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Preface

---...

Fragment of Thomas Eccleston's Treatise

_
.
_
Advent u Minorum"

Documents

respecting
Franciscans and the

Tage
yii

'*de
_

between the

Dispute

Monks of Westminster

31

-60

81

Obituary Record of the Franciscan Convent at

Aberdeen

123

The Rule of

St.

Francis

Statutes of the Observant Franciscans

-----

Chronicle from the

Friars of London Appendix

Register

of

the

Grey

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143

263

Glossary

299

Index

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307

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DA

PREFACE.
I.

Of the Era embraced

It was clearly a feeling tliat he

in

the Work.

was sanctioning the

of a great experiment of

very uncertain result

which caused Pope Innocent the Third to hesitate and
adopt half-measures in dealing with the proposals laid

trial

by Francis of Assisi. A pontiff who had

excommunicated the rulers of the half of Europe, who had
brought whole provinces under his own temporal sway,
and who, aided by the secular arm, had crushed the
Albigenses in a bloody crusade, was not a man among
whose faults indecision could ever have been numbered.
Before him were difficulties graver and harder to be encountered than any physical forces likely to be arrayed
against his power, and there had come to his aid men
willing to combat those difficulties, proposing their own
methods, and asking no help save a mere commission
from the highest spiritual authority to rouse the torpor
of Christendom, and to go forth to fight for God and the
Church against the spirit of infidelity. Obvious as the
proper course may have seemed to one endowed with
the warm faith of an enthusiast, the policy of the Ruler
of Christendom would require rather to be moderated
at his feet

by a

sense of responsibility, than to be guided

by im-

from these new

remedies themselves, the weight of that evil and the
duty of mitigating its effects would sooner or later lie
heavily on the shoulders of him who occupied the

pulsive

zeal.

If evil should spring

PREFACE.

viii

chair of St

Peter.

The

care of

all

the churches had

but there
was a kind of familiarity about recurring problems
in which already well known factors were involved.
indeed become an incubus

of perplexities,

Western Europe, the bishops,

the secular clergy, the monks, and, further away from
sight, the shadowy Emperor of the East and the Saracen these were forces whose resultant a pope was
These he knew almost by
accustomed to calculate.

The sovereign

princes of

the traditions of his

how to
was now

office

balance against each

solicited to admit a
But Innocent
totally new and untried power to take a place among
the rest, and to us whose wisdom has come long after
the event, it seems that he did well to hesitate, and
would have perhaps done better to refuse.
The crround on which the Church was ordained to
work was already doubly occupied. The secular priest
and the monk had worked out a modus vivendi,
What would be the effect
albeit an indifferent one.

other.

of

introducing

way

to both

reproof

to the

a third

element dissimilar

in

every

If the friar should posture as a living-

golden

monk and

ease

and

spiritual

indolence

and uncanonical
of the
life of the parish priest, would the repi^oof be taken
in the spirit of Christian humilit}^ ?
Some kind of
fermentation must result from the infusion even of a
quickening leaven into the body spiritual, and that fermentation must pass off favourably, the body cooling-

down

after a

to

the ignorance

passing fever,

or

serious

symptoms of

moral blood-poisoning might only too easily supervene.

Clearly then it was a matter for cautious treatment, this
idea of sending forth a

swarm

of missionaries to teach

and preach and tend the sick and the outcasts, and gain
the sympathy of the poor man by being as poor as
himself If the great ideal were attained and sustained
all would be well, but if the friar should be launched
on a course of spiritual rivalry, if he should gradually
acquire the vices of his clerical surroundings, and a
coarser contamination from those he was sent to assist,

IX

HIEB'ACE.

might ha])peii that by so malign a combination, like

as by the chemical compounding of ciuiesccnt substances,
a true and most active solvent of existing order might
it

too soon be readied.

all

Three centuries form a gulf that human foresight has

never yet spanned. But had it been possible for the
great pope to have seen in these islands the main
divisions of the church discrediting each other in the
face of the laity with yearly increasing indecency, he

had
destroyed the possilulity of that natural balance which
years would assuredly have brought about between
seculars and regulars, and had thus, in the great result,
lost to the papacy a kingdom destined to be of primary
would have

recosjnised

the

that the

fact

importance in Europe.
Whatever the reason for reluctant action

friar

may have

was certainly only after much hesitation that,

in
1209, Saint Francis was accorded verbally the
No bull or writing was
approbation of the pope.
given, nay, distinctly refused, and a way for the swppression of the new movement, should it be found
})ractically inconvenient, was thus visibly left open Confirmafor some years until, in 1215, it was judged that the p *^^
Order of St. Francis might be juib upon a permanent
footing. Even then the rule was only approved verbally
by the Lateran Council. More perhaps could hardly be
expected from an assembly Avhich was enacting a decree
been,

it

against the origination of

in itself

new

was good witness

religious orders,

to the

but this

early merits of the

Franciscans.^

The primitive condition of the Grey Friars,'^ their

aims and their work in this country, have been most
ably sketched by Professor Brewer in his preface

Migue, Encycl. Theol.,

vol. 13,

p. 1062.
"^

Known

Minor, Grey Friars.

under various names

FrctnciscanSf

Mirwfites,

F*riars

Later divi-

Order were termed

Observauts and Becollects.

sions

of

the

Primitive
^f t^J,^^
Order.

PREFACE.

volume of which the present is a continuation,

and it is safe to assert that no facts elicited by later
investigations will lead a student to differ in any way
from his conclusions. The present volume is, however,
more particularly concerned with the sad story of the
decadence and fall of the Franciscans, and its pui'pose

to the

has been to gather or to give references to the scattered

and very scanty records now remaining as traces of

these energetic workers.

There

is

an indefinable charm in Eccleston's simple

narrative as he details for us the results of his quarter

century of working and watching in his beloved Order.

Of

these

think any

early Franciscans
evil.

It

is

it

was nothing

almost impossible to

less

than the attraction

of a truer holiness that caused the phenomenal

Here

growth
there an

a bishop resigned his see,

abbot put aside his dignity and donned the grey garb
of a mendicant friar, Avhile the learned or the enthusiastic
of the Order.

who found no scope in their own monastic

orders, escaped,

from a prison, to the sanctuary of the Franciscan

These can be signs of nothing less than a
rallying of the strength of that piety which has never
in the darkest tunes died out from the church to so
great an extent as her enemies are eager to assert.
The voice of jealousy was for a time not loudly raised.
It is ever most fittingly evoked by the baser elements
of social existence, and must seek matter for complaint
in something else than sanctity of life and disinterested
good works. Neither monk nor beneficed priest could
enviously refer to the poor plot of ground, the mud-built
friary, or the royal bounty which dispensed a few oak
trees for beams or fuel f but the duration of this calm,
sad it is to say, cannot be safely reckoned even by
like as
habit.-

decades.

Annales

(Anual.

de

Monast.,

Eolls Series.

Theokesberia
vol.

ii.

p.

95

Annales de DuDstaplia (Aunal.

Monast., vol.
^

iii.

ggp p^ 279.

p.

133.)

'

PREFACE.

XI

Under
The Minorites reached England in 1224.
the year 1285 Matthew Paris launches against them
his first accusations.^
These can be tested by original
documents

still

extant,'^

in

and,

at

least

one

Early
^"

diffi-

^'^'^"

clear

must be regarded as true, though true for a

date about twenty years later than that named by the

instance,

great chronicler.

A living

mind ever
requires an outward stimulus to keep alive its zeal, and
that when this exciting cause is withdrawn it relapses
writer remarks that the English

into apathy.

Notably

is

this the case

with the career

The burning

of the English Minorites.

zeal

which had

consumed all inner impurities cooled far too

The friar began to find his Rule too strict, and
successive popes granted relaxations and privileges which
sought to make his way more easy. It is not, however,
to be supposed that considerable evils had as yet shown
themselves in more than isolated instances, for the
Council of Lyons in 1274, when restraining the tendency
to erect new orders and actually abolishing certain
classes of mendicant friars, specially excepted the four
great orders, using the remarkable words
Sane ad
" Frmdicatorum et Minoruni ordines (quos evidens ex

at first

rapidly.

'''

imiversali proveniens pevhihet

'^

eis utilitas

''

approhatos) prcesentem

ecclesice

non 'patimuv constitutionem

" extendi."^

Witness such as this could scarcely be

borne in a general council of the Western Church to an

which was visibly failing in its purpose.

But whatever the further history of the Order in foreign
countries may show, for our own country it must be
admitted that the beginning of evil was near at hand, comand we have only to turn to the consideration of the mencement
earliest concrete cases which actual records enable us to ^vith Moexamine in order to find the first sio-ns of the decadence tic
Orders.
which we are bound to trace.

institution

See Matth. Paris, vol.

(Rolls Series).

iii.,

p.

332

See

Lib. Sext. Decretal,

p. 267.
iii.

Tit. xvii.

PREFACE.

Xll

one has endeavoured to sift truth from early

documents without longing for parallel records not
written by the pens of ecclesiastics, but it will sometimes happen that beside the prejudiced statement of

No

one of the parties in a quarrel, we are so fortunate as to

Still greater
possess the testimony of a third person.
certainty is, however, reached when this witness, though
a notorious partisan, is compelled to give unwilling evidence against his

own

side.

This gTeater ceitainty

is

unexpectedly to be found in the case of the quarrel be-

tween the Franciscans and the monks of Bury St. Edmunds, a wai-fare which raged for at least six years.
As has been stated above, Matthew Paris (anno
1235) complains that a party of Minorites, taking advanInva>ion
of

monas

tic terri-

tories.

tage of being within the territory of a great

Abbey for the

purpose of preaching, would, on some pretext of illness or

Undercover of darkness, he
the like, stay for the night.

they would erect a wooden altar, place it on a

small consecrated stone slab brought for the purpose, and
Having thus gained an ecclesiastical
celebrate a mass.
footing, they would hear confessions, say masses, and ultimately even despatch messengers to Rome to obtain suba.sserts,

These would often be yielded by the

monks from fear of a scandal and from di-ead of the
power already gained by the ( )rler at the court of Rome
With no differences worthy of special indication
itself
stantial concessions.

Dispute
with

monks of
Burv St.
Edmuntls.

this sketch
St,

is

a succinct history of the scandal at Bury

The

Echnunds.^

A nnales

cU DunstapUa give 1233

as the date of the Franciscan invasion of the town, but

there

is

little

difficulty in believing

that the quarrel

took a definite shape in the year 1257, the date assigned

in the account from the " Registruni Werketoae" printed
in

this

volume,

we assume

if

that

the Franciscans,

having previously held a temporary site, obtained at

the latter date a grant of ground within the limits of
the town, and began to erect a permanent Friary.
1

see pp. 267-275.

PREFACE.

Xlll

According to the narrative now printed the Franciscans

began just in the way Mattliew Paris has described, entering treacherously, but hokling subsequently with a hiwful

won by

title

The monks on

the arts of insinuation.

hand openly glory in having violently pulled

down the Friary and expelled the friars twice. It is
the other

monks speak with scant

of Pope Alexander the Fourth, charging him with

curious to
respect

notice that

the

showing undue favour to the

understanding the action

now

it

apparently

friars,

little

appears that he had

taken in the matter.

Lambeth Palace

the

hitherto unidentified bull in

however, gives a decisive side light on this

It is directed to the English Minorites, and
dispute.
refers to their conduct toward the monks of Bury.
Without its leaden seal, and only dated in November

library,

in the third year of one of the

name

who

Popes

bore the

of Alexander, this bull has passed unnoticed, but

as the date referred to above (1257)

of Alexander IV.

may

it

safely be

This document - shows, in the

Pontiff,

though

was the third year

ascribed

first place,

once the Cardinal

to

him.

that the supreme

Protector

of

the

Order, was guilty of no blind partisanship, and in the

second, that the Franciscans, though at first injuriouylj^

by the monks, were subsequently misconducting

themselves, and continuing the quarrel in a manner
which called for authoritative interference.
In considering this quarrel Ave must remember that
a Benedictine Abbey would in such a matter be respontreated

sible

only as a

monastic unit, but that

under the

strongly centralized government of the friars the fault of

the Franciscans of

Bury must be viewed

as the fault of

the whole English province.

This

would thus appear as a grave symptom

in a high purpose, and that too (to take the

affair

of failure

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most favourable date) after a course of but

than thirty years had been run.

We

Dispute
with monks

are prepared

by

this narrative

little

place

to

more

some

confidence in the lamentable story told in the Annales

of Worcester.
cle Wygornia ^ of the issue of a quarrel in the year 1290

about the forcible rescue of a corpse from the friars of

Worcester, and its burial within the precincts of the
Archbishop Peckham ordered that the body

monastery.

should be given back to the

friars,

who

bore

it

away

in

procession with chanting and great pomp, after a speech

about their rights had been delivered to the assembled

crowd.

The annals of the same monastery (anno 1291)

also

give an account of the general chapter of the Minorites

at

Cork,

which the Irish

in

friars,

by producing a

certain papal bull, caused such a quarrel that bloodshed

ensued.

The

annalist adds the sarcastic couplet

Bullae papales sunt fratribus exitiales.

Qui quondam mites, faciunt nunc prselia, lites.

These assertions, however, are not capable of proof, but
in a fourth instance of great importance

we

are enabled

by documentary evidence to reach a surer position.

Matthew of Westminster states that about the year
1290 the Minorites, who had now gained great ground,
" miserably infested the monks of Westminster and WorOf the Worcester affair thus alluded to we have
cester."
just seen the circumstances, and some documents ^ now
"^

printed for the

sion of the

first

time from

th^^

Dean and Chapter

originals in the posses-

of Westminster, enable us

to ascertain the facts as regards the

Dispute
witlimonki;
of Westminster.

remaining allegation.

William of Pershore, once a Benedictine monk, had

taken the habit of a Grey Friar, but about the year 1290

had returned

to his old Order,

and was sheltered

Annal. Monast. (Rolls Series),

vol. iv. pp.

499, 502, 504.

As

referred to in Dart's West-

monasterium,
3

in the

vol.

pp. 31 to 62.

ii.

p. xxvii.

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PREFACE.

Abbey
be,

of Westminster.

He

selected that refuge,

it

may

on account of the presence of Alexander of Pershore,

possibly a relation or formerly a fellow

monk

in Persliore

Abbey. With him he had carried some books, which,

as no friar could OAvn property, were claimed no less
than the apostate himself by the Friars. There already
existed a papal privilege denouncing an excommunication,
absolvable only at Rome, against all who harboured
apostate Franciscans, and Archbishop Peckham caused

An

the sentence to be published.

appeal was

made

to

Rome, and the case was heard at Orvieto before the cardinal of St. Lawrence.
His award was wholly in favour of
the Franciscans, the Abbot Walter de Wenlock was forced
to perform a public act of humiliation, penances were
enjoined, fines were imposed, and the apostate was, if
possible, to be captured and restored.
The terms of the
arrangement were hard, and ic is creditable to the Franciscans, wdio seem indeed to have been in the right
all

through, that they subsequently modified the condi-

tions

by an agreement which appears

have been fully

to

carried out.

complete

triinnph

this

like

over the wealthiest

abbot of the great Benedictine Order

is

somewhat of

There is a moral loss in a

contest which would assuredl}^ have been instantly abandoned as unw^orthy of a Minorite, we will not say by St.
Francis or even Agnellus of Pisa, but by Haymo of
Faversham, a man who could fight a stout fight for his
Rule within his own Order. Such a victory, too, over one
of their admitted chiefs must at once have increased the
growing bitterness of the Benedictines against the Minoa Pyrrhic victory after

rites.

all.

The enmity, moreover,

of these particular

of Westminster cannot be accounted a

encounter, for these, or

many

who. appear in the Patent Roll

Memb.

thinof to

were the men

31 Edward I.^ as having

of

of

lio-ht

monks

them

12 doree.

b 2

XVI

PREFACE.

been consigned to the Tower for the celebrated robbery

of the King's Treasury in 1303. One of them, Alexander
of Pershore, prominent as proctor at Rome against the
Franciscans,

was

man who

certainly the

took the black

panniers full of treasure to the pier, and

to kill

John Albon

if

who

threatened

he revealed the crime.

point of interest attaching to the quarrel

is

further

that the

anger of Archbishop Peckham was so roused by the conduct of Waller de Wenlock that he refused to officiate in
the abbey at the funeral of Queen Eleanor in 1290.^
Invasion
of parish
clergy.

If the Franciscans seriously invaded the

monks

on the secular

their encroachments

domain
^

of the

clergy were

and that too, it is to be feared, in proportion

to the weakness of the position they were assailing.
These priests were necessarily somewhat loosely connected units, but there is the far more important fact
gtill

greater,

they very

that

parishioners

frequently lost

the

respect of their

by marrying, in contravention of the canon

by practising as lawyers in the various courts

To the aid of these considerations came
of the kingdom.
a potent ally inadequately termed the weakness of human
nature. As Matthew Paris notes ^ it was easier to confess
an act of shame to a strolling friar, whose face might
law, and

never be seen again in the town, than to the parish priest

and then too, it was hard to endure a penance inflicted by

a man whose own conduct was possibly not higher than
the level of his penitent's moral life.
That these persistent invasions are not single instances universalised by
railing accusers we have clear evidence.
In Archbishop
Peckham's Register^ we read that the Minorites possessed
by repeated Papal authorisations the right of hearing
confessions and of absolving all persons without distinction and without previously asking the permission of
the parish priest. This power the Archbishop directed
^

See Annales de Oseneia.

Mon.,
2

Ann.

^
|

vol. iv. p. 326.

to here.

vol.

p. 332.

iii.

Secular canons are not referred

Matth. Paris (Kolls Series)

Reg. Archbp. Peckham (Lam-

beth)

fo.

131. a.

PREFACE.

XVI

that they should be allowed to exercise without hindrance.

It is not surprising that the secular clergy

detestation the

them

men empowered

viewed with

thus rudely to

de];)ose

which of all otliers gave a

But this was not all. The

at will from that office

power over his flock.

holiest men must ever be preferable as guardians of the
sanctity of the grave, and their habit assumed in the
last moments of life must be the most potent armour
It was clear,
procurable against the ghostly enemy.
too, whatever faults might be discoverable by a coldly
searching eye, that these friars were more spiritual than
the country gentlemen, the farmers and manufacturers
who dwelt in splendid convents and called themselves
monks. Certainly they were preferable to the greedy
clerical lawj^er who was bending under the burden of a
half-acknowledged family, and who, while takiug a
legacy, often failed to remember the masses it was intended to secure. These diversions of legacies were
priest

another aspect of a grievance so sore in

all its

phases that

more than a century and a half, the aid

of the popes was grudgingly extended to the suffering

at last, after

Boniface VIII. in the year 1300, decreed that

seculars.

the Minorites should

not preach

without leave, and should give

of all legacies

The

in

churches

the canonical portion

a miserable fourth
was

parish

to the parish priests.

a time withdrawn, but

in 1312 the Council of Vienne again established the
latter provision

rule.^

for

The Decretals themselves show how

fearful the

tyranny of the friars must have been, nor was this

tyranny ever much abated, for it is impossible with such
an antecedent history not to give credence to the allegations of Hichard FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh,
in his pleadings before the pope at Avignon in 1357,^
127. for an entry show-

ing that this custom extended even

See

p.

to the case of

women.

Clementinarum Lib.

See p. 276.

iii. tit.

vii.

PREFACE.

xviii

owing

althoug-li,

to

unknown

bis bold effoi-ts did not effect

The

Relations

with bishops and

the pope,

feelingr^

under- currents of influence,

any reform.

of Archbishop FitzRalph towards

the

shared, thouorh less

were probabh'
"
J^
openly, by a majority of the bishops, tor these mars,
like the laroer communities of monks, claimed and
obtained complete freedom from episcopal control.- In

orders

niendicant

its interior orfranisation their

institutions,
tioUj

Order, like

all ecclesiastical

shows a clearly marked democratic constitu-

more democratic indeed,

in later years especially,

monastic orders, in that the gieater officers

than the

according to their rank were compelled to resign on the

occasion either of every provincial or of eveiy general
chapter,

and were removable at other times

ciency or misconduct.
plete,

for in.suffi-

This organisation was veiy com-

ranging upwards from the superior of a friary, or

warden of a convent, through the gi-ades of

custos and provincial minister to that of the minister
A body of this kind, it ^dll
general residing at Rome.
be readily admitted, was not favourable to the good
the

order of a diocese, but the popes, to

were ever friendly, had

ent power of controlling
sons

all

and,

as

over Europe
the

many

by means
a number

of

whom
it

the friars

the

conveni-

of spiritual

by communication with one head,

diplomatic

missions entrusted to

found

them

Minorites

show,

auxiliaries

under a great variety of circumstances.

the

garri-

Pontiffs

obedient

The

numerous brief biographies of Minorites gathered by the

industrious author of the ''Collectanea Aaglo-Minoritica/' show a large amount of interflow between the
foreign and the English convents.
Communications
clearly were well kept up, and the periodical meetings

Wadding,

vol. 5 p. 562.

See Vol.

I.

MS.

p. 377.

Hail. Xo. 335,

See also

Archhp

Strat-

ford's Coustitutions.

ordinances

mendicant orders.

directed

These contain
against

the

XIX

PREFACE.
in provincial or general chapter

must have strengthened

powerfully the sense of unity at the expense of that of

nationality.
The lack, too, of proprietary attachments

no less than
the wanderinof habits of the friar, and must have caused
him to be ready to move, like the more modern Jesuit,
from place to place or country to country, as the good
of his Order, or the needs of his overlord the pope, might

must have operated

at the

moment

in the

same

direction,

require.

We

have already seen that the Rule of St. Francis was

very early found too strict for complete observance,
Evidence has
particularly in a country like England.
Order
was soon launched
been given to show that the
on a series of contests which it could scarcely have
avoided, and the need either of strengthening its position or retreating before its enemies must have been
obvious to its rulers. Enthusiasm entirely undirected

by worldly wisdom can

over worldly forces, and
the popes

who

of the founder.

prevail for a short time only

this

was

clearly the opinion of

assisted in modifying the original design

race of friars dependent strictly on

voluntary offerings or the results of mendicancy must

soon, especially in a country like
literally starved in the

When

England, have been

recurring times of famine and

but the rich were in perpetual

anxiety as to their next meal, the friar commissioned to
minister to the spiritual wants of the poor and to live of
their bounty must necessarily have stood no chance of
food to keep body and soul together.
Jn times of
epidemics he who was attending the plague-stricken
could have been no welcome visitor to those who were
hoping to keep the pestilence from their door. Some
means of obtaining a small independent income as a re-

pestilence.

all

source in times of emergency must therefore be sought, and

if

the Rule should stand in the

fully,

way

then, though regret-

the Rule must be evaded or modified for the sake

of the continued existence of the Order

it

governed.

In

KelaxaJJ^^^J^^i^

XX

PREFACE.

the same

way

the Order found

it

needful to

qualify

Not

itself for competition of a difierent nature.

to be

for such would

have been the result

rendered useless by the Dominicans and others as
preachers or as confessors, theological learning at least
was essential. Thus another modification of the Rule
must come about, and as men who study need to be freed
somewhat from other duties, a favourable interpretation
must be put on ordinances respecting labour. Here,
however, the assistance of the pope was required, and
we must turn to the pages of the Canon Law to see what
eclipsed or rather

actually happened.
Kuie relaxed by
Nicholas
IV.

Attentive consideration of all these necessities

'^^ ^]^g

is

shown

Declaration of Nicholas IV. touchinor

the Rule.
=>

If
,

nothing could be possessed in common by the friars,

even books and other requisites for Divine service and
study would be beyond their reach, and it was therefore
decreed that all proprietary rights in minor necessaries
for the use

and

benefit of the Franciscans should be held

Supreme Pontift, to whom also should

friaries and churches of the Order.
Loans

to vest in the

belong

all

continued to be forbidden, yet, to procure necessaries,

the friai'S might bind themselves to repay either by
labour or out of alms received, but the alms-giver himself
should,

if

possible, be

die, his heirs or

necessary.

If he should

the intermediary.

executors might be sued at the law

Legacies expressed in a form

the spirit of the Rule must be repudiated

if

contraiy to

thus a

field

might not be accepted, but

money, or a house, or field, to be expended on the
necessities of the brethren would be a permissible beneand further, the right to such a legacy might
faction
be sustained by the fi'iars before the courts of law. The
touch of money was ever to be avoided by a fi*iar, but a
gift might be changed, by sale if requisite, for some
lawful and necessary article and, lastly, spiritual and
to cultivate, a house to

let,

mental labour being preferable to bodily

toil,

the latter

XXI

PREFACE.

slioiild

not be imposed on those fully occupied in efforts

of the liigher class.i

The second great Declaration on the Rule was put

forward considerably more than a hundred years later
Between
by Clement V. in the Council of Vienne.these two documents differences may be detected which

Farther re'^^^^jjj'^j;^^

ciementV.

evidence a general falling off from the high standard

Directions are given as to certain
of the older days.

minor points, such as clothing, election of officers, &c.,

and an authoritative division of the absolute from the
variable or less strict injunctions of the Rule is laid
down. It is ordered, that beside the fasts from All
Saints' day to the Nativity and the ordinary Lenten
abstinence, the brethren shall be

bound

to the general

imposed by the church on all Christians but it is

noticeable that no mention is made of the intermediate
After
fast to which St. Francis exhorts his followers.
ruling that persons entering the Order may give to it
their property, but must not be persuaded so to do,
the Declaration concerns itself mainly with directions

fasts

calculated to avoid for the future various accusations

brought against the Franciscans. These were apparently

understood by the Pope to be that the friars not only suffer
but procure themselves to be made testamentary heirs
that in some cases they receive rents so large as to form
a maintenance for the whole convent that when their
affairs are before courts of law they personally intermeddle that they undertake the duties of executors
and arrange cases of usury or the return of stolen goods,
;

&c.

that they cultivate large gardens and even large

vineyards, and

sell

the crops

that at harvest and grape-

gathering seasons they beg and buy to so great an extent as to provide for their consumption during the
that they build such beautiful
whole ensuing year
churches and convents that their edifices seem fitter
that they have
for magnates than for mendicants
;

Lib. Sext. Decretal.V.Tit.xii.cap.ITI.

See also p. 75 in the present volume.

'

i3i]_i2.

PEEFACE.

XXll

church ornaments in value even beyond those of great

cathedrals and lastly, that they receive as funeral offer;

and even arms.

These charges, as the Pope

the rulers of the Order deny, but he none the

ings horses
states,
less

proceeds to legislate against the gi'owing world) iness

of the friars.

MoTement
turn

tcf"

strict

ob-

of the
Rule.

The

on which the Church has ever proceeded

^^'^ li^ppily so special and peculiar that, after learning all that can be alleged respecting the evil condition
i^^^o which a great religious institution has fallen, we
look almost as a matter of course for the commencement
of those efforts which have seldom failed to be forthcominor for renewiusf and settinor in order that which
has been weakened and decayed.
It is hard, perhaps, to escape from the conclusion that
a movement of reform is at least a confession of previous
disorder or insufficiency, but on the other hand a reformation from within, a self-healing process, is good evidence
lines

of vitalitv.

Rule of

St.

Sions of a desire for a return to the strict

Francis appear before the middle of the 14th

After the General Chapter of Toulouse in 1373,

at which Pope Gregory XI. presided in person, concentury.

Rise of

vant Fran
ciscans

siderable advances were made.

division without dis-

mption Commenced, and the number

}yy

of houses occupied

Observant, as distinguished from Conventual Francis-

cans, slowly increa-sed.

All,

however, owed allegiance to

the same high officers of the order, until (in 1415) the

Council of Constance gTanted the Observants a separate

head or vicar general, who, however, was still nominally
subordinate to the minister general of the entire order.

This

office

of vicur general

was held

in

1438 by the

In 1446 the Observants

by Eugenius IV. to hold a General

celebrated Bernardine of Siena.

were permitted
Chapter and to present] their elected
for merely formal confirmation in his
minister o-eneral.

Later

still

^'icar
office

general
b}*

the so-called Bull of

the

Union

gave the Observants precedence over the Conventuals,

BHW^!!^^-'^^

XXIU

PREFACE.

tlioiK>'h

would seem

it

that they were not the more

In England, where it is asserted

numerous section.
that the Rule had even been more strictly kept than on
the continent, the reformation caused no disruption,
Edward IV. was a
though there was some rivalry.
great patron of the Observants, and Henry VII. and, in
his

earlier

though
later,

years,

even Henry VIII,, favoured them,

this section of the J ranciscans was, a

the

first

few years

Early in the 16th

to suffer at his hands.

century they seem to have numbered tw^elve convents

in the English province.

The

statutes of the Observants printed in this

volume

were collected in the general chapter of Barcelona in

1451, and are probably the earliest collection of their regulations which has been presented in type.
They exist in
this country in a single manuscript copy preserved in the
Bodleian Library.

The foundation

was of course the Rule of

of

all this legislation

St. Francis,

but the authori-

and relaxations of Nicholas IV.

and other popes, and the inevitable growth of case-law
tative interpretations

had, before the middle of the loth century, rendered

codification a necessity.

The mere

primitive Rule, to be followed in

laws, to be interpreted

by the

its

letter,

transition from a
spirit, to

a code of

suggests the idea of a

moral elevation. Then, too, when it is considered

that we are dealing with the work, not of legal theorists,
but of men who are palpably prohibiting the recurrence

loss of

more or less frequently committed,

we see that the statutes under consideration testify to
past sins and abuses often serious in form and degree.
Almost the first regulation is that no one under 16

of offences already

years of age shall be admitted as a novice.

find that in

When we

1358 the University of Oxford vainly en-

deavoured to prevent the abduction of young students

which had then become so frequent as to deter parents
from sending their children to Oxford, this enactment
appears utterly insufficient for

the protection of

the

Statutes

observant
Friars,

XXIV

PREFACE.

an improvement on the state

of thinofs indicated in a decretal of Alexander IV. which
speaks of novices under 14 years of age.^
The mode of life inculcated in these statutes is undoubtedly one of great strictness. From Compline to
Prime, that is from about seven in the evening to six in
the morning, silence is enjoined throughout the year,
and at specified seasons during other hours as well.

unwary.

Clothing

But even

is

this is

to be of the cheapest, shoes are forbidden, as

and linen sheets, and the friar

must sleep in habit and femorals and wear his cord.
Two lenten fasts in every year are prescribed and even
a third is advised, though, on the other hand, meat in
moderation is allowed at other times.
Every friar must travel on foot, and the miserable
also are

feather-beds

by riding on asses when the use

must under these statutes disappear.
A companion must be taken on every journey, and
each is bound to report secretly on the behavioui- of
his associate.
The confessions of women are a subject
evasion of the

of horses

of

much

sions

is

rule

denied,

solicitude, for the practice of

hearing confes-

was a most important business of the Order, and

the punishments assigned to

are very severe,

all offences

against purity

and are extended to cases of

gi'ave

In one clause the statutes touch lightly on

a class of offences often imputed to coenobites of all
Orders, but without dwelling on these matters, it may
suspicion.

be said that the importance of a legislative reference is

great in testing general report.
Possession of property
of all kinds by individuals, or by the Order, as might

have been expected, is forbidden, and a friar found at his

decease to have any possessions is deprived of Christian burial, though the further Indignity mentioned in
the Decretals is not prescribed. Apostasy, however,
was the great offence, and the vagabond friar was, both by

Liber Sext. Decret. III. Tit.

and Statute 4 Hen. IV.

c. 17.

XIV. cap.

II.

See also Rolls of Parliament

XXV

PREFACE.

and papal enactments, to be caught wherever

found and handed to his superiors for punishment. We
have seen, in the case of William of Pershore, the commotion that a single apostate friar could cause, and
the great importance attached to his capture, and in
the statutes of the Observants we see that such an one
when caught was to be flogged the only case in
which such a punishment is named. Forgery, perjury,
theft, assault, the procuring of promotion, and the invoking of external interferences in the aflairs of the
Order, these were the offences for which since the Rule
of St. Francis was first drawn up it had become, on
account of a few isolated delinquencies we may hope,
The punishments inflicted under
necessary to legislate.
imthis code were varied, but two only were serious
prisonment and flagellation. The rest graduated downwards to a childish level, to eat his dinner sitting half
clad upon the floor being the meed of the friar who
would not sleep in his clothes. By these statutes the
Observant Friars are clearly intended to abstain from
the practice of acting mystery plays then prevalent
among the Conventual Franciscans, for it is specially
forbidden them to put on female or indeed any secular
attire whatever pro ludis faciendis.
royal

The requirement

of bodily labour remains in full force

in these statutes, but there

is

nothing to enlighten us as

kind of work usually done and the extent to which

there was actual labour for an equivalent but that such
real bodily toil was still to some extent customary is

to the

evidenced by a regulation in the Decretals forbidding

make bargains respecting their hire, and another

permitting money sometimes to be borrowed under a
friars to

contract to return the value in labour.^

Lib. Sext. Decret.

V.

Tit.

pp. 77, 78 in the present volume.

XII.

(col.

765, edit.

1585).

See also

XXVI
Extent to
vow^of
poyeify

PREFACE.

In one point the Rule of St. Francis was obeyed almost

^^ ^^^ letter during the three hundred years' course run

by the Order

The Franciscans, except in

instances so isolated as to be unworthy of mention, can
bv no stretch of lanouaoe be termed landowners. The
site of a friary and a garden form a modest possession
which the most carping spirit of envy must pass unnoticed.
Indeed,

it is

in England.

a matter for admiration that the Franciscans

put such very narrow bounds to their

grants entered in the Patent Rolls
of

Henry

the

reign

Sixth's

The

desires.

down

to the

relate to small

end

plots of

gi'ound, often to a lane proposed to be enclosed or a

Sources of

spring to be led within the friary.^

fore

Funeral
offerings,

legacies,

look

possible

sources

must

of income

thereif

we

wish to see whether or not holy poverty was maintained among the Grey Friars in England.
The
temptations resulting from having to compete with the
wealthy monks and the seculars, who, though poor, had
To sustain themselves
stipends, must have been great.
effectually by sheer begging in mediaeval England would
have been to turn mendicancy itself into a positive industry, so great would have been the exertions needed.
Other ways were open, and they were taken, though
some of them brought the friars into contests often
positively disgraceful, always detrimental, to the cause of
religion.
Detractors had a true ground of attack when
^hey alleo'ed that the Franciscans souo-ht to make the
wills of the dying, securing thereby funeral offerings and
.

&c.

other

to

We

legacies for masses, as well as

sums

for specified benefits.

olance at the wills collected in Sir H. Nicolas'

" mentct Vetiista,^^ wills

''

Testa-

mostly of distinguished people,

detects ever recurring entries of legacies to the Friars

Minor

while an analysis of a considerable

much humbler

wills of persons of a

See pp. 282-297.

number of

class extracted

from

m:^^im

XXVll

PREFACE.

the registers of the Norwich Consistory Court by the

Late Mr. John L'Estrange,^ shows that at a time when

the Grey Friars were falling out of favour every third

Pensions from the king Royal penwill conveyed a gift to them.

were another source of income, and these seem to

have been liberally granted. They continued down to
the early years of Henry VIII. but as their revocation
was so easy a matter a mere cessation of payment
A series
Speed's catalogue contains no traces of them.
of examples of these grants showing the variety of forms
which they took may be seen in the extracts from the

*'^"'^-

too,

Harleian MS. No. 433, printed at p. 265.

Regular offerings, too, resulted from the practice, very

Organlsa-

common

g^JJ^^,

in the fourteenth

oroanisinof relio-ious ouikls.

less fair

and

fifteenth

centuries,

of

Nothino- would be easier or

than to represent these useful and humanising

having been started by secular priests and

friars for the sake of the various offerings which indubitably flowed in from them. That they who preach
the gospel should live of the gospel is a rule no less of
institutions as

common

than of apostolic teaching, while the

suggestion that the gospel is preached for the sake of
gain is one of those drops of bitterness with which
malice can at will defile any pure stream. Any person
who can disentangle himself from nineteenth century
surroundings and can read the fourteenth century
by the light of fourteenth century ideas must see clearly
that the guilds, whether religious, merchant, or craft
guilds, were a potent organising force in a direction
which w^as at that date wholly right and good. As may
be seen in the collections of Mr. Toulmin-Smith and
Mr. Rye,"^ f-^ej directly and absolutely enforced the most
sense

'^

>

Printed in Mr.

Walter Rye's

Norfolk Antiq. Miscellvol.

Many of these

p. 345.

it

is

worthy of

that rivalry did not prevent

legacies

to the Minorites.
-

are wills of parochial

clergymen, and

remark

i.

them from leaving some

" Ordinances of

the

English

guilds" (Early English Text Soc.)^ Norf. Arch. Soc. Trans.,

7, p.
105.

PREFACE.

XXVlll

important moral laws, brought

men and women

socially

together in a wholesome civilising way, acted as benefit

and burial clubs, and in the direction of commercial and political action have done more than can even
be glanced at here. That monks, secular clergy, or friai*s
should by the offerings of the guild-brethren, whether at
societies

annual festivals or funerals, be aided in keeping their

hands free for clerical duties, and not least, for assisting to
direct such institutions as these, must certainly be right

and proper. The case of the guild of St. Elene at Beverly

shows exactly what happened. Each year on the feast of
their patron saint a procession of the guild went to the
church of the Friars Minor. Mass was sung, and every
brother and sister offered a penny. At other times there
were masses for the deceased brethren, accompanied by the
usual offerings, and if the accounts of the guild showed a
balance at the end of the year the amount was devoted to
the poor and to the maintenance of the guild chapel. The
object of this particulai' guild. Dr. Brentano says, was the
representation of religious plays, a feature of mediaeval
Miracle
pia^^acted

by Franciscans.

life

which has attracted much attention at the present day.

^^ Organising and acting miracle plays the Franciscan
friars took a decided lead, and so far was it reckoned in
late times one of the recognised callings of the Order ^
that the corporation registers of

York

tell

us that in

1426 William Melton, of the order of Friars Minor,

Professor of Holy Pageantry and a most famous
" preacher of the Word of God,'' made arrangements
respecting the Corpus Christi play in that city, evidently
as manager of the performance. The more famous Lucius
Coventrice was wholly in the hands of the Minorites.
The plays forming this collection,- Dugdale tells us,^
''

Mach}-n's
*

the

It is a curious fact that

Diary

during

(Camden

p. 138.

brief revival

of

the

Mystery plays were resumed.

order,

MS.

Vesp. D.

VIH.

Cott.

'

Hist, of Warwickshire.

See

Soc.)

XXIX

PREFACE.

were

acted with mighty state and reverence

"

who

"

had theatres

by the

"

Grey

"

very large and high placed u])on wheels and drawn to

the eminent parts of the city for the better advantage of spectators." Here again it is easy for the voice

Friars,"

for the several scenes

" all
*^

of detraction to say that the representations were coarse

and ridiculous and to assert that nudity was tolerated

on the stage. The Ober Ammergau plays, however, by
their beauty and dignity have done much to enable the
i

"

nineteenth century to understand these mediaeval

racles "

and

to

mi-

comprehend that they were an elevating

influence to our simple ancestors.

flowed

Profit, of course,

from these performances, and some will allow and others

deny that the labourer in this instance was worthy of
his hire, while the question whether these plays were acted
for the sake of

money

or the

money received

for the sake

of having plays, will divide opinions just as does the

biological
life

problem whether organisation produces

One

causes organisation.

may

evil result

life

we must

allow

possibly and exceptionally have flowed from

He who was an

custom of acting plays.

or

the

entertainer in

public had temptations to become an entertainer in a

more private and

less

reputable way, and occasion has

thus been given to a modern writer to say of the Fran-

and ribaldry made them

the welcome associates of the licentious and profane."^

ciscans that " their jocularity

"

How

far this general assertion is fair is a matter for

it is not without some foundation there

proofs
in a Franciscan MS. in the British
positive

doubt, but that

is

Because

all

the details of stage

preparations are not recorded

it is

assumed that nothing was done

preserve decency.
2

Dean Hook,

'

It is

of

the

p. 56.

necessary to repeat that no

76^4.

here or elsewhere intended.

Ori-

ginal records respecting the Francis-

cans are very scanty, and

" Lives

Archbishops," vol III.

'

to

generalisation from single instances

is

case

we can

test the truth

if

report by single documents

perforce be contented.

in their

of general

we must

XXX

PREFACE.

Museum.^

This

unfortunately, nothing less than a

'is,

collection of ribald

and profane songs mixed with paro-

on the services of the church. The song printed in

this volume - will show the character of the whole sufficientl}^ well, and is an interesting early instance of the
dies

device of obtaining a ludicrous effect

by grotesque

per-

versions of grammar.

In most of the general accusations against the con-

Charges

made
against

monks
friars,

&e.

monks, nuns, and friars are inextricably mixed up, and before examining by the aid of a
system

ventual

in this volume, one specific charge

(document printed
against the

a few words ma}^ be said on the general

friars,

All that

question.

men

stamp of John Bale could

of the

do in the way of defiling the memory of ca^nobites in

general has been done, and though Bale is a discredited
man, he and others like him have completed a work which

now

can

be undone, and the

scarcel}^

memory

of those

w^ho indubitably preserved religion and increased learning

in the land

the man}^

ways

in

Avhich

"

Chantry

of

these cahunrjies were being

insinuated at a comparatively late date

certain

One^

almost hopelessly besmirched.

is

Certificates,"

may

be seen in

and the motive of the

not far to seek. In these we find details

respecting the conventual buildings, and the character
of their inmates written legibl}', as though the record
imputations

had been
truth of

is

liable to be seen

its

contents.

If

by

pei'sons interested in the

we

look closer, however, at

those parts of the document in which personal character

touched on,

is

we

shall see interlined here

much

a few words
and scrawled a hand
so

as to pass at first sight as the

aimless scribblings of a listless

ful

'

investigation

will,

278.

It is

penman.

however, show

Harl. ^[S. No. 913.

p.

and there

abbreviated and in so small

net possible here to do more

More

that

than allude to the

care-

mean-

" Comperta "

and the documents edited for the

Camden Society- by Mr. T. Wright.

XXXI

PR-EFACE.

ing too

foul

record

for

pages

in these

to be at-

is

tached to them, nnd these secret reports will be seen to

be charges which none probably had the chance of disproving, and which have since been taken as irrefutable.^

In comparison with these allegations against other orders,

one particular charge often brought against the Franciscans seems light indeed, but if we can throw real doubt
on the justice of one of the lesser counts in the general
indictment, we may reasonably doubt the goodness of a
cause which could not neglect the support of minor
Minorites and other friars
which when produced by a friend to a

^^^^ ^^

chapter, entitled a deceased person to the

coufra-

It is said that the

calumnies.

sold certificates,

conventual

confraternity were,

it is

letters of ^f^^^y ^7

Bundles of these

pravers of the brethren.

,

said,

Of

preserved, but in

name

few have been

the Bodleian Library, bound up as fly

One

is

by another

value, are the halves of

little

certainly a Franciscan " Letter of

Confraternity," the other

issued

cans.

these letters very

leaves to a manuscript of

two of them.

irancis-

shamelessly carried about,

each letter having a blank for the insertion of the

of a purchaser,

Alleged

may

may have been

or

be,

Order,- but whether

this be

so

or

in each case show beyond the

that
the whole document was written
doubt
possibility of
on behalf of the person named in it. Further evidence
must therefore be called before we can trust the charges
not,

the

manuscripts

made on this
Under the

point.

primitive Rule and under

subsequent

Booiiy

modifications the injunction as to bodily labour remained

^""^-

its

but few documentary

remaining respecting matters of this

in force, but naturally there are

now

evidences

Records

bishops

of the

show

that

visitations

the

of

condition

some small convents was not

The secret historj- of
satisfactory.
some modern public institutions
would afford equally- good moral
cf

grounds

for

dissolution,

private gieed of gain could

but

now

no
be

indulged.
-

See

p.

263 for the former of

these documents.

c 2

PREFACE.

XXXll

humble nature. St. Franci.s thought that his friars could

live by manual work supplemented by mendicancy, and
no doubt his plan was in the earlier and purer times
strictly carried out,

makes but

little

though, strangely enough, Eccleston

reference to actual instances.

In later times, however,

it

would seem that the Order

consisted in an increasing degree of friars in holy orders

and that the labouring element was pi'oportionately small.

Taking, as an instance, the obituary record of the Aberdeen
convent of Observant Franciscans,^

we see among

the brief

biographies therein recorded but four or five only of men

who worked at
worker

Friar John Strang, priest and

handicrafts.

in glass,

some

of w^hose

work

possibly remains at

the present day, stands at the head of the

list,

followed by

Friar John Thomson, whose temperance in food, drink,

and sleep, in spite of his laborious calling as carpenter

and mason, is recorded in touching terms. Two other
friars appear to have been carpenters, and one perhai)S
a professional scribe, the remainder priests, preachei-s,

and

Thus

confessors.

it

probable that the Aberdeen

is

convent, albeit of Observants,

was not sustained by the

bodily labour of the brethren, nor does the record

fail

shew the means by which the friars were really supported.

Local benefactoi's seem to have been numerous
and most liberal in daily alms no less than in legacies,
and if to their beneficence may be added some of the
to

other sources

of income already indicated,

it

will be

seen that, though not wealthy, these Observant Friars

were in good repute and w^ere not allowed to lack the

comforts of

Money
^'^^%
inflicted

life.-

The last source of income

which reference is made

in the materials collected in this volume is one which
by appears Only by a rather vague enactment against it.

ob-

to

confessors.

See

gleanings after a harvest reaped by

p. 123,
j

The inventories of goods seized

in English friaries by the King's
visitors,
1537-8, - often
mere
2

local peculators,
i

cannot be trusted

as indications of poverty.

PREFACE.

XXxill

In the Ahhreviatio Statutorum^ confessors are bidden

not lightly to impose pecuniary payments by way of

penance for sins, and if such penances should seem

proper to be inflicted the results are not to be taken by

The mode

the confessor or his brethren.

of disposing

them is, however, not positively prescribed, and it

would be difficult to believe that to Conventual Franof

ciscans, at least in later times, the practice thus

touched

on did not prove a source of income.

Leaving the question of ways and means, we may Contribupleasurably turn for a moment to the list of learned tJJ|, FranFranciscans which forms one of Luke Wadding's care- ciscaus to
ful collections.
So much has been said on this aspect ing and
of the Order that but few words will suffice here, yet fioral imthe folio volume which contains the long muster roll of their
cannot be passed over entirely in silence. That most of ^S^this vast mass of work is now profitless reading is no
true condemnation of the workers.
If the names of
Ockham, Scotus, Hales, and others are to most men
great only by traditional reputation, and are merely
reverenced with the derived respect which ignorance
often pays, it is because we have ungratefully forgotten
the hidden foundations which are still doing us true
service.
The precision of thought in theological matters
which was first cultivated by industrious commentators on the Master of the Sentences is itseK no mean
inheritance for later days, but the many branches of
physical science first developed by the Franciscans are
a gift so truly magnificent as to command the respect
of all.
Of these merits Professor Brewer has spoken
fully- and more need not here be written, yet a word
should be said of other matters not so frequently remembered.

Evil seems to be in one sense a coin of ascertained

value.

The most

careless can

foim a tolerably true idea of

p. 96.

2
I

Vol.

I.

Preface.

PREFACE.

XXXIV

a crime or an act of dishonour.

These can be recorded and

weigh their guilt and try them

by the standard of current sins. It is not so with moral
The silent inward accumulation of just views
worth.

after ages can accurately

and sound

principles, the training of the

soul to

work

on the lines of truth and duty, these are

either unrecorded facts, or are recordable in a language
ooly intelligible to him who has learned the symbols by
which man's moral history must be expressed. A list
of a man's virtues may appear to be no more than
the lightly given tribute of careless good nature, too
kindly to speak evil, and reckless from the consciousHence eulogies
ness that no reckoning will be taken.
with no

effort

of the departed are generally passed over as

value, or of no

intelligible

value, while

the

of little

sad blot

which a true biography exhibits is the one thing which

is thoroughly and in a living sense comprehended and
remembered.
Transferring to the many that which is true of the
individual, we may perhaps acknowledge that a satisfactory estimate

the

of

Franciscans

is

at

this

date

through an effort of the

imagination which colder natures might perhaps stigWe have traced some faults, and
matise as emotional.
scarcely

must

attainable

trace

still

ordinary sins of

except

more

human

of isolated crimes

a few, of the

nature and the debasing of high

We

have seen the channels by

which meaner motives found their outlet, but here and
there we are encountered by a salient fact which shows,
that whatever were the sins of the few, w^hatever the
jarrings with external systems, a high and holy purpose w^as kept alive in the Order at a time when its
enemies would ask us to believe it to have been utterly
purposes not a

little.

vicious.
It is not disputed that in the

awful visitations of the

Black Death in the fourteenth century, the Franciscan

XXXV

PREFACE.

Friars in different parts of Europe perished literally by

thousands through their devoted attentions to the sick

and dying. Here there is no room for cruel detraction.
It the friar's presence as physician both of soul and body
influenced the testament which he alone had the courage
to prepare at the bedside, the unprejudiced will consider
it

probable that the brave

avoidiog a sudden
last

summons

man

scarcely

dreamed of

to follow the patient whose

moments he had befriended.

When the motive was

so

singly a wish to strengthen his Order for future good

works

it is

an unworthy quibble

of a breach of his
afflicted

vow

to accuse the Franciscan

of poverty.

visit the sick

and

has for nineteen centuries at least been the cor-

relative to keeping a life unspotted

why

To

from the world, and

works to virtue should fail

in its application to the great body of the Franciscan
Order it is indeed hard to see. They visited the sick
and preached the gospel to rich and poor, they were
physicians and theologians, and profound in the scientific
learning of their day, and it would be surprising if individuals from an Order intellectually so pre-eminent were
the argument from good

not frequently called aside to assist in the

work

of the

world.

We

which the idea of the

churcli as a controlling' affent in political and social life
seemed to have been perfectly familiar and natural,
With cardinals and bishops acting as leading statesmen
and with mitred abbots in Parliament it would appear
remarkable if the friar had wholly held aloof from social
and political action at a time when'both were being so aptly
guided by the church, and thus we may prepare ourselves
for a new and distinct aspect of the Order in England.
Readers of history are familiar with phenomena which
are dealing with centuries to

may

be taken, very

either

as

according to individual bias,

movements with a religious guise

movements under a political banner. En-

political

or religious

much

political

action of
the Order
in

Eng-

^^"^^'

PREFACE.

XXXVl

both directions coalesce for a time and

appear as one body, until some fundamental question
becomes a touchstone by which the allies try out their
What the real bond of union was
essential differences.

thusiasts

in

between John of Gaunt and John Wyclif

it

would be

hard to discover, for if we .say that each recognised in

the other a powerful disintegrating force, potent against
all prescription and all authority, we are compelled to

acknowledge on the other hand that the final objects of

Our present
each of these men were totally distinct.
interest in them both is that their union dated a new
departure in the history of the

English Franciscans,

though the divergence of the latter from their old lines

was not for some years very wide.
The fierce contests of the Franciscans with Wyclif had
dra^vTi them, as indeed the whole church was at first
drawn, into deadly opposition to his allies the Lancastrian
party, a party which first mooted the idea of confiscating
the wealth of ecclesiastics. As years went on the friar
became a political schemer, and when the seeds of civil
commotion sown in the later years of Edward the Third
had begun to bear fruit, the Order of St. Francis, adopting
the White Rose, began to pour out its blood and to furnish political martyrs.
Opposition
to

Henry

IV. antf
Ileury V.

The very

silences of old records, those too

which seem to

have no reference whatever to the subject matter of the

moment, are fraught with instruction. Under the strict
Rule of St. Francis a list of grants of property should
rarely if ever have contained a reference to his Order,
yet it is a fact that on the Patent Rolls for the reigns of
Henry III., the three Edwards, and Richard II. there are
as many as 112 entries relating to the Franciscans.
Three entries only occur in the first year of Henry IV.,
the year in which that king sought a general conciliation of all parties
there is one isolated entry of a
grant to the Friars of Dunwich in his tenth year
and then all is unbroken silence until the early years
;

XXXVll

PREFACE.

Henry

VI.,

along the

rolls,

of

when a few

growing significantly more frequent after

the death of John,

we now

If

entries are again scattered

Duke

of Bedford.^

turn to the chronicles

we

time

the

of

1402 Henry IV. was sorely troubled by

the industry with which the Minorites spread the report that Richard II. had not died at Pontefract, but
was alive in Scotland. For this interference the king,
find that in

who

nevertheless

diligently sought

the favour of the

Church as a whole, caused Richard Friseby and eight

There is a political
other Franciscans to be hanged.

we

consistency in the fact that in 1460, as

shall pre-

sently see, the friars south of Trent dreaded lest they

should

be

and were seen

massacred,

decisively on the side of the Yorkists.

many

that

years earlier the friars were opposed to John

Gaunt, and this explains

of

Wat

be ranged
History shows

to

the circumstance that in

duke of Lanexcepted by the rebels from

Tyler's rebellion the Franciscans, the

caster's foes,

were specially

their list of the proscribed.'^

No

better

the

of

illustration

social

and

political

actions of the Minorites in the midst of the turmoil of

lived during the

the

who

of a

Wars

of
*^^ Roses.

of the Roses.

Friar John Brackley, a

Norwich Franciscan,'^ a Doctor

of Divinity and a famous preacher, is one of the few
men of his Order whose lesser acts and motives are
after the lapse

of four

centuries distinguishable with

The thread of his life, interwoven with

the web and woof of a stronger fabric, appears and

any

vividness.

The calendar of
" ad quod damnum^'"
'

inquisitions
less

perfect,

however, as a record, being a modern

list

of

loose

documents,

more emphatically.

There

speaks
is

no

entry of an intended grant of land

of a Franpi^cau dur-

by examinino* mg
...
distinguished Franciscan Wars

the fifteenth century can be ofained than

the words and actions

^^^'j^^^"*^

Grey Friars between 1

and 19 Henry VI.
One, however, is known to have

the

to

Richard
2

II.

perished in the rebellion, see p. 157.

^

Son of a dyer who

wich.

Blomefield.

lived in

Nor-

PREFACE.

XXXVlll
"

reappears in the

he

seen as

is

preacher,

now

his

own

of

the time

Paston Letters

" in

as

in danger

now as fearing
may sweep his

Order,

away with

his

politician

and

from accusations before

that the wild lawlessness

brethren and himself to

sudden destruction.
Early in 1454 he pays a mystOTOUs
Hall, going

various aspects,

confessor and executor,

^'isit

to Paston

errand untold, the master

from home, nor does he come again

before us until the summer of 1450, when he begs John
Paston to get him copies of some indictments, so that
of the house being

when

Sir

Thomas Tuddenham and

othei"s accuse

him

may

be ready to
show to his Order " lyk a Kalender, a legcnde of here
* lyvys," thus minimising the credit of the " cursed
at the next Provincial

"

cow."

Even when

Chapter, he

touchino- so serious a matter he

cannot conclude without a playful recommendation of two

widows to a friend, cligo.tvr qarr ,s/6i ruelms placet.

More than three yeans later the old warrior, whose
skilful use of an improvised entrenchment had won
the battle of the Herrings, lay dying at Caister.

Friar

with him, transmitting the old knight's

wish, " God send me sone my good cosyn Paston,' but
immediately digi'essing to mention the dark liints of
Fastolfs secretary as to the executory powers he will
have under his master's will. Brackley appears in the
will a>s one of those on whom itss carrying out mav
devolve in ca^se of the default of othei*s, and he is one
of the important witnesses in the litigation which
ensued some years afterwards about it.
Late in the vear 1459, at the time when the Duke
of York's army had dispersed at Ludlow, Brackley himself
stayed for a time in the west country, but returning and,
writing from Walsham, refers to " a lewde doctor of
Ludgate " who had charged that no one should pray
for those " Lords traytoiys," the earl of March and his
allies
but, adds the Yorkist friar, " he had lytyl thank
Brackley

is

XXXIX

PREFACE.
as

lie

was

worthy."

few

months

Friar

later

Brackley, apparently established in his patron's house,

narrates

how

in the absence of his

warden Barnard he

had preached with a})proval before justice Yelverton

and others, and on the following day had borne part
in a warm dispute, in the course of which he was
angrily told that " the Lordes above at London arn
*'
infoormyd of you and they schal delen with you
''

well enow."

No harm

befel the friar, for

in

June,

and

before the fight at Northampton, a messenger

pass

by Cambridge and bring with him

is

to

so

just

told to

London

Brackle3^'s license (perhaps as resident confessor)

from

the provincial of the Grey Friars, and Brackley himself,

.

from Norwich a budget of

election intelligence touching the Parliament of October
" Yf owt come to my Lord Warwick but good,"
1 460.
adds the friar, "far weel ye, far weel I and al our
" frendes."
Another letter of about the same date in
of
dispraise
an opponent shows by the request, " Rogo

later in the year,

" detis

licentkim

onihi

" Novivici

the writer

ad
is

writes

miidandiiin

still

just before the

recedendi

ad

vestmienta.

conventuin
mea.^'

in residence at Paston Hall.

that

Again,

battle of Wakefield, he pens a deeply

John Paston full of suggestions

for the ear of the Earl of Warwick, advising the committal of a neighbouring gentleman to the Tower or
Newgate, warning the Yorkists against the Bishop
of Norwich, and proceeding to state that the Queen's

interesting

letter

to

according to intelligence received, designs the

slaughter of the writer and of all the Franciscans
party,

dwelling

"

c'ltva

jiiimen Trent"

Trifling allusions to Friar Brackley, his preaching at

occur in the letters for 1461, but Friar

John Mowth, a Minorite, writing in May 1466, and
referring to him as dead, seeks for " certain oblygacyonys
St. Paul's, (fcc,

**

entrusted

to

William Paston by Brackley of the

PREFACE.

xl

"
"

"

weche the date xuld grow to my convent yn

Norwyche " desiring the same " for the comfort of the
dede and profyth of my convent." On the day of

his death Brackley gives his testimony in the disputed

matter of Sir John Fastolf's will, asking his confessor

upon my sowle at my dying

that that wyll that John Paston put in to be provyd
was Sir John Fastolfys will."

to report " that I took it

"

"

One undated

letter

written

from

Caister

is

of

Brackley refers in it to begging for

one day's food for the Provincial Chapter of his Order,
it being apparently the duty of the friars to cater in
interest.

Friar

turn.

The
15th

picture of a

century

thus

Grey Friar of the middle of the

undesignedly

drawn

contrasts

strangely with an ideal derived from the " Rule

pages of Eccleston.

The meekness

"

and the

of this sturdy dis-

nowhere apparent. His business is with the

rich, the poor he nowhere names.
He has left the leper
and is tendering advice to the King-maker himself on
the blood-stained politics of his time.
The plaint he
prepares to meet before his brethren is no self-denounced
sin, half the fiction of an overstrained conscience.
It
is some home-thrust of worldly accusation which he will
parry by blackening his accusers' character.
If his
warden is present as physician at the dying knight's
putant

is

he is himself conspicuous there by the care

he has taken to assist in the preparation of the last
will, and the instruments by which the church is to
bedside,

take one more collegiate foundation.

significant sentence, "

If the

somewhat

be war of Mineres fro hense forth,"

placed in close collocation with advice as to the choice

taken as a reference to
Brackley (then some years dead) it may fairly be said that
there is no more harm apparent in the friar than in
many a political clergyman of fair fame in the estimation
of the eighteenth century but our business is with St.

of a confessor,

is

not to be

PREFACE.
Francis and his followers, and

xli

we must judge them by

his standard.

The

facts already

noted respecting the practical dis-

continuance of grants to the Franciscans during the

Henry

Henry V.

are remarkable as

assisting to show, that while Friars

and Lollards viru-

reigns of

IV. and

other, the

to those kings as

the latter are well

Many

are,

it

in

and

practical

known

to

have

of the notions which Wyclif entertained

must

theological

],^r(is.

former were as obnoxious

lently hated each

been.

OppoBition

be

on all hands, at once

An age so little advanced

admitted

political.

thinking as to regard the possession

of

gold as the ultimate object of trading should be looked

upon with some leniency when it takes an equally

simple view of State policy in another direction,
and stamps out those who are unfortunate enough to

At a
advanced opinions are abundantly diluted
with the waters of indifferentism they may be left to
the certainty of feeble interaction, but in the fifteenth
century abstention must have seemed impossible, and
might indeed have been really imprudent in a ruler.
Hence we can estimate the force of the repulsion which
prevented Henry IV. and his son from making common
cause with those who were the most learned, capable,
and energetic opponents of Lollardism. When in ] 485 Peaceful
condition
'^
T_
J
1,
Civil and religious peace had once more become possible ^f order
in England, the Franciscans enjoyed a fifty years truce dunuor
and appear to have busied themselves mainly with the Henry
The movement for a more ^Haffairs of their own Order.
be affected with an infectious mental disorder.

time

when

all

'TIT*

strict

obedience to the rule already referred to was pro-

ceeding,

and would tend

action,

while Henry VII.

to quell

himself gave

political

much

direct

and Henry VIII. selected

a Franciscan as a confessor. But the long calm only
preceded a more bitter storm. On the 20th April 1534RecomHugh Rich, warden of the Franciscan convent at Can- ^^tTOubfe^*
terbury, and Richard Risby, warden at Richmond, suffered
assistance to the Observants,

any tendency to

PREFACE.

:lii

Opposition

death for their share in the imposture of the Hol}^ Maid

to divorce

of Katharine of

Aragon.

of Kent.

the

On

the 1st of

Observants

VIII. the

celebrated

eon^pared to Ahab.i

Thomas Bed^dl
vain
Expnlsion
of the Observants

and destruction of
Order of
St.

in

Fraucis

Eng-

land.

May 1534

of Greenwich,

warden of

preached before

Henry

sermon, in which the king was

On

visited

the 15th June, Bishop Lee and

the Greenwich convent and in

directed the friars to subscribe

among

Peto,

articles

other points, the supremacy of the pope."-

denjdng,
Lastly,

on the 11th August, began the expulsion of the

Observants from their convents. The Conventual Franciscans endured for a short time longer, but the end of
monasticism in all its forms v'as close at hand, and the
Order of St. Francis fell in the general ruin. In 1553
certainly a revival became possible, and that revival was
attempted.^ Very little national interest however attaches
to this shortlived effort, and Elizabeth early in her reign
once more expelled the Minorites from their convents.
The reason why the first blow should have fallen on
the Franciscan Order is generally stated to have been
the marked, nay violent opposition, offered by the stricter
section of the Minorites to the divorce of Henry from
Katharine of Aragon. This statement is true to some
extent, but it fails to reach to the root of the matter.
of the Franciscan
We have seen the thorouohness
CD
organisation and the subordination of the respective
grades of warden, custos, and minister provincial to one
head or minister general. Over all these was stationed,

by the express

desire of St. Francis, a Cardinal Protector

of the Order, and thus the connection with the Papal

Curia was completed. There is little then to wonder

at in the fact that the most devoted section of the

become the chosen soldiers

By communication with their chief, who
of the pope.
lived at Rome, he could direct the whole army just as

greatest order of friars should

Sometimes (but probably erroneously) stated to have been in 1533.

The princess Elizabeth was baptised
in Peto's convent in September 1533.
^

" The Suppression of the Monasteries " (Camden Soc.) p. 42.

-

See

p. 257.

PREFACE.

xliii

inodern popes have

of the Jesuits.

wielded the similar organisation

The hold that Henr}^ had over the

monks, and parochial clergy was enoi-monsly

strong, but over men who had nothing whatever to lose
and had all the reverence of true enthusiasts for the crown
of martyrdom, the despot's power was disappointingly
small. The intolerable wrong done to the king's majesty
was this, that the Observant Franciscans were in fact
and action the garrisons of a belligerent foreign power.
When coarsely reviled the king's defence was made in a
mere counter address from the pulpit, a strange sign of
hesitation in a man of Henry's nature, but his decision
was soon taken, and his reply to the rude rejoinder which
followed was the commission to Lee and Bedyll to require the Observant Friars to den}^ the supremacy of the
This w^as the watchword, and failing to utter it
pope.
they were forthwith attacked and dispersed. The blow
was quickly followed up, and our interest for the time
in the widened campaign is centred in the single fact
that its first skirmish was fought with the Franciscans.
Had the church been true to herself at one crucial
point the whole of English history would have been
altered. Had Anselm acted as Lanfranc's example would
have taught him, the name of papal supremacy would
have been but a rumour to English ears. It w^ould have
been impossible for the monks to obtain that freedom
from wholesome control which permitted them to work
In place of foreign priests thrust
out their own ruin.
into English livings for the mere sake of plunder, and
of abbots absorbing the greater tithes, we should have
had a married clergy distributed over the land, with
bishops,

suitable

endowments enabling them

to fulfil their duties

in a country covered thus

with a
network of well administered parishes, and studded with
to the poor.

Lastly,

if

monasteries acting as centres of learning and incentives

to a higher

life,

there had proved to be

any room

for a

missionary order, the Franciscans would have found their

PREFACE.

xliv

by the bishops and all occasions for strife

and jealousies removed. But in the order of Divine Providence it was not so to be, and the Franciscan with
his hiorh aims and noble works, sometimes failinof, but
as often gathering strength again, was destined to
become a permanent disturbing influence, an independent irresponsible power acting and reacting for three
long centuries on other powers scarcely more controlenergies directed

lable.

Historically fitting in every way, therefore,

it

seems that the torch which lio-hted the final conflaon-ation should have been actually applied by the hand of
a follower of

II.

St. Francis.

The State and History of the MSS.

The two manuscripts from which the late Professor

Brewer obtained the text of Thomas Eccleston's treatise
" De culventvb Minorura in Anglimn," printed in vol. I.,
of the Preface, and
are described by him at
p. Ix.
I.

specimens of each are given in fac-simile in the body of

The peculiar circumstances, however, under
the volume.

which a portion of this treatise is now printed render

it necessary to recite from the first volume a few facts
relative to the York MS., and to descril>e some points
connected vrith. the copy in the Cottonian Library at
greater length.
"The York M.S./' Professor Brewer
"
More
wi'ites,
consists of 43 pages in small quarto.
" than a century since it was examined by Dr. Richard
Richardson^ and an account of it, with a summary of
" its contents, transcribed by him for Hearne the anti" quarian, and published by the latter in his edition of

''

^ A
clergyman named Richard
Richardson was tutor and chaplain

to

the Ishani

family for several

years up to about 1685, but I cannot

show

his identity with

correspondent.

Heame's

IMiKFACE.

" Otterbourne, vol.

"

1.,

appx.

xlv

p. xcii.

In his letter dated

"

from York, 5 July, 172G, Dr. Richardson states that

even in his days one third part of the MS. seemed to
have been written with bad ink and the writing was

"

almost defaced."

"

In another place Professor Brewer states that Eccleston's treatise " is found in a mutilated MS. in the
"

"
'

"

"

the Litter portion of it

Chapter Library at York
Happily a
has been totally obliterated by damp.
latter
portion,
the
preserved
in another
fragment of
;

Museum, has enabled me to recover nearly the whole of this singular and interesting
MS.

in the British

" narrative."

appears that from the beginning to the end

of the 7th chapter (pp. 1-31 of the printed text), and
from the early part of the 14th chapter to the end

Thus

it

about 42 out of 72 pages, it

has hitherto been necessary to rely entirely on one ma(pp. 61-72),

that

is,

for

nuscript.

While the only two MSS. to which any clear reference

has been made by the writers who have quoted Eccleston, are known to have been imperfect since the days of
Hearne, the perplexing fact has remained that Anthony
Wood alludes ^ to " perfection exemplar Eccleston," and
having referred to a passage " in imperfecto exemplari,
" Tho. Ecclestoib, MS. in Bib. Cotton, coll. ult." he in
another place quotes a passage found " in altero exemplarH' Leland too (" De Scriptoribus Britannicis ")
refers to a copy preserved in the Queen's Library at
Granta Girviorum.
There has, therefore, been a strong suspicion of the
existence of a third copy, and certain references in
Wadding's Annates Minoruni have pointed in the same
''

but no search has hitherto availed to find it,

and Professor Bi-ewer reluctantly wound up his account
direction,

Q7644.

Hist, de Antiq. Univ.

Oxou.

p. 71.

PREFACE.

xlvi

''

*'

"

There seems then little hope of

recovering a more perfect or complete copy of Eccleand the extracts made from it by the
ston's work
writers already mentioned are too scanty to yield
much help for correcting the errors and obscurities of

of the

MSS. by saying
;

"
"
'*

the text.'

Under

these circumstances

it

is

not a

little

remark-

muniment room which has been found

able that even a

hold such a treasure as a previously

unknown

to

edition of

Shakespeare's " Venus and Adonis" should furnish,

if

not

the means of sol vino- the difhculties noted above/ at least

the means of amending a considerable part of the text.

Eight leaves of a fourteenth century manuscript on

parchment were found among Sir Charles Isham's col-

Lamport Hall, by Mr. Walter

1879, and were by him placed in my hands

lection of ancient records at

Rye

in

for examination.-

At the

top of the

first

page are the words

These fragments of a MS. of Tho. Eccleston belong

" to Sir Justinian Isham, bart.
They are 8 leaves."
Tho. Hearne, Nov. 9, 1733."
'

''

It

was

therefore plain to

me

that either a fragment

of a third manuscript of Eccleston or the missing portion

of the Cottonian

On comparing

MS. Nero A.
the latter

had come to light.

with the newly found MS.,
ix.

the following coincidences are apparent:

1.

Several pages at the beginning (in print more than

30 out of 72) are missing from the Cottonian

J f there were two more leaves at the beMS.'*^
ginning and three at the end of the Lamport
fragment^ the vacant space Avould be exactly

Almost

entirely

from Prof?ssor

Brewer's Preface to Vol.

I.

me by Sir Charles Isham through

Mr. Rye.
Keferred to throughout as Cott.
* Referred
to
throughout as
Lamport.
''

Permission to print this fragment has been liberallv accord^ed to

^

PREFACE.
filled, fur

xlvii

reckoning from the printed copy there

and 156
lines after the points at which the fragment
begins and ends.
Allowing for a blank leaf at
the commencement, this would show that three
sheets (folding into six leaves) were probably
are lespectively about 129 lines before

once outside the eight leaves

The
The

2.
8.

discovered.

parchment corresponds.

size of the
'

now

incidents

"

are written in the maigin both

and Lamport. This is not the case in the

York MS.
The handwriting shows Cott. and Laviport to be
of the same age.
in Cott.

4.

The

points

against

the presumption that Colt, and

Lamj^ort were once parts of a single volume are

The writer

1.

or writers of Xa?7i/90)'t did not write

any

part of Cott.

The

2.

page and some other minor

somewhat.

size of the written

details differ

Again, on the other side

That

1.

Cott.

The

differ greatly.

details of plumbing, size of page, &c.,

much
Thus

appears,

has been written by two scribes^ whose

handwritings
2.

it

it

vary very

in Cott.

appears that certainty on the question

is

not

have accordingly treated the two MSS.

as separate copies, and have quoted them under distinct
titles.
At the same time I cannot but view them as
portions of one volume separated by some mischance
more than 150 years ago, and now once more brought
attainable,

and

together.

Several points

notably the words latinus

latinum (p. 28) --indicate a common origin

and Ehov.
^

short passage on

fo.

82

may

(p.

for

and
lamport
13)

be the -work of a third hand.

d 2

"

PREFACE.

xlviii

The documents printed at

pp. 31-62, respecting the

contention between the Franciscans and the abbot and

convent of Westminster in 1290 are preserved in the

muniment chamber of Westminster Abbey ^ under the

The

care of the chapter clerk.

is "

reference in the catalogue

box 3, parcel 27.

The}^ are original instruments, and are for the most
part in the Avell-known hand of the Papal notaries.
Excepting the entries in the Close ^ and Patent Rolls,
and certain inquisitions ad quod damnurn, I believe
that no original documents respecting the Franciscans of
of abbey documents

so early a date are

now

Press

6,

in existence.

The seals have for the most part disappeared. Three,

however, remain, two of them in fair condition.
An extract from Archbishop Peckham's Register, preserved at Lambeth, is printed at p. 31, as it refers to the
same

dispute.

The

"

3.

Statuforwni"

Ahbreviatio

of

Observant

the

Franciscans (pp.81 to 119) is taken from an Irish MS.

in the Bodleian Library (Rawl c. 320).
It is of cpiarto

having double columns and is well written in an

ordinary fifteenth century hand.
At the end of the MS. the scribe has given his name
and the date in the followino- words :
" Raptim
exaratum et in scriptis redactum per
" operam pauperculi fratris
Donaldi Ycahala^Ti pro
" communitate Fratrum Minorum de Athdare 1482.^
size,

'

These documents were leut to

me by

permission of the late

Dean

See pp. 279-297.

A passage in Irish

book,
follows

as

prayers of
those

Stanley.
-

asking,

all

am

informed,

the

readers on behalf of

who bound and arranged the

Donough ^facNamara
A-iz,

and Margaret O'Brien.

PREFACE.

xlix

cannot find that any statutes of the reformed order

of so early a date have previously been printed. Statutes
I

of the Observants printed

on vellum at Ingoldstadt in
1534 are found in a rare little volume in the British
Museum. Another book of statutes printed in 1G19,
and therefore after the Council of Trent, shows a much
altered code with,

it

may

be added, the significant in-

troduction of torture as a corrective.

4.

The obituary record of the Observant Franciscans of

Aberdeen, pp. 123-140,
the

library

quarto,

now

of

is

taken from the original in

Aberdeen University.^

It is a small

of 58, but originally of 62 folios, written for

the most part in a transitional monastic hand, but in-

cluding several entries in ha^nd writings of an ordinary

16th century type.

The volume

was

bound

originally

a stamped

in

on fragments of early printed

has since been enclosed in a fragment of

leathern cover, pasted

books, but

it

a vellum service book.

It seems clear from examination that this

obituary

a copy made early in the 16th century from an

The
older, perhaps a worn-out, conventual record.
He has
scribe has made strange mistakes throughout.
is

lettered

^ve superfluous days under January, has mis-

stated the length of several months, has often expressed

by three figures only, and lastly has made a considerable number of verbal errors.
With all its faults, however, we have in this obituary
dates

calendar a succinct history of the personnel of the con-

Through the kind

offices of

Mr.

Senatus

of

the

UniverBity most

Robert Walker, the librarian, I was

liberally consenting to entrust

j

enabled to copy

my

this curious record

without travelling to Aberdeen, the

care for the necessary time,

it

to

PREFACE.

vent, perhaps

we' may say

(for the earliest death

is

fi'om its foundation in

in 1469)

down

1450

to its dissolution

in 1560.

The

of benefactors and their

list

the carpenter
" vitrifaber,"

gifts,

the notes as to

and mason friars and the '\sacerdos et

with the list of places he adorned with

much

painted glass are of

interest.

Records of this character are directed in the statutes

of the Observants ^ to be kept and to be duly read

The

in every convent.

.same practice, as

is

well

known,

obtained in the Benedictine and other monasteries, but

the records of the Franciscans are few and slender and

but little known, and a special significance attaches in

consequence to an unique document like that now
printed. In Bishop Kennett's collections (Lansdowne MS.,
No. 963), there are some notes " ex ohituario canventus
"

Fratrum Minorum

Guldefordice,

the entries being in this form

IX. Kal. Feb. Obitus

MS. Norivic, 671,"

Yen.

Thonic^

Patris

Priori s hujus conventus, qui obiit A.D.

The

Tidmus,

1477.

MS. is now, as Dr. Bensley informs me,

no longer to be found in the Cathedral Archives at
Norwich. Another mortuary calendar which may be
referred to for comparison, and also as an indication
of

original

the unity of

Europe,

printed in vol. 6 of Langebek's

is

" ReruTii

the Franciscan organisation

Damcarum,''

extract will suffice

p.

557.

From

all

this the following

Februarius.
D. Kalend. Febr.
E. nil.
F. III.

Nonas

Febr.

Non. Feb.

A. Nonas Febr.

Purificatio beat Marias.

G. Non. Febr.

Agathse virginis

p. 117.

over

" Scriptores

et martyris.

PREFACE.

li

B. VIII. Idus Febr.

C. VII. Idus

Anno Domini

Febr.

MCOCCX

Dominus Johannes de Lenepe, qui

ventui

XL

marcas argenti pro

Grey

obiit

dedit Con-

?edificio.

5.

taken from the MS.

Cott. VitelL, F. XII., has already been printed once by
Mr. J. G. Nichols for the Camden Society, but without
In
the marginal notes and the names of city officers.
some other minor respects, too, the manuscript has not
been very strictly followed, nor has any notice been
taken of several matters which tend to show the point
at which it becomes the record of an actual observer of

The

chronicle of the

many

Like

events.

Friars,

of the lesser chronicles, the entries

for the earlier years consist of extracts, often incorrect,

and compilations of no value. The lists, too, of the

mayors and sheriffs are often utterly misleading.

From

Henry V. the recorded

the reign of

more numerous, yet

still

Henry VII the character of the

and much more notice is taken of
Lastly, early in Henry the Eighth's

early in the reign of

record changes again,

ecclesiastical events.

facts are

almost entirely political, but

,

the appearance of the manuscript begins to tell of

a hand making from time to time entries of events witnessed or learned about, and ecclesiastical matters are
reio-n,

The tone of the ink

always preferred to political.
changes frequently, so also does the pen blank spaces
are left for christian names and precise dates, some of
which are ascertained and inserted with visibly different
;

ink, while other spaces are still vacant ; corrections are

more frequent passages are added in the margin, and,
;

finally, a

somewhat cautious tone

prevails during times

of danger

is

It is probable that the friar who transcribed it, for it

all in the handwriting of one man, derived it so far as

PREFACE.

lii

Henry the Seventh's reign from a chronicle

another convent. The grotesque mistakes in the

the end of

kept in

earlier years, the obvious misreadings of

city officers, all t^ll of a

and the confusion in the

list of

scarcely legible original.

The MS.

on paper and is very

and the margins have

is

It is of quarto size

badly written.

words and names,

which destroyed so much

of the Cottonian Library.
Hence the names of many of
the mayors (always written in the margin) and other
notes have either disappeared or have been almost hopesufiered severely from the fire

lessly mutilated.

The writer has used two marks of contraction

to so

great an extent as to render his real intentions as to the

and ne at the end of words rather uncertain.

The task of following the orthogi'aphy of the MS. has to
this extent been rendered somewhat difficult.
Prefixed to the chronicle is a catalogue of the monuments of persons buried in the Grey Friars Church in
London, and immediately before this list is placed the
account of the coming of the Franciscans into England
printed at pp. 493-543 of Vol. I.
At fo. 826 in this part
use of

of the
"

]\IS. is

the following passage

Memorandum quod

Frater Andreas Bavard sacrse

" Theologise professor,

"
'*

"
"
"
"
"
''

"

"

anno domini 1494, videns chorum

Fratrum minorum Londoniae minus bene ins[tau-]
ratum libris choralibus, mente concepi non posse
eleemosynas amicorum
meorum melius
expendere quam in libris scribendis choralibus, ad
laudem D[omini] et ad ejusdem divinse laudis continuationem.
Quapropter conduxit im[mediate] unum
scriptorem, qui scripsit mihi unum legendarium in duabus partibus et unum antiphonarium in duabus partibus et unum psalterium et unum gi-adualem, et alium
impressum, et in multis aliis reparari.^ Et ^
This entry

and
1

it

Sic,

is

in the

same handwriting

will be observed

MS.

is

as the chronicle,

expressed in the
-

first

Sentence incomplete.

person.

PREFACE.

Whether
to us

is

name

or not the

liii

of the chronicler

is

here given

a question which will probably never be decided.

All "that

is

known

respecting the

ston has already been stated

Preface to Vol.

I.,

and

it is

the names of the authors

life

of

by Professor

Thomas
Brewer

Ecclein the

impossible even to furnish

of the principal documents

printed in the present volume.

In conclusion,

must return

my

best thanks to

my

friend Mr. Walter Rye, who, in addition to the kind assistance referred to at p. xlvi., has given

me

very great help

documents illustrating the history of the

Franciscans.
Another friend, Mr. Newenham Travers,

in obtaining

has given

me

valuable aid in revising the proof sheets.

Richard Howlett.
Bromley, Kent,
26th October,

881.

M M A R Y.

t'

SUMM A^y.
Thomas de Eccleston de adventu Minorum.
Dedication of the aidhov's work to Simon de Esseby,
undertaken in the belief that "practice is mxore infiuenti<d than precept

and

to relate, love

him

to

publish

as

other Orders

respect for his

the accounts

had wonders

own Order induced

tuhich he

during five-and-tiventy years from

his

had

collected

foster fathers

and

brothers of the English Franciscans.

Arrival of the Minorites in England, September 11,
A.D. 1224; land at Dover, four clerks and five lay-

men;

their

names and

qiudity.

Had

been carried

monks of Fescamp ; entertained ttuo days at the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Canterbury ; four start for London ; live entertained at the
across for

charity by the

Hospital

Their scanty fare; other inIn one place at the arrival

stances of like liardship}
of visitors the warden borrowed a pot of ale for the
Priests

there.

and he and his friars made believe to drink

London the drink was sourer than vinegar. The four
who had started for London entertained fifteen days by
the Black Friars have a house in Cornhill, and make
separate cells, stuffing the interstices with dry grass are
without a common chapel. About November 1st two of
them start for Oxford, and live at a house in St. Ebbs'
thence to Northampton, p. 9 wdiere they have a house
The wardens at Oxford,
in the parish of St. Giles's.
Cambridge, Lincoln, and London. The Order increases
strangers,

in

'

The portion

in italics

port fragment takes

is

np the

inserted to
narrative.

show the point

at

which the Lam-

SUMMARY.

Iviii

SO rapidly

1256. under

that in

fifth minister, their

Peter

of

Tewksbury,

numbers amounted to 242, in forty!

nine different locahties.

Their

fii'st

converts

Friar Salomon, procurator for

who

hour
she had ever seen him made an acolyte by Stephen
Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury is entertained by
the archbishop returns barefooted in the deep snow
falls ill, and cannot stir for two years; is A^sited by
Jordanus, the Master of the Dominicans, and the surgeon advises amputation of the foot when the axe is to
be applied, and the foot is uncovered, the fester breaks
he is sent abroad, recovers, V>ecomes warden of London,
and confessor-general to the city breaks his spine and
becomes humpbacked visit-ed with great agonies has
a vision of Jesus Christ and St. Peter is rebuked by
them his pains vanish, p. 13. How the Devil threw
William
a handful of lice at Friar Gilbert de Vyz.
of London, famous arte scissoria, and a friend of Hubert
Joyce of Cornhill. a clerk and
de Burgh, received
with
Philip
priests,
of London, afterwards Warden
two
his

be^s of

house,

his

sifter,

curses the

Then certain masters

of arts, Walter de Burgo. Richard Norman, Vincent
of Coventry, ^Wth Adam of Exeter, and William of

of Bruges,

finally of

York, join the order,

Ireland.

p.

15: then

anecdotes of their convei^ion.

numbers,

p.

16.

Adam

de Marisco

Others joined in

gi-eat

The devotion of the people towards

them increases find powerfid friends at Canterbury

and at London, where lands are given for their use by
;

the biugesses, 17.

William Joymer builds them a chapel

Peter de
Elyland leaves them money for an infinnary
Henry
de Frowyke and Salekin de Basing, an aqueduct others
At Oxford Robert le Mercer lets them a
a library.
house Richard le Muliner gives the burgesses for their
use a plot of gi'ound and a house.
At Cambridge the
burgesses gave them an old church near the jail, p. 19,
;

SUMMARY.

11

where they afterwards built a small wooden chapel,

the carpenter in one day putting up fifteen couple of
beams. At Shrewsbury the king gives them a plot of
ground, and Richard Pride, a burgess, builds them a
church they remove the stone walls of their dormitory
;

substituting clay.

Their
p.

21

and holy life, p. 20 their cheerfulness,

a young friar at Oxford rebuked in a vision
strict

for beino- too

much

oiven to lauohino'

ness in obeying the

orders

their

of

cepting missions in most desolate

teaching and preaching

of

their earnest-

superior and ac-

spots

their zeal in

visiting barefooted the schools

theology, however remote,

Haymo

22.

of

b^'aver-

sham, with three other Masters of Arts, received at

Denys

account of their

conversion, 23.

Fi'.

St.

Haymo

deposes Gregory de Neapoli and

becomes famous, 24
Of William de Colville Nicholas Rufus an.l
Fr. Helias.
Radulphus de Rosa, the favourite preacher
his vision
Henry Burford and his verses, 26
of Henry HI.
Henry de Reresby Martin de Barton, the associate of
;

St. I'rancis,

27

Peter Hispanus,

who commanded

a bird

to stay its flight, 28.

Instrument A de contention e orta inter Fratres

MiNOKES et Monachos Westmonasterii, A.D. 1290.
(1.)

(2.)

Mandate from archbishop Peckham directino' sentence of excommunication to

be published in all churches in and
round London against persons harbouring WiPiam of Pershorean apostate
Grey Friar. Dated 30th July 1290 -

p.

31

Instrument of appeal to the Papal Court

on behalf of the abbot and convent of
Westminster against archbishop Peckham's sentence of excommunication.
Dated 7th October 1 290

p.

83

SUMMARY.

Ix

(3.)

General award of the cardinal of St. Lawrence on mattei*s in dispute between the

Franciscans and

abbot and con-

the

vent of Westminster
hai'bouring

respecting

of William

of

Pershore.

Dated from Orvieto 4th April 1291

(4.;

p.

35

p.

43

[.

49

p.

43

p.

51

p.

54

Formal protestation of the prior and

monks of Westminster respecting the
omission of an act requu-ed of them
by the General Award.
Dated 29tli
December [1291 ?]
-

p.

58

p.

59

Acknowledgment by the warden of the

Grey Friars of London of twenty mai*ks
paid by the abbot, kc. of Westminster.
Dated 25th December 1294 -

p.

61

21st April 1291

Award.

Dated
-

Licence for the absolution of the abbot

and convent of Westminster.

from Onieto 17th April 1291
(6.)

Notarial instrument varying certain provisions in the General

(5.)

the

The appeal

of abbot Walter de

Dated
-

Wenlock

award of the cardinal of

Lawrence. Dated 20th May 1291

against the
St.

(7.)

Papal absolution of the abbot of Westminster.

(8.)

(10.)

Variation
tain

by mutual agreement

articles

in

of cer-

the General Award.

Dated 21st December 1294

11.)

Papal absolution of the prior and monks

Dated lltli July
of Westminster.

1291
(9.)

Dated 2nd June 1291

SUMMARY.

Ixi

Acknowledgment hy the warden of the

Grey Friars of London of tlie last in-

(]2.)

money due under

stalment of the

the

December 1294.
agreement of
^
July
1295
Dated 7th
21st

p.

G2

p,

G;'^

Regula Sancti Fraxcisci.

An

early English translation of the rule of

-

St. Fx'ancis

Statuta Generalta Edita apud Barcinonam

A.D. 1451.
(Cap.

1.)

Of the

reception an<l instruction of

novices
(Cap.

2.)

(Cap.

3.)

(Cap.

4.)

(Cap.

5.)

(Cap.

G.)

(Cap.

7.)

Of Divine

offices,

8.)

p.

83

prayer and silence

p.

80

p.

88

p.

91

p.

95

p.

97

Of external relations
Of correction of delinquents
Of elections and institution

offi-

P' 1<^C

of the Order of Obser-

vant Franciscans
9.)

of

Of conventual, provincial, and general

chapters

(Cap.

Of keeping the vow of poverty

Of internal affairs of convents

cers

(Cap.

Of masses

p.

108

p.

IIG

p.

118

p.

123

and
and of the record to

for deceased brethren

benefactors,

be kept of their names, &c.

Directions

respecting

periodical

reading

statutes in convents of the order

of
-

Necrologium Conventus Aberdoxexsis.

Obituary Record of the Convent of Observant
Franciscans of Aberdeen

7644.

SU^IMAKY.

Ixii

Chroxicox ab Axxo 1189 ad 155G ex Registro

FrATRUM MiXORUM LoXDOXIiE.

A chronicle of events from the reiorn of Richard

I.

to that of

Queen Mary

143

Appexdix.
1.

Franciscan Letter of Confraternity

p.

2G3

2.

Bull of Pope Pius

p.

264

3.

Extracts

p.

265

4.

MS. 433)
An account of a dispute between the
Minorites and the Monks of Burv St.

II.,

dated 14G3

from Register of Grants, War-

rants, &c. (Harl.

Edmunds

5.

Bull of Pope Alexander [lY.]

6.

Extract

7.

p.

267

p.

274

P-

276

P-

278

P-

279

P-

282

from translation of the Archbishop of Armagh's address to the Pope,

.
A.D. 1327

Verses from Harl. MS. 913

8 and
10.

9.

Extracts from Close Rolls

Selection of Inquisitions

num

ad quod dam-

CORRECTIONS.
On

pp. 35, 43, and 4G (in marcriual notes) for Civita Vecchia {Civitas

Vetus) read Orvieto (^Urbs Vetus).

p. 118, last line, for full stop after

p. 2f)9,

dominicct substitute a

comma,

note 2, add the words " see Glossary."

p. 269, line 3, for

port ah Hi veixH portatili.

p. 269, line 15, and p. 272, line 30, for quatinus read qiiatenns.
p. 271, line 30, dele

comma

after tuitioue.

MONUMENTA FRANCISCANA.
Vol.

Q7f.44.

Wt. 7771.

II.

FRAGMENTUM LIBRI THOM^ DE

ECCLESTON "DE ADVENTU MINORUM
IN ANGLIAM."

A 2

INDEX CAPITUM.
1.

De Primo Adventu Fratrum Minorum.

2.

De Prima

3.

De Receptione

4.

De adeptione Locorum.

5.

De

6.

De PrOMOTIONE

7.

De Divisione Provincice per

8.

De Capitulo Visitatorum.

9.

De Divisione in Administrationes.

Divisione Fratrum.
novitiorum.

Primitiva Puritate Fratrum.

PRiEDICATORUM.^

Custodias.

10.

De Mutatione Locorum

11.

De Promotione Lectorum.

12.

De

18.

De Successione Ministrorum Generalium.

14.

De

15.

De Spirituali Profectu quorundaim Fratrum,

Ampliatione.

Institutione Confessorum.

Successione Ministrorum Provincialium.

Lamport Fragment con(more or less completely) the

chapters numbered 1 to 6, and the
^

et

The

tains

imperfect Cottoniau

MS.

comprises

the whole of chapters 8 to 15.

The

York MS.,

-which presents the entire

treatise, consolidates chapters 3

and

4 into one: hence the discrepancy

referred to in the note
*'

on

p.

31 of the

Monumenta Franciscana," Vol. I.

.1

ERAGMENTUM LIBRI TEOMM DE ECCLESTON

((
DE ADVENTU MINORUM IN ANGLIAM.'^

[COLLATIO

I.]

[De Primo Adventu Fratomm Minorum.']

Id ipsum apud Slopisbyriam, in primo ^ j)
adventu fratrum Slopisbyriam, Frater Martinus senex, Deep
In diqui et cepit locum, se fecisse gratulatus est.
[Vol.

I.,

p. 8.

2224.

^^

[^^J^^^

ebus illis tam districte] cavebant ^ fratres contractionem debitorum, quod vix pro extremis necessitatibus

debitum

cum

Frater Agnellus,^

quod

Londonise,

tam sumptuose

processisset,

parca fratrum exhibit! o, projecit omnes

tulos,

licet

satis

tallias et

ro-

semetipsum^ in faciem, exclamavit,

et percutiens

"Ay me captivum

ut

quantum scilicet
unum terminum anni, cumque au-

expendissent infra
disset

accidit

Fratre Salomone, gardiano/ vellet

compotum fratrum

audire

TJnde

permittebant.

contrahere

"

^*

et

nunquam

postea voluit audire

compotum.
1

On comparing

Thomas

fragment of

present edition to indicate the more

Eceleston's treatise (now

important differences.
The York
MS. is throughout quoted from
Professor Brewer's edition.

this

printed by permission of Sir Charles

Isham,

Bart., of

Lamport

Hall)

with the corresponding portion of

the

complete

Professor

text published

Brewer

in

Vol.

I.,

by
the

various readings will be found to

be very numerous. Many, however,

being trivial, it has been thought
sufficient for the purposes of the

See Vol.

I.

commencement

p.

of

6, line

15

for

corresponding

passage.
3

Angnellus^ Ebor., throughout.

gardiano Loiidonia, Ebor.

seipsum, Ebor.

captum, Ebor.

"*

rite Friars,

THOMAS DE ECCLESTON

8
A.D. 1224.

Contigit

duo

supervenirent

ut

qiioqiie

ad

fratres

et cum non
locum fratrum valde vexati
esset cerevisia in domo, consilio seniorum accepto,
gardianus fecit accipi mutuo unam lagenam cerevisise
ita tamen quod fratres conventuales, qui cum hospitibus erant, inde non biberent, sed simularent se bibere,

quendam

propter caritatem.

Usque

ad tempus firmationis^ formationis ordinis consueverunt fratres facere coUationem

omni die, et bibere qui vellent in communi, et
omni die - tenere capitulum, nee fuerunt arctati in
recipiendis diversis ferculis vel vino, nee tamen admittebant oblatas pitancias nisi per 3 dies in hebdomada.
In ipso conventu Londonise, tempore pise
memorise Fratris W. ministri, et Fratris Hugonis ^ garIncidens.

diani, vidi [fratres] bibere^ cerevisiam

mallent aliqui

aquam

bibere,^ et

tortam vocant vulgariter.^

prsesentia

in

comedere panem, quem

Insuper, et deficiente pane,

ministri

dicti

diutius comedi

tam acidam, ut

hospitum in hospitio

et

alia.'^

COLLATIO 2a

De Prima

Bivisi(yne

Fratrum.

Quatuor igitur fratres superius nominati,^ cum vej^issent Londoniam, diverterunt ad Fratres Prsedicament by
the Domi- tores, et
ab eis benigne suscepti sunt. Apud eos
etiam manserunt diebus xv., comedentes et bibentes
London^
A.D. 1225.
Entertain-

firmationis 9

'

Ebor. omits

the

word.
2

Eor

omni

die,

ordine.
3

Fratris H.. Ebor.

Ebor.

reads

vidi fratres bibere, Ebor.

om. Ebor.

bibere,

r^ulgus vocat,

"

alicam

quos supra nominavi, Ebor.

Ebor.

but alia in both

MSS.

DE ADVENTU MINORUM.
apponebantiiv

qua3

conduxerunt
rimt

'^

'

clomum

sibi

sibi cellas in ea,

in Cornhulle, et

consnentes

1225,

herbas in cellarum

Perduraverunt qiioque in

interstitia.

Postea a.D.
construxe-

familiarissimi.

sicut

eis,

ipsa simplicitate

usque ad aestatem sequentem sine cantaria, quia nec-

dum

privilegium [habebant] erigendi

brandi in

suis

locis

Omnium

altaria

efc

cele-

Et statim ante festum

etiam antequam Frater AgneLlus

divina.

