterit, 
et  pro  lesidenti  nichilo  minus  habeatur." 

<=  This  is  written  on  the  front  fly-leaf  of  the  register.  It  shows  that  a  residentiary 
canonry  was  not  very  valuable. 

•^  It  must  be  between  1522 — as  Dragley's  protestation  of  residence  took  place  in 
1521— and  1526,  when  Barra  made  his  will  and  almost  immediately  after  died. 
In  the  Valor  Ecclcsiastlcus,  1535,  the  common  fund  is  stated  at  ^49  14d.  8s. 


1G4         VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MINSTER. 

matutinalcs,"  et  praeter  vacationcm''  prebendsc  de  Northmuschani  in 
manibus  Thomae  Robynson  et  Randulphi  Iligdon  rcmanentls  ;  ct 
sic,  quilibet  pro  parte  sua  rcclpit,  qulndccim  libras,  quindcclm 
solidos,  et  duos  denarios. 

Jesus. ^ 

10  Sept.,  1527.  p.  1G6. — Decimo''  die  mensls  Scptenibri?,  anno  Domini  millesimo 

Bassctt  iind  Dragley,   quinn;cntcsimo  vicesimo  septimo,  Vcncrabilcs  viri  ]\Iaoristcr  Edwardus 

residentiancs,  canons    ^        o  l  }  ^  o 

of  Southmuskham       Basset,    Dccretorum    Doctor,    et  Magistcr   Willelmus    Dragley,   in 

tivelv/'niake  this "       legibus    Bacalarius,    Canonici    Residentiaiii    luijus    ccclesiae    col- 
agrecmcnt  (ivawh  up   legiatic  Sutliwell,  ac  prebendarii  prebendarnm  de  Southcmuscliam  et 

by  Richard  Brad-  ^^  .  '.        ^  .  ^  .      ,  „     . 

shaw,  chapter  clerk.     Oxton,  capitulariier  congregati  ct  capitulum  facientes,  una   cum 
Gardianis  et  actorum  scriba  ;  habito  prius  diligenti  tractatu  super 
certis  negotiis  utilitatem  ccclesiaj  ct  capituli  concernentibup,  acta  et 
inactitata  scqucntia  a  me,  Ricardo  Bradshay,  notario  publico  ct  scriba 
actorum  capitularium  antedictas  ecclesiaa  Suthwcll,  scribi  et  inactitari 
petierunt  sub  ea,  quaj  scquitur,  forma  vcrboruin  : 
1 .  Dragley  surrenders      In  Dei  nomine  Amen.     Die,  inensc,  anno,  et  loco  supradictis, 
llec?oJ}%vhkhhe       ^So.  Willclmus  Dragley,  in  legibus  Baccalarius,  Canonicus  Resi- 
holds  as  senior  resi-     dentiarius  et  prebcndarius  prebendaj  de  Oxton  in  hac  alma  ecclcsiu 
dcntiary,  having  been  r.     i        n  ,  ^  ^  ^ 

longest  in  residence,     outhwcll,  non  coactus  nec  compulsus,  sed  mea  spontanea  voluntate 
and  duly  provided       ^j.  j^^^q  libcro  arbitiio  motus,  (irmam  rectoriae  do  Upton  in  manus 
meat  and  drink  for  ^       ,  .  '  ...... 

the  ministers  of  the     Magistri  Edwardi  Bassct,  concanonici  residentiarii,   pure   et  libcro 

'    ""  '  rcsrigno  ;  qusc  quidem  firma,  per  statuta  et  antiquum  consuctudincm 

hujusccclcsia!,  mihi  clc  jure  contingcrct,  quia  pcrsonalcm  rcsidcntiam 

«  These  were  the  moneys  payable  under  statute  of  Abp.  Walter  Gray,  20  Ap., 
1225  (W.  B.,  p.  44)  for  attending  matins,  3d.  on  ordinary  feasts,  Cd.  on  the  greater 
feasts. 

^  The  profits  of  vacant  prebends  belonged  to  the  rcsidentiarics,  after  the  year 
of  the  Canon's  death,  during  which  the  profits  were  applicable  for  his  soul  or  the 
payment  of  his  debts,  according  to  Bull  of  Alexander  III.,  A.D.  1171.  (W.  B.,  p.  1.) 

"  This  is  written  at  the  top  of  the  page,  not  apparently  specially  aproj^s  to  the 
subject. 

•1  This  shows  some  of  the  jjrofits  which  the  rcsidcntiavics  enjoyed  l)eyond  the  division 
of  the  common  fund,  in  rents,  finos,  and  jjatroiiagc. 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMOEIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL   MINSTEK.  1G5 

per  plures  annos  et  majora  tempora  quani  ipse  Magister  Edwardus 
Basset/^   confrator  meus    et    concanicus,  feci,   exliibcndo    ministris 
ecclesiae,  secundum  antiquam  consuetudinem,  per  tempus  etiam  con- 
suetum,  cibaria  et  pocula  sufficienter  et  competenter :     Qua  quidem  Bassett  surrenders  to 
facta  resignatione,  prsedictus  Magister  Edwardus  modo  supradictus,  Jie^Story^o?Kols°ton 
omne  jus  et  titulum  Magistro  Willelmo  Dragley,  in   et   de   firma  rightly  belongiDg  to 
,      •       1     T,    1   .  .  .,  •  ■•  ,  *•  •■  •       him,  and  promises  to 

rectoriae  de  Kolston,  jure  sibi  contmgente,  resignavit  ct  concessit ;  ^lo  the  judicial  busi- 

ulteriusque  promislt  ut  in   causis  capituli,  quum  tempus  exiserit,  °^^^  '^  consideration 

.  ,  ,  .  ^  -         '  of  the  seLiority 

locum  judicialem  teneat,  et  pro  tnbunali  sedcat,  ratione  senioritatis  resigned  to  him. 

sibi  resignata3. 

Pra^.terea  inter  prsedlctos  venerabiles  viros,  eodem   die   et  loco,  Decreed  also  that 

decretum  et  dcterminatum  est,  quod  Magister  Willelmus  Drafrley  Dragley  shall  have 
'  ^  o  _     ^  ^       o     J  next  presentation  or 

nominationem   et  prsesentationem    habebit    proximi    cantaristae    ad  next  chauntry  and  of 

quamcumque  cantariam  in  ecclesia  Sutliwell  fundatam,  quando  earn  sf^i,^*^  '    ^ 

vacarc  contigerit,  et  etiam  primam  et  proximam  nominationem  et 

prffisentationem  ad  officium  et  stallum  subdiaconalus  quando  citius 

vacaverit.     Insuper  prgedictus  Magister  Edwardus  bis  nominabit  et  Bassett  shall  have 

,  .       ■,    ,  .         ,  .  A  r      •  Ttr-11  presentation  to  two 

pra^sentabit  aa  duas  cantanas,  (post  quam  iterum  Magister  VViUelinus  chauntries  and  two 

nominaverit  aut  prassentaverit),  duoscapellanos  idoneos,  ct  etiam  ius  ^eaconnes  or  sub- 

'■..■'.  r  .  '  •'       deaconnes  after  that  ; 

habebit  pra3?entandi  aliquos  literatos  idoneos  bis  ad  loca  et  stalla 

diaconatus  et    subdiaconatus  ;    et    turn    omnia    bcneficia,    cantariaj,  present  in  turn  to  all 

stalla   diaconorum   et  subdiaconorurn,   alternis   vicibus   ab   utroque!?^".  '^^^'^    •x*^'''' 

'  _  _  T-       having  priority  as 

sunt  conferenda,  ita  ut  prioritatem.  primam  nominationem,  et  praa-  senior, 
sentationem  in   omnibus  suo  cursu  obtincat  et  consequatur,  ratione 
senioritatis  sibi  concessas  et  resignatas,  antedictus  Magister  Edwardus. 
In   quorum  fidem  et  testimonium  nomina   et    cognomina  inferius 
scripserunt. 

per  me  Edwardum  Bassett. 

per  me  Willelmum  Dragley. 

"  The  incompleteness  of  the  entries  of  protestation  of  residence  given  in  the  register 
(sec  the  next  two  pages),  is  shown  by  there  being  no  entry  of  Basset's  protestation, 
who  in  1535  is  returned  as  "  Kesidentiary  the  soole,"  nor  of  the  other  two  Resi- 
dentiaries  of  1546  and  1547. 


166  VISITATIONS   AND   MEMORIALS   OP   SOUTHWELL   MINSTER. 

Canons'  Protestations  of  Residence. 


Date. 

Canon. 

PrebcnJ. 

Proctor.* 

Chapter. 

p.    24 

1472 

John  Bate 

Dunham 

J.  Warsopp 

W.  Worsley  ) 
John  Wraby 

„ 

John  Averhyll 

Norwell  III. 

J.  Bull 

i» 

p.    25 

,, 

Edmund  Chatterton 

Sacristaria 

J.  Gregory 

„ 

p.    26 

1476 

John  Barnby 

North  Leverton 

In  person 

W.  Worsley 

I486 

Edmund  Chatterton '' 

Dunham 

R.  Roper 

.T.  Barnby 

p.    27 

14S6 

William  Talbot 

Oxton 

In  person 

do. 

p.    28 

1490 

Edmund  Chaderton  " 

Dunham 

» 

W.  Talbot 

R.  Skayff,  registrar 

p.    29 

1498 

Edmund  Carter 

(Norwell) 
Palishall 

W.  Talbot 

R.  Norman,  regi.strar 

1501 

Thomas  Eitzhcrbertd 

Eton 

S;&!-^^« 

p.    30 

1511 

Richard  Wyott 

(Xorwcll) 
Ovcrluill 

■ 

W.  Brodhed,  registrar 

'  The  proctor  was  generally  and  properly  the  vicar  choral  of  the  prebend,  who  ajipeared  for  his  '•  lonl  " 
(dominus),  or  "  master  "  (magister). 

•>  Chatterton  had  changed  his  prebend  in  Jan.  1474,  to  South  Muskham,  ag.iin,  in  1475,  to  Norwell  III., 
and  in  1485  to  Dunham,  which  appears  to  have  been  in  request  as  the  richest  prebend. 

"  Chatterton  had  jjrobably  broken  his  residence  and  had  to  start  fresh. 

*■  There  is  an  entry  just  alK)ve  this  in  which  William  Fitzhcrlwrt  licenses  Thomas  to  begin  bis  residence 
at  Michaelmas,  though  he  had  not  held  his  prebend  for  a  year  as  the  law  required,  and  allowed  him  to 
take  rank  as  second  senior  residentiary. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEK. 


1G7 


Date. 

Cauou. 

Prebend. 

Proctor. 

Chapter. 

15U 

Kobert  Bavra 

Dunham 

In  person 

W.  Brodhed,  registrar 

1521 

William  Dragley 

Oxton  & 
Crophyll 

" 

Rob.  Barra 

J.-S"'"^  }c„st„„e, 
W.  Brodhed,  registrar 

p.  31 

1529 

John  Wilkynson 

Sacristaria 

" 

Edward  Bassett 

R.  Bradshaw,  registrar 

p:32 

1532 

William  Clarburgh  ^ 

Dunham 

J.  Bull 

E.  Bassett 

J.  Bull          )        ,.     . 

Chr.WalkariS''^'"^^^'^^^ 

R.  Bradshay,  registrar 

p.  33 

1534 

Thomas  Byrton 

Dunham 

In  person 

W.  Dragley 

J.  Bull            )       ,   , 

Chr.  Walker  r"^t°'^^« 

1535 

Thomas  Westbe 

Rampton 

Edw.  Brereley 
registrar 

GuaTdiani. 

"  This  is  a  useful  passage,  as  it  describes  the  custodes  as  "  custodibus  communte  canonicorum,  sive  gardianis 
hujus  ecclesia;,"  oflBces  which  might  otherwise  have  been  thought  distinct. 

^  There  are  two  entries  of  dispensation  to  Clarburgh  on  pp.  31  and  3-4  of  the  Register  for  non-resi- 
dence. The  first  is  dated  6  Sept.  1532,  in  which  Clarburgh  brought,  by  way  of  excuse,  letters  from  the 
king,  Henry  VIII.,  by  virtue  of  which  he  would  have  to  be  "  in  oppido  de  Calice,"  or  on  the  way  there  at 
Michaelmas,  and  so  could  not  protest  in  person,  and  therefore  is  allov.'ed  to  appear  by  proxy.  The 
other  is  21  Feb.  1532,  in  which,  ex  post  facto,  his  proctor  appears  and  says  Clarburgh  had  kept  10 
weeks'  residence  all  but  one  day  and  had  been  absent  on  pressing  business  of  the  king's.  He  is  accord- 
ingly allowed  to  reckon  his  residence  as  complete. 


168 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 


8May,  147G. 
J.  Uyll,  cliaantry 
chaplain  of  T. 
Haxcy's  chauntiy, 
admitted  by  chapter 
to  vicar's  stall  of 
Rampton  on  presenta- 
tion of  Dogct  canon 
and  prebendary 
thereof,  his  character 
and  knowledge  having 
been  first  approved  by 
all  and  each  of  the 
vicars  choral. 

7  July,  1473. 
John  Blomeley  re- 
signs vicar  choralship 
of  Northmuskham  to 
the  chapter  ;  W. 
Worsley  and  E. 
C'haderton  being 
residentiaries. 


8  May,  1 470. 
W.  Bckbank,  rector 
of  Barnalby  in  Lin- 
coln diocese,  resigns 
vicar  choralship  of 
Hampton. 


Admissions  and  Resignations  of  Vicai's  Chorale 

p.  36. — viii  die  mensis  ^laii,  anno  Domini  Millcsimo  cccc™''  lxx™° 
sexto,  Dominus  Johannes Hyll,capellanuscantarialis  cantarias Domini 
Thoniaj  Haxey  in  ecclesia  ista,  per  capitulum  ^'  admissus  erat  ad 
vicariam  pertinentem  stallo  prcbendse  de  Rampton  ad  piKsenta- 
tionem  Magistri  Jol^annis  Doget,  canonici  et  prebendarii  ejusdem, 
moribus  et  scientia  ejusdem  Domini  Johannis  Kyll  per  vicarios 
chorales''  omncs  et  singulos  primitus  laudabiliter  approbatis. 

p.  96. — vii°  die .  Julii,  Anno  Domini  m°cccc"'°lxiii°,  D:)minus 
Johannes  Blomeley,  Yicarius  Choralis  in  Ecclesia  Collegiata 
Beatm  Mariaj  Suthwcll  ac  stalli  prcbendalis  de  Northmuskham,  non 
coactus  nee  compulsus,  sed  pure  sponte  et  simpliciter,  vicariam 
prsedictam  in  manus  capituli  ecclesiai  prsedictm  resignavit,  et  in 
prffisentia  discretorum  virorum  Dominorum  Willelmi  Worsley  et 
Edmundi  Chaderton,  in  dicta  ecclesia  Canonicorum  Rcsidenti- 
ariorum,  capitulariter  congrcgatorum  et  capitulum  facicntlum: 
hiis  testibus,  Dominis  Thoma  Erkhyll  et  Ricardo  Roper,  Yicariis 
Choralibus  ecclesiae  antedictas:  quam  ejusdem  rcsignationem  pra2- 
dictum  capitulum  admisit,  die,  anno  et  loco  pra^dictis:  ct  dccreve- 
runt  dictam  vicariam  fore  vacantem. 

p.  96. — viii  die  mensis  Mail  Anno  Domini  millcsimo  cccc'"°- 
Ixxvl*"  Dominus  Willelmus  Bekbank,  Yicarius  Choralis  in  hac 
ecclesia  collegiata  Beat?e  j\larige  Suthwell  stalli  prebcndalis  dc 
Rampton  in  cadem,  ac  Rector  ecclesia  parochialis  dc  Barnalby, 
Lincoln  dioceseos,  ex  causis  prsedictis^  dictam  suam  vicariam  cum 

»  The  forms  of  entry  of  admissions  of  vicars  choral  are  as  a  rule  very  short  and 
of  great  variety.    A  full  form  is  given  in  the  text. 

^  It  will  be  noticed  that  the  prebendary  presents,  as  was  natural,  since  he  paid,  his 
own  vicar  choral  or  choir-deputy,  and  the  chajiter  admits  him.  If,  however,  the 
jn-ebendary  did  not  present  within  a  month  of  a  vacancy  occurring,  the  presentation 
lai)sed  to  the  chapter.  A  large  proixjrtion  of  the  presentations  arc  made  by  the 
chapter  "  by  lapse." 

"  The  vicars  choral  were  supposed  to  examine  jmiiKyscd  vicars  choral  to  see  that 
they  knew  their  business  of  singing  the  services  and  had  good  characters.  Whether 
they  ever  rejected  candidates  does  not  ai)pcar. 

•^  It  docs  not  appear  where  stated. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMOEJALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  169 

suis  juribus  et  pertinentiis  universis,  in  manus  capituli  resignavit  pure, 

sponte,  simpliciter  et  absolute,  ac  omnibus  juri  et  titulo  sibi  in  dicta 

vicaria  competentibus,  ex  causis  prgedictis  renunciavit ;  eandem  que  Witness  Skayff, 

vicariam  re  et  verbo  totaliter  vacuam  dimisit  eisdem,  cessit,  et  ab  j;^«f'i'^'''  ^^F>'  ^^'^ 

'  '  oieclmeyr,  vicars 

eadem  recessitpalam,  publico,  et  in  scriptis :  liiis  testibus,  Magistro  choral. 

Roberto  SkayfF,  notario  publico,  Pteo-istrario  et  actorum  scriba  dicti  Chapter  held  by 

•     T  ■A--T1  Ar  -r..         ,^  Urkyll  and  Rooner 

capituh,  et  Dominis  Johanne  xMery  et  Ricardo   Sledmeyr  vicariis  guardians  of  the 

dictte  ecclesice  :   Quam  resignationem^  utpiEemittitur,  factam  Domini  '^^^^^'^I'^^^'- 

Thomns     Urkyll    et    Ricardus    Eooper,    Gardiani    dicti    capituli, 

capitulum  publico  facientes,  auctoritate  dicti  capituli  admiserunt,  et 

decreverunt  dictam  vicariam  fore  vacantem. 

List  of  Vicars  Choral.  ^ 

Beckingham. 

2  Aug.,  1505,  p.  41.  John  Bagell,  dead. 

,,  ,,  ,,  John  Bull,  admitted. 

16  Sept.,  1505,  p.  43.  John  Bull,  admitted. 

20  June,  1537,  p.  43.  John  Bull,  dead. 

,,  ,,  ,,  Nicholas  Adamson,  admitted. 

12  Aug.,  1540-1547  „  „         still  Vicar. 

1  Aug.,  1547,^^ 

„        1553  ,,  ,,         pensioner,  £6. 

*  This  is  mainly  compiled  from  the  "  Admissiones  Vicariorum  Choralicuni," 
pp.  36-43  of  the  register,  and  the  "  Resignationes  Vicariorum,"  pp.  9G-100,  which  are 
in  fact  very  much  mixed  up,  and  from  other  references  picked  out  of  the  register. 
The  reference  to  1535  is  to  the  Valor  Ecclesiasticus.  The  reference  to  1540  is  to  the 
surrender  to  Henry  VIII.,  12  Aug.  Kymer's  Fccdcra,  vL,  p.  30.,  ed.  1741,  -nhere 
the  names  of  the  vicai-s  and  their  stalls  are  given.  The  list  of  1547  (^Chatintry  Ccrtiji- 
catcs  No.  37)  only  gives  the  vicars'  names.  The  list  of  1553  is  of  pensioners  in  that 
year.  Browne  Willis,  ii.,  p.  162.  The  pensions  were  £6  each.  The  value  of  each 
Vicar  Choralship  was  returned  in  1535  at  £7  4s.  S^d.  :  viz.,  £4  paid  by  the  canon 
of  the  stall,  and  £3  4s.  8|d.  from  certain  common  lands,  tithes,  kc,  after  deducting 
all  outgoings.  The  common  lands  were  returned  in  1546  as  worth  £127  7s.  4d.,  and 
in  1547  at  £124  19s.  lOd. 

''  Adamson  is  described  as  "  of  thage  of  Ixvi  years,  unlerned,  having  none  other 
promocion." 

CAMD.   SOC  Z 


i  70  VISITATIONS  AND  JIE5I0KIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER 

Dunham. 

1 1  Feb.,  1485,  p.    98.     John  Gregory,  resigned. 

,,         ,,      p.    38.     Eichard  Smyth,*  admitted. 
14  July,  1505,  p.    41.  „  „      dead. 

,,  ,,  ,,        William  Brodhed,  admitted. 

(Notary  Public.) 
„      1528,  p.  100.     Nicholas  Walton,  admitted. 

12  Aug.,  1540,         „  „  „       still  Vicar. 

Eton. 

25  June,  1476,  p.  37.     John  Bull,  resigned. 

„  „          Thomas  Cartwri^uht,  admitted. 

(Chaplain.) 
19  Nov.,  1490,  p.  39.     Richard  Goldyng,  resigned, 
do.         do.    p.  149.  ,,  readmitted. 

19  May,  1528,  p.  57.      Christopher  Walker,  admitted. 
Still  vicar,  1540,  1547  ;  pensioner,  1553. 

Halloughton  or  Halton. 

2  Oct.  1475,  p.  253.  Stephen  Clerk.'' 

10  March,  1476,  p.  37.  Stephen  Clerk,  dead. 

,,  John  Kendall,  admitted. 

17  Nov.,  1502,  p.  40.  William  Kcele,  dead. 

William  Blaunche,  admitted. 
1535 

1540,  1547.  Robert  Sahvyne.^ 
1553  ,,  pensioner. 

»  On  25  Sept.  1501,  p.  41,  Smyth,  who  was  also  churchwarden,  having  been  pre- 
sented to  the  rectory  of  Waltham,  was  called  on  cither  to  got  within  six  months  a  dis- 
l)cnsation  to  hold  it  or  to  resign  his  vicar  choralshii).  As  he  stayed  he  jnesumably  got 
the  dispensation  for  plurality. 

^  Complaint  at  visitation  of  his  sti])cud  being  in  arroar. 

"  1547,  "  of  thage  of  xxxvi  ycrcs,  s(jber  and  honest,  having  none  other  pronutcion." 
He  was  made  "  assistant  to  the  cure,"  or  curate,  of  .Jolin  Adams  when  the  college 
was  dissolved  in  1648. 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMOEIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL   MINSTER.  171 

North  Leverton. 

21  May,  1476,  p.  37.        William  Shyrburii,  dead. 
,,  ,,  John  Bull,  admitted. 

1540-1547.  Thomas  Davison/'^ 

1553 ;  pensioner. 


North  Muskham. 

7  July,  1473,  p^  96.         John  Blomeley,  resigned. 

Feast  of  S.  Anne,  1474,  p.  36.     Richard  Smyth,  admitted. 

11  No.,  1485,  p.  37.  „  resigned. 

John  Bull,  admitted. 
11  Aug.,  1505,  p.  41.       William  Brodhed,  cession. 

John  Bekyrke,  admitted. '' 

24  May,  1507,  p.  42.        John  Bekyrke,  dead. 

Ralph  Dykson,  admitted. 
5  Jan.,  1530,  p.  104.        Thomas  Wilson,  resigned. 

25  Apr.,  1534,  p.  106.  John  Baxter,  admitted. 
31  Aug.,  1534,  p.  107.  John  Baxter,  resigned. 
3  Nov.,  1534,  p.  107.       John  Scott,'^  admitted. 

Still  vicar,  1540,  1547  ;  pensioner,  1553. 

South  Muskham, 

9  Oct.,  1476,  p.  38.  T.  Lednam,  dead. 

John  Iluddersall,  admitted. 
16  Aug.,  1486,  p.  39.       John  Kendall,  resigned. 

Henry  Frankysh,  admitted. 

"  1.547,  "  Of  thage  of  xxxiiii  yeres,  unlerned,  being  Yicav  of  North  Leverton, 
having  none  other  promocion." 

^  He  was  also  channtry  x^iiest  in  the  free  chapel  of  Normanton  by  Southwell  on 
presentation  of  Thomas  Hunt,  gent.  1  Oct.  159.5. 

•=  1547,  "  of  the  age  of  xxxi  yeres,  having  none  other  promocion." 


172  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEK. 

12  Nov.,  1505,  p.  42.       Henry  Frankysh,  cession. 

Thomas  Wodhouse,  admitted. 
21  July,  1511,  R.  Boswell,  dead. 

Thomas  Byrks,  admitted. 
6  Feb.,  1533,  p.  105.  „  resigned. 

10  July,  1534,  p.  107.      Nicholas  Walker,  admitted. 
Still  vicar,  1540,  1547  ;  pensioner,  1553. 

Normanton. 
9  Nov.,  14G9,  p.  194.*^      Thomas  Gurncll. 
23  Aug.,  1470,  p.  131.       Thomas  Gurnell. 
1496,  p.  60.         Eobert  Stokclcy. 
1535.  John  Trapps. 

Still  Vicar,  1540. 

Norwell,  Overhall. 
20  June,  1519,  p.  335,     John  NewLolde,  admitted. 
20  Mar.,  1525,  p.  43.        George  Vynccnt,  admitted. 
1535.  :,  still  vicar. 

1540.  Thomas  Bancs.'' 

Still  vicar,  1547  ;   pensioner,  1553, 

Norwell,  Palishall. 
27  April,  1534,  p.  106.     T.  Kyrkby,  dead. 
27  April,  1534,  p.  106.     James  Box,  admitted. 
Still  vicar,  1540,  1547. 

Norwell  III.  (Tertia  pars.). 
19  Feb.,  1472,  p.  141.  William  Shirburn.<= 
23  July,  1487,  p.  99.       Richard  Roper,''  resigned. 

"  From  what  took  place  about  the  farm  of  the  i)rcbcnd  of  Normauton,  see  text, 
p.  G  nvpra,  it  wonld  a])i)ear  that  Gurncll  was  vicar  choral  of  Normantt)n. 

^  Described,  1517,  as  "of  the  age  of  xxxii  jercs,  unlerucd,  having  the  parsduiige 
of  Barnalby  in  Lincoln  diocese." 

=  lie  was  proctor  of  the  prebendary  of  this  jn-ebend  at  this  time,  see  p.  K?  xupra. 

•^  He  became  parish  vicar  of  Southwell,  and  died  such  in  1 1'.IK. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEE.  173 

27  July,  1487,  p.  39.      Richard  Norman,  Dec.  Bac,  admitted. 
1535.  Edmund  Farror. 

1540.  Edmund  Ferrers. 

Oxton  &  Cropwell,  I. 
17  Aug.,  1502,  p.  40.      Laurence  Pypis,  resigned. 
John  Yngham,  admitted. 

5  Jan.,  1533,  p.  104.     Thomas  Wjlson,  admitted. 

6  Feb.,  1533,  p.  105.     Thomas  Byrkks,  or  Birks,^  admitted. 

Still  vicar  1540,  1547. 

Oxton  &  Cropwell,  II. 
24  Apri],  1474,  p.  26.     Richard  Penkyth,  admitted. 

7  Nov.,  1488,  p.  39.       Thomas  Gree,  resigned. 

William  Schaw,  admitted. 

^J"^^^'l^^^'P-^^^-l  William  Buller.^' 
20  Oct.,  1495,  p.  153.  i 

2  July,  1505,  p.  41.      William  Buller,  dead. 

George  Vincent,  admitted. 

Nicholas  Walton,  resigned. 

20  July,  1519,  p.  3 '35.      Richard  Levers,  admitted. 

17  Dec.;  1526,  p.  43.      Robert  Colyn,°  admitted. 

Still  vicar.  1540,  1547 ;  pensioner,  1552. 

Rampton. 

8  May,  1476,  p.  96.       William  Bekbank, 

Rector  of  Barnalby,'^  resigned. 

*  His  name  is  spelt  both  ways  in  the  same  entry. 

''  He  is  punished  and  resigns,  to  be  readmitted  on  promise  of  good  behayiour,  p.  65 

<=In  1547  he  is  put  first  of  the  vicars,  and  described  as  "of  thage  of  Ixyeres, 
ympotent,  unlemed,  having  none  other  lyving.''    In  1546  he  is  called  Robert  Goland. 

^  His  presentation  to  the  rectory  was  no  doubt  the  reason  why  he  resigned.  The 
living  was  part  of  the  possessions  of  the  alien  Priory  of  Eavendale  given  for  the 
benefit  of  the  vicars  by  Henry  VI. 


174         VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 

8  May,      1476,  p.    37.     John  Hyll,  admitted. 
10  March,  1530,  p.  105.     James  Boxe,  resigned  conditionally.' 
27  April,    1534,  p.  106.         „         „         resigned. 

5  June,    1534,  p.  106.     Edward  Brereley''  admitted, 
(otherwise  Loksmyth.) 

Still  vicar,  1540,  1547. 


Sacristaria. 

John  Gregory,  admitted, 
do.  resigned. 

William  Kej'le,  admitted. 
John  Bull, " 
John  Bull,  resigned. 
Henry  Frankysh,  admitted, 
chaplain. 

do         resigned. 
John  Bckyrke. 
John  Bekyrkc,  cession. 
Richard  Boswell,  admitted. 
Richard  Topclifte,  resigned. 
John  Unifrey  admitted.  '^ 
John  Hum  fray  resigiied. 
Edward  Brereley  alias  Locksmith, 
admitted. 
16  Jan.,      1533,  p.  106.  .,  ,,  resigned. 

"  His  resignation  was  to  take  effect  if  he  did  not  within  12  days  resign  the  presen- 
tation to  the  rectory  of  llatcliff  to  the  chapter,  as  apparently  the  chapter  did  not 
tolerate  pluralities  except  in  themselves,  As  he  retained  the  vicar  choralship  he 
probably  resigned  the  rectory. 

'*  Described  in  1517  as  "of  thago  of  xl.  yercs,  Icrned,  liaving  a  parsonage  of 
viii  li  by  yere." 

«  liiill  was  sacristan  at  the  visitation  of  1181,  as  he  is  complained  of  for  not 
slcci)ing  in  the  chnrch,  as  Kcyle  liad  been  at  the  former  visitation  in  1478. 

•^  With  a  solcnm  warning  to  behave  himself  peacefully  among  his  brethren. 


1  Jan., 

1469,  p. 

36. 

21  May, 

1476,  p. 

37. 

1481,  p. 

281. 

5  ^larch. 

,  1485, 

5  ]\Iarch. 

,  1485,  p. 

38. 

16  Aug., 

1486,  p. 

99. 

19  July, 

1499,  p. 

320. 

16  Sept., 

1505,  p. 

42. 

16  Sept., 

1505,  p. 

42. 

27  July, 

1519.  p. 

42. 

10  July, 

1531,  p. 

43. 

10  July, 

1531,  p. 

43. 

VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTEE.  175 

1  Oct.,      1534,  p.  107.     John  Baxter,  admitted. 

1540.  Matthew  Torte;^  still  vicar  1547. 

Woodburgh. 

1470  probably  Robert  Dyson. 

2  Oct.,      1475,  p.    24.     Robert  Dyson.^ 

1535,  1540,       Henry  Gybbonson. 

Admissions  and  Resignations  of  Chauntry  Priests. 
p.    51. — Undecimo    die     mensis     Septembris,     Anno     Domini  H  Sept.,  1490. 
m°cccc'^°lxxxx°,     Dominus     Laurencius     Brukschaw,     Capellanus  intoVandroYSp^er 

Cantarialis  Cantarise  Beatse  Marine  Virginis,  resignavit  dictam  suam  ^-  ^-  ^^-'^  chauntry ; 
.      ,.  .^.      .'         °  .  ..  .     admitted  to  S.  John 

cantanam  m  manus  capituh,  cum  suis  juribus  et  pertmentiis  uni-  Evangelist'schauntry. 

versis:  Quara  resignationem  capitulum  admisit,  et  incontinenter 
admisit  dictum  Dominum  Lauvencium  Brukschaw  ad  cantariam 
Sancti  Johannis  Evangelistas,  vacantem  per  mortem  Domini 
Nicholai  Knolles. 

p.  52. Postquam  Dominus   Robertus  Layne  resignaverat  in  Layne  resigns  S. 

manus   Capituli    cantariam    Sancti    Stephani,    Capitulum    admisit  fSted^^S*'^ ' 
eundem   Dominum   Robertum    ad    cantariam    fundatam    ad   altare  founded  at  altar  of 
-P     ,      ,,r     •      ^r-      •    •  •     •      -1  .         *•        i"         •         •  B.  V.  M.,  with  all  its 

Beatee  Manse  Virgmjs,  cum  suis  juribus  et  pertinentiis  universis.       rights  and  appurte- 

Dominus  Thomas  Tykhyll,  postquam  resignaverat  Cantariam  in  ^''i^^^^- 

manus  capituli  fundatam   ad  altare    Sancti  Petri,  admissus  erat  ad  resigned  S^Peto's, 

cantariam  fundatam  ad  altare  Sancti  Stephani,  cum  suis  iuribus  et ';^'^^'^j^**^<i  to  S- 

....  '^  Stephen's  chauntry. 

pertmentiis  universis. 

Eodem  die  Dominus  Johannes  Litton,  alias  Elys,  admissus  erat  Litton,  alias  Elys, 

admitted  to  chauntiy 
»  Matthew  Torte,  described  1547  as  "of  the  age  of  xl  yeres,  sober  and  honest,  foin<ie^' at  S.  Peter's 

having  a  small  benefice."     He  was  made  "  assistant  to  the  cure  "  of  his  prebendary  "•'''^'"'  ^f.^^nt  by  free 

.  r  J  resignation  oi 

Adams  in  1548,  when  the  church  was  turned  into  a  simple  parish  church.     In  a  deed  Tykhvll. 
of  22  April  15G8  (Register  of  Leases)  he  appears  as  prebendary  (of  Woodborough) 
and  (probably)  a  residentiary. 

''  He  complains  at  the  visitation  of  1475  that  his  salary  is  in  arrear  in  default  of 
Mr.  Lacy,  the  prebendary  of  Wodborough,  his  master  (p.  24,  supra.).  He  probably 
held  it  later  than  1502,  as  he  is  continually  mentioned  as  one  of  the  gardiani  or 
custodes  fabrica3  from  1498  up  to  that  date. 


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VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 


Note. — This  admis- 
sion of  all  these 
chauntry  priests  in 
succession  on  one  day 
not  to  be  drawn  into 
a  precedent,  but 
ciiapter  to  have  a  free 
rein  on  future 
vacancies  to  present 
whom  they  please. 


ad  Cantariarn  fundatara  ad  altarc  Sancti  Petri,  per  llbcram  resig- 
nationem  Domini  Tliomsc  Tykhyll  vacantem,  cum  suis  juribus  et 
pertinentiis  universis. 

Nota  bene. 

Xotandum  est  quod  licet  capitulum  gvaciose  contulerit  dictas 
Cantarias  praedictas  presbyteris  cantarialibus  successive,  uno  et 
eodeni  die,  tamen  vult  id,  quod  dictaj  collationes  non  trahantur  in 
exemplum  aliorum,  sed  licebit  deinceps  capitulo  gauderc  liberis 
habenis,  quibuscumquc  voluevit  cantarias  futuvas  vacantcs  con- 
ferred 


Dominus  Johannes  Ahofson. 


28  June,  1499. 
John  Avotson, 
chauntry  chaplain  of 
Newton  chauntry, 
resigns  it  to  chapter, 
and  swears  to  sur- 
render lands  in  South- 
well, Kasthorp, 
Westhorp,  and 
Wellont,  formerly  of 
Henry  Eton  and 
Cecilia  his  wife, 
according  to  their 
will  in  the  Arch- 
bishop's Conrt  when- 
ever called  on. 


Note. — Avotson 
swore,  but  by  no 
means  fulfilled  his 
oath. 


xxviii  die  mensis  Junii  anno  Domini  m"cccc°lxxxxix"  Dominus 
Johannes  Avotson,''  capellanus  Cantarialls,  cantarise  vocatae  Newton" 
fundatoe  ad  altare  Sancti  Thomse  Martyris,  resignavit  dictam  suam 
cantariarn  in  manus  Capituli,  cum  suis  juribus  et  pertinentiis  uni- 
versis. Quain  quidein  resignationem  idem  capitulum  admisit. 
Et  idem  Dominus  Johannes  pracstitit  in  fide  sua  juramcntuiu 
corporale,  quod  omnia  sedificia  domus  terras  prata  pascua  et  pastui-as, 
quondam  pertinentia  Henrico  Eton  et  Ceciliae  uxori  ejus,  secundum 
ultimam  voluntatam  ab  eisdem  factam,  sursum  redderet  in  curia 
Domini  Archiepiscopi  Ebor,  quando  ad  hoc  vocatus  fuerat,  ad 
sustentationem  et  augmentationem  cantariaj  praedictde,  vocatso 
Newton  ;  qua2  quidem  aidificia  domus  terras  prata  pascua  et  pasturas 
jacent  in  villis  ct  campis  do  Suthwell,  Esthorpe,  Wosthorpe,  ct 
Wellont,  ut  patct  in  evidontiis  etc. 

'^Ilic  nota  bene,  quod  Avotson  in  fide  sua  juravit  ad  sursum 

«  In  point  of  fact  there  was  commonly  a  sort  of  "general  post"  among  tho 
chauntry  priests  when  a  promotion  of  one  to  a  richer  chantry  took  place. 

•»  Avotson  had  just  been  appointed  by  ILtrnoby,  as  canon  of  Normanton,  parochial 
Vicar  of  Southwell  on  Iloper's  death  (same  day,  p.  G(j). 

