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VIII.—On a newly-discovered Manuscript containing Statutes compiled by Dean Colet for the Government of the Chantry Priests and other Clergy in St. Paul's Cathedral

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St. Paul's Cathedral was, as might be expected from its position and influence, unusually rich in obits and in chantries. From the foundation of the chantry of master John de London, early in the reign of Henry II., to that of Robert Brocket, citizen and baker, in the twenty-fourth year of Henry VIII., a continuous stream of benefactors appears amongst the records of the cathedral, who desired to express their piety by the endowment of chantries for their own souls and for the souls of members of their families.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1890

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page 145 note a Dugdale's, History of St. Paul's Cathedral, edition 1818, pp. 1829Google Scholar.

page 146 note a Milman's, DeanAnnals of St. Paul's, second edit, p 145,Google Scholar with Appendix by Archdeacon Hale giving a careful list of these obits, pp. 504–514.

page 146 note b See Appendix No. II. to the present paper.

page 146 note c See Appendix No. IV. for a tabulated abstract of this return.

page 147 note a See the original documents in my Registrum Statutorum S. Pauli, pp. 142—158.

page 147 note b See the list of these united chantries in Appendix No. III.

page 147 note c iii., 135—6.

page 147 note d Wilkins prints diocc. but it is dioc. in the original Register.

page 148 note a Ducange says Cibaria: Frumentum, bladum; but probably the word is here equivalent to our word board.

page 148 note b Chaucer, Prologue, 509–514.

page 149 note a Gasquet, F. A., Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries, vol. i., p. 21Google Scholar, citing Bishop Gibson's Codex, p. 946.

page 149 note b Ibid. pp. 21–24.

page 149 note c Hook's, Lives of the Archbishops, vi., 284.Google Scholar The Dean suggests that Thurning may be the place indicated under the name of Thoyning.

page 149 note d Lupton's Life of Colet, pp. 116–121.

page 149 note e Ibid. p. 296.

page 150 note a Lupton's Life of Colet, pp. 295–296, p. 297, p. 300.

page 151 note a Rev. J. H. Lupton, Lives of Vitrier and Colet, p. 24.

page 151 note b Knight's, Life of Colet, second edition, p. 78Google Scholar.

page 152 note a That the phrase is not too severe may be seen in the footnotes to Lupton's, Life of Colet, pp. 15, 122, 202, 204, 231, 240Google Scholar.

page 152 note b Dugdale's St. Paul's, pp. 342–354, and pp. 360-367.

page 152 note c Registrum Statutorum Eccles. Cath. S. Pauli, pp. 217-248.

page 152 note d Now residing at Grosvenor Park, Camberwell.

page 152 note e Appendix No. I.

page 154 note a There are still two cardinals in St. Paul's Cathedral.

page 157 note a Lupton's, Life of Colet, pp. 300302Google Scholar.

page 157 note b Registrant Statutorum, p. 418.

page 158 note a Mr. Lupton's translation of a passage in Colet's Ordinances. See Life, p. 134, quoting Registrum, p. 228.

page 158 note b Hook's, Lives of the Archbishops, vi., 288, 289Google Scholar.

page 158 note c The γαστéρεѕ άργαί of St. Paul (Titus, i., 12) quoting Epimenides.

page 159 note a Lupton, , Life of Colet, 148Google Scholar; Vitrier and Colet, 25.

page 159 note b Wilson, Thomas. The Arte of Rhetorike. Edit. 1584, pp. 156–7Google Scholar, quoted in Watorn's, History of English Poetry. Edit. Hazlitt, W. Carew, vol. iv., p. 247Google Scholar.

page 160 note a Lupton, , Life of Colet, p. 140Google Scholar.

page 160 note b Lupton, , Vitrier and Colet, p. 40Google Scholar

page 164 note a Compare Registrum, p. 231. (Dean Colet's Epitome of the Statutes). Canonici ingredientes, ad Orientem, in ipso chori medio primum Deo, tum versi in Occidentem, Decano inclinent, etc.

page 165 note a The Statute of bishop Warham here referred to will be found at p. 210 of my Registrum Statutorum et Consuetudinum Ecclesiae Catliedralis Sancti Pauli. It is one of a series of statutes assented to by the dean and chapter, and by the bishop, and duly sealed with their respective seals on the 20th of December, 1502.