Sanctorum, et
venisset Londoniam, profecti sunt Frater Ricardus de
Ingwrd et Frater Ricardus Devoniensis Oxoniam, et
ibi similiter a Fratribus Prsedicatoribus familiarissime
suscepti sunt comederuntque in refectorio eorum, et
jacuerunt in dormitorio, sicut conventuales, per dies
Postea conduxerunt sibi domum in parochia
octo.
Sanctse Abbae,^ et ibi manserunt sine cantaria usque
Ibi seminavit dulcis Jesu
ad ?estatem sequentem.

Settle in

granum

sinapis,

quod postea factum

est

majus omni-

Inde profecti sunt Frater

de IngcAvi-d
et Frater R. Devoniensis Norhamtonam, et recepti sunt
in hospitali.
Postea conduxerunt sibi domum in parochia Sancti Egidii, ubi fuit gardianus primo Frater
Petrus Hispanus, qui loricam ferream portavit ad
carnem, et alia plurima perfectionis exempla monstravit.
Primus gardianus Oxonise fuit Frater Willelmus The wardEssebi,^ adhuc novitius commodatus tamen
fuit ei Oxford,
habitus professionis.
Primus gardianus Cantibrigia) ^ Camfuit Frater Thomas de Hispania.
Primus gardianus Lincoln.
Lincolnise fuit Frater Henricus Misericorde laicus.
Dominus Johannes Travers primo re- The wardIncidentes.

bus oleribus.

*^

cepit fratres

apud Cornhulle,

et locavit eis

domum,

et

gardianus laicus quidam Lumbardus, Henricus nomine,^ qui tunc primo de nocte didicit literas
factus est

^
'-'

appojiebant, Ebor.

constHuerunt, Ebor.

W.

co7istruentes,

Ebor.

7 Sic.

EhbcEf as Ebor. more correctly

^ est,

it.

has

de Essehyy Ebor.

tunc, Ebor.

om. Ebor.
Henricus nomine, om. Ebor.

j^J^q^oq

THOMAS DE ECCLESTON

10

A.D. 1225. in ecclesia Sancti Petri de Coriihulle, et postea factus

dum Frater Agnellus proficisceretur^ ad capitulum generale. In vicaria tamen habuit

est vicarins Angiiae,

socium Fratrem Ricardum de Ingewrd; ad ultimuni

tamen tantam felicitatem non ferens, sed eiFeminatus
potius honoribus, et" a seipso alienatus, ab ordine
miserabiliter apostatavit.

Incidens.

Dignum

memoria quod quinto

ministrationis Fratris Petri, quinti

anno ad-

ministri in Anglia,

anno

scilicet ab adventu fratrum in Anglia xxxii,,

numerati sunt viventes fratres in Anglia, in xlix. locis,

mille ducenti

xlii.

COLLATIO 8^

De
Igitur

The
novices.

cum

Receptione Novitioruim.

se divisissent fratres qui

primo venerant

in Angliam, et ad diversa loca profecti fuissent, vene-

runt quidam, quos Spiritus Jesu in hoc ipsum adduxit,

Quorum primus

petentes ordinem.

qui reciperetur f uit

bonge indolis adolescens, et elegantia corporis

Fr. Salo-

clarus, Frater

mon,

cum adhuc
nitque ad
Ipsa

Salomon

novitius

domum

vero

qui mihi referre solebat,^ quod

esset, factus

sororis suse ut

portans

ei

admodum

panem

est

eleemosynam
vultum

peteret.

avertit

sit hora, qua te unquam

quidem cum gaudio recepit panem et

" Maledicta

ve-

procurator,

vidi ;"

dicens,

ipse

et

recessit.

Tam

vero tenuit prsefixam sibi formam purissimse^

paupertatis, ut [cum] nonnunquam ^ in caparone sue
stricte

portaret farinam et

sal,

seu ficus pauculas, propter fra-

trem quendam infirmum,

prqficisseretur,

secundo,

MS.

Ebor

3 solitxis erat,

Ebor.

et ligna

ad ignem sub

parcissimce, Ebor.

ut

axilla, Ebor.

acella^

cum nonnunquam, Ebor.

DE ADVENTU MINORUM.
sua, diligentissime cavit

11

ne supra metas exquisitissima)

Unde

necessitatis aliquid reciperet vel retineret.

con-

aliquando ut tantum frigus pateretur, quod illico

moriturum se crederet non habentibus autem fratri-

tigit

bus unde ipsum calefacere possent, pium sibi sufFugium

Convenerunt siquidem
monstravit.
sancta caritas

omnes fratres circa eum et^ suis sinibus, sicut porcis

mos est, eum comprimendo foverunt. Cum autem ad
ordinem acolitatus promoveri^ deberet, missus est ad
venerabilem patrem

memorise Archiepiscopum

a quodam fratre seniore prsesenqui gratissime suscepit eum, et sub hoc titulo

Stephanum,
tatus

sanctse

et

sibi

promovit ad ordinem optatum, dicens,^ " Accedat ^ Frater

" Salomon de ordine apostolorum/'
Hoc ideo dixerim,
ut innotescat quantse reverentise fuerit

mpud

sapientes

Cum autem

comedissent in mensa archiepiscopi, reversi sunt^ Cantuariam nudipedes, in nive, quae profunda nimis extitit
fratrum primordialis simplicitas.^

et intuentibus exhorrenda.

Postea accepit

eum

gutta

uno pede, unde languit Londonise per duos annos,

ita quod vix unquam nisi portatus [se] movere potuit.

in

In hac infirmitate

visitari

meruit a sanctse memorise

Fratre Jordano,^ magistro totius ordinis Prsedicatorum,

non verecunderis, et si Pater

" Domini ^ Jesu Christi trahat^^ te ad Ipsum per pedem."
Igitur postquam tamdiu jacuerat in cellario, ubi missarum solempnia non audierat, fratres enim non celebrabant in loco, sed ibant ad audiendum divina et ad
celebrandum ad ecclesiam parochialem, factus est morbus ita desperatus, ut judicio chirurgicorum pedem
qui

dixit

ei,

^'

Frater,

Ebor.

ipsum, om.

ordinari with promoveri written

above,

et,

MS.

For promovit ad ordinem optatum dicens, Ebor. reads ad ordinem

3

promovit.
*

apostolatum accedat^ Ebor.

spiritual itas, Ebor.

reversi sunt fratres, Ebor.

accepit gravitatem, Ebor.

Died

Domini repeated, but marked

in 1237,

Matth. Paris.

for omission.
^^

traxerit, Ebor.

A.l). 1225.

^^^^

^"

THOMAS DE ECCLESTON

12

cum

<^P0^^6^6t j^raecidi ; et
Fr^sJf^^^*
Fr.
Salo
discoopertus esset, exivit
mon

aliqiiam permittebat

allata

esset securis, et pes

sanies

qusedam quae spem

unde dilatum

durum

est ilia vice

judicium.
Interim concepit certam spem, quod
ad Sanctum Eligium ^ duceretur, pedem utique recuperaret et salutem.
Quo - cum Frater Agnellus advenisset mandavit ut*^ absque dilatione, quocunque modo
commodius fieri posset, ad Sanctum Eligium in partes
transmarinas duceretur.
Quod et factum est nee
illud

si

'*

eum

fefellit

fides

sua

quin potius postea in tantum

absque baculo incederet, et missas ipse

celebraret, et gardianus Londonise et generalis confessor
totius civitatis existeret.
Verumtamen, quia dulcissimo
Jesu supplicaverat, ut eum in prsesenti a peccatis suis
convaluit, ut

purgaret,
sui, ita

misit

ei

spinam

guttam,^ quae fregit

ut gibbosus et curvus fieret

misit

ei

dorsi

hydro-

pisim calidam et frequentem^ iluxum hsemorrhoidum/

usque ad obitum suum. Postremo vero, pridie quam ^

pergeret ad Ipsum, immisit ei dulcis Jesus tantum
dolorem cordis, cujus tamen doloris causam ignorabat,

quod omnes preecedentes passiones in respectu

angustiae

nihili sestimavit.

specialiores

animi

et

perseverantibus,

Christus

cum

indicavit

erant,-^^

apparuit

ei

Petro Apostolo

beato

eis

Ipsis igitur in oratione

suo instanter orarent.

miter

Yocatis igitur tribus fra-

agoniam
intente supplicavit quatenus pra statu

tribus, qui
sui,

illius

^^

dulcissimus

coram

unaniJesus

lecto

suo

eum, ipse vero statim cognito

Miserere mei, Domine, miserere
Salvatore clamavit,
Et respondit ei Dominus Jesus " Quia semmei.

stans,

et

aspiciens

in

''

postquam, but marked for

sanctum aliquem, Ebor.

ergo, Ebor.
ut, om. Ebor.

sanctum aliquem, Ebor.

sibi erant,

gravitatem, Ebor.

1^

The y^or(\. perseveranter follows,

sanguineum, Ebor.

'

emoroj/dartcm,

MS.

alter-

ation.
9

but

agonice,

is

Ebor.
Ebor.

expuncted.

DE ADVENTU MTNORUM.
"

me

per

" et

ut in praesenti te plenc affligercm A.D.

rogasti

purgarem, misi
ut

et

injungenda

Petrus, "
"

"

"

"

P^'^^- xnon.^

non

reliquisti, et

vocationem tuam, dignos fructus

quia pepercisti nimis divitibus in

decuit

" poenitentiae,
**

tuam primam

1225.
^'

dolorem pra3sentem, et

tibi

" cipue quia caritatem

" fecisti,

13

Et

poenitentia.^ "

sibi

beatus

addidit

Insuper scias te graviter peccasse in judicando

Fratrem Johannem de Cicestria, qui nuper obiit. Et.

nunc roga Dominum ut det tibi talem finem, qualem
ipse habuit."
Et damans Frater Salomon dixit,
Miserere mei, Domine dulcissime, miserere mei dul-

eum

" cis^ Jesu," qui subridendo respexit

placido

ita

vultu quod tota prsecedens angustia evanuit, et ipse

spirituali^ gaudio

repletus certissimam

lutis concepit

confestim vocatis

et

in

loco

de

fratribus

sa-

denun-

Cornhulle,

Fratri

dixit
"

suae

unde non modice consolati f uerunt.

Dio-num memoria, quod cum essent fratres

tiavit que viderat

Incidens.

spem

Gilberto

Diabolus

venit

de

Wyz,

cum

visibiliter

sederet

^^^^ ^^

solus, Wjz.

me ? Ecce hoc habebis adhuc " et

eum plenum pugillum suum pediculorum
:

Credis evasisse

projecit super

et

Anecdote

et evanuit.^

Secundus frater qui receptus est a Fratre Agnello, William of

I^ondon.
fuit Frater Willelmus de Londonia, qui fuerat aliquando mutus, sed apud Berkinges^ meritis Sanctse
Ethelburgse, sicut mihi retulit, loquelam recuperavit.
Hie etiam, cum esset familiaris domini justiciarii An~
glise, domini Huberti^ de Burgo, licet laicus, et latinus,^
1

171

injungendo sibi poenitentiam,

Ebor.
- mei

et dulcis,

MS.

Ebor.

speciali,

In the margin of the Lamport

MS.

a line

is

drawn indicating the

signed by the York

MS. has

been given to the story.

^ Berginge, Ebor.
^ domini justiciarii
de
Huberti, Ebor.
7

Sic, in

here

Anglia

both MSS., possibly for

Eemembering the

insertion of this incident after the

lascivus.

words movere potuit

quent similarity of the letters t and

c, n and ii (v'j in MSS. of this date,
it will be seen that the mistake

(p. 11, line 21),

but as there are also marks possibly

intended to connect it with the passage ending mensa archiepiscopi (line
17), the

more

suitable

position as-

might

easily

be made.

fre-

THOMAS DE ECCLESTOX

14

A.D. 1225. ut putabatur, existeret,

mus/ priusquam

fratres

Londoniae indutus

famosissi-

scissoria

est.

Tertius erat optimee indolis puer, nobilis, et delicatus,

JoTce of
Comhill,

et in arte

aream vel cantariam haberent,

de ipsa civitate Londoniae oriundus, Frater Jociiis de

Cornhulle, clericus; qui post multos labores, quos ibi
sustinuerat, profectus est

ibidem
John, a

feliciter obiit.

Quartus

clerk.

et

Hispaniam moraturus, et

in

Frater Johannes, clericus, quasi decern

fuit

annorum

octo

adolescens,

bon^e indolis et

optimae

conversationis, qui citius completo cursu praesentis vitae,

Dominum Jesum Christum.

doleret dentes
sacerdoti, cum

migravit ad
Philippo

modum^

Loudon.

Walter de
Burgo.

ut mitteret

Minoribus,

tribus

Philip of

suasit,

et

panem

curaret eum.*^

Unde ambo

gensis

factus,

et

rimos

lucrifecit.

suos

supra

et cerevisiam Fra-

Dominus Jesus

quod

promisit

Ipse domino

dederunt seipsos
et intraverunt ordinem Fratrum Minorum.^
Quintus igitur fuit iste ^ Frater Philippus Londonia
oriundus, ordine sacerdos, qui postea gardianus Biniofficium

cito postea

pnedicationis

adeptus,

plu-

Postremo missus est in Hibemiam, et

migravit ad Dominum.

ibidem feliciter
Post hos intraverunt quidam magistri, qui famam
fratrum magTiificaverunt Frater scilicet Walterus de
Burgo, de quo vidit frater unus mirabilem -sdsionem
quod scilicet Dominus Jesus descendens de ccelo porrexit
ei rotulum, in quo scriptum erat, "Tempus tui tritici
" non est hie, sed alibi." Huic revela\T.t [dolum] ^ cujus;

dam

mulieris reiigiosae,

quendam fratrem

qu^ per

discretum

Frater vero Agnellus

siiavi

The words

et

sic

ut

ita

non credens

eas

ei ^

supplies dns, but

modo, Ebor.

visiones fictas delusit

factum

est

see

how

scriberet.

injunxit con-

it

is

either reader

not easy to
or

scribe

Fratrum

could have confused doininus with

dolum, the word required to com-

"^

iste,

plete the sense.

follow in Ebor.
Miiiorunij cm. Ebor.
om. Ebor.
5 Some word is wanting here in
the York MS. The Lamport copy

^ ei,

om. Ebor.

DE ADVENTU MINORUM.

15

ventui ut orarent quatenus Deus revelaret ei rem quan- A.D.

Et ecce nocte ilia visum
dani pro qua fuit soUicitus.

1225.

Waltero quod vidit cervam quandam ascendere velociter ad cacumen cujusdam montis excelsi,
et duo canes nigri^ consecuti sunt earn, et converterunt
eam usque in vallem, et ibi strangulaverunt earn
accurrens autem Frater Walterus, ubi cervam invenire
se credidit, non invenit nisi sacculum plenum sanguine.
Cum igitur visionem hanc narrasset Fratri Agnello,
concepit statim ipse'^ quod per hypocrisim seducta
fuisset, et misit ad eam duos discretos
qui
fratres,
tandem confessam quod finxisset quae dixerat, veritati

fuit

Fratri

reconciliaverunt.

Intra vit alius magister scilicet Frater Ricardus Nor-

^ic- Nor-

man.

mannus, qui cum verbum sedificationis a dicto Waltero

qusereret,^
post diutinam^ deliberationem respondit.
" Qui ^ vult esse in pace, sileat."
Ki vout ^ estre en
" pes, tenge sey en pes/'
Intravit quoque tunc temporis magister Vincentius de Coventre, qui non multum Vincent of
Coventry.
post germanum suum, magistrum Henricum, ad intrandum ordinem, co-operante gratia Jesu Christi, diliIntraverunt enim die conversionis
genter induxit,
Sancti Pauli, cum sanctae memorise magistro Adam de Adam of
Exeter.
Exonia,^ et domino Willelmo de Eboraco solempni
baccalaureo.^
Hie vero magister Adam,^ toto famosus
orbe, voverat ut quicquid peteretur ab eo, pro amore
Beatae Mariae, faceret; et hoc ipsum cuidam inclusae,
''

sibi familiari, retulit.

Ipsa vero amicis

suis,

monaclio

cuidam de Radinges, et alii de ordine Cisterciensi, et Fratri cuidam Prsedicatori revelavit secretum
suum, dicens, quod talem virum taliter lucrari possent,
scilicet

" altera exemplari ^ Adade Exonia^

" scribitur." Wood, Antiq. Oxon.

Ebor.

'

magiii,

statim ipse, om. Ebor.

MSS.

Sic for queerer etur in both

"*

diutumaniy Ebor.

quu,

MS.

Ebor.

vot,

Ebor.

Ada

de

Oxonia, Ebor.

p. 68.
^

" /w

hakelario,

Ada

Lamport

haculario

de Oxo7iia, Ebor.

16

THOMAS DE ECCLESTON

A.D. 1225. nolens

quod Frater Minor fieret.

Sed Beata
Virgo non permisit, licet pryesentem aliquis haberet
eum, ut pro amore suo id peteret sed usque ad aliud
scilicet

tempus

Visum enim

quod quadam
nocte debuit^ transire quendara pontem ubi fuerunt
homines in aquam tendentes retia ad capiendum eum
difFerret.

fuit

ei,

vero

ipse

cum magna

locum

ad

venit

nutu

licet-

difficultate evasit, et per-

placidissimum.

Igitur

cum

divino
Fratres

cseteros evasisset, venit casualiter videre

cumque loqueretur

Minores,

Colevile, senior,
dixit, "

vir

Frater Willelmus de

ei

eximise sanctitatis,

inter

caetera

Magister carissime, pro amore Matris Dei intra

"

ordinem nostrum, et releva simplicitatem nostram."

Qui statim, quasi ex ore Matris Dei verbum
ipsum
'*

cum

audisset, concessit, et sicut deveniens

Adam

de
Marisco.

maxima

coeli

intravit.^

sedificatione

Fuit autem tunc socius magis-

et ad robas suas, quem non

Dei gratiam, ad intrandum ordinem
sagaciter induxit.
Videbatur autem nocte quadam
Fratri Adse de Marisco, quod venerunt simul ad quoddam castellum, et ultra portam fuit depicta Dominica
crux, et quicunque vellet ingredi, oporteret eum osculari crucem.
IngTessus est ergo primus Frater Adam
tri

Adie de

multum

Marisco,

post, per

de Exonia,^ osculata cruce, et alter Frater

eadem

osculata, secutus est.

cocleam

'

tam

Adam

statim,

Sed prior inventam mox

ab aspectu sequentis

velociter ascendit, ut

Sequens vero clamavit,

Incedatis
" moderatius, incedatis moderatius!" Sed alter nusquam
Et quidem hsec visio omnibus qui
postea comparuit.
tunc erant in Angiia fratribus poterit^ esse manifesta;
siquidem Frater Adam post ingressum profectus est ad
citius

^ For quod quadam

nocte dehnit^
Ebor reads nocte, quod debuit,

'

hoc, Ebor.

2 ei,
*

set

*'

raperetur.

om. Ebor.

audisset verhum, MS., but audis-

marked

for omission.

5 et
^

sicut

intraviif

om. Ebor,

Oxonia, Ebor.

'

inventa

potuit,

mox

Ebor.

coclea, Ebor,

DE ADVENTU MINORUM.

Papam Gregorium nonum/

taverat, missus

Adam

de

A.D. 1225.

suis prsedicens, obiit,^ et post,

miraculis

dicitur, claris

secundum quod op-

quo,

ad prsedicandum inter Saracenos

est

sed apud Barlette, sociis

ut

l7

Wygorniam,

apud

Marisco

Intravit

effulsit.

Frater
scilicet

zelo

amoris^ paupertatis.
Post hos intravit Frater
cet

Oseneyse,'''

J.

de Redinges, abbas

omnis perfectionis

qui nobis

scili- Fr. John

?^ ^^^^"

exempla

reliquit.

quoque magister Ricardus Rufus, tam Fr. Eich.

Oxoniae quam Parisius fama clarissimus.
othei^^
Intraverunt quoque milites nonnulli scilicet dominus
Ricardus Gobion, dominus Egidius de Mert, dominus
Thomas Hispanus, dominus Henricus de Walepole de
quorum ingressu dixit dominus Rex/ " Si volueritis esse
" discreti in recipiendis fratribus, si non procuraveritis
" privilegia ad depressionem ^ hominum, et prsecipue
" si non fueritis importuni in petendo, poteritis prinPost hunc

''

cipari principibus."

COLLATIO 4a

Be Adeptione Locorum.
Post hoc crescente numero fratrum, et eorum sane- The
titate comperta, crevit et fidelium devotio in eos, unde
founders
loca

sibi

competentia

nonum, om. Ebor.

socii sui
mortem

Ebor.

Unde

curaverunt.

aream quandam, et sedificavit

honestam pro tempore, dominus Alex-

Cantuarise contulit

capellam satis

providere

eis

Roy, Ebor.

pracedens^

oppressionem, Ebor.

pradi-

<"

In Ebor.

sociis suis prceclictis

this

division of the

cens ohiit, Lamport, but prcBdictis

third chapter

expuncted.

ference between Cott. and Ebor. in

is

numbering

not made.

majoris, Ebor.

the

Osengyce, Ebor.

therefore probably

7644.

of

The

dif-

the chapters

now

is

explained.

and bene^^^^^^

b^-y

'

THOMAS DE ECCLESTOX

18

A.D. 1225. ander, magister Hospitalis

et quia fratres

omnino appropriare voluernnt,

sibi

niliil

Sacerdotum

pria communitati civitatis,

fratribus

facta est pro-

vero pro civium

commodata. Specialissime vero promoverunt eos

dominus S}Tiion de Longeton, arcbidiaconus Cantuariee,
et dominus Henricus de Sandwycb/ nobilisque comitissa, domina Inclusa de Hakington,^ quse sicut mater
principum et prfelafilios, sic fovit eos in omnibus
^
gratiam
quorum
incomparabiliter
consecuta
torum,
fuerat, favorem sibi sagaciter acquirendo.
Londoniae
hospitatus est fratres dominus Johannes Iwun, ^ qui
emptam pro fratribus aream communitati civium appropriavit, fratribus autem usumfiiictum ejus pro lilibitu

at

London;

bitu

dominorum devotissime

designavit.

ipse ut laicus ingressus religionem

Postea vero

perfectissim?e poe-

summae devotionis nobis exempla reliquit.

Ampliavit autem aream dominus Jocius filius Petri,

nitentise

cujus

et

optimae indolis ordinem postea devotus in-

filius

et

travit,

vero sedificavit
JojTner,

Capellam
propriis sumptibus dominus WilleJmus

devotior

et

ad

alias

perseveravit in finem.

domos construendas

circiter

du-

centas libras per vices contulit, et indefesse usque ad

mortem
ficiis

in spiritualitate fratrum,

perduravit.

visitans,

Ad

continuis eos bene-

infirmariam vero con-

struendam contulit centum libras in obitu suo dominus

Aquseductnm vero procuraverunt
Petrus de Elyland.*^
prsecipue et mutuis coUationibus dominus Henricus de

Frowyk/
nus de

et

optimse conversationis adolescens Saleki,

tamen amplissime muniAlia quoque tam in sedificiis quam in

Basinges, cooperante

ficentia regia.
libris

quam

etiam

Sandwyg^ Ebor.

Baginton, Ebor.

is close to
3

Canterbury.

quoque, Ebor.

in

are?e

ampliatione

Hackington

Ywin, Ebor.

ordinem, Ebor.

Oliland, Ebor.
Frowye, Ebor.

"

et

aliarum

DE ADVENTU MJNORUM.

19

necessitudinum sublevatione, tot et tanta et tarn mul- A.D.

tiplicia ^ beneficia, omnibus mortalibus admiranda, tempore meo vidi Londonise, ab ipso dulcissimo Jesu fratribus provideri, ut

Oxonise primo
et

locavit

merito ab ipsis specialiter supra

et honorari debeat et idem in seternum.

amari

cseteros

eis

recepit

domum,

fratres

Robertus

domum

Mercer,

le

qua intraverunt

in

multi probi baccalaurei* et multi nobiles.

bilis

at

Oxford

at

Cam-

ordinem

Postea con-

qua sunt modo, a Ricardo

le Muliner, qui infra annum contulit aream et domum
communitati villae ad opus fratrum. Fuit autem area
brevis et arcta nimis.
Cantibrigige primo reeeperunt
fratres burgenses villse, assignantes eis veterem synagogam, quae erat contigua carceri. Cum vero intoleraduxerunt

1225.

in area, in

carceris

esset vicinia

eundem

fratribus, quia

^'

^^'

in-

gressum habebant carcerarii et fratres, dedit dominus

Rex X. marcas ad emendum reditum, quo^ satisfieret
seaccario suo pro reditu areee, et sic aedificabant fratres

capellam

ita

pauperrimam, ut

faceret et erigeret xv.^ cop las tignorum.

tem Sancti Laurentii, cum non essent

clerici, scilicet

Bugeton,

et

Frater
novitius

una

carpentarius

W. de Esseby

die

In festo au-

nisi tres fratres

et Frater

Hugo de

nomine Frater Elyas, qui tam

ut portaretur in oratorium, cantaverunt

solempniter cum nota, et in tantum flevit

claudus

erat

officium

ut

novitius,

aperte

cum

per

vultum

canentis

sanctissime mortuus

lacrymse.

Igitur

Eboracum

apparuit Fratri

currerent

apud
W. Esseby apud Norhamquomodo se haberet," respondit,
esset

tonam, et quserenti, "

"Bene me habeo; ora pro me."

Apud Salopisburi^ At Shrewsdominus Rex

ecclesiam vero ^^^'

aream fratribus
sedificavit quidem burgensis nomine Ricardus
dedit

tot et tarn multiplicata,

quod

j9orro,

bakelarii^

'

Sic,

ut,

Ebor.

but quod expuncted.

Ebor.

MS.

quod, Ebor.

<"

xiv.,

Slopisbyriam, Ebor.
Pinde, Ebor.

'^

Ebor.

MS.

B 2

Pride,^

20

THOMAS DE ECCLESTOX

A.D. 1225. proinde

lapideos
scilicet

cum

c?eteras officinas Laurentius Cox;"^

muros

et

dormitorii, decernente sic

ministro, Fratre
W., pro zelo paupertatis amovit, et luteos fecit

mirabili devotione

mansuetudine

et

et

permagnis

sumptibus.

COLLATIO

De Primitiva

5.^

PiLvitate

Fratrum.

Primitias autem Spiritus habentes fratres illius tem-

non humanis constitutionibus sed liberis suae

devotionis afFectionibus, regula tantum contenti
et

poris,

paucissimis

aliis

quae

statutis,

confirmation em

post

anno primitus ^ emanaverant, Domino

serviebant.
Hsec autem fuit prima constitutio, quam
Sanctus Franciscus fecit post regulam buUatam, sicut
dixit bonae memorise Frater Albertus
scilicet quod
fratres inter sseculares non comederent, nisi tres bolos
camis ^ propter observantiam sancti Evangelii
quia
venerat ad eum rumor quod fratres avide comedebant.
Fratres igitur silentium usque ad tertiam tenere conregulse

eodem

sueverunt, et in oratione

tam

assidui esse, ut vix esset

aliqua hora per totam noctem,

qui

fratres

in

oratione

in

in qua

oratorio.

non essent
In

ali-

praecipuis

quoque solempnitatibus tanto fei'\'ore cantaverunt, ut

per totam noctem nonnunquam dui'arent vigiliae
et
^
cum non essent nisi tres vel quatuor aut ut multum
Tanta quoque
sex, cum nota solempniter cecinerunt.
;

'

'

provide, om. Ebor.

primitus, om. Ebor.

continuos, Ebor.

Laurentius nomine, Ebor.

devotione,

Collatio

Fratrum.
Ebor.

om. Ebor.

IV.

">

Primitiva Pielas

Silentium,

Orationes^

von, om. Ebor.

aud, MS.

DE ADVENTU MINORUM.
corum, tantaquc puritas,

fuit simplicitas

tione

nocturna in

capitulo

Quam

tam

inter eos

consuetudo, ut nihil penitns jurarent,

dicerent, " Sciatis."

pollu-

omnibus dicerent

coram

Inoleverat etiam

culpas suas.

dc

lit

sed

religiosa

simpliciter

cjuisquam vel a superi-

cito

ore vel socio fuisset increpatus,^ statim respondit "

" culpa," et

Unde

frequenter etiam prostratus.

Mea

magistcr

memorige Frater Jordanus dixit,

quod Diabolus, cum aliquando ei apparuisset, dixerat ei
quod " Mea culpa" abstulit ei quicquid lucrari credidit
inter Fratres Minores, quia scilicet dicebant culpas suas^
invicem, si quis alium ofFendisset.
Fuerunt tam en
Praedicatorum

fratres

bonae

omni tempore
aspectu mutuo

inter se ita jocundi

et

Iseti,

ut

temperarent a risu. Unde

cum juvenes fratres Oxoniae nimis frequenter riderent,
injunctum fuit cuidam ut quotiens rideret in choro vel

vix in

mensa^

in

cum

ut

tot

"*

se

reciperet

undecim^' disciplinas in una die recepisset, nee

tamen posset se a risu cohibere,^ visum

dam nocte, quod totus conventus more
choro, et

temptabantur

ecce crucifixus, qui stetit

ad eos quasi vivus,

"

autem

Accidit

disciplinas.

ad ostium

et ait

hora cantus rident

et

ridere

fratres

" Filii

fuit^

ei

qua-

solito stetit in

more

solito,

et

chori, convertit se

Choree sunt

qui

in

Videbatur etiam

dormiunt."

quod crucifixus nitebatur extrahere manus suas a

ei

patibulo, quasi volens descendere

custos

loci

quod non
riti

descendit.

fratres

bant.

statim ascendit et

Hac

maturius, et

In tantum

risu

notabili

autem veritatem

et ecce

clavos, ita

se^^

zelabant,

gere-

ut vix

auderent, vel etiam propria

capella, Ebor.

interrogatus, Ebor.

meas, Ebor.

mutus se temperaret, Ebor.

in choro vel in niensa, cm. Ebor.

confirmavit

igitur visione publicata ter-

sine

hyperbolice aliquid loqui

'^

et recedere

?uinas, Ebor.

continere, Ebor.

fuerit, Ebor.

1^'

teviptahant, Ebor.
notahiliore, Ebor., se omitted.

A.D.
1225-50.

THOMAS DE ECCLESTON

22
A.D.
1220-0O.

delicta, cum tamen

^^j,i
In
celarent.

faciendo

jam

in

se

pimiendos

scii'ent si confiteren-

vero

vel

locis

capiendis,

nulla fait

captis,

eis

moram

difficidtas,

vel

quibuscunque qualitercunque exsequendis, dummodo sic a suo superiori scirent ordinatum. Unde
accidit ut in locis qui desolatorii nunc temporis dicerentur, fratres tam nobiles genere quam aliis con-

aliis

ditionibus, in

spectabiles

sseculo

sissimi, sine querela se

modo suavissimum

et

in

ordine

poni permitterent.

cordis

eorum

gratio-

Hoc solum-

contristare videbatui*

quod ab invicem separari oportebat. Unde

frequenter usque ad pai^tes remotas fratres recedentes
conducebant, et efiusis abunde ^ in recessu lacrimis,
affectum,

mutuo

affectionis fidem

dem'onstrabant.

COLLATIO

6.^

De Promotione Frcjedicatomm.
Their acteTchinff

and

autem

summee simplicitati et conscien^^^ puritati summopere studerent in omnibus, in

audienda tamen lege divina et scholasticis exercitiis
ita fuerunt ferventes, ut scholas theologise, quantumLicet

cunque

fi^atres

distarent, adire quotidie nudis

goris asperitate et

Unde,

cooperante

praedicationis infr-a

pedibus

profunditate

de Baldac,'^ Frater quoque

W.

confiterentur substituted iovco7i-

Philippus de Londonia,^ et

Promotio.

Hat/mo de Faversham,

Ebor.

abunde, om. Ebor.

Collatio

Hugo

de Esseby, qui non solum sermone, sed in

jessionem.
'

fri-

non pigrarentur,
gi'atia Spiiitus Sancti, ad officium
breve tempus plui-es promoti sunt.

luti

Inter quos primus extitit bonae memoriae Frater

Frater

in

V.

Pradicatorum

Baldoc, Ebor.

^ 1.071 get 071,

Ebor.

DE ADVENTU MINOKUM.

23

devotione verbuni Dei, tain

exem])lilicata

clero

nuarn

populo/ prtedicaverat.

Promo vit autem plurimum

auctori-

prsedicantes, et

fomenta prjBbuit adventus Fratris

Haymonis de Faversham, qui cum tribus aliis magis-

tatis eis

et

Sanctum

apud

tris

ordine

famsD

sacerdos

plurima

alia

visio

talis,

quod

in

ecclesia

oraret

descendit

chorda

tenuit,

ita

et

posset.^

scilicet esset

coram
de

et

per

est

Minores

vidisset ergo Fratres

famosos

Symonem

[magistros]

brante missam, ipsi a

in

Parisius,^

quid

induxit,

sibi consultius foret

et

eam

et

coelum.

Cum

memor

istius

ut

socium
duos alios
se,

ipso

Christo

ad salutem.

ei

ecce

et

accepit

ipse

Domino Jesu
^

deli-

mollibus

de Sandwyz et

sagaciter

usque

apud Faversham,

eam

cele-

peterent,

Cumque simul

omnibus ^linorum professio complaceret, accesserunt,

ad majorem securitatem, ad sanctse memorise Fratrem
Jordanum, magistrum ordinis Praedicatorum, et obligaverunt

eum

in

animam suam ut

eis

consilium

suum fideliter daret. Qui sicut erat veraciter inspiratus, consilio suo conceptum propositum confirmavit.
AccesseiTint ergo iiij. isti ad ministrum, Fratrem scilicet Gregorium de Neapoli, et ab eodem recepti [sunt]
apud Sanctum Dionysium, postquam frater Haymo
preedicaverat in die Parasceues de hoc versu, "
^

tarn in clero

quam

in

populo, but

both places expuncted.

2 polites, Ebor.

in in

nisi in assatis vesceretur et cali-

ais vivere 7wn posset, Ebor.

*

quunif Ebor.

In

con-

Parisius, om. Ebor.

dominum magistrum in MS., but
dominum marked for omission.
^

'

cqfnlcius

sibi,

(sHc,^ floret,

Ebor.

Favers-

^^m.

Hie

Accidit autem

visionis resumpsit vires, et erigens se contra

suum magistrum

et

nisi

Christo crucifixo

coelo,

tractus

Hay-

excellentis-

debilis

ita

ut vix

est,

vivere

calidis

poenitenti8e

Unde

^'i-

Parasceues,

die

si^culavis esset, usus est cilicio

sima monstravit exempla.

catus ad ultimum factus
uteretur et

in

famosus prsedicator, intravit.

et

enim cum adhuc

ad poplites,^ et

Dionysium

A.D.
122550

Ebor.

ante 1237.

THOMAS DE ECCLESTON

24
A.D.
1225-50.
Fr.

Hay-

mo

of

Pavers-

ham.

Dominus captivUoieni By on, facti sumus

cum oraudio magno incluti sunt.
consolati"
vero Pasch^e, cum videret Frater Haymo tarn

" vert en do

" sicut

In die

populum

numerosum

qua fi'atres
audiebant divina, (non enim habebant adhuc cantariam,) dixit custodi, qui erat laicus, Beneventanus ^ nomine, quod si auderet, libenter pr?edicaret populo, ne
in

parocliia/-

in

Injunxit ergo ei
communicarent in mortali.
Praecustos ex parte Spiritus Sancti ut prasdicaret.
forte

dicavit

ergo

nicare

quousque

tribus

diebus

ut multi

motive,

ita

fuissent

in

ecclesia

Sedit itaque

confessi.^*

ei

audivit

et

commu-

difFerrent

confessiones,

et

non mediocriter populum.

Iste, ut pr?edictum est, primo quando ^ venerunt fratres
Angliam, venit et ipse et tam in pr^dicationibus

confortavit

in

quam

disputationibus, et praecipue

plurimum
Fuit enim

prselatoriim

primitivorum fratrum

simplicitati

favore

contulit.

etiam

adver-

santibus Ordini gratiosus et acceptus existeret.

Undo

ita

gratiosus et eloquens, ut

primo custos Parisius, postea lector Turonis est positus,

In legationem quoque in
et Bononias, et Paduae.
^
Graeciam ad Natatium, una cum bonae memorise Fratre
Radulpho de Remis, a piae memoriae Gregorio missus
Hie " Fratrem Gregorium de Neapoli Parisius ^
est.
ministrum Franciae, meritis suis exigentibus, a ministerio fecit amoveri
et justo Dei judicio, solutis his,
quos ipse injuste incarceraverat, fecit relevari.^ Fratrem quoque Helyam, qui minister generalis erat,
propter scandala quae fecit, et tp^annidem quam in
;

zelatores

ordinis

cum gaudio,

sicut qui

parochiam, Ebor.

bnvet^

in

A'c,

Ebor.

perhaps

The

York

postquam, Ebor.

Graciam,

'

Hie, om. Ebor.

MS.

prius,

incarcerari, Ebor.

CoiTected, in the margin, from

essent ei cotifessius (sic).

5

Padiiatn

for

reads Vincentius.
^

praesentiam

^^

patris

but

the

former word expuneted.

MS.,

BeiivenutHs.

in

exercuerat,^^

'^

MS.

exercuit,

in

[w5sus], Ebor.
^^

prasentia,

MS.

Angliam socius

DE ADVENTU MINORUM.
Pap^e

Gregori

nostri

appellantibus,

25
procnrante

eo,

A.D.

miro Dei favore ^ j.^. iiayQuis vero de suis mentis prtBsumere, quis ^o of
clejecit.
de se tutus esse possit, cum tales personas ad tantam ham.
calamitatem pervenisse cognoverit.^ Quis enim Grecontra

gorio

summi

apostasiam
*

tamen

vel

propter

alius

Quis

gratiosior

Et tamen unus in

perpetuum carcerem,

Utrumque

orbe

Christianitatis

quam Helyas

famosior
ruit

pnBlatione, in Universitate

vel clero totius Francise comparabilis

universe

et

provinciis,

prsedicatione vel

in

Parisius
in

plnrimis

ipsinn

fine

vel

me-

inobedientiam

excommunicationem.

Pontificis

licet sero poenituit.

Yenit autem in Angliam cum Fratre Haymone Frater

W. de Colevile, senior, summse simplicitatis et eximise
caritatis

vir

cujus

germana postmodum in

est.

ecclesia

servanda ssevissime
Juvenis enim quidam, qui ob ejus pul-

cathedrali Cicestriie pro

jugulata

Fr. w. de
^^^^"^

chritudinem diu

castitate

desideraverat

ut earn

solam posset

ad amplexus amoris inducere,^ cum nuUo

ingenio ad suam voluntatem ^ posset eam inclinare,
quam maligna sit carnalis dilectio, ipsam in ecclesia
perimendo, probavit. Inter carnaliter enim se amantes
frequenter tantum in fine oritur odii, quantum prius
invenire, et

erat amoris.

Postea venerunt in Angliam plures

alii fratres

proba-

de Angiia oriundi, qui Parisius intraverant, quos

adhuc existens in habitu sseculari ipse vidi Frater sci^

tissimi

licet

Ricardus

Rufus, lector

egregius, qui postea zelo

Helyam pro Franad curiam cum Fratre Haymone.

reformandi ordinem, contra Fratrem

cia

profectus

est

Qui etiam narravit quod quidam novitius

^Jervore,

MS.

devenisse cognovit, Ebor.

Parisi,

Uterque,

eam

MS.
MS.

diu, but earn

omission.

retulit

induceret, Ebor.

'

ad suam voluntatem, om. Ebor.

probissimi, Ebor,

Written over traces of the letter

Ebor. reads
Nicholaus, but see p. 17.
^

marked

for

ei,

N.

imperfect!}' erased.

Fr.

Eic

Eufus.

THOMAS DE ECCLESTON

26

A.D.
1225-50.

quod cum continua siti laboraret, nee posset dormire

de nocte, apparuit quidam speciosus in habitu fratrum,
quod cum
et praecepit ut surgeret et sequeretur se
fecisset, duxit eum in locum amoenissimum, et introduxit eum in pulcherrimum palatium, et dedit ei bibere
:

potum suavissimum,
" sitieris, venias

et dixit

hue ad me,

quEesi^dt novitius, quis esset

Exinde ad

Franciscum.
penitus

de

evigilans
Rad. de
Rosa.

ei,

csetero

et

dabo

frater E-adulphus

praedicationis
effectus, fine

de

" et

temptationem sustinuit; sed

Venit

regLs

suo probavit

refoeillatum

se

etiam

Rosa, qui

domini

reversus novitius nullam

se

sitis

persensit.-^

tibi bibere

qui dixit se esse Fratrem

tam corde quam corpore

confortatum

quotienscunque

^'Fili,

tunc

quam

temporis

eximiam gratiam

ob

familiarissimus

Angliae

et

inimica

sit

Deo hujus

puritati ordinis
mundi amicitia, et quam contraria
magnificari
Minorum Fratrum,
magnorum favoribus, et
^

Hen. de
Burford
and his
verses.

in curiis principum continue commorari.

Frater Henricus de Burford, qui

Yenit quoque

cum adhuc

novitius

fratrum Parisius, contra temptationes

quas sustinuit versus istos in meditatione composuit
cantor

esset, et

Qui !Minor

es,

noli ridere, tibi quia soli

Convenit ut plores jungas cum nomine mores.

Nomine tu Minor es, ]\linor aetibus esto, labores
Perfer, et ingentem minuat^ patientia mentem.
;

Nempe

cor objurgat,

poenam^ patientia purgat.

est si quis te corripit ? is

quiequam fecis
Qui te custodit; non te, sed quod faeis, odit.
Quid tibi cum vili [sit] ^ veste, cibove ^ cubili
Poreorum ? Certe, tu symbola ^ perdis aperte,
Si mentitus eris faetis quod veste fateris. ^^

Si

Umbra

Minoris

erit,

Ebor.
Ebor.

qui

nomen
'

re sine

^'

persentit,

domino

contrarium, Ebor.

cibo quoque, Ebor.

nunciaty Ebor.

singula in both

per nam, in both

facis, Ebor.

MSS.

quaerit.

Apparentlyrequisite to complete

regi,

the sense and the metre.

^^

est,

fat er eris,

MSS.

MS.

" n" re sua. Ebor.

";

DE ADVENTU MINORUM.

27

Hie postea pro magna honestatc sua, (|uatuor ministrorum generalium et quatuor provincialium in Anglia
Hie etiam diu Patriareha3
socius specialis esse meruit.
^
Antiocheni in legatione sua in Lumbardia interpres et
prsedicator extitit, et post domini Gregorii Papae noni
poenitentiarius custosque Venetiarum, et custodis Londoniae quoque vicarius.
Venit etiam tunc Frater Henricus de Reresby qui
postea fuit datus in ministrum Scotise, cum esset

A.D.

custodis

vicarius

Oxoniae, sed

preventus

fuit

Hen. de
^^^^ ^'

morte.

Qui apparuit post mortem suam custodi, dicens quod

" licet non damnarentur fratres pro excessu quem
" facerent in aidificiis, tamen graviter puniebantur
:

et addidit quod, " si fratres dicerent

bene officium divi-

"

num, essent oves apostolorum."

Venit quoque in Angliam tunc temporis Frater Martinus de Bartona, qui beatum Franciscum frequenter
videre meruit

qui postea vicarius fuit ministri Angliae,

et in multis aliis officiis

ravit,

tus

optime se habuit.

quod in capitulo generali, in quo

Franciscus

destrui

domum,

quae

Ipse nar-

prsecipit Sanc-

fuerat

sedificata

quinque millia fratrum.

Frater vero suus'^ secundum carnem fuit seneschallus
capituli, et defendit ^ domum ex parte ^ communitatis
et per ipsum scripsit Beatus Franciscus propria manu
literam sub divo in pluvia non madefactus, ministro et
fratribus FrancisB, ut visis literis jubilarent, laudes^
divinse ^ Trinitati dicentes, " Benedicamus Patrem et
" Filium cum Spiritu Sancto." Eodem quoque die pater

propter

capitulum,

idem fratrem,

qui^

fuerunt

in

profundum puteum

ceciderat,

fugiens, audito rumore, in ecclesiam, fusa oratione ill^esum

servavit.

Dixit etiam quod frater quidam, qui stetit in

Aiitiocheno, Ebor.

MS.

laudeSy

cm. Ebor.

descmdit, Ebor.

divino,

MS.

The words

''

2 suu'^,

capituli su follow,

but are expuncted.

quendam, Ebor.

Martin de
Bartona

THOMAS DE ECCLESTON,

28
A.D.
1225-50.

Domini

oratione Brixi^e in Die Natali

quern

Sanctus Franciscus,

praedixerat

scholas

Bononise

literam

in

qua

per

Fratres

et

prsedicari

plurimum

fuit

motu^
per omnes

in terrae

fecerat,

Latinum,'^

et

per

ecclesia

lapidum illsesus inventus est. Hie

terrae motus ante guerram Frederici per continues xl.
dies factus est, ita ut moverentur omnes montes Lumsub ruina

corruit,

bardiae.

Venit quoque

Angliam Frater Petrus Hispanus,

in

Norhamptonie, qui lorica

utebatur ob carnis illecebras edomandas.
Hie novitium quendam in conventu suo habuit, qui
temptabatur exire ordinem a quo tandem vix obtinuit ut ad ministrum secum ire vellet.
Cum igitur
qui

postea

fuit

gardianus

incederent per viam incepit Frater Petrus praedicare

de virtute

sanctae

obedientiae

silvestris praecessit* eos

et ecce avis

ambulans in

via.

ei

quaedam

Dixit ergo

[Stepbanus nomine, ad fratrem Petrum, " Pater,

si sic est, ut dicis, praecipe per virtutem obedientiae ut
capiam avem banc silvestrem, ut ipsa expectet me."

novitius
"

"

Qui cum

sic fecisset,

statim stetit avis, et accessit no-

vitius, et

tenuit

eam

et tractavit sicut voluit: et sta-

tim sedata est omnis temptatio sua, et immutavit

Deus cor

aliud,

professus est

et

rediit

Northamtonam,

statim

perseverare, et postea

factus est

ei

et

praedi-

cator egregius, sicut ipse vidi.]

For

ler}'ce

motu, Ebor. reads

tremore.
"

Sic Ebor.

reads

f^

Latinum,

interpretation

Lamport MS.
possibly

ob ruijiam, Ebor.

pracessit Petrum, but the latter

word

is

marked

for omission.

for

though the strict

would hefaUum lati-

fatuin divinum,

num.

the

The Lamport MS. breaks

word novitius.

after the

off

(2-)

IxAfSTRUMENTA DE CONTENTIONE

ORTA INTER FRATRE8 MINORES ET

MONACHOS WESTMONASTERII.
A.D. 1290.

81

No.

Mandate from

(1).

Arclihishop PecJcham addressed to

the

Bishop of London directing that in all

churches in and around London a sentence of excommunication shall he published^ against persons harbouring William of Pershore, an apostate from the
Franciscan Friars}
Official of the

M^^ cco nonagesimo,

[Anno Domini
domini Johannis

ordinationis

archiepiscopi xii "^o]

Frater Johannes, permissione divina, etc., dilecto iilio A.D. 1290

Officiali venerabilis fratris domini Londoniensis Episcopi ?^^^5\^^salutem, gratiam, et benedictionem.

Frater Wil-

ab

ordine Fra-

lelmus de Persore, instinctu diabolico,

Minorum

trum

nuper

pra3textu

apostasies

apostatando
ministro

Cum

recesserit,

provinciali

W engnam.
Qg^^g^p^.

of

excom-

cujus ^Te^pub"

Fratrum

lished in

all

secundum formam pri-h^and

vilegiorum Sedis Apostolicae ac modum ordinis sui, idem around

Minorum Anglicanse

Willelmus

majoris

provincise,

excommunicationis

sententia

fuit against

merito innodatus, manifestumque fuit ex tenore eorun,

dem

.1

privilegiorum omnes

fautores in

11

all

Persons

harbouring

auctores et wiiiiam of
crimine apostasiae, cuiuscumque status aut I'ershore,
ipsius apostatae

...

an apostate

excommunicationis sententiam Grey Friar,

ore latam Apostolico incidisse damnabiliter, a qua ne-

conditionis

quaquam

existant, in

absolvi

poterunt,

se personaliter reprassentent

apostolicum

super

hoc

nisi Apostolicae prsesentise

:

nosque, juxta praeceptum

nobis

exhibitum,

praefatum

apostatam cum omnibus suis fautoribus et auctoribus,

prout tenemur, fecerimus in diversis locis excommuni-

catum publico

From

Library.

nuntiari, auctoritate Apostolica et etiam

Archbishop

Peckham's

Register in

the

Lambeth Palace

32

CONTENTIO QU^.DAM INTER

qua parati sumus fidem facere cuilivos rogamus et hortamur in

Domino, vobis nihilominus in virtute obedientiae qua

A.D. 1290. conservatoria, de

bet legitime postulanti

Sedi Apostolicas tenemini, sub poena

palibus

contenta

in privilegiis pa-

mandantes,

prsecipiendo,

districte

quatenus praedictum Willelmum et omnes qui

suis

seu

ecclesiis

monasteriis

retinuerint, vel ei in hoc

prsestiterint

vel

crimine

quomodolibet

locis

eum

aliis

secum

vel

occulte

publice

auxilium,

consilium,

in

vel

favorem, in singulis ecclesiis civitatis et suburbii Londoniae et

aliis

adjacentibus

exemptis, prout a latore

tam exemptis quam non

praesentium requisiti fueritis,

diebus Dominicis et

singulis

festivis

solempnia, pulsatis campanis et

nuntietis, seu denuntiari
catos,

donee aliud

mandatis.

de-

excommuni-

receperitis

in

Nos enim tam contra apostatam ipsum quam

contra fautores
fuerint,

publice

hoc a nobis

missarum

candelis,

accensis

faciatis

super

inter

seu

detentores

ipsius,

si

qui

inventi

juxta rigorem aipostolici mandati nobis directi,

nos Altissimo, procedemus, prout deposcunt

dirigente

eorum demerita, et dictant canonicae sanctiones.

Qualiter autem mandatum nostrum fueritis executi nobis
infra

mensem a tempore

receptionis

praesentium

scribatis aperte et distincte per vestras patentes

harum seriem
iii.

continentes.

Kalendas Auofusti.

re-

literas

Datum apud Wengeham,

MONACHOS ET FRATRES MINORES.

No.

3.*]

(2.)^

Instrumentuni super appellatione facta contra archiepiscoj)urti ex parte Ahhatis Westnionasterii pro
W. de Persorio jprofesso inter Fratres Minores?

Anno ab

In Dei nomine Amen.

dem
sum

incarnatione ejus- A.D.

millesimo ducentesimo nonagesimo, secundum curAnglicanse Indictione quarta, per prsesens

ecclesias

publicum instrumentum omnibus appareat evidenter,

quod nonis Octobris anno supradicto, in ecclesia Sancti
Pauli Londoniie, in prsesentia mei notarii infrascripti
et testium subscriptorum ad hgec specialiter vocatorum
et rogatorum, constitutus Frater Rogerus de Buris,

monachus Westmonasterii, procurator religiosorum virorum Abbatis et Conventus ejusdem loci, de cujus procuratorio per quoddam publicum instrumentum manu
Walteri Le Noreys publici notarii confectum mihi
liquid e apparebat,
interposuit, legit,

quandam provocationem in scriptis

et recitavit, formam quae subsequitur

continentem
" In Dei nomine Amen.
Ego Frater Rogerus de
" Buris, monachus Westmonasterii et procurator Ab:

" batis

Conventus loci ejusdem, metuens mihi et

dominis meis vel quibusdam eorum, ex veri-

et

" dictis
"

similibus et

*'

ciis,

"

probabilibus conjecturis

et

certis

indi-

dampnum, injuriam, scandalum, seu gravamen

per dominum J. Cantuarise Archiepiscopum, qui se

" asserit

conservatorem seu executorem privilegiorum

"

Fratribus Minoribus et eorum ordini a Sede Aposto-

"

lica,.

The

ut dicitur, indultorum,

originals of this

and the

re-

fieri

seu generari

appeal seems to have been given

Peckham had
excommunicated the abbot
and monks of Westminster by
name. For effect of such appeals

maining documents as far as the

end of p. 62 are in the Chapter
Clerk's office, Westminster Abbey.
- Endorsed
in a hand differing
from that in which the body of the

before Archbishop

document

Cap.

is

written.

7644.

This notice of

infu-

actually

see Lib. Sext. Decretal, v. Tit. xi.

vii.

1290.

London.

CONTENTIO QU^DAM INTER

34
A.D. 1290. "
''

turum

eo videlicet, quod crebris ^'icibus coram fide

quampubmeos
dominos

dignis pei'sonis et legalibus in locis publicis et

" pluries

rainabatur,

quod dictos

" lice et solempniter excommuiiicatos denuntiaret,

"

quemdam Willelmum

" teiii

de

Persoura,

nisi

quondam monasSancti Benedicti mona-

de Persoura,

oidinis

"

Fratrum Minorum, tracum facultatem ipsum

derent seu restituerent
tradendi restituendive secundum petita non haberent,
Senee dolum aliquem commiserint in hac pai*te

"

dem Apostolicam

"
"

chum,

et

professum

ordini
;

"

in

his

scriptis

pro ipsis

et

eis

et obsequentibus nomine dominorum

meorum dii'ecte provoco et appello, et cum omni
effectu in eventum futuri gi-avaminis appellare pro-

" adh?erentibus
"
"
'"

pono,

prout convenit, statum et personas dictorum

"

dominorum meorum cum omnibus

"

ut supra, tuitioni, defensioni, et protectioni prsedictse

" Sedis Apostolicse specialiter

" tus

doDiinus Cantuariae

sibi adhgerentibus,

Et ne

supponendo.

dic-

Aixhiepiscopus, spreta pro-

" vocatione pi-sesenti seu rejecta. in pei^sonas dictorum

" dominorum meoriun loca sua seu monasterium suum
" vel sibi adh?erentium, ipsis

non monitis, non

"

non

quam sententiam excommunicationis,

confessis,

non

con^'ictis,

per

se

vel

citatis,

alios

ali-

suspeusionis,

" vel interdicti fulminet aut denuntiet, sedem sacrosanctarn, ut prgemittitur, ex nunc provoco et appello
" protestans me istam provocationem dicto domino
" Cantuariae Ai'chiepiscopo, cimi ipsius pi^sentiam

''

"

commode habere potero, necnon et

" interest, notificare ac innovai'e."

aliis

quorum

Acta fuerunt pr^emissa anno, Indictione, mense, et

praedictis,
loco
pi-sesentibus
Johanne de Deneby
clerico, Johanne de Wanden, Gregorio de Locutoiio,
Johanne Noreys, Johanne de Eya, Willelmo de Inlirinaria, Kicardo de Hurle, Nicholao
Brun clerico,
Roberto de Ybernia, et aliis testibus ad haec specialiter
vocatis et rogatis.

MONACHOS ET FRATRES MINORES.

Et ego Willelmus de Lacton,

imperii publicus A.D.

sacri

notarius, proemissis interfui

auctoritate

audivi, et in

procuratoris

35
1290.

et ea vidi et

publicam formam ad preces et rogatum

antedicti

meoque signo cons ue to

redegi,

rogatus signavi.

Endorsement on
Ista

provocatio

the above

ad apostolicam

est

document

sedem

E-ogeri

latam per
Cantuarise Archiepiscopum pro

de Bures, quee^ facta fuit ante

sententiam

dominum J[ohannem]
Fratre W. de Persora.
De anno Domini MmoccioLXXXxmo.3

No.

(3.)*

Instrumentum com^'positionis
Conventum Westmonasterii
Willelmo

de

Persorio

Abhatem et
Fratres Minores pro

factce
et

inter

Minores

professo inter

et

Tnonacho Westmonasterii.^

jpostea facto

In nomine Domini Amen. Dudum hostis antiqui

astutia zizaniam seminante inter ministrum ac fratres
ordinis Fratrum Minorum de Anglia ex parte una, et
Abbatem et Conventum Westmonasterii juxta Londonias ex altera, orta extitit materia quaestionis, super
eo videlicet, quod dicti minister et fratres repetentes
Fratrem Willelmum de Persorio in ordine Fratrum
.

Minorum

Conventum
illicite receptum et detentum asserebant, eundem fore
apostatam per ingressum religionis Fratrum Minorum

prof essum, per dictos

The reading of the words

.

sedem

is

very doubtful

faint traces of the letters

est

only

From qua

May be intended for Mcclxxxix.,

if

so

hand changes.

by mistake

There are two copies of

this

document.
5

but

et

remain on

the parchment.
the

Abbatem

Endorsement

in a

hand

differ^

ing from that in which the body of

the instrument

is

written.

only.

c 2

-A..D.

1291.

civita

Vecdua.
j^^^^^ ^j^^^

the mouks
of Westminster
^^^eiy har-

Franciscan
apostate.

COXTEXTIO

36

A.D. 1291. niillatenus ignorantes

and (by
implication) refused re-

QU^DAM INTER
processibus

factis

ac

latis

communicationum sententiis contra Abbatem

ventum prasfatos prfedictum apostatam indebite

ex-

et Conresti-

tuere, ut dicitur, reclamantes, libros quos dictus apostata

storation,

tandem Fratre Jacobo

monks exportaverat illicite retinendo
de Esculo, ordinis Fratrum Alinorum general! procucommunicated, but ratore, ac Fratre Alexandre de Persorio monacho ejusthe

were ex-

on

their

appeal to

Rome

an

arbitration
before the
cardinal

of St.

Lawrence
has been
arranged.

dem

magistro Gulielmo de

et

loci

torum Abbatis

et

Bray

clerico, dic-

Conventus procuratoribus in Romana

Curia constitutes, verse caritatis

pientibus paci et

concordiae

obtentu

inimica,

in

evellere cu-

Fratrem

nos

Mattha3um/ miseratione divina tituli Sancti Laurentii

in Damaso presbyterum cardinalem, dicto procuratorio
nomine de prsedictis omnibus et singulis communiter et concorditer convenerunt, dantes nobis plenam
et

liberam

potestatem de

piano, sine strepitu

judicii

et figura, prsedictam qu?estionem seu controversiam aut

dissentionem

eam quomodolibet contingentia

et

deci-

dendi inter eos, diffiniendi, componendi, semel et pluries

prout

quando

et

ubi nobis expediens

et

dictam

pronimtiationem,

tionem

nostram

servare

et

dicto

se,

tenere,

compositionem,

et

procuratorio

obser^^ari

et

videretur
ac

ordina-

nomine,

teneri

facere

ob-

per

dominos suos pra3dictos per stipulationem solempnem

dicto procuratorio nomine adinvicem stipulantes, ac
etiam promittentes, sub poena spirituali vel temporali,
quam nos dictis partibus vel earum alteri duxerimus
imponendam, quam pars inobediens ipso facto incurreret, quae in totum vel in partem pronuntiationem et
ordinationem nostram non duceret observandam, vel
contra

eam

in

aliquo

venire

prsesumeret,

pronuntia-

tione et ordinatione nostra firma et valida nihilominus

permanente, renuntiando per pactum stipulatione vallatum appellationi, proclamationi, ac boni viri arbitratui, et

omni

juri,

per quod contra prsedicta vel

quod prsedictorum posset modo aliquo obviari

Mathaum

&c. in

MS.

throughout.

ali-

volentes

MONACHOS ET FEATRES

ac con.seiitientes prociiratores pr^edicti,

tiatio seu ordinatio nostra et omnia et
dicta

infrascripta

ct

dcbeant

37

MINOIIES.

quod pronun-

A.D. 1201.

singula supra-

auctoritate

apostolica

confirmari.

Nos

igitur Frater

Matthseus,

Cardinalis prefatus, a

sanctissimo patre domino nostro domino Nicolao, divina

providentia Papa quarto, de recipiendo in nos compro-

missum praefatum,

facienda inter partes prcedictas,

et ordinatione

licentia et

et intromittendo nos de compositione

petita

obtenta de ipsius auctoritate, et mandato

nobis

ab

eodem

oraculo

vivse

vocis,

cupientes totis viribus religiosos omnes a

litigiis

foren-

speciali

sibus

facto

submovere, ac pacis

et

quietis

unitatem inter

eosdem perpetuo observari, cum dictis procuratoribus

ac aliis probis viris concordiam partium affectantibus The
praedictarum, super dicto

quae sequitur,

negotio tractatu habito

dili-

dissentionem et discordiam, in forma

genti, praefatam

In primis,
praedictus, infra
quindecim dies post festum Nativitatis beati Johannis
proximo venturum, postquam per dictos fratres fuerit
requisitus, per procuratorem suum ad hoc legitime' constitutum, per duos dies solempnes in ecclesia Sancti
Pauli

Londoniae,

Praedicatorum

et

et

per totidem in ecclesiis Fratrum

Minorum

Oxoniae,

coram

clero

et

populo, solempniter in sermone publico, protestationem

et confessionem fieri faciat

sub verbis inferius proximo

adnotatis.

"

"
^'

"
"

"
"
"

"

Ego procurator ab Abbate

Conventu Westmonasterii ad hoc legitime consti tutus, nomine meo et

nomine dictorum dominorum meorum, dico, et publice confiteor
et protestor, quod Fratres de ordine
Minorum habent et habuerunt plenum jus repetendi
et rehabendi Willelmum de Persorio eorum apostatam, qui nuper in habitu monachali apud Westmonasterium fuerat receptus ac etiam receptatus.
Et quod idem Willelmus sine damnatione animae
remanere non potest in ordine monachorum, ut ere"

et

^jg^^^^g-^rd

the Cardi-

duximus decidendam.
videlicet, quod Abbas

case

(i.)

^^^ ^^

That

^u^,f^^^*
licly

admit

^^^^^^^^
friars to

[heir^aiostate.

CONTENTIO QU.EDAM INTER

88
A.D. 1291. "
"

dunt Abbas et Conventus prsedicti, ex quo professionem emiserat in ordine fratrum, et sicut in capi-

" tulo

"
"

monachorum ultimo

generali

extitit

diffinitum.

Et profiteer etiam et assero, nomine prsedictorum

dominorum meorum, quod libenter restituerent dictum

" apostatam

ordini fratrum,

" haberent.

Et

si

restituendi

ex nunc forsitan facultas

si

facultatem
eis

resti-

" tuendi affuerit, id facere

non postponent."
Fratres nihilominus praedictos juvabunt efficaciter sub

forma

quantum
ratum.

conventa,

eos

inter

quae

inferius

continetur,

poterunt ad rehabendum apostatam

quidem protestationem

Prsemissam

omnibus

sionem in
expressum,

et

per

omnia,

ut

memo-

et confes-

superius

est

dictus Abbas infra terminum

memoratum, sub poena trecentarum librarum sterlingofieri faciet

rum solvendarum extunc

si
(ii.)

the

in

subsidium Terrse Sanctae,

defecerit in praemissis vel aliquo praemissorum.

Item dictus Abbas Westmonasterii et caeteri monachi

That
Abbot Jq conventu, qui suspecti habentur a fratribus super

and suspected

monks
shall clear

,...

dimissione

t.

dicti

o
postquam inter eos fuerat
hoc dicuntur fraudem vel dolum

apostatae

receptatus, vel circa

.

themselves

commisisse, sicut a ministro Angliae^ custode, et guar-

theTiie ed
sending

^^^^^ Londoniae, vel altero eorum de mandato ministri

fuerint nominati, purgabunt se super hoc per jura-

thl^apos-

Baentum corporale in

tate after

tibus dictis Fratribus Minoribus vel altero

requisiti

him.*'"""^ si

ecclesia Westmonasterii, praesen-

voluerint

interesse,

citra

eorundem,
festum beati

Michaelis venturum proximo, coram magistris

Monteforti decano
archidiacono

Sancti Pauli

(iii.)

That

if unwilling

to clear

of^theiast-

Radulpho

Middelsexiae, Gifirido de Yesano, aut du-

obus vel uno eorum,

commode

Londoniae,

W. de

non

si

alii

nollent vel

noluerint,

vel

propter facti evidentiam

posseilt

interesse.

Qui autem

j^Qj^ potuerint super his se purgare infra mensem, per

Abbatem mittantur ad curiam Romanam pro absolu-

^^^^^ ^^ dispensationis

Radulphus de Baldock

beneficiis

obtinendis,

{see p. 54), afterwards

nisi

Bishop of London.

de

MONACHOS ET FRATRES MINORES.

89

consensu ministri Fratrum Minorum de Anglia ubc- A.D. 1291.

riorem cfratiam valeant obtinere. Si autem de sjratia "^^ntionod
r

missis

sufficienter

absolvantur, qui super prae- they

non fuerint

excusati, prsedicti Deca-

nus, Archidiaconus, et GifFredus, aut

qui

purgationi eorum

crint

interesse,

alio

olfenco
are to

in Anglia

ministri

dicti

qui
vel

duo vel unus eorum

purgare poterunt volu-

se

nolentibus

requisitis

aliis

to^Ro"n*ff*^

absolution,
fj^o^j'

^f

the Friars,

nequeuntibus interesse, juxta suae dispositionis beTbsoWed

arbitrium prsefatis monachis in Anglia absolvendis, de in England.
gratia dicti ministri, poenitentiam injungant vel injungat quam culpse qualitas et delinquentis proter vitas
vel

Quam

exposcerit imponendam.
preedictus

autem

compellet

eos

poenitentiam

fideliter

Omnia

observare.

Abbas

in hoc articulo contenta praedicti

nachi, quatenus ipsos contingunt, fideliter

Abbas
et

mo-

adimplebunt

sub poena ducentarum librarum sterlingorum solvendarum, si in aliquo deficerent, in subsidium Terrae
Sanctae.

Item tarn Abbas quam conventus teneantur ex nunc

prsedictos fratres efficaciter iuvare sano consilio et fideli

(iv.)

*H

3/11(1

ad rehabendum dictum apostatam sine dolo et qualibet

fictione
nihil celaturi a fratribus per quod huiusmodi

...

restitutio

facienda

impediri

potius restitutionem ipsam,

poterit

quantum

ter et celeriter procurabunt, invocato

vel

in eis

differri,

si

monks

shall give

*^^"' ^^^*
assistance

sed towards

erit, fideli-

ad hoc,

That

^^^^,^

necesse

^^3^^^^^
^f
apostate,

fuerit, auxilio brachii ssecularis.

Verum

quia circa requisitionem dicti apostatae opor-

(v.)

That

ad quas ipsi per gj^^jj ^^

se non sufficiunt, dictus Abbas, pro hujusmodi expen- to the
sis faciendis, ministrabit et assignabit
centum marcas marks or
sterlingorum, infra festum Omnium Sanctorum prox- the ascertained
T
imo venturum, in manus saecularium amicorum ordims amount of
Et ^^^^^ ^xfratrum, quos ad haec minister Angliae deputabit.
penses.
!
p
T
requirendo
SI dicta quantitas non luerit expensa
apostatam memoratum, praefatus minister restituere
teneatur quantitatem residuam non expensam Abbati
tebit

fratres graves

expensas

facere,

.1

QU^DAM INTER

CONTENTIO

40

A.D, 1291. et conventui prselibatis, nisi minister

Et

ampliorem.

facere

luerit

circa

gratiam

vo-

eis

expensas

factas

stetur verbo simplici ministri Anglise prselibati.

(vi.)

Item Abbas Westmonasterii prsed ictus, infra festum

Nativitatis Dominicse venturum proximo, personaliter
aclibit clominum Johannem, Dei gratia Cantuariae Archi-

That

shall in

person
make submission to
the Arch-

.,

,.

^piscopum, tanquam conservatorem priviiegiorum ordinis

,

Fratrum Minorum ita quod per prsesentationem hujusmodi privilegiis ejusdem Abbatis quantum ad alia in
;

Canterbury, ac-

knowledgiug the
rights of

i^^^llo

derofi^ctur

mfrascnptam
a

the jsriars,

&c.

humiliationem
ii-i Coram t-isub
domme

penitus
^

his

et

verbis

vobis,

"

...

Archiepiscope,

faciet

sibi

r^

tanquam conservatore

privileonorum

''

Fratribus Minoribus indultorum, nos Walterus, Abbas

"

Westmonasterii, nomine

"

quod Fratres Minores habent et

liabuerunt jus plenum repetendi et rehabendi Willelmum de Persorio eorum apostatam tanquam professum suum, qui in ordine nostro sine periculo
animte su93 stare non potest, ut credimus, ex quo
confitemur

"
"
''

"

nostro et Conventus nostri,

plane

" professionem emiserat

inter

" tores

nostri

ultimi

capituli

per

fratres, sicut

diffini-

extitit difBnitum.

Vo-

luntatem etiam habemus ipsum restituendi fratribus,

"

" si
"

facultas

restituendi nobis adesset, et

faciemus

si

ad nostram pervenerit potestatem.

" Profitemui'

insuper nos dolere

de retentione

ipsius

ea quod Archidiaconus Sancti Albani processus nostros de facto,

" licet nobis tunc
insciis,
revocavit; propter quod
" super praemissis quatenus vos offendimus veniam
contra monitiones vestras; et super

*'

"

postulamus,Y/ promittentes nihilominus quod nihil de

csetero contra vos aut Fratres Minores acceptabimus

''

''

" in

hoc casu."

hujusmodi
humilitatis nullam jurisdictionem aliam habeat in Ab-

Dominus vero Archiepiscopus

occasione

batem quam habebat, vel habiturus

penitus non fuisset.
1

The

asset si

ilia

facta

erasure referred to at the end of the document occurs at this point.

MONACHOS ET FRATRES MIN0RE8.

41

autcm dictus Abbas dictam humiliationem non

feccrit infra prsescriptum terminum in forma supcrius
annotata, extunc tencatur praedicto domino Arcliiepiscopo dare centum marcas sterlingorum in pios usus,
Si

A.D. 1291.

pro ipsius arbitrio dispensandas.

Item, praedictus Abbas fideliter ct

irairum omnes

ordini

'

porta vit,

et

super hoc

lioc

p..
laerit

Ti
iibros

integre restituet

Tt
dictus

quos

apostata as-

mensem postquam per fratres

...
p'i T
requisitus, nisi jam luerint ordim

infra

restituti.

That

(vii.)

the abbot
gj^^jj

j,^._

'^tore all

books car-

away
^y ^^e

ried

apostate.

Item quia diversi amici ordinis graves

pensas

fecerunt

hactenus

circa

et varias ex-

prosecutionem

(viii.)

That

dicti

^^j^?^^^"^

non sufficiunt,
prsefatus Abbas pro refusione huiusmodi expensarum
r
assignabit alias centum marcas sterlingorum illis, quos

pay ex-

negotii,

ad quarum solutionem

fratres

...

P^^^^*:

friends of

^^^^rs
!^
respecting
the present

minister Anojlige
ad hoc deputaverit, infra festum Sancti
^
Michaelis de mense Septembris venturo proximo.
De

qua quantitate solum expensas factas per ipsos amicos

citra quantitatem prsedictam centum marcarum minister

^^"^^

l"^"

curred by

H^^J

of 100

valeat retinere, de quibus suo simplici verbo credatur.

Et

si

aliquid superfuerit restitui faciat Abbati et con-

ventui memoratis, nisi idem minister

dictas expensas

pro parte aliqua duxerit remittendas.

dominus Alphas multum turbaprsecipue

provmcia Anglicana, teneatur personaliter venire ad proximum proT
vmciale capituium quod erit Londonise, si
Anglia

Item, quia praefatus

'IT
vit ordmem iratrum, et

fuerit

et

commode

poterit,

''AT

ut

recolligat

recolligatur a fratribus in visceribus

fratres,

caritatis

-1

et

promit-

('^O That
the abbot
^^^^^ jf

possible,

attend the

next Pro^'i^cial

the Friars

quod eos de csetero nullatenus moles- ^ ^"i"

iplcte the
1^1
tabit, sed inter monachos et iratres habeatur caritas, reconciiiaquasi nulla dissentio praecessisset, et imponatur utrif^,^' ,p,
que silentium super praeteritis. Ita quod nee coram silence

tendo

eis fideliter
1

aut saecularibus inde

sermo publico
vel occulte, qui possit in alterius praejudicium redun-

religiosis aliis

fiat

^jJ^L^i
respecting

CONTENTIO QU^DAJVI INTER

42
A.D. 1291. dare
the dispute

now

ter-

minated.

et transgressores, si qui inventi fuerint, per suos

superiores hinc inde

sraviter puniantur: reservata not
ois potestate iterum et pluries dictam ordinationem,
-^

t-

pronuntiationem nostram, in quolibet capitulo moderandi et aliter declarandi, prout et

compositionem,

quando

dem

et

et sicut nobis videbitur

expedire.

ordinationem, dispositionem,

Quas qui-

pronuntiationem, et

arbitrium pr?edicti Frater Jacobus, Frater Alexander, et

magister Willelmus de Bray procuratores, procuratorio

nomine dictorum dominorum suorum, emologaverunt

In cujus rei testimonium
etiam approbaveinint.
prgesens publicum
instrumentum per infrascriptum
ac

notarium nostrum exinde fieri et publicari mandavimus, et nostri sigilli munimine roborari.
Lata et pronuntiata fuerunt praedicta arbitrium, compositio, ac etiam ordinatio, per prsedictum dominum
Cardinalem, pro tribunali sedentem, apud Ui^bem Yeterem in hospitio Monaldensium, in camera ipsius domini
Cardinalis,

prsesentibus

Alexandro,

et

dictis

Fratre Jacobo, Fratre

magistro Willelmo, procuratoribus par-

tium prsedictarum, et prsesentibus his testibus et plariFratribus Johanne de Bechingam,

bus aliis, videlicet
Roberto de Boclande de ordine Fratrum Minorum, domino
Berengario Regis de Carcassona domini Papae capellano,
magistro Adam de Wencele Canonico ecclesife Sancti
Pauli Londonise, magistro Johanne de Leans Canonico
;

de
et

Wengham, magistro Reginaldo de Sancto Albano,

Fratre Thoma de Sagiber monacho Wigomiensi,^ sub

anno Domini millesimo ducentesimo nonagesimo primo,

Indictione quarta, Pontificatus sanctissimi patris domini
Nicolai Papse quarti anno quarto, die quarta mensis
Aprilis.

Et ego Angelus Berardi, dictus Ricius, civis Tudertinus, sanctae Romange ecclesise auctoritate et nunc

Wi(/oriniensi,

MS.

MONACHOS ET FRATRES MINORES.

prfefati

domini Cardinalis notarius, prsedictis ordinapronuntiationi,

compositioni,

tioni,

43

arbitratui,

et

una

cum. supradictis testibus prsesens interfui, et ea omnia,

de mandate ejusdem domini Cardinalis, in banc publi-

meoque

cam formam

redegi,

supra

linea a principio

tum

in

xlj.

est isto signo,//

propria

No.

signo signavi;

solito

et

numeranda, ubi signa-

manu

feci.

(4.)

Notarial instrument varying certain of the articles

contained in the General Avjard {No. 3).

In nomine Domini Amen. Hoc est exemplum seu

transumptum cujusdam publici instrumenti, sigilli reverendi patris et domini Fratris ^ Matthsei, Dei gratia
tituli
lis,

Sancti Laurentii in

appensione muniti,

Damaso

cum

A.D. 1291.
T^^/^./f^*

Vecchia

:?]

presbyteri cardina-

die et consule

cujus tenor

talis est:

In nomine Domini Amen. IsToverint universi prsesens

instrumentum publicum inspecturi, quod nos, Frater
miseratione divina tituli

Matthseus,
in

Damaso presbyter

Sancti Laurentii

cardinalis, arbitrator

et

amica-

compositor communiter et concorditer electus a

Fratre Jacobo de Esculo, ordinis Fratrum Minorum The Cargenerali procuratore, ex parte una, et Fratre Alexandre J^^^^ ^ ^**
^

bilis

'

*^

Lawrence,

de Persorio, monacno, et magistro Willelmo de Bray,

clerico, procuratoribus religiosorum virorum Abbatis et

conventus

ex

Westmonasterii,

altera,

super

procuratorio

controversia

nomine pro

arbitrator

^ut^^,^^^"
tween the

dissentione,

et

quse ^iTAbbot
erat inter Ministrum et Fratres Minores regni Anglige and con-

eis,

ex

,'parte

una, et dictos

Abbatem

et

Conventum ex Westminster,

See p. 40.

^fratris

et

MathcBi,

MS.

COXTENTIO QU.^DMI INTER

44

A.D. 1291. altera, super receptatione et detentione Fratris Gulielmi

de Persorio, ordinis Fratrum Minonim apostatse, audita^

dignorum relatione, quod Abbas AVestmonasterii in

Anglia citra mare Anglicanum prresentialiter commorafide

having

that"th
said Abbot tur,
IS

and

iu

tends to

remain

away from
England,

giants him
permission
to

make

of"

the Fran-

purgation

which by
the award
he was
bound to

make

in

London.

sit

ibidem, ut

dicitur, futuris

temporibus

quod purgationem, quam secundum

nostrsB pronuntiationis tenorem in Anglia faeere tenebatur in ecclesia Westmonasterii coram mao-istris W. de
Monteforti, decano Sancti Pauli Londonice, Radulpho
permansurus,

ita

de Yesano, aut
vel uno eorum, commode faeere nequit
declai

archidiacono Middelsexife, et Giftrido

(J^qI^^^s

in

Paris, beofficei^-^

ac etiani

'

ramus et pronuntiamus quod purgationem praedictam

secundum f ormam in nostra pronuntiatione contentam
idem Abbas faeere teneatur Parisius coram praedicto
magistro "W. decano, prsesente mimstro generali ordinis
Fratrum Minorum, ministro provinciali ejusdem ordinis
in Francia, et

guardiano Parisiensi, aut altero eorun-

terminum in nostra pronuntiatione seu

arbitrio comprehensum.
Et si dictam purgationem
fecerit, a purgatione facienda in ecclesia Westmonasdem,

infra

a poena in nostra pronuntiatione contenta,

alioquin incidat in eandem.
totaliter excusatus
terii,

et

sit

He may

pronuntiamus quod humiliathe^sake^of ^ionem ad quam faciendam in propria persona Abbas

conformmemoratus secundum formam nostr?e pronuntiationis
ing to the
quod eam possit faest obnoxius ac etiam obligatus,
directions
of the
in
nostro
arbitrio constitutum
tempus
dicto
cere infra
award as
per procuratorem idoneum ad hoc specialiter constiregards
date, pertutmn. Postquam autem dictus Abbas ad AVestmoform the
nasterium redierit, infra duos menses dictam humiliact of
Item,

declaramus

et

at first, for

humiliation
therein
prescribed
but^on^iis
return he
must per-

form

it

person.

iu

ationem

secundum

formam

in

nostra

content am personaliter faeere teneatur

ii^

arbitrio

seu

pronuntiatione

noverit incursurum.

^
1

audito,

MS.

nostra

pronuntiatione
alioquin poenam

contentam

se

MONACHOS ET FRATRES MINORES.

Volumus

etiam

quod

Minoribus de Ano-lia est

.

apostata Fratribus A.D.

dictus

si
^

45

rcstitiitus,

quod

-^

centum
.

deponendis, quas pro dicto apostata requirendo

marcis

deponere tenebatur secundum tenorem

tiationis

ad

prsedict^e,

eas

nostrse

deponendas

pronun-

minime

tene-

1291.

^^^^^
.

apostate
restored

is

^^^^^^^^'^^^

maric.

atur.

Alexander et maofister The proctors of the

Gulielmus procuratores, nomine dominorum suorum Abhot, &c.
pmedictorum, in animas eorundem iuraverunt ad sancta ^^y>^ ^wom

m the name
^
Dei Evangelia, corporaliter tacto libro, pronuntiationes of their
prsedicti domini Cardinalis et omnia quae in eis con- ?".^^1^^^^^
Praeterea

Frater

prredicti

attendere

tinentur,

et observare,

et

ea

efFectui

man-

testimonium prsesens publicum

instrumentum per Nicolaum notarium infrascriptum
scribi et publicari mandavimus, et nostri sigilli muniIn

cipare.

mime

cujus

rei

roborari.

Facta fuit
Cardinalem,

dicta declaratio per prgedictum

et

praestitum

preesentibus

procuratores,

dictos

et prsesente Fratre

dictum

dominum

juramentum

dictis

per

procuratoribus^

Jacobo generali procuratore ordinis

Fratrum Minorum, et prsesentibus his testibus, scilicet

Fratre Johanne de Beckingbam, Fratre Roberto de
Boclande de ordine Fratrum Minorum, domino Berendomini Papse capellano, magistro
Gulielmo de Wandena, canonico Sancta Mariae Stafordiae Conventrensis ^ dioecesis, sub anno Domini millesimo ccolxxxxjo, Indictione quarta, die xvj. mensis
Aprilis, Pontificatus Domini Nicolai Papaa quart! anno

gario

de Carcassona

quarto,

Et ego Nicolaus, dictus Cortese de Turre, publicus

auctoritate notarius,
praedictis omnibus et
singulis interfui, et ut supra legitur, de mandato praedicti domini Cardinalis scripsi, et in banc publicam
formam redegi, meoque signo consueto signavi.
Et ego Angelus Berardi, dictus Ricius, civis Tudertinus, Apostolicas sedis auctoritate et nunc suprascripti
imperiali

domini

Cardinalis

notarius,
^

Sic in

praedictum
US.

transcriptum

observance
^^^j.^

CONTENTIO

46

QU^DAM INTER

transumptum, ut in originali inveni ita hie, nullo

addito vel minuto quod sensum mutet vel variet intellectum, de mandato et auctoritate prsedicti domini

A. D. 1291. seu

Matth^i Cardinalis

Fratris

cum

coUatione habita

genti

fideliter transcripsi, et, dili-

hanc publi-

originali, in

Domini a Nativitate
MoccoLxxxxjo, Indictione quarta, Pontificatus domini
Nicolai Papse quarti anno quarto, die xxi. mensis

cam formam

Aprilis,

sub anno

redegi,

prsesentibus

Roberto

de

Novo

his

testibus,

videlicet,

Fratribus

Mercato, Johanne de Londiniis de

ordine Fratrum Praedicatorum, Johanne de Bekingham,

Roberto de Boclande, Raynutio de Casulis, et FranEt ad

cisco de Tuderto de ordine Fratrum Minorum.
^
cer[titudinem pl]eniorem prsedictus dominus Cardinalis
huic transumpto sigillum

suum

jussit^ appendi.

This document bears the endorsement

Exemplum

cujusdam

litterse

originalis

attingens

Abbatem.

No.

(5.)

Licentia Pcenitentictrii domini Papce directa Becanx)

Sancti Pauli Londonice, maglstro R. Archidiacono

Middelsexice, et G. de Vezano, pro ahsolutione domini
Ahhojtis et
A.D.

Frater Matthseus,

1291.

April 17.
Civita
Vecchia.

mxraachorum siwrv/m impeiulenda.^

Laurentii in

miseratione

Damaso presbyter

divina

tituli

cardinalis,

Sancti

dilectis

in

Christo Gulielmo de Monteforti, decano ecclesiae Sancti

Pauli Londonise, Radulpho

magistro

et

nunc
1

Giffi'ido

in Anglia

The

seal has

de Vesano,

residenti,

been removed by

cutting a piece out of the document.

^

jubsit,

MS.

archidiacono

Middelsexiae,

canonico cameracensi

salutem in Domino.
^

Endorsement, in a hand

differ-

ing from that in which the body of

the instrument

is

written.

MONACHOS ET FlUTRES MINORES.

47

Exposita per nos sanctissimo patri et domino nostro

domino Nicliolao, divina providentia Papa3 quarto, porparte religiosorum virorum

recta nobis ex

A.l). 1291.

Abbatis et

Conventus Westmonasterii ad Romanam

medio pertinentis petitio continebat, quod cum olim,
ecclesiam nullo

Persorio ordinis Fra-

occasione detentionis Willelmi de

trum Minorum

apostatae, orta qusestionis materia inter

Abbatem

ipsos

Conventum Westmonasterii ex parte

et

una, et Fratres Minores provincial Anglicanae ex altera,

venerabilis pater Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis, executor

Fratrum Minorum in
Anglia a Sede Apostolica deputatus, dictum Abbatem
et majores dicti Conventus ex eo quod post ejusdem
Archiepiscopi monitiones dictum apostatam non restisen conservator

tuerunt ipsis

eorum

privilegiorum

fratribus,

per

ipsa

concessa

privilegia

ordini publicasset excommunicationis sententiam

incurrisse, et eos per se et ejus sufFraganeos denuntias-

excommunicatos, et denuntiari fecisset, per provinlegitimis utriusque

ciam Anglicanam
contigit quod
partis procuratoribus apud Sedem Apostolicam constitutis, in nostra prsesentia super omnibus quaes tionibus et
set

processibus

habitis ratione detentionis prsedictse in nos

alte et basse

.,
postmodum

compromissum

per eosdem, sicque

The monks
.,..T..-r^
juxta
domini Papee bene-

per nos

extitit

ipsius

placitum hujusmodi compromisso pro

et

cepto,

bono pacis

having disre- regarded

omnibus litibus, qusestionibus, et

eiusdem domini Papse auctoritate, nostra

prsedictis

controversiis,

arbitrali sententia terminatis, prout publicis instrumentis

inde

confectis

et

nostro

sigillatis

sigillo

plenius

Abbas et Conpreetextu quarundam

continetur, supplicari fecerunt humiliter

ventus

prsedicti,

qui

sic

ligati,

appellationum, quse per eos super his fuerant interpositse,

in suis ministrarunt ordinibus, et se aliter divinis

ingesserunt^

officiis

bishop

Peckham's
sentence
on plea of
j^PP^^

rehef

is

f^em

fr^om

conseJhek^dis-

sicut prius, salutari super his reme- obedience.

dio per Apostolicae benignitatis

clementiam

diter provideri

injesseruntf

MS.

misericor-

48

Nos

A.D. 1291.

QU^DAM INTER

CONTENTIO

tate

igitur, prgeclictis

vme

vos,

of \vest-^^
minster,

vocis

orac-

nobis facto, discretion! vestrse committimus quatenus

iilo

Xsoiviuotiie abbot

curam

domini Pappe, cujus Poenitentiaripe

ipsius

gerinms, et de ejus special! mandate

Arrange-

auctori-

diligenter consideratis,

Decane,

Abbatem nunc

prsedictum

partibus

in

Francise existentem, ibidem, prius ab eo juxta tenorem

pronuntiationis nostraa purgatione recepta sine difficul-

vosque Decane, Archidiacone, et magister

GifFride, aut alter vestrum qui fuerit requisitus, Priorem
et monaclios alios dicti monasterii, qui secundum nostrse pronuntiationis tenorem se purgare poterunt atque
tate

aliqua,

purgaverint,

purgatione

prius

auctoritate

facta

prse-

hujusmodi excommunicationis sententia absolvatis juxta

formam ecclesise consuetam, non obstante
fratrum ipsorum privilegio, quo cavetur quod eorum
dicta,

apostatas detincntes

non possint

absolvi,

nisi

se

per-

sonaliter Apostolico conspectui repr?esentent, juxta ipsius

providentiam absolvendi
et
pro culpse modo poenitentia

injuncta

cuilibet

eorum

salutari, et aliis, quae fue-

rint injungenda super irregular! tate per eos ex prtemissis

contracta,

diter

cum

dispensetis auctoritate prsedicta misericor-

eisdem,

prout

secundum Deum animarum

suaruin saluti videritis expedire,

nicum

non

obsistat,

seu alios in Anglia

fuerit,

facientes
et alibi,

absolutos publice

Datum apud

Urbem

dummodo

eos

aliud

cano-

per vos vel alium

quando

et ubi

expediens

nuntiari.

Veterem,

xv.

kalendas Maii,

Pontificatus domini Nicola! Papse quart!, anno quarto.

MONACHOS ET FRATRES MINORES.

No.

(6.)

InstruTYientum appellationis ex
Tnonasterii

ipsuin

et

super

parte Ahhatis

West-

factam

inter

compositione'iii

Fratres Minores in Curia per procura-

Ahhatis pro

tores

49

Fratre

Willelmo

de Persorio

professo inter Minores}

Notum

omnibus prsR- A.D. 1291.

sens instr amentum publicum inspecturis, quod anno
Paris.'
Nativitatis Domini millesimo ducentesimo nonagesimo The Abbot
In nomine Domini Amen.

primo,

....
domini

indictione

Pontificatus

quarta,

sit

vicesima

Nicolai

in praesentia mei Lanfranci

mensis Maii,

die
.

Papge quarti anno quarto,

publici

notarii et testium

^\^\^^^minster
appeals to
aglinst^the
of

infrascriptorum ad hoc specialiter vocatorum et roga- award

torum, religiosus et honestus vir frater Galterus, perdivina Abbas

missione

juxta Londonias, ordinis Sancti Benedicti, contra reve-

dominum Matthgeum, tituli

Sancti Laurentii in Damaso presbyterum cardinalem,
ex causis et rationibus infra scriptis, ad Sedem Apostorendum

in Christo patrem

licam in scriptis in

Nos
juxta

Galterus,

Londinias,

modum

qui sequitur appellavit

Abbas monasterii Westmonasteriensis

ordinis

Sancti

Benedicti,

dicimus

quod cum ad nostri notitiam de novo pervenerit, quod

per Fratrem A. de Persora et magistrum Willelmum

Eomana

compromissum extitit celebratum in venerabilem patrem

dominum Matthseum, tituli Sancti Laurentii in Damaso
presbyterum cardinalem, ac per eundem dominum Mattliseum pronuntiatum, ordinatum, et compositum fuit
super discordia inter nos et Fratres Minores Provincias
Anglicanse occasione retentionis Fratris Willelmi de
Persora orta, sub certa forma, poenis ibidem vallatis,
de Bray, procuratores nostros in

Endorsement in a hand

instrument
.

is

differing

from that

in

curia,

which the body of the

written.

Q7644.

^^^ of^St^'

monasterii Westmonasteriensis Lawrence,

CONTENTIO QU.EDAM INTER

50
de

compromisso,

quibus

ordinatione,

et

compositione

ejusdem dornini Carcito ad iiostram

dinalis sigillatse,
notitiam ^ pervenit, quod dicto compromisso non consentimus, nee ipsum ratificamus, ac dictis composition!,
ordinationi, et pronuntiationi ejusdem domini Cardinaimmo
lis etiam non consentimus, nee ipsas ratificamus
factse

sunt inde scrip turae

sigillo

quam

protestamur,

eisdem arbitrio, compositioni, ordinationi et pronuntiationi, ac emologationi et ratification!, quas dicti pro-

modo,

et

dicimus,

quem

quibus

quos

vel

continerentur
compositione,

per

eum

vel

possumus,
actum,

faceremus,

vel

comprehend!

ordinatione,

vel eos eisdem

et

tioni

melius

per aliquem

et

omni

fecerunt de praedictis,

nostri

curatores

via, jure,

expresse

factum,

vel

etiam

diceremus,

possent

contra-

dictum,

in

si

arbitrio,

et pronuntiatione praedictis,

arbitrio, compositioni, ordina-

pronuntiationi,

non

intendimus

consentire,

intendimus facere ex vi et auctoritate praedietorum, et si etiam ab illis de jure appellare valemus,

nee illud

appellamus.

Actum

Parisius

in

Saneti Eustachii, prae-

eeelesia

sentibus Hugone, dicto Chalsier de Corbolio, Gulielmo

de Cavitone, Thomas de Pivelesdene, Gulielmo Leuvetot, et Thoma de De!ia, ad praedicta vocatis testibus
et rogatis.

Et ego Lanfrancus Bonipati^us de Novaria

cleiicus,

publicus Apostolica auctoritate notarius, praedictis omni-

bus

aetis et habitis in praedicta eeelesia Saneti Eusta-

chii,

prout supra

tibus
redegi,

interfui,

legitui',

et ea

una cum praenominatis

seripsi,

meoque eonsueto signo

totitiam,

et

in

publieam form am

signavi.

MS.

tes-

51

MONACHOS ET FRATRES MINORES.

No.

(7.)

Absolutio domini Ahhatis per

Decanum

Sancti

Pauli Londonice}
Venerabilibus patribus imiversis Episcopis per pro- A.D.

vinciam

Cantuarise

officialibus
r.

seu eorum

canus

eorum

et

constitutis,

1291.

William de

commissariis, Willelmus de Monteiorti, de- Montfort,'

ecclesise

Sancti Pauli

quam sanguis promeruit

Mandatum venerabilis

Londoniae, salutem

illam g^^^^^^^g

Salvatoris.

publishes

patris domini patris Matthsei, absolution

tituli Sancti Laurentii in Damaso presbyteri cardinalis, of the
Abbot of
r 1
n
recepimus sub hac lorma
West:

"
*'

miseratione Divina tituli Sancti

Frater Matthaeus,

Laurentii

in

Damaso

presbyter cardinalis, dilectis

"

in Christo Willelmo de Monteforti decano ecclesise

" Sancti Pauli Londonise, Radulpho archidiacono Mid" dilsexise/ et magistro Giffrido de Vesano, canonico
" cameracensi nunc in Angiia residenti, salutem in
"
"
"

"
*'

"
"

Domino.
Exposita per nos sanctissimo patri et
domino nostro Nicholao, divina providentia Papse
quarto, porrecta nobis ex parte religiosorum virorum
Abbatis et Conventus Westmonasterii ad Romanam
ecclesiam nullo medio pertinentis petitio continebat,
quod cum olim, occasione detentionis Willelmi de
Perssore ordinis Fratrum Minorum apostatse, orta

" quaestionis
"

materia inter ipsos Abbatem et Conventum

Westmonasterii

ex

parte

" provinciae Anglicanae

" episcopus
''

privilegiorum

" Apostolica
"

"

ex

altera,

Cantuariensis,

Minores
venerabilis pater Archi-

una,

et

executor

Fratres

seu

conservator

Fratrum Minorum in Angiia a Sede

dictum Abbatem et majores

dicti Conventus, ex eo quod post ejusdem Archiepiscopi monitiones dictum apostatam non restituerunt

" ipsis

fratribus,

" ordini

Sic in

per

publicasset

Endorsed

instrument
2

deputatus,

is

in

hand

ipsa

privilegia

concessa

eorum

excommunicationis sententiam in-

differing

from that

in

which the body of the

written.

MS.

minster.

QU^DAM INTER

CONTENTIO

52

A.D. 1291. " currisse, et eos per se et ejus suffraganeos denunti" asset
excommunicatos, et denuntiari fecisset per
" provineiam

Anglicanam.

Contigit

quod

utriusque

legitimis apud Sedem

" licam constitutis, in nostra prsesentia super

omnibus

processibus

habitis

" partis procuratoribus

*'

controversiis,

quaestionibus,

" ratione

detentionis

"

compromissum

"

per nos, juxta

et

prsedictse,

Aposto-

nos alte et basse

in

per eosdem, sicque postmodo

extitit

domini Papse beneplacitum,

" hujusmodi compromisso pro bono pacis recepto, et
" praedictis omnibus litibus, quaestionibus, et contro" versiis,
ejusdem domini Papae auctoritate, nostra
" arbitrali sententia terminatis, prout publicis instru" mentis inde confectis et nostro sigillatis sigillo pleipsius

" nius continetur, supplicari

"

et

"

rundam appellationum,

Conventus

praedicti,

qui

Abbas

fecerunt humiliter
sic

ligati praetextu

qua-

quae per eos super his fuerant

ministraverunt ordinibus, et se
" alias divinis ingesserunt officiis sicut prius, salutari
" interpositae,

in

suis

" super his remedio per Apostolicae benignitatis clemen" tiam misericorditer provideri.

