•TAILE«¥]MIi¥E]BSIir¥- Bought with the bcome ofthe EDWARD WELLS SOUTHWORTH FUND LIVES THE BISHOPS OF EXETER, % Pist0r2 0f t\t €nt\tkKl ; AN ILLUSTRATIVE APPENDIX. Bt the rbv. GEORGE OLIVER, D.D, EXETER: WILLIAM EOBERTS, BROADGATE, 1861, WILLIAM ROBERTS, . PRINTER, BKOADGATH, EXETER. DEDICATION, Exeter, 1th Anguat, 1860. Dear and Honoured Sik Thomas, Cordially I thank you for kindly permitting me to dedicate to you this humble compilation. Your ancient descent — your con nection with what is most respectable in this city and diocese — your acknowledged literary taste — your distinguished character for sterling integrity, wiU afford it the best introduction to the public. Long may you realise in your dignified retirement the portrait of the Aureus Senex, and enjoy the retrospect of a well-spent life : happy in the testimony of a good conscience ; blest, with the devotedness of your respected family and the esteem and confidence of a wide circle of friends ; cheered with the grateful attachme^it of your ¦ tenantry, and of the surrounding poor ; and possessed of the publio veneration. With every sentiment of personal regard arising from an intimate and friendly acquaintance dating from your first appearance in public life, I have the honour to be, Your obliged Servant, GEOEGE OLIVEE. Tn SiB Thomas Dyke Aclanb, Bart. 37 M^m of feter. 1050. Leofric, after governing the See 4 yeara at Crediton, was solemnly installed Ist Bishop of Exeter, hy King Edward the Confessor, and Editha hi» Queen, m person. Leofric died 10th Feb. 1073, and was buried in the- Crypt of his Cathedral. 1073. Osbern or Osbert. Died between 5th Aug, 1103, and 4th Aug., 1104. 1107. William Warelwast. Owing to the contest about investitures, his conse cration was delayed by Anselm the Primate. He died 26th Sept., 1137, and was buried in the Chapter House of Plympton Priory. IIBS. Eobert Chichester. Died 28th March, 115.5, and is supposed to have been buried on the south side of the High Altar of his Cathedral. 1155. Eobert Warelwast. (Nephew to William the third Bishop.) Died 22nd March, 1161, and was buried in the Choir ofhis Cathedral. 1161. Bartholomew. Died 14th Dec, 1184. Buried in the Cathedral. 1186. John Fitz-duke. Died 1st June, 1191, and was buried within the South (or S. John's) Tower of this Cathedral. 1194. Henry Marshall. Died 26th Oct., 1206, and was buried on the north side of his Cathedral Choir. 1214. Simon de Apulia. In consequence of the interdict, was not consecrated by the Primate, Stephen Langton, untU 1st Oct., 1214. Died Oth Sept., 1223,. and waa buried in his Cathi drul. 1224. William Briwere, or Bruere. Died 24th Nov., 1244, and was buried in the centre of the Choir of hia Cathedral. 1245. Eichard Blondy. Died 26th Dec, 1257, and was buried on the north sid& ofthe Choir ofhis Cathedral. 1258. Walter Bronescombe. Died 22nd July, 1280, and waa buried in S. Gabriel's Chapel in his Cathedral. 1280. Peter Quivil. Died4th Oct., 1291. Buried in the centre of the Lady Chapel. 1292. Thomas de Bytton. Died 25th Sept., 1307, and was buried near the High Altar of his Cathedral. 1308. Walter de Stapeldon. Brutally murdered in London, 15th Oct., 1326. Buried in S. Clement Danes ; said to have been re-interred at Exeter. 1327. James Barkley. Died three months alter consecration, 24th June, 1S27, and was buried on the south side of his Cathedral Choir. 1327. John de Grandisson. Consecrated at Avignon, 18th Oct., 1327. Died 16th July, 1369 : buried within the porch of the grand W. Entrance of bis Calliedral. 1370. Thomas de Brantyngham. Buried Dec, 1394, in his Chantry. 1395. Edmund Stafford. Died at Bishop's Clyst, Srd Sept., 1419, and was buried on the north side of the Lady Chapel within his Cathedral. 1419.* John Catterick. Died at Florence, 28th Dec, 1419, and was buried there. 1420. Edmund Lacy. Trans, from Hereford. Died 18th Sep., 1455, and waa buried on the north side of the Cathedral Choir. 1458. George Nevylle. Trans, to York, 1465. 1465. John Bothe. Died Llth' April, 1478, and buried in East Horsley Church, Surrey. 1478. Peter Courtenay. Trans, to Winchester. 1487. Eichard Fox. Trana. to Bath and WeUs, 1491 ; thence to Durham ; finally to Winchester: where"he died 5th Oct., 1528. 1493. Oliver King. Trans, to Bath. 1495. Eichard Eedmayne. Trans, from S. Asaph. Trans, to Ely. * Bp. Catterick was never enthroned. The inscription on his grave in the Church of Santa Oroce,_ in Florence, is : — Hie • jaret ¦ dus ¦ johaues * catrik * epus * quodam ¦ exoniesis • ambasiator ¦ serenisimi * dni ¦ regis ¦ anglie ¦ q ' obiit * xxviii • die ' decebr • anno • dni -¦ mccccxix • cuis * anime * ppiciet • deus ¦ 38 EXETER DIOCESAN CALENDAR. 1602. John Arundell. Trans, from Lichfield and Coventry. Died in London, 15th March, 1504, and buried at St. Clement's, London. 1604. Hugh Oldam. Died 26th June, 1519, and was huried in S. Saviours' Chapel in his Cathedral. 1519. John Veysay (also called Voysey and Harman). Compelled "prar corporis metu " to resign his office to the Crown, 14th Aug., 1561. 1551. Myles Coverdale. Deprived two years later. Died 19th Feb., 1568-9, and was buried in the Chancel of S.' Bartholomew's Church, London. 1553. John Veysey restored. Died 23rd Oct., 1554. Buried at Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire. 1666. James Turberville. Deprived 18th June, 1659. 1560. WiUiam AUey. Died 15th April, 1570, and buried in his Cathedral. 1671-2. WiUiam Bradbridge. Died at Newton Ferrers, 28th June, 1578, and was buried in his Cathedral. 1578. John Woolton. Died 13th March, 1593-4, and was buried in his Cathedral. 1595. Gervase Babington. Trans, from LUindaff. Trans, to Worcester, 1597. 1598. WiUiam Cotton. Died at Silverton, 26th August, 1621, and was .juried in his Cathedral. 1621. Valentine Cary. Died in London, 10th June, 1626 : buried in old S. Paul's, 1627. Joseph HaU. Trans, to Norwich, 16th Dec, 1641. 1642. Ealph Brownrigg. Died 7th Dec, 1669. Buried in the Temple Church, London. 1660. John Gauden. Trans, to Worcester, 10th June, 1662. 1662. Seth Ward. Trans, to Sarum, 12th Sept., 1667. 1667. Anthony Sparrow. Trans, to Norwich, 18th Sep., 1676. 1676. Thomas Lamplugh. Trans, to York, Nov., 1688. 1688. Jonathan Trelawny. Trans, from Bristol. Trans, to Winchester, 14tli June, .1707. 1707-8. Ois'pring BlackaU. Died 29th Nov., 1716 : buried in his Cathedral. 1716-7. Launcelot Blackburn. Trans, to York, 28th Nov., 1724. 1724. Stephen Weston. Died Sth Jan., 1741-2: buried in the Cathedral. 1742. Nicholas Clagett. Trans, from S. David's. Died 8th Dec, 1746. Buried in S. Margaret's, Westminster. 1746-7. George Lavington. Died 13th Sept., 1762. Buried in the CathedraL 1763. Frederick Keppel. Died 27th Dec, 1777: buried at Windsor, of which he was Dean. 1778. John Eoss. Died 14th Aug., 1792. Buried in the Cathedral. 1792. WiUiam BuUer. Died 12th Den , 1796. Buried in the Cathedral. 1797. Henry Eeginald Courtenay. Trans, from Bristol, lOthMarch, 1797. Died Oth June, 1803. Buried in the Cemetery of Grosvenor Chapel, London. 1803. John Fisher. Trans, to Sarum, 20th July, 1807. 1807. George Pelham. Trans, from Bristol. Trans, to Lincoln, Oct., 1820. 1820. William Carey Trans, to S. Asaph, 7th AprU, 1830. 1830. Christopher Bethell. Trans, from Gloucester, April, 1830; hut on llth Nov. following removed to Bangor. 1831. Henry Phillpotts. Died 18th Septemher, 1869. Buriedat S. Mary Church. 1869. FrediTiok Temple. Cons. 21st Dec. Trans, to London, 24th March, 1886. 1885. Edwaud Hen&y Bickersteth, 62nd Bishop of Exeter. Consecrated 26t]i April. Installed 7th May. CONTENTS. LIVES OF THE BISHOPS. Page Ancient See of Wessex (Kent to Cornwall) 1 Bishops OF Cbbditon 2 Bishops of Exeter (united sees of Crediton and Cornwall translated to Exeter in 1050) :— 1. Bishop Leofric 6 Charter of King Edward the Confessor to Leofric (his chaplain) of Holcombe in DawHsh 8 Confirmation of the same, and of Bampton in Oxfordshire, by William the Conqueror 10 2. Bishop Osbern 11 3. William Warelwast 14 4. Eobert Chichester 17 Bull of Pope Eugenius III. confirming the property of the Church of Exeter 18 5. Robert Warelwast 20 6. Bartholomew, " the Luminary of the Enghsh Church" .. .. 22 Bishop Bartholomew's Confirmation of Land in Cofiinswell, Devon 26 Grant ofthe Church of Colehrook to the Church of Exeter .. 27 7. John " the Chantor " 29 8. Henry Marshal ih. 9. Simon de Apulia 32 10. William Briwere 34 11. Richard Blondy , 37 12. Walter Bronescombe 39 Appropriation of the Churches of St. Bruered and Bockerell to the Dean and Chapter 43,46 13. Peter Quivil 46 Endowment of Subdeanery 49 Dean and Chapter's agreement to celebrate the Obit of the Bishop 51 14. Thomas de Bitton 52 15. Walter de Stapeldon 54 Foundation of Bishop Stapeldon's Chantry in St. Clement Dane's Church, London 67 Royal License for the appropriation of the Church of Draynet in Penwyth, Cornwall 68 X CONTENTS. Page Bishops of Bxbtbb, continued. Eoyal Grant of Hue-and-Cry in the Lands of the See of Exeter, in Cornwall, to the Bishop and his successors .. .. 69 Grant by the Burgesses of Asperton of the Chapel of St. Laurence for a Chantry for Bishop Stapeldon **¦ 16. James Berkley '^0 Pope John's Confirmation of Bishop Berkley's Election and Consecration '^3 17, John de Grandisson 75 Episcopal Prohibition of unseemly Pastimes 87 18. Thomas de Brantyngham 89 19. Edmund de Stafford 94 Bull of Pope Boniface IX 98 20. John Catterick 99 21. Edmund Lacy 100 22. George Nevyll 104 23. John Bothe 106 24. Peter Courtenay 109 25. Eichard Fox 112 26. Oliver King 114 27. Richard Redmayne 115 28. John Arundell 116 29. Hugh Oldham 117 30. John Veysy, ahas Harman (restored in 1553) 120 Eoyal Letters to Bishop Veysy 125-128 Letters of Lord John Russell to the Bishop and Chapter 128-131 Eoyal Letter forbidding the sale of Church Ornaments, &c. . . 131 31. Myles Coverdale 132 32. James Turberville 135 33. WiUiam Alley 138 34. William Bradbridge 140 35. John Woolton ji. 36. Gervase Babington 142 37. William Cotton 143 38. Valentine Cary ; 144 39. Joseph Hall 145 40. Ealph Brownrigg 147 Valuation of the Estates of the Bishopric 149 41. John Gauden ', iJ, 42. Seth Ward .' .'.' ].' \ ] [ '[ 151 43. Anthony Sparrow 254 44. Thomas Lamplugh j55 45. Jonathan Trelawny i gr? 46. Offspring Blackall -^gQ 47. Launcelot Blackburne igi 48. Stephen Weston ,g2 49. Nicholas Clagget ., 50. George Lavington . „^ 51. Frederick Keppel " " ., CONTENTS. xi Pago Bishops op Exeteb, oontinued. 52. John Ross 164 53. William Buller ib. 54. Henry Reginald Courtenay 165 55. John Fisher ib. 56. George Pelham 166 57. William Carey ib. 58. Christopher Bethell 167 59. Heury I'hiUpqtts (the preseut Lord Bishop) ib. HISTORY, ANCIENT CUSTOMS, TREASURES, MONU MENTS, &c., OF THE CATHEDRAL. [Note.— The Abbey Ohuvcb of St Mary Borved as the Cathedral of Exeter till Bishop William Warelwast rebuilt auother early iu the 12th centuiy. This thii-d cathedral waa commenced at the latter end of the 13ih century]. Chap. I. — History of the Cathedral 173 „ II. — Accoitnt of the Fabric-Rolls 183 „ III. — Survey of the Interior of the Cathedral 189 „ IV. — Ancient Customs of the Cathedral 219 „ V. — The Treasures of the Church in Plate, Vestments, Orna ments, and MSS 231 „ VI. — Sepulchral' Brasses and ancient Epitaphs 236 „ VIL— Survey of tho Exterior of the Cathedral 243 „ VIIL— Environs of the Cathedral, called " The Close " .. .. 249 APPENDIX. No. I. — Fasti EccLESi.ffii Exoniensis. I. Heraldry of Exeter Cathedral 269 II. List of Bishops ib. „ Deans 274 „ Precentors 278 „ Chancellors 280 „ Treasurers 283 „ Archdeacons 284 „ of Exeter 285 „ „ of Cornwall 287 „ „ ofTotnes 290 „ „ of Barnstaple 292 „ Sub-Deans 295 No, II. — Inventory of Vestments and Ornaments given by Kings, Bishops, Canons, and others, from the time of Bishop Leofric (1050) to that of Bishop Grandisson, made Sept. 132? . . 297 xii CONTENTS. Page No. III.— CATAL08UK of the Cathedral Library, Sept. 1327 301- Inventory of ChaUces and other articles of plate, &c rflO Inventory of Vestments "" Banners .. '. '' Sundry Gifts made subsequently to the completion of the Inventory ' Bishop Myles Coverdale's Citation of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter 320 Inventory of 1506 •• «''• MSS. given by the Dean and Chapter to the Bodleian Library, Oxford 376 [Mention Is made of this gift, a.d. 1602, in Wood's ' Hist, ct Autlq. Oxon.' Part II. p. 61]. No. rV. — Fabkio-Rolls. Extracts from the Rolls of the Custos Novi Operis Ecclesie Sancti Petri Exonie, 1279 to 1439 379 Transcript of the Fabric-Roll of Exeter Cathedral, Mich. 1299 to Mich. 1300 392 No. V. — Chaetehs, &o., chiefly relating to tho City and Diocese. Charter by Bishop Robert Chichester to Walter, of the Archdeacon of Exeter's house 408 Endowment of Colebrook Chantry ib. Confirmation of Chapter Property by Bishop Robert Chichester 410 Bishop Robert Warelwast's Grant of the Manor of Mela to his Chapter 411 Appropriation by Bishop John of the Churches of Eglosgruc and Ashburton 412 King John's License to Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury to hold in custody convicted Clerks 413 Grant of Lanutho Church to the Chapter by Bishop Marshal ib. Appropriation of Gwennap to the Chapter 414 Appropriation of Littleham to the Chapter 415 Composition respecting Harberton ih. Arrangements respecting Altemon 417 Inquisition on the Small Tithes of Harberton 418 Bishop Brewer's Appropriation of Harberton, Winkleigh, Sancreed, and Trevalga, to the Chapter 419,420 Conflrmation of the Churches of Bockerell, Up-Ottery, and Stokeley-Pomeroy, to Bishop Bronescombe and his suc cessors 421 Gift of the Church of Bockeland to the same by Henry de Bott, Abbot of Glasneye ih. Gift of the Manor of Kelly to Bishop Thomas de Bitton . . 422 Appropriations of the Churches of Up-Ottery, St. Bruered, Widdecombe-in-the-Moor, and St. Uvely, to the Chapter 422-430 The Chapter's Letters of Confraternity to King Edward II. and the Royal Family ' 431 Agreement between the Dean and Chapter and the Mayor and Chamber conceming the City Walls adjoining the Close (1322) joo Endowment of Bishop Stapeldon's Chantry .".' .V .'' '' 431 CONTENTS. XIU Page Charters, &c. — continued. Inventory of Bishop Stapeldon's Effects .. 438 Bishop Grandisson's Will 444 Charge on Parochial Chapels of Ease 453 Pardons by King Richard II. to Bishop Brantyngham, for Escapes of his Clerical Prisoners 454,455 Will of Canon Langton 455 Approbation of Bishop Lacy's ' Office of St. Raphael ' .. .. 457 Foundation of Bishop Stafford's Chantry 458 Statutes and Ordinances of Bishop Oldam (1511) .. .. 465 Endowment of Silke's Chantry in the North Tower of Exeter Cathedral 469 Synopsis of the Statutes of his Cathedral by Bishop John Veysy 471 Dean Heynes' Proposals to Henry VIII. for the Govern ment of the Church of Exeter 477 Letter of William Prouz, M.P., to the Corporation of Exeter 483 Appropriation of Morthoe by Bishop Brantyngham to the Dean and Chapter 484 Queen Elizabeth's Grant to the Church of Exeter . . . . 488 LIST OF PLATES. No. 1. — The Seal of Bishop Osbern. 2. ) ?» William Wabblwast, 3. ) )) Robert Chichester. 4. J )) Bartholomew. 5. ) »> John t« Chantor. 6. ) J» Simon de Apulia. 7. ) )> Thomas de Bitton. 8. > )J Walter Stapeldon. 9. J J) John Grandisson. 10. ) t> S. Thome de Brantyngham 11. J >J Edmund Stafford. 12. » »J Edmund Lacty. 13. J )» Richard Redmayne. 14. — Obverse of the old Chapter Seal attached to a Deed, 2 July, 1133. 15. — Reverse of ditto. LIVES THE BISHOPS OF EXETER. THE LIVES BISHOPS OF EXETER. BXETBE CATHEDRAL. Before we enter on this wide field of investigation, we may premise that Wessex originally formed but one episcopal see, under St. Birinus, who first introduced the lamp of faith into that kingdom in the year 634. This saintly prelate fixed his residence at Dorchester, a town seated on the Thames in Oxfordshire, and there ended his course after fifteen years of apostolical labour.^ About fifty years after his death. Bishop Hedda, the friend of King Ina, transferred this see, which lay exposed to the inroads of the Mercians, to the important city of Winchester, where the sovereigns of Wessex held their court. But it was out of the range of possibility for a single bishop to superintend a flock scattered from the frontiers of Kent to the extremities of Cornwall ; upon Hedda's death the diocese of Shire- burn, comprehending Wilts, Berks, and the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Devon, aud Cornwall, was taken from that of Winchester, and was assigned to the charge of Aldhelm, the learned abbot of Malmesbury. ' According to the Saxon Chronicle, .ffigelburght succeeded St. Birinus, and sat thirty-five years. His nephew, Hlother, was consecrated his successor by Archbishop Theodore, and governed for aeven years. St. Hedda succeeded, and died in 703, or rather in 705, in the twenty-seventh year of hia episcopacy. Venerable Bede in his 'Ecclesiastical History,' book iii., places Wini for a time between .^gelburght aud Hlother as Bishop of Wessex, o. 7, o. 12. For the character of Hedda see book v., c. 19, of Bede's Hist. B 2 LIVES OF THE This arrangement continued in force upwards of two centuries, when, according to the evidence of William of Malmesbury, the librarian and precentor of that renowned monastery, both sees becoming vacant about the year 910, Plegmimd, Archbishop of Canterbury, availed himself of the opportunity to establish three several dioceses, viz. Cornwall,^ Devon, and Somerset.^ Of course we reject the letter of Pope Formosus to King Edward, who did not ascend his throne until five years after that Pontiff's death ; as also the asser tion that Plegmund Archbishop of Canterbury, in consequence of such letter, proceeded to consecrate seven bishops on one and the same day of the year 910. The Saxon Chronicle shows that as early as 870, Aelthred Bishop of Wilts had been translated to Canter bury. From the Saxon Chronicle, and our ancient writers, we collect the following series of the Bishops of Devon, who fixed their see at Crediton/ where it remained about 140 years : — The first we believe to have been Eadwulp, or ^DULPHUS, or Adhlphus. After filling the episcopal chair twenty-one years, he died in 931, and was buried ' Whitaker's attempt, in his ' Cathe dral of Cornwall,' vol. i. section 4, to make out the succession of the Cornish prelates (of which William of Malmea- hury coiifesaes his ignorance) ia any thing but aatiafactory. Ealph de Diceto atates that Athelatan was appointed Biahop of Cornwall in 910. In a charter of King Athelstan w;e meet with Ealred as ita bishop, and iri the mammiiaaions entered in the copy of the Bodmin Gospels, preserved in the Britiah Mu seum, with Biahops Vulspie or Wulsie, Wulsige, .aathelgar, Gomoere, and Bu- ruhwold, which laat is alao named in the charter of Canute, a.d. 1018. In the Calendar Book of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, page 59, we read, " Isti ae- quentes fuerunt in sede Episcopali SAHoa'i Geemani in COENUBIA, a tempore Eegia Edwardi filii Eegia Al fredi usque ad tempua Eegis Gnouti Daniei :— 1. Athelatanua ; 2. Comanus • 3. Kuydok; 4. Adelredus; 5. Britwyune; 6. Wolsi ; 7. Woronus ; 8. Wolocua; 9. Stidio; 10. Adelredus; 11. Burewoldus." ' Et in pago Summersetensi qui habe- bat episcopum olim apud Welles, qui nunc eat Bathonise : erant que duo episcopatua, unus in Credinton Devene- aehire, alter apud Sanctmn Gennanum in Cornubia ; nunc eat unus, et est aedes ejuB Exoniae. Wil. Malm., fol. 18, ' De Geatis Eegum.' * To Hoker's account of this period, so servilely adopted by Bishop Godwin, we cau attach no credit. He seats one Werstanus at Bishop's Tawton (which waa a manor attached to the see of Devon), and provides him with a suc cessor there in one Putta, who travels down to Crediton to pay his respects to some king, or to one Uffa, Earl of Devoa ; but whoae servants put bim to death in the year 912. BISHOPS OP BXETEE. 3 ^t Crediton. See Will, of Malm. ' De Gestis Pontif.,' lib. 2, and ' Chron. Florentii Wigorniensis.' tEthelgar or Algar was the next Bishop of Cre diton. Matthew of Westminster writes thus : — " Anno gratise 931, Eadulfus^ Crediensis Episcopus diem clausit extremum cui jEthelgarus successit." In a charter of Athelstan 30th Dec. 938, copied by William of Malmes bury in his ' Life of St. Aldhelm,' part ii., he occurs as a witness. He died in 952, and was buried at Crediton. tElpwold or Alp WOLD was selected by King Edred for the next prelate of Devon, at the recommendation of St. Dunstan, as Matthew of Westminster informs us. He appears in 966 as Episcopus Dumnonise. See Mr. Kemble's 'Diplomata,' vol. ii., p. 418. He died in 972, in the nineteenth year of his episcopacy, according to Florentius' s ' Chronicon,' and was buried at Crediton ; he was succeeded by SiDEMAN, according to the author of the ' Flores His- toriarum,' Matthew of Westminster. He had been appointed abbot of a congregation of monks, whom King Edgar in 968 had formed in Exeter, "anno gratiae 968, Eadgarus in Exonia,' monachos congregans, virum religiosum Sidemannum illis vice abbatis prse- fecit." The date of his promotion to the episcopacy is unknown ; but he died rather suddenly on 30th April, 5 A monastery had existed here more than two centuries before. St. Boni face, a native of Crediton, who in the sequel became the Archbishop of Mentz and the Apostle of Germany, and was martyred on the 5th of June, 755, set. 75, received his early education uuder Wulf- hard, abbot of the monastery " in Bxan- ehester, quod modo Exonia dicitur," says Bishop Grandisson in his ' Legenda Sanctorum.' It was to this monastery, we believe, that the body of Prince Cyncheard was brought for interment in 785. See Dr. Lingard's 'History of England,' vol. i. p. 141 (ed. 1837). Per hapa the community had failed for want of members when King Edgar revived it. If Orgar, Duke of Devonshire, the father-in-law of that monarch, was buried at Exeter in 971, as Florentius affirms, probably his remains were deposited in this abbey. At every step of the period before the Conquest we have to bemoan the losa of the numerous libraries at tached to the monasteries, whioh were destroyed by the ruthless Danes. See Ordericus Vitalis 'Hist. Eccl.' Hb. iv. p. 206 ; and in his aixth book he ob- aervea, 'Veterum monimenta cum mundo pretereunte, a memoriS, presentium de- ficiunt, quasi grando vel nix in undis, cum rapido flumine irremiahiliter fluente defluunt." B 2 4 LIVES OF THE 977, whilst assisting at a great synod held at Kyrlington in Oxfordshire. The Saxon Chronicle relates that the bishop had expressed his wish to be buried with his predecessors at Crediton ; but that King Edward the Martyr and St. Dunstan directed that his remains should be honourably deposited in the chapel of St. Paul's, on the north side of St. Mary's Minster at Abingdon. Alfeicus or Aluricus, the aged and learned abbot of Malmesbury, was next promoted to the vacant see of Crediton, but survived his preferment scarcely four years ('Angl. Sacra,' vol. ii., p. 33). He left some MSS., "non exigua ingenii monumenta," the life of St. Adelwold, an abridgment of the death of St. Ed mund King and Martyr, and many translations into English of Latin books. Elfwold the Second, or Alewold, succeeded. We learn from the Wilton register, in the possession of the Earl of Pembroke, and printed at the expense of the late Sir Richard Colt Hoare, that our bishop in 988 witnessed a charter of King Ethelred as " Crediensis Ecclesie Archimandrita ;" as also another charter of the same sovereign in 995. Edistod, Eadnoth, Edwtnus, or Eadwine, 'qui et Wine' (Will, of Malmes., p. 145), was consecrated in. 1022, and governed the diocese about ten years. Some scholars have supposed him to be the same as LiviNGUS ; and indeed we sometimes find sub scribing witnesses, before the Conquest, passing by different names : thus, in King Ethelred's confirmation of the possessions of Woolverhampton Church, we observe " Ego Leofricus Abbas, qui alio nomine Ethelnoth vocatur, subscripsi " (' Mon. Angl.' vol. vi. p. 1446) But the 'Chronicon' of Florence of Worcester calls this Livingus " Eadnothi Successor," and we have the authority of our own Bishop Stapeldon to confirm this bishops of exeteb, 0 In the foundation-deed of the Archpresbytery of Whit church (Regr. fol. 165), dated 14th January, 1321, this prelate enjoins perpetual prayers for them, as distinct bishops, '¦'¦pro animabus Edivyni et .Livingi, quoindam epis coporum Exon." Livingus, originally a monk of St. Swithun's, Win chester, afterwards appointed Abbot of Tavistock. Whilst discharging this office, he accompanied his sovereign Canute to Rome. On the king's return in 1031, by way of Denmark, he despatched this abbot to England, with a letter announcing to his council the object of his journey to Rome and its results. The letter may be seen in Malmesbury, and the ' Chronicon ' bf Florence of Worcester. Shortly after, the abbot was preferred by the king to the vacant see of Crediton ; and on the demise of his uncle Burhwold,^ the Bishop of St. Germans in Cornwall, succeeded in obtaining from Canute the consolidation of the two dioceses in perpetuity. In 1030 King Harold added to his prefer ments the vacant see of Worcester. This eloquent bishop, as he is styled in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, held them all, till his death 20th March, 1044,' or more probably 23rd March, 1047, according to the Saxon Chronicle. The place of his death is unknown ; but his remains were conveyed for interment to Tavistock Abbey, and in William of Malmesbury's time the grateful monks continued their supplications for the repose of his soul (' De Gestis Pontificum).' ' ^ In the archives of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter is a charter of King Canute, dated 1018, granting " quatuor cassatas terrse (bides) in Landhertun et Tinieltun cuidam meo fideMssimo epis copo qui noto vocitamine nuncupatur Burhwold." ' In 1044 be attested King Edward's grant of Holcumbe to his chaplain, Leo fric, "Ego Lifingus Crydianenaia Ec- clesise Pontifex, rogatus a Eege, calamo soripsi." * " Humatus est Tavistokise, quo loci multa speotabilia oontulerat, tantamque sui gratiam apud monachos locaverat, ut hodieque xv graduum psalmoa, con tinual^ per auccessores conauetudine, pro ejua decantent quiete." LIVES OF THE BISHOPS OF EXETER. Leofrious (the Leuricus of Domesday) descended from an illustrious family in Burgundy, but reared and educated in Lorrain, had probably formed an acquaint ance with Edward the Confessor abroad. Shortly after his accession to the English throne we meet Leofric as his chaplain, to whom he gave an estate now called I-Iolcomhe, in the parish of Dawlish, in the county of Devon, " cuidam meo idoneo capellano, Leofrico onomate nuncupato, septem mansas in Doflishe." The original grant is in the archives of the cathedral. He further made Leofric his chancellor for a short period; and promoted him to the charge of the united sees of Devon and Cornwall. The district had greatly suffered from the incursions of pirates; and we learn from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library (No, 579) that our zealous and faithful prelate exerted himself in visiting and administering comfort to his afflicted flock — that he was assiduous in preaching God's Word — that he trained up his clergy in religious discipline, erected several churches, and was exemplary in the discharge of his spiritual functions, Crediton was then a defence less town, in comparison to Exeter, which had rapidly recovered from its disasters inflicted by the Danish invaders ; and Leofric contemplated a removal of his residence into this fortified city, the capital of Devonia, Iseta fluviis nemorumque coma. To succeed in his object he despatched his confidential chaplain Landbert to Rome, to explain to the saintly Pope Leo IX, the expediency of such translation of residence, and to request his holiness to recommend the measure to his sovereign. The pope readily consented; his recom mendation met the royal approval, and King Edward bestowed on our prelate the monastery of St, Mary BISHOPS OP EXETER. 7 and St. Peter in Exeter for his future residence, and, in the course of the year 1050, assisted with Editha his queen, at the installation of the bishop in the said abbey- church, in the presence of a numerous assemblage of the nobles of England. The monks, who, according to Leland (' Itin.' vol. iii, p. 67), were but eight in number, were transplanted to Westminster, and twenty-four secular canons, and twenty-four vicars were appointed to perform the daily and nightly service in his new Cathedral. These canons adopted in a great measure the rule of St. Chrodegang, Bishop of Metz, who had died 6th March, 766 — a rule which had found favour at the great national council of ..^nham (Hants), at which the primate Elphege presided in 1009. It enjoined celibacy, attendance at choir during the seven canonical hours, eating together in the same refectory, and sleeping in a common dormitory ; but in process of time such Gonvictus became obligatory on the vicars only. Leofric found his church ill provided with revenues and ornaments, and especially books. From his private resources he maintained his cathedral staff until he suc ceeded, by his industrious zeal and influence with the state, in recovering some of the alienated property of the late monastery at Culmstock, Branescomb, Saltcumb, St, Mary Church, Staverton, St, Sidwell, &c,' With the permission of William the Conqueror in 1069, he conveyed to his church the above-mentioned estate at Holcombe,'" with property at Bampton, Estiun and Ceommanyng in Oxfordshire ;. and in the second volume ofthe ' Monasticon Anglicanum,' p. 527 (ed. 1819), may be seen a catalogue of his numerous and valuable donations. The editors, however, have overlooked some other books mentioned in the original manuscript, in the possession of the Dean and Chapter, viz. the ' Where is Sweartse Fons ? 1° The Koyal License, in excellent preservation, remains in the archives of our chapter. It is witnessed by Ar- fastus, the chancellor. 8 LIVES OF THE ' Hymns of Prudentius,' Bede's ' Commentary on St. Luke's Gospel, as also " Liber Persii, et Sedulii Boc, et Liber Oratoris, et Liber de Sanctis Patribus," Several of these books were parted with by the Dean and Chapier, and are now in the Bodleian Library. In 1061 our bishop witnessed the grant by King Edward the Confessor of the manor of Ottery St. Mary in this diocese to the cathedral church of Rouen. On the 10th of February, 1072-3, this worthy prelate was called to his repose,' and was buried in the crypt of his church " in crypta ejusdem ecclesiae," supposed to be under the present vestry ofthe Priest-vicars' or St. James's Chapel. In the fabric roll of the cathedral of 1419 is a charge " Pro scripturl, lapidis Domini Leofrici, primi ecclesiae Exon episcopi." In 1568 a memorial to him, partly com posed of ill-assorted, but beautiful marble fragments, was erected within the south tower. The crypt afore said had served for several years as a wine-vault for the episcopal palace ; but, having been previously cleared by order of the chapter, an excavation was made on 30th April, 1847, to ascertain if the remains of the bishop were actually there, yet without any satisfactory result. Can that beautifully designed sepulchral monument against the south wall of St. James's Chapel be in tended to perpetuate his memory ? Aems: — Or, a cross fleuree, sable, having on tlie fess point a mitre proper. Chaetee of King Bdwaed the Confbssoe to his Chaplain Leofkic, of Holcombe in Dawlish. Carta de vij mansis de Dowchlics quos Sanctus Bdwaedus Rex dedit Leofrico capellano suo in tempore Lytingi Episcopi Cridianensis, .sub anno Domini M'.xliiij". ^ Eegis cunctorum regum regimine reg-untur omnia supera •Jt^ ima profundaque, cujus quoque immensa benivolentia sub mde, quem sibi obtemperantem perspexerit et praesentibus ' In Alford's ' Annales Ecclesise Anglioanee,' vol. iii. p. 574, we read " Leofricus Episcopus Exoniensis inter Sanctos numeratur.'' And iu his ' Index Sanctorum Anglise' he asserts that his feast waa kept 26th AprU. BISHOPS OP BXETEE. 9 locupletat habunde opibus, et post istius misere vite de cursum — facit eum pennis angeliois transcendere ad regna supernorum gaudiorum. Qui etiam solus voluntate eterni patris disponit sceptra juraque regnorum: est nempe dux ducum rexque omnium procul dubio regum. Cujus rei autem gratia a nobis inchoatus sit hie donationis libellus consequenter manifestabitur in precedente paginula. Igitur ego Eduuardus, opitulante potentissimo Deo, possidens totius monarchiam Anglicse necne et Brittanniae telluris haud modice, concedendo concessus sum cuidam meo idoneo capellano Leofrico onomate nuncupato quoddam rus in villa que ab incolis regionis illius vocitatur Bojiise scihcet Vli mansos ilii et ad arandum eo tenore quo omnibus diebus vite sue absque aliqua machina sub illius hono rifice regatur dominio atque potestate postque finem dierum illius habeat potestatem cuicumque placuerit tribuendi aut erogandi. Precepimus autem ut antefatum rus sit liberum ab omni fiscaH tribute vel vectigaU cum omnibus ad se rite per tinentibus tam in maximis quam in modicis rebus, campis pascuis pratis silvisque, exceptis istis tribus, expeditione, pontis, arcisque constructione. His itaque a nobis, prout debuimus ceuque placuit reverentie nostre et voluntati stabilitis, adhuc quod minime est oblivioni tradendum, volumus ut hie presens codicellus nostre licentie scriptus dampnet conculcet atque anathematizet cunctos emulorum si qui contra eundem reperti fuerint, libeUos. Siquis autem quod futurum minime autumo presumptione audaci instinctuque diabohco contra nostrum decretum hanc donationis karterulam adnihilare vel pro nihilo ducere temptaverit inprimis quod gravius est iram Dei omni- potentis genitricisque ejus videlicet alme et intacte Marie incurrat, dehinc meam omniumque sateUitum meorum noscat- que se obnoxium atque reum omnibus horis atque momentis solorum fiatqne pars iUius cum Dathan et Abyron cumque tortuoso Beelzebub principe muscarum in baratro inferiori et quod indigne seu procaciter repexit ne eum dicet sed cum dedecore multimodo expulsus sit a nobis nisi prius hie digna penitudine studuerit ultro ne coactus emendare. Anno incar nationis dominice m.xliiii indictione xii epactaque xviu et concurrente vu scilicet bissextfli anno karaxata est hec kartula gubernante piigsimo Anglorum catervam rege feliciter Eaduuardo. Ego Eduuardus rex totius Anglice gentis hujus donationis liber tatem hilari animo fieri concessi. Ego Eadsiniis Christi ecclesie archipresul corroboravi. Ego .ailfricus Eboracensis ecclesie archi episcopus consolidavi. Ego Lifingus Crydianensis ecclesie pontifex rogatus a rege calamo soripsi. Ego .^luuinus episcopus assensum prebui. Ego Brihtuuoldus episcopus confirmavi. 10 LIVES OF THE Ego Dodico episcopus consignavi. Ego Ealdredus episcopus corroboravi. Ego .aJIfuuinus abba nove ecclesie. Ego ^geluuardus abba glestoniensis ecclesie. Ego ^thelstanus abba. Ego Atsoras minister. Ego Uulfuueardus abba. Ego Godriciis minister. e|o Goduuinus abba.. Ego ^Ifumnus minister. Ego Goduuinus dux stabilivi. Ego Ulfcytel minister. Ego Leofricus dux. Ego Osmaius minister. Ego Suuegen dux. Ego Ecgulfus minister. Ego Sigeuuardus dux. Ego Goduuinus minister. Ego Haroldus nobilis. Ego ^Ifricus mimster. Ego Tofti nobilis. Ego ^thelwerdus mmister. Ego Leofuuinus nobilis. Ego Wulfwerdus minister. Ego Odda nobilis. Ego iEthelricus mmister. Ego Ordgarus nobilis. Ego Livingeus minister. Ego ^Kgarus nobilis. Ego Uulfarus minister. Ego Ordulfus nobilis. Ego Brihtwinus minister. Ego Dodda nobilis. Ego UuKsige minister. Ego Brihtrious nobilis. Ego Burkyl minister. Ego Osgodus minister. Ego Toui minister. Ego .ffilfstanus minister. Ego iEthelwinus minister. Ego Ecglafus minister. Ego Thurstanus minister. Ego iBthelmffirus minister. Ego ^Ifgeat minister. Ego Karl minister. Ego Manni minister. CoNFiBMATiON by King William the Conqueeok to Bishop Leofkic, of Holcombe, in Dawlish, and Bampton, in Oxfordshire. 33 Mundo accrescentia mala minantur etiam mundi appro- ^^ pinquare excidia, et beatius est hominem mortalem iUuc mentis passibus tendere, ubi post iinem hujus vitae beatis datur perenniter vivere. Hoc enim vivere beatissimum oportet Begem Chiistianum omni mentis conamine sibi alacriter emere, quia miserabile est regem hoc seculo coronari et in futuro aeternis pcenis mancipari. Haec vero vigili mente intuens, his quoque ne succumbam precavens Ego Wilhelmus victoriosus Anglorum basileus concessi fidelem meum Leofricum Episcopum septem mansos terrae in privatis locis, hoc est apud Bemtun & Estiun & Ceommanyg, ac Holacumb aecclesise Sancti Petri Apostoli in Exonia ubi ejus episcopalis sedes est, donare & canonicorum ejusdem aecclesise victum amphare hereditario jure, tam in magnis quam in modicis rebus ad se ritfe pertinentibus, videlicet agris, silvis, pratis, pascuis, cultis & incultis exitibus & reditibus, eo tenore ac concessu, ut prefata terra ab omni censu sit libera, excepta expeditione, pontis ac urbis constructione & resta,ura- tione. Si quis autem, quod absit, diabolo instigante meum regalem concessum presumat evertere, & beneficia predictte aecclesise & canonicis data detrahere, vel in aliquo minuere nisi BISHOPS OF EXETER. 11 conversus reddendo & dupliciter restituendo sanctse Dei aeccle sise satisfaciat, in resurrectione beatorum divina voce damnatus fiat socius omnium demoniorum. Anno dominicse incarnationis millesimo lxviiii consentiente Wilhelmo rege data est heec terra Ecclesiae Sancti Petri Apostoli in Exonia civitate a vene rabili presule Leofrico sub testimonio eorum qui subscripti sunt. -f Ego WUhelmus Dei gratia Rex Anglorum hanc donationem perpetue memorie mandavi. -1- Ego Mahtilda regina adjuvi. -J- Ego Stigandus Archiepiscopus Christi Ecclesie confirmavi. 4- Ego Odo episcopus consolidavi. -|- Ego Herimannus episcopus corroboravi. -I- Ego Leofricus episcopus concessi et subscripsi. -|- Ego Gosfredus episcopus consensi. -|- Ego Giso episcopus assensum prebui. 4- Ego "Wilhelmus episcopus confortavi. -\- Ego Balduuinus abbas dignum duxi. 4- Ego Eodberius comes. -f- Ego Wilhelmus comes. -\- Ego Brient comes. -f- Ego Eduuinus comes. -1- Ego Morkrrinus comes. -p Ego Eaulpus comes. -|- Ego Arfastus cancellarius. -f Ego Ingelricus presbiter. -|- Ego Wilhelmus vicecomes. + Ego Eodbertus vicecomes. -|- Ego Eoegerius vicecomes. -}- Ego Leopnofus minister. -f- Ego Eicardus minister. -t- Ego Eolco minister. + Hugo minister. 4- Ego Eaulpus minister. Indorsed. — Confirmatio Eegis WiUelmi de 6 Hidis de Bentun et de Estun et de Ceommanig et de una hida et virgata et dimidia in Devonia ad Holecumb de terra de Doflisc. Carta WiUelmi Eegis de Bamptun | Carta de Bampton et Holecumb infra | In a much later hand. manerium de Docsylysch j This is the dede of sex hide en Oxenford Schire at Bampton & at Eston and at Chemenye & thilke 1 hide & other half hide Lande en Devonschire at Holcombe of Dawlisch lande that Leofric Bisshop gaf on to his Bisschiprych of Excestr by Kyngis leve will for his Sowle. Osbern or Osbert was a Norman by birth, and brother to William Fitz-Osbern, Earl of Hereford, 12 LIVES OF THB a principal commander in tlie battle of Hastings, and styled by Ordericus Yitalis, " Dapifer Normanni^, Regis Vicarius et magister militum belhcosus, (hb.^ iv.). The historian of Jumieges Abbey says of him, _ ipse cum Wilhelmo duce, Anglos maxime perdomuit, et comitatum Herefordise cum magn^ parte regni sensu et viribus obtinuit." Tbe earl was the founder of St. Mary's Abbey of Lire, in the diocese of Evreux, and of St. Mary's at Cormeilles, in the diocese of Lisieux. Faihng in the battle of Bavincbove, near Cassell, 22nd Feb. 1071, he was buried at Cormeilles. His wife Adehza was interred at Lire. Sir Henry Spelman in his ' Griossary,' part i. p. 409, considers him to have been the first chief justice of England, (See Ordericus Vitahs, lib. iv.) Osbern had left his native country to reside in the court of Edward the Confessor, to whom he was nearly related, " quippe qui cognationem regiam vicino attingeret gradu." (Will. of Malm. 'De Oestis Pont.,' p. 145.) As chaplain to that sovereign he had the satisfaction of witnessing the dedication of the church of Westminster Abbey, and its charter of privileges granted by the royal saint on 28th December, 1065. Osbern was consecrated at St. Paul's, London, on 28th March, 1073, as successor to Leofric in the see of Exeter, by the primate Lanfranc ; and at Easter that year assisted at the Council — begun to be holden in the Royal Chapel within Winchester Castle and completed at Pentecost at Windsor — to join his episcopal brethren in their confirmation of the primacy of Canterbury (Wilkins' ' Concilia,' vol. i. p. 325), to which King WiUiam, bis Queen Matilda, Hubert the Papal Legate, Lanfranc Arehbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Archbishop of York added their signatures. We meet him again at the Council of London in 1075. The Domesday Survey, commenced and finished in his time BISHOPS OP EXETER. 13 shows, that besides the possessions of his see in Devon and Corn-^ll, he had landed property also in Sussex, Surrey, Hants, Berks, Grloucester, Norfolk, and Oxford shire. In his time Exeter must have greatly increased in population and prosperity ; for King William the Conqueror allowed a sum to be paid for ever from the city taxes at Easter and Martinmas to its twenty-nine chapels. William of Malmesbury admires him for the decided preference which he manifested for the sim plicity of English manners and habits, for his personal frugality, for his bounty to the poor, and his blameless character. It would seem that in advanced life he exhibited an unpleasant feehng to a colony of monks from Battle Abbey, that had settled themselves in St. Nicholas' Minster here ; but on receiving the letter of Pope Paschal II., directing him to allow to tbe members of tbat community the right of sepulture within their own inclosure, and to extend to that esta blishment his fostering care and protection (Wilkins' ' Concilia,' vol. i. p. 378), — and again the paternal appeal of his primate St. Anselm, to sufi'er them to ring their bells according to the regulations of the Benedictine order, and to encourage the faithful to assist them in completing their conventual church, — he was induced to befriend and patronise the strangers, as we have shown in the Monasticon of the diocese (Article St. Nicholas' Priory). We further learn from its chartulary that he confirmed to them the church of Collumpton (No. 13), and also the appropriation of Hydon (No. 390). Blindness and bodily infirmity prevented this ven erable prelate from assisting at the Council holden in London in the autumn of 1102 : late in the ensuing year he meekly surrendered his soul to Grod.^ Of the place of his burial we collect nothing authentic. " " Vixit ad quartum annum Regis Henrici." — Wm. Malms. 14 LIVES OF THE In a docmnent within the cathedral arcHves is a deed of Leowine, a priest and canon of tWchm-ch ot St. Mary and St. Peter of Exeter, m which he be queaths to it-" pro anima Osberti Episcopi et sua fhe text of the Gospels ; a silver chalice, gilt mside and out, weighing two marks and fifteen pence; silver cruets, weighing sixteen shillings and eight pence; a silver thurible, gilt outside, weighing eleven marks and fi%-five pence ; a silver dish, weighmg three marks four shilhngs and four pence; a pixis or ciborium, gilt inside and out, "ad corpus Domini reservandum ;" and a silver processional cross, set with precious stones and inclosing rehcs, with some other pious memorials. He concludes thus, " Si quis vero ahquid istorum (nisi in usus pauperum, tempore famis, expendatur) prsedictse ecclesiae subtraxerit, perpetute subjaceat maledictioni — Amen, Fiat. Fiat. Amen." Aems : — Gules, a bend argent, surmounted by a fess or. William Warelwast.^— Owing to the controversy between the Church and the Crown, concerning the right demanded by the Sovereign of investing bishops and abbots elect with the ring and crosier, the reputed emblems of spiritual jurisdiction, our diocese continued for some years improvided with a chief pastor. The Popes Gregory YII.,* Victor IIL, Urban II., and ' In the 'Chronicon' of Jolm Brompton, printed among the Decem Scriptores, p. 984, is a strange 'misnomer, viz., " A.D. 1088 Galfridus Exoniensis Epis copum a Bristollia prodiens, urbem Ba- touiensem et Barcheley, et circum- jacentia destruxit." "i It was indeed a melancholy period for the Church when simony was sap- ported by imperial and royal avihority throughout Christendom. Even 'Vol taire ('Annal de I'Empire,' an. 1076) admits " Cette autorite avait tout cnvahi. Les Empereurs nommoient aux ^vech^s, et Henri I'V. les vendoit." Our very learned author, Sir Francis Palgrave, in his ' History of Normandy and of Eng land," vol. 1., has treated tiiis point with . great force and discrimination. Speak ing of Gregory VII., or Hildebrand, he thus expresses himself : — " In respect of the episcopacy, Hilde brand, labouring with all his heart and soul for the general reformation of western Christendom, contended against two inveterate abuses, then equally de structive and disgraceful to the Church and to State. The Sovereign was un questionably entitled to a large share of influence in the selection of his bishop ; but the Sovereigns would not be con tent with less than the whole, and, by the operation of lay investiture, they in truded their nominees into the seat without any regard to the fitness of the individual, or the opinions of the Church BISHOPS OF EXETER. 15 Pascal II., had uniformly protested against this laical claim, as an innovation and an encroachment on the liberties of the Church. The Sovereign, from whom the prelate elect was to receive the temporalities of his office, unquestionably was entitled to the undivided civil allegiance and homage of his subjects ; still, by those who are conversant with the history of theso times, it must bo admitted that the ulterior claim paved the way to arbitrary exactions, and grievous injuries, and scandalous abuses ; and that the poor, who then looked up to the Church for assistance and maintenance, felt as if deprived of their patrimony. King Henry I. had the good sense to relinquish the claim, granted freedom of election to the prelates, and restored Church property to its rightful owners (Wilkins' ' Concilia,' vol. i. p. 387). The individual now selected to fill the vacant see of Exeter was a special friend of the above-mentioned raonarch. His name was William Warelwast, nephew to the Conqueror (" filius sororis Willelmi Conquestoris," says William of Worcester, Itin, p. 100), and had served the two last kings- in the quahty of chaplain. He had early proved himself a most obsequious courtier ; nay, in the autumn of 1095, had treated his primate Anselm at Dover with such vexatious, even rude indignity, as could only be surpassed by the passive — thot is to say, the community ; Churcli and people being here convertible torms. The second abuse was simony. Interpreting those octs according to modern ideas, the flrst exhibits the Crown forcing tho Lord Mayor upon tho Corporation of London, or nomi nating the Recorder ; the other, a jobber buying a borough, or a legal shark gravitating upou the boncli — as in Stuai't times — by the woiglit of Um pui'se slipped into tho hands of Iho Lord of the Bedchamber. Both ou the part . Hiis Testibus Bartholomeo, Aluredo, Hugone, Wil- lielmo Ai'chidiaconis, Eoberto Cantore, Waltero Filio Jocelini, Johanne Paz, Ricardo Filio Eeinfridi, Philippo de Furnelle, Rogero de Sidebiria, Baldwino de Creditona, Wilhelmo Maleto Canoni cis; Magistro Petro Fratre Episcopi, Johanne Petro, Canonicis Plimton Baldewino, Eannulfo Clericis Episcopi, Algaro Decano, Anchetillo, Eoberto Filio Eulalie, Magistro Urbano, Eoberto de Auc, Eoberto Werri, Radulpho Filio Brihtuini, Clericis ; Philippo Fratre Epis- opi, Rogero nepoto Episcopi, Eogero Fratre predicti Jordani, Petro Filio Wiching, Durando Fdio AUmari, WU- lielmo Travers, Jvone Filio Reimundi. ^ " Magnifice de AugUs sentiebat, quos dicebat ad quamoumque rem ani mum appUcarent, esse prae aliis aptissi- mos et dexterrimos ; nisi quod levitas nonnunquam ipsorum actiones deforma- ret." — ' Hist. Angl.' k Nicholas Harps- field, p. 282. It was this pope who dis covered and rewarded the merits of our countryman, Nicholas Bredkspear, Su perior of the Canons of St. Rufus, near Valence, aud the Apostle of Norway. To the canons' querulous complaints of his conduct, as their president, his Holi ness replied with a smile, " Go back, and elect another in his place. This English man is ¦now Cardinal Bishop of Albano." Shortly after this promotion, viz., on 3rd December, 1154, the new cardinal was placed, by the unanimous suffrages of the conclave, on tlie pontifical throne, by the name of Adrian IV. He died 1st September, 1159. BISHOPS OF EXETER. 19 et Apostolicam Benedictionem. Quociens iUud a nobis petitur, quod religioni et honestati convenire dinoscitur, animo nos decet hbenti concedere, et petentium desideriis congruum im- pertire suffragium. Eapropter dilecti in Domino filii venera- bihs Patris nostri Eoberti Episcopi vestri precibus inclinati, beati Petri ecclesiam in qua divino estis mancipati obsequio, sub beati Petri et nostra protectione suscipimus et presentis scri;pti privilegio communimus, statuentes ut quascumque pos sessiones, quecumque bona, eadem ecclesia in presentiarum juste et canonice possidet aut in futurum, concessione pontificum, larg;itione regum, vel principum, oblatione fidelium, seu aliis justis modis, Deo propitio, poterit adipisci, firma vobis vestris- que successoribus et iUibata permaneant. Ea nimirum in eis discretione servata ut quum quedam ex ipsis prebendis vestris et successorum vestrorum, quedam vero communitati deputata noscuntur, perpetuis temporibus sub eadem distributione con- sistant ; ad communitatem, videlicet, ecclesias Sancti Michaelis de Hevetriu, Sancte Margarete de Toppesham, Sancte Sativole cum tota terra ipsius. Terras etiam et domos quas habetis in urbe et in suburbio Exoniensi, et capellas quas habetis in urbe et extra m-bem, cum terris et decimis earum que ad propriam parochiam vestram pertinere noscuntur: Ecclesias insuper et capellas que in subscriptis fundis site sunt salvo jure persouarum que modo eas tenent, et oblationem quam recipitis apud Cor- nubiam in festivitate Pentecosten. Ad prebendas vero, Sto- vertuna cum appendiciis suis, villam Sancte Marie Chirce, Douehs, Ida, Halscumbe, Nortune, Bichtrichistane, Culum- stocke, Sidebiria, Saltcumba, Branchescumba, Stocha cum pertinentiis eorum. Preterea ecclesiam de Bentune in duas prebendas, quemadmodum a venerabili fratre nostro Episcopo vestro noscitur institutum ut, videlicet. Si ecclesia ilia in me liorem statum, temporis processu devenerit, sexaginta solidi exinde, si superfuerint, fratrum communioni proveniant. IHud etiam in unam prebendam quod ad jus ecclesie vestre in Gloecestria pertinet, vobis nichilominus confirmamus. Decern- nimus ergo ut nuUi omnino hominum liceat prefatam ecclesiam temere perturbare aut ejus possessiones auferre, vel ablatas retinere, minuere, seu aliquibus vexationibus fatigare, sed omnia Integra, conserventur eorum, pro quorum gubernatione atque sustentatione concessa sunt usibus omnimodis profutura, Salva in supradictis ecclesiis diocesanorum episcoporum canonica justitia. Si qua igitur in futurum ecclesiastica secularisve per sona hanc nostre constitutionis paginam sciens contra eam temere venire temptaverit, secundo terciove commonita, si non satisfactione congrua emendare curaverit, potestatis honorisque sui dignitate careat, reamque se divino judicio existere dS per- petrata iniquitate cognoscat, et a sacratissimo corpore ac san- c 2 20 LIVES OF THE guine Dei et Domini Eedemptoris nostr. Jhesu Christi aliena Sat, atque in extreme examine districte ultiom suWeat Cunctis autem eidem loco justa servantibus, sit pax Domini nostri Jhesu Christi. Quatenus ethic fructum bone actionip pre- cipiant, et apud districtum judicem premia eterne pacis m- veniant. Amen. Amen. Amen. Ego Eugenius Catholice Ecclesie Episcopus. (S.) -1- Ego Conradus Sabinensis Episcopus. (S.') + Ego Imarus Tusculiensis Episcopus. (S.) 4- Ego Hugo Ilostiensis Episcopus. (S.) -I- Ego Oto Diaconus Cardinalis Sancti Georgii ad velum au-, reum. (S.) ti • + Ego Guido Cardinalis Diaconus Sancte Mane in Porticu. (b.) -f Ego Jacintus Diaconus Cardinalis Sancte Marie in Cosmy- dyn. (S.) -f- Ego Girardus Diaconus Cardinalis Sancte Marie inviolate. (S 4- Ego Gregorius Presbiter Cardinalis, tituli Sancti Calixti. (S + Ego Aribertus Presbiter Cardinalis, tituli Sancte Anastasia. (S.^ 4- Ego Gerardus Presbyter Cardinalis tituli Sancti Stephani in Celio Monte. (S.) -I- Ego Johannes Presbiter Cardinalis Sanctorum Johannis et Pauli, tituli Pamachii. (S.) Datum Laterani per manum Bosonis Sancte Eomane Ecclesie Scriptoris, II Id. Martii, Indiccione prima, incarnacionis Dominice Anno m°o°l°h°. Pontificatus vero Eugenii Pape tertii anno nonp. To the lead seal, the heads of Saints Peter and Paul on one side, and Eugenius P.P. III. on the other, are appended. Robert Warelwast, nephew to William the tbird bishop of Exeter, had filled the office of Archdeacon of Exeter, and during the last seventeen years had been Dean of Salisbury, was now chosen successor to the late prelate. The consecration was performed at Canter bury on 5th June, 1155, by the primate Theobald, assisted by the Bishops of Salisbury, Chichester, Ely, and Rochester' ('Chronicon Gervasii'). It was to this bishop and to his successors that Henry II, confirmed the grant of the tithe of royal fish taken on the coasts of Devon and Cornwall— a privilege previously granted 8 'The custom of having at least two oration of St. Chad by Wini BishoD of assistant prelates at an episcopal conse- Wessex savn " f,.oit «>,!i^ • '^ oration is lost in the remotest antiquity. vocS' ad%; in ,1 • ®T • ^P'^""??!". Venerable Bede, mentioning the c^onsl Ss! duobrep"sc"pTs!'' '™'" °'^^^ BISHOPS OF EXETER. 21 by King Henry I. (See G-randisson's ^Register,' vol. ii: 27 ; Brantyngham's ' Register,' vol. ii, 27 and 37 : see also ' Mon. Angl' vol. vi. p, 305.) On 1st March, 1 160, he confirmed the right of sepulture to the newly esta blished community of Benedictine nuns at Polslo near tbis city ; and about the same time bestowed on his Chapter for their better maintenance " manerium de Meela (Melhuish) cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, quod Dei auxilio ego adquisivi." Amongst other witnesses to this deed of gift is Roger, the bishop's nephew. Sigebert in his ' Chronicon ' (Paris ed. 1513) describes our prelate as " vir religiosus et timens Deum." After presiding over the diocese for a short period, he died happily on 22 nd March, 1161, and was buried, accord ing to Godwin, near his episcopal uncle in Plympton Priory ; but if so, his remains must have been removed by Bishop Stapeldon early in the 14th century to Exeter Cathedral ; for in the Fabric Roll of 1320 we read a charge for his grave "in fossato Dni. Roberti Warwest Epi. ;" and in the regulations approved of by the Dean and Chapter of Exeter in the said Bishop Stapeldon's time (as appears by their statute-book, fol. 112), it is stated, that he was buried in the choir of his cathedral. " In obitu episcoporum super unumquem- *ue debet poni pannus serious et duo cerei duin Placebo et Dirige cantatur, et dum missa de eo cantatur ; tantum modo episcopus scilicet, Eohertus Warwest, qui jacet in choro, habet quatuor, dum celebratur pro eo." — At obituary services of the bishops, over the hearse should be placed a silken pall and two wax-lights; whilst vespers for the dead and matins and the mass of requiem are sung : only in the case of Bishop Robert Warwest, who lies in the choir, four wax-lights are used when celebrating for him. We have seen a document of this bishop 'taken from the register of Rouen Cathedral, certifying that he was 22 LIVES OF THE present when our most serene lord, Henry II., King of England, gave in Frankalmoigne to the canons of that Church, a moiety of the manor of Kilon (now called Kilham in the East Riding of Yorkshire), and handed his charter to its Archdeacon Gildo.^ Arms ut prius. Bartholomew, the ornament and pride of Exeter, and " the luminary of the English Church," for so he was designated by Pope Alexander III., was of humble origin in this city ; but a rare felicity of genius recom mended and enhanced by modest merit, commanded public attention. Embracing the ecclesiastical state, honours and preferments courted his acceptance : from Canon and Archdeacon of Exeter he was selected to become its bishop. The Primate Theobald, then dan gerously ill, gave directions to his own brother Walter, Bishop of Rochester, to perform in his stead the oflSce of consecrating the elect ; but before he could proceed to do so, the archbishop died on the 18th April, 1161 ; and a new commission was therefore issued by Gilbert, the Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, to enable the said Walter to perform the ceremony. All the contemporaries of Bartholomew extol him for his wisdom and learning. His dialogue against the Jews was pronounced in later times by Leland as " acuminis et nervorum plenissimum," and in his work 'De Scriptoribus Brit.' p. 225, he enumerates the Prelate's treatises" de Pr^destinatione, de libero arbitrio et de Pcenitentia," to which Pitseus adds " de obitu S. " Robertus Dei gratia Exoniensis Episcopus omnibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit in domino salutem iu domino. Caritatis opus est fraterni- tatis gaudere successibus, et in pre sentibus subvenue, et futuris obviare periculis. Ne igitur donationem medie tatis manerii de Kilon, canonicis Rotho- magensis ecclesie a sercnissimo domino nostro Rege Anglorum Henrico secundo factam, edax posset abolere vetustas, presentis scripti testimonium perhibe- mus, quia nos presentes foimus, ubi pre- nominatus dominus noster Rex, prefati- manerii medietatem, prefatis canonicis m perpetuam elemosinam concessit et m manu Domini Gildonis, Rothoma- gensis archidiaconi, traditionem fecit BISHOPS OP EXETER. 23 Thomse Cantuariensis, Contra falsitatis errorem, De mundo et corporibus coelestibus ; and his Epistolae. In the catalogue of our cathedral library, taken in 1506, we meet also with his " Sermones et Summa." Of his acts within the diocese we glean but slender details; but we know that St. German's Priory re garded him as her second founder, and, until its dissolu tion, distributed yearly Al. on Maundy Thursday amongst the poor, in grateful remembrance of his bounty ; and that Plympton Priory and St. Mary Magdalene's Hospital, Exeter, venerated him, as a special benefactor. To the infant nunnery of Polslo, near this city, he assigned a pension from the episcopal domain at Ash burton. To his chapter he appropriated the Church of Colebrooke, but with the reserved pension of ten shil lings to the brethren of St. JcJin's Hospital of Jeru salem in London, And he must ever be intitled to commendation for his generous patronage of scholars, especially of Baldwin, his poor townsman, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, to whom he proved himself a Mecsenas, and more than a father. His grand title to panegyric, however, in the view of modern writers, is fierce opposition to his primate St. Thomas of Canterbury. "He was a great adversary of Arch bishop Becket," say the editors of the late edition of the ' Monasticon Anglicanum ' (vol. ii. p. 515). Of the merits of that controversy no one can be competent to form a correct judgment, who does not transfer himself to the middle of the twelfth century, and take his stand by the then estabhshed constitution of England, with out reference to subsequent or present usages and statutes. That King Henry II. had solemnly confirmed at his coronation, to God and the Enghsh Church, all the rights which the clergy had possessed in the reign of his royal grandfather, the first Henry, is undeniable ; and that he had pledged his faith to renounce and 24 LIVES OF THE abohsh all the bad customs and innovations which the former monarch had renounced and abolished, ^^ 6^"^% unquestionable (Wilkins' ' Cone' vol. n. p. 426). It is also a recorded fact that a general feeling of alarm pervaded the nation at the accession of Henry H.from the notoriety of his capricious, despotic, and vindictive character." And perhaps no man was better qualified to arrive at a sounder opinion on the subject by his previous intimate acquaintance with the ki;ig's feehngs and habits, and by his knowledge of the laws, than Thomas, " who fulfilled all the functions of chancellor most satisfactorily, and was celebrated for his impar tiality " (Campbell's ' Lives of the Lord Chancellors,' vol. i. pp. 97-100) It cannot be denied, tha^t-in the early part of the controversy our bishop did side with '» Giraldus Cambrensis, in relating the ceremony of Thomas's consecration by Henry de Blois, Bishop of Win- cheater, as performed at Canterbury on Pentecost Sunday, 1162, relates that the latter thus addressed him— "Dearest brother, you will have now to make your option, whether you will forfeit the favour of the King above, or that of your earthly sovereign." For he knew the disposition of Henry waa decidedly opposed to the freedom of the Church. Thomas instantly raising his eyes and hands towards heaven, exclaimed — " By the grace and help of God, never will I forfeit for the love and favour of an earthly monarch, the love and favour of the King ou high." Both confirmed this choice and pledge by a flood of tears : and the oonsecratiug bishop sanc tioned it with a blessing. Three circumstances appear to me to have been much overlooked by modern writera — Ist, that the king, after the murder of the primate, released all the bishops from observing their promise of maintaining his innovations called customs, and engaged never to enforce them for the futm-e vCoucilia, Paris Ed 164.4. voL xxvii. p. 392). 2. That our sovereigns, especially our English Justinian, Kiug Edward I., aud indeed all who became eminent in the State or iu the Church of England for nearly the four next centuries, viz., until that " royal felon in sacrilege " (as Whitaker, • Cathedral of Cornwall,' vol. i. p. 100, designated Henry VIII.) de clared open war against the very name and ashes of St. Thomas, iu September, 1538, all' united in venerating his me mory as that of a patriot. To use the words of Somner, "he may be rightly said, like a stout champion, to have stood in defence and maintenance of ecclesiastical liberty, usque ad aras " (' Autiq. Cant.' p. 486). 3. His unrivalled pati-onage of scho lars, which compelled that obsequious courtier Leland to proclaim, " Stat sta- bitque Thomas perpetuum, hoc uno nunquam satis laudatus oaloulo, quod talem eruditorum sibi non parvo tem pore numerum retinuerit, qualem ab eo tempore Episcoporum Britannicorum nullus sibi comparavit; sed neque Fu turorum quisquam, quantum ego ex- istismare possum, comparabit " (' De Script. Brit.' part i. p. 216, sub Oervasio Cicestr.). We may add, that King Henry VIII. , as appears from his ' Household Book,' up to December, 22nd year of his reign, sent to Canterbury bj^ one of the royal chaplains his offering "toSaynt Thomas." What had the saiut done amiss by lltli June, 1538, to be stigmatised as a trai tor, perjurer, and rebel ? See Wilkins' 'Concil.' iii. S36. BISHOPS OF EXETER. 25 the majority of the prelates against the primate, and was even employed by the king as ambassador to Pope Alexander III. at Sens to prefer charges against him. But it is not less true and certain that both Bartholomew and Roger, Bishop of Worcester, saw sufficient cause to alter their minds on the merits of the question — that they sought a reconciliation with the exiled archbishop — that Bishop Bartholomew proposed to remain with him in volui^tary banishment, and was only prevented from doing so by the primate's persuasion. Our vener able bishop submitted to this counsel ; but employed his infiuence at home in protecting the friends and kindred of Thomas from the vexatious prosecution of the court officials J, and he occasionally conveyed to him pecuniary succour — a service of considerable difiiculty and peril (' Angl. Sacra,' vol. ii. p. 429),. and when at last the cathedral church of Canterbury, desecrated by the effu sion of the primate's blood, was to be reconciled, who was selected by his fellow bishops to preach on the occasion but our Bartholomew ? He took for his text the words of the Psalmist, xciii. 1 9 of the Yulgate, — " Secundum multitudinem dolorum meorum in corde meo, consolationes tuse laetificaverunt animam meam " (Ralph, 'De Diceto,' Mat, Paris, &c.). Through him we suspect were obtained some of the relics of the saint for this cathedral. In the catalogue of them, written in the characters of the 12th century, we read " De capite et' sanguine S. Thomse Marty ris, et pars magna cilicii ipsius, et maxima pars ejus Camisise intincta san guine ipsius."'^ ' Bishop Grandisson, in his ' Legenda Sanctorum,' read formerly in our cathe dral, relates : " Unus camificum Wil- lielmus de Traci postea Dyocesano suo bousa memorise Bartholomeo Exoniensi Episcopo confessus est ; quod hi Viri, cum, quodam etiam ai'denti animo et cordis ti'ipudio ad Viri Dei necem ac- celerasseut, mox tamen, poracto flagitio, regressis videbatur singulis quasi tre- mulis passibus, quod terra aperta esset, et parata ad eos vivos pariter absor- bendos." This Carnifex, soon after granting tiie manor of Daccombe in Morton-Hampstead parish to Canter- bui-y Cathedi-al, died at Cosenza in Italy. 26 LIVES OF THE The last pubhc act of our Prelate is his witnessing in 1177 the award of his sovereign in the dispute between Alphonsus king of Castillo, and Sanctius king of Navarre (Rymer's 'Foedera,' tom. v. 48). Closing a lengthened life by a pious death, on 14th December, 1184, he was buried in his cathedral. " Senio molestatus obiit, in sua Ecclesia sepultus," says Bale (' Cent.' p. 224. Basle ed. 1557). He is the first of our Bishops whose effigies is decorated with a mitre ; on the reverse of his seal are introduced a male and female figure with hands joined, with this motto CREDE DVOBVS. Arms : — According to Izacke, Party per pale gules and sable, six dolphins naiant, argent. According to Westcote, Per pale sable and argent, six dolphins transmuted. CoNFiBMATioN by BiSHOP Baetholomew of Land in CofSnswell, Devon. Copia Confiemacionis Episcopi Baetholombi de quadam terrula de la Wylie. Bartholomeus Dei gratia Episcopus Exoniensis omnibus fide libus ad quos presens scriptura pervenerit salutem. Noverit Universitas vestra quod Willielmus filius Gralfridi Dominus de Willa veniens ante nostram presenciam testificatus est coram nobis et multis aliis se dedisse et concessisse Deo et Ecclesie Sancti Bartholomei de Willa pro anima sua et pro anima patris sui Galfridi et matris sue et pro animabus antecessorum et suc cessorum parentum suorum ad perpetuam elemosinam quandam terrulam de dominio suo in jam dicto manerio de Willa liberam et quietam ab omni querela et omni servicio, assensu et voluntate Nicholai de Daccumba que videhcet terrula jacet sita .... Domini de ViUa et inter prata domini de Daccumba subtus viam regiam et sicut idem WUlielmus ibidem confessus est ad hujus donacioms recognicionem et majorem corroborationem et ut ilia donacio m posterum rata et inconcussa permaneat Ilbertus sacerdos persona ejusdem ecclesie dedit ei unam marcam argenti et unum naidum palefridum et ipse hanc donacionem fecit culteUum suumsolempniter super altare predicte ecclesie vigilia pentecostm anno ab Incarnatione Domini m°o°lix° Hiis lestibus Osberto presbitero de Carswilla, WiUielmo Capellano de Carswilla Eegis, Roberto Breu^rid, Osberto Clerico^ fraSe BISHOPS OF EXETER. 27 prefati Willielmi Domini de Willa Rogero Clerico, vero Nicholao Domino de Daccumba, Roberto fratre prefati Willielmi Domini de Willa, Parochianis de WiUa Alwardo, Martino, Alwardo filio ejusdem Martini, Nicholao Sacrista, Ailuno, Hachevil, WiUielmo Rwyno pullo de Daccumba, Edwyno, AscatUlo, Jordano, Roberto, Alfico filio Wyseman; supplicavit eciam nobis sepedictus Wilhelmus, ut quoniam ipse sigillo carebat, nos predictam ejus donacionem sicut ex ipsius confessione cognovimus testificamus, nostri i^jpressione sigilli confirmai-emus. Quod et factum est anno ab incarnatione Domini m. c. l. xinj hiis testibus Baldevino Archidiacono Totton, Madstro Johanne Paz, Magistro Ricardo fiho Reinfridi, Magistro Roberto filio GiUe, Magistro Roberto de , Wero Clerico de Teignton, Ricardo Clerico de Linham, Osberto, Clerico de Leha, Ricardo Flanmando, WiUiehno de Daccumba, WiUielmo de Bottalanda. Baetholomei Episcopi de Ecclesia de Colebroch. Henrico Dei gratia Ulustri Regi Anghe ceterisque Dei fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit. Bartholomeus Divina miseracione dictus Episcopus Exon, Salutem in Domino. Noveritis quod cum ecclesia de Colebroc quondam vacaret, miles quidem Alexander nomine, asserens se habere jus advocationis ejusdem Ecclesie quicquid ipse potuit in Ecclesia ipsa concessit Waltero tunc Priori et fratribus Hospitalis Jerosolimitani, voluitque si aliquatenus posset eandem ecclesiam ipsis fratribus perpetuo possidendam conferre. Ego vero ipsius Alexandri voluntatem inteUigens, et sciens quod ego habebam utrumque jus advocationis scilicet et institutionis in Ecclesia de Colebroch, sicut et Predecessores mei Episcopi habuerunt, qui eam semper quando vacabat, sine cujuslibet laici presentatione aut contradic tione donaverunt ; maxime cum villa de Colebroch membrum initio quasi pars quedam semper fuerit, et adhuc sit manerii de Cridiatona, que cum omnibus pertinentiis ac dignitatibus et hbertatibus suis ad ecclesiam Exon et sedem episcopalem integre pertinet, predictam ecclesiam de Colebroch divino intuitu concessi et in perpetuam elemosinam donavi Ecclesie beati Petri et Capitulo Exon, cumque super hoc Hs verteretur inter jam dictos priorem et fratres hospitalis Jerosolimitani et Capitulum Exon, Priore et fratribus suis de concessione Alexandri de Colebroch nitentibus, et Capitulo Exon de mea donatione e contra nitente, tandem mediantibus viris honestis et discretis et maxime auctoritate mea interveniente, presente sepefato Alexandro et non contradicente sollemniter in Ecclesia Exon, talis inter eos facta est compositio. Videlicet quod Prior et fratres predicti annuatim percipiant tantum decem solidos de 28 LIVES OF THE iUa Ecclesia et totum residuum de obventionibus ejus cum pleno jure et possessione ipsius habebunt inperpetuum Ecclesia et Capitulum Exon ad luminaria Ecclesie et ad augmentum commune, ita quidem quod tunc assignati erant viginti solidi ad luminaria et viginti sohdi ad communam reddendi annuatim per manum Pagani Capellani perpetui vicarii memorate Ecclesie sub annua pensione quinquaginta solidorum. Hoc autem ideo sic communiter disposuimus quia per hec duo scilicet per lumi naria et per communam principaUter adimpletur servitium Ecclesie Exon et sustentantur hii qui in ea assidue rainistrant ; hiis vero ita soUempniter dispositis, auctoritate EpiscopaU et communi assensu prenominatorum Prioris et Capituh Exon, nullatenus etiam contradicente prefato Alexandro qui hiis omnibus interfuerat coram majori aJtari Ecclesie Exon publico Anathemati subjecimus omnes qui contra hoc ahquatenus venire presumerent, vel alicujus instinctu hanc compositionem et hanc nostram super dicta Ecclesia de Colebroch ordinationem in- fringere attemptarent; et ut hec omnia firma semper et inconcussa permanerent, ea scripto et sigilli mei appositione confirmavi. Vestramque, illustris Rex et Karissime Domine, excellentiam et prudentiam ceterosque sancte matris Ecclesie fihos et fideles hunuliter et devote deprecor quatenus divino intuitu et pro reverentia beatorum apostolorum Petri et Pauli necnon et pro spe retributionis eterne jura et possessiones Ecclesie Exon defendere et fflesa ac Integra conservare velitis, et eam, nee in prescripta Ecclesia de Colebroch, nee in ceteris possessionibus suis, diminutionem aliquam pati faciatis, aut aliquatenus sustineatis. Valete semper in Christo. [The Label has been deprived of its Seal.] Carta Baetholombi Episcopi de Ecclesia de Colebroc Capitulo Concessa. Bartholomeus Dei gratia Exoniensis Episcopus. Omnibus ad quos presens scriptura pervenerit Salutem. Noverit universitas vestra nos concessisse et donasse Ecclesiam de Colbroc cum omnibus pertinentiis suis Capitulo Exon Ecclesie ad communi- onem canonicorum ita tamen ut decem solidos annuatim inde persolvat nomine elemosme fratribus Domus Hospitalis Jerusa lem et vigmti solidos ad luminaria Exon ecclesie juxta disposi- cionem Episcopi et Thesaurarii qui pro tempore erunt. Hanc autem donationem fecimus salvo per omnia jure diocesani Epis copi servicio congruo et debito matrici ecclesie. At ut ratum permaneat sigilh nostri impressione et subscriparum persona rum attestatione roboramus, Hugonis Archidiacom, Petri Archi- ^acom, Johannis Cantoris, Baldwini de Wincester, Johannis Paz, magistri Ricardi filu Remfridi, Rogeri de Sidebmy Phi- BISHOPS OF EXETER. 29 Uppi de Furn, Roberti de Furn, Ricardi Peccatoris, Walteri filii Jacobi, magistri Baldwini filii Hugonis, magistri Roberti filii GriUe. Ricardi de Sarum, Baldwini" Lambrict, magistri Eoberti de Auc, magistri Rogeri de Baggat, magistri Algari, Helie, AscatiUi, Simonis, Grilliberti filii Walteri, Galfridi LongL [The Label only remaiiis.] John. — He is better known as the Chantor or Pre centor of Exeter, an office he had filled for thirty years before his promotion to the episcopacy. At the time of his election to the vacant see, he was also Subdean of Salisbury. Our townsman Baldwin, then Archbishop of Canterbury, performed the office of his consecration on 4th October, 1186. Shortly after his accession he appropriated to his Chapter the Church of Ashburton, as also the Church of Egloscruc (now called St. Issey) in Cornwall, " in manerio nosti'o de Poltoni." On 3rd September. 1189, we meet with him as an assisting prelate at the coronation of King Richard I. Several impressions of the bishop's seal are attached to deeds in the Gruildhall of this city, confirming the property of Plympton Priory. The mitre is of the crescent form. Dying on 1st June, 1191, he was buried within the south, or St. John's, tower of his Cathedral, where his tomb remains undistui-bed, and was formerly covered with a brass, probably with an inscription on it : the wooden coffin has been seen belted with hoops; and formerly it was inclosed within a chantry, called St. Michael's. Arms : — Aiment a cross sable ; a chief of the second. Hexrt Marshal. — In consequence of the absence of King Richard in the Holy Land, and his subsequent arrest and close imprisonment by Leopold Duke of Austria and Henry TI. Emperor of Grermany, upwards of two years elapsed before the see of Exeter was pro vided with ite pastor. Henry Marshal, who for five years had been Dean of Tork, and was brother to 30 LIVES OF THE William Earl of Pembroke and Marshal of England, was the person selected for this office.* Whilst bishop elect, viz. 10th Feb. 1194, he joined several of the prelates and abbots, John Earl of Mortain, and his rebelhous partizans. Shortly after his consecration by the primate Hubert, he assisted at the second coronation of King Richard at Winchester on 17th April, 1194, and on 26th May, five years later, at the coronation of his brother King John. This sovereign, we believe, assigned to him and his successors the tithe of tin in Devon and Cornwall. This noble prelate had the honour of religion deeply at heart, and employed his influence and fortune in promoting it. He is entitled to commendation for com pleting the Cathedral designed and commenced by his predecessor William Warelwast nearly a century before. That the faithful of the diocese might testify their respect for this their mother-church, he enjoined that every householder, as we learn from Bishop Grandisson's 'Register' (vol. ii. fol. 191), should imitate the- esta blished custom of other dioceses, by contributing to it at Pentecost one half-penny at least " unum obolum ad minus" not a half-penny, or less, as Mr. Britton trans lates it (' Survey of Exeter Cathedral,' p. 24). On 24th May, 1203, he granted the emoluments of the Church of Lanuthinock in Cornwall (qy. Perran Uthno) towards the repairs of the Cathedral, and on 22nd November, 1205, he added the pension of 2/. 3s. M. to his Chapter, charged on the Church of St. Just de Lanhoch, which overlooked the lake of Falmouth harbour, in Cornwall, to meet the expense of incense for two thuribles at their daily high mass. But the Bishop's consideration for the daily and nightly services Bishop of Exeter, viz. in 1209, three => Godwin confounds him -with Henry Archdeacon of Stafford, an oifice never fllled by Marshal. The Archdeacon Ueni-y was elected, but never confirmed years aftei- Bishop Mai-slial's decease. 1 48o\^'som. m Anglia Sacrfi,' vol. BISHOPS OF EXETER. 31 ofthe twenty-four vicars^ of his Cathedral, and for the inadequate compensation which they received for their labours, deserves special commendation. Having ac quired from Abbot Jordan and the Convent of St. Michael in Normandy, the Church of St, Swithun in Woodbury, with all its appurtenances, he made it over to the choral vicars. This example induced Reginald and William de Albermarle, knights, and successively lords of the manor of Woodbury, to add to their emoluments and privileges. After governing his church for about twelve years anda half. Bishop Marshal died on 26th October, 1206, and was interred on the north side of his cathedral- choir under an altar-tomb of grey marble. Two seals of the prelate are extant : one resembling the effigy on his tomb ; the crosier as tall as his figure, but very simple in form. The legend commences ia the centre of the oval 4- Henricus . Dei . gratia . Exoniensis . Eps. The reverse is + Presul Exonie Henricus. The other seal has suffered the partial mutilation of the obverse, but the reverse presents a winged mes senger, with *Jt PHESV£ . exonie . sv . NVNCIVS. Arms -.—According to Izacke, Or, a hon rampant gules, within a bordure azure, mitred of the first. According to Westcote, Per pale or and vert, a Hon rampant gules armed and langued withm a bordure azure entoyred with mitres proper. 3 We are utterly at a loss to conceive how Godwin should have ventured it as his opinion, after having been Canon and Subdean of Exeter for fifteen years, that Bishop Marshal was the first insti- tutor of vicars to supply the places of the absent canons 1 He might easily have satisfied himself, by referring to Bishop Walter Brouescombe's Statutes, 28th April, 1268, that the institution of twenty-four vicars was coeval with the foundation itself of the Church of Exeter. " Sicut antiquorum traditione accepimus, et nos ipsi experimento no- vimus, a tempore fundationis Ecclesias Exoniensis, certo, videlicet xxiv canoni corum numero, ecclesia ipsa floruit. Item, a tempore fundationis ecdesim pre dicts, fuerunt et ipse tenentur in ipsa ecclesia xxiv Vicarii, singulis canonicis intitulati ! !" 32 LIVES OF THE SiMOJf DE Apulia.— The confusion and disturbances of the times, and the duration of the interdict "¦ from 22nd March, 1208, to 29th June, 1214, occasioned a tedious interval in the succession of our bishops. It is true that King John issued his mandate to Eugenius Archbishop of Armagh to exercise episcopal functions within this diocese (Prynne's ' Records,' vol. iii. p. 13), and that the king named also for the see Simon de Apulia, who had long been the Dean of Tork, and an avowed partisan of the royal pretensions against those liberties of England which the primate Stephen Langton and the barons of the realm so stoutly asserted ; nay, we discover that our chapter, impatient of the delay, proceeded to elect Henry Archdeacon of Stafford to supply the vacant see ; but all these attempts proved abortive. At length the king, listening to reason, recalled the clergy whom he had outlawed. This fact is reported by Bishop Stapeldon in his 'Register,' fol. 13, — " Johannes Dei gratia Rex Anglie, Dominus Hibernie, Dux Normannie et Aquitannie, Comes Ardegavie, omnibus Christi fidehbus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit, Salutem. Sciatis per Interdictum, quod vulgariter Utlagacio nuncupatur et quod proponi fecimus contra personas Ecclesiasticas, public^ revo- cavimus et revocamus, et pro testamur per has nostras patentes literas id ad nos de personis Ecclesiasticis nullatenus pertinere, quodque illud de cetero contra * John at his coronation had solemnly sworn to maintain the immunities of the Chtirch and the rights and liberties of the people, but had notoriously vio lated his oath before Pope Innocent III. resorted to this Interdict : a singularly extreme and obnoxious measure thus opposing tyranny by tyranny. Tet it is manifest to aU, that in the feudal ages sovereigns themselves, in their disputes with each other, or with their confede rated barons, were in the habit of in voking the interference of the papal authority; and a learned Protestant writer maintains that there is no ex ample iu history, where a pope pro ceeded against princes, who, confining themselves to the assertion of their own rights, did not attempt the invasion of the rights of others. " Jure afiirmari poterit, ne exemplum quidem esse in onmi rerum memoria, ubi pontifex pro- eesserit adversus eos, qui, juribus suis mtenti, ultra limites vagari in animum uon induxerunt suum." ('Henrici Christ. beckenburg. Method. Jurisp., Addit. IV. de Libert. Ecdes. Germ.' § iii ) BISHOPS OP EXETER. 33 personas Ecclesiasticas non faciemus promulgari. Revo- cavimus etiam et revocamus utlagacionem laicorum ad negotium quod inter nos et Ecclesiam Anglie diucius versatum est pertinencium. Remittimus etiam omnia, que post interdictum Regni nostri, ab Ecclesiarum hominibus recepimus, preter Regni consuetudinem et Ecclesiasticam libertatem. Teste meipso apud Ber xxviii. die Junii, anno Regni nostri quinto decimo" (12.13). In the same folio of the Register, Bishop Stapeldon has entered the charter of King John, granting free dom of election of prelates, and is dated from the New Temple 15th January, 17th year ofhis reign (1216). This was confirmed by Pope Innocent IL on 30tb March, 1216. Later he indemnified them for their losses, and engaged to govern by law, and confirmed, both in the beginning and at the conclusion of the Great Charter, that the English Church should be free, and possess its rights in full integrity. Simon, above- mentioned, a native of Apulia, one of the Neapolitan States, was admitted by the chapter and king, and con firmed and consecrated by that redoubted champion of constitutional liberty Archbishop Langton. Matthew of Westminster supposes that the consecration took place on 5th October, 1214, but the annals of Wor cester date the ceremony on the 1st of that month (' Ang. Sac' vol. i. p. 482). We find our new prelate a witness to King John's agreement to pay the dowry of Berengaria, the relict of his brother the late King Richard. He assisted at the coronation of King Henry IIL, then but in his tenth year, at Grloucester, on 28th October, 1216, and probably at his second coronation at Westminster on Whit Sunday, 1220. Ofthe acts of his episcopate we collect but slender materials. He is said to have fixed the boundaries of the parishes in this city and its immediate suburbs, which had been varying D 34 LIVES OF THE from thirty-four to twenty-eight. Several of these have long since ceased to exist; such as St. Bar tholomew's, St. Peter's the Less, St, James', St. Edward's, St. Thomas', St. Cuthbert's, and St. Radegunde's, as is evident from the taxation of Pope Nicholas IV. Our prelate died on 9th September (on which day his obit was kept), 1223, and was buried in his church. Arms : — According to Izacke, Azure, three mitres, or, two and one. According to Westcote, Mascley, or and sable. William Briwere, or Bruere,' of an ancient, noble, and religious stock, after serving the office of precentor of Exeter, was consecrated its bishop at Canterbury by Cardinal Langton on 30th April, 1224. The ' Chronicon ' of our Church, as preserved in the Har leian manuscripts, most incorrectly affirms that he was consecrated at Home by Pope Honorius III. on Easter Sunday in that year. Few men were more active in the performance of pious and charitable deeds than this excellent prelate. At the recommendation of the above- mentioned primate he introduced, in the latter part of the year 1225, a dean into his cathedral, over which the precentor had hitherto presided; and to this new officer he appropriated the churches of Braunton and Bishop's Tawton, with the latter's dependent chapels at Landkey and Swimbridge, also the church of Colaton Ralegh ; and for his residence here he assigned the premises that were actually in the occupation of the Archdeacon of Totnes. Three other canons were elevated to the rank of dignitaries under the dean, viz. the precentor, the chancellor, and the treasurer. To the office of treasurer had been attached, at least as early as 1163, the estate of Beer in Honiton's Chst, * Ordericus Vitalis, in his ' Hist. Eccl.' lib. iv., mentions, a.d. 1078, a tract called ' Blanoalanda vel Brueria,' wMch his learned editor and commentator states and sandy, extending " au midi du Loir, depuis Sainte Golombe, faubourg de la Flfeehe, jusqu^ Saiut Mards de Ord, oh learnea editor and commentator states il existe encore une fenne Dortant le to have been then a vast terntory, poor nom de BlanchelaZe." BISHOPS OP EXETER. 35 Morceshull (now Marshal) in Ide, and Doulisford, but he added to it the churches of St. Probus, and further Bishop's Nympton on 24th April, 1242. (See Bishop Lacey's ' Register,' vol. iii. p. 233.) Besides superiority of rank, we cannot discover any substantial emolument which he^ conferred on the precentor and chancellor ; and yet his epitaph in the choir designated him as the found,er of the/ow principal dignities of his church. His venerable uncle WiUiam Briwere, " venerabilis vir W. Briwere avunculus noster," having on 29th September, 1226, granted the church of Pensigenans (now Gwennap in Cornwall) to the dean and chapter of Exeter, our prelate confirmed this appropriation. On the, 28th May, 1227, he confirmed to the priest- vicars of his cathedral the donations of his predecessor Bishop Marshal, and subsequently bestowed upon them a pension of twelve marks charged on the church of Alternon in Cornwall. On 17th March, 1234, with the consent of the abbot of Shireburn, he conveyed the church of Littleham to his chapter, and he proved himself a liberal benefactor to Polslo Priory, to the Dominican Convent at Exeter which he founded, and to the abbeys of Tor and Dunkeswell. For nearly five years Exeter had to regret the absence of her bishop in the Holy Land ; but we learn from Matthew of Paris that he was actively employed with his colleague Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Win chester, in administering to the temporal and spiritual wants of his countrymen. On his return King Henry III. selected him to accompany the Princess Isabella his sister to the court of the Emperor Frederick II. , who had sued her and obtained her in marriage. The nuptial ceremony was performed on Sunday the 20th July, 1235. We meet with our bishop in Cornwall on 26th August, 1238, when he consecrated the church of D 2 36 LIVES OF THE St. Berian the Virgin ; and about the same period he appropriated the church of Okehampton, with its now ruinous chapel in the castle of that town, to the Bene dictine Priory of Cowick near Exeter. To Michael Abbot of G-lastonbury and his convent he appropriated the church of Up-Lyme on 16th December, 1238. In July, 1239, he appropriated to his chapter the church of St. Winnoc, and on the Feast of the Epiphany, 1242, he added to their emoluments the churches of Winklegh, St. Sancredus, and Trevalga. About the same time he founded a cell for a recluse near St. Lawrence's Chapel at Crediton. On 26th November, 1243, he procured from King Henry IIL the confirmation to his see of the chapel of Boseham, with the manor of Chedham in Sussex, the manor of Farringdon in Hants, and the manor of Horsleigh in Surrey, and the same king granted to him and his successors the manor of Penryn, with its rights and appurtenances ; and, what is remarkable, the bishop granted to the burgesses of Penryn a charter of en franchisement very shortly after, viz. 29th August, 1236. (See 'Monasticon Exon Dioc.,' p. 415.) In fine, his days were signalised by deeds of mercy and charity. In the vigour of life, death arrested his career of usefulness on the 24th November, 1244. According to the Martyrologium his mortal remains were deposited nearly in the centre of the choir of the Cathedral, When the floor was relaid in 1 763 the marble slab tbat covered his remains was removed, and a coffin shaped thus \J was discovered and opened; the body was wrapt in a coarse serge, with a leathern girdle tied round the waist ; a pewter chalice lay by it, with part of a crosier. Arms :— Gules, two bends wavy, or. BISHOPS OF EXETER. 37 Richard Blond or Blondy. — The Newenham Abbey Register informs us that he was a native of Exeter, and Hoker in his MS. history relates that he was the son of Hilary Blondy, who filled the mayoralty chair here in 1227. For many years he had discharged the office of Chancellor of this Cathedral, and is commended for his blameless life and learned attainments. Strange to say, both Godwin and his continuator Richardson appear to confound him with John Blondy, who had been accused of simony in obtaining his election to the see of Canterbury in the autumn of 1232 ! Our worthy prelate was consecrated at Reading on 1st December, .1245 : we meet with him at Beaulieu on the 7th July following, where he confirmed the appro priation of St. Breaca's Church, Cornwall, granted by Richard Earl of Cornwall to Hales Abbey. In the ' Monasticon ' of the diocese we have published in p.. 59 a deed of this bishop in favour of the Collegiate Church of Crediton, and another in p. 165, concerning Holbeton vicarage. On 6th January, 1247, he confirmed Bishop Mar shal's mandate respecting the sixteen chapels or churches within the walls of Exeter and its immediate suburb, viz. Trinity, St. James, St. Michael in the Deanery, St. Mary Major, St. Mary Minor, St. Petrock, SS. Simon and Jude, St. Martin, Christ Church, St. Kerrian, St. Cuthbert, All Saints on the Walls, All Saints in Goldsmith-street, St. Clement, St. David, and St. Sidwella. Godwin represents him as weak-minded and indolent, and that his officials and servants took advantage of his easy character to enrich themselves, by counterfeit ing collations to ecclesiastical preferments.^ This erro neous impression originates in the confusion of times and circumstances. Had the biographer turned to pages 1 and 5* of the register of his successor. Bishop 38 LIVES OF THE Walter Bronescombe, he would have ascertained the following facts :— 1st, that Richard died in his palace here on 26th December, 1257 ; that his successor in the see, on hearing the report of such forgeries,^ "sub nomine defuncti episcopi," directed a commission of inquiry on the Friday after Candlemas Day, 1259, to the Dean and Archdeacon of Exeter, to proceed to the excommunication of the parties offending, who had acted "praeter conscientiam et mandatum venerabilis Patris Ricardi predecessoris nostri ;" that Walter de Loddeswell, chancellor to the deceased prelate, and Richard de Totton, notary public, moved by a sense of true repentance, appeared before the bishop in the Chapter-house of Buckfastleigh Monastery on 19th March next ensuing, and then and there voluntarily confessed before him, and the Abbot of Buckfastleigh, and others, that, on being sent for, they reached Bishop Blondy's chamber in the night, and found some of his household, clerks and laymen there assembled, who related that the bishop was reduced to the last ex tremity of weakness, and that they were occupied in the disposal of his effects, in granting away benefices, and in drawing up and signing letters for that purpose — that they had bound each other to perpetual secrecy, and that they did actually dispose of benefices, and draw up and sign such letters ; but whether the bishop was then a corpse or not, deponents cannot say : cer tainly they never heard him utter a syllable, and never afterwards saw him - alive,— that the other persons present on the occasion were John Fitz-Robert, the official, Gervase of Crediton, Thomas of MoUand, Henry the chaplain, Henry of Christow, Thomas the panter (Panetarius), and his son Reginald, William de Fuleford, and Caynoc the chamberlain— that the said John Fitz-Robert and Gervase dictated the letters, and that Thomas of Holland and Richard, the afore- BISHOPS OF EXETER. 39 said notary public, did write them, and that Henry, the chaplain, signed them— that after the parties were distinctly satisfied of the bishop's death, many other letters were written and signed. The said two depo nents now most humbly and devoutly solicited the benefit of absolution. The Register adds, that on the next Easter Monday Walter Loddeswell "in capelM Domini Episcopi apud Exon " publicly and solemnly cleared himself of any guilty or fraudulent act of writing, signing, or alienating; but that Richard de Totton, being convicted of having received orders, under false testimonials, since the bishop's death, was " hoc ipso " suspended, and that he submitted to a course of penance before he received absolution. Bishop Blondy is said to have been buried on the north side of the choir of his church, and an ancient inventory records his gift of a covering for bis tomb. He had purchased an estate in Lovenetorre, in Paignton parish, and assigned it to his chapter for the maintenance of his obit. It was subsequently conveyed to the see itself, as we find by Bishop Quivil's deed of February 3rd, 1283, for the yearly payment of 11. 13s. 4d., to fulfil the donor's intention. Arms : — Lozengy or and sable. Walter Bronescombe. — We have stated in the preceding article that Bishop Blondy died in Exeter Palace, on 26th December, 1257. The dean and chapter met on the Tuesday after the ensuing Epiphany to deliberate on the choice of a successor, and on the 23rd February Walter Bronescombe, a native of Exeter, who, though but in deacon's orders, had for nearly the last six years been Archdeacon of Surrey, was unani mously selected to fill the vacant see. His register informs us, that on Midlent Sunday, the 3rd March, the election was announced to King Henry III. at 40 LIVES OF THE Westminster, who signified his approbation of it, and directed letters for its confirmation to the Primate Boniface, the queen's uncle. The archbishop happened to be so engaged with public and private business as to be unable to certify his confirmation until three days later. This was done in Bexley Church, Kent, in the presence of Ralph Archbishop of Tarento, and many others ; and the elect took the oath of fealty to his sovereign on the very same day, and was duly put in possession of his temporalities. On Saturday, 9th March, he was ordained priest at Canterbury by the said primate, with Simon de Walton, elect of Norwich, and Roger de Longespee, elect of Coventry ; and on the following day was consecrated to episcopacy by tbe primate, assisted by the Bishops of St. David's and Salisbury. The 14th April witnessed his en- thronization {intronizatus est) in Exeter Cathedral. Bishop Bronescombe has the merit of commencing a regular series or register of his acts. His register is indeed a valuable record,* supplying abundant evidence of his unwearied 'attention to his ministerial duties, of his unsullied integrity of character, of his promptitude and successful energy in asserting the rights and pri vileges of his see, both against ecclesiastics and powerful laymen ; but, above all, of his generous personal sacri fices to uphold and extend the means of divine worship and provide for the comforts of the forlorn poor. That he was distinguished for circumspection and integrity of conduct may be inferred from having steered with such safety and honour through the perilous and furious contests between the king and his « After the brutal murder of Bishop Walter Stapeldon, ou the 15th October, 1326, this Register was long missing : it was sold to some one who seems to have taken pleasure in disfiguring it. In the beginning Bishop Grandisson has written this memorandum — " Quod dam Registrum Primi Walteri, Episcopi Exoniensis, de Anno Dni. MCCLVII. Et sciendum, quod canceUationes hie tactse, vel per nigrum troctaj, ab aliquo ignorante, vel nou pertinente fiebant, qm Registrum, post necem Secundi Walteri, emit, et retmuit multum diu " BISHOPS OF EXETER. 41 barons. And when the power of the latter Was beaten down by the decisive action fought at Evesham, on the 4th August, 1265, the name of our prelate stands tbe first on the committee of the twelve bishops and barons appointed to arrange and settle differences. Their award in the happy pacification called the ' Dictum de Kenilworth ' was subsequently confirmed by the king and parliament. In 1270 he obtained from the crown a market and fair for Bishopsteignton ; and on the 8th May of that year the confirmation of the royal charters granted to his see during the last 276 years. They are copied at the end of his register, and are printed tolerably correctly in vol. ii. of the last edition of Dugdale's 'Mon. Ang.' p. 535. William of Worcester styles our bishop "Walter le Goode" ('Itin.' p. 128), and he merited the title by the excellence of his character and his deeds of munificence. The registrar of Newenham extols his numerous acts of bounty to that abbey, his donation of 600 marks towards the building of their conventual church, and his gift of six altars for it, viz. St. Gabriel's, St. Thomas', St. Catharine's, on the north side, and of St. John's, St. Anne's, and St. Nicholas', on the south side : and the Grey Friars of Bodmin venerated him as their special benefactor. At Clist he rebuilt the convenient manor-house, with its gateway bearing the appropriate motto, " Janua patet : Cor magis," which became the favourite residence of his successors ; and he amply endowed its chapel of St. Gabriel. He did much to restore the collegiate esta blishment of Crediton to its ancient splendour, and he nobly founded another college of St. Thomas at Glase- ney ; of both of which a detailed history may be seen in the ' Monasticon ' of the diocese. We stop not to notice the senseless calumny broached by Hoker, God win, and Izacke, to depreciate his memory, in the pur- 42 LIVES OF THE chase of Cornish Wood; for it stands victoriously con futed in the conveyance-deed, fortunately preserved in his register, and which we have printed in the second volume of the ' Ecclesiastical Antiquities,' p. 34. On the 15th January, 1271, he appropriated to his dean and chapter the church of Lp-Ottery.' King Henry III. dying on the 16th November, 1272, our bishop, in the company of his old friend Godfrey Gifford, Bishop of Worcester, proceeded in the following May to Paris, to meet King Edward I. on his return from the Holy Land. In the ensuing year he assisted at the 14th General Council holden at Lyons, which opened in May and closed in July, 1274. The annals of Worcester inform us that Eleanora, ,the queen of Edward I., having been delivered of a son — who is called by Matthew of Westminster " Regis primo genitus" (p. 372) — at Bayonne, our bishop was invited 7 The churches of Up-Ottery, Bokerel, and Stokeleigh Pomeroy, appear to have been originally granted hy tiie Pom,eroy family to the abbot and convent of St. Mary de Valle, in the diocese of Bayeux, Normandy. Ralph, the abbot, and his convent, having surrendered, for some reason unknown, the three named churches to Sir Henry de la Pomeroy, this knight, by his deed dated Crediton, 14th August, 1267, made an absolute grant of them to Bishop Bronescombe. The deed is still in the possession of our Dean and Chapter. Such was the confldence reposed on the Bishop's honour and judgment, that the said abbot and convent conveyed to bim their priory of St. James of Tregony in CornwaU and the church of Berry Pomeroy in Devon, with all their pro perty and rights iii the diocese of Exeter, and elsewhere in England, on the Tuesday after Lammas, 1267, to dispose of as he should think fit iuithe arrangements to be made between them and the prior and convent of Merton in Surrey. Our readers are aware that Merton Priory, in Surrey, founded by King Henry I., in the year 1122, ob tained in the ensuing century, viz. 1278, considerable property in Devon and Cornwall. In this county it possessed the manor of Canonteign in Christow palrish, the rectory of Berry Pomeroy, and the presentation to the churches of St. George's Clist and Ashcomhe, and to the church of St. Laurence in Exeter, and of St. James at Tregony in Corn wall. We haye been favoured with the sight of the oval common seal of Mer ton, far superior to the one mentioned in the late edition of the ' Monasticon Anglicanum,' vol. vi. p. 247 ; for that omits a word of the legend of the obverse, and passes unnoticed any re verse. The subjeot of the former is the Virgin Mother, seated and crowned, in bold relief ; on either side is the proiile of a head (King Henry I. and his second queen, AdeUoia), The legend is — SIGILL : . ECCLESIE . SANCTE . MABIE . DE . MEEITOKA. The Seal of the Church of Holy Mary, of Merton. The reverse represents St. Augustine, doctor of the church, whose rule was followed by the canons of Merton mo nastery. The saint stands under a pointed canopy, in his pontifical robes, aud mitred. The legend is — MDNDI . LHCEKNA . HOS . AVGVSIISE . GDBEEHA. Augustine, the Light of the World, govern us. BISHOPS OF EXETER. 43 to perform the baptismal rite on the 24th November, 1275, and that the child was named Alphonsus, in comphment to the godfather, the King of Spain (' Angl. Sac' vol. i. 501). This royal child dying in his 10th year (19th August, 1284) was buried in Westminster Abbey. By his firm, but conciliatory spirit, he succeeded in recovering the rights and privileges of the see from the encroachments of Prince Edmund, the Earl of Cornwall. Their amicable composition of all differences may be seen in the Bishops' Register, fol. 61, which we have printed in the 'Monasticon' of the diocese, p. 426. It is dated from Lambeth Chapel, Thursday after 12th March, 1274-5. For the better regulation of his cathedral establish ment, he bad collected, revised, and amended the con stitutions and statutes of his predecessors, and procured their ratification from Cardinal Ottobonus, the papal legate in England. On the 5th September, 1278, he appropriated to his dean and chapter St. Bruered's Church in Cornwall, as well to maintain the celebration of the feast of his great patron St. Gabriel on the first Monday in Sep tember yearly, as to meet the expenses of his own obit on the day following. The subjoined ordinance may interest our readers, the original of which may be seen in his register : — " To aU sons of our Holy Mother the Clrnrch who sliall see or hear this present writing, Walter, by divine mercy. Bishop of Exon, everlasting salvation in the Lord. To the intent that, with more holy affection and more fervent zeal, even our service may not be wanting to the spirits of the heavenly court ; we endeavour, according to the measure of our weakness, to bestow such honour as we are able. To which heavenly company we beheve and hope the guardianship of human frailty is deputed, under certain blessed angehc spirits, and the souls of the faithful are mercifully intrusted by the most high Maker of heaven. Therefore, being desirous to honour, as much as we are able, the 44 LIVES OF THE renowned Brideman of the same court, namely, the memory of Saint Gabriel, of whose favour, the divine clemency so willmg it, we have often felt the benefit; we do assign, and, so assigned by the evidence of this present writmg, do appropriate, mtonn hereunder noted, to our beloved sons, our Dean and Chapter of Exon, perpetually to be possessed to their proper use, tbe church of Saint Bruered in Cornwall, of which the advowson is known to belong to us, as of our canonical acquisition (that is to say), that the aforesaid Dean and Chapter and their successors, every year on the first Monday of the month of September, m our great church of the blessed Peter of Exon, shall for ever solemnly celebrate the memory of the same Saint Gabriel with the like honour, in lights and other things, as hath been accustomed to be done on the day of the Nativity of our Lord, or at Easter : ordaining that each canon being bodily present at the said solemnity shall over and above his daily distribution of that day, receive of the goods of the church, two shillings ; each vicar, in like manner, present, twelve-pence ; each secondary, six-pence ; and each choir-boy of the choir, being within the due number, two-pence. We ordain that, on the iiext ensuing Tuesday of the same month, namely, on the morrow of the same feast, there shall be had, in our church aforesaid, a solemn anniversary day, by the aforesaid Dean and Chapter, and their successors, for our soul, and for the souls of WiUiam and Eichard, our predecessors of good memory, and for the souls of our successors. Bishops of Exon, and for the souls of our father and mother, and of our benefactors, and of all the faithful departed this life. Therefore, each canon present at this solemn commemoration, shall perpe tuaUy receive yearly, on that day, of the goods of the same church, two shillings ; and each vicar, twelve-pence ; and each secondary, six-pence ; and each choir-boy, two-pence ; appoint ing that the aforesaid Dean and Chapter and their successors shall, in every year on the aforesaid Tuesday, feed annually five hundred feeble poor ; so that the allowance of provisions to each, be of the value of one penny in meat and drink. We wiU also and ordain that all the residue of the proceeds of the said church of Saint Bruered be equaUy divided amongst the canons who shall happen to assist at both the aforesaid solemnities, and be not converted to other uses ; save a competent vicariate in the same church of Saint Bruered, which we ordain shall consist of the whole ' Altalage,' and the whole sanctuary together with 40s. in the sheaf tithes, and of all the tithes of hay, to be by us and our successors honestly paid. We appomt also and ordain that every Dean, at liis creation, shaU swear to observe this om- statute and ordmance, together with the other ancient and approved ones of the church of Exon. In witness whereof we BISHOPS OF EXETEB. 45 have caused our seal to be aifixed. Given in our chapter of Exon, on the nones (5th) of September, in the year of^grace 1278, and of our consecration 21." For some time the prelate's health had been de clining, and he had already prepared St. Gabriel's Chapel at the south-east end of his cathedral for his place of interment. Leaving London early in June, 1280, he reached Bishop's Clist by the end of that month, whence he proceeded to his manor-court at Chudleigh ; but after a short interval moved to his residence at Bishopsteignton. The routine of ofBcial business experienced no interruption ; but two days before his death he appropriated to his chapter the church of Bokerell (Reg. fol. 97) ; and on the very day of his death, 22nd July, 1280, he admitted Walter de Guldeford to Knowstone Church, and with drew the interdict laid on the abbot and convent of the recently founded monastery of Bucland for having presumed to celebrate divine service in their precincts without having obtained his previous license. His stately monument in St. Gabriel's Chapel was inscribed with the foUowing epitaph, manifestly com posed after his death, and perhaps after the death of the second Walter (Bishop Stapeldon) : — Olim sincerus Pater, omni dignus amore Primus Walterus magno jacet hie in honore. Edidit hie plura dignissima laude statuta Quae tanquam jura servant hie omnia tuta. Atque hoc OoUegium quod Glaseney plebs vocat omnis Condidit egregium, pro voce datS, sibi somnis. Quot loca construxit ? Pietatis quot bona fecit ? Quam sanctam duxit vitam? vox dicere quse seit. Laudibus immensis jubilet gens Exoniensis Bt chorus et turbse, quia natus in h^c fuit Urbe. Plus si scire velis, festum statuit Gabrielis, Gaudeat in coelis igitur Pater iste fidelis. Did the learned prelate borrow the idea of his motto, " Patientia vincit," from our townsman Joseph's epic 46 LIVES OF THE poem ' de Bello Trajano,' lib. 2, v. 357, " Patientia Victrix"? Aems :— Or, a chevron sable, charged with three cinque foils of the first, between two keys erect m chief and a sword erect in base of the second. Appbopeiatio Ecclesie de Bockeebll Decano et Capitulo Exon. Universis sancte matris Ecclesie FUiis presentes Literas visuris vel audituris Walterus miseracione Divina Exoniensis Episcopus, Salutem m Domino sempiternam. Noverit univer sitas vestra quod nos exitum vanitatis mundane considerantes et de suppremis cogitantes, concedimus et confirmamus Divine caritatis intuitu et pro salute anime nostre, Decano et Capitulo Exoniensis Ecclesie, ad sustentationem duorum CapeUanorum in Capella fere de novo constructa juxta capeUam Beate Marie ia Ecclesia nostra Cathedrali Exoniensi ex parte austrah, ubi locum elegimus sepulture, perpetuo divina celebrancium pro anima nostra, benefactorum nostrorum, omniumque fideUum defunc torum, Ecclesiam de Bukerel, cujus sumus patroni, cum omnibus juribus obvencionibus et omnibus aliis pertinenciis suis in usus proprios predictorum Decani et Capituli Canonice perpetuo possi dendam, salva competent! vicaria in eadem vicaria de Buckerel per nos vel successores nostros taxanda ad quam iidem Decanus et Capitulum nobis et successoribus nostris tenentur presentare. Ita quod dicti Decanus et Capitulum duodecim marcas sterling- onum dictis capellanis solvant annuatim imperpetuum ad sus- tentacionem suam in festis Sancti Michaehs et Pasche equis porcionibus. In cujus rei testimonium sigiUum nostrum presentibus apponi fecimus. Datum apud Teynton in Festo Beate Margarete Virginis, anno gracie MCC° octuagesimo, et consecracionis nostre vicesimo tercio. Peter Quivil was the son of Peter and Helewisa Quivil, of Exeter, and in early life found a friend and patron in Bishop Bronescombe, who in due time, viz. 28th December, 1276, coUated him to the canonry and prebend of this Cathedral, void by the death of Henry Mountfort. At the time of his election to the see of Exeter, he was also Archdeacon of St. David's. King Edward I., on 7th October, 1280, signified his approba tion of our chapter's choice, and restored him the BISHOPS OP EXETER. 47 temporalities four days later. On 10th November he was consecrated at Canterbury by Archbishop Peckham ; and thus was the third Exonian in succession, who rose to be the bishop of his native city. In the archives of the Dean and Chapter is his receipt to the executors of his predecessor of their delivery of the one hundred oxen, the accustomed legacy to the new diocesan. It bears date Thursday after St. Matthias (Feb.) " consecrationis nostras anno primo."* Unfor tunately his register, commencing with the 18th July, 1281, is incomplete, and has been greatly injured by the apphcation of galls; but the fabric rolls afford abundant evidence of the zeal and taste which he manifested in the new work of his cathedral. Towards the efficient support of its precentor, he appropriated on 5th July, 1282, the rectories of Paignton and Chudleigh ('Reg,' foho 118). On 20th April, 1283, he annexed to its chancellor the rectories of St. Newelina, in Cornwall, and of Stoke Gabriel, in Devon; and on 7th July, 1284, he had endowed the new office of its subdean or penitentiary, with the church of Egloshiel, in Cornwall ('Reg.' folio 125). To his chapter also he was a considerate and bountiful benefactor. He encouraged Sir John de Wiger, Knt., to grant to its members the manor of Thorverton, and he confirmed its appropriation on Ash Wednesday, 1283 ('Reg.' folio 120), as well as Roger de Rous' donation to them of Wydecomb Church and St. Leonard's Chapel in Spickwich, on 3rd February following. Towards their better maintenance he granted to them the church of Constantine, in Cornwall, on 21st July, 1285 ; and on 27th July of the ensuing year the churches of Broadhembury and Dunsford. In the ^ It appears from the will of Richard de Synefeld, Bishop of Hereford, the contemporary of our Bishops Quivil, &c.. that " quilibet Episcopus Herefordensie ab antiquo consuevit suo proximo relin- quere successori quinquaginta Marcas." 48 LIVES OF THE spirit of gratitude for his zeal in commencing his cathedral at great personal expense, and for his generous attention to their comforts, the chapter engaged to maintain his yearly obit, and that in the memento for the dead in the canon of the mass his name should have precedence " primum et prsecipuum." An important synod was holden in this city in April, 1287, under the presidency of our bishop; its acts, consisting of 52 chapters, may be seen in Spel- man's and Wilkins' Councils ; but in most instances are declaratory of the common ecclesiastical laW of England. The synod decrees the administration of confirmation shortly after baptism ; it requires that the marriage contract be celebrated publicly and at the church door ; ' that every church should keep a record of its endow ment at the time of its consecration, with the date of the day and year of that event, and the name of the consecrating prelate ; that no parishioner, except the patron or a noble person, could claim a fixed seat in the church; but that the first comers were at liberty to choose seats for themselves ; that no brute animals, whether belonging to the parson or to others, should be permitted to graze in the churchyard; that no priest presume to celebrate mass twice on the same day, except on Christmas-day, Easter Sunday, or on the occasion of an interment in his own church ; and it distinctly lays down this general rule, as to the building or repairing of churches and chapels,- viz. that the building and repairing of the chancel of the mother- church appertains to its rector, and of the nave to the parishioners ; but as to dependent parochial chapels, as they were originally licensed for the ease, convenience, and comfort of the distant parishioners, the whole ' In ancient times, for publicity sake, many transactions were accomplished at the porch or door of the church : thus the Patent Rolls, 28 Henry III., show that Richard, the king's brother, endowed his wife Sanchia at the church- door, " eam ditavit iu ostio ecclesia." BISHOPS OF EXETER. 49 burthen of their erection and maintenance was to rest with those in whose favour they were allowed ; never theless they continued chargeable with assisting to the repairs, or even rebuilding of the nave of the mother- church, according to such equitable proportion as the archdeacon of the place should determine. On 13th Marcb, 1285, Bishop Quivil united to and merged the ancient but reduced parish of St. Cuthbert's, in Exeter, into St. Paul's. In the ' Monasticon ' of this diocese, p. 331, we have refuted the accusations of Hoker and Godwin, as to the prelate's avowed hostility to the Franciscan Friars of Exeter, and their supposed malicious revenge. That he died on 4th October, 1291, appears certain, as also that he was buried before the altar of the Lady Chapel here, under a slab inscribed " Petra tegit Petrum, nichil offlciat tibi tetrum." But of this we shall treat more at large in the third chapter of the history of this Cathedral. Arms: — Azure a cross argent, between two roses in chief, and two fleurs de lis in base, or. Endowment of Subdeanbby. — 15th July, 1284. Bishop Qttivil's Register.— Fol. 125. Ides of July, 1284. In nomine Domini amen, annonativitatis ejusdem MCGLXxxiiii, Indictione xii, nonis Julii, Pontificatus Domini Martini Pape quarti anno quarto, in provincia mei notarii et testium sub- scriptorum ad hoc specialiter vocatorum et rogatorum Eeveren- dus Pater Dominus Petrus Dei gratia Exoniensis Episcopus attendens et cousiderans [pericula] animarum que ex defectu penitentiarii quo sua carebat Exoniensis Ecclesia, proveniebant pro tempore ac poterant provenire, volensque eciam suam Exoni- enem Ecclesiam aliis ecclesiis cathedralibus regni Anghe con- formare, habito solempni ac dUigenti tractatu cum suo Ex oniensi capitulo canonicisque ipsius Ecclesie legitime prout decuit convocatis, de expresso consensu et assensu ipsius capituh Ecclesiam de Egglosheil in Cornubia vacantem per mortem bone memorie Magistri Johannis de Esse quondam archidiaconi E 50 LIVES OP THE Cornubie et ad coUationem Domini Episcopi spectantem, que etiam Ecclesia de patronatu ipsius Domini Episcopi existebat, prebende disci-eti viri Domini Willelmi de Bisiman, quam m dicta Exoniensi Ecclesia obtinebat, legitime et canonice annexit seu appropriavit, statuens nichilominus Qt decernens ut quis quam canonicus Exoniensis de cetero dictam habuerit prebendam, penitenciarius Episcopi nominetur ac onus penitentiarie sub- portet necnon in dicta Exoniensi Ecclesia, per duas partes anni continue vel interpolatim residentiam faciat personal em, ac semel in anno per diocesim Exoniensem discurrat, ut infirmi qui ad civi tatem non possint accedere, ab eo animarum suarum remedium recipiant salutare, et quod tanquam residens per mensem plene completum prout premittitur, per diocesim ipsum discurrere ceperit cotidianas distributiones recipiat ac pro residente per unum mensem in dicta Exoniensi Ecclesia habeatur. Insuper volens statuens ac expresse decernens de sui Exoniensis Capituli, ut superius est expressum, consensu expresso pariter et assensu predictus Dominus Episcopus quod penitentiarius qui pro tempore in eadem Exoniensi Ecclesia fuerit, suam vocem inter personas in ipsa Exoniensi Ecclesia dignitates seu personatus habentes, in electionibus Episcoporum et Decanorum in Capitulo ac in omnibus ahis et singuhs tractatibus ipsius Ecclesie, optineat et habeat, ac eciam quod primum locum post dictas partes in processionibus habeat, nichilominus statuendo ac eciam dis- cernendo et expresse ordinando ipsi penitentiarie nuUa cura penitus sit annexa, et quod officium diumum Decanus in ipsa Exoniensi Ecclesia presens non fuerit exerceat subdecani : post hsec autem omnia prefatus reverendus pater propriis manibus in certo stallo chori dicte Exoniensis Ecclesie aperte dextro post stallum decani, juxta ipsius et Exon archidiaconi, prefatum Dominum Wilhelmum tanquam penitentiarium suum et sue Exoniensis Ecclesie legitime et canonice installavit, necnon etiam et procuratorem locum tenentem discreti viri Magistri Stephani de Erindeham, cui prebendam, que in Exoniensi Ecclesia per mortem Magistri Johannis de Esse vacabat ad suam coUationem spectantem contulerat, nomine ipsius Magistri Stephani juxta statuta et consuetudines ipsius Exoniensis Ecclesie prout decuit canonice installando per installationem hujusmodi aUcui pre- judicium facere non intendens. Actum Exon in choro dicte Exoniensis Ecclesie presentibus venerabUibus viris Magistris Eoberto de Evesham archidiacono Exon, Henrico de BoUet Cornubie, Thoma de Bodeham Totton, archidiaconis. Domino Wilhelmo de Wereplesdon Exon canonico, Dommo Henrico de Schipton Belhcamm, ac Magistro Eodulpho Germyn de Oppeton pinn, Ecclesiarum Eectoribus, et aliis testibus ad hoc specialiter vocatis et rogatis. Et ego Bartholomeus de Sancto Laurentio, pubhcus apostolica et imperiali auctoritate notarius omnibus et BISHOPS OF EXETER. 51 singulis premissis interfui et ut supra legitur totum de verbo ad verbum scribsi et pubhcavi meoque signo consueto signavi rogatus. Ad majorem autem cautelam et evidenciam pleniorem sigUla Domini Exoniensis Episcopi et Exoniensis Ecclesie Capituli sepius nominatorum superius huic instrumento publico sunt appensa. Agebembnt by the Dean and Chapter to celebrate the Obit of Bishop Peter Quivil. Universis ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit, Andreas Decanus Ecclesie Sancti Petri Exon et ejusdem loci Capitulum etemam in Domino Salutem. Cum venerabUis Pater Dominus Petrus bone memorie quondam Episcopus noster multa bona nobis et successoribus nostris fecerit et contulerit tam inter vivos quam in ultima voluntate Ecclesias plures absque sui Episcopii diminucione quacunque, Ecclesie nostre annectendo seu appro- priando, et eandem Ecclesiam quoad novam ejus fabricam am- phando et pro magna sui parte sumptu proprio consummando, Nos volentes eidem pro modulo nostro gratitudinis vicem re- pendere, quamquam tantis beneficiis non condignam, concedimus et ordinamus quod die anniversarii sui in Ecclesia nostra singulis annis perpetuo solempniter celebrandi viginti solidos sterling orum de honis nostris communibus de Scaccario nostro per manus senescallorum nostrorum qui pro tempore fuerint ad hoc liberandi in choro sicut a tempore obitus sui hactenus observa tum est, distribuantur. Volumus insuper et concedimus ac eciam ordinamus, quod vicaru Ecclesie nostre quibus celebrandi missam de Beata Virgine onus incumbit pro anima dicti Patris cujus corpus ante altare Beate Marie humatum quiescit, in sin guhs missis celebrandis de Beata Maria Virgine in eodem altari, exceptis diebus festivis duplicibus, unam coUectam hanc scUicet " Deus qui inter apostolicos sacerdotes" cum secreta et post com- unione collecte ejusdem perpetuo dicere teneantur, et nomina ipsius in memento quod in canone misse dicitur pro mortuis, primum et precipuum memorentur : et ut hoc onus quanquam leve libentius agnoscant et devocius impleant volumus conce dimus et ordinamus quod sexdecim solidos sterlingorum de bonis nostris communibus de Scaccario nostro per manus senescallorum nostrorum qui pro tempore fuerint ad quatuor anni terminos in Ecclesia nostra consuetos eis solvendos et inter' eos equis porci onibus dividendos perpetuo percipiant annuatim. In cujus rei testimonium sigilla nostra cum sigillis trium vicariorum nomine suo et nomine ceterorum omnium presenti scripto indentato sunt appensa. Datum in Capitulo nostro Exonie viu Idibus Februarii,'" Anno Domini M°.cc nonogesimo nono. The Chapter and Dean's, and three other little Seals, remain. '» 6th Feb. E 2 52 LIVES OF THE Thomas be Buttok, or Bitton, a native of Glou cestershire, and of a worshipful family,' was promoted from the deanery of Wells to the see of Exeter in November, 1292 (Prynne's ' Eecords,' vol. jii. p. 474), and the temporalities were restored to him on 2nd December that year. Unfortunately his register has long since perished, but in that of his successor Walter Stapeldon is preserved (fol. 28) the interesting report of his visitation of the collegiate church of Boseham, in Sussex, on 28th July, 1294; and again (in folio 175) bis appropriation to his dean and chapter here of the church of St. Uvelus or Ewal in Cornwall. The original instrument, dated Exeter, 15th October, 1297, with the beautiful seal of the bishop attached, is care fully preserved in their exchequer-room, with King Edward I.'s license, dated 10th April following. In 1292 the bishop appropriated to St. John's Hospital at Wells, the church of West Down ; and two years later obtained a market for Paignton, and also for Newport, near Barnstaple. A curious document may be seen in the episcopal archives here, namely, a grant of forty days' indul gence, by three several archbishops and five bishops, dated at Eome a.d. 1300, in the sixth year of the pontificate of Boniface VIIL, in favour of all true penitents who should avail themselves of our bishop's ministry, or "pray for his prosperity during his life, or for the repose of his soul after his death, and for the ' His parents, probably Sir Walter de Bitton, knight, and Matilda his wife, were buried on the north side of the church of Bitton, near Bristol. With the license of Godfrey Giflfard, Bishop of Worcester, dated 13th May, 1299, Bishop Button erected St. Catherine's Chapel there, and endowed it as a per petual chantry. The late vicar, Henry Thomas Ellacombe, in November, 1826, whilst making some alterations there, discovered the sepulchral slab with the incised effigies of the gallant Crusaders, with the family arms, ermine a fess gules. See Appendix to the ' Archaeo logia,' vol. xxii. Mr. EUacombe, in his communication, 9th May, 1850, says: "I have lately had the pleasure of get ting Bishop Bitton's chantry restored. The seven windows are filled with rich coloured glass, and on the front altar- steps I have inserted on tile letters, ' t In memory of Thomas de Bitton, Bishop of Exeter, the founder of this chantry chapel, a.d. 1299.' " BISHOPS OF EXETER. 53 departed souls of his parents, brothers, and sisters. Three of the eight seals originally attached to the instrument are in fair preservation, those of Basil archbishop of Jerusalem, of Adenulphus bishop of Cosenza, and Manfred bishop of St. Mark's, Venice.^ The rest have perished. In nearly the beginning of Bishop Brouescombe's 'Eegister,' already mentioned, is sewed in Bishop Bitton's purchase-deed, dated Sunday before St. Lau rence, 1302, by which he obtained the estate of Kelly, in the parish of St. Alun, Cornwall, of William de Eostourek, for ten pounds of silver. His sensible regulations for the collegiate church of Crediton are printed in the 'Monasticon ' ofthe diocese, p. 445. To his dean and chapter on 15th October, 1297, he had granted the church of St. Uvelus in Cornwall for the perpetual maintenance of his obit, and to the abbey of Tavistock on 26th August, 1304, he appro priated the church of Burrington, and on 31st December, 1305, he assigned the church of Walkhampton to the use and benefit of the abbot and convent of Buckland. Our bishop was unable to attend the parliament summoned to meet at Carlisle within the octave of St. Hilary, 1307, the last year of the reign of King Edward I., to treat " super ordinatione et stabilitate terrae Scotise " (' Placita Pari.' Lond. edit. 1661, p. 319). According to the ' Chronicon ' of Exeter Church he died on 17th September that year (Hoker says 21st), - The seal of the Archbishop of Je rusalem represents him with a long beard, arrayed in his pontifical dress and mitred, and with a limbus or square piece of embroidery in the lower part of the alb ; the right hand is elevated in the act of benediction ; in his left he bears a crosier, which rises to the top of the mitre, and finishes with the letter Tan. From a nodus near the top of the crosier hangs a pennon. Over his head is the Epigonation or Veronica, which is repeated on the back of the seal. Adenulphus appears seated in full dress and holding a splendid crosier. In an arch above him is the half-figure of the Virgin Mary and the divine infant. Below the prelate is a shield charged with a lion rampant. The seal of Man fred is perfect : he stands robed, with a piece of embroidery on his alb, like the Archbishop of Jerusalem : the cro sier is simply curved. His legend is — S; MAMFREDI . DEI . GEA; . EPISCOPI . SCI: MARCHI. 54 LIVES OF THE but we prefer the authority of the Cathedral Calendar, or Martyrologium, which states it to be on 25th September, and was buried just before the lowest step of its high altar. According to Leland, the grave stone was inscribed tho: ByTTEN . epvs . exon: ('Itin.' vol. iii. p. 57). It was embellished with a sepulchral brass. That he was a general favourite among his episcopal brethren of the province of Canterbury is evident, from the encouragement they gave to the faithful of their respective dioceses " ad orandum pro anim^ bonse memorise Thomse, quondam Exoniensis Episcopi." Godwin commemorates the tasteful decorated brass on his tomb ; but that has long disappeared. In relaying the floor of the choir in August, 1763, a large slab was removed, covering a very shallow walled grave, in which lay a leaden cofSn of ancient shape, six feet long ; the upper part was partly decayed — the skeleton was nearly entire. On the right side stood a small chalice covered with a paten, and a piece of silk or linen was wound round the stem; amongst the dust was discovered a fair gold ring, with a large sapphire, and on the left were some fragments of a wooden crosier. The remains were respectfully covered in, but the ring and chalice are preserved in the chapter-house. In the inventory of the cathedral plate, A.D. 1327, the bishop is recorded as the donor of two silver candlesticks, parcel gilt, weighing one hundred and eleven shillings and eight pence, and of a silver holy-water vase, with two sprinklers, weighing one hundred and one shillings. Aems : — Ermine, a fess, gules. Walter de Stapeldon. — The next person who graced the mitre of Exeter was Walter de Stapeldon, son of Wilham de Stapeldon and Mabilla his wife, born. bishops op exeteb. 55 it seems, at Annery,^ the seat of his family, in the parish of Monkleigh, Devon. Adopting the eccle siastical state, his acquirements and virtues soon raised him to distinction. The University of Oxford placed him in her chair of professor of canon law ; and at the time of bis election to the see of Exeter he was pre centor of its cathedral, rector of Aveton Giffard, and chaplain to Pope Clement Y. Prom his register (fol. 29) we collect that on the Monday after Martinmas, 1307, twenty-three canons assembled for the election of a successor to their late prelate ; that fifteen votes were in favour of the precentor, three for Dean Lechelade, three for Thomas de Chirleton, archdeacon of Totnes, and two for Canon John de Godelegh. On this announcement of the scrutiny the votes concurred at once in the election of Stapeldon ; yet in the sequel Eichard de Plympstock, rector of Exminster and Uficulm, entered an invidious protest against the pro ceedings, which occasioned some delay, but which he afterwards withdrew. King Edward II. urged the above-mentioned pope to expedite the business (Wilkins' ¦Cone' vol. ii. p. 290), The primate Eobert Win- chelsey (the connecting link between the bishops of his province and His Holiness) was then abroad, and labour ing under some disgrace with the holy see : reconciled, however, to Pope Clement V. at Poictiers, on 15th January, 1308, he issued his commission to confirm the election, which was duly carried into eflfect on Wed nesday, 13th March, that year at Eeading. On the Saturday following the king restored the temporalities ^ Such was the tradition in Westcott's time. In the bishop's own deed, dated Exeter, 25th February, 1323, he states that his birthday occurred on the 1st of February, "prout ex parentum rela tione didicimus." With his family he assigned the manor of Broadwoodwiger to the priory and convent of Frithel- stook. See ' Monastic. Dioc. Exon.' pp. 81, 221. His brother. Sir Eichard, one of the Puisne Judges of the King's Bench, resided principally in Stapeldon Manor, within Milton Damerell parish. See Register of Stapeldon, fol. 114. Their sister Joan married Thomas Kaynes of Winkleigh. 56 LIVES OF THE (Stapeldon's 'Eeg.' fol. 30). From the delay of the primate's return, and the subsequent pressure of busi ness, the consecration was postponed as late as the 13th October C Reg.' fol. 35). Towards the end of Brantyngham's 'Eegister,' val. ii. fol. 36, is mserted the composition between our bishop and the Lord Hugh Courtenay, dated 22nd December, 1308 (copied into the ' Monasticon ' of the diocese, p. 323), which proves that the ceremony of the episcopal enthronisation must have been very splendid. At his accession he found the rebuilding of his cathedral had been commenced, but the progress was slow ; and he applied himself diligently to the prosecution of the plan. The fabric rolls testify that he was a benefactor to the amount of eighteen hundred pounds ! His example enhsted the co-operation and benevolence of the clergy and laity, as the resolution of 8th May, 1310, demonstrates : the twenty-four canons contributed a moiety of their annuity of six marks received in the name of Prebend (' Grand. Eeg.' vol. i. fol. 39), and the monasteries within the diocese simultaneously agreed to admit to a participation of all their masses, prayers, alms-deeds, and other good works, every true penitent who should lend the bishop a helping hand in his pious under taking. That he vaulted a part of his choir is certain — that he prepared a large stock of materials, glazed several windows, provided a gorgeous canopy over the silver high altar cannot be questioned, and to him is assigned the erection of the matchless sedilia on the south side of the sanctuary. With his sovereign, Edward IL, he deservedly possessed the highest favour. He made him his treasurer, and for his valued services granted to his see on 12th November, 1320, the power of holding pleas of hue-and-cry in the lands, tenements and fees of the bishopric, within the county of Cornwall. This grant is preserved in our episcopal archives. He BISHOPS OP EXETEE. 57 further allowed him two additional fairs for Crediton, as also fairs for Ashburton,* Chudleigh, and Clist ; and we learn from the bishop's register (fol. 63) that the king had bestowed on him the lordship of the hundred of Budleigh.' A learned man himself, Stapeldon was anxious for the enlightenment of the public mind and the extension of the circle of knowledge ; and for this purpose he founded and liberally endowed Hart's Hall and Stapeldon's Inn in Oxford, afterwards consolidated into Exeter College ; and he left funds to establish in St, John's Hospital here a grammar school to prepare them for that university (see Wood's ' Hist, and Antiq. Oxon,' and the 'Monast. Dioc. Exon.' p. 306). Notwithstanding his oflBce of lord treasurer, and the duty of attending the cabinet councils, and the person of his sovereign, he never forgot what was demanded by his episcopal character ; and his invaluable ' Ee gister ' bears ample testimony to his diligence in visit ing his diocese, and how attentive he was to the administration of holy orders. But, during the last two years of his life, the service of his king and country demanded much of his absence. He left the diocese in September, 1324, having previously addressed his dean and chapter on 9th August, from Lawhitton in Corn wall, on the neglected state of several of the parochial churches, exhorting them to look to their substantial repairs, and especially calling on the dean, as holding archidiaconal jurisdiction in the peculiars of the - He was a great benefactor to Ash burton. To the provost and commonalty of its borough he granted all the obven- tions and offerings of St. Laurence's Chapel, situate " infra ambitum curise susB de Ashperton," for a cha.ntry. Under their common seal they testified their gi-ateful sense of his liberality, on 16th August, 1314. The legend of the seal is — S; PRBFOSITI . ET . CSITATIS . EVEGI , DB . AYSpTON. * It was usual for our cathedral establishments to admit the reigning sovereign and his royal family to a share in all their prayers, alms, and good works, as special founders and benefactors. We have seen the form of admission of King Edward II. and his queen Isabella, dated Exeter, 25th March, 1815. The same fonn had been adopted in favour of King Edward I. and his second wife, Margaret of France. 58 LIVES OP THB chapter, to enforce obedience to this episcopal ordinance.* With his inbred sense of honour and patriotism he must have been annoyed at the progress of disaffection goaded on by the faithless queen consort, and that the king could not be induced to estrange himself from his unworthy and obnoxious favourites and evil counsellors. According to Adam de Murimoth's ' Chronicle ' the queen left England for France in May, 1325 : by the king's desire our bishop on 9th September following accompanied Prince Edward, the heir to the throne, to do homage, in place of his father, to the French monarch, for the provinces of Aquitaine and Poitou. Dr, Lingard justly describes our prelate as "a minister of irreproachable integrity ;" his vigilance, his uncom promising regard for the interests of his royal master proved a vexatious restraint to the adverse party abroad, who even attempted his life. Eeturning to England his penetration satisfied him that everything portended a speedy revolution. At last the king became sensible of his danger, and fearful that treason had done its worst, when Isabella and her paramour Mortimer had effected a landing on the coast of Suffolk with a powerful force, on 28th September, 1326, he issued a proclamation from the Tower against them (Eymer's ' Foedera,' vol. v. p. 233). Next committing the custody of London to this faithful bishop on 2nd October, he hurried off to Bristol. Our bishop had concurred with some of the privy council in pro mulgating the sentence of excommunication against those who had invaded the realm; but the king's flight, and the successful advance of the queen's army towards London, encouraged its citizens to break out into open rebellion against the Government. In the ^ The bishop must have paid a hasty visit to Exeter in the middle of Sep tember, 1326, for we find him here on the 22nd of fliat month confirming an agreement between his chapter and tiie nuns of Polslo. BISHOPS OP BXETEE. 