<=  This  is  the  third  chantry  of  St.  Thomas  tho  Martyr,  called  Newton,  because  its 
property  was  largely  in  that  place. 

•^  This  is  a  side  note  in  a  later  hand. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OP  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  177 

reddere  omnia  terras  etc.  ad  usum  cantarlas  Sancti  Tliomse  Martyris, 
quod  minime  adimplevit. 

p.  54. — Tertio  die  mensis  Dec.  A.D.  1504,  capitulaviter  congre-  3  Dec,  loOi. 
gatis,  Venerabilibus  viris  Mao-istro  Willelmo  Fitzherbert  et  Maffistro  i^!^!'''™  ^^'^  Thomas 
inoma  l^itzherbert,  Decretorum  Doctoribus  ac  Canonicis  Kesiden- tiaries. 
tiariis  in  Ecclesia  ista  coUegiata,  una  cum  gardianis  et  Eegistrario,  ofy'cuthbert's°°*^ 
et  ceteris  vicariis  clioralibus  in  eadem  ecclesia  ibidem  ad  tunc  in  chauntrics  in  cliapel 
T  •     1      •  -1  ,    •  ••  Ml  of  S.  John  Baptist 

domo  capitulari  praesentibus,  ut  in  negociis  tangentibus  vel  con- Frankyshe,  vicar 

ceinentibus  alteram  cantariam  duarum  cantarlarum  fundatarum  in '^-     ^'.' '^^''''"";^  ^^ '^"* 

gives  it  up  at 

capella,  S.   Johannis  JBaptistse   ad  altare   S.    Cuthberti  infra  banc  chapter's  request 
ecclesiam,  jam  vacantem  per  mortem  naturalem  Willelmi  Bartliorp,  (.q'^i.  3^^°^™'^^^!^'^^'^°™ 
ultimi   possessoris   cjusdem;    Primo,    dicti   Magistri  Willelmus  et  ^f^^^  |^ic  Grammar 
Thomas  proposuerunt  jus  et  ticulum,  quod  ipsi  habuerunt,  ad  pree- W.  Babyngton,  so 
sentationem  et  collationem  ejnsdem  ;  et  tunc  immediate  eodem  tern-  ^TcOiThe  GrammaT 
pore  dominus  Henricus   Frankysshe,   unus    de   sexdecim    vicariis,  School  so  long  as  he 
-,     •  ^  . ,      ,       •    ,  T   ,  •  •   •  •      ^  1  ,       holds  the  chauntry. 

desideravit  ab  eisdem  dictis  canonicis  promoven  ad  eandem  canta- 

riam  secundum  ordinacionem  et  fundacionem  dictarum  cantariarum; 
Qui  sibi  responderunt  quod  justum  petebat,  attamen  eidem  canonici 
residentiarii  desideraverunt  ab  eo  ut  cesset  a  suo  proposito  liac  vice, 
ut,  pro  utilitate  communi  et  ipsius,  proasentarent  urium  ydoneum 
capellanum  qui  aptus  erit  ad  docendum  scbolam  grammaticalem  ; 
Qua  de  causa  dictus  Dominus  H.  Frankysshe  petition!  eorum  con- 
cessit. Et  sic  dicti  domini  Canonici  Eesidentiarii  eodem  die  insti- 
tuerunt,  et  investiverunt,  ac  instcillaverunt  quemdam  capellanum 
dictum  Dominum  Willelmuin  Babyngton,  juratum  in  omnibus 
secundum  ordinationem  et  fundationem  dictarum  cantariarum. 
Insupcr,  idem  dictus  Dominus  Willelmus  Babyngton,  post  suam 
institutionem  et  installationem,  eodem  die  in  domo  capitulari,  sponte 
et  UDu  coactus  juravit,  tactis  sacrosanctis  evangeliis,  quod  perpetue 
onus  docendi  scbolam  grammaticalem,  toto  tempore  quo  teneret 
dictam  cantariam,  subiret.'"* 

"  See  pp.  52  and  77,  siqn'a.  A  very  large  proportion  of  the  chauntries  in  the  country 
were  either  by  their  founder,  or  by  custom,  or  by  their  governing  bodies  appropriated 
to  support  Grammar  School  Masters. 

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1  78  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

Admissions'^  §•  Resignations  of  CJiauntry  Priests. 
1-3.  In  the  chapel  of  S.  Thomas  the  martyr,  ^  three  chauntries 
founded  by  Kobert  de  Lexington  or  Laxton,  Canon  of  Southwell, 
and  one  of  the  King's  Justices,  a.d.  9  Oct.,  1241.'= 

Endowment,  1372,  £8  6s.  5d.  ;  154G,  £8  Gs.  5d.,  and  part  of 
common  lands,  divided  between  two  priests. 

1.  1472,  p.  50.     Richard  Tykhyll,  admitted. 

15  Ma.y,   1501,  p.  53.     John  Martyn,  resigned. 
25  June,  1501,  p.  53.     John  Bull,  admitted. 
8  July,  1523,  p.  56.     Sylvester  Banks,  dead. 
5  July,  1523,  p.  56.     Robert  Bayly,  admitted. 
1540.  Robert  Bayly. 

1546-7.  William  Alyn  or  A^lan. 

»  I  have  collected  under  the  headings  of  the  separate  chauntries  the  admissions  and 
resignations  scattered  in  two  separate  parts  of  the  book  in  chronological  order.  There 
are  a  few  parochial  chauntries  to  which  the  chapter  presented,  which  I  have  not  included. 
The  list  of  chauntries  is  compiled  from  (i.)  a  deed  in  the  White  Book  (p.  413), 
dated  1  Sept.  1413.  stated  to  have  been  made  by  the  chapter  at  the  request  of  the 
chauntry  priests  as  a  convenient  evidence  of  title,  being  by  way  of  Inspcximus  or 
recital  of  an  Inquisition  into  the  titles  of  the  separate  chauntries,  taken  24  March, 
1372,  by  the  Prior  of  Thurgarton  and  Master  John  Crophill,  Canon  of  Southwell, 
■with  a  mixed  jury  of  clerks  and  laymen.  It  gives  shortly  the  foundation  and  endow- 
ment of  each  of  the  nine  chauntries  then  existing,  (ii.)  the  certificates  of  chauntries 
taken  under  the  Chauntries  and  Colleges  Suppressit  n  Acts  of  Henry  VIII.  A.D.  1546 
(Certificate  13),  and  Edward  VI.  A.D.  1547  (Certificate  37),  which  are  peculiarly 
full  for  the  Southwell  chauntries.  They  give  the  founder's  luime,  the  then  holder, 
and  the  gross  and  net  income.  The  later  certificate  also  gives  the  age  of  the 
holder,  whether  learned  or  not,  and  if  he  holds  any  other  preferment  or  "  pro- 
motion." The  two  certificates  differ  in  almost  every  instance  as  to  the  value  of  the 
chauntry,  both  gross  and  net,  sometimes  only  by  a  few  pence,  sometimes  one  or 
two  pounds.  The  Edwardian  certificate  is  the  lowest,  showing  divers  deductions. 
1  have  given  that  of  Henry.  (iii.)  the  foundation  deeds  in  the  White  Book  of  the 
nine  earlier  chauntries,  scattered  notices  in  the  liegister,  and  in  Surtees  Society  list. 
J'Jbor.  of  later  ones. 

'•  In  Henry's  certificates  of  chauntries  S.  Thomas  the  Martyr  is  called  Thomas 
Bekctt,  and  one  of  the  three  chauntries  is  said  to  be  dedicated  to  S.  Thomas  the 
Apostle,  and  the  other  two  are  treated  as  one  chauntry  with  two  priests ;  but  in 
Edward's  certificate  the  three  arc  all  called  as  of  T.  Beckett  at  one  altar,  and  the 
third  chauntry  is  put  first. 

"  This  is  the  date  of  an  ordination  by  Archbishop  Walter  (Gray)  (White  Book, 
p.  330)  concerning  the  church  of  Barncbnrgh,  near  Doncaster,  the  presentation  to 
which  Kobert  Lexington  had  given  to  the  chapter,  though  it  seems  to  refer  to  the 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  179 

2.  25  March,  1536,  p.  59.     Robert  Blaunche,  dead. 
25  March,  1536,  p.  59.     Ralph  Smyth,  admitted. 
1540-1547.     Richard  Herryson. 
1553.  Pensioner,  £4.     1558.  Still  living  in  chauntry  house. 

•3.  The  third  chauntry  founded  by  Robert  de  Lexington  at  the 
altar  of  S.  Thomas  ]\Iartyr,  called  Newton.*^ 

Endowment,  1372,  £4;  1546,  £4  7s. 
28th  June,  1497,  p.  53.     John  Abotson,  resigned. 

,,  ,,  ,,  Robert  Hardyng,  admitted. 

31st  Mar.,   1532.^'  William  Sutton  held  it. 

1540-1547.      John  Colton.« 
1553.  do.  pensioner,  £5. 

4.  S.  Peter's  chauntryataltarof  S.  Peter  founded  by  Richard  Sutton, 
Canon  of  Southwell,  Prebendary  of  Muskham,  a.d.  1274-1283.'^ 

third  chauntry  priest  as  ah-eacly  existing.  The  rector  of  Barneburgh  was  to  pay  23 
marks,  £15  6s.  8d.,  by  i  equal  yearly  payments  for  2  priests,  2  deacons,  and  2  sub- 
deacons  ;  £8  a  year  to  the  priests,  £4  for  the  deacons,  £3  16s.  8d.  to  the  subdeacons, 
"  who  for  ever  at  the  altar  of  the  Blessed  Thomas  the  Martyr  in  the  church  of  South- 
well for  the  souls  of  good  memory  of  King  John,  Brian  de  Insula,  the  father, 
mother,  brother,  sisters,  and  all  the  relations  (parentum)  and  benefactors  of  Sir 
Robert  de  Lexinton,  Canon  of  Southwell,  and  for  all  faithful  souls  alive  and  dead, 
shall  daily  celebrate  the  divine  offices,  following  the  choir  of  Southwell  as  the  vicars 
do  (sequentes  chonun  ecclesia3  Suthwell  more  vicarioi'um),  and  saying  daily  placebo, 
dirige,  and  commendation  for  the  said  departed  before  the  said  altar  together  with 
the  chaplain,  who  by  the  assignment  of  the  said  Robert  de  Lexinton,  ministers  there ;" 
but  they  are  not  to  be  bound  to  say  these  on  any  day  in  which  they  shall  have  been 
said  in  the  choir  in  their  presence  ;  the  deacons  are  to  take  weekly  turns  in  minister- 
ing at  high  mass,  and  share  in  the  common  fund  with  their  order  ;  and  are  to  serve 
the  chaplains  at  the  celebration  of  mass  and  office  for  the  dead  in  the  said  chapel ; 
and  both  priests  and  clerks  are  to  be  daily  present  at  the  celebration  of  the  mass  of 
the  Blessed  Maiy.  Half  a  mark  is  also  to  be  paid  for  a  v,-ax  light  and  for  keeping 
up  the  ornaments. 

="  So  called  from  its  possessions  consisting  principally  of  a  rent  of  £3  4s.  from 
land  in  Newton. 

^  Deed  of  this  date,  Reg.  Leases,  p.  200. 

c  He  had  probably  been  appointed  in  1534,  as  in  that  year  another  person  was 
appointed  to  S.  ]\Iary  Magdalen's  chauntry,  which  he  had  formerly  held. 

<*  The  license  in  mortmain  for  its  foundation  given  to  Oliver  Sutton,  Bishop  of 
Lincoln,  Richard  Sutton's  executor,  is  1  Oct.  1283.  Richard  was  dead  in  1274 
(W.  B.  p.  296).     It  took  no  less  than  12  deeds  to  effect  this  foundation. 


180  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEU.  . 

Endowment  ;  1372,  £4,  payable  by  Prebendary  of  North 
Muskham,  trustee  :  1546,  £5  5s. 

11  Sept.,  1490,  p.  52.     T.  Tykbyll,  resigned. 

J.  Litton,  alias  Elys,  admitted. 
1540-7.  Thomas  Dun  or  Donne. 

5.  S,  Nicholas  Chauntry,''  at  altar  of  St.  Nicholas,  founded  by 
Sir  ^Villlam  W^-dyngton,  Kt.,  Seneschal  of  the  Archbishop,  Bailiff 
of  Southwell  Manor,  a.d.  1242-1260.'^ 

Endowment,  1372,  £G  8s.  a  year  ;  1546,  £5  16s.  5|d.  a  year. 

9  Oct.,  1476,  p.  102.     Nicholas  Knollys,  resigned. 

3  July,  1499,  p.  53.      Robert  Hardy,^  resigned. 

,,  AVilliam  Wright,  admitted. 
2  Dec,  1504,  p.  53.  ,,  resigned. 

,,  Richard  Xoies,  admitted. 

6  Nov.,  1513.  J.  Avotson,  resigned. 

},  Thomas  Stelll,  admitted. 
(With  Chapel  of  Halam.^i) 

4  Feb.,  1519,  p.  5G.         T.  Steill  gets  leave  of  absence  for  a  year 

from     chauntry    on    account    of    its 

ruinous  condition. 
2  June,  1523.  Steill    arranges    with    Stanley   to   take 

ILiLim,  charging  him  16s.  a  year. 
8  May,  1530,  p.  57.         Edward  Stanley  resigns. 
1540,  1547.  Thomas  Palmer. 

"  There  is  a  remarkable  aud  peculiar  provision  in  the  foundation  deed  of  this 
chauntry  (W.  B.  p.  30C)  that  the  chaplain  "  shall  daily  celebrate  divine  service  for 
his  soul  and  the  souls  of  others  above  written,  sometimes  singing,  sometimes  intoning 
(quandoque  cantando,  quandoque  Icgcndo)  according  as  the  Ix)rd  shall  inspire  him, 
to  the  greater  excitement  of  the  devotion  of  those  hearing  him." 

*•  The  date  is  fixed  by  Richard  dc  Sutton,  dead  before  1274  ;  Henry  de  Mora, 
made  Canon  in  1212,  and  Geoffrey  de  liocland.  Dean  of  St.  Martin's-lc-Grand, 
Canon  of  Beverley,  and  Canon  and  I'recentor  of  Ripon,  circa  1 2:i0  (.Uciii.  of  liipon, 
I.  101-2),  being  witnesses  of  the  foundation  deed.    (\V.  B.  p.  ."Ol-").) 

«  He  is  called  Uardyng  in  the  next  preceding  entry  on  iiis  admission  to  Nowton 
chauntry. 

"^  According  to  Certificates  of  Chauntrics  tliis  annexation  was  permanent.  The 
chapel  of  Halam  was  worth  £  1  IGs.  8d.  a  year,  "  whereunto  resort  the  a  c  honsclyngo 
people,"  i.e.,  100  communicants,  It  was  held  in  loKJ  and  lo-17  by  rahncr.  the 
chauntry  priest,  nged  5C. 


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6.  St.    Stcplien's   Chauntry,''  founded  by   Andrew,    Bailiff''  of 
Southwell,  A.D.  1245-1274'= 

Endowment,  1372,  £3  12s.;  1546,i  £5  lis   Id. 
Before  1478,  p.  37.  Nicholas  Knolles.'= 

11  Se])t.,  1490.  p.  52.       Robert  Layn,  resigned. 

,,  Thomas  Tykhyll,  admitted. 

9  April,  1634,  p.  167.        John  Pernam,  dead. 

I'rancis  Haull  admitted. 
1540  :  1647  do. 

1553.  do.        pensioner/  £4. 

7.  S.  John  Baptist,  founded  by    Henry  Vavasour,  Canon,  and 
Prebendary  of  Norwell,  A.D.  1275-1280.? 

Endowment,  1372,  £3  18s.  lid.;  1546,1^  £5  12s.  2d. 
William  Barthrop,  resigned. 
Thomas  Byelby,  admitted. 
William  Yonge,  warned. 
William  Yonge,  resigned. 
William  Wryght,  admitted. 

"  This  is  very  puzzlingly  called  in  some  places  one  of  the  chauntries  of  S.  Nicholas, 
e.ff.  W.  B.  p.  100  (b).  lu  certificates  of  chauntries  it  is  called  S.  Stephen,  otherwise 
Nicholas. 

•>  Called  in  the  deed  of  141 3  Ballivum  ;  in  English  "  Bayle,"  "  Bayley,"  and  in  Crri  ifi- 
aates  of  Cliauntries  "  Bailie."  He  was  a  bailiff  of  the  Archbishop  of  York's  manor 
of  Southwell. 

"  Fixed  by  one  of  the  documents,  but  not  one  immediately  affecting  the  foun- 
dation, being  dated  1245,  andbyEichard  de  Sutton  being  a  witness  to  an  actual 
foundation  deed.     (W.  B.  411  and  402.) 

■*  It  had  been  augmented  by  a  new  gift  in  1445  by  John  Duffield,  Canon  of 
Southwell  and  Archdeacon  of  Cleveland  (W.  B.  39.3). 

«  He  is  mentioned  in  the  visitation  of  that  year  as  having  held  this  chauntry 
before. 

f  In  Edward  VI. 's  certificate  he  is  called  "  Francis  Clark  alias  Haull,  of  the  age 
of  42  yeres,  unlerned."'  He  was  alive  in  1574  when  the  west  part  of  the  chauntry 
house  is  let  to  a  layman,  with  a  proviso  that  he  is  to  let  Sir  Francis  Hall  and  Sir 
Richard  Harryson,  "  some  time  Chauntrie  Priests,"  enjoy  their  two  several  chambers 
therein  for  their  lives. 

E  The  date  is  fixed  by  a  deed  of  Vavasour's  dated  1275  (W.  B.,j3.  323-6)  and  1280, 
when,  according  to  Torre,  Vavasour  was  dead.  ''-'^^^^^rZ^^^^^S*. 

•^  It  had  received  subsequent  endowment.  /^ >^    OP  THK         >^^^ 

fir 


15  May, 

1476, 

P- 

102. 

31  May, 

1476, 

P" 

50. 

26  July, 

1499, 

P- 

155. 

24  Nov., 

1503, 

P- 

54. 

'UHIVBIvSITY 


182  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OP  SOUTHWELL  MINSTEE. 

24  March,  1536,  p.  59,  William  Ynkcrsoll,''  died. 
„  Ealph  Bacon,  admitted. 

1540:   1547  do. 

"  Of  the  age  of  47  yeres,  imlerned." 

8.  S.  John  the  Evangelist''  at  altar  of  S.  John  the  Evangelist,'^ 
founded  by  Henry  de  Notyngham,  Canon  of  Southwell,  A.u.  1241 
or  1242.«i 

Endowment,  1372,  £b  6s.  8d.;  1546,  £5  6s. 
9  Oct.,     1476,  p.    51.  Helias  Byland,  dead. 

Thomas  Baxter,  admitted. 
21  May,    1482,  p.  227.  do.  will. 

14  Aug.,  1490,  p.  124.  Nicholas  Knolles. 

11  Sept.,   1490,  p.    52.  do.         dead,  will  proved  18  Sept. 

Laurence  Brukschaw,  admitted. 

15  May,    1501,  p.    53.   Richard  Freend,  died. 

John  Martyn,  admitted. 

"  Will  12  Fcl).  1535  (p.  225)  he  describes  himself  as  Ch.auntry  Tricst  of  St.  John 
Baptist  Chauntry. 

^  This  is  given  to  the  presentation  of  the  vicars  choral. 

<=  It  appears  from  N.  Knolles  or  Knoll's  will,  1190  (Reg.  p.  124),  that  this  wiis  in  the 
"  North  yle." 

•^  The  actual  foundation  deed  is  by  Kobert  of  Lexington  for  the  sustentation  of 
Thomas  de  la  Barrc,  chaplain,  and  his  successor,  to  have  witii  them  one  fit  chaplain 
to  celebrate  the  missa  de  defunctis  for  the  soul  of  Doniinus  Henry  de  Xotingham  at 
the  altar  of  S.  John  Evangelist,  where  the  bones  of  the  said  Henry  ai-e  resting.  The 
witnesses  arc  the  same  as  to  Lexington's  own  foundation  (W.  B.  p.  421). 

The  largest  part  of  the  endowment  was  6  marks,  part  of  10  marks  (£6  13s.  4d.), 
payable  to  the  chapter,  from  the  prior  and  convent  of  Sixhill,of  the  order  of  Semp- 
ringham  ((lilbcrtine  Canons).  There  is  an  amusing  letter  (\V.  B.  p.  426)  from 
the  chapter,  12l,h  Dec.  1332,  to  the  convent  to  make  them  \M\y  up  this  rent  in 
arrear.  It  begins  by  wishing  the  convent  "  that  whicli  tliey  have  not  deserved, 
health;"  and  goes  on  "we  wonder  not  a  little  and  not  without  reasonable  cause  are 
disturbed  that  you,  religioas  men,  who  so  often  celebrate  divine  service,  do  not 
regard  the  peril  of  )'our  souls,  in  neglecting,  at  the  instigatitm  of  the  sower  of 
tares  to  pay  our  rent,  .  .  .  especially  as  so  often  all  and  singular  withholding  rents 
due  to  our  Chnrch  have  been  solemnly  excommunicated  in  the  Church,"  and,  after 
telling  them  to  pay  up  within  six  days,  hopes  that  Christ  will  deign  to  give  them  a 
spirit  of  saner  counsel. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  183 

12  Aug.,  1511,  p.  55,  William  Hynde.^ 
1540,  William  Kyrkc. 

1546,  Edmund  Kobynson. 

1547,  Edmund  Kingston^ 

9.  S.  Mary's  Cliauntry  at  the  altar  of  S.  iMichael,''  augmented'^ 
by  William  Gunthorpe,  Canon  of  Southwell,  a.d.  1395. 

Endowment,  1413,  £6;  1546,  £5  13s. 
11  Sept.,    1490,  p.  51,  Laurence  Brukschaw,*'  resigned. 
Robert  Layn,^  admitted. 
3  May,      1503,  p.  75,  Thomas  Bylbye. 
7  March,  1514,  p.  55,  Thomas  Egleston,  resigned. 
Oliver  Bexwyk,  admitted. 
24  Nov.,     1529,  p.  57,  Thomas  Warde. 
22  Feb.,     1534,  p.  58,  William  Rawlands,  resigned. 

(Pension  of  40s.) 
24  Feb.,     1534,  p.  59,  William  Melyson,  admitted. 

»  Entiy  headed  (in  late  hand)  "  Cantarista  aleator."  He  is  summoned  at  this  date 
for  "ludo  ad  le  hasarde  et  le  bowlyng,"  warned  to  abstain  from  such  games  for  the 
future,  and  admitted  the  injunction  by  signing  his  name. 

^  Kingston  is  veiy  likely  the  same  person  as  Robinson.  He  is  described  as  "  of 
the  age  of  66  years,  moderately  learned,"  and  vicar  of  the  parish  of  Southwell. 

"=  So  described  in  the  register,  but  there  is  an  altar  of  S.  Mary  which,  in  the  foun- 
dation deed  of  S.  Nicholas'  Chauntry  (A.D.  1274),  has  a  separate  gift  to  it  from  the 
"  greater  altar  of  S.  Mary,"  which  last  is  probably  the  high  altar. 

^  In  the  register  it  is  described  as  "  chauntry  founded  at  altar  of  B.  V.  j\I.,"  as 
"  Gunthorpe's  chauntry  at  the  altar  of  S.  Michael,"  and  as  "  the  chauntry  of  B.  V.  M. 
at  altar  of  S.  Michael  founded  by  Gunthorpe."  In  Gunthorpe's  deed  (1395),  (W.  B., 
p.  360),  he  is  to  celebrate"  in  the  chapel  of  S.  Mary,  situate  on  the  north  side  (parte) 
of  the  church."  In  the  deed  of  1413  it  is  said  that  "  this  chauntry  is  called  the 
chauntry  of  S.  Mary,  the  chaplain  of  which  holds  the  church  of  Wbeatley,  and  by 
himself  or  another  fit  chaplain  celebrates  daily  at  Southwell  Our  Lady's  Mass  with 
Note,  at  the  usual  hour,  which  church  became  so  poor  in  the  iirst  pestilence  that 
the  chaplain  could  not  support  the  burden,"  and  so  it  was  augmented  by  Gunthorpe, 
late  canon. 

«  He  appears  to  have  held  the  chauntry  from  at  least  1475,  as  at  the  visitation  of 
that  year  he  complains  of  a  payment  not  being  made  to  the  chauntry  of  B.  V.  M., 
and  has  a  dispensation  given  him  by  the  chapter  to  eat  and  drink  before  singing  Our 
Lady's  Mass. 

'  This  entry  is  crossed  out  and  Vac.  written  in  margin. 


Before 

1475,  p.  260. 

2  Oct, 

1475,  p.  260. 

5  ]\Iay, 

1476,  p.    37. 

25  May, 

1476,  p.    37. 

24  Nov  , 

1503,  p.    54. 

16  Nov., 

1513,  p.    55. 

1540-1546. 

184         VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 

26  June,    1535,  p.  59,  John  Wyllson. 
1540,  do. 

1547,  Thomas  More. 

10.  S.  John  Baptist,  otherwise  the  Morrow  Mass,"  founded  by 
Thomas  Haxcj^,  Canon  of  Southwell,  24  Nov.,  1415.'' 
Endowment,  1547,  £10  19s.  lid. 
Helias  (By land). 
John  Hyll. 
John  Hyll,  resigned,  on  api)ointment  to 

Vicar  Choralship  (Rampton). 
William  Barthorp,  admitted. 
William  Wryght,  admitted. 
John  Abotson,  admitted. 
Ralph  Smyth.<= 

11-12.  Our  Lady  and  S.  Cuthbert's'i  in  S.  John  the  Baptist's 
chapel  (two  priests),  founded  by  Archbishop  Laurence  Booth,  a.d. 
1479. 

Endowment,  1547,  £13  6s.  8d.,  paid  by  Archbishop  of  York. 

"  The  alternative  title  is  given  in  the  certificates  of  cliaiintrics,  where  also  it  is 
said  to  be  founded  by  'T.  Haxeye,  wbobuilded  the  comcn  house,"  viz.  ofthcchauntry 
priests.  Hyll,  too,  is  called  "  Presbyter  matutiualis."  The  chauntry  was  it  appears 
(Register,  p.  54)  in  the  gift  of  the  vicars  choral. 

''  The  deed  of  al)ove  date  only  names  certain  lands  given  to  the  chapter  "  for  the 
support  of  certain  burdens  and  works  of  piety  in  the  said  church  according  to  his 
(Ilaxey's)  ordination  on  this  part  to  be  made."  These  included,  apparently,  the 
"  common  lands"  of  the  chauntry  priests,  out  of  which  various  payments  were  made, 
including  13s.  4d.  to  the  vicars  choral,  and  20s.  for  bread,  wine,  and  wax. 

"=  He  must  have  been  admitted  after  25th  May,  1536,  as  he  was  then  admitted  to 
S.  Thomas'  Chauntry  No.  2. 

'•  This  is  the  designation  given  to  it  in  the  certificates  of  chauntries.  Unt  the 
chauntry  was  certainly  in  the  chapel  of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  as  it  is  descril>ed 
(p.  54  of  the  register)  as  "  in  the  chapel  of  St.  Jolin  Baptist  at  the  altar  of  S. 
Cuthbevt,"  nothing  being  said  about  Our  Lady.  Booth  liad  been  Bp.  of  Durham, 
hence  S.  Cuthbcrt's  name,  and  it  was  in  that  chapel  that  the  Archbishop  by  his 
will  directed  his  body  to  be  buried,  on  the  south  side  of  it.     (Sir  note,  p.  115,  siij).) 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEilORIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER.         185  J 

20  Jan.,    1490,  p.  125.       Klchard  Worsley."  \ 

15  Sept.,  1495,  p.    58.        Peter  Burton,  admitted. 

17  July,    1498,  p.  151.        Peter  Burton,  Avarned.  ^'  ', 

3  Dec,    1504,  p.    54.        William  Barthorp,  dead. 

M              ,,          ,,               William  Babyngton,  admitted.  \ 

17  Aug.,   1540,                     William    Babyngton,    surrenders    to  j 

Henry  VIIl.  ] 

1546-7,  Robert  Baylie. 

Robert  More. 

13.   S.  Mary  :\ragdalen,'=  at  altar  of  S.  Mary  Magdalen,  founded  I 

by  Robert  Ox  ton,  Canon  of  Southwell.  | 

Endowment,  £5  from  Welbeck  Abbey.  j 

9  Oct.,  1476,  p.  102.       Thomas  Baxter,  resigned.  j 

do.           p.  51.         Nicholas  Knollys,  admitted.  j 

27  Feb.,   1530,  p.  57.     Edward  Brerelcy,  admitted.  j 

10  July,  1530,  p.  58.                do.                  alias   Lockesmith,  re-  , 

signed.  ^ 

do.              do.              John  Colton,  admitted.  \ 

4  Apr.,  1533,  p.  46.     William  Sutton,  admitted.  ] 
31  Dee.,  1534,  p.  58.     Christopher  Sare,'^  admitted,  J 

1540,  1547  ;  1553,  pensioner,  £4.  ! 

1 

Admissions  of  Beacons^  et  Suh-deacons.  \ 

Form  of  Admission.  i 

p.  68. — xxiii.°  die  mensis  Junii,  anno  Domini  m°cccc™°  scptua-  23  June,  H70.  ; 

-r>-         1       m         11  •  T  IT  L  •  u  Chamberlen  in  sub-  \ 

gesuno,  Kicardus  Chambyrlen,  m  ordme  subduiconatus  existens,  per  deacon's  orders,  law-       I 

»  His  will  is  of  this  date.     He  was  probably  the  first  holder.     He  describes  himself  -j 

as  "  chauntry  chaplain  of  one  of  the  two  chauntries  of  Bothe,  newly  founded."  j 

^  See  p.  58  and  62,  supra.  ] 

<=  This  is  from  Certificates  of  Chauntries.     It  is  not  mentioned  in  the  "White  Book.  i 

In  the  register,  however,  the  chauntry  is  described  sometimes  as  Robert  Oxton's.     One  i 
Rob.  de  Oxton,  Canon  of  York,  died  in  1408.    Probably  he  was  the  founder.     Tliis 

is  the  only  chauntry  in  which  the  value  is  the  same  in  the  two  certificates.  ' 

^  In    1540  he  is  spelt  Sawer,  1547  Sawyer,  1553  Tawier,  probably  by  Browne 
Willis's  mistake  for  Sawier. 

«  This  is  the  heading  in  the  register,  but  as  a  matter  of  fact  no  admission  to  the  i 
deacons'  stalls  are  given. 

CAMD.    SOC.  2   B 


18G 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 


fully  examinetl  by        capituluin   legitime    exam 

chapter,  was  admitted  .  •      "^        r 

to  a  stall  of  the  sub-    conatus,    juxta    formam 

deaconry  according  to  Beatse  ]\Iarige. 

the  form  and  custom 

of  the  Church. 

28  Aug.,  14G9,  p.  68. 
23  June,  1470. 

G  June,  1472. 

7  Sept.,  1472. 


Inatu?,  acli!iis=us  erat  ad   stalluni  suljdia- 
et    consuctudinem    Ecclcsiaj    Collefriatce 


9000  Virgins,  1472. 
30  June,  1490. 
2  June,  1499. 


G  Dec.,  1504,  p.  69. 


IG  Dec.,  1504. 


10  March,  1525. 

30  June,  152G. 

20  Dec,  1518. 
29 


Stcplien  Hobson. 

Richard  Cliambcrlen. 

Thomas  Barnes. 

Richard  Smyth,  alias  Weston,  in  ordine 
benedietus. 

William  Bebe. 

Thomas  Stele,  in  ordine  bencdictu?. 

William  Fitzhcrbcit  promises  Dyson 
and  Smyth,  the  churchwardens,  the 
next  presentation   to  sub-deaconry. 

Thomas  Fitzherbert,  "in  domo  suos 
residencicc,"  promises  Henry  Gyb- 
bonson  the  next  sul)-dcaconry. 

William  Fitzherbert,  "  in  n)ansione  sua 
prebendali/'  promises  J.  Ingham, 
scolar "  and  late  chorister,  2nd  vacancy 
in  sub-deaconry. 

Nicholas  Walker,  collated  to  sub- 
deaconry  by  K.  Barra. 

Andrew  Pernani,  collated  by  \\^. 
Dragiey. 

Eldward  Brereley,''  collated  by  E. 
Bassett. 

John  Martin,  collated  by  W.  Dragiey. 

John  Bull,''  collated  by  E   Bassett. 


"  Scholar  means  that  he  is  studying  at  the  University. 

•>  He  became  chauntry  priest  in  inao,  vicar  choral  1531,  chapter  clerk  loSl,  and 
was  appropriately  ;:iade  a  canon  on  the  resuscitation  of  the  Church  under  I'llizabcth, 

"  This  must  be  a  new  John  I'ull,  not  our  old  friend,  who  was  now  warden. 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER.  187 

3  June,  1535.  Thomas  Banys,  admitted  on  dimission  of 

H.  Grce  and  concession  of  E.  Bassett, 
"  sole  residentiary." 
14  Jan.,  1535,  p.  70.     Hiomas  Davyson,  collated  by  E.  Bassett. 
2  Oct.,  1531.  Kobert  Sawer,  admitted  by  E.  Bassett. 

1547.  Henry  Bothe. 

Laurence  Wright. 
1553.  Henry  Wright  1  Pensioners  at  £2  6s.  8d. 

Thomas  WrightJ      each. 


Admissions  of  Incense-hearers  fThurihulariorumJ  and  Choristers.^ 

Form  of  Admission. 

p.  78. — viii°  die  mensis  Octobris  Anno  Domini  m°  cccclxix°,  fuit  8  Oct.  IIG'J. 
n,,.,     TT  T     •  1      rv.   •  1       •  Milo  Hogesone  ad- 

iMilo  Jdogesone  admissus  ad  oiiicium  choristse.  mitted  to  the  office  of 

Ultimo  die  mensis  ^VFartii  Anno  Domini  millesimo  cccc™°ixx™°  ^^°'^'^^**^^- 

quintn,   Eicardus    Samsbury   ad    prsesentationem   Thoma3  Nevyll ''  'j^  SamsbiW admitted 

admissus  erat  ad  officiuiii  unius  Choristarum  vacans  per  cessionem  to  the  office  of  one  of 

.,„,,,..,  .       .       ,  the  choristers  on  prc- 

•Adge  btrobull,  ultimi  possessons  ejusdem.  sentatiou of  T.  jS'evyli. 

p.  79. — Notandum,*^  quod  eodem  die  ct  anno  prgedictis,  Magister  21  April,  1500. 

Thomas    Nevell,   verus    patronus    choristarum    concessit    M^gistro  jN^^^gjj^^^rJjg  ^^.^^^^.^^  ^^ 

Edmundo   Carter,   Residcntiario,    Kicardo   Samybury,  et    Thorn £b  the  choristers, granted 

.     .  ..  1        ,r.    •  1       •  ,.  to  Carter,  residen- 

±*entham,    proximis   vacantiis,    ad    olhciuna    choristaj   pi'£esentanai  tiary,  and, two  others, 

ydoneara  personam,  ut  patct  per  concessionem  suam  eisdem  sigiUo  tlie  next  presentation 
•/  -r  ^         1  r      ^  ^  _       o         on  the  next  vacancies 

suo  signatam,  quas  collationes  sive  vacaturas  Magistro  AVillclmus  of  the  office  of 

Fitzherbert   fieri    dccrevit    per    pra^dictos,    officio    chorista3    tunc 

proximo  futuro  vacante. 

"  There  were  two  incense  bearers  and  six  choristers.  The  form  of  admission  for 
thuribuler  is  the  same  (substituting  the  word)  as  for  chorister.  Only  one  admission 
of  a  thuribuler  is  recorded, 

"  Nevyll  is  called  in  another  entry  "  verus  patronus  choristarum,"  and  W.  Nevyll 
is  so  called  in  a  later,  but  how  they  became  patrons,  and  whether  it  was  a  merely 
personal  right  of  patronage  and  how  acquired,  docs  not  appear. 

"  There  is  a  strongly  simoniacal  look  about  this  transaction. 


188         VISITATIONS    AND    MKMOiaALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MINSTEE. 

10  July,  1501.  x°  die  mensls  Julii  proxime  sequente  diem  et  annum  supradictos, 

ynjrbani,  chorister,        ^  i  -x^t      ^  i       •  .       •        i  •,    i      •  r*      ■\'      • 

twice  asked  by  guar-   Johannes  Yngham,  chcnsta,  in  domo  capitulari,  coram  (jrarclianis 
dians  sitting  as  Dominis   Kobcrto    Dvson  ct  Kicardo   Smyth  capitularitcr  confrrc- 

chaptcr  whether  he  t  i  i  •        •  V>       •  7>    i 

■wished  to  give  up  the  gatis,    idem     Johannes     bis     interrogatus     a     Domino     liobeito 

afswelSailtwas  %son     utrum     voluit     dimitterc     officium     choristce     respondit, 

fio,  aiui  immediately  quod  sic,  Ct  immediate  in  eadem  domo  praidicta  sponte,  pure,  et 

divested  himself  of  ,       i    ,              .            ^     ^  -^                    t--^   •           x*         ..         Ti                t   i 

his  habit,  aud  Jack-  absolute  exuit  sc  habitu  siio.     iiit  incontincntcr,  Ihomns  Jakcson, 

son,  alias  Cowper,        j^jj^g  Cowper,  admissus  erat  ad  oflicium  chorlstaj  ut  in  scqucntibus 
was  admitted.  -^  ^ 

patct. 
25Jnne,  loOl.  p_   gO. — xxv.   die  mensls  Junii,  Anno  Domini   m°  di°  Matheus 

Matthew  Bramhalc  ^  .  ^       ly   -  •         mi       -i     y      •• 

admitted  to  the  office  Biamhalc  admissus  crat  ad  oindum  unius  Thuribularu  vacans  per 
of  a  Thuribuler.  ccssioncm  Roberti  Crowder. 


