Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England Part 56

For singing _Gloria in Excelsis_ at the mattens time upon Xmas Day in the mornyng.

To the Abbot of Miserewle [Misrule] on Xmas (?)

To the yeoman or groom of the vestry for bringing him the hallowed taper on Candlemas Day?

To his lords.h.i.+p's chaplains and other servts. that play the play before his lords.h.i.+p on Shrofetewsday at night xx_s._

That play the play of Resurrection upon Estur Daye in the mg. in y lorde's chappell before his lords.h.i.+p.

To the yeoman or groom of the vestry on Allhallows Day for syngnge for all christynne soles the saide nygthe so it be past mydnight 3_s._ 4_d._

The Earl and Lady were brother and sister of St. Christopher Gilde Yorke, and pd. 6_s._ 8_d._ each yearly; and when the Master of the Gild brought my lord and my lady for their lyverays a yard of narrow violette clothe and a yard of narrow rayed cloth, 13_s._ 4_d._ (_i.e._ a yard of each to each).

And to Proctor of St. Robert's, Knasbruge, when my lorde and my lady were brother and sister, 6_s._ 8_d._ each.

At pp. 272-278 is an elaborate programme of the ordering of my lord's chapel for the various services.

At p. 292 is an order about the was.h.i.+ng of the linen of the chapel for a year. Eighteen surplices for men, and six for children, and seven albes, and five altar cloths for covering of the altars, sixteen times a year against the great feasts.

At p. 285 is an order that the vestry stuff shall have at every removal [for it was carried about from one to another of my lord's houses] one cart for the carrying of the nine antiphoners, the four grailles, the hangings of the three altars in my lord's closet and my ladie's, and the sort [suit] of vestments and single vestments and copes "accopeed" daily, and all other my lord's chappell stuff to be sent afore my lord's chariot before his lords.h.i.+p remove ("Antiq. Repertory," iv. 242).

[455] Whose emoluments at the beginning of the sixteenth century are all given in the "Valor" of Henry VIII., vol. ii. p. 317.

[456] "Valor," ii. p. 153.

[457] "Taxatio," p. 298.

[458] Where there was a single chaplain, he probably always had a boy who "served" him at ma.s.s, and also acted as his personal attendant.

[459] Whitaker's "Craven."

[460] "Taxatio," p. 18.

[461] Page's "Yorks.h.i.+re Chantries."

[462] "Early Lincoln Wills," p. 6.

[463] "Valor Eccl.," ii. 403.

[464] An oratory differs from a church; a church is appointed for public wors.h.i.+p, and has an endowment for the minister and others; an oratory is not built for saying ma.s.s, nor endowed, but ordained for a family to perform its household wors.h.i.+p in. A bell might not be put up in an oratory, because it was not a place of public wors.h.i.+p.

[465] The exemption from the jurisdiction of the ordinary of royal chapels is recognized by a bull of Innocent IV. ("Annales de Burton," p. 275).

[466] Grostete summoned Earl Warren and his chaplain for having Divine service celebrated in his hall at Grantham, being an unconsecrated place ("Letters of Grostete," Rolls Series, p. 171).

[467] Eyton's "Shrops.h.i.+re," ix. 326.

[468] There are similar conditions in a licence in 1310, to Dame Matilda de Hywys for her chapel of Tremetherecke, in the parish of Duloc (Register of Bishop Stapledon of Exeter, "Hingeston-Randolph," p. 300).

[469] Newcourt's "Repertorium," ii. 434.

[470] See "Description of the Vyne," by the late Mr. Chute, the proprietor.

[471] The clerk whose duty it was to keep the bishop's register sometimes grew weary of writing the so-frequent record in full, and simply noted that licence was granted to so-and-so, _in forma communi_, or _in forma consueta_ ("Grandisson's Register," pp. 492, 509, etc.).

[472] Canon Hingeston-Randolph's "Register of Edmund Stafford," p. 271.

[473] Edit. J. Raine, p. 58.

[474] Edit. J. Raine, p. 271.

[475] "Register of Bath and Wells" (Rev. T. Hugo's "Extracts"), p. 158.

There are other instances, at Maystoke, Hoddesdon, Atthorpe, in the "Papal Letters," vol. i. pp. 192, 522.

[476] Edited by Mr. George Nichols for the Camden Society.

[477] "Suss.e.x Archaeol. Coll.," iii. 112.

[478] G. Offor, "Life of Tyndale."

[479] A. Gibbons, "Early Lincoln Wills," p. 136.

[480] "Richmonds.h.i.+re Wills," p. 34.

[481] "Test. Ebor.," p. 220.

[482] A. Gibbons, "Early Lincoln Wills," p. 57.

[483] Ibid., p. 111.

[484] "Lichfield," p. 168, S.P.C.K.

[485] "Eccl. Proceedings of Courts of Durham," p. 44.

[486] "Register" of Bishop Gray of Lincoln.

[487] In 1348 the Convent of St. Augustine, Canterbury, and in 1365 the Convent of Westminster, pet.i.tioned the pope to have Divine offices celebrated in the chapels of their manors and churches, _i.e._ rectories ("Papal Letters," vol. i. pp. 139, 506).

[488] "Hingeston-Randolph," p. 319.

[489] Ibid., p. 378.

[490] Walcott's "Chichester Registers."