"Nos

igitur, praedictis

" toritate

"

diligenter

consideratis,

auc-

domini Papae, cujus Poenitentiariae

curam gerimus, et de ejus speciali mandato vivae
ipsius

" vocis oraculo nobis

commitAbbatem nunc
in partibus Franciae existentem, ibidem, prius ab eo
juxta tenorem pronuntiationis nostras purgatione
facto, discretioni vestrae

" timus quatenus vos, Decane, pracdictum

"
*'

" recepta,
*'

sine

difficultate

vosque,

aliqua,

Decane,

Archidiacone, et magister GifFride, aut alter vestrum

" qui

fuerit

" dicti

requisitus,

monasterii,

" tionis
" verint,

tenorem
prius

qui
se

priorem

secundum

purgare

et

monachos

nostras

alios

pronuntia-

poterunt atque

purga-

pm-gatione facta auctoritate praedicta,

ab hujusmodi excommunicationis sententia absolvatis

" juxta formam
ecclesiae
consuetam, non obstante
" fratrum ipsorum privilegio, quo cavetur quod eorum
"

" apostatas detinentes

non possint absolvi

nisi se per-

MONACITOS ET FRATRE>S MIN011E8.

''

sonaliter

conspectui

Apostolico

" ipsius proviclentiam absolvendi

"

corum pro

" quix) fuerint

"
*'

modo

culpa^

53

reprsesentent

juxta

et injuncta cuilibet

poenitentia

salutari, et aliis,

injungenda super irregular! tate per eos

ex praemissis contracta, dispensetis auctoritate prsedicta misericorditer cum eisdem, prout secundum

"

Deum animarum suarum

"

dummodo

saluti

videritis

expedire,

canonicum non obsistat, facientes

per vos vel alium seu alios in Anglia et alibi,
quando et ubi expediens fuerit, absolvatos publice
aliud

" eos
"
*'

nuntiari.
"

Datum apud Urbem Veterem

" das Maii, Pontificatus

"

quinto decimo kalen-

domini Nicholai Papse quarti

anno quarto."

Nos vero
Apostolico,

volentes

mandato

dicti patris,

immo

dominum Walterum, Dei

obedire,

verius
gratia

abbatem Westmonasterii, anno Domini mocco nonagesimo primo, Indictione quarta, secunda die mensis Junii,
pontificatus domini Nicholai Papse quarti anno quarto,

coram nobis in

nostro

hospitio

parochia

in

Sancti

Johannis in Grama Parisius personaliter constitutum

et paratum super contentis in pronuntiatione dicti

domini Cardinalis secundum ipsius formam et tenorem

reverenter se purgare, quam purgationem de voluntate
et consensu expresso

Fratrum Minorum

sibi

obtinuimus

excommunicationis praedicta absolvimus juxta formam ecclesiae consuetam, et injuncta

relaxari, a

sibi

sententia

poenitentia

contraxerit

ex

salutari

super irregularitate,

praemissis, auctoritate

dispensavimus cum eodem prout

animae suae vidimus expedire.

si

quam

commissa
secundum Deum
nobis

Quocirca vobis omnibus et singulis, cum reverentia

qua decet, mandamus sub merito obedientiae qua Sedi
injungentes quatenus vos et
tenemini,
Apostolicae
singuli

vestrum in

locis

omnibus vestrarum civitatum

et dioecesis quibus

num Walterum
faciatis

expedire videritis, praefatum domiAbbatem denuntietis et denuntiari

absolutum inter missarum

solempnia,

singulis

^-l^- 1291.

CONTENTIO QUiEDAM INTER

54

A.D. 1291. diebus dominicis et festivis, quotiens fueritis requisiti,

non obstante Fratrum Minorum privilegio, quo cavetur

quod eorum apostatas detinentes non possint absolvi
nisi se personaliter Apostolico

conspectui reprsesentent

juxta ipsius providentiam absolvendi.

Quicquid autem super praemissis duxeritis faciendum
nobis per vestras patentes litteras

harum seriem

conti-

nentes fideliter rescribatis. Datum die et loco supradictis, anno gratige M^cco nonagesimo primo.

No.
Publication

(8).

of the Pajpal

ahsohition granted

to

the

Prior and monks of Westminster,

VenerabiKbus

A.D. 1291.

London

Christo

in

patribus

universis

scopis Proviuciae Cantuarise, et discretis

viris

Epi-

officiali-

bus et eorum
riis per dictam provinciam constitutis, Radulphus de
Baldok, archidiaconus Middelsexise, ac Giffridus de
Yezano, canonicus cameracensis, Sedis Apostolical nuntius nunc in Anglia residens, salutem quam Christicolis sanguis promeruit Salvatoris.

commissariis, necnon rectoribus et vica-

Mandatum
Sancti

venerabilis

Laurentii in

patris Fratris Matthgei, tituli

Damaso

presbyteri cardinalis, re-

cepimus sub hac forma

"Frater Matthseus, miseratione divina
:

" Laurentii
" in

in

Damaso

Sancti

tituli

presbyter cardinalis,

dilectis

Christo Willelmo

de Monteforti, decano ecclesise

" Sancti Pauli Londoniae, Padulpho, archidiacono Mid" delsexise, et magistro Giffrido de Vezano, canonico
"

cameracensi

"

Domino.
"

"

Exposita

nostro

nunc
per

domino

in

nos

sanctissimo

Nicholao,

" quarto, porrecta nobis

Anglia residenti, salutem in

patri

et

divina providentia

Papas

ex parte religiosorum virorum

Abbatis et Conventus Westmonasterii ad

ecclesiam nullo

domino

medio pertinentis

Romanam

petitio continebat,

Mi

MONACHOS ET FEATRES MINORES.

cum olim

"

quod

''

Perssoria,

occasione

detentionis

Fratrum Minorum

ordinis

" quaestionis materia inter ipsos

"

ex

Westmonasterii

una,

parte

Anglicanae

Archiepiscopus, executor

'*

privilegiorum Fratrum

"

Apostolica

deputatus,

ex

et

orta

Minores

venerabilis

altera,

deA.D.

Conventum

Fratres

et

" Cantuarise

Willelmi

apostatae,

Abbatem

" provincise

55

pater

seu conservator

Minorum in Anglia a Sede

dictum Abbatem et majores

" dicti conventus,

"

ex eo quod post ejusdem Archiepiscopi monitiones dictum apostatam non restituerunt

" ipsis

fratribus,

" ordini
''

^'

"
"

per ipsa

privilegia

publicasset excommunicationis

concessa

eorum

sententiam in-

per se et ejus suffraganeos denuntiasset

excommunicatos, et denuntiari fecisset per provinciam
currisse, et eos

Anglicanam, contigit quod, legitimis utriusque partis

procuratoribus apud Sedem Apostolicam constitutis,

omnibus qusestionibus

prsesentia super

'*'

in nostra

''

processibus

ti

nos alte et basse compromissum extitit per eosdem,

sicque postmodo per nos juxta ipsius domini Papse

*^

"

habitis

ratione

detentionis

prsedictse

et

in

beneplacitum hujusmodi compromisso pro bono pacis

" recepto, et
" et

omnibus litibus, qusestionibus,

ejusdem domini Papse auctoritate

prsedictis

controversiis,

"

nostra arbitrali

"

instrumentis inde confectis et nostro sigillatis sigillo

plenius
continetur, supplicari
fecerunt humiliter

'^

"

Abbas

"

quarumdam

et

sententia

Conventus

terminatis, prout

qui sic ligati praetextu

appellationum, quse per eos super his
prsedicti,

" fuerant interpositae,

in

" et

ingesserunt

'^

^'

se

aliis

Nos

" toritate

''

'

"

divinis

suis

ministrarunt
officiis

ordinibus,

sicut

prius,

super his remedio

per Apostolicae benignitatis clementiam misericorditer provideri.

salutari

"

''

publicis

igitur, praedictis

ipsius

curam gerimus,

domini

diligenter
Papae,

consideratis,

cujus

auc-

Poenitentiarise

mandato vivse
vocis oraculo nobis facto, discretioni vestrae committimus quatenus vos, Decane, praedictum Abbatem nunc
in partibus Francia^ existentem, ibidem, prius ab eo
et

de

ejus

speciali

1291,

CONTENTIO QUiEDAM INTER

56
A.D. 1291. " juxta

tenorem

pronuntiationis

purgatlone

nostrse

" recepta, sine difficultate aliqua, vosque, Decane, Archi" diacone, et magister GifFride, aut
" fuerit

requisitus,

" monasterii,

tenorem

"

purgatione facta

monachos

Prioreni et

secundum

qui

''

vestrum qui

alter

dicti

alios

pronuntiationis

nostrse

purgare poterunt atque purgaverint, prius

se

auctoritate prsedicta, ab hujusmodi

"

excommunicationis sententia absolvatis juxta formam

" ecclesise consuetam, non obstante fratrum ipsorum
" privilegio, quo cavetur, quod eorum apostatas deti" nentes

non possint absolvi

"

dentiam

juxta

poenitentia salutari et

" diter

"
"

"
"

cum

alium seu
expediens
"

videritis

obsistat

alios
fuerit,

ex praemissis

in Anglia

et

misericor-

Deum animarum
dummodo

expedire,
facientes

pro

quae fuerint

auctoritate praedicta

eisdem, prout secundum

suarum saluti
canonicum non

provi-

ipsius

aliis,

" injungenda, super irregularitate per eos

" contracta dispensetis

Apo-

injuncta cuilibet eorum

absolvendi, et

modo

" culpae

personaliter

nisi se

" stolico conspectui reprsesentent

eos

alibi,

per

aliud

vos

vel

et

ubi

quando

absolutos publice nuntiari.

Datum apud Urbem Veterem,

xv. Kalendas

Maii,

domini Nicholai Papae quarti anno quarto."

Cujus auctoritate mandati dominum J. de Culewrth
Priorem, Suppriorem, Cellerarium, et Sacristam Westmonasterii, per venerabilem patrem dominum J., Dei

" Pontificatus

gratia

Cantuariae Archiepiscopum,

totius Angliae

Pri-

matem, conservatorem seu executorem privilegiorum

Fratrum Minor um in Anglia, excommunicatos publice
nuntiatos, necnon praedictum Priorem, Simonem de
Gardino, Rogerum et Robertum de Bures, et Eadulphum de Morton, monachos Westmonasterii, per
fratres

mum

Hugonem

de Trapstona, custodem, et Willel-

locum gardiani Londe mandato ministri Fratrum Minorum in

donife,
Anglia ad nos apud Westmonasterium transmissos, super
tos

de

Lutgereshale, tenentem

dimissione

Fratris

Willelmi de Perssora suspec-

nominatos postquam inter dictos monacbos fuerat

MONACHOS ET FRATRES MINORES.

57

coram nobis in capitulo apud Wcstmonas-

receptatus,

terium personaliter constitutes, et super contentis in

ordinatione dicti domini Cardinalis sufficienter juxta

voluntatem

prsedictorum

gardiani

purgantes

cum

se

custodis

tenentis

et

absolvimus,

et

locum

dispensavimus

eisdem.

Ad

diligentem insuper

dicti

Prioris,

zelantis

instantiam

pro

et requisitionem

statu

salubri

confratruni

suorum, caeteros omnes et singulos de conventu, consentientibus prsedictis custode et tenente locum gardiani, absolvimus, et super irregularitate, si quam
occasione

contraxerint,

preedicta

dispensavimus

cum

injungendo eisdem, prout vidimus expedire,

pcenitentiam salutarem, excepto duntaxat Fratre Adam
de Wycumb, quem tunc absolvere distulimus, eo quod
eisdem,

dicti fratres sibi

in

dimissione praedicta facti eviden-

tiam opponebant.
Quocirca vobis omnibus et singulis, auctoritate qua
fungimur, cum reverentia qua decet, injungimus et
mandamus quatenus vos omnes et singuli vestrum, in
locis quibus ex parte dictorum Prioris et monachorum
fueritis requisiti, prsedictos Priorem et caeteros de conventu, excepto praedicto Fratre Ada de Wycumb, denuntietis et denuntiari

faciatis

publice et solempniter

absolutos.

Datum

Londoniae quinto Idus

Julii,

anno Domini

Mcc nonagesimo primo.

This document hears the following endorsement

Hie
sigillis

The

forma absolutionis sub

Magistri Radulphi de Baldok et G. de Vezano.
continetur

seal of

tenor

et

Radidphus de Baldok

is

missing, hut that

of Giffredus de Vezano remains in a good state of 'preIt hears the inscription :

servation.

S: GIFREDI:

DE: VEZANO: CAN: CAMERACEN:

A.D. 1291.

58

CONTENTIO QU^.DAM INTER

No.
In Dei nomine, Amen.

[A.D.

Dec 29
The Prior

procurator

clericus,

(9.)

E^o Willelmus de Langedon

religiosorum

virorum

Prioris

et

Conventus Westmonasterii, venerabili patre domino W.,

j)gj
o'ratia
loci eiusdem
Abbate, in remotis nunc
agente, nomine procuratorio, et pro eisdem coram
ster make
formal proqIq^q q^ populo in his scriptis publice protestor, quod
that if they si praedictis dominis meis, seu mihi eorum nomine, de
&c. of

^1^*1^^ monitione, denuntiatione, seu

^^/rmed
by their

requisitione dicto

domino Abbati per ministrum, gardianum, custodem,

^^^

^
certatn^
public

respecting
the case in

Minores

Fratres

aliquos

thatthev
were bound facta,

Londoniae competenter

secundum for mam, vim, et efFectum cujusdam

compositionis apud Sedem Apostolicam, ut dicitur, corn-

positae, aliqualiter constiterit vel

vero

cujus

compositionis

Abbas

forma

constare poterit, [va.Y

talis

est,

quod

pras-

festum Sancti
and Oxford Johannis Baptistae jam praeteritum a tempore requisithey would tionis
per ipsos fratres sibi factae, per duos dies
solempnes in ecclesia Sancti Pauli Londoniae, et totiobeyed.
dem apud Oxoniam in ecclesiis Fratrum Praedicatorum
et Minorum loci ejusdem, in sermone publico ibidem,
per procuratorem suum pro se et conventu quandam
faceret, seu facere deberet, confessionem seu protestadictus

xv.

infra

dies

post

tionem de statu Fratris W. do Persora, in habitu

monachali ibidem per tempus aliquot existentis, [ca^].-'^
Item, si constaret eisdem dominis meis, vel mihi ipsorum nomine, praedictum dominum Abbatem suum
vocis

literatorie, vivae

oraculo,

seu aliquo

alio

modo

legitimo, de hujusmodi requisitione ut praemittitur

sibi facta, vel quod ipse dominus Abbas hujusmodi
compositionem adimplendam per eosdem ^ quoquomodo

va

interlined

cat,

at

the

compositionem

stituted for the

seu protestationem pro eisdem

supra, which are

places indicated.
.

eosdem, sub-

words confessionem

sion.

marked

ut

for omis-

'

MONACHOS ET FRATRES MINORES.

mandasset

dico

et

testor

et

conventui

ego,

procurator

Priori

suo

59

memoratis, pro- A.D.

prsedictus,

1291,

expresse

nomine eorundem reverenter paruissent et parerent in

omnibus, et facerent quod esset justum, quatenus
ordinis

honestas,

disciplina,

sui

regulsD,

et

sequitas

suadent in hac parte.

omnia

Prsemissa

Fratribus Minoribus et

et singula

Prsedicatoribus Oxonise

et

omnibus quorum

aliis

terest vel interesse poterit significo

et protestor,

in-

cum

nomine, istam eandem protestationem in ecclesia Sancti Pauli Londoniae coram clero
et populo solempniter [me] fecisse in his scriptis.
Ego Johannes Memer interfui et audivi protestaprocuratorio

eiFectu,

tionem.

Et ego Johannes de Haldenam [inter]fui et audivi.

Et ego Thomas de Bedewynde interfui et audivi.
Et ego Willelmus Scot interfui et audivi.
Et ego Philippus de BreuUe interfui et audivi.
Ego Nicholaus de Aldenam interfui et audivi, Frater
Johannes de Cesteslade,

et multi

Ista protestatio facta fuit

alii.

dicatorum et Minorum per duos dies

clero

et

populo, scilicet

Thomse Martyris,

in

et in die

Fratrum Praesolempnes coram

in ecclesiis

festo

translationis

Sancti

dominica proxima sequente,

his testibus prsedictis.

No.

Memorandum, quod cum

strum

(10.)

inter rehgiosos viros mini- A.D. 1294.

Fratrum Minorum Ano-licanse

^ ^"'^^'^
provinciae conquerentes ex una parte, et Walterum,
Dei gratia Abbatem Westmonasterii, et ejusdem loci

ofcTiSTin

Conventum

ex

articles

qu?estionis

super

et Fratres ordinis

Willelmi
ac

de

tandem

altera,

admissione

Persore,

in Curia

orta

fratrum

Romana

fuisset

et

aliqua

detentione

apostatse

materia
Fratris

pra3dictorum,

^^'

J^^^'
Variation,

by mutual

fn ^hr'""^

general
^'^^''^*

sopita,

prout in quibus-

COXTENTIO QU.EDAM INTER

60
A.D. 1294.

dam
tur

instrumentis ibidem super hoc confectis contineexpresse, quia

tum videbatur eisdem Abbati

Conventui quod aliquse conditiones eontentre in

instrumentis

et

dietis

perquam graves, petebant inmoderationem a fratribus memoratis.

fuerant

stanter super his

Cupientes

A complete

itaque prsefati Ministri et Fratres juxta

doctrinam Apostoli, quantum ex eis est pacem habere
cum omnibuSj omnem accusationem et querelam eis
quomodolibet competentes ex vi dictorum instrumentorum occasione prgedicta, in forma quae immediate
sequitur, spontanee remiserunt.
Ita, videlicet, quod

tfon to be'

^ntedicti

effected

dictos

the friars

amicabiles aifectus, afFatus, et actus, in visceribus cari-

Abbas et Conventus recoUigant de caetero

fratres, non obstante controversia praefata, ad

and monks, tatis, procurantes, pro

idem erga omnes

eorum capitulo generali, et insuper hoc adjecto, quod dicti Abbas et Conventus
sexaginta marcas sterlingorum plene solvant apud
Novum Templum Londonise pro duorum conventuum
dictorum Fratrum in Anglia, videlicet Winchelsey et
viribus, illud

religiosos qui sunt de

^^^ks

to

be paid, as
in^fulTof
all claims,

Lychefeld, indigentia relevanda, terminis infra scriptis,

ad Natale Domini anno ejusdeih Mocc^ nonaet ad tres septimanas

gesimo quarto, viginti marcas
sequens,
viginti
marcas
et ad
wSchelsea po^t Pascha proximo

benefit of
the Miuo-

scilicet

and Lich-

i^q^ septimanas post festum Nativitatis Sancti Johannis

Baptistae proximo et immediate sequens Pascha prse-

dictum, viginti marcas

ministri vel saltem

hoc cuicunque

et

gardiani

literas dicti

Fratrum Minorum Lon-

doniae de quitantia deferenti.

On

Et ad istam pacem

par-

ment of

sum
all

docu-

respectmg
the quarrel
are to be

minster.

praidicti

/^

Abbatis et Conventus, omnia mstiTimenta praetacta

fifratia
custodia venerabilis patris domini Roberti, Dei &
'

Abbatis Walthamiae, tanquam in aequa manu, sub

^onditione,

quod

si

ssepedicti

Abbas

et

tali

Conventus

dictas sexaginta marcas plene solverint, vel solvi fece-

dered to

West

roborandum

;Minister et Fratres deposuerunt, de consensu dictorum

fixed

^^^^*^,.

of

firmius

I'i^^' P^"^

duobus conventibus memoratis terminis supra-

MONACHOS ET FRATRES MINORES.

super hoc fide per dictorum fratrum

dictis et loco, facta

confessionem

vel

Gl

per

literas

eorundem de

quitantia,

Abbati et Conventui vel

eorum procurator! legitimo quanto ocius liberentur
et si, vice versa, iidem Abbas et Conventus in solutione dictse pecuniae vel alicujus partis ejusdem cessaverint seu defecerint in aliquo termino memorato,
eadem instrumenta dictis Fratribus Minoribus Londoniae, hujusmodi solutionis cessationem denuntiantibus
seu defectum in toto vel in parte, nomine omnium
fratrum Angiicanaa Provincise, sine contradictione aliqua retradantur, ut extunc liceat eis uti illis instrumentis libere sicut prius.
In quorum omnium testimonium tarn praefati Abbas
et Conventus pro se, quam Minister pro se et suis
fratribus antedictis apposuerunt sigilla sua alternatim
huic memorando ad modum cyrograffi diviso.
Acta
Londoniae in festo Sancti Thomae Apostoli anno Domini supradicto.
dicta

instrumenta

seal

eisdem

in fair condition remains attached

document.
s[igillum]

It hears the inscription :

F[ratris]

M[inistri] ANGLi[ce]

'R[oberti]

martyrivm

No.

to

this

de crvce
sci thome
:

Y[icarii]
:

(11.)

Acquietantia Fratrum Minorum Londonice de xx. A.D. 1294.

marcis eis solutis per Ahhatem et Conventum
A?knowledgmeut
Westmonasterii}
Universis Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae

ad quos pervenerit istud scriptum, Frater Nicholaus, Fratrum Mi_.

norum Londoniae gardianus

tis

filiis,

et servus, salutem in salu-

Auctore.

1 Endorsed
in a hand
document is written.

differing

from that

in

which the body of the

of rCCGlDt
of twenty

^^^^^ P^^^
to the

Friars,

CONTENTIO

62

QU^DAM INTER MONACHOS,

ETC.

Noveritis quod venerabilis pater dominus Walterus,

A.D. 1294.

Dei gratia Abbas Westmonasterii, et ejusdem loci conventus de sexaginta marcis, in quibus tenentur pro

conventuum

necessitatibus

chelsey

et

Lychefeld

relevandis,

memorando super hoc

Minorum Wynquodam
sicut
in

Fratrum

confecto plenius continetur, vi-

primo termino persolverunt, videlicet

de termino Natalis Domini anno ejusdem M^cco nonagesimo quarto, et quoad illam solutionem formam in
In
dicto memorando contentam efficaciter observarunt.

ginti marcas de

cujus rei testimonium sigillum

Datum

scrip to.

mei apposui huic

Londoniae termino supradicto.

No.

(12.)

Pateat universis quod religiosi viri dominus W., Dei

A.D. 1295.

Acknow-

officii

gi'^^^^

Abbas Westmonasterii,

et ejusdem loci conventus

marcas sterlingorum
oOlino-^^ pro necessitatibus Fratrum Minorum Wynchelsei et
rites of
Lychfeld, in perpacationem sexaginta marcarum, in quiLondon of
^
p,'i
c
juxta lormam cujusdam compofinal instai- "^^^ eisdem iratriDus
meut of
sitionis super hoc habitse tenebantur, et sic prsefati
Abbas et Conventus omnes terminos^ solutionum dictae
under
agreement pecuniae totalis fideliter observarunt.
In cujus rei tesledgmeut

solverunt bene

-,

1294.

et

plene viginti

'

timonium

Minorum

sigillum fratris

Londoniae,

-i

Nicholai, gardiani

apponitur

huic

scripto.

Fratrum

Datum

Londonia9 in festo translationis Sancti Thomae martyris,

anno Domini Mocc^ nonagesimo quinto. Interlineare

terminos ante consignationem.

The broken

ment hears

seal ivhidi

the letters

remains attached

[Gar]DiANi londo

terminos, interlined.

to this
.

docu-

(3.)

REGULA SANCTI FRANCISCI.

JUu

REGULA SANCTI FRANCISCI.

65

RE6ULA SANCTI FRANCISCI.

[An early English translation of the Rule taken from
the Cottonian MS. Faustina D. IV.
This manuscript
belonged to John Howell, probably a Franciscan Friar.
It is in

handwriting of the 15th century.]

HoNORY

bisshop, seruant of the sarvauntis of God, to

Brother Fraunces and to alle

other brotherne of the order of the bretherne mynorrys
his welbeloued sonnys

sendith

gretynge and the Apostillis

blessynge.

The

wont and accustumyde to graunt meke

to enclyne and give benivolent fauoure
to meke requestis and honest desires. Therfore, welbelouyd sonnys in God, we, enclynynge and assentyng
to your meke requestis and devowt desires, by the
Appostellys auctorytee fortefie and conferme to you
the rewle of your orderre appoynted of goode remembrance by Pope Innocent our predecessoure, conteyned
and annotid in this present writynge, the whiche ys this:
In the name of God here begynneth the rewle and
Appostellis set ys

peticionnys,

and

the

lif

of the bretherne minoris, the

first chapiter.

The rewle and lif of the bretherne mynorys is this, to

obserue and kepe the holy gospelle of our Lord Jhesu
Christ [A voiue] in lyving in obedience, [A voive] without
Bro]?er Fraunces
propre, [A vowe] and in chastite.
promyseth obedience and reuerence to the lord Honory,
Pope, and to his successours laufully enteryng, and to
the churche of Eome [Havyng the strenhith of a commaundement] and alle other bretherne be bownde to
obey vnto brother Fraunces and to his successours.
[Of them that wille resceive this lyf, and in what
;

maner

they

conditioun.^

7644.

may

he resceyved:

Yf any

The

if^

chapter.

that will resceive this lyf

comme

REGULA

66
to oure bretherne, let
provinciallis, ^^lto

them send them

whom

only,

to ther

and to none

mynysters

other, licence

ys grauntyd to resceyve bretherne. \_A condition.'] The

mjmysters dilygently shall exam^Tithem of the Crystene
\_A confeithe, and of the sacrementis of the churche.

examyne, and
jf they stedfastly beleve in them, and will truly and
feithfully graunt and confesse them, and to the ende of
ther lyf stedfastl}^ kepe them \_A condition] and yf they
haue no wifys [A condition] or yf they have wyfes and
ther wifys be nowe entred in to somme monastery in religioun, or haue gyven them licence, by the auctorite of
the bisshope dyocessanne, the vowe of chastyte by them
promysed [A condition] and yf ther wyfes be of suche
age that of them may ryse no maner of suspicion [_A
conditio7i] let them say too them the wordis of the holy
gospelle, [A conditioun] that ys to say that they go and
selle all ther goodis, and indever them self to distrybute
them to poor people, [A condition] the whiche if they

dition.']

The m3Tiysters dilygently

shall

may

not doo yt suffisethe ther goode wille. [An exhoo'tacion or forheding.] And the bretherne shalbe wel ware
that they

medle not nor enbesy them

temporalle goodis or procui'^Tig therof,

may

[<x

self

with

ther

condition] that

with what so euer God putteth

[A condition^ Neveror enspireth in ther mjrndis.
theles, if cownselle be desii-ed and a^kyd of them therin, the mynisteris haue licence to send them vnto somme
persones dredyng God, by whose counselle ther goodis
may be distrybuted and givenne to poor people. [EquyvaThen, after this, they shall graunt to them the
lent.]
cloth}Tig of probation, that ys to say ij. cootis withoute
a hode, a corde, a femoralle, a schapelet downe too the
[^A condicion.]
girdle.
But yf yt be thowghte expedient too the seide mynisters godly otherwise to be
done or dispensyd at summe tyme, [a conditioun] biU^ yf
it he thowghte expedient to the seid, mynisters godly otherthey

frely do ther

This repetition of the preceding passage

is

underlined in the

MS.

SANCTI FRANCISCI.

07

wise to he doone, or the^ yere of probation fynyshed and

endid, they

may

resceyve them to obedience and pro-

[Equyvalent^

fession.

And

in nowise yt

may be

law-

them to forsake this religion, after and accordynge to the commaundement of the Pope, for, after the
saying of the holy gospelle, no manne puttynge his hand
too the plovvghe and lokying backwardis ys apte to the
k3rQgdome of hevyne. [Equyvalent to a command/ment]
And they whiche arre professid and haue promysed
obedience shalle haue oone cote with a hode, [A lihertee]
and a nother withoute a hoode that wille have yt, and
suche as haue nede or as ar constreynyd by necessyte
may were shoone.^ [Equyvalent to a commandTnent]
And alle the bretherne must be clothid with symple
and vyle clothinge. \_A lihertee.] And they may pece
them and amende them with pecis of sak clothe, or with
fulle to

other pecis, with the blissyng of God.

Whom

[_An exortacion.]

warne and exhorte that they dispise nor juge

those men whiche they se clothid with delicate and softe
clothyng, or with colowred and costly aray, use delicius
metis and drynkis, \_A inonyciori] but moche more rather
eche of them shulde juge and despise hymself.
I

divyne seruice and, fasting and how the

hretherne shold hehave them self when they goo hy the
weye. The thridd^e chapiter. Equyvalent to a commandthe

[Of

ment]
The Clerkis

devyne seruyce after the

order or vse of the holy Churche of Rome, excepte the
The lay
psalter, wherof they may haue breuiaries.
bretherne shall say xxiiii. pater noster for matens for
laudis V. for pryme, terce, sext, and none, for euery of
them vii. pater nosters for evinsong xii. for compleyne
shalle doo ther

the repeated.

and

siiche as

shoone added in a different hand.

E 2

REGULA

68

And

vii.

they shall pray for them that be ded.

[Equithey shall fast from

a commaundment.] And
the fest of alle halowtyde \^lto the nativyte of oure
Lorde. {_A liherte.] The holy xl. dayes whiche begj'nne
after the fest of the epiphany e of our Lord vnto the
ende of contynuell xl. dales next folowing, whiche oure
Lord consecrate with his holy fastynge, those )?at
wilfully doo fast hit blessid be they of oure Lord, and
they that wilnot be nat bownde ther too, [Equyvalent
to a commaunchiient,] but they shalle fast the other
Lent vnto the resurrectioun of oure Lorde. [A lihertee.^
At other seasons they be nat bo^vnde to fast, [Hauyiig
the strenghte of a commaundriient] but on the fridayes.
[A libertee.'] And in many fest necessite the bretherne

vaUnt

to

be not bownde to corporalle abstinence or bodily fastjTig.

[An

exortaciooi.'] I

cownsell also warne and exhorte

my

bretherne in oure Lorde Jhesu Criste that they bralle

nor strive in ther wordis or communication, nor

that they juge norre deme none other men [_An admoiii-

nat,

but that thei be meke, peasible,

and
curteis, and lowly, honestly spekynge and answer^mge
to euery manne as ^-ntoo them accordith and belongith.
[Equivcdent to a commaundment.] And they shalnot
ride, but yf they be constra}Tied by evident necessitee
[An adraonycion]. In to what
or ellis by sekenesse.

c/o7iJ

softe, gentille

house or place someuer they enter they shalle saye

[A liherte.'] And,
firste, "pece be vnto this howse."
accordynge too the holy gospelle, they maye ete of
all maner of mettis whiche be sette before them.
[Tlicd the

money.
[I]

bretherne

The

may

iiii^^ chapter.

commande

stedfastly

not resceive

any coyne

or

caninuiundenient.]

and

straitly

too

all

the

bretherne that in no wise they resceive any maner of

coyne or money, nother by them self nor by none other

meane person. Xeuertheles for the necessite of tlie
seke bretherne, and for the other bretherne to be clothid

SANCTI FRANCISCI.

69

by goostly and

spiritualle frendis,

or ncdynge clothinge,

the mynysters oonly and the custodyes or wardens shallo

haue diligent cure and charge accordyng to the placis,

too the tymes or seasons, and to the colde cowntreis and
regions
lyke as yt shall seme them expedient too ther
necessite or nede.
[Equyvalent to a commandment]
;

Savyng

may

this alwaies that lyke as yt is before saide

they

nat resceive ony maner of coyne or money.

[The

them

maner

self

hoiu the bretherne shall vse

in bodily labour.

The

and

chapter.

v.

occupie

An

acl-

monicyoun.']

The bretherne too whom God hath gyven grace

and strenghte to labowr shalle laboure truly and deuoutly,
so and in suche whiche ^ that Idlenes, the enemy of the
excluded and put awey, they quenche not the
inward feruour and sprite of holy prayer and devocyoun
soule,

wherunto alle transetory and temporalle thyngis oughte

deserne and geve place.
[An admonycioun']. As of
the hier and availe for ther laboure, they may resceive
for them ^elf and for ther bretherne those thinggis that
be necessary and nedef ulle to ther bodies, [Equyvalent to
a comniaundmenf] except coyne or money. [An exhortacioun].
And that louly and mekely, as appartainith
and belongith the saruauntis of God and the trewe
folouaris of most parfyte and holy pouerte.
[Hoive that the bretherne

ony thinge in any maner of

ashed,

The

and

vi.

may
ivyse.

not appvopre to them

And

of the charitee to be done to the

chapter.

Equivalent

to

of almes to be
seJce

bretherne.

a commaundment]

[T]he bretherne shall nothynge appropre to them^

nother in bowsing nor in londis, nor in rent nor in any

maner

but lyke pilgrimis and strangers in

this world, in pouerte and mekenes, saruyng Almyghty
God. [An admonicyoun]. They shalle feithefully, boldly,
of thynge,

Sic,

perhaps for

U7'se.

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70

and surely and mekely goo for almys [An adinonicion']

Nor they shalnot nor owghte not to be ashamed, for
our Lord made hym self poor in this worlde. [An
This is the highe dignite of most proad7)ionicion'l
founde and highe pouertee, the whiche hath institute
and ordeynde you, most dere bretherne, kyngis and
inheretours of the kyngdom of hevyne hit hath made
you poor and bare in temporall goodis, and exaltid and
promoted you in vertuowse and heuenly riches. [An
admonicyon.] This shulde be your portioun the whiche
wille lede ^-ou too the londe of quycke and livyng
people.
[An admonicioun.] To whiche, my most welbelouyd bretherne, vtterly knytte and conjo}Tied, you
shalle neuer desire other thyng vnder Jhesu for the
loue of our Lord Jesu Christe. [An adononicyoun.] And
wher someuer ony of the brethern f3rQde other they
shall sheire and vse them self to gether as bretherne of
oone howse, and euery of them too other sholde surely
shew his necessite and nede
for why, if the modre
norysche and loue the carnall and naturalle sone or
child, [An adoiionicyoun] ho we moche more diligently,
tenderly, and inwardly sholde euery brother loue and
cherisshe his spiritualle brother.
[Eqwivalent to a coinmaundment.'] And yf ony of them falle in sekenes or
disease the other bretherne shalle attende, serue, and
kepe h3Tii lyke as they wolde be saruyd, attendid, and
;

kepte there owne

[Of peiiavMce

in synne. The
commandment.']

Yf ony

self.

to he

enjoyned

vii. chapter.

of the brethern,

to the bretherne

Having

fallynge

the strenghte of

by the enty^

or instigatioun

of the goostly enemy, falle in to dedly synne, for ther

whiche yt is ordeyned amonge the

bretherne that they shall goo and have recourse oonly
synnys, for the

to

the mynisters

provinciallis,

the

forsaid

bretherne

be bownde to goo and haue recourse vnto them as

*

Sic, for envy.

SANCTI FRANCISCL

71

oney tariynge.
[An
And the seid minysters, yf they presadmonicyoun.']
enjoyne them penaunce with compassioun
tis, shall
And, if
and pitee. [Equyitalent to a commandment.
shalle
make
pennaunce
they be no prestis them self, they
enjoyned
them
oj^er
prestis
of
ther
by
ordre,
to
to be
lyke as yt shalbe thowghte by them after charite most
[An exhortacion.] And they owghte to
expedyent.
be welle ware that they benot troublid or angry for
any brothers offence for whi, angTe and troble of the
mynd lettith cherite in them self and in other.

may, without

shortly as they

'\

[Of the election of the genercdle niinyster of this

The
fraternyte, and of the chapter of Whitsontide.
via. chapiter.]

bownde

have oone of this

religioun to ther generall minyster and seruaunt of
this fraternitee, \_Equyvalent to a commandment] and
they arre bounde stedfastly to obey vnto hym, [Hauyng
the strenghte of a commau'iulment } after whose decesse
the electyoun of his successoure must be had by the
mynisters provynciallis and the custodies at the chapter of Whitsontide
[Hauyng the strenght of a commaundment] in whiche chapiter alle the bretherne,
beyng mynisters, ar bownd alwayes to assemble and
gather togethers wherfore somever yt shalbe ordeynd
or appoynted by the generalle mynistre, and that oons
in thre yere, or at ony other tyme more or lesse, lyke
as yt shalbe ordeyned and appoynted by the seid
generalle minyster. [Hauyng the strenghte of commoAcndment]. And yf yt seme and appere at ony tyme to the
vniuersalle congregatioun of mynisters prouynciallis and
custosies the foreseid mynistre not to be sufficyent and
able for that office and expedient to that seruyce, and
Alle the bretherne ar

to

commynne welthe
too

whome

bownd

the

electioun

nam

ys given and belongith ar

Allemyghty God too choose them

ther minister.
[A liberte.] And after the

in the

a nother to

of the bretherne, the forseid bretherne

of

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72

chapter of Whitsontyde the ministeris and the custosies

mav

ons the same vere, euerv of them in ther custodies,

gather too gether ther bre theme to chapter, if thei

th^-ncke yt necessary and expedient.

[Of the precliers.

The

ix.

chapter.^

The bretherne shalle not preche in the dioces of

ony bisshop when yt ys of hjTii to them forbedjTi,
[Equiualent to a corjimaiLndraerit] and none of the
bretherne shalbe so bolde to preche to the peple but

yf he be of ]>e generalle minister of this brethered

exam^'ned, approuyd, and admitted of hym to the
office

of prech^Tig.

[An

admonici/oii.]

require and exhorte, the same bretherne

wame,

also

that in ther

prechyng ther wordis and speche be examyned and

chaste to ]>e profitte and edifying of the people, shewyng to them vicis and vertuis, payne and joye, with
with few wordis for whi, our Lord made but short
prech^-ng and seiTQonnys here vppon erthe.
;

[Of the admonicyon and correction of the hretheriu.

The xth chapter. An admonicion.]

The bretheme whiche be the

and seruauntis
of the other brej^em shalle visyt and monysche or warne
ther bretherne, and mekel}' and charitably they shall
coiTecte them, nat biddyng or commaundyng them anythjTig that is conti^iy to ther solle helthe and ageynst our
rewle. [^An adraonicyo/i]. The bretherne also whiche be
subjectis sholde remembre that they for Goddis sake and
loue of ALnyghti God haue denyed and forsaken ther
willis.
[A coramciunderaent.] Wheruppon I straj-tly
commaunde them that they obey to ther ministers in
alle thing whiche they haue promised to oure Lorde

and

ac^enst

[Equivalent to a cornrnaundment.^

Aiid

that be nat contrai'v to

our rewle.

mynLstei-s

ther sowle helthe

wbersoeuer ony bretheme be whiche know and perceyve themself that they cannot spii'ituelly and gosth',
and according to their soule helthe, kepe tber rewle
they may and shalle haue recourse to ]?er minysters.

SANCTI FRANCTSCI.

[An adononicioun].

And

tlier

78

minysters,

charitably

louyngly shalle resceive them, and so

miiche familiarite or fauor they shall shewe vntoo

and

laufully,

them that they may say and do

ther

seruantis,

for

yt

sothly

like as lordis

vnto

be

that

sholde

the minysters shold be saruauntis of

[An

exortaUon.]

warne

also

all

soo

the bretherne.

and exhorte

my

bre-

Lord Jhesu Crist that they be welle

war from alle maner of pride, vaine glorie, enuye,
and malice, from cure and charge of this worlde, and
all worldly besynes, and from detraction and murtherne in

our

[An

muration.

exhortacion.']

And

thos that

be vn-

and
lernyd [^An admonicion'] but they shold attende and
take hede aboue alle thingis, and desire to haue the
sprite of our Lorde and his holy operation, too pray
alwayes to almyghty God with a pure spirite and a
[An admonycioun'] and to haue lowlynes
clene herte
and paciens in trouble and persecution
meknes,
and
and in sekenes, and to loue them whiche vexith,
trowblith, and pursueth vs, and that reprouyth, chafor why, our Lord saith
lengeth, and rebuketh vs
[An admonicion] loue your enemyes and pray for
them that pursuith and chalengith or rebukith you.
Blessid and happye be they the whiche sofFer treble
and persecution for justis and rithewisenes, for
whiche they be ordeynd to be inheretors and possessours of the kyngdome of heuyn.
Whosoeuer perseverith and commyth too the ende he shal be sauyd.
lernyd

shalnot

besye

themself

to

be

lettred

[That the bretherne enter not in to the place or monastery

The xi'^ chapter. A commandment.]
of nonnys.
I

commaund stedfastly and

straitly to alle the bretherne

that they have no suspect or suspiciuse felowshipe or

company, or suspecte counselles or communication, with

wymmen

[A commandment] nor that they entre not

in to the placis or monasteries of nonnys, except those

KEGULA

74

whom

grauntyd from the courte

of Eome.
\_A commaunchnent.~\
Nor they may not be
god fadres or gossips of men or wymen, lest therby rumor
or slaundi^e shold ryse of the bretherne amongis the
too

especialle licence ys

bretherne.

[Of them that

vjill

or entend to goo

syns, or vnfeithfull peple.

[WJhoso

eiier of

The

xij.

the bretherne,

amonge the Sarasyns

amonge

chapter.

by divyne

the

Sara-

liherte.']

inspiration,

[A

co7)i-

7naunde7)ient] they shall axe licence therof of their

myn-

wiU. go

or other infidelys,

[A coonmaundement] and the ministers shall not give lycence to none of the bretherne too
goo but to suche as they think and juge to be sadde and
hable and sufficyent to be sent. [A coinmo.undnient.']
Thes thinggis by obedience I enjoyne vntoo the ministers
that they axe and requyre oone of the cardinalis of the
Pope and of the holy churche of Eome, the whiche shalbe
gouerner, defendre, and protector and corrector of this
fraternyte, [A conimaundr)ient'] that we, alwaies beyng
subjectis and subdued vndre the fete of the same holy
chirche, be^mg stedfast and stable in the catholike and
Cristen feithe, that we may truly kepe pouerte and
mekenes and the holy, gospelle of oure Lord Jhesu Crist
whiche we haue stedfastly and straitly vowed and proisters prouinciallis,

mysed.
[The conclusioun of the confi^nnatioun.]

And theifor in no wise

to

breke

yt shalbe lawfulle to ony

or withstonde this chartoure or

manne

writynge of our

confirmatioun, or too contrary yt, or to do ageynste yt

by boldnes and presumption, or by temerous audacyte,

in ony maner of thyng, for who so euer be so hardy to
doo or presume and take in hande or in suche wise to
do, he shalle knowe and \Tidrestond hymself that therby
he fallith or runnith in to the grete indignatioun of

Almyghty God and

PoUe.

of his blessid Apostellis Petre

and

75

SANCTI FRANCISCI.

Gy ven

at Lateranence the thrid kalendas of Decembre,

the eithte yere of owre Pontificacie.

[Here endith the rewle and the

lif

of the

meke

hretherne.l

Here foloweth a good note vppon

rewle, etc.

the v. chapter of

ower

In the V. chapter of ower rewle ower holy father

seynt Francys sayth theys wordy s here folowyng
Suche maner of brotherne vnto whom ouer Lorde hath
:

geven grace for to laboure thei shalle laboure faithfully

and devowtly, neuerthelese in suche maner wyse that

the quenche nott nor put oute the spyryt of deuocion.

Aboute the
chapter, that

firste

parte

in

the declarynge of this

ys that the brothern sholde laboure, we

whether this sayinge be a commaundment,

muste knowe
ammonycion, or informacion and for an answer of this
same yt may be sayde after the saying of Pope Nicholas, that yt ys no commaundment, for yf that yt were a
commaundment yt shulde bynd euery brother too the
obseruaunce of the same. The contrary therefore showith Pope Nicholas in saying these wordys, yt was neuer
the mynde of seynt Frawncis, the wiche ordenyde the
saide rule, that suche brothern wiche be occupide in
study, or dyvyne seruyce or office, shulde be bownde
vnto bodely labour, for asmyche as, after the exemple of
Cryste and of other holy seyntis, ther laboure ys for to
but vnto the other
be vnderstonde spycialle laboure
nott
be
in
suche
laboure,
seynt Fraunwiche
excercysed
cis speketh those wordis as gevynge a comaundment,
lest perauenture they sholde haue lyuen idely, or ellys,
as saiyth Pope Nicolas, yf that the forsayde lay brothern
be occupyed in lawfulle besynese or offyce of other
;

brothern, so
other, also

that they deserue to be susteyned

wyth

but yff the forsayde lay brothern be of so

EEGULA

76

noble and excellent contemplacion that in no maner of

wysse they shnlde be put away frome so good and meke

exercise but perauenture some wylle say, seynt Frawnces sayith in hys testament that he wolde laboure with
his handys or bodely, and wolde also that alle maner of
brothern sholde labour in suche wyse to the wiche saying answerd brother Hugo in hys exposicion vppon the
rewle, that in the begynnyng of the order there were
fewe brothern that were lernyde or that toke hede to
study, but moost parte of theym were gevyn vnto laboure
bodely, and therfore to alle suche brotheme, leste they
sholde lyue ydely, sent Frauncys sayde that he wolde
they shold laboure bodely.
As for towchyng the first poynte of the v. chapter,
secundaryly, we muste knowe what ys to be vnderstonde
too those wordys, " they that haue grace to labour/' yt
may be answerid and sayd, the haue grace to laboure
wyche haue diligens, counnyng, and vse of laborynge
with helthe of body helpyng therto, also in suche maner
of wyse that they lett nott or be impedement vntoo
other, for seynt Jherom sayth he shalle, that ys the seruant of God shold, always be occupyed in goodnes, that
the mortalle enmye the deuylle, fynd hym alle ways besy.
And in what maner and ho we they shold laboure saynt
Frauncys showeth, saying they shalle laboure faythfully
as too ther nayboure or for theyr brother, and deuowtely
as to God that they shalle haue good wylle in their
deuocion, a righte intencyon, and in doyng ther of dis;

crecyoun.
idlenes,

And

so lyke wj^se that

in putt^Tig oute of

enemy vnto mannys soule, the put not oute the

wyche saying, thowghe that seynt

spyrite of deuocyon, in

Francys shewyth idelnese too cast a way, yet he sayth

that the spirite of deuocion owghte not to be put oute
with suche laboure, for he that ys a relygion man shuld
nott for doyng of bodely laboure leve those prarers vn^

'

sic for

prayers.

SANCTI FRANCISCI.

77

sayd wich be necessary for to be sayde, as ys ther serBut there were many brothern, and be yt
uyce etc.
many in the order of seynt Francys, wiche, when they
be callyd to any laboure or put ther too, they arme
theym selfe with the wordys of seynt Francys, and say

they sholde not be put too such labour lest they hurte or
put oute the spirite of deuocyon or prayer as sayth the
;

glose

vppon seynt Luke, a man sholde praye always

but yt ys to be vnderstonde that he neuer seasith prayinge the wiche neuer seasith in doyng welle. And also
brother Egidius sayth, that he wiche doith the commandment of hys prelate he prayth. But suche maner
of brothern be not excusid in ther saying, but rather
accusyd therin, for by cause the thynke that suche
spiryte, not exercisid as of obedience and other lyke,
shuld not be reputyd amongest thyngis of deuocion.
But yt may be askyd, what yt ys to be vnderstonde
be puttyng [out] the spirite of deuocyon. He puttyth
out the spyryte of deuocyon the wiche castyth away

and foloweth the world, the flesche, and the

Wherfore the word of oure holy father be to be
deuylle.

reason

vnderstonde, that they shuld soo labour that they leue

nott thoo thyngis vndoone vnto the wiche they be bond,

nor seyke suche temporalle thyngis wiche be for byddyn

vnto theym, for in so doyng they synne dedly and

quenche the spiryte of deuocion.

A questyon ys askyd, what thynge the brothern may
receyue for ther laboure, for asmyche as yt ys for byd
vnto them to resceyu[e] coyne or money.
The iiij. masters answere and sayith, that no ther the
may resceyue gold or siluer, nor eny mater or pryce, as
by skynnys, wulle, and such other, for the recepcion of
theym bryngeth in propertye nor also they that shold
not resceyue other wiche be not of pryce as the forsayd
be, that by laborynge in theym they may gett other
:

^1

78

REGULA SANCTI

FRAXCISCI.

thyngis that be of piyce, but they shold doo the laboure

and counnyng in a-nother mannys mater for to gett

such thyngis as be necessary e for theym, and that after
the

sayinge of

seynt Francis, wiche

sayth that they

shalle resceyue suche thyngis as be necessarye for the

bodye in stede of coyne or money, nor also they may

not make any covenaunt or bargeyn before what they
wylle haue for ther laboure. Finis.

(4.)

STATUTA

GENERALIA

BARCmONAM.

EDITA APUD

A.D. 1451.

sri

statutorum.

abiuip:viatio

STATUTA

EDITA APUD

GENERALIA
JNONAM,

81

BARCT-

A.D. 1451.

papaliwni quani
generaliutn edita apud Barchinonavi in conventu
Beatce Marice de Jesit, faonilice cismontanca de

Incipit ahhreviatio statutorum tarn

Ohservantia.

Dominus per prophetam bonum

esse et jucimdum habitare fratres in unum, placuit
divinae ipsius dementi ssimi clementiae ut fratres omnes regularem nostri sacri ordinis Fratrum Minorum
Quoniam, ut

elicit

obsevvantiam in partibus

cismontanis

ea vivere

una

cupientes,

sub

amplecti,

provisione

et

in

generali

et

quoad omnes, ac provincialibus vicariis quoad

cismontanarum partimn provincias vicarias,
per felicis recordationis domini quondam Eugenii Papae
quarti ordinationes et statuta, a quorumcunque eos
infestare et perturbare volentium molestia, in sanctae
et resfuJaris vitae unitate defensi et muniti de caetero
permanerent
voluitque idem dominus Eugenius,^ et
mandavit talia per ipsos fratres in sua generali congrevicario^

singulas

gatione capitulariter convenientes

tuta, per

quge, in

suae

fieri

et ordinari

professionis

sanctae

et

sta-

regulae

puritate, seclusis conscientiarum stimulis, possent absque

periculo in pace et laetitia

mus quoque dominus

Domino

deservire

sanctissi-

quintns,

Papa

modernus, super hujusmodi etiam ordinationibus

faci-

'

ministro, interlined

and a much
the

by another

7644.

mi/iititer

has been

similarly substituted for vicar ius in

other places in the

later baud, apparently

same by which
^

noster Nicholaus

MS.

Euye7iius written in margin,

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.

82

quoddam

endis, per

suae Sanctitatis breve

plenum

piis

favoribus, in ultima nostra conoreo'atione o-enerali leetuin et publicatum, mandavit, similiter et auctoritatem

concessit

Quapropter

General
congiv<];a-

nos

Vicarius

Provincialis

in

Francise,

hac general! congregatione, vacante generalis ^icariatus

tion of

auctoritate Apostolica prfesidens,

Observants officio,

held at
carii provinciales, custodes, et
Barcelona,
A.D. 1451, tionem priiefati domini Eugenii,
the Yicar
Provincial
of i'rance
presiding.

in

conventu

in

Statutes,

similiter

nobis pro

solidated

resolutis

and
adapted.

qufe

unum

quam

numerositatem
compegimus, multisque ex iisdem

nunc minus
et

nobis

jaxta ordina-

congregati, statu-

capitulariter

tarn apostolicorum

&c. of
order con-

ordinis

quibusdam

necessariis omissis,

abbreviatis,

videbantur

nonnulla etiam,

licet

pauca.

accommoda adjecimus, prout

pra3sentium tenor elucidat, quern pnx^cise, revocatis

omnibus, proesentibus vero

mus a

vi-

anno Domiui :mccccli",

Marire de Jesu apud Barchinonam,

Arragoniae,

ProvincioD

torum

Beatiie

discreti,

caeterique

insertis,

volumus

aliis

et statu i-

omnibus nostri vicariatus et familiar

de csetero firmiter observandum.
Nolumus tamen per bsec qua?cunque statuta fratres
ad pacti vinculum astringere, nisi ad ipsum per regulain aut aliud jus divinum vel humanum fuerint quoad

Statutes

arranged
under nine
heads.

fratribus

aliqua in ipsis statutis contenta alias

obligati.

Quem

quidem statutorum teiiorem in novem tantum capitula

annotata inferius duximus distinguendum.
Sequuntur
capitula

Priinuin Cainhdiim. De novitiorum

receptione

et

instructione.

Secundum Capihdum. De

divino

officio,

oratione,

et silentio.

Tellium [Ca2yitulum]. De observantia paupertatis.

Quartum [Cajntulum]. De modo

iuterius

conver-

sandi.

Quintiion [Capituluin].
^

De modo

dcdit follows but

is

exterius exeundi.

expuncted.

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.

83

Sextmn ICapitulum]. De correctione delinquentium.

Septimuni [Capiiulum]. De electionibus et institionibus ofFiciariorum.

Odavmn

De capitulis fratrum.
Nomcm Capitidum. De sufFragiis defimctorum.
Incipit

[Capitulnrii].

qumn

statutoruni tarn papalhiin

ahhreviatio

(jeneraliiimi facta

De novitiorum

in loco uhi supra.

receptione et instructione.

Prwinni capitulmn,
Statuimus imprimis, quod qui venientem ad ordinem nostrum debet in fratrem recipere dilio-enter in7
quirat et attendat sollicite quod recipiendus, ut docet
.

reoula, sit

fidelis

catholicus, de

et

nullo

'

errore

sus-

'

matrimonio non

pectus,

ligatus, corpore

])romptus, legitime natus, debitis

liber, jjetatem

sanus,

Conditions
t.^,^^^f"^'
filled by
all

persons
^^

<^"**^.^'"g

novices.

animo

expeditus, conditione

xvi annorum

ad minus, nulla
raaculatus, competenter literatus, vel

attingens

infamia vulgari

ad labores fratribus honestos et

conditionis existens

quod

aut

utiles aptus,

talis

ejus receptio clero et populo

non modicam ?edificationem afferat.^

Si quis autem aliter receptus fuerit, non admittatur Qf persons
ad professionem sine generalis vel provincialis vicarii admitted
contraT
T
-T
T
.

licentia speciali

PoiTo
tia

laici

generalis

omnino

mum,

citra

cum

ii^

consiiio discretorum.

vention of

non recipiantur ad ordinem absque

vicarii

et

nullus

pro

laico

licen-

recipiatur

vicesimum annum, nee ultra quadragesi,

nisi esset

persona

1,

multum

J.

-T

notabiiis vel insignis,

de cujus receptione esset a3dificatio

magna

^^^les.

tions"(Ji^

admission
of laymen.

in clero et

in populo.

Nee
assensu
regula

aliquis de

capituli

ad clericatum ascendat sine

generalis.
Si autem, juxta quod
laicatu

vicarius

concedit,

cum

aliquibus

clericis

vel

Admission
-PIbrothers
to holy

dispensaret,
ut probationis caputium minime ^<,
^
Of certam
portarent, fiat eis tunc juridica protestatio per illos, persons

laicis

...

afferret,

MS.

F 2

84
exempted
ino-"h ^b^t^'

of novice,

No

mendi-

cant friars
to be admitted.

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.

qui

quod ex

recipiunt,

eos

concessione

tali

habitus

nullum jus acquirant in orcline, quamvis

annus probationis transeat, donee expressam professionem fecerint juxta nostri oi'dinis instituta.
Inhibemus etiam quod nullus professus in ordine
,t
t
r\
mendicantium ad nostrum ordmem recipiatur. (^uod
gj secus actuui fucrit, hujusmodi receptio irrita .sit et

pi'ofessorum

inanis.
Persons

from other
orders must
have the

Nec de non mendicantibus

pi'i^^^^

^ suo

non

obtenta.

superiore

recipiatur

aliquis

duntaxat

postulata,

licentia

nisi
et

Boiiifaclus Papa octavus. Yolentcs Ycstro aggrcgari coiisoi'tio

permission
of their
qui suspensionis aut iiiterdicti vel excommunicationum Bensuperiors.
|;gj^^jjg

jypj, ypi

j^

j udicG

Bunt

gciierallter

ligati, abBolutioiiiB

fonna cauonica, impartiri, ipsosque in

qui post asBumptum habitum vel
recoluerint
professionem prsemissam
Be talibus in saeculo fuisse
sententiis innodatos, secundum formam ipsam vos, generalis
beneficium,

fratres

observata

recipcre

et

eos,

custodes, et vices vestras

et provinciales ministri, ac prgefati

cum

gerentes, valeatis absolvere, et

dispensare,

talibus

si

forsan

fuerint

eis

irregularitatibus

in

innodati,

sententiis

vel

in locis interdicto suppositis divina praeBumpsissent officia cele-

tamen quod si aliqui ex iisdem

hujusmodi sententiis propter debitum sint astricti, iidem satis-

brare, vel ordines recipere, ita

faciant prout tenentur.

Volumus nihilominus quod

gari

consortio,

nisi

volentes hujusmodi vestro aggre-

mox postquam

vestrum intra veriiit, etiam

si

fuerint absoluti

adhuc induciae a

praslatis

ordinem
ejusdem

ordinis concederentur, eo ipso in pristinas sententias, a quibus

eoB absolvi contigerat, relabantur.()i

Ca'pitulumi

admis-

profession

genevcile.

Completo

vero

anno

proba-

a fratribus cum quibus fuerint conversati habeant laudabile testimonium, de generalis vel
^i^nis, si novitii

provincialis

vicarii

[licentia]

suis

gardianis ad professionem recipi possunt

novitius,

modum

cum ad

professionem

custodibus
;

quam

7}on inserted

bv another hand.

quilibet

recipitui', faciat in

relabuntur,

MS.

vel

hunc

AP.imEVTATIO STATUTORUM.
Ego,

Fratcr

voveo

N.,

85
Deo, et Beat^)^ Vow.

promitto

et

Marine Virgini, et beato Francisco, et omnibus Sanctis,

et tibi, pater, toto

tempore

mese servare regulam

vitae

Fratrum Minor um per dominum Honorium Papam convivendo in obedientia,

firmatam,

et in

proprio,

sine

castitate.

Et qui eum recipit promittat ei, si hsec observaverit, vitam seternam. Et hgec receptio fiat in capitulo
vel alibi coram fratribus congregatis.
Hujusmodi autem novitii ante professionem sint
omnino, et nihil pro se in testamento vel

expropriati

alias faciant reservari.

autem conversatio alicujus novitii fuerit dubia

apud fratres, ejus ad professionem receptio provinciali
Si

vicario penitus reservetur.

Nullus autem novitius. pro clerico ad professionem

recipiatur,

totum officium

nisi

per seipsum.

posterum

Illi

contra

vero

qui

divinum

jam sunt

prgesentem

sciat

dicere

recepti, vel in

ordinationem

contigerit

non promoveantur ad or dines sacros, nee ad

aliquam praesidentiam assumantur, antequam perfecte
sciveririt divinum officium ut est
dictum.
Si quis
recipi,

gardianus aliquem prsedicta nescientem ad

professionem recipere, vel ad ordines promoveri facere,
custos vel

prassumpserit, puniatur graviter per vicarium.

Insuper ordinamus quod in quolibet conventu assig- A master

netur per tabulam provincialis congregationis magister IJovic^esand
novitiorum, et alius vel idem magister iuvenum vice- younger

simum

quintum

annum nondum

attingentium,

vir appomted

maturus, devotus, et discretus, qui super ipsorum

.1
TV
curara mvigilet diligenter.
scilicet

Hujusmodi autem novitii suae probationis tempore

studio scholastico non intendant, sed divinum addiscentes

rt.

insistant

omcium

in each
convent.

Rules re^P^^ting
^^e year of

studio devotionis et orationis vigilanter probation

nee ordines sacros

siones audiant,

si

fuerint

suscipiant

nee eonfes-

saeerdotes; nee portam con-

^ novices.

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.

86

ventus exeant,

nisi

causa

processionis, vel emergentis

translationis, vel

generalis

necessitatis, vel alia justa

et rationabili causa, qiife per

garclianum

vel majori parte eoruin extiterit judicata

cum
;

discretis

nee

literals

mittant vel recipiant, sine sui magistri scitu et licentia

nee loquantur cum aliqua sfBCulari persona,

religiosa alterius religionis, nisi suo proesente
etiam
vel
magistro aut alio per suum magistrum aut gardianum
speciali

Novices
not to be
hindered

from

quit-

ortfer.

ad hoc special iter deputato.

Caveant autem gardiani et ipsorum novitiorum
magistri ac fratres alii ne quera constitutum infra
probationis annum aliquatenus impedire pr?esumant
quominus ad aliam religionem quam maluerit transeat,
vel omnino ad seeculum redeat, sicut de sua processerit
voluntate.

De Divixo

Officio, Oratione, et Silextio.

Sec unci um

Conduct
during
Divine
Service.

Cap itidum.

ordinamus quod ante horarum et missarum principia fratres omnes, quos causa rationabilis
non excusat, ad chorum conveniant, praeparaturi Domino corda sua ibique sine discursu, murmure, risu, et
absque vagis et vanis aspectibus, sub silentio, et pace,
et cum debita gravitate, permaneant, cantent, et orent,
et usque in finem unanimiter perseverent.
Hortamur
quoque in Domino, ut divinas laudes integi'e, attente,
Statuimus

et

honeste, ac religiose
dissolutos seu fractos

persolvant, gestus leves et cantus

omnino

declinent.

Tractim psal-

more incepta; quae simul cantanda fuerint

simul continue nt, simulque pausent.
Et qui in his

lant debito

defectuosi fuerint, gTaviter puniantur.

De

legendo autem sina nota in aliquibus conventi-

secimdum dispositionem praelatonim.

Monemus quoque omnes fratres ut conofruis
hoiis
o

bus seu
Silence to
be observed dur-

locis fiat

in sanct^e devotionis et privatte etiam orationis studio

ABBREVFATTO STATUTORXTM.
exercere

se

conentur.

Idcirco

ne

87

devotionis

fervor

J"S

stat.

liours.

inquictudinem multiloquii

per

extinguatur, statuimus

usque ad primam
pulsationem horse primae diei sequentis ab omnibus
observetur, cxceptis liospitibus denuo venientibus ct
eis ministrantibus vel assistentibus de licentia gardiani.

quod silentium a

Sileatur

autem

cipio chori et

mensa quam

dicto

completorio

in claustro, in choro, in ecclesia a prin-

supra, et

in

refectorio

in secunda, et hoc

in

tarn

non sokim a

prima

residenti-

bus sed etiam a forensibus observetur. In locis autem

ubi fratres non habent officinas distinctas, loca distincta et commoda ab immediatis superioribus eorundem
locorum assignentur/ ubi fratres sileant et ubi possint
aliis

loqui

dam

oportet.

Similiter hora dormitionis a

Domini usque ad festum Exaltationis sanctse Crucis qualibet die post secundam mensam
pulsetur campanula refectorii ab eo qui legit ad mensam, et extunc sileatur usque ad nonam.
In diebus
vero jejuniorum simili modo a pulsata campanula post
mensam secundam silentium observetur, donee fiat
signum ad surgendum a somno secundum spatium a
gardiano provide assignandum. Liceat tamen fratribus
quod necesse est loqui breviter et submisse. Si quis
autem silentium fregerit, debeat dicere in capitulo

festo Resurrectionis

culpam

suam, prout se in hoc deliquisse meminerit

exprimendo, cui a gardiano abstinentia a vino, aut
alia poena secundum culpte exigentiam, imponatur.
Hortamur etiam ut fratres assuescant etiam ubique
religiose et sine clamore loqui, et maxime in dormitorio.
Et ut studio orationis major pateret ^ occasio,
volumus quod singulis diebus a dicto completorio
omnes, prseter infirmos ac forenses ac eis servientes, infra spatium comprehendens ecclesiam seu
oratorium, claustrum, librariam, dormitorium, et secretse

fratres

necessitatis

locum, usque

assignetur^MS.

Q7644.

ad primum
^
|

signum primge

patereturyMS.

F 4 -K

88

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.

diei sequentis se reconigant et includant,

hoc bono modo servari non

vicarius
ejus

duxerit

provincialis

relinquatur

posset,^ fiat

dispositioni

Tamen ubi

super hoc quod

disponendum. Similiter
de cellarum dorinitorii

apertionibus et clausuris.

De Observantia

Paupertatis.

Tertiuni Capitulam.
Regulations re-

specting
clothing.

Cum

regula

quod

dicat

specting

dimensions
of habit.

omnes vestimentis

viUbus induantur, prout statutum bonse memorias domini Fratris BonaventursB contineat, statuimus et ordinamus ut vestimentorum vilitas attendatur in pretio
In omnibus autem, quae ad habitum
pariter et colore.
fratrum spectant, ad imitationem patrum nostrorum

semper in vestimentis
Rules re-

fratres

paupertas.

reluceat

Ad majorem autem

asperitas,

vilitas

uniformitatem

et

inter

conservandam ordinamus, quod latitudo caputii

habitus nostri non transeat a lateribus conum juncet quod longitudo ipsius caputii a
turse humerorum
Longitudo
parte posteriori cingulum non attingat.
vero habitus talis sit, quod fratris ipsum deferentis
Latitudo autem ultra
nullo modo excedat mensuram.
sedecim palmarum mensuram non protendatur ad plus,
nee minus quam xiiii. palmas habeat, nisi notabilis
nos

latitudine amplius requirat ju-

corpulentia alicujus in

Longitudo vero manicarum cooperiat

extremam juncturam manuum, nee ultra protendatur.
Pannus vero habituumsit coloris cinerei, ut frequenter

dicio gardiani.

Mantellos quo-

in nostris capitulis extitit declaratum.

que de panno
rugatos circa

vili

coUum

humili

et

vel crispos,

habeant non
nee usque ad terram

fratres

palmam protensos.
Nee dormiant unquam fratres sine habitu, femora-

per integram saltem

Clothing
be worn libus, et corda, nisi

to

manifesta necessitate vel

infirmi-

at night.

tate cogantur.

Et quicunque repertus
1

sic,

MS.

fuerit jacere sine

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.
in

habitii,

89

coram fratribus in sequenti prandio

terra

sine habitu coniedat.

Vicarii

seu

custodes

et

illos,

qui vitiosi

tare

capitegia

fuerint,

seu

gardiani

graviter

non cogente

sudaria

circa

necessitate, por-

collum,

alba sive rubea, sive de panno vel de

puniant

et

Unifonnity
'*

^^

""^^^

almutia

tela.

Item fratres sani in dormitorio culcitris, lintheaminibus ac pulvinaribus

de pluma
non utantur. Cin^
^
^

Mattrasses,

^^\ ^^
used.

?^^'
t>e

gulum habeatur corda communis

et rudis, et omnis
ab ea penitus rescindatur.
Habeantur calciamenta de corio in communi, tantum No shoes
pro missis celebrandis, et fratres occasione missarum *" ^^^^'^
except by
...
,.
et non alias sine vicarii provincialis, custodis vel gar- celebrant
'"^^'^*
diani licentia speciali ^ caicientur jiixta regulam et ^*

curiositas

declarationem papalem.

Tonsuram desuper aures

fieri

tain

clerici

De quindena autem

procurent.

quam
in

laici sibi Tonsure,

quindenam

^^^'^^S'

semper omnes fratres radantur, et sit tonsura clericorum non modica, ut decet religiosos, scilicet ut inter
ipsam et aures non sint plus quam tres digiti.
Prseterea

cum

regula dicat, quod fratres non recipi-

ant pecuniam per se vel

.

et qualiter
tifices,

hoc

scilicet

debeat per duos summos ponNicholaum tertium et Clemen tem quinintelligi

tum, aperte fuerit declaratum, ordinamus, ut hoc

melius observetur, quod declarationes pritdictse quantum ad istum articulum et alia qua3 pertinent ad
observantiam paupertatis quater in anno, et ipsse declarationes bis ad minus per integrum in anno leganne
Nullus

ignorantia

tur,

frater,

sit

fratribus

occasio

delinquendi.

quacunque ex causa, pro se^ pecuniam

apud aliquem deponi sustineat vel reservari sine

centia speciali,^ et semper cum conscientia gardiani,
-

speciali,

added

in

margin

pro

se,

added

other hand.

The word custodes

bj'

another hand.

is

in

margin by an-

Directions

per interpositam personam, respectmg

expuncted.

li-

et

follows, but

money.

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.

90

concedatur nisi pro necessitate pr?esenti vel de

nulli

proximo imminenti.
se

against
o^vning

manu

portaverit, vel

Of eyasion> cella

retinuerit,

Quiciinque frater pecuniam supra

poena

propria contrectaverit, vel in

etiam proprietarii puniantur fratres

superioris licentia, libros sibi

qui,

illi

concessos

cunque extra conventum vel

Poena

pimiatur.

proprietarii

vel

sine

sui

quae-

alia

locum fratrum ponunt,

et a snscularibus faciunt conservari.

Of incurring debts,

Caveant gardiani

aut pro

and

locis

libris scribendis vel

Verum pro

mutandis vel ampliandis,

emendis, debita de csetero

prohibemus, nisi vicarius provincialis de discre-

fieri

sels

ne se vel locum

alii

perquiratur.

capitulo

construendis,

oedificiis

Goid and

fratres

aliquem in debita onerosa inducant, vel induci permittant, absque vicarii provincialis licentia aut consilio
requisito et assensu.
Et de his debitis in
quolibet provinciali

sdver ves-

et

torum consilio, ex causa rationabili, viderit dispensandum.

Insuper fratres non habeant nee mutuent
^

...

aurea vel aro-entea, nee utantur eisdem vel

ya^gg^
^

aliis

quicunque contrafecerit habitis

spolietur, et de mutuatis puniatur, nibilominus ad arowned or
borrowed. bitrium vicariorum.
Ecelesias etiam et alia sedificia,
merito
debeant
reputari, fieri de oetero
excessiva
as regards ^1^^
buildings
Paramenta quoque et vasa ecfii'miter prohibemus.
ornament\ clesiastica decentia et numero et magnitudine suffi-

jewels not

jocalibus

et

preciosis,

cientia a fratribus habeantur, et in his

vigilent ut

omnis superfluitas

sumptuosum
struatur

vel

notabile

Nullum etiam

evitetur.

aedificium

superiores in-

de

csetero

con-

vel destruatur sine licentia vel dispensatione

contrarium feeerit vel consuluerit per vicarium provincialem de loco irrevoeabiliter expellatur, et aliis poenis gravibus puniatur.
vicarii provincialis

Gustos vero

et qui

praedictum

excessum

statim

debeat de-

nuntiare provinciali vieario.

No

docu-

nullam literam vel instrumentum

permittant, in quibus protestentur pecuniam

Item

nSure of a
bond to be cepisse
entered
nto.

fratres

confici

se

re-

possunt tamen vei^bo vel scripto dicere tantam

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.
pecunias quantitatem
vel

cessitate,

91

datam vel legatam pro sua ne-

ab aliqua persona esse acceptam, et

sibi

plenarie satisfactum.

decedentium illorum erunt conven- Books of

tuum seu locorum, a quibus vel a quorum terminis fj^^^^^
habiti sunt vel acquisiti.
Et si super hoc dubium in
fiat
quod vicarius provincialis
posterum oriatur, illud
Libri

fratrum

in sua provinciali congregatione indicaverit faciendum.

Et pro ipsorum librorum conservatione volumus quod

Care of

conventuuni registrentur, et annis singulis registra de ipsis confecta coram conventu legantur seu

brary.

libri

Distribuantur autem

renoventur.

libri

tu^'J^Li*-

hujusmodi per

gardianum de consensu conventus et licentia vicarii

provincialis
et scliedulam ^ semper recipiant ab eis
;

quibus fuerint distributi.

Caveant autem fratres pro posse ab omni scandalo

clericorum et irreverentia praelatorum
et tempore
generalis interdict! secundum
formam domini Cle;

mentis quinti matricibus

r\

J^^

i^^.^^^.'

Times of
general

ecclesiis se conforment.1

Relations

interdict.

Ordinat et vult capitulum generale, quod fraties de ^he prehis funeralibus, quae ratione eorum, qui apud eos sepe- scribed
liuntur, obvenerint, libere

summo

cam portionem

casione

[canonicse]

ipsius

vel alibi lites

et

[curatis

exhibeant] canoni-

studio

portionis

moveant cum

in

offerings

Romana Curia

given to

fcurlatis.

ne

^^*r

P^^^"

chial

"-

fuieral

oc-

[caveant]

clerg}-.

De modo

interius conversandi.

Quart ittn Caintidum.

Cum
mas

secundum regulam teneamur duas Quadragesi- Of pre-

ieiunare, et intermedia suadetur

*

Dei,

ex

cedulam,

From

hujus

...
benedictionis

MS.

this

point in the

MS.

benedictione

amore statuimus, quod

dentations made by the pen, and

with aid derived from the statutes
of the next century it has, however,

to

the end of the chapter the ink has

been rubbed from the vellum, perhaps intentionally.
From the in-

cum

been possible to restore the passage.

'"^^

^^V^^.^

voluntary
fasts.

92

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.

comedant

hora

quod qui volunt jejunare

non graventur, scilicet hora sexta.
Obsecrat tamen
generalis congregatio quod omnes fratres in ipsa Quadtali

fratres,

ragesima intermedia, scilicet Beati Francisci, in conventu sint una refectione contenti, ad amovendas
multas

nem

deordinationes

et

obtinendam

ad

benedictio-

paternam, exceptis minutis, debilibus, et infirmis.

Apostolorum vigiliae jejunentur intus et extra, Beatorum Philippi et Jacobi, Johannis Evangelistae, et
Barnabae, tantum exceptis.
Vigilia beati Bartholomei
jejunetur, et festum fiat secundum raodum patria3.
Vigilia beati

Francisci

cibo quadragesimali

Jejunia

jejunetur.

serventur, nisi

in

reguliB

aliquando

vicario

quantum ad aliquos conventus seu loca aliud

videatur de con,silio discretorum.
Circa esum camium

provinciali

fratres temperate se habeant, et de sero

in locis

suis

tempore carnes comedant, exceptis infirmis et

hospitibus denuo venientibus, et nisi ex causa rationabili superior aliquando viderit dispensandum.
De non
comedendo autem carnes in refectorio ac in nonnullis
nullo

certis

festivitatibus

per

annum

occurrentibus

teneat

suam consuetudinem, vel faciat

super hoc juxta suorum pra^sidentium dispositionem.
qutelibet

Rursus ordiiiamus quod

Officers of
faie^iike

ordinary

provincia

'

"^^^*

^orum

vicarii sint

sia ct

in

quamdiu

mcnsa
sani

cum
et

gardiani ac

fratribus in conventu, in eccle-

in

fortes

et

vicarii, custodes,

cibis,

in

fuerint,

vestibus

et

lectis,

eisdem fratribus

se

conform ent.
Offerings

shared b
all alike,

Ordinamus etiam quod vicarii et custodes sollicitam

curam gerant, quod de eleemosynis et rebus aliis, quae
obvenerint conventibus, per gardianum provideatur
moderate juxta eleemosynarum et obventionum hujusmodi quantitatem fratribus in communi, ne fratres
ipsi, propter defectum communis et sufficientis victus,
seorsum comedere,

Of not
iiio"

eat-

outside

the convent.

et particulariter ac deordinate vit?e

necessaria sibi procurare C02:antur.

....
diligenter

diani

Dicti
.

caveant ne,

sine

pia

et

autem

...

ffar-

rationabili

AB13REVIATI0 STATUTORUM.

dent fratribus

causa,

08

commiinitateni

extra

Volumus quoque quod semper

comedendi.

licentiain Readings

in

mcnsa

'^

^'

*'^
'

conventus lectio habeatur.

Caveant

seu Inno- of misuse

sancti Nicholai

in festo

fratres

centium, vel quibuscunquc

vestes extraneas

aliis festis,

sub

religiosas seu saeculares aut clericales vel muliebres

specie devotionis induere

ribus

pro

ludis

of habit of

nee habitus fratrum saecula-

faciendis

accommodentur, sub poena

amotionis confusibilis de convcntu.

Ordinamus insuper quod

infirmarii, et

cum

studeant
caritatis

vicarii,

infirmi

deputata.

quoque in

annuntient veritatem

elee-

provinciis,

signanter inquirant,

articulo

aliquas provincias vitiosas in hoc

ter

pro

nisi

aliqua

distincte

esset

Visitatores

quas visitant, de hoc

si

pro vide ri facere

seu

communibus eleemosynis,

debeant, et hoc de

^\^gthreu

et

serviri facere, et de

eis

providere

necessitatibus

regulae

Vicarii vero, custodes

eis servire.

eorumque

fratres Care of

servitiis deputati,

diligentia et sedulitate juxta

necessitate fratris

mosyna

infirmorum

fratres

prseceptum

et gardiani,

cunctis

alii

infirmis

fratribus

et

invenerint, fideli-

congregationi

seu

capitulo

generali.

Item ordinamus quod gardiani non possint indui de Wardens

quacunque eleemosyna, nee pannum recipere pro vestitu, offgri^^s^"
donee omnibus fratribus indio'entibus loci sui fuerit after their
^^ enors.

de vestimentis provisum.

omnes

Fratres
caritatis, et

et

remotis.

venerint

ad

recipiantur

maxime
Et
loca

venientes

de

quandoque

si

nostra, velut

benigne,

ultra

Fratres
fratres

dies

visceribus Of hospi-

partibus
^

nostri
eos

ordinis
et

Ipsi vero

moram

nos
hos-

fecerint, di-

cant in capitulo culpas suas, et dicta culpa acceptaque

poenitentia,
[gratiae]

tate

egrediantur.

opus qua

suppositi

Item

cum

homo conjunctus

legitur

in

missa

^^^^^y^.

especially

Praedicatores towards

inter

puniantur.

tres

in

extraneis

seminantes

et

zizania discordiae graviter

pites in locis ubi

recipiantur

hospites

illius

summae

Deo

in uni-

genuflectant

fratres

est

*^^.^,^"^^'

nieaus.

ABBREVIATIO 8TATUT0RUM.

94

ad

illud verbvim evangelii, "

Verbum caro factum est,"

"In nomine Jesu"; et ad

ad illud verbum Apostoli,

illud, " Ecce ancilla Domini " et ad illud, " Procidentes,"
et alias alibi ubi in ordinario positum invenitur.
Of the
Ad illud autem altissimum Eueharisti?e sacramentum
diligenter se pr^parent fratres omnes.
Et, ut hoc
antiof the"^
appointmelius fiat, statuimus ut singuli fratres determinatos
ment of a
de conscientia gardiani ha bean t confessores, quibus
confessor
for each
bis ad minus in
qualibet septimana confiteantur.
friar.
Fratres vero non sacerdotes de quindena in quindenam
semper communicent in missa conventual!, nisi remanet de hoc solliciti sint
serint de licentia prresidentis
sacramenti frequentiam
gardiani, ut
per utriusque
sanctae conversationis in utroque homine puritas obet

servetur.

Item

Ofbodilv
"*^

other'^

in

patious.

quam

clerici

exerceri, et

negligentes

inquirant

Of study
in.

struction in
theoloorv

inventi

vicar ium

priventur

passiva

et

quod

si

visitatoribus

qualiter

per

laboribus

vel

qui

si

per

otiosi,

ordinamus,

compellantur

laici

occupationibus

vel

and

evitandum

otium

ad

h?ec

suos

superiores

competentibus

sibi

notabiliter

fiierint

puniantur,

constitutio

qui

diligenter

observetur.

studia fratres in

vinciales

primitivis scientiis

holy

orders.

Item

fratres

vicarii

invigilent,

diligenter

alios haec ipsa

recei\

Item

et

in

et

theologia debite instruantur, et super hoc vicarii

Of

vitiosi

custodem voce activa et

superiores in hoc fuerint

ordinamus ad pryestandum in scientia

pie proticere volentibus auxilium et favorem, quod de
Cietero studia in unaquaque provincia habeantur in
locis per provinciale capitulum ad hoc assigTiandis, per
statuimus

quae

infj

tam

quod

sacros

banc

licentia

licentiam

vel

attigerit.

custodis, cui

dederit

et

ordine suspendatur.

promo veatur ad sacerdotium

annum

per gardianum

et

debitum sortiatur effectum.

ordines non recipiant sine sui

contrafecerit a suscepto

quis

pro-

constitutio

provincialis

provincialis

ut

sacra

nisi setatis

vicarius

quicunque

Nee alisuae xxv^

ABBREVIATIO STATUTOKUM.

De MODO EXTERIUS

95

EXEUNDI.

Quint 111)1 Capitulum.

quod discursus

Oi'dinainus

quantum

gcntia a superioribus,
nullus

et

socio

frater

arceantur

fieri poterit,

pedes vel

eques

dili- Of jour-

sine

"^^

quoque

Tollatur

necessitatis,

'

abusus

fratrc No

reoula
o

ut

'

in Regula

tamen

attentis

concedit,
^

sua declaratione super

verbis domini BonaventunB, in

friar to

^^^^^^

praiterquam

asinandi

^*

aut sine fratre socio alicubi commoretur.

casu

vadat

cum summa

inutiles

tious le-

specting
riding, ike.

debere equitare neque

hoc passu, dicentis fratres non

bigare nee quadrigare nisi in manifesta necessitate
per vicarium vel custodem, vel in eorum absentia per
gardianum seu ejus vicarium, de consilio discretorum
judicanda.
Vicarii

vel

provinciales

curam

custodes

liabentes Provision

monialium Sanctoe Clarte in suis provideant capitulis qui ^ ^^^.

fratres et quomodo ad earum loca licentiari habeant, among Mivel eis ad servitium deputari.
Itaque alii fratres ad
ipsarum monialium loca absque ipsius capituli dispositione seu licentia accedere non preesumant.
Item ordinamus quod fratres suas provincias exe- Kuies to be
untes p'ardianis seu vicariis conventuum per quos observed
^J^^^^^.

transierint suas obedientias vel

exigant

ipsi gardiani vel vicarii eas

fratres

fuerint

loca fratrum nostne

dentur

si

Fratribus

negligentes.
familice

on jour

ostendant, et

licentias

intra

litterse testimoniales, vel

in

ostendendo

autem ad

provinciam

quoque

fratres

civitatem,

alia
ituris

non dentur, secundum

dispositionem mittentium et distantiam viarum.

ant

neys.

oppidum,

vel

Cavecastrum

ubi morantur fratres, ingressuri ne ultra prsefixam sibi

licentiam

horam moram protrahant, nee ad loca

necessitate superveniente postmodum supe-

vel

alia,

sine

rior!

exponenda, declinent.

Item statuimus quod

extra

sua

capitula

vicarii provinciales

sicut
*

nee
quos?

ad

non possint

prredicationis

ita

Promotion
^.^^^^^'^.

ABBREVIATiO STATUTORUM.

96
and coulessor.

ad confessionum audiendarum officia fratres

assumere sen pvoraovere. Et priusquam ad hujiismodi
assumantur, testimonium habeatnr de eorum
officia
vita et snffieientia a fratribiis fide dignis et notitiam
eorum liabentibus et de ipsorum ac discretorum ad
pro^4neiale capitulura transmissorum consilio deputentuv.
Et sint instructi ad hujusmodi confessiones auneqiie

Pecuniary

dicndas assumeiidi in casibus reservatis.

oidinariiv

ferenter

to

be

in-

flictedhy
confessors,

poenitentiam pecuniariam

imponenda
\

eam

tribus

Of hearing

rationabiliter
.
.
dan flaciant.
'

esset,

non

Nee

imponant
sibi

indif-

et ubi

nee snis fra-

Confessiones quoque

mulierum audiantur

in

aliquo

ecclesise loco, vel alio loco honesto etiam paXullus fratcr pro confessione audienda, vel alia
quacunque de causa, juxta mulierem stet vel sedeat,

of women,"^ patenti
and regnia- tenti.
speetino-

relations

^\^[ [-^^q q^ socius libere possint

women.

caveant fratres omnes a suspectis consortiis et prolixis

mutuo

se videre.

Et

mulierum, et quicunque contrafecerint a

Item nullus frater a rauliere votum
sociis accusentur.
continentiae requirat, seu oblatum recipiat, seu ad faciendam sibi obedientiam inducat et quicunque contrafecerit a vicario provinciali per sex menses probationis
caputio vel alia poena ^quivalenti puniatur..
colloquiis

Friars not
*^ "^^^,

themselves

np

in

affHi^^^'^^

Item fratres non sint judices et arbitri quorumcun- aliis officiis ordinem nostrum
neque
dedecentilms
que,
^
^
et qui contrafecerint omnise aliqualiter intromittant
bus legitimis actibus priventur. Nullus fi-ater procuret,
per se vel per alium quovismodo, committi sibi nee
aJteri fratri aliqua negotia procuranda per reges, prinaut quod maneat,
cipes, pra^latos, seu communitates
eisdem,
cum
aut
nimis se ingerat
equitet
quod
aut
curiis praelatorum vel aliquorum dominorum vel dominarum. Si quis autem contrafecerit procui'ando com.

mitti

sibi

negotia, vel

dinem mansionem, omnibus

pcenitentias pecioiiariaSy'^lS.

cum

stiam

officiis

personis

extra or-

ordinis

habeatur

7iec de, 'SIS.

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.
indignus, et

sacerdos

bus audiendis.
Item statiiimus

97

suspendatur a confessioni-

est,

ordinamus, quod fratres qui deofvaga^^'^"''*''''^'*^provincia ad provinciam absque licentia fugerint, per

vicarium

illius

et

carceribus inancipcntur, vel

provincia3

visum fuerit, puniantur,

ac etiam ad provinciam de qua fugerint remittantur.

secundum quod

alia poena,

sibi

Nullus insupcr gardianus recipere possit fratres alterius

conventus sine

licentia

remanendi

sed ad

venientes,

suum vicarium provincialem eos remittat. Si autem

cum licentia ad tempus venerint concessa^ expletis his,
quse expedire habebant, ibidem remanere

non

possint.

De correctione Delinquentium.
Sextuon Ca2yUulum.

Ad angmentuin continuum

Privilegium Bonifacii octavi}

ligionum

ct

Komana

ordinum, quos

suscepit

et

re- Special

approbavit

ecclesia, paternis studiis intendentes et considerantes attentius,

quod non

intermissa

^'^^"^^'^-^

^^^^^

^^

ordines delinquents
salubriter dirigit et conservat, granted by

sedulitas

disciplince

supradictos statasque regulares

rigoris

et

ordo quilibet ^ ^^*^^^?J^~

regularium
personarum correctio rimas juris et apices sequeretur, hujusmodi rigor lentesceret, ac multiplici laxatione torperet, nos

quodque,
collabi

vestris

si

earn

necessario

piis

perire

remitti

vel

cogeretur

supplicationibus

contigerit,

pensantes

quod

inclinati, vobis

si

auctoritate

apo-

indulgemus, ut ad correctiones et punitiones fratrum

ejusdeni ordinis delinquentium infligendas ^ prfelati ordinis
supradicti, ad quos esedem spectare noscuntur, rimulis juris et
apicibus ejus postpositis, libere procedere valeant secundum
consuetudines approbatas, et generalia facta etfacienda^ ipsius
ordinis instituta.
Nee volumus eisdem licere fratribus ab
eisdem correctionibus et punitionibus aliquatenus appellare, praestolica

via deliberatione ac maturitate debita observatis.

Added

in

hand.

margin by another

7644.

affligendas,

"^

fienda,

MS.

MS.

AEBREYIATIO STATUTORUM.

9t

Capituluvi fjcnerale. Ordinamus

Of granting absoluproviiiciali vicario inferior, nisi ex
tion in va- *
lions cases,

vel

.......

rerum

peccato

frater

..aliquem

absol-

o-eneralis

speciali

licentia, possit

provincialis vicarii

vere

quod nullus

contumacis, proprietari?e

inobedienti^e

detentionis, lapsus carnis, furti rei notabilis vel

frequenter

iterati, injectionis

testimonii

in judicio

tionis libelli

famosi,

personoe notabilis, et

manuum

compositionis

facti,

projec-

vel

sigilli

cujuscunque

criminationis

in infaniiam

falsificationis
falsa)

falsi

violenta?,

Dicimus autem inobedientiam contumaceni quando quis, trina admonitione prciemissa, factis
congruis intervallis, per diem naturalem inobediens
perseverat.
Quare ])ra3senti ordinatione statuimus, quod
cujuscunque.

si

qui

antiqni

fratruui,

divina perniittcnte

fallacia procurante

criniinibus,

aut

aliquo

quod

justitia,

absit

pr?emissoruni

pro absolu tionis beneficio ad

pra:.'fatos

hostis

et

pr^ememoratis

fuerint

irretiti,

vicarios vel

eorum

commissarios recurrere debeant sine mora.

Nullus confessor absolvere possit de tactibus impudicis enormibus, nisi qui de lapsu carnis habet licentiam
Et de sollicitantibus ex certa scientia ad
absolvendi.
peccatum carnis idem judicium habeatur. Item custodes non possint absolvere a piiedictis etiam in
privato commissis, nisi per vicarium committatur eisdem.
Item si aliquis vicarius provincialis committat alicui
subditorum suorum auctoiitatem suam super illis casibus, qui vicariis provincialibus reservantur,

vicarium mori vel

ab

officio

vicariatus

si

contingat

amoveri,

talis

commissio penes ilium, cui facta fuerat, remaneat donee

^^carius in provincia habeatur.
Et quicunque confessor

ex certa scientia prsesumpserit absolvere a prsedictis,

suspensus sit ipso facto a confessionibus audiendis, nee
restitui possit nisi per provincialem vicarium
et quicunque in hoc vitiosus legitime fuerit deprehensus,
poena carceris puniatur. Si quis autem au.sus fuerit
:

affirmare,

quod quilibet sacerdos

possit

absolvere

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.

99

peccato super quo non liabct commissam auctoritatcni,

et inaxime de prsedictis, et correctus revocare noluerit,

tanquam errans

et subvcrsor carccii inancipetur.

Generalis

JDonifaclus Pa^xi odavus.

et

raiiiistri

eorum

et

singuli

commissis, fratribus constitutis ibidem, et

custodiis sibi

fratribn.s

provinciales

ac etiaui custodes in provinciLs et

vicarii

Constltii-

of

t'O'i*;*

'^^*^'

aliis ,/!"'

ejusdem ordinie intcrdum ad cos declinaiitibus nndc-

J 1 J

re-

spcctiiK'-

cunque, absolutione et dispensatione indigentibu8, sive prius- absolution

quam intraverint ordinem, sive post in casibus excesserint pro P^ offend'""
^
quibus excommunicationis, interdicti, aut suspensionis incurrerint sententias a jure vel a judice generaliter promulgatas,
et Inijusniodi sententiis innodati, aut in locis interdicto suj)positis divina officia celebrantes, vel suscipientcs ordines sic
'='

ligati,

notam

irregularitatis

absolntionis

incurrerinfc,

et

dis-

beneficium valeant impartiri, nisi adco gravis et

enormis excessus fuerit, quod sint ad eandem Sedeni merito destinandi.
Fratres ctiam quos, pro tempore, vos generalis et
provinciales ministri in proprios et vices vestras gerentes ac
etiam vos custodes in proprios confessores habueritis, absolution is beneficium et dispensationis vobis, cum expedierit, valeant
impartiri juxta formam concessionis super absolutione et dispensatione ejusdem ordiiiis vestri superius facta? et infra. Inpensationis

hibemus insuper universis

nisi in

necessitatis

vestris

articnlo,

Caintulum
injectione
vel

prcelatis

aliis

Ab

generale.

iiianuum violenta

gardianus

si

custodis

excommunicatione
possit

non

possit haberi, aut vicarius

todis

vel

gardiani

possit haberi.

tutum non

Hoc

custos

prsesentia

infra

pro Of

^^'^olvere,

diem natu-

proesentia infra

raleni

gardiani

triduum

auteni tarn piivilegium

si

minime

quam

sta-

Nullus incarceretur

enormi excessu.

nisi

})ro

manifesto

Enormem autem dicimus excessum

vel ratione generis pecca.ti, ut est lapsus carnis, inobe^

dientia contumax,

et

cireumstantiae, sicut est

factum, seu

perfidia

furtum

lia3resis

rei

vel

ratione

notabilis vel notorie

quia frequenter iteratum, et

de similibus

idem judicium habeatur.

G 2

absolu-

Jj^^JJ,J^^j^^

,j.

sentence

cus- ^l

intelligitur de injectione atroci, vel subditi

in praslatum.
et

ne aliquis eorum,
suis peccata

fratribus

quam

sacerdotibus ejusdem ordinis

reguiam et ipsius ordinis instituta.

sua confiteri prresumat, vel

secundum

aliis

^^^''^^

'

ABBEEVIATIO STATUTORUM.

100
Of imprisoument.

Declaramus quod omnes qui poena carceris puniuntur,

'i*
x-r
eo ipso legitimis actibus smt privati, uncle quamvis
liberentur a carcere, non propter hoc restituuntur ad
actus pnedictos, nisi hoc eis beneficium explicite imOmnis etiani carceri mancipandus habitu
pendatur.
.

'

ordinis spolietur.

Si

frater

eum

sive

detinere,

fecerit

quod poenam carceris debeat

custos vel eorum vicarii de
sint

quando

of letters
or seals.

humani.
Quicunque

frater,

vel per

fieri

alium,

sigillum

vel literas prselatorum vel principum, generalis vel provel vicariorum

aliarum notabilium personarum,

legitime

si

Quod

si

ejus

sigillum

vicarii,

non

Quicunque

&c. of vel

frater

per alium,

aut

destruxerit,

tantur

eisdem,

tur ab

omni actu legitimo

carcere sine

mandato.
maliciose, per se

impediverit

seu retinuerit vel

ne mit-

aperuerit, suspenda-

cui

et

generalis

literas

liberetur a

eorundem

literas

mancipetur.

carceri

vel

speciali generalis ministri vel vicarii

Destrue-

eornndem, vel

falsificare prresumpserit,

deprehensus,

fuerit

falsificaverit

ministri seu

tiou,

agendum de

sit

intelligimus debere

per se

vincialium niinistrorum

letters,

sive non,

commissus excessus est rei evidentia maniHabeantur autem boni carceres et fortes sed

festus.

Of forgery

Hoc

diffinitum.

fuerit

discretorum pos-

eorum subditus

sit

donee per vicarium provincialem quid

tali

gardianus vel

sustinere,
consilio

propter

aliquid

ha^c

poena

non

com petit, probationis caputio vel alias debite puniatur.

Et hoc intelligimus tam de Uteris quas ipsi aliis
mittunt

quam

de

illis

nee releventur nisi

Si

autem

fuerint

ab aliis transmittuntur,
per suum vicarium provincialem.
qua3^ sibi

generalis per

generalem vicarium releventur,

ipsuin

Prajdictse

tantummodo
autem poenae

subjaceant, qui su periods literas sibi ipsis missas legere

vel aperire distulerint malitiose.

quas,

MS.

-fuerit,

MS.

