DIOCESE OF CANTERBURY. DEANERY OF BRIGG.
| “Taxatio” of Pope Nicholas IV., 1292 A.D.[651] | “Valor Ecclesiasticus,” of Hen. VIII., 1534 A.D.[652] | Clergy List, 1895 A.D. | ||||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | ||||||
| Ecclesia de Wyngham p. portione Prepositi et Vicarii |
40 | 0 | 0 | Wyngham cum Capellis de Asshe, Godwynston Nonyngton et Wymyngweld appr’ Prepositoet Canonicis de Wyngham |
Wingham | 162 | ||||||
| Portio Capellæ de Esse [Ash] cum Capella [of Overland] eidem annexa |
60 | 0 | 0 | Ash (Chapel of Overland ruined) |
260 | |||||||
| Godenstone | 200 | |||||||||||
| Portio de Godewynstone | 46 | 13 | 4 | Master Edmund de Cranmere[653]
p’vost hath in the Church of Wyngham |
45 | 6 | 8 | Nonington | 280 | |||
| Womenswold | 160 | |||||||||||
| Portio Capellæ de Nonynton cum Capella de Wymelingwelde eidem annexa |
53 | 6 | 8 | Profits of the Chapel of Overland | 20 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| [Note.—Wingham was a tract of country part of the possessions of the See of Canterbury from the earliest Saxon times. No doubt the churches and chapels here mentioned had been built by successive archbishops. Archbishop Kilwardby, 1273 A.D., designed to found a College of secular priests in the Church of Wingham, but, being interrupted by death, his successor Peckham carried out the design. He made the Vicar also the Provost; made the chapelries (except Overland) distinct parishes, appointed Vicarages in them, and gave the parishes as prebends to the 5 Canons, and appointed 2 priests, 2 deacons, 2 sub-deacons, and a sexton to the service of the church. At subsequent periods 2 chantries were founded in Ash Church, one valued in the “Valor” at £14 13s. 4d., out of which a life pension of £5 was paid to the late cantarist, and the other at £7 6s. 8d.] |
Deduct for parish priest he is bound to keep there |
9 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| And for the sexton of Wyngham | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| And for life pension to the late provost, Mr. Wm. Warham[654] |
22 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 6 | 3 | ||||||
| The 5 canons gross receipts from the tithes of Ashe with the chapels of Rusheborough, Nunnington, Goodneston, and Wymengewelde |
143 | 7 | 7½ | |||||||||
| The deductions including salaries of 5 priests to serve the 5 chapels at about £6 each, and for two priests doing service in Wyngham Church £6 11s. 8d. each, for 2 quiristers each 13s. 4d., for sexton’s daily service in church £4 6s. 8d., and for divers obits £51 5s. 4d. |
59 | 0 | 12½ | 84 | 5 | 11 | ||||||
| Ecclīā de Sturmine cum penc’ (40s. to the Prior of Leeds) |
12 | 13 | 4 | Stormouth | 18 | 19 | 10 | Stourmouth | 300 | |||
| Ecclīā de Preston (appr’ to St. Augustine, Cant.) |
20 | 0 | 0 | Preston appr’ to St. Augustine, Cant. | 0 | 0 | 0 | Preston | 000 | |||
| Vicar ejusdem | 4 | 15 | 4 | The Vicar has | 9 | 15 | 0 | Vicarage | 150 | |||
| Ecclīā de Eylinston | 10 | 0 | 0 | (Not mentioned in “Valor,” or by Hasted.) | ||||||||
| Ecclīā de Adesham cum capella | 53 | 6 | 8 | Asham with chapel of Staple annexed | 28 | 12 | 0 | Adisham | 450 | |||
| The priest at Staple has | 6 | 13 | 4 | Staple | 450 | |||||||
| Ecclīā de Chilindene | 5 | 6 | 8 | Chelynden | 4 | 18 | 8 | Chillenden | 120 | |||
| Ecclīā de Lyvingesburn[655] | 10 | 0 | 0 | Bekesborne[655] | 5 | 13 | 8 | Bekesborne | 150 | |||
| Ecclīā de Wytham | 33 | 6 | 8 | Wikham breux | 29 | 11 | 6 | Wickhambreux | 603 | |||
| Vicarius ejusdem | 5 | 6 | 8 | |||||||||
| Ecclīā de Littleburne (appr’ to St. Aug., Cant.) |
20 | 0 | 0 | Lytelbourne (appr’ to St. Augustine, Cant.) | Littlebourn | 250 | ||||||