59 French ' Chronicle ' of London, published in 1844 by the Camden Society (page 52), it is stated that "the Bishop of Exeter, riding towards his inn or hotel in Eldedeanes-lane for dinner, encountered the mob, and, hearing them shout ' Traitor,' he rode rapidly to St. Paul's for sanctuary, but was unhorsed, and taken to Cheapside, stript and beheaded. William Walle (his nephew) and John Padyngton, the bishop's steward, met with the same fate. About the hour of vespers, the same day, 15th October, the choir of St. Paul's took up the headless body of the prelate, and conveyed it to St. Paul's, but, on being informed that he died under sentence, the body was brought to St. Clement's beyond the Temple, but was ejected ; so that the naked corpse, with a rag given by the charity of a woman, was laid on a spot called ' Le Lawles Chirche,' and, without any grave, lay there with those of his two esquires, without office of priest or clerk." Other circum stances attending this murder are thus supplied by Thomas of •Walsingham (' Historia Brevis,' p. 1 04) : — " The citizens, continuing their rage, assailed the house' of the Bishop of Exeter, Master Walter de Stapulton, and setting fire to the gates, entered it, but not finding the bishop, whose destruction was their object, they plundered his jewels, plate, and furniture. It happened in an evil hour that the bishop returned from the country, who, although he had been apprised of these violences, yet felt no dread of them. He rode on horseback, and when he had, with boldness enough, arrived at the north gate of St. Paul's, he was pre sently seized- by the populace, wounded, torn, thrown down, and, at length, dragged to the place of execution. When they had dragged him to the street of Chepe, 7 He had obtained an exceUent site on a property near Temple Bar, which had belonged to the Knights Templars, and erected a large and convenient mansion, called Exeter Inn, for the benefit of his episcopal successors. 60 LIVES OF THB they there proclaimed him a pubhc traitor, a seducer of the king, and a destroyer of the liberties of their city. The bishop was clad in a kind of armour, which we commonly call Aketon, and, being stripped of that, and of his other apparel, he was beheaded. Two others of his household, namely, his esquire and his valet, underwent the same fate. This sacrilege being perpe trated, they fixed the head of the bishop on a long pole by way of trophy, that it might be to all be holders a lasting memorial of the attempted crime. His body, like that of an excommunicated person, and without auy funeral rites, they cast into a pit, in a certain old cemetery, which had formerly belonged to the fraternity called ' Freres Pyes,' but was then entirely neglected. The cause of their enmity was that, when he was treasurer of the kingdom, of the king's council he procured, that the justices in Eyre should sit in the City of London ; on which occasion, because the citizens had committed various offences, they were heavily punished, by the loss of their liberties, by pecuniary mulcts, and by bodily chastisement, as they deserved. It was also said that he had collected a great number of force's to act against the queen and her son the Duke of Aquitain, and therefore the Londoners endea voured, as they said, to hinder, as quickly as possible. the bishop's enterprise." Again differing from the preceding relation is that of William de Pakingtox, clerk and treasurer of Prince Edward's (the Black Prince) household in Gascony, in a ' Chronicle ' by him written in French, and dedicated to his master, thus translated by Leland (' Lei. Coll.' vol. i. p. 467) : " In the yere 1326, Ehzabeth, Edwarde, Edmund of Wodestock Erie of Kent, and John of Henaude arrived at Harwiche. After the landding of them King Ed warde heard that the Londoners were minded to rendre them self to them. Whereupon he sent Walter BISHOPS OF EXETEB. 61 Stapleton Bishop of Excestre, his Tresorer, for to be gardiane of the cyte with the mayre, and he cummying to the Guildhaulle desired, according to his commission, the keyes, and custody of the cyte. To whom the commons answered that they worde kepe the towne for the king, the quene, and his sunne. And the bishop, not content with this answer, they toke hym and smith of his hedde in the middle of Westchepe, and after beheddid 2 Esquires that waytid on hym. Wylliam WauUe his nephew was the one, and John Padington the other, and after they behedid a Burges one John Mareschal, Espy yn London for the Dis- pensars. At this tyme Walter Stapleton was making a faire toure on the very Tamys side at this place, with oute Temple bar, and lakking stone and lyme to finishid it, sent a force to the Chirch of the White Freres (Freres de la Eie), and toke it, and yn despite of this the Loundener biryid Stapleton and his 2 Esquires in the hepe of rubrische aboute his toure, as they had bene dogges. And no mervel. For he was fu- mische, and without pite. But after xi. weeks at the requeste of Quene Isabels lettres the Bishops body was caried to the chirch thereby, and after to Excestre. And the 2 Esquires body es were caryed to S. Clementes Chirch* and there buried." Those who do not pronounce on events merely from their success, who attend to the springs and principles of actions, must award the tribute of praise and admira tion to this high-minded bishop and minister ; they will appreciate bis zeal and energy to sustain the declining fortunes of his royal master, and venerate him for his disregard of self, and for his incorruptible honour and loyalty under every discouragement. 8 King Henry II. granted tiiis church of St. Clement, " quae dicitur Dacorum," to the Knights Templars ; and on their suppression it appears that King Ed ward H. conveyed it to Bishop Stapel don. It had within it a chapel of St. John. 62 LIVES OF THE The remains of the heroical bishop were permitted, by the adultress Queen Isabella, in January, three months after his murder, to be consigned to Christian burial, probably in St. Clement's Church, London. The 'Chronicon' of Exeter Church (Harleian MSS. No. 545, &c.) simply steites that on 28th March, 1327, the body was solemnly interred "solemni traditur sepulturse," without specifying where. In a letter of Henry Gower, Bishop of St. David's, bearing date from York 16th August, 1328, in the possession of our dean and chapter, he recommends Bishop Walter's soul to the prayers of the faithful, and mentions his actual interment in Exeter Cathedral " cujus corpus in Ecclesia, Cathedrali Exoniensi est humatum." The Eegistrar of Newenham, fol. 117, a contemporary, after mentioning his decapitation on Tuesday 15th October, 1326, "pro rnagn^ fidelitate suS,, est sepultus apud Exon." But we know not how to reconcile this assertion with the omission of all charges for such removal of the body in the accounts of the bishop's executors ; and, above all, with the letter of Bishop Grandisson ('Eeg.' vol, ii. foL 183 b) addressed to one of them, Eobert de Tauton, a canon of this Cathedral so late as 30th June, 1334, in the Sth year after the sad tragedy, commending his pious intention of erecting a tomb and chapel and founding a perpetual chantry in suburbio London, where the body "primitus quiescit humatum" (Appendix). As for the present epitaph on his monument on the north side of the Cathedral- choir, it was composed by John Hoker in Queen Elizabeth's reign (1568), and put up at the expense of Bishop Alley. In Stapeldon's ' Eegister,' fol. 170, is his ordinance, dated 2nd March, 1321-2, for the maintenance of his own obit in the cathedral, as also his sovereign's license for that purpose, dated Tewkesbury, 12th November, BISHOPS OF EXETEE. 63 1322. Copies are also preserved in the archives of our dean and chapter. Leland (' Itin.' vol. iii. p. 45) asserts that the monument in the wall of the north aisle of the cathedral choir, and opposite to the bishop's, was erected to the memory of his brother. Sir Eichard de Stapeldon, Knight." It may be the case ; but there is no truth in the tradition that he fell a sacrifice, with his episcopal brother, to the frantic violence of the mob. There is no reason for even supposing that he was then in London. He certainly was living on 2nd April, 1330, as is manifest from the deed of his brother Thomas of that very date. His anniversary, moreover, was kept here on 10th March ; whereas the bishop's was observed on the 15th of October, the day of his murder, and the feast of St. Wulfran. (Obitus Eicardi Stapeldon, Militis, Martii x ; obitus Walteri Stapeldon, Epi., XV Octobris. Ex Antiquo Kalendari Exon.). Bishop Grandisson's ordinance to this effect, dated 28th June, 1328, is in Bishop Brantyngham's 'Eegister,' vol. ii. fol. 6, where it is added that Bishop Stapeldon not only complied with the ancient custom of his prede cessors in leaving an hundred oxen to the see, forty to work the farms in Devon, thirty those in Cornwall, and thirty for those elsewhere ; but added another hundred oxen, with directions that at his anniversary one hundred poor should then be fed in the hall of Exeter Palace, or at its outer gate. " King Edward II., on 21st October, 1314, licensed this learned knight, under the great seal, to appropriate an acre of land in Draynet in Penwith, with the advowson of the church of St. Wynnerus there, to the dean and chap ter of Exeter, " in subsidium duodecim Scolarium in TJniversitate Oxon, causa studendi morantium et successorum suorum moraturorum imperpetuum." The statutes of the bishop for Stapel don Hall are dated April, 1316, and it is pleasing to observe his anxiety that in the election of scholars "cessante omni favore, timore, eonsanguinltate vel amore, iUos nominabunt, quos credide- rint ad proficiendum aptiores, in mori bus honestiores, et in facultatibus pau- periores ; vel saltem iUos, in quibus istse tres conditiones magis conveniunt." The obit of the bishop's brother Thomas was kepf in the cathedral on 3rd October, and of Eobert on 21st May : this latter had died about the feast of the Ascension, 1311, rector of Tawstock : the former survived till late in 1342, when his canonry was given by Bishop Grandisson, on 3rd October that year, to Thomas de PateshuU ('Eeg.' vol. iii. fol. 48). 64 LIVES OP THB It is painful to reflect how this barbarous murder was suffered to pass over with apathy and impunity. About eighteen months later. Bishop Grandisson, writing to Pope John XXIL, conjures His Holiness not to lose sight of that revolting tragedy— that the im punity for such an atrocious deed was a scandal to the nation — that His Holiness's clemency should beware of admitting the excuses of the Londoners ; for common report affirmed that some, even of the bishops, had been induced by costly presents and future promises of the citizens of London to discolour the facts, and conceal the truth from the holy see — that their success would injure the reputation of His Holiness in the opinion of many, and would cover the writer (himself) with shame and grief : " et me filium sedis apostohcse, etsi juvenem ; et defensorem, licet invalidum retunderet obruentem" ('Eeg.' vol. i. fob 37). In the episcopal archives is preserved an interesting roll or inventory (though sadly injured by the wanton use of galls) of the deceased prelate's effects, as deli vered to Bishop Grandisson in June, 1328, by the executors, Eichard de Coleton, precentor, Thomas de StapeldoJi, brother to the testator, and Eichard de Braylegh, then subdean, all canons of Exeter, in the absence of their co-executor, Eobert de Tauton (the canon above mentioned). It comprises the effects of his chapel, hbrary, chamber, wardrobe, cellar, plate, and household goods, and the live and dead stock on the farms. The ornaments of his chapel are numerous and valuable. His books, valued at 201?. 10s. M., treated chiefly on Holy Scripture and Canon Law, with a few historical works and some sermons. He had pre viously granted to the cathedral library a Catholicon, beginning with the words " Temporum Summa," valued at 51, and the Chronicles of Westminster, " de Gestis Anglorum," valued at IZ. 6s. 8d, In his chamber were BISHOPS OF EXETEE. 65 found 1006 florens " de agno," 4000 florens " de Flo- renci4 et unus florens de regina ;" and in ready money, "pecunis numerate," 801?. %d. sterling; "in platis argenteis" to the value of 515?. His rings amounted to ninety-one ; one was broken ; three of them hand some, the rest ordinary, value unknown : but the pontifical and best rings, "tempore mortis defuncti fuerunt Londoni depr^dati." The " vasa argentea" must have been splendid, combining gifts from the Eangs of England and France and from various noble men ; yet not rated higher than 170?. The cellar had been reduced in quantity ; but we find a pipe half full de vino de Warnath,'" valued at 4?., whereas two other hogsheads of wine were priced at the same sum. The stock on his farms of Petershays, Flockston, Clist, Chudleigh, Bishop's Teignton, Paignton, Crediton, &c., was very valuable, but the prices moderate, compared with the present times. Good debts were estimated at '" This was a medicated wine, pre pared with an infusion of wermut, the German word for wormwood. Sir Henry Ellis and Mr. Albert Way inform us that the Germans in the Rhenish and viniferous districts delighted in vinum absinthianum, and that the more north ern nations mingled the herb with their beer. Our ancestors fancied this bitter ness gave a relish and whetted the appetite. We still retain in some parts of England " bitter ale." We all re member that Horace, in his ode ' Natis in usum,' applies the epithet severus to the fine Falernian wine ; and that Seneca (63 Epist.) says, "in vino nimis veteri, ipsa nos amaritudo delectat." In the inventory a draught horse is valued at 5s. ; an ox or a bull at 6s. 8d. ; a cow at 5s. Gd. ; a heifer 2s. ; a calf Is. Sd. ; a sheep or ewe at Is. ; a ram at Is. 2d. ; lambs varied in price from 6d. to 8d. In the will of Simon Grendon, made and proved a.d. 1411, he leaves 101. to be laid out in the purchase of twenty cows, to be given to as many poor per sons. About 120 years later (1520) the rental of Eochester Priory states the purchase of a cow at 8s. ; auother supe rior cow cost the community lis. 8d. ; and they paid " pro unS, vaccS cum vitulo " as much as 15s. In the rental of the chapter of Exeter we observe that eggs— a great article of consump tion — ^were cheaper in 1401 than in 1398. In the former year they were purchased at 5d. the hundred ; but three years before at 5JcJ., and even 5M. King Edward II., in 1 315, in his writ to the Chancellor of Oxford, required that the price of a fat goose should not exceed 2|d. ; of a good fat capon or hen 2d. ; of two chickens Id ; of four pigeons Id. ; of twenty-four eggs Id., &c. In the inventory of the goods of John de Yaldeforde iu Thorverton parish, taken in December, 1362, we find eleven quarters of wheat appraised in toto at 27s. 6d. ; twenty quarters of oats in toto at 20s. ; twelve aores of wheat growing in the ground at 20s. ; seven oxen at 35s. ; one cow at 3s. ; four boviculi at 10s. ; fifty sheep at 25s. ; four hogs at 2s. ; five geese at 12d. ; one wem'op 6c?. ; a mare and colt at 5s. But what is this price to the one charged on the estate of Ralph de Limesey in Bosiutone manor, county of Somerset, viz. xxiiij oves, aut v solidos unoquoque anno? (' Exeter Domesday,' p. 473). 66 LIVES OF THE 381?. 7s. 6d. ; but the executors despaired of recovering others to the amount of 378?. 7s. Qd., " propter nimiam paupertatem debitorum." Before his death the bishop had sown 609 acres and a half with wheat and rye, valued at 151?. lis. Sd., or 3s. id. the acre— fifteen acres of winter-barley, valued at 1?. 10s., or 2s. the acre; and in his peculiar manors 160 acres and a half of wheat and rye, valued at 26?. 15s., or 3s. Ad. an acre. In the archives of the dean and chapter is Bishop Grandisson's acquittance, dated Chudleigh, 28th June, 1328, to the said executors. Within two months later, viz. 26th August, they engaged, in St. Mary's Chapel within the palace at Exeter, to pay Bishop Grandisson, in lieu of all dilapidations and demands, the sum of 300?., to present him with a precious mitre belonging to the late bishop ; also with a silver bason and jug, the gift of the King of France. They further surren dered to him all the dead stock set forth in the inventory, and promised him 100?. more if he would assist them in recovering the debts due to the estate (' Eeg.' vol. ii. fol. 62), and they obtained his lordship's receipt in full of all demands on the 24th March next ensuing ('Eeg.' vol. ii. fol. 117). The executors distributed 210?. 8s. 8c?. in legacies and charities : amongst the items we find 3?. 6s. 8c?. towards the building of the chancel of Pilton mo nastery, and 13s. 4d. to the fabric of Pilton Church; to the repairs of Cowley Bridge and its approaches 3?. 6s. lOJc?. ; to the repairs of New Bridge juxta Tau ton, 2?. ; towards the bridge at Bovey Hethfeld, one mark ; pro ponte de Bickley, 1?. 5s. ; to the prior and convent of Launceston for repairing their church, 10?. ; to the abbot of Athelney (where King Alfred once found shelter, and in gratitude founded its monastery) for repairs of the church and building of the tower, 4?. ; " in subsidium reparationis ecclesise de Plymptree pau- BISHOPS OF EXETEE. 67 perimge," 10s. ; for Stoke Bridge, 4?, ; Spilstor Bridge, 20s. : for Wonorde Bridge, near Axminster, 20s. ; towards Barnstaple Bridge, 4?., with 2?. for its wardens ; for the repairs of Salcombe Church, 5?. ; for a cloth embroidered with figures, for the use of the high altar of the cathedral of Exeter, 13?. 3s. 4c?., and for a covering of the same, 1?. 8s. The bishop's brother. Canon Thomas Stapeldon, granted a rent of 1?. 4s. charged on a tenement that once formed the corner-house of the High Street and North Street, Exeter, for the maintenance of his obit and the obits of the family. He further granted four shops in the High Street of Exeter to his brethren of the chapter, with the licence of King Edward III. for the same purpose. In conclusion we may add that Eoger de Ealegh, Abbot of Hartland, and his convent, to perpetuate their grateful sense of the services of our prelate to their monastery, agreed to maintain his solemn obit on the 15th of October at all future times, and that, after this oflSee was performed, thirteen poor persons should be fed in the abbot's hall, " et quod in die obitus sui xiii pauperes in aul4 abbatis, pro ipsius anim 4, pascantur." Aems : — Argent, two bends wavy, sable. FuNDATio CANTAKi.a! Dni. Walteei de Stapeldon, Bxon Epi., in Ecclesia S. dementis, London. Universis &c., Johannes Exoniensis Episcopus, Salutem &c. Pus operibus dare consilium, et presentis vite subsidium queritur et eterne retributionis premium expectatur. Cum itaque dilec tus fihus, vir providus Dominus Dominus Eohertus de Tauton, nostre Exoniensis Ecclesie canonicus, humanitatis ductus officio, ad id, sicut accepimus, sue mentis affectum destinat sedulo, ut locum ad nostram episcopalem mensam pertinentem (Sancti Clementis Danorum) quo felicis recordationis Walteri de Sta- peldono, Exoniensis Episcopi, predecessoris nostri Corpus in suburbio London primitus quiescit humatum, magnificare valeat sepultur^, et capellam ibidem erigere et fundare, missasque F 2 68 LIVES OF THE cotidianas et orationes ahas in e^ perpetuo celebrari facere, m ipsius predecessoris nostri, et nostri ac ommum ahormn predeces- sorum nostrorum et successorum Exonie Episcoporum, ommum fidehum defunctorum suffragium animarum, desideriis sms hujus modi favore benevolo annuentes, habitoque super hoc cum dilectis iihis Capituli Ecclesie nostre prehbate tractatu solempni et diligenti, eisque consentientibus, cum ad dampnum Ecclesie nostre predicte vel mense trahi nequeat, ei, quoad id, hcentiam concedimus et hberam facultatem, dictum locum cum adjacente area, quatenus nobis existit licitum, ad dictum usum etiam con- ferendum. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum una cum sigiho Capituh Ecclesie nostre predicte presentibus duximus apponendum. Datum &c., ultimo die Junii mccoxxxiv. Edwardus Dei gratia Rex Anglie Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aquitannie, omnibus ad quos presentes Littere pervenerint, Salutem. Licet de communi consOio regni nostri statutum sit quod non liceat viris rehgiosis seu ahis ingredi feodum alicujus ita quod ad manum mortuam deveniat sine licencia nostra et capitalis Domini, de quo res hia immediate tenetur : per finem tamen quem dilectus et fidelis noster Ricardus de Stapeldon fecit nobiscum concessimus et licenciam dedimus pro nobis et heredibus nostris quantum in nobis est eidem Ricardo, quod ipse unam acram terre cum pertinenciis in Draynet in Penwyth et advocacionem Ecclesie ejusdem ville dare possit et assignare dilectis nobis in Christo Decano et Capitulo Ecclesie Beati Petri Exonie, habendum et tenendum sibi et successoribus suis in subsidium sustentacionis duodecim scolarium in TJniversitate Oxonie causa studendi morancium et successive moraturorum imperpetuum. Et eisdem Decano et Capitulo quod ipsi predictas terram et advocacionem a prefato Ricardo recipere et Ecclesiam predictam sibi appropriare et in proprios usus una cum terra predicta tenere possint sibi et successoribus suis predictis in subsidium sustentacionis scolarium predictorum in perpetuum sicut predictum est, tenore presencium similiter hcenciam dedi mus specialem. Nolentes quod predictus Ricardus aut heredes sui vel predicti Decanus et Capitulum seu successores sui predicti racioni statuti predicti per nos vel heredes nostros inde occasion entur, molestentur in ahquo seu graventur salvis tamen capit- ahbus Dommis feodi illius serviciis inde debitis et consuetis. In cujus rei testimonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste me ipso apud Wiudesore vicesimo primo die Octobris anno regni nostri sexto. Clyp. per finem centum solidorum factum coram Thesaurario. The Great Seal of England is attached. Indorsed "Licencia Domini Eegis super Ecclesia Sancti Wvnieri m Uomubia appropriata." BISHOPS OP EXETEE. 69 Grant by King Edwakd IL to Bishop Stapeldon and his successors, Bishops of Exeter, of Hue-and-Cry in the Lands of the See of Exeter within tho County of Cornwall.— 12th Nov. (14 Edw. II.) 1320. De Placitio de Hutbsiis et Clamoeibus levatis in Comitatu Cornubie. Edwardus Dei gracia Rex Anglie Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aquitannie, Archiepiscopis Episcopis Abbatibus Prioribus Comi tibus Baronibus Justiciariis vicecomitibus Prepositis ministris et omnibus Ballivis et fidelibus suis, Salutem. Sciatis quod pro bono servicio quod venerabilis pater Walterus de Stapeldon Exoniensis Episcopus, Thesaurarius noster, nobis hactenus impendit et impendet in futurum in instanti parliamento nostro apud Westmonasterium convocato de assensu prelatorum comitum et Baronum ibidem existencium concessimus ei et hac carta nostra confirmavimus quod ipse et successores sui imperpetuum habeant et teneant placita de hutesio et clamore levatis in terris tenementis et feodis ad episcopatum predictum pertinentibus in comitatu Cornubie in que idem Episcopus habet visum franci plegii. Quare volumus et firmiter precipimus pro nobis et heredibus nostris quod predictus Episcopus et successores sui imperpetuum habeant et teneant placita de hutesio et clamore levatis in terris tenementis et feodis ad episcopatum predictum pertinentibus in comitatu predicto in quibus idem Episcopus habet visum franci plegii sicut predictum est. Hiis testibus venerabilibus patribus W. Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo tocius Anghe primate, J. Norwyc Episcopo, cancellario nostro Thoma comite Norff. et marescaUo Anglie, fratre nostro carissimo Adomaro de Valencia comite Pemhr., J. de Warenn comite Surr., Hugone le Despenser Seniore, Bartholomeo de Badeles- mere Senescallo hospicii nostri, et aliis. Datum per manum nostram apud Westmonasterium, duodecimo die Novembris anno regni nostri quarto decimo. Per breve de private sigillo. The Great Seal of England is attached. [In the possession of the Bishop of Exeter.J Caeta Btjegensium Aspbeton super Cantaria in Capella situata in curia Episcopi ibidem. Universis ad quos presentes litere pervenermt propositus et communitas Burgensium ville de Ashperton, Salutem in Domino. Cum venerabilis pater et dominus noster dominus Walterus [Stapeldon] dei gracia Exoniensis Episcopus de consensu Capituli sui Exonie concesserit omnes obvenciones et oblaciones CapeUe Sancti Laurencii infra ambitum curie sue de Ashperton situate uni presbitero idoneo per nos eligendo et officiah peculi- aris jurisdiccionis de Ashperton oportunis loco et tempore annis 70 LIVES OF THE singuhs presentando, qui pro salubri statu dicti Episcopi etpro ipsius anima cum ab hac luce migraverit et animabus omnium predecessorum et successoi-um suorum in eadem capella diyma imperpetuum celehrabit, prout in hteris dictorum Episcopi et Capituli que penes nos resident plenius est contentum. Nos divini cultus augmentum pro viribus affectantes ne predicta cantaria tam sancte et salubriter ordinata pro defectu exhibi- cionis et stipendiorum ipsius presbiteri quod absit depereat, infuturum obhgamus nos heredes nostros et successores ad in veniendum predicto presbitero ibidem ut premittitur celebraturo plenam et sufficientem exhibicionem una cum oblacionibus et obvencionibus supradictis in suis stipendiis computatis. Ita quod eadem cantaria pro defectu exhibicionis et stipendiorum ipsius presbiteri nullo tempore deperibit, quodque ipsam capel lam, libros, et ornamenta ipsius ad cultum divinum oportuna sufficienter reparabimus, quociens oportuerit, et in bono statu sustinebimus omnibus temporibus secuturis : ad que omnia et singula facienda obligamus nos et nostrum singulos nostrosque heredes et successores et omnia bona nostra et ipsorum mobiha et immobilia spiritualia et mundana cohercioni et districcioni dictorum Episcopi et Capituli et successorum suorum et cujus cumque alterius judicis ecclesiastic! vel secularis quem Epis copus Exoniensis qui pro tempore fuerit aut capitulum Ex- oniense duxerit eligendum. In cujus rei testimonium huic scripto SigiUum nostrum commune duximus opponendum. Hus testibus Dominis Roberto Dei gracisi Abbate Tavistoch, Mathia Priore de Plympton, Petro Abbate Buffestr, Jocelino Priore Tottoni, Rogero de Charleton Archidiacono Totton, et aliis. Datum apud Ashperton die veneris in crastino Assumpcionis Beate Marie, anno Domini millesimo tricentesimo quarto decimo. [S. Propositi et Coitatis Burgi de Aysgton.j James Berkley. — When the news reached Exeter that their beloved bishop Walter Stapeldon had fahen a victim to the popular phrensy in London, tbe dean and chapter assembled to deliberate on a suitable suc cessor. Their choice was unanimous in favour of their colleague James Berkley, S.T.P. For tbe last eight years he had been also Archdeacon of Huntingdon, and was powerful by bis family connections. He was the third son of Thomas- de Berkley, who was summoned to Parliament from the 23rd of King Edward I. (1295) BISHOPS OF EXETEB. 71 to the 14th of King Edward II. (1321), by Joane his-, wife, daughter of William de Ferrers Earl of Derby. According to "Le Neve, the royal assent was given to the election on 12th December, 1326, and six day& later the king addressed a letter from Kenilworth to- Pope John XXIL, extolling the elect for pre-eminence of merit, noble descent, learning, and circumspection,. and praying that no obstacle might be opposed to his consecration. To the cardinals individually the king on the same day addressed letters to the same purpose (Eymer's ' Foedera,' tom. iv. p. 240). From William le Dene's ' Hist. Eoffensis ' we learn that the primate Walter Eeynolds * consecrated the elect, at Canterbury,. on Midlent Sunday, 22nd March following,, assisted by the Bishops of Eochester and Chichester ; or perhaps on 15th March, as the 'Chronicon' of Exeter asserts. But, after the consecration, the pope interfered : on 22nd April he announced that he had reserved to himself the power h&c vice of providing a successor to Walter, of happy memory. Godwin has unfairly represented this interference, and takes occasion to vituperate the Holy See : nay, goes so far as to attribute the premature death of the consecrating primate, and of the new bishop, -to the terrors excited by the acerbity of the pope's language. How wide this is from the truth must be evident from the bull addressed to his venerable brother James Berkley, at the date above mentioned, which is fortunately preserved in Bishop G-randisson's 'Eegister' (vol. i. fol. 35). With great good sense and feeling, after affirming his right to provision, in this particular case of reserve, he excuses the parties on the ground of their being ignorant of his intention, ratifies his election and consecration, supplies every defect, and commands that no prejudice shall 1 This primate, as his monument at Canterbury sho-ws, died 16th November, 1327. 72 LIVES OF THE accrue, and no obstacle be interposed to the canonical government of his diocese of Exeter. Here we may be allowed to observe that the canons assigned to the pope the confirmation of a primate elect ; but that provisions to vacant bishoprics in this country, so often claimed by the Holy See from the reign of King Edward I. to that of King Henry YIIL, was an abuse, — an encroachment on the rights of chapters under a national hierarchy, and on the prerogative of the crown. King John had very properly restored to the chapters, episcopal and conventual, the unfettered power of electing tbeir future prelates, after they had solicited and obtained the sovereign's licence, for such as were of royal foundation. The subsequent assent of the crown, " ex debito justitiae et non ex gratis," could not be withholden but for good cause shown. If no reasonable objection was offered, the elect was referred to the metropolitan for confirmation, and, this obtained, the consecration followed of course. As to the restora tion of the temporalities, either before or after consecra tion, that was an affair that belonged exclusively to the crown ; and it would be an infringement of the royal prerogative for the spiritual power to pretend to exer cise it. The distinction between the spiritual authority and the temporal power was rightly understood by the English barons, as is manifest from their memorable reply to Pope Boniface VIIL, in the year 1301 ; and it is deeply to be lamented, that any of our sovereigns from pusillanimity or indolence, or views of temporary or political expediency, could so far forget what was due to themselves and to the national honour, as to connive at, and much more to suflfer and encourage, usurpations of their own prerogative. Thus, for in stance, we find in Bishop Stafford's ' Eegister,' vol. ii. fol. 224, that King Eichard IL, by letters patent, dated at Coventry on 16th January, 1398, after reciting the BISHOPS OP EXETER. 73 Act of Parliament passed nine years before "contra promsores" proceeds to add, that for the honour of God and the Holy See, and for his special affection for the reigning pontiff Boniface IX., he modifies that statute, and sanctions its infringement and violations from the Sth December last past, until the Easter next ensuing ! Quid leges sine moribus VansB proficiunt? But to return to Bishop Berkley: notwithstanding this satisfactory brief, he was snatched away by death fourteen weeks after his consecration. The event took place at his episcopal manor of Petershayes,^ in the parish of Yartecombe, on 24th June, 1327, as the 'Eegister' of Newenham affirms. He was buried on the south side of his cathedral choir, with this simple epitaph, according to Leland (' Itin.' vol. iii. p. 45) : — " In Berkley natus, jacet hio Jacobus tumulatus." From a manuscript in the possession of the Dean and Chapter we find that he was a donor to the church on 7th May, 1327, of some purple vestments richly garnished with pearls. Arms : — Gules, a chevron between ten crosses patee — according to Westcote, or ; but according to Izacke, argent. Pope John XXlI.'s Confirmation of Bishop Beekley's Election and Consecration. — 22nd April, 1327. CoNPiEMACio Electionis et Consecrationis Dni. Jacobi de Beekelet dudum Exon. Epi.3 Johannes Epus., servus servorum Dei, venerabili fratri Jacobo Epo. Exon., Salutem et Apostolicam Benedictionem. Apos- tohce Sedis benignitas circa Ecclesiarum utilitates intentam se exhibet, ut earum profectus augeat et personis bene meritis se ' In the inventory of Bishop Stapel don's effects it is called Petrishegh, and there we flnd two sumpter-beasts valued at 10s. ; sixteen oxen at 6Z. 6s. 8dl., or 66. %d. per head ; one bull at 6s. 8d. ; a yearling Is. &d., and 189 sheep at 92., or twelve pence each. In the grange ¦was com to the value of 9Z. 6s. The dead stock, -with timber, lime, laths, " et lapidibus sculptis pro noms edi- ficiis," valued at 91. Is. Timber ai, Madeford worth 10s. ' ' Eeg. Grandisson,' vol. i. foL 35 b. 74 LIVES OF THE exhibeat graciosam. Dudum siquidem cupientes regimini Exoniensis Ecclesie per obitum bone memorie Walteri Exon. Epi. tunc vacantem de persona ydonea per nostre proyisionis studium provideri, provisionem ejusdem Ecclesie iUa -vice dispositioni nostre et Sedis Apostolice duximus specialiter reservandam, decernentes extunc irritum et inane, si secus super hiis a quoquam quavis auctoritate scienter vel igno ranter, contingeret attemptari. Post que dilecti filu Canom'ci ejusdem Ecclesie, hujusmodi nostre Reservationis et Decreti forsitan ignari, Te tunc ejusdem Ecclesie Canonicum in Sa- cerdotio constitutum, et in Sacra Theologia, m Exon. Epum. concorditer elegerunt, prestitoque per se Electioni predicte con sensu venerabilis frater noster Archiepus. Cantuariensis, loci Metropohtanus, presentatam sibi electionem ipsam, dictorum Reservationis et Decreti, ut asseritm-, inscius, de facto auc toritate Metropohtica confirmavit. Quibus ad audientiam nos tram deductis Nos electiones et confirmationes easdem, post et contra hujusmodi reservationem et decretum factas, inanes, prout erant et irritas reputantes, de ipsius Ecclesie ordinatione, ne dispendia prohxe vacationis incun-eret, patema solicitudine cogitantes, cum nullus, preter nos, e^ vice de ordinatione ipsius Ecclesie se intromittere posset, Reservatione et Decreto obsis- tentibus supradictis, ac cupientes eidem Ecclesie talem pre- esse Pontificem, per quem posset dicta Ecclesia utihter dirigi et salubriter gubemari : ac demum attendentes concordem ipsorum ehgentium voluntatem, quam habuerunt in electione predicta, post deliberacionem quam super hoc cum fratribus nostris habuimus dihgentem, ad Te, multiplicium virtutum dotibus prout ex fideli testimonio accepimus insignitum, dir- eximus aciem mentis nostre, ac de persona tua tunc absente, eidem Ecclesie, de dictorum fratrum conshio, auctoritate apos tolica, duximus providendum; preficientes Te ilh Ecclesie in Episcopum et Pastorem ac curam et administrationem ipsius in Spiritualibus et Temporalibus committendo. Vemm post pro visionem et prefectionem nostras hujusmodi de te factas, Tu adhuc earundem reservationis et provisionis ac prefectiouis ignarus, innitens electioni et confirmationi predictis, absque hcentia et auctoritate ejusdem Sedis a prefato Metropohtano tuo, alias tamen rite obtinuisti tibi munus consecrationis im pend! : quare nobis humiliter supplicasti, ut providere tibi super hoc de oportuno remedio curaremus. Licet igitur per reserva tionem, inhibitionem et decretum hujusmodi ac provisionem et prefectionem de persona tua ad predictam Exoniensem Eccle siam per nos factas, sic ad nos et Sedem predictam, hujusmodi negotium quoad plenum effectum ipsius totaliter fuit revocatmn, ut, absque juris offensa, per Metropolitanum tuum non potueris consecrari, ob tuarum tamen multiplicium dona virtutum ac BISHOPS OP EXETER. 75 ejusdem Ecclesie commodum necnon animarum profectum gregis Dominici tibi commissi, tuis supplicationibus inclinati, de dictorum fratrum consilio, Consecrationem predictam ratam et gratam habentes, defectum qui propter premissa extitit in eadem supplemus de Apostolice plenitudine potestatis, Tibi nichil ominus concedentes, ut administrationem ejusdem Ecclesie in Spiritualibus et Temporalibus, tam quod ea que sunt ordinis, quam quoad ilia que jurisdictionis existunt, libere exercere valeas, premissis non obstantibus, ex quibus nullum Tibi pre- judicium parari volumus vel obstaculum interponi. Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostre suppletionis, conces sionis et voluntatis infringere, vel ei auso temerario contraue. Datum Avenione, x Kal. Maii, Pontificatus nostri anno xi°. John de GrajSTDISSON, second son of Wilham de Grandisson* (summoned to parliament among the barons of the realm tempore Edward I. and Edward II. ), » otho de Grandisson, tbe bishop's uncle, cousin-german to the Emperor of Constantinople, to the King of Hungary, and Duke of Bavaria, and son of Peter de Grandisson, Lord of Grandisson, by his wife Agues, daughter of Ulrick, Count of Neufchatel, did homage as Earl Palatine of Burgundy, in January, 1281, and was summoned to the English Parliament on 21st September, 1299. King Edward I. had appoiuted him one of his executors as early as 18th June, 1272. In his 'Eegister' (vol. i. fol. 55) Bishop Grandisson aflSrms that he held of the crown "Insulas de Gernesy " for his life. Obiit 2nd April, 1328. His honours and estates descended to his brother Wdliam, who survived till 27th June, 1335. His lady, Sibilla, had gone before hiin, the 21st of September pre ceding, and both were buried at Dore Abbey in the county of Hereford. Otho an'd William had a brother Gerard, Bishop of Verdun, whose obit was kept on 13th October. Lord William left five sons and four daughters. First son, Peter. — This nobleman married Blanche, daughter of Eoger Mortimer, Earl of March. She died 3rd June, 1347. He died 2nd July, 1358, and was buried in Hereford Cathedral. Second, John, the Bishop of Exeter, the subject of this memoir. Third, Otho, a wealthy knight, to whom King Edward III. granted the county of Tipperary in Ireland. He married Beatrix, daughter and coheir of Sir Nicholaa de Malmaynes, knight, and left a son, Thomaa, and a daughter, Elizabeth. Otho died on 21st May, 1359, and was buried in St. Mary's Church, Ottery. See his will, 'Testa- menta vetusta,' vol. i. p. 62. Fourth, Thomaa, a clerk, who died young. His obit was kept 14th July. Fifth, William, collated by his epis copal brother to a canonry in Exeter Cathedral, 30th March, 1330, and on the 14th April to the archdeaconry of Exeter ; but died on the 5th July the same year (' Eeg.' vol. iii. fol. 14, 15). First daughter, Ag-nes, married to Sir John Northwode, knight. Ob. 4th De cember, 1348. Second, Catharine, a renowned beauty. She married William de Montacute, Earl of Salisbuiy, whom she survived, and was biuried in the Augustinian mo nastery of Bisham, Berks, founded by her husband. Her obit was kept on 23rd April. Third, Mabilla, married to Sir John de PateshuU, knight. Fourth, Matilda, a nun of the Au- gustitiian convent of the Holy Gross and St. John at Acornbtu:y in the county of Hereford, of which she be came prioress (Leland's ' Itinerary,' vol. iii. p. 53). It is clear from tbe bishop's will that she had died before him. 76 LIVES OF THE by Sibilla de Tregoz his wife, daughter of John de Tregoz, and granddaughter of Juliana de Cantilupo, who was sister to St. Thomas Bishop of Hereford, which William de Grandisson bad accompanied Edmund Earl of Lancaster, brother of King Edward I., into England, and is said to have been introduced by Edmund to the acquaintance of the said Sibilla, a wealthy heiress. John was born in the parish of Ashperton or Ashton in the county of Hereford in 1292. Embracing the ecclesiastical profession, he was collated in due time to the prebend of Hay dore, in the cathedral of Lincoln, and to the archdeaconry of Nottingham, after study ing theology at Paris, under that eminent professor James Fournier, afterwards Cardinal and Pope Benedict XII. : (see Grandisson's ' Eeg.' vol. i. fol. 40, as also the bishop's will). Whilst chaplain to Pope John XXII. he was joined in a commission with William Arch bishop of Vienng,, and Hugh Bishop of Orleans, to nego tiate the peace of Gascony, and was actually engaged in this honourable embassy when the news reached the papal court at Avignon of the premature death of Bishop James Berkley on the preceding 24th June. His Holiness at once, viz. on llth August, provided John de Grandisson to the vacant see, and directed his vice-chancellor Peter, Cardinal Bishop of Prseneste, to perform the ceremony of the consecration. This was done on Sunday 18th October, 1327, in the Dominican Church at Avignon, in the presence of many cardinals, prelates, and nobility (' Eeg.' vol. ii. fol. 3 9-41). Thomas de Cherleton, the elect of Hereford and a canon of Exeter, was consecrated at the same time. John was then about thirty-five years old (' Ordinale,' fol. 5). On 21st August he bad announced to his Dean and Chapter his unsohcited appointment, and earnestly implored their co-operation in the good government BISHOPS OP EXETER. 77 of the diocese (vol. i. fol. 52). On 23rd December he left Avignon for England, but, owing to the in tensity of the frost and a very tempestuous season he did not reach Whitsand (a much frequented port about ten miles north of Boulogne) to embark for Dover, until Wednesday 3rd February, 1328. On the Friday he arrived at Canterbury, and was met at the gate of Christ's Church by the prior and convent in their rich copes, according to custom. Proceeding to the high altar he made before the prior and convent the pro fession of canonical obedience to the metropolitan see then vacant by the death of the primate Walter Eeynolds, On 10th February he left Canterbury for the north of England to do homage to his youthful sovereign King Edward IIL, and reached York, where the king was then holding his court, on Sunday 6th March. The next day, after the king had assisted at mass, he was duly presented in the chapel of St. Sepulchre adjoining the minster, and was graciously received ; and having, according to established custom, openly and expressly renounced every expression in the papal bulls prejudicial to the royal prerogative and the rights of the crown,' the bishop was put in possession of the temporalities of his see on 9th March, and on the very same day, in virtue of the royal mandate, the usual pension of five marks, " ratione novae creationis," was agreed on to the king's nominee, Hugh Bosi clerk, 5 In the ' Calendarium Eotulorum Patentium,' No. 1249 (34 Henry HI.), one is entitled " Contra abusus Papales," and another, fourteen years later, " Li- terse Eegis masse Bonifacio Archi episcopo Cantuariensi in Francia de- genti experimentes prserogativam regis, ac leges contra usurpationes et abuaus tam Papas quam totius oleri ac regis potestatem in clerum." From 1302 until the Eeformation all our bishops acknowledged that they could receive their temporalities from no one but the king. Of the taxes paid to the papal ex chequer the most ancient was the Eome Feoh, or Peter's Pence, collected between 29th June and Lammas Day. This was a trifle, never exceeding 201Z. 9s. King John's grant of a thou sand marks, as au acknowledgment of his holding the crown of England in fee of the sovereign pontiff, was most obnoxious to the national spirit, and, after many refusals, was abrogated for ever towards the close of King Ed ward III.'s reign. Yet the claim of the first-fruits of the sees and benefices proved an intolerable burthen. 78 LIVES OF THB until the bishop should provide him with a competent benefice. During his stay at York our prelate received a commission from its archbishop William de Melton, to reconcile the church of St. Lawrence in Walmegate beyond the walls of that city. Thence he pursued his journey to Oxenhale, the residence of his noble father near Gloucester, where he continued until he was sum moned to attend the parliament at Northampton. At length, on 9th June, 1328, he was enabled to enter Devonshire, and for the first night he took up his quarters in the rectory-house of Honiton. On the following day he proceeded onwards to his mansion at Bishop's Clist, but was met on the road by the dean, treasurer, subdean, and manjr of the canons of the cathedral, who honourably escorted him to that agreeable residence, where all shared in his hospitable entertain ment (' Eeg.' vol. ii. fol. 48). From his letter to Pope John XXIL we learn that he was installed at Exeter within the octave of the Assumption of our Lady, notwithstanding the protestations of the prior of Canter bury,^ without the usual pomp and bustle of his prede cessors, — " absque pompis et strepitu prseter Anglicaiiuiu ritum " (' Eeg.' vol. i. fol. 27). In the beginning, our bishop had many difficulties to contend witb, and his pre-eminence must have been painful to his feelings. General consternation had taken hold of men's minds — a want of confidence pre vailed throughout the nation, and the tragical fate of the lamented Walter de Stapeldon — the premature death of his immediate successor— the plunder com mitted in the episcopal manors— the neglected cultiva tion ofthe farms ('Eeg.' vol. i. fol. 37)— the confusion of all accounts— the unfortunate demands of payments from the crown, from tbe church of Canterbury, and « Proba-bly he apprehended the loss I and amount iu the Preface to the of fees and perquisites. See their natare | • Monast. Dioc. Exon ' p. 10 BISHOPS OF EXETER. 79 the papal court — the deficiency of books and vest ments ' — and the less than half-finished state of the cathedral church, were considerations sufficient to appal and overwhelm a mind less stout and energetic than his. In the present and prospective emergency he had recourse to his family and friends for temporary assistance : amongst others he addressed a letter to his cousin Hugh de Courtenay, the second of that name, who was Baron of Okehampton, and shortly after created Earl of Devon, praying for a loan of 200?. on such security as his lordship might require. It is dated frora Chudleigh 24th January, 1329, and he requests an answer by the bearer. Both are inserted in his Eegister (vol. i. fol. 63, Appendix N). After professions of respect the baron lets him know that he had lately been at considerable expense by the marriage of his daughter (qy. Isabella Courtenay to Lord L'Isle), as also in wind ing up the afi'airs of his late mother (Eleanor Despenser, who had died 26th September, 1328), and therefore begged to be excused. Besides, Bishop James Berkley had died indebted to him, and hitherto he had been looking in vain to his executors for tbe settlement of that account. He then makes bold to censure the bishop for affecting more reserve and grandeur than any of his predecessors, and to advise him to practise rigid economy, and carefully to shun singularity. The bishop lost no time in replying to the baron, and signi fying to his lady Courtenay (Agnes, sister to Lord ¦ In ' Eeg.' vol. i. fol. 55 b, may be seen his letter to the Bishop of Lau sanne. He requests that the ornaments in the chapel of his uncle, Otho de Grandisson, and books, especially ' De Usu Anglioano,' may be forwarded to him. In fol. 56 is his letter to the Abbot of Dore, to show and deliver to its bearer Amold " pannos aureos et capas et cetera ecclesiastica ornamenta, quse olim erant Domini Alani Plokenet, et quicquid ad usus nostros idem dux erit eligendum. Informatus est enim per nos de hiis quibus ad prsesens vehe- mentius indigemus." In fol. 67 he ad dresses a letter to Walter Henry, Arch deacon of Saliabury, imploring the loan of a pontifical for copying, alleging that amongst the property of the late Bishop Stapeldon which " tempore mortis suse Londini prsedonum rapa- citas auferebat," several volimies, and the pontificals that he uaed, had dis appeared irrevocably. 80 LIVES OF THB St. John) how mortified he was at such uncalled for insinuations and charges, and proceeds to refute them seriatim. In process of time, however, matters took a favourable turn; from his family connections he received timely supplies ; legacies dropped in ; the exe cutors of Bishop Stapeldon came forward most hberally ; the clergy and laity of the diocese, witnessing his mag nanimity, disinterested zeal and active habits of busi ness, vied with each other in extricating him from actual embarrassments; even his cousin Lord Courtenay became so gracious and friendly that the bishop preached his panegyric in Latin and in French at his funeral 5th February, 1340, in St. Andrew's Church, Cowick Priory (' Monast. Dioc. Exon.' p. 155), and eventually by surviving the members of his family and succeeding on the death of bis brother Peter, Lord Grandisson, in 1358, to the peerage, he became the wealthiest lord bishop that Exeter had hitherto pos sessed ; and it is safe to add, that none before, or since, did more to promote the splendour of religion, and to benefit the poor of the diocese of Exeter. In our account of the Cathedral we shall have to enlarge on his taste and munificent spirit. To the ' Monasticon ' of the diocese we must refer our readers for his noble foundation of St. Mary's College at Ottery,^ for the generous interest he manifested for Crediton Church, Canonsleigh Abbey, and for St. John's Hospital within tbis city. On 25th May, 1338, he appropriated to his chapter, with the papal sanction, the church of St. Marina in Cornwall towards the maintenance of his obit and those of his parents and promoter Pope John XXII. ; and on 2nd October the same year he " In his ' Register ' may be seen the correspondence between him aud the dean and chapter of Eouen, of whom he purchased the manor of Ottery. Un fortunately most ofthe records of Eouen either perished or were purloined during the French Revolution. Their earliest volume now commences with 16th Au gust, 1366, to 27th March, 1373. BISHOPS OF EXETER. 81 added to the gift the church of Bratton. For his successors in the see of Exeter he obtained tbe appro priation of the church of Eadway, within the manor of Bishop's Teignton ; and in its glebe he erected conve nient and costly buildings, as he relates in his will, " impetravi eis appropriationem ecclesise de Eadeway in manerio eorum de Teyngton Episcopi ac domos utiles et sumptuosos, ibidem in sanctuario, construxi." The former residence there had been so dilapidated that it was judged expedient to demolish it before Bishop Quivil's death. Liberality increased with his means ; the inventory of the church-plate and ornaments proclaims his unrivalled bounty: and his successor Bishop Brantyngham admits (' Eegister,' vol. i. fol. 21) that on 1st June, 1372, he had received from the executors the princely sum of two thousand marks, or IS'iSl. 6s. Ad., besides his best crosier and mitre, and all the dead stock appertaining to husbandry. His Ee gister in three folio volumes furnishes abundant testi mony to his talents, and to his devotion to his episcopal duties and his decisive firmness of character. However, we cannot commend him for his resistance, though it proved successful, to the visitation of this diocese by his metropolitan, Simon Mepham. Such visitations werfe conformable to the canons — had been of long usage here, and were continued after his time ; and we cannot help believing that it was unworthy of his reputation, as also a dangerous departure from regular discipline, and affording an evil precedent, to have sheltered himself under special briefs of his patron Pope John XXIL, bearing date 20th December, 1331, 4th January, 30th May, 1st September, 1332 ('Eeg.' vol. i. fol. 89, 99). His manner also of resistance was most objectionable,' and we may add that such personal ' Stephen Birchington, in his Life of Simon Mepham (' Angl. Sac' vol. i- p. 18), observes, " Hie visitavit jure me- tropolitico dioeceses Boffensem, Gices- trensem, Sarisburiensem, Bathoniensem et Wellensem ; et cum vellet dioccesem G 82 LIVES OF THE privileges, though familiar and too often coveted, as history shows, reflect httle credit on the receiver or the giver. Our bishop assisted at the synod holden at St. Paul's, London, in 1342, at which the primate John Stratford presided. The constitutions may be seen in Lynwode's ' Provinciale,' or in Wilkins's ' Councils.' On Sunday 8th July, 1347, our Cathedral offered a memorable spectacle (as reported in the ' Eegister,' vol. i. fol. 148), namely, in the consecration of Eichard Fitz-Ealph Dean of Lichfield to the metropolitan see of Armagh, in virtue of Pope Clement VI.'s bull, dated at Avignon on 12th of the preceding January. The bishops of Bath and Wells, Sahsbury and St. Asaph, the abbots of Hartland, Torre, Newenham, and Buckfastleigh, with the prior of Plympton, assisted, and an immense concourse of clergy, regular and secular, knights, &c. After the ceremony the new primate of all Ireland rode through the midst of Exeter in his pontificals, on a palfrey covered with a white cloth, according to the fashion of the Eoman Court, " idem consecratus postea equitavit per medium civitatis Exon indutus pontifi- calibus, super palefridum albo panno coopertum, prout in EomanB cwcik fieri consuevit." This primate in the sequel was elected Chancellor of Oxford, and died in 1366 ('Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon.,' 1. i. p'. 181). Bishop Grandisson's will, dated from his favourite residence at Chudleigh,^" on Sth September, 1368, was proved ten days after his death, an event that occurred on 15th July (the Feast of St. Swithin), 1369, in the 77th year of his age, and the 42nd of his episcopacy. Exoniensem jure metropolitico visitasse, impeditus fuit nequiter vi armatd per Johannem de Grandissono Episoopmn Exoniensem, ne visitationem hujusmodi impenderet, sicut ad officium suum per- tinult : sicque archiepiscopus ille, lit teris regiis et aliis turbationibus illicitis, de dicta recedere diojcesi, infecto hujus visitationis negotio, est compulsus." '" There is a tradition that he was at the expense of conducting the water course, commonly called the Potwater, from Haldon to the town of Chudleigh, and thence to his palace — a great public beneflt. BISHOPS OF EXETER. 83 After desiring to be buried as soon as convenient in the chapel outside the west door of his cathedral, and with as little ostentation as possible,^ he directs that an hundred poor persons be clothed for that occasion — that money should be distributed among the sick and prisoners, and that a general distribution of alms, chiefly in bread, take place on the day before or after the funeral. To his cathedral, to his successors, bishops of Exeter, to the collegiate churches of Ottery, Crediton, and Glasney his bequests are numerous and valuable. To Pope Urban V. he leaves avery rich cope of purple velvet embroidered with figures, and a noble orfrey ; also the sermons of St. Bernard and 200 florens for the papal exchequer. To King Edward III. he gives a splendid piece of embroidery of Eoman work, repre senting the crucifixion of our Lord. To Edward (the Black Prince) and his brother John Duke of Lancaster, and to his Duchess Blanche, the bishop's cousin, to each a piece of plate or a jewel. To Isabella, the king's eldest daughter, his psaltery. To the archbishop of Canterbury some tapestry representing the coronation of Our Lady, with the apostles seated on thrones, also a pontifical ring and fifty marks sterling. To his poor clergy, to every abbey and priory," and many hospitals in his diocese^ and to some religious establishments elsewhere he proves himself a considerable benefactor. To him we may apply the text " Eleemosynas illius enarrabit omnis Ecclesia Sanctorum " (Ecclesiast. c. xxxi.). According to his directions be was buried in the chapel of St. Eadegundes, which he had prepared for the purpose twenty years before. Until the suppression of chantries his grateful children of St. Mary's College, ' " Corpus vero meum quod corrum- pitur et aggravat animam volo quod sepeliatur extra ostimn occidentale Ec clesie Exon, ita celeriter sicut fieri poterit bono modo, non invitando pa- rentes nee magnos Dominos sed solum- modo aliquos episcopum vel episoopos viciniores." G 2 84 LIVES OF THE Ottery,^ rehgiously maintained his obit here, Hoker, in his original M.S. history, 1590, is silent as to the sacrilegious violation of the founder's remains ; but in his fair transcript, nine years later, for the use of the corporation of Exeter, relates that "bis tombe was of late pulled up, the ashes scattered abroad, and the bones bestowed no man knoweth where." Hoker died in 1601, Westcote, in his' 'Survey of Devon,' com pleted in 1630, observes that "he was taken up shrouded in lead, not long since, the lead melted, and the chapel defaced — an unworthy deed ; and it is to me a marvel that they escaped unpunished, in regard the very heathen had laws against violating or defacing of monuments or sepulchres" (edit. 1845, p. 167). Izacke in his ' Memorials,' p. 59, states that "his tomb was of late ransack'd by sacrilegious hands ; his leaden coffin (in hope of a prey) taken up, the ashes scattered about, and his bones thrown, I know not where. Surely the reliques of this worthy prelate deserved a more reverend respect even amongst savage beasts." This highly gifted bishop in 1337 compiled a volume of 105 folios, called the Ordinale, or book regulating the offices performed in his cathedral. He was indeed anxious that everything there should be done decently^ and according tp order, and in folio 12 insists that in the recital of the psalms, hymns, and other portions of the service, in vain will the tongue labour if the heart prayeth not ; that what air or wind is to the fire, devotion is to words uttered in the sanctuary. In folio 13 6 he refers to an accurate antiphonary " quod dicitur Grantson, et illud Gradale Antiquum cum Psalteriis," which he had presented to his church. We are disposed to think that the present Ordinale, in the ^ In the certificate of the chantry rolls made according to the commission dated 14th February, 37 Henry VIII. (1546), it is atated that the pension was made to the priest by the said college, "but dissolved this yere laat past on suppression of the college of Ottrey St. Mary." BISHOPS OP EXETER. 85 possession ofthe Dean and Chapter, is not the original, from the difference very perceptible in the handwriting in various parts, and again, from certain entries, for example fol. 71 b, " In crastino octavee Assumptionis Sancte Mari^ fiat semper memoria vel obitus Joannis de Grandissono Episcopi Exoniensis, cum distributione LX." On Lady-day, 1366, the 39th year of his episcopacy, he presented two folio volumes for the use of his cathedral, which are still in good preservation. One contains the lessons from the Bible, as also the homilies appointed to be read ; the other comprises the lives of the saints, with the offices in common, that have no proper collects and lessons. In the beginning of the ' Legenda de Sanctis ' is written " Ego I. de G. Exon., do Eccle. Exon. librii istii cum pari suo, in festo Annuntiationis Dominice. Manu mea, anno consecra tionis mee xxxix." He was also the author of a Life of St. Thomas of Canterbury, for whose memory he enter- ' tained a special veneration. In his letter written to Pope Benedict. XII. early in 1335, he expressly says " Vitam beati Thome Martyris, ex multis scriptori bus per me noviter redactam, Sanctitatis vestrse oculis destino intuendam" ('Eeg.' vol. i. fol. 46). We suspect that the whole of this life is condensed in the numerous lessons in the above-mentioned ' Legenda Sanctorum,' as read in our cathedral 29th December, 5th January, and 7th July. A copy is preserved in the Supellex Libraria of the see of Canterbury. It com mences, "Benedictionibus Divinae dulcedinis," and concludes " In ssecula sseculorum " (MS. G. 75). The spirited representation of the Saint's Martyrdom, intro duced in a nodus of the vaulting of our cathedral nave, we imagine the bishop had borrowed from the obverse of the seal of Stephen Langton, the renowned primate of Canterbury. In his will lie gives two other books, 86 LIVES OF THE perhaps Pontificals of his compilation, to bis successors, "Lego eisdem libros meos episcopales, majorem et, minorem, quos ego compilavi." His lordship had an extensive library, which he divided principally between his chapter and the colle giate churches of Ottery, Crediton, and Boseham, and Exeter College, Oxford. All the works of St. Thomas de Aquino he bequeathed to the Dominican convent here. To Simon Ishp, Archbishop of Canterbury, he presented, as an heir-loom to that metropolitan see, on 9th April, 1364, a magnificent copy of St. Anselm's letters, now in the British Museum, where, in July, 1846, we copied the following memorandum in the beginning of the volume from his well-known hand writing : — Do et lego cuicunque archiepo. Cant. Ut memor sit miseri Johannis Qui hoc manu su^ scripsit. Hie infra potest videri status Tam Ecclesise, quam Regni Angliaa. Utinam renovetur per Xtum Dnii. nru., Qui vivit et regnat, Eex Eegum et summus Sacerdos et Pon tifex in seternum. Amen. Amen. Anno Dni. mccclxiiij° Et setatis meae lxxiij° Et officii mei xxxviiJ° Mense Aprili, die nono. In the inventory of the treasures of Windsor College mention is made of a book, " De Legendis et Missis de B. V- Mari4 ex Dono Johannis de Grandissono, Episcopi Exon" ('Mon. Angl.' vol. vi. p. 1362). His successor in the see acknowledged, 1st June, 1372, to have received of Sir John Montacute, Knight, Eobt. de Wykford, Nicholas de Braybroke, and WiUiam de Braybroke, executors and administrators of John de Grandisson, the deceased bishop of Exeter (as already mentioned), the sum of two thousand marks, his best BISHOPS OF EXETER. 87 crosier and mitre, " cum toto instauro mortuo ipsius ad husbandriam pertinente " (' Eeg.' vol. i. fol. 21). We cannot conclude this article without submitting to our readers the benevolent act of our bishop as com municated to us by our learned friend and antiquary Mr. Edward Smirke, who discovered that Bishop Grandisson abolished all personal servitude in the manor 'of Ottery in consideration of a fixed yearly rent of 2s. 6d a ferling. The words of the grant are — "Quilibet custumarius qui tenet unum ferlingatum terr« dabit per annum, pro licentia maritandi filias suas tam infra manerium quam extra, et pro operibus hyema- libus et autumpnalibus, aruris, messionibus, averagiis, &c., et aliis operibus et consuetudinibus exonerandis (except suit to miU, heriots, &c.) ii". vi"*." This redemption of marriage-fines distinctly proves that the servitude was personal and not territorial only. Akms : — Paly of six argent and azure, a bend gules, charged with a mifre between two eaglets displayed, or. Inhibicio Episcopi de Ludis inhonestis.^ Eeverendissimo in Christo Patri ac eorum Domino Domino Johanni Dei gracia Exoniensi Episcopo sui humiles et de- votissimi fihi et oratores, custos et Capitulum Ecclesie vestre Collegiate Sancte Marie de Otery, vestre fandacionis patronatus et diocesis obedienciam et reverenciam tanto patri debitas cum omni honore. Mandatum reverende paternitatis vestre xij die mensis Novembris proxime preterito [1360] recepimus in hec verba : — Johannes miseracione divina Exoniensis Episcopus dilectis in Christo filus custodi et capitulo Ecclesie Collegiate Sancte Marie de Otery nostre fundaciouis patronatus et diocesis salutem et morum clericahum honestatem. Ad nostram non sine gravi cordis disphcencia et stupore pervenit noticiam, quod annis preteritis et quibusdam precedentibus in sanctissimis dominice nativitatis ac Sanctorum Stephani, Johannis Apostoli et Evangeliste, ac Innocencium solempnus, quando omnes Christi fideles divinis laudibus et officus ecclesiasticis devocius ac quiecius insistere tenentur, aliqui predicte ecclesie nostri ministri cum pueris, nedum matutinis et vesperis ac horis aliis, ' Grandisson's ' Register,' vol. i. fol. 208. 88 LIVES OF THE sed quod magis detestandum est, inter missarum solempnia, ludos ineptos et noxios, honestatique clericah indecentes, quam verius cultus divini ludibria detestanda, infra ecclesiam ipsam immiscendo committere, divino timore postposito, pemicioso quarumdam ecclesiarum exemplo, temere presumpserunt, vesti- menta et alia ornamenta ecclesie in non modicum ejusdem ecclesie nostre et nostrum dampnum et dedecus, vilium scihcet scenulentorumque sparsione multiphciter deturpando. Ex quo rum gestis seu risibus et cachinnis derisoriis nedum _ popiilus more catholico, illis potissime temporibus ad ecclesiam con veniens, et debita devocione abstrahitur, sed et in risum incom- positum ac oblectamenta illicita dissolvitur cultus que divinus irridetur et officium perperam impeditur. Sicque quod ad ex- citandum et augendum fidelium devocionem fuerat primitus adjumentum ex talium insoUenciis in Dei et sanctorum irre- verenciam et contemptum non sine reatu blasphemie conversum vel pocius est perversum. Nequeuntes igitur ulterius sana con- sciencia abusiones tam nephandas sub disshnulacione absque remedio pertransire vobis injungimus et mandamus sub pena suspensionis et excommunicacionis, quatenus ab hujusmodi in soUenciis et irrisionibus decetero totaliter desistatis et nulla talia exnunc in eadem ecclesia fieri quomodolibet permittatis, sed ad explendum divinum officium, prout ipsorum dierum exigitur reverencia, devocius solito, intendatis. Et ne ex igno- rancia quisquam exnunc unquam in hac parte se valeat ex- cusare, vobis custodi precipimus quod presentes hteras nostras ante instans festum Natalis Domini in presencia omnium minis trorum solempniter publicetis, easdemque literas nostras, ne in oblivionem transeant, in quatuor vel quinque libris ecclesie magis usualibus transcribi fideliter faciatis. Si qui vero contra presens mandatum nostrum venire presumpserint, citetis seu citari faciatis peremptorie, quod compareant coram nobis, tercio die juridico post lapsum dictarum festuitatum, super tam teme- rariam presumpeionem responsuri, et condignam penitenciam recepturi. De die vero recepcionis presencium et quid in hac parte feceritis nos citra festum Circumcisionis Domini certificetis per vestras patentes literas harum seriem continentes sigillo vestro communi consignatas. Datum in manerio nostro de Chuddelegh, decimo die mensis Novembris, anno Domini mille simo ccc"" sexagesimo, et consecracionis nostre xxxiiij'". Quod- quidem mandatum vestrum die supradicto per nos reverenter admissum coram ministris ecclesie omnibus et singulis pubhca- vimus_ et hujusmodi mandatum vestrum in quinque hbris ecclesie magis usuahbus ad perpetuam memoriam transcribi fecimus nosque omnes et singuh eidem mandato vestro reverenter paruimus. Et quia nulli contra presens mandatum vestmm venire presumpserunt ad citandum hujusmodi delinquentes BISHOPS OF EXETER. 89 mmime processimus. Et sic mandatum vestrum reverendum in omnibus reverenter sumus executi. Datum apud Otery Sancte Marie penultimo die mensis Decembris anno Domini supra dicto. [A similar Mandate was forwarded to thc Dean and Chancellor of the Cathedral of Exeter, to the Precentor and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross at Crediton, and to the Provost and (Jhapter of the Colle giate Church of St. Thomas the Martyr at Glasney, all of whom returned similar answers to the above.] Thomas he Branttngham.* — This canon of Exeter Cathedral was unanimously selected as a fit successor to Bishop Grandisson. From an early period of life he had been brought up in the court of King Edward III. and his royal consort Queen Philippa.^ From the * His family seems to have been settled at Brantyngham, near Bernard Castle, in the county of Durham. The bishop had a brother Bobert, who was buried at East Horsleigh, Surrey. In the ' Issue EoU ' of 1370, published by Mr. Frederick Devon, we find two other brothers, William and Ealph. That Bishop Brantyngham was a benefactor to Exeter College, see Wood's 'Hist. et Autiq. Oxon.' lib. ii. p. 101. " It is reasonable to suppose that Bishop Walter de Stapeldon had been in some degree instrumental in bringing about the union of the king and this Philippa, though he did not live to witness its accomplishment. For his ' Eegister ' (fol. 142) shows that King Edward II. had employed that most faithful minister, if not to negotiate a match for his son, the heir apparent, at least to prepare the way, by obtaining a correct report of her person and man ners, full seven years before the sig nature of that contract. Stapeldon's ' Eegister ' sets forth that, after be ing at court, the bishop proceeded to Canterbury on 6th July, 1319, and that he had reached AshhUl, near Ilminster, on his return to his diocese, on 20th August; and we apprehend hia inapection was made during thia very interval. In the margin of the ' Eegister,' after the words " Inspectio et descriptio FiUe Comitis Hanonie," ia a memorandum subsequently made, and veiy much resembling the hand writing of Bishop Grandisson, viz., " que vocatiu- Philippa, ct fuit Eegina Anglie nupta Edwardo Tertio post Conquestum." But we now subjoin the description of Philippa, with the best translation we are able to render. Bishop Stapeldoh's 'Eeoistek,' fol. U2. •¦ Anno Domini MCCC"" decimo nono, et consecracionis Domini Walteri Exouienais Episcopi anno unde cimo. " Inspeccio et descriptio filie Comitis Hanonie [Hainault] que vocatur Philippa et fuit Eegina Anglie nupta Edwardo Tercio poat Con questum. " La damoisele que nous veymes si ad les' chevaux aasez beaus eniie bloy et brun ; la teste nette ; le front long et lee, et se boute auques avant ; le visage contre les deus oils plus estreit, et le visage contreval plus grelle et plus esclendre uncore que nest le front ; les oils bruns, et auq'es noirs, et auq'es profond; le nees assez uni et owel sauve que a la poynte si est grossett et auq'es platt mes nient eamus ; les na- rUles auq'es larges ; la bouche largette ; les leveres et nomiement celle desouz grossett ; les dentz que sunt chaynz et recrus assez blanks, et les autres ne sunt pas si blanks ; les dentz desouz sunt aaais unpoi dehors ceux desus, mes ceo ne apert fors que mou poi ; les orailles et le menton assez bftaux ; le col, lcs espaules, et tot le corps et membres contreval aasez de bone taille et les membres bien fourniz sanz maliayn ot rien no oloce quo hom 90 LIVES OF THB issue roll of the year 1370 it appears tbat he had been keeper of the wardrobe ; but at the time of his election to the see of Exeter was filling the office of Lord High Treasurer of England, with a salary of 300Z. a year, and an outfit of lOOZ. In his subsequent appropriation to his Dean and Chapter of the rectory of Morthoe, which he had purchased previous to his promotion to the episcopal dignity, he feelingly professes his many obhgations to his royal master and mistress, and his anxiety to perpetuate his grateful attachment to the memory of such patrons and benefactors. On tbe notification to Pope Urban Y. of his election, His Holi ness waived all claim to provision. The bulls, dated Eome, 4th March, 1370, may be seen in the beginning of the second volume of the bishop's register ; and on Sunday the 12th May following the primate Simon Sudbury performed the ceremony of the consecration at Stepney, assisted by Geoffry Archbishop of Damascus, and John Bishop of Bayonne. Four days later our bishop was put in possession of the temporalities ; but puiaae apercevoir ; et si est bnme de qui reyn par tut et molt reaemble au pere, et en totea autrea choses assez pleisante ai come il nous semble. Et sera la damoisele del age de ix anz a la feste de la Nativite Seint Johan pro chein avenir si come la mere dit. Ne trop grande ne trop petite quant a tel age, et si est de beau port et bien aprise come a son estat, et bien proise et bien ame de pere et de mere et de tote la meignce, si avant come nous le poyoms ver enquere et savoir." " The young lady whom we saw has hair sufficiently handsome, between blond and brown ; the head graceful ; the forehead long, wide, and advancing ; the face in either profile ia straiter, and downwards is smaller and narrower, than the forehead; the eyes brown, blond, and blackiah ; the nose suffi ciently regular and even, except that the point is a little enlarged and de pressed ; the nostrils sufficiently wide ; the mouth largish ; the lips, especially tho lower one, thickish ; tho teeth which have been shed and grown again are pretty white, the rest are not so white ; the under teeth are a little more forward than the upper ones, but this is scarcely observable; the ears and the chin handsome enough ; the neck, shoulders, and aU the body and limbs perfect, without fault or deformity, as far as could be perceived. The pre vailing complexion is dark, and she much resembles her father, and is in every respect qvute agreeable in our opinion. The young lady will be nine years of age at the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, as her mother says. She is neither too tall nor too short for her age, and ia of good carriage and manner, becoming her rank, and much approved and well beloved by her father and mother and all the houaehold hitherto, aa well as we could observe and hear and leam." Thia Philippa was married to King Edward III. at York on 25th January, 1327, and she bore him a progeny of seven sons and five daughters. BISHOPS OF BXETEE. 91 public business detained him at court for upwards of a year, nor was he able to visit his cathedral until the Monday after St. James's (July), 1371.® At the acces sion of the new sovereign Eichard II. , six years later, his presence was demanded at court. He was required to reassume the functions of Lord Treasurer. He im proved this opportunity by getting the youthful monarch to confirm all the previous grants made by his royal progenitors to the church of Exeter. At a later period he was appointed one of the fourteen commis sioners to govern the kingdom. The truth is, he com manded the public confidence by his character for discretion, moral integrity, and honourable conduct. Warned at last by the infirmities of declining age, he solicited and obtained permission to devote the re mainder of his days to the immediate duties of his diocese. The king on 26th August, 1390, released him from future attendance in parliament and privy council, in consideration of his past services to himself and to his royal grandfather King Edward III. The itwo volumes of his register abundantly testify- to his talents for business and the interest he took in the concerns of his diocese. To his cathedral he added the ornamented western fagade, and in great measure substituted a new for the old cloister. For the conve nience of the priest-vicars he provided a common hall and kitchen, with suitable chambers and offices (' Eeg.' vol, i. fol. 184). The 'Chronicon' of his church fixes ^ He had hardly visited his diocese when one John de Canterbyri violated the liberties of St. Stephen's Fee, Ex eter, by there seizing John Byre, a priest, in his bed, and dragging him to the public gaol. Excommunication rapidly pursued the offender, and he hvuubly implored the benefit of abao- lution ; but the bishop, on 28th Oc tober, 1871, condemned the culprit to a public penance. On a Sunday he waa to march to St. Stephen's Church, " sine capuoio, zonS. et mantello," and at the high mass to offer a wax-candle of half- a-pound weight. On the ensuing Satur day to proceed to the house where he had arrested the priest, habited as be fore, bearing a wax-candle of one pound weight ; thence march to the prison- gate by the very same way he had taken the priest ; then attend high mass at the cathedral, and present the said candle at the principal altar (' Eeg.' vol. i. U). 92 LIVES OF THE his death — which took place at Bishop's CHst, wbere he had long been sojourning — on 3rd December, 1394; but this is manifestly incorrect, for his will was made on the 13th of that month and year^ and proved on 30th December, He was buried, says Hoker ('MS. Hist.' 85), "in the nave of his church, near the north porch opposite the Courtenay monument." "Westcote adds, " his interment was under a chapel builded by himself in the body of the church. The chapel was lately demolished, but tbe stone, sometime inlaid with brass, only remains to testify it ; for his epitaph is worn, or rent away with tbe brass." We were present at the opening of the tomb on 3rd December, 1832, and all the witnesses agreed that the hand of sacrilegious spoliation had done its worst.' Our readers are aware that attached to the palace of Exeter was a prison for the confinement of- convicted clerks. In the absence of Bishop Brantyngham, six of such felons, viz. Nicholas Hopworthy, John Hennely, alias Columpton, Stephen Telyng de Drogdaa, Simon Whyte de Dordraght, Thomas Yfestowe de Hareford, and John Eussell de Penard in Wales, who had been delivered over to the bishop's commissary according to 7 Formerly the portrait of the biahop inlaid with brass, with his armorial bearings, and an inacription on the four sides of the leger-stone, were visible, but theae appear to have been stripped away when the revolutionary fanatics of 1646 enacted their wanton and sacri legious scenes with impunity tlirougl}- out this sacred edifice. During the actual relaying of the pavement in the nave it became necessary to move the leger-stone that covered the bishop's remaina; and this was carefully done. The stone had rested in the centre on two cross iron bars. The vault waa half fllled with earth aud tiles. The body had been buried in a wooden coffin, which had entirely mouldered away. Some of the large nails were in a state of preservation, but nothing remained of the bishop except a considerable por tion of the bones. Prom the examina tion ofthe skuU and teeth the inspectors were satisfied that the venerable prelate must have lived to a good old age; and it is further evident that the grave had been opened before, and rifled of the cbaMce and ring, whioh must have been buried with him. The bones and the earth were immediately replaced with great decency and respect. One peculiarity occurred to me as an inspector. The rubric de Exequiis en joins that the feet of the corpse of a layman should bo placed towards the high altar at tho funeral service, as also in the grave ; but the corpse of a clergyman snould have the head laid towards the altar. This rubric waa not observed in tho case before us, as the bishop's head lay due weat. BISHOPS OF EXETER. 93 the law of England, broke prison on the night of Tuesday after the feast of Assumption of Our Lady, 1389 : after murdering Simon Presco te, the chaplain and keeper of the said palace, and Thomas the jailor, grievously wounding, and leaving even for dead, Thomas Chamber, keeper of the wardrobe, and, after plundering their chambers, effected their escape. The king, with the advice of his council, and especially of William Wickbam of Winchester his treasurer, and Henry Percy, his cousin. Earl of Northumberland, issued a pardon to the bishop for the escape of such desperate felons. It bears date at Westminster 3rd September, 1389. Four years later seven convicted felons and clerks (including that John Eussell de Penard, who in the interval must have been recaptured), viz. John Brown, John Yunderbrok, Warin Penghelly, William Elys, Eobert 'Kesyl, and Henry Eiche, having been delivered over by the king's justices to the bishop's commissary for safe custody, made their escape from the same prison on the Saturday night before 23rd November, 1393, but no case of violence is charged against them. The king once more issued a special pardon to our aged prelate on llth December following, thus clearing the bishop of all legal actions on the part of the crown, by reason of such escapes. In the second volume of his Eegister (fol. 37, ad calcem) is a dateless petition to the Holy See. It sets forth that the temporalities of this 'extensive bishopric are detained in the king's hand at every vacancy, and frequently also at the suggestion of evil-minded coun sellors are seized and grievously wasted, in which cases the bishop has no other resource to depend upon than Teignton Episcopi, which is of the value of thirty marksy more or less ; and prays therefore that, by the Papal authority, the parish churches of Bridestowe, of the 'value of thirty marks, and of Poweton alias 94 LIVES OF THE Nanzant (now called St. Breocks), of the value of forty marks, at the death or cession of the actual incumbents, may be assigned and appropriated for ever to the maintenance of the bishop's table. What was the result of such application does not appear. Aems : — Sable, a fess crenelle, wheels, or. between three Catharine Edmund de Stafford was descended from a family rivalling the most ancient and illustrious within the realm of England.® His parents, as is evident from the ordinatio or foundation-deed of his chantry, dated 1st October, 1408, were Sir Eichard de Stafford, knight (who was summoned to parhament among the barons of the realm from 44th Edward III. to 3rd Eichard IL), and Isabella, daughter of Sir Eichard Yernon of Haddon, knight, by Maud his wife, eldest daughter and coheir of William Lord Camville. His uncle, Baron Ealph de Stafford, Knight of the Garter, had been created Earl of Stafford on 5th March, 1351. Embrac ing the ecclesiastical state, Edmund obtained the degree of Doctor of L^aws, and was a canon of York Minster, when Pope Boniface IX. promoted hirn to the vacant see of Exeter, by his bull dated Eome, 15th January, 1395, inserted in the beginning of the first volume of his register. He was consecrated at Lambeth by the primate WiUiam Courtenay on Sunday 20th June, 1395, assisted by Eobert de Braybroke, Bishop of London, and John Waltham, Bishop of Sarum; and, according to custom, " ratione novae creationis," the new bishop assigned the pension of five marks to a " Hoker, in hia MS. Hiat., page 300, says that " he was descended from the Lord Stafford who lived in the time of Edward the Confessor, and was made, or rather restored, a baron iu the time of the Conqueror. Certainly the ' Domesday ' givea evidence that Eobert de Stafford held many lordships in England. At a subsequent period we discover several ramifications of the family at Hook, Pipe, Clifton, Grafton, Abbotsbury, &c. One branch settled in Ireland in the reign of Queen Ehza beth, one of whose members was dis tinguished in ithe Parliament of Kil kenny, A.D. 1646. BISHOPS OF EXBl^ER. 95 clerk named by the crown, until he could institute him to a suitable living.^ As pubhc business prevented his lordship, from quitting the court, he lost no time in appointing an efficient vicar-general ('Eeg.' vol. ii. fol. 1). King Eichard II. on 23rd October, 1396, nomi nated him Lord High Chancellor, and he continued in office until the eve of the king's abdicating the crown ; he had also appointed him one of his executors (Eymer's ' Foedera,' vol. viii. p. 77). Eeleased from the turmoils of state office, he hastened to visit his diocese. On his way hither from London we find him arrived at Salis bury on 18th March, 1400: on 5th April he was domiciled at his manor-house of Bishop's Clist, and shortly after proceeded in his visitation through the counties of Devon and Cornwall. Thus he continued in the discharge of his pastoral functions until 20th January, 1401, when he started for London; and for those times, and at that season of the year, he must have travelled expeditiously, for a document is entered in his register dated but six days later "in hospitio nostro London." King Henry IY. probably wished to have his counsel : on 9th March that monarch restored to him the Great Seal which he retained for nearly two ' It is not generally known that Biahop Staffijrd ordained deacon, in his private chapel in London, on 26th May, 1396, Henry Chicheley, then appointed to the rectory of St. Stephen's, Wal- brooke, afterwards the far-famed pri mate and munificent founder of All Soula' College, Oxford ; or that Eichard Courtenay (eldest son of Sir Philip Courtenay of Pouderham, Knight, and his wife Margaret Wake), afterwards Bishop of Norwich, received at his handa, in St. Michael'a Chapel, Chud leigh, ou 18th December, 1400, the order of priesthood, at the early age of twenty. He had previously coUated this youthful clerk ¦ (ah-eady Precentor of Chichester) to a prebend and canonry of Exeter Cathedral, viz. on 3rd Octo ber, 1399 (' Eeg.' vol. ii. fol. 42). In ordaining him priest he complied with the bull of dispensation granted by Pope Boniface IX. (Cibo), dated Eome, 14th December, 1399, which may be seen at the end of his 'Eegister,' vol. i., and in the Appendix. Fortunately this young eccleaiaatic juatified the high opimon entertained of hia merit. He died in September, 1415, aged 35, and waa buried in Westminster Abbey. His uncle William Courtenay, 'the archbishop, had bequeathed six books to his church of Canterbury, which Eichard Courtenay was allowed the uae of for his life, but with the obligation of their being restored on bis death, xmder a penalty of 3001. The works were the ' MUlelogium ' of St. Augustm, a Dictionary in three volumes, and ' Nicholaa de Lira,' in two volumes, MS. Arundel, Brit. Mus. No. 68, fol. 34 b. 96 LIVES OF THE years, when he returned to bis diocese. We meet -with him at Chst on 29th March, 1403, and two days after he held an ordination in its domestic chapel. From this period until bis death he absented himself as little as possible from his diocese ; and the two folio volumes of bis register, comprising nearly 1400 pages, attest his diligence in administering to bis affairs and the zeal he evinced for the good government of all classes ; in fact none of the episcopal registers before or after him are kept in a more business-like manner. The day before his death at Clist he confirmed the election made by the chapter of John Cobthorne for their dean ; and on the very day of his death at Chst Srd September, 1419, aged 75, he instituted an incumbent of Blackauton, and collated to a prebend and canonry in his cathedral, when his registrar adds " et eodem die D. Edmundus, Exoniensis Episcopus, diem suum clausit extremum : cujus animse propitietur Deus, Amen." The inquisition post mortem, anno sexto King Henry Y., proves that he had estates in the counties of Leicester, Gloucester, Derby, Stafford, and Northampton. His will in Arch bishop Chicheley's Eegister is dated 24th July, 1418, and "was proved 18th September," 1419. Bishop Lacy in his 'Eegister' (vol. ii. fol. 17), after extolling Bishop Stafford's " sincere and inviolable purity of devotion, enlarges on his continued works of mercy duriag his life, and on his generous donation of service-books, and of a chalice to the chapel "de Stapyldon Halle, vulgariter nominate Exon," at Oxford. To its college library he gave several books ; he laid out 200 marks in extending and heightening the library itself; he rebuilt its chapel-porch and covered the whole with lead. Moreover he had new-roofed half of the college hall, and erected a new west gate tbere. In gratitude to their benefactor's memory, its fellows engaged on 2nd June, 1430, to maintain the BISHOPS OP EXETEE. 97 perpetual obit of Edmund de Stafford Bishop of Exeter. He had added two scholarships to be chosen from the diocese of Sarum ('Hist, et Ant. Oxon.,' hb. ii. 93), and moreover he altered the name of the house from Stapeldon Hall to Exeter College. Long, before his death he had purchased, as he tells us, " de et cum bonis patrimonialibus, et de peculio nostro ad utilitatem nostram" (' Eeg,' vol. ii. fol. 282), the manors of Winter- bourn Wast, Bockhampton, and Swanwich in Dorset shire, to which his cousin Humphrey de Stafford added the advowson of Winterbourn Wast Church, for the purpose of founding a perpetual chantry at the altar of St. John the Baptist on the north side of the Lady Chapel within Exeter Cathedral. This property was conveyed to the dean and chapter, with tbe license of King Henry IY., on 1st October, 1408, and the terms accepted by them on the day following; his present altar-tomb there, with the exception of the beautiful alabaster e&gj and gorgeous canopy, must have been prepared shortly after the date of this agreement ; for the bishop's cousin. Canon William Langeton, by his will made and proved nearly six years before the bishop's death, desires to be buried in the cathedral " ex parte dexter^ vel sinistra tumbe Eeverendi Patris Domini mei Edmundi Episcopi Exoniensis," which was accordingly done. Leland in his ' Itinerary ' (vol. iii. p. 44) has preserved the bishop's epitaph, now illegible : — Hie jacet Edmundus de Staflforde intumulatus Quondam profundus legum doctor reputatus Verbis facvmdus, Comitum de stirpe creatus Felix et mundus Pater hujus Pontificates. Hoker in his ' MS. History ' thus describes our bishop — " A man no more noble than learned, and no more learned than grave and wise, for he was very well accounted generally of all men, but most specially H 98 LIVES OF THE in favour with the king and nobility." After enu- merating his preferments and chancellorship, the histo rian continues : " his government tended very much to the benefit of the commonwealth; he was a great favourer and furtberer to good learning. A singular man he was in that age, and also left many good memorials behind him." With these historic details before us, we were not a little surprised at the character affixed to his memory by Lord Campbell in his ' Lives of the Lord Chancellors of England,' vol. i. p. 302, as " one presiding over atrocities — possessing little theological knowledge, and without any knowledge of the law — a daring and reck less politician — sanctioning hasty and tyrannical mea sures, which precipitated the fate of his sovereign Eichard II." That "on the restoration of the seals by King Henry IY. he resigned them at the end of February, 1403, as he felt himself so unfit for the office, and retired to his diocese to exercise baronial hospitality, and to enjoy hunting and the other sports of the field, in the vain hope tbat some revolution in politics would again enable him to mix in factious strife, which still more delighted him. But be con tinued to languish in tranquillity until he was gathered to his fathers." Such assertions, unsupported by evi dence, must detract from the merit of the learned and noble biographer. Aems: — Or, a chevron gules, his addition, entoyred with Bishop's mitres proper. Bull of Pope Boniface IX. — 14h Dec. 1399.'" Bonifacius Episcopus, servus servorum Dei, dilectis fiho Eichardo de Courtenay, cantori Ecclesiae Cicestriensis, Salutem et apostohcam benedictionem. NobOitas generis, vitse ac morum honestas, aliaque laudabiha probitatis et virtutum merita, "> Stafford's Eegister, vol. i. ; copied at the end. BISHOPS OF EXETER. 99 super quibus apud nos fide digno commendaris testimonio, nos inducunt, ut te speciahbus favoribus et gratiis prosequamur. Tuis itaque in hac parte supphcationibus inchnati, tecum, qui, ut asseris, decimum octavum tuse setatis annum excedis, et in subdiaconatus ordine constitutus, ac ex utroque parente de nobili genere procreatus existis, ut cum vicesimum hujusmodi tuse setatis annum attigeris, ad diaconatus et presbyteratus ordines statutis anni temporibus promoveri, liberfe et licitfe valeas, Lugdunensium Concihorum et quibuscumque constitutionibus apostolicis ac aliis contrariis nequaquam obstantibus, auctoritate apostolica, tenore presentium, de specialis dono gratise dis- pensamus: nulh ergo omnino hominum hceat hanc paginam nostrse dispensationis infringere, vel ei ausu temerario con traire. Si quis autem hoc attemptare prsesumserit indignationem omnipotentis Dei et beatorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum ejus, se noverit incursurum. Datum Komse apud Sanctum Petrum, XVIII kalendis Januaru, pontificatus nostri anno undecimo. John Catterick. — This distinguished ecclesiastic (perhaps a native of Catterick in Yorkshire), after filling the office of Apostolic Notary and Archdeacon of Surrey, and after serving King Henry IY. as ambas sador to France in 1409 (Eymer's 'Foedera,' vol. viii. p. 585), was provided whilst agent at the Eoman court to the see of St. David by Pope John XXIII. on 27th April, 1414, and the temporalities of which were re stored to him on 2nd June following. The same pontiff on 1st February next ensuing translated him to the see of Lichfield and Coventry. Within two years later, King Henry Y. sent him as his ambassador to the Council of Constance, and so honoured him with his confi^dence as to appoint him one of the executors of his will. When the business of the council was over he accompanied Pope Martin Y. towards Eome, and whilst the Papal court made some stay at Florence, intelligence reached His Holiness of the death of our aged Bishop Stafford, and he immediately nominated Dr. Catterick to the vacant see of Exeter, and on the same day (20th November) Wilham Heyworth, abbot of St. Albans H 2 100 lives of THB (not James or John Cary, as Godwin supposes),^ to Lichfield and Coventry. But our prelate never hved to see his new diocese : attacked by a mortal iUness he departed this life on the 28th of the following month (December), 1419, and bis remains were deposited under the central dome of the Franciscan Church de Santa Croce at Florence. A beautiful model of his white marble slab there, representing the bishop in his pontificals, has been brought over by Archdeacon Bar tholomew very recently, and deposited in our chapter house. The legend is, — " Hie jacet Dominus Joannes Cattrick, Episcopus quondam Exoniensis, Ambassiator Serenissimi Domini Eegis Anglise, qui obiit xxviii die Decembris, anno Dni. mccccxix, Cujus animse pro pitietur Deus." Lassells, in his Yoyage to Italy, 1650, describes the arms on the monument as " Sable, three Cats argent;" so that the arms attributed to bim by Hoker and Izacke, viz. " Argent, on a Fess engrailed sable, three Trefoils or," inust be rejected ; they also bury him at Avignon. Izacke dubs him Bishop of Chichester; Westcote ('Survey,' p. 168) omits him altogether in his catalogue of the bishops of Exeter ; and Sir William Pole translates him from Chester hither, and buries him in our Cathedral ! (' Description of Devon,' p. 30.) Edmund Lacy. — This prelate was the son of Stephen Lacy and Sibilla his "wife, as we learn from his Eegister marked vol. iii. fol. 271 b. His parents and his uncle John Lacy were buried in the Conventual Church of the Carmelites at Gloucester. The site where they lay was endeared to him, but it cannot now be distinguished ! ' We are satisfied that this John or James Cary was never appointed to the see of Exeter. Leland very properly omits his uame iu the list which he givea of our bishops (' Itin.' vol. iii. p. 51), and so does Sir William Pole, ' Description of Devon,' p. 30. BISHOPS OF EXETEB. 101 In early life Edmund was entered at University College, Oxford, where he took his degree of S. T. P. In 1398 he was appointed president of that college, which he governed for five years ('Hist, et Antiq. Oxon.,' lib. ii. p. 59). His merits soon procured him distinction. We find him, as dean of the Eoyal Chapel, accompanying his sovereign Henry Y in 1415 to the battle of Agincourt ; and within two years he was pre ferred to the see of Hereford, of which he had been canon, and the king honoured his consecration at Windsor, on 18th April, 1417, with his presence.^ When His Majesty was informed of the unexpected demise of John Catterick Bishop of Exeter at Florence, he directed a conge d'elire to the dean and chapter here in favour of his friend the Bishop of Hereford. His lordship was unanimously chosen, and Pope Martin Y. confirmed the election by his bull bearing date 5th May, 1420. Owing to a multiplicity of engagements and the king's illness, he could not be spared for a time to visit his new diocese ; but in the interval his Eegister (vol. iii. fol. 23) and the fabric rolls testify his zeal in promoting the completion of his cathedral and its cloisters. King Henry Y. constituted him one of his executors ; and we meet his lordship at Windsor on 28th September, 1422, when the Chancellor, Thomas Langley Bishop of Durham, delivered up the gold seal of England in a purse of white leather to his infant sovereign Henry YL (Eymer's ' Foedera,' vol. x. fol. 253). On his return home he held a diocesan synod. To the vicars-choral of the cathedral the bishop proved himself a considerable benefactor; for their better maintenance he appropriated to them the rec- ^ His 'Register' at Hereford, con sisting of 322 pages, sets forth that he waa consecrated at the time above spe cified by the Primate, Henry Chicheley, assisted by Thomas Poverel, Bishop of Worcester, and Stephen Partyngton, Bishop of St. David's : that the king waa preaent at the ceremony, with an aaaemblage of noblemen, "in inferiore Capella. Castelli de Windsore." 102 LIVES OF THE torial tithes of Cornwood on the 6th June, 1432 (' Eeg.' vol. ii. fol. 19). His appropriation of the church of Ipelpen on 13th March, 1439, to the custos and college of Ottery is recorded in his Eegister (vol. iii. fol. 145). All concur in opinion that he was a meek, charitable, and pious bishop. The office that he composed in honour of the Archangel Eaphael (whose festival was kept here on 5th October) was greatly admired by our forefathers, and was used in this and several other dioceses.* William Boothe Archbishop of York, in his letter dated " in manerio nostro de Suthewell, 10th October, 1454," in adopting it for his cathedral, extols the author's devotion and zeal, and acknowledges his generous donation of a rich set of vestments for high mass, with three copes of red -velvet, and three albs with their appurtenances for his metropolitan church, and. twenty pounds sterling for the benefit of its vicars choral. Thomas (Spofford) Bishop of Hereford, on 6th September, 1445, had admitted and approved the said office, and relates that our prelate had given a set of high mass vestments and three copes of red velvet, with orfreys of gold and red cloth, together with coverings and frontlets of cloth worked with falcons, for the high altar and its two collateral altars, the. whole exceeding the value of 200 marks — " considerate ejusdem Ecclesise nostrse notoriH paupertat^" (Lacy's = Pope Eugenius IV. had commis sioned John Suetsham, the Chancellor of Exeter, to call to his aid aix other divinea to examine and make a report of this ofBoe. He selected the follow ing doctors of theology : — Henry Sever and Eichard Chester, the royal chap- laiaa, Thomaa Gascoigne, Chancellor of Oxford, Eobert Thwaytis, John Bur- nebe, and William Dowsyn. On 14th June, 1444, they pronounced aa fol lows : — " Prsedictum officium tam lit- teret quam spiritu circumspeximus, et diligenter examinavimus, neo aliquid ScriptursB sacras dissonum aut canonicis Institutionibus contrarium invenimus obviare. Quamobrem auctoritate apo stolica in hS,c parte commissi, supra dicti EaphaeMs Archangell servitium, catholicum, in summasque Trinitatis honorem, Beatorum quoque laudem, et specialiter predicti Sancti Eaphaelis Archangeli, ac ad incrementum et aug- mentationem Christianse devotionis, nec non in auxUiiun et relevamen Ecclesise miMtantis institutum, fore decernimus et quilibet nostrfim decernit per prse- sentes." We have not met with the form. Doea it resemble the one inserted in some of the Eoman breviaries ? ¦ BISHOPS OF BXETEE. 103 '•Eeg.' vol. iii. fol. 486). Eichard Beauehamp, trans lated from Hereford to Salisbury, hcensed the use of this office for his new diocese on 20th August, 1456. It was also accepted by the provincial chapter of the Enghsh Franciscans holden at Chichester on 15th August, 1444. In the inventory of the jewels, plate, and ornaments of Exeter Cathedral, drawn up on 6th September, 1506, in the possession of the dean and chapter, and exhibited to the commissioners of King Edward YI. on 30th September, 1552, we find it still possessed the chalice of pure gold, weighing 23 ounces, two golden cruets, two silver basons, gilt and enamelled, several splendid vestments, tapestry, and carpets and books, all "ex dono Edmundi Lacy nuper Exon. Episcopi." He is known to have built the great hall in Exeter House, the residence of our bishops in London. The ponderous Eegisters of our prelate, comprising upwards of 1700 pages, are decided evidence of his indefatigable attention to his official duties. In con sideration of his increasing lameness and weak health he was excused from attending on parliament (Eymer's ' Foedera,' vol. x. p. 404). The death of the venerable prelate took place at his manor-house, Chudleigh, on 18th September, 1455, as his Eegister shows, and he was buried on the north side of the cathedral choir. His tomb remains, despoiled of its brass, or, as Leland expresses it ('Itin.' vol. ih, p. 45), "was defaced by Simon Heynes," who was dean between 1537 and 1552. From Hoker and Godwin we collect that the bishop's memory was long venerated in this diocese, and that pilgrims resorted to his tomb. The will of the bishop, proved 8th October, 1455, in the Prerogative Court (as Dr. Eichardson asserts in his edition of Godwin ' De Prsesulibus Anglise,' p. 413) no longer exists ;• but we learn from documents, in the 104 LIVES OP THE archives of our dean and chapter, that tenements, whicb had been granted them, to support his obit, and those of Philip Lacy, Esq., and his wife Isabella, brought in an income in the year 1467 of 11. 18s. 8*^. Queen Elizabeth, by her charter of 5th July, 1587, restored to the dean and chapter " three barns and one field with its appurtenances near Southernhay, within the county of the city of Exeter," and also to the custos and college of priest-vicars the rectory of Cornwood, for merly granted to maintain the obit of Edmund Lacy tbe bishop in the cathedral church of St. Peter at Exeter. In conclusion we have to express our concern at not being able to offer further information of a prelate so distinguished in his generation.* But perhaps of a bishop so exemplary in discharging the duties of bis office, this very silence on the part of political coU' temporaries may be the best commendation. Aems : — Azure, three Shoveller's heads erased argent. George Nevyll. — On the death of Bishop Lacy, John Halse Dean of Exeter had been nominated bis successor at the special recommendation of King Henry YI. ; but as he declined the proffered dignity, Pope Calixtus IIL provided George Nevyll to the government of the^ vacant see. He was the youngest surviving son of Eichard Nevyll Earl of Sahsbury (beheaded at York, 38th Hen. YL), by Alice his wife, sole daughter and heir of Thomas Montacute Earl of Sahsbury, and brother of the celebrated King-maker, Eichard Earl of Salisbury and Warwick ; and received his education at Balliol College, Oxford, where, on taking the degree of Master of Arts in October, 1452, the sumptuous entertainment was given, recorded by "Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas infoims I 1450 he is designated by his badge and us that m a satu-ieal poem of the year | wheat-ear. BISHOPS OF EXETEE. 105 ^ood, its historian (lib. i. p. 219). The foUo-wing year witnessed his election to the chancellorship of that university. He was barely in his twenty-fourth year when the temporalities of Exeter were restored to him on 21st March, 1456 (Eymer's 'Foedera,' vol. xi. p. 376). His Eegister of institutions commences with 10th April that year ; for the primate Thomas Bour chier, his cousin, had already committed to him the spiritualities ; but, notwithstanding his election, confirma tion, and power of jurisdiction, by the special order of the Pope, his consecration was to be deferred until be should enter his twenty-seventh year ; and it was eventually performed on 25th November, 1458. In the meanwhile he had the precaution to commit the admi nistration of the diocese to experienced theologians. In March, 1459, he was installed in his episcopal throne. His Eegister proves that he conferred holy orders in Crediton Church on 19th May, and in his own cathedral on 22 nd September that year ; that early in December he quitted the diocese for ever ; and that on 15th of that month he had arrived at Coventry on his route to London. King Henry YL, On 25th July, 1460, delivered to bim the Great Seal, and it must be admitted that he disloyally employed the commanding influence of his station against his too confiding sove reign. For this treachery he may have considered him self recompensed by King Edward IY., who reappointed him to the chancellorship on 5th March, 1461, and translated him to the archbishopric of York in 1465. The lavish prodigality of his installation there on 19th January, 1466, may be seen in Godwin, &c. &c. The course of restless ambition pursued by this time serving prelate, his fondness for intrigue and entangle ment in political strife, so foreign to his ecclesiastical profession, involved him in vexation, disgrace, and ruin ; thus verifying the text, " Deceitful men shall not 106 LIVES OP THB live out half their days." On Sth July, 1467, t% Great Seal was abruptly taken from him ; his revenues seized, his plate confiscated, his mitre converted into a crown, and his jewels divided between King Edward IY. and the Prince of Wales. Committed to close imprison ment, partly in England and partly at Guisnes, at the end of three years he was restored to liberty ; but very shortly after, viz. on Sth June, 1476, aged 44, he died of a broken heart, " ex angore animi interiit " (Polydore Yirgil's ' History,' p. 526). Yet Lord Campbell offers this paUiation for the unprincipled Chancellor (vol. i. p. 386, 'Lives,' &c.). " During the seven years he held the Great Seal I do not find any charge against him of partiality or corrup tion; and his sudden changes in politics, and the violence with which he acted against his opponents, must be considered rather as characteristic of the age in which he lived, than bringing any great reproach upon his personal character" ! Arms : — Gules, a Saltier argent. To this Westcote adds, " A pile of three, goboneted argent and azure ; his mother's coat. Argent, three Lozenges in fess gules. Yet there is set for him. Gules, three Lozenges in fess argent, within a border or." John Bothe, LL.D. — So his name is spelt through out his Eegister. He was the member of a family in good repute, both in Cheshire and Lancashire, and was the third son of Sir Eobert Bothe of Dunham in Cheshire, knight, by his wife Dulcia, daughter and coheir of Sir Eichard Yenables, knight. Of his early life and education few details are recorded. By his uncle William Bothe, Archbishop of York,^ he was col lated to a stall in that minster, and shortly after to the archdeaconry of Eichmond ; he was also appointed the 5 WilUam Bothe, Archbishop of York, waa the son of John Bothe, of Barton jn the county of Lancaster (by Joane, his first wife, daughter of Henry Traf ford), and half-brother of Laurence Bothe, successively Bishop of Durham and Archbishop of York, Chancellor of England. BISHOPS OP EXETER. 107 s§cond warden of the CoUegiate Church of Manchester. On the translation of Nevyll to the see of York, King Edward IY. accepted the Papal provision of Dr. Bothe to our vacant see, and restored him its temporalities on 10th June, 1465. The elect and confirmed prelate, within a week later, appointed his dean, Henry "Webber, to administer the diocese in his absence, and could not have made a better choice. On 7th July that year. Archbishop Bourchier performed the ceremony of the episcopal consecration ; and on 4th February following -the king granted him a special pardon for all offences during the tenure of his office of warden at Manchester (Rymer's ' Foedera,' vol. xi. p. 559). Business prevented his visit of the diocese until February, 1467 ; he then quitted it at the expiration of two years for London. His Eegister shows that he had returned here in August, 1474, and, after remain ing five months, left again for the metropolis. We meet him at Bishop's Clist on 7th March, 1476, when he passed three months in the diocese. This we believe was his last visit. William of Worcester asserts that King Edward IY. took him for his secretary : his family had been noted for zealous attachment to the house of Lancaster ; perhaps our bishop, conceiving that its fortunes were desperate, satisfied his conscience of the expediency of serving under the actual reigning dynasty, for the sake of public peace and security. Hoker, in his ' MS' History,' p. 319, after relating his respectable descent, and his reputation for learning, adds that " he was well versed in the laws of the realm, very courteous and affable to every man, good to the poor, and liberal in all good causes." Whether there be sufficient grounds for the tradition that the bishop was the donor of our episcopal throne we cannot pronounce ; but it is evi dently of the character of the time. The previous 108 LIVES OP THE " Cathedra Episcopi " was of stone, as we collect from the fabric roh of 1328. The repeated arms of Bothe in tbe vaulting of the chapter-house lead us to think that he put the finishing hand to this beautiful struc ture, and not his immediate predecessor Bishop Nevyll in transitu, as Leland supposed (' Itin.' vol. iii. p. 53).* On quitting the diocese in the summer of 1476, he repaired to his favourite residence at East Horsleigh, a manor that had been given to the see of Exeter by King Henry L, three hundred and fifty years before. Dying there, he was buried in the parochial Church of St. Martin, where his brass effigy represents him kneel ing in full pontificals, and, what is unusual, with the chasuble appearing on one side of the cope. The mitre and crosier are of superb decoration ; the legend is — Quisquis eris qui transieris, sta : perlege, plora. Sum quod eris, fueramque quod es. Pro me precor, ora. Hie jacet Johannes Bowthe, quondam Exoniensis Episcopus, qui obiit v". die mensis Aprilis, A". Dni M°.cccc°.Lxxviii°. Weever, in his ' Funeral Monuments,' p. 444, con tends that he was buried at St. Clement Danes', London. The maimed epitaph he gives commences indeed -with Hie jacet, but he reads jonmo die Aprilis, which unques tionably is incorrect. His brother Sir William Bothe, knight, who died 6th April, 1478, was buried in St. Clement Danes. In a deed dated 2nd September, 1482, under the seal of the warden and canons of St. Mary's College, Ottery, they set forth that Bishop Bothe, late Bishop of Exeter, had given them a sum of money to keep his obit — that an addition had been made to that sum by John Stubbes, the precentor of Exeter, and Eobert Barfoth Archdeacon of Barnstaple— that they had invested the sum total in the purchase of « The arms of Bothe— Argent three Boars' heads erased erect sable; in chief a label of three points gules. BISHOPS OP EXETEE. 109 two ferlings of land in Mettecombe, within the parish of Ottery, to meet the expenses of such obit, and charge themselves with a payment of ten shillings per annum to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, if they fail in tbe fulfilment of this obligation. His memory was also perpetuated in Exeter Cathedral, for we find in Queen Ehzabeth's regrant to its church on 5th July, 1585, an estate in the parish of Crediton, which was answerable' for the expenses, " pro manutentione obitus Johannis Bowthe, quondam Exoniensis Episcopi." The Eegister of our prelate commences with 24th June, 1465, but has not been so carefully conducted as those of his predecessors ; besides, no little perplexity is occasioned to its peruser by the transposition of the folios through the ignorance of the binder. Peter Courtenay was the son, not the second, according to Hoker, but perhaps the sixth, of Sir Philip Courtenay, of Powderham, knight, by his wife Eliza beth,' daughter of the gallant Walter Lord Hungerford, Knight of the Garter. After pursuing his studies with credit at Oxford, he proceeded to Padua, then regarded as tbe principal seat of learning in Europe, and there obtained the degree of Doctor of Canon and Civil Law. Ecclesiastical preferments courted him on his return. On 30th May, 1453, he was admitted to the family benefice of Moreton Hampstead. Nine days later he was collated to the archdeaconry of Exeter, which he exchanged on 7th January, 1475, with Eobert Ayscough, for the canonry and prebend of Charminster and Beer Eegis, then annexed to the church of Sarum. On 7th October, 1464, he was also collated to the arch deaconry of Wilts. In the course of 1474 King ' She must have survived to an ad vanced age. On the death of her hus band. Sir Philip Courtenay, 16th De cember, 1463, her eldest son, William, was found to be 35 years old and more ; and we find him the holder of mes suages and lands at Wonewille or Heavitree in the 22nd year of King Edward IV., 1483. 110 LIVES OF THE Edward IY. appointed him his secretary. On llth October, 1476, was installed Dean of Windsor, and was also appointed master of St. Anthony's free chapel and hospital, London, which King Edward IY. had just appropriated to the Eoyal Collegiate Church of Windsor. On 27th April, 1477, was promoted to the deanery of Exeter, and on 4tb December the same year presented to the valuable living of Menhenniot in Cornwall.* Pope Sixtus IY. provided him on Sth September, 1478, to the vacant see of Exeter; and he is the first instance of its dean mounting to its pontifical chair. King Edward IY. restored to him the tem poralities on 3rd November tbat year, and on Sunday Sth November, 1478, he was consecrated in the Eoyal Chapel of St. Stephen's, Westminster,' by Thomas Kempe Bishop of London. His imperfect register acquaints us with his residing at Bishop's Clist early in the ensuing spring, where he held an ordination on 7th and on 27th March, and on 18th December, 1479, and again there on 18th March and 27th May, 1480. It appears that he left the diocese in September that year : we cannot ascertain the precise period of his return ; but we find him at Bishop's Clist on 3rd March, 1482, when he instituted Dr. Eichard Mayow to the vicarage of Branscombe, and in the summer of that year be was in Cornwall, where he dedicated St. Agnes' Chapel with its cemetery. We meet him in Exeter on 1st October, 1482, and we suspect that he was here on 18th October, 1483, when Henry Earl of Eichmond (afterwards King Henry YII.) was proclaimed the ^ Whilst holding Menhenniot, King Edward IV. granted the licenae of ap propriating it to the rector and acholara of Stapeldon Hall, or Exeter College, Oxford. But in consequence of the death of Bishop Bothe, ou 5th April, 1478, it was necessary to obtain the sanction of the Primate, Thomas Bour chier. ^ He waa actually dean of this chapel ; and we find him in Waynflete's 'Ee gister,' vol. ii. fol. 43, presenting on 13th February, 1476-7, to the church of Winchfeld rectory, " ad presentationem Petri Courtenay, Libere CapeUe Eegis Weatmonasterii, Decani et ejusdem loci Capituli." BISHOPS OP EXETER. Ill rightful sovereign. It may be thought strange that he should assist at the splendid coronation of Eichard III. at Westminster, on 6tb July, 1483 ; for he knew how the usurper had been prevented from gaining possession of Ann Duchess of Exeter, a great heiress and his niece, through his cautious policy, and therefore he was marked out for vengeance by this usurper. Perhaps he could not, with safety to himself, decline being officially present ; but he made his escape to Bretagne early in November. He had hardly done so, when the tyrant arrived to occupy his palace, which be found abundantly stored with provi sions. In the sequel Courtenay made himself instru mental in establishing Henry on the throne of England, who, in gratitude for his services, had him translated to the see of Winchester.^" There he died, according to some accounts on 20th December, 1491, but this must be incorrect, for he authorised his suffragan, Eichard Bishop of Sidon, to hold an ordination for him in Win chester Cathedral on 26th June, 1492. In fact the last act in his Eegister at Winchester is dated from his palace at Wolvesey 16th September, 1492, "Anno translationis vi°." It is probable that he lived till 22nd September of the year following (see ' Anglia Sacra,' vol. i. p. 319) ; that he was buried not at Powderham, but in bis Cathedral, appears certain. Lord Bacon, in his ' Life of King Henry YII.,' p. 16, observes that "His Majesty loved to employ and advance bishops, because the wealthier sees carried their reward with them ; yet his custom was, to raise them by steps, that he might not lose the profits of the First Fruits, which by such gradation were multiplied." In so doing His Majesty overlooked the ancient canons, '" Prom the Eegisters of Archbishops and that the monks of that cathedi-al, Morton and Kempe it appears that Pope unconscious of such provision, elected Innocent Eighth's bull provided him him also as a fit successor to Bishop to 'Winchester on 29th January, 1487, William Waynflete. 112 LIVES OP THE (especially of the Council of Sardica, 347), which con demned such translations, as introductory of ambition and covetousness into the sanctuary. Walter, the bishop's brother, and a gallant knight, for his steady services in the cause of King Henry YII., "tam in partibus transmarinis quam in regno nostro Anglie," was rewarded " for the despoiling and pillaging of bis goods and chattels in Devonshire, by John Lord Scrope of Bolton, and other of his affinite, by the grant of the said Lord Scrope's manor of Nyssal in Essex ; the manor of Feniton in Devon, once the property of Eichard Malherbe; a property iu Exeter, late belonging to John Atwill ; the manor of Coryton in Devon ; and the manors of Tencreek, in the parish of Creed, and Newton in St. Mellion's, Cornwall, late the property of John Coryton." Ac cording to Polydore Yirgil, p. 597, Sir Walter Courte nay came to the rescue of Exeter, when besieged by Perkin Wai;beck in September, 1497, Aems : — Or, three Torteauxes, in chief a label of three points azure, each point charged with three annulets argent; Westcote incorrectly caUs them plates. Eichard Fox. — To this chief of all the confidential friends and , counsellors of King Henry YII., the temporalities of this vacant see were granted on 2nd April, 1487, and be was consecrated shortly after (perhaps at Norwich, on Sth April, by Archbishop Morton) ; but we cannot recover the date. He was the son of Thomas and Helen Fox of Eopesley near Grantham, and by his natural abilities, cultivated with indefatigable industry at Magdalen College, Oxford, and improved by acute observation of men and manners, he became the architect of his fame and fortune. Shortly after bis consecration King Henry sent bim as ambassador to the court of Scotland, where he nego tiated tbe marriage of Margaret, his sovereign's eldest BISHOPS OP BXETEE. 113 daughter, with James IY., King of the Scots — an event which in the progress of time happily united the two crowns under one head, and has even consolidated the two kingdoms under one empire. Before his depar ture, the bishop appointed William Sylke, LL.D., a leading dignitary of the cathedral of Exeter, to be his vicar general. The letters are dated from Kenilworth 31st May, 1487. From his Eegister we cannot collect that he ever visited this diocese ; so occupied was he with embassies abroad, or with the duties of Keeper of the Privy Seal. From Sanford's * Genealogical His tory,' p. 449, we learn that King Henry YIIL, who was born at Greenwich, 28th June, 1491, was baptised in the parish church of St. Alphege there by our bishop, and that his immediate predecessor in this see, Peter Courtenay Bishop of Winchester, and John de Yere Earl of Oxford, stood godfathers. On Sth Feb. 1492, he was translated to Bath and Wells, and the temporalities of that see were restored to him on 4th May following : two years later Durham had the honour of receiving him for her bishop ; finally he was translated to Winchester on 1st October, 1501. Hoker ('MS.' p. 336) affirms that the king offered him the archbishopric of Canterbury, which he declined, and that the king moreover chose him to be godfather to his second son and successor. King Henry YIIL This last-mentioned sovereign, on 30th January, 1511, at his request, confirmed all the grants of his royal pre decessors to the see of Winehester. This highly-gifted statesman retained the office of Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, and continued to nego tiate treaties until the infirmities of old age and increas ing weakness of sight, which terminated in total blindness, compelled him to retire from the cabinet, and induced him to prepare himself for eternity. Yet he strongly and successfully exerted his influence during 114 LIVES OF THE the summer of 1523, against the exorbitant demand of the crown of fifty per cent, on the yearly income of all clerical benefices. Before his death, whicb took place on 5th October, 1528, he nobly devoted his fortune to the founding of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and grammar schools at Grantham and at Taunton. Tbat he was hastily buried is certain ; his coffin of plain oak- boards was fastened with pegs of wood. And when his grave was opened within his beautiful chantry in Winchester Cathedral, on 28th January, 1820, the following memorandum on parchment, inclosed in a leaden box, was found between his feet : — " Quinto die Octobris, anno Domini millimo quingentesimo vicesimo octavo, obiit et sepultus est Eichardus Fox, hujus Ecclesia Epus, qui hanc rexit ecclesiam septem et viginti annis integre." Harpsfield, in his ' Hist. Eccl. Angl.' p. 644, relates that the venerable prelate lost his sight ten years before his death, and tbat he him self, whilst a boy in Winchester College, recollects to have been present at his dirge and funeral. Hoker, above quoted, pronounces tbe bishop to have been " such a man for wisdom, knowledge, learning, and truth, that he left not his lyke at that time after bim." Indeed it would require a volume to enumerate his services to his prince and country ; and the considerate application of his wealth and influence to perpetuate works of charity and to diffuse the blessings of educa tion, will immortalise his memory. Arms : — Azure, a Pelican in her nest feeding her young with her blood, or. Oliver King, a native of London, educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. He is described in the patents of 1476 as Master of Arts, the first Licentiate of Laws, and principal secretary to King Edward IY., to which last office he had been appointed for hfe. BISHOPS OP EXETER. 115 When Pope Alexander YI. provided him on 1st October, 1492, to the vacant see of Exeter, he was in possession of the archdeaconry of Taunton and the deanery of Hereford. He was consecrated bishop in the course of the ensuing February, perhaps on 3rd, at Lambeth, by Archbishop Morton, but whether he ever saw this diocese we cannot discover from his Eegister. On llth March, 1494, he was residing at Sheene, when he collated Hugh Oldam (subsequently Bishop of Exeter) to the canonry and prebend of this cathedral, void by the death of John Paskewe. On 6th November, 1495, he succeeded Bishop Fox at Bath and Wells. In the former city he commenced the rebuilding of the abbey-church, but only hved to see the west end and the south part of the structure in an advanced state. From its lightsome appearance it obtained the name of "The Lantern of England." He died on 29th August, 1503, and, in conformity to his will, was buried on the north side of the choir near its high altar. Aems : — Argent, on a chevron sable, three escalops of the first. Eichard Eedmayne, of a respectable family at Levens in Westmoreland, educated at Cambridge, entered amongst the Norbertine canons, and was chosen abbot of Shap. He is recorded to have been consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph about the middle of the year 1472, and to have expended considerable sums in repairing that cathedral, and nearly " rebuilding it " according to Browne Willis. By virtue of Pope Alexander Sixth's bull dated Eome 24th September, 1495, he was thence translated to Exeter, and its tem poralities were restored to him on 7th January follow ing. That he ¦ devoted himself to the duties of a diocesan is evidenced by his Eegister. In the chapel of St. Michael, within his manor-house at Chudleigh, I 2 116 LIVES OF THE he held an ordination on 23rd September, 1497 ; and three others within the chapel of St. Mary, in his palace at Exeter : viz. 31st March, 13th April, and 9th June of the following year. Eemoved to Ely (in which diocese he had been coUated to benefices in early hfe) on 26th September, 1501, his career of usefulness was equally short, for he died at his palace in Holborn, London, on 24th August, 1505. His remains were deposited on the north side of the choir of Ely Cathedral ('Angh Sac' voLi. p. 675). Abms :— Three Cushions — argent according to Izacke, ermine according to Westcote. John Arundell, third son of Sir Eainford Arundell of Lanhern, near St. Columb Major in Cornwall, by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir John ColeshuU, of Trema- dart, knight — a family once so powerful as to be de signated by Leland (' Itin.' vol. iii. p. 3) " the great Arundale of Lanherne." He received his education at Exeter College, Oxford, and we find him instituted on 22nd Marcb, 1474, to the rectory of Duloe in his native county ; shortly afterwards appointed a canon of Windsor, rector of Sutton Courtenay, prebendary of York and Sarum, elected dean of Exeter late in 1483, consecrated bishop of Lichfield and Coventry on 6th November, 1496, and translated to the government of the see of Exeter on 29th June, 1502. The import ant office of registrar he committed to a polite scholar John Sixtinus,^ a Doctor of Laws of the University of Sienna ; who, in the prologue to the ' Acts ' of his epis copacy, commends his patron for " reflecting honour ou bis ancient and illustrious pedigree, by his excellent learning and distinguished virtues. Every day his numerous household assembled together in St. Mary's 1 The will of this LL.D., dated 24th March, 1518, and proved 7th May, 1519, may be aeen in the ' Testamenta Ve tusta,' vol. ii. p. 566. He waa buried m St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Amongst other legacies he left 151. towards the reparation of his church at Haccombe. BISHOPS pp EXETER. 117 Chapel within Exeter Palace, where the service was conducted with vocal and instrumental music. The most cordial hospitahty was maintained ; a daily distri bution of alms took place at tbe palace gate. The bishop was anxious to reward merit ; and all his chap lains were ready to witness how ready he was to provide in the church for their future comfort." The tenor of his life was distinctly modelled on the doctrine of St. Jerome to Nepotian, " that it is the glory of a bishop to provide for the wants of the poor, and that it is a disgrace to God's priests to be studious of accu mulating riches." In the Conventual Chtirch of St. German's, Cornwall, he held an ordination on 23rd September, 1503, as also in his Manorial Chapel at Clist, the 23rd December following. Unfortunately for his diocese this exemplary prelate was prematurely cut off by a short illness at Exeter House, London, on 15th March, 1504, according to his Eegister, and was buried on the south side of the altar of St. Clement's Church adjoining. He had purchased two messuages in St. Sidwell's, which, with the license of King Henry YII., he appropriated to his Dean and Chapter to keep up his obit here. One was called " The Sign of the Ape ;" the other was immediately contiguous. At Wardour Castle is a good portrait of the prelate, whilst Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry in 1501. Aems : — Sable, six — Martlets according to Westcote ; Swallows according to Izacke — ^three, two, and one, argent. In this Izacke, and not Westcote, is correct. Hugh Oldham, a native of Manchester, or its imme diate neighbourhood, of the ancient family of Oldham, of Oldham in Lancashire, studied at both our universities. Introduced for chaplain to Margaret Beaufort Countess of Eichmond (mother of King Henry YIL), perhaps by her third husband, Thomas Earl of Derby, he soon rose to distinction in the church through her powerful 118 LIVES OP THE interest. His resignation of the living of Lanivet in Cornwall on 5th July, 1493, on a pension of twelve pounds, to be deducted from the income of his successor John Oby, is recorded in Bishop King's Eegister, fol. 166. About the same time he was collated by that prelate to the archdeaconry of Exeter, and, whilst on a visit at the Eoyal Manor of Shene, obtained, on llth March following, the canonry and prebend in this cathedral, void by the death of John Paskewe. Chaplain to his noble patroness and to King Henry YII., he assisted on 24th January, 1503, at the laying of the first stone of the Eoyal Chapel in Westminster Abbey. Pope Julius IL, by bis bull dated Eome 27th November, 1504, provided him to the see of Exeter, void by the death of Bishop Arundell, and the temporalities were restored to him on Epiphany-day following, but we cannot fix the precise day of his consecration. His Eegister commences with 12th January, 1505, and is fairly kept. In September of that year he reached his diocese and commenced its visitation : we have before us a copy of the amended statutes of his cathedral, after he had concluded its visitiition on 16th June, 1506. With the license of his sovereign, dated from Croydon 12th January, 1509,^ he appropriated to the priest-vicars of his cathedral the chapel of Clist Gabriel at Sowton, and the chapel of the Holy Ghost at War- lond in Totnes, and he added for their benefit a fi-ee gift of 801. sterling, which they gratefully acknowledged on Sth February that year. In the 'Monasticon' of the diocese, p. 92, we have shown his promptitude and success in opposing the encroachments on his ordinary jurisdiction, as attempted by the abbot and convent of Tavistock. But what entitles him to the highest praise is the munificent encouragement he extended to 2 King Hemy VII. died shortly after, viz. 21st April, 1509. His mother siu- vived until 29th Jxme that year. BISHOPS OP EXETER. 119 literature. Towards Corpus Christi College, the founda tion of his dear friend Eichard Fox Bishop of Win chester, he contributed the large sum of six thousand marks ('Hist, et Antiq. Oxon.,' lib. ii. p. 231^), and be also assigned certain lands and houses in Chelsea, which he had purchased, to its better endowment. At Manchester he erected and endowed the grammar- school or college of which he was warden. In the catalogue of church ornaments belonging to Man chester College, we read of " a cope, a chasuble, and two dalmatics of red silk shot with gold ; the chasuble having images of the blessed Yirgin Mary and other saints, with this inscription in English, — ' Praye for the soul off Huogh Oldham,' and the cope had tbe same inscription, but not the dalmatics." Hoker, in his 'MS. History' (p. 337), relates the bishop's punctuality of dining at eleven o'clock in the morning, and of supping at five o'clock in the afternoon, and that to ensure precision he had a house-clock to strike the hours, and a servant to look after it. Should his lordship be prevented by important business from coming to table at the appointed time, the servant would delay the clock's striking the hour until he knew that his master was ready. Sometimes, if asked what was the hour, he would humorously answer "As your lordship pleaseth," at which the bishop would smile and go his way. From a document in his Eegister, dated 30th De cember, 1513, we learn that he had then completed St. Saviour's Chapel in his cathedral to receive his mortal remains. Finding his end drawing near, he quitted London about Easter 1519, and, after passing /. l-^i^ «*^gy is preserved, says Cariisle painted and adorned, but was pulled (' Endowed Grammar-schools,' vol. i. down by some Parliamentary soldiers P- ^72). m, the quadrangle of Corpus whose rage was excited by his episcopal Chnati College. There was formerly habihments. See there the fjoffinent another at the upper end of the school, deed of his Grammar-school at Man- whichm Holhngworth s time was newly Chester, dated 1st April, 1524. 120 LIVES OF THB six weeks at Bishop's Clist, removed to his palace in Exeter. On 25th June be instituted Bernard Travesse to the church of St. Mary Major, Exeter; and his Eegistrar concludes thus, — " Ipsoque eodem die, viz. xxv die mensis Junii, anno Domini milliiho quingen tesimo decimo nono, in palatio suo Exon., Dominus ab b^c luce migravit. Cujus animse propitietur Deus, Amen." His will, dated 16th December, 1518, was proved 16th July, 1519. The bishop had a brother Bernard, who was collated to the treasurership of Exeter Cathedral on 5tb April, 1515, but who died within a month after his appointment. Aems : — Sable, a chevron or, between three Owls proper ; on a chief of the second, three Roses gules. John Yeysy, alias Harman, was the eldest son of William Yeysy, or Harman, of Sutton Coldfield, in the county of Warwick, Esquire, by his wife Joan, daughter of Henry Squier, of Handsworth, Staffordshire.* Enter ing Magdalene College, Oxford, in 1482, he soon rose to distinction by his assiduity and talents, and obtained the degree of Doctor of Canon and Civil Law. The Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, John Arundell, an ¦* His father died 31st May, 1470. His mother survived till 8th March, 1524. Both were interred in the north aisle of Sutton Coldfield Church. The biahop's only brother, Hugh, married twice : first Anu, daughter of Humphry Golsou. She left him at her death two daugh ters, Jocasa and Elizabeth. Secondly, he married Jocasa, daughter of William Eugely of Duuston, by whom he had two sons, John and William, and four daughters, Jane, Eleanor, Margaret, aud Dorothy. The bishop's sister, Amicia, married John Leveson, the father of William Leveson, who was Chancellor of Exeter for nearly half a century. The bishop's other sister, Amelia, married WiUiam Gibbons ; and their son John had previously been Chancellor of Exeter for fifteen years, and died late in 1537. Henry Squier, connected with the bishop by his mother's side, was collated to the archdeaconry of Barnstaple ou 20th April, 1554. In a lease dated 1st May, 1597, we find tiiat Ann, relict of Henry Brydges of Tangly in the county of Oxford, and then the wife of WilUam Harman, Esquire, had a life-interest in some pro perty in the parish of Chudleigh. 'Was this William nephew to the bishop? We have also met with the wiU of William Vesey of Exeter (de roba [livery] Johannis Vesey, Exon. Episcopi atque Apparitoris generalis ejusdem Episcopi), made 1st January, 1544-5, who left by his wife Agnes two sons, John and Hugh, and a daughter, Agnes. He had a term in a farm iu Cheriton Episcopi, and must have died in eaay ciicumstances. To his friend Dr. Brew- ward, the Archdeacon of Barnstaple, and overseer of hia will, he leavea "my beat gold ring that hath my seale in the aame." BISHOPS OP EXETER. 121 excellent judge of merit, made him his chancellor, and instituted him to tbe rectory of St. Mary's Church, Chester. On the translation of that prelate to Exeter, his lordship collated him to a canonry in this cathedral on 5th August, 1503 ; shortly after, he was made Arch deacon of Barnstaple and Precentor of Exeter. Salis bury also ranked him amongst her prebendaries. On 19th November, 1509, he was confirmed Dean of Exeter, and nearly at the same time was put in posses sion of the deaneries of Windsor and of Wolver hampton. By Pope Leo X.'s provision, bearing date 31st August, 1519, he was advanced to the see of Exeter, and on 4th November King Henry YIIL restored to him its temporalities. Two days later the consecration ceremony was performed at Otford by the primate Wareham. Yeysy must then have passed his fiftieth year. King Henry YIIL was so charmed with his accomplished manners and bis talents for business that he appointed bim president of the Council of the Marches of Wales, and eventuaUy corifided to bim tbe tutorship of his daughter the Princess Mary, " a charge which he carefully performed," says Heylyn (' History of Queen Mary,' p. 10). But the historian labours under a mistake in supposing that " for his good per formance in that place of trust, this grave man was advanced to the see of Exeter in 1529;" for he had been bishop ten years before the date assigned by Heylyn, when the princess, born on Sth February, 1515, was but four years old,° During the winter of 1519 Bishop Yeysy made the visitation of his diocese : we meet him at Bodmin on 24th February, 1520 ; a month later he held an ordina tion in his cathedral ; and another also in St. Michael's ' Mias Strickland has fallen into the same mistake in the Life of Queen Mary, when she asserts that Vev.'iy was re warded with the bishopric of Exeter for assisting Mary in her studies at Hunsdon. 122 LIVES OP THB Chapel at Chudleigh on Easter eve, 7th AprU that year. In the early part of his episcopate, he spent a portion of every year in his diocese, but at a later period his absences were long and frequent, and its management was left to grand vicars and coadjutor bishops.