8  Oct.,      14G9,  p.  78.  Milo  Ilogesone,  admitted. 
23  Feb.,      14G9,  Richard  Gurnell, 

9  June,     1470,  Bemann  Bexwyk,     ,, 

7  Sept.,     1472,  Ricliard  Smytli,  resigned;  Adum  Strobull, 

admitted. 
31  March,  1474,  Adam  Strobull,  rc^igne(l  ;  Rirluird  Sainms- 

bury,  admitted. 
3  Jan.,      1475,  Bemann     Bexwyk,     resigned  ;       Leonaid 

Wynncswold,  admitted. 
20  Sept.,     1476,  Richard  Sainmsbury,  resigned  ;    Alexander 

Eyton,  admitted. 
5  April,    1470,  Thomas  Carter,  resigned  ;  Thomas  Kyrkby, 

admitted. 
Richard  Gurnell,  resigned  ;  ^\'illiam   Roy, 
admitted. 
25  March,  1479,  p.  79.  Thomas   Gotham,   resigned  ;    John    Kcton, 

admitted. 
13  Nov.,     1497,  Robert    Moihiy,    rcsignea  ;    Peter     Boilie, 

atlmitteu. 
20  Feb.,      1497,  Ileniy   Aykyngc,   retigiieil  ;    George   Vin- 

cent, admitted. 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS  OP    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER.  189 

20  Feb.,     1497.  N.     Pawson,    resigned  ;     John    Yngliam, 

admitted. 

4  Feb.,     1500,  John    Bhmd,    resigned  ;    Eobcrt   Porvesse, 

admitted. 

5  Feb.,     1500,  Cuthbert,      resigned  ;      William       Sutton, 

admitted. 

21  April,    1500,  N.     Kechyn,    resigned  ;     William     Elton, 

admitted. 
25  June,    1501,  p.  80.  Robert  Crowder,  resigned;  ?ilatthew  Bram- 

hall,  admitted. 
10  July,     1501,  John  Yngham,  resigned  ;   Thomas  Jackson, 

adniitted. 

7  Sept.,    1520,  Richard  Lostoe,  resigned  ;    Henry  Evans,  ] 

admitted.  ! 

Richard  Wilkins,  resigned  ;  William  Palmer,  • 

admitted.  j 

John   Baxter,    resigned  ;    Edward   Stubbs,  ^ 

admitted.  j 

17  Sept.,     1523,  Thomas  Asiiton,  resigned ;  Nicholas  Palmer,  \ 

admitted,  I 

9  June,     1526,  John    Wilson,    resigned  ;     Richard    Hyll,  ; 

admitted.  ] 


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To  all  the  sons  of 
^Mother  Chnrch  the 
chapter  of  Blessed 
Peter  at  York  in  all 
huniilitj',  health,  and 
prajers. 

Know  all  that  these 
are  the  customs  and 
liberties  of  the  Church 
anciently  given  by 
King  Athelstan,  re- 
A-ercutly  kept  by  his 
successors,  and  con- 
firmed by  Papal 
decrees. 


EXTRACTS   FSOM   LIBER  ALBUS. 

Letter  from    Chapter  of  York  to  Chapter  of  Southwell,   stating 

Customs  of  York  Minster,  as  found  at  inquest,  A.D.  1106. 

(W.  B,  p.  18.) 

Litera'^  capituli  Ecclesiae  Beati  Petri  Ebor  de  Libertatibus  et 
consuctudinibus  cjusdem  ecclcsia3  et  Suthwell. 

Universis  ^lutris  Ecclesia3  filiis  humillime  capitulum  Beati  Petri 
Ebor  Salutcm  et  orationes  in  Domino:  Sciant  omnes,  ad  quos 
literee  iste  pervenerint,  has  esse  consuctudines  et  libertates  Eccle- 
siae Beati  Petri  ab  Alcstano  rege  antiquitus  datas,  et  a  successoii- 
bus  ejus  reverenter  servatas,  et  Apostolicorum  privilegiis  con- 
firmatas. 

*  This  letter  is,  perhaps,  the  most  interesting  of  all  the  documents  in  the  "White 
Book,  as  it  preserves  one  of  the  most  ancient  records  of  the  Chapter  of  York,  show- 
ing the  ancient  privileges  of  the  Archbishop  and  Canons  dating  from  pre-Norman 
times,  which  probably  became  a  model  for  the  later  foundations  of  Lincoln  and 
Salisbury,  as  well  as  the  sister  churches  of  Beverley,  Southwell,  and  liipun.  Unfor- 
tunately the  letter  itself  is  not  dated,  but  it  Avas  possibly  wi-itten  to  assist  the  Chapter 
of  Southwell  in  view  of  Quo  Warranto  proceedings  in  the  reign  of  Edward  III., 
third  and  fifth  year  of  his  reign  (a.d.  1330-3),  printed  at  pp.  615,  636,G4S  in  Placita 
de  q^uo  Warranto  (Kecord  Commission),  ISIS.  In  these  proceedings  the  chapter 
and  the  canons  were  called  on  to  show  title  to  their  privileges  and  jurisdictions. 
Until  that  time  it  would  seem  that  Southwell  possessed  no  separate  charter,  but 
merely  general  charters,  giving  them  the  same  privileges  as  the  Church  of  York. 
After  the  case  had  resulted  favourably  to  Southwell,  a  special  charter  was  granted 
by  the  King  reciting  the  proceedings  and  confirming  the  privileges  established.  The 
letter  recites  fully  the  proceedings  (in  the  nature  of  the  later  Quo  Warranto  cases) 
which  took  place  in  the  roign  of  Henry  I.,  A.D.  HOG,  when  the  privileges  of  York 
were  challenged  by  the  royal  oflicers.  A  good  many  of  the  actual  privileges  estab- 
lished were  recited,  but  not  so  fully,  in  Henry  I.'s  charter  to  York  Minster,  itself 
recited  in  a  charter  of  Henry  III.  given  at  Portsmouth  \.D.  12.i3  (White  Bi.K»k, 
p.  15),  and  again  in  an  Inspeximus  Charter  of  Edward  II.,  from  which  it  is  printed 
in  Placltoruvi  Abbrcviatio  (Record  Commission),  p.  334.  Dugdalc  also  prints 
Henry  I.'scharter  under  ''York  Cathedral,"  vol.  vi.,  p.  1180,  from  Abp.  Greenfield's 
Kegistcr.  The  part  of  the  verdict  referring  to  Ripon  Sanctuary  has  been  printed  in 
Mem.  Ripon,  S.  S.  vol.  74.  Henry's  charter  states  the  customs  as  "  under  ancient 
Kings  and  Archbishops,  and  what  most  will  rememljcr  under  King  Edward  and 
Archl)ishop  Ealdrcd."  It  seems  to  h.ive  been  given  very  soon  after  the  inquiry 
of  HOG,  as  Bloet,  Ba-sset,  and  liidcl  arc  v.itncsscs. 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER.  191 

Anno  ab  incarnationc  Domini   iM.C.  vi.      Qiinndo  Obscrtvis^  fuit         A.D.  1106. 

primum   yicccon:ics  Eboraci,   voluit    ipse    milerre    ecclosioc    Sancti  i     ■il^r'T^'"*?^^ ^"'^*' 
.  .  .      .  .  .  ....  slierilt  at  lork  be 

Petri  et  omni  archicpiscopatui  per  placita,  et  in  injnrias  [vertcre] '^^'Jslicd  to  (lci)rive  the 
1  ,     T  i-       V       •      X     -  ,      n  Church  and  the  whole 

omnes  bonas  consuctuaines,  quas  antiqiutusjnste  tenuerant;  Pro  qno  archbishopric  i.v 

cum  Girardus^   EiDiscopus    clamorem    fecis-ct   apud    rejrcm,    rnisit  l^'*^"^'*^"'^  1^'-*^*"™]*'' 
Ti        -r.    1  ^^    •  T  •         1    •  T->     1    1    T  1  wrong  all  the  good 

nex  ±tobertum<=  Jlipiscopnm  Lincolnige,  et  Kadulplium"  Basset,  et  cusioms  which  they 

Galfridum  Pddcl,  Raniilphum  le  Meschin,  et  Pctrum  de  Valoniis,"^  ?,^i,!;Xfen  G^^^^^^^ 
Eboracum,  ut  ibi  inquirerent,   quee    essent    Ecclesioe    Beati    Petri  the  (Arch)bishop 
,     J.  complained  to  the 

consuetudmes.  Kjng,  he  sent  Robert, 

Hi,   cum   comitatum  advocassent,    comitavcrunt   Brudentissimos  J?^"^,^^??  °^  Lincoln, 
...  '  •■  Ealpli  Basset, 

Anglos  lUius  civitatis  per  lidem   quam   rcgi   debeant,  quatinus  de  GcollVcy  Ridel,  Ran- 

consuetudinibus  illis  verum  dicerent  ;    videlicet,    Uttrctb^   fiHum  J£  o'f  vSgn^^^^^^^^ 

Alwinijg    Gamellum    filium  Swartecol,     Gamellum    filiuni    Grym,  York  to  inquire  there 

VT  1     ,  \TT-ii   1  /-I-  TTw      T-'  what  wn-e  the  cns- 

JNormannum     prcsbyterum,  VV  illehnum     hlium    Uu,    ln-engcnim  toms  of  the  Blessed 

presbyterum,    Uttreth    filium     Tiirkilli,    Norman     filium    Basing,  ^'^^^^"''^  <^*^^"''^'^- 
Turstinum  filium  Turmot,  Gamellum''  filium  Ormi,  Morcar  filium  ^oSl ^h^'Siirmoot, 
.         .  _  charged  the  wisest 

"  Sie  for  Osbcrtus.     The  names  are  given  m  Chronicle  oi  John  Jirompton,  relative  Enoiish  of  the  city  by 
to  Ripon.  tlie  laith  they  owed 

^  Gerard  was  a  nephew  of  Walkelin,  Bishop  of  Winchester,  connected  with  the  ^''^  King  to  tind  a 

Conqueror.     He  had  been  precentor  at  Rouen,  was  a  witness  of  Henry  I.'s  charters,  j-j^ggg  customs  •     '^ 

made  Bishop  of  Hereford,  and  Archbishop  of  York  A.D.  1101-8.     He  died  while  (names  of  11  jurors) 

sleeping  in  the  garden  of  his  palace  at  Southwell  ;  on  monkish  authority,  by  no  ""ith  Ulvot  sou  of 

means  in  the  odour  of  sanctity,  because  a  book  of  astrology  or  astronomy  was  found    .^',"'!°'    y  hereditary 

,      n  .      .„  right  lawman  ot  the 

under  his  pillow.  ^.j^,.^  ^^.^-^^^  i,^  Latin 

"=  Robert  Bloet,  brother  of  Hugh,  Bishop  of  Bayeux,  Chancellor  to  William  the  may  be  translated 
Conqueror,  made  Bishop  by  William  Rufus  1094,  was  Justiciary  to  Henry  I.  lawgiver  or  judge, 

<!  Ralph  Basset  was  Justiciary  under  Henry  I.,  and  the  first  of  a  great  legal  ""'^ '^t^s  then  lore- 

^  J  ■'      '  &  o     man,  and  Ansketil  de 

family.     He  is  said  to  have  hung  at  one  time  at  Hundehoge  in  Herts,  in  1124,  forty-  Bolomer  Reeve  of  the 
two  thieves.     He  and  Geoffrey  Ridel,  who  was  drowned  in  the  White  Ship  in  1119,  North  Riding,  was 
were  also  two  of  the  commissioners  for  the  Winton  Domesday,  which  was  probably  interpreter : 
compiled  a  year  or  two  later  than  this.  The  Verdict. 

"=  Probably  the  Lawman  of  Lincoln,  Peter  de  Volognes,  mentionetl  in  Domesday.  We  witness  that  all 
Freeman,  Norm.  Conq.  IV.  213.  '  tl'J  l^wid  which 

^  The  Danish  or  Northman  character  of  the  names  is  very  marked.     One  is  inclined  _(■'  the' Church  i    so 
to  think  that  Norniannus  and  Prengerus  are  rather  adjectives  than  names,  and  mean  quit  and  free,  that 
a  Norman  priest  or  Prank  priest.     At  all  events  the  foreign  character  of  their  names 
is  marked.     The  names  of  the  sons  of  Ulf  and  of  Basing  seem  to  suggest  that  many 
of  the  English  concealed  their  origin  under  Norman  names. 

s  The  Alwin  Vicecomes,  of  Domesday  ?     Preeman.  JVorm.  Conq.  iv.  488. 

^'  See  Freeman,  Norm.  Conq.  II.  488,  and  V.  633. 


192         VISITATIONS   AND   MEMORIALS   OF   SOUTHWELL   MINSTEE. 

neither  the  King's  LiguU,"  Ulvet   filium  Fomoni?,  hereditario  jure  lagaman  civitatis, 

nSfnylfekemay  (^^^^  latine  potest  dici  legis  lator  vcl  judex),  et  tunc  quibus  fuit 

have  right  in  it  or  praefectus  qui  coram  ita  disseruit, — et  Ansketinus  de  Bolomer,  tunc 
take  pledge  there  .  ,  .  j       -v^     .      j*  •    ^  /•  •,.       -v-^ 

until  the  canon  of  quidcm    picepositus    do    Aortrcdinf]^,  intcrprcs    tuit. — Aos    onincs 

that  prebend  has  first  iccordati  tcstaniur,  ouod  omnis  terra,  quaj  ad  prebendas   Ecclcsioj 

been  asked.     If  the  .  .  '  .  ^^  ^ 

canon  refuse  right,      o.  retri  pertinct,  cst  adeo  quicta  ct  libera  quod  ncc  preepositus  regis, 

*^k '!f'and"he'shail'*'    ^^^  vicecomes,  ncc  aliquis  alius,  potest  in  ea  vel  rectum  babure,  vel 
fix  a  day  and  do  fight  namum    caperc,  donee  Canonicus   illius   prebendaj   prius  fuit  re- 
Anyone  who  seizes     quisitus;  Et  si  Canonicus  rectum  non  fecerit,  debet  requiri  Decanus, 
any  one  of  whatever    ^f  jpge  diem  statuct,  ad  bostium  S.  Petri  rectum  faciet. 
crime  guilty  or  con-  '.  ,        .         .  ti  •  p    .        .  n      •  •■ 

victed  within  the  oi  "  quis  ctiam  qnemlibet,  cujuscunque  lacmoris  aut  ilagitii  reum 

furreiXr  hi*^iT  shall    ct  convictum,  infra  arctum  ecclesiaj  ceperit  et  retinuerit,  univcrsali 
pay  6  hundreth,  if  in  judicio   vi    bundretb  *=    emendabit  ;    si   vero    infra    ecclesiam    xii 

the  church  12  hun-        i         i     ^i         •    r       r^i  •••    i         i      »i  •-.      ^-  i 

dreth  in  the  choir       Juindictli ;    inlra  Chorum  xviii  hundrctli  ;    penitentia    quoque  de 

18  hundreth,  and  do    ginoruiis  sicut  dc  sacrileojiis  iniuncta.     In  hundreth  six  librae  con- 
penance  as  for  sacn-      .    "  /->       i     •      i  •      •  •  •  •  i  •   i    t 
lege.    A  hundreth  is    tincntur.     Quod  Si  aliquis  vesano   spiritu  agitatus,   diabohco  ausu 

^^'  quemcunquc  caperc  prfcsumpscrit  in  cathedra  bipidca  juxta  altare 

a  "itated  by  a  mad       quod  Angli  vocant  Fritstol,*^  id  est  cathedra  quietudinis,  vel  pacis, 

spirit,  with  devilish     huius  tam  flaffltiosi  sacrile^ii   emcndatio  sub   nullo  iudicio  est,  sub 
audacity  presume  to  J  .*=  »  i,,,,-- 

seize  any  one  in  the     nuUo  pecuniae  numcro  claudetur,  sed  apud  Anglos  boteles  i.  e.  sine 

altar  whichThc  ^  ^     cinenuM  vocatur.     Haj  vero  emendee  nihil   ad   Archiepiscopuin,  scd 
English  call  Fritstool,  j^d  canonicos  tantum,  pervenient. 

/.<?.  chair  of  quiet  or  ^,  .   .  .,-,..,..,,  ,  .  .         ... 

peace,  for  so  atrocious      Canonici  *^  sancti  Petri  in  iJirth,  i.  c.  domestica  sivc  intrinsica 

a  sacrilege  amends  arc  [.^^\\[.^  appcllubautur.     Terra  Canonicorum  proprie  mensa  S.  Petri, 

within  the  competence  i  t^  _  ..... 

of  no  court,  ancl  Dcniquc  si  quid  in  ecclesia,  vcl  in  cimitcrio,  vel  in  domibus  canoni- 

can"be*closed,"jut^^    coruin,  vcl  in  tcrris  eorum  injuste  cgeiint,  aut  ipsi  canonici  advertus 

is  called  botcless  "  ^^  this  the  Ligulf,  father  of  Morkcre,  whose  murder  is  related  by  Freeman,  JVurm. 

These  fines  belong         Con'j.,  iv.,  671 '(  „,    ,      .         .,    , 

not  to  the  Archbishop      ''  Henry  I.'s  charter,  as  recited  by  Henry  III.,  begins  with  these  words. 

but  the  canons.    The      c  Drake,  in  his  i'ic/'flt'ww,  p.  5i8,ed.  173G,  has  made  an  odd  mistake  in  translating 

canons  were  appealed  this  passa<^e :  •'  the  person  that  takes  him  shallmake  amends  by  the  universal  judgment 

in  hearth,  ?'.^;,  in  their    „,.,,,,,,.       ,  «     ^i  » 

jj^^^g       '  of  the  hundred,  who  shall  give  damages  for  the  same." 

The  Canons'  laud  is         **  The  Saxon  Frithstool  still  remains  at  IJcveiley  and  at  Hexham,  in  l)oth  places 
called  St.  I'eter'a  lately  replaced  near  the  high  altar. 

t'^'^''^-  o  This  paragraph  is  obscure.     It  very  probably  means  "  the  Canons  were  called  the 

household  of  S.  Peter  and  their  lands  his  table."    But  if  so  the  "  in  "  is  untranslated. 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMOEIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER.  193  ] 

invicem  aut  adversus  alios,  vel  alii  adversus  canonico?,  vel  ad  versus  If  in  church  or  church- ' 

a  lies,  forisfactura  nulla  Archiepiscopo,  sed  tota  canonicis  iudicabitur.  J^^'']  "V^^  ''*^"^^^  °'"  ' 
_  ^  i     _  •^  laiKls  or  the  civuons 

Arcliiepiscopus  autem  in  robus  canonicorum  hoc  tantum  juris  habct,  '^"y  '^'^e  flonc  wrong, . 
quod  defuncto  canonico  ipse  alii  prcbendam  preebet,  nee  tamcn  sine  //iY^*i- se^or^a"ainst 

consilio  et  asseusu  capituli.    Si  vero  Arcliiepiscopus  adversus  apostoli-  *^'tl'tT.s,  or  others  I 

1  .       .  ,  ^         ^.^         J^  .„  ^  against  the  canons  or   ' 

cum    vel   regem   comisent,  ad   quod  redimendum  et  pacificandum  others,  no  forfeiture     , 

pecunia  opus  erit,  nichil  tantum  canonici  Archiepiscopo  pr£eter  suam  the  ArchhEh'o^i^  but     ' 
voluntatem  dabunt ;    et  pecunia  canonicorum  et  hominum  eorum  the  whole  to  the 

,11.  A      1  •      •  •  •  n  canons.     This  right 

pro    commissa    vel    debito    Archiepiscopi    nee    m    namum'^   ca- only  has  the  Arch- 
pietur.  hishcp,  when  a  canon 

TT  i'  .   .    .       1        .,  .  .  .     „  o  is  dead,  he  presents 

llabent  canonici  in  domibus  et  in  terns  suis  Socam  et  Saccam,  the  prebend  to  another, 

Tol  et  Thcam,  et  innmganthef'  et  intol  et  utol,  et  omnes  easdem  S  S"e' als'cnt  aml'^" 

honoris    et    libertatis    consuetudincs,    quas     ipse    Eex    in    terris  consent  of  the  chapter 

11,,  .  *      1  •      •  1         T-v        •  TA       If  money  is  needed  to 

suis     habet,     et     quas     ipse     Archiepiscopus     de     Uommo     -Deo  make  amends  for  some 

et    de    rege    tenet.       Hoc    vero    amplius,    quod    nemo    de     terra ''^'^'' P^  *-^^ -^'^''^^^'V^^^P 
.     -P,       .  ,  .  T      •  against  Pope  or  King, 

canonicorum    sancti    Petri    wapentachimot,    nee   tredmcimot,    nee  the  canons  shall  only 


siremot  sequetur,    sed  calumpinans  et   calumpniatus    ante  ostium  ^jj^l^j.^p^ggggglj^^^^^^ 

monasterii   S.   Petri  reetitudinem  recipiet  et  faciet.     Hoc  autem  a  not  be  seized  for  his    I 
1.    .      .  ....  .     ^        •  .  •^  •  •  default  or  debt  nor        ' 

religiosis  pnncipibus    et    bonis  antecessoribus    sic    provisum    est, '^  taken  in  pledge.  ' 

prtedicta  placita  sequi  et  tenere.     Si  vero  aliquis  terrain  aliquam  P^?  ^''^"'^"^^'''■^°,^'^, 
^  '^  /■  T  1     .  their  houses  and  lauds  j 

Sancto  Petro  dcderlt  vel  vendident,  nemo  postea  socam  vel  sacain,  soc  and  sac,  toll  and     ^ 

tol  aut  theam  in  ilia  clamabit,  sed  easdem  consuetudincs  quos  et  alia  in\T)lKaud  dufolf  and    1 

terra    S.   Petri    ista  habebit,   tantum   honoris  et   reverentiee  ante-  -I'l  the  customs  of  the  j 

,    1 .  ^     •        ^    r        ^  honour  and  liberty 

cessorcs  nostri  sancti  principis  apostolicorum  ecclesise  delerrebant.  which  the  King  has     ! 

Postremo  ab  omni  consuetudine  et  exactione  quieta  et  soluta  est  "\H^  \'!""^^^- ''^l^'^. , 

^_  ^  which  the  Archbishop 

terra   S.    Petri.     Quando  autem  Rex  congregabit   exercitum  unus  himself  holds  of  Lord 
1  ,,  i-ii...  •  Ml     God  and  the  King.        ' 

homo  tantum  preeparabitur  de  tota  terra  canonicorum,  cum  vexillo  This  further, thaf  no 

tenant  of  the  canons     i 
"  "  Namum  "  or  '•  namium  "  from  a  word  akin  to  German  •'  uehmcn,"  to  take,  is  bound  to  service  of   i 
i.e.  distress  ;  security  taken.  Wai>entake-moot    _ 

.  ,  ,  ,        .  ,   ,      -,•  ,1  •  ,.     T    TT        ,1-1  J\idiug-moot,orbhire- 

b  The  right  of  seizing  and  hanging  or  beheading  a  tnief.     In  Henry  s  charter  it  jj^oot,  but  whether        ! 

is  spelt  "  infangenetheof."  plaintiif  or  defendant   ■ 

<=  In  Henry's  charter  here  is  inserted  "quatinus  canonici  placitantes,  pulso  signo,  shall  receive  and  do 
ad  boras  canonicas  cito  possint  regredi.     Archiepiscopo  ycro  per  ^cuascallos  suos  ct  ^' S^*^  brfore  thc^hjor    | 
milites  suos  facilius  erat  "  &c.     Doubtless  the  copyist  omitted  by  mistake  this  pleasing         '  "         '   ! 

picture  of  the  canons  in  court  adjourning  to  choir  for  service. 

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194         VISITATIONS    AND   MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 

Lands  newly  given      S.  Petii,  qui,  si  biirgcnscs  in  cxercituin  icrcnt,  dux  o.t  signifcr  cos 

{^''JnTi'rwTgcl     pi-ccedct,  sine  burgcnsibus  nee  ipse  ibit.-^ 

Lastly  the  land  of  S.        Si  qxus  homicida,  vcl  fur,  vel  criminator,  vel  exul,   fugcrit  ad 

Peter  is  free  from  all  /       _    _^      .  i    f>       •  •  i 

custom  and  service,     ccclcsiam  b.  1  otri,  pi'vD  dctensione  vitaj  suse  ct  membrorum  suorutn, 

When  the  Knig  p^.^.   gpatium    30  diei'um    ibi    i^acem    habebit.     Quod    si  infra  hoc 

assembles  his  army,      ^        .  .  .       ^  .  .    , 

one  man  only  from      spatium     non    potucrit  pacificarc  hominem   cum   illis  cum   quibus 

Snoll^'^JhalTbe'*^*^'  male  cgcrit,  infra  illos  30  dies  potemnt  clerici  ilium  duccre, 
cqnipped  with  S.  nuocumquc  malefactor  ele^jerit,  usque  ad  xxx  leuga?,  cum 
Peter's  standard,  who,   \.  ^\         ^  .  ,     .   °  ,.       ••  .     r  ■ 

if  the  burgesses  go  to  aliquo   [signoj  pacis  ecclcsiee  ct   reliquiis,    ct   qui    irogerit    paccm 

the  army,  shall  go       g^pra    illos    infra    prfedictum     spatium    reus    crat    pacis    ccclesiae 

Ijcforc  them  as  leader  .  ^  . 

and  standard  bearer.    fracta3,    viz.    1    liuudrcth  ;    ct    hoc   modo    potcrunt   illuin    duccre, 

he  wilfnot'ga"'^''''''  ill^i'"  »nalelactorem  lis  tribus  vicibus  et  reduccre.      Si  vero  aliquis, 

If  a  homicide  or  thief  inter  malos  existens,  consortia  illonmi  vltare  voluerit,  et  ad  ecclcsiam 

or  crimmal  or  outlaw  g  Petri  vcnerit,  volcns  ibi  libcntiiis  in  pace  viverc  quam  inter 
fly  to  the  church  lor  ^     ^  ,  _  '  _  / 

defence  of  lite  or  limb  criminosos  habitare,  ex  consuctudine  ecclcsifc,  quam  diu  voluerit, 
ha  sh.all  be  in  peace      m  •    •  .     •.        /-\       i      •      t      •  %    .  i. 

there  30  days.    If       ^^'   ^^  P'^^^  c^-*^  potcrit.     Klwod  SI   aliquis  cx  necessitate  urgcnte 

within  that  time  he  indc  disccdcre  volucrit,  conductu  Canonicorum  cum  signo  pacis 
cannot  make  peace        ,^     ,     .  .,,  .     .  i      •   .  -n     i     •  •     -i         i-i 

with  those  he  has         -Lcclcsiae,  paciticc  potcrit  lie  ad  vicniam  JliCclGsiam  simucm  libcrta- 

wrouged.  the  clerks     ^Q^y^  p^^.ig  habcntcm,  viz.   ad  Ecclcsiam  Beati  Johannis  in  Bevcr- 

shall  be  able  to  take  ^ 

him  up  to  30  leagues,  laco,  ad  Ecclcsiasm  Beati  Wilfridi  in   liipun,  et  Beati  Cuthbcrti 

wiUi'r()me'[si'on]'of    ^'^  Dunelmo,    et  ad    Ecclcsiam    Sancti  Andrea)  in  Hcstoldesham. 

theChurch'spcaccand  Similcm  cmcndacionein  pro  pace  fracta  habent  proeflita3  Ecclcsins. 

relics,  and  any  who  t>      .•      t   i  •       •       t>  i  m- 

breaks  the  peace  on     lirCclcsia    vcro    licati    Joliannis    in   lieverlaco   miliare  unum   circa 

them  within  the  said 

space  shall  be  guilty 

of  breaking  the  «  Henry  I.'s  charter  ends  here,  except  that  there  is  added  a  clause  which,  if 

Church's  pence,  VIZ,  •  ,      ^     ,-.      •  .-  .  .  ,., 

of  1  huudrcth,  and  in  genume,  and  not  a  later  invention,  goes  to  prove  the  existence  (hitherto  denied)  in 

this  way  they  shall  Jlngl.and,  before   the  Conquest,  at  least  in  Edward  the  Confessor's  reign,  of  the 

be  able  to  conduct  judicial  duel.     "  Ilanc  igitnr  consuetudinem  sive  dignitatem  habent  canonici  Sancti 

b'^k^r times'^    ""  Petri  ab  antecessoribus  Kegibus,  noniinatim  quorum  a  regc  Edwardo,  conccssam  et 

Any  one  coming  to  confirn.atam,  ut  nullus  dc  fainilia  regis,  vel  dc  exercitu  ejus  in  propriis  domibns 

the  Churcii.  wishing  canonicorum,  ncc  in  civitate,  nee  extra  hospitctur.     Ubicunque  sit  diiellum  El)or. 

to  live  in  peace  there  juramcnta  debent  fieri  super  toxtum,  vel  super  relitniias  Sancti   Petri;  et   facto 

rather  thuii  to  dwell  ,     ,,        •  .  •  ^-     i        i    •       ^       i-  n  .  ■    «•      i    .^ 

niiion<'  criminals  by  '^'"^''">  victor  anna  victi  ad  ecdesiam  bancti  Tctri  olTerebat.  gratias  a  Deo  ct  Sancto 

the  cirstoiii  (.f  the  I'etro  pro  victoria."   Tlicn  comes  another  short  cl.iusc  to  the  effect  that  whenever  the 

Church  shall  be  in  canons  or  their  men  sue  in  the  king's  plejis  their  claim  is  to  bo  determined  before 
peace  there  as  long  as  every  case,  so  far  as  it  can  be  determined  saving  the  dignity  of  the  Church, 
he  will.  o  o      . 


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SO  habet  Uberum  et  quictum   ab  omni  regali  consuctudine,  et  ab  l£  any  one  for  urgent 
omni   rediditione   pecuniaj,   et  ab   omni   gildo,   quod  regi  per  uni-  pait\^c'shan*bc'ablc 
versam  Angliam   persolvilur.     A  principio  illius  iniliarii  usque  ad  to  go  In  peace  under 
a/,.  •  .  .  p  •,  .,.,  conduct  of  the  canons 

cnicem    Alestani,  regis,    si   quis  pacem    tregerit,   reus  erit  i.  nun- ■^vitll  the  si^n  of  the 

dreth,  a    cruce   Alestani  usque  ad   cimiterium,   de   iii.  hundreth  ;  ^^."1'*;^^''*  P^''^'^^  *"  ^, 
^    .    .  ...  „  .        ,  .     ,  /^    •     •    r      neighbouring  church 

Qui  in    cimiterio    pacem     fregerit    de    vi   hundretn ;     Qui    infra  having  like  privilege, 

ccclesiam     de    xii    hundreth ;     Qui    infra    cliorum,    amissa    omni  g^  ■^yj^f^.j^^'^-j^'^Jl'^jp^^l 

possessione    sua,    corporis    sui     subiacebit    periculo,    absque  omni  S- ^uthbert's  in 

.   ^      .  .    ^  .       -^        o-     -f-  /  1         Durham,  S.  Andrew's 

satismictione     nominatse     pecuniae.         bimili    modo    cum    eadem  in  Hexham.    They 

libertate  miliare  suum  habet  circa  se    Ecclesia  Beati  Wilfridi  in  ji^'^e  similar  fines  for 

breach  of  peace. 
Ripun.     A  cujus  principio    usque    ad    cimiterium,  pacis  violator  (The  mile  sanctuary 

.      T       ...    1         1,1        •  ''i^'        1  ••         ^  .1     of  S.  John's,  Beverley, 

reus   erit  de  uj   hundretn;  in    cimiteno    do   vi;  in   choro,    ut   de  ^nd S.Wilfrid, Ripon.) 

aliis   pra3diximu3.     Prseterea  in  tribus  festivitatibus'^  et   in  Penta-  Moreover,  at  the 

three  feasts  and  at 
costen    pacem  habent  omnes  ad    haec   testa    venientcs   a    domibus  Pentecost,  all  coming 

suis,  cundo  et  redeundo ;  et  si  quis  super  eos  pacem  fregerit,  reus  honifrh"x^ve^peace^-^"^ 

erit  1   hundreth.     Similiter  in  festo   Sanctl  Johannis  Baptistte  et  fine  for  breach, 

Beati  Johannis  confessoris,   et  dedicationis  Ecclesice  apud  Bever-  -j^j^g  Archbishop's 

lacum  codem  modo:  in  duobus  festivitatibus  Sancti  Wilfridi  pacem  land  in  the  city  of 

....  ^  1  ork,  IS  tree  for  the 

luibent  cuntes  et  redcuntcs;  et  qui  cam  interim  fregent,  usque  ad  use  of  the  Arch- 

miliare  vcniendo,  et  a  miliari  redeundo,  reus  erit  pro  pace  fracta  t^e  ^.^^^ °1^^^  [[^^j^j^^.""^" 
1  hundreth.  is  to 'the  King.  ° 

rn  .,1  A      1  •      •  T     T     .   •        •    -L   ^     l^^  '    Merchants,  whence- 

ierra  autem  liia,  quam  Archiepiscopus  iiabet  m  civitate  riboraci,  soever  they  come, 

debet  esse  tarn  quieta  et  libera  ad  opus  Archiepiscopi  in  omnibus  ^^c^ijjjf'ij*„"y^''j^njj  *^® 
consuetudinibuSj  sicut  dominium  regis  est  regi.     Et  si  mercatores,  are  not  to  be  hindered 
undicunque  venerint,  voluerint  in  terra  Archiepiscopi  hospitari,  non  or  any  other  Tand^  if 
debet  eos  prcepusitus    rcuis,   vel    alius,   impedire;    et,   si  in   terra  they  have  paid  cus- 
.      ,.      .^.^  ,."',.  ..^..,..  .  toms  to  the  Arch- 

Archiepiscopi  consuetuiiinem  dederint  mmistns  Archiepiscopi,  quo-  bishop's  servants,  may 

cunque  voluerint  debent  abire  quieti.     Praiterea  in  Walbugath  et  J^^P^'^.^y"'^  ^^'^^^^'e 

ill  Fiskargat,  cujuscunque  terra  sit,  tertia  pars  redditus  debet  esse  j^  ^yj^jj^^g^j^  ^^^^^^ 

Archiepiscopi  in  placitis,  et  in  theloneo,  et  husgable;  et  in  omni  Fishcrgate,whose  ever 

^   ,.  '-  ^  '        ,  ,   ,  T       A  -T  •  the  land  IS,  the  third 

ccnsuetudine;  et  totum  bladuin  delatum  de  Austridmg,  ct  pisccs  p.^i-t  of  the  rent  ought 

inde  delati,  debent  ibidem  in  eadem  consuetudine  vendi ;  et  totum  J,^  ^^;^;;Vn;tontur 

r.   -,-.  .      .T       A       i.1     .^n  housc-lax  and  all 
^  Viz.,  probably  of  S.  Peter  in  Cathedrn,  22  February,  S.  Peter  the  Apostle,  29 

.Juue,  and  S.  Peter  ad  Vincula,  1  Aug. 


196  VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTBWKLL   MINSTER. 

cnstoni,  ami  all  wheat  tlieloneum  ciit  archiepiscopi  in  clcmentesthorp  de  omnibus  navibus 

from  the  East-rilling  .„  ,.  •    ^      ^    •       ^       i  ^     ^i  •    r    • 

uml  fish  ought  to  be     ^"^2  illuc  applicuerint,  ct  juxta  clementesthorpe  interius  quantum 

sold  there  subject  to  terra  Archicpiscopi  durat :  et  tota  consuetudo  piscium  Archiepiscopi 
the  same  custom  ;  and  r         r  i  i  i 

all  the  toll  in  ex  ambabus  partibus  aquce." 