| The Vicar has | 8 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Ecclīā de Pat’kes burne (appr’ to thePrior of Merton) |
33 | 6 | 8 | Patryksborne with the chapel of Brigge (appr’ to Merton) | 11 | 7 | 4 | Patrixbourn | 350 | |||
| The priest of the chapel has | 2 | 13 | 4 | |||||||||
| Ecclīā de Kinggeston | 12 | 0 | 0 | Kyngston | 16 | 0 | 0 | Kingston | 350 | |||
| Ecclīā de Bisshopes burne cum capella |
33 | 6 | 8 | Bysshoppysborne with Church of Barham annexed | 35 | 19 | 9 | Bishopsburne | 500 | |||
| Stipend to the priest of Barham | 8 | 0 | 0 | Barham | 650 | |||||||
| Ecclīā de Pecham | 20 | 0 | 0 | Petham (appr’ to St. Osyth Priory) | 0 | 0 | 0 | Waltham with Petham |
575 | |||
| Vicarius ejusdem | 4 | 6 | 8 | The Vicar has | 8 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Ecclīā de Waltham | 11 | 6 | 8 | Waltham (appr’ to St. Gregory, Cant.) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| The Vicar has | 7 | 15 | 4 | |||||||||
| Ecclīā de Elmestede cum penc’ (20 marks to Mr. Solomon de Burn for his life) |
16 | 0 | 0 | Elmeston | 6 | 7 | 7 | Elmstone | 180 | |||
| Ecclīā de Chertham | 26 | 13 | 4 | Chartham with the chapel of Horton | 41 | 5 | 10 | Chartham | 550 | |||
| Salary of priest at Horton | 1 | 6 | 8 | |||||||||
| Ecclīā de Chileham | 40 | 0 | 0 | Chelham with the chapel of Molayshe (appr’ to Abbess of Sion) |
0 | 0 | 0 | Chilham | 700 | |||
| Vicarius ejusdem | 6 | 13 | 4 | Vicar has | 5 | 3 | 4 | Molash | 90 | |||
| Salary of priest at chapel | 6 | 13 | 4 | |||||||||
| Ecclīā de Magna Hardres cum capella |
26 | 13 | 4 | Grete Hardres with Chapel of Stelling annexed | 19 | 13 | 0 | Upper Hardres with Stelling |
400 | |||
| Deduction for life pension to late parson (£6 13s. 4d.) |
0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Ecclīā de Croyndale cum penc’ (25s. to Prior of Leeds) |
11 | 16 | 8 | Crundale with pension to Prior of Leeds, 35s. | 11 | 10 | 8 | Crundale | 320 | |||
| Ecclīā de Brok | 6 | 13 | 4 | Broke | 7 | 7 | 0 | |||||
| Ecclīā de Wy (appr’ to Battle Abbey) |
43 | 6 | 8 | Church of Wye (appr’ to the monks of Battle) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Vicarius ejusdem | 10 | 13 | 4 | College of Wye Richard Walker Vicar and Master of the College |
0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| [Note.—I,
Kempe Archbp. of York, founded the College of secular priests in the Church of Wye, 1447 A.D.][656] |
Total receipts of the College, £125 15s. 4½d. | 93 | 2 | 0½ | Wye Vicarage | 270 | ||||||
| Deductions. Among them for 3 priests, clerks, quiristers, scole master and other ministers, £68; to the Provost, £13 6s. 8d.; to poor people, £3 6s. 8d.; founder’s obit, £3 3s. 4d.; etc., £32 13s. 4d. |
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| Ecclīā de Bocton Allulphi | 40 | 0 | 0 | Bocton Aluph (appr’ to College of Wye) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| The Vicar has | 5 | 16 | 10 | |||||||||
| Ecclīā de Godm̄sham cum capella | 53 | 6 | 8 | Godmersham cum capella de Chullok (appr’ to Xt. Ch., Cant.) |
0 | 0 | 0 | Godmersham | 160 | |||
| Vicar, £16 0s. 12d.; deduct for priest to serve chapel, £6 13s. 4d. |
9 | 7 | 8 | Challock | 250 | |||||||
| Ikham | 25 | 11 | 8 | Ickham | 803 | |||||||
| Ecclīā de Itham | 30 | 0 | 0 | Stodmarsshe (appr’ to hospital for poor priests, Cant.) | 0 | 0 | 0 | Stodmarsh | 135 | |||
The illustrations which we have been able to give of our subject from the pictures in Mediæval MSS. are only a handful selected out of a very great number. It may be useful to some students to have references to the MSS. in the British Museum, where other illustrations of special interest may be found.