^ On 3t)th March, 1533, his lordship officiated ¦with the Bishops of Lincoln and St. Asaph at the con secration of the primate Thomas Cranmer. It cannot be denied that our obsequious prelate went . all the lengths of King Henry YIIL, in the affair of the divorce of Queen Katharine, of the supremacy, and the dissolution of monasteries. In truth he was a perfect courtier — a character unsuitable to that of a Christian bishop : it restrained him from being honest in bad times, and from displaying the disinterested zeal and courage which became his age and elevated station; and he must have felt humiliated when the king, as the fountainhead of all spiritual power, commissioned Thomas Crumwell, on 24th November, 1535, to exer cise it, as His Majesty's vicegerent in this diocese, and indeed in every diocese within the realm. Hoker, Godwin, Eichard Carew, Westcote, and Heylyn (' History of King Edward YL,' p. 100), with a herd of subsequent -writers, vilify the bishop's memory, charging him with the utter ruin and spohation of his church. Yet it is but truth to declare, that he alienated no possessions of his see, without the express command ' Hoker relates that Thomas Bennet (ver6 Dusgate\ a Master of Arts of Cambridge, was executed at Livery Dole for heresy in January, 1531 — that, after teaching a school at Torriugton, he removed to this city and contiuued the aame ofBce, and was at length ar rested in. the Butchera' Eow. It is said that, frequenting the sermons at the Cathedral, he was so dissatisfied with the Catholic doctrines there delivered, that he was in the habit, Simday after Sunday, of sticking bills on the doors in confutation of them ; and that, being de tected and arraigned, he was condemned by the bishop. We have suspicion of the fact. Hoker at the time must have been but an infant. No mention is made in the bishop's " Acts " of any such trial ; aud as to the idea that the almshouses there were , founded by Sir Thomas Dennis as an atonement for presiding at such executions, as high sheriff, that must be incorrect, for they were not commenced until sixty years later than the supposed execution, aud fuU thirty years after Sir Thomas's death. BISHOPS OP EXETER. 123 and requisition of the sovereign, under tlie Privy Seal. On 29th June, 1548, he had to grant the manors of Crediton and Morchard Bishop to Sir Thomas Darcy, afterwards Lord Darcy, but reserved a rent-charge of 40^. per annum ; and tbat annuity continued to be paid to the bishops of Exeter by tbe family until 1640. In the Appendix we shall print some original liters, which may serve to extenuate the culpability of this timid guardian of Church property. Probably, if he and his chapter had been restive, and had refused to sacrifice a portion to the royal demands, the whole would have been snatched from them. All the bishops were compelled to submit to the rapacity of the court and of its harpies. Cranmer and Eidley were in high favour ; yet the former was required to sur render the better half of the possessions of bis archi episcopal see, and the latter to sacrifice four of his principal manors in a single day.' One important regulation took place in consequence of the dissolution of monasteries. Hitherto those establishments served for the archives and depositories of tbe births, marriages, and deaths of the members of famihes. To prevent confusion, and to perpetuate the remembrance of events so important to the public interest and benefit, the king's proclamation was issued for every beneficed clergyman to keep a book or register to be provided by his parishioners, to enter the day and year of every wedding, christening, and burying in the parish ; that a coffer with two locks and keys were to remain, one of the keys with the incumbent, the other with tbe churchwarden", that the book was to be produced ' Neither the property of the Church, nor the estate of any individual or fenuly, could be secure if coveted by the crown or any court minion. See Lysons's ' Environs of London,' article Stanwell Manor, the ancient seat of the Lords Windsor, vol. v. p. 251. In too many of the transactions of this melan choly period we are reminded of Ahab's conduct to Naboth (1 Kings, ch. xxi.) ; and in most instances the saying was verified, " The treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing " (Prov. x. 2). 124 LIVES OF THB every Sunday, and, in tbe presence of tbe church wardens, record to be made therein of all tbe weddings, christenings, and buryings of the preceding week; and for every failure of so doing, a penalty of three shillings and fourpence to be incurred, to be employed for the reparation of the church. The bishop received this Toyal order at Clist on lAth October, 1538, and inserted it in his ' Eegister,' vol. ii. fol. 77 b. On 14th August, 1551, Bishop Yeysy was peremp torily enjoined by the privy council to surrender his see into the hands of his juvenile sovereign. He sub mitted " pre corporis metu," as the patent of the ' First of Queen Mary,' p. 2, distinctly states. The income of tbe see had been rated in 1535 at 1566^. 14s. Q^d. The deprived bishop was to be allowed a net pension of AS51. 9s. 3d. Eetiring to his native place, he spent his income in works of charity ; he rebuilt the aisles of the parish church of Sutton Coldfield, and added to its ornaments ; erected a market-place there, paved the town, re-edified the street, defrayed the cost of two stone bridges, gave a meadow for the benefit of poor widows, founded a grammar-school, the rental of whose endowment is now valued at 470^. a year, and he intro duced the manufacture of " Devonshire kersies." King Edward YI. dying on 6th July, 1553, no sooner was his sister Mary settled on the throne, than she restored, on 3rd September that year, the nona genarian prelate to his see. On 13th November that year we meet him at his palace here, where he re mained nearly two months arranging the affairs of the diocese. The Eegister of his probate of wills com mences with 21st November, 1553. By 28th January, 1554, he had returned to Sutton Coldfield, where be continued till his death, as I imagine at the age of 92. His Eegistrar thus concludes his acts : — " Yicesimo tertio die Octobris, anno Domini mdliv, in manerio bishops op BXKTBR. 12.") suo de More Place, infra Parochiam de Sutton Coll- fyld, in Com. Warwick, Dominus ab h^c luce migravit. Cujus animse propitietur Deus, Amen." His tomb is still to be seen in the north aisle of the parish church, and is engraved in Dugdale's ' History of Warwickshire.' During the short interval between his restoration and death, his suffragan, William Collumpton Bishop of Hippo, the last prior of St. Nicholas, Exeter, and who had been a residentiary canon of the cathedral since the 2nd May, 1534, held several ordinations for him. Connected with the church of Exeter for upwards of fifty years as canon, archdeacon of Barnstaple, pre centor, dean, and bishop, no one was better qualified than Yeysy to give an improved synopsis of its statutes. A copy will be inserted in our Appendix. In his 'Eegister,' vol. i. fol. 10, we find our bishop on llth November, 1521, at his manor of Old Windsor. Was tbis his private property ? Arms : — Argent, a Cross sable charged with a Buck's head couped between four Doves argent; on a chief azure, a Cross— fleury according to Westcote, crosslet according to Izacke — between two roses or. LiTBRB RECji.a:, ex Registro Johannis Vjssict Exon Episcopi." [Die Veneris, videlicet xix"". die Decembris, per Magistrum Henricum Morgan receptum Breve sub noctem ad demolienda altaria.] . To the Right Eeverend Father in God our right trustie and welbelovid the Bishop of Exceter. Eight Eeverend father yn God right trustie and welbelovid we grete you welle and where yt ys comme unto our knowledge that beinge the aultors within the more parte of the churches of this our realme alredy upon good and godly consideracions taken downe, there dothe yet remain aulters yn divers other churches by occasyon where of moche variarfce and contention arrisithe amongs sondre of our subjects which if good foresight were not had might perchauuce engender great hurte & inconve nience, we late you wytt that myndinge to have all occasyons of » Vol. ii. fois. 1196, 121, and 122. 126 LIVES OP THE contention taken awaye which many tymes growe by those and suche like diversities and consyderynge that amongst other things belonging to our royal offyce and cure we do accompt the grettest to be to maynetayne the common quyet of our reallme we have thought good by the advise of our Consayle to requyre you and neverthelesse specially to charge and com mando you for the advoydinge of all matters of ferther contencion and stryff about the standinge or takynge awaye of the said aulters to gyff substancyall orders throughout all your diocese that with all dylygence all the aulters yn every churche or chapell as welle yn places exemptyd as not exemptid within your said diocese be taken downe and yn lyeu of them a table sett up in some cenvenyent part of the chaunsell within any suche churche or chapell to serve for the administracion of the blessid Colon. And to th'intent the same maye be donne without th'offence of suche of our lovinge subjects as be not yet so weUe persuadyd yn that behalf as we wolde wishe we sende unto you herewith certayne considerations gatteride and coUectide that make for the purpose the which as suche as you shalle think myet before the takinge downe of the saide aulters so as bothe the weke conscience of others maye be instructide as satisfiede as moche as maye be and this our plesure the more quyetly executide. For the better doynge where of we requyre you to open the forsaide consideracions yn that your cathedrall churche yn your awne person yf that you conveniently maie or otherwise by your chauncelor or some other grave prechar, bothe there and yn suche other merkett towens and most notable places of your diocese as you maye thinke moste requisite. Yeven under our signet at our Palace at Westminster the xxiij' of November yn the iiij yer of our raigne. E. Somerset, T. Cant, W. Wilte, J. Warwyke, J. Bedford, W. North, E. Clynton, E. Wentworth, T. Darcy. [16° die mensis Maii, anno Domini 1551, Magister Blaxton recepit apud Exon, Literas sequentes.] Eight Eeverend Father yn God right trustie and welbelovide we grete you welle. And where as yt ys come to our knowledge that there be diverse lewide and sedicious persons yn certain partes of our realme that- practise and devise the means to styreupe unlefuUe assembles and comotions to the trubble and unquiett of us and our lovynge subjects forasmoche aa we intende to mete with the saide practises yn tyme we have thought good amongs other things that we have set forthe the BISHOPS OP EXETER. 127 purpose to addrese unto yo, as we have donne the hke to all other prelatts of our realme for the conteyning of our subjects yn quyet and good order and the suppression of rebelhon yf at anye tyme anye shulde happen to be praotyside or begonne within our realme. Wherefore we requyre and straytly charge to gyve substanciall order through owt all your diocese that within every parishe churche within the same, the sayde act may be openly and distinctly red by the parson or curat of the parochians every Sondaye or seconde Sondaye at the leste, at such tyme in the morninge as th'assemble of the saide parochians ys most frequent to th'ende they may be from tyme to tyme admonishide of there dewtibS and of the pereU that shaUe ensewe to them that shaUe devise or attempt any thinge contrary to the said Act. And hke as we yn this pereUous tyme thought yt necessarye for the preservacion of the common quiett of our realme to address to you and the reste of our prelatts these our Letters with the said Act so our speciah truste ys that ye for your parte whle se the same effectually donne and executide through your diocese so dewly with suche regarde and care as th'emportance of the case requirithe. Where of fayle ye not as ye tendre our plesure and wille advoyde our indignacion. Yeven under our signett at our manor of Grenewyche, the sixt of May, the fyve eyre of our rainge. E. Somerset, T. Cant, E. Eyche, E. Clynton, T. Ely, J. Wyngpeld. Cane. W. Wyltshe, J. Waewike. [Item xxiiij". Julii, anno Domini 1551, Magister Blaxton recepit apud Exon. Literas sequentes.] To the Eight Eeverend Father yn God our right trustie aud welbelovide the Bishop of Excetter, and yn his absens to his Chancelor. Eight Eeverend Father in God right trustie & welbelovide we grete you welle and beinge not a hteU disqietide to see the subjects of this our realme vexide with the extreme and suddaine plage that daily encreasithe over all we cannott but lament the peoples wickednes throught the which the wrathe of God hathe bene thus marvelously provokyd for the more we studie for to instructe them in the knowledge of God and his most holy worde that consequently they might fohowe and observe his lawes and presepts so moche the more busie is the wickide sprite to ahenate there harts from all godhnes, and his mahce hathe so moche prevaihde that becawse the people as become as it were open rebells againste the divine majestic God after one plage hathe sent an other and an other encreasynge it so from one to one tyll at lengtht seeinge non other remedie he 128 LIVES OF THE hath throne forthe this most extreme plage of sodaine deathe, and because there is none other waie to pacify his forie and to recover his grace and mercie but by prayer and amendement of lyf considering the cure and charge comyttide unto you we have thought goode to call upon you to use all diligence possible throught out your hole dyowse as weU by your seK as by your good ministres to persuade the people to resorte more unto the common prayer then they have donne and there not onhe lo praye with all there harts in the feare of God as good and faythefoll men shuld do but also to have a better regarde unto there levings and specially to refraine there greedie appetid from that insaciable serpent of covetnosnes where with most men are so infectide that it semethe eche one wolde devoure an other without cherite or any other godly respect to the poor to there neighbours or to there common wealthe. For the wiche hathe not only powred out this plage that after tliis hffe shall plage them everlastingly, where jti you muste use those persuations that may engender a terror to reduce . them from their corrupt noughtines and detestable vices. But yn the hodie and membres of a dnU or a sicke hed can not be lustie or apt to do well so in manie cures of this our reahne as well the chief as the par ticular ministre of the churche have byne bothe so duUe and so feble in discharginge of their duties that it is no marvaUe thought their flock wander not knowinge the voyce of their shepard and moche lesse the voyce of their principali and soveraigne Master. We trust ye are none of those but if ther have ben suche negligence within your jurisdiction we exort and pray you & nevertheless charge and command by the aucthorite geven us of God to se it reformid, encreasinge also amendment in that that alredy is welle begonne in suche sorte that your diligence maie declare you worthie of your vocation and th'effects there of yelde unto God an obedient faythefull & fearfoll flock which we wishe to God we maye shortly see. Yeven under; our signett at our Honor of Hampton Court the xvuj of July the first yere of our reinge. E. Somerset, W. Wyltshe, J. Bedford, H. Shrewesbury, H. Huntyngdon, T. Darcy, G. Cobham, T. Cheyne, John Gale. Letters of Lord John Eussell to Bishop Vesey and the Chapter. To my veraie good Lorde my Lorde the Busshopp of Excestre his good Lordshipp. My veraie good lord aftre my most hertie commendacons unto yor good lordshippe 1 imderstond the same is patrone of a certen coUaige nere to the citie of Chichestre called Bosham. BTSlTOrs OP EXBTEll. 129 In wiche collaigo thoro be diverse prebends of yor coUacion and fift, amongs whome one is called the prebende of Aj)ledram eing in valor about viij" by yere. Of wiche prebende one Mr. Marfar stuardo of housholde to my lord Archbushopp of York is incumbent by tho resignacon of Mr. Bodle late pre- bendarie thereof And my good lord being instantlie required by one that is my verie loving frond named Mr. Bumo servaunte and secretaire to my veray good lord my' Lord Pvoe Scale whose lordships chief mansion stondthe wtin vj myles of the said prebend, 1 have thought good to beseech yor good lordshipp at contemplacon herof to graunte to me and my sonne Ffrauncs and the said Mr. Burne jointelie and seveallie an advowson ofthe said prebende of Appledram undreyor lordships seale aud the seale also of yor chapitre entending to beestowe the eame whan it fallethe upon one Mr. Gilbert Burne who is a man eiuglerlie lerned and of good opinnon. And this bearer shall content and pay all the chargs of the said seales. And yor lordshipp dooeng me herin a singler pleasuer besides that ye shall have me readie to reacquite the samo withe the semlable occasion given your lordshipp shall also find an honest well lerned man to bee yor oratr. As th'olie Trinity knowethe who have you iu keping and send the same long lief and good healthe. From London the vjth of June. Yor good lordships owne assured, J. Eussell. To the right woshipfulles and my very lovinge friends the Deane and the rest of the Chapiter of the Cathedrall Churche of Exceter yeovo thies. Eight worshipfuUes after my veary herty recommendacons wt Id?; deshes of your healthes. Whereas my veiy good lord the BuBshop of Exceter hath upon my herty request and sondry consideracons moving him therunto graunted to me xxx yeres more in the manoures of Cliste and Tawton wich I have of him by lease (as yo know) above those yeres before expressed in th'olde indentures di-awn for that behalf betwyn us : thee? ar even most hertely to reqwyre yo and every of yo wt lyke gentilnes and gratuytie to ratefie and confirm his soyd graunt by yor chapyter seale, as heretofore yo have used when first I took the same by lease flfmther beseeching yo that wheare of yo most benevolent mynd and zeale towards me yo gave me th'ofBce of stewardship of the landes of that yo cathedrall church yo will at this my lierty desyres and for my sake be lykewyse contented that my sonn Ffrauncys Eussell be joyned in patent wt me for the samo. Thomas Hacho (whom I pray yo to credytt 130 LIVES OP THE in the premisses) shall gyve his attendaunce upon yo for thc doynges therof. In conclusion your singuler gentilnes in satis- fienge thees my requestes, shall not bee unacquytted when I maye have occasion to show yo or any of y5 the lyke plesure. And thus offering my self in y5 gentill favour herein I byd yo most hertely well to fare. Ffrom London the xth of Ffebruary. Y5 owne assured lovinge ffriend, J. Eussell. [The seal has the initials I. E.] To the right honorable & his approvyd goode Lorde the Busshope of Excetour his goode Lordshipe.* My veary good lorde yn most hartye wyse I recomende me unto y5 good lordeshype signefyinge the same of the kings hyghnes most prosperous healthe & off all yor friends here. I have recevyd yor lordeshippes letters as to yt yor lordships effect concerning yr bill. I have sett fourthe the same unto the cownsaile here whitche ys stayed untyll the repayer hether of the Chauncelor of the Tenths at whose coming doubt yow not my lorde but that I wyll further the same to the uttermost of my powar. My lord of Durhame & my lorde of Wyuchestr were yn lycke case but they sued yn tyme and now I und'stand theyre ys a statute made so as a greate parte of yr suete yn the sayd Chawncelor whom I wuU not faille to remembre yn yor behalff God woUyng. My lorde amongs others I am coplayned unto by dyverse of the kyngs subjects of Devonshere & CornewaU of there greate desquyettnes & trouble by reason they are com- pellyd to sue here so farre of for redresse of theire injuries & wrongs wth the wch they fynde them sellves more grevyd as undowbtedly they have no lesse cause. My lorde as towchynge that I wulde gladlie knowe yr best advyse and what yow thinke to the redresse thereof. And even so shall I not faylle to be a suter to the kyngs highnes for the p' chase of theire bett' quyettnes therein. Moreover my lorde wheare it hathe pleasyd the kings highnes to dyrect his letters as well to yor lordshippe as to yor Deane & Chapitre of Exceter in the favor of my spiall good frinde S. Thoms Denys knight for suche mattier as is pportyd in his sayde highnes letters These shalbe to requyer yow not onlye for yor lordshipps parte to way & further the same his gi-acs request but even so accordynglye to anymate yor sayde chapitre there unto so as his maiestie shall well imderstand that they be confonnabell wth yor lordshippe to " Bishop Vesey's Register, vol. ii. fol. 111. BISHOPS OP EXETEK. 181 that complishemeut of his maiesties pleasure in that behalf Otherwise if there shall appere anye ohstinacye unto his highnes thereyn in anye behalff as 1 dowt not that hit shall it may then folow yor thanks to be drownyd and yet this moche I may say to yor lordshipe that the kyng ys very ernest yn hytt & fuUye det'mynyd that the said S. Thorn's Dennys shall enioye the same (by other lawfull means). Wherefore I thought no lesse then goode to adv'tyse yor lordshypp the whole some of his highnes pleasure and to requier yow as I wold my hartiest frynde that yowe shuUd yn no man' of wise nor anye of yor sayde chapitre disagre thereunto. Thus my good lord I take my leave of yow for thys tyme besichynge most hartely AUmighty God to sende yow longe lyff to his plesure, witen at the kyngs Honor of Hampton Courte the seconde day of July by yor lordships assuryd, J. Eussell. [Item ultio Octobris vena"" vir Magister [Honry] Morgan recepit apud Exon Litteras sequentes. To our verie good Lord the Bishop of Excester.'*' After our hartie comendacons to your lordship thies shalbe to signifie unto the same that it hath been brought to or knowledge that soundrie p'sons uppon som vayn brutes or rather their owne rashenes have now lately attempted in sondry placys of the realme to make sale of th' ornaments of the plate jueUs and bells of soundly churches wherin as they have demeaned themselfs otherwise then became them and gyven a verie ill example. So thinkyng co'venyent both to have a stay made that the lyke be not from hensforth attempted and also to have p'fecte know ledge how and to wat uses the money receyved for any of the thinges aforesaid hath been employed We have thought good to requyre you that onless the kings maties commissioners for the visitac5n have alredy taken order therein ye cause due serche and enquyrie to be undekydly made by your ministers what hath -been taken away sold or ahenated out of any churche or chapell of your diocese and by whom and to what uses the money growing thereuppon hath been employd and theruppon taken spiall note of their names who have made the same awaye and of the values of the things to gyve a strait co'mandement in the kynga maties behalf that they ne any other p'sone not from thensforth to make any suche alenac5n signifieng unto us what ye shall have doon therin wheruppon suche further order shalbe '" Bishop Vcsey'.s Eegister, vol. ii. fol. 115. k2 132 LIVES OP THE taken as shalbe - expedient. Thus fare your lordship right hartely well from Hampton Courte the xvijth of October;^ 1547. Yr assured frends, T. Som'set, H. Arundell, F. Seymour, Willm. Paget, Willm. Petre. Myles Coverdale, S.T. P., born near Middleham, in Yorkshire, bad been a Eeligious of the Augustinian Convent at Cambridge (now occupied by the Physic Crarden of its University), but releasing himself from his solemn vows, became a zealous instrument of the Eeformation. In Thomas, Lord Crumwell, be found a powerful abettor : bis labours in translating and editing the Bible in 1535, must place him among the leading scholars of the times ; as a preacher, be was celebrated at home and abroad. In the. insurrection throughout this diocese in 1549, he received a license,, with Doctors Gregory and Eeynolds, from the infant Kiug, to declare the Word of Grod to the people, in such public places as Lord John Eussell, tbe general sent down to oppose tbe insurgents, should appoint ('Strype,' vol. ii. p. 168). The very day— 14th August, 1551 — whicb witnessed the deprivation of Bishop Vesey, saw Dr. Coverdale appointed his successor, with power from the Crown to ordain and promote clerks to holy orders and priesthood. His consecration took place, according to the^ npw form, on 30th August, .1551, at Croydon, by Archbishop Cran mer. " The bones of his see had been so clean picked," says Heylin, p. 101, "that he could not easily leave tbem with less flesh than he found upon them." It is remarkable, tbat bis Eegister commences on 10th Sep tember, the very day be obtained his dispensation from the young King, for himself and his wife, Eliza- BISHOPS OP EXETER. 13^ bisth,'^ "pro carnibus edendis," during Lent, and every fasting day, for the remainder of their lives. Four days after this royal indulgence, we find him at the Palace at Exeter, wbere, on 20th December that year, he ordained four deacons ; one of whom, Anthony Eandall, be Commissioned, two days later, to expound and preach the Word of God in Latin, or English, in any church, or otber decent places, throughout the diocese. Two of the otber three deacons he promoted to priesthood in the chapel (sacello) of bis palace. On 1st January, 1552, he ordained, "infra domum suam," John Grosse deacon and likewise priest "in imo et eodem die." His other ordinations were conducted in his cathedral : viz., Srd July, 1552, of two deacons; on 24tb of the same month, of one deacon ; and on 22nd May, 1553, of two deacons : one of whom, Thomas Eichards, he promoted to priesthood also " in uno et eodem die." This abuse was subsequently forbidden, viz. 1603, by tbe 32nd canon. • We regret that the venerable man should have con sented to sit as a judge to try Von Parris, the Dutch surgeon of London, who was committed to the flames in April, 1551, for maintaining Socinian opinions. If be and Arcbbisbop Cranmer, who pronounced sen tence on the unfortunate man, claimed for themselves the inherent right of changing and upholding tbeir religious belief^ bow unjust to punish others for assert ing the same liberty ! It must have been painful to tbe bishop's feelings, if be entertained any interest in the credit of bis cathe dral, to have been joined in tbe king's commission with Sir Peter Oarewe and Sir Thomas Denys, knights, William Hurst, tbe mayor of Exeter, and John Myd- wynter, one of its aldermen, to summon peremptorily bis ' " She was a Scottish woman (called I John Machaheus, Preacher to the King Maohesou), sister to the wife of Doctor 1 of Denmark." Hoker s MS. p. 350. 134 LIVES OF THE Dpaji and Chapter to appear before tbem in his palace on 30th September, 1552, "tben and tbere to answer all demands and questions concerning the Jewells, plate and other ornaments of your cathedrall churche." The summons is dated on the previous 29th August." . At Queen Mary's accession, he was deprived of his see, but by a proper Act of Council was permitted to go to Denmark " witb two of bis servants, bis bagges and baggage, without any unlawfuU lette or serche" ('Arcbseolog.,' vol. xviii. p. 183). During bis absence from England, we imagine tbat he translated into English the treatise on the Eucharist " Compiled by John Calvine, a man of no less learnyng and litera ture than godly studye and example of lyvyng ; wher unto is added the Order that the churche of Christe in Denmarke, and in many places, countries, and cities of Germany doth use, not onelye at the Holye Supper of the Lorde, but also at the ministration of the blessed Sacramento of Baptisme and Holy Wedlocke," — octavo, black letter, without place, printer's name, or date. After Msiry's death he returned to England, and might have been restored to his bishopric ; but he preferred to lead a private life. Dr. Grindal, Bishop of London, collated him to the Eectory of St. Magnus, London Bridge, but he was too poor to pay the first-fruits, 60/. 16s. lOd., and at length, says Strype ('Hist. Eeform.' p. 367), Queen Elizabeth was induced to forgive him that debt. He died, it is said, on 20th May, 1565, but perhaps on 19th February, 1568, aged 81, and was buried in the chancel of St. Bartholomew's Church, behind the Exchange, London. " His funeral 2 In 1551, the church plate of the parishes of St. George, St. Mary Arches, St. Maiy Major's, St. Stephen's, St. Pancras, St. Olave, and St. Kerrian, as we leam from the Aot Book of the Corporation, was applied " to the use of the bringing up of tho Kiver of Exe," alias the canal. It weighed 741 oz, and 4 dwts., and was valued at 1912. 12s. 4Jd. To the same purpose were appropriated " a cross of silver gilt, weighing 102 oz., a silver vessel containing the holy oils, and a silver chalice, weighing 44 oz., the value of which, when sold, fetched 371." BISHOPS OP EXETEE. 135 was graced with the presence of the Duchess of Suffolk, the Earl of Bedford, and many honourable and wor shipful persons," says Hoker, who probably wrote his epitaph. For a list of his works we refer the reader to Chalmers* 'Biographical Dictionary,' and Cooper's 'Athense Cantabrigienses,' vol. i., but of the ' Spiritual Perle,' he was merely the translator, from the German of Otho Wormulerus, in 1550, reprinted in 1812. Asms : — ^Quarterly per fess indented gules and or : in chief a Eose between two Fleurs-de-lis ; in base a Fleur-de-lis be tween two Eoses, all counterchanged. James Turberville, descended of the ancient family of that name, settled at Beer Eegis, in the county of Dorset, was the second son of John Tur berville, Esquire, by his wife Isabella* (Cheveral). Having distinguished himself in the College at Win chester, and at New College, Oxford, he took the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and was a Prebendary of Winchester when King Philip and Queen Mary, on 10th March, 1555, issued their conge d'elire to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter for his supplying their vacant see. On 6th May the elect was allowed its temporalities from the . Michaelmas last past, and he was consecrated at St. Paul's, London, by its bishop, Edmund Bonner, in the company of Hugh Curwen, elect of Dubhn, and William Glynn, elect of Bangor, on 8th September, 1555. Early in the ensuing March he reached Exeter, and on 16th April received from Cardinal Pole, the Primate, and Legate of the Holy See, ample power to make the visitation of his diocese. To Queen Mary's honour* be it said, that she released ¦'' What relation was he to Eohert Turberville, Esq. (who had died 26th February, 1529J and to Dorothy his wife, who had died 7th October, 1521, and were buried within St. Stephen's in St. Albans? See Weever's 'Fun. Mon.' p. 582. < Weever states that " Maiy, moved by conscientious motives, frankly and freely restored to the church what possessions she could, saymg (with a Christian and princely resolution, I must confess) to certain of the counsel lors, ' that she set more bythe salvation 136 LIVES OF THE the clergy from the payment of tenths an J first-fruits to the Crown, whose livings did not exceed the yearly value of twenty marks (' Heylin's Hist.' p. 53), a con cession which her sister and successor. Queen Eliza beth, withdrew four years later (Heyhn's ' Hist. Queen Elizabeth,' p. 108). She also restored tb the see, on 18th July, 1556, the borough and manor of Crediton (' Act Books of the Chamber,' p. 84). Our bishop must have also gained possession of the favourite residence of his predecessors at Clist, for we find him holding some small ordinations in its chapel of St. Gabriel on 13th March, 8th and llth June, and 18th December, 1557; on 26tb March, 1558, and 3rd September that year,^ His other ordinations were held in St. Mary's Chapel, within the palace of Exeter, on 8tb and llth June, and 18th September, 1557, and again on the eves of Easter and Trinity Sundays, 1558, and in the church of the Holy Cross at Crediton, on 16th Septem ber in the last mentioned year. His Eegister proves his moderation of conduct, and diligent attention to his episcopal duties ; and to those who have examined the wills proved during his short pre-eminence, it must be gratifying to witness a reviving spirit of commendable zeal to contribute to the beauty of God's house, and to provide for the wants and comforts of tbe poor. On 18tb March, 1557-8, he blessed a spot of ground at Eingswell, given by John Petre, Esq., for tbe interment of executed criminals, and which was inclosed by tbe charitable widow, Mrs. Joan Tuckfield.^ About Mi- of her soul, than she did by ten king- 1 With the change of owners it became doms.' "— ' Fun. Mon.' p. 135. Browne j desecrated to profane uses. All honour WilUs, in his 'Survey of Cathedrals,' i to the present proprietor, J. Gairett, admits that she restored abundance of i Esq., who is now engaged in gutting, re- manors to the churcli ; so that to her pairing, and tastefully restoring it to its the cathedrals are mdobted for a con- original purpose — a " House of Prayer." siderable part of their present revenues. « lyjig bishops Eegister is perfectly ^ This was the last episcopal fimction silent on the lamentable persecution of pcrfoi-med m this commodious cliapel, Agnes Prest for religious opinions Jfshe ¦which measured about 50 feet in length, suffered death for them iu August 1558 as m breadth, and about 25 in height, —another account says 15th November BISHOPS OP EXETEB. 137 .chaelmas 1558, he left the diocese for London. The <^ueen's dissolution was rapidly approaching, and she expired on 17th November, 1558, aged 42. Queen Elizabeth, on 5th December, summoned our bishop to attend the new Parliament to be holden at Westmin ster on 23rd January, 1559 : but as his conscience would not suffer bim to subscribe to her Majesty's supremacy in all spiritual and ecclesiastical causes as well as in civil, he was subjected to the penalty of deprivation of office on 18 th June that year, and at once committed to the Tower. Hoker says, " he was soon enlarged, but commanded to keep his bouse in London, where he lived a private life ; and in the end, there died." He was certainly living on 23rd January, 1560, but the precise date of his death we have looked for in vain. In Izacke's manuscript, in the ' Archives of the Mayor and Chamber of Exeter,' it had been originally written " he was buried at Beer Eegis, Dorset ;" on a subsequent revision, a stroke was drawn through the words as above, and the following substi tuted, " in the body of the choir of his own church." The Cathedral Eegister of Burials, commencing full thirty years later, can throw no light whatever on the subject. Heylin, in his ' History of the Eeformation ' (Part ii. p. 114), merely states, that he was permitted " to enjoy his liberty ; and being by birth a gentleman, could not want friends to give him honest entertain ment." Yet Dr. 'Nicholas Sanders, in his treatise ' De Schismate Anglicano,' numbers Turberville amongst the bishops " who died either in prison, or exile," and Dr. Bridgewater, towards the end of tbe -' Concertatio,' writes as follows : " E""" Turbevilus Eps Exoniensis obiit in vinculis." Godwin relates "cum per 7nultos annos privatus vixisset, in summi Hbertate defunctus." 1557— it must have been when Bishop Tm-berville was absent. "Indeed," says Fuller, " hor death was procured more by the violence of Blaxton, the chancellor, than by auy persecution of the bishop." 138 LIVES OF THE But Mr. T. Duffus Hardy, in his ' Fasti Ecclesige Angli- cause, 1854,' vol. i. p. 378, behoves that "he died 1st November, 1559, and was buried in Exeter Cathedral. Letters of administration to this bishop were granted so long after his death as April, 1667 ! See the Calendar of that year." Arms : — According to Izacke — ermine, a Lion rampant, gules, crowned, or, langued and armed azure ; according to West cote — argent, a Lion rampant, gules, crowned, or. William Alley, S.T.P., a native of Wycombe, Bucks, and educated at Eton, but finished his course of studies at Cambridge and Oxford, whilst Prebendary of St. Paul's, London, was fixed on by Queen Elizabeth to succeed the deprived Turberville. On 27th April, 1560, she issued her conge d'elire to our Dean and Chapter. It was delivered to the President,- Chancellor Levison, on 5th May, in the absence of the newly- elected Dean, Dr. Gregory Dodds : the election took place on 20th that month ; but his consecration ' 14th July that year (Parker's 'Eegister,' fol. 80). The revenues of the see and of his chapter had of late been lamentably reduced : fortunately the Eectory of Hon iton was given to the Bishop towards the better niain- tenance of his rank ; and in its parochial church, and even in the rectory-house, he held several ordinations " in Eectoria — in domo Domini Episcopi apud Hony- ton," as we leam from his Eegisters.^ O'wing to the ' The Precentor, Eichard Petre, George Squire, Archdeacon of Barn staple, George Harvey, Archdeacon of Cornwall, Thomas Nutcome, the Sub dean, with eight other Canons, viz. those forming the great majority of the Chapter, kept themselves aloof. The names of these Canons were John Kenall, William Evaunce, Geo. Mason, Eobert Brocke, Nicholas Wotton, Wal- teir Wryght, Humphry Stanley, and John Hai-psfield. See Alley's ' Regis ter,' fol. 62. s In a note, p. 95, on Bishop Stafford, we have referred to the hasty promotion of Eichard Courtenay to the priesthood. In Bishop Alley's Itegister, fol. 70, is a similar instance. His lordship, on 22nd November, 1560, collated Lewis Swete, a scholar, aged 18, to the vicarage of Keuwyn, and allows him two years to prepare for holy ordfers. Prom the Eegister of St. Mary Major's parish we copy the foUowing extract :— "1565. xxiii. daye of Septemher was christiiied Austin Alleye, the sonne of the Eight Worshipftdl My Lord Wilham AUeye, Bisshoppc of Exeter" (by his wife Sybil). We apprehend his son Eoger, collated . BISHOPS OP EXETEE. 139 impoverished state of the finances of his Dean and Chapter, with the unanimous consent of its members, atid under the Eoyal authority, he diminished the number of the Canons of the Cathedral from twenty- four to nine. His statute for this purpose is dated 22nd February, 156*0-1. Attempts were made at subsequent periods fo set aside this ordinance, which conferred the power and emoluments on the favoured nine, to the exclusion of the other fifteen ; but it proved useless to combat with a practice, legalised by time and due authority. Hoker, who knew the bishop well, com mends his affability of manners, regularity of hfe, and singular learning ; adding that " his library was reple nished with all the best sort of writers, which most gladly he would impart, and make open to every good scholar and student, whose company and conference he 'did most desire and embrace;" but in his MS. 'History,' p. 359, in describing the Mayor, Bobert Midwynter, he says, that " iji office he showed himself, as be was, an upright justice, and governed the city in very good order. In nothing was he more stowte, than he was against Bishop Alley, when he brought a commyssion to be a Justice of the Peace within the citie, contrary to the lybertes of the same." After governing the diocese for about nine years and a half, he died, according to his epitaph, on l6th April, 1570, aged 60, and was buried in the choir of his cathedral. He is known to the literary world by his ' Poor Man's Librarie,' printed in folio by John Day, London, 1565, or 'Lectures upon the First Epistle of Saint Peter, red publiquely in the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paule, within tbe Citye of London, in 1560. Here are adioyned at tbe ende of euery special treatise, certain fruitful annotacions called miscellanea, because they do entreate of diuerse and sundry matters.' too prematurely to the Archdeaconry of I mitted Eector of Pyworthy in the sum- Cornwall, 13th October, 1563, was ad- | mer of 1581 : ob. 1610. 140 LIVES OP THE Arms : — According to Izacke— azure, a pale engrailed ermine between two Lions rampant, argent, langued and armed, gules ; 'according to Westcote — azure, a pale bet-ween two Lions rampant, ermine, crowned, or. William Bradbridge, born in London, but of a Somersetshire family. Prom Dean of Salisbury he was promoted on 26th February, 1571, to this vacant see, and on 18tb of following month was consecrated at Lambeth by Archbishop Parker. In consequence of the impoverished estate of the bishopric. Queen Eliza beth and that Primate licensed him to hold two bene fices in commendam, — one, Newton Ferrers in Devon, the other, Lezante in Cornwall. Strange that the new prelate, at the age of seventy, should embark largely in agricultural speculations ! The result soon appeared, by bis becoming a ruined man. " He was far indebted to the Queen's Majesty for the monies received of the- clergy for tenths and subsidies, so that immediately upon his deatb, all his goods were seized for her use" (Hoker). The Patent Book of the see in the principal Eegistrar's office at Exeter, p. 84, records that " he died 1400?. in debt to Queen Elizabeth, and bad not where with to bury him." This is repeated in Bishop Ward's Eegister, fol. 69. His death happened suddenly at Newton Ferrers (where he generally resided, to the great inconvenience of his clergy), when no one happened to be present, between twelve and one o'clock of the day, on 28th June, 1578, aged 77; and his Eegister, fol. 44, concludes bis acts with the old formula, " Cujus animse propitietur Deus, Amen." He was buried on the north side of the choir of the cathedral. Arms : — Azure, a Pheon's head, argent. John Woolton, nephew to the celebrated Dean Nowell, was born at Whalley,' in the county of Lan- ' It is so asserted in his epitaph ; and certainly his uncle. Dr. NoweU, was born at Eead Hall, in Whalley parish. But his son-in-law. Bishop Godwin, in his work ' DePrasulibus,' assigns 'Wigmt as the place of his birth. BISHOPS OP EXETEE. 141 caster, and distinguished 'himself at Brasenose College, Oxford. In Bishop Alley, who brought him into his diocese,'" and in^ Francis, Earl of Bedford, he found zealous and liberal patrons. On 15th August, 1561, he was instituted to the living of Sampford Peverel, then to Whimple, was collated to a canonry of this cathedral (in which office during the plague in the summer of 1570 he was exemplary in his attendance on the sick, says Hoker, p. 356 'MS. Hist.'), also to the Eectory of Kenn, on 15th October, 1573, to the Wardenship of Manchester College in 1575^ and to the Eectory of Spaxton in the deanery of Bridgewater. The death of Dr. Bradbridge opened to him the See of Exeter, to wbich he was consecrated, by Archbishop Edmund Grindal, at Lambeth, on 2nd August, 1578, and in which he was installed on 21st March following. To enable him ihe better to support his rank he was fur ther promoted to the Eectory of Haccombe, on 20th October, 1581, by the Carew family.' This bishop remodelled the statutes of his church ; but his assertion in the preamble, that hitherto they were confused and utterly indigested — " hactenus con- fusa et nullo ordine digesta " — may be questioned by tbose who are acquainted with the diligence and expe rience of his predecessors. That he was a learned scholar is manifest from the six treatises published in London in 1576, He had the gratification of witness ing, on 5th July, 1585, the restitution by the Crown to his Chapter of the lands, tenements, and rents so rudely wrested from their hands, and which had been origi- 1° The bishop had collated him to a canonry and prebend of Exeter, 22nd March, 1565 ; and we read in the Regis ter of St. Mary Major's parish, Exeter, " 1567, the 24th daye of October, was baptysed Sara Woulton, daughter of Mr. Woulton, clarke." ' Duiing ^is. episcopacy, viz. in 1581, a collection was made in Exeter for the relief of Geneva, to the amount of 591. 6s. 8d. From the clergy of the dio cese of Exeter, 144i. 3«. 2d. Total, 2031. 9s. Wd. was received : both sums were forwarded by Bishop Woolton to the Archbishop of Canterbury, to be remitted to Geneva, and duly acknow ledged, as the 'Act Book' shows. 142 LIVES OF THE nally granted for the maintenance of obituary services. The Crown, however, reserved a yearly pension of 145?., which continued to be paid for eighty-eight years, when King Charles the Second, on 30th July, 1673, trans ferred the payment from the Crown to the ex-Treasurer, Thomas, Lord Chfford, Baron Chudleigh, and his heirs male for ever. Tbe bishop had the further satisfaction of seeing the Queen at the same time re-granting to the priest- vicars of his church the greater part of their former possessions. For some time before his death he had suffered from asthma, which terminated his hfe at the Palace at Exeter on Wednesday morning, 13th March, 1593-4, aged 57, His remains were deposited seven days later on the south side of the cathedral choir ; but the monumental inscription has been placed in the south tower. The Eegister of the cathedral burials commences with his interment. Some years before his death he had purchased Pilland Estate in Pilton, of the Brett family ; his son, John Woolton, M.D., eventually giving up his practice in Exeter, retired to Pilland. Arms : — ^Argent, a Lion rampant jessant a saltier engrailed, gules. Gervase Babington, a native of Nottinghamshire. Whilst Chaplain to Henry, Earl of Pembroke, he assisted the noble Countess, Mary Sidney, in her trans lation of the Psalms. Through the interest of such patrons, he was promoted to the See of Llandaff, to which he was consecrated by the Primate, Whitgift, on 29th August, 1591. On the death of Bishop Woolton, Queen Elizabeth recommended him to our Dean and Chapter in her letters patent, dated" 22nd March, 1594, as a successor.' It is highly creditable to Dr. Godwin, 2 In the ' Act Book of the Mayor and Chamber,' vol. iv. p. 154, wo flnd an order recorded, a week later, that " Mr. Receiver shall provide a hogshead of good saoke (sec) or canary wine, and bestow the same upou the now bishop bishops op exetbe. 143 the biographer, then Canon and Subdean of Exeter, that he did all he could to prevent this new bishop from injuring the see, by surrendering to the Crown the manor and borough of Crediton : yet all opposition proved abortive. Queen Elizabeth had no sooner secured this property, than she granted it, on 15th May, 1595, to William Killigrew, Esq., one of the Grooms of her Chamber. Heylin has very incorrectly charged this wrongful dismemberment to the memory of Dr. Cotton, the successor of Babington ('Hist. Eeform.' part ii. p. 58). Perhaps this act of obsequious subserviency to the royal wish induced her Majesty to translate our prelate to the wealthier see of Worcester, on 4th October, 1597, He could not be regretted here : he left the palace in a dilapidated state, as we shall show hereafter. After sitting at Worcester nearly thirteen years, he died on 17th May, 1610. The library of that church he " enriched with many choice books " ('Athen. Oxon.' part i. p. 754). His previous printed works, comprising ' Notes .on the Pentateuch,' ' Exposition of the Creed, the Commandments, and the Lord's Prayer,' ' A Con ference betwixt Man's Frailty and Faith,' and three Sermons, were pubhshed in a folio volume in 1615, and 1622. Arms :— Ten Torteauxes— four, three, two, and one, in chief a label of three points azure ; Westcote omits the label. William Cotton, a native of London, but descended of an ancient family in Staffordshire: educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, and whilst Prebendary of St. Paul's, London, and Archdeacon of Lewes, was nominated by Queen EHzabeth, on 18th August, 1598, to supply the vacant See of Exeter. The ceremony of his consecration took place on 12th November that Dr. Babmgton, as a gift from the city." I until 2nd May, 1595. Hoker's MS. 96. But his lordship did not reach the city | 144 LIVES OP THE year,^ but did not reach tbis city until 16th May, 1599. He soon made himself conspicuous by his hostility to the Puritans, and by his rigid exaction of the most unequivocal conformity to the State religion from all. But with earnest zeal for the Church, his ' Act Book ' shows, that he was very neglectful of tbe 32nd of the Canons of 1603, forbidding making of persons "deacons and ministers, both together upon one day." That he was deficient in temper and domineering in his manner, is manifest from his conference at Silverton — his usual place of abode — on 5th April, 1616, with the Eev. Joseph Hassarde, who had been warmly recommended by the mayor and chamber of Exeter, and duly licensed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, to deliver Dr. Bodley's lectures here. No parent could be less unmindful of providing for his family in tbe Church.: his Act Book shows that he derived very considerable profit from dispensations to eat flesh meat on fasting days, and licenses for marriage at prohibited times. Dying of the stone at Silverton on Sunday, 26th August, 1621, bis remains were deposited on the 31st in the south aisle of the choir of this cathedral. His widow, Mary Cotton, was buried near him on 2 9th -December, 1629. Arms : — Argent, a bend sable between three pellets. Valentine Cary, Master of Christ's College, Cam bridge, and Dean of St. Paul's, London, was presented to tbis see by King James I. on 14tb September, 1621, and was consecrated by Archbishop Abbot on 18th November the same year. His Majesty* preferred him " On Sth May, 1599, our Corporation had voted that a hogshead ofsecke (vin. sec ?) should be placed by their receiver, with all convenient speed, in the Lord Bishop's cellar ; but in the course of the month deeraed " a cup of silver gilt " a more suitable offering. To my Lord Bishop's wife, two loaves of sugar were presented. " The king insisted that this prelate should be a justice of peace for Exeter. The mayor and aldermen opposed his admission as au infringement of their charter, and were supported by the BISHOPS OP EXETER. 145 a,lso to the Vicarage of Exminster in commendam on 13th July, 1624 (Eymer's 'Foedera,' vol. xvii. p. 608). His government was short indeed : dying in his house, Drury-lane, London, on 10th June, 1626, he was buried in the south aisle of Old St. Paul's Cathedral, and with this inscription : " Hie jacet Valentinus Cary, Sacrse Theologise Doctor, olim decanus hujus Ecclesise, qui obiit Epus Exon."" A cenotaph "in Memoriam" was placed to his memory in the south part of the Lady Chapel in this cathedral, subsequently removed to its present situation in the north aisle of the choir. West cote incorrectly states that the bishop himself was buried here. The silence of the Cathedral Eegister of Burials disproves his assertion. Arms : — Argent, on a bend sable three Boses of the first. Westcote adds, " His difference, a Mullet." Joseph Hall, a man of great eminence. He was second son of the twelve children of John Hall, of Bristow Park, in the parish of Ashby de la Zouche, and was born there on 1st July, and baptized on 4th July, 1574. Educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he was appointed the first Master of Blundell's Grammar- school at Tiverton, but resigned it almost inimediately QU being offered the Eectory of Halsted, in Suffolk. He was then appointed to the Deanery of Worcester. In, the sequel. King Charles I. promoted him to the vacant see of Exeter, and he was consecrated on 23rd December, 1627. His theological acumen had recom mended him long before to King James I., who made him his chaplain, and commissioned him to attend. the Synod of Dort in 1619 ; but the weak state ofhis health compelled him to return after a short stay. To enable attorney-general and clerk of the crown. The king would then grant him a non obstante. See the letter of WiUiam Prouz, M.P., to the mayor, aldermen, and coun cil, in the city archives, dated 28th June, 1622. 146 LIVES op THE him to maintain his station of bishop, the Eectory o'f St. Briock, in Cornwall, was^given him in commendam. His Eegister testifies to his, diligence in his official duties, as also his care in providing good benefices for his children. In his transactions with the Mayor and Chamber of this city he was frank and honourable. In one of his letters he says : '*^I beseech you, let us mutually have all fayre termes, -without trenching upon each other's . libertyes ; that so neither part have any cause of grievance." His numerous writings — moral, theological, ascetic, and poetical — display abundant evidence of nervous vigour and genius : still, his warmest admirers must concede that his religious zeal would have been improved by greater meekness and moderation. In evil times, viz. on 16th November, 1641, or as his 'Act Book' affirms, on 16th December, he was hence translated to the wealthier see of Nor wich ; yet the promotion was far from adding to his peace and comfort. There he adopted for his seal, the ark of Noah on the waters, with the dove bearing the olive-branch, the sun rising above, and tbe inscription DA PACEM DOMINE. In the oxerguo, the arms of tbe See of Norwich J Azure three mitres or, impaling his family arms, Sable, three Talbots' heads erased argent. The legend sigillvm . iosephi . hall . norwicens . episc. The venerable and learned prelate had to endure much personal ill-treatment and barbarous persecution. He sunk under it at his house (now the Dolphin Inn), at Higham, close to Norwich, on 8th September, 1656, aged 82, and was buried in the parochial church the same day. His monument represents him as a skeleton, hold ing in the right hand his bond, to Deatb, sealed and signdd " Debemus Morti nos nostraque ; " and in the left hand the same bond cancelled and torn, with the endorsement " Persolvit et quietus est." Dr. Peterson Dean of Exeter, had married his daughter Elizabeth^ bishops of EXETER. 147 28th July, 1629.^ His works were published in 1625 m a large volume folio, but a mueh enlarged edition, in ten volumes octavo, appeared in 1739. The late Eev. William Lisle Bowles, in his ' History of Bromhill,' p. 177 (1813), laments that he and Bishop Davenant, of Salisbury, and others present at the Synod of Dort, should have fostered tbe spirit of Calvinism ; and, unaware of its bitter fruits, should have planted this Upas tree of unconditional Calvinistic decrees, and watered its roots in its first growth in this country. Bishop Hall lived to publish " his hard fare, when his library, his house, and his goods were sold." Arms :— Sable, three Talbots' heads erased argent. Ealph Brownrigg, born at Ipswich, was Prebend ary of Ely, Master of Catharine Hall, Cambridge, Archdeacon of Coventry, and Eector of Barley, in Hertfordshire, when King Charles I. nominated him to the See of Exeter, void by Bishop Hall's translation to Norwich. His consecration was performed by Arch bishop Laud, on 3rd May, 1642, according to the Eegister here ; but he was never installed (unless by proxy) ; though Dr. Walker asserts tbat he was, on 1st June that year ('Sufferings,' kc, part ii. p. 23). The truth is, " he never came hither," says Izacke ; " he never saw his diocese," states his epitaph. On 27th November, 1643, he appointed a Commission to admi nister the diocese in his stead ; but reserving for his own maintenance the livings of Little Torrington, and Beer Ferrers. The times were troublesome and peril- . ^ She died Sth July, 1650, e&t. 41 : her liusband, 6th December, 1661, set. 74 : her brother, Samuel Hall, subdean of Exeter, died in 1674, aet. 63; and all three were buried in Stoke Canon church. Their mother Elizabeth (WiiBn) had been buried at Higham, 28th August, 1652, ast. 69. Her sister Ann married to Gascoign Weld, of Bracken Ash, Norfolk ; Mary died on Christmas day, 1638, set. 32, recently married to James Eodd, gent., was buried in our cathe dral, as were their brothers Eobert and Joseph. As for George, Bishop of Chester, he was buried at Wigan ; John, LL.B., was interred at Higham ; and Edward, the youngest son, and the Ben jamin of his parents, was buried in the choir of Norwich Cathedral: he died 24th December, 1642, set. 23. L 2 148 LIVES OF THB OUS ; and the bishop came in for his full share of losses and bitter persecution ; but tbe house of his friend, Mr. Eich, of Sunning, in Berkshire, afforded bim hos pitality and protection. Tbe benchers of the Temple chose him for their Preacher, in which ofl&ce he conti nued until his death, on 7th December, 1659, wben that Honourable Society defrayed the expenses of his funeral in their church on 17th of that month and year. Dr. John Gauden, who had preached tbe sermon on that occasion, and was appointed his successor in the see, after his election on 3rd November, inscribed the following epitaph to his memory : — Sumptibus et auspiciis Honorab. Societat. Templi Subtus positaj sunt Eeliqujse Eadolfl Brownrici S.T.D. Cant, reverendiss. Episc. Exon, quem honorem optimfe meruit, et per annos XIX tenuit, male tamen seculi fato, belhs, schismatibus, saorilogiis et Regicidiis fero- sciente, nunquam exercuit. Tandem anno iBtatis LXyil, Provinciam terrestrem nondum visam deserens, ad caelestem migravit, .-era; Christi MDCLIX illuscescente CAR. ll'i'. fjelicissimo redditu L.M.P.I.G. Episc. Exon Electus. This bishop elect should have assigned seventeer instead of nineteen years for the period of his episco pacy ; and is also incorrect in stating that he neve: exercised bis authority ; for by commission he institutec and collated several clergymen. Wills continued "to b( proved in his court until Midsummer, 1646, and caveat were registered till llth June, 1649. But he is enti' tied to praise for the pains he took in arranging the sermons and manuscripts of his friend and predecessoi for the press, though they were not published until 1685, by W. Martyn, in two folio volumes. Arms : — Argent, a Lion rampant sable, gutty d'or, langued and armed gules, between three crescents of the last. BISHOPS OP EXETER. 149 Extract from a Valuation of the Estates of tho Bishoprics of England and Wales in 1647. Published in the ' Collectanea Topographica ct Genealo- . gica,' vol. III. page 41. Exoniensis Episcopatus. Surveyors : — Humphry Lower, John Casbbard, Sheekinoton Paeewele, and Thomas Howell. Temporalities. Present Eents and ftofltts per Ann. Improvements above per Ann. Timber, Wood, &c.' Value in Grosse. Bishop's Pallace . . Petershayes .... Bishop's Nympton . Anuitiea . " . Penryn Forayn & Minster Borough of Penryn . . .Cuttingbeako & St. Gor-1 mayns J CargoU Tregayre Burneire Lawhitton .... £. 8. d. 5 6 4 10 0 0 37 1 5 61 19 4 62 0 9 12 0 0 64 3 4 60 0 0 36 6 2 31 17 11 62 4 0 £. «. d. 21 13 8 108 10 0 178 3 1 218 15 3 2 0 0 222 2 11 242 1 2 169 5 4 183 15 9 168 1 0 £. s. d. 405 0 0 66 13 4 10 0 0 21 3 4 Totall . . 442 19 3 1514 8 2 * 502 16 8 RectoryeS. Present per Ann. Future above. Reprizes. Pynhoe ..... Brampford .... St. Goran .... Pencyons , £. s. d. 10 0 0 3 0 0 100 10 0 6 13 4 £. s. d. 130 0 0 37 0 0 119 10 0 To Sir Francis Drake, out of Petershawes,per annum, 10s. lOd. TotaU . . . 120 3 4 286 10 0 Totall generali . 563 2 7 1790 18 2 The Improvements of the Copyholds are, per annum £ s. d. The four Surveyors, Dayes 245 . . 490 0 0 Extraordinary charges 24 0 0 £ 8. d. 4314 15 5 Totall 514 0 0 John Gatjden. — With the Eestoration of the Mon archy re-appeared public confidence and individual security. One of the first acts of the Government of . King Charles II. was to reinstate the Church of Eng land in her pristine rights and privileges, as enjoyed 150 LIVES OF THE before the usurpation. Exeter, in consequence, reco vered its dignity of an episcopal see. Dr. John Gauden before mentioned, Dean of Book ing, in his native county, Essex, and Master of the Temple, was consecrated Bishop in Westminster Abbey on 2nd December, 1660, by the Primate Juxon. Un questionably he was a man of considerable ability : yet his three letters in Thurloe's 'State Papers,' (vol. v. pp. 589, 600), are too frothy, too replete with unmean ing liberahty, to redound to his credit and character. His works are enumerated by Wood, in the ' Athene Oxonienses.' Whether he was the author of the 'EIKON BASIAIKH,' or the Portraiture of King Charles I., has long been a mooted question,* but the probability is in the Doctor's favour; and such he was beheved to^De, by King Charles II. and his royal brother. Within a fortnight after his consecration, Dr. Gauden had reached Sahsbury on his road hither. He arrived in Exeter on 21st December, 1660, and must have been gratified by his reception in the diocese. To use the words of Izacke, an eye-witness, " he was in tbe way saluted by sundry gentlemen, both of the city and the country, and being attended on by several coaches, and some hundreds of horse, was with great joy and solem nity brought herein." The mayor, as the king's escheator, had been ordered to restore to his lordship the temporalities of the see within the city and suburbs since 25th August last past. But his palace having been used as a sugar refinery, and not being in a state to o ' Edinburgh Review,' No. Ixxi. p. 17. ' Nichols's Lit. Anecd.' vol. i. p. 522. In the folio edition of Milton"s Works, Am sterdam, 1698, is this memorandum: " King Charles the Second and the Duke of York did both in the last sessions of Parliament, 1675 (when I shewed them in the. Lords' House the written-co^^ of this book, whereinare some corroetions and alterations written with the late King Oharles the First's own hand), assure me, that this was none of the said king's compiling, but made by Dr. Qaii- den. Bishop of Exeter, whioh I hete insert for the undeceiving of others in this point, by attesting so much under my own hand. — Anglesey." BISHOPS OP EXETER. 151 deceive him, his lordship accepted the accommodations offered him by a respectablfe lady, Mrs. Alice Ford, relict of the late mayor, Thomas Ford. On 13th January following, he ordained forty-four presbyters and deacons in his cathedral : three months later he departed for London, as it appears that his brother. Sir Dennis Gauden, had placed his excellent house at Clapham at his disposal (Lysons' ' Environs of London,' vol. i. p. 162). He returned in the following September, and after a stay of nearly ten weeks took his final leave. Before his departure, he left with his chaplain fifty pounds, to be bestowed amongst our parochial poor, 'Act Book,' No. ix. p. 159. His complaints of the poverty of his see induced King Charles II. to translate him to Worcester, 10th June, 1662 ; but he can scarcely be said to have experienced the benefit of the change, dying of the strangury on the 20th September following, aged 57. His widow erected his monument in Worcester Cathedral. Aubrey states that the bishop was the author of a treatise on ' Artificial Beauty.' Did he not publish a 4to. on the Liturgy? He certainly wrote the life of the celebrated Eichard Hoker. Aems : — Azure, a chevron between three Leopards' faces or. Seth Ward, a native of Hertfordshire, and an orna ment to science and the republic of letters, but of vacil lating political principles in early life, according to Anthony Wood. During the Commonwealth, Dr. Brownrigg, on receiving inteUigence of the death of his precentor, William Cotton, collated his friend Dr. Ward, Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, to the vacant dignity, observing jocosely, " that which seems noio Aaipov alwpov may prove of some emolument to you." For the instrument of collation. Ward paid to the bishop's secretary the full fees. He was heartily 152 LIVES OP THE laughed at by his friends, says bis biographer, Dr. Walter Pope (pp. 29, 30), for so doing. " I have heard them tell bim, they would not give him half-a-crown for his precentorship : to whom he replied, though he should never make a penny of it, it was as acceptable to him, as if he were to take possession the next moment: This was the first flower that ever grew in his garden, and the foundation of his future riches and preferments." But he could not be admitted to his oflSce of precentor until the 15th September, 1660. Dr. William Peterson, the truly venerable dean of our church, dying on 6th December, 1661, aged 74, King Charles II. at once recommended Dr. Ward for his successor ; and he was elected on the 26th of the same month, and confirmed in that dignity on the 13th January following. Whilst filling this situation he gained to himself immortal honour. We give the words of his biographer. Dr. Walter Pope (pp. 55-6) : " He first cast out of the temple (the cathedral) the buyers and sellers who had usurped it, and therein kept distinct shops to vend their wares. At his Majesty's restoration the non-confor mists there, being buoyed up by some powerful friends, who, for their private interest, drove on and hoped to obtain a general toleration of all religions, except Popery, took the boldness to petition the king that the partition'' in the cathedral might not be taken down that they might enjoy altare contra altare. But to give tbem their due, they were so generous as to allow one-half of the church to tbe use of the episcopal party, to whom all did of right belong, that therein divine service might be celebrated according to the Act of Parlia ment for uniformity of worship ; reserving the other part to themselves to meet and hold forth in. But their design was prevented by the early application of the dean to ' This was "the monsb'ous Baby- ionish wall " referred to by the Eev. John Eeynolds in his setoon iri the cathedral, 27th July, 1684. An Act of Chamber, dated lltli August, 1657, had ordered its erection at the sum of 150/. BISHOPS OP EXETEE. 153 the "king and council, from whom he procured an order to restore the church to its ancient form and shape, and remove the innovations.^ He accordingly caused the partition to be pulled down, and repaired and beauti fied the cathedral ; the expenses whereof amounted to 25,000^. He next bought a new pair of organs, esteemed the best in England, which cost 2000Z." Such a reformer deserved advancement ; and the king, on Dr. Gauden's translation to Worcester, nominated our dean to the vacant see, to which he was consecrated on 20th July, 1662. In consideration of its reduced rental, he was allowed to hold the rectory of St. Briock and the vicarage of Manhenniot in commendam, and he further obtained the king's letters patent for the annex ation of the deanery of St. Burian to his see, determi nable on the death of the then incumbent. Though his lordship, by his subsequent translation to Salisbury, derived no personal emolument from the last-men tioned grant, yet several of his successors did, untO. it was surrendered back to the Crown about forty-five years later, and is now held as parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall. Bishop Ward, on 28th March, 1663, under the royal authority and with the concurrence of the dean and chapter, confirmed the limitation of the number of the canons of his church to nine, but raised the stipend of the fifteen prebendaries from four pounds to twenty pounds a-year. Another proof of his sovereign's favour was dis played in his translation to Salisbury, on 12 th Septem ber, 1667, on which promotion he resigned the valuable vicarage of Manhenniot. There the same active zeal ¦distinguished his career. Within two years he reco vered for that see the title and appurtenances of the chancellorship of the most noble Order of the Garter. ^ We have seen a charge for mending 1 away, and for cleaning the chiirch just the locks "after th^t tho soldiers went i before the Eestoration." 154 LIVES OF THE Learned himself, he was an encourager of learning; charitably disposed, he employed his substance in assist ing useful undertakings and benevolent institutions. His endowed almshouses at Salisbury for ten clergy^ men's widows, an *asylum at Buntingford, in Hertford shire, for four men and for as many women who had seen better days, will perpetuate his memory. Dying at Knightsbridge on 6th January, 1688-9, aged 72, his remains were conveyed to Salisbury for interment in the cathedral there. For the enumeration of his publications, see Wood's ' Athense Oxon.' part ii. p. 627 ; and for his services in establishing the Eoyal Society, the ' Annual Eegister' of 1798. Arms : — Azure, a Cross fleur^e or. Anthony Sparrow, a native of Depden, Suffolk, Master of King's College, Cambridge, and Archdeacon of Sudbury,® was elected to the vacant see on 14th October, and consecrated by Archbishop Sheldon on 3rd November, 1667. When Cosmo III. visited our cathedral on 7th April, 1669, he describes in bis ' Travels ' (p. 130) this bishop " as seated, with his wife standing there, and his children, nine in number." His lordship was exemplary in his public and private cha racter, and was justly reputed as an able scholar and learned ritualist. His ' Eational,' and ' Collection of Articles,' &c., are works of frequent reference. We leam from his Eegister that he was translated to Norwich on 18th September, 1676, where he died on 18th May, 1686, and was buried in the chapel erected by bis predecessor. Dr. Eeynolds, near the episcopal palace. His eldest daughter, Elizabeth, married fhe " He had been ejected from his living of Hawkdon by the Puritans. With his wifo and six childi'en he was forced to abscond, and to livo in great poverty until the restoration of monarchy, when he was reinstated in liis benefice, and collated to tho Archdeaconry of Sud bury. . BISHOPS OP EXETER. 155 Eev. Edw. Drew, Archdeacon of Cornwall, and died 18th November, 1679. His second daughter, Ann, who had married 1st October, 1672, Nicholas Hall, Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral, had died on 26th June, 1684, aged 34. Bridget, another of the bishop's daughters, had married the Eev. Prebendary Thomas Long, on 15th August, 1676, and died in Exeter, 7th December, 1707; to whom the see of Bristol was offered in 1684, but he declined it. Arms : — ^Ermine, three Eoses argent, seeded or. Thomas Lamplugh, of the ancient family of Lamp lugh, of Lamplugh, in the county of Cumberland, Eector of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, and Dean of Eochester, was confirmed bishop on 2nd November, and consecrated successor to Bishop Sparrow on 12 th November, 1676. Prince, the biographer, in his addi tions to Westcote's ' View of Devon,' observes that amongst many excellent qualities of a Christian bishop, " he was a lover of hospitality, which he expressed to all, especially to his clergy, whom he bade very wel come to his table.." On the death of Dr. Cary, Eector of Shobrooke, on 2nd February, 1681, the new bishop had interest enough to procure for his see the perpe tual annexation of that rectory. To its church he presented a very substantial, handsome silver flagon, bearing his arms, and this inscription : " Gratitudinis ergo benedicat Deus Thomse Lamplugh." In a printed sermon, delivered by the Eev. John Eeynolds on 27th July, 1684, on the occasion of setting up seats and a pulpit in the nave of the cathedral (the removal of which in 1834 redounded to the credit of the members of the then chapter), the preacher commends this bishop for his special zeal in repairing churches and chapels, and for restoring the monuments of several of bis episcopal predecessors to their original sites, " which 156 LIVES OP THE during the Commonwealth had been thrust into the darkest corners of the cathedral, and there were rudely misplaced and obscured." He further praises his lord ship's assiduity in " attending three times a-day in the cathedral, besides a fourth time in his private chapel, with a course almost as constant as the rising and setting of the sun." When the Prince of Orange landed in Torbay, the bishop made a show of loyalty by exhorting the clergy and laity of the diocese to remain steadfast in their sworn allegiance to their crowned and legitimate king, James II. Nay, his lordship refused to receive the prince, and retired to London. In the life of that unfortunate monarch compiled from tbe Stuart papers by order of King George IY. (vol. ii. p. 237), we read, " to recompense this dutiful comportment, his Majesty conferred the Archbishopric of York upon him." The ceremony was forthwith performed at Lambeth, in November, 1688, and the next day, after, he did homage to the king for the translation : a great reward for one single act of duty ; and more suitable to the king's generosity, than his real merit,, who retracted so soon his short-lived loyalty, and was as ready to fly in his prince's and benefactor's face as the rest, when there was no more to be expected from him." Unques tionably he became a principal instrument in placing the crown on the Prince of Orange. But the old man enjoyed his honours and fortune for a very brief period, and, in the words of Prince, " within three years' con tinuance in tbat high throne of York, he was sum moned before an higher." His epitaph in the minster "• The See of York had been void since tho death of its. primate. Archbishop Dobbin, llth April, 1687; therefore, not "more than two years and a half," as Macaulay asserts, vol. ii. ' Hist.' p. 497, ed. 5._ Dr. Eichardson, the learned continUator of Godwin, has, unwittingly, lent tho sanction of his name to the insinuation, that the Idng kept the archiepiscopal see open with a view of intruding into it " Dr. James Smith, the recenUy-appointod titular Bishop of Ca- lipohs and Vicar Apostolic of tho north of England, or perhaps Father Edward Petre, the Jesuit ! ' BISHOPS OP EXETEE. 15? Records his death on 5th May, 1691, aged 76. We may be allowed to withhold our assent to Dr. Eichardson's assertion, that he was elevated to the metropolitan see of York much against his inclination and entreaties, " tandem, licet dignitatem multam deprecatus, in Sedem hanc Metropolitanam evectus est." Aems : — Or, a Cross fleur^e sable. Jonathan Trelawny, of an ancient and valiant* Cornish family, was born at Trelawny, in the parish of Pelynt, on 24th March, 1650, and educated at West minster School, and thence elected a scholar in Christ Church, Oxford, which college he entered in Michael mas term, 1668, where, to use his own expression, " he ate his bread for more than twenty years." By the death of his elder brother John, shortly before the decease of their father. Sir Jonathan Trelawny, the second baronet, he succeeded to tbe heirship of the title and estates. He was then a beneficed clergy man — Eector of Southill since 4th October, 1677, and of St. Ives, 12th December that year, and had distin guished himself at Christ Church College, Oxford. His sovereign. King James IL, appointed him to the see of Bristol (in opposition to Archbishop Sancroft's advice, as we learn from Trelawny's letter of 10th December, 1687), to which he was consecrated at Lam beth on 8th November, 1685. That wrong-headed king, on 4th May, 1688, when the national mind was in a state of feverish excitement, insisted that his pro clamation for liberty of conscience should be read in the churches. Dr. Trelawny was one of the seven bishops who petitioned against the measure ; and for this exercise of what they considered a prudent, legal, and conscientious right, were committed to tbe Tower.^ ^ It was an old saying in Cornwall : | " Amongst his papers at Trelawny " A Trelawny never wanted courage, a i Houae, is one entitled, " What I said to Godolpliiii wit, and a Grenville loyalty." I the king in the closet." "The king, 158 LIVES OP THE After three weeks' imprisonment, tbey were brought to trial, when an honest jury pronounced their acquittaJ, to the joy of all classes. When the king translated Dr. Lamplugh to York, he appointed Dr. Trelawny his successor to Exeter, hoping that " this promotion would have warmed bis heart to a sense of grateful loyalty and dutiful attachment ; but it produced a contrary effect, and enabled him to wield bis powerful influence in Cornwall in favour of the revolution " (' Stuart Papers').^ Can Macaulay be cor- after he had read our petition, treated us with bitterness, revihng, and threats, saying he knew the meaning of our peti tion, ''Twas, as that to his father, to make him a glorious king. This had the same tendency, arid was to carry a rebellion.' Struck with the word rebel lion, I fell on my knees, and in haste and confusion spoke thus : ' Eebellion, Sire 1 I beseech your Majesty, do not say so hard a thing of us : for God's sake do not believe we are, or can be guilty of a rebellion. It is impossible for me, or my family, to be guilty of a rebelUon : your Majesty cannot but remember, that you sent me to qriell Mcmrrumfh's rebel lion ; and I am as ready to do what I can to quell another. We vrill do our duty to your Majesty to the utmost, in every thing that do6s not interfere with our duty to God.' The king flung him self out of his closet with these words : ' I vrill be obeyed !' I was served at Bath, Wednesday, 30th May, by Mr. H. Legat, one of his Majesty's messengers, with a warrant from the Earl of Sunder land, dated White HaU, 27th May, to appear at the Council, June 8th, where I was, with the Archbishop, the Bishops of S. Asaph, Ely, Chichester, Bath and WeUs, and Peterborough, committed to the Tower ; and were by Habeas Corpus brought to Westminster Hall, Friday, June 15th, where, all our pleas being over-ruled, we were required by recog nizance to appear the Friday fortnight, the 29th. After a trial from nine in the morning till seven at night, we were ordered to attend Saturday the 30th. The jury about ten that morning brought us in Not Guilty. We went immediately to Lambeth in the Archbishop's barge. The Archbishop himself read Psalms ciii. cxv., the Dean the Prayer of Thanksgiving, and his chaplains the Litany." ^ One can hardly comprehend the unsettled notions of the country and the extreme credulity and prejudice that prevailed amongst the people at this period, yet all scholars were aware that, by the authority ef Pope Julius HI., at t'he petition of the bishops and clergy, Cardmal Pole published from Lambeth, on 24th December, 1554, the renunciation of all claim to their former church property, and that the actual possessors of church lands held them by as secure a tenure as the holders of any private property. They must have also read the book, printed at the ex pense of King James II., by Henry HiUs, intitled, 'The Assurance of Ab bey and other Church Lands to the pos sessors cleared from the doubts and arguments raised about the danger of resumption.' Davies Gilbert, in his 'Parochial History of Cornwall,' voL i. p. 105, informs us that the dispersion of the declaration of the prince, accompa nied vrith these doggrel rhymes, said to have been coinpoBed by Father Petre— Henricus Octavus, Sold the land that God gave us^ But Jacobus Secundus Shall reftmd us. made all possessors of church lands and impropriators, together vrith all rectors and vicars of churches in Cornwall (ex cept James Beauford, E. of Lanteglos, aud the Rev. Thomas Polwhele, V. of Newlyn), to renounce their allegianeeto King Jaraes ! ! ' King Henry VHI. took from Eton College the land ou which St. James's Square, St. James's Street, PaU Mall, &c., now stand. He also took mnch from King's College, Cambridge, and gave to each in exchange what was BISHOPS OP EXETER. 159 rect in stating that, " as Bishop of Bristol, he was the first to welcome the Prince of Orange's troops into that second city of the realm " (' Hist, of England,' vol. ii. p. 529)? According to Prince, the bishop made Trelawny, the family -seat* in the parish of Pelynt, his usual place of residence, " a measure less convenient to the occasions of his clergy and the public exercise of charity and hospitality." There he erected and consecrated a large domestic chapel on Sunday, the 23rd November, 1701. Within six years later, viz. on 14th June, 1707, Queen Anne translated the prelate to Winchester.® Dying at Chelsea on 19th July, 1721, aged 71, his mortal remains were conveyed to the family vault at Pelynt. By bis wife Eebecca (Heie), only daughter and heir of Thomas Heie, of Bascombe, Devon (whom he mar ried on his birthday), he had a family of thirteen children. His son Edward lived to be appointed Governor of Jamaica ; Henry shared the fate of Sir Cloudesley Shovel, lost on the Gilston Eock, on 22nd October, 1707. None ofhis sons left issue, nor any of his daughters except Letitia, born, llth October, 1689, who married her cousin, Henry Trelawny ; and Ee becca, born on Saturday, 4th January, 1695, old style, married to John Fownes Buller, of Morvall, Esq. To the honour of Dr. Trelawny we may state, that whilst Bishop of Exeter he refused 7000^. for the reversion of the manor of Cuddenbeck, in the parish of St. Germans, as he thought it worth 2000Z. more, and would not injure his successor in this see. On renew ing a term in the manor of Addersbury, whilst Bishop not an equivalent : whence the strange hexameter verse — ' HSnriciis | Beta | vUs to»k a | way frOm iis | more than hS | gave iis. ' It had been purchased of the Crown by Sh John Trelawny, Knt. iu 1600. * It is related of this prelate that he was much given, according to the custom of his time, to profane swearing — a cus tom which perhaps he adopted to mani fest his distance from Puritanism. Bemg reproved for this unbecoming practice, he excused himself by saying, that he did not swear as a bishop, but simply as Sir Jonathan Trelawny. See 'Four Tears in France,' p. 311. 160 LIVES OP THE of Winchester, he instantly gave, of the fine received, the sum of 500 guineas to the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, and lOOOl. towards the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Aems : — Argent, a chevron sable. Offspring Blackall, born in London (of which city bis father, Thomas Blackall, was an alderman), but of an Oxfordshire family originally,* educated at Catha rine Hall, Cambridge, Eector of St. Mary's Alderman bury, London, and Chaplain to Queen Mary, the con sort of King William III. The translation of Bishop Trelawny opened the see of Exeter (by the Queen's command, in opposition to the wishes of her ministers) to this respectable scholar and theologian, and he was consecrated by Archbishop Tenison on 8th February, 1 708. By his interest at Court he succeeded in retain ing for his life the deanery of S. Burian, and on 20th August, 1708, appointed Mr. William Denham his registrar there. From the conviction that society ought to promote with all the means in its power tbe enlight enment of the indigent classes, he warmly recommended the institution of charity schools in Exeter ; ' and he lived to see the schools in a flourishing condition. His death, which took place on 29th November, 1716, aged 66, in consequence of a fall from his horse, excited deep and universal regret. Had Queen Mary lived, Ely would probably have had him for her bishop, instead of Exeter. Tbe remains of the prelate were deposited on 2nd December on the south side of tbe cathedral choir. In his will, bearing date 4th July, 1715, he directed that his " burial may be decent, but very private, and with- ^ But according to the Eegister of St. Petrock, Exeter, a respectable family of the same name was established in Exeter, at least from tlie time of King Henry VHI. " First, iu a sermon preached before the mayor, aldermen, and common coun cil, and again in a circular addressed to his clergy. BISHOPS OF EXETER. 161 out a funeral sermon, in the place where I shall happen to die ; neither would I have a stone with any inscrip tion over my grave, nor any monument erected to my memory." By his relict Ann (Dillingham), who sur vived him till 29th December, 1762, he left a family of seven children— John, Theophilus, Charles, Ehza beth, Ann, Mary, and Jane.* In virtue of the Primate Tenison's letter of 4th June, 1709, Bishop Blackall was installed Treasurer of Exeter Church; since which period succeeding bishops have retained this dignity in commendam. His works, collected and edited by bis friend. Dr. Dawes, Archbishop of York, testify how decidedly he was opposed to the democratical principles of Dr. Hoadley, afterwards successively Bishop of Bangor, Hereford, Sahsbury, and Winchester ! John BlackaU, Esq., M.D., great grandson of the bishop, has an excellent portrait of the prelate by Michael Dahl. This Swedish painter was much patron ized by Queen Anne's court, and died in England in 1743, aged 87. Arms : — ^Argent, a Greyhound courant sable, collared or ; on a chief daacette of the second, three besantB. Launcelot Blackburne, after being connected with this church as canon since 15th January, 1691, and filling the oflSce of dean since 1705, was conse crated its bishop on 24th February, 1716-17. A mode rate man, everything seems to have passed off quietly under his govemment, which was short ; for he was translated to York on 28th November, 1724. Dying in London in 1743, he was buried in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. He had married the sister of William Talbot, Lord Bishop of Sarum. * John was bom 23rd January, and baptized in the cathedral 2nd February, 1709-10. Charles Offspring, bom 1st, and baptized at the cathedral 10th May ; Martha, baptized 13th Juue, 1714, buried Ist July, 1715 ; Samuel, baptized 18th March, 1715-16, buried 9th July, 1716 ; Thomas, buried 25th September, 1711. M 162 LIVES OF THE Arms :— Argent, a Fess nebule between three MuUets pierced sable. Stephen Weston, of Farnborough, in the county of Berks; educated at Eton, and King's College, Cam bridge. Through the interest of his friend Sir Eobert Walpole, this excellent scholar was advanced to the see of Exeter, and consecrated its bishop on 27th December, 1724. His splendid monument, in the south aisle of the cathedral choir, records his having governed the diocese with the highest credit until his death on Sth January, 1741-2, aged 76. He was buried four days later, and his widow Lucy, of the Sleech family, was laid near him on 6th March following. His son. Captain William Weston, died 30th June, 1773, and his daughter Mary had married George Baker, Arch deacon of Totnes ; and his daughter Elizabeth, Canon John Grant.' His son Stephen had been married to Mary Gibbs in the Palace Chapel, 7th July, 1734, by bis right reverend parent. His sermons were pub lished by Dr. Sherlock, five years after his death, in two volumes octavo, witb his portrait. Bishop Weston introduced tbe custom of keeping the episcopal registers in English. Arms : — Argent, a Cross surmounted on three greeses gules, on a chief azure five besants. Nicholas Clagget, of a family settled at Bury St. Edmunds, bad been consecrated Bishop of St. David's 23rd January, 1731-2, upwards of ten years before his translation to Exeter, on 2nd August, 1742. Early in the following month he was welcomed on his arrival at the Eastgate of our city by the mayor and chamber. Little else is recorded of him than bis death in London, ' We read in the Cathedral Register : " The Eev. John Grant, of Euan Lan- ohorn, and Elizabeth Weston, were mar- lide by her father, the Bishop of Exeter, in his chapell there, Novemher y 22nd, 1726. ' " Witness his hand, Stephen Exon." bishops of EXETEB. 163 on Monday, 8th December, 1746, and his burial in St. Margaret's, Westminster. Aems : — Ermine, on a Fess sable three Pheons' heads or. George Lavington, born at Mildenhall, in the county of Wilts, had been collated to prebends in the cathedrals of Worcester and St. Paul's, London, before he was promoted through the courtly interest of the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Hardwicke to the vacant see of Exeter. The ceremony of his consecration was performed at Lambeth on 8th February, 1746-7. His well-written epitaph by Subdean Barton, on a tablet behind the sedilia in the south aisle, describes him as a pattern for Christian bishops. He died on 13tb, and was buried on 19th September, 1762, aged 79. His relict followed him to the grave on 29th November in the following year.* Aems : — Argent, a Saltier gules ; on a chief of the second, three Boars' heads couped or. Frederick Keppel, tbird son of William Keppel, the second Earl of Albemarle, by his wife, the Lady Anne, daughter of Charles Lennox, Duke of Eichmond, was born 19th January, 1728-9. Whilst a canon of Windsor, be was recommended by King George III. to the chapter of Exeter for their bishop, and on 7th November, 1762, was consecrated to that dignity. Towards his better maintenance, the deanery of Wind sor was assigned to him in commendam. This affable, open-hearted, and bountiful prelate expended consider able sums on the improvement of the palace here, and took a special interest in the comforts of his inferior clergy, whose means of decent subsistence had hitherto been too little considered. In the vigour of life be was " His daughter Aim, married in our cathedral Rev. Nuteombe Quicke, Eector of Morchard Bishop, on 22nd August, 1753, and had six chUdren ; the first of which, Frances, was born 14th August, 1766, and lived until 29tli Oc tober, 1857 ! M 2 164 LIVES OF THE taken off at Windsor, on 27th December, 1777, and was buried in its collegiate church. His daughter Laura bad married George Ferdinand, Lord Southamp ton, and was buried 18th June, 1798, in this cathedral: her mother was a natural daughter of Sir Edward Walpole, K.B., second son of the celebrated Sir Eobert Walpole, created a peer 9th February, 1742.* Aems : — Gules, three Escalops argent. John Eobs, born at Eoss, in the county of Hereford, on 25th June, 1719. This learned Member of the Eoyal Society — as modest as he was learned — was elected successor to Bishop Keppel on 12th January, 1778, was consecrated on 25tb of same month, and reached the diocese on 8th June following. His career was gentle and unpretending, making himself affable to all. Dying at the palace here on the 14th, he was buried in the south aisle of the choir of his cathedral on 18th August, 1792. Abms : -Gules, three Water-budgets argent. William Duller, youngest son of John Francis Buller, Esq., by Eebecca his wife (daughter of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Baronet, D.D., sometime Bishop of Exeter, and afterwards Lord Bishop of Winchester), and uncle of Sir Francis Buller, Baronet, the celebrated judge of the Common Pleas, was baptized at Morvall, in Cornwall, on 9th August, 1735. Whilst filhng the office of dean (to which he had been elected on 25th March, 1784), he gave up bis residentiary house near the cathedral to his Majesty King George III. and the royal family, when they honoured Exeter with a visit in Aug-ust, 1789. Such dutiful and hospitable atten tion was rewarded in the following year by his prefer ment to the deanery of Canterbury ; and his Majesty ' See Banks' ' Peerage," vol. iii., p. 581, note. " BISHOPS OP EXETEB. 165 was further pleased to promote him to tbis vacant see, and on 2nd'December, 1792, he was consecrated at Lambeth. He lived but four years after this appoint ment, dying on 12th December, 1796, and was buried on 17th of same month in the south aisle of the cathe dral choir. His relict Ann (daughter of John Thomas, D.D., Bishop of Winchester) died 28th August, and was interred near him on 3rd September, 1800, aged 63. Arms : — Sable, on a Cross argent quarterly, pierced, four Eaglets displayed of the first. Henry Eeginald Courtenay, second son of Henry Eeginald Courtenay, the fourth son of Sir William Smyth Courtenay, was born in the parish of St. James, London, on 27th December, 1741. This respected gen tleman married, 24th January, 1774, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Thomas Howard, second Earl of EfiSng- ham; bad been a prebendary of Eochester, rector of Lee, in Kent, and of St. George's, Hanover-square, London, and consecrated Bishop of Bristol, llth May, 1794, before his translation hither on 10th March, 1797. His amiable and courteous deportment could not fail to secure to him the affectionate regard of all parties. Dying in London on 9th June, 1803, he was buried in the cemetery of Grosvenor Chapel there. By his lady, who survived him twelve years, he left William, the late Earl of Devon, and several other children. Aems : — Or, three Torteauxes. John Fisher.— On tbe death of Bishop Courtenay, John Fisher, D.D., canon of Windsor (the eldestof nine sons of John Fisher, Clerk, M.A., Eector of Colborne, in the Isle of Wight), was nominated his successor. He had been tutor to Edward, Duke of Kent, father of her present Majesty, Queen Victoria. His consecration 166 LIVES OP THE took place at Lambeth, according to his Eegister, on Sunday, 24tb July, 1803 ; and, shortl;f after. King George III. appointed him to superintend the educa tion of bis royal grand-daughter, the Princess Charlotte of Wales. Of this responsible charge he acquitted himself with exemplary propriety and credit. To mark the royal approbation, he was translated to Salisbury on 2 Oth July, 1807. The worthy prelate died at his house, Seymour-street, London, on 8th May, 1825, aged 76, and was interred in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. His brother, Jonathan Parker Fisher, D.D., many years subdean of Exeter and rector of Faringdon, died 31st July, 1838, aged 79, and was buried in this cathedral. Aems : — Sable, on a Mound of Turf proper, two Stags sahent respecting each other argent, collared and chained or. George Pelham, a younger son of Thomas, second Earl of Chichester, had, previously to his embracing the ecclesiastical profession, entered tbe military ser vice. After presiding at Bristol for four years as bishop (having been consecrated 27th March, 1803), he was installed here on 28th September, 1807, and con tinued for thirteen years expecting higher preferment. At length he was translated to Lincoln, in October, 1820. He died at his house, in Connaught-place, London, on 7th February, 1827, aged 61, of pleurisy, as was reported, contracted at Windsor whilst attend ing the funeral of the late Duke of York, on 20tb January that year. Arms:— Azure, three PeUcans argent, vulning themselves m the breast gules. William Carey had been a king's scholar at West minster, and rose to become its head master, an oflBce which he filled for thirteen years with great satis faction and credit. Elected Bishop of Exeter on 28th BISHOPS OF EXETER. 167 October, 1820, be was consecrated on 12th November following. Two months later he was installed. All concurred in opinion that he was exemplary in tbe dis charge of his official duties. On 7th April, 1830, he was translated to St. Asaph, void by the death of Bishop John Luxmoore. Here he sat for sixteen years ; dying at his house in Portland-place, London, on 13th September, 1846, aged IT . Aems : — Argent, a Bend sable charged with three Eoses of the first ; on a chief gules two Crosses patee or. Christopher Bethell, of the ancient family of Eise, in Yorkshire, but actually born at Isleworth, in 1773. He was educated at Eton, from whence, in 1791, he was removed to King's College, Cambridge. Consecrated Bishop of Gloucester llth April, 1824, translated hither from Gloucester in April, 1830, he had hardly seen the diocese, when he was transferred to tbe see of Bangor on llth November following. But we may say, that, in consequence either of the non- residence, or the translations^" to richer sees, of several of his predecessors, the Exeter palace had been suffered to go so much out of repair, as scarcely to be habitable. After attaining the good old age of 86, be died on 19tb August, 1859. i Henry Phillpotts, D.D., the present Lord Bishop, "son of John and Sibella Phillpotts, was born at Bridgewater, 6th May, 1778, at h\ p.m." At the age of only thirteen years and a half be was elected a scholar of Corpus Christi, Oxford, was ordained deacon by Bishop Eandolph in 1802, and priest by Bishop Majendie in 1804, in which year he published his ' Sermon on 5th November,' delivered before the University of Oxford. '" Not what the preacher says, But does, is chiefly to be noted : " Be ye immovable," ho cries. But off he goes — promoted. The preacher's comment on the text Appears a variation : Not that th' original 's perplex'd. The fault 's in his translation. 168 LIVES OP THE BISHOPS OF EXETER. Since tbat period his ready and vigorous pen has been employed in numberless political and religious produc tions. Whilst rector of Stanhope and dean of Chester, and a prebendary of Durham, he was elected by the Chapter of Exeter successor to Dr. Bethell, on 22nd November, 1830, confirmed on 9th December, conse crated on 2nd January, 1831, and installed here twelve days later. His lordship found the palace in a very unfit state to receive him ; but he has restored it in a most creditable manner. And all must admit that, whilst he has presided longer than any of his prede cessors since the days of Queen Elizabeth, so none have surpassed him in talents, in energetic zeal for his church, in attention to the respectability and comforts of the inferior clergy, and in the diffusion of education. N" a 1 PALMER, LITH. N ' jsr ' N- N" 10. PALMER EXETER N? 15. NV 14<. NO 15 PA LMER,LITr4, EXETER. f HISTORY OF THE CATHEDRAL. AN ATTEMPT TO ILLUSTEATE CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY, ANCIENT CUSTOMS, TREASURES, & MONUMENTS, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF EXETER; DESCRIPTION OF ITS ENVIRONS, CALLED "THE CLOSE." HISTORY OF THE CATHEDRAL, &c. &c. CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF THE CATHEDBAL OF EXETEE. A Cathedral edifice has been properly described as a monument of art and science — an important record of the ecclesiastical customs, manners, and taste of our ancestors. It shows what our forefathers were, and what they did, and how they operated. It serves at once to make us wise and humble, as it induces us to emulate their merits amd to question our own. As an object of beauty and curiosity — and of a remote period — venerable in its economy and sacred rites, and dedi cated to the sublimest purposes, it may be safely con tended that no work of man is to be compared to the grand, ancient, Christian church. The philosophic and scientific antiquary analyses its design and execution, and thence endeavours to appreciate the characteristics of the age and of the artist. In its chronological his tory it points out the progress of improvement in the principles of taste and beauty.' Of the abbey church of the Blessed Mary and St. Peter, founded in Exeter by king Athelstan ^ about the year 932, and reinforced by a body of monks by king Edgar thirty-six years later, and, with its charters. 1 See Mr. Britton's ' History and De scription of Bath Ohnrch in 1825 ;' also his evidence teiken before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on National Monuments, 27th May, 1841. 2 Prefixed to the ancient Catalogue of Eelics formerly kept in this cathe dral is a memorandum stating that the donor of the greatest part of them was the glorious King Athelstan, " primus fundator ecclesise S. Marise et S. Petri, Exon." The collection, however, does little credit to his discrimination. In the archives of the dean and chapter may be seen his grant of five " cassati terrse" (carucates), or rather messuages, in Oulmpstock to this his abbey church. 174 HISTORY OF THE utterly destroyed and reduced to ashes by Sweyn in August 1003, no details have reached our times. Of its successor, so liberally endowed by Canute, as bis charter to its abbot, Akelwoldus, abundantly proves, we glean but slender materials. Probably it was low in height and curtailed in dimensions, yet may have been the best ecclesiastical edifice in this city, for it was assigned by Edward the Confessor, in 1050, to Bishop Leofric for his cathedral. To the seven bells which Leofric found there he is recorded to have added six others and a dozen smaller ones,^ perhaps for chimes. A building, however, that may have satisfied the first bishop of Exeter, and even his immediate successor Osbern, a noted lover of primitive simphcity ("con suetudines Regis Edwardi efferens, veteribus contentus edificiis" — Wil. Malm.), would ill accord with the taste and views of the next prelate, William Warelwast. He had been a frequenter of the court of his uncle, William the Conqueror, and of his royal cousins, William Rufus and Henry I. ; he had been employed in various foreign embassies ; be had witnessed throughout other parts of England the rapid progress of a grander style of archi tecture;* he bad araple resources at his command; he was in possession of his sovereign's favour ; and he determined on erecting a cathedral that, by style and execution, should do honour to religion and to the spirit of tbe age. The date of its commencement, 1112, is supplied by tbe Chronicon of the Church of Exeter, preserved among Arcbbisbop Laud's collection of 3 " Erant autem antea nisi septem campanse suspensse nunc sunt ti-edecim suspensse, preter duodecim tintinna- bula." — 'Mon. Angl.' vol. ii. p. 527, edit. 1817. ^ " Videas ubique in villis ecclesias, in vicis ct urbibus monasteria novo sedificandi genere consurgere."— Wil. Malmes. ' De Gestis Eerum,' lib. iii. p. 102, edit. Frankfort. To the same purpose Ordericus Vitalis had written in the 1 Oth book of his ' Ecclesiastical History ' :¦ — " Henrici Regis tempore, omnis ordo religiosorum pace fruens et prosperitate, in omnibus quse ad cultum Deitatis omnipotentissimse, intus et exterius suam diligentiam satagit ex hibere. Unde Templa Domosque fer- vens fidelimu devotio prsesumit proster- uere, eademque melioranda renovando iterare. Prisca ergo .^dificia, quae sub Edgaro vci Eduardo illisque Christianis regibus constructa sunt, dejiciuntur, ut amplitudine, seu magnitadine, vel ope ris elegantia ad laudem Creatoris com petenter emendentur." CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 175 manuscripts at Oxford, and the Harleian manuscripts in the British Museum, "Anno Domini M° centesimo XII" primo fundata est Exon ecclesia." Yet this cathe dral was destined to suffer considerable injury, even before the death of the founder, for King Stephen besieged the city in the summer of 1136. It was three months before be subdued it, and in the course of his assaults he had caused such damage to the church that he granted to its Chapter a yearly rent of 7Z. 10s., charged on the manor of Colyton, as a compensation — "pro restauratione dampnorum quae feceram eidem ecclesise in obsidione." It may have sustained further damages in the year 1161, when Exeter was the victim of a conflagration.^ Of tbis church we can trace no portions except in the massive north and south towers, in the great cir cular door leading into the Cloisters, and, perhaps, in the walls of the chapels of St. Andrew and St, James, which may have served for transepts. Whoever will carefully inspect these chapels, and the groining of the corbels of the Exchequer-room over St. Andrew's, and of the Muniment-room over St. James's, will, we appre hend, arrive at the same conclusion. At what period this later alteration was accomplished, in contemplation of a larger cathedral, must remain an open question. May we be allowed to siiggest tbat it was effected during the episcopate of Bishop Walter Bronescombe, between 1258 and 1280.* The Exchequer-room over St. Andrew's Chapel, on the north side, may have been first completed, as a place of security for royal charters, papal bulls, title-deeds, and other valuable records ; and we observe at the end of this bishop's Register a cata logue of 136 documents of this description, with the following heading — " Ista fuerunt in Thesauraria Exon, tempore Walteri primi dimissa." * " Anno MOLXi Exonia combusta I vol. i. p. 300. est."— 'Annal. Eccl. Wint. Ang. Sac' | « He died on 22nd July, 1280. 176 HISTORY OF THE Unfortunately the fabric-rolls are not extant pre vious to tbe year 1279. Yet this first roll, commenc ing witb Michaelmas-day in that year, contains a pay ment made on the following day of 8s. 9d. for making three windows in St. James's Chapel by order of the steward — " In crastino Sancti Michaelis, a.d. MCCLXXIX, pro III fenestris ad capellam beati Jacobi, ex precepto Seneschalli, viii*. xx*." Under this chapel, due south of St. Andrew's, is a crypt, coeval, we think, with Wilham Warelwast's foundation. The altar of St. John the Baptist had stood within the south tower, and the altar of St. Paul within the north tower, until their removal, as we leam from the fabric-rolls of 1284 and 1285, into the chapels adjoia- ing, which still retain their names. Of the ancient nave, which may have extended to the north porch, inclusively, we can recover but few particulars. From the deed of appropriation of Up-Ottery Church in 1270 by Bishop Bronescombe to his Dean and Chapter (' Reg.' fol. 46), we collect that a mortuary altar, imder the title of St. John the Baptist and Saints Blaze and Pieran, stood in that nave — " Altari in honore beati Johannis BaptistiB et Sanctorum Blasii et Pyrani in navi dict^ ecclesise Exoniensis dedicato, et ad hoc assignato." ' We meet in Bishop Quivil's confirmation ofthe church of Wydecombe-in-the-Moor to the Chapter, dated. 3rd February, 1283, with the altar of Saints Richard and Radegundes, as assigned to celebrate the obit of the late Dean, Roger de Thoriz. In another deed, dated Exeter, 30th December, 1292, we find that tbe late precentor, Walter de Lechelade, lay buried in front of the altar of St. Edward the Confessor ; and. ' Subsequently, it seems, such pecu liar and privileged altar was removed to a chapel in the cemetery, north-west of the church, near St. Peter's Conduit. It is sometimes called the Charnel Chapel. John de Lydeford was ap pointed on 18th March, 1323, Chantry Priest " capellsB, que in cemeterio ma- joris ecclesise Exon. situata, vulgariter vocata Oharner." — Stapeldon's 'Reg.' fol. 175. In the Fabrio-roU of 1329 it is styled "Nova Capella." CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 177 again, Walter de Puntyngdon, Precentor of the cathe dral, had granted to the Chapter on 2nd February, 1301, yearly rents amounting to 31. Ss. Ad. to maintain his obit — " Ad altare beatse Marise et beati Thomoe martyris, juxta vestibulum Ecclesise Cathedralis." The mending of one great window in this nave is mentioned in the fabric-roll of 1318. To Bishop Peter Quivil, the successor of Walter Bronescombe, belongs the honour of obtaining new transepts, by breaking through the inner walls of both the Norman towers, and of forming an arch in each, of the height of the intended choir and nave. It was a bold conception, and as skilfully executed. The fabric- rolls of bis time demonstrate that he introduced a larger window in either tower, and we are disposed to believe that he altered the architectural features of the Lady Chapel and inserted its present windows. In the centre of this chapel were deposited his mortal remains. The Register of his successor in the see, Thomas Bitton, has been lost for centuries. The fabric-rolls, however, testify to the encouragement he gave to the prosecution of the new work in collecting materials, flag ging part of the south aisle of the choir, and glazing the windows of the Lady Chapel and of St. Mary Mag dalene's ahd St. Grabriel's also. The appropriation- deed of Westleigh to the Chapter, dated 17th August, 1310, commemorates the zeal and liberality of this deceased prelate in prompting the undertaking. The memory of the next bishop, Walter de Stapel don, must ever be entitled to grateful admiration for his indefatigable spirit and munificence. The fabric- rolls attest that he contributed upwards of 18 OOZ. sterling to the work ; an enormous sum in those days. In the Appendix will appear his benefactions in books and vestments. During the period of his government considerable cargoes of stone were imported from the 178 HISTORY OF THE quarries of Caen. He completed the gorgeous high- altar of silver, witb its costly canopy and matchless sediha. It seems that he commenced the new cloisters, for we meet with a charge for heads or corbels for the vaulting or groining, and for Silverton-stone to form the guttering ; and he rebuilt the four higher arches on either side of the choir, with the corresponding portions of the north and south aisles. In the patent-rolls of 1317 is recorded King Edward II.'s confirmation of this bishop's grant of a tenement in Paignton to Robert Fitz- Walter by the service of one penny, and of ringing the bells and repairing the organs and clocks in the church of Exeter. But it was reserved to Bishop Grandisson to accom plish the new work. At his accession he found ready at his hand an immense accumulation of materials — stone, iron, lead, timber, and scaffolding. One of the last purchases of Bishop Stapeldon in London had been of timber for his church, in the course of tbe year 1326 ; but his barbarous murder on the 15th October, in tbe same year, arrested further progress. When Orandisson visited bis diocese he found the cathedral in a very unfinished and deplorable condi tion. To use his own language, it had been begun in a respectable and magnificent manner, yet tbe greater portion of the edifice remained to be completed — " Fabrica ecclesise Exon decenter et magnifice inchoata pro majori parte adhuc remanet construenda" ('R^g.' vol. i. fol. 39). He forwarded the works of the choir witb such activity that on Sunday, 18th December, 1328, he was enabled to perform the dedication of its high-altar in- honour of our Lady and the apostles Peter and Paul — " Memorandum quod die Dominica proximo post festum Sanctse Lucise Yirginis, scilicet XV kalendse Januarii (18th December), anno, &c. (regni Regis Edwardi tertii a conquestu secundo) CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 179 Dominus dedicavit majus altare in choro Ecclesise Cathedralis Exon, in honore beatissimse Dei Grenetricis atque semper Yirginis, et beatorum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli, quibus etiam curam et custodiam ejusdem altaris commendavit" ('Reg.' vol. ii. fol. 102). Of this event he gave notice to his promoter, Pope John XXIL, and to tbe College of Cardinals, and he hesi tated not to add, that the fabric now nearly half finished would, if completed, be admired for its beauty above every other of its kind within the realms of England or France — " Ecclesia Exoniensis fere ad me dium constructa, mirabili super ceteras in genere suo Anglie vel Francie, si perficiatur, pulchritudine reni- nebit" ('Reg.' vol, i. fol. 37); and Orandisson sur vived to finish the nave in a style of uniformity and good taste which must ever immortalize his memory. The ' Fabric Rolls ' do not enable us to pursue, so satisfactorily as we could wish, the details of progress. In January, 1333, Willia,m Canon, a resident mason at Corfe, in Dorsetshire, contracted to furnish the Chapter with Purbeck pillars for the nave, yiz. twelve great columns and two half-columns at IOL 16s. the column, and bases and capitals at 5s. each. Immense quantities of building-stone were procured from the quarries of Silverton, Wonford, Whipton, Raddon, Barley, Brans combe, Saltcombe, and Beer in Devonshire ; from Hameldon in Somersetshire ; and from Caen in Nor mandy. The Bishop, on receiving a petition from the Dean and Chapter for a grant of more timber to com plete the work, issued the following order on 5th July, 1338, to his agents at Chudleigh, for the delivery of twelve suitable oaks from his wood there (' Reg.' vol. ii. fol. 2106). " Au Bailiff et Provost de Chuddelegh, Saluz. Parceo que le Dean et Chapitre d Excestre nous ount ore tard requis, que nous lour cidessioms de merym a perfourmer N 2 180 HISTORY OF THE loeur (oeuvre) de nre Eglise d Excestre, nous mandoms que vous facez liverer au gardeyne de meisme loevr xii. cheynes con venables pour la dite Eglise et a meyndre damage de nous, selont lavisement Sir Thomas de Doultecote nre clerk et Maistre Thomas le Maceoun. Et les ramailles et les braunches larbres faites carrier a nre Court pour notre demoere en yver. Don a nre manoir de Clist le v jour de Juyl I'an de notre Sacre xi." * But amidst all these preparations tbe Bishop, taking into consideration the emergencies and difficulties of the times and the progress of the mortality which was deso lating the European continent, and subsequently visited and ravaged this country at Michaelmas, 1348, may have calculated that he should never live to complete the nave, and that it would therefore be expedient to provide for himself a place of interment. The ground-plan of the church lay open before him, and be fixed that his remains should be deposited on the south side of the intended grand western entrance. We think it pro bable that the spot formed the site of an ancient chapel dedicated to St. Radegundes (the queen of Clotaire I.), and who died 13th August, 587. The name of this chapel within St. Peter's Cemetery twice occurs in a deed belonging to ^ the Chapter, and is dated in the mayoralty of Walter Turbert, a.d. 1220, and attested by Simon de Apulia, tben bishop, and by Henry, then archdeacon, of Exeter. The ' Fabric Roll ' of the year 1350 contains the charges for glazing the two windows 8 Chudleigh Wood had for centuries been the property of the see. Bishop Bartholomew had granted in the 12th century the bark of its felled trees to the Lepers' Hospital, Exeter. In Sta peldon's 'Eeg.' fol. 4, is his order, dated 4th May, 1308, for the dehvery of four good trees " de bosco nostro de Chuddelegh," to be used in rebuilding the rectory house at Ermington, pro vided always, that the trees marked (" signati pro fabrica novi operis Exon.") remained untouched. In times of the vacancy of the see it appears that the Crown made free for its own purposes with the episcopal woods. Thus King John, on 6th April, 1208, issued his order to the bailiffs of the bishopric of Exeter to deliver here from the woods of the bishop "centum cheverones et quadraginta gistas ad reparationem castn nostri Bxon." — ' Close EoUs.' CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 181 of St. Radegunde's Chapel ; as also the charge for nine bars of iron to secure those windows ; and in this very chapel, according to the founder's will, dated Sth Sep tember, 1368 — ^" Corpus vero meum volo quod sepeli atur extra ostium occidentale Ecclesise Exon. ita cele riter sicut fieri poterit " — were honourably deposited his remains after his death, which occurred 15th July, 1369, and were religiously protected, until they were ungratefully disturbed and flung aside by sacrilegious fanaticism towards tbe conclusion of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Within three years after the adaptation and fitting up of this chantry chapel we find tbe following memo randum in the ' Fabric-Roll': — " Prim4 Septiman^ post festum Trinitatis, viz. xx die Maii, mcccliii, fuit inceptio novi operis ecclesise beati Petri coram magna cruce.'''' In other words, the nave, from the roodloft, was commenced 20th May, 1353, and the venerable prelate survived sixteen years to finish the work and to perform its solemn dedication. We bitterly lament that the Rolls of this very interesting period remain undiscovered. Bishop Thomas Brantyngham, successor to Grrandis- ¦ son, may claim the honour of erecting the west front, or fa9ade, and the greater portion of the cloisters. To designate each one of the sixty -eight statues (includ ing the four emblematic figures of the Cardinal Yirtues over the west porch of the north aisle) — representing the apostles, the kings of England before and after the Conquest, and the bishops up to his accession — after such a lapse of years, such exposure to the weather, such neglect, and so much injury inflicted by wanton mischief, must be a conjectural task. St. G-eorge, how ever, on the right of the west entrance, in his hauber- geon of chain-mail with sleeves, may be recognised by his escutcheon on his cyclas (argent, a Cross gules). 182 HISTORY OF THE His arms, legs, and hands, are protected by plate- armour, and be wears the military belt. Athelstan, the original founder of the church, appears with his shield (saltier, gules and azure; on a mound a Cross botony, crowned or). Edward the Confessor (azure, a Cross potence, between five Martlets or). And King Richard IL, who impaled the arms of England with those of Edward the Confessor. The three last figures were replaced by tbe late John Kendall. The spec tator will observe that the lower tier is supported by angels. Originally this fa9ade was painted and gilt ; and although such a style of decoration may appear to be incongruous, yet it must have proved a protection from the effects of the sea-air and the variations of our climate. We must also admit that gold on marble was in vogue with the ancients, as the works of Phidias in the Parthenon demonstrate ; and none of us can forget the description in the first book of the -iiBneid — "Parius lapis circumdatus auro." Thus in the space of about 120 years the new work of this cathedral was completed. Well might Bishop Brantyngham, who died in December, 1394, dignify it as " the mother and mistress of all the churches in the diocese" ('Reg.' vol. i. fol. 2156.).« " Bishop Grandisson, on 26th May, 1335, confirmed an oirdinauce of Bishop Marshall, made 140 years before, and sanctioned shortly after by Bishop Brewer, that all residents within the diocese should testify to the honour and dignity of the catliedral by their offerings at Pentecost, as was customary in other churches. With this view all incumbents are enjoined to keep a list of their parishioners' names, and to transmit a copy of the same to be pre served in the cathedral archives, adding, " Quilibet capellanus pro quolibet paro- chiano suo, qui locum et focum teneat, et cum facultas suppetat, de obolo re spondeat ad minus." — 'Eeg.' vol. ii. fol. 191. The late Mr. John Jones, in his ' Account of the Constitutions of Exeter Church,' p. 33, and Mr. Britton in his 'History' of it, p. 24, have confined their attention to tlie Letters Patent of King BCeniy VIII., dated 9th November, 1538, viz. : — " Henricus Octavus, Dei gratia Anglie et Francie Eex, Fidei Defensor, Dominus Hibernie, et in terra Supremum Caput Anglicane Ecclesie universis et singulis, utriusque sexus personis per civitatem et diocesim Ex onie ubilibet constitutis, Salutem. Ea- cioni congruit et convenit equitati ut ca que pro Ecclesiis Cathedrahbus in statu prospero et decoro conservandis pio et longevo usu liorainum racionabiliter in- troduota sunt.irrefragabill confirmationis robore muniantur : cum itaque sicut fide- digno accepimus testimonio in civitate et diocesi predictis ab immemorabili CATHEDRAL OF EXETEB. 183 For chaste, correct, and uniform adherence to the best style of English Pointed architecture we may challenge it to compete with any cathedral in tbe kingdom. CHAPTER II. Account of the Fabbic-Kolls. These Rolls extend, with some interruptions, during the course of 160 years, viz. from Michaelmas, 1279, to Michaelmas, 1439. Some have been damaged by wet; some injured from the unskilful application of galls ; some, we fear, have irrecoverably disappeared ; but, for the greater part, they are in a fair state of preservation. They were kept very methodically by the " Custos novi operis ecclesise beati Petri Exon.," an officer appointed by the dean and chapter, with a salary of 12s. Gd. per quarter, and he was frequently allowed an assistant. The Rolls are usually headed with the balance in hand from the last audit, with the receipts arising from the personal sacrifices of the dignitaries and canons, from collections made throughout the dio- evo talis inoleverit consuetudo, ut vide- que ad usum supradictum petere et licet omnes et singule utriusque sexus persone larem et domicOium in civitate vel diocesi hujusmodi pro tempore foveutes sive moram infra easdem tra^ hentes unum quadrantem monete nostre Anglie ad usum fabrice Ecclesie Cathe dralis Sancti Petri Exonie quotannis teneantur erogare, nos consuetudinem hujusmodi piam et laudabUem reputan tes eam motu proprio et ex certa nostra sciencia pro perpetuo confirmamus ac presentis scripti nostri patrocinio commu nimus. Ita quod licebit prefate Ecclesie Cathedralis nunciis seu procuratoribus ad vos et ecclesias vestras parochiales pro dictis eoUigendis quadrantibus, juxta levare, absque impedimento nostro ve] heredum nostrorum, aut aliorum quo- rumcumque. In cujus rei testimonium has Litteras nostras fieri fecimus pa tentes. Teste me ipso apud Westmo nasterium, nono die Novembris, aimo regni nostri trieesimo." This ordinance was confirmed by Queen Elizabeth, 4th March, 1563. In tlie will of Hugh Utlegh, rector of St. Martin's, Exon., bearing date 14th May, 1544, and proved before John Blaxton, Bishop Veyse/s Commissary, on 6th October following, is this clause — " I give and bequeth to every house holder payenge Dominioale offerynges morem preteriti temporis, accedere, eos- withyn Saynt Martyn ys Paryshe iin''. 181 HISTORY OF THE cese, from contributions of individuals, from bequests, .from burial-perquisites within the church and adjoining cemetery, from the sales of waste materials, from the obventions at Pentecost and on the feast of St. Peter ad Yincula (1st August), and from the offerings dropped into the red box — " area rubea " — placed in the nave for that purpose, .and into another box lying at the feet of the figure of old St. Peter — " ad pedes veteris Petri " — a figure repainted in 1426 by John, Budd, an Exeter artist. Then follow the expenses incurred in each of the thirteen weeks of the Michaelmas quarter, either in wages to the several workmen, or in the purchases of materials and the charges of carriage. The quarter's amount is then summed up, and the same system, with the exception of the heading, is pursued through the other quarters. The four quarters were then sewed together ; after which follow the expenses of obits, the details of extraordinary and of necessary" disbursements, with the dead stock in hand, and tbe balance of money to be carried on to tbe next year. The whole account was then submitted to the auditors appointed by tbe chapter. These Rolls are on parchment, and of various lengths ; several from nine to fifteen feet : one extends to the length of eighteen feet. They are invariably nine inches wide. The trades of quarryman, mason, carpenter,^ plumber, and painter, were always rewarded with higher wages. In 1308 the quarryman had Is. Id. a day. Generally master-masons and plumbers received at the rate of from A\d. to Qd. ; carpenters and painters averaged the same ; but the head-mason, or overseer of the works, bad an additional salary of \l. Qs. 8d. To tbe artist the minutest details about oil painting ' We are therefore surprised that I penter, who was maimed whilst working King Edward III. should have limited | at the repairs ordered by the king at his pension, anno 1357, to three half- I Westminster. pence a-day to Eichard Banwell, car- | CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 185 will afford special interest. As early as 1301 we find a charge for painting some of the vaulting with gold, silver, azure, and otber colours. In 1308 we meet with purchases of red and of white lead, of sinople, varnish and oil. In 1320 Bishop Stapeldon procured in London for the new work, considerable quantities of verdigris, and azure, and ynde bandas, and vermilion, white var nish, sinople, and gold-leaf, and blamplyn, and oil, pro picturd. In the following year occur payments " pic- tori pro imaginibus," and for a plate to grind his colours. But we cannot subscribe to Mr. Britton's opinion, in his description of this cathedral (p. 121), that the thirteen oil-paintings in the arched compart ments of the roodloft, representing — 1. The Creation. 2. The expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. 8. The Deluge. 4. The submersion of Pharaoh and his Army in the Eed Sea. 5. The Pillage and Destruction of Solomon's Temple. 6. The buUding of the Second Temple. 7. The Angel Gabriel's appearance to Zacharias the Priest. 8. The Nativity of our Lord at Bethlehem. . 9. The Baptism of Christ by John. 10. The taking down of Christ from his Cross. 1 1. The Eesurrection of Christ. 12. The Ascension of Christ. 13. The Descent of the Holy Ghost on the assembled Apostles at Pentecost — are coeval with the roodloft itself, and rank among the very earliest examples of oil-painting in this country. The costumes of the figures and the style of architec ture introduced would seem to prove that they were executed three centuries later. Evidently they are painted on a stone surface which had never been painted before, as the late Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick and Edward Smirke, Esq., distinctly ascertained, after minute examination, in the summer of 1847. Though we have not positive evidence, we are inclined to 186 HISTORY OF THE believe that they were executed in the reign of King Charles I. ; perhaps about the time when Archdeacon Helliar defrayed the expense of the late altar-piece, painted by William Cavell of Exeter, which bore the date 1639, and was removed in 1818 to make place for Mr. John Kendall's seven canopied recesses forming the present reredos. Of the stone used in constructing the cathedral we made mention in the preceding chapter ; to which we might have added that a small quantity was brought from Portland. Thus, in the 'Fabric-Roll' of 1304 occurs tbe entry of " Bargia petrarum de Portlonde cariata x'." Iron was occasionally purchased at War minster and at Lopene (?). The timber was of English growth, from Norton, Brenton, Huxbam, Lustleigh, and Chudleigh woods ; but some large baulks of oak were carted from Langford in Somersetshire. We have stated before that Bishop Stapeldon had made considerable purchases of wood in London. Lead was for the most part procured at the great market or fair at Boston (Sancti Botulphi) in Lincolnshire. In the Roll of 1300 we observe tbat wax was purchased td mix with the mortar — " ad cementum "¦ — but the wax to be used at the numerous altars was generally pro cured at the fairs of Winchester, Barnstaple, and Tor rington. Glass, coloured and plain, was mainly im ported from the manufactory at Rouen in Normandy. Tiles, as we infer from the Roll of 1437, were obtained from Flanders. Many of these tiles bear heraldic de vices. Thus, in St. Paul's Chapel we observe the Plantagenet arms — Gules, three Lions passant guardant or ; Poitou, Argent, a Lion rampant gules : within a bordure of the ancient arms of Scotland, sable, bezanty ; Clare, three Chevronels. We meet also with the eagle^ with the crown at tbe four points of the bordure, borne by the king of the Romans. All these, in the opinion CATHEDRAL OF EXETEE. 187 of James Pulman, Esq., Clarencieux, have reference to Richard second son of King John, created by his royal brother. King Henry IIL, in 1225, Earl of Poitou and Cornwall, and elected in 1256 King of the Romans; as also to his son Edmund, who married Margaret de Clare, daughter of Richard Earl of Gloucester, and on whose seal his escutcheon hangs from the beak of an eagle, with this legend — " S. Eadmundi de Alemannia, comitis Cornubie." This Edmund flourished during the building of St. Paul's Chapel. Oats, whole or ground, form a considerable article of expense to feed the numerous horses employed in the carriage of materials for the building. In the year 1300 they varied from Sd. to Is. Sd. the quarter. In these ' Fabric-Rolls ' occur several bells ; one called " The Walter," from its donor. Bishop Walter Bronescombe ; another " Germaneyn," probably from Ralph Germyn, precentor of the cathedral from 1308 to 1316. Four bells hung in the north tower .^ One was named " Bokerel," another " Chauncellor," another " St. Mary," and the fourth appears to have been called "Peter," which was recast in 1330 — "de novo facta" — ^but is not to be confounded with the supposed gift of Bishop Peter Courtenay, before his translation to the see of Winchester in 1487. In the south tower hung the "Jesus Bell," the "Grandisson," the " Trinity," the " Bracton," the " Cobthorne," the " Stafford," and some others, whose names we are unable to recover. All have been recast ; but none of the present ring of ten bells in the south tower — the grandest peal in England — bears a date before the year 1630. As for the great " Courtenay Bell," in the north tower, it was recast in 1676. We regret that when the bells were 2 In Eisdon's ' Survey of Devon,' he I lately__ a cage of four small broken states that in this north tower " was | bells." p. 108. 188 HISTORY OF THE recast no copies were taken of the inscriptions on them. From the Rolls we further collect that three vestries were attached to the church, viz., one to the Lady Chapel, a second behind the high altar, and a third was formed in the early part of the fifteenth century, communicating from the lower part of the south side of the choir, and was immediately behind St. John's Chapel. Its entrance is now blocked up and the building removed. Tbe vestry of the Lady Chapel appears to have been first altered, and finally dispensed witb, after Bishop Oldam completed the Saviour's Chapel. The principal vestry behind the high altar was probably cleared away after the spoliation of the church in the reign of King Edward YI. Attached to the cathedral, and we believe to the south ambulatory of the cloisters, was the Library of the church, of which one of the annivellar priests had the custody, with a salary of 6s. Sd. Sometimes business was transacted " in domo Librarise Ecclesise Cathedralis Exon.," as we find in an agreement between the chapter and the treasurer, dated 31st October, 1423. Perhaps, however, the Chapter-house was then under repair. In the Appendix will be given the catalogue of the books in this library as compiled in 1506 ; but a small portion of the collection has lasted to the present period.^ We have mentioned the Chapter-house, which was a necessary appendage to every conventual and cathe dral church. Here business was transacted, elections conducted, oaths administered, admonitions given. ' Many collections of this kind must have been most valuable ; but several must have perished from gross neglect, inattention to security, and from a spirit of wanton mischief. Leland (' De Script. Brit.' p. 483) bemoans the care less destruction by fire at Canterbury of Tillyer's collection, which contained Cicero's ' Treatise de EepubHca.' For tunately another copy has recently come to light, and been given to the public through the industrious zeal of Cardinal Mai. CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 189 and sentences pronounced and enforced. On a seal attached to a deed dated 2nd July, 1133, and preserved in tbe archives of this city, is represented the west front of the then Chapter-house of the cathedral. In the centre over the entrance-door a turret was sur mounted by a weathercock, and is flanked by a turret on either side : that on the north side has an entrance similar to the central one, but there is no entrance-door in the turret surmounted by a vane. The inscription is -f SIGILLVM . SCI . PETRI . APLI . EXONIENSIS . ECCLE. -f- We have seen another representation on a seal about sixty years later ; but tbe variation is inconsiderable, except in the legend + sigillvm . capli . sci . petri . EXONIE. + Both these were circular. A third was oval, and was used " ad . cavsas," and attached to a deed dated in March 1344. It presented a short square front with a trefoil arched door in the centre ; over which rose a spire surmounted with a vane ; at either extremity a lower spire was placed, terminating in a Greek dross. But the present Chapter-house exhibits no such antiquity ; and indeed in the Fabric-Roll of 1412 we find John Tilney, a mason, called in by the. chapter, " ad videndum ruinam in domo capitulari cum cano nicis." Of the present beautiful edifice we shall have to treat in the sequel. CHAPTER III. Survey of the Inteeioe of the Cathedeal. We commence with the inspection of tbe Lady Chapel, often designated as "Capella beatse Mari^ Yirginis, in capite Ecclesise — ad capud Ecclesia." A Lady Chapel existed here in 1237, as we find in 190 HISTORY OP THE Bishop Brewer's appropriation of Alternon Church to the dean and chapter ('Monasticon Diocesis Exon.,' p. 55), and we are led to think that Bishop Quivil, in carrying out the plan of the new cathedral about half a century later, altered the style of this very structure and introduced the present windows. The magnificent eastern one is extended to seven compart ments or divisions, commonly called lights : the first and the second windows on either side correspond with each other ; but the two, higher ones have four com partments only, whilst the two lower ones have five. Beyond them a pointed arch opens on the north side into the chapel of St, Mary Magdalen, and a similar arch into the chapel of St. Gabriel on the south side. Every spectator must feel the absence of stained glass, enriched with figures and heraldic devices, to temper, soften, and subdue the glare of cross light. Under tbe centre of the eastern window is a graceful canopied niche, whicb once contained the statue of the Yirgin Mother of Christ : before it a lamp was suspended from the vaulting. Beneath the first window on the south side are a double piscina ^ and three graduated sedilia ; as also a very decorated doorway, but of a much later period, which formerly opened into a vestry^ appa rently having a communication with the episcopal palace. Under the second south window, within arched recesses, are the Purbeck tombs of Bishop Bartholomew, who died an old man — " Yir senex," as his cotemporary Walter Mapes describes him (de nugis curialium) in 1184, — and Bishop Simon de jipuli^, whose death is recorded nearly forty years later. These tombs were discovered in October, 1820. The former tomb was ' " Piscina a cornu epistolss, quo ab- lutionem projiciebant." — ' Cancellarii de Secretario Basilicse Vaticanse,' vol. i. p. 273. * " Vestiarium beataj Marise ad capud Ecclesise" is mentioned in tlie ' Fabric- EoU ¦ of 1285. From the Eoll of 1437 we collect that this vestry was then rebuilding at the expense of the estate of Eoger Bolter, the late precentor. cathedral OF EXETER. 191 reraoved hithei- from the opposite recess in the north wall during the month of May, 1822 : its sculptured effigy presents little rehef; the prelate wears mous taches ; his beard jagged ; the mitre low, concave and pointed ; the crosier very simple, and not so high as the person. The figure of Bishop Simon is of very superior design and execution : the robes, the jewelled mitre, the tout ensemble, denote the progress of tasteful decoration ; but unfortunately this beautiful monument has suffered considerable decomposition from exposure to humidity, perhaps during part of the time that the church was in the course of erection. In corresponding recesses on the north side are costly monuments of Sir John Dodderidge, Knight,^ who died at Forsters, near Egham, Surrey, on 15th September, 1628, aged 73 ; and of his lady, Dorothy, daughter of Sir Amias Bamfylde, who had died on 1st March, 1615. On the north side of the Lady Chapel is the altar- tomb of Bishop Edmund Stafford ; on the south side the monument of Bishop Walter Bronescombe : on either may be seen figures in distemper,* executed, as we imagine, during the episcopacy of Bishop Edmund Lacy, whose shield — Azure, three Shovellers' heads — is introduced. Of these figures several have been mis- ^ This learned Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and who had been Re corder of Bristol, was buried here by torch-light at ten o'cloclc at night on 14th October, 1628. He had married thrice. The arms of his first wife, Ger myn, do- not appear on the monument ; those of his second wife, Culme — Azure, a chevron ermine, between three PeU cans' wings displayed or ; those of Dorothy Bampfylde, his third wife, — Or, on a bend gules, three Mullets argent ; > arms of Dodderidge,— Argent, crusuly gules, three Pallets undy, azure. On his gravestone was this motto, " Lex norma morum," under the shield. We have met with a deed of Walter Dod deridge and Benedicta his wife, in September, 1285, by which tliey sur render their right of entrance into the Close from their house in the High- street, Exeter, to the Dean and Cliapter. The Dodderidge family were also tenants in the parish of Newton S. Cyres to the prior and convent of Plympton, as appears by their ' Rental ' of 1481. * In the eighth book of ' Ordericus Vitalis ' we find, eariy in the 12th cen tury, that " Eainaldus Pictor variis coloribus arcum tumulumque depinxit" in the abbey church of Evreux. 192 HISTORY OF THB chievously defaced, and even obliterated altogether. In the panels we recognise — First. — Ezekiel ; and, beneath, this text from his prophecy : — " Ego aperiam tumulos vestros, et educam vos de sepulchris vestris." — Chap, xxxvii. 12. Second. — St. John the Apostle and Evangehst. " Qui credit in me„etiam si mortuus fuerit, vivet." — Chap. xi. 25. Third. — St. Paul. " Omnes quidem resurgemus in novissim^ tuba."— 1 Cor. XV. 52. Fourth. — St. John repeated ; with " Beati mortui, qui in Domino moriuntur." — Apocalyps. xiv. 13. Fifth. — Judas Maccabeus. " Sanctum et salubre est pro defunctis exorare." — II. Lib. Maceab. xii. 46. Sixth. — Job. " In novissim^ die surrecturus sum." — Chap. xix. 26. Turning now to Bishop Brouescombe's, on tbe oppo site side, three figures only have been spared — First. — St. John the Apostle ; with the words of Martha in his Grospel : " Scio, quia resurget in novissimS, die." — Ohap. xi. 24. Second. — St. Peter ; but, curiously enough, with a text from St. Paul's address to the Athenian Senate : " Statuit diem, in quo judicaturus est orbem in aequitate." — Acts xvii. 31. Third. — St. Paul ; with " Canet enim tuba, et mortui resur gent."