£\X^"af  faTas'thc  Prseterea  in  maneria  syreburne  debet  esse  prajpositus,  qui  eat  ad 

Archbishop's  land       comitatum,   et  triding,  ct   -wapentac  :    et  si    aliquis   de    territorio 
extends,  from  all  ships  .„.  .....  ^       .         ,  .  .  ,   ,        ... 

lying  there, belongs  to  iHius  nianeru  ibi  luerit  calnmpniatus  ;  ipse  debet  ibi  pro  eo  rectum 

the  Archbishop,  and    offcrre,    et    in    manerium''    in    consuetudine    arcliiepiscopi    rectum 

the  wliole  custom  ot  '  . 

fish  from  both  sides     facere.     Per   prajpositum   illiini,  et    iter    illius  ad   placita,   debcnt 

homines  illius  praspositurai  manere  quieti.     Rc?pectum  autem  debet 
In  the  manor  of  Shcr-  i     ,  .  .  .  ,      . 

bum  there  should  be    Irabcre  iste  prsepositus,  nee  scquatur  comitatum,  nee  cetera  placita, 

sh^re'fmoot^^r^ino-  ^^  ^^^°  ^^^  ^^^°  primum  firmam  arcliiepiscopi  parare  ceperit,  usque 
and  wapentake,  and  viii  dies  post  discessum  arcliiepiscopi :  ct  si  interim,  quam  diu 
of 'thai  manor  wiio  is  ^^'cbiepiscopus  crit  in  mancrio,  de  liominibus  illius  manerii  aliquis 
charged,  and  do  right,  calumpnia  contigerit,  per  plcgium  illius  praipositi,  ille  qui  calump- 
Ju  the^r'c&i^are  fre^^  ^^'^  ^^^  debet  cssc  quictus,  doncc  viii  dies  post  discessum  archi- 
from  attendance  at  cpiscopi  de  mancrio.  Et  si  prajpositus  a  comitatu  vel  ceteris 
pleas.    But  the  bailiff     i„   v-       i    r       •        •  •  -i       .  ^       i    ^  • 

is  not  to  attend  from    pl^^^t's  clclucnt  Sine   occasionc,   quam    evidenter  ostendat,   prima 

the  time  he  has  begun  vice  emcndabit   1   bovem  ;    secunda  vice,  v'  et  iiii'^;    tertia    vice 

to  prepare  the  Arch-    j.     .  ,.  r    •  r 

bishop's  manor-house  dnnidium  loristactura3,  Viz.,  X  horas.'^ 

aftlr^^s^le'^arture  Hanc  consuetudincm  babet  manerium  de  Beverlaco,  quod  ei  pcr- 

and  for  the  same  time  tinet,  et  cetera  maneria  totius  arcliicpiscopatus.  Et  Dapifer  arclii- 
the  men  of  the  manor  ^^-^^    •••..•  -^   ,.  x     ^ 

are  quit  too.    If  the    ^pi-scopi,   SI  Sit  in    comitatu,    potcst  acquictarc   omncs   pra^positos 

bailiff  makes  default  maneriorum  faciendo  id,  quod  facerent  pra^positi,  si  adessent.*^ 

in  attendance  he  is  ^                           l      i           > 

fined  an  ox  the  first 

time,  ij3.4d.  the  second,  '  The  Ouse.                                                        ^  ^Sic. 

half  a  forfeiture,  viz.  c  ^he  Hcv.  W.  Hunt  refers  me  to  Chron.  de  Abingdon,  ii.,  30,  131.     Rolls  Ed". 

ten  oras,  ?./'.,  a  mark,  i        ,                                          ,         i-          •        •      ,^      rr.       ■         .,    . 

the  tliird.  where  bora  or  era  means  a  number  of  pennies,  viz.,  10.    Ten  times  that  sum  being 

The  same  custom  "•  mark,  that  is  probably  the  sum  meant  here  rather  than  20''.,  the  value  of  the  ora 

prevails  in  the  manor  in  some  places  in  Domesday.     Sec  Dncangc  under  prci. 

oLer  manors  of  "ill  "  '^^^  Archbishops,  like  the  Kings,  seldom  stayed  more  than  a  few  days  in  the 

whole  Archbisliopric.   ^'"^^"^  phue.     Their  trains  ate  np  the  provisions  of  the  country  at  such  a  pace  that 

The  Archbishop's         they  could  not  be  provided  for  long.     Hence  the  large  number  of  manor-houses 

steward,  if  in  the  possessed  by  them  were  not  so  much  a  luxury  as  a  necessity. 

county,  can  relieve 

all  bailiffs  of  the 

manors  by  doing  for 

thorn  what  they  would 

do  if  present. 


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Southwell  Parish  Altar.  j 

Ornaments,  Boohs,  and  Furniture,  1309.  I 

(W.  B.,  p.  138.)  j 

Indentura^    capituli    Suthwell    taiicrens    vicarium    parocliialem  0  Aug.,  I3fi0.  ] 

J  .•       1.      •       1.  •  Iiuleuturc  between  the  i 

ejusdem  pro  oinameutis  aitaris  et  mansi.  ^         ^  chapter  and  Eichard 

Heec  indentuva  inter  iios   capitulum  Ecclesia3  Colleo;iata3  Bcatee  of  Normanton,  the 
■»r-oiii  T^-  T1-1  1     parish  vicar  at  the 

JMarise     buthwcll,     ex    una    parte,     ct     Dominuni     iticardum     cle  altar  of  S.  Vincent, 

Normanton,  vicarium    nostrum   parocliialem,   aitaris    Sancti   Yin-  Jj^c  auir&c™"ind"^    I 

ccntii  in  eadcm,  ex  altera,  de  ipsiua  Domini  Ricardi  consensu  ex- furniture cf  the  vicar's  I 

presso  confecta,  Testatur,  quod  infrascripta  sunt  ornamenta  sive  bona       '      '  : 

dicti   aitaris,  quie  omnia  et  singula  prrefatus  Dominus  Kicardus  sc  ] 

fatetur  tcneri  dimittere,  sive  restituere,  successori  suo  cuicunque,  in  i 

eadera  vicaria  vicario  canonice  instituendo.  ] 

In    primis,    videlicet,    liabentur    in    altari    prtedicto   duo   caliccs  2  silver-gilt  chalices,    I 
^•■1  •  •  i.ciTx  one  weighing  30s.         I 

argentei  et  deaurati,  quorum  minor  ponderat  xxx^  vei  ampims,  et  ^g^^^j  ^^  °qj.^-jjj 

major  xxxvS  usualis  monetae  ;  et  deservitur  minor  communiter  pro  celebration,  the  other  ■ 
/,.',..  .  -'       .       .  .         T   1        D       1  3os.  used  for  Laster     J 

ceiebratione  divmorum  m  eodcm  altari,  et  major,  cliebus  rasclicE,  pro  commnniou  of 

communicatione  parocliianorum.  pausuoncis. 

Habentur  insuper  ibidem  duo  frontalia,  quorum  unum  de  serico  2  frontals,  one  of  silk, , 

pretii  iii^  iiij*^,  et  aliud  de  nrmis  Domini  Regis,  pretii  i'f ;  Quatuor  J.yjg  ^.^'^  arms.,  2s. 

insuper    tobalia,  pretii   cujuslibet    ij%   et  duo- ferialia,    pretii  xvj*!,  4  towels  price  2s.,  two  . 

quorum    unum    invetcratum    est:     Habentur    et    ibidem     quatuor  picte  sets  of  vestments/ 

vcstimenta     integre,     videlicet,     casualia^'     stola,    fanula,^     alba,  J^^-^^^^^,"^^'^^^^^^^^^ 

amictus,    zona,    et    corporale.'^     De    quibus    vestimentis    duo    sunt  girdle, and  corporal,    ; 

,.  .    .  i^--       1  o        .     !•    J      •       two  principal,  one 

principalia,  et  unum   eorum  cum  tunicis,  pretn   xis%  et  aliua  sine  ^^.jfi,  tunics. worth  40s. ' 

tunicis,  pretii   1%  tertium  vero  dominicale,  pretii  xx%  et  quartum  undone  without 

'    ^  .  tunics.  i)Os.,  a  third  for  ■ 

feriale,  pretii  x^     Habetur  et  ibidem  quintum  vestimentum  prceter  Sundays,  20s.  a  fourth  ; 

casidam,  viz,  alba  et  duo  amictus  cum  stola  et  flmula,  pretii  xiij*  AVfth'sct'.Ti'thout     ' 
iiij'i.     Et  duo  cervicalia  cooperta  syndone  rubeo,  cum  uno  lectrino  a  chasuble,  13s. -Id. 

"  This  is  so  full  and  so  earl  v  au  inventory  of  church  goods  that  it  seemed  to  deserve  * 

special  notice.  : 

b  Sir.  i 

e  Now  commonly  called  the  maniple,  a  word  not  found  in  English  before  the  _| 
Reformation. 

d  The  napkin  used  to  cover  the  bread,  i.e.  the  Lord's  body. 


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2  cnshioDs  covered  pro  altari,  cum  xi  manutcrglis,  prctii  xv%  quorum  duo  longiora  sunt 
■nith  red  svndon.  and  i^        •    •       t   i  i-,       i  .  i 

alcctcni.  with  11        P^"'^  mensa  Domini-'  dicbus  lascliaj ;  ct  uno  tapeto  strucndo  coram 

napkins,  ir-.s.;  two  of  altaii,  duplifibus  Testis,  sub  pcdibus  sacerdotls. 

them  long  ones  for  t^     i     i  m  •  i  i     i  • 

"the  Lord's  tai lie"  at      -t-t  habctur  ibidem  unus  habitus  cnoralis  competcns,  pretii  xx' ; 

do^Wc  y^stT^  A ^"^    ^^^'    C''P^>    alinicium,    rocl.ctum,    et   fcuperpellicium,  et   secundum 
choral  habit,  20s.,  viz.  supcrpelllcium  pro  visitatione  inlirmorum,  cum  luccrna. 
snrpUceT°vhh*a  ^  '        Inveniuntur  ibidem  nicholminus,  unum  missalc  competcns,  preiii 
second  surplice  and      xP :  ununi  cpistolaic,   pretii  xiij^  et  iiii*^:   duo  ffradalia  nova  cum 
a  lantern  for  visiting   „,  ..      .     \      .  ,.   ,  ,  ;        ,    .   .  .... 

the  sick.  Iroponis  inclusis,  pro  diebus   saltern   dominicis  et   lestivis,  pretu 

?oT^ristX?'i3s°4d- "^^^^^^'^■^  xxvj^ :  unum  portiforium  notatum  et  bene  apparatum 
2  grayls with  Tropavs,  pretii  c^ :  unuin  antifonarium,  quod  non  est  dc  usu  Eboraci  pretii, 
witii^music  and'^weU  ^  ^%  <^^  ""^  Icgenda  vetus,  pretii  vi*  viij'^ :  et  duo  manualia,  quorum 
iMiind,  lOOs.;  unum  vctus  cst,  pretii   ii^ :   et  aliu'!,   pretii  v^ :    Item   unus   liber 

nuti])honar,  not  of  .  ^  '■ it-'  ti 

the  York  use,  10s.;       qui  vocatur  '  summa  summarum,  °  pretii  luj".     Lt  unus  libcr  qui 

Gs"  Sd'Tmami-ils  "^'ocatur  '  manuele   pechc,'  •=   lingua   gallica    conscriptus,    pretii  iij^ 

2s.  and  5s.;  .surnnia  iiij*^.     Item  unus  liber  sermonum,  tam  de  epistolis  quain  dc  cvangcliis 

sumniarum,  f.i;  i       •    •     ti  , <.        ^  vi  •       • 

manuel  pechc,  in  dominicalibu?,  per  annum,  pretii  iiij\:  et  unus  libcr  expositonum 

French,  3s. -Id.;  ser-    evangeliorum  dominicalium  iDcr  annum,  pretii  iij*;  et  unus  libcUus 
mons  on  epistles  and  .    "  \     •     ,  ^  ....... 

gosi>els  throughout      qui  vocatur     pars  oculi  sacordotis,  "  pretii  vi'  viir. 

siUon^of'cospels     "  *  '^^^^  Lord's  table  is  not  the  altar,  but  a  long  table  set  out  for  the  Easter  coin- 

throughout  the  j-car,     niunion  of  the  parishioners. 

3s. ;  pars  oculi  sacer-  ^  The  summa  sumuiarum  must  be  the  book  (or  a  book  of  like  character),  Brit, 
(lotis,  Cs  8d.  An  ji^g,  Hyi-l,  ^g.  lOG,  m.  This  is  a  ilS.  of  the  first  half  of  the  fourteenth  century, 
iron  and  2  wooden        t,.  •    i-..      n  c  ■  ^  •   •  .  ■    .    r         o  i 

candlesticks  a  laton  "  '^  uteraliy  a  summary  of  summaries,  containing  extracts  fi-om  Summuhe  on  the 
sconce,  the  four,  2s. ;  l^ecietals,  the  Summa  Kaymundi  on  pcritentials,  the  Summa  ricdicantium  of 
a  portable  silver-gilt     Bromyard,  a  summa  of  Gr..S5tcste  of  Lincoln,  &c. 

cross  and  staff,  plated,  c  xhc  "  manuele  pechc  "  was  no  doubt  William  of  Waddiugton's  book  translated 
by  Robert  de  Bninn  (or  Bourne)  in  1.303  under  the  name  of  "  Ilandlyng  Synne," 
and  published  for  the  Roxburgh  Club  in  18t'2.  According  to  De  la  Rue  (Archicol. 
xiii.,  p.  23G)  Waddington  wrote  it  or  adapted  it  from  Floretus  "about  the  middle  of 
the  thirteenth  century."  It  is  an  odil  book  for  the  vicar,  as,  under  the  guise  of  a 
religious  work,  it  is  really  a  collection  of  Boccaccian  stories. 

••  John  de  Burgo,  who  was  Chancellor  of  Cambridge  in  1381,  wrote  the  famous 
J'l/jiilla  Oculi,  or  instructions  on  the  Seven  Sacraments,  the  Decalogue,  &c.,  kc, 
which  was  subsequently  printed.  The  second  book  begins,  "  Libri  sccundus  vol 
dextera  pars  oculi  sacerdotis."  But  if  this  is  the  same  book  an  earlier  date  must  be 
a.ssigiicd  to  it  than  has  hitherto  been  supposed.  He  describes  it  as  "  compilatn,"  so 
the  book  here  niojitioned  mny  be  one  from  ^^hi .h  it  wa-^  compiled. 


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Item,  unum  candelabrum  ferreum  breve  pro  altari,  et  duo  lignea,  A  gilt  copper  cup 

cum  uno  absconso  de  laton,  pretii  praidlctorum  quatuor,  ij^     I^cm  ljfj"^''J.JJ °J^*'^^^^°  ^^ 

habetur    una   crux     portatilis,    argentea  et  deaurata,   cum   baculo  Christ  to  be  kept  in 

1  ,1  ,        1      '         ,    ,  ,....,.         -r,  aud  adored,  3s. 

ad  eam  congruo,  ct  honestc    dcargentato,  pretii    vii''.      Item  una  a  short  in-oad  box 

cuppa  de  cupro  deaurato,  pendens  supra  altaie  pro  corpore  Christi  ^"^'  eucharist,  2s.  id.; 
....  ,  ,  ,  .....         „  .         two  vestment  chests, 

inibi  reponendo  et  adorando,  pretii  iij^     Kt  una  capsula  brevis  et  7s.  and  .Ss.  fid. ;  one 

lata  pro  cucharistia  similiter  conservanda,  pretii  ij^  vj'\      Item  duaa  ^^7^^^'  ^S^'! 

cistte  majores,   pro  vestimentis  et  libris  inibi  reponendis,   quarum  for  the  Virgin's 

pretium  unius,  vij'  et  pretium  alterius,  iin^  vi'\     Item  tertia  cista  a  ?^i°gcr  one  for 

minor  pro  cera   conservanda,   pretii  ii^  vi'^.       Itemi   dujB  capsular,  *^ll"?^  °^  S'''^  °* 
.  ,  .    .     ,  ^  '  S.  Vincent.  12d. 

quarum  una  minor  pro  cereis  ymaginis  beatee  Maria3  conservand is,  In  the  mansion-house: 

pretii  xviii'^,  et  alia  major  pro  cereis  Gildec  Sancti  Vincentii,  pretii  tab/^of!ash^?i'th"^ 

xii'V  three  trestle's,  18d.  ; 

T,  .  ....  .  ,   , .  .  a  black  oak  t:ible 

Item,  m  manso  ipsius  vicariaj;  videlicet,  in  aula,  una  tabula  men- with  two  trestles,  I4d.; 

salis  duplicata  de  fraxino,  cum    tribus   tristellis  ad  eam  con^ruis,  ^  ^l?^^  ^°?"''^'^'^^"' 
......  .  .  °         ^  2s.  6d.;  a  bason 

pretii  xviu" :   et   una  alia  tabula  mensalis  de  quercu   nigra,   cum  with  a  lavatory. 

duobus  tristellis  ad  earn  consuetis,  pretii  xiii'i ;  et  una  mappa  cum  reaSng-cha?4ith  a 

manutergio  mcliori,  pretii  ii^  vi'^,  una  pelvis  cum  lavatorio  meliori,  moveable  desk,  2s. ; 

^ „  painted  hanging  over 

Pl-etll  lUf.  the  bed,  12d. 

Item,  in  camera  ibidem  una  studualis  cathedra  cum  uno  desco  ?o '^1'*,'^^"'!^'°'^'°"*'^''' 

1.-5S.  4d. ;  a  brass  pot 
vcrsatlli,  pretii  ii%  et  uno  panno  depicto  ct  supra  lectum  confixo,  and  brazen  platter: 

,••      ••(!  four  leads. 

pretii  XU.  ^  A  pair  of  mills  for 

Item,  in  coquina  dua3  fornaceoe,  pretii  xiii^  iiii'^,  cum  olla  lerea  '""•''^  ^^^"^  ^^^'^  whole 

.,  ...  1        1       •      r.       -Ti        brewing  machinery. 

et  patella  aenca  meiion,  pretii  vuj^  et  quatuor  plumba  in  lornilibus  .Ss.  id. ;  a  flour  cask, 

posita,  pretii  x^     Item  unum  par  molarum  pro  brasio  molendo  cum  ^^'l'.'  ^  '^^'^^  ^°\  , , 

^  ^  ^  ■■■  *.  ,  making  pastry,  lid.  ; 

toto  apparatu,  pretii  iii^  iiii'^.     Et  unum  dolium  pro  farina  conser-  a  tai)le"aiid  tre.-tle, 

vanda,  pretii  xvi"^,  cum  uno   alviolo  pro  pasta  conficienda,  pretii  po|.j''j^ncicha^u  for 
xiiij'\  et   tabula  ad   idem   consueta    cum   tristell,  pretii  x"^.     Item 'drawing  water,  ]8d.; 

.       ^  ^  ^  i    i  •         i  ^        r  ••   a  StOUe  jar,  Is. 

citula  cum  corda  et  cathena  ad  nauriendum  aquam  de  fonte,  pretii  Richard  and  his 

xviii'\  cum  uno  alvo  lapideo  ibidem  reposito,  pretii  xii'l  successors  bound  to 

'  ^  ^  .  .  .      .  restore  the  ornaments 

Et  nos  capitulum  praefatum  Dominum  Ricardum,  de  ipsius  con- to  their  successors,  or 

sensu  expresso,  ad  dimittendum  sive  restituendum  omnia  et  singula  equivadentTuml  .nnd 

ornamenta    sive    bona    prgemissa,  vel    equivalentia,   successori    suo 

vicario  in  eadem,  quiscunque  fuerit,  condempnamus,  et  non  solum 


200         VISITATIONS   AND   MEMORIALS   OP   SOUTHWELL   MINSTER. 

to  take  an  oath  for      ipsum  Dominum  Ricardum  sccl  ctiam  quemllbef  vicarium  in  cadem 

tbeir  safe  custody  or        •        •     r  i  i     •     -r^         i-     Vx       i  •  v  i 

replacement  without    vicaiia  luturum,  ad  siinihtcr  aunittcndiim,  sive  I'cstitucndum,  omnia 

any  hi w  suits  or  ^t   sinfT^ula    ornamenta   sive   bona   proemissa,   vol  cquivalcntia,  suo 

appeals.  ...  .  . 

(J  Aug.  13G9.  -  SMccesson  vicaris  in  codeni  canonice  compellendum  esse  deceininnis 

modo    et    forma,    qui    scqultnr;     (^uod    videlicet,    futuri    vicarii 

successive,   in  admissione  sua  ad  piajdictam  vicariam,  jurr'.mcntum 

prasstent   corporale   de   conservando   praedicta   bona    lideliter,    vcl 

eorum    gcstimationcm,    ad    usum    futuri    successoris    sui;      quod 

quidcin    submittant    sc    pure,   sponte,    et    absolute,    liaeredes    et 

executorcs   suos  jurisdictioni,   laudo,  et   decreto    Capituli  in   bac 

parte;     ut    ipsum    Capitulum,    sine    strepitu    et    figura    judicii, 

sirnpliciter  et   do  piano  procedendo    licite  possint  compellorc  per 

omnes  censuras  ecclesiasticas  dictas  Vicarios,  et   executorcs  suos, 

ad  observandum  omnia  et  singula  praemissa,  in  restituendo  ablata, 

si  qua)  fuerint  (quod  absit),  vel  eorum  oestimationem,  omni  appel- 

'  latione,  supplicatione  et  querela  cL  alii  juris  remedlo  quocunque 

remotis:  quibu?  omnibus  renuncict  cxprcssc  diccndo  '  rcnuncio.' 

In  cujus  rei  testimonium  sigillum  nostrum  commune,  et  sigillum 

dicti   Domini   Ricardi   partibus  hujus  indentura^    altcinatim    sunt 

apposita.    Data  apud  Suthwell  vi  die  mcnsis  Augusti  Anno  Domini 

m"ccclx"  nono. 


visitations  and  memorials  of  southwell  minster.      201 

Statuta^  Ecclesi^  Collegiate  Beate  Marie  Yir- 
GiNis  DE  Southwell  Com.  Nott. 

Charta  WalterV^  Ehor.  ArcJiiepiscopi. 

Omnibus  Christi  fidelibus  ad  quos  presens  scriptum  pervenerit.  Gift  of  Kolleston 
Walterus   Dei    gratia   Ebon   Archiep.,  Anglic  primus,  salutem  in  £tn^of"comn,ons' 
Domino.     Noverit  Universitas  vestra    nos,  ob    reverentiam  Dei  et  o^  resident  canons. 
Beatse  Maria  Virginis,  ecclesiam  de  Rolleston  nobis,  a  veris  ejus- 
dem  ecclesise  Patronis,  scilicet  Priore  et  Conventu  de  Thurgarton, 
de  assensu  insuper  et  volunrate  Henrici  de  Eolleston  militis,  qui 
aliquando  jus  advocationis  sibi  in  eadem  vindicavit,  concessam  in 
usum   Sutiiwellensis    ecclesiai,   convertendam  canonicis     in    eadem 
ecclesia  Suthwellensi   Pesidentibus  in  augmentationem  communiae 
sute,  cum  omnibus  ad  eandem   Ecclesiam    pertinentiis,  caritive  con- 
tulisse:  salva  Priori  et  Conventui  de  Turgarton  portione  sua,  quam 
eis  de  pertinentiis  mcmoratas  ecclesi^e  concessimus,  sicuf^   in    carta 

«  These  statutes  are  derived  from  (i.)  a  collection  of  the  statutes  of  the 
church,  writtea  in  Elizabethan  hand,  and,  from  the  fact  of  their  containing  the 
Elizabethan  statutes,  put  together  no  doubt  when  the  Elizabethan  statutes  were 
made,  viz.  1585.  (ii.)  The  White  Book.  Some  of  the  statutes  occur  both  in  the 
collected  statutes  and  in  the  White  Book,  some  onl}'  in  the  former,  some  onlj  in  the 
latter.  Where  the  version  in  the  White  Book  and  the  collected  statutes  differs  I 
have  adhered  to  the  White  Book.  Dickinson  printed  the  collected  statutes,  but  with 
so  many  bad  mistakes  that  1 1  thought  it  well  to  print  them  again,  especially  as  he 
omitted  preambles  and  conclusions. 

^  Walter  Gray,  as  appear  from  other  deeds  relating  to  this  transaction,  dated  in 
1221  (see  Introduction  p.  xxxvi.).  It  is  obvious  that  this  is  a  deed,  not  a  statute  at 
all,  but  I  have  included  it  because  it  was  included  in  the  Elizabethan  collection  as  a 
statute.  It  is  given  in  the  White  Book,  p  42,  where  it  is  headed  "  Litera  Walteri 
Archiepiscopi  de  Ecclesia  de  Rolleston."  Nq  doubt,  like  some  imperial  statutes 
which  were  not  in  form  strictly  statutes,  it  was  held  to  ojDerate  as  such. 

<=  The  whole  of  the  document  from  here  to  the  end  is  omitted  by  Dickinson,  and  also  in 
the  Elizabethan  collection,  with  the  result  that  this  deed  and  the  statute  which  follows 
have  been  dated  fifty  years  later  than  their  real  date,  because  they  were  attributed 
to  Walter  Giffard,  1274,  instead   of  AV alter  Gray.     The  names  of  the  witnesses 

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202        VISITATIONS   AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTfiR. 

capitull  Sutliwell  eis  puper  hoc  confccta  contlnetur,  Solvcndo  annu- 
atim  dictge  eccleslae  Suthwell  duas  petras  cerai  *  in  augmontum 
luminarium,ad  duos  terminos,sicut  tarn  in  dicta  cartacapltuli.quam 
in  carta  dictorum  Prioris  et  conventus  inde  confccta,  continctur. 

Quod  ut  ratuni,  stabile,  inconcus;«um  durct  in  postcrum,  praescnti 
scripto  sigilli  nostri  munimine  consignato  confirmandum  duxiinug 
et  coiToborandum.  Hiis  testibus  Willelmo  Tessaurario,  Ricardo 
Cornubiae,  Serlone,  Roberto  de  AVynton,  Canonicis  Ebor  et  a  His. 

Literal  Domini  Walteri  Arcliiepiscopi  de  Comimmia  Canoniconim 
Resideniium. 

Tho  old  commons  Unlversis  sacraj  ministrls  eccle.-ine  fillis,  ad  nuosprajsens  scriptum 

and  Rolleston  Church  ,  .       t-i  »      i  •        •  i  • 

to  form  one  fund,        pcrvenent,  \valterus,  Dei  gratia,  Ebor.  Archieopis^copus  salutem  in 

meiro?wardenf '       domino.     Xoverit  Universltas  vestra,  nos,  de  assensu  Capltuli  Ec- 
named  hy  the  canons   clesiae  nostrae  Suthwcllensis,  de  communia  taliter  ordinaFSc;  vide- 
licet,  quod  antiqua  connnunia  dietse  ccclesioe,  et  ccclesia  de  Rol- 

settle  the  date.  William  of  Rotherfield  was  treasurer  of  York  in  1221.  Kichard 
of  Cornwall  hccame  chancellor  of  York  in  1225.  The  date  is  between  those  two, 
and  probalilv  in  the  earlier  year,  which  is  also  the  date  of  the  earliest  extant  statutes 
of  York,  hy  which  a  claim  of  William  the  Treasurer  to  a  double  share  of  commons 
was  settled. 

*  The  charter  of  Edgar  the  Trior,  and  the  convent  of  Thnrgartor,  statirtg  that 
they  were  bound  to  pay  two  stone  of  wax  annually  to  the  church  of  S.  Mary  of 
Southwell  for  ever,  one  at  Christmas,  one  at  Ladyday,  is  set  out  in  the  White 
Book,  p.  58.  It  is  witnessed  by  the  Abbots  of  Rucford,  i.f.  Rufford,  and  Welbeck, 
and  the  Priors  of  Lenton  and  Shelford. 

The  charter  of  the  Chai)ter  of  Southwell  granting  to  the  church  of  St.  Peter  of 
Thurgarton,  and  the  canons  there  .serving  God,  all  the  tithes  of  garbs,  /.  r.  wlicat,  of 
Fiskarton,  freedom  from  tithes  in  Fiskarton,  and  of  tithes  of  hay,  mills,  pannage, 
and  fisheries  in  the  same  manner,  and  8s.  from  tithes  of  Rolleston  Mill,  is  set  out  at 
p.  143  in  the  chartulary  of  Thurgarton  Priory.  Thi.s  is  now  in  Southwell  Minster 
library,  having  been  given  to  tho  chapter  by  Cecil  Cooper,  great-great-grandson 
of  Thomas  Cooper,  to  whom  the  greater  part  of  the  priory  lands  were  granted  by 
Henry  VIII. 

''  This  is  the  heading  in  the  White  Book,  p.  44.  It  is,  however,  a  fully  formal 
statute  of  the  church,  the  archbishop  enacting  with  tho  consent  of  the  chapter, 
and  scaled  with  the  seals  of  both. 


every  year. 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL    MIN'StER.         203  i 

1 

leston,  quam  eis  in  argumcntationem  cominuni®  suae  contulimus, 

et  quicquid  in  posterutn  accreverit  communijB  memoratse,  in  unam  j 

summam  conjugantur  per  manus  custodum,  ad  hoc  annuatim  de  ! 

communi  consilio  provisoruin,  et  factorum.  hoc  modo  inter  canoni-  ' 

cos  dividenda:   Statuinius    sane,  quod  si  quis  Canonicorum   Kesi- -'^^^'"-^ '^■'^"°" '■''**'''*^"*^' : 
.  .  .......  or  passing  through, 

dentium,  vel  etiam   transitum  facientium,  matutinis  novem  Iccti- present  at  matins,  to 

onum  interfuerit,  tres  denarios  percipiat  de  communia  :  qui   vero  fe'li^ts^lnTcd'^oa'^'^  '' 
duplici  festo  interfuerit,  sex  denarios  percipiat  de  eadem.     In  fine  double  feasts. 

.,.  .■  •      r>  •^  The  rest  to  be  dividedi 

autem  anni,  scilicet  in  octavis  rentecostes,  totum  residuum  com-  at  Whitsuntide  j 

muniae  inter  canonicos  residentes  equaliter  dividatur.  equally  amongst  the 

■*       .  canons  resident.  1 

lllos    autem    anno    illo    residentes    mterpretamur,    qui    per    tres  Residence  means  3  I 

menses   continuos,  vel  in  duas  partes  divisas,  in  ecclesia  Suthwell- "^J^'^'^s  *'^*^  o"*' ti"^^,  ' 

--  •      •!•         Ml  ••II-  1  or  in  two  halves,  in 

ensi  moram  lecerunt :  similiter  illos  qui  in  theologia  studuerunt.         Southwell  church  or   i 

Si  quis  autem  fratrura,  infra  tempus  residentiffi,  necesse  habuerit  ?,^*"f  ^  ^'''^'^^"'' "^      > 

exire  pro  negotio  urgenti,  de  licentia  fratrum  tunc  residentium  ad  Absence  for  urgent     : 

certum  tempus  exire  poterit;  et,  pro  residenti  nihilominushabeatur;  if^madT'upVithTn"'^*  ^ 

Ita  tamen,  quod  quanto  tempore  residenti^  deputato''  absens  fuerit,  the  year. 

tanti  temporis  defectum  eodem  anno  suppleat,  per  tot  dies  ibidem.  j 

residendo.  ! 

Ut  autem  bjBC  nostra  ordinatio  perpetuae  firmitatis  robur  obtineat,  Sealed  with  Arch- 

•    .,,  -^  -    -ii  •      T  bishop's  and  Chapter 

praesenti  scripio  siguium  meum,  pariter  cum  sigiilo  capituli  saepe- of  Southwell's  seals. 


dicti,  dignum  duxlmus  apponendum. 


Data  apud    Cawood,  duodecimo    Kal.    Maii,    Pontificatus   nostri  I^ated  at  Cawood 


decii 


no. 


April  20th,  10th  of 
Episcopate,  i.e.,  A.D.. 
1225.  I 


Confirmatio  °  Statuti  Walteri  Archiepiscopi  Ehorper  Capituhtm  j 

Sathwell  facta.  • 


Anno  Domini  m°cc™°  sexagesimo,  die  Jovis  proximo  post  festum  Thursday  22  Sept. 

Sancti  Mathffii  Apostoli,  vocati   convenerunt  fratres  et  concanonici  Jr^^- 

••■  Convocation  of 

a  Sic.     I  cannot  construe  it.  canous. 

b  Dickinson,  mistaking  Walter  Gray  for  Walter  Giffard  has  dated  it  1274.  Gray 
was  Archbishop  1216-1256,  Giffard  1266-1279. 

<=  White  Book,  p.  45.  This  is  an  interleaved  insertion  in  a  later  (Henry  VI.) 
hand  than  the  statute  of  John,  which  was  written  circa  1335.  I  have  put  it,  out  of 
date,  here,  as  it  is  simply  an  interpretation  of  the  statute  of  1225. 


204         VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 

Ecc]esia3  Beatie  ^larias   Suth-well,  in  capltulo  ejusdem  ecclesiaj,  ut 

statui  suo  et  praisertim  ecclesiaj  providerent. 

Interpretation  to  be         Et,  in  principio,  consensuernnt  omnes  tunc  praesentes,  et  procu- 

1225^:   °°  ''^^^"'^  ^*     ratores  eorum   qui   erant  absentes,  ut    ordinatio    et   fcripta  felicis 

(1)  Students  in  memorla3  Domini  Walteri  Archlcpiscopi  sigillis  ejus  et  dicti  ca- 

theologv  to  count  as        .,..  ,  .  •    •      j  x  Txii-i 

canons  resident,  only   pituli  signata,  de  conimunia  sua  percipienda  servetur    Intelligentes 

if  actually  studying,    j^j^j^j  [^  scripto  illo  insurtum,  quod   studentes  in  theologia  ia  perci- 
or  teaching,  at  Tans,  »  \  ...  . 

Oxford,  or  Cambridge  pienda  conimunia  dicentur  residentes,  de  illis  tantum,  qui  student 

t^eraiTafkt^t^oftlTe''    Parisiis,   Oxonia   vel   Cantabrigia,  et  qui    theologlain   audiverunt» 
.^ear.  vel  legerunt  ordinarie,  et  ad  minus  per  duos  terminos  illius  anni, 

quo  pro  residentibus  habentur:  alioquin  conimuniam  non  partici- 

pient. 

Absence  from  urgent       Intelligentes  etiam   illud,  quod  ibidem  inseritur    de   exeuntibus 

cause  to  break  propter  causam  urgcntein,  quod  canoniei,  si  infra  suos  trcs  menses, 

rcsid6DCG  nnlc^s  it  1)6  ^     ^  o  i 

only  twice  or  thrice,    tantum  bis  vel  ter,  causa  pradicandi,  vel  confessionis  audiendi  in 

deri'carcU^fv^arthe^^  ^"^^  ecclesiis  ad   praibendas   suas  pertinentibus,  vel    exercendi   in 

prebendal  church  for  prgebendis  suis  ea,  quffi  ad  curam  et  solicitudinem  earundem  praj- 

not  more  than  three  i,                        •,               •     •    j.  ^                 k*                  i 

nights  at  a  time,  and  bendarum    requiruntur,    exiennt,  et  non    ultra   tres   nodes    extra 

with  leave  from  the     villain  Sutliwell  moram  fecerint,  pro  residentibus  debentur  haberi : 
other  canons.  .   .  .,,,,..  .     . 

Ita  tamen  quod  a  canonicis  tunc   residentibus  hcentiam   petiennt, 

aliquain  dictarum  causarum  assignantes  sui  processus,  et  super  quo 

suae  veraci  assertion!  crederetur.     Canoniei  vero  qui   ad   aliquam 

ecclcsiam  suam,  ad  prsebendam   suam  non  pertinentem,  eadem    de 

causa,  consimilibus  vicibus,  petita  licencia,  et  assignata   causa  sui 

recessus exierint,  perficient  illos  dies  sufe  absentiai  infra  annum,  vel 

communiam  in  line  anni  non  percipient. 

Warden  of  the  Item,  custos  fabricaj  ecclcsia;  secum  habebit  aliquem  capellanum 

Fabric  to  have  a  ,  .....  •  i        -i         i  •  •  i 

colleague;  and  not  to  de  ccclesia,  sibi  a  residentibus  datum,  qui  in  compoto  suo  de  receptis 

begin  any  new  work    g^-g  gj.  gxpensis  suis  Doterit  ei  testimonium  perliibere.     Ncc  novam 

without  leave  of  .    .       .  .  ,  •  •    i 

general  chapter.  fabricam  incipiet  in  ecclesia,  vel  extra,  nisi  de  consensu  fratrum  in 

general!  congrcgatione  praesentium,  procuratoruin  absentiuin. 

Wardens  of  the  Item,  custodes  communia!  compotum  suum  in  line  anni  rcddcnt, 

»  The  hearers  arc  the  taught,  the  students;  the  readers  arc  the  teachers. 


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niodo  debito,  ut  alias  est  ordinatum.     Et  post  compotum  commit- Commons  to  render 
.^rt,.  I'l  .  -L  •!•  ...     yearly  accounts  ami 

tent    oracium   suum    cum    clavibus    et   omnibus   sibi    commissis  in  then  resign.    Two  or 

manus  canonicorum  tunc  re^identium:  qui  per  biduum  vel  triduum  three  days  del ibcra- 

tion  to  DrcccuG 
deliberabunt,  quibu?,  scilicet  illis  vel  aliis,  voluerint  illud  ofncium  appointment  of 

assignare.       Et    istud    fiet    singulis    annls    statim    post    compotum  brthe^^amrpurTon^ 

eorumdem.  or  not. 

Praeterea   supradicti   canonici    omnes    tunc   praesentes,  et    procu-  Deceased  residen- 

ratores  coium  qui  erant  absentes,  consensuerunt,  quod  illi  canonici  appordoned  mirt  of 

residentiarii,  qui,  infra  tempus  residentise  su£e  inchoatge,  per  mortem  common  fund. 

decedunt  naturalem,  pro  residentibus  intelligantur;  ita  quod  com- 

munlam,  ceterasque  distributiones  cictse  ecclesiie,  saltem   pro  rato 

temporis,  percipiant  cum  effectu. 

Statuta  ^  Edita  in  Convocatione  Canonicorum  Soidhxcell. 

Acta  generali  convocatione  slngulorum   fratrum  et  Canonicorum  Acts  of  Convocation 
Southwell  Ecclesige,  die  lunae  proximo  post  festum  Annunciationis  ^j^^^^^^^j^g^^^j  g*^yj.jj_ 

Beatae  Marias  Vii'ginis,  incipiente   anno   Domini   rnillesimo  ducen-  ^vell. 

