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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
Before attempting a conjectural restoration of the first altar-screen it was necessary to try and recapture the plan of the fourteenth-century sanctuary and the positions of the two lateral altars which are known to have existed on the north and south sides of the high altar, also to trace the changes of floor level which have taken place during the intervening centuries.
page 10 note 1 Part I appeared in the Antiquaries Journal, vol. xxiii, 122–47.
page 10 note 2 F.R. (O., p. 387).
page 10 note 3 History of Exeter Cathedral, pp. 63, 83.
page 10 note 4 Op. cit. (3569), p. 604.
page 11 note 1 Sir Gilbert Scott's Report to the Dean and Chapter, p. 2.
page 11 note 2 History of the Cathedral Church of Exeter, pp. 90–1; also The Cathedral Church of Exeter, Hewett, p. 11.
page 11 note 3 Unexpected confirmation of Meffin's floor-level has come to light since this was written. An album of Kendall's drawings has recently. been added to the Cathedral Library: in it is a drawing of the sedilia, dated 1824, which shows this step, marked ‘original floor’. By ‘original’ Kendall meant the floor level as he found it before making his alteration.
page 12 note 1 ‘Recent Discoveries in the Nave of Westminster Abbey’, Tanner and Clapham, Archaeologia, lxxxiii.
page 12 note 2 The Cathedrals of England and Wales, Bumpus, p. 265.
page 12 note 3 F.R. (O., p. 379).
page 12 note 4 F.R. (W. H. St. J. H.). The word aeram is very indistinct in the roll, and is probably intended for aream. Cf. Bishop Brewer's grant of land for building the chapter house (c. 1225)—‘aream competentem ad capitulum faciendum’. We have found several instances of the transposition of the e in the two words.
page 12 note 5 This rise represents the sum of the risers of the steps; the actual rise may have been rather more as the paving is not level: e.g. the rise from the south aisle is 2 in. less, and to this extent the paving is ‘in winding’, as is evident where it is intercepted by the pier bases.
page 13 note 1 The gravestones in the quire, the positions of which are shown on Jones's Ichnography, were moved when the repaving took place—‘That the old Grave Stones that were taken up in the Choir be laid down in the Body & lies of the Church at such places as may want repair’. (Orders about Repairing the Church etc. from the 28th April 1763: D. and C. Records, Hist. MSS. Com. Report, p. 42.)
page 13 note 2 The riser appears to have been tangential to the western face of the pier, and farther west than shown on Carter's plan.
page 13 note 3 Exposure to weather since the air raid has now obliterated these marks on Marshall's tomb.
page 13 note 4 History of the Cathedral Church, Exeter, pl. 1.
page 13 note 5 Op. cit., p. 38.
page 14 note 1 Vol. ii, pt. iii, second series, p. 315.
page 14 note 2 ‘2 filatoria pro summo altari, et 2 frontella de rubea samitica picta leopardis, pro altaribus Sanctorum Thome et Stephani Martirum’ (Lives of the Bishops of Exeter, Oliver, p. 317).
page 14 note 3 Ibid., p. 330 et passim.
page 15 note 1 Op. cit., ed. J. N. Dalton (Bradshaw Society), vol i, p. 221. Reference kindly given by Prebendary Bishop.
page 15 note 2 Lives of the Bishops (ut supra), p. 210; Memorials of Exeter, Walcott, p. 27.
page 15 note 3 ‘et j homine pavienti vesteriam’ (F.R., W. H. St. J. H.).
page 15 note 4 Lives of the Bishops of Exeter, Oliver, p. 341.
page 15 note 5 It was destroyed in the air raid, 4 May 1942.
page 15 note 6 Lives of the Bishops of Exeter, Oliver, p. 188.
page 15 note 7 History of Exeter, p. 291.
page 16 note 1 F.R. (W. H. St. J. H.).
page 16 note 2 The Building of Exeter Cathedral, Bishop and Prideaux, pp. 59, 60.
page 16 note 3 Ibid., p. 61.
page 16 note 4 F.R. (O., p. 390).
page 17 note 1 This was written before the space was enclosed in 1938–9.
page 17 note 2 Historical Memorials of Canterbury, Stanley, p. 86.
page 17 note 3 Episcopal Registers (ed. H.-R.), Stapledon, pref., p. xvi and f.n.
page 17 note 4 ‘Some Remarks on the Original Foundation and Construction of the present Fabric of Exeter Cathedral, 1754.’ Printed in Carter's Exeter Cathedral, p. 7.
page 17 note 5 Ibid.
page 18 note 1 Episcopal Registers (ed. H.-R.), Stapledon, pref., p. xvi and f.n. 2.
page 18 note 2 Abstract Chapter Acts, Reynolds, pp. 66, 82.
page 18 note 3 Lives of the Bishops of Exeter, Oliver, pp. 182–3 and f.n.
page 18 note 4 Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, vol. xiii, pt. ii, p. 405; Oliver, ut supra, f.n., p. 182.
page 18 note 5 The levy is sometimes referred to as ‘Peter's pence’; but this seems to be a confusion with a tax of a silver penny per hearth, known as ‘Peter's pence’ or ‘Roman scot’, first levied in England by the Pope in the 8th or 9th century, and abolished by Henry in 1534 (Harmstvorth's Encyclopaedia).
page 18 note 6 D. and C. Records, Hist. MSS. Com. Report, p. 38.
page 18 note 7 Abstract Chapter Acts (ed. Reynolds), p. 82.
page 18 note 8 F. R. 1371–2 (W. H. St. J. H.).
page 19 note 1 Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Gwilt, bk. i, p. 127 (ed. 1881).
page 19 note 2 The Building of Exeter Cathedral, Bishop and Prideaux, p. ii.
page 19 note 3 Op. cit. (ed. Gwilt), p. 187.
page 20 note 1 Trewman's Exeter Flying Post, 4th February 1819.
page 20 note 2 F.R. (W. H. St. J. H.).