“Statutum est quod omnes Canonici Majores, eciam non residentes in civitate, presentes singulis diebus dominicis et oeteris festis duplicibus majoribus et minoribus, Regis Capellanis qui eisdem ffestis coram sua majestate celebrare tenentur exceptis, in habitibus suis eingulis processionibus in dicta Ecclesia fiendis, necnon processionibus generalibus quociens fieri contigerit per totum tempus earundem, nisi morbo, et senio, aut alia causa racionabili, per Decanum et Seniorem Resideneiarium in ejus absencia approbanda, impediti, sub pena amissionis xij denariorum, tociens quociens eos abesse contigerit, intersint. Et tres vergiferi, prestito per eos et eorum quemlibet ad sancta Dei evangelia coram Deeano qui pro tempore fuerit juramento corporali, nomina, ut premittitur, absentis vel absencium Canonicorum eidem Deeano, et eo absente seniori Residenciario, bene et fideliter notificabunt. Et si dictos absentes aut eorum aliquem per octo dies post lapsum dicti diei quo eum aut eos abesse contigerit, in solucione dictorum xij denariorum dicto Decano vel Seniori Residenciario negligentes aut remissos fore contigerit, ij denarios pro qualibet die post lapsum dictorum octo dierum quo continget dictam summam xij denariorum non solutam ad communam ntilitatem dicte Ecclesie dicto Deeano aut Residenciario solvere tenebuntur. Quorum quidem xij denariorum una medietas tribus virgiferis sic notificantibus, et alia medietas simul cum pena solucionis ij denariorum ad communcm utilitatem dicte Ecclesie applicabitur.”

page 166 note a The one statute of bishop Fitz James, printed in my Registrum, pp. 213–4, does not relate to the matter tinder discussion. Richard Fitz James, bishop of Chichester, was translated to the see of London, 2 August, 1506

page 167 note a Compare Registrum, p. 232:

“Tonsura, vultu, habitn, gestu, omni denique motu tales sint, ut deceat.”

And cardinal Wolsey's Statutes for the Augustinian Canons (Wilkins', Concilia, vol. iii., p. 686):Google Scholar

“§. VIII. In tonsura vero omnes cum coronis quam secularium clericonun amplioribus et crinibus ad medietatem aurium praescissis seu amputatis humiliter incedant, sub poena regularis disciplinae, ad discretionem praelatorum delinquentibus imponenda.”

(In which passage Wilkins suggests that for “coronis quam,” we should read “coronis non more.”)

page 167 note b Compare Registrum p. 234. Statutes concerning the vicars.

page 167 note c St. Peter's college. Compare Registrum, pp. 236, 241.

page 168 note a Press. A. Box. 75. Document No. 1954.

page 169 note a This chantry of William de Chaldeshunte was commonly called “Helle.” (Mr. Maxwell Lyte's Calendar, 55 b.) No reason is assigned. Is it possible that the walls of the chantry chapel were painted with a representation of Hell. There is a singular example of the use of the name Hell in Mercutrius Pragmaticus for December 7, 1648:—

“The Honse being thus clensed, in came that pure holy Goblin Nol Cromwell…and the case of the apprehended Members being reported, how that they had been kept up all night out of bed in the cook's house called Hell, Harry [Marten] would needs break a jest: that since Tophet was prepared for Kings, it was fit their friends should goe to Hell.”

page 172 note a Amount not stated.

page 173 note a Amount not stated.

page 173 note b That is, bishop William.

page 173 note c The omitted name is probably Idesworth.

page 173 note d Historical Manuscripts Commission. Report No. ix., pp. 1-72. The references which follow are to the pages and columns of that report.

page 174 note a Documents illustrating the History of St. Paul's Cathedral, Camden Society, p. lxviii.