,  .°  J  .  -r        ,  •     .  A.D.  1248. 

tesimo  quadragesimo  octavo,  de  communi  consiho  et  unanimi  con- 
sensu Canonicorum  ibimet  prsesentium,  et  procuratorum  Canoni- 
corum absentium 

Ordinatum    fuit    et   statutum,    quod    Gustos    fabricse    Ecclesiae  Warden  of  Fabric 
T  •  1     •  1  T    i  ^  to  render  accounts 

smgulis    annis,    semel   in    anno,    reddat   computum  suum,    coram  ^^pg  ^^  ^g^^.  t^  j^j^^.g 

duobus  Canonicis  Residentibus,  de  onmibus  receptis  suis,  et  quod  a  colleague, 
aliquis  canonicus  vel    vicarius    Ecclesiae    associetur    dicto   custodi, 
qui  possit  perhibere  testimonium  de  receptis  suis. 

Item,  quod  non   teneantur   Scholae   de   Grammatica'^  vel  Logica  Schools  of  grammar 
.    „  1         1       /-(  •  •  •  1  J •  T?\  ^^  logic  not  to  be 

intra  prasbendas  Canonicorum,  nisi  secandum  consuetudmem  li,bor.  held "ou  prebends 

Item,  quod  nuUus  clericus  ordinetur  auctoritate  ecclesiae,  neque  ^'-'^^^P^V^'^^'^T^^'^"*^'^ 
'    i  '■       with  lork  custom. 

"  These  are  not  in  the  White  Book. 

''  This  is  a  useful  entry.  It  irresistibly  suggests  that  the  existing  Southwell 
Grammar  School  was  existing  at  least  in  124S  ;  if  there  were  grammar  schools  even 
in  its^ small  dependent  townships,  which  formed  the  prebends.  The  custom  of  York 
was  that  the  Chancellor  should  present,  and  the  Master  should  be  an  M.A.,  and  hold 
for  three  years,  with  power  of  extension  for  a  fourth  year. 


206         VISITATIONS    AND    MEMOEIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL    MINSTEE. 

No  one  to  be  ordained  ad  tituluni  ecclcsia;  piomoveatur,  nisi  fucrit  de  choro  et  steterit  in 
"hurch  unksshe  has   pcrvitlo  caiionici ;  et  quod  tunc  fiat  in  Capitulo  examinatio  spiri- 

been  under  a  canon,     tuali?,  coram   Canonicis    tunc  in   ccclesia  Residentibus,   de  condi- 
and  passed  an  .      .,  ...  ,.  t  i 

examination  before      tionibus,  moiibus,  Vita  et  literatura  personaruin  ordinandaium,  et 

resident  canons.  qui  digni  invent!   fuerint  promoveantur,  qui  autein  indigni  nulla- 

tcmus  admlttantur. 
Ycarlv  visitation  to  Item,  quod  Singulis  annls  fucrit  visitatio  per  aliqiicm  Canonicum 

he  held  of  churches,     Hesidentcm,  assuniptis  sccuin  aliquo  vicario  et  licgistrario  capituli, 
of  prel)ends,  or  of  the  ,.  ,     ..  ,        i   ,.,  n-  j  • 

commons,  and  the        in   singulis    ecck'sus    picEbendalibus,    et    capelhs    ad    comniuniani 

aml?f*^tht' kUy.^'by  spectantibus,  de  vita  et  honestate,  moribus,  conditicne  et  conver- 

canon  resident  with  satione  saccrdotum  cajterorumque  ministrorum  in  preefatis  ecclesiis, 
a  vicar  choral  and  ,  ,  ,-   ■      ^   ^^    .•  i  •  ,  •  i  i         i- 

the  registrar,  et  de  publicis  debctis  parochianorum  tenentium  de  prajbendis. 

and  of  books,  vest-  ]tem,  de  llbris,  vcstiincntis,  et  caeteris  ornanientis  ad  ecclesiam 

chancers "'''"^"^^''^"'^^^■^i"^'"''^^^^'  ita  scilicet  quod  defectus  librorum,  vestimentorum, 

vasorum  et  cancellorum   emendentur  per   Canonicos   locovum,  seu 

eorum  procuratores,  infra   legitimuin  tempus  eis  prefigenduin,  ab 

ipsis,  per  quos  facta  fuerit  visitatio.     Similiter,  et  exces^us  et  delicta 

saccrdotum,  ministrorum  ccclesiarum,  et  parochianorum  teneutium 

de  prrebendis  per  CDsdem  corrigantur.     Quod  si  ipsi  Canonici,  vel 

procuratores  eorum,  in  supradictis  negligentes  inventi  fuerint,  tunc 

correctio  vol  emendatio  supradictorum  fiat  per  Capitulum   et   per 

Canonicos  in  eodem  Residentes. 

Vicars  in  the  mother        Ccterum  Statutum  est,  quod  singuli   Vicarii  ministrantes  M.ilrici 

tohavVa"ll"rc?eroT''  Ecclesiffi,  unanimcs  fiani  et  conforines;  et  quod  unum  habcant  Cus- 

thcir  conmions  elected  todcm  "  Communia!  sucC  per  ipsos  electuin,  qui  singula  bona  ct  legata 

bv  themselves,  who  is    ^  .       -k  i     •       o       .i         n  i    r  •  i-    .  i-         •    . 

to  divide  legacies  and   fraternitati  "^  ccclesiai  bouthwell,  a  aehinctis  relicta,  sequaliicr  inter 

payments  for  masses    ^.^g    ^ividat :    et   niiod    Quilibet    illorum   corporali    sacramento    sit 

or  obits  equally  '  ,         .  ,      ,  .        .  , 

among  tLem.  astrictus,  quod  quicquid  a(l  inanus  suas  pervencnt,  sive  de  annuali, 

sive  de  trecenali,  sive  de  aliquo  legato  fraternitati  pra^fatae  ecclesiai 

rclicto,  sive  de  aliquo  provcntu  qui  ad  parvam  Communiam  ^'ica- 

"  The  York  Statutes  were  made  in  I2."^2,  directing  the  Vicars  to  elect  a  simUaj 
officer,  who  is  called  Camerarius  or  Custos  Vicariorum. 

^  It  shows  the  anti(iuity  of  the  Vicars  Choral,  that  they  arc  even  thus  early  spoken 
of  as  a  "  brotherhood  "  as  in  the  latest  prc-Kcl'ormatiou  wills. 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OP  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  207  J 

riorum  spec-tare  consuevit,  illud  fidellter  et  sine  aliqua  dlminutionc 

tradatur  prafiUo  custodi,  eommuniter  inter  vicarios  distribuendum. 

Si  quis  autem  vicariorum  liujus  statu ti  transgressor,  contra  sacra- 

mentum  suum  veniendo,  inventus  fuerit,  de  pcrjurio  suo  canonice 

puniatur,   et  pro  transgressione,    fraternitati  solvat  quotiens  super  '. 

transgressione  hujus  convictus  aut  confessus  fuerit,  fratribus  et  con-  ' 

vicariis   suis,   per  manus    prasdicti    custodis,  duos    solirlos,  nomine 

poense. 

Capellani  autem,  et  ministrl"  ad  oflicium  defunctorum  speciallter  Chauntry  Priests  are 

ass'gnati,  nullum  capiant  annuale,  vel  trecenale,neque  aliquam  roga- "^^^gj^'^^^j^g ^"j^""^^* 

tionem   pro   defunctis,  in    prejudicium    ct   gravamen    praedictorum  a  perquisite  of  the 

„  .       .  J.  ^       •     r         •    i.        i.  Vicars  Choral. 

Vicariorum    et   traternitatis  prffidictas ;     quod    si    lecerint,   et  super 

hoc  convicti  fuerint,  puniantur  arbitrio    Canonicorum    in   ecclesia  \ 

Residentium.  ! 

Cetcrum  ''    si  per  incontinentiam  vel  aliquod  allud  enorme  de-  Incontinence  to  be  i 

lictum    alicujus  Vicariorum,   vel  alioium   Capellanorum  et  altaris  1^^°"^  pyj.^^g^^""j|  '^'i 

ministrorum,  scandalum  in  ecclesia  et  in  populo  Dei  ortum  fuerit,  offender  to  be  ; 

1        ,.,         1  .        ...  suspemlcd.  ; 

canonice  puniatur;  et  si  se  purgare  vei  nolit,  vel  non  possit,  ejiciatur 

a  choro,  et  ab  officio  et  beneficio  suo  suspendatur,  donee  condignam 

egerit  penitentiam,  et  de  commisso  suo  satisfecerit.  . 

Si  quis  autem  verbis  contumeliosis  et  opprobriis  affecerit,  si  infra  g^d  laneuao-e  and 

ecclesiam,    coram    sociis    suis    in    capitulo   duabus  disciplinis    sub- ^"'^"^'^*  i"  ^"^^  ^"^"'"'^^  i 

1    1   ,  .       1  1-1         p  1     •  1     •  •   /     •        1  to  be  punished  by  twol 

jacebit,  vel  dabit  duos  solidos  fabrics  ccclesise,  et  satisfaciet  Iseso ;  floggings  in  chapter,  i 

si    extra    ecclesiam,    uni    disciplinae   subjacebit,  vel  dabit    fabricae  ^^^g^Jg^jifg  p}jyj.pjj     | 

ecclesice  xii  denarios,  vel  circumferat  aliqua   die  dominica  ad  pro- one  flogging  or  is.      i 

,     ,  .  .  I,  J  .  or  wearing  the  ' 

cessioncm  vetus    bulgewarium    in    coilo    suo    secunaum    antiquam  "bulgewar"  round     ' 

consuetudinem  ecclesiae,  ita  quod  bffic  pajna  sit   in  arbitrio  canoni-  pjj."^^^^^  ^^  ' 

coiuin  tunc  in  ecclesia  residentium.     Et  si  assuetus  in  hiis  fuerit,  et  expulsion. 

tertio  deliqueret,  ejiciatur  a  choro,  non  admittendus  de    cetero  ad  . 

aliquod  ministerium  in  ecclesia  faciendum.  | 

"  See  item  of  inquiry  at  Visitation  of  1478,  p.  .39  stijjra.  '. 

b  This  is  the  statute  to  which  reference  is  made  at  p.  5  «?//;;•«  and  elsewhere 
as  "  the  statute  which  begins  *  ceterum.'  " 


208  VISITATIONS   AND    MEMORIALS    OP    SOUTHWELL    MINSTER. 

Canons  Resident  to  Canonici  uutcm  qui  pro  tempore   pra3sentes  fuerint  in   ccclesla, 

tTcr^chapk/ils.'^&c.   ^ive  unus,  sive  plures,  plenariam   habeant    potestateni    corrif^endi 

omncs  cxce?sus  vicariorum,  capellanoruin,  ct  caeterorum  omnium 

chori  dcliqucntium,  tarn  in  ecclesia  quam  extra  ecclesiam,  et  tam 

alieni  vicarii  quam  sui       Ita  tamen  si  aliqua   rclaxatio  sive  facta 

sive  lata  a  Canonico   Resident!  de  jure   fieri   debeat  et  possit,  co 

absentc    qui   sententiam    lulerit,    rclaxatio    ilia    rcservatur    alicui 

Canonico  prffiscnti. 

Vicars  to  ivttend  Prffiterea   communiter   statutum    et    provisum   est,  quod  singuli 

nmtlns.^^''^"*^  ^  Vicarii,  (et  ctiam  vaeteri  Capellani,  qui  obligati  sunt  sequi  chorum 

Fine  for  absence,  Id.,  j^qj-q  Vicariorum),  bene  ajjant  et ''erant  vicos  Dominorum  suorum, 

to  be  paid  1)V  the  '  "  .   .  .  .    . 

canons  to  warden  of    ct    communitcr    intcrsint    horis   canonlCl^5,  et  prajcipue    matutinis; 

vicars  commons.  ^^,^^  ^j  aliquis  absens  fuerit,   nisi    rationabilem    causam  ostendit, 

subtrahatur  ei  unus  denarius  a  stipendio  suo,  reddendus  a  Domino 

(jusdem   vicarii    Custodi   vicariorum,   qui   ad    tales  denarios  colii- 

gendos  deputabitur,  distriliucndos  communiae  vicariorum. 

Offences  to  be  reported       Si  autem  aliquis  Vicariorum,  vel  aliorum  suprascriptorum,  super 

canoiis!^  wan  ens  to    j,,^Q^^j^p„ti.^    („t    supradlctum-  cst),  adultcrio,  vel    aliquo  enormi 

delicto  fuerit  defamatus;    et    non    sequitur    chorum    more  debito 

et    consueto,    quod    Custodcs    ecclesiaj    et    altaris,  quicunque    pro 

tempore    fuerint,    omni     gratia   et     favore    prffitermissis,    commis- 

sum    illud   sive    delictum,   cum    ad    illorum    pervenerit   notitiam, 

Canonicis  tunc  in    ecclesia  prsesentibus  nianifestabunt.     Et   quod, 

ad  hoc  faciendum,  sint  ipsi  Custodes  sacramentaliter  astricti. 

Readers  in  choir  to  Item,   quod  clerici  lecturi  in  choro,  vel  in  pulpito,  pi-aavideant 

rX^Xmll'*^  ^''''°"'    lectiones  suas,  ut  apcrce  et  distinctc  legant;  quod  si  negligentes  in 

Kidiculons  reading      j^q^,  gg  Jiabucrint,  ct  intcllcctum   audientibus  confundant,  ct  ridicu- 

to  be  punislied  l)y  .  .  , 

flogging  in  chapter,      lum  inter  Eocios  commovcant,  post  primam   et  secundam  correc- 

Snnters"o  bc'^'  tioncm  uni  disciplimxi  subjac(;buut  in  capitulo. 

su.«).ended.  Si   quis  cxtiterit  Irequentator  tabernarum,  ct    spcctaculorum,  vel 

couununium  congregationuin  prohibltarum,  et  se  emen  lare  ad- 
monitus  noluerit,  suspendatur  a  choro,  non  admittendus  donee 
condignam  egerit  poenitenliam. 


VISITATIONS    AND    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MINSTER.         209 

Ita  omnia  antiqua  et  usitata  jura  Eccleslaj  et  approbata,  et  etiam 

consuetudines  diu  obtinentes  et  approbataa  (Irmentur  et  obscrventur. 

Si  quis  contra  ea  presurnptuose  venerit,  canonice  puniatur. 

Prseterea  in  eadem  convocatione,  de  communi  assensu  Canonico-  Annuity  to  Benedict 

„  T.         T  1       i>   11  Rolleston, 

rum  et  procuratorum,  conces?3e    luerunt    i5enedicto    de    Kolleston 

decern  librae  argenti,  annuatim  percipiend^e  de  Capitulo  Southwell, 

quoad  vixerit  in  habitu  seculari. 

Provisum     est,   et    statutum    fuit,    quod    pro    loco    et    tempore  Perpetual  vicarage 
T      ^  ,  ...  1     •      J      r*    n     i.  •  to  be  established  in 

ordinetur  perpetuus  vicanus  lu  ecclcsia  de  Kolleston,  qui    curam  jjQiiggjQm.{jQp(.jj 

gerat  animarum;  et  quod  aliqua  portio  sufficiens  assignetur  ei, 
ad  ejusdem  eustentationem  de  praefata  ecclesia,  et  quod  totum  resi- 
duum cedat  in  usus  Communiaj  et  Canonicorum  Residentium;  ita 
quod  de  fructibus  praefataa  ecclesiae  de  Rolleston  solvantur  prae- 
dictee  x  librae,  predicto  Benedicto  in  vita  sua. 

Provisum  etiam  fuit,  quod  singuli  Canonici  solvant  de  praabendis  Every  canon  to  pay 
suis  per  triennium  quintam  decimam  fabricae  ecclesiaB  suae.  three  years°to^tlds'^ 

Item,  quod  singuli  Canonici  solvant  annuatim  singulis  Vicariis  fabric. 
,  ^.^  ,  .         T  ,  ■\r-  p    ^  1      (^)  2s.  extra  to  his 

duos  solidos,  ultra  stipendia  sua  consueta,  pro   iMissa  tratrum  de-  vicar  for  mass  for 

functorum  celebranda.  ^ead  brethren. 

Item,    quod   quilibet    Canonicorum    subtrahat    vicario    suo    de  (3)  To  deduct  fines 

stipendio   suo    annual!  totidem   denarios,   quot    Custos  communis  ""°'^^]^^^^.^''.^ 
i^  ....  .  .  .  wages  for  missing 

vicariorum   ei  significabit,   pro  defectibus  suis  nocturnis  et  matu- noctums  and  matins 

tinis.     Et  quod  illos  denarios  tradat  preedicto   Custodi,  ad  distri- JJ^^jj^JJJg.J^j^^^jgJJ'fo^ 

buendos  inter  caeteros  vicarios,  secundum  consuetudinem  inter  cos  division  amongst 

other  vicars, 
usitatam. 

Et  quod  clerici  cantaturi  in   choro  inspiciant  tabulain,  et  praevi-  Clerks  to  look  at  tLc 
deant  versus  suos,  et  ea  quae  sint  canenda,  et  quod  cantent  sine  libro.  shi<^ino.°to  look  over 
Et  si    contingat    eos    rationabili   de    causa    abesse,   prrevideant    de  their  parts  before- 
.    ,  m    ■  1  1    •       .   1     1  •  hand,  sing  withou; 

aliquo  qui  loco  suo   olncium,  ad  quod   in  tabula  assignantur,  per-  books,  and  provide 
ficiant;  et  si  negligentes  fuerint,  puniantur.  substitute  when  absent. 


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VISITATIONS    AXD    MEMORIALS    OF    SOUTHWELL   MIXSTER. 


Visitation  Taesday 
after  f^piphanr 
A.D.  1293  bvAhp. 
John  the  Koman 
(Le  Romaine). 


Vicar  and  clerks  not 
to  laugh  and  talk  in 
choir,  on  pain  of 
expulsion  for 
repeated  offence. 


Sacrist  to  sleep  in 
the  church  and  ring 
the  bells  at  proper 
hours. 

Door-keeper  to  be 
under  him. 


Women,  unsuspect 
relations  excepted, 
to  be  remoied  from 
Vicars'  houses. 


Three  canons  at  least 
to  appoint  to  benefices 
in  the  minster. 

Benefices  outside  the 
minster  to  be  given 
by  whole  chapter. 


Great  seal  to  be 
under  seals  of  three  ; 
seal  for  citations 
of  one,  cuuon. 


Charta^  Johannis  Ebor.  Archiepiscopi. 

Joliannes  permlssione  divina  Ebor.  Arcliiepiscopus,  AngHre 
Priinas,  dilectis  in  Chrlsto  filiis,  Capitulo  nostro  Southwell,  salutem, 
gratiam,  et  benedictioneni,  Hesterna  die  Martis,  proxima  post 
Festum  Epiphanise  Domini,  anno  gratiae,  millesimo  ducentesimo 
nonagesimo  tertio,  ad  recreationem  animarum  vestrarum  visitationis 
officiuin  paternis  afFectibus  exercentes,  ea  quae  tunc  correctione 
digna  reperimus,  reformamus  in  hunc  modum. 

Imprimis.  Itaque  firmiter  vobis  injungendo  mandamus,  et  proe- 
cipimus,  quod  Yicarii  et  Clerici  se  a  confabulationibus  et  risu  in 
Choro.  maxime  ubi  divinis  jugiter  intendere  tenentur  obscquiis,  de 
cetero  abstlneant.  Et  si  per  Capitulum  moniti,  et  conecti,  id 
facere  neglexerint,  a  choro  penitus  expellantur. 

Item,  Sacrista  jaceat  infra  ecclesiam  et  secundum  horologium 
debitis  horis  pulset. 

Item,  Clerici,  ad  servanda  hostla  ecelesiffi  deputati,  ct)riipiantur 
per  ipsum,  et  nisi  ei  obedierint,  aliasque  se  honeste  habuerint,  ipsos 
amoveri  volumus  per  eundem. 

Amoveantur  mulieres  a  domibus  Yicaiiorum,  (personis  conjunctis 
quaj  careant  omni  suspicione  exceptis),  sub  poena  subtraction  is  sti- 
pendiorum,  et  privatlonis  officiorum  et  beneficiorum  suoruni,  si  corum 
pertinacia  id  exposcat. 

Item,  De  consensu  omnium  vestrum  tunc  prcesentium  statuimus, 
et  decernimus  statuendo,  quod  de  cetero  beneficia  interiora  ecclcsiae 
per  tres  ad  minus  canonicos,  qui  commodius  haberi  potcrunt,  con- 
ferantur.  Pro  exterioribus  autem  beneficiis,  Gat  fratrum  convocatio 
consueta,  (collationibus  quibuslibet  factis  hactenus  in  suo  robore 
duraturis),  volentes  quod  secundum  statutum  vestri  Capituli  in  con- 
fercndis  beneficiis,  qui  in  ecclesia  plus  laboraverint  prajfeiantur;  et 
si  secus  actum  fuerlt,  viribus  careat  hujusmodi  collatio  et  clTcctu. 

Item,   Sigillum    magnum    sub    sigillis    trium     Canonieoium,   et 
parvum  ad  citationcs  sub  sigillo  unius  Canonici  habeantur. 
'  W.  B.  p.  52,  headed  "  Statutum  Juhauuia  Archiepiscopi." 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  211 

Munimenta  quae  contingunt  ecclesiam  non  exhibeantur  alicubi  dc  Muniments  not  to 
r    .   -i  •       r<      *^    1  1       i.-  •      i.  i.      be  shown,  except  in 

cetcro,  nisi  coram   tratiibus  in   bapitulo,    vel   etiam  mstrumenta.  chapter. 

Fiant  gvadalia,  precessionaria,  et  troporia,  concordantia,  citra  visi-  Music  books  to  be 
tationem  nostram  proximam,  sub  poena  centum  solidorum,  quos  a '"^"^  *^*^°''""^''^"*'- 
vobis  levari  mandablmus,  si  fuerit  secus  actum. 

Quoad  dimittendum  prasbendas  ad  firmam,  utl  poteritis  sicut  hac- Prebends  not  to  be 

tenus   fieri    consuevit,   proviso    quod    laicis    de    caetero    nullatenus  ^ 

dimittantur,  sub  poena  contravenientibus  graviter  infligenda.    Statui- 

mus   etiam    ordinando,  quod   singuli  Canonici   suis,  absque  contra- Canons  to  pay  their 
-.     .  .        ..         ,        ,^      .  .        .  .  .  Vicars  .SZ.  a-vear 

dictione,  solvant  vicarus,  ad  relevationem  vicanorum   ipsorum,  qui  regularly,  as 'the 

per  duos  Vicarios,  jam  pro  duabus  pr^bendis  de  novo  creatos,  dum  Jl'^i^avin'cf  to^share *^ 

in  perceptione  oblationum  et  obituum  concurrunt,  nimis  gravantur,  oblations  and  obits 

.    ,     „        ,.  1  .  ,11  -1  T      with  the  Vicars  of 

sexaginta'""  solidorum  annuatim,  et  ad  hoc  per  vos  capitulum  clis- ^.^^.q  ^g^j^  p^-g.^^gj 

trictiuscompellantur;  vobis  firmiter  injungentes,  quod  si  apparuerint  prebends. 

forsan  Canonici,  vel   procuratores  ipsorum,  qui  hujusmodi  solvere 

stipendia  statutis  terminis  neglexerint,  ipsos,  (scilicet  tam  presentes 

quam  absentes),  ad  id  per  omnes  vias,  quibus  de  juris  rigore  poteritis, 

compellatis. 

Item,      Quilibet    absens    Canonicus    procuratorem    sufficientem  Every  Canon  to 
habeat  qui  Capitulo  respondeat,  et  ecclesiaa  Vicariis  de  suis  stipen-    '^^^^l*'  ^•'' 
diis  assignatis  satisl'aciat  terminis;  ad  quod  per  vos  quilibet  absens 
compellatur. 

Statuimus  etiam  et  decernimus  statuendo,  quod  in  omnibus  ecclb-  Perpetual  Vicars  to 

siis    parochialibus    prajbendis    annexis,    citra    primam    visitationem  p^.g^^en^,al^hurch^es 

nostram,  ordinentur  et  fiant  Yicarli  perpetui,  qui  curam  habeant  in  beforenext 

cisdem;  alioquin  ex  tunc  ordlnabimus  in  causa  vestrse  negligentiae  de 

eisdem. 

Domus  alicnigenarum  Canonicorum  minantes  ruinain,  infra  annum,  Houses  of  alien   _ 

,   ,  .  ,  .  .  ,,.  canons  to  be  repaired 

reparentur  debite;  ad  quaruin  rcparationem  ipsos  per  vos  compelh  ^itliiii  a  year^on  pain 

volumus,  et  mandamus,  sub  gravi  poena  per  vos  Capitulum  juxta  ^^'^^^'^J'^'^^^'^'^' 

defectus  taxanda,  quod  ad  fabricam  novi  capituli  deputetur.  chapter-house 

De  caetero,  caveant  Residentiarii  Canonici,  quod  nuUus  succedens  Successive 
,..  .11  1  -1  Ml-  •  ^  residentiaries  not  to 

alu  residendo  mandatum  scribat,  nil  contranum  quod  per  prece-  give  contradictory 

orders. 
»  At  York  by  Statutes  of  Dean  and  Chajiter,  A.D.  1291,  their  stipend  was  onlv 

40s.  a  year. 


212  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

dentem  su-.'.m  residcntem  canonicum,  nomine  capituli,  cnianavit,  sed 
ante  quam  scribat,  circumspecte  delibciet,  no  super  scriptura  sua 
rcdargui  valcat,  sicut  contingit  aliquando. 

IJffic  suprudicta  omnia  apud  vos  in  virtute  obediential  pryecipinuis 
obseivari.  Data  Suthwell,  die  ^lercurii  in  Octobris  Epiphaniae, 
anno  graeiaj  supiadicto,  et  Pontificatus  nostri  octavo. 

Statiita  a  Thomce  Corhridge  Ehor.  Archiepiscopi. 

Statute  of  Thomas  Provisum   est,"  quod  nullus  iuratus  ad  scctnm  chori  Ecclesiaj  de 

of  Corbridge,  circa  ■>     ~i  -> 


1300.            '  Soutbwell    absentet    se    ab    ecclesia   quovis   modo,  sine   liccntia   a 

ti'IoirTorabsen?  Canonico   Resi.lenti    petita  et  obtenta,  vel  a  Custodibus  Capltuli, 

rtithout  leave  of  casu  contingente  nullo  Canonico  tunc  prajsente. 

vv'arllens!^'^'  '^^  Item,*=  Provisuin  est  et  ordinatum  quod  qualiscunque  Canonicus 

Any  Canon  having      Ecclesise    ColleKiatiae    Beata^    Muriaj    Southwell    Prajbendarius    in 

heltl  qnict  possession  " 

of  his  preijend  for  a     eadem,  pacificam  prsebendse  suae  habens  possessionem  per  annum, 

may  publicly  ^^^Zt  volens  et  intendens  suam  primam  facere  Residentiam  in  ecclesia 
bis  intention  to  reside  Southwell,  ante  inchoationem  hujus  Residentije  ad  Fcstum  Sancti 
at  Pret^osa,  t^hree  da%  Michaelis,  vel  infra  octo  dies  immediate  idem  festum  sequentes,  per 
runiuiifr.  on  St.  ^,.gg  ^jj^g  coram  Canonicis  in  domo  capilulari  Canonicorum,  si   quis 

Michael's  dav,  or  ,        .     .  ,.  ,,       ,,  •        t>     •  i 

within  eight  days ;       fucrit  tunc  Residentiarius,  aliter,  nullo   Canonico  Kesidente,  coram 

'^'wuiited'lJsiden?  Custodibus  Capituli  Southwell,  in  capitulo  ad  pieciosa,  de  adventu 
suo  et  Kesidentia  sua  inchoanda,  publice  protestationem  faclet  et 
prffiinonitionein.  Si  quis  vero  Canonicus  istani  foriviam  non  obser- 
vaverit,  pro  non  Kesidentl  habeatur  et  reputetur,  ac  a  perceptione 
distributionum  Canonico  Residenti  debitarum  totaliter  sit  exclusus. 

Stalutum'^  Dondni  Tliomcc  de  Corhryg^Ebor.  Archiepiscopi,  Capitulo 
Suthwell. 

statute  of  Abp.  Thomas,    Dei    gratia    Ebor.     Archiepiscopus,    Angliai    prima?, 

'\^U 'TSo^>^  ^^'^^"^^*^' ^^^^^"^^^  ^"  Christo  filiis,  Capitulo  nostrai  Suthwcllcnsis  ecclesiae 
Salutem,  gratiam,  et  benedictionem. 

•  Not  in  White  Book.  ^  Similar  Statute  at  York  1294. 

'  Similar  Statute  at  York  among  ancient  Statutes  of  uncertain  date,  but  later  than 
125G. 

••  W.  B.  p.  51.  This  is  not  in  Elizabethan  collection. 


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Duduin  apud  vos,  octavo  Idus  Februarii  anno  graciffi  M°CCC°,  visita-  Visitation  held  in 
.  ......    1300 

tlonis  officium,  prout  ex  pastoral!  nobis  incumbuit  debito,  paternis 

aflectibus  excerccntes,  qugedam  coinparata  personalia,  qnas  prgesentl- 

bus  non  inseruntur,  prout  expedire  vidirt'us,  correximus  tunc  ibidem, 

et  aliqua  alia  correetione  digna,  ut  subsequitur,  duximus  reformanda. 

Statuentcs  in  primis  et  firmiter  injungentes,  quod  vos  canonici, —  Canons  to  provide 

in  quorum  absentia,  nee  cultus  divinus  nee  missa  gloriosse  Virginis  ag^nst^ne^lect'of 

Mtiriae  in  cujus  honore  praefata  fundatur  ecclesia,  sustentatur  con-  services. 

grue,  nee  correctiones  fiunt  in  choro  seu  capitulo  debite, —  de  excessi- 

bus  ministorum,  ad  faciendam  residentiam  secundum  statuta  ecclesiaj, 

quae  in  admissione  vestra  observare  jurastis,  vos  de  cetero  coaptetis 

per  statuta  vestra  specialia,  providentes,  quod  nee  cultus  negligatur 

divinus,  nut  cxcessus  remaneant  incorrecti;  sic  de  facienda  residentia  Three  or  at  least  two 
J.  ,  1  •,  •,  ij'j  ••  Canons  always  to  be 

disponatur,  quod,  omni  tempore  anni,  tres,  vel  ad  minus,  duo  canonici  resident. 

sint  in  ecclesia  residentes,  qui  capitulum  cclebrent,  ipsi  que  negotia 

consulte  dirigent  et  pertractent. 

Et  si  continget  ipso?,  dum  sic  pr^sint  capitulo,  allquid  diffinire,  N'o  ordermade  by 

n,  1       .-1  1    .•        •  •  1        -1  •   •  T  Canon  in  residence 

ucl    succedontibus    substitutis    residentibus    canonicis    non    liceat  may  be  revoked  by 

revocare,   nisi   id   errorem   continent  manifcstum,    et   tunc  ob   hoc  ^V'^P^^*^'^"' ""^^^^  ^* ''^ 
p  .  ,.  .  r  .,.         plainly  wrong,  and 

lacta    f-peciali    convocatione    con'ratrum,    per.  commune    consilium  then  only  by  a 

decidatur,     et     postmodum     prout    justum      fuerit,     rationabiliter  ^^^'^^^  ^  ^i^iAai. 

emeiident. 

Quod  si   forsan,  ex   causa  inevitabili  et  legitima,  licentia  a  nobis  In  the  absence  of  all 
1  ^  n  X-         i  •  •  1      ,  canons,  the  rule  of 

optcnta,  ad  tempus,  nullum  contmgat   canonicuin  retidentem,  com- ti^g  chiuch  to  be 

mittatur    alicui    disereto    jurato    regimen    ccclesise,    quouscuiique  ^"'^^""^'^s'^  to  some 

...  -T.  discreet  person  under 

canonici  ad  taciendam  residentiam  revertant.  oath. 

Item,  vokimus  et  districte  prsecipiendo  mandamus,  quod  alternis  Two  deputies  of 
,      .  1  1  •  •  1  • .    1  •        canons  every  other 

annis  ad  minus,  per  duos  discretiores  de  capitulo  per  vos  coinmuiuter  year  to  inspect 

eligendos,  canonicorum  omnium,  tam  pr^sentium  quam  absentium.  ^"^^'^*"S^ '^^^  ^^^     , 
,.^    .  1  ..    .  ,.       ,.,.  If  •  canons,  and  compel 

edmcia  subjiciantur  oculis  dihgenter,   et  delectus  comperti,  quam  repairs. 

citius  per  pr^dictos   duos  electos  vobis  constare  ptterit,  de  eisdem 

infra  annum  ex  tunc,  juxta  qualitatcm  et  quantitatcm  ipsorum,  con- 

grue   repareutur:    Ad   quod   omnes,    quos  principaliter  hujusmodi 

defectus  contingunt,   tine    acceptatione    quaiibet    personarum,   per 


214  VISITATIONS  AND  MEilOEIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

sequestrum   in   piebendls  suis  artlus  interponendum,  et  in  repara- 

tionem   defectuum   hujusmodi,   si   opus  fuerit,  convertendum,  prae 

missa  monitione  canonica,  compellatis. 

Books  to  Ijc examined      Oinncs  libri,  saltern  notati,  bene  examinentur  per  Preccntorcm,  vel 
by  Precentor,  and  (lis-     •  •  .  .....  .  ij-  i, 

cordiuiccs  corrected      ^J"^  Vices  gerentein,  ne  sibi  invicem  contrarientur,  vel  discordent 

Two  sides  of  choir  to  in  nota.  Et  de  choro  etiam  et  cantoribus  talia  disponantur,  quod  non 
be  evenly  balanced.         ,       ,.         .  ii       i  .       i  i  • 

claudicet  in  ps  illendc,  una  parte  cjusdem  quam  alteram  in  nuinerum 

prjcvalente,  et  juxta  discretionein  vestram  equaiiter  potius  dividatur. 

Only  fit  and  sufficient       Item,  cum  non  nunquam  confusionem  pareat  multitudo,  statnimus 

ministers  to  be  i      •  •         •  ••  .        -,   .  .  ■     . 

admitted.  quod  nisi  apti,  necessarn,  et  qui  sumciant,  in  ecclesiam  recipiantur 

miniftri ;  quibus,  solito  promptius  de  suis  stipendiis  satisfaciatur,  ne 

pro  defcetu  hujusmodi,  obsequio  divino  (ad  quod  tenentur  cotidie,  et 

in  quo  vigiles  et  assidui  esse  dcbcnt),  neglecto,  in  vestrum  et  cccleslae 

scandalum,  ad  suscitandum   jurgia,  ut   solebant,   in   patria   vigari 

Stipends  to  Vicars  to   cogantur.       Si    quis  vero  de  canonicis,    statutis    terniinis,    eisdeni 

paid^^so  tliat^hey^      nlini^tris  sua  stipendia  Solvere  tardaverit,  omni  die  quo  a  solutione 

may  not  roam  abont  cessaverit,   ad  duplum  salarii  communis    et   soliti,   quosque  satis- 

the  country  creating  „ 

disturbances  as  tacent,  tsneatur. 

heretofore.  Prfeterea  inhibemus,  ne  alicui  quam  canonico  priebenda  de  cctero 

Prebend  only  to  be  r     '^.^   .           ^  n                   •        n      •.    ^•  i-         .•              •   t 

leased  to  Canons  dimittatur  ad  hrmam,  sine  Lapituli  licentia  speciali. 

except  by  special  Statuentc?,  quod  in   sinfjulis  ccclesiis  vostris  parocliialibus,  sive 

lease.  .  .  .     . 

sint  prcbendutee,  sive  prebendis  annexai,  hubeatis  infra  luinc  annum 

Perpetual  vicars  to      a  datis  prajientium  computandum,  perpetuos  vicarios  institutes  qui 

i°eben^dal  churches      ^uram   liabeant  animarum;  alioquin,  in   vestrum   defectu  ex   tunc 

within  a  year.  ordinarc  proponimus  de  eisdem,  sicut  vidimus  expedire.     Et  pro- 

videatur   in    hujusmodi    ecclesiis    de    libris    sufiicientibus,  et   aliis 

ncccssariis  ornamentis,    ne    manus,    ad    hoc    vobis    negligentibus, 

apponere  com|)ellamur. 
No  one  to  be  ordained      Nulli  omnino  ad  ordincs,  per  literam  capituli  amodo  pra;scntentur, 
afteriSni.'iation^*     ^"^  ^^  vicarias  vacantes  in  choro,  vel  extra,  aliquuliter  admittantur, 
before  the  chapter.      nisi  qui,  examinatione  coram  capltulo    pnvhibita    diligenti,    digni 

invcnti  fuerint,  et  diutius  in  ecclesia  laudabiliter  conversati. 

