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X. Short Chronicle of S. Paul's Cathedral from 1140 to 1341.a

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page 41 note b See Dugdale, 15, 215.

page 41 note c He died 7 Feb. 1279–80 (other accounts say 8 Feb.), and was buried in the cathedral, “in aquilonali muro ecclesiæ Paulinæ ex adverso chori.”—Annal. S. Edmundi et Historiola Lond. (Le Neve.)

page 41 note d MS. 1106 reads, “reipublicæ provinciæ Cantuariensis.” Robert Kilwarby, Archbishop of Canterbury, resigned his archbishopric on being made cardinal 12 March, 1278; he died 11 September, 1279. John Peckham, his successor, was not consecrated till 6 March, 1279.—Le Neve, Migne's Dictionnaire des Cardinaux, and Hook's Archbishops of Canterbury. See also Riley, 's Chronicles of the Mayors, &c. 169.Google Scholar

page 42 note a i.e. Magister Ricardus. See also Chronicon Petroburgense, 34.Google Scholar

page 42 note b Prebendary of Isledon. Le Neve assigns no date to his tenure of office.

page 42 note c Le Neve gives the name of John de Leicester as Prebendary of Brownswood circa 1281 and 1289.

page 42 note d Seaiteburn, MS. 1106. Le Neve gives the name as Robert de Scardeburgh, iii. 121, and says that he died in 1290.

page 42 note e Ex hoc seculo migraverunt. MS. 1106.

page 42 note f Richard Gravesend. He died at Fulham, 9 Dec. 1303, and was buried 15 Dec. in S. Paul's Cathedral. The Account of the Executors of Richard de Gravesend was edited by the late Archdeacon Hale for the Camden Society.

page 42 note g John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury, died 8 Dec. 1292; Robert Winchelsey, his successor, though unanimously elected 13 Feb. 1293, was not consecrated (the papal chair having been vacant) till 12 Sept. 1294.

page 42 note h I suppose that this is the Bogo de Clare, or, as he is sometimes called, Bogo de Fairfax, who became Treasurer of York in 1274.

Ralph de Baldock, elected dean 18 Oct. 1294; consecrated Bishop of London 30 Jan. 1305–6, See details of his Visitation in 1295 in Dugdale, 310 et seqq.

page 43 note a Dominus Johannes de Langethon. MS. 1106.

page 43 note b Depositns fuit per regem de officio Cancellariæ ad honorem suum et fuit sigillum traditum in custodiam dominorum. MS. 1106.

page 43 note c Et sepultus fuit. MS. 1106. See Dugdale's S. Paul's, edit. 1818. The epitaph, and an engraving of the tomb of Ralph de Hengham, will be found at p. 33 and p. 68

page 43 note d Pauli quod fuerat pollutum per predicto homicidio. MS. 1106.

page 43 note e Robertus de Wynchelse Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis apud Otteford in Cantia, et xvij. Cal. Junii sepultus fuit apud Cantuar. Et electus, &c. MS. 1106.

page 43 note f He held the prebendal stall of Ealdstreet.

page 43 note d See Le Neve. The Pope, by a bull dated nearly a month anterior to Archbishop Winchelsey's death, had reserved to himself the next presentation to the see of Canterbury. Accordingly he translated Walter Reynolds, Bishop of Worcester, to the archiepiscopal see, not accepting Thomas Cobham. Cobham, however, became Bishop of Worcester. See also under the date 1317 in this Chronicle.

page 44 note a Sept. qui fuit dies Veneris ‥ London: et eodem anno in festo S. Katerine, MS. 1106.

page 44 note b Walter Reynolds, translated from the see of Worcester.

page 44 note c Gilbert de Segrave.

page 44 note d According to the order duly set forth in the Cathedral Statutes, see Registrum. p. 11Google Scholar, De processionibus in adventu Episcopi. The prayers and ceremonial used on the occasion will be found loco citato.