— 1 Cor. XV. 52. The spectator will concur with us in opinion that the tomb of Bishop Stafford, with the exception of the effigy, canopy, and vaulting, is a careful imitation of the more ancient one of Bishop Bronescombe. We do not repeat their epitaphs, as we have inserted them in their biographical sketches. The orbs, nodi, or bosses, at the intersections in the vaulting of the Lady Chapel cannot fail to be admired for the boldness of their sculpture. .We invite atten tion to the most eastern one, of Christ crowned with a peculiar nimbus, encompassed with the emblems of the four Evangelists as satellites. In the centre of the floor, under a very large slab. CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 193 reposes Bishop Quivil, the principal originator of the new work. A deed ofthe Chapter, dated January 25th, 1299, expfessly states of the prelate " Cujus corpus ante altare beatse Marise humatum quiescit." The slab, says Westcote (in his 'Yiew of Devon,' a.d. 1630, p. 164), was engraven with a great long cross, and in the circumference this rhyme for an epitaph — Petra tegit Petrum, nihil offlciat sibi tetrum. " Which verse was written in an ancient character, each letter distant from the other at least four inches; so that this short verse supplied the whole large circum ference, and cost me some labour in finding out and reading it." For the greater part of two centuries this marble slab lay removed just within the west entrance of the cathedral : the cross and letters by constant friction of feet were nearly obliterated, when the late Mr. John Jones of Franklyn induced the Chapter, in November 1820, to have it restored to its original site, and the cross and the letters were recut under his superinten dence. Here regular service was daily performed accompanied with tbe organ, at which five of the priest-vicars, five secondaries and four chorister boys were enjoined to attend. Inthe 'Expenses' of 1389 is a payment of 12*. Ad. " in emendationem organorum capellas beatse Marise in capite ecclesia." An anni vellar priest had the custody of this chapel, and was styled " Clericus Capella," and sometimes " Minister altaris beatse Marise." We have seen a deed by which Ranulfus de Stodeia granted some little property in the Parish of Aylesbeare to this chapel, "beatse Marise ad caput beati Petri Exoniae ; " and subsequently, viz., on 6th April, 1324, John de Eaglescliff, Bishop of Llandaff, being then at Exeter, encouraged the faithful to assist at the services in tbis chapel — "in capite Eccle- 194 HISTORY OF THE sise Cathedralis Exonia;." The ' Fabric-Roll ' of 1434 mentions tbe purchase in London of a large chandeher weighing 341 pounds, to be suspended in it; and, judging from the ' Inventory ' of 1506, the chapel must have been fairly provided with plate, vestments, and books, for the service. From a 'Rental' of 1525, it seems that it had a special fund of about 31. a year. The mayor and chamber on 22nd December, 1657, " ordered that the library at St. John's Hospital near Eastgate be removed to the Ladye Chapel at the Easter End of Peter's Church, and fitted and prepared for that use." Dr. Yilvaine is said to have defrayed the expenses. The interior length is 60 ft. by 28 ft. broad. The height nearly 40 ft. Passing the ambulatory, we proceed by the north side to St, Mary Magdalen's Chapel, where in subse quent times stood the altar called also " of St, John the Evangelist." The first time we meet with the chapel itself is in the ' Fabric-Roll ' of 1284. A figure of the former saint naust have been near, for we find the following clause in the Will of John Cockwater, in Bishop, Lacy's ' Register,' dated 27th October, 1431, directipg his interment to be " extra vestibulum coram ymagihe Sanctse Marise Magdalense." The truly splen did alabasteir effigy of Bishop Stafford, with the elabo rate canopy, must at once rivet attention. Though neatly engraved both in Lysons' ' Devonshire ' and in Britton's account of this cathedral, yet no delineation can render sufficient justice to the exquisite minuteness and delicacy of the original. In the panels we re cognise again the figures : — First. — Of Ezekiel ; but the text is no longer legible. Second. — Of St. John the Evangelist ; with the words of Christ : " Omnes qui in monumento sunt audient vocem Filii Dei."— V. 28. CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 195 Third. — Job ; with " Putasne mortuus homo rursum vivet ? " xiv. 14. The tomb is decorated with shields commemorative of alliances with the noble family of Stafford. The first is entirely obliterated. The second, in the opinion of Mr. Pulman, may have been — Quarterly, first and fourth Stafford — Or, a Chevron gules ; second and tbird unknown. The third is clearly Grrey of Ruthin — Barry of six argent, quartered with Hastings — Or, a Manche gules, quartering Yalence — Barry of ten argent and azure, an orie of Martlets gules : Lord John Hastings had married Isabella, eldest sister and coheir of Aymer de Yalence, Earl of Pembroke. The fourth is Charlton Lord Powis — Or, a Lion rampant gules : John de Charl ton, second Lord Powis, married Joan, daughter of Ralph Lord Stafford. The fifth bears the arms of Thomas Lord Roos — Gules, three Water-bougets argent ; and of Baddlesmere, his mother's family— Argent, a Fess double-cotised gules. This Lord Roos married Beatrix, Bishop Stafford's cousin-german. On the south side are : first, Courtenay' s — Or, three Torteauxes gules, with a Label of three points azure. Second, Stafford— Or, a Chevron gules. Third, Bishop Stafford as above, but entoyred with nine Mitres. Fourth, Neville— Grules, a Saltier ermine : Margaret Stafford was the first wife of Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmoreland. Fifth, Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk — Argent, a Fess gules between three Leopards' heads or, quartering the arms of his mother Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir John Wingfield — Argent, a Bend gules, charged with three Wings or : the earl married Catherine, daughter of Hugh Earl of Stafford. At the head of the tomb is the shield, first, of Stafford of Hook, with a Border engrailed sable for difference. Second, the arms of the See of Exeter— Oules, a Sword erect in pale argent, pomelled and hilted or, surmounted o 2 196 HISTORY OF THE by two Keys in saltier of the last. Third, Stafford of Pipe — Or, a Chevron gules between three Martlets sable. Prom the tomb tbe eye settles on the east window of the chapel, with its five bays richly dight with tabernacle-work, and figures and heraldic achievements. In tbe centre we observe Bishop Stafford on bended knee, with bands elevated in prayer, and a label in scribed " Sancta Maria Magdalena, intercede pro me ! " Tbe armorial bearings are : first. Bishop Grrandisson's — Paly of six argent and azure ; on a Bend gules, a Mitre between two Eaglets or. Second, Courtenay as before, but quarterly with Rivers^ — Gules, a Lion Rampant or, and impaling Bobun — Azure, a Bend argent cotised or, between six Lions rampant of the same. Third, Bishop Stafford's as before. Fourth, Charlton of Powis as before, quartered with The north window of the chapel has six bays, but has been stripped of its coloured glass. Here we remark that the bosses of the vaulting are more ancient and considerably less than those in the corresponding chapel of St. Gabriel, to which we may now adjourn. Bishop Bronescombe, in his 'Register,' fol. 97, expressly states, that for the most part this chapel had been rebuilt and tbat he had chosen it for his place of interment, "fere de novo constructa juxta capellam beatse Mari^ ex parte australi, ubi locum elegimus sepulturse." The tomb, worthy of that.^ distinguished prelate, has been engraved by Messrs. Carter, Britton, and Kendall. From the finished execution of the original, from the designation of him in the epitaph as Primus Walterus to distinguish him from Secundus Walterus (Stapeldon), we may fairly conclude that it was not erected to his memory, until about half a century after his deatb. His arms — Or, a Chevron CATHEDRAL OP EXETER, 197 sable, charged with three Cinquefoils ofthe first between two Keys erect in chief, and a Sword erect in base of the second — are several times repeated. In the west panels may be seen three figures : — First. — St. James ; with the text from his Epistle : — " Que est enim vita vestra? Vapor est ad modicum parens, et deinceps exterminabitur." — Chap. iv. 5. Second. — St. John. " Vitam habetis etemam, qui creditis in nomine Fihi Dei." — 1 Ep. Canonica v. 13. Third.— St. Jude; with the text from his Epistle: — "Ecce veniet Dominus facere judicium." — Verse 14. The eastern window is enriched with coloured glass. In the centre stands St. Gabriel, patron saint of the bishop, who is kneeling with a label, inscribed " 0 Sancte Gabriel Archangele, intercede pro gratis ! " Towards the right the bishop is again introduced in the same supplicating attitude, with the words " Kata- rina beata, pro me intercede ! " The armorial bearings must have been introduced chiefly in the time of Bishop Grandisson, viz. : first — Gules, a Fess betwixt six Owls or. Second — Quarterly England and France. Third, Ralegh — Gules, five Fusils in Bend argent with a Mart let for difference. Fourth : Or, two Chevronels gules, a Crescent in base of the second. Fifth, Courte nay impaled with Bryan — Or, three Piles in point in base azure. Hugh Courtenay married Elizabeth, daughter of Guy Lord Bryan. Sixth, Northwode — Ermine a Cross engrailed gules. Sir John Northwode married Agnes, a sister of Bishop Grandisson. Seventh, Bobun— Azure, a Bend argent charged with three Mullets sable, cotised or, between six Lions rampant of the same. Eighth, Grandisson's impaled with the See of Exeter. We may mention once for all, that the original bearings of Grandisson's family were — Paly of six argent and azure, on a Bend gules three Eaglets or ; tbat the bishop, instead of the centre Eaglety assumed 198 HISTORY OP THE a Mitre, and that some cadets of the family bore three Escalops, and some three Buckles instead of the three Eaglets. Ninth, Northwode impaled with Grandisson. Tenth, Montacute — Argent, three Lozenges in fess gules. William de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, had married Catherine, another of Bishop Grandisson's sisters. Who can quit this interesting chapel without lament ing that its piscina should lie wantonly shattered, and that the place should be darkened and choked and disfigured by such incongruous and unmeaning statuary, and sitting, standing, and recumbent figures ? Turning now to the adjoining chantry chapel of the Holy Saviour, the elevation of wbich has been beauti fully engraved by the late Mr. Kendall, the spectator witnesses the characteristics of its age, in lavish re dundancy of sculptured decoration in the walls and vaulting, multiplication of statues, rebuses, double roses, portcullises and heraldic devices. In the biography of Bishop Oldam, its founder, we have observed that he erected tbe chapel to be the repository of his remains after his death. In a deed belonging to the priest- vicars, bearing date 30th December, 1513, it is de scribed as " Capella Sancti Salvatoris non parvis sumptibus Reverendi Patris (Hugonis Oldam) decenter et honorifice constructa, ubi corpus suum post mortem et obitum requiescere et tumulari disponit." Whilst several of the statues in the niches of the fa9ade, and the whole of tbe altar screen — wbich repre sented the Annunciation of the Blessed Yirgin, and the Manifestation of Jesus Christ to the Wise Men, and his doleful Crucifixion on Mount Calvary — have been hacked, hewn and demolished, the effigy of the prelate, extended under an ogee arch, has fortunately escaped ill treatment, and still retains its original painting and gilding. He is attired in splendid pontificaha; his bands are joined in prayer ; the thumbs are encircled CATHEDRAL OP EXETER. 199 with a single ring, whilst the fingers are studded with rings. His initials appear within circles in the quatre- foils of the spandrils ; and the inscription is " Hugo Oldom Eps, q' obiit xxv° die Junii, An° Dni Millo C0CGC°xix : cujus, &c." The bishop's variation of the arms of the see^ cannot fail to arrest attention. Besides his family coat— Sable, a Chevron or between three Owls proper, on a chief of the same three Roses gules, we observe the arms of King Athelstan and of Edward the Confessor, and of England and France. Facing the Saviour's Chapel is St. George's Chantry, founded by Sir John Speke, Knight, a representative of one of the oldest families in Devonshire. To secure the maintenance of his obit and tbat of his wife, a daughter of William Somaster, of Netherexe, Esq., he endowed it with " lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in Langford, Fivehead and Ashill, in Somersetshire :" a property robbed by King Edward YI. from the dean and chapter, but restored within forty years by Queen Elizabeth. This chapel is even more luxuriant in pro fusion of ornament than the former; but in 1657 its east window and Decorated altar-piece were swept away to open a thoroughfare " into the great church, or Peter's-in-the-East, partitioned from West Peter's by a brick wall erected, plastered, and whitened on both sides by Walter Deeble, at the expense of 1501." Tbis 5 Of the ancient arms of the see, which appear from time to time to have undergone some slight changes, the earliest example in the cathedral is — Gules, a Sword in bend sinister argent, pomelled and hilted or, surmounted by two Keys accosted in bend dexter of the last. A more recent one is — Gules, a Sword in bend argent, pomelled and hilted or, surmounted by two Keys ad- dorsed in bend sinister of the last ; and a still later one is— Gules, a Sword in bend sinister argent, pomelled and hilted OT, surmounted by two Keys addorsed in bend dexter of the last. Bishop Oldam, in turn, adopted the last two of these, and finally made the alteration in the disposition of the charges to what they haye ever since been and still are. This is demon strated by an inspection of the heraldry in St. Savioui-'s Chapel, and in the spandrils of the arch of approach from the south aisle to the palSoe. It is possible thait this bishop may have con trived the final alteration for the pur pose of avoiding the too great similarity between the ancient ai-ms of this see and those of the see of Winchester, which are almost identical. 200 HISTORY OP THE barbarous innovation was perpetrated in virtue of the act of tbe mayor and chamber, bearing date llth August, 1657; but though the hideous wall of sepa ration was cleared off with the restoration of monarchy,' this thoroughfare has continued ever since. It could hardly be expected that the effigy of the knightly founder and benefactor, though incased in plate-armour, could be protected after this from mutilation. Here tbe arms of Speke — Argent, two Bars azure, over all an Eagle displayed gules, and Somaster's — Argent,, a Castle triple-towered and Portcullis sable between five Fleurs-de-lys of the same, with the Porcupine (the crest of Speke), are multiplied inside and out. Second, Bishop Courtenay — Or, three Torteauxes gules, witb a Label of three points, surmounted by a Mitre. Third, Bishop Fox — Azure, a Pelican vulning herself to feed her young. Fourth, Bishop Oldam as before. Fifth, Yeysey as Precentor — Argent, on a Saltier azure, a Fleur-de-lys or ; also his family shield, viz. — Argent, a Cross sable charged with a Buck's head couped be tween four Doves argent. On a chief azure, a Cross flory between two Roses or. Yeysey was collated to the precentorship on 26th May, 1508, and confirmed dean 19th November, 1509. Sixth, Courtenay and Rivers — Quarterly as before, impaled with the Royal Arms of England and France, showing the alliance of William Courtenay, Earl of Devon, with the Princess Catherine, daughter of King Edward IY. Seventh, three Bars between ten Bells-r— four, three, two, and one. '^ Prebendary John Eeynolds, in Ms sermon preached on the occasion of erecting and opening the pews in the nave of this cathedral, 27th July, 1684, before Bishop Lamplugh, obseiTes — " Many of us have been sorrowftd wit nesses to great disorders and profana tions iu tms very House of God where we are now assembled. You cannot forget the monstrous Babylonish wall which was raised here to divide the cathedral into two parts. Many of us have seen not only tlie monuments of the dead, but even the veiy ashes and bones of some of them, disturbed and violated." CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 201 Looking westward, the simplicity of the groining of the aisle of the choir presents a striking contrast with the profusion of the bold ribs and elaborate bosses of that of the nave. Passing down then from St. George's Chantry we observe three monuments in the north wall. The first is engraved by Britton, and is assigned by Leland (' Itin.,' vol. iii. p. 45) to Sir Richard de Stapeldon, Knight, whose shield — Argent, two Bends wavy, sable — was visible when Sir William Pole wrote his ' Description of Devon ' (p. 100). For the history of the worthy knight we refer the reader to our account of his episcopal brother. The second is of very inferior design and finish, and was placed to the memory of Anthony Harvey, of Columb John, Esq., who died 23rd May, 1564, and had, fortunately for his worldly interest, been steward of the abbeys of Hartland, Buckland, Newenham, &c., at the suppression of religious houses.' Arms — Gules, on a Bend argent three Trefoils vert. The third exhibits in sculpture an emaciated corpse or skeleton : a mortuary memorial not unusual in our churches. Thus Bishop Fox desired to be represented in his noble chantry in Winchester Cathedral. Here we have another instance below in the north tower, of the precentor Wilham Sylke. Above the effigy, the verses — Ista flgura docet nos omnes prsemeditari Qualiter ipsa nocet mors, quando venit dominarl — explain the meaning ; not referring to any individual as some persons imagine, but a moral lesson and admonition to the beholder, of the revolution which death produces. In the tour made in August 1635, and preserved in the Lansdown Manuscripts, this ' Amongst other properties he ob- I Bishop, then lately belongmg to the tained of King Henry VIII. on 4th | abbey of Tewkesbury. This he sold to July, 1545, the manor of Mydlond or I Robert Davy, of Crediton, clothier, Mediand, in the parish of Cheriton | 202 HISTORY OF THE very figure is designated as " The Anatomy of one Parkhouse, a Canon." Had the tourist looked into the adjoining chapel of St. Andrew, he would have seen the tombstone over the grave of William Park- house, " a philosopher, physician, and canon residentiary ofthis cathedral, who died on 1st March, 1540." In this north aisle was a painting of the Crucifixion of Christ, before which John Morton, a canon of the church, directed by his will, dated 9th September, 1457, that his body should be deposited — " ante imaginem Crucifixi ibidem depictam" (Nevyll's Reg. 139). St. Andrew's Chapel under the Exchequer-room con tained two altars, St. Andrew's and St. Catherine's. We have seen Bishop Bitton's ordination, dated 30th August, 1305, concerning the chantry services to be performed at the former altar, for the souls of Andrew de Kilkenny, once Dean of Exeter ; William de Kil kenny, once Bishop of Ely ; Henry de Kilkenny, once Archdeacon of Chichester ; Henry de Kilkenny, once Rector of Bridestowe ; and for another Henry de Kilkenny, a Canon of Exeter, but then living. The corresponding chapel of St. James had also two altars — - St. James's and probably St. Thomas's. In the will of David Hopton, Archdeacon of Exeter, dated 17th January, 1491, he leaves to this altar of St. Andrew, " subtus Scaccarium Ecclesise," a missal, a set of red vestments, a chalice, a pax, of silver-gilt, two silver cruets, a great portiphorium to be chained there, and eight marks yearly for a chaplain during the space of three years, to celebrate at that altar for his soul. These chapels formed, in our opinion, the transepts of Bishop Warelwast's Cathedral. May not the stonework ancient sedilia in the north wall of this chapel have once served for the reredos ofthe choir until Bishop Stapeldon erected the present more graceful ones in their place ? Or perhaps in the Lady CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 203 Chapel before the actual ones were introduced at a later period ? But before we leave the north aisle of the choir, we may request the spectator's attention to a boss in the vaulting behind the pulpit, of a mitred head with moustaches and a curled beard. As it is near the com mencement of Bishop Grandisson's new work, may it not be intended for Bishop Quivil, the principal origi nator of the present edifice ? The only armorial bearings in the north aisle, on stained glass, are in the fourth window. First of Grandisson, as before. Second, of Lacy — Azure, three Shovellers' heads erased argent. Third, in a bad state, but apparently Speke, matched with the Yalle- torts of Clist St. Lawrence — Argent, a Fess and two Mullets in chief sable ; and Somaster, of Netherexe — Argent, a Castle between three Fleurs-de-lys sable. Fourth, Speke as before. Fifth, Montacute as before. Quarterly with Mounthermer — Or, an Eagle displayed vert. Sir John Montacute, nephew of Bishop Grandis son, married Margaret, daughter and heir of Thomas Lord Mounthermer, of Stokenham.^ Retracing our steps, and passing the ambulatory be hind the High Altar, we enter the south aisle, which is a foot wider than the north aisle of the choir. Here we observe, under a Decorated ogee arch, the cenotaph of Humphry de Bobun, the eighth of that name, Earl of Hereford and Essex, who married Elizalaeth, daughter of King Edward I. This noble man was killed at Burrough Bridge, 16th Marcb, 1321, and was buried in the Dominican Convent at York, though the family place of interment was usually at Lanthony Priory, near Gloucester, or at Waldene ' In Grandisson's Reg., vol. iii. fol. Il3j is the institution, of Canon Henry de Blakeborrie to the valuable living of Stokenham, 7th December, 1357, on the presentation of Sir John de Monta cute, Knight, in right of this lady, daughter and heir of Thomas Lord Mounthermer. 204 HISTORY OP THE in the county of Hereford. His daughter Margaret, who was married to Hugh Courtenay the second of that name. Earl of Devon, may have erected this memorial. To Polwhele's ' History of Devon ' we refer tbe reader for the epitaph which John Hoker composed for him. In Sir William Pole's time (' Descript. Devon,' p. 109) the arms of Bobun were visible on the shield — Azure, a Bend argent cotised or, charged with three Mullets sable between six Lions rampant or. Adjoining is another monument of a gallant knight of the Ralegh family (whose arms have been adopted by the Chi- chesters, viz. — Cheeky or and gules, a Chief vairy). Both knights are represented as Crusaders, who either had served or vowed to serve in the Holy Land. Sir Samuel Meyrick, on 18th October, 1847, observed " the recumbent cross-legged effigies are both of the close of the reign of Edward I., or beginning of Edjjvard II. , in regard to costume : the fiattened coiffe of that which is said to have borne on the shield the arms of Ralegh, would rather bespeak the early part of Edward I., as such was designed for a cylindrical helmet ; but both knights recline their heads on conical ones, for which the rounded coiffe of that of Humphry de Bobun was particularly appropriate. Tbe sword- guard or cross to the first figure being bent downwards on each side, gives another criterion of date as marking that of Edward I. The guige or strap by which the shield was suspended from the neck, with its buckle, is very conspicuous ; and the apex of eachxonical helmet demonstrates the manner in which the cointisse was attached to it." In the fourth, fifth, and sixth windows are some heraldic shields. In the fourth window: First, St. George's— -Argent, a Cross gules. Second, Bishop Lacy's as before. Third, Quarterly Montacute and Mounts hermer, as before. Fourth, Bishop Grandisson's. CATHEDRAL OP EXETER. ' 205 In the fifth window: First, St. George's repeated. Second : Edward the Confessor's. Third : Montacute and Mounthermer. St. George — also Gules, a Chevron between three Combs argent; which may have belonged to Robert Botell or Botyll, Prior of St. John of Jerusalein from 1439 to 1469. In the sixth window : First, Or, an Eagle displayed double-headed argent ; the shield hanging on a tree. Second : Edward the Confessor's. Third : Bishop Gran disson's. We have already noticed St. James's Chapel, when its present windows were introduced in 1279 prepara tory to its two altars. The third window, mentioned in the same roll, appears to have been blocked up when the beautiful, but mutilated, mural monument was placed against its south wall. Can it have been erected to the memory of Bishop Leofric ? The spectator \wll hardly fail to observe the painted bosses of King Edward II. , his consort Isabella, and of Satan, in the south aisle behind the throne. Before entering into the choir, we must profess our inability to determine the precise period when the stone screen dividing it from the aisles was first erected. Bishop Lacy we know gave hangings to be placed behind the stalls of the canons and vicars, to protect them from the wind and cold ; and, sixty years later, mention is made of " panni pendentes in choro." And now through the south door we may introduce the reader into the choir. At once the sight is greeted and enchanted with the rich glow of its eastern window : a perfect contrast to Wm. Peckitt's diluted tints in the west window, with the unequalled canopied sedilia, well engraved in the 'Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society ' (Yol. I., Part 2, 1843), with the towering and majestic throne, with the agree- 206 HISTORY OF THE able vista of columns, arches, and clerestory, and the embowed and interlaced vaulting. As soon as the eye can recover itself and admit of repose, it will fix itself on the great east window. Before we attempt to describe it, we may observe, that it was considerate in the guardians of the church, when reading was confined to the comparative few, to aim at the instruction of the people by tbe lively representation of events re corded in tbe Holy Bible and ecclesiastical history. An appeal was thus made to tbe head and heart of the spectators ; they became intelligibly reminded of the blessings and graces of the Almighty — were excited to a sense of gratitude, and urged to the imitation of God's servants. The merit of enlarging this gable window, as it is called in the acts of the chapter, in the Perpendicular style, and of providing it with coloured glass, must be giren to Henry de Blakeborn, a canon of this church and formerly a prebendary of Hundegate in Lincoln Cathedral.' On 21st April, 1389, he offered the sum of 100 marks for the work ; and in the ' Fabric Roll ' of that year is an entry for the skin of parchment to sketch out the design, "pro i pelle pergameni empti, ad pingendum magnam fenestram." On 7th May, 1391, an agreement was concluded in St. Andrew's Chapel above mentioned, between the dean and chapter of tbe one part, and Robert Lyen," the glazier of the church, of the other part ; whereby the said Robert Lyen covenanted to glaze the great window newly made at the head of the church behind the High Altar. For each foot of new glass he was. to receive twenty pence ; for fitting the old glass he was to receive » He exchanged this prebend in Lin coln church in July, 1378, with Eobert de Braybroke, shortly after elected Bishop of London and appointed Lord Chancellor. Henry died in the summer I salary of IZ. 6s. 8A of 1399 ; and his successor to the canonry here, Nicholas Bubbewyth, be came also Bishop of London. '" He had been sworn into oiBce on 28th April that year, with a yearly CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 207 three shillings and fourpence per week, and his man two shilhngs. He was to find, at his own cost and charge, what might be necessary for glazing ; but what ever quantity of new and old glass might be required for the work, was to be provided by the dean and chapter. Probably tbis gable window shone in all its beautiful combination and arrangement of colours until the Grand Rebellion, when it saWered partial injury.' To the varied elegance of design which appears in the figures, costume, ornaments, turrets, niches and foliage, the painter alone can do justice. But we pro ceed to the explanation of the window ; beginning with the first and lowest series, containing nine figures : — First. — St. Thomas the Apostle, holding in his right hand a lance, the instrument of his martyrdom. Perhaps this saint is introduced in compliment to the bishop of the time, Thomas Brantyngham (1370-1394) ; but beneath are the arms of Bishop Blondy — Lozengy or and sable, and of Bishop Stafford as before. Second. — St. Catherine, supporting the wheel in her right hand. Arms of Bishop Chichester — Cheeky or and gules, a Chief vairy : also of Bishop Osbern — Gules, a Bend argent sur mounted by a Fess or. Thhd. — St. Mary Magdalene, bearing in her left hand the alabaster box of perfume. Below, the arms of the see and of its founder, Edward the Confessor. Fourth. — St. Barbara, bearing a palm-branch in her right hand ^-iid a tower in her left. Below are the arms of Bishop Berkeley — Gules, a Chevron between ten Crosses pat^e, six p,boYe and four below. Fifth. — The Virgin Mary, and her Divine Infant on her left arm : under her feet the inscription scA maeia. Below, the arms quarterly of France and England. Sixth.— St. Martia, Bishop of Tours : scE maetine. Below, the arms of Bishop Peter Courtenay— Or, three Torteauxes, in chief a Label of three points azure. ' We say partial: for the damage done by the Puritans is greatly exagge rated by Dr. Ryves in his 'Mercurius Rusticus :' — " They broke and defaced all the glass windows of the church, whioh cannot be replaced for many hundred pounds, and left aM those an cient monuments, being painted glass, and containing matter of story, only a miserable spectacle of commiseration to all well affected hearts that beheld them" (p. 241). 208 HISTORY OF THE Seventh. — St. Peter, with the paUium, holding the church in his right hand and its keys in his left. Beneath are the arms of King Athelstan — Party per saltier, gules and azure, on a Mount a Cross patonce crowned or : also the arms of Leofric, the flrst bishop of Exeter — Or, a Cross flory, sable, having in the fess-point a Mitre of the first. Eighth. — St. Paul, with the sword in his right hand, and a book in his left. Beneath are the arms of William and Eobert Warelwast, bishops of Exeter — Azure, a Saltier argent. Also Bishop Brewer's — Gules, two Bends wavy or. Ninth. — St. Andrew, with the Cross in saltier. Below are the arms of Stapeldon — Argent, two Bends wavy within a bordure sable. Also Bishop Nevyll's — Gules, a Saltier argent. Of these nine figures — with the exception of St. Barbara, the Yirgin Mary, and St. Martin — the heads are modern ; supplied, we understand, by Mr. William Peckitt, of York. The second series contains seven figures : — First. — St. Sativola, or SidweU. This virgin martyr of the eighth century is gracefully attired : her right hand reposes on her breast ; her left supports a scythe. The rebus on her name is completed by the water in the background flowing from the weU- In the ' Catalogue of Relics ' given to this church by King Athelstan, are numbered " Reliquise Sanctse Sati- volse Yirginis et Martyris." Second. — The Empress St. Helena, crowned : in her right hand she holds the cross, on the top of which is the affixed title I.N.B.I. ; in her left is a book. Third. — St. Michael, supporting a banner ornamented with a dove. FourtL — St. Lucy. On her left shoulder rests a naked sword. Some unconnected fragments of an inscription may be traced. Fifth. — St. Catherine repeated. In her right hand is the wheel ; in the left a sword, sca kathakina. Sixth. — St. Edward, King and Confessor. His right hand exhibits the bezel of the celebrated ring given by the pilgrim ; his left supports the sceptre, surmounted with the cross. Seventh. — St. Edmund, King and Martyr. His right hand grasps a bundle of arrows, me emblems of his martyrdom in 870. CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 209 The third series contains three figures only : — First. — Abraham, who is regarding the angel above, and listening to his words. Genesis xvii. 19 : " Sara uxor tua pariet tibi iilium ; vocabisque nomen ejus Isaac." Second. — Moses, with his right hand extended, addi'cssing his people, Deuteron. xvui. 15 : " De gente tu^ prophetam vobis suscitabit Deus." Third. — Isaiah. The label contains his famous prophecy, xi. 1 : "Egredietur virga de radiee Jesse." The remaining armorials are tbe arms of the See and Bishop Bitton's — Ermine, a Fess gules. Bishop Lacy's as before — Quarterly first and fourth, an Eagle displayed, double-headed, sable ; second and third, Grules, a Lion rampant argent. Arms of William Courtenay, as Archbishop of Canterbury, impaled with his family. The arms of England and France. Some of the shields have no labels of three points : one however is charged with the three points ermine ; another has the points charged with two Roundlets argent. Bishop Brantyngham's — Sable, a Fess em battled, counter-embattled, between three Catherine- wheels or. Bishop Lavington's — Argent, a Saltier gules; on a chief of the second, three Boars'-heads couped or. Kingdom of the West Saxons — Grules, a Griffin segreant or ; over them " R. S. Godfrey pinxit 1765." Bishop Keppel' s — Gules, tbree Escalops argent, a martlet for difference ; Argent, a Cross gules between four Crescents sable. Bishop Grandisson's and Courte- nay's, with Bohun's. The parapet under, with the canopied screen, was executed by Mr. John Kendall of this city, in 1818. Below this splendid window, and under a costly screen, stood the silver altar; the gift, according to Leland, of Bishop Stapeldon. In the Fabric-Roll of 1324, two years before that prelate's assassination, we discover a payment to "John the goldsmith" for work done about the silver table, " pro opere tabulse argen- 210 HISTORY OF THE tese ; " and we know that his executors supplied a fron tel and a covering of rich embroidery for it, which cost in those days 14^. 3s. Ad. Above the altar was sus pended a dove, containing a golden Pyxis, in which the consecrated hosts were reserved. There were also two small collateral altars here, of St. Stephen and St. John. In the middle of the choir hung by a silver chain a vase of the same metal, in which a wax-light was kept continually burning. In the ' Fabric-Roll ' of 1386 it is called " Corona," and was adapted to receive a number of lights around it. This \t-ax-light we apprehend was originally provided by the Archdeacon of Exeter, in virtue of Bishop Brouescombe's ordinance of 3rd September, 1270, to burn before the High Altar at matins and high mass. A third chandelier hung lower down in the choir from a silver chain. The throne of the bishop was originally of stone, and appears to have been removed about the year 1470 to make room for its stately successor. We cannot but regret that it has been shoved back from its pristine advanced position, as much to its own detri ment as to the injury of effect. To succeed in thrust ing it sideways — instead of giving it a position under the centre of tbe arch or of bringing it forwards — the superior mouldings of the arch itself have been hacked away, and a pinnacle of the throne also has been broken off; the front pannels have hkewise been ex changed for two incongruous ones. After examining the misereres or subseilia, or seats of. the canons and vicars, we cannot doubt that the stalls were in correct keeping with the episcopal throne, before their canopies and finials were pared down in 1745, for their present demure and stunted substitutes. On certain solemn occasions the choir was hung with silks and tapestry, and blazed with a multitude of lamps and wax-lights, whilst a numerous clergy, in CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 211 their magnificent robes, amidst clouds of fragrant incense, and peals of the tuneful organ,'' hfted up their voices to their Heavenly Father, and joined in the me lodious anthems of the angelic and seraphic hosts (Isaiah vi. 3, Rev. v. 8). What a glorious spectacle must this sanctuary have offered on the 8th July, 1347, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband (Rev. x. 2), when the immortal Grandisson — assisted by Ralph, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Robert, Bishop of Sahsbury, John, Bishop of St. Asaph — consecrated Richard Fitz- Ralph, Dean of Lichfield, to the archiepiscopal see of Armagh ; in the presence of the Abbots of Hartland, Torre, Newenham, and Buckfastleigh, the Prior of Plympton, and a countless number of clergy and nobility ! How splendid must have been the reception of our monarchs Henry YL, Edward IY., and Henry YII. ! How imposing the ceremony of installing our bishops ; the visitation of our primates ; the reconcilia tion of the public penitents on Maunday Thursday ; and the grand ordinations before Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost ! But who can leave this sanctuary without bending reverently over the tomb of that martyr of loyalty and bountiful benefactor to the edifice. Bishop Stapeldon ? We forbear to describe it, after its delineation and notice by Mr. Britton. The same author has given three views of the beautiful altar-tomb and effigy of Bishop Marshal ; and here occurs the earliest instance we have met with of St. Paul holding the sword by the point: the episcopal ring is on the middle finger of the right hand. As for the mitre, though the bishop died as late as 1206, his mitre is the lowest we have seen, not exceeding three inches and a half from the front rim to the apex.^ 2 In the Chapter-Roll of 1429 are i * Bishop Bartholomew's mitre (ob. expenses "pro novis organis faciendis." 1 1184) rises to five inches and a half; P 2 212 HISTORY OF THE On turning from tbe choir into the nave we are struck with the beautiful display of hght and shade ; with the extent before us ; with the boldness of the conception to produce transepts from the twin towers ; with the enlarged girth of the columns, and wider span of the arches ; witb tbe Minstrel Gallery in the north clerestory, and with the undulating tracery of the western window. As soon as the spectator can feel himself capable of fixing bis attention, he may proceed to the north, or St. Paul's Tower. In the west wall is retained the original Norman window. A similar one occupied the space where the clock now stands. Another fronted the west, before Bishop Quivil opened the communica tion with St. Paul's Chapel. It is worthy of remark, that the south wall of tbe corresponding tower had two circular Norman windows in it, and that the pointed window, which Bishop Quivil substituted, is smaller than the corresponding one which he introduced in the north tower. In this north tower was formerly an altar of the Holy Cross, which was removed apparently in the early part of the 15th century. In its place was erected a crucifix, and the offerings made at its foot are referred to in an agreement made between the chapter and the treasurer on 31st October, 1423, " ad Crucem in boreali campanili, ubi nuper altare fuerat situatum ad honorem ejusdem." Mentioning the clock, we find one in the Fabric-Roll of 1376, and an expenditure of 101,, "circa cameram in boreali turre pro borologio quod vocatur 'clokke';" another seerns to have replaced it in 1424, when John Budde was paid the large sum of 3^. 13s. Ad. for painting it. Though probably altered from time to Simon de Apulia's (1223') to six and a half; Bronesoombe's (1280) to eight and a half; Stapeldon's (1326) to nine inches, and Stafford's nine and three- quarters. CATHEDRAL OP EXETEII. 213 time, especially whilst Peter Courtenay governed the church, it may be in substance the present piece of mechanism. In Westcote's time (1630) were subscribed the following lines — Festinando dies sub solis luce jucundi Diuturna quies docet, et modo tempus eundi Prseterit iste dies : nescitur origo secundi An labor, an quies ? sic transit gloria mundi ! At present is the simple motto — Pereunt et imputantur. To the treasurer of the church appertained " custodia clokke sive horologii." In the ' Act Books ' of the mayor and chamber, 19th June, 1649, is an order " that Mr, Receiver doe see the clock in Peter's Church repaired and set in order, and pay Grincking the watchmaker 30s. for doing it, and he is to have 10s. yearly for keeping it." Underneath the clock is the small neglected and mutilated chantry of William Sylke, Doctor of Laws, for many years a leading dignitary of this cathedral. Bishop Courtenay appointed him his vicar-general, collated him to a canonry here on 20th November, 1479, and six months later to a prebend in the church of the Holy Cross at Crediton. Bishop Fox, on 31st May, 1487, selected him also to administer the diocese in his absence. On loth April, 1499, Bishop Red mayne bestowed on him the Precentorship of Exeter, which he held during the remaining nine years of his life. For his attention to tbe interests of the priest- vicars of the cathedral, they had engaged to keep his obit; and the abbot and convent of St. Mary's of Cleeve, Somerset, from a sense of gratitude to him and to Canon Richard More, late treasurer, agreed to pay yearly to our dean and chapter the sum of 6^. 13s. Ad, for the maintenance of their anniversaries. Corresponding with this chantry was St. Michael's in the south tower, inclosing the tomb of Bishop John 214 HISTORY OP THB (who had died on 3rd September, 1189), distinguished with the simple quatrefoil. This chapel is particularly mentioned in the Roll of 1397. The jub6 or roodloft divides the nave from tbe choir. It is supported on three arches of exquisite beauty ; the central one forms the entrance into the choir. On the south side was the Lady's Altar, often called Bratton's ; on the north side St. Nicholas's.* In the reign of King James I., a double rose and thistle of cumbrous and graceless sculpture were suffered to dis figure the front of this specimen of architectural beauty, as if to mark the decline of the arts and the degrada tion of taste. Now let us advance into the nave. The eye is attracted to the " Vetus Ostium," as it is called in the Fabric-Rolls, or the ancient doorway opening into tbe cloisters ; then we turn to the altar-tomb of Hugh Courtenaj'-, the second of tbat name. Earl of Devon, and of his Countess Margaret (Bobun), married to him on llth August, 1325. She survived her lord fifteen years, and died on 16th December, 1391, aged 80. By the earl's will written in French, 4th August, 1375, be had directed that his remains should be de posited in St. Peter's Church, Tiverton ; but by a codicil in Latin, dated 28tb April, 1377 (Bishop Bran tyngham's 'Register,' Yol. I., fob 27, Part IL), just before his death, he desires to be buried in this cathe dral. In the Fabric-Roll of 1378 is entered a receipt for fifty shillings for supplying three marble stones " pro tumba Comitis." From Brantyngham's ' Reg.' (Yol. II. fol. 90), we learn that William Courtenay, then Bishop of London,^ in 1381 consecrated the altar-stone for this * Near the south side may yet be seen on the pavement an altar-slab marked with a cross at the four comers and in the centre. It is degraded into an inscribed gravestone. * Born in the Manor-House, Exmin ster — in due time collated to a canonry in this cathedral : whilst Bishop of Hereford he paid frequent visits to his venerable parents at Tiverton Castle, aud rendered valuable service in the performance of episcopal functions for CATHEDRAL OP EXETER. 215 his parents' chantry. Westcote in his ' Yiew of Devon,' p. 209 (1630), describes the chantry as "a sumptuous curious little chapel, lately taken down." As the altar- tomb was greatly sunk, it was taken down on 4th May, 1833, to be resettled. We then observed that the leaden coffins of the earl and countess were lying side by side, barely sixteen inches below the surface of the floor ; that the skulls were tolerably perfect, but that the bones had been wantonly disturbed, probably in the search for rings and jewellery. The coffin of the countess had experienced much more injury than the earl's. We beheve this chantry was dedicated to St. Agatha. On the opposite side, nearly facing the north porch, was the chantry of Bishop Brantyngham, which he endowed with the Rectory of Morthoe with the consent of tbe Crown, on Sth July, 1379. Izacke laments " the embezzlement of his brass effigy in this sacrilegious age." Previously to the relaying of the flags, on the removal of the pews^ in the nave, the grave was our diocesan. Bishop Brantyngham. At the end of six years he was translated to Loudon; he sat about the same number of years at London, when he .was promoted to Canterbury. He had hardly been installed Primate when, on 15th November, 1381, he obtained King Richard the Second's license to erect dwelhngs in our Close towards the " Oookrewe," ou an area of 200 feet in length, the rents of which were to serve "pro sustentatione duorum capellano rum Divina singulis diebus in ecclesiS, cathedrali Bxon. celebraturorum." He himself had intended to be buried near his parents, but afterwards altered his will, and desired to be buried at Maid stone. Dying on 3lst July, 1396, at the age of 66, whilst the said king was at Canterbury, his Majesty commanded that the interment should take place in his own metropolitan church, which was accordingly done on the 4th of August; but we may observe that eleven years before the archbishop's death, the rectory of East Coker in Somersetshire had been conveyed by the family to the dean and chapter to maintain the objects of this Courtenay chantry. Tliat a memorial was erected to the archbishop at Maidstone is stated by Weever, ' Fun. Mon.,' p. 285. ^ The erection of this seating was de frayed by a legacy of Precentor Henry Bold. On the ceremony of opening them, 27th Jtdy, 1684, a memorable sermon was deUvered by Prebendary Rev. John Reynolds, which was pub lished. At the time, this disfigurement to the church was considered a vast im provement; but happily in 1834 it was removed. The handsome pulpit, with the figures of the four Evangelists carved by Grinlin Gibbons, was trans ferred to St. James's Church in St. Sid well's. The original pulpit in the nave was of stone. The first mention we find of pews is in the will of John Younge of Heme, dated 26th May, 1458, whereby he leaves ten marks " to make seats called puyinge in the church of Heme in the diocese of Canterbury, so that the same be done within two years after my decease." — ' Testamenta Ve tusta,' vol. i. p. 289. 216 HISTORY OF THE opened, when it soon became evident that it had been carefully searched for plunder. Indeed there is too much cause to fear that, when the nave was converted into a guard-house for the Puritan soldiers in 1646, all the graves were explored by sacrilegious covetous ness. Mr. Reynolds, in the sermon referred to supra, expressly states tbat " many of us have seen not only the monuments of the dead, but even tbe very ashes and bones of some, disturbed and violated." This chantry we believe was dedicated to St. Anne, for whom the founder had a special veneration. From the publication of Pope Urban the Sixth's Bull, dated 21st July, 1381, in ber honour, the devotion of the faithful to her memory greatly increased in this diocese (Brantyngham's ' Reg.' I. fo. 108). We have mentioned tbe north porch, and suspect that here was the termination of Warelwast's Cathedral ; so that Bishop Grandisson extended the original length westward by four other arches. Certainly this porch existed before the present nave was constructed, as the examination of its walls and the blank window in the aisle and clerestory sufficiently indicate. Its exterior front is evidently new faced. Under an obtuse arch below the base of the blank window in the clerestory, you enter a projecting gallery, suited for a band of musicians to be stationed for tbe performance of instru mental pieces during solemn receptions of illustrious persons and tbe processions of tbe .whole cathedral staff. Mr. Britton, in his description of the cathedral, has furnished engravings of it (Plates YIIL and XYIL). There are fourteen winged figures — twelve in front, and one in eacb return. The twelve in front are provided with instruments. The first to the west sustains a guitar of six strings ; the second is playing the bagpipes ; the third, a hautboy ; the fourth, a violin ; the fiftb. a harp ; the sixth, a small instrument CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 217 like a Jew's harp ; the seventh, a trumpet ; the eighth, an organ blown with the left band and fingered with the right ; the ninth, a guitar with five strings ; the tenth, some unknown wind-instrument ; the eleventh, a tambour; the twelfth, cymbals. Below, over the capitals of the clustered columns, are two empty niches, which formerly contained statues of St. Mary and St. Peter ; as we collect from the wills of Canon John Germyn, made on 21st February, 1459, and Canon Richard Martin, dated 31st July, 1461. In the porch itself was buried John Orum, Chancel lor of Exeter. By his will, proved 27th September, 1436, he left forty pounds to the choristers of the church, ''pro antiphont imperpetuum decantand^ in predicto porticu." St. Edmund's Chapel, at the extre mity of the north aisle, and now used for the Consistory Court, is designated in the 'Inventory' of 1506 as " Capella Sancti Edmundi supra ossilegium in Ceme terio." Can there be a crypt here ? This chapel must have been contiguous to the Chapel of the Blessed Mary " infra Cemeterium," ^ where lectures on divinity were sometimes delivered and ordinations occasionally holden. In this Chapel of St. Mary, generally called the ' Charnel Chapel,' the treasurer, John Ryse, on 18th March, 1522, founded a Mass of the Holy Ghost to be daily celebrated for his prosperity during his life, and of Requiem after his death, which happened early in May, 1531. Before the end of the sixteenth century St. Mary's Chapel had disappeared altogether. In tbe nave we meet with large chandeliers in the Fabric-Rolls, as also with the pulpit. John Udy, a canon of the church, in his will, dated 18th February, 1462, desired to be buried " in navi ecclesie Sancti Petri juxta pulpitum." ' We believe it is first mentioned in the ' Register ' of Bishop Stapeldon, fol. 175, when that prelate, on 18th March, 1322, authorised John de Lydeford to have service performed in it. 218 HISTORY OF THE In the vaulting of the nave are a few armorial bear ings : Bishop Stapeldon's, Bishop Bytton' s, Bishop Berkley's, Bishop Grandisson's, and Montacute's, already described. Two shields have been effaced by the daubers, as also the label from Bishop Grandisson's kneeling figure, directed towards the spirited represen tation of the martyrdom of St. Thomas of Canterbury (Plate XIX., No. 5). Here we may observe that the original baptismal font was removed to make room for a marble bason on the occasion of christening the Princess Henrietta, 21st July, 1644. After serving its purpose for nearly 200 years, the present octagonal one, made by Simon Rowe, was given to the church in June, 1843, by Canon John Bartholomew, and is thus inscribed : — " Indignus sum, Domine Deus, Qui hsec tibi offeram. Oro tamen accipias propter merita dilecti Filii tui, et concedas ut qui hie sint ex aqusi, et Spiritu geniti, vivant et moriantur gratia pleni, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen, Amen." In examining the roof, we think it safe to pronounce, that the carpentry must yield the palm to the masonry. Evidently the roof swings westward, occasioned by cutting off the arch-brace or tie-beam over the vaulting. We cannot pass tbe western door without inspecting St. Radegunde's Chapel, and remarking the obtuse arch over tbe site of its altar, and without a deep sigh of regret that Exeter should have permitted with impu nity the wanton violation of the sacred remains of ife noble benefactor. Bishop Grandisson. Alas! the same ungrateful spirit of profanation had scattered the ashee of the patriotic King Alfred, at Winchester ! CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 219 CHAPTER IY. ANCIENT CUSTOMS OB" THE CATHEDRAL. Not only national churches, but even distinct dioceses, adhered to peculiar rites and forms. St. Osmund, Bishop of Sarum, who died on 4th December, 1099, had the merit of introducing throughout this country a stricter uniformity in the celebration of Divine Service. His ' Ordinale,' composed in 1080, served for the sub stance and groundwork of the improved system of conducting the offices of our cathedral : yet Bishop Grandisson was unwilling that the entire credit should be engrossed by the church of Sarum ; for, in No. 77 of his statutes for his collegiate church of St. Mary at Ottery, he requires of its members that they should not profess to maintain the ' Use of Sarum,' but rather the ' Use of Exeter.' In the course of this chapter we shall refer to some peculiar customs mentioned in the ' Ordinale' which Bishop Grandisson compiled in the year 1337 for the regulation of the church services, and also to some others mentioned in the episcopal registers and ancient documents. According, then, to the ancient custom of the church of Exeter, its clerical staff rose throughout thfe year at midnight, or soon after, for the performance of matins — " semper medi^ nocte vel cito posted " (' Ordinale,' fol. 12). Each of the residentiary canons, however, was allowed one night's respite from attendance during the week. From the original foundation of the cathedral in 1050, twenty-four canons and twenty-four vicars were attached to it; and this establishment was graduaUy reinforced and augmented by an indefinite number of chantry-priests, called annuellars, or annivellars, twelve secondaries, and four custors. When Bishop Gran- 22U HISTORY OF THE disson made the visitation of his cathedral on 26th November, 1337, he gave in his report ('Reg.' vol. i. fol. 98) the names of all the members of the church ; and amongst them are twenty-one chantry-priests. None of the secondaries were in priests' orders, but g,ll of them were in minor orders : some were even sub- deans, and even deacons. The four dignitaries of the church possessed peculiar endowments, annexed to their offices ; and over their stalls were inscribed the follow ing Leonine verses, as we learn from Bishop Grandis son's ' Ordinale,' fol. lb; — Bearts. — " Tardius atque mane residens, rege cuncta, Decane." Precentor's. — " Hie residendo chorum rege, cantor, Dux pue- rorum." Chancellor's. — " Hac qui sede sedes, jura sacrata leges." Treasurer's. — "Tresauros conde, Eesidens, pro Lumine sponde." The four archdeacons of Exeter, Totnes, Barnstaple, and Cornwall were not necessarily canons, in virtue of their office : neither was the sub-dean or penitentiary — an institution not founded until 7th July, 1284. All the residentiary canons were required personaUy to assist, not only at the matins and lauds of the day in the choir, but also at the canonical hours of prime, tierce, sext, none, and vespers, witb complin, or the completion and conclusion of the daily service. What with masses, processions, and other prayers to be per formed at the Lady Chapel, the clerical body must have been occupied in tbe church every day from four to five hours. They could truly say with the royal Psalmist, " Seven times a day do I praise Thee." (Ps. cxviii.) The dean's place was at tbe right hand of the entrance into the choir : next to him the archdeacon of Exeter : then the sub-dean, by virtue of Bishop Quivil's foundation-deed of that ofiice : twelve canons followed. CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 221 according to seniority of appointment; tben their twelve vicars : the archdeacon of Totnes stood next : the chancellor occupied tbe stall adjoining the epis copal throne. On the left side of tbe ontvance wore ranged, first, the precentor ; then the archdeacon of Cornwall ; then the twelve other canons, according to seniority, with their twelve vicars; next the archdeacon of Barn staple ; and, lastly, the treasurer, whose door of exit to the Treasury was behind his stall — where the Seymour mural monument in the north aisle of the choir is now placed.^ The twelve secondaries occupied the second rank, or form, with tbe annivellars, and were equally divided on either side, as well as the choir boys.^ The custores, or vergers, having lighted the candles, and the pealing of the bells having ceased, the appointed rector or leader of the choir, bearing his staff of office, after a short prayer in silence, commenced with intoning the invitatory of matins. If the bishop was present, and signified his intention of reading a lesson of the nocturns, the cross-bearer, supported by two acolyths holding lighted torches, stood in front of the throne, and when the bishop pronounced the words " Jube, Domine, benedicere," the choir responded " Ora pro nobis. Pater" (' Ordinale,' fol. 27 b). After matins and lauds, the clergy separated ; some for repose, others for private meditation, others for • In tlie examination of several wit nesses to the boimds and limits of the cathedral dmrchyard, in 1557. before Bishop James Turberville and John Peter, Mayor of Exoter. Robert Beale, Treasurer's house, might see the rebels whioh came tlien with haltera about tlieir necks before him to sue for par don.—' Hoker's M.S.,' fol, 43. - For the training of these youths aged 80, deposed that there had been a tho dean aud chapter, ou 4th July, row of sixteen trees going from tlie I 1276, assigned some premises on the bank before Mr. Treasurer's door unto tho north door of St. Peter's Church ; that eight of those troos woro cut down when King Henry YII. (in October, 1497) visited this city, that tho kiug, standing in tho new window of Mr. I south side of the Close for the Suc- centor, Elias do Cirencester, with a Schola Cantus. Bishop Bronescombe sanctioned the grant ou the following day (' Keg.' fol. 70.) 222 HISTORY OF THE study, others for preparation to celebrate mass at the several altars. The earliest that was performed was called "Bratton's," founded by Henry Bratton, or Bracton, Archdeacon of Barnstaple and Chancellor of Exeter, in the reign of King Henry III. It com menced, "in aurora diei," at the altar of the Yirgin Mary under the roodloft, for the convenience of the industrious population before they began their daily labour. By the 21st canon of the Synod holden here in the spring of 1287, no priest was permitted to cele brate twice on the same day, except on Christmas-day and Easter Sunday, or when a corpse was to be buried in the parish church. When prime, tierce, sext, and none were over, high mass followed, which was performed nearly in the same manner as is done at present in Roman Catholic churches. During the whole of Advent, and from Septuagesima Sunday until Maundy Thursday, the assistant-deacon and sub-deacon wore chasubles instead of the dalmatic and tunic, except on special solemnities. But if tbe bishop celebrated, he was to be attended by at least three deacons and as many sub-deacons ; and when the deacon presented him at the offertory with the wine, he implored a blessing, without moving from the centre of the altar, in these words, " Ab ipso, de cujus latere fluxerunt sanguis et aqua in redemp- tionem." It appears to have been the practice before Bishop Grandisson's time to incense, from a motive of respect for departed worth, the tombs of such bishops as were buried within the choir : this was discontinued by his injunction (' Ordinale,' fol. 14). He alleges that they were not better entitled to this mark of reverence than his predecessors, who reposed out of the choir. However, he is ready to make an exception in favour of any bishop that was canonized, " nisi aliquis canoni- zaretur" — a privilege awarded to none. CATHEDRAL OF EXETBE. 223 Bishop Marshal, on 24th May, 1205, had granted to his cathedral a pension of 21. 13s. Ad. to meet the charge of incense for two thuribles at the daily cele bration of high mass, "administrandum cum duobus thuribulis incensum in majoris missaa celebratione sin guhs diebus in perpetuum." This sum continued to be applied for that purpose for upwards of a century, when, at the suggestion of Subdean Braylegh, it was transferred by Bishop Stapeldon on 12th April, 1322, to the ofifice of penitentiary ; but with the obligation of supplying two suitable torches at the grand public processions on Palm Sunday and Corpus Christi (' Reg.' 168 b). Should the bishop celebrate mass at any altar, the regulation was, that no ecclesiastic of inferior station to him could officiate at it during the day, unless necessity intervened ; nor then without his permission — " et tunc licentia Episcopi fiat" (' Ordinale,' fol. 24). In the ' Register' of Bishop Quivil, fol. 130, is a man date that at high mass, before the ' Agnus Dei ' was said by the priest and sung by the choir, the clergy should prostrate themselves before the altar, when he began the cxxii. Psalm of the Yulgate, " Ad Te levavi oculos meos," &c., with Gloria Patri, &c., Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison, Kyrie Eleison, Pater Noster, &c., Et ne Nos, &c. Versicle. Fiat misericordia tua, Domine, super nos. Response. Quemadmodum speravimus in Te. V. Domine, salvum fac Eegem. B. Et exaudi nos in die qui invocaverimus Te. V. Salvum fac populum tuum, Domine, et benedic hsere- ditati tuse. B. Et rege eos, et extoUe iUos usque in seternum. V. Domine, exaudi orationem meam. R. Et clamor meus ad Te veniat. V. Dominus vobiscum. B. Et cum spiritu tuo. 224 HISTORY OF THE Oremus. Deus, refugium nostrum et virtus, adesto piis Ecclesise tuse precibus, auctor ipse pietatis, et prsesta, ut quod fidehter peti- mus, efficaciter consequamur. Per Dominum, &c. Quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut famulus tuus N. Rex noster, qui tuS miseratione suscepit regni gubemacula, virtutum etiam onmimn percipiat iacrementa, quibus decenter ornatus, et viti- orum monstra devitare, et ad Te, qui via, Veritas, et vita es, gratiosus valeat pervenire. Per Dominum, &c. (Without men tion of the Queen Consort.) The celebrant then rose, and, proceeding to the altar, repeated tbe ' Agnus Dei.' Processions, also, were an interesting ceremony. Some of these were in public, with streaming banners : others were confined to the precincts of the church. OriginaUy tbere were but two public ones : the first on Palm Sunday, after the " Benedictio Florum et Fron- dium," (' Ordinale,' fol. 87) ; the second on the Rogation- days, before the feast of Christ's Ascension, at which, from very early times, the parochial clergy of the city, and even the rehgious communities of the place, were expected to attend. (See Bishop Osborne's Ordinance in ' Mon. Dioc. Exon.' p. 113.) A third, and the most splendid of all, was instituted here in Bishop Broues combe's time, whilst Roger de Thoriz was dean, about the year 1270, in honour of Corpus Christi, and was highly encouraged by Bishop Stapeldon, especially after tbe fifteenth General Council at Yienne in Dau phiny, A.D. 1311. From the ' Ordinale,' p. 90, we collect that on these occasions they proceeded with several banners — the first representing a dragon, embroidered ; the second, a lion. Usually they advanced towards some station or church in the city or suburbs : that on Palm Sunday and Corpus Christi day extended invari ably beyond the Eastgate — " extra Portam orientalem civitatis Exonise, ex more Ecclesise nostrae," says Bishop Stapeldon ('Reg.' 168 b). When King Edward IY. CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 225 visited Exeter on 14th April, 1470, the next day being Palm Sunday, he very courteously took a part in the procession. As to the riding of the choristers and dependents of the canons on 28th June, the Yigil of the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, bearing paper shields with the arms of the church painted upon them, we find no mention of the custom before the middle of the fifteenth century. The private processions, as we learn from the ' Ordi nale,' fol. 28, were conducted from the steps of the High Altar in the following order : — 1. A boy, in his surplice, carrying the vase of holy water. 2. Two acolyths, in silk copes, bearing each a cross, and sup ported on either side by a torchbearer in his alb. 3. An acolyth, in dalmatic, with a thurible. 4.. Two acolyths, in dalmabics, holding the Holy Gospels. 5. A boy, in surplice, with the Collect Book. 6. The officiating priest of the day. 7. The priests of the cathedrab two and two. 8. The deacons of the cathedral, two and two. 9. The bishop, mitred and bearing the crozier, closed the procession. They passed through the north gate of the choir, near the treasurer's stall, turned east towards the ves tibule of the Lady Chapel, and so entered the south gate of the choir near the episcopal throne, and then proceeded to the High Altar. During this progress, hymns and prayers were chaunted from the proces sional books. Occasionally, instead of re-entering by the south door of the choir, they pursued their march to the western extremity of the nave, and then making the circuit of the baptismal font, they entered the clois ters by the door (now blocked up) near the font, and then passing the ambulatory on the west, south and east sides, returned into the church by the ancient south door, " vetus ostium," and halted before the rood- Q '.426 HISTORY OF THE loft. If no sermon was to be addressed from the pulpit in the nave to the people, they proceeded directly through the west door of the choir towards the High Altar. On solemn occasions the whole line was strewed with carpets. Prom the pulpit in the nave, just mentioned, was sometimes issued the sentence of excommunication against evil-doers, when the people had assembled in their greatest number to attend divine worship. The episcopal Registers supply several instances : one may suffice. After the brutal attack made by some ruffians, armed witb bludgeons, on Canon Thomas Redman and his vicar, Hugh Bevyn, during the night, in passing through the cathedral-yard. Bishop Lacy issued his mandate, dated Stb March, 1426, to Dean Cobthorn, to denounce the offenders and their accomplices on Mid- Lent Sunday. At the appointed time the excommuni cation was thus published, as soon as the bells had ceased tolling and the lighted torches were thrown down on the pavement : — " Sicut lumen candelse extin- guitur, ita eorum bona opera extinguantur ante Deum, nisi resipiscant. Fiat, Fiat, Amen" ('Reg.' vol. iii. fob 55). Our readers are aware that the nave of tbe church was appropriated to the laity, and that females occupied tbe western part, " in occidentali parte mos est foeminis orare." The Apostolical Constitutions, supposed to have been compiled in the third century, require the sepa ration of the sexes in places of public worship ; and an inscription of the fourth century in the portico of tbe Yatican Basilica, describing the position of a grave near the second column, " quomodo intramus sinistri parte virorum," shows tbat the women used to enter the church through the door on tbe right hand. By tbe 21st Canon of the Exeter Synod, a.d. 1287, the laity were excluded from entering the choir during divine service. CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 227 On Ash- Wednesday, the bishop, or the celebrant, placed ashes on the forehead of each of the faithful, saying, at the same time, " Memento homo quod cinis es et in cinerem reverteris : in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen" (' Ordinale,' fol. 85). In the same Ordinale, fol. 30, is given an account of the Episcopus Puerorum, or Boy-Bishop, or Barn- Bishop, as he is called in the inventory of Lincoln Cathedral. This custom prevailed also at York and at Salisbury. From a manuscript in our city archives the election of the chorister appears to have taken place on the Yigil of St. Thomas the Apostle (20th December). His term of office, however, did not begin until the evening of the 27th, and expired with the evening of the following day, the Feast of the Holy Innocents. A collection was made in the city and suburbs for the benefit of the youth in future hfe ; but the regulations carefully guarded against the extravagant outgoings incurred by the captain of the school at the Eton Montem. At the first vespers of the Holy Innocents, the child appointed to act the part of the Boy-Bishop, attended with his chorister-compa nions, all in silk copes, proceeded to the altar-steps, when the diocesan made the sign of the cross on the child " who was to personate Christ, the true and eternal High-Priest," and then intoned the response to the lesson of the first nocturn of the matins, " Centum quadraginta quatuor millia." — Revelations xiv. 1. This was taken up by the choir and sung throughout. A' procession was then formed, during which were sung, "Hi empti sunt," " Yidi sub," &c., from the same chapter. On returning to the High Altar, the cambu- carius, or crosier-bearer, of the Lord Bishop, took the crosier from the prelate, and, turning towards him, sung the antiphon, " Princeps Ecclesise ; " and when he came to the words " cum mansuetudine," he turned to Q 2 228 HISTORY OF THE the choir, and sung the remainder. At the end, the choir responded "Deo gratias," and the crosier was redelivered to the Lord Bishop. Tben the Boy-Bishop, making the sign of the cross on his breast, intoned — V. Adjutorium nostrum in nomme Domini. B. Qui fecit ccelum et terram. V. Sit nomen Domini benedictum. B. Ex hoc nunc, et usque in sseculum. Then turning himself towards the choir, he gave the usual episcopal blessing. At complin he officiated, and repeated the benediction as before. On the following day he assisted at the cathedral service in his silk cope, and gave the solemn benediction : " et sic compleatur officium Episcopi Puerorum hujus diei."^ Wynkyn de Worde printed at London, in quarto, between the years 1489 and 1496, a sermon "pro Episcopo Puero rum," on the text " Laudato Pueri Dominum." — Pt. 1 1 2, 3.* 3 In Carranza's ' Summa Conciho rum,' p. 276, Antwerp edit. 1569, it appears that the abuse of electing a Boy-Bishop and even Patriarch, " statis quibusdam diebus," took its rise, " in aulis principum, quo se oblectarent," as early as the 9th century at least ; and waa condemned by the Eighth General CouncU at Constantinople, "ut in de decus ecclesise aecersita, sub gravibus censuris." — Canon XVI. ¦¦ The following are the ' Regulations ' for the Boy-Bishop at Exeter : — Penes Majorem et Commimitatem Civi tatis Exon. 1. Nulla fiat delacio vini neo torticii vigilia Sancti Thome Apostoli ad Ka- landarhay. 2. Nullum fiat jentaculum die Sancti Thome Apostoli in camera Episcopi choriste; sed eat Episcopus simulque choriste et servientes canonicorum, ad domum magistrorum suorum, ut aliis diebus ire soient. 3. Fiat distributio cirotheoarum infra clausum, per duos vel tres de habitu chori : ac in civitate et suburbiis, per duos tres vel quatuor de servientibus canonicorum magistri Episcopi, secun dum disoretionem dicti magistri depu- tandos. 4. Nullum regardum dabit Episcopus fratribus ejus choristis die Sanctorum Innocentium. 5. Nulli vocentur ad prandium die Sanctorum Innocentium, expensis Epis copi, ad domum magistri sui, nisi ftie- rint speciales amici dicti Episcopi, et tamen non ultra numerum vi persona rum. Quo casu solvat Episcopus ma gistro suo canonico, si recipere voluerit, pro prandio cujuslibet sic interessentis iiij''. Et Episcopus reputabit se con tentum cum servicio magistri sui. 6. Provideatur die Sanctorum Inno centium per canonicum magistrum Epis copi, quod servientes sui Domini Epis copi ordinari et preparari faciat unum denarium panis, unum potellum tenuis cervisie et ii vel iij denarios camis vel I denarium easel sive butiri ; ea ad cameram Episcopi, tempore " Preoiosa " deferant ibique Episcopus cum suis fia- tribus choristis ea cito simul sumat, et ad Prioratum Sancti Nicholai descendat, proviso quod expense dicti jentaculi summam iiij vel vj denariorum non ex- cedaut. 7. Ordmatum est, quod dictus Epia- CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 229 Christmas Eve was always kept most solemnly. After the morning chapter, the dean, or, in his absence, the president, is directed (' Ordinale,' fol. 25 b) to admonish all present to perform the approaching service with edifying devotion and recollection, and thus do honour to the mystery of their Saviour's Nati vity. Whilst the first lesson of the first nocturn at matins was being chanted, a youth suddenly appeared from behind the High Altar, apparelled in alb and amice, holding a lighted torch in his left hand, and took his station on tbe highest altar-step. Just as the lesson finished, he turned his face to the choir, and sung out, in a clear and melodious voice, the begin ning of the response, " Hodie nobis Caelorum Rex de Yirgine nasci dignatus est." At the words " C^lorum Rex " he lifted up his right hand towards the heavens. At the words " de Yirgine nasci," he extended his hand to the statue of the Yirgin Mary. Then turn ing himself towards the altar, at the words " dig natus est," he fell upon his knees. The choir then continued the response, " Ut hominem perditum ad Cselestia Regna revocaret. Gaudet exercitus angelorum, quia salus sterna humano generi apparuit." Whilst the choir was thus engaged, three chorister boys from either side, similarly dressed, proceeded to the lowest step of the altar, when the first youth descended to them, and all seven wheeling round, sung in concert the next versicle, " Gloria in excelsis Deo, et in terr^ pax, hominibus bonse voluntatis." As soon as they copus et cruoiferarius suus simul, diebus post dictum Festum Sanctorum Inno centium exerceant chorum et scholas, sicut ceteri choriste ; et quod amodo non discurrant per Ecclesiam nee alia loca cum cirothecis nisi, quando comi tatus vel sessiones pacis Exonie habean tur, vel cum aliqua honesta et extranea persona infra terminum predictum aliis diebus ad ecclesiam vel domum alicujus canonici, accedere contigerit. Et hoc tantum cum licentia Precentoris vel Suocentoris, sive clerici capelle Beate Marie. Item quod pecunie oblate Episcopo die Innocentium aperte sine mora infra Ecclesium numerentur coram uno cle rico scaccarii vel alio honesto presby tero de habitu chori per canonicum magistrajn Episcopi deputando, et de inde serventur per aliquem de amicis Episcopi. 230 HISTORY OP THE concluded, tbey passed on in procession through the midst of the choir, and disappeared beyond its western entrance. From the ancient ' Martyrologium ' of the church we discover that, on 25th June, a solemn ser vice was performed for all the deceased priests within the diocese of Exeter : " Solemnis memoria fiat omnium Sacerdotum Exoniensis Episcopatus defunctorum." Tbe reconcUiation of penitents on Maunday Thursday took place " in atrio Ecclesia " (' Ordinale,' fol. 87 b). The bishop, if present, or the dean in his absence, went down in procession to the western doors, and, after the absolution had been pronounced, the penitents were led by the hands of the clergy to the High Altar, and restored to the bosom of tbe church and communion of the faithful. (See also Bishop Quivil's 'Register,' fob 120, anno 1282.) We may be permitted to add, that it was usual for the choir to sing an antiphon daily in the nave " in honore nostri Salvatoris coram summ^ Cruce." Bishop Oldam, as we learn from bis deed, dated 21st February, 1515, granted an indulgence of forty days to all true penitents who should assist at this ceremony, and devoutly repeat a Pater Noster and Ave Maria. And here we may notice an abuse, which, in defiance of the prohibition of Pope Innocent III. (1210), had crept into some other churches, " pemicioso quarum- dem Ecclesiarum exemplo," and insinuated itself into this cathedral, as also into the collegiate churches of Crediton, Ottery, and Glasney, of having miracle-plays and scenic exhibitions at Christmas-time. This roused Bishop Grandisson's zeal for God's house, and, in November, 1360, be issued his prohibition of such unbecoming performances, under pain of suspension and excommunication : be required the formal publi cation of his mandate before the Christmas of that year, and, to perpetuate , its remembrance, to have it CATHEDRAL OP EXETER. 231 copied in four or five books, the most in use in their church service (' Reg.' vol. i. fol. 208 b). But it has been justly observed, that these scenic exhibitions were at first confined to the illustration of Scripture history, for the benefit of those who could not read ; being, in fact, the recognised mode of represent ing by dialogue and action the several characters in the Holy Bible. In the last volume of Dugdale's 'Monasticon,' p. 1534, may be seen some of these dramata sacra. The friars at Coventry were celebrated for performing them ; but they acted their pageants on theatres drawn upon wheels to the principal parts of that city, and not in the churches. CHAPTER Y. THE TEEASUKES OF THE CHUECH IN PLATE, VESTMENTS, OENAMENTS, AND MANUSCEIPTS. All who are conversant with the Old Testament must have been struck with the explicit directions given by the Almighty Father to His children, as to the manner of performing worship in the Tabernacle — how minutely He describes tbe models of the sacred vessels to be employed in His service — the very form, colour, quantity and embroidery of the vestments and linen — the mode of adorning the several materials with gold and precious stones — the wood to be used — and the method of compounding the oil for the lamps and for the holy anointing, and the pure incense of sweet spices. And if they turn to the history of Solomon's Temple, the wonder increases, on surveying tbe extent of that glorious edifice — the exquisite deli cacy of the carvings— the bold rehef of tbe figures 232 HISTORY OF THE projecting from the waUs— tbe disregard of expendi ture, insomuch that the very hinges and naUs were of solid gold. God vouchsafed to accept the good-will of His people : tbey offered their gifts to Him, with great and cheerful hearts, acknowledging that to His bounty they were indebted for everything which they possessed; that it was meet, right, and a bounden duty to honour Him with their substance. In return He rewarded, blessed and prospered them for tbeir filial confidence and affectionate gratitude. The sub sequent history of Judah is intimately connected with that of her Temple ; she flourished, or she declined, as she reverenced or profaned His sanctuary. And no sooner did the professors of the Christian faith emerge from the deserts, the caverns, the crypts and catacombs — no sooner did they begin to breathe the air of freedom from -the vigilance and persecutions of the tyrants — than they commenced the erection of noble temples to the eternal, true and living God. Whoever has read the beautiful hymn of Prudentius on St. Laurence, martyred in 258, must have remarked the tyrant's reproaches against the Christians for using, in the celebration of the sacred mysteries, silver goblets and wax-lights, fixed in golden candlesticks, and that they possessed concealed treasures. In the course of time, by the charity of the faithful and the liberality of princes, the Christian Church be came abundantly rich ; but she always regarded her wealth as a deposit, to be employed beneficially in times of public calamity, in pestilence and famine for the relief and benefit of tbe poor, and for the redemption of captives. She believed that the best use she could make of her treasures, was to dedicate them to the aid of tbe living temples of the Holy Ghost. Independently of seasons of public distress. Christians were persuaded that nothing was too precious to be CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 233 appropriated to the service of the Deity, and to the celebration of His worship : they loved the beauty of His House ; they vied with eacb other in erecting splendid edifices to His honour ; they introduced the improvements of architecture, sculpture, and painting ; they provided the rarest productions of art. Materials were a secondary consideration to the skill and taste of workmanship. It is true, that religion itself is interior and spiritual ; yet in our state of humanity, we must feel the impressive force of the senses and imagi nation. It is rare indeed to meet persons that confine themselves to what is purely abstract and intellectual, and whose religious feehngs are not awakened by example, by outward and sensible things. If we were angels, as Fleury remarks, we might pray equally well in the midst of the public streets and market-places, in the bustle of a court levee and in the confusion of a crowd, as in a secluded beautiful temple ; but in order to control the rovings of imagination and to restrict and regulate our senses, we instinctively retire into our interior, and, closing the doors after us, we can hold uninterrupted conversation with our Heavenly Father. He can require no oratories or churches, but we do. And though He is everywhere present and equally accessible in every place, yet we are not always fitly disposed to approach and commune with Him ; and therefore are admonished thus, " Before prayer, prepare thy soul ; and be not as a man who tempteth God" (Eccles. xviu.). The personal sacrifices of our forefathers to supply everything that is bec*oming the beauty of God's House, are worthy of every praise ; to their own persons, houses and castles, they denied the luxury of decora tion, in order to render tribute to God and to embellish His sanctuary. England yielded to no country in her love of God's House. We have but to open the 234 HISTORY OF THE ' Monasticon Anghcanum,' and to inspect the published inventories of what piety poured into the treasuries of York, Winchester, Lincoln, Canterbury, and some other cathedral and collegiate churches. Our readers we hope will be gratified with the inventory of the donations also made to tbis cathedral (see Appendix), from the days of our first Bishop Leofric in 1050, during a period of 500 years, until our Chapter was insulted with a summons, as preparatory to a deed of sacrilegious robbery, to appear in the very Episcopal Palace of Exeter, on 30th September, 1552, before Myles Coverdale, Lord Bishop of Exeter (who ought to have been their natural guardian and pro viribus in trepid defender), and before William Hurst, Mayor of Exeter, Sir Peter Carew and Sir Thomas Denys, Knights, and Alderman John Midwynter, then and there " to answeare to such demands and questions concerning the jewels, plate, and other ornaments of your Cathedrall Church, as by the King's Majesty's Commission unto us directed, apertaineth."^ Amongst the list of our royal donors are the names of King Henry IIL and his queen, Richard Bling of the Romans, and King Edward II. Amongst the Archbishops of Canterbury are named Theobald, William Courtenay, and Cardinal Morton. Amongst the nobility are numbered as benefactors, the venerable Lord William Brewer, who gave a silver-gilt cup and a golden chalice, the Mohuns, the Courtenays, tbe Lord William Martyn, John Earl of Huntingdon, Lady Dymoke, Sir William Cheyney, Knight, &c., &c. Our bishops, however, were by far the most generous > According to Hoker's MS., p. 349 b, the Commissioners, after taking an " in ventory of all the plate, jewels, goods, and ornaments whatsover, perteyning to everey church within the citie and countie of 'E^etei; prayed there might be deducted out of their Certificate the value of about a thousand ounces of plate, which some of the parishes had given before to the citie towards making of the New Haven." But he does not say that the appeal met with any atten tion from the King's Council. CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 235 of what was most useful and ornamental, and, amongst these. Bishops Brewer, Bytton, Stapeldon, Stafford, and Lacy ; but, far above all. Bishop Grandisson holds pre-eminence in the rank of benefactors. Of the last- mentioned prelate, the compiler of tbe catalogue affirms that he was the giver of all the choir-books, and of vestments of every colour, and of innumerable orna ments, as God knows, who knows all things — " ut Deus seit, qui omnia novit." The four dignitaries of the church and many of the canons left abundant proofs of the interest tbey took in furnishing God's House, and we beheve that the inventories will satisfy every reader that few cathedrals in the kingdom were better provided with what was requisite for the convenience and splendour of Divine worship. In our Biography of Bishop Lacy, we have alluded to his generous dona tion of rich apparel to the cathedrals of York, Hereford, and Salisbury. The Library of the Church was commenced by Leofric, a few of whose manuscript books are still in the catalogue. By degrees the coUection swelled in number and variety. It is true the great bulk con sisted of copies of Scripture and glosses or commenta ries, treatises of theology, canon law, sermons, and national history ; yet it is a relief to meet with such works as 'Josephus,' the two ' Plinys,' ' Egesippus,' the ' Metaphysicks of Aristotle,' some of Cicero's trea tises, ' Yegetius de Re Militari ' and ' Julius Solinus.' Leland, on his visit here, seems to have overlooked the Cathedral Library. In the Catalogue of 1506 we dis cover five books, ' Impressorise Artis.' At last this accumulation of church property began in the true Judas Iscariot style to be regarded as mere waste, and the voice of avarice doomed it to be seized, under the pretence of necessity, to maintain His Majesty King Edward the Sixth's household ! Yet, as Heyhn 236 HISTORY OF THE justly remarks, in his Life of that unfortunate monarch, page 134, " in all great fairs and markets there are some forestallers; so that although some profit was hereby raised to the king's exchequer, yet the far greater part of the prey came into other hands, insomuch that many private men's parlours were hung with altar-cloths, their tables and beds covered with copes, and many made carousing cups of the sacred chalices, as once Belshazzar celebrated bis drunken feast in the sancti fied vessels of the Temple. It was a sorry house, and not worth naming, which had not somewhat of this furniture in it, though it were only a fair cushion made of a cope or altar-cloth to adorn their windows, or to make their chairs appear to have somewhat in them of a chair of state. Yet how contemptible were these trappings, in comparison of those vast sums of money which were made of jewels, plate, and cloth of tissue, either conveyed beyond seas, or sold at home, and good lands purchased with the money ! Nothing the more blessed to the posterity of them that bought them, for being purchased with the consecrated treasures of so many temples!" But let us retire from these scenes of tyrannical oppression of the poor, and sacrilegious avarice, at which pagans would blush. Cur eget indignus quisquam, te divite 7 Quare Templa ruunt antiqua Deum. HoKATii, Sat. n. lib. 2, line 103. CHAPTER YL SEPULCHEAL BRASSES AND ANCIENT EriTAPHS. Every lover of the arts, we beheve, would decidedly prefer the ancient position of altar-tombs under arches or in recesses, or between pillars, to the present arrange- CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 237 ment of piles .of monumental statuary, that serve to disfigure and darken portions of the fabric and inter fere with its architectural effect. These modern novelties look awkwardly enough, as if they had no business here ; and it is delightful to know, that the feelings of the guardians of our cathedral are opposed to the reception of such incongruities and monstrosities, however perfect they may come from the sculptor's hand. Let us turn from such misplaced specimens of modern taste, and inspect the ancient sepulchral brasses and epitaphs.' We cannot doubt that several of our bishops and dignified clergy and nobility had the surfaces and leger-stones of their tombs embellished with orna mental brasses, so characteristic of the costumes and designs of the times. Godwyn, in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I., admired the sepulchral brass once on Bishop Bitton's — "jacet humatus sub marmore acreis affabre ornato." Bishop Brantyng ham's beautiful brass on his slab was wrenched off by sacrilegious avarice, probably during the Common wealth. The fanaticism of Dean Heynes stripped off Bishop Lacy's. We have seen formerly, here and there, the brass pins that held the inlaid ornaments, and the hollows which had contained figures or in scriptions. Guided by covetousness, or overruled by some new fangle in religion, certain persons, says Heylin (' Hist. of Queen Elizabeth,' p. 134), after defacing the images of Christ and his Apostles, all paintings which pre sented any history of the Holy Bible, as they found ' The earliest sepulchral brass that we have met with is the one on Mauri tius, Archbishop of Rouen, who, dying on Qth August, 1067, was honourably interred before the roodloft of his cathe dral. The epitaph over him, " in cupri laminis," composed by a canon of his church, may be seen in om- countryman Ordericus Vitalis's ' Hist. Eccles.,' Ub. 4, p. 169. The same author gives the epi taph of Hugh, Bishop of Lisieux, who died 17th July, 1077, " in Jaminis cu pri, litteris aureis exaratum " (lib. 5, p. 310). 238 HISTORY OF THE in any windows of their churches and chapels, pro ceeded also to the breaking down of all coats of arms, to the tearing off of all the brasses and monuments of the dead, in which the figures of themselves, their wives or children, their ancestors or their arms, had been reserved to posterity. Tbe notorious William Dowsing, Parliamental Yisitor (1 644) of Churches in Suffolk, prides himself for taking up " thirty brazen superstitious inscriptions in AU Saints' Church, Sudbury." The ' Act Book ' of our corporation shows that proclamation was made in this city against defacing the ancient monuments of tbe nobility, and the pulling down of bells in the churches, on 25th September, 1560. Fortunately the graceful effigy in the nave, of Sir Peter Courtenay, Knight of the Garter, sixth son of Hugh Courtenay (the second of that name who was Earl of Devon) by his wife Margaret (Bobun), has in a great degree escaped mutilation. By the inquisition, post mortem, it appears that the gallant knight died on the 2nd February, 1405. He hes under a gorgeous canopy, in full armour, with his feet resting on a spaniel. The escutcheons that remain contain the arms of his parents. The whole length of the brass is 8 ft. 4i in. ; that of the knight 5 ft. 8 in. ; the sword is 3 ft. 3i in. in length ; the dagger 1 ft. ; his left leg is encircled with the garter. The original verses were : — Devonie natus comitis, Petrusque vocatus, Eegi cognatus, camerarius intitulatus, * Calesie gratus capitaneus, ense probatus. Vita privatus fuit hinc super astra relatirs, [Et quia sublatus de mundo transit amatus], 1 Celo firmatus maneat .sine fiue beatus. The fifth line no longer remains. In St. Mary Magdalene's Chapel is the sepulchral brass of William Langeton, cousin of Bishop Stafford, canon of this cathedral and a well-endowed ecclesiastic, CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 239 who died at Clist on the same day that he made his will, viz. 29th January, 1413-14. He is represented kneeling and bareheaded, in an alb and richly embroidered cope, studded with tbe Stafford knot ; with hands joined, and supplicating in the words of the response at ' Matins for the Dead ' — Domine Jesu, secundum actum meum noh me judicare ! The inscription below this interesting figure is as follows : — Hie jacet Magister Willielmus Langeton, consanguineus Ma gistri Edmundi Stafford, Exoniensis Episcopi, quondam Canon icus hujus Ecclesie, qui obiit xxix die mensis Januarii, Anno Domini Millesimo cccc The rest has been despoiled, with the exception of Bishop Stafford's arms — Or, a Chevron gules within a bordure entoyred with Mitres proper. Such was the rage for erasing and defacing funeral- monuments towards the latter end of the reign of King Henry YIIL, the whole reign of King Edward YL, and the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's, that the said queen in the second and again in the fourteenth year of her reign had to issue severe proclamations against the perpetrators of such excesses. " By them," she says, " not only the churches remain at this day spoiled, broken and ruinated, to the offence of all noble and gentle hearts, and the extinguishing of the honour able and good memory of sundry virtuous and noble persons deceased; but also tbe true understanding of divers families in this realm (who have descended of the blood of the same deceased persons) is thereby so darkened, as the true course of their inheritance may be hereafter interrupted contrary io justice." — Weever's 'Funeral Monuments,' pp. 50, 52. And in p. 661 he inserts additional epitaphs and inscriptions upon tombs and gravestones in certain churches of London, col- 240 HISTORY OF THE lected by himself and others not many years before, feehngly observing, "Few or none are remaining in the said churches at this present day ; such is the de- spight, not so much of time, as of malevolent people, to all antiquities, especially of this kind." The multitude of successive interments in the cathe dral has constantly occasioned the removal of tomb stones, and tbe substitution of others. This has been particularly the case during tbe last half-century, yet some of these have been judged by heralds of special importance : for example, one that was in the north aisle of the choir, of Anthony Clifford, of Boscombe near Salisbury, Esq. (descended of the Earls of Cum berland, and who died on 12th September, 1580), had been copied and inserted in the pedigree of the Clifford family, drawn up by Francis Sandford, Rouge Dragon Poursuivant, and approved by Edward Walker, Garter, Edward Bysshe, Clarenceux, and William Dugdale, Norroy King-at-Arms, on 12th May, 1673 ; the original pedigree of which is at Ugbrooke. For modern epitaphs we refer the reader to the descriptions of Polwhele, Jenkins, Lysons, &c., and content ourselves with subjoining the more ancient ones, regretting however that the ledgers of Thomas Austle, the treasurer, who had lodged King Henry YII. in his residentiary house, when the king visited Exeter on 7th October, 1497 (ob. 18th Marcb, 1515), and of John Ryse, treasurer, the benefactor of the priest-vicars and friend of the poor, who died on 5th May, 1531, had disappeared, before we were enabled to copy them. In the Nave — Hie jacet Magister Eicardus Manchester, quondam hujus Ecclesie Canonicus Residentiarius, et Vicarius de Kere . . . ntoco, qui obiit xx die a.d. mcccccxli : cujus anime propitietur Deus. Amen. Hie jacet Magister Johannes Mogrigge, nuper hujus Ecclesie CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 241 Canonicus et Residentiarius, qui obiit xxviii die Junii, An. Dni. Millio occcoxxiv. Hie jacet Magister David Hopton, quondam Archidiaconus Exon. ac Canonicus Sarum et Hereforden, qui obiit .... Marcii, MCCCCLXxxxi : cujus anime propitietur Deus. Amen. In St. Paul's Tower- Hie jacet Dns. Robertus Lewer, quondam Canonicus, qui obiit XX die Septembris, Anno Dom. Millimo cccxxx : cujus anime propitietur Deus. Amen. On Precentor Sylke's Monument — Sum quod eris, fueram quod es ; pro me, precor, ora. In a recess of the North Wall of St. Paul's Chapel — Hie jacet WiUelmus Pylton, quondam Canonicus et Residen tiarius hujus Ecclesie, Secretarius Eegi Henrico quarto, et Archi diaconus Eboracensis. Before St. Paul's Altar — Hie jacet Ricardus Gilbert, Doctor Decretorum, unus filiorum Otonis Gilbart, Armigeri, et Canonicus hujus Ecclesie, qui obiit XI die Aprilis, a.d. mcccccxxiiii : cujus anime propitietur Deus. Amen. In the North Aisle of the Choir — Hie jacet Magister Henricus Webber, quondam hujus Ecclesie Decanus et Canonicus, antea Dni. Edmundi Lacy Episcopi CanceUarius, qui obiit xm die mensis Februarii, Ano. Dni. Mhlo cccCLXXVi : cujus animam in gaudio i h s coUocet sempi- terno. Amen. Hie jacet Dominus Ricardus HeUier, quondam Archidiaconus Cornubie, et hujus Ecclesie Canonicus, qui obut xv die mensis Decembris, Anno Dni. mcccclvi : cujus anime propitietur Deus. Amen. Hie jacet Magister Willelmus Fylham, Archidiaconus Cor nubie, hujus Ecclesie Canonicus, Morechurch et C. Morchard Rector, qui obiit xm die mensis Novembris, Anno Dni. MCCCCLiiil : cujus anime propitietur Deus. Amen. Hie jacet Magister Martinus Parys, quondam hujus Ecclesie CaQonicus, qui obiit vm die mensis Julii, Anno Dm. Milhmo ccccxxxviii : cujus anime propitietur Deus. Amen. B 242 HISTORY OF THE In St. Andrew's Chapel — Orate pro anima Magistri WUlelmi Parkhouse, Plulosophi ac Medici, quondam Canonici Residentiarii in Ecclesia Cathe drali Exon., qui obiit i die mensis Martii, Ano. Di. Millesio cccccxL : cujus anime propitietur Deus. Amen. In the Transverse Aisle behind the High Altar — Hie jacet Magister Johannes Fulforde, fihus Baldewini Ful- forde, mihtis, hujus Ecclesie Residentiarius, postea Archidia conus Totton, deinde Cornubie, ultimo Exon., qui obiit xxx die Januarii, a.d. xv^.xviii : cujus anime propitietur Deus. Deus misereatur anime Magistri Thome Harryes, Canonici. Amen. Quondam Cornubie Archidiaconi et Wells Thes., ac hujus Ecclesie Precentoris, qui obiit ultimo die Decembris, Anno Dni. Millimo cccccxi. In St. Gabriel's Chapel — Hie jacet Magister Martinus Lercedekne, quondam Canonicus hujus Ecclesie, qui obiit iiii die mensis Aprilis, Anno Dni. Millmo. coccxxxm : cujus anime propitietur Deus. Amen. In the South Aisle of the Choir — Jacet hie venerabilis vir Richardus More, quondam Archidia conus Exon., ac hujus Ecclesie Thesaurarius et Canonicus Resi dentiarius, qui obiit xx die Februarii, A. Dni. mcccccxii : cujus anime propitietur Deus. Amen. Hie jacet Magister Johannes Cokworthy, quondam hujus Ecclesie Canonicus , qui obut quiuto die mensis Man, Anno Dni. MiUo coccxxxm : cujus anime propitietur Deus. Amen. There were two other ancient gravestones inscribed to Canons Nicholas Henshawe and John Williams, but too far effaced to be copied. Whether the following epitaph was placed on tbe leger-stone of Canon John Pyttes, as directed by his will (dated 1st September, 1464), in Bishop Bothe's ' Register,' fol. 51, we cannot determine : — ' Subjacet hoc lapide Johes Pyttys, musicus hie Qui fuit Ecclesie quondam Canonicus hujus, Presulis Edmimdi Lacy Cantorque Capelle, Rector de Tavy Petri, Parkham simul extans ; Pro quo menta pi^, rogo, dicite " Sancta Maria." CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 243 We conclude with lamenting that we have not had a Weever amongst us to preserve the funeral inscrip tions of our church ; but it is a consolation to know, that a proper spirit of conservatism is reviving, and is encouraged by the public voice and feeling. May we add for the credit of the cathedral, in the words of Addison, that "inscriptions on public monuments should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius, before they are put in execution." CHAPTER YIL SURVEY OF THE EXTERIOR OF THE CATHEDEAL. The Cathedral Church of St. Peter is the pride and glory of Exeter, and the noblest monument of the religious zeal and taste of our forefathers in the West of England. It is the first object that attracts the eye of the stranger approaching this city, and the principal one to challenge his attention on his arrival here. The first impression produced on his mind in ad vancing towards this cruciform building, is its ponder ous majesty,- arising principally from the square massive Norman towers, which bear some resemblance to the two at the west front of the Abbey Church of the Holy Trinity at Caen in ^ormandy. When our Bishop Peter Quivil introduced in each of the towers a large pointed window in lieu of the small circular ones, it might have been supposed that he would have added to the elevation of these towers by surmounting them with spires, the natural offspring of the pyra midal or Pointed style, as was actually done to the towers of the Abbey Church of St. Stephen at Caen. Gradually the oppressive effect subsides : and on taking E 2 244 HISTORY OF THE in tbe range of tbe expanding structure — its numerous crocketed pinnacles, its flying-buttresses, its high pitched roof and varied windows, the eye becomes reconciled to it, as a grand whole. The only lingering regret is, that it does not stand isolated from dweUing- houses of such disparate character. The style of the windows is the very best, sho-wing a fecundity of invention in the diversified tracery, as exemplified in the reigns of our first three Edwards after the Conquest, when the equilateral triangle was the point studied in the form of the arch in preference to the unsightly contraction of the acute angle, and the oppressive effect of the obtuse, or depressed arch of the Florid style. From the period that the vaulting the churches witb stone, as a protection against fire, was adopted, and the formation of increased openings in the walls, to admit windows of larger dimensions, came into use, it became essential to counteract the lateral pressure by the aid of buttresses. Originally these were plain and heavy : gradually they- were relieved by the arc-boutant or flying-buttress, often terminating in graceful and elabo rate pinnacles, and sometimes embellished with niches. Great judgment has been exercised by the architect of our cathedral in several of the buttresses on the south side of the nave, and in two on the north side, by opening arches below, botb for the admission of light and the convenience of passing ; besides saving a con siderable expense of labour and materials. The towers rise to the height of nearly one hundred and forty feet, and are truly bold and venerable. The south one is richer in ornament, and the capping of both appears subsequently to have been altered ; but we have no data as to the time. In either tower may be recognized the work of Bishop Quivil, viz., his introduction of a Pointed window through the Norman CATHEDRAL OP EXETER. 245 series of blank arches. Formerly the Great Peter bell in the north tower was hung much higher than at present, within an octagonal cupola, and surmounted by a spire, hke the one at St. Mary Church, Ottery.' From the plate prefixed to the second edition of Izacke's ' Memorials,' in 1724, it must have been an unsightly object ; and was ordered by the Chapter, on 25th AprU, 1752, to be removed, and the bell to be lowered to its present situation. On the south wall of the nave may be seen several of the consecration crosses. The year of the consecra tion is not "recorded; but probably in 1367. The feast was kept on 21st November with an octave : in this, following the example of Judas Maccabeus and his brethren, and all the church of Israel (1 Macc iv. 59). Between the south tower and the Chapter-house is a chapel, in which stood the Altar of the Holy Ghost, " altare Sancti Spiritfls in claustro :" and perhaps appropriated to the invocation of the assistance of the Divine Spirit before the dean and his canons proceeded to their deliberations and elections. When the com munication was made through the south tower in tbe year 1814, a portion of its western extremity, as well as of the Chapter-house itself, was taken off, to make a vestibule or passage. According to the ' Tourist's Manuscript,' in August, 1635, in the Lansdowne Col lection, " this chapel was artificially covered witb joyner's work." We have seen the original book of Edmund Toll, Notary Public and Registrar, detailing consistorial business done in this chapel from Friday, 19th February, 1635, O.S., to 20th July, 1638, "in ' During the tremendous hurricane on Friday night, 25th November, 1703, the lead of this steeple was ripped up, two muUions of the church windows were driven in, twenty trees in the yard were laid prostrate, great injury to chimneys and houses was occasioned, but fortunately no lives were lost. See ' Eegister ' of the Parish of the Holy Trinity. 246 HISTORY OF THE Capellt Spiritus Sancti infra ambitum clausi Ecclesiae Cathedralis Divi Petri, Exon." It afterwards became a lumber-room.^ The Chapter-house is truly a cheerful and well-pro portioned room, 75 feet long, including the above- mentioned vestibule, by 30 wide, and nearly 40 high. Its east window is said by Wilham of Worcester to have been the gift of Bishop Nevyll, and has seven bays. The four windows on the north side and tbe tbree windows on the south side have but four bays. The late Mr. John Kendall, in 1821, inserted a new window at the west end, and made the present gallery. Ten niches of graceful character formerly contained statues of the Minor Prophets, some of whose names may yet be traced. Before this room was adapted to serve also the purposes of a library, a Purbeck slab of a coffin shape, but without inscription, and within twelve feet opposite to the entrance, was let into the floor. In this Chapter-house it was not unusual for bishops to initiate clerks by the tonsure. From all that we can collect, we are satisfied that Bishop Lacy rebuilt the Chapter-house upwards from the arcade, and that the beautiful fan-roof was completed by Bishop Bothe. The Cloisters, nearly finished by Bishop Stafford, have disappeared, with the exception of part of a fluted column at the west corner of the carpenter's shop! iCertainly they must have been inferior to those of Worcester and Gloucester Cathedrals : for the ambu lacrum on the south side of our church was intrenched upon and narrowed by tbe massive bases of the flying- buttresses. Still they provided much convenience for the studious and contemplative : there was even on this side of the church sufficient space for religious pro- - On 29th December, 1657, the Mayor and Chamber " ordered that the wayn- scott in the Holy Ghost Cliapel be taken do-wn, and the same used and imployed iu the Church of Peter's the East." CATHEDRAL OP EXETER. 247 cessions and the purposes of exercise, and also for interments. This useful appendage to a cathedral, by those enemies of taste the Puritans, was doomed to destruction ; yet previously to this their bad spirit had been at work to desecrate it. Bishop Hall, in his ' Act Book,' p. 30, sets forth in his mandate, dated 28th February, 1637-8, that this quadrangle had been consecrated ground, separated from all profane pur poses, and appropriated to the interment of the bodies of the faithful departed ; yet for some years back, " aliquot annos," had been converted into a garden ; aud as Bartholomew Cemetery had been recently opened, this quadrangle must be resumed for its origi nal purpose, and be appropriated to the burial of the deceased inhabitants of the Close. Shortly after, Puritanism obtained the ascendancy : the cloisters were leveUed ; the most miserable hovels were knocked up with the ruins and gilded bosses, &c. ; and the Chamber, on 30th October, 1657, removed from South-street "the Friday Cloth Market for Serges and other Drapery " to this sacred spot ! The desecration con tinued till December, 1660, when the hucksters" and their packages were bundled back into South-street. Turning now to the western front, who can fail to admire the easy-flowing tracery of its beautiful window ; the north entrance, elegant in its simplicity ; and the south porch, once charged with sculpture, but now wearing a mournful appearance, from the mutila tion of the subjects of the Annunciation of the Yirgin Mary (Luke i.), and the Apparition of the Angel to Joseph (Matthew i.), on the right hand, and of the Manifestation of Christ at Bethlehem to the Wise Men from the East (Matthew ii.) ? Tbis, and indeed the whole of tbe interesting fagade, deserves to be tho roughly cleaned and repaired. The outer walls of the church, .from east to west, 248 HISTORY OF THE extend nearly four hundred feet in length, and about eighty feet in breadth. The more the spectator fami- harizes himself with the study of this monument of national skill and piety, the more beauties will he discover. God forbid that the day should ever return, that Exonians should cease to regard their Cathedral as their most precious jewel ! And who is there that can stand at the grand western door open before hint, and not be reminded of the scenes that have been exhi bited within these sacred walls ? Here matrimonial vows have been exchanged, and registered by witness ing angels ; here countless myriads of pious -souls have worshipped ; here persons afflicted have sought for support and courage ; here many penitents have expe rienced peace and consolation. On his right hand, by the treatment awarded to the remains of the illustrious Bishop Grandisson, the spectator is admonished of the oblivion and ingratitude of mankind, and the instabi lity of all human things and projects. Through this very door, how many Royal Personages and Primates, Prelates and Noblemen have passed, amidst the gaze of endless spectators ; and where are they now ? How many thousands of the faithful are resting here, until tbe signal is given to come forth for judgment ! And as his eye wanders along the clustered columns to the distant perspective — as it soars to the storied windows, glowing with all the colours of the rainbow, and to tbe embowed roof webbed with mysterious tracery — he must exult that the self-denying piety and the good taste of Englishmen should have erected this magnificent sanctuary to the Giver of all good gifts : and he may well exclaim, in the words of Jacob (Gen. xxvui. 17), " This is none other but the house of God, and tbis is the gate of heaven! " The following notice has been kindly furnished by Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, Bart., who copied it from the CATHEDRAL OP EXETER. 249 original black-lettered handbill, probably printed in the early part of Henry YIII.'s reign, before the sup pression of monasteries, whilst John Yeysy was Bishop of Exeter : — In the name of God. Amen. It ys to be remebred that y" great indulgence and pardon which dyverse holy fathers, popes, cardynalles, archbysshops, and bysshops have given and granted to all the brothers and systers, and good doers of the cathedrall church of Exeter, extendeth to the somme of . liiii. yeres and one lent. ^[ Also all the brothers and systers of the sayd church ben specyally praed for that dysposeth or bequetheth any part of ther goodes to the reparacyons of the -sayd chm-che, whether yt be golde, sylver, or any other goodes, they shall be parteners of all the masses sayd and done wythin the sayd church : and in all colleges, abbeys, and priores wythin the dyoces of Exeter, as in the colleges of Penryn, Otery, and Credyto, the abbeys of Tavestoke, Hertlonde, Torre, Buckfast, Bucklad, Newhin, and Ford, the priores of Plympton, Launceto, Bodman, Trewardreth, Tottenes, Barnstaple, and Pylto: & in al places of relygion wythyn the sayd dyoces. ^ Also al the brothers, sisters, and good doers of the sayd church ben specially prayd for in the pulpit and recommeded to the devout prayers of the people there beynge. ^ Also there ben .inj. vycars ordayned in the sayd church for evermore to say masses and to pray specially for aU the brothers, systers, and good doers of the same. J[ Also the reverend father in God the bysshope of Exeter that nowe ys, hath graunted to all the good doers of the sayd church .xl. dayes of pardon, Godde's blessyng, and hys. Amen. CHAPTER YIIL ENVIRONS OF THE CATHEDEAL, CALLED " THE CLOSE." We begin with observing, that from time immemorial the Cemetery, or poliandrum, of Exeter was adjoining the Cathedral Church, and that the right of free ingress and regress had been enjoyed by the occupiers of the 250 HISTORY OP THE surrounding houses, and by the inhabitants of every part of the city. Subsequent experience abundantly proved that the privilege interfered with the tranquil lity of divine worship, and wifh the protection of pro perty and the personal safety of the clergy and others who assisted at the services of the church, which were then performed by night as well as by day. The Cemetery was under the immediate superintendence of tbe Treasurer of the Cathedral, who was entitled to six shillings a quarter from the Chapter for his duty in this regard ; but it was always a subject of difficulty to keep it clear from profanation and criminal excesses : and this eventually led to tbe public wish of enclosing the sacred precincts with walls, gates, and posterns. Yet we cannot believe that the idea of enclosing this large area originated in the murder of the Precentor, Walter Lechelade, on returning to his house from matins, on the 9th or 10th November, 1283, or, as some maintain, in 1285 : yet Bishop Quivil's ' Register ' proves that the said Walter was collated to that office, void by. the resignation of Henry de Somer set, on 1st August, 1282 — he lived to possess this dignity fifteen months only. He died, according to the church obituary, on 9th November, and on the 19th of the same month, 1283, Bishop Quivil's 'Re gister ' informs us, that Andrew de Kilkenny succeeded to the Precentorship, void " per mortem Magistri Walteri de Lechelade," and on the same day that the Queen's nephew was collated to the prebend, "ad prebendam quae fuit Magistri Walteri de Lechelade, in Ecclesia Exoniensi, vacantem per mortem ejusdem." Here, and throughout the Register, no allusion is made to any act of violence against the deceased — a silence unaccountable in those days of ecclesiastical influence. In the composition deed between the Mayor and Chamber of the one part, and the Bishop, Dean, and CATHEDRAL OP EXETER. 251 Chapter of the other part, as also in King Edward the First's license for the purpose, and confirmation of the same, no notice is taken of such a sacrilegious murder ; and therefore we were disposed to reject the assertion that " Alfred Duport, the late Mayor, and the Porter of Southgate, were indicted, arraigned, found guilty, and executed accordingly ; for that the Southgate was that night left open, by which means the murderer of the Precentor escaped." We certainly find this mayor, who had filled the chair of chief magistrate eight times to the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens, witnessing a contract on the Sunday after the Feast of St. Matthew, late in September, 1285, between tbe Dean and Chap ter of the one part, and Walter de Dodderigge and Benedicta his wife of the other part ; whereby the latter agreed to forego their right of egress and ingress through the doors of their house, which opened into this cemetery ; and we cannot believe that King Edward I., coming here with his Queen to pass the Christmas of 1285, could be guilty of such injustice and barbarity, as to order the execution of the said mayor. We may add, that in a deed preserved in our chapter archives, of Brother John, Prior of the Hos pital of St. John Baptist at Wells, dated 30th December, 1292, which minutely states, that with the moneys given to his house by the executors of the deceased Walter de Lechelade, of happy memory, he had suc ceeded in purchasing the advowson of West Down, for the express purpose of maintaining Walter's perpetual obit in Exeter Cathedral ; that his body lay opposite to St. Edmund's Altar there ; that a perpetual chaplain would celebrate at the said alta-r, " pro anima supradicti defuncti"; that, on his anniversary, a distribution of money would be given to the assistant-clergy : yet no allusion whatever is made to a death occasioned by violence. Moreover, similar hcenses of inclosure were 252 HISTORY OF THE making about the same period, in favour of the deans and chapters at Lincoln, York, ahd London ; as may be seen in Prynne's ' Records,' vol. 3. We had written the above, when we stood corrected by Thomas Duffus Hardy, Esq., who has discovered undeniable evidence, in the Record Office of the Tower, that the atrocious murder of the Precentor, Walter de Lechelade, had been perpetrated. He has obligingly furnished us with copies of four letters addressed to King Edward I. on the subject. The first is from the Primate John Peckham, dated 10th March, 1285-6 ; the other three from Bishop Peter Quivil, all admitting the homicide, but interceding for the liberty and restitution of property of four clergy men — viz., Lucas, of St. Leonard's ; John de Wotring- ton, Yicar of Ottery St. Mary ; John de Christenstowe, Yicar of Heavitree ; and John de Pycot, of Exeter — who had canonically and satisfactorily established their innocence of such murder. All our ancient chronicles are silent on the subject.^ The Royal Licence for enclosing this precinct was issued by the king at Exeter, on 1st January, 1286 ; and in the deed, bearing date on Monday after Lady-day, seven entrances into the Close were to be formed, viz. — one opposite the bishop's palace ; another at Fissand, for carriages, after wards called St. Michael's, or Broadgate ; a third, for carriages, at St. Martin's Lane ; and another, eight feet wide, for pack-horses, and commonly called Beregate.'' Another opposite St. George's Church, with a wicket five feet wide for foot passengers, but where the great entrance into the cemetery formerly was, "ubi lata ' Andrew Brice, in his ' Mobiad,' written in 1738, -will have it that it was John the Ghaunter was murdered as he was going early to matins ! I Izacke -will have it that Walter Lechelade was the first chaunter of this church ! ! I ^ This gate does not appear to have had any building over it till the reign of Queen Elizabeth. On 21st January, 1584, the Mayor and Corporation re quired "that Mr. Baicombe shall pay two-pence yearly duriug his estate in the house called The Beare, for and in consideration of his new building over the gate going into the churchyard by the said Bear Gate." This must have been demolished during the Common wealth. CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 253 porta fuit." This is stUl called " Little StUe." The sixth entrance was in the direction of the Dominican Convent, and is often styled Erceneske, or Bicklegh Gate, from the adjoining house of the Erceneske and Bicklegh family ; but after the foundation of St. Cathe rine's Almshouses nearly two centuries later, obtained the name of Catherine Gate ; and, lastly, St. Petrock's Gate, being a thoroughfare through that Parochial Church. All these gates were closed at the tolling of Curfew, from Easter till Michaelmas, at nine o'clock in the evening, and from Michaelmas to Easter at eight o'clock, and were opened at dawn of day for the mass called Bratton's. The enclosed area was sacred ground, and favoured with special privileges. It was almost entirely inhabited by persons attached to the cathedral : indeed we know of no house within its precincts that was not the property of the chapter but the abbot of Buckfastleigh's, wbich has recently been purchased by the dean and chapter. From 28th Sept. 1845, it had been the property and occasional residence of the Rolle family for nearly two centuries. Our bishops claimed the right of granting licences for tradesmen to follow their business in the Close. Thus Bishop Jonathan Trelawney, as late as 1st May, 1696, granted a special -licence to Ambrose Hawkyns, to open and keep shop in the Close, and to make clocks and watches and jacks. Yet Thomas Strybling, who kept a tailor's shop there, in May, 1562, was summoned to the Guildhall to take up the Freedom of the City, or to have " a fyne sett upon his hedde " (' Act Book,' No. 11, p. 89 b). It may be observed here, that the Mayor .and Cham ber held such dominion ofthe city walls, that on 22nd November, 1608, they granted permission to Dr. Bar rett, Archdeacon of Exeter, to make a stairs up from his garden (now Mr. Ralph Barnes's) to enable him to 2.54 HISTORY OP THE walk on the city walls and enjoy the prospect, " pro vided he do not impair or annoy the said walls or barbigans." The next object to the cathedral deserving of atten tion, is the Episcopal Palace, which, we are satisfied, has ever retained the same local position. The chapel of St. Mary is now the most ancient part of the edifice. Its east window, with its three lancets of the earliest English style, is singularly rich and graceful. We suppose it to have been erected in the time of Bishop Brewer (1224-1244). This Chantry Chapel was founded for perpetual prayers for the departed bishops of the see. In this chapel, " in CapelM Domini Episcopi apud Exon.," the Chancellor, Walter Loddeswell, on Easter Monday, 1259, cleared himself of all participa tion of fraudulent act in the disposal of benefices (Brouescombe's ' Register,' fol. 5). Alwyngton Church was charged on 1st August, 1270, with the yearly pay ment of four marks, and Harberton Church of two marks, to the support of the bishop's chaplain here (Id. 'Register,' fois. 44, 45). The Survey of the chapter manors and livings in 1281, under the head of Harberton, states " Solvit vicarius annuatim capellano Capelle Domini Episcopi apud Exon. ii Marcas." The dean and chapter were in the habit of offering it two wax candles of a pound weight on the Festival of St. Faith (6th October) ; and Bishop Brantyngham, on tbe 18th of August, 1381, referred to the "fructus et proventus cantarie infra Palatium nostrum Exonie, pro animabus predecessorum nostrorum, ipsius funda- torum" ('Reg.' vol. ii. 67 b). Regular service was accustomed to be performed in it with music, and in the will of Canon WiUiam Langeton, dated 29th January, 1413, is a legacy of 100 shUlings to be divided amongst the chaplains, clerks, and boys serving in this chapel. In the last chapter, we have mentioned the musical John CATHEDRAL OP EXETER. 255 Pyttes, who describes himself as chaunter of this chapel in Bishop Lacy's time. In the Prologus of John Six- tinus to Bishop Arundell's ' Register,' he commends his lordship's piety, saying, " Cujus in Deum pietatem quo- tidianus Dei in suo sacello cultus ostendit; tot suis capellanis ac domesticis, cum symphoniacis pueris ange- licam harmoniam in Dei ac Dive Yirginis laudem, bis quotidie canoris vocibus vocalique jubilo efificientibus." The Registers testify to the numerous ordinations holden within its sacred walls. We regret, in the late alterations of the Palace, the loss of an oriel window introduced by Bishop Peter Courtenay, the sides of which were charged with his favourite Tau, the badge of St. Anthony's Hospital, London, of which he was the master ; and the three Sickles, forming a triangle, the device of Hungerford, his mother's family. The splendid mantelpiece has been removed from the dining-room into the hall, and fortunately without injury. The central finial rises to 12 ft., and is flanked by two columns, 10 ft. 3 in. high, capped with foliage. The width is 8 ft. The centre finial consists of the arms of France and England within the Garter, and tbe motto — " Honi soit qui mal y pense," surmounted by the arched diadem of King Henry YIL, having for supporters the two Greyhounds accoUed, of his consort Elizabeth of York. Beneath the royal escutcheon appears the Portcullis, the cogni zance of the Beauforts, from whom the king was de scended. This cognizance is repeated in the decorated soffit below, and actually serves for a capital to the dexter column, as the double Rose does to the sinister one ; thus marking fhe union, in his person, of the two houses of York and Lancaster. Beneath tbe Royal Arms, and within the pointed arch, is a splendid jewel led Mitre, to which are attached two Pendants richly fringed between the Sword and Keys addossed, in 256 HISTORY OF THE saltire, the arms of the see of Exeter ; and above and on the sides may be seen the Tau, or St. Anthony's Cross. The motto referring to St. Peter and St. Paul, the patron saints of the cathedral, is as follows : — Colompne ecclesie et veritatis precones. Immediately under the Mitre are the arms of the see of Exeter, the Sword and the Keys in saltire, and im paled with the arms of Courtenay — Or, tbree Tor teauxes (or roundlets of a red colour), with a Label of three points, each point charged with three Annulets, argent ; and not Plates as Cleaveland in his ' Genea logical History' of the family, pp. 270, 281, 286, asserts. The Label shows the bishop's descent from the first house : the Annulet marks his descent from Sir Philip Courtenay, of Powderham, Knight, the fifth son of Hugh Courtenay, the second of that name. Earl of Devon, by his wife Margaret Bobun, This escutcheon is encircled by three Dolphins, naiant and embowed, and on either side, within the perpendicular moulding, are repeated the T and the Bell, the emblems of St. Anthony of Egypt. The angles of this middle circle, as also of the other two, are filled up with the three Sickles in triangle, of Hungerford, or with the Wheat sheaf (derived from the Peverels, whose arms were — Azure, three Garbs or — a Garb or, witb a Sickle proper, united by a golden cord). The dexter circle bears the arms of Courtenay, supported by two Swans, collared and chained. The scroll above has the words " Honor Deo et Regi," and below " Arma Petri Exon. Epi." The sinister circle contains the arms of Courtenay, impaled with Hungerford — Sable, two Bars argent, three Plates in chief; supporters, two Boars Argent, bristled and tusked, and collared with the Courtenay Label charged witb Annulets. The upper scroll has the legend " Honor Deo et Regi," the lower " Arma Patris et Matris." In CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 257 the horizontal moulding below, the favourite T is re peated five times, and the bishop's initials, P. C, four times. The original entrance into the Palace itself was by the noble archway, which everyone must admire. Near this Porta Porensica was the Hall, wbere 100 poor were occasionally fed (Brantyngham's ' Reg.' vol. ii. fol. 5). The whole was embattled, by the license of Kings Edward the First and Second. Formerly it covered a larger space of ground than at present, but it appears from a report made on 9th May, 1599, that, in the early part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, several portions were taken down either by Bishop Alley or Bishop Bradbridge, as superfluous and burthensome from the diminished resources of the see of Exeter (Bp. Cotton's ' Reg.,' 65). On recent inspection it was found to be in such a ruinous state that the Ecclesi astical Commissioners, on 30th June, 1845, appropriated a considerable sum to the rebuilding a part, and the substantial repair of the remainder. King Henry YIIL on dedicating bis work ' Assertio Septem Sacramentorum ' to Pope Leo X., commences with stating, " Sanctitati tuse dedicavimus, ut, sub tuo nomine, qui Christi vicem in terris geris, publicum judicium subeat." On the Pope's granting to His Majesty, on the llth of October, 1521, the title of Defender of the Faith, Bishop Yeysey set up in this chapel the Royal Arms, with the inscription " Henricus Octavus, Fidei Defensor," and below " Clientis Devocio." Whilst Dr. Yalentine Cary was bishop here (1621- 1626) he applied to the mayor and chamber for per mission to make a door through the city wall, by which he might pass from the palace in and out privately intp the open fields (Southernhay) for his health and recreation, and avoid the gaze of the public. On the refusal of the mayor and aldermen, the bishop repre- 258 HISTORY OF THE sented his case to the Sovereign,' James I., when His Majesty addressed a letter to^ them under his signet at Westminster, 6th Marcb, 1623, requiring them to suffer the said bishop to make a convenient door through the city wall, and to have the use thereof, being ready, when any public necessity should require, to make it up again. The mayor and aldermen remonstrated : on which the King referred the subject to the Privy Council, who, on the 9th of May that year, issued their order, tbat the bishop should have the passage desired ; but that the door should not exceed 2i ft. in breadth and 6 ft. in height ; that the passage over the ditch next without the wall under the Barbican should be set upon posts, in order that the water in the ditch might pass clearly under ; that a single key be made for the door, and kept by the bishop himself during his time of residence, but should he be absent for the space of four days, the custody of the key should be with the mayor, until his lordship's return ; and lastly, that the bishop should defray all charges occasioned by such passage, and be ready to have it closed in case of tumult, insurrection, or the like, if the city magis trates demanded it. During the Commonwealth* (1647), tbe surveyors of the estates of tbe suppressed bishoprics sent into the Parliamentary Committee their valuation of the palace, with the timber, &c., at the sum of 405^. On the 10th of August that year, the mayor and chamber deter mined on becoming the purchasers at the additional price of 45 OZ, then required by the commissioners ; and ' If we may credit the 'Mercurius | of the cloisters from Mr. Embrey for Rusticus, p. 243 "the Bishops Palace 1600?. agreed on by the Chamber;" i''''-.?.^'',^'^^™'?' ^T T-l^l? '^^^"^ ^"'^ «'g'='i°' l*«i October, 1656, "the Smithfield, for, mand aboutit, they kept Mayor produced Mr Embrev's receint their fat oxen and sheep and all their for 2230i., for the purchase of the clois- plundered provisions;' ters the privileges of St. Peter's Church- In the Chamber 'Act Books we find yard, and Archdeacon Cotton's house." on 29th January, 1655, " the purchase CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 259 it was conveyed to their agent, Simon Snowe, Esq., and Alderman Adam Bennet, for that sum, on the 2nd May, 1648, "to have and hold unto the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty of Exeter and their successors for ever more." On the 25th Marcb, 1650, the mayor and chamber conveyed their purchase to the governors of St. John's Hospital for AOOl. These new proprietors leased it to a sugar-baker, who retained undisturbed possession during Bishop Gauden's government of the see, after the restoration of monarchy. But Bishop Seth Ward in 1662, as we learn from his biograpber. Dr. Walter Pope, "retrieved the palace out of the hands of the sugar-baker, repaired it, and made it habitable." When Bishop Carey, in 1821, was making alterations in the Palace, the troughs, &c., on the groundfloor of the sugar-baker's refinery were distinctly visible. Attached to the Palace on the west side was tbe prison for clergymen convicted of scandal and felony. Such prisons early in the 13th century had been allowed by King John to Hubert, Archbishop of Can terbury, and were required by the statute of Archbishop Boniface in every diocese.* In Bishop Grandisson's 'Register' (vol. i. fol. 172) is inserted Archbishop Islip' s regulation of the diet for such prisoners : on the Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, they were to be served with bread and water, once in the day ; on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, some small-beer was to be allowed, to which was added on Sundays a small portion of legumes. Tbis prison was confined and gloomy. The chapel at the top of the house was ascended by a stone staircase, taken down in 1846 ; the piscina was then in excellent preservation. We ' A.D. 1260. " Quilibet episcopus habeat iu suo episcopatu unum vel duos carceres ad clericos flagitiosos, depre gibilis fuerit et consuetus ad flagitia committenda, pro quibus etiam Laicus esset secundum leges seculi ultimum hensos in crimine, vel convictos juxta I deberet pati supplicium, talis clericus censuram canonicam, detiuendos. Et perpetuo carceri adjudicetur." — Lyn- si clericus aliquis malitiosus et incorri- | wode's ' Provinciale,' p. 321. s 2 260 HISTORY OF THE find in the ' Act Books ' of the chamber. No. 11, p. 147, that this prison was used in November 1566. In our biography of Bishop Brantyngham, we have related two cases of desperate jail-breaking here, accom panied with brutal violence and murder. Hoker in his ' Manuscript History,' p. 334, mentions a prisoner Robert Laskey, who escaped ; but on being retaken, was pardoned by Bishop Oldam, in the beginning of the 16th century, on bis abjuring and forswearing the diocese of Exeter. From the first foundation of ecclesiastical revenues under the Christian emperors, it was customary for tbe bishops to provide and maintain an hospital or almshouse, which was usually in the vicinity of tbe principal church. Fronting the west end of our cathe dral was a similar institution, Leland (' Itin.' vol. iii. p. 52) calls it " an old almose house of xii poore menne and as many women ;" but from a much more ancient authority, viz., a deed of the chapter at the very end of the twelfth century, it is evident that the community consisted of twenty brethren, " viginti fratres civi tatis Exon. Kalendarii." — That in consequence of their surrendering their right to the chapel of *St. Peter the Less, and to the chapel of St. Paul, they were to receive yearly from the chapter the sum of 10s., and to be allowed " servitium kalendse suae,"' to be performed in St. Mary Major's Church. Attached to a deed of 1260, we have met witb the common seal of this little com munity : a small oval, representing a tower surmounted with a high spire, and flanked with two turrets in front. Tbe legend was — S . FEV . d' . KALEND . EXONIE. When Bishop Grandisson in tbe following century * A deed is extant, dated November, 1271, by which John, a canon of Ex eter, gavo certain tenements in Smythen Street " Fratribus et Sororibus de Ka- lenderheie." CATHEDRAL OF EXETER. 261 enlarged and refounded the hospital of St. John near Eastgate, Exeter, he removed these brethren into tbat estabhshment, intending to appropriate the site to the purposes of a college for the priest-vicars of the cathe dral, who had hitherto resided in the smaller Calendar- hay, " Lytel Kalendarhay in S. Martin's Lane." But it was reserved for his successor Bishop Brantyngham to enable the vicars to live in community ; and he informs us in his Register, a.d. 1388, that he had com pleted for them a public hall, private chambers, a kitchen, and all suitable offices, " pro vicariorum cohabi- tatione vitaque communi" (vol. i. fob 194). Amongst our bishops they met with special benefactors. Bishop Marshal, their principal one, had granted to them the church of St. Swithun, at Woodbury ; Bishop Brewer had bestowed upon them an annuity of 12 marks, charged on the church of Alternon in Cornwall ; Bishop Lacy, on 6th June, 1432, assigned to them the profits of the church of Cornwood. On 10th February, 1508-9, Bishop Oldam, with the license of King Henry YIL, assigned to them the churches of Melan and Westlegh, with the hospitals of Clyst Gabriel and Werlond, besides presenting them with the sum of 80^. sterling; and King Henry IY., by charter of the 26th of February, 1401, had erected them into a cor poration, by the title of " Custos et Collegium Yicario- rum de choro Ecclesie Cathedralis Exonie," with the privilege of a common seal — a charter, confirmed on 3rd June, 1557, by King Philip and Queen Mary. Bishop Stafford had confirmed all their rights and privileges as early as Sth April, 1405. Their oval seal is stUl in use, representing St, Peter sinking in the biUows and supplieating Christ, who is walking upon them and bearing the cross in his left hand— to come to his rescue. Our Lord extends to him his right band, saying, "Quare dubitasti?" Under an 262 HISTORY OF THE obtuse arch appear the heads of six figures. The legend is — s . CoE : cvsTODis : z collegii : VICABIOBVM : DE : CHOEO : ECCLIE : CATHEDRALIS : EXONIE. The arms of Bishop Oldam still appear in the west and east ends of the college ; and his friend and vene rable treasurer John Ryse,® formerly chaplain to King Edward IY., rebuilt their College Hall, where may be seen the portraits of Bishops Leofric, Marshal, Lacy, Brantyngham, Stafford, Fox, and Oldam. On 8th April, 1 647, it was converted into " a common Wool Hall or place to sell and keep wool in." From the original number of twenty-four vicars, the body was reduced in 1547 to eight vicars or petty canons, and twelve lay vicars. Sixteen years later, viz. 20th September, 1563, tbe number was diminished to six priest-vicars and ten lay vicars. Within a few years later the priest-vicars were reduced to tbe present number of four, and this reduction was sanctioned and confirmed by Bishop Cotton in 1613. Adjoining the Yicars' CoUege is the Deanery, for merly the residence of the Archdeacon of Totnes, as is manifest from the deed of the Primate Langton in 1225. It is a respectable building, and formerly bad its chapel dedicated to St. Michael. The present esteemed and learned dean has greatly improved the premises. Here royalty has frequently taken its abode. Catherine of Spain, the celebrated queen of King Henry YIIL, passed two days from 21st October, 1501 ; King Charles II. (who had lodged here in June, 1644, as Prince of Wales) honoured the house witb his visit, 23rd July, 1671 ; WiUiam Prince of Orange " Hoker informs us that he was about I tality, liberal to scholars and good to 90 years old at his death (9 May, 1531), the poor, and that Eobert Hoker, the that he was his godfather, that ho was historian's father, was his executor. a great housekeeper and of good hospi- | OATItEDUAL OF EXETER. 