Hrec  nostra  staluta  salubriu,  correctioncs,  et  injuncta,  plena   et 

distincte,  singulis  mcnsibus  scmel  adminus,  in  capitulo  post  Icctum 


VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER.  215 

martilogium,  ut,  dum  singuloium  imprimitur  cordibus,^  fiuctus  per-  These  statutes  to  be 
veniat  placidus,  in  virtu te  obedientiae  perlegi,  et  observare  per  omnia  ology^n^  the  ^chapter-' 
flaciatis,  quousque  ad  eos   nos    contingat   alias    declinare,  ct  tunc  lioase  once  a  month, 
cognito  plenius  statu  ecclesiae  possimus,  si  opus  fuerit,  aliqua  addere 
vel  mutare, 

Valete.     Djta    apud    Scroby,    piidie    non.  Junii,  anno   o-raclse,  Dated  at  Scroby, 
o       mo  1  .-p      .  5-  .     ^-  4th  June,  1302. 

m°ccc      secundo;  pontihcatus  nostri  tertio. 

Statuta  edita^  in  Convocatione  Canonicorum. 

Memorandum  quod  facta  Convocatione  Canonicorum  Ecclcsise  Convocation  of 
Southwellensis  die  veneris  proxima  post  Festum  Sancti  Matthei  J^^g'^^^^^^  ""g™^-'' 
Apostoli,  A.D.  m°.ccc™°.  xxix°;  et  comparentibus  personaliter  in 
capitulo  ecclesiee  supradictse  Dominis  Willelmo  de  Bevercotes, 
Willelmo  de  Newarkc,  Johanne  de  Sandule,  Henrico  de  Edwin- 
stow,  Magistris  Johanne  de  Monte  CUiro,  Thoma  de  Sancto  Albano^ 
Willelmo  de  Burton,  et  Willelmo  de  Barnby  canonicis  eccksige 
supradictis,  quibusdam  aliis  per  procuratores  comparentibus,  et 
aliis  contumaciter  absentibus,  de  communi  consilio  et  unanimi 
assensu  tunc  prsesentium, 

Ordinatum  fuit  et   statutum    concorditer,    quod  omni  anno,    in  General  Wardens  of 

proximo  computo  post  Festum  Trinitatis,  custodes  generales  com- J,|J^^^™^"^p,°^^^ 

munise  canonicorum   fideles    et  idonei   eli-'antur,   qui  quidcm,  sic  at  audit  next  after 

.  .  .  Trinity 

electi,  jurent   (tactis  sacrosanctis)  quod  fideliter  facient  officium  ad  Their  oath. 

quod  assumuntur,  excessus   Ministrorum  Ecclesiae,  cum  ad  eorum  J'^.^'^'^Jj^^^'^  ^"^^^ , 
.  .  •  --^,  .   .      .      -r,     ,     .       T.     .  1        .,  n  ^  their  otnce,  to  reveal 

pervenerit  notitiam,   Canonicis    in  Ecclesise   Eesidentibus  fideliter  excesses  of  the 

revelabunt,  et  fidele  ratiocinium  de  bonis  capituli,  per  eosdem  reci-  Canonriiesidentiary 
piendis  et  expendendis  in  negotiis  ejusdem  faciendis,reddent  requisiti.  to  give  faithful 
T  1  1        T  •  T    account  of  the  goods 

item,  statutum  per  eosdem,  quod  orclmarentur  tres  cistge  custodi- of  the  chapter, 

endse   sub    tribus  clavibus  et    seratis,   quarum    custodiam    predict!  ^^'^"^'^j^  f"^   , 

.  .  ^  .  ^  ,    expended  by  them, 

custodesnabeant  cum  sacrista;  in  quarum  prima,  reponantur  muni-  Three  chests  to  be 

menta  ecclesise,  et  pecuniae  recepta  pro  capis,  et  alia  (si  quae  fuerint)  by^the^wardensVnd 

pro  negotiis  ecclesioe  conservandis.     In  secunda,  jocalia  ecclesia  et  sacrist,  for  (i)  muni- 
ments and  money; 
*  Semen,  or  some  such  word,  omitted.  ^  Not  in  White  Book. 


216  VISITATIONS  AND  MEMORIALS  OF  SOUTHWELL  MINSTER. 

(2)  jewels  and  relics;  reliquiae  reponantur.     In  tertia,  reponantur  libri  commuultatis,  qui 

(3)  common  books,  j  ,  .    •  i      .  .  .       ,    .  ,  •         « 
only  to  be  lent  on  "^  csetero  nemini  accommodantur,  nisi  sub  idonea  cautionc 
security. 

Convocation  of  canons      Memorandum"  quod    facta  Convocatione,    Canonicurum,    xvij" 

(0  present.)  Kalendarum  Noveinbris,  Anno  Domini  m"ccc°xxxv*°,  coinparuerunt 

personaliter  Domini  Henricus  de  Edwinstow,  Johannes  et  Robertas 

de  Sandall,  Willebnus  de   Feribic,  Magistri   Johannes  de   Monte 

Claro  et  Willelmus  do  Barnby;   Magistro  Johanne  de  Pinibus,  et 

Domino  Willelmo  de  Bevercote  contumaciter  se  al^sentibus,  aliisquc 

omnibus  et  singulis  per  procuratorcs  coinparentibus. 

No  canon  to  be  Imprimis,  Ordiiiatum   et  statutum  fuit,  quod  habens  prrebendam 

admitted  to  act  of         i-  •    •  i     .  ,  ,      .  i       i-  i- 

chapter  until  he  has     litigiosam,  non  admittatur  de  cetero  ad  signandas  literas,  sou  alia 

held  his  prebend  in      quaecunque,    sub    siirillo    Capituli,    nee    ad    Residentiam,    seu     ad 

in  quiet  possession  .  °  . 

tor  a  year.  aliquem  contractum  seu  actum  per  Capitulum  exercendum,  quousque 

possessionem  pacificam  fuerit  assooutus. 

In  leases  of  prebends       Items'^  In    domibus  et    terris    Capituli     ad    firmam    de    cetero 
canons  to  have  a  j-     •i.i.       r      /-(  •   -       •         ^        •    ^  t  .•         v  r 

crtcriguaribits  pre-     dimittendis,  Lanonici,  si   voluerint,   pro   equali   pietio  aliis   prele- 

ferencc  as  lessees.        nintur,  et  si  secus  actum  fuerit  non  valeat  ipso  jure. 

No  grants  of  real  Item,    Confirmiitiones    seu     alienationes   jurium,    terrarum,    seu 

or  prebends  to  be         aliarum  rcrum  immobilium  ecclesiaj,  seu  Praebendariim,  de  cetero  sub 

scaled,  except  in  full  sigillo   Capituli   nullatenus  concedantur,   nisi   omnibus  et  singulis 
chai)ter,  after  inquiry    .,..,,  .      ,      .  .  .       .  ^       .         .  .  . 

as  to  value  by  jury       Canonicis  ad  hoc  vocatis,  legitime  seu  citatis;  et  tunc  uat  mquisitio 

on  the  spot.  specialis  per  aliquos  Canonicos  per  Capitulum  deputatos,  qui  ad 

loca  alienenda  accedant,  et  ibidem  per  juratos  inquirant  de  valore 

rei,  et  an  alienatio  talis  rei  sit  ad  damnum  vel  utililatem  ecclcsia^, 

et  aliis  circumstantiis  requisitis:    et   tunc,  in  prima  convocatione 

scqucnte  liat  confirmatio,  vlI  rep'obatio,  prout  videbitur  Canonicis 

utilitati  ecclesiaj  exjiedire. 

Violation  of  sequcs-         Item,  si  quis,  tcmcritatis  audacia,  sequestrum  per  Capitulum  inter- 
trati(jn  by  chapter  •  •    ,  .  ..... 

mtviih  ijjx,, fact 0         positum   violare    prcsumpsent,   excommunicationis"    incurrat    sen- 

cxconimuuication.        uiuiani  ipso  facto. 

•  This  was  the  rule  at  O.vford  in  the   University  Library,  and  the  security  which 
took  the  form  of  cuj)s,  garments,  &c.  was  often  sold.  ''  Not  in  White  Book. 

"^  A  similar  Statute  at  York  in  121)1  was  confinned  in  1325. 
**  Hence  poor  Gurnell's  sentence,  pp.  l-I  .si/jjru. 


INDEX. 


Absence  of  Residentiaries,  10,  11,  13,  14, 

40,  43,  48,  49,  170 
Administration  of  Goods,  11,  104 
Admissions  of  Canons,  145-160 

,.  Canons  Residentiary,  161- 

167 
Chauntry  Priests,  175-185 
„  Choristers,  187-189 

„  Deacons  and  Sub-Deacons, 

185-187 
„  Thuribulers,  188 

Vicars  Choral,  168-175 
All  Souls'  College,  Oxford,  xxxix 
Altars — 

BeatfB  Marise  extra  chorum,  98,  99, 

175 
Beatas  Marine,  Northmuskhani,  102 
High,  36,  75,  86,  109,111 
Our  Lady  of  Grace.  115,  123 
S.  Cuthbert,  177 

S.  John  Baptist  extra  chorum,  68,  99 
S.  John  Evangelist,  in  north  aisle,  182 
S.  Leonard,  35 
S.  Mary  Magdalen,  185 
S.  Michael,  183 
S.  Nicholas,  180 
S.  Peter  infra  chorum,  35,  46,   175, 

176,  179 
S.  Stephen,  175,  181 
S.  Thomas,  47 
S.  Thomas  Martyr  in  Burgage,  99, 

176, 179 
S.  Vincent,  110,  111 
Apothecary,  21 
Arbitraticn,  26,  89,  122 
Archbishops    (sec    York    and    Index    of 

Names  of  Persons) 
Archbishop's  Palace,  ix.,  39 


Backgammon,  Ixxvi 
Barualby,  168 
Beer,  107 

CAMD.  SOC. 


36,  43,  44,  47 


Bekyngham,  All  Saints,  133,  138 

„  Prebendary,   lix.,    148,    149, 

150,  151,  154 
Vicar,  138 
„  „      Choral,  169 

Bells,  xxi..  21,  24,  33,  43    45,  73,  79,  85, 

107,115,  141 
Bell  Tower.  Ill 

Bevale  Priory,  Ixvii.,  107,  116,  117,  124 
Beverley   Minster,  xii.,    xiv.,  xx.,   xxii., 
xxiii.,    xxvii.,   xxx.,   xxxii.,    xlv.,    1., 
Ixxii.,  xci.,  xcii.,  192,  194,  195 
Bishops,  54 

Bishop  of  Southwell,  x.,  xcvii.,  xcix. 
Bishop   Auckland.    S.    Vincent    College, 

116 
Blithworth  Vicarage,  91,  92 
Bolton  Prioiy,  Ixvii. 

Books,  Ixxvii.,  51,  78,  80,  104,  108.  121. 
126,206,211,214,  216 
Abbatt  on  Decretals,  126 
Antiphonare,  Anthem  Books,  61,  198 
Directory.  74 
Epistolar,'l98 
Gradale,   Gradual,   or   Grayl,    Ixxv., 

33,  43,79,  98,  121 
Legendte  (Lesson  Books),  Ixxv.,  49, 71 
Liber  Albus  {sec  White  Book) 
Manual,  198 
Manuel  Peche,  198 
Mass  Book,  116,  198 
Ordinal,  73,  74 

Pars  Oculi  Sacerdotis,  100,  198 
Placebo,  dirige,  108 
Portesses  (or  Breviary),  141,  198 
Processional,  121,  211 
Psalter,  100 
Sermons,  198 
Standarths  or  Standards,  71,  72,  76, 

81 
Summa  Summarum,  198 
Tropars,  198,  211 


2p 


218 


INDEX. 


IJowls,  Ixxvii.,  22,  5I>,  75 

lireukfust,  :U,  a5,  3H,  7'J 

IJriilge,  Gift  to,  113 

linnlieihood  of  Vicars  Choral,  Iviii.,  90, 

110 
Burton,  S.  Peter,  133 
Business  on  Holy  Days,  22 

Calncton  (('aunton),  S.  Andrew,  KJ'J 

Vicar,  11,  15.  17 
Calverton,  S.  Wilfrid,  113 
Candles  in  Church,  (57,  71,  IC,  77,  H6 

,,        round  Cori)8c,  101,  102 
Canon  of  the  Mass,  72 
Caii(»ns,  xxii.-liv.,  Il5-14fi,  and patxiin 
Canons,  Jiesidentiaiy,  xliii-liii.,  lOl,  1(57, 

iiuil  jMUJiiin 
Canonical   Hours,  Ixxvi.,  22,  32,   30,  38, 

:iU,  4H,  4't,  51,  52,  53, 1,7,  72,  74,  78,  79, 

HO,  M,  H2,  20.S 
Capituhim  or  Little  Chai>ter,  80 
Cards,  Ixxvi.,  40,  50,  00,  01,  06,  08,  60. 

77 
Cemetery,  25,  35,  44,  109 
Chalice,  110 
Chancellor,  xli.,  xlii. 
Chapels  in  Church — 

Lady, 140 

S.  John  Haptist,  184 

S.  John  Evan(<elist,  105 

S.  Laurence,  100 

S.  Margaret,  100 

S.  Thomas,  30 
Chapter  Clerk,  Ixix.-lxx.,  3,44,  54,  56,  58, 

00,  02,  OH,  82,  83,  87,  02,  03,  05, 100,  107 
Chapter  House,  ix.,  x?i.,  xvii.,  \-*Jl paxtim 
Chauntry,  25,  20,  110,  120,  130 
„         Certificates,  xviii.,  xix. 
„        I'riests,  Ixi.-lxiv.,  175-187,  and 

rrie>sts' Hall,  12,13,21,67,70 
Chests,  Iv.,  36,  75,  70,  100 
Chichester  Cathedral,  xv.,  xxi.,  xliv.,  xlv., 

Ivii.,  Ix.,  Ixii.,  xci. 
ChorisU^rs,  hi.,  Ixv.,   ixvi.,  74,  101,  111, 

I  H7    1  HH    18*) 
Churchwardens,  liii.-lvi.,  3,  4,  10,  25,30, 

35,  37,  43,  45,  52,  54,  50,  58,  50,  60,  02, 

08,  82,  83,  85,   02,   03,   05,    160,    107, 

20.3,  204 
Clothes,  Gifts  of,  105,  100,  108,  121,  124, 

133,141 
Cockfighting,  Ixxvi.,  75 
Collegiate  Churches,  xi.-xv. 


Commoners  in  Chauntr)'  Priests'  Hall,  12 
Commons  of  Kesidentiaries,  xliv.,  Iv.,  201- 

204,200 
Commons  of  Vicars  Choral,  Ivii.-lix.,  04, 
70,  77,  2O0,  208,  200 
„  Chauntry  Priests,  Ixiv.,  12 

Compline,  47 
Corrections,  Ixxiii. 
Crophill,  or  Cropwcll,  Prehendarj',  xxr., 

xxix.  (^and  tice  U.xtou) 
Culdccs,  XX. 
Curfew,  33,  38,  45,  70,  80 

Deacons,  Ivi.,  Ixv.,  53,  54,  74,  101,   111, 

105,  185 
Hean  of  Southwell,  xxxv.,  xxxvi.,  xxxvii., 

xcix. 
Dice.  Ixxvi.,  30,  00,  68,  60,  75,  77 
Dirge,  47,  51,74,  115 
Di.-icordancc,  38,  42,  43,  40,  40,  50,  54,  07 
Dispensation,  20 
Doncaster,  Friars,  134 
Dunham— I'reljcndary,  xxvii.,   xlviii..  I., 
148,150,1.03,155,101,100,107 
„         S.  Peter  and  S.  Paul,  111,   120, 
128 
Vicar,  112 

„       Choral,  140 
Durham  Cathedral,  Ixxxvi. 

Eaton— Preheudary,  xxvii.,  148,  140,  151, 
153, 155, 100 
„         Vicar  Choral.  170 
Edynglcy- Church,  84,  87,  80 
„  Parish  Clerk,  88 

„  Vicar,  80 

fvxcommunication,  4,  10,  17,  50,  03,  64 
Kxeter  Cathedral,  xxi.,  xlv.,  Ivii.,  Ix. 

Fahric,  i.,  xv.-xvii. 

„      Fund,  or  Lady  Works,  Ixiv.,  Ixv., 
35,  40,  00,   101,    102,    105,    123, 
124,  120,  130,  207 
Farm,  of  a  I'rcheud,  0,  7,  0,  81,  143,   164, 

105 
Fighting,  24,  25,  31,  35,  38,  .30,  40,  41,  45, 

40,  50,  51,  50,  03,  04,  05,  08,  76,  77,  00 
Fines,  l.w.,  25,  40,  75 
Five  Jt)>8,  107,  108 
„     Wounds,  108 
Font,  1 10 

Fountains  Ahhiy,  Ixvi. 
Friars,  121,  130 

„      Augustiue,  120,  134 


INDEX. 


210 


Friars,  Black,  129,  134 

„      Carmelites,  134 

„      Gordians,  134 

,.      Grey,  116,  121) 

,;      Observants.  117,  134 

„      White,  110,  129 
Furniture,   lOo,  116,  121,  124,  13:" 

140,  141 


136, 


Garden,  Saffron,  43 
„        Vicars',  48 
Gloria,  38,  79 
Gloves,  54 
Grammar  Schools,  xi  v.,  xli.,xlii.,lxv.,lxvi., 

13,  29,  31,  45,  49,  52,  78,  95  (n;,  177 
Grammar  ScIkxjJ    Masters,   xli.,  Ixv.,  29, 

30,31,39,49,52,78,  177 
Gnnjxjt  (Lavatory),  34,  54 

Hair,  Tyjng,  42 

llalton  or  Halu^hton,  Prebendarv,  xxvii., 

149,  J  52,  154,  155 
Halton,  Vicar  CTioral,  170 
Hawking,  Ixxvi.,  51,  93 
Hebdomodarj',  24 
Hereford  Cathedral,  li.,  Ix 
Higham  Ferrers  College,  xii.,  xiii 
Highways,  Gifts  to,  99,  133,  145 
Holidays  {xef.  Business,  Kemedy) 
Hours  {xee  Canonical  H<jurs) 
Hunting,  Ixxvi.,  51,  65,  75,  93 

Iconomi,  Barsars  iaec  Charchwardens) 
Iconomia,  or  Bursary,  48 
Images — 

Blessed  Mary  at  High  Altar,  36 
Our  Lady  of  Grace,  101, 123 

„  at  Kollest^^n,  103 

S.  Wilfrid  at  Calvcrton,  113 
Immorality,  15.  17,  18,  19,  21,  22,  23,  33, 
34,   35,  37,  38,  42,  44,  45,  4H,  57,  58, 
59,  60,  61,  62.  63,  66,  69,  71.  72,  74,  76, 
77,  79,  80,  83,  84,  85,  86,  87,  89,  92,  93, 
94,  95 
Invent^.ry,  112, 127,  135,  197 
Irreverence,  32,  ,53,  54,  66,  67, 73,  78,  79,  86 

Lady  Mass,  26,  37,  48,  74 
Lady  Works  (xee  Fabric  Fund; 
Lamps,  35,  37,  52,  67,  120 
Lands,  .53,  66 
JjUmiA/ity  (xee  Gunpot) 
Lazar-houses,  121 
Leicester,  Newark,  xiii.,  xiv. 


Leicester,  S.  Mary's,  xii. 

Lent,  78 

Lichfield  Cathedral,  xx.,  xxi.,  Ix. 

Light,  36,  67,  72,  76,  81 

Lincoln  Cathedral,  1.,  Ivii.,  Ix.,  Ixii.,  xcii. 

„        Friars,  129,  134 
Lord's  Prayer,  90 

Mass,  20,  32,  37,  39,  42,  43,  44,  47,  54,  72, 

74,  75,  108,  125 
Matins,  20,  21,  22,  32,  33,  34,  35,  36,  37, 

42,  51,  54,  67,  72,  74,  75,  78,  81,  85,  208 
Mazer- bowl,  iOl 
Mill,  33 

Miller,  nickname,  33 
Mole-catching,  Ixxvi.,  51 
Morrow  Mass,  25,  107 
Morton,  S.  Dionys,  xcvi.,  119,  133 
Mortuary,  96  and  paxirivi  in  Wills 
Myddelt^in,  S.  Andrew's,  126 

Newark,  Friars,  117,  124,  1.34 

„         Grammar   School,   ix.,  x.,  xxi., 
xxii.,  .52 
Nones,  47,  75,  86 

Normanton,    Prebendary,    xli.,  xiii.,  29, 
52,  149,  152,  1.53,  157 
„  Vicar  Choral,  60,  172 

Northleverton,  I'rebendarv,    xxvii.,    146, 
147,  1.50,  151,  1.52,  \'/i, 
154,  156,  166 
„  S.  Martin,  120 

„  Vicar  Choral,  171 

Northmuskham,    Prebend,    8],    149,   151, 
\->'l,  ]-,:>,.  156,  157,165 
S.  Wilfrid's,  102 
„  Vicar,  81 

„  Chor=.l,  171 
Northwell,  xxv.  (and  xee  Norwcll). 
Norwell,  Vicars,  89 

„         3rd  Part,  I'rebendary,  xxvi.,  13, 
146,  J47,    148.   151,  1.52,  1.53, 
154,  157,  1.78,  161,  166 
„         3rd  I'urt,  Vicar  Choral,  172 

Overhall.  xxvi.,  85, 1.50,  151, 1.52, 
153,  157,  1.58,  160,  166 
,,         Overhall,  Vicar  Choral,  172 
„         Palishall,   xxvi.,    149.    151,    1.52, 

153,  1.74,  157,  1.58.  166 
„         Palishall,  Vicar  Choral,  172 
Norwich  Cathedral,  xi.,  Ixxxix.,  xc. 
Nottingham,  Friars,  116 

„  Grammar   Bchofjl,   ix.,    xli., 

xiii.,  13,  31 


220 


INDEX. 


Organ,  87 
Organist,  Ixvi. 

Oxton  (1),  Prebendary,  xix.,  146, 147,  148, 
150,  151,  157,  159,  1G5.  166, 
1G7 
Vicar  Choral,  173 
„       (2),  Prebendary,  150,  159 
„  Vicar  Choral,  173 

S.  Peter  and  S.  Paul,  118 
Vicar,  15,  16,  17,  44,  65,  85 

Palm  Sunday,  90 

Parish  Altar,   197-200    (jind  sec    Altar, 
S.  Vincent's) 

„      Vicar,  Ivi.,  39.  72,  109,  110,  143, 
197,  198,  199,  200 
Patronage,  Action  as  to,  91 
Penance,  18,  41,  65,  69,  73,  75,  76,  85,  89, 

90 
Plague,  Ixxv.,  11 
Poor,  gifts  to,  99,  112,  116,  121,  124,  129, 

138,139 
Prebendal  Mansions,  48 
Prebends,  xx.,  xxi.,  xxviii.,  xxxii.,  146- 

160,  andyw5«(»t 
Precentor,  xxxix.,  24,  34 
Preces.  80 
Preciosa,  or  Chapter,  20,  21,  22,  35,  45, 

46,  47,  49,  51,  85 
Prick-song,  80 
Prime,  22',  26.  33,  34,  35,  36,  47,  48,  49, 

51,  52.  53.  67,  72.  78,  81 
Procession,  Whitsuntide,  xv.,  15 

Other,  26,  37,  53,  69,  73,  79, 

85,  86,  90 
Procuration,  9 
Pronnba.  53,  73,  74 

Proxy  for  Prebendary,  Hi.,  13 

Psalms,  :i3,  .34,  37,  47,  48,  52,  54,  73,  78, 

86,  90,  120 

Purgation,  5,  16,  23,  30,  31,  45,  57,  66,  71, 
73,  76,  92 

Ragnal,  Church,  128 
Hampton,  All  Saints,  104 

„         Prebendary,  xxvii.,    147,    149, 
150,  153,  159,  167,  168 

„         Vicar,  104 

„      Choral,  173 
Rectors  of  Choir,  24,  38,  48,  74,  78,  79 
Refectory,  xxi. 
Registers,  Ixvii.-lxxii. 
Registrar  {set;  Chapter  Clerk) 
Remedy,  or  Holiday,  49 


Residence,  xliii.-liii.,  10,  11,13,  14,  25, 
40,  43,  48,  70,  161,  162,  163,  164,  165, 
203-5,211,212,213 

Ripon  Minuter,  xii.,  xiv.,  xx.,  xxii.,  xxiii., 
xxvii.,  XXX.,  xxxi.,  xxxii.,  xlv  ,  1.,  lii., 
Iviii.,  Ix.,  Ixii.,  Ixxii.,  Ixxxvi.,  194,  195 

Rolleston  Church,  xxxrii.,  liii.,  103,  165, 
201 

Rolleston,  Vicar.  87 

Roodloft,  114 

Kotherhiim  College,  xiii.,  xiv, 

Ruffurd  Abbey,  Ixvii. 

Rushes,  67 

Sacrist,  Prebend,  xxviii.,  xxxviii.,  22,  32, 
33,  34,  42,  43,  45,  52,  54,  67,  85,  147, 
150,  151.  152,  153,  154,  157,  160,  162, 
166,  167 
Sacrist,  Vicar  Choral,  174 
Salisbury  Cathedral,  xliii.,  xliv.,  1.,  Ix. 
School    {sec     Grammar     Schools,    Song 

School) 
Secrets,  21,  23,  73 
Seeta  Chori,  5,  6,  9iaA  passim 
Sepulchre,  Easter,  119,  128 
Sequestration,  1,  2 
Shooting,  59,  77 
Slander,  Actions  for,  14,  2&,  27,  2^,  29, 

88,89 
Sorcery,  15 

Southmuskham,  Prebendary,  xxvii.,  147, 
148,  149,  15U,  157,  165 
Vicar  Choral,  171 
Southwell,  ix. 

„  Bishop  {sec  Bishop) 

„  Dean  {see  Dean) 

„  Grammar    School,  x.,  xi,  xli., 

xlii.,  29,  30,  117,  177 
„  Minster,   ix.,  xv.,  xvi.,   xvii., 

and  pasKim 
„  Parish  Church,  57 

„  Song  School,  Ivi.,  Ixv. 

„  Vicar  {see  Parish  Vicar) 

Southwheatley,  S.  Helen's,  102,  136 
S.  Paul's,  Bedford,  xxi.  (n) 
S.  Paul's  Cathedral,  xxi..  xxii.,  1.,  Ix. 
Stafford,  S.  Mary's,  xii.,  Ixvii. 
Stalls,  xxvii.,  xxix.,  75 
Statutes,  of  Church,  xxix.-lviii.,  5,  56,  78, 
2tK»-216 
of  Chauntry  Priests,  12,  13,38, 
79 
„        of   Vicars  Choral,  Irii.,  23,  34, 
:w,  79 


221 


Stone-throwing,  55 

Sub-deaeons,  Ivi.,  185,  186,  187 

Supper,  47 

Suspension,  Ixxxv.,  2,  7,  19,  29.  40,  41,  56, 

60,  82,  87 
Suwell  dee  Southwell) 
Synod,  24 

Talking,  52,  54 

Taverns,  21,  38,  47,  48,  60,  61,  62,  65,  66, 

68,  76,  79,  90 
Thurgarton  Priory,  xxviii.,  xxix.,  xxxvi., 

116,117,187,188,201 
Thuribulers  or  Incense-bearers,  Ivi.,  Ixt., 

101,111 
Tierce,  67 

TioYulfingeceaster,  xvii.,  xviii. 
Tithes,  81,  87,  91,  109 
Torches,  36,  69,  75 

„        round     corpse,     98     and    Wills 
passim 
Treasurer  {see  Sacrist) 
Trentals,  72,  102,  107,  108,   112,  116,  124, 

133,  206, 207 
Tykhill,  Friars  of,  134 

Udeburgh  {see  Woodborough) 
Upton  Chapel,  89 
,,      Chauntry,  84 

Vergers,  Ixvi. 

Vesners,  21,  32,  54,  73,  74,  86 

Vestments  and  Habits,  Ixxvii.,  48,  72,  74, 

76,  78,  79,  86,  105,  116,  127,  197,  198, 

206 
Vestry,  22,  32,  86 
Vicars  Choral,  Ivi.-lxi.,  168-175,  206-211, 

and  jMssim 


Vicars'  Hall  or  Mansion,  lix..  23,  32,  33 

34,  46,  50,  55,  79,  80 
Visitations,  Ixxii.-lxxxix.,   20-26,   31-39, 

41-44,  46-52,  53.  54,  66.  67,  70  76,  78- 

81,  82,  83,  85-87,  91 

Wapentake,  xx. 

Wardens  of  Commons  {see  Church- 
wardens) 

Wardens  of  Fabric  (see  Churchwarden?) 

Wax,  76,  ])asslm  in  Wills 

Well,  xviii. 

Wells  Cathedral,  li.,  Ivii.,  Ix.,  Ixii.,  Ixiv., 
Ixxxvi.,  xci.,  xcii. 

White  Book,  xv.,  xxvi.,  xxvii.,  xxxi., 
xxxii.,  xxxiii.,  Iv.,  Ixvii.,  Ixviii.,  Ixix., 
190,  197 

Wills,  xciv.-xcvi.,  19-145 

Wiu Chester  Cathedral,  xix.,  xxiii.,  xxiv. 
„  College,  xiv.,  xcii.,  xciii.,  5, 

12,149 

Windsor,  xii.,  xiii.,  xiv.,  xv.,  Ixvi. 

Wine,  32,  46,  54,  86 

WoUaton  Grammar  School,  13 

Woodborough,  TrebendarY,  xxv.,  24,  149, 
150,  151,  157,  160 

Woodborough,  Vicar  Choral,  175 

York- 
Archbishops,  XV.,  xvi.,  xvii.,  191-196 
Dean    and    Chapter,  xxi.,  xxii.,  xxiii., 

XXX.,  192-196 
Law-man,  192 
Minster,  xii.,   xiv.,   1.,  Ivii.,  Ix.   Ixiv., 

Ixvi.,  190-196 
Sheriff,  xxx.,  191 
S.  Mary's  Abbey,  Ixvi. 
Use,  198 


INDEX  OF  NAMES  OF  PEESONS. 


Abbotson,   or  Avotson,   John,   Chauntry 

Priest,  101),  117,  17G,  179,  18i 
Adams,   John,    Prebendary,    xli.,   xcvii., 

154,  160,  170  (n),  175  (n) 
Adainson,  Nicholas,  Vicar  Choral,  169 
Adcok,  John,  Clerk  of  the  Church,  52 
Agnes,  a  servant,  15,  16 
Alcock,  Pichard,  servant,  103 
Aldred,  Archbishop,  xxi.,  xxxi. 
Alen,  John,  LL.D.,  Prebendary,  152,  153, 

157 
Alexander  III.,  Pope,   xvi.,  xxx.,  xliv., 

Ixvii.,  Ixviii. 
Alsebrooke,  James,  91 
Alj'n,  or  Allan,  William,  Chauntiy  Priest, 

178 
Andrew,  Richard,  LL.D.,  Prebendary,  159 
Ansketinus  de  Bolomer,  192 
Apjohn,  Thon.as,  131 
Archa,  Widow,  41 
Arnalde,  Richard,  125 
Arnalde,  William,  125 
Arnall,  Agnes,  144 
Arnall,  Emmott,  119,  120 
Arnall,  John,  30,  118  (Will),  145 
Arnall,  John,  jun.,  1 19 
Arnall,  Richard,  119,  120,  144,  145 
Arnall.  Robert,  144 
Arnall,  Thomas,  133 
Arnall,  William,  xcv.,  119,  144  (Will) 
Arwood,  Mrs.  John,  89 
Ash  ton.  John,  141 
Ashton,  Thomas,  Chorister,  189 
Athelstan,  King,  192,  195 
Atkynson,  William,  Prebendary,  151,  158 
Averel,  or   Averhyll,    John,   Prebendary, 

146,  147,  148,  158,  161,  166 
Awbye,  Richard,  Vicar  of  Norwell,  89 
Awmbry,  Agnes,  94 
Aykynge,  Henry,  Choristei',  188 


Babyngton,    William,    Chauntry    Priest, 

Ixxxiv.,  77  (n),  78,  81,  92,  177,  185 
Bacheler,  Agnes,  140 
Bacon,  Ralph,  Chauntry  Priest,  182 
Baddesworth,  John,  97 
Bagall,  or  Bagell,  John,  Vicar  Choral,  55, 

58,  06,  68,  69,  72,  75,  169 
Baily,     or     Bayly,    or     Baylie,     Robert, 

Chauntry  Priest,  92, 142,  178,  185 
Baldyn,  John.  112 
Banes,  Eliza,  124 
Banes,  Jane,  126 
Banes,  or  Bannes,  John,  124,  126 
Banes,  Thom.as,  Vicar  Choral,  172 
Banes,  Richard,  145 
Banks,  John,  a  servant,  56,  57 
Banks,  Sylvester,  Chauntry  Priest,  178 
Banys,  Thomas,  109 
Barnby,  John, Canon  Residentiary,  Ixxviii., 

40,  46,  47,  50,  51,  52,  53,  54,  56,  107, 

146,  147,  156,  166 
Barnby,  William  de,  215,  216 
Barues,  Thomas,  Deacon,  186 
Barra,  Agnes,  xciv.,  128  (Will) 
Barra,  Edward,  126,  127 
Barra,  Edward,  Scholar,  126, 128 
Barra,  James,  126,  127 
Barra,  John,  126,  127 
Barra,  Robert,  D.D.,  Canon  Residentiarv, 

82,S7,89, 119,122, 124, 125  (Will),  127, 

150,  153,  155,  163,  167 
Barrai  Robert,  married  man,  123,  124,  138 
Barra,  Robert,  son  of  Edward,  126,  127. 

128 
Barra,  Robert,  son  of  John,  126, 127,  128 
Barre,  or  Barry,  John,  Master  of  South- 

■\vell  Grammar  School,  29,  30,   52,  77 

(n),  78 
Barre,  Thomas  de  la,  Chaplain,  182  (n) 
Barrett,  John,  Apparitor,  11 


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INDEX    OF    NAMES    OF    PEBSONS. 


Barrow,  John,  Prebendary,  147,  160 

Barrys,  Thomas,  Deacon,  187 

Bartiiorp,  or  Carthrop,  William,  Channtry 

Priest,    Deputy   Master    of    Grammar 

School,  Ixxxiii.,  6,  13,  22,  2(i,  27,30,  35, 

36,43,51,  52,  54,  97,  177,  181,  184,  185 
Basset,  or  Bassett.  Kdward,  Canon   Resi- 
dentiary, xlviii.,89,  91,  92,  127, 128,  137, 

143,144,  145,  150,  157,  159,  1G3,  1(54, 

165,  167,  186,  187 
Basset,  Ralph.  190  (n),  191 
Basterfe'd,  Peter,  71,  73,  76 
Basterfeld,  Mrs.  Peter,  71,  73,  76,  77 
Bate,  John,  Prebendary.  148, 155, 161, 168 
Batemanson,  Robert,  115  (VVill),  150 
Batemanson,  Roger,  108,  116 
Baxter,  John,  Vicar  Choral,   Ixxvi.,   93, 

171,  175,  189 
Baxter,  Thomas,  Chauntry  Priest,  25,  30, 

34,43,97,  l.;0(\Vill),  182,  185 
Baynbryg,  Christopher,  Archbishop,  117 
Beauchanip,  Karl  of  Warwick,  y.cvii. 
Beaumont,  John,  Master  of  the  Rolls,xcviii. 
Bebe,  William,  Deacon,  186 
Bede,  Venerable,  xvii. 
Bekyngham,  Andrew,  131 
Bekyrke,  John,  Vicar  Choral,  Ixxxiv.,  67, 

80.  171.  174 
Belfin,  June,  114 
Bel  fin,  Thomas,  113  (Will) 
Bell,   John,   Dec.    D.,   Prebendary,   153, 

157 
Bellerby,    Nicholas,   Master  of    Newark 

Grammar  School,  52 
Benet.  or  Bennett,  William,  Prebendary, 

1.52,  l.-)3,  156 
Benson,  Thomas,  90 
Berkeley,  Maurice,  84 
Berkeley,  or  Barkley,  or  Backley,  Vicar 

Choral,  33,  34,  36,  37,  42,  43,  44 
Bcswyke,  Mrs.  Robert,  62 
Betbank,    or    Bekbank,   William,   Vicar 

Choral,  Ixxxiii.,  19,  23,  24,  26,  27,  28, 

168, 173 
Bevercotes  William  de,  215,  216 
Bcxwyk,  Bemann,  Chorister,  188 
Btxwyk,  Catherine,  Ixxxiii.,  19,  23 
Bex wyke,  Oliver,  Chauntry  Priest,  84,183 
Bcylby,  or   Byclhy,  or   Bylbye,  Thomas, 

Chauntry  Priest,  36,  43,  51,  52,  75,  97, 

lOS, 114,  181,  183 
Bielby,  Itichard,  25 
Bilks,  or  Byrkks,  Thomas,  86,  137,  172, 

173 


Blackley,  Richard,  133 
Blackburn,  Thomas,  Master  of  Notting- 
ham Grammar  School,  31 
Bland,  John,  Chorister,  189 
Blaunchc,  Robert,  Chauntry  Priest,  xcv., 

142  (Will),  179 
Blaunche,    William,   Viiar   Choral,    124, 

125,  142.  170 
Bloet,  Robert,  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  190  (n), 

191 
Blomeley,  John,  Vicar  Choral,  168,  171 
Blounte," Walter,  Preljendary,  151, 151\  158 
Blytton,  William,  Esquire,  81 
Bocland,  Geoffrey  de,  Dean  of  St.  Martin's- 

le- Grand,  180  (n) 
Bolomer,  Ansketinus  de  {see  Ansketinus) 
Booke,  W..  152,  152 

Boswell.  Richard,  Vicar  Choral,  172,  174 
Bothe,  Henry,  Deacon,  187 
Bothe,  or  Booth,  Laurence,  ArchbLshop, 

Ixxx.,  39,  62.  106,  115,  184 
Bothe,  Peter,  Chorister,  188 
Bothe,  or   Booth,    William,   Archbishop, 

Ixiii.,  Ixxiii.,  115 
Boville,  Archbishop  {see  Sewall). 
Bower,  John,  Prebendary,  145,  147,  150, 

159 
Bownc,  William.  Bailiff,  121 
Box,  or  Boxe,  James,  Vicar  Choral,  86, 

124,  125,  172,  174 
Bradshaw,    or   Bradshay,   Richard,    Ixx , 

164, 167 
Bramhale,  Matthew,  Thuribuler,  188,  189 
Brandysby,  John,  Prebendary,  153,  155 
Brereley,  alias  Loksmyth,  Vicar  Choral, 

Ixx.,   92,   95,    142,    157  (n),    167,    174, 

185,  186 
Brightley,  Margaret.  103 
Brodheade,   or   Broadhead,   or    Brodhed, 

William,  Vicar  Choral    and   Reui^trar, 

Ixx.,  67,  85,  87,  119,  152,  166,  167,  170, 

171 
Brukby,  John,  66 
Bromall,  John,  11 
Browbee,  N,  Notary  Pnblic,  152 
Brown,  Klizabcth,  104 
Brown,  Joan,  104 
Brown,    John,    Vicar   of   Rampton,    102, 

101  (Will) 
Brown,  Roiicrt,  104 
Brown,  William,  104 
Browne,  R.,  152 
Brownehcnle,  William,  89 
Bruih,  Kichanl,  2(1,  27,  28,  29 


INDEX    OF   NAMES    OF    PERSONS. 