101

ABBREVIATIO STATUTOlllTM.
Nullus

per

suadcat,

vel

viUae, sen

suaderi

i.

Of

friars

faciat,

extenmlTncastro, terference

T
ordmem

J.

personae extra nostrum

alicui

existenti, ut aliquid

quamanucunquc

communitati,

regi, vel principi,

-ii

vol

sc

personam

interpositam
alicui prnolato,

vel

per

frater

in affairs of
^|^g

order,

immutetur de statu ordinis nostri

sen nostri vicariatus, vel

de ordinatione

alicujus pro-

quocunquc fratre seu

Et quicunque confratribus de loco aliquo amovendis.
trafecerit poenis gravissimis, etiam usque ad carceres,
secundum delicti exigentiam puniatur.
Et modo consimili puniatur ille, cujuscunque condi- Of friars
tionis existat, qui pro se vel pro alio per personam pl-oi^^otb^
aliquam ^ quovismodo promotionem procuraverit extra for them^
nostrum ordinem existentem, vel quod in aliquo pona- oth^ejig,
tur vel removeatur loco, vel quod removeri non possit.
Inliibemus insuper ne quis causam depositionis vicarii Of preservprovincialis, custodis, vel gardiani, vel eorum excessum secrets of
seu

vinciae

seu

custodia3,

correctionem,

seu dissentionem

de

vel

aut seeretum
diffinitorum

capituli cujuscunque,

tbe order,

fratrum, vel aliquid

vel

unde ordo noster possit turbari seu difFamari,

scienter audeat extra ordinem nostrum publicare.
Et
si quis talium reus fuerit deprehensus, omni actu legialiud,

timo

et officiis ordinis privetur,

aut alia poena

?equi~

valenti per vicarium puniatur.

Item
per

fratres

ad

provincialem

officia

non assumantur

ordinis

vicarium

de consensu

capituli vel majoris partis ejusdem.

Fratres

evidenter

provincialis

notati de suspectis

moniti

et correcti sufficienter se

officiis

fuerint,

non

Si vero in

si

correxerint,

officiis

et Of conduct

consortiis

ab omnibus absolvantur vel

dantur per vicarium.

non

ad- ^^en!
si

in

suspenfuerint,

priventur libris et omni actu legitimo, et cui haec poena

non competit, probationis caputio et aliis poenis gra-

per

^^^^'

mulierum, qu^ in regula prohibentur,

colloquiis

nisi Of promo-

aliquam, added by another hand in the margin.

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.

102
vibus

ad

puniatur

Et

arbitrium vicariorum.

intel-

non solum de mulieribus, sed

Item
familiaritatibus quibuscunque.

ligiinus suspecta consortia

etiam de suspectis

quicunque

a suo fratre socio

cum mulieribus sequestrari, de quibus judicio prselati
sui merito possit oriii suspicio, si canoiiice monitus et
frater consuetus

fuerit

non emendaverit, tanquam suspectus de

mulieribus omnibus ojQiciis ordinis et OQini actu legitimo
privetur et si taliter punitus iterato duobus fide dignis
correctus se

testibus convincatur de

sequestratione praedicta, vel

si

sequestrationes hujusmodi suspicionem multis violentam

fecerint sui prselati judicio de

probentur

consilio discretorum,

et

absque monitione et punitione

praemissa; arceatur ad veritatem dicendam.
Si vero
unus testis fide dignus de sequestratione praedicta appareat

contra

gravius in
Of the
offence of

owning
property.

Of

incor-

eum,

domo

et

alius

de

lapsu

carnis, arceatur

disciplina^.

Quicunque frater inventus fuerit proprietarius, libris

et omni actu legitimo privetur.
Laici vero, qui libros
et ofiicia non liabent, probationis caputio vel alias debite puniantur.
Et siquis taliter inventus fuerit in
morte proprietarius, careat ecciesiastica sepultura.
Fratres

rigible

offenders.

legitime,

scriptis et

incorrigibiles,

examinatis

cum

fideliter

suis

excessibus

con-

per vicarium vel cus-

todem seu visitatorem, ad provinciale capitulum transmittantur.

Quod si adeo incorrigibiles fuerint, quod
culpam
liumiliter recognoscere nee pcenitentiam
nee
condignam subire voluerint, carceri mancipentur. Si
vero pcenitentiam accipiant et correctionem promittant,

cum

misericordia

portare
Friars on
return from
a journey
to declare
offences

eis

poenitentia

contempserint,

imponatur,

ad consueta

vitia

quam

si

revertentes,

in sequenti capitulo carceri mancipentur.

Debeant autem
gardiano

suo

fratres exeuntes in reditu suo secrete

excessus

sui

socii

notabiles

intimare.

committed Quod si non fecerint, per superiorem, cui de hoc conby their
stiterit, in jejunio panis et aquge vel alias graviter
compuniantur.
Et si unus frater excessum alterius faverit
panions.

103

ABBIIEVIATIO STATUTOllUM.

per

duas vias, utpote per confessionem et per alium

niodiirn, nihilominus gardiano suo dicere teneatur iit

pnedictum

est.

Quicunqiie

deposuerit coram quocunque pra3- of false

crimine ^.^cusafalso ct scienter dc aliquo
^

f rater

lato vel visitatore

tious.

contra

Iratrem

ad

vel

hoc faciendum aliqiiam per-

sonam induxerit vel revocaverit falso, vel ad revocandum induxerit quod vere deposuerit a solo vicario
;

provinciali, vel

commissario

ejus

possit

quod prius satisfaciat,

in forma secundum quam

duntaxat,
fuerit,

cavit, scilicet

publice vel

occulte

proiit

sibi

possibile

deposuit vel
;

et

Ita

absolvi.

de

si

revo-

praedicto

crimine convictus fuerit, poena carceris puniatur.

Districte inhibemus ne personoe accusantes
vel aliis nescientibus aliquo

quod de omnibus

modo

sua

accusant] um

maxime de nominibus

vicarium prohibemus, nisi de

cusatione

scienter revelentur.
'

et

petierint

accusatis Names of

crimine

accusati in ex-

suo superiore

''^^^"^^']f

not ordinaliiy to

be
^^

^clused^

accu-

sibi

santium et testium nomina revelari. Inhibemus etiam

accusatis ne scienter de nominibus accusantium se inquirant, nisi cum quis de crimine accusatur, et petit
accusantium nomina
trai'ium fecerit revelando

sibi

nisi

Et quicunque coiisen inquirendo, non possit

revelari.

per vicarium provincialem

cui ipse duxerit

committendum.

custodes

cet vicarii,

absolvi, vel

vel

per ilium

Superiores vero,

gardiani,

si

inquirendo

scili-

vel

fecerint, necnon si contrarium

eorum revelantes eisdem infra sex
diebus in pane et aqua per totam diem,

contrarium

revelando

fecerint accusatores

menses, xv.
sine

dispensatione,

jejunare

debeant,

ad hoc per

et

superiorem cogantur.

Ordinamus quod nullus vicarius a

poenitentia,

imposuit visitator, et nullus custos a poenitentia,

imposuit vicarius, nee gardianus a poenitentia,

imposuit

custos,

nee

aliquis

petierit,

inferior

MS.

quam No inferior
quam *^ t)soive
quam ance in-

poenitentia

^
^uperiorf

104

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORTJM.

gardiani, absolvat aliquem sine licentia imponentis

si

By whom

et

contrarium factum fuerit, ipsa absolutio sit inanis.

Declaramus quod ubicunque in constitutionibus coii-

punish-

mtnt

tinetur aliqua censura suspensionis vel hujusmodi, ubi

should he

non

inflicted.

tantum comminatio de
futuro, nee ibi exprimitur a quo imponi debeat vel
infligi intelligitur ab eo infligi debere coram quo legitime probatur excessus, dum tamen hujusmodi excessus correctio pertineat ad eundem.

Depriva-

In

lata

sit

sententia

privatione

vero

sed

officiorum

ordinis

intelligitur

tion of
oflBces.

piivatio

non solum pnelatiouis sed

dicationis,

lectionis,

diffinitionis,

confessionis, pr8e-

visitationis,

et

elec-

In privatione vero
ad capitulum pro discreto.
actuum legitimorum nolumus quod intelligatur privari
executio ordinum, vel testiiicatio in judicio,
nisi
tionis

specialiter expriuiatur.

The

present statutes to he
carefulh-

ohserved,

Ne

labor

temptum veniat

world.

generalis

sit

in

con-

ordinis disciplina, vicarii, custodes, et

quas

quilibet

gardianus

in

loco

suo studeat

diligenter habere, et in sua custodia reservare, cavendo

ne extraneis publicentur.

minus faciant fratribus

venerint

Ipsas etiam ter in anno ad

suis

legi.

Of commu- ponant.
vicariis,

Si

quos vero

in-

cogant eos ad plenam observantiam

in ipsis constitutionibus sunt taxatse

discolos,

poenarum, quae
et si eorum contumacia exegerit,
tation of
sentences.

inanis, et

gardiani constitutiones prsesentes diligenter faciant ob-

and to he servari,
kept secret

from the

capituli

etiam graviores

im-

Conceditur quoque generali et provincialibus

in casu

speciali

atque

ex

causa

rationabili,

commutare poenas hujusmodi, ac eas mitigare, quod si

ex eorum remissione solvatur ordinis disciplina, accuCaveant autem vicarii
sentur in capitulo generali.
provinciales

Papal authority for

capture,

&c. of

multiplicatione

statutorum

provincia-

lium et quorumlibet praeceptorum, propter oblivionis et

transgressionis periculum evitandum.
Innocentius Pajja quartus.
" Ut apostatas et insolentes vestri

*'

ordiuis, nisi yestris salnbriter monitis acquiescant, excom" municare, capere, et ligare, et carceri tradere, si videbitur

105

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.

" cxpcdirc, possitis, auctoritatc praosentium vobis concedimus apostnte

'

^^'^''-

facultatem."

Capitiblmn generale. Volentes apostatis viam pr?e- Of the

cludere, nos generalis et provinciales vicarii et diffi- -.postasy.

excommu-

nitores generalis congregationis seu capituli

nicamus in his

scriptis

omnem

apostatantem, et ex decreto

omnem

patrias,
socio,

fratrem, qui

suorum

obedientiam,

cum

prsesentis

sine

habitu vel sine habitu,

vagabundus

vel

iverit,

autem apostavel

licentia,

superiorum per

terras,

cum

fuerit;

anathe-

statuti

Intelligimus

matis vinculo innodannis.

tantem

fratrem ab ordine nostro

contra
vel

loca

socio vel sine

generaliter

ac

absque ejusdem ordinis licentia quomodolibet discedentem. Ordinamus etiam ut omnis apostatans ab ordine
Postquam vero aliquis de
nostro carceri mancipetur.

conventu

aliquo

constiterit,

loco

aliorum

ad

denuntiat vel

vel

apostataverit

terrorem

denuntiari

faciat

et

[eum]

et

gardiano

praeservationem
publice

coram

excommunicatum, qualibet scilicet

mensis suae apostasise.
Et dum

fratribus in capitulo
feria

sexta

primi

hujusmodi apostatse revertuntur, in prsesentia conventus coram fratribus cum psalmo, " Miserere mei, Deus,"
versiculo, "

Salvum

fac

servurii

tuum

" vel "

famulum

" Deus, cui

proprium est," ac etiam

cum virgis seu flagellis ab excommunicatione absolvantur.
Quilibet vicarius provincialis habeat ordinariam

tuum/' et oratione,

jurisdictionem, auctoritate vicarii generalis,

excommuni-

candi, capiendi, et incarcerandi, et alia poena puniendi,

super omnes apostatas, etiam aliarum provinciarum, in

provincia sua.

Et idem possint custodes

causa necessitatis, et fratres

apostatas nostri
carii

et

ordinis

custodes

ne

alii

capiendi.

et

auctoritatem habeant

Caveant autem

permittant apostatas,

sive provincise alterius, in

gardiani

sive

vi-

suos

scandalum ordinis evagari.

-ifiageiia-

apostates.

106

De

ABBREVIATIO STATUTOKUM.

Electionibus et Institutionibus Officiariorum.

Septimmn Gapitulum.
Election of
wardens.

Statuimus

ut

deinceps

gardiani

in

singulis

locis

eorundem locorum, die ad

celebrandam electionem hujusmodi per eorundem vicarios assignata.
In quorum electione null us vocem
per

eligantur

conventus

habeat, nisi saltem qui xxv^^ sua3

gerit,
Election to
office of
custos.

Confirmation of

elections
to such
offices.

et

in

sacris

fuerit

ordinibus

autem custodes habentur, servetur

consuetudo

retatis

hactenus observata.

annum

consti tutus.

atti-

Ubi

eorum electione
Dictorum vero elecin

tionum custodum et gardianorum confirmatio pertineat

ad generalem vel provincialem vicarium.
Et si ad
electionem hujusmodi faciendam per viam scrutinii
procedatur, et votis in di versa divisis, electiones plures

a majori
parte numero omnium in dicta electione vocem haben-

in

discordia

tium,

nulla

celebrari

zeli

vel

contigerit,

meriti

ilia,

collatione

celebrata, exceptione sen contradictione

quae

habita,

fuerit

quacunque par-

non obstante, per dictum vicarium de consilio discretorum de ordine, prius tamen ex officio prout
ad ipsum spectat diligenti examinatione praemissa, confirmetur vel infirmetur, prout ei secundum Deum
Et si fuerit infirmata, ad dictos
videbitur expedire.
tis alterius

electores electio revertatur, nisi

scienter eligant indig-

num, quo casu ad dictum vicarium ilia vice, ipso facto,

provisio hujusmodi devolvatur. Et eadem fiat devolutio
si

dicti electores, die

anum

Larger
houses
to be called
convents,

and to have
wardens.
Smaller
friaries to

have
euperiors.

ad eligendum custodem vel gardi-

assignata, eligere pr?etermittant.

In electionibus

quoque praedictis et confirmationibus earundem, declaramus electores seu confirmatores formis aut solempnitatibus quibuscunque a jure statu tis non arctari.
Item loca nostra auctoritate Apostolica fundata, in
quibus duodecim fratres ad minus commode vivere
possui:it, a])pellentur conventus, et habeant gardianos.
Alia vero loca, quae non sunt conventus, superiores
habeant, qui duntaxat vicarii appellentur.

107

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.
vero

Circa

quod ad

Sancti Spiritus
electione

todes

voceS; discretorum

discreti

et

provinciales

et

discretorum,

quorum

vicarius

inclusis,

et

rroecaure
^^ y'icar'"
General.

cus-

etiam vicarioruin absentium,

atque

per congregationem generalem suppleantur.

congregatis

electoribus

luiefixa,

liabeant vicarii

habentur,

ubi

orJinamus,

piimo invocata
inclusio electoruiii, in qua

eligendum

gratia, tiat

voceiii

modo

procedatur hoc

electioneiii

congregatis die ad

electiouem

generalis

vicarii

Quibus

provincialis

ubi

sic
sit

capitulum disquisitores instituat de duorum vel trium

consilio discretorum, qui

singulorum vota, seorsum

ali-

quantulum, coram omnibus fideliter perquirant et conscribant, ita quod singuli, antequam recedant ab eis,
audiant qualiter conscripserint vota sua. Et fratres
electores in exprimendo vota sua his verbis utantur,
"

Ego,

talis vicarius vel

sen discretus,

custos

talis vel

nomino talem fratrem pro generali

per ordinem conscriptis, statim in
eodem loco, antequam fratres recedant vel colloquantur,
ad invicem publicentur in medio ([ua: conscripserunt.
" talis provincial,
"

vicario," quibus

Quod

divina

si,

concordaverint,
quaestione
ille

si

gratia
illius

vero

in quern dure

electio

in

unum

inspirante, in

partes

partes

lirma

est

ina?quales

eligentium

aliquem

absque aliqua
se diviserint,

consenserint, pro

Postquam electio fuerit de eo

pronunciata, surgat unus ex electoribus a praedicto
\-icario deputatus et dicat, " In nomine Patris et Filii
" et Spiritus Sancti.
Ego, frater talis, nomine meo et
" nomine
omnium vestrum qui meciun consensistis,
vero electo

" eligo

habeatur.

talem fratrem in generalem vicarium totius nos-

" tri vicariatus cismontani."

"

Te Deum laudamus."

electionis

Et

forma pn\?dicta

Quo

facto st^atim dicitur,

omni pronuntiatione
ab omnibus uniformiter obin

serve tur.

Circa
militer

excepto

vero electionem vicariorum

procedatur
*

quod

[rovincialium

si- Procedure

....
vicarium

o-eneralis
c
provincialem eligi a

omnium

in dicta electione vo-

ut

in

electione

suiiicit

majori parte medietato

vicarii

'

^^^'ctlou^^
'"^l

ot proTin^
cial vicars,

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.

108

cem habentium;

quod electores non oportet

Ordinamus
cantare " Te Deum."

et excepto

includi, nee in fine

quoque quod

provinciales, convocata

ipsi vicarii

pro-

a fratribus de
corpore provincialis capituli, eligantur, confirmandi per

vinciali congregatione, a

ministrum,

provincialem
pro

triduo,

subditis, id est

et

confirmatis

vere

renuerit,

ipse

si

elapso

Apostolica

auetoritate

habeantur.
Of

visitors

and

^^slta-

tions.

Quoad

... prout

^antum, et eo modo, de csetero

'

'

seu

gregatio

oreneralis con-

fiat

generalis vicarius duxerit disponen-

ipse

Ordinamus insuper quod

dum.

provinciarum id

seu visitationem

visitatores

promotionibus ad
officia ordinis et in correctionibus criminum, et in aliis
gravibus negotiis, prselati et visitatores consilium similiter

requirant

servent

et

in

patrum discretorum, vel

majoris partis eorundem, nee in consiliis aliquis pr^esi-

dens suam per se vel

per

Et caveant omnes a verbis

alium aperiat voluntatem.

superfiuis vel

injuriosis in

consiliis tribuendis.

De

Capitulis Fratrum.

Octavum Capitidiim.
Of concha*"ers

Ordinamus quod capitulum culparum, sicut consue^^^ ^^^' ^^^ ^^ hebdomada ad minus celebretur, in quo
quotidiame cidpi^ et negligentise

Ofprovin- recognoscantur,
congregatious
or chapciai

ters.

et

recognitae

terum ordinamus, ut

...

vinciis,

...
provincialis

sino-ulis

plene

et

singillatim

debite puniantur.

Cae-

annis

pro-

congregatio

in

sinofulis
.

seu

capitulum

cele-

bretur, nisi quoad aliquas provincias provinciali vicario

cum

suo

capitulo

videretur

potius

difFerendum.

In

quo capitulo locus et dies sequentis capituli assignetur, ita quod redeuntes de capitulo generali proximo
By whom pr^cedenti valeant interesse. Ad illud autem capitulum
to be
conveniant custodes et discreti, proviso
quod
multi^
^
attended.
\
tudo venientmm e^^tetur. In hoc autem capitulo et
in aliis vocem non habeant fratres in monasteriis moni.

109

ABBREVIATIO STAT[JTOIlUM.

Admittantur tamcn ad electionein

discrcti ad capitulum transmittcndi in locis juxta qiue
Nullus
niorantur, sicut fratres cseteri do conventii.

aliuiu coiniiiorantcs.

praesens

frater

vol

absens

per

scrutinium facta vocem

nisi

juxta ea qua3

in

suam

privilegio

clcctione

in

possit

committerc

aliqua
altcri,

doniini Nicholai de

custodibus continctur.

Ad pmctixam autcm diem

clcctionis

discreti

omncs

conventns ejusdem conveniant, bonara fidcm babeant, ct gardiani omnibus denuntient, quibus poterunt,
bona fide. Et ut aliquorum ambitio et insolentia non
fratres

ordinamus

crescat,

ut

nullus

frater

eodem

anno

Klection of
^'
Jf^^Jj^^^^"

t\ie

pro-

chanter.

in

ad provinciale seu custodiale capitulum transmittendi vocem habeat nisi unam, et si

secus factum fiierit secunda vox nulla sit, et inter
voces eligentium minime compute tur.
Ordinamus insuper quod fratres juvenes non haelectione

discreti

beant voces in electione discreti, nee in approbatione

mittendorum ad capitulum ipsum, prisquam setatis su?e

vicesimum annum compleverint secundum custodis vel

gardiani judicium de consilio discretorum, nisi de ipsa
Hanc electionem
setate testimonium certius habeatur.
capitulum
mittendi
fratres
discreti ad
faciant prima
die

alioquin vicarius vel custos eis provideat de

quem

dis-

mori vel legitime impediri,

alterius provisio ad vicarium pertineat vel custodem,
Gardianus autem ten eat capitulum quando de excreto,

si

contigat

cessibus vicarii vel custodis et

aliis

tur.

transmittcndis ad

Cum

aliquis

de

vero

eorum

insufficientia, et Rules for

capitulum provinciale, perquiriexcessibus

eorum, institutus

gardiani

a gardiano

de

perquiritur, and

for in-

consilio aliccnduct'o?

quorum discretorum, teneat capitulum. Pr?edicti vero

de excessibus pr?elatorum et eorum insufficient ia diliet alii fratres inquirenti bona fide
genter inquirant
veritatem do omnibus debeant respondere. In prsedictis autem inquisitionibus tam revelantes accusantium
nomina quam inquirentes ad poenam, quae superius
ponitur sexto capitulo, astringantur.
Custodes autem
;

^PP^^^j^^^^s

officers.

ABBREVIATIO 8TATUT0RUM.

110

hujusmodi scrutinio non intersint. Illucl autem scrutinium ultra unius diei naturalis spatium nolumus prolongaii.
Excessus autem gardiani, quando mittuntui
ad capituluin provinciale, recitentur ei in publico coram
suo conventu, prassertim si ad dictum capitulum non
Et si aliquid grave accidisset in
fuerit profecturus.
provincia, vel contigisset in via, quod aliter ad capitulum istud non veniret, debeant fratres quibus notum
est ipsum coram diffinitoribus accusare.
Prelimiforras'to^he

observed
ciiadiap'
ters,

in loco

Isti

capituli congregati

usque ad mane

^^ delibereut

ipsa

die

quiescant

tunc

sequentis, et

diei

audita missa, ingrediantur capitulum, et invocata Sancti

sermo fratribus in conununi. Deinde quatuor ex ipsis tantum eligant^ difiinitores per
disquisitionem triuin, quos vicarius et gardianus loci
^^pi>'itus gratia,

fiat

duxerint eligendos.

autem

Si

in

electionibus diffinito-

quam quatuor majorem partem vocum

medietate omnium habere contigerit, illi qui plures

rum

plures

voces habent ex ipsis pro veris diffinitoribus habeantur,-

vero

si

quoad

fuerint in

illos,

numero

quousque

scrutinium

a^quali, iteretur

vocum

per pluralitatem

electio

In hujus autem capituli provincialis principio custodes et gardiani per se, si praesentes
fuerint, vel per literas si absentes, suis officiis renuntiare debeant, quorum renuntiatio a vicario, vel ab eo
unius alteri pr^feratur.

capitulum

loco ejus,

cum

qui

tenet

fine

capituli, si videbitur, admittatur.

carius provincialis

non

interesse

diffinitoribus,

Si

poterit,

in

autem viet commis-

sarius ejus defuerit, custos in cujus custodia capitulum

celebratur, vel

ejus.

Prsedicti

vero

carium provincial em,

eliyant added in

diffinitores

habeautur added
Pro
margin by another hand.
.

vero,

expedire

added

other hand.

other hand.
-

in

capitulum

loco

possint corrigere

et

diffinire

margin hy an-

non habent ur,

custodes

conventu celebratur, teneat

cujus

in

gardianus, ubi

in

cum
margin

vi-

ipso

h}* an-

Al^BREVIATIO STATUTORUM.

omnia
sunt

pertinebnnt, quiB

ad provinciale capita] inn

qiiai

Ill

lia3C :-"-

Of

...

Collatio super transmissis ad capituluni.

Correctio

eorum quae in

corrigenda

provinciali capitulo

notificantur.

ad necessitatem morum vel honprovincia? videbnntur pertinere, cum di-

Oi'dinatio eoiuni quoe

estateni
versiTB

provincial diversis consnetudinibus vavientur-

Nullas tamen constitutiones vel oidinationes ibidem

faciant absque majoris
sensu.

capituli

partis

consilio

et

as-

Subditi autem, qui fuerint diffinitores in capi-

proximo prsecedenti non sint diffinitores in capitulo^

proximo sequenti, et dicimus liic subditos sub vicariis

tulo^

Prsedicti vero electores quin-

provincial ibus constitutos.

tum ex

se

possit diffinire

correctione

eligant, qui

ipsis

videlicet,

hoc tantum articulo

quatuor diffinitores, in

in

si

partes

provincialis, in

vicarii

?equales

se

eorum sententia pr?evaleat, quam ipse duxerit approbandam.

Idem tamen quintus, qui sic eligitur, in capitulo provinciali non intelligitur pro diffinitore.
Unde potest sequenti anno eligi diffinitor.
diviserint,

igitur

Electis

diffinitoribus,

literge,

super

qu?e

facto

provincialis vicarii a fratribus locorum sunt transmissse,

eisdem

quarum

diffinitoribus prsesententur, ante

sentationem

vicarii

renuntient;

quae

renuntiatio,

tamen de

triennio

electio

praesentatio

et

fratres, in provinciali

in

excessibus

videbitur,

triennium

de

aliis

praeofficio

acceptetur,
fiat

nova
autem

Debeant
immediate prsecedente
vicarinm generalem de no-

prout supra.
capitulo

capituluni- generale, visitare

tabilibus

si

semper

suo

provinciales

certis,

et

et tales excessus per discretum

in terminis

explicatis,

discretorum euntem ad

generalem congregationem vel capitulum transmittantur, sub sigillis vicarii et gardiani loci in quo proIt^m debeant capitula
vinciale capitulum celebratur.
provincialia
^

significare capitulo generali

provinciali capitulo in each place, but the former

omission.

busi-

IIGSS to l)G

de excessibus
word marked

for

transacted.

112
et

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.
insufficientia

inutilium

vicarii

per eundum, et

provincise

sub

de receptione

provincialis, et

eodem.

de

communi pace

statu ac

quod custodes et
quoniam ex privilegio

Diffinimus

gardiani haLeantur pro pr?elatis

domini Clementis, quod dicitur, " IMare magnum," eis

committitur cura animarum, et gardiani in omnibus
obediant suis custodibus. Caveant tamen ne in suis
officiis ad invicem se conturbent.
Absence

of

Vicarius provincialis quando vadit ad capitulum gene-

the vicar
provincial

rale, vel alias exit

from

non

his

provinciam, vel

quod
dimittat com-

sic infirmatur,

possit capitulo provinciali interesse,

province.

missarium de consilio discretorum.

Quod

si

vicarius ab-

sens fuerit absolutus in capitulo generali, officium exerceat

ipse

donee

commissarius

sibi

quod

constiterit,

vicarius fuerit absolutus vel mortuus, et successor confirmatus.^

Et idem

de

fiat

custodibus et gardianis,

quousque de alionim confirmatione legitime

eis

con-

stiterit.

Of

transferring

friars to

other convents.

Of promotion to
offices.

Item fratres non trans ferantur de loco ad locum,

prsesertim infra tempus provincialis capituli, ad morandum, nisi evidens necessitas vel communis utilitas
hoc requirat, Et breviter, de loco ad locum non mittantur fratres, nisi ex necessaria causa fuerit faciendum.
Fratres patientes defectum natal ium non fiant prnenostro nee vicarii ordinarii, ita quod
lati in ordine
oporteat cos tenere capitulum, nee etiam fiant visiaut sororum Sanctge Clarse:
tatores ordinis nostri
nee

fiant

satum, nee

ista

dispensatio

effectum donee sub

tulo

fuerit

prseficiatur

sigillo

in

vitam communem, quse tam a

1 " Ista
particula addita est per
" capitulum generate Ruppella,'^

note appended to passage vel

dispen-

fuerit

prgedictis

declarata.

fratrum,

officio

eis

sortiatur

aathentico provinciali

certitudinaliter

in

cum

nisi

diffinitores,

nisi

prselatis

possit

fratei*

ducere

quam a

cojifirmatus, written in

another hand.

capi-

Nullus

sub-

margin by

ABBREVIATIO STATUTOllUM.
observetur,

ditis

maxime

113

in vestibus, cibis,

et lectis.

Executionem autem confessionuin quaiumcunque personaruin extra nostrum ordinem existentiuiii, aut \)inilationis officiuni, nullus de ccetero

habcat, nisi triginta

annos completes habeat in estate.

Item inhibemus ut nullus frater in aliqua clectione Of
sen visitatione vel promotione alicujus ad aliquod

cium ordinis
minando,
trahendo

laudando,

promittendo,
;

et qui

eimions.^

inductiones, com-

colligationes vcl

faciat

ofii-

unfair

mendaciter de-

vel

scienter contrafecerit,

ab omni actu

legitimo suspendatur.

Quoad capitulum generale statuimus ut ad ipsum conveniant vicarii provinciales, et custodes electi a custodibus tantum ubi habentur custodes, vel

necnon et singuli
provincialibus capitulis ad hoc electi,

custos fuerit,
suis

custodes ipsi

sub

si

ille

et

veniat,

discreti

portent

vicarii et gardiani loci

sigillis

Et

discreti
ita

fhapier of
the order,

a By whom

quod

^^^^^^.

testimoniales

literas

quo

in

unus solus

Of the

capitulum

alterum istorum
mori contigerit, vel infirmari, vel alias legitime improvinciale

pediri, sic

fuerit celebratum.

quod non

possit venire,

si

alius

a custodibus,

vel a discretis aliquibus a vicario vocatis, eligatur.

tamen contingat ex pnedictis aliquem

venire, nihil eorum, quie expedienda

vel aliquos

Si

non

sunt per capitu-

lum, propter hoc omittatur, sed per ipsum capitulum

voces abscntium suppleantur.

Quod

si

aliqui de praedictis remanserint, qui

generalis vicarii vel capituli

pediti, si in

udicio Of absence

non fuerint legitime im-

officio prselationis

^^^^ c^\ise

vel lectionis fuerint ab-

solvantur.

Drdinamus insuper quod nostri generalis capituli diffinitores sint omnes vicarii provinciales, custodes, et
T
discreti, tantum personaliter praesentes
ita quod pro
,

aut per congregationem suppleti, pro diffini tori bus nullatenus habeantur.
In hoc autem capitulo vicarii provinciales semper per

of those
^"^^^

'^^'^

*o

act as
diffinitors.

aliis missi,

se, si

praesentes fuerint, vel per literas

7644.

si

absentes,
j^

vicars

re- piovinciai
to resign

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.

114
their offices

in each

general
chapter.

nuntiare

ofticiis

generali, vel

vicario
ejus,

suis

cum

quorum

debeant,

ab

qui

eo,

renuntiatio

capituluni loco

tenet

assensu generalis capituli,

videbitur,

si

ad-

mi ttatur.
Questions
he de-

to

cided

hy

majorities.

autem memorati

In omnibus

sententia plurium indistincte

capituli diffinitionibus

praevaleat, et inviolabili-

nee ab ea aliquis appellare prsesumat.

PoiTO fratres qui veniunt ad generale capitulum,
qui non occupantur in diffinitione negotiorum capituli,
qualibet die, excepta vigilia et dominica Pentecostes,
ter observetur

solempniter celebrent

unam missam ad honorem

Vir-

quod etiam volumus in provincialibus

capitulis observari, quando fieri poterit bono modo.
ginis gloriosae,

Ceremonies to be

Congregati igitur vicarii et dicti custodes et discreti,

feria vi. ante festum Pentecostes, quiescant et delibe-

ohserved
on entering rent
the general
chapter.

usque in

mane

sequentis,

diei

missa, ingressi capitulum, cantent

" Creator Spiritus."
Deinde dicatur
"

Spiritum Tuum," oratio,

Tunc

literfe

cario

generali

"

et

tunc,

hymnum,
"

versus,

audita
"

Veni
Emitte

Deus, qui corda lidelium."

testimoniales custodum et discretorum viet

vicariis

provincialibus prsesententur.

Examina-

Postea tractent de correctione ipsius vicarii generalis.

tion of

Ipse vero vicarius generalis se accuset coram omnibus,

conduct of
vicar
general.

et

postea

cialis in

egrediatur.

Quo

vicarius

egresso,

provin-

cujus provincia celebratur capitulum, de ejus

statu et defectibus inquirat

vel

si

ipse vicarius

vincialis defuerit, custos vel discretus

illius

provincias

Quo

revocato, ad

electionem procedatur juxta ordinationem

domini Eu-

banc inquisitionem

faciat et csetera.

The chap- genii Papae Quarti, prout superius est expressum.

ter to

he

shut in
without
food until
a vicargeneral

has been
chosen.
Prelimi-

nary ceremonies.

pro-

quod,

inclusis

entur,

donee

ipsius

vicarii

Ita

electoribus, nulla eis alimenta ministr-

providerint,
generalis.

mane cantetur missa de

ut
Feria

oportet,

2^

post

de

electione

Pentecosten

qua cantata,
intrent fratres locum capituli, et fiat sermo fratribus
in communi.
Quo completo, recitetur numerus fratrum
defunctorum a tempore generalis capituli proximo prseSpiritu Sancto,

115

AHlillKVIATlO STATUTUllUM.

cedcntis,

In

'*

fine,

quibus dicatur psalmiis, " Dc profunclis."

Requiem eternam," " Pater noster/' " Et nc

jro

"A

" nos,"
"

mine

"

solve."

porta inferi,"

"

Requiescant in pace,"

''

DoAb-

Dominus vobiscum," oratio,'" "

Numerus autem fratribus ibidem rccitatus
"

exaiidi,"

ad singulas provincias
vincialibus

deferatiir,

modo

capitulis

simili

pro-

singulis

in

iit

Hinc

absolvantur.

omnes, qui non debent interesse capitulo, exeant. Nullus alterius religionis vel professionis, nullusque saecu-

cujuscunque

laris

Q^.^^^^^.

^jj],.

vel ^^^^ ^^-

conditionis

dignitatis,

ordinis,

Brethren

ad excusandum fratves, qui non venerunt, audiantur. Deinde

fiat collatio super illis, quae de provinciis ad capitulum

the chap-

generalem vicarium
et diftinitores, de singulis ut omnibus, de correctione
Et percoi'rigendorvim, de ordinatione ordinandorum.

tiansactcd

vitae,

Missi

tractatibus capituli admittatur.

sunt transmissa

et provideatur per

quiratur diligenter qualiter regula et statuta in singulis

provinciis fuerint custodita.

Provideant etiam de mit-

una provincia ad aliam ad morandum

tendis de
in

fine

assignetur

locus

Et

fiat

communis

confessio et

tibus

benedictio

cantetur, "

Te

"

Deus,"

''

Christum."

capituli

generalis

apostatis

Deum

et oratio, "

Similis

observetur.

j^erseveran-

Deinde
Confirma hoc
In fine, " Per

anatliematizatio.

laudamus," versus
Actiones

et

sequentis.

capituli

absolutio

nostras."

solennitas

Quodcunque

"

in fine

autem

provincialis

de

coetero

statutum fuerit in capitulo general i, sub sigillo generalis vicarii ad singulas provincias deportetur.
Nihil
autem grave contra aliquem fratrem ad capitulum generale portctur, nisi fuerit per provinciale capitulum
discussum, et in scriptis sub sigillo authentico redactum.
Similiter nee ad capitulum provinciale portetur aliquid,
nisi per capitulum conventuale, modo consimili, exami-

natum

fuerit, scriptum,

et sigillatum.

It

*^'^-

to^bc'^'^

rreneial

chapter,

ABBREVIATIO STATUTORUM.

116

De

SUFFRAGIIS DeFUNCTORUM

Nomvm
Of masses,
sak/for^
deceased
^

or^connected with

Capituluni.

Statuimiis ut pro omnibus fratribus in nostro ordine

clececlentibus quilibet sacerdos, nisi contingat

guore

unam missam

mortuis celebret

lectam mortuoruni

de

appropriatam

vel

caeteri f ratines

Ian-

hebdomada

praepediri, qualibet

itinera

vel

eum

col-

dicant vigi-

clerici

centum " Pater nos" ter," cum totidera "Ave Maria"

Et si omittantur in
una hebdomada, possint suppleri in alia. Ordinamus
etiam quod pro fratribus nostris et familiaribus defunctis, quorum recommendatio facta fuerit in capitulo
generali, quilibet sacerdos annuatim celebret unam missam de mortuis, quilibet frater clericus dicet L^ psalmos,
et quilibet frater laicus c " Pater noster." Et pro vivis
liam

lectionum.

IX.

Laici vero

"

familiaribus missse, psalmi, et

Ordinamus quod pro

pei"Solvantur.

noster," totidem

Pater

qui

Cardinali,

in

ordinis regimine decesserit, a quolibet sacerdote ordinis

tres

miss9e

psalterium,

Et idem

et a

quolibet

pro

generali

ordinis decedente.

Et pro

lum

fiat

generale,

dicatur

celebrentur, et

si

quolibet

ministro

Pater noster."

ordinis

qui vadimt

illis

Officium pro

sacerdote.

pro

fratribus et benefactoribus, et

coemeteriis sunt sepulti,

Magdalense, et

ccc.

laico

unum

clerico

in

officio

ad capitumissa

contingat eos mori in via, una

a quolibet

bretur, scilicet

"

ter

in

illis

qui

defunctis
in

nostris

anno solenniter

cele-

proxima die ante festum Beatse Maiise

proxima die ante festum Sancti Michaelis,

secunda post dominica Septuagesimse. Simile

officium fiat pro patribus et matribus omnium fratrum
ultimo die feriali ante Adventum. Clerici vigilias, ix.
et feria

lectionum
" noster."

missam cantent
Ordinamus quod

et

laici

dicant

c.

"

Pater

conventu
altematim pro
vel recommendet pro illis
in

quolibet

assignetur hebdomadarius, qui missam

vivis et mortuis

celebret,

qui recommendantur ordini in qualibet regione.

Item

117

ABliREVIATIO STATUTORUM.
hospitibus, qui

pro

annis

singulis

sancti

diei et

una privata a quolibet

clerico

L^

sacerdote, et a quolibet

et a quolibet laico

psabni,

unius

missa conventualis

approprietur

ipsius

*'

honorem

octavam Beati Francisci in

recipiunt, infra

fratres

itinere

in

c.

"

Pater nos-

ter."

Item

quod totus conventus vocetur et

....
assemble
i''i
morienti, ejus exitum suis oratiombus et

Friars to

ordinatur

...p..
assistat iratri.

..

sufFragiis pro tectums, et

hoc quando bono

^.^^^^ ^
fieri dying

modo

conventus adesse
major vel saltem magna pars ipsius vocetur

judicio gardiani, et

poterit,

totus

si

non possit,
secundum dispositionem prsesidentis.
Item ordinamus quod pro quolibet
pnelationis, gardiani, custodis, vel

aut

i.

decedente,

generalis,

in morte pra3erat, dicantur tres

provincialis,

vicarii

quolibet
missre

officio Masses for

in

fratre

sacerdote,

fratre clerico semel vigilise ix. lectionum

a quolibet

et

o^gg^rg*]

cui

et a

quolibet

"Pater noster" cum totidem "Ave Maria."

Pro aliis autem fratribus, a quolibet sacerdote conventus in quo moriuntur ^ una missa dicatur, et vigi-

laico c.

lise

" Pater

et

clericis,

Item

noster " a

laicis,

ut

prius

defunctorum fratrum seu

benefactorum specialium sicut consuetum est habeatur
et legatur.
In quo libro [scribantur] nomina et cog-

persolvantur.

liber

nomina

illorum, qui loca fratrum in toto vel in

a record
*;

^^ ^^P*

of deceased

brethren
^.^'

parte
J^^^^

fundaverunt, aut fratribus

construi
elargiti,

capitulo

fecerunt,

ipsaque

vel

aedificia

construxerunt, seu and

"1^,. f^^
A Cell lU

eorundem anno quolibet in

pro eorum animabus in speciali

chapter,

notabilia

donaria

oretur.

Explicit ahbreviaiio statutorum tarn papaliuni quaTn

generalium.

Deo

honorey

2 bo7io
'

gratias.

MS.

added in margin by another hand.

moritur,

MS.

be

fuerunt

eis

beneficia

recitentur, et

to

ABREEVIATIO STATUTORUM.

118

Sequitur modus legendi deelaratiaiies

Quoniam

et

statuta:

papalium

in abbreviatione statutorum tarn

quam

generalium, 2^ capitulo, ordinatur

tiones

dominorum Nicholai

tertii et

quod declaradementis quinti

ad minus per integrum in anno legantur, et aiticuli de observantia paupertatis, et de non recipienda
pecunia ex iisdem declarationibus quater in anno.
Ttem in eadem abbreviatione, infra 6^ capitulo, ordinatur, quod ipsa abbreviatio statutorum ad minus ter
in anno leo'atur, ne io-norantia sit oceasio fratribus debis

linquendi
ordinate

idcirco hortatur vicarius provincialis, ut hoc

quod

fiat,^

lectores mensae sint solliciti ut ips?e

declarationes et statuta legantur temporibus infraserip-

secundum

tis,

modum

hactenus consuetum et a patri-

bus ordinatum.
Et primo, in capite mensium Januarii et Julii, declarationes domini
Nicholai tertii et Clementis quinti

cum

ordinationibus

c?erimoniariim

chori

et

refectorii

per integrum legantur.

mensium Martii et Septembris, Maii

Novembris, articuli de non recipienda pecunia et

Item, in capite
et

observantia paupertatis, viz.

Nicholai ab
"

illo loco,

''

Porro

ex declarationibus domini

cum

regula ipsa expresse

"

usque ad ilium locum exclusive, Licet au" tem contineatur in eadem regula."
Item ex declarationibus domini Clementis ab illo loco, " Porro cum
" dictus sanctus volens fratres
suos," usque ad illud
"
paragraphum exclusive, Demum quia ex eo quod dicta
contineat

''

" regula."

Item ipsa abbreviatio statutorum Papalium

et

ge-

neralium legatur in crastino Epiphania?, et in crastino

dominicse. " Quasi modo," et in crastino Omnium Sanc-

'

fiof

added

ill

margin by another hand.

ABBREVIAIIO STATUTORUM.
torum, expletis

his,

qute

de cleclarationibus

Ill)

legencla

fuerint.

Hic^ modus imprretermisse servetur, praBterquam in

dominicis diebus et festis duplicibus, et quando s?eculares comedunt in conventu.
Lectores autem mensse,
qui fuerint circa ista negligentes, jejunio panis et aquae
vel alias rigide puniantur.

The whole

of this passage

is

added by

a different hand.

(5.)

NECROLOGIUM CONVENTUS
ABERDONENSIS
ORDINIS FRATRUM MINORUM.

NECROLOGIUM CONVENTUS
ABERDONENSIS.

KL.
icl

J5*

^f,
[7.]

Jamiarius

Jiahet dies

xxxi.

Circiimcisio Domini.
(fT*

B.

i^.

Epi2)hania Domini.
Obitus reverendi patris
ministri

provincialis

hujus

Petigreu

provincise,

patris

In sacris enim apicibus illumi-

utique famosi.
natissimus

Jacobi

Fratris

ac

erat,

religiositatis

totius

ex-

emplar perfulgidum. Antequam ministeriatus

officium adeptus est, digne ac laudabiliter in
officio provincialatus
ter banc rexit provin-

0^

Anno Domini

ciam.

1518.

a* ^*
[10.]

Obitus venerabilis fratris Fratris Alexandri Gray

sacerdotis

i^

valde

fi

nentia

et

delis

confessoris,

per omnia

et

multum

zelosus.

in

divinis

erat

religionem concer-

Obiit decimo Januarii,

apud civitatem Aberdonensem

anno

1559,

domo

fratris sui

pultus est

qui

in

domini Johannis Gray, et secathedrali coram altare

in ecclesia

sanctse KatbariniB in habitu.

memoriae ac nobilissimi domini Willelmi

comitis de Errall, qui fuit ])r8ecipuus bene-

[12.] Obitus pise

Hey
iB*

factor hujus conventus usque ad

mortem

inclu-

ad omnia fratrum necessaria

paratissimus, qui etiam singulis annis magnam

sive.

Hie

fuit

124

J^ECROLOGIUM

eleemosynam

murum

tulit, et

magna

^^

victualibus

in

carnibus con-

et

australem totius conventus in

parte suis sumptibus construxit.

Octava E'pipJianicB Domini.

^. ^.

ij.

Anthonii Ahhatis.

[17].

Obitus

dedit

centum

cepisse

fundum

hujus

domini

Anno Domini

libras.

de

conventus.

Minoribus, prout dicitur, potuit

Fratribus

i^*

Richardi Vaus

memorise

pise

Many, qui

ac-

1478.^

IB.

Obitus Alexandri Richardi inter speciales specia-

[19.]

lissimi

(B*

benefactoris,

qui

plusquam sexcentas

libras contulit ordini in vita sua et

huic

loco

libras

X.

ultra.

et

signanter

Anno Domini

1479.

Obitus reverendi patris Fratris Ludovici Wyllem-

[20.]

sone

ministri

officium

provincialis,

laudabiliter

ministeriatus

officio

bis

qui

ministeriatus

explevit,

feliciter

in

et

obdormivit.

pultus in conventu nostro Edinburgensi.

suo
Se-

Anno

Domini 1555.

0.
^.

Agnetis Virginis.
"is.

[25.]

ar.

Gonversio Sancti Fauli.

Obitus venerandi patris Fratris Johannis Lytstar,
qui diu fratribus in gardianatu et bis in pro-

ID

vincialatu
votus,

laudabiliter

columbinre

losophia

ac

Vir

prsefuit.

simplicitatis,

theologia

erat de-

lector

singularis,

in phi-

praecoque

divini verbi ferventissimus.

^.

;ff.

[31.]

The

leted.

0. ^.

IS.

Obitus domini Johannis Leis capellani confraternitatis nostri, qui in civitate Brethinensi vi-whole of this entry

is

de-

Richard Vaus founded the

convent of Observants at Aberdeen

in the

year 1450.

126

CONVENTUS ABERDONENSIS.

amplius annis hospes fratrum fuit.

Singulis annis pro sua facultate nobis eleemosynam misit, et in morte omnia qun3 habuit,

ginti et co
(if^

vestimentis, puta 20 marcas, in elee-

exceptis

mosyna pecuniaria ad usum fratrum

12 marcas

alia vice

KL.

niisit

reliquit, et

conventui.

Fehruarius hahet dies xxviii.

IB.

Purijicatio Marice.

ii^.

[3.]

^*

Obitus venerabilis viri magistri Roberti Valsterstone praepositi de Bothanis, qui pro necessi-

fratrum

tatibus

Pro cujus anima

xxvii. libras.

ut pro amico

H*
(jr.

[9.]

contulit
suffragia

fiant

speciali.

AgathcB virginis

B.

conventus

hujus

martyris.

et

m.

Obitus

honorabilis

Johannis Fles-

viri magistri

cher cancellarii Aberdonensis, qui prgeter elee-

mosynam suam largam

ventui

concessam

nostras

borealis

Scoticanse

pro

Anno Domini
df ^* ^* ^*

pro

dedit

XX.

annualem huic con-

et

libras

cujus

structura

domus

monetae

usualis

anima

fiant

sufii-agia.

1520.

<f
13-

KL.
[1.]

Valentini

[^0'

[df*]

incirtyris.

^* ^* ^^

<^* 23-

^*

dF.

^. ^.

<?r.

Martins hahet dies xxxi.

Obitus

Johannis

Fratris

Strang

sacerdotis

vitrifabri fidelissimi in suo artificio,

IB*

13*

perfecit

suum

et

qui multa

artificium concernentia in pleris-

que conventibus per provinciam, et specialiter

in conventibus Sancti Johannis Arenensi, Elgenensi, et Aberdonensi, 1517.

d repeated

id

MS.

NECKOLOGIUM

126
[2.]

Ogilby
quondam cancellarii Brechinensis, qui fuit ad
multos annos specialis hospes fratrum in civi-

Obitus

(B*

memoriae

piae

magistii

Willelmi

etiam in obitu suo

quit ordini nostro libros quamplurimos.
Brechinensi, qui

tate

obiit confrater noster spiritualis,

reli-

Qui
anno Domini

MOCCCCOLXXXO.
[5.]

Obitus reverendi in Christo patris ac domini, domini

Gavini Dunbair episcopi Aberdonensis, qui no-

vam

funditus construxit, cujus con-

ecclesiam

quadringentas

mille

structurse

Insuper in sua morte

argenteum,

Qui

obiit

de

dedit.

marca-s,

calicem

scarleto

legavit.

decern

casulam

et

marcas

anno Domini u^ vc xxxiP.i

^.
it*

Thomce

[8.]

Obitus

confessoris.
egi'egii viri

magistri Duncani Burnet rec-

toris

de Methleilz.

Hie Fratrum Minorum pater

fuit

specialis, qui

in vita

quum-

sua

singulis

annis,

preeerat ecclesire de Methlylz, dedit huic

marcas cum diversis aliis eleemosynis, et vestimentum de scarleto pro summo

altari, et unum vestimentum pro altaribus de
eodem.
Insuper circa fincm vit?e suae dedit
ordini quadringentas marca-s, quae distribueban-

conventui

IP*

tur

ita,

x.

videlicet,

centum

et

octo

marcas

pro

conventu Sancti Andrece pro aedificatione ecclesiae Sancti Johannis centum marcae et novem et huic conventui centum librae atque
Qui obiit
singTilis aliis conventibus x. marcae.^
;

anno Domini 1552,

'

A note

in the

baud gives 1531

margin by a

later

qui in

Insuper

Martii.^

passage has been erased to such an

extent as to render the

as the date.

MS.

ix.

reading

doubtful.
.

x.

marcce.

This

This obit is apparently misplaced.

CONVENTUS ABERDONENSIS.
[11.]

Obitus

pijB

memoriae Roberti Colane, qui suis ex-

magna

parte construxit,

et singularis benefactor ordini.s

usque ad mortem

pensis donnitorium pro

a^*

127

extitit.

Qui

obiit

anno Domini [1481].

^*
Gvegorii Papw.
*> (t. B. i^. ^. ii^.
^*
Joseph confessoris.
[20.]

Obitus piye memorise Mariotse Chalmer, quae annis plurimis usque ad mortem praecipua mater

conventus fuit; et quasi totam vitam

suam in obsequiis fratrum exposuit et tandem

hujus
l^

nostram ecclesiam coram

Virginis sepulta, anno Domini

in habitu ordinis in

Beatae

altari

157.^

r* m.

ifr.

[24.] Obitus honorabilis viri Andreae Ravyne de Davolz,

qui quasi a principio dedicationis hujus con-

^*

ventus usque ad mortem singularis benefactor

extitit huic conventui in victualibus et elee-

mosynis pecuniariis pro fratrum necessitatibus.

Insuper in sua vita contulit pro structura conIn morte vero reliquit
ventus XX. marcas.
Qui obiit anno Domini 1519.
xxiiii marcas.

^*
^.

Annuntiatio Marim Virginis.

i^. (t. 13-

[30.] Obitus

devoti

et

simplicis

patris Fratris Alex-

Redy sacerdotis et confessoris, qui usque

ad extremum vitae su^, die noctuque Deo serandri

exemplarique conversatione, secutus est

sanctam communitatem.
Obiit anno Domini

viens,

1529.

KL.

Aprilis habet dies xxx.

181 in

So

in

MS.
MS., for some date between

14.50

and 1560.

NECEOLOGIUM

128
[2.]

Obitus pise memorise magistri Ada? Gordon quon-

dam

xi*

rectoris de Kinkell, qui in vita sua,

diu fuit compos

ficus valde isti

Elginensi

sui,

quam-

a multis annis fuit bene-

conventui, et etiam conventui

de

postquam
annis hie annuatim

eleemosyna,

cujus

mente captus, diversis

habuimus x. marcas in necessariis nostris, quam
eleemosynam Episcopus fecit nobis davi considerans magnam eleemosynam quam ipse fecit
nobis in sua prosperitate.
Qui obiit anno
Domini 158.-

fuit

^.

(T-

[10.]

D.

iS. .if.

0. ^.

Obitus reverendi patris Willelmi Steuart episcopi

Aberdonensis qui nostri semper ordinis ferventissimus

dB

nostris

extitit

qui

necessitatibus

fratrum cui-am

extremum

quousque

zelator,

spiritum,

egit,

edidit

cotidianis

eleemos3mis

subvenit,

omniumque

ut mater nutrit

filias

suos

sic eos sinu patern?e consolationis fovebat, pro-

que fratribus infirmis infirmariam suis impensis construxit, et pro comparatione fundi ex
parte ecclesi?e

multis

boreali xl. libras contulit.

aliis beneficiis

prosecutus

est.

nos semper

Obiit anno

Cum

summo amore

Domini 1545.

it.

O.

Vincentii confessor is.

(^.
[14.]

Obitus venerabilis patris hujus conventus gardiani Fratris Georgii Lythtone, viri vitse laudabiUs et valde exemplaris opere et sermone, qui
circa s]:)atmm 18

annorum fratrum regimen

in

diversis locis hujus provinciae laudabiliter ges-

sub continuis et gravissimis laboribus, a

quibus tandem feliciter quievit in Domino in
conventu Edinburgensi, anno Domini 1499.
sit

Elgensi,

MS.

Sic,

MS.

CONVENTUS ABERDONENSIS.
(^.

^.

m.

is. it.

Tihurcii

JF*

et

?i

Valeriani martyrum.

^*
AnicetP Papce
e. m. 15, ,iF.

martyris.

et

Obitus venerabilis

[29.]

120

viri

magistri Willelmi

Creth-

tone rectoris de Uiie, qui ultra eleemosynas in

0*

vita sua laro-as in inorte

quibus pro

magna

parte

xl.

libras leofavit,

murus

ex

boreal is horti

nostri infer i oris fuit const rue tus.

^.
KL.

Mains

hahet dies xxxi.

Invmtio sandce

13*

crucis.

IS. dF.

Johannis ante povtain.

aS:*

^* 13,
^*

it*

o.

e.

IS, 4F.

Bonifacii martyris.
viri Johannis Forbes quondam
domini de Peslego, qui amicissimus fuit ordini
et huic conventui beneficus in vita et morte,

Obitus honorabilis

[16.]

(HT*

Domini millesimo quingentesi-

qui obiit anno

mo

quinquagesimo sexto, xvi^ Maii. Pro cujus

anima
Obitus

[19.]

fiant suffragia.

venerabilis

dominse

Chalmer

dominse de Finlater et Drum, quae contulit pro

necessitatibus fratrum xx. libras, alia vice xvii.,
et iterum x. libras, item cochlear argenteum.

^*

Anno Domini

1532.

4^* Bernarclini confessoris.

^*

Margaretae

13, it* 13.

7644.

Ajiaceti,

MS.

NECROLOGIUM

130
[25.]

Translatio Sancti Francisci.

Obitus magistri Johannis Maytlancl subdecani Roscensis, qui dedit pro structuris hujus conveu-

mediam partem unius anni centum

marcas.
Pro cujus anima fiant suffragia special] a.
Qui obiit anno Domini 1518.
dF. <^. ^. i^* (t. m.
KL. Junius hahet dies xxx.
ii,

tus infra

iS

Marcellini cura

[5.]

Obitus honorabilis

nacrag

Willelmi Chalmer de

viri

sepulti

nobiscum

Qui dedit xx.

Virginis.
15.

sociis.

bus convcntus

ante

BalBeatae

altare

libras pro necessitati-

et fabrica

loci,

pro calice faciendo ad dictum

et

viii,

Insuper

altare.

usibus fratrum lectum de plumis

relicjuit

reliquis

in

lectisterniis

quibus

libras

obiit.

cum
Anno

Domini 1516.
[6.]

Obitus venerabilis viri magistri Duncani

filii

(t*

praedicti Willelmi, qui

s?epius

erogatas tandem

fratrum

necessitatibus,

sepeiiri^

13

\1. iff.

ultra eleemosynas

xx. libras
et

Chalmer

seipsum

dedit

pro

nobiscum

mandavit.

i!^

BarnaJ?ce apostoli.

[13.]
(t*

Obitus devoti
Quhitfurd,

ac

zelosi

patris

sacerdotis,

Fratris

Johannis'

prsedicatoris, et confes-

soris.

13. 1^. ff.

[22.]

i^*

^. ^.

i^. <t.

m.

Obitus devoti ac simplicis patris Fratris Walteri

Leche,

sacerdotis,

prsedicatoris,

ssecularium.

sepelire,

MS.

et

confessoris

CONVENTUS ABERDONKNSIS.
[24.]

131

Natiiitatls Johannis Baptidai.

Johannis Murray, qui

dedit pro structura hujus conventus una vice
simul XX. libras, praeter parvas eleemosynas.
honoiabilis

Obitiis

i^*

quo

Pro

viri

uxore

atque

specialia

fiant

ejus

suffra,gia,

^- u.
[29.]

it.

m.

Obitus dominiB Jonetse Patersone relictse quondam

domini Alexandri Lauder militis, quae multas
largas

i2

diuque perin testamento centum marcas le-

eleemosynas ordini

severavit, et

quas

gavit,

dedit,

conventus

iste

Sed

obtinnit.

et

testamentum bonam interim eleemosyex bonis ejus ordo acquisivit. Anno

praeter

nam

Domini 1534

obiit.

^*
KL.

Julius hahet dies xxxi^.

^*
13.
[10.]

Visitatio Virginis Marice.

B.

(T.

15.

Obitus

^.

probi

^.

i3.

patris

ip

[13.]

senectute

completo Edinburgi et

Obitus devoti,

zelosi, et

nis fidelis,

setate

corpore decori.

^. e.
,

et

praedi-

in

Sancto

Andrea decennio sub observantiae nostrse jugo,

tandem in hoc conventu 84 annis continue
Domino Deo fideliter die et nocte deservivit
in divinis laudibus et exactissima sanctse communitatis sequela. Anno Domini 153.^
exemplaris fratris Fratris

Wilielmi Lesle sacerdotis

15^

bona, scilicet

Fleming sacerdotis

Fratris Wilielmi
catoris, qui,

in

B.

is. or.

XXX.,

Sic
Sic

cantoris, in divi-

moribus

Anno Domini

compositi,

153.^

B.

MS.
MS. for some
MS.

juvenis,

et

date betvrceu 1500 and 1560.

NECROLOGIUM

132

[20.] Obitus devoti et zelosi fratris

Alexandri

Fratris

Marchel sacerdotis, in pluribus communitati

i2

lis.

[23.]

Anno Domini

Obitus veuerabilis
ston

rectoris

1526.

domini

viri

de

nuales

largas

conventui

conventus

et

aliis,

pretiosum

ad

et

Elphinaniici

suas eleemosynas

pecunia

in

calicera

ad minus,

libras

Willelmi

Clat, liujus

specialissimi, qui, prseter

il*

uti-

dedit

valentem

constructionem

an-

huic
xxii.

gabuli

chori veteris x. marcas, ac in fine dierum suoriim

pro

constiiictione

deposuit centum libras

insuper

et

jus anima

^.

Annce

(&

Marthce virginis,

KL.

vicluce,

1528.

Augustus

Jiahet

raavtyris.

dies xxxi.^

Obitus magistri Roberti Schand rectoris de Alnes,

qui, praeter pluries

(t*

honorifice

(t.

IB*

[1.]

tem

borealem

elargitas

horti

eleemosynas, par-

inferioris

altaris Beatoe Virginis fieri fecit

[2.]

Pro cuuti bene

bollis brasii.

sufFragia

fiant

Anno Domini

meruit.

in

cum quatuor

XX. libras,

novae

pecunia numerata
testamento roli(;[uit nobis

suo

in

nostrae

ecclesife

emit
;

et

dorsum
togam de
;

chamleto dedit. Pro cujus anima oretur.

Obitus piae memoriae venerabilis patris Fratris
Roberti Bailze viri profundae humilitatis, pati-

O.

hujus conventus

entiae, et

ardentis

quondam

gardiani, a fratribus, quibus

praefuit,

nem

propter

charitatis,

1510.

vita

mansuetam conversatioAnno Domini

praedilecti.

ejus

singulariter

in

XXX.,

MS.

CONVENTUS ABEHJ30NENS1S.
Obitus

[3.]

reverend!

ministri

133
Carnys

Fratris Anclrese

patris

provincialis

provincise

utique famosi, in sacris enim

patris

ScoticB,

multum

apicibus

eruditus et illuminatus, ac in jure canonico ap-

1S

prime expertus, et totius

plar

prsefulgidum

digne
suo

quater

laudabi liter

ac

ministeriatus

altari.

officium
et in

explevit;

obdormivit.

feliciter

officio

Sepultus in conventu nostro

ram summo

exem-

religiositatis

qui ministeriatus

Edinburgensi

Anno Domini

co-

1543.

^* Transfiguratio Domini.
[7.]

Van

prse-

diversis

con-

Obitus devoti patris Fratris Alexandri

dicatoris

^*

confessoris,

et

qui

in

communi bono multos labores ac

graves portavit.
Anno Domini 1523.
ventibus pro

it. IB.

[10.]

Obitus probi patris

in

bona Fratris

senectute

Francisci Jamissone sacerdotis, prsedicatoris, et

IB*

patris

confessoris,

utique

exemplaris,

devoti,

Qui obiit in die sancti Laurentii,

anno Domini 1557.
et zelosi.

i^

Glarce virginis.

^.
[14.]

Obitus

memoriae venerabilis

piae

David Crannoth, qui

provincialis
i5

cismontani.
praecipue

Anglia vicarius
hujus provinciae, necnon et com-

Jacobi

regis

deinde factus

animarvim.
(t*

IB.

patris

Hie primo

Margarita? reginaa.
erat:

Fratris

in

obiit

reverendi

missarius

patris

In

vicarii

medicus corporum,

fuit

Scotorum

eorum

secundi

oculis

conventualis

Anno Domini

generalis

et

1472.

Assuniptio gloriosce Virginis

Mar ice.

et

gratiosus

medicus

NECROLOGIUM

134

Obitus venerabilis patris Fratris Gerardi de Tax-

[17,]

unus de primis patribus, qui

portaverunt^ sacram observantiam ad regnum
istud.
Qui semper perseveravit - in hac provineia ad xii. annos, et obiit in isto conventu
vicarius conventus.
Anno Domini 1473.
alia,

dF.

qui fuit

^-

[20.]

Bernardi Abhatis.

Obitus

Elyzabeth

Vindegatis

nostne, quae contulit pro utilitate

nostrorum in
fl

cessariis, ultra tria

fiant
et

IS

aliis diversis

ne-

marcarum monetae
pro ejus anima et

millia

suffragia devota, videlicet missse,

"Pater noster," ut

Anno Domini
[21.]

in

Qua})ropter

Scoticanpe.

vigilia',

conventuum

calicibus, ornamentis, candelabris,

imaginibus, campanis, ac

suorum

religionis

niatris

consuetum

est.

1493.

Obitus venerabilis ac zelosi patris Fratris Jacobi

Wincister, qui in officiis^ gardianatus et custodis in Galliis fato

hujus

conventus

cessit,

existens

Aberdonensis.

gardianus

Obiit autem

vicesimo Augusti, anno Domini 1553.

[22.]

Obitus venerabilis presbyteri magistri Duncani

Scherar rectoris de Clat, qui, praeter occur-

(!!*

rentes eleemosynas, contulit jjro fratrum structuris

necessitatibus

et

supra

quadvaginta

vinum pro
iff*

in

numeratis pecuniis
ad multos annos

libras, et

missis dedit celebrandis.

Ludovici Regis Francice,

^. ^. (t. B. U*
KL. Sejyiemher hahet

a^.

[2.]

dies xxx.

Obitus venerabilis patris

chardi,

qui

MS

'

portavit,

'^

per sever aver it,

fuit

Fratris Johannis Ei-

unus de primis fratribus qui

3 officio,

MS.

MS.

CON VENT us ABEKD0NENSI8.

ad istud
regnuin.
Qui accepit locum in Edinburgo, et
in Sancto Andrea locum secundum, et istius
portaverunt

(?

in

ecclesia

causa principalis, et est sepultus

Sancti

Nicolai

Anno Domini

altare.

(?^

observantiam

sacrain

tertii loci fuit

[5.]

135

summum

prope

1469.

Myrton
archidiaconi Aberdonensis, qui
contulit
ad
auo'mentum conventus terram suam inter terram Andreae Culon et conventum a parte occi-

Obitus venerabilis

viri

domini Thoma3

dentali jacentem, valoris septuaginta

orandum pro

ad

anima rcverendi

patris

in

Willelmi Elpynston Aberdonensis Epi-

Christo
scopi,

marcarum,

anima

parentumque suorum anima-

sua,

Anno

bus omniumque fidelium defunctorum.

Domini lolo.

JF*
[9.J

Nativitatis Marice virginis.

Obitus David

Colison pise

memorit^,

qui

con-

quandam tenementi sui pro

ampliatione claustri. Pro cujus anima primotulit

particulam

genitus ejus construxit

et

alias

transitum ad chorum,

eleemosynas

largas

fecit.

Anno Do-

mino 1481.
[9.]

Obitus
in

Jacobi

quarti

conflictu

nostrum

Flodinensi, qui

Stirlingensem,

construxit locum

necnon

nosti-se

observanti[e principalis protector fuit.

fiant specialia sufFragia.
[10.]

Obitus
et

de

beati

Elizabeth
Forbos,

Anno Domini

m.

qu^e dedit

Francisci valoris

unum

xx.

12-

Sic,

sacrse

Pro quo
1514.^

Barla dominse de Elphinston

Domini 1518.
i$[<r.]

Scotiae

illustrissimi regis

MS.,

for 1513,

calicem altari

librarum.

Anno

NECROLOGIUM

136
Obitus

[15.]

^4
[10.]

0*

Fratris

emplaris,

Stalkar

Patricii

devoti

et ex-

isto con-

qui fideliter laboravit pro

ventu ad xxvi. annos. Anno Domini 1512.

Obitus Fratris Walteri Leydes carpentatoris,^
qui fideliter pro isto conventu construxit campanile et cellas fratrum, et multa alia bona

Anno Domini 1469.

Stigmahtm Sandi Francisci.

fecit.

^^
i^. or[20.]

|IP

Obitus Fratris Johannis Leydes

et

carpen-

toris/ qui fideliter laboravit in sua arte

tam pro

isto

quam

loco

pro

laici

aliis locis,

qui erat frater

devotus et zelosus. Anno Domini millesimo

quadringentesimo quinquagesimo nono.
IB.

[20.]

MatthcBi Apostoli

et

Evangelistcv,

Obitus Fratris Johannis Lothon devoti valde et

exemplaris, qui multa scripsit pro communitate

Anno Domini

hie et etiam in Sancto Andrea.

MCCCCLXXIII.
[23.]

(^.
[23.]

Obitus Fratris Willelmi Marschel devoti et ex-

Anno Domini MCCCCLXIX,

emplaris.

Hie oretur pro anima magistri Alexandri Gordyn

vicarii de Manys apud Dunde, qui in vita sua

multum
Pro eujus anima post mortem eonbenefieus.
tulit magister Duncanus Bwrnat Reetor de
nostro

conventui Saneti Andrese

Mechlek

xiiii.

eonventus.

fuit

libras pro structura et

Obiit

Anno Domini

1532.

[24.] Obitus devoti patris eonfessoris Fratris

Anno Domini

Blair.

13

Elzearii eonfessoris.

[28.]

^*

dinis.

Sic in

Alexandri

1549.

Meonoria benefactorum fratrum

'

utilitate

MS.

et

aororum

or-^

CONVENTUS ABEllDONENSLS.

0.

Jeronimi confessor is

KL.
^.
[2.]

doctoris.

October hahet dies xxxi.

multum devoti, huAnno Domini MCCCCLXXXIIP.

Obitus fratris Duncani Alexandri

M*
[4.]

et

137

inilis,

et exeinplaris.

Francisci confessorls.

Oretur in spcciali pro honorabili domina Elyzabeth

Lewyntown domina quondam de Suth-

wan

prope

Sanctum

eleemosynas

13

Johannem, quae largas

conventibus

diversis

contulit, ut

huic conventui contulit in uno anno quadraginta marcas.

[6.]

Obitus illustrissimi viri Magistri Alexandri Galfani

Kinkellise quondam
lovay ^
ministri.

Qui divinum ut Franciscum summo

honore,

tus

ita

intra

illius

est

affec-

ad pa-

octavas

supernam.
Is domum laudi
divini Francisci dicatam, Gavini Dunbair sumptriam

migravit

Necnon

tibus, erexit.

aram
honorem omnifariam

et suis [expensis]

in divi Johannis Baptista3

cselamine vel toreumate variegari

fecit, ut,

sua

accurata cura, illustribus actis vel factis Gavini

Dunber, Aberdonensis dudum prsesulis, positus

Hie itaque Alexandri vitse terminus
sit finis.
Carter um

erat.

pauperum

omnium

et

prse-

Minorum inopiae succurrit, qui quaelibet

per lustra Minorum usibus quinquaginta erosertim

Jf*

gavit marcas.

ginta

Two

given.

forms
In the

of

MS.

reliquit.

this

obit

Ad superos properans quadraQuam possim amanter vos

are

they cover the

whole of the page which includes

the spaces lettered

e, f,

g.

The

date letter /is probabl}'- intended to

apply to both,

MS.

i,

"^

See second form of

this obit

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NECROLOGIUM
Galloway

horfcor

fratres

Alexandri

celebrare omnes, cui hodie infelix

exequias

mors

exitiale

injecit telum.
6.

Obitus illustrissimi viri Magistri Alexandri Gallovay

ecclesiae

quondam

de Kinkell

nostrum semper affectus

ordinem

est

rectoris,

qui

summo

honore, ita ut intra octavas fundatoris praefati

patriam

ad

ordinis

;ff*

novam

ecclesiam

itaque

necnon et

erexit,

supernam.

laudi

Dunbeir

Gavini

dicatam

migravit

Francisci

divi

episcopi

Is

sumptibus

aram in Sancti
honorem construi fecit. Cae-

suis ex2)ensis

Johannis Baptistoe

terum quaelibet per lustra fratrum usibus quinquaginta erogavit marcas

tandem ad superos
properans triginta marcas reliquit pro necessiQuam possim amanter vos
tatibus fratrum.
;

fratres hortor praefati

brare

Alexandii exequias

omnes, cui hodie

infelix

moi's

cele-

exitiale

injecit telum, 1552.

0. ^, ^.
[11.]

(T*

Hie oretur
de Row,

in

speciali pro

Egidia Blair domina

anima Jacobi Kennedy sponsi

ejusdem, ac pro animabus illorum pro quibus

O.

et

Quae quid em Egidia pro inten-

voluit orari.

tionibus

merata,
aliisque

supradictis

[22.]
xl.

0-

fratrum

nu-

II- 13- <r*

necessitatibus

cxx.

marcas.

1537.

S- i^- df 0*

Obitus Fratris Alexandri Merser devoti valde et

exemplaris,

filii

et

Merser, domini de

Anno Domini
13.

de pecunia

pro constructione hujus novae ecclesi^

Anno Domini
is. dF.

contulit,

r. o.

i::.

dF*

haeredis

quondam Roberti

Ennyrpeffyr in Strathherne.

mocccc^lx^ix^.

^^ ^* ^' ^*

effecius, ^IS.

CONVENTUS ABERDONENSIS.
KL.

November hahet

139

dies xxx.

Commemoratio animavutn.

IB*

^*;ff*(^.^*^*
devoti

Obitus

[7.]

prsedicatoris

iir

Elphistone/

Jacobi

Fratris
et

Anno

confessoris.

Domini

MOVCLIIP.
23. iS.

^.

Martini episcopi?

a.

fi.

B.

it-

[23. 15. dF[28.]

is.

^. 0. ^.

^* ^-

r.

il>-]'

Obitus venerabilis viri magistri Jacobi Lyndesay

archidiaconi Aberdonensis, qui jacet in con-

ventu nostro Edinburgensi ex parte cujus iste

conventus habuit Ixx. volumina in asseribus
;

it*

bene

ligata, et victualia, exceptis

suis

magnam

anis eleemosynis duni vixit, et cistam

cum

tribus

foliis

cotidi-

Anno Domini

notabilem.

1495.

KL.

December hahet dies xxx.

^* 0[4.]

H.
Obitus devoti Fratris" ac zelosi Fratris Johannis

Thomson

artis carpentarige, qui

laici

qua? sunt artis

13*

laboravit

ultra

quicquam

cibi

extra

aliqua,

communitate

et

suae

sseculares

illarum

artium, nee

aut potus, occasione

communitatem
cibus

ejus,

Sic in

'2

An

pro

majori

The

sed

aliquis eo

refectione, vigilque valde

in

erat in

omni opere bono, parvique somni.

MS.

error, the

11th of

Novem-

leaf containing these letters

in

parte,

parcior

has been ent ouL There seems to

have been an entry on the 26th

ber being 8t. ISIartin's day.

^

laborum^

accepit,

erant aliorum reliquiae fratrum, nee

communi

circa ea,

latomorum, fidelissime

"*

loborum,

MS.

NECROLOGIUM CONVENTUS ABERDONENSIS.

140
[5.]

if*

Obitus devoti
sacerdotis, qui

anno Domini

m.

15.

[23.]
455*

Fratris

fratris

Gili'wif

sua florida juventute,

in

obiit

Willelmi

M.C^.LV.

^. 0. [^. B. (T. m. ^. ;ff. 0. ^. ^. it. m. ^.Y

Obitus magistri Thomae

Halkarston pr?epositi

de Crithton, a quo habuimus xxxiiii. [marcas],

anno Domini 1516.

^.

'

^. u.

i^. (t. 23. [12. df. <&.

Two

leave.s

wantinor here.

(twelve clays) are

The

ar.]2

last leaf

&

has been cut out.

CO

CHRONICON AB ANNO 1189 AD 1556^

EX REGISTRO
FRATRUM MINORUM LONDONI^.

143

CHRONICON AB ANNO 1189 AD 1556,

EX REGISTllO
FRATRUM MINORUM LONDONI^.
KicARDUs Primus.

Ao Domini m[clxxxix].
Her foUowth the names
and

of the bayles, custos, mayers,

shreff [es] of the citte of

London from the tyme of

Cure de Lyone, wyche

Kynge Richard the furst s.^

was crownyd the iii'^e claye of September the yere [of]
our Lorde God MCLXXXix, the furst yere of hys Rayne.
Baylys Henry Cornehylle, Richard Reluery, Pio A^.^
Thys yere beganne the order of our Lady in Pruce,
and this j^ere the Jues ware commandyd owte of Yng.

londe.

John Herlyone, Roger Deuke, ii^ A^.

William Haiuerelle, John Buchnot, iii^
Nicolas .Duke, Peter Nevelyne,

Rober
Custos
vio Ao.

\\\\9

A^.

Ap.

Duke, Richard Fiztalyne, v^ A^.

Williain Fizt

Isahelle,

William Arnulphy,

Robert Beysaunt, Jokelle Josne, vii^ A^.

In this yere the kynge went in-to the Holy Londe and
toke the citte of Akers, Porch .... and Babilone, the
yere of our Lorde God mI.clxxxxvi.^

Garrard de Antioche, Robert Darant, viii^ A.

In this yere was one William with the longe berde
take out of Bo we churche and put to dethe for herysey.
Roger Blonf, Nicholas Duke, ix^ A^.
^

-The

MS.

ably from

has suffered consider-

and the marginal

many cases bnrned

fire,

notes are in

away.
2

The year

in this

chronicle

is

the

year of the London mayoralty and

begins on the 28th of October.
a

Sic,

Richard

1194.

MS.
reached

England

in

OnetCaken'
^^^^^ ^^

[Church].

144
A.D.

GREY FRIARS

In this yere beganne the Order of the Trenyte.

Gonstantine Arnalde, Rohert Belle, x^ A^.
In this yere this nobylle kynge and gret warryar

1198.

'^1^^^.^^^^

dyssesyd in France comynge hoinward, by the hurte of

Richard

a qwarrelle, the

the furst.

daye of September and hys harte

byrryd at the hye aiiter at Rome/ and hys body at
iii^e

Fonteuerard.

[John.]
Kynge
John.

The names of Wardyns, Bayles and Gustos of London

from the begynnynge of Kynge John, brothar vn-to
Richard, the wyche was crownyd vpon the Assencion
daye, the yer of our Lorde

The

losse

of [Nor-]

mandy.

God mI.clxxxxix.

Arnolde Arnulphe, Richard Bartyhiietu, P^o A.

In this furst yere he lost Normandy and Angeoy, and
euery ploughe lond tasked at

Roher

Dorset,

James

iii''.

foi*

to gete it a-gayne.

Bartyhiieiv the furst

Alderman,

Ao.

iio

XXXV. men
Thys yere was chosyn by the wyse men of the citte
swo[rn] to
of London xxxv. men, and sworne to mayntayne the
[main]tayne the
assies in
assye[s in]

London.

Loudon.

John Ely, i\\9 A9.

Simon de Aldermanhury, William Alys,

Gret ravne,
thunder,

This yere

etc.,

and

furst euter-

dfictl.

Fratres
Praedicatores.^

The

gret

NorifYiandy Blounde,

felle

iiii

A^.

gret rajmes, and gret thunder, lyten-

ynge, and hayle-stones as gret as eggys, that dystroyd

and fowlles seynge flyenge in the

eyer ber^iige burnynge coles and brent many buses.
And that yere the londe was enterdytyd.
Walter Ermery,^ William Chaumbyrleyne, v^ A^.
cornes [and] fruttes

Thomas Haverhylle, Hamonde Bronde, vi^ A^.

Thys yere beganne the order of Freer Prechars.
thenne was a gret wynter of frost and colde that

And
lastyd

from new-yeres daye vn-to our lady day the Annunciacion.

[winter]

and

frost.
^

Rouen.

MS. in many places.

3 Fabyan places these in the 4th
year, and Simon de Aldermanhury
2

Sic

and
*

his colleague in the 3rd year.

Stowe gives Walter Brovnie

so the Liber de Avtiq. Ley., &c.

5

In a later hand.

CHRONICLE.

45

[John] Walgvave, Richard Wynchester, viio A^.

Tliis yere alle pleys longynge vn-to the crowne ware

Tower

pletyd at the

^^'^- '^"'^

of London.

[Joh]n Hohjlonde, Edniond Fyztgarard,

[Ro]ger Wynchester,

Edmonde

viiio

A^.

Hardelle, ix^ A^.

Thys yere the londe was interdytyd. And this same

yere was borne Henry the [eldest] sonne to kynge
John. And this yere beganne the names of mayeres
and slieffys' in the citte of London.
The

niayer

furst

Henry

Alivyne, mciyer

vi.

yeres

together.

Peter Doche, Thoracis FyztneUe, Shreffys, x^ A^.

Peter Yonge, William Englonde, Shreffys, xi*^ A^.
Thys yei'e the londe was reconciled, and the inter-

dyccioun relesyd.

Adam

Whythy, Stephin Legrasse, Shreffys, xii^ A^.

Joice Fez Pers, John Gerlond, Shreffys, xiii-^ A<^.
Thys yere was gret dyscencioun betw^ene the kynge
and hys lordes
and Lewys the kynges sonne of
;

France dyd moche harme in Ynglond. South ewarke, Moche of

^ ^^^^^
the breff^'e, with moche of the citte was brent.
!
Eylonde,

Raffe
xiiiio

Constance

Firzt

Juyne,

Shreffys

Ao.

Ma^-er.
Roger Fythe Alyne, Mayer.
Martyne Fythe AJys, Peter Bcde, Shreffys, xv^ A^.
Thys yere at Candelmas the kynge sheppyd at
Porchesmothe and sayled to Peytoo.
Mayer.
Serle Mercery Mayer.
Salon Basynge, Heiu Basynge, Shreffys, xvi^ A^.
Thys yere beganne the Freer Minors in Ynglond.
Mayer.
William Hardelle, Mayer.
John Trailers, Andreiv Neivlond, Shreffys, xvii^ A^.
Thys yere this kinge John was powsynd at The po\\Worseter; and whanne he hade raynyd xvii. yeres he Ki^g John
dyde, and is burryd there in the monkes before the .
3
hye auter.
,

Sic in

Not

Added

7644.

MS.

until the next reign (1224).

in

margin by a

See Vol.

I.

p. 5.

later hnnd,

'^'

GREY FRIARS

146

[Henry

A.D. 121G.

And

[King]
Henr}'

iii.

Henry the

here beganne the rayne of kynge

Sonne vn-to kynge John.

third,

James

Mayeres.

III.]

Alderoiiaii, Scdortion Basynge, Mayeves.

Bennet Sent

Clere,

William Bluntrauers, Shrefys,

Ao.

io

Thj^s

yere was

Walls

France had M^ marke of

Serle

Mercy}

and Lewys
his reward e.

of

interdityd,
.syluer for

yeres mayer.

vi.

ii^ A^.
Thomas
John Vielle, John Hpicei\ Shreffy.>i, 111*^ A".
Thys yere the kynge had of euery ploiighelond c^.
And the same yere Thomas Becket removyd vppe be-

Bolerylle, Raffe Elyland, Shreff'ys,

fc]* of
euery
plow-

[lanjd.

hynde the hye auter in Cristes churche in Cantorbery.

Richard Wymhildes, John VyeUe, Shrcffys, ilii A^.
Richarde Renger, John Yonge, Shrefys, v^ A^.

Thys yere the kynge Henry the

And

of

was crownyd

iii^^

longynge
was pletyd in the Tower of London.
Glossy tor.-

alle pleys

[to]

at

the crowne

And

the castelle

Bedf [ord] was dystroyd.

And
stro[ng]

this

yere

wynde

on sent Lewys daye was soche a

in

the

houses, toweres, trees,

northe-est

and

that

And

overturnj^d

was sene fyere

in the ayer

draggons and sprettes flyenge.

it

this yere

began

the ordere of the Freeres Carmelyttes.

Richard Renger, Thomas Lamherte^ Shrefys, vi^ A^.

Richerd Renger,^ Mayer.
William Joyner,^ Thomas Lambert, Shreffys, viio A^.

Mayer.

Thys yere came the Freeres Minors

And

man

in-to Ynglond.*'

Oxenford feynyd hyin

and was crucifyed at Addurbury.
^

of

Robert Serle, Mercer, Fabyan.

Should be Westminster, and the

date 17

May

1220.

Josne. Fabyan.

'

Joseus

Bohert Serle, Fabyan.

le

to

be

Cryst,

Richard Jorjner, Fabyan

but

see Eccleston, p. 18 in the present

volume.
*

Wrongly

year.

inserted

under

this

CHRONICLE.

47

John Trauers, Anclveio Buckrelle, Shrpffy.^, viiio A^.

Andreiv Bitcherelle, Mayer}
John Trauers, Roger Deivke, Shreffys, ix^ A^.

a.D.

122-j.

Alartyn FyztWilliani, Henry Cohham, Shreffys, x^ A^.

Stephin BuckereUe, Robert Wynchester, Shreffys, xi^ Ao.
Roherte Yonge, Richard Walter, Shreffys, xii^ A^.

John Wynhorne, Mihylle de Sancta Elena,

xiiio

Shreffys,

Ao.

Walter Russelle, Walter Edmonton, Shreffys,

xiiiio

A^.

Gerrarde Batte, Simonde Anery, Shreffys, xv^ Ap.

Roger Blunt, Raffe Ashehy, Shreffys, xvi^ A^.
Roher Renger, Mayer.
John Kornian, Gerarde Batte, Shreffys, xviio A^.
Roherte Hardelle, Henry Cohham, Shreffys, xviiio A^.

Jor day ne

Mayer.

Goner, John Tholosane, Shreffys, xix^ A^.

Gerard Cordivayner, John Wilhalle, Shreff^ys, xx^ Ao.

Willia'tn Joyner, Garrarde Batte, Mayeres.
Raymonde Bongay, Raffe Ashy, Shreffys, xxi^ A^.
John Gesors, Michaelle Cony, Shreffys, xxii^ A^.
John Wyle, Thomas Durysone, Shreffys, xxiiio A^.
Raynolde Bungay, Mayer.
Johnsone John, Raffle Ashehy, Shreffys, xxiiiio Ao.
Raffe Ashhy, Mayer.
Hughe Blunt, Adam Basynge, Shreffys, xxv^ A^.
Myhylle Cony, Mayer.

Mayeres.

Mayer.

Mayer.

Mayer.

Raffe Spycer, Nicolas Batte, Shreffys, xxvi^ A^.

Jolin Gesones, Mayer.

Mayer.

Adara Butler, Shreffys, xxviio

\_SimYjnd Mary, Laurens Froiuyke, Shreffys, xxviii
Roherte Cornehylle,

A^.
^A^.

[Joytn Vyelle, Nicolas Batte, Shreffys, xxix^ A^.

\Ni^^colas Jesay, Geffery Wynchester, Shreffys, xxx^A^.
\Ra]ffe Hardelle, John Tholosane, Shreffys, xxxi^ A^.
^

From

this point to

the reign of Richard

the end of

II. the differ-

list of mayors
and sheriffs gfiveu in this chronicle
and the lists furnished by Fabyan,
Stovre, &c. are too numerous for

ences between the

indication

but

it

mny

be observed

that as far as the year

which

is

here

called the

20th the names of the

sheriffs are

wrongly paired, and

are

not

inserted.

Most

of

all

the

mayors' names bare been burned

away.
2

5/c in

MS.

GKEY FRIARS

148
A.D. 1250.

[Hu'jmfry Basse, William Richard, Shreffys, xxxii^ A^.

Laurens Frowylce, Nicolas Bate, Shreffys, xxxiiio A^.
Williarn Dureson, Thomas
Wymhorne, Shreffys,
xxxiiiio A^.

John Norhacton, Richard Pycard,

Raffle Ashervy,

Robert Lynton,

Shreffys,

Shreff^ys,

xxxvo A^.

xxxvi^ A^.

Alichelle

Henry Wahnonde, Shreffys, xxxviio A^

Biickerelle, John Mey our, Shr effy s, ^xxviii^ A^.

Richard

Eiuylle,

Roherte

Cateloyne,

Stephen Doe,

WiUiani Ashwy,

Shreff^ys,

xxxix^ A^.

Thomas Feth Richard,

Shreffys,

xlo Ao.

Of

the

Jew

no^ i^*^tane

owte of the
Sattordav,^
etc.

Thys yere a Jew

a drawte vn a Satorwolde
not
drawne
be
owte that day for
^^
the reuerens of hys Sabbot day, and sir Richard
Clare, that tyme beynge erle of Gloucheter, seynge
that he wolde not be drawne owte that day, he
wolde not suffer hym to be drawne owte vn the
Sonday, for the reuerens of the holy Sonday, and soo
there the false Jue perished and dyde therein.
[John] Gesone, Mayer.
John A drian, Robert Cornehylle, Shreffys, xli^ A^.
William Ansone Richard,^ Mayer.
felle in-to

^^Jy ^^^^

Adam Brovraeynge, Henry Coventre, Shreffys^, xlii.o

A^.

John Northarnton, Riclmrdj Pycard, Shreffys^xxliu^

ThonuLS Futh TJioraas, Mayer.
John Taylor, Richard Waioroke, Shreffys, xliiiio

A.

A^.
Robert Moiinpilleres, Osberte Stohesley Shreffys, xlv^ Ao.
,

hard Ware, Gustos.

Thonuis Pcfford, Edward Blount, Shreffys, xh^o A^.

Peter Armyger, Roberte Rokkesley, Shreffys, xlvii^ A^.

\W]illiam Sovjrchard, Mayer.

John Lyiule, John Wcdrauyn, Shreffys, xhdiio A^.
John Adrian, Lucas Batencote, Shreffys, xlix^ A^.
Henry Fythe' Thomas, Mayer.
Walter Huyn, Willyam Duresme, Shreffys, 1 A^.
Thomas Basynge, Robert Gornhylle, Shreffys, 11 A^,

William

fiz

liicharde, Fahyan.

Thomas fiz Thomas, Fabyan.

14D

CHRONICLE.
[Jo]hn Adrian, Mayer.

A.D. 1270.

Walter Plate, Fhilyppe Taylor, Shreffys, liio A.

Gregory Rockesley, Henry Walche, Shreffys, liii^

A^.'

Walter Henry, Mayer.

John Bentley, Richard Pares, Shreffys, liiiio A^.

Thys yere this kynge Henry the iii^^c dyde, and
ys burryd at Westmyster vn Sent Edwardes daye the
Marter.

[Edward

And

i.]

thenne beganne the rayne of hys sonne Kynge

Edwai'd the

furst, that

was

[Ed] ward

kynge Edward with

called

the longshangkes.

Walter Heiier^ Mayer.

John Heme, Walter Porter, Shreffys, Pi^ A^.
Henry Wales, Mayer.

Henry Coventre, Shreffys, ii^ A^.

Lucas Bartyncour, Henry Froivyke, Shreffys, iii<^ A^.

Nicholas Wenchester,

Gregory Rockesley, Mayer.

John Home, Raffe

Blonte, Shreffys,

iiii

A^.

Raffe HarraSi Raffe Fever, Shreffys, v^ A^.

John Bryan, Wcdter Glesse, Shreffys, vi^ A^.

Roherte Ba^ynge, William Masarrar, Shreffys, yuP Ap.

Thomas Box, Raffe More, Shreffys, viiio A^.

William Faryngton, Nicolas Wintener, Shreffys,YKP Ap.

[Henry Whales, [^Mayor^
William Malery, Richard Cheklywelle, Shreffys, xo A^.
Raffe Blontte, Austyne Bedelle, Shreffys, xi^ A^.
Jorden Goodcheppe, Marty n Boakecis, Shreffys, xii^ A.
[Gre]gory Rockesly, Mayer.

Stephin Garnehylle, Robert Rolles, Shreffys, xiii A.

Wcdter Blonte, John Warde, Shreffys, xiv^ A^.
[^Ra]ndolfe Sctnd[_iuy]cJie, Mayer.

Thomas

Grosse, Walter

Audene,

Shreffys,

xv^ A^.

Thys yere at the fest of sent Peter dyde Gregory

Rockesley, and thanne was chosyn Randolfe Sandwyche
'

56th year, Fabyau

Herat/, Fabyau.

rThreel

mayeres
in one
[y]ere.

GREY FRIARS

150

Candelmas, and theniie was chosyn

John Bey ton vn-to sent Margaretes day.

A.D. 1287. vn-to the fest

of

John Bey ton, Mayer.

William Harford, Tho'iiuts Stanes, S/ireffys, xvi^ A^.
Williarn Betayne, John Santenary, Shrefys, xvii^ A^.
Fitlco de Sancto Edniiindo, Salmon Lancfa.re, Shrefys,
xviiio Ao.

Thomas Eouman, William

Leyer, Shreffys, xix^ A^.

Rondolfe Bloimte, John Harvy, Shreffys, xx^ A^.

Edmond

Box, Elias

Ritsselle, Shreffys,

xxi^ A^.

John Breton, Mayer.

Roberte Rockesle, Martyn Avrburry, Shreffys, xxii^ A^
Henry Box, Richard Glouceter, Shrefys, xxiii^ A^.
John Dunstahitlle, Adam Halinghurry, Shrefys,
xxiiiio A.

Thomas
Of the
takvDg of

Edvnbrow
etc.

'J'hys

Southfolke,

yere kynge

dynbrow,
and hys

chefle

tlie

Adam

Fid ham,

Edward toke

Shreffys,

xxv^ A^.

the castelle of Ed-

hys crowne
Westmyster, and

regalles in Scotland,

and

browte it to
ofterd it vn-to sent Edwarde, the morrow after sent
Bothols day, the yere of our Lorde MVcc.iiii'^'^'xvii^.
cepter,

Nicolas Stratford, Willictm Stratford, Shreffys,xx\i^ A.

Henry Wale, Mayer.

Robert Riisham, Thomas Coly, Shreffys, xxvii^ A^.

John Armenteres, Henry Fyngry, Shreffys, xxviii^ A^.

Elias RusselU, Mayer.

Lucas Averylle, Thomas Compys,

Shreffys, xxix^ A^.

John Blount, Mayer.

Roberte Calere, Peter Basing e, Shreffys, xxx^ A^.
Hughe Porter, Simonde Parys, Shreffys, xxxi^ A.

William Combmerton, John Boiuforde,

Shreffys,

xxxiio A'\
Of the
dysti-[uction] of
the Terap-

Thys yere the order of the Templeres ware dystroyd

thorow

alle

cristyndome in on daye.^

[lars].

This event belongs to the next reign.

151

CHRONICLE.

Rober^ Peres, John Lyncolne, Shreffys,

Mayerr
William Colyne, Raynolde Poderrylle,

Henry

A.D. 1305.

xxxiii'' A^.

Of the

Wales,

Ao.

dcthe of

Shreffys,xxxuu'' K[iEg]
Edward

xxxvo a^.
Thys yere dyde kynge Edward the furst and
Gejfery Condicy,

Simond

the furst,
and of the

Beker, Shreffys,

is

II.]

rayne of kynge Edwarde

that was borne at Carnaruan, and is callyd

here

ii^e

King

ii'', Carnarv[on].

[Edward
the

[of]

Edward

burryd at Wcstinyster.

And

revnge

beganne

the

Edward of Carnaruan.'
John Blont, Mayer.
Nicolas Pigett, Nicolas Briiry, Shreffys, P^^ Ao.
{Ro'\herte Basynge,^

[Ro]ger Palmer,

James

Jams

ii^

A".

iii^

A^.

Butler, Shreffys,

Sentsedon, Shreffys,

[S]imon Croppe, Peter Blackeney, Shreffys, iiii^ A^.

Simon Merworthe, Richard Welford, Shreffys, vo A^.
John Lamhyne, Adam Laclhyn, Shreff^ys, vi^ A^.
Roherte Burdeyn, Hughe Carton, Shreffys, vii^. A^.
Stephin Abyngdon, Haraonde Hokehvelle, Shreffys,
viiio.

Ao.

[Stephen Abing]don, [Mayor],

Hainonde

Goodchepp,

William

Butler,

Shreffys,

ixo Ao.

Thys yere a bushelle of wett was at v.s.

William Caroston, Raffe Balance, Shreffys, xP Ap.
Johne Pryors, Williar)i Fumes, Shreffys, xio Ao.
[Symond^ Ch]ecivelle [Mccyor].
John Vyelle^, John Daly ng, Shreffys, xiio Ao.
Shnond Abyngdon, John Breston, xiiio Ao.
[Nicholas'] Faryngdon, Mayer.
John Brodharn, Remoncl Condyghte, Shreffys, xiiii A''.
[Sym]ond Checivelle, Mayer,
MS.

Sic,

John Blonnt, Fabyjtn.

Wylhjam Basinye, Fabyau.

Ham cud

Chickwell, btowe.

'John Pontenai/,Yn\)\diu..

The

dif-

ferences eoutinae verA' numerous;

v a hus-

shylle

wett.

GREY FRIARS

152
A.D. 1321.

Richard

Constantyne, Richard

Hackney, Shreffys,

John Grantham, Robert Lyle, Shreffys, xvio A.