263 aiTiviul lidi'o on b\i(biy the 9th, and remained hero till Uki 2()(.h Noveiiibor, 1088; and our l:it(^ most gi'iicioiiH S()V(jnii^-ii King Goorgo. 1 11., witb (,^110011 CliiU'lolJx* iuid tliriHi of tlio Princesses, took up their (liiiirl,c,i'H horo in August 17.S9. Inthe drawing-room ju'o Iavo poiii'iulH ol" King Williiuii 111. and Georgo 11. ; and in ono of tlio windovvH undor tho arnioibd bearings ol' Iho ronncr moiiarcli, Doau Milles, in 1708, has in scribed to bim tho incniovablo lines borrowed from CliUidian, as addro.sHcd in 3!) I to tho Emperor Theo- (IohIus : — 0 iiiiniuiii dilocto Doo, cui militat osthor I'jI. ('(iiiiiindi veniunt ail classica venti. Tho ronidi'iicci of tbe ])roci'ntors has been so altered !Uid nioiK'.rnizi'd aw jilinosl. io dcly description. But thi^ gi'oat hull rolains a sliUiily mantelpiece, which WiiH plaeiHl ben^ by tlic precentor, John Combe : bc died il) olhiHi early in LIDO, nnd liis initials apjtear on elllior side. Wliilst Dr. Millew filled the same dignity, belAveen 1747 and 1762, ho repainted il, and sur- niountod it wilb the ainius of his fainily and those of liiw falber- in-law, Dr. -lohn Potter, who died Archbishop o I" (-au terbury in 1747. Dr. Milles was elected Dean ol" b]xeku' on 281 b April, 1762, and dying in London, on lOtb February, 1781, a-.t. 70, was buried in St. Edmund's, Lombard-i-tlreet. Tlio armorial beai'Ings ave — Jh(,— or Ciui<(Mbury, iinpiilod with rotlor's. 2iul— Doxtor side. ' Liio rroooiitor's of llxotor— Arpviit, on a Sidtior ay.m-(>, a IMoiir-do-Lys ov. linimhHl with Milios's. Mrd— Siuislor. JMillosVs "iunialod with Lotti'r's. On the dee}) moulding-" 1st— Precentor's iinpalod with Uo'^ov Koys's. He diod hi oilioo llih NovoinbiM', 1 178. llo had roiuiorod vahiablo sorvieo to Kino- J loiiry V 1. in tlu' orod ion of I'Uoii (V>llooo. Soo 'Exooipta Hist.' No. 9. 264 HISTORY OF THE 2nd — Bishop Grandisson's. 3rd — Bishop Lacy's. 4th — Precentor's, and John Combe's. Below the mouldings — Ist — In the centre. The arms of St. Edward, King and Confessor, as adopted by King Eichard IL, with the arms of France and England. 2nd — Dexter. The see of Exeter impaled with Courtenay. ' Srd — Intended either for Wilham Bruer or Walter Stapeldon, who, from the Precentorship, was raised to the see of Exeter ; but neither had three bends wavy. The arms of the former were — Gules, two Bends wavy or; and of the latter — Argent, two Bends wavy sable. In the lane, sometime called " Paternoster Lane," leading from St. Martin's Church to St. Catherine's Almshouse,' was another college, ofthe Annivellars or Annuellars, or chantry priests. Bishop Lacy, in an ordinance dated llth December, 1446, thus describes them : " Cautariarum, qua sin Ecclesia nostr4 in decorem ejus, et multiplicationem numeri Deo servientium in eadem, antiqua bonorum fundavit devotio, ministri, Annivellarii nuncupantur." When Bishop Grandisson made the visitation ofhis cathedral on 26th November, 1337, he found twenty-one of these chantry priests attached to it. For the ' Ordinatio Annivellanorum ' of tbe eighteen chantries in our cathedral, see Bishop Lacy's 'Register,' vol. iii. fol. 437." One entrance into their 'college was nearly opposite the north porch of the cathedral ; the other in Catherine Street is closed up, to form the tap-room window of the country public- bouse ! These clergymen were bound to follow the choir and canonical hours, like the vicars. ' This was a foundation by John Ste vens, M.D., a canon of Exeter. His win, dated Srd February, 1457, and proved 27th February, 1460, maybe seen in Nevyll's ' Eegister,' fol. 124. In Bishop Oldam's ' Eegister ' is an ac count of a considerable ordination in this chapel on 6th December, 1516. ' ^ In Hoker's MS. of Exeter the writer slates, p. 341, that John Eyse, who was his godfather, but who died in 1531, " gave some portion of lande to the Chauntrey Priests, called the Aiuiyvellers, for kepying of hospita litie." CATHEDRAL OP EXETER. 265 Within the Close are three parish churches : first, St. Mary Major's, perhaps so called to distinguish it from St. Mary Arches and St. Mary Steps. Some times it is called St. Mary de Turre, from its most ancient and massive tower. Its south side bears the appearance of Roman work,* and may have originally served for a fortified watch-tower. At a later period it was surmounted by a lofty spire covered with lead : the noise of its weathercock on the summit so dis turbed and terrified the Princess Catherine of Arragon, when she sojourned at the deanery after landing at Plymouth, on 8th October, 1501, that it was taken down for a time. The spire itself having fallen into decay, " a very decent and beautiful monument," according to Hoker, its removal was ordered by Bishop Alley and the Dean and Chapter, on 3rd July, 1568; but on the 18th of the following month, the Chamber, in their anxiety to preserve it, voted the sum of sixty pounds to put it in substantial repair. This proving insufficient. Bishop Woolton, on llth February, 1580-1, confirmed the former order of the Chapter, as we find in his ' Register,' fol. 56 ; and we learn from Hoker's Manuscript that the above-mentioned replaced weathercock, having been blown off by a storm in 1580, " not long after the whole steeple was pulled down also." The mayor and chamber, on 16th August, 1692, bestowed three trees out of Duryard Wood towards the repairs of this church, and for " hanging the bells in the tower, being all new cast ; " but the upper part of the tower being pronounced, in 1766, to be in a dangerous state, about forty feet more of its masonry were taken down, and the present cupola substituted. To defray the expense, five of the beUs were sold. In this tower stood the altar of St. ApoUonia, as we ' We say appearance, for Sweyn in 1008 demohshed the city, leaving it but a pile of ashes. 266 ^HISTORY OF THE find from the will of Robert Lingham, the Rector of the church in 1427. The nave, comparatively to the tower, is modern. On 6th November, 1336, Bishop Grandisson dedicated its High Altar (' Reg.' vol. u. fol. 204). Second : St. Petrock's Church is named after the saintly prelate who died in Cornwall, 4th June, 564. It is a mis-shapen edifice, and formerly, as appears from the warden's accounts, was lighted on both sides, having nine windows in all. Four altars were stowed in it — St. Petrock's, St. Thomas's, Jesus's, and Mary's. From Bishop Oldam's 'Register,' fol. 48, we collect that it was consecrated anew on 22nd July, 1513. The license to erect its present cupola is dated 1st Marcb, 1736. The parishioners were usually buried in tbat part of the Close adjoining to their church ; and in the warden's accounts of 1476, we find their payment "pro purgatione Cemeterii." In the 'will of Alice Martin, dated llth February, 1598, she desires " to be buried in the churchyard of St. Peter, where St. Pethe- rick's parish use to be buried in." Third : St. Martin's, so caUed from the holy Bishop of Tours, who died in 397. From its ancient missal we collect, that the feast of its dedication was kept on 6th July, 1065. " Anno ab Incarnatione Domini M°LXY*<'-, Indictione IIIL, II Nonas Juhi, dedicatum est hoc Templum ad honorem Domini Jhesu Christi, et Sancte Crucis, et Sancte Marie, Matris Christi, et Sancti Martini Episcopi, omniumque Sanctorum Dei." Bishop Stafford, however, in consequence of the concurrence of festivals, and for better convenience, on 13tb July, 1409, transferred its celebration to the Sunday after the 7th July. Tbe handsome perpendicular window at the west end appears to have been introduced in the time of his successor. Bishop Lacy. In Grandisson's 'Register,' vol. ii. fol. 223, is an CATHEDRAL OP EXETER. 267 order, dated 22nd June, 1339, for the removal of a pent-house recently erected near the church by an individual " in solo notorie sacro ac dedicato." Who can leave the Close, this area of interment of the dead of Exeter during a thousand years, without being reminded of the instability and emptiness of all that passes with time, and that all of us must inevit ably be forgotten ? In this " great magazine of mor tality" not one tombstone or inscription remains to record the profession, sex, age, rank, or even family of the innumerable multitude lying undistinguished below our feet. But, however neglected, unhonoured, and forgotten, yet at the shrill clangour of the angelic trumpet, a commotion of all this dust shall take place : the bones shall start to meet their joints ; they shall once more be clothed with flesh, and shall stand before the Almighty Judge, to hear their definitive sentence for Eternity. May it be propitious to us aU ! Amen. ( 269 ) APPE^^DIX. No. L FASTI ECCLESl.^ EXONIENSIS. I.— HERALDRY OF EXETER CATHEDEAL. The arms of the See are— Gules, a Sword erect in pale argent, pomelled and hilted or, surmounted by two Keys in saltier of the last.' Those of the four dignities are : — Dean— Azure, a Stag's head caboched and ensigned with a Cross pattde fitchy, argent. Pbecentob— Argent, on a Saltier azure, a Fleur de Lys or. Chanobllor— Gules, a Saltier argent between four Cressets or. Tebasueee— Gules, a Saltier engrailed between four Leopards' heads or. n.— LIST OF BISHOPS. Lbofrio removed the see from Crediton to Exeter a.d. 1050; died 10th Feb. 1071-2. Arms — Or, a Cross fleury sable, having in the fess-point a Mitre proper. Osbern, consecrated in 1072 ; died in 1103. Buried in St. James's Chapel. Ellis, in his 'Index to Domesday,' vol. i. p. 417, says Osbern was consecrated 28th March, 1072, and died in 1 1 03. Arms — Gules, a Bend argent, surmounted by a Fess or. William "VVaeblwast, consecrated llth Aug. II07; died in 1136: the 'Martyrology of Exeter Cathedral' says 27th Sept. 1 137. The 'Tywardreth Calendar' says he -died 26th Sept. 1137. Arms, according to Izacke — Azure, a Saltier or ; but according to West cote, the better historian of the two (' Harl. MS.'), " Fer pale gules ^ Of the ancient arms of the see, whjch appear from time to time to have undergone some slight changes, the earliest example in the cathedral is— Gules, a Sword in bend sinister argent, pomelled and hilted or, sur mounted by two Keys accosted in bend dexter of the last. A more recent one is — Gules, a Sword in bend argent, pomelled and hilted or, surmounted by two Keys addorsed in bend .sinister of the last. And a still later one is — Gules, a Sword in bend sinister ar gent, pomelled and hilted or, surmounted by two Keys addorsed in bend dexter of the last. Bishop Oldam, in turn, adopted the last two of these, and finally made the alteration, in the disposition of the charges, to what they have ever since been and still are. 270 APPENDIX. and or ; in the first, two Keys paly of the second ; the second charged with a Sword point in point of the field." Eobert Chichester, consecrated 17th Dec. 1138 ; died 28th March, 1155. Buried on the south side of the choir, near the upper steps, under an aperture in the wall. Arms— Cheeky or and gules, a Chief vairy. Eobert Warelwast, consecrated Sth June, 1166 ; died 22nd March, 1160 : his obit was kept 22nd March. Arms as before. Bartholomew, consecrated in 1161 ; died 1 5th (the 'Martyrology' says 14th) Dec. 1 184. Buried under the first arch of the south wall of the Lady Chapel. Arms, according to Izacke — Party per pale gules and sable, six Dolphins naiant argent : according to Westcote — Per pale sable and argent, six Dolphins transmuted. John, consecrated 4th Oct. II86; died 1st June, 1191. Buried in the South Tower. Arms — Argent a Cross sable ; a chief of the second. Henrt Mabshal, consecrated in 1194; died in Oct. 1206. Buried in the north wall of the choir. Arms, according to Izacke — Or, a Lion rampant gules, within a Bordure azure, mitred of the first : according to Westcote — Per pale or and vert, a Lion rampant gules armed and langued within a Bordure azure entoyred with Mitres proper. SmoN DE Apttlia, consecrated Sth Oot. 1214 ; died, according to the 'Martyrology,' 9th Sept. 1223. Buried in the second arch of the south wall of the Lady Chapel. Arms, according to Izacke — Azure, .three Mitres or, two and one : according to Westcote — Makuly or and sable. William Brtterb, Beibwer, or BErwEUE, consecrated 30th April, 1224; died 24th Oct. 1244. Buried in the choir. Arms— Gules, two Bends wavy or. Eichard Blondt, consecrated in December, 1245; died 26 th Dec. 1257. Bmied on the north side of the choir. Arms, according to Izacke — Lozengy or and sable : according to Westcote — Azure, three Bishops' Mitres proper. Thus these two writers disagree in assigning the two coats to their respective owners, Bishops Siraon and Blondy. Walter Bronescombe, consecrated lOth March, 1257-8 ; died 22nd July, 1280, at Eadway, and was buried in St. Gabriel's Chapel. Arms — Or, a Chevron sable, charged with three Cinquefoils of the first, between two Keys erect in chief and a Sword erect in base of the second. Peter Qotvil, consecrated 10th Nov. 1280; died 4th Oct. I29I. Buried in the centre of the Lady Chapel — " Petra tegit Petrii, nihil officiat sibi tetrii." Arms — Azure, a Cross argent, between two Eoses in chief, and two Fleurs de Lys in base or. Thomas Bitton, or db Button, promoted to the see before 2nd Dec. 1292; died 21st Sept. 1307. Buried before the High Altar. Arms — Ermine, a Fess gules. Walter Stapeldon, consecrated ISth Oct. 1308 ; murdered ISth Oct. 1326. Buried on the north side of the choir, near the High Altar. Arms — Argent, two Bends wavy sable. FASTI ECOLESIiE EXONIENSIS. 271 James Beeklete, consecrated, it is said, ISth March, 1326-7 ; died at Petershayes, in the parish of Yartescombe, 24th June, 1327. Arms — Gules, a Chevron between ten Crosses pat6e, according to Westcote, or : according to Izacke, argent. John Grandisson, consecrated ISth Oct. 1327 ; died 16th July, 1369. Buried in St. Eadegunde's Chapel, on the south side of the great western entrance. Arms — Paly of six argent and azure, a Bend gules charged with a Mitre between two Eaglets displayed, or. Thomas Brantyngham, consecrated 1 2th, and received the tempo ralities I6th May, 1370 ; died at his palace at Clist, Dec. 1394, and buried near the north door of the nave — stone, with brass pins, at the end of the wooden seats. Arms — Sable, a Fess crenelle, between three Catherine-wheels, or. Edmund Staj-eord, consecrated 20th June, 1395 ; died 3rd Sept. 1419. Died at Clist, and buried in St. Mary Magdalene's Chapel. Arms — Or, a Chevron gules, his addition, entoyred with Bishops' Mitres proper. John Kbteeiok, translated hither from Lichfield and Coventry by Pope Martin the Fifth's bull, dated 23rd Nov. 1419 ; but died at Florence 28th Dec. that year. Arms— Sable, three Cats argent. Edmdot) Lacy, consecrated 18th April, 1417, translated hither from Hereford Srd July, 1420 ; died ISth Sept. 1455. Buried on the north side of the choir. Arms — Azure, three Shovellers' heads erased argent. George Nevyll, appointed lOth April, 1456 ; consecrated in Dec. 1458 ; translated to York 19th Jan. 1465. Arms — Gules, a Saltier argent. To this Westcote adds, " a Pile of three gobonetted argent and azure : his mother's coat — Argent, three Lozenges in Fess gules. Yet there is set for him — Gules, three Lozenges in fess argent within a border or." John Bothe, Archdeacon of Eichmond, consecrated 7th Julj', 1465 ; died 5th April, 1478. Arms — Argent, three Boars' heads erased erect sable, in chief a Label of three points gules. Peter Courtenay, consecrated Sth Nov. 1478, at St. Stephen's, Westminster, by Thomas, Bishop of London; translated to Win chester in 1487. Arms — Or, three Torteauxes, in chief a Label of three points azure, charged (says Westcote) with nine Plates. Eichard Fox succeeded 2nd April, 1487 ; translated to Bath and Wells in 1491 ; thence to Durham ; and, finally, to Winchester. Arms — Azure, a Pelican in her nest, feeding her young with her blood, or. Olivbe King, consecrated in the early part of 1492 ; he appointed Thomas Gilbert his Vicar-general, 4th Feb. 1492, first year of his consecration; translated to Bath and Wells, 6th Nov. 1495. Arms — Argent, on a Chevron sable, three Escalops of the first. Eichard Eedmayn, translated hither from St. Asaph, 7th Jan. 1496 ; and hence to Ely in Sept. 1501. Arms— Gules, three Cushions argent, according to Izacke— Ermine, according to Westcote— tas selled or. John Arundell, consecrated bishop 6th Nov. 1496; translated 272 APPENDIX. hither from Lichfield and Coventry 29th June, 1502; died 15th Mareh, 1503-4. Arms — Sable, six Martlets, according to Westcote — Swallows, according to Izacke — ^three, two, and one ; argent. In this Izacke, and not Westcote, is correct. Hugh Oldam, consecrated towards the end of 1504; died 2Sth June, 1519. Buried in St. Saviour's Chapel, south aisle of the choir. Arms— Sable, a Chevron or, between three Owls proper; on a chief of the second, three Eoses gules. John Veysey, alias Harman, consecrated 6th Nov. 1519 ; surren dered the see 14th August, 1551. Arms — Argent, a Cross sable charged with a Buck's head couped between four Doves argent, on a chief azure a Cross fletiry, according te Westcote^Crosslet, according to Izacke — ^between two Eoses or. Miles Coverdale, appointed 14th, and consecrated 30th August, 1551 ; deprived on the accession of Queen Mary : act of council for his departure dated 19th Feb. 15S4-S. Arms — Quarteriy per Fess indented gules and or, in chief a Eose between two Fleur de Lys, in base a Fleur de Lys between two Eoses, all counter- changed. John Veysey, restored 28th Sept. 1553; died 23rd Oct. 15S4. Arms as before. James Turberville, consecrated Sth Sept. ISSo ; deprived early in 1559. He was certainly living on 22nd Jan. 1559-60. Arms, according to Izacke — Ermine, a Lion rampant gules, crowned or, langued and armed azure : according to Westcote — Argent, a Lion rampant gules crowned or. William Alley, or Allein, consecrated 22nd Sept. 1560 ; died 16th April, IS70. Buried in the choir. Arms, according to Izacke — Azure, a Pale engrailed ermine, between two Lions rampant argent, langued and armed gules : according to Westcote — Azure, a Pale between two Lions rampant ermine crowned or. William Bradbridge, consecrated by Archbishop Parker, at Lambeth, ISth March, 1570-1 ; died 28th June, 1578, aet. 77. " Hie jacet reverendus Pater Gvilihelmus Bradbridge, nuper Exon Epis copus, qui obiit 27th die Junii, Anno Dni. 1578." Buried on the north side of choir. Arms — Azure, a Pheon's head argent. John Woolton, consecrated by Archbishop Grindall, at Lambeth, early in August, 1579. He was enthroned 21st March, 1679-80; died 13th March, 1593-4, and buried on the south side of the choir. "Hie jacet reverendus ille Joannes Woolton, quonda Exoniensis Episcopus, qui prrefuit huic Ecclesise anos xm, obiit xui die Martii, Ano. D. 1593." Arms — Argent, a Lion rampant jessant a saltier engrailed gules. Gervase Babington, translated hither from Llandaff, enthroned 22nd March, 1S94-5 ; and hence to Worcester 4th Oct. 1597. Arms — Argent, ten Torteauxes, four, three, two, and one ; in chief a Label of three points azure. Westcote omits the label. William Cotton, consecrated 12th Nov., installed 30th Dec. 1598; died 26th, buried 31st Aug. 1621, in cathedral, on the south side of the choir. Arms — Argent, a Bend sable between three Pellets. Valentine Cabt, Dean of St. Paul's, S.T.P., President of Christ's FASTI ECCLESIA EXONIENSIS. 273 College, Cambridge, consecrated 18th Nov. I62I ; died lOth June, 1626. There is a cenotaph to him in the north wall of the choir. Arms as before. Westcote adds, " his difference, a Mullet." Joseph Hall, consecrated 23rd Dec. 1627; translated to Nor wich 16th Nov. 16'41 ; wiU dated 21st July, 1654, ob. 8 Sept. I6S6, set. 82. Arms — Sable, three Talbots' heads erased argent. Ealph Brownrigg, consecrated Srd May, 1642 ; died 7th Dec. 1659. Arms — Argent, a Lion rampant sable gutty d'or, langued and armed gules between three Crescents of the last. John Gauden, consecrated 2nd Dec. 1660; translated to Wor cester IGth June, 1662. Arms — Azure, a Chevron between three Leopards' faces or. Seth Ward, consecrated 20th July, 1 662 ; temporalities restored 25th Aug, 1662; translated to Salisbury 12th Sept. 1667; obiit 1668. Arms — Azure, a Cross fleury or. Anthony Sparrow, consecrated Srd Nov. 1667 ; translated to Norwich 18th Sept. 1676. Arms — Ermine, three Eoses argent, seeded or. Thomas Lamplugh, consecrated 12th Nov. 1676; translated to York on the landing of the Prince of Orange, in Nov. 1688 ; obiit 6th May, 1691, set. 76. Arms — Or, a Cross fleury sable. Sir Jonathan Trelawity, Baronet, translated hither from Bristol on the same day that Bishop Lamplugh was translated to York ; translated hence to Winchester 14th June, 1707. Arms — Argent, a Chevron sable. OrpsPBiNG Blackall, consecrated Sth Feb. 1707-8 ; died 29th Nov., buried 2nd Dec. 1716, in the south side ofthe choir. Arms — . Argent, a Greyhound courant sable collared or ; on a chief dancette of the second, three Besants. Launcelot Blackburne, elected by the Chapter the 7th, con firmed Thursday 2Ist Feb., consecrated 24th Feb., installed by proxy 1 9th March, 1716-7 ; translated to York in Nov. 1724. Arms — Argent, a Fess nebuly between three Mullets pierced sable. Stephen Weston, confirmed 24th, and consecrated 27th Dec. 1724; died Sth, buried 12th Jan. 1741-2, on the south side of the choir. Arms — Argent, a Cross surmounted on three greeses gules, on a chief azure five Besants. Nicholas Clagget, translated hither from St. David's, confirmed the 2nd Aug. 1742 ; died Sth Dec. 1746. Arms — Ermine, on a Fess sable three Pheons' heads or. Geoege Lavington, confirmed 6th, consecrated Sth Feb. 1746-7 ; died 13th, buried 19th Sept. 1762, in the south aisle of the choir. Arms — Argent, a Saltier gules ; on a chief of the second, three Boars' heads couped or. Frederick Keppel, uncle to the Earl of Albemarle, confirmed Sth, consecrated 7th Nov. 1763; died 27th Dec. 1777. Arms- Gules, three Escalops argent. John Eoss, P.E.8., elected 12th Jan. 1778; died I4thAug. 1792; buried in the south aisle of the choir. Arms — Gules, three Water- budgets argent. (' Gent.'s Mag.' 1792, p. 864.) William Buller, consecrated 2nd Dec. 1792; died 12th Duo. T 274 APPENDIX. 1796. Arins^Sable, on a Cross argent quarterly, pierced, four Eaglets displayed of the first. Henry Eeginald Coubtbnay, Prebendary of Eochester, and brother to the first Viscount Courtenay, translated hither from Bristol; elected 21st Feb. 1797 ; died 9th June, 1803. Arms— Or, three Torteauxes. John Fishee, elected Sth July, 1803; translated to Salisbury, 30th June, 1807. Arms — Sable, on a Mound of Turf proper, two Stags saliant respecting each other argent, collared and chained or. Geoege Pelham, translated hither from Bristol 21 st July, con firmed 12th Aug., and installed 28th Sept. 1807 ; translated to Lincoln 19th Aug. 1820. Arms — Azure, three Pelicans argent, Vulning themselves in the breast, gules. William Cabey, Prebendary of Westminster, elected 28th Oct. and consecrated I2th Nov. 1820; took possession 4th Jan. 1821: translated to St. Asaph, 7th April, 1830; died Srd Sept. 1846, set. 77. Arms— Argent, a Bend sable charged with three Eoses of the first ; on a Chief gules, two Crosses pat6e or. Christopher Bethell, D.D., translated from Gloucester to Exeter, elected 12th April, and confirmed llth June, ISSO ; trans lated to Bangor, llth Nov. following. Heney Phillpottsj D.D., elected 22nd Nov. and confirmed 9th Dec. 1830. DEANS. Sbelo, promoted to this dignity from the archdeaconry of Exeter, by Bishop Brewer ; elected 2Sth Nov. confirmed 2nd Dec. 122S ; died 21st July, 1 23 1. Eoger db Wynklbgh succeeded Serlo ; died ISth Aug. 1252. W^iLiAM DB Stanwby, who died 31st Dec. 1268. Eoger de Thoriz was collated to this dignity from the archdea conry of Exeter ; died 29th April, 1274. John Noble was confirmed as Eoger's successor 20th Sept. 1274. John Pycot was the next dean, but I cannot meet with his col lation in the episcopal Eegisters. Andrew db Kilkenny, elected 25th Feb., was confirmed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Aug. 1281; installed ISth March, 1284; died 4th Nov. 1302. Heney de Somerset succeeded : elected on Thursday after the Epiphany, 1302-S ; his obit was 22nd Dec. 1307. Thomas de Lbohlade was the next dean, and died in the spring of 1309. Bishop Bytton's ' Eegister,' which miglit have supplied the dates of collation in these two instances, has unfortunately perished. Bishop Stapeldon, on 16th AprU, 1309 (fol. 40), circiter horam vesperarum, granted licence to the Chapter of Exeter to elect one of the canons to the ofBce of dean. On 2nd May foUowing (fol. 40 b), his lordship collated to the prebend and canonry Eobert de Stapeldon, Professor of CivU Law, which Master Thomas de Lechlade lately obtained in the Church of Exeter, and which was now void by his death. The bishop granted a second licence to proceed to another election on 6th July, 1309 (fol. 42), two houip after receiving the Chapter's petition. FASTI ECGLESIiE EXONIENSIS. 275 Bartholomew de Sanoto Laurentio, confirmed Srd June, ISll. On the death of Dean Lechlade, the chapter proceeded to an election ; when, at the scrutiny, the votes appeared balanced so equally between two of the canons, John de Brueton and Eoger de Otery, that these ecclesiastics very readily consented to renounce aU pretensions to the dignity. At a second election, a majority of votes was in favour of William de Kyngescote ; but, on account of a canonical informality, exception was taken by Bishop Stapeldon, who collated Bartholomew de Sancto Laurentio to the office. The rejected William appealed to the primate, Eobert Winchelsey, who recalled the consideration of the affair to his own court. In the meantime WUliam died, when the primate referred the case to Bishop Stapeldon's discretion, who, after mature deliberation, re confirmed Bartholomew in the office of dean at the tune above- mentioned. The day of his obit was 27th Nov. 1326. Eiohaed db Coleton occurs as dean on 6th Feb. 1327, and died on Monday after 1st Aug. 1335. "¦ EiCHAED db Bkaylegh, confirmed successor to the above 2nd Oot. 13S6. Eeginald db Bugwell, admitted on Papal provision 28th June, 1S53. EoBEET Sumpteb, admitted 18 Aug. 1364. Thomas Walkyngton occurs 2Srd Feb. 1378. Ealph Teegrision, a native of St. Crede in Cornwall, occurs in June, 1386. His will, dated 16th June, 1414, was proved 26th July, 1416, the day after his death. Stephen Payn, confirmed 4th Nov. 1415 ; died 17th May, 1419. Eoger Bolter, the precentor, elected 28th June, 1419, but refused the election. John Cobethoen, confirmed 2nd Sept. 1419 ; ob. 25th Sept. 14 . John Hals, who was consecrated Bishop of Lichfield and Coven try 25th Nov. 1459. His appointment as dean is not in the Eegister. Heney Webber, elected 26th Deo. 1459 ; died 13th Feb. 1476-7. Petee Courtenay, confirmed dean 27th April, 1477 ; and on Sth Nov. 1478, was consecrated bishop of this see. His appointment is not in the Eegister. Lionel Woodtele succeeded : elected in Nov. 1478. He was promoted to the see of Sarum 28th March, 1482. John Aeundell followed, but resigned on his promotion to the see of Lichfield and Coventry, in 1496. Edwabd Willoughby, who died 23rd Nov. 1508. Thomas Hobbys, S.T.P., confirmed 7th Feb. foUowing, and died the following September. John Veysy, confirmed 19th Nov. 1509. Ten years after, he became Bishop of Exeter. EiCHAED Pace, who resigned Sth July, 1527. Eeginald Pole (the celebrated cardinal of that name), from being a canon and prebendary, was confirmed dean 23rd Sept. 1527 ; on whose deprivation," s Pole was not deprived by Ecclesiastical I his restoration in Mary's time were avoided sentence but all chapter leases made untU \ and made of no effect.— Hokei-'s MS. ' T 2 27(i APPENDIX. Simon Heynes, S.T.P., was elected his successor 16th, confirmed 28th July, 1537 ; died in October, 1552. He was Dean of Windsor and sometime chaplain to Kings Henry VII. and VIII. His canonry and prebend were given to John Blaxton on 28th Dec. 1552. James Haddon, S.T.P., was installed on the bishop's mandate 10th July, ISSS. I find him collated to a canonicate in the cathe dral, vacant by the death of Anthony Belasis, 31st Dec. 1552, but was deprived by Queen Mary. Thomas Eeynolds, S.T.P., elected 9th Feb. 1554 ; nominated 7th Nov. 1568, by Queen Mary to the see of Hereford, but in conse quence of her death did not receive episcopal consecration. His appointment was cancelled by her successor. Queen Elizabeth. He died in the Marshalsea Prison, 24th Nov. 1559. ' Athense Oxoni enses,' London, 1691, vol. i. p. 689, states that he succeeded to the deanery in 1554, on the death of Dr. John Moreman. Gregory Dodds, elected 10th, confirmed dean by Archbishop Mathew Parker 25th Feb. 1559-60 , died in the spring of 1570. On 9th May, 1571, his canonry and prebend in the cathedral were given by Bishop Wm. Bradbridge to Wm. Marston. Gbobgb Cabewe, Dean of the Queen's Chapel, father of George, Earl of Totnes, and of Sir Peter Carewe, Bjaight (Lib. 2, ' Hist. and Antiq. Univ. Oxon.'), succeeded, and confirmed by Archbishop Parker, 12th Jan. 1570. Carew's appointment does not occur in the ' Eegister.' On his death in June, 1583, set. 85, Stephen Townesbnd, S.T.B. , confirmed Sth Oct. 1S8S. He died in office. Matthew Sutcliffe, D.D.,* confirmed 27th Oot. 1588; on whose death, William Peterson, S.T.P.,' and Eector of Diptford and Brooke, was confirmed his successor 18th July, 1629 ; on whose death, Seth Ward, D.D., was elected, 26th Dec. 1661, at the King's recommendation, and confirmed 1 Sth Jan. following ; on whose resignation for the see of Exeter, Edward Younge, S.T.B., was elected 21st Aug. 1662. WiU made 6th June, proved 14th Aug. 1663. George Cary, elected 5th Sept. 1663 ; died (die Purificationis) 2nd Feb. 1680-1, set. 69. He was twice offered the mitre of Exeter by Ring Charles II. : first, on the translation of Bishop Ward to Salisbuiy ; and, secondly, on the translation of Bishop Sparrow to Norwich — but modestly and humbly declined the dignity. He was buried at Clovelly, to which rectory he was presented by King Charles I., 29th April, 1638. His canonry on his death was given, on 2Srd March, 1680, to Richard Annesley, S.T.B. The Honoueable Eichaed Annesley, S.T.B., who became third Loed Altham, nominated to the deanery 9th Feb., by King Charles 3 Dr. Sutcliffe, Dean of Exeter, was taken j he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of the into custody in 1621 for writing against the Lord Bishop Hall, by Dr. Burnell, Chan- Spanish match, bythe orders of King James I. ''oUm. Tl.« n J.._J /.il. T.._. .n„, ._i See page 186, vol. i., of Macaulay's ' History of England' (1763). * By an entry in tlie Cathedral Register it appears that Dr. Peterson was restored to his deanery in 1660. On 28th July, 1629, cellor. The Dean died 6th Dec. 1661, at. 74 ; his wife, Elizabeth Hall, had died gth July, 1650, at. 4] ; her brother, Samuel Hall, the sujb-dean, died ] 674, set. 63. They are all interred at Stoke Canon. FASTI ECCLESIA EXONIENSIS. 277 II.; made canon 2Srd Mar. and elected 6th April, 1681; died 16th Nov. 1701. William Wake, D.D., elected 14th and confirmed 20th Fob. 1702-3 ; on whose promotion to the see of Lincoln, Launcelot Blackburne was elected Srd Nov. 1705. He became Bishop of Exeter in 1716-17. Edward Trelawny, Archdeacon of Exeter, elected ISth Mar., 1716-17, and continued to hold both offices till his death, 24th Oct. 1726. John Gilbeet, elected 27th Dec. 1726, and confirmed 7th Jan. following ; on whose promotion to Llandaff, Alueed Clabkb, D.D., Prebendary of Westminster and Win chester, was elected 12th and confirmed 27th Jan. 1740-1. He laid the foundation stone of the Devon and Exeter Hospital, on 27th Aug., 1741 ; and, with John Tuckfield, Esq., the city member, may be ranked as founder ; died 31st May, 1742. William Holmes, D.D., President of St. John's College, Oxford. .See his epitaph, p. 404, vol. 8, 'Nichols' Lit. Anecdotes'; elected 14th Aug. and confirmed 14th Sept. 1742; died 4th April, 1748, set. 69 ; buried at St. John's, Oxford. Charles Lyttelton, LL.D., President of the Antiquarian Society, brother of George Lord Lyttelton, elected 1st and confirmed 6th June, 1748 ; on whose promotion to the see of Carlisle (he died a bachelor 22nd Dec. 1768, and was buried at Hagley), Jeebmiah Milles, D.D., afterwards President of the Antiquarian Society, son-in-law of Archbishop Potter, was elected 28th April, and confirmed Sth June, 1762; died 16th Feb. 1784, set. 70. See p. 472, vol. iv. ' Literary Anecdotes.' He was nephew to the Eight Eev. Dr. Thomas MiUes, who died Bishop of Waterford, 13th May, 1740, and to the Eight Eev. Dr. Eichard Pococke, Bishop of Meath. He was buried at the church of &t. Edmund-the-King, Lombard Street, London, where an elegant monument by Bacon is inscribed to his memory. Dr. John Milles resigned a canonry in Exeter Cathedral in Aug. 170.T. William Bullee, D.D., half brother of Mr. Justice Buller, elected 25th March, 1784 ; on whose resignation for the deanery of Canter bury, Chaeles Haewaed, M.A., Dean of Chichester, was elected 16th July, and confirmed 13th Aug. 1790 ; died 15th July, 1802, ast. 79. Chaeles Talbot, B.D., elected 31st Dec. 1802, installed and confirmed Srd Jan. 1803 ; on whose resignation for the deanerj' of Sarum, George Goedon, B.D., was elected his successor, 1 5th April, 1809 (obiit at the Deanery, Lincoln, 2nd Aug. 1845, set. 84, D.D.); on whose resignation for the deanery of Lincoln, on 5th Feb. 1810, John Gaenett, D.D., was elected and installed 24th Feb., and confirmed 17th March, 1810 ; died 12th March, 1813, aged 65. Whittington Landon, D.D., Provost of Worcester CoUege, Oxford, elected 24th AprU, 181S. He died at Betchcott near Ludlow, Shropshire, 29th Dec. 1838, aged 80. 278 APPENDIX. Thomas Hill Lowe, Precentor of the cathedral, elected 27th June, confirmed the 1st and instaUed 2nd Aug. 1839. PEECENTOES. John occurs before the year 1154. Eobbbt occurs in the year 1155. John is the third whom I meet with ; he was consecrated bishop of this see 4th Oct. 1186. Been aed succeeded on the promotion of the bishop. Thomas. Heney, Eector of Ilstington ; whose signature appears to Bishop Marshal's grant of Woodbury to the vicars choral, in 1206. As precentor, he attested the appropriation of Oakhampton Church, between 1231 and 1244. William Brbwee, who was consecrated Bishop of Exeter, 30th April, 1224. Adam de Sancta Beigida. Died 20th April, 1232. Philip de Bagbtoe was a subscribing witness to Bishop Brewer's charter, confirming the parish church of St. Peter, at Barnstaple, to the priory there, Srd Aug. 123S. William de Aeundell, about 1242. Ealph de Hyngbham occurs as precentor before the death of Dean Wynkleigh, in 1262, and again in 1269 ; he resigned in 1281. Heney db Someesbtb succeeded 2nd Aug. the same year, but resigned within a twelvemonth. Waltee de Lechelade was collated 1st Aug. 1282 ; died 9th Nov. 1283. Andeew db Kilkenny succeeded 19th Nov. 1283. John de Deeyton was the next precentor. William de Puntyndon was living on 2nd Feb. 1301. Waltee Stapeldon, who resigned on his promotion to the see in the spring of 1308. Ealph Geemtn, collated from the Archdeaconry of Barum on 28th March, 1308 ; died Srd Dec. 1316-17. John Wele succeeded from the Archdeaconry of Exeter, 22nd Feb. 1317-18. EiCHAED DE CoLETON, Collated 2nd of the foUowing Feb., but declined the dignity. Adam db Mueymouth succeeded (he occurs 2nd April, 1330), but exchanged for a benefice in the diocese of Lincoln, with John db Schabshullb (Schareshill), who was admitted 25th July, 1337, and held the situation nearly thirty-seven years. John Saxton, collated 30th July, 1374. Hugo de Hykelinq succeeded. His .will, dated 8th Aug. 1415, was proved 30th of the foUowing March ; he had died on the 28th of the preceding Jan. Laurence Haukyn, collated 30th Jan. 1416. His will, dated 6th April, 1418, was proved Srd of the following Feb. EoGEE Boltee, collated llth April, 1418. His will, made Sth June, 1436, was proved llth Dec. that year. ^iValtee Colles, collated 4th April, 1437. His will, dated 2Ist Nov. 1452, was proved 14th June, 1463. FASTI ECCLESIA EXONIENSIS. 279 Henet Wbbbee, coUated 16th May, 1453; about six years and a half later was appointed dean. He died 13th Feb. 1476-7. EoGEE Keys. His death happened llth Nov. 1478. Izacke, in his Memorials, p. 88, had incorrectly placed his death in 1470. Arms — a Chevron between three Keys erect. A pardon was granted to him by King Edward IV. under the Great Seal, dated 20th Dec, 1471, as Precentor of Exeter, Canon of Exeter and of Salisbury, Prebendary of Teignton Eegis in Yealmpton, and Parson of Men heniot in Cornwall. John Stubbes was collated 16th Nov. 1478. John Combe, who died in office early in 1499. William Sylke, collated 15th April the same year (he was col lated to a canonry and prebend in the cathedral, 20th Nov. 1479, and Bishop Fox appointed him his vicar-general from Kenilworth, 3 Ist May, 1487; he lies buried in the north transept; Bishop Richard Redmayn leased certain lands near Ugbrooke to Sylke and his successors, 14th May, 1501, for ninety-nine years) ; on whose demise, John Veysey, from the Archdeaconry of Barum, was collated 26th May, 1508 ; resigned for the deanery in 1509. Thomas Haeeis, collated 6th Dec, 1509; died Slst Deo. 1511. His will, dated 1st Nov. 1511, was proved 21st Jan. following. Eiohaed Norton, collated 8th Jan., 1512. His will, dated Sth Aug. 1523, was proved 20th Feb. following. John Chambee, M.D., collated 25th Feb., 1523-4; on whose death, John Eyse appears in the dean and chapter books as precentor in 1624. Geoege Cabewe (Archdeacon of Totnes, but which office he resigned two days after accepting the precentorship) was collated Sth Aug. 1549 ; on whose privation by Queen Mary, John Eixman succeeded, and held the office from 1564 tiU his death, in 1557. EiCHAED Petee, instaUed 28th Dec. 1557 ; on whose resignation, William Maeston was collated 19th Dec. 1571 ; died in 1599. Bishop William Cotton accepted the office 24th Nov. 1599, with the canonicate of the late precentor, by virtue of the dispensa tion of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury ; and on the 9th of the following Jan. accepted the Eectory of Silferton. William Cotton, M.A., the bishop's son, collated 22nd Oct. 1606 ; on whose death, Seth Waed was collated by Bishop Brownrig about the year 1660,' but not admitted untU 16th Sept. 1660. 5 The bishop told him at the time, " I am confident the king will be restored : you may live to see the day, though I believe I shall not ; and then this, whioh seems now Ampoj', aSapov, may be of some emolument to you." For the instrument of collation Ward paid the full fees to the bishop's secretary: he^ was heartily laughed at by his friends for so doing. Says Dr. Pope, " I have heard them tell him they would not give him half-a-crown for his precentorahip ; to whom he replied, since it was the good bishop's kindness, though he should never make a penny of it, it was as acceptable to him as if he were to take possession the next mo ment. This was the first flower that ever grew in his garden, and the foundation of his future riches and preferment." — 'Ward's Life, by Dr. WalterPope, pp. 29, 80. 280 APPENDIX. James Smith, the Archdeacon of Barnstaple, collated 27th Jan. I66I-2 ; died in office, 30th June, 1667, in his Eectory at Alphington. John Wilkins, S.T.P., collated 1st July, 1667 ; on whose pro motion to the see of Chester, Heney Bold was elected on the king's presentation, and installed 30th Nov. 1668; died 9th Sept. 1677. Geoege Hooper, Dean of Canterbury, admitted 16th Oct., 1677 ; on whose resignation for the see of St. Asaph, William Jane was coUated 5th May, 1704; resigned for the deanery of Gloucester. Thomas Newby, collated 3rd Dec. 1706 ; died 6th May, 1723. Eichard Ibbotson, Eector of Lambeth, was instituted 29th May, 1723 ; died 1st Sept., 1731. Peter Foulkes, D.D., collated 1st Oct. 1731 ; died 30th April, 1747, set. 71. Buried in the cathedral Srd May. Jeremiah Milles, D.D., collated llth May, 1747; on whose resignation for the deanery, John Snow, M.A., was collated 22nd Feb., 1762; on whose death, 1st March, 1772, Daniel Bueton, D.D., was instituted Srd April, 1772 ; on whose death, Thomas Skynnee, LL.D., brother of Lord Chief Baron Skynner, was collated Sth June, 1775 ; died 7th Aug. 1789, set. 61. Buried in the cathedral. Geoege Goedon, M.A., collated 29th Aug., 1789 ; on whose resignation for the deanery, Thomas Bartlam, M.A., was collated Sth April, 1809, and in stalled the same day ; died Friday, SOth March, and buried in the cathedral, Friday 6th April, 1832, aged 64. Thomas Hill Lowe, M.A., was installed precentor and pre bendary, Saturday, 16th Sept. 1832. He resigned for the deanery, 27th June, 18S9. William John Phillpotts, A.M., eldest son of Bishop Phillpotts, collated 21st Nov. 1840, on the promotion of Thomas Hill Lowe. GHANCELLOES. Hbnby op Wabwick was the first, as we find by the Martyrology of the Church, " Magister Henricus de Warwick, Primus Exoniensis Ecclesie Cancellarius." Died 28th April, 1227. Eiohaed Blondy (afterwards Bishop of Exeter), I believe, suc ceeded Henry. He was certainly chancellor whilst Serlo was dean, and witnessed with him Sir Eeginald de Albamarra's grant to the vicars choral of Exeter Cathedral; and I meet with him again in the sixth year of Bishop Brewer's episcopate, 12S0 ; again Srd Aug. 12SS ; again in Aug. 1243. Waltee Lodeswbll was^ohanceUor at the death of Bishop Blondy. See Brouescombe's ' Eegister,' fol. 5. Heney de Wengham was collated 6th March, 1258-9; resigned on his promotion to the see of London. FASTI EOCLESIiE EXONIENSIS. 281 Eobeet de Typfobd, appointed in commendam, in July, 1259. Hbnby db Beatton, cbllated from the Archdeaconry of Barum, 18th May, 1264. Olivee de Teaoy, collated Srd Sept. 1268. Eiohaed db Beemmele, who died in office, 21st May, 1275. Ealph de Hengham was collated in Oct. 1275. Clement db Langbfoed, collated 21st Feb. 1279. On 20th April, 1283, Bishop QuivU annexed Stoke Gabriel and St. Newe- lin's churches to this chancellor and his successors, to secure Con tinual residence. Hbnby de Someesbtb occurs chancellor in April 1297, and was promoted to the deanery in ISO.T. Thomas de Lbchbladb, who also succeeded to the deaneiy. John de Beueton, collated in 1307. John de Eudon, by King Edward IL, 20th May, 1308. EoGBB DE Otbey was appointed in commendam 22nd Jan. 1309, and collated 23rd Aug. the same year ; on whose death, Waltee Gifpaed was collated 2nd Dec. 1314 ; on whose death, Hbnby of Nywbton, S.T.B., was collated 23rd Sept. 1322, but resigned a few months after. Waltee de Meeibt, collated 28th of the ensuing Jan. Bishop Grandisson (Eegister, vol. 2, fol. 211) severely rebuked him for neglect of duty. King Edward III., on 18th July, twenty-eighth year of his reign, licensed the appropriation of a house in Exeter to the dean and chapter, to maintain the anniversary of William de Meryet "nuper Cancellarii Ecclesie Exoniensis." Heney db Stowfobd occurs in 1323. Benedict db Paston occurs in Feb. 1340. Thomas de Bokyngham, collated 26th March, 1346. John Wyliet, S.T.P., occurs 29th Dec. 1355 ; 12th Sept. 13716 ; and March, 1374. Thomas Baenolby died in office early in 1384. Eobbbt Boson succeeded, and died 21st Jan. 1399. Eobeet Euggb, collated SOth Jan., 1400 ; on whose death, Eiohaed Suetsham was collated 12th April, 1410 ; died in the winter of 1416. Thomas Hendeman was coUated 19th Jan. 1417 ; on whose death, John Oeum succeeded 23rd Feb. 1429. Orum's will was made 27th Sept. 1436. Heney Wbbbee, collated 21st Sept. 1436, (Q. How could Le Neve omit him, when the gravestone even proclaims him to have been Bishop Lacy's chancellor ?) William Fylham. On whose death, John Subytsham was collated 1st March, 1439. His will, dated ISth March, 1447, was proved 20th Sept. 1448. Eichaed Eodbeham, collated Srd July, 1448. His will, dated 24th Oct., 14SS, was proved 16th Sept. 1455. 6 In the Martyrologium of Exeter Church I obiit Petrus^Chacepork, Cancellarius Exon et ' we find the following entry:— "24December | Canonicus." 282 APPENDIX. John Geemeyn succeeded. His wUl, dated 21st Feb. 1459, was proved 20th July following. John Shieewode occurs late in 1460. Owen Lloyd occurs chanceUor in February 1467, in an inquisi tion respecting the presentation to St. Dominiok's, in CornwaU. Nicholas Gosse appears in a deed of ISth July, and in a deed 15th Oct., 14 Edwiard IV. John Taylob is met with in or about 1486. Cheistophee Ueswioke died 23rd March, 1521-2, set. 74 (Le Neve says 24th Oct. 1521). His epitaph at Hackney may be seen, p. 384 of Camden's ' Eemains.' John Gybbons, coUated 25th March, 1522 ; on whose death, William Leveson was coUated by his uncle Bishop Veysy, 22nd Dec, 1537 ; on whose death, John Leach was instituted 6th April, 158S, on the presentation of one Edmund Eeynolds, and died in 1613. Edwabd Cotton, coUated 27th June, 1613 : resigned. He was opposed by King James I., who had bestowed the chanceUorship by Letters Patent under the Great Seal, on Eoger Bates, clerk, who was duly instaUed. The king's letter from Westminster, 19th Feb., 1617, is preserved by the dean and chapter. Bishop Valentine Cary accepted the office in commendam for a short time. Laubence Burnell, D.D., succeeded 22nd July, 1624, per man- datum Eegis per lapsum : he had been made a canon 7th July previous. Died 12th Nov. 1647, set. 68. Eiohaed Meevine, Eector of Bratton-CloveUy and Throwleigh, instaUed chanceUor 1st Sept. 1660 ; died 17th Oct. 1669, set. 69. Thomas Toneyns, S.T.B., coUated Sth Nov. 1669; died 22nd Ang. 1675. Edwabd Deewe, collated 25th Aug. 1675. He resigned it in the September foUowing. John Copleston succeeded 18th Sept. 1675; died 24th Aug. 1689. John Jambs, Vicar of Harberton, coUated SOth Aug. 1689 ; died 18th Jan. 1702-3. William Jane, collated 2nd Feb. 1702-3; resigned Sth May, 1704, for the precentorship. Thomas Newet, collated Sth May, 1704 ; resigned for the pre centorship. John Penneok succeeded llth Dec. 1706 ; died ISth April, 1724. Peter Foulkes, D.D., coUated 27th May, 1724; resigned forthe precentorship. John Fuesman, M.A., collated 1st Oct. 1731; died 4th Dec. 1757, set. 79. Nutoombe Quioke, afterwards called Nutcombe Nutoombe, LL.B., collated 9th Deo. 1757 ; died 22nd Nov. 1809, set. 83. The Honourable Hugh Percy, M.A., son of Algernon, Earl of Beverley, collated SOth Jan., instaUed Saturday 3rd Feb. 1810 ; on whose resignation, ISth July, 1816, Thomas Johnes, M.A., was collated 26th July, installed 17th Aug. 1816 ; ob. 21st AprU, 1826, aet. 77. FASTI ECCLESIA EXONIENSIS. 283 Joseph Holden Pott, Archdeacon of London, coUated 27th May 1826 ; ob. 17th Feb. 1847, set. 88. Edwabd Chaeles Haeeington, A.M., coUated 16th July, 1847. TEEASUEBBS.' John.William, died 14th Feb. 1154. John de Saeisbeeia occurs in 1174. John of Exeteb occurs about 1186. Anselm Ckassus was treasurer in 1205, and retained his office until his promotion to the see of St. David's, in 1230. William de Ealegh. He witnessed Henry the Third's charter to Exeter, 24th March, twenty-first year of his reign. He was hence promoted to the see of Norwich in 1239. John occurs as treasurer in the time of Bishop Brewer before 1244. William de Molendinis, Eector of Winkleigh, occurs in a deed dated Exeter, 15th Aug. 1249. Waltee occurs in a deed of 22nd Feb. 1257, and 29th Aug. 1261. John de Beadlegh, collated 20th Jan. 1264. Waltee Fitz-petee occurs in 1267. John op Exeteb enjoyed this dignity in 1281, and 20th July, 1284. William db Bismaeio occurs in February, 1287-8. In conse quence of increasing years and infirmities, he was allowed a co adjutor by Bishop Stapeldon, on llth Sept. 1309, in the person of Hugo, Eector of Tallaton. Thomas db Henton, collated 22nd of the ensuing January; on whose resignation, Eobert or Eiohaed db Widesladb was collated 17th May, 1329. He died in 1367. Petee de Pateshull. Eobeet Beoee occurs 29th July, 1381 ; died in 1389. William Tbenellys succeeded ; on whose death, John Dodyngton was collated 26th Aug., 1399. He died in office. Eiohaed Hals succeeded 27th Sept. 1400. His will, made 1st May, 1417, was proved 25th May, 1417. He died 18th May. EoGEB Boltee, coUated 25th May, 1417, but resigned llth April after. Michael Leeobdekkb, collated 28rd April, 1418. His wiU was made Sth Jan. 1442, and proved 23rd of the ensuing month. Heney Webber, collated 20th Jan. 1442 ; resigned for the pre centorship in 1453. John Buenbby succeeded 17th May, 1463. John Kyekeby occurs in 1459 (Hoker says he was Master of the EoUs) ; on whose death, John Stubbes was collated 10th Dec, 1477 ; resigned the year foUowing. Eobbbt Barforth, collated 16th Nov. 1478 ; but resigned also soon after. ' Two valuable documents relating to the I between Fois. 44 and 45 of Bishop Bothe's office and profits of Treasurer are inserted | Register. 284 APPENDIX. Thomas Langton succeeded 18th Feb. 1479. John Combe enjoyed the dignity 1484. Thomas Austell. King Henry VII. lodged in his house during his visit to Exeter in 1497. After holding the office many years, died early in 1515. Bebnaed Oldam was collated Sth April that year, but died six weeks after. Eichaed Mobe, D.D., collated 24th May, 1515. Adam Teavesse succeeded, but resigned soon on a pension of 20/. John Eyse,' collated 10th Jan. 1518 ; on whose death early in May, 1631, Thomas Sothorn was coUated Sth May, 1531 ; died in 1557. Nicholas Wotton succeeded 2nd June, 1557, on the presentation of George Medleye, gent., and resigned at the end of eight months. John Blaxton, coUated 20th March, 1657-8 ; on whose depriva tion, Eichaed Teemayn, S.T.P., was installed 10th Feb. 1569 ; after wards deprived ; and again installed 27th Oct. 1561 ; wiU proved, 1 6th Dec. 1584; on whose death, Eobeet Lawe was collated Srd Dec. 1584 ; died in 1629. Eobbbt Hall, S.T.P., collated by his father. Bishop Joseph HaU, 25th June, 1629. He had been made canon 4th March previous. WUl is dated 25th April, 1667; died 29th May, buried Sth June, 1667, set. 61, in the cathedral. Baldwin Acland succeeded 10th June, 1667 ; on whose death, 27th Aug. 1672, aged 64, Edwabd Cotton, grandson of the bishop, was collated Slst Aug. 1672; died 2nd, buried in the cathedral, 16th Nov. 1675. Nicholas Hall, bom at Bridford, collated 15th Nov. 1676; died 25th April, 1709. Bishop Opfspbing Blackall accepted the office 4th June, 1709, by virtue of the letters of Thomas Tennison, Archbishop of Canter bury; since which time, the succeeding bishops have held this dignity in commendam. AECHDEACONS. In a deed, bearing date 2nd July, 1133, I find the following names of archdeacons : — Eobeet, William de Auc, Eenaldus, and Odo. In another deed, of the same age, I find that Bishop WiUiam Warelwast (1107 and 1136) had purchased a house and garden in Exeter of the Archdeacon Asoblinus. In Bishop Eobert Chichester's time, between 1138 and 1155, the following archdeacons come forward as witnesses : — William db Auco, Waltee, Hugo, and Eadulphus ; but I know not how to fix them in their respective archdeaconries. An Archdeacon "William is stated in the Martyrologium to have died 29th May, 1189. In ' Hoker says that he was about 90 years old at his death ; that he had been chaplain to King Edward IV. ; that he was » great housekeeper and of good hospitality, liberal to scholars and good to the poor. He built the new part of the priest^vicais' college. The historian adds that he himself was Sie Treasurer's godson, and that his father was his executor. FASTI EOCLESIiE EXONIENSIS. 285 the Martyrology is the following :— " 10 Cal. Sept. (23 Aug.) obut Johannes Lumb, archidiaconus. 29 Dec. 1189, obiit Williel mus, archidiaconus et canonicus." AECHDEACONS OF EXETEE. Odo, who died 22nd June, 1083. EoLAMNUS, who died llth March, 1104. Eenaldus, who died 14th March, 1136. Eobeet de Wabblwast, afterwards the fifth bishop of this see. King Stephen addressed a letter to this archdeacon, de terri de Niweton. Waltee de Coutanoes occurs in 1143. Heney Fitzhaeding about the year 1148. Ealph, who died 17th Feb. 1154. Babtholomew occurs in 1156, and was raised to the see in 1161. Baldwin occurs in 1166, and afterwards promoted to the see of Worcester and the Archbishopric of Canterbury. John de Alenzon was in office in June, 1190. Waltee occurs about 1200. John frequently occurs soon after. Heney db Molesiis, who died in 1221. He witnessed Bishop Marshal's appropriation of Otterton Church to the priory there, Slst Aug. 1205. Seblo, who became the first dean in December, 1225. Bonus witnessed Bishop Brewer's grant to St. John's Hospital. Babtholomew witnessed a deed in Aug. 1243, and on 26th Nov. 1236; he died in office 22nd Sept. 1247. EoGEB DE Thobiz occurs in 1249. He was elected dean. John Noble, coUated Srd Sept. 1270 ; afterwards succeeded to the deanery. John db Pontissaea collated 22nd Dec. 1274 ; afterwards Bishop of Winchester. Petee de Insula occurs 1st Aug. 1280 ; again 18th Nov. 1292. He may have resigned and accepted the office again on the death of Eobert de Evesham. He certainly assisted in making the ' Taxatio Ecclesiastica ' for the province of York in 1292, and is there styled Archidiaconus Exon. Eobeet de Evesham succeeded. We meet with him 20 th July, 1284, and again in August 1287. His obit was kept 26th April. Babtholomew de Sancto Laurentio ; afterwards dean. Eichard db Plumpstock, collated by King Edward II.'s favour 25th March, 1308-9. William Fitz Eogo, collated 20th June, 1311, but died soon after. John Wele, appointed Sth of the foUowing March. Eichard de Morcbster, coUated 2nd Feb. 1318. Thomas Hereward succeeded llth June the same year; and, on his death, John de Northwode was collated 29th Nov. 1329, but resigned. William Grandisson, .the bishop's brother, was collated 14th April, 1330, but died in less than three months after. 286 APPENDIX. William db la Zouche was coUated 12th July the same year. Thomas de Nassington succeeded 14th June, 1331. The will of Ealph Atterlane was proved before him 30th Sept. 1331. He re signed in 1346. Otho db Northwode was collated 15th Dec. 1345. Philip db Bello Campo, appointed 16th Nov. 1360, but tendered his resignation, which Bishop Grandisson accepted 27th Dec. that year. Stephen db Penpel was appointed Philip's successor the same day. He resigned for the deanery of Wells in Sept. 1361, and died 2nd Feb. 1379. ' AngUa Sacra,' Vol. i. p. 589. Philip de Bello Campo accepted the office on the resignation of Stephen, about a twelvemonth later, and held it during the re mainder of his life. Thomas Swaby, coUated 20th Aug. 1371. Cardinal db Petee db Evbeino was appointed Archdeacon of Exeter in March, 1375. His proxy at the induction was Ealph Pylaton. John Cheyne occurs 10th July, 1379. Philip db Albncon occurs 23rd. Feb. 1384. Waltee Cook, collated 16th Oct. 1399. Thomas Hendeman occurs 23rd Nov. 1411 ; on whose resignation, Eogee Boltee was coUated 25th Jan. 1417. He resigned also. John Sohute succeeded 21st Sept. 1417. His will was made 2nd May, 1425. James Caeslegh was collated 27th Sept. 1425 ; on whose death, Peter Stucklegh succeeded Sth Dec. 1438. He resigned, when John Deuell was appointed 21st March, 1444 ; on whose death, Petee Coubtbnay was collated Sth June, 1453. He resigned, Eobeet Ayscogh succeeded him 7th Jan. 1475. David Hopton was the next. WiU dated 17th Jan. 1491-2. On whose death, Eichaed Nykke was collated Srd Feb. 1492, and he resigned within a year to become vicar-general to Eichard Fox, then Bfiiop of WeUs, and after becoming archdeacon of that church and Canon of York and Windsor, he was preferred to the see of Norwich in 1501, and died 14th Jan., 1536. ' Anglia Sacra,' Vol. i. pp. 419, 804. Hugh Oldam succeeded. He was made Bishop of Exon in 1504. CoUated llth March, 1493, by Bishop Oliver King to the canonry and prebend void by the death of John Paskewe, whilst his lordship was on a visit at the royal manor of Sheen. Eichaed Mobe, collated ISth Jan. 1605. John Fulfoed, collated 19th June, 1515 ; on whose death, SOth Jan. 1518-19, Adam Teavesse, or Travobs, was coUatedl 9th Jan. 1618-19. WUl dated 24th Dec. 1555, proved January foUowing. On whose death, Geoege Cabewe, Dean of the Queen's Chapel, succeeded SOth Jan. 1555-6, on the presentation of Anthony Harvy, Esq. ; on whose resignation, with a pension of £20 per annum, Eobbet Ftshee was instituted, 20th Oct. 1669, on the presenta- FASTI ECCLESIA EXONIENSIS. 287 tion of Francis EusseU, Earl of Bedford. WiU dated SOth Sept. 1582, proved SOth Jan. after. On whose death, Thomas Baeeett, son-in-law of Bishop John Woolton, was insti tuted 14th Jan. 1582-3, on the presentation of James Woolton, of London, gent., and WUliam Brewton, of Exeter, notary publio. He commenced his visitation 6th April, 1683, and insisted in his second article of inquiry on the clean defacement of all statues and other superstitious things in churches, and the taking dovra of rood-lofts. In the 16th article, he appears to have been credulous on the point of w'itchcraft and sorcery. Died 25th Nov. 1633, sat. 82, and buried in cathedral the next day. Aabon Wilson, D.D., succeeded 16th Jan. 1633-4 ; died in 1643. Edwabd Young, D.D., installed 21st Sept. 1643 ; on whose resig nation, Eobeet Caey was appointed Sth July, 1662 ; resigned^ Daniel Estoott, appointed 18th Jan. 1664-5. Anthony Spaeeow, Bishop of Exeter, held this dignity in com mendam until his translation to Norwich, in Sept. 1676. Edwabd Lake, S.T.P., instituted 24th Oct. 1676 ; died 1st Feb. 1703-4. Preceptor to the Princesses Mary and Anne. Sib Jonathan Teblawnt, Bart., bishop of this diocese, accepted this dignity in commendam 1st AprU following, and held it until his translation to Winchester, three years after. Oppspeing Blackall, bishop of this see, accepted also this dignity, and held it until his death. Edwabd Teelawny, M.A., instituted 1st March, 1716-17, on the presentation of King George I. ; on his death, Eiohaed Ibbbtson, S.T.P., the precentor, was instituted llth Nov. 1726. Stephen Weston, bishop of this see, in 1732, accepted this office in commendam ; and his eight episcopal successors continued to hold the same until the translation of Bishop Pelham to Lincoln. John Mooee, M.A., nephew of the late George Moore, Archdeacon of Cornwall, was instituted to this dignity 29th Dec. 1820. AECHDEACONS OF CORNWALL. Alnothus. Died 13th June, 1098. Eenaldus, in 1110, according to Le Neve. Hugo db Auco, about 1135. Wilham, about 1143. A. about 1160. Waltee, who died SOth April, 1167. Ealph Luce witnessed the grant of the advowson of St. Mary de Wych to the Priory of Tywardreth, in the episcopate of Bishop Bartholomew. Judelethus, archpresbyter of Cornwall, is mentioned in the confirmation of the property belonging to Tywardreth Priory dependent on the monastery of St. Sergius at Angers by Archbishop Becket, 1162-1170. Petbb, who died 7th Sept. 1171. Galtbrus held this dignity about 1180. 288 APPENDIX. Waltee Fitzdeogo. We find him witnessing a deed in Bishop John's time, between 1186 and 1191. He died 2Srd June, 1216. SmoN, nephew of Bishop Simon de ApuUa, was archdeacon about the year 1219. Mabtdj witnessed Bishop Brewer's confirmation of Woodbury to the vicars-choral, 28th 'May, 1228 ; and, together with the bishop, the grant of the church of Weneppa by William Brewer, the bishop's uncle, to the dean and chapter. John Eop was living in Aug. 1243. JoEDAN DB Bismaeio. Galfeid de Bismaeio resigned early in 1264. Eobbbt db Teffoed, collated 7th AprU the same year. John de Esse was collated 23rd Aug. 1274 ; died 28th June, 1282. Heney db Bolegh was coUated Sth July, 1282. William de Bodeingham is mentioned as archdeacon in 1296. Waltee occurs as archdeacon 1st April, 1311. Adam de Caeleton occurs Srd Oct. 1313, and 26th Nov. 1S37. John St. Paul is said to have filled this office in 1346. He was promoted to the archbishopric of Dublin. William de Cusantia occurs 27th July, 1354. We beHeve he was Edward the Third's Treasurer. See Tertia Patent, de anno 16" Eegni, M. 7. Nicholas db Newton, presented by King Edward III. in 1362. Thomas Orange, after enjoying the dignity for some years, ex changed in March, 1337, for a prebend in York Cathedral, with [Eobeet Beaybeookb occurs July, 1381, but resigned for the See of London.] Nicholas Beaybeookb ; on whose resignation, Edwabd Dauntesey was collated 13th July, 1396. John Oeum occurs in 1411. John Bebmee was collated Srd April, 1413. EiCHABD Penels Bucceedcd ; on whose death, William Fylham was collated 29th May, 1419 ; on whose resig nation, [He died ISth Nov. 1454.] Walter Teengop was collated, 2nd Oct. 1436 ; on whose death, Eichaed Hblybe succeeded 20th Feb. 1445 ; died 15th Dec. 1446, and buried in the south aisle of the choir. Heney Teevylien, collated 19th Nov. 1446. Eesigned. John Sblot succeeded 20th March, 1449. Thomas Maeke occurs 12th July, 1462. William Sylke, resigned early in 1499 for the precentorship. Thomas Harrys, collated 16th April the same year. Eesigned. Bernard Oldam succeeded 16th Dec 1609. Made a canon ofthe cathedral, 18th June, 1606. He resigned also. John Fulfoed' was collated from the archdeaconry of Totnes * This archdeacon was the younger son of Sir Baldwin Fulford, of Great Fulford, knight. Sheriff of Devon 38 Henry VI., whose eldest son. Sir Thomas Fulford, knight, was beheaded 1 Edward IV. 1462, at Hezham, for fighting on the part of Henry VI. at the battle of Towton. Sir Thomas was the lineal descendant of William Fulford, Esq., who lived in the time of Richiird I., and held Great Fulford in the FASTI ECCLESIA EXONIENSIS. 289 18th April, 1615 ; resigned thirteenth day after for the arch deaconry of Exeter. Eichaed Sidnob, collated 13th May, 1515, but resigned soon after for the archdeaconry of Totnes. Hugh Ashton, collated 28th Sept. 1515. Eesigned. Eichaed Samson, collated Srd Feb. 1617. [He was made, first. Dean of Lichfield, then Bishop of Chichester, in 1536; translated to Lichfield in 1543 ; ob. 25th Sept. 1654. [On whose resignation, Eowland Leb succeeded Sth Sept. 1628 ; in 1529 he was appointed General Commissioner of Cardinal Wolsey in the visita tion of the English Church. His celebration of the marriage between King Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn on 14th Nov. 1632, was the occasion of his subsequent appointment to the see of Lich field and Coventry in 1534, and the Lord Presidentship of Wales. Obiit 24th Jan. 1643. Thomas Bbdyll, installed 2nd March, 1534-5 ; died two years after. Thomas Wyntee, nephew of Cardinal Wolsey, it is believed, col lated 8th Oct. 1537 ; on whose resignation, [Hoker says that Dr. William Hobsby, Archdeacon of Cornwall, died in 1543-4.] John Pollaed was collated 25th May, 1543. Hugo Weston, collated 17th Oct. 1547, on whose resignation for the deanery of Westminster, John Eixman was instituted 23rd Sept. 1554, on the presentation of John and Ann Tusser. William Body had been the previous patron of this archdeaconry, by virtue of a grant from Bishop Veysey. Geoege Haevie, installed 2nd March, 1655-6. He died in 1563. EoGEB Alley, son of Bishop Alley, was collated 13th Oct. in the same year, on the presentation of John Tusser, gent. Nicholas Maeston, instituted 10th June, 1574. Thomas Somasteb died in 1603. William Huchenson, D.D., instituted Sth Sept. 1603, on the presentation of the Eev. Ealph Huchenson ; resigned ; buried in cathedral 22nd July, 1616. Jaspee Swipt, collated 21st July, 1616 ; resigned for the arch deaconry of Totnes. William Pabkee, collated Sth Nov. 1616; resigned. Maetin Mansogg, collated 27th Jan. 1628-9, at the house of the Earl of Norwich in London. William Paekee, collated, it seems, again. He died in 1631. Eobbbt Peterson succeeded 22nd July, 1631 ; died 27th, buried 29th July, 16SS, set. 39, in the cathedral. Eobeet Hall succeeded SOth July, 1633 ; on whose resignation, Geoege Hall, M.A., was collated, 7th Oct., 1641 ; on whose pro motion to the see of Chester, in 1662, reign of King Johu ; and was (by his wife Philippa, daughter of Sir Philip Courtenay, of Powderham, knight, by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Walter Lord Hungerford, Lord High Treasurer to Henry VI.) the lineal ancestor of the present Baldwin Ful ford, of Fulford, Esq., the twenty-first in descent from the above-named William. U 290 APPENDIX. Edwabd Cotton, S.T.P. ; on whose resignation for the treasurer- ship, Bdwaed Dbewb, of Grange, and Eector of Bridestowe, succeeded Srd Sept. 1672; died 17th, and buried 21st Dec. 1714, set. 70, in cathedral. This Edward Drewe married Jane Webb, of Exeter, widow, in June, 1681. Lancelot Blaokbubne, instituted 25th Jan. 1714-15 ; successively Dean and then Bishop of Exeter, and finally Archbishop of York. Chaeles Fleetwood, only son of Bishop Fleetwood of Ely, col lated 7th Feb. 1731-2 ; on whose death, 27th July, 1737, Geoege Allanson was collated 14th Sept. 1737 ; on whose death, John Sleech, M.A., was collated 25th Aug. 1741 ; died 1st Feb. 1788. Geoege Mooee, M.A., collated 7th Feb. 1788 ; died 12th March, 1807, set. 76, and buried in Heavitree Church, 18th of the same month. WrLLLAM Shoet, D.D., Prebendary of Westminster, collated Sth AprU, 1807 ; installed the same day ; resigned shortly before his death, which took place at Kingsworthy, Hants, 2Srd May, 1826, set. 68. John Bull, D.D., collated 6th Feb. 1826, on Short's resignation, and installed 4th March foUowing. He resigned for the arch deaconry of Barnstaple. John Sheepshanks, A.M., coUated llth May, 1826, and installed 20th May, on Bull's resignation. William John Phillpotts, A.M., eldest son of Bishop PhiUpotts, collated 6th Jan. 1845. AECHDEACONS OF TOTNES. John de Beadelbgh. Hugh db Avigo occurs in 1143. ASCBLLINUS.Baldwin, I are witnesses to deeds of Bishop Bartholomew's Eobeet, ) between the. years 1161 and 1184. Bebnaed, who died Srd June, 1190. John Fitz-John. Gilbebt Basset occurs in 1206. Walter de Geey occurs 10th May, 1207. John de Beidpoet occurs in Aug. the same year. Sbelo witnessed a deed as Archdeacon of Totnes. E. was archdeacon in 1219. YsAAC was commissioned to install Serlo, the first dean, in Dec. 1226. Hugh. John db Kent witnessed a deed while Serlo was dean. His obit was kept 2nd Dec. Eogbe db Wynklegh witnessed Bishop Brewer's confirmation of Woodbury, 28th May, 1228, and became the second Dean of Exeter. Thomas Pinceena witnessed a deed of Bishop Brewer's, dated Srd FASTI ECCLESIA EXONIENSIS. 291 Dec. 1242, as Thomas le Butteler. We meet with him again at Easter, 1264. John, who died 20th Feb. 1258. Galfbid occurs in 1262. Walter of Pembboke, collated from the archdeaconry of Barn staple, llth Jan. 1263. Eiohaed Blund, likewise collated from the archdeaconry of Barn staple, 1st Nov. 1265. Thomas de Hertfoed, collated in Jan. 1271. He occurs again 14th Aug. 1273. John de Esse succeeded. Thomas db Bolley, collated 2Sth Dec. 1275 ; resigned for the archdeaconry of Cornwall, when Thomas de Bodham succeeded Sth July, 1282 ; occurs 28th Sept. 1294. He must have died before 15th Oct. 1297. Heney de Bollbbo occurs in a deed of Bishop Quivil's on Srd Feb. 1283-4. Eoger de Ecus occurs in April, 1297. Thomas db Charleton occurs in 1302. William db Puntyngton, 28th Sept. 1303, and 4th AprU, 1306. Eobert Pitz-Gilde, about 1310. He died, we think, 16th Jan. 1325. Eoger de Charleton. He died in office in 1338. John Northwode succeeded 13th June that year. Otho Northwode, collated Slst Aug. 1349. Petbb db Ghilldisbouegh occurs 24th Dec. 1352. William Steele, who, in May, 1371, exchanged for the living of Sampford Courtenay, with Hugo Brydham, coUated 18th May that year. He resigned in May, 1385. John Lydfoed was coUated immediately. His wiU, made 12th March, 1406, was proved 13th Dec. 1407. William Hundbn, coUated 26th Jan. 1408 ; exchanged, in 1415, with William Baeton, who died in office nearly six years after. John Thifaen, M.D., coUated Srd Nov. 1421 ; on whose resig nation, Alan Kyekbton was collated, 16th July, 1433. John Bubneby, who resigned for the treasurership. Thomas Manning succeeded 4th June, 1453. Thomas Chippenham succeeded ; at whose death, Owen Loid was coUated 1 Sth Feb. 1478. William Wagott was archdeacon 24th June, and 7th Oct. 1479 : he witnessed the taxation of Broadwoodwidger, 7th Oct. 1479, and 2Srd June, 1480. Edmund Chateeton, coUated 26th March, 1491. Ealph Hethoote succeeded, and died early in 1 600. John Fulfoed, coUated 16th March that year ; on whose removal to the archdeaconry of CornwaU, 18th April, 1515, Eichaed Sydnoe succeeded, and died early in 1534. Geoege Caeewb, coUated 28th AprU, 1534; on whose resig nation, u 2 292 APPENDIX. William Vivyan, Bishop of Hippo, was coUated 10th Aug. 1549. William Fawell, who died early in 1657-8. John Pollaed, coUated 2nd March the same year. Thomas Kent, who died late in 1561. Eobbbt Lodghee, collated 21st Feb. 1561-2. Wood, _' Fasti,' vol. i. p. 93, incorrectly calls him chancellor. He died in June, 1583. Olivee Whiddon, instituted 5th June, 1568 ; died late in 1580, as his will was proved 10th Dec. that year. John Cole, coUated 24th Nov. 1580 ; died three years later; will proved 16th Sept. 1584. Lewis Swete, coUated 12th Feb. 1583-4. William Paekee ; on whose resignation for the archdeaconry ol Cornwall, Jaspbb Swift, D.D., succeeded from the archdeaconry of Corn wall, SOth Oct. 1616; died 20th, and buried 27th Jan. 1619-20, in cathedral. A license for his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of John Shapleye, Mayor of Totnes, was granted on the SOth AprU preceding his death. William Cotton, coUated 17th March, 1619-20. Eesigned. Edwaed Cotton, M.A., the bishop's son, collated 15th Feb. 1621-2; died in 1647. Feancis Fullwood, S.T.P., son of Canon Snell, instaUed Slst Aug. 1660 ; died 27th Aug. 1693. Geoege Snell, collated 18th May, 1694 ; on whose death, Feancis Attbbbuby was collated, 18th Jan. 1700-1 ; installed by proxy llth June following ; resigned on his promotion to the see of Eochester. He died in 1732. Nicholas Kendall, instituted on the presentation of Queen Anne, 28th July, 1713 ; died Srd, and buried 7th March, 1739^0, est. 84, in cathedral. Geoege Bakee (son-in-law of Bishop Stephen Weston, and father of Sir George Baker, Bart., M.D., late President of the CoUege of Physicians), collated 26th March, 1740 ; died 28th, and buried in the cathedral Slst Jan. 1772^ sBt. 86. Two entries in the Dean and Chapter's book fix his death on Sth Jan. 1772. Thomas Skynnee, LL.D., collated 10th March, 1772; on whose resignation for the precentorship, Ealph Baenes, M.A. (son of Henry Barnes, Esq., one of the Secondaries of the Court of Common Pleas, the well-known law reporter), was collated 16th Aug. 1775 ; died 20th May, 1820, set. 89. Eobeet Hubbell Froude, M.A., instituted SOth May, 1820 ; ob. 23rd Feb. 1859, set. 89. John Downall, M.A., succeeded 12th March, 1869. AECHDEACONS OF BAENSTAPLE. Alueed is the first we have met with. Ealph is said to have enjoyed this dignity in 1143. William db Auco, Archdeacon of Barnstaple, together with Babtholomew, Archdeacon of Exon, and Petee, Archdeacon of FASTI ECCLESI./B EXONIENSIS. 293 Cornwall, are witnesses to a deed of Bishop Eobert Warelwast's between 1155 and 1160. Eogbe witnessed Bishop Bartholomew's grant to the lepers of Exeter, as also a confirmation of Plympton Priory by Bishop John. Thomas occurs as witness to Bishop John's appropriation of Eglosoruck to the Dean and Chapter about 1186. Thomas we meet with as a witness to a deed of the fourth year of King John, 1203. Ealph db Wbeewell was presented SOth Sept. 1209. John occurs in 1213. Ealph witnesses a deed of Bishop Simon in 1219. Eobbbt, Archdeacon of Totton, Eogee, Archdeacon of Barum, and Waltee, Archdeacon of Cornwall, witness to a deed without date before the foundation ofthe deanery in 1225. Isaac died possessed of this dignity Sth Feb. 1227. Walteb de Pembboke, after holding it many years, accepted the archdeaconry of Totnes. He occurs Archdeacon of Barum in Aug. 1243. Heney db Bbatton, collated 21st Jan. 1263 ; resigned for the chanceUorship. Eichaed Blund. succeeded 25th May, 1264; resigned for Totnes. Godfrey Gifpaed, collated 6th Nov. 1265 ; resigned in May, 1267, to become Lord Chancellor, and the year following was made Bishop of Worcester. He was brother to Walter Giffard, Archbishop of York.John de Beadlegh succeeded immediately. He witnessed a deed on Thursday after 1st Aug. 1267. Thomas db Heetfoet, collated in Jan. 1271. Philip op Exon, collated 28th Aug. 1279. He is met with 27th Feb. 1281-2. Ealph Geemeyn succeeded, and held it until his promotion to the precentorship in 1308. William db Melton, collated 13th Oct. 1308. John Wele, collated SOth March, 1309. Babtholomew db Sancto Laueentio held it until his first confir mation in the deanery ; but the demur, occasioned by the appeal to the primate, here causes some confusion. William Fitz-Eogo held it for a short period. Walteb Giffabd, resigned for the chancellorship Srd Dec. 1314. Eichaed de Moecbstee was appointed 7th Feb. following ; died in 1318. Eichaed db Widesladb, collated 22nd Sept. 1318 ; resigned the year after. William la Zouche, collated 10th Dec. 1329 ; on whose resig nation, John db Nassington was appointed 17th Dec. 1330. John de Debby foUowed, 23rd Feb. 1355. Heney Whitepbld occurs 23rd Feb. 1384. Eobbbt Eugge occurs Sth Sept. 1399. 294 APPENDIX. Eichaed Aldeington, alias Colcomb, collated 17th Aug. 1400. John Oeum, S.T.P., collated 1st Nov. the same year. He is numbered by Wood among the writers of the IJniversity of Oxford, ' Hist, et Antiq. Univ. Oxon.' lib. ii. p. 62. On whose resignation, in 1429, John Wabyn was coUated 2nd Aug. that year. He died in 1442. Eichaed Helyee succeeded Srd Aug. the same year. Eesigned. Michael Teegoibb was appointed 16th June, 1445. Eesigned also. Eogee Keys, coUated 25th Jan. 1450. William Fulfoed, son of Henry Fulford, occurs 12th July, 1462 ; on whose death, John Stubbes was coUated 27th Oct. 1475 ; on whose resignation, Owen Loid succeeded 10th Dec. 1477 ; on whose resignation, Eobbbt Baefobth, or Baeofotb, was collated 18th Feb. 1478. He died Sth Oct. 1485. William Eltot succeeded, and was living in February, 1503. , John Veysey succeeded. He was made a canon by Bishop Arundell, Sth Aug. 1503, who had probably known him when Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry : he occurs Archdeacon of Chester in January 1504, was Eector of St. Mary's Church, Chester, and re signed for the precentorship. Eichard Norton followed, Srd Aug. 1508. John Yong, who resigned early in 1515, on a pension of SOL John Tyake, coUated 12th April, 1515 ; on whose death, Eichard Tollet succeeded 19th Jan. 1518 ; died 26th April, 1528. Thomas Beebwood, collated 26th AprU, 1528; died in 1644. John Pollaed, coUated 16th June, 1544; on whose deprivation, Heney Squibb, Fellow of Magdalene CoUege, was collated 20th April, 1554. He resigned in 1682. Eobeet Lawe, M.A., instituted 7th Jan. 1582-3, on the presenta tion of Hugo Osbourne, the Eegistrar of Barnstaple. He became treasurer. William Tokee, collated 24th April, 1585; on whose resigna tion for the deanery of Lichfield, William Helliae was coUated 27th Nov. 1605 ; died about the end of 1645. Jambs Smith, B.D., instaUed Slst Aug. 1660 ; resigned for the precentorship. Joshua T'uckek, who died in the summer of 1679. William Eeade of Exeter, succeeded 29th Aug. 1679; on whose death, Eobeet Bubscough was collated 24th Sept. 1703 ; on whose death, Thomas Lynfobd was collated 9th Sept. 1709 ; at his death, Lewis Stephens, D.D. (afterwards Archdeacon of Chester, and Eector of Drokinsford, in Hampshire ; the munificent founder of the exhibitions in Exeter Free Grammar-school, within the hospital of St. John Baptist),' was coUated 14th Aug. 1724. Eesigned. ' See Carlisle's ' Endowed Grammar Schools,' vol. i. p. 304, and Chalmers'.s 'Gen. Biograph. Diet.,' sitb voce Trimnell, Bishop of Winchester, vol. xxx. p. 3.S, edit. London, 1816. Stephens's will is dat«d 14th Nov. 1745. FASTI ECCLESIA EXONIENSIS. 295 JoHN_ Grant, collated 28th Oct. 1731 ; on whose death (he was buried m the cathedral, 25th Feb. 1744-5), William Hole, B.D., was coUated 16th March, 1744-5 ; died 26th Oot. 1791, «t. 82.2 Eogbe Massey, M.A.,' coUated Srd Nov. 1791 ; on whose death, 22nd Feb. 1798, John Andeew, M. A., Eector of Powderham (son of John Andrew, M.D., by his wife IsabeUa, daughter of Sir WiUiam Courtenay, of Powderham, Bart., and sister of the first Viscount Courtenay), was coUated 14th March, 1798 ; died Srd July, 1799, set. 49. Pebbgeine Ilbbet, M.a. (gi-andson of Bridget, another daughter of the same Sir William Courtenay, by her husband, William libert, Esq.), coUated 25th July, 1799 ; died 28th June, 1805. Jonathan Pabkee Fishee, B.D., now D.D., collated 16th Aug. 1805, and installed the next day ; resigned for the subdeanery. Thomas Johnes, M.A., coUated Srd and instaUed 7th Nov. 1807 ; advanced to the chancellorship in 1816. John Bull, D.D., collated 6th May, 1826, on his resignation of the Archdeaconry of Cornwall. Geobgb Baenes, D.D., son of Ealph Barnes, Archdeacon of Totnes, collated 18th March, 1820 ; died at Sovrton, 29th June, and buried there, 7th July, 1847, aged 64. John Babtholomew, A.M., coUated Srd Aug. 1847. SUBDEANS. William db Bisiman, collated the first subdean by the founder. Bishop Quivil, 9th July, 1284. "We meet with him 20th July, 1284. John db Upha ven. Bishop Stapeldon confirmed to him the appro priation of Eglosheyl, 26th July, ISIS, who died 26th AprU, 1318. Eichaed Beaylegh,* collated 11 th May that year. Eichaed de Kyekeby, appointed Ist June, 1336. Heney Pike, promoted Sth Nov., 1350. [William db Pol- MOENA, S.T.B., had been appointed in commendam 9th June, 1349. He was in office 29th Dec 1355.] John Pbsemee ; on whose resignation, Thomas Deapee succeeded. He exchanged 1 6th May, 1376, for Hethlegh Eectory, in Hants, with John Podesdon ; on whose death, Thomas Noell was collated 9th Oct. 1399 ; on whose death, Thomas Estbeoke was coUated 13th Sept. 1417. He made his will 10th Aug. 1441. It was proved 23rd November following. John Eawe succeeded 28th Aug. 1441. His will is dated Sth Sept. 1462, and proved 4th Dec 1463. Waltee Wyndbfobd, or Windesoeb, occurs in 1480 and 1482. William Sumasteb died in office in 1 504. John Tyake was collated 22nd January following ; resigned for the archdeaconry of Barnstaple. 2 See thc 'Gentleman's Magazine' ofthe I ^ RectorofLawhittonandCheritonBishop. month of March, 1817, pp. 228 et seq. \ * He was Dean in the autumn of 13,35, 296 APPENDIX, Eichaed Tollbtt, collated ISth May, 1515 ; resigned, within three years, for the same archdeaconry. Eobbbt Weston, collated 28th AprU, 1518; on whose death, towards the end of Sept. 1539, Nicholas Weston, nephew to the preceding sub-dean, succeeded 6th Oct. 1539 ; on whose death, John Blaxton was collated 7th March, 1546-7; on whose re signation for the treasurership, Thomas Nuttcombe was coUated ISth April, 1558; on whose deprivation, Eichaed Gaumon was presented to the sub-deanery in January, 1560 (Eymer's 'Foedera,' vol. xv, p. 563). Cheistophee Bodlegh succeeded 12th March, 1666. Feancis Godwyn, M.A. (the celebrated historian, and biographer of the bishops of England, son of Thomas, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, and son-in-law of Bishop John Woolton), collated llth June, 1587; he had been appointed canon 14th of the preceding July; on whose promotion to the see of Llandaff (whence he was finaUy translated to that of Hereford, and died 29th AprU, 1633) he resigned his canonry, which was granted on 9th Feb. 1602, to Edw. Tuke, and the sub-deanery was granted on 18th Feb. to John Sprott. John Spbott was collated 18th Feb. 1602-3 ; on whose death, Hugo Cholmblby, S.T.B., was coUated 29th March, 1632;= died ISth, and buried 17th Sept. 1641. Samuel Hall, M.A., fourth son of Bishop HaU, admitted 22nd Sept. 1641 ; on whose death 1674, aged 83, Nicholas Hall was collated 17t5i March, 1674-5 ; resigned for the treasurership. Bebnaed Galaed, collated 15th Nov. 1676 ; on whose death, Edwabd Caey, the dean's son, was collated 1st Dec. 1693; who died soon after his promotion. Lancelot Blackburne, collated 9th Jan. 1694-6 ; resigned in 1702. Lewis Burnett succeeded Sth April that year. He had been Eector of Faringdon, where he was buried, for 26 j'ears ; on his death, Lancelot Blaokbubne was collated 27th July, 1704; resigned for the deanery. Edwabd Teelawny, collated Srd Nov. 1706; resigned for the deanery. Petbb Foulkes, D.D., collated 25th June, 1723 ; resigned for the chancellorship. John Gilbert, collated 4th June, 1724; resigned for the deanery. John Fubsman, M.A., coUated Srd Jan. 1726-7 ; resigned for the chancellorship. Charles Hawtbby, M.A., collated 2nd Oct. 1731 ; died Srd, buried Sth May, 1770, aetatis 84, in the cathedral. Philip Babton, S.T.B., collated 29th May, 1770; died 24th June, 1796, set. 78. * Charles I., on 15th Jan. 1632, conferred ou him the canonry in this cathedral holden by Lawrence, S. T. P., but which had lapsed at this tirae to the Crown " per pravitatem simonie." — Rymer's 'Foedera,' vol. xix. p. 441. VESTMENTS, &o. 297 John Sturges, D.D., chancellor of the diocese of Winchester, col lated 20th Oct. 1796 ; died on 2nd Oct. 1807. Jonathan Parkeb Fishes, D.D., (brother of the present Bishop of Salisbury,) from the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, installed 1 7th Oct. 1807 ; ob. Eiohaed Stephens, collated 13th Oot. 1840, on the death of Fisher, ob. Sth April, 1858, when the emoluments of the office lapsed to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, but the bishop on 5th July, 1860, collated to the title Dr. John Walter Trower, Bishop of Glasgow. No. II. De Pallis, Oapis, Casulis, Tunicdlis, et aUis Ecclesiasticis Oenamentis, a Eegibus, Episcopis, Canonicis, et aliis Ecclesie Exoniensi collatis.' Primo, de dono Leurici Episcopi : — Casula, tunicula, dalmatica, de samitta* diversi coloris, cum griffonibus et cambiioa eburnea. De dono venerabilis Simonis, Exoniensis Episcopi : — unum par vesti- mentorum plenarie de samitta alba, cujus alba est de serioo. Item, aliud par de rubea samitta cum avibus duo capita habentibus. Item, tercium de rubea samitta sine casula. Item, tunica et dalmatica, crocei coloris. Stola et PhanuUa ' de pure aurifragro.* Item, stola et phanuUa, brodata de rubea samitta, et una stola de serioo bene operata. Item, unum pomum de cupro deauratum, et duo candelabra cum pedibus de argento. Item, iij baouli oooperti cum argento, cum tribus vexillis. Item, xv cape, quarum una est de baudekyn' de rubea samitta, iiij"' et iiij" crocei coloris. Due sunt" Indi coloris et una albi coloris de samitta. Item, iij cape ad usum et plenarie ad usum iiij" infancium. Item, i palla cum papejays ' et unum culoi- tum cum leonibus, una capa viridis. De dono Henrici (Marshal) Episcopi : — i palla Indi coloris cum leopardibus, et una crocei coloris bordata inferius et superius, et unum albi coloris, una casula de rubea samitta brodata super scapulas alba, amiota dalmatica et tunica ad processionem deputate, stola et phannum. Item, iij cape de rubea samitta. Item, i oam- buoea de pondere c s. cum baculo. Item, ij thuribula de argento, et tercium parvum similiter de argento. [Istud parvum habemus nos Johannes Episcopus, quod feci deau- rari pro successoribus nostris.] De dono Episcopi Bartholomei: — Unum nobile palliumcum parvis papejays. Una capa de diapra diversi coloris cum rotulis, una capa de nobili samitta brodata cum panels gemmis stellis et quibusdam avibus. Item, una de alba diapra cum noviluniis. Item, dalmatica ' Ex ' Manuscripto de Consuetudinibus Ecclesie Exon,' penes Decanum et Capitulum Exon., fo. 114. 2 Satin. ^ PhanuUa, phanus, fano, a maniple. ¦i Orfray, or gold brocade. 5 Gold tissue, with silk embroideiy. 6 Blue, from Indigo dye. 7 Popinjays. 298 APPENDIX. et tunica de diapra, quarum una est cum besantis et altera cum leopardibus parvis et conjunctis ad processionem duplici festo depu tate et sandalia ejusdem coloris. Item, casula stola et phano Indi coloris cum novUuniis et steUis. Item, stola et phano cum vinea aurea et cuin ymaginibus in inferiori parte de auro. Item, ij' albe Indi coloris cum apparatibus brodatis, quarum una est cum sagit- tariis, alia cum luna et stellis, et una amicta ejusdem coloris. Item, una casula Indi coloris cum parvis gemmis sive margaritis. De dono Willielmi Brewere, Episcopi : — ij cape brodate Indi coloris cum nobbis de argento. Una capa de viridi samitta et veteri. Item, iij culcitra, quorum unum est bordatum de viridi et unum crocei coloris, tercium rubei coloris. Unum tabemaculum ebumeum cum ymaginibus beate Marie et multa. Item, ij palle cum equitibus aves poriantibus. Item, due palle de serico diversi coloris. Item, I longa palla de burel. Item, i parva paUa de rubea diapra, que solet dependi juxta Hostium cum panno qui est cum draoonibus. Item, palla rubea cum quibusdam literis et elephantis et quadam avi in superiori parte. Item, veltmi quadragesimale pulcrum et nobile. Stamna cum scapularibus et capucium rubeimi cum barba rubea. Item, una casula crocei coloris cum dalmatica et tunicula bene Ugata aurifragio cum ymaginibus de auro. iij libri rubeo coreo cooperti. Item, casula cum dalmatica et tunicula de alba diapra, cum alba de serico, stola et phano Indi coloris cum aquUis et aliis animalibus deamutis et amicta ejusdem coloris. Item, unum tabemaculum cum nobili pictura de coreo. Item, casula dalmatica et tunicula Indi coloris ligate aurifragio. Item, alba cum apparatu de floribus et leonibus deauratis. Item, tunicula Indi coloris cum bisantis et parvis floribus deauratus. Item, vij cervicalia. Una cambuca argentea bene omata auro et gemmis, quam habet Epis copus Walterus. Due mitre de alba samitta egregie ornate auro et gemmis et oirotece cum gemmis. Duo brachia argento cooperta. Unum cristaUum cum apparatu de argento, plenum reliquiis. Unum cum quibusdam capillis Sancti Petri. Unum cristaUum cum reliquia Sancti Demetrii-Alabastrum. Unum cristaUum cum capillis Domini nostri Jesu Christi. Unum cristaUum cum reUquia Sancti Stephani. Unum cristaUum cum oleo Sancte Katerine. Duo comua de ebore. De dono Episcopi Ricardi (Blondy) : — Due palle de baudekyno ' una rubea et una stragulata.' Una crocei coloris cum avibus. Una cum campo rubeo et parvis avibus. Una crocei coloris cum avicuUs. Unum tapetum ad cooperiendum tumbam suam. Unum barudum * pulerum et magnum cervical coopertum coreo cum floribus. Una mitra, sandalia virida cum aquilis deauratis et cirotecis. De dono Episcopi Walteri (Bronescombe) Primi : — Due palle nove de baudekyn que ponuntur circa majus altare in duplicibus festis et una in medio altare cum majestatibus. Item, una cum leonibus de baudekyn et una diversi coloris. De dono Decani Serlonis : — Una magna culcitra rubea, una capa purpurea. De dono Johannis Episcopi : — Una capa samitta cum leonibus deauratis. ' Tapestry, see Pioverbs, c. xxxi. v. 22. 2 j^ y^j.^ VESTMENTS, &c. 299 De dono Eogeri Decani :~Una culcitra bordata cum vinea et unum vetus, una capa baudekyn. De dono Johannis Eof, Archidiaconi Cornubie :— Una nigra palla cum aquilis. Una fronteUa rubea ante altare Sancte Crucis, parvi preen. Una capa de alba samitta cum pavonibus. Duo vexiUa cum Petro et Paulo. Item, due pelves majores de argento. De dono Decani WiUielmi Stanwey:— Una palla crocei coloris cum floribus. De dono Eogeri de Toriz, Archidiaconi Exon :— Una capa baudele viridis cum avibus comutis et duo capita habentibus. De dono Bartholomei Archidiacom. Due majores culcitre Alex andri. Una culcitra rubei coloris et crocei. Una longa palla stra gulata et vetus. Una capa bordata purpurei coloris. Unum par vestimentorum plenum, sacerdotum de alba diapra, casula, dalmatica, tunicula purpurei coloris. Una capa de palla ad usum infancium cum porphesiis et leonibus deauratis. Dedono Archidiaconi Thome le Boteler : — Una calcitra rubei et crocei coloris. Una cambuca eburnea, mitra de albra diapra omata aurifragio et cirotece ad usum Episcopi Innocencium. Una capa de baudekyn cum quibusdam avibus. ' De dono Eogeri Cornubie : — iij culcitre Alexandri. De dono Johannis Necton : — ij culcitre Alexandri, minoris precii. De dono Daniel : — Una paUa cum albis columbis, una longa Indi coloris. Una capa de baudekyn cum cucuUis. Item, due cape de paUa cum equis et avibus. Unum vexillum Indi coloris cum avibus. De dono Eustachii: — i palla de baudekyn veteri. Una palla rubea et stragulata. Una capa crocei coloris cum rotulis et majestate. Due palle invente quondam cum reliquiis bordate cum leonibus. De dono Magistri Walteri Penbrok, Archidiaconi : — Una culcitra bordata Indi coloris, una capa rubea cum linura viridi, sandalis, et una de diapre. Unii par vestimentorum plenum ad usum diaconi et subdiaconi de alba samitta et amictu cum angelorum ymaginibus et floribus deauratis. Unum cervical coopertum de filo albo. Unum parvum scrinium ebumeum. De dono Domini primi Johannis (Precentoris) Exon : — Una capa baudekyn cum parvis aquilis ii capita habentibus. De dono Willielmi de Molendinis, Thesaurarii Exon : — Una palla albi coloris cum cervis et avibus. Una capa de baudekyn rubea. Unus calyx deauratus. De dono Martini Prodom : — Una longa palla et stricta. Una capa purpurei coloris cum floribus. De dono Henrici Eegis Anglie [tercii] : — Una palla de novo baudek, et una de veteri baudek, duorum colorum. De dono Eicardi Eegis Almannie : — Una longa palla stragulata. Una capa de baudek nigra, cum aquilis deauratis. De dono Walteri de Topsham, Vicarii Exon : — Una palla crocei coloris. De dono Eeginaldi Mohuni : — Unum baudek. De dono Jacke de Sully : — Unum culcitrum vetus cum campo viridi. 300 APPENDIX. De dono quondam uxoris Walteri de Baton : — i palla stragulata. De dono quorumdam Comitum : — ij palle crocei coloris. Item, xxiiij paUe veteres, de quorum dono nescitur. De dono Eegine Almannie, uxoris Eicardi Eegis Almannie : — Una palla. De dono Walteri filii Petri Thesaurarii : — Una capa et una casula de viridi. De dono Gulielmi de Bisiman quondam Archidiaconi Cornubie : — Una capa de baudek viridi cum magnis avibus et parvis leonibus. De dono Magistri Johannis de Sancto Gorano : — Una capa de rubea baudek cum avibus nigra capita habentibus. De dono Willielmi Wolaneston : — Una capa de rubea samitta. De dono Anselmi, Thesaurarii Exon : — Una capa baudek viridis et idem levavit aulam Thesaurarii. De dono Magistri N. de Plympton : — Una capa baudek cum milvis et parvis draconibus. De dono Henrici de Cicestre : — Una capa baudek cum soutis. Unum missale. Una cuppa deaurata pendens ultra majus altare cum corpore Dominico. Ista cuppa furata fuit et loco suo dedit Epis copus Johannes de Grandissono aliam. De dono Thome de Herford : — Una capa bordata cum Apostolis et leonibus deauratis. De dono Magistri Eoberti de Tyfibrd : — Una capa purpurea plana bordata cum aurifragio. De dono WUlielmi de Bisiman, senioris : — Una capa de rubea samitta cum morsu. De dono Magistri WUlielmi de Byketon. — Una capa de rubea samitta cum angelis, militibus equitantibus et armatis equitantibus deauratis. De dono Archidiaconi Henrici : — Una capa bordata de rubea samitta cum angelis thurificantibus deauratis. De dono Willielmi Ealegh : — Una capa de rubea samitta cum bono aurifragio et pulcro. De dono Eoberti de Dovere : — Una capa de viridi samitta cum bono aurifragio. De emptione Thome le Botiler : — Due cape de rubea samitta cum largo aurifragio et bono. De dono Willielmi Kemum: — Una capa de rubea samitta auri fragio bordata. De dono Eoberti Courtenay, Canonici : — Due cape de alba diapra cum morsu et parvis gemmis. De dono WUlielmi Burk : — Una capa de baudekyn cum aquiUs, duo capita habentibus. De dono Magistri Ade de Sancta Brigida : — Una capa de rubea samitta. De dono Henrici de Warwyk : — Una capa de mbea samitta et veteri, ij pelves de argento, et iiij'" fiola de argento. De dono Willielmi de Sweyndon : — Duo cape de alba diapra cum floribus circa bordarium. De dono Hugonis de Wylton : — Una capa de alba diapra cmn punctis deauratis. De dono Thome Maudit ; — i capa purpurea vetus. BOOKS, &c. 301 De dono Eogeri de Lymsy : — Una capa de rubea samitta et veteri. De dono Magistri Ysaac : — Una capa de mbea samitta et veteri. De dono WiUielmi Brewere, senioris : — Una cuppa de argento et deaurata, et calix de auro. Summa caparum in universe lxix. Quarum xxi sunt ebdomedarie. De dono WUlielmi de Cheny, MUitis : — Una paUa crocei coloris cum leonibus comua habentibus. De dono Magistri Johannis de Esse, Archidiaconi Cornubie : — ij cape de baudek, bone et honeste. Summa Caparum Anno Domini MCCLXXvij, die Sancte Trinitatis ejusdem anni, lxxiv. Et summa pallarum anno ot die supradictis lxxxxiv. De dono Magistri Jacobi de BerMay, Episcopi, postea facto nonas Maii, Anno Domino MUlesimo ccc™°xxvij°° ;. — Unum par vestimen torum cum casula, est purpurei coloris et interius de viridi syndone lineata, et est ipsa casula stola cum phano et paruris ad albam egregie cum perUs ornata — amictus vero predictorum vestimentorum est simUiter egregie ornatus cum grossioribus perils quam cetera supradicta. Memorandum quod Magister Johannes, filius Eoberti, recepit de Thesaurario aurifragium ad ligandam capam suam de baudek pro xxx solidis, de quibus cmn debuit aliud aurifragium ad casulam tunicas et dalmaticas ordinandum. Ista alienacio mutacio et ordi- nacio facta fuit Anno Domini MUlesimo ccLXviij"" in festo Sancte Margarete, in presencia Magistri Eogeri de Thoriz, Archidiaconi Exonie, Eicardi le Blundy, Archidiaconi Totton, Thome Canonici, Johannis de Exon, J oharmis Nobyl, Johannis Precentoris. De dono Johannis de Grandissono Episcopi : — Libri chori omnes. Vestimenta omnis coloris. Ornamenta, Jocalia auri et argenti et alia, quorum non est pre multitudine numerus hie vel alibi plene scriptus, quia in vita sua et postea sunt super numerum multiplicata. Deus seit qui omnia novit. No. m. Inventaeium Librorum, Vestimentorum et aliorum Ornamentorum bonorum Ecclesie Beati Pbtei Exoniensis, factum per discretum virum Dominum EiCAKDUM DE Bbailegh, Subdecanum Ecclesie predicte, et liberatum Domino Thome de Hinton, ejusdem Ecclesie Thesaurario, die Mercurii proxima ante festum Nativitatis beate Marie Virginis, Anno Domini M.ooc.xxvij, et per dictum Thesaurarium omnia predicta liberata fuerunt. Domino Willelmo Vialde, Subthesaurario dicte Ecclesie, die Mercurii memorato. LiBBi Augustini. Super Psalterium, tria volumina que sic incipiunt : £. s. d. "AiireUi Augustini," pretii omnium .. .. .. ¦• 0 3 0 De consensu Evangelistamm, qui sic incipit: "Per eosdem annos " 040 302 APPENDIX. £. s. d. Super evangelium Johannis : " In nomine Domini " .. 0 IS 4 Contra Faustum : " Faustus quidam " 013 0 Super Epistola S. 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Liber de Corpore et Sanguine Domini, "Karissimo suo," 2s. Johannis de Cornubia, " In concUio Turonensi," 2s. Liber Sapientie Salamonis glosatus, sine asseribus, 2s. Epistole Jacobi glosate, 2s. Parvus Liber de Sacris dedicationibus, 12s. r- Liber Marciani, 12c?. Sermones Bernardi Abbatis, " Hodie fratres," Ss. BOOKS, &c. 309 Breves glose super Psalterium et Apocalipsim glosatam, sit in quatemis, " Propheta," 12d. Penetentiale vetus et alia plura, cum Anglico in fine, " In prin cipio," 12c?. Sermones in Festivitatibus Sanctorum, " Propiciante Divinitate," 2s. ¦^ Historia Britonum, "A Principio mundi," 6c?. Sermones diversorum Doctomm super Epistolis et Evangeliis, ab Adventu Domini usque Pascha, " Fratres scientes," dimidium marce. Liber Ivonis de Gestis Eegum, 2s. Liber Sedulii, " Domino meo sancto," 12c?. Parabole Salamonis, 6c?. Liber Prosperi, 6c?. Consimilis Liber Prosperi, sine asseribus, 2c?. Vetus Liber Sermonum, sine asseribus, 6c?. Sexdecim Libri Manuales Benedictionales et Capitulares, qui non appreciantur, qui non sunt de usu. Multi alii libri vetustate consumpti Gallice, Anglice, et Latine scripti, qui non appreciantur, que nullius valoris reputantur. LiBEi provenientes tempore Thome Thesaurarii, per personas sub scriptas : — Liber Concordanciarum, ex dono Magistri Willielmi Eoges, 4 marce. Alquinus super Evangelis in duobus voluminibus, de dono Magistri Thome de Lechelade, precii 4 marcarum. Distinctiones Fratris Mauricii, de dono Eicardi Germeyn, " Ab- jecto," 20s. Distinctiones Fratris Nicholai seu Goroni, de dono ejusdem, dimidium marce. Vetus Biblia de gracili litera, de dono ejusdem, 20s. Liber Sententiarum, de dono ejusdem, 2 marcarum. Psalterium glosatum, de dono ejusdem, I marca. Sermones Guydonis, sine asseribus, de dono ejusdem, 1 marca. Manipulus Florum, sine asseribus, dimidu marce, ex dono ejusdem. Unum Miftsale bonum, de dono Johannis Wele, 5 marcaram. Quod est ad altare Sancti Johannis. Unum Portiforium magnum in duobus voluminibus, 100s. Quod est in choro in catena ad deserviendum populo. Unum Psalterium bonum, de dono ejusdem, in catena cum porti- forio predicto, 1 marca. Liber Gramaticalis qui dicitur Catholicon, de dono Domini Walteri de Stapeldon Episcopi, 100s. Cronica Westmonasterii de Gestis Anglorum, " Tempora summa," de dono Walteri de Stapeldon Episcopi, 2 marce. Cronica Martini in duobus quatemis, "Quam scire," de dono Eoberti de Otery, 4s. . . De dono Domini Eicardi de Braylegh, pro anima sua et Donuni Eoberti de Aysperton, unus liber continens Visitacionem Infirmo- ram et Officium de Defunctis, et incipit " Ordo brevis.'] Unum Processionale, pro anima dicti Domini Eoberti. 310 APPENDIX. De dono Domini Johannis Mounteyn, unus liber qui vocatur " Brito." Unum Portiphorium bonum, de dono Bartholomei Decani, 6 marcarum. Unum Manuale bonum, de dono Eicardi Brayleghe Decani, 20s. CALICBS CUM CETERIS VASIS AEGENTEIS. Duo calices de auro, quorum unus de auro puriori ponderis 79s. 4c?. et alius 49s. 6c?. Decem calices deaurati, quorum unus magnus emalatus, ponderis 67s. 6c?., et unus cum perulis in pede, ponderis 25s. 10c?., et tercius cum pomello emalato, ponderis 27s. ; quartus magnus vetus, ponderis 37s. 5c?. ; quintus magnus cum pede quilerato, ponderis 34s. ; sextus cum pede dentate et parvo agno in cooperculo, ponderis kOs. parte ; Septimus cum rotundo pomello piano, ponderis 26s. lc?. ; octavus cum pede planis et stella in cooperculo, ponderis 1 9s. 6c?. ; nonus cum pede et cooperculo planis, ponderis 21s. 4c?. ; decimus crusatus in pede et cooperculo, ponderis 20s. 6c?. Unus calix albus non deauratjus, ponderis 17s. 6c?. Duo capita argenti deaurati, pro baoulis pastoralibus, quorum unum ponderis 70s. et aUud 30s. 6d. Unus baculus pastoralis ebumeus argento, ligatus per loca due. Due mitre albe debUes. Tercia indu coloris cum bonis perulis panels et aliis lapidibus. Una de rubreo samicto, et alia mitra de samicto crocei coloris. 12 pectines ebumei, unde septem debUes. 1 phiola argenti magna pro oleo, cum literis [b.c. 1] in circum- ferencia, sine cooperculo, ponderis 36s. 10c?, 2 phiole, argenti deaurate cum triffura exterius et cooperculis, ponderis 18s. 4c?. Unum novum par phiolarum bene amelatarum, ponderis 17s. ; de dono Johannis de Wewlingworth, aurifabri. 1 philiola argenti sine cooperculo, ponderis 6s. 2c?. Par pelvium argenti, de dono Johannis Eof, ponderis 53s. 1 pelvis argenti cum triffura per loca deaurata cum 4 ymagi nibus, ponderis 39s. 2c?. 1 par pelvium argenti cum ymaginibus episcoporum fundatorum, de dono Magistri Henrici de Warwik, ponderis 66s. 8c?. ; excambi- atum par executores Episcopi Thome pro imo pari, ponderis 30s. Una pelvis argenti, vetus et fracta, de dono Theobaldi, Archie- piscopi Cantuariensis, ponderis 17s., lilDerata Episcopo Johanni. 2 navicule argenti cum 2 coclearibus argenti, ponderis 37s. 6c?. 6 thuribula argenti cum catenis argenteis, quorum 4 deaurata exterius cum triffura subtili, unde unum ponderis 10 marcis aliud 7 marcis, tercium 73s., quartum 46s., et duo per loca debUiter deaurata, ponderis 4?. 18s. ; item duo nova cum catenis exterius deauratis. Du(3 candelabra argentea fracta et debilia cum pedibus, ponderis cum ligno reperto interius 77.'.. CHALICES, &c. 311 Duo candelebra argenti nova, per loca deaurata, de dono Epis copi Thome, ponderis 6Z. lis. 8c?. 2 cuppe argenti, quarum una cum catena et triffura exterius deaurata ponderis 5/. 6s. Sc?. et alia alba in medio deaurata pon deris 61s. 8c?. Unum vas argenti ad aquam benedictam cum duobus aspersoriis argenti, per loca deauratum, de dono Episcopi Thome, ponderis bl. Is., tria brachia ligni exterius argenti et lapidibus omata. 1 braohium ligneum cupro ornatum. Tres cruces nove deaurate et emalate, quarum una est cum tabula argenti ultra magnum altare. Una crux ligni argento ornata et deaurata cum triffuris, et 4 magnis berillis plena reliquiis. Una crux ligni argento omata et deaurata cum diversis lapidibus et ymaginibus eburneis. Tres parve cruces debUes et fraote ornate argento et cupro, quarum ymago unius est eburnea. Quatuor comua eburni argento falleratica, quorum duo cum reliquiis. Quatuor pixides eburni cum reliquiis. Quatuor scriniola eburni cum reliquiis, quorum duo fracto. Unum scriniolum fractum ligneum. 6 scriniole ligni, unde quedam cum reliquiis. Una parva coffra depicta : in qua sunt 9 phiole cristalline argento ornate cum reliquiis, et 16 filatoria argenti omata cum reliquiis, et unum filatorium argenti cum osse beati Brannoci, de dono Bartholomei Decani ; et calix beati Dtmstani cum reliquiis, et una manus argenti cum junctura (a joint) Sancti Wolstani et Alabastrum beate Marie Magdalene, cum pede argenti. Due cruces parve de cupro et vitro ornate, modici valoris. Unum parvum scriniolum de ebano nigro, cum multis lapidibus cristalli. Due parve pixides de ebore, quarum una argento debUiter omata continet diversos lapides. Tria ova griffonum, quorum duo fracta. Filatorium argento ornatum cum ligno Dominico, cui est parva crux argenti appensa. Una parva bursa miri operis et diversi coloris, cum diversis reliquiis falleratis argento. Una parva crux auri cum ligno Dominico et longa catena argenti deaurata, parva pixis argenti, ponderis 2s. 7 textus cum asseribus argenti omati, unde unus bene ornatus argento et lapidibus emalatus, unde 1 fuerat condonatus custodibus per Episcopum et Capitulum. 3 parva scriniola argenti cum reliquiis. Unum majus scriniolum argenti deauratum cum diversis lapidi bus et pemlis preciosis, de dono Episcopi Walteri de Stapeldon. Unum parvum per loca deauratum, de dono Johannis Wele. Caput beate Margarete, falleraticum per donum Thome de Henton, cum argento bene deaurato. Duo chaufepoyns de cupro deaurato. Imago beate Virginis eburni in tabernaculo eburneo Iraota. 312 APPENDIX. VESTIMENTA. Tria filatoria cum capitibus auri, imde unum longum et largum et duo ; unum filatorium de serico bonrun stragulatum cum serico diversi coloris ; duo filatoria de serico plana et alba sciUcet stragu lata in capite cum auro ; sex paria de serico debilia diverse secte ; tria filatoria linea, unde unum pro desco. , Decem albe festivales, cum paruris brondatis, stolis manipuUs, et amictis de secta diversa, quarum una alba de serico cum suo amicto cujus paruera non est de secta, unde una stola rubra debUis. 2 albe de serico cum paruera, una stola et manipulo sine amictis, una alba cum parura, stola et manipulo et amicto de peruUs, de dono Jacobi de Berk;elegh. 3 albe cum paruris tantum et amictis. 4 paria vestimentorum plenaria, cum casulis, tunicis, dalmaticis et toto alio apparatu ; quorum unum album diaspre, secundum croceum, tertium rubrum, quartum viride. ' Quatuor albe, cum nigris perulis, stoUs, manipulis et amictis. 2 casule, quarum una nigri coloris et aUa crocei coloris. Una casula, tunica, dalmatica, et duo scapularia, de samito nigro. Una casula de samicto rubeo, non linita (lined). Una casula de bourde de Elisandre diversi coloris, cum alba, stola et amicto et manipulo, parvi valoris, pro turre Sancti Johannis. Una casula, tunica et dalmatica de rubro velveto, de dono Magistri Willielmi de Kilkenny. Una casula, tunica et dalmatica, fiicte de piano de Desaintes, ex assignatione executorum Domini Walteri de Stapeldon Episcopi. Una alba 'cum toto apparatu, de eadem secta. Una alba cum amicto, de eadem secta. Una alba cum toto apparatii cimi perulis rubei samicti cum leopardis. Una alba cum toto apparatu, de armis regum Francie et Anglie, de dono Domini Walteri de Stapeldon. Una alba cum amicto et peraia rubei. Una casula varii coloris, cum alba, amicto, stola et manipulo, pro cruce ; due albe, cum paruris amictis, stolis, et manipulis, et duobus filatoriis. Tres albe veteres cum paruris et amictis tantum. Una alba, cum paruris consuetis stola, manipulo et phano, de dono Walteri de Lychelade. Una alba festivalis cum paruris consuetis cum serico amicto de secta, eadem stola et manipulo sericis alterius secte. Una alba cum paruris frettatis amicto stola, et manipulo ejusdem secte. Una alba, cum amicto, stola et manipulo, cmn paruris coloris Indei nigri lineatis, pulverizatis lunis et stellis. Una alba cum amicto, stola et manipulo, cimi pararis veteribus lineatis. Una alba debUis tantum. VESTMENTS. 313 Una alba cum amicto tantum cum rubeis pararis brondatis. Unum par vestimentorum, videlicet capa, casula, tunica, dalmatica, cimi una alba et uno pari parura, quatuor amictis, una stola et uno manipulo de rubeo samicto cum fretta et clavibus brondatis auro, de dono Walteri de Stapeldon Episcopi. Una capa, casula, tunica, dalmatica, alba, cum amicto stola, et manipulo cum parura, que omnia sunt viridis coloris diverse tamen secte, de dono Eicardi de Braylegh. Una casula de purpure cum serico aurifragio de parulis, de dono Domini Jacobi de Berkeley. Tres albe cum amictis, stolis et manipulis, cum perula Indei coloris. Una casula de samicto, que assignatur altari Bracton, Indei coloris una alba cum amicto, stola et manipulo cum paruris diversi coloris, pro altari beati Thome. Due albe debUes oimi duobus amictis, et uno manipulo cum parura de secta. Una casula de armis AngUe et Francie frettata. Una casula albi coloris cum aurifragio de CasteUis, cum tunica et dalmatica et capa de albo serico, cum alba, stola, amicto et mani pulo, cum paruris auro textis. Una casula, tunica, dalmatica de panno de Antioche cum volu- cribus, et una capa cum pavonibus et griffonibus, et uno amicto parurato ejusdem secte. Una alba cum amicto, stola et manipulo, cum paruris brondatis super panno Indei coloris cimi scutis. Una capa, casula, tunica, dalmatica de nigro samicto ; cum una alba stola, amicto et manipulo, cum paruris brondatis cum ymaginibus ; et una mitra de nigro samicto. Una alba cum amicto, stola et manipulo, consutis de diversis armis. Una parura pro amicto, per se brondata cum auro et argento de diversis armis. Empta ab executoribus Episcopi Walteri Star peldon. Una casula tunica dahnatica de albo panno sencto, de emptione Wynton. . , . Una casula de novo panno de Venise, cum bestus, crocei colons. 11 amicti festionales, unde 1 cum parara viridi brondata cum ymaginibus. 7 amicti feriales. . ,.;,,.. 13 stole, unde 3 bone et ceteri debiles ; 12 mampuli debiles. Velum quadragesimale preciosum. 5 tuaUe cum pararis, quarum 4 debiles et fracte. Una tualla pro magno altari, cum volucribus de serico. Unatuallade caumbre serico stragulata. 4 tuaUe sine paruris, quaram 2 debile, et omnes iste predicte pro magno altari. 3 tualle curte, consumuntur cum paruris. 6 tualle curte, quarum 2 bone. , ^. , ^, „„...„^,-„ 6 custodUs pro magno altari, unde 2 de Smdone alba cum pararis de serico, et 2 de dono Eicardi de Braylegh. 314 APPENDIX. Una tualla nova de Eegis, pro magno altari. 3 tuaUe nove, pro magno altari de panno de Eains. Una tuaUa curta stragulata in extremitatibus. Alia tualla pro patena, cum capitibus serico contextis. 5 manutergia, quorum 2 debilia. Unum manutergium de Eylisham. Unum repositorium ligneum pro coi^poralibus, coopertum cum sac cis de serico. Aliud repositorium, brondatum cum Crucifixo et Coronaoione. Unum repositorium, brondatum cum Crucifixo et Majestate. Unum repositorium, consutum cum armis de auro et serico. 2 repositoria communia, et omnia ista predicta pro magno altari. 5 repositoria debilia, pro minoribus altaribus, unde 2 consu muntur. 5 vexiUa de rubea Sindone, cum ymaginibus, quoram 2 parva. 7 zone de serioo, unde 4 debiles. 8 baldekine, quoram 4 bone et 4 communia. Unus pannus vetus de Venise convertitur in usus puerorum. 6 panni de serico et canabo, unde duo albi de dono Domini Thome de Henton, et quoram unus cum parvis circulis rotundis cum bestiis et unum frontaUum de dono Eicardi de Braylegh, et unus prove- niens cum filio Domini Willielmi Martini, et alius dono ejusdem cum Avelina de Giffard, tmde facte srmt parure. 10 cervicsalia, unde 4 debilia, unum coopertum ex altera parte cum panno de sancto, brondata cum capite Sanoti Johannis et 5 scutis. 8 quissini debiles, unde 4 de serico ; unus quissinus bonus, cujus una pars est cum diversis armis brondatis, de dono Walteri de Stapeldon, Episcopi Exon; unus quissinus de panno viridi de serico. 10 capule pulcre festivales de priori inventario, due de Baude- kine ; 4 casule, quarum 3 valde debUes, 1 liberata, ad altare beati Nicholai. Una capa, casula, tunica, dalmatica, cum una amiota et uno pari parurarum de panno viridi cum volucribus aureis, de dono Eicardi Germeyn, cum alba et amicta. Una casula de panno de auro, cum zona preciosa et aurifragio, de legato Episcopi Walteri de Stapeldon. 9 paria tunicarum et dalmaticarum festivalium. 4 paria tunicarum et dalmaticarum, unde tres de secta et quarta in modico discordat. Tres tunice seu dalmatice diverse secte ; una parva tunica, pro Episcopo Puerorum. Due cape, una casula, tunica et dalmatica nova, de nigro panno bono de serico bono, de emptione. 20 cape de rubeo samicto, quarum 4 valde debUes et tres eciam debUes, quarum due convertuntur in usus puerorum. 5 cape purpurei coloris, quarum una cum bestiis brondatis et alia plana. 6 cape viridi coloris, quarum quatuor valde debUes. 4 cape Indei coloris, unde una fere nova. 4 cape albe, quarum 3 nove unde una brondata, do dono \Valteri Episcopi de Stapeldon. VESTMENTS. 315 Una capa alba, pro memoriali Magistri EoTaerti de Stapeldon. 7 cape, unde tres debiles et cetere consumpte. 5 cape crocei coloris, mediooris valoris. 3 cape de nigro samicto, debiles. Una capa alba de panno de Luk. Una capa bona de rubeo samicto, brondato cum historia Jesse, de dono Episcopi Thome. Una capa bona Indei coloris brondata, 3 nolis, de dono Willielmi Breuwere. Una capa de nigro samicto, brondata cum ymaginibus et nolis, de dono dicti Willielmi. 6 cape rubri coloris brondate, quarum 3 debiles. 1 capa de rubeo panno de serico, brondato cum clavibus et crucibus. Una capa rubea de samicto solempnis brondata ymaginibus, de dono Episcopi Walteri primi. Una capa de SandaUn debUis, brondata cum ymaginibus et bestiis. Capa de Antioch, de dono Domini Thome de Cherleton. Capa alba de Antioch, de dono Ade de Murymouth primi. Capa alba de eadem secta, de dono Ade Murymouth secundi. 2 capa crocei coloris de samicto, de emptione scaccarii. Una capa alba, de dono Magistri Thome Ate KnoUe. Una capa Indei coloris cum clavibus, de dono Magistri Eicardi de Morcester. Una capa viridis coloris cum stola, de dono Magistri Benedicti de Paston. Una capa, de dono Magistri Eoberti de Veteri terra. 12 cape antique de Baudekine. 4 cape de Baudekine. Una capa rubea frettata cum circulis de auro, de dono Magistri Thome de Hertford. Due cape rubse cum bestiis in circulis auri, altera debilis. Due cape de rubeo samicto cum rosis albis brondate, de dono Johannis de Brenton et Thome de Henton. Una capa mbea brondata, cum clavibus et crucibus Andree, de dono dicti Johannis de Brenton. Una capa de rubeo samicto, brondata cum ymaginibus in taber- naculis auri, de dono Magistri Johannis Wele. Una capa cooperta cum auro et brondata cum ymaginibus, ex legato Episcopi Walteri de Stapeldon. Una capa de panno auri Antioch, de dono Willielmi de Kinges- cote. Una capa panni de Nak, Indei coloris, de dono Johannis de Dyre- 'wyne. Una capa de albo samicto, frettata et brondata cum rosis, de dono Domini Eicardi de Brailegh, cum uno mokso de argento. Una capa de panno rabeo Antioch cum bono aurifragio, de dono Willielmi de Kilkenny. _ • j j Una capa de albo samicto, brondata cum ymaginibus aun, de dono Eogeri de Cherleton. 316 APPENDIX. Una capa de panno de Nak viridi, quem pannum dederunt execu tores Edwardi Eegis [2] pro memoriali suo. Una capa de panno viridi de Nak, de emptione scaccarii. Una capa nova de samicto de Tule, brondata cum ymaginibus beati Edmundi Martiris et leopardis, de dono Eicardi de Wydeslad. 1 morsus argenteus amelatus, ponderis 33s. 4c?., de dono Johannis de Wenlig, aurifabri. 1 morsu* consimilis operis, ponderis 26s. 7c?., de dono Episcopi Walteri de Stapeldon. 1 morsus argenteus deauratus, cum ymaginibus beate Virginis et pluribus lapidibus et perils, ponderis 20s. 10c?., de dono Willielmi Brewere. 1 morsus argenteus deauratus rotimdus, cum ymagine Salvatoris, ponderis 15s. 3c?., de dono Episcopi Walteri primi. 1 morsus de cristall falcratus, cum argento deaurato. 11 morsi de metallo deaurato, cum ymaginibus et petris diversis. 1 morsus brandatus cum Veronica, de dono Episcopi Thome. PANNI DE SERICO. Pannus magnus de papejay, vetus et fractus per medium (conver titur in alios usus). 2 panni de samicto, brondato cum fretttiris et crucibus et clavibus, de dono Episcopi Thome [Bitton]. Unus pannus de Venise, cum volucribus, crocei coloris, de dono Thome de Bodeham. Unus pannus Indei coloris besantatus. Unus rubrus longus et stratus cum circulis. Duo magni purpurei coloris, cum leopardis et borduris in capi tibus cum crucibus et clavibus. Duo panni rubei, linnei cum carduis Indei coloris. Unus pannus serious curtus, rubei coloris interius et crocei coloris exterius. Unus pannus de serico, cum griffonibus in circulis cum grossa linea tela. Unus pannus serious, cimi accipitribus in circulis vetus. 1 pannus serious, cum volucribus et aliis bestiis, de dono sororis Domine Margarete de Mulis. Una culcitra, de legato Domine Matilde le Archediakene, de panno viridi cum volucribus et leunculis auro contexto. Una culcitra vetus rubea Sindone cooperta. Due culcitre de Baudekinis, cum bordura et crucibus et clavibus. Unus pannus de Nak Indei coloris, cum volucribus auri, de legato uxoris Domini Willielmi Martin. Unus pannus de Nak viridi coloris, cum volucribus de auro, de legato Domini Willielmi Martini. Duo panni besantati minutim, ex assignatione executorum Epis copi Walteri de Stapeldon. BANNERS AND SUNDRY GIFTS. 317 Due pecie de velvet rabeo, continentes 16 ulnas et dimidium ex emptione. Inde venduntur WiUielmo de Kelly 9 nine pro tunica et dalmatica. Tres baculi de ebumo, pro rectoribus chori. BANCARIA. Duo bancaria bona cum diversis armis, quorum unum magnum et longum. Unum tapetum magnum Anglicanum frettatum, de dono Willielmi de Potton. 4 bancaria strata strangulata, 1 tapetum magnum frettatum, de dono Domini Johannis Episcopi. Post eonfectionem dicti Inventarii pervenerunt subsoripta ex dono diversarum personarum prout iniitulaniur. Unum vas cristaUinum bene faleratum cum argento deaurato, pro Eucaristia imponenda, de dono Johannis Episcopi. Una culcitra de serico et canabo stragulata, de dono executorum Johannis Toyler, consensiente Domino Eogero de Nonaunt, milite. Unum repositorium pro corporalibus, brondatum cum ymagine Crucifixi ex una parte, et Coronacione beate Virginis ex alia parte, ex dono executorum Episcopi Walteri [Stapeldon]. Una crux cristallina cum ymagine argenti deaurata et pede argenteo bene emalato, de dono Episcopi Johannis. Una Psalterium bonum et correctum et bene punctuatum, per eundem Johannem Episcopum. Unum Antifonarium bonum, cum Capitulario, CoUectario, Ympna- rio et Psalterio, de dono ejusdem Domini Johannis Episcopi. Due parve libre de Actibus, cum litera Ebraica, de dono dicti Epis copi Johannis. 1 pannus pro magno altari linteus, cum carduis viridibus, de dono ejusdem. 1 parura pro magno altari de Nak, de dono ejusdem, cum 2 tuaUis stragulatus. 2 textus pro magno altari. 1 Legenda nondum posita in asseribus, continens Temporale de Sarum. 1 Psalteriiun cum Ympnario et CoUectario. 1 CoUeetarium et 1 Gradale, pro rectore chon. 2 filatoria pro summo altari, et 2 frontalla de rubea samicta picta leopardis, pro altaribus Sanotoram Thome et Stephani Martirum. 1 tuella de serico pro summo altari. 1 tualla pro desca in choro. 1 par corporalium cum repositorio cooperto cum serico. 318 APPENDIX. 1 casula de rubia baudekyn cum diversis armis in dorso. 1 caslUa purpurea, cum floribus, griffonibus et parvis leonibus, pro Adventu et Septuagesima. 1 casula, dalmatica et tunica, Indi coloris. 1 capa de rubeo velvet et 2 cape de albo samicto. 1 capa de violet cum aurifragio Iato, et 2 cape purpuree stragu- late, pro Adventu et Septuagesima. 1 stola et fanula Indi coloris. Due rubea cape de samicto, de dono ejusdem. Due cape de violet et una casula cum duabus scapidaribus, de dono ejusdem. 3 cape, et casula, tunica, et dalmatica purpurei coloris, de eadem, ad utendum in Die Animarum et in istis anniversariis sequentibus : videlicet, Domini Johannis Episcopi, Gulielmi patris sui, Sibelle matris sue, Johannis Pape XXII. Unus pannus viridis coloris pro magno altari, de dono Magistri Ade Murimoth primi. Unus pannus pro magno altari de alba samicta cum ymaginibus Episcoporum, de dono ejusdem Epi. Unus pannus pro magno altari de diversis coloribus, de dono ejusdem Johannis Episcopi. 1 tuaUa bona, ctmi nigris literis in capite et purpura de armis Anglie et patris ejusdem Episcopi. Una alba cum apparatu, cum parura rubei coloris operata cum leopardibus. Duo amicta pro diacono et subdiacono cum paruris de scuto ejusdem Johannis Episcopi. Duo gradalia nova, ex dono dicti Domini Johannis Episcopi, ut unum jaceat coram Decano et aliud coram Thesaurario. Unum frontale rubrum cum ymaginibus Sancte Trinitatis, et 12 Apostolorum, pro memoriali Domini Walteri de Stapeldon, nuper Exoniensis Episcopi, pro magno altari. 1 casula cum Salutatione beate Marie in dorso, cum dalmatica et tunica albi coloris, ex dono Johannis Exoniensis Episcopi. 1 Missale pulcrum et magnum, ex dono ejusdem Episcopi. 1 Antiphonale novum, ex dono ejusdem Episcopi. Duo Psalteria pro utraque parte chori, ex dono ejusdem Episcopi. 3 cape chori albe, viz. 2 pro rectoribus et 1 pro sacerdote, pro duplicibus festis, ex dono ejusdem Episcopi. Una capa alba de samicta, pulcra et optima cum scutis ejusdem Johannis Episcopi. Una casula rubea cum volucribus deauratis et floribus argenteis, et tunica et dalmatica ejusdem secte, de dono ejusdem Episcopi. 2 Antiphonaria cum Ympnario bona cum CoUectario, de dono ejusdem Johannis Episcopi. 2 Antiphonaria cum Psalteriis, de dono ejusdem Johannis Epis copi. 1 Portiphorium bonum cum auro illuminatum et cum velvet cooperto, de dono ejusdem. 4 Gradalia cum troperiis, de dono ejusdem Johannis Episcopi. SUNDRY GIFTS. 319 1 Psalterium cum Canone, Placebo, et Dirige, de dono ejusdem. 1 Legenda Sanctorum nova per annum et altera de temporall, de dono ejusdem Johannis Episcopi. 3 vexilla de Bokeram alba et rubea, de dono ejusdem. 1 scrinolum ebumeum cum reliquiis, bene apparatum, de dono ejusdem. 1 Psalterium bone punctuatum de dono ejusdem Johannis Episcopi. 3 ampuUe argenti, quarum 1 deaurata, pro oleo, de dono ejusdem. Una capa et casula, in qua idem Dominus Episcopus consecratus fuit, cum tunica et dalmatica ejusdem, coloris albi. 3 cape albe pro choro et sacerdote pro pueris. 3 cape crocei coloris, viz. 2 earum pro lectoribus chori, et tertia, de velveto, pro sacerdote. 1 casula cum tunica et dalmatica et 3 cape, viridis coloris. 1 casula cum tunica et dalmatica, crocei coloris. 3 albe cum pararis de armis Johannis de Grandissono, cum 2 stolis, S fanonis et S amictis. Item, 1 casula cum tunica et dalmatica, et capa albi coloris cum papingays. 3 Legende nove, viz. de Temporall and Sanctis. Unum . . . . , 6 Lectionaria, unum Gradale et unum Psalterium. Unus liber Epistolarum et alius Evangeliorum. Una alba et amicta viridis coloris cum stola et fanone. 4 Gradalia. 1 liber pro gradu chori et pulpiti. 1 liber Epistolarum et Evangeliorum. Duo Ordinalia. Umim Missale pro majore altari ctmi libro Epistolarum et Evange liorum. Una capa cinerei coloris, pro Die Cineram. Due cape de samita. Due cape albe de eadem secta cum aurifragio de leonibus et leopardis. Due alle cape de simplici secta cum aurifragiis diversis frettatis. Due cape albe cum floribus et tribulis frettatis, et aurifragio cum ymaginibus in dorso. Due cape purpurei coloris de velvet cum aurifragio de diversis armis. Una capa, cum casula, tunica et dalmatica de velvet cum aurifragio. Unum frontale cum ymaginibus et armis Domini Johannis Epis copi, et una tuella. Unum frontale de diversis coloribus. Unum frontale, decem cape. Unum mantellum. Una casula, tunica et dalmatica, et alba amicta et aUo apparatu, de viridi colore. Unum Psalterium bonum cum Calendario. (A few more have been reudered indistinct by the application of gaUs.) 320 APPENDIX. BISHOP MYLES COVERDALE'S CITATION OP THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OP EXETER. After 0' hartie comendations this shalbe to requyre yo" that yo" and ev'y of yo" appere before us at the Bysshops palace w"'in this Citie of Exon the morow upon Michaelmasse Daie next co'mi'ge, w'^'' shalbe the laste Daie of September, there to answeare to suche dema'ds and questions co'cemi'ge the Jewells, plate, and other oma- me'ts of yo' cathedraU churche, as by the king's ma" comission unto us directed apertaineth, and this faile yo" not to do as ye wUl answere to the co'trarie. This harteUe fare yo" weUe, the xxix" daie of August, A°. 1562. Yo' lovinge Frends, Myles Exon Willm. Hurst P. Carew Thos. Denys John Mydwynter To the Eight WorshipfuU Mr. Geobge Caeew, Chaunter of the Cathedrall Churche of Exet', and to aU other his bretherin Eesidentiaries of the same. INVENTARIUM Omnimn Jocaltom et Bonobum Ecclesie Cathedealis beati Petri Exon existencium sub custodia Magistri Thome Austell, Thesaurarii Ecclesie predicte, ac Johannis Detman, Johannis Petll, Thome Thacher, et W. Sabtn, oustodum et aliorum ut infra patebit : factum vi die mensis Septembris Anno Domini Millesimo coocc""' vt" per Magistros Ricardum Norton et Johannem Nans per Decanum et Capitulum ad hoo electos. In primis, 1 pixis auri cooperati pendens super magnum altare pro Corpore Dominico intus pervando, ponderis 3 uncias et dimidium quarterii. Item, 1 capa argentea et deaurata pro dicta pixida cooperienda, ponderis 26 une. (We omit in future the word Item, which occurs throughout, and also the word Ponderis, where the sum is not carried out.) 1 pixis magna argentea deaurata pro Corpore Dominico intus por- tando, operata cum diversis ymaginibus tam in pede quam in cooper culo, cum una cathena argentea in pomello ejusdem, ponderis 61 imc. 1 pixis argentea deaurata, stans super 4 pedes, operata cum diversis lapidibus preciosis, in qua oUm erant cerothece beate Virginis, modo tamen sunt cum reliquis reliquu posite, continet quoque 110 lapides et 73 margaritas. Caput Sancte Margarite cum una tabula lignea in fundo inclusum in una theca argentea deaurata, operata cum diversis lapidibus pre- INVENTORY OP 1506. 321 ciosis, videlicet in circulo corone 9 et in coUo ac inferiori parte humerorum 25. Una cathena aurea cum parva cruce aurea, in qua est pars ligni Sancte Crucis. 1 pixis argentea deaurata cum sex diversis armis in superior parte, ex dono seu provisione Magistri William Fulforde. Ymago Sancti Petri argentea et deaurata, portans in manibus librum et claves, cum armis Johannis de Grandissono quondam Exoniensis Episcopi in pede, ot stans super tres leones, ex dono supradicti Johannis de Grandissono. Ymago Sancti Pauli argentea et deaurata tenens in manibus gla dium et librum cum armis dicti Johannis de Grandissono in pede, stans super tres pedes, ex dono ejusdem. Ymago magna argentea et deaurata Sanoti Pauli, portantis librum in manu dextra et gladium in manu sinistra cum armis Domini Johannis Dynam, ex dono uxoris dicti Johannis. Una crux argentea et deaurata, stans super magnum pedem argen- teum deauratum et amellatum cum duobus angelis, tenentibus dictum crucem et cum 4 Evangelistis cum uno biriUo in medio ejusdem, pro Corpore Dominico intus ponendo, portando Die Ee- surrectionis Domini, de dono Johannis Comitis quondam de Hun tyngdon. Alia crux argentea et deaurata, stans super 4 leones cum magno pede ameUato supportata cum 2 angelis in utraque parte et Cruci fixo cum beata Maria et beato Johanne in summitate ejusdem cum vitro in medio, pro corpore Dominico intus ponendo et processione portando, de dono Johannis de Grandissono. Alia crux alta argentea et deaurata cum magno pede, cum 4 leo nibus, cum rosis amelatis, cum 22 margaritis; supportata cmn 4 columpnis, cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne, de dono Edmundi Stafford quondam Exoniensis Episcopi. Alia crux argentea et deaurata, stans super magnum pedem cum 4 EvangeHstis et 4 scutis de armis Johannis de Grandissone et aliorum aceciam cruce Maria et Johanne de . . . necnon ymagi nibus beate Vfrginis ac Petri et Pauli ammeUatis operatis cum 78 lapidibus preciosis et 9 margaritis, habens intus partem Sancte Crucis ordinatam ad ponendum in sepulcro. Altera crux argentea et deaurata cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne cum diversis ymaginibus in pede amellata et 4 Evangelistis supra, ordinata ad portandum cum baculo in majoribus festis. Due cruces unius secte argenti et deaurate cum crucifixo et 4 Evangelistis, et armis Sancti Petri in pede ornate, ad portandum super baculos in festis majoribus. Alia crax parva argentea et deaurata, ad portandum super baculum in diebus ferialibus. Unus pes argenteus et deauratus pro dicta cruce cum uno pyn ligneo pro cruce imponenda. 3 pecie argentee et deaurate cum 3 bossis argenteis et deauratis et ameUatis ad portandum cracem in festis principalibus. 2 pecie argentee albe cum 6 bossis argenteis et deauratis, ad por- tandas cruces in festis duplicibus. Y 322 APPENDIX. Una crax argentea deaurata cum ymaginibus in pede ameUatis et cruce de berillo in eadem. Super capita ymaginum beate Marie et Filii ejus due corone argentee et deaurate in frontispicio magni altaris. Calices. Unus calix cum patena de pure auro, ex dono Edmundi Lacy nuper Exoniensis Episcopi, ponderis 23 uncie. 1 calix argenteus et deauratus cum patena et cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne et 9 aliis ymaginibus in pede ameUatis ac 1 Majestate in patena ameUata. 1 calix cum patena argentea et deaurata planus cum Crucifixo in pede et una manu in patina sculpta dante benedictionem, ponderis . 1 calix cum patena argenteus et deauratus cum ymagine pietatis beate Marie et armis Eegis Anglie in pede. Unus calix cum patena argenteus et deauratus cum Crucifixo et armis Johannis de Grandissono sculptis in pede ejusdem. Unus calix partim deauratus cum tribus ymaginibus, videlicet Salvatoris, Petri et Pauli cum Veronica in patena. Unus calix deauratus cum floribus de lyce in pede, ac manu in patena. Ccdices eosistentes in Scaccario. Imprimis, unus calix argenteus ac partim deauratus cum Crucifixo in pede ac Veronica in patena. Unus calix planus deauratus cum agno in patena. 1 calix argenteus deauratus sculptus et pomised in pede cum manu in patena sole et luna. 1 calix argenteus et deauratus cum Cracifijso et foliis traylyd in pede et Jesus in patena. 1 calix argenteus et deauratus cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne in pede cum ymagine beati Petri coronati, tenentis crucem in sinis tra manu et benedicentis cum manu dextera. 1 calix argenteus et deauratus cum 8 bossis in medio ac agno in patena, et 4 floribus trifoliatis in circuitu agni. 1 calix argenteus deforis in toto deauratus et in pede fractus cum sex bossis in medio, cum agno ameUato et Jesu in patena. Due pecie unius fracte patene, cruce in medio interioris pecie. Tabula volubilis. Item, una tabula volubilis argentea et deaurata cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne, in medio ac 12 Apostolis et aliis diversis yma ginibus infra ameUatis, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono, prout patet in dorso ejusdam : deficient 9 flores in le crest. Phiole. Due Phiole auree, ex dono Edmundi Lacy nuper Exoniensis Episcopi. Due phiole argentee et deaurate swagyd cum armis Magistri Michaelis Arcedeken in cooperculis earum, ex dono supradicti Michaelis. INVENTORY OP 1506. 323 Due phiole argentee et deaurate plane in pede, et in cooperculis embatelate et cum litera B. in cooperculis earundem. Due phiole argentee et deaurate cum sculptura Jesus Christus sculpta in eisdem, ex dono Magistri Johannis Swetysham. 3 paria phiolarum de stagno, pro coUateralibus altaribus. 1 phiola argentea et deaurata cooperata cum aquila in coopertorio ex dono Matildis Courtenay. Candelabra. Duo candelabra magna argentea et in toto deaurata. Duo candelabra argentea alba cum armis Johannis de Grandis sono in pede. Duo candelabra de cupro deaurata, ex dono Edmundi Lacy. Duo candelabra argentea in parte deaurata. Textus et Tabule. 1 textus argenteus et deauratus cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne ac diversis ymaginibus et armis Domini Johannis de Grandissono, continens Evangelia, 2 fo., in textu " Ab Jerosolimis." 1 textus argenteus deauratus cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne ac 4 Evangelistis in 4 partibus et 2 angelis cum thuribulis, supra capud crucifixi annexis cuidam libro, 2 fo., in textu " Cujus venti- labum." 1 textus argenteus cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne ac 4 Evange listis et 1 manu supra capud crucifixi dante benedictionem annexis cuidam libro, 2 fo., in textu " Alius aliter." 1 textus, 2 fo., " Dei et audierunt," cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne ex una parte, et ex altera cum ymagine beate Marie portantis Filium in brachio dextro. 1 textus pro Quadragesima, 2 fo., " Tus est rex." 1 vetus textus, 2 fo., " Tus est." 2 parva pulvinaria pro eisdem textibus portandis. 1 pila cuprea deaurata pro summo altari ad manus celebrantis califaciendas. 1 casula lignea operata et cooperta cum panno acuali, in qua con tinetur 1 textus ex dono Johannis de Grandissono, cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne ex 1 parte, et ex alia ymago beate Marie, 2 fo., " Erat verbum." Textus argenteus et deauratus cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne, cum 4 Evangelistis in 4 angulis, cum 1 olla subtus pedem crucifixi, cum hac scriptura subtus eandem romanis literis sculptam "Hie textus est ornatus ex communi erario Leofrici Episcopi curialium- que ejus," 2 fo., " Semina pulularent." Alius textus argenteus et deauratus cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne ac aliis ymaginibus per circuitum, cum cruce de puro auro tyled per totum, in cujus medio crucifixus imponitur supradictus, 2 fo., " Operarii." Felves. Due pelves quondam Edmundi Lacy, stellate cum rosa rubea am- meUata, in fundo argentee et deaurate. Y 2 324 APPENDIX. Due pelves argentee et deaurate cum armis Edmundi Stafford in fundo, ex dono ejusdem. Due pelves argentee cum bossis et rosa ammellata in fundo et per fibraram circuitum deaurate, ex dono Domini Eicardi Helyer. Due pelves antique argentee cum armis Comitis Devon in fundo, ex dono ejusdem. Due pelves argentee swagyd cum stellis in fundo, ex dono Magistri Walteri CoUys. 1 pelvis argenteus cum cathena argentea et birillo rotundo in fine, pendens ante magnum altare. 1 pelvis argenteus cum cathena argentea, pendens inter gradum chori et summum altare. 1 malhuim de latone rotundum, pro aqua ad ablutionem manuum ministorum evacuandum. 1 pelvis argenteus cum cathena et pila argentea, pendens ad grar dum chori, pro cero supportando. 1 olla rotunda argentea et cooperata, pro vino querendo pro celebratione missarum. 1 oUea stagnea, pro aqua gerenda pro celebratione missarum. Acerra. 1 acerra argentea partim deaurata, pro incenso imponendo cochlear argenteum, cum ymagine Sancti Michaelis in capite ejusdem deau ratum, 1 uncia et quarta et dimidium quarte. 1 antiquus baculus cum 4 aulis argenteis deputatus, pro tenenda patena per choristam ante summum altare. Unum tintinabulum de argento, ad portandum coram Corpore Christi, tociens quociens opus fuerit, ponderis 6 uncie et dimidium uncie et 1 quaterum. Citula aque benedicte Absconsa et Virge. ¦ 1 citula argentea, cum manubrio argenteo, pro aqua benedicta portanda. Dua aspergilla argentea cum crinibus. Absconsa argentea deaurata cum armis Eogeri Keys, ex dono ejusdem. 1 virga argentea deaurata, ad portandum in processionibus, ex dono predicti Eogeri Keys. Alia virga argentea alba cum armis predicti Eogeri, ex dono ejusdem. 1 citula enea, pro aqua in eadem benedicenda. l^huribula. 2 thuribula argentea deaurata unius forme, cum armis Johannis de Grandissono, ac 4 cathenis argenteis in utroque. Duo thuribula argentea cum 4 cathenis argenteis in utraque pounsyd et chasyd. Thuribula in Scaccario. 1 thuribulum argenteum deauratum de opere Sancti Dunstani cum 5 cathenis albis argenteis. INVENTORY OP 1506. 325 Aliud minus thuribulum quasi ejusdem operis argenteum, non adeo bene deauratum, cum quinque cathenis argenteis. Tercium thuribulum argenteum et debiliter deauratum quasi ejusdem operis, cum quinque cathenis argenteis. Ampulle. _ 1 ampulla argentea et deaurata operata cum diversis ymaginibus, viz.. Papa, Eege et EpLscopo, cum armis predicti Domini Johannis de Grandissono extra in fundo ejusdem. 1 ampulla argentea et deaurata operata cum arboiibus et fron- dibus, cum armis predicti Johannis in fundo. 1 ampuUa argentea partim deaurata operata cum foliis uvarum, et uvis, cum armis predicti Johannis. Sciphus et Pixides. 1 sciphus quasi lapidibus ligatus cum argento, (fui vocatur Sciphus Marie Magdalene. 1 pixis argentea et deaurata, cum vexillo et lacte beate Marie. 1 parva pixis de puro auro, in qua includatur 1 spina de corona Domini. 45 pecie argenti deaurati diversarum formarum cum diversis reliquiis, in eisdein inclusis in duabus cistulis impositis. Castine pro summo altari et coUateralibus. 2 curtine albi et viridis coloris palyd, pro summo altari. 2 curtine coUaterales albi coloris de opere ly dyaper. 6 antiqui ridelli. Mitre et Baculi pastorales in custodia Custodum. 1 mitra alba de panno aureo cum diversis ymaginibus et perlys, operatis ac armis Domini Johannis de Grandissono infra les labbels ejusdem. 1 alia mitra glauca. Alia mitra nigra. 1 baculus pastoralis argenti et in parte deauratus cum armis Domini Johannis de Grandissono ac diversis ymaginibus, supra in cruce amulatis ac duabus ymaginibus de Coronacione beate ' Marie, infra eandem crucem cum tribus juncturis argenteis, cujus unaquaque junctura est quasi longitudinis unius cubiti. 1 vetus par cyrothecarum operatarum cum perils. Sudaria. 2 sudaria viridis coloris. 2 sudaria de albo serico cum leonibus in fine. Quinque sudaria de albo serioo stragulato. Duo sudaria de violatio sive purpureo colore, ex dono Patricii Holyburton, que portavit de Terra Sancta Jerusalem. 1 sudarium de panno rubro non serico. Fronte et FronteUule. 1 fronta cum fronteUa cum tuello eidem annexe de manuali opere aureo unius secte, cum ymagine beate Marie in medio dicti frontis 326 APPENDIX. ac diversis aliis ymaginibus, cum armis Johannis de Grandissono in utroque fine, pro summo altare in festis principalibus. 1 fronta de albo satino pro eodem altari, operata cum quinque ymaginibus episcoporum ac octo armis predicti Johannis de Gran dissono, ex dono ejusdem. 1 fonteUa de panno aureo operata cum leonibus et undecim armis predicti Johannis de Grandissono, cum tuello eidem annexe. 1 fronta de ruble satino operata cum quindecem diversis ymagi nibus aureis et 28 armis diversorum Dominorum, ex dono Walteri Stapeldon. 1 parva fronteUa de panno aureo latitudinis et 2 poUicum, operata cum diversis bestiis, cum 1 tuello eidem annexe. 1 fronta de panno rubio et viridi, operatum per totum pannum cum armis diversorum Dominorum, sine fronteUa, iUius secte. 1 fronta de blodio satino, operatum cum ymaginibus beate Katerine et Margarite, cum auro et perlys ac diversis stellis de auro, pro festis majoribus. 1 fronteUa de panno aureo pro eadem fronta, operata cum diversis ymaginibus Agni Dei et armis predicti Domini Johannis de Gran dissono in utroque fine, cum tuello eidem annexe. 1 fronta de albo velvet, cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne de auro in medio, ac diversis stellis aureis. 1 fronteUa ejusdem secte, operata cum stellis aureis, cum 1 tuello eidem annexe. 1 fronta de rubio panno aureo cum helmys coronatis cum viridi. 1 fronteUa ejusdem secte cum 1 tuello eidem annexe. 1 fronta de rubro serico, operata cum clavibus et crucibus de auro. 1 fronteUa rubea, operata cum floribus de lyce aureis, et 1 tuello annexe. 1 fronta glaucii et diversi coloris, pro festis Confessoram. 1 fronteUa ejusdem secte cum tuello annexe. 1 fronta de rubro serico, operata cum bestiis et volucribus, pro festis cum regimine chori. 