225 


Brukschaw,  or  Brokeschaw,  Erukchaw,  or 
Bruckschaw,  Laurence,  Cliauntry  Priest, 
26,  27,  51,  97,  lUl,  175,  182,  183 

Brunn,  Robert  de,  198 

Brynkle)^,  Symeon,  Channtry  Priest,  14-1 

Bull,  John,  Vicar  Choral,  Chauntiy  Priest, 
Churchwarden,  Ixxvii.-lxxxiii.Jxxxviii. 
10,  21,  23,  24,  25,  30,  33,  34,  35,  36,  37, 
39,  42,  43,  44,  45,  47,  48,  50,  51,  76,  87, 
92,  152,  161,  166,  167,  169,  170,  171, 
174,  178 

Bull,  John,  Deacon,  186 

Bull,  William,  104 

BuUer,  William,  Vicar  Choral,  Ixxxv., 
Ixxxvi.,  62,  63,  64,  65,  66,  67,  173 

Bullock,  William,  Vicar  Choral,  lxxvi.,74 

Bulloke,  William,  141 

Bullen,  Thomas,  114 

Burgo,  John  de,  Chancellor  of  Cambridge, 
198 

Bume,  William,  126 

Burton,  Peter,  Chauntry  Priest,  52,  58, 
62,63,66,71,72,108,185 

Burton,  Richard,  Prebendary,  15C,  151, 
160 

Burton,  William  de,  215 

Bury,  Henry,  21 

Bury,  Isabella,  Ixxxii.,  Ixxxiii .  23,  25 

Busshe,  Robert,  119 

Busshe,  Thomas,  133 

Buthe,  Edward,  112 

Buthe,  Elizabeth,  112 

Butterfeld,  John.  Vicar  of  Rolleston,  87 

Button,  Robert,  Chauntry  Priest,  Ixxxiii., 
22,  25,  30,  37 

Button,  Thomas,  30 

Bygge,  Thomas,  91 

Byland,  Helias,  Chauntry  Priest,  25,  26, 
182, 184 

Byllyale,  Thomas,  112 

Bylop,  ,  Vicar  Choral,  9 

Byngham,  Richard,  Esq.,  28 

Byrd,  or  Bird,  Randolph,  Canon  Residen- 
tiary, 1,  2,  3,  4,  7,  10,  145, 146  (n),  147, 
159 

Byrkhed,  Gilbert,  126 

Byrley,  William,  Prebendary,  149, 151, 156 

Byrton,  Thomas,  Prebendary,  153,  154, 
158,  167 

Cade,  Robert,  126 
Cal ton,  William,  121 

Cambull,  or  Cranebole,  Henry,  Pre- 
bendary, 75,  150,  151,  158 

CAMD.  SOC.  ' 


Carpenter,  William,  Dec.  D.  Prebendary, 

149,  150,  151,  154,  160 

Carter,  Edmund,  Canon  Residentiai-y,  03, 

66,  67,  68,  70.  149,  151,  158,  16G,  187 
Carter,  Thomas!  Chorister,  188 
Cartwright,  Thomas, Vicar  Choral,  Ixxvii., 

Ixxviii..  Ixxxi.,  Ixxxii.,  Ixxxviii.,  9  (n), 

31,32,34,40-51,  170 
Carucate,  Robert,  lOS 
Chamberlen,    or    Chamb^Tlcn,    Richard, 

Chauntry  Priest,  36,  37^  43,  185,  18G 
Chambers,  Alice,  93,  94 
Charles  L,  x. 
Charles  H.,  Ixvii. 
Chaterton,  or  Chaderton,  Edmund,  Canon 

Residentiary,  13,  14,  40,  146,  147,  148, 

150,  155,  157,  159,  160,  162,  163,  166, 
168 

Chaundler,  or  Chawnedeler,  Thomas,  Pre- 
bendary, 48,  148,  149,  157 

Chesterfield,  Richard  of,  lix. 

Chichelcv,  Archbishop,  xiii. 

Childe,  Alice,  118 

Childe,  Henry,  lis 

Childe,  John,  118 

Childe,  Robert,  118 

Childe,  Simon,  118 

Clarburgh,  or  Clairburgh,  or  Clayburgh, 
William,  153,  155,  159,  167 

Clayton,  Robert,  57 

Clayton,  William,  Prebendary,  148,  158 

Clerk,  John,  136 

Clerk,  Stephen,  Vicar  Choral,  Ixxxii.,  5, 
10,  20,  21,  23,  24,  28,  29,  155  (n),  170 

Clerk,  Thomas,  Vicar  of  Bledworth,  5 

Clerk,  William,  136 

Clifeton.  Hugh,  117 

Clifton,  Thomas,  134 

Clifton,  William,  Prebendary,  158 

Clyfton,Gervase,  Prebendary,  112, 115  (n), 
148 

Clyfton,  Robert,  Prebendary,  156 

Cocks,  Dr.,  Bishop-designate  of  South- 
well, xcvii. 

Collen,  or  Colyn,  or  Goland,  Robert,  93, 
94,  95,  173 

Colton,  John,  Chauntry  Priest,  179,  185 

Coh-ns,  Martin,  Prebendary,  151,  158 

Cook.  Jane,  Ixxxiii.,  22,  26 

Cook,  John.  28.  29 

Cook,  Robert,  Clerk  of  the  Church,  52 

Cock,  Thomas,  58 

Cooper,  Cecil,  202  (n) 

Cooper,  Thomas,  202  (n) 


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INDEX    OF   NAMES    OF    PERSONS. 


Coi])rulge,  Thomas  dc,  xxxix.,  xlvi.,  liv., 
Iviii.,  212 

Cotom,  Ilobert,  105 

Coton,  John,  133 

Cowper,  Helen,  63,  71,83 

Cowper,  Henry,  88 

Cowper,  Mai-fjcric,  118 

Cowper.  Kichard,  118  (Will) 

Cowi)er,  Thomas,  C3,  06,  71 

Cowper,  William,  Chauntry  Commis- 
sioner, xix. 

Cowper,  William,  Master  of  Wollaton 
Grammar  School,  13 

Cranmer,  Thomas,  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bnry,  xi.,  xxv.,  xcix. 

Crashawe,  Thomas,  Master  of  Southwell 
Grammar  School,  Ixxi. 

Crichlawc,  John,  87 

Cromwell,  Thomas,  Ixviii.,  Ixxiii.,  xcix. 

Crophill,  John,  Canon,  178  (n) 

Crowder,  Robert,  Thuribulcr,  188,  189 

Custaus,  or  Custancc,  William,  Chauntiy 
Priest,  Ixxxiii.,  xciv.,  22,  96  (will) 

Cuthbert,  Chorister,  189 

Dalbie,  or  Dalby,   Thomas,  Prebendary, 

151,  152,  156 
Danvers,   John,  Prebendary   and    Chan- 
cellor, xlii.,  9,  29.  .-JO,  31,  52,  149,  157 
Davison,    John,    Chauntry    Priest,    120, 

121 
Davison,  Thomas,  Chauntry  Priest,   121, 

171, 187 
Daweson,  William,  139 
Day,  or  Dcy,  Robert.  116,  117 
Dean,  Richard,  I'rebendary,  154,  156 
Dc  Dottis,  Francis,  Prebendary,  152,  157 
Descoo,  John,  145 
Deync,  R.,  Chaplain,  147 
Dodge,  ;Mrs.  Richard,  84 
Doget,  John,  Dec.  D.   Prebendary,    147, 

149,  159,  168 
Donyngton,  Thomas,  Dec.  B.  Prebendary, 

153, 158 
Dow  nes,  Geoffrey,  Prebendary,  154, 156  (n), 

158 
Dragley,  William,    Canon   Residentiary, 

87,  89,  91,  122,  151,  159,  163,  164,  165, 

167, 186 
Dryng,  Isabella,  19,  20 
Drynge,  Agnes,  88 
l)ryiiy;c,  Jane,  126 

Duillc-v,  (leorge,  Preliendarv,  151,  160 
Dndicid,  John,  Canon,  181  " 


Dunn,  or  Dunne,  ov  Dune,  Thomas, 
Chauntry  Priest,  Vicar  of  Morton,  92, 
93,  119, '133,  142,  180 

Dunstan,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  xiii., 
XX.,  xxiv. 

Dygbye,  Roland,  115 

Dykons,  Jenet,  121 

Dykson,  Ralph,  Vicar  Choral,  171 

Dyson,  Robert,  Vicar  Choral  and  Chnrch- 
"warden.  10,  24,  42,  43,  47,  54,  56,  58, 
59,60,62,65,68,99,  103,  106,111,149. 
166,  175,  186,  188 

Eadwy,  King,  xix.,  xx.,  xxxii. 

Eagetric,  King's  brother,  xx. 

Edenstowe,  Robert  de,  xlviii. 

Edgar,  King,  ix.,  xix.,  xx.,  xxiv. 

Edward  the  Confessor,  xxxi. 

Ed\vard  I.,  xxix. 

Edward  II.,  xxxii. 

Edward   III.,   xii.,    xiv.,    xxxi.,    xxxii., 

Ixvii.,  Ixviii.,  Ixix. 
Edward  IV.,  xciii. 
Edward  VI.,  xiv.,  l.wi.,  Ixxi.,  xcix. 
Edwards,  Thomas,  Prebendary,  152,  160 
Edwinstow,  Henry  de,  215,  216 
Egleston,  Thomas.  Chauntry  Priest,  183 
Elcson,  Thomas,  139 
Elizabeth,  Queen,  Ixxi.,  xcviii. 
Ellis,  Robert,  86 
Elliswatc,  Christopher,  58 
I'Mlyngthorpc,  Agnes,  85 
]<;]lvs,  Laurence,  57 
EllVs,  William,  97 
Elc^t,  R.,  148 
Elott,  Thomas,  103 
Elton,  William,  Chorister,  86,  189 
Elys,  Lucy,  59,  60 
Elvs,  Richard,  59.61 
Enkersell  {srr  Ynkcrsoll) 
lOrkhyll  (src  Urkyll) 
Ethelwold,  Bishoi)  of  Winchester,  xxiv. 
Evans,  Henry,  Chorister,  189 
Kvyry  (^sce  Yoman) 
Eyton,  Alexander,  Chorister,  188 
Eyton,  Cecilia,  176 
Eyton,  or  Eton,  Henry.  99,  176 

Farrer,  or  Farror,  Ednnnid,  Vicar  Chnral, 

l.xxxiv,,  81,  85,  86,  173 
Farror,  Dr.,  122 
l'Y>ntham,  Thomas,  187 
Feribie,  William  de,  216 
I'eron,  Avicia,  103 


INDEX    or    NAMES    OP    PERSONS. 


227 


Ferrers,  Edmund,  Vicar  Choral,  173 

Fitzhcrbert,  John,  Prebendary,  xix.,  150, 
159 

Fitzherbert,  R.,  150 

Fitzherhert,  Thomas,  Dec.  D.  Canon  Resi- 
dentiary, 70,  76,  77,  82,  83,  84,  151, 
153,  155,  166,  177,  186 

Fitzherbert,  Fychherbert,  Fytzherbord,  or 
Fytzhevbert,  William,  L).I).,  Canon 
Residentiary,  Ixxxv.,  Ixxxvi.,  55,  56, 58, 
69,  61,  63,  .65,  68,  70,  77,  82,  83,  149, 
150,  151,  159,  166  (n),  177,  186,  187 

Fletcher.  Richard,  Prebendary,  13,  146, 
147, 158 

Fortescue,  Sir  John,  Chancellor  of  the 
Exchequer,  Ixxi. 

Foster,  iMargaret,  88 

Foster,  William,  88 

Fotehott,  or  Fotott  or  Fotot,  Thomas.  100, 
103 

Frank,  or  Franks,  Robert,  Prebendary 
14S, 149,  155 

Frankysh,  Henry,  Vicar  Choral,  53,  171, 
174, 177 

Fraunces,  Elizabeth,  17 

Fraunces,  John,  Vicar  of  Oxton,  16 

Freend,  Richard,  Chauntry  Priest,  182 

Freugerus,  Priest,  191 

Fryth,  or  Frytth,  John,  Vicar  Choral, 
Ixxxiv.,  80 

Fuller,  Hugh,  Prebendary,  149 

Fychet,  William,  114 

Gamel,  Grimson,  191 

Gamel,  Orm-son,  191 

Gamel,  son  of  Sn'artecol,  191 

Gaston,  John,  72 

Gee,  Richard,  Chauntry  Priest,  121 

Gibbonson,   or   Gybonson,  or   Gybboson, 

Henry,  86,  90,  93,  94.  175,  186 
Giffard.    Walter,   Archbishop,    201     (n). 

203  (n) 
Gilbert,  the  Chanter,  xxxix. 
Gilbie,  John,  144 
Girard,  Ajchbishop,  178  (u),  191 
Godlay,  William,  100 
Goldeyng,   or   Goldyng,    Richard,   Vicar 

Choral,  58,  75,  77,"  1?0 
Goldsmyth,  Jane,  113 
Goldthorp,     Richard,    Vicar    of     North 

Muskham,  99  (Will) 
Goldwell,  Bishop  of  Norwich,  Ixxxix. 
Gotham,  Thomas,  Chorister,  188 
Grandon,  Thomas,  114 


Gree,  or   Gre,    Thomas,    Vicar    Choral, 

Ixxviii.,  48,  150,  151,  156,  173 
Gree,  H.,  Deacon,  187 
Gregory,  John,    Vicar   Choral,    Ixxviii., 

Ixxx.,  Ixxxiii.,  Ixxxix.,  10,  22,  23,  24, 

25,  32,  34,  35,  36,  42,  44,  47,  49,  50,  166, 

170,  174 
Gregson,  Joan,  98 
Gregson,  John,  98 
Greenfield,    Archbishop    of    York,    xlv. 

Ixxii.,  190 
Grene,  John,  89 
Grene,  William,  Vicar  of  Rolleston,    103 

(Will),  152 
Grenley,  John,  139 
Greve,  Christopher.  140 
Greve,  Elizabeth.  140 
Greve,  Richard,  139  (Will) 
Greve,  Robert,  140 
Grey,    Walter,    Archbishop,   xvi.,  xxxi., 

xxxvi.,xxxvii.,xliv.,  liii..  Ixviii.,  163  (n), 

164  (n),  201,  202,  203,  204 
Grove,  Elizabeth,  137 
Grymstou,  Robert,  Prebendary,  149.  151, 

1.55 
Gimthorpe,  William,  Canon,  183 
Gurnell,  Richard,  Deacon,  45,  46,  188 
Gurnell,   Thomas,    Vicar   Choral,    Ixxv., 

Ixxix  ,  1,  2,  3.  4,  6,  7.  8,   9,  10,  11,  28, 

103, 172,  216 (n) 
Gylys,  John,  103 
Gylys,  Robert,  103 
Gylvs,  Thomas,  Chaplain  of  North  ilusk- 

ham,  102  (Will) 
Gylys,  William,  103 
Gynkersoll  (see  Ynkersoll) 


Hall,  or  HauU,  Francis,  Chauntry  Priest 

Lxiii.,  144,  181 
Hall,  Jane,  134 
Hall,  John,  134 
Hall,  Robert,  133  (Will) 
Hall,  Robert,  jun.,  134 
Hall,  Roger,  134 

Hall,  William,  Robert's  father,  134 
Hall.  AVillium,  134 
Halswelle,    Nicholas,     Prebendary,     149, 

150, 154 
Hamerton,  Thomas,  121 
Haneson,  John,  112 
Harcold,  A'gnes,  Ixxx.,  31 
Harcourt,    Robert,     ^Master    of    Newark 

Grammar  School,  52 


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INDEX   OF    NAMES    OF   PERSONS. 


Ilardewik,  John,  88 
llanlewik,  Thomas,  Bailiff,  88 
Harding,  or  llanlvng;,  John,  Canon  Resi- 
dentiary, 7,  8,  10.  ]1,H9,  loG 
Harding.   Ilohert,   Chauntry   Tricst,   147 

1.51,  152,  153,  179,  180 
Hardmeyte,  Thomas,  14 
Ilarlynge,  Arthur,  138 
Haro'id,  King,  xxi.,  xxiii. 
Harrison,  or  Herrysjn,  Richard.  Clerk,  .56 
Harrison,  Richard,  Chauntry  Priest,  Ixiii., 

17!),  181  (n) 
Harthyll,  Richard,  105 
Hatton.  John,  Prebendary  and  Canon  of 

York,  151,  152,  160 
Haxey,  Thomas,   Prebendary,  Ixiii.,  101, 
.     168, 184 

Hay  ward,  Thomas,  114 
Hcl).  Chauntry  Priest,  52 
Hcfeld,  Thomas,  104 
Hclias  (sec  Byl.and) 
Hemi)sell,  Margaret.  108 
Hempsell,  William,  108 
Hendcrson,Robert,  Vicar  o£Bekyngham,l  34 
Henry  I.,   xii.,   xv.,    xx.,    xxix.,    xxxi., 

xxxix.,  Ixvii.,  Ixviii. 
Henry  II.,  xxiii ,  xxvii.,  xxx. 
Henry  III.,  xix.,  xxxi.,  Ixvii.,  Ixviii. 
Henry  IV.,  Ixix. 
Henry  VI.,  lix. 
Henry  VII.,  xciii. 
Henry  VIII.,  x.,  xiv.,  xviii.,  xxii.,  xxv., 

XXXV.,    xli.,    Iv.,    Ixviii.,    Ixxi.-lxxiii., 

Ixxxviii.,  Ixxxix.,  xcvi.-xcix. 
Herbert,  Prebendary,  xxxix. 
I  lewett,  Thomas,  Prebendary,  1 59 
Higdon,  Brian,  Dean  of  York,  120 
Higdon,  Randolph,  164 
Hobson,  John,  Roctor  of  South  Whcatley, 

101  (Wiil) 
Hobson,  Richard,  102 
IIobs(m,  Robert,  102 
Hobson,  Stephen,  Deacon,  186 
Hobson,  William,  102 
Hogcsonc,  Milo,  Chorister,  187,  188 
Holyngworth,  Th(mms,  114 
Horiieby,    Henry,    Prcbendarv,    149,   157, 

176  (n) 
Horsley,  Thomas,  Prebendary,  154,  159 
Howden,  Agnes,  141 
Huddersall,    or    Othcrsale,    John,   Vicar 

Choral,  31,34,36,  171 
Hugate,     Thomas    de,    Vicar-Choral    of 

IJeverley,  xxxii. 


Hngh,  the  Chanter,  xxi.,  xxiii. 

Hugh,  Dean  of  Southwell,  xxxv.-xxxvii. 

Hugh  de  Welles,  Ixii. 

Hull,  William,  Vicar  of  Cawnton,  15,  17 

Humfray  (scr  Umfrey) 

Hunt,  KdmmuljChauutrv  Priest,  xcv.,  142 

(Will) 
Hunt,  I'xUvard,  143 
Hunt,  Elizabeth,  143,  144 
Hunt.  Henry,  143 
Hunt,  Joan,  143 
Hunt,  John,  143 
Hunt,  Richard,  141 
Hunt,  Thomas,  141 
Hunt,  Thomas,  Gentleman,  171  (n) 
Ilusse,  Mark,  Prebendary,  150, 160 
Hyll,  Agnes,  91 
Hyll,  John,   Chautrv   Priest    and   Vicar 

Choral,  lxxxiii.,25,  26,  42,  49,  111,  112, 

114,117,  168,174,184 
Hyll,  Ralph,  80 
Hvll,  Richard,  Chori.stcr,  189 
Hynde,  William,  Chauntry  Priest,  86,  183 

Ingelarde,  T.,  151 
Ingham,  (sec  Yngham) 

Jaksone,  Alice,  112 

Jaksone,  Helen,  112 

Jaksone.  Robert,  111  (Will),  153 

Jaksone,  Thomas,  Chorister,  188,  189 

Jaksone,  William  112 

James  I.,  xxxv.,  Ixix.,  Ixxi. 

John,  King,  Ixii. 

John,  Archbishop  (si'C  Romaine) 

Johnson,  Christopher,  151 

Johnson,  William,  140 

Keale,  John,  Prebendary,  153.  154,  160 

Kechyn.  John,  141,  142' 

Kechyn,  N.,  Chorister,  189 

Kechyn,  Richard,  141 

Kcele,  Keylc,  Kcell  or  Kevll,  William, 
Vicar  Choral,  Ixxviii.,  32,42,  50,  114 
(Wili),  170,  174 

Keilway,  Robert,  Endowed  Schools  Com- 
missioner, Edward  VI.,  xcvii. 

Kem|),  Cardinal,  Archbishop  of  York,  lix., 
47,  53 

Kendall,  Kendale,  or  Kcndell,  John,  Vicar 
Choral  Ixxx..  Ixxxi.,  31,  32,  33,  34,  35. 
36,  39,  42,  48,  50,  51,  151,  170,  171 

Kepcas,  Agnes,  139 

Kcpeas,  Dorothy,  13S  (Will) 


INDEX    OF    NAMES    OF    PERSONS. 


229 


Kepeas,  Richard,  138 

Keton,  John,  Chorister,  afterwards 
Chauntry  Priest,  57,  188 

King,  or  Kyng,  Oliver,  Prebendary,  148, 
119,  154 

Ivinsins,  Archbishop  of  York,  xxi. 

Kingston,  or  Kyngeston,  Edmund,  Chaim- 
tiy  Priest,  82,  117,  138,  142,  145 

Kinsgston,  Edmnnd,  Chauatry  Priest,  183 

Kingston,  William,  140 

Kirke,  or  Kvrk  or  Kyrke,  John,  Vicar 
Choral,  53,' 112 

Kirke,  John,  of  Bekynham,  139 

Kirke,  William,  Chauntry  Priest,  183 

Knoll,  John,  115 

Knoll,  Richard,  115  (Will) 

Knolles,  Henry,  105 

KnoUes,  John,  106 

Knolles,  Knoll  or  Knowle,  or  Nicholas, 
Chauntry  Priest,  Ixxxiii.,  12,  13,  22, 
23,  26,  27,  28,  29,  35,  37,  43,  47,  51, 
52,  105  (Will),  175,  180,  181,  182,  185 

Knolles,  Roger,  105 

Koo,  Alice,  130 

Kynalton,  Thomas,  57 

Kyrkby,  or  Kyrkbye,  Thomas,  Church- 
warden and  Vicar  Choral,  67,  87,  166,* 
167,  172,  188 

Lache,  John,  85 

Lacv,  Lasey,  or  Lascy,  John,  Prebendary, 

Ixxiii.,  24,  149,  160,  175(n) 
Lacy,   Thomas,    Master   of    Nottingham 

Grammar  School,  13,  31 
Lamley,  Thomas,  14,  114 
Lanfranc,  Archbishop  of  Canterbuiy,  xiii., 

xxiv. 
Langforde,  or  Langforthe,  William,  153, 

155 
Langreth,  Richard,  Prebendary,  157 
Langton,  Robert,  Prebendary,  152,  156 
Laurence  {see  Bothe) 
Lawe,  Thomas,  87 
Lavn,  or  Layne,  Robert,  Chauntrv  Priest, 

fxxix.,  33,  35,  37,  40,  43,  52,  iOl,  108, 

175,  181,183 
Lednam,   or    Ledenam,    Thomas,    Vicar 

Choral,  Ixxxii.,  6,  10,  21,  23,  24,  171 
Lee,  Agnes,  97 

Lee,  Edward,  Archbishop  of  York,lii.,  145 
Lee,  James,  140 

Lee,  John,  Chapter  Clerk,  Ixix.,  Ixx.,  145 
Leeke,  Alexander,  84 
Leeke,  John, 84 


Leeke,  Thomas,  84,  85 

Legard,  Agnes,  17 

Lemyng,  John,  Chauntry  Priest,  Ixxxviii., 

42 
Lentall,  Kicholas,  Prebendary,  153, 156 
Levers,  Richard,  Vicar    Choral,   85,   86, 

173 
Lexington,    Robert    de,    Canon,    xxxi., 

XXXV.,  xxxvi.,  Ixii.,  178,  182  (n) 
Levs,  William,  61 

Lichfield,  Edmund,  Prebendary,  147,  159 
Lister,  or  Littest,  or  Litster,  or  Littester, 

Laurence,  Chauntry  Priest,  23,  28,  43, 

48 
Litton,  or  Elys,  John,  Chauntry  Priest, 

175. 180 
Lokay,  Isabel,  105 
Longcaschyr,  ilrs.  Robert,  45 
Longcaschj-r,  Robert,  45 
Longford,  Ralph,  Esquire,  57 
Lostoe,  Richard,  Chorister,  189 
Lunde,  J.  152 
Lyllye,  Agnes,  75,  92 
Lyllye,  Thomas,  75 
Lyttelton,  John,  145 


Mallulev,  Pavia,  xxvii.,  159 
Malluvel,  Robert,  xxvii.,  159 
Marcei-,  or  Mercer,  Thomas,  Prebendary, 

153,  156 
^Margaret,  Apothecary's  wife,  21 
Markham,  Sir  John,  Chauntry  Commis- 
sioner, xix. 
Marshall,  John, Rector  of  South  Wheatlev, 

121,136,143,144,156 
Marshall,  Thomas.  Archdeacon  of  Lincoln, 

160 
Marten,  Richard,  89 
Martyn,  or  ilartin,  John,  Chauntry  Priest, 

Ixxxiv.,  61,  62,  72,  81,  178,  182,  186 
Mary,  Queen,  Ixxi..  xcviii. 
Massbnrgh,  E.,  150 
Mastei-e,  Alice,  14 
Mauclerk,  Walter,   Canon   of   Southwell. 

Bishop  of  Carlisle,  xxxv. 
^laxe,  John,  Canon  of  Southwell,  Bishop 

of  Elphin,  Abbot  of  Welbeck,  126,  127, 

1.52,  155 
]\reir,  Margaret,  126 
Meir,  AVilliam,  126 

Melton,  Thomas,  Archbishop  of  York,  xlv. 
ilelyson,  William,  Chauntry  Priest,  183 
Mere,  J..  148 


230 


INDEX    OF    NAMES    OP    PERSONS. 


Mery,  John,  Vicar  Choral, Ixxvii.,  Lxxviii., 
9,  23,  42.  43,  4(1,  47,  tt'j,  lOi,  1C9 

Meryng,  Thomas,  Esquire,  81 

Meryng,  William,  Knight,  62,  01 

Mejc,  Agnes,  14 

Miklnmy,  Sir  Walter,  Endowed  Schools 
Commissioner,  Edward  VI.,  xcvii. 

^lolincnx,  Thomas,  2(3 

Monte  Claro,  John  de,  215,  21G 

Mooke,  Margaret,  137 

Mooke,  Thomas,  137 

Jklora,  Henry  de.  Canon,  180  (n) 

Morton,  Hugh  de,  Ixi. 

Morcai,  Ligulf  sou,  191 

More,  llicJiard,  108 

More,  Kobert,  Chauntry  Priest,  92,  185 

More,  Thomas,  Chauntry  Priest,  184 

Morlay,  Robert,  Chorister,  188 

Mosse,  Alexander,  Parish  Clerk,  88 

Neyille,  Andrew,  131 

Neville,  George,  Archbishop,  xciii.,  147 

Nevyll,  George,  130 

Nevyll,  Joan,  128 

Nevyll,  Robert,  xciv.,  128  (Will),  131,  132 

Nevyll,  Robert,  jun.,  130 

Nevyll,  Thomas,  187 

Newnrkc,  William  de,  215 

Newbolde,  or  Nubolde,  John,  85,  8G,  89, 

172 
Newton,  John,  100,  103 
Nicholas,  Pope,  xxix.,  li.,  Ixvi. 
Nicliolls,  or  Nicols,  Thomas,  Prebendary, 

152,  150 
Nightingale,  William,  121 
Nooke,  Robert,  Prebendai-y,  152,  153,  15G 
Nores,  Richard,  Chauntry  Priest,  180 
Norman,  Richard,  Vicar  Choral,  Notary 

Public,  Chapter  Clerk,  Ixx.,  57,  58,  GU, 

62,  65,  G7,  Gd,  150,  16G,  172 
Norman,  son  of  Rasing,  191 
NoiTiian,  Priest,  191 
Nornianton,  Richard,  Parish  Vicar,  197, 

199,  200 
Norram,  William,  Clerk  of  the  Church, 

52 
North,  Sir  Edward,  Chancellor  of  Aug- 
mentations, xl.,  Ixix. 
Norton,  William,  Vicar  Choral,  Ixxxii., 

Ixxxiii.,  9,  19,  20,  21,  23,  25,  27,  28 
Nutliorne,  Agnes,  90 
Nutyiigham,  Henry  de.  Canon,  182 
Nycholson,  George,  114  (Will) 
Nycholsou,  Kathcriuc,  114 


Nykks,  or  Nikkc,  Richard,  Prebendary, 
Bishop  of  Norwich,  ex.,  149,  160 

Odessell,  Henry,  114 

Odo,  Archbishop,  xix. 

Olyver,  John,  Prebendary,  153,  158 

Ootch,  George,  126 

Orston,  Seth,  56,  74,  75 

Orston,   Thomas,  57,   99,   112,  147,   148, 

149 
Osbert,  Sheriff,  xxx.,  191 
Oscytel,  Archbishop  of  York,  xix.,  xx., 

xxxii. 
Osmund,  Bishop  of  Salisbury,  xliii.,  xliv. 
Oswald,  Archbishop  of  York,  xix.,  xx. 
Othcrsale  (sec  Huddersall) 
Oxton,  Robert,  Canon,  185 

Paice,  Richard,  Prebendary,  lii.,  151,  152, 

156 
Palet,  Emmott,  140 
Palmer,  Joan,  124 
Palmer,  John,  of  Barnbv,  125 
Palmer,   John,   of    Southwell,   120,   124, 

125, 145 
Palmer,  Margaret,  124 
Palmer,  Nicholas,  Chorister,  Deacon,  92, 

189 
Palmer,  Thomas,    Chauntry    Priest,    92, 

142, 180 
Palmer,  William,  Chorister,  189 
Parker,  Baptiste,  138 
Parker.  Helen,  138 
Parker,  John,  138 
Parker,  Robert,  133 
Parker,  Thomas,  137  (Will) 
Parnell,  Agnes,  101 
Patyc,  Ralph,  13i) 

Paulinus,  Archbishop  of  York,  xvii. 
Pawson,  N.  Chorister,  189 
Peel,  Sir  R.,  xcix. 
Pcese,  Henry,  137 
Penkith,  Penwith,  Pcnkyth,  or  Penkcth, 

Richard,  Vicar  Choral,  l.xxviii.,  Ixxxiv., 

Ixxxviii.,  24,  25,  28,  29,  42,  51,  55,  75, 

79, 104.  Ill,  173 
Penyugton,    Geoffrey,   Chauntry    Priest, 

28,  29 
Penyrith,  Pcynrcth,  Pcntrcth,  Pemlcrcth 

or   Pcnreth,   Robert,  Chauntry   Priest, 

Ixxvi.,  IxxxY.,  50,  51,  5.3,  101,  106,  108 
Popper,  John,  133 
Pepper,  Robert,  132  (Will) 
Pepper,  Thomas,  133 


INDEX   OP    NAMES    OE    PERSONS. 


231 


Pepper,  William,  133 

Pernam,  Andrew,  Deacon,  186 

Pernam,  John,  Chauntry  Priest,  181 

Peter  de  Valognes,  191 

Philip,  King,  Ixxi.,  xcviii. 

Philipott,  John,  126 

Pinibus,  John  de,  216 

Plats,  Agnes,  93,  94,  95 

Porter,  John,  Prebendary,  158 

Porvesse,  liobert.  Chorister,  189 

Potter,  Isabella,  69 

Powtrell,  Nicholas,  Chauntry  Commis- 
sioner, xix. 

Poy,  William,  Chorister,  188 

Pule,  Richard,  102 

Pursglove,  Bishop,  xiii. 

Pygge,  Thomas,  126 

Pygott,  Richard,  Prebendary,  152,  159 

Pypys,  Laurence,  Chauntry  Priest,  Vicar 
Choral,  probably  Song- Schoolmaster,  67, 
173 

Pyrwett,  or  Prowet,  Alexander,  Preben- 
dary, 146,  147,  156 

Queringham,  Agnes,  5 

Rampton,  Nigel  de,  159 

Rampton,  Pavia  de,  159 

Randolph  le  Meschin,  191 

Ratclifee,  or  Radcliff,  George,  110  (Will), 
148 

Ratcliffe,  Marcia,  110 

Ratcliffe,  Richard,  Prebendary,  150,  158, 
159 

Rawald,  J.,  Prebendary,  147 

Rawlande,  or  Rawlands,  William,  Chaun- 
try Priest,  92,  183 

Raynald,  John,  Prebendary,  149,  154,  159 

Rede,  William,  Prebendary.  156 

Reds,  Alice,  lOl' 

Reds,  Margaret,  109 

Reds,  Richard,  109  (Will) 

Reds,  William,  109 

Richard  IL,  Lx.,  Ixviii. 

Richard  of  Cornwall,  202 

Ridding,  George,  Bishop  of  Southwell,  x. 

Ridel,  Geoffrey,  190  (u) 

Robynson,  Edmimd,  Chauntry  Priest,  183 

Robynson,  Thomas,  164 

Rochill,  or  Rochell,  Robert,  Chauntry 
Priest,  36,  43,  63,  114 

Roger  of  Bisbopsbridge,  Archbishop, 
xxvii.,  209 


Rolleston,  Benedict  de, 

Rolleston,  Henry  de,  201 

Rolleston,  John  of,  Vicar  Choral  of 
Beverley,  xxxii. 

Rolliston,  Richard,  126 

Romaine,  John  le.  Archbishop,  xvi.,  xxvii., 
xlv.,xlvi.,  155,  156,  210 

Roper,  or  Rooper,  Richard,  Vicar  Choral, 
Churchwarden,  Parish  Vicar  of  South- 
well, Ixxxiii,  3,  4,  10,  24,  30,  44,  46,  99, 
100,  104,  109,  110  (Will),  148, 149,  166, 
168,  169,  172, 176  (n) 

Rotherfield,  William  of,  202  (n) 

Rotherham,  Thomas,  Archbishop  of  York, 
xiii.,  70 

Rothwell,  R.,  151 

Row,  Alice,  of  Hallam,  14 


Saddeler  {see  Chambers). 

Salven,  or  Salwyne,  Robert,  Vicar  Choral, 

xcvii.,  142,  170 
Sammysbury,     or     Samsbury,     Richard, 

Choristei-,  afterwards  Park-keeper,  02, 

187,  188 
Samson,  John,  87 
Saudale,  John  de,  215,  216 
Sandale,  Robert  de,  216 
Sandys,  Edwin,  Archbishop  of  York,  Ixix. 
Sanford,  Brian,  Prebendary,  149,  152,  155 
Sare,  or   Sawyer,   Christopher,  Chauntry 

Priest,  142,  185 
SaA'age,  George,  Prebendary,  151,  154 
Savage,  Thomas,  Archbishop,  70  (n) 
Savarick,  Bishop  of  Wells,  Ixii. 
Sawei-,  Robert,  Deacon,  187 
Saxey,  William,  Prebendary,  154 
Saynton,   Agnes,   Ixxix.,   Ixxx.,    Ixxxii., 

Ixxxvii..  17,  18,  21,  23,  81,  37,42,  98  (n) 
Saynton,  Christina,  Ixxx.,  Ixxxii.,  Ixxxvii., 

18,  35,  37,  97 
Saynton,  John,  124 
Schalcress,  Nicholas,  57 
Schaw,   William,  Chauntry  Priest,  Vicar 

Choral,  53,  .54,55,  173 
Scothorne,  William,  118 
Scott,  John,  Vicar  Choral,  171 
Scrimshire  (Will.),  Ixi. 
Seffrid  II. ,  Bishop  of  Chichester,  Ivii. 
Selby,  Thomas,  117 
Serlo,  202 
Sewall  de  Boville,  Archbishop   of  York, 

xxxvi. 
Shepherdson,  Agues,  14 


232 


INDEX   OP  NAMES   OP   PERSONS. 