[Nicho]las Faryngdon, Mayer.
Benet Fulham, John Caiusone, Shreffys, xviio A^.
Syniond, Chectvelle, niayer.

Adam

Dethe of
H'l^^amf the
furst of

EdwaiS^
the

iii'^e.

Saleshery,

John Oxenford,

Richard Bekayne, Mayer.

Gylhert Mordon, John Gondien, Shreffys, xix^ A^.
Thys yere dyde kynge Edward Cai-naruan, the wyche
^^^^^O'^ ^^^ ^7^' ^^ France, by the wyche qwene the
flower de lyce came in-to the arines of Yonglond, and
the tyttylle of France the wyche kynge lyeth burryd
;

at Glosceter.

[Edward
[Ed] ward

Shreffys, xviii^ A<^.

And
the

III.]

rayne of kynge Edward

at Wynsore, the yere of our Lorde

here begynnyth the

iii^e^

borne

M^ccc.xxvii.

The same mayer aboue sayd.

Richard Rotynge, Roher Chaunceler, Shreffys,

P^o A^.

[SY^inond, Gheckiuelle, Mayer.

Henry Darcy, John Hnnteyne,

Erie of

Marche
Mortymer
hongyd ate
Tyborne.

Shreffys, 11 A.

[Jolhn Grantham, Mayer.

Simonde Frances, Henry Cumbyrton, Shreffys, iii^ A.
Thys yere was Roger Mortemer erle of March hangyd
^^^^ drawne at Tybome for tresoun.
"^

... Tiiond Svxtn, Mo.yer.

Richard Lysar, Henry Gysoures, Shreffys, iiiio A^.

John Pulteney, Mayer.
Robert Ely, Thomas Honvolde, Shreffys, vo A^.
John Mockynge, Andreiu Aivbry, Shreffys^ vi^ A^.

John Preston, Mayer.

Nicolas Pyke, John Husbond,

Shreffys, viio A^.

John Sivanland, Stowe*

CHKONICLE.

153

kynge was the towne and

And in
castelle of Barwyke yelded vp to the kynge.
hys tyme was the order of the knyghttes of the garter
made furst.
Thys

vii^^^

yerc of this

[Jo]hn Pidteney, Mayer,

John Eamond, William Hansard,

'

'

viii^ A^.
Shreffys,
V t7
'

a.d.
'^'^'^

13.'}3.

towne

castyiie of

-B^rpk
yoldvd to
the kyng.
"^^^ *"^'^\

order

made

l^Ro]ger Conduyt, 3Iayer.

of the

John Kyngton, Water ^ Ttirke, Shreffys, ix^ Ao.

Walter Mordon, Richard Vpton, Shreffys, x^ A^.

Inhe^^'^

[Jo]hn Palteney, Mayer.

Williar)i Brykistvorthe,

John

Northale, Shreffys, xi A^.

Darcy, Mayer.
Nele, Nicolas Qrane^ Shreffys,

\^H'\enry

Water

xii^

Ao

....

ged hys amies and made a newe qwyne,

as the no by lie, halfe nobylle, and ferdy
yere was the batelle of Sklyice.
gret dethe of

men and

besttes

And thys
and wh

yere was

whett was solde for xl. s.

William Pountfret, Hugh Marenar, IShreffys, xiii^ A^.
John Thorney, Roger For sham, Shreffys, xiiii" A^.

[a qujarter of

Thys yere was the

And

sheppes.

Adam

battelle in the

this yere the

Lucas, Bartylr}ieiu

Slewse havyne with

....

kynge
de Marcy,

Shreffys,

xv^ A^.

\John'\ \^0'\xon\ford. Mayor.']

Richard Berkynge, John Rockesley, Shreffys, xvi^ A^.

ISimon] Frances [i/ct^/or.]
John Lowkynge, Richard Kyslinghury, Shreffys,
xviio Ao.

This yere was a gret yerthe qwake.

Hamonde, Mayer.
Richard Siibharhe^ John Ayleshame, Shreffys, xviiio A^.
Geffery Wynhame, Thomas Leger, Shreffys, xix^ A^.
[JoA)i]

MS.

Sic,

Crane, Fabyan.

Steward, Stowe. The

between the list of city
''

this Chronicle

and the

diflPerences
officers

lists

in

given by

Fabyan, Stowe, and others are still

too numerous to warrant more than
an occasional note as to their continuance.

garter.

GREY FRIARS

154

[Rjichard Lacere, Mayer.

A.D. 1345

Edmonde Hamdeiude, John

Thys yere was the

Glouceter, Shreffys, xx^ A^.

battelle of Grece.^

Geffery Wychenghaon, Mayer.

Williain Clapton, John Croydon, Shreffys, xxi^ A^.

Of the
Caiiys^
[and] of ^

Thys yere the kynge wanne Callys. And this yere

^^^ ^^- ^^y ^^ September was the battelle of Durham,
where kynd - David of Scotlond was tane.
Richard Lacere, Mayer.

David.

Adam

Brahson,

Basyngstohe,

Richard.

Shreff^ys,

xxiio A.

Henry Pickarde, Simond

Golcelle, Shreffys, xxiii^ A^.

Thys yere was a gret pestelens

Adam
The

bat-

Ko[raney]
and Wen

in Yenglond.

Bury, Raffe Lynne, Shreffys,

xxiiii^ A^.

Thys yere was the Spanyche battelle a-bowte Romney

^nd Wynchelsey.
Richard KyUyngbiiry Mayer.
John Notte, Willyam Worceter, Shreffys, xxv^ A^.
Andreiv Avbery, Mayer.
,

John Wrothe, Gylherte Strendropp, Shreffys, xxvi^ A".

John Ferche, John Stodey, Shreffys, xxvii^ A^.
William Welde, John Lytley, Shreffys, xxviii^ A^.
Thomas Legry, Mayer.
Willia.m Tvxhiam, Richard Srnet, Shreffys, xxix A^.

Simon d Frances Mayer.

Walter Foster, Thomas Brandon,
^

Here

Ed^^^rdT
toke the

Frenche

Shreffys,

xxx^ A^.

Thys yere the prince Edward toke the kynge of

France and the battelle of Peyters.
Henri Pica.rcle, Mayer.
Richard Wittyngham, Thomas Dooelde, Shreffys,
;

xxxio Ap.

John Stody, Mayer.

Stephin

Candy che, Bartylmevj

Frestlynge, Shreff^ys,

xxxiio Ao.

C^es^:J.

'"'

Sic for

kin(/i

155

CHRONICLE.

John Leivkyne, Mayer.

John Burges, John Bevnes, Shreffys, xxxiii^ A^.
SimoncU Dostley} Mayer.
Bimonde Benny ngton, John Chechester, Shreffys,

A.D. i3o8.

xxxiiii^ Ao.

Joh7i Wroth, Mayer.

John Deynes, Walter Burney,

Shreffys,

xxxvo A^.

Thys yere was the ii^e gret pestelens. And this yere The
the xiiii. day of Aprille, the wyche was the Monday ^[^^00]
after Ester day, the kynge beynge with hys pepulle at and the
Paris, seynge the daye so colde and derke that moche of [Monday].
hys pepulle dyde, it was callyd the blacke Monday. And
thenne dyde dame Blanche duches of Lankester.
John Perehe, Mayer.
William Halherche, James Tame, Shreffys, xxxvi^ A^.
ii''

Stephin Candy che, Ma.yer.

James Alhon, John Andrew,

Shreffys, xxxvii^ A^.

Thys yere was a gret wynde on sent Mavry's daye that

dyd moche harme in many placis. And Henry that was
duke of Lankester dyde.

Adam

Burry, Mayer.

Richard Croydon, John Hyltoste,

John Luskyne, Mayer.

Gret

^he dcthe
of the

Laukelter.

^^

Shreffys, xxxviii^ A^.

John Brykesiuorthe, Thomas Irolde, Shreffys, xxxix^

John Modford, Simon Mordon, Shreffys, xl A^.

A^.

Adam Bury was dyschargyd

mayrehod by the [comjmandment of the kynge,
and John Lowkene was chosyn in hys rome.
[Th]omas Atlye, John Warde, Shreff'ys, xli A.^.
Thorngolde, William DikeiQian,
[Jo]hn
Shreffys,
[Thi]s yere in Januarii

of hys

xliio-Ao.

[T]hys yere was the kynge of Spayne tane by the

aythn Clayand the erie of Dene, and

kyne- ware take. And this yere was the iii. great

prince,

pestelens.
^

Doffelde, Fabyau.

iii'^''

p[esti

^'''''^'

Bertram de

G/f/yco/j,

Fabyan.

GREY FRIARS

156

A.D. 1370.

Ackun Wivioiul, Robert Gyndler, Shreffys, xliiio A^.

Thys yere was a gret warre in France by Sir Roberte

t'^^T?. KnowUes, knyghte.

by

the

John

Pyelle,

Hugh

Holbethe, Shreffys,

xliiii^

A.

tnyghte.

Inys yere was a gret dere yere.

William Walworthe, John Cayton, Shrefys, xlv^ A.
Roberte Hatfelde, Nicolas Brember, Shreffys. xlvi A^.
John Philpote, Xiwlas Brember, Shreffys, xUiio A.
One

siayne

hethe^at a
wrestiyuge.

Thys yere was one John Norwelde, mercer, of Lon^^^' slayne at Blackehethe at a "s\T:estlynge.

[^cZam] Burr} \^Maye']v.

John Avery, John Fysched,
[

Shreffys, xlviii^ A^.

Will iam] Wahcorth e.

Richard Lyons, William Woohous, Shreffys, xlix.

[John] Warde, [Ma]yer,
John Hadley, William Neivporte, Shrefys, 1 A^.
[Joh]n Stable, [M]ayer.

John XorhcLmpton, Roberte Launcle,

Shreffys,

li^

A.

was John

haugyd-

Mysterworthe drawne and

hongyd. And this yere dyde kynge Edwarde, and is
biirryd at Westmyster.

Richard

[RiCHARD IL]

Thys

Jolin

Myster-

the

yere

ii'*^

And
ii^e^

here beganne the rayne of kynge Richard the

Sonne vn-to k^Tige Edwarde the iii^^^.

Nicolas Brember, Mayer.

Andrew Pykeman, ^ohn Tvjyffhrde, Shreffys,

John Phylpotte, Mayer.

John Busluin, Thomas Coniewaleys,
Hall slayne
'*^^,

churche of

Westmys^^^'

po

A^.

Shreff^ys, ii^ A^.

Thys yere one Hall a sawere of the kynges was slayne

churche, and Sakke hys fellow was
in Westmyster
^
m
t
a-restyd and put in-to the Towere oi London by sir
Al} ne Buxhylle constabulle of the tower and by sir Raffe
i

Ferres by-fore the erle of Dene.

1

Bury, Fabyan.

157

CHRONICLE.
[J]ohn Hddley, Mayer.
John Heldon, William Barelle, Shreffys,
William Wahuorthe, Mayer.

A.D.
iiio

A".

Walter Dogete, William Knyghftote, Shreffys,

Thys yere came

iiii.

iiiio

A^.

galys to Gravysende, and brent a

And

1.379.

Oallys

same 3^ere, on Corpus [(^lavjesChristi daye, was the rysynge of Kent and Essex, and |^"^ ^^'^th
they ware called Jake Strawes men, and came to Lon- other ...
don, and brent the Savoy and a parselle of sent Jones at Cj;])^} "S
Clarkenewelle, and went to the Tower of London, and snmi[e]
there toke owte sh' Smiond Beuerle,^ archebyshoppe of ;^"^ ^^'
Cantorbery and chaimsler of Yenglond, Robert Halys [the arch
prior of sent Jones, freer William Appulton a gray
Jjj-'^^^^^^j*:'.
freer, and dyuers other, and beheddyd them at the hery [and
Towere-hylle, and slew manny Flem^^nges and other jjjj^g^.]'^ ^^^j
men. Thys yere also was the gret yerthe-qwake. And the yerthethis yere the qwene Anne, the emperores dowter ot"'-'^"^-'
Rome, came to Doner, and was crownyd at Westmyster,
and weddyd vn-to the most excellent prince kynge
Richard e ii*^ vn Fabiane and Sebastians daye, and the
coronacion on sent Vinsenttes daye followynge.^
\_Jo]hn Nortlunnton, Mayer.
John Hynde, John Rotte, Shreffys, v^ A^.
John Cely, Adam Banney Shreffys, vi^ A^.
\Ni'\colas Bremher, Mayer.
Simonde Winchomhe, John More^ Shrefys, viio A".

parte of the towne.

this

Thys John More was a-restyd whyle he was shrefFe.

Nicolas Exton, John Frensh, Shreffys, viiioA^^.
John Organ, John Ochem^an^ Shreffys, ix^ A^.
Thys yere sir Echnonde Langie and sir Thomas Wodstoke ware made duckes, and [sir] Myhylle at Pole [and]
sir John Ormonde ware made erles at Westmyster.
1

Sic,

Burner

the

name

of

Sir

Simon

being- suhstitiited for that

Simon of Sudbury. The events

of more than one year are here
of

crowded together.

Churchman, Fabyau.
this yere was the
qwake follows, but is erased.
2
^

And

erthe-

158
A.D.

1386,

GREY FRIARS

[yicholas E]xton, [Mayor].

William More, William Standon, Shrefys, xo A^.

Hughe Festoii, William Venoure, Sltreffys, xio A^.

Thys yere Alexander Nevelle archebyshoppe of Yorke,

Robert Vaye ducke of Ireland, Myhelle Poole erle of
SufFoke, Roberte Trevel3"ane justyce, and ISicolas Breme
knyght and alderman of London, ware a-peched of tresoun by sir Thomas ducke of Glociter, Richard erle of
Arnedelle and sir Thomas erle of Warwyke, and the
foresayd Robert of Yere chalynched them in the felde,
and was ouercome, and the sayd Myghelle, Robert
Trevelyan, Nicolas Breme, Thomas Blacke, John Yrke
clerke, and John Saulsbury knyghte, ware draune and
hungyd, and Simon d Burle, John Bewcham, and James
Biennes, knyghttes and others, be-heddyd at Towre-hylle
;

for tresoun.

Nicolas Swynford, Mayer.

Adam

Barlyle,

Thomas Avstyne, Shrefys,

xii^ AP.

Williara Venor, Mayer.

John

Waliote,

John Leney,

Shreffys, xiii^ A.

Thys yere was another gret pestelens in Yenglonde.

Adarii Banne, Mayer.
Thornas Vencent, John Frances, Shreffys, xiiii^ A^.
The

...

coke
that [was
raur] dertl
in hy[s

bed], and
the dethe
of [his]
"wylfe

hys

with

ser-

Thys yere the goodman

Cooke in Cheppe, at
the new condite in Cheppe, was morderd in hys bede by
n3'ght and the wyffe of the howse brente, and iii of
hys seruanttes drawne and honged at Ty borne for the
same dede.
John Hynde, Mayer.
Henry Vanner, John Shadivorthe, Shrefys, xv^ A^.
at

the

uanttes.

Thys yere at Mydsomer, John H3mde was dyschargyd

by the kynges councelle, and shreffys. Edwarde Derkengton knyghte was made mayer, Edwarde ^ Maghfelde
Thomas Newton, shreffys. And in Julii followjmge the

'

Gilbert,

5>ee

below.

150

CHRONICLE.

sayd mayer was dyschaigytl, and for hym was schosyn A.D. 1391.
Bavdwyne Radyngton. And at sent Edwardes day was T.^"^ ^^^^
schosyn, as

was the

it

a-perys here followynge.

citte of

WmUim

London raimsomed

And

this yere may[ors],

at a c.M^ marke.^

Stando, Mayer.

Gilberfe Magfelde,

chte^of
l^<^"^"
,

Thomas

eivton, Shreffys, xvio A^.

jS

In this yere was the terme removyd from Westmyster

vn-to Yorke from the fest of sent John Baptyst vn-to
Crystmas.

at [c] mi

i-emro^ver
^"-to

Yorke.

John Hadley, Mayer.

Richard WhyUyngton,

Dreiu

Barenton,

Shreffys,

xviio Ao.

Thys yere qwene Anne

dessecj'^d,

and

is

burryd at

Westmyster.

John French, Mayer.

Williain Beynton, Thomas Knoivlles,Bhreffys,^\mPAp.
Thys yere the Iryche men in August were commandyd
home by the kynges commandment.
William More, Mayer.
Roger EUas, John Sheryngton,
Adam Banne, Ma.yer.

'

On
On

28 Feb. 1393.
31 Oct. 1396.

Shreffys, xix^ A^.

Williarii Parker, Shreffys,

Ou

mauavrd]
their

xxo A^.

Thys j^ere dyde Mare the countes of Derby. And in

June dysscessid the mayer, and for hym was schosyn
Richard Wyttyngton and occopied vn-tylle sent Edwardes
And this yere qwene Isabelle the kynges dowter
daye.
of Fiance was weddyd vn-to kynge Richard at Callj^s.And thys yere dyde sir Thomas Woodstoke duke of
And the erle of Arundelle was beGlosceter at Callys.
heddyd at Towre-hylle.^ And this yere Henry erle of
Darby enterd in-to Yengiond at Rauynspore in Yorkeshere.
And this yere dyde John duke of Langkester
[on] sent Blace day, and lyeth burryd at Po wiles.
And

'

men

^.^^^^^^

Thomas Wyford,

li'ych

21 Sept. 1397.

cuntre.

GREY FRIARS

1(30

was Busshe, Baget, [Scjroppe, Grene, with

ware be heddyd at Biystow
And this yere was

A.D. 1396. this yere

Busshe,

others,

and Grene, the gret parlarae[nt].

^^"

William Ashniv, John Wodecol'e,

Shreffys, xxi^ A.

Thys yere was restyd the duke of Glosceter and sent

And the morrowe after holy-rode
to Callys to prison.
da3^e the kynge made a gret justynge be-syde Kyngston
vppon Temes, and in September was the erle of
Arnedelle jugyd to dethe, and sir Thomas Mortem^*
the same, but if he came in within iii. monythes
and
the erle of Warwyke was juggyd to the same jugment as
the erle of Ai-nedelle had, but he submyttyde hym selfe,
and the kynge gaue hym hys lytfe, and send hym vnto the Tower a-gayne and then the parlament was removyd \Ti-to Shrowesbery and that daye was made
five dukes and a markes and iiii erles
the names
duke
erle
of
Dai'by
of
Herforde,
the
erle of Rotlonde
the
duke of Aumarlde, erle of Kent duke of Surrey, erle of
Huntvno;ton duke of Excetor, erle Marchalle duke of
Norfoke, and the cowntes of NorfFoke duches of Noiffolke, erle of Somerset markes Dorcet, lorde Spencer
;

[Five
^^

rmaXl
and

ai^four]
eries.

erle

of Gloceter,

Thomas Perce

erle

of Westmerlond,

William Scroppe erle

that same tyme dyde the lorde

erle of Welchere,

of Westchester.

Mombray, and

lorde Nevelle

is

And

byiyd at the Whyt

Freeres.

[Dreiv Bareii^etyn [Maye]r.

John Waviier, John Warde,

[Ba]god

Shreffys, xxii^ A^.

dou]!

Thys yere dyde the duke of Lank ester. And sir WilBagot was a-restyd in Irelond and browte to London
And duke Henry of Langkester enterd
to Newgate.

[,?!f,j

in Yorkechere at Rauyns-spurre be-syde

into Yno'lond
"

[Ireland]

andbrowte ]iam

AA illiara

Serope,
t^^^

^.

Welyngtone. And sir Wilham Scroppe, sir Henry Grene,

and sir John Bussh be-heddyd at Brystow.^ And thys

These

facts are twice entered.

Mistakes, however, of this and other

kinds are too frequent in the early part of this chronicle for systematic
notice.

161

CHRONICLE.

yere the kynge was deposyd by the comyns of hys pe- A.D. 1399.
piille, and for hym came Henry the iiii^^i, that was Erie Henry]
of Darby.

[Sir]

John

[Busshe]
be-heddyd

rHENRY
^

^t [Bris-]
tow, and

IV.]-

[Th]omas Knolles, Mayer.

William Walderne, William Hyde,

[depo]"sj^

Shreffys, Pio A^.

Thys yere Ewene Glendor sqwer of Wallys made

warre ayenst the kynere.
[Jo]hn Frances, Mayer.
John Wachke, William Umott, Shreffys, ii^ Ao.
Thys yere the qwene Isabelle that was wyffe to kynge
Richard was sent home in-to France owte of Yenoiond.
And that yere was a qwarter of whett at xvi.s, the ii^e

And

dere yere.

that yere was a prest brent in Smyth-

was callyd

^y tiie
comyns.

Henry the
""^'

A swere

of Waiies

made^warre
kynge.
r/-~v

-I

ggnt

home

[to]

France

William Sautre for erysse.

qua[rter]
[Jo]Jin Chadivorth, Mayer.
t7^^tll\
William Venour, William Framyngham, Shreffys, prest

fekie that

iii

sir

burnyd for

A^.

heryse.

[Sir John] Valiot, Mayer.

Robert Chester, Richard Marloiv, Shreffys, iiii^ A^.

Thys yere was the qwene crownyd, and in the furst
yere

of his rayne

was be-heddyd at Cerceter the

of Saulsbery, the erle of Kente,

Thomas

and at Oxenforde

sqwere, and sir John Holond erle

eari]e of

erle rfhe^ea^n*
sir of Kent

Thomas Wynter
of Huntyngton was

Blont, sir Benet Ely, knyghttes,

rr^^^

'

g^j ^t^

[Oer]ce-

be-heddyd at Plasshe in Essex, and their heddes sett Thom]as

ouer London brygge, and sir Barnarde Brokkas knyghte Blont,
was be-heddyd^ at London in Cheppesyde, and sir Thomas [Ely],
Shelle knyghte, Maudlyne and Feryby clarkes, ware [T]homas
hongyd at Ty borne. This same yere the kynge rode and [sir
towerd Scotlond, and this yere beganne the warre in S^^^^

Walys by Owyn

'

of Glendore.

erle of

[Hunt]y'lgton, at
^

So for sqwere.
This passage as far as " Glen-

" dore "

is

thus placed in the

7644.

MS.

In

Tne chronology ofpiache

and the next is in great vp, and

1400.

this reign

confusion.

their

-W

GREY FRIARS

162
A.D.1404?

[W]illiam Ascaon, Mayer.

heddes

ThoTiuis Povjke,

Thomas

FaiiheneVi Shreffys, vo A^.

bro[ua:ht]
to

Thys yere the byshoppe of Yorke, Scroppe, and Mom-

London,

with dj'uers
[as]

it

bre Kerrelle

Marchalle, be-heddyd.

And

men

three

of

folio WAS.

the kjTiges chamber hongyd, and the prior of Lau[nde],

Thys ycre

sk Eobert Clary ndon knyght, and viii. Freer Minor es

And thys yere was the
ware hongyd at Ty[bui'n].
battelle of Sshrewybbery,- in the wyche was slayne
Henry Percy and Thomas Percy taken, and ii. daycs
kepte, and after was hongyd and be-heddyd, and hys
hede with one qwarter of Henry Percy set on London
And in this battelle was slayne the erle of
brygge.
And this battelle
Stafforde vnder the kynges banner.
was on Mary Mawdlyne evyn. And in the Lent a-fore

the

b\shoppe
of Yorke,
Scroppe,

Mombre

Kerrello,

Machalle,

be-heddyd

and iii. of
the kyuges
privy

chamber
hongyd,
and the

wa-s the blasynge sterre that clarkes callyd it stell

prior of

Clarynton,
knyghte,

and

viii.

grayfreeres

hongyd

at

Ty borne
and

And William

was cheffe yomanne

with kynge Richard, was drawne and hongyd and heddyd
at Tyborne, and the qwarteres saltede.
John Hynde, Mayer.
William Loiithe, Stephen Spehiutn, Shreffys, vi^ A^.
John Wodcoke, Mayer.
ceiiuite?

Launde,
Roberte

Serle, that

William Cromer, Henry Barton,

this

Shreffys,

VuP

M.

yere the
battelle

of Shrow}-ber\-,

there

and
was

many
slayne and

honugyd
and beheddyd, as
it

followys,

etc.

This yere
[was a]
debate
[be] twene
the [archbishop] of

Thys yere one Trauers, a yomanne of the crowne of the

kynges, was hongyd at Tyborne for powsenynge of hys
wyffe and one Pylle in the counter in the Powltre. And
this yere alle the kydelles and trimgkes thorowghoiit
the Temse from the To were to Stanes in the west vn-to
the watter of Medevey in the est by the mayer and
commonalte of London were dystrowyd and brent, and
gret plee and dyscorde was for that matter bytwene
Thomas Arundelle archebyshoppe of Canturbery and
other lorddes and knyghttes on that one party, and the
mayer and commonalte of London on that other party,

Caunt [erbury] and

1

Mowbray

the earl.

This error

tends to show that here the

copy from an

MS.

is

ill-written original.

The executions took place

2 Sic, MS.
3

Stella

comata

in 1405.

CHRONICLE.

but the
vcrtu of

103

London recouered their lyght by the a.D.uog?

the kynges charter and hys statues.^ Thys yere o^^er
citte of

was many justes in Smytfelde by-twene Englyche the leaimo

of f ^^^ ^^^}
men and Scottes, and by-twene lordes and knypjhttes
^
mayr and
Ynglonde and other strangers. And this yere was the com-

also

"^

erle of

Arundelle

weddyd
^

this yere ["^ons] of

And

at Lambythe.'^
"^

London

*^

ordened a masse of the Holy Gost, to be songo

solemply be note euery yere at the Yelde-halle chappelle

was

furst

the same daye that the mayer

is

chosyn.

Riclmrd WyUyngton, Mayer.

for the

^u^^^g^^'
citte [had]
h^nd."

Nicolas Wotton, Geffery Brohe,

SlireffySy viii^ Ap.

And

justtes in

Srayth-

Northumberlond ^ and the lorde [Held], and

Bardolfe ware be-heddyd
in the Northe and the erics Jf,
l"r..<'n
J
nias>e
hede with one of hys qwarters of the lordes ^ ware the Holy
sett on London bregge.
And this yere sir Roberte ^^^^^
Kno wiles knyghte dyde, that was the gret warryar. Yeide
And this yere sir Thomas Rampson, knyghte of the [pei].^^'"
Garter, was drownyd in the Temse by hys owne folle, Erie of
^o^^thumfor he wolde not be gouernyd by the bargemen, but to
haue hys owne rewle. And this yere was the erle of [and] BarKent weddyd at Sent Mary Oueres.
[heade?.
William Standon, Mayer.
Th\^s yere the erle of

;
'

L'^'i^J

Henry Pumfert, Henry Halton,

SJvreffys, ix^

A^.

Dreiu Brangton, Mayer.

William Norton, Thomas Deiuke, Shreffys, x9 A.

Richard Marloiu, Mayer.
John Lane, William Chichelle, Shreffys, xi^ A^.

Thys yere was ordened the alay of

And

golde.

the Here

the

kynges sonnes beten in Chepe. And this yere was the f^i^yed '^^
gret frost and ise and the most sharpest wenter that and the
euer man sawe, and it duryd xiiii. wekes, so that men ^^^^^ ^^
myghte in dyuers placis bothe goo and ryde ouer the bettyn [in]
Temse. Thys yere also was the good erle of Kent and a^^'
slayne [at] the cas telle of Brydoke in Bryttene with a gC^eat]
qwarrelle in hys hede.
And this yere [wa]s an erytyke ise that
^^^^^ [nian

saw], that

MS.

Sic,

This was in 1404.

Killed at

battle

of

Bramham i^duryd

Moor, 19 Feb. 1408.

L 2

GREY FRIARS

164)

A.D.1410? brentte
fweeksl
with

[^^^^J^b'^'

fov

eiyse.

And

a sqwere of

^^ Heghe E-ys de Conde, draune and hongyd

for tresoun.

[J]ohn ReymreU, Walter Cotton, Shrefijs, xiio Ao.

Thys yere there came a cardnalle to London. And

other'
thynges,
^^^'

Smythfelde

in

there

was menny

And

felde.

this

and battelles ware in Smythyere beganne a gret pley^ from the

jnstes

begynnj-ng of the worlde at the skynners welle, that

lastyd vii. dayes contpiually; and there ware the most
And tliis
])arte of the lordes and gentylles of Ynglond.
yere was a goldsmythe of Fletestret slayne be nyghte
in the dukes place of

...

bate

...d aud''

be

Yorke with-owte Tempulle

Barre,

and was trowTie vnder the Tempulle bregge.

Baffe Lulenham, Williavi Sevenoke, Shreffys, xiii A^.
Thys yere was a gret excesseve flode in the Temse.
And a gret batte rose betwene Roberte Glocitre and
Arthur Ormesby in Smythfelde. And this yere the
And
lorde Thomas weddvd the countes of Somerset.
this vere came messeno^eres owte of France from the
kynge and the duke of Burgone for to helpe them
a-gaynst the duke of Organs and thenne went ouer the
erle of Arnedelle and the erle of Kent to helpe the
duke of Burgone, and had a jurne, and came home
a-gayne and that same tyme came mess}Tigeres owte of
France from the duke of Orlians for to haue helpe
a-ga}Tie the duke of BurgajTie.
[William^ Waldene, Mayer.
John Penile, Thonias Peke, Shreffys, xiiii^ A^.Thys yere, the xx^ day of Marche, dyde the kynge,
and was burryd at Cantorbery.
;

[Henry

And

[King
the

kj'nge

Henry

the v^^

Y.]

was crownyd, that was hys

sonne, at AYestmyster, the ix*^ daye of Aprille, the yere of

v'^'^

our Lorde

God mIccccxiii.

[W]illiain Cromer, Mayer.

John
-

For

this

Nicolles,

Shreffys, p^o A^.

John Sutton,

Stowe gires the date 1409.

These are misplaced.

165

CHRONICLE.

Thys ycre the lorde Cobham made a rysyngc with

many loUars and heryttykes, as Roger Acton and many
moo, to the number of xxxvi. and ware drawne and
hungyd on a gallows new made in Sent Gylles felde, and
V. of them ware brent, the kynge lyinge at Sent Jones,
;

a.d. iau.
[Lor]de
^-fti^f^ei-g

others that

phauo-iyd

and brent
[Wi]lliam Cromer, Mayer.
Thomas Alyne, John Mychelle, Shreffys, ii^ A^.
Gyiier^
Thys yere the kynge wanne Harflew in Normandy, felde for
And this yere Richard Gurnion, Frenche baker, of Lum- r^^-i _
*

berstrethe, w^as brent in Smythfelde.

And

this

yere nynge

of

was the kynges gret worke begonne at Skene. And rfle^ur],and

this yere the kynge toke his viage towarde Normandy, the byidand rode thorow the citte of London vn-to Sowthham- [Shene],
ton, the xviii. day of June, and there he a-bode, hys ^^^ ^?
went in-to
And the v. daye of August [Nor]stoffe, and hys company.
nexte w^are put
to deth at Hamton, sir Richard of Yorke, '^Ji<^/'
^
and dyuers
erle of Chambryche, the lorde Sroppe, and sir Thomas [put]^to
Grey, knyghte, for tresoun, imagenynge the kynges dethe. HanTton
And. in this tyme was one Claydon, skenner, brente in [for] tresoun.
Smythfelde, the x^^ day of September. And the morrow after Sent Laurens day the kynge with hys pepulle
sheppyd at Porchemowthe, and he londyd at Kedecame,
iii.
myle owte of Harflew, on our Lady day the Assumpcioun. And the kynge layd hjs sege fro that daye
vn-to the xxii. daye of September or the towne ware
y elded vp. And in that whyle there dyde manny of
^

hys pepulle, as the erle of Surre, the byshoppe of Norwyche, sir John Phylpot, and many other knyghttes and
sqweeres and a gret meny of the comyn pepulle. And
thenne the towne and castelle was yeldyd vp vn-to the
kynge with the keyes, and the kynge made the lor[d]
Bewforde, that was erle of Worseter, captayne. And
thenne the kynge toke [his] waye towerd Callys with
viii. M^ fyghtynge men.
And the xxv. day of October, vn
^
Sent Ccrispians day, the lordes and chevaltre of France
layd with xxvi. m^ men, and wolde haue stoppyd the
1

Sic,

MS.

GKEY FRIARS

166
A.D. 1415.

kynges waye, that he shulde not passe to Callys. And

the kynge with hys host batellyd with them manfully,
and fow[ght] with them in a felde callyd Agyncort, and
slew and toke of them dukes, erles, and knyghttes and
other to a gret number, and a gTet multytewde of the
comyn pepulle. And of Englyche men was slayne, as
the duke of Yorke, the erle of Sur[ry], and other, but a
And the morrow after Simond and Jude dayes
fewe.
tydynges came to the new mayer of the sodyne battelle.
And thenne was made gret solempnites and processions
was done there-for, with prelattes, prestes, freeres and
other sage

emrperor^^
of] Aime[ii],

of the cytte.

And

kynge
London; and

after that the

and soo to
there the mayer, aldermen, comyns, rydynge worshyppully
a-yenst hym in rede gownes and whyt hoddes, and
browte hym to Westmyster. Also this yere came the
emperar of Almen in-to Ynglond with viii. c. hors to
Sent Georges felde. And the xxix. day of March e the
duke of Holonde came to London, and he laye at the
byshoppe of Elys place in Holborne.
Nicholas Wotton, Mayer.
Alyn Eiierard, Thomas Chamhryche, Shreffys, iii^ A^*.
Henry Barton, Mayer.

came

The c[om-

men

to Doner, Cantorbery,

Robert fVittyngton, John Coventre, Shreffys,

iiii^

A.

Thys yere on Sent Martyns day was byshoppe

Martyne the v*^ chosyn byshoppe of Rome.
Richard Marloiv, Mayer.
Henry Boocle, John Gedney, Shreffys, v^ A.
Sir

Thys yere the

John

0[ld]-

Cobham was

tane and juged to

dethe.

castelle

wa[s]

hongjd
and
^
herjsey.

lorde

Thys^ yere the xiiii. day of December sir John Oldecastelle, knyghte, was drawne from the Tower of London
vn-to Sent Gylles in the felde, and there was hongyd

and

brent.

T/iT/s

Placed in

j/ere

MS. under

a7id brent.

4th year, but

marked

now

for transposition to place

assigned to

it.

CHRONICLE.

William SeuinoJce, Mayer.

John Bryhane, Raffe Barton,

167
a.d. 1419.

Shreffys, vi^ A^.

John Briane was brent^ in hys shrefeliode, The

and in hys stede was chosyn John Perneys shreffe for London
the resydew of the yere.
And this yere on sent "Don- brent,
stons day was the towne of Rome ^ yeldene to the em- Rome
peror and the towne of Pontoys was taken, with many
Jj^e^g^,^^
peror, [and]
other castelles and toweres.
Richard Wyttyngton, Mayer.
dus.^
John Butler, Roherte Wyttyngton, Shreffys, vii^ A^.

And

this

Thys yere the qwene Katerne was crownyd the

xxii.

daye of Marche.
William Chamhrich, Mayer.

John

Neelle,

John

Here

Bivtler, Shreffys, viii^ A^.

Roherte Chechele, Mayer.

[mer^

Richard Goslyne, William Weston,

"bi'ake

Shreffys, yxP A.

owte

Towre of
Thys yere the towne of Mewys in Bry was yeldyn.
And this yere Mortemer brake owte of the Tower of aud^
London, and was takyn a-gayne afterward in Walys, and byshoppe
browte a-gayne vn-to the Tower of London. And this j^rance
yere was browte to London a byshoppe, a knyghte, and "withdyuers

a captayne of
France.

And

Mewys

ter of Freeres

xxviii. prisoneres

furst prouincialle chap- browte toi

Lon[don],
,
London. And this yere the and the

Minors in

kynore dyssecyd.
J
J
^

^^^f

PI;?"

umLcialJ

*/

And hys

of soner[and]

was the

this yere
.

with

in Bry,

sonne Henry the

vi^li

beganne hys rayne.

*^f

^E*^'^

Fre[ers]

Minores in
London.

[Henry

VI.]

William Walderne, Mayer.

William Estefelde, Roherte Tatersale, Shreffys, po A^. Aiid this
Thys yere Newgate was new made by master Eichard [gate] new
^^^^ by
"Wyttyngton, and he dyde the same yere.
William Cromer, Mayer.
Richard
WyttyngNicolas James, Thomas Wanforde, Shreffys, ii^ A^.
t[ou],
'

'

./

./c/t/

'

mercer.
^

Altered to drowned by a later hand.

Rouen.

m
GREY FRL^RS

168

[Th]ys yere the xxii. day of Februarii was clrawne

A.D. 1424,

and hongyd and be-heddyd [and] qwarterd Mortymer for

And this yere the prince of Port}Tigale came
tresoun.
in-to Englonde.

[S]imoncl Seriian,

John

Waiter,^ Shreffys,

iii

A.

Thys yere was a gi'et debate betwene the cardnalle

of Wench ester and the duke of Glosciter and the citte of
London.

And

this yere

came

v.

London with mar-

gallys to

ch andes.

William Mylvecle, John Broldey, Shreffys, iiii^ A^.

Robert Arncdde, John Jfegnuin, Shreffys, v^ A^.

Thys yere was one Segew^'ke hongj-d, heddyd, and

qwarterde at Tyborne.
Henry Frovjyke, Thanias Otley, Shreffys, yi^ A^
[Council
of Redi]nge, and

[Wa]wc

Thys yere was the concelle of RedjTige. And this

This yere was
yere dyde Thomas duke of Exceter.
Wylle Wawe hong}'d at Tyborne.

[hanged].

[Hemy Baryan

[2Iayor].

John Ahknott, John Duffous,

Shreffys, viio A^.

[Williarrt E]stfelde [Mayor'].

John Rose,
[Ja]ke
Straw.
[Fire at]

Baynys
[castle].

Raff^e

Holland, Shreffys,

viii^ A^.

Thys yere the kynge was crownyd at Westmystar.'And Jake Strawe was hongyd and qwarterd.-^ And this
yere was a gret stronge fyer at Banyscastelle the xvii.
day of October, that brent a gi'et parte,* and dyd moche
harme.
sir

And

this yere

Thomas Mountagew
[Xi^eolo.s

dyde the good

erle of

Salsburry

at Orlians in France.

Wynton.

Walter Chirchsay, Robert Large, Shreffys, ix^ A^.

[J]ohn Wellys, Mayer.
Stephin Broi'me, John Adderley, Shreff^ys, xo A.

Byicater,

Fabyan and Stowe.

line

the words

-at Westmystar inserted bj a

later

hand.

has been drawn through

and Jake

qwarterd.

Substituted for place.

This was on 3 Nov. 1428.

CHRONICLE.

169

Thys^ y ere was ane enytykc brent at Towre-hylle A.D. I43i.

And in the morrow after p^^'retii']
the xxiii. day of Janivere.
brent at
i/iii
^T
there was a gret battelle ni Smythielde betwene \ pton Towre^^^"^'^ ^^^
had fowthe loncfe,
and John Downe and whan tliey
^
^ auotner in
the kynge toke vp the matter and gaiie them grace. Smy[th]viker of Mundene in Essex, was If^^f* ""^
And Thomas Bano-ley,
^
the kynge
dysgradyd and brent in Smythfelde.
And this day [cr] owned
the kynge was crownyd the xvi. day of December in
Ji^aJteiie
Parres solemply, and the ix. day of Februarii lie came of Vpton
to Douer, and the xxi. daye of the same monythe he came rj"-]!^
to London, and there was worchippfully reseved of the Downe in
cittesens in whytt gownes and redde whoddes.
feide ami

ncN

"^

'

!,"

'whan the

[Jo]hn Panics, Mayer.

John Olney, John Paddesley, ShrcffySy xi^ A.

came^home
Thys
yere was the o
e^ret councelle at Baselle, and many ^^^^^ ^^)^^^
J
J
J reseved
lowlers dystroyd in Pruce.
And this yere John duke of hym in
1^^^^^^*
Bedforde and the reo-ent
of France came to Callys
^ ^ gowues and
&
J be-fore
Ester; and the morrow after there ware sodieres a-restyd red
and prisond, and in the Ester weke the duke rode L^*^
toward Picardy in Tyrwyne. And thenne the bj^shoppe cello of
of Tyrwyne weddyd the duke and the erle of Sent Powlys P'^'^^'l'^
dowghter to-gether and thenne they came to Callys, and many
on sent Barnardes day iiii. sodieres ware be-heddyd and a Jl^^^l^^^^,.
c. and x. of the other sodieres ware exiled.
And on mydsomer evyn the duke with hys wyffe came to London.
'

^^^*

\Jo'^in Bovcley,

Mayer.

Thomas Chalton, John Lynge, Shreffys, xii A^.

Thys yere was a gret pestelens, and a gret frost.
the duke of Bedford dydc, and lythe at Eomc.-

And
And

[(lr]et
P^'^teions

a-bowte Wytsontyde the lowlers of Prage ware and xx. m'

dystrowyd, soo that in ii. battelles there ware slayne
Ivi^th'^their
XX. M^ with their captayns, [and] there was tane one eaptayns
master Pers clarke, and [a]nothcr Englyche herytyke, and|a"o
[onemiejs
alle holy churche.
enmys
this yere

....

John
^

Berneuelle, Si7nond Eyer, Shrefys, xiiio A.

The words "

crownijd

in

i/ere the kyiujc

Perrys

was

" France.
a line

hynije

of

is

And

"follow, but
drawn through them.

llouen.

this

hoty'^"^'

ehurche.

55

GREY FRIARS

170
A.D. 1435.

Thys yere in harvest was the cowncelle in Arays

that pesse shulde be reformyd be-twene Ynglond and
France, and there ware lordes bothe spiritualle and temporalle.
And thether came the cardnalle of the Holy
Crosse, and asoyllyd the duke of Burgone
for the othe
that he made vn-to the k^Tige of Yng[land] vnwyttynge
vn-to the pope, for he had layd sege vn-to Callys and he
'^

....

fay1yd of hys pur [pose]

[IIenr]y Froiuyhe, Mayer.

Roherte Clopton, Thooiucs Chadworthe, Shreffys,

xiiii^ Ap,

Thys yere the towne of Depe was tane by the Armenabis on Halhalou evyn.
And the towne of Harflete
And the duke of
lost for defaute of good kepynge.
Burgane a-fore sayd layed sege vn-to Callys the xxix.
day of Jule.
John Mychylhj Mayer.
Thomas Nexstedj^ William Gregory, Shrefys, xv^ A^.
[Part of

London]
br[idfre]
with [two
arches
sank].

[Owen

Thys yere sanke a parte of London

And qwene Jane dyde.
arches.
William Estfelde, Mayer.

brj^gge with

ii.

Thoraas Chapma/ii, Williara Hayles, Shrefys, xvi^ A^.

Thys yere brake owte of the kynges jayle of NewOwyn by the helpe of hys prest, and wondyd hys
keper,^ sore, and afterwarde privyly weddyd qwene
Katerne. And also this yere felle downe another parte
of London brygge.

Tudor]
gatte
brake [out
of New-]
gate,

and

m [arried]
q-wene.

[Kathe-

Stephin Broivne, Mayer.

Hugh Dyke, Nicholo.s Yoo, Shreffys, xviio A^.

rine].

The
str [um-

pets] of

London
wa [re red]
hoddes,
and a
bu[shelof]
whette at

Thys yere the erle of Warwyke dyde at Rome,* the

last day of Aprille. And this yere the comyn strompettes
And
that ware taken in London ware raye hoddes.
this yere a bushylle of whette was at xl. d.
Roherte Large, Mayer.

Robert Marchalle, Philipe Malpas, Shrefys, xviii A^.

^

The words "he made

kynge

marked
'

that "

follow,

vn-to the

but

are

out.

Morsted, Fabyan A^ors<ec7,Stowe.

;

3 The words " sore, and after" wards " are altered by a later
hand to " who had"
"*

Rouen.

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CHRONICLE.

Thys yere the cardnalle of Wenchestcr with other

lordes came homeward from Callys to London, that had
And this yere ware
bene in France to make a pes.
dyuers men of Kent drawe and hongyd for tresoun agayne the kynge and the church.

And

sir

from Guyen

John
in- to

erle

of

Yngiond.

Huntyngton came thys yere Her a-rosc

And this yere the duke of ^^^^^^ ^^^

Yorke was made regent of France.^ And sir Richard

Wyche and hys clarke ware burnyd. And this yere
was a gret debate a-rose betwene Fletstrete and the
n

A.D.1439?

twe[ne]

an^the^
ln[ns] of
Corte.

liowsys 01 corte.

John Pattesle, Mayer.

William Whettenale, John Sutton,

Thys yere was put

Shreffys, xix^ A^.

master Roger Bolyng- The stryffe

to dethe

And

a stryffe in the yelde-halle for chesynge of ^^l Yekiehaiie for

the mayer, by the crafte of the taylors.
.
broke.

John^ Clopton, Mayer.

Richard Rich, William Oomhys,

ofthe^^

xxo A^.

Shreffys,

may[er].

Thys yere Alienor Cobham conspiryd the kynges How Aiiaby the concelle of master Ro^er,
clarke and ?^^t;C'ob]o
ham connigromancier, the wyche Alionore was put by the kynge spjryd
and hys justys to perpetualle prisone and on Sent Arkyn- j^^.^ j^g
wldes evyn she went a-fote to PowUes in blacke, with dethe, and
a taper in hare honde, lede be-twene two knyghttes.
LdeTon
dethe

'

'

And

in the

same wyse on the morrow

after she

went

vn-to Crystcherche.

aTaper^in
^a^e

John Hatherle, Mayer,

PowUe and
CrystThomas Beivmond, Richard Nordon, Shreifm,
xxi^
A^.
^
'^

Thys yere the lorde Talbot came in-to Yngiond, and

was made erle of Shrowysbery and amjnraUe of the see.
And sir Christofor Talbot was falsely slayne at Callys.
Thor)ias Gativrth, Mayer.

John Norman,

2 July, 1440.

Nicolccs Wyfolde, Shreffys, xxiio A^.

Jiohert,

Fabyan and Stowe.

church.

GREY FKTARS

172
A.D. 1444.
The byshopp [of]
Bath was
m[ade]
chaiiusler
of [Eng-

Thys yere the byshoppe of Bathe was made chaimceler

of Englond and archebychopp [of] Cantorbery. And the
lorde Fanoppe dyde this 3'ere, and is burryd in hys
chapelle that he ma[de] in the Freeres Precheres.
lS]te2)hin Foster,

Har/h WhyiJte, Shreffys, xxiii^ Ap.

land].

Thys yere on Candukaas evyn was gi'^t thunder and

tempest, that Po wiles stepulle on the sowth-west syde
mervelusly was sett a-fyer, and the stepulle of Kyngston
vp Temse brent, and many men slayne. And qwene
Maro^aret was crownyd.^

And

the parlament that yere at B^Tiy.

John Darhy,
Roherte

Feldynge Shreffys, xxiiii^ A^.

Geffery Bullyn, Shreffys, xxv^ A^.

Getferij

Home,

Thys yere was a fyghtynge in Smythfelde betwene an

armerar of Fletstret and hys seruant for worddes a-yenst
the kynge wherof hys seruant a-pelyd hym and the
;

seruanf slew the master in the

felde.

And

this yere the

Bp-ry in the parlament tyme

And this yere John Chalons, sqwere, sonne of
there.
Sir Roberte Chalons knyght of Ynglond, fowthe in France
with the lorde Boyles brother, and John Chalons slew
hym in the felde. And this yere was juggy^d to be
di'awne, hungyd,^but they ware but drawne, Chamberlyn,
Myddylton, Artoys, Herberd, and Nedeham but whanne
they ware drawne they hade ther pardon alle and their

duke of Gloceter dyde

at

tyffes.

[John SuT]-oiey [Mayor'].

Abraham, Thomas Scotte, Shreffys, xxvioA^.

Thys yere the kynge made two dukes, of Norffoke and
And this yere the watter of the Temse by exSufFoke.
cesse of floode the Monday in Ester weke came and incresid on the londe vn-to Populer, and drownyd many
howsys andfeldes and medewes, and moche of the pariche
of Stepne}', and at Ra^Tiham and other placis in Essex.
Williarii

...

[Nor],

folke and
SuflF[olk]

[The
Thames]
[d]rownvd
PopClar]"
... howses,

and

Mayer.
William Marroiv,

[Ste']phin Broinie,

Reynham.

Williarii Cantloic,
1

30 April 1445.

St owe.

Shreffys, xxviio A^,

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173

Thys yere was a-nother dere yere, and an erthc-qwake.

Thomas Chalton, Mayer.
Thomas Canynges, William Hulyn, Shreffys, xxviii^ A^.

Thys yere Normand37- was

Jake Cade of Kent, and made

And

lost.

hym

selfe

this yere

A.l). 1449.

came

a captayne with

a gret multytude of pepulle vn-to Blaekehethe, and there

a-bode vii. dayes contynually vn-to that the kynge

with hys lordes, that laye that tyme at Sent Johns in

Smythfelde and in diners placis, came rydynge thurgh
London toward Grenewyche and thenne Jake Cade flede
and removyd fro thens toward Tunbryche, Maydstone,
and Senoke. And there hys men beheddyd a sqwere
;

callyd

Stanlaw.

Humiry

And

Stafford, knyghte,

with certayne

men

that contre there was

in

n^gynrrecsir syoun with

and William

of armes, slayne.

Stafford, sqwere, ^.gc^eff

And in that mene as the

tyme came a captayne of Essex with hys men and enterd in-to the felde, and that same tyme was Home the
alderman a-restyd. And the Satterday the iii^^ day of
Julii the captayne rode thorrow London to Powlles and
And there
to Newgatt, and soo forthe to Myle-ende.
was be-heddyd one Cromer of Kent and one Baylly of
Colchester, and at the stonderd in Cheppe was sir Roger
Fenche be-heddyd, and at the Whyt harte in Sothwarke
one Hawardyne of Sent Martyns was be-heddyd and
Malpas of London drewe the cheynne of London brygge,
and there was a gret battelle made by nyghte a-gaynst
the towne, and many men slayne and drownyd. And
sai'teyn aldermen of London was there slayne, and the
prisoneres of the kynges benche and marchelsay delyueryd
owte by Jake Cades commandment. And afterward he
;

was slayne

in Kent.

Nicolas Wyfolde, Mayer.

William Dere, John Mydylton, Shreffys, xxix^ A^.

Thys yere was Gwyone

lost,

and the

erle of

Shrewys-

bery slayne at Burdos.

William Gregory, Mayer.
Matlievj Phelypp, Christofor Waiter,^ Shreffys, xxx^Ao.
1

Jake Cade

Warton, Fabjan.

^i^Jyfii,

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174
A.D. 1452.

Thys yere the duke of Yorke

sette

hys felde at Brent

hethe in Kent.

Richard

A f [ray
at the

wrestling]
pia[cej

Lee,

Richard Alley,

Shreffys,

xxxi^ A^.

.11

Thvs vere the lorddes seruanttes made a fray

at the

wrestljTige pkce.

John Walden,

Thoitias

Thys yere the mayer

and went be watter.

Rohe}
lefte

Shreffys, xxxiio A^.

rydynge to Westmyster,

[^Stephen Fors\tev, [Mayorl.

Williarii Taylor,

John

Felde, Shreffys, xxxiiio A^.

Thys 3^ere was a felde at Sent Albons betwene the

kynge and the duke of Yorke.
[Williani] Maroiv, [Mayler,

John Yonge, Thomas Walgrave,

[Thomas] Caniges, [May^er.
John Steiverd, Raffe Warney,

Shreffys, xxxiiiio A".

Shreffys,

xxxv^ A.

Thys yere the lorde Egremond brake owte of Newgat,

and had a hors redy and rode a- way, and one of the jayAnd in the ende of this same yere came
lers with hym.
a
the Frenchmen and other enmyes, and spoylyd and
tllG
Sarndwielil robbyd the good porte of Sandwyche, and slewe moche
a-w[ay] pep^le
foj; they came sodenly to Sandwyche in the
mom;yTige whenne men ware a-bede, and serched euery
house, and alle the plate, riches, golde, syluer, andj other
merchandys and gooddes'of valewe, they sheppyd it in-to
their shej^pes and went smotly a-way with alle.
...

Geffer Bvllyn,

Mayer.

William Edivarde, John Reynere,

Shreffys,

xxxvi^ A.

Thys yere the xxvii day of Nouember, that tyme was

gonday, Pecoke that was byshoppe of Chechester stode
pe [ached] at Powlles crossc, wychc was a-peched of dyuers poynttes
^^ ryscs, and there he abiuryd and revokyd them in the
audl^stoocr
at] Powlles prechenynge tyme in the presens of the byshoppe of
the byshoppe of London, and byshoppe of
and the'gret Cauntorbery,
...bys

byshoppe

Cooke, Fabyan and Stowe.

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CHRONICLE.

175

Durham, and other prelattes. And also there in the A.D. 1458.
prechcngc tymc ware many bokes of eryscs of hys [watch]
makynge, that cost moche gooddcs, damnyd and brent was s [ecu
And doctor William Gooddard the ^"^.po^^"
be-fore hys face.
as It
elder, that was prouincialle of the Gray freeres, a-pechyd
hym of hys erysys. And this same yere was the ryalle
syghte and wache of men of armes in London that euer
was sene, of a gret number of clene arnest men goynge
owte at Newgate, and soo vp Holborne and downe
Chauncery lanne and thorow Fletstret and in at Ludgate and thorow Temstret, and soo to the Tower of London, and soo forthe home a-gayne.
Thomas Scott, Mayer.
Raffe Jesdyn, Richard N'edam, Shreffys, xxxvii^ Ao.
'^f^^f^^
^

Thys 3^ere was a felde at Ludlow, and at Blore-hethe,

and a fray betwene men of the kynges howse and men
PI

01 lawe.

William Hidyne, Ma/yer.

John Plommer, William Stocker,

Biore-^'^
l^ethe.

A fray
betwe[en]
^^^ kyu^es

Shreffys, xxxviii^ A^.

and men of
lawe.

Thys yere was another felde at Sent Albons, and the

felde at Northamtone, and at Wakefelde, and at Mortymers Crosse, anno M^ ccccxvi.^
Richard

Lee, grocer,

Mayer,

Thys yere was a felde be-syde Yorke, and kynge

&
Henry put downe, and the ducke of Yorke eldest sonne
toke vp-on hym the crown e, and was callyd Edwarde
the iiii^^. And at this felde was slayne xxxii M^ men.
"^

^^

feides

^ibous*''

North-

aMVake-

Roherte Flemynge, John La.mherde, Shreffys, xxix Ao.

^

The

./

^^^^^

^^^

^"^^^'s]

Crosse, and

a felde
yS-t"^ lin i
the [king]

put downe

A[nd]
[Ed]ward

[Edward
*-

Hugh
John

IV.l

-*

Whyghte, mercer, Mayer,

Locke, Gorge Yrlonde, Shreffys, Pio A^.

Sic, the confusion here is obvious.

theiiii.

and

GREY FRIARS

176

Thys

A.D. 1462.

3'ere

was the

erle

of Oxenford be-heddyd

and

other gentylmen.

Thomas

Coke, draper,

Mayer.

William Uarapton, Bartylmew

Jar/ies, Shreffys, ii^ A^.

Palme
Sonday
felde, and

Thys yere the towne deche was new cast. And Palmesouday felde.
And the towne of Barwyke wonne

the

this yere.

tow[ne]
deche new

Matheiu Philyp, goldsmyih, Mayer.

Thomas Muschaind, Robert Ba.sset, Shreffys,

cast.

Barwyke
wonne.

The mayer
went
f[rom]
sarganttes
festfo[r]
cause he
satte not

felde.

[Jo]hn Tate, John Stone, Shreffys,

iiiio

A.

and

Hexham
felde.

A^.

Thys yere was the sarganttes fest, and the mayer

dyned not there, and for be-cause that he satt not princypalle bothe he and the comyns went a-waye at that
tyme.
And this yere was the battelle of Hexham

[prin]cipalle:

iii

Thys yere the qwene Elzabethe^ was crownyd. And

kynge Henry put in-to the Tower. And the rose nobyll
at x.^ and [the angel] at vi.^ [viii'^]- fur
[H]enry Wafur, William Constantyne, Shreffys, v^ A^.

....

Thys yere came gret lordes from the londe of Poole

and Beame to see this lond.
John Bromer,^ Heni^ Bryce,

Shreffys, vio Ao

Thys yere descecyd Heniy Bryce, and for hym was

And a battelle in Smythfelde
chosyn John Stocton.
betwene the lorde Scales and the basterd of Burgoyne,
and the lorde Scales had the worchyppe of the felde.

[Thomas Olgra']ue.^
Thomas Stalhrol-e, Hv/nifre Herforde,

Shreffys, Vi\9 Ap.

Thys yere was the kynges suster Margaret^ maiTyd

^-n-to Charles duke of Burgone.
grocer.

William Earyet, Symken

Smytlie, Shreffys, viiio A^.

The name interlined.

The heading of the page (written

which has been burned away.

3 Browne, Fabyan and Stowe.

by a much

later

hand) supplies that

Stowe.

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177

Thys yere was taken the lorcle Harbord and hys

brother at Hedyeot felde, and botlie be-heddyd, and the
lordo Ryuers and hys sone be-heddyd, and one Stafforde
of Soutwyke that was made erle Dennsher be-heddyd
also.

And the

A.D. hgd.

battelle of Egecote felde.

[Richard Lee], grocer.

Roherte Brox>e, Richard Gardner, Shreffys, ix^ A^.
[-^jn^
Thys yere at Ester the duke of Clarans and the erle Henrjyput
of

Warwyke

ford

flede into France.

be-heddyd.

And

at

And Poynes and

Myhylmas

the

lorde^

Al-

came

a-gayne in-to Englond, and the kynge flede into Hollonde,

and kynge Henry put a-gayne to the crowne. And the
erle of Worceter be-hedd^'d.
And the prince borne,

And

a black sterre.

And

[to the]

crowne
stafforde
'^^^^1^^^]^

above.

the battelle of Stamford.

[Jo]hn Stocton, Mayer.

John Crosby, John Warde, Shreffys, x A^.

Thys yere the kynge came a-gayne in-to Yngiond in [Easter

Lent, and dyd a battelle at Barnet on Ester day, and fei'^e^hat
[cali]there was slayne the erle of Warwyke and hys brother
markes Montagu, and kynge Henry put a-gayne in-to the f^ide',
Tower. And a battelle at Teukysbury there was slayne [Tewjkeskynge Henrys sone and many other lordes and knyttes. the kyng
And the basterd Fauconbryge came from the see with Cp^O
hys retenew, [and] wolde haue enterd the citte, but he to the
was manly defendyd by the cittezens, and many of hys [^o]'^^^'
^^ii'^

^'^-

men

slayne.

William Edtuarde, [gro]cer, Mayer.

John Shelley, John Aleyne, Shreffys, xi^ A^,
Thys yere in Julii was borne Richard the kynges ii^^^
sone, and he was made duke of Yorke.
William Hamton, feche[monger], Mayer.
Thomas Bedloiv, John Browne, Shreffys, xii^ A^.
Thys yere was ordenyd in euery warde a payer of g^^-|,
ward.
stockes and that yere xv. women ware ray hoddes.
John Tate, mercer, Mayer.
j-j^

John

Stocker, Robert Byllesdon, Shreffys, xiiio A^.

1

Q7644.

Sic.

^^

GREY FRIARS

178
A.D. 1474.

Thys yere was a fray on sent Peteres evyn betwene

the kynges seruantes and the wache men of the citte of
London.
Robert Drope, draper, Mayer.
Tho7)uis Hylle,

Echnond

Shaive, Shreffys xiiiio A^.

Thj^s 3'ere the kj-nge \rent in-to France

ward

at Mj^d-

somer, and londyd at Callys with a gret armey, and hys

host went to Amias, and there spake with the Frence

kynge, and there made pece with-owte battelle, and the

Frenche kynge held}Tige ^ yerly xi. M^ li., and soo came

home

a-2[a^Tie.

Robert Basset, Mayer.

HugJit Bryce, Robert Cohvyche, Shrefys, xv^ A^.

William Home, Richard Ratcson, Shrefys, xvi^ A^.

[Reparathe^waUes

Thys yere beganne the reparacions of the walles of the

^^^^^ ^^ London, and the deches abowte new cast.
HuTiifry Seyford,^ Mayer.

Deches

new

cast.

John

StocJcer,

Henry

Collet, Shreffys, xviio

A.

Thys yere the ducke of Clarans was put to dethe.

Myhylmas be-cause

The terme j^j^^ ^Yie terme defeiTd from

Ester to
from

'

of the gret pestelens.

Roberte Hardynge, Robert Byfelde, Shreffys, xviiio A^.

Tkomas UoTii, John Warde, Shreffys, xix^ A^.

Mvhvimas
be-cause of
the gret
pasteiens.

Thys yere the k}mges syster, duches of Burgone, came

And this yere the
in-to Ynglond to see hare brother.
kynge taxid sore hys lond.
Williar/i Danyelle, William Bahone, Shrefys, xx^ A^.
[Willia/ni H]arit, [May]er.

RobeHe

Tate,

William Wikenge,

Shreffys, xxi^ A.

Thys yere William Wikynge dyscesid, and for hym

was chosyn Richard Chawry. And this yere the kynge
made a gret army in-to Scotlond by hys brother the duke

yielding ?

Heyforde. Fabvan and

Sto-\re.

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of Gloc[estcr,] in the

And

gi'et

170

wyche viagc he wamic Bar\vyke.

derthe of corne.

[E]dmonde

Mayer.
William Whythe, John Moihew, Shreffys, xxiio A^.
Thys yere descecid the kynge xxii. day ^ in Aprelle
enterynge in-to the xxiii. yere of hys rayne.
Shact,

[Richard

And

III.]

sonnyes of kynge Edward ware put to

cilence, and the duke of Glouceter toke vpon hym the
crowne in Julii, wyche was the furst yere of hys rayne.

And

the

ii.

he and hys qwene crownyd on one daye in the same

monythe

of Julii.^

Roherte Byllesdon, Mayer,

Thomas Norlonde, William Martyn, Shrefys,

ii^ A<>.

Thys yere the duke of Buckyngham was be-heddyd

And
at Salsbery, and is burryd at the Gray Freres.

many

lordes [and] knygttes

with dyuers other

flede into

France at that tyme.

Thomas Hylle, Mayer.

Richard Chester, Thomas Bretayne,

William Stoker [Jo]hn Warde,
.

Shreffys, iii^ A^.

.

cer,

Mayeres.

Thys yere in December dyde Richard Chester, and for

hym was chosyn Raffe Astre. And the same yere in
August the erle of Richmond with the erle of Pembroke
that lond ^ had bene banyshed, came in-to Yngiond and
the other gentylmen that flede into France, made a felde
besyde Leyceter, and the kynge there slayne.
'

[Henry

And

VII.]

Richemond was crownyd kynge, and

was callyd Hem-e the vii., the xxx. day of October;
and a-bowte Candelmas manyd kynge Edwardes eldest
^

Day

the erle of

of month interlined.

The passage and

the

duke of

Buckyliighani] at Salsberi/ follows

is struck out.

but
3

Sic.

a.D. 1482.

GREY FRIARS

180

And

September dyde Thomas

Hylle, and for hym was chosyn William Stocker, and
he dyde the iii<^e ^Jay after, and thanne was chosyn John
Warde, and he occopyed tylle Myhjlmas.
Hughe Bryce, Mayer.

A.D. 1485. dougter.

John
the

John Swan,

Shreffys.

'

onSchepp

new
[made]

^J^o

sykenes.

And

a gret

Mart} n
fe'ldeNew-'
[ark].

And

A^ Henry ci

taske and a

Collyt,

hasty, callyd swet-

new made.
disme grauntyd.
And a

the crosse in Chepc

bushylle of bay salte at

Henry
Hughe

Swerd

P'^^

^ vii.

Thys yere was a gret dethe and

Swettynge
the crosse

Tatte,

yere in

this

iii^. iiii^.

Mayer.

John Percivalle, Shrefys, ii^ A^.

Thys yere the qwene was crownyd. And the erle of
Lyncolne and the lord Louelle, and one Martyn Swarte
^ stranger, alle ware slayne in a feldc that the}'' made
a-gaynst the kynge at Newarke.
William Home, Mayer.
John FenJcelle, John Remyngton, Shreffys, iii^ A^.
Thys yere prince Arture was borne at Wen Chester.
And this yere the kynge went vn-to BuUene.
Clopton,

[Ro]herte Tatte, Mayer.

Raffe Tylney, William Isahelle^ Shreffys,

The cappe
[tenance]
furst

browte

from

Eome.

Thys yere the kynge sent many knyghttes in-to

Bretayne with the number of vii. M^ men to defende the
And the erle of
to the lond.
!! ladys that Ware ayeres
Nortumberlond slayne in the Northe.
And the cape of
q
mayntenans browte from Rome.**
William Whytte, Mayer.
William Capelle, John Broke, Shreffys, v A**.
i

Thys

Cryppyigate [new]

made.

A^.

iiii^

yere

-r.

r.

was new made.

Cr}q3pylle-gate

Esmond Franke and

And

others put
to deth.
^

[J]ohn Mathew, Mayer.

Henri Cote, Roherte Reuelle,

Hugh Pemerton, Shreffys,

vio Ap.

Sic,

MS.

Isaak, Fabyan and Stowe.

-^

The passage and Cryppillegate

new made

follows, but

is

struck out.

CHRONICLE.

181

Thys yere in Feuerelle descessid Robert Reyuelle, and

And sir Robert
for hym was chosyn Hughe Pemerton.
Chamberlyne lorde be-heddyd. And in June the kynges
ii<^o sone borne at Grynwyche, and namyd Henry.
And
the condyd at Graschu[rch bejgonne and new made.
[T]homas Woode, William Browne, Shreffys, vii^ A^.

A.D. 1491.

Thys yere in September the kynge went to Callys with

a gret arme a-gaynst France, but the pece was made
And the qwenys moder dicessyd.
withowte battelle.
And the louers sett vp on the yelde-halle of London.
William Puixhes, William Welbeke, Shreffys, viii^ A^.

Thys yere was a rysynge

And whett

stelyard.

of

yonge men a-gaynst the

at vi.^ a bushelle.

John Wynger, Roherte Fahiaan, Shreffys, ix9 Ap,

Nicolas Ahvyne, John Warner, Shreffys, xP Ap.
Thys yere was beheddyd

William Stanle lorde

chamberlyn, William Staule/ sir Roberte Ratcleffe, sir
Simonde Momforde, and William Daukus, and lorde
And this yere whyt
Fewalter be-heddyd at Callys.
herynge was solde at iii.^ yiuA the barrelle. And lorde
Momforde sone and many others that londyd in the
downes to the number of viii. score, that came from one
Perkyne Warbyke callynge hymselfe kynge Edward sone.

And

gret

[Henry

att

biirnvd ne..

sir

[Herrings
?^- ^^-/^^^

barlelle.

West [minster].

Co]let [Mayor].

Henry Somer, ThoTnas

[John

This yere

Ta'lte

Knesivorthe, Shreffys, xio Ao.

[Mayor].

John Shaa, Richard Haddon,

Shreffys, xii^ A<>.

Thys yere the commons of Corwalle a-rose to the

number of xxx. m\, and the lorde Awdle cheffe captayne and one Flammote and a smythe that was callyd
Myh3dle Joseffe and they came to Blackehethe, and
made a felde a-gaynst the kynge, and lost it. The
Thys felde
captayns tane and put to excecucioun.
;

[Black
^Q[f^^
[Perkijn

Warbyke.
1

Repeated in MS.

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182
A.D. 1497.

June on sent Bothols day. And in August

after one Perkyne Warbyke callyd hym selfe the ii^
Sonne of kynge Edwarde the iiii^^i^, londyd in Cornewalle
and he was pursewyd of sartayn lordes, but he flede
to Bewdley senttvary, and by a-poyntment came to
the kynge, and so raymaynyd followynge the corte.
William Purches, mercer, Mayer,
Thomas Wyndoughe, Bartylmeio Rede, Shreffys,

was

in

xiiio A'^.

Wethercocke 01

[Po] wiles
tane
proumciaile
chapter
[of] the
i\^^

freeres

And

the

loirnge

burnjdat

Thys yere

December the wedercoke, crosse, and

the bowle of Powlles stepulle was tane downe and alle
newe made, and in Maii after solemply hallowyd and
sett vp agayne.
And this same yere in August was
^]^g

[[de

prouincialle chapter of the

scafioiTin
ejpe.
L

Freer Minores

in

London. And there beganne the Observanttes, and

came with the kynges letteres and commandment
for sertayne placis, and so beganne with Newcastelle,
Cauntorbery, and Sowth-hamton. And the kynges loggyne at Shene burnyd. Pyrkyne Warbyke sett on a

SikVu skaffEold]
Warbyke

in

in Chepe.

John PercevaUe, taylor, Mayer.

Thomas Bvadhery, Stephin Jennyns,
Thys yere the
Grenwyche the

Shreffys, xiiii^ A<^.

daye of Februarii was borne at

iii^ sonne of kjnige Henry the vii.,
namyd Edmonde duke of Somerset.
Nicolas Ahvyne, Mayer.
James Wylfforde, Richard Browne, Shreffys, xv^ A^.
xxii.

Nouember Perkyne Warbyke was

conuicte of tresoun and drawne from the Tower of
drawne
from the
London to Ty borne, and there hongyd and be-heddyd
to Tyborne ^^icl the same tyme was juggyd to dye for tresoun the
and there erle of Warwyke, sone to the duke of Clarans be-fore
rehersyd, wyche erle had bene kepte in the Tower from
and be-

Perkyne

Thys

yere

in

heddyd,
[and] the
[Er]ie

^^q

^^ Tower-hylle.

ke^fson

of the]

yj^-to the ende of xiiii. jyere aftei''

o ^f -^^ y^^.^
^
and the xxviii*^ day of Nouember was be-heddyd at
^q-^

And

the same daye was gret flooddes,

wynddes, thunder, lytnynyges, wyche dyd moche harme

'

I83

CHRONICLE.

and hurte in dyuers placys and cuntres in Ynglond. And a.d. 500.
the viii. daye of Maii nexte after the kynge and duke of
the qwene went to Callys, and thether came the duke be-heddyi,
of Burgone, and spake with the kynge in Sent Peters ^^d that
church withowte the towne the space of seven oweres, grett ^
with moche h.
and solas, and soo departyd. And Aoddes,
the xiiii. day of June after the kynge and the qwene thunder,
c[ame] home a-gayne. Thys was in the yere of our J^'^^^f^^"
Lorde xv. c. And the same monythe in December des- that dyd
cessid the kyno^es thurde sonne Edmonde, and was J^o^l^^

har[mej
burryd at Wes[tminster]. And the same yere dyde in dyuers
^aces,[and
the aresbyshoppe of Yorke, the byshoppe of Norwyche, [and] the byshoppe of Elye. And in Septem- dyuers
ber followynge dyscessyd the the byshoppe of Cauntor- ^^.^ ^^
bery, Morton, cardnalle and chauncheler of Ynglond. [as it a]And this yere was brent a palmer. And a gret^'^^^^'
pestelens thorrow alle Ynglond and a gret de[arth].
[William] Remyngton, Mayer.
John Haiue, William Stede, Shreffys, xvi^ Ao
1

'

Thys yere the kynge byldyd. new hys maner of [Name of

Shene, and changed the name and namyd it Eiche- chan]\y[d
monde, and he byldyd new his place callyd Baynyst- to] Riehe^^^
castelle in London, and repayryd hys place at Grenewyche, with moche new byldynge there and in dyuers
places.

John Bhaa, goldsmith, Mayer.

Laurens Aylmer, Henry Hede,

Shreffys, xvii<^ A^.

Thys yere was send in-to Ynglonde the kyng of The

Spaynyes thurde doughter, named Kateryne, to be [of] qwene
marryd to the prince Arture, and she londyd at Plum- K[athemothe the viii. day of October, and reseved in-to Lon- ^^^g ^^^
don in the most ryalle wyse the xii. day of Nouember ky[ng of
than Fryday. And the Sonday followynge maryd at dawghter
Sent Po wiles churche. And a halpas made of tymber to [be]
from the west dore to the qwere dore of xii. foote brode to Arture,
and iiii. fotte of hyghte. And in the myddes of the ^^^ ^^^^^
-'

GREY FRIARS

184
A.D. 1501.
[to] Henry
a[s] aperes more
'

the story,
etc.

same marryd. And the fest holden in the byshoppe of

London palles.
And the day of hare reseving in-to
London was made many reche pagenttes furst at the
bregge, at the condyd in Graschestret, the condet in
;

Cornelle, standerde in Cheppe, the crosse

new

gylted, at

the lyttylle condyd, and at Powlles west dore, ronnynge

and wytthe, and alle the day of the

marrage. And at that same maryge the kj^nge made
Ivii. knyghttes.
And the iii<^e ^^y after alle the corte
remouyd vn-to Westmyster by watter. And the mayer
with alle the crafttes with them in barges, with trompettes, shalmes, and taberttes in the best maner
and
there the kynge helde ryalle justes, turnayes, and banAnd thenne retumyd to Rychekettes vi. dayes after.
monde. And the same daye ther the mayer helde hys
fest at the yelde-halle. And the same yere in Nouember
came to the k^Tige a nobylle imbassator owte of Scotlond for to trete of maryage betwene the Scottyche
kynge and our kynges eldest dowgter namyd Margarete, wyche was a-cordyd on sent Powlles evyn the
And the ii^^ Sonday of Lent after was sir
Conversioun.
E(jQ2onde de la Poole was pronuncyd acursid opynly
with boke, belle, and candelle, at Powlles crose at the
sermonde before none. And in Ester weke nexte after
dyscecyd the prince Arture at Ludlow, and burryd at
Worceter.i And the deche from the Temse to Holborne
brygge new cast. And this yere the Gray freeres
changyd their abbyttes in-to whytte gray a-ponne sent
Georges day, thenne beynge Sattorday the prime, the yere
of our Lorde mIcccccii. And the ii^^e Jay of Aprille dyde
Prinse Arthure a[t] Ludlow, and burryd at Wore [ester].
And Sir James Tp-rylle and Sir John Wyndham bewyne, rede

claret

[A.D.
15^2.]

hedyd.

Bartylmeiv Rede, Mayer.

Henry Kehelle, Nicolas Kynes, Shreffys, xviiio Ao.

dyscecyd

Worceter.

A line is drawn through

the passage.

CHRONICLE.

185

Thys yere the qwene Elzabethe dyde at the Towre,

and burryd at Westmyster. Item this yere a gret inbassetor came from the kynge of Romans.
And the
Gray Freeres chaungyd their habbettes from London
rossette vn-to whytt gray.

A.D. 1503.

Thys yere was the gret jubele at Po wiles.

^vfrTi
Christopher Halves, Richard Wattes, Shreffys, xix^ A^.
Thys yere Margarete that was the kynges doughter
was manyd vn-to the kynge of Scottes.^ And that same
yere in Marche was a gret frost and snowe, and many
gret fyeres in London in dyuers places, as at the bryge,
Austyn Freeres, Sent Martyns grante, and Buttolle
w[harf ?]. Parlam[ent at] West [minster.] And a gret fray
in Cheppe [wherein] ^ lordes and knyttes toke partes.
Roger Achele, William Bvoivne, Shreffys, xx^ A^.
Richard Chore, Roger Grove, Shreffys, xxi^ A^.

Thys

yere, the xv.

day of Januarii, at

none, rose soche a tempest of

wynde

xii.

of cloke at

was

tylle it

xii.

at

mydnythe, that it blew downe tres and tyles of howsys,

and that same nyghte it blewe downe the weddercoke of
Po wiles stepulle the length e of the est ende of Po wiles
church vn-to the syne of the blacke egylle at that tyme
was lowe howses of bokebynderes wher nowe is the scole
of Powles. And that same nyghte was the duke of Burgone that was callyd Phyllype, with hys lady and many
sheppes of hys, the wyche in-tendyd to a gone into
Spayne to a bene crownyd kynge, but by tempest ware
drevyn to Porchemoth hauyne, and soo the kynge send
;

many
*'

of the nobylle lordes

'

bothe speritualle and

and

states

temporalle

to

of

the 'realme

resave

hym and

hys pepulle, and soo browte them to London; and

there the kynge nobylly reseved them and made them
gret chere, and soo departyd the[m] home a-gayne.
alle

And

that

same yere at that tyme was soche a sore

this same yere

qwene Elzabethe hare
moder follows, but is struck out.
1

The passage and

dyde

the

The

here, but

"words that yret are erased

no word

is

[Po] wiles

substituted.

^^T^
and
...

[gre]tt

^^g^

[mighjt
I^^j^"^^"'
etc.

186
A.D. 1506.

GREY FRIARS

snowe and a frost that men myghte goo with carttes

ouer the Temse and horse, and it lastyd tylle after
Candehnas. And thenne it was a-greed betwene the
kynge and the duke of Burgone that Edmond de la
Poole shulde be send home a-gayne, and so he was.i
Richard Hccddon, riiiercer, Mayer,
William ^ Copynger, William Fiz

Willia/ni, Shreffys,

xxiio Ao.

But

same yere was chosyn by the dtte one

but
Jonson a goldesmythe, and he made hys fest
[B]akeres within iii. dayes he was dyschargyd at the commandWarwyke D^ent of the k3rQge, and William Fiztwilliam chosyn,
[Lan]e
^^^ gQ kepte owte alle the hole yere, and the other
toke soche a thowthe that he dyde. Item the bakeres
and xii.
1^^^^^'
howse in Warwyke lane burnyd. And- twelve hervngre
yngesai.c/.
*;,
.,
Vr
a 1.^. And a gaily bumyd at Hamton.
this

William Broiviu, mercer, Lawrens Eleymer, draper,

Mayeres.
Williarii Butler,

[M]any
put^[la]to
the Tower
'

John Kerhy,

Shreffys, xxiiio Ap.

Thys yere was many aldermen put in-to the Tower,

and sir William Capelle put to warde in the shreffys
bowse. And this yere the mayer was reseved with processioun on Sent Frances daye with

the aldermen as

fownders, and soo contynewyd long after.

lady

Mary

the kynges dowter

made sewre

And ^

to the

the

kynge

of Castelle.

Sir Stephiii Jennyns, Marchant Taylor, Mayer.

TJiovias Exmew, Richard Smythe, Shreffys, xxiiiio A.

kTni^H
viith

hys ii.^'
Sonne

day of Aprille dyde kynge Henry

^^^ ^^^^ ^^ Richemonde, and browth to London ouer the
hrygge and soo to Powlles the furst nyghte, and the
nexte day to Westmyster nobylly, and there burryd.

Thys yere the

[This
^

The passage and

xxii.

the

comyns

The passage which

follows, like

chose master Johnson chrffe, hut the

many

others in various parts of the

kynge causyd Willyamfyzt William

MS.,

is

...

original hand.

is

attached iu margin, but

struck out again.

is

an addition made by the

187

CHRONICLE.

[Henry

And

VIII.]

mydsomer day foUowynge was hys sonnc

crownyd Henry the viii^^i, crownyd at Westmyster, and
hys qwene Kateryne that was hys brothers wyffe
prince Artore. And ^ her was Dudley and Hemson conthe

deinnyd to dethe. And iiii. persons sett on the pyllory

for falls qwestmongeres.
Thomas Bradbery, mercer, William Capelle, draper,
Mayeres.

A.D. i509.
^^jj^^^il^^

crownyd.

ancTDudie
with the

qwest
mongeres.

Gorge Monokes, John Bochett, Shreffys, P^o A^.

Thys yere was Emsone and Dodle be-heddyd

at

Towre-

hylle.

Henry

Kehell, grocer,

John Mylhorne, John

Mayer.
Rest, Shreffys, ii^ A^.

Roger Acheley, draper, Mayer.

Thomas Morfyne, Nicholas Chelton, Shreffys, iii^ A^.
William Copynger, fechmonger, Richard Haddon,
Mayers.
Roherte Holdernes, Roherte Fenrotter, Shreffys,

knyttes, Tiiercer,

iiiio

A^.

Thys yere the kynge went in-to France and wonne

Towrne and Turwyn, and the carreke and the Eegent
byrnte.

And

was the Scottyche felde, and the kynge The

tane and slayne, and browte to Shene.
Mdl^^and
the king
John Brygges, John Doiusse, Shreffys, vo Ao.
this yere

[George Monox], draper.

'^^^^^^"^

James Jarforde, John Monde, Shreffys, vi^ A^.

-^^^
Thys yere was a gret deth at the Menerys, that there Mary
dyde xxvii. of the nonnes w
at g
.

[William Butl]er,

grocer.

Henry Worley, William Bayly,

[John

Shreffys,

yu9 AP.

Resile, grocer.

Thomas Semer, John Thurston, Shreffys, viiio Ao.

Thys yere was yelle Mail day, that yong men and
prentes of London rose in the nyght, and wolde haue

The passage which

follows

is

added by the original hand.

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188
A.D. 1517.

had James Mettas, an owte-landyche man, and wolde

haue slay[n] hym, but he hyde hym in hys gotters in
and from thense the wente ^Ti-to Sent
hys howse
Martyns, and there spoyled the shomakeres shoppes
of shone and thenne rose the mayer and shreflys and
wolde haue cessyd them, but the cowde not. And thenne
rose the erle of Surre, and he wolde haue spoyled them.
;

And

iiii

or v. da\'es after the corte kepte the citte in

harnes with dyuers lordes, and at the last there ware

d}^iei^ of them hongyd within the citte on gallos, as at
Sent Martyns gatte, at Ludgate, at Algate, Byshoppes

Manguns, Ledynhalle, in the Powland there was

tre, and at the stondert in Cheppe
qwarterd
L^Ticon
one
and a-nother gallows
hongyd and
within
shorte
And
space
the k}Tige satte
Newgat.
at
in AVestmyster Halle, and there was commandyd the
cytte to come in their clothynge, and the rest of them
that was pardent to come with haltei^ a-bowte their
neckes and to aske pardone, and soo a generalle pardone
was orevyn \Ti-to them alle that came that t\Tne.
Thomas Exmew, goldsmith, Mayer.
Thomas Baldre, Raffe Simons, Shreffys, ix^ A^,
Thomas Myrsyne, skynner, Mayer.
John Allyn, James Spensar, Shreffys, x^ A^.
James Jarford, mercer, Mayer.
gate, Doggate, Sent

John Wilkynson, Nicolas Partreche, Shreffys, xi^ A^.

John B urges, Mayer.
Joh.n Keme, John Skevynton, Shreff^ys, xii A.
The be-

omeSe
of

Buck-

^"^'^

Thys yere was the duke of Buckyngham be-hedd^'d

^^ ^^^^ Towre-hyUe, and bunyd at the Aust}Tifreeres.
And 1 the owyns made at the bryge howse.
John Mylhorn, Mayer.
John Breton, Thomas Pargeter, Shreffys, xiii Ap.

fSfeVem-

Thys yere the emperor Charles came in-to Ynglond

^^^ ^^^ ^^ London, and there was honorabulle reseved

peror.

with

The com-

And a man

many
"

pagenttes, as on the brygge, in Graschestret,

*

This passage added, see note on

p. 186.

CHRONICLE.

180

at Ledynhallc, the condet in Cornelle, at Stockes, at the A.D. 1522.

gret condet in Chepe, at the stonderd, the crosse

new

gylte at the lyttylle condet, and Powlles churche dore

and soo

to

Bryddewelle, wyche was

And

gylte agenst hys comynge.

this

new made and

yere was a man

and lett vp
and
soddyn in a cawtherne in Smythfelde,
J
I
downe dyuers tymes tylle he was dede, for be-cause he
wold a poyssynd dyuers persons.
John Munde, goldsmyth, Mayer.
John Rudsone, John Chamjones, Shreffys, xiiii^ A^.
'

Thys yere the kynge of Denmarke and hys qwene was

drevyn oute of their londe for cruelnes that he dyd
vn-to hys perys and hys pepulle in hys realme, and
^

*^

soddyn

feule that
^^'^^^^

syn[e(i]

^3"ers
persons.

The kynge
^^'
marke with
hys qwene
^

""
^
harde masse in Powlles churche with hys qwene.
And was
f^
^
dreven
from thens went vn-to Westmyster. And this yere this owte of hys
mayer beganne the furst fest that the mayer shuld dyne ^^^ ^^'
^

on sent Frances day in the Grayfreeres. And this yere Here the
^"^'
in Feuerelle the xx^ii day was the lady Alys Hungrford ^
^^'J^'
was lede from the Tower vn-to Holborne, and there put was
in-to a carte at the church-yerde with one of hare ser- Jjf"^-^'^ '^*
TyDorne.
uanttes, and so carred vn-to Tyborne, and there bothe
hongyd, and she buriyd at the Grayfreeres in the nether e[nd] of the myddes of the churche on the northe
syde. And - the parlament beganne at the Black freeres,
[where every man was] sworne what he was worthe and
to paye to the ky[nge].
Myhylle Ynglyche, Nicolas Jennyns, Shreffys, xv^ Ao.
^

Thys yere was moche adoo for the mayer, for master
Gorge Monox was chosyn, but he wolde not take it
a-ponne him. And thenne on Simon and Judes evyn
master Baldre toke it on hym. And this yere was
drawne and hongyd and qwarterd at Tyborne for
tresoun Frances, Antony, and Pekerynge, for thei intendyd to a made an insurrexsion within the londe at
1 See entry on Coram JRege Roll
(Mich. T. 14 Hen. VIII. m. 17,
Rex RoU) quoted by Mr. W. J.

Hardy in The Antiquanj^ Dec. 1880.

Her name was Agnes.
-

This passage added.

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GREY FRIARS

A.D. 1524. Coventre.

And ^

here the erle of

Angwyche came

in-to

Ynglond.
Williarii Baily, dra]per.

Richard

Dodmev, William Roche,

Shreffys, xvi^ A^.

Thys yere the kynge and the cardnalle Wolsey the

ix^^^ day of Marche intendyd to a ^ come and to see the
Grayfreeres, put the ware lett tylle.^
And the
xvi. day of Januarii, before the byshoppe of Sent Asse,
doctor Standyche, and doctor Ally, and other offeceres
belongynge vn-to the sayd legate dyd begynne their
visitacioun at the Obseruanttes of Grenwych, and thenne
was departyd many of them vn-to other placys but
.

a-gayne that day that the byshoppe of Sent Asse with

compeny shulde come a-gayne, many of them ware

come home a-gayne, or elles they had bene put owte at
that tyme; and one of that owse John Forrest was
commandyd to preche at Po wiles crosse the Sonday after,
and there pronuncid them alle a-curst that wente owte of
the place and thenne some of them came home, and
ware put in the porteres warde in the cardnalles place.
And a-monge alle was one lay brother William Renscrofte
was send vn-to the Gray freeres in London to prison,
and was there longe, and at the last submyttyd hymselfe,
and was a-soyled of the sayd byshoppe by the auctoryte
of the cardnalle, and soo delyuerd home a-gayne.
Also that day that the k}mge as he came owte of hys
chamber to come to the Gray freeres, tydynge was browte
hym that the Frenche kynge was tane by the duke of
Bui'gone.
Also there was gevyn commandment vn-to the
mayer that that nyghte that there shulde be a gret bonfyer at Powlles chui^che dore, and there to be sett
a hoggys hed of rede and a-nother of claret for the
his

pepulle to drynke that wolde for the good tydynges.

And

day after was Satterday

gret wache thorrow all the citte, as it

the

ii^^

Passage added by original hand.

Eafe, Stowe and Fabyan.

the

at
is

nyghte was a
wonte to be at

The words intendyd to a and put

ware lett tylle erased.

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CHRONICLE.

myclsomer, and in euery stret a bone fyer. And the A.D.

sonday after, wyche was the ii*^^ of Lent, the kynge,

1525.

and qwene, and princes, with alle other stattes bothe

spiritualle and temporalle, came to Powlles, and there
was sonnge Te Deum. And after masse the legat gaue
hys benediccioun to alle that was in the churche, for clene
lyfFe,

clene remission.

Also the Thursday at nyghte, after that Bowe bell was [C]omronge, a pele was comandyd to be ronge in euery pariche ^^^ there
churche in London, for sewer worde and tydynges that [shjulde

Richard de la Pole was slayne, and many of the nobylle [fnj ^^Q^y
churche.
stattes of France there to the number of xxx. M^.
And this same yere was dyuers of the Austyn freeres [Bo]w
put in the Tower of London, for a freer that dyde in ^^^^^ ^^^
And on sent Mathu daye after the*'
prison a-monge them.
was a ejret generalle procescioun with euery places of re- *>'<iyge
that

was

legioun in their best coppis, clarkes, and prestes, and so [c]ome of

went from Pawlles vppe to Ledyne-halle, and downe ?^^ ^^^ ^^

Grascherche and to Sent Mangylles, and

alle

Temstrete

and vppe Watlyngstrete, and soo

to Powlles west dore, there the cardnalle with dyuers
byshoppes and abbottes in their mytteres and soo came
in-to Powlles to the hye aulter, and there sange Te
DeuTii for the sewer tydynges that was come of this
and vppe

at Doggate,

beforesayd.

And ^

a bushy lie of baye salte solde for

iiii^.

viii^.

Shreffys, xvii^ A^.

Thys yere beganne the cardnalle Wolsey to enter hys

visitacioun a-monge the iiii. cl
and on Alsolne
day doctor Allyn beganne in the Gray freeres at after.

none.
in thys yere beganne the golde to ryse, as the

and in Nou ember after it was

and here beganne a derthe of corne.

angelle nobylle at

made

vii. s. y'l^

f^'^^*

cioun, with
^^^^^^
etc.,

and a

of fb^fff^e
saite for

John Caunton, Christofor Asque,

And

and the

vii.s

Stephen Pekecoke, Nicolas Lamherte, Shreffys, xviii A^.

Added by

original hand.

V";

J.

GREY FRIARS

192
A.D. 1526.

Thys yere was moche a doo in the yelde-halde for the

mayor, for the comyns wold not haue had Semer, for because of velle Mali Dav.i And also whanne the shreffe
.shulde be ehos[eD] for the comyns the chose
but he wold not take it, and soo it stode voyed tylle it
was Myhylmas daye, and thenne master Lambert toke it.
Also this same yere doctor Barnes the Austyne freer,
ii.
Esterlynges, and ii. other men shulde a stonde at
Powlles crosse at the sermond with faggottes and tapers,
but for be-cause of ra^me they stode on the hye scafFolde
within the ohurche, and the byshoppe of Rochester
Fycher dyd preche this was the xvi. day of Februarii,
and thenne Barnes was delyuered home to prisone, but
he brake a-ways from them and went beyends see vn-to
.

[A.D.

Luter.

w
with
*s

And

......

day of October was a gret rajme alle the

nyghte and alle the daye vn-to vi. a cloke at nyghte,
and thenne was gi'et lytnynge and thunder and hay lie.
And this yere was a gret derthe in London for brede,
that dyuers pei-sons bothe men and women ware hurte
And moch wette and rye was provydyd
at the carttes.
And this
for in London in dyuers howses for the citte.
yere the pope was tane prisoner by the emperor, and
dyuers cardnalles, and afterward was ransomyd vn-to
the

vi.

the emperor.

And

day of October

this yere the xxiiii.

after

gret generalle processioun a-gayne in their coppis,

was a
and at

Powlles west dore mett the cardnalle with dyuers byshoppes, abbottes, and priors, in their mytters a-gayne.

And ^
make

thys yere the cardnalle went in-to France for to

a lege betwene the kynge and vs

October after the gi'and master

London.
[in]

[of]

and

France came to

James Spencer, Mayer, vintner.

John Hardy, William Holies, Shreffys, xixo
1

See

p. 187.

Name

erased.

'^^^^

passage

orioinal hand.

this yere

A^.

added

by

the

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CHRONICLE.

Thys yere was noo wache on Mydsomer nyghtc. And

also this ycre was gret derthe for brede.
John Rudstone, Mayer, draper.
Raffe Warryn, John Longe, Shreffys, xxo A^.

A.D. 1528.

Thys yere was a prisoner brake from the halle at

Newgate whanne the cecions was done, that was browte
downe in a basket, and brake thorow the pepulle, and
went vn-to the Gray freeres, and there was vi. or vii.
dayes.
And at the last the shreifys came and spoke

Here the

with

hym

in the churche, and, for be-cause he wokle not

them
the churche, and soo

abiure and aske a cro^yner, with gret violens of

hym

|J|.!ji^"from

the h[aii]
^^iat

wTas]

cast

and

ij-i^-j

basket,

and

owte of
vn_to the
the churche was shott in from Monday vn-to Thursday, C^ray
and the seruys and masse sayd and songe in the fratter Marke all
and that day the bushoppe of Sent Asse browte the *^^^^ ^^storv etc.
sacrament solemply downe with processioun, and soo
the powre prisoner continewyd in prisone, for they
sowte all the wayes that they cowde, but the lawe wolde
not serue them to honge hym, and at the last was delyuered and put at lyberte.
Also this same yere John Scotte, that was one of the
kynges playeres, was put in Newgatte for rebukynge of
the shreffys, and was there a sennet, and at the last was
ledde betwene ii. of the offecers from Newgate thorrow
London, and soo to Newgat a-ga^me, and thenne was
delyueryd home to hys howse
but he toke soche a
thowte that he dyde, for he went in hys shurte.

and

their offecers toke

And

this

yere in Ju[ne]

ii.

legattes

satt

at

the

Blacke freeres for the kynges marryge and in October

the cardnalle was deposy[d from] the chaunslercheppe.
Raffe Bodiner, Mayer, mercer.
Myhill Domer, Walter Cham'pion, Shreffys, xxi A^.
;

Thys yere

at

Mydsomer was a gooly wache and

goodly pagenttes in Cheppe-syde at Soper lane ende.

'

7644.

Passage added by original hand.

jj

ii.

GREY FRIARS

194

And

A.D. 1530.

this yere

was the emperor crowned

at

Bonony.

Thornxis Pargeter, Salter, Mayer.

Williarii

Baunce, Richard Choppyn,

Shreffys, xxii^ A*^.

Thys yere was moche a doo for chosynge of the

shreffe
the comyns wolde haue had Amadas, but he
wolde not take it and at the last on Myhylmas evyn
was chosyn Eichard Choppyn chandler, and there by
and by toke his hothe in the yelde-halle, and soo went
;

to Westmyster.

And

this yere

was

gi'et

wyndes and

moche harme both a thyssyde the

see

fluddes that dyde

and beyende the

see.

The

Also this vcre the

dial-

[yng>P3^'put

xi.

day of Maii the challons of Es-

yngspettylle was put owte.

Also this yere was a coke boylyd in a

tyiie

cawdcme

in

Smythefelde for he wolde a powsynd the byshoppe of

Rochester Fycher witli dyuers of hys seruanttes, and he

and pullyd ^'p and downe with

a g}'bbyt at d}^ers tymes tylle he was dede.
And this yere dyde the cardnalle Wolsey on sent
Andrew}'s evyn, and byrryd at Lecetter.
RicJuird Gressharii, Edivard Altliani, Shreffys, xxiii

was lockyd

in a cha3'ne

Ao.
...

ed

...seand
[the

Thys yere was a chauntery prest of Sent Andi^ewys at

Baynyscastclle the v*^ day of Julii was hongyd at
Towre-hylle, and dmwne from New^att, for clepp3mge
x
o

cauons of 1
, ,
^
of golde.
Cryste
[church
^jQ(j also this

of lawe,

j.