page 45 note a “In the old cross certain relics were found, that is to say, a corporal with which they sing mass, white and entire, without any defect; and in this corporal was found a part of the wood of the cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ, wrought in the form of a cross; a stone of the sepulchre of Our Lord; and another stone from the place where God stood when He ascended into heaven; and another stone from Mount Calvary, where the cross of Our Lord was erected. There was also found a purse, and in this purse apiece of red sendal, in which were wrapped some bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins, and other relics the names of which were unknown. These relics Master Robert de Clothale [Chancellor of the Cathedral] shewed to the people during his preaching on the Sunday before the Feast of S. Botolph [17 June]; and after the same the relics were replaced in the cross, and many other new ones as well, on the day of S. Francis [16 July].”— French Chronicle of London, H. T. Riley, p. 251Google Scholar. See also, infra, A.D. 1339.

page 45 note b Fuerunt, for sunt. M.S. 1106.

page 45 note c The divines of the Reformation period were not slow to remember this day's proceedings. “We needed not to fear (if your opinion were true) the burning any more of Paul's. Make a cross on the steeple, and so it shall be safe. But within these few years it had a cross, and reliques in the bowl to boot: yet they prevailed not; yea, the cross itself was fired first.”—Calfhill's Answer to Martiall, 180. (Parker Society.)

page 45 note d A note on the measurements of the cathedral will be found in Appendix F.

page 46 note a This woodcut has already appeared in the Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society, vol. v. By the kindness of the Council of that society I am permitted to reproduce it here.

page 46 note b Compare Dugdale'si S. Paul's, 61.Google Scholar

page 47 note a Honorifice sepulture traditur. MS. 1106.

page 47 note b This was, I suppose, Richard de Clyve, elected abbot in 1307. See Dugdale, , Monasticon, i. 609Google Scholar. The account, however, given by Dugdale is very confused.

page 47 note c Eodem anno Dominus Papa contulit magistro Thomæ de Cobham electo Cantuariensi. MS. 1106. Adam de Herefordia, otherwise Adam de Orleton, Canon of Hereford, was consecrated Bishop at Rome; he was translated from Hereford to Worcester in 1327.

page 48 note a Louis de Beaumont, de Bello Monte.

page 48 note b Gaucelin d'Eusa, Français, neveu du Pape, prêtre-cardinal du titre de Saint-Marcellin et de Saint-Pierre, chancelier de l'Eglise romaine, évêque d'Albano, légat en France et en Angleterre, mort en 1348. (Abbé Migne, Dictionnaire des Cardinaux, col. 1724.) He was created cardinal in 1316.

page 48 note c Lucam de Flisco; that is, I suppose, Luc Fieschi, who was created cardinal in 1298 by Pope Boniface VIII. He was sent to England, with the title of legate, by John XXII. in 1308, and died in 1336.—Abbé Migne, Dictionnaire des Cardlnaux.

page 48 note d Treuga, a truce. See Ducange, sub voce Treva, Treuga.

page 49 note a I cannot forbear to notice the extremely interesting discovery made by Mr. F. C. Penrose in April, 1879, of the foundations of Paul's Cross, in the churchyard, very near the north-east angle of the north aisle of the choir of the present cathedral.

page 49 note b London intronizatus fuit in Bcclesia S. Pauli Lond. MS. 1106.

page 49 note c W. de Melthone, Archiepiscopus Eborac. et dominus J. de Hothon. MS. 1106.

page 49 note d Rigandus advena cliens domini Papæ. MS. 1106. The Bishop's full name was Rigaud de Asserio. Godwin calls him Reginald.

page 49 note e Per Priorem et Conventum Sancti Swinthini Wynton. MS. 1106.

page 50 note a Receptus et admissus per dictum Regem. MS. 1106.

page 50 note b Henry Burwash, or do Burghursh. Le Neve.

page 50 note c Winton post mortem Rigaldi qui obiit in Curia.

page 50 note d The ritual proper to the occasion will be found in the Registrum, pp. 14, 15.Google Scholar

page 50 note e Stetisset. MS. 1106.

page 51 note a See also French Chronicle of London (Camden Society), p. 49Google Scholar; or, translation by H. T. Eiley, p. 261.