Shipton,  or  Schipton,  Tholnas,  Chauntry 
Priest,  51,  52,  101 

Shirburn,  or  Slivrburu,  or  Schyrburn, 
William,  Vicar  Choral,  9,  13,  23,  27, 
146,  171,  172 

Skayff,  Roljcrt,  Notarv  Public,  Chapter 
Clerk,  Ixx.,  3,  4,  44,  54,  56,  58,  166,  169 

Skelton,  William,  Prebendary,  149,  150, 
157 

Skevyngton,  Mr.,  120 

Sle,  Alice,  103 

Sle,  John,  103 

Sledmer,  or  Sledmyr,  Richard,  Vicar 
Choral,  9,  22,  23,  34,  36,  42,  43,  44,  47, 
48,  53,  169 

Smyth,  Jane,  xc.,  xci. 

Smyth,  John,  xc. 

Smyth,  Ralph,  Chauntry  Priest,  179, 
184 

Smyth,  Richard,  89 

Smyth,  Richard,  Vicar  Choral,  Church- 
warden, Ixxviii.,  24,  27,  42,  50,  58,  59, 
60,62.65,  68,  111,  149,  166,  170,  171, 
186,  188 

Smyth,  Thomas,  103 

Spaffoldc,  Thomas,  134 

Spure,  William,  139 

Stafforth,  John,  101 

St.  Albans,  Thomas  de,  215 

Standyn,  William,  118 

Stanedge,  Mrs.  William,  83,  84 

Stanley,  or  Staneley,  Edward,  Chauntry 
Priest,  180 

Stanley,  James,  Prebendary,  148,  155 

Stanton,  Antony,  131 

Stedman,  Richard,  Vicar  Choral,  85,  86, 
119 

Steill,  or  Stele,  Thomas-Deacon,  after- 
wards Chauntry  Priest,  Ixxxiv.,  74,  80, 
81,  82,  83,  84,  86,  180,  186 

Stephen  {sec  Clerk) 

Stephen,  Cardinal,  Canon  of  South- 
well, xli. 

Stirton,  Isabella,  98 

Stirton,  John,  97,  98 

Stoke,  or  Stok,  John  or  Thomas,  149, 
157 

Stokeley,  or  Stnkelcy,  Robert,  Vicar 
Choral,  59,  60,  61,  66,  67,  72,  106,  109, 
172 

Stoll,  Thomas,  112 

StrolKill,  Adani,Ciionster,  187,  188 

Stubbs,  Kdward,Ch')ristor,  189 

Styltc,  Jane,  87 


Sudburyc,  Emmott,  140 

Sudburye,  N.,  172 

Suthwell,  John,  Prebendary,  148,  154 

Sutton,  Alicia  dc,  Ixii. 

Sutton,  John,  Prebendary,  160 

Sutton,  Oliver,  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  Ixii., 

179  (n) 
Sutton,    Richard,    Canon    of    Southwell, 

Ix.,  Ixi.,  179,  180  (n),  181  (n) 
Sutton,  Robert  de,  Ixii. 
Sutton,   William,   Chauntry   Priest,    179, 

189 
Swayn,  Matilda,  37 
Swayn,  Thomas,  37 
Symon,  W^arden  of  Commons,  liii. 
Symonds,  William,  Prebendarv,  150.151, 

154, 156 

Tailior,  Richard,  Vicar  of  Oxton,  118 

Talbot,  William.  D.D.,  Canon  Residen- 
tiary, 53,  51,  55.  58,  58,  59,  60,  61,  62, 
105,  106,  107,  111,  148,  150,  159,  166 

Temple,  Agnes,  116,  117 

Tenaunt'.',  Stephen,  Pi-ebendary,  157 

Terrold,  or  Toralde,  John,  Canon  Resi- 
dentiary, 1,  160 

Thirkyll,  or  Thyrkyll,  Richard,  a  servant, 
56,  57 

Thomas,  a  servant,  113 

Thomas,  Warden  of  Commons,  liii. 

Thomas  de  Corl)ridge  {kci-  Corbridge). 

Thomas  I.,  Archbislu.p  of  York,  xv.,  xvi., 
xxi.,  xxiv.,  xliv. 

Thomas  II.,  Archbishop  of  York,xv.,  xvi., 
xxiv.,  xxvii. 

Thomas,  Ai-chbishop,  dc  Melton  {xce 
Melton) 

Thomkynson,  Richard,  84 

Thornell,  or  Tnorneyll,  Hugh,  134 

Tbornell,  Rolwrt,  124 

Thorneton,  Thomas,  121 

Thornton,  John,  Vicar  of  Oxton,  15 

Thnrstan,  Archbishop  of  York,  xxvii., 
xxix.,  xxxix.,  154,  155 

Thnrstan,  Turmot-son,  191 

Tollar,  Agnes.  124 

Tomyew,  Richard,  Prebendarv,  n3.  154, 
1.59 

Topcliffc,  Richard.  Vicar  Choral,  174 

Tortc,  Matthew,  Vicar  Choral,  xcvii.,  175 

Tram,  John,  Prei)cndary,  155 

Trapjts,  John,  Vicar  Choral,  172 

Trentham,  Cicilv,  141 

Trcnthaui,  William,  141 


INDEX   OF   NAMES    OP    PERSONS. 


233 


Trotter,  Hugh,  Prebendary,  158 
Tykhyll,  or  Tykhill,  or  Tykell,  or  Tykkell, 
Thomas,  Chauntry  Priest,  Ixxxiii.,  5,  22, 
26,  as,  So,  36,  4b,  48,  51,  7(J,  97,  101, 
109,  117,  175,  176,  178,  180,  181 
Tyllyng,  Thomas,  100,  103 

Ulvet,  Forno-son,  192 

Umlrey,  John,  Vicar  Choral,  92,  174 

Unwyn,  John,  131 

Urban  IV.,  Pope 

Urkj'U,  or  Erkliyll,  Thomas,  Vicar  Choral, 

2,  3.  4,  10,  30,  44,  46,  53,  54,  56,  58,  99, 

100,  148,  166,  168,  169 
Urswicke,  Christopher,  Prebendary,  151, 

152,  158 
Uttreth,  Alwin-son,  191 
Utci-eth,  Tm-killsou,  191 
Uttyng,' William,  82 

Vavasour,  Henry,  Prebendary,  181 

Vavasour,  Robert,  138 

Verdon,  Edward,  161 

Vessy,  George,  91 

Vessey,  John,  139 

Vincent,  or  V3Ticent,  George,  Organist, 
Vicar  Choral,  Ixxsiv.,  Ixxxv.,  Ixxxviii., 
74,  80,  85,  86,  87,  172,  173,  188 

Vry  {see  Yoman) 

Wad,  Johanna,  57,  109 

Waddington,  William,  198  (n) 

Walbank,  Robert,  89 

Walbank,  Mrs.  Robert,  89 

Walkelin,  Bishop  vi  Winchester,  xxiv. 

Walker,   Christopher,   Vicar   Choral,   It., 

91,  92,  95,  137,  167,  170 
Walker,  ^'icholas,  Vicar  Choral,  172 
Walpole,  Sir  Robert,  Ixxii. 
Waltar,  John,  118 
Walter  {see  Grey) 
Walton,  Nicholas,  Vicar  Choral,  Ixxxix., 

83,  94,  170,  173 
Waltou,  Richard,  57 
Walton,  Robert,  Chauntry  Priest,  121 
Warde,  Robert,  141 
Warde,  Thomas,  Chauntry  Priest,  183 
Waretyr,  Walter,  Prebendary,  149 
Warkworth,  John.  Prebendary,  147,  160, 

160 
Warner,  Isabel,  xc. 
Warsopp.  John,   Vicar    Choral,  Ixxxiii., 

Ixxxvi'i.,  5,  6,  10, 17,  18, 19,  22,  23,  25. 

27,  28,  98  (Will),  161,  166  | 

CAMD.  SOC.  2 


Warsopp,  William,  45,  99,  114 

Warsopp.  Mrs.  William,  45 

Warter,  Edmund,  Prebendary,  24,  155 

AVartyr,  William,  112 

Waryn.  W.,  14 

Watson,  John,  Prebendary,  152,  153,  1.59 

Watson,  William,  Prebendary,  76, 151, 158 

Watts,  William,  141 

Webster,  Robert,  Vicar  Choral,  10,  23,  24 

42,  47,  49,  99 

Westbie,  Thomas,  151,  153,  159,  167 

Whitworth,  Leonard,  88 

Whyte,  Thomas,  Prebendary,  146, 147, 157 

Wilkens,  William,  130 

Wilkins,  Richard.  Chorister,  189 

Wilkinson,  Richard,  130 

Willa,  John,  89 

Willebert  (see  Gilbert) 

William,  Dean  of  Chichester,  Ixii. 

W^illiam,  the  Treasurer,  xxxix  ,  202 

William,  Ulf-son,  191 

Williamson,  John,  Prebendaiy,  160 

Willyams,  Henry,  Prebendary,  153,  156 

Wilson,     Wylson,     or    Wvllson,     John, 

Chauntry  Priest,  Ixxxiv.,"  66,  69.  73,  76, 

81,  184,  189  .       ' 

Wilson.   Thomas,  Vicar  Choral,  90,  103, 

118,  171, 172 
Wiott,  or  Wiatt,  Richard,  Prebendary,  82, 

84,85,  151,  158,  166,  184 
Witeside,  John,  130 

Witton,  Matthew,  Prebendary,  153,  155 
Wodhouse,  Thomas,  Vicar  Choral,  Ixxxiv., 

80,  172 
Wollson,  Thomas,  58 
Wolsey,  Thomas,  Archbishop  of  Tork,  ix., 

li.,  lii. 
Worsley,  Alice,  108 
Worsley,  Ellen,  108 
Worsley,  Emma,  108 
Worsley,  Joan,  108 
Worsley,  Laurence,  108 
Worsley,  Richard,  Chauntry  Priest,  xcv., 

43,  51,  106  (Will;,  185 
Worsley,  Robert,  108 
Worseley,  Thomas 

Worseley,  William,  LL.D.,  Canon  Resi- 
dentiary, 7,  10,  11,  12,  13.  14,  16, 17, 18, 
19,  20,  21,  26,  29,  32,  40,  41,  44,  46, 150. 
158,  161,  162,  163,  166, 168 

Wortlay,  Thomas,  100 

Wrabv,  John.  Canon  Residentiar)',  1,  2,  3, 
4,  .5",  7,  10,  11,  13,  16,  147,  157, 161,162, 
163,  166 


234 


INDEX    OF    NAMEB    OF    PERSONS. 


Wright,  Henry,  Deacon,  187 

Wright,  John,  105,  111 

Wright,  Laurence,  Deacon,  187 

Wright,  Thomas,  Deacon.  187 

Wright,  or  Wrvght,  William,  Channtry 
Priest,  Ixxxiv.,  80,  180,  181 

Wydyngton,  William,  Bailiff  of  Southwell, 
180 

Wygemore,  John,  Prcbendarj',  149,  150, 
150.  160 

Wygfall,  William,  58 

Wyght,  William,  149 

Wykeham.  William  of.  Canon  of  South- 
well,  Bishop  of  Winchester,  i.,xcii.,  12  (n) 

Wylkynson,  Edmund,  114 

Wylkvnson,  John,  Prebendary,  152,  153, 
167' 

Wymbish,  or  Wymbussch,  Thomas,  Pre- 
bendary, 155 

Wymcndesolde,  William,  117 

Wynncswold,  Leonard,  Chorister,  188 

Wynter,  Thomas,  Prebendary,  152.  153. 
158,  160 

Wynton,  Robert  de,  202 

Wyseman,  John  Channtry  Commissioner, 
xix. 

Wytton,  John,  102 


Wyvell,  John,  Vicar  of  North  Leverton, 

xcv.,  120  (Will) 
Wyvell,  John,  120,  121,  122,  123 
Wyvell,  Robert,  121 
Wyvell,  Thomas,  120,  121 
Wyvell.  William,  121,  122,  123 

Yerburgh,  Vicar  Choral,  10 

Yngham,  or  Ingham,  John,  Vicar  Choral, 
71,  76,  173,  186,  188,  189 

Ynker-soll,  Helen,  141 

Ynkersoll,  Henry,  141 

Ynkersoll,  Isabel,  141 

Ynkersoll,  James,  141 

Ynkersoll,  John,  141 

Ynkersoll,  Richard.  141 

Ynkersoll,  Enkersell,  or  Gynkersell,  Wil- 
liam, Channtry  Priest,  xciv.,  92.  140 
(Will),  182 

Yoman,  Margaret.  Ixxxiv.,  69,  72,  80 

Yoman.  or  Evyry,  or  Vry,  Robert,  57,  61, 
66,  68,  69 

Yong.  or  Young,  or  Yonge,  William, 
Channtry  Prient,  61,  66,  67,  68,  75,  76, 
181 

Zebbe,  xix. 


'U3nVEE3IT7) 


REPORT  OF  THE  COUNCIL 


THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY. 

READ  AT  THE  GENERAL  MEETING  ^ 

ON  THE  2d  may,   I89U.  ■ 


The  Council  of  the  Camden  Society  elected  on  May  2,  1889,  regret  the 
loss  by  death  of  the  following  members : — 

F.  W.  CosENs,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 
William  Gilbert,  Esq. 
Edward  Hailstone,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 

G.  W.  NiCHOLL,  Esq. 
John  Weld,  Esq. 

They  also  have  to  report  the  following  accessions  to  the  Society: — 
Newberry  Library,  Chicago^  U.S. 
Faculty  of  Procurators'  Library,  Glasgow. 
University  of  California. 
The  Constitutional  Club. 
Rev.  C.  W.  Penny. 

The  books  for  the  year  1889-90  have  been — 

1.  Memoirs    relating    to    the    Lord    Torrington.     Edited    by    John"    Knox 
Laughton,  M.A,,  R.N. 

2.  Essex  Papers,     Vol.  I.     Edited  by  Osmund  Airy,  Esq. 

The  first  of  these  volumes  lias  been  for  some  time  in  the  hands  of  the 
members,  and   the  other,  which  Avill  be  issued  immediately,  contains  a 


2  REPORT  OF  THE   COUNCIL,  1889. 

considerable    amount    of    interesting    matter    relating    to    the    Court    of 
Charles  II.  and  to  the  government  of  Ireland  in  his  reign. 

In  the  coming  year  the  Council  propose  to  issue  three  volumes — 

1.  Visitations  of  the  Collegiate  Church  of  Southwell.  To  be  edited  by  A.  F. 
Leach,  Esq. 

2.  The  Clarke  Papers.     Vol.  I.     To  be  edited  by  C.  H.  Firth,  Esq. 

3.  The  Accounts  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Derby  (afterwards  Henry  IV.),  during  liis 
travels  abroad.  To  be  edited  by  Miss  Lucy  Toulmin  Smith.  "With  the  co-opera- 
tion of  the  Historical  Society  of  East  and  West  Prussia. 

The  first  of  these,  relating  to  visitations  of  a  different  character  from 
those  given  in  Dr.  Jessopp's  book,  adds  to  our  knowledge  of  the 
condition  of  monastic  and  religious  life  in  England  in  the  period 
immediately  preceding  the  Reformation. 

The  second  takes  us  behind  the  scenes  of  the  Army  Council  in  1647  and 
1648.  It  contains  some  new  letters  and  many  speeches  of  Cromwell 
himself,  and  altogether  does  more  to  throw  light  on  his  character  than 
any  book  published  since  the  appearance  of  Carlyle's  memorable  work. 

The  third  illustrates  the  mode  in  which  a  wealthy  Prince  travelled  in 
distant  regions,  towards  the  end  of  the  l4th  century,  and  affords  valuable 
material  for  the  biography  of  an  English  King  before  he  came  to  the 
throne.  It  is,  moreover,  a  contribution  of  some  importance  to  the 
history  of  chivalry. 

Samuel  Rawson  Gardiner,  Director. 
James  Gairdner,  Secretary 


BA.LANCE    SHEET    1889-90. 


We,  the  Auditors  appointed  to  audit  the  Accounts  of  the  Camden  Society,  report 
to  the  Society,  that  the  Treasurer  has  exhibited  to  us  an  Account  of  the  Receipts  and 
Expenditure  from  the  1st  of  April  1889  to  the  31st  of  March  1890,  and  that  we 
have  examined  the  said  accounts,  with  the  vouchers  relating  thereto,  and  find  the  same 
to  be  correct  and  satisfactory. 

And  we  further  report  that  the  following  is  an  Abstract  of  the  Receipts  and 
Expenditure  during  the  period  we  have  mentioned  : — 


Receipts.  £     s.  d. 

To  Balanceoflastyear's  account...     67     5     8 

Received  on  account  of  Members 
whose  Subscriptions  were  in  ar- 
rear  at  last  Audit 61     0     0 

The  like  on  account  of  Subscriptions 

dueon  the  Istof  May,  18«9 154     3     0 

The  like  on  account  of  Subscriptions 

due  on  the  1st  of  May,  1890 13     1      0 

One  year's  dividend  on  ^"466  .3  1 
2Jper  Cent.  Consols, standing  in 
the  names  of  the  Trustees  of  tiie 
Society,  deducting  Income  Tax...     12  10     0 

To    Sale   of    Publications    of    past 

vears 27   14  11 


i:335  14     7 


Expenditure.  £  s. 
Paid  for  printing  500  Copies:  — 

Memoirs  of  Lord  Torrington  62  2 

Essex  Papers,  Vol  1 90  3 

Paid  for  Miscellaneous  Printing    2  13 

Paid  for  delivery  and  transmission  of  Books,  with 
paper  for  wrappers,  warehousing  expenses,  &c.  (in- 
cluding Insurance) 27  12 

Paid  for  Binding 45  13 

Paid  lor  Transcripts    33  4 

Postages, &c 3  10 

Clerical  Assistance 6  6 


By  Balance 


£271     4     8 
..     64     9   11 


£335  14     7 


April  24,  1890. 


Guy  Pym. 
John  W.  Hales. 


1890. 


(|an»Ii|n    S^^^PvS   ^^icig, 


PUBLICATION  OF 


iarlii  gisiorlnil  and  Siterari>  llcmains. 


Tlie  Members  marked  (c.)  have  compounded  for  their  Subscrijytions. 


^Ircsitrrnt. 

The  Right  Hok.  The  EARL  OF  CRAWFORD,  LL.D., 
F.R.S.,  &c. 

(c.)  Rio-ht  Hon.  Lord  Acton,  Aldenliam  Park,  Bridgenortb,  Salop. 

G."H.  Adshead,  Esq.  Fern  Villas,  94,  Bolton  Road,  Pendle- 
ton, Manchester, 
(c.)  Right  Hon.  Earl  Amherst^,  Montreal,  Sevenoaks,  Kent. 

Lindsey  M.  Aspland,  Esq.  LL.D.  4,  Elm  Court,  Temple. 


Jonathan  E.  Backhouse,  Esq.  Darlington. 

Messrs.  J.  Baer  and  Co.  Frankfort. 

Franklin  Bartlett,  Esq.  IGI,  Nassau  Street,  New  York. 

Wynne  E.  Baxter,  Esq.  F.R.G.S.  9,  Laurence  Pountney  Hill, 

Cannon  Street. 
William  Bethell,  Esq.  Rise,  Hull. 


2  MEMBERS    OF    THE  CAM  KEN    SOCIETY. 

(c.)    Joliii  Blrkbcfk,  Esq.  Anloy  House,  Settle,  Yorkshire. 
William  H.  Bliss,  Esq.  13,  Via  Gregori.ina,  Home. 
William    Jerdone    Braikeiiridge,    Esq.    16,    Koyal    Crescent, 

Bath. 
Her.rv  Thomas  BroAvn,  Esq.  Roodeye  House,  Chester. 
Rev.  W.  E.  Buckley,  Middlcton  Cheney  Rectory,  Banbuiy. 
Professor  Montagu  Burrows,  Oxford. 


Frederick  Caldwell,  Esq.  4,  Hanover  Terrace,  Regent's  Park, 
(c.)   H.  H.  Smith  Caringtun,   Esq.  Stanley   Grove,  C>xford  Road, 
Manchester. 
Rev.   Henry  A.   Cartwrlght,   M.A.   AVhitcstaunton   Rectory, 

Chard,  Somerset. 
James  J.  Cartwright,  Esq.  M.A.  F.S.A.  {Treasurer),  Public 

Record  Office,  London. 
S.  J.  Chadwick,  Esq.  Lyndhurst,  Oxford  Road,  Dewsbury. 
(c.)  E.  B.  Chancellor,  E.sq.  The  Retreat,  Richmond. 

Tiiomas  Chorlton,  Esq.  32,  Bra.seno.se  Street,  Manchester. 
Right  Hon.  Lord  Coleridge,  1,  Sussex  Gardens,  Bayswater. 
Robert  Humphrey  Cooke,  Esq.  F.R.C.S.  73,  Churcli  Street, 

Stoke  Newington. 
His  Honour  Judge  Cooke,  M.A.  Q.C.  42,  Wimpole  Street,  W. 
(c.)  Right  Hon.  George  Cubitt,  M.P.  123,  St.  George's  Square, 
Pimlico. 


Thomas  M.  Dalton,  Esq.  "  Pareora,"  Guildford,  Surrey. 
R.  S.  Longworth  Dames,  Esq.  21,  Herbert  Street,  Dublin. 
Francis  Robert  Davies,  Esq.  Hawthorn,  Blackrock,  Dubliu. 
Rev.  J.    Silvester  Davies,  M.A.  F.S.A.   St.  James's  Vicarage, 
Enfield  Highway, 
(c.)  Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Derby,  K.G.  23,  St.  James's  Square. 
Mi.ss  J.  A.  L.  De  Vaviies,  (>,  West  Cliff  Mansions,  Ramsgate. 
His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Dovon.shire,  K.(r.  D.C.L.  78,  Piccadilly. 
Right  Hon.  Sir  (\Weut\vorth  Dilke,  Bart.  70,  Sloano  Street. 


MEMBERS   OF   THE  CAMDEN   SOCIETY. 

C.  E,  Doble,  Esq.  8,  Winchester  Road,  Oxford. 
James  E.  Doyle,  Esq.  38,  Dorset  Square,  N.W. 
(c.)  Sir  William  R.  Drake,  F.S.A.  12,  Prince's  Gardens,  S.W. 


Rev.  Joseph  Woodfall  Ebsworth,  M.A.  F.S.A.  Molash  Vicar- 
age, Ashford,  Kent. 
John  Evans,  Esq.  F.R.S.  F.S.A.  Nasli Mills,  Hemel Hempstead, 
(c.)  John  Leman  Ewen,  Esq.  Southwold,  Wangford,  Suffolk. 


(c.)  Right  Hon.  Lord  Viscount  Falmouth,  2,  St.  James's  Square, 
(c.)  Sir  Walter  R.  Farquhar,  Bart.  18,  King  Street,  St.  James's, 
Chas.  Harding  Firth,  Esq.  M.A.  33,  Norham  Road,  Oxford, 
(c.)  John  Lewis  Ffytche,  Esq.  Thorpe  Hall,  Louth, 
(c.)  Rev.  William  Fletcher,  D.D.   The  Vicarage,  Ulceby,  Lincoln, 
(c.)  Thomas  William  Fletcher,  Esq.  F.R.S.  F.S.A.  Lawneswood 
House,  Stourbridge. 
Cyril  Dudley  Fortescue,  Esq.  Boconnoc,  Lostwithiel,  Cornwall. 
Francis   F.    Fox,    Esq.    Yate    House,    Chipping    Sodbury, 

CO.  Grloucester. 
J.  J.  Freeman,  Esq.  2,  Poets'  Corner,  S.W 
{G.)  Frederick  J.   Furnivall,   Esq.   M.A.    LL.D.  3,  St.  George's 
Square,  Primrose  Hill,  N.W. 


James  Gairdner,  Esq.  (Secretary),  Public  Record  Office, 
London. 

Rev.  Robert  B.  Gardiner,  3,  Gliddon  Road,  West  Ken- 
sington, W. 

S.  Rawson  Gardiner,  Esq.  M.A.  LL.D.  {Director),  South 
View,  Widmore  Road,  Bromley,  Kent. 

Rev.  Francis  Aidan  Gasquet,  St.  Gregory's  College,  Down- 
side, Bath. 

Henry  H.  Gibbs,  Esq.  15,  Bishopsgate  Street,  E  C. 


4  MEMBERS    OF    THE  CAMDEN    SOCIETY. 

William  Bulkelcy  Glassc,  Esq.  Q.C.  Chettle,  Blandford. 
(c.)  Henry  Gono;li,  Esq.  Saiideroft,  liL-dhill,  >Surrey. 

E.  Leigh  Grange,  Esq.  M.A.  LL.M.  Lansdowne  House,  Great 

Grimsby. 
Benjamin    Wyatt    Greenfield,     Esq.    4,     Cranbury    Terrace, 

Soiitliampton. 


Professor  John  AY.  Hales,  M.A.  J,  Oppidan's  Road,  Primrose 

Hill,  N.W. 
AVilliam  Douglas  Hamilton,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Public  Record  Office, 
London, 
(c.)  Joseph  Alfred  Hardcastle,  Esq.  54,  Queen's  Gate  Terrace,  S.W. 
(c.)  Rev.  Herbert  Hill,  M.A.  The  Master's  Lodge,  Lord  Leycester's 
Hosj)ital,  Warwick. 
Rev.  William  Hunt,  24,  Phillimore  Gardens,  Campdcn  Hill,  W. 
J.  Hyde,  Esq.  11,  Halley  Street,  Limehouse,  E. 


(c  )  Rev.  L.  W.  Jeffray,  Wynlass  Beck,  Windermere. 

Rev.  Augustus  Jessopp,  D.D.  Seaming  Rectory,  East  Dere- 
ham, Norfolk. 

James  Jones,  Esq.  Stoneleigh,  Rosset,  near  Wrexham, 
(c.)  Joseph  Jones,  Esq.  Abberley  Hall,  Stourport,  Worcestershire. 


William    Kelly,  Esq.  F.S.A.   Ivy  Lodge,   Alexandra   Roail, 
Leicester. 


W.  N.  Lawson,  Esq.  0,  Stone  Buildings,  Lincoln's  Lin,  W.C. 
¥.  de  M.  Leathes,  Es(i.  17,  Tavistock  Place,  AV.C. 


MEMBERS    OF   THE  CAMDEN    SOCIETY.  t 

(c.)  F.    Kyffin    Lenthall,   Esq.    F.SA.      Bessels    Loigli    Manor, 
Abingdon,  Berks. 
D.  Lewis,  Esq.  Arundel,  Sussex. 

Ilev.   Henry  Richards  Luard,   D.D.   4,   St.  Peter's  Terrace, 
Cambridge. 


(c.)  David  Mackinlaj,  Esq.  G,  Great  Western  Terrace,  Hillliead, 

Glasgow. 
D.  J.  Maclagan,  Esq.  6,  North  St.  David  Street,  Edinburoh. 
fell-  John  Maclean,  F.S.A.  Glasburj  House,  Richmond  Hill, 

Clifton,  Bristol. 
Alex.   Macmillan,   Esq.   F.S.A.   29,  Bedford  Street,  Covent 

Garden,  W.C. 
Robert  Malcomson,  Esq.  Bennekerry  Lodge,  Carlow,  Ireland. 
W.  T.  Marriott,  Esq.  Sandal  Grange,  Wakefield. 
W.  J.  Mercer,  Esq.  12,  Marine  Terrace,  Margate. 
W.  J.  C.  Moens,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Tweed,  near  Lymino-ton. 
Henry  Morley,  Esq.  LL.D.  Carisbrooke,  I  of  Wight. 
Stuart  A.  Moore,  Esq.  F.S.A.  (5,  King's  Bench  Walk,  Inner 

Temple,  E.G. 
Jerom  Murch,  Esq.  Cranwells,  Bath. 


Robert  Cradock    Nichols,    Esq.  F.S.A.  F.R.G.S.  5,  Sussex 

Place,  Hyde  Park. 
Francis  Morgan  Nichols,  Esq.  M.A.  F.S.A.  Lawford    Hall, 

Manningtree,  Essex. 
Martinus  NilijofF,  Esq.  The  Hague. 
Most  Honourable  the  Marquis  of  Northampton,  K.G.,  Castle 

Ashby,  Northampton. 
Messrs.  Nutt  and  Co.  270,  Strand. 


()  MEMBERS    OF    THE  CAMDEN    SOCIETY. 

Rieluird  Oliverson,  Esq.  37,  Gloucester  Squ.nrc,  Hyde  Park 
(c.)  Rev.  John  Owen,  East  Anstey  Reetorv,  North  Devon, 
(c.)  Rifrht  Rev.  the  Lord  Bi-shop  of  Oxford,  Cuddesdon  Pahice, 
Wheatlev. 


Rev.  Feildinor  Pahner,  M.A.  EastclifFe,  Chep-stow. 
(o.)  Antliony  Parkin,  Esq.  Sharrow  Bay,  Penrith. 

R.  J.  H.  Parkinson,  Esq.  Ravendale  Hall,  Grimsby 

Rev.  C.  VV.  Penny,  Wellincrton  College,  Berks. 

Rev.  William  Poole,  M.A.,  Hentlands,  near  Ross. 

Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Ponis,  LL.D.  45,  Berkeley  Square. 
(C;  Osmond  de  Beauvoir  Priaulx,  Esq.  8,  Cavendish  Square. 

S.  E.  Bouverie  Pusey,  Esq.  Farringdon,  Berks. 

Guy  Pym,  Esq.  35,  Cranley  Gardens,  S.W. 


James  Rae,  Esq.  32,  Phillimore  Gardens,  Kensington. 
Mrs.  E.  S.  Reed,  Hassness,  Cockermouth. 
Henry  Reeve,  Esq.  C.B  F.S  A.  62,  Hutland  Gate. 
Profe.ssor  H.  R.  Reichel,  University  College,  Bangor. 
Walter   Charles    Ronshav/,    Esq.    Q.C   5,    Stone    Buildings, 

Lincoln's  lini. 
(c.)  Ralph   Richardson,  Esq.    M.I).    10,  Roland  Gardens,  South 

Kensington. 
Robert  Rigby,  Esq.  The  Grove,  Lawton,  Stokc-upon  Trent. 
The  Most  Hon.  the  Marquess  of  Ripon,  K.G.  D.C.L.  F.R.S. 

1,  Carlton  Gardens,  S.W. 
(c.)  Ri^lit  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Rosebery,  Lansdowne  House,  Berkeley 

Square. 
Joseph  Carne  lioss,  Esq.  Shian  Ijodge,  Penzance. 


Thomas    Busli    Saunders,    Es(|.    ]\I.A.    Priory,    Bradford-on- 


MEMBERS    OF    THE  CAMDEN    SOCIETY.  7 

S.    R      Scargill-Bird,    Esq.    F.S.A.    Public    Record    Office 
Jjondon.  ' 

/    ^  5"/^*  ?o°'*^'  ^''l-  In^Pei'ial  Villa,  Great  I\Ialvern. 
(c.)  Ldwaixl  Simpson,  Esq.  Walton,  Wakefield, 
(c.)   Rev.    William    Sparrow    Simpson,    D.D.    F.S.A.    9,    Amen 
Court,  E.G.  ' 

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William  Smythe,  Esq.  Methven  (Jastle,  Perth. 
R.B.  Stewart^  Esq    11,  Crown  Terrace,  Dowanhill,  Glasgow. 
John  Sykes,  Esq.  M.D.  Doncaster.  "" 

Messrs.  Henry  Stevens  and  Son,  115,  St.  Martin's  Lane,  W.C. 


Percy  M  Thornton,  Esq.  Battersea  Rise,  Clapham  Junction*. 
Miss  Adelaide  Thrupp,  Merrow  House,  near  Guildford 
Geo   Montgomery  Traherne,  Esq.  Oocdriglan,  Cardiff. 
K.  1.  Trubner,  Esq.  Strasburg. 


(c.)   Sir  Harry  Yerney,  Bart.  M.P.  Claydon,  Bucks. 

Riaht   Hon     the    Earl  of  Verulam,   F.R.G.S.  Gorhamburv, 
St.  Albans.  '  ' 


(c.)  Henry  Wagner,  Esq.  F.S.A.  13,  Half  Moon  Street,  Piceadillv. 

Edward  ^V^ilmisley,  Esq.  25,  Abingdon  Street,  Westminster. 

Charles  A\^alton,  Esq.  22,  Newington  Butts,  S.E. 
(c.)  Henry  0.  Wakeman,  Esq.  All  Souls  College,  Oxford. 
(c.)  Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Warwick,  1,  Stable  Yard,  St.  James's. 


MEMBERS    OF   THE  CAMDEN   SOCIETY. 

Eugene  R.  Wethey,  Esq.  31,  Queen's  Road,   Manningham, 

I3radford,  Yorkshire. 
Richard  Henry  Wood,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Penrlios  House,  Rugby. 
Sir  Albert  W.  Woods,  Garter  King  of  Anns,  F.S.A.  69,  St. 

George's  Road,  Pinih'co. 
Henry  Workman,  Esq.  Great  Hampton,  Evesham. 


LIBRARIES. 


Aberdeen  University. 
Belfast,  Queen's  College. 
Birmingham  Library. 

Free  Library. 
Bolton  Public  Free  Library. 
Bradford  Subscription  Library. 
Bristol  Museum  and  Library  (Bishop's 

College). 
Cambridge,  Christ's  College. 

King's  College 

St.  Catharine's  College. 

St  John's  College. 

Trinity  College. 
Canterbury,  Dean  and  Chapter  Library. 
Cheltenham  Permanent  Library. 
Dublin,  King's  Inns  Library. 

National  Library  of  Ireland. 

Royal  Irish  Academy. 
Durham  University. 
Edinburgh  New  College. 

University. 

Library  of  the  Writers  to  the  Signet. 
Exeter,  Devon  and  Exeter  Institution. 
Faculty  of  Procurators'  Library. 
Glasgow,  Mitchell  Library. 

University  Library. 
Hull  Subscription  Library. 
Leeds  Library. 

Public  Libraries. 
Leicester  Free  Library. 
Lincoln,  Dean  and  Chapter. 
Liverpool  Free  Library. 


London : — 

Athenasum  Club. 

Bank  of  England. 

Battersea  Public  Libraries. 

City  of  London  (Guildhall). 

Constitutional  Club. 

Gray's  Inn. 

House  of  Commons. 

Inner  Tem})le. 

Lambeth  Library. 

Law  Institution. 

Lincoln's  Inn. 

London  Institution. 

London  Library. 

London  University. 

Middle  Temple. 

National  Liberal  Club. 

National  Portrait  Gallery. 

New  University  Club. 

Oxford  and  Cambridge  Club. 

Reform  Club. 

Royal  Historical  Society 

Royal  Institution. 

St.  Paul's  Cathedral  Library. 

Science    and    Art     Department, 
South  Kensington. 

Sion  College  Library. 
Manchester,  Chethani's  Library. 

Free  Library. 

Owen's  College. 
Newcastle-on-Tyne   Literary  and  Phi- 
losophical Society. 


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LIBHARIRS, 


Norwich,  Dean  and  Cluijiter  Library. 
Norfolk  and  Norwich  Library. 
Nottingham  Free  Public  Libraries. 
Oxford,  All  Souls  College. 

Exeter  College. 

Magdalen  College. 

Merton  College. 

Queen's  College. 

St.  John's  College. 

Union  Society. 


Preston  Library  (Dr.  Shepherd's). 
Rochdale  Free  Pidjlic  Library. 
Rugby,  Temple  Reading  Room. 
St.  Andrew's  University. 
Sheffield  Free  Library. 
Stonyhurst  College. 

Warwick,  Warwickshire  Natural  His- 
tory and  Archa3ological  Society. 
Windsor,  lloyal  Library. 


Adelaide  Public  Library. 
Baltimore  Peabody  Institute. 

Enoch  Pratt  Library. 
Berlin,  BibliothekdesDeutschen  Reichs- 
tages. 

Royal  Library. 
Bethlehem,      South,      Penn.      U.S.A. 

Lehigh  University. 
Boston  (U.S.)  AthenaBum. 

Free  Library. 
Breslau  University  Library. 
California  University. 
Chicago  Public  Library. 

Newberry  Library. 
Copenhagen  Royal  Library. 
Cornell  University. 
Gottingen  University. 
Greifswald  University. 
Halle,  Konig.  Univensitiits  Bibliothek. 
Hamburg  City  Library. 
Heidelberg  University. 
Konigsborg  Royal  Library. 


Massachusetts,  Harvard  College. 

Welle-siey  College. 
Melbourne  Public  Library. 
Michigan  University. 

Hoyt  Public  Library. 
Miinich  Royal  Library. 
New  York,  Astor  Library. 

Brooklyn  Library. 

Long  Island  Historical  Club. 

State  Library. 

Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion. 
Paris,  National  Library. 
Philadelphia  Library  Company. 
St.  Louis  Mercantile  Library. 
Sydney  Free  Library. 
Tiibingen  University  Library. 
Vieinia  Im])erial  Library. 

University  Library. 
Washington,  Congress  Library. 
Yale  College. 


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