./

was William - Baynard, a man

and too mo with hym, burnyd in Smythefelde
j'ere

for errysee, in ^laii.

And

this yere

was the chaUons

of Crystes churche put

owte of their place vn-to dyuers other places, and the

place gevyn vn-to the lorde chauncelor Thomas Awdle.
Passage added by original hand.
Should be under year 1530.
- William inserted in space left
for the purpose.
few similar
1

insertions are noted, as they tend

to

show the point

chronicle becomes
I

cord.

at

which

an original

this

re-

CHRONICLE.

195

Also this ycrc was a purser at Sent Martyns gate A.D.

burnyd in Smytliefelde for eryssye. Also the sacrament

1532.

Good Fiyday in the

mornynge was stolne owte at the est wyndow, and iii.
osttes wrappyd in a rede clothe, and a woman browte it
vn-to the porter of the Gray freeres, and she tane and
at Sent Butteiles at Aldersgate on

browte vn-to the shreffe Richard Grassham, and she send

vn-to the cownter, and was there alle Ester daye tylle
none, and thenne delyueryd.
A.nd the Monday after
Lowesonday the cnret with alle the pariche and solempnite sette the osttes home with soleme processioun, by
the commandment of the byshoppe of London, thenne
beynge doctor John Stokesley.
And this yere the kynge with lady Anne Bullene went
to Callys the ix^^^ day of October, and there spake with
the Frence kynge.
[St]ephen Pecocke, hahordachere, Mayer.
Richard Raynolde, Nicollas Pynson, John Martyn,

John Prest} Shreffys, xxiiii^ A^.

Thys yere in Lent dyde Nicolas Pynson, and for hym
was chosyn John Martyn, bocher and the xvi. day
before Myhylmas he dyde, and for hym was chosyn John
;

Prest, grocer.

And

was burnyd in Smythfelde, Frethe and [B]uma-nother with hym, for gret errysy and ^ this yere the i^l^he
kjmge was [di]vorsyd from lady Katerne [by] the proses [and o]ne
of the lawe, [and] marryd lady Anne Bul[l]en.
And ^^ ^'^'
the Natiuite of our [La]dy evyn was borne lady [Eli]zathis yere

bethe at Grenwyche.

And this yere was the coronacion of qwene Anne.

The xxix^i day of Maii she was browte be watter from
Grenwyche vn-to the Tower with barges, the mayer,
aldermen, and the craffttes, as the mayer dothe to Westmester whanne he takys hys othe and the Satterday after,
that was Wytson evyn, came from the Tower thorrow
;

John Prest

a7id

is

not

named by Fabjan, Stowe,

or Grafton.

Grenivyche added.

GREY FRIARS

196
A.D. 1533.

London pagenttes

as at Gracechurche, at Ledyn-halle

the condet in Comehylle, the gret condet in Cheppe, the

new pajTityd, and

crosse new bumechyd,

standert

the wayttes playnge there,

the

the lyttylle condet, and at

Powles gatte, and soo to Whytt-halle at Westmyster,

that some tyme was the byshoppe of Yorkes place, and
soo a-gayne that t^Tne was new made. And a tylte to
just with great posttes and vanes of the kynges armes
and hares, with their conysanttes payntyd and gylte,
and with stoneworke vp to the raylles, the w;)^che was
wrotte on Assencion day in the mornynge. And on
Wytsonsonday, wyche ^ was the xxxi. of Maii, was the
coronacioun in Westmyster churche, and soo came
crownyd from thens to Westmyster halle, and there
d^^nyd, and at that tyme was many knyghttes made.
And ^ this yere dyde the Frenche qwene, wyffe vn-to the
duke of Suftoke, Mary that was dowter to Henry the
vii.

Christopher Asqioe, draper, Mayer.

William
xxvo Ao.

Forraer,

Thys yere the

Sir

xxiii.

Thoniat^

Rytson, Shreffys,

day of Nouember, prechyd at

Powlles crosse the byshoppe of Bangare

Capun, and there stode before

electa, doctor

hym

on a skaffolde doctor Bockynge and a-nother monke of the same howse of

Crystes churche of Cantorbery, the parsone of Aldermary
Gokle, and ii. Obseruanttes of Cantorbery, and the holy
of Kent','
rDo^*]or niayde of Kent, Elzabeth Barton;* and from thens they
the parson Went vu-to the Tower of London a-gayne, and moche
[of] Alderpepulle bothe at the crosse and thorrow alle the strettes
^
^
niary,
From thens the went to
Eiciiam[?] of London vn-to the Tower.
there
dyd pennans also,
Cauntorbery, and
th^r whh^
hjm at
And this yere was hongyd at the Wyllow by the
Temse scyde Wolfe and hys wyffe, for kyllynge of two
cK)sse etc.
Lumberttes in a bote on the Temse.

Maii added.

uyche

This pa?JRage added in the margin.

^
^

Sic, MS.
Xame vritten

in margin.

CHRONICLE.

And

'

this yere

197

was the bysshoppe of Rome powre pu[t

A.D. 1534.

down, and] a pes concludyd with Scotlond that lastyd

but a wyle.
Nicolas
Lewson,
William Dennha\_m], Bhreffys,
xxvio Ao.

Thys yere was the mayd of Kent with the monkes,

freeres, and the parsone of Alderma[ry], drawne to Tyborne, and there hongyd and heddyd the v. day of Maii,
and the monkes burryt at the Blacke freeres, the Obseruanttes, with the holy mayd, at the Gray freeres and
;

the parsone at hys churche Aldermary.

And

this yere,

the xxti day of Nouember, the lorde amrelle of France

London with
gret solempnyte of the mayer, aldermen, and crafttes of
the same, in Chepesyde. Also the same yere, the iii. day
[A.D.
i^^s.j
of Maii was Holy -rode day, and thenne was draune
from the Tower vn-to Tyborne the iii. priors of the
Charterhowses, and there hongyd, heddyd, and qwarterd
and one of the qwarteres of the priors harmes was sett
And within
vp at the gatte in-to Aldersgate stret.
short whylle after iiii. monkes moo of the sayd howse,
drawne
as Exmew, Nitygate, with ii. others, ware
from the Tower to Tyborne, and there hongyd, heddyd, and qwarterd, and their qwarteres sett vp. Also
this yere the xxii. day of Julii'was the b^^shoppe of Rochester John Fycher be-heddyd at Towre-hylle, and bur- John
ryd in the church-yerd of Barkyn by the northe dore. ^J^'-^?^-^.
And the xxvi. day of the same moneth was be-heddyd t[er],Mor
c^auu[ceiat Towre-hylle, Sir Thomas More, some tyme chaunsler
of Ynglond, and thenne was tane vp the byshoppe Yngioud
^^^"
a-gayne, and bothe of them buiTyd within the Tower.
edi
And that same yere beganne the New Testament in
came

into Ynglond,

and was reseved

into

Englyche.

And
Tower.

this

And

yere dyde
this yere

the

erle

of

Kyldare in the

was grantyd vn-to the kynge

This passage added.

GREY FRIARS

198
A.D. 1535. the

tenthes

and

fur[st]

fruttes

both spiritualle and

te[mporal].

John Allyne, mercer, Mayer.

Humfery Monmothe, John Cottes, Bhrefys, xxvii^ A^.
Thys yere the

[A.D.
-'

day

furst

of

Maye was

qwene Anne,

tane and

Rocheford
hare brother, master Norres, master AVest, master
Breerton, and one Markes, at Grenewyche, and browte
And the xiii. daye after the went
vn-to the Tower.
vn-to Westmyster to haue thek jugment, alle saue only
a-restyd of tresoun the

lorde

Anne Bui- the

qwene and lorde Roeheford, for the had their

Kocheford jugment within the Tower the xv. day of Maii with
Norres,
the lorddes of the re aim e and the xvi. of their qwest
West
...
Brearton, with the lorde mayer, aldermen, and viii. of euery hede
*^d
craft of London. And the xvii. day of Maii lorde Rochewith alle the rest was be-heddyd at Towre-hylle,
forde
hed[ed].
and their heddes sett vp on London brygge, and their
bodys burryd within the Tower. And the xix. day of
the same was the qwene Anne be-heddyd within the
Tower, and there burryd.
And in September after was a rysynge in Lyngcolshere of the comons, for taske and talenge of an abbe
there, by the ^ menys of lorde Da[rcy], lorde Husey, Sir
And the
Roberte Constabulle, and Roberte
vii. day of October the duke of Norffoke and the duke
of SufFoke went thether and pacified them and thenne
beganne Yorkechere to ryse, and the pacifyed them the
And the kynges grace sent a
xxix. day of October.
letter to the mayer and citte of London, and gaue them
thangkes for the paynnes and costtes of sendynge cc.
and fyfty men the xxxi. day of October.
;

Raffe Warryne, raercer, Mayer.

Boherte ^ Paget, Williara Boiver, Shreffys, xxviii^ A^.
Roberte

Pakeng-

Thys yere one Robert Pakengton, mercer, was slayne

^y^^h a gonc the xiii. day of Nouember in a momynge,
A

menys

a:id

Boherte added.

Richard, Fabjan and Stowe.

CHRONICLE.

199

by the gret condet in Cheppe, and thenne was made a

procleniacioun by the mayer, if anny man canne telle
!

Till

tydynges how
myght beknowyn he shuld haue
a gret rewarde for hys labor.
^e (Jay of Februarii the lorde
Also the
Garrad with hys five vnkelles of Ireland theys ware
.

-I

A.D. 1536.
"}ercer,

slayn With
a g[un].

[A.D.

'-'

Thomas lorde Fyztgarrard, sir James Fyztgarrard, sir John Fyztgarrard, sir Richard Fyztgarrard
lord of Sent Ines in Ireland, sir Holduer Fyztgarrard, and
sir Walter Fyztgarrard
ware drawne from the Tower
vn-to Tyborn, and there alle hangyd and heddyd and
qwarterd, saue the lorde Thomas, for he was but hongyd
and heddyd, and ys boddy burryd at the Crost freeres in
their names,

the qwere, and the qwarteres with their heddes set vp

a-bowte the

citte.

Awgementacioun
in Westmyster a-bove by Sent Stephins, the wyche was
new made for the Awgmetacioun corte, wher as master
Riche was made chaunceler.
Also the xix. day of Februarii was hongyd at Tyborne
X. women and iii. men.
Also this yere in the begynnynge of Lent it was proclamyd and degrees^ by the kynge and hys concelle
that the pepulle shulde ette whytte mettes, and soo
Also this yere beganne the Corte of

-..ge
'" e/

dyuers dyde.
Also the xiii. day of Marche sir Frances Bygotte w^as
browte owte of the Northe to the Tower thurow Smythfelde and in at Newgat, rydynge soo thorrow Chepe-sydy
and soo to the Tower, and sir Raffe Elderke ledynge

was bownde withalle.

Also this yere the xxv. day of Marche the Lyncolne- ...er and
chere men that was with bishoppe Makerelle was browte iiy[m]
owte of Newgate vn-to the yelde-halle in roppy s, and ^l-^^^f3<^ "'^
there had their jugment to be drawne, hongyd, and at T}-^
heddyd and qwarterd, and soo -was the xxix. of Marche ^j^^^^J^"^
after, the wyche was on Maundy Thursdaye, and alle Thursday.

hym by

the bond, with that he

decreed

GREY FRIARS

200
A.D. 1537- their qwarteres

with their heddes was buriyd at Par-

done churche-yerde in the frary.

[Lor]de
Also the xiiii. day of Maii was browte from the Tower
^^^
to Westmyster the lorde Darcy and lorde Hussy, and there
the^^^
[lor]de
ware condemnide to deth, but they ware had in-to the
northe, and there sufferd with Aske. Also the xvi. day of
hongyd
[in] the
the same monythe was browte from the Tower vn-to the
with Aske, the yelde-halle sir Roberto ConstabuUe and lady Bowmer,
[jo]hn
]3^t they ware carryd from the yelde-halle vn-to WestBowmer
[St]epheii myster with alle the rest, and there had their jugement.
HamerAnd the XXV. daye of the same monythe was drawne from
[Njicoias the Tower of London vn-to Tyborne sir John Bowmer
^^^Jo^te, sir Stephen Hamerton knyghte, master Nicolas
Tw^in^*'
Thurst,
Tempest sqwere, William Thurst[on] abbot of Fowntens
^^^ bachelar of deuinite, doctor John Pekerynge prior
rjolhn
Pekei}Tige. of the Blacke freeres in Yorke, sir Jams ^ Pekerelle
challoun and doctor of deuinite. And after sir John
PekeSn
[ho]iigyd Bowmer [and] sir Stephen Hamerton ware but hongyd
?[erS]?^" ^^^ heddyd, and alle the resydew ware bothe hongyd,
Lady
heddyd, and qwarterd. And at that tyme was drawne
[Bow]mer fi'om the Tower after them lady Margarete Bowmer
buinyd in wyffe vn-to sir John Bowmer, and he made hare hys
wyife, but she was the wyffe of one Cheyny, for he solde
feide.
hare vn-to sir Bowmer and she was drawne whanne she
came to Newgate in-to Smythefelde, and there burnyd the
same fore-none. And that same daye at Tyborne was a
yonge freer e of the Blacke freeres bryngynge vp, and for
be-cause he desyryd the harte of hym that browte hym
vp, to haue it and to burn yt, the shreffe send hym to
[Th]omas Newgate, and there was a seneyt or more.
Also the ii.
dyd,\sir ^laye of June was drawne from the Tower of London to
Frjances
Tybome sir Thomas Percy, sir Frances Byggot, Gorge
[Geo]'rge Lumley eyer to the lorde Lumley, William Woodde prior
of Byrlyngton, Adame SedbaiTe abbott of Jarvys, and
^^^^^>
Woodde, there ware hongyd, heddyd, and qwarterd, saue sir Thomas
and
Percy, for he was but heddyd and w[as] buiTyd at the
,j

<j

%>

Sic,

MS.

201

CllllONlCLE.

and the qwarteres of alle the rcsydew was A.D. 1537.

burryd at the Gray freeres in the clowster on the Northe [^|||j^"^^'^
syde in the pament. And the xxvi[i ?] day of June was keddyd.
hade in-to the Northe to be hongyd and hcddyd lorde
H[usey], sir Roberte Constabulle, and Aske, and there
suiferde as they ware wordy.
Also the XX. day of June the lorde Darcy was beheddyd at Towre-hylle, and burryd within the Tower.
Also this yere, the xii. day of October, was borne the
prince Edward at Hamton Gorte, the xxix. yere of kynge
Grose

freeres,

Henry the

viii.

[Richard'] Gressham, mercer, Mayer.

John Gressam, Thomas Loiuyne, Shreffys, xxixo A^.

Thys yere the good qwene Jane dessecid the xxiii. day
of October at Richemond, and alle the corte had thenne
blacke gownes, and she was burryd at Wynsor the viii.
day of November.^
Also this yere the xxv. day of Februarii was drawne
from the To were to Ty borne, Henry Harford gentleman
and Thomas Hever merchand, and there nongyd and
^

111

'

;'

qwarterd for tresoun.

Also this yere was made and ^ acte of parlament that
no lorde, knyghte, sqweer, gentleman, nor yeoman ser-

[A.D.
1

538

'\

H[arford]

Th[omas]
"^^rt^^*^^-^

[borne].

uyngeman shulde d^^sobey ony offecer, constabuUe, bayle,

or ony offecer within the citte of London as sargant or
yeman, for to drawe ony wepone to anny man, oppon
payne of dethe, or castynge of anny foyne.
Also this same yere the xxii. day of Maii was burnyd Freer
in Smythfelde freer John Forrest of Grenewyche, and a Forrest]
^^^j
rode that came owte of Wallys callyd Deluergaddar.
Willyam
deth
Also the vii. day of August was put to
g[addar]

Gonysby gentleman.
And the ii. day of SeiDtember was put

wmiam"
to deth master Cony[sby]

Clefforde.

And

Sr^,

the furst Sonday of September was hongyd at put

Glarkenwelle at the wrestlynge place the

hongman

viii.

aud November inserted in blank spaces by a

Sic,

MS.

later

hand.

that

J^^^

to

^on^l

GKEY FRIARS

202
A.D. 1538.

was

ii.

with hym, for stelynge in Bart^^mew

William Forman, Mayer.

yn\ye[ii

Lamberde,
John MatPeteJ'
Franke,
and hys

Wylkensone,

TFi^/^mm

^^iihh^^

wyf[e]
burnyd

and

be-fore,

Nicolas

Gyhson,

Shreffys,

day of Nouember was one Lambert,

other- wysse callyd Nicolas, was burnyd in Smythefelde

Thys yere the

xxii.

for orret eryse.

And
in

Smyth[field].

the xxix. of Nouember was burnyd in Smythfelde

John Mattessev a Docheman, Peter Franke and hys

^
a
for erryse.
wyiie,

Lorde
Henry

j^^

December was be-heddyd at the

marfquls] Towre-hylle lorde Henry markes of Exceter, lorde Henry
of Exceter,
j^Xontecjow, and sir Edward Nevelle.
lorde
H[enry]
Also this yere was alle the placys of relygioun within
anTsIf^' thecitte of London subprest in Nouember.
[Ed] ward
Also this yere the xxiii.day of December was burnyd
heddyd at' ^^ Smythfelde Richard Turner, wever, and Peter Florens,
r>

Towr[ein Decernber. All the

\^

ygj-g
*'

^]-^ig

"^

'

bocher.
-^Iso the

iii.

day of Marche^ was be-heddyd at Towre-

hylle sir Nicolas Carrow.

day of May was the gret muster in LonLondon musterd in harnes, morv^s, pykes,
subnresbowses, hand-gons, and whytt cottes, with the mayer,
syd
Nouemin
shrefF^^s, and dyuers aldermen.
Also the ix. day of Julii was be-heddyd at Towre-h3dle
Richard
Turner
knyghttes
and that
master Foskew and master Dyno;le,
<d
j o
and Peter
F[iorens] same day was drawne to Ty borne ii. of their seruanttes,
burnyd in
^^ ^^^ hons^yd and q warterd for tresoun.
SmA'thJ^
Tir
William Holles, Mayer.
[field]. Sir
Nicolas
xxxi^ A.
John Fare, Thomas Huntle, Shreffys,
a
Carow ....
Foster beThys yere the xxvii. day of December came in lad}^
of Cleffe into Yngiond, and the iii. day of Janu..! Dyngle Anne
and the
^rii ^ came to Grenwych vn-to the k\Tiges ffrace, and there
^e[at]
Ti
moster in was marryd vn-to the kynges grace with gret solempLon[don]. nyte, with the mayer, aldermen, and xii. crafFtes, euery
^
one vi., and theys rode, and alle the rest of the crafftes
^i^S-^
Cletie marterS

And

in

London]

the

viii.

(Jon, that alle

7 7

'

^;

.j

.'J

>

..-,

'

nd

to the
k[ing],

A.D. 1539.

a.D. 1540.

CHRONICLE.

203

went in their barges with alio their best a-raye, as the

mayer is wont to goo to Westmyster. And thenne beganne alle the gentylwomen of Ynglond to were Frenche
whooddes with bellementtes of golde.
Also this [s]ame yere was the xvi. day of Marche was
one Somer and iii. vacabundes with hym drawne, hongyd,
and qwarterd for cleppynge of golde at Tyborne.
Also this same y[ear] at Sent Mary spettelle, the iii.
dayes in Ester wxke, preched the vicor of Stepney one
Jerome doctor Barnes the ii^ daye and the iii^e Garrard
parsone of Honylane, and there recantyd, and askyd the
pepuUe for-yefnes for that at^ the had preched before con-

A.D. 1540,

and

all

l^o^rmenl
to

were

woddes?

trary vn-to the lawe of God.

And

doctor Barnes, that

askyd there the byshoppe of Wenchester for-yefnes opynly, and prayd hym yf he wolde
for-yeffe hym that he wolde make some tokyn and holde
vp hys honde.
And the x. day of June was a-restyd and had vn-to [Executhe Tower lorde Thomas Cromewelle erle of Essex for gret [trdf "'^^^
tresoun and the xxviii. day of Julii was he and lorde CromWalter Hungerforthe be-heddyd at Towre-hylle, Crome- J^ndl
[Himge]rwelle for tresoun and lorde Hungerforthe for bockery.
And the xxx. day of the same monythe was doctor TowerBarnes, Jerone ^ and Garrard drawne frome the Tower in- [^iH]to Smythfelde, and there burnyd for their heryses.
And jerom ...'
that same day also was drawne from the Tower with them i^^rnyd.
jx owe lie
..
doctor Po welle with ii. other prestes, and there was a and ii.other
gallowys set vp at Sent Bartylmewys gate, and there P"^?*^^
ware hongyd, heddyd, and qwarterd that same day, and and qwar-

was the Austyn

freer,

their qwarteres sett a-bowte the cytte.

And

^^^m'

day of August was drawne from the Gjilis

Tower to Tyborne, Gyllys Home, gentleman, Clement aS^/dyPhylpot, Edmonde Bromham, Derby Kenhame, William uers others
Home, Robert Byrde, Jarvys Carrow, and ther hongyd, and^
heddyd, and qwarterd, and their qwarteres with their qi^l^i'"
heddes sett vp a-bowte the citte.
Tvbo^-[ne'i
William Roche, Mayer.
the

iiii.

sic,

MS.

-^

GREY FRIARS

204
A.D. 1540.
Egertou
[and]

Harman
[haujgyd
and qwarterd at

[Tybo]rne.

Lorde
Lenar[d
Graye],
markes,
be-heddjd
[at]

[T]owreand

hjlle,

lorde

[Dae] res
of Sowthe

hongyd
[at

f]y-

borne.
Mantelle,

[rru]dus,

and

a-

nother at
Sent

[Tho]mas
Waterynge,
and the
rcou]ntes
of Sals-

bery be[heade]d
within the

Tower.

William Laxton, Martyn Bowes, Shreffys, xxxii A^,

Thys yere was drawne from the Tower to Tyborne the
^
xxii. day of December
Egerton and Thomas
Harman for cleppynge of golde, and there hongyd, heddyd, and qwarterd, and their qwarteres set vp.
Also the xxviii. day of June was be-heddyd at Towrehylle lorde Lenarde Graye markes, and buiTyd within
the Tower.

And

same monythe was lorde

Dakeres of the Sowthe ledde with the shreffys of London vn-to Tyborne at after-none, and there hongyd for
the New acte that was made, and browtc home a-gayne
in the carte vn-to Sent Pulkeres and ther burryd.
And xxviii. day of June was hongyd at Sent
Thomas Wattenynge, Mantelle, Frudus and a-nother.
Item 2 the xxviii. day of Maii was the counteys of
of

the

Salsbery be-hedyd within the Tower.

Myhylle Dormer, Mayer.

RovjIomcI Hylle, Henry Sadler ^^ Shreffys, xxxiii^ A^.
Thys yere the x. daye of December was drawne from
the Tower to Tyborne .... Colpeper, and there was
hongyd and heddyd.
And the xiii. day of Februarii ^ was the qwene Kateryne and lady Rocheford be-heddyd within the Tower

and there burryd.

Colpeper

hongyd

the xxix.

And

at

[Tyb]orne.

made

the xxviii. day of Marche there

was a fraye

cownter in Bredstret of a sergant at

harmes of the parlament howse by Robert Tomsone
Katerne
[and lady] the yeman and Thomas Craker
of the same howse for
Eocheford
a-rest of Robert Taylor sergant of maysse, the wyche
be-hed
[ed]. Fray
master shreffys ware sent for to the cowncelle, and
at the
the ware send vn-to the Tower of London, and ware
cownter
Qwene

and [the]

mayd

that

there a

And

was bowyl[ed] in
Smj-th-

at

the

iii.

or

iiii.

dayes.

was a mayde boyllyd

the x*^ day of Marche

Smythfelde for poysjrQynge of dyuers

persons.

in

And

feld.

Blank spaces

left for

subsequent

insertion of names.
2

This passage inserted.

Suckely, Fabyan.

A.D. 1542.
and
Doncannen

inserted.

205

CHRONICLE.

came in the erle of Desmondc and the grct

a Nelc, and was crcatyd cvle of Teronc, and hys sonne
this yere

A.l). 1542.

barone of Doncannen.

John Cortes, Mayer.

Henry Hohyltome, Henry Hamcot,

Shreffys, xxxiiii^

Ao.

Thys yere in October was a gret skermyche in the [Sk]yrNorthe abowte Caiielle, and many of the Scottys lordes cariciie^,
tane and browte to London vn-to the Tower the xx*i ^^"y
day, and the nexte day ware browte vn-to the kynge tanc, [and
and swome to be trewe, and soo was ransomed and ^^ ^^f*
pestelens,

send home a-gayne.

and terme

and ^^^""^yd
was
Myhylmas terme remevyd vn-to Sent Albons, and it Aibons,
beganne not tylle Sent Martyns day the xv. day of^^J^^j"*^^
opyn
Nouember.
Also the iii<lo (Jay of August before was proclamyd ^^Tt^g^e
opyn warre betweene our kynge and the Frenche [Franc] e
^^
kynge. And this yere was a gret derthe for wode and

And

a gret pestelens in London,

this yere

colles.

[J]oJin Tollys,

Richard Bobbys,

xxxv^ A^.

Shreffys,

[a.d.
1543.1

Thys

a gret tempest of
alle

day of December at none, rysse

wynde and rayne, and contynewyd

yere, the xxiii.

the nyght tylle the nexte

day, at

viii.

of the

and in that tyme was moche harme on the see

and gret
that lost manny sheppes of merchande
men and women of Spanyarddes that ware goynge vnto the emperor agay[nst] Crystmas, and the with
alle their goodes ware drownyd and lost, and gast vp,
as dyuers persons both men and women
and that
tyme came the kynge of Cestelle in- to Ynglond, and
came be watter vn-to the Whytt-halle vn-to the
kynge, and soo vn-to Rychemond, and was there
tylle the furst day of Januarii,^ and thenne departyd

cloc[k],

Also

"^

Jamiarii inserted in a space

colles inserted.
left

for the purpose.

GREY FEIABS

20G
A.D.

1544,

Erie of

A[ngus
made captain] of
Ba^^^yke.

and had gret geftes gev3m hym. And

on tewelfe day in the mornynge Leganne a gTette
niyst that a man myghte not see a ii. yerddes before
hym, and thenne was moche harme done in the see that
dyuers sheppes ware lost and tane by Frenche men,
and some in- to this lond.
And at this tyme was worde browte vn-to the
kynge that the erle of Angwyche in Scotlonde, whome
the k}Tige had kepte hym with hys brother, and dyuers
other here in Ynglond more thanne a xi. or xii. yeres,
and had hym with the other lordes of Scotlonde shorne ^
and resevyd the sacrament that thei shulde be trew,
and soo went home, and the erle of Angwyche was
made captayne of Barwyke
and at th3"s tyme he
stale a-waye and carryd with hym the principalle of
the ordenans, with plate, monn}^, harnes, horse and
wettelles, and went in-to Scotland to a castelle of hys
with the other lordes with h3^m vvn-to the byshoppe
of Sent Andrewys, a-gayne our master the kynge of
Ynglond, whome had cherycyd and made moche of
them alle, and gaue them many gi-et yeffttes, and
they lyke traytors dj^ssev^^d hym and the realme with

home

a-ga}Tie,

their false crafftes.

V. presttes,

the cecre[tarv]
of
*
the

bvshoppe

[Tyburn]
and there
hongyd
andqu[arAscheby.

The dethe
of lorde

Awdle,
chaimse-

chester,
tra^wue to

vii.

of [Win]-

tered].

day of Marche was drawne from the

Tower of London vn -to Tybome v. prestes and ^
Gaidner cecretore vn-to the byshoppe of Wynchester,
^
and theis ware the prestes names
and
and
qwarterd,
and their
there ware hongyd, heddyd,
qwarteres with their heddes byrryd there. And the
xix. day of Marche was drawne from the Tower vn-to
} Ascheby, that was some t^ane a
Tyborne
prest and for-soke it, and there was hongyd and
Also the last day of
qwarterd and there byrryd.
Aprille dyde the lord Thomas Audle, chauncheler of
Ynglond, and for hym was made lorde Thomas Wresley.
Also the

[lor].

So for

sivoni.

2
I

^ blank space in the MS.

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CHRONICLE.

day of Mali was made a pvoclama- A.D. 1544.

cion in London for raysyn^-e of ^'olde and syluer, as TJiiy^.ynjro
the ryallc xn. s., and the angelle at viii. s., and syluer .v(i syluer.
and also that alle French men And aile
at iiii. s. the vnce
shuld voyde the realme within xx. dayes, or elles to j^^^,^ ^^
be made free denycens, vn payen of dethe and a new a-voyd the
qw}Tie of syluer of xii.^i a-pece, grottes, and ii.^ with
Item,

the

xvi.

hole

facis.

Item, the xxii. day of Maii

was the Assencioun day,

The bon-

and at nyghte was made gret bone-fyers thorrow alle [music]

London, and gret chere in euery paryche at euery bone- ^" ^^^^y
and
f yer, and gret melody with dyuers instrewmentes
the mayer with the shreifys rydynge thorrow euery
warde of London to see how it was done, for the good
tydynges that came owte of Scotlond.
Item, this yere was no wache at Mydsomer be-cause C^"^ o]
AVfidllP
of the warres but the mayer with the shreffys rode Myso[mthorrow alle London, and euery alderman in hys warde "^^^]'
with the constabulles. And this yere the kyno-es PTace Thekynges
n goyng [to]
went vn-to Bollen, and layd sege there to the xix. day of Buiiyne
Julii, and lay there tylle it was the xiii. day of Septem- '^^^ wanne
ber, and as that day it was yeldyd vp vn-to the kynges
grace, and the kjmge gaue them alle there lyfFes andpardynd them to goo with bagge and bagges, and lent
them a-ponne a vii. score waggens or more to carre their
stoffe, and soo went a-waye in-to France.
But the ^ vii.
day of October thee came a-gayne vn-to basse Bullene,
and there slew alle the Engiyche men, women and
chelderne, and sett it alle a fyer, and went their wayes
And there was tane the captayne of gret
a-gajTie.
Bullyne and dyuers of ours with them.
John Wiljforde, Andreiv Jiigde, Shreffys, xxxvi^ A^.
;

Jit

Thys yere the ix^^^ day of December was vii. gentylmen of Kent sett on the pyllery at the stondard in

The passage which

follows has been cancelled in the

MS.

GREY FRIARS

208
A.D. 1544. Cheppe,

and stode there iii. oweres, and their here cut by

the erys, and one of eche of their erys cut of, and burnyd
in the cheke, and thenne tane downe and had vn-to pressone and after that carry d \Ti-to Maydson, and there
in the markj'd place set on the pyllery, and the other
erys cut of, and lournyd in the other cheke, and thenne
had vn-to presone and there remajTiyd ^Ti-to soche
tyme as they had made bonddes vn-to the kynge of
payment of soche mony as was taxit \Ti-to them by the
k}Tige and hys cowncelle.
And the xv. day of the same moneth at nyghte was
^ London
caste dyuers bokys of eryses in djruers
a-gayne the sacrament of the awter with alle other sacramenttes and sacramentalles, and namynge dyuers tymes
the byshoppe of W;yTichester, with dyuers other byshoppes and lemede men, with gret rebukes dyuers tymes
;

...ssy cast

... citte,

etc.

in it of

[A.D.

them.

day of Januarii beganne the

gatherynge of the benyvolens at Baynysse castelle for
[Beu]evolens
the kynges warrys.
and the
And also before Crystmas was moche wyne tane of
[wine]
that was
France with ther ch}q)pes, and layed in the churche
tane, etc.
sumtyme the Gray freeres, alle the churche fulle in
euery place of it, and at the Austyn freeres and the
Blacke freeres, with herrynge and other fyche that was
tane on the see goynge in-to France that came from
Anwarppe.
Alderman
And this yere was an alderman of London made a
made a
} Rede a scalter.
And
[ca]ptajne captayne in-to Scotlond,
in-to
this same yere the Scottes toke a gret multitudjme of
Scotlond.
the Ynglych pepulle, and slew them alle shamfully.
[P]rest
And thys yere stode a prest of Kente at Polles crose
of Kent
for cuttynge of hys fynger and made it to blede ouer
stode at
[P]owlles the ost at hys masse for a fallse sacrafyce
and also
ciosse, and
a-nother prest this yere was sett on the pyllere in Chepe
a-nother
Also this yere the

xii.

1545.]

'

A blank

space in the

MS.

CHROXICLE.
for

makyngc

of false lettes

200

in the wcste centre vn-to a

blynde woman.

And

a.I). 1545
[pric.s]t

was no wache at Mydsomer for bc-cause them-ilere.

of the warres bothe in France and also in Scotlonde.
No wache
And this yere was the churche of the Whytfreeres ^^ ^^>^"
sonici".
pullyd downe, and also the stepulle of the Blacke [whyltt
freeres, and yt was stoppyd up with lede a-gayne, and ^'^e^rs
the waye goynge vn-to Baynysche castyl from the sayd downe,
this yerc

[and the]

freeres.

And

this yere

was the Mary Rose

mowth, with dyuers captayns,

i
J

lost

beside Porch-

the Blacke

[^^^''^''^
Gor^e
& Carrow with ve]as
many dyuers other. Also the 22 day of June was a stoppid vp
ffret mvster of the cytte of London, and that same day ^^^^' -
in the mornynge was dyuers howsys a-fyer at Algate.
lost, and
Also the xix. day of the same monythe be-fore be- j^^^t
ganne at ix. of the cloke at nyght a gret rayene with
thonder and lyghtnynge, and contenewyd yn-to the next
day at x. of the cloke.
Item the xii. day of September at iiii. of cloke in Gyiies
the mornynge was Sent Gylles church at Creppyllegatte buiDyd.
burnyd, alle hole saue the walles, stepulle, belles, and
alle, and how it came God knoweth.
Item thys same yere in this same monythe 'was the ^ ^^f
Charterhowse pulde downe, and the watter turned vn-to pullyd

dyuers places ther to gentylmens placys.

and the
Item the 23 daye of the same monythe was a gret gret
^

as sir

>

j^"

'

gj-'c

""'^

generalle processioun of alle parsons, [vjekeres, curattes,

111

with alle other presttes in euery churche, clarkes alle in

1
copys and a crosse 01 euery churche, and soo went vp
vn-to Ledyn-halle on the onsydy, with alle Powlles in
their copys and the byshoppe in his myttor, with alle
the crafttes in their best lyverys, and soo downe on the
/>

other syde, and soo to Powlles a-gayne.

And

day stode one on the pyilery at the stonderd

'

7644.

So

that same
in

Cheppe

for letters ?

fproices^-

sioun and

one stond^j^^i y^
the pyilery

gyde at the
stonderd.

GREY FRIARS

210

And

kjmges comyssioun.
occasioun of the processioun was
[M]artyn Bov:ys, [gold]smythe, Mayer.

A.D. 1545. for mysse-vsy[ng] of the

tlie

Gorge Barnes, Rajfe Allyne, Shreffys, xxxvii^ A^.

[A.D.
1546.]

A-notber
procession.

Thys yere the xxvi. day of Februarii was browthe

from the Tower of London a wom[an] thorrow the cytte
in- to Smyth efelde, with the shreffys and offesars, and
there browthe ^^l-to the stake wher as was fyer, for
clyppynge of golde, and there had hare pardon, and soo
was hadde vn-to the Tower a-gayne thorrow Sent Bartylmewys spyttylle.
Item the xiii. day of June after was Wytson-sonday,
^^^ then was a generalle processioun from Powlles Aoi-to
Sent Peteres in Cornehylle, with alle the chelderne of
Powlles seole, and a crosse of euery pariche cherche,
with a banner and one to ber it in a tenache, alle the
clarkes, presttes, with parsons and vekeres of euery
church in coppys, and the qwere of Powlles in the
same maner, and the byshoppe bereynge the sacrament

A procia-

vnder a canapy, with the ma^'r in a gowne of cremsone

maciou for
ygi^g^, the aldermen in scarlet, with alle the crafttes in
a vniuersaiie pesse their bes a-parelle
and whanne the mayer came betwene
'

'

the crosse and the standert there was made a proclamacyoun with dyuers harhoddes of armes and purseuanttes
ofVn-^^ in their cote armeres, with the trompttes, and ther
lond, and
was proclamyd a vnyuersalle pes for euer betwene the
o/riance emperar, the kynge of Ynglonde, the French kynge, and
etc.
all Crystyne kjmges for euer.
Item the xi. day of Aprille before was Passion Sonday,
Crorae and
^^^ thenne preched doctor Crome in hys pariche churche.
rrQon^rat
Ester
at the wyche sermond he preched a-gayne the sacrament
^^ ^^^ awter and that same tyme he was send for vn-to
ffafinsn
the sacra- the corte, and there was exammynd
and the v. sarawiter,etc.,- ^^ondes at Ester spake alle a-gayne the sayd oppyn^'ons,
rtheT"^
emperor,

The

A line has been

sentence

is

unfinished.

drawn through the words sacrament of

awlter, etc.

CHRONICLE.

And

but namycl not hym.

Sonday, the wyche was the

211

the Sonday after the

ix.

day of Mail

Low

A.D. 1546.

he

but dyd not

after,

and there sayd he came not ^tc.

thether to recante nor to denye hys worddes, nor wolde The Sonno t. And thenne he was send for that same day a-gayne, 4fy aft[er]
and was examynd a-gayne, and the xxvii^i day of June Christi day
after, wyche was the Sonday after Corpus Christi day,
f^^c^jj^edl
he was comandyd to preche at PowUes crosse a-gayne, and deand there recantyd and denyyd hys worddes, as yow ^"^r-or^is^n^
shalle haue in hys artycles with other moo at the end of
preched at Po wiles

crosse,

the boke.

And

the xvi. day of Julii

was burnyd

in Smythfelde

Hemmysley a

prest, wyche
Richemond
Anne Askew,
was an Obseruand freere of
otherwyse callyd Anne Kyme by hare husband John ^ -^^^^ '^.^~
Lassellys, a gentylman of Furnevalles Inne and a taylor her] com} And Nicolas Schaxton, some tyme P'^^^ ^_
of Colchester.
byshopp of Salsbery, was one of the same company, in Smythand was in Newgat, and had juggement with them ^^^^' ^^^'
.1
Blacke, gentylman and Christofer Whytte, of
the Inner TempuUe th[ese] iii. had their pardon. And
Schaxton preched at their burnynge, and there satt on a
scafFo[ld] that was made for the nonse the lorde chaunsler
with the dewke of Norfoke and other of the covnselle,
with the lorde mayer, dyuers aldermen and shreffys, and

for grett herrysy.

the jugges.

Item the furst day of August after preched at PowUes

crost the sayd Nicholas Schaxton, and there recantyd,
and wepte sore and made gret lamentacioun for hys
offens, and pray ^ the pepulle alle there to for-geve
hym hys mysse insample that he had gevyn vn-to the
pepulle.

Item the xx^ day of the same monythe after came

in the lorde amrelle of France vn-to Gren wyche with

[The lord
of-i

France
other

Blank space

"

Name

for

in

MS.

inserted in a space

Sic

MS.

left

it.

)1

A.D. 1546

xiiii.

raiEY FRIARS

goodly gallys, and

many gonnys

many

other sheppes, and there

and soo the nexte day came

be watter vn-to the Tower wharfFe, and so came thorrow
the cytte and in Cheppe-syde be-twene the crosse and
Sent Myhylles stode the mayer with alle the aldermen
and the crafftes in their best lyuerys, and the mayer
gaue hym a present in the name of alle the cytte and
soo came vn-to the byshoppes pallys of London, and lay
that Sonday alle day and the Monday was Bartylmew'evyn, and thenne he was had vn-to Ham ton Corte, wher
the kynges grace lay, and there was ryally-resevyd and
had gret chere with many grett jeffttes and soo laye
there tylle ytt was the Fryday after; and then departyd,
and came a-gayen vn-to London and the Monday after
in the mornynge departyd, and soo went home a-gayne
with gret joye.
Item the xxvi. day of September was burnyd at
[Tesl]amenttes
Powlles crosse a gret multytude of Ynglyche bokes, as
and other
[boojkes
testamenttes and othe bokes, the wyche ware forbodyn
that was
by
proclamacyoiin by the kynges commandment be-fore,
burnjcl
[at]
thorrow alle hys domynyoun.
Fowlless
Also at thys tyme was made an acte in the cytte
Crosse.
Mayer to that euer more after that the shulde chose the mayer
be chosyn
of the sayd cytte on Myhylmas day and her it begannc
[o]n Myf urst
and thenne was made an acte that there shulde
helmas
clav, and
be no more mayers fest but thoys that wolde kepe it.
[u]o
may ere s
Sir Henry Hobyltkovne, Mayer, tayeler.
fest but
Richard Garvys, Thomas Curttys, Shreffys, xxxviii^i
[t]hoys

was

shotte

that wold.

Ao.

Thys yere the xiitb day of December the

[The]
ducke of
Norffoke and the yerle of Sorre hys sonne ware
Korfoke
[and] hys vn-to the Tower of London, and the dewke
Sonne the
erle of
Siirre commyttyd

vu-to the

Tower.

[And one]
...

was

dewke

of

comyttyd
went be
watter from the lorde chaunseles place in Holborne that
was sometyme the byshoppe of Ely's, and soo downe
vn-to the watter syde, and so be watter vn-to the
Tower and hys sonne the yerle of Sorre went thorrow
the cytte of London, makynge gret lamentacion.
;

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213

Item the xxti day of the same monythe was drawnie A.D. 1547.
from Newgate vn-to the Tower-hylle, for qwynynge I*J),],'^x"-*\
of the kynges mony, there was hongyd and no more.^
gat [to] the
Item the 13 day of Januarii was the yerle of Sony h^ie^and
browte from the Tower of London vn-to the yelde-halle ^he'c
of London, the Erie of Sorre/-^ and there he was from ix. J-,^?-'"?-^^^*
hvle of
vn-to yt was v. at nyghte, and there had hys jugge- Sorry conment to be heddyd and soo the xix. day of the same e?J[^F|-?C
moneth it was done at the Towre-hylle.
YekieItem the 30 day of Januarii was sette opyn the Jj^jj^^ [^^^^^
churche a-gayen that was sometyme the Grayfreeres, the xix.day
and masse sayd at the auteres with dyuers presttes, cemberTt
and it was namyd Crystys Churche of the fundacion of ^^'^^ <^one
;

kynge TT
Henry XT
the
1

[atlTowrel^.jJ^^

+>.

vnith.

^^^

TTT

r-r^
[Edward

the XXX.
[day] of
[Ja]nuarii
^as the

VI.]

Gra[y-

Item the 31 day of the same monythe was proclamyd fr]eeres

kynge Edward the vi., and came the same day vn-to opy^^i^^
the Tower of London. And kynge Henry the viii^^^ [Proc]hidyde at the manor of Whytte-halle at Westmyster. macion of
And the xiiii. day of Februarii was browte from thens Edward
and the nexte ^^^ y- t^e
vn-to Syon, and there lave alle nys^hte,
o
XXXI. day
_^
day browth vn-to Wynsor, and there byrryd by qwene of Januarii.
Jane.
Item the xx. day of the same monyth the sayd
kynge Edward e the vi. came from the Tower of London
thorrow London and in dyuers places pagenttes, and
alle the strettes hang[yd] reghely, with alle the crafftcs
stondynge in Chepe, presentynge them as lovynge
and at
subiecttes vn-to their kynge, and soo to Pwlles
the west ende of Powlles stepulle was tayed a cabelle
roppe, and the other ende besyde the denes place at
an hanker of a sheppe, and a man ronnynge downe on
the sayd roppe as swefte as an arrow owte of a bowe
downe with hys honddes and fette a-brode not tochynge
^

*^

./

'

Name

of criminal not giveu.

Repeated thus

in

MS.

GREY FRIARS

214

and whanne the kynge had sene the sayd

thynge went forthe vn-to the pallys of AYestmyster
and the nexte day came from thens vn-to "Westmyster
churche, and there was crownyd, and kepte hys fest in
the ...
Westmyster halle. God of hys mercy sende hym good
locke and longe lytfe, with prosperite
And this was
na
Edw[ardj
Jqj^q {^i the ix. yere of hys age and byrthe.
And at
that ryallty was made sir Edward Semer, that was
[year of
his] age.
jqyIq Qf Harforthe, duke of Somerset, and protector
and defender of the reahne and sir Thomas Semer
hys brother lorde governer vn-to the kyng ^ and
sir Thomas Worthesle, that was at that tyme lorde
chaunseler of Ynglond, was made yerle of Sowthhamton; and sir John Dudley, that was amrelle of the
^
see and mared the qwene, was made yerle of Warwyk
I^uke
and gouerner to the kynge. And iiii. or v. dayes after
arni'elle
marred ... ^^^ g^'^^ justes at Westmyster.
The
Item the xix. day of June after was a sollome dyrege
^
at Powles for the French kynge, with a goodly herse
^^^^J^
derjge at in the qwere, and the lorde of Arnedel principalle
^ -'"morner, with dyuers byshppes,^ the mayer of London
with the aldermen, and alle the hed crafftes of London,
and all the qweer, with the boddy of the churche
hangyd with blacke clothe and hys armys, and ii. c.
powi^e men in blacke gownes holdynge staffe torches
and the nexte day the sayd obbyt kepte in euery
paryche churche in London with the belles ryngynge.
Item in Avgust be
the lorde Protector wentt
in-to Scotla[nd], and djde moche har[m] and came
A.D. 1547. the roppe

home
The
VlSl

furst

L^'^J"

cioun of
the
^p

a [gain] in October.

Item the V. day after in September ^ beganne the

kynges vy^sytacioun at Powlles, and alle imagys pullyd
downe and the ix. day of the same monythe the sayd
;

....for
for

the kynge.
^

the

A line has been drawn through

words "governer

the

vn-to

" kynge.^^
2

The

WartvT/k
3
'^

passage

Amrelie

Sic,

is

struck out.

MS.

Corrected from Ju7ie.

CHRONICLE.

215

visytacioun was at Sent Bryddes, and after that in dyuers a.d. i.'547.
other parychc churches
and so alle imagys ]:)ullyd Iist^
;

downe thorrow

alle

Ynglonde

that tyme, and alle

att

fjo^vne

commandmenttes thonow
jille YlHrwryttyn on the walles. And. at that tyme was the loiui and
byshoppe of London put in-to the Flette, and was [wn]tthere more and an viii. dayes and after hym was the
churches

new whytte-lymed, with

"^

"^

the

the byshoppe of Wenchester put there also.

Item at

this

-m

same tyme was pullyd vp

tomes, grett stones, alle the awteres, with

alle

the

'"k^^'^th's

story,

the stalles

and walles of the qweer and awteres in the churche

that was some tyme the Gray freeres, and solde, and
the qweer, and made smaller.
Sir John Gressham, mercer, Mayer.

Thomas Why tie,

Echvarde

Roherte

Curtes,

Shreffys,

A^

pio

vi.

The

Thys yere the

day of Nouember beganne the

parlament at Westmyster, and before this parlament the
lorde Richard Ryche was made chaunseler of Ynglond,
gaue
and the lord Sent Jone that was lorde ^
grandmaster ^
it

iiii*^

vp.

day of the same monythe at nyghte

was pullyd downe the Rode in Po wiles with Mary and
with alle the images in the churche, and too of the
J
men that labord at yt was slayne, and dyuers other sore
hurtt.
Item also at that same tyme was pullyd downe
tho[rough] alle the kynges domynyoun in euery churche
alle Roddes with alle image[s],
and euery precher
.

Lorde^^^
liichard
j^-^J^g

chaunsel[or].

Item the

furst

xvii.

.,

preched in their sermons a-gayne alle images. Also the

newyeres day after preched doctor ^ Latemer, that some
tyme was byshoppe of Wyssetor, preched at Powlles crosse,

r^.D.
1548.]
ao-ainst

sacrament

and too Sondayes followyn, etc. Also this same tyme awter.
was moche spekynge a-gayne the sacrament of the Awter, [Comm]u"^oun and
other
that some callyd it Jacke of the boxe, with dyuers
^
[coniesshamfulle names and thenne was'^made a proclamacyoun sion] but
a-gayne shoche sayeres, and it bothe the precheres and rt^at^^^
'

*^

./,v

would]
and a-gayn
^

A line has been drawn through the

word

doctor.

216

GllEY FKIARS

and at
and so contynewyd
Egj-g]^. fojlo^yynge thenne beganne the commonioun, and
confessioiin but of thoys that wolde, as the boke do the
And at this tyme was moche prechynge
specif yth.

A.u. 1548. other spake a-gayne

the

etc

...,

downe'

of [Bar]k-

chappelle,

]S'ico[lasJ,

and Sent
Ewyns,
and within
Newgate
put [un]-

And the sacrament of the Awter

a-gayne the masse.
pullyd downe in dyuers placys thorrow the realme.
Item after Ester beganne the seruis in Ynglyche. The
seruys in Yenglyche at Powles at the commandment of
the dene at that tyme, William May,- and also in

'

dyuers other pariche churches. Item also at Wytsontyde beganne the sermons at Sent Mary spyttylle. Item

to the

yere was Barkyng chappylle at the Towre-

this

ehuiche

also

that was

hylle

Fieeres,^^'^

'

R? 1 T\
and Sent

it,

puUyd downe, and Sent Martyns

at the chambulles

and Sent Ewyns,

Newgate theys ware put vn-to
the churche that some tyme was the Gray Frers and
cnde. Sent Nicolas in the chambulles,

and Strand Q^nd within the gatte of

byide the

Lorde the
Protectores [p] lace,

And

the
chaunteres
put downe,

and the
wache [at]
:N[ydsomer

Bv^iSpp^^
of

Wen^^^^

tothe^
Tower, and
a prest
[out of]

Cornwaile

drawne
from [the]

Tower

to

Sniythfeld,

hong-yd

and qwarterd.

Strand churche also pullyd downe to make the

protcctor duke of Somersetes place larger.
downe. Item
Item this yere was alle chaunterys put
i
also the wacchc at Mydsomer was begonne a-gayne, that
^^^ ^Qfi from master Dodmer vn-to this tyme.
Item also the byshoppe of Wenchester, at that tyme
Steplwn Gardner, preched before the kynge at Sent
James in the felde vn Sent Petteres day at afternone,
^'^^^ wyche was thenne Fry day, and on the morrow after

11

g^i<.Q

*^

./

-^

was commytted vn-to the Tower of London to warde.

.!
pxt*/^
Item the vn. day oi Julii alter there was a prest that
Q^^ne owte of Cornewalle drawne from the Towre
of London \Ti-to Smyth efelde, and there was hongyd
^^^ heddyd and qwarterd, for sleynge of one Boddy that
was the kynges commyssyoner in that contry for
chauntres.

Item

alle

thoys precheres

that preched at Powlles

tyme spake moche a-gayne the bysshoppe

and also Cardmaker, that rede in
of Wynchester
tymes
iii.
a
weke, had more or less of hym.
Powlles
crosse at that

words

line

is

drawn through

a7id the sacrament.

the

The seruys
from the margin.
~

31ai/

introduced

217

CHRONICLE.

same ycre was put downc alio g03'nge

abrode of processions, and the scnsyngc at Powlles at
TTx
1
,T
r^i
vvytsontyde, and the JSkynneres processioim on Corpus
Christi day, witli alle others, and had none other but
their churches.
the Ynglyche processioun
Item at this tyme was moche prechyno^e thorro alle
PI
Ynglonde a-ga3^ne the sacrament oi the auter, save
only master Laygton, and he preched in euery place
and so was moche
that he prechyd a-gayne them alle
contrauersy and moche besynes in Powlles euery Sonday, and syttynge in the churche, and of none that
were honest persons, but boyes and persons of lyttylle
reputacyoun and wolde haue made nj[oche] mor yf
there had not a way a bene tane.
And at the last,
the xxviii. of December followynge, there was a
proclamacyoun that none of bothe party[es] shulde
preche vn-to soche tyme as the counselle had determyd
soche thyn[ges] as they ware in bond withalle
for
^
as that tyme dyuers of the bysshoppes .... at Cherse
abbe some tyme for dyuers matters of the kynges and
Item the iii^^
the counselle.
the same
monythe was browte from Hygat vn-to London vn-to
the lavmpe in Ne[wgate] market a monstre, a calfe
with ii. heddes, iiii. eres, iiii. eyne, viii. f[eet], and
ii. taylles
that there the mayer with dyuers aldermen came thether and sawe it, and command yt to
be browte in-to the stret, and ther he sawe it, and
Item

this

r-i

there

command

wayes, and to

grownde, and

it to be carred in-to the feldes strayt

be cutte in peces, and put in-to the

soo

it

Also

was.

at

that

tyme was

many bally ttes made of dyuers

partys a-gayne the blyssyd

sacrament, one a-gayne a-nother and the too pers[ons]
;

that redde in Powlles, as Cardmake, and one that rede

Tewsday and Thursday in Latten, spake a-gajme the

sacrament, and sayd

it

was but brede and wynne.

Sic,

MS.

A.D.

ir>48.

[rro]cessioiis alle

^oyncre
[iO^'><le

[and the]
^ensynge
at Fowlls.

GREY FRIARS

218
A.D. 1548.

Item this yere before Alhallout3^d was sett yji the

how^Tser ^0^^ f^i' ^^6 marky t folke in Newgate market for to
vp

waye melle

in

mariS^

etc.

in.

Item also

this yere

was put downe the chappell with

the charne[l] howse in Powlles church-yerde, with the too

tomes on the northe syde, and a iiii. or v. c. lode of

bon[es] carred in-to the feldes and burryd there.
Henry Haracot, fechmonger, Mayer.

William Locke, John

Alyff,

Shrefys

A^ Edivardi

viti iio.

The

ser-

Thys yere vn Sent Martyns day beganne the sarmond

at the crosse a-gayne, and there was the byshoppe of Sent
Davys, one Farrar, but he dyd not preche in liys abbet
of a byshoppe, but lyke a prest, and he spake a-gayne alle
maner of thynges of the churche, and the sacrament of
the awter, and vestmenttes, coppes, alterres, with alle

mond
[a]gnyne
^

Crossl"

other thynges, &c.

A gret

day of Nouember was in the nys^hte a

a gi'et pesse
g^'^t fyere in the Tower of London,
Frencheman
the
menes
of
that sette a
burnyd, by
a
barrelle of gonnepoder a-fj'er, and soo was burnyd hymselfe, and no more persons, but moche hurte besyde and
^-^^ xxiiii^i. (\^j of the same monythe was Sent Annes
Item the

the Tower,

churehe

xxii.

i)[ur]nyd.

churche at Alderesgate burnyd.

Item at NewA^eres tyde after was put downe the

qwy[ning
of] tes-

tor[ns]

q^v3me of the testornes.

down] and
Jtem the X. day of December was drawne from New11. meu...ne
^ and there ware
ho[uged] gate vn-to Towre-hylle
pu[t

*'

'

Towie-^^
hy[U].

^^^^^oT^ f^^

qwyneynge of

testornes.

Lord am-

day of Januarii was commyttyd vn-to

the Tower lorde Thomas Semer that was lorde amrelle,
with dyuers other, for hye tresoun, as yt shalbe declaryd

r[ai] put

afterwarde.

t^-^j
1549.1

[Tower]

Item the

Item the

xvii.

day of Marche a bucher of Sent Nicolas

was put on the pyllery in ChepjDe-

viii.

shambulles

-^

'

A blank space in the MS.

219

CHRONICLE.

syde for kepynge of another buchers wyfle in the same A.D. 1549.
strette, and there stode iiii. oweres and more.
buch[ci]
Item the xx. day of Marche was sir Thomas [Seym]er, put on the
that was lorde amrelle, was be-hedyd at the Towre-hylle

hye
The

for

[treason].

Sonday of Lent preched Couerdalle, and

whanne hye masse was done the dene of [Pow]lles, that
was that tyme William May, commandyd the sacrament
at the hye awter [to] be pullyd downe.
Item the vi. day of Aprille was a proclamacioun for the
ii<^G

masse, [and fo]r ettynge of fleshe a-gayne Maii day, but

was nothynge kepte.

the vii. day after was a gret and mervelus
wynde bothe in the nyghte and also in [the] day.
Item the x. day of Aprille was pullyd downe the
clowster in Powlles that was [c]allyd the Pardon

for the fleshe

.

with the chappelle that stode in the

myddes, to bylde the protectores place withalle.
Item the xxii. of Aprille was the Monday in Ester
weke, and that nyghte was burnyd v. howsys at Brokyn-

churcheyerd,

wharfe.

Item the xxvii. day of Aprille, the whyche was the

Satorday in Ester weke, the ante-baptyst ware in our
Lady chappelle in Powlles before the byshoppe of Caunterbory with other comyssioneres,^ and there one recant^^d
and the nexte Sonday, the wyche was Lowe Sonday, stode
at the crosse and bare a faggott. Item the nexte Sattorday after the byshoppe with the resydew of the com-

And

myssioneres satt there a-gayne.

Jone of Kente, other wyse

demnyd and

was one

e Bucher, con-

a tanner of Colchester recantyd, and the

nexte day bare a faggotte at the

Sonday at

there

Colchester.

And

crosse,

and the nexte

that day stode at the crosse

a boccher of Mary Maudlyne pariche in Fychestret, and

the nexte Sonday a-gayne, for be-cause he made a
mocke at the furst tyme.
^

the byshoppe

words.

corny ssioneres,

A line has been

drawn through thes

^^^

^'^^*

GREY FRIARS

220

day of June, the wyche was the Monday

after the Aseencioun day, alle the gray ammesse with the
calober in Powlles ware put downe.
[and^^
ca]ilyber
Item the xx^i day of June, the wyche was Corpus
^^
' Christi day, and as that day in dyuers places in London
les put
a[wa]y
was ^ keptc holy day, and manny kepte none, but dyd
Yn^'[loud] worke opynly, and in some churches seruys and some
and^-et
none, soche was the devysyoun.
Item in this yere moche pepulle of the comyns dyd
youn for
Corpus
j,ygg -jj (jyuers places in the realme, and pullyd downe
parkes and growndes that was inclosyd of dyuers lordes
[da]y.
[R]rsynge and gentylmen within the realme from the powre men.
Item the xxvii. day of June there was sent a comrcolmvns
iu dyuers
mandement from the councelle vn-to Powlles that they
haue no more the Apostylle masse in the
l^^Iond.^ shulde
Letter vn- mornynge, nore our Ladye masse, nor no commvnyoun
^^ ^^ awltelle in the churche but at the hye awlter.
Ibl -shopid
pes
Item the xviii. day of Julii, wher as there was a boke
liiade and send vp to the commyns of Corwalle and
[A]postyiie masse Devynshere with alle other parttes of alle the realme
for be-cause of ther rysynge and pullynge downe of incloseres, the wyche was some tyme comyns vn-to the
powre men, and grett men toke them in and inclosyd
it to them and made parkes in dyuers places, and as
thys tyme the commyns for the most parte within the
realme ryssye and pullyd y]) heggys and palys and
sett yt opyn a-gayne and thenne this boke was send vnto them that they shuld be content gentylly, and within
shortte space it shulde be mendyd, and so to submytte
[Pro]cla- them selfes and to aske mercy and pardone
and this
sayd it was proclamyd thorrow alle London
?or?thosel ^^7 a-bove
that dyd
bothe with harhalde and trompeteres, and so was send vnf ^ alle the partys of the realme wher as they dyde ryse,
[diver] s
partes and and in-mediatly after the sayd proclamacioun if they dyd
was done, submytte them selfes and aske mercy and pardone they
shuld haue it, and if not they shulde be tane as tray tores
A.D.

1549.

Item the

iii.

[gr]ay

The word

inaii!/

interlined

above was.

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("HRONICLE.

and

be subdewyd with the

to

that same

tyme

alle the gattes

And

as

^^-

^^'^^

London

of the cittc of

....

grett gonnes with-in to the cittc

was layed
warte, and within the sayed gattes both a-bovc and be-

nethe in dyuers parttes, with dyuers attyllery

goo

and

.,

ryght

new made at dyuers

Newgate n[ew] made strongly. And

their percuUys

and both at
euery daye from the xx. daye of Julii satte at euery gatte
viii. of the comyneres with ii. gonners euery day from
vi. in the mornynge vn-to it was
atte nygh
vn-to the x. day of September.
Item the xxi. day of the same monythe, the wyche
was Sonday, the b^^shoppe of Cauntorbery came sodenly to Powlles, and there shoyd and made a narracyoun of thoys that dyd rysse in dyuers places within
the realme, and what rebellyous they ware, and wolde
take a-ponne them to reform e thynges be-for the lawe,
and to take the kynges powre in honde. And soo was
there at processioun, and dyd the offes hym selfe in a
cope, and no vestment, nor mytter, nor crosse, but a
crose staffe
and soo dyd alle the offes, and hys satten
cappe on hys hede alle the tyme of the offes and soo
gaue the communyoun hym selfe vn-to viii. persons of
the sayd churche.
Item also the xxii. day of the same m[cii]
monythe, the wyche was Mary Maudlyn day, there was
hongyd one that came from Romford, on a gybbytte at Maudiy[ii]
the welle within Alo-ate and a-nother that came owte of ^^ *V^n
[that diclj
Kent at the brygge fotte in-to Sothwarke on a-nother rysse on...
gybbytte, that ware of the same persons and company.
Item the xxiii. day of the same monythe the kynges The kyuge
grace
came from the dewke of Soffokes place
in Soth- ^^t^^^

^
thoiTOW
warke thorrow London, and soo to Whytte-halle goodly, [London],
with a o
ffoodlv
-^
J company.
I
J
Dyuers
Item the xxviii. day and the xxix. day was dyuers per [sons
persons conventyd be-fore the counselle be-cause of here- [^gforr^^^
ynge of masse at Crycherche wheras the Frenche in- [the]
basse tores laye, that they shuld come no more there, and rfoA*^
herynfg]
was gTctly rebukyd.

gattes,

....

ii.

f^^^'^f^j'/^.*^.-.

masse.

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222
A.D. 1549.

The

cler-

Item the

^^g

day of August, the wyche was Sonday,

alle alon^re
^ Tvorke from NeTvo-at
o
"& by
J the
walles to pulle downe thegard^Tis that was made a-

jj^^q g^^^

of
.
the^t[o\TOl citte
[ino-]

tieche.

iiii.

longe

by the walles

a-longe vn-to
The

bat-

te[n] of
[wich].

The

bat-

t[ie] of

of the citte

with howses, and soo

alle

^.

day of August was a gret battelle at

;N"orthwyche betwene the lorde markes of North ehamt on
and the com}Tis that dyd a-ryse there, and mamiy was
slayene of bothe partys, and the lorde markes put vn-to
flyette, and the lorde Cheffelde sla^Tie, with many dyuers
And many of the
knyg-ttes and many other good men.
sayed comyns slayne and tane prisoneres.
Item the

furst

Item the

day of the same monythe was a

battelle

Exceter be-twene the lorde Rosselle, that was

theime lorde pri\'isele, and lorde Graye, and the comyns of
that cimtre and many slayene and tane prisoneres of
"i^e-syde

bothe partys.

day of the same monythe was a proclamyd

in the cui-te by an imbassitor of France with a harhalde
r'-^'^-'rPif'
twen [the
French]
and trompetter opyn warre, and that same nyghte was
and vs and
^^^^ ^^Iq Frenche men that ware noo free denysens, and
an inuentor}^ of alle their goodes, and put in prisone
thorrow alle the realme at that tyme.
The prechItem the X. day of the same monythe the byshoppe of
and preched at PowUes, the wA^che
th?bvSop Cauntorbery came
[of] Cauu- was Sattorda}^ in the qwere in the byshoppes stalle that
^^ ^^^ wonte to be staled in, for them that [ro]se in the
l^c.^^^*^'''
West contre of the comyns of Devynchere and CornewaUe, and there he shoyd that the occasyoun came of
poppyche pr[estes] was the most parte of alle hys
Opyn

Item the

ix.

-^

sermone.

[A]ssumItem the xv. day of the same monythe

cyoun of our Lady, and that day was hongyd too persons,
one withowte Algate and the [other] at Totnam-hyUe and
as that day some kepte holyday and some none, as Sent
.

A blank space in the MS.

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CHRONICLE.

Stevyns in [Wal]broke and Colcherche, soche was the A.D.

dcvysioun that day, as it was on Corpus Christi [da]y.
Item the xviii. day of the same monythe the bysshoppe
of London dyd the offes [in] Powlles bothe at the proccs-

I54'j

sioun and the comunioun dyscretly and sadly.

Item on Bartylmew evyn was shott dyuers goonnes

at the gattes in London.
Item this yere was no cheessys in Bartyhnew fayer but
soche as came owte of dyuers mense howsys within London, that was not good, and the cause was for them that
rose in Essex as that tyme.
Item the xxvii. day of the same monythe was iii. persons drawyn, hongyd, and qwarterd at Tyborne, that
came owte of the West contre.
Item the xxvjii. day of the same monythe was a woman CA woman]
delyueryd of ii. chelderne at Bodyly a smythe at the Long- at Smit]h^'
lane ende in Smyth efelde, and whanne the woman was
^J^\*^
delyueryd she desyred to se hare chelderne, andthe wyife d] erne, and
cbcr,
of the howse sayd they ware safFe inowghe, and she toke
one of them and brake the necke of jt, and caused the
mayd of the howse to take the other and to cast it ouer
the walle, and so dystroyd them bothe and thenne was
the woman that had the chelderne, and the wyffe of the
howse and the mayd, ware had to the cownter in Bredstrete, and there the woman was delyueryd of another
chylde that same nyghte.
Item the last day of the same monythe the byshoppe [S]ui)dewof Cauntorbery shulde a come a-gayne to Powlles, and a [those]
preched a-gayne, but he send Josephe hys chaplyne, and *^^^ ^y^^
he preched in the qwere of the subdewynge of them
that dyd rysse in alle iii. places, and how mysery they
ware browte vn-to, and there he rehersyd, as hys master
dyd be-fore, that the occasyoun came by popysse
.

presttes.

Item the furst day of September the byshoppe off^^-'"^^

London, thenne Edmund Boner, preched at Powlles crosse, byshoppe
and after was a-cuysyd vn-to the cownselle by too persons, aon waT"
as William Latymer, parsone of Sent Lawrens Powntne, a[c]eu[s-

GREY FRIARS

224

and John Hopper that some tyme was a whytlie monnke,

and soo was conventyd be-fore the byshope of Cauntorafter how
bery with other comyssoneres the xiii. day of the same
[he] was
send vnmonyth, and the xvi. day and the xviii. and the xx*i
[to] the
day of the same monyth at nj'ghte he was send vn-to the
Marchelj;ev, etc.
Marchese,^ and he went the same day vn-to Lambythe
in hys scarlet habbet and h^'s rochette a-ponne it.
Item this same day Cardmaker sayd opynly in hys
lector in Po wiles that if God ware a man he w^as a vi.
or vii. foote of lengthe, with the bredthe, and if it be soo
A.D. 1549
ed], and

how canne

be that he shuld be in a pesse of brede in a

ro\\'nde cake on the awlter what an ironyos oppynyoiin
At this tyme doctor
is this vn-to the leye pepulle.
it

Smythe rebukyd the byshchoppe gretly, and the byshoppe dyd nothynge gretly forbore hym, and gave hym

many chockynge worddes

[Hooper]
prechcd
at the

cros[se],
etc.

opynly.

Item the xxii. of the same monythe the byshoppe of

CauntorbeiT causyd Hopper to preche at PowUes crosse,
and there he spake moche a-gajTie the byshope of
London. And the xxiii. day - was there be-fore the sayd
comniysyoneres a-gayne.
And the xxv. day Cardmaker rede in Powlles, and sayd
in his lector that he cowde not red [th]er the xxvii day
for be-cause he must neddes be at the sessyons as
day at Lambythe for the byshoppe of London but it
was not soo, for the byshoppe came not ther. Item the
xxix. of the same monythe preched in the shrowddes,
for be-cause of rayne, one Golde, and he spake moche
a-gayne the sayd byshoppe of London, and there stode
^ that d welly d in Charterus
be-fore hym one
ane with a screpture on hys brest for coungerynge.
Item the furst day of October the byshoppe of London was send for at after-none vn-to Lambythe, and
ther the byshoppe of Cauntorbery dyschargyd the sayd
.

Ho[w

the

bishop] of

[London
was discha]rgyd.

Sic,

MS.

and

the

erased.

"^

xxv.

follows,

but

is

A blank left for the name.

it

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CHRONICLE.

byshoppe of London as moche as laye in hys powre but

;

marke what
Item the

A.D. 1549.

followeth.

day of October was proclamyd the protector a traytor with alle hys helperes, and that day
beganne a-gayne the washe at euery gatt in London of
the comeneres in harnes with weppyns.
Item the viii. day it was proclamyd opynly with the How [the
kynges shrefFe and ii. harraldes and ii. pursevanttes and ^as^fproa trumpet, with the comyn sargant of the citte of Lon- claimed]
^^^^^"
don, thorrow alle London, and as fast as it myghte be
vii.

thorrow alle Ynglond.

Item the nexte day Cardmaker sayed in hys lector, Cardthow he had a falle he was not vndone, and that at men a[ker]
nys lector.
shiild not haue their purpos
and also he sayd that men
wolde haue vp a-gayne their popyche masse wher for,
good masteres, stycke vn-to yt hade he sayd.
Item the xiii. day of the same monythe was no ser- No ser;

mond

mond

,,

at the crosse.

fat!

the crosse.

Item the xiiii. day at after-none was browthe the The traytor
^^^
traytor from Wynesor with a gret company of lorddes fr^J^
and gentylmen, and many horsys, with their men with W[indsor]
weppyns, and came in at Sent Gylles in the felde at hys Lo[ndon]
desyre, for be-cause he wolde not come by the place that to the
he had begonne, and puUyd downe dyuers churches
and the clowster in Po wiles to bylde yt with all, and
soo vn-to the Tower of London with dy[vers] other prisoneres,^ but almyghty God wolde not soffer yt for hys
gret myschefFe, as it shalle evydently follow by hys
And whanne he came in Chepesyde he sayd
actes.
opynly, that manny pepulle harde hym, that he was as
trewe a man to the kynge as anny was there, evyn
prowdly.

Item the xvii. day the kjmges grace came from the
place in Sothewarke thorrow London, and soo to Whytthalle
and that nyghte was the comyneres of London
;

'

7644.

and soo

prisonercs interlined,

GREY FRIARS

226
A.D. 1549.
Thekynges

comjnge
thorrow

London.

was dyscharged of ther wachynge at alle the gattes of

London in harnes, and to wache no more but the corny
ii
i
wache as a nyttes
euery warde as it natn bene a-costomyd be-fore.
Roivlond Hylle, Mayer, mersev.
John Turke, John Yorhe, Sh^effys, Ao Edivardi vi^i

m
.

iiio.

Thys yere the

day

vi.

the smythes wyf[e]

hongyd
[A.D.
1550.]

of

December was Bodylys

ne ende In Smythfelde

wyffe,

[chi-]
Tyborne for the dystrowynge of
Iderne at Bartylmewtyde as it shoyth before.^
Item the vii. [of Jajnuarii was vi. men dystroyd
at the makynge of the welle within the howse [that]
was some tyme the Peter College nexte the denes place

at

PowUes chu[rchey]erde.

in

Item of the gret gentylnes that was shoyd vn-to the

byshope of London E[dmund] Boner beynge prisoner in
the Marcehelse the viii. day of Januarii of the knyght'marchaUe takynge away hys bedde, and soo that he had no
more to lye in but the straw and a couerlet for the space
of viii. days, for be-cause he wolde not geve the knyghte
marchall

x. H.

or a

gO'\,\Tie

of that price.

xix. day of the same monythe at ix. a clocke

was kyllyd captyne Gambolde, a valyent man
a Spanyerd, and a-nother ^\dth hym, and dyuers of their
seruanttes hui*te, of a-nother captyne of hys awne contrymen
and was tane the nexte day and iii more
with hym, and the xxii. day of the same monyth
...owth
vara
raynyd att the yelde-halle, and the xxiii. day the ware
... de Gocondemnyd, and the xxiiii. day the ware hongj'd in the
vara
Saimerone. myddes of Smythfelde
and he that kyllyd captayne
Gambolde, ther as the dede was done or euer he went

Item the

at nyghte

At

page

the foot

iu the

MS.

of the
this

previous

passage stood

was erased
" Thys yere the vi. day of Decemher, the wych was Sent Nicolas
" day, was Bodylys w}-fe
was
as follows, but

''

" hongj-d at Tyborne with another

"

womau and

" Bodylys wife

" the

men, the wyche

was the cause of

ii.

dystroei[on
" derne."

of]

ii.

chel-

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CHRONICLE.

hys hond was smyttyn of, and A.D. 1550.

after was hongyd with the resydew in Smythefelde.
Item the xxvii. day of the same monythe was drawne [Hum]fre
from the Tower of London vn-to Tyborne iiii. persons, fieii Bery
and there hongyd and qwarterd, and their qwarteres v>tic1i,
sette a-bowte London on eueiy gatte
thes was of them Homes,
in-to Smythfelde, ther

",

that d^^d ryse in the

West

cuntre.

Item the vi. day of Februarii came the duke of

Somerset owte of the Towere, and lay at the Savoye.
Item the xxx*i day of Marche was Palme Sonday, and Tes
on the evyn was proclamyd a generalle pes betwene [Fran]ce,
the kyne^e of Yn^lond
and the Frenche kyno-e,
and the Scotiond,
J &

^
[and] vs.
qwene of Scottes and the realme of the same also, with
their subiecttes
and grett bonfyeres with grett chere
at euery cunstabulles dore in euery pariche thorrowe
alle London
and soo after thorrow alle Ynglonde.
Item the xii*^ day of Aprille, he that was byshoppe Staliynge
of Rochester, Nicolas Rydley, was stallyd by one of ^y^q^^q of
the byshoppe of Ely chaplyne. And the xix. daye of [Lo]ndon.
the same monythe he came in-to the qwere at the
comunyoun tyme, and at that tyme he and the dene
recevyd and master Barne, and the too toke the host Puttynge
"^

'

of the prest in their too hondes.

the byshoppe

commanded

And

that same

tyme

^Z^q^ ^t

the lytt of the aulter to be the

[a] ul-

put owte or^ he came in-to the qwere.

Powiies.
Item the ii^^ ^g^y of Maii was Jone Bucher, other- Burnynge
wyse callyd Jone of Kentte burnyd in Smythefelde for g^^hei-'^^^
grett herysses, as yt hath bene longe knowyne, and otherwas condemnyd nje a hole yere, as it showyth before ^^y^^f
and there preched before hare or she dyede Scory, and Kent,
she saye to hym that he lyed lyke a knave, etc.
Item that BuUyne was gevyn vp to the Frenchmen [GJevyng
;

day of Maii.
Item Nicolais Rydley that was byshoppe of Rochester
was made byshoppe of London, and beganne hys visitacioun in Po wiles the v. day of Maii.

the

ii.

^P "f,,^^
a-gayne.

Bjshoppes
[tio]n at

Po wiles.

Altered from as sone as.

P 2

GREY FRIARS

228
A.D. 1550.
[SJhepps
of egges,
etc.

Tenne

re-

r\\

[Projcla-

macion for
P^^-

Item that there came a sheppe of egges and shurttes

^j^(j smockes owte of France to ByUyoo-es ffatte.
o
o
^
Item the terme reiumyd from the Assencion vn-to
Myhvlmas.
Item the proclamacion the xxiii. day
of Mali, the
wyche was the Fry day be- fore Whytsonday, was for the
pes betwene France [and u]s.
It^m on Whytsone Sonday preched the byshoppe of
London, Xicolas [Ridley at the] crosse.
Item the nyghte be-fore came in the Frenche lordes
with their tresor, etc.
[On TJrenyte Sonday preched doctor Kyi'kam, and
sayd tliat in the sacrament w[as no] substance but
brede and w^'nne.
Item on sente Barnabes day was kepte [no holi] day
alle London at the commandment of the mayer, and at
nyghte was the awlter in Powlles pullyd downe, and
as that day the vayelle was hong}-d [up] bene the
the steppes, and the tabuUe sett vp there
and a
sennet after there the comuni[on] was mynysterd.
Item the xiiii. day of June was Sattorday, and be.;

PI

-"^

fore

evy[mng] was a man slayne

and

ii.

frayes

with-in

the

churche

in

Powlles churche,

that s[ame]

tyme

afterward.

Item that same day was the byshoppe of Wynchester

was dys[char]ged and detyueryd from the Towre, the
w^'che had bene there nye honde too yeyres.^
Item, also this yere Corpus Christi was not kepte
holy day.

And

was soche

de-

London that some kepte holy

and some none. Almyghty God helpe it whanne
-svylle ys
for this was the ii*^^ yere, and also
same de\'isioun was at the fest of the Natiuite of

day
hys

the Assumpcion of our La[dy]

visioun thorrow alle

Lady.

A line has been

drawn through the whole of

this passage.

the

our

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CHRONICLE.

Item the last day of August preched at the crosse A.D.

Stephin Caston, and there spake a-gayne the lady
Mary as moche as he myghte, but he namyd not hare,
but sayd there was a gret woman with-in the realme
that was a gret supporter and mayntayner of popery
and superstycioun, and prayd that she myghte forsake hare oppinyons, and to follow the kynges prosedynges, as he sayed.
And also he sayed that kynges'
Henry the viii*^ was a papyst, with many obprobryus
wordes of hym as yt was harde.
Item this yere was proclamyd that the French
crownys shuld goo for vii. s.

Andrew

Mayer.
Aiigustyne Hynde, John Lyon, Sheffys, Ap Ediuardi
\J~]udde, skynner,

[viti iiiio].

Thys yere the xiiii. daye of Nouember was proclamyd thoiTow alle London that ne wyttelleres nor
kepe no resorte of pepulle in there
on the Sondayes nore holy dayes
tylle alle serves ware done, and that shulde be at
and also at afternone tylle evyngea xi. the cloke
songe ware done, in payne of gret prisonment at
the kynges commandmentItem this yere was many frayes in Powlles churche,
and nothynge sayd on- to them
and one man felle

tabernes

howses

shulde

for vyttelles

dovne in Powlles churche and brake hys necke for

kecheynge of pegyns in the nyght the iiii. day of
December.
Item the v. day of December was proclamyd that
the French crownes shuld goo put ^ for vi. s. iiii. d.
Item at Crystmas was put downe in Powlles the
rectores cory'^ with all their coppys at processioun,
and nomore to be vsyd.
^ day of
2 was the byshoppe of
Item the
Wyssytor comyttyd to the Flett, and the xi. day of

Sic,

MS.

2
I

Blanks

in

MS.

i55o.

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230
A.D. 1550.

December

was corny ttycl

to

byshoppe

the Flett the

of Chechester.

Item the xv. day of December was browte from the

Tower of London vn-to Lambythe the byshoppe of
Wynch ester, thenne beynge doctor Stephin Gardner,
before the byshoppe of of ^ Cauntorbery, thenne be^mge
Thomas Creme, - with dyners other comysioneres, and
exammynd and comyttyd vn-to the Tower a-gayne.
And the xviii. day folio wyne ther a-gayne and that
same day was too tydes at London brygge within the
space of V. howeres, and grett sprynges that dyd moche
harme by the watter syde and on the watter. And
the sayed byshoppe of Wynche[ster] at Lambythe
the viii. day of Januarii and the xii. day, and so to
^-^^ Tower a-ga}Tie.
The xxvi. day there a-gayne,
and that day browthe from the Tower vn-to Lam[beth
by the] garde and the offeseres of the Tower with
weppens, and soo home a-gayn
[and on] the xiii. day
of Februarii and xiiii. day also, and that day he was
dyschargyd [from h]ys byschopiyge and alle hys
londes, and comyttyd vn-to the Tower [aga]yne.
Item the xxii. day of Marche was Fame Sonday, and
as that daye [wa]s was put in-to the Fleette dyners
gentylmen, as sir Antoni Browne, Master sargant
of
with
dyuei's
other,
for
herynge
of
the lawe,
masse in
.^
my lady Marys curte at Sent Jones and was there
Item the xxiiii. day of the same monythe after was the
grattes be- syde the hye aulter in Powlles closyd vp, that
;

[A.D,
looi.]

the pepulle shulde not loke in at

the

tyme

of the

and the vayle hongyd vp. And the

xxviii. day after was Ester ey\m, and thenne was the
tabuUe remevyd, and sette benethe at the vayele northe
and sowthe and on Ester day the dene, thenne beynge
Wyllyam Maye, dyd raynyster hym selfe. Item this

comunyoim

tyTae,

MS.

Sic,

Altered to Cranmer by a later

hand.

A blank space in MS.

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CHRONICLE.

yere was sene in the Lent be-syde Martyne abbe many A.D.
men in harnes syttynge in the eyer, and soo came

downe a-gayne vn-to the grownde and vadyd a-waye

And also
a-gayne, and also in dyuers other places.
a-bowte Ester was sene in Sussex iii. sonnes shenynge at
at one tyme in the eyer, that thei cowde not dysserne
wyche shulde be the very sonne.
Item the xxv*^ day of Mali, wyche was the Monday
after Trenyte sonday, was gret ertheqwakes in dyuers
places, as a-bowte Crowydyn and in that towne and
dyuers ^ other townes there by, as at Rygatte, and

many

and also at Westmyster

and dyuers other places in London, and a-bowte there.
Item in June after went Inbassatores in-to France the
erle of Northehampton and the byshoppe of Ely with
dyuers other, and was goodly resevyd there with processioun, crossys, and sensynge, with alle the hole orderes
of religiose persons that be there, with the vniuersitis,
scoUes, and solome masse songe be-fore them or the
came vn-to the kynges presens, and had there grett
And after that came in-to Ynglonde dyuers
chere.
lorddes of France with a cardnalle, and came to Rye the
iiii. day of Julii, and soo vn-to London, and was not
resevyd. And be-fore their comynge in-to London was
dyuers lordes and gTet men of the Ines, and laye at
the kynges place in Sothewarke.
^ Item the ix. day of the same monythe beganne the
gret sykenes callyd the swetthe, that there dyde a grett
mvltitude of pepulle sodenly thorrow alle London and
thorrow the most parte of alle Ynglonde. And that
same day was the proclamacion for testornes at ix. d.^
other places a-bowte,

dyuers, erased.

From

being throughout by this hand are

not printed.

this poiut

and far
hand from that in which

notes are in a
different

much

the marginal
later

the body of the chronicle

The headings

also

of

is

written.

the

pages

"

Corrected from "testornes from

ix. d.

" to

vn-to

and

yj. d.

and grottes vn-

See
under date of 17th August in same

year.

ij. c?.

j.cf.

vn-to ob."

155 1,

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232
A.D. 1551.

And

the

worser, that the

thorrow

And

as

vitelles

alle

dere after as

it

pepuUe cryed owte of

was

and

be-fore,

in euery place

it

the realme.

the xxvii. day of the same monythe the byshoppe

was thanne

was devorsyd
from hys w^yfFe in Powlles, the wyche was a buccheres
wyflf of Nottynggam, and gave hare husbande a sartyne
mony a yere dureynge hys lyffe, as it was jugydde by
of Wynchester, that

the lawe.

Item the last day of Julii [and] the furst of August

rydde in a cartte a tayler of Fletstret and hys syster
rydde in a carte a-bowte London, and bothe ther heddes
shavynne, for avovttre, that he had ii. chelderne by harre,
and the iii^^e (j^y was bannyshyd the citte bothe but
he w^olde haue ge\yn moche to a be scewsyd, but it
wold not be tane.
Item the xvii. day of August was a proclamacion at
;

vi.

momynge

a clocke in the

for the

qwyne

of testornes

and grottes vn-to iid., and ii d. vn-to

i.
d., and i. d. vn-to a ob., and ob. vn-to q.
and it the
vittelles [were dearejr thanne the ware before.
Item xxiii. day of Avgust the pariche of Seyntz
of ix. d. \Ti-to

vi. d.,

[Faith entejrd furst in-to

riche churche,

and had seruys

there.

da[y afjter was the stond^Tige

tabulle in Powlles was removyd in-to the

Item
at

Jesus chappelle as their pa-

the

the

xxvii.

....

sowthe

day of October was the byshoppe

of Chechester and the byshoppe of Worseter conventyd
in the byshoppe of London pallys be-fore the comyssyneres and the ix. day there
and dyschargyd.
Theys ware the comysheneres, the lorde
viii.

chefFe barne, doctor Olyuer, d[octor] Rede, Lyelle, Gos^

and
Item ^Ti Myhylmas day the kynges grace went

nalle,

A blank

space in the

MS.

in

hys

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233

hym

from the Frenchc kyngc of the A.D.

order of sent My[chael] at Hamtone cortte with gret
ryalty there at that tyme.
Item the xi. day of October was made, at Hamtone

robe that was sent

John Dudley erle of Warwyke duke of Northom[berland, the] markes Dorsett duke of Suffoke, the lord
trezerer markes of Wynchester, William Harbar markes
of Pembroke.
Item the xvi. day of October was the duke of
cortte,

So[merset],

moo

as

lorde

Gray,

Sir

Raffe Vane, with

many

shalle a-pere after.^

it

Item, the xxi. day of the same monythe beganne the

London to wacche at the gattes of London at

vi. in the mornynge vn-to vi. at nyghte, and continewyd
tylle the xxiii. day of Nouember.
craftes of

Richard Dohbys, shynner, Mayer.

John Lambert and John Coper, Shreffys, A"

E. vi v.

Thys yere at afternone on Alhalloue day, whanne the

mayer came to Powlles, ther was dyuers persons of the
duke of Northhumberlondes seruanttes wolde haue tane
the chayne from the kynges shrefFes necke in Powlles
goynge after the mayer, and wolde haue made a fraye
within Powlles church, but whanne the came with-owte
the church at the northe dore, there thei

made a

fray

and fowte, and ware departyd, and went in-to the petty
cannons and fowte there, that whanne the mayer came
forthe of Powlles churche he was fayen to sette them
forthe, and had them to the cownter.
Item on the morrow after the qwene of Scottes came
in-to liOndon by watter, and soo vn-to the byshopp of
and the morrow after
London palles, and lay there
she went vn-to the corte vn-to the kynges grace, and had
And the Fryday after shee went hare
there gret chere.
;

^There

is

a mark attaching a

marginal note to this passage, and

the corresponding

mark appears

in

the margin, but the

body of the

note has been burned away.

1551.

^]

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234

And

dyuers lordes and ladys browte hare on

hare way, and

whanne she came withowte Byshoppes gatte

A.D. 1551. wayes.

the fa}Tyst lady that she hade with hare of hare cuntre
was stohie a-way from hare, and soo went forth in hare
jorne.

Item the viii. day after, the wyche was the Tewsday,
there was a tayler that dwelte in Aldersgatstret was sett
on the pyllery at afternone, and the cause was that
whanne the mayer went to Westmyster he callyd them
alle cokeoldes
and sbode there tylle it was iii. a cloke
;

at after-none.

Item at thys tyme was dyuers proclamacions and

pricys made for \yttelles, but it servyt not and the
;

xxviii. of

and

Nouember was made a contrary proclamacyoun,

sett alle at lyberty a-gayne,

selle as

and euery

viteler to

the wolde and had done be-fore.

Item the furst day of December was browte the

devke of Somersett owte of the Towre by watter at v.
a clocke in the mornynge, and i. or ii. drownyd by the
waye in the Tems be-twene the Tower and Westmester
and there he araynyd be-fore the covncelle, and so
pletyd for hym selfe that he was qwytt for the tresoun,
and comytted vn-to the Tower of London a-gayne.
Item the nexte day was the lorde Gray with dyuers
other that ware in the Towere was browte vn-to Westmester vn-to the starre chamber, and sent home agayne.

Item the viii. day of December that same monythe was

a gret muster at Totehylle of men of armes be-for the
kynge, of dyuers lorddes.

Item the

qwyne

xvi.

that no

day was a proclamacioun

man

['o]f it,

for the

new

for because

that the pepuUe sayd dyuers that ther was the ragyd
staffe

it.

Item the xx^i day of December was some

hoppe of Ely lorde [chancellor of Englajnd.
^

Sworn.

-^

the bys-

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CHRONICLE.

Item that same day was the muster of the dewke of A.D.
Somersettes seruanttes be-fore [the king at] Totyllc also.

issi.

Item the same day was comyttyd vn-to the Tower the
byshopp [of Durjham Cudberte Tunstalle.
Item the xxii. day of the same monythe was be[heddyd] at the Towre-hylle be -fore viii. a clocke Edwarde devke of Somersett, [ eari of Hertjforde, and
vnkyll vn-to the kynges grace. And also there was
a commandment thorrow London that alle howsolderes with their seriiantes shulde kepe their howses vnto it

was

Item on Crystmas evyn was made a proclamacioun

that noman shulde make qwoyne, nore send beyond see,
in payne of dethe.

day of Januarii the lorde of Crystmas of the kynges howse came thorrow London and
thorrow Scheppesyde, and soo to the lorde mayeres
to denner, and dyuers of hys corte was devydyd, some
to the sherffys and to dyuers aldermen and a-gayne
after none was made a scaffolde at the crosse in Schepesyde, and thether he came and made hys proclamacion.
Item the

iiii^^

day of Januarii was whyppyd vii.

women at the carttes arse, iiii. at one, and iii. at
a-nother, for vacobondes that wold not lobor, but play
Item the

xiii.

the vnthryftes.

Item the

xix.

day of Februarii was a man slayne

within Powlles churche-yerde.

Item the xxvi. day of the same monythe, the wyche

was Fryday, was hongyd at Towre-hylle sir Myllys
Partryge, knyghte, the wyche playd with kjTige Henry
the

viiite

at dysse for the grett belfery that stode in

and sir Raffe Vane, theys too

ware hongyd. Also sir Myhylle Stonnappe and sir Thomas Arndelle, theys too ware be-heddyd at that same
Powlles churche-yerde

The words

the

;^

wyche was callyd

the gret belfery follow, but are erased.

[A.D.
i^^^.]

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236

And

A.D. 1552. tyme.

theis

iiii,

knyghttes

confessyd

that

the

war neuer gylte for soche thynges as was layd vn-to

their charge, and dyde in that same oppinioun.
The daye be-fore endyd the parlament.^
Item the xvi. day of Aprille was Ester evyn, and that
day rydde a woman in a carte a-bowte London that
dwelte in Aldersgate strete that made aqwavyte, for
cardynge of hare mayde with a payer of carddes soche
as dothe carde wolle with-alle, and was sende vn-to

warde a-gayne.
Item wher as

hath bene of an olde costome that

there shulde be iii. sermons in Ester weke, this yere was
a commandment that there shulde be but ii., and that
the Wedynsday shuld not be kepte holy day.
it

wher

hathe bene of ane olde costome

that sente Gorge shulde be kepte holy day thon-ow aUe

Item

also,

as

it

Ynglond, the byshoppe of London commandyd that

shulde not be kepte, and nomor it was not.

it

Item lyke-wyse at Wytsontyde was but ii. sermons

they ware lyke-w^'se at the ci^se,- and he that prechyd
the Sonday preched the ii. other, and but ii. dayes kepte
;

holy days.

Item on Wytsone evyn it raynyd in dyuers places in

London that it was sene lyynge in dyuers places on the
erbbes as redde as wyne.
-

Item the iii. day of August be-tweme 2 x. and xi. at

nyghte was a woman in Oxfordshere at a place callyd
Midylton-stone, at the syne of the EggyUe, viii. myle
from Oxforde, and the good mans name was John Kenner, and she was delyueryd of a chyld ^ with too heddes,
iiii. handdes, iiii. fette, and but one body, and the mydwyffe kersende them at home and was a-lowj^d by the
churche; and l}^yd xv. days; and ette, and [slept]

Interlined.

Sic,

MS.

Corrected from too chyldeme.

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CHRONICLE.

wylle the other dyd wake, and lokyd with a mery chere A.D.1552.
whannc anny persons lo[oked at] them. Item also in that

same cuntry was a henne hacchyd of a chek[en that] had

ii. heddes and iiii. fette.
Item in the same monythe was tane at Bl[ack] walle
and nere a-bowte London was tane dyuers dolfyns.

Item the iiii. da[y of] September was a-ponne a Sonday,

and thenne the qweer of Powlles had a commandment
from the dene from Cambryge at the byshoppe of
Cantoberes visitatioun that he shulde leve the playnge
of organs at the devyne seruys, and soo lefte it.
Item the iii. day of Octobere was the byshoppe of
Dorram, thanne beynge Cud[bert] Tunstalle, browte to
examinacion at the place that some-tyme w[as] callyd
the abbe of Towre-hylle, the viii. and the xi. and the
xiiii.
also and that daye he was deposyd of hys see,
and commyttyd vn-to warde a-gayne.^
Item also in this monthe was tane dyuers bother
;

fyches gret in the Temse.

Item the xxv. day

downe

of

October was the pluckynge

of alle the alters and chappelles in alle Powlles

commandment

churche, with alle the tovmes, at the

of

the byshoppe, thenne beynge Nicolas Rydley, and alle the

goodly stoneworke that stode behynde the hye alter and

the place for the prest, dekynne, and subdekynne and
wolde a-buUyd^ downe John a Gauntes tome but there
was a commandment the contrary from the counselle,
and soo yt was made alle playne as it a-peres.
Item this yere beganne the howse in London for the
powre, the w[hich] was some tyme the Gray freeres in
Newgatte markytte, etc.
Gorge Barnes, Mayer, hahardacher,
;

William Garrard, John

Marliw.']

May nerd,

Shreffys, A.

The words

vn-to the

low, but are erased.

Tower

fol-

Sic,

MS.

g^g p 247.

primo

GREY FRIARS

23cS

A.D. 1552.

Item on Alhallou day beganne the boke of the new

seruis of bred and wyne in Powlles, with alle London,
and the byshoppe dyd the seruis hym-self, and prechyd
in the qwere at the mornynge seruis, and dyd it in a
rochet and nothynge elles on hym. And the dene with
alle the resydew of the prebentes went but in their
surples, and left of their abbet of the vniuersyte
and
the byshope prechyd at after-none at PowUes crosse,
and stode there tylle it was nere honde v. a cloke, and
the mayer nor aldermen came not within Powlles
churche nor the crafftes as they ware wonte to doo, for
be-cause they ware soo wery of hys longe stondynge.
.^
Item the
day of thys same monythe the
chylderne was put in the howse that was some tyme the
;

Grayfreres.

AUhollouday was nomore communyoun in

no place but on the Sondayes.
Item this yere was nether sent Nicolas nor the Con-

Item

after

Lady kepte holydy,^ nor it the Assumpcioun of our Lady be-fore, nor the Natiuite of our Lady
cepcion of our

but put do^vne,

etc.