page 51 note b There was a William de Cusancia, collated to the prebend of Wenlakesbarn, 16 April, 1336, Le Neve; Roger de Waltham was prebendary of Cadington Minor; John of Colchester, prebendary of Neasdon; John de Ditton of Sneating. Henricus de Saracenis occurs amongst the witnesses to an Act of Chapter, in the Registrum pp. 107, 109.Google Scholar

page 51 note c In Oliver's Lives of the Bishops of Exeter, 5464Google Scholar, will be found full details of the murder of Walter de Stapeldon, who was Treasurer to Edward II., and of the political causes which led to it. The King had left the Bishop guardian of the City: and the Bishop, hearing of the tumults which had arisen in the City, had demantlod of the mayor the keys of the gates. The mayor and the people were greatly incensed at the demand. See also the French Chronicle of London, published by the Camden Society, p. 52Google Scholar; and other references loco citato. Sir Richard Stapledon, brother of the Bishop, was beheaded at the same time.

page 52 note a The people of S. Clement's, according to the French Chronicle (H. T. Riley), p. 263Google Scholar, put the corpse “out of the building: whereupon certain women and persons in the most abject poverty took the body, which would have been quite naked, had not one woman given a piece of old cloth to cover the middle; and buried it in a place apart without making a grave and his esquire near him all naked, and without any office of priest or clerk; and this spot is called the Lawless Church.” [Le Laweles Chirche.]

page 52 note b Orlinton, MS. 1106; Le Neve, i. 461, Adam de Orleton.

page 53 note a He was Prebendary of Holywell in St. Paul's Cathedral, and had been elected Bishop of Norwich, but had not been consecrated. “Robert de Baldock, chancellor, to whom most of the miseries of the kingdom were imputed, having been brought from Hereford to London, and imprisoned in the Bishop of Hereford's house, near Old Fish Street Hill, was taken thence by the mob and dragged to Newgate, as a place of more security: but the unmerciful treatment he met with on the way cansed his death there in a few days in great torment. (Walsingham, p. 126Google Scholar) He was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, May 2, 1327.” So says Mr. Aungier in a note to p. 57 of his edition of the original text of the French Chronicle. (Camden Society.) Le Neve, however, agrees with the text, in naming 30 May as the date of the funeral.

page 53 note b On Monday, the Vigil of St. Catherine … one Master Robert de Baldock, who was the King's Chancellor, one of the greatest lords of the land ‥ (was) put in prison.” Riley, French Chronicle, 266.Google Scholar

page 54 note a I have substituted here the account of this transaction given in MS. 1106, relegating Wharton's brief entry to this note. Mense Febr. Petrus Episcopus Corbanensis, O. M. Commissione sibi facta ab Episcopo London, reconciliavit Ecclesiam S. Pauli interdictam ante 5 dies ob effusionem sanguinis.

page 54 note b Henry de Gower, Archdeacon of St. David's. He was consecrated Bishop of St. David's 12 June, 1328, and died in 1347.

page 54 note c Simon de Mepham.

page 55 note a Annibal Ceccano, created Cardinal by John XXII. 18 Dec. 1327. Clément VI. l'envoya pour conclnre la paix entre Philippe de Valois, roi de France, et Edouard III. roi d'Angleterre. He died 17 July, 1350. Migne, Dictionnaire des Cardinaux.

page 55 note b Stephanus de Gravesend. MS. 1106.

page 55 note c Honorifice traditur sepulturæ in ecclesia sua Londoniensi. MS. 1106.

page 56 note a Ac aliis ibidem existentibus (instead of assistentibus). MS. 1106.

page 56 note b Richard de Bynteworth, or Bentworth.

page 56 note c Wharton's Excerpta omit nearly the whole of this passage.

page 57 note a He was the nephew of John Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury. Le Neve.

page 57 note b That is, Barking, a house for nuns of the Order of St. Benedict, founded by St. Erkenwald. See Dugdale, , Monastieon, i. 436Google Scholar. Matilda de Montacute is believed to have been the daughter of William, Lord Montacute, and sister of William, Earl of Salisbury. She was succeeded by her sister, ibid. p. 437.

page 57 note c Simon Montacute, Bishop of Ely.

page 57 note d The Nunnery of Haliwell, “anciently situated on the eastern extremity of Finsbury fields, in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch.” It was a house of the Benedictine Order. The Holywell, from which it took its name, was given, before 1127, to some religions women, by Robert Fitz Gelran, a Canon of St. Paul's. Dugdale, Monastion, v. 390. (I do not find his name in Le Neve, cr in Dugdale's S. Paul's.)