1 fronteUa rubii serioi, operata cum clavibus, et tuello annexe. 1 fronta de blodio serico, operata cum floribus de lyce glaucii coloris, cum literis J. B. in medio. 1 fronteUa glaucii coloris, operata quasi cum rosis,' cum tueUo annexe. 1 fronta de viridi serico cum aureis canibus, cum 1 fronteUa ejusdem secte et tuello annexe. 1 fronta de viridi coloris, operata cum leonibus et volucribus aureis, cum 2 sudariis cheeky, ad implendum longitudinem. 1 fronteUa, operata cum 16 armis predicti Johannis de Grandis sono, ctun tuello annexe. 1 fronta viridis coloris, cum armis. predicti J. de G. in medio ejusdem, pro ferialibus diebus. 1 fronteUa, operata cum clavibus et crucibus, cum 1 tuello annexo. 1 fronta rubii coloris de satino, cum ymaginibus Crucifixi, Sancte Anne, Sancti Johannis Baptiste et Michaelis, cum scriptura "Domi nus mihi adjutor," ex dono Edmundi Lacy Exoniensis Episcopi. INVENTORY OF I5O6. 327 _ 1 fronteUa ejusdem secte, cum armis dicti Domini in tribus locis ejusdem et tueUo annexo, ex dono dicti Domini Edmundi Lacy. 1 fronta rubii coloris, cum cyrogrillis aureis in medio cum alba cruce pulverisata, cum floribus aureis traylid, pro altare Sancti Michaelis, continens in longitudine 2 virgas et in latitudine 1 virgam, duplicatam cum blodio bokeram. 1 fronta de albo chamblet, cum rosis diversorum colorum et frondium. 1 fronteUa ejusdem secte cum tueUo annexo. 1 fronteUa nigra de damasco le Cipris, cum tuello ejusdem. Corporalia cum oasis. 3 corporalia, cum 1 casa de panno aureo, cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne ex 1 parte et Coronacione beate Marie ex altera. 1 corporale cum casa de panno aureo, cum Salutacione ex una parte et Nativitate Domini ex altera. 2 corporalia cum casa de rubio velvete, ex una parte cum scrip tura " Jesus, mercy ! " et litera W. ex parvis peralis, et ex blodio damasco cum supradicta scriptura et litera M. ex parvis perulis i n medio ejusdem ex parte altera. 3 corporalia in 1 casa de rubio tussyw ex una parte et crymsyn velvete ex altera. 1 casa de albo damasco cum aureis scaleppys ejusdem panni et operis ex utraque parte absque corporali. 3 corporalia in casa lignea cooperta cum panno serico, operata cum diversis armis. Tuella pro altaribus benedicta. 1 tuellum de opere Parisiensi cum 1 nigra cruce in medio, conti nens in longitudine 6 virgas. 1 tuellum de opere Parisiensi, continens in longitudine 6 virgas largas et in latitudine 1 virgam 3 quarteria larga. 1 tuellum de oj)ere Parisiensi cum 1 nigra cruce flowry, in medio signato cum litera P., continens in longitudine 5 virgas 3 quar teria largum et in latitudine 1 virga dimidium et dimidium quarterii. I tueUum de opere Parisiensi continens in longitudine 5 virgas, et 1 quarterium operatum in utroque fine cum filo blodio, in latitu dine 1 virga dimidium quarterii. 1 tuellum opere Parisiensi cimi rubio filo in 4 partibus, continens in longitudine 6 virgas dimidium et in latitudine 3 quarteria. 3 tuella de opere Parisiensi, ex dono Magistri Walteri CoUez, quorum unum in longitudiue 6 virgas et 1 quarterium, alia in longitudine 5 virgas, et tercia in longitudine 6 virgas continet. Tuellum de Flemmysh, continens in longitudine 6 virgas large et in latitudine 1 virgam. 1 tueUum de opere Parisiensi, in longitudine 6 virgas et 1 quar terium continens et in latitudine vix duas virgas. 1 tritum tuellum et pene consumptum, operatum in utroque fine cum palls rubiis et nigris, longitudinis 4 virgarum 1 quar terium. 328 APPENDIX. Pulvinaria. Nulla. Carpet et Panni coram altari sternendi. 1 larga carpeta, ex dono reverendi Georgii Novell nuper Exoni ensis Episcopi, continens in longitudine 6 virgas dimidium et in latitudine 2 virgas dimidium. 1 carpet, continens in longitudine 3 virgas S quarteria et in latitudine 1 virga dimidium, ex dono Domine Elizabeth Courtenay, operis cheeky. 1 carpet, continens in longitudine vix 4 virgas et in latitudine 1 virga et dimidium, ex dono Domini Eicardi Helyer. 1 pannus de Axys de historia Ducis Burgundie, continens in longitudine 10 virgas dimidium, et in latitudine 4 virgas, ex dono executorum Edmundi Lacy. 3 panni blodu cum rosis albis et armis Domini Johannis de G., pro frontispicio magni altaris tempore Quadragesimali cooperiendo, de dono ejusdem. Apparatus pro sepulchro. Unus selor de rubio serico duplicate cum rubio bokram. 1 curtina de rubio serico, pro le teste predicti selor. Due rubie puUie simul consute cum hyndys aureis tenentibus 1 braunche viridis coloris in ore, continentes in longitudine 4 virgas dimidium et in latitudine 2 virgas et dimidium. Due pallee rubie cum volucribus et diversis bestiis aureis, ex dono Domini Petri Courtenay militis, utraque in longitudine 3 virge et dimidium et in latitudine una ulna. 4 pallee rubei coloris cum ramis et volucribus aureis et blodiis pedibus, ex dono Eegis, quarum cujuslibet longitude est 3 virga rum 1 quarterium. 1 pallea rubea cum cimbis et cignis ac frondibus aureis, conti nens in longitudine 3 virgas 1 quarterium et in latitudine 1 virgam 1 quarterium. 'Vexilla. 1 vexilltun de rubio serico, stayned cum Salutacione beate Marie. 1 vexillum de rubio serico, stayned cum ymaginibus Apostolorum Petri et Pauli. 1 vexillum de rubio serico, stayned cum ymaginibus Sancti Andree et Sancti Johannis Baptiste. 1 vexillum de rubio serico, stayned de Eesurrectione Domini. 1 vexUlum de rubio serico, stayned de Ascencione Domini. 1 vexillum de serico blodio et rubio cum armis Sancti Petri et Edmundi Lacy. 1 vexillum de armis Comitis Devon. 1 vexillum cum armis Sancti Edwardi. 1 vexillum cum armis Eegis Arthuri. 1 vexillum cmn armis Ducis Buckyngham. 1 banerium rubeum pro Cruce, cum ymagine Petri et Pauli. INVENTORY OP 1506. ' 329 1 banerium viride pro Cruce, cum ymagine beati Petri ex una parte et Sancti Pauli ex altera. 3 baneria ex panno lineo cum rubiis crucibus. 1 banerium viridis coloris, cum ymagine Assumpcionis beate Marie in medio. 2 alia baneria viridis coloris, de Eesurrectione et Ascencione. Pendentia et Pensella pro cereo pascali. 2 pfendentia de armis Edmundi Lacy. 4 pendentia, de dono dicti Edmundi, operata cum papejays. 28 pensella, pro majori parte de dono ejusdem. 4 vexiUa pro cereo pascali, ex dono ejusdem. 1 pendens cum uno apro. Lectronalia. 1 lectronale de albo serico duplicato, cum panno lineo, continente in longitudine duas virgas dimidium. 1 lectronale de albo stragulato cum auro duplicato cum panno Uneo, continente in longitudine 2 ¦virgas 1 quarterium. 1 lectronale de rubio baudekyn, operato cum floribus, et dupli cato cum blodio bokram, continente in longitudine 2 virgas dimidium. 1 lectronale de rubio panno aureo cum helmys et cum viride, coronato duplicato cum blodio bokeram, continens in longitudine 2 virgas I quarterium. 1 lectronale de viridi baudekyn, operato cum diversis frondibus, et duplicatum cum blodio bokeram, continens in longitudine 2 virgas dimidium. Baculi pro rectoribus. 1 baculus de ebore, cum 12 peciis argenti in parte deaurati, et 2 ymaginibus de ebore in summitate. 1 baculus de ebore, cum 4 peciis de cupro, et I elifaut de ligno in summitate. 1 baculus de ebore, cum 3 peciis de cupro et 1 de argento, et in summitate duo capita de ebore. 1 baculus de buxo, cum 1 peoia argentea, et ymaginibus Sancti Johannis Baptiste et Sancte Katerine de Ebore, et duo capita draconum in summitate, I parvus baculus de buxo cum leone in summitate. Baculi pro crucibus portandis. 11 baculi diverse fortis, pro crucibus et vexillis portandis. Cathedre pro rectoribus chori. 4 cathedre ligni volubiles cooperte cum coreo. 1 cathedra de ferro cooperta cum coreo. Lectrina. 1 descus volubUis de ferro, pro EvangeUo supra legendo. 2 alia lectrina lignea. 330 APPENDIX. Fronta et FronteUa pro coUateralibus altaribus. 1 fronta de blodio satino cum Cracifixo, Maria et Johanne de auro in medio, operata cum diversis stellis aureis, et 1 fronteUa de panno aureo eidem annexa, cum 1 tuello similiter annexo. 1 fronta de blodio satino cum ymaginibus Sanctorum Edmundi et Thome Cantuariensis de auro, operata cum diversis steUis aureis, et 1 fronteUa de panno aureo cum tueUo eidem annexo. 1 fronta de albo damasco, operata cum diversis arboribus et stellis aureis, cum 1 fronteUa ejusdem secte et tuello annexo. 1 fronta et fronteUa ejusdem secte, in omnibus pro eisdem altar ibus operata. 2 fronte de rubio, operate cum Helmys, cum duabus frontellis de panno aureo, et duobus tuellis eisdem, simul consutis. 2 fronte et 2 frontelle rubee, operate cum rosis aureis, et 2 tueUis eisdem annexis, ex dono E. Lacy. 2 fronte de panno aureo, operate cum rosis et volucribus, cum 2 frontelHs et 2 tuellis annexis. Vestirnenta pro coUateralibus altaribus. 2 vestimenta unius secte, continentia 2 casulas de panno argentes cum orphrey de panno aureo blodio, cum 2 amictibus, 2 albis, 2 stolis, 2 phanels de rubio baudekyn, operata cum volucribus. Vestimentum unius secte, continens 2 casulas de rubio satino cum orphrais de panno blodio aureo, cum pararis fanonibus, albis, amictibus, et stolis. 2 vestimenta, continentia 2 casulas de viridi serico cum orfreis de panno aureo debili, 2 albe, 2 amicte, 2 stole, 2 fanones, cum pararis diversi coloris. 1 vestimentum, ex dono executorum. Magistri Martini Diar, con tinens 1 casulam blodii coloris cum floribus aureis, 1 alba, 1 amicta, 1 stola, 1 fanona, cum paruris. 1 vestimentum, ex dono Magistri Henrici Webber, blodii coloris, cum ymagine in medio crucis ejusdem. 2 paria vestimentorum viridis baudekyn, pro eisdem altaribus coUateralibus. 2 paria tintinabula pro coUateralibus altaribus. 2 vestimenta de albo damasco. Alia 2, rubei coloris de damasco et floribus aureis. Panni pendentes in choro. Duo panni glaucii et rubii coloris, operati in textura ad modum Dammask cum armis Edmundi Lacy annexis eisdem, ex dono dicti Edmundi, ad tabulam per sedilium longitudinem retro Canonico rum et Vicariorum dorsa, estivo tempore tegendam. Duo alii panni, ex dono ejusdem, de tapstre viridis coloris cum floribus, pro tempore hiemali. Missalia. Unum magnum longum et latum Missale, cum 2 elapsis argenteis ot 4bollys, 2 fo., " Baculum." INVENTORY OP 1506. 331 1 Missale, 2 fo., " Enim Dalmatica." 1 Missale, 2 fol., " De ceUs." 1 Missale, 2 fo., " Sequentia." 1 Missale, 2 fo., " Illustres." 1 magnum Missale, 2 fo., " Ad te levavi." 1 Missale, 2 fo., " Diluculo." 1 Missale, 2 fo., " Dominicis." 1 parvum Missale de missis in processionibus celebrandis, 2 fo., in textu " Diligit me." 1 Missale, 2 fo., " Notas fac." Liber Organicus. 1 magnus Liber Organicus, 2 fo., "Deus creator." Evangelia et Fpistole. 1 Uber cum Evangeliis, de dono Johannis de Grandissono, 2 fo., " Ysaia propheta." 1 Epistolarum, ex dono ejusdem, 2 fo., in textu " Vocavi eum." Pontificalia. 1 Pontificale vetus, ex dono Willielmi Warwest, retro magnum altare, 2 fo., titulo " Nono vivatis." Pontificale, ex dono Edmundi Lacy, 2 fo., " Veritatem." Manualia. 1 Manuale, ex dono Edmundi Stafford, 2 fol., " Est Judicare." 1 Manuale, ex dono Henrici Brokelond, 2 fo., " Dignetur." 1 Manuale deserviens choro, 2 fo., " Accessus." Aliud Manuale, ex dono Edmundi Stafford, 2 fo., " Deus qui." 1 liber de omni ofScio episcopali, continens chororum (modum) quando episcopus incipit se parare ad celebrandum ac de consecia- clone virginis, ad recludendum inclusum, et de consecracione olei, 2 fo., " Seris nobis." Alius liber de officiis predictis, ex dono predicti Edmundi Stafford, 2 fo., "Nos vivificabis." Libri Cafhmati juxta et retro Magnum Altare. 1 Liber papie, 2 fo., " Abdita." Liber vocatus Summa Confessoram, 2 fo., " Non erat a Deo." Liber vocatus Summa Pauperam, 2 fo., " Danda sunt." 1 presbiteris liber de Meditacionibus beati Anselmi, 2 fo., " Vir ginis gloriose." 1 parvus liber Orationum, continens summe sacerdos, 2 fo., "Sacro tecta." Antiphonaria et Portiforia. 1 Antiphonare, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono ex parte Decani Cathenatum, 2 fo., " Chorus." 1 Antiphonare, ex dono Edmundi Stafford, 2 fo., "Omnia secula." „ 1 Antiphonare sine Psalterio, 2 fo., " Eatum. 332 APPENDIX. 1 Antiphonare, 2 fo., " Quandocumque chorus." Antiphonare, ex dono Edmundi Stafford ex parte precentoris, 2 fo., " Ubi ad vos." Antiphonare, 2 fo., "Nus veniet." Antiphonare, 2 fc, " Cum loqueris." Antiphonare sine Psalterio, 2 fo., " Presul ad." Antiphonare sine Psalterio, 2 fo., " Ad vigiliam Pasce." Antiphonare Cathenatum in secunda forma, ex parte Decani, sine Psalterio, 2 fo., "Ecce apparebit." Antiphonare ex eadem parte, 2 fo., " Ad omnes boras." Antiphonare Cathenattun in secunda forma ibidem sine Psalterio, 2 fo., " Vel oro Deus." Antiphonare vocatum Clopton, 2 fo., " Tu in nobis." 1 Portiforium ante stallum Archidiaconi Exon, 2 fo., " Dicamus." Antiphonare Cathenatum coram Cancellario, 2 fo., " Periculis." Portiforium coram Thesaurario, 2 fo., " Presta," ex dono Magistri Henrici Webber Decani. Antiphonare ante Decanum, 2 fo., "Pace ut letentur." Antiphonare ante Precentorem pertinens officio ejusdem, 2 fo., " Sanctis ad vesperas." Ordinale ante precentorem, 2 fo., " Alicujus de capitulo." Ordinale ante succentorem, 2 fo., " Debent." Cathenatur ibidem, 1 liber de modo psallendi, 2 fo., " SUlabam." 1 magnum Portiforium, ex dono Magistri Henrici Webber, 2 fo., " Dicamus. dicat." Aliud Portiforium, ex dono ejusdem, 2 fo., " Die et quotidie." Aliud Portiforium, ex dono Domini Edmundi Lacy, 2 fo., " Gloria et Honor." 1 paivTim vetus Portiforium, 2 fo., " Laude letemur." 1 Portiforium pro rectoribus chori, ex dono Edmundi Lacy, 2 fo., " Feliciter." 1 dimidium Portiforii Cathenati, 2 fo., "Peccatorum nostrorum." Aliud dimidium Portiforii Cathenati, 2 fo., " Quantum." 1 Portiforium notatum, 2 fo., " Cumque." 1 Ordinale ad usum Sarum, 2 fo., " Nisi dum." Gradalia ex parte Decani. 1 Gradale, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono, 2 fo., " Cum vero." 1 Gradale, 2 fo., " AUeluia." 1 Gradale, ex dono Edmundi Stafford, 2 fo., " Deus a quo." 1 Gradale, 2 fo., " Meus in te." 1 Gradale in secunda forma, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono, 2 fo., " Ntun observetur." 1 Gradale, 2 fo., " Deant me." 1 Gradale ante stallum Decani, 2 fo., " Populus." Gradalia ex parte Precentoris. 1 Gradale, ex dono Edmundi Stafford, 2 fo., " Quaram." 1 Gradale, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono, 2 fo., " Missa de." 1 Gradale, ex dono dicti Johannis de Grandissono 2 fo " Fini- atur." INVENTORY OP 1506. 333 1 Gradale in secunda forma, ex dono ejusdem, 2 fo., "Per adven tum." 1 Gradale Cathenatum, ex dono ejusdem, 2 fo., " Die natalis." 1 Gradale pro Eectoribus Chori, 2 fo., " Episcopi fiat." 1 Gradale, ex dono predicti Johannis de Grandissono, 2 fo., " Semper quando." ^ 1 Gradale, 2 fo., in textu " Nes iniquitates." 1 Gradale assignatum officio Precentoris per Johannem de Grand issono, ex dono ejusdem, 2 fo., " Ad earn." Psalteria. 1 Psalterium Cathenatum in secundo forma ante Archidiaconum Exon, ex dono Domini VVUlielmi Hayford, 2 fo., " Domini est salus." 1 Psalterium ex parte Decani, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono, 2 fo., " Eeges eos." 1 Psalterium, ex dono Ade de Charleton, 2 fo., " Servite Do mino." 1 Psalterium, ex dono predicti Johannis de Grandissono, 2 fo., " Domine quid." I Psalterium.de secunda forma, 2 fo., " Ges terre." I Psalterium ex parte Precentoris, ex dono dicti Johannis de Grandissono, 2 fo., " Multi dicunt." 1 Psalterium, ex dono ejusdem Johannis de Grandissono, 2 fo., "Eeges eos in virga." 1 Psalterium, ex parte predicti Cathenatum, 2 fo., " A fructu." 1 Psalteritrai, 2 fo., " Ego autem." 1 Psalterium, ex dono Domini Johannis Yott, 2 fo., " Et gloria- buntur." ^ 1 Psalterium, ex dono executorum Magistri Johannis Burton, 2 fo., " Dedisti letioiam." 1 Psalterium, ex dono Domini Johannis Hyott, 2 fo., " Domine, salvum." 1 Psalterium, ex dono Domni Johannis Wytt, 2 fo., " Tu autem." Legende Sanctorum et Temporalium. 1 Legenda Sanctorum, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono, 2 fo., " Crux que." Legenda Sanctorum, 2 fo., "Enim regem." Legenda Temporalium, 2 fo., " Quia os Domini." Legenda Temporalium, ex dono dicto Johannis de Grandissono, 2 fo., " Manus vestras." 1 Legenda cum legenda Sanoti Brannoci, 2 fo., " Quer it." 1 Liber Versiculorum cum aliis contentis pro choristis, 2 fo., " Exacerbation e." CoUectaria et MartirUogia. 1 CoUeetarium, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono, 2 fo., "Deus auctor." 1 CoUeetarium, 2 fo., " De Sancto Spiritu." 1 Martilogium, ex dono dicti Johannis de Grandissono, 2 fo., " Claras doctrina." 1 MartUogium, 2 fo., " Eome via." 334 APPENDIX. Processionalia. (xxii.) Processionale, 2 fo., viz. :— "Mici et ipsum;" "Que et quod;" "Tentur cell;" "Laudem quia;" " Misericordiam tuam ; " "Ecce anoiUa ; " " Pauperam suoram ; " " Detur ex te ; " " Cum tuum ; " "Veniet;" Luya in Introitu Chori, cum literis rabris scriptis; "Justicia;" " Aspercione." 1 magnum Processionale, 2 fo., " Deus qui ad." 1 Processionale, ex dono Magistri Henrici Webber, assignatum officio Precentoris, 2 fo., " Cipio et nunc.'' Processionale, 2 fo., viz. :— " Gloria Patri ; " " AUeluia; " " Nas- cetur;" in Introitu Chori; "Immensam;" "Neribus;" " Spi- ritualis.", iiJn Cathenati inter gradum Chori, ef gradum Altaris ex parte australi. 1 Psalterium, 2 fo., " Voce mea." 1 Pica, 2 fo., " Capite vero." Lynwood, 2 fo., "Et in L." Liber Pastoralitmi Gregorii, 2 fo., in textu " Amare hinc." Liber trium sanctorum Eegum Colonic, 2 fo., "In vicesimo septimo." Liber Parisiensis de Viciis et Virtutibus, 2 fo., " Omnis.'' Liber Constitucionium Octonis et Octoboni cum glossa Johannis de Aton, 2 fo., "Dicione." Liber Orationum sive Meditationum, 2 fol., " Exhortatio." Manipulus Curatorum, 2 fo., " Que eos." Liber vocatus Cronica Cronicorum, " In principio." Libri ex boreali parte. Januensis in suo Catholicon, 2 fo., " Imitantur." Eacionale Divinorum, 2 fo., " Post tabulam pensandum est." PostUla super Johannem edita per Nicholaum de Lyra, 2 fo., " Desuper ipsorum." PupUla OccuU, 2 fo., in tabula, " Quid si quis." Libellus de utilibus et necessariis contentis, 2 fo., " Capitula." Epistole Pauli glosate, 2 fo., " Predicta superbia, est." Psalterium glosatum, 2 fo., " Ordine quoque." Liber Augustini super Johannem, 2 fo., " Meum a Domino," ex dono Magistri Thome Kyrckby. Compendium Morale, 2 fo., " Non semper," de dono ejusdem. Pcdlia. . 1 pallium blodii coloris, cum volucribus turrettis et zonis fratrum minorum circa coUum. 1 paUium de blodio panno aureo, operato cum hawkys aureis et bestiis rubiis, et continens in longitudine 3 virgas et 1 quarterium. 1 pallium, ejusdem coloris et operis. _ 1 palUum blodu coloris, cum avibus aureis cum blodiis turrettis circa coUum, ligatis cum zona aurea, ordinis fratrum minorum. 1 pallium nigrum, cum leonibus et avibus albis. 1 blodium pallium, cum draconibus aureis cum scriptura rubea. INVENTORY OP 1506. 335 1 blodium pallium, cum avibus et draconibus aureis displanatis. 2 veterata paUia ex uno opere, quorum unum blodii coloris et aliud viridis. 1 rubeum veteratum paUium, cum diversis pagentis de Nativitate Domini. 2 veterata pallia blodii coloris, unius secte. 1 blodium paUium, cum volucribus et bestiis aureis ac scriptura rubea. Cape in inferiori Vestiario rubei coloris. 1 capa serica rubei coloris, cum garbis, liberdis et volucribus aureis. Alia capa de rubeo satino, operata cum crucibus Sanoti Andree, cum gladiis et clavibus aureis, ac Petro et Paulo in dorso. Alia capa rubea, cum diversis ymaginibus infra circulos. 1 capa rubea, cum leopardis aureis passant et diversis ymaginibus aureis in dorso. 1 capa rubea, cum clavibus et crucibus flory aureis. 1 capa rubea, cum leopardis, lunis et steUis aureis. 1 capa rubea, cum gryffonibus et floribus de lyce ac lunis aureis. Due cape rubee, unius secte cum floribus albis de 6 poyntis. I capa rubea de antiquo velvete, cum armis Johannis de Grandis sono in le orfreis. 10 cape de rubeo satino, cum diversis orfreis. 1 capa rubea, cum leonibus et draconibus aureis. 1 capa rubea aurea, cum cokentricibus aureis et viridi talpa in le morse. 1 capa cheeky rubei et viridis coloris. Cape glaucii coloris. 2 cape de serico glaucii coloris, unius operis sine secte cum blodiis orphrais panni aurei. 2 cape de serico glaucii coloris, cum armis Johannis de Grandis sono in le morsie. 1 capa de glaucio velvete, cum annis dicti Johannis de Grandis sono. 1 capa de panno aureo glaucii coloris, cum draconibus et volu cribus aureis. 1 capa de panno aureo glaucii coloris, cum diversis armis in le orfreye. 1 capa de panno aureo glaucii coloris, cum armis Eegis et Johannis de Grandissono in capicio. 1 capa glaucii coloris de panno aureo, tyled intus blodii coloris. Capa de glaucio satino, unius secte. Cape albe. Albe due cape cum viridibus columbinys trayled. Due albe cape de damasco, cum Agnis Dei in le orfreis. _ _ Due albe cape de damasco, cum leonibus aureis nigris et rubeis m le orfreis. " i i j. • • 1 capa de albo satino, operata cum floribus de lyce et rosis m circulis. 338 APPENDIX. Due albec ape de damasco, unius secte, le orfreis de panno aureo blodio. Due albe cape de damasco, unius secte, le orfreis operate cum auro et armis Johannis de Grandissono in le morse. Due cape de albo damasco, unius secte, cum le orfreis de panno aureo trayled cum avibus. 1 capa de albo damasco, le moose de viridi velvete, cum angelo portante arma Johannis de Grandissono. Due cape de satino albo, unius secte tam in capis quam in le orphreis. 8 albe cape de fustiano, unius secte. Cape virides. 1 capa viridis panni aurei, cum pavonibus et cokentricibus aureis. 1 viridis capa, cum leonibus et griffonibus albis in panno. 1 capa viridis, cum beSauntis aureis de panno aureo. 1 capa de viridi panno aureo, cum cervis et griffonibus aureis ac volucribus in circulis. 1 capa de viridi panno aureo, cum Coronacione beate Marie in capicio. Due cape, unius secte de viridi secto cum ymaginibus Sancti Johannis Baptiste demonstrantis Agnum Dei. 1 viridis capa, operata cum arboribus et papinjays aureis. Cape pro Adventum. Tres cape de purpureo serico, quasi unius secte propter Ad ventum. Cape propter trdctus in Obitubus. 4 cape serice blodii coloris,. propter tractus in obitubus, quasi unius secte. '{ Cape nigre pro Obitubus. 5 cape de serico nigro, pro Exequiis et Missis Animarrun. S cape de russeto velvete, in omnibus quasi unius secte. 1 capa stragulata cum viridibus et rubeis palis ac cheeky, pro jiatina tenenda ante magnum altare. 1 alba capa de fustino quasi vastata, pro patena ante dictum altare tenenda. 12 cape de albo fustino, pro choristis in processionibus. 13 cape paly et parum checkety, pro choristis vastate. 1 veterata et fracta eapa de albo panno aureo, cum griffonibus et foliis aureis ac parvis floribus de lyce, le orfrey de opere acuali, operata cum diversis nodis. Due antique spisse palle serice ordinate ad cooperandas capas jacentes in triangulis ibidem. 1 draco cum baculo, ad portandum in processionibus Diebus Eoga- cionum. 1 leo, portandus in eisdem processionibus. 6 longe palme, a canonicis portande in processionibus, dominice in Eamis Palmarum. INVENTORY OP 1506. 337 _ 9 parve palme et due minores, ordinate pro eisdem processio nibus. 9 cape albe de fustino, cum rubiis orfrais cum brussis et bedis in le moos et capicio, ex dono Magistri Thome Austell, Thesaurarii. Secte de albo damasco cum capis suis. 1 secta de albo damasco, continens unam casulam, 4 tuniculos cum toto apparatu, operata cum aquilis aureis displanatis fissis, in capite, le offreis de rubeo velvete operato cum caterfoliis et angelis aureis. 10 cape ejusdem panni et quasi operis tam in fundo quam in orfreis, ex dono diversorum canonicorum. 1 capa ejusdem secte et operis exceptisque le orfreis et de opere acuali, ex dono Magistri Eicardi Eoderham. Casule cum tuniculis. 1 casida cum duobus tuniculis et peruris pro presbitero, de viridi et rubeo velvete cheeky, pro commemoracione Apostolorum Petri et PauU. 1 casula cum duobus tuniciUis de rubio panno aureo, cum pavo nibus blodiis in circulis pro Martiribus. 1 casula cum 2 tuniculis de albo damasco, pro commemoracione beate Marie. 1 casula cum 2 tunicrdis de albo damasco, pro virginibus sine regimine chori. S albe, S amicte, due stole et tres fanule, pro duabus precedentibus sectis. 1 casula cum duobus tuniculis glaucii coloris, sine albis, amictis, stolis et fanulis, pro festis Confessoram ; 9 lectionum cum regimine chori. 1 casula per se glaucii coloris cum duabus tumiculis planis de serico ejusdem coloris, pro confessoribus sine regimine chori. 1 casula nigra de Baudekyn, cum tuniculis et orfreis de blodia panno aureo, cum tribus albis, cum toto reliquo apparatu, pro omnibus obitubus ferialibus. 1 casula cum 2 tuniculis, quondam viridis coloris modo glaucii, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono, pro missis capitularibus, sine albis, stolis, amictis et pararis. 1 casula de blodio serico cum 2 tuniculis, sine aliquo alio appa ratu, pro missa — " Salus Populi." 1 casula cum 2 tuniculis de rubio satino, sine aliquo alio appar ratu, deserviens a Passione Domini usque ad Pascha. 1 casula per se de rabio satino, cum albis orfreis de panno aureo, sine alio apparatu. . 1 casula per se de purpureo serico, propter vigUiam Apostoloram, absque alio aparatu. , . . 1 blodia casula per se de panno Imeo, stayned cum rubeis rosis, propter Sexagesimam, cum duabus dalmaticis sive paruris et ahis. 1 casula de viridi serico cum 2 timiculis non tam bom colons, sine aliquibus stolis, paruris, &c. , ,, ,. 4 tuniculi de rubeo panno aureo, le orfreis de blodio panno aureo, cum quatuor albis et 4 amictis pro choristis. 338 APPENDIX. 4 tuniculi de albo baudekyn, cum orfreis de rubeo satino, cum 4 albis et amictis pro choristis. 4 tuniculi glaucii coloris, cum rubeis orfreis de bordalisaunder. 4 tuniculi de albo fustiano, cum orfrais rubiis de bordalisaunder, pro choristis. 4 tuniculi de rubio bordalisaunder cum blodio bokram operati cum glauco serico, pro choristis. 8 albe cum octo ^mictis, cum pararis diversi coloris, pro predictis 4 sectis tuniculoruin. 4 tuniculi de albo chamblott, cum floribus aureis, le orfreis de blodio satino cum floribus aureis de lyce, cum 4 albis, et 4 amictis, pro choristis. Remanent due magne ciste in dicto vestiario, quarum una triangularis pro capis con- serrandis, altera quadrata pro vestibus imponendis. Vestiarium quotidianum. Ibidem, 1 casula rubea, cum 2 tuniculis sine apparatu ac 4 capis de rabeo panno aureo cum stellis aureis, le orfreis de blodio damasco operata cum signis aureis coronatis et scriptura — " Gaudete in Domino." 1 principaUs capa, ejusdeih patmi et secte tamen, le orfreis de opere acuali, ex dono WiUielmi Courteney Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis. 1 casula rubea cum 2 tunicuUs ac toto apparatu de panno aureo, cum galeis albis coronatis cum viridibus coronis vocata Stafford Sewte, ex dono ejusdem, le orfreis de opere acuali. 1 principalis capa ejusdem panni cum orfreis de opere acuali, ex dono ejusdem. 11 cape ejusdem panni et secte, cum blodio orfreis de leonibus et hyn des aureis, ex dono ejusdem. 1 casula de rubeo velvete, pulverisata cum caterfoilys, le orfrey de bono opere acuali, cum armis Johannis de Grandissono, ex dono ejusdem. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni sine orfreis, cum tribus albis et paruris, 2 stolis et 2 fanonibus, ex dono ejusdem. 1 capa ejusdem panni, cum bono orfrey de opere acuali, ex dono ejusdem. 1 casula de rubeo panno aureo, cum orfreis de bono opere acuali, cum armis Johannis Grandissono, sine paruris, stola et fanone. '2 tuniculi ejusdem panni, sine orfreis, paruris, stolis et fanone. 1 capa ejusdem panni, cum consimili orfreis sicut in casula, ex dono dicti Domini Johannis de Grandissono, cum armis ejusdem in pectorali. 1 rubea casula, operata per totum cum crucibus Sancti Andree ac clavibus et gladiis aureis et Salutacione beate Marie in dorso de opere acuali. 2 tuniculi de rubeo damasco, ac 4 strakys aureis ante et retro, cum albis, stolis, fanonibus et paruris dissimilibus, sive diversi panni et operis, deservientibus dicte casule. 1 casula de panno aureo, rubeo cum armis Eegis et Johannis de Grandissono in le orfrey. INVENTORY OP 1506. 339 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni, sine orfreis, paruris, stolis, albis et lanonibus, ex dono Domini Johannis de Grandissono. 1 casula de rubeo satino, operata per totrum cum 1 frett ac cru- ^^ .. flowry et clavibus Sancti Petri, aureis cum orfrey viridis et blodii coloris, operatis cum crucibus flowry et clavibus aureiis. 2 trmiculi ejusdem panni sine orfreis, cum tribus albis et panuris, 1 stola et 1 fanone. 1 casula de rubeo velvete, operata cum leopardis rapant aureis cum orfrey de opere acuali cum diversis armis. 2 tuniculi ejusdem patmi sine orfreis, 1 alba cum paruris de satino, operate cum leonibus, cum 1 stola et 1 fanone. 1 bona alba cum paruris, operatis cum opere acuali de diversis armis, cum stola et fanone. 1 alba per se cum paruris rubiis, operatis cimi leonibus et aquiUs aureis, cum 1 fanone sine stola. 1 alba per se cum paruris rubeis, operatis cum leopardis aureis in circulis, ac cum amicta, stola et fanone diversi operis. 1 alba per se cum paruris rubeis, operatis cum leopardis passant et leopardis mountant aureis, cum stola et fanone operatis cmn ymagi nibus de auro in 1 trayle, et amicta cum leopardis et griffonibus aureis. 3 albe per se cum pararis, 3 amictis, 3 fanonibus et 2 stolis de piano viridi satino. 1 alba per se cum paruris amicta, 1 stola, et 1 fanone de opere acuali, cum diversis ymaginibus in diversis p^entis. 1 alba per se et cum paruris blodiis, operatis cum hominibus partitis cum bestiis in 1 trayle aurea sagittantibus ad bestias, cum amicta operata cum capitibus Eegum et Episcoporum, ac stola et fanone operatis de, opere acuali. 1 alba per se cum blodiis paruris, operatis cum griffonibus, leopardis et aquilis aureis infra cirorUos, ac stola et fanone ejusdem operis sine circulis, et amicta de blodio panno aureo. 1 alba per se cum paruris, operata cum diversis armis, ac cum 1 stola, 1 fanona et 2 amictis ejusdem operis. 1 alba per se cum paruris de panno bipartite de viridi et croceo, operato cum nodis et perUUs, cum amicta. 1 alba per se cuni paruris de purpura, operata cum diversis armis et leonibus aureis rapant, cum 1 amicta, stola et 1 fanone ejusdem operis. 3 albe cum paruris de plana purpura, S amictis, 2 stolis et 3 fanonibus, ejusdem panni. 1 capa serica cum diversis ymaginibus, vocat le Abbots Cope. 1 vetus capa cum ymaginibus et scriptura per dorsum, et 1 capa de panno aureo cum volucribus leonibus et frondibus, pro domi nicis per estatem ad matutinas. Vestimenta et Secta. 1 casula de albo panno aureo cum scaloppis, 4 tunicuUs, 4 amictis, 3 .stolis 4 fanonibus ac paruris ejusdem panni, omnes les orfreis de opere a'cuaU, ex provisione capituli, cum quinque albis. 6 cape ejusdem panni et operis in le orfreis cum casula. z 2 340 APPENDIX. 1 casula de albo velvete, operato cum steUis aureis et ymaginibus, les orfreis de opere acuali. 4 tuniculi cum quinque albis ejusdem secte cum orfreis de rabeo velvete, operati cum j-maginibus in tabemaculis aureis, et quinque amictis, 2 stolis, 4 fanonibus cum albis paruris ejusdem panni, opere acuali de Passione Domini. 1 principalis capa ejusdem patmi et operis cum orfreis, et quinque cape ejusdem pani et operis cum orfreis de rubeo velvete ut in tuni- cules, ex dono Thome Brentyngham. 1 casula alba cum branchiis rubiis et blodiis ac foliis aureis, le orfreis de opere acuali cum Eadice Jesse. 1 capa, 2 tunicule ejusdem panni et operis per totum, cum 2 stolis, 3 fanonibus, 3 amictis et tribus albis, cum paruris ejusdem panni, ex dono Edmundi Stafford Episcopi. 1 casula alba, operata cum papinjays viridibus tenentibus flores columbinas in ore, cum orfreis de opere acuali de armis Johannis de Grandissono, cum ymaginibus aureis. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni et operis, sine orfreis, albis, paruris, amictis, stolis et fanonibus. 2 cape ejusdem secte, cum orfreis de ymaginibus sine armis, operatis opere acuali, ex dono Domini Johannis de Grandissono. 1 castda alba, operata cum frondibus, foliis et floribus columbinis, et in dorso Salutacione beate Marie, Nativitatis Domini et Coronacione beate Marie. Due tunicule ejusdem panni et operis, sine albis paruiis, amictis,, stolis et fanonibus. 1 capa ejusdem panni et operisrcum oifreisde opere acuali, operata in dorso cum Coronacione beate Marie ac Tribus Eegibus Colonic, et Purificacione beate Marie, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono. 3 albe cum paruris de armis predicti Johannis de Grandissono, cum tribus amictis, 2 stolis et tribus fanonibus, ejusdem operis. 3 albe, S amicte, 2 stole et tres fanones, cum paruris de nigro satino. I alba et amicta cum paraiis cheeky velvete viridi et rabeo ac 1 stola et 1 fanona. 3 albe cum pararis de panno aureo cum volucribus et bestiis, pro commemoracione beati Petri et Martirum, cum 1 stola, 1 fanone ejusdem panni, ac 1 stola cum signis ac M. et W^. coronatis, et 2 veteribus rubeis ianonibus. 3 albe cum paruris albis, 3 amictis, 2 stole et 2 fanones, pro commemoracione Sancte Marie. 6 albe de cresseoloth sine pararis, deservientes pro Dominica in Eamis Palmarum. 10 amicte de eodum panno, pro eodem die et pro pueris, Die omnium Sanctorum, et vigilia Natalis Domini. 1 par linthiaminum de raynys pro sepulcro, ex dono Domine Matildis Courtenaye, signatum cum literis H. et C, continens in longitudine 3 virgas 3 quarteria larga et in latitudine 3 folia. 1 alba pro Puero Episcopo, Die Innocentium de Eaynes, sine paruris. 8 tuella pro coUateralibus altaris de cressecloth. INVENTORY OP 1506. 341 2 hankers deservientes pro formulis cooperiendis tempore ser monum, de blodio et rubio paly, quorum 1 in longitudine continet 4 virgas dimidium et aliud quinque virgas dimidium. In supeeiobi Vestiaeio. 1 nigra casula de satino, cum rosis aureis, le satyn figury, le orfreis de viridi satino figury cum floribus et trefoylis aureis. Duo tuniculi cmn tribus albis, 2 stolis et S fanonibus ejusdem panni et operis, cum paruris de magno velvete, ex dono Edmundi Lacy. 1 blodia casula cum pavonibus aureis et alba orfrey, operata cum armis Comitis Devonie et nodulis aureis in quadratis peciis rubeis et viridibus. 2 tuniculi sine orfreis, cum 2 stolis et 2 fanonibus, ejusdem panni et operis. 3 albis cum paruris, ejusdem panni et operis. 3 cape ejusdem panni et operis, ex dono Comitis Devon. 1 capa de blodio satino, pulverizato cum stellis aureis cum yma gine Salvatoris ostendentis vulnera sedentis in cathedra, et Spiritu Sancto de puro perle descendente super Apostolos, et Ascencione Domini, et omnes ymagines omati cum perlys. 2 tunicuU ejusdem panni et operis, cum aliis diversis ymaginibus oinatis cum perlys, sine albis, paruris, stolis et fanonibus. 1 capa ejusdem panni et operis, cum 1 oifrei de opere acuali cum Agno Dei et capitibus leopardorum factis de peryll, cum Tribus Eegibus coronatis, Salutacione beate Marie et Coronacione eciam, omata cum perle, ex dono Comitis Devon. 1 casula nigra, trayled cum blodiis floribus et parvis draconibus de auro volantibus, et orfrei de opere acuali, cum ymagine crucifixi in dorso. 2 tunicrdi, 1 stola, 2 fanones, ejuudem panni et operis, cum rubeis orfreis powdred cum pre albis et avibus albis, habentibus coUa et capita viridia, 3 albe cum paruris panni. 1 capa ejusdem panni et operis, cum orfreis de aouaU opere. 1 capula de russeto damaske et orfrei de aureo opere acuali, powdred cum rosis albis et rubeis. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni, cum paruris in eisdem de rubeo panno aureo, 2 stola, 3 fanones, 3 albe cum paruris predicti russeti panni. 1 capa ejusdem panni, cum orfrei de opere acuali ex diversis ymaginibus, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono. 1 casula de blodio satino, operato magnis nodulis griffonibus et leonibus aureis, et in dorso ymagines Crucifixi, beate Marie et Johannis, ac aliis ymaginibus aureis. 2 tuniculi, ejusdem panni et operis, sine stolis, fanonibus et albis. 1 casula de purpyll velvete, cum orfrei de opere acuali, cum diversis armis in quadrangulis. 2 tunicuU ejusdem panni, sine orfreis, stolis, fanonibus et albis. 1 capa ejusdem panni et operis, cum orfreis sicud casula, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono. 1 casula alba cum rasis aureis, le orfrei blodu colons, operata cum aquilis displanatis et scissis in capitibus. 342 APPENDIX. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni et operis, cum suis orfreis, sine stolis, fanonibus et albis. 1 capa ejusdem panni et operis cum suo orfreis. 1 casula quasi rubea cum clavibus aureis ac quasi latis de rubyn viridis coloris connexis quasi una caterfoile aureo, cmn strictis orfreis tripartites in fimbria, et summitate de opere acuali diversi coloris, cum 1 stola et 1 fanone ejusdem panni. 1 alba et 3 amictis cum paruris ejusdem panni. I capa ejusdem panni cum orfreis de opere acuali, operata cum diversis armis, ex dono Walteri Stapyldon. 1 casula de blodio et rabeo panno, operato cum armis et leonibus et flowre de lysez in diveris quadratis, infra 1 frett album pulveri- zatum cum rotis calca,rium de auro, le orfrey de opere acuali operatis cum diversis nodis de viridi et albo. 2 tuniculi, non ejusdem panni, deservientes tamen dicte casule, de blodio et albo panno aureo, cheeky cmn leonibus rubiis et aureis rampant. 1 stola, 1 fanone, 1 alba et 1 amiota, ac paruris de rabeo et blodio panno aureo, cheeky de flowre de lyce et leopardis. 1 alba, 1 amicta, 1 stola et 1 fanona, cum paruris quasi rubiis cum leopardis passant, infra 1 Frett de blodio, pulverizato cum flowre de lysez aureis. 1 casula de purpyll panno aureo, plena per totum cum parvis be- sauntis aureis, orfreis de albo, opere acuali tripartite in summitate et fimbria cum nodis aureis in peciis quadratis. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni et operis, sine alba, amicta, stola, fanone et paruris. 1 casula viridis serici, operata per totum cum diversis armis, cum 1 stricto orfrei aureo. 1 casula viridis de panno aureo, cum bobus et avibus ac frondibus aureis, le orfrei de purpyll panno aureo cum 2 episcopis auro, operatis in fimbriis dicti orfrei. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni et operis, sine orfreis, 1 stola, 1 fanona, 1 amicta et 1 alba, cum paruris ejusdem panni. 1 casula de viridi panno aureo, cum papynjays, fiowre de lysez, canibus et arboribus aureis, le orfrey albi coloris, operata cum nodis aureis in diveris coloribus. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni et operis, sine orfreis, cum 1 alba et amicta, cum paruris ejusdem panni, ac 1 stola et 1 fanona pro eadem casula alterius panni. 1 casula de satino glaucii coloris, cum rubeo orfrey larga circa humeros, operata cum diversis ymaginibus aureis sedentibus in cathedris et angelis, cum thuribulis aureis. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni, sine orfreis et sine albis, amictis, stolis, fanonibus et paruris. 1 casula de panno aureo, glaucii coloris, cum aquUis displanatis et aliis fantasiis aureiis in curulis, le orfrey pro parte posteriori de diversis peciis rubeis et albis, cum albis et rubiis peryllis et 20 peciis argenteis rotundis et deauratis. 2 tuniculi sine orfrais alterius panni, deservientes dicte casule, de panno aureo, paly et cheeky blodii coloris in les palis, cum INVENTORY OF 1506. 343 aureis fimbriis de opere acuali, 1 stola et fanona, 1 alba, 1 amicta, cum pararis de panno casule, ex dono Walteri Stapyldon. 1 casula de pamio aureo, glaucii coloris, cum floribus in xsarvis cu-culis et le orfrey de opere acuali, cum diversis armis super panno viridi operatis. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni, sine orfreis et sine stolis, fanonibus, amictis et albis. 1 casula alba de panno aureo, cum griffonibus aureis, et in dorso Salutaoio beate Marie stantis in tabemaculis cum orfrey tripartita in summitate, et fimbriis de opere aotuaU, aureo de diversis nodis. 2 tunicuU ejusdem panni, sine orfreis, sine stolis et fanonibus, cum paruris in fimbriis tuniculorum de purpyll panno aureo, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono. 1 casula, in qua consecratus erat Johannes de Grandissono, de albo panno, aureo cum avibus albis habentibus ca]pita et pedes aureis, cum le orfrey de opere acuali, continente diversas ymagines in circulis. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni, sine orfreis, cum paruris in tuniculis de panno aui-eo, sine stolis, fanonibus, amictis, albis et paruiis, ex dono dicti Johannis de Grandissono. 1 capa ejusdem panni, le orfrey de opere acuali, cum diversis ymaginibus et nodulis de parvis peryllis, et 4 lapidibus viridibus, ex dono ejusdem. 1 casula de rubeo satino, operata cum nubibus chorus cantibus aureis ac scriptura " Dominus mihi adjutor," le orfrey de blodio velvete, operatum de opere acuali, cum archangelis cum poperd heddis per totum circuitum. 1 stola, 1 fanona, 1 amicta, 1 alba, cum paruris ejusdem panni et operis, ex dono Edmundi Lacy. 2 tuniculi alterius panni de rubeo panno aureo, le orfreys de blodio satino figury, operatum cum aquUis aureis displanatis, 1 stola, 2 fanones, 2 amicte, 2 albe, cum pararis ejusdem panni, ex dono executorum domini Eicardi Helyer, nuper Archidiaconi Cor nubie. 1 larga casula de piano purpyll, cum orfreis de opere acuali, tri- partitim in summitate et fimbrus, operato cum pluribus nodis de puro peryll in eisdem, et similiter operato cum hujusmodi peryU per totum circuitum, 1 stola et 1 fanona, I amicta et 1 alba, cum pararis eciam, sic operatis cum peryll, ex dono Domini Johannis de Grandissono. 1 casula larga de purpyll satyn, le orfrey de stncto panno aureo de opere acuali, cum parvis volucribus albis. 2 dalmatice ejusdem panni, cum albis orfreis strictis de opere acuali, sine stolis, fanonibus, amictis, albis et pararis, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono. 1 casula rabea de piano satino, cum orfrey de opere aculi aureo, et 1 bend auri per circuitum. . 2 dalmatice ejusdem panni, cum strictis albis orfreis, sine stolis, fanonibus, amictis, albis et paruris, ex dono Johannis de Grandis- ^°Tcasula de piano rubio satino, le orfrey tripartitim in summitate 344 APPENDIX. et fimbriis simUiter cum una cruce braunchyd de opere acuali auro, operatis cum 3 amatistis, 2 perulis, ac aliis minoribus perulis in quinque circulis. 1 larga casula, usitata in Dominicis Adventus et Quadragesime, de purpuU, operata per totum opere acuali, cum_ magnis bestiis aureis in circulis aureis ac minoribus diversis bestus inter circulos aureos, cum stricto aureo orfrey in pectore. 1 casula in blodio satino, cum lunis et poynted caterfoUez aureis, le orfrey cfrca humeros operata cum bestiis et avibus aureis infra nodulos, omatos per circuitus cum parvis perlys et lapidibus vitrinis. 1 casula de nigro serico, pro Die Paraschive, cum I orfrey quasi rubii coloris, cum cracifixo pendente in viridi cruce, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono. 1 casula de blodio panno aurea operata per circuitum fimbrie in 1 trayle aureo, cum poperdys heddys albis, le orfrey de opere acuali, operatum cum Assumpcione beate Marie ac aliis diversis ymaginibus omatis cum peryll. 2 tuniculi ctmi orfreis, 2 stolis, 3 fanonibus, 3 albis, 3 amictis ac pararis, ejusdem panni et operis. 3 cape ejusdem panni et operis, cum diversis ymaginibus, ex dono Edmundi Lacy. 1 casula blodii panni aurei tissiwe, cum orfrey de opere acuaU, operata cum Crucifixo, tribus angelis cfrca cracem tenentibus calices. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni et operis, cum alus ymaginibus. 1 stola, 3 fanonibus, 3 amictis, 3 albis, cum pararis ejusdem panni, ac I stola de alio panno aureo blodio, due cape ejusdem panni et operis cum aliis ymaginibus, ex dono Edmundi Lacy. 1 casula de purpyll panno aureo tissiwe, le orfrey de opere acuali, operata cum Crucifixio cum rotulo albo et nigris literis i ¦ n • E • i super crucem, cum aliis ymaginibus in eodem orfrey, duo tuniculis ejusdem panni et operis operati cum diversis ymaginibus in eodem orfrey, cum tribus amictis, 2 albis cum paruris ejusdem panni, ac 2 stolis, 3 fanonibus, 1 alba cum paruris de alio panno aureo rubeo, ex dono Edmundi Lacy. 3 cape ejusdem panni et operis, cum aliis diversis ymaginibus in le orfrey, ex dono dicti Domini Edmundi Lacy. 1 casula de panno aureo rabeo tissiwe, operata per circuitum ctun albis poperdys heddys, les orfrey de opere acuali, operato in dorso cum Trinitate, viz., Pafre, Spiritu Sancto, et Crucifix:o, ornata cum grosso peryll, et aliis ymaginibus in eodem sic omatis. 1 alia casula ejusdem panni et operis per circuitum, le orfray de opere acuali, operatum cum Ascencione Domini, cum rotulo super capud scriptum cum nigris Uteris, " Hie est Filius meus dilectus," cum aUis ymaginibus omatis cum grosso peryU. 4 tuniculi ejusdem panni et operis, operati cum diversis aliis ymaginibus et quatuor grossis peryU, 6 fanones, 9 amicte, 6 alba cum paruris ejusdem panni sine peryll et ymagine. Cape rubee. 4 cape ejusdem panni, quaram due operantur in pectorali INVENTORY OP 1506. 345 cum poperdys heddys de peryll, et omes 4 operata in le orfreis ctmi diversis ymaginibus, omatis cum grosso peryll, ex dono Edmundi Lacy. 1 capa de argentea tissiwe, le orfrey de blodio velvete, operata de opere acuali cum floribus de lysez aureis et angelis aureis ac aliis parvis foliis, ex dono Edmundi Lacy. 1 capa de rubeo panno aureo, cum floribus aureis, le orfrey de panno aureo russati tissiwe, cum 1 bordyll per circuitum de blodio panno aureo, ex dono Magistri Henrici Webber Decani. 1 capa de rubeo velvete, operata de opere acuali, cum armis Johannis de Grandissono in cfrculis aureis grayled, le orfrey de purpyU velvete operata de opere acuali cum diversis ymaginibus stantibus in tabemaculis aureis operata cum pynsheds de puro auro, ex dono Johannis Grandissono. 1 capa, vulgariter vocata Capa Sancti Petri, operata per totum cum opere acuali de Passione Domini ac diversis aliis passionibus sanctorum, ac in le orfrey operata cum puro peryll in capidibus leopardorum synkfoilez et ymaginibus, ex dono Johannis de Gran dissono. 1 capa de rabeo panno aureo de draconibus volantibus ac tenent ibus caudas proprias in ore, le orfrey de opere acuali, operata cum ymaginibus aureis stantibus in tabemaculis aureis, ac cum Eesur rectione Dominica in capicio. 1 capa de rubeo panno aureo cum leonibus parvis cuniculis et misis aureis, cum magnis frondibus viridibus, le orfrey de opere acuaU operata cum 2 ymaginibus insimul, stantibus in tabemaculis aureis, ex dono Magistri Johannis Orum. 1 capa de rubeo damasco, operata de opere acuali cum radicibus aureis ac nubibus blodiis chorustantibus aureis, et "Jesus'' scriptus in medio, le orfrey de opere acuali operata cum ymaginibus et 1 stogyn de armis in pectoraU, ex dono Willielmi Pylton omata cum peryU in capicio. 1 capa de albo damasco, ejusdem operis et armis, omatis cum peryll in capicio, ex dono ejusdem. 2 capie ruble de panno aureo cum draconibus aureis tenentibus trayles aureos in ore ao les orfreys de blodio opere acuali, operata cum literis J. et M. et Caterfoyles de puro peryU, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono. . 1 capa de panno aureo nigro cum magnis pavonibus et griffonibus habentibus c^jpita aurea et pedes aureos, le orfrey de opere acuali operata cum diversis ymaginibus, cum tribus botons argenteis albis in pectorali. 1 capa de panno aureo rubeo cum figuris stantibus super cimbas subtus 1 fronde, le orfrey de opere acuali, cum rotuUs argenteis sme literiis, operatis inter diversas ymagines. _ 1 capa rabea de panno aureo cmn bestiis et avibus stantibus inter duo folia, le orfrey de rabeo velvete operata de opere acuali, cum ymaginibus stantibus in tabemaculis aureis et corone auree inter tabemacula, ex dono Johannis Lugans. 2 cape rabie de panno aureo cum leonibus, griffonibus et canibus aureis provenientibus de blodiis et albis nubibus cum rotulis in 346 APPENDIX. pedibus, le orfrey de opere acuali operata cum ymaginibus capitibus in igne jacentibus in uno orfrey et diversis ymaginibus operatis infra tabemacula de serico, ex dono Episcopi Brantyngham. 1 capa rubia de panno aureo cum albis hyndis ligatis ad arborem aureum cum foliis aureis et rotulis in medio, le orfrey de opere acuali operata cum ymaginibus stantibus in tabemaculis sericis altis, ex dono Domini Thome Barton. 1 antiqua bona capa per totum de opere acuali operata cum diversis ymaginibus in magnis circiUis et maremaydis et aliis fan tasiis in minoribus circulis, le orfrey ejusdem operis cmn arboribus rubus et viridibus, ex dono Walteri Stapyldon Episcopi. 1 veterata capa glaucii coloris, de opere acuali operata in dorso cum Coronacione beate Marie et Passione Sancti Edmundi Eegis, ac leopardis aureis passant et le orfrey operata cum diversis armis, ex dono Eicardi Wydeslade. 1 capa de rubio satino de opere acuali operata cum Jesses more, le orfrey ejusdem operis cum ymaginibus stantibus in tabemaculis, ex dono Thome Bytton Episcopi. 1 capa de rabeo satino operate per totum cum ymaginibus stanti bus in tabemaculis aureis viridibus papynjays tenentibus trefoylis aureis in ore, le orfrey ejusdem operis cum ymaginibus diversis stantibus in tabemaculis et avibus super tabemacula, ex dono Magistri Johannis Vele. 2 cape rabie de panno aureo cum signis tenentibus frondem in ore, le orfrays de blodio panno aureo trayled cum floribus aureis. 3 cape ruble de panno aureo cum floribus aureis infra trayle, sine circulis, cum 1 orfrey de panno aureo blodio ut supra. 1 capa de panno aureo rabeo cum 1 bestia aurea in scripturam oblongam, le orfrey ut proxima supra. 2 cape de panno aureo rabeo cum trayles et leonibus aureis, le orfrey ut proxime supra. 1 capa de purpyll satino piano, le orfrey de opere acuali operata cum angelis, griffonibus, draconibus et aliis avibus diversis operis, et armis in pectorali Johannis de Grandissono, ex dono ejusdem. 1 casula de panno aureo rubeo cum ymaginibus, viz. : — beate Marie, Johannis Evangaliste, et Sancte Barbare in le orfrey trayled de grene velvete cum synkfoylis albis et rubeis, ex dono Thome Harris Archidiaconi Cornubie. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni et operis. 3 albe cum 3 amictis cum paruris, ejusdem panni. 3 cape quasi ejusdem panni et operis, cum Salutacione beate Marie, in capicio tercia cum ymagine Patris sedentis panno lineo utrisque manibus tenentis in capicio dicte cape, ex dono supradicti Magisfri Thome Harris. I capa de rabeo panno aureo cum blodio panno aureo in fimbriis ac Salutacione beate Marie in capicio, ex dono Domini Thome Webber. 1 casula de purpyU velvete cum floribus et angelis aureis tenen tibus scripturam in manibus scUicet " Da gloriam Deo," ac cum ymagine Crucifixi in le orfrais cum duobus angelis tenentibus calices ad suscepcionem sanguinis Christi, cum Spfritu Sancto in summitate INVENTORY OP 1506. 347 dicte crucis, et armis Magistri Thome Austell sub pede ejusdem, ex dono dicti Magistri Thome Austell Ecclesie hujus Thesaurarii. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni et operis, 3 albe, 3 amicte cum reliquo apparatu dicte, casule et tuniculis deservientibus, ex dono dicti Thome AusteU. 1 capa ejusdem panni cum Assumpcione beate Marie in capicio cum floribus aureis et quinque angelis in dorso ejusdem ; quoram medius tenet hanc scripturam utrisque manibus " Da gloriam Deo," ex dono dicti Thome AusteU. 1 capa rubea de panno aureo cum avibus aureis volantibus inter flores aureos, le orfrey viridis coloris operata de opere acuali, cum griffonibus aureis in panno blodio infra circulum pui-pureum, pulver- izatum, cum duplicibus rosis aureis et argenteis, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono. Due cape de crymsyn velvete cum floribus aureis, le orfreys de opere acuali, cum hoc scriptura in .pectorali " Orate pro anima Wil lielmi Elyott," ex dono ejusdem. Cape albe. 1 capa de albo satino operata de opere acuali cum pluribus armis Johannis de Grandissono pendentibus in traylez aureis, le orfrey ejusdem operis cum diversis ymaginibus stantibus in tabemaculis sericis et avibus diversis super tabemacula, ex dono dicti Johannis de Grandissono. 1 capa de albo satino operata de opere acuali cum diversis ymagi nibus infra 1 trayle cum clavibus et crucibus aureis moleyne, le orfrey ejusdem operis cum diversis armis, ex dono Walteri Stapyldon. 1 capa de albo satino operata de opere acuali cum 1 frett aureo, et infra idem frett 1 frons virides cum rosa rubea, le orfrey ejusdem operis cum ymaginibus stantibus in tabemacrdis sericis, cum scrip tura nominum supra eorum capita. 1 capa de albo panno aureo cum diversiis bestus, avibus et rosis aureis, ac rosiis et folus viridibus, le orfrey de opere acuaU cum 1 frett aureo nodoso, et infra albis rosis argenteis cum tribus botons argenteis, deauratis in pectorali cum armis Johannis de Grandissono, ex dono ejusdem. 2 cape de panno albo aureo cum barris aureis dauncy et denty et flowre de lycez aures, le orfrey de rubeo velvete operato de opere acuali cum angelis aureis stantibus infra nodes virides grayled, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono. 1 veterata capa de albo satino operata de opere acuali cum papyn jays aureis et rosis rubiis, cum magna ymagine beate Marie in dorso cum puero in brachiis ae Petro et Paulo stantibus in tabernaculis prope orfrey de opere acuali cum nodis aureis et Agnis Dei argenteis. -v ¦ j, 1 alba capa de panno aureo cum diversis avibus volantibus inter trayles aureos et flores aureos, le orfrey de rubeo damasco opera,ta de opere acuali cum rosis aureis ac ostryge fethers msertis m rosis, ex dono Magistri Johannis Holond. . . i 1 capa de albo damasco cum duobus leonibus msimul prospicien- tibus et duobus draoonibus paxiformiter respicientibus, le orfrey de 348 APPENDIX. opere acuali de diversis coloribus cum griffonibus, aquilis aureis infra circulos albos et aureos, grayled ac diversis minoribus avibus extra circulos. Quinque cape unius secte de panno albo aureo cum floribus aureis ac parvis avibus aureis tenentibus ramum aureum in ore, cum cater foyles rubeis, le orfrey de blodio panno aureo. 1 principalis capa de panno albo aureo cum frondibus, floribus et papynjays aureis stantibus inter flores, le orfrey de opere acuali operata cum ymaginibus infra tabemacula serica et supra singula tabemacula duo parvi angeli. Due cape ejusdem panni, le orfreis de opere acuali operata cum tribus leopardis et armis Johannis de Grandissono, ex dono ejusdem. 4 cape unius secte de alb(5 panno aureo cum bestiis ad instar hir- corum cum alis et leonibus aureis, le orfreis de opere acuali operata cum armis Johannis de Grandissono et aimis de 3 feusillis rubeis et 2 leopardora leopardis et armis Johannis de Grandissono, ex dono ejusdem. 1 capa de albo damasco cmn aquiUs aureis displanatis et avibus aureis et fimbriis aureis, cum blodiis orfreis et displanatis aquilis aureis in le orfreis, ex dono Magistri Doctoris Sylke Precentoris. 1 capa de albo damasco cum aquUis et angelis aureis tenentibus in manibus " Gloria in excelsis," et avibus aureis, le orfreis de blodio colore et aquUis aureis displanatis in le orfreis, ex dono Magistri William Elyott Archidiaconi Bamastopol. 1 alia capa absque avibus ejusdem coloris et operis tam in capa quam in le orfreis cum fimbriis de rabeo tissiwe, ex dono ejusdem. Alia capa de albo damasco cum aquUis aureis displanatis cum scriptura scilicet nominis beate Marie in diversis locis, cum diversis ymaginibus in tabemacuUs, in le orfreis aureis cum Coronacione beate Marie in capicio, ex dono Magisfrorum Eoberti et Willielmi Aschu. 2 cape unius secte de albo damasco cum aquilas aureis displanatis cum diversis ymaginibus in.le orfreis cum Salutacione beate Marie in capiciis, ex dono diversorum canonicorum. 1 capa de panno albo aureo cum armis diversorum dominorum in le orfrey cum Coronacione beate Marie in capicio, ex dono Magistri Johannis Comb nuper Precentoris. Alia capa de panno albo aureo cum armis Domini Johannis Morton nuper Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, do panno aureo in le orfrey, ex dono ejusdem. Cape blodie. Due cape de blodio satino operate de opere acuali cum angelis aureis habentibus " Alas" in capite et in corpore cum roti.s rotundis sub pedibus, le orfrey de opere acuali operata cum ymaginibus et angelis stantibus infra trayles grayled, quaram 1 ex dono Eicardi de Colyton et alia Eicardi Norys. 1 capa nigra vestata operata per botum de opere acuali cum ymaginibus prope orfrey leonibus, griffonibus, scaleppis et nodis INVENTORY OF 1506. 349 aureis flowry, le orfrey de panno aureo acuali, pulverizata cum nodis diyersoram coloram, ac 2 peciis argenteis in pectorali, ex dono Willielmi Bruer Episcopi. 1 capa de blodio satino operata per totum de opere acuali cum Petro et Paulo in dorso, ac 1 trayle cum clavibus aureis et argenteis, le orfrey de opere alba acuali operata cum nodis aureis super blodeo viridi et rubeo. 1 blodia capa de satino de opere acuali per totum operata cum regibus, episcopi, et aliis ymaginibus sedentibus in foliis aureis infra circulos aureos et infra circulos scripture auree, le orfrey de albo opere acuali pulverizato cum parvis avibus et trayles cum flowre de lysez albo, ex dono Willielmi Brewer Episcopi. 1 blodia capa de panno aureo cum frondibus habentibus rosulas albas et rabea et folia ad instar nodoram", le orfrey de opere acuali operata cum vita Sancti Johannis Baptiste, ex dono Magistri Eoberti Daggiscomb. I capa de blodio panno aureo cum avibus aureis volantibus et vertentibus dorsa insimul inter flores aureos rubeos et albos trayled, le orfrey de opere acuali operatum per totum super blodio cum auro unius operis et aquila tenente arma Johannis de Grandissono in pectorali, ex dono dicti Johannis de Grandissono. 1 capa de blodio tissiwe cum ymagine Sancte Katerine in sum mitate et tribus aliis ymaginibus ex eadem parte in le orfrey ao cum ymagine beate Marie Magdalene cum tribus aliis ymaginibus in le orfreis ex altera parte cum Assumpcione beate Marie in capicio. Alia capa ex consimili panno cum ymagine Sancti Pauli in capicio et cum armis in pectorali. Alia capa de blodio . tissiwe cum Tribus Eegibus Colonic in capicio, ex dono Magistri Jacobi Hamlyn. 1 consimUis capa cum Tribus Eegibus Colonic in capicio ac ymagine Sancti Nicholai in pectorale, cum scriptura nominis, Ma gistri Nicholai Gosse, ex dono ejusdem. Consimilis capa, cum ymagine Salvatoris in pectorali et Nativi tate Domini in capicio. _ ... 1 consimilis capa, cum ymagine Sancti Johannis Baptiste in pectorali et cum Salutacione beate Marie Virginis in capicio. 1 consimUis capa cum ymagine Sancti Andree in summitate le orfray ex una parte et ymagine Sancte AppoUonie in le orfrey ex alia parte, cum Assumpcione beate Marie in capicio. 1 consimilis capa, cum ymagine Sancti Edmundi in summitate le orfrey ex una parte et cum ymagine Sancti Edwardi in summitate le ¦ orfrey ex alia parte, cum Coronacione beate Marie in capicio, et ymagine Sancti Pauli in pectorali. 1 capa de blodio velvete cum mantellis aureis et le rassett tissiwe in le orfrey et pectorali. Cape nigre cum casulis. 1 casula de nigro velvete cum rabeo velvete in le orfrey. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni et secte. 3 albe et 3 amicte, cum toto apparatu. S cape, ejusdem panni et secte. 350 APPENDIX. Cape jmrpurie. Due cape plane de purpyll damasco, le orfrey de opere acuali operata cum diversis ymaginibus stantibus infra columpnas sericas cum armis Johannis de Grandissono et armis Comitis Sarum in pec torali, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono. Panni quadragesimales. Duo panni, vocati le " Lent Cloth," unius sortis cum scriptura in summitate, " Querite Dominum dum," &c. 1 pannus linens, stayned cum cruce et aliis signis de Passione Domini pro cruce cooperiendi in choro. 1 pannus stragulatus, cum magna mbea cruce per medium, operatus cum leopardus glaucii coloris, pro magna cruce coope rienda. 1 longum pulvinare de rubro baudekyn pro sedili episcopali. SEQurrrm DmEKSARUM rerum Intentarium que novo Scaccario CONTINENTUR. Missalia cum aliis Libris. 1 Missale, secundo folio, " Induantur." 1 liber vocatus ' Eeportorium Domini Johannis Myles,' 2 fo., c. I, " Et idem." Summa angelica, 2 fo., " Absoluoione." Statuta Eegis Anglie, 2 fo., " Pursuit dni." 1 Legenda Sanctorum, ex dono Domini Johannis de Grandissono, 2;fo., " Lex et verbum." Alia Legenda de Temporall, ex dono ejusdem, 2 fo., " Cum non possint." 1 CoUeetarium pulcrum, 2 fo., " Filii ejus." 1 Legenda, de dono Magistri Willielmi Ponnestoke, 2 fo., " Am judices." 1 Legenda de Sanctis, ex dono Johannis de Grandissono, 2 fo., " Possidere videbantur." Mitre et Baculi pastorales. 1 pectorale de argento deaurato cum ymagine Deitatis in medio sedentis, librum sinistri manu tenentis et dexfra manu benedicentis, cum ymagine beati Petri in dextra parte et Sancti Pauli in sinistra, cum quatuor Evangelistis per cfrctutum, et quatuor viridibus lapi dibus cum cracifixo Maria et Johanne ex altera parte. 1 mitra blodii coloris cum diversis lapidibus positis in argento deaurato, operata cum parvis perlys. 1 mitra alba de serico albo, operata cum 12 ymaginibus ac perlys et 33 lapidibus preciosis in mitra et 41 in le labellis. 1 mitra alba, cum duabus coronis spineis ex 1 parte et 2 ex altera in fimbriis, et utraque parte deaurata absque labelUs. 1 baculus ligneus cum tribus pecus argenteis, pro episcopi Sancti Nicholai. 1 crax pastoralis argentea deaurata, continens INVENTORY OP 1506. 351 lapides in capite, cum ymagine in medio sedente et librum manu sinistra tenente. 1 vetus par Cyrothecarum cum 2 ochys operatis de perle, et duobus knoppys argenteis deauratis. Oche pro manu Episcopi, continens 6 lapides preciosos, quia 1 perditur. Pectorale argenteum cum ymagine beate Marie deaiuate et 37 lapides preciosi. 1 coUare pro Episcopo, operatum cum auro, continens 12 lapides preciosi et knoppis de argento. 1 coUare de panno aureo cum 8 lapidibus preciosis. 1 pectorale argenteum et deauratum, cum 9 lapidibus ex 1 parte cum cupro ex alia parte. 2 paria sandaliorum. 1 corporale cum casa. Corporalia. Pallia. 1 paUium blodium cum volucribus aureis et scriptura blodea circa coUum. 1 paUium blodium cum volucribus in aqua et hawks habentibus rubeum florem supra dorsum. 1 pallium nigrum cum albis leopardis et leporibus. 1 aliud simUe paUium coloris viz. et operis. Casule cum fronte. 1 casula de rabeo serico paled, duplicata cum viridi sarcenett. 1 casula de tawny velvete cum cruce de rabio velvete. 1 front cum leonibus aureis et avibus blodeis, cum 1 cruce de albo serico et foliis aureis in medio. 1 pecia de viridi damasco. Due pecie de blodio tissiwe. 1 pecia de nigro chamlett. Libri in Antiquo Scaccario. 1 Legenda de Temporall, 2 fo., " Consensu non superat." 1 Antiphonale, 2 fo., " Quorandam etenim." 1 CoUeetarium, 2 fo., " Nostras et tocius noctis." ^^ 1 Legenda de Temporall, 2 fo., " Kalenda nostras." 1 liber Leofrici primi Exoniensis Episcopi, 2 fo., "Benedictio anuli." . . ,, 1 Evangelium et Epistolare, 2 fo., " Lite mgemissere. 1 Biblia, 2 fo., " Tes bonum et malum." 1 Pontificale, 2 fo., " Qui hoc modo." 1 liber Conclusionem Innocencii, 2 fo., " Expressa ex tenore. 1 CoUeetarium, 2 fo., " Nostroram periculis." 1 Pontificale, 2 fb., " Custodi pro quo mundo. 1 Manuale, 2 fo., " Tuam super hos cereos. 1 CoUeetarium, 2 fo., per omnia in littens aureis. 352 APPENDIX. 1 Ordinale ' Johannis de Grandissono, 2 fo., " Nativitate beate Virginis." 1 parvum Ordinale, 2 fo., " Cracem." 1 Missale, scUicet Usum Eomanoram, 2 fo., " Placare." 1 parvum Missale, 2 fo., " Mundicia." 1 CoUeetarium, 2 fo., "Nostra in." 1 liber vocatus ' Casus Bemardini,' 2 fo., " Cum fuerint." 1 avis cuprea et ammellata" stans super coronam. 1 antiqua crux cuprea, cum ymagine Cracifixi et 4 lapidibus cris- tallinis. 30 libri antiqui. 4 baculi, pro pallio portando super corpus Dominicum in Die Corporis Christi. Due tabule mensales, deservientes in obitubus nobUium. Due antique palUe auree, ad capas cooperiendas in superiori vestiario. Capella beate Marie. 1 calix argenteus deauratus, embosyd in pede cum frondibus et ymagine Potestatis in patena sedentis super nubum, cum 4 Evan gelistis in circuitu inferiori scriptis per circuitum exteriorem. 1 calix cum patena argenteus et deauratus, enameled in pede cum 6 ymaginibus, et subter dictas ymagines scuta pro armis inscripta per circulum, et in patena Majestas enameled benedicens et machi- nam mundi tenens. Due phiole argentee albe cooperate tantnim deaurate per les bordells. 1 magna pelvis argentea deaurata in le bordell cum rosis in 1 trayle, et cum parva rosa enameled infra magnam rosam deau- ratam.^ 1 parva pelvis alba argentea, cum rosa in fundo et scriptura in le border per totum.* 1 thuribulum argenteum et deauratum, cum quatuor cathenis albis argenteis, aliud thuribulum ejusdem secte et operis. Duo candelabra alba argentea cum armis Johannis de Grandis sono, et duobus aliis armis cum rma cruce engrayled de campo de ermyn. 1 navis argentea pro incenso, cum 1 cocliare parvo argenteo. 1 parva crux cum crucifixo, et alia cruce in summitate ejusdem de cupro deaurato, operata cum novem lapidibus. 1 textus cum cracifixo argenteo Maria et Johanne, deaurato cmn quatuor Evangeliis in quatuor angulis, 2 fo. in libro, " Ad pruden tiam justorum." 1 parva pelvis de stagno. 1 OS capitis Sancti Nicasii Episcopi inclusum in argento, deau rato ex parte exteriori operato cum sex lapidibus et in parte ' This is not the Ordinale now in the Cathedral which commences fo. 2, " Fami- liarem recipere." * These two pelves seem to be the gift of the Precentor Roger Bolton. See his Will, dated gth June, 1436, and proved llth December that year. 'Lacy's Keg.' vol. INVENTORY OF 1506. 353 posteriori cum tribus ymaginibus albis portantibus capita ia manibus. Eeliquie Sanctorum Pauli, Thome, et Laurencii, inoluse ex una parte in laminibus argenteis et ex altera parte operata cum quatuor lapidibus et dimidio angeli deaurati. Ossa Sancte Marie Magdalene, inserta in laminibus argenteis ex una parte deauratis trayled operatis cum tribus lapidibus et ex aUa parte cum ymagine dicte Marie enameled. Eeliquie, viz. : Ossa inclusa ad modum crucis in laminibus argen teis deauratis ex ima parte et alia parte albis cum uno rotundo bireUo. 1 parva crux deaurata, continens particulam Sancte Crucis, pon deris 2 quarterium unius uncie. 1 parva crux argentea deaurata, continens 1 alia parva crux argentea alba, continens . . . 1 pectorale de ebore integrum et unum fractum. Sudaria. Unum album sudaritmi sericum stragulatum de rubeo et auro. 1 sudarium de russeto serico operatum de se cum vfridibus et rubeis barrys. Case cum Corporalibus. Una casa cum cuchyU, dupUcata cum panno lineo operata cum diversis armis opere acuali, cum sex diversis corporalibus in eadem. 1 casa cum corporali de opere acuali, operata ex una paite cum crucifixo Maria et Johanne et ex aUa parte cum cruce de rubyn aureo, 2 coronis et 2 steUis aureis super rubrum. 1 casa cum corporali de opere acuali, ex una parte cum ymagine Sancti Petri et ex alia pannus glaucii coloris. 1 casa, absque corporali, de rabeo velvete, operata ex una parte cum Coronacione beate Marie et ex altera parte cum Salutacione ejusdem. 1 casa cum corporali, operata ex utraque parte de opere acuali cum diversis armis. 1 casa cum corporali de nigro velvete cum baculo Sancti Jacobi, cum 4 literis W. ex una parte. 1 casa de nigro velvete cum 4 corporalibus. 1 casa de bordalysaunder, absque corporali. Missalia cum ceteris LAbris. 1 Missale pro diversis missis beate Marie celebrandis per annum post tabula, 2 fo., " In die pas." . ^^ 1 Missale, 2 fo., post Kalendare, " Tue visitaciom. 1 parvum ac novum Missale, 2 fo., " Missam de." 1 integram Missale, 2 fo., post Kalendare, '_' Sionem. 1 liber Organicus, cum armis Eogeri Keys, in tercio to. Alius liber Organicus, 2 fo., " Domine Fill." Alius liber Organicus, 2 fo., "Kyrie." 2 A 354 APPENDIX. 1 liber continens Epistolas et Evangelia ibidem cantanda per annum, 2 fo., post Kalendare, " Cum ad vineam." 1 Gradale ex parte Decani, 2 fo., " Ficacionem." 1 Gradale ex parte Precentoris, 2 fo., " De Thalamo." 1 vetus Gradale, 2 fo., "Verbum." 1 liber papiri regalis de prycksong, 2 fo., "Et in tena." Fronts et Frontelle cum tuellis. 1 front de panno albo aureo cum rabeo satino in medio operato de opere acuali cum Salutacione beate Marie. 1 fronteUa pro eadem de panno aureo, cum 4 pecus aureis in eadem, de opere acuali cum tuello annexo. 1 tuellum de veteri serico cum barris diversi coloris in ufroque fine, pro eisdem front et fronteUa. 1 front de albo damasco, operata de opere acuali cum steUis et ymaginibus, viz. : Crucifixi, Marie et Johannis in medio, ex dono Edmundi Lacy. 1 fronteUa ejusdem panni et operis, cum 1 tuello de diaper annexo, ex dono ejusdem Edmundi Lacy. 1 tuellum de panno lineo, operatum de opere acuali cum diversis bestiis et avibus rubeis sericis. 1 front de albo serico, stragulato per totum Eaybarrys diversi coloris. 1 front de viridi serico operato ad modum palle. 1 fronteUa de albo damasco cum steUis aureis, et barris de opere acuali, cum tueUo annexo de diaper. 1 front rubea, cum ymaginibus quondam aureis, cum tuello de canvas annexo, pro tempore Quadragesimali. 1 fronteUa de veteri opere acuali, cum armis Johannis de Gran dissono in unico loco, eum veteri consmnpto tueUo annexo. Vestimenta. 1 nova casula de albo damasco, le orfrey de rubeo velvete operata de opere acuali cum floribus vfridibus. Duo tuniculi ejusdem panni et operis, ctmi pararis, 3 albe, 3 amicte, 2 stole et 2 fanones, ejusdem panni, ex dono Eadulphi Morewyll et capituli. 1 casula de albo damasco, le orfrey de opere acuali operata cum armis Johannis de Grandissono et leopardis in diversis modis. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni, cum parvis orfreis de opere acuaU operato per latera, 3 albe, 3 amicte, cum magnis pararis de opere acuali, videlicet in 1 alba operata cimi diversis armis, cum amicta quadratis. Alia cum diversis armis quadrangulatis, cum amicta et tercia alba de albo serico, operata cum tribus ymaginibus de opere acuali et amicta, cum 6 ymaginibus parvis, 1 stola, 1 fanon ejusdem panni, operata cum ymaginibus, 1 casula de albo serico cum orfrey tripartita de opere acuali, operata cum auro et nodis diversis coloris. 2 tunicuU ejusdem panni, cum parvis orfreis per latera de opere acuali, sine albis, amictis, paruris, stolis et fanonis. INVENTORY OP 1506. 355 1 casula de albo panno aureo, le orfrey tripartita de opere acuali aureo cum nodis et sio per fimbrias. 2 tuniciUi ejusdem panni, cum 4 parvis orfreis de opere acuaU ex utraque parte. 1 casula alba, cum orfreis tripartitis, operatis de opere acuali de panno serico vfridi, powdred cum parvis rosis. 2 tuniculi ejusdem panni et operis,. cum tribus parvis orfreis nodosis, absque alio apparatu. 1 casula antiqua de blodio panno serico, le orfrey de opere acuali glaucii coloris et crucifi:s:o. 1 antiqua alba cum bonis et magnis paruris et maniois de opere acuali operata cum griffonibus aureis super pecias virides et Agues Dei albos super pecias rabias, 1 amicta cum nodis aureis super blodium et rubeum. 1 vetus casula alba cum rabeo orfrey de serico, operata cum crucifixo et 1 arbor aurea cum floribus viridibus. 1 casula de rubeo baudekyn cum avibus . et carribus aureis, le orfrey de blodio baudekyn cum avibus et canibus aureis, 1 alba, 1 amicta, et 1 stola. 1 fanon et parura, ejusdem panni. 1 casula de rubeo damasco, cum stola, fanula, amicta et alba, cum paruris de eodem panno, le orfrey de nigro panno aureo, ex dono Domini Thome Pilcomb. 1 casula per se de russeto panno argenteo, le orfrey de opere acuali stricte tripartite cum nodis. 1 alba, 1 amicta, 1 stola et 1 fanon, cum paruris de opere acuali operatis cum diversis particulis rabeis et blodiis cum griffonibus aureis et aquilis albis. 1 amicta per se, le pajnire operata de opere acuali, cum 1 trayle aureo et diversis capitibus. 1 longa stricta stola et 1 fanon de opere acuali aureo cum nodis rabeis et blodiis. 2 albe stole de serico cum diversis ymaginibus et peciis rabeis in fine. 1 par vestimentorum de albo damasco cum orfrey de rubeo damasco et floribus de auro et de viridi colore tam in casula quam in orstreto. 2 albe cum 1 amicta, 1 stola, 1 fanella, cum diversis magnatum. 1 alba cum patura ymaginibus operata. 1 amicta de albo serico cum ymaginibus Domuu nostri et beate Marie, Sanctorum Johannis Baptiste et Johannis EvangeUste et Apostolorum Petri et Pauli. 1 alba cum pararis de lineo panno, barred m modum cracis, cum strictis pecus aureis et floribus aureis in quadrangulis. 1 alba bona cum paruris, stola et faneUa, ejusdem secte, cum 7 armis quadratis in pararis, quaram campus est argenteus et totum residuum in predictis armis, reliqua pars totius parare est stragulata ex auro et coloris rubei. Cape. Due albe cape de panno serico pro secundariis, le orfreis glaucii et albi coloris per pecias. A A. Jl 356 APPENDIX. Quinque cape de albo fustiano pro choristis, cum floribus aureis, le orfreis rabei coloris cum preculis ex utraque parte brasci in pectoraU et capicio. Lectronalia cum aliis rebus. 1 lectronale de panno Hneo, operato de opere acuali cum banis diversi coloris majoribus et minoribus. I album lectronade de panno serico, stragulato per longum cum peciis viridibus et aureis. 2 parva pulvinaria, pro missaU et textubus supportanda. Due antique ciste sine seruris, quarum una frangitur. 1 corona argentea et deaurata super capud pueri Jesus in braohio beate Marie sedentis super altare. Due pecie de aras, pendentes ex utraque parte Chori de Morte sepultura et Assumpcione beate Marie, ex dono Edmundi Lacy. Due longe curtine et due minores de albo panno stragulato, trahende cfrca altare. 1 vetus carpett jacens ante altare, ex dono Georgii Novell. I aliud melius carpett pro consimili servicio ordinatum glaucii et rubii coloris cum nodis, ex dono WUlielmi Colles. 1 carpett bonum et integrum cum diversis nodis. 1 vetus palla, retro presbiterium pendens. Twlla. 8 tueUa de ly dyaper, quaram tria srmt bona et integral reliqua aUquantulum fracta et quasi consumpta. Pro ANNDELiiABus ru Capella beats Marie. • 1 Missale, 2 fo., " Ad missam." 1 calix cum patena argentea deaurata, cum duobus armis Magistri Johannis de Grandissono cracifixo, ac in patena cum tribus crucibus nigris et " Jesus " subscripto. 1 casula de viridi bordalysaunder, le orfrey de rubeo panno aureo cum griffonibus aureis, cum 1 alba, 1 amicta, 1 stola et 1 fanon cum paruris. 1 casula de rubeo bordalysaunder, le orfrey de vfridi bordaly saunder, alba, amicta, stola et fanon cum pararis. 1 corporale cum blodia casa, ex una parte operata cum leone aureo super rubeum et ex alia cum 3 leonibus. 1 corporale in casa cheeky ex una parte' et ex alia parte cum 2 griffonibus aureis super rubeum infra cirulum album. 1 novum par vestimentorum de albo damasco. 1 corporale in casa de purpyll sarcaneto, cum 1 flore aureo ex 1 parte. 1 cista cum serura pro conservacione vestimentorum. Altare Sancti Gabbielis. 1 Missale, 2 fo., "Asperges me," ex dono Magistri Martini Lechedeken. INVENTORY OP 1506. 357 1 calix argenteus deauratus cum patena, ponderis 21 unciarum, ex dono ejusdem. 2 phiole argentea et deaurate, ponderis 7 unciarum et dimidi, ex dono ejusdem. Ipax argentea et deaurata Cum crucifixo, Maria et Johanne et armis dicti Magistri Martini, ponderis 7 unciarum dimidii et quaterii et dimidii. 1 pax eburnea inclusa in capsa lignea. 1 casula de albo damasco, ptdverizata cum cervis aureis et Salu tacione AngeUca in dorso, cum alba, amicta et tota parara cum corporali in casa de viridi panno aureo, ex dono dicti Magistri Martini. 2 corporalia in 1 casa viridi cum diversis operibus de opere acuali. 1 parvum pulvinare de cheeky serico. 1 casula deserviens tam pro blod quam albo colore cheeky, cum alba, amicta, stola, fanone et parara. 6 tuelle pro altare. 1 tuellam cum cruce in medio, pro altare. 10 tueUa pro manibus tergendis. 1 par vestimentorum de albo damasco, cum orfrey de viridi satino. 1 fronteUa cum panno grosso eidem annexo et cilicio. 1 pannus de blodio bokeram, ad cooperiendum altare. 1 veterata front, stayned. 1 front de panno lineo picto cum ymaginibus Salutacionis beate Marie et Apostoloram Petri et PauU. 1 tabula depicta cum ymagine beate Marie pietatis. 1 pannus de blodio bokeram, pendens per anulos pro le front cooperiendo tempore Quadragesimali. 1 descus pro Missale supportando. 2 corporalia in 1 casa de viridi velvete cum duabus Uteris aureis, viz. W et A. 1 front de lineo panno picto cum ymagine beate Marie in medio et ymagine Katarine et Margarete ex utraque parte. Altare Sancti Johannis Evangeliste. 1 caUx argenteus operatus cum cracifixo, ymaginibus beate Marie et Sancti Johannis cum " Jesus " et " Christus " scriptus m pede et in patena scribitur per cfrcuitum " Jesus Nazarenus," &c. Due parve phiole albe argentee cooperte. 1 Missale, 2 fo., "DupUcibus." „ „ . n 1 Psalterium Cathenatum infra descum mclusum, 2 to., Ourn invocarem." . , , n j^ utA 1 Uber Orationum Cathenatus m eodem desco, 2 lo., la beatnim." . » , or 1 Psalterium Cathenatum ex alia parte infra descum, Z to., / cTs^tUa de panno rubeo aureo, cum amicta, stola, fanon alba et pararis unius secte, le orfrey de rubeo velvete operata de opere acuaU cum ymagine beate Marie in dorso et flonbus. 358 APPENDIX. 1 casula de purpyU et russeto panno serico cum floribus viridibus super nigram, le orfrey de panno albo aureo, continens 3 pecias de albo et 2 de rubeo in dorso, cum amicta, alba, stola, fanon et paruris. 1 casula de nigro wosted, le orfrey de panno aureo, cum amicta, alba, stola, fanon et paruris. 1 casula de blodio serico et magnis stellis albis, le orfrey de viridi panno aureo cum signis aureis, amicta, alba, stola, fanon et paruris. 1 casula de viridi bodalysaunder cum parvis floribus albis, le orfrey de rabeo bordalysaunder, amicta, stola, fanon et paruris. 1 alia casula de viridi bodalysaunder cum coronis aureis, le orfrey de rubeo bordalysaunder, amicta, alba, stola, fanon et paruris. 1 alia casula de viridi bodalysaunder cum avibus, le orfrey de rubeo panno aureo cum floribus aureis et albis leonibus rampant, amiota, alba, stola, fanon et paruris. 1 casula diversi operis et coloris, le orfrey de panno alba aureo. 1 fronteUa de purpureo velvete, cum capitibus 12 apostolorum. 1 front de rubeo panno aureo, in utroque fine et in medio de rubeo velvete operato opere acuali cum floribus aureis. 1 front de viridi panno serico, cum leonibus passant regardant annexis uni pecie de blodeo bokeram. 1 fronteUa ejusdem panni, cum tueUo annexo. 1 front de viridi bordalysaunder cum tueUo annexo. 1 front de peciis rabeis et blodiis de panno aureo cum tueUo annexo. 1 fronteUa, in utroque fine de panno nigro, et in medio de rubeo operata cum ymaginibus et griffonibus, cum tueUo annexo. 4 tuello diverse longitudinis et panno plani linei et 2 manutergia, pro lavatorio. Due curtine stragulato de viridi serioo. Duo paria curtinaram de panno lineo, picto. Duo corporalia in 2 casis, quarum ambe ex 1 parte de rubeo panno aureo et ex alia parte de rubeo velvete. Duo corporalia in 1 casa operata de opere acuali ex 1 parte cum beata Maria et Puero et ex alia parte de viridi satino. 1 corporale cum casa de viridi vetere panno serico. 2 corporalia in 1 casa de albo panno aureo. 1 paxbred de vitro incluso in lignea tabula cum ymagine beate Marie. 1 descus pro Missali supportando. 1 pannus de nigro bokeram pro Quadragisima,, cum Jesus in medio. 1 cista cum serura pro vestimentis conservandis. Altare Sancte Katarine et Altare Sancti Andree. 1 Missale, 2 fo., " Quod altare." 1 calix argenteus et deauratus cum ymagine Crucifixi in pede cum scriptura "Jesus," "Maria," in eodem, cum capite Salvatoris in patena, ac cum scriptura " Benedicam Dominum in omni tem pore " per circuitum ipsius. INVENTORY OP 1506. 359 1 paxiUum argenteum et deauratum eum ymagine Cracifixi ac yniaginibus Mane et Johannis, cum una ansa volubUi ex argento 2 corporaha m 1 casa de opere acuali cum 2 armis Johannis "de trrandissono et 2 ains armis ex eadem parte, cum panno aureo rubei colons ex alia parte. 1 Portiforium cathenatum in desco, 2 fo., " Dominus vobiscum." Due phiole argentee cooperte ac partim deaurate. 1 frontale de antiquo panno aureo cum floribus de lyce in modum crucis infra nodes quadrangulatos, cum frontello serico et tueUo eidem annexo. 1 casula de viridi baudekyn, le orfrey domyck, cum toto apparatu. 1 alia casula de viridi baudekyn, le orfrey cum rosis et stellis aureis, cum toto apparatu. 1 casula de rabeo velvete fygury, le orfrey de blodio velvete cum aquUis aureis, cum toto apparatu. Due curtine, deplete cum angelo ex utraque parte. 1 front cum pictura passionis Sancte Katerine. 1 corporale in 1 casa de vfridi baudekyn. 1 front de flavo baudekyn cum leopardis et cervis, cum 1 fronteUa et tuello eidem annexis. 4 tueUa de crese cloth et 1 de canvas, pro eidem altaribus. 1 veteratus pannus linens depictus cum capitibus leopardoram et armis infra circulos. 1 pannus veteratus depictus cum ymaginibus Sancti Andree in medio et Petri et PauU ex lateribus. 1 front de lineo, stayned cum scriptura " Honor Deo." 1 front cum tuello annexo, stayned cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne, Petro et Paulo. Due curtine unius secte, cum cruce rabea et florida cum coronis spineis et scriptura " Jesus " in medio. 1 front ejusdem secte cum tuello annexo. 1 front cum tuello annexo cum scriptura " Maria" in capite. 1 front cum tuello annexo cum signis Passionis Christi. 8 parvi panni linei stayned, pro ymaginibus cooperiendis. LiBRi cathenati retro Stallum Thesauraril 1 Biblia in tribus voluminibus, in quorum primo volumine, 2 fo., " Salvato ; " in secundo volumine, 2 fo., " Eripuerit; " et in tercio volumine, ^fo., "Et ydola," ex dono Edmundi Stafford, Exoniensis Episcopi. Doctor [Nicholas] de Lyra, in tribus voluminibus, in quoram primo volumine, 2 fo., " Eodem ordine ; " in secundo volumine, 2 fo., " Eadix genealogica ; " et in tercio volumine, 2 fo., " Gehenne deducendo." 1 Liber Concordanciarum, 2 fo., " 24 di consUium ejus," ex dono Johannis de Grandissono. Libri cathenati retro Stallum Succentoris. Ff. novum, 2 fo., in textu " Finit triplicem." Codex, 2 fo., in textu " Vocabulo." 380 APPENDIX. Ff. inforciat, 2 fo., in textu " In fructu." Primum volumen, 2 fo., in textu "Justicia est." Hugucius super Decreta, 2 fo., " Omne preceptum." Decreta, 2 fo., in textu " Ta pontificum." Decretales, 2 fo., in textu " Quelibet earundem." _ , Liber Clementis cum omnibus suis doctoribus, 2 fo., in textu " Apostolica." Liber Sextus cum omnibus suis doctoribus, 2 fo., in textu " Quibus ad." Ilostiensis in summa, 2 fo., " Gei processerunt.'' Speculum Judiciale, 2 fo., " Ver UU autem." Innocencius, 2 fo., " tificari." Ff. vetus, 2 fo., in textu " Gatis et fidei." Cimis super Codice, 2 fo., " Et Hostiensis." Altare Sanoti Pauli. 1 Missale, 2 fo., " Cha usque." 1 calix argenteus et deauratus cum solo cracifixo et in patena manus benedicens in cruce patente. 1 casula rubea operata de opere acuali per totum cum floribus infra trayle rotundis, le orfrey cum Majestate ac ymagine Trinitatis, Crucifixi, tribus Mariis et Angelo, cum alba, amicta, stola et fanone, de rabeo panno aureo, et paruris, ejusdem coloris et operis. 1 casula de rabeo bordalysaunder, le orfrey de rubeo panno aureo cum unicomibus, alba, amicta, stola, fanone et paruris, ejusdem coloris et operis. 1 casula de viridi bordalysaunder, le orfrey de rabeo bordaly saunder, alba, amicta, stola, fanone et paruris. 1 casula de serico glaucu coloris, le orfrey de panno blodio aureo, alba, amicta, stola, fanone et pararis. 1 casula glaucii coloris, le orfrey de blodio cum avibus albis. 1 alba per se cum paruris de panno serico, glaucii coloris, cum rabeis rosis, et amicta quasi ejusdem coloris. Quinque tuelle de panno lineo diverse longitudinis, pro eodem altare. 2 parva manitergia, pro lavacro. 1 corporale cum casa de panno aureo ex una parte et ex altera cum 1 volucre depicta. 2 corporalia in 1 casa, de vetere panno serico. 1 corporale cum casa de russeto tussy ex 1 parte' cum rubio damasco ex altera. 1 corporale cum casa de nigro velvete, cum literis aureis W. et S. simul connexis. 1 casula de rubio serico, le orfrey de blodio serico cum rosis et synkfoyl aureis albis rubeis et blodiis, alba, amicta, stola, fanone et paruris. 1 casula de nigro wosted cum scriptura " Eogerus Keys," alba, amicta, stola, fanone et paruris. 1 front de nigro bokeram, cum signis Passionis Domini. 1 suffront ejusdem panni et operis. 1 front de panno lineo, stayned cum ymagine beate Marie in INVENTORY OP 1506. 861 medio, et ymagine Johannis Baptiste et Sancti Antonu ex 1 latere et ymagine Sancte Katerine et Sancti Nicholai ex altera. 1 suffront, stayned cum ymagine Crucifixi in medio et ymagi nibus Marie et Johannis Evangeliste, Johannis Baptiste et Bartho lomei. 1 Psalterium cathenatum, 2 fo., " Ab eo." 1 phiola de argento. 2 phiole de stagno. 1 coopertorium de blodio bokeram, ad cooperiendum dictum altare. 1 pax cum Eesurrectione. 1 descus pro Missali supportando. 1 candelabrum cum 2 nasis ferreis. Altare Sancte Crucis. 1 calix deauratus, le pomell enamelyd in medio et solo crucifixo in pede et in patena, cum manu benedicente in circulo. 1 missale de papfro artis impressione, 2 fo., post Kalendare in rubro missale. 1 Portiforium, 2 fo., " Dominus veniet." 1 casula de rubeo satino, le orfrey de rubeo panno aureo operato de opere acuali cum garters regiis, cum alba, amicta, stola et fanone, cum paruris. 1 casula de albo panno aureo cum leonibus rubeis, le orfreis de rubro satino in anteriori parte, cum alba, amicta, stola, fanone et paruris. 1 corporale in casa rabea, cum cracifixo Maria et Johanne. 1 corporale in casa de rabio panno aureo ex utraque parte. 1 corporale in casa de vfridi tussyn ex una parte et rubeo velvete ex alia. 1 corporale de casa de blodio velvete. 1 front de panno lineo, stayned cum Cracifixo, Maria et Johanne. 1 front de panno lineo, stayned cum Salutacione beate Marie. 1 front cum 2 angelis thurificantibus. 1 curtina, ad cooperiendum crucifixum, de panno lineo. 1 coopertorium de canvas, pro altare cooperiendo. 3 tuelle diversi sortis, pro altare. 2 tueUe pro manibus tergendis. 2 phiole -de stagno. 2 p'axys diverse sortis, cum 2 tintinabulis. 2 curtine de panno lineo, stayned. 1 candelabrum de latone. Altaee Bratton. 1 Missale, 2 fo., " Hec autem." 1 calix albus cum patena cum sola crace m pede. _ 1 front de rabeo panno aureo cum leopardis aureis et rosis albis, cum tuello annexo. .¦,/-, -,. 1 calix argenteus et deauratus cum 2 armis Johannis de Grandis- 362 APPENDIX sono in pede, cum ymagine cracifixi inter eadem, cum patena argentea et deaurata cum Jesus in medio. Front de panno lineo, depicto cum tribus ymaginibus, viz., Michaelis, Johannis Evangeliste et Georgii. Aliud front cum parva ymagine beate Marie stantis in porta aurea, cum aliis ymaginibus. 1 casula de viridi bordalysaunder et rabeo orfrey ejusdem panni, alba, amicta, stola, fanone et pararis. 1 casula alba de filo cum nodis rubeis et blodiis, le orfrey de opere acuali cum nodis diversis, cum alba, amicta, stola et fanula, cum paruris. 1 casula glaucii coloris cum blodio cheeky le orfrey de opere acuali cum nodis cum alba, amicta, stola, fanulo et paruris alterius coloris. 1 casula per se de rubeo panno serico cum albis synkfoylys. 1 stola et 1 fanon diversi operis de opere acuali. 3 tueUe de panno lineo piano et 1 coopertorium pro altari de canvas. 1 corporale cum casa de opere acuali ex una parte cum ymagine et panno serico ex altera. 1 corporale in casa de opere acuali in modum losyng operata. Due antique curtine de blodio bokeram. 1 pannus de blodio et albo palyd ad cooperiendum le front altaris tempore Quadragesime. 2 phiole de stagno. 1 paxbred lignea. 1 candelabrum ligneum. 1 quatemus de diversis commemoracionibus, 2 fo., rem cordis. 1 descus pro Missali supportando. Altare Sanoti Nicholai. 1 calix argenteus et partim deaitratus cum ymagine Salvatoris ac ymaginibus Petri et Pauli ex utraque parte cum Veronica in patena. 1 Missale, 2 fo., " Omnibus." 1 pax de ebore inclusa in ligno. 1 corporale cum casa de rabeo velvete operatum de opere acuaU cum frondibus et signis ex 1 parte. Duo corporaUa in casa de albo panno serico in parte aurea. 1 casula de viridi bordalysatmder le orfrey de rabeo baudekyn cum unicomibus aureis, cum alba, amicta, stola, fanone et paruris. 1 casula de albo filo lineo operata cum nodis rabeis et blodiis , le orfrey de rubeo satino, cum alba, amicta, stola, fanone et paruris. 1 casula de serico, glaucii coloris, le orfrey de rubeo satino, cum alba, amicta, stola, fanone et paruris de vfridi baudekyn. 1 casula de albo serico, cum strictis orfreis tripartitis aureis, stola, fanone et paraiis, sine amicta, de panno alterius coloris cum 1 fanone per se de panno alterius coloris. 1 front de rabeo panno aureo cum leopardis et avibus aureis ac rosis albis. 1 front et fronteUa de panno lineo, stayned cum signis Passionis Domini. INVENTORY OP 1506. 363 1 front et fronteUa de panno lineo, stayned cum ymagine beate Katerine m medio, cum 1 tueUo annexo. 1 curtina de panno lineo, stayned cum beata Virgine, Sancta Katerma, et Sancto Dionisio. 1 curtina de panno lineo, depicta cum cruce et aliis signis Passionis Domini. 4 tuella de cresecloth pro altare, cum quodam veteri coopertorio de opere sericali, ad cooperiendum altare. 2 veteres curtine de blodio bokeram. 1 descus pro Missali supportando. 1 cista pro vestimentes supportandis. Altare Sanoti Johannis in Turri ex australi parte Ecclesie. 1 Missale, 2 fo., " Me Ysopo." 1 casula de blodio bordalysaunder, le orfrey de viridi bordaly saunder, cum toto apparatu. ' 1 casula de nigro wosted, le orfrey de rubeo cum scriptura " Eogerus Keys," cum toto apparatu. 1 front, stayned cum ymagine Sancte Marie in medio, cum scriptura. 1 front, stayned cum ymagine Sancti Johannis in medio. 1 front. 1 corporale in casa de viridi bordalysaunder. Altare Brenttgham. 1 calix cum patena deaurata cum sola ymagine in pede sculpta et manu benedicente, cum cruce in patena. 1 calix cum patena deauratus infra ciphum, cum literis T. et B. in pede et manu in nube et cruce benedicente. 2 Phiole albe argentee. Vetus front de panno aureo rubeo, cum floribus aureis, cum 2 viridibus peciis de serico, eidem consutis. 1 fronteUa ejusdem panni cum tuello de crese eidem annexo. Front de panno aureo blodio et albo paly, cum fronteUa, annexa. 1 fronteUa ejusdem panni, cum tuello annexo. 1 front et fronteUa de pano crese, stayned. 7 tuella diversi panni et sortis, pro altare, et 1 coopertorium de canvas. 1 parvum tuellum, pro lavaco ad manus celebrancium tergendum. 2 corporalia in 1 casa, de opere acuali operata de Eesurrectione Domini ex 1 parte et Ascencione ex altera. 1 corporale cum casa ex 1 parte de opere acuali cum 4 ymagi nibus et avibus ex alia, de glauco serico. 1 corporale cum casa stragulata de panno rubeo. 2 corporalia in 1 casa ex 1 parte de rabeo panno aureo et scriptura nigra ex alia parte de bordalysaunder quadrata. 2 corporalia in 1 casa alba operata ex utraque parte cum steUa purpyll. 1 casula de rubeo panno aureo cum hyndys ligatis per cathenam. 364 . APPENDIX. le orfrey de blodeo panno aureo, cum alba, amicta, stola, fanona et pararis. 1 casula de panno aureo viridis coloris, cum leonibus mordentibus albas hyndys, le orfrey rabeo panno aureo cum albis avibus aureis et floribus, albis, amicta, stola, fanula et paruris. 1 casula de vfridi serico operata de opere acuali cum alba littera M. coronata cum auro, continens amictam, albam, stolam, farulam, et pararis, de albo panno serico. 1 casula de nigro serico, le orfrey de panno aureo cum cignis tenentibus scripturam in ore et aliis avibus, cum toto apparatu. Duo candelabra de stagno. 1 pyxis, pro pane servando. 1 candelabrum eneum, pro candela super altare sustinenda. 1 descus, pro Missali supportando. 1 paxbred cum angelo et albis floribus deauratis supra cuprum. 1 Missale cum claspis argenteis et armis Brentyngham, 2 fo., " Erat sequatur." 1 casula de rubeo bordalisaunder, le orfrey de rubeo bordaly saunder, amicta, alba, stola, fanona et pararis. 1 casula de rabeo baudekyn cum fimbriis aureis, le orfrey de blodio aureo, cum amicta, stola, fanon et paruris. 1 casula glaucii coloris jugiter operata cum floribus, arboribus et cervis, cum amicta, stola, fe.non et paruris. 4 pecie de plumbo, ad servanda tuella super altare. 1 Quatemus de ofSciis Sanctorum GabrieUs, Eaphaelis et aUorum, 6 fo., " Laudemus." Suffront, stayned de blodio bokeram cum ymagine Cracifixi. Due phiole de stagno. Tumba Comitis Devon. 1 Missale, 2 fo., " Celi." 1 calyx argenteus et partim deauratus cum sola ymagine Crucifixi in pede deaurata cum manu benedicente infra cfrcidum in cruce patente in patena. Due phiole de stagno. 3 corporalia in 1 casa de stragulata et cheeky velvete ex utraque parte. 1 paxbred de cornu, inclusa in tabula lignea. 1 front et 1 suffront cum fronteUa in se de panno lineo, stayned. 2 curtine de eodem panno et opere, cum 1 tueUo de se. 3 tuelle diversi sortis et panni. 2 parve tueUa pro lavacro. 1 front de albo panno serico et fronteUa de se, et 1 pale de rubeo velvete in medio, cum tueUis aimexis. 1 suffront ejusdem secte. 1 front de viridi velvete operata opere acuali cum armis Comitis Devon et diversis lapidibus. 1 fronteUa de vfridi satyn, fygury cum rosis albis, et tueUis annexis. 1 suffront de viridi velvete operata, opere acuali cum armis Comitis Devon. INVENTORY OP 1506. 365 1 front et 1 suffront ac fronteUa de se blodeo serico, operata opere acuali, cum oystryge fethers aureis et sericis. 1 front, suiiront et fronteUa de se, de panno laneo, glaucii coloris, operata opere acuali cum armis Comitis Devon. 1 casuala ejusdem panni et operis, cum alba, amicta, stola, fanula et parara de rubeo baudekyn, le parure amicte de panno blodeo serico et ostryge fether. 1 casula de vfridi velvete operata opere acuali cum armis Comitis Devon, stola et fanon et blodio serico amicta, le parara de opere acuali super viride et rubeum cum nodis aureis et parura alba de cheeky velvete. 1 casula de albo damasco, le orfrey de blodio serico, operata opere acuaU cum cignis albis et ostryge fethers, alba, stola, fanula et parura in amicta et alba ejusdem panni. 1 casula de blodio serico operata opere acuali cum oystryge fethers sericis, le orfrey de rubeo serico, operato cum oysfryge fethers aureis, stola, fanula ac parara in amicta et alba, ejusdem panni et operis. 1 casula de rubeo panno aureo cum avibus, le orfrey de opere acuali cum Passione Domini, stola, fanula ac parura in amicta et alba, ejusdem panni. ¦ 1 casula de albo serico, le orfrey de rabeo piano velvete, stola et fanon ejusdem panni, ac parara in amiota et alba alterius panni albi. 1 casula de albo serico, le orfrey de rubeo serico, stola et fanula de alio albo panno serico, ac parara amicte de albo baudekyn cum viridibus coronis et parura alba de opere acuali glaucu coloris cum nodis. 1 front de albo serico. 1 casula de nigro bokeram cum aurea crace flowry, stayned, sine alio apparatu. 1 tintinabulum. 1 casula de blodio serico, le orfrey de rabeo domyck. 3 pecie de plumbo, pro tuellis servandis. 1 cista de spruse, pro vestimentis servandis. 1 descus lygneus, pro Missali supportando. Altare Sanoti Spieiius in Claustro. 1 calix argenteus et partim deauratus, cum ymaginibus Salvatoris, Petri et Pauli, deauratis in pede et Veronica deaurata in patena. 1 Missale, 2 fo., " Deus inviote." 1 casula de rabeo serico, le orfrey de stricto panno aureo tri partitim in summitate et fimbriis, cum alba et amicta, stola, fanon et paruris. . .• . 1 casula de nigro wosted, le orfrey de viridi cum scriptura m cruce Jesus, Maria et Johannes, cum toto apparatu. 1 casula de nigro wosted, le orfrey cum rabeo wosted, cum toto Front de vfridi et rubeo damasco braunched paled, cum fronteUa et tuello annexis. Suffront. ejusdem panni. 366 APPENDIX. 1 corporale in casa de opere acuali, cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne ex 1 parte et Coronacione beate Marie ex altera. 2 tuelle pro altari. 4 phiole de stagno, cum 1 tintinabulo et 1 candelabro de stagno et ymago Cracifixi de ebore. 1 descus pro Missali supportando. Inventaeium Omnium Librobum in Libeakla Inventorum Primus Descus in parte Orientali. Eepertorium libri sexti, 2 fo., " Pena Juris." Innocencisi super Decretales, 2 fo., " Discerem." Tabula Martiniana, 2 fo., " Quod." Prima pars Hostiensis,^ 2 fo.. No. 1, " De Jud." Secunda pars Hostiensis, 2 fo., " Si renumerandi." Addiciones Johannis Andree' super Speculo Juris, 2 fo., " Judicis." Prima pars libri provincialis W. Lynwood, 2 fo., " Publicavi." Secunda pars libri provincialis W. Lynwood, 2 fo., " De ea." Speculum Judiciale, 2 fo., " Semper." Eepertorium Johannis Faber super Codice, 2 fo., " Li dubium." Jacobus de Eavenna super Codice, 2 fo., " Natura cum." Mandagote,^ 2 fo., " Eo qui primo invenit." Directorium Juris secunda, fo. de con di 2. CoUeotaneum de Gestis et Translacionibus Sanctorum, 2 fo., " Appella." Secundus descus. Eepertorium Petri, 2 fo., " Procurris."_ Archidiaconus in Eosario, 2 fo., " Et die quod." Prima pars Johannis in Novella, 2 fo., " Que est." Secunda pars Johannis in Novella, 2 fo., " Jurgium." Albertinus de Bononia, 2 fo., " Alia quo." Antonius de Butrio, 2 fo., " Amittitur." Eepertorium libri sexti, 2 fo., " Trum per se." Azo 5 in summa, 2 fo., " Dominum nostrum." Petrus de Salmis super de circa, 2 fo., " Esse plene." Directorium Juris Canonici, 2 fo., " Transcendi." Decretales," 2 fo., in textu " Christi sunt." Eepertorium Baldi ¦> super Innocenium, 2 fo., " Solvendo." ' Innocent IV. This learned pope died 7 Dec. 1254. * Henry de Suza, Cardinal Bishop of Ostia (thence called Ostiensis), was reputed the ablest canonist of his time ; ob. an. 1271. 3 John Andrea was Professor of Law at Bologna, and died ofthe plague in 1348. ¦* William de Mandagot, Archiepiscopus Ebridunensis, was a celebrated canou-law- yer; died at Avignon in Nov. 1321. ^ Azon Fortius, a distinguished Professor of Laws at Bologna and Montpellier ; obiit circiter an. 1200. ^ Once for all we may state that Gratian, a Benedictine monk, compiled a collection of the Decrees of Popes and Councils ending with the year 1150, and that St. Raymund was the continuator of the same in 5 books up to the year 1234. ' Baldus (de Ubaldis) Peter, Professor of Law at Perugia, Padua, and Pavia; ob. 1400. INVENTORY OF 1506. 367 Leptura Jacobi (sic), 2 fo., " Justicie." Prima pars Henrici Bowyck,« 2 fo., " Quitatis patere." Secunda pars Henrici Bowyok, 2 fo., " Et Goff hie." Johannes Aton," 2 fo., " In hoc." Johannes in Addicionibus, 2 fo., " Ar ut nostram." Tractatus de Bello, 2 fo., " Maxime." Summa Bartholomei, 2 fo., " Absolvere." Summa Summarum, 2 fo., " De Magistris." Tercius descus. Catholicon, 2 fo., " Dirimo." Ysidorus Ethimologiaram, 2 fo., "Novum." Legenda Sanctorum, 2 fo., " Igitur." Postillator optimus super Psalterium, 2 fo., " Pro re." Ysidorus Ethimologiaram, 2 fo., " Eadicitus." Hugonis,' 2 fo., " Trix cio." Legenda Sanctorum, 2 fo., " Sufferebat." Legenda Sanctorum, 2 fo., " Filium Dei." Constitucio Synodalis, 2 fo., " Ex aliorum." Psalterium glosatum, 2 fo., " In ecclesia." Legenda Sanctorum, 2 fo., "Eibus." Nicholaus de Lyra ^ super Psalterium, 2 fo., " Secus esset." Liber de Statu Eegum, 2 fo., " 0 Decus." Biblia, 2 fc, " Ad eum." Brito ° super Vocabula Biblie, 2 fo., "Impellere." Liber Sententiarum, 2 fo., " Quo modo dicitur pater." Legenda Sanctorum, 2 fo., " Ablactatus." Pastorale Gregorii Pape, 2 fo., " Quod aliter." Expositio super Apocalipsim, 2 fo., " Transituri ad capud." Liber de Miraculis Christi, 2 fo., " Quare mortuus." Musica Boetii, 2 fo., " Eecte linee." Vita Patrum 3, 2 fo., "In aUa solitudine." Biblia, 2 fo., " Et facti sunt." Dialogus Gregorii, 2 fo., "Quamvis videmits." Sedulius, 2 fo., " Quos gracia." Liber de Institucione Monachorum, 2 fo., " Sufficiat." Liber Pastoralium, 2 fo., "Putridam." Dialogus Gregorii, 2 fo., " Jam nee." Martianus Grammaticus, 2 fo., " Ventus ut." Pastorale Gregorii, 2 fo., " Et dissimulacionis." Sompnus Scypionis, 2 fo., " Tum mortis." Liber de Viciis et Virtutibus, 2 fo., " Quod nequaquam." Liber de Vita et Ordine Canonicorum, 2 fo., " Acoipiendam." Epistole Synodii, 2 fo., " Venitur." Dialogus Bartholomei Exon Episcopi, 2 fo., " Vilegium." 8 Hen. Boyck, LL.D., flourished in Lower Brittany about the year 1390. 9 Bishop of VerceUi about the year 960. ' Hugo de Fleury, who wrote on the Kingly and Priestly Power in the eleventh century. 2 This celebrated commentator of the Scriptures had been a Jew, took the Fran ciscan habit in 1291, and died in 1304, after filling the office of Provincial of his Brethren, at Paris. 3 William Brito, a friar, is mentioned by Leland as well known for his Lexicon of the Bible. ' De Script. Brit.' 1356. 368 APPENDIX. Quartus descus. Dictur Salemi, 2 fo., " Sunt bona." Tractatus Nicholai super Lucam, 2 fo., " Et cetera." Ysidorus Ethimologiaram, 2 fo., " Hostiam." Epistole Ponti, 2 fo., " Eevelatur." Epistole Pauli glosata, 2 fo., " Et pax." Collectio Amalarii,* 2 fo., " Christo." Plurima Pradentii Opuscula in 1 libro, 2 fo., " Ne mens." Methafisica Aristotelis, 2 fo., " Ees enim," Liber Solini, 2 fo., " Ambiguitatem." Marcus glosatus, 2 fo., " In rubro initium.'' Liber Anselmi, 2 fo., " Me." Textus glossatus super Johannem, 2 fo., " Oculum." Augustinus Eetractionum, 2 fo., " In noticiam." Confessio Augustini, 2 fo., " Stimme." Hieronimus super Ysayam, 2 fo., " Apostatrices." Bartholomeus de proprietatibus Eerum, 2 fo., "Essencia." Liber Carminum cujusdam poete, 2 fo., " Spemere." Introductorium Algabrici adjudicia astrorum, 2 fo., " Concordare." Historia Egesippa, 2 fo., " Buere." Compendium Medicine Gilberti * AngUci, 2 fo., " Perancia." Liber diversorum Tractatuum, 2 fo., " Post Kalendas prodest." Lucas et Johannes, 2 fo., " Cherenti Hebionis." Liber Penitencialis, 2 fo., " Si quis." Lilium Medicine, 2 fo., " Digestionis." Boecius de Consolacione Philosophie, 2 fo., "Natura." Orosius de Historia Mundi, 2 fo., " Aut ictibus." Aurelius, 2 fo., " Eedit." Epistole Jacobi glosate, 2 fo., " Nemo." Martianus " de Septimis Artibus, 2 fo., " Habent." Pefrus AKonsus,' 2 fo., " Perficere." Quintus descus. Plinius de Naturall Historia, 2 fo., " Tror et plenum." Policronicus, 2 fo., " Post Kalendas in historia." Prima pars SpecuU NaturaUs, 2 fo., " Ausus sum." Secunda pars Speculi Naturalis, 2 fo., " De mutulo." Prima pars Speculi Naturalis, 2 fo., " Inter diversa." Secunda pars Speculi Naturalis, 2 fo., " A primo." Tercia pars SpecuU Naturalis, 2 fo., " Post Kalendas timens." Liber Eicardi HampuU," 2 fo., "Atque deliciarum." Cronica Anglie, 2 fo., " Nes habitare." Flores Historiarum, 2 fo., " Lunio cum." Ordinale pro Coronacione Eegis et Eegine, 2 fo., " Vita,te." Cronica Ivonis," 2 fo., " Prosperis." ¦• This copious wi-iter flourished in the ninth century. * See Leland • De Script. Brit.' p. 356. ^ Marcianus Capella, ob. A.D. 490. ' Peter Alfensus, a conveiled Jew in the twelfth century. " This Augustinian fi-iar died at Michael mas, 1349. Leland ' De Script. Brit ' 348 » Ivo died 21 Dec. 1115, Bishop of Chai-ties. INVENTORY OP 1506. 369 Sompnium Viridarii, 2 fo., " NobiUtas." Gesta Britonum, 2 fo., " Set." Eosa de Medicinis,' 2 fo., " Que fuit." Liber Pronosticorum, 2 fo., " Natura cum suis." Liber Bestiarum, 2 fo., " Dicuntur." Alcuinus Wydani, 2 fo., " De sapiencia." Beda de Gestis Anglorum, 2 fo., " Scripsimus." Summa Summarum, 2 fo., "De censibus." Cinus ^ super Codice, 2 fo. et L., " Presbiteri." Hostiensis super Primo et Secundo Libro Decretalium, 2 fo., " Servat dicitur." Primum volumen, 2 fo., " Via ductus." Codex, 2 fo., in textu " Digestione." Archidiaconus in Eosario, 2 fo., " Preceptum.'' Hostiensis in Summa, 2 fo., " Que vocatur." Secunda pars Bowyck, 2 fo., " Stipendiis." Digestum vetus, 2 fo., in textu " Aucte." Liber Novellarii, 2 fo., "Post Kalendas missariis." Digestum inforciatum, 2 fo., in textu " Sed pro modo." Decreta, 2 fo., " Clones remittere." Antiqua compilacio Decretalium, 2 fo., "Si quis." Digestum novum, 2 fo., in textu " Ciare nisi." Antiqua Compilacio, 2 fo., " De censibus." Liber Decretalium, 2 fo., in textu " Apellatur." Sextus descus. Prima pars Bowyck, 2 fo., "Fuit seu." Secunda pars Bowyck, 2 fo., " Non per he.''^ Archidiaconus in Eosariis, 2 fo., " Questio." Sextus Liber Decretalium cum suis doctoribus, 2 fo., " Ea que." Clementine, 2 fo., " Sunt varie." Decreta, 2 fo., in textu " Obedire." Clementine cum Doctoribus, 2 fo., "Verbo." Tabula auctoritatem Decretorum, 2 fo., " Accipe." Hugucio super Decreta, 2 fo., " Agat." Innocencius, 2 fo., " Melius quam hoc." Johannes in CoUectario, 2 fo., " Cause." Decretales, 2 fo., in textu "Esse credatur." Prima pars Johannis in Lyniano, 2 fo., " Postea." Secunda pars Johannis de Lyniano, 2 fo., " Depositum." Codex, 2fo., "Liricum." Liber de Consiliis, 2 fo., " Nomina." Excepciones de Decretis, 2 fo., " Sensus." Johannes Athon, 2 fo., " Et depravat." Johannes in Novella, 2 fo., " Declarata." Sermones Ardmachani, 2 fo., " Symone." Canones Apostolorum,^ 2 fo., " Tanquam laytus. Decreta Ivonis, 2 fo., " Ecclesie " ' John Gatisden was the author of the Rosa. See Leland ' De Script. Brit.' 355. 2 Cinus, alias Cino : this eminent canonist of Pistoia died at Bologna in 1336. ' Richard Fitzralph, consecrated at Exe ter on 8 July, 1347, Archbishop of Armagh ; died at Avignon, 1 6 Nov. 1360. 370 APPENDIX. Septimus descus. Prima Secunda, 2 fo., " Simul." Doctor Subtilis, 2 fo., " Que est questionis." Secunda Secunde super fratrem Thomam, 2 fo., " Sicut patet." Thomas de Aquino, 2 fo., " Questio." Sermones Fratris Jacobi,* 2 fo., " Tuam." Legenda Sanctorum, " Habet sio." Articuli Johannis Wyckclyff, 2 fo., " Certamine." Magister Sententiarum, 2 fo., " Utrum." PaUadius de Agricultura, 2 fo., " Utilis semper." Vegetius de Ee Militari, 2 fo., " Infestum est." Pascasius Monachus,' 2 fo., " Eciam et." Summa Ales," 2 fo., " Christiani." Parvus liber et bene scriptus, 2 fo., " Sedicionis." Eicardus in media' villa (Middleton), 2 fo., " Vere." Doctor Subtilis super Secundum, 2 fo., " Interius." Halcott super minores Prophetas,'' 2 fo., " Natura gratia." Conclusiones Willielmi Wyford,* 2 fo., " Pietas." Egidius de Eegimine Principum," 2 fo., " Contemplacionis." Liber Athanasii, 2 fo., " Trinitas." Parisiensis, 2 fo., " Gehenne non timent." Magister Sententiarum, 2 fo., " Proprietate." Clementine, 2 fo., " Magister gencium." Questiones Fratris Thome Bungaye, 2 fo., " Nichil ad." Omelie Gregorii, 2 fo., " Ipse ait." Omelia super Evangelium, 2 fo., in rubro, " Dominica prima." Liber Sermonum, 2 fo., "Inscripcio." Distinctiones Fratris Mauricii, 2 fo., " Post tabulam eum." Sermones super Epistolas et Evangelia Dominicalia, 2 fo., " Mis- terium." Sermones super Epistolas et Evangelia, 2 fo., " MuUeres." Bartholomeus de proprietatibus Eerum, 2 fo., " Adjectiva." Beda super Lucam, 2 fo., " Non hec." Gregorius in prima parte Ezechiel, 2 fo., " Preterito." Waldeby ' de Expositione Orationis Dominice, 2 fo., " Quantum decet." Libri Quadriginta Omeliarum Gregoru, 2 fo., " Post tabulum." Distinctiones Nicholai Gorami,' 2 fo., " Ut sustentetur." Liber de Sermonibus Sanctorum, 2 fo., " Post tabulam." Sermones Bernardi, 2 fo., " Ecce fratres." nounced by Leland to have been " inter literatorum proceres." Ibid. p. 402. s John Egidius flourished in the reign of Hen. HL, and was a distinguished theolo gian of the Dominican Order. Ibid 251 ' Eobert Waldeby, O.S.A., died Arch bishop of York in 1397, and was buried in St. Edmund's Chapel, Westminster Abbey 2 Nicholas Gorham, O.S.D., highly com mended by Leland, ' De Script. Brit ' p 330 ; he died late in the fourteenth cen- turv. ¦• Jacobus de Vitriaco from a Regular Canon was made a Bishop and Cardinal, and died at Rome in 1244. ' Paschasius Ratbeiias, Abbot of Corbie ; ob. 26 April, 865. ^ This Alexander Hales was a luminary of the Franciscan Order, and of England also ; he died at Paris in 1245. ' Kobert Halcott, a learned Dominican, flourished in the reign of King Edward III. Leland ' De Script. Brit.' 370. " William Wideford, O. S. F., is pro- INVENTORY OP 1506. 371 Manipulus Piorum, 2 fo., " ctoris." Januensis in Sermonibus, 2 fo., " Propinquis." Liber Aldwini de Trinitate, 2 fo., "Neque eum." Eacionale DivinOram, 2 fo., " Naculum." Lincolniensis ^ Dicta, 2 fo., " Angelitus." Tractatus Anselmi, 2 fo., " Quid sit." Sermones Bartholomei, 2 fo., " Desunt." Sermones Fratris Guidonis," 2 fo., " Veritas." . Johannes Lathbury,* 2 fo., " SoU loguus." Ecclesiastica Historia Eusebii, 2 fo., " Suscepta." Octavus descus. Gatterus de Floribus Psalteru, 2 fo., " Misterium." Prima pars Moralium Gregorii, 2 fo., " Multa." Secunda pars Moralium Gregoru, 2 fo., "Hie inciditur." Prima pars Biblie, 2 fo., " Fidelis." Secunda pars Biblie, 2 fo., " Datam." Beda super Epistolas Canonicales, 2 fo., " Epistolam." Beda de Temporalibus, 2 fo., " Naturas Eeram." Defensorium Pacis, 2 fo., " Qui ambe." Eegistrum Gregorii, 2 fo., " Tam glorie." Liber Pastoralium, 2 fo., " Quod aliter." Matheus in Sermonibus, 2 fo., " Septenarium." Liber Dialogorum Gregorii, 2 fo., " Quia." Penitenciale Gregorii, 2 fo., " Post tabulam filiorum." Ecclesiastica Bede, 2 fo., " Digna." Primum volumen Dictionarii, 2 fo., " Verba mea." Secundum volumen Dictionarii, 2 fo., "Sic dice." Tercium volumen Dictionarii, 2 fo., " Ad Deum." Quartum volumen Dictionarii, 2 fo., " Loqui." Ecclesiastica cum Africana Historia, 2 fo., " Obscure." Politicus Johannis Sarisburiensis, 2 fo., " Deus enim." Epistola AugTistini ad Julianum comitem, 2 fo., " Et factis.'' Gregorii Turonensis, 2 fo., " Tate." Expositio Bede de Tabernaculo, 2 fo., " In figura." Johannes Bocasius de Mulieribus Clavis, 2 fo., " Person j, " Liber contra Johannem Wyclyff, 2 fo., " Undus." Tractatus Sermonum cum aliis tractatibus, 2 fo., " Bene novi." Alius tractatus super Sermonibus in Evangeliis. Bocas " in Sermone Anglico, 2 fo., " Sume." Nonus descus. Prima pars Tabule Theologie qui dicitur ' Per Peregrinum,' 2 fo., " Turbetur." Secunda pars Tabule Theologie qui dicitur ' Per Peregrinum,' fo., " Abofilis." ' Lincolniensis, Robert Grothead, Bishop of that city, a most voluminous writer; ob. 1253. * Guy, O.S.D. of Evreux, flourished about the year 1390. 5 John Lathhury, O.S.F. Leland, 'De Script. Brit.' p. 358. ^ John Bocace, bom at Certaldo in Tus cany 1313 ; died in his native place in 1375. Q. Who was the English translator ? 2 B 2 372 APPENDIX. Epistole beati Jeronomi Presbiteri, 2 fo., " Post tabulam lueram." Hieronimus de Viris illustribus, 2 fo., " rant Evang." Ysodoras ad Florentium, 2 fo., " De latere." Hieronimus de Distancia Locorum, 2 fo., " Dicebatur." Ambrosius super Lucam, 2 fo., " Virtutum." Epistole Hieronimi, 2 fo., " Vel vita." Hieronimus super Ysayam, 2 fo., " Ejusque sapiencia." Questiones Eoberti Kylwardby cum multis aliis contentis, 2 fo., " Proxime." • Ambrosius ad Gratianum de Fide, 2 fo., " Errore." Liber Juliani Tholetani Episcopi, 2 fo., " Saltem ut." Bonaventura, 2 fo., " Devocius." Ambrosius super Epistolas Pauli, 2 fo., " Bat liberare." Ambrosius de Ysaia et aliis, 2 fo., " Studio." Diversi Tractatus Hieronimi in uno libro, 2 fo., " Ve inquit." Parvus liber cum rubio coopertorio, 2 fo., "Post tabulam que non." Exposicio beate Bernardi Abbatis sed Cantica Canticorum, 2 fo., " Beratus." Ambrosius in Exposicione Psalterii, 2 fo., videtur. Hieronimus de quibusdam capitulis 4 Evangeliorum, 2 fo., " Quid est." Fulgencius, 2 fo., " Prolis." Ambrosius de Officiis Ministrorum, 2 fo., "Quod ipse." Hieronimus Questionum Hebraicarum, 2 fo., " Proferunt." Willielmus Abbas 'Sanoti Theodorlci de Corpore Christi, 2 fo., " Locus." Omelie Sancti Augustini super Evangelia, 2 fo., " Camis." Appologia Ambrosii, 2 fo., " Qui Domino." Epistole beati Augustini, 2 fo., " Post tabulam voluptas." Augustini de Baptismo Parvuloram, 2 fo., " Illud." Augustinus de Civitate Dei, 2 fo., " Ut efiugerent." Aurelius Augustinus super Exposicionem Psalmi, ' Quid glori- aris ' usque ' Domine exaudi,' 2 fo., " Abimelech." Aurelius Augustinus de Ecclesiasticis Dogmatibus, 2 fo., " Or natus." Augustinus de Verbis Domini, 2 fo., " Post tabulam numquid vitat." Augustinus de Consensu Evangeliste, 2 fo., " Munere." Augustinus de Verbis Domini cum aliis tractatibus, 2 fo., " Post tabulam solet." Aurelius Augustinus in exposicione Psalterii, a psalmo ' Beatus vir ' usque ad ' Dixit incipiens,' 2 fo., " Deus." Tercia pars Aurelii Augustini, a ' Domine exaudi ' usque ad finem, 2 fo., " Auclitur." Augustinus de Linea Conjugali, 2 fo., " Presertim." Augustinus contra Faustum Manicheum, 2 fo., " Quid non." Sermones Augustini, 2 fo., " Post tabulam ambula." Augustini Confessiones, 2 fo., "Propter." Liber Augustini Eetractionum, 2 fo. ' Wm. Abbot de St. Thierry, and friend of St. Bernard, died in 1150 INVENTORY OP 1506. 373 Augustini Confessiones, 2 fo., " Zelas." Augustinus de Moribus Ecclesie, 2 fo., " Tingit." Augustinus contra Felicianum Arianum, 2 fo., " Ne id." Augustinus contra Hereticos, 2 fo., " Eacio." Liber Encheridion, 2 fo., in rabro, " Quid intersit." Aurelius Augustinus contra Mendacium, 2 fo., " Mendacium." Sermones beati Augustini de Lapsu Mundi, 2 fo., " Quia tu." Augustinus de Simbolo., 2 fo., " Quidam." Decimus descus. Excepciones Flory " super Epistolas Pauli, 2 fo., " Paulus." Thomas super Matheum, 2 fo., " Quia." Omelie Augustini et aliorum Doctorum, 2 fo., " Dit ad celum." Glosa super Epistolas Pauli, 2 fo., " Intencione." Glosa communis super Epistolas Pauli, 2 fo., " Temptante." Augustinus super Evangelium Johannis, 2 fo., " Jesus quia." Thomas super Johannem et Lucam, 2 fo., " Est qui." Glosa super Evangelia Luce et Johannis, 2 fo., in textu " Ea- tionem." Liber quinque Prophetarum glosatus, 2 fo., " Nabitur." Liber Sermonum, 2 fo., " Post tabulam in mundo." Glosa super Actus Apostolorum, 2 fo., in textu " Accipietis.'' Omelie Chrysostomi super Matheum, 2 fo., " Matrimonio." Ysidorus super Genesim et alius liber, 2 fo., " De nativitate." Jobus glosatus, 2 fo., " Que de illo." Ysidorus de Natura Eerum, 2 fo., " Post tabulam ex multi tudine." Matheus et Marcus glosatus, 2 fo., " Deum sic prima." Glosa super Psalterium in exposicione literali Nicholai Treneth, 2 fo., " Quia temarius." Psalterium glosatum, 2 fo., " Inspiracio." Joachim ^ Albas super Apocalipsim Johannis, 2 fo., " Congeries." Holoott super Sapienciam, 2 fo., " Sacra est." Concordia Evangeliarum, 2 fo., " Post tabulam quia viderunt." Ysaias glosatus, 2 fo., in textu " Unde." Antiquus liber, 2 fo., " Pro virginitatis." Glosa super actus Apostolorum, 2 fo., in textu " In multis." Augustinus super Epistolas Johannis, 2 fo., " Quibus sanum." Communis glosa super Exodum, 2 fo., in textu " Quantoque." Liber Genesis glosatus, 2 fo., in textu " Creavit." Lucas super 12 Prophetas, 2 fo., " Unde." Lectura ordinaria Fratris Eicardi Eystede, 2 fo., " Cedrus ista." Undecim descus. Expositio super Matheum, 2 fo., " Deum laborat." Magister in Historia Scolastica, 2 fo., post tabulam, " Taretur." Prima pars doctoris de Lyra,' 2 fo., " Ad ipsam." 8 Florus, a. member of the Church of Lyons, flourished in the ninth century. See his Elogiuin in Oudin's Supplement, 244. 9 Joachim, a Cistercian Abbot and volu minous writer, died in 1202, set. 72. ' Nicholas de Lyra before mentioned. 374 APPENDIX. Secunda pars doctoris de Lyra, 2 fo., "Potentes." Tercia pars doctoris de Lyra, 2 fo., " Multiparie." Liber Concordanciarum, 2 fo., 106, " Descen." Matheus glosatus, 2 fo., " Cramentum." Josephus de BeUo Judaico, 2 fo., " Coram." Liber Leviticus, 2 fo., in textu " Alitem." Opus quoddam Sancti Hieronimi, 2 fo., "Post tabulam parit." Josephus, 2 fo., " Eestitisset." Glosa super Evangelium Mathei, 2 fo., " Fuit." Biblia, 2 fo., "Philippus." Expositio super Tres Libros Eegum, 2 fo., " Intirnatur." Glosa communis super Sapienciam et Ecclesiasticum, 2 fo., in textu " Testis." Genesis glosatus, 2 fo., in textu " Et mater." Libea Exameron, 2 fo., " Et judicat." Parabole Salamonis et cetera glosata, 2 fo., in textu " Fructu." LiBKi Cathenati eega ostium occidentale. WaUensis in Colloquio,^ 2 fo., " Sextum." Exposicio super Cantica Canticorum, 2 fo., " Quoddam." Perusius de Septem Sacramentis, 2 fo., " Suis." Odo Perusiensis super Psalterium,^ 2 fo., "Post tabulam." Alexander Abbas de partibus Veteris ac Novi Testamenti, 2 fo., " Esset barbarismus." Psalterium glosatum, 2 fo., " Ejus." Tabula Januensis,^ 2 fo., " Suos." Historia Scolastica, 2 fo., " Post tabulam tu sue.'' LmEi NON Cathenati ex tota libhabia. Codex, 2 fo., in textu " Ut sciant." Ff. inforciatum, 2 fo., in textu " Intercedat." Liber de Joseph qui Corpus Christi sepelivit, 2 fo., " Dominus dixit." Dialogus beati Gregorii, 2 fo., " Extincti filii." Liber Sacramentalis, 2 fo., " Quis cui." Breviarium nocturnale, 2 fo., " Gladium." Primum volumen, 2 fo., in textu " Universi cives." Speculum Judiciale, 2 fo., " Obe Judi." Tractatus juris Johannis de Bromyarde,' 2 fo., " Post tabulam quoque faciat." LUium Sacerdotis, 2 fo., " Eat." Civis super Codex, 2 fo., " Contingere." 2 John Gualensis, or Wallis, O.S.F., flemished in the latter part of the reign of Hen. IIL, and was called " Arbor VitEe." ' Q. 'The second Abbot of Cluny, who died in 942? * This James, Archbishop of Genoa, sometimes called de Voragine (from being like M. Cato " Helluo Librorum," Cic, 3 de Fin.), but more probably from the town of that name, in the territory of the city of Genoa. • According to Leland, Bromyard was a Dominican who flourished at Oxford, and was " Legum consul tissim us, et in theo logia feliciter versatus," ' De Script. Brit ' p. 356. INVENTORY OF 1506. 375 Unum parvum Breviarium, 2 fo., " Ante." Ff. vetus, 2 fo., " Composuimus." Materia super 4° Libro Decretalium, 2 fo. " Alterius." Albas super 1° Libro Decretalium, 2 fo., " Sentito."— /mpressom artis. Prima pars Abbatis super 2° Decretalium, 2 fo., " Ut cnm."— Idem. Abbas super 4° et 6° Decretalium," 2 fo., " Ubi."— 7&m. Tercia pars Abbatis " super secundo, 2 fo., " Hec leo."— Idem. Abbas super tercio Libro Decretalium, 2 fo., " Gis debent."— Idem. Psaltenum antiquum glosatum, 2 fo., " Plerique." Quinque antiqui libri non cathenati et 11 quaterni autiquiores, nuUius valoris. Liber Decretalium, 2 fo., in textu " Sua." Liber Decretoram, 2 fo., " Quadragesima." Liber Institucionum, 2 fo., in textu " Et precipue." Capella Sanoti Edmundi supka Ossilegium in Cimetbrio. 1 calix argenteus et deam-atus cum scriptura " Jesus " in patena, ex dono Domini Johannis Major. 1 Missale impressorie artis in pergameno, 2 fo., in rubro, " Ecclesie," ex dono ejusdem. 1 Manuale, 2 fo., " Oraciones," ex dono ejusdem. 1 par vestimentorum de satino figurato nigri coloris, le orfrey de rubeo velvete, cum ymaginibus Crucifixi, Marie et Johannis in eodem, ex dono ejusdem. 1 front, depicta cum pagenta et signis Diei Judicii, ex dono ejusdem. 1 liber diversorum novorum Festorum, 2 fo., " Illustres." 4 tuella diversi sortis. FronteUa cum tuello annexo. 1 togiUa, trium virgarum in longitudine. 1 casula per se de blodio bordalisaunder, cum 1 fanula ejusdem panni. 1 casula de baudekyn rubei coloris cum coronis aureis, le orfrey de viridi et rubro serico cum rosis argenteis. 1 casala de albo serico cum canibus aureis, le orfrey de rabeo et viridi serico cum leopardis aureis. 1 casula de rabro baudekyn cum frondibus et floribus viridibus, le; orfrey de rabro et blodio baudekyn cum canibus aureis. 1 corporale cum casa de nigro velvete. 1 casa absque corporali, de rabeo serico cum steUis aureis ex 1 parte et blodio serico dperata cum albo serico ex aUa. 1 coiporale cum casa, de rabeo panno aureo ex 1 parte et albo satino ex altera. 1 suffront de panno lineo alba et viridi bokeram paled. 1 front de viridi colore cum pavonibus glaucii coloris duplicatis, cum panno lineo. 1 Biblia, 2 fo., " Et Johannem." « Abbas, of the Order of St. Benedict, I ri.slied eaily in the fifteenth century ; his promoted to the See of Palermo-, and flou- | real name was Nicholas Tudeschi. 376 APPENDIX. 2 curtine stayned de panno lineo cum angelis thurificantibus. 2 manutergia. 1 pannus linens, depictus cum ymaginibus Patris, Filii, et Spiritus Sancti, in medio et ymaginibus Petri et Pauli ex lateribus. 1 pannus albus serious, cum Crucifixo, Maria et Johanne. 1 front pro coUateralibus altaribus. 2 suffront pro eisdem altaribus. 2 togille pro eisdem. 1 pannus de albo et nigro serico.' MSS. GIVEN BY THB DEAN AND CHAPTER OF EXETEE TO THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD. Munifioentissimis atque optimis cujusvis ordinis, dignitatis, sexus, qui Bib- liothecam banc hbris, aut pecuniis numeratis ad hbros coemendos, aJiove quovis genere ampliarunt, Thomas Bodleius eques auratus, honorarium hoc volumen, in quod hujuscemodi donationes, simulque nomina donantium sin- gillatim referuntur, pietatis, memorise, virtutisque causa dedit, dedicavit. Donum Decani et Canonicorum Ecclesie Cathedralis Exon. Moralium B. Gregorii in Job. L. 14. Augustinus in Psalmum 101 et sequentes. Moralium B. Gregorii, pars 4 ; a libro 17 ad 35 inclusive. Augustinus de Civitate Dei. Epistola ejusdem Augustini, 132. Glossse Thome Aquini in Jo. et Luc. Liber qui vocatur Somnium Viridarii. Homiliae B. Gregorii in Evang. Expositio B. Augustini in Epistolas Pauli. De Ecclesiasticis Dogmatibus. De Utilitate agendas Pcenitentiae. De Natura Boni. Enchiridion. De Cura pro Mortuis agenda. Contra Medicum. De Mendacio. Contra 5 Hsereses. Hypognosti- con. De 10 Chordis. De Spiritu et Anima. Htigo de Arra Animae. Questiones ad Orosium, Lib. 6. Musicae, &c. Super Canonicam Joannis. Liber Eetractationum. De Magistro. De Quantitate Animse. De Agone Christiano. De Fide ad Petram. Soliloquia. De Immortalitate Animae. De bono ConjugaU. De Virginitate. De Cognitione ver» Vitse. De Fide ad Petrum, et ad Donatum. Expositio SymboU. Contra Infideles. ' Of all the books in the Inventory the Historia Polioronica. only remaining ones in 1752 were the fol lowing ;. — Anselmi tractatus, Sancti Ambrosii de Misteriis, Lanfranci dialogus. Liber Guiniunde. De Re Medica, 2 vols. Rosa Medicine, Legenda Sanctorum. Somnium Scipionis. William Wydford. Boetius de Musica. Beda. Speculum Mundi. Epistole decretales, Babanus,Isedorus Hispalensis de Rerum Natura, Inventarium Jocalium, de 1506, Pontificale Edmundi Lacy, Sermones Dominicales. MSS. GIVEN TO THE BODLEIAN LIBEAEY. 377 Canones Apostolorum et Canones Magni Niceni Concilii et mul- torum aliorum Conciliorum. Biblia Vulgata, Lat. boholastica Historia P. Comestoris in Pentateuchum. iiibri 18. Hieronymi in Isaiam. Speculum Historiale Fratris VincentU. Dicta et Sermones Domini Lincoln. Prima pars Augustini super Psalmes. Bartholomaus de Pisis, De Casibus Conscientise. Ambrosii Lib. 9, de Fide ad Gratianum. Beda super Lucam et Marcum. Passiones et Vitse diversonim Sanctorum. Missale antiquissimum. Eichardus de Media VUla super 4 libros Sententiarum. Liber de Miraculis Christi. Liber Confessionum S. Augustini. Augustinus de Consensu Evangelistamm. Poenitentiale S. Gregorii Papae urbis Eomse. Prognosticon Juliani Toletani Episcopi. Lectura ordinaria Eicardi Eingstede super 29 capitula Parabo- larum Salamonis. Liber S. Isidori ad Florentinam de Miraculis Christi. Hieronymus contra Jouinianum. Liber qui continet Job secundum compilationem Eicardi Ham- poole heremitffi, necnon 15 proprietates de Oculo extractas per Magistrum de Limochia, &c. Doctor Subtilis super 4° Sententiarum. Thomas Aquinas in Matthseum et Marcum. Nicholaus de Trineth et Nicholaus de Lyra super Psalterium. Liber Augustini contra Faustum Manichaeum. Beda de Tabernaculo et vasis ejus, a vestibus Sacerdotum. Augustinus contra Felicianum Arianum. De Agone Christiano. De Cataclysmo. De Cantico novo. De Mysterio Crucis. Sermones ejusdem plures. De Cura pro Mortuis gerenda. De Symbolo. Flores Gregorii Augustinus super Epistolam S. Johannis ApostoU, &c. Introductorium Algebraici ad judicia astroram. Liber Imbrium k Jafar Astrologo editum, et a Lenio et Mercuric correctum. Liber Tabith filius Che^ve de Sphsera et de Circulis. Liber de 28 Mansionibus Lunae. Tabula ostendens in quo signo sit Luna omni die. Liber Alfragani de Aggregationibus Scientiae Stellarum, et principiis coelestium motuum. Centi- loquium Ptolomaei. Liber Imaginum Tabith Lencoras. Liber vocatus Toc, et vocatur Liber Veneris et liber 10 Lapidum Veneris. Problemata naturalia. Liber sextus de Naturalibus Avicenuffi. Philosophi translatus ab Archidiacono Toletano. Quatuor Evangelia Latina. Bonaventura de Passione Christi. Quatuor Meditationes imaginis vitae per eundem. 378 APPENDIX. Liber B. Athanasii de Trinitate unitatis. Altercatio contra Arrium, Sabellium, &c. Glossa communis et interlinearis super Genesim. Exoeptio de Canonibus Catholicorum Patrum, &c. Bartholomaeus de Proprietatibus Eerum. Hexameron B. Ambrosii. Legenda Sanotoram. Glossa communis et interlinearis in Epi stolas Pauli. Gregorii Homiliae 12 in primam partem Ezechielis. _ Augustinus contra Mendacium. De Natura et Origine Animsi ad Eenatum. Ad Petrum Presbyteram de eadem re. Idem ad Vincentium de eadem re. Libri quatuor Dialogorum B. Gregorii. Sententias Isidori de summo bono. Determinatio Fratris et Magistri Gulielmi Widford contra Wyclif. Flores ex variis libris Augustini. Quaestiones Eoberti Kylwarby de Conscientia. Flores Francisci de Meronis super quatuor libros Augustini de Doctrina Christiana. Flores ejusdem super varies libros Augustini. Wycklif de Mandatis. Eegistrum Gregorii. Commentarius anonymi in Psalmos. Opuscula Ambrosu 4. Concordia discordantium Canonum, folio. Novella Johannis Andrew super quinque Ubros DecretaUum. Homilie Gregoru 4. Augustinus in Psalmos, folio. Lucas et Johannes cum Glossa 4. Julius SoUnus 4. Holcot in 12 Prophetas. Boethius de Consolatione PhUosophiae, folio. Dialogi Gregoru libri quatuor. Super Ezechiel de Mensura TempU. Sermones. Sermones Dominicales Fratris Jacobi Archiepiscopi Januensis, folio. Ambrosius de Officiis Ministrorum. Compendium Medicinae Magistri Gilberti AngUci. Item Compendium super Librum Aphorismorum Hippocratis, folio. Augustinus Hypognosticon et Enchiridion ad Laurentium. Pastorale Gregorii 4, Beda in Epistolas Canonicas 4. Magister Sententiarum, folio. Holcot super Librum Sapientiae. LibeUi Medicinae 4. Augustinus in Evangelium secundum Joannem. Sermones Eicardi Arruachani contra Mendicantes. PABEIC-EOLLS. 379 No. IV. FABEIC-EOLLS OF EXETEE CATHEDEAL. EXTRACTS FEOM THB ROLLS OP THE OUSTOS NOVI OPEEIS ECCLESIE SANCTI PETEI EXONIE, (Pkom 1279 to 1439,) 30 Sept. 1279 to 1284. — An imperfect Eoll. In crastino Sancti Michaelis pro tribus fenestris ad capeUam beati Jacobi ex precepto senescalli 8s. 9d In vitro empto 16s. Expenses from Midsummer, 1280, to Easter Eve, 1281, 11?. 7s. 2d. 1284. — Expenses are mentioned respecting the fabric ofthe tower beyond the Exchequer. Two carpenters 2s. 8c?. a week, and to a certain workman, probably an assistant, 7id, for work about the tower in capella beate Marie Magdalene. A new window made in St. Paul's (the north) tower, and the altar removed from St. John's (the south) tower. Pro carriagio maremii de Norton 8c?. In opere ventilogii (weathercock) super eandem tunim id. Fabro pro una virga terrea ad ventilogium 21d. 1285. — For work in the chapel of St. Mary Magdalene 5s. 8c?. Ad fenestram largiorem faciendum in turri predicta et ad altare ejusdem removendum 6s. 4c?. Towards glazing the same window 3s. 9c?. Pro una fenestra vitrea in turre Sancti Johannis 5s. Pro fenestra facta in turre Sancti Pauli 19s. 2^d. For glazing the window there 6s. For removing the altar of St. Paul and plaistering the window 1 2c?. Total 30s. lid. 1286. — Eichard de Malmsbury employed as a painter at 2s. Hd. per week. Circa organa claudenda 4s. About the bell caUed" Walter," and the other bells 2s. In muro prostemendo sub aroha turris Sancti Johannis et ad magnam fenestram in turri Sancti Johannis aperien- dum 2s. 3c?. Together with other expenses in fitting the same window 31s. Expenses about the fabric this year 5?. 19s. &id. Paid on Saturday before the Feast of St. Peter in cathedra for work about a beU caUed "Germaeyn" 2c?. The other beU was called "Walter." For hanging two bells called "Bokerel" and " Chauncel " 2c?. Miohas. 1299 to Michas. 1300.— Eobert de Ashperton and Eoger Mason were the Wardens novi operis. Summary totius custus novi operis de isto anno 179?. 6s. 2d. This EoU is copied in extenso. 1301 to 1302.— Eeceipts 281?. 14s. 3d. 300 stones from Silverton ad voltam. 300 stones from Hamedon cum carriagio for the steps before the high altar 64s. id. Towards painting the vaulting cum 380 APPENDIX. auro argento azura et aliis coloribus ad idem emptis 26 libre. In 1271 pedibus vitri ad summas fenestras frontis novi operis cum duabus formis in utraque parte 29?. 2s. bhd. Expenses 252?. 6s. 6c?. In hand 39?. 8s. M. 1302 to 1303.— Eeceipts 187?. Is. lc?. A bequest from Andrew Kilkenny, Dean of Exeter, of 6?. 13s. 4d. In ala austrah novi operis pavianda 8s. 6c?. Ml the canons contributed towards the nova fabrica ecclesie. In sex libris albi plumbi ad picturam emptis 20^c?., precium libre 3M In uno potello olei empto 10c?. In uno potello ohi adpictaram empti 8c?. Expenses 104?. 14s. 7fc?. 1303 to 1804.— Eeceipts 246?. 14s. 4ic?., of whioh Bishop Bitton had contributed 124?. IBs, 8c?. 364 feet of glass at 6^c?. a foot 8?. 6s. 10c?. Paid Walter the glazier for fitting the glass of the gable end and of octo summarum fenestrarum et sex fenestrarum in other parts of the new work 4?. 10s. For 140 feet of vitri depicti, at bid. a foot, 64s, 2c?, Fitting the same 2s. Considerable sums are charged this year for lead and stone. John, Vicar of Tawton- Bishop, was a benefactor. Bargia petrarum de Portlonde cariata 10s. Expenditure 197?. Is. 2-i-c?. 1306 to 1307. — Imperfect. For a cart hired carriare maremium de Chuddelegh usque Hagheldon (Haldon) for one week 1 8s. Car riage of four great pieces of timber from Chuddeleigh 7s. Great quantities of stone this year from Berlegh. 1308 to 1309. — Eeceipts wanting. Expense of plumbers' and work 23?. 7s. Ifc?. In una libra et dimidio rubei plumbi empti 9^c?. Pro decem libris de blank plumb emptis 5s., pro libra 5c?. In 21 libris ejusdem alia vice emptis 7s. lO^^c?., at 4ic?. In una libra cinopol empta 2s, 9c?. Una uncia ejusdem 2f c?. In tribus libris et dimidia de vemise 2\d. In 7 galonis et uno quarterio olei emptis lis. 3c?. The total expense for colours and oil for painting the vaulting 29s. 7f c?. for the hay purchased juxta paroum de Athel- ingebeare. Expenses 194?. 10s. 8f(?. This Eoll is in a very bad state. 1309 to 1310. — ^Eeceipts wanting. For two shiploads of stone from Caen 12?. 4s. The wall- work appears to have been begun at this time. To John de Glaston for removing the former waUs 52s. 6c?. Three fothers of lead 9?. 2s,, purchased in nundinis Sancti Botulphi (Boston). Paid to William Canon of Corf pro marbre 26?. 13s. 4c?. Three fothers of lead bought at Boston fair 9?. 12«., price per fother 3?, 4s. For weighing, marldng, and the customs, and carrying it to the water 3s. 9c?. Por bringing it thence to Topsham 18s. Landing it there i7c?. Bringing it thence to Exeter 3s. 5c?. Expenses 336?. 19s. llic?., which this year exceeded the receipts by 70?. Os. 4^1?. This Eoll is very imperfect. 1310 to 1311.— Eeceipts 385?. 9s. 10c?. Amongst other benefactors are 121?. 18s, 8c?, de dono Domini Walteri Episcopi and 100? de dono Magistri MichaeUs Berham, ChanceUor to the Ai-chbishop of PABEIC-EOLLS. 381 Canterbury. In this year a general collection was made through out the diocese towards the fabric : 22s. de duobus equis veteribus ; 26s. received at the Pentecost Offerings in navi ecclesie ; 7s. 3c?. de obventionibus ad gulam Augusti; 6s. 10c?. de obventionibus ad pedes veteris Petri. A great deal of stone from Caen. Two fothers of lead in nundinis Sancti Botulphi. And of 12s. 6c?. de rabea 9,rca. Disbursements 383?. 17s. 7^c?. 1312 to 1313.— Eeceipts 319?. 10s. 10^.; including 124?. de dono Domini Walteri Episcopi de porcione ipsum contingente ad fabricam. The cost of the timber ad sedem Episcopi 6?. 12s. 8^c?. Expenses 226?. 4s. lie?. This Eoll is in a very bad state indeed. 1316 to 1317.— Eeceipts 229?. 15s. lOJc?. A shipload of stones from Caen and carriage 8?. Same payment from Bishop Stapeldon per annum. Bequest of 2s. 9c?. from Eichard, Eector of Honiton. For a bolt ad descum decani in choro lc?. Great quantities of oats procured from Cheriton Episcopi. Expenses 244?. 12s. Oic?. 1317 to 1318. — Eeceipts gone. 124?. 18s. 8c?. de dono Domini Episcopi. 629 pieces of white glass purchased at Eouen for 15?. 14s. 9c?. 1203 pieces de colorato for 10?. 3s. Expenses 255?. 4s. 10^. This EoU is in a very bad state by the application of galls. 1318 to 1319.— Expenses 230?. 10s. Ofc?„ including 124?. 18s. 8cf. de dono Domini Episcopi. Eepaiiing the iron-work of two bells in St, Paul's Tower. Mending one great window in the nave. An iron plate to grind colours 12d. Plain and coloured glass in various parts of the church 13?. 6s. 2id. Wyppe-cord 3c?, Four columns with bases, surbases, and capitals, 5?. 6s. 8c?. 243 feet of marble steps pro la pulpytte, at 4^c?. per foot, 4?. lOs. 3f(?. For two altars with marble fronts 26s. 8c?. Allowed the custos operis for the tab- latura magni altaris 27?. 7s. l\d. Expenses of materials and wages about the stone screen de tablatura lapidea 39?. 9s. 7c?. Expenses 202?. 12s. 34c?. 1319 to 1320. — Eeceipts 215?. 9s. IJc?. Six bars of iron for the stone tabernacle of the great altar 2s. 124?. 18s, 8c?, ex dono Epis copi. 500 pounds of iron to make the great bars pro la pulpytte 15s. 5c?. For two great bars of iron for the pulpytte, to be made ofthe weight of 400 pounds, 12s. For 16 pieces of coloured glass 20s. 8c?. For eight pieces of white glass 6s, 8c?, For iron-work about a great bell called "Jesus" 2s. 6c?. 84?, 19s. 3fc?. allowed on account of the screen of the high-altar. 84?. 19s. 3fc?. allowed the accountant pro tablatura majoris altaris. Expenses 132?. 1320 to 1321.— Eeceipts 217?. 14s. l^c?., of which the bishop con tributed 124?. 18s. 8c?. The tablature of the screen behind the high-altar cost this year alone 81?. 19s. lOfc?. One pound de azura empta London per Dominum Episcopum 3s. 6c?. One pound de Ynde bandas 18c?. Four pounds de verdegris 2s. 4c?, Four wunds de vermUion 2s, 8c?, Five pounds de verniz alb 5s, 0|c?, Three- 382 APPENDIX. quarters . . . . de cinople 4s. 9d. M. foliis auri 28s. 4c?. Six pounds of leaf-gold. De blampln— Lamp-black. In centum libns de blampln emptis per Dominum apud London 18s. In 500 folus auri per Dominum emptis 19s. 2c?. In 16 lagenis olei pro pictura 21s. 6d. Una libra de vermiUon 14c?. In fossato Domim Eoberti Episcopi Warwest 9c?. Expenses 208?. 5s. 4J-n«5 in PABEIC-EOLLS. 393 Sabbato secundo. In stipendio Eicardi de la Streme, lis. 3e?. Et Johannis de la More, Eicardi de Hegham, Walteri de Hampton, Johannis de Corfe, Willielmi MaundevUe, 10s. 10c?. Et Petri de Brideport, Ade Eeymund, et WUUelmi de Pontington, 6s. Et Johannis de LoUeworth, Walteri de Lovepit, Thome de FUton, Johannis de Cristchuroh, Nicholai Mantel, Eoberti Wyroc, et Thome Giles, 12s. 10c?., cuilibet 12c?. Et WUUelmi Aston, Eicardi de Teingemewe, et Philippi de Comubia, 5s. 3c?. Et Golofre qua- rario, 7s. InSDateria, 4c?. ob. quad. In stipendio 4, operarioram 3s. 4c?. Et 3 operariis 2s. 3e?. In centum petris de Berlegh emptis, 3s. 6c?, In centum summis arene, 2s, In stipendiis 4 careaariorum 3s. 6c?; In 15 libris sepi emptis ad careaas. Is. Ie?. ob. In 6 quarteriis 6 buseUis [bushels] arene emptis 6s. 6c?. ob. quad,, pretium quarterii de 5 quarteriis 16 dimidio, et de 11 buselUs 2 ob, quad, Summa, 68s. lOe?. Sabbato tercio. In stipendio Ricardi de la Streme, 2s. 3c?; Et Johannis de la More, Eicardi de Hegham, Walteri de Hampton, Johannis de Corf, et WiUielmi MaundevUe, 10s. 10c?. Et Petri de Brideport, Ade Eeymund, et Willielmi de Pentington, 6s. Et Johannis de Lolleworth, Walteri de Lovepit, Thome de FUton, Johannis de Cristohurche', Nicholai Mantel, Eoberti Wyroc, Thome Giles, et Johannis de Forde, 14s. 8d., cuUibet 22c?, Et Willielmi Aston, Eicardi de Teingemewe, et Philippi de Cornubia, 5s. 3c?. Et Golofre quarario, 7s. In bateria, 5fc?. In stipendiis 6 opera- riorum, 5s. Et 3 operariis, 2s, 3c?. In una naviata petrarum de Kain emptis, 16s. In eisdem cariandis, 26s. Be?. In bar geata petrarum de Branscombe cariata, 6s. In centum petris de Berlegh emptis, 3s. 6c?. In stipendiis 4 careaariorum, 3s. Qd. In 13 clippis factis, 5e?. In 6 quarteriis arene 8s., precium quartern 16c?. Summa, 117s. 9fc?. Sabbato quarto. In stipendio Eicardi de la Streme, 2s. 3c?. Et Johannis de la More, Eicardi de Hegham, Walteri de Hampton, Johannis de Corf, WUUelmi Marmdevile, Eadulfi de Abbodisbyri, WiUielmi de Merton, et Thome de eadem, 17s. 4c?., cuUibet 2s. 2e?, Et Petri de Bridieport, Ade Eeymund, et Willielmi de Puntington, 6s. Et Johanni de Lolleworth, Vfalteri Lovepit, Thome de Pilton, Johannis de Cristchurch, Nicholai Mantel, Eoberti Wyroc, Thome GUes, et Johannis de Forde, 14s. 8c?. Et WUUelmi Aston, Eicardi de Teingemewe, et PhiUppi de Comubia, 5s. 3c?; Et Golofre quarario, 7s. In bateria, 7|c?. In stipendiis 6 opera- riorum, 5s. Et 3 operariis, 2s. 3e?. In centum petris de Berlegh, 3s. 6c?. In centum summis arene, 2s. In stipendiis 4 carea ariorum, 3s. 6c?. In 9 quarteriis grosse avene emptis, 14s, 3d., precium quarterii, 18c?. In 10 quarteriis minutije arene emptis, lis. Be?., preciim quarterii 14e?. Summa, 4?. 