Item on Crystmas day at after-none alle the men

chylderne with the woman chylderne, and aUe the
offeseres that perteynyd vn-to the howse of the powre,
stode at the grett condett in Cheppe in a rowe whanne
the mayer came to Powlles at after-none, and soo home
Item the byshoppe
a-gajTie, to be sene of the citte.
prechyd alle the holy-day es in the qwere at evyngeyne ^
prayer.
[A.D.
1553. J

Item the iiii. day of Januarii came the lorde of

mysrewle of the corte thorrow London with the sheffes ^
lorde, and soo vn-to the crosse in Cheppe, and there
made a proclamacyoun, and so vn-to the mayeres to
denner, and alle hys corte was devydyd \Ti-to dyuers
aldermen and a-monge alle one parte was commyttyd to
;

Blank space

in

MS.

Sic,

MS.

CHRONICLE.

239

Master Curtes the alderman, but whanne the came thether a.D.
there was nothynge preparyd for them, for he wolde not
be at home, but he was send for, but he wolde not be

ware browte, eche of

them had too men ledde them, vn-to the mayeres, and
soo alle that daye, and soo at nyght vn-to the corte
and the nexte day the ware sent home
fownde, wherfor

the

mayer dyd

of hys seruanttes

v.

gret correccioun vn-to 'powre pepulle, as

rydynge in cartes [and standi]nge on the pyllere, bothe

men and women.
And this yere the furst day of [March was] the parlament, and kepte within the kynges pallys at Westmyster, Whythalle.

Item

town] deche from Newgat vn-to

was stoppyd vp with brycke, and made

this yere [the

Aldersegat

playne [with the er]the.

Item in the begynnynge of Maii was tane owte of alle

the churches of London and a-bowe ^ [all the] plate and
coyne ^ that was in their boxys in euery churche for
and vestmenttes and
the kynges grace
wyche drew vn-to a grett substans be-syde the coyne, and
also this yere was very fewe cherches [in Lo]ndon that
had anny processioun in the Rogacioun dayes in London
xvii. day of
this yere for lacke of devocioun
Maii the market in Newgat market was removyd vn-to
the new howsys, [and the] shambylles wher Sent Nicolas
churche sometyme was, alle save only the mele-men, [at]
;

the

commandment

of the mayer.

Item the xxv. day of Maii satte in PowUes the comyssioners with the lorde cheflfe justes, with the lorde
mayer, and soo had a-way alle the platt, coppys, vestdrew vn-to a gret gooddes
menttes, wyche
for the behoffe of the kynges grace.
Item the xxvi. daye of Maii beganne the byshope of
Cantorbe ^ to sytt for the new boke that the byshojDe

....

Corrected from Ludgat.

Sic,

MS.

Corrected from qwyne.

1553,

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240
A.D. 1553. Qf AVencliester,
alle

Powny, made, that he wolde haue that

parsons and curattes shulde sett their hondes vn-to

byshope in hys dyesses. And in London

was dyuers that denyed many of the artycles, as doctor
Weston, with dyuers other, as it shalle shoo after.
Item the furst day of June was sett vp at the standerde in Cheppe a pyller new made of a good lengthe
from the gi'ownde, and too yonge seruanddes tayed vnto yt with a chajTie that thee myghte goo a-bowte it,
and to
bettyn with roddes soore on their
baekes for be-cause the hade^ too wenches in-to their
masters howse and on the morrow after, wyche was
the Sonday, and thenne was too other in the same case
bettyn at the same pyller, and so as many as plesyd the

and

it,

so euerj-

...

mayer

after- warde, etc.

Item

this yere the

mayer dyd put

in execucioun the

hyghthe of pentoseesse thorrow alle London.

Item the ii^^ day of Julii prechyd doctor Hodskyne
that was some tyme suffecane of London, and dyd nether
pray for lady Maiys gi-ace, nor it for lady Elzabeth
and the nexte Sonday after prechyd the byshoppe of
London, Nicolas Reddesle, and there callyd bothe the
sayd ladys bastarddes, that alle the pepulle was sore anoyd with hys worddes, soo vn-cheiytabulle spokyn by
\\x\Vi in soo opyn an awdiens.
Item the yi. day of Julii dyde kynge Edward the vi.
at Grenewyche, as they say, and some say he was pow-

acte for the

s3Tid as it shalle a-pere ar-after.-

[Jane.]

Item the x. day of the same monythe after yii. a

clocke at nyghte was made a proclamacyoun at the crosse
in Chepe by iii. haiTaldes and one trompet, with the
kynges shreffe of London, Master Garrard, with dyuers of
the garde, for Jane the duke of Suffolkes dowter to be the

Corrected from icolde hade.

Sic,

MS.

CHRONICLE.

qwene

241

Ynglond but fewe or none sayd Good saue A.D.

" hare,"^ the wyche was browte that same afternone
frome Richemond vn-to Westmyster, and soo vn-to the
Tower of London by watter. And the nexte day in the
morninges was sett forthe in printe that the lady Mary
with the lady Elzabetli ware bothe provyd illegittimatt
and borne nn-lawfulle, and clerely dyschargyd from the
crowne and from almaner of possessions of the kynge
And also provyd a-cordynge
their fader Henry the viii.
by the lawys of the churche, as thei say, and by the
temporalle lawys. And also by a parlament kepte at
Westmyster in the xxviii^i yere of their fader kynge
Henry the viii. And soo by that thei be dyschargyd
and dyssanullyd from alle maner of in-herrytans of
the imperialle crowne of the hole realme of Ynglond, and
And
to haue none maner of possessyons of the same.
the say also that the kynge Edward the vi. made a
wylle and a testament at hys last dayes, and gaue the
in-herytans of the crowne vn-to the duches of Suffolke
lady Kater^Tie, the wyche was dowter vn-to lady ^ Mary
that was the Frenche qwene and one of the dow teres of
kynge Henry the vii. and yf she had anny male issew
or the sayd kynge Edward the vi. dyde, thenne the imperialle crowne shulde goo vn-to here issew, and if not
vn-to here dowter lady Jane, the wych was maryd vnto the iii. sone of the duke of Northhumberlond Gylford
''

of

'^

And from

Dudley.

hare for lacke of issew vn-to hare

cosyne Margaret late the dowter of lady Elnor wyffe

vn-to
merlond, one of the kynges blode,

....

wyche was one

qwens dowteres, [and

body lawfully be-gottyn.
wyche a yonge man that was drawer
bothe hys erres
at Sent Jones at Ludgate
cut of cruelly, and sent vn-to warde a-gayne and

the

of the Frenche

to the heirs] of hare

.

But ..." hare "

Sic MS.

7644.

interlined.

Corrected from the Frenche

ladij.

1553.

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and had a rewarde of the chamber and within

iii.
dayes after hys master w[ent to the Tower, where
he was] gunner, and was drownyd by the wye and ii.
men with hym.^
Item the xii. of the same monythe of Julii was m[ade
procljamacyoim to take vp men, and to come to Totylle,
and to haue x. d. a day, and new
to feche in
lady Mary and that same day wente furthe to feche
here in the duke of Northhumber[lond], and more was
.

....

but he laye a iiii. or v. dayes be-syde

Ware, and thenne went forward e to Chambre[dge, and]
thowte to worke masteres, as it a-peres after.
se

[Mary.]

Item the

xix.

day of the same monythe, [which] was

sent Margarettes evyn, at

of clocke at afber-none

iiii.

was proclamyd lady Ma[ry to] be qwene of Ynglond at

the crose in Cheppe with the erle of Shrewsbery, the
erle o[fJ

the erle of Pembroke, with the

mayer of London, and dyuers other lordes, and many of

the ald[ermen], and the kynges schrffe - master Gan-ard,
with dyuers harholdes and trompettes. And from thens
cam [to] Powlles alle, and there the qwere sange Te
Deiiin with the organs goyngQ, with the belles ryngynge,

the most parte alle

and that same nyghte

had the
parte of London Te Deum, with
bone-fyers in euery strete in London, with good chere
at euery bone [fyer], and the belles rjmgynge in euery
paryche cherche, and for the most parte alle nyghte tylle
.

....

the nexte d[ay] to none.

Item the xxii. day of the same monythe was tane the
duke of Nothhumberlon[d] at Cambryche by the mayer,
and proclamyd a traytor, and soo kepte in prisone
tylle the harde from hare grace and hare cownselle.

'

The whole paragraph

in the margin.

is

written

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MS.

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243

And on

saynt James day at afternone at iiii. of cloc[k] a.d.

at after-none was browte vn-to London worshyppully

had deseruyd, and brow[te] in at Byshoppes gatt

by the erle of Ardelle/ the wyche browte hym vn-to the
Tower of London. And whanne he came in at Byshoppes
gat he was commandyd to put of hys atte, and soo dyd
tylle he came to the Tower and after he came onsse to
Shordyche alle the pepulle revyled hym, and callyd hym
traytor and herytycke, and wolde not seyse for alle
the ware spokyn vn-to for it.
With hys sones, as the
erle of Warwyke, Ambrose Dudley, Henry Dudley,
Androw Dudley, the erle of Huntyngton, lorde Hastynges, sir John Gattes that was captayne of the garde,
and sir Henry Gattes hys brother, sir Thomas Pahner,
as he

doctor Saunder.

Item here went the byshoppe of London that was

goynge vn-to the qwene to begee ^ hys pardon, but he
was tane at Ipsege, and there was put in warde.
Item the xxii. day of the same monythe beganne the
wache at euery gatt in London in harnes, viii. be-syde
the

viii.

comeneres.

Item xxvi. day

Tower

of the

same monythe was browte

to

London at ii. a clocke at after-none doctor

Redley that was the byshope of London, lorde markes of
Northhanton,^ Boberte Dudley that was the duckes brother, master Corbet that was shreffe of Essex, and after
them that same nyghte was browte in sir Boger Chamle
cheffe justes of the kynges benche, sir Edw^arte ^ Montageu cheffe justys of the comyn place and the nex ^
day came in sir John Jorke, and sir Thomas Wrathe,
the

of

with dyuers other, as it shalle a-pere afterwarde.

Item the iii. of August came in the qwenes grace
after vii. a clocke at nyghte from Newhalle with the lady
Elzabeth hare syster, and a grett company

with hare

and she goodly imparelde with

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of ladys
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MS.

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and so to Whytt-chappelle and

mayer with the aldermen reseved hare, and he
delyueryd hare the swerde, and she toke it to the erle
of Amedelle, and he bare it befor hare, and the mayer
the masse. And whanne she came at Alofate there it was
goodly hangyd with clothes, bannes,^ and stremers, and
syngers, and gooly aparelde alle the way downe to
Ledynhalle, and hang}^d with clothes, baners, and
steremers, and syngers, as is a-bove sayd and also on
the on syde the crafttes of London with-in raylles in
their best a-parelles, and clothe hangynge be-fore them
and so downe Graschesstret and in-to Fanchersse strete,
and soo downe Marke lane, and soo to the Towere and
euery hows hangyd as is a-bove sayd, with syngers,
organs, and shalmes and whanne she came to the Tower,
that she was with-in the Tower, ther was soche a pelle
of gonnes, what bothe smalle and gret, and soo longe
and soo thecke, that hath not be harde soo gladde dyd
the pepuUes harttes rejoyse in hare comynge in, as God
saue hare grace, and longe to contynew, and prosper
hare in goodnes Amen.
[The v.] of August at vii. a clocke at nyghte came
home Edmond Boner byshoppe [from the MJarchelse
lyke a byshoppe, that alle the pepulle by the way badde
hym welcom home
man and woman, and
as many of the women as myghte kyssyd him, and sop
came to Powlles, and k[nelt on the] steppes and sayd
hys prayeres and thenne the pepulle range the belles for
joye and whanne he c[ame out o]f the Marshelsey there
came in doctor Cokkys for hym. And the nexte day the
duke of Norfoke, [the] byshoppe of Wynchester, the
byshoppe of Durrham, the byshoppe of Chechester, and
the byshoppe of [W]yssitor had their pardone, and ware
dyschargyd, and soo went abrode and restoryd vn-to

A.D. 1553. 1'esydew of hare ladys,

there the

....

there [dig]nytes a-gayne alle hole.

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MS.

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Item the

vi.

day of August was

lefte the

wache at the

gattes in [Lon]don.

day of the same mony the was the kynge

Edwarde the vi. remouyd [from] Whythalle vn-to Westmyster by the byshoppe of Cauntorbery with-owte any
crose or lyghte
[and] berry d the nexte day with a
comynyoun and that powely, and the byshoppe of
Chechester prechyd a good [ser]mon.
Item the xiii. day of August prechyd master Borne at
Powlles crosse at the commandment of the qwenes grace
and there was pullyd owte of the pulpyt by vacabonddes
and one threw hys daggar at hym.
Item the xviii. day of August was the duke of Northr
humbelond browte by watter vn-to Westmyster with
the markes of Northhamton and the yerle of Warwyke
hys sone, and there was condemnydby them-selffes, and
had no qwest went a-ponne them but them selfe, and
submyttyd them selfe vn-to the qwenes grace and here
lawys and the nexte day both the Gattes and Andrew
DudJy the dukes brother and Palmer in lyke wyse
condemnyd.
Item the xx^i day of August prechyd at Powlles
crosse master Watsone, and there was dyuers of the
qwenes cownselle, and the captayne of the garde with a
cc. and more of the garde browte hym vn-to the pulpytte, and stode there alle the sermon tyme with ther
Item the

vii.

halberttes.

day of the same monythe sufFerd at

sir John Gattes
captayne of the garde be-fore, and sir Thomas Palmer,
alle three be-hedhyd ^ and the day be-fore harde masse
in the Tower and reseved the sacrament in forme of
Item the

xxii^^

Tower-hylle the duke of Northhmberlond/

brede.

Item the xxix. day of August

missioneres for

qwenes comthe new byshoppes, that was put in for

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MS.

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them that was put owte and in-to prisone at the commandment of the byshoppe of Caimtorbery as is a-bove sayd,
and as it shalle follow.
Item in August was the aulter in Powlles set vp
a-gayne, and fenysyd in September.
Item the xiiii. day of September was the byshoppe
uf Cauntorbery comyttyd vn-to the Tower from the
sterrechamber, Thomas Creme by hys name and the
XV. day was comyttyd also vn-to the Tower the byshoppe
^ Barlowe bj^ name.
of Bath
Item the same tyme was alle the new byshoppes
dyschargyd and put downe.
to sett in their
;

a-gayne.^

Item the xvii. day of September the byshoppe of

London, Boner, sange masse in Powlles, and gaue holy
watter hym-selfe, and soo continuyd.
beganne the
"svyne
of
ynge
of
contynewyd
not.^
acte
Item the laste day of September was the qwenes grace
browthe from the Tower of London vn-to the Whythehalle goodly, and many pagenttes in dyuers places as she
came by the way in London, with alle the crafttes and
aldermen, and also a pagent in Powlles churche-yerde at
the est ende of the churche, and there she]stode longe, for
yt was made of rosemay with alle here armes and a
Item also there was a man
crowne in the myddes.
,

made

too tope-castelles a-bove the crasse of the stepuUe,

and there stode with a

flaofores

flagge in hys

hanofvno'e be-svde

and a

honde and

castelle

made

viii.

in the

myddes of the hye waye at the denes place. And the

f ui-st day of October she was crowned at Westmyster by
the byshoppe of Wynchester Stephen Gardner, and she
was browthe from Westmyster halle with iii. crosses
with a gret qweer^ and many byshoppes with their
myteres on their heddes and crose-stavys in their
^

Blank space

to-sett

margin.

iu

MS.

a-gayne

written in

hecjanne the

margin.
4

Sic

MS.

not written in

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many

21)7

had none other lett, and the

for as that
had other that bare them be-fore them
tyme she wolde not suffer non to be in the qweer nor
to mynyster in hare presense, that in soomoche she had
alle that was in Powlles saue only them that ware
maryd, that in somoche that that day was no seruys in
Powlles, nother mattens nor masse nor evynsonge [nor
honddes,

as

as

serjmone at the crosse as that day.

Item the v*^ day of the same monythe beganne the

parlament
[and] whanne the ware in the parlament
Tay[lor
howse the byshoppe of Lyngcolle doctor
beijnge byshoppe of Lyngcolne, hys parlament robe was
tane from hym and he was comy[tted to the Tojwer
and iii. dayes in the weke the qwene satte in the parlament howse and harde all so[ch things] as was there
;

done.

day of October beganne the convocacioun

in Powlles, and there had [mass of] the Holy Gost.
And there the byshoppe of London sange the masse in
hys pontyficcdihus, and that w[as the] furst masse that
was songe at the hye alter after that it was sett vp
a-gayne, and had a good[ly] sermon ad clerum in the
Item the

vii.

qwere.

day of the same monythe beganne the

dyspu[tation] in the longe chappelle in Powlles betwene
the new sortte and the olde, as Monday, Wedyns[day,
and] Fryday, and there came moche pepuUe but the
ware neuer the wyser, and with many worddes of
that the qwenes graces cowncelle was fayen to send
worde that there shulde be no more dy[spu]tacions, but
Item the

xxi.

that

it

shulde be dyscussyd

by the

hole parlament.

.,

And

tyme the wet[hercock] of Powlles stepulle

was tane downe, and new made and gyltyd, and sett vp
a-gayne the iiii. d[ay] of Nouember.
Thomas Whyett, Mayer, merchant tayler.
John Offeley, William Hewett, Shrefys, A^ p^^ Mavioi.
as at that

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in

MS.

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Thys

day of Nouember, the byshoppe of

Cantorbery Thomas Creme, and lady Jane that wolde
a bene qwene, and iii. of the Dudleyes, condemnyd at
the yelde-halle for hye tresoun.
Item this yere the qwere of Powlles went a-bowte the
stepulle on sent Kateryns day at nyghte.
Item on sent Andre wys day beganne the general le proyere, the xiii.

cessioun in Latten in Powlles churche, with the parsons

and eurattes of London, with the prebenttes in their

gray ammes, and the mayer with dyuers of the aldermen and the same wyse iii. dayes followynge.
Item the vi. day of Januarii came from the emperor
imbassotores in the name of the hole howse of Bowr;

[A.D.
1.554.1

gone, as dyuers

erles, as

the erle

of

Degmonde with

dyuers other.

Item the xiiii. day of Januarii beganne the processioun

on the Sondayes a-bowte the churche, with the mayer
and the aldermen in their clokes, and the precher
takynge hys benediccioun in the body of the churche of
the bysshoppe.

Item the xv. day of the same mony the beganne the insurreccioun at Maydstone by sir Thomas Wyett, knyghte,
lorde Cobham, Harper, and Colj^eper, with dyuers other.
Item the xvi. day of the same monythe in the mornynge beganne the wache at euery gatte in London in
harnes, bothe men and their seruanttes, etc.
Item the xxiii. of Januarii was condemnyd at the
yelde-halle of London lorde Robert Dudley.
Item the xxx^ day of the same monythe the duke of
Norfoke came to Strode, and bent hys artyllery a-gaynst
Wyett, in Rochester, but the Londeneres with their captayns, as Briane, Fyztwilliams, and Bret, whoo came with
the duke a-gaynst Wyet, made a shoute, and fled from the
duke to Wyet, that the duke hardly scapyd from them.
Item the furst day of Februarii the qwenes grace
came hare owne persone vn-to the yelde-halle of London, and shoyd hare mynde vn-to the mayer, aldermen,

and the hole

crafttes

of

London

are

owne persone

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249

with hare cepter in hare honde in tokyn of love and

pes, and wente home a-gayne by waiter at the Crane in
the Ventre.^

Item the furst day of Februarii came Wyett with hys

host in-to Sothwarke at iiii. a clocke at after-none, and
or it was v. he had made a bulwarke at the bryge fotte
and kepte Sothwarke tylle it was the vi. of the same
monythe, and dyd no harme there and this was Shroft
Tewsday; for the drawebry gge was drawne a-gayne hym
and the nyghte before many of hys men fled from hym
and that same Tewsday was ii. men hongyd on a gybyt
And
in Po wiles churchyerd be-fore Sent Gregorys.
that same day Wyet with hys host departyd owte of
Sothwarke at ix. a cloke in the mornynge, and went vnAnd also at that same tyme the duke of
to Kyngston.
SofFolke with hys brother was tane by the erle of Huntyngton and that same day was Te Deiiiii songe in
And that same day
the qwenes chapelle for joye of it.
the lorde Cobham and Harper whar put in-to the Tower.
[The vii.] day Wyet with hys host came vn-to the
parke besyde Sent James, and soo wolde
with ^ most traytorys shott at the corte gattes that
the arros stoke there longe af[ter]. And he hymselfe
came in at Te[mple bar, and] soo downe all Fletstret,
and soo vn-to the Belle Savage. And thenne was hys
;

trayne

[attacked

at]

the

comandment

of the erle of

Pembroke, and sartayne of hys men slayne. And whan

[he saw] that Ludgatte Avas shutt a-gayne hym he departyd, saynge " I haue kepte towche," and soo we[nt
back] a-gayne and by the Tempiille barre he was tane,
and soo bro wght by watter vn-to the [Tower] of London.
And then alle the qwens host came thorrow London
goodly in a-raye with spery[s. And] that same day was
;

Farasraph mij;placed

in

MS.,

in the margin for And

was many arrows shotie at the

substituted

but marked for insertion at this

there

point.

gattes.

The passage which

folloAvs is

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William Albiyght, parsone of Kyngston be-syde

Barram downe, [prejcher of the gosspelle, besyde Charynge crosse in this rebellyoun. Also it is to be supposed
that [WJyett hadde come in at Ludgat had not one John
Harres, a merchant- taylor, in Watlynge stret, [ha]d not
sayd, " I know that theys be Wyettes ancienttes ;" but
some were very anggre with hym be-cause he sayd soo,
but at hys worddes the gattes ware shutte.

A.D. 1554. tane one

Item the viii. day of Februavii the ducke of SufFolke

with hys brother was browte thorrow London with a
goodly company of spere-men, and soo vn-to the Tower
of London.

was be-heddyd within the

Tower lady Jane that wolde a bene qwene and hare husband whose name was Gylford Dudley at the Towere-hylle.
Item the

xii.

of Februarii

Item the
bellyoun,

xiiii.

day of the same monythe,

for the

washongydone Yicarsa yemanneof

same

re-

the garde,

Bouthe one of the qAvenes fotmen^ gret John Norton, and

one Kynge and in seueralle places a-bowte London, at the
gattes, in Cheppe-syde, and other strettes, to the number
of xxti the wvche ware of London that fled from the duke
of Norfoke and that same day was iii. hongyd in chanys
on Hay-hylle for the same offence in rebellyoun.
;

Item the duke of Suffolke was condemnyd at Westmyster the xvii. day of Februarii and be-heddyd at
Towre-hylle the xxiii. day of the same monythe.
;

Item the xv. day of Marche was commyttyd vn-to

And the
Tower a-gayne the erle of Devenchere.
xviii. day of the same monythe was commyttyd also
vn-to the Tower lady Elzabeth that was the qwenes
syster, and that was Palme Sonday.
the

Item the epestylle masse beganne a-gayne the ii. day of

Aprille.

Item the

viii.

day of Aprille was a katte hongyd on

the gallos in Cheppe and clothed lyke a preste, and that

same day hylde vp be-fore the precher at Polles

crosse.

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And

251

shortly after the qwenes grace gauc a gcncralle ^^-

pardone for alio thoys that ware with Wyet, and somed ^ a parlament to be helde at Oxforde, but it was
soon reiurnid vn-to London a-gayne vn-to Westmyster.2

Item the xi. day of the same monythe was Wyett behedyd at Towre-hylle, and also qwarterd and hys hedde
with one of hys qwarteres sett a-ponne the gallowys, and
the hed -sv^ith the qwarter was stolne a-waye.
Item the ix. day of Aprille beganne the opposycions at
Oxford by Thomas Creme, sometyme byshoppe of Cantorbery, Nicolas Rydley, sometyme byshoppe of London, and Hughe Latemer, a-gayne the lerdemen^ of bothe
the vnyuersytes and there the sayd iii. persons was condempnyd as erytykes, and soo remaynyd there in presone
;

a longe tyme.

Item the xxvii. of Aprille was be-heddyd at Towre-

duke of Suffolkes brother.

Item the xiiii. day of Maii was the Monday in
Wytsone weke, and thenne the mayer, aldermen, goldsmythes, and fychemongeres came a processioun vn-to
Powlles as the ware wonte to doo, but there was no
sensynge and dyuers other pariches came alle the iii.
dayes as the ware wonte
Item the xviii. day of Maii was draune from the
Tower of London Thomas a Van vn-to Tyborne, and
hylle the

.'"^

'^

there put to excecucioun.

xxiiii. day of Maii was Corpus Christi day,
kepte
holy day and some wolde not, and
some
that
there was a joyner that dwelte in Colman strett, hys
name was John Strett, he was in Smythefelde whanne
the processioun of Sent Pulkers came by hym, and he
wold a tane the sacrament from the prest, but he was

Item the

Sic

MS.

This paragraph

from the margin.

'

is

introduced

And

dyuers... wonte introduced

from margin.
^

Name

interlined.

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and tane and put in Newgatt, and then he

fanyd hym-selfe madde.
Item the iiii. day of June was tane downe alle the
gallos within London,
Item the x. daye of June was Sonday, and thenne was
a goonne shotte nere Powlles cherch-yerde, that the
pellyt came nere the prechers face that preched at
Powlles crosse.

day of June was a proclamacion made

for shottynge with hand-gonns and berynge of weppons.
Item the furst daii ^ of Julii was
y, and wher as
there was in the pariche of Sent Gregorys on John
Hylle a cutler [that was] obstenatt, that wolde not beItem the

xxii.

leve in the blyssyd sacrament of the alter, nor

it tylle

it
but he was conuentyd behys ordenary the dene of Powlles, that was at that
tyme doctor Facnam, and soo revokyd hys opynyoun
opynly be-fore a[ll the] pariche, and askyd them mercy
and for-yefnes for hys evylle in-sampulle, and prayd
them to pray for hym, and then and there he resevyd
the sacrament opynly be-for them alle.
Item
day of the same monyth, wher as
ther was a mayd that spake in a walle in a howse [in]
Aldersgat stret, stode at the Powlles crosse be-fore the
precher doctor Wymbsle archedekone of [Middlesex], and
there shoyd alle the hole matter, and asked God mercy
and the qwene, and alle the pulle,^ for ar evy[l] insampulle.
And the xviii. day of the fame monythe
stode a man on the pyllery for the same matter, with
a paper and a scryptor on hys hed, that was consentynge there-to.
Item the x[ix.] day of the same monythe the prince
of Spayne came in at Hamton, and there was goodly
resevyd.
And the xxii^ day of the same monythe, the
wyche was Mary Maudlyne day, at nyghte was com-

the[n ha]d not rsevyd

fore

....

>

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MS.

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I

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niandmcnt gevyn in London to haue bonfycres A.D.

and belles ryngynge thorrow alle London. And the
nexte day to haue Te Deum in eueiy churche for joye
of hym.
Item the xxiii. day of the same monythe he
came to Wynchester, be-twene vi. and vii. at nyghte,
where he was honorably and goodly resevyd. And the
XXV. day of the same monythe was honorably marryd
with gret solemnite with many honorabulle lordys and
ladys, and men of worchypp as it dothe a-pere, bothe
spiritualle and temporalle.
Item the furst day of August was a proclamacioun made in London for the hole
stylles bothe for the kynge and the qwene and alle
ther domynyons of bothe.i
But they came not vn-to
London tylle it was the xviii. day of Aulgust,^ and then
came bothe vn-to the place in Sothwarke, and lay there
And the xix. day came in-to London,
that nyghte.
wher the ware goodly resevyd with many pagenttes, as
furst at the bro-e^ fotte, and alle the howses on the brofore^
new payntyd whyt and yellow, and in Grachhed strett
a goodly pagent and costly and a-nother in Cornelle
and one at the Gret Condet, and at the standerd the
wayttes of London playnge and the crosse in Cheppe
new gyltyd and that costly, and the genologe of hym
and alle the crafttes of London
at the Lyttylle Cundet
stondynge be the way in their best aparelle in alle the
strettes as he cam, and goodly hangyd, and soo to Po wiles
and there was goodly resevyd of the byshopp, with the
prebenders and the hole qweer of Po wiles, and soo in-to
the qwere, and there was Te Deum songe. And there was
one came downe from the chapter-howse a-ponne a roppe.
And soo departyd vn-to Westmyster. And Ludgatt
new payntyd. And a pagent in Fletstret at the cundet.
And so vn-to the pally s of Whythalle. Item on sent
Lukes day the kynge came vn-to Powlles, and ther harde
masse, and went home a-gayne.
John Lyon, Mayer, grosser.
;

1 Several
alterations about this
point leave the text as printed.

gi^,

^^

1554.

GREY FRIARS

254
A.l). i5r)4.

Thys yer the

day of Nouember prechyd at Powlles

and there was v. men that
dyd pen[ance], as iii. presttes and ii. temporalle men,
dyd opyn pennans. The iiii. prestes ware maryd. One
was a challone of Esynge spettylle, and one a Blacke frere,
and the iii. an Austyne freer. And this was their pennans furst to come owte of the vestre with shettes aponne ther backes, and eche of them a rodde in their
honddes with a taper lyche, and furst came and knelyd
before the hye aulte,^ and there the suffrecane gaue
them their dyssipline and then Avent downe be-fore the
crosse; and whanne the precher had tane hys benediccioun
of the byshoppe in the myddes of the churche, the came
downe vn-to the byshoppe, and knelyd downe in the
myddes of the church, and there had their dyssiplines
of hym, and he kyssyd them and soo went vn-to the
crosse, and stode there alle the [sermon] tyme, and whanne
he came vn-to the beddes the turnyd vn-to the precher
and knelyd downe [and asked forgivejnes there of hym,
and thenne he shoyd their oppynyons opynly in the
iiii.

crosse doctor [Harpsfield]/

pulpyt.

Item the xii. day [of Novembjer beganne the parlament at Westmyster, wher as the kynge rode in hys
parlament robe, and [the queejne in an opyn charret
by hym, on the ryghte honde of hym, goodly aparelde and rychely [in cri]msone veluyt and clothe of
golde with alle the lorddes in their parlament robbys
bo the spiritualle and [temporjalle.^ And there was [a
serm]one, in the wyche was the pope prayd for at the
masse of the Holy Gost. And the nexte day came the
convocacioun at Powlles, and the masse of the Holy Gost
there also, and a sermone in the qwere [ad] clernm, and
there the pope was prayd for also by name.
Item the xix. day of Nouember beganne the pluckynge
[do]wne of the postys at the corte gatte at Westmyster
;

MS.

Blank space

Sic

The passage Item

in

MS.
the xiii.

day

beganne

tf'e

but

is

tfie

cc7ivocacyonn in Powl/es

Bishoppe of London follows,

erased.

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CHRONICLE.

by the liye way syde,

was callyd the cane.

for the

play of the Spanyardcs that A.D.

Item the xxiiii. of the same monythe came in the

cardnalle Powle by watter, and soo came vn-to the corte
at Whythalle and in the myddes of the brygge the
kynge mette hym, and soo eche other salute other goodly
and reuerently and soo wente in vn-to the qwene, and
soo she mett them at hare gret chamber, and she salutyd
hym and there the talkyd a whylle, and he departyd
vn-to the place at Lambythe the wyche was preparyd
for hym.
Item the xxv. day of the same monythe was sent
Kteryns ^ day, and that day was the play at the corte
gatte of the cane in the wyche the kynge with alle the
lordes and soche as plesyd hym came from Dyrraham
place goodly a-parelde vn-to the place, and there playd,
and havynge their targattes on their sholderes; and
thangkys be to God that there was no harme done
;

there.

day of the same monythe was a sermon in the qwere of Po wiles, and Te Deum songe with
a generalle processioun and the byshopp in hys myter
the
and dyuers other byshoppes in their abbettes
^
mayer aldermen
in their scarlett with their clok^^s,
and alle the crafbtes in their best a-parelle and the
nexte day was processioun in euery pariche in London
with Te Bevbin.
e that the qwene [was] quyke
with chylde.^
Item that same day at afternone came the cardnalle
vn-to the corte, ^ and shoyd hys mynde vn-to the kynge
and qwene and the covncelle, with dyuers of the parlament howse, and soo departyd to Lambythe a-gayne.
Item the ii.*^^ day of December after was the furst
Sonday of Aduent, and that day the sayd cardnalle
Item the

xxviii.

Sic

are Avritten in the margin, but are

MS.

erased.
2

The words

followinff

Te Deum

at after-none erased here.

ir)54.

GREY FRIARS

256
A.D. 1554.

^^6

Powlles, and there

^Ti'^0

was

resev^^d

of

the

Lyshoppe of London and the byshoppe of W\Tichester,

thenne be vnofe chaunsler of Yns^lond, Gardner
.at
the churche dore, and alle the pariche churches of the
dioses of London, parsons, vicars, and curattes, in their
coppys, with their clarkes holdynge their crosses with
^

their banners.

same monythe came in the prince

of
at af ter-none by watter, and soo to the cortte.
Item the v^^ day of Januarii was sent Edwardes day,
and thenne was sett vp the sciynne at AVestmyster, and
the awlter, with dyuers juelles that the qwene sent
Item the

xvii. of the

[A.D.
'^^'

thether.

Item the xxv. day of the same monythe was the Conuersioim of sent Pawlles day, and thenne was a generalle
processioun with the cheldei-ne of alle the scolles in
London, with alle the clarkes, curattes, and parsons,
and vikeres, in coppes, with their crcssis and the qwere
of Powlles in lyke wysse and d3"uers byshoppes in
their habbettes, and the byshoppe of London in hys
pontificalle and coppe, berynge the sacrament vnder
a canyppy, and iiii. prebenttes berj-nge it in ther gray
ames and soo vp vn-to Ledynhalle with the mayer
aldermen* in scarlet, with their clokes, and alle the
and soo came downe
crafttes in their best a-ray
and
soo to Powlles a-crayne
a-ofavne on the other svde
and thenne the kynge with my lord cardnalle came to
Powlles and harde masse, and went home a-cfavne and
at nyghte was commandment gevyll"* to make bonfieres
thorrow alle London for joy of the pepulle that ware
conuertyd lyke wyse as sent Powlle was conuertyd.
;

day of Februarii was John Rogeres, that

was sometyme viker of Sent Sepulkeres and reder in
Powlles and prebendary after doctor Rayston, bumyd
Item the

iiii.

both ht their mijtteres erased here.

ovfl

se7issi/tl

hum erased

here.

3
^

Blank space
Sic

MS.

in

MS.

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CHRONICLE.'
in

Sraythefekle
^

for

gret

And Hopper and

herysy.

send vn-to Glociter, and ther to burnyd

wyse; [and dijuers more vn-to other

lyke

places.

Item on Ester day was a prest at Sent Margaryttes

at [Westminster bro]kyn on the hedde and on the armo
with a wood knyffe in menysterynge of the blyssyd
[sacrament] vn-to the pepulle in the church. And soo
he was tane and sent vn-to the Tower of [London], and
the Thursday after was browte vn-to

Newgate

'^

and the

Fryday browte vn-to Pow[lles, and] Satterday after also,

and there was desgradyd of the byshoppe of London in
the constery,^ for he was
and a prest

And

be-fore.

there in the presens of the cheffe justys

comyn place, the lorde m[ayer], and the shryffys,

and soo commyttyd vn-to Newgatt a-gayne and the
of the

day carryd vn-to W[estminster] and there burnyd

that same dede.

xxvii.
for

Item the xxv. day of Marche was another generalle

process[ion], and thenne was delyueryd a poddynge vn-to
one of the prebendes goynge in processioun. Item [the]
same man the xxvii. day of that same monythe was
betten with whppes ^ at the peller in Chepe at the
standert.

Item the

day of Aprelle the Obseruanttes ware put

in at Grenwyche a-gayne by the bysshopp of Hochester,
Morys, that was some tyme a Blacke freere, at the
vii.

commandment

of the qwene.

Item the xxix, day of Maii a-nother generalle processioun vn-to Sent Maggolles, and soo downe Temstret, and
vp at Dovgat and soo to Po wiles.
Item the xxx*i day Cardmaker with a-nother with
hym burnyd in Smythefelde for heryse.

the

A blank space in MS.

name

of

been placed.

7G44.

in which
Rogers should have

Corrected from Powlles.

Sic for consistory.

Sic

MS.

^^*

^^^''"

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A.D. 1555.

GKEY FRIARS

Item the xxxi. day of the same monythe was a proclamacioun for the blyssyd sacrament and for bokes of
scypter.

Item the xxvii. of June was kepte the obiit of the

k3mges grandhame, with a goodly herse as euer was
sene, and stode a vi. or vii. days after.
Item the xxvi. day of Avgnst the kynge and the
qwene came thorrow the citte, and soo to Grenwyche
toward in hys jurne vn-to hys fader the emperar and
there toke hys leffe.
Item the xvi. day of October was burnyd at Oxforde
doctor Redley that was sometyme byshoppe of London,
and doctor Lattimer, for gret herysy.
;

Item the
in

day of September after was the covnter

Bredstret removyd in-to Wood-strede.^
xxvii.

William Garrard, haherdJuicher, Mayer.

Thys yere was dyuers burnyd in many places

in

Ynglond.

day of Nouember beganne the parlament at Westmyster. And the xi. day after beganne the
cardnaUes senod at Lambythe, and contynewyd tylle the
xii. day of Februarii after.^
And the xxvii. day of Januarii was burnyd in Smythefelde V. men and too women for gret heryse
^ the mayer with the citte enterde in-to
Item
Item the

[A.D.
'^

iiii.

Brydwelle.

Item the xxiii.^ of Februarii was Shroft Sonday, and

thenne was leppe-yere, and that day the byshoppe of
London Edmonde Boner, the byshoppe of Lyncolne thenne
be3aige [John White],^ and the byshoppe of Ely doctor
Thyrlebe, satte at Oxforde in commyssoneres for the
pope a-ponne Thomas Creme some tyme archebyshoppe
of Cantorbery, a-ponne hys gret heryse that he was in,
and there he was desgradyd of hys leggatsheppe and
MS.

Sic

This passage marked for inser-

Blank space in MS.

tion here.

xxxiii

MS.

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CHRONICLE.
archebyshoppecheppe, and presthed, with

of hys

allc ^'^'

and presthode, and soo

corny ttyd vn-to the temporalle honddes and jurysdycother

ecclesiasticalle

degres,

cioun.

Item the xxi. day of Marche followynge was burnyd

there, and thether was send by the cownselle the lord
John Wyllyams with dyuers others to see the execucioiin done.

day of the same monyth was Newgatte a fyer but, thangkes be to God, that there was
but lyttylle harme done, for it was sone qwenched.
day of Maii was
ware hongyd,
drawne, and qwarterd
n.
Item the xviii. day of the same monythe was captayne Tawnton drawne from the Tow[er to Tybo]rne,
and there hongyd, hedyd, and qwarterd.
Item this tyme was dyuers burnyd in Smythfelde [for
Item the

xxviii.
;

hjerysy.

day of June was drawne from the

Tower of London vn-to Tyborne [Throg]morton, Wooddalle, Stanton, Bedelle, Kosselle, and Darrelle, ware
hongyd, hedyd, [and] qwarterd for robery and tresoun.
Item the viii. day of June was hongyd at Towre-hylle
master [Pecjkams sone and Danyelle for gret robery.
Item the x. day of the same monythe was a yonge
man hongyd within Brydewelle for robery within the
Item the

viii.

sayd howse.
Item in the same monythe [be]ganne the processioun
in euery churche, that the chylderne with their parentes
shuld goo Monday, Wedysday, Fryday, and Sondayes
with their bokes in their hondes or beddes euery persone,
and one of a howse, in payne of forfettynge of xii. d. at
euery tyme. And the churchwardens with other too
that be shsyn ^ by the hole paryche
and if that the
doo not loke substancially a-ponne it that thenne they to
;

Blank space

iu

MS.

Sic

MS.

R 2

^^^<^-

260
A.D. 1556. forfet

CHROXICLE.

and the sayd mony

on the
churche at the descrecioun of the sayd commyssineres
but it was but lyttylle lokyd a-ponne, and the more
ii.s.,

to be bestoyd

pytte.

day of August the mayer d}Tined at

the rederes denner at the Tempulle, and at after-none
whanne he was goynge the swerde was willed to be borne^
doune in the closter, but the swordberer woold not.Item in this same monythe was many herytykes
browte owte of Essexe, and owte of other places.
Item the v^^ da}' of September was browte thorrow
Item the

Cheppesyde

x\dii.

tej'd in

ropes xxiiii^i tayd to-getheres as

herry tykes, and soo vn-to the Lowlei*s tower.

'

Substituted for willed to be tane from liym.

but

not, a

line

has been drawn through these words.

i
j

i
<

[
'

APPENDIX
OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

APPENDIX.
I.

The subjoined fragment of a

Letter of Confra"
" ternity
is bound up with a 14th century MS. (Bodleian, Eawl. c. 72).
At the beginning of the volume is
another mutilated letter of the same character, commencing thus, "Frater Stephanus Fratrum ordinis
" beati
dilecto nobis in Christo domino
''

"

Willelmo

,"

but this

is

not certainly of Fran-

ciscan origin.

"

was exhibited

Letter of Confraternity "

to the

Society of Antiquaries in 1794 one is translated and

another referred to in the " Collectanea Anglo-Minori;

tica

;"

a translation of a fourth

is

printed

by Kirk-

patrick.^

The present specimen

5th century hand, and

written on a slip of parchment four inches wide. It

is

has been cut

down

is

in a

to the size of the manuscript (a

Speculum Peccatorum) to which it serves as a fly-leaf,

and thus unhappily little more than half of each line
of this rare and curious document remains.
The restoration^ now offered may be viewed as not
entirely conjectural, the printed examples giving a clue
to the general

import of the

letter.

Dilectee sibi in Christo, dominae Beatrici Ros,^ Frater

*
* , Fratrum Minorum in Anglia minister et

servus,

cum orationum

sufFragio salutari

and 225.

pp. 196

Hist, of Relig. Orders in Nor-

wich (1725), p. 124.

3 The words inserted
the sense are printed in

om^imm

The name has

Avritten in

clearly not been

a blank space

to

complete

left in

The same may be said respecting the name in the other

form.

italics.

fra-

fragment quoted above.

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APPENDIX.

tt*um svA)rum

salidem in Domino.

Qucb geritis ob

Dei reverentiain ut accepi affectu svncerce caritatis, ita

fautricem dignv/ni fore credens piis ipsam beneficiorum
spiritualium vicissitudinibus pcirterii habere, te ad Sanctl
Francisci, Sanctce Clarae, Sancti Damiani, slc Arinorissarum beneficia in vita recipio, in omnibus actis bonis
participationem tribuendo, quae per fratres nostros et
sorores dictorum ordinum operari dignabit divina
dementia SalvoAoris. Datum Londonise, xx* die mensis Aprilis, anno Domini

II.

[BuU

of Pope Pius IL, dated 1463, granting per-

mission to the Vicar General of the Ultramontane Province of Obsers'ant Franciscans to erect three or four
Friaries in Scotland,

rule

9,

ser\'us

vicario generali ordinis

Borne.
lari.

to receive

under the

stricter

or three Scotch houses of Conventuals.]

Pius episcopus,

j^g3

June

two

and

servorum

Dei,

dilecto

filio

Minorum de observantia regu-

Ultramontano salutem

et

Apostolicam

benedictio-

nem.
Intelleximus te nuper, ob
Christo

filia3

devotionem

ca-rissimae in

nostne Marias Reginae Scotiae

illustris, et

ad requisitionem quorundam mercatorum,

tuos fratres, causa praedicandi, ad ipsum regnum misisse,
in quo nulla domus observantiae tui ordinis constructa
tamen et hoc summe utile videretur et
est, cum
populo gratum et acceptum.
Nos igitur, qui omnium
populi

illius,

salutem desideramus, per pr^sentes concedimus tibi ac

tuo pro tempore successori facultatem in dicto regno
erigendi, fundandi, et ^edificandi, pariter et recipiendi,

aut quatuor domos, si inveneris qui gratiose ad

hujusmodi fundationem et erectionem se offerant ac
tres

aut tres

domos conventualium

tui ordinis, ubi sanior pai'^ aut

major consenserit, de

etiam recipiendi duas

British

Museum, Add.

Charters, Xo. 124

7.

APPENDIX.

265

consensu tamen ordinariorum.

Et insupcr per praesentes concedimus quod fratres in dictis domibus

aedificandis et recipiendis sub observantia pro tempore commorantes uti et gaudere possint et valeant
omnibus et singulis gratiis et privilegiis ac indulgentiis

tuo

etiam tuae

ordini, aut

concedendis,

non

obstantibus

dinationibus Apostolicis

familiae,

concessis

constitutionibus
contrariis

caeterisque

et

et
or-

quibus-

cumque.

Data Romae apud Sanctum Petrum, anno IncarnaDominicae millesimo quadringentesimo

tionis

simo

tertio,

sexage-

quinto Idus Junii, Pontificatus nostri anno

quinto.

III.

"

[From Harleian MS. 483. " Grants, Warrants, and

other Instruments temp. Echvard V. and Richard III."]
Concessiones factae per

Regem

R. a xxviii^. die Junii

anno regni sui primo usque

(1.) Gardiano et conventui Fratrum Minorum Oxoniae
quinquaginta marcas percipiendas annuatim ad scaccarium quamdiu nobis placuerit, etc. (fo. 25. h.)
(2.) To Frere Thomas Jonys of the Freres Minors of
Worcestre the medowe called Digley lieng under the
Castelle ther during the kings s pleasur without any
.

thing therfore y elding

etc.

{fo. 28.)

(3.) To the Wardene and Convent of Friers Minors

the Yniversite of Cambi ige an annuyte of xxv. marcs

be perceived yerely at the kings Estchequier,

(4.)

To the Wardene

of the

in
to

etc, (fo. 31.)

Grey Friers of Wynchestre

the kinges halfendele of the lordship of Ppye nighe

Wyn-

chestre with alle thinges therunto belonging, with the

mylne under the Castelle of Wynchestre during the nonne

age of the erle of Warrewyk, paying therfore yerely to the
king sex poundes sterlinges at the fest Seint John
Baptist and Cristynmesse.
{fo. 33. b.)

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APPENDIX.

(5.)

The Warden and

Seint Fraunceys

his brethren of Frere

ordre

in

Mynors

your Citie of Worcestre

of

of

your Fundacion haue vi^ of the moyte of the manor

of Pyry of the kinges gift in almoux.
(fo. 92.)
Certaine thinges

from
the

the

iiii*^

that

passe

by the Kinges Signet

day of Juylle the

furst of

K. R.

iii<i.

(1.) Friers of Dorchestre.

Ric. etc.

To our welbeloued

The Wardeyne and his brethern of the Frier Minors

of our towne of Dorchestre of our fundacion greting.
Where as the Hospitalle of Seint John Baptist within the same toA\Tie late occupied by Sir Hille prest

now

for

posicioun,

certain lawfulle causes belongeth to

We

tent that rather

our disof our grace especialle, and to the in-

we may be

partiners

of your

dayly

and prayers, be content and pleased and by

these our lettres yeve you fulle power and auctorite
and gouernaunce of the said
the rule
to haue
hospitalle, and ther to ministre dyvine seruice according .to the constitucions of the same, and also to gadre,
levie, and receive to your propre vse aswele alle suche
arrearages and rentes as resteth vnpaied, and also
alle thissues, proffites, and reuenues that shalle growe
and come of the said hospitalle from tyme to tyme
in comaundetille from vs ye shalle haue other wie
^
ment. Willing and straitly and straitly charging alle
maner our officers, true liegemen and subgiettes these
our lettres hering or seing to sufire you thus to doo
in every behalue without any let or disturbaunce to
the contrarie, opon peyne of our gi-euouse displeasure
and the lawfulle perille that therupon may ensue.
Yiven, etc., the ix^^day of December, A^ primo. {fo. 131.)
A comission to the Ee(2.) Friers of Dorchestre.
ceivors, tenauntes and other occupiers of the manors
of Litille Curchelle, Chidiok and Chawndelle Haddone
suffrages

Sic

MS.

267

APPENDIX.
in the Coimtie of Dorset

to

content and pay ycrely

Wardeyne and Conuent

to the

of Dorchestre according to

this

of the

Friers Minors

dirxone

made

the said manor of Litille Church elle

xl.

s.

out of

out of Chidiok

out Chawndelle Haddone xx. s. Yeuen the

day of Marche, A^ primo. {fo. 164. 6.)

XX.

s.

Susters of Denney.

(3.)

iiii*^

A warrant to Maister Edmond

Chaderton to delyuere vnto Thabbas and Susters enMinoresse in the monasterie of

closed

Denney

lettres patentes of Ratificacion of theire grauntes.

at Westminster

the xii*^

day of Feuvier, A^

their

Yeuen

ii<io.

IV.

[The following account of a dispute in the year

1257 between the Minorites and the Monks of Bury St.
Edmunds is taken from the Harleian MS. No. 638
{Registrum Werketone) which formerly belonged to the
great Benedictine Abbey in that town.
The text is

very corrupt.]

Narratio qucedam de processw contra Fratres Minores,

qualiter expulsi erant de villa Hancti Edmundi.

inerito igitur

extat

tione

venerandus,

supercoelesti lerarchia

qui

sicut

pia fidelium devoin

coelesti

coram

una cum aurea

emanatione supercoelestis in lerarchia subcoelesti multigena meritorum venustate prserogativa. Nam. peccatoribus indulgentiam impetrat valetudinariis, et quamvis molestia gravatis incolumitatem procurat
naufragos
de vita desperatos ad portum prospere transvehit
insectatos ab hostibus aut insidiis appetitos [custodit]
et [a] quocunque nefando ^ ad suum asylum confluen;

The

From
takes

MS.

first

of three blank spaces.

it

is

ble original.

numerous mis-

hand.

would seem that the present

a copy from a scarcely legi-

2 et

these and the

It is in a

15th century

quoscunque nefajidos,

MS.

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APPENDIX.

sinum regime clementiae pandit, et [eos] ab omni

hostium incursione secure protegit et defendit; et veluti ad suae tutelfe patroeinia pie suspirantibus/ quacunque calauiitatis energia desolatis,^ de regiae liberalitatis dementia munimen
protectionis impendit, sic
suam libertatem regali munificentia, necnon auctoritate
tibus

Apostolica sancitam;^ pertinaci

temeritate irrumpentes,

ac sua jura contorto valgio subsannantes, districta justitiae animadversione a sua3 dominationis imperio
.

ct propellit.

Quare
fusa

rei

evidentia celebri fama quaquaversum dif-

admodum

venerabiles

est

viri,

perspicuum, sane

Fratres

scilicet

cum

religiosi

Minores,

ac

municipio

locum mansionarium, contra indulta moibidem commorantibus privilegia, diutino astu

beati Martyris
nacliis

obtinere invigilassent, et effectum

bitis

sui

propositi, adhi-

multimodis cautelis, assequi minime valerent, de-

nique intensiori supercilii bile incalescentes, a domino

Papa Alexandro"* iiii^o quoddam privilegium juxta ipsius nominis etymologiam, cumulato "non obstante"
multipliciter vallatum, exactisssima instantia nacti sunt,

ex pia fidelium collatione in praefata

beati Martyris metropoli fundus eis concederetur, irrequisita abbatis et dictorum monachorum convenientia,
eundem locum de indulgentia Sedis Apostolicae ad
inhabitandum et aedificandum ingrederentur.
Qua
in
raagnifice
freti,
cujusdam
munisiquidem ailctOritate
ut

si

videlicet

cipis praedium, a boreali civitatis climate situm, circum-

venta ^ possessoris religione, anno Domini m^cc^o loyiio^

x^ kalendas Julii, clanculo se ingesserunt.*^ Ubi morae
impatientes ac simultatis suae molimina propalari formidantes, coetu
noctis

"
^
^

fratrum

gallicinio,

dum adhuc

the

Bull

silerent

[IV.], p. 272, printed from the oriLambeth Palace Library.

MS.
desolates, MS.
sanctitam, MS.

suspir antes ^

See

sub furvo
omnia, in loco

celeriter aggi-egato,

ginal in

of

Alexander

circumiventa,

ingresserunt,

MS.
MS.

269

APPENDIX.

non

sanctificato,

honestissimo,

immo

divinis mysteriis tractandis in-

applicato super foedissimani arcam altari

portabili,- raissarum soleinpnia celebrare pr?GSurapseiunt.

Quorum

inopinata

civitatis prcBcipuis
bili

monachis [et] ipsius

dominis palam innotuit, insestimaut

intrusio

consternatione percelluntur, universi arbitr antes se

quoque privilegiis irreparabile pra^judicium imminere, eoque lacrimabilius ingemiscentes quia,

orbata ecclesia^ per decessum bonse memorise Edmundi
delusos,

suis

abbatis.

omnimodo

destituebantur.

pastoris consilio et auxilio

Quamobrem

funditus

suam

monasterii,

officiales

memoratos in
dicto prsedio pariter adunatos super clandestino * temeritatis ausu
modeste arguunt, monentes officaciter

libertatem magnopere

quatinus a loco
ecclesiae

quanto

zelantes,

fratres

suae jurisdictionis

beati Martyris fraudulenter

contra

privilegia

occupato recedant

ocius.

Fratres

autem, papali testudine undique

se

entes, et facta sufficienti admonitione, nullatenus

nari

mox

volentes,

ultro

diruto solotenus

adjacentibus

accreta

monachorum

idoleo in

a3dificiis,

elimi-

clientela,

quo celebraverunt cum

omnes insimul,

non absque ignominia,

injuria, etsi

muni-

sine

violentise

digrediuntur

ex-

torres.

Sed

religio ubi Cliristus

delicise

caput suum reclinare

volucres coeli nidos.

et

euntis

cubat in meridie, ubi sunt

in Jerusalem, ad

ei

Vulpes habent foveas

Et quorum facies extat ut
?

pacem quse exsuperat omnem

sensum, intermissa patrisfamilias agricultura, respicientes

retro,

cum Pharaone

suos

Israelitas

insequuntur

Eg;y'ptum fugientes.^

MS.

inhonestimo,

portatileMS.
quce orbata ecclesice,

3
^

clamdesticio,

MS.

MS.

accereta,

Thus

congeries
tions.

in

MS.
MS.

of

structureless

Scriptural

quota-

270

APPENDIX.

Nempe

quibus uti Apostolorum sequa-

praelibati fratres

cibus committitur^ [praeceptum, quod est] ^ absurdissimum

qusecunque
veritatis, "

cum

ablata

sibi

asserente

repetere,

Magistro

Qui aufert quae tua sunt, ne repetas," videlicet

strepitu judiciali et

cum

scandalo proximi,

"

Vae

enim mundo a scandalis/' sui, inquam, divinissimi

status immemores, fantasticata mentis acie, omni Romipeta pemiciores, indilate curiam ademunt, contra
monachos actionem injuriarum deponunt. Cum secundum leges non videtur injuriam facere qui jure suo
utitur, et quamvis deceptis et non decipientibus jura
subveniant, in omnibus tamen exauditi pro suae religionis reverentia, in tantum Romani * Pontificis animum
contra monachos instigabant, ut Papa, invective rescri"

bens monachis,

" filios inobedientiae,

eos

" ticos et apostatas,"

obstante

aliquo

haere-

denominaret.

Insuper importune

domino Cantuariae

immo

et

insistentibus

fratribus,

scribens

decano Lyncolniae quatinus, non

privilegio

seu

appellationis

remedio,

dictos fratres in corporalem possessionem alterius areae

infra

bm-gum Sancti Edmundi

in parte occidental eis

ad inhabitandum concessae, auctoritate Apostolica, introducerent.

Cum que praefati executores, videlicet Cantuariae pro Commissario Thesaurarius, scilicet Here-

datum

exequendum maninjunctum ad Sanctum Edmundum ac-

Decanus, personaliter

fordensis

sibi

cessissent,

et

ingressi

ad

capitulum

monachos ad suscipiendum

fratres

blandis
frustra

suasionibus
conerentur,

ac deinde in parochiali ecclesia Beatae Mariae sedentes

pro tribunali, comparentibus in judicio partibus, post

longas altercationes, auditis hinc inde propositis, in

favorem fratrum negotium maturantes, praedictam

aream adierunt festinanter. Quo assistentes, Decanus,

cominicitur, !MS.

Some words

to this effect

wantin<T to complete the seuse.

seem

MS.

Vei,

Romance,

MS.

APPENDIX.

271

evulso statim de terra brevi surculo, fratres in eadem

Sed monachi

area et auctoritate delegata invest! vit.

qui impra3sentiarum aderant

hujusmodi investituram,

Quinimmo opponentes
ipsos delegatos

quam

se

non segniter agentes contra

incontinenter

appellaverunt.

pro jure

viritim

suo

tarn

fratrum conventiculum vix mani-

bus innocentes- instanter abigerunt. Igitur fratres a

moeniis beati Martyris iterato proscripti, nova molientes versutise argumenta; instar hydree sibi reformantis

monachos gravibus laboribus attritos ac sumptuosis

expensis aporiatos coram diversis judicibus convenire
et ad loca remotissima, beato Francisco in conclavi
Et cum
forsan repausante, in jus vocari fecerunt.
plurimis dierum interstitiis altercatum esset inter partes,
capita,

et fratres jactura causse suse affici formidantes, spreta

ad regium suppedium se
conferrent, judices eremodicium contrahere non morantes
monachos ab observatione judicii absolutos fore decreve-

judicum suorum

runt.

jurisdictione,

Rex autem,

pietatis, obsequiis

videlicet

Hemicus

tertius,

utpote vir

passim intendens crebris fratrum sup-

plicationibus, geniculationibus
interpellatus, directis

quoque assiduis obnixius

ad capitulum Sancti Edmundi

suis

apicibus, abbati et conventui pro dictis fratribus regise

Regina insuper
et dominus Edwardus, regis primogenitus, et quamplures
Anglise magnates, tum precibus blandimentorum quoque
involutis, tum etiam litteris comminatoriis, ut monachi
in gratiam fratres admitterent vehementer instabant.
Sed beati Edmundi pusillus gTex pro suse ^ libertatis
dignationis intentas

tuitione, ut
tur,

mons

porrexit

preces.

stans immobilis, nee terrore concuti-

nee blandimento seducitur.

Denique

rex,

secretis

fratrum suggestionibus, aliorum instructu, et praecipue

jugalis suae import unitate subactus, destinato in manu
forti

ad Sanctum

adherant,

An

Edmundum

MS.

legendum

suo justiciario,

innocentihus 9

sui,

MS.

absque

272

APPENDIX.

ullo beati Marfcyris delectu, siipradictos fratres, scilicet

Minores, in possessionem
tentia

mandavit

Ivito,^

vigilia scilicet

induci,

Quo

in loco fratres

suae

construentes

prpenominatae regali po-

anno Domini

videlicet moccio

Edmundi.

Sancti

Translationis

quamplurima competentia

religioni

monaclns invitis, et contra

mutire non audentibus, sex et

aedificia,

tyrannidem

principis

areas

amplius annorutn curricula contraxerunt. Et quia praescriptione longi temporis eliditur actio illius, qui deses
est in petendo jus suum, lex persequitur desides. Odisunt

osi itaque

desides

et sui juris contemptores, qui

perpetua taciturnitate actiones suas extingui patiuntur.

Ideo quoque

currus

extiterat

dation is

defuncto

auriga, et

et

Papa Urbano

rum celeres
gationem

Alexandro

iiii^,

Papa, qui

fratrum

substitute felicis recor-

diriguntur ex parte monacho-

nuntii ad curiam, qui domino Apostolico dero-

Edmundi

privilegiis monasterii beati

illatam,

praetextu supradict^ literae a praedecessore suo Fratri-

bus

Minoribus

seriatim

concessae,

exposuerunt.

damna

talia

Quibus

gravamina

et

auditis, protestatus

est

dominus Papa, etsi non liabeat imperium per imparem,

non decere illam divinissimam Sedem decreta et sancita " suorum praedecessorum absque ardua et rationabili
causa, et de fratrum consensu, in irritum revocare.
Et
quia Apostolicae Sedi astruxit fore contraria, per operis
effectum

nam ^

judicavit non agenda,

exactissime ad pedes suae

sancti tatis

quentibus, factum sui antecessoris

mandans

negotium prose-

revocavit de piano,

in virtute obedientiae Provinciali et aliis Era-

Minoribus in

contra privilegia
obtenta, a loco,
aedificiis

monachorum Sancti Edmundi martyris

quem tam illicite occupaverunt, dirutis

omnibus,

incunctanter

recederent.

autem mandato Apostolico humiliter

M257 ?
'

nuntiis

Anglia commorantibus quatinus,

obstante aliqua impetratione a praedecessore suo

tribus

non

praefatis

sujictita,

MS.

Fratres

obtemjoerantes, et

^n legendum

tamen

273

APPENDIX.

prsesumptione sua resipiscentes, directis vice suae universitatis ad capitulum monachorum ob pads reforma-

tionem quibusdam discretis fratribus, in prsesentia domini abbatis et totius conventus, praenominato loco et

omni

Et condonatis

juri sue totaliter renuntiaverunt.

in spiritu Christi hinc inde ofFensis, in osculo pacis

monachis admissi, refusionem sumptuum

una cum damnis

expensarum

et

et interesse, pietatis .intuitu remitti

orationumque suffragiis imprecati sunt compensari. Sed

mira Dei dispensatione actum est ut quemadmodum
in vigilia Translationis beati Martyris praefati loci adepti

sunt ingressum, ita in vigilia passionis ejusdem penitus

eundem abdicarunt

et veluti in die

translationis tri-

pudiabant de obtento, sic in die passionis ejusdem,

fundo cum aedificiis relicto, ordinata quoque processione,
omnes pariter egressi ad basilicam Sancti Regis venerunt palam, in conspectu cleri et populi protestantes

memoratum locum injuste et

privilegia monachorum quotannis

contra libertatem et

se

ad

se

ad alium quatuor limitibus comprenolle redire inperpetuum.

Et licet fratrum

ilium vel

hensum

bonse

veluti

instantige,

[insequuntur],

maritana

possessores, pro

iidei

publica resultarent, monachos

riis

inhabitasse, et itidem

sua re

tamen vulgaribus susur-

uti Judaei recusantes,

quo,

uti

Sa-

detestatione, fratrum viciniae extiterunt per-

TJnde ut liquido omnibus claresceret non religionis execrationem ^ sed justitiae evictionem * fomitem
notabiles,

Abbas et conventus, ex
locum ad inhabitandum in possessione

contentionis ministrasse,

dono

gratuito,

monasterii

extra

septa

dicti

suae

fratribus favorabiliter concesserunt.

Qui

cus, venustis aedificiis opulenter redimitus,

aedus sacrorum,

insensatorum

2
is

inonachiy

very corrupt.
7644.

jam

prius extiterat pascua

efficitur

animalium

et ubi ante pascebantur bruta animalia,

MS.

Samaritanis,

qui

memoratis
siquidem lo-

jurisdictionis

MS. The

passage

MS.
MS.

<

execratio,

evictio,

APPENDIX.

274

nunc fideles animse verbi divini reficiiintur alimonia.

Per omnia benedictus Deiis, cui incomprehensibili dispensatione omnia cooperantiir in bonum iis, qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. Acta autem sunt
anno
in scriptis redacta,
ista, et ne posteros lateat

Domini

mocc^^ Ixiii^,

xii^<^

kalendas Decembris.

V.

[The document which follows is printed from the

original in the Lambeth Palace Library (Tenison MSS.
No. 643, 15). It is T\dthout date, but the e^ddence
derivable from the preceding account of the dispute be-

tween the monks and friars of Bury St. Edmund's leaves

little doubt that it was issued by the Pope, Alexander
The appearance of the Bull itself
IV., there mentioned.
confirms the inference as to

its date.]

Alexander episcopus, semis servbrum Dei, dilectis

^linorum
filiis ministro provinciali et fratribus ordinis
benedictionem.
Anglia
salutem
et
Apostolicam
de
Intellecto dudum ex insinuatione vestra quod dilecti
filii conventus monasterii Sancti Edmundi ordinis sancti
Benedicti, NorwicensLs dioecesis, vobis, super quodam
fimdo vestro ordini ex cujusdam nobilis liberalitate in
\'illa

Sancti

Edmundi

injurias iiTOgarant, nos

injuriis

concesso,

ad

diversas

enoiTues

instantiam vestram

hujusraodi ad certos indices,

in favorem vestrum direxisse

et

sub certa

meminimus

super
foiTiaa,

scripta nostra.

ordinem vestrum/ ex eo potissime quod

olim, dum in minori essemus officio constituti, cur as
nostr^e fuit ab Apostolica Sede commissus, caritate praecipua diligamus, et vos tanquam prajdilectos et singulares filios intra mentis ubera carius amplexemur, licet
etiam favoris Apostolici sinum vobis et in hoc et in
aliis qu^e ipsius vestri ordinis incrementa respiciunt.
Licet

igitiu'

APPENDIX.

manu

275

munifica duxeriinus explicandum, nostrae tamen

ad vestrum commodum
hujusmodi vobis exhibere favorem quod in aliorum
prasjudicium minime convertatur, quia quanto sinceriori vos affectu prosequimur, tan to ardentius cupimus
vos ea semper agere per quse fama3 vestrae prseservetur
intentionis extitit et existit sic

integritas,

et

status

Cum

roboretur.

vestri ordinis firmius

itaque

et

solidius

quo vos in Christo com-

ille,

plectimur, caritatis zelus id egerit, ut super his prsesens

ad vos pagina emanaret, universitatem vestram monemus, rogamus, et hortamur attente, per Apostolica vobis
scripta, mandantes quatenus maturitatem debitam erga
praefatum

monasterium,

ecclesiae speciale, ac

ex Apostolatus
negotio
lestiis

cum

Romanae
jura teneamur

propter hoc ipsius

officio specialius defensare,

conservare
et

praesertim

ab ipsius

curetis,

sit

in hujusmodi

monasterii

sicut vos decet, penitus abstinendo,

injuriis,

immu-

nihilque contra privilegia indulta, liber tates et

nitates ac jura ipsius monasterii attemptando, ita

scandala, quae
illis

partibus

mo-

praedicti occasione

dicuntur,

esse

orta

negotii

sopiantur

quod

jam

in

omnino mur-

murantium clamores queruli conticescent et detrahentium vobis linguae mordaces taciturnitatis nexibu's
;

vinciantur
speculo,

ac

gTex

tamquam virtutum limpido

Nos
dominicus salubriter dirigatur.
in vobis,

vestrorum laudabilium operum odore percepto, multa exinde in Domino perfusi laetitia, dulcia
Sedis Apostolicae ubera, quae copiose hactenus in mulquoque,

torum beneficiorum perceptione

suxistis,

vobis, vestris

Data Vinostri anno

exigentibus meritis, afFectuosius porrigamus.

terbii,

v.

Novembris,

Idus

Pontificatus

iertio.^

November 1257,

if

the 3rd

year of 4-lexander IV.

of

establishment

of

See date
the
Fran-

ciscans

in

Bury

St.

Edmund's, on

p. 268.
1

S 2

APPENDIX.

276

VI.

An

[From Harleian MS. 1900.

of the
Sermo doviini
"
Avchiepiscopi Armxicani
(Richard Fitz Ralph)

de
"

"

Trevisa's translation

delivered before the Pope at

Avignon

Incipit Sermo domini Archiepiscoin

DemeJ? noujt by

John

8o

sernione

myn

c"

Holy

J^e

make

ich

Also

is

fader,

in

]?e

it

is

Armacani

doom te deme,
bygynnynge of my

a protestacioun, that
to

say, noj^er

contrarie to Cristen

J^at

in 1357.)

face but rittful

entent to afferme,

|?inge that
lore.

John

extract from

nouit

myn

feij>,

to

it

is

noutt

holde,

oj^er to

entent to

eny

Cristen

counsaile

axe destruccioun and vndoynge of }>e ordres of

beggers that hep approued by holy chirche and confermed of popes, but Y schal make euidente and
consaile that ]>ese ordres schulde be brouit to J?e
clennesse of her first ordinaunce, and ich am alwey
redy to J>e correccioun of toure holynesse. And for
to descende anoon to my mater, ]o, holy fader, ich
came in a tyme to London for certeyn nedes of my
chirche of Armacan, and fonde there wise doctors
stryue vppon J7e beggerie and heggynge of ]>e Lord
oure Saueoure, and ofte ich was prayed to preche to
the peple, and ich preched seuen sermones o)7er ei^te
to the peple in her owne tonge, wi)? the protestacioun
]7at ich haue seide, and tolde }?ere nyne conclusiouns.
For ]>ese conclusiouns, and oj^ere J)ingis that ich J?ere
seide, freres ]?ou^ hit turne hem to a jape, appelide
no)?er

to

)?is

])e

his
for

court.
first

conclusioun was

j^is

Oure

Lord

Jesus in

conuersacioun of manhed alwey was pore, nouit

he wolde and loued pouerte by cause of hit silf

APPENDIX.

to begge.

pe

ferj>e

tau^te
]?e

J7at

fif|?e

Oure

Lorde

Jesus

Crist neuer taujt

conclusioun was
Oure Lorde

Jesus

pc secunde conclusioun
neuer beggide willful liche.
J?e Jjridde

277

couclusioun

is

)ns:

wilfulliclie

]>m

no man schuld wilfulliche begge.

conclusioun was

)?is

No man may redilich

and holiliche wilful beggynge vjDpon hym take euermore to holde.

hit is nouH of the
J?e sixte conclusioun was J^is
reule of freres menores wilful begginge to kepe and
:

holde.

pe vii. conclusioun in that mater was .|>is

J^e ferj^e
pope Alisaundres bille that dampne]? pe libel of maistres wi]?seij? noon of pe forseide conclusiouns.
pe viii. conclusioun, and the first in mater of priuyleges was )7is
for parischons of eny chirch to schryue
:

hem
is

wi]? exclusioun of o]?er

more

places pe parische chirche

wor}7i to be chosen

J^an

oratory

o)7er

chirche

of freres.

and f'e secunde in )?is mater is

)>is
for parischons of eny chirche to schryue hem
onlich to oon persone, pe 'ordinarye persone is more
wor)7i to be chosen )?an eny freres persone.
pe
:

ix.

conclusioim,

VII.

[A few stanzas from one of the discreditable songs

contained in a fourteenth century Franciscan MS.
(Harl. 918) will suffice to show the character of the
whole. Profanity and ribaldry are rife in this singular
little volume, and specimens of both are grotesquely
mixed up withj serious and devotional extracts. Gram-

278

APPENDIX.

mar has been set aside in favour of rhyme and

rhythm in these scarcely intelligible stanzas, which are
printed solely as a specimen of what a degenerate
Franciscan could permit himself to write and sing.]

Quondam

fuit factus festus,

Et vocatus ad comestus
Abbas, Prior de Glowcestrus,

Cum

totus familia.

Abbas ire sede sursum

Et prioris juxta ipsum.
Ego semper stavi dorsum
'^

Inter rascalilia.

Abbas bibit ad
Date vinum ad

Prioris.

majoris.

Possit esse de Minoris

Si se habet gratia.

Non

est

bonum

sic

potare

Et conventus nihil dare,

Quia volunt nos clamare

Durum
*

in capitula.
*

Abbas vomit, et Prioris

Vomis cadit super floris,
Ego pauper steti foris,
Et non sum laetitia.

Rumor venit ad Antistis,

Quod Abbatis fecit istis.
Totum monstrat ad ministris
Quod

fecit convivia.

^ Sic in MS., but for comic

throughout the song.

effect, like

other perversions of

grammar

APPENDIX.

279

Hoc est meum consulatis,

Quod utrumque deponatis
Et

Prioris et Abbatis

Ad

sua

Per hoc

piloria.

erit castigatis,

Omnis noster

subjugatis,

Prior, clerus, et Abbatis,

Ne

plus potent nimia.

Absit, dicit altus clerus,

Quia

bibit

Quod

purum merus

punitur tarn severus

Per nostra consortia.

Esset enim hie riotus.

Quod pro

horum potus

stultus

Sustineret clerus totus

Pudor

et scandalia.

VIII.
{Close Roll, 13

[This

is

Hen.

III.

m.

12.)

probably the earliest original record respecting

now

There are three entries of

a similar character in the Roll for the next year.^]
Mandatum est Willelmo de Coigneres, ballivo forestse
Windlesorae, quod habere faciat Willelmo de Millers,
constabulario Windlesorae, ad opus Fratrum Minorum
Londonipe, unam quercum ad maeremium in foresta
de Wyndlesora, de dono Regis, ad sedificia domorum

the Franciscans

suarum.

14

Teste, &c.

Sarum, m. 13

'

extant.

Stamford,

casually noticed

Nottingham, m.
m. 18.
Entries
;

in the Rolls for

the 45th year (m. 10) aud the 51st

(Oxford, m. 4, and Salop, m. 2)

are also grants of oaks.

280

APPENDIX.

IX.
(Close Roll, 24

Edw.

III., pt. 1.,

Littera directa Miniatro Generali

m.

6.)

Fratrum de

or dine

Minorum.

Rex

dilecto sibi in Christo ministro generali

Fratrum

de ordine Minorum salutem.

Scitur publice

et,

ut

credimiis, vos

ter dilecta consanguinea nostra

comitissa Pembrochae, exilitati

terbeche

ordinis vestri

Deneye de

licentia

latet quali-

Maria de Sancto Paulo,

domus sororum de Wa-

compatiens,

pie

nostra

non

pro

uberiori

manerium de
sustentatione

dictarum sororum suis sumptibus adquisivit, sed ad

instantem supplicationem tam dictarum sororum quam
fratrum ipsius ordinis affirmantium dictum manerium
de Deneye esse pro mora dictarum sororum, ex causis
variis, aptiorem, mutavit propositum, et post diffusos
tractatus, cum unanimi consensu tam dictarum sororum quam ministri provincialis et fratrum seniorum
ac majorum ordinis in eadem provincia degentium do-

mum

novam, in qua dictae sorores et plures numero

possunt commodius commorari, erexit, et ibidem ecclesiam aptse pulchritudinis ac domos et alia necessaria
sumptuose construxit et subsequenter Abbatissa dictae
domus de Waterbeche cum majori parte sororum suarum, paucis sororibus ibidem ad tempus relictis quousque de eodem loco de Waterbeche, qui tunc de patronatu
suo ut de feodo non fuerat, poterit provideri, ad domum
de Deneye se transtulit, reverenter injungens sororibus
sic relictis ut ad tempus starent ibidem sub obedientia
sua et observantia regulari
sed post paululum dictse
sorores, nescimus quo spiritu, Abbatissse suae rebellionis
calcaneum erigentes, eidem parere contemptibiliter re;

nuerunt, et abbatissam aliam ac sorores plures alias de

facto temere elegerunt, dicentes

quod de

loco illo nul-

APPENDIX.

281

latenus recedere proponebant, nonnullis fratribus illius

ordinis eis faventibus et

eiTorem in

liac

parte

suum

voluntarie defendentibus

propter

domos

qu?e inter

prse-

scandalorum et litium materia suscitata, in gi-ave ipsius ordinis scandalum et derisum.

Cumque dicta domina advocationem dictae domus de
Waterbeche ut de ea liberius posset disponere impedictas gravis fuit

ac

trassetj

per sorores dimissas in eadem

sibi

contra ea quae

fiiisset,

lominus

contradictum,

domo

prius concordats fuerant, nihi-

rescriptum super

his

Sede

dpmini summi Pontificis

impetravit, quibus in capitulo vestro provinciali pubconsilio de deliberatione
licatis, et super his habito
saniori, quia causa dictarum sororum dimissarum injusta fuerat reputata, inhibitum fuit per dictum capiApostolica

tulum

ex certa scientia

singulis

fratribus

provinciae

dictse

sub

certis

pcenis ne dictis sororibus in causa prsedicta prsestarent

de ceetero consilium aut juvamen.

Deneye

intelligens

hoc quasi ex

Abbatissa vero de
diffinitione

processisse, dictas sorores sic dimissas

perelectis

ut ad

domum

capituli

cum temere

su-

de Deneye cito declinarent,

ibidem sub ejus obedientia et observatione regulari

quod ipsae, de quo
moratur?e, districte moneri fecit
gaudemus, fecerunt, ut dicitur, humi liter et devote.
Quamobrem devotionem vestram attente rogamus quatenus in gratse reducentes considerationis examine
gratitudinem et gratiam per dictam comitissam ordini
vestrae factam, et qualiter ad supplicationem ordinis
dicta translatio facta fuit, velitis pro conservations
;

honoris vestri ordinis ac vitandis scandalis et dedignationibus

plurimis, quae

sunt ex contrario verisimiliter

damnare praedictam, et proAbbatissae de Deneye factum in hac

proventura, rebellionem

cessum ipsius
parte ex certa scientia confirmare,

et ulterius ordinare

ut fratres ipsius ordinis, secundum

numerum

in

Apostolicis

litteris

designatum, in dicta

et

modum

domo de

Waterbeche residere compellantur, qui de bonis

dictae

282

APPENDIX.

domus de Deneye victnm

recipiant et vestitum, et hoc

favorem nostrum regium appetitis,

Data in palatio nostro Westmonas-

sicut ordini vestrae

petimus
terii;

faciatis.

xv. die Junii.

X.

[The following small selection of Inquisitions

" qvbod

damnum

^'

ad

" contains, it is believed, earlier traces

of several convents than are to be found in the Patent

In a few cases, Gloucester and Stamford for

example, the latter apparently contain no entry whatever
respecting the Franciscan houses.^
These documents are, of course, no evidence whatever
of actual grants. These appear on the Patent Rolls.
In
cases, however, in which from various causes the proposed grant has not taken effect, as possibly in the
Rolls.

instances above cited, these inquisitions

may

be of con-

siderable value.-]

Nottingham.
(InqvAs.

ad quod damnum,

Writ :
Edwardus, Dei gratia rex

4 Edivard

/.,

i\^o.

104.)

dominus Hibemise
et dux Aquitaniae, vicecomiti Notinghamise salutem.
Praecipimus tibi quod per sacramentum proborum et
legalium
Veritas

hominum

melius

scii^i

villae

Anglise,

Notinghamise, per

quos

poterit, diligenter inquiras

damnum nostrum

rei

utrum

ad nocimaentum villae
praedictae si venellam illam contiguam muro clausi
Fratrum Minorum Notinghamiae obstrui faciamus nee
ne; et si sit ad damnum nostrum vel ad nocumentum
villae praedictae, ad quod damnum, et ad quod nocuesset

ad

The index

to the "

Calendarium
Eotulorum Patentium," 1802, has
here been relied on.
1

vel

The

accounts of the Friaries in

the "Monasticon" are singularly

meagre and unsatisfactory.

APPENDIX.

283

Et inquisitionem inde

mentiim.

factam nobis, sub

sigillo

tuo et

distincte

sigillis

et

aperte

eorum per quos

facta fuerit, sine dilatione mittas et hoc breve.

me

ipso

apud Westmonasterium,

Teste

xxii. die Octobris,

anno

regni nostri quarto.^

Inquisition

utrum esset ad damnum domini

regis vel ad nocumentum villse de Notingham si dominus rex obstrui faciat venellam illam contiguam muro
clausi Fratrum Minorum Notinghamiaa necne, et si
sit ad damnum domini regis vel ad nocumentum villae
prsedictae, ad quod damnum, et ad quod nocumentum,
Per Johannem le Paumer ^ de Notingham, Kobertum le
Flammang de eadem, Hugonem le Flammang, Laurentium Ingram, Johannem le Flammang, Radulphum de
Boston, Johannem de Lenton, Robertum le Tanur,
Michaelem aurifabrum, Hugonem le Vilers, Rogerum
de Landeford, et Willelmum le Hunt juratos. Qui
dicunt super sacramentum suum, quod si venella. contigua ^ muro clausi Fratrum Minorum Notinghamise obstruatur, non est ad damnum domini regis neque ad
nocumentum villse de Notingham.
In cujus rei testiInquisitio

facta

monium

prsedicti jurati prsesenti inquisitioni sigilla

sua

apposuerunt.

Northampton.
l^Inq.

ad quod damnum,

6 Edv:),

1.,

No. 61.

?>.

{ivvit).']

Edwardus, Dei gratia rex Anglise, dominus HibernisB,

et dux Aquitanise, vicecomiti Northamptoniee salutem.
Prsecipimus tibi quod in propria persona tua attendas
ad quendam fontem in campo de Thorp juxta NorthThe

and inquisition are

printed together in two instances
In' the remaining cases a
only.
preference has sometimes been
given to the former, sometimes to
.

writ

the latter.

The name s of

jurors have been

omitted in printing the

ments.
3

continguam,

MS.

later

docu-

284

APtENDIX.

amptonam, et per sacramentuin proborum et legalium

hominum, per quos rei Veritas melius sciri poterit,
diligenter inquiras, si concedere possimus quod Fratres
Minores Northamptonipe caput fontis praedicti obstruere
et cooperire, et cursum ejusdem fontis per conductum
ducere possint usque domum suam praedictam sine
nocumento seu gi-avi dam no hominum partium prse-

Et si inveneris quod illud sine gravi

damno seu nocumento concedere poterimus, tunc
fratres illos fontem preedictum cooperire et aquae cursum ejusdem usque donium suam praBdictam ducere
peruiittas et si sit ad gi'ave damnum et nocumentum
hominum partium praedictarum, ad quod damnum et
quod nocumentum, et qualiter, et quomodo. Et inquidictarum, necne.

sitionem

inde

tuo et

sigillo

dilatione

factam nobis sub

eorum per quos facta fuerit sine
Teste meipso apud
hoc breve.

distincte

sigillis

mittas et

aperte

et

Turrim LondoniiP, quarto die Januarii, anno regni

nostri

sexto.

Colchester.
[Inq.

ad quod damnum,

6 Ediu.

I.,

No. 69.]

Writ :
Edwardus, Dei gratia rex Angliae, dominus Hibeniiae,
et

dux Aquitaniae,

dilecto

et

fideli

suo

Ricardo

de

Holebrok, senescallo suo, salutem.

Mandamus vobis quod per sacramentum proborum
et legalium hominum de balliva vestra, per quos rei
Veritas melius sciri poterit, diligenter inquiratis,
esset

ad

damnum

vel

utrum

nocumentum nostrum, seu

minum

villas nostrae Colecestriae,

cunque,

seii

ho-

aut aliorum quorumdetrimentum

muri ejusdem villae,
etiam ad

sigillo,

MS.

285

APPENDIX.

concederemus

si

nobis

dilectis

Chris to

in

Fratribus

Minorum in eadem villa commorantibus, quod

se
ipsi quendam aquseductum a fonte, quern habere
dicunt ex concessione Nicholai de la Warde extra
orJinis

villam pr^edictam, facere possint infra dominicas terras

nostras ibidem per

medium muri

villse prsedictse

usque

ad situm suum proprium in eadem villa, ita quod per

conductum ilium aqua ducatur a fonte praedicto ad
ecclesiam

alias

et

praedictorum

et

nocumentum nostrum seu

vel

quorumcunque, tunc ad

aut aliorum

prsedictse

villas

fratrum

officinas

ad damnum

esset

si

et
utrum
quod damnum vel quod impedimentum
fons prsedictus sit communis ad aesiamenta singulorum
;

aut separalis fratrum prsedictorum, et

mus

fonte

in

illo

necne, et

si

sic,

si

nos jus habea-

quod

jus, et quali-

Et inquisitionem inde distincte et

aperte factam nobis sub sigillo vestro et sigillis eorum
ter,

quomodo.

et

per quos facta fuerit, et sine dilatione, mittatis et hoc

meipso apud Westmonasterium, xxvii.

die Octobris, anno regni nostri sexto.

breve.

Teste

Inquisition
Inquisitio
vigilia

facta

Sancti

apud

Colecestriam

anno

Hillarii,

regni

die
regis

Jovis

in

Edward i

coram domino Ricardo de Holebrok per

Rogerum Holebek &;c.
Qui dicunt per
sacramentum suum, quod si dominus rex concederet
fratribus ordinis Minorum apud Colecestriam commorantibus quod ipsi quendam aquseductum a fonte, quem
habent ex concessione Nicholai de la Warde extra

septimo,

villam

per

prsedictam,

ducere

possent

fonte

medium dominicarum terrarum domini

ad ecclesiam
num domini

falcabili

ad

regis

regis ibidem

alias officinas suas, esset

in

terra

longitudine

arabili

sex

ad

dam-

denariorum,

perticarum, pertica sepedes et dimidium continente item, in prato

videlicet

decim

et

praedicta

in

xix.

ad

damnum

denariorum,

xii.

longitudine xxi. perticarum

item

in

videlicet

in

pastura separa-

APPENDIX.

286

damnum

ad

bill

dine

denariomm,

octo

videlicet in longitu-

xlviii. perticarura.

Summa damni

ii.s

denariorum.

ii.

Ita

tamen quod

fossatum per ipsos faciendum quatuor pedes

tudine continens reficiant seu adimplent.

in lati-

-^

Dicunt

aqua prsedicta duceretur sub muro

villa3 pr^edictae, non
erit ad
damnum ejusdem muri
nee vill88 prsedictse, dum tamen dicti fratres reficiant

quod

etiam

si

adimplent

seu

quam

trenchiam,

illam

reparare

seu

Dicunt etiam
emendare poterunt de xii. denariis.
quod tons praedictus fuit separabilis Nicholai de la
Warde, et quod idem Nicholaus praedictum fontem
pr?pfatis fratribus dedit, et quod nunc est separabilis
ad opus eorundem fratiiim. In cujus rei testimonium
sua praesenti apposuerunt inqui-

jurati pr?edicti sigilla

Data

sitioni.

loco, die, et

anno

supradictis.

Canterbury.

ad quod d^amnum, 7 Edvj

[Inquis.

Edwardus, Dei gratia rex

niae,

dux

et

Pi-gecipimus
et

cretis

et

asset

vicus

scii'i

damnum

(ivrit).]

dominus HiberKanti^e

vicecomiti

salutem.

sacramentum proborum

fidelibus nostris, per

melius

ad

Angli^e,

Xo. 51

assumptis tecum aliquibus dis-

tibi quod,

legaHum hominum de

Veritas

si

Aquitanise,

I.,

villa Cantuariae, per

diligenter

poterit,

vel

nocumentum

quidam conterminus

are^e

quos

rei

inquiras, utiiim

nostri vel alterius

Fratinim Alinorum

quod
area sua praedicta per hsec posset includi vel non. Et
si ad ali cujus damnum vel nocumentum, tunc ad cujus
vel quorum damnum, et ad cujusmodi et quantum.
Et inquisitionem illam distincte et aperte factam, sub
sigillo tuo et sigillis- eorum per quos facta fuerit,
Cantuariae ex

'

parte occidental!

quatuor pedes repeated in

MS.

obstrueretur, ita

sigilla,

MS.

287

APPENDIX.
nobis sine dilatione

apud

ipso

mittas et hoc

Cantuariam,

ix.

Teste

breve.

me-

anno regni

die Octobris,

nostri septimo.

York.
(Inquis. cul
Inquisitio

quod damnum, 7 EdAO.

facta

die

I.,

Veneris proxima

anno

JS^o.

post

54.)

festum

Edwardi
octavo, per breve domini regis, coram Rannlpho de
Daker vicecomite Eboraci et Johanne Sampson maiore
Sanctae

Luciee

civitatis

Eboraci per,

si

esset

virginis,

regis

&;c

damnum domini

ad

regni

regis

vel

nocumentum

cujuscumque si dominus
rex concederet Fratribus Minoribus eadem civitate commorantibus, quod ipsi possint includere vicum ilium,
qui est inter situm suum et terram Alani Brian in
civitatis

eadem

Eboraci ant

alteriiis

civitate, necne, et

quantum

tenet in longitudine

Qui dicunt per sacramentum suum,

quod non esset ad damnum domini regis vel nocumentum ejusdem civitatis nee alterius cujuscumque si
includeretur per dictos fratres, et quod vicus ille conet

latitudine.

tinet in se in longitudine viginti et tres perticatas et

dimidiam, et latitudine decem et octo pedes in aliquo

loco,
et quindecim pedes in aliquo loco.
In cujus
rei testimonium praesenti scripto sigilla sua apposuerunt.

Caermarthen.
(Inquis.

ad quod damnum, 12 Ed^v.

apud

I.,

Ko. 51.)

Kermerdyn

coram domino
Roberto Tybotot, die Mercurii proxima post festum
Sancti Barnabae Apostoli, anno regni regis Edwardi
duodecimo, videlicet per Meilerum Vachan, &c.
qui dicunt per sacramentum suum, quod non est ad
Inquisitio

facta

damnum

nee nocumentum

domini regis nee

alien jus

288

APPENDIX.

dominus rex concedat Fratribus Minoribus

de Kermerdyn quandam partem cursus cujusdam aquse
vel cursum totum, quae currit usque molendinum suum
de Kockmille extra villam de Kermedin, et quod non
est ad damnum nee nocumentum domini regis nee
alicujus alterius, tempore pacis, si dominus rex concedat Fratribus Minoribus de Kermerdin quod possint
aquam prsedictam diver tere, et per conductum usque
domum suam ducere, et quod tempore guerrse ad spatium temporis trium orationum dominicarum aquam
praedictum in cursu in quo nunc currit quisquis ducere
potest, et ita non est ad damnum nee nocumentum
domini regis nee alicujus alterius tempore pacis nee
tempore guerrae. In cujus rei testimonium, &;c.
alterius, si

Gloucester.
(Inquis.

ad quod damnum, 13 Edw.

2.,

No.

62.)

proxima post festum

Sancti Oswaldi regis et martyris, anno regni regis
Edwardi tertio decimo, per sacramentum Ranulphi de
Putteleye, &c
utrum sit ad damnum
vel praejudicium domini regis aut aliorum si dominus
Inquisitio

facta

Veneris

die

rex concedat Fratribus Minoribus Gloucestriae

placeam contiguam
villa,

quam

ecclesiae

quandam

eorundem fratrum in eadem

quondam inclusa Gloucestriae,

habendam eisdem fratribus in puram

Wentiliana,

aliquando tenuit,

et pei-petuam [eleemosynam].

Qui dicunt super

ad damnum nee

mentum suum, quod non est

judicium domini regis ^ nee aliorum

Gloucestriam

duos solidos annui redditus.

In cujus

domino

'

Words

rei,

JRegi, ^MS.
lost

prae^

quod prior Lantonia3 juxta

sacra-

through rautilation of MS.

habet inde
&:c.

289

appendix.

Colchester.

ad quod damnum, 13 Edw.

(Inquis.

I.,

No.

Inquisitio ftxcta per praeceptum domini regis

99.)

secundum

tenorem istius brevis per Oliver um de Colecestria, &e.,

Qui dicunt per sacramentum ;suum, quod si dominus rex concedit Fratribus Minoribus Colecestrise placiam
.

quam

ad

petunt, possit esse

damnum

nocumentum
adjacet ex una

et

domini regis pro eo quod ilia placia

parte castello domini regis Colecestrise, distans a fossato ejusdem castri per novemdeeim perticatas, qure
pertica continet in se sedecim pedes et dimidium, et
ex alia parte est contigua muro villie, et pro eo quod
si guerra moveretur in regno Angliae periculum possit
evenire prsedicto castro
dicta

prope

placia

castrum

praedicta

placia

warnesturse

quod

esset

et

multum

novem
et

terrae,

placea

solidos, et

jacet

pro eo quod

ad sustentationem
Unde
tempore guerrse.

domini regis possit

prsedictae, et valet

et

villye,

ilia

valeret

castri

ires acras et tres rodas

pomorum,
duodecim

muros

infra

Item dicunt quod placea

aestimare.

herbagio

quod placia

eo

inclusa,

prsedicti

damnum

et villati Colecestrise si prge-

per
in

per

evenire

continet in se

ilia

mensuram

annum domino
fructibus

pirorum in praedicta

nesciunt

placea

perticse

regi in

castanearum,
existentium

denarios.

Exeter.
{Inquis.

ad quod damnum, 20 Edw.

I.,

No.

48.)

Inquisitio capta per vicecomitem Devoniae die Mer-

proxima ante festum Sancti Andreae Apostoli, anno

regni regis Edwardi vicesimo, per sacramentum Willelmi
de Breynton, &;e.
Qui dicunt super sacramentum
suum, quod non est ad damnum nee praejudicium
curii

7644.

Sic for gamesturcB.

290

APPENDIX.

domini regis nee aliorum si dominus rex concedat

Johanni Gerneys, civi Exoniae, quod ipse quandam
aream in suburbio Exoniae dare possit et assignare
Fratribus Minoribus Exoniae ad inhabitandam et im-

morandam, habendam

bus suis in perpetuum.

tenendam sibi et successoriDicunt etiam quod praedicta

area

toto

continet

in

et

in

se

quatuor acras tense, de

quibus quaedam area, quae continet quinque perticatas in

duas perticatas in latitudine, tenetur

de Matillida de la Heghen reddendo ad Matillidam

longitudine

et

octo denarios, et hospitali Sancti Johannis Exoniae tres

solidos et octo denarios per

et

valet

in

omnibus

annum

pro omni servitio,

annum quatuor

per

exitibus

et quatuor denarios.
Et quaedam area, quae
continet quindecim perticatas in longitudine et tres

solidos

perticatas

in

tenetur

latitudine,

pro decem et

Stephani Exoniae

Sancti

de persona

ecclesiae

denariis

octo

eidem reddendis per annum, et faciendo unam sectam

ad curiam Exoniensis episcopi in eadem ecclesia Sancti
Stephani semel in anno, et valet per annum in omnibus exitibus duos solidos. Et quaedam area, quae continet tres perticatas in longitudine et

in

decano et

de

latitudine, tenetur

unam

perticatam

capitulo Exoniae,

reddendo eisdem decano et capitulo duodecim denarios

annum

omni servitio, et valet per annum

duodecim denarios. Et quaedam area, quae continet

per
in

pro

longitudine

perticatas,

Exoniae

pro
tinet

in

de

tenetur

reddendo

omni

exitibus

sedecim

quatuor

praedictis

eisdem
et

servitio,

in

perticatas,

tres

valet per

solidos.

decano

sex

et

capitulo

solidos

per

annum

annum

in

Et quaedam

longitudine sedecim

latitudine

omnibus

area, quae con-

perticatas

et

in

latitu-

dine duas perticatas et dimidiam, tenetur de praedicto

decano et capitulo

omni servitio,
quaedam area,

et

reddendo eisdem duos solidos pro

valet

quae

per

continet

annum
in

tres

solidos.

longitudine

Et

viginti

perticatas et in latitudine duas perticatas, tenetur

de

APPENDIX.