The most useful for illustrations of ecclesiastical rites, and incidentally for the vestments of all orders of the clergy, and for instrumenta, are the Pontificals; e.g.—
The Pontifical of Landulph of Milan, 9th century, engraved in D’Agincourt’s L’Art par ses monuments; Painting, Plates XXXVII. and XXXVIII.
Tiberius B. VIII. contains two MSS. One English, of the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century.
The other French, date, A.D. 1365.
Egerton 931. French, of the Diocese of Sens, date, 1346-1378.
Lansdown 451. English of Diocese of Exeter, 14th century.
Egerton 1067. French, 15th century.
Add. MS. 14805. German, 15th century.
Add. 19898. French, late 15th century.
An early printed Pontifical, 471, f. 2, with engravings, Venice, A.D. 1520. There are other editions printed in other countries, but with the same engravings.
Baptism.—By affusion.—16 G. VI. f. 128, 14th century. Egerton 745, f. 1, early 14th century. Egerton 2019, f. 135, late 15th century.
With aspersion.—10 E. VI. f. 230b, early 14th century. (Adult in temporary font, bishop sprinkling with aspersoir.)
By immersion.—10 E. IV. f. 125, early 14th century. 16 G. VI. f. 128, 14th century. 6 E. VI. f. 171, and f. 318b, 14th century. Harl. 2278, f. 76, 15th century. Add. 29704, f. 18, close of 14th century. Nero A. IV. f. 81b, 14th century. Lansdown 451, f. 225b, 15th century. 20 C. VII. 190b, 14th century. 16 G. VI. f. 14.
Confirmation.—6 E. VI. f. 372, 14th century. Egerton 1067, f. 12, late 15th century. Printed Pontifical 471, f. 2, page 2, A.D. 1520.
Marriage.—Nero E. II. f. 115 and f. 217, 14th century. Harl. 2278, f. 462. 6 E. VI. 257, and f. 375 and f. 414b, 14th century. 10 E. VI. f. 229b and f. 313, 14th century. 14 E. IV. f. 30 and f. 275, 15th century. Harl. 4379, f. 6, 14th century. 16 G. VI. f. xx., 14th century. 20 C. VII. f. 10, 14th century. Nero E. II. f. 115, 14th century. Printed Sarum Primer, A.D. 1531, Paris. G. 12136, in Kalendar, June.
Preaching.—Egerton 745, f. 46, 14th century. Add. 29433, f. 16, early 15th century. Add. 17280, f. 55, late 15th century. 6 E. VII. f. 75b, 14th century. 14 E. III. f. 9b, early 14th century.
Confession.—6 E. VII. f. 500, 14th century. Add. 25698, f. 9, Flemish, c. A.D. 1492. Arundel 83, f. 12, 14th century. Egerton 2019, f. 135, c. A.D. 1450. 6 E. VI. f. 357, and f. 369b, and f. 414b, 14th century. Add. 18851, f. 69b, end of 15th century. 6 E. VII. f. 506b, 14th century.