15s. 3|c?. Sabbato quinto. In stipendio Eicardi de la Streme, 2s. 3e?. Et Johannis de la 394 APPENDIX. More, Eicardi de Hegham, Walteri de Hampton, Johannis de Corf, Willielmi MaundevUe, Eadulfi de Abbodisbyri, WiUielmi de Merton, et Thome de eadem, 17s. 4c?, Et Petn de Bndeport, Ade Eeymund, et WUUehni Puntington, 6s. Et Johannis de Lolleworth, Walteri de Lovepit, Thome de FUton, Johannis de Cristchurch, Nicholai Mantel, Eoberti Wyrok, Thome Giles, et Jo hannis de Forde, 14s. Be?. Willielmi Aston, Eicardi de Temgemewe, et PhUippi de Comubia, 5s. 3e?. In bateria, 3^. In stipendus 7 operarioram, 5s. lOe?. In centum summis petiaram de Berlegh, 3s. Qd. In stipendiis Johannis hominis chargiandis pro careaa meremii cum cartaria per 4 dietim, 7c?. In 2 careaatis me- remii de Chuddelegh cariatis, 3s. In 2 careaatis petrarum de la Sege car 12e?. In stipendiis 4 careaariorum, 3s. 6c?. In stipendiis Johannis Carpenterii eorundem dentium careaaram per 5 dies, 17jc?,, per diem 3^c?, In 12 gopis doulis, 3 bendis ad truncos, 26 clipp et 18 clutis cum clavis de proprio ferro factis, 4s, Summa, 68s. 8c?. Sabbato seocto. In conductione Eicardi de la Streme, 22Je?. Et Johannis de la More, Eicardi de Hegham, Walteri de Hampton, Johannis de Corf, Willielmi MaundevUe, Eadulfi de Abbodisbyri, WUlielmi de Merton, Thome de eadem, 14s. Qd., cuilibet 21fc?. Et Petri de Brideport, Ade Eeymund, WiUielmi de Puntington, et Nicholai Mantel, 6s. 8d., cuilibet 20c?. Et Johannis de Lolleworth, Walteri de Lovepit, Thome de Pilton, Johanni de Cristchurch, Eoberti Wyroc, et Thome Gyles, 9s, 3c?,, cuilibet 18\d. Et Willielmi Aston, Eicardi de Tengham, et Philippi de Comubia, 4s. 4^d., cuUibet 17je?. Et Hugoni de Prato, 15c?. Et Golofre, 7s. In bateria, 7s. In stipendiis 7 operarioram, 4s. 11^,, cuilibet BJc?, In centum summis petrarum de Berlegh, 3s. 6c?. In centum summis arene, 2s. In stipendus 4 careaariorum 3s. 6c?. In 16 quarteriis arene emptis, I9s, Be?,, unde precium cujusque de 12 quarteriis 15c?,, et cujusque aUorum 14 IBie?. In expensis Domini Eoberti et Magistri Eogeri versus Minam. In 33 quarteriis arene emptis, 49s. 6c?., precium quarterii IBe?. Summa, 4s. 6*e?. Sabbato septimo. In stipendio Eicardi de la Streme, 22|d;. Et Johannis de la More, Eicardi de Hegham, Eadulfi de Abbodisbyri, Willielmi Maunde vUe, Willielmi de Merton, et Thome de Merton, 10s. lO^c?., cuUibet 21 fc?. Et Nicholai Mantel, Ade Eeymund, et WiUielmi de Pontington, 5s. Et Johannis de Forde, Johannis de Lolle worth, 3s. lc?. Et Philippi de Comubia, 17|e?., et Golofre, 7s. Et 1 carpentario, 20e?. In bateria, 5|e?. In 4 operariis, 3s. 4c?. Et 4 operariis, 3s. In malleo ferai, 6 weggis, ligone, 6 chippis, et 9 clutis cum clavis factis de proprio ferro, 5s. 6e?. In aoie [steel] empta, 15c?. In stipendio 4 careaarum, 3s. 6e?, In centum summis sablonis emptis, 2s. Summa, 50s. Sabbato octavo. In stipendio Eicardi de la Streme, IBfc?. Bt Johannis de la More, Eicardi de Hegham, Eadulfi de Abbedesbyri, WiUielmi MaundevUe, WiUielmi de Merton, et Thome de eadem, 9s. l^c?., cuilibet 17ie?. Et Nicholai Mantel, Ade Eeymund, et WiUielmi de Pontington, 4s. 2jc?., cuiUbet 16|c?, Et Johannis de Ford, et Johannis de LoUeworth, 2s. 7c?., cuilibet 15^e?, Et Philippi de Comubia, 15c?, Et Golofre, 7s. In bateria, 3^. In 1 carpen tario, 16jc?. In stipeneUo 4 operariorain, 3s, 4d. Et 4 operario rum, 39. In 1 careaara cariante meremium de Chuddelegh 3 dies, 3s. 2c?. In stipendio 4 careaariorum, 3s. 6e?. In IB quar teriis calcis cariati, 3s. Summa, 44s. Bfe?. Sabbato nono. In stipendio Eicardi de la Streme, 22^e?. Et Johannis de la More, Eicardi de Hegham, Eadulfi de Abbedesbyri, et WiUielmi MaundevUe, 7s. 6e?., cuilibet 22Jc?. Et WUlielmi de Pontington, 20c?. Et Johannis de Forde, IBJc?. Bt Philippi de Comubia, Johannis de Cherde, 2s. 10c?. Et Hugonis de Prato, 15e?. Et Golofre, 7s. In bateria, 2c?. In stipendio 1 carpentarii, 20e?. Et alterius carpenteru, IB^e?. Et 4 carpentarioram, 3s. 6c?., cuilibet 10|e?. Et 4 operariorum, 3s. 4e?. Et 5 operariorum, 3s, 9e?, In 7 hbns sepi ad carectas emptis, 2s. In 5 quarteriis dimidio calcis cariati, lie?. In centum summis arene emptis, 2s, Summa, 42s, 7jc?, PABEIC-EOLLS. 399 Sabbato decimo. In stipendio Eicardi de la Streme, et WiUielmi de Merton, 3s. 9c?. Et Johannis de la More, Eicardi de Hegham, Eadulfi de Abbodesbyri, et WiUielmi MaundevUe, 7s. 6c?. Bt WiUielmi de Pontingdon, 20e?. Et Johannis de Forde, et Johannis do Cruce, 3s. le?. Et Philippi de Comubia, et Johannis de Chorde, 2s. lOe?. Bt Hugonis de Prato, 15e?. In bateria, 4c?, Bt 4 opera rioram, 3s. 4c?. Bt 6 operariorum, 3s. 9c?, Et Golofre, 7s. Et 1 carpentarii, 20e?. Et alterius carpentarii, IBJe?. Bt 4 careaario rum, 3s. 6e?. In 7 quarteriis calcis cariatis, f4e?. In stipendio 1 cooperatoris cum garcone suo per 1 diem, bd. Summa, 42s. 9M. Sabbato undecimo. In stipendio Eicardi de la Streme, et WiUielmi deMeriet, 4s. 6c?. Et Johannis de la More, Eicardi de Hegham, Eadulfi de Abbo desbyri et WiUielmiMaundevile, 8s. 8e?., cuUibet 2s.2d. Et Willielmi de Pontington, Ade Eeymund, 4s. Et Johannis de Forde, et Johannis de Cruce, 3s. Be?. Et Philippi de Comubia, et Johannis de Cherde, 3s. 6c?. Et Hugonis de Prato, IBc?. Et Ade de Chud delegh, carpentarii, 2s. le?. Et WUlielmi de Herford, 2s. Et Willielmi de Holdham, 22e?. Et Eoberti Penington, 19e?. In bateria, 2e?. In 4 operariis, 3s. 4c?. Et 6 operariis, 3s, 9c?. Et 4 cariariis, 3s. 6c?. In mille clavis ad equos de proprio ferro factis, 12c?. In 9 quarteriis dimidio calcis cariendis, 19e?. Summa, 46s. Be?: Sabbato duodecimo. In stipendio Eicardi de la Streme, et Willielmi de Meriet, 4s. 6c?. Bt Johannis de la More, Eicardi de Hegham, Eadulfi de Abbodesbir, et Willelmi MaundevUe, 8s. 8d. Bt Willielmi de Pontington, et Ade Eeymund, 4s. Bt Johannis de Forde, Johannis de Crace, 3s. Bd. Et Philippi de Comubia, et Johannis de Cherde, 3s. 6c?. Bt Hugonis de Prato, IBc?. Bt Michaelis le Daulecot, 2s. Et Golofre le quareur, 7s. In bateria, 4e?. Et 4 operariorum, 3s. 4e?. In 5 operarioram, 3s. 9c?. Et Magistri Walteri carpentarii, 2s. Se?. Et Ade de Chuddelegh, 2s. le?, Et WUlelmi de Herford, 2s. Et Willielmi de Holdeham, 22e?. Bt Eoberti Penington, 20c?. In stipendio 4 careaariorum, 3s. 6e?. In 30 quarteriis calcis cariatis, 5s. In 18 quarteriis arene emptis, 24s., precium quarterii 16c?. Summa, 4?. 4s. Id. Sabbato tercio decimo. In stipendio Eicardi de la Streme, et WiUielmi de Meriet, 4s. 6e?. Et Johannis de la More, Eicardi de Hegham, Eadulfi de Abbod, Willielmi MaundevUe, et Thome de Merton, 10s. lOe?,, cuilibet 2s. 2c?. Et Willielmi de Pontington,^Ade Eeymund, et Nicholai Mantel, 6s. Et Johannis de Forde, et Johannis de Crace, 3s. 8e?. Et Philippi de Cornubia, Johannis de Cherde, 3s. 6c?. Et Hugonis de Prato, IBc?. Et Michaelis de Danbeur, 2s. In bateria, 4je?. In stipendio 4 operarioram, 3s. 4e?. Et 5 operariorum, 3s. 9c?, In stipendio Magistri Walteri carpentaru, 2s. 3c?. Et Ade de Chuddelegh, 2s, Ie?, Et Willielmi de Herford, 400 APPENDIX. 2s. Bt WUlielmi de Holdesham, 22e?, Et Eoberti Penington, 20e?, In 16 quarteriis calcis cariandis, 2s. 6e?. In 2 cordLs ad opus ecclesie, 3s. bd. In petra de Kain cum cariagio, 60s. In stipendio 4 careaariorum, 3s. 6c?. In una bargia petrarum cariante 6s. Summa, 6?. 4s. 8^. Sabbato quarto decimo. . n T.«r • In stipendio Eicardi de la Streme, et WUlielmi de Menet, 4s. 6e?. Et Johannis de la More, Eicardi de Hegham, Eadulphi de Abbodesbyri, WUlielmi MaundevUe, et Thome de Merton, 10s. lOe?. Et WiUielmi de Pontington, Ade Eeymund, et Nicholai Mantel, 6s, Et Johannis de Forde, et Johannis de Crace, 3s. Be?. Et Philippi de Comubia, et Johannis de Cherde, 3s. 6e?. Et Hugonis de Prato, 18 24 May, 1205. 2 29 Sept. 1226. CHAETEES, &c. 41.5 APPEOPEIACIO ECCLESIE DE LITELHAM. Universis Christi fidelibus has literas visuris vel audituris W., miseracione Divina Exoniensis Ecclesie minister humiUs, Salutem eternam in Domino. Noverit universitas vestra nos de communi assensu et consiUo Abbatis et Conventus de Schireburri, ita ordi- nasse circa Ecclesiam de Littleham, videlicet ut cum eam vacare contigerit, improprios usus viginti et quatuor Canonicorum Exoniensis Ecclesie convertatur cum omnibus ad eam pertinen tibus, salva vicaria centum soUdorum vicario perpetuo continue resident! in dicta Ecclesia, qui sustinebit omnia onera tam Epis- copalia quam Archidiaconalia. Salvo eeiam nobis et successoribus nostris jure Episcopal! et Exoniensis Ecclesie dignitate. In cujus re! testimonium tam sigUlum nostrum quam sigilla dictorum Abbatis et Conventus huic scripto sunt apposita. Datum Exonie, sexto decimo Kalendis ApriUs, anno consecracionis nostre decimo.' [The labels for three seals alone remain.] CAETA COMPOSITIONIS Inite iktee Episcopum et Capitulum Exon et Cantoeem Saeum et J, DE BisiMANO Canonicum Exon, Noverint universi presens scriptum inspecturi quod cum con troversia mota fuisset inter E. Precentorem Sarum et Dominum GaUridum de Besimano Canonicum Exon. Item inter dictum precentorem et Dominum WiUielmum Exoniensem Episcopum et Capitulum Exonie per diversa rescripta Apostolica a Domino Papa Gregorio nono impetrata super Ecclesia de Hurberton, et in ipso negocio coram judicibus a diversis partibus impetratis aliquantum citra litis contestationem fuisset processum, tandem inter omnes predictas partes amicabUiter est compositum in hunc modum, videlicet, quod omnis rancor et indignacio, actio petitio, questio et controversia expense et dampna ab omnibus predictis partibus penitus remissa sunt. Ita quod nulla uUo unquam tempore moveatur vel moveri possit questio ei, qui pro tempore fuerit canonicus prebende de Teinton Eegis ab Episcopo vel Capitulo Exon, vel alio nomine suo, ratione dicte Ecclesie de Hurberton, preterquam onenun antiquorum, consuetorum et ordinariorum: dictus quidem precentor et ejus successores in prebenda memorata solvent dicto Galfrido in perpetuo vel procuratori ipsius Galfridi in Cathedrali Ecclesia Exon octo marcas annuales ad quatuor anni terminos, scUicet, ad Natale Domini vel infra octavas duas marcas, ad Pascha vel infra octavas duas marcas, ad Festum Sancti Johannis Baptiste 1 17 March, 1234. 416 APPENDIX, vel infra octavas duas marcas, ad Festum Sancti Michaelis vel infra octavas duas marcas. Quod si dictum precentorem eidem prebende cedere vel etiam ipsum decedere contingat,_ dictus Galfridus nihilominus integre dictas octo marcas percipiet_ (de) prebenda de Teinton et canonico ipsius prebende, quamdiu vixerit idem Galfridus, ad eandem pecuniam solvendam remanentibus obUgatis. Ad hoc inter omnes predictas partes ita amicabUiter convenit, quod dictus precentor presentaret domino Exon vica- rium ad dictam Ecclesiam de Hurberton, qui quidem vicarius percipiet a dicto precentore, vel ab eo qui pro tempore fuerit canonicus dicte prebende de Teinton, quinque marcas annuales nomine vicarie ad quatuor anni terminos prescriptos pro equis porcionibus solvendas. Verum quamprimum continget dictum precentorem, vel eum qui pro tempore ipsi in eadem prebenda successerit, aprestatione dictarum octo marcarum prefato Galfrido solvendarium exhonorari, Uie dicte octo marce dicte vicarie, quinque marcarum in perpetuum integre accrescent dictis ter minis vicario de Hurberton qui pro tempore fuerit pro equis porcionibus solvende, omnibus oneribus ordinariis antiquis et consuetis ad dictam Ecclesiam de Hurberton spectantibus extunc primum vicario qui pro tempore fuerit omnino incumbentibus. Sed dictus precentor, vel ejus pro tempore in dicta prebenda successor, hec ipsa onera usque ad prefatam exoneracionem octo marcarum in solido sustinebit. Quod si in aUquo prefate composicionis memorate a quocunque partium obviatum fuerit vel contradictum, Ucebit domino Bathoniensi Episcopo qui pro tempore fuerit episcopus, partem renitentem et contradicentem omni excepcione, excusacione, cavUlacione, appellacione fori pri- vilegu juris civilis et canonici remedio postpositis, ad omnium predictorum observacionem per censuram ecclesiasticam com- peUere. Ut autem hec amicabUis composicio in perpetuum robur firmitatis obtineat et inviolabUiter per omnia observetm-, tam Domini Exon et Sarum Episcopi quam eorum capitula dictam compositionem approbarunt et confirmarunt et huic scripto in modum cirographi confecto, sigUla sua una cum sigillis dictorum precentoris et Galfridi apposuerunt. Actum in Cathedrali Ecclesia Exon in crastino Sancte Katerine,' Anno Domini M°cc° trieesimo sexto, mense Novembri. Hiis testibus, Magistro Eogero de Winkel tunc decano Exon, Magistro B[ar]tholomeo, Archidiacono Exon, Magistro Eicardo Blundo Cancellario Exon, Magistro Eoberto Crispino, Domino GUberto de HarewUl CapeUano, Magistris H. Tesun, et Galfrido de Exon, HeUa de Badeston Clerico, et mtUtis alus. " 11 II II The seal of Bishop The seal of the A label The seal of the Brewer. Bishop of Salisbury. only. Precentor of Sarum. > 26th Nov. CHAETEES, &c. 417 COLLACIO DE CAPELLA BEATI VIEGINIS DE ECCLESIA DE ALTEENON.i Universis Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit Decanus et Capitulum Exoniensis Ecclesie, Salutem in Domino. Tenore presencium unanimiter confitemur et recognoscimus nos ex coUatione et concessione venerabUis Patris Domini WUlielmi Exoniensis Episcopi, interveniente etiam assensu et voluntate prioris et conventus de Monteacuto, necnon et Abbatis Clunia- censis consensu, Ecclesiam de Altemon cum subscriptis tantum oneribus Divine caritatis intuitu, cum omnibus suis pertinentus liberam et solutam recepisse. Tenemur siquidem vicario per petuo in eadem Ecclesia perpetuo personaliter resident! et eidem deservienti qui curam habeat anitnarum sustentationem de bonis Ulius Ecclesie, bonorum virorum arbitrio competentem, sine diffi cultate providere. Ita quod summam quinque marcarum non excedat vicaria, quem quidem vicarium successive tenemur Domino Exonie qui pro tempore fuerit presentare, qui quidem vicarius Domino Episcopo et Archidiacono et eorum official! in omnibus integre respondeat de hiis in quibus rector illius Ecclesie ex consuetudine antiqua et ordinaria respondere consuevit. Tene mur eciam ex gratia et Uberalitate ordinationis Domini Episcopi viginti quatuor vicarus Exonie Ecclesie duodecim marcas, et duodecim clericis de secunda forma sex marcas ; quatuordecim vero clericis pueris de tercia forma horis statutis circa cultum Dei in eadem Ecclesia laborantibus, septem marcas annuas inter se juxta statum cujuslibet predicti gradus pro equis porcionibus distribuendis per manus Senescalli Capituli solvere: quorum predictorum vicariorum quinque, de secunda forma quinque, et de pueris predictis quatuor cotidiane Misse beate Virginis in Capella ipsius in eadem Ecclesia Exoniensi, omni excusatione postposita diligenter intererunt et devote, quod qui facere neglex- erit, nee alium sui ordinis ad hoc necessarium pro se subroga- verit : per ministrum altaris beate Virginis super hoc accusatus et convictus coram Decano et Capitulo Exoniensi, penam sub- tractionis porcionis diei sibi debite gratis et sine contradictione pro defectu cujuslibet diei subibit, et quod ei scUicet absenti hac de causa fuerit subtractum presentibus ejusdem gradus vel alterius ejusdem Ecclesie clericis eodem die defectum adim- plentibus. Ita quod dictus numerus non diminuatur sine dUacione accr§scat, fiet autem distributio inter predictos vicarios religiosos ut predictum est qualibet septimana die Sabbati. Ita quod quiUbet vicarius predictorum quinque pro qualibet die unum denarium clerici vero predicti et pueri pro qualibet die obulum 1 Pensio de Ecclesia de Alternon sol- I tis pro obitu Willelmi Briwer Exoniensis venda vicarus [vicars choral] et ohoris- | Episcopi et Willelmi Bnwer semons. 2 E 418 APPENDIX. recipient, quolibet autem termino quando fuerint taUagia canoni corum de residue per senescallum capituU fiet inter omnes dis tributio. Ita quod quUibet in suo gradu de summa residui por- tionis sibi assignato sit contentus. Tenemur eciam et volumus post decessum memorati Domini W[illelmi] Exoniensis Episcopi nostri quoUbet anno in perpetuum die obitus sui anniversarium suum solempniter et devote celebrare. Ita dumtaxat quod sin guli canonici qui secundum antiquam ecclesie consuetudinem et approbatam anniversarU sui celebrationi interfuerint, quatuor denarios, vicarii quoque similiter presentes duos. Alii vero qui cumque fuerint in choro sive in prima sive secunda forma debito more unum denarium ; clerici vero et pueri quotquot similiter in choro fuerint, scilicet in tercia forma singuli singulos obulos dicto die precipient. Ob ipsius etiam reverentiam concessimus eidem ut singulis annis die obitus nobilis vfri laudabilis memorie, W[Ulelmi] Briwer, senioris benefici nostri celebretur in Ecclesia nostra solempne anniversarium ejusdem. Observata annua pre- statione denariorum in choro tempore Misse secundum quanti tatem in obitu Magistri Ysaac vel obitu consimili taxatam. Ad predicta siquidem tenenda in omnibus et in singulis bona fide servanda et facienda : nos singClatim et communiter, presentium testimonio obUgavimus, et ad perpetue memorie firmitatem in predictorum omnium et singulorum testimonium et evidentiam pleniorem communi sigUlo nostro et private presens scriptum duximus roborandum. Datum apud Exoniam anno Domini M". 00°. xxxvu". [For the seal see ' Monasticon Exon.' p. 66.] INQUISITIO SUPEE VALOEE ALTELLAGII DE HUEBEETON. Viro venerabiU et discrete Domino Johanni Archidiacono Totton sui devoti Decanus et Capitulum, Salutem cum omni obedi- entia reverentia et honore. Ad mandatum vestrum dUigentem fecimus inquisitionem super vero valore majorum et minorum decimarum Ecclesie de Hurberton, ad quod respondemus et dicimus quod bladum cum fabis et pisis extra curtiUagia cultis predicte Ecclesie cum CapeUis de HalgewUle et Legh estima- tur ad xxx marcas. Est ibi vicarius per venerabUem patrem Dominum WiUielmum, Exon. Episcopum admissus et institutus et taxata est per eundem Episcopum vicaria et consistit iapor- tiombus subscriptis, videlicet, decima fabamm et pisarum in curtUagiis estimatur ad vi.*, pomorum ad x.', lini vi = vm ^ Ob- lacionum die Sancti Andree xiii.» iiii.d, die Natalis Domini x.», die Pasche xiii^« "^¦^ die Sancti Leonardi iu CapeUade Halge- wille x.», die Ommum Sanctorum in Capella de Legh xviii ^ CHAETEES, &c, 419 Item in Capellis de Luscume, Wasseborn, et Engleborn, xv.'' Item decima agnorum vi.^ vm.* Lane XL.= Abbaticum argento Vl.^ VIII.'' Feni x.^ Confessionum v.' Purificationum ii.' Por- ceUorum Vitulorum m.^ Mollis xvm.'' Aucarum ii.* Mer- catorum et artificiorum xvm denaru. SuUorum xii.'' Panis et ova vendita ad crucem ad Pascham estimantur ad ii.^ Decima argenti pro agnis xii.'' Mortuaria xiii.' mi.'* Sponsalia xii.'' Sanctuarium prout vicaria estimatur ad xx.'' Decima molendi- norum xv." Oblaciones Dominicales mi.' mi.'' Minute decime curtiUagiorum xii.'' In cujus rei testimonium nos Eicardus Vicarius de Brente Decanus Totton, A. . . . , Eector Ecclesie de Aveton, WUlielmus Persona de Depeford, Thomas Vicarius de Eadetre, Petrus Vicarius Totton, Petrus Vicarius de Dene, Wal- warinus Vicarius de Bucfestre, Eogerus Vicarius de Hurberton, Wilhelmus Vicarius de Tunstalle, Eicardus de Stoke, et Johannes de Didesham CapeUani, presenti Inquisitioni SigUla nostra appo- suimus. Datum Totton die Jovis proxima post Nativitatem Sancti Johannis, anno gracie M.cc. [cut ofi", probably xl.] HUEBEETON DE ECCLESIA DE TEYNGTON. (Lytchfold.) Universis Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit W. [Brewer], miseracione Divina Exoniensis Episcopus, Salutem in Domino. Noverit universitas vestra nos dUectis in Christo filiis Decano et Capitulo Ecclesie nostre Exoniensis tenore pre sencium concessisse Uberam et specialem potestatem, nostro vel cujuscumque alterius irrequisito consensu, ingredendi corporalem possessionem Ecclesie de Hurberton cum capellis et aUis omni bus pertinenciis suis quamcito ipsam vacare contigerit quam quidem ecclesiam per consensum omnium eorum quorum intere- rat nuper eisdem concessimus in proprios usus cotidiane distribu- cionis possidendam. In cujus rei testimonium presenti scripto sigUlum nostrum apponi fecimus. Datum Exonie xvii. Kalendis Maii, anno Domini m". og". xl" quarto [15 April]. [The seal is gone.] APPEOPEIACIO ECCLESIE DE WINKBLEGH Et aliaeum Ecclbsiakum db advocacionb Abbatie db Teukbsbie, VIDELICET DE SANCTO SaNCEBDO BT TbBVALGA. Universis sancte matris Ecclesie fUiis presens scriptum visuris vel audituris WiUielmus miseracione Divina Exoniensis Ecclesie Minister humilis, eternam in Domino Salutem. Noverit uni versitas vestra nos divine pietatis intuitu dedisse concessisse et 2 e 2 420 APPENDIX. hac presenti Carta nostra confirmasse Decano et Capitulo Exom- ensis Ecclesie has Ecclesias, sciUcet Ecclesiam deWmkelegh in Devon et Ecclesiam de Sancto Sancredi et Ecclesiam de Tre valga in Cornubia, cum omnibus pertinenciis suis tam in tem poralibus quam in spiritualibus, cedentibus vel decedentibus earundem rectoribus pleno jure inperpetuum tenendas et in perpetuam elemosinanT libere et quiete convertendas in pro prios usus viginti quatuor Canonicorum viginti quatuor a,nti- quarum prebendarum Exoniensis Ecclesie. Licebit autem dictis Decano et Capitulo, nostro vel successorum nostrorum assensu et consensu ingredi libere dictas Ecclesias cum eas vacare con tigerit et ad iUas deserviendum tenore presencium eisdem libe ram concedimus auctoritatem. Interim autem dicti Decanus et Capitulum expensas debitas, et consuetas, omnium earundem Ecclesiarum percipient pensiones quas Abbas et Conventus de Teukbiri hactenus consueverunt de predictis Ecclesus percipere. Et ut hec nostra donacio, concessio et presentis Carte nostre conflrmacio robur perpetuitatis inviolabUiter habeat presens scriptum sigiUi nostri apposicione duximus roborandum. Hiis testibus Domino Manessero filio Mathei, Eadulfo Cole, Petro Wimundo, Waltero Capellanis, et Thoma CapeUano Canonico, , Thoma et Henrico tunc clericis Episcopi, et multis aUis. Datum Die [sexta Jan.] Epiphanie, anno gracie millesimo ducentessimo quadragessimo secundo. [The seal of Bishop Brewer is attached.]' CAETA ABBATIS ET CONVENTUS DE TEUKBSBIE Super advocacionb Ecclesie de Wtnkelegh et aliaeum Ecclesiaeum IN CoENUBIA. Cyrographum. Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit Eobertus Dei gratia abbas Theoukesburie et humiUs ejusdem loci Conventus, Salutem in Domino. Noverit universitas vestra nos de communi consensu et assensu nostro dedisse, concessisse, et hac Carta nostra confirmasse Deo et beate Marie et Ecclesie Sancti Petri Exonie et ejusdem Ecclesie Capitulo, advocaciones Ecclesie de Wynkeleija in Devonia, et Ecclesiarum Sancti Sancredi et Trevalga in Comubia, simul cum omnibus pensio nibus quas inde percipere consuevimus, et cum pleno jure patro natus absque uUo retinemento ad opus nostrum vel Ecclesie nostre m perpetuum. Ut autem hec nostra donatio, concessio ' This deed has suffered much from wet. CHAETEES, &c. 421 et confirmacio perpetue firmitatis robur obtineant presenti scripto sigilla nostra duximus apponenda. Datum anno gratie millesimo ducentesimo quadragesimo secundo, octavo decimo Kalendis Februarii.' [The seal is gone.] CONFIEMACIO HENEICI DE POMEEAYE De Ecclesiis db Bokeel, Upotbey, bt Stokble Pomeeaye. Omnibus sancte matris Ecclesie filus presentes litteras inspec turis vel audituris Henricus de la Pomeraye Dominus de Berij, Salutem in Domino. Noverit universitas vestra quod ego pro salute anime mee et antecessorum meorum concedo pro me et heredibus meis quietum clamo et tenore presencium confirmo in puram et perpetuam elemosinam Deo et Ecclesie beati Petri Exonie ac venerabili Patri Domino Waltero, Dei gratia ejusdem loci Episcopo, et suis successoribus Episcopis, advocaciones Ecclesiarum de Upotery, de Bokerel, et de Stokeleg Pomeraye, Exoniensis Diocesis, vacancium per resignationem et dimis- sionem Eadulfi Abbatis Ecclesie beate Marie de Valle in Nor mannia, et ejusdem loci Conventus Baiocensis diocesis. Et ut hec mea concessio quieta clamantia et confirmacio perpetuum robur firmitatis obtineant presens scriptum sigilli mei impres sione confirmavi. Hus testibus religiosis viris Henrico de Buffestr., Briano de Tore Abbatibus, Magistro Johanne de Blakedon Precentore Exoniensi, Eoberto Andre de Berliz, Dominis WiUielmo de Fishacre, Waltero de Vernon militibus, Eoberto de Cunnerton, Eogero le Arcenesk, et aliis. Actum et datum apud Cryditon in vigilia Assumpcionis beate Marie, anno Domini m°. 00°. sexagesimo septimo. [The seal is gone.] ECCLESIA DE BOCKELAND. [Filleigh,] ' Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Henricus de Bott, Propositus de Glasneya, dedi concessi et hac presenti Carta mea confirmavi venerabili patri in Christo Waltero, Dei gracia Exoniensi Epis copo, totam terram meam de la Wodecrofte una cum advo- cacione Ecclesie de Bokelond filii Walteri, cum omnibus per tinenciis suis quas habui de dono Domine Ermigarde relicte Domini Willielmi de Ponchardon. Tenendum et habendum dicto Domino Waltero et cuicumque dare, legare, assignare, vel ' 15 Jan, " Sewed into the beginning of Bronesoombe's ' Eegister.' 422 APPENDIX, aliquo modo appropriare voluerit in quocumque statu fuerit de dicta Ermigarda et heredibus suis libere, quiete, jure hereditario inperpetuum. Et ego et heredes mei tenemur warantizare acquietare et defendere dictam terram et advocacionem dicte Ecclesie predicto Domino Waltero et assignatis et legatariis suis contra omnes homines inperpetuum. Quod ut ratum et stabUe permaneat, presenti Carte sigiUum meum apposui. Hus testibus, Dominis Alexandro de Oxton, Eadulpho de Arundell, Johanne Wyger miUtibus, Eadulpho de Speketon, Eeginaldo le Arceneske, et aliis. TEEEA DE KBLLI.' Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego WiUielmus de Eostourek dedi, concessi, et hac presenti Carta mea confirmavi Domino Thome de Button, Episcopo Exoniensi, totum terram meam de KeUy in Parochia Sancti Aluni in Comubia cum suis perti nenciis. Tenendum et habendum predicto Domino Thome de Buttoii et heredibus suis, vel assignatis, libere, quiete, pacifice, integre, jure hereditario inperpetuum una cum domibus, mes- suagus, clausis, pratis, pasturis, viis, et aquis, cnm omnibus liber tatibus et liberis consuetudinibus supradicte terre de Kelly pertinentibus tam in sicco quam in umido, faciendo inde Dominis capitaUbus ejusdem feodi servicia debita et consueta. Pro hac autem mea donacione concessione et presentis Carte confirma- cione dedit michi predictus Dominus Thomas decem Ubras argenti pro manibus in recognicionem. Et ego predictus WU lielmus et heredes mei totam predictam terram de KeUy cum omnibus suis pertinencus predicto Domino Thome de Button et heredibus suis vel assignatis tenemur warantizare contra omnes homines inperpetuum. Et ut hec mea donacio concessio, et presentis Carte mee confirmacio rata permaneat et stabihs inperpetuum, eandem sigUli mei impressione roboravi. Hiis testibus, Dominis Stephano de Bello Prato, Eicaxdo de Ceryciaus militibus, Hugone le Gros, Odone de Trereys, WUUeUno de Eeskylystyn, et aliis. Datum apud Kargaul, die Dominica proxima ante Festum Sancti Laurencii, anno regni Eegis Edwardi filu Eegis Henrici trieesimo. APPEOPEIACIO ECCLESIE DE UPOTBEY.' Apud Clist in crastino Festi Sancti Hilarii appropriavit Dominus Episcopus Ecclesiam de Upotery Ecclesie Exon sub hao foima : Universis sancte matris Ecclesie fiUis presencium seriem lite rarum visuris vel audituris Walterus, miseracione Divina ' Sewed into Bronesoombe's ' Eegister. " Same Register, foho 46. CHAETEES, &o. 423 Exoniensis Episcopus, Salutem in Domino sempiternam. Noverit universitas vestra quod nos animarum saluti subvenire cupientes ad peticionem quin pocius importunam instanciam dilecti filii Domini Thome de Herfort Archidiaconi Totton et Ecclesie nostre Exon Canonici, preaccepta beneficia more gracie et hominis benemeriti reminiscentis, accedente assensu et voluntate expressa dilectorum filiorum Eogeri de Tori3, Decani Exon et ejusdem loci capituli, concedimus et presencium tenore appro- priamus Ecclesiam de Upottery, cujus vere sumus patroni, memoratis Decano et Capitulo cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, excepta vicaria sufficienti in eadem inperpetuum possidendam, ad sustentacionem trium capellanorum pro animabus venerabi- lium Patrum Willielmi Bruer et Eicardi Blundi, predecessorum nostrorum Episcoporum Exon, nostri, dicti Domini Thome et omnium fidelium defunctorum, in altari in honore beati Johannis Baptiste, Blasii, et Pyrani, in navi dicte Ecclesie Exon dedicato et ad hoc assignato ministrandorum, et aliorum onerum sub scriptorum : Ita, videlicet, quod quUibet de capellanis antedictis per manus Senescallorum ejusdem Ecclesie Exoniensis sexaginta solidos quatuordecim panes porcionarii ad officium chori, pro opere deputati, et futuris temporibus in perpetuum, ad Saluta- cionem gloriose Virginis matris Domini, singulis diebus post completorium, sonora voce et dulci facie adintitulati viginti et octo solidos in quatuor anni terminis principaUbus pro vita annuatim percipiant. Et quod predicti Decanus et Capitulum obitum dicti dicti Domini Thome postquam de hac vita sub- tractus fuerit duodecim solidos singulis annis die obitus sui, secundum antiquam Ecclesie Exoniensis consuetudinem, per SenescaUos suos in choro distribuendos fieri faciant. _ Et panem, vinum, candelas, et cetera, omnia dictis capellanis; quos sin gulis horis in dicta Ecclesia in posterum psaUendis interesse voluimus et ad orationem in Missis suis in vita et in morte ; altissimo pro nobis specialiter et jugiter effundendam intitulamus in altari predicto faciendam quod incumbit necessaria inveniant et competenter subministrent, cura animarum predicte Ecclesie de Upottery et onere ordinario ad vicarium qui pro tempore prefuerit in eadem, totaliter pertmentibus. In cujus rei testi monium, etc. Actum in Capitulo Exoniensi, die Jovis post Festum Sancti HyUaru, M°. 00°. septuagesimo. COLLACIO SANCTI BEUBEEDI.^ Universis sancte matris Ecclesie filiis presens scriptum visuris vel audituris Walterus miseracione Divina Exoniensis Episco- Bronescombe, folio 88 b. 424 APPENDIX. pus, Salutem in Domino sempiternam. Eo puriori desiderio et fervenciori zelo felici celestis curie senatui, licet nostro non egeat ministerie, honorem quem possimus pro nostro infii-mitatis modulo impendere nitimur, quo eundem humane fragUitetis custodie credimus et speramus deputatum certis beatis spiriti- bus angeUcis certis fideUum animabus a summo ceU opifice misericorditer assignatis. Proinde celebrem ejusdem curie paranimphi Sancti, videUcet, GabrieUs memoriam cujus bene ficium, Divina volente clemencia, frequenter sensimus nobis profuisse, sicut possimus honorare cupientes, Ecclesiam Sancti Braeredi in Comubia, cujus advocacio ex nostra canonica adqui- sicione ad nos pertinere dinoscitur, dilectis filiis Decano et Capitulo Exoniensi nostro in proprios usus assignamus et assig- natam presentis attestacione scripture appropriamus in forma inferius annotata perpetuo possidendam, videlicet, quod prefati Decanus et Capitulum et eorum successores singuUs annis prima die Lune mensis Septembris in nostri majori Ecclesia beati Petri Exonie ejusdem Sancti GabrieUs memoriam consi- mUi honore in luminaribus et aUis que in die NataUs Domini vel Pasche fieri consuevit soUempniter celebrent unperpetumn. Ordinantes quod quiUbet canonicus presenciam suam corpo ralem dicte solempnitati exhibens preter cotidianas distribu- ciones ipsa die duos solidos, quUibet vicarius similiter presens duodecim denarios, quiUbet clericis de secunda forma in sacris constitutus sex denarios, quUibet puer chori infra debitum numerum existens duos denarios, de bonis ecclesie memorate percipiant annuatim. Ordinamus insuper quod in proxima sequent! tertia feria mensis ejusdem, videUcet in crastino festi predicti, fiat in Ecclesia nostra predicta imperpetuum solemp nis anniversarius dies per prefatos Decanum et Capitulum eorumque successores, pro anima nostra et pro animabus bone memorie Willielmi et Eicardi predecessomm nostrorum, et pro animabus successorum nostrorum Episcoporum Exoniensium, et pro animabus patris et matris nostre, benefactorum nostrorum, omniumque fidehum defunctorum. Ita quod quiUbet canonicus in hac solempni commemoracione presens duos solidos, quUibet yioaiius duodecim denarios, quiUbet clericus de secunda forma in sacris constitutus sex denarios, quUibet puer chori duos denarios, ipso die de bonis ejusdem ecclesie perpetuo participant annuatim; statuentes in quoUbet anno tertia feria predicta, prefati Decanus et Capitulum et eomm successores quingentos pauperes debiles pascant annuatim. Ita quod annona cujus Ubet unum denarium valeat in esculentis et pociUentis. Volu mus eciam et ordinamus ut totum residuum proventuum dicte Ecclesie Sancti Bmeredi inter canonicos quos utrisque soUemp- nitatibus predictis interesse contigerit, equaliter dividatur et non m alios usus convertatur. Salva competenti vicaria in dicta CHAETEES, &c. 425 Ecclesia Sancti Brueredi, quam in toto altalagio et toto sanc tuario, Exceptis duabus acris Anglicanis terre in quibus dicti Decanus et Capitulum possint edificare una cum decimis Gar barum vUle minoris Lank et tota decima feni consistere ordi namus, per nos et successores nostros honeste persone, que omnia onera ordinaria debita et consueta sustinebit, perpetuo conferenda. Statuimus quoque et ordinamus quod quiUbet Decanus et Canonicus in sui creacione hanc nostram ordina- cionem una cum alus antiquis et approbatis Ecclesie Exoni ensis consuetudinibus juret observare. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum presentibus duximus apponendum. Datum in Capitulo nostro Exoniensi nonis Septembris, anno gracie M.°CC.''LXX'' octavo, et consecracionis nostre vicesimo primo. ECCLESIA DE WYDECOMB. (Ecus.) Caeta Magistei Eogeki le Eus de Advocacionb Ecclesie de Wydecumb. (Lytchfeld.) Sciant presentis et futuri quod ' ego Eogerus le Eus, filius Eadulphi le Eus mUitis, dedi, concessi, et hac presenti Carta mea confirmavi ac omnino pro me et heredibus meis quietum clamavi Decano et Capittlo Ecclesie beati Petri Exoniensis et successoribus suis in puram Uberam et perpetuam elemosinam unam acram terre apud Wydecombe cum advocacione Ecclesie Sancti Pancracii de Wydecomb et Capelle Sancti Leonardi de Spikewyk dicte matrici ecclesie adjacentis et omnibus alus dicte terre pertinentus, que quidem acra terre jacet in Wode- haye prope sanctuarium ecclesie supradicte, et extendit in longi tudine a predicto sanctuario ex parte occidentali usque ad regalem viam per quam itur a dicta Ecclesia de Wydecombe versus Dunsterston ex parte orientaU. Tenendum et habendum dictam terram cum advocacione ecclesie et capeUe prenominate et omnibus alus pertinencus, sibi et successoribus suis de Domino de Wydecombe, Ubere, quiete, bene, pacifice, et integre inperpetuum. Eeddendo inde annuatim dicto Doniino de Wydecomb unum par cyrothecaram vel unum denarium ad Festum Sancti Michaelis pro omni servicio seculari, sicut carta Domini Eadulphi fiUi Eicardi feofatoris mei michi inde confecta proportat et testatur. Pro hac autem mea donacione, concessione, confirmacione et quieta clamancia, concesserunt dicti Decanus et Capitulum et bona fide promiserunt se solu- turos singulis annis de Scaccario ipsorum Exoniensi decem marcas argenti ad facienda quedam divina servicia annuatim in ipsa Ecclesia Exoniensi pro anima bone memorie, Eogeri de 426 APPENDIX. Thoriz, quondam Decani Exonie, in quodam alio scripto plenius specificanda. In cujus rei testimonium hanc presentem Cartam sigilli mei munimine roboravi. Hiis testibus, Dominis Thoma de Pyn tunc vicecomite Devonie, WUlielmo de Bykebyr., Eogero de Prydiaus, et Eadulpho le Eus, militibus, Egidio de Fissacre, Eadulpho . . . . , WiUielmo de Spikewyk, Johanne de ByuUe, Eicardo de Aire et aUis. [The seal is gone and the deed has suffered from damp.] APPEOPEIACIO Ecclesie de Wtdbcumb. Universis sancte matris Ecclesie filiis presencium Utterarum seriem inspecturis Petrus miseracione Divina Exoniensis Epis copus, Salutem in Domino sempiternam. Nobis Ecclesie nostre Exoniensis, quam utpote sponsam nostram debito caritatis am- plexu perstringimus, statum retractantibus, velut inconveniens occurrit quod inter omnes Cathedrales Ecclesias vicinas mori bus et honestate, dono Dei, ditissima, omnibus sit ipsa pauperior rerum substantiaUum facultate. Ejus igitur possessionum exiUtatem considerantes, et memoriam pie recordacionis Magistri Eogeri de Toriz quondam Decani Ecclesie memorate recolentes, ad dilecti fiUi nostri Magistri Eogeri le Eus et coexecutorum suorum testamenti dicti defuncti importunam instanciam et suppUcacionem assiduam, Ecclesiam de Wydecumb nostre diocesis Decano et Capitulo Ecclesie nostre supradicte veris ejusdem patronis cum CapeUa de Spykewyk et omnibus aliis pertinencUs suis, concedimus, confirmamus et tenore presencium appropriamus. Ita quod cedente vel decedente Johanne fiUo Eicardi nunc Eectore dicte Ecclesie de Wydecumb, liceat prefatis Decano et Capitulo, possessionem ejusdem cum pertinenciis auctoritate presencium irrequisito nostro vel successoram con sensu, ingredi et eam sibi et successoribus suis habere et pleno jure tenere et possidere imperpetuum. Salva vicariis ibidem pro tempore existentibus per nos et successores nostros ad pre- sentacionem supradictorum Decani et CapituU instituendis quibus ipsius Ecclesie cura animarum incmnbet, vicaria sua per nos vel successores nostros taxanda. Salvis eciam decem marcis sterUngorum singulis annis inperpetuum de Scaccario eorundem solvendis et per subscriptas particulas in supradicta Ecclesia Exoniensi annuatim distribuendis, videUcet, cuidam idoneo et honesto capeUano per dictos Decanum et Capitulum deputando, et non sine justa et rationabUi causa dum vixerit amovendo, pro anima dicti defuncti ad altare Sanctomm Eicardi et Eadegundis in eadem Ecclesia nostra, ubi corpus dicti defuncti jacet humar turn, successive celebranti nomine stipendii sex marcis, cui nichilominus capeUano pro tempore existenti dicti Decanus et CHAETEES, &c. 427 Capitulum in libris vestimentis et aUis ad celebrandum neces sariis, hiis que ad presens in predicto altari habentur vetustate deficientibus, de scaccario suo providebunt et ea invenient. Ad obitum vero ipsius defuncti singuUs annis faciendum singulos triginta soUdos, ita sciUcet quod quibus canonicus ipsius Ecclesie qui ipso die obitus presens fuerit in Missa pro prefato defuncto celebranda duodecim denarios inde percipiat, quiUbet vicarius sex denarios, quiUbet clericus de secunda forma duos denarios, et qmlibet puer de choro unum denarium : absen- tibus autem cujuscunque gradus existant nichil omnino solvatur. Et si quid de predictis triginta solidis ultra hoc remanserit inter capeUanos et clericos chori et civitatis per dispositionem senes- caUorum dicti capituli fideliter distribuatur. Ad obitum eciam prenominati Magistri Eogeri le Eus postquam de medio sublatus fuerit, die anniversarii sui in eadem Ecclesia nostra Exoniensi in forma communi celebrandum singulis annis singulos decem soUdos. Et ad Festum de Corpore et Sanguine Jhesu Christi per prefatum defunctum in dicta Ecclesia primitus introductum in cera et cotidiana distribucione ac aliis circumstanciis instar Festi Assumpcionis beate Marie Virginis duplicandi unam marcam. Quicquid autem de proventibus dicte Ecclesie cum pertinencUs residuum fuerit deductis vicaria et decem marcis predictis et supradictis capeUano ad celebrandum necessarus in augmentum cotidianarum distribucionum canonicorum ejusdem capituli nostri qui in majore refeccione diei in civitate presente fuerint, volumus et statuimus converti. In quorum omnium testimonium et perpetuam firmitatem, sigUlum nostrum una cum sigillo predicti CapitiUi nostri presentibus est appensum. Datum Exonie, in crastino Purificacionis beate Marie, anno Doraini, m.°c.''o., octogesimo tercio, et consecracionis nostre anno quarto.' [Little remains of the two seals of Bishop Quivil and of the Chapter.] * Obligatio Domini Eandulphi filii Eicaedi, supee Advocacionb Ecclesie DE Wtdbcumb. (Lytchfeld.) Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quorum noticiam presentes litere pervenerint, Eadulphus filius Eicardi Miles et Eogerus le Eous, Eector Ecclesie de NordhuU, Salutem in Dominum sempiternam. Noverit universitas vestra quod anno Domini miUesimo ducen tesimo octogesimo tercio ita convenerit inter nos quod ego dictus Eadulphus vendidi et tradidi dicto Eogero le Eous unam acram terre de Dominico meo de Wydecumb cum advocacione Ecclesie Sancti Pancratii de Wydecumb et Capelle Sancti Leonardi de 1 3 Feb. 1283-4, 428 APPENDIX. Spichwyke predicte matrici ecclesie adjacentis, pro octoginta marcis argenti, ad usum meum proprium recipiendum, et viginti marcis in auxiUum filie mee maritande convertendis. De qua quidem pecimia dictus Eogerus triginta et quinque marcas mihi solvit pre manibus. Ego vero prefatus Eogerus totum re siduum predictarran octoginta et viginti marcarum, videlicet sexaginta et quinque marcas teneor et bona fide promitto solvere supradicto Domino Eadulpho sive ejusdem certis assignatis ter minis subscriptis sine ulteriori dilacione. ScUicit in Festo Sancti Martini anno supradicto vel ejus octavis quindecim marcas, et in Festis Purificacionis beate Marie, Pentecostes, et Sancti Mi chaelis proximis sequentibus, triginta marcas equis porcionibus. Et infra finem anni proximo subsequentis Ulas predictas viginti marcas predicto Domino Eadulpho ad filiam suam maritandam promissas et debitas. Ad quam quidem pecuniam dictis terminis fideliter solvendam obUgo me et omnia bona mea mobilia et im mobilia habita et habenda ubicunque in vita vel in morte in venta dicto domino Eadulpho et ejus assignatis subjiciens in premissis me res redditus et omnes possessiones meas cohercioni officialis Domini Exoniensis Episcopi qui pro tempore fuerit, volens et concedens quod quociens in solucione predicta suis terminis facienda defecero, quod idem officialis me per suspen- cionis, excommunicacionis, et interdicti sentencias, appellacione remota strepituque judicial! omnino cessante, ad hoc compellat. Volo eciam et concedo quod si dicta pecunia nondum persoluta in fata decessero, mdla bonorum meorum utpote ad predictam solucionem speciaUter obligatorum fiat administracio donee pre fato Domino Eadulpho vel suis certis assignatis fuerit in hac parte satisfactum. Et ego siquidem prenominatus Eadulphus bona fide et sacramento corporaliter prestito pro me et heredibus meis et assignatis promitto, quod predictam acram terre cum advocacione antedicta et alus pertinentus suis dicto Eogero et quibuscumque dictam terram et advocacionem appropriare, sive assignare voluerit warentizabo imperpetuum. ita quod si ipse heredes sui vel assignati vel eciam hu quibus dicta ad vocacio imposterum fuerit appropriata per me vel heredes meos vel eciam ad quorumcunque manus dictum manerium meum de Wydecumb processu temporis pervenerit impeditus seu impediti fuerit vel fuerint quominus de Ecclesia predicta cum Capella sive ad eas cum vacaverint presentando, sive ipsas in proprios usus retinendo ordinare et ad voluntatem suam disponere possint, dabimus eidem Eogero, sive iUis qui predicto modo fuermt per nos vel hujusmodi successores nostros impediti, ducentas marcas argenti tam de dicto manerio meo de Wydecumb, quam de alus terris meis ubicumque in Devonia existentibus per vicecomitem Devonie qui pro tempore fuerit cujus districtioni onmes dictas terras meas in hac parte subjicio levandas, et prefato Eogero sive CHAETEES, &c. 429 cuicumque dictum impedimentum passo vel passis solvendas. Et si contingat dictum vicecomitem ea occasione aliquam dis- trictionem in dictis terris meis facere, quociens eam fecerit tociens de bonis meis vel dictas terras tenencium habeat quadraginta solidos pro labore suo in proprios usus convertendos. Et ad pre dictas ducentas marcas iu casu memorato solvendas omnes pre dictas terras meas tenore presentis scripti oblige et assigno. Et ut fides in omnibus premissis utrobique observetur tam ego pre fatus Eadulphus quam ego -Eogerus de predicta convencione fideliter tenenda affidavimus, et ad majorem securitatem huic presenti scripto indentato et inter nos bipartite et deciso sigilla nostra alternatim apposuimus. Hiis testibus, Dominis Thoma Pyn vicecomite Devonie, WiUielmo de Byckebury, Eogero de Prediaus militibus, Eandulpho de Dodscumb, Egidio de Fys- sacre, Johanne de Bouyle, Eicardo de Aure, T-homa Peytewyn, et aliis. Datum Exonie die Sabbati proxima ante Festum Nati vitatis beate Marie, anno regni Eegis Edwardi undecimo.^ [The seal has disappeared,] CAETA APPEOPEIAOIONIS ECCLESIE SANCTI UVELY Ad OBITUM Domini Thome Episcopi Exonie, etc., peout patet intuenti. Universis presentis literas inspecturis Thomas permissione Divina Exoniensis Episcopus, Salutem et pacem in Domino sem piternam. Si celestis regni participes effici, si perennis glorie Dyademate coronari concupiscimus et sitimus, profecto summo desiderio vigilantique studio debemus diem extremum examinis, in quo Deus, qui cuncta creavit ex nichUo, judicaturus est mundum, et redditurus unicuique sive bonum sive malum secundum suorum exigenciam meritorum, modis quos restat omnibus, prout est pos- sibile, bonis operibus prevenire. Ut igitur post depositam mor- talitatis nostre materiam per exercitium bonorum operum que fecerimus eternorum intuitu, dum sumus in via, indulgenciam cul- parmn quas cotidie contrahimus ac remissionem penarum quibus nos mundus, demon et camis opera reddunt obnoxios, incessanter sanctorum meritis et oracionum suffragus suffulti cum ipse Deus et Dominus omnium ad judicandum venerit, facilius consequa mur. De premissis non immerito soUicite cogitantes, Ecclesiam Sancti Uvely in Comubia, qui de nostro patronatu existit cum suis juribus et pertinentus universis, una cmn jurisdiccione in spiri tualibus ejusdem Ecclesie cum plebe sua, consimili qualem Archi diaconi Exoniensis dyocesis optinent in Ecclesiis et plebibus sibi subjectis,' dUectis in Christo filiis Decano et Capitulo nostro Exoniensi in usus proprios assignamus et per presentis attesta- 1 1283. 430 APPENDIX, cionem scripture, appropriamus in forma inferius annotata per petuo possidendam, videUcet quod predicti Decanus et Capitulum suis sumptibus perpetuo inveniant duos presbiteros ydoneos et perpetuos, quorum unus pro salubri statu nostro quoad vixerimus Missam de Sancto Spiritu cum horis canonicis nocturnis et 'diumis, Et postquam de presenti vita migraverimus pro anima nostra omniumque animabus predecessorum nostrorum, progeni torum ac eciam benefactorum spirituaUumque nostrorum, Missam pro Defunctis, cum Placebo et Duige ac Commendacione, sin guUs diebus hora matutinali ad altare beate Marie Virginis in dicta Exoniensi Ecclesia, alteram vero pro anima Magistri Thome de Bodeham, quondam Archidiaconi Tottonye, omniumque re- quie defunctorum idem officium pro defunctis et in forma pre dicta ad altare beati GabrieUs ArchangeU cotidie celebrabunt. Presbiter vero pro- nobis intitulatus quinque marcas sterlingorum, celebraturus autem pro anima dicti Archidiaconi quatuor marcas cum dimidia nomine stipendiorum per manus SenescaUorum dic torum Decani et Capituli ad quatuor anni terminos principales percipient annuatim. Si vero aUquis eorum decesserit, vel aUas propter culpam suam merito amotus fuerit, alius presbiter ydo- neus per nos dum vixerimus et post mortem nostram per ipsos Decanum et Capitulum in locum sic defuncti vel amoti absque mora qualibet subrogetur, et nichilominus dicti Decanus et Capi tulum omniaque eisdem presbiteris fuerint necessaria ad divi norum officia exequenda imprimis et pro anima Celebris memorie Domine AUjanore quondam consortis Domini Ulustris Eegis Anglie fiat solempnis Missa de Sancto Spiritu ad majus altare in Ecclesia Exoniensi per dictos Decanum et Capitulum, eorum que successores. Et post mortem nostram annis singuUs eo die quo nos migrare contingat e seculo, per singulas anni revolu- ciones, solempnis anniversarius Dies pro anima nostra in perpetuum per eosdem, ita quod quilibet canonicus tam in ipsa solempni Missa celebranda de Sancto Spiritu nobis viventibus quam post mortem nostram die anniversarU nostri predicti dum hujusmodi soUempnia agantur, corporaUter presens in choro duos solidos, quUibet vicarius duodecim denarios, quiUbet clericus de secunda forma sex denarios, quiUbet puer chori duos denarios, clericus de scakario cum ministris suis duos solidos. Custores pro classico duodecim denarios et quiUbet presbiter de civitate et subm-bio Exonie tunc presens unum denarium, per manus SenescaUorum dictorum Decani et Capituli dum ipsa ministeria divina celebrantur in choro juxta antiquam ipsius Ecclesie consuetudinem, et fratres minores Exonie duos soUdos ad Pytanciam de bonis ipsius Ecclesie per petuo percipiant ipso die. Proviso tamen quod si aUquis in dicta Exoniensi Ecclesia dupUci aut pliui officio fungatur non officii set persone duntaxat in dicta distribucione racio habeatur CHAETEES, &o, 431 Et nichilominus ipsi Decamus et Capitulum invenient quatuor cereos circa sarcofagum in quo quiescimus dum Placebo et Dirige celebrabitur et per totum diem sequentem die obitus nostri continue ardentes cum sufficienti thure quod eodem die ad divinum ministerium requiretur. Volumus eciam et ordinamus ut totum residuum proventuum dicte Ecclesie Sancti Uvely inter Canonicos quos predicte solempnitati personaUter interesse con tigerit equaliter dividatur, et nequaquam in usus alios conver tatur salva competenti vicaria in dicta Ecclesia Sancti Uvely quam in toto altUagio et toto sanctuario consistere, volumus sicut consistere consuevit ab antiquo, per nos et successores nostros honeste persone que omnia onera ordinaria debita et consueta sustinebit, in quibus reparacionem cancelU includi intelligimus perpetuis temporibus conferenda. Statuimus etiam et ordinamus quod quiUbet Decanus et Canonicus Exoniensis in sui creatione hanc nostram ordinationem una cum alus antiquis et approbatis Ecclesie Exoniensis consuetudinibus jui'et per omnia observare. In cujus rei testimonium presentibus literis sigillum nostrum duximus apponendum. Actum et datum Exonie, Idibus Octobris, anno Domini mUlesimo ducentesimo nonagesimo septimo, et consecrationis nostre sexto.^ [A beautiful impression of Bishop Bitton's seal is attached.] LBTTEES OF PAETICIPATION OF THE PEAYEES AND GOOD WOEKS OP THE CHAPTEE, granted to King Edwabd II. and the Eoyal Family, Universis sancte matris Ecclesie filus ad quos presentes littere pervenerint, Decanus or Capitulum Exonie, Salutem in Domino sempiternam. Dum inclitam stirpis Eegie prosapiam, dum sanguinis generositatem preceUentem Serenissimi Principis et Domini nostri Domini Edwardi, Dei gratia illustris Eegis Anglie, sub cujus protectione gubernamur, tutamur et defendimur quiescentes in pace, profunda mente pensamus, dumque sua et predecessorum suorum quondam Eegum AngUe qui Ecclesiam Exoniensem a piissimo et Deo devotissimo Eege Athelstano fundatam, subsequentibus postea diversorum temporum curriculis magnifice ditarunt, et ab omni censu et gravedine seculari ex- emptam et liberam reddiderunt facta preclara et Deo accepta frequent! meditacione revolvimus, profecto zelo devocionis indu- cimur et speciaU dilectionis fervore ignimur, ut pro tot et tantis beneficiis sic acceptis et que speramus receperimus in futurum de bonis nostris spiritualibus beneficia et dona spiritualia quaUa possumus et sufficimus impartiamur eisdem. Volentes igitur 1 15 Oct, 1296. 432 APPENDIX. quod votis gerimus prompta operis execucione supleri, habito super hoc in Capitulo nostro Exoniensi inter nos diligjenti trac tatu ex deUberate consilio et unamini consensu prefatum Dominum Eegem Ulustrem, una cum Consorte sua preclanssima Domina Ysebella, iUustri Eegina AngUe eorumque filiis, in Ecclesie Exoniensis et congregationis nostre fraternitatem perpetuam, devote et humili animo suscipimus. Ordinantes et statuentes quod annis singuUs feria proxima vacante post Festum Translationis beati Thome Martyris quo idem Dominus et Eex noster Ulustris Divina disponente dementia, Eegni sui suscepit gubemacula, una Missa solempnis de Sancto Spiritu pro salubri statu eorundem. quoad vixerint, et postquam a presenti seculo migraverint pro se suisque filus, progenitoribus, ac aUis predeces- soribus suis Eegibus Anglie supradictis, plenarie Servicium pro Defunctis, cum solempni Missa, Placebo, Dirige, et Commen- datione, in Ecclesia Exoniensi soUempniter celebretur. Et nichUominus singulis diebus dominicis, per anni circulum curren- tibus cum preces pro vivis et deftmctis benefactoribus nostris in Ecclesia Exoniensi fuerint faciende, coram Clero et Populo ipsis viventibus, cum psalmo ' De profundis ' cum oracionibus ad hoc convenientibus fiant nominatim suffiragia specialia pro eisdem. Ordinamus insuper et tenore presencium concedimus quod tam ipsi cum filiis suis, quam progenitores sm" et predecessores quon dam Eeges AngUe benefactores nostri predicti, omnium bonorum spiritualium que fiunt et fient pro tempore in Ecclesia Exoniensi tam in Missis quam orationibus, vigUUs, jejurdis, psalmodiis tam diurnis quam nocturnis, et ceteris quibuscunque aliis caritatis et misericordie operibus efficiantur participes et consortes. Que quidem omnia et singula ad perpetuam rei memoriam in registro Scaccarii nostri Exonie fecimus registrari. In cujus rei testi monium sigiUum nostram commune presentibus est appensum. Datum in CapitiUo nostro Exoniensi, octavo Kalendis AprUis, anno Domini mUlesimo tricentesimo quinto decimo.' [No seal appears to have been attached.] EEPAIE OF THE CITY WALLS. Composition made in January, 1322, between the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedeal Chuech of St. Petee in Exbtek and the Mayoe and Coepo- EATioN of the City of Exeter, concerning the Ebpaies op the City Walls ADJOINING THB ClOSE.^ Noverint universi, quod cum nuper major et communitas Civi tatis Exon muros Clausi venerabUis Patris Domini Walteri • 25 March, 1315. - Exti'acted from Bishop Brantyngham's ' Register,' vol. i. fol. 23 b. CHAETEES, &c. 433 [Stapeldon], Dei gratia Exon Episcopi, ad muros civitatis predicte attachiatos, ac etiam muros de Clauso Cancellarii Ecclesie CathedraUs Exon, necnon de Clausis Archidiaconoram Exon et Comubie simUi modo muro civitatis predicte attachiatos, Clausa separata facientibus, fregissent, ex quo materia discordie inter dictos Patrem, Decanum et Capitulum CathedraUs Ecclesie Bxon ac personas predictas Clausa sua in ilM parte habentes, et majorem et communitatem civitatis predicte fuerat suborta; tandem pacis amatoribus intervenientibus conquievit in hunc modum, viz., quod predicti major et communitas, eorum heredes et successores muros predictos per ipsos cum lapidibus et cemento competenti usque ad Kernerios muri civitatis predicte compe tenter faciant, et eisdem mmis iidem major et community eorum heredes et successores bonas posternas tante latitudinis quante murus infra Kernerios latus existit propinquius dictis Kerneriis quo fieri poterit situandas, fortiter seratus seruris duabus, quaram clavis una penes majorem et communitatem, et alia penes cus- todem curie dicti Domini Episcopi et successorum suorum, et sic de aliis personis ecclesiasticis muros similes habentibus re manebunt : que quidem posterne semel in anno aliquo die compe tenti inter Festum Sancti Michaelis et Festum Omnium Sanctorum per premonitionem octo dierum clavibus communibus aperiantur. Ita quod predictis majori et communitati eorum heredibus et successoribus de civitate predicts pateat ingressus ad murum civitatis in ea parte, si constructione aut reparatione indigeat videndum, tam super murum quam in latere dicti muri. Et si ingressus eisdem denegetur in posternis predictis, licebit eisdem seras frangere ad premissa facienda. Et si invenerint quod murus predictus reparatione aut constructione indigerit dicti Dominus Episcopus, Decanus et Capitulum et persone ecclesias- tice predicte et eorum successores viam sufficienten;i ad cariandum lapides, calcem et cetera que ad murum ipsum necessaria fuerint aut oportuna quotiens et quando opus fuerit, fact^ premonitione predicts,, invenient : alioquin licebit ipsis majori et communitati eorum heredibus et successoribus muros ipsius patris ac omnium ceteramm personarum ecclesiasticarum et eorum successorum predictos ad Kernerios muris civitatis predicte attachiatos juxta murum civitatis ubi posterne situantur, prostemere ; ita quod competentem habeant introitum ad cariagia sua facienda pro reparatione et constructione muri civitatis predicte. Et licebit eisdem majori et communitati eorum heredibus et successoribus interius, si fundamentum predicti muri civitatis deficiat, suffi cienter fodere in terr^ predicti patris et ceterarum personamm ecclesiasticarum predictarum eoramque successoram et murum eadem latitudine, quS nunc est, fundare et usque ad completion em con'struere, et stationem sufficientem super terram predictorum Domini Episcopi et aliarum personarum ecclesiasticarum pre- 434 APPENDIX. dictaram et successorum eorum mm'o predicto et fundamento ejusdem propinquiorem, dum in operand© fuerint, pro suis oper ariis habere, ita tamen quod postquam operaru in muro seu in fundamento predictis operari inceperint, de die in diem opera- bUem continue et celeriter usque ad completionem ejusdem operis operentur. In tempore vero guerre muri predicti per sexdecem pedes in longitudine a Kerneriis proximiores proster- iiantm-: ita quod majori et communitati coram heredibus et successoribus ac alus ad civitatem predictam venientibus pro defensione ejusdem civitatis pateat ingressus. Cessante vero guerra et insultu, dicti muri et posterne per majorem et com munitatem civitatis predicte et eorum heredes et successores indUatfe reparentur sicut prius inperpetuum et per episcopum et ceteras personas ecclesiasticas predictas sustententur et posterne predicte per eosdem majorem et communitatem reparentur et inperpetuum sustententur. Datum Exon, die Veneris post Festum Sancti Hilarii, anno regni Eegis Edwardi secundi decimo quinto. OBITUS DOMINI WALTEEI EPISCOPI.^ 2nd March, 1322. (In the handwriting of Bishop Grrandisson, Ista ordinacio minus est Canonica.) Edwardus Dei graci^ Eex Anglie Dominus Hibernie et Dux Aquitanie, omnibus ad quos presentes Littere pervenerint, Salutem. Inspeximus Literas patentes venerabUis Patris Walteri Exoniensis Episcopi in hec verba. Universis Literas inspecturis. Walterus permissione Divina Exoniensis Episcopus, Salutem in Domino sempiternam. TerribUem diem ilium quo, tremendi Judicis, recepturi prout in corpore gessimus, astabimus tribunal!, talium plantacionum operibus expedit prevenire, quarum fructi- bus eidem cotidie presentatis, exasperat! mulceatur animus, placa- bUiorque reddatur. Ad hec igitur nostre consideracionis aciem dirigentes et nuUatenus ignorantes, quod inter humana presidia, que post solutum universe carnis debitum mortuis ministrantur precipuum locum optinent, oblacio dominice corporis in altari, et oracio sacerdotum, habito cum dUectis filiis Decano et Capitulo Ecclesie nostre Exoniensis, communi tractatu dUigenti, qui requiritur et solempni, de ipsorum unamini consiUo pariter et assensu ordinamus et statuimus unam perpetuam cantariam unius sacerdotis, qui in capeUa, que in atrio seve cimiterio majoris Ecclesie nostre Exoniensis situata, Chame vulgariter nuncupatur, pro salubri statu nostro, dum vixerimus, Missam de Sancto Spiritu, vel de Die ; et post decessum nostrum, pro ' Bishop Stapeldon's ' Register,' fol. 169, 170, CHAETBES, &c. 435 nostra nostrarumque predecessorum et successoram Episco- porum^ Exoniensium omniumque benefactorum nostrorum, et Ecclesie nostre Exoniensis supradicte, necnon defunctorum omnium fidelium animabus, Missam pro Defunctorum Eequie, ab Ecclesia salubriter institutam et communiter usitatam, statim post finitas duas missas, que apud altare quod vulgariter vocatur Brattones woned, in majori Ecclesia Exoniensi soient communiter celebrari, vel saltem Ula hora qua finiri consue verunt temporibus retroactis, per se vel si canonice fuerit impeditus per alium celebrare et nihilominus plenum mortu orum obsequium, videlicet, Placebo, Dirige et Comendacionem, horis competentibus dicere diebus singulis teneatur : ad que omnia et singula bene et fideliter exequendum sacerdotem primitus deputandum et quemlibet inposterum subrogandum eidem, deputacionis et subrogacionis tempore, juramentum prestare statuimus et precipimus corporale. Idoneum vero hujusmodi sacerdotem per nos dum vixerimus deputari volumus ; statim autem postquam ab hac luce subtracti fuerimus, ad cantariam hujusmodi si tunc vacaverit deputandi, et extunc quociens ipsam cantariam vacare contigerit, alium subrogandi, Decano in Ecclesia nostra Exoniensi predicta, et ejus succes soribus qui pro tempore fuerint, et, vacante Decanatu, Capitulo Ecclesie nostre Exoniensis perpetuis temporibus per hanc nostram ordinacionem cum consiUo et assensu dictorum Decani et Capituli factam, concedimus potestatem : quos sub inter- minacione divini Judicii obtestamur ut ydoneum et honestum sacerdotem ad prefatam cantariam deputare ac eciam subrogare studeant cum efiiectu, qui com missum sibi officium veUt et valeat sagaciter adimplere. Ordinamus insuper et statuimus, ad id similiter accedentibus ipsorum Decani et CapituU unamini consiUo et assensu, quod cum nostri corporis dissolucionem attulerit sors humana, dies obitus nostri anniversarius in Ecclesia nostra Exoniensi singulis annis perpetuo solempniter celebretur : ad hujusmodi vero sacerdotis sustentacionem annuam, quinque marcas et dimidium sterlingoram, et ad memoratum diem obitus nostri anniversarium celebrandum, preter aUa que dudum ad anniversarium hujusmodi assignavimus, sexaginta soUdos ejusdem monete de bonis spiritualibus ad mensam Epis copalem Exoniensem pertinentibus, sinodatico videlicet et cathedratico ab Archidiaconatu Tottonie provenientibus, cum consUio et assensu dictorum Decani et Capituli, et specialiter kagistri Eogeri de Cherleton nunc Archidiaconi Tottonie, titulo permutacionis cum quibusdam terris et redditibus de quibus inferius fit mencio per hujusmodi ordinacionem nostram irrefragabUem assignamus, quam quidem peccunie summam a bonis EpiscopU nostri Exoniensis cum dictorum Decani et CapituU assensu per hujusmodi ordinationem nostram irrefra- Zi ^ ^ 436 APPENDIX, gabUem assignamus quamquidem pertinere summam a. bonis Episcopii nostri Exon cum dictorum Decani et Capituli assensu totaUter separamus, et ad usum predictum, titulo memorato, imperpetuum concedimus et assignamus: Ita videlicet, quod Archidiaconus Tottonie et sui successores, qui pro tempore fuerint, prefatas decem marcas, quas Archidiaconi Tottonie, temporibus retroactis, Episcopo Exoniensi de hujusmodi sino datico et cathedratico solvere consueverunt, Decano et Capitulo Exoniensi in terminis antea consuetis annis singulis solvere, et ipsis de cetero teneantur satisfacere integraliter de eisdem, et ab obUgacione qua quantum ad hujusmodi peccunie solucionem Episcopo Exoniensi consueverant astringi, dum tamen hujusmodi decem marcas prefatis Derano et Capitulo solverint seu de eisdem satisfacerint, ut est dictum, penitus liberati existant, Volumus eciam et inviolabUiter observari precipimus, quod predicti Decanus et Capitulum hujusmodi sacerdoti quinque marcas et dimidiam, de quibus supra fit mencio, in Festis beati MichaeUs, Nativitatis Domini, Pasche, et Nativitatis beati Johannis Baptiste, pro equalibus porcionibus solvant, et de sexaginta solidis una cum aUis assignatis et assignandis ad premisa, prout supra tangi- tur, que ad sex marcas vel circiter in presenti se extendimt, die obitus nostri, quem eo die per anni circulum revoluto, celebrari volumus, quo subtracti fuerimus ab hac luce inter canonicos, vicarios, et alios ipsius Ecclesie ministros, qui exequiis tunc faciendis personaUter interfuerint in forma que subsequitur dis- tribuendas, ita videlicet quod singuli canonici qui officio vesper tine personaliter interfuerint sex denarios, et qui misse in crastino simiUter personaliter interfuernit, sex denarios : singuU vicarii qui in oflicio vespertino ut premittitur personaUter inter fuerint tres denarios, et qui m missa tres denarios, singuli vero ministri dicte Ecclesie de secunda forma, qui in officio vespertino personaUter fuerint, duos denarios, et qui in missa duos denarios ; et singuli pueri chori, qui in officio vespertino pre sentes fuerint, singulos denarios, et qui in missa similiter, singulos denarios habeant et recipiant, satisfacere teneantm- ; custodes autem Ecclesie memorate, pro classico pulsando post mortem nostram, octo denarios habeant. Presbiter vero qui anniversarium, de quo premittitur, celebraverit, tantum percipiet in officio vespertino et die obitus nostri hujusmodi de distii- bucione tunc tantummodo facienda, quantum canonicus aUquis Ecclesie supradicte dum tamen exequiis personaliter inter- fuerit secundum formam canonice ante datam. Alioquin nichil se noverit de distribucione hujusmodi recepturus, volentes insuper quod in Ecclesia nostra Exoniensi in qua, permittente Domino, Presidemus dum vitam gerimus humanam, in cele- bracione divinorum nostri memoria specialiter habeaturj, et attendentes quod ita circa Festum Purificacionis beate Virginis CHAETEES, &c, 437 in Ecclesia nostra Exoniensi multorum obituum est concurrus, de consilio et assensu dictorum Decani et Capituli volumus et ordinamus, quod singulis annis proximo Die precedente Festum Purificacionis quo die, prout ex parentum nostrorum relatu didicimus, a matemis visceribus segregati primordia recepimus hujus lucis, una Missa de Sancto Spfritu pro salubri statu nostro dum vixerimus solempniter celebretur. Quo quidem die canonici, vicarii et ceteri ministri ipsius Ecclesie qui in cele- bracione hujusmodi misse personaUter presentes fuerint, tantum percipient quantum superius ordinatur percipere debebunt, in hujusmodi officio vespertino et die obitus memorati quod eis exsolvi volumus eodem die, inter ipsius misse solempnia juxta modum ipsius Ecclesie in consimUibus distribucionibus consue tum, clericos vero de scaccario dicte Ecclesie communem pistorem canonicorum, et custodem Bosci eorundem canonicorum de Stoke wode tam in dicta distribucione faciendi, die obitus nostri quam in celebracione Misse de Sancto Spiritu memorate tantum percipere volumus et jubemus quantum percipiunt et percipere consueverunt in obitibus simplicibus in dicta Ecclesia Exoniensi ab aliis ordinatis. Si quis vero duo officia fortassis gesserit in Ecclesia supradicta, in distribucionibus hujusmodi secundum modum superius distinctum recipiet unius officii quod maluerit racionem. Id autem quod de pecunia ad premissa speciaUter, ut premittitur, assignata postquam ea que superius et prout in hac parte ordinavimus plenarie sunt completa, residuum fuerit inter canonicos dicte Ecclesie Exoniensis in premissis divinis et animarum obsequiis presentialiter existentes, pro rata temporis quo eisdem obsequUs fuerint sic presentes distribuatur. Ceteris non presentibus canonicis in totum exclusis, a percepcione cujus que quote residui memorati. Pro hujusmodi vero quantitate pecunie quam a mensa nostra EpiscopaU separavimus ut est dictum. Quando terram intra manerium nostrum de Chiideham cum advocacione tercie partis advocacionis Ecclesie de Thorneye in comitatu Sussex, et terras de Pokehaie in manerio de Yerte- combe, Torre, et Waddene in manerio de Chuddelegh in comitatu Devonie, et nonnuUos eciam alios . terras et redditus tam in dicto comitatu Devonie quam Comubie, quaram terrarum et aUorum reddituum exitus et proventus ad quadraginta libras sterUngorum et amplius valorem annuum se extendunt, nostris jndustria et laboribus mediantibus de bonis nostris peeuUaribus, nobis et successoribus nostris. adquisivimus et terris et posses sionibus nostris Episcopalibus incorporavimus et univimus, ea duntaxat intencione, ut predictarum decem marcaram summas quam excedunt in quantitate notabili, compensarent, et sic qui meliora prospeximus, dici non possumus Ecclesie nostre Ex oniensis, per hanc nostram ordinacionem, lesionem aliquam iniulisse. Ex quibus terris et redditibus, ut premittitur. 438 APPENDIX. adquisitis, eciam porcionem ad congruam predictam sacerdotis sustentacionem, et premissum diem obitus celebrandi aliquando proposuimus assignasse. Sed ne vel communio discordiam, et divisio dispendium generaret, utile fore decrevimus nostro cuiUbet successori, tum propter vicinitatem aUarum terrarum, ad mensam Episcopalem pertinencium, tum propter aUas causas ipsas terras sibi relinquere tenendas insoUdum et habendas, ut prefatum onus agnoscat aUunde. In quoram omnium et singulorum testimonium atque fidem sigUlum nostrum ima cum sigiUo communi dictorum Decani et CapituU presentibus est appensum. Et nos Decanus et Capitulum memorati super firemissis omnibus et singulis articulis, cum venerabili Patre Waltero] nostro Episcopo secundo, tractatu habito per nos diU- genti qui requiritur et solempni, labores et merita dicti patris, quibus nos Ecclesiam nostram et mensam Episcopalem Ex oniensem, tam in adquisicione dictorum tenarum et reddituum, quam in aliis honoravit multipUciter perpetui muneris laude dignos, ut astringimur, reputantes, omnibus et singuUs que in eisdem articuUs et circa eos per venerabUem patrem predictum, ut premittitur, acta sunt et gesta, concorditer assentimus ipsar que omnia et singula quantum ad nos attinet approbamus. Et in signum consensus et approbacionis hujusmodi has Uteres nostri communis sigilli mimimine fecimus reborari. Datum et actum in capitulo nostro Exoniensi secundo die mensis MarcU anno Domini miUesimo ccc™°. xxj°. Nos autem ordinaciones, statuta, concessiones, assignaciones assensum, approbacionem, et omnia alia in predictis Uteris contenta, rata habentes et grata, ea pro nobis et heredibus nostris, quantum in nobis est, conce dimus et confirmamus, sicut Utere predicte racionabUiter tes tantur. In cujus rei testimonium has Uteras nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste me ipso apud Tutteburi xu. die Novembris anno regni nostri sexto decimo. INVENTOEY OF THE EFFECTS OF WALTEE STAPELDON, BISHOP OF EXETEE.' , (Murdered in Cheapside, Loudon, 15th October, 1326.) The foUowing is the substance of a Latin roU belonging to the church of Exeter. Unfortunately it has been so wantonly defaced in some parts, by the application of gaUs, as to allow but certain words, here and there, with an occasional Une, to be deciphered. The roll is eight feet long, and purports to be a true inventory ofthe personals, goods, and chattels, of the late Lord Bishop of Exeter, ' RtfeiTfd to ante, p. 64, CHAETEES, &c, 439 Walter de Stapeldon, who was murdered by a London mob, on 15th October, 1326. It is divided into the following heads :— I. Church ornaments. 6. Cellar. 2. Books. 7. Bakehouse. 3. Chamber. 8. Kitchen. 4. Wardrobe. 9. Larder, 5. Hall. 10. Plate, vasa argentea. Then is given the live and dead stock on the estates belonging to the See of Exeter, v. g., at Petersheghs, in Yarcombe parish; at Floxton, in Ottery St. Mary's ; at Clist, in Farringdon parish, near this city ; in Chudleigh, in Bishop's Teignton, Paignton, Ashburton, and Bishop's Tawton, all in Devon ; at Chuddeham and Thomey, in Sussex ; Horsleigh and Tyting, in Surrey ; Farringdon, in Hants. Then follows the property in ComwaU, viz. :— at Lawhitton, Berneyr, Trewood, Pouton, KergauU, Lanergh, Penryn and Gaffes, Tregair and St. Germans; then retums to Devon, viz. : — to Staunton, in LoddisweU parish ; Norton, in Newton St. Cyres ; Stodburi, in Plympton St. Mary ; and AyshiU, in Bishop's Teignton. 1. — Church Ornaments. — This paragraph has been un- mercifuUy treated by the lover of galls. But copes, chasubles, dalmatics, tunics, &c., may be traced ; some ornaments had been purchased of the executors of a Bishop of Durham; for twenty marks ; a chasuble, embroidered with the arms of France and England, is valued at eight marks ; mention is made of a chasuble cum imagine Salvatoris ; several of the dresses had birds, beasts, and griffons worked on them ; an Expository is described as de corated with pearls and rubies, and the representations of Christ on the Cross, the Trinity, the blessed Virgin and her corona tion ; and we meet with several yards of red velvet, of cloth of gold, baudekyn, and of Venice. 2. — The 2nd paragraph contains the Appraisement of the Bishop's boohs. As his lordship had been Professor of Canon Law in the University of Oxford, before his elevation to the see of Exeter, we were not surprised at finding in his library so many works on jurisprudence. The whole may be deciphered as follows : — 1. The Decretals (Gratian's), with cases and histories iu the margin, value 10 marks. 2. Another copy ofthe Decretals, 11. Qs. 8d. 3. The first part of Eosarius super Decreta, 6 marks. 4. The second part of ditto, 6 marks. 5, Apparatus Hugonis super Deoreta, 5" marks, 6. Lecture super Decreta, 10s. 7. Lecture Petri de Salmis super Deoretii, lo;,'. id. 8. A fine copy of tlie Decretals, 10 marks. 440 APPENDIX. 9. Another fine copy of ditto, 8 marks. 10. A copy of ditto, bound in leather, 5 marks. 11 and 12. Copies, one the property of the late treasurer of Exeter, the other of the rector of Manaton, each 4 marks, 8 marks. 13. The first part of the Lecture Hostien, on the 1st, 2nd, and 4th books of the Decretals, 6 marks. 14, The second part of Hostien, on Srd and 4th books of the Decretals, 4 marks. 15. The 1st part 'Apparatus Hostien,' on the 1st and 2iid books of ditto, 6 marks. 16. The 2nd part 'Apparatus Hostien,' on 3rd, 4th, and 5th books of ditto, 4 marks. 17, The Abridgment of Hostien cum glossa Compostolani, 21. 18. Apparatus Imiocentii, 4 marks, 19. Summa copiosa, 6 marks. 20. Alia Stunma copiosa, 31. 21. Speculum judiciale, 5i marks. 22. Summa Gaufredi, 13s. id. 22.* AHa Summa Gaufredi, Qs. 8d. 23. Apparatus Gaufredi super Deeretalia, 11. 24. Summa Tancredi, Qs. 8d. 25. Questiones Bartholomei, in parvo volumine, 2s. 26. Summa Johannis Andree, super 4to. libro Decretalium, 5s. 27. Sextus liber DecretaUum novus cum glosis Johannis Monachi et Johannis Andree, scriptis ad modum com- menti et glosa Gwydonis per se, et glosa Domini Digni super regulas juris, in uno volumine, 10 marks. 28. Sextus liber Decretalium cum tribus glosis, 4 marks. 29. Sextus liber Decretalium cum glosis Johannis Monachi et Johannis Andree cum tractatu de Mandeso, in uno volumine, 21. Qs. 8d. 30, Apparatus Gwydonis super textum Decretalium, I3s. id. 31. Glosa Gydonis et Dni. Digni super regulas juris, 13s. id. 32. Constitutiones Viennenses, 6s. 8d. 33. Digestum vetus pulchrum, 10 marks. 34. AUud Digestum pulchrmn, 10 marks. 36. Paivnm volumen pulchrum, bl. 36. Digestum novum emptum Oxon, 6 marks. 37. Codex, 8 marks. 38. Alius Codex, 5^ marks. 39. Digestum vetus, 31. 40. Parvum volumen, 4 marks. 41. Casus inforciatus in septem peciis, 5s. 42. Lecture super Institutum in sex peciis, 3s. 43, Una Biblia bone litere, 10 marks, 44, Secunda Biblia, 13s. id. io. Tertia Biblia; 11. iQ. Liber Sententiarum, 21. 47, A copy of the Sentences, but with the boards broken (cum asseribus fractis), 2s. CHAETEES, &c, 441 48. Concordantia super BibUam, 10 marks. 49. Evangelia glossata,, 6s, 8d. 60. Evangelia Marci et Matthei glossata, 21. 10s. bl. iertius et quartus Liber Sententiarum cum quibusdam ains, 6s. 62. Psalterium glossatum, 20s. 53. Psalterium Jeronomi glossatum per fratrem Nicolaun Irivet, 21. 54. Sermones Gwidonis, 11. Qs. 8d. 66. Sermones Dominicales Dni. Jacobi de Eavenna, 1 3s. id. 66. Sermones Festivales ejusdem Jacobi, I3s. id. 67. Sermones ejusdem ad omnes status, 11. 58. Sermones Cancellarii Parisiensis, 11. 59. Sermones ejusdem Cancellaru, 11. Qs. 8d. 60. Distinctiones Fratris Nicholai, 10s. 61. Distinctiones in aUo volumine, 10s. 62. Manipulus Florum, sine asseribus, 13s. 4c?. 63. Manipulus Floram, cum asseribus, 21. Qi. Veritas Theologie, 10s. 65. Sermones Bernardi super Cantica et Flores ejusdem, 21. 66. Eationale Divinorum Officiorum, 4 marks, 67. Legenda Sanctorum, 11. Qs. 8d. 68. Liber de Servitutibus, 13s, id. 69. Summa de Vitiis, lOs. 70. Pastorale Gregorii, sine asseribus, 5s. 71. Dialogus Gregorii. 72. Dialogus Gregorii, Is. 73. Summa dictantis, 4s. 74. Alia Summa ejusdem, 4s. 75. Epistole Frederici que dicuntur Dictatoria Petri de Vends, 6s. 8d. 76. Chronica Martini de Summis Pontificibus et Imperatori- bus, 2s. 77. Diversa quedam cum commentacionihus, questionibus, et aliis notabilibus, Is. 78. Oratio Dominicalis, cum Salutatione Angelica et Symbolo gallice, de compilacione Walteri Exoniensis Episcopi, Is. Qd. 79. Duo libri de Eegimine Principum, Qs. 8d. 80. Quaternio de Feodis in Comitatibus Devonie et Cor nubie, 2s. 81. Speculum Naturale in duobus voluminibus, 21. 10s. 82. Speculum Historiale in tribus voluminibus, 10 marks. 83. Postilla super Johannem ; Uteralis expositio super Job, Cantica Canticorum, super Ecolesiastem, et Apocalypsim, in uno volumine, 11. 85. Psalterium, quod fuit Thome (Bitton) Episcopi Exon, 1/. 86. "Unum Gradale novum, I Z. 87. Unum parvum Processionale, sine asseribus, 2s. 88. Unum Portiforium solemne, quod fuit Eectoris de Stoke, 10 marks. 442 APPENDIX, 89. Statuta Eegis, ligata in nigro corio et piloso, Gs. 8d. 90. Liber qui vocatur Aaron, 6s. 8d. Item. Duo OofSni pro libris infra cariandis. Is. The third section is entitled Camera. His lordship's chamber contained a great hom or drinking cup, caUed de Bugle, tipped with sUver gUt, valued at 6s. 8d. ; an inferior one at 1«. Sc?. ; another black horn, de Bugle, 10s. ; an old ivory hom, 3s. Unum Spectaculum cum duplici oculo, 2s. I After enumerating several trifiing articles it concludes with the following valu ables : — 1006 Florenos de Agno. 4000 Florenos de Fflorencia. Unus Florenus de Eegina [Isabella ?] , In pecunia numerata, 80 IZ. Os. 8d. sterlingorum. In platis argenteis, 515?., per estimationem. Item. 91 annuli et unus fractus, unde tres pidcri et ceteri com munes et donativi. Annuli Pontificales et meliores tempore mortis defuncti fuerunt Londoni depredati. Item. Una cathena argentea pro sigiUo, 2s. The fourth heading is the Wardrobe. The items are numerous, and have been spared by the lover of gaUs. They amount to nearly 601. value. It appears the town of Dynant carried on a considerable trade in table-cloths and towels. The fifth, the Sail of the Palace, which seems to have been used as a lavatory. The sixth, the Cellar, was indifferently supplied with wine. A pipe half fuU de vino de Wamath, valued at 4Z., and two fuU hogsheads of wine, amounting to the value of 4?., was aU that remained. 7th, Sth, 9th, the Bakehouse, Kitchen, and Larder, have Uttle to chaUenge attention. 10th.^-But the Vasa Argentea occupies a large assortment of richly wrought plate, many of which were engraved with the arms of England and France, of the Lord WiUiam Martyn, and of the famUies of Dynham, Button, Hereford, and Drokenford. Several of the drinkdng-cups were made at Tours. The value of the united pieces, as well as can be made out, amoimted to nearly 170?. sterUng.2 2 Amongst other pieces of plate was " Cuppa emalata cum aquario ex dono Regis Francie," which the bishop willed to his successor iu the see of Exeter, together with a precious mitre, to obtaiii of Exeter, he had little opportunity of rendering them any assistance, and ac cordingly they presented the " Cuppa cum aquario " to his successor. Bishop Grandisson, on the 21st September, his favour for tlie excciitors of liia testa- | 1328, aud the miti-e on tlic llth Decem- r. See Grandii fol. 62-69-101. mont. As Dr. James Berkley died very ber that year. See Grandisson's ' Be- shortly after heing enthroned Bishop gister,' vol. ii. i CHAETBES, &c. 443 Live and dead stocTi on the Episcopal farms and manors. At Petershegh were found 2 draught horses, valued at 10s.; oxen^ 16, valued at 51. Os. 8d, at 6s. 8rf. per head ; I buU, at 6s. 8d. ; 1 yearling. Is. Gd. ; 180 sheep at 9?., or 12d. a head. In the grange the com, 9?. 6s. The dead stock, in timber, Ume, laths, and cut stone for the new buUdings, valued at lOZ. Is. ; and the timber at Madeford, 10s. At Flokeston. 1 draught horse, at 4s. ; ten oxen, at 3/. 6s. 8d., at 6s. 8d. per head ; eight yearlings, at 11. Gs. 8d., at 3s. id. each ; 313 sheep, 16?. 13s., at 12d each. The corn and hay at the grange, worth 10 marks ; dead stock, 15s. 2:^c?. Clist. 5 heifers, at I?. 5s., at 5s. per head ; 24 oxen, at 8?., 6s. 8d. per head ; a bull, 6s. 8d. ; 27 cows, at 7?. 8s. 6c?., price of each 5s. Gd. ; 2 bullocks, 4s.; 8 calves, 12s., at Is. Gd. each; 49 sheep, 2?. 9s.; 6 rams and 65 ewes, 3?. lis., at 12d. per head; 8 draught horses, which were at Lomene with 5 colts, at 4?. 13s. id. At the grange the com was valued at 20?., and the hay at 1?. The dead stock at 4?. 8s. Chuddelegh. 22 oxen, 7?. 6s. 8d. at 6s. 8d. per head ; a bull at 6s. 8d. ; the other beasts and cattle at the prices above stated. But here were 5 peacocks and peahens valued at 6s. (We meet with these birds at Paignton also, but not elsewhere in the inventory). The corn was rated at I7Z. 6s. 8d. The dead stock at 3?. 4s. 7d., una eum iii rogis calcis pretii, 7?. ; 2 lime kUns. The same, or nearly the same, prices, prevaU throughout the other manors. In conclusion, the executors express a hope that of the debts to the estate of the deceased, 3811, Is. Qd., may be recovered ; but apprehend that others, amountiug to 378?. 7s. 6c?., must be considered as pure loss — propter nimiam paupertatem debitorum. The land sowed with wheat and rye during the season preceding the bishop's death, was 609 acres and a half. This had been done at the expense of 101?. lis. 8d. Price of acre 3s. 4c?. Fifteen acres of winter barley at 2s. per acre; and in the pecuUar manors or demesnes of the bishop, 160 acres and a half were sown with wheat and rye at the expense of 26?. 15s., at 3s. 4c?. per acre. The executors then — Richard of Coleton, Dean of Exeter, Thomas de Stapeldon, surviving brother of the deceased, and Eichard de BraUegh, Subdean of Exeter, who had associated to themselves as coadjutor, Eobert de Tawton (but who was actuaUy absent), aU Canons of Exeter — set forth, that they submit this ^ We leam from Bishop Brantyng ham's ' Register,' vol, ii. fol. 6, that Bishop Stapeldon not only complied with the ancient custom of his prede cessors ia the see of Exeter, by be queathing to hia siiccessor 100 oxen, viz. 40 for the episcopal tiarms in Devon, 30 for those in Cornwall, and 30 for those elsewhere; but he addeil lOOi. more for their benefit, that his obit might be observed by them, and that on his anniversary 100 poor might be fed in the hall of Exeter Palace, or at its outer gate. 444 APPENDIX, inventory to Bishop Grandisson, pledging themselves to become answerable for all deficiencies that may reach their knowledge ; they express their anxiety to fulfil all the intentions of the deceased, and hope to be excused for the delay in producing their accounts, by reason of the dispersion and consumption of the property of the deceased after his death : of the recovery of which they still remain uncertain — nor can they yet ascertain what their liabUities are, and how far they may extend. COPY OF THE WILL OP BISHOP GEANDISSON. Sth Sept. 1368.— Obit 15th July, 1369. Testamentum Dojiiyi Johannis de Gkakdissono Episcopi Exoniensis defuncti. ' In nomine Domini nostri Jesu Christi FiUi Virginis Marie cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria Dei Patris omnipotentis. Amen. Ego Johannes de Grandissono Exoniensis Ecclesie minister inutilis et indignus, sanus per Dei gratiam mente et corpore condo testamentum meum in hunc modum : spiritum meum com- mendo meo et omnium Creatori, corpus vero meum quod cor- rumpitur et aggravatur volo quod sepeliatur extra ostium occi dentale Ecclesie Exonie ita celeriter sicut fieri poterit bono modo non invitando parentes nee magnos Dominos set solum- modo aliquos Episcopum vel Episcopos viciniores. Et volo quatuor tantum cereos circa corpus meum poni ponderis unius- cujusque viginti librarum, ad capud unus et ad pedes et ad dex- tram et ad sinistram : ceteri vero cerei quorum quilibet sit ponderis unius Ubre ponantur unum ad quodUbet altare per Ecclesiam et unus remaneat et alU Ecclesiis parochialibus in civitate distribuantur. Inhibeo et sub pena offensionis divine potaeiones cum speciebus fieri de nocte in choro circa_ corpus meum set fiant si oportuerit in Domo Capitulari vel alio loco ad hoc apto vel loco talium tantum ministris omnibus de choro presentibus et psalteria dicentibus centum solidi communiter distribuantur. Volo et lego quod eadem humacionis die centiun pauperiores indumenta cum capucus habeant de panno si in veniri poterit grosso albo sue grisco. Item sacerdotes simplices eadem die sepulture mee interessentes una cum omnibus et singulis vuis ac mulieribus reUgiosis habeant singuli quatuor denarios. Item si aliquis Episcopus vel Episcopi venerint ad sepulturam meam habeat quilibet pro expensis prout videbitur executoribus meis simul cum uno annulo pontificali aut smiplici mitra aurifrasiata vel alio jocali competente nisi habuerit me vivente. Canonici vero Ecclesie Exoniensis eadem die iuteres- ' From a book endorsed ' Witlesey," fo. 103, back. CHAETBES, &o. 445 sentes habeant quiUbet quadraginta denarios vicarii presentes qui libet duos soUdos secundarii vero vel annuellarU quilibet duodecim denarios clerici secundarii quilibet duodecim denarios, Pueri Choriste quilibet sex denarios Custores ad pulsandum ita quod breves pulsationes fiant et non longe quilibet duodecim denarios, Fratres Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Exonie presbiteri, quUibet duos solidos infirmi ibidem quilibet duodecim denarios incarcerati Exonie pro pane emendo quadi-aginta denarios infinni beate Marie Magdalene Exonie inter se duos soUdos Presbiteri Sancti GabrieUs de Clist quUibet duos solidos. Item lego cuilibet Eectori civitatis Exonie duos soUdos et aquebaulis cui libet sex denarios. Volo etiam quod a die sepulture mee usque ad trigesimum diem sequentem fiant omni die exequie cum missa in aliquo loco competenti. , Et volo quod omnes misse que dicentur pro me excepta magna missa in die sepulture mee et qualibet alia die una tantum de requiem sint de beata Maria cum oracione pro defunctis. Et per illos triginta dies quUibet canonicus qui aUquo die misse et vigUiis interfuerit habeat pro singulis diebus singulos sex denarios quilibet vicarius quatuor denarios secundarius quUibet tres denarios et quiUbet puer duos denarios. Et si aliquis canonicus missam cantet quacumque die infra Trigintale habeat ultra sex denarios si vicarius tres denarios. Nolo etiam quod famUiares mei induantur vestibus nigris set robis suis de secta ejusdem anni et sacerdotes ac clerici capelle mee superpeUicUs ac albis capucus sicut conseu- verunt nee volo quod ipso die sepulture mee fiat generalis dis- tribucio pauperibus set aliquo die alio precedente vel sequente et hoc quantum fieri poterit non in pecunia set in pane. Item do et lego Ecclesie Exoniensi pulcriora vestimenta mea alba videlicet capulam tunicam et daknaticam cum capa debrandata cum aureo rosareo et armis meis ac dimidiis Angelis una cum quatuor capis unius secte meUoribus de panno albo serico dias- prato cum castoribus et bestiis aureis. Item lego eidem Ecclesie cracem deauratam cum lapidibus preciosis ex utraque parte que in duas partes dividitur et intra pars crucis Dominice continetur. Item lego eidem Ecclesie duas ymagines Apostolorum Petri et Pauli argeuteas deauratas et thuribulum aureum et duo alia thuribula unius secte sculta et deaurata, pelvim argenteam capelle mee cum cathenis ad pendendum cereum Archidiaconi ante majus altare. Item lego eidem Ecclesie duo antiphonaria duo gradalia et duo psalteria majora et meUora de capella mea et Textum BvangelU Sancti Johannis de antiqua litera cooper tum argento deaurato. Lego eciam eidem Ecclesie vestimenta pro diebus Epiphanie Pentecostis et Apostolorum Petri et PauU videUcet casulam tunicam et dalmaticam cum una capa de pahnis rubeis et aureis qui vocantur de nakta. Item casulam tunicam et dalmaticam cum capa de velveto violacio in exequiis 446 APPENDIX. meis et in obitu meo et alioram insignium utendam. Item lego eidem Ecclesie terciam meliorem mitram meam cum baculo pastorali quem emi Parisiis una cum anulo et cirothecis et aUis EpiscopaUbus utendis necessarus in eventum quo successores meos vel alios Episcopos ibidem casuaUter contigerit celebrare. De illo autem precioso et nimis subtili vase sive Jocali cum angelis portantibus pro Eucharistia precii ducentorum fioren- orum volo quod remaneat Ecclesie Exoniensi. Ita quod illud quo ibidem utitur in Festo Corporis Christi et alus solempnibus ponatur et remaneat apud Otery. Item lego custodi ministio cantori et sacriste Ecclesie Collegiate Sancte Marie de Otrey cuUibet quadraginta soUdos. Item lego quilibet vicario ejusdem Ecclesie quadraginta denarios. Item lego Domino WUlieUno Lunday Cantori Ecclesie Sancte Crucis Criditon quadraginta solidos et Decano loci unam marcam. Item lego cuUibet vicario ejusdem Ecclesie sacerdoti ad orandum pro anima mea quadraginta solidos. Item lego Ecclesie Collegii Sancte Thome Martiris Glasneye pro novo opere ibidem viginti marcas. Item lego cuilibet canonico ibidem residenti dimidiam marcam et cuilibet vicario ejusdem Ecclesie sacerdoti ad orandum pro anima mea quadraginta denarios. Item lego Domino nostro Summo Pontifici unam capam valde preciosam de violacio velveto bran- datam cum ymaginibus et pulcrum aurifrasium meum et librum sermonum Beati Bernardi. Item lego Camerario Domini nostri Pape quia eram nuncius Sedis ApostoUce ducentos fiorenos de Florencia aut valorem in moneta currente. Item lego Domino nostro Eegi pulcrum pannum brandatum de opere Eomano Passionis Domini Cracifixi et Latronum pendencium hinc et inTle. Item lego Domino Principi Acquitanie et WalUe et ejus germano Domino Duci Lancastrie ac ejusdem Ducis uxori con- sanguinie Blanchie, cuiUbet ipsorum aliquod vas vel jocalem juxta dispositionem executorum meorum in memoriam mei. Item Domine Isabelle Domini nostri Eegis primogenite pulcrius Psalterium meum. Item lego venerabili in Christo Patri Domino Cantuarie Archi-Episcopo qui pro tempore fuerit mag num aule dorsorium meum de Coronacione beate Marie cum apostolis sedentibus in tronis et inter se simbolum tenentibus una cum annulo pontificali ad celebrandum et quinquaginta mar cas sterlingorum ; Ita quod executores meos in execucione ultime voluntatis mee adjuvet et non vexet et quod nee ipse nee offici alis suus aut alu ministri sui quicumque ejus nomine aliquid aUud petant ab eisdem executoribus meis vel exigant quovis modo. Quod si secus fecerint careant hujusmodi legatis et Ula tunc lego Camere Domini nostri Pape per Sedis Apostolice in Anglia nuncium recipienda. Ita quod ipse vice Domini nostri Pape executores meos adjuvet et defendat. Item lego eidem clerico sive nuncio Domini nostri Pape ut executores CHAETEES, &c. 447 meos adjuvet et foveat et sit unus executorum meorum quin quaginta florenos de Florencia vel valorem. Item lego succcs- soribus^ meis sub condicionibus infrascriptis et non aliter. In primis lUam preciosam mitram quam emi ab executoribus pre decessoris mei Walteri pro ducentis marcis sterUngorum et postea cum centum viginti marcis Parisiis totaliter reparari et meliorari feci. Item lego eisdem successoribus meis baculum meum pastoralem meUorem deauratum et deamellatum et secun- dam meliorem capam non legatam rubeam videlicet cum yma ginibus aureis una cum duobus anulis, uno ad celebrandum et alio ad utendum cum apparatibus altaris diversis albo scilicet rubeo et violacio de rosis pulverisato ac cirothecis et sandaliis aliisque necessariis EpiscopaUbus non legatis. Item lego eisdem libros meos Episcopales majorem et minorem quos Egomet com pilavi et tria missalia unum videlicet preciosum notatum cum sequencUs in quo seribitur — " In Principio " — quod remaneat successori, aliud novum et bonum ejusdem litere sine nota et tercium portabile quod duxerit eligendum. Item lego eisdem Ubrum Meditacionum et Oracionum beati Anselmi et beati Augustini in magno volumine. Item dorsorium meum de martyrio Apostolorum Petri et Pauli. Item vas aque benedicte argenteum cum aspersorio de argento et calicem aureum cum phioUs deauratis. Item duos aUos calices usuales argenteos deau- ratos pro capellanis suis et crismatorium meum rotundum quod fuit Gulielmi Durandi speeulatoris. Item duo paria tabularum pictarum meliarum non legatarum. Item quatuor candelabra argentea minora cum duobus thuribulis melioribus non legatis et navi majori pro thure ac campanula majori argenteis. Item crucem deauratam cum gemmis et ymaginibus Marie et Johannis quam emi Parisiis. Item textum EvangeUorum prout leguntur per annum coopertum argento cum ymaginibus protractis Crucifixi, Marie, et Johannis ex parte una et cum nigra de Neil coronacione ex parte alia. Item lego eisdem successoribus meis tria Gradalia portatoria et unum majus pro seipsis. Item Legen- dam integram in uno volumine de camera mea. Item Bibliam meam meliorem. Item duos libros Omeliarum ad legendum coram ipsis. Item majus Antiphonarium et Psalterium que jacent in capella coram me cum duobus aliis Psalteriis pro clericis. Item lego eisdem albam casulam cum tunica et dal matica diasperata cum castoribus et bestiis aureis mixtis una cum tribus capis ejusdem secte. Item lego eisdem unam casu lam cum tunica et dalmatica et capa violacU coloris cum rosis aureis. Item unum par vestimentorum rubeorum et aliud croceorum cum tunicis dalmaticis et tribus capis utriusque secte necnon omnes alias tunicas et dalmaticas pontificales que sunt pro corpore meo. Item tres albas cum pertinentiis de arnUs operatis et duas albas pulchras et duas alias pro seipsis. Item 448 APPENDIX, quatuor pelves argenteas pro aula et unam jDelvem argenteam latam pro elemosina. Item lego eisdem quatuor chargeria' argentea viginti quatuor distos argenteos meliores cum totidem salsariis duos pottos argenteos duodecim ciphos argenteos pianos et meliorem cuppam argenteam cum picherio. Item cuppam argenteam deauratam ponderis centum solidorum que est apud Otery sculpta de armis meis et ymaginibus que inscripta est in pede quod habeant memoriam de Seint Mary Otery. Item cocleare aureum et aliud deauratum pro seipsis cum viginti quatuor coclearibus argenteis. Item lego successori meo cen tum boves et mille oves si tot habuero et centum libras sterling orum. Et volo quod mitram ac omnia aUa predicta ad officium divinum pertinencia una cum dorsorio et Ula cuppa que est apud Otery cum centum bobus relinquat successoribus suis im perpetuum. Ita quod tempore vacacionis sint sub custodia CapituU Exoniensis clerici postquam confirmatus fuerit per in denturam committenda nee tradant oblivioni successores mei qualiter laboribus et expensis meis ad Eomanam curiam acce- dendo impetravi eis appropriacionem Ecclesie de Eadeway in manerio eorum de Teyngton Episcopi et simiUter consensum et cartam Eegis ; ac domos utiles et sumptuosas ibidem in sanctuario construxi ut haberent ubi capud suum reclinarent, si in manu Eegis eorum temporaUa caperentur, super quo executores mei buUam, Comissionis ApostoUce cum litera appropriacionis, Ade quon dam Wygornie Episcopi, et cartam Eegis in coffinis meis poterunt reperire : habeat et idem successor meus omnes mensas curras ac carrectas et utensilia Ugnea quecumque et cetera hujusmodi de quocumque mortuo instauro in omnibus maneriis meis de quibus ego a predecessoribus meis nichil habui unde volo omnia pre dicta successori meo vel successoribus meis legata ita intelligi si pro Dampnis et debitis primitus successor nichil amplius a me petat; alioquin nee ipse nee alii successores mei aUquid habeant de legatis predictis set executores mei sibi satisfaciant aliunde. Item lego venerabUi in Christo Patri Domino Ludovico Dei gratiS, Herefordensi Episcopo unum anulum pontificalem cum sandaliis et cUothecis et magnum librum concordanciarum. Item lego cuilibet Confratri et Coepiscopo Cantuariensis Provincie unam mitram simpUcem qui non habuerit, me vivente. Item inhibeo ne libri mei ecclesiastici vel theologici aut vestimenta mea ecclesiastica exponantm- venditioni nisi forte bonis meis aliis non snfficientibus major imineat necessitas distrahendi set omnes libri mei de CapeUa ut supradicitur ponantur ac ceteri non legati Ecclesiis CoUegiatis primo de Otery ac postea Criditonie et libere CapeUe Eegie de Boseham distribuantur, libri vero theologici modici precii distri buantur pauperibus scolaribus theologis et Aule de Stapeldone Oxonie. Ita tamen quod scripta Nicholai de Lira et Nicholai CHAETBES, &o. 449 de Trynech super Psalterium una cum meUoribus originalibus qfl.e non habentur in libraria Ecclesie Exonie remaneant ibidem m archivis. Et Fratres predicatores Exonie habeant omnia scripta Sancti Fratris Thome de Aquino qui fuit de ordine eosun- dem. Item lego pelvim meam que fuit Sancti Edwardi Con fessoris Ecclesie Sarum. Item lego Ecclesie ConventuaU West- monasteriensi in mei memoriam frontale latum de diversis ymaginibus operis Eomani cum panno altaris de armis Anglie et Francie. Item lego Ecclesie CoUegiate Sancte Marie de Otery ymaginem Beate Marie argenteam deauratam et crucem cum reliquUs quam dedit mUU Abbas Glastoniensis. Item lego Ecclesie Collegiate Sancte Crucis Criditon pannum pro altari cum ymagine Majestatis in medio et Angeli ad Virginem ex utraque parte et pannum de Passione ejusdem secte desuper pendendum. Item lego domui Sanctimonalium de Acornbury sex marcas. Item lego Domino WilUelmo de Monteacuto Comiti Sarum vas vel jocale aUquod juxta dispontionem executorum meorum in memoriam mei. Item lego germano suo Domino Johanni de Monteacuto unum pottum argenteum pro viuo majorem deau ratum et duas pelves argenteas de armis Montisacuti cum ali qua cuppa et potto alio argenteis deauratis. Item lego eidem pelvim meam rotundam magni ponderis pro barbitonsorio et unam platam argenteam pro speciebus. Item lego eidem et ejus heredibus reUnquenda anulum rubeum qui fuit Domini Patris mei et pomum argenteum deauratum cum cooperculo de capeUa mea pro Corpore Christi super altare. Item lego Domino Edwardo de ArundeU et SibUle Uxori sue viginti libras et unum pottum argenteum cum cuppa deaurata. Iteni lego Magistro Philippo de Bello campo pulcram parvam BibUam meam quam habui de Magistro Eoberto Herward una cum Portiphorio et Psalterio camere mee. Item Missale parvum et pulcram, magnum Decretum et Decretales et amilum cum saphiro pulcro et spisso ad modum crucis posito et unum vestimentum videlicet casulam tunicam et dalmaticam ac capam unam cum alba stola manipulo et amictu. Item lego Magistro WiUielmo de Courtenay aUquem librum theologie vel Juris Ca nonici quem executores mei elegerint. Item lego fratri Eogero de Westbury decem marcas, WilUelmo de Braybrok viginti libras, Johanni de Clyiford vigmti marcas quia cum in vita sua aliunde respexi. Item lego Eandulpho Blaunkmonster decem marcas sterlingorum, Johanni Cissori et Galfrido BarbUonsori utrisque quinque marcas, et hoc si usque ad mortem meam m meis obsequiis perseverent: sacerdotes et de secta mea commensales per se non promoti necnon et aUi famUiares mei contmui superius non nominati respiciantur pro rata tempons quo me- cim steterint juxta dispositionem et conscientiam executorum 450 APPENDIX. meorum : sacerdotes promoti qui mecum per triennium continuum ante mortem meam ac tempore mortis mecum steterint, habeant quiUbet vas vel jocale aliquod, Ubrum vel vestimentum simplex juxta dispositionem executorum meorum. Item lego Prioribus Plympton, Bodimen, Launceston, et Sancti Germani, cuiUbet sex marcas pro exequiis meis et obitu meo celebrandis. Item lego Abbathiis de Forda, Bucfest, Dunkeswyll, Torre et Boclande, et Prioratui de Frithelstok, juxta numerum presbiterorum in qualibet domo ut orent pro anima mea cuiUbet presbitero duo solidos. Item lego Prioratui Sancti Nicholai Exonie magnam nucem meam indicam ad bibendum cum pede et cooperculo argenteis in mei memoriam ibidem perpetuo remansuram, et centum soUdos ad emendum ibidem unam campanam. Item lego domibus sanctimoniaUum de Polslo, Canounlegh, et Cornworthy, cuUibet domui quinque marcas. Item lego fratribus predicatoribus Exonie centum soUdos, et fratribus minoribus Exonie quinque marcas sterlingorum, fratribus predicatoribus de Trueru et minoribus Bedim an utrique domui quadraginta soUdos. Item fratribus CarmeUtis Suttonie quadraginta soUdos cum uno simplici vestimento nisi habuerint, me vivente. Item lego Ecclesie parochiali de Chuddelegh duas campanes majores in campanUi capelle mee de Chuddelegh. Item singulis hospitaUbus Leprosorum et alioram infirmorum Episcopatus Exonie, juxta numerum inhabitancium cuUibet infinno duodecim denarios. Item lego Ecclesie parochiaU de Asshperton, Herfordensis Diocesis, ubi oriundus fui, nisi me vivente habuerit unum vesti mentum competens pro presbitero scUicet casulam cum alba stola et manipulo. Item lego Ecclesie prebendali de Haydore juxta Grantham que fuit mea in Ecclesia Luicoln, unum vesti mentum cum tunica et dalmatica nisi habuerit me vivente. Volo autem de vestimentis et alus ornamentis ecclesiasticis prelegatis primo capeUe mee quantum sufficiunt predicta fieri et de noviter emendis London, cetera si oporteat sUpleri. Ita quod per Dei graciam nichil omnino de hujusmodi legatis ecclesiasticis superius dimittatur set omnia fiant si commode fieri possint de bonis meis de rebus et vestibus usualibus corporis mei ac lectistemiis, exceptis iUis que debentur camerariis ex consuetudine. Volo quod inter pauperes presbiteros sive rectores sive vicarios indigentes ac vicarios chori Ecclesie Collegii Cryditon et honestas viduasvel reclusas ac hospitalia dividantur juxta dispositionem et conscienciam executorum meorum ; omnia autem aurifrasia mea simplicia cum frangiis et alus ad vesti menta Ecclesiastica pertinentibus non legatis. Pono et lego in disposicionem Magistri Nicholai de Braybrok et Thome TuggeU residuum vero omnium bonoram meorum si quid sit non legatorum lego ad faciendum honestam cohabitacionem pro CHAETEES, &c. 45J vicarns chori Ecclesie Exonie et ad alia opera pietatis ad istud autem testamentum seu ultimam voluntatem meam exequendam supplico venerabiUbus in Christo Patribus Dominis ac con- fratribus carissimis Dominis Dei graci^ Ludowico Hereford et WiUielmo Wygorn Episcopis, ut executoram meorum coad- jutores et_ supervisores ac consultores esse veUnt. Et ulterius ordino facio et constituo executores meos Dominum Johannem de Monteacuto nepotem meum necnon nuncium qui pro tem pore fuerit. Item Magistrum Stephanum de Pompel Decanum Ecclesie Wellensis, necnon Magistros Johannem de ShareshuU Precentorem, Johannem WyUeth, CanceUarium, Eobertum de Wykford, Johannem de Holand, et Nicholaum de Braybrok, canonicos Ecclesie Exonie, Dominum Andream de Moor Custodem Ecclesie CoUegii Sancte Marie de Otery. Item WiUielmum de Braybrok, Dominos Johannem de Mounceaux, Thomam Sage, et Thomam Tugge. Ita quod si non omnes execucioni hujus Testa menti voluerint vel non poterint interesse recipiatur et fiat administracio a quatuor vel tribus ad minus efficientibus et ydoneis qui presentes fuerint. Et lego cuiUbet executorum meo rum predictorum hujus Testamenti onus subeunti pro labore suo preter expensas unam cuppam argenteam cum picherio vel unum anulum bonum vel aUquod joc^e utUe et acceptabUe unicuique eorum cum centum soUdis sterUngorum aUis nichilominus legatis superius executoribus ipsis seu aUcui eorundem in suo robore duraturis. Et ego predictos executores meos eosque per viscera Matris Misericordie et aspersionem sanguinis Jesu Christi FiUi sui Domini nostri deprecor adjuro et administracionem hujus Testamenti omni voluntaria excusatione cessante admittere et in eodem contenta cum modestis et absque voluptuariis expensis exequi studeant fideUter celeriter et diUgenter ut ab omni retributore bonoram vitam percipiant sempiternam. Volo autem et rogo quod seribatur in plumbi lamina cum corpore reponenda sic — "Hie jacet Johannes de Grandissono miserabiUs Episcopus Exonie, Matris Misericordie miserimus servus, cujus misericors FiUus ejus precibus est miseratus ut de misero fleret beatus et ceteris miseris spes detur flendi reatus." In quoram omnium et singulorum testimonium presens testamentum meum annuU mei impressione consignatur : datum in manerio meo de Chud delegh Exoniensis diocesis, octavo die mensis Septembris, anno Domini milesimo trecentesimo sexagesimo octavo, et consecrationis mee quadragesimo primo. SuBSCRiPTio Domini Exoniensi Episcopi de manu sua propria. Johannes de Grandissono predictus predicto testamento sub scribo in hac precelsa Festivitate Beatissime' Semper Virginis Marie que gaudium annunciavit universe mundo ex qua ortus 2i Oc 2i 452 APl^ENDIX. est Sol Justicie, Christus Dominus noster, qui solvens male- dictionem dedit benedictionem et confundens mortem donavit nobis vitam sempiternam. Amen. Peobacio Testament: Episcopi Exoniensis cujus Copia scribitur in sexto foho precedente.' Nos Willielmus, &c., notum facimus universis quod octo Kalendarum Augusti Anno Domini mUlesimo tricentesimo sexagesimo nono in CapeUa manerii nostri de Lamheth, Testa mentum bone memorie Johannis de Grandissono nuper Exoniensis Episcopi defuncti presentibus annexum probatum fuit coram nobis et per nos insinuatum et approbatum ac pro eodem testa mento legitime pronunciatum Nosque WiUielmus Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus supradictus et prefati testamenti supervisor per dictum defunctum speciaUter deputatus. Volumus et expresse concedimus per presentes quod discretus vir Magister Nicholaus Braybrok Canonicus Ecclesie CathedraUs Exoniensis, Thomas TuggeU, et WiUielmus Braybrok, executores in dicto testamento nominati pro inhumacione corporis dicti defuncti bona que fuerunt ejusdem defuncti et que servando faciliter servari non possunt vendicioni exponant et precium pro eisdem bonis receptum in expensis funeralibus corporis dicti defuncti secundum dis posicionem et arbitrium dictorum Magistrorum Nicholai Thome et WiUielmi utiUter convertantur : residuum vero precu bonorum hujus modi venditormn si quod, preter expensas funeris dicti defuncti, faciendum fuerit usque administracionem dictorum executorum in hac parte admittenda integraliter reservetur. In quorum omnium testimonium sigiUum nostrum etc. Datum loco die et Anno Domini supradictis. Tenore presentium nos Willielmus, &c., notum facimus universis quod secundis nonis Decembris Anno Domini millesimo tre centesimo sexagesimo nono comparuerunt pariter coram nobis in ciamera nostra maneru nostri de Lamheth venerabiUs et discre tus vir Dominus Johannes de Monteacuto miles, et Magister Nicholaus Braybrok Canonicus Ecclesie CathedraUs Exonie executores testamenti bone memorie Domini Johannis de Grandissono nuper Exoniensis Episcopi defuncti nostri dum vixit et Ecclesie nostri Cantuariensis Suffraganei in suo testamento nominati presentibus annexi quibus administracionem omnium bonorum dictum suum testamentum concernentium ubicumque in nostra Cantuariensi provincia existentium commissimus, prestito primitus per eosdem in forma juris ad Sancta Dei EvangeUa juramento, de fideli inventorio omnium bonorum dicti defuncti oonficiendo et de fideliter administrando omnia bona dicti defuncti necnon de fideU compoto nobis vel successoribus nostris reddendo 2 From tho same book, fol. 109, bpck. CHAETBES, &o. 453 cum fuerint congrue requisiti, reservata insuper nobis facultate coimnittendi administracionem bonorum hujusmodi alUs execu toribus m eodem testamento nominatis cum venerint eam in lorma jmis recepturam. In cujus, &c., datum loco die et anno Domini supradictis, et nostre translationis secundo. AoQUiETANCiA ExEouTORUM Domiui Episcopi Exoniensis defuncti. Tenore presencium nos WiUielmus, &c., notum facimus uni versis quod audito per nos compoto sive calculo executorum bone memorie Domini Johannis de Grandissono nuper Exoni ensis Episcopi defuncti nostre Cantuariensis Ecclesie dum vixit Suffraganei de et super administracione eorundem in bonis dicti defuncti ipsius testimonium concernentibus invenimus eosdem executores bona hujus modi juxta defuncti predicti ultimam voluntatem bene et fideUter administrasse et ea in usus ejusdem defuncti convertisse. Unde nos prefatos executores ab ulteriori reddicione compoti sive calcuU bonorum sic. administratorum ut prefertur quatenus ad officium nostrum attinet salvo jure cujus cumque absolvimus et ab examine nostro dimittimus per pre sentes sigillo nostro consignatas. Datum apud Otteford decimo quarto Kalendas Maii, anno Domini mUlesimo trecentesimo sep tuagesimo, et nostre translationis secundo. CHAEGE ON CHAPELS OP EASE.> Univeesis presentes Uteras inspecturis Thomas miseracione, &c., Salutem in Domino sempiternam. Cum de quarundam con- stitutionum sinodalium notre Diocesis dudum a bone memorie Domino Petro [QuivU] predecessore nostro rite editarum et pub- lice promulgatarum que incipiunt "Altissimus-de terra," &c,, tenore et effectu, ac ad quem secundum eas onus constructionis et reparationis capellarum nostre Diocesis distinctas habentium par ochias debeat pertinere, ut intelleximus, ab aliquibus hesitetur, nos ad omnem inde dubietatis scrupidum amovendum universitati vestre innotescimus per presentes, quod inter cetera in eisdem constitutionibus salubriter ordinata sub titulo seu rubrica de EcclesUs capellis et oratoriis construeudis et reparandis, specia Uter sic cavetur et statuitur sub hUs verbis : ^ " Ad hoc onus constructionis et reparacionis cancel] i matricis Ecclesie ad ipsius Ecclesie rectorem ; navis vero Ecclesie ad parochianos volumus et precipimus pertinere, consuetudine contraria non obstante ; verum onus capelle, que distinctam habet parochiam, ad ipsos capelle parochianos totaUter pertinebit; eo quod ob ipsorum ' Brantyngham's ' Eegister,' vol, i. fol, 13 b. 2 Wilkins, ' Concilia,' vol. ii, p. 137, Sinodi Exoniensis, cap. SL 454 APPENDIX. favorem et comodum sunt constructe et nihUominus matrici Ecclesie, si refectione indiguerit, juxta disoretionem locorum Archidiaconoram ipsos decernimus subvenire." Quas quidem constitutiones sinodales novimus fuisse et esse a clero et populo nostre diocesis admissas et approbatas ac hactenus pacifice obser- vatas, casque et premissa in eis contenta, juxta predictorum ver borum seriem et effectum, a subditis nostris volumus nostris temporibus firmiter observari. Super quibus ad omnium quorum interest notitiam, veritati testimonium perhibemus per has Uteras nostras patentes sigiUi nostri munimine roboratas. Datum in Palacio nostro Exonie, &c., xv die Septembris, 1371. [This Council was held at Exeter 12th April, 1287.] PAEDON BY KING EICHAED II. To Bishop Bbantyngham for the Escape of Seven Clerks, convicted Felons, from the Prison within the Palace of the Biahop of Exeter. SOth Sept. 1389. EiCAEDUS Dei gratia Eex AngUe et Francie et Diis Hibernie, omnibus ad quos presentes Utere pervenerint, Sal. Sciatis q'* de gra nra speciali et ad supplicationem Ven. in Xto Patris Epi Wyntoii CancellarU nri, Epi Menevensis Thes. nri, necnon Comitis Northumb. consanguinei nri et aUorum, de consUio nro perdonavimus Thome Epo Exon escapia Nichi Hopworthy, Johis Hennely — aUas dei Columpton, Stephani Telyng de Drogdaa, Simonis Whyte de Dordraght, Thome de Westowe de Hareforde, Johannis EusseU de Penard in WaUia, felonum et clericorum convictorum; et commissario predicti Episcopi Exoniensis loci ordinarii, Uberatorum secundum legem regni nostri extra prisonam ipsius Episcopi Exoniensis infra palacium suum Exon die Martis proxima post Festum Assump cionis beate Marie ultimo preteritum prisonam predictam noctanter fregerant, et ibidem quendam Simonem Prescote capeUanum et custodem dicti palacii, et Thomam janitorem ejusdem felonice interfecerunt, et quendam Thomam de la Chambre Garderober et ipsum graviter vulneraverunt et pro mortuo reUquerunt et cameras eorum depredati fuerunt et sic ut dicitur evaserunt et quicquid ad nos pertinet pro escapUs supra dictis. In cujus rei testimonium has Uteras nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium, tercio die Sep tembris, anno regni nostri tercio decimo [1389]. Per breve de private sigUlo. Faeyngdon. CHAETEES, &c. 455 SECOND PAEDON BY KING EICHAED II. To Bishop Beantynqham, imder similar circumstances. llth Dec. 1393. EiCAEDus Dei gratia Eex Anglie et Francie et Dominus Hibernie, omnibus ad quos presentes Utere pervenerint, Salutem. Sciatis, quod cum Johannes Brown capellanus, Johannes Yunde- brok capellanus, Johannes Eussell de Penard, Warinus Pen- gheUy, WilUelmus Elys, Eobertus Hesyl, et Henricus Eiche, felones et clerici convicti, et per justiciarios nostros commissario venerabUis patris Thome [Brantyngham] Episcopi Exonienis, ut ordinario, liberati, secundum legem regni nostri AngUe custo- diendi, die Sabbati proxima ante Festum Sancti Clementis ultimo preteriti, noctanter evaserint extra prisonam ipsius Episcopi infra palacium suum Exonie ut accepimus; Nos de gratia nostra speciali pardonavimus predicto Thome Episcopo evasiones pre dictorum Johannis, Johannis, Johannis, Warini, WUlielmi, Eoberti, et Henrici, et quicquid ad nos pertinet pro evasionibus supradictis ; Nolentes, quod predictus Episcopus vel aUquis alius, occasione evasionum illarum vel alicujus earundem, per nos vel heredes nostros seu ministros nostros quoscumque, futuris tem poribus impetatur in aUquo seu gravetur. In cujus rei testimo nium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium xj die Decembris, anno regni nostri decimo septimo [1393]. Per .breve de private sigUlo. Fabyngton. CANON LANGTON'S WILL.' In Dei nomine. Amen. Vicesimo nono die mensis Januarii, anno Domini millesimo cccc"". tercio decimo in manerio reverendi in Christo Patris et Domini Domini Ed.mundi Dei gracia Exoniensis Episcopi apud Clyst Exoniensis diocesis. Ego WiUielmus Langeton personaliter existens sanus mente condo testamentum meum meam ultimam continens voluntatem in hunc modum. Imprimis lego animam meam Deo omnipotenti Creatori meo et corpus meum sacre sepulture sepeliendum in Ecclesia CathedraU Exonie' ex parte dextera vel sinistra tumbe ' Extracted from Bishop Stafford's Eegister, vol. i. versus calcem. 2 This tomb (as was frequently the case) was erected many years before the bishop's death, whioh happened on Srd September, 1419. The alabaster efSgy is evidently a later work than the tomb, and the bishop's face was clearly taken from a cast made after his death. The foundation of the bishop's obit at the altar of St. John the Evangelist, near the Lady's Chapel, in the cathedral, ia dated Crediton, 10th October, 1408. See his ' Register,' vol. ii. fol. 281. 456 APPENDIX, reverendi Patris Domini mei Domini Edmundi Episcopi Exonie antedicti. Item lego Ecclesie CathedraU Exonie quinque libros videlicet corpus juris civilis quod habui ex dono Magistri Thome Stafford ponendum et cathenandum in libraria Ecclesie antedicte ibidem perpetuo remansuram. Item lego Ecclesie parochiali de WeUys juxta Walsyngham Norvicensis diocesis unum Missale unum Ordinale et unum librum pupUla oculi nuncupatum necnon unum par vestimentorum videlicet pro presbitero, diacono, et sub diacono cum una capa ejusdem secte emendum per executores meos ad valorem decem librarum. Item lego Ecclesie paro chiali de Eokeby Conventriensis et Lichfieldensis diocegis unum par vestimentorum tantum pro presbitero emendum per execu tores meos ad valorem XL^ Item lego Ecclesie de Warbytton Cicestriensis diocesis unum par vestimentorem emendum per exe cutores meos ad valorem XL^ Item lego Ecclesie CoUegiate de Boseham ejusdem diocesis unum par vestimentorum ad valorem XLs. emendum per executores meos ut supra. Item lego Ecclesie parochiali de Wysbergh diocesis antedicte unum par vestiment orum valoris XL', emendum p^ executores meos. Item lego Ecclesie Collegiate de Otery Sancte Marie unum par vestiment orum valoris XL^ emendum per executores meos et eidem Ecclesie Uberandum si ipsius Ecclesie canonici meos executores de capa juxta ordinaciones et statuta ipsius Ecclesie racione prebende mee ibidem dimittenda exonerare voluerint, alioquin ipsum legatum adimo. Item lego ad fabricam navis Ecclesie CoUegiate Sancte Crucis Crediton, jam fere ad terram prostrate, omnes fractus redditus et proventus ac emolumenta quecumque racione prebende mee de Prastecomb in eadem, tempore mortis mee michi debitos et juxta discrecionem executorum meorum leva- bilia per eosdem levanda ac quam cito comode poterint ad opus predictum liberanda, ultra debita si qua a me debeantur Ecclesie Collegiate predicte, juxta ipsius Ecclesie statuta racione prebende mee antedicte. Item lego Ecclesie parochiali de Southpole Exoniensis diocesis unum par vestimentorum pro presbitero cum una capa emendum per executores meos ad valorem LVXl^ VIII*. Item volo quod inter pauperes parochianos Ecclesie mee de Wellys predicte distribuantur 66s. 8d. juxta meorum execu torum discrecionem. Item inter pauperes parochianos Ecclesie de Wysbergh xx^ et inter pauperes parochianos prebende mee de Westbrok xx^ ac inter pauperes parochianos prebende quondam mee de Appeldurham xx^ necnon inter pauperes parochianos Ecclesie de Warbylton xx^ et inter pauperes parochianos Ecclesie mee_ de SoUthpole xx^ juxta meorum executorum dis crecionem distribuantur. Item lego WUlielmo Pole unum ciphum argenteum cum suo cooperculo habentem tres pedes ad sunilitudinem trium_leonum. Item lego Domino Johanni Wylie capellano ad orandum pro anima mea et animabus omnium CHAETEES, &c. 457 fidelium defunctorum 20s. necnon unam jupam cum capicio. Item lego capellanis et clericis eciam pueris capelle Domini ™6i_Exoniensis c^ inter eosdem dividendos. Item lego ceteris famUiaribus Domini mei predicti C. Item lego Johanni Arderne unum ciphum argenteum cum cooperculo in cujus coopercuU summitate sculpta sunt arma mea. Item lego Margarete uxori Johanni Arderne unam jupam de scarleto cum sua furrura. Item residuum omnium bonoram meorum superius non lega torum lego executoribus meis infrascriptis ut ipsi primo de eodem residue per duos vel tres annos WilUelmo Portour filiolo meo ad scolas subveniant : postea remanens de residuo distribuatur pro anime mee salute et animabus omnium fidelium defunctorum-. Et ad istud testamentum fideliter exequendum ordino facio et constituo executores meos magistrum Johannem Schute vicarium Ecclesie parochiaUs de Peyngton et Johannem Arderne armigerum. Datum loco die mense et anno Domini supradictis. The Testator died the same day. The Will was proved before Bishop Stafford at Clyst on 7th February, 1413-14, hy the said John Schute and John Arderne, Esq., the Executors, and the property sworn not to exceed 211Z. lis. Q^d. APPEOB ATION OP BISHOP LACY'S OEPICE OP ST. EAPHAEL.' Univeesis Sancte Matris Ecclesie filiis ad quos presentes littere pervenerint, Thomas Gascoigne, sacre Theologie, Magister almeque TJniversitatis Oxoniensis Cancellarius, Salutem in Domino sempiternam. Umversitati vestre tenore presentium innotescimus, quod cum nos ad examinandum quoddam Sancti Eaphaelis ArchangeU servicium, per reverendum in Christo Patrem et Dominum Dominum Edmundum Exoniensem Epis copum editum et compositum, una cum infrascriptis in Sacra Theologia Magistiis, videlicet, Henrico Severo, Eicardo Chester, Christianissimi principis Eegis nostri Anglie capeUanis, Eoberto Thwaytis, Johanne Burnebe, et WiUielmo Dowsyn, per Johan nem Suetesham predicte Ecclesie ExoiUensis CanceUarium sacreque Theologie Magistrum et in hac examinacione Aposto lice Sedis legatum specialiter ad examinandum officium pre dictum, sex aliis Magistris in Theologia sibi assumptis, deputatum prout in litteris Apostolicis inde confectis plenius continetur, specialiter rogati fuerimus, et assumpti ; predictum officium tam litteram quam spiritum circumspeximus et diligenter exa,min- avimus, nee aliquid Scripture sacre dissonum ant canonicis insti- tucionibus contrarium invenimus obviare. Quamobrem, auctori tate Apostolica in hac parte commissa supradicti Eaphaelis Arch- ' Eeferrcd fo ante, p, 102, 458 APPENDIX. angeU servicium, Catholicum in Summeque Trinitatis honorem beatorum quoque laudem, et specialiter predicti Sancti EaphaeUs ArchangeU, ac ad incrementum et augmentacionem Christiane devocionis necnon in auxilium et relevamen Ecclesie miUtantis institutum fore decernimus, et quilibet nostram decernit per presentes. In quoram omnium testimonium nos Thomas Gas coigne Cancellarius antedictus sigillum officU nostri hujusmodi presentibus duximus apponendum. Et eas per Magistrum Eogerum Keys, Canonicum dicte Ecclesie Exoniensis, notarium publicum, scribi ejusque subscriptione et signo requisivimus com- muniri. Presentibus tunc ibidem Johanne Bobych et Johanne Page litteratis, Exoniensis Bathoniensis et Wellensis diocesium, testibus ad prernissa vocatis et rogatis. Datum decimo quarto die mensis Junii, anno Domini miUesimo cccc"° xliiij'"- [The seal of the Chancellor is affixed, hut is much injured.] POUNDATION OP BISHOP STAPPOED'S CHANTEY. 1st October, 1488. Ordinacio Cantabie Edmundi Stafford in Ecclesia Exoniensi.' Univeesis Sancte Matris Ecclesie filiis presentes litteras in specturis Edmundus miseracione Divina Exoniensis Episcopus, Salutem in Domiuo sempiternam. Presentis vite condicio statum habet instabilem, et ea que visibUem habent essensiam tendimt visibiliter ad non esse : quod nos salubriter cogitantes et ea racione diem nostre peregrinacionis extremum salubri dis- posicione, et presertim oblacione Divini Corporis in altari et oracionibus sacerdotum que inter humana presidia que post solutum universe carnis debitum mortuis ministratur princi- puum locum obtinent, et alus pietatis opibus prout continetur inferius decrevimus prevenire: sane cum exceUentissimus in Christo Princeps et Dominus noster Dominus Henricus Dei gracia Eex Anglie et Francie Ulustrissimus a conquestu AngUe quartus dUectis nobis WUUelmo Ekerdon^ et Edmundo Elyot clericis ac Eoberto Grey per suas litteras patentes licenciam con cesserit specialem, quod ipsi possint manerium de Wynterborn Wast, Bokhampton et Swanewych cum pertinenciis in comitatu Dorset ac advocacionem Ecclesie dicte viUe de Wynterborn Wast, que de ipso Domino Eege tenentur in capite, dUectis nobis in Christo filiis nostris Decano et Capitulo Ecclesie nostri Cathe dralis Beati Petri Exonie dare concedere et assignare, habendum et tenendum eisdem Decano et Capitulo et successoribus suis ad 1 Bishop Stafford's ' Register,' vol. ii. proved 4th December next ensuing fol- 281 b. See it in Bp. Stafford's ' Register,' vol. i. 2 William Ekerdon's will (Canon of ad finem. Exuter), made Sth November, 1413, was CHAETEES, &c. 459 ^^If'^l^^'^"™ tres capeUanos divina quolibet die in Elcclesia cathedraU predicta, tam pro salubri statu dicti exceUentissimi in Christo Principis Domini Henrici antedicti ac filiorum suorum dnm vixerint, et pro animabus suis cum ab hac luce migraverint, quam pro salubri statu nostro ac Humfridi de Stafford mUitis consanguinei nostri dum vixerimus, et pro animabus nostris cum ab hac luce migraverimus, aceciam pro am'mabus omnium fidelium defunctorum, et ad quemdam obitum quoUbet anno post mortem nostram et Humfridi antedicti in predicta Ecclesia cathedraU tenendum et celebrandum, et ad alia onera ac pietatis opera facienda et supportanda, juxta nostram ordinacionem in hac parte faciendam imperpetuum, prout in eisdem litteris patentibus prefati Domini Eegis inde confectis plenius con tinetur ; cumque subsequenter .prefati WUUelmus Ekerdon et Edmundus Elyot ac Eobertus Grey dictum manerium de Wynterborn Wast, Bokhampton et Swanwych cum pertinenciis prefatis Decano et Capitulo dederint, concesserint et assigna- verint juxta dictarum litterarum regiarum exigenciam et effec tum, prout in cartis et Utteris per precUctos WUlielmum, Edmund- dum et Eobertum prefatis Decano et Capitulo in ea parte factis plenarie poterit apparere; Nos igitur Edmundus Episcopus antedictus virtute concessionis et assignacionis precUcte ad ordinacionem super premissis faciendam juxta exigenciam litter arum regiarum predictarum procedere cupientes, ad divini cultus augmentum prefatis Ecclesie nostre Exoniensis ac Decano et Capitulo ejusdem onera subscripta in dicta nostra Ecclesia Exoniensi sub modo et forma inferius annotatis supportanda, in honore Jhesu Christi Virginisque Marie genitricis ejusdem ac Apostolorum Petri et PaiUi patronorum nostrorum in quorum nomine et honore dicta Ecclesia Cathedralis Exonie dedicata consistit, indicimus perpetuis futuris temporibus inviolabiliter ob servanda: volentes imprimis et ordinantes, quod prefati Decanus et Capitulum imperpetuum de et cum redditibus et proventibus prefati manerii de Wynterborn Wast, Bokhampton et Swanwych cum pertinenciis, quod in rei veritate nostris industria et laboribus mediantibus de et cum bonis patrimonialibus et de pecuUo nostro ad utUitatem nostram fuerat et est adquisitum, duos presbiteros honestos et ydoneos annivellarios Edmundi de Stafford Episcopi nuncupandos, vicariam in choro dicte Ecclesie nostoe Exoniensis aut aliud beneficicium Ecclesiasticum niU- latenus obtinentes nee salarium seu stipendium aliunde perci- pientes, per ipsos Decanum et Capitulum admissos et constitutos habere, invenire et sustinere imperpetuum teneantur, missas ad altare Sancti Johannis Evangeliste juxta capeUam Beate Marie in eadem Ecclesia cum ad hoc dispositi fuerint, cotidie et continue simUi tamen modo intelUgendum celebrantes et alia divina officia una cum Placebo et Dirige ac Commendacione 460 APPENDIX. Animarum diebus singuUs quibus secundum Ordinale Sararn Exequias Mortuorum dici et celebrari est institutum, pro salubri statu nostro ac Humfridi de Stafford antedicti et Elizabethe consortis ejusdem dum vixerimus et vixerint, ac pro salute et requie anime nostre cum in fata decesserimus, ac animarum Eicardi de Stafford mUitis patris nostri, et Isabelle consortis ejusdem, matris nostre, aceciam Eadulphi de Stafford avunculi nostri quondam comitis Stafford, necnon pro animabus dictorum Humfridi et Elizabethe cum ab hac luce migraverint, necnon pro salubri statu iUustrissimi Principis Domini Henrici Eegis antedicti et filiorum suoram dum vixerint, et pro animabus suis cum ab hac luce migraverint, aceciam pro animabus predeces sorum et successorum nostrorum et omnium fideUum defunc torum dicentes. Et si in premissis dicti presbiteri fuerint negUgentes aut remissi, volumus et ordinamus quod ipsi per Decanum et Capitulum in ea parte coherceantur et aUo quo cunque modo legitimo juxta ipsorum Decani et Capituli dis crecionem debite puniantur, ac in eadem Ecclesia habitum chori decentem ferentes et ministrantes in eadem, ad modum alioram presbiterorum anniveHariorum et sicut alU presbiteri annivel- larU facere tenentur ad solempne divini cultus augmentum et numeri ministrorum Ecclesie supradicte, eruntque presbiteri hujusmodi obedienciarii dictorum Decaiu et CapituU sicut alU presbiteri anniveUarU ejusdem Ecclesie, et ad hanc nostram ordinacionem presertim observandum, erunt in sua admissione astricti vinculo juramenti. Et cum dicti duo presbiteri obierint aut eorum alter obierit seu aUquo modo cesserint vel cesserit aut quocioque modo dictum statum suum dimiserint seu dimis- erit aliasve inydonei seu inhabUes effect! fuerint seu fuerit, et dicti Decanus et Capitulum alios presbiteros ydoneos infra mensem post vacacionem status aUcujus presbiterorum predic torum proxime sequentem non elegerint, admiserint et consti- tuerint, extunc liceat nobis et successoribus nostris successive singulis vicibus quum sic contigerit, de Ulis presbiteris et eorum quolibet absque difficultate quaUbet providere, contradiccione dictorum Decani et Capituli non obstante. Percipiet autem annuatim imperpetuum uterque presbiteroram nostrorum pre dictorum ab eisdem Decano et Capitulo centum solidos sterling orum ad terminos usuales et porcionem de siuguUs obitibus in dicta Ecclesia sicut aUi Ecclesie presbiteri anniveUarU quociens contingere dinoscuntnr. Onus vero invencionis et sustentacionis libri Missalis, caUcis, vestimentorum et aUorum ornamentorum altaris ac panis vini et Inminis pro dictis presbiteris celebraturis ad dictos Decanum et Capitulum pertinebit, dummodo nos Exoniensis Episcopus hujusmodi librum Missalem et ornamenta necessaria et competencia pro hujusmodi capellanis semel in- veniemus prima vice: supradicti quoque presbiteri temnoro CHAETEES, &c. 461 admissionis eorundem coram Decano et Capitulo predicto securitatem sufficientem et ydoneam de Ubris vestimentis et ornamentis hujusmodi non alienandis sed bene et fideUter custodiendis et de eisdem cum per partem eorum Decani et Capituli fuerint requisiti integre restituendis invenire teneantur, insuper attendentes, quod in dicta Ecclesia nostra cathedrali in qua permittente Domino presidemus, circa festum Sancti Lam berti minorum obituum est concursus, ideo quocumque tempore anni nostri corporis dissolucionem attulerit sors humana, volumus et ordinamus quod dies obitus nostri et dictorum Humfridi ac EUzabethe anniversarius in die Sancti Lamberti in dicta Ecclesia nostra Exoniensi singulis annis extunc perpetuo solempniter celebretur, et quod Decanus et Capitulum ante- dictum singulis annis eodem die solvant et solvere teneantur cuiUbet canonico ejusdem Ecclesie presenti in officus dicendis Placebo et Dirige cum Commendacione Animarum ac Missa solempni de Eequiem in die duodecun denarios sterUngorum, culibet vicario sic presenti sex denarios, cuilibet presbitero anni- veUario sio presenti tres denarios, cuUibet clerico de secunda forma sic interessenti tres denarios, ac cuilibet puero choriste duos denarios, necnon principali clerico scaccarii octo'denarios, et secundo clerico scaccarU quatuor denarios, aceciam custoribus Ecclesie pro classico et pulsacione campanarum ac labore eorum in exequiis hujusmodi duodecim denarios. Et thesaurario pro duobus cereis ac aUis luminaribus tempore Placebo et Dirige ac misse ut moris est in alus obitibus Episcoporum arsuris, octo denarios. Item volentes quod singuUs annis quamdiu vitam gerimus humanam in dicta Ecclesia Exoniensi, nostri et dictorum Humfridi et Elizabethe memoria speciaUter habeatur, ordinamus quod dicto die Sancti Lamberti una Missa de Sancta Trinitate singulis annis quamdiu vixerimus pro salubri statu nostro et dictorum Humfridi et EUzabethe solempniter celebretur, quo quidem die canonici vicarii et ceteri ministri ipsius Ecclesie qui in celebracione dicte Misse personaUter presentes fuerint tantum percipient quantum superius ordinatur in die obitus memorati : ceterum quia justum fore arbitramur, ut decrescentibns facul tatibus dicti manerii, decrescant et onera ejus pretextu indicta idcirco ordinamus et volumus per presentes, quod si quod absit contigerit in futurum dictum manerium de Wynterborn Wast, Bokhampton et Swanwych cum pertinenciis in comitatu Dorset ab eisdem Decano et Capitulo absque eorum dole, culpa seu negUgencia quovismodo evinci in toto, quod extunc predicti Decanus et Capitulum ad invencionem et sustentacionem dic torum duorum presbiterorum seu aUa onera supradicta nulla tenus teneantur, quodque eciam si contingat imposterum litem contra eosdem,Decanum et Capitulum, de et super dicto manerio de Wynterborn Wast, Bokhampton et Swanwyche cum pertinen- 462 , APPENDIX. ciis quovismodo moveri, aut redditus et proventus dicti manerii per epidemiam aut mortalitatem hominum seu alium quemcum- que casum fortuitum, absque ipsorum Decani et Capituli dolo, culpa seu negUgencia taliter decrescere seu quomodolibet deperire, sic quod hujusmodi redditus et proventus non sufficiant ad soluci onem sumptuum litis per ipsos Decanum et Capitulum apponen- dorum, et ad supportacionem aUorum onerum predictorum, quod pro tempore hujusmodi Utis dependentis et casuum sic contin- gencium, fiat per eosdem Decanum et Capitulum cum consUio Episcopi Exoniensis qui pro tempore fuerit, pro rata porcione diminucio de omnibus supradictis. Item ordinamus quod prefati Decanus et Capitulum eorumque successores de cum fructibus redditibus et proventibus dicte Ecclesie de Winterborn Wast cujus Ecclesie advocacio de et cum Bonis prefati Humfridi de Stafford et ad ipsius utUitatem fuerat adquisita quamcito dicta Ecclesia eisdem Decano et Capitulo et eorum successoribus sumptibus et expensis supradicti Humfridi fuerit canonice appro priata, unita et incorporata et in proprios usus suos perpetuo possidenda concessa et ea occasione fuerint, Udem Decanus et Capitulum in pacifica possessione perceptionis fructuum et pro ventuum ejusdem et eosdem percipere poterunt et habere et eisdem gaudere pacifice et quiete, salva congrua porcione vicarii perpetui in eadem ad presentacionem dictorum Decani et CapituU per loci diocesanum canonice instituendi quod extunc invenient tercium capellanum annivellarium, honestum et ydoneum anniveUarium Humfridi de Stafford nuncupandum vicariam in Ecclesia nostra Cathedrali antedicta nuUatenus optinentem nee alibi beneficiatum vel salarium aliunde per- cipientem per ipsos Decanum et Capitulum electum admissum et constitutum invenire et sustinere conformiter imperpetuum teneantur, Missas ad prefatum altare Sancti Johannis Evangeliste et duo alu presbiteri nostri cotidie celebrantem et alia divina in eadem Ecclesia Cathedrali Exoniensi pro salubri statu nostro et dictoram Humfridi et Elizabethe dum vixerimus et vixerint, et pro animabus nostris cum ab hac luce migraverimus et migrave rint necnon pro animabus consanguineoram nostroram dum vixerint videlicet Eadulphi de Stafford et Hugonis de Stafford et Hugonis de Stafford quondam comitum Staffordie, aceciam pro animabus Johannis de Stafford mUitis et Margarete con sortis ejusdem parentum prefati Humfridi miUtis, ac pro salubri statu Domini Henrici Eegis antedicti et fiUorum suorum dum vixerint et pro animabus suis cum ab hac luce migraverint et pro animabus omnium fidelium defunctorum cotidie dicentem et celebrantem ac habitum chori in eadem Ecclesia deferentem et ministrantem in eadem sub obediencia Decani et Capituli sicut duo presbiteri annivellarii antedicti. Et cum dictus presbiter obierit seu aliquo modo cesserit aut quocumque modo statum CHAETEES, &o. 463 suum hujusmodi dimisserit aliasve inydoneus seu inhabUis effectus fuerit et dicti Decanus et Capitulum alium presbiter ydoneus infra mensem post vacacionem status dicti presbiteri proximo^ sequentem non elegerint admiserint et constituerint extunc liceat nobis et successoribus nostris successive quum sic contigerit de illo presbitero absque difficultate aliqua providere contradictione dictorum Decani et CapituU non obstante percipiet autem annuatim imperpetuum prefatus presbiter de proventibus dicte Ecclesie cum- ut prefertm* appropriata fuerit ab eisdem Decano et Capitulo centum solidos ad terminos supradictos et porcionem de singulis obitibus dicte Ecclesie Cathedralis Exonie sicut alii presbiteri anniveUarU ejusdem Ecclesie quociens con tingere dinoscuntur dies vero obitus anniversarius prefatorum Humfridi et Elizabethe quocumque tempore obierunt in eadem Ecclesia nostra (cathedraU) Exoniensi in crastino Sancti Lamberti singuUs annis imperpetuum celebretur. In quorum Humfridi et Elizabethe anniversario pro anima nostra ac animabus con sanguineoram nostiorum predictorum videlicet Eadulphi de Stafford, Hugonis, Johannis et Margarete consortis ejusdem Johannis, parentum prefati Humfridi militis, memoria fiat speciaUs cum oracionibus et suffragiis congruis et consuetis. Decanus quoque et Capitulum antedictum singulis annis eodem die in crastino videUcet Sancti Lamberti de proventibus Ecclesie de Wynterborn Wast antedicte cuiUbet canonico ejusdem Ecclesie Exonie presenti et interessenti in exequiis mortuorum videlicet Placebo et Dirige cum Commendacione Animarum et Missa solempni de Eequiem ibidem dicenda intra Misse hujusmodi solempnia octo denarios et cuiUbet vicario sic presenti quatuor denarios, cuUibet presbitero annivellario duos denarios, cuilibet clerico de secunda forma sic interessenti duos denarios, cuilibet puero choriste unum denarium ac principali clerico scaccarii sex denarios et secundo clerico quatuor denarios necnon custoribus Ecclesie pro classico et pulsacione campanarum ac labore eorum in exequUs hujusmodi octo denarios et thesaurario pro duobus cereis circa 4umulum ejusdem Humfridi si in eadem Ecclesia nostra sepultus fuerit aUoquin circa formulam pallio mortuorum coopertam quam juxta tumulum nostrum in pavimento in ejus memoriam exponi volumus et coUocari ac aliis luminaribus ea occasione tunc arsuris octo denarios solvere teneantur ; onus autem invencionis MissaUs, caUcis, vestimentorum, panis, vini et luminis pro tercio presbitero hujusmodi ad ipsos Decanum et Capitulum sub modo tamen et forma prelibatis spectabit imperpetuum. Ordinamus insuper et volumus quod si dicta Ecclesia de Wyiiter- born Wast appropriata non fuerit Decano et Capitulo antedictis aut quod absit contingerit in futurum hujusmodi appropriacionem unionem incorporacionem et annexionem dicte Ecclesie paro chiaUs de Wynterborn Wast semel factam dissolvi quomodohbet 464 APPENDIX. seu cassari vel eciam infirmari aut ipsam Ecclesiam ab eisdem Decano et Capitulo absque ipsorum dolo culpa seu negUgencia quovismodo evinci quod extunc predicti Decanus et Capitulum ad invencionem et sustentacionem dicti tercii presbiteri seu aUa onera supradicta pretextu ejusdem Ecclesie de Wynterborn Wast per nos inposita et indicta nuUatenus teneantur quodque eciam si contingat imposterum Utem contra eosdem Decanum et Capitulum de et super eadem Ecclesia de Wynterborn Wast seu jure patronatus ipsius aut eciam occasione unionis et appro priacionis predicte quovismodo moveri aut fructus redditus et proventus ejusdem Ecclesie per epidemiam seu moiiaUtatem hominum aut alium quemcumque casum fortuitu absque ipsorum Decani et CapituU dolo, culpa seu negUgencia taliter decrescere seu quomodoUbet deperire sic quod hujusmodi fructus et pro ventus non sufficiant ad solucionem sumptuum circa defensionem hujusmodi Utis per ipsos Decanum et Capitulum apponendorum et ad supportacionem aliorum onerum predictorum quod pro tempore hujusmodi Utis dependentis et casuum sic contingentium fiat per eosdem Decanum et Capitulum cum consiUo Episcopi Exonie qui pro tempore fuerit pro rata porcione diminucio de omnibus supradictis nunc tercium et obitum dictorum Hum fridi et EUzabethe tangentibus. Proviso semper quod licet forte decrescant fructus et emolumenta Ecclesie hujusmodi appro priate : nulla tamen ob hoc fiat defalcacio de stipendiis duorum presbiterorum nostrorum aut anniversarU nostri antedicti quos in fructibus et proventibus dicti manerii separatim et per se absque Ecclesia hujusmodi stabUivimus et stabUimus per presentes: habeant eciam iidem presbiteri anniveUarU veram copiam pre sentis nostre ordinacionis in principio aut in fine Ubri MissaUs predicti conscriptam ut occulata fide legere valeant formam juramenti sui prestiti et inteUigere pro quibus orandi debitores existunt. Que omnia et singula ut superius recitantur per pre fatos Decanum et CapitiUum ac presbiteros anniveUarios memoratos quatenus eos divisim tangunt et concernunt volumus et ordinamus per presentes firmiter observari. -Salva nobis quamdiu viserimus et speciaUter reservata libera facultate premissa omnia et singula si et quando opus fuerit et nobis placuerit, cum consensu dictorum Decani et Capituli, dedarandi interpretandi, corrigendi, supplendi, et addendi quoque ad eadem, et diniinuendi ab eisdem, condicionibus tamen modis et pro- testacionibus ceteris substanciaUbus premissis in suo semper robore duraturis. In quorum omnium testimonium atque fidem presentem nostram ordinacionem in tiibus membranis separatim conscriptam, quarum unam penes Decanum et Capitulum pre dictos in eorum thesauraria, alteram vero penes nostros suc cessores Exonienses Episcopos in eorum archivis, et terciam penes heredes nostros remanere volumus sigiUi nostri appensione CHAETEES, &o. 465 fecunus communiri. Datum in manerio noStro Criditon, primo die mensis Octobris, anno Domini miUesimo quadringentesimo octavo, et nostre consecracionis anno quarto decimo. Et nos Decanus et Capitulum Ecclesie CathedraUs Exonie premissa omnia et singula per reverendum in Christo Patrem Dominum Edmundum preUbatum acta gesta et recitata col- laudamus et quantum ad nos attinet admittimus ac eisdem nostrum prebemus consensum pariter et assensum. Onera quoque premissa sub modo tamen forma et condicionibus supra- scriptis suscipimus. Eaque omnia et singula juxta formam in prefatis litteris traditam cum effectu adimplere et observare ex certa nostra sciencia promittimus per presentes. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostram commune presentibus apposuimus. Datum in domo nostra capitulari, secundo die mensis Octobris, anno Domini miUesimo quadringentesimo octavo supradicto. STATUTA ET OEDINACIONES EEVEEENDI PATEIS HUGONIS, Exon. Episcopi. a.d. 1511. In primis statuimus quod omnes in eadem Ecclesia nostra Ca thedrali Ministri Presentes observent et plenarie custodiant Usum et Modum dicendi Horas Canonicas secundum Directorium et Ordinale Sarum. Proviso tamen quod omnia Festa que per specialem Ordinacionem certis Temporibus celebrari soient nec non Exequie Mortuorum, Martirologia, Lecciones tam de Tempore quam de Sanctis et cetera Cerimonialia deinceps ut prius per omnes Ecclesie Vicarios Annivellarios aliosque Ministros quando et quocienscunque infra Ecclesiam nostram Cathedralem pre dictam solempniter officiantes fuerint, integraliter custodiantur. Quibus inferioribus Ecclesie Ministris predictis Injungendo mandamus quatenus Custumarium quatii ad Tempus intrandi et exeundi Chorum fideUter custodiatur, ut simul in Choro sint psallentes omni frivola excusatione postposita, Secun darns tantum exceptis quando intersunt Scolis grammaticalibus vel Scolis cantus. Quibus de Consensu Decani et CapituU concedimus per Presentes ordinamus quod decetero habeant consueta Feoda pro Installacione et Inductione Dignitatum et Canonicorum Ecclesie Cathedralis predicte debita olim Decano seu President! pro Tempore existente. Et quod nullus in Secundarium admit- tatur ante decimum octavium etatis sue annum. Ulteeius prohibemus ne Vicarii aut AnnueUarii Missas celebrent Tempore Processionis vel alte Misse seu "aUo Tempore presertim quando deficit Numeras Ministrorum in Choro PsaUentium, Neque supra dicto Tempore extra Ecclesiam Obitibus intersint Defunctorum, Nee infra Chorum auriculariter confiteantur vel submissa Voce 2 H 466 APPENDIX. in parvis Libris sive cum Preculis sine justa causa orare per- mittantur. Peeteeea Vicariis specialiter inhibemus ne Eitum suum perpetuo dimittere presumant nisi per unum anni quarte rium Decano seu President! iUud prius denunciaverint sub Pena Amissionis totalis Commodi quod sibi debetur pro Tempore supradicto, AnnueUarUs eciam omnibus precipimus quatenus Missas cursorie et successive celebrent secundum Statuta et Tabulam inde factam sub Pena unius Denarii quociens peccave- rint infigenda. Quibus eciam precipimus quod in singulis Missis in Choro solempniter celebrandis Epistolam cantent preterquam in Festis principalibus et in Majoribus Duplicibus quando Vicarius ad Epistolam intitulatur ceteraque facient que ad Offi cium Subdiaconi in Ecclesia quotidie dinoscuntur pertinere in hac Parte. Peeteeea Custodes neque in dispari habitu infra Chorum sedere, vel extra Cameras sine legitima causa infra Ecclesiam pro eisdem, antiquitus edfficatas jacere permittantur. Et eisdem ulterius precipimus quatenus solitas Pulsationes ad Horas Canonicas debita Forma faciant. Peoveso quod ad Ma tutinas et ad Vesperas in FerUs et Festis cum Eegimine Chori vel sine tantomodo loco tempore Pulsacionis quotidiane faciant sexaginta aut plures Tintinaciones cum majori campana de tribus minoribus in AustraU Turre dependentibus. Et simiU modo in Festis principalibus et Majoribus Duplicibus post terciam Pulsacionem dictas faciant Tintinaciones, quibus finitis sequatur statim completa Pulsacio cum aUis Campanis more solito pulsanda. Et accensis Luminaribus statim incipiatur Divinum Officium. Custodibus insuper speciaUter inhibemus ne sine Decreto CapituU Vestimenta aut aUqua Ecclesie Ornamenta accomodare presumant extra Ecclesiam. Sed precipimus quod predicta omnia iu Vestibule super Perticas et non in Domo inferiori per eosdem melius coUocentur. De Quibus omnibus et ceteris Bonis Ecclesie universis, que omnia ad Thesaurarii Custodiam pertinere dinoscuntur, fieri volumus Inventarium inter Capitulum et ipsum Thesaurarium indentatum. Insupee Clericis Scaccarii inhibemus aliquas Prepositorum aut Firmariorum Soluciones recipere nisi in presencia SenescaUorum. Quibus eciam pre cipimus quatenus coram Capitulo quolibet Termino certificent quantum distribuitur inter Ministros Ecclesie pro singulis Obiti bus in communi portand. Injungimus preterea CoUectori Eed- dituum infra Civitatem quatenus coram Capitulo semel in anno inde compotum suum ostendat. Peeteeea prohibemus ne Carte, Munimenta, Pecunie, vel Jocalia infra Ecclesiam per aU- quos extraneos siue Decreto Decani et CapituU custodienda deponantur. Statuentes quod magnus Eotulus Debitorum quoUbet anno post auditum renovandus et decetero dupUcandus in Quatemas posthac conscribatur quo facUius ad contenta in CHAETEES, &o. 467 eodem deveniri possit cujus altra Pars extra communem cistam nullatenus relinquatur. Et nichiU de solutis aut receptis in ea seribatur nisi manu Senescalloram aut Canonicorum coram Vicem gerencium. Peecipimus ulterius Janitori Clause quate- ??.s Januas et Hostia claudat a Festo Pasche usque ad Festum MichaeUs ad horam nonam, et a Festo Michaelis usque ad Festum Pasche ad horam ootavam. Et eadem ultra non ape- riet sine causa racionabUi ante Missam matutinalem de Bratton sub Pena ex arbitrio Decani et Capituli limitanda. Peeteeea cum nonnulli Ecclesie nostre Cathedralis Canonici Eesidenciarii in alia Ecclesia CathedraU simUiter residere presumant, unde contigit quod solita hospitalitate deserta sepius hinc inde dis currere coguntur ut sic vicissim hie et alibi existentes in utraque Cathedrali Cotidianas Distributiones, contra antiquas et lauda- bUes Consuetudines in Ecclesia CathedraU Exon. diucius usitatas, Nos igitiir animadvertentes quod per hujusmodi interpellatam Eesidenciam Cultus Divinus miniutur, antiqua hospitalitas tam in Ecclesia nostra CathedraU predicta quam in Ecclesiis paro- chiaUbus quibus presunt notorie violatur, et Ecclesia preterea debitis defraudatur ConsUUs pariter et ObsequUs, ut omnis igitur discurrendi Occasio eisdem adimatur, omnes et singulos in hac nostra Ecclesia Canonicos Eesidenciarios, qui decetero simiUter in aUa Ecclesia Cathedrali, uno et eodem anno, vel in aliqua Parte ibidem Eesidenciarius existit vel erit infuturo, declaramus et pronunciamus nunc et tunc et tunc pro nunc quatenus ad Ec clesiam nostram ficte residenciarios seu residenciarium per pre sentes. Vobis Decano Decano et Capitulo specialiter injun gendo mandamus, inhibentes ne aUcui Canonico seu Confratri vestro infuturo, simiUter in alia Ecclesia Cathedrali residenciarius aliquid de cotidianis Distribucionibus in Ecclesia nostra, Pretextu ficte Kesidentie sue hujusmodi, decetero persolvatis. Posteemo cum per placita tum alia diversa Onera retroactis Temporibus contingencia Distribucionum vestrarum Porciones sunt admodum diminute, et de veresimili magis erunt infuturo, cum non sit in Ecclesia predicta commune Erarium pro hujusmodi omnibus supportandis. Unde hospitalitas et cetera que ad honorem Dei in dicta Ecclesia honorifice fieri consueverunt ut ante hec Tem pera solet sustentari nequeunt, nisi provideatur de Eemedio oportuno, habito super us et a;liis in dicta nostra Visitacione de- tectis dUigenti vobiscum Tractatu, quia intelleximus ea fuisse et esse vera, Ac eciam in Convivioram et Commessacionum Sumptus, quos Canonici in Introitu Eesidencie sue Decano et Capitulo, Vicariis, et ceteris Ministris Ecclesie facere_ consueve runt ad Onera predicta supportanda applicarentur in Ecclesie Eelevamine ac Canonicorum de novo Eesidenciam intrancium Commodum cederet non modicum, Nos igitue advertentes quod tales Pastus, Convivia, et Commessationes amodo repro- ^ 2 H 2 468 APPENDIX. bantur, et quod pro ea Facultates Canonicorum inutiliteT ex- hauriuntur cum irrefrenata ambiciosa Voluptas in tantum excrevit nunc Dierum, in hujusmodi Conviviis faciendis ut quod olim cum Viginti Libris, nunc vix cum quinquaginta perfici queant tales propterea Pastus et Convivia, de cetero fieri et per vos exigi in Ecclesia CathedraU nostra predicta omnio prohibemus, Statuentes vestro unanimi consensu quod quilibet Canonicus, posthac Eesi denciam vobiscum mcepturas non antea admittatur ad eandem quam quadraginta Libras quas inutiliter in hujusmodi Commes- sacionibus esset consumpturus in Scaccario vestro deponant, quarum decem Ministris Ecclesie nostre predicte, ut eo libencius et devocius Divinis OfficUs intendant, viz. communibus Usibus CoUegii Vicariorum, quatuor Libras. Item AnnueUariis quatuor Marcas, ac Secundariis quadraginta Solidos, necnon Choristis viginti et sex Solidos et octo Denarios persolut. Eeliquam vero viz, triginta Libre ad Placita defendenda aUaque Onera com munia Ecclesie et ad nullum aUum Usum applicanda fideUter et integre convertantur. Peeteeea cum jam pridem fuerunt inter vos Canonici pro residenciariis se gerentes qui hospitali- tatem et honestam comitivam quibus Ecclesia Exon. pre ceteris Ecclesus Cathedralibus decorari consuevit propter Beneficioram suoram ExiUtatem sustentare nequeunt, Adeo quod quidam vix cum duobus Servitoribus incederint ad instar unius Vidue pau- percule in Ecclesie ac ceteroram Fratrum suorum Dedecus et Scandalum, id circo inherendo Predecessorum nostrorum Statutis contra fictos residenciarios editis cupientes honorem Ecclesie nostre predicte nostris Temporibus illibatum esse volumus et ordinamus quod nullus de cetero ad Eesidenciam in Ecclesia CathedraU predicta admittatur nisi Tempore Protestacionis et Admissionis sue habeat in Possessionibus ad Summam quadi-a- ginta Librarum omnibus Oneribus deductis de quo Fidem faciet Juramento suo. Item statuimus et ordinamus quod de cetero instaUandus aut inducendus in Ecclesia Cathedrali nostra pre dicta sive sit de quatuor Dignitatibus Archidiaconatibus vel ad Subdiaconatas Officium aut simpUcem Canonicum admissus Tempore sue Installacionis seu Induccionis coram Presidente et CapitiUo ad Sancta Dei EvangeUa. Jurabit nichUl quicquam sese petiturum aut vendicaturum a Predecessoris sui Executori bus Bonorumve Administratoribus Pretextu DUapidacionis sive sit pro Mansione ipsius decedentis seu Domibus aut EcclesUs eisdem Dignitatibus vel OfficUs annexis aut appropriatis nisi id duntaxat quod ex Decreto Presidentis et CapituU Ecclesi« Cathedralis nostre predicte sibi adjudicatum erit pro hujusmodi DUapidacione siqua fuerit. Et si contingat eundem ex De creto Presidentis et Capituli aliquid pro DUapidacione recipere quod totum id in necessarias seu utiles Eeparaciones Mansionis Domorum Bcclesiarumve predictaram infra Annum a Die Ee- CHAETEES, &c. 469 cepcionis computandum fideliter coUocabit et convertet. Vobis ni^A^ ^^ca-no seu Presidenti et Capitulo mandamus Virtute Obedientie quatenus hujusmodi DUapidaciones juxta Equitatem 01 iavore et Timore postpositis pocius in decedentis Favorem declmando moderare curetis. Item statuimus et ordinamus de Assensu et Consensu Decani et CapituU nostre Ecclesie Cathe draUs predicte quod Capellani remotim apud Topsam, Stoke, Ede, Honyngtonclyst, et Norton, peculiaris Jurisdictionis dictorum Decani et Capituli ad Animarum Curam ibidem per eosdem nominati et per Decanum admissi de cetero sint perpetui quem admodum sunt Vicarii Chorales in Ecclesia Cathedrali nostra predicta. Peedicta Ordinaciones et Statuta nostra Auctoritate et Vestro communi consensu commemorata et approbata ab omnibus Canonicis ceterisque Ecclesie Ministiis quatenus vos atque eos separatim concernunt precipimus inviolabiliter ob servari atque in Domo capitulari semel saltem in Anno per Decanum aut eo absente per Eesidentem publico et distincte legi. Omnia alia Statuta Ordinaciones et Decreta hUs contraria necnon que in Desuetudinem abierunt Tenore Presencium re vocamus et anuUamus, Per premissa tamen non intendimus Predecessorum nostrorum et Ecclesie nostre predicte Ordina- cionibus et Statutis tangentibus quatuor Dignitates in aliquo derogare vel aliquid ab eisdem detrahere sed volumus ea omnia et singula prout continentur in Ordinacionibus predictis ob servari. In CUJUS Eei Testimonium SigUlum nostrum unacum vestro communi Presentibus est appensum. FOUNDATION OP SILKE AND MOEE'S CHANTEY. Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum indentatum pervenerit, WUlielmus permissione Divina Abbas Monasterii beate Marie de Clive in Comitatu Somerset et ejusdem loci Conventus, Salutem in Domino. Sciatis nos in pia considera- cione pensantes ac in debitam recompensacionem centum et quinquaginta Ubrarum, tresdecim solidorum, et quatuor dena riorum, nobis et monasterio nostro antedicto ad pios usus dicto Monasterio et Conventui ejusdem necessaries solutarum per Thomam Michell, Clericum, Sacre Theologie Professorem, et Alnatheum Arscote, Clericum, Canonicos Ecclesie Cathedralis Sancti Petri Exonie, et Laurencium Dobell Clericum, ea mten- cione ut in Ecclesia Cathedrali predicta certa Divina servicia de cetero celebrentur pro animabus WiUielmi Silke, Clerici, nuper Canonici ac Precentoris Ecclesie Cathedralis predicte, ac Eicardi More, nuper Canonici et Thesaurarii ejusdem Ecclesie, benefac torum specialium Ecclesie antedicte ex nostro communi consensu 470 APPENDIX. pariter et assensu dedisse concessisse et hoc presenti scripto nostro indentato confirmasse Decano et Capitulo Ecclesie Cathe dralis predicte et eorum successoribus, quandam annuitatem sive annualem redditum sex Ubrarum, tresdecim solidorum, et qua tuor denariorum sterUngorum, habendum et percipiendum eis et successoribus suis imperpetuum annuatim per nos prefatum Abbatem et Conventum et successores nostros, prefatis Decano et Capitulo et successoribus suis, in Ecclesia CathedraU predicta, ad duos anni terminos, videUcet, ad Festa Pasche et Sancti MichaeUs ArchangeU, per equales porciones solvendas. Et si nos prefati Abbas et Conventus, aut successores nostri, in solucione dicte annuitatis, sive annualis redditus, sex Ubrarum, tresdecim solidorum, et quatuor denariorum, ad aUquem termi num terminorum predictorum, quo ut prefertur solvi debeat, defecerimus tunc nos prefati Abbas et Conventus ex ulteriori nostro consensu pariter et assensu communi, pro nobis et succes soribus nostris, dedimus et per presentes concedimus prefatis Decano et CapitiUo unam aliam annuitatem, sive annualem redditum, quadraginta soUdorum sterlingoram, habendum et percipiendum dictam annuitatem, sive annualem redditum, quad raginta soUdorum prefatis Decano et Capitulo et successoribus suis imperpetuum nomine pene in forma sequent! : Solvendum ultra predictam annuitatem, sive annualem redditum, sex libra rum, tresdecem soUdorum, et quatuor denariorum, in forma pre dicte solvendum, sciUcet infra mensem tociens quandocunque ac postquam nos prefati Abbas et Conventus aut successores nostri, de et in solucione predicte annuitalis, sive annualis redditus, sex librarum, tresdecem soUdorum, et quatuor denariorum, aut aUcujus inde parceUe ad terminos solucionis eorundem prelimi- tatos aut aliquem terminum eorum defecerimus. In cujus rei testimonium tam nos prefati Abbas et Conventus quam predicti Decanus et Capitulum sigilla nostra communia presentibus alternatim apposuimus. Datum apud Cleve predictum in Domo nostra Capitidari, decimo die Octobris anno regni Eegis Hen rici octavi decimo septimo,^ By the hands of me, WyllyI, Abbott of Clyf. By me, Dan John Webb By me, Dan John Bakek By me, Dan John Geene By me, Dan Nicolas By me, Dan Nycolas By me, Dan Davi Dowett By me, Dan John Gave By me, Geoege How. [Nothing of the Conventual Seal is left.] " 10 October, 1525. CHAETEES, &c. 471 STATUTA ECCLESIE EXONIENSIS.' Bishop Vbtsy's Synopsis of the Statutes of Exeteb Cathedral. Johannes permissione Divina Exon EpGs, dilectis in Christo filus Decano et Capitio Exon Ecclesie, Salutem. Cordi michi est et post pastorale Officium assumptum semper fuit, de animarum vestrarum salute ac dicte Ecciie honore curam habere precipuam : ad que plurimum conducere vos arbitramini, si consuetudines et statuta (ad quorum observationem quiUbet canonicus astringitur corporaU juramento) fuerint nostrS, oper^ in breviorem UbeUum redacta, que nunc mixta in vestris Codi- cibus cum aliis, partim desuetudine partim, legibus regni abro- gatis, nee non prohemUs prolixis et repeticionibus superfluis, afferunt vobis tedium non modicum ad legendum et aUquando dubitationes ; pro quibus vitandis hos labores non invitus vestro rogatu suscepi, et eo Ubentius, quia nemo, ut opinor, rectius hoc munus exequi possit, cum per quadraginta annos et ultra, in EccU^ Exon residens et in quinque officUs successive versatus. Primo Canonicus simplex, secundo Archidiaconus Barum, tercio Precentor, quarto Decanus, et quinto Episcopus. In antiqius codicibus sepius legi et expertus sum, subscripta pro approbg,tis consuetudiuibus et statutis Exoniensis Ecciie fimiter observari. Imprimis Walterus bone memorie quondam Exoniensis Epiis in statuto suo, cujus datum est a.d. 1266, com- memorat fuisse observatum a Fundatione Exonien Ecciie (uti nunc est). Quod singuli canonici quo? numerus consistit in 24, percipiet nomine prebende sue sex marcas sterlingo? sive fuerit presens sive absens et quicquid de communibus proventibus ipsius Ecciie superfuerit aut excreverit (omnibus debitis et consuetis deductis) dividi debet nomine quoditiane distribucionis inter vere residentes honores et onera Ecciie presentiaUter susti- nentes ac divina officia ad que sunt intitulati, agnoscere et perfi cere, (nisi canonicum impedimentum aut causa rationabUis de licencia sui superioris eos excuset). Que vero sunt onera et honores ad'que approbata Exon Ecciia consuetudo jurata arctat, idem Walterus et ejus successores, Walterus secundus, Thomas Brentyngham, et Johannis de Grandissono, specialiter inter alia commemorant, videUcet, Quod ille canonicus tantummodo pro residente habeatur in perceptione quotidiane distribucionis, qui matutinis et majori Misse et mense, vel hore prime aut vesperis personaUter interfuerint, intrando chorum et ibidem expectando, ut in antiquis Ubris consuetudinariis continetur, videUcet in matutinis et hora prima ante finem hymni, in vesperis ante ' Bishop Bronescombe, by his Ordi nance of Oct. 1270, bound the Arch deacon of Exeter to provide a wax-light of 1 lb, weight to bum in the Cathedral Choir during Matins and High Mass, 472 APPENDIX. finem primi Psalmi, in Missa ante finem prime CoUecte, et sic in chore expectando usquequo predicta officia terminentur : Proinde in ExequUs Mortnog ante finem Psalmi " Verba mea," etc., et in Missa ante finem Epistole expectando, donee officia hujusmodi perficiantur; que in ceteris quog Ecciie ministris observanda sunt. Preterea quilibet canonicus dictas quotidianas distribu- ciones percepturas tenetur hospitalitatem cum domestico? honesta commitiva servare, apertis sue domus foribus pro hospi- tibus honestis ac eciam Ecciie ministris, ut antiquitus usitatum est. Nichilominus Exoniensis Ecciie consuetudo ex humanitate quadam introducta permittit, canonicos residentes aliquando ad invicem prandere et cenare, exceptis majorum refeccionum, sessionum, assizarum ac festis diebus, quibus pro Ecciie honore mense proprie, regiis ex injunctionibus, eciam interesse tenentur, submota ficte residentie omni velamine, ut veri residentes inve- niantur. Attamen Canonici residentes legitime impediti vel ex caus^ rationabiU absentes etiam a divinis in choro et a mensa, percipere consueverint dictas distribuciones per prescriptam consuetudinem a fundacione Ecciie observatam in subscriptis casubus. Quof primus est pro die quo canonicus residens ab itinere suo civitatem Exon introire et die quo eandem Civi tatem ex , honesta causa exire contingat, adempta omni prorsus occasione inutiliter discurrendi. Tum etiam quos eas contigerit aUquem canonico|i residentium per totam hebdomadam continuo residere duos dies profestos tamen in Ula hebdomeda studii aut honesta alia relaxandi animum gracia, ut ex antiqua consuetudine usitatum, est libere queat sibi assumere. Secundus casus est si canonicus per Capitulum pro communibus Ecciie negotiis missus fuerit. Tertius casus est si per infirmitatem aut aliam corporis necessitatem in domo sua soUta residentia contingen tem impeditus fuerit aut alioqui quum canonici capitulariter congregati pro serUs et necessariis Ecciie negotiis in domo capitulari aut scaccario de Usdem deliberent et consultent. Quartus casus est si sit Seneschallus et circa pecuniarum recep- tiones seu soluciones aut alia Ecciie negotia communia neces saria occupatus fuerit, tunc unum diem in hebdomada habebit quo proprUs negotUs mtendere valeat. Extra hos quatuor casus consuetudo Exomensis Ecciie non consuevit canonicis a choro et mensa absentibus distributiones quotidianas concedere Ucet impedimentum et absentie causa fuerint justissima tam ex antiquis, dicte Ecclesie statutis quam longevS, consuetudine hactenus usitata. NichUominus tenebitur canonico residenti defuncto ad supplementum Testamenti sui communia proximi anni sequentis post ejus decessum. Ita quod eam communiam quibus et in quos usus pios disponere voluerit integre, possit libere assignare. Proviso tamen quod nee canonicus defunctus nee quisquam alius absens etiam in dictis quatuor casubus CHAETEES, &c, 473 particeps erit de pctodecim soUdis distribuendis in singulis festis duplicibus subscriptis per predecessores nostros concessis canon icis _m choro et mensa interessentibus tantum, et non aliis, ut ex inspectione appropriationum Ecciia? de Hembuiy, Wide- combe, Thorverton, et pensione quatuor marca? provenientiura de Ecciia de Donsforde liquido constat. Que vero, supradictos octodecim solidos de dictis Eccliis et Pensione appropriatis excre- verint, dividi consuevit et debet inter canonicos residentes, etiam a dictis festis absenties in fine anni. Festa duplicia in quibus octodecim solidi sunt dividend!, sunt hec, Natalis Domini, cum quatuor diebus sequentibus, Circumcisio, Epiphania, Conversio Sancti PauU, Purificatio beate Marie, Cathedra Sancti Petri, Festum Sancti Matthei Apostoli, Sancti Gregorii, Annuncia- tionis, Pascha cum tribus diebus sequentibus, Sancti Ambrosii, Sancti Marci, Apostolorum PhUippi et Jacobi, Inventionis Sancte Crucis, Sancti Johannis ante Portam Latinam, Ascen sionis, Eeliquiaf, Penticostes cum tribus diebus sequentibus, Sancte Trinitatis, Corporis Christi, Sancti Bamabe Apii, Nativi tatis Sancti Johannis Baptiste, Apostolorum Petri et Pauli, Commemoratio Sancti Pauli, Festum beate Marie Magdalene, Sancti Jacobi Apii, Sancti Augustini Episcopi, Sancti Ga brieUs, Nativitatis beate Marie, Exaltatio Sancte Cracis, Mathie Apii, Sancti Michaelis, Sancti Jeronimi, Sancti Luce Evan geliste, Aplof Simonis and Jude, Omnium Sanctorum, Com memoratio Anima?, Dedicatio Ecciie, Sancte Catherine, Sancti Andree Apii, Sancti Nicholai. Item ex veteribus Statutis usu longevo confirmatis compertum habeo, etiam quod quiUbet canonicus, cujus vicariam vacare contigerit, providere debet infra mensem a vacatione ejusdem, de aUo in cantus scientia et modulandi voce sonora idoneo, per Decanum sive presi- dentem et Capitulum admittendo, quibus duobus quaUtatibus deficientibus ejus admissio est ipso jure nulla: et si Cano nicus sic providere neglexerit, tunc Decanus infra octo dies sequentes provideat: et in ejus defectu, Episcopus (consue tudine Decani de Vicariis Canonico? absentium ultra mare providendis semper salva) : qui Vicarii chorales singulis horis canonicis in Ecciia Exon celebrandis interesse tenentur, nisi canonico impedimento seu causa rationabUi de licencia super ioris excusentur nee a suis vicariis sine causa rationabiU et Decani et Capituli conniventia dioscesaniq, poterunt amoveri. Tamen pro e? excessubus vel negUgentiis debent per Decanum, et eo absente, per presidentem et Capitulum in domo capitulari corrigi et reformari. Quo? defectus seu absencia a divinis per Procuratorem Capitulo presentati, ac cedentium et decedentium Vicario? commoda tempore vacatioms- contingentia accrescere consueverunt et debent aliis vicarUs divinis interessentibus in Ecciia predicta. Item clerici de secunda forma vocati Secundarii 12 in numero, quo? admissio ad Decanum pertinet debent esse 474 APPENDIX. bone fame, bene cantantes, et competenter literati : ex quibus, cum opus fuerit, Vicarii chorales creari possint; qui'omnes Divinis Officiis diurnis et nocturnis interesse tenentur, nisi ex caus^ pro- babali de licencia superioris absint. Item pueri vocati choruste quatuordecem numero, quo? admissio ad precentoren pertinet, debent habere voces senoras, quor? instructio ad clericum capeUe spectat: debent etiam interesse divinis. Qui vero Secundarii et Choriste per Canonicos residentes sustentari debent. Item cantariste vocati AnniveUarU, tenentur etiam interesse Divinis, Officiaq, subire choralia : ad que ipsos intitulari contingat necnon post primam Missam matutinam, vocatam " Bratton ys Masse," finitam, Missas suas successive et ordinatim celebrare, prout hactenus fieri consuevit. Dignitates in Ecciia Exoniefi fnndate per predecessores nos tros sunt quatuor. Primus est Decanus habens honoris et pre- eminentie insignia ex concessione Epi et Capitii, sicut ceteri De cani Ecciia? CathedraUum Cant Provincie habent, exceptis quod in presentationibus ad Ecciias vacantes et in fitrmis concedendis sui locandis, et alus Capitii negotiis communibus, habet vocem et porcionem ut simplex canonicus tantum, ut in prim eva funda tione dicte dignitatis liquido constat. Decanus preterea habet curam anima? et jurisdicoein archidiaconalem in omnibus com- morantibus infra Clausum Exon Ecciie et consimilem jnrisdicoem in Civitate Exon, et suburbiis ejusdem quamdiu Archidiaconus Exonien non sit canonicus in Ecciia nostra Cathedrali, habet etiam consimilem jurisdicoein in manerio suo de Braunton et in paro chianis ibidem, ex cujus proventubus tenetur invenire ceram continue ardentem coram summo altari in honore Sacramenti. Decanus tenatur Missam principalem celebrare omni dupUci majori festo per annum, Epo absente, et in prima Dominica, Adventus, in Dominica Palmarum, feria quarta in Capite JejunU in tribus diebus ante Pascha, in vigilia Pentecostis, in anniver sariis Eegum, Epo?, Deca? per eos fundatis. Alia onera in choro ut rectoris officium Decani non consueverunt, subire. Habet etiam ex concessione predecesso? nf o? suo officio unitas cum dictis manerio et Ecciia de Braunton, Ecciiam de Tawton Epi, et Ecciiam de Colyton Eawlegh. Precentoris dignitas et officium est chorum regere, et que ad chorum spectant singuUs septimanis ordinare curamq, chorusta? tam in moribus quam in alUs que ad eo? instructiones ac ad victum vestitumq, pertinent habere precipuam, pro quibus ejus nomine faciendis, dare solet annuatim succentori 53s. 4d, et clerico capelle robam annuatim, cum esculentis et poculentis ad mensam suam, si presens fuerit ; et habet ex concessione predecesse? nf o? suo officio unitas Ecciias de Paignton et Chudleigh cum manso et Terris apud Ugbroke. Cancellaru officium est sacram Scripturam per se vel alium diebus et locis consuetis legere, missivas Capituli literas conci- CHAETEES, &c. ' 475 P^F®' ^i'^rosque chori, communibus expensis CapituU, conigere ; et habet Ecciias de Stokegabriel et Sancti Newlini in Cornubia ex concessione predecesso? nfo? unitas suo officio. lhesaura,rii officium est omnes Ubros tam in choro quam in communi libraria, ac jocalia, capas, ceteraq, ornamenta Ecciie custodire per indenturam singulis annis renovandam, cujus una pars remanere debet cum Capitulo et altera cum Thesaurario. Ejus officium preterea est campanas consuetis Temporibus pulsari facere, Ecciiam mundari, luminaria accendi, vinum pro celebrantibus in Eccii^ providere, ac alia facere, partim suis ex pensis et partim communibus Capli prout in decreto Edmundi Lacy oUm Exon Epi continetur. Item tenetur quatuor custodes invenire, quo? duo debent in Ecciia pernoctare, qtii in sua pri- meva admissione jurant coram Decano et Capitulo fideles fere in suis officiis, et habet EccUam Sancti Probii in Comubia cum Tre- soresbeare et MorseU ex concessione predecesso? nfo? unitas suo officio, unacum Nymet Epi. Officium Subdecani est vices Decani supplere in hiis que ab Epo vel Decano sibi committuntur. Officium SeneschaUo? est, firmario? et aUo? debito? solutiones faciendas et communem cissam in Scaccario recipere, in quS, cista (ut rarior ad eam fiat aceessio) nichU de cetero reponatur nisi tantum pecunie et alia que ad Decanum et Capitulum spectant in communi. Et quod citra Festum Natalis Domini proximum, post datum presentium nova cista in Scaccario fiat pro obituum et loculorum pecuniis reponendis qua?, ut olim, sint senes challi, unus canonicus et alius ecciie mimster discretus, qui de receptis et expositis singulis terminis, fidelem compotum reddant ad que facienda uter? eo? in Capio recipiet juramentum corporale. Preterea SeneschaUo? officium est in fine cujuslibet termini stipendia ministre? eccUa consueta solvere temporibus usitatis necnon in fine anni videUcet, ante primum diem De cembris annuatim de excrescenciis singulis canonicis residenti bus, fideUter quod suum est solvere, vel solvi facere, sub poena amissionis distributionis contingentis hujusmodi SeneschalUs, pro Termino in quo neglexerint id facere : ad hujusmodi vero officium fideUter faciendum uterque Seneschalo? in eorum admissione, videUcet, sexta feria ante Festum Michis ArchangeU, recipiet juramentum corporale. Officium Janitoris est januas et fores Clausi statutis tempori bus claudere'et aperire, viz. a Festo Pasche usq, Festem Michis ad horam nonaru, et a Festo Michis Archi usq, Festum Pasche ad horam octavam, et non ante Missam matutinalem vocatam " Brat- tonis Masse " aperire. Item in Codicibus vestris inter alia com pertum habemus observatum, quod nullus canonicus ad residen- dum in Ecciia Exoniensi est admittendus, nisi Tempore incepte residente habeat in Possessionibus sivi Eedditibus annuatim qua draginta libras sterUng, omnibus oneribus deductis, quodq„ die 476 APPENDIX. quo residentiam incepturus est, exponat et reaUter solvat in domo Capitulari residenti et Capitulo quadraginta libras sterling, qua rum Vicariis choraUbus dentur quatuor Libre, Secundariis 40s., Choristis 26s. Hd., Annivellariis 56s. 8d., Clericis Saccarii utri que eorum 4:0d. Proviso quod si sint de habitu, uno Sallario sint contenti. Eeliquum vero dictarum 40?. in communes neces- siaros usus Ecclesiae omnino et ad nullum privatum usum con vertatur. Item consuetudinem Ulam viz. Quod nullus Canoni cus simplex ad residentiam admittatur priusquam una de Domibus Canonicalibus per mortem, cessionem ant resignationem vacua fuerit, in qua idem Canonicus Eesidentiam suam inchoare et hospitalitatem tenere commode possit, de integro renovamus ac deinceps inviolabiUter observari districte mandamus, quate nus Eegni leges et statutua permittunt. Pretereaque antiquum illud Ecclesise statutum et per annos assidua consuetudine invio labiUter observatum concedit Canonico residenti, qui compleverit primum annum Eesidentise, juxta formam statuto? ad supple mentum testamenti sui, communiam Ecciiee predictse proximi anni sequentis post mortem. Et ideo iniquum esse arbitramur ut Ecclesia pro una Domo una anno dupUci communia one- retur. Item statuimus quod de cetero nullus obtinens aliquam de quinque Dignitatibus aut aliquis de quatuor Archidiaconis quovismodo ad residentiam admittatur, nisi propriam Domum sive Dignitati aut Archidiaconatui adhexam, bene et sufficienter sustentatam possideat et inhabitet, nisi expresso Decani et Ca pituli consensu aliter indultum fuerit. Item ut alia vestra bene ficia frequentiores de cetero habeatis accessus, statutum et in dultum per Johannem de Grandissono, olim Exon Episcopum, de 46 diebus ad residendum in EccHa Cathedrali, quoUbet Ter mino abbreviari fecimus, vestro desiderio ad 36 dies, conce dentes quatenus de jure possimus, quod quUibet Canonicus qui per dictos 36 dies in Choro et mensa juxta approbatam dicte Ecciie consuetudinem, Eesidens fuerit quem admodum per cipiet de excrescentiis et aliis ecclesiae proventibus, percipere consuevit, ex statuto et indulto predecessoris nostri predicti. Proviso quod in eorum absentus, Ecclesiae honoris et onera debita et consueta supportentur. Item in veteribus codicibus compertum habemus, hactemus inviolabitur observatum fuisse, ut honor debitus exlubeatur superioribus per canonicos et alios eccliae ministros, qui transeuntes Decano inclinent et Decano transeunti assurgant ; quodque in majoribus Eccliae negotiis com munibus disponendis, Canonici absentes per 15 dies ad minus vocentur, et quod per Decanum cum majori parte Capituli con- cedenda non ante sigiUo communi signentur, quam per tres dies Sabbati successive sequentes, Capitularis tractatus de usdem concedendis communiter habeatur, nisi aliqua Ecciife necessitas aut evidens utiUtas urgeat aUter faciendum. CHAETBES, &o. 477 DEAN HEYNES' ' PEOPOSAL TO KING HENEY VIII. POE THE GOVEENMENT OP THE CHUECH OP EXETEE. Cbetein Articles noted fob the Eefoemanoe of the Cathedral Chuech of Bxcbstee, submitting them unto the King's Majestie. 1. First, that the names of Dean and Chapter, with the names of Chaunter, Treasorer, Chauncelor, Subdean, Prebendaries, Chanons, &c., may be chaunged into names of holy scripture as ' Simon Heynes, S.T.P, was an ec clesiastic of very considerable eminence in the 16th century, as may be col lected from the following particulars : — He received his education in the Uni versity of Cambridge, where in 1516 he took his first Degree of Arts ; two years later was elected Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, and the year after commenced Master of Arts. In 1528 he was chosen Master of Queen's Col lege ; in 1531 he commenced Doctor of Divinity : about which time he dis played such zeal in promoting the doc trines . of the Eeformation, as to be actually committed by the Govemment, for a short time, to the Fleet prison. In 1533 he waa Vice-Chancellor of the University, and the year following was appointed by Henry VIII. to preach there against the supremacy of the Pope, and to endeavour to reconcile the minds of'the students to its abolition. For this service he was admitted Vicar of Stepney, made a Canon of Windsor, and presented to the Eectory of Ful ham. On the deprivation of Eeginald Pole, the Dean of Exeter, Dr. Heynes was elected to succeed him in that dig nity the 16th July, 1537, Nearly three years and a half later, viz, 17th Dec, 1540, King Henry VIII, appointed him to the first Prebendal Stall of the new Episcopal Church of Westminster, In the Eoyal Commission dated 12th April, 1.549, he was associated with Arch bishop Cranmer, Bishops Goodrick, Heath, Thirlby, Day, Holbeoh, Eidley, and others, for inquiring into heretical pravity; and in the following month was placed amongst the Commissioners for visiting and reforming the Colleges and University of Oxford, In this ca pacity he was one of the five who pre sided at thc public dispute held in the Divinity Schools there for three days,- between Peter Martyr and Dr, Wm; Tresham, Canon of Christ's Church, and others, concerning Transubstantia- tion. But he is chiefly memorable for this, — that he was one of the thirteen divines who originally compiled the Liturgy of the Church of England. Their names are given by Heylyn, 57-8 of ' Hist. Edward VI.' " They so ordered it, that the whole ofBce of the Mass should proceed, as formerly, in the Latin tongue ; even to the very end of the Canon, and the receiving of the Sacrament by the Priest himself." Dean Heynes died in October, 1552. His Canonry and Prebend here were given, on 28th Deo. 1552, to John Blax ton; his Eectory of Newton Ferrers, three weeks later, to John Pollard, He was the undoubted author of the Articles given above, and probably composed them soon after the dissolu tion of the religious houses. As they were never acted on, we suppose they never received the Eoyal approbation. The second Article, recommendtug the continuation of the same yearly re venues to the Church, could hardly be agreeable to the avarice of the King and his hungry courtiers. They are taken from the Harleian MSS, No, 604, 59, Leland charges Dean Heynes with defacing Bishop Lacy's tomb, in the choir of Exeter Cathedral. For the memory of that prelate the people had conceived the highest veneration. Hoker relates that " after the death of Bishop Lacy, many miracles were said and de vised to be done at his tomb; where upon great pilgrimages were made by the common people to the same," And Westcot (Harleian MS.) says, " his in tegrity and zealous devotion was so marvelled at, that after his decease many miracles were supposed to be done by him at his tomb, which caused great repair thither and many pil grimages to be made," 478 APPENDIX, pastor of the churche and prechars of the gospell. And that aU lends and other yerly emoliments heretofor given to the Dean and Chapter and other Dignitees by the names aforesaid maie remaine to the use of the pastor and prechars of the same Churche and be emploied only to such uses as hereaffter ensewith. 2. That the pastor having care of the churche, may have to his owne use for the sustentacon of himself and his howshold all manner yerly revenewes whiche the Dean had before, with the porcon of on prechar like as the Dean had before, this office of the pastor to be evermore at the gift and disposicon of the kings majeste. The pastor to be ever a doctor of divinite lafuUi admitt in an universite of this realme. 3. That there may be also eleven other prechars, doctors orellis bachelers of divinite, lefuUy admitt within an universite of this realme, whiche with the pastor shall preache by cowrss an sermon within the said cathedral church every Sondaie and hali- daie in the yer ; every of them to have yerly ffifity pownds, thes eleven prechars to be evermore at the gift of the Bushope, pro vided that if the Bushope do by any sinister affecon promote any unable man to the rowme of a prechar, that then he shall forfaite the gifft of all the said prechars to the kyngs grace during the liff of the Bushop so offending, and the unable per sone nevertheless to be deprived. And that the said pastor because he hath cure of the churche shall be bownd to preache four sermons over and besids his porcon of the prechars ser mons, upon these four fests foUowing, that is to say, an sermon upon AU HaUowes daie, an sermon upon Christmas daie, an sermon upon the Epiphany daie, and an sermon upon thAssen- con daie and that in his owne person, if he be present and not seike, etc., and if he be absent or lettid by sekenes or otherwise, than to provide at his owne cost and charge, that the said ser mons be done by lerned and able prechars. Upon aU the resi- dew of Sondaies and halidaies, the pastor shaU be non" otherwise bownd to preache, but by cowrss and as other prechars are bownd. Item that the said pastor and prechars and every of them may be bownd yerly to preache abrode in the diocese of Ex- cester spetialli in churches appropriat unto the said cath. churche eight sermons, that is to saie evry quarter two upon peine, &c. 4. That the said pastor and prechars every Sondaie and haU- daie as they shaU be resident and present, may be bownd to sing high mass, and to execute suche divine service within the said cathedral churche, as it shaU please the kyngs grace to assigne. Provided, that the pastor shaU execute only upon the fests folow- ing if he be present upon AU HaUowes daie, Christmas daie, Epi- phani daie, on the Purification of our Ladies daie. Good Fridaie, Ester daie, Whitsonday and thAssencon daie, upon aU other CHAETEES, &c, 479 Sondaies and -halidaies, the said eleven prechars by cowtss to smg high mass and to execute other divine service as thev shal be present. 5. That the said pastor and prechars and evry of them may be bownde to kepe hospitalite and to be present at morow mass or ellis at high mass daily by the space of forty dales together or_ at several_ tymes, evry quarter of the yer and evry qf the said forty dales, either to dyne or suppe in his owne howss. Provided alwaie, that when so ever it shall happen the said pastor or ony of the other prechars to be seke within ther own howses at Excester that during the time of ther seknes they may be discharged of the qweir provided also that if it shall happen ony of the said pastor and prechars to be sent ambas sadors from the kyngs majeste unto ony forein prince or place beyond the see, orelUs to be sent for to be present at ony con- vocacon or cownsail within this realme, that evry of them so being absent by the kyngs graces commandement shal be ac cepted as present in the said churche, and have aU manifold profits of a prechar resident and keping hospitalite in the same, from the daie of his knowledge of the kyngs graces pleasor in the premises, unto the daie of his retorne unto the kyngs ma jeste and eight dales affter. And unto thend of suche cownsaile or convocacon, and eight dales affter the same cownsaUe or con- vocacon is ended. Provided also, that the said pastor and prechars being absent in preching ther quarter sermons in the diocese, shalbe accepted as present for so long as ther ar oc cupied in that busyness. 6. That the pastor and prechars entering residence ui the said cathedral churche, may enter frely withoute paying ony money to the cathedral churche or to any other persone or Bsones for the same, except anly the first fruts and the tenth dew to the kyngs majeste by his lawes and the ordinari fees dew to the Bushop and pastor for institucon and induccon in the same. Ony statute or custome of the said churche hertofore made to the contrary notwithstanding. 7. That the cor^acon of the churche, which was by the name of Dean and Chapter of Seint Peters Churche in Excester may be changed, and to be called now the pastor and prechars of Christs Churche in Excester and the comen seale which now hath graven in it the image of Seinte Peter with a triple crowne may be likewise alterid. 8. That the correcon of the priests and peple within the Closs of the churche of Excester, and of all churches and parishes ap^at to the same may pertyn unto the pa,stor aforesaid, as of right it perteyned before unto the Dean, who hath the juris- diccon of an Archedecon within the churche, and within all {)ishes appropriat to the same, as apperith by sufficient writmgs 480 APPENDIX. under seale, for now, neither the Archedecon from whom they be exempte, nor yet the Dean unto whom such correcon pteyneth, do correcte the enormitees of priests and other within the peculiar jurisdiccon of the said Dean. Maie it therefore, please the kyngs majeste to restore unto the pastor the juris diccon of an Archedecon with like comoditees fees and profits within the said cathedral churche and parishe churches ap propriat, as Axchedecons hath of churches within ther juris- diccons, &c. 9. That ther may be in the said churche a lerned man in holy scripture, that shall rede a lecture openly in the churche three days evry weke (he to have forty marks for his labor) and that the said pastor and prechars may be bound daiU both at dyner and supper to have som parte of holy scripture redd at ther tables, &c., the said redar to be chosen, & upon just causes to be removed by the pastor and six other prechars of the said churche, and the said pastor and prechars being in towne may be bound dailie to be present when the lecture is redd. 10. That there may be in the said cathedral churche a fre song scole, the scholemaster to have yerly of the said pastor & prechars twenty marks for his wages and his howss fre, to teach forty children frely to rede, to write, syng and play upon in struments of music, also to teach them ther a. b. c. in greke and hebrew and evry of the said forty chUdre to have wekely 12d. for ther meat and drink and yerly 6s. 8d. for a gowne, they to -be bownd daili to syng and rede within the said cathedral churche such divine service as it may please the kyngs majeste to alowe. The said chUdre to be at eomons all together with three priests hereaffter to be spoken of, to see them weU ordered at thefr meat and to reform thefr manners. 11. That ther may be a fre gramar scole within the said cathedral churche, the scholemaster to have 201. by yer, and his howss fre, the ussher 101. and his howss free, and that the said pastor and prechar may be bound to fynd 60 chUdre at the said gramar scole, giving to evry on of the chUdren 12d. wekely to go to eomons within the cite at the pleasor of ther frends, so long to contynew as the scholemaster do see them diligent to lern. The pastor to appointe eight, every prechar four, and the scholemaster four : the said childre serving, in the said churche and going to such scole to be preferred before strangers. Pro vided always, that no child be admitted to thexhibicon of the said churche, whose father is knowen to be worth in goods above 3001. or ellis may dispend above 401. yerly of enheritance. 12. That the said pastor and prechars may be bound to find twenty-four scolers at the universitees, twelve at Cambridge and twelve at Oxford, every of them to have five marks yerly and on of the twelve in either universitee to be paimaster unto the CHAETEES, &c. 481 residew and he to have 13s. 4d. yeriy above the porcon of others, tfie scolers browght up m the scole of Excester to be preferred to these exhibicons before strangers. Sis to be assigned by tlie bushop, SIX by the pastor, and every other prechar to as signe one. 1^- ¦''^,.^^*^ ^^so twenty-four poor men, maymed in the kyngs warres, blmde, lame, or aged and impotent, having no lends nor goods to Uve on, nor able to get ther living by labor, evry of them to have 12d. wekely, and yerly a gowne price 6s. 8d. and ther howss fre. Non of them to begg, upon peyn to be put owte of that rowme. The maier and his bretherne at evry vaca- con to present unto the pastor and prechars three of the moste poore men, and the pastor and prechars to be bound to take on of three so by the maier and his bretherne named. M. To find three honest prests daili to say morow mass in the said cathedral churche and daiU at the same tyme to declare unto the peple being present, a parte of the Paternoster in Englishe, a parte of the ten commandments, oreUis a part of the articles of Christs faithe. And aU the children both of the song scole and gramar scole to be bound daUi to be present thereat, with ther scolemasters. And that on of the said priests also by cowrss may be bownd to sing daUy high mass and evry of thes prests to be bownd to be present at all divine service, with the master of the song scole, every of them also bownd whan nede shall require to minister all sacraments, and to visit seek men within the parishe of the said cathedral church, to be chosen by the pastor and six of the prechars and upon resonable causes by them to be put owte, evry of the said three so long as they dUigentU execute ther office to have yerly for ther wages 20 marks, they to go to eomons together with the scole- master of the song scole and all the forty chUdre with them, to thintent they may see the good ordre of the same chUdre. 15. That two of the said twelve prechars may be yerly chosen at the fest of Seint Michael, to receive and pay such sumes of money as ar to be received and paid, and to make ones in the yer a trew and perfite accompte and either of them to have 41. over and besids ther porcons above limetid. 16. To fynd also a clerk to write thefr rekenings and to make ther books of accompte perfite, he to have yerly 20 nobles wages, and meat and drink with the pastor and prechars pre sent, where he list to take it. 17. To fynd a lerned man in the lawes of the realme resi dent for the more parte in Devonshire to be present at all law dales and courts of the said pastor and prechars to se justice executed and peace kept among ther tenants and he to have 20 marks fee yerly f ,i, -u x, , 18 To find an honest man, to be verger ot the churche to 2 I 482 APPENDIX. se silence kept in tyme of sermons, lectures and other divine service within the same, daily to attend upon the bushop being present, and in his absence upon the pastor being present, the said verger to have 81. yerly wages, meat and drink with the bushop being present and in his absence with the pastor being present. 19. To fynd a man to kepe the gates of the closs, the clocke and chyme and to ring in dew times unto sermons lectures and other divine service, he to have 51. wages, and meat and drink with the said pastor and prechars being present. • 20. Because';, upon certeyn holidaies ther be distribucons given unto the Dean and Chanons to kepe them at home in the cathedral churche, whan it were most expedient they wer abrode in the contre to preache the word of God, and ageyn at Assisis and Sessions (when it were the kyngs graces honor, and all ther honestees to be at home, to kepe hospitalite for them that resort for the execucon of justice and of their tenants, &c.) thei be absent. Therefor may it please the kyngs grace to converte the 521. by yer given for mayntenance of hospi- taUte upon halidaies to the mayntenance of hospitalite, at As sisis and Sessions, that is to say, that the said pastor and every other prechar being present either at Assise or Sessions holden quarterly at Excester to have 20s. so that every of them kepe two messes of meate within thefr owne howses, by the space of two daies, both at dyner and supper in tyme of the said Ses sions and Assisis. 21. That the said pastor and every prechar, ones begyning his quarter residense, although he deye before the same quar ter residense be finished, shall have his porcon whoUy for that quarter as if he had fully kept forty daies residence, and had preached his sermons, and the statute de anno post mortem to be utterly abrogate, &c. 22. That the said pastor and prechars do not diminishe the summe of the comon tresor now remayning in the said cathedral churche to pay the mim'sters of Godd's worde and scolers afore said ther wages, unto new rents certain, upon pern to be de prived of their benefices. 23. That it may be lefuU to the pastor and prechars at the yeres end, aU manner duties paid ordinary and extraordinari and after that the comon tresor of the fchurche provided be fore hand be fully restored and a perfite accompte finished what to every man shall clerly remayne of the yerly revenew of the same cathedral churche, that to devid equaUi among the said pastor and prechars resident, according as hath ben accus tomed. Provided that evry man deying before his quarter be ended, and evry man being absent upon the lefie causes before rehersid, shaU have his porcon of this divident, Uke as if they wer resident. CHAETEES, &c. 483 24. FinaUi that it may be lefull to the said pastor and pre chars and to their successors to make ordinances with the consent ot ther bushop, for the good ordre of the said two scoles and t^r scolemasters and of the said three prests, verger and other omcers, so that suche ordinances to be made by them be no point contrary to the kyngs graces ordre taken for reformacon of the said churche, by acte of parliament. lbttee peom william peouz, m.p. poe bxetee, to the mayoe, aldbemen, and council op the same.' Eight Woeshipful, By my last lettera I advertised you of the conference passed between your CounceU and the King's Attorney; for some special reasons tending to better hopes as then so now since continued, I did forbear to write this last week by our carrier : be pleased therefore by these to understand that upon Monday last both the Attorney General and the Clerk of the Crown informed the Lord Keeper what strength your Charter bears in point of negative, that his Majesty by law cannot make, by way of association, any more Justices than are warranted by the same. To which his Lord repUed with yes, that notwith standing it was his Majesty's express pleasure to have our Bishop a Justice with you, and if otherwise it might not be, then his Majesty would grant him a non obstante, which cannot impair the jurisdiction given you by your Charter. So as if no other thing happen between, I cannot be discouraged, but that our Lflrd Bishop may miss his mark, howbeit I know he doth use all means to gain his purpose, wherein he hath the especial assistance of the Lord Keeper. I have propounded the desire of your house to all your Councell touching the speedy petitioning of his Majesty : to the furtherance whereof I have penned a petition, and have ten dered the parts thereof to be measured by Mr. Eecorder ; but for that as yet I cannot track out our Bishop's path, which way he bends his course. Your CounceU do not deem it expedient yet to prosecute this suit by way of petition to the King ; I have and do carefuUy bend aU my endeavours to gain know ledge of our Bishop's pursuit, which when I have obtained shall occasion me, according to your CounceU's directions, to follow such course as shall be by their better judgment propounded unto me : the success whereof as it shall happen I wUl commend by my letters to your understanding. I was lately informed by Mr. Eecorder that upon a conference ' Eeferred to ante, p. 144, Note. 2 I 2 484 APPENDIX. between him and one Mr. Norden, a Surveyor of Lands and a dependent upon the Prince's service, that the title of your manor of Exe Island, and all the houses and land belonging to the Castle of Exon, with Northernhaie, is likely to be questioned by the Prince. Upon Mr. Eecorder's persuasion to confer with Mr. Norden (with whom I have some acquaintance) I endea voured to speak with him, but being gone from his lodging here into Kent, I have nussed him ; and yet notwithstandmg have by other and fitter means entreated a kinsman of my wife's, attending aiso the Prince's service, in a special manner to sound Mr. Norden touching the title pretended by his Highness, which he hath promised mithfuily to do at his return out of Kent, which wUl not be yet. I have now received 70?. from Mr. Earle of Sir W. Pole, his due upon the decree by my former letter. I entreated dfrec- tions from you how I might convey it down ; and finding none by the parts of your last, do intreat to be advertised by warrant to whom I shaU pay it here, for I dare not send it by the car rier, neither doth Mr. Eecorder think it safe. It is said that our Bishop wiU be with you about the end of Jnly, and intendeth to lodge with Mr. ChanceUor. I wish he were gone hence, that I inight take my flight westwards, for I am very weary of my long stay here. My duty and service remembered do remain. Tour obUged in duty, Wm. Peouz. Our Assizes at Exon begin the 5th day of August, and our old Judges continue. To the Right Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Counsell of the Chamber of Exon.' ECCLESIA DE MOETHOE. Bishop Beanttngham'b AppROPEiiTiON of Mokthoe to the Dean and Chapter. Sth July, 1739. Univeesis sancte mateis Ecclesie filiis ad quos presentes Utere pervenerint Thomas de Brantyngham, miseracione Divma Exoni ensis Episcopus, Salutem in Domino sempiternam. Detestan- dam ingratitudinem m omnibus operibus nostris naturaUter ab- horremus, ne preteritorum beneficioram nobis impensorum apud Deum immemores judicemur, contra illud quod aUbi scribitur " accepti beneficU memor esto." Justitia namque vfrtutum pre- clarissima, unicuique tribuens quod est suum, exigit quod bene- fexitoribus nostris benefacere debeamus. LiberaUtas eciam que ' 28 June, anno 1622, CHAETBES, &c. 485 So afwiu'S'i! ^* beneficioram erogatrix, debet benevolenciam Frnfn '• "^eneflcenciam pro effectu. Sane nos considerantes, SLlnfT'.-'*'"*'^''*^.' quomodo I bone memorie Dominus ^dwardus Tertius, quondam Eex Anglie Ulustrisshnus, et Domina J-nilippa censors ejus Eegina ab adolescentia nostra usque ad statum gradus Episcopalis, ad quem licet indigni eramus et sumus assumpti, et cm presidemus de presenti, in aula sua Eegia in suo nos erexerint seivicio retinentes. Et volentes propterea pro carnalibus spfrituaUa, et pro terrenis transitorUs gaudia per petua, eisdem pro viribus providere, ad perpetuam animarum suarum et nostre commendationem in Ecclesia nostia Exoniensi, ut inferius ordinatur, celebrandam, et Divini cultus augmentum in eadem, onerumque aUorum canonicis et alUs ibidem ser vientibus in Divinis injunctorum faciUorem supportationem, Ecclesiam parochialem de Mortho, cum omnibus suis juribus et pertinentiis universis, cujus quidem Ecclesie jus patronatus, licentia ejusdem Domini nostri Eegis tunc superstitis preobtenta, et per Dominum Eichardum Eegem Anglie modernum, ejusdem Domini Edwardi successorem immediatum confirmata, omnium que aliorum quorum interfuit, et interesse poterit in hac parte concurrentibus consensu et assensu, de bonis nostris adquisitis, antequam ad dignitatem Episcopalem Omnipotens nos assumpsit, nobis et heredibus nostris adquisivimus, prehabito eciam cimi Decano et Capitulo Ecclesie nostre antedicte specialiter, ut infra scribitur, tractatu dUigenti et solempni, et eorum ac Domini Archidiaconi Barum, in cujus Archidiaconatu eadem Ecclesia de Mortho situatur, consensubus ad hec accedentibus, Ecclesie nostre Cathedrali Exoniensi, nostra auctoritate pontificali, incorpora- mus, annectimus et unimus. Ita quod cedente Vel decedente ejusdem Ecclesie rectore, aut Ecclesiam ipsam alias quomodolibet dimittente, liceat Decano et Capitulo nostro Exoniensi per se, aut alium vel alios, pacificam possessionem ejusdem Ecclesie ac jurium et pertinentium ejusdem Ecclesie, auctoritate propria Ubere apprehendere et nancisci, ejusque fructus, redditus et proventus in suos et dicti CapituU usus, servata per omnia ordi- nacione nostra subscripta, convertere, reservata tamen de hujus modi fructibus, redditubus et proventibus ejusdem Ecclesie de Mortho pro perpetuo vicario ad presentationem dicti CapituU nostri, per nos et successores nostros in dicta Ecclesia instituendo congrua porcione juxta nostre discretionis arbitrium, inferius moderata, ex qua idem Vicarius poterit congrue sustentari, jura EpiscopaUa solvere, et aUa sibi incumbencia onera supportare. Ita eciam quod prefatum Capitulum imperpetuum duos per petuos habere CapeUanos ad statum vicariorum m dicta Ecclesia CathedraU prius nullatenus admissos per Episcopum Exoni ensem quemcumque ad dicti CapituU presentationem mstitutos set invOTfre teneantur Missas et alia divina in eadem Ecclesia 486 APPENDIX. CathedraU pro statu salubri nostro quamdiu vixerimus et pro animabus Domini Edwardi Tercu post Conquestum nuper Eegis AngUe iUustrissimi et PhiUppe Eegine consortis sue et nostra cum ab hac luce migraverimus cotidie dicentes et celebrantes ac in eadem Ecclesia habitum decentem deferentes et ministrantes in eadem ad modum aUoram annueUarioram ad solempne divini cultus augmentum et numerum ministroram in choro Ecclesie supradicte eruntque obedientiarii Decani et Capituli Presbiteri hujusmodi per juramentum sicut aUiannueUarii ejusdem Ecclesie. Et cum dicti duo presbiteri aut coram alter obierint seu obient seu aliquo modo cesserint vel cesserit aut quocumque modo dictum statum suum dimiserint seu dimiserit aUasve inhabUes sire mhabiUs effect! fuerint seu fuerit et dicti Decanus et Capi tulum aUos presbiteros ydoneos infra mensem post vacacionem status aUcujus presbiteroram nostrorum predictorum proxime sequentem nobis et successoribus nostris non presentaverint, extunc Uceat nobis et successoribus nostris successive de ilUs v.presbiteris et coram quolibet sine difficultate quacumque pro videre et status presbiterorum seu statum presbiteri vacantesvel vacantem canonice conferre contradiccione dictorum Decani et CapituU non obstante : percipiet annuatim imperpetuum uterque presbiteroram nostrorum predictorum ab eisdem Decano et Ca pitulo centum soUdos ad terminos usuales et de singulis obitibus in dicta Ecclesia sicut alU ecclesie ejusdem annueUarii quociens contingere dinoscuntur ; onus verum invencionis et sustentacionis Ubri missalis, caUeis, vestimentorum et aliorum ornamentorum altaris et panis vini et luminis pro dictis duobus presbiteris cele braturis ad dictum Capitulum pertinebit dummodo episcopus in principio cantarie ornamenta necessaria semel inveniat et com petencia. Ordinamus insuper quod vicarius perpetuus in dicta Ecclesia de Mortho ad presentacionem dictoram Decani et Capi tuU imperpetuum Episcopo loci presentetur et per Episcopum predictum aut vicarium ejusdem in spiritualibus vel sede vacante per custodem spirituaUtatis si ydoneus inventus fuerit admittatur et instituatur et ulterius fiat de institute hujusmodi ad mandatum Episcopi sicut in aliis ^unUibns beneficiatis est fieri consuetum : jurabit eciam quiUbet institutus vicarius hujusmodi coram episcopo loci quod erit per omnia fideUs Decano et Capitulo Ecclesie memorate et quod nichil ampUus percipiet de pro ventibus Ecclesie de Mortho supradicte quam ut sequitur est per nos ordinatum, et quod nunquam contraveniet ordinacioni ejusdem vicarie in presentibus hie eontente. Ordinamus eciam quod idem vicarius percipiat et habeat annuatim ab eisdem Decano et Capitulo pro annua sustentacione sua decem libras sterUngorum ad quatuor anni terminos usuales sibi necessaries : habebit insuper idem vicarius pro habitacione sua omnes domos rectorie de Mortho preter unam grangiam et unam cameram CHAETEES, &o. 487 !!!!i^,^*^^"^°. ^'^^- ^^^^"^ camera et pro curtilagio suo dimidiam ZTj^:"^''^''',-'^^%.^'''^''^ proximiorem.^ Eecipiet itaque Idem vicarius a dictis Decano et Capitulo in Ecclesie de Mortho predicta decem solidos sterlingorum cum quibus et pro Ulis supportabit annuatun onus solucionis procuracionis Archi- diaconalis, Cathedratici, Sinodatici ac denariorum processionalium et offlcu Decani ruraUs quociens de consuetudine oportebit. Et inveniet dictus vicarius annuatim panem et vinum pro divmis celebrandis ac communione parochianoram suoram, et incensum per totum annum, omnia eciam et smgtda onera archidiaconaUa ad dictani parochialem ecclesiam pertinencia. Onus autem con- straccionis cum opus fuerit ac eciam refeccionis et emendacionis cancelU dicte Ecclesie de Mortho necnon invencionis et susten tacionis librorum matutinalium ad parochianos dicte Ecclesie nullatenus pertmentium, dicti Decanus et Capitulum supporta- bunt item onus invencionis et sustentacionis Ubri missalis, caUcis, vestimentorum et aUorum ornamentorum altaris, ac panis, vini et luminis pro dictis duobus presbiteris celebraturis in Ecclesia Cathedrali, ut predicitur, ad dictos Decanum et Capitulum pertinebit imperpetuum. Et solvent iidem Decanus et Capitulum decimas Domino Pape et Eegi, alia eciam sub- sidia, procuraciones, cardinalium et aUorum nuncioram seu legatorum Pape, necnon expensas pro procuratoribus Cleri mit- tendis ad Convocacionem, sive concUium Domini Cantuarie Archiepiscopi, qui pro tempore fuerit, ac aUa onera ordinaria et extraordinaria quecumque superius vicario nuUatenus assignata. Preterea solvent annuatim dicti Decanus et Capitulum in diebus obituum dictorum Eegis et Eegine et nostri Thome Episcopi videlicet quolibet anno imperpetuum in eadem Cathedrali Ecclesia solemniter celebrandorum videlicet canonico presenti in officUs dicendis " Placebo" et " Dirige," cum Commendatione ac Missa solempni " Eequiem eternam " in die duodecim denarios, cuUibet vicario presenti sex denarios, cuUibet annuellario pre senti tres denarios, et cuUibet secundario presenti et cuUibet custori tres denarios, et cuiUbet puero choriste presenti ut supra dicitur duos denarios. Et Decanus et Capitulum antedicti sus- tinebunt grangiam et unam cameram pro granario cum stabulo sub eadem camera situate extra ostium australe aule rectorie Ecclesie de Mortho supradicto. In quoram omni testimonium sigUlum ad perpetuam memoriam presentibus duximus appo nendum. Datum quoad consignacionem in Hospicio nostro Londoniensi, octavo die mensis Julii, anno Domini miUesimo ccc"" Ixx™" nono, et consecracionis nostre decimo. Et_ nos De canus et Capitulum Bxoniense supradictum premissis appro- priacioni, annexioni et unioni nostrum communem consensum dantes et assensum omnia onera superius nobis injuncta pro nobis et successoribus nostris in nos et ipsos suscipimus imper- 488 APPENDIX. petuum ac nos et ipsos ad eadem et omnia et singiUa nos et eos obUgamus per presentes. In quorum testimonium sigUlum nostrum commune presentibus duximus apponendum. Datum in domo nostra Capitulari Exoniensi, vicesimo octavo die mensis Julii, anno Domini supradicto. Et nos Archidiaconus Barna- stopoUe in quantum ad nos pertinet et archidiaconatum nostrum ibidem premissis omnibus et singulis nostrum consensum pre bemus et assensum. In quorum testimonium sigillum nostrum presentibus apposuimus. Datum Exonie die mense et anno proxime suprascriptis. [The seal of the Bishop remains appendant, the Chapter seal and the Arch deacon's are gone.] QUEEN ELIZABETH'S GEANT TO THE CHUECH OP BXETEE.' Extract, e Charta penes Honoratissimum Dn". Carolum Dominum Clifford Baronem Clifford de Chudleigh. CUM ELIZABETHA nuper Eegina AngUe per Uteras suas patentes sub magno SigiUo suo Anglie confectas gerentes datum quinto die JuUi anno regni sui vicesimo septimo [15851 pro con sideratione in eisdem express^, dederit et concesserit Decano et Capitulo Ecclesie CathedraUs Sancti Petri in Civitate Exonie et successoribus suis totam illam rectoriam de EUerkey in co mitatu Cornubie rectoriam de Mortho cum pertinentiis in comi tatu Devonie rectoriam de Upp Otterye cum pertinentiis in pre dicto comitatu Devonie manerium de Thorverton cum perti nentiis in dicto comitatu Devonie manerium de Winterborne Wast cum pertinentUs et certam terram in Brocthampton et Swenwiche in comitatu Dorsett rectoriam de Duely cum perti nentiis in dicto comitatu Cornubie rectoriam de Withecombe cum pertinentiis et capeUam de Spith weeke cum pertinentiis in dicto comitatu Devonie rectoriam de Westastye cum pertinen tiis in dicto comitatu Devonie rectoriam de Estcoker in comitatu Somers' manerium de Langford Ffyfhed et alias terras et tene menta in Ffyfhed predicta et AshweU cum pertinentUs in pre dicto comitatu Somerset' Necnon omnes et singulos Ulos an nuales redditus exeuntes de possessionibus et nereditamentis nuper dissoluti Monasterii de Plympton cum pertinentiis in dicto comitatu Devonie quondam dates pro manutencione cantarie vocate Pembrookes Chauntrey in Ecclesia CathedraU predict^, Aceciam totum illud tenementum cum pertinenciis in Cooke- rewstreete in parochia beate Marie Majoris in Civitate Exonie adtunc in tenura WUlielmi Selden Aceciam totum illud mes suagium sive tenementum cum pertinenciis juxta Ecclesiam ' Referred to ante, page 141, CHAETEES, &c. 489 Sancti GeorgU in Civitate Exonie Ac tria horrea et unum clau sum terre cum pertinenciis juxta Southinghaye infra comitatum Civitatis Exonie predicte quondam data pro manutencione obi- tfis Edmundi Lacy Episcopi in Ecclesia CathedraU predicta Ac omnia Ula duo tenementa cum pertinentiis in Highstreete in parochia Sancti Martini in dicta CivUate Exonie adtunc in te nura, Eichardi Newton et WUlielmi Ward cum annuali redditu exeunte de nuper dissoluto Monasterio de Cleyve in comitatu Somersett' Aceciam totum ilium annualem redditum exeuntem de certis terris in Knighston in parochia de Morchard in comi tatu Devon Aceciam omnes iUas duas schopas cum pertinenciis in alto vico Civitatis Exonie quondam datas pro manutencione obitfis Walteri Stapledon Episcopi in Ecclesi& Cathedrali pre dict^ Aceciam omnia messuagia terras et tenementa cum per tinencUs in Aylesbeare in comitatu Devonie adtunc in seperali tenura Thome Fforder Thome Lee et Johannis Middleton quon dam data pro manutencione obitus Oweni Loyd Johannis Mcur- ton Cardinalis et Johannis Eyse in Ecclesia CathedraU predicta Aceciam totum iUud messuagium sive tenementum cum perti nenciis in parochia Sancti Davidis extra portam orientalem pre dicte Civitatis Exonie adtunc in tenura Henrici EUacot quondam datum pro anniversario WUlielmi Ffulford in Ecclesia Cathe drali predicta Aceciam totum Ulud messuagium sive tenementum cum pertinencUs in Cookrewstreete predicta in Civitate Exonie predicta adtunc in tenurEl cujusdam Drewe vidue quondam da tum pro manutencione obitiis Hugonis Thring in Ecclesia Ca thedraU predicta Ac omnia Ula terras et tenementa cum perti nencUs in Norton infra parochiam de Newton Sancti Cericii in comitatu Devonie quondam data pro manutencione obitus Ni cholai Bosse in Ecclesia Cathedrali predict^, Aceciam totum Ulud tenementum cum pertinenciis in Cookrewstreete predicta in pa rochia beate Marie Majoris in Civitate Exonie adtunc in tenura WUUelmi Breenford quondam datum pro manutencione obitfis Johannis Kirkby in Ecclesia Cathedrali predicta Aceciam omnia Ula terras tenementa et redditus cum pertinenciis in Karford infra parochiam de Crediton in comitatu Devonie adtunc in seperali tenura Johannis WineU et Thome Loke quondam data pro manutencione obitiis Eicardi HeUier in Ecclesia Cathedrali predicta Ac omnia Ula terras tenementa et redditus infra mane rium de Tiverton et Hunsham in comitatu Devonie adtunc in tenura Thome Beare quondam data pro manutencione obitils Thome Harris in Ecclesia Cathedrali predicta Aceciam totum Ulud tenementum cum pertinenciis in Waterbeare-street infra parochiam Omnium Sanctorum in Civitate Exonie adtunc in tenurll cujusdam Mauri quondam datum pro manutencione obi- tfis Johannis Salter in Ecclesia Cathedrali predicta Aceciam omnia Ula terras tenementa et hereditamenta cum pertinenciis 490 APPENDIX. in Tamerton FfoUyett Colbricke et Brixton in comitatu Devome adtunc in tenura Johannis Pyll quondam data pro manuten cione obitus Johannis Ffullford Archidiaconi in Ecclesia Cathe drali predicta Aceciam omnia Ula terras tenementa et redditus in Estenigmoth Westenigmoth lUerdescombe et StaplehUl juxta Tenigbridge et apud Churchstowe in comitatu Devonie adtunc in tenura Bartholomei Borington quondam data pro ma- nutenione obitfis Davidis Hopton in Ecclesia CathedraU predicta Aceciam totum iUnd messuagium cum pertinencUs juxta domum elemosinarium Sancte Catherine in Civitate Exonie adtunc in tenura Johannis Baldwin ac unam cameram infra domum elemo sina riam predictam adtunc in tenura Johaimis Stanley Ac om nia Ula duo messuagia sive tenementa cum diversis parcellis terre eisdem pertinentibus in parochia Sancte Sativole extra portam orientalem Civitatis Exonie predicte adtunc in seperali tenura Eoberti Carew et Eoberti Periam Ac totum illud clau sum terre in parochia Sancte Sativole predicte adtunc in tenura Thome Johnson quondam datum pro manutencione obitus Jo hannis Stephens in Ecclesia CathedraU predicta Aceciam omnia Ula duo tenementa sive messuagia cum pertinenciis infra paro chiam Omnium Sanctorum super Muros in Civitate Exonie ad tunc iu tenura Johannis WeUs quondam data pro manutencione obitus Johannis Vesy in EcclesiS, Cathedrali predicta Aceciam omnia Ula quatuor messuagia sive tenementa cum pertinenciis juxta portam vocatam the Little Style in Civitate Exonie in parochia beate Marie Majoris adtunc in tenura WUlielmi Trevet et WUUelmi Greenwood quondam data pro manutencione sepe- ralium obituum Thome Chepington cujusdam NevUe Episcopi Jo hannis Yott Johannis HamUn et aliorum in Ecclesia Cathedrali Exonie predicta Aceciam totum iUud tenementum cum perti nencus in Cookerewstreete predicta in parochia beate Marie Majoris predicte adtunc in tenura WUUelmi Greenwood quon dam datum pro manutencione obitfis Johannis Ward in Ecclesia CathedraU predicta Ac totam Ulam rectoriam Sancti Uveli cum pertinencUs in comitatu Cornubie adtunc in tenura Johannis Lande quondam datam pro manutencione obitiis GUberti Titing et Thome Bitton Episcopi in Ecclesia Cathedrali predict^ Ac eciam omnia iUas terras et tenementa cum pertinenciis in Cre diton in comitatu Devonie adtunc. in tenma cujusdam Bende quondam data pro manutencione obitus Johannis Bowthe quon dam Exonie Episcopi et quorandam Barefoote et Bourton in Ecclesia Cathedrali predicta Aceciam omnia iUa terras et tene menta cum pertinencUs in Trewetha et PiUigenowe in parochia Maynhennet in comitatu Cornubie quondam data pro manuten cione obitus Johaimis Edgecombe in Ecclesia CathedraU predicta Aceciam totum Ulud messuagium sive terram cum pertinenciis in parochia beate Marie de Gradibus in Civitate Exonie adtunc CHAETBES, &c. 491 m tenurS, Jacobi Taylor quondam datum pro manutenione obitAs Matthei Downe in Ecclesia CathedraU predicts Aceciam omnia ilia terras messuagia redditus et revenciones cum perti nenciis in Plymouth in comitatu Devonie predicts ad tunc in tenura Thome Denys quondam data pro manutencione seperalis obitus Eadulphi Eingsteed et Johannis Skynner m Ecclesia Ca thedraU predict^ Aceciam totam illam rectoriam de Brewred cum pertinenciis in comitatu Cornubie Aceciam omnia iUia duo messuagia sive tenementa cum pertiuenciis in Cookerewstreete in parochia beate Marie Majoris in Civitate Exonie predicta ad tunc in tenur^ Willielmi Greenwood quondam data pro manu tencione obitiis Petri WilUams, Agnetis uxoris ejus et Johannis Mourton Cardinalis in Ecclesia CathedraU predicta Aceciam totum iUud messuagium cum pertinencUs in parochia Sancti Tri nitatis extra portam australem dicte Civitatis Exonie adtunc in tenura Eichardi Bragge quondam datum pro manutencione obi tus Eichardi Martin et Johannis Eyse in Ecclesia Cathedrali predicta Aceciam omnia ilia duo messuagia cum pertinenciis in parochia Sancte Sativole extra portam orientalem Civitatis Ex onie predicte adtunc in tenura Galfridi Herman et Thome Lamder quondam data pro manutencione obitus Johannis Arundell quondam Episcopi Exonie Aceciam totam Ulam rectoriam Sancte Marine cum pertinenciis in comitatu Cornubie Aceciam omnes ilia terras redditus et possessiones dictis Decano et Capitulo quon dam data pro manutencione obitus Walteri KUkenny in Ecclesili- Cathedrali predicta Aceciam omnia Ula terras redditus et pos sessiones dictis Decano et Capitulo quondam data pro manuten cione seperalium obituum Petri quondam Exonie Episcopi Thome Hertford Walteri Pembrooke Walteri Brewer Johannis Wiger et Johannis Eowse in Ecclesia CathedraU predict^ Aceciam totam Ulam rectoriam de Westanti cum pertinencus in comitatu Devonie Aceciam totam iUam rectoriam de Escoker cum perti nenciis in comitatu Somersett' Aceciam totem Ulam rectoriam de Widecombe cum pertinencUs in comitatu Devonie Aceciam omnia Ula terras redditus tenementa et hereditamenta in Lang ford Ffyhed et AshUl cum pertinenciis iu dicto comitatu Somer sett' dictis Decano et Capitulo quondam data pro manutencione obitus Johannis Speik militis et uxoris sue in EcclesiH Cathe drali predicta Aceciam totam illam domum mansionalem sive messuagium cum pertinenciis infra Clausum in Civitate Exonie predicta adtunc in tenura Archidiaconi Totton dictis Decano et Capitulo quondam datam pro manutencione obitiis Thome Bod ham in Ecclesia CathedraU predicti Aceciam totum Ulud tene mentum cum pertinencUs in Cookrewstreete in parochiS, beate Marie Majoris in Civitate Exonie predicta quondam datum a,d manutencionem quorumdam usuum superstitionis in Ecclesia predicta Aceciam omnia et singula redditus terras et tenementa 492 APPENDIX. in Stone Sydbery et Sydford in dicto comitatu Devonie dictis Decano et Capitulo quondam data pro manutencione obitiis Eogeri Charleton et Thome Charleton Aceciam omnia Ula red ditus terras et possessiones dictis Decano et Capitulo Ecclesie Cathedralis Beati Petri Exonie predicte quondam data pro ma nutencione obittis Johannis de Mountacute in Ecclesia Cathe drali predicti Ac totam Ulam rectoriam de Mortho in dicto comitatu Devonie Aceciam omnia et singula maneria redditus terras tenementa et hereditamenta cum pertinencUs in Winter- borne Wast in comitatu Dorsett predictis Decano et Capitulo quondam data pro manutencione obitus Edmundi Stafford in Ecclesia CathedxaU predicta Necnon omnia Ula redditus terras tenementa iet hereditamenta in Stone Sydbery et Sydford in dicto comitatu Devonie quondam data dictis Decano et Capitulo pro sustentacione cantariste sive cantarie sive stipendii in Syd bery predicta Aceciam omnia et singula Ula proficua et annuaUa proficua centum solidorum per predictos Decanum et Capitulum preantea solubiles per cantariam sive cantar' vocatum Eoridge Chauntrey et salaria sua Aceciam totum illud messuagium sive tenementum cum pertinencUs in parochia Sancti Martini in Ci vitate Exonie predicts adtunc in tenuri Thome Brereton Nec non totum Ulud tenementum et duas shcpas cum pertinencUs in parochia Sancti Pancrasii infra dictam Civitatem Exonie adtunc in tenuri Eichardi Prowse Necnon omnia ilia duo tenementa cum pertinencUs in parochia Sancte Sativole predicta infra co mitatum Civitatis Exonie adtunc in seperali tenuri Eichardi Monntstephen et Johannis Oldham Necnon totum Ulud mes suagium cum pertinencUs in parochia Sancti Thome in comitatu Devonie adtunc in tenura WilUelmi Freer Necnon totum iUud messuagium situatum apud WarmehUl in parochia Hennock in dicto comitatu Devonie adtunc in tenuri Thome Dennys datum dictis Decano et Capitulo Ecclesie Cathedralis beati Petri Ex onie predicte et successoribus suis vel quibusdam ffeofatis ad eorum usum ad inveniendum et manutenendum obitum Eogeri Keyes in Ecclesia Cathedrali predicta Aceciam totum iUud mes suagium sive tenementum cum pertinencUs infra Clausum in Civitate Exonie predicta adtunc in seperali tenura dictorum Decani Capituli Ecclesie Cathedralis beati Petri Exonie pre dicte vel Laurentii Bodley eorum tenentis quondam datum dictis Decano et Capitulo Ecclesie CathedraUs predicte et successori bus suis pro manutencione obitus Bartholomei Decani Weele et Upham in Ecclesia Cathedrali predicta Aceciam totum iUud messuagium sive tenementum cum pertinenciis infra Clausum in Civitate Exonie predicte adtunc in tenura dicti Decani et Capi tuU vel Hugonis Wyatt eorum tenentis quondam datum pre dictis Decano et Capitulo et eorum successoribus pro manuten cione obitiis Walteri Merriott et Nassington in Ecclesia Cathe- CHAETBES, &c. 493 drali predicta Aceciam Ula duo messuagia sive tenementa cum pertinencUs in alto vico Civitatis Exonie predicte in parochia Sancti Pancrasii adtunc in seperali tenura dictorum Decani et Capituli vel WiUielmi Skynner eorum tenentis quondam data dictis Decano et Capitulo Ecclesie Cathedralis predicte et eorum successoribus pro manutencione obitiis WilUelmi Capron in Ec clesia Cathedrali predicta Aceciam totum illud messuagium sive tenementum cum pertinenciis in parochia Sancti Stephani in predicta Civitate Exonie adtunc in tenura Willielmi Garmyn quondam datum pro manutencione obitus Johannis HoUand in Ecclesia Cathedrali predicts Aceciam totam illam rectoriam de BockreU cum pertinencUs in comitatu Devonie HABENDUM ET TENENDUM seperalia rectorias maneria terras tenementa redditus hereditamenta et cetera premissa predicta cum perti nencUs prefatis Decano et Capitulo Ecclesie CathedraUs Sancti Petri in Exonia et successoribus suis imperpetuum sub annuaU redditu centum quadraginta et quinque librarum ad ffesta Sancti Michaelis et Annunciationis beate Marie Virginis per equales porciones solvendo. 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Wescomb, C, Esq., Exeter. Whitehead, A., Esq., Weston-super-Mare. Whiteway, J. H., Esq., Fishwick House, Teignbridge. Wilcocks, J. M., Esq., Exeter. Wilkinson, Thos., Esq,, Plymouth, Williams, Rev, Philip, Rewe. Williams, J., Esq., Chudleigh. Wills, Rev. W., Holoombe-Rogus. Wilmot, Paul, Esq., Clift House, Northam. Wolston, Rev. Christopher, Tor, Newton. Wood, J., Esq., Courtlands, Lympston. WooUcombe, Rev. Canon, Heavitree. Woolmer, Mrs., Exeter. Wrey, Sir Bourchier P., Bart., Tawstock. Wrey, Mrs. Robert, Wear Cliff, Lyme Regis, Yarde, T,, Esq., Culver House, Chudlpigh. Yonge, J. B., Esq., Puslinoh, Yealmpton, Yule, Eev. J. C. D., Bradford. WILLIAM BOEEKTS, PltmTEK, BKOADGATE, EXETEE. LIYES THE BISHOPS OE EXETER, AND % f istorg 0f t|e Catfeekal ; BY THE EEV. GEOEGE OLIVEE, D.D. INDEX COMPILED BT J. S. ATTWOOD, (Compiler also of an Index to Oliver's History of Exeter, etc. J LONDON: C. ELKIN Mi^THEWS, VIGO STBEET. 1887. INDEX. A., Archdeacon, 287. Abbas, Bishop, 375«. Abbodisbyri, Ralph de, 393 to 407. Abbot of Buvkfast, his house, 253. Acland, Baldwin, 284. .Sdulphus, or Adulphus, 2. .ffilfwold, Alfwold, or Alewold, 3, 4. .ffithelgar, or Algar, 3. Akelwoldus, 174. Alain, Nicholas, 402. Albamarra, Sir Reginald de, 2 SO. Aldhelm, 1. Aldrington, Eichard, 294, Alencon, Alenyon, John de, 285 : PhiUp de, 286, Alfonsus, Peter, 368m, Alfricus, or Aluricus, 4. Alienated Property recovered, 7. AUanson, George, 290. Alley, Eoger, 289. Alley, or Allein, Bp. WilUam, 62, 138, 141, 257, 265, 272, 289. Allhallows, Goldsmith Street, 37, 489. Allhallows-on-the-Wall, 37, 490. Almshouse, Kalenderhay, 260. Alnothus, Archdeacon, 287. Aire, Richard de, 426, {see also Aure.) Altar Piece, 186, Altars in the Cathedral, {see Chantries.) Alternon Church, 35, 190, 261, 417, Alured, 411, 413, 414, Alured, Archdeacon, 292. Alured, Dispenser, 411, Aluricus, {see Alfrims.) Alwington Church, 264. Andre, Eobert, 421, Andrea, John, 366». Andrew, Isabella, 295 ; John, 295. Annesley, Eichard, 276, Anniveliar Priests, 193, 219 : College, 264, Anselm, Treasurer, 300, 414. Ape, the, Sign of, 117. Appeldurham, Poor of, 456. Apulia, Bishop Simon de, 32, 180, 190, 270, 288, 297, (see also Simon.) Aqueducts, {see Conduits.) Arceneske, Reginald le, 422; Roger le, 421. Arcedeken, Archediakene, Matilda de, 316 ; Michael, 322. Archdeacons not necessarily Canons, 220. Archileacon ofTotnes, his residence, 34. Ardeine, John, 467. Arfastus, 7», ¦*'''?* ¦~T^}'^7,?'^ AUeine, 273 ; Apulia, HO ; Arundell, 272 ; Athelstan, 199, 208: Bab- ington, 272 ; Baddlesmere, 195 : Bartholo mew, Bp., 270; Berkeley, 207, 218. 271- Bitton, 209, 218, 270, 41i ; Blackall, 273': Blackburn, 273 J Blondy, 207, 270 ; Bohun, 196, 197, 204, 209 ; Botel, or Botyl, 20i ¦ Bothe, 271; Bradbridge, 272 ; Brantyniri ham, 209, 271, 364; Brewer, 208, 264, 270: Bronescombe, 198, 270; Brownriag, 275 • Bryan, 197; Buller, 274; Cary, 273,274: Chancellor's, 269 ; Charlton, 195, 196 ; Chi chester, 204, 207, 270; Clagget, 273; Clare, 186 ; Combe, 264 ; Cotton, 272 ; Courtenay. 200, 207, 209, 256, 264, 271 272, 274; Dean's, 269 ; De la Pole, 195 ; Devon, Countess of, 364, 365 ; DrokenJord, 442 : Dynham, 442 ; Edward the Confessor, 199, 20.5, 207 ; Fisher, 274 ; Fox, 200, 271 • Gauden, 273 ; Grandisson, 196, 197, 198, 203, 204, 205, 209, 218, 264, 271, 321, 322; Grey, 195; Hall, 273; Harvey, 201; Hastings, 195 ; Hereford, 442 ; Hunger ford, 255, 256 ; John, Bp., 270 ; Keppel, 209, 273; Ketterick, 271; Keys, 263; King, 271 ; Lacej-, 203, 204, 209, 264, 271 ; Lamplugh, 273 ; Lavington, 2P9, 273 ; Leofric's, 208, 269 ; Marshal, 270 ; Miller, 263 ; Montacute, 198, 203, 204, 218 ; Mon- thermer, 203, 204 ; Neville, 195, 208, 271 ; Northwode, 197, 198; Oldam, 199, 200, 262, 272 ; Osbern, Bp., 207, 269 ; Pelham, 274; Pevercll, 256; Plantagenet, 186; Poitou, 186 ; Potter, 195. 196 ; Precentor's, 263, 264, 269; Quivil, 270; Ralegh, 197, 204; Eedmayn, 271; Rivers, 196, 200; Boos, 195 ; Eoss, 273 ; St. George's, 201, 205 ; Scotland, 186 ; See, the 195, 197, 199, 269, 2G9m; Somaster, 20t», 203 j Sparrow, 273 ; Speke, 200, 203 ; Stafford, 195, 196, 207, 239. 271 ; Stapeldon, 201, 208, 218, 264, 270 ; Treasurer's, 269 ; Tre- lawnv, 273; Turberville, 272; Valence, 195 ; ¦ Valletort, 203 ; Veysy, 200, 272 ; Ward, 273 ; Warelwast, 208, 269 ; Weston, 273; Wingfield, 195; Woolton, 272, ' Arundell, Edward de, 449; Bishop John, 116, 118, 120, 271, 275, 294, 491 ; Ralph de, 278, 422. Ascelinus, Archdeacon, 284, 290, Ascher, Bobert, 348 ; William, 348, Ashburton, 67, 69, 439 ; Church, 29, 412. Ashcombe Church, 42«, Ashill, Azshill, 439, 491, Ashperton, Asperton, Aysperton, Robert de, 309, 379, 392, 396, 400, 407. Ashperton Church, Hereford Diocese, 450. Ashton, Richard, 289; Wilham, 392, 393, 394, 395. Ashwell, 488, Ate Knolle, Thomas, 315, Athelney, Abbot and Church of, 66. Athelstan, King, 173, J82, Aton, John, 334, 367. Atterbury, Francis, 292, Atterlane, Ralph, 286. Atwill, John, 112. Auc, Auco, Hugh de, 287 ; William de, 284, 292. Aure, Richard de, 429; William de,- 410, {see also Aire.) Austell, Austle, Thomas, 240, 284, 320, 337 347. Avigo, Hugh de, 290, Aylesbeare, 193, 489. Ayscough, Ayscogh, Robert, 109, 286. Ayshill, {see Ashill.) Aysperton, Robert de, {see Ashperton.) B ' Babington, Bp. Gervase, 142, 272. Badeston, Helia de, 416. Bagetor, Philip de, 278, Baker, George, 292; John, 470; WilliatD, 386. Raldus, {see Ubaldus.) Baldwin, 411, 412. Baldwin, Archbp. Cant., 23, 29. Baldwin, Archdeacon, 285, 290. Baldwin, John, 490, Bampfylde, Dorothy, 191, Bampton, Oxon, 7, 10, Banbury, (see Danbury.) Barber, (Barbitonsori) Galfrid, 449, Barber, (Sissoris) John, 449. Barcombe, Mr,, 252«. Barefoote, 490, Barforth, Eardfote, Barfoth, Eobert, 108, 283, 294. Barnoldby. Thomas, 281. Barnstaple Bridge, 67 ; Church, 278. Barnes, George, 295 ; Henry, 292 ; Ralph, 263, 292, 296.; Barrett, Dr. Ihomas, 263, 287. Bartholomew, Archdeacon, 285, 299, 416 Bartholomew, Archdeacon and Bishop, 22, 108n, 190, 270, 285, 287, 290, 292, 293, 297, 410», 411, 412, Bartholomew, Dean, 310, 311, 492. Bartholomew, John, 218, 295. Bartholomew Cemetery, 247. Bartlam, Thomas, 280, Barton, Philip, 163, 296; Thomas, 346; William, 291, Basset, Gilbert, 290, Bastilonde, Henry de la, 397. Bates, Roger, 282, Bath, Walter de, 408. Baton, Walter de, 300, Beale, Robert, 221«. Beare, the, 252«, Beare, Thomas, 489. Beargate, Beregate, the, 262, 252«. Bedell, Thomas, 289. Beer Estate, 34. Beer Ferrers Eectory, 147. Belasis, Anthony, 276. BeUo Campo, Philip de, 286, 449. Bello Prato, Stephen de, 422. Bellringer, John, 384. Bells of the Cathedral, 174, 178, 387; the Bokerel, 187, 379; Bracton's, 187, 389 ; Chancellor's, 187, 379 ; Cobthorne, 187 ; Courtenay, 187 ; Germeyn, 187, 379 ; Grandisson, 187, 384-8; the Great (tee Peter;) Jesus, 187, 382, 383, 389; Mary, 187, 382, 383, 387 ; Peter, 187, 245, 533 : 384; Stafford, 187; Trinity, 187, 387 388, 391 ; Walter, 187, 379. Bells in Chudleigh Church, 450. Bende, 490, Bennet, Adam, 269 ; Thomas, alias Dusgate, 122«. Benton, 19. Berkley, Berkelegh, Bishop James, 70, 271, 301, 312, 313, 442>i. Bernard, Precentor and Archdeacon, 278, 290, 412. Berneyr, 439, Berry Pomeroy Church, 42«. Bertin's, Berton's, Lamp, 390, 391, Bertram, Michael, 381, Besiman, {see Bisiman.) Bethell, Bp, Christopher, 167, 274. Bevyn, Hugh, 226. Bickley, Bicklegh Bridge, 66 ; Gate, 253. Birinus, St. 1, Bishop deprived of See, 134, 137; im prisoned, 137,157; nominated J,P,, Uin. Bishop's Clyst, 41, 45, 57, 65, 78, 92, 95, 96, 107, 110, 117, 118, 120, 124, 129, 136, 439, 443. Bishop's Nympton, 35, 149. Bishop's Palace, 63, 92, 117, 120, 133, 136, 149, 150. 163, 167, 168, 254, 387, 389; Sold, 269; Entrance to, 257. Bishop's Registers commenced, 40 ; Sold, 40«, Bishops' Seals, 16, 26, 29, 31, 146. Bishop's Tawton, In, 34, 129, 439; Church, 474, Bishop's Teignton, 46, 65, 81, 93, 439, 448. Bishop's Throne, 107, 210. Bishopric Vacant, 14, 29, 32. Bisiman, Besiman, Galfrid de, 415 ; J. de, 415 ; William de, 80, 295, , 300. Bismario, Galfrid de, 288; Jordan de, 288; William de, 283. Bitton, Bytton, Button, Bishop Thomas de, 52, 177, 202, 235, 237, 270, 310, 311, 315, 316, 346, 380, 422, 429, 441, 490. Blacford, Roger de, 414, 'l^lfi i^X^li, Bp- Offspring, Blackburne, Bishop Uncelot. 161, 273, Blakeborne Henry de, 203«, 206. .Blakedon, John de, 421. Blaunkmonster, Ralph 449 Blaxton. John, 183«, 276, 284, 296, 477« Bloirdy Blond, Hilary, 37; John, 37 Richard, Chancellor and Bishop 37, 270, 280, 298, 416, 423. Blound, Eohert de, 307. Blund, Blundy, Richard, 291, 293, 301. Boliyoh, John, 458, Bocace, John, 37l«. . Bockhampton, Bokhampton, Brock- hampton, 97, 468, 469, 461, 488, BockreU, {see Buekerel.) Bodham, Bodeham, Thomas de, 50, 291, 316, 430, 491, Bodley, Bodlegh, Christopher, 296; Laurence, 492 ; Thomas, 376, Bodmin, Prior of, 450, Bodringham, William of, 288. Body, William, 289, Bohun, Humphrey de, 203, 204 ; Mar garet, 204, 214, 238, 266, Bokerel, {see Bmkerill.) Jokyngham, Thomas de, 281, Bold, Henry, 216«, 280, Bollet, Henry de, 60, Bolley, Bolegh, BoUeeo, Henry de, 288, 291; Thomas de, 291, BoUer, Roger, 190m, 275, 278, 283, 286, 352», 391, Boniface, St., 3«, Bonus, Archdeacon, 285, Books and MSS, iu the Cathedra], 23, 64, 188, 350, 351, 353, 366, et seq. Books given to Cathedral, 7, 14, 85, Borington, Bartholomew, 490. Bosham, Church, Sussex, 36, 62, 86, 128, 466, Boson, Robert, 281. Bosse, Nicholas, 489. Boteler, Botiler, Butteler, Thomas le, 291, 299, 300, Bothe, Bowthe, Bp. John, 106, 110«, 271, 490, Bott, Henry de, 421, Boundaries of City Parishes flxed, 33. Bourton, 490, (see Bertin's Lamp.) Bouyle, John de, 429, Bovey Hethfield Bridge, 66, Bowthe, {see Bothe.) ¦Boy Bishop, 227, 314, 340, 'Boyok, Henry, 367«, Bradbridge, Bp. William, 140, 141, 257, 272, 276. ;Bradlegh,Bradelegh, John de, 283, 290, 293. j Bragge, Richard, 491. Brailegh, (see Braylegh.) Brampford, 149. Branscomb, Brankescombe, Brandes- cumb 7, 19, 110 ; Church 17, 411. Brantyngham, Brentyngham, Bishop Ihomas, C3, 81, 181, 182, 207. 21o, 215n, 254, 260, 261, 262, 271 340 346, 387, 454, 455,' 471 484; his tomb, 92, 237, Brasse8iindEpitaphsintheCathedral,236 Bratton, or Bracton, Henrv de. 222 281,293, J , ii, Bratton's Altar, 214; Bratton's Mass 222, 253, 474. Bratton Church, 81. Braunton Church, 34, 474. Braybroke, Nicholas de, 86, 288, 450, 451, 452 ; Robert de, 206«, 288 ; William de, 86, 449, 461. Braylegh, Brailegh, .Richard de, 64, 223, 275, 296, 301, 309, 310, 313, 314,315,388,389,443. Brazier, John, 385. Breenford, William, 489. Bremer, John, 288. Bremmele, Richard de, 281. Brenton, John de, 315, Brentyngham, {see Brantyngham.) .Brereton, Thomas, 492. Brerwood, Thomas, 294. Brewer, Briwere, Bruer, Briewer, Brur- were, Robert, 412 ; Walter, 491 ; William, 35, 234, 315; William, Senr., 301 ; William, Precentor and Bishop, 34, 182h, 190, 235, 254, 261, 270, 278, 283, 286, 288, 290, 298, 316, 349, 414, 417, 419, 420, 423. Brewton, William, 287, {seealso Brueton.) Brian, Abbot of Tor, 421, Brice, Andrew, 252n, Bridestowe Church, 93, Bridport, Peter de, 392, 393, 394, 395. Briewere, {see Brewer.) Brigg, John, 386. Brito, William, 367». Briwere, {see Brewer.) Brixton (Bichtrichstane), 19, 490j Broadgate, 282. Broadhembury Church, 47, Broadwoodwiger, Manor of, 55«, Brocthampton, {see Bockhampton.) Broke, (see Brooke.) Brokeland, Henry, 331, Bromyarde, John de, 374«, Bronescombe, Bp. Walter., 38, 39, 46, 63, 175, 176, 177. 187, 191, 192, 196, 210, 221«, 224, 270, 298, 316, 421, 422, 423, 471, Brooke, Broke, Robert, 138», 283. Brown, John. 93 ; Thomas, 466, Brownrigg, Bp. Ralph, 147, 161, 273, 279, Bruere, {see Brewer.) Bruered, 491. (see alto St. Bruered.) Brereton, John de, 276, 281, {set alio Brydham, Hugh, 291. IBrtwtm.) Bubbewyth, Nicholas, 206«. Buckerel Church, i2n, 45, 46, 421 ; Rectory, 493. Buckfast Monastery, 38; Abbot of, 450 ; his house, 253. Buckland Abbey, 45, 63; Abbot of, 460. Buckland Filleigh Church, 421. Budd, Budde, John, 184, 212, 390, 391. Budleigh Lordship, 57. Buffestr, Henry de, 421. Bugwell, Reginald de, 276. Bulls, In, 18, 98. Bull, John, 290, 295. Buller, William, Dean and Bishop, 164, 273, 277. Burhwold, 6. Burial Register at Cathedral, 142. Burk, William, 300. Bumeby, Burnebe, John, 283, 291, 467. Burneire, 149. Burnell, Lawrence, 282. Burnett, Lewis, 296. Burrington Church, 53. Burscough, Bobert,'294. Burton, Daniel ; 280 ; John, 333. Burying Ground for Criminals, 136. Butcher Row, 122«. Butteler, Thomas le, {see Boteler.) Button, Bp., {see Bitton-) Byckebury, Bykebyr, William de, 426, 429, Bykelegh, William de, 410. Byketon, William de, 300. Bysshe, Edward, 240. Bytto^, Bp., {see Bitton.) Byvile, John de, 426. c Calenderhay, Kalenderhaie, 260, 385. Campo Ernulfi, Henry de, 410. Canal, tbe,'l34». Canons, their number diminished, 139. Canon, William, 179, 380, 383. Canonsleigh, 80, 460. Canonteign Manor, 42m. Canterbury Cathedral, property granted to, 25«. Canterbyri, John de, 91i«. Canuie, 174. Capron, William, 493. Carewe. George, 276, 279, 286, 291, 320; P„320; Sir Peter, 133, 234, 276 : Robert, 491. Carey, Bp. William, 166, 274. CargoU, 149, Carleton, Adam de,, (see Charleton.) Carnifex, 25fl, Carpenter, John, 394, 397. Oarslegh, James, 286. j , Cary, Edward, 296 ; George, 276 , JoM, or James, 100»; Bobert. 287, Bishop Valentine, 144, 257, 269, 272, 282, „ . , . Cathedral estabUshed m Exeter, 7, BuUding, rebuilding, tMBn.ii.aM, and additions to, 16, 30, 66, 101, 174.176,177,178, 179,181,199; Divided, 162 ; History of, 173 ; Suffers from Siege of Stephen, 176; Interior of, 189; Exterior of, 243, Cathedral Treasure, Plate, ke., 231. Cathedral Properties, 7, 10, 13, 18, 19, 26, 27, 30, 36, 42, 63, 66* 81, 83, 91, 108, 109, 139, 140, 143, 153, 166, 163, 193. Cathedral Yard, or Close, the, 191», 221m, 247, 249, 387, 389, 491, 492; License to enclose, 252. Catherine Gate, 253. Catterick, Bp. John, 99 ; his tomb and epitaph,. IOO. Caynoc, 38. CeU for Rucluse at Crediton, 36. Cementarius, Roger, 392, 396, 400, 407. Cemeteries, 176m, 180, 247, 249, 390, Cemetery Chapel, 176«. Crommanyng, Oxon, 7, 10. Ceryciaus, Sir Richard de, 422. Chacepork, Peter, 281». Chambers, John, 279; kobert (Camer ario,) 411 ; Thomas, 93. Champemowne, Agnes, 391. Chancellor, the, 84 ; Property appro priated to, 47. Chantries, Altars and Chapels in Ca thedral : — High Altar, 177, 178, 188 ; Holy Cross, 212; Holy Ghost, 245, «46n ; Lady, 49, 97, 177, 188, 189, 214, D91, 456n; Mortuary, 176; Pembroke's, 483 ; St. Agatha's, 216 ; St, Andrew's, 16, 175, 176, 202, 206; St. Anne's, 216; 8t. Appolonia's,' 265; St. Blaze, 423; St, Edmund's, 217, 251; St. Edward's, 176 ; St. Gabriel's, 46, 177, 190 196, 388 ; St. George's. 199, 201 j St. James, 202, 205, 379 ; St. John's, 97, 176, 188, 194, 210, 388, 389, 423, 465n ; SS. John, Blaze, and Pieran, 176 ; St. Mary's, 177, 190, 194, 217, 238, 266, 3S7,'385; SS, Mary and Thomas, 177 j SS, Mary, Peter and Paul, 178; St, Michael's, 29, 213, 379, 387; St. Nicholas', 214; St, Paul's, 176, 186, 212. 379; St, Pyran's, 423; St, Kadegund'sl 83, 130, 171, 218, 38.-), 426 ; SS. Radegund and Bichard, 176; Richard, 426; St, Saviour's, 188, 198 ; St. Stephen, 210 ; St, Chapels, 29, in Exeter, 13, Chapter, appropriation of propertv to 21, 23, 29, 36, 39, 45, 47, 53, 80 141,176,176,177, ' ' ' ' Chapter House 108, 188, 189,245,246. Charity Schools, 160 Charters, 8, 28, 41, 408; Confirmed, 10. Charieton, Carleton, Cherleton, Adam, or Ade de, 288, 333; Roger de, 291, 315, 435, 492; Thomas de, 65, 76, 291, 315, 492. Charnel Chapel, 217. Chaterton, Edmund, 291, Chedham Manor, Sussex, (see Chudeham.) Chepington, Thomas, 490. Cherde, Chorde, John de, 398-402. Cheriton Bishop, 120m. Cherleton, (tee Charleton.) Chester, Richard, 457. Cheyne, John, 286, Cheyney, Sir William, 234, 301, Chichester, Cicestre, Henry de, 300 ; Bp, Robert, 17, 270, 284, 408; William de, 307, Chippenham, Thomas, 291. Cholmeley, Hugh, 296. Choral Vicars, 31, 36, 101. Chorde, {see Cherde.) Christ Church, 37. Christechurche, John de, 392-5, 402. Christenstowe, John de, 252, Chronicon of the Chureh of Exon, 174, Chudeham, Chuddeham Manor, 36, 437, 439, Chudleigh, 45, 47, 67, 65, 66, 79, 82, 88, 96», 103, 115, 122, 437, 439, 443; Church, 450, 474 ; Wood, 180«, Chuddelegh, Ade de, 399-407, Church Ornameuls forbidden to be sold, 131. Church Plate applied to Canal Funds, 490. Cinus or Cino, 369m, Cirencester, EUas de, 221m. Cissoris, (see Barher.) City Boundaries fixed, 33. City Walls, repairs of, 432. Clagget, Bishop Nicholas, 162, 273. Clarke, Alured, 277, Cleyve Monastery, 489, Clifford, Clyfford, Anthony, 240 ; Charles, Lord, 488; F., 384; John de, 449; Lord Treasurer, 493. Clist, {see Clyst.) Clocks of the Cathedral, 178, 212, 386, 387-390, Clook BeU, the, 385, . Clockmaker, Roger, 390. Close, the, {see Cathedral Tard.) Cloth Market, the, 247. Clyst Gabriel, 445; Chapel, 118; Church, 261. Cobthorn, Cobethorne, John,10,226, 27S. Cockwater, John, 194. CoffinsweU, 26. Cokworthy, John, 242. Colaton Raleigh Church, 34, 474, Cole, Johu, 292 ; Ralph, 420. Colebrook, Colbriohe, Church, 23. 27 28, 409, 410», 490. Coleton, Colyton, Richard de, 64, 275 278, 348, 443, Walter de, 385. ' Colles, CoUez, Collys, Walter, 278. 324, 327 ; WiUiam, 356, Collumpton, Columpton, John. 92- William, 125. Colyton Manor, 175. Comb, Combe, John, 263, 264, 279, 284, 348, Conflagration, 176. Conduits, 176«, 384, 389. Constantine Church, 47. Convicted Clerks, Custody of, 413. Cooke, Cook, Thomas, 391; Walter,286. Cook Row, Oookrewe, Cookerewstreete, 215m, 488-491. Coplestone, Hugh de, 410; John, 282. Corbin, Galfrid, 414, Corfe, John de, 392-6. Cornish Wood, 42, Cornubia, Galtero, 412; PhiUp de, 392-6, 398-402, 404, 405, Cornwall, diocese of, 2; Bishops of, 2m, Cornwall, Roger, 299. Cornwood, 102, 104l| Church, 261. Cornworthy, 460. Corpus Christi, Oxford, Oldam's mu- niflcence to,. 119. Coryton, 112, Coryton, John de, 112, Cosmo III in Exeter, 154. Cotton, Edward, 258», 282, 284, 290, 292 ; Bp. William, 143, 262, 272, 279 ; WiUiam, 161, 279, 292. Counterfeit CoUations, 37. Courtenays, the, 234. Courtenay, Bridget, 295 ; Elizabeth, 289»t, 328 ; Bp, Henry Eeginald, 165, 274 ; Hugh, 66, 79, 80, 204, 214, 238, 256, 384; Isabella, 79, 295; Margajet, 214, 238; Matilda, 323 ; Sir Peter, 238, 328 ; Bp. Peter, 109, 112, 113, 187, 207, 213, 265, 271, 275, 285; Sir Philip, 266, 289n; Philippa, 289«; Eichard, 96», 138n; Robert, 300 ; Sir Walter, 112; William, air William, 214, 214n, 234, 295, 338, 449. Courtenay Window and Mantlepieoe 265. Coutances, Walter de, 286. Coverdale, Bp, Myles, 132,232,272, 320, Cowick Priory, 36. 80. Cowley Bridge, 66. , Crassus, Anselm, 283. Crediton, 3, 27, 36, 41, 63. 67. 66, 109: Bishops of, 2; See first fixed there, 2 • transferred thence, 6 ; Church of, 37, 80, 83, 86, 89, 106, 136, 446, 449, 450, 466; Manor of, 123, 137, 143. Criminals' Burial Ground, 416. Cruce, Gilfrid, Giffard de, 401-5 ; John de, 399-402. Crypt, the, 8, 176. CuUompton Church, 13. Culmstock, 7, 19, 173». Cunnerton, Robert de, 421. Curfew, 253. Cusantia, William de, 288, Customs, ancient, ofthe Cathedral, 219, Cuttingbeake, Cuddenbick, 149, 169, Cyncheard, Prince, supposed to be buried in Exeter Monastery, Sn. D Daccombe Manor, Moretonhampstead, 25», Daggesoomb, Robert, 349, Danbury, Danbeur, Banbury, Michael le, 399-402, Daniel, 299, Darcy, Sir T,, 123. Daulecot, Michael le, 399, Dauntesey, Edward, 288, Dawlish (DuueUs) Church, 17, 19, 411, Dean, the ofice created, 34 ; his resi dence, 34; raised to Bishopric, the first instancej|110 ; appppriation of property to, 34, Dean and Chapter, Appropriations of property to, 35, 43, 46, 63m, 90, 97, 104, 117, 176, 190, 19hi, 199; Agreement to celebrate Quivil's obit 46; Charge upon, 109, Denham, WiUiam, 160, Dennis, Denys, Thomas, Sir Thomas, 122», 130, 131, 133, 234, 320, 491, 492. Derby, John de, 293, Devon, Bishops of, 2 ; Earl of, 288, Devon and Exeter Hospital, 277. Deyman, John, 320, Dier, Martin, 330, Dioceses of Cornwall, Devon and Som erset estabUshed, 2 ; of Cornwall and Devon consolidated, 5, Distemper Figures in the Cathedral, 191, 192, Dittisham, John de, 419, Dobell, Laurence, 469, Documents at the Cathedral, 176, Dodds, Gregory, 138, 276, Dodderidge, Dodderigge, Sir John, 191 ; Walter, 191n, 251. Dodscombe, Ralph de, 429. Dodynton, John, 283. Dominican Convent, 36, 283, DouUsford, 35, Dovere, Robert de, 300, ^ Dowett, David, 470. DownaU, John, 292, Downe, iraltbew, 491, Dowsing, Dowsyn, WilUam, 238, 457, Draynet, 63», 68. Draper, Thomas, 295, Drewe, Edward, 282, 290; Widow, 489, Dreyton, John de, 278. Druell, John, 286. Duely Rectory, 488, Dugdale, ^ViUiam, 240, Dunestanvill, Richard de, 411, DunkesweU Abbey, 35; Abbot of, 450. Dunsford Church, 47, 473. Duport, Alfred, 251. Duryard Wood, 265, Dusgate, (see Bennet.) Dymoke, Lady, 234, Dynam, John, 321, Dyrewyue, John de, 316, E Eadnoth, Ednod, Edwyuua, or Eadwine, 4. Eadwulf, 2, Eastgate, 162, 194, East Teignmouth, 490. East Window, the, 206. Edgecombe, John, 490.' Edgar, King, 173. Edward II, 206. Egidius, John, 370. Egloscruc Church, 29, 293, 412, Egioshiel Church, 49, 295. Ekerdon, William, 458, 459, Elizabeth, Princess. 203. EUacot, Henry, 489. Ellerkey Rectory, 488. Elyot, Elyott, Edmund, 469 ; William, 294, 347, 348, 468. Elys, William, 93, 455. Embrey, Mr,, 268m. Engleborn Chapel, 418, Episcopal prohibition of pastimes, 87, Episcopal Farm Stock, 443, Epitaphs in the Cathedral, 236, Erceneske, 253. Erindeham, Stephen de, 50, Ermigarde, " Domine," 421, Ernaldus, Archdeacon, 284, 285, 287, Esse, John de, 49, 50, 288, 291, 301, Esselegh, lvon de, 414, Estbroke, Thomas, 295, Estcoker, Escoker Rectory, 488 491 Estcott, Dauiel, 287, ' Estiun, Oxon, 7, 10, Eudon, John de, 281. Eustachius, 299, Evaunce, WiUiam, 138m. Everino, Cardinal de Peter de, 286 Evesham, Robert de, 50, 286. Exchequer Room, the, 176, 202 379 ¦J^xecutions for Heresy, 122 I"'Xe Island, 484 '''¦^^- ^-'-'««lfn.?,^e:4Y6 VtnV^l83 301 ; Phihp de, 293 ' ' Exeter College, Oxford,57 97,H0« 116 ^Ijxeter House, 103, 117. '^'•''"'^^0, Exeter Inn, 59m, Exiuinster Vicarage, 145 Extinct Parishes, 34 Eyre, John, 91, F ^"''183^179,^'''' "''' ^^^' ^8". 181. Fairs granted, 41, 57 K!'^Wilfamr29r°^°^'^^'^^^-Peniton, 112, Fercombe, Giles de, 402 Feres, Richard, 397, Filcomb, Thomas, 355. Pilton, Thomas de, 393-395 Fisher, Pysher, Bp, John, 165, 274 • Jonathan Parker, 295. 297- Robert, 286. Fishacre, Fissacre, Fyssacre, Egidio de, 426, 429 ; WilUam de, 421. Fissand Gate, 262. Fitzdrogo, .Walter, 288. Fitze GUde, Robert de, 291, Pitz Harding, Henry, 285, Filz Johu, John, 290, Fitz Peter, Walter, 283, 300, Fitz Ralph, Richard 82, 211, 369m. Fitz Robert, John, 38, 301, Pitz Rogo, WUliam, 285, 293, Fitz Walter, Robert, 178. Fleetwood, Charles, 290. Fleury, Hugh de, 367«, Flockston, Flokeston, Floxton, 65 439, 443, Florus, 373m. Ford, Abbot of, 460. Ford, Forde, Alice, 151: John de, 393, 394, 397-406; Thomas, 151. Forder, Thomas, 489, Foulkes, Peter, 280, 282, 296, Foundyng, WiUiam, 387. Fox, Bp. Richard, 112, 213, 262, 271, 279, 286; his tomb and epitaph, 114, Freer, WiUiam, 492, Frithelstock Priory, 56« ; Prior of, 450, Proude, Robert Hurrell, 292, Fulford, Baldwin, Sir Baldwin, 242, 288b, 289m; Henry, 294; John, 242, 286, 288, 291, 490; Sir Thomas, 288« : WiUiam, 38, 288«, 289m, 294, 321, 489, Pullwood, Francis, 292 Furnel, Adam de 4U ai , „ Philip de, 411 ''^'^"''''^'"2; F^fr''°'J°''°' 282, 296 Fylham, William, 241 281 Fysher, {,ce MshJr.) ' ^^' ''r^^^'^re, {see Mshaere.) Q Gaffos, 439, Galard, Bernard, 296, Galfrid, Archdeacon, 291. Galterus, Archdeacon, 291 Garmyn, {see Germyn.) Garnett, John, 277, Gaol Breaking, 260. Gascoigne, Thomas; 458, Gatisden, John, 369» 2% "^^' "^°^°' "^' ^^^' ^^^' 273, Caye, John, 470, George III at the Deanery, 164 ™o^«o' ^|™7°- Garmyn, John, 217, 282; Ralph, 60, 187, 278, 293 Richard, 309, 314; WilUam, 493, Gervase of Crediton, 38. Gervys, or Gewys, WilUam, 387, Ghilldisbourgh, Peter de, 291. Gibbons, John, 282. Giffard, Gyffard, AveHna de, 314- Godfrey, 293; Johu, 385; Walter,' 281, 293. ' Gifts to the Cathedral, 7, 14, 66, 73. Gilbert at Whipton, 287, Gilbert, John, 277, 296; Otho, Canon, 241,411; Richard, 241, Giles, Thomas, 392-394, GlasneyiCoUege, 41; Church, 83, 89, 446, Glaston, John de, 380, Glastonbury Abbey, 36, 449. Godelegh, John de, 65. Godiscote, WUUam de, 410. Godwin, Godwyn, Dr. Francis, 142, 296. Gorano, de, {see St. Gordno.) Gordon, George, 277, 280, 370m. Gosee, Roger, 308. Gosse, Nicholas, 282, 349, Grammar School, the, 57, 294, Grammar School, Manchester, founded by Bp, Oldam, 119. Grandisson, Bp, John, 3«, 25m, 62, 63, 84, 66, 75, 178, 182», 197, 263, 211, 216, 219, 222, 230, 285, 249, 264, 26S, 271, Z81 , 286, 300, 301, 319, 323, 324, 325, 326, 331, 332, 333, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 343, 345, 346, 347, 318, 349, 350, 352, 354, 356, 359, 361, 383, 384, 442», 444, 471, 476 ; his pecuniary difficulties, 79 ; succession to Peerage, 80 ; his Will, 82, 444; his tomb, 84 ; bis Ordinale, 84,' Grandisson, Peter, 80 ; WiUiam, 285, Grant, John, 295, Gratian, a monk, 366m, Greenwood, WUliam, 490, 491, Grene, John, 470, Grey, Bobert, 458^ 459 ; Walter de, 290. Grincking, — 213, Gros, ;Hugh le, 422, Grosse, John, 133, Grothead, Robert, 371 fl Gualensis, (.see TVallis.) Guildeford, Walter de, 46, Guildhall, the, 29, Guy of Evereux, 371». Gwennap, Weneppa Church, 288, 414, Gyffard, (see Giffard.) H Haccombe Church, 116m, 141, Hache, Thomas, 129, {see also Hatch.) Haddon, John, 276. Halcott, Robert, 370m. Hales, Alexander, 370m. Hall, Elizabeth, 276; George, 289; Bp, Joseph, 145, 247, 273, 284, 296 ; ' Nicholas, 155, 284, 296; Robert, 284, 289; Samuel, 147m, 276, 296, HallwiU Church, 418. „ Hals, Halse, John, 104, 275; Richard, 283, Hamlin, Hamlyn, James, 349 ; John, 490, Hampton, Walter de, 392-6, 401, 402, 406, 407. HampuU, Richard, 368. Hanca, Robert de, 412. Hane, Robert de, 307, Hankyn, Laurence, 278, Harberton Church, 254, 415, 418, 419; SmaU Tithes, 418, HarewiU, Gilbert de, 416. Harington, Edward Charles, 283. Harman, John, {see Veysy.) Harpetre, Thomas de, 396, 397. Hai'psfield, John, 138m. Harris, Harrys, Harryes, Thomas, 242; 279, 288, 346, 489. Harry, John, 390, 391, Hartland, 67. Harts HaU, Oxford, 57, Harvy, Harvev, Harvie, Anthony, 201, 286; George, 138«, 289. Harward, Charles, 277. Hatche, RichaVd de, 392, {aee also l^he. Haven, the new, 234m. Hawkyns, Ambrose, 253. Ilawtrey, Charles, 296, Haydore Church, Lincoln, 450. Hayford; WiUiam, 333, 388, Heavitree, 109m. Hedda, Bp,, 1, Hegham, Richard de, 392-407. HelUar, WUUam, 186, 294. HeUier, Helyer, Richard, 241, 288, 294, 324, 328, 343, 489 ; Walter, 389, Hembury Church, 473. Hendeman, Thomas, 281, 286, Hengham, Hyngham, Ralph de, 278, 281, Henneley, John, 92, 454, Henrietta, Princess, 218, Henry, 420. Henry III, 299. Henry, son of Harding, {see FitzHarding.) Henry, Archdeacon, 300. Henry, Archdeacon of Totnes, 307, 308. Henry, Archdeacon of Exeter {? de Molesiis,) 414. Henry the Chaplain, 38. Henry of Christow, 38. Henry, Precentor, 278. Henry, Vicar of Liskeard, 388. Henshawe, Nicholas, 242. Henton, Hinton, Thomas de, 283, 301, 311, 314, 315. Heraldic Tiles in Cathedral, 186, Hereford, l,udovic Bp. of, 451, Hereford,Herford, William de, 399-407. Hereward, Thomas, 286. Herfort, Thomas de, {see Hertford.) Herig, Richard, 387. Herman, Galfrid, 491. Hertford, Herford, Thomas de, 291, 293, 300, 316, 423, 491. Hertward, Thomas, 414. Herward, Robert, 449. Hetbcote, Ralph, 291. Hesyl, Robert, 465. Heynes, Simon, 237, 276, 477m. High Street, 67, 191m, 391, 489. Hinton. (see Henton.) Hobbys, Thomas, 276. Hoker, John, 204 ; Robert, 262n, Holbeton Vicarage, 37. Holcombe Estate given to Leofric, 6, 8 ; Conveyed to Cathedral, 7, 8; Con firmed, 13, Holdham, Holdisham, WiUiam de, 399- 407. Hole, WiUiam, 295. Holland, Holond, Holand, John, 347, 451, 493. Holmes, WUliam, 277. Holyburton, Patrick, 325. Holy Ghost Chapel, Warlond, 118, Honiton Clist, 34. Honiton Rectory, 78, 138, Hooper, George, 280, Hopton, David, 202, 241, 286, 490, Hopworthy, Nicholas, 92, 454. Hore, WUliam, 390, Horige, Richard, 391, |-eMlU!^28^-'' (-''"««*•) Horsleigh Manor, Sussex, 36, 439. Horsleigh, Eaat, 108, Householders to contribute to Cathedral, oO, 182», Hove, Robert, 389, How, George, 470, Huchenson, Ralph, 289; WiUiam, 289. Hugh, Archdeacon, 284, 290, 408, 411, Hundon, WiUiam, 291, Hungerford, Walter, Lord, 289». Hunsham, 489, Huntingdon, John, Earl of, 234, 321, Hurrel, Robert, 411, Hurst, WiUiam, 133, 234, 320, HykeUng, Hugh de, 278. Hyngcham, Ralph de, 278. Hyott, {see Yott.) Ibbetson, Richard, 280, 287, Ide, 19, 35, Ubert, Peregrine, 295 ; WiUiam, 295, lUerdescombe, 490. Indulgences, 62, 249, _ Insula, Peter de, 285, ' Inyentory of Stapeldon's Effects, 438. Ippelpen Church, 102, Isaac, Archdeacon, 293, IsabeUa, Queen, 206, Ivo, 368n. James, Archbp, Genera, 374m. James, John, 282. Jane, WUliam, 280, 282. Jewels of the Cathedral, 320, Joachim, Abbott, 373m, John, 396, John, Archdeacon of Barnstaple, 293; John, Archdeacon of Exeter, 285, John, Archdeacon ofTotnes, 291, 418, John, Bishop, "the Chantor," 29, 213, 252m, 270, 288,293, 297, 298, 317, . 318, 411, 412 ; his parents, 318, John, Canon of Exoter, 260m, John, Dean of Chichester, 408, 411, John the Goldsmith, 209, 382, Johu, Precentor, 278, 299, 301. John (the second). Precentor, 278, John, Prior of St, John's, Wells, 251, John, Treasurer, 283, 412. John (the .second), Treasurer, 283, John, Vicar of Bishop's Tawton, 380. John, son of John, (see Fiix Z"^"-) . John, son of Richard, rector of Wide combe, 426, , _ , . ^ John, son of Robert, {see Fitt Robert.) Johnes, Thomas, 282^ 295, Johnson, Thoraas, 490, Jones, John, 193. Joseph of Exeter, 46, Judelithus, 287, K Kalenderhay, (see Calenderhay.) Karford, Crediton, 489, Kelly, Manor of, oS, 422, KeUy, WiUiam, 317. Kenall, John, 138n, KendaU, John, 182, 186, 198, 209, 246; Nicholas, 292, Kenn, 141, Kent, John de, 290 ; Thomas, 292 Keppel, Bp, Frederick, 163, 273. KergauU, 439. Kerman, WiUiam, 300. Kesyl, Robert, 93. Keterick, Bp. John, 271, Keys, Keyes, Roger, 279, 294, 324, 360, 363, 458, 492. Kilkenny, Andrew de, 282, 250, 274, ' 278, 380; Henry de, 202; Walter de, 491 ; WUUam de, 202, 312, 316, King, Bp, Oliver, 114, 271, 286, Kingscote, Kyngescote, WiUiam de, 275, 315, Knighston iu Murchard, 489, Kirkeby, Kyrkeby, John, 283, 489 Richard de, 296 ; Thomas, 334 Knolle, {see Ate Knolle.) Knowstone Church, 45. Kyngescote, {see Kingsiete.) Kyrkeby, (see Kirkeby.) Kyrketon, Alan, 291. Lacy, Bp. Edmund, 100, 191, 295, 226, 235, 241, 242, 246, 256, 261, 262, 264, 266, 271, 322, 323, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 341, 343, 344, 345, 364, 366, 457, 476, 489 ; his tomb, 237, 477» ; Isabella, 104 ; Philip, 104. Lake, Edward, 287. Lamder, Thomas, 491. Lamplugh, Bp. Thomas, 1*5, 158, 273, Lande, John, 490, Landon, Whittington, 277. Landkey Chapel, 34, Lanergh, 439. Langbrooke, 384, 391, Langoford, Clement de, 281, Langford Fyfhed, 488, 491, Langton, Langeton, Primate, 262; Thomas, 284; William, 97, 254, 455 ; his tomb, 238, 239, Lanivet, 118. Lanuthinoch, Lanuthio, (? Ferran nth- no) Church, 30, 413, Laskey, Robert, 260, Lathhury, John, 371m, Launceston Church, 66 ; Prior of, 460 Lavington, Bishop George, 163, 273, Lawe, Robert, 284, 294, Lawhitton, 149, 439. Leach, John, 282, Lechedeken, (see Zereedeken.) Lechelade, Lychelade, Thomas de, 65, 274, 281, 309; Walter de, 176, 278, 312 ; his murder, 260. Lee, Rowland, 289 ; Thomas, 489. Legh Chapel, 418. Leofric, Bp., 5«, 6, 174, 206, 232, 235, 262, 269, 323. Leowine, 14. Lepers' Hospital, 180m, 450. Lercedekne, Lechdeken, Martin, 242, 356, 367 ; Michael, 283. Leveson, Levison, WiUiam, 138, 282, Lower, Robert, 241, Lewys, Thomas, 390. Lezante, 140. Library of tbe Cathedral, 188, 301, 388 ; of St. John's Hospital, 194. Lingham, Robert, 268. Lira, (see Lyra.) Littleham Church, 35, 416, Little Kalenderhay, 261. Little Stile, 263, 389, 490. Little Torrington Rectory, 147. Livery Dole, 122m. Livingus, 4, 6, Lloyd, Loyd, Loid, Owen, 282, 291, 294, 489, LoddisweU, 439, Looddeswell, LodesweU, Walter, 264, 280, Loke, Thomas, 489 Lolleworth, John de, 393-398, 401, 402, 404-406. Lomene, Richard de, 414, London, Henry de, 412. Long, "Thomas, 155, Longbrook, {see Langbrook.) Lougher, Robert, 292, Lovefietorre, Paignton, 39, Lovepit, Lovepitte, Walter de, 392-5. Lowe, Thomas HiU, 278, 280, Lucas, — 262. Luce, Ralph, 287, Lugans, John, 345. Lumb, John, 285, Lumbard, WilUam, 412, 413. Lunday, WUliam, 446, Luscombe Chapel, 419. Lychelade, (see Lechelade.) "Lydford, Lydeford, John de, 176», 217m, 291. Lyen, Robert, 206. Lymsy, Roger de, 301, Lynford, Thomas, 294, Lyra, Lira, Nicholas do, 359, 367, 373m, 448. Lyttelton, Charles, 277. M Magdalen Hospital, 23, 446, {see also Lepers' Hospital.) Major, John, 375, Malherbe, Richard, 112. Malmesbury, Richard de, 379. Manchester, Richard, 240. Mandagot, William de, 366m. Manessero fil, Mathei, 420, Manning, Thomas, 291, Manors and Lands of the Dean and Chapter, 439, 443, Mansogg, Martin, 289. Mantel, Nicholas, 392-400, Marcianus Capella, 368m, Marke, Thomas, 288, Markets granted, 41, 62. Marshal, Bp. Henry, 29, 182m, 211, 223, 261, 262, 270, 286, 297, 308, 413. Marshall, WUliam,Earlof Pembroke,413, Marston, Nicholas, 289; William, 276,279. Martin, Archdeacon, 288, 414. Martin, Martyn, Alice, 266 ; Richard, 217, 491; WiUiam, Lord William, 234, 314, 316, 442. Martyrdom of Agnes Priest, 136m. Mason, George, 138m ; Roger, 379. Massey, Roger, 296. Maudit, Thomas, 300. Mauger, Henry, 407. Maundeville, WUUam, 392-400. Mayow, Richard, 110. Medleye, George, 284. Mela, Manor of, 411. Melan Church, 261. Melhuish, 21. Melton, WUliam de, 293. Menhenniot, 110m, 163, 490.- Meriet, Merriott, John de, 405; Walter de, 281, 492; WUliam de, 399-407. Merton Priory, Surrey, 42m, Merton, Thomas de, 393-6, 398, 399, 400; Walter de,402; WiUiam de, 393-6, 398, 399, 402, Mervine, Richard, 282, Mettecombe, 109. Michell, Mychel, John, 387 ; Thomas, 469 Middleton, John, 489. Midwinter, Mydwinter, John, 133, 139, 234, 320. MUebume, WUliam de, 392, MUles, Jeremiah, 263, 277, 280; John, 277; Thomas, 277, MUls, Ralph, 427 ; Richard, 427, MUon, 413, 414 Minstrels' Galley 21G Mitres, Episeopai, 26, 211,, Mogrigge, John, 240 Mohuns, tho, 234. Mohun .Reginald, 299, 28t299Sr'^°' ^'"^- ^«' Molesiis, Henry de, 285. Molton, Thomas de, 403-6 Monastery at Exeter, 3). ; of SS, Mary and Peter, 7. Monks, Congregation of in Exeter, 3, 13, 173. ' Montacute, Monleacu(o, Sir John, John de, 86, 203, 203n, 449, 451, 452, 492 ; William de, 449. Montagu, (see Mountegu.) Moor, Moore, {see More.) Morceshull, or Marshall, in Ide, 35. Morcester, Richard de, 285, 293, 315, Morchard Bishop, 123. More, Moor, Moore, Andrew de, 451 ; George, 287, 290 ; John, John de la, 287, 392-406; Richard, 213, 242, 284, 286, 469, Moreman, John, 276. Moretonhampstead, 109, Morewyll, Ralph, 364. Morthoe, 90 ; Church, 464 ; Rectory, 488, 492, Morton, Mourton, Agnes, 491; John, 202; Cardinal John, 234, 348, 489, 491, Mounceaux, John de, 451. Mountegu, John, 310, Mountfort, Henry, 46, Mounthermer, Thomas, Lord, 203, 203h, Monntstephen, Richard, 492. Mourton, (see Morton.) Moyll,- Bp. 246. Mulis, Margaret de, 316, Muniment room of Cathedral, 175, Murder of Bishop Stapeldon, 40m, 59, 60, 61; of WiUiam WaUe, 59; of John Padyngton, 69 ; of Chap lain and Jailor of Palace Prison, 93, Murymouth, Murimoth, Ade, Adam de, 278, 315, 318. Mychel, {see Michell.) Mydwynter, {see Midtointer.) Myles, John, 360, N. de Plympton, 300, Nans, John, 320. Nanzant Church, 94. Nassington, — 492; John de, 293; Thomas de, 286, Necton, George, 299, „ „ „ „ NervU NeveU, NevUle, Bp. George, 104, 108, 271, 328, 366, 490. New Bridge, Tawton, 66, Newenham Abbey, 41. Newey, Thomas, 280, 282, Newport, 52, Newton Manor, ComwaU, 112 Newton Ferrers, 140. Newton St. Cyres, 439, 489. Newton, Nicholas de, 288. 489 Nicholas, 470. Noble, Nobyl, John, 274, 285, 301, Jvoell, Thomas, 295. Nonaunt, Roger de, 316. North Street, 67. North Tower of Cathedral, 212, Northernhay, 484, Northwode, Johu de, 285, 291 ; Otho de, 286, 291, Norton, 19, 439, Norton, Richard, 279, 294, 320, Norys, Richard, 348, Nutcombe, Nuttcombe, Thomas, 138h 296. ' Nykke, Richard, 286. Nyweton, Henry of, 281, 0 Obituary Services, property granted for, Oby, John, 118, Odin, Henry, 402, Odo, Archdeacon, 284, 285, Office composed by Bp, Lacy, 102. Oil Paintings in Cathedral, 185. Okehampton Church, &c,, 36, Oldam, Oldham, Bernard, ;120, 284; Bishop Hugh, 115, 117) 188, 198; 230, 260, 261, 262, 269«, 272, 286, 465 ; John, 492 ; Richard, 288. Orange, Thomas, 288. Organs, 163, 178, 193. Orgar, supposed to have been buried iu Exeter Monastery, 3», Orum, John, 217, 281, 288, 294, 346. Osbern, or Osbert, Bishop, 11, 174, 269. Osbourn^, Hugh, 294. Otery, Robert de, 309 ; Roger de, 275, 281, Ottery St. Mary, 8, 80, 83, 86, 87, 102, 108, 109; Church, 219, 246, 446, 448, 449, 461, 456, Oxen, 100, Property ofthe See, 63. Oxton, Alexander de, 422. Pace, Richard, 275, .Padyngton, John, 69. Page, John, 468. Painter, Peter, 385. Paignton, 65, 178, 439; Church, 474; Rectory, 47; Market granted to,62. Palace, the, {see Bishop's Palace.) Parish Boundaries fixed, 33. Parish Registers instituted, 1 23. Parker, WiUiam, 289, 292, P'arkhouse, WUliam, 202, 242, Parys, Martin, 241, Paskewe, John, 115, 286, Paston, Benedict de, 281, 316. Paternoster Lane, 264, Pateshull, Peter de, 283; Thomas de, 63» Payment from Taxes to the Exeter Chapels, 13, Payn, Stephen, 276, Paz, John, 411, Pederton, Ade de, 403-7. Pelham, Bp, George, 166, 274, 287, Penbroke, Penbrok, Walter de, 291, 293 299 491, Pengheliy, Warin," 93, 455, Penitentiary, or Sub-Dean, 47, Penneck, John, 282. Pennington, Robert, 399-407, Penels, Richard, 288. Penpel, Stephen de, 286. Penryn, 36, 149, 439, Pensigenan Church, 36, 414, Penwith, 63b, 68. Percy, Hugh, 282, Periam, Robert, 490, Perran Uthno, (see Lanuthinoeh.) Perusiensis, Odo, 374. Pesemer, John, 295, Peter, son of Richard, 412, Peter, Archdeacon, 287, 292, 411. Peter, Vicar of Dene, 419. Peter, Vicar of Totnes, 419. Peter, Rector of Huxham, 383, Peter, Johu, 221m, (see also Petre.) Petershays, 66, 73, 149, 439, 443, Peterson, Robert, 289 ; WUUam, 146, 152, 276, 276«. Petre, John, 136 ; Richard, 138n, 279, (see also Peter.) Pews, 216m, Peytewyn, Thomas, 429, Philippa, Queen, 90m, Phillpotts, Bp, Henry, 167, 274; WiUiam John, 280, 290, Pickham, John, 252. Picot, Pycot, John, 252, 274; Peter, 412. Pike, Henry, 295, PiUand Estate, 142, PilUgenowe, 490, j Pilton Monastery and Church, 66. PUton, Pylton, Thomas de, 392; WUliam, 241, 346, Pincema, Thoma«, 290, 414, Pinhoe, 149. Pirates, incursions of, 6. Plate, &c., of the Cathedral, 14, 54, 81, 103, 134. Pleas of Hue-and-Cry in Cornwall, holding of granted to See, 66, 69. Plimpstock, Richard de, 66, 286. Plymouth, 49, Plympton St, Mary, 439 ; Monastery, 16, 23, 29, 488; Prior of, 450, Plympton, WUliam de, 392. Plymptree Church, 66. Pococke, Richard, 277. Podesdon, John, 295. Pokehaie, 437. Pole, Reginald, 275; WilUam, Sir WUliam, 204, 456, 484. PoUard, John, 289, 292, 294, 477m. Polmoma, WiUiam de, 296. Polslo, 450; Priory and Nuns, 21, 35, 68. Polsowe Manor, 412. Poiton Manor, 412. Poiton, WUliam de, 317. Pomeraye, Henry de la, 421, Pompel, Stephen de, 461. Ponchardsn, WilUam de, 421. Ponnestoke, Williara, 360, Pontington, Puntington, Walter de, 177 ; WUUam de, 278, 291, 393- 402, 405, 406, Pontissara, John de, 285. Poor fed, 63, 6?. Pope, Ralph, 402. Portius, Azon, 366n, Portour, WiUiam, 457, Portraits at Vicars' College, 262, Pott, Joseph Holden, 283, Potter, John, 263. Pouton, 439. Poweton Church, 93, Prato, Hugh de, 394, 396, 398-402, Prebendaries' Stipend increased, 163, Precedence of Cathedral Offices, 220-1. Precentor, 34; Property appUed to, ' 47 ; his house, 386. Prediaus, Prydiaus, Roger de, 426, 429. Prescote, Simon, 93, 454, Prest, Agnes, 136m, Priest Vicars, 91, 101; Property appro priated to, 35,102, 104, 118, 142; their Chapel, 8 ; their CoUege, 104, 261, 284»; their HaU, 91, Prison at the Palace, 92, 269 ; Escape of Prisoners from, 93, Prodom, Martin, 299, Prouz, William, 483, Prowse, Richard, 492, Prydiaus, Roger de, (see Predians.) PryU, John, 320, Puntingdon, (see Pontington.) Putta, 2», Pycot, (see Pieoi.) Pylaton, Ralph, 286. PyU, John, 490, Pylton, {see Pilton.) , '"Vl26.?2t^^^^<''"*=''^-as Pyttes, John, 242, 264, Q Quicke, Nutoombe, 163«, 282, Quivil, Bp, Peter, 39, 46, 81, 176, 177 190, 193, 203, 212, 220, 243 244 260,262,270, 281,291.295,426, 463. E B, Archdeacon, 290, Radulphus, Archdeacon, {see Salph.) Eadulphus de Hospitali, 412, Eadway, .Radeway Church, 81, 448. Ralegh, Robert de, 67 ; William de, 283, 300, Ealegh Tomb, 204, Ealph, Radulphus, Archdeacon, 284, ¦ 285, 292. Ealph, son of Richard, 427. Eandall, Anthony, 133. Eanulfo, 411. Eatburtus, Paschasius, SlOn. Eawe, John, 295. Eeade, WiUiam, 294. Eedman, Thomas, 226. Eedmayne, Bp. Richard, 115,213, 271, 279. Eeginald, 413. Eelics in the Cathedral 173»; given by Athelstan, 208. Eeskylystvn, William de, 422. Eeymund,' Ade de, 392-6, 398-407. Eeynolds, Edmund, 282 ; John, 216«, 216; Thomas, 276. Eichard, 408, 413. Eichard, sop. of Godefrid, 411. Eichard, son of Drogonis, 414. Eichard, son of Ralph, {see Fitz Salph.) Richard, Rector of Honiton, 382. Eichard, Vicar of Brent, 419. Eichards, Thomas, 133. Eiche, Henry, 93, 465. EiUgsteed, Ralph, 491. EingsweU, 136. Eixman, John, 279, 289. Eobert, "Dominus," 398. Eobert, Abbot of Tewkesbury, 420, Eobert, Archdeacon, 284, 290, 293. Eobert, Precentor, 278. Eobert, son of Gilde, or GUle, 291, 411. Ebbert, son of Walter, {see Fitz Walter) Eoderham, Richard, 281, 337. Eof, John, 288, 299, 310. Eoger, 398, 403, Eoger, Archdeacon, 293, 412. Eoger, Dean, 299. Roger, son of Chaplain, 411, Robert, nephew of Robert Warelwast,4U. R ^*''' y^T °^ Harberton, 419. ' Eoges, William, 309. Eokeby Church, 456. Rolamnus, Archdeacon, 286, Rolder, — 390, Rolle FamUy, 253. Rood Loft, the, 214, Roridge Chantry, 492. Ross, Bp. John, 164, 273. Rostourek, WUliam de, 53, 422. Rouen Cathedral, 8. Eous, Rus, Sir Ralph le, 425. 426- Roger le, 47, 291, 397, 425, 426! 427, (see also Sowse.) Rowe, Simon, 218. Rowse, John, 491. Royal Visits, 262. Rugge, Robert, 281, 293, Rus, {see Sous and Sowse.) Russell, Francis, 129, 187 ; John, 92, 93,- 128, 129, 130, 131, 454, 455. Ryks, WUUam, 385, Ryse, John, 217, 240, 262, 264m, 279, 284, 489, 491, S Sabyn, W,, 320, Sage, Thomas, 451. St, Agnes' Chapel and Cemetery, 110. St. Albino, Mauger de, 410. St, Andrew's Church, Cowick, 80. St. Bartholomew's Cemetery, 247; Parish, 34, St, Breock's Church, 94, 146, 153, St, Brigida, Ade or Adamde,278, 300, 308. St. Bruered's Church, 43, 424. St. Burian's Church, 36 ; Deanery, 163, 160. St. Catherine's Almshouses, 253, 264, 490. St, Clement's Church, 37. St. Cuthbert's Church, 37; Parish, 34; United to St. Paul's, 49. St. David's Church, 37 ; Parish, 489. St Edward's Parish 34. St. Ewal, or Uvely Church, 52, 63, 429 ; Rectory, 490. St. Gabriel's Chapel, Clyst, 41, 117, 118, 136. St. George's Church, 252,489; Plate, 134«. St. George's Church, Clyst, 42m. St, German's, 5, 23, 117, 149, 439; Bishops of, 6 ; Prior of, 460. St. Goran, 149. St. Goran, ' ' Santo Gorano," John de, 300. St Issey Church, 29. St. James' Chapel, 8, 16, 37, 176, 176; Parish 34 ; Priory, 18. St. James' Priory, Tregony, 42m. XTI St. John's Hospital, 67, 80, 194, 269, 261, 285, 294,446, St, John's Hospital, Wells, 52. St. John's Tower, 312, St, Just Church, 30. St, Kerian's Church, 37; Plate, 134m, St, Lawrence's Chapel, Ashburton, 57«; Credition, 36, St, Laurence's Church, 42m, St, Laurence, Bartholomew de, 276, 285, 293. St. Leonard's Chapel, Spitchwick, 47, 426, 426, 427. St, Margaret's Church, Topsham, 19. St. Marine, Church of, 80 ; Rectory, 491. St. Martin's Church, 37, 183m, 264, 266, 390. St. Martin's Gate, 262. St. Martin's Lane, 261. St. Martin's Parish, ,183«. 489, 492. St. Martin's Chnrch, East Horsleigh, 108, St. Martin, Thomas de, 397. St, Mary's Chapel, the Palace, 66, 116, 117, 136, 162, 254. St. Mary Church, 7, 17, 19, 411. Mary Arches Church Plate, 134m. Mary de Clive Abbey, 469, Mary Magdalen Hospital, {see Mag dalen Hospital.) Mary Magdalen's Priory, 18, Mary Major's Church, 37, 120, 260, 265; Pirish, 488-91 ; Plate, 134»; Register, 141m. Mary Minor Church, 37, Mary''sCollege,'Ottery,80, 84, 102,108, Mary Steps Parish, 490, . Mary and Peter, Abbey Church of, 173; Burnt, 174. Michael's Chapel, Chudleigh, 95m, 116, 122, Michael's Chapel, the Deanery, 37,262, Michael's Church, Heavitree, 19, Michael's Gate, 262, Newlyn, St, Newelina Church, 281, 475 ; Rectory, 47, Nicholas' Minster, 13 ; Priory, 13; Prior of. 126, 450. Olave's Church Plate, 134m, Pancras Church Plate, 134m; Parish, 492, 493. Paul's Chapel, 260 ; Parish, 49. Paul, John, 288. Peter the less. Chapel, 260 ; Parish, 34. Peter's Cemetery, 180, 390.. Peter's Conduit, 176m ; Fountain, 387, 389. Petrock's Church, 37, 266 ; Altars in, 266; Register, 160; Gate, 253, Probus Church, 35, 475, Radegund's Parish, 34. Sancred Church, 36, 420, St,St.St. ss, st, St.St. st,st, st, St, St, St,st, st, St, st, St. St.St.St. St. SidweU's Parish, 7, 1 1 7, 490, 49 1, 492. SS, Simon and Jude's Church, 37. St. Stephen's Church, 91m, 391 ; Fee, 9Im ; Parish, 493 ; Plate, 134m. St. S withun's Church, Woodbury, 31,261. St, Thomas' CoUege, Glasney, 41. St. Thomas' Parish, 34, 492. St. Uvely, (see St. Fheal.) St. Winnern's Church, Penwith, 36, 63», Salcombe, 7, 19, 67. Sampford Peveril, 141. Samson, Richard, 289. Sandford, Francis, 240. Sarisberia, John de, 283. Saxton, John, 278. SchareshuUe, ShareshuU, Johnde, 278, 451. Schipton, Henry de, 50. Schute, John, 286, 457. Scriptore, Robert, 411. Scrope, John, Lord, 112. Seals, 189. Seats and Pulpit set in the Cathedral, 165. See, original extent of, 1, of Wessex transferred to Winchester, 1 ; of Devon first fixed at Crediton 2 ; transferred therefrom, 6 ; rights of recovered from Earl of Cornwall, 43 ; Surrendered to the King, 124; restored, 124, Seldon, William, 488. Selot.^John, 288, Sepulture, right of confirmed to the Nuns of Pol sloe, 21, Serge Market, 247, Serlo, 274, 280, 286, 290, 298, 414, Shapleye, Elizabeth, 292 ; John, 292. ShareshuU, (see SchareshuUe.) Sheepshanks, John, 290, Shirewode, John, 282, Shobrooke Rectory, 156. Short, William, 290. Sidbury, 492; Church, 17, 19, 411. Sidford, 492. Sideman, 3. Sidnor, Sydnor, Richard, 289, 291. Silke. (see Sylke.) Silverton, 144. Simon, Archdeacon, 288, (see also Apulia.) Simon de ApuUa, (see Apulia.) Sixtinus, John, 116, 256. Skynner, John, 491 ; Thomas, 280, 292; William, 493. Sleech, John, 290. Sloo, Thomas, 387, Smith, James, 280, 294, Smythen Street, 260. "SneU, Canon, 292; George, 292. Snow, Snowe, John, 280; Simon, 259. Somaster, Sumaster, Thomas, 289 ; WiUiam, 199, 296, Somerset, Somersete, Henry de, 260, 274, 278, 281, Sothorn, Thomas, 284. Southgate, 389. Southernhay, Southinghay, 104, 489; Bishop's Gate into, 257. Southpole Church, 456 ; Poor of, 466, Sowton, 118, Sparrow, Bp. Anthony, 164, 273, 287, Speke, Speik, Johu, Sir John, 191, 491. Spiketon, Ralph de, 422, SpUston Bridge, 67. Spiekwick, Spikewyk, 47, 425, 426, 427. Spikewyk, William de, 426. Springham, Ralph, 414. S protl, John, 296, Squire, George, 138m; Henry, 294, Stafford, Bp. Edmund, 72, 94, 97, 138m, 191, 192, 194, 196, 235, 238, 246, 261, 262, 266, 271, 321, 331, 332, 340, 369, 457, 468, 459, 492 ; Klizabeth, 460, 461, 463 ; Hugh, 462, 463 ; Humphrey de, 459-63 ; John, 463 ; Margaret, 462, 463 ; Balph de, 460, 462, 463 ; Richard, 460 ; Thomas, 456, Stanley, Humphrey, 138m; John, 490, Stanwey, WUUam de, 274, 299, Stapeldon, Stapyldon, Sir Richard de, 63, 68, 201 ; Kobert de, 274, 316; Thomas de, 64, 67, 443 ; Bishop Walter, 4, 21, 32, 33, 40», 46, 62,54, 177, 185, 186,209, 211, 223, 224, 235, 270, 27», 27.5, 278,283, 295, 309, 311-318, 326, 341, 34S, 346, 347, 381, 382, 383, 438, 434, 438, 471, 489 ; his place of burial, 62, 180 ; Chantry and epitaph, 62, 67, 69, 181 ; his eflects and bequests, 64-67, Stapeldon HaU, 63m, 96, 110«, Stapeldon's Inn, Oxford, 67. StaplehUl, 490. Statutes of Cathedral revised, 43. Staunton, 439, Staverton, 7, 17, 411. Steele, WiUiam, 291, Stephen, 413. Stephens, John, 264m, 490 ; Lewis, 294 ; Richard, 297. Stockleigh Pomeroy Church, 42m, 421, Stodburi, 439, Stoke Bridge, 67. Stoke, or Stoke Canon Church, 17, 19, 147m, 411, Stoke Gabriel Church, 281, 475 ; Rec tory, 47. Stoke, Richard de, 419. Stone", 492. Storehouse, the, 390, Stowford, Henry de, 281, Streme, Richard de la, 392-407. Strybling, Thomas, 253. Stubbes, John, 108, 279, 283, 294. Stucklegh, Peter. 286. Sturges, John, 296. Sub- Dean, or Penitentary, 47, 49 ; Property appropriated to, 47, 49 ; endowment of, 49. Suetsham, Suetysham, Swetysham, John, 102m, 281, 323, 457; Richard, 281 Sully, Jacke de, 299. Sumaster, (see Somaster.) Sumpter, Robert, 275. Sutcliffe, Matthew, 276, 276m. Sutton, Carmelite Friars at, 450. Suza, Henry de, 368m, Swaby, Thomas, 286, Swanwick, Swanewyck, 97, 468, 469, 460, 488. Swearte Fons, 7m. Swero, Henry, 457. Swete, Lewis, 138m, 292. Swetysham, {see Suetsham.) Sweyn, 174. Sweyndon, Swindon, William de, W. de, 300, 414. Swift, Jasper, 289, 292, Swimbridge Chapel, 34. Sylke, SUke, WiUiam, 113, 201, 213, 241, 279, 288, 348, 469. Synod at Exeter, 48, Sydnor, [see Sidnor.) Talbot, Charies, 277 ; John, 391. Tamerton FoUyett, 490. Tauton, 66, Tauton, Tawton, Robert de, 62, 64, 67, 443, Tavistock Abbey, 6, 63. Taylor, James, 491 ; John, 282. Tefford, (see Tyfford.) Teignbridge, 490. Teignemewe, Richard de, 392-6. Teignmouth Church, 411, Teignmouth, East, 17; West, 490. Telyng, Stephen, 92, 454, Tencreek Manor, 112, Tengbam, Richard de, 394. Tesun, H., 416, Thacher, Thomas, 320. Thefam, John, 291, Theobald, Archbp, 310. Thomas, 420, Thomas, Archdeacon, 293 (2), 412, Thomas, Canon and Chaplain, 301, 420. Thomas of MoUund, 38. Thomas the Panter, 38. Thomas, Precentor, 278. Thomas of the Wardrobe, 464. Thomas, Rector of Radetre, 419. Thoriz. Toriz, Roger de, 176, 224, 274, 286, 299, 301, 423, 426. Thorney Church, 437, 439 Thorverton Church, 473 ; Manor, 47, 488. Thring, Hugh, 489. Throne, the, (see Bishop's Throne.) Thwaytes, Robert, 457, Tinley, John, 388. ,,,,„. Tithe of royal fish granted to the Bi shops, 20 ; of Tin, ditto, 30. Titing, Gilbert, 490. Tiverton Manor, 489, Toker, William, 294, ToU, Edmund, 246, ToUet, Richard, 294, 296. Tonkyns, Thomas, 282. Topsham, Walter de, 299, Torgis, (see Turgis.) Toriton, Alice de, 392, Toriz, (see Thoriz.) Torre, 437. Torre Abbey, 35 ; Abbot of, 460. Totton, 60. Totton, Richard de, 38, Totnes, George, Earl of, 276. Towers ofthe Cathedral, 379, 382-6, 390. Townsend, Stephen, 276. Toyler, John, 317. Tracey, Olivei- de, 281 ; WiUiam de, 382 Tradesmen in the Close licensed by the Bishop, 263, Trasying Hous, tbe, 385. Travesse, or Travors, Adam, 284, 286 ; Bernard, 120, Treasurer, the, 34 ; Property appropri ated to, 35, Tregair, Tregayre, 149, 439. Tregoire, Michael, 294. Tregrison, Ralph, 275. Trelawny, Edward, 277, 287, 296; Bp. Sir Jonathan, 157, 263, 273, 287. Tremayn, Richard, 284. Tienellys, WilUam, 283. Trengot, Walter, 288. Trereys, Odo de, 422. Trevalga Church, 36, 420. Trevet, WUliam, 490. Trevelyan, Trevylian, Henry, 288 ; Sir Walter C, 248, Trewetha, 490, Trewood, 439. Trinity Church, 37; Parish, 491, Trower, John Walter, 297, Tryneck, Nicholas de, 449. Tusker, Joshua, 294, Tuckfield, Joan, 136 ; John, 277. Tugge, or TuggeU, Thomas, 456, 451, 462. Tuke, Edward, 296, Tusser, Ann, 289 ; John, 289. Turbert, Walter, 180, TurberviUe, Bp. James, 135, 221«, 272, Turgis, Torgis, Turgus; William, 406, 406, 407, Tyake, John, 294, 295, Tyffurd, Tefford, Robertde, 281, 288, 300. Tyting, 439. Tywardreth Priory, 287. u Ubaldus, Peter, 366». Udy, John, 217. Ugbroke, 474, Umfray, Umfrei, Galfrid, 402 ; John, 390. Upham, — 492 ; John de, 296. Up Lyme Church, 36, Dp Ottery Church, 42, 176, 421, 422 ; Rectory, 488. Urswicke, Christopher, 282. Utleigh, Hugh, 183«. Y Val'iation of Estates in Exeter Diocese, ' 149, Vele, Johu, 346, Verum, Sir Walter de, 421, Vestments, 297, Vestries in the Cathedral, 188, Veteri terra, Robert de, 315, 392. Veysy, als. Harman Bp. John, 120, 183». 249, 257, 272, 275, 279, 282, 289, 294, 471, 490; royal letters to, 125-8; his wiU, 120m, 132. Vialde, WUliam, 301. Vicar-General appointed, 95, 113,' Vicarii, Robert, 403, VUvaine, Dr , 194, Vitriaco, James de, S70m, Vivyan, WiUiam, 292. w Waddene, 437. Wagott, William, 291. 'Wake, WUliam, 277. Waldeby, Robert, 370m. Walker, Edward, 240. Walkhampton Church, 53. Walkyngton, Thomas, 275. Walle, WilUam, 69, Wallis, Guallensis, John, 374m. Walnens, Robert, 413. Walter, 408, 413. Walter, Archdeacon, 284, 286, 287, 288, 293, 412, 414. Walter the Carpenter, 399-407. WaUer, Chaplain, 420, Walter the Glazier, 380, Walter, Prior, 410m, Walter, Treasurer, 283, Walter, son of Drogo, {see Fitz Drogo.) Walter, son of Peter, (see Fitz Peter) Walwarin, 419, Warbeck, Perkin, 112, Warbylton Church, Sussex, 456 ; Poor of, 466. Ward, John, 490; Bp, Seth, 161, 269, 273, 276. 279 ; WiUiam, 489. Warelwast Warwest, Bp. Robert, 20 270, 285, 293, 382, 411; Bp. WUliam, 14, 174, 176, 269, 270, 284,331. Warlond Church, 118, 261. WarmehUl, 492, Warwick, Warwyk, Henry de, 280, 300, 310, 414, Waryn, John, 294, Wasseborn Chapel, 419, Waterbeare Street, 489. Webb, Jane, 290 ; John, 470. Webber, Henrv, 107, 241, 276, 279, 281, 283, '330, 332, 334, 346; Thomas, 346, Wele, Weele, — 492; John, 278, 286, 293, 309,311,316. WeUs Church, Norfolk, 456; Poor of, 456. WeUs, John, 490, Weneppa, (see Gwennap.) Wengham, Henry de, 280 WenUg, John de, 316. Wereplesden, William de, 50. Werewill, Ralph de, 293. Werlond, {see Warlond.) Werstanus, 2», West Ansty Rectory, 488, 491. West Down Church, 62, 261. West Front of Cathedral, 91, 181. West Teignmouth, (see Teignmouth.) West Window of Cathedral, 247. Westbrok, Prior of, 456. Westbury, Roger de, 449. Wessex, See of, transferred to Win chester, 1, Bishops of, 1». Westleigh Church, 177, 261. Weston, Hugh, 289; Nicholas, 296: Robert, 296; Bp. Stephen, 162, 273, 287, 292. Westowe, Thomas, 92, 464. Wewlingworth, John de, 310. Wexham, Ralph de, 414. Whiddon, Oliver, 292. Whimple, 141. Whitefield, Henry, 293. Whyte, Simon, 92, 454. Wiclesslade, Richard, 307. Widecombe, Withecomb Church and Rectory, 47, 176, 425, 426, 427, 473, 488, 491, Wideford, Widford, Wydford, WUliam, 370«, 376k, 378* Wideslade, Wydeslade, Eichard de, 283, 293, 316, 346, Wiger, Wvger, Sir John de, 47, 422, 491 , WilUam, 413. WiUiam, Abbot of Clive, 470. WiUiam, Abbot of St, Thierry, 372m. William, Archdeacon, 284, 285, 287, 408, 411. WiUiam, Vicar of TunstaU, 419. William, Parson of Depeford, 419. William, Treasurer, 283. WilUam, sou of Rogo, {see Fitz Sogo.) WUliams, John, 242, 280; Peter, 491. WiUoughby, Edward, 276, Wilson, Aaron, 287, Wimund, Peter, 420, Winchelsey, Robert, 275. Wyndesore, (see Wyndeford.) Windsor Deanery, 163, WisseU, John, 489, Winkleigh Church, 36, 419, 420, Winklegh, Winkel, Roger de, 2'r4, 290, 416, Winterbourn, Wynterbourne Wast, 97, 459-64, 488, 492, Withecombe, (see Widecombe.) Witrington, John de, 252. Wodecrofte, 421. Wolaneston, WiUiam, 300. Wonorde Bridge, Axminster, 67. Wonewille, 109m. Woodbury Church, 31, 261, 278, 389. Woodhaye, 426. WoodvUe, Lionel, 276, Wool HaU, 262, Woolston, John, 390. Woolton, Bp, John, 140, 142, 266, 272, 287, 296, Worcester, WiUiam, Bishop of, 451. Worth, John de, 392. Wotton, Nicholas, 138«, 284 ; Thomas de, 410, Wrehte, Richard de, 409, Wryght, WaUer, 138m. WiUphard, 3», Wyatt, Hugh, 492, Wydeslade, (see Wideslade.) Wydford, (see Wideford.) Wyger, (see Wiger.) Wykford, Robert de, 86, 451. Wyliet, WyUeth, John, 281, 451. Wylie, John, 456. Wylton, Hugh de, 300. Wyndeford, or Wiudesore, Walter, 295. Wynter, Thomas, 289. Wyuterborue Wast, (see Winterhowrne.) Wyroc, Wyrok, Kobert, 393, 394. Wysbergh Church, 466 ; Poor of, 456. Wytt, John, 333. Yerlecombe, 437, Toung, Yonge, Edward, 276, 287; Johm, 216«, 294. Tott, Hyott, John, 333, 490 Ysaac, Archdeacon, 290, 301, 414,418, Yunderbrok, John, 93, 465. 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