291

dccano ct capitulo reddendo cisdem decern et

dc la Lane decern et octo

praedictis

octo denarios, et Jordano

solidos.

omni servitio, et valet per annum ties

Et qusedam area, quiB continet in longitudine

sedecim

perticatas

denarios

pro

in

et

latitudine

duas

perticatas,

tenetur de praedictis decano et capitulo reddendo eis-

dem tres solidos, et valet per annum tres solidos

unum denarium. Et qusedam area, quae continet

et

in

quatuordecim perticatas et in latitudine

duas perticatas, tenetur de prsedictis decano et capitulo reddendo eisdem quatuor solidos pro omni servitio, et valet per annum quatuor solidos.
Et qusedam
longitudine

area, qu?e continet in longitudine

in

latitudine

novem

perticatas,

decem perticatas
tenetur

de

et

Leprosis

Exoniam reddendo eisdem dimidiam marcam pro omni servitio, et tantum

beatne Marise MagdalenjB extra

annum.

valet per

longitudine

Et qusedam

area, qu?e

sedecim perticatas et in

continet in

latitudine

tres

Molton reddendo
eidem duos solidos, et hospitali Sancti Johannis Exonise
duos solidos, et Sarrse filise Henrici Hog quatuor denarios pro omni servitio, et valet per annum quinque
perticatas,

solidos.

tenetur

Summa

dc

Rogero

totius valoris

de

illius

arese triginta

et

unus denarius. Dicunt etiam quod terra

sex
et tenementum prsedicti Johannis sibi remanentia ultra
donationem et assignationem prsedictas sufficiunt ad
consuetudines et servitia tam de pra^dicta area data
quam retenta debita facienda, et ad omnia alia onera
solidi et

qu8e sustinuit et sustinere consuevit, ut in sectis, visibus franci pleggii, auxiliis, tallagiis, vigiliis, finibus,

redemptionibus, amerciamentis, contributionibus, et

quibuscumque oneribus
quod in assisis, juratis,

cumque poni

emergentibus,

sustinenda

aliis
:

et

et aliis recognitionibus quibus-

potest, prout

ante donationem et assig-

nationem prsedictas fieri consuevit, et quod patria per

donationem et assignationem ipsius Johannis magis soIn cujus rei, etc.
lito non onerabitur nee gravabitur.
T 2

APPENDIX.

292

Caermarthen.
ad quod damnum, 23 Edward

{Inqnis.

I.,

No., 78.)

domino
Sabbati proxima
anno regni regis

Inquisitio capta per prseceptum domini regis,

Willeimo

de Valencia nuntiante, die

ante festum beati Johannis Baptistse,

Edwardi vicesimo

coram Waltero de Pederton,

constabulario de Kermerd^^n, &c.
Qui dicunt
per sacramentum suum, quod dominus rex est verus
dominus cujusdam croftae juxta placeam Fratrum Minorum, quae quondam fuit Nicbolai Symond, qui per
tertio,

feloniam forisfecit dictam croftam

villam

Kermerdyn

de

et

cum

extra,

aliis terris infra

et ita per

eskaetam

dominus rex possidet earn, et potest eam dare, vendere,

et assignare quibuscumque et quandocumque sibi placuerit, sine nocumento et damno alicujus.
Et continet
dicta

unam

crofta

acram, exceptis quatuor perticatis

Et etiam dicunt praedicti jurati, quod prsedicti

Fratres Minores nequeunt commode ducere cursum cujusdam aquae, quam habent ex dono ejusdem domini regis
ad ofRcinas sua,s^ nisi per medium illius terrae, et etiam per
medium alterius terrae jacentis ex opposito ejusdem
terrae, et quae quidem altera terra fuit prasdicti Nicholai
Symond, et est in manu dicti domini regis per eskaetam,
et hoc sine nocumento et damno alicujus ut praedicterrae.

tum

est.

In

ciijus

rei

testimonium, &c.

Nottingham.
(Inquis.

ad quod damnum, 81 Edivard

Inquisitio capta

de

I.,

No.

65.)

Schyrl vice-

comite Notingham, duodecimo die Aprilis, anno regni

Edwardi tricesimo primo, per sacramentum

regis
.

officina sua,

si

MS.

sit

ad

damnum
2
I

&c.

vel praejudicium domini

Mutilated.

"

APPENDIX.

293

dominus rex concedat dilectis

sibi in Christo gardiano Fratrum Minorum de Notingham ct ipsis fratribus, quod ipsi cursum aquae cujusdam
fontis in Athilwelle a fonte illo usque ad domum suam
de Notingham per conductum subterraneum, per ipsos
ibidem faciendum, ducere, et cursum ilium sic ductum
tenere possint sibi et successoribus suis in perpetuum
necne.
Qui quidem juratores dicunt super sacramentum suum, quod non est ad damnum domini regis
vel aliorum quorumcumque, immo eleemosyna.
In
regis

aut

cujus

rei,

aliorum

si

&c.

StA-FFOKD.
(Inquis.

ad quod damnum, 83
ad

damnum

Ediv,

/.,

No. 230.)

ad prsejudicium
domini regis aut aliorum si dominus rex concedat
Henrico Grucok, quod ipse quandam placeam terrse
Inquisitio

cum

si

sit

vel

pertinentiis in Forthgate de Stafford, continentem

in

longitudine et quatuor

terrae in latitudine,

dare possit et assignare

in se octo perticatas
perticatas

terrae

Minorum
ad curtilagium inde faciendum, habendam

gardiano et fratribus de

dam

ordine

StafFordiae,

et

tenen-

eisdem gardiano et fratribus et successoribus suis

inperpetuum necne, secundum tenorem brevis domini

regis huic inquisitioni consuti, facta coram vicecomite
StafFordiae apud Stafford, die Veneris proxima post
octabas Sancti Michaelis, anno regni regis Edwardi tricesimo tertio, per sacramentum Henrici de Cressewell,
Qui dicunt super sacramentum suum,
etc.
ad
damnum vel pra3Judicium domini
quod non est
regis nee aliorum si dominus rex concedat pi^aedicto
Henrico Grucok, quod ipse quandam placeam terrae
cum pertinentiis in Forthgate de Stafford, continentem
in se octo perticatas terrse in longitudine et quatuor

....

perticatas terrae

in

latitudine,

dare possit

[et]

assig-

294

APPENDIX.

nare gardiano et Fiatribus Minoribus

curfcilagium

inde faciendum,

ad
tenendam

StafFordite,

habendam

et

eisdem gardiano et fratribus et successoribus suis

inperpetuum. Et dicunt quod prsedicta placea, simul
cum aliis placiis ex utraque parte illius placese jacentibus, tenentur de abbate de Sancto Edbrulpho, servitio unius sectae curiae de tribus septimanis in tres
septimanas ad curiam praedicti abbatis de Wolreston,
et per servitium trium denariorum per annum ad festum Sancti Petri in Cathedra eidem Abbati ibidem
solvendorum, et per servitium octo hominum meten-

tium per unum diem in autumno cum eodem Abbate

apud Merschton. Et dicunt quod praedicta placea continet in se octo perticatas in longitudine et quinque
pertieatas et dimidiam in latitudine, per perticam viet dicunt quod praedicta placea
ginti quinque pedum
valet per annum in omnibus exitibus quatuor solidos;
et dicunt quod remanent eidem Henrico ultra donationem et assignationem praedictas ad valentiam quadraginta solidorum per annum
et dicunt quod terrae
et tenementa eidem Henrico remanentia sufficiunt ad
;

consuetudines et

data

quam de

servitia tarn

aliis terris

et

de praedicta placea

sic

tenementis sibi retentis,

debita facienda, et ad omnia alia onera, quae sustinuit

et sustinere consuevit, ut in sectis, visibus franci plegii,
auxiliis, tallagiis, vigiliis, finibus,

redemptionibus, amer-

ciamentis, contributionibus, et aliis quibuscumque one-

ribus

emergentibus, sustinenda; et dicunt quod

Henricus in

assisis,

quibuscumque poni

juratis,

potest,

et

idem

recognitionibus

aliis

prout ante donationem** et

assignationem praedictas poni consuevit

ita

quod pa-

donationem et assignationem praedictas in

ipsius Henrici defectum magis solito non onerabitur
tria

per

vel gravabitur.

In cujus,

etc.

Minor unif MS.

29o

APPENDIX.

Bodmin.
(Extract from Inquis.
III.,

Echvardus, Dei

ad quod damnum, 24

No, 29, {writ))

gratia

dominus Hibernise,

rex Angiise

et

quod per sacramentum proborum

hominum de

Franciaa

Dabernon,

dilecto sibi Johanrii

caetori suo in comitatu Cornubise, salutem.

vobis

Ediv.

ct
cs-

Mandamus
et

legalium

balliva vestra, per quos rei Veritas melius

ad damnum
vel pra3Judicium nostrum seu aliorum si concedamus
Thomse le Goldsmytli de Bodmyn, quod ipse duo mesuagia et duas acras terras cum pertinentiis in Bod-

sciri

poterit,

diligenter

inquiratis

si

sit

manso dilectorum nobis in Christo gardiani et

fratrum de or dine Minorum ejusdem villae contigua,
minia,

dare possit et assignare preefatis gardiano et fratribus,

habenda et tenenda sibi et successoribus suis ad

gationem mansi sui proedicti inperpetuum necne
sit ad damnum vel prsejudicium nostrum, etc
;

elar-

et si
'

Richmond (Yoekshire).
(Inquis.

oA quod damnum, 88 Edw.

III.,

No.

8.)

coram Willelmo de Reygate, escaetore domini regis in comitatu Eboraci, apud Richemond
primo die Junii, anno regni regis Edwardi tertii post
conqusestum tricesimo octavo, virtu te cujusdam brevis
domini regis eidem escaetori ad prosecutionem gardiani
et fratrum ordiois Minorum Richmondi?e directi, et huic
inquisitioni annex i, per sacramentum Roberti de StodQui dicunt super sacramentum
haugh, etc
suum, quod non est ad damnum vel pnpjudicium doInquisitio capta

The remainder

grant.

is

purely formal.

The return was favourable

to the

APPENDIX.

296

mini regis aut aliorum, sive nocumentum villse Richemondiae, si ipso dominus rex concedat Ricardo Lescrop

quod

cliivaler,

enm pertinentiis in villa

Hud des well, quod ipse unum

ipse tria tofta

Richemondiae, Willelmo de

cum

toftum

pertinentiis

Ricardo et Willelmo, quod

eadem

in
ipsi

toftum cum pertigardiani et fratrum

eadem villa, manso

Minorum in eadem villa

ordinis

et assignare

pnedictis

et tenenda sibi et

mansi

dicta tenementa

contigua, dare possint

gardiano et fratribus, habenda

successoribus suis

imperpetuum.

prsedicti

sui

cum

eisdem

unum

in

nentiis

et

villa,

pertinentiis

ad elargationem
Et dicunt quod

tenentur de domino

Johanne, duce Lancastriae et comitc Richemondiae, ut

de honore suo Richmondise, in socagio per servitium
tantum, et valent per annum juxta verum
valorem eorundem v.s xA, et continent in se quatuor
acras terrae, et quod dominus rex nee praedictus dux
fidelitatis

aliquid

unquam

profituum de tenementis praedictis habere nee

percipere poterit, nisi esset causa forisfacturae

Et dicunt quod non sunt aliqui alii medii

inter dominum regem et praefatos Ricardum et Willelmum praster dominus dux praedictus de toftis praedictis, et dicunt etiam quod terrae et tenementa eisdem
si acciderit.

Ricardo et Willelmo remanentia ultra donationem et

assignationem praedictas infra libertatem Richmondia?,
quEB

de

domino duce tenentur,

Eboraci, valent per

annum

xli.

et

alibi

in comitatu

libras, et sufficiunt

consuetudines et servitia tam de praedictis

datis

quam de

aliis

terris

et

toftis

ad
sic

tenementis sibi retentis

debita facienda, et ad omnia alia onera quae sustinue-

runt et sustinere consueverunt, et quod iidem Ricardus

et Willelmus in assisis, juratis, et aliis recognitionibus

quibuscumque poni

donationem et
assignationem praedictas poni consueverunt, in omnibus
secundum formam brevis huic inquisitioni consuti. In
cujus

rei,

etc.

possint, prout ante

APPENDIX.

207

Stamford.
(Extract from Inquis.
III.,

Edwardus, Dei
tori

suo

ad quod damnvuiii 39 Ediu.

No. 21,

gratia, etc.,

(ivrit).)

Waltero de Kelby escae-

comitatu Lincolni?e salutem.

in

Prgocipimas

quod per sacramentum, etc., diligenter inquiras si

sit ad damnum vel prae judicium nostrum aut aliorum
chivaler, et masi concedamus Thomse le Despenser
gistro Henrico le Despenser, quod ipsi septem acras
terrse cum pertinentiis in Staunford manso dilectoruni
nobis in Christa gardiani et fratrum de ordine Mino-

tibi

rum de Staunford

contiguas dare possint et assignare

eisdem gardiano et fratribus, habendas et tenendas sibi

et successoribus suis in elargationem mansi sui prse-

perpetuum necne
apud Westmonasterium,

Teste meipso

dicti in

vi.

die

Aprilis,

nostri tricesimo nono.^

The

return was favourable to the grant.

anno

regni

GLOSSARY.

GLOSSARY.
An

AuxiLiUM.

quittance.

discharge, ac-

The

right of nominat-

ing to a benefice or an abbey. 28 1

Ad

Robas. In his livery. 16.

sunrise.
-^Dus.
273.
Aesiamenta. Easements; comeniences for the use of property, such

way, rights of drawing

as rights of

canonical vestment

with fur

it

head and shoulders.

covered the
pecuniary

penalty inflicted at the discretion

of a court, not

2^

fine ^ which was

amount fixed by law.

289,

The

Balf.iva.

Yearly, year

Brasium. Malt.
Breve. A writ.

132.
82, 283, 284, 285,

Bullatus.

Sealed by appending a

seal or hulla^

and thus confirmed.

20.

BuRGUS.

boi'ough

a corporate

270.

c.

AroRiARE. To impoverish. 271.

(As an adjective.)
Apostolicus.
Passim,
ride on an ass.

a chantry

Cantaria.

chapel.

9,

14, 24.

Cantor.

chanter or precentor.

26.

for legal subtilties.

To

by year.

Apices. Papal letters (usually as

123 and 133) but used (271) with
respect to royal mandates and (97)

AsiNARE.

of

284, 295.

sheriff.

116, 128, 265.

Papal.

jurisdiction

Ballivus. a bailiff. 279.

BoLLA. A measure (three-fourths
of a pint), but on p. 132 the
word means a " boll," a Scotch
measure containing six bushels.

town.

291, 292, 294.

Annuatim.

B.

287, 288, 289, 293, 295, 296.

89.

Amerciamentum.

an

294.

132.

285.

water, &c.

lined

the feudal con-

61.

Advocatio.

Almutium.

tribution so called.

A.
AcQUiETANTiA.

aid

Caparo. a cowl. 10.

Capitegium. a covering for the
head.

95.

AssisJE. Assizes. 289,291,294,296.

89.

Capituldm.

chapter-house.

chapter,

Passim.

or

802

GLOSSARY.

Caputium.

cowl.

83, 88, 96,

100, 101, 102.

D.

a chasuble.

Casula.

The

Cellerarius.
monastery.

The

Chorus.

To discharge

Deseryirf..

cellarer

of a

56.

DiFFiNiTORES.
elected

Beer.

Cerea'isia.

12G.

choir of a church.

pp. 81-119.

DiscOLUS.

chapters for

special functions during the session,

8.

Passi?)i.

Claustrum.

Visitors, or officers

general

at

a duty. 81.

also the

cloister;

Passim.

Undisciplined.

DoMixicus.

Demesne.

104.

285.

precincts of a monastery. 87, 135.

a close.

Clausum.

CoMPLETORiUM.
last of

282, 283.

Complinc

the canonical hours.

An account.

CoMPOTUS.

the

87.

7.

E.

To

Emologare.

42, 50.

ratify.

Eremodicium. a nonsuit abandonment of a legal action. 271.

EsCAETA.
An escheat, property
;

CoNDUCTus.

conduit.

284, 288,

293.

CoNFUsiBiLTS.

CoNus.
CopL.E.

Iguominious.

Conier or angle.
Couples.

93.

A cord

or

reverting

the

to

crown or an over-lord. 292,

EsCAETOR.
A king's officer who

88.

19.

Corda (Chorda).

forfeited

or rope.

receives escheats.

295, 297.

23, 88, 89.

Croft A.

small

close

adjoining a dwelling-house.

292.

croft

CuLCiTRA.

CuRTiLAGiUM.

pillow

mattrass.

courtyard.

89.

203,

294.

CcsTOS.

F.

Femoralta.
Ferculuji.
Fixis.

An

officer in

the Francis-

can order having control over the

convents within stated districts.
There were seven custodies in
England. Passim.
CvROGRAFFUil (ChIROGRAPHUM).
bipartite deed or indenture.
ters of the alphabet, or a

Let-

land. 289,291,294.
Firmatio.
streno^theninor.

so

that

when

tallies.

61.

letters

may

ditch.

Fraxcfm

plegium.
FRANCI PLEGH.

286, 289.

See

Vrsus

word, are
the

act

G.

two

documents are cut asunder the

mutilated

8.

Forisfacere. To forfeit. 292.

FoRiSFACTURA. A forfeiture. 296.

written along the intended line of

division,

88.

a dish or mess. 8.
A fine due on alienation of

Fossatidi.

Drawers.

as

Gabulfm.
buildinor.

The end

or gable of a

Sometimes used for the

gable-cross.

132.

no8

qLOSSARY
Gardianus.

wardon

of a friary.

L.

l^assim.

Garnestura. Provisions

aiid stores

for the defence of a fortress.

War.

GuERRA.

289.

Laicus

Laicatus.
status of a layman.
;

layman

the

9, 13, 18, 24,

28, 288, 289,

83.

Latomus.

stone-mason.

139.

Lectisternium. a mattrass.
LiNTHEAMiNA. Sheets. 89.

130.

H.

One who super-

Hebdomadarius.
intends duties

week.

the

for

M.

current

M^REMiuM.

116.

Timber

building

279.

purposes.

A mayor.

Major.
Mansum.

for

287.

manse

or

dwelling.

295, 296, 297.

I.

Imprecari.
Inclusa.
Indictto.

To

pray

273.

to.

a nun. 18,
a period of

Medietas.
MiNDTUS.

15 years by
33,

and

eastern

MoLENDiNUM. A mill. 288.

MoNiALis. A nun a Minoritess.
;

N.

dale from which the reckon-

To

NoN Obstante.

ing started.)

bind.

with a knot

tie

papal
;

clause

in

bull overriding directions

to
in previous mandates.

31, 84, 99, 105,

Instructfs. Persuasion. 271

Interesse. Interest formoney. 273.
Interlinear! s.
Written between
the lines of a document.

95,

western

churches differed as to the

Innodare.

bled.

108.

34, 42, 45, 46, 49, 53.

(The

107, 110.

One who has been

92.

288.

which dates were reckoned.

A moiety.

Q2.

NoviTius.

265, 268.

Passim.

novice.

0.
Obedienti^e.

Lettei's

from superior

of instructions

officers

of the Order.

95.
P.

J.

Joe ALE.
JuRATA.

A jewel,
A jury.

90.

JuRATi, JuRATORES.
act as jurors.

291,294,296.
Men sworn to

286, 293.

Paramentum.

An

Patronatus. The

ornament.

90.

right of nomina-

church or abbey. 280.

Perpacatio. Full payment. Q2.
tion to a

GLOSSARY.

304
Pertica; Perticata.

a perch (16^
285,

Rome

286, 287, 289, 290, 291, 293, 294.

peal).

feet)

the length of a perch.

Pertinentia.

Placia

ground.

goes to

270.
S.

ScACOARiUM. The Exchequer.

A pittance or allowance
A

of

plot

Plegium. See Visus franci plegii.

PoRTATiLis (Altare portatile or

portabile).

portable

Scarlet cloth, woollen

cloth dyed with kermes.

SciiEDULA.

288, 289, 293, 294.

altar.

19,

265.

ScARLETUM.

8.

Placea.

or

who

the purposes of an ap-

(for

293,

295, 296, 297.

of victuals.

person

appurtenance

All

(used as feminine singular).

PiTANCiA.

Romipeta.

small sheet or slip of

parchment or paper.
Secta.

Suit of court.

91.

290, 294.

a steward

Senescallus.

126.

or deputy.

27, 284.

269.

Septimana.
week. 60, 94, 294.
Sequaces. Followers. 270.
A tenure of land,
SocAGiuM.

Propositus.
Procurator.

SuBSANNARE. To deride. 268.

SusuRRiUM. A private confession,
but en p. 273 used as the equiva-

(Note. The word in the text on

p. 2G9 should be portatili.)
Pr^libare.
To mention before.

296.

socage.

40, 270.

A provost.
A proctor.

125, 140.

Passim,

pp. 31-62.

To

Propalark.

268.

publish.

lent of susurrus.

a creed.

Symbolum.

26.

Q.

"Quasi Modo." The

thus the name for the

days

'^
;

first

and

Sunday

118.

after Easter.

QuiNDENA.

introit,

The

space

A discharge.

as a general

of

fifteen

60, 61.

Tallin.
Testudo.

for taxes.

289,

Tallies.

7.

shield or

protection.

A toft;

sometimes stated
to be a place where a house formerly stood, sometimes a plot of

R.
rule (of St. Francis).

Passim.
Regularis, According to the Rule
81,
{i.e. the Rule of St. Francis).

ground adjoining a house. 296.

Torta. Coarse bread. 8.
Trexchia. a trench. 286.

u.

97, 264, 280.

Repausare. To repose.
RODA. A rood {\ acre.)

name

Often used

269.

Toft CM.

Regula. The

Tallage.

291,294.

full fortnight." 89, 94.

QuiTANTiA.

Tallagium.

271.

289.

Urbs Vetus.
6Q.

Orvieto.

42, 48, 53,

GLOSSARY.

805

the

V.

Vknella.

narrow path or

lane.

282, 283.

A sheriff.

ViCECOMES.
VlSUS FRANCI
frank-pledge

7644.

for the pur-

pose of ascertaining that persons

over 14 years of ago " were
" sureties or free pledges to the
*'

King

of each other."

VieW

of

'*

inquisition

in

294.

TLEGII.

an

282, &c.

Hundred court

for

the

good behaviour
289, 291, 292,

INDEX.

IT

INDEX.
Alnes, 132.

A.
Aberdeen, bishops of: Gavin Dunbair, 126,
137; William Stewart, 128 William El;

phinston, 135.

Aberdeen,

Franciscan convent

at,

125;

134.

Alyff, John, 218.

Alyne, Thomas, 165.
Alys, William, 144.

Amadas,

Abingdon, Simon, 151.

Abingdon, Stephen, 151.
Abknott, John, 168.

Abraham,

Altham, Edward, 194.

Ahvyne, Henry, 145.
Alwyne, Nicolas, 181, 182.

194.

Amiens, 178.
Andrew, John, 155.
Anery, Simon, 147.

AVilliam, 172.

Acheley, Koger, 185, 187.

Acre, 143.

Angnellus, see Agnellus.

Angus, earl of, 190, 206.

Angwyche, see Angus.

Acton, Roger, 165.

Adam of Oxford, see Adam de p]xonia.
Adderley, John, 168.

Anne (Boleyn), Queen,

Addurbury, man

Anne, queen of Richard H., 157, 159.

Anjou,

crucified at, 146.

Adrian, John, 148.

Agincourt, battle of, 166.
Agnellus or Angnellus of Pisa,

Antioch, Patriarch
7, 9, 10,

13
1

detects a fabricated story, 14.

friar, 20.

Albon, James, 155.

Albryght, William, 250.
Aldenam, Nicholaus de, 59.
Alderman, James, 146.
Aldermanbury, Simon de, 144.
Alexander, friar Duncan, 137.
Alexander, Master of the Hospital, Canterbury, 18, 19.

Alexander IV., pope, 268, 272, 274.

Aleyne, John, 177.

195, 198.

Antioch. Garrard de, 143.

at the general chapter of the order

Albertus,

loss of, 144.

of, ?.7,

Antony, 189.
Antwerp, 208.
William, 157.

Appultone,

friar

Armagh,
Armagh,

archbishop

276.
of,

Richard

Armagoacs, 170.
Armenteres, John, 150.

Armyger, Peter,

148.

Arnedelle, see Arundel.

Arnalde, Coustantine, 144.

Arnalde, Robert, 168.

Aruulphe, Aruolde, 144.

Arnulphy, William, 143.

Alford, 177.

Arras, 170.

Alley, Richard, 174.

Arthur, Prince, 180, 183, 184, 187.

AUyn,

Artoys, 172.

doctor, 190, 101.

Aliyn, John, 188, 198.

Allyne, Ralph, 210.

Fitz

Ralph, 276.

Arundel, earl

of, 158, 159, 160, 163,

214,243,244.

164,

INDEX.

310
Arundel,

sir

Barham down.

Thomas, 235.

250.

Arundelle, Humfrey, 227 (niargiti).

Barla, EUzabeth, of Elphinstonand Forbos,

Asheby, 206.
Asheby, Ralph, 147, 148.

Barlette, 17.

Ashwy, William,

Barlyle,

135.

148.

Askara, William, 160, 162.

Adam,

158.

Barnes, 227.

Aske, 200, 201.

Barnes, Dr., an Augustine friar, 192, 203.

Askew, Anne, 211.

Asque, Christopher, 191, 196.

Barnes, George, 210, 237.

Barnet, battle of, 177.

Astre, Ralph, 179.

Barton, Elizabeth, the Holy Maid of Kent,

Athilwelle, Nottinghamshire, 293.

Audene, Walter, 149.

Audley, Lord Chancellor,

181, 194, 206.

Augmentations, Court of, 199.

Augustine friars, their church in London,
&c., 185, 188, 191, 208, 209, 254.

Aumarle, duke of, 160.

Aurburry, Martin, 150.
Austyne, Thomas, 158.
Avery, John, 156.

minister of the Franciscans. 27.

Barton, Ralph, 167.

Bartylmew, James, 144.

Bartylmew, Richard, 144.
Bartyncour, Lucas,

49.

Basinges, Salekiuus de, a benefactor to the

Franciscans, helps to build their convent,

18.

Averylle, Lucas, 150.

Basle, council at, 169.

Basse, Humfry, 148.

Avignon, 276.

Awbry, Andrew,

196.

Barton, Henry, 162, 166, 168.

Barton, Martin de, vicar of the English

Atlye, Thomas, 155.

152, 154.

Ayleshame, John, 153.

Aylmcr, Laurens, 183.
Ayr, Franciscan Convent

at, 125.

Basset, Robert, 176, 178.

Basynge, Adam, 147.

Basyuge, Hew, 145.
Basynge, Robert, 149, 151.
Basynge, Salomon, 145, 146.
Basynge, Thomas, 148.
Basyngstoke, Richard, 154.

Babylon, 143.
Bagot, sir William, 160.

Bate, Peter, 145.

Bailze, friar Robert, 132.

Bath, bishop

Bakone, William, 178.

Batte, Gerard, 147.

Balance, Ralph, 151.

Batte, Nicolas, 147, 148.

Baldac, friar

Hugo

de, 22.

Baldoc, Radulphus de. Archdeacon of ^lid-

Batencote, Lucas, 148.

of, 172, 246.

Baylly, 173.

Balnacrag, 130.

Bayly, William, 187.

Baynard, William, 1 94.
Baynards castle, 168, 183, 208, 209.
Bechingam, de, see de Beckingham.
Beckingham, Johannes de, 42.

Baugley, Thomas, 169.

Bedelle, 259.

Bangor, bishop of. Dr. Capun, 196.

Banne, Adam, 157. 158, 159.

Bedelle, Austyne, 149.

Bedewynde, Thomas de,

Barcelona, 81.

Bedford, castle

Bardolf, lord, 163.

Bedford, John, duke

Barelle, William, 157.

Bedlow, Thomas, 177.

Bekayne, Richard, 152.

dlesex, 38, 39,44, 46, 51, 54, 57.

Baldre, 189.

Baldre, Thomas, 188.

Barentou, Drew, 159, 160, 163.

of,

59.

destroyed. 146.
of,

169.

INDEX.
Boclandc, Robertas de, 42, 45, 46.

Beker, Simon, 151.

Bekingham, Johannes

Sec dc Beck-

de.

ingham, 46.
Benevcntiinus (?Bcnvenutus), a layman,

to the cardinal of St. La^vrence, 42, 45.

Berkinges, 13.

Berkyngc, Richard, 153.

Bernes, John, 155.
Bernevelle, John, 169.
Berwick, 153, 176, 206.
Simond, 157,
John, 158.

Lady Anne,

Bongay, Raymond, 147.

Boniface VIIL, pope, 84, 97, 99.
Bonipartus
de
Xovaria,
Lanfraucus
clericus, papal notary, 49, 50.

Bosinge, Peter, 150.

Boston, Radulphus de, 233.

Bosworth, battle of, 179.

Boukecis, Martyn, 149.

see Burley.

Boulogne, 180, 207, 227.

Bourne, bishop Gilbert, 245.

13ewdley, 182.

Bouthe, 250.

171.

Beynton, William, 159.

Bow

Beysauut, Robert, 143.

Bower, William, 198.

Bowes, ^Slailin, 203.
Bowforde, John, 150.

Bey tone, John,

Biennes,

150.

James, 158.

sir

Blacke, 211.
Blacke, Thomas, 158.

Blackeney, Peter, 151.

Blackfriars, parliament
at,

at,

189

legates

193; steeple taken doAvn, 209.

Blackwall, 237.
Blair, Egidia, of
Blair, friar

Row,

138.

Alexander, 136.

Blanche, duchess of Lancaster, 155.

Blont, John, 151.

sir

Thomas,

161.

Blonte, Walter, 149.

Blontte, Ralph, 149.

Blore-heath, battle

sit

church, 143.

Bowmer, Lady Margaret,

Bowmer, sir John, 200.
Bowys, Martin, 210.
Box, Edmimd, 150.

175.

of,

Blounde, Normandy, 144.

Blount, Edward, 148.

Box, Henry, 150.

Box, Thomas, 149.
Boyle, a brother of lord, 172.

Brabson, Adam, 154,

Bradbery, Thomas, 182, 187.
Brandon, Thomas, 154.

Brechin, 124, 126.

Brember, Nicolas, 156, 157.

Breme, sir Nicolas, 158.
Brent Heath, 173.
Brereton, 198.
Brest on, John, 151.

Blount, John, 150.

Bret, 248.

Blounte, Randolph, 150.

Bretayne, Thomas, 179.

Bluut,

Hugh,

200.

Bray, Gulielmus de, 36, 42, 43, 45, 49.

Blout, Roger. 143.

Blont,

195.

Bolingbroke, Roger, 171.

Boreley, John, 169.

sir

Bcwmoud, Thomas,

Boleyne,

Borne, see Bourne.

Bctayne, William, 150.

sir

Bodmin, Franciscans of, 295.

Bodyly (a smith), 223, 226.
Bokerylle, Thomas, 146,

custos of the friars, 24.

Bennyngton, Simond, 155.

Bent ley, John, 149.
Benvenutus, sec Beneventanus.
Berardi, Angelas (dictus Riciiis), notary

Bewcham,

Boddy, a king's commissioner for chantries,

216.

Belle, Robert, 144.

Beverle,

311

147.

Breton, John, 150, 188.

Blunt, Roger, 147.

Breullo, Philippus de, 59.

Bluutravcrs, William, 146.

Breynton, Willelmus de, 289.

Brian, Alan, 287.

Bockyuge, doctor, 196.

312

INDEX.
Burgundy, house
Buris, Robertus

Briane, 248.

Briane, John, 167.

Bridewell hospital, 258, 259.

Brittany, 180.

de,

monk

of West-

minster, 56.

Rogerus

Buris,

Bristol, 160.

248.

of,

de, a

monk of Westminster,

33, 56.

Brodham, John,

Burley,

151.

sir

Simond, 158.

Broke, Geoffrey, 163.

Broke, John, 180.

Burnet, Duncan, rector of Methleilz, 126,

Broken';vharf, 219,

Burney, Walter, 155.

Brokkas,

Burry,

sir

136.

Barnard, 161.

Bromer, John, 176.

Bromham, Edmund,

Adam,

155, 156.

Bury, A., see Burry and Burr.

Bury, Adam, 154, 155, 156.

Brokley, John, 168.

Bury

203.

Bronde, Hamond, 144.

Edmunds, Franciscans

St.

of,

267-

275.

Browne, sir Anthony, 230.

Browne, John, 177.
Browne, Richard, 182.
Browne, Stephen, 168, 170, 172.
Browne, William, 181, 185, 186.
Browneynge, Adam, 148.
Brun, Nicholaus clericus, 34.

Bury

St.

Edmunds, Benedictine convent

at,

267-275.

Bushan, John, 156.

sir John, 160.

Busshe,
Butler,

Adam,

147.

Butler, James, 151.

Butler, John, 167.

Brur}', Nicolas, 151.

Butler, William, 151, 186.

Bryan, John, 149.

Buxhylle,

Bryce, Henry, 176.

Byfelde, Robert, 178.

sir

Alyne, 157.

Bryce, Hugh, 178, 180.

Bygotte,

Brygges, John, 187.

Brykesworth, John, 155.

Byllesdon, Robert, 177, 179.

Brykesworth, William, 153.

Bucher, Joan, otherwise Kent, 219, 227.

Bywater, John, see Walter.

sir

Francis, 199, 200.

Byrde, Robert, 203.

Buckerelle, Stephen, 147.

Buckerelle, Michael, 148.

Buckingham, duke of, 179,

Bucknot, .John, 143.
Buckrelle, Andrew, 147.
Bugeton, friar

Hugo

de, 19.

Bullyn, GeoflFrey, 172, 174.

Bungay, Raynold, 147.

Burdcyue, Robert, 151.
Bures, Rogerus de, see de Buris, 35.
Burford, Henricus de, cantor fratrum at
Paris, 26

his verses, ib.

Burges, John, 155, 188.

Burgo, Hubert de, 13.

Burgo, Walter de, 14.
Burgos, 173.

Burgundy, bastard of, 176.

Burgundy, duke of, 164, 170, 176, 183,
185, 186, 190.

c.

188.

Cade, Jack, 173.

Caermarthen, Franciscans
Caernarvon, 151.

of, 287, 292.

Calais, 154, 159, 160, 165,

166, 169,170,

171, 178, 181, 183.

("alere,

Robert, 150.

Cambridge, 9, 19, 237.

Cambridge, Franciscans of, 265.
Cambridge, Richard, earl of, 165.
Candyche, Stephen, 154, 155.
Canyuges, Caniges, Thomas, 173, 174.
Canterbury, 11, 17, 146, 164, 166.
Canterbury, archbishops of, 11, 146, 162,
175, 183, 219, 221, 222, 223, 224, 230,

239, 245, 246, 248, 251, 258, 270.

Canterbury, Franciscans of, 286.
2.i7,

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INDEX.
Canterbury, Observants at, 182.
Cantlow, William, 172.
Capelle, sir William, 180, 186, 187.
Carcassona. IJ. de, see Eegis de Carcas-

Chaunccler, Robert, 152.

Chawndelle Iladdon, 266, 267.

Chawry, Richard, 178.
Chechele, Robert, 167.
Chechester, John, 155.

sona.

Cardmaker, John, 216, 217, 224, 225, 257.

Checwelle, Symon, 151, 152.

Carlisle, skirmish at, 205.

Cheklywelle, Richard, 149.

Carmelite

Chelton, Nicholas, 187.

friars, 146.

Carnys, friar Andrew, minister provincial

Chertsey abbe}-, 217.

Chester, Richard, 179.

of Scotland, 133.

Caroston, William, 151.

Chester, Robert, 161.

Carrow,

Carrow, Jarvys, 203.

Cheyny, 200.
Chichelle, William, 163.

Carrow,

Chichester, bishop

sir

sir

George, 209.
Nicolas, 202.

Cartone, Hugh, 151.

174, 230, 232, 244,

of,

245.

Castile, king of, 186, 205.

Chichester cathedral, 25.

Caston, Stephen, 229.

Chidiok, 266, 267.

Casulis, Raynutius de, 46.

Cateloyne, Robert, 148.

Chirchsay, Walter, 168.

Cholmley, see Chamle.

Catwrth, Thomas, 171.

Choppyn, Richard,

Cauntou, John, 191.

Cavitone, Gulielmus de, 50.

Chore, Richard, 185.

Cawsone, John, 152.

Cayton, John, 156.
Cely, John, 157.
Cesteslade, Johannes de, 59.
Chadworth, John, 161.
Chadworthe, Thomas, 170.
Chalmer, Duncan, 130.
Chalmer, Margaret of Finlater and Drum,

Christ Church prior}^ 194.

Christ's Hospital founded, 213.
Cicestria,

Johannes de,

Chalmer, Mariota, 127.

Chalmer, William, of Balnacrag, 130.
Chalons, John, 172.
sir

Robert,

72.

Cistercians, 15.

Clapton, William, 154.

Clarence, duke

Claryndon,

sir

of,

164, 177, 178.

Robert, 162.

Clat, 132, 133.

Clefforde, 201.

Clerkenwell, 201.

Anne

Cleves,

Clopton, Hugh, 180.

Chamberlyn, I 72.
Chamberlyne, sir Robert, 181.
Chambrich, William, 167.
Chambryche, Thomas, 166.
Chamle, sir Robert, 243.
Champion, Walter, 193.
Champnes, John, 189.

Clopton, John, 171.

Charles V., emperor of Germany, 188.

65.

Clement V., pope, 118.

Chalton, Thomas, 169, 173.

170.

Claykyne, see Glaycon.

Chalsier de Corbolio, Hugo, 50.

Chapman, Thomas,

13.

Cirencester, 161.

Claydou, a skinner,

129.

Chalons,

194.

of,

202.

Clopton, Robert, 170.

Cobham, Aliuore, 171.

Cobham, Henry, 147.
Cobham, lord, 164, 166, 248, 249.
Coigneres, Willelmus de, 279.

Coinage, 153, 163, 176, 191, 207, 229,

235.

Charterhouse pulled down, 209.

Coke, Thomas, 176.

Cokkys, see Cox.

Chaumbyrleyne, William, 144.

Colane, Robert, 127.

23i>,

314

INDEX.

Colcelle,

Simond, 154.

Coventry, Henricus de, enters the order, 15.

Colecestria, Oliverus de, 289.

Coventry, Henry, 148, 149.

Coventry, John, 166.

Colison, David, 135.

Coventry, Vincentius de, enters the order,

Colchester, Franciscans of, 284, 285,289.

Collet,

Henry, 178, 180, 181.

15.

Colpeper, 204, 248.

Colvile, Willelmus de, senior,

inducesAdam

comes
of Exeter to enter the order, 16
with Haymo de Faversham into p]ngland,
;

murdered

25; his
Cathedral ib.
Colwvche, Eobert, 178.
sister

in Chichester

Coly, Thomas,

150.

Colyne, William, 151.

Combraerton, William, 150.

Combys, William, 171.

Compys, Thomas, 150.
Conde, Heghe Rys de, 164.
Condicy, Geoffrey, 151.

Condyghte, Remond, 151.

ConstabuUe, sir Robert, 198, 200, 201.
Constantyne, Richard, 152.
Constantyne, William, 176.
Convocation, 247, 254.

Cony, Michael, 147.

Conysby, William, 201.
Coper, John, 233.
sir

WilHam,

186, 187.

Corbet, sheriff of Essex, 243.

Cordwayner, Gerard, 147.

Corn, dearth

of,

Cox, Laurentius, 20.

Craker, Thomas, 204.

Crannoth, friar

David, vicar of pro\nnce

of Scotland, 133.

Cressewell, Henry, 293.

Crethtone, William, rector of Uuc, 129.

Crithton, 140.

Crome, Dr. Edward, 210.

Cromer, 173.
Cromer, William, 162, 1C4, 165, 167.
Cromwell, Thomas, earl of Essex, 203.
Croppe, Simon, 151.
Crosby, John, 177.

Condieu, John, 152.

Conduyt, Eoger, 153.

Copynger,

Coverdale, Miles, bishop of Exeter, 219.

Cox, doctor, 244.

prices of, &c., 151, 153, 156,

Croydon, John, 154.

Croydon, Richard, 155.
Cruce, Fr. Robertus de, provincial minister
of the English Franciscans, his
seal, 61.

Crutched Friars, 1 99, 200.

Crycherche (Creechurch), 221.
Culewrth, J. de. Prior of Westminster, 56.
Culon, Andrew, 135.
Cumbyrton, Henry, 152.
Curtes, Robert, 215.
Curtis, alderman, 239.

Curttys, Thomas, 212.

161, 170, 179, 191.

Cornehylle, Henry, 143.
Cornehylle, Robert, 147, 148.
Cornehylle, Stephen, 149.

D.

Cornewaleys, Thomas, 156.

Comhill,

Dabernon, John, 295.

9.

Coinhill, church of St. Peter, 10.

Cornhulle, Jocius de, clerk and friar, 14.

Cortes, John, 205.

Cortese de Turre, Nicolaus, pubHc notary,

Danyelle, William, 178.

45.

Cote, Henry, 180.

Cottes, .John, 198.

Cotton,

Dacres, lord, 204.

Daker, Ranulphus de, 287.
Dalyng, John, 151.
Danyelle, 259.

Waher,

Coventrv: 190.

104.

Darby, John, 172.

Darcy, Henr}-, 152, 153.

Dar

y, lord, 198,

Darrelle, 259.

200, 201,

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INDEX.
Daukus, William, 181.
Daunce, William, 194.

Dorset, Robert, 144.

David, king of Scotland, 154.

Dostley, Simond, 155.

Davolz, 127.

Dover, 157, 166, 169.

Downe, John, 168.
Dowsse, John, 187.
Drope, Robert, 177, 178.

Degmonde,

Dorset, marquis

Egmont.

sec

Delvergaddar (Darval Gadarn), 201.

De Marcy, Baitylmew, 153.

Drum,

Dcna, Thomas de, 50.

Dene, carl of, 155, 156.
Deneby, Johannes de, clericus, 34.
Denmark, king and queen of, 189.
Denney, Minoritcsses of, 280, 281.

Dennham,
Derby, Henry carl of (Henry IV.),
Derby, Mary countess of, 159.

159, IGO.

sir

Edward, 159.

earl of, 205.

Despenser, Henry
Despenser,

sir

le,

297.

Thomas

Ic,

Dunstabulle, John, 150.

297.

Durant, Robert, 143.

Deuke, Eoger, 143.

Devonieusis, Ricardus, goes to Oxford, 9

then to Northampton

Devonshire, earl

Dudley, 187.
Dudley, sir Ambrose, 243, 248.
Dudley, sir Andrew, 243, 245.
Dudley, lord Guilford, 24
245, 250.
Dudley, sir Hcnr}-, 243, 248.
Dudley, sir Robert, 243.
Dudley, lord Robert, 248.
Duflfous, John, 168.
Duke, Nicolas, 143.
Duke, Robert, 143.
Dundee, 136.

Dere, AVilliam, 173.

Desmond,

129.

J ,

William, 197.

Derkengtou,

of, 160.

of,

9.

Duresme, William, 148.

Dureson, William, 148.

Durham, battle of, 154.

Durham, bishop of, 174, 235, 237,

250.

Dcwke, Roger, 147.

Dewke, Thomas, 163.

Durham

244.

place, 255.

Durysonc, Thomas, 147.

Dyke, Hugh, 170.
Dyngle, 202.

Deynes, John, 155.

Dieppe, 170.

Dikeman, William, 155.

Disputations at St. Paul's, 247

at Oxford,

251.

Ditch from Newgate to Aldersgate

filled

up,

E.

239.

Dobbys, Richard, 205, 233.

Docke, Peter, 145.
Dockett, John, 187.
Dodmer, Ralph, 193.

Dodmer, Richard,

Earthquakes, 153, 173, 231.

Easter, observance

8, 9, 15, 37, 144,

in

Thomas de, in London, 19.

Edgecote field, battle of, 177.
Edinburgh castle taken, 150.
Edinburgh, Franciscan convent at, 124,
Ecclestou,

London, &c.,

72, 193, 197, 200, 208,

Doncanncn, baron of, 205.

Dooelde, Thomas, 154.

Dormer, Michael,

128, 131, 133, 135, 139.

Edmonton, Walter,

Edmund, abbot

209, 254.

Dorchester, Franciscans

of,

193, 204.

236.

15.

190, 216.

Doe, Stephen, 148.

Dogete, Walter, 157.
Domer, see Dormer.
Dominicans, their church

of,

Eboraco, Willehnus dc; enters the order,

of

147.

Bury

269.

266.

Edward L, 149, 151, 271.

Edward IL, 151, 152.
EdAvard

III., rei^^n of,

152.

St.

Edmunds,

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Edward
Edward
Edward

INDEX.
IV., reign of, 175.

Exeter, duke

V., 265.

Exeter, Franciscans

VI., reign of, &c., 201, 213.

Exeter,

of,

160, 168.

289.

of,

Henry marquis

of,

202.

Edwarde, William, 174, 177.

Exeter, Hospital of St. John, 290.

Egerton, 204.

Exeter, lepers' hospital outside, 291.

Egidius, Friar, 77.

Exmew, a Carthusian,
Exmew, Thomas, 186,

Egmout, count, 248.

Egremont, lord, 174.
Elderke,

sir

Adam

Exonia,

Elgin, Franciscan convent at, 125, 128.

Eya, Johannes de, 34.

Eyer, Simond, 169.

Elias, Roger, 159.

Eylonde, Ralph, 145.

Elizabeth, queen of

188.

de, 15.

Exton, Nicolas, 157, 158.

Ealph, 199.

Eleymer, Lawrence, 186.

Elizabeth, queen of

197.

Edward IV., 176.

Henry VII., 185.

Elizabeth, princess,

240, 241,

195,

24-3,

F.

250.

Elphinston, 135.

Fabiaan, Robert, 181.

Elphinston, William, rector of Clat, 132.

Facnam,

Elphinstone, Frater Jacobus, 139.

Fanoppe,

Elsing spital, 194, 254.

Ely, bishops of, 183, 231, 234, 258

Feckcnham.

see

lord, 172.

Fare, John, 202.

;

their

palace, 166, 212.

Far3-ngdon, Nicholas, 151, 152.

Faryngton, William, 149.

Ely, sir Benet, 161.

Ely, John, 144.

Fauconbridge, the bastard, 177.

Faukener, Thomas, 162.

Ely, Robert, 152.

Faversham, IJa3mo

Elyas, a novice, 19.

de, a priest

and famous

preacher, enters the order at St. Denis,

Elyland, Petrus de, 18.

23

Ely land, Ralph, 146.

Emott, William, 161.

reader at Tours, Bologna, and Padua,

Empson, Richard,

24
24

187.

English (Ynglyche), Michael, 189.

Englonde, William, 145.

famous for preaching,

custos

arrival in

England, 25.

Feldynge, Geoffrey, 172.

Fcnche,

sir

Roger, 173.

Fenkelle, John, 180.

Ferres, sir Ralph, 157.

Feryby, 161.
Feston,

of, see

Cromwell.

Hugh,

158.

Fewalter, lord, 181.

Estefelde, William, 167, 168, 170.

Eugenius, pope, 81.

Fitzalyne, Richard, 143.

Everard, Alyn, 166.

Fitz-Alyue, Roger, 145.

Evil May-day, 187, 192.

Fitz-Alys, Martyue, 145.

Ewylle, Richard, 148.

Fitzgarard,

Exeter, bishop

of,

219.

Exeter, church of St. Stephen, 290.

at Paris,

appears against the general Helias,

Fever, Ralph, 149.

22.

Essex, carl

ib.

Fenrotter, Robert, 187.

Helyas, a novice, appears to him at

Northampton, 19

virtues,

Felde, John, 174.

Friars, 36, 42, 43, 45.

fr.

his

Feckenham, doctor, 252.

Ermery, Walter, 144.

Erroll, William Hey earl of, 123.
Esculo, Jacobus de, proctor of the Grey
Esseby, William de, warden at Oxford, 9

Finlater, 129.

Edmond,

145.

Fitzgarrard,

sir

H, [Oliver], 199.

Fitzgarrard,

sir

James, 199.

INDEX.
Franciscan convents: at

Fitzgarrard, sir John, 199.

sir

Pitzgarrard,

Thomas

Fitzgarrard,

sir

Edmunds, 267-275

lord, 199.

145.

tor of the friars, afterwards entered the

order, 18, 145.

148.

Elgin, 125, 128

Exeter, 289

Nottingham, 279 (wo/e), 282, 292 OxRichmond,

37, 265, 279 \note)
Yorks.,295 St. Andrews, 126, 131, 135,
136
Sarum, 279 (note) Shrewsbury,
279 (note)
Southampton, 182 Stafford, 293 Stamford, 297 Stirling, 135
Waterbeach (Minoritesses), 280, 281
;

Fitz-William, Martyn, 147.

Fitz-William, William, 18G.

181.

William, 131.

Winchelsey, 60, 62
Worcester, 265, 266

Flescher, John, 125.

Winchester, 265

York, 287.

Flodden Field, 135.

Frauke, Edmond, 180.

Florens, Peter, 202.

Franke, Peter, 202.

II., emperor of Germany, 28.
Frensh, John, 157, 159.
Frestlynge, Bartholomew, 154,

Fonteverard, 144.
Forbes, John of Peslego, 129.

Frethe, 195.

Forrest, friar John, 190, 201.

Friars Carmelites, 146.

Forsham, Roger, 153.

Friars Preachers, see Dominicans.

Foskew (Fortescue),

Frowyke, Henricus

202.

Foster, Stephen, 171, 174.

of,

de, a benefactor to the

friars, 18.

Foster, Walter, 154.

ard

Frowyke, Henry, 149, 168, 170.

Frowyke, Laurence, 147, 148.

IGl.

second wife of Rich-

Frudus, 204.

Frances, 189.

Fulham, Adam, 150.

Fulham, Benet, 152.

Frances, John, 158, 161.

Furnes, William, 151.

Frances, Simond, 152, 153, 154.

Franciscans, beginning of oider in Eng-

Fyngry, Henry, 150.

Fysched, John, 156.

II.,

159.

land, 145

arrival of, in

Frederick

Forman, William, 202.

Former, WiUiam, 196.

Framyngham, William,

Flemynge, Robert, 175.

France, Isabella

Greenwich, 190,257;
Lichfield, 60, 62
London, 12, 279
Newcastle, 182
Northampton, 283
;

ford,

Fitzwilliam, 248.

friar

Gloucester, 288

Fitz-Thomas, Henry, 148.

Fleming,

135, 139

Thomas,

Fitz-Thoraas, Thomas, 148.

Flammoke,

Fitz-Piers (filius Petri), Jociiis, a benefac-

Fitz-liichard,

Fitz- Juyne, Constance, 145.

Thomas,

Caermarthen, 287,

292 Cambridge, 265 Canterbury, 182,

Den286 Colchester, 284, 285, 289
ney (Minoritesses), 280, 281
Dorchester, 266
Edinburgh, 124, 128, 131, 133,

Walter, 199.

Fitzlsabclle, William, 143.

Fitz-Xelle,

Aberdeen 125,
Bury St.

134; Ayr, 125; Bodmin, 295

Kichard, 199.

Eitzgarrard,

317

England, 146

their first provincial chapter in

London,

second provincial chapter of, 182

167
change colour of their habit, 184 annual reception of lord mayor, 186 annual feast given to lord mayor, 189
deaths in London convent of Minorihanged at Tyburn, 162 ; the
tesses, 187
;

G.

provincial of the, 175; visitation of, 191.

See also Grey Friars.

Gallowa}', Gallo^'ay, Alexander, rector of

Kinkell, 137, 138.

Gambolde, captain, 226.

Gardino, Simon de, a monk of Westminster, 56.

31N

INDEX,

Gardner, secretary to the bishop of Winchester, 206.

Gardner, Eichard, 177.

Garrard, parson of Honylane, 203.
Garrard, William, 237, 240, 242, 25S.

Garvys, Richard, 212.

Gates,

sir

Gates,

sir

Henry, 243, 245.

John, 243, 245.

Gaunt, tomb of John

Gcdney, John, 166.
Gerlond, John, 145.

257.

Grene, sir Henry, 160.

Gressam, John, 201.
Gressham, sir John, 215.
Gressham, Richard, 194, 195, 201.
Grey, lord Thomas, 165.

237.

of,

Gray, John, 123.

Gray, lord Leonard, 204, 222, 233, 234.
Gregory IX., pope, 17, 25, 27.
Gregory, William, 170, 173.
Greenwich, 183, 195, 211, 240.
Greenwich, convent of Observants at, 190,

Germany, emperor of, 16C.

Gemeys, John, 290.

Grey Friars of Loudon 190,

Gesones, John, 147, 148,

Gibson, Nicolas, 202.

200, 203.

Observants.

Grey Friars church, London, 189, 197,

Gilrwif, friar William, 140.

Glaycon (Claykyne), Bertram de, 155.

200, 208, 213, 215, 216, 237, 238.

Glesse, Walter, 149.

Grosse, Thomas, 149.

Glendower, Owen, 161.

Grove, Roger, 185.

Grucok, Henry, 293.

Gloucester, 152,257.
Gloucester, abbot and

191,- 193, 195,

See also Franciscans and

monks

of,

278.

Gloucester, duke of, 158, 159, 160, 168,

Guienne, 173.
Guildhall, louvres set up at, 181.

Gumion, Richard,

172, 178, 179.

165.

Gloucester, earl of, 148, 160.

G}Tidler, Robert, 156.

Gloucester, Franciscans

Gysoures, Henry, 152.

of,

288.

Gloucester, John, 154.

Gloucester, Richard, 150.

Gloucester, Robert, 164.

H.

Gobion, Richardus, knt., enters the order,

17.

Golde, parson of Aldermary, 196, 197.

Golde, 224.

Goldsmyth, Thomas le, 295.

Goner, Jordayn,147.
Goodchepp, Hamond, 151.
Goodcheppe, Jorden, 149.
Gooddard, Dr. William, provincial of Franciscans, 175.

Gordon, Adam, rector of Kiukell, 128.

Gordyn, Alexander, vicar of Manys, Dundee, 136.

Goslyne, Richard, 167.

Gosnalle, 23 S.

Govara,
de, 226 (jnargh}).
Grane, Nicolas, 153.

Grantham, John, 152.

Grave send, 157.
Gray, Friar Alexander, 123.

Hackington, Inclusa de,

8.

Hacknej, Richard, 152.

Haddon, sir Richard, 181, 186, 187.
Hadley, Johu, 156, 157, 159.
Halberchc, Wilham, 155.

Haldenam, Johannes
Halingburrj-,

Adam,

de, 59.

150.

Halkarston, Thomas, 140.

Hall, a servant of the king, 156.

HaltOD, Henry, 163.

Halys, Robert, 157.

Hamerton, sir Stephen, 200.

Hamond, John, 153.
Hamcot, Henry, 205, 218.
Hamdenale, Edmond, 154.

Hampton

Court, 210, 212, 233.

Hampton, William, 176.

Hamton, see Southampton,
Hamton, William, 177.

INDEX
Hansard, William, 153.

Edmond,

Ilurdello,

819

Ilerforde,

Humphry,

176.

Hcrlyonc, .lohn, 143.

145.

Ilardelle, T^alph, 147.

Hernc, John, 149.

Hardelle, Robert, 147.

Hardelle, William, 145.

Heuer, Walter, 149.

Hover, Thomas, 201.

Hardy, John, 192.

Hardynge, Robert, 178.

Hexham,

Harfleur, 165, 170.

Hibernia (Ybernia), Robertas de, 34.

Harford, Henry, 201.

Ilighgate, 217.

Harford, William, 150.

Hill,

Harman, Thomas,

Hill,

Ilcwett, William, 247.

battle of, 176.

priest, 266.

Rowland, 204, 226.

Hille, John, 252.

204,

Harper, 248, 249.

Thomas, 178,

Harpsfield, doctor, 254.

Ilille,

Harras, Ralph, 149.

Hispanus, Petras, guardian at Northamp-

Harris, John, 250.

ton, 9,

179, 180.

bis asceticism, ih.

and 28.

Haryet, William, 176.

Hispanus, Thomas, guardian of Franciscan

convent at Cambridge, 9, 17.

Hastings, lord, 243,

Hobylthorne,

Harvy, John, 150.

Haverhylle, Thomas, 144.

sir Henry, 205, 212.

Hodskyne, doctor (Hodgeskyune), 240.
Hog, Henry, 291.
Hog, Sarah, 291.

Hawardyne, 173.
Hawe, John, 183.

Holbethe, Hugh, 156.

Holdsrnes, Robert, 187.

Hawerelle, William, 143.

Hawes, Christopher, 185.

Holebrok, Ricardus de, 284, 285.

Holebrok, Rogerus de, 285.

Hayles, William, 170.

Holland, duke

Hede, Henry, 183.

Holland, Ralph, 168.

Holies, William, 192, 202.
Hokelwelle, Hamond, 151.

Hatfelde, Robert, 156.

Hatherle, John, 171.

Heghen, Matilda de la,

Hegman, John, 168.

290.

Heldon, John, 157.

in

the order, 24

Haymo, ib.^
Hemmysley, an Observant
Hemson, see Empson.

is

gi*eat

scan-

opposed by

Henricus,

friar,

a Lombard,

friar,

III., 17, 19, 145, 146, 271.

Hemy

IV., 159, 161.

Henry
Henry
Henry
Henry

V., reign

of,

164.

of,

VII., reign

211.

9.

Henry

VI., reign

167

imprisoned, 176.

of, 179.

VlII., reign of, 181, 187.

Henry, duke of Lancaster, 155.

Hereford, dean of, 270.
Herberd, 172.
Herbert,

sir

Richard, 177.

Heretics burnt, 161, 194, 195,202,257, 258,

259.

166.

Holyloude, John, 145.

Helyas, minister-general, causes

dals

of,

Homes, Chyffe, 227 (margin).

Honorius III., pope, 65.
Home, Alderman, 173.
Home, John, 149.

Home, Gyllys, 203.

Home, Robert, 172.
Home, William, 178,

180, 203.

Horwolde, Thomas, 152.

Hospitale sacerdotum, at Canterbury, 19.
Howell, friar John, 65.
Iluddeswell, Willelmus de, 296.
Hugo, guardian of Franciscan convent,
London, 8.

Hugo,

friar, 76.

Hulyn, William, 173, 175.

Hungerford, lady Alice (Agnes), 189.
Hungerford, lord Walter, 203.
Ilunteyne, John, 152.

320

INDEX.

Huntingdon, earl

of, 161, 171,

243, 249.

Huntley, Thomas, 202.

Jerome, William, vicar of Stepney, 203.

Jervaux, abbot of, 200,

Hurle, Ricardus de, 34.

Husbond, John, 152.
Hussey, lord, 198, 200, 201.

Jesay, Nicolas, 147.

Huyn, Walter,

Jocius

Jesclyn, Ralph, 175.

"

Jews, the, ordered out of England, 143.

148.

Hyde, William, 161.

Hyltoste, John, 155.
Hynde, Augustjnie, 229.
Hynde, John, 157, 158, 1G2.

Fitz Piers.

filius Petri, see

Johannes Clericus, one of the

first

con-

verts, 14.

John, reign of, 144.

Johnsone, John, 147.
Jones,

friar

Thomas, 265.

Jonsoi>, 186.

the Dominicans

Jordanus, master of
r

saying of

Hay mo,

first

of the English mission, arrives at

at

his

10

advice to friar

23.

Joseph, John, chaplain to archbishop of

lugeAvrd, Richardus de, one of the

Joseffe, Michael, 181.

Infirmaria, Willelmus de, 34.

riars

21

Jorke, see Yorke.

Horn, Thomas, 178.

Images pulled down, 214, 215.

Oxford, 9

his,

Northampton, 9

vicar to

Agnellus, 10.

Canterbury, 223.

Josue, Jokelle, 143.

Joymer, Willelmus, builds a chapel for the

friars at London, 18, 146, 147.

Ingram, Laurentius, 283.

Judde, Andrew, 229.

Innerpeffer, Strathearu, 138.

Jugde Andrew, 207.

Innocent IV., pope 104.

Ireland, duke of, 158.

Irelond (Yrlonde), George, 175.

Irolde,

Thomas,

K.

155.

Isabella,

queen of King Richard

Isabelle,

William, .180.

Iwun, Johannes, a benefactor

II.,

161.

to the friars,

Katharine (Howard), queen, 204.

Katharine, queen of Henry V., 167, l"0.
Katharine of Aragon, 183, 187, 195.
Kebelle, Henry, 184, 187.

18.

Kelby, Walterus de, 297.

Kerne, John, 188.

Kenhame, Derby, 203.

J.

James, Bartholomew, 176.

Kennedy, Jacobus, 138.

Kenner, John, 236.
Kent, earl of, 161, 163, 164.

James II., of Scotland, 133.

James IV., of Scotland, 135.

Kent, Joan
Bucher.

James, Nicolas, 167.

Jamissone, friar Francis, 133.
Jane (Seymour), queen, 201, 213.
Jane, queen (Lady Jane Grey), 240, 248,

Kerby, John, 186.

250.

Kildare, earl

otherwise Joan Bucher, see

of, 197.

Kingston, Kent, 250.

Kingston-on-Thames, 160, 172, 249.

Kinkell, 128, 137, 138.

Jarforde, James, 187, 188.

Knesworthe, Thomas, 181.

Jenny ns,

Kuowlles,

Nicolas, 1S9.

Jennyns, Stephen, 182, 186.

sir

Robert, 156, 163.

KnowUes, Thomas, 159, 161.

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INDEX.
Knyghttote, William, 157.

Legrasse, Stephen, 145.

Kockraille, Carmarthen, 288.

Legry, Thomas, 154.

Kyllyngbury, Richard, 154, see Kyslingbury.

Kyme, Anne,

see

Leis, John, 124.

Askew.

Le Mercer, Robert, 19.

Le Muliner, Richard, 19.

Kynge, 250.
Kyngton, John, 153.

Kyrkam,

Leney, John, 158.

Dr., 228.

Kyslingbury, Richard, 153,

Kytson,

Le Hunt, William, 283.

Leicester, 194.

sir

1.54.

Thomas, 196.

Le Noreys, Walter, notary

public, 33.

Lenton, Johannes de, 283.

Le Paumer, John,

283.

Lescrop, Richard, 296.

Lesle, friar William, 131.

L.

Le Tanur,

Lacere, Richard, 154.

Lacton, Willelmus de, public notary, 35.

Lambert, see Nicolas,

Lambert, John, 175, 233.

Lamberte, Nicholas, 191, 192.

Lamberte, Thomas, 146.

Lancaster, duchess

Vilers,

Hugo, 283.

Lewson, Nicolas, 197.

Lewyntown, Elizabeth of Suthwan,
Leydes,

friar

Leydes, friar Walter, 136.

159, 160, 296.

of, 155.

Lichfield, convent of Minorites at, 60, 62.

Lincoln, bishop

of,

247, 258,

Lancfare, Salmon, 150.

Lincoln, dean

Landeford, Roger de, 283.

Lincoln, earl

Lane, John, 163.

Lindesay, Jacobus, archdeacon

Lane, Jordanus de

la,

Langedon, Willelmus

291.
de, clericus, proctor

for prior, &c., of Westminster, 58.

of,

270.

of, 180.

Llanthony, prior

of,

288.

Lassellys, John, 211.

Locutorio, Gregorius de, 34.

Latimer, William, parson of Saint Laurence,

Lollards, 169.

Pountney, 223.
Lauder, sir Alexander, 131.

Lollards Tower, 260.

sir

Edmund

Launde, prior of, 162.

Launde, Robert, 156.
Laxton, William, 203.
Laygton, 217.
Leans, Johannes de, canon of Wengham,
42.

Leche, friar Walter, 130.

Lee, Richard, 174, 175, 177.

Le Flammang, Hugo, 283.

Le Flammang, John, 283.
Le Flammang, Robert, 283.
Leger, Thomas, 153.

7644.

Aber-

Little Curchelle, 266, 267.

Large, Robert, 168, 170.

(duke of York), 157.

of

deen, 139.

Locke, John, 175.

Locke, William, 218.

Langley,

137.

John, 136.

Leyer, William, 150.

LambjTie, John, 151.

of,

Le

Lewis, the dauphiu of France, 145, 146.

Ladkyn, Adam, 151.

Lancaster, duke

Robert, 283.

Leuvetot, Gulielmus, 50.

Johannes

Londiniis,

de,

Dominican

friar, 46.

London, bishop

of, 174, 195, 215, 223, 224,

225, 226, 227, 228, 233, 236, 237, 238,

240,243,244,246, 247,251, 253, 256,

257, 258.

London, Franciscans of, 12, 279.

London, the city ransomed 159 walls
;

paired, 178

Londouia,
wards a

re-

Philippus

de,

a priest, after-

friar, 14, 22.

Londonia, Willelmus de, one of the

converts, 13.

first

INDEX.

322
Longe, John, 193.

March,

Longeton, Simon, archdeacon of Canter-

Marchalle, Robert,

Marchel,

bury, 18.

Lothon,

friar

John, 136.

Louthe, William, 162.

Lovell, lord, 180.

Lowyne, Thomas, 201.

Adam,

70.

Alexander, 132.

friar

Marenar, Hugh, 1 53,

Margaret of Anjou, (queen of Henry VI.),
172c

LowkjTigc, John, 153, 155.

Lucas,

earl of, 152.

Margai;:et,

daughter

lady

of

153.

Ludlow, armies at, 175.

Ludlow, 184.
Lulenham, Kalph, 164.
Lumley, George, 200.
Lumley, lord, 200.
Lusk^Tie, John, 155.
Lutgereshale, Willelmus de, locum tenens
of warden of Franciscans, London, 56.
Luther, Martin, 192.
Lyelle, 232.

Margaret, duchess of Burgundy, 176, 178,

Margaret, princess, 184, 185.
^fargaret, queen of

James

II.

Mariet,

mayor

Marisco,
16

at

of London, 178.

Adam

de,

becomes a Grey

Markes, 198.
Marlow, Richard, 161, 163, 166.
Marrow, William, 172, 174.

Lynde, John, 148.

Mary,

LjTige, John, 169.

princess, (daughter to

Henry VII.),

186.

Lynne, Ralph, 154.

Lynton, Robert, 148.
Lyon, John, 229, 253.

Mary,

princess, 229.

:Mary, queen, reign

of,

240, 241, 242, 243.

Mary, queen of Scotland, (1463), 264.

Mary, Simon, 147.

Lyons, Richard, 156.

Lysar, Richard, 152.

Masarrar, William, 149.

Lythtone, friar George, 128.

Mathew, John, 179, 180.

Lytley, John, 154.

Mattessey, John, 202.

friar

Friar,

Worcester, 17.

Lyncolne, John, 151.

Lyncon, 188.

of Scotland,

133.

Marschel, friar William, 136.

Martin V., pope, 166.
Martyn, John, 195.
Martyn, William, 179.

Lyle, Robert, 152.

Lytstar,

Eleanor,

countess of Cumberland, 241.

John,

formerly Minister

Provincial, 124.

Matthseus,

Friars

of

cardinal

arbitrator

of

dispute

Lawrence,
between Grey

St.

and monks of Westminster, 36,

37, 43, 46, 49, 51, 54,

M.
Magfelde, Gilbert, 159.
Maghfelde, Edward, 159.
Maidstone, 173, 208.
Maitland, Johannes suh decamisBoscensis,

Maudlyne, 161.

May, William, dean

Maynerd, John, 237.
Meaux, 167.
Mechlek, 136.

Memer, Johannes,

130.

of St. Paul's, 216,

219, 230, 238.

59.

See Serle.

Makerelle, bishop, 199.

Mercer, Serle, 145.

:Malery, William, 149.

Malpas, Philip, 170.

Mercy, Serle, 146. See Serle.

Merschton, 294.
Merser, friar Alexander, 138.

Mantelle, 204.

Merser, Robert of Innerpeffer, 138.

Many,

Mert, Egidius de, 17.

Alalpas, 173.

124.

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INDEX.

Myrsyne, Ihomas, 188.

Myrton, Thomas, archdeacon cf AberdccQ,

Merworthc, Simon, 151.

Mothlcilz, Mechlek, 126, 136.

135.

Mettas, James, 188.

Mysterworthe, John, 156.

Meyour, John, 148.

Michael the goldsmith, 283.
Midylton-stone (near Oxford), 236.
Millers, Willehnus de, 279.

General

Minister

Edward

of

Franciscans,

N.

(24

III.), 280.

Minoritesses, 187, 264, 280, 281.

Natatius, 24.

Miracle play, 164.

Neapoli, Gregorius de, minister

Misericorde

friar

Henricus, warden

of

ciscans in France, 23

Mockynge, John, 152.

Nedam, Richard,
Nedeham, 172.

Modford, John, 155.

Neelle, John, 167.

Franciscian convent, Lincoln,

INIolton,

9.

sir

W.

de,

dean of

Neville, sir

Newark,

Newloud, Andrew,

St. Faul'.^, 38,

of,

]\[urray,

Muschamd, Thomas,

in

friar,

London,

warden of the Franciscans

61, 62.

Nicolas, otherwise Lambert, burned, 202.

NicoUes, John,

64.

Nitygate, 197.
Nlordon, Richard, 171.

Noreys, Johannes, 34.

Norfolk, duchess of, 160.
of Westmin-

Norfolk, duke

of, 160, 172, 193,

211, 212,

244, 248, 250.

162.

176.

Normandy, 165.
Normandy, loss of, 144.
Normannus, Ricardus, his

John, 131.

182.

145.

Norhacton, John, 148.

Norlonde, Thomas, 179.
Norman, John, 147, 171.

ster, 56.

Mounpilleres, Robert, 148.

Mowbray, lord, 160,

Munde, John, 189.

at,

Newporte, William, 156.

Newton, Thomas, 158, 159.
Nexsted, Thomas 170.
Nicholas IV., pope, 37, 42, 46, 47, 48,
49, 51,53, 81, 118.
Nicholas,

175.

monk

80.

Newhall, 243.

Mordon, Gilbert, 152.

Mordon, Simon, 155.
Mordon, 'Walter, 153.
More, John, 157.
More, Ralph, 149.
More, sir Thomas, 197.
More, William, 158, 159.
Morfyne, Thomas, 187.
Mortemer, sir Thomas, 160.

Morton, Radulphus de,

Edward, 202.

battle of,

Newcastle, Observants

39, 44, 46, 51, 54.

Mortimer, 167, 168.

Mortimer's cross, battle

175.

Nevelyne, Peter, 143.

Simon, 181.

Monde, John, 187.

Monmothe, Humphrey, 198.
Monox, George, 187, 189.
Montacute, lord Henry, 202.
Montagu, marquis, 177.
Montague, sir Edward, 243.
Monteforti,

of Fran-

deposed, 24.

Nele, Walter, 153.

Ilogerus de, 291.

]Momforde,

saying, 15.

Henry, 198.

Mychelle, John, 165, 170.

Norri;^,

Myddylton, 172.
Mydylton, John, 173.
Mylboruc, John, 187, 188.
Myhede, William, 168.

Northale, John, 153.

Northampton,
Northampton,
Northampton,

9, 19.

battle of, 175.

earl of, 231.

324

INDEX.

Northampton, Franciscans of, 283.

Northampton, marquis of, 222, 243, 245.
Northamton, John, 148, 156, 157.
Northumberland, duke of, 233, 241, 242,

P.

245.

Northumberland, earl

of,

163, 180.

Paddesley, John, 169.

Norton, .Tohn, 250.

Norton, William, 163.

Pafford,

Thomas, 148.

Paget, Robert, 198.

Norwelde, John, 156.

Norwich, 222.
Norwich, bishop of, 165, 183.
Notte, John, 154.

Pakengton, Robert, 198.

Palmer, Roger, 151.
Palmer, sir Thomas, 243, 245.
Pardon churchyard, 200
the
;

Nottingham, Franciscans

of,

279

(noti:)^

282, 292.

cloister de-

stroyed, 219.

Pares, Richard, 149.

Novaria de, see Bonipartus de N.

Novo Mercato, friar Robertus de, 46.
Nynes, Nicolas, 184.

Pargeter, Thomas, 188, 194.

Paris, 155, 169.

Parker, William, 159.

Parnes, John, 169.
Partreche, Nicolas, 188.

Partryge,

o.

sir

Miles, 235.

Parys, Simon, 150.

Observant

182,197,211.

friars,

See also

Observants, visitation of,

cuted, 196, 197

their

190

two exe-

Greenwich con-

OflFeley,

158.

ster, 33, 35, 40, 47, 56.

John, 247.

Pecock, bishop Reginald, 174.

Ogilby, William, 126.

Peke, Thomas, 164.

Pekecoke, Stephen, 191, 195.
Pekerelle, doctor James, 200.

Olgrave, Thomas, 176.

OUver, doctor, 232.

Ohiey, John, 169.
O'Neil, earl of Tyrone, 205.

Organ, John, 158.

Orleans, 168.
Orleans, duke

of,

of,

176.
of, 37,

177,

179,

of

233,

Black
242,

Pembroke, Maria de Sancto Paulo, countess

Oxford, 9, 19, 21, 146, 161, 251.

Oxford, Dominicans of, 37.
of,

earl of,

prior

249.

Ormesby, Arthur, 164.

Ormonde, sir John, 158.
Orvieto, see Urbs Vetus.
Otley, Thomas, 168.
Oxenford, John, 152, 153.

Oxford, earl

Pekerynge, 189.
Pekerynge, Dr. John,
Friars in York, 200.

Pembroke,

164.

Oxford, Franciscans

John, 171.

Peckam, 259.
Peckham, archbishop John, his mandate
exto official of bishop of London, 31
communicates the monks of Westmin;

vent restored, 257.

Ocheman, John,

Patersone, Joneta, 131.

Pattesle,

Franciscans and Grey Friars.

265, 279 {note).

280.

Pemerton, Hugh, 180, 181.

Penne, John, 164.
Perche, John, 154, 155.
Percivalle, John, 180, 182.
Percy, Henry, 162.
Percy,

sir

Thomas,

Peres, Robert, 151.

Pernevs, John, 167.

Pers, a priest, 169.

162, 200.

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INDEX.
Tershore, Alexander de, a

monk

of

West-

Preston, John, 152.

Pride, Kicardus of Shrewsbury, a benefac-

minster, 36, 42, 43, 45.

Fershore, William do, an apostate from the

tor to the friars, 19.

Minorites, 31,37,40, 44,47, 49,51,56,

Prussia, order of our

59.

Pryors, John, 151.

Persora, Persoura, &c.

See de Pershore.

friar

Jacobus, minister provin-

Scotland, 123.

cial in

143.

Pulteney, John, 152, 153.

Purches, William, 181, 182.

Puttleye,

Petrus (de Tewksburia),

England,

in,

Pumfert, Henry, 163.

Peslego, 129.
Peti^icreu,

Lady

fifth

minister in

Ranulphus

de, 288.

Pycard, Richard, 148.

Philip, a priest, 14.

Pyelle, John, 156.

Pyke, Nicolas, 152.
Pykeman, Andrew, 156.

Philpote, John, 156.

Pylle, 162.

Philyp, Mathew, 176.

Pynson, Nicolas, 195.

10.

Phelypp, Mathew, 173.

Phylpot, Clement, 203.

Phylpot,

sir

John, 165.

Q.

Picardy, 169.
Pickarde, Henry, 154.

Quhitfurd, friar John, 130.

Pigett, Nicolas, 151.

Pius

pope, 264.

II.,

Pivelesdene,

Thomas

de, 50.

Pleshy (Plasshe) in Essex, 161.

Plete, Walton, 149.

R.
Radyngton, Baldwin, 159.
Rainham, 172.

Piommer, John, 175.

Plymouth, 183.

Rampson,

Poderylle, Raynold, 151.

Ratcleffe, sir Robert, 181.

Poitou, 145.

Ravenspur, 159.

Pole, cardinal, 255, 256.

Pole,

Edmund

sir

de

Pole, Michael de

la,

184, 186.

la, earl

of Suffolk, 157,

158.

Pole, Richard de

la,

191.

Pontoise, 167.

Poplar, 172.

Porch

Porter,

Hugh,

.,

143.

150.

Porter, Walter, 149.

Portsmouth, 145, 165, 185.

Portugal, prince

of,

168.

Pountfret, William, 153.

sir

Thomas,

163.

Ravyne, Andrew, of Uavolz,

Rawsou, Richard, 178.

127.

Raynolde, Richard, 195.

Rayston, doctor, 256.
Reading, council of, 168.
Rede, an alderman, 208.
Rede, Bartholomew, 182, 184.
Rede, doctor, 232.
Rediuges, Johannes de, abbot of Oseney,
enters the order, 17.

Redy,

friar

Alexander, 127.

Regis de Carcassona, Berengarius, chaplain to pope Nicholas IV., 42, 45.

Powelle, Dr., 203.

Reiuery, Richard, 143.

Powke, Thomas, 162.

Powny, see Poynet.

Religious houses suppressed in London, 202.

Remis, Radulphus

de, sentb}'

Poynes, 177.
Poynet, John, bishop of Winchester, 240.
Prague, Lollards of, 169.

Remyngton, John, 180.

Remyugton, William, 183.

Prest, John, 195.

Renger, Richard, 146.

into Greece, 24.

Gregory IX.

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INDEX.

Eenger, Robert, 147.

Rotte, John, 157.

Kenscrofte, William, 190.

Rotjuge, Richard, 152.

Rouen, 144, 167, 170.

Reresby, Henricus de, vicar of the warden

Rouman, Thomas,
Row, 138.

of Oxford, 27.
Rest, John, 187,

ReveUe, Robert, 180, 181.

Reygate, Willelmus de, 295.
Reynere, John, 174.
Rej-n well, John, 164.
Richard, chancellor of court

Riche,

augmentations 199

England, 215.
Richard I., 143.
Richard II., reign
Richard III., 265.

150.

Royston, see Rayston.

Rudsone, John, 189, 193
Rnfus, Richardus, a friar, celebrated at Oxford and at Paris, 1 7 goes to Rome
with Haymo of Faversham, 25.
Rusham, Robert, 150.
;

of

lord chancellor of

Russell, lord, 222.

Russelle, Elias, 150.

of,

156.

Russelle, Walter, 147.

Rye, 231.

Richard, ^Vlexandcr, 124.

Richard, friar John, 134.

s.

Richard, William Anson, 148.

Richmond, 183, 184, 186, 201, 205, 241.

Richmond, earl of (Henry VII.), 179.
Richmond, Honour of, 296.
Richmond, Yorkshire, Franciscans of,
295.

Sadler, Henry, 204.

Sagiber,

Thomas

de,

monk

of Worcester,

42.
St.

Abba (Ebba),

St.

Albans, archdeacon

9.
of, 40.

Ricius, see Berardi, A.

St. Albans,

Rivers, lord, 177.

St.

Albans, second

Roche, William, 190, 203.

Rochester, bishop of, 192,194, 197, 227,
237, 240, 249, 251,257, 258.
Rochford, lady, 204.
Rochford, lord, 198.

St.

Andrews, bishop of, 206.

Andrews, Franciscan convent

St.

Anne's, -VIdersgate, burnt, 218.

St.

Rockesle, Robert, 150.

St. Asse, see St.

Rockesley, Gregory, 149.

St.

Asaph, bishop of, 190, 193.

Asaph.
Bonaventura, 95.

St.

174.

first battle,

battle, 1 75.

at, 126,

131, 135, 136.

Rockesley, John, 153.

St. Botolph's,

Roger, priest and necromancer, 171.

St. Brides,

Rogeres, John, 256.

St. Clere,

Rogers, 257.

St. David's,

Roke, Thomas, 174.

St. Ebbe's,

Aldersgate, 195.

London, 214.

Bennet, 146.
bishop

of,

Oxford,

9.

218.

Ebrulphus (Ediiilphus), abbot

Rokkesley, Robert, 148.

St.

RoUes, Robert, 149.

St. Francis, 20, 26, 27, 28, 65.

Rome,

St. Giles, in partes transmarinas, 12.

265.

Romford, 221.

St. Giles, Cripplegate, burnt, 209.

Romney,

St. Giles,

battle of, 154.

Roode, Henry, 166.

Rosa, Radulphus de, a favourite preacher
with Henry III., 26.

St.

James

St.

Northampton,

of,

294.

9.

in the Fields, 216.

Ros, lady Beatrice, 263.

Rose. John, 168.

St.

John, lord, 215.

John's Priory, Clerkenwell, 165, 230.
Lawrence, cardinal of. See Mattha?us.

St.

Magnus, 257.

Rosselle, 259.

St. Margaret's,

St.

Westminster, 257.

827

INDEX.
Martin's

St.

le

Salisbury, bishop of, 211.

Grand, 185.

Salisbury, countess of, 204.

Shambles, 210.

St. Martin's in the

St.

Mary Colcchurch, 223.

Mary Magdalen's, Eish
Mary Overy, 163.

St.

Nicholas in the Shambles, 21G, 218.

St.
St.

Salisbury, earl

Cathedral

161, 168.

Salmcronc {maryin), 226.

Street, 219.

Salopisburi, 19.
Salt, price of, 180.

St. Panl's, earl of, 169.

St. Panl's

of,

by lightning, 172.
weathercock blown down, 185.
body of Henry VII. brought to, 186.
steeple struck

processions from, 191, 210.

funeral dirges, 214.
visitation and removal of images, 214.
rood pulled down, 215.
service began in English, 215.

Sampson, John, 287.

Sancta Elena, Michael de, 147.
Sancto Albano, Reginaldus de, 42.
Sancto Edmundo, Fulco de, 150.
Sanctuary at the Grey Friars, 193.
Sandwich, 174.
Sandwych, Henricus de, 18.
Sandwyche, Randolph, 149.
Sandwyz, Simon de, enters the order,

processions forbidden, 217.

Saracens, 74.

charnel house removed, 218.

Sarum, Franciscans

sacrament taken down from high

altar,

Saulsbury,

sir

of,

279 (o/e).

John, 158.

Saunder, doctor, 243.

219.
cloister destroyed, 219.

Sautre, William, burned, 161.

masses abolished, 220.

Savoy, the, burned, 157.

Cranmer officiates at, 221.

Bonner officiates at, 223.

Scales, lord, 176.

Cardmaker's lectures, 216, 217, 224, 225.

altar

rectores chori put

Schand, Robert, rector of Alues, 132.

Scherar, Duncan, rector of Clat, 134.
Schyrl,

removed, 228.

de, 292.

Scory, [bishop] John, 227.

frays in church, &c., 229, 235.

Scot, Willelmus, 59.

down, 229.

grates at high altar closed up, &c., 230.

Scotland, queen

table removed, 232.

Scott,

the belfry, 235.

Scotte, John, 193.

organ no longer played, 237.

altars, chapels, and tombs taken down,

Scroppe,

new communion

service, 238.

altars restored, 246.

high mass

at, in

Mary's reign, 247.

processions on Sundays, 248.

of,

227, 233.

Thomas, 172,175.

Scrope, lord, 162, 165.

Sedbarre,

237.

first

sir

William, 160, 162.

Adam, abbot

Serle, Robert, 145, 146.

penance

Serle,

at,

254.

of Jervaux, 200.

Segewyke, 168.
Seman, Simond, 168.
Semer, see Seymour.
Sentsedon, James, 151.

Epistle mass, 250.

William, 162.

Sevenoaks, 173.

obsequies of queen of Spain, 258.

St. Peter's, Cornhill, 210.

Sevenoke, William, 164, 167.

St Sepulchre's, 256.

Seyford, Humfry, 178.

St.

Seymour, Thomas, 187, 192, 214,218,219.

Stephen's, Walbrook, 223.

Shaa,

Sakke, 157.

Salamon, Friar, warden of London, his

many afflictions,
Adam, 152.

denial and

Salesbery,

23.

Santenary, John, 150.

10,

1 1,

self-

12, 13.

Edmund,

179.

Shaa, John, 181, 183.

Shadworthe, John, 158.

ShaM^e,

Edmond,

178, 179.

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INDEX.
Stanes, Thomas, 150.

Sheen, 165, 18/.

Stanhope,

Sheffield, lord, 222.

Shelle, sir

Thomas,

sir

Michael, 235.

Stanlaw, 173.

CI

Shelley, John, 177.

Stanley, sir William, 181.

Shene Palace, 182, 183.

Sheryngton, John, l.'i9,
Shrewsbury, 160,

Stede, William, 183.

Shrewsbury, battle

Stepney, 172.

Stanton, 259.

Stephanus, frater, 263.

162.

of,

Shrewsbury, earl of, 171, 173, 242.

Shrewsbury, Franciscans of, 279, note.

Stewerd, John, 174.

Sidney, John, 172.

Stocker, John, 177, 178.

Simons, Ralph, 188.

Siou House, 213.

Stocker, William, 175, 179, 180.

Skevynton, John, 188.

Stodey, John, 154.

Skinner's

convent

at,

on Corpus Christi

Stodhaugh, Robertus de, 295.

Stokesley, Osbert, 148.

day, 217.
at,

Stone, John, 176.

Stonnappe, see Stanhope.

53.

Smet, Richard, 154.

Smythe, Richard, 180.

Symken,

Strang, friar John, 125.

Straw, Jack, 157,168.

176.

Strendropp, Gilbert, 154.

Somer, 203.
Somer, Henry, 181.
Somerset, countess
Somerset, duke

John, 251.

Strett,

Stroiford, Nicolas,

of, 164.

183, 214,216, 227,

of, 182,

50.

Strotford, William, 150.

Subbarbe, Richard, 153.

233, 234, 235.

Southfolke, Thomas, 150.

Suffolk, duchess of (princess

Southampton, 165, 186, 252, 253.

Southampton, earl of, 214.
Southampton, Observants at, 82.
Southwark, 160, 221.
Sowrchard, William, 148.
Spain, Philip II. of, 252

Suffolk,

duke

of,

Suffolk, earl of, see de la Pole.,

Suffolk, Katharine duchess of, 241.

Surrey, duke of, 160.

Surrey, earl of, 165, 166, 188, 212, 213.

Spicer, John, 146.

Spycer, Ralph, 147.

Swarte, Martiu, 180.

Stable, John, 156.

Swynford, Nicolas, 158.

Stafford, earl of, 162.

Symoud,

Spelman, Stephen, 162.

Spensar, James, 188, 192.

Mary), 196.

172, 198, 233, 249, 250.

Suthwan, 137.
Sutton, John, 164,171.
Swan, John, 180.
Swan,
mond, 152.
.

Nicolas, 292.

Stafford, Franciscans of, 293.

Stafford, sir

Humphry,

173.

Stafford, William, 173.

Stafforde of Soutwyke, 177.

T.

Staines, 162.

Stalbroke,

135.

Stocton, John, 176, 177.

procession

Sluyshaven, battle

Sniythe,

Stirling, Franciscan

Thomas,

176.

Talbot,

sir

Christopher, 171.

Stalkar, friar Patrick, 136.

Tame, James,

Stamford, battle

Tate, John, 176, 177, 180, 181.

of,

177.

Stamford, Franciscans

of,. 29 7.

Standon (Stando), William, 158, 159, 163.

155.

Tate, Robert, 178, 180.

Tatersale, Robert, 167.

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329

Tawnton, captain, 259.

Taxalia, friar Gerard de, 134.

u.

Taylor, John, 148.

Taylor, Marchant, 186.

line, 129

Taylor, Philip, 149.

Upton, 168.
Upton, Richard, 153.

Taylor, Kobert, 204.

Taylor, William, 174.

Tempest, Nicolas, 200.

Templars, destruction of order

Urban IV., pope, 272.

Urbs Vetus (Orvieto),
of, 1 .50.

42, 48, 53, 56.

Urke, John, 158.

[Tewkesburia], Petrus dc, 5th ministergeneral, 10.

Tewkesbury, battle of, 177.

Tholosane, John, 147.

Thomson,

friar

V.

John, 139.

Vachan, Meilerus, 287.

Throgmorton, 259.
Thorney, John, 153.
Thorngolde, John, 155.
Thorp, Northamptonshire, 283.
Thurston, John, 1 87.
Thurston, William, abbot of

Valencia, Willelmus de, 292.

Valiot, sir John, 161.

Valsterstone, Robert, 125.

Van,
Fountains,

200.

Vaus, Richard, 124.

Tomsone, Robert, 204.

Tottenham hill, 222.
Touraine, 187.
of, 169.

Tower-Hill, abbey

Towton,

of,

237.

battle of, 176.

Hugo

Trapstona,

de.

Gustos of Francis-

Venoure, William, 158, 161.

Vere, Robert de, 158.
Vesano de, see de Vezano.
Vezauo, Giffridus de. Papal Nuncio in
England, 38, 39, 44, 46, 48, 51, 52, 54,
his seal 57.

Vicars, 250.

cans, 5G.

Travers, a

Alexander, 133.

Vanner, Henry, 158.

Tollys, John, 205.

Touraine, bishop

friar

Van, Thomas a, 251.

Vane, sir Ralph, 233, 235.

yeoman

of the crown, 162.

Travers, Johannes, lets the friars a house

on Cornhill, 9; 145, 147.

Trevelyan, Robert, 158.

Tuderto, 45.

Vincent, Thomas, 158.

Vindegatis, Elizabeth, 134.
Visitations: Wolsey's, 191;

Tuderto, Franciseus dc, a Grey Friar, 46.

Vyelle, John, 146, 147, 151.

Tudnam, AVilliam,
Tudor, Owen, 170.

Vynch, Eery, 227 {niarym).

154.

Tunbridge, 173.
Turke, John, 226.
Turke, Walter, 153.

W.

Tybotot, Robert, 287.

Tylney, Ralph, 180.

Wakefield, battle

Tyrone, earl

of,

205.

7644.

king's

w.

Turner, Richard, 202.

See Cortese de Tune.
Turre, N. de.
Tu'yfforde, John, 156.

Tyrrylle, sir James, 184.

the

(1547), 214; Ridley's, 227.

Viterbo, 275.

(minister) [de Nottingham], 8, 20,

Wackkc, John,

161.

Wafur, Henry, 176.

of,

75.

Walche, Henry, 149.

Walden, John, 174.
Waldene, William, 164.

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INDEX.

Walderne, William, 161, 167.

Walepole, Hcnricus de, enters the Order,
17.

Westminster abbey, 149, 150, 151, 157,

159, 164, 166, 183, 186,

Wales, Henry, 149, 150, 151.

Walgrave, John, 145.
Walgrave, Thomas, 174.
Waliote, John, 158.
Walmoude, Henry, 148.
Walravyn, John, 143.
Walter, Heniy, 149.

Westminster, abbot of. Sec de Wenlock.

Westmoreland, earl of, 160.
Weston, doctor, 240.
Weston, William, 167.
Whcttenale, William, 171
White, Whytte, Whythe, &c.
,

Walter, Richard, 147.

Waltham, Robertas, abbot

of, 60.

Walworthe, William, 156, 157.

Wandena, Johannes de, canon

of

St.

Christopher, 211.

Hugh, 172, 175.

Thomas, 215, 247.
William, 179, 180.

Whittington, Richard, 159, 163, 167.

Whittyngton, Robert, 166, 167.

Mary's, Stafford, 34, 45.

Wanforde, Thomas, 167.

Warbeck, Perkiu, 181, 182.
Warde, John, 149, 155, 156, 160, 177, 178,

Whytby, Adam,

145.

Wikenge, William,

178.

Wilfforde, John, 207.

Wilhalle, John, 147.

179, 180.

Warde, Nicholas de la, 285, 286.

Ware, ...hard, 148.
Warner, John, 160, 181.
Warney, Ralph, 174.
Warryn, Ralph, 193, 198.
Warwick, earl of, 158, 160, 170, 177,

Wilkensoue, William, 202.

Wilkynson, John, 188.
Willemsone, Ludovic, minister provincial
in Scotland, 124.

182,

Waterbeach, Miuoritesses
Watsone, 245.

of,

Wiltshire,

280, 281.

Sec Westchester.

of.

Thomas Percy,

Wimond, Adam,

at, 60,

62.

Winchester, 180, 253.

148.

Winchester, bishop

W^elford, Richard, 151.

Winchester, Franciscans

Wellys, John, 168.

Winchester, Geoffrey, 147.

de,

[Wor-

156.

Winchelsea, battle of, 154.

Winehelsey, convent of minorites

Welbeke, William, 181.

Welchere, see Wiltshire and Worcester.
Welde, William, 154.

Adam

earl of

cester], 160.

Watter, Christopher, 173.

Watter, John, 168.
Wattes, Richard, 185.

Wawe, Wylle, 168.

Wawroke, Richard,

William (" with the long beard "), 143.

Williams, lord John, 259.
Wiltshire, earl

214, 243, 245, 265.

Wencele,

189, 196, 214,

297.

canon of

of, 168, 171,

203, 208,

215, 216, 228, 230, 232, 240, 244, 246,

255, 256.

St. Paul's,

of,

265.

Winchester, Richard, 145.

Winchester, Robert, 147.

42.

Wenchester, Nicholas, 149.

Winchester, Roger, 145.

Wengham,

Winchester, marquis

32.

Wenlock, Walterus

abbot of West-

de,

of,

233.

Wincister, friar Jacobus, warden of Franciscan convent at Aberdeen, 134.

minster, 40, 49, 53, 62.

Wentiliana, a nun cf Gloucester, 288.

Winchombe, Simond,

West, 198.

Windsor, 152, 201, 213, 279.

Wintener, Nicolas, 149.

Westchester,

AVilliam

[Wiltshire], 160.

Scrope,

earl

of

Wittyngham, Richard,

157.

154.

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INDEX.
Wodccokc, John,

Wyfolde, Nicolas, 171, 173.

160, 162.

WVord, Thomas,

AVolfc, 196.

Woohous, William,

159.

W'yle, John, 147.

150.

Woodstock, Sir Thomas (duke of Glou-

WVlfforde, James, 182.

W^ymbildes, Richard, 146.

cester), 157.

Wolroston, 294.

Wymborne, Thomas,

Wolsey, cardinal, 190, 191, 192, 194.

Wymmesley [Wymbsle],

Worcester, 17.

Wynborne, John, 147.

W^yndham, sir John, 184.
Wyndoughe, Thomas, 182.

"Worcester, death of

Worcester, battle

Jolm

of,

Worcester, bishop

at,

146.

177.

of,

215, 224, 229, 232,

Worcester, earl

See Wiltshire.

of.

Worcester, Franciscans

Worcester, W^illiam,
Wooddalle, 259.

of,

265, 266.

Geoffrey, 153.

Wyuter, Thomas,

Wynton,

Wyz,

Woode, Thomas, 181.

Woodde, William, prior of Burlington,

.161.

Nicolas, 168.

Wyttyngton,

54.

Dr. John, 252.

AVynger, John, 181.

Wynhame,

244, 251, 257, 258.

148.

see Whittington.

Gilbertus

de,

the

devil

throws a

handful of vcrmiu at him, 13.

200.

Worley, Henry, 187.

Wotton, Nicolas, 163, 166.
Wrathe. See Wrothe.
Wriothesley [Worthesle, &c.],

Y.
sir

Thomas,

206,211,214.
Wrothe, John, 154, 155.
Wrothe, sir Thomas, 243.
AVyatt, sir Thomas, 248, 249, 250, 251.

Wyche,

sir

Richard, 171.

W^ychiugham, Geoffrey, 154.

Wycumb, Adam
ster, 57.

de,

monk

of

Westmin-

Yongc, John, 146, 176.

Yonge, Peter, 145.
Yonge, Robert, 147.
Yoo, Nicholas, 170.
York, 159.
York, archbishop of, 158, 162, 183.
York, duke of, 166, 171, 174, 177.
York, Franciscans of, 287.
Yorke, sir John, 226, 243.

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