Printed Pontifical 471, f. 2, p. 177, and p. 203b, A.D. 1523. To a Friar, Royal, 16 G. VI. f. 159, etc. Egerton 2019, f. 135, 15th century. Of Clergy, Royal, 6 E. VII.
Penance.—16 G. VI. f. 421, 14th century. Arundel 83, f. 12, 14th century. 6 E. VII. f. 443, 14th century.
Printed Pontifical 471, f. 2, p. 155, A.D. 1520.
Celebration of Mass.—10 E. IV. f. 211, with housel cloth, 14th century; and 2 B. VII. f. 260b, late 13th century. 16 G. VI. f. 130 and f. 139, 14th century. Nero E. II. f. 129b, 14th century. Egerton 2125, f. 143, late 15th century. Royal 14 E. III. f. 17, early 14th century. Royal 6 E. VI. f. 24b.
Add. 25698, f. 2, c. A.D. 1492. Add. 29704, f. 7 (elevation), and 16997, f. 144, 15th century. Plut. 279, f. 12, 15th century. Add. 16997, f. 145, French, 15th century. Add. 15813, f. 155, Italian, A.D. 1525. Egerton 931, f. 78b (1346-78).
With only one candle on altar, Nero E. II. f. 202, etc., 14th century.
Processions.—16 G. VI. f. 30, f. 350, and f. 351. Nero E. II. f. 36, f. 73, 14th century. 10 E. IV. f. 231b, 14th century. P. La Croix, La Vie Militaire, etc., plate 257.
Visitation of the Sick.—6 E. VI. f. 427b, 14th century. 6 E. VII. f. 70, 14th century. Add. 25698, f. 5, Flemish, c. A.D. 1492. Egerton 2019, f. 142, late 15th century. 20 C. VII. f. 78b, 14th century. Lansdown 451, f. 234, early 15th century. Printed Sarum Primer, A.D. 1531, in Kalendar, December, and at f. 102b.
Funeral Ceremonies.—Enshrouding the corpse.—Egerton, 2019, f. 142, 15th century. In church.—16 G. VI. f. 412, A.D. 1270. 2 B. VII. f. 222, f. 300, and f. 315, c. A.D. 1260. Sloane 346, f. 22b, 14th century. Add. 16997, f. 119b, and f. 171b, 15th century. 16 G. VI. f. 315, 14th century. Nero E. III. f. 131, 15th century. Nero E. II. f. 200b, 14th century. At the church door.—Add. 10294, f. 72 and f. 89, 14th century. Being carried into church.—Add. 12228, f. 8, early 14th century. Funeral procession.—20 C. VII. f. 40b and f. 200, 14th century. Egerton 1070, f. 54b, c. A.D. 1480. Add. 15813, f. 263, A.D. 1525. 6 E. VI. f. 481, 14th century. Add. 10294, f. 86 and f. 88, early 14th century. Commendatio defunctorum.—Egerton 2125, f. 117b, late 14th century. Egerton 1070, f. 54b, A.D. 1480. 14 E. IV. f. 208b. 20 C. VII. f. 10, 14th century. Printed Sarum Psalter, A.D. 1531, f. 98. See also Norwich Vol. of the Archæological Institute, p. 105. Burial.—Claudius B. IV. f. 11, f. 18, f. 44, f. 72, f. 74, and f. 85, 11th century. Egerton 2125, f. 18, early 16th century. Egerton 2019, f. 135, c. A.D. 1450. Aspersing coffin.—16 G. VI. f. 315, 14th century; and Harl. 2278, f. 22b, 15th century. Tomb of a king.—20 C. VII. f. 40b, 14th century. Nero E. II. f. 72b, 14th century. Tomb with lamp over it.—Egerton Plut. 745, f. 62b, 14th century. Sword and horn over tomb.—16 G. VI